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pOii5'^ Jifrs': -^S'v THE VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE VIRGINIA, MINN. W. E. HANHAFOKD, PoMMw. CURIOUS COMPENSATIONS. —A single coil produces 0,000,000 eggS. The cod's bladder wakes good ising lass. —The greatest oceau depths are near land. —The snake's sense of'touch is very slight. —A 40-pouiul child was born at Ma con, (»a. —The Coreau is ruvked as a man by his hat. —Every drop of the oceau is in constant movement. —The electric light has iuvaded Af ghanistan. —Prescriptions must not be written in Latin in France. —Ureat petrified forests have been fouuil iu Arizona. *O-d^reuvh tirug stores are officially in spected onee'a year. —Homing instincts of the swallow have been utilized in England. —Sunstroke is almost unknown among explorers iu tropical Africa. --The busiest railroad station in the world is Waterloo. London. —Windmills were introduced into Eng land from the Netherlands. _w —Windmills are frequently mentioned iu ancient Roman history —The mauito flower of Central Ameri ca resembles baby's hand. —The new waterworks at Jerusalem supplies water free to the poor. —'The first electric-lighting plant in Alaska has been set up at Juueau. —In France it is? against the law for pharmacists to give medical advice. —Medicines, the manufacture of which is secret, are forbidden in France. —The gold product of the United States last year was the largest since 188(5. —Teahouses in China take the place of clubrooms of Western civilization. —Considering the varied uses to which it is put. the cod is the most useful tish. —The new microbe that makes steril ized milk transparent has beeu discov ered. —It costs over $20,000 a year to scrape the barnacles off a big man-of-war and re paint it. —The finest varieties pf pears, like strawberries, are almost worthless for canning. —A constant wind of at least ten miles an hour would practically supplant steam on land. —India and Ceylon have reduced the average price of ludian tea fully one half since ISM. —-Que Chicago man habitually eats paris green as other jteople take opium or drink whisky. -The cubical extent of water is four-, t'-eu times greater thau that of the laud above sea level. —When the planet Mercury is nearest the sun it receives 10V£» times more light and heat thau we do. —One species of lee fashions a tubular gallery of clay outside its doorway, which is guarded bv sentinels. —The amount of soapstone produced iu the United States in 18l3 was 21,071 tons, valued at $2""»,037. —A skeleton of an extinct animal has beeu unearthed in Shellville, CaL. which has both horns and tusks. —Norwegians give cods' heads mixed with marine plants to their cows to in crease the yield of milk. —The quivering of the aspen leaves is ilne to the fact that the leaf stock is flat on-'the sides and so thin about the mid dle that the slightest breath of wind sets all the leaves trembling. A company engaged in the construc tion of" an electric railroad on the Jung frau proposes to devote $20,000 to the erection of a geopysical observatory at au altitude of about 13.000 feet. —A new chemical element, a dense and inert gas, has been discovered. It is separated from atmospheric nitrogen, which is known to be heavier thau nitro geii .obtained from any other source. —A clergyman iu New South Wales complains that out of 117 marriages which he has celebrated within the last year, iu 25) cases he has been called out of bed between 11 at night and 0 iu the morning. —The strougest muscle is in the calf of the leg. because locomotion is oue of the most necessary functions. The great muscle of' the calf has been found, by actual experiment, to be capable of sus tail ling seven times the weight of the body. by per wood originally was a pine forest "which the earth swallowed in some cataclysm. S'ttue of the trees are a yard iu diameter. —A Jeruian doctor has been publishing the result* of a long course of visual ex amination. He finds that only in one case out of fifteen are both eyes in good condition. In seven cases out of every tea people possess one eye which is stroiigerthan the other. —Anne of Brittany, widow of Charles VIII... vas the ideal of the knights of her time, and did much to raise the popular estimation of female character, and to secure. proper respect .for women. She did not. long live in widowhood, but mar ried Louis XII. --One of the oldest pieces of wrought iron known to be in existence is a sickle blade thai was found by Belzoni under the base of the Sphinx. Another ancient piece of iron is the wrought bar of Da mascus steel, which King Porus pre sented to Alexander the Great. This lar.._w_hM-h is of unknown autiquitv. is still carefully preserved in the National Turkish museum at Constantinople. SHE-WORKS DEPOTS. An Old Lady Who liH the Most Expert of Thieves. A number of railroad passengers were patting iu the rotunda of the Grand Pacific/rh«rsday_ afternoon when tJeorge Robertson, of the Wabash. c«jnie in.bear-. iug a satchel, .'He 'Was hailed Iry his" fiends say*-4ke 4-lti~.tgr Times.* who wwnted^o-'know if he was going or com in "Xeithw." lie. replied. his- grip- be longs to a guost of the hotel here, and was stolen from hiin while he was wait ing for a train-in Dearborn station. It appears that Tie alighted from the omni bus there yesterday, and went into the waiting-room to sit down until the train backed iu. A nervous old lady was the ontfoccupaut of the room. and the man -pur* his .igrip down -oii the seat next to her old glazed satchel. He then started in Jo read his paper. "The nervous old lady fidgeted about on her seat, evidently anxious about her train. Finally she heard a cry of 'All aboard.' and she rushed out. A few min utes later the gentleman heard bis train called, and he started to pick up his alli gator grip, it .was gone, and iu its place wa*c the rtervous old lady's glazed satchel. Evidently she had made the exchange by mistake. The man rushed out to find her. and he told nie about it. We looked for the old lady, but she was nowhere to be found. "Then we thought there might be Nometliing in her satchel to show her ad iCifiOT Iwe opened it. It contained three bricks and a lot of newspapers. I realized at once that she was the old hidyowhWTH TegiHtered as one of the most expert depot thieves in the city, and wJbo ha* givanus a grea£ deal-of trou ffle. ^r'shift^P detectives after her. They did not catch her, but they recov ered the grip, and I am here to return riff "t ftA Kit* The find reference to Highland costume omirs in the Saga of Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, JUJ03-1103, written by Suorro Sturlesb'u, 'who was reared with the children of that monarch's daughter. ,Here it is^trtated tbft Magnus and his ,, nwijr«o^t^eir fetnrnf from a marauding flxpWhloit tf tB« West of Scotland, t- "mWgfo'Wth Tlfafi great deal of the habits and fashions of clothing of these western parte. They went .about the streets with bare legs, mk] bad short kir tles and overcloaks, and therefore his men called him Magnus Barefoot or Bareleg." In the^ Thirteenth century we seem to fhwrg something like a first reference to actual tartans in the statutes of the Cfcatclr of* Aberdeen, which proyide that "at) ebchMtftfttc# lire to be suitably ap pareled, avoiding red, green and striped clothing, and their garments shall not be shorter than the middle of .the leg/' But it should be noticed that the word "t»r tar," which occurs in the Fifteenth cen tury, In the account* of the lord high tre^,0.f^L ?Li.8S)tla/,d', which waiju garded by hoth Borthwick And Pinmtob as meaning tartan, really indicate «s pointed out by Dr. Dickens, a, fabric of pastern origin, frequently "*ariaut" or shot, the wurp and woof b^lng of trusting colors. We find a true reference to tartan in the same account^ in tn'e fol lowing century,—Scotlaud 'Reiifew, EXTREME COLD THAT BURNS. Its KITectsAre NotUlfTerentfroin^oor cji tag ^y. Burning is usually associated with heat, aud it seems a misnomer to speak of cold burns, Chemists teli us that really there is no such tiling us eold.j which is relative heat, aud fliat the low est temperature yet ^gist^tlJs some degrees above absolute Cold. AtTthe test meeting of the Swiss Society of Natural Seienees at Lausanne, M. Raoul fictet gave some particulars concerning cold burus experienced by himself and as sistants during Ms* inv'esrtghthffiir-bT* the lowest temperature attainable. There are two degrees of burns. In one case the skin reddens at first and turns blue the following day, and subsequently the area of the spot expands until it becomes near ly double its originul dimensions. The. "burn," which is usually not healed until five or six weeks after its occurrence, is accompanied by a very painful itching on the affected spot and the surrounding tissues. When the burning-is more seri ous. produced by longer contact with the coKl body, a burn of the second degree is experienced. Iu this case the skiu is rapidly detached, and all parts reached by the cold behave like foreign bodies. A long and stubborn suppuration sets in. which does not seem to accelerate the reconstitution of the tissues. The wounds are malignant, and scar very siowly in a manner eutirely different from burns pro duced by tire. On one occasion, when M. Pictet was suffering from a severe burn due to a drop of liquid air, he accidentally scorched the same hand very seriously. The scorched portion was healed in ten or twelve days, but the wound produced by the colil-burn was open for upward of six months. In order to try the effect of radiation iu dry cold air, M. Pictet held his bare arm up to the elbow in a refrigerating vessel maintained at 103 degrees, when a sensation of a jjeculiarly distinct character was felt over the whole skin and throughout the muscles. At first this seusation was uot disagreeable, but gradually it became decidedly so, anil, after three or four minutes, the skin turned blue anil the pain more intense and deep-seated. On withdrawing the arm from the refrigerator at the end of ten minutes a strong reaction was experi enced, accompanied by a suiierticial in flammation of the skin.—Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle. THE FINGER OF FATE. It is Held by a Confederate Captain as a Souvenir. A gentleman of this city wears on his watch chain a eharui unique iu its ghast liness, but which he claims has brought him luck and about which he tells a curi ous story, writes a correspondent of the Philadelphia Times from Houston, Tex. In 1S02, when the young confederacy aud the I'niou were struggling for the posses sion of New Mexico, the little town of Doua Aua were attacked by a small force of federal troops, but finding the place occupied by a larger conipauy of confed erates than they had supposed, the at tacking party was slowly withdrawn un der a ratheihot tire. Singular to relate, considering how close the two forces were to each other and how narrow the fighting ground, the battle proved a blood less one except for the relic which now adorns the ex-confederate captain's chain. This was the tirst joint of the forefinger which some federal soldier left behind as a souvenir, aud the only one of that summer day's fight. It was picked up just on the edge of town by the present lKissessor, who. beiug in those days little more thau a boy. conceived the idea of having it preserved by chemicals, and if possible.* returning it to its rightful own er. The first of these schemes he carried out, and the second failed through no fault of his. After the confederates abauiloned the territory to the superior numbers of the government forces, the captain, then JLrnt a second lieutenant, ascertained the com maud which had done the attacking of the little town, and during a lull iu hos tilities wrote to the surgeon of the regi ment, asking if he knew anyone who had lost a finger in that battle. The surgeon responded, giving the name of the private who had suffered in that way, the inci dent, from its oddity, having attracted the attention of the medical staff at Fort Craig. The man had. gone home after ward on sick leave, and it was here that the captain wrote to liiui. telling him that he had the missing member and offering to return it. The soldiejy responded, acknowledging his loss, and giving an account of how the thing had happened, to obtaiu which had beeu the inquisitive captain's aim all the time. It seemed that as the federals were withdrawing from the place this man wheeled about, and raising his gun was about to pull the trigger on the figure of the colonel of the regiment, wheu, just as he bent his finger, a ball came whiz zing past anil carried off tlie first joiiit. The wound was a slight oue, but in all probability saved the life of the officer at whom the sharpshooter was aiming. The owner of the member then added that as he had lost it in a fair, fight .the-finder was more than welcome to it as a souve nir of Dona Ana and of him. Thus pos sessing it, not only as the spoil of war. but by consent of him who had the best right to it. the captain-still wears it as'a luck piece, though the thing has turned as black and hard as a pebble of iron stone, aud one might exercise one's gne^s Lng power all day without even arriving at any conclusion' near the truth. Through the ossified finger has been drilled a hole, and the chain passes through this. SCHOLAR GIPSIES. In Former Times Gipsying was a Part of the Scholar's Life. In former times gipsyiug was a part of a scholar's life. He was compelled to journey over half of Europe, it might be, to the college of his choice, in a time when journeying was not always pleas ant, and seldom safe: The laws against begging were relaxed in his favor. He had no baggage ex cept a book or two, and with his staff iu hand he trudged merrily forward on his adventurous way.- These men were the most cultured of their age. The head that was covered by that tatterdemalion bonnet might ,be debating gra ve" point's TuHie Aristotelian logic, or with Plato framing immortal commonwealths. A sun-browned scholar was not apt to suffer from unreal visions of things: while to sustain him tin his way he had his love for learning and many rich eclectic stores to draw on for his entertainment. In days nearer our, own some few mem bers of the fraternity still survived. Gold smith, fresh from his desultory college life, tramped through many countries with his flute in his pocket, and gained that large kindliness which makes one of the best features of his work. In our own day one of our most in genious story teller has gone far and wide in many unchristian latitudes in search of wisdom and adventure. But, after all, of the many who follow the life, few ever attain to any reputation for among other good things they acquire a genial contempt for fame, w.hicli is pe culiar to men of genius and this disrep utable brotherhood. —Macmillau's Maga zine. She Fluttered Away. Prof. Garner was noee being: en tertained at Washington and there was present a young exquisite who appeared "-to-be having a dull time. The hostess thought that the professor qoukl t'eliev.e tbe ennni which bad settled ove| the fjoung •man^and brought tbein sliie saidf "''Mis ilMlf. Oarmv. He. nas been to the wilds of Africa, yon know." "Y-a-a-s. I've heah'd of the pwofed sor. Happy 16 meet him, I'm stiah." "Of course you are. He has had no end of wonderful adventures aud" seen lots of queer people. Aud lie knows how to talk to monkeys iu'their own language. Mow. professor." she went on, turnings to Mr. Garner, "do talk to C'holly a little while, won't you?" And then she fluttered away. Hc H«d that Tired Feeling, ''Was there ever a time in your life, f.r* ^artley^'»asJied MitMi, Itley, "when all the world seemed a dreary waste to you when your heart was starving all the sweet springs of yoor life were turned to bitterness, and death seemed the sweetest boon the gods could offer you?"' "Indeed there was," said Garttey earnestly "I remember it well I was only 15 years, old at the time and was enduring the miseries: of ray first seasick ness just after 1 hrid smoked ray first cigar, which happened to be one. a strong The combination was tremendous And nearly finished me."—Boston Home Journal. /, waif Ant ditco? YOUNG FOLKS. -s- "t rV (l "?T"~ A'..- KW Who Cut th« Rope. a hummock sit, Ami-hold ytftir ladyTove, —4 Aud think uo oue was watching Save the little stars above? I«d you ever ask this question, And before you got her Answer, Have her brother cut the rope? Tils a feeling ne'er forgotten— I Tin a moment full of puiu, And you wonder who the—- Could have cut that rope in twalu, And you do not care, a rip now Whether "Darling lets you hope," For the only thing you're after Is the kid who ent the rope. —Detroit .l?ree Press, Harold, Won the Game.. A proud, stern man was Mr. McLeod, rarely seeai to smile, aud rated nnpopular with the business men among whom lie had made his money. In his family he was feared, and his little boy bad grown to be 10 ywins old without knowing what it was to have his father kiss him—a light slip of a boy with handsome faee. The father kiiew the lad \Vas handsotue like himself, and he boasted of it iu his secret heart, and also of the fact that the boy was so shrewd iu his studies. But never a word of this to the boy—uot a look or a nod to show -that his father was noting his little triumphs aud saying a word of praise for theiu. For one such noil or a word the boy would have gone down on his knees- and wept for happi ness. That, day they were eating tue noon hour meal in the usual silence, when Mr. McLeod si»oke-with sudden sharp ness. "Harold." he said, "a little while ago 1 looked out of the window ijuid saw you running from another boy. Don't you ever let me see or hear of such a thing as that again." "He—he was a good deal bigger boy than me, papa," pleaded the little fellow, with a timid catching in his breath. "I don't care if he was,'' cried the father, his face reddening angrily. "I want to six- uo boy of mine tliuch and turn tail and fly like a coward. Better be beaten to jelly than show the white feather. 1 despise a coward." Then he put on his hat aud went back to the office, aud the hard, set look aud the angry flush sat upon his countenance so that the clerks knew it was better not to be near him. By and by a man with pale face and panting breath rushed into the office and called out: "Mr. McLeod, there's been an accident up at the base ball ground aud your uoy is—is hurt. They've just carried him home." Not answering, the proud merchant took down his hat. The clerks noticed that the flush was gone from his face, and he made oue uncertain step as he went through the door, Otherwise lie was the same cold,, unmoved man they hail always known. On the little bed in his chamber room lay tin* boy, breath ing lightly. In one luiud that rested ou the white coverlid he held a battered baseball. "I fear it is fatal," the doctor had said in answer to the father's inquiry. "A severe blow on the heart." Tlie handsome face was white, the eyes closed. -Presently they oj»ened aud rested upon the merchant. A little smile slipped into the lxy's countenance. "I—I iliiln flinch, papa."' he said faint ly. "What—what was it. Harold?*' the father said, with a sob in his voice. "Don't look so white and still like that, my boy—tell your father about it." "Vou see. papa." the boy faintly an swered. "we—we was playing the gram mar school nine, ever so much bigger fellows than us, and it was their last innings, and we was one ahead, anil the bases were full, with two out. I was playing short, stop, you—you know." No. he did not know. Jrown hard aud cold at liis desk, he understood nothing of the bit of graphic description the faint lips were giving utterance to. "And then." the childish voice went on." "then their heaviest batter, au awfully big fellow, papa, struck a grounder right— right at'me. I couldn't get my hands on it. but you see, if it got by me it meant we lost the game—and I remembered what—what you said, papa, about not flinching, you know, and I—I jumped right down on my kuees and let it hit—hit me—and then the third base got the ball and put the runner out. and—and every body cheered, papa, and said I saved the —the The poor, proud merchant groaned heav ily. His wife had never seen him in agony before, aud it frightened her, but. such things pass away. The battered old baseball lies on the sitting room mantel iu, the quiet house. Often the gray liaired merchant takes it into his hand and gazes at it long aud earnestly. Then his hand trembles. He puts the old base ball down and goes back to his office.— Rockland Gazette. A Handsome Center Cloth. No little housekeeper can have too many embroidered cloths. Therefore if a youug girl wants to make a pretty gift to anyone this simple but effective design will serve you well. "As a matter of course, it is much reduced as you see it here, but you can get an idea of what it is like and can easily enlarge it to suit the size of the cloth, A good size for a center doily is twenty one inches square'anil a good depth for the fringe is two inches. Select fine old bleached linen and cut it in the desired size then measure the depth of the fringe and pull the last thread first. Continue to pull the threads, one at a time, toward the edge, until yon have a space of about one-quarter of an inph. then hemstitch the inner edge all round and leave the remain ing threads till all the work is done. Draw the conventionalized figures first, and from them the curved branching lines. Select wash-color filoselle iu any color you prefer. This especial cloth is worked with golden yellow, but old pink, old blue or pale green will give anyone a good result. Work the figures first in long and Short stitch and with a single thread of the silk, and make a small group of French knots iu the center of ea,cli. When so much is done cover all the lines with fine tree stitching, also done with a single thread, anil lastly pull out the remainder of your fringe. Rinse the linen in warm water, oi\ If it is spiled with handliug, first in suds made with white soap, then with clean water, and after shaking out the fringe, iron quite dry ou. the wrong side. Spread tlie cloth out smoothly on a board, and with a coarse comb comb out air the fringe, then fold once each way and lay it aside until you are ready to send it on its way. Yon will find all the, work extremely simple, and if you are careful to follow the directions will have no trouble?'at-'all. The little point about fringing is an important one. The outer threads should never be pulled until the very last, as the fringe is liable to catch iu the silks and to tangle. Yet, simple as the directions are, and important as the fact is in doing nice work, many older people make the mistake of beginning the other way, and so spoil an otherwise ex cellent piece of work. A Novelty in Collections. A novelty in collections is that pos sessed by a well-known banker of Leeds, Eng. Tlie Cornhill Magazine reports that he has secured an immense num ber of different bank notes issued at various times by banks that have cotne to grievous smash and which have in volved thousands of persons in their ruin. Not alone are. bank notes included in this curious collection .of relics of broken banks, which must start a world of painful recollections to a commercial community, but also bonds relating to celebrated undertakings' which nave fators, troved sources of immense loss to specu these including "scrip" of the South sea bubbles, of many of the schemes of Hudson, the railway, king, iiifd of the Tichborrie bond enterprise. 'So far as the bank notes are concerned, it is astonishing to see what a large num ber of establishments they refer, to and the whole collection represents tne names Of schemes which have drained the in vesting ^public of hundreds of millions sterling. The collector relates that on several occasions visitors who have seen the collection have,.on coming to some particular note, burst into tears, for they have been directly connected with the ruin wrought by the .crash iudicuted. a a "The Protestor was Original. Tlie late Prof. Joseph Hyrtl Was as original as he was greut. His lect ures Were exceedingly attractive be: was a master, ®f lucid exposition, which he: enlivened.with an undercurrent of quiet humor, and occtislod'ially enlightened With sudden flashes.of:wit. Once at an examination lie auked the followriig quefitfwrt: "Wlfttt can vou tell me of the. {auction of tho spleen r' The student not wishing to confess bis ignorance, replied hesitatingly: "I used to know, .but it has unfortunately escaped me." "l.mhappy mail!", said Hyrtl "you are the only one who ever kuew anything about It, and you have forgotten it." It Tiokiejf the "u 'l lle leader bamrmicli /Vince took an man burst into a loud guffaw, as if t&ftic funuy idea had struck him. i«EWhy. do you laugh?" inquired Da ni t-ouch. ..#1*111$! It's de beth game I ever, ttww. Vy, dare's blooniin' lot o' PrW tirthanth au' Cathlicth urklllin' of eaeH2 other to music written by a Jew., Ha! ha! I'll come every night, HIS PECULIAR WHISKBlfS.t Be Waited for dome day Youth to Come and Have Fun. A broad-shouldered man, fashionably dressed, came into the lobby of ail up town hotel ou Saturday evening. He looked like mi athlete. His step \vus spriugy anil, his face ruddy with health. He was just the sort of a man you would steer clear of in a fight. Still, it was none of these qualities that attracted the attention of every person in the lobby, savs the Buffalo Kxpress. He wore a peculiar whisker. Hangiug from his chin was a long, blonde wisp of hair, such JIS stagi farmers and some sure-enough ones wear. It was a whis ker that waved briskly in every passing wind. It was so clearly out of place-on tins man of the world's face that a youug fellow, bolder than the rest, engaged its owner in conversation and, after a time, asked liiln abput it. "That's a peculiar whisker you wear there, said the young man, iiisinuatiug- "Yes," assented the other. "That the style where you came from?" No." "Thenv if the question is proper, I should like to kuow,why you wear it.'' The broad-shouldered man smiled a bit, aud said: "I'll tell you why. 1 grew that whisker for the sole and only purpose of getting fresh young men to talk about it, and tfliereby giving me an opportunity to get even with them." The young man shivered apprebensive ly- "Don't be afraid." said the other. "1 was not alluding. The fact is, I was rid ing on the Boston & Albany a while ago, and there was a man in the seat in fi'ont of me who had a wisp of hair on his chin. It was similar to this in all respects, save that it was gray, for he was an old man. There was a party of fresh voung collegians in the same car, aud wheu thev saw the old man's whisker they began to make game of it. One lantern-jawed youth amused himself and his compan ions by reaching over, taking hold of the whisker, aud saying 'Na-a-a-a.' like a billy goat. He kept that up for forty miles, greatly to the old man's discomfort. Right then aud there I resolved to grow a similar whisker. I did it. anil I'm look ing for somebody to shake that appendage and say 'Na-a-a-a.' When that some body does those things there is going to be trouble, and after that I'm going to shave it off. I have noticed, however, that it makes a heap of difference whose ^hin-th^ billy goat whiskers are on." DIFFERENT FROM TELEGRAPHY. America Uses One Alphabet for Ca bling and Kurope Another. There is a popular impression that cablegrams are seut by hand, as are tele grams, ami that they sire received iu a dark room by signals that flash upon a screen. Such used to be the method of their transmission, but that has now been superseded by a better one. It was found impracticable to transmit printed characters. The four vertical lines that make our could not be sent, but two horizontal lines, thus, could be. in devising practicable signs for the letters two systems were made. One of these systems is in use throughout all America and Canada, and the other system throughout the remainder of the world. The United States aud Canada lines therefore stand apart from all other lines ill the world in the matter of a telegraph alphabet. The difference between these alphabets is solely iu the employment of the space between parts of oue and the same letter. For example, the letter is .... There are four points or dots, but they are separated by a space. That is the Ameri can Y. It was rejected by the Europeaus on the ground that it would be liable to confusion with parts of preceding or fol lowing letters and— put in its place. As a matter of practice, however, no more mistakes occur with one system than with the other, while the American has the vast advantage of being about 20 per cent, shorter, and therefore to that extent faster. Other letters in which the systems differ are F, J, L, O, P. Q, R, and Z. All remaining letters are alike iu both.—Harper's Young People. PHYSICIANS AND THEIR~PATIEWTS The Style ia Specialties of Patients as Well as diseases. New York physicians not only, make specialties of diseases, but of patients. We have milionaires' doctors, insurance men's doctors, railroad engineers' doctors, and Dr. George. R. Fowler of Thirty ninth street can certainly claim to be the yachtsmen's doctor. He spends his sum mer at Shelter island, ami wheu the fleets put in, owners and guests alike seek the tower room of the Manliansett house aud call on the doctor, whether there is any thing wrong with them or not. Usually, however, their systems require a sedative. Caldy Colt called on the doctor only two days before his death and asked his advice, though he did hot take it and tins Mott thinks Fowler is the only man who thoroughly understands his' salt water system. Mr. Mott has a Shelter island anil a St. Augustine system, and each is totally different from the other. The doctor spends most of his winters in patching up the Calumet club. A great many members of that fashionable men's club are like the late James R. Osgood, publisher, the soul of good fellows. He was given to late hours anil heavy dining, and went to the famous physician, who was also his friend. "Well," said the doctor, "you have only to go to bed every day by 10:30. rise at 7, take more exercise, smoke only three cigars a day, and never take a drink of wine before t» p. ni." "Now, look here," said tho genial pa tient, "you don't suppose that I am goiug to pay you $10 for telling me that. Any fool knows that if I did what you say I wouldn't ueed any doctor. What, I want you to do is give me some medicine that will fix me up so that 1 can go right on liviug as I do now." "Impossible." said the doctor. In two years Mr. Osgood died in the prime of life. —New York Press. was an Expert Flatterer. Landor, the essayist and poet, was a self-w'lHed, trenchant sort of a man, who prided himself upon his indeiiendence and ability to care for himself. Yet, like most, men of this class, he was suscepti ble to delicate flattery, and was easily duped by those who knew how to manage him. He once fell into the hands of.a Yene« tian rogUe, who read character at a glance, and was both a delicate flatterer and a manipulator. Landor was standing in the doorway of a cafe in Venice, watch ing the famous pigeons of the Piazza San Marco. Suddenly an old gentleman rushed up to him. Landor was an Apollo in form and face, and he knew it. "Pardon me, sir," said the old gentle* man with more than Italian sweetness, "but will you allow me to look into your eyes? Ah, I thought so. Sir, you have greeu eyes. .1 never saw but one pair before, and they belonged to the Empress Catherine of .Russia they were the most wonderfully beautiful eyes in the world." The flattered Englishman paid dearly for two bits of information. Hd had not only learned that his eyes resembled those of the smart and wicked Empress, but that he himself was "green." The old gentleman, while examining bis eyes, picked his .pocket,. Man and Woman F.qually Bad. 'After speaking, of the recent campaign' iu Kentucky, the Chicago Inter Ocean says: ...: A.- Thanks to the progress of civilization and justice^ tlie world is beginning to comprehend that there is ho sex iii sin that "a bird Woman is hot worse thau a bad man," frequently not half so bad, •since she rarely loses that sympathy and generosity which lie probably never pos sessed at all. Therein to be an evening up and a meting out of,penalties in tlie future, iiud a besmirched niiin will be found as black as a besmirched woman, anil will have, with her, equal chances aud no more to reform and repent, Sang with Much Feeling1,' "Simon the Cellarer,"r—Lady (to ft^ot hwiii)—"JiflMinn, tvhere did you learn fiat splendid song which heard you sing down in the cellar With so mucn feeling when you had goiic for the wilie?" .T6 hann—"My former master taught it me. I had to sing it every time I 'fetched wine, out of the cellar—just to mitlnf.v lihn that't wasn't drinking it niyself^W Gewerbgeituug. a in to Miss Pauline Johnston) th« young CaM- dian Indinn poetess who went to Bngiah in the spring furnished^ With introduction,, to Lord Dafferio, Lord Lyttoo, the Mtfi* qnis of Lorne.antt other Hterary mem' two months. She is in good health and spirits, and delighted with the kindness jind hiHftltality shown her during her stay In Enj uttemlc found? at* fid Mid, ait& with the success that her-fecltatioiui.. Miss Johnston !o Eplisli climate a little trying ulso the- last of ^out-of-door exercise and often longed for her canoe. As her stay was coutined to Loudon, wjth the exception of one day spent iu Surrey, Miss Jdhnstoh cotota~'ffdr^ warily haye experience of the out-of door exercises in which English ladies freely indulge, and it is a pity that she iiottld not have speut some time in the country or by the river, which would uo doubt have been more enjoyable than town life. Miss Puuline Johnston is the daughter of an Indian chief, but her mother is an Englishwoman. She has left in England a volume of her poems, which will be published in the autumn. THE LAWYER'S DUTY. T. M. Cooley flays They Should Influence the .Public for Good. I wish to call atteution to an obligation resting upon members of the legal profes sion, and which I think goes quite beyond that which under the same state of facts would rest upon citizens in general. When, as we have lately seen, so-called "industrial armies" dissolve into roving vagabonds and beggars, the absurdity of their claims and pretenses makes thein the subject of contempt and ridicule but if their mischievous doctrines have taken root among any class of our people, and their demoralizing raids upon the industry of the country are likely to be repeated by themselves or by others, it is not by a thoughtless and contemptuous word that the mention of them can be wisely dis missed. Especially is this case as regards the members of the legal profession. A special duty rests upon them to give active aud effective aid to established institutions whenever revolutionary doctrines are .brought forward, or when the fundamen tal rights we hail supposed were made secure under constitutional 'guarantees are invaded or appear to be put in peril. ihe lawyer may very often more effcct tually support the constitution aud laws by assisting to build up a public sentiment that shall coutinue an impregnable bul wark against those who through malice or ignorance or with revolutionary purpose assail them, than it would be possible for him to jlo by personal service'as a sol dier, or hyi id in the suppression of rebel lion or iloilejstic disorder. It is a loV.and very uuworthy view anv lawyer takes of his office, when he as sumes that he has nothing to do with pub lic ignorance of the duty of subordination to the institutions, of organized society, or with breaches of law existing or threat ened, except as he may be called upon to prosecute or defend iu the courts for a compensation to be paid him.—Hon. Ihoinas M. Cooley, in the September 1 orum. JUSTICE DOWN IN GEORGIA. The Court Adjourned Because a Chief Witness Had Gone to Dig Hail. Justice Reagau of Thomasville lias been a sijuire for forty years, and in his bailiwick his decisions are filial, says the Atlanta Journal. Last June there was a case that came up before him, and the plaintiff hail a witness subioenaed. When the case was called the witness was not there. "May it please your honor," said the plaintiff. "1 ask for a continuance be cause of the absence of my witness.'' "Where is heV" queried the court. "Please, your honor, I forgot all about this being court day till late this morn ing. and I seut hiiu out early to dig bait, anil he had not come back when I left home." "Ahem! Well, the court rules that you should be granted a continuance. The bream fishing season comes but one a year, and a man can't afford to miss it." On another occasiou Squire Reagan heard a case in which there were uo witnesses, and tlie statements of plaintiff aud defendant were all the court had to decide by. Of course the plaintiff swore to facts that were directly contradicted by the testimony of the defendant. Here was a dilemma, but the judge was equal to the emergeucy. "(ientleineu," said he, "perjury is a very heinous offense and should never be imputed to any man unless for good -and substantial reasons. Now in this case the court occupies the position of both judge and jury, judge as to the law in the case aud jury as to the facts and the preponderance of the evidence. There fore. as jury, the court, well knowing the law bearing on the case, fiuils itself unable to agree, and. as judge, declares it a mistrial: aud again as judge grants a new trial before a jury in this court at the next term of said court, which now stands adjourned." Novel Entertainment. Among the novelties in the way of en tertainments this seasou, says the Boston Herald, the Dutch supper promises to be come a favorite. To make such a supper a success all the guests must be congenial in a respectable Bohemian fashiou, aud all the viands, beverages and appoint ments must be consistently expressive of vaterland. At a recent affair of this kind the refreshments served were rye bread and swiss cheese sandwiches, cabbage salad served from a salad dish deftly carveil in the heart of a delicate, pale greeu cabbage, wienerwursts and beer, The plate cards were small German peas ant pictures inscribed with the guests* names in German, and among the novel ties iu tho table decoration were two large wooden sabots, gilded aud filled with poinsetta aud maidenhair fern. The tankards were imported delft, with German feast mottoes wreathing their corpulent bodies. Pretzels aud pickled onions are also harmonious features of a "Dutch supper." Women and the Wheel. An argument, urged by Kate Field's Washington, against the woman cyclist is that she is not a picturesque feature of the landscape. An unprejudiced ob server. who had never before seen either, might say that a woman on a well-ad jnsted wheel looked as well if not better than a woman sitting in a bunch oil a side-saddle. The difference is largely in the fact that the women who ride horses usually- belong to-the class who can af ford to make the most of themselves under any circumstances, while, so far, the majority of women cyclists are of the class that must consider time anil money so carefully that they can seldom be well dressed. Society women are beginning to find out that in some respects the bi cycle is a more convenient and trustwor thy steed than a horse, and when good tailors learn to make wheeling costumes as well as they now make riding habits— and at the same exorbitant prices—we may begin to think a pretty girl shows to as much advantage on a wheel as ou a horse. Music as Medicine. That musicui sounds produce a marked effect on the system is proved by physio logical experiments on men and animals. The rate of the action of the heart and the force of the circulation are notably influenced iu a direction depending on the pitch, intensity and timbre of the sound. Generally speaking, the heart's action is quickened and the pressure of the blood in the arteries increased, though some times the converse effect is produced, these results depending, no doubt, on the idiosyncrasy of the individual. Powerful results are produced oil the nervous sys tem, sometime stinnilant, sometimes se dative. Music is thus clearly seen to be potent jh medicine, and there seems to be ho reason why its effects should not be studied.like that of any drug.—Chambers' Journtil. 1' They Grew Tired of Walking. Fifteen young ladies from Vienna, com prising ladies of English, American. Prus sian- and Tyrolese nationality, arranged recently to walk from Vienna to Dresden, a distance of some 250 miles. Only one of the ladies was married. The dress agreed upon was a light gray silk, broad Drimmed straw bat, sight protectors, knapsack with tweuty-two pounds of pro visions, revolver and waterproof cape. After live- days'- wrnlking the small town of Ginuiid was reached, but the lady tourists were iu a ratlier sad state, nine declaring they could Walk uo further on account of the heat, the heavy knapsack and unsuitable boots. As the others did not care to proceed any further alone, the whole party made up their minds to go to Berlin by.raiU. Did. Not Want to be Educated. "We nre» going to have Mabel very highly educated," said a clever matron MI don't want to be highly edn- catcd. came in the unexpected voice of Mabel, a little tot of B, from another room. "I want to- be just like you."— Tid Bit*. Still De Helent. Thinkitt—-"How complete the big Shat Tetuiriied dry oods stores are nowaday®. Do you kuow they serve luncheon for shoppers?" Knowitt—-"Yes, but they don't provide rd and lodging for customers waiting t&elP GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. Rapid Work. went to Maspeth t'other night, fo.see 'em race by neetrlc light An pears tike everything ye see Down there goes by 'lectrlclty. The Jockeys looked like wooden buys, The bosses Jest like painted toys. Which when the 'lectrlc knob was pressed It started 'em an' did the rest. There was a sort o' buzzin' sound. An then some black streaks scooted round hey passed the wire so llghtuhr fast Ihe fust hoss looked jest ifk^tbe last. Oh. things went huininin', I tell you. An money went like lightniu'. loo For when It cauie to gettiii' back, 1 had to walk the trolley track. —Xew York Evening Sun. Perilous Symptoms of American Life. There is danger in American societv which struck me long ago, even during that hrst visit, when I was so little apt to criticise, some cities—in the West especially—I was positively appalled bv the stories of the families of the rich I have never seen a race that appeared to me so hopeless, worthless and fore •n"1 l,s children of American millionaires. This, of course, is bv no" means a universal—I would not go anv tlnug like the leugtli of saying it is a gen eral—rule, but it often occurs. We are beginning to know this type of. American in l«iUropc. He is sometimes a wanderer over the earth, and though he may be a dilettante, a hypochondriac, and an idler he is generally, a man of cultivation, re finement and an exquisiteness of man ners which puts to shame even the best bred men of English-speaking societies. ometimes the son of a millionaire does lir.wi 'TT. to 8t ttle .becomes»s au,on« Eng- land, and then lie a more thorough seeker after idle pleasures than anything one can produce outside of our Mocial wrecks and \h more distinguished— he, the child of a republic—by a contempt for popular nglit.s and public duties than the most courtly conservative of our na tive growth. do not know which is the more depressing or the more perilous symptoms in American life—the absorp tion in |K»litical affairs of the necdv and disreputable, or the exclusion from all political interest and sympathy and sense of duty of so many of the rich.—T. P. O Connor, Irish Member of Parliament. A "Honey-Moon SM." Here is a good old custom that this summer has enjoyed revival among young women of the smart set. Not a girl this season went away for a sojourn at sea side, in Europe, or the mountains, who did not carry an embroidery-bag filled with the materials for dajnty needlework!, livery idle moment was made profitable by an added rosebud laid in faultless stitches in a charming tea-cloth, or an elaborate and difficult monogram worked beautifully in richest pillow-case linen or table napery. By the time for home ward flight not a girl but will carrv in her trunk whsit the most fastidious' house keeper would reckon as a valuable aud luxurious addition to her linen press. "What's it all for?" you ask. "For her mother, a friend, to sell at a charitv fair?" Not iu the least. It is all" for herself, for her future housekeeping, for the great day when she gives her heart anil hand to another's keeping. Like her great-grandmother of busy fiugers aud thrifty head, she is laying up beautiful treasures for the blissful future state. Some of the girls are engaged and are working like beaVers to have done what they call "a honey-moon set." That is. complete sets of house-linen to use the tirst mouth. This includes pairs of every thing. aud square's, centers, doilies and co sies, lavishly and exqisitelv decorated in true lover knots, forget-me-nots, aud such suitable emblems. Giris wtao are uot en gaged. and see no very immediate pros pect of becoming so. arc among the most industrious, doing even their tablecloths already. It's a revival of the old Ger man custom, if 1 mistake not aud work iug away at her embroidery, even the spinster of uncertain age finds a new meaning in her needle aud a sentimental impetus to her petty labors.—Deinorest's Magazine. Departures in Social Us"g». We are told that the uuuierous'tourists to foreign lauds during the present year have noticed awl will transplaut to* our soil and society several radical departures in social usage that the shaking of bauds has quite gone" out of style abroad: that ladies no longer take the arms of gentle men. except when walking out of doors in the evening—not even in going to din ner. To what extent these changes, and others, will be adopted by our stay-«it home people remaius to be seen. We are not informal as to the reason lying back of the more radical of these changes. It may be fear of "the deadly microbe." which figures so extensively. Some mod ern reformers have recently undertaken on its account to abolish the kiss—at least the merely social kind: but the effort has not been an entire success. A robust young lady, wheu warned that she lierileil her health by kissing and being kissed, very determinedly replied, "I don't do kissing as a health measure!" And we predict.that the good old custom of tak ing a dear friend warmly aud tenderly bv the hand will endure yet a little longer microbes or no microljes. foreign fashion or no fashiou.—Good Housekeeping. Factions in tlie Four Hundred. This winter will witness the first organ ized "contest for social supremacy in New York trait has taken place since' the days of the-Schernierhoms. Mrs. Pa ran Ste vens Utlooked up to by one of the parties, and Ward McAllister will lead the legions of tile other faction. It seems that for some time there has been a silent protest by the insiders, as the old aristocracv are uftlled. against the custom of admitting anybody and everybody with money who chose to erect a palace on Fifth avenue. The effeets of the iwlicy are declared to be painfully evident when New York's social deities visit London and Paris. There beiug no recognized social power iu New York, none is recognized abroad, and the Knickerbockers are forced to be polite in.the drawiug-roonis of the British aristocracy to people whom they would uot even notice in New York. Now. as it is the habit iu London to receive any one who has made a name in art. litera ture or other fields of endeavor, it is pro posed to follow some such practice in New York. Therefore, invitations are to be sent to people who heretofore have not been recognized socially by any of the 400 of the Knickerbocker stamp. Such a procedure would injure the prospects of those who have only moiiey to back them, and is beiug resisted by the faction head ed by Ward McAllister. Hence, as Mrs. Stevens is determined not to recognize any more newly rich, there is in store for New York a real old-fashioned so ciety fight. One of the tests of the Ste vens faction is to be the possessor of a coat-of-arms, while all those who have no such Iwast of heraldry must hasten to provide themselves with one. The Mae A1 lister faction ought to have the best of it, therefore, since mouey will buy any thing—even a coat-of-arms.—Baltimore Herald. More Reserve »ce»aary. To see all the worst faults iu Ameri can manners on exhibition at ouce one must go to a popirW seaside resort at the present season. This is the tiuie aud place of social chaos. People are thrown together in the hotels and bbardiug houses who never saw each other before, and probably never "will see each other again. Absolute ignorance about grandfathers is bad cuough. perhaps: ab solute ignorance almut the jieople them selves is worse. Even jiersons of reserve and discretion find that they are too near to being acquainted with those whose so cial position is a highly uncertain qnan-. tity. and do not feel quite protected by the tacit convention that a summer acquaint ance ends when the parties separate. There is apt to be much miscellaneous introducing aiid. among the young peo ple especially, an easy habit of making acquaintances that atiioulits almost to recklessness. To a great extent, this is innbeeht and harmless enough, far more so than any foreigner accustomed to a stricter etiquette could possibly believe. But it has its dark aide, nevertheless. The records of the divorce courts, and the still sadder but unwritten history of Hl assorted and hasty marriages which never reach• that stage, would Show that"too many of these mistakes began with a heedless summer flirtation, ending in wedding, after .Which the parties proceed ed to get acquainted.—Domestic Monthly. Canning. vTo can fruit is easy wot-k if one knows just how to do lt in an easy. way. I have canned thousands of quarts in the last thirty. years, and never broken but iwo cans that I remember, aud then by the wind changing suddenly and com ing in the window on the hot can as Was Ailing it. I have lost hut very little by spQiliug, probably a gallon would cover The cans are clean when put away, and when wanted I rinse with warm or cold water. I fold a cotton cloth several thick uetMwa, put on a tin or pan, pout hot Water ,oii\ the cloth, set the can on im- PHtin-ft hand over for a momeutr-tlien fill full to running over. If you evenly distribute the jyrup in the can, it is seldom that air bubbles will form, but if they do, ruu the long handle of a spoon around the sides and they will rise to the top. Screw on cover, wipe, and set oue side, out of a draft uutil cold then tighten aud put in a dark, cool place. Many jteople cook fruit too long. I make a syrup of the best granulated sugar, put on the fruit and heat through slowly. Ibis is the secrefc of keeping the form and freshness of the fruit. If one cans tomatoes this way they will trv uo other. If very large, cut just so they cau be placed in the can without crushing. Make syrup, put in the whole or halved tomatoes, cook through slowly, watch to see when they come to a boil, then can. I ake grapes picked from the stems, fill tie cans, pour ou hot syrup, screw on the top and they are far nicer than if cooked. 1 hoie those who have canned fruit the other way will try this.—Edith F. C. Johnson. Urajr Hair, Concerning gray hair there seeuis to be no rational theory for change in the color of hair, except that of loss of pighient color and presence of gaseous matter iu the hair shaft. This may be the result of natural or artificial causes. Probably among Americans the early age at which the hair blanches is due largely to nervous conditions. Mental and physical disturb ances undoubtedly often affect the secret ing apparatus of the hair, destroying col oring matter, for history records 'nstances of the change of hair from dark to white in a single night, through the cerebral ex citement of some great loss, bodily or mental anguish neither can coloring mat ter, once entirely destroyed, be restored. Do not believe the quacks who pretend to restore gray hair to the youthful color in any other way than bv dyeing, for science has not yet discovered a method by which pigment, once entirely exhausted, can be renewed. Dark hair may be bleached but no sane person could be deceived bv the dull, lusterless yellow of hair so treat ed, neither does dye deceive anyone, and a woman who would look charming with a head of white hair kept lierfectlv clean aud fluffy with legitimate treatment, be comes disgusting when she resorts to such flagrantly artificial means for keeping the hair dark or blonde. When one's hair turns gray attention should be directed toward keeping it scru pulously clean, toward keeping the com plexioii delicate and fine with color, the eyes blight anil the expression animated, for a brilliant face framed by snowv hair has a pecular charm, especially i'f the hair be abundant and becomiuglv ar ranged. A Ring on a Park Statue. A ring, studded with diamonds aud pearls, hangs suspended to a silkeu cord around the neck of a statue iu one of the most frequented parks of Madrid. It is safer there thau in the strougest room of the Bank of England. Thousands of peo ple pass it every day and admire its beau ty. but the greatest thief in Spain hesi tates even to touch it. It is believed to deal out death to whoui it belongs. The ring was specially made for the late Al fonso XII., who gave it to his cousin. Mercedes, oil the day of their betrothal. Upou her death it passed iuto the posses sion of the King's grandmother. Queen Christiua. Three mouths afterward she died. The King passed on the deaillv band of gold to his sister, who died a mouth after she received it. The King then placed the jewel in bis own casket of precious relics and lived less than a year after he had doue so. A Royal Godmother. The Empress of Austria was the other day making au excursion in the neigh borhood of Campiglio. where she is at present staying, and called at a farm house, where all the inmates were iu festival attire, but appeared iu a rather melancholy turn of mind. Her Majesty perceived this, asked the reason and was told that a baby born three days before was to be christened that day. for which reason the ceremony could uot take place. The Empress then declared that she would take the place of the godmother, and when the i»oor people, who did not kuow the Empress, asked the name they must give their little girl, she replied*: "My name is not much used iu this coun try: it is better, then, to give the child the most beautiful name which Christen dom knows—that of Mary." It was ouly ou the following day, wheu a servant brought a ha ml some present in uionev and an entire outfit ror the babe, mar they kuew that their little girt had for godmother the Empress of Austria. Health and Pempiration. Perfect health is impossible without free perspiratiou. Perspiration is oue of the methods adopted by nature to get rid of superfluous or waste material. To facilitate this delicate system of drain age the skin is ierfdrated with pores. What is forced through them should be removed for excellent reasons. This can not be effectually accomplished without frequent bathing. Hailstones in This Fish Story. Col. Harry Moore of Rocky Ridge tells a story which would make Anauias blush were it not .for tlie fact that Mrs. Moore corroborates it. "A few Sundays ago." Harry says, "we hud a very heavy hail storm. How it did hail, though! The hailstones were larger thau peas, and they came down-with a clatter that was almost deafening. Well, it was soon over, like all storuis in these inirts. aud when the sun -came out I took a walk down to the lake. When I got there I was greatly surprised to find a large num ber of apparently dead fish floating arouud on the* surface—uot little ones but good big ones, from 8 to 10 inches long. When I recovered from my snr prise I gathered up a dozen or two and took theui to the house." "Yes." chimed in Mrs. Moore, "and 1 cut them open to see if they were good to eat. aud what do you think! they were chuck full of hailstones. I think that wheu the hailstones started to splash on the water the trout thought they were saluiou eggs and jumped for them, and when they had swallowed enough they froze stiff!" "And." Harry then went ou, "when the sun had been shining on them for a short time they thawed out and swam away again. In half an hour there was not a fish to be seen. An' say," he concluded, reflectively, "don't you think you Whatcom fishermen had better start out right after a hail storm."—Bell inghaui Bay Express. How Scissors Are Matte. Though no complexions are involved in the making of scissors or much skill required, yet the process of manufacture is very interesting. They are forged from good bar steel heated to redness, each blade being cut off with sufficient metal to form the shauk, or that destined to become the cutting part, and bow, or that which later on is fastened into the hold ing portion. For the bow a small hole is punched,' and this is afterwards ex panded to the required size by hammer ing it on a conical anvil, after which both shank and bow are filed iu a more per fect shape and the hole bored in the mid dle for the rivet. The blades are next ground, and the handles filed smooth and burnished with oil and emery, after which the pairs are fitted together and tested as to their easy working. They are not yet finished, however. They have to undergo hardening and teni|tering and be again ndjusti«d. after which they are finally put together again and polished for the third time. In comparing the edges of knives and scissors it will Ir noticed, of course, that the latter are not in any way so sharply gmind as the former, and that, iu cutting, scissors crush and bruise more than knives. An Honor to Him. On one occasion, when a public recep tion was given to Daniel Webster at a hotel in Boston, a particularly obsequious office-seeker was introduced. The man ground his own axe. bowiug and scraping, until the great man was tired of him, and bidding him good-day, settled down heavily into the uearest chair. But the man, instead of passing on and giving a chance to the next coiner, lingered near and seemed to have something still on his mind, though he looked very "blissful. Webster observed this and said, not very good-naturedly: "May I ask you, sir, if you want anything more of me?" "Oh— oil. no!" said the man, smirking "only perhais I mny be peritiitted to remark that 1 am iroud to say that my hat is hnviug the iuestiuuvble honor to occupy the same chair with Daniel Webster!" Webster had, as a. matter of fact, sat down on the man's tnH beaver hat. An Interesting Relic. At the Tudor exhibition in 1880 one of the most interesting articles ou view wan the actual ring which the Earl of Essex received from Queen Elixabeth. Wheuevetr. the Earl had offended Her Majesty he was to return the ring, and thus obtain Immediate forgiveness. He entrusted it to the Countess of Notting ham to deliver it to the Queen, but she neglected to do so, and this resulted in the execution of EwmU -—A new submei tried oft Sandyi-H house officials*"' lone is to be by the light- SHE ALMOST FOUNDEBED. Stcrmy Experience* of. 1'nttengcr on Clipper Mii| in the Indixn Ocean. "Speaking of exciting experiences one sometimes has while traveling," said the colonel, "reminds me of a voyage I once made from New York to Siugaixjre in a fine clipper ship, the most delightful craft in the world to cross the ocean in. "It was smooth and comfortable sail ing until we rounded the Cape of Good Hope. There we ran into rough weather and experienced a change of temperature that was like running from July weather into midwinter. "The sensation of climbing over those mountains of water was something like riding an exceedingly long gaited horse at a gallop, only intensified about a hun dred times. The ship would climb the side of oue, foot by foot, seemingly at au angle of degrees, twist uneasily for a moment on the top, aud theu sink, sink, down. down, until it seemed as though we were about to be engulfed iu a fathomless abyss—a feeling that made us catch our breath. "The waist of the ship was continually flooded with water which cauie over the weather rail in masses of greeu foaming wave, and escaped slowly through the lee scupjMTs. so that it was for a time impossible to move about without holding ou to the life lines—we had even to rig up a line on blocks 'from the gallery aft to the cabin aud haul the meals across in a basket, because it was im{Hssible for tin steward to carry theui over the deck. Once, just for the excitement of the thing, my fellow passenger and I tried to make our way to the forward part of the ship, not realizing what a dangerous thing it was for landsmen lo attempt un til we saw one of the foremast hands— a Portuguese. |oor fellow—caught by an enormous wave that came in over the side before he had time to grasp a line, and swept overboard. Tlie mate threw a coil of halliards across his shoulder as he was struggling in the water, but the mo tion of the ship was too violent for him to hold oil. and the sailor was drowned. "After twelve days of rough sailing, we worked around into the Indian oceau ami calmer weather. The Indian ocean ix celebrated for sudden and tmicherous squalls, and the hot. still weather mad^ the captain uneasy. "One day. when then- was scarcely a breath of wind stirring, and we were try ing to keep cool under au awning on tin quarter-deck, the mate -auie down frui aloft and called Capt. Young's attention to what seemed to lie a tiny bit of whit vapor away off on the horizon. H» jumped down the companion way. looked at the barometer, ami was back on deck again in an instant. 'Darcy!' lie shout ed. '(Jet the canvas in! Iet go even thing—don't lose a second! Ames (turn ing to me), shove those chairs «iown into the cabin and help me cut the lashings this awning. Hurry now!" "I had leen dozing iu a li^ hnml« chair, and couldn't for the life of me *-e any occasion for his startled manner. There wasn't a cloud in the sky—the sails were gently Happing against the rig ging. and I couldn't sec the tiniest rippl" ou the water. In fact. I was quite an gry when lie grabbed my coat collar and jerked me roughly to niv feet with the -onimand: "Wake up now. mau. and make yourself useful. We haven't a m lncnt to lose!" I mechanically olieyed hi* orders, more from the fact that ail the men seemed to be ruunilig abotu doing the same thing than because 1 saw any reason for it: but presently I noticed that a vapor like a cloud of steam had cov ered the entire horizon, and that under it was a line as black as ink. A 1 watched it I saw it grow larger—larger, higher higher. The air. which had seemed sultry, now felt as if it were charged with electricity and a strange heavine-^. It was difficult to breathe. Then I heard a tiny rustling, like a loose sheet of paper stirring gently. In a moment it became louder, like the hissing of steaui from an escape valve: it changed to a crackling sound, such as Haines make at a great fire—it grew louder—louder yet. like the roar of a cataract—and still louder, until we were almost rushed by th» \ohuue of sound. For one instant I saw the fiery ball of the sun blazing on the edsre of an inky curtain, with white cloud* flying across it. and beiug torn to shreds by the 'wind, then—like the lowering of lights in a theater—it grew dark. I was crouching on the stejs leading down iuto the cabin, aud could barely make out the figures of the helmsmen standing like sluidowjs. carved out of the solid rock— then, for what seemed a year irnftue. everything was chaos—biting cold wind chilled through my summer cloths and made me gasp for breath—a deluge of rain followed it. drenching me to the skiu in a second—the ship careened on her side so far that I thought she sized. I was standing on had cap one side of th** cabin door frame and almost hangiug from the hand rail on the other. "I heard a crash as of snapping tim bers. but I couldn't have mot-ed to save uiy life. Theu. slowly, trembling iu every timber, the ship righted a little. The roar was not quite so deafeniug—a sort of smoky twilight enabled us to dis tinguish figures dimly. 1 made out the form of the captain crawling aft with the help of two life lines. Wheu within three feet of me.he shouted: trot through it pretty well. Only lost the forctupmas* I' But his voice sounded miles away and very weak. While he was yet shaking his eyes grew fixed in an anxious way ou something astern of us. and he Rout ed to the men at the wheel: 'Lash her down tight and hold on." "I looked beyond them, and there, half a mile behind lis. -omiug with the s|»ee-l of a locomotive, was a terrible wall water, like the line of breakers «»ue s,mje- times sees on the south shore of Nantuck et in a storm, only rai times hwh.-v It was the tidal wave which often, if u»»t always, follows tlie squall. "Part of our cargo was kerosene oil in tins, but there was no time to get at it. It was an even chance that we would hopelessly wrecked, if not completely an nihilated. Have you ever. *whrle Iks th ing in the surf, awaited the approach of au enormous breaker, inteuiliug to dive through the base of it. breathlessly watched it come closer, closer, aud curve up over your head, higher, higher, until you became terror-stricken ami tried to run. but found it too late? "Well, that was something of the sensa tion with which w:- watched that awful wall. The sea was, only begiuuing to rise from the effects of the squall, the noise of the wind and rain was subsidinc—it rolled on. nearer and nearer, as resistless ly and silently as fate itself. The men at the wheel, working as men will when their lives depend upon their actions, had lashed the wheel stanchions to iron rings in the deck, and stood like statues of bronze looking death in the face. "For one instauee it towered over us as high as the mizzen top. while the stern of the ship rose on the curve at its base— then it broke. I ducked under the liutel beam of the cabin door to save my head and saw the skylight of the poop deck crash in—then 1 felt as though 1 had dived in thirty feet of water and got caught at the bottom so that couldn't strike out for the surface. I held my breath until my lungs seemed bursting. There was a roaring in my head aud ears. With a last conscious instinct. I held on to the iron hand rail of the cnuipanion way. and presently, jnst as I was almost gone. I felt the air strike my face. It must have been two or three minutes that 1 held on to the rail, gasping aud trying to collect my wits. When I could see around there was but one man clinging to the wheel, which had lieen wrenched loose from the stanchions, and that man had a broken leg. The captain and mate hail managed to save themselves Itehind the mainmast, and in one way or another, all but three of us had come through alive. But the boats were all washed away, the bulwarks stove in, the/ore and raixzen topmasts gone, and the timbers of tho cabin aud forecastle starteil in several places. "We had spare topmasts lashed under the bnlwnrks, and iu a few days repaired the rigging sufficiently to make" good progress, so that we, reached Singapore inside of two weeks "—Xew York Her ald. ItennltcU the borers. A French conjuror, who was perform ing iu Xantes. announced at a certain stage of the entertainment thai his next trick would be to «rit off the head of some one present, and he invited volunteers to come up and submit to the operation. V'pon this a youug man. "who was known to have quarreled recently with his fiuancee." presented himself with the reso lution of despair, aud everything had been made ready for his decapitation, wheu the lady, who was also present, broke into piereiug screams, rushed ou to the platform, seised her intended by the armband, dragged him fronr the hall. •V JaS Mistimed Joke. "Xow, prisoner," said the wanlen, "we usually net men to work in this place at **CSyil eiuciteer. or what?" "I engineered strike^ "Very well," returned the wanlen. ^W|l give you a hammer and let yt*( ennalMr a few strikes on our atoi^bgeMwi A/ establishment." And tfcert.jfljp wished he hadn't beea fHa'-tW'^s BsLur.