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*■ ¥ Slim '■Iwaja .•&£pa s&u& ^ t. Article* for publication ahonld be •■written in a clear, legible hand, and ot only one tide of the page. 4, All obaaywe in adTCrtiaemenU mnat racbuon Friadf. THE KING'S SHIPS. • God hath » many ships upon the sc* f His are the merchantmen that carry treasure, Tha men-of-war, aO bannered gallantly, The little fisher boats and barks of pleasure. On all this sea of time there is not one That sailed without the glorious Name thereon. The winds go up and down npou the sea, And some they lightly clasp, entreating kindly, Aad waft them to the port where they would be; And other ship* they buffet, long and blindly- The cloud comes down on the great sinking deep, - And on the -share the watchers stand and weep. And God hath many wrecks within the sea; Oh, it is deep! I look in fSar and wonder- The wisdom throned above is dark to me, Tet it is sweet to think Hisoare is under; 'Thst yet the sunken treasure may be drawn teto his storehouae when the sea is gone. So I, that sail in peril on the s^k. With my beloved, whom yet the waves may cover. Say—God hath more than angels' care of me, And larger ahare than I in friend and lover. Why weep ye so,ye watchers on the laud? This deep is but the hollow of His hand. Cahl Spencer. .A. Story o±‘ Duty. [From Every Other Saturday.] In the middle of a dark night Joel, a boy of nine years old, heard his name " ’ by a 1 voifte whidh, Tbrongh frffr VOL. VII. NO. ealM Joel hnd alacp, seemed miles away been tired enough when he went to bed, and yet he bad not gone to sleep for eome time; his heart beat so at the idea of his mother being very ill. He well remembered his father’s death, and his mother’s illness now revived some feel ings which he had almost forgotten. His bed was merely some clothes spread on the floor, and covered with a rag; bat he did not mind tha^and ho ooald have gone to sleep at once bnt for 1 the fear that had come over him. When be did sleep, his sleep was sound; so that his mother’s feeble voice calling him aeemed like a call from miles away. In a minute Joel was ap and wide awake. “Light the candle,” he could just hear tire voice say. He lighted the candle, and his bat ing heart seemed to stop when he saw his mother’s face. He seemed hardly to know whether it was his mother or no. '“Shall I call ?” “Call nobody, my dear. Come here.” He laid his cheek to hers. “Mother, yon are dying,” he mnr- mared. “Yes, love, I am dying. It is no use calling any one. These little ones, Joel.” “I will take care of them, mother.’’ “Yon, my child 1 How should that be?" — “Why not?” said the boy, raising himself, and standing at his best height. 'Look at me, mother—. I can work, I promise yon—” His mother ooald not lift her hand, bat she moved a finger in a way which cheeked him. “Promise nothing that may be too hard afterward,” aha aaid. “I promise to try, then,” ho said “that Httle sitters shall live at home, and never go to the work-boose.” He spoke cheerfully, though the candle light glittered in the two streams of tears on his cheeks. “We can go on living here; and we shall be so—” It wonld not do. The sense of their coming desolation rushed over him in a way too terrible to be borne.. He bid kte face bmide her, munnh'ruig; - “Oh, mother! mother!” Hit mother found strength to move her hand now. She stroked his head with a trembling touch, which ho seemed to feel as long ss he lived. She could not say much more. She told him she had no fear of any of them. Thev wonld be taken care of. .She advised him not to*awaken the little ones, who were sound asleep on the other side of her, andybegged him to lie down himself tin daylight, and try to sleep, when she should begone. ’ - This was the last thing she said. The candle was very low; but before it went oat, the was gone, Joel had always done what his mother wished; but he could 'not, obey her in the last thing she said. He lighted another candle when the first went out, and sat think ing, till the gray dawn began to show through the window. When he called the neighbors, they were astonished at his quietness. Qe had taken up the children and dressed them, and made the room tidy, and lighted the fire, before he told anybody what had happened. And when he opened the door, his little sister was in ’ bis arms. She was two years olfl, and could walk, of oonrse; but she liked being in Joel's arms. Poor Willy was theteost confounded. He stood with hia pinifarc • at kid mouth, staring at ths bed, 'And; wondering that his mother lay.no st^L. * H the neighbors were astonished at, Joel that morning, they might be more; so at some things they saw afterwards bnt they trere not. Everything seemed , done no natoraUyi and the hoy evidently considered shat he had to do so much * matter of ooome that less seniation was axcitai than abeut many smaller things; Altar the funeral was over, Joel tied f>he waa ap all hh mother’s olothM. He carried the handle on aoe. #.an, and his shier on the other, pb would not have liked v to taka money tor what %e had teen hh 1 pother wear; bat he changed them Mriy for new and strong clothes for the child. He did not seem to want any help. He went to the factory the next morning, as usual, after washing and dressing the children, and getting a breakfast of bread and aailk with them. There was no fire; and he pot every knife and othcrdangcr- ous thing on a high shell, and gave them some trifles to (day with, and promised to eome and play with them at dinner-time. And he did play. He played heartily with the little one, and as if he enjoyed it. every day at noon hour. Many a merry laugh the neigh- l>orB heard from that room when the three children sere together, and the langh war often Joel’s. How ho learned to manage, and espe cially to cook, nobody knew; and he could him sell have told littlo more than that he wanted to see how people did it, and looked" accordingly at every oppor tunity. He certainly fed the children well; and himself, too. He knew that everything depended on hia strength being kept up. His sister sat on his knee to be fed till she could feed her self. He was sorry to giyeit up; bat he said she must learn to behave. Bo he smoothed her hair, and washed her face before dinner, and showed her how to fold her hands while he said grace. He look as much pains io train her to good manners at table ae if be had been a governess, teaching a little lady. While sbr-remsmed a ‘•baby - fie «epna"lBe | : middle of the bed, between the two that she might have room, and not be disturbed; and when she ceased to be a baby, he silently mode new arrange ments. He denied himself a hat, which he much wanted, in order to buy a con siderable quantity of coarse dark calico, which, with his own hands ho made into a curtain, and slung across a part of the room; thus shutting off about a third of it. Here he contrived to make up a lit tle bed for bis sister; and he waa not satisfied till she had- a basin and a jog, and a piece of soap of her own. Here nobody bnt himself was to intrude upon her without leave; and, indeed, he al ways mode hex understand that be came only to take caro of her. It was not only that Willy was not to aee her un dressed. A neighbor or two now and iheu lifted the latch without knocking. One of these one day heard something frupi behind the curtain, which made her call her husband silently to listen; and they always afterward treated Joel as if he were a man, and one whom they looked np to. He was teaching the child her little prayer. The earnest, sweet, devout tones by the boy, and the innocent, cheerful imitation of the little one, were beautiful to hear, the listeners said; Though so well taken care of, she was not to bo pampered; there would have been no kindness in that. Very early, indeed, she was taught, in a merry sort of way, to put things in their places, knd to sweep the floor, and to wash ap the crockery. She was a handy little thing, well trained and docile. One reward that Joel had tor his management was, that she was early fit to go to chapel. This was a great point; os he, choosing to send Willy regularly, could not go till he could take the little girl with him. She was never known to be rest less ; and Joel was quite proud of her. Willy wo* not neglected for the little girl’s sake. In those day children wont earlier to the factory and worked longer than they do now, and by the time the sister waa five years old Willy became a factory boy; and his pay put the little girl'to school. When she, at seven, altogether an easier one. He always, had maintained (hem all, from the day of his mother's death. The times most have been good—work constant and wages steady— or ho conld not have done it. Now, when all three were earning, he put his sister to a sowing-school for two evenings in the week and the Sat- nrday afternoons; and he and Willy attended an evening school, as they found they could afford it. He always escorted the little girl wherever she had to go; into the factory, and home again, to the school door and home again, and to the Sunday-school; yet he was him self remarkably punctual at work and at worship. He was a humble, earnest, docile pupil himself at the Sunday- school—quite unconscious that he was more advanced than other boys in ’the sublime science and practice of duty. He fall that evetybeiy was very kind to him, but he was unaware that others felt it an honor to be kind to him. I linger on these years, when he was a fine growing lad, in a state of high content. I linger, unwilling to proceed. Bat the end most come; and it is soon told. He was sixteen, I think, when he was asked to become a teacher in the Sunday-aehool, while wholly not < tag to be a scholar. He tried, and made a capital teacher, and he won the hearts al-the children while trying to open their minds. By this he beeeme more widely known than before. .. One day in the next year, a tremen dous clatter and crash waa heard in the factory where Joel worked. A deed ti tan ee succeeded, end then several called oat that it ihs only an iron bar that had .fallen down. This waa true, bnt the iron bar had fallen on Joel's heed, and m up dead I Sqch a fhneral as his k maty There B a something that strikes on all heavlB fta the speehicle of e soidter’s funeral—the dram, the march of i t^ie belt sn^i oe^^ ittwlke coffin. Bat there was something more solemn and more moving than all such observance ffi the funeral of this yoang soldier, who hsd so bravely filled his place in the conflict of Hfe. There was the tread of comrades here, for the long est street was filled from end to end. for relics, there were his brother and suiter; and for a solemn dirge, the un controllable groans of a heart-stricken multitude. THR SECRET SERVICE THK PKOri.K IT HAN TO LOOK AFT** FOK UMVUt HAM. (.'•■■tarfeltav* aa* They an t* Vary Khar* Da4**a Their Wark. IN DEATH TOGETHER. Th» (Shark af Hfa Wife’* Mudrien Caanlag Ilia Own. Death A moe. remarkable occarrenoo was re ported in the First Ward of Milwaukee. A local paper says At an early hour Frederick 0. Bradley, a well-known citizen, formerly a man of considerable wealth, called at the house of a neigh bor and asked if some one would come to iis house as his wife was very ill. In half an hour the neighbor and his wife reached the bedroom of the Bradley's and were horrified to find both the man and his wife lying on the floor dead, At first everyone supposed a tragedy had been committed, and the affair created great sensation. Later on, it was generally acoeptod as a fact that the couple had been poisoned. At a late honr the Coroner held an inquest, and it resulted in a verdict that the wife had died uL .apoplexy and the-husband of heart disease. It was shown that both were troubled from these causes. The double death is a remarkable occurrence and a mystery. The supposition is that Mr* Bradley was taken fll and died while her husband was out calling a neighbor. When he returned and found her dead, the shock was so great that he had a severe attackof he*rt disease and dropped dead. —1 Mr. Bradley was 65 years old and his wife was seven years younger. He was tom in England, emigrating to tho United States when a young man. Ho lived in New York City for a number of years and worked at civil engineering. He became wealthy, and at one time was estimated to be worth, nearly $200, QUO. He seenred a contract for building 500 miles of road for the Grand Trunk Rail way, which at that time was the largest railway oontract ever attempted by one man. This proved an unfortunate un dertaking far him, Mr. Bradley losing the greater part of his wealth, it is said, through the dishonesty of sub-contract ors. Subsequently he secured “another railway contract, and, owing to the sud den appreciation of the cost of labor and material, the remnant of his fortune was swept away and he became finan cially mined. He then eame to Milwau kee and obtained a position as Inspector of Harbor Improvements under the di rection of Col. Houston, United States Engineer. This he held until the time of hia^eath. This sample book in which you see pasted bank and tiflional notes, with the word bad punched out in each, con tains $25,000, and we have here the his tories and photographs of 2,500 crimi nals, perhaps ten per cent, of whom are women, said an ofleer of the Secret Service, at Washington. William E. Brockway is the most notable person in the entire collection. He is called the “King of Counterfeiters,” and occupies the first place ia this album. Next to him are his two pals, Doyle, the man who passed the money, and Charles E. Smith, the most expert engraver of “crooked” work in tile country. In fill their operations Brockw&y furnished the money, laid out the plans, and was the brains of the gang. Doyle passed the “stuff’ and Smith was the engraver. Doyle is now serviag a twelve years’ sentence in the IHteoia State Prison. Brock way was oaptared some few weeks ago on the charge of counterfeit ing some railroad fmnds, samples of which we havw hero- in this office, and Smith is living with his family in Brook- ^ pen entirely by hand. At first we thought that it mint taka a good amount of tOM fortbe rascal to ten out one of those bffle, but now we think that be prodnees about one a week. The de nominations are flftief, twenties and tens, and they are turned into the Treasury for redemption (ran ell parts of the Union. “GAMES AND SAUCES.” Faria* laatracts • Claps Cask lira*—i I* Haw la THE LiME-KILN CLUB. WORD* OF WIHDOM FROM FAKADINF HAU.. Tfca PrrsMaat Talks Fraai Ike MfcaalSrr, aad Trlla Tkkurs aa Tfc«*» Are. Ar English Girl 1r Canada. There are two sorts of beauty among the girls of Canada, says a newspaper correspondent, as there are two kinds of girls—the English Canadian and tbJ French Canadian. The English Can adians are beautiful rather than pretty. -TkeFrench girls are captivatingly pretty. The English girl is tall and strongly built. She walks with her figure rigidly erect and her head held up, from eon- sdonsness of strength rather than from pride. Her cheeks are like the sides ol a peach that has just begun to ripen. The rose blush blends with the pink, tbetia in turn lost in the general creamy tint of the whole face. Waves of flaxen or Tight-brown hair curtain her forehead, or perhaps her hair is puffed into a cloud that projects beyond her sealskin cap. She has big deep-blue eyes, eloquent of good health and good na lure, and blazing at a touch of excite ment. Being an athlete, she is a model of good health, and the equal of her brothers at the dinner table. Her nose and mouth are not too fashionably small. They match her fine stature, and the healthy, graceful carriage that tell of stout limbs and developed museies. What a lesson the Montreal girl tenches to -the New York mothers who bring their daughters up indoors like hot house plants, for fear they will not be lady-like and womanly I These robust girls, in modesty, in grace, in softness of speech and femininity generally, are the peers of daughters of Murray Hill, and yet there is hardly one that cannot stand by her brother’s side in whatever sport he is enjoying. These girls can climb a mountain like deer, they can skate like the women of Holland, they are. at home on snowsboes, the mad sport ef the toboggan hills is every-day fan to them. As these words ere written they are scudding on snowsboes on the hill, applauding the carters in the Gov ernment sheds, driving their ponies st s three-minute gait ahead of their sleighs, skimming breathlessly dowm the slides, cutting threes end eights in the skating rinks, and bottling along the streets at a gait that makes a New York man feel as though be wae taking root in the snow, Tax Soosav.—What the Soudan is worth mgy be gathered from some pub lished stadstios, according tor which there are 15,000 Christians and 40,000 Egyptians in the provinee; 1,000 com mercial bowses owned by Europeans and 8,000 by Egyptians, and the import and export trad# t> valued at AIO.OOQ.OQO annually. Smith engraved the plate from which the famous $1,000 7-80 bond of the issue of '65 was printed, and $83,000 worth of it were actually redeemed at the Treas ury Department before it was discovered to be a counterfeit. The impression was so good that the experts were unable to determine whether the bonds were genu ine or counterfeit, sad the matter was only decided when the Government is sue bearing the duplicate numbers eame back for redemption. Smith also en graved what ia known as the Hamilton $50 greenl>aok, and the $100 note on dif ferent banks, which an the finest known ef these series. Several yean ago a very shrewd dodge was played by one of Smith’s confederates on R. H. White A Co., of Boston. A woman entered their store and looked at some very expensive shawls. Finally, she mode up her mind to take one, and tendered a thousand- dollar bill in payment. The clerk took the money 1 to the cashier, aUfet it fo the bank to find out whether it was genu ine or not The answer eame busk that the bill waa good beyond the shadow of a doubt. Then the olerk aaid that the shawl wonld be sent to the woman’s ad dress, but she proceeded to get very an gry, and aaid that if they ooald not take her money without question that she would go elsewhere, and flounced out of the store in great rage. About an boor afterward she returned, and told the clerk that she had visited Jordan, Marsh k Co’s., Shepard A Norwell’a, Hogg, Brown k Taylor’s and 0. F. Horsy A Ca’s, bnt that she had been unable to find a shawl which salted her as well as the one she left in their establishment. She said she would take it with her, and tmdered a $1,000 bill in payment. The shSw 1 was valaod at $200 and the woman took it away with her, together with $800 in change; The bill first tendered was genuine, the second was a counter feit and the firm was just $1,000 out of pteket. ►*- Smith engraved the plate from wbieh counterfoil note was printed, sad ft nearly,)perfect that only a minute eiamirtuticRMwould ham caused detec tion.' Smith also engraved the plate from which the $l,00ty$ per cent bonds rvr>Tt\ . Irat va IKa Attliyn issue on Doyle in Chicago, amounting in all to $204,000. Now I wish to call your attention to two curious facts. Coun terfeiting runs in families, and without exception the men engaged in it are all poor. For instance, take the Bullanl family. Thomas, Benjamin, George and John, four brothers, all in onr clutches, together with an aunt. There is one brother out of jail, but we are satisfied that he is an honest man. Thomas Bal lard is a wonderful fellow. He is the only person, so far as ws know, who has succeeded in imitating the fibre paper upon which the genuine notes and bonds are printed. At present he is serving'a thirty years’ sentence as a reward for hfc discovery. . He to a chemist of no ostii- . nary attainments, and he invented a pro of ss., by which bet/ was able to take a genuine two or one dollar bill, and com pletely remove all the traces of ink from its surface; Then with a counterfeit plate of a higher denomination, he would print upon the genuine paper, and thus raise the note. Speaking ubo# raising notes, hero to a check on the Third na tional Bank o4 New York, which waa raised from $451 to $26,968, and paid, in 1876. ^ The perpetrators worked off with chemicals all that was written in the check except the signataqa, sod 1 regret to say that we have never beeu able to discover who did it Bare are three steel plates whipb were engraved by Ulrich for a fivs-doUar issue. The engraving to done on soft steel, and when completed the plate is hardened. To give yon some idee oi the amount ol labor it takes to engrave one ol tbeae plates, I can only say that we have evidence th|t Ulrich was fifteen months completinglhcm. Perhaps the greatcet curiosities in our entire collection are the bills which made their appearance about four jean ago, executed with a A lesson on “Games and Sauces” was given at Miss Paries's Cooking School in New York city. A teg of venison was first brought in, and after the lecturer had palled off the dry Ikin from the meet, she nibbed it with batter, dredged it with salt and pepper, and flour enough to form a paste over the meek After skewering the reset so ae to cover the shank-bone, it was placed in a hot oven on a rack to cook. When the flour which waa sprinkled on the pen wee brown, the meat was taken out and water poured in the pan. The venison was basted often white roasting , withjbe gravy and dredged lightly with floor, salt and pepper. White the venison was cooking s grouse was placed on a platter before the class, and skewered, and the breast and legs were larded with stripes of pork. The terdons were eat parallel with the rind el peak, and only ae far aa the flrst layer of teen; and were put in a bowl of eracked ice and water before they were used, to draw out the oil and make them firm. After larding the grouse it waa rubbed with butter, seasoned with salt and pepper, dredged thickly with floor, and placed, in a pan on its back, with out any water. The teoturur stated that it would take about twenty-five minutes to roost this bird rare or half an hour to suit the average taste. The mum for the grouse was prepared with dry bread, which waa rolled and sffted. The line enunba, which meas ured about a third of a cupful, were put over the firs in a doable boiler to cook with a quarter of on onion and two cup- fa la of milk. The coarse erambo, which remained in the stare, measured about two-thirds of a cap and these were placed in s saucepan with a tabletpoon- fal of melted batter, which was heated hot before the crumbs were pat in. Whsu the orambs were brown they were set on one side and a tablespoon fnl of batter was added to the sauoe in the double boiler, which had cooked fifteen minutes. Seasoning of salt and pepper waa added, and the onion was skimmed out This aanee was pot on a platter, the grouse which waa now done, was plseed on the bed of sauce, and the fried bread crumbs were poured over it A garnish of parsley was added. The venison was then taken from the oven and pot on a hot platter. The fat poured off the gravy in the pan, and a cap of boiling water was added. A slice of onion was fried brown in a tabte- spoonful of butts* and six peppercorns and lour whole cloves were added. When the ouiou wee cooked a table- spoonful of flour wae put in and stirred till brown, and the whole wae gradually added to the gravy in the pan. Altar boiling one minute the gravy waa •trained and half a teaspoon fnl of lemon- juice completed the sauce. However atuceptible to flattery Bro. Gardner, of the Lnme-Kiln Club, may bo, ho is never given to flattering others. At a late mooting of the Club ho said : “It becomes my solemn dooty to an nounce de tack dat Brudder Paramount Slawson, an honorary member libin’ in Toledo, am no mo^ on airth. He had climbed np on de roof of a shed to sec a dog-fight, an’ de cavin’ in of do roof be stowed for’ different fatal iujoorio* upon his passon. When ho realized dat he had got to die he requested dat dis club attend his fnneral in a body, an’ ho tried to borry money of his bradder-in-law to aqnar np his back dues wid os. “Gemlen, in one respcck Brudder Slawson was a fa'r to medium man. If he borrypd half a dollar to go to de cir cus he’d pay it back outer money dat his wife aimed at de waah-bp’d. __ De poo' was neber turned away from his doah empty-handed. Ho pitied de sor- rows of a big tramp, an’ let hia wife go WII AT WK FIND 11 OVUM. paps* says that a COST K0XXT. * Mrs. B.—“Isn’^thto atraags T Mr. B.—“What is strange, dsarT Mrs. B.—“The Georgia man, now worth $150,000, wore a pair of shoes until after ha waa 21 years of age.” Mr. B.—“I don’t see auythiaf rw markable about that ” Mrs. B.—“You don** f* • — 1 ~- Mr. B.—“Certainly not He bly inherited the $150,00$ father. Mrs. B.—“Bnt how did his bo much money ?’’ Mr. B.—“He saved it on Philadelphia Evening Galt, bar’fntted an’ his chill’cn hungry. He was kind-hearted, but alius behind on his pew rent. Ho was philanthropic, but ho had to dodge his butcher. He was* kind ladder, bulhe-has got twoob the wust boys iu do Stait of Ohio. He was a lovin’ husband, but he was con tent to sit aronn'do grocery an’let his wife support the family. White we may *7 dat we am sorry that death has come to sever ties an’ bring changes, we have no oocashun to remark dat de world will be any de wuaa off, Let ns now attack de reg’lar order of biziness." The Hon. Slipbaok Taylor, an hon orary member residing at Birmingham, Ala., forwarded the following inquiry: “What style of literature does oar clab recommend far de called popala- ihnn of de kentry.” “On aeberal different oocashnus when my advice has bin axed,” replied the President, “I lias recommended de Fam’ly Bible an’ a fust-class weekly noosepaper. I doan' know dat onr peo ple need any spesbnl line of litoratnre. If white ladies can swallcr trash uoveto at de rate of two a week an’ obersee doir houses an’ fam'lica, I reckon the black ones am not so wery bad off."—Detroit Free Prcst. A Battle With an Alligator. Rdxrt Carroll, a trapper and hunter, white trapping for otters on West Choc- tawpatchie River, in Alabama, had a terrible fight with an alligator, so a local psper tells ns. Seeing the water agitated in a.hok: •ad to that XKVm KKRW WMAT “I was chopping in tha wooda —a day Inst winter,” said'he, “whan wtj dog, • healthy terrier,orawted into a hollow tag and foaud • coon. He took Hr. by the nose and putted Mas out presence. When tha eoou saw how I wit situated with a big ax and a: iflooihe “yanled Ota tof tho hole in the log. Tha 4 light weight, hut hia staying were something k> < the coon -firmly clinched, gentle influence he yielded but as often withdrew hem tha aaid world, Liking the aasbMona pnp wMh him. They kept sawing it off iMa way for nearly an hour, and it hagan to tooll as though the coon waa going to win tha rubl>er, when an idea struck Mi Who* the dog pulled tha eoon out to vtawl aimed my ax and ataoek a tarriflo htow at the coon’s neck. Just thsto ha gaua a jork and pulled the dog's baud to tha spot where hia shook! have beaa. “That dog don’t know to this day bwl that it was the ooon that kfltod Mm.”— 77; C E)/0. “No, Mr. SHm, I cannot bayoar wife My father has just failed ia bwtiaam, and my hrst thoughts must ha fo* him.” “I hadn’t beard of your taihmlp MU Vfj-ore,” exclaimed Mr. Blim in prise and not a little did it occur ?” “Only yesterday,* our possessions are Uw^w mmmj, are very poor indeed. I do *et m saying that were it _ proffered love would be very dm* to amt bat now my poor father demand* my imlivided devotion." “Noble girl!" said Mr. Ska, •• ha hurried away.—Philadelphia Call. __ Hotteatet Tortures. The following ia an extract of a tetter from Walwich Bay, southwest coast of A^fleo, dated December 14, 1883: “The atrocious acts of Paul Vis ter (a Hottentot chief) have received further confirma tion. This fiend held a raid, and it was decided net to shoot the prisoners, ae to usually done, but to torture them, so it was decided that the lower jew of the victim ahould be severed and a knife in serted in the roof of the month and forced np to the brain. These wretches farther amused themselves by putting a rein with a slipnot round the throats of the prisoners, hauiing them np to trees, and when the tongue of the victim had protruded somewhat letting him down again, carrying on this amusement nntil the unfortunate prisoner was lifeless.” The London Daily Newt believes that the ocoumnoe of these horrible cruel ties has been brought to the notice of Sir Leicester 8mjthe, Her Majesty’s Acting High Conunissioner at the Cape. > b _ ' .7 An Honest Yorihet. A man had mei s girl in a lonely place and forcibly kissed her. She was terri bly indignant and had him arrested She gave an account on the witness stand of how be gazed at her intently, and then suddenly throwing his arms around her taf riuted a Mm upon her Upa. The ptmooer made no defence, and the jury wee expected to promptly convict him of assault They returned to the court room. “The ju-ju-jury w-w-would like to ask the young lady two questions,” the foreman aaid. The judge eons anted and aha want on tha stand. “D-d-did you waartha j-j jersay that you’ve gg-got on now?" “Yes, sir," waa to# damnte reply, j “And w-w-waa your ha-ha-hair b-b-banged like that r ‘Tea, air." “Than, yoax Honor, wu acquit tha prisons* on tha ground of emo-mo-motional insanity.”— Aon Fnmcivco Pott. near the river, and snpi>o*ing that otters were fishing therein, ho mounted a pole on a tussock just above the water's edge. His steel traps were in a sack suspended from hia neck. His only weapon was his hatchet. He sat on the pole, with a mam of rines at bis back. He hold his weapon ready to strike an otter, should one arise, Soon he saw a young alligator him. He oanght it np and it uttered a cry. In an instant there was a terrible splash of water, and a huge alligator with distended mouth and glittering teeth rushed for him. With little hope of eecApe he fell back upon the rinee, and aa he did so kicked the pole from under his feet. The terrible jaws closed on the pole and crashed, it Carroll tried to inter- poae the traps, bnt a vine had caught them and partly held him down. Seizing his hatchet he struck into the open month of his assailant. It dosed on the weapon, and with great difficulty be saved the hatchet Getting free from hto traps, he dealt the alligator a fatal blow cm the skull as it made ths next charge. He seenred the skin and snob teeth aa bad not been destroyed in the fight The length of the alligator was about nine and a hall feet The hole.was its den. Alligators rarely attack human beings. What Christine Nilsson Eats. RUJOilHQ A SAW-Rn* “How are you ?” asked “Pretty well, thank you; but Fua just been to a doctor to have him tookal my throat?" What’s the matter?” 'Well, the doctor couldn't gftm me any encourageaaent At tanfl ha couldn’t find what I wanted hilt to find.” ‘ < “What did you expect “I asked him to look down i for the saw-mill and down there.” “And did he see nothing of H?" “No, but ho advised M if 1 another to ran it by water." “ nova's Yocxet “Opse sweet pweotous ia no?” “I'sc oore sweet pwectoua," > “Ooee hungry ittte bit?" ' “lae couklmbble iisy bitay." “Opse sail have lunehy, “Itsy bitay chicky-wing, i “Tiddy iddy darl’, hsva a cookay T* “No, owncst-own—a pick ate.” They were not idiots an their way to ■ retreat tot the f eebto-arindsd ag tanaffim going to an asylum. Ttaff. taMfl masriai lovers, hsd bean ffiairtad naaaly flaw *. hours and were taking thefir flsto taneh * on the cars. And the rest of the pam**’ gets did not rise up and slay Mum either, which shows the dageneracytato which as a people we have UBm,—De troit Free Prett “I aiats feels sorry far de young feller whet ia samri befc>’ Ms time,” aaid Unde Mole. "0# flow era what bjopm* de scones' is de soonas’ tar die.” “My breakfast,’’ said the Swedish prims donna, “consists of a cup of coffee and a single roll, and for dinner I take soup, meat, vegetables, cheese, bread and wine. If I sing I have nothing more to eat until the next morning Otherwise, I have a cap of bouillon be fore retiring, and always a hot bath, own a pair- of Norfolk ponies, which I drive when I am home, bnt I am afraid of strange horses and strange drivers, so I take my constitutional by walking two hours every morning. I go slpne, for I do not want to talk, because the cold air gets to the longs and is apt to injure the voice ultimately. Yes, I am rigor ous with myself, bat I owe that care not to my own health, but to the company I am hired by and the public tbs| pays to hear me. I am always ready, in con sequence, and have never asked for the inAwlpnma of the aadienoe or an excuse from the manager. I never failed to keep an etogagrmant hat once, and that waa unavoidable. I live in England a great deal ae the guest of the Duke ol Aflmny’s family. I am intimately ac quainted with the Princess of Wales, with whom I play litiie duets; the Duke ef Edinburgh, who to a violinist, often aoeompantea us,”—(Ttioayo Paper. . * frata, As a woman, accompanied by a boy about ten years of age, waa pasting a store on Michigan a venae the other ffqr, & car dog belonging to the gave the lad a snap on the tag. A | commotion waa at once raised over “*• circumstance, and the merchant finally inquired: “How much do you want to i case?” “Ten yards of calico,* plied the woman. “Very well; oomafRi The doth was torn off her, and mother and are parture They retnrnad, ho raver, ta a few minutes, and wham tfeu atanhMfl ■sked what was wanted aha refMalt, “M's the boy who ta rMtinyataas sir. j He eaya he got the Wta MI frt the dreea, and ha tent aMtaffad." “Well, what does ha wantf* “Three eticke of eandy wB him, air, or If take it oat in The etiok the boy broke one in tub month fan he metasrad: \Tm “Tot let tha doff naut and 1’U take »a*of may ham tbq