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^ _ . ' L WEEKLY EDITION. \ WIXyS?>ORO. S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1881. ESTABLISHED IN 1848. - Pv ? THE BLACK ROBE. by wilkie colijxs. -Anno?, of? Ik- "THE WOMAN IX T7HTTE," "THE MOON ^ STOKE," "AFTER DARS," "NO NAME," " MAN AND V.'iFE," "THE I_<W AXI/ p?r^ THE LADT," " THE NEW ilAO DALEN," ETC., ETC. ^ BOOK THE THIRD. f CHAPTEB IL?EVENTS AT TEN' ACRES, There was no obstacle to the speedy departure of Boraavne and his wife from Vange Abbey. The villa at Highgate? called Ten Acres Lodge, in allusion to the measurement of the grounds surrounding the house?had been kept in PVi perfect order by the servants of the lare 7 - Lady Berrick, now in the employment tof her phew. Un tne morning aiier tueir aruvu at the villa Stella sent a note to her mother. The same afternoon Ivlrs. Eyr*;court arrived at Ten Acres, on her way to garden-party. Finding the house, to her great relief, a modern building, supplied with all the newest comforts and luxuries, she at once began to plan a grand party in celebration of the rejT turn of the bride and bridegroom. " I don't wish to praise myself," Mrs. Eyreeourt said; " but if ever there was a forgiving woman, I am that person. i We will pay no more, Stella, about your truly contemptible wedding?five people altogether, including ourselves and the gcw Lorings! A grand ball will set yon right Kith society, and that is the one thing needful. Tea and coffee, my dear Bomayne, in your study; Coote's quadrille band; the supper from Gunter's; tho grounds illuminated vrith colored lampi>; Tyrolese singers among the trees, relieved by military music?and, if there are any African or other savages now in London, there is room enough in these charming grounds for an encamp meni, uauues, iuu ou tixc rest of it, to end in a blaze of fireworks." A sudden fit of coughing seized her, and stopped the further enumeration of attractions at the contemplated ball, i Stella had observed that her mother - looked unusually worn and haggard, through the disguises of paint and powder. This was not an uncommon ! result of Mrs. Eyrecourt's devotion to the demands of society; but the cough was something new as a symptom of exhaustion. "I am afraid, mamma, you have been over-exerting yourself," said Stella. "You go to too many parties." " Nothing of the sort, my dear; I am 1 as strong as a horse. The other night j I was waiting for the carriage in a draft j (one of the most perfect private con- j p certs of the season, ending with a de^ lightfnlly naughty little French play), and _I caught a slight.colcL A-glass of V water is 'all I want". Thank you. Komayne, you are looking shockingly se~ ^*~rious and severe; our ball will cheer ? you. If you would only make a b>nfire ^ of all those horrid books you don't know * how it would improve your splits, Dearest Stella, I will come and lunch here to-morrow?you are within such a nice, easy drive from town?and I'll bring my visiting-book and settle about7 the invitations and the day. Oh, dear me, how late it is! I have nearly an hour's drive before I get to my gardenia party. Good-bye, my turtle doves, good i} bye." She was stopped on the way to her carriage by another fit of coughing. But ^ she still persisted in making light of it. 1 u I'm as strong as a horse," she repeated, as soon as she could speak?and skipped into the carriage like a young girl. ; "Tour mother is killing herself," said ; Komayne. ' "If I could persnr.de her to stay -with ' ^ ns a little while," Stella suggested, "the 1 ,p > rest and quiet might do wonders for her. Would you object to it, Lewis?" "My darling, I object to nothingexcept giving a ball and burning my books. If your mother will yield on ^ those two points, my house is entirely at ^ her disposal." He spoke playfully?ne looted, ms * best, since he had separated himseli i from the painful associations that were I now connected with Tange Abbey. Had ; v " the torment o' the voice" been left far j b away in Yorkshire ? Stella shrank from approaching the subject in her husband's presence; but she was bold enough tc hope. To her surprise Komavne himself referred to the General's family. " I have written to Hvnd," he began. "Do ron mind his dining with us today?" "Of course notP " I want to hear if he has anything tc tell me abont those French ladies. He undertook to see them in your absence, and to ascertain how?" He was unable i to overcome his relnctance to pronounce & the next words. Stella was quick tc 'lerstand what he meant. She finI''' id the sentence for him. ||P ? Yes," he said, " I wanted to heai 5, the boy is getting on, and if there Ug^y hope of curing him. Is it?r ^^fflK&^embled as ho put the question, "Is ^gg^reditary madness ?" the serious Importance oJ HghT the tTUth SteIla 0nl*v rePliec! hesitated to aslr if there r- ^^\'CK>a ?f madness in the family. ' "I ^^PP050'" sIie a(^ed, "you would not lLN^e see k?J aad iG^?e ?f ids ces of recovery for yourself?" "^lfelS?BPose?" he burst out, with sndcten aug^nku_ ^-^u niight be sure, fe The bare idea oSLseein? 1x1x11 tunis me P cold Oh, when^^11 Ifor5et-r when shall J forget! w5&,? sP?^e ?f ^lr>'1 | first ^ he said, with rellgyed stability, sftat a moment of s??eilce* "iou s. or 17" - 1 ? "??* Kftrm. k " It was my fault, love?EKV~ less and so gentle, and he suc^ 3 sweet face, I thought it mi^^* sootne j you to see him. Forgive me^"6 never speak of again. B^^Te J any notes for me to copy ? You%know, Lewis, I am your secretary now." 1 So she led Komayne away to his* study | and his books. "When Major j Hynd ; arrived she contrived to be the ^rst to i jtioo him. " Say as little as possible : about the General's widow and her son," ; she whispered. The major understood her. "Don't Vi - ? be uneasy, Mrs. Romayne," he answered. ' r? ?. i n * , " i Know joTir nnsoana wen enougn to } 8g5& v ' " : 7':g?lfe' - " . S0:^^ know what yon moan. Besides, the new* that r is good :: ,vs."' 1'orji tvn.- i:i ihe couM speak iiS"ro particularly. When the servants ha i 1 '-ft tlie room, after dinner, thmajor made his report. "I am going to agreeably surprise ! you," he began. "All responsibility to- j ward the Oreneral's lamiiv is taicen on | our hands. The ladies are on their way i l>ack to France." Stella was instantly reminded of one 1 of the melancholy incidents associated i with her visit to Camp's Hill. " Madam ; Marillac spoke of a brother of hers who disapproved of the marriage," she said. ! " Has he forgiven her ? " " Tliat is exactly what he has done, i Mrs. Komayne. Naturally enough, he felt the disgrace of his sister's marriage . to^such a man as the General. Only the other day he heard for the first time that , she was a widow, and he at once traveled I to England. I bade them good-bye yes- ! terday?most happily reunited?on their ; journey home again. Ah, I thought i you would be glad, Mrs. Bomayne, to : hear that the poor widow's troubles are ; over. Her brother is rich enough tc ; ! place them all in easy circumstances?he , ! is as good a fellow as ever lived." "Have you seen him?" Stella asked, , eagerlv. 0 v "I have been with him to the asy- i lum." "Does the boy go back to France ?r "Xo. We took the place by surprise, and oaw how well-conducted it was. The boy has taken a strong liking to the pro- ; : prietor?a bright, cheerful old man, whc I | is teaching him some of our English j j games, and has given him a pony to ride ! j on. He burst out crying, poor creature, i at the idea of going away?and his i | mother burst out crying at the idea of ; 1 leaving him. It was a melancholy scene, j | You know what a good mother i>?no i I sacrifice is too great for her. The boy j ! stays at the asylum, on the chance that ; j his healthier and happier life there may i : Via?v\+/-? nnvflliim "Rv tins wo.v. TtmniVTiiv I his uncle desires me to thank you?" " Hynd, you didn't tell the imcle niv : name ? " Don't alai*m yourself! He is a gen- j ! tleman, and when I told him I was ; I i pledged to secrecy, he made but one in- i quiry?he asked if you were a rich man. | I told Iv'm you had eighteen thousand a | year." | " WellV" "Well, he set ihat matter right be- ' tween us with perfect taste. He said: j 'I cannot presume to offer repayment j to a person so wealthy. We gratefully j accept our obligation to our kind un known friend. For the future, how- , ever, my nephew's expenses must be paid from my purse.' Of course, I could only agree to that. From time to time the | ' mother is to hear, and I am to hear, how ' j the boy goes on. Or, if you like, Eo- | 1 | mayne?now that the General's family j ; have left England?I don't see whv the j 1 I j proprietor might not make his report j : j directly to yourself." "No!" Eomayne replied, positively, j 1 T.CkT -frro oc ora " t JL4w U XMiMtUi ttO. . - - ? - . srg "Very well The asylum is close by, at Hampstead?that was what made me think of it. WHi you give ns some ! music, Mrs. Romayne"? Not to-night? < Then let ns go to the billiard-room; and, ' : as I am the worst of bad players, I will : ask yon to help me beat your accomplished husband." ******** j On the afternoon of the nest day Mrs. Eyrecourt's maid arrived at Ten Acres with a note from her mistress. "Deabest Stella?Matilda must bring you my excuses for to-day. I dou't in tho least understand it, but I seem to have turned lazy. It is most ridiculous?I really cannot get out of | bed. Perhaps I did do a little too much yester- j day. The opera after the garden-party, and a n frpr tho f.-iera. and this tiresome couch ' all night after the balL Quite a series, isn't it ? j , Make my apologies to our dismal Romayne, and j ( if you drive out this afternoon come and have a j chai with me. Your affectionate mother, "Emily Eyeecoukt. i 1 t:P. S.?You know what a fidget Matilda is. ' If she talks about me, don't believe a word she : says to you." Stella turned to the maid with a sink ing heart. 1 "Is my mother very ill ?' she asked. ! < " So ill, ma'am, that I begged and I i prayed her to let me send for a doctor, i 1 You know what my mistress is; she J < wouldn't hear of it. If you would ' please to use your influence?" J ^ "I will order the carriage instantly, j and take vou back with me." j ' v ! Before she dressed to go out Stella i ] showed the letter to her husband. He ; 1 spoke with perfect kindness and sympa- j thy, but he did not conceal that he j shared his wife's apprehensions. "Goat once," were his last "words to her; "and if I can be of any use send for me." , It was late in the evening before Stella s returned. She brought sad news. * The physician consulted told he] J plainly that the neglected congh anc < the c 'nstant fatigue had together madf i the case a serious one. He declined t< ] say that there was any absolute dangei c as yet, or any necessity for her remain ? ing with her mother at night. The ex perience of the next twenty-four hours, at most, would enable him to speal- t positively. In the meantime the patienl c insisted that Stella should return to hei Tinshanr? P.vati nmlrr fh? infinence oi i opiates, IMrs. Eyrecourt was still drowsih r equal to herself. " You are a fidget, nr\ dear, and Matilda is a fidget; I can'! have two of you at my bedside. Good . night." Stella stooped over lier ant j ' kissed hoi*. She whispered: " Three j . w. eks notice, remember, for the parry!" j By the next evening: the malady had ! assumed so formidable an aspect that i ' the doctor had his doubts of the patient's j ' chance of recovery. With her husband's1 ( full approval Stella remained night am' day at her mother's bedside. Thus, in little more than a month j frnm flio <7rtv nf his mnrrinlinmnvrir 1 was, for the time, a lonely man again. \ ] The illness of Mrs. Eyre court was un- i expectedly prolonged. There were in- 1 iervals during which her vigorous con- j j stitution rallied and resisted the progress of the disease. On these occasions; ] Stella was able to return to her husband < for a few hours?subject always to a message which recalled her to hei ? mother, when the chances of life or i death appeared to be equally balanced. 1 Komayne's only resource was in ins : books and iiis pen. For the first time since his union with Stella he openeJ 3 the portfolios in which Penrose had col- j i lected the first introductory chapters of i his historir-al work. Almost at ever? page the familiar handwriting of his secretary and friend met his new. It was a new trial to his resolution to be working alone; never had he felt the absence of Penrose as he felt it now. He missed the familiar face, the quiet pleasant voice, and, more than both, the ever welcome sympathy with his work. Stella had done all that a wife could do to fill the vacant place; and her husband's fondness had accepted the effort as addT-r^ rr o-n /-\fIt nv Alinrm f n 1 /?rno. X-U^ V*XXl4X AJL& CV IMV AV'Wf V. A \^l?. ture who had opened a new life to him. But where is the woman who can intimately associate herself with the hard brainwork of a man devoted to an absorbing intellectual pursuit ? She can love him, admire him, serve him, believe in him beyond all other men; but (in spite of exceptions which only only prove the rule) she is out of her place when she enters the study while the pen is in his hand. More than once, when he was at work, Romayne closed the page bitterly; the sad thought came to him: " Oh, if I only had Penrose here!" Even other friends were not available as a resource in the solitary evening hours. Lord Loring wa3 ab sorbed in social and political engagements. And Major Hynd?true to the principle of getting away as often as possible from bis disagreeable wife and bis ugly children?had once more left London. One day. while Mrs. Eyrecourt still lay between life and death, Iiomayne found his historical labors suspended by the want of a certain volume which it was absolutely necessary to consult. He had mislaid the references written for him by Penrose, and he was at a loss to remember whether the book was in the British museum, in the Bodleian library, or in the Bibliotheque at Paris. In this emergency a letter to his former secreA "l-T r. 1,.-? 4-1. ? lary wuuiu xuriusn mm *>jlin mu mi w mation that he required. But he was ignorant of Penrose's present address. The Lorings might possibly know it? bo to the Lorings lie resolved to apply. ? CHAPTER m.?FATHER BEXWELL AXD TUB BOOK. PiOinayne's first errand in London was to sec Lis wife and to make inquiries at Mrs. Eyrecourt's house. The report was more favorable than usual. Stella whispered, as she kissed him, "I shall soon come back to you, I hope!" Leaving the horses to rest for awhile, he proceeded to Lord Loring's residence on foot. As he crossed a street in the neighborhood iie was nearly run over ] by a cab, carrying a gentleman ancl his luggage. The gentleman was Mr. "WinEerfield, on his way to Derwent's hotel. Lady Loring very kindly searched her card basket, as the readiest means of assisting Romayne. Penrose had left his card, on his departure from London, but no address was written on it. Lord Loring,- unable -himself to give the required information, suggested the light person tjo. coucult. - ?-> ..-r?pr-? " Father Benwell will be here later in the day," he said. " If you will write to Penrose at once, he will add the address. Are you sure, before the letter goes, that the book you want is not in 1*1 rO Luy juururv ; " I think not," Komayne answered ; "{but I will write down the title and leave it here with my letter." The same evening he received a polite note from Father Benwell informing I him that the letter was forwarded, and that the book he wanted was not in Lord Loring's library. " If there should be any delay or difficulty in obtaining this rare volume," the priest added, " I only wait the expression of <rour wishes to borrow it from the library of a friend of mine residing in the country." By return of post the answer, affectionately and gratefully written, arrived Li-om Penrose. He regretted that he was not able to assist Fiomavne personallv. But it was out of liis power (in plain words lie liad been expressly forbidden by Father Benwell to leave the service dii which he was then engaged). In reference to the book that was wanted, it svas quite likely that a search in the catalogues of the British museum might liscover it. He bad only met with it liimself in the National library at Paris. This information led Komayne to London again, immediately. For the first time he called at Father Benwell's lodgings. The priest was at home, expecting the visit. His welcome was the perfection of unassuming politeness. He asked for the last news of " poor Mrs. Eyrecourt's health " with the svmj athy of a true friend. "I had the honor of drinking tea vith Mrs. Eyrecourt, some little ime since," he said; "her flow of conv_-rsa.ion was never more delightful?it seemed impossible to associate the idea >f illness with so blight a creature \nd how-'"ell she kept the secret of rour contemplated marriage! May I >ffer my humble congratulations and jood wishes ? " Eomayne thought it needless to say hat Mrs. Eyrecourt had not^Jbeen rusted with the secret, until the wedling-day was close at hand. " 3Iy -wife and I agreed in wishing to >e married as quietly as possible," he mswered, after making the customary tcknowledgments. "And Mrs. Romayne'? pursued Father Benwell. " This is a sad trial tc lier. She is in attendance on her mother, [ suppose V " In constant attendance; I am quite ilone. To change the subject, may 1 isk you to look at the reply which 1 have received from Penrose ? It is m\ j ?xcuse for troubling you with thif j > 1 >11. Father Benwell read the letter with j the closest attention, in spite of his habitual self-control his vigilant eyes I lightened as he handed it back. The priest's well-planned scheme (like Mr. Bitrake's clever inquiries) had failed. Ho had not even entrapped Mrs. Eyreconrt into revealing the marriage engagement. Knr unconquerable -mall-talk had foiled him at every point Even when he had deliberately kept hi? -eat after the otliei guests at the tea;al>lo had taken their departure, she rose ivith the most imperturablo coolness md left him. "I have a dinner and two parties to* '1.1.. 3 * ' J. i.1. ^ 1* - 1 "I [llglll-, UUU Llll&lbJUbb LLLU LI LUG \\ ilCll J lake my little restorative nap. Forgive me?and do come again!" Wlien he sent the fatal announcement I of the iaarriage to Eome, he had been i obliged to confess that he was indebted ! for the discovery to the newspaper. He | j had accepted the humiliation; he had I accepted the defeat?but he was not ! beaten yet. i "I counted on Bomayne's weakness, ' and Miss Eyrecourt counted on Ro: mayne's weakness; and Miss Eyrecourt It . ? c Qr\ 7 Cit "1 f TVTtt frtw rrnll ; Xlcto U XU XLL r t'UlU Will 1 ? i come. j In that manner lie had reconciled j himself to his position. And now?he 1 knew it when he handed back the letter j to Piomayne?his turn had come! j " Yon can scarcely go to Paris to conI suit the book," he said, " in the present ! state of Mrs. Eyrecourt's health." "Certainly not." "Perhaps yon will send somebody to search the catalogue at the British museum V" "I should have done that already, Father Benwell, but for the very kind allusions in your note to your friend in the country. Even if the book is in the museum library, I shall be obliged to go to the reading-room to get my information. It would be far more convenient to me to have the volume at home to consult, if you think your friend will trust me with it." "I am certain he will trust vou with ; it. "Tv friend is Mr. Winterfield, of | Bcauj_ house, North Devon. Perhaps you may have heard of him T "Xo; the name is quite new to me." "Then come and see the man himself. He is now in London?and I am entirely at your service." j In half an hour more Romayne was | presented to a well-bred, amiable gentle! man, in the prime of life, smoking, anc reading the newspaper. The bowl o; his long pipe rested on the floor on one side of him, and a handsome red anc white spaniel reposed on the other. Before his visitors had been two minutes ir the room, lie understood the motive which had brought them to consult him, ; and sent for a telegraphic form. " My steward will find the book and forward it to your address by passenger . v,rain this afternoon." he said. " I wilJ . tell him to put my printed catalogue of the library into the parcel, in case I have ' any other books which may be of use to ' you." With these words he dispatched the , telegram to the office. Eomayne j attempted to make his acknowledg- i ments. Mr. Winter field would hear no ^ ackn owledgments. " ?>Iv dear sir," he said, with a smile ( that ^brightened his whole face, " yov ] are engaged in writing a great historical 1 work, and I am an obscure countrj gentleman, who is lucky enough tc associate himself with the production oi a new book. How do you know that 3 | am not looking forward to a complimen- , tary line in the preface? I am the j obliged person, not you. Pray consider i me as a handy little boy' wlE^Jfisvon' ' * smoke?" ] Not even tobacco would soothe ? Eomayne's wasted and irritable nerves, j Father Benwell cheerfully accepted a t cigar from a bos on the table. "Father Benwell possesses all the * social virtues," Mr. "Winterfield ran on. ( " He shall have his coffee and the brere?* 1 sugar-basin that the hotel can produce. ( I can quite understand that your literary ^ labors have tried your nerves," he said to Eomayne, when he had ordered the coffee. " The mere title of your wort overwhelms an idle man like me. ' The r Origin of Religions'?what an immense subject! How far must we look back to r find out the first worshipers of the 6 human family ? Where are the hieroglyphics, Mr. Eomayne, that will give ? you the earliest mformation ? JLa the I unknown center of Africa, or among the ^ ruined cities of Yucatan ? My own idea, ^ as an ignorant man. is, that the first of all forms of worship must have been the s worship of the sun. Don't be shocked, e Father Benwell?I confess I have a cer- 1 tain sympathy with sun-worship. In the East especially the rising of the sun is * surely the grandest of all objects?the c visible symbol of a beneficent Deity,who gives life, warmth and light to the world i of his creation." ? "Very grand, no doubt," remarked Father Ben-well, sweetening his coffee, " But not to be compared to the noble * sight at Borne, when the pope blesses g the Christian world from the balcony of Saint Peter's." c "So much for professional feeling!" a said Mr. Winterfield. "But, surely, r something depends on what sort of a * man the pope is. If we had lived in the ^ time of Alexander the Sixth, would you a have called him a noble sight ?" s "Certainly?at a proper distance," s Father Benwell replied, briskly. " Ah, you heritics only know the worst side of 0 that most unhappy pontiff! Mr. "Win- J terfield, we have every reason to believe j that he felt (privately) the truest; remorse." E "T shnnlfJ rftfinirfi vfirv evir7pnr>fi t li 1 J O - " ? - ' ?WW to persuade me of it." 0 This touched Komavne on a sad side 8 1 a of his own personal experience. "Perhaps," he said, " you don't believe in remorse T ii "Pardon me," Mr. Winterfield re- 2 joined. "I onlv distinguish between ^ false remorse and true remorse. We g will say no more of Alexander the Sixth, v Father Benwell. If we want an illus- b tration, I will apply it, and give no offense. True remorse depends, to my mind, on a man's actual knowledge of g. his own motives?by no means a com- j, mon knowledge, in my experience. Say, u for instance, that I have committed d T some serious offense? 1 Q Romayne could not resist interrupting ^ him. " Sav you have killed one of your i$ fellow creatures," he suggested. I ii ft "Very well. If I knew that I eailji | ^ meant to kill, for some vile purpose ol I 0 my own, and if (which by no means -r( always follow) I am really capable oi ^ feeling the enormity of my own crime? ^ that is, as I think, true remorse. Mur- ^ derer, as I am, I have, in that case, some o: moral worth still left in me. But, if 3 o I p did not mean to kill the man?if his p, death was my misfortune as well as his j ?and if (as frequently happens) lam nevertheless troubled by remorse, the j it true cause lies in mv own inability fairly ! T( to realize my own motives before I look j to results. I am the ignorant victim of I ^ false remorse; and if I will only ask my- j & self boldly what has blinded me to the ! R i -A true state of the case. I shall find the mischief due to thau misdirected appreciation of my own importance, which is nothing but egotism in disguise." " I entirely agree with you," said Father Benwell; " I have had occasion to say the same thing in the confessional." Mr. TFinterfield looked at his dog, and changed the subj^pt. (To be continued.) POPULAR SCIENCE. With any ink usually employed in writing reduced from ten volumes to six, and to which four -volumes of glycerine have afterward been added, Professor Attfield has been able to obtain transcripts of manuscripts in an ordinary thin paper copying-book without the use of a press. When a sheet of paper is written over with tb;sink, it is placed under one of the shei-rs of the book, and then a piece of blotting paper laid over the thin paper .lakps up, when pressed in the commor.%-a_v?sJ?-n~ J3??36S flf.-HTll- TrVii/^Vi mor were made with a newly-invented preparation .of steel, which seems to present great resistance to missiles. The metel.was only threefiftieths of an inch in thickness, and the inside uf the cnirass was lined with a thin layer of wool. The entire weight of the piece of armor, which was intended to protect only the heart and lungs, was two pounds and a-half; but of eleven rounds cf ball cartridge fired at the cuirass at a distance of 175 yards, although eight of the bullets-struck it, only two penetrated the metal, and these were found to be flattened and retained in the woolen lining# Some observations on meteors, conducted this year between July 25 and July du, were recorded m a paper by Mr. Cruls, which was read before the French Academy. As the honary average increased rapidly between the evening and the morning honrs, and as a remarkable recrudescence occnrred immediately before sunrise, the presumption was that the stream of meteors moved in a direction opposite to that of the earth. This conclusion received further support from the fact that the meteors scon after five a. il moved with greater velocity, and were very brilliant. Their direction was probably very little inclined to the plane of the ecliptic. Barometric pressure has a very sensible influence on the discharge of water from springs. Mr. Baldwin Latham has ascertained that whenever there is a rapid fall in the barometer there is a corresponding increase in the water flowing, and with a rise in the "barometer there is a diminution in the flow, liie gaugings of deep wells also confirm these observations. Where there is a large amount of water held by capillaritv in the strata above the water Line, at that period of the year when wells become sensitive and the flow from the strata slnggish, a fall in the oarometer coincided with a rise the water-line, and tinder conditions of high barometric pressure the water-line was Lowered. The Journal of Science ?ays that in )rder to account for the mysterious disappearances of persons, now so common, a French writer suggests the existence of a disease not yet recognized, which, without any previous warning, Fttdde&ly-vjesoljes iheigjf*ient into va- . J?*L, W pVlCOOCD IU liwY'; ?iu? lessed the disappearance of a friend vith whom he was walking. A very iimple consideration overturns this hypothesis. We can scarcely assnme that : ;he disease causes the sudden vaporiza;ion of clothing, boots, keys, knives, noney, trinkets, and all that the paient had about him at the time of his lie appearance. Yet no one has ever 'ound in the street a complete suit of ilothes from which the body of the : nearer escaped. WORDS OF WISDOM. The essence of friendship is entire- 1 lacQ o fnfal marmonimif.TT onrl frncf. Truth is too simple for us; vre do : lot like those "who unmask onr illu- . ions. Souls are not saved in bundles. The Spirit asks of every man, how is it with ; hee ? : No real happiness can exist in that leart discontented with itself, and ' vhich seeks to make others so. Our good deeds rarely cause much gos ip among our fellow-citizens, but our ( ivil ones leap immediately into noto- ' ietv. 1 You may safely commit the child's . ilothes to the servant, but the rest of ^ he little one you had better take care >f yourself. ' Pleasure is very seldom found where ( t is sought. Our brightest blazes of , gladness are commonly kindled by un- ] ixpected sparks. ] To discover a truth and to separate it 1 rom a falsehood is surely an occupation worthy of the best intellect, and not at ] ill unworthy of the best heart. Neither worth nor wisdom come with- 1 iut an effort; and patience, and piety, ' ,nd salutary knowledge, spring up and J ipen from under the harrow of afflic- ; ion. It is better to meet danger than to < rait for it. He that is on a lee shore. ^ .nd foresees a hurricane, stands out to ea and enconnters a storm to avoid a. ^ hipwreck. 1 A person who is too nice an observer I ?f the business of a crowd, like one . ?ho is too curious in observing the ] abor of the bees, will often be stung ; or his curiosity. ^ "With respect to the authority of great j lames, it should be remembered that j te alone deserves to have any weight j r influence with posterity who has ( hown himself superior to the particular ? nd predominant error of his own < imes. 1 i * Small miseries like small debts hit us q so many places, and meet us at so t aanv turns and corners, that what thev t rant in weight they make up in nnm-1 j er, and render it less hazardous to ! i tand the fire of one cannon ball than a j t oliey composed of such a shower of 11 iullets. I1 L. j The Language of F:ies. 1 An English scientist has made the i urprising discovery that flies have a 1 mguage of their own, inaudible to a naided human ears, though, no doubt, istinctly audible to the ears of insects. 1 !his is not the buzzing tone common to \ 11 flying insects, which is produced by i lie rapid movement of their wings, and c ; but a mere incidental effect, as mean- a agless as are the sounds of our foot- c ills wnne we are waiKing ana conver3- u ig with a friend, but it consists of a ther tones made voluntarily, no doubt, c 3r the purposes of limited communiea- J !on with one another. n The discovery was made by means of n ae newly invented microphone while t' lagnifying the tramp of a fly wal king p n a table, till it sounds as loud as ihat P f a horse passing over a wooden bridge, p iy close observation, during these ex- a eriments other sounds were heard dif- c *rent from those of its footfalls and i E ings, which proved to be its trumpet- c ig calls issuing from its proboscis, and ^ ssembling somewhat the distant whinring of a horse. Such are some of the >sults of that marvelous instrument n hich acts for the ear of rru-n as the tl acroscope does for tne eye.?Scientific j ^ 'eporter. j ? CAXSY-PULLIXli. How tlic Busings iOlannared I'pon a l.avec j Scale? l'rintioz Sweet Devices on Lozenges?The Dlint Drop. There is probably no one article manufactured within the bounds of the Uni-ed States which is more universally a favorite, and the mention of which calls up more pleasant associations to old and young, than candy. The baby cries for it. school-bovs and school-girls i demand if, and?principally in the form of caramels ? it is alleged to be of the greatest possible service to yonng men in their courting days, not. of course, j for their own proper use, but as a propi tiatodf offering to their respective divinities. In this particular it far excels afe fascinating but deceitful ice cream. Jid'has the additional advantage of being icseason all the year round. Staid fathers of families affect to disdain theIpothBome'dainty, and are apt to inforr^fcsar, offspring that candy will spoil theifieeth and ruin their digestion, usually, however, ending the homily the production of sundry ^-O- I.-; joy& which candy brought to them. id the long ago, and to all it is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. A reporter of the Tribune was afforded an opportunity of making a tonr of inspection through one of the largest candy manufactories of the West, and of seeing for himself the different processes employed in the conversion of the pure white sugar into the manu- : factured article. Asked what particu- 1 lar department he would lirst examine, 1 the scribe decided to begin the review . where he began his personal experience ] ?namely, with stick candy?and lie was led to the floor devoted to its manufacture. At one end of the large room a couple of men were industriously em- ' ployed shoveling white sugar into large copper boiling pans, each holding fifty pounds. Side by side with these were \ half a dozen similar pans in which the . syrup was boiling fiercely. The sugar ] when sufficiently boiled, is poured upon ] marble slabs, fenced in with square } pieces of iron, and there allowed to cool ' until fit for handling. The process of f C+ v-\*f rt V.vAmr*inr-lnv 1 UO'.jL^ii^ iuan^o it ux o* cviv/i, i and to get rid of this it is "pulled." A 1 man take3 a thirty-pound chunk of tlie | [ stuff, liaugs it on a large iron hook and ' draws it cut at arm's length. Then he doubles it over the hook and pulls again, | repeating the process until the entire mass assum'es a snowy whiteness. It _c is then divided up into pieces of suita-1A ble size and rolled by hand on a wooden ! , table. This makes rolls some ten feet in length?but along comes a boy with |a a'queer shaped pair of scissors, and cuts J it into suitable lengths. If onlj the * childish consumers could get hold of * that boy and reason with him the one f cent stick of candy, which is the jn- I venile's delight, might be made a Jittle | longer. But this superior beinfr, net' lectful of liis opportunities, goes on all j day clipping candy as if bis weapon 1j were the sliears of Fates, and never Jj. once puts his lingeis to his mouth. j r The question as to how the stripes, j r( those famous spiral stripes of delicate j " pink, got on to the candy had always 0 puzzled the reporter, even as the knot- E ty problem of how the apple got inside c the dumpling bothered King George. ? And yet it, is simple enough. On the out- Jside of the cylindrical lump of white candy the workman lays longitudinal ? strips of colored candy prepared in similar manner? A soientkte twist is given J to the mass; the workman gets hold of ^ one end of ifc, pulls it out into a long S sfrino- whifOi isrnllerl hv his hnv Vip-1 npv. and there is the stick candy with its col-! ^ ored stripe. Half a pound of colored . * sugar suffices .to ornament a .batch of J. fifty pounds. The dear candy, the li'ghtbrown variety, is not pulled. The process ? employed in the manufacture of "drops" . is identical with that of making white r' stick candy, except that the stuff a'ter s being pulled is run through rollers. a These have depressions on their face of P the size of the "drop' required, and 5 one shaking-up suffices to break the a. cakes into hundreds of little pieces. The t' coloring used for these is mostly carmine, or cochineal, or harmless vegeta- :! ble colors. Hoarhound candy is not I. pulled, and is cat in sticks by a handroller. ^ To make rock candy in the esfab- ^ lishmen1" visited from four to live barrels of sugar are dumped into an immense copper kettle heated by steam, s' and there boiled until the proper con- a sistency is obtained. The syrup is poured into deep oval tin pans, in which 0 cotton threads are strung from end to a end. Thesa arc convf:ved to tbo errs- P tallizing room, -where a temperature of a 150 degrees Fahrenheit is constantly " maintained, and remain there two or three days. The crystals iorm on the 5 5 rings, and there is your candy, red or white, according as you have added or ^ Dmitted the carmine. Jelly goods, ] P creams and other varieties are crystal- a lized in the same way, and the men who e handle them need no overcoats while at work in this department. Creams, gum-drops, jujubes and i paste goods are made in molds iiiied i ^ with corn starch. A board, on which a I a iozen or more representations cf the i iron, square or other shape required, j ire melded in relief, is pressed into the a; 5taich, and the melted sugar is poured 0 into the depressions thus made. When ^ jool they are sifted out and taken to the crystallizing room. Lozenges are manufactured in an en- 0 :irely different way. Crashed sugar is poured into a big mill in the basement, md pounded until it is as fine as flour. ^ Five or six barrels of this are thrown " ;nto a trough, some gum and the requisite amount of flavoring essence are ^ idded, and the entire mass dumped i ^ uto the mixer, from whence it emerges ! j;1 n the form of a thick dough. This is ! ^ run through rollers into sheets, about j ^ ;our feet long and two feet wide, and i S? carried to the stamping table. Ee:; j stands a man with a pad saturated with j m ;armine and a stamper, on which the i .etters to be imprinted on the lozenge j ?innocent aid to boyish and girlish Sir-' ;ation?are yet in type. And thus it is j j, ;bat "Do you love me?"' and "Are yon j rr.in<r to fcbft hall this evsniuc ?" armear i <l-/ ipoi. the lozenges. These are cut from o"j ;he sheet by girls armed with ordinary ij; in cutters of the kind familiar to every fr icusewife, and after a three days' expe- k, ience in the purgatorial sweat-box the 0j ozenges are ready for racking and ship- sj nent. English mint and all the count- ; uc ess variety of plain lozenges are cut by ! ai i machine. ! m To make cocoanut paste the indigesti- ' 0I )le frnit is cast into a machine res em- i w ding a quartz-crusher, and comes out g n a condition of pulp and shreds. The : Cl ream for chocolate drops and sticks i .re cast in starch-molds and dipped in ! ^ hocolato mixture. Mint-drops are i vj Iropped singly on tins, and caramels ! pj ro hni'or? cm! frit Onfc. The SUffar I igar, dear to the heart of budding i ^ outh, is cast in a starch or }>ia.sttr i aold, and afterwards painted and hied j w! .p by hand. All sugar fruits, toys and ! he like, which appear in such great ! jv irofnsion at holiday times, are cast in | s'0 faster molds and hand-painted. The ! ^ reralent idea that these articles are j f mong the more objectionable forms of andies is an erroneous one, as they are ! lade of the finest white sugar, and the j "c oloring matter is certified to as innoc-1 la ous.?Neir York Tribune. pi _ OT, IS -fuxnougu e:inv iu mc ^cmuu, ??& au- u<. ounce, at the request of Mr. Vennor, at bat during the coming winter "water er ill as usual freeze "with its slippery ac ide up. in LOST LEG'S AM) ARMS. The CunnSas; Thai Has Been"I*ut Into Aril- ! ' tficinl J.imbs. "I presume that most persons believe ! s that our harvest time is after a war," j 3 said Mr. Brad lev, a New York maker of I * artificial limbs ; "but the fact is that!' we do not care particularly about war. j There is too much thoroughness about I ' the wars of modern times. They de- | J strov mc-n rather than maim them. Now, ' * our business is to patch up maimed ^ men, not to dispose of dead ones. Our j c best helpers, in a business way, are the j * railroads. They maim, in nine cases I out of ten, in a way to benefit us. For instance, at the close of the war there * wer'e only nine or ten thousand ex-sol- ? diers drawing pensions for the loss of a J: leg or an arm. There were only two ^ pensioners in the receipt of pay from ihe Government for the loss of bcth ? legs and both arms. Now, I suppose that most 'persons fancied that there a must nave been Hundreds 01 thousands r of such sufferers by the "war. Of course ^ pen- ? wearers of artificial limbs in the United ^ States. Why, the little city of Provi- F dence has sent in a requisition for ten 11 legs within the last four months. The ? railroads have been responsible for fourfifths of this increase of maimed persons." 11 "Of course, then, the business of f1 manufacturing artificial limbs has in- tr creased largely since the war ?" the ,e.( reporter said. ^ "It h-3," Mr. Bradlv rejoined. " But I . it has spread as it lias increased. Forty 13 fears ago, or even twenty years ago, P] rou could not get an artificial limb worthy of the name outside of New York 31* Philadelphia. Now tiiere is an artiiicial limb maker, and sometimes more , :han one. in every large city. There are j , >ix firms in New York, all within a few ; jlocks of each other. So this business !s almost as much cut up as any other ?t aowadays. But, after all, a man who et. rants a first-class leg or arm comes to ^ S'ew York, it may not be too much to *? >ay that New York makers have sur- ^ passed those of France and England, for- ^ nerly incontestablv the best. Orders j :ome from Europe and from the ends of j ;he earth to New York." ar 441 suppose that the supplying of pensioners of the Government from heir maimed legs and arms is still a i :onsiderable part of the business ?" the j e-norler aneried. i It is," Mr. Bradley replied. " The j government gives each pensioner an j ar .rma or leg every five years. We sup-! >Iy a great many cf these. Bat, natu- j ally, there are fewer veterans of the | ev >ar to supply every live years." j w! " The leg of to-day is very different! %\J roru that of twenty years ago," Mr. j S1< Jradley went on. "Then it was a : Leavy, loose-jointed, cumbersome, creaky | ni , If air. Every one remembers how easy ! r? t was to tell a man with an artificial j eg as soon a3 he came within sight or j ja. tearing. The creaking was perhaps | , be most disagreeable part of the affair. | ai: . bat has been done away with by means if one or two little patented improveaents. The principal one of these is a : fr oncealed screw at the joint of the leg ! ~ nd foot that enables the wearer of the |Jr eg to stop the creaking at any time. )nce upon a time he would have to end it back to the maker to have the Dint tightened, and the cost would have ieen $10. Xcy he can. do iiior himself iia rithout a cent of cost. Then there is a fn ontr ivance worked by a band passing .own from the shoulder strap to throw *e: he leg forward as the wearer moves 'hisis particularly useful to ladies as "e k rvncTioc tlio clrirfc trif'h nn mArc r-fifnrf han the action of the natural limb oc- , asions. Bat, above all, the snpport of j fr tie body has been transferred to a dif- j srent part of the leg. Formerly, the 1 !~ tomp rested on a cushion in the socket, I nd the weight fell upon this sensitive j ioint of contact. Mow, by means of: c* teei braces, the region of contact is i F" l^nost entirely at either side of the i high, where there is, comparatively, no j ?* ensitiveness. A man with an artificial j ?* 2g, nowadays, can do almost anything ! ^ei hat a man with two natural legs can. i 'or instance, in this letter here, a man i rites that he has traveled horseback _ nd afoot thousands of miles over I )'e: Vyoming, Colorado, and Mexico on one-" j Dn " What provision is there for a per- J? on who loses the whole or a part of an 5,1' rm asked the reporter. _ Mr. Bradley stepped to a case of flesh- cfs olored artificial members and took out | n arm. The hand was covered with a j erfect-fitiing glove. There was an j *ai rm to be woj n by a woman hanging I *s. est to the one that he selected, and I dls iie small hand was encased in a long, j lany-bnttoned white kid glove. Mr. j Sradley put a loop at the end of a ! W1: -hite woollen band attached to the up- i ?ec er part of the arm around his right j *?? rm, slipped the band about his should- j *ri rs, and then inserted his hand into the j Dcket of the artificial arm. Then he j -*-1 >ok off and replaced the reporter's hat, j a.n ;e artificial liagers being worked by ; ^ leans of mechanism in tlie socket. He j *-" Iso raised and held an open book np ; ?* efore him. j j211 " I am not at all expert in the man- | j** gement of these arms," Mr. Bradley j bserved ; "but, if I had to depend ! e$l pon one of them for the remain-, ?w( ei* of my life, I suppose that I j . ould soou leara to make the best 1U l it. The stump, acting upon the Lecbanism in the socket, opens and ni* mis the lingers and makes them pick re^ p and hold any article desired. The ngers are composed of a steel skeleton. ,.e: ivArnri with soft India rubber. well- 1. laped, arid thev have a natural feeling ' > another person. One man writes S11J lat lie can draw and paint, and that he ?e! olds a medal for his drawing from the ^aj ew Hampshire State Fair. Another its that he can write well, as indeed Ls letter shows, and caD send telegraph ' lessagps as an operator. | th< I th< The Human Ear. k: I nn Few people realize what a wonderful | slicate strncture tbe human ear really i fcV, . That which we ordinarily designate j fv ? in ottfli' r.ll nnlr rr>ata Anfpr r>nre>ii I /, a~ ??w -?rv-? acr I a series of -winding passages which, j ke the lobbies of a great building, lead j i0I] om the outer air into the inner cham- j qT~ jrs. Certain of these passages are fall i w [ liquid, and their raembranees are J j|j, retched, like parchment curtains, \ ^n( :ross the corridors at different places, i arc id can be thrown into vibration or j ade to tremble as the head of a drum ^ the surface of the tambourine does I mjj hen struck with a stick or the lingers, j ^ etween two of these parchment like j av irtains, a chain of very small bones exnds, which serves to tighten or relax j jen lese 111 em bran ces, and !o communicate f/-> tlnam Tn the innprmnst 1 aca of all, rows of fine thread, called 0Vc rves, stretch, like the strings of a pi- i ^ to, to the last point to which the tremings or thrillings reach, and pass in- ! nea ird to the brain. If these nerves are j ten ;st roved, the power of hearing certain-! departs, as the power to give out; unds is lost by a piano or violin when ] T 5 strings are broken.?Philadelphia , i li?J mes. ? | tba The rise of the American word 1 or: aucus" is becoming common in Eng- on, nd, and the London newspapers are 5 in izzled over its derivation. it is saiu : * come from "caulkers' meetings," ; aga ild by Boston shipyard employees in , of tte-Eevolutionary times. AJ1 confer-; tioi ices to arrange for concerted political j lam tion were soon called "caulkers" and ! des time the term became "caucus." j mo A LONESOME BUSINESS. In I'ndertaUei-'s !?torie? and Meditation?. "JJid I ever bury any one who was iliveV" said the undertaker, leaning against a comfortable-looking black calnut casket, and polishingoff a dusty lame-plate. "Weli, no, but I came sear it once. It was in the winter ime, too, and when I got to the house ehere my services were needed I found he wicdows of the room wide open .iid the cold, wintry air blowing hrongh, and there was no one in the oom with the corpse, it was so chilly here. It was a woman who had died -a yotuig, good-looking woman, and he lirst thing I noticed was that her heeks were stained with red. This 5 not uncommon when people die sndenly, and she had only been sick a jw days, and I congratulated myself n the tine appearance she would make Dr iier triends to see. i naa an assistant and we placed the casket on snports by the side of the bed,"and were ist going to lift her in when I discovred that a pillow we needed had been ift in the nezt- ^QQjW^^feeTOttng, | lgfhe lamp with minan?[feavMJg me' ith the head of the dead woman suported on my arm; he had some trouble 1 findine it and I was iust going to ill him when the wind blew the door ) and I was alone in the dark. Now I am not a coward, but my first npulse was t-o drop that woman's head id run out of the room. I actually embled with nervousness and imagin1 that I could feel a thrill of life in te neck, which was still warm; at lat moment I hoard my assistant com,g, and at the same instant a voice roceeding from the dead woman said istinctlv in sudden, sharp tones: Auntie! Auntie ! Auntie!" The return of the light brough ick part of my courage, and I looked jenly at the corpse to see if I could itect any signs of life, but the rtd was ding out of the cheeks, and the signs : death were unmistakeable. I learn L Uvy uunub (4uea1.1u.mijg uiiiu iiii a.uuii ' the deceased, of whom she was very nd, had arrived at the house a few oments before she died, and then the ck woman had expired in the vain atmpt to speak to her; my theory is .at the words stuck fast in her throat id were expelled with the final breath, hen I moved her. What else could I ink ? Then there was a beautiful girl who is engaged to be married, and was tddenly taken ill and died. I wa3 nt for to prepare her for the grave, id as tliey lived in the country I was send out the casket and all of the lishings. It was to be there in the eiiiog early, as at 10 P. M. the remains sre ;o be taken east. The young man tic drove cut with it stopped at a wayile taverir, became intoxicated, and mained drinking and gambling all ghfc. When at noon the next day he ached the house, the corpse was sitig up holding a reception. She had in in a trance all night, and but for s delinquency would have been buried [ve. The friends of a dead person are al ivs anticipating their return to life iring the first few hours ; sometimes e features will suddenly become life;e, and a slight color will suffuse the )s, and frequently a bead-like perspiticn will appear on the forehead. To , ose of our profession these signs are re tokens of death and decay. I ve ka own people-.who would be strick-^ j with a panic a' few hours" after ' the'" ' .rial o? a friend and insist on disin- . rinent. "How is it when post mortems are K'l, or embalming takes place ?" "That settles the question definitely; ere can be no doubt in the case of esident Garfield, though the embalm- ^ 2 urocess was a failure, or at least all ^ e undertakers consider it so; but unrtakers are not embalmers; they < ive that branch of the trade to men science, professors of colleges of 7 idicine and snch. It may be impossi- * 2 to avoid discoleration as in the case ^ President Lincoln, bnt the iissnes , the body should be thoroughly pre- i rved; Vice President Wilson was per- J :ily embalmed, so was the late Mr. | gley. The best case I ever knew was it of a young man who died in Denr and was brought to Detroit for i i i ? - XT ~ I * rial. Alter a tnree wcbns it mi juc ^ ,s as natural looking as if lie had just ?d, and it was in hot w ther, too. to trouble "with the late President's ^ so was that it was too hurried ; he ould have been put on ice for two T3 previous to embalming. The 1 nilv did not feel as anxious about it j the people. A good many are much satisfied." t; Folks think we haven't any senti- j snt," said the undertaker, "and I ( sh sometimes I hadn't, but when I ; the little ones taken away I almost * get my duties in sympathy for the j. ends. The other day we took a baby i little two year old?to Elmwood. * lis casket was just filled with, tojs, ^ & one little silver bell rang every ^ le it moved, and that made the other ildren cry again; it's a lonesome sort , business anyway, and there ain't j ich money in it either; an undertaker 5 to wai: years for his money and * ;n he often is only paid half of it, )ecialiy if the charges were for a ^ ell fnneral. The poorer class are the ^ tier pay. One of the richest widows the state had the corpse of her hus- j. id taken down cellar and sat np all ^ ;ht fanning him to save ice. Death ^ -eals q neer traits sometimes, and there ^ ! 101S 01 people wuu mouru uvei tucii id when they lay them in a vault, as , they never'couid forget them, and ;y won't bury them without a law- , t. Here's my card if you should 9 jd anything in my line?children if price."?Detroit Free Press. Great Tilings. ^ rhe greatest cataract in the world is 5 Falls of Niagara; the largest cavern, \ ; Mammoth Cave of Kentucky ; the ] crest river, the Mississippi?4.000 les in extent; the largest vallev, that ] the Mississippi?its area 5,000,000 1 xare miles; the greatest citv park, it of Philadelphia, containing 2,700 <; es; the greatest grain port, Chicago ; i biggest kke, Lake Superior; the c .gest railroad, the Pacific Puilroad? e ;r 3,000 miles in extent. The most j fc ge mass of solid iron is Pilot Knob of fc ssouri?height, 250 feet circumfer:e, two miles; the best specimen of hitecture, Girard College, Philadelia ; the largest acqnednct, the Croton ^ "^T ??iU a?A Vlrtlf I __ JLOrn, xtrxi&;tu, iuiuj- auu uuc-uau i p les, cost 812.500,000; the longest! s dge, the elevated railroad in Third j t: mue, New York ; it extends from the ! u :tery to the Harlem Kiver?the whole j o gth of the eastern side of the Man- ! J tan Island?seven miles long, or | jj irly 40,000 yards. The longest bridge j k r water, however, will be that now j a ng constructed in Russia over the a Iga, at a point where the river is t] irjy four miles wide. The most ex- d sive deposits of anthracite coal are ? Pennsvlvania. h " t ienorts from more than one hundred i o ithouses and lightships have shown ; ii t the migration of birds of one species j d mother are almost continually going 1 " although the great migrations occur ! p the spring and fall. Vast numbers | v birds arc jkilled by flying at night t inst the glass protecting the lights j 1 lighthouses, being, while in migra- j " i attracted by the bright glare of the ! y ips. No less than six hundred were d troyed in this manner in a single ; t ath at one lighthouse. j o / I -J 0. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. ! Darwin says the tendency to painful blushing is inherited. English folk-lore says that if bees see a frog near they will not swarm. About 1,000 caves in India are said to be of architectural importance. Marggraf, an eminent Prussian chemist; first drew the attention of the pub- * i li/? in rnnt S7i car in 1747. Bake<3, coarse bread, called horsebread, was common food for horses in the time of James I. instead of grain. Drinking out of the same cup was a mark of great intimacy in the Roman era ; a polite thing to ask and a handsome compliment in the middle ages. Europe has now a population of 315,920,000 inhabitants, Asia 834,707 000, AfnVa 90n 000. America 95.405.000. Australia and Polynesia 431,000, the Polar regions 82,000, giving a total of 1,455,923,000. If the English language were divided into One hundred parts, sixty would be ,.-r Saxon, thirty would be Latm^inciudipg, ^.4*?U?e; tKfe fcatin that- --h^cssne to y^f : 3??feough the French, ' and. five parts would be Greek. * Henry Murat, once called Count of Colorado, because he was a severalmillionaire and ihe leader of fashion in the West, is in Denver, and is so reduced that he often seeks the hospitality of a />TT WATTT A 1/N/^/tinrr l?Cbj -1?X\J nr ?KJL c* uiguv a xvyvi^jjL>?^4 A sheep dairy for the manufacture of cheese has been started at Chattanooga, Tenn. Sheep cheese is a popular article of food in Austria, and this enterprise,beginning with 1,000 sheep, is under the management of an Austrian. Farmers along the Carson River, in Nevada, are said to be troubled with porcupines. These intelligent animals are said to dig up the potatoes and roll on them until they can walk off to the Viille tr-if-Vi o r\r ca nf fVia tnVvorc nn tlieir quills. Melons disappear in the same way. After the overthrow by an earthquake of the Colosusat Rhodes, the fragments remained scattered on the ground for nine hundred years ; for the inhabitant# alleged that they had been forbidden by an oracle to raise it. "When the Saracens became masters of the island, the brass was sold to a Jewish merchant, if* who loaded nine hundred camels with In Alaska, northwest of Behring^ Lj <11 LCI l.uLC U1 AUU CVUOtt' -* found in the cliffs bordering the ooe^n. In the face of the precipice is, first, ff-jsnrface of solid ice; upon this four Ration is a layer of soil two or three thick, and bearing luxuriant vegetation; a little beyond this the banfc; -ises again by a second lajer of ice, op which rests soil, yielding, like the firsj'c, a vegetable growth. ? ""?* Tiie Presidents. 1. George WasW^fcon, of Virginia, born February 22^-w 32; elected Commander-in-ChiefiF^jf the Continental army in 1775 ^frst inaugurated as President in the fl^xty of New York, April 30, 17SQ* ca^ov r? inoncmraHnn in 1793? died December 14, 1799, aged sixtyeight y ear j. 2. John Adams, of Massachusetts, born in 1735; inaugurated March 4, 1797; died July 4, 1826, aged ninety fears. 3. Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia^born En 1743; first inaugurated in Washington in 3801; seee^--inauguration is ?1805; diedibh July, 1826. aged eightytwo years. 4. 'James Madison, of Virginia, born in 1751;first inaugurated in 1809;second inauguration in 1813; died 1837, iged eighty-fire years. 5. James Monroe, of Virginia, born in 1750: first inaugurated in 1817; died n 1831, aged ssventy-two years. 0. John Qnincy Adams, of Massachusetts, born m 1767; inaugurated in L825; died in ISIS, aged eighty-one rears. 7. Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee. jorn 1767 ; first inaugurated in 1829 ; second inauguration in 1S33; died in IS45, aged seventy-eight years. 8. Martin Van Buren, of New York. jorn in 1782; inaugurated in 1837; lied in 1S62, aged eighty years. 9. William Henry Harrison, of Ohio, jorn in 1773 ; inaugurated in 1841; iied in office, April, 1841, aged sixtyiight years. 10. John Tyler, of Virginia, bore in - [ 790; elected Vice-President, and inLncrn rate/1 <i<! PrAsi^pnt in Ar>ril. 1841 : - X- # / lied in 1862, aared seventy-two years. 11. James K. Polk, of Tennessee, )orn in 1795; inaugurated iQ 1S45; died n 1S49, aged fifty-four years. 12. Zachary Taylor, of Louisiana. )orn in 17S4; inaugurated in 1849; iied in office in 1850, aged sixty-six Tears. 13. Millard Fillmore, of New York, >orn in 1800; elected Vice-President in .S48, and inaugurated as President on he death of General Taylor in 1850 ; lied March 8, 1874, aged seventy-firo ears. 14. Franklin Pierce, of New f.amphire, born in 1804; inaugurated in S53; died in 1869, aged sixty-five ears. 15. James Buchanan, of Pennsylvaiia, born in 1791; inaugurated in 1857; lied in 1804, aged seventy-seven ears. 16. Abraham Lincoln, cf Illinois, >orn 1809; first inauguration in 1861; ;eccnd inauguration in 1865 ; assassiLated April 14, 1S65, aged fifty-nine ' ears. 17. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, >orn in 180S; elected Vice-President, md inaugurated as President, in April, 1' ^ T 1 rt 1 1 rifT." J .?t>o; aiea jujv 01, iota, ageu bLs.Lv;even years. "^Si, 18. Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, born /w- "' "** n 1822, first inauguration in 1S69; sec>nd inauguration in 1873; term expired tfch March, 1S7719. Rutherford B. Eaves, of Ohio, )orn in 1824; inaugurated in March, .877; term expired March 4 1881. 20. James A. Garfield inaugurated tfareh 4, 1881; assassin at- d July 2, 8.S1; died September 19, 18S1. 21. Chester A. Arthur, inaugurated September 20, 1881; still in office. After the experience of America ities with wcoden pavements, it is trange to hear that Piccadilly, London, las been paved its entire length with locks of wcod. Hv.l Am Ilbli i lli'IIl VII. In cne of the Parisian bureaus de olice correctionnelle a few days ago, a on of toil, accused of stealing a pair of rousers, was discharged by the sitting magistrate, after a patient investigation f his case, on the ground that the evience brought forward against him was asufficient. He continued, however, to eep his seat on the prisoner's bench fter his acquittal had been formally nnounced. The lawyer who had connoted his defense, observing that he id not move, informed him that ho ras free to go about his business, if he iad any. He shook his head slightly mt did not budge. By this tune, anther case being on hand, his defender quired with some irritation " why the euce be did not get up and go." 1 Step this way a moment, please," reilied the steadfast sitter, "and let me rnisper in your ear. I can't go till all he witnesses for the prosecution Lave eft the court." "And why, may I ask?" : Because of the stolen trousers?don't ou understand?" "3Iost assuredly I o not understand. What about the rousers?" "Only this. I've got 'em - " . i