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I f ROMANCE REALITY, By Miss Annie Edwards. ?s, Ik M. wiwil arlth tit vakh ?Ut taint of >lej log while h? diMM (wtM, Mio|now (trtlna, tw?ii by ?he lipw of kla Mt lud m t Twt I* fMur ahnf ronnd his nek), mad M?n lv? ntaiitM in om th? <m to cM, tho ball baa apoaau who, tea days agot weald | ?f a Baft To fjratlag ?t pace as rapid u the with oplrtt til! put aiMalghtl Then com? aa ?apmlNd ? ppf lij UfM of tbe am; Iadr Ljdla win allaw st aa artificial illamlnation-ead thea. after waits, the? (ail back apoa esatlmeat aad tbe best half I of the sight?the half hoar be fore sipatatHa begias. la a paass altar another Preach bal It chaacea that Daphas lads hsrself standing bsslds Miss Mattls Blvsrs. the novelist of the fatara. None of the Isdles ?( the psr tjr hue paid aaeh heed to Mrs. Ches ter ss let She Is pretty bey sod tbe rssch of cavil: her dress suggests aa aaapty parse. IMd good looks sod pov erty Over tesare flattering attention to a woman at two-and-twenty from members of her owa oexl New. how ever. after fixedly surveying the shy looking country girt from head to foot, Mattls Hirers begins, in dab- 1 door, hsnds-ln -pocket sort of fashion.' to talk? I light mora fitly ssy dis course. when I consider the part aastslasd by Daphne throughout tho length and breadth of the coaversstlon. "Yoa think as s qaeerly-assorted eet of people, mm doubt?"? a couple of <|neetiono having drawn forth ae mnch i mm Mies Rivers cares to know respect ing her hearer's Insignificant *plsce In tho scheme of creation. "But poor bady Lydla never got a yachting psrty that did not. snore or less, turn out s ?cratch team. Jornlngham. you see"? Mies Hirers belongs to the advanced achoal of Isdles who call a sped* a spade and men by their surname* ?* Jornlngham le a man with a passion? fish. In the height of the London sea son Jaralnghsm will run away after whiting, conger eels. maMot ? heaven knowe what he will not run after? aad, at .tea senates' notice. Lady Cordis, Uks a devoted wife, asver sr ?uss (ualees any sitra^ood kail ie on fcaad). hat' gets together whatever a vails Me matsrlsls Me within reach, and goaawfttfc hUa. Tou see what ihe available aaetariale were aa the ent DilMi does as a; tat, mi so dUicato ? tbnw, Ma tkit illnee It her wlssst l' "S5 d?f Vffrtf la th# first place. '9l* .A* laat**e ^wri l(U and I bare >SlehtSd te a Olaaa tolerably well imn thminn t be yacMog world as stray utility people." la her re aearehea after character Miss 'Hirers treads many paths; even the slippery by-paths of the sock and buskin ? as her speech shows. "Neither Max nor 1 la erer sea-slok; we 'are unhampered by incumbrances; we can brew a cap of tea, take an oar. act, dance or be mu sical, or eflhce otfrselves when re quired, and are, at any moment of our existence, ready to embark for the Isle of Wight or the Pacific, according to the fancy of oar entertainers. Next, the Arab?" i She A tops, ?? thit gentlemen, bis K?ltir still depending from bis neck, paces lsngldty before tbem, Lady Lydla on his arm. "Who l? heT Wbat Is be? Tbe world sajs many things. 1 know one fsct for certain ?tbat he has been la tbe em ployment of the Khedive? Egyptian reform or the 81s re Market his best friend, I forget which. However this may be, there Is no mistaking the man's completion. Eastern climates? Not I bit of It Opium, I think. I re* member hearing that his real name was Brown, and that he bad a father In 'cereala' In the city. Then we bare Mrs. de Mauley." "The Isdy with the voice," adito Oaphne, not wholly uninterested in the widow whose charms and Wboss cred itors are to prove Felix Bronghton's destruction. "Exactly. The lady with the voice. >Well, Agatha de Mauley Is? Agatha de Mauler," answers Mettle, and. somehow, the tone In which this truism is spoken Infuses n certain fine venom more potsnt than detailed scandal into Its meaning. "This brings us to the end of the list, to HtUe Clem. Hard castle and her Cousin Felix. Friends of yours, you say?" "Friends since this afternoon. Our acquaintance from first to last msy be eight or nine hours old." "Then you know nothing, of course, about the engagement to 81r John Be verne?" "I? I have heard that there wae an attachment/* stammered Dsphao, ber voice changing. "Attachment!? to a Baronetcy and 'the proper number of annual thou jsanda for keeping the Baronetcy up! I waa In town when that 'attachment* began." SSyS MtSS Rivera, warming to SUCCESSFUL CHARITY EXCUR SIONS. "Wm your charity excursion on the boat a success, Mrs. Dasher?" "Grand! We tost money, but all who went aay that they had a delightful outlns and feel at the aatne time that their money went for a good cause." ? Detroit Wm Preaa. Indletmant Against City. At Saoo, Me., the municipal phy sician Indorsed on a death certificate "died of starvation caused by the elty'a refusal to furnish aid." I sbonld moo Justly InmUrlly. am the part of the dlplomatist?-i?-chlef. Money was initial, ttonik intellect a bound ed ui there were etlll a couple of un certain biolilw nnclM between jooni ] 8ererne and the title.** "And after thief** "After tide the disconsolate lore wae qt doted to India. Before a year) was orer both unclee died, wlthoett heirs, and. then, suddenly. Mr. and , Mrs. Hardcaetle discovered that Mr! John Serene wae the one man In ? lstence they would hare cheat for | their Otomentlna*a huabund. Mra. Hardcaetle. I should Ml yon. la n femme ? hem me." continues Mattle. "and a femme homme with a theory.** What nntagoalam. eh. render, can equal that of converging creeds? Mat- 1 tie Blrera yearna for the emancipa tion of her sex on the broadest scale, moral and eoclal Caa the embryo norel will set forth), end still toward Morton Hall, or Glrton. toward pettlcoated physicians or sweet girl gradnatee does she feel fyke a conservative of 6fty years Of aget "Mrs. Hard cattle. I my. bolda a the ory?that under educated men dealre over -educated w It eat Accordingly. she has trained her family, her own chil dren and her stepdaughter alike. for| what may bo called the market intel lectual. Ton aee the result r* "Miss Hardcaetle Is quite the olever- 1 est person I ever met," ssys Daphne. "There eeema no subject of which Miss Hardcaetle Is Ignorant." "And none that over-cramming- has not spoiled for her. Lectures here. con. vereaalonee there?art, science, litera ture, politics? all these things have been her portion since her Infancy, and now, at heart MIm Rivers paoMi, and glances sig nificantly across the deck. There la the moonlight stand the cousins, deep in talk; the smile that only Fells Bronghton has the power to awaken brightening Olementlma'a face. "Now at heart she detests the very mention of lecture rooms, 'ologies, able editors and learned professors; finds more to say to a dandy with half an Inch of brain than she would to the most cultivated man in Europe; in a word, to over head and ears in lore with her Gousin Felix!" ? feeling of Joy. too brief, too Intense for bar to stop to analyse its source, thrills through Daphne's heart. "And? aed ao Miss Hardcaetle will not marry Sir John Sererner* she fal ters, never lifting her eyes lest, even In this soft light, they should betray her secret. "Not marry!" repeats the authoress, with a laugh bordering on the cynical, and causing her double eyeglass tq fsll by means of a little ahake from her nose. "Most undoubtedly Miss Hard* castle will marry Sir John Berime, with Mr. Felix Bronghton officiating as best man. 8he was talking to me about her trousseau this aborning. The wedding is fixed for August. Elsie mskes the dresses, and the color of the brldesmslds' bonnets? sh, Mrs. de Mau ley! Surely, you will give us another of your delightful ballads before we break upl" CHAPTER Xt. I Early Love Songs. The Llberta has slowly floated with the tide Into the Inner roads, and by the time Daphne Chester Is allowed to land lies alongside the pier, not fifty yarda distant from the spot where Jean Marie should be In waiting. Morning la now creeping on with stealthy paces. The hulls of the ves- | sels la the harbor, the walls and In* closures of the fort above, gain at each minute la opaqueness, although the stars still shine white as at mid night, and not a flush of rose states the pale arch of eastern sky. Quickly as her feet will carry her, suspicious, fearing? must I add hoping?? that an escort la at hand, Mrs. Ohestdr runs forward to the appointed place of trysttng, and flnds herself stone. Tim idly, under her breath, ahe calls Jean Marie by name, but gets no answer. Advancing a few faltering paces to* ward some logs of timber, whose deep line of shadow it Is barely possible may conceal him, she glances round a corner? no Jean Marie la there. 8he turns back despairingly, half resolved to go back to the protection of the Llberta and Lady Lydla, and sees? did she not expect to see?? 81r John Sev* erne, not a half a dosen steps behind her In the road. "Sir John, how you startled me! Wheu 1 left Udy Lydla was your partner. I thought you would all be dancing for another hour, at least. I? 1 am just watting for Jean Marie. If he Should not appear"? thla with the boldness of a lion, though a minute ago she could have counted the beat ings of her own heart? "If Jsan Marie, , Th* kMMr of iM light lam Mir Crescent City. Cal., reports ft buttle between a see lion and en oetepus. Tbe octopus wound Its tentaclee aronnd the lion's body, but the lion bit off one of them after tbe other and ste then. Othere then helped to dispone of tbe sen Item's carcass. Rather s quaint Idee ootnss from France, where anglers nrs In some wa ters using s tiny mirror stteohed to the tine near the baited hook. The lu?a la that he flsh, seeing Itsslf re fleeted, hastens to snatch the bslt from Its supposed rival. Very successful re sults hare been obtained through the employment of this simple device. *. rXW J /if J* I4mt% sstad watai ?eaWs?sbfcLj in When ft will Jwt take ny ^Nercrr9 ?And wo win start by the fisld way f* FM-Mi Mm. And there is Ml tlM WlIM WCCMltj to harry: w4 ?tell seethe Mm ?to?, probably, ?? we B?t OaphM has already coma td sternest resolutions on the score of be^ osm future coodoct. Fresh. In hex! memory Is the delight that, for a pas* siooate instant, thrilled her heart at the possibility of Serena's brine set free. Fresh in her memory are Um| facts that hla marriage with Glemen-t tlaa Hardcastle is fixed for August? that the nsme of the milliner, the color of the bridesmaids' bonnets are decid ed OOl ',.-v7 "I shsll wait s few minutes longet for Jssn Marie." she resumes, a little stlflj. 4*Tben. if I see nothing of him, and if there is light enough for me to And my road? Just light enough for me to amid tumbling over the side of the harbor? I shsll start for Qosrnec." "Either way, yon refuse to let me sratk home with you? These things are best said frankly." "I don't know obout refusing. 1 " "Pray, go on. Mrs. Chester." "Well. I see no necessity to gire you the trouble of s long wslk for nothing. Sir John." "Necessity! Trouble!" be exclsims. hotly. "Would you mske inch s reply if you were addressing any other fel low in the world but roc?' "A good deal would de{>cnd upon who the other fellow was." "Say Cousin Felix, thcu. simply to gire the supposition sn sir of fact." "If I were addressing Mr. Broughton. If anything so wildly Impossible could happen as Mr. Broughton offering to tske a four-mile walk with any mortal being for the sske of seeing the sun "You would answer?? don't be afraid to apeak. I llko truth unaoftened: bit ter* undisguised by sugar or flavoring.** "Well. I believe I aboold say yes.' - "Yon believe yon would aay 'yea?* " -Just for tbe fun of witnessing his misery." "As you would say 'no* for the fun of witnessing mine." "Perhaps." Daphne lifts her eyes as she speaks, and sees her own little faded bunch of pinks (dropped, probably, during that "one waits too many" with Felix Broughton) In Beverne'a buttonhole. At the sight her stern resolutions melt Into pity? as the gray ahadowa of the external world are malting Into ruby and amethyst under the first kisses of the morning. "If I thought you could -really be in earnest about such a trilling matter aa my returning to Quernec alone? I mean If you could really wlah to walk three miles for tbe sake of pleasure, not dutyY* Need X put on record Beverne's an swer. or the sequel to his answer? They return. Daphne's hand reatlng, shyly, on the young man's arm, through the morning twilight, to Fief de-la-Relne; their path, when they got clear of the town, winding across fields and lanes, heavy still with the night odors of elder and of meadow sweet, and with the thrushes calling low good-morrows to their mates among the hedges. After this, coming back again upon the aandy aea road, they watch the sun rise sbove the hills of the Cotentin, on the coast of Frsnce. They are affected to rapture by the beauty of the morning, they mado notes in fiatural history of which al most Frauletn Schnapper might ap prove, respecting the esrly singing of the thrushes. Sir John looks at bia watch when the first point of crimson uprises ou the French horlson, and both of them are amased, as though it were some ne^r astronomical discovery, that the sun should quit his bed at 3.58 on this, tha earliest morning of the year! They chat gayly about the people on the yacht, about "Max and the Arab,** about the emancipated nov elist, about the wily widow. They spesk calmly, as concerning matters unconnected with themselves, of Clem entina Hsrdcastle snd her Cousin Fells. The whole world, Clementina included, might listen to their conver sation from first to last, and discern no hint of love? no whisper, even, of the possibility of love's approach. And y?t ? . And yet, when they have bidden goodby at the wicket gate of Fief -de-la Relne, when Daphne finds herself wslklng alone through the silent Illy scented psths of the fsrm garden, a sensation too subtly blent for perfect hsppiness or perfect psin swells at her heart Tha whole world might have listened to their conversation! Yet she knows. Just as plslnly ss though he had de clared his passion In set form of speech, that Sir John fteverne loves her. To be Continued. Tk? DNfMt Or*T?. Laborer* digging an artesian well at Bonesteel, 8. D., hare unearthed a hu man skeleton fifty feet beneath the sur face. The skeleton was In an excellent state of preservation, and Is believed bj scientists to be that of a prehistoric man. The Bad Lands of South Da kota. In which Bonesteel la situated, hare been prolific In fossils. II fcaa Juft baaa authaatlcatad tkat tha Bail If Dm nu af "Tha Black bird," pterad at Major Andre a execu tion, abould ban baaa ?r?4lt?d to Dr. 0. W. Walter, organ tot of George Waahlngton Uatrenttr. Mr. I. Haw lay h?a been oa the bunt for It for >wn. Aslda from Ita connection *!U Major Andre, It It aa old bletorleai pi oca, aad the tuna, aa aaclant Ir1tv ona, to which worda wara wrltta? about tha /aar 1700. ft erae a favor:t ?nag among tha eupportera of Jama* fl. Rxtracta ara glrea from tha raport of Chlaf of Arm? Bnglneera Mackaatla on Maryland harbor improvement* ? an t prlas for tke worst three "tageT la am at the preeeat day, a tag Map aadMoleod to meaa a quotation that has grown stale with npatitto. jttli ida flowed lato tki celumas of 'fbo Irrinr, aad mot until they were there did ?ay a reader recognise how aftn thoir aged (MM hooka aad mmmIbn. Bore aro a fow of thorn: It Is the aaexpected that bappeas." "am hiaifid ia the breach thaa la tho ' oheervance." "Homeric laaghter." "the thin ead o f the wedge.** -the right maa la the right place.** "there Is aeaeh virtue la aa if.** If the tUM has comm. aad apparently It ia hsret, far theee aad elmliar phraoeo borrowed froai the big grab* bag. of the chMples. frequently without any dletinct kaawledge of their origin, to be discarded fMa the product of the average writer, the naked daineee of the average style will be more than eter rosepleaeae. aad inevitably there .will be more or less strtriag to create verbal orna Meats of a reasonable originality. Already the popular parodist lias feoad a way out of the diaculty that la not without Its ap* proprlatenees to a flippant age. In stead of IllanUnetlng hie text with the wise eayings of his predecessors, he adopts them oely after fortifying them with hie mother wit. ss the prudent physician fsrtifleo his anaesthetic rem edies. For "A word to the wise is suf ficient*" ho gives "A word to the wlee is superfluous," or for "Procrastination la the thief of time" he sagaciously substitutes M Punctuality is the thief of time." altering, with consummate Impudence, dignified gray sentiments that have walked with Sbakeepeare and Milton.? Prom "The Point of I View." in Scribner's. i?nm om a las* t?m. The largest piece of cut glass In the vrona. a tin as tan am a man and aa brilliant in every part as -the finest amall piece, has joat been completed In thia city, and will be shipped in a few days to the 8t. Lonla Exposition, where it will be placed in tho indus trial art display. I The vase la five feet six and three quarter inchce in height, and every Inch of it Is perfectly worked in sun bursts. chrysanthemums and beaded and notched effects that abed prismat ic rays of brilliance and luater. The aunbursts on the star are too large to be designated by that usual cut glass term, so they have been given a new name, the Louisiana purchase atar. In all then are 100,000 cuts or deep inclaions on the vase, which required turning it 100,000 time*. The rase weighs 200 pounds. It waa produced by nine men. who apent 2000 working hours upon it The man who made the Mask is sis feet seven indies tall. A aborter man could not have handled the great piece of glass. Twenty blanks were turned out before a per fect one was produced. The remarkable brilliancy of the vase la caused by the fnsng in the glaaa of ten per cettt more lead than is ordinarily uaed. The vase is several timee larger than the previous great est piece of cut glass, completely dwarfing it.? Philadelphia Pre* a. BM Mlatflfy. "The roar of the ostrich resembles the roar of the lion because the or irlch stole from the Hon this souud, even as one playwright steals from another a plot." An ornithologist made that odd assertion In a taxider mist's shop, lie went on to elaborate It. "Birds from the ostrich down arc imitative. The ostrich, where be live* alone, is silent, but in a country where Hons abQund he roars. Why? Be cause for centuries, admiring the maj esty and grandeur of the lion's roar, he gradually learned to roar himself. Believe me, it is line to see an ostrich throw back his little bead and emit a roar like tbunder. "Buntings imitate pipits, and green finches Imitate yellow hammers. They seek their food In the winter together, and they gradually steal each other's calls. "The jay Is an insatiable imitator. Some jays will Include In their reper tory not only the wboo-oo of tbe kite, the scream of the busaard and the hoot of the owl, but alao the bleat of tbe lamb and tbe neigh of a horse. "Bvsn tbe nightingale imitates. In p. nightingale's perfect aontf I hare often hesrd tbe tip-sip- slslsis of tbe woodwsrbler and the bob-ub-ubble of the nuthatch."? Washington Post. VladlaatiM af ???? Ivy. When the Advertiser called tbe at* tention of Landscape Architect Olm atead to the wall at Trinity Church, where some people bsd thought a de composition of the stone* Itself had set In, owing to the presence of Boston ivy, he found tbe alarm false. Be hss yet to see a aingle building built of brick or stone that has been affected by the Boston Ivy, the popular theory to tbe contrary notwithstanding. Further proof of Prof. Olmstead's Idea that the ivy is perfectly safe, comes from Professor Valt, one of tbe lead ing laadscape architects of Canada. After careful Investigations be learns that while brick and stone walls absorb moisture, the Ivy sctuslly ab sorbs it from them, thereby protect* Ing the walls, not damaging them. -Boston Advertiser. FrMwrMlM of n??m. Professor Constantlne Gregory, of Naples, has discovered a new cbeml* cal process for ttao preservation of flowers and leaves which has won n silver medal from the Neapolitan In* stltnte for the Advancement of 8d ence. riant leaves as difficult of preservation as those of the orchid and begonia have been kept wonder fully well by this method, And Pro fessor Gregory Is hopeful of preserv ing even fungi In a remarkably nat ?**] condition of his cMf emus la, He saay to by hit ova awkward***, aai lbsl tkat htkata haulm dls? alraatagt la tke race, bat th* eaantiy boy ku a wider taap mi peart Ml Urn. From the my kit kia little wrrkw ate La demand. He Nbbbii at ?ace a part of the to we tkat la mating far heme comfort and proa* parity, and foela the lndopoodance of on* who ta helping to support him? If and add to the general store. The farm boy la likely to regard hia life aa one of drngery. and such tt be. If he looea lntereat In hla rbnndings or Is preaoed with a con tinual round of duty. There Is sone* thing heroic In the country boy's strug gle with the elements. Rain, snow and sleet oaly brace hia courage. The garnering of the crops, the housing and feeding of the domestic animate, the gathering and preparation of the winter fuel giro a pnrpoee and seet to his toil. Tben there is long tramps, sometimes ef miles, to the district school. !essons learned before and after long hours of labor. Is it say wonder there are keen wits developing all out side of graded systems snd in d?flanOe of pedagogical order? It is the In tensity of purpose with which the mind seta under the Influence of rigorous health snd the conadoun ?slue of time thst accounts for tliese results. Co from tbe farm Is being supplied a stream of actire world movers, who furnlsb the Industrial world with Its brswu and muscle.? National Fruit Grower. WORDS OF WSOOM. "The man who profits by his own mistakes counts clear sains." Character, good or bad, lias a ten dency to perpetuate itself.? Professor Van Dyke. The realization of God's presence is the one soverigu remedy against teuijH tation.? Fenelon. "There are too mauy people singing *1 want to be an angel' who would be too lasy to groom their own wings i( they had them," Our lore must make long marches, and our prayers must have n wide sweep. We must embrace the whole world In our intercessions.? C. II. Spur geon. To be good company for ourselves we must store our minds well, till tlieui with happy and pure thoughts, with pleasant memories of the past ami reasonable hopes for the future. You can help your fellowmcn. You most help your fellowmen. But the only way you can help them is by being the noblest and best man thnt it is possible for you to be.? Phillips Brooks. The noblest workers of this world bequeath us nothing so great as the Im age of themselves. Their task, be it ever so glorious, is historical uud transient; but the majesty of their spirit is essential and eternal.? George Brown. a nrrnit mi. The ladies In our church pack a bar rel every year for some home mission ary family. One thine to go in each barrel ia what is called a "surprise bag." One of the ladies volunteers to furnish the bag, which is a work or shopping bag of generous slse. It Is sometimes made of silk or cloth, but this year it was a very dainty cre tonne work bag. On the day when the barrel is packed, the bag ia passed around to the ladies present for con tributions. These are various, consist* lng largely of notions such as thread, silk, pins, needles, tape, hooks and eyes, buttons and so forth, with an oc casional handkerchief, necktie, or any small article. Even a coin might be dropped In, and one offering this year was a little pot of clubhouse cheese. The supply of several quarts of sewing materials would gladden any house wife's heart and be a stock on which to draw for many months. Such a bag must be especially welcome to the min ister's wife In a little Western town, far from the city, perhaps, and with poor shopping privileges. ? Good Housekeeping. Malf-Propallad Can. In England tlic self-propelled rail* way car Is coming into extensive line, especially on branch lines where the : traffic la so pmall as not to warrant the operation of steam locomotives or the application of electricity. Recently one of the largest electrical tnanufnc turing firms in America has ordered In England an oil engine for this pur pose, which will be used with n dy- ; namo to generate current for ordinary 1 car motors. The advantage of such i an Installation It that there Is no ' loss of fuel when the car is not In motion and that the motor can be put j into operation at an instant's notice. The machinery is placed In a small ' compartment at the end of the car and requires but little attention. Such j cars, driven by various forms of mo* tors, have been found of especial value j In England to bring passengers to 1 main electric and steam lines, and It | would seem ss If there was an equal field of usefulness for them In the United States.? Harper's Weekly. Ar* Star* Oar Future l>w?lll?f* f Are the planets inhsblted? Camlle Flaromarton, author of "The Un* i known," pursues this Inquiry In Harper's, with a decided bias toward the affirmative. M. Flammarlon is Inclined to regard the other plsnets as the "dwellings of Immortality." He asks, "If man dies out completely, how can the Immensity of the universe Interest us? If nothing remains of us, if we arc only cphemersl mush rooms of the globe, living for a short time, how does it nil concern us? Science is only a mockery like ilfe Itself; yea, a stupid and burlesque farce." The vtoaton Way. Florence? "I never was so annoyed! The roan had no business In the yard, anyway, and when I went to the win dow to see what he wan doing he had the Impudence to excluiin, 'Massage!' " Gertrude? "For goodness sake, what could he have meant by that?" Florence? "Well, of course, he said 'rubber,' but 'massage' Is more elegant, don't yon think ?"? Boston Transcript MYSTEKJOUS CAVERNS Subterranean Passages Iliac* Mo One Can Kacpletn. WKOH KAMOHS WIULY. T 1113 fttomuii undersrooad labyrinth onr Chinclhttrst ' ??? rwmHy trtTcrwd from end to #od by a party of tlM* British Archacolo IMI Association, but* the explorations *rv Mid to hate thrown no new light on the poaale the*** wonderful excara tiona preaent to the antiquarian. Who constructed thru. In fact, no body knows; uor for what purpose, nor when. Altogether there are shout four miles of pa sea gee. varying in height from six feet to ten, and in .width be tween one yard and four. They have been cut out of the tolld chalk, at an enormoua expenditure of time and labor, tbc walla showing everywhere marks of the workmen's plcka. An even greater mystery attaches to the Dene Holea of Eases and Kent, apclent artificial caverns In the chalk, having deep, narrow, vertical en trances. Many of these entrances are fifty, eighty, or oven one hundred feet in depth, and three or four feet in diam eter. They pass straight down through the overlying sands and gravels Into the chalk beneath, in which are ex cavated several large and lofty cham bers, arranged symelrically around the bottom of the ahaft. Alt aorta of explanations have been advanced to account for the existence of Dene Roles. Some authorities ssy they are merely prehistoric chslk pits. But this la obviously ridiculous. For there is plenty of surface chalk to be had in the neighborhood without sink ing shafts for it. Others assert tbfet they were used as plaees of refuge when au invader sailed up the Thames; but against this may be urged the faet that the bottom of a Dene Hole would be about the last place iu the world In which a man would care to be found by his enemy Another favorite theory with some archaeologists is that they constituted the habitation of out forefathers in days before the art of buildiug was known in this county. But no trace of permanent habitation has t>ccn found in any of them, and it is much to be feared that any race dwelling in the Dene Holes would quickly suc cumb to ague and rheumatism. Others have hazarded the theory that they were prisons, subterranean chapels. places of sepulture, and even silos for the storage of green fodder. But these explanations are all mere ? guesswork. I Two facts alK>ut them only are cer tain. One 1* that they are very ancient. So long ago as the reign of Henry IV. people knew nothing of the race that excavated theui. and attributed them to the magic arts of the British King Cunobellne. Another is that the labor of constructing them muat have been enormous. It hi estimated that from one single group of Dene Holes in J Hangman** Wood, Essex, no fewer ! than 180,000 tons of chalk were quar ried and raised. ' | At Trelowarren. lu Cornwall, are some very remarkable subterranean chambers and galleries, the original use of which Is quite unknown. I Some of the galleries are more than ninety feet long. and. though high enough Inside to allow a man stand ing upright, are approached only by | very low doorways, through' which any one desiring Ingress would have to creep on his hands and knees. Cham bers and galleries alike are lined throughout with hewn stones, many of which are of Immense size. Other similar but smaller under ground structures have also been dls covered a t Bollet and Pendeen in tbe Land End district, as well as iu tbe pariah of St. Constantlne, and at San creed. near Penzance. It la well known also that subter ranean galleries of precisely the same character Lave been found beneath the old forts or "ratlis" of Ireland, and from this circumstance some au thorities are inclined to believe that they were intended as storehouses for reserve warlike stores, arms and pro visions. These Irish galleries, however, must in nowise be confounded with the cu rious beehive-shaped underground chambers, which are so abundant in Count? Cork and elsewhere, and which are called by tbe peasants "Dane holes," because, they say, the Danes were wont to hide in them In olden times. This may have beeu so, by the way. for many of these subterranean apart ments wonld form excellent hiding places; but tbey were certainly con structed originally by tbe Irish them selves. at a period long anterior to the advent of the Danish invaders. | Probably they are allied to the "Plcts* bouses" of the Orkney Islands, which are either chambered tumuli or | underground dwellings, or both. The rock "tombs" of the ancient Etruscans are also of this category. Men lived within them, and they also burled their defunct relatives within them, underneath the floor, just as the Inults do now. A few Inches of earth sufficed to separate the living from the dead. In Peru, again, are slmi Isr subterranean tumuli bouses cov ering thousands of acres of ground. When tbe British conquered India they thought the vast cave temples at Ellora and elsewhere were tho work of giants. And in that belief they were almost justified, for It even now well nigh passes comprehension how, or by what means, they were origiu ally constructed. From one series of these alone It Is estimated that there were excavated one thousand million tons of solid rock. Near Aurangabad is a collection of splendid subterranean temples, with single chambers, and balls measuring 270 feet deep by 160 feet wide, and these extend for miles. The roof is of living rock, supported by hundreds of rock-hewn pillars, and all around nre chapels, chambers and cells. It, In fact, constitutes. In Its en tirety, a sort of gigantic subterranean "holy city," Just such as would l?e built nowadays above ground. Bat of all artificial f*w, the Cat comb* at Bom have b?M tha cai of aott wonderment and apeculatV It la estimated that tbm are al gethrr about alx hundred miles of krlw. the greater portion of ta still unexplored. Constructed for the moat part twecu the beginning of the sec? and tbe end of the fourth centurlc . as a apeciea of subterranean cemetery, they began to be dlsued aa such I early aa 380 A. D.. and burial wltht them entirely ceased with tbe sack tbe city by Alar It* in 410 A. D. Afterwards they came to constitute a place of pilgrimage, but by degree*' people loat interest in tbera. and their very existence was at last utterly foe* gotten. Tben on May HI. 1378. some laborers! digging in the ('auipagana discovered! a aepulchral chamber. Thle resulted V in further excavations, and these la '1 turn revealed to the amaaed Inhabit4 anta of Rome "the exlatence." to quota . a contemporary account, "of other elb* * ies concealed beneath their own." Of course, the Roman catacombs, al though the finest and most extensive. are not the only ones of their kind in! the world. Near Naples, for instance* some very elaborate onea are to bd seen, with a subterranean chutvh at tached. I There are also others at Syracuae* Which are unique, lu that they are sup posed to have beeu of pagau origin; all* Malta, beneath the foundations of tha ancient capital of the laland; at Taor mlna. in 8lclly; at Alexandria, andf [?elsewhere. 1 The so- cr 11 oil "Catacombs of Paris.** it may be mentioned, arc also regard^ ed by the best authorities us being; merely disused quarries Hut at Fog gio Oajelln, near Chiusl. the ancient! Clu^ium. are so mo remarkable under- > ground works of vast extent, to which! neither this latter explanation, nor that given fov the catacombs proper, will apply. ' They consist, for the most part. oC low. winding labyrinthine passages, leading in and out of oue another^ and round and round, iu the most per*' plexing manner, but constantly con ducting tbe explorer back to a largo circular central liall, the roof of which? is supported by .1 massive cylindrical pillar hewn from the living rock. No plausible explanation has ever been offered regarding the original'* purpose of this mysterious suhtcrran eau maze, although some archaeolo gists believe it to have been intended as a place of ? xecution for criminals.* the condemned person being simply; turned loose therein, nnd left to wan der about in the cold and darkness until death overtook him. DANCER OF WHITE BREAD.' 4 Soom Mill* law MarhlMn For V I en c It lag Um ftoar. I was Informed a few weeks ago by a gentleman who owns large dour mills that the erase for white bread is being carried to such extremes that many millers are putting up expensive machinery for the purpose* of actually bleaching the flour. This is being done by ozone nnd ni trons acid, the object being to make an artificially white bread and to en uble tbe grain to be used* which would otherwise give a darker color to the flour. The development of the grinding pro cess duritig the hist few years has been such that the ohl-fashloncd stone? have been replaced by steel rollers ac tuated under great pressure. The germ and other most nutritive constituent* of the wheat are thus to to a great extent abstracted and the* valuable character of the bread greatly, reduced. It is the opinion of many who can speak with authority on the subject that bread, instead of being, as for merly, tbe "staff of life," has become to a great degree an indigestible non nutritive food, and that It Is responsi ble, among other eauses, for the want of bone and for the deutni troubles in* the children of the present generation. It is doubtless true that tbe varie ty of food now obtainable in a meas ure compensates, in tbe case of those who can afford it, for this abstraction of phosphates; but I think I am Justi fied in stating that every medical man. If asked, will give it as his opinion that very white bread should be avoid ed, and that "seconds" flour, now al most unprocurable, should only be used either for bread or pastry. -Corre- 4 spondence of the London Times. Oldnt Uttor In th? World* What is probably the most ancient letter in the world has Just been dis covered In some excavations being made in the Province of Attica, and M. Wilhelm, secretary of the Austrian Archaelogleal Institute here, who han succeeding in decipheriug it. asserts that It was written four centuries bc-f fore Christ. It is engraved on a lead en leaf, folded In two, and it bears on the outside tbe following addreas: "To the porter of tbe market at Potls, to be delivered either to Nauslas or Thraslcles or to their sons."* the te*t of the letter is as follows: "Mneslengos sends his greetings to those in the house and informs tbetn that he is in good health. Please send me a blanket or some sheepskins, If possible of the ordinary kind, without ornaments. As soon as the occasion offers 1 shall return theni." Crown G'uatoin*. King Peter "placed the crown on lilt head," whereas King Kduard had his crown placed upon his head by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In acting as he did Peter Knrageorgevltcb imU tated the example of Frederick, the first king of 1'ruHsln, who, at Konigg berg, placed the crown upon his bes<^ In token that he had received it, with out episcopal mediation, direct frony the King of Kings; whereas, In point of fact, he had bribed and bargained It out of Kaiser Leopold. It was thus from Frederick I. that William II. de rived his doctrinc of dlviue right.-* New York Globe. * -**