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Lot him joy [in the sound of the trumpet, And sun in the world's proud smile ; But whit had become of the Hero, Except.for the " rank and file?" 0, grand is the Earth'in'her'progress, In her genius and art and affairs; The glory of glories is progress, Let the great find a joy in their cares. Let the kings^and the artists and statesmen Look round them and proudly smile; But what would become of the nation, Except for the " rank and file ?" And when the brief daye of this planet Are all ended and numbered and told, And the Lord shall appear in His glory, And shall summon the young and the old, For the Hero shall sound forth no trumpet, For the great no welcoming smile; Beforo the good Lord in nis glory *'* We are all the " rank and the file." PALACE OF THE TROCADKRO. A View and Dttrrlpdon of This Importing BaUdlutf nt lb? Par!* Exposition. Throngh the courtesy of Demorest'i Magazine we are euabled to furnish a handsome engraving of the great Trocade-o Paluce, which is to remain a permanent memorial of the Paris Expo; : sitioD. ThQ foUowiug description of this magnificent structure is given by a correspondent: It is circular in form, and it has two stages of covered arcaded galleries on the outside. Its towers are 230 feet high, and as they stand on abont tbe highest hill in Paris, this gives their summits a very great elevation. They burn electric lights during the Exposition, and the north star will have to look to its laurels within all that part of the valley of the Seine. Niagara may feel less apprehension in regard to the Trocadero cascade, though this is very fine. The water raised from the Seine fallB first into a great basin at the foot of the building, and on the summit of the hilL Thence it tumbles down the Blope, aflrstin one bound of twenty feet, and afterward by shorter leaps from step > to step down a broad staircase of stone bnflt on the model of the cascade at St. Clond. Finally it makes its way into a t lower baain of Jura marble, measuring 164 feet by 23G, where it finds comparative repose. Some 60,000 cubic yarcUo.f water a day are raised for this fountain alone. So much for the outside_of the building. Within, it seats 8,000 people in ita/coiliert hall, which is said to be the greatest circular structure in the world. Rfhaa a diameter of 261 feet, a circumference of about 500, and a height of 105.The orchestra holds 400 musicians, but it may be enlarged so as to seat 1^200. The organ, ') -forty fort high^'s supplied with air by steam machinery. The hall is divided, much as an ordinary theatre, into pit, boxes and amphitheatre, and its amphitheatre alone will seat 4,000 persons/ The semicircular galleries branching out from this central hall are at present devoted to a retrospective ezhi bition of tbe wonders of every epoch and country, from prehistoric times to the date of the French Revolution. The Trocadero grounds are by far the finest in the whole Exhibition. They ., dope down to the river from the summit of the hill, are beautifully laid out and planted, and are ornamented with buildings further illustrative of the national styles. The main walks cut them into four great parts, two lying on the river-hank, two above, immediately to the riglit and left of the Trocadero lAMklAin Tw n aP 4-V* a nfti4a fe iUUUUUiii AU UUC VI VUW At/AUftV* ?u are tbe outlying buildings of China, Persia, Tunis, Norway, Sweden, Morroco and Japan. /, In another section of the garden on the river-bank are the departments of civil engineering, and the administra' tion of waters, forests and meteorology. Hero also is the building of Algeria. In the remaining Motions of the grounds to the right and left of the cascades are restaurants and an aquarium, the last another of the curiosities of the Exhibition. It is built on a colossal scale in rock.i work, and has a superfices of about 30,000 square feet. Its two entrances leato a ball of stalactites, having the crystal tanks for the fish at the sides, and this hall in its turn communicates with two galleries similarity fitted up. Tue entire structure contains about 130 tanks. The Aquarium is subterranean, and has a garden on its rocky roof. The approach to the Trocadero bu lding is by wav of the Pont de Jena, which has been covered by.? broad level viaduct some three times the width of the original bridge. Along this bridge railway lines have been constructed, so that visitors are ooriveyed from the Champ de ' Mars to the summit of the Trocadero by the horse-cars. v- Newspaper Business. An exchange says: We suppose many people think that newspaper men are persistent duns; 'jt a farmer place himself in a similar business position and see if he would not do the same. Suppose he raised one thousand bushels of wheat, and his neighbor should come and buy a bushel, and the price was a small matter of only two dollars or less, and the neighbor says, '' I will hand yon the amount in a few days." As the fanner did not want to be small abont the matter, he says all right, and the man leaves with the wheat. Another comes in the same way until the whole one j thousand bushels of 'wheat are trusted out to one thousand different persons, and not one of the purchasers concerns himsolf about it. for it is a small amount that bo owes the farmer, and of course that would not help him any. He does not realize that the farmer has fritted away all his large crop of wheat, and that its value is due him in a thousand little driblets, and that he is seriously embarrassed in his business because his debtors treat it as a small matter. But if all would pay him promptly, which they could do as well as not, it would be a very large amount to the farmer, and enable him to carry ou his business without difficulty. The above comparit son is too true' of the difficulties tba. the newspaper man has to contend withContlnningr the Show. Evorybody has heard the old story of the silent man w ho, riding over a bridge, asked his servant if ne liked eggs, to which the servaut answered yes. Nothing more passed t;ll the next year when, A?AM nntwA I.VA In IllUXUg UTCl IIUD OOIUC LM.JLvJ?C7y UC LIUU^/U , torMs servant and said: "How?" "Poached, sir," was the immediate answer. This story has just been thrown into the shade in Italy. When Pompeii was destroyed by an eruptien of Mount Vesuvius, A. D. 79, a theatrical representation, as everybody knows, was going on in the Amphitheater. A certain Langini having got permission to open a theater on the rnins of the ancient city announced the opening night in the following advertisement: " After a lapse of more than eighteen hundred years the theater of this city will be reopened with 'La Figlia del Reggimento." I solicit a continuance of the favor bet towed on my predecessor, Marcus Qaintus Martins, and beg to assure- t he public that I shall make every effort to equal the rare qualities he displayed during his management." TIMELY TOPICS. Governor Nicholls, of Louisiana, has ! only one arm and one leg; he is slight! ly built end wiry, and has dark wary j hair. The last exotic spice which has been ' acclimated in California is the ginger ! plant. At Santa Clara the plant is I growing thriftily. It resembles the cornstalk in size and appearance, but unlike corn, yieldB a blossom. From > the root is made the valuable product, ! Jamaica ginger. t I "Salvation Factory" is the name of a church in Coventry, England, as Bhown in the petition recently presented for its registration. The projectors are a pej culiar sect, who have been for some ' time holding meetings in the streets, ! and the building which they have now : secured for their church was formerly a I bicycle factory. A short time ago English newspapers^ ! announced that certain persons -were' manufacturing and selling butter made from the mud of the Thames river, which iH very much like a gigantic sewer. Official investigation has shown :! that although fat is really extracted , from this mud, it is not used for such a , purpose, but in the manufacture of soap 1 and candles. Governor Randall, of Wisconsin, who died sevaral years ago, left his wife from $15,000 to $20,000, mainly in an unproductive homestead. Bv the advice J of a supposed friend she sold her propI erty, and put the proceeds in a herd of 1 cattle in Nebraska. Learning that | things were going wrong, she went to Nebraska, assumed $13,000 of liabilities, ! j bought out and took the management of the whole business, and succeeded so | well that her herd is now clearing her $6,000 a year, and is constantly increas; ing in size. .What will not people do for the gold | which perisheth ? An impecunious I Italian tailor went into the church of St. Luke, in the Campo Vaccino, the other day, and pretended to pray very devout!v. He continued at his devotions until everybody else had left the build As soon as he found himself alone und unobserved he drew a large chisel from under his garments and forced the door of the tabernacle containing the sacred vessels. Soon after his arrest some of the silverware was recovered. His praying will hereafter be done in secret in the solitude of a prison cell. Two cases, one in Belgium and the other in California, have shown that men do not always give up all hope, even when brought into court and guarded for serious Crimea. The former was being examined for forgery recently, and becoming enraged at some statement made by the prosecution, he drew a revolver and aimed at the opposing | counsel, who at once took flight. He | then aimed at the Judge, who also fled I incontinently, and by flourishing his weapon judiciously, the court was soon cleared ? whereupon he followed its eiample and cleared out too. A Ghinal man who recently sailed from San Francisco to the Flowery Kingdom, accumulated wealth by persistent theft, and | when detected^ would mildly remark, j " You savvy, me leper 1" whereupon he ; was instantly dropped like a hot potato, j In this ingenious way he accumulated a fortune estimated at 090,000, and sailed [ for home in the enjoyment of excellent j health. In the summer of 1842, when Bis i marck was twenty-eight years of age, i and was a cavalry officer, he was stand: ing one afternoon with some of his com{)anions on a bridge, when his groom ed his horse into the water to drink. Suddenly the horse lost footing, fell, ' and the groom disappearoJ. Bismarck I immediately threw away his sword, tore | off his uniform, and sprang into the 1 river to save his servant. He caught ! him, but the frightened man clung to | him with such a grip that he had to go [ to the bottom before he could get loose. I Eventually he saved the groom. For ; this gallant deed Bismarok received the : well-known Prussian JRettungsmedaille 1 / 3.1\ il -a. il L.l i {rescue meaai; cnac one sun sees uetwvou so many stars and orders on his breast, r He is very proud of this mark of honor, : and once, when a distinguished man i asked, with some saicasm, the meaning | of the simple decoration, which, at the ! time, was the only one he had, he ! answered quickly, "I am in the habit | of saving people's lives sometimes !" A Home in Greenland. Evening is the liveliest time in the I Greenland hnt. Then the bright lamps are burning, the kettles and pots (made f of eoapstone) all (Steaming and boiling over each lamp, the women busily chatj ting at their work, and half-naked chil- ; dren running about on the warm rein- j deer skins on the ledge behind them. This is the scene going on before us. The seal hunter has just arrived home from after his day's toil on the sea, and while he is hanging up his lines, his water-proof gloves, and other parapher- ; nalia, a piece of skin is drawn forth j from beneath the ledge and spread before him. Its contents?the small dried | fish called "angmagsat," or capeling? i he eats in silence, weary as he is. This j is only a preliminary meal, an appetiz- i | ing pastime, while the more substantial j j things over the lamp are getting ready | | ?and it does not take long to boil seal flesh. After the fish he takes a draught from the water pail behind the door, j The skin curtain of the ledge, hiding ! the mysteries of the lower regions, is once more drawn aside, and the skin, 1 with the remnants, disappears behind it, to join a host of the more heterogen- | eons art.cles. A good deal of talking in i the relating line, or in the chatting, prattling, merrymaking style is gener- ! ally going on. What I remember most distinctly from my many visits and stays in the Greenland huts are the stories j and descriptions of the men relative to 1 their 6e? adventures, accompanied by 1 the most animated gestures, showing how the seal had first appeared, and then again dived down on his approach- . ing it; how he [the hunter] in his turn i had lingered behind until the animal, \ made incautious by ttoe ensuing Biience, again rose to the surface; and now the hunter, leaning back with a graceful movement, shows how he resolutely swept across a long surge, and came within reach of bis mark, took aim, an d j threw his harpoon and bladder float; j how the wounded animal dived and j again came to the surface and so forth. ! In fact, he paints the scene with the most lively colors, as we all listened in wrapt attention. My brother, who had j a lively comprehension and a great talent for mimiory, had in after years in Denmark often to act the part of the seal-hunter, and it strikes me that I had myself a part in a play representing an unsuccessful wbale liunt. (jertainiy we had many an hour of amusement in the Greenland cottages. No doubt we were very unpretending, and easy to please in the extreme; bnt why criticise the means when the result is happiness? And happy we undonbtedly were, alike in the dark, frosty days, with the moon shining down upon ns at noontide, and in the calm, delightful summertime, with its bright sunlit nights.?The Field. Japanese Justice and Conrts. A correspondent -writes from Tokio, giving us an interesting insight into the manner in which the laws are administered in Japan. He says: When a Japanese feels himself injured in person or property he may have recourse to the assistance of a fellow citizen, apt to be conveniently near at hand, who strolls up and down the public highways in foreign clotheB and a long club. It is this person's business, like that of a journalist, to mind other people's business, and he immediately interests himself, therefore, in the cause. If the wrong falls under the cognizance of criminal law the police proceed, on information, to find and arrest the guilty person. If the injnry looks for remedy to civil law, complaint is lodged at the local saibancho, or lower court. Each ken, or political division of the empire, has a saibancho, as alBO have the three fu, or municipalities, of Tokio, Osaka and Saikio. The court has original r jurisdiction in all cases, civil and criminal, save small thefts and assaults, which are first tried by the police. The coiVianstVin flion is fho wllArfl fVlA great mass of legal business is done, where neighbors have their disputes settled and the lesser sort of rogues get their dues. Above'the saibancho is the Joto Saibancho, or supreme court, of which there are four in the empire, sitting at Tokio, Osaka, Nagasaki and Miyagi. These hear appealed cases from the local courts, decide capital cases and examine the draft judgments, for penal servitude for life, rendered in the saibancho. Finally we have the Daishinin or supreme court, presided over by the chief justice of the empire, assisted by eleven associate judges. This court hears appeals in both civil and criminal cases, tries important cases in which natives and foreigners are concerned, and has original jurisdiction in the impeachment of judges and in trials for treason. Beyond all, the subject may apply to executive clemency, and the dissatisfied foreigners can resort to diplomatic influence. The general arrangement of all the { <wn?t.imnmo 10 fVio aama Thfl indcft I and kenji (an officer permanently attached to the court) have their seats and " bench " on the higher of two platforms which rise in the rear of the apartment, j On the lower platform are similar ac-1 commodations for the clerk or clerks. On the floor, behind the roiling, sits the executive officer of the court. Outside the bar are chairs and benches for the 1 parties to the suit and their counsel and the public. In civil cases, desks and 1 | chairs are furnished for the convenience of newspaper reporters. In the su- 1 preme oourt, which confines itself most- 1 ly to hearing appeals, and seldom fur- 1 nishes in its proceedings food for the 1 idle and curious, the rooms are small < and almost entirely devoted to the accommodation of the judges and other 1 officers of the court. The handsomest 1 apartments are found in the new build- ( ing of the superior court, while the : spacious halls of the saibancho have the 1 look and smell of greater popularity. It was interesting to pass from room J ! to room and observe the courts in their J aotual, every day work. And here as everywhere one notices the transitional 1 character of contemporary Japan. Hie ^ judge, for instance, is seen in native ^ garments, but with his hair brushed in foreign style and wearing a full beard, * sitting at a desk as with us, but warm- 1 ing his hands at the national open char- < ooal-burning brazier, while he conducts ' his case after a more or less intelligent < 1 appreciation of a code made up, of 1 Chinese and Japanese precedents and 1 i traditions and English, French, German j and Italian suggestions. The saiban- j} cho presented the liveliest scenes, with : I its court-room groups, gangs of hand- [ i cnffed prisoners, and the great crowds i without in the waiting-rooms making 11 i themselves " the law's delay." Adjacent | i to this court is placed the central police I < ! station, with its lock-up and the house of | < detention for persons under arrest until \' I their cases are reached. I have yet to mention the busiest, 1 perhaps the most important, division of < I the work, that done in the upper stories of the various courts, in the offices of I the judge?, assistant judges, kenji and ] clerks. In these rooms the cases, as j ; brought before the attention of the i courts and examined by them in pre- 1 liminary hearings, are investigated at leisure and in privacy, and prepared for 1 final action. Here the clerk makes'out I ; his notes, the keuji decides on lines of < Erocedure, and the judge studies the J iw and evidence, consults authorities, j matures his decision and makes the I' official record. | ' Various Woods. j J The following are interesting items i, concerning the commercial valne and i ( properties of the better known woodn, [ as laid down by the American Builder. Elasticity. ? ABh, hickory, hazel, j j lancewood, chestnut (small), yew, snake- j | wood. Elasticity and Toughness. ? Oak, beech, elm, lignum-vitre, walnut, horn- j1 beam. ? Even grain (for Carving or Engraving) i j ?Pear, pine, box, lime tree. c Durability (in Dry Works).?Cedar, jj oak, yellow pine, chestnut. i x Bnilding (Ship Building).?Cedar, j y pine (deal), fir. larch, elm, oak, locust, teak. Wet construction (as piles, foun- j dations,fflumes|etc.,)?elm,alden, beech, ; oak, whitewood, chestnut, ash, spruce, sycamore. ! * Machinery and Millwork (Frames).? J Ash, beech, birch, pine, elm, oak. i J Rollers pf/v?T5n* lionnm-vitnB. mahoc- i * any. Teeth of -wheels,?Crab tree, hornbeam, locust. Foundry patterns. ?Alden, pine, mahogany. ' Furniture (common).?Beech, birch, j cedar, cherry, pine, whitewood. Best Furnituro. ? Amboyna, black ebony, mahogany, cherry, maple, walnut, oak, j rosewood, satinwood, sandalwood, chest- j nut, cedar, tulip wood, zebra wood, , ebony. ; Of these varieties, those that cbiefly enter into commerce in this country are oak, hickory, ash, elm, cedar, black walnut, maple, cherry, butternut, etc. Words of Wisdom. ' f Get that you may give; and fail not to give when you have got. j The strongest kind of meD are those j who have got the most weakness and ' know it. j' Have the courage to nhow your re- j spect for honesty, in whatever guise it i j appears; and your contempt for dis- i honesty and duplicity, by whomsoever ', exhibited. : ^ Do not be afraid of diminishing you , own happiness by promoting that or J others. He who labors wholly for the . benefit of others, and, as it were, for- , gets himself, is far happier than the man j j who makes himself the sole object of all , i his affections and exertions. Whatever you wish your child to be, j i Ka if. ^nnwiolf Tf xrrm urioli if. fr? Via I ' j happy, sober, truthful, affectionate, , I honeBt, and godly, be yourself all these. ; If you wish it to be lazy and sulky, a i liar and a thief, n drunkard and a swear- , er, be yourself all these. Men often speak contemptuously of over exactness?or attending to minnte and subtle ' distinctions; while these distinctions are exactly those which call for careful attention m all who would escape or detect error. 4 * . .. jj THE PROPHECY. "Give me a man who has courage! In my eyes it hides a multitude of sins." " You are such an enthusiast on that subject, Louise," said Blanche Underwood, as she stood before the mirror in their private parlor and adjusted her raffles, "in looking for that quality, you'll overlook the want of some other,' and find you have made a grievous bluniei\" " Oan't help it if I do. It's my nature to worship that quality?in a man especially?though I admire it in any one. He may be plain looking, but he is glorified forever in my eyes if he displays true courage," and Louise Band passed her white fingers lightly over lier wavy black hair, and resumed her reclining position on the lounge. "And you don't t tunic JKeamona Clarke has courage?" Blanche said interrogatively, turning to look at the fair, Bashed faco of her companion. " No, of course I don't," said the Dther with renewed animation. "I never saw any of these blonde men show jourage ? don't believe it's consistent tvith their nptures. If Bedmond Clarke aver gains my love he will have to prove himself a man by some unques tionaDie daring. " " There is moral as well as physical heroism," quietly snggested Blanche. [ don't think my cousin is deficient in she former." "I want to.see them combined," said the imperious beauty. " Physical daring is the outgrowth and seal of moral jourage. But we shall have to drop Dur discussion. Here comes the gentleman himself." They heard a tread on the stars, then the door swung open and Redmond Clarke entered. A careless, free-and-easy exterior, a gentlemanly bearing. Undeniably handsome, if one admired the style Louise professed to despise ? blonde mustache, indolent-looking eyes, and eery brown hair. < T i 1 Ai.? ???? >" I " nave yuu ueuru mo uovo, ioui<? i tie asked, as he threw himself, with easy ?race into the depths of a comfortable ihair, and pushed back his heavy hail from a broad white forehead. "No. I didn't guess they dealt in mch a commodity in thiB qniet place," ?aid Blanche. "Perhaps it isn't local news," suggested Louise, idly winding some bright worsteds, while Redmond Clarke noticed ihe contrast between the glowing colors xnd her snowy fingers. "Yes, it is local news with a vengeance. A prophecy uttered by a seer sixty years ago regarding this town is on :he eve of fulfilment." "Please explain," said both, with jrowing interest. " To-morrow night this hotel, known is the Cocassett House, and a space of ;wo miles from it, in all directions in:lnded, is to sink, and instead of the inmbited village, the morning sun is to 186 over a broad expanse of water, vliich has covered the doomed inhabitin ts." " Pshaw I" Baid Louise, impatiently. "We were unfortunate in our selecion of a spot to rusticate," pursued Redmond, watching Louise closely, without seeming to do so. "We came lere to escape being bored by fashionible society. If we are swallowed up >y the minature flood aforesaid, society rill be rid of us, whioh would be a loss >n both sides." "Perhaps we had better pack our ranks and leave on the strength of this hreatened danger," said Louise, with luiet sarcasm. "Suppose we make a short visit to Uhdale and return?if the place still itands- -when the dangerous period has lapsed," laughed Blanche. "There's the dinner bell," and the mnverflation ended somewhat abruptly. The trio descended to the quiet, cool lining-room, and took their seats at the ;able. "It is said that the first part of the nrophecy has been literally fulfilled," a gentleman was saying, as they entered. "We may reasonably expect the rest to be true also." "What are the circumstances?" inquired a middle-aged lady. "I have heard only the last part of the story." "I will tell you. Sixty years ago a traveler stopped here at a hotel, where Ll--~ or?rl artnrorrarl Tinarrl HUB UJIO uuw oittuun, (iuu ^0?evu _ md lodging for a fortnight. But the Srflt morning he made his appearance with a face -white with horror, and informed the landlord that he conld not stay as ho first intended. He narrated that during the night it had been unfolded to him that a horrid murder had been perpetrated within the walls of the building a short time past, and that, as a curse, all the children afterwards born here should die in infancy. Further,that a new hotel should be erected on the site of the one then standing, in fifty years, and in sixtv years the hotel and part of the town should be engulfed, as a further lenthening out of the onrso." The middle-aged lady looked much impressed. "All this happened where we notv are." Paris Exposition I PALACS OP THE TBOCAD&RO?RH ' ' ' " Yes, the Oocassett Hons? now stands on the spot where the dire prophecy was uttered, and we now wait anxiously for the final consummation." " Have they made allowance in their reckoning for leap year ?" flippantly inquired a youth who sat opposite the serious gentleman. "You should not j est under the shadow of a great calamity," Baid the first impressively. rearardine the youthful unbe liever severely through his glasses; then to the lady?" the traveler was observed to have jet black hair the night before, in the morning it was snowy white." Part of the people at the table looked Berions; part were amused. Among the latter was Redmond. His eyns twinkled with suppressed amusement, but he concealed it Blanche and Louise bad been interested listeners to the narrative, growing somewhat dignified by the discussion at the dinner-table. "You see how much foundation lies beneath this apparently idle gossip. I believe discretion is the better part of valor on our pari" Louise, from under her long lashes, ' shot a withering glanoe at the man who ' loved her, but did not deign an answer. She could not make out this man. She believed that sometimes she half despised him. " I believe I shall take the stage for ' Ashdale," announced Redmond the next afternoon, looking at liis watch. " Have a little business there to which I wish to < attend."- - . . > ] Louise flashed a quick glance from < her large dark eyes. < " What! going to leave us to take care i of ourselves?" said Blanche^ "We i want you to help buoy us up when the water rises." ; r ; "Oil shall return to-night. I have < no idea of being absent from such an ' interesting adventure," he replied. 1 "That ifl, if I can positively see the gentleman I am seeking just five min- I utes. Good-afternoon, ladies," and he bowed himself out of the room grace 1 fully. 1 "There ! I am not surprised at this j | action on the part of Redmond Clarke," ' ^ said Louise. "He will not come back j1 here to-night. I say, as I have said be- j' fore, he is a cowarJ." "Why, Louise, this move of his has . nothing to do with the superstitious tale we have just heard." " I believe it has." The secret desire to think and believe high and lofty J things of his name, drove her to sudden j anger at any suspicion of the opposite, j 1 ft Whoever knew one of these blue-eyed, j i.i?i i.- -i- - -i i._ i < uiunae-muuutcueu uiwu wuu mtu u > of true courage, "and she looked any thing < but a feeble character herself as she' < paced the floor rapidly, her eyes flash- ' iug indignantly with the intensity of I passion to which she had wrought her- self. < "Take care," said Blanche,warningly, i1 in a low voice. "You remember Hamil- j ton Belmont saved my life at the risk of ; his own. He was none of your heroiclooking men." J "You will find that Redmond Clarke is not a second Hamilton Belmont. If I i could know for a certainty that he ran , away from any danger, threatened or t real, I should never again allow him to , touch even my finger tips. I should | feel so humiliated that such a man had , ever dared to ask for my love." |, " Don't judge too harshly ? too i j hastily," said her friend, gently. You < knew that Redmond Clarke and Louise , Rand were fitted to make each other j happy oould the latter have the mi6ts of , doubt cleared from her wilful eyes. ( Clarke had really intended to return ] to the Cocassett House as he promised, | ( but the gentleman whom he sought was I ^ nhnant anrJ t.hft last fitncrPi lflffc hftforc hip I . ?-V. ~ O j return. i Ashdale was a primitive, unambitious j town. Its only connection with the great I world -was the regular stage. Its hills j rnd valleys had never yet echoed with j the shrill whistle of the locomotive. ; He paced backward and forward on i the piazza of the quiet little hotel where he was to pass the night, under the poetic skies of a fine evening, thinking of Louise Rand. Her hnughty imperiousness had a charm for him. He smiled to himself as bethought, "She will thoroughly believe now what rhe suspected when I left her, that I should not return to-night." He was prouder than she. There was a depth beneath that indolent exterior she had not sounded ; and because she had doubted him? she whom he loved?he would not deign to inconvenience himself to gain her apnwraol A mon Tnif.Vi lend inliprpnt. K*"'"" ? | haughtiness would have acted differ- , ently. ( He retired early and was soon in a i deep slumber. It did not prove refresh- i ing. A feverish, reBtless dream 'wreath- ; ed in and out of his brain. He saw i Louise suspended over a waste of waters : clinging to something that threatened ' every moment to snap with her weight, ! and she be engulfed forever. Then the scene shifted, and he saw as plaihly as if it were reality the building where he had left her .enveloped itTname, and amid the ones of frantio men and women, Louise in her white night robe at a window where the flames were rapidly olosing round her, reaohing out to him with wild shrieks for help. He woke 3uildings, .1878. 7ET SIDE OF THE SEINE. with the agony of the scene. Perspiration was starting- from every pore. He sprang out of the bed ana threw up a window. The night was sweet and fair as when he retired, with the added glory of the full moon, in the fuller light of which the stars were paling their modest brightness. Over the fair landscape were flung lengthening, sleeping shadows of tall trees, shrubbery, and homeliko cottages in their inclosure. . The scene calmed, sobered him, bnt did not dissolve the hurried impression TTTon A 0 ul uaugcr* ,tt oo hid uicaiu u Yraiixujg i \ He tried to smile and pat it away as the offspring of a diseased imagination. Bat the vivid borror of the scene stood before his vision with too much of reality. an<< he turned to dress with quick, nervous haste. The moon shone directly into his room and its light was allsnfficient. He was only four miles from Woodville. He could walk t hat distance. He could not rest with this horrible impression Upon him?something might be even now happening. He let himself out noiselessly at the front doOr, and commenced a rapid walk. The church clock tolled the henr?twelve. He would reach there in less than an hour. What if he should find his dream realized ? He was a good walker, and the distance between him and "Woodville rapidly lessened. As he drew near he began to feel a reaction?indeed, almost Inclined to turn back. He came sud3enly upon the village, lying serene and Uwnln AM PA. luvcij UUU91 HMD iauvua^uv* auu w sassett House, to which his gaze was directed, loomed up large and tall among the quiet cottages around, and some stately elms threw their protecting iadows over its white walls. Ah 1 what is that ? The horror of the Iream is repeated? a broad, angry sheet of flame suddenly bursts from the windows of the east side of the building i [t is not far from the room occupied by the two girls. "Merciful heaven!" burst from his lips. " The fire must hare made terrible headway inside I" He rushed up the steps and rang the bell violently, while his voice sounded on the stillness with the most horribly ominous words ane can hear in the dead of night, " Fire I Fire 1" The house was aroused in a moment. Partly dressed persons of both sexes rushed wildly along through the hallB, which were filled with suffocating smoke. The fire had the upper hand. There was little time to save aught but precious lives. Kedmond, who had at once opened ;he door with his latch key, rushed up jtairs to the room which his friends ocjupied, but was horrified to find the passage in flames. "Good God," he moaned, "how shall I rescue them?" Be rushed out again and joined the jrowd who had collected under Louise's window. No sound issued from the room. Perhaps they were already suffocated. Redmond shouted; no answer. I Two men went hastily for a ladder; it1 would be an eternity before they re- I ;urned. Meanwhile they were in the I jArr iiiwfl nf dfiftth ! A tall .tree rose I irm and grand near the window. Rednond flung hie coat on the dewy grass ind ascended it quickly. How, he could iot tell, but he gained a projecting oranch, threw up the windows and vaulted into the room. He was a clever gymnast, but in his hours of amusement io never dreamed of this terrible need, rhe room was full of thick smoke that llmost stopped his breath. The girls ay unconscious in a sleep that in a few nomenta more would be eternal. He saught the first one, and supporting her ight form in one arm, with the other he rided his downward descent, and placed Jie unconscious form in the hands outit retched below. The lurid light showed ;he still face of Louise. Till then he iad not known which one he had rea;ued, for he had purposed to save both, >r die in the attempt. This had been ;he work of a moment. It was only that af another to reascend, perform again the brave deed, and give to trembling irms the other unconscious form. Redmond Clarke h. i a large reserve power in his organization; but his real jtrength, physically, was far from enormons. The need for the exercise of his tremendous will being over, he tottered xnd fell insensible a few rods from the spot where the two girls lay on some bedding that had been thrown out from the burning house. Kind neighbors were making preparations for the removal and accommodate ? il,? T.nnioo nndnrt.hfl tlUIl Ul tUODUilCXQID, MMV.W reviving influence of the night air, gasped once or twice, and then slowly unclosed her eyes. She looked around an the burning building and the disordered scene with a Btrange, unreal sensation. She rose Blowly to a sitting position, and saw Redmond lying still as death on the dewy greensward. The flames leaped and roared, and the harmless Bilvery moonlight paled before their lurid, wrathful gleam. "How did I come here?" asked Lonise, in a dazed, bewildered manner. " You have been carried out of this burning building, unoonsciotuB," said a gentleman standing near. " That person," pointing to Redmond; "saved you both. He has not spoken since." " Redmond Olarke 1" she said, half* dreamily. He was not here last night. > 1 ( ( 1 J J I 7 3 vi i Jri ?-i r? < r, < 1 -><ir ; . . J " ' ] ' , tij or.-'.-n* ' "'r 'j . It . I. . . . .... , ... m . ; i. i . , ! ...lii,. . ' Jl Ho went to Ashland to escape the flood," 1 and again sank back unconscious. j I The three were earned to the same ' house, and in a few days, the girls ra- 1 covered their usual health. Redmond's 1 recovery was slower. He had not robust health, and the anxiety and extra exertion of that terrible night, coupled with a. cold taken while lying on the damp grass threw him into a fever, from which ne recovered slowly. The two girls attended him with thankfulness for the privilege to show their gratitude for the service he had rendered. Blanche magnanimously refrained from reminding Louise cf the thoughts. to whioh she had given expression on that memorable day. Th'e^e was no need. Louise remembered with sharp regret for the injustice. In Bedmona's eye she seemed to have developed into. a.. new character; she was so gentle, so womanly. The elixir of life peemed to emanate from her presence. The undercurrent of her thoughts ran thus: "Can I ever admire enough his noble ootir age?" She wondered how he came tnerd ; on that night. He had not' returned when she retired at a late boor, but-tne l matter had not been mentioned between 1 them. In his weak state the pbyBioian forbade the least excitement, . 1 One day she stood looking at him as i he seemed to slumber on a low lounge, ' to which he had been removed from nia ] bed. "I never thought he would prove > such a hero," she said,' half aloud." "I 1 see now how utterly false are appear- 1 ances." She touched, his forehead light- t ly with her soft palm, and then was turn- > < ing to go, but a clasp of his large white 1 hand detained her. : ' - ' ? "I have heard your words;" he said, 1 looking into her flushed face and nn- t steady eyes calmly, steadily. "Will you ? sit a moment beside me?" { She obeyed the request. The inhef- 1 ent power of his nature was rising to 1 the surface, and a stronger individuality i * 1-? ii-.ii J-li. t tiian ner own was muitmg iw?u ibh < above mere physical weakness. e " Will you say that you love me, Louise?" :>i The qnestion was low, steady and firm. The answer came lower, and with a slight qoiver in the tone?"I love you." "I am not exacting a debt of gratitude. Do you lovo me of your own sweet will ?" i . She looked at him. A new atmosphere seemed to surround him. He was not to her the Redmond Clarke of old. She reached her other hand for him to clasp. "I don't love you through gratitude. If you had saved the life of my greatest enemy I should have admired and loved you as well." She was noble in her surrender, as she had been conscious in her doubts. "At last, at last," he said, and with her hand in his he glided into a gentle slumber. Afterwards he told her of his dream and midnicrht walk. She was puzzled, c "Ah, Redmond, we can truly say with t Hamlet, tbat , t " 'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' " "Well, we had a fire instead of a flood," said Blanche, who had been gladdened by the turn of affairs. "I t suppose we shall have to call that the r fulfilment. What did the story mean, ' anyhow ?" c "Half fiction, half truth, like hun- 1 dreds of other things," said Redmond. ( "I shall never regret the weeks spent at a Woodville?they brought me the hap- t piness of my life." And his eyes met those of Louisa in a \ tender, happy smile. c = s Musical Animals. j The fabled feasts of Orpheus are t not, perhaps, so wondrous as they at e first appear, says Leeds Mercury. Certain notes, for example, sounded on 1 a flute or other wind instrument, will cause a dog to set up a lamentable howl, \ evidently from the pain it produces, t either in the ear itself, or the nerves a connected with it. The war horse seems 1 to derive new life and vigor from the j sound of the drum and trumpet; and at j a the circus, two horses will not pace t regilarly without music. Rampant t bulls have likewise, in several instances, r been calmed in gentleness by music, e Of this musical feeling in oxen, Mr. i Southey gives a singular instance in his a letters from Spain. The carts of Co- t runna make so loud and disagreeable a u creaking with their wheels, from the c l -if _:i a.i a WUUb UI till, luub tuo jjurciuui uuw c issued an order to have them greased; but it was speedily revoked, on the petition of the carters, who stated that the oxen liked the sound, and would not draw without its music. Even fish, upon good authority, independent of the amphion and the dolphin, and of the old harper, who, as the ballad has it, "harped a fisb out of the salt water," are said to have shown si^ns of being affected by music; and seals orowded to hear a violin, as we are told by Mr. Laing, in his voyage to Spitsbergen. Sooresby, junior, also tells ub that music, particularly a person whistling, draws them to the surface, and induces them to stretch their necks to the utmost extent so as to prove a snare, by bringing them within reaoh of the shooter. ON A BAFT LN THE TBOPICf ' ' '' '' ' i till -L ; - ; t XhrilllU Adrentnre of an Escaped ' slllaa Cffnrlet?T weof HU Csamu DM MUerably at 8ea~Tbe Sari JBeacaed. by, the Crew of aa ia? Bar It. .. ( t<" V khpi arrived in Ne# YbA *ec6nfly j Brienos Ajreer, by way bf1 M&fet ihQ\fir tbat ohiFeb/llyleliten -200 n off the Brazilian1 coast her crew 30T6red a raft, upon which waaa ma the laststages of exhaustion* The Df the Carrie Long ?ook. htar off brought him to -NewXork- Jhis i fchu?.s%ved by the merest ohance fn horrible deathj is' an affilfctie yc aolpred' man, abont tWenty-fire j of age. His name i8 Manuel France intf he' is a Brazilian; thongh h? Poised to tell to what portion.cl -the pirehe belongs. Two Tears ago he xmvioied of a petty theft initio Jam rod vu sentenced to & penal sem of five years on the Island of. Ferns ie Noronha. On this arid rock, Death the burning rays of an eqnati mn, he worked in thd dfaam-gi whosefiagging energies were 'oonsl ly stimulated by prods from the bayo: if their soldier guards. After a y< experience of this horrible life Frar so determined^o escape or die in th< By good conduct ahd strict obedi< be obtained the position of serean the house of one of the officers of settlement. At the end of two year bad, with the assistance of two com) ions, collected a small store of pn ions, a few bits of oordag^, ahd a F ?f ah old sail.' These were conyB; ly night, to one of the ihariy'ba rocks forming th'e Fernar/do1 ?fe Norc [jroup. This rock they had reached swimming, and here tb?y also eolleo from the drift on the oeaoh,(&jqa&r >f bamboo joints, from which . they xmstructed a rnde rait , apout feet square and two feet thick., 'A si mast, stepped at one dnd of the fl supported their bit of .a paiL' an broken oar formed their sterling'ap tour.' ' ' "" ' L The escape was effected oh a f night, and' tihieywerd waited'from lated island by a light breeze; wl i.ey fondly hoped would carry, tl io Gape St. Boque, 210 mil^ai It daylight Fernando de. Norpnha 3ut a cloud in the horizon, th'e"bn iad, died out, and the intrepid Voya< ay becalmed, with the long, hean swell of the Atlantic threatening Jemolition of their frail raft. y Pr6m Irafc they suffered for want of watei ichich; their anpply was i . very lijni Fheir provisions became- thoroug la to rated with salt Wter and eal ;hem increased their thirst/ On hird day one of the party wm p lated by a fever, and on the fourth lead body fcfid from1 the little raft, vas seized by the sharks that lurked leath it end waited for the ptey thai lnerring instinct toldthemmuat so< ir later be theire. On tfye,evening he succeeding day a terrible sfc lnrl^ theUt^le raft hither and th.it1 it times completely submerged bent ;he hitige waves.' Francesco clung t )ox that was lashed to the raft ar ships, and his companion citing to nasfc. In the darkness ajjreat nisi Vaterj- ? GuSpphsg oi- W90d| roguish tola. Francesco .fchafchis c aanion had gone, and that the sh> lad caught (mother victim., 0 w For five dayB more the raft floate< he mercy of. wind and Waves'; bul hese days Franoesbo knows little, yas without food or water, and periods of unconsciousness. On norning of the tenth day as the Oa Long came bearing directly down u rim, he was barely able to utter a ha )ry, and to feebly wave a bit of : orn from hia shirt. As boat from ?ark,neared the raft two sharks left ihadow and .. darted swiftly a^ tVhen the rescued man was' placed ;he deck of the bark he was nnabk itand, but in a feeble pantomime 1 jed for wat?r;;::'Al gill of water wured down his swollen throat, t lalf an hour afterward, as much m nixed with gin, revived him bo that vaa able to swallow a few mouthful? tonp. His body was covered with i ling sores, and he was a most pith ?bject; but his recovery was rapid, vas perfected long before his arr lere., " When they arrived at Matanzas, F: sesco Was much alarmed at the prose ind questions of the customs offic Jpon hearing his story, the Braz? :onsul demanded that be should be ivered to the local officials, and held ail until his case could be commi lated to the Brazilian authorities ; i?l cniA . n Vn air hfl Jttpu, ?OiA DOUA t *1V| ? , lerves bis liberty alter the efforts nade to obtain it. I saved him fi leath, and I'm not going to consign ] o a prison. You can't have him, 'on don't dare take him from under I lag "?pointing to the stars and stri hat flew from the mizzen peak. Francesco was brought to New Y( Yhen rescued he had a few pieoee Brazilian money with him, and a ps ontaining the warrant for his trans] ation to Fernando de Noronha, sig >y a Brazilian magistrate. The House Where Lincoln Died. " Mr. Peterson," said a Post repo: o the very handsome and very gen aanly night clerk at the National Ho ' I see a paragraph going the ron if the press that the man in wl louse President Lincoln died asks Government to take it off his hand everal times its value. Is there ruth in the statement?" " As the man who owned the hous "ProoiflAnt Titnonln Hied, him lied eight years ago, and thus resig ill right, title and interest in and to >roperty in question, I think I am ifled in saying there is no truth in tatemenfc." "You area son'of Mr. Peterson, ate owner of the house referred to!' 1 'I am. The house cost my fa ?hen it was built $13,000, and we ad ised it at public sale about a m< go, bidding it in ourselves at $5,i IVe were willing to take half its >rice, but did not feel inclined to a Jly give it away. We are very wil o sell it to the Government or to i >ody else, but have not asked and lot intend to ask it to purchase from xcept in the same general- mannei nvite buyers through the medium ol dvertisement. So far from my fat wishing to obtain a good price from luthorities for the house, he mad lying request to his children, inould they see fit to sell the prope hey would carelully abstain from n ioning the fact that it was the hous ehiah Mr. "Lincoln died. He was loyed at the publioity which that c fave his residence, and studiously soi 0 avoid doing anything in that con: ion which might result in pecun )enefit to himself. I was a small bo ;he time of Mr. Lincoln's death, ;ras offered $10 for a very little piec t towel which was stained with som lis blood, and I well remember fath ndignation at the mere idea. Ti ins been a good deal published ;n n ;nce to this mattei, and it is very sindand unjust, to say the least, to 1 dead man out of his shroud to sm aim with the filth of falsehood, the < affect of which is to wound and an is children.? Washington Pott. i i:-ixruMg i Bazzsaao?~-H?n^ r-fy. . : ?> Ariu'S A ?afc'offloe?4he?j?p-ijoiterffch ~-3 ',#M The retired Hst?Pocpleabed. ridu A false scent?A counterfeit penny. , 7 .Nearlyangl<jf ckl<5li?^eitdem and % cclfci mv* '*""1WZ attn\ djjf.! Scales that'.^f^et^a'gM&tW dust are used in the PhilStf^fi?aK?l. men ' Thecal' production of " China is and reckoned at 8,000,000 tons ainiiiiUy. mm, : H?r >ma Yoji; dty ' Long Island and New v; njng JTraMff.' : V"'-J 'r:'J ?' >--anm ears It ig gaid the ladies of th& upper class ^V in some ttate'tjf'South America chew 1 re" *tobaoeo.' v'; n:>5<'I'm* rxltl* . |f??: a Thd H^aa& 1 wstatt!?<*tatMff' more isalmon tbanalf fbfe'^tl*?fwatirtPin the ?Jg known Wortd.w ^Trm^ovr ^ indo Thehairpbi'erdpbf tMS oountrjrequals be. $10,000,000 ^mnally.' The?urly icrop is VriftT Sown in D6Q8. iJirnj; 'jt\ I ."ZB shg, ' The number of individual* entitled to ant- wear the crow of the Frenoh.; legion of < nets honor ia about. 67,0001: ,&r fl! ' Therb &rono fever thsa.'14;00ft wash l0e*" crwomen at work on the bauka of the aat; Manfeanatety in Spain* || A good?man wiHbedaing goodwhercf-T 5oeveriK? i?*: His trade; ia a.ewqpdund jofccbwily and snlhymO B'?0 ^ While out hunting, neap J5n?xville, i &n. Tenn., a pack of. honndfjatfayk^^ flock ma* of. eheep, apd ki%d> them. | ieoe: i In 6elootin#r akopbiod^.sev^oioen, a fed, .womaard^eiw tjrentyrren five, .good ha$it%ai$ man. ijt >nJ* A ponlfary expert? ^spw^^Jiaine by m the ?PP.. Emperor WlDiatn gels along-with fonr Lten' and a half fihgieW %>"*? Hfl&t Land. tort HalMria forefttfgfer'b^We* -'iff^eQrly ??V' Hii<y yee?agfo,- 'i ??lt ic w? njfrrm ..'- "?39 ? * j a ?toy Ha3eH{!?r;<rf Bak8fcfield, "M P - Maae., ftgedeighty-4ightf has fceeK electl4rV townclark fifty-e^tt,timefcj?d for ? ^the.last tl^yeawaoliAiyote^ been a<jlii oast agaiart.hi^vilair>v .: ;.J. w< iem i .^When jtemp^^tookA.flMHk" ??ja /f. ray.- > ? Sookjh phte?h^#;fV Btop andjemem- J wae ^^WWS *Z mm. tllfi. Arinfpg ^ ted! ^dn'SS^^the^.1 ^Ifc^afeurdly >hly high?6verrthiag'>M an--; thlr 'OOwitry? dag pleiase sena!me-Sw.P;y:irMv?v ki-.b tha- : BiMfber (apropos of cartostfrirlteard): ros~ "Yes- great improvement Indeed, sir, bis since you took car^rJWia oL^Uyyia.' Of Mid course ysu/ WiUofcr .MPtfwr htottle?" Ctatainar x4rUj)^?'t^n^^Ten't LS- fmmMk mitZ. P be^^ieaj*n~he Is well iwjquainted with t-dteflriati F* Is aWo sure to hiivo One m hS'lread.? y ?. * 'Philadelphia Bulletin. ' ***** \ ,ito "^0 ttjere^a another rii^^^^^^ount i?rS tm^ l2e^wnnft%''^mni^thf" mAnMftwj hnfritr- AM't-tell hO\v itvot on I at fire/f hot*. f moJw . \ of '> "Vat Uaeiister ls6gttdg?j^< 'says He Frenchman: Her? I readim's^ newstad papers cat a man commit a murder, who the -was committed for trial aad senwmmitxrie ted himself, .to ? repprtair. ~ No wonder pon every zing in Amfrira is. done, by comirae mittee." ' fag, Hie dueling pistols used' by. Aaron the ptirt ih hti duel'ieith'Alextitider Hamil* its' toirare said to be in the 'pbeAfcsaitfn of a ray.- citizen of Louisville. TheJ"frere left to on hisa by hfcunolvafc anhr-; ?fiber, who ? to himself purohaSedthemfTomBarr for >e&r $500, It is assarted that jthey have been was used in.eleven duels. . Vfc< m<*? John Boach, the shipi boflder. de0 ; siring to .ooqgmtnlate Pom Pedro on the al starting of the new Brazilian line, pur? chased a phonograph from ,Edison, *??" made his little speech into it and^ shipf ped it on the Eio de Janeiro. "When it ?n(j reacW the capital IJf th& Brazilian emlval pire the machine wffl; -'of course, be unwound. i i.^dr ran. o |Qce A powerful bar magnet, in' connection era with a Grove battery, has been snccesefully used in London in extracting a (jg. chip of steel from the eye of a mechanic. 1 in When the magnet was four inchee from mi. the eye, the chip of s$eel sprang from the lens where it had lodged to the ^e. inner service of the oorner, whence it jj0 was removed without much difficulty. com An . Ohio stumper, while making a him speech, paused in the micU$ of it and and exclaimed : "Now,.gentlemen, wfcat do that yon think?" Instantly a man rose in ipes the assembly, and withxme eye partially So closed, with a strong Scotch" brogue, >rk. replied: "I think, sir, I do indeed, sir > of I think if you and I were to stump the per country together we would tell more lies >or- than any other two men in the country,.. ned sir, and I'd not say a word myself during the whole time, sir 1" Quarrels, like thunder-storms, would end in sunshine if it were not for the determination to have the last word. If you are scolded or critioiaed just bite ti 7our lipa and keep still, and it .Will soon 71? be over; but if jou retort you, are in ,t?|? "for three years or the war." Many a nda man who pours himself in torrents of rain for five minutes, and then breaks out into the sunshine 01 gooa iemp?r again will settle down into a three days' ' dismal drizzle if he is weak enough to ^ insist on having that last word: Laelf An exhibition of tfce phonograph was ,ne<3 advertised as part of a benefit perforate anee in the Grand Opera House, San jns. Francisco. Sol Smith Russell made an the a^<^ress explanatory of Edison's, invention, and then a box was placed on a . tjie | table. Enssell turned a crank, and from i the box came talk in tones like those of lijier various publio men well known in the VQr_ city. The audience soon discovered mth *kat an actor, concealed under the table, OQO was giving' imitations. Almost a riot ?nni ensued, the people refusing to view the deception as a good joke. ling If civilized people were ever to lapse my- into the worship of animals, the cow . do would certainly be their chief goddess, us, What a fountain of blessing is a cow ! ?~ ! Sha is the mother of beef, the source of L WO ? f an butter, the original cause of cheese, to ther Ra7 nothing of shoe horns, hair combs, the and upper leather. A gentle, amiable, !e a ever yielding creature, -who has no joy in that her family affaire which she does not share rty, with man. We rob her of her children, nen- that we may rob her of her milk, and e in we only care for her that the robbery an. I may be perpetuated. ? Household ?ent! Words. ight The Indian or Brahmin bull, often uec- called the zebu, extends over southern iary Asia and the Eastern Islands, is also y at found in Eastern Africa, and is common ond I to the northwest Himalayas. They are e of venerated by the Hindns, wno oojeci 10 e of slaughtering them, but use them in ler's harness, and they will travel about aere ' thirty miles a day. These oxen have )fer- ! pendulous ears, and are distinguished un-1 by a fatty, elevated hump upon the pull I withers, which sometimes weighs fifty irch j pounds, and when, properly cooked is jnlv j said to be delicious. The flesh of the inoy animal is not, however so palatable as I that of the common oz.