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r B i LIFE'S HEROES. Not alone is he a hero who is brave where cannon thunder, , Or with ardor hastes to mingle in the camag of the strife; Greater deeds by noble soldiers oft eliei naught of wonder, For th? field whereon they act them is the battlefield of life. Tis not always he whose name is blazoned fair in song and story, Who most merits from his fellows glowing tributes to his might; Oft a higher, purer hero acts a part unknown to glory. Acts it simply as his duty, struggling bravely in the right. trilling venture?, deed- uncommon, feats of rash, instinctive daring, Do not always mark the presence of a courage re:u ana i rut-; Better far the reasoned labors of a heart no efforts sparing, First, to know what act is proper, then that net, with strength, to do. Call him hero, if he wish it, who in storm or conflagration Risks his life in deadly peril to preserve a * v - friend or foe. Yet the deed, though brave, may cost hiin far less trouble and vexation Than the slightest manly effort to restrain his passion's flow. E'en ignoble men, and hardened natures, coarse and wholly brutal. Sometimes spurred by love of plaudits, seem to net a noble role. But their aim is base and selfish, and their claims will e'er prove futile, If they wish their names, as heroes, fairly wrought on Honor's scroll. See the oft-recurring struggles?daily corns' . bats, trials bitter, . s; ' That beset the faithful Christian, striving for celestial crown: Is not he who here is victor far more worthy, better, fitter To receive our cheering plaudits?win a lasting bright renown? , Some there are, both high and lowly, who repine noi wnen iney re .sumi-en, Cheerful while their spirits quiver 'neath affliction's heavy rod. These are heroes, brave and true ones, and their names are ever written, Not on fleeting human records, but in vol^ umes penned by God. ?.4. Merlin, in Boston Pilot. MISS~KATE'S AUNT. "Yes, he's just the man for Miss Kate," said Mrs. Pierrot, who was not a Frenc hwoman, notwithstanding her name, but only a Frenchman's wife. From long association, and from listening to that gentleman's conversation, she had imbibed French principles to a sullicient extent to make her quite approve of the iuariage de convt nance, and Mr. Pierrot, as his American neighbors called him, quite agreed with his wife's remark. In fait, the lirst suggestion that the man in question, who was Mr. Hugh Sherbourne, should marry " Miss Kate," had come from M. Pierrot; and had, after some familiarizing herself with the idea, come to be a fixed fact in the mind of Mrs. Pierrot. "Miss Kate" was a lady of rather xmcertain age, whom those interested in her thought had remained "Miss Kate"' ouite Ions enough. She lived in a pretty little cottage not far from the Pierrots, and was indeed their landlady; and Mr. Slierbourne was their rich and rather eccentric lodger, who had met Miss Kate once or twice in Mrs. Pierrot's parlor, and had become curiously interested in her because of a real or fancied resemblance which she bore to a former friend of his?which former friend, as the Pierrots had taken pains to discover, was an.object of an unhappy attachment. As for Miss Kate on first meeting Mr. Sherbourne, and being introduced to him, she had turned violently reil, then equally pale, aud had alto? ? gether shown such emotion and embarrassment that the Pierrots never had any doubt but that she had met her fate and had surrendered at discretion. From that hour the two matchmakers determined that Mr.Sherbourne should marry Miss Kate; and at once entered into various little conspiracies for forwarding their design. But the object was gained. Miss Kate had got into the habit of dropping into her neighbor's house quite like one r of the family, and being there she was frequently begged to remain to tea, and then, as the evenings was short, it was too dark for a lady to go home |T~ * " - alone, even so short a distance as that between Mrs. Pierrot's house and Miss Kate's. Naturally then, Mr. Sherbourne being of a gallant style, notwithstanding I** his disappointment in love, always accompaniedherjand thus a friendship ?p which was an excellent good substitute for a more romantic passion, according to the Pierrots, gradually sprang up fy between these two amiable people. From walking home with Miss Kate, h Mr. Sherbourne soon came to calling on her of his own accord, and everything went on in a manner to all appearauces quite satisfactory to the Pierrots. And to that remark of Mrs. Pierrot's, with H which this brief chronicle begins, Mr. Pierrot responded in a tone of intense CUli Y XC 1/lVll. "Of course, as I have always said, cheri, he is the very man for Miss R?^\ Kate; but tell me, mon ami, has he asked lier yet; has she told you anything absolute?" "She tells me anything?eveiything, Kpj I think," said Mrs. Pierrot, musingly, "but she has never said explicitly, in BRSp^.. so many words, that she is going to marry him, or even that he has plainly asked her to do so, yet I have got the ? impression, somehow, that they are enSllliPl Hum-m!" said Mr. Pierrot reflectively. Jn his country, he could not help thinking, young ladies, especially elderly young ladies, were not so fc mysterious; and if they had an engagement to announce, were apt to be rather in a hurry to publish the fact, instead E* of keeping it a dead secret. Mrs. Pierrot continued: ps_ "The fact is, L suppose, h uepenua somewhat on that aunt of Miss Kate's, of whom we hear now and then. My ? impression is that the aunt's consent will be necessary before Miss Kate will even listen to a proposal, far less ? promise to marry any one. I know Katie sets great store by her aunt?it is always what will auntie say?and will auntie like it?or would auntie be willing I should do so and so? " " Well, well! I wish this mysterious auntie would?what you call it??put ' in an appearance," laughed Mr. Pierrot " anyhow, I hopeshe won't be the means of keeping Miss Kate from making s good match?probably her last chance too." SsT A few days later Miss Kate cam< over quite early in the day?an un ?*' \ usual thing, for her calls were generallj made in the evening, and ;is soon as Mrs. Pierrot saw her she felt that i crisis of some kind had come. " What is it, dear ? " she asked wit! the quick sympathy natural to th( j?- ^ feminine temperament on such oc casions. " Something has happened, J i am sure." "Yes, dear Mrs. Pierrot," answered Miss Kate all in a flutter, "my aunl has come and I have left them to gether." "He has proposed then?actually proposed?" "Oh, yes, long ago," Miss Kate laughed, and added with a blush, " and was accepted too." " And you never told me!" murmured Mrs. Pierrot reproachfully. " Jiiy Utitr X1JCI1U, X tuiuuu IrUUVil aunt came," said Miss Kate, deprecatingly. " And now you have left them to gether," said Mrs. Pierrot. "Well sh< won't be so mad as to refuse her con sent. She won't send him away." " Oh, no; she will never send hiir away any more," Miss Kate murmured k dreamily; and though the phras< } seemed extravagant to Mrs. Pierrot H she only smiled, and was careful not t< I intrude on her friend's happy musing* r except by an occasional sympathetic re pr mark. The timepassed,minutesintoquarter I hours, and quarters into hours, bul I Miss Kate seemed in no hurry to return U to her enamored swain. HP At last Mrs. Pierrot, who began tc get out of patience with her calmness, dreaminess, content?whatever it was ?said: "Kate, you do take tilings eoollv, I must say. I'm sure Hugh Sherbourne must bo tired waiting for you. lie has surely said all he could possibly have to say to your aunt by this time." 441 am not at all sure of that," Kate returned with a sparkle of mischief in her quiet, soft gray eyes. "My aunt is thought by many people to be a very lovely and charming woman." "Lovely and charming!" repeated Mrs. Pierrot with a toss of her head, figuring to herself as Monsieur would have said, some tyrannical old gorgon of sixty, " Pray, what may be her age? ?this lovely and charming relative of yours." "Aunt Nell will be twenty-one her next birthday," Miss Kate returned, ! deinurelv. in a small knot low behind, and their front hair is cropped sho t ami made in rings al' over tin; top of the head. The forehead is much less covered than it lias been lately. Among the list of summer fabrics are pale colored linens, silk gauzes, sate- ns, exquisitely tinted veilings, delicate French muslins, French foulards, always popular in Paris, Louisine silks, French organdi 's, cambrics and lawns, in all the beautiful new shades. There arc also novel Pekin gauzes, with colon d velvet and satin figures upon a diaphanous ground, and lovely tinted muslins, quite in the jardiniere style, to be made up for lawn parties, a la shepherdess, with "Watteau drapery, and lace and ribbon by the league, cascaded all over the dress. Bargaining With a Pump. Some thirty years ago an intemperate man was reformed by being refused one cherry. Penniless he went to the public house one morning where lie had squandered many a shilling, to get a drink " on tick." The landlady - ti-not liixi ;l uhllp "Twenty-one!" streamed Mrs. Pierrot. " Vou are laughing at me; it's impossible: why. you are yourself?" "Just thirty-one my last birthday," Miss Kate concluded, seeing that her friend had paused, unable to complete her sentence. " People are usually surprised at first; but the explanation is quite simple and natural. 1 was ten years old when Xell was born. You see we were a large family, and I was the first child of the eldest daughter, who, having married very young, made me a grownup niece to a baby aunt, and lots of fun it was, for I was lovely Nell's favorite nurse, and almost brought her up by hand, for poor grandma never recovered." Uv this time Mrs. Pierrot had somewhat recovered her breath. She started up hastily, put on a hat and mantle, and exclaiming, " I should like to see this wonderful aunt of yours,'"started at once for the front door, closely accompanied bv Miss Kate. As soon as they had reached the street, the latter continued. " I was just going to ask you to go with me and be introducer! to my i aunt?in fact, that was partly why I came over, you see, Xell was married at eighteen?." "Married!" exclaimed Mrs. Pierrot with another cry of astonishment, and insensibly her pace slackened?she was not in such desperate haste to reach .Miss Kate's house. " And is she still married, then?" *' "Well she hasn't divorced her husband, though she once thought of doing so. for there was a terrible misunderstanding between them, but that is hannilv made right now." ' And lie is still living?she's not a widow; the husband, I mean?" Mrs. Pierrot gasped out in great confusion, but Miss Kate understood her. "She is certainly not a widow," she answered. "Ifow interesting; tell me all about it. There's no need for us to hurry so,'* and Mrs. Pierrot's pace slackened still more; and by the time they had reached Miss Kate's house the matchmaking lady had learned much regarding the youthful aunt, but not sufficient to prepare her for the scene that met her gaze on entering the co/.v little parlor where sat IlughSherbourne and Miss Kate's aunt. A beautiful girl, or such she seemed, with hair of gold and eyes like purple violets, sat beside Mr. Sherbourne, and was indeed half embraced by his strong protecting arm, while his hand held both her two little snow-white hands within one strong clasp. The beautiful girl colored a little more deeply, but made no effort to draw away from her companion's embrace, while he laughed slightly, as he said by way of introduction: " Dear Mrs. Pierrott, this is my wife!" and in the same breath Miss Kate said, "And my Aunt Nell, dear Mrs. Pierrot." Later that day, when Mrs. Pierrot described the scene to her husband, his look of consternation afforded her some satisfaction; and when he said, "Nevertheless, mon amie, 1 still think he was just the man for Miss Kate," his cara sposa responded: "And so do I, my dear Pierrot!" ?St. Louis Illustrated Magazine. Insects Visiting: Flowers. Mr. A.W.Bennett and Mr. R. M. Christy have been reporting to the Linna-an society of London the result of their observations on the visits of insects to flowers. As respects preference for particular colors, Mr. Bennett has noticed among the Lepidoptera that seventy visits were made to red or pink flowers, five to blue, fifteen to yellow and five to white; the Diptera paid nine visits to red or pink, eight to yellow and twenty to white; Hyinenoptera alighted 303 times on the red or pink flowers, 126 on blue, eleven on yellow and seventeen on white (lowers. Mr. Christy records in detail the movements of seventy-six insects, chiefly bees, when engaged in visiting 2,400 flowers. He tabulates the same, notably the bees, decidedly and with intent confine their successive visits to the same species of flower. According to him, also, butterflies generally wander aimlessly in their flight; yet some species, including the Fritillaries, are fairly methodical in their habit. He believes that it is not by color alone that insects are guided from one flower to another of the same species, and be suggests that the sense of smell may be brought into play. Bees, he avers, | have but poor sight for long distances, I * a ii .,i. .1 4. , (if out see wen iinut uisuuii'ca. \jl fifty-live humble-bees watched, twentysix visited blue (lowers. Of tliese, twelve were methodic ii their visits, nine only irregularly so and live not at all; thirteen visited white flowers, whereof live were methodic and eight were the reverse ; eleven visited yellow , flowers, of which five were methodic and six were not; twenty-eight visited red flowers, seven appearing methodic, "nine nearly so, whiie twelve were the contrary. Setting Hens. This is the season when hens run , mad, and will not be comforted unless , they can hide away somewhere and sit day and night on a wooden nest-egg or an old door-knob. Several men were discussing this question in a grocery store one evening recently. A i man who owns a large flock of Dorkings remarked: "Not even an act of Congress can break up a settin' hen.' , 'Ever tried jammin' 'em under a bar[ rel an' pourin' water on 'em?" de; manded the man on the sugar barrel. "Yes," said the Dorking man, "I've , poured water on 'em till they grew web[ footed, like a blamed duck, and after! ward found 'em in an old coal hod settin'away on lumps o' coal." "Tie a i red rag round one wing," said a man ; who was eating cheese and crackers. . "That'll fix 'em." " Might's well offer 5 'em a chromo," said the Dorking man. i "I tied a whole red woolen shirt on t one last spring, an' dog my cats if she didn't make a nest of it an' set three 5 weeks on the buttons!" Then the ' grocer said it was time to close up, r and each man girded up his loins and . slowly filed out.?Ddriot Free Press. Mules in the Mines. x "When the new electric lights in the j J?ig Mountain colliery, near Shenan\ doah, were lirst put in operation, [ seven dazed and dazzled mules, which for live years had seen no brighter I luminary than a Davy lantern, I turned tail and lied into the depths of the mine. The workmen tell interesting stories about the habits of colliery mules, their toughness, their contentment, and their total depravity. Several months aero the lower levels in ' the largest colliery at St. Clair were ' flooded, work was stopped, and all the mules were hoisted to the surface. 1 More than a dozen of them had passed eleven continuous years in the mine, and had apparently forgotten that there was a world of grass and sunshine, for when they were turned out " to pasture they huddled together in evident alarm, and for a whole day did nothing but gaze at earth and sky. i The probability is that they were at first blinded by the glare?a common J experience with their kindred under ' existing circumstances. Just as they ? were beginning to enjoy their new life work was resumed in the mines, and 5 they went back to their old home in ' the darkness. After the wheat came up, on a Ken; tucky farm, a sleet storm covered the i field with ice. Before this melted a flood swept over, and the ice, rising to the surface of the water, pulled every , blade of wheat out of the ground and i carried it away. m FASHION NOTES. Scotch ginghams in greater variety than ever are largely importe.1. Foule cloth will be the rival of cheviots and twee Is this spring. Strapped shoos and slippers are worn for evening and houss dress only. Corn-blue pelisse cloth is largely imported ; its finish is soft but rough. The combination costume remains the marked feature in spring styles. Olive shades combine well with the new shades of strawberry, terra cotta and slirimn nink. Gold, silver and colored spotted nets ar(i occasionally -worn for veils, but they are not becoming. The oniy colored wrap worn by women of taste for walking costume is the Casbm re or India shawl. A new and very rich material for wedding or re -eption toilets is Ottoman velvet, plain or embossed, on a silk ground. Ribbons lined with colore.! satin are much u-ed for strings, and are found very useful and effective for the "ribbon roses" employe 1 as trimming upon many bonnets, instead of llowers or feathers. The colors of the two sides of the ribbon must harmonize well, or the good effect is lost. Very wide cape collars, after the. stylo of tlio.se worn by children, but made of richer laces, are found so dressy and becoming that they are now worn by ladies with even simple, everv-day costumes. With deep cuffs to match, collars, in fact, have become a very important feature of the toilet. Small girls wear their hair with the Vandyck front and Mowing back hair v?ry slightly crimped; for this the ha:r is parted across the crown, and all that part combed forward is cut short in a way very wholesome for growing hair, and falls in a straight bang. No ribbons are used. If curls are woin, they are ar anged in live very long thick froccn. iivnr 1hcir back hair IClUdUl IV U UOl/ IIKII, l of luscious ripe cherries on the liar, h& asked for but one. " Save your money and buy your own cherries," was her surly reply. " 1 will," lie said, and lie did. Tlis wounded pride forced him to rellect; reflection insured amendment. From that morning he was reformed The foil >wing story tells of a liannel weaver who also was induced by a surly answer to reflect and then to make a good bargain with a pump. This man had saved a guinea for the ? ,i:? purpose oi having a wnoie wci-u * uiasipation. lie began on Monday, spending three shillings per day for seven /lays; on the morning of the eighth day he was burning with thirst, but his money was gone. He went to the back door of the place where he had spent his guinea, to beg a pint on trust. Judy, the landlady was mopping the passage; he stood looking at Judy, with his cracked lips parched tongue and bloodshot eyes, expecting l.er (o ask him to take just a drop; but she did not, and he requested her to trust him for only one pint. With an indignant look of scorn and contempt she replied: "Trust thee! thou dirty, idle vagabond! Set a step in this house and I will dash this mop in thy face." The poor wretch hung down his head in shame. lie was leaning against a pump; and after a little study began to talk to the pump: ' Well, Pump," he said, "I have not spent a guinea with thee. Pump; wilt thou trust me a drop?'' lie lifted up the handle, put his burning mouth to the spout and drank his fill; this done, he again said to the pump: " Thank thee, Pump; and now, hear me, Pump. 1 will not enter a public house again for the next seven years; and, Pump, thou art a witness." The bargain was kept, and this man afterward became a respectable manufacturer, and often said it was a grand thing for him that Judy threatened to dash the mop in his face. ' Shooliu;* Fish in Fiji. Xear my house there is a rocky promontory jutting out some way into the sea, with a coral reef round its base; at high water there is some three fe.-t over this reef, and lishof all kinds come on it fevding. From the summit of this promontory?which is aboat seventy feet liigli? there is a eapiuu view of the reef, and as the clear water hides it no more than thougn it were covered by a >heet of plate glass, the lisli and their movements are plainly visible. From this elevated spot, armed with a Martini-Ilenrv rille, it does not require a very good shot to put a bullet over a lisli in the- water below. It is wonderful what destruction the concussion of the bullet with the water causes among a shoal of small fish; I have killed ninety-eight with one shot. The bullet only actually touched one or two; the rrst were completely stunned, and several had fieir eyes forced out. These ninetyeight lisli weighed twenty pounds. Mullet, that come past in great numbers, and keep on the surface, afford most excellent snots, una aru my most numerous victims. Sharks and other large fish, besides turtle, I have killed, but unless they are near the surface, so that they get tliefull force of the bullet, it is useless firing at them. I am for tunate in having an excellent retriever, who retrieves the dead lisli very well, though he runs some danger at times in lishingyuing sharks. Stinging rays grow to a gr< a* size out here, and one that I harpooned towed me in a small boat at a high i-p -ed. A curinis kind of worm, about six inches long. ;?nd of the thickncss of a piece of ordinary string, rises apparently from out of the coral reefs twice every year. They arv; railed halolo, and make their lirst appearance in October, which month the natives call " Halolo lailai," or "little balolo," as the worms appear again in vast numbers about November 2r>, and give that month the n ime of * Halolo 1 vu,' " great balolo " Tiie natives tell almost t > the day when these worms will appear, and, by keep ng men on mu iodmuil mm h mine and red scum which appears on the water just before the baiolo rise, rarely miss them. They appear about low water, covering the sea with a writhing, wriggling mas % As the tide rises they drift in great numbers shoreward, 'and are baled up liy tlie natives with small hand-nets. They are very excellent eating, but very rich. The Kijians devour huge quantities, and faithfully bear in mind tlHr baiolo proverb "K kua gona ni 1 alolo, me na lata sara;" which means, "If you don't eat baiolo now.it will b:; long time before you do."- - London F'u ht. The main wheel of a watch makes I four revolutions in twenty-four hours, or 1,460 in a year; the second, or center, twenty-four revolutions in twentyfour hours, or 8,760 in a year; the fourth wheel (which carries the second hand) 1,440 in twenty-four hours, or 525,600 in a year; the fifth, or scrapewheel, 12,964 in twenty-four hours, or 4.728,400 revolutions in year; while the beats or vibrations made in twentv-four hours are 388,800, or 141,912,000 in a year. A man breathes about eighteen times a minute and use3 3,000 cubic feet, or about 375 hogsheads of atf, per hour. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The yearly proluct of gold in California is from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. The lands in Texas capable of producing sugar are pla -ed at 1.000,00) acres. The otton mills of the South give employment to about 400,000 operatives. A meteoric stone, weighing a bun dred pounds, fell near the Italian village of Alliant'llo, causing a shock like that of a slight earthquake. The stone entered the ground some sevpn feet. Copper has been regarded as a very poisonous substance, but, after long Those old piscatorial pirate3, the sharks, ol'ten invade the Arctic, no doubt t .'injited by th * carcasses of the whales or seals and walruses left to rot by white men engaged in their pursuit. Natives, angling from their skin canoes in deep water occasional ly catch a sluggish shark who has engulfed the bait, but there is no use pulling against such a mountain of flesh and relying upon sheer strength to bring him up, and this t he Innuit Iza ik Walton fully knows, and overcomes his strength by sagacity. At every brisk pull by Mr. Shark, showing him to be irritated, the line is lowered to appease him, but cautiously hauled in again almost immediately, the shark slowly rising to this strategic manipulation, until, like a finny fool," he rests upon the surface of the water merely by the aid of the weakest lishing-line, when, with along knife, the fisherman dexterously dispatches Jiim by a well-directed thrust through the spinal cord. From their well-known voracity in warmer climes, it seems singular indeed that they do not oftener attack the native fishermen in their little skin canoes, but there is not a recorded or known instance of such attacks even on the w.st shore of Greenland, where they are most numerous, and where the natives catch large numbers of them? from 10.000 to 20,000 a y^ar, according to Dr. Iiink, Danish inspector of this coast for a long numl.er of years. The most usual method of catching these fish can hardly be said to be fishing at all. Near a hole in the ice a lighted to-c'i is placed, and two native.* stind on uppoaito sides of the !: 1 with two sharp hand-hooks, like deck hands of a steamer at the end of a chut ? waiting for merchandise, until the shark sticks his nose out, when he is treated in about tin same business-like manner as ho is hauled on the ice, where their carcasses oiten accumulate uy nunrireds, as this shark fishery when commenced is generally carried <>n through the whole winter. The cartilaginous hones aiv the f ivorite parts for food, a> the raw frozen li.-:h seems to have a depressing effect when long continued, and to it is attributed the dog disease of the North when fed to them, and which every few years carries off so many of t!ie<e useful animals.?Forest ml M. e im. Made Hlai C -azr. There recently died near Paries a man who h is had a very curious histoiy. Tiiirtv years ago this person, whose name was Koussot, was conilenmed t-> death at the Seine assizes f<;r tlr; murder of an old gentleman. Nr. Demoury. The case had excited considerable interest, and the court w is crowdc 1 with spectators. Among the persons standing immediately Sehind Jtoiis.s >t, who was ilanked by a pair of gendane;, was one Planchat, .in employe of the 1'rt s newspaper, who had somehow contrived to wriggle iiiinsclf int.) that position without attracting notice. Scarcely had the sentence Ik en pronounced wh-n I'laneliat, moved, as he afterward explained, hy an uncontrollahle impulse, passed the side of his hand over the prisoner's neck in imitation of the keen blade of the guillotine, at the same time emitting a whirring sound. Koussot instantly fell forward with a shriek of terror, and the bystiriders, indignant ;it this heartless and shocking act, ruslnd upon I'ianchat and roundly him. l'lanehat was subsequently condemned to two years' i.iprisonnr'iit. As for liis vi -tins, he <tewr recovered the shock, but renaincd insane until the day of his I -nth. 11e was pardoned by the miperor and outlined, first at Hieetre, imi afterward at Charenton, where lie las just expired. The unfortunate man was under the impression that he 'ial been actually beheaded in the Calais de .Justice, and when relating the story was in the habit of imitating Hie sound that haunted hint for thirty rears. From Death to Life. It seldom happen-; in real life that a foung lady three years after being envelop d in li<r burial shroud and placed in her eollin as dead becomes a Dright and luvppv bride, yet such a ronance has recently developed in Baltimore, whera -Miss Mary (Jrillith, a eaiitifid young la ly of about twentymo summers, was married to Mr. \*ivian Neale. Several years ago, when the young ady was residing in Cincinnati, she lad a terrible fall down a flight of itaiis and received injuries which were ionsideml fatal. Several prominent physicians called to see her, and pronounced her case hopeless. One day ho young girl grew much worse, fell .nto a comatose state, and, as it was ;hought, die I. The body was prepared for burial and exposed f< r two days in t casket to the view of friends. The lay of the funeral arrive 1. and, at the Ippointed time, the carriages and iear.-e dr ive up to the door. .lust as ;he eollin was b iag cl ;sed it was 1:0- 1 iice.l that the life-like appearance of | ;lu- suppled corp.se wa;; more, pronmnced, and tliers were sligiil signs )f returning v.talitv. A physician was jailed, and alter an lio:ir or so Miss irillitli returned to eonseiou-n ss. The solemn gathering v.a; turned into ono )f joy. The young irirl recovered utpdlv, and has since been iri better health ;han ever before. It is said that "albinos," or white freaks, are to be found in evervspeeies of bird and beast. Not long ago, Mr. Huston,of Kennard,Ind.,eaught a white squirrel. The little creature is as white as snow, and appears to be healthful. It plays a good deal, and is quite a pet. In Fluvanna county, Va., during the winter just gone, a sportsman shot a white partridge. The bird's plumage is as white as that of a seagull. It was sent to Richmond, where it has been stuffed and mounted as a curiosity. ______ Thirty-five counties in Kentuoky are without newspapers, T * ' HMlUiiiiian experimenting' with its various salts upon dog< and upon himself, M. (I.ilippehas concluded that it cannot cause fatal poisoning. Hickory, dogwood anil persimmon, which a s'.iort time ag > were almost worthless in North Carolina, is now in demand at five dollars a cord, for sawing into blocks for the purpose of manufacturing them into power-loom shuttles. According to Tyndall, not more than one-hundredth part of the heat evolved in an ordinary gas-llame is converted in.o llgni. J oincrease inu uuiwuuiuuiy power, means must b.: sought to raise tlso temperature of th;i carbon particles to which the light is du \ It is proposed in Paris that a medical s-rvice be formed for the purpose of ascertaining what chronic orconstitutional diseases affect the teeth, eyes or ears of tin pupils in the public schools, and ot dinning suitaide remedies for the ailments. Various travelers have observed in deserts, on mountain?, in forests and in valleys a peculiar and impressive sound like the tolling of distant bells. The phenomenon is doubtless produced by air currents, but in some instances it has app ared to 1 e due to the friction of particles of sand rolling under the feet. To prove the correctness of the former view, M. Forel has made a very pretty experiment, in which he has, as he believes, reproduced the phenomenon artificially. Taking his rille into the open country when a brisk breeze was blowing, he held the gun in the wind at an angle of about fortyfivodegrees, and soon succeeded in getting a sound which a shepherd near by declared was the ringing of bells in a neighboring village. Catching: Sharks hi Arctic Seas. ? MEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States. William Macduff, n New York money lender residing in Brooklyn, had lived unhappily with his wife the past eight yearp, and the other morning lie killed her and his j oung son and then put an end to hiB own life. flknii? Debosnys, an adventurer, was liangod nt Elizabe!htown, N. Y., for the murder of his wife, a widow, whom he ira-ried and soon after killed to get at her money. He sold his body to a doctor for $1.", and with the money bought the suit of clothes in which he was lmnged. Untied Statis marshals have.made a big haul of counterfoitora in Now York, arrostng six men and two women charged with manufacturing and passing trade and standard silver dollars. A four-tf.ak-old boy, son of a miner at Shenandoah, Penn., approachod a neighbor's dog, when the animal seized the child, dragged him into its kennel and mangled him to death. Thirteen native Nubians, said to be the first of the race to visit this country, arrived n New York a few days sinco for the purpose of exhibition. By the burning of the extensive sawmills at Bradley, Me., a loss of about $125,000 was incurred and 200 men wore thrown out of em ployment. An explosion of ga3 in a colliery near Ashland, Penn., killed three men and seriously injured two others. Aldeiit Beat,, of Fickett & Beal, spice dealers of Boston, shot and ;killed his partner, A. Perloy Fickett, on the Fall River steamer Bristol from New York. The two men occupied a stateroom together, and about 1:30 a. m. Fickett arose from his berth and went to the window. Beal was awakened by the rattling of the blinds, and thinking that some one was tring to enter the room he drew a revolver and firod a bullet which entered Fickett's forehead and caused his death. AnvrcEfl from Pittsburg, Penn., state that' G,000 railroad coal minors struck against a contemplated leduction in the jricecf mining. The gei oral opinion is that the strike will be long ind Litter. TnE Vermont M. E. Conference lias 15,553 members, 17 local preachers, 172 churches, valued at $674,058; 127parsonages, valued at $1( 8,7f0, and an ii:debtners of $15,591. Moke tlan 12,CC0 people, including General Grant, witnessed the first game of baseball pl.-yed in New York between the New York und Boston clubs, the former being successful by a score of seven to five. The St. Albans iron and steel mills, at St. Albans, Vt., have gone into bankruptcy, with liabilities of over Sf.00,0 0. Tjie New York board of health stopped the sale of several thousand packages of adulterated tea. Sheridan and Walsh, two of the men indicted by the Dublin grand jury for murder, stated in an interview in New York that they would be found ready to answer the * 1 a 1- n mormnf cnarges against iuvui nucucm ?? was issued. JosEni Bonif, from 1872 to 187<>, city treasurer of Buffalo, N. Y., has been sontenced to five years' imprisonment at lmrd labor for misappropriating nearly $590,000, about one-half of which l.o restored to the city. South and West. Captain Phtlip B. Thompson, Congre.-smnn-elect from tho eighth Kentucky dirIrict, shot Walter Davis, a prominent merchant, as ho was stepping from a smoking car on the Cincinnati Southern railroad at Harrodsburg, Ky. Thompson was insido the car and the ball went through Davis' head, producing instant death. The causc alleged for the deed was an undue intim?ov of Davis with Thomj son's wife. At f.xanuki: Sullivan, of Chicago, was elected president of the new Irish national It a','ue of America, at the Philadelphia convention, and Colonel John Byrne, of Cincinnati, vice-president. Fbazikr Copeland, a colored preacher, wa? hanged at Waihalla, S. C., for the murder of W. J. Hiinicutf, tho motive for the crisre being lobbcry; and on tl.e same day Henri 1'evells was publicly hanged nt I.alus Providence, La., for the murder of Henry llynans. The pecnniary damage suffered at Beauregard, Miss., by the recent cyclone aggregates $ 150,000. In several Mississippi counties scores of porsons were killodor in. jurod, und hundreds strippod of everything but their land. F>>iitt-two thoroughbred yearling horses, sold at the Bello Mcado farm, near Nashville, Tenn., brought ?27,410, tin averase per head of SOoU..*!, the largest single prico being S=:J,5 X). Buffalo gnats have killod hundreds o2 head of cattlo in the countr/ along the overflowed Mississippi. A terrific stomi of wind, hail and raiu has swept across Texas, doing great damage to crops, buildings and property generally, and killing several persons. In an affray at 1'ort Royal, S. C., a white man named Wallace shot threo negroes, instantly killing one and mortally wounding another. At Glfidcwater, Texas, Officer Bradshaw had in charge two colored prisoners who had been tried for n trivial ofTense and ordered to be sent to jail at Longview county seat. While waiting for a train at the railroad station an attempt was made to rescue the prisoners, and a general firing of gnns and pistols occurred. Officer Bradshaw and thr e negroes were killed. Miss Kane, the lawyer who was fined and sent to jail in Milwaukee for throwing a glass of wator into a judge's face while on the bench, declares she will never pay the fine if she stays in jail all her life. Sitting Bum. andlaO of his band of Un cnpapa Sioux left Fort Randall for Standing Hock agency, where they will engage in farming. Cincinnati has been having a "Drnmatio Festival" on a large scale, leading actors and actrefses of the country appearing in prominent characters before large audiences. The reduction of the tobacco tax took effect on the 1st in;!., i nd in consequence there was on that cay an enormous transportation of tho manufactured aiticlo by firms who had been awaiting that event. From I.inchl urg, VaM alone, thirty-six err loads were n.o'.ed cut in various directions; and a single lirui rent off ]L0,0(.0 pounds. In Richmond, between midnight and noon, tho internal revenue collector issued stamps for about two million pounds, and a'so for about a million cigars end four million cigarettes. Henbt FoitDnAM, nearly seventy years old, was hanged at Helena, Montana, foi murdering his son-in-law. Congbessman Philip B. Thompson hn? been indicted at Harrodsburg, Ky., for the murder of Walter II. Davis. In the St. Paul (Minn.) city election the entire Democratic ticket was elected. The Republican convention approved tlio principal Democratic nominees. W. B. SEAnBNurr, mayor of Vincennes, Ind.. committed suicide, owing it is believed to his having beon defeated .'at the polk for re-election. Prom Washington. Five thousand bids have been received for carrying tho mails on routes. ~Mn. Ker, of connpel for tho defense in the star-route- cases, in his closing address to the jury spoke for se\ en days. Tiie forthcoming annual volume of "'Diplomatic Correspondence" shows that the preposition sent out by this government for a peace congress of all the nations in North and Fcuth America was accepted promptly by nearly every power to whith it was Ront. This government is l'-siag $"05,0X> a year by the smuggling from Mexico, carried on along the Rio Grande. Grkes B. R.vum. commissioner of internal revenue, lms resigned his office, and intends to practice law in Washington. It j'b said that tin extradition of about a dozen persons from America wilt bo asked for by the British j.overnment. 'J he person? who.;e extradition is to 1 o rer.ucjted a.e charged with murder. Complaints have been received at the gen. era! land office that largo tracts of public lands in Nebraska arc being fenced in by cattle raisers in violation of the rules of the department of the interior. Commissioner j MaeFnrland says this practice is becoming j quite jjencr a in the West and Northwest, . and that steps are now being taken to overthrow it. i Documents continuing chargcs against a j dozen pe.sons accused of murder in Ireland have l:eon forwai d< d to the British minister at Waihington wit'i a view to demanding their extradition. Depositions will be lodged in the eases of five more allowed murderers. Secret negotiations a*o now said to bo proceeding between the British and Ameiiean governments with a view to the extradition of these men, ' The President has appointed William W. Henry to be marshal of the United States for the district of Ve. mont; Jefferson P. Kidder to be associate justice of Ihe supreme court for the Territory of Dakota; Benjamin T. Martin to be melterund refiner of the assay office at New York city. During April the national debt was decreased $2,851,402.05, leaving the principal on the fiiot at $1,574,079,8fr5.51, and the cash in the treasury at $31!},159,401.35. Last month the coinane at the various United States mints was 185,COO gold pieces worth $2,120,000; 2,5150,000 silver coins worth $2,;MJ8,000; 5,0f)G,C00 minor coins worth $157,COO; total coinage, 7,811,000 pieces worth ei fij.-, <w? Gold coin und &i/ld bullion now held by tho United States treasury amounts to nearly $188,000,000, against which there are ou's'anding in certificates about $48,000,000. Standard silver dollars on hand now number 10('>,300,:S48, against which thore are outstanding about 72,000,000 of these silver pieces and $1,000,000 of outstanding certificates. Receipts for the past month, compared with April, 188*, show a falling off of $8,COO,( 0"), of which nearly $5,000,000 were in customs leceipts and $2,:j00,000 in internal revenue. ~n the last six months 132 national banks havo Lejn organized. President Arthur has selected the namoa Boston, Chicago, and Atlanta, for the three steel cruisors to be built. The President hag made proclamation of the supplementary extradition treaty with Spa'.n. By the provisions of the treaty embezzlement and kidnapping are added to tho list of offenses for which extradition mayba asked. William S. Woods, the present chief justice of the Indiana supreme court, has been appointed United States district judgo to fill the vacancy caused by tho appointment of Judge Grcsham to be postmaster-general. Foreign News. Giieat excitement was creatcd in Northampton, England, by the discovery of a secret nitro-glycerine manufactury. Michael Faoan, the third of tho prisoners tried in Dublin for the Phoenix park rnurders, was found guiity and sentenced to be hanged May 28. Seven lives were lost at Toulon, Franco, by the capsizing of a boat belonging to a manof-war. A btot broke out at Port Said, on the Suez canal, between Greeks and Arabs on aocount of religious ceremonies. Several persons 1 1 ln<l nm/) mnntf rrrinn/lo/l l'nrt'n^iTln o were JWXICU auu luuaijt twuuuvai) iuu.uuiu^ a number of police. The landing of British snilors from a gunboat is said to have prevented a general massacre of the European residents. A balloon expedition to the North pole is about to be organized in London. The minister of customs at Montreal has seized editions of Voltaire and Paine's works, alleging that their importation was illegal, as the publications were " of an immoral and indecent character." Anotoeb man has turned informer in Dublin?one Kevins, arrested for murderconspiracy. A obeat strike of carpenters and masons for an increaso of wages lias begun in Berlin. Yellow fever prevails to a considerable extent in Havana. Fitziiarbis, the Dull'ii car-driver accused of bcirg one of the principals engaged in the minder of Ioid Cavendish and Mr. Binke, has been acquitted. The St. Pittr.-buig authorities btlieve that the Nihilists ate preparing for simultaneous disturbances in various parts of the emi'ire during the ce:emonics aiunumgino coronation of the czar. An international exhibition has been opened in Amsterdam, Holland. A mubdeb society exists in Havana, and murders and highway robberies occur daily. Patbick Delanky anu Thomas Caffrey, two more of the men chargod with participation in the murders of Lor J Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke in Phoenix park, Dublin, on the evening of the Gth of last May, were arraigned for trial, and created a sensation in the court-room by pleading guilty to the chargc against them. Both men declared that they were brought to Phoenix park, r.ot knowing whn* was going to Inppon; t' a' they were bound to go under pain of death, and that while witnesses of the doublo murder they were not participants. They were eent'nced to be hanged June 2. A tebible loss of life followod the burning of the steamer Gnippler, plying between Puget Sound and Alaska. When the fire broke out the ICO passengers, priucipally Chinamen, were all in bed, and when arouse 1 they became frantic with (xcitement and impeded the movements of the officers. Tho captain ordered till shot who refused to obey orders. Notwithstanding this the Chinamen rushed backward and forward on the vessel until it was found neccssary to knock down some and carry below others IrnriA l All this timn thn fire win and tho efforts to control it were unavailable. The captain ordered Pilot Franklin to head the ateamer for the Vancouver shore and beach her. As soon as the vessel struck the sand the boatd were lowered. Ihe excitement was now so great that numbers of Chinamen jumped into the boats and swamped them. Owing to the intense smoke those who could swim did not know in which direction to strike out, and surrounded by a mass of struggling Chinamen were drowned. Sixty-five lives were lost. Six persons were killed by an accident in a Nova Scotia mine. Yellow feveb is raging in Rio Janeiro, Braz'l. Ninety deaths occurred in c ne week. Two hundred persons are siiid to have lied from county Armagh, Ireland, to escape arrest. The German steamer Africa, Captain Buchholtz, which left New York on March 27 for Leith and Hamburg, is considered t j be 1< st. Colonel Hicks, commander of the Egyptian troops operating against the rebels under the False Prophet, reports having had ftn ptiL'iiL'cmeut with 5.000 of the enemy. The battle, which lasted half an hour, resulted in the defeat of the rebels, with ?03 killed, including the lieutenant-general of El Mahdi, the Fnlso Prophet, and many wounded. The Egyptian loss was slight. The Dublin grand jury found true bills of indictment for murder against Peter Tynan (the mysterious "Number One"), John Walsh and P. J. Sheridan, and against Fitzharris as an accessory. Messrs. Wa'sh and Sheridan are in America, and Mr. Tynan is supposed to be there. It was understoo.1 that if the bills were returned against thern the British government would demand their extradition from America. The grand jury also found true bills against Lawrence Hanlon, James and Joseph Mullett and Daniel Delaney on a charge of attempting to murder juror Dennis Field. They found true bi Is for conspiracy to nmrder against the two Mullets, Lawrenco Hanlon, Edward McCaffrey, Edward O'Brien, Oeorgo Smith, Peter Doyle, Thomas Doyle, William Moroney and Daniel Delaney. WISE WORDS. Xo thoroughly occupied man was ever yet miserable. If you would create something you must be something. Sunshine is like love, it makes everything shine with its own beauty. The very nature of love is to find its joy in serving others, not for one's own benefit but theirs. Education begins the gentleman; but reading, good company and rellection must finish him. In the lexicon cf youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. For a man to think that he is going to do the work of his life without obstacles is to dream in the lap of folly. Ilard speech between those who have loved is hideous in the memory, like the sight of greatness and beauty "11f>lr into vico !irwl rnrrs. Hold fast to the present. Every position, every moment of life, is of unspeakable value jus the representative of a whole eternity. To know how to say what other people only think is what makes men poets and sages, and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers, or both. A medical authority says: "Laughter is one of the greatest helps to digestion, and that the custom of our fore fathers ol exciting it, at tne iai)ie ny jesting and buffoons was founded on true medical principles." As a squirrel that had been shot at n Plumas county, Cal., jumped from ;he tree unhurt,the hunter's dog seized t. Tlie squirrel caught the dog by ,he lip. Unable to shake the squirrel >ff, the dog ran to a stream near by ind, plunging the squirrel under water, leld it there until it was drowned. r 4 ' A REMARKABLE STORY. The following narrative is self-explanatoiy. The letter which precedes it is a true copy of the original, and was sent to us, together with the details, by an office* now ill the United States Navy, United States Flagship Nomad, | Navy Yard, Boston, Mass., > January 10,188-. ) My dear Friend?Your kind favor containing congratulations on my restoration to health is before me. When we parted thirty months ago little did we imagine that either would be brought near death's door by a disease which selects for its victims those who present an internal field of constitutional weakness for its fir3t attack, because you and I were in those days the personification of health?and can claim this to-day,thank God! Why I can do so will be told to-morrow,when wo meet at your dinner, as you only know that I have passed through a terrible illness; my delivery from death being due to the mnnflnrfnl rlicrnvprv ill medical ScienCC. made by a man who to-day stands in the front rank of his fellow workers?nneoualed by any in my own opinion. That I, who heretofore have ever been the most orthodox believer in the old school of medicine, its application and results, should thus recant in favor of that which is sneered at by old Ernctitionere, may startle you, but "seeingis elieving," and when I recount the attack mado on my old hulk, how near I came to lowering my colors, and the final volley which, through the agency above mentioned, gave me viotory, you will at least credit me with just cause for sincerity in my thankfulness and belief. I will also spin my yarn anent my China cruise, and altogether, exEect to ontertain as well as bo entortained y you. With best wishes, Sincerely yours, Rear Admiral U. 8. Navy. Hon. George Wendell, Sinclair Place, Boston. An autumnal afternoon in the year 188found the taut flagship Nomad rounding the treacherous and dangerous extremity of South America. And this day certainly intended to place itself on record with those of its predecessors marked stormy, its nastiness in wind and weather giving all hands on board the flagship their fill in hard work and discomforts. The record of the Nomad on this cruise, which she was now completing on her homeward bound passage to Boston, had been most disagreeable, when considered in the light of heavy weather work. From Suez to Aden, then on to Bombay, Point do Galle, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nagasaki and Yokohama, the balance sheet stood largely in favor of old Neptun-.-'s rough characteristics, but with remarkable evenness the health and original rosier of the ship's company stood this day as it did nearly three years ago?with one exception. Throughout the diverse and varied exposures incidental to cruising over the Asiatic station, where cholera, fevers, Tnnlflrio ntwl /Vtlflci f\f fll 1 11VC1 CUIilJUtliXALO, 1UU1UUU, MMM ?... degrees reign in fall force, none of the crew had suffered more than temporary inconvenience, and thns it aeemed very hard that now, in the closing days of the cruise, there stood nine chances for, to one against, a victory being at last scored for tho destroying angel Death. When the Nomad reached Shanghai in the early portion of her cruise her admiral was the healthiest man aboard. A grand specimen of manhood was he. Over six feet in height, weighing two hundred pounds, broad in chest and strong in limb, he rightly claimed for himself a full share of Nature's blessings. While returning late one night from a diplomatic reception at the Consulate at Shanghai, through overheating and insufficient protection from the dangerous effects of the peculiar damp and searching night air. he caught cold. "Only a cold," remarked the admiral to the doctors of his ship, "and easy to cure." So thought the medical officers, but with a quiet though insidious progression, this cold clung to tne admiral in spite of their best efforts to eradicate it, and when the timo came for leaving Yokohama, homeward bound, the admiral realized that his lungs and throat were decidedly out of order. The doctors advised returning home by mail steamer to San Francisco, bo that greater means for curing this persistent cough might be found in the Naval Hospital there; but the admiral preferred to stick to his ship, still imagining that his trouble would eventually bo overcome by the doctors' treatment. No one who looked at the admiral even in those days imagined that he would fall a victim to lung trouble. But it was the old story again typified in this case. Only a cold at first; and in spite of orthodox treatment the peculiar climatic effects of China nursed it, and hastened the sure result of such a deep-seatea trouDie. lime pnsfeu mier leaving Yokohama- for Boston, bringing varying symptoms in the admiral's case, and the doctors imagined that they held the disease in check at least. But with the formation of tubercles, night-sweats and the now rapid consumption of lung tissues, which had set in with alarming symptoms, the patient realized that his cold had laid the seeds of that fell agent of Death, ronsumplioti. The hacking couj^h of the admiral had in itself been sufficient food for serious consideration, and now, as in the warm autumn days the flagship gallantly rode over the bluo waters of the Pacific, bound for Cape Horn, the doctors hoped much for success. But tliis boisterous afternoon found thegood ship struggling with gigantio seas setoff from the Cape by a fierce northerly wind. Leaden were the heavens and sad the hearts of all aboard, for that morning the usual bulletin of the medical officers had set forth this intelligence: "The admiral is in same condition as reported last night. A burning fever has been slightly reduced, while other symptoms are as heretofore announced." All understood these words without questioning. The beloved admiral nnil during the pa*t two weeks sunk very low. The symptoms of blood-poisoning, a torpid liver, intense pains throughout the body, eyesight and mental faculties affected, appetite gone, through inaction of that great regulator?the liver. Theao wero the means which h.iil Tfidupfid thn ndmirn.1 from the I pinncle of health to the vulley and shadow of death. Consumption held full sway* now, and the well-known skill of naval doctors was in this instance at least completely foiled. The admiral had issued orders for the flagship to touch at Montevideo for coal, and it was tho intention of the doctors to land the admiral there for treatment. But one man in the ship was wrapped in the gloom of despair, as standing by tho weather rigging on the poop deck he gazed absently over the seething waste of waters. This was the admiral's son, a lieutenant, and attached to his father's staff. He feared that the wear aud tear of ship life would sap his father's ftrength beyond endurance, and before the ship could reach Montevideo. Among a group of sailors gathered around one of the great guns on tho spar deck stood the captain of the foretop, Brown, a slight but healthylooking man. His companions were listening to a recital of his sufferings from consumption, which had developed while he was attached to tho sloop-of-war lianyer, lying in tho harbor of Yokohama a year ago, this "yarn" having been started by n discussion about the admiral's condition. Tho men had just returned from some work around the deck, an order for which 1 a l interrupted Brown's story a few moments previously. " A year ago this day I was hove to m tne *pill man's' sick bay in the Hanger, then off Yokohama, an' I tell you, parus, 'twas no use pi pin' my number, 'cause I was nigh on passin' in my enlistment papers for a long cruise aloft," continued Brown. "Consumption had me llat aback, and the doctor says it was no use to stow away his lush in my hold seoin' that my bellows was condemned by a higher power than he could wrastle with." "How did you pucker out of it?" asked a gunner's mate. "Wa'all," replied Brown, "my Chinee washman came to mo one morniu' an' he fays to mo, "mo hab got allee same Melican man mcdikin, do you heap good!' I says, 'bring it off, Chang; I buy all tho same.' '1 h it afternoon Chang hove up with fourteen bottles of a lush, enough to kill or cure the whole ship's crew, an' that looked fresh in their nice wrappers. Says Chang. 'China man doctor hab got plentee more, lie make heap good well with my sick, this number rm? tnKrliL-f.n n1l,'f> anmn tlimnrrh Ynknhfimn.' Wa'all, I took the bottles an' told the doctor I was goin' to try nne !is by the sailin' orders on the bottle, and the doctor he laughed and said 'twas no good, but I done as the regulations says from the tirst, an' here I am, ag'in tho doctor's ideas, to be sure!" With this triumphant assertion Brown looked about the circle. Then, lowering his voice, said: "Boys, I've four of those precious bottles left?ain't give 'em all away yet after I was cured?an' if you a'l think that it would not be too free with tho 'old man,' suppose 1 go to his sou there on the poop deck an' say what I have to you, an' askiti' his pardon, say wo want the admiral to try the stutf in my bottles, scein' that they cured my consumption." This idea met with approval from all sides. Therefore Brown walked off for an interview with the admiral's son, with 110 little anxiety in his good heart as to the remit of his mission. Approaching the lieutenant, Brown saluted, and asked for permission to state his reasons for doing so. This was readily granted, and Brown spoke out. "Seeing that I was once cured of consumption, lieutenant, I make bold to ask if I can tell you how, an' why I've tho roasons for wishing you to use on your father wn<. TV.V inn." in n few moments the lieutenant had Brown's story out, anil n:nch to the latter's gratification, granted a ri ady permission to liiin. It did not take Brown long to run to his ditty box, (jot the bottles of medicine, and return to the lio:itcirint with them. " I'm afrared that tho doctors will kick ag'iu tho use of this blessed stutf, an' what w ill you do, sir," said Brown, as ho placed the medicine in tl e cabin orderly's linn Is to be taken into the admiral's room. ' I will attend to that, Brown, and rest assured that your remedy will have a fair trial in spile of any opposition. It will not harm my father, jmlyinjf from your statement and I ho opinion of the Medical oflicers of tho l.'n ' 'litiink you, sir, nn' Goil help the admiral to weather his trouble, is the prayer of all tho ship," 8-tiil Brown, as tho lieutenant turned to enter tho cabin. There was no cessation in tho storm that evening. The gale howled through tho rigging in wild, discordant tones; the great ship labored through tho white-capped mountains of water threatened to engulph her with each burst of tlioir storm-whipped crests. Within the admiral's cabin the Argand lights, the comfortable furniture, and tho numerous evidences of tho admiral's wanderings over laud and water, as displayed in choice bric-a-brac and trimmings, gave to tho room a warm, snug appearance, most ' pleasing this wild night to those within. In i ins stateroom lay tho admiral, made com- i fortablo by all that loving hands and willing j hearts could suggest. By his side sat his i son, who in quiet voice was recounting to | his father the interview with Brown, and tho | opposition met with from the doctors when tho idea of giving this new medicine was ! broached. " You \Voro sleeping at the time, father, I and therefore missed a laughable scone, j | made so. in spite of your condition, by the ! intense dislike displayed by the doctors for | this 'now-fang'e.l .-tutf,' this 'patent liquid,' which they declared with their consent should never be given to you. Well, I cut tho matter short by saying that I would take ill the responsibility, and With your permiseipn would administer it. That I obtained when l rouna von awaaei and now yon are under way with the first bottle as per directions. I am satisfied* dear father, that it will do yon good, a premonition filling my heart that at last we have found the means of arresting the burning fever and hacking cough which have been troubling you so much." The admiral's replj; was cut short by a severe spell of coughing, during which he spat blood, and when finished sank back exhausted. But the grateful look which he bestowed on his son was an additional assurance of belief in that which the admiral had at first sight dubbed aa a possible but doubtful means of doing him any good. But laying aside his dislike for any but old-established remedies, the admiral acquiesced in his son's request, and now, after this last spell, admitted that the effect of the dose hnd softened the dreaded severity of the racking cough. * * * * * Three weeks later found the Nomad making the harbor of Montevideo. After severe and prolonged weather she had rounded the Cape and was now standing in the harbor for the purpose of recoaling and watering. To one given to tho study of human line iments the faces of those aboard the flagship this bright morning would have afforded infinite scope for such pursuit. But the source of each man's happiness flowed from the same fountain of grateful joy. The beloved admiral was the cause of this. And why? If you could have seen the admiral this bright morning, dear reader, your answer would have been easily found in his face. A changed man was he. Victory wns perched on his guidons! the dread enemy was s'owly retreating! The fi^ht was a severe or.?, but with no cessation in vigilant action and careful application of the contents of four bottles the admiral had turned the flank of consumption, and was slowly but surely driving him off the field with a power which astounded the doctors and filled all hearts with joy and thankfulness. What was this then that had won the victory for the seaman Brown, and was now leading the admiral's shattered forces to the samo grand result? When asked this question by one of his officers on duty, in Montevideo, the admiral, slowly lifting his hand, replied, "I would that in letters of gold, and so placed that all the world could read them, the name of this great remedy coulcl be shown, coupled with the genius who discovered it?'The Golden Medical Discovert! Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y.,' the man who has given to his fellow men the greatest lelicf from all ills that mortal flesh is heir to!" " This is the name of the contents of that bottle on my table, and God bless the man who lias found the secret of filling it with a medicine at once purifying and strengthening, wholosome and thorough in its results, and claiming, in my humble opinion* nothing for itself that it cannot reasonably inform. Nature's ally against th? abuse of man!" Well might the admiral sing the praises of that which had so unexpectedly rescued him from a fatal illness. When the ship anchored the first commission for the admiral's son to execute was a large purchase of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, which, as the admiral sadly admitted, he had seen in every port the world around and had only admired as an evidence of the energy and enterprise of an American who could thus place his Mo/UpmI nismvfirv in every nook and corner of the globe. But now lie was one more to testify to the wonderful power of this medicine, and certainly -^'d so in Montevideo, by praising it up to all the high officials who visited him. A week later and the Nomad sailed for Boston direct. What the condition of the admiral was when she arrived there is shown in his letter above. Let it be recorded to the credit of the doctors on the flagship that they were completely cured of all dislike for the Golden Medical Discovery, nsed it faithfully on the voyage to Boston, and landed, through its wonderful power, the admiral completely restored; and more than one poor fellow win started out in the sick bay of the ' Nomad. What stanch friends the Golden Medical Discovery made in that ship! The above, reader, is an outline of the story, spun by the admiral to his friend when they met at the dinner. We will not touch on othe - portions of his interesting recital of his cruise in general, oar aim being to record his testimony for the greatest wond*r in medical science that this nineteenth century of surprising developments has produced. From the wonderful power of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery over that terribly fatal disease, consumption, which is scrofula of the lungs, when first offering this now world-famed remedy to the public, Dr. Piorce thought favorably of calling it his "consumption care," but abandoned that name as too restrictive for a medicine that from its wonderful combination of germ-destroying, as well as tonic, or strengthening, alterative or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, diuretic, pectoral and nutritive properties, . is unequaled, not only as a remedy for consumption of the lungs, bat for all chronic diseases of the liver, blood, kidneys and lungs. Golden Medical Discovery cures all linraor.', from the worst scrofula to a common blotch, pimple or eruption. Erysipelas, salt-rhcum, fever-sores, scaly or rough skin, in short, all diseases caused by disease germs in the blood, are conquered by this powerful, purifying and invigorating medicine. Great e:iting ulcers rapidly heal under its benign influences. Especially has it manifested its potency in curing tetter, rose rash, boils, carbunclcs, sore eyes, scrofulous sores and swellings, white swellings, goitre or thick neck, and enlarged glands. "The blood is the life." Thoroughly cleanse this fountain of health by using Golden Midical Discovery, and good digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength and doundnesa of constitution arc established. For weak lungs, spitting of blood, short breath, consumptive night-sweats and kindred aftections, it is a sovereign remedy. In the cure of bronchitis, severe cougha and consumption, it has astonished Ihe medical faculty, and eminent physicians pronounce it the greatest medical discovsry of the age. The nutritive properties possessed by cod liver oil are trifling when compared with those of the Golden Medical Discovery. It rapidly builds up the system and increase the flesh and weight of those reduced belo3 the usual standard of health by wasting diseases. * t * * The reader will pardon the foregoing digression, prompted by our admiration for a remedy that performs such marvelous cures, and permit ud to say that when the admiral returned to his home in New York the only cloud cast upon the happinessof the reunion with his family vaa caused by the continued illness of his eldest son, a young man of t.venty-four, whose disease, when the admirni aoiinri fmm Mnntflvedio. had been re ported as succumbing to tho treatment or" the family doctor. But his father thought it otherwise; the unfortunate young man was suffering severely from chronic di?ea?o of the kidneys and bladder. Before leaving Boston the admiral had purchased a copy of Dr. Pierce's book, ''The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser." He read this valuable book thoroughly, and upon hi3 arrival home had made up his mind as to the future treatment for his son. The latter was sent to the famous Invalids' Hotel, at Buffalo, N. Y., conducted by Dr. R. V. Pierce, and his comretent staff of specialists, where, under skillful treatment, tho sufferer soon found relief and a permanent cure. Alleged Dangers in Canned Food. For a number of years past it has not been an uncommon thing to read in the daily papers accounts more or less circumstantial of cases of poisoning, some fatal, some serious and some comparatively trilling, which were called the results of eating canned food. The impression created by the first of these stories was weak. The practice of using articles of diet preserved in tin cans had become almost universal before any such cases were on/l al mr?cf. pvprvhndv in civilized communities had eaten of such food without experiencing ill effects it was generally doubted that the poisoning had been correctly traced to its source. The practice of preserving in tin, therefore, went on, and increased year by year. "With the increase in the use of the preserved food, however, there came also an increase in the number of cases of poisoning attributed, whether rightly or wrongly, to that use, and from time to time one person after another became convinced that there was danger in the tin cans. Xot a few physicians (perhaps the most conservative class of the community in some respects) have warned their patients to + I. A llffl O'JTl 110(1 fVllVl (llM'UliLlllUr LI1U UOC V'X V uuuvu <VWU| having become convinced that it was at least the probable cause of numerous cases of "lead poisoning." Accurate statistics of the trade are not obtainable, but the canning of salmon, oysters, fruits, vegetables, meats, poultry and game employs many million dollars of capital and gives support to many thousands of persons, and the products are reckoned by the millions of cases.?iVeir York Herald. SELECT SIFFlNfisT" In Asia Minor there are olive trees still in full bearing known to be 1,200 years old. Mohair med had fits, and in one of them he fancied that he was inspired. Hence came Mohammedanism. Sea urchins are so tenacious of life that on opening one it is not uncommon to see the pieces of the broken shell move off in different directions. | Tiffany, of New York, has among his treasures a diamond valued at J I $110,UUU, and it is said oy tnose wno I know about such things to be the largest in this country. It weighs 125 karats. The strongest and commonest of the several Japanese papers is made from the hark <>f the Mitsuma, a shuh which attains a yard and a half in height, and blossoms in winter, thriving in a poor soil. When the stem has reached its full growth, it is rut off close to the ground, when off-shoots spring up, which are again cut as soon as large enough. Franklin says: The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at 5 in the morning or at 0 at-night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for "his money the next day. ~r-~ Where the Word Dude Came From The just now popular word dude H meaning an empty-headed, lanquid- H mannered young swell who bangs his H hair, proves to be no foreign importa- H tion, but, like many another expressive H term, to be of good New England par- flj entage. The word (pronounced in two syllables) has been used in the little town of .Salem, X. II., for twenty years past, and, it is claimed, was J WM coined there. It is common there to ' speak of a dapper young man as a"dude of a fellow." of a small animal as "a H little dude," of a sweetheart as " my H dude," and of an a?sthetic youth of the n Wilde type as a dude. But how the word ffl attained so sudden a widespread txo H toriety puzzles Salem. Its revival at New York is credited to a disgusted H Englishman, who remarked, after H visiting a rich club, that the young men were all "dudes."?Springfield " (Mans.) Republican. Rheumatism, di-ordered blood, general de- fl bi ] i ty, and many chronic disease? pronounced incurable, are cured by Brown's Iron Bitters. Don't Die In the Hook. "Bough on Rata." Clears ont rate, mice, UrA Virtrra flmq nnts. moles. chin- ^Rfll lUOWUVOl UV? wugu, J , m munks, gophers. 16c. ? Lyon's Patent Metallic Heel Btififeners keep new boots and shoes from running over. Sold by shoo and hardware dealers. S^H Mrs. Cole, of Windham, N. H., declares that her life was saved by Hood's Sarsaparilla. She had thirty-seven terrible ^crofulons sores. Joplin, Mo.?Dr. J. B. Morgan says: "I find that Brown's Iron Bitters gives entire hh satisfaction to all who n?e it." Ladies, bny for your husbands, brother* and sons Chrolithion collars and cdb, and ave tronble in washing. H Skinny Men. |B Wells' Health Renewer restores health,vigor, Wk curesDyspepsia,Impotence,Sexual Debility.$l ^9 The hygiene of quackery has done more to n aggravate dyspepsia by Felf-infiicted starvation than gluttony ever did. Gastrins core* . the worst formB of dyspepsia. j| FAranixD, Iowa.?Dr. J. L. Myers sayf: "Brown's Iron Bitters is the best ironpreparation J have known in my 30 years' practice." . Tlie MUjlit oftbe Pen. Oh, the orator's voice is a mighty power, \ As it echoes along the green, H But the fearless pen has more sway o'er men, B To sound the praises of Carboline. Hj For Thick Desda, I Heavy stomachs, bilious conditions?Wella' May Apple Pills?antibiliou8,catharti& 10 25o H Use St. Patrick's Salve, and learn it8 great value. One trial convinces. Onr Reporter's Vncntion Xote*. DtniDio bis rambles tbls season, our Mr. K. has taken upon himself tbo task of satisfying our namerous readers that whatever goods arc manufactured ^H| in our goodly city of Roger Williams, are of as high a grade and as Quo in quality as can bo produced ui any spot on tbo globe, ijipeciauy is iau ?u nuuu the skilled Pharmacist of many years' experience resolves to extract from tho finest botanical spedmens of the vegetable world the moat potent core for some spccial disease. In proof of bis assertion tbat Providence, It. I., affords tha b^st, he relatos an interview with an acquaintance, glvon him while soJourning terai-orarily at her resilence. She says: "About a year I suffered scvcrol/ with Rheumatism H In my limb.-*, and Neuralgia in the head, which I en- H dured two or three mouths with as much patience H as possible, being uudcr the treatment of an excel- B lent doctor, and trying many kinds of medicine . H without any marled effect. At last a medical friend B advised me to try Hunt's Itenndy, because he at- M tributed my severe *u fferiDg to the bad condition of H my kidneys, which were not performing their proper B functions, and I commenced t.ikinr; it, and in ttow fl days the neuralgia had dc;>arte.l, my headache had S entirely disappeared, the swelling in my limbs and I Joints had gone, and I lnve not had a touch of it raH since. More recently I >va? troubled with impurity fl of tho blood, which showed Itself in severe eruptions fl on my face. I again resorted t.j Hunt's Remedy .and fl after taking it a short time was completely cured of B that complaint. Hunt's Kernel/ has proved very: fl beneficial to mo in attacks of sick headache, which it fl always alleviates, and I notice the Improvement as fl scon as I take tho Remedy. This Remedy has fl strengthening elements, for It has made me feel 9 much stronger, and has been very beneficial to my . general health. I most heartily recommend it to.. /^"^fl all sufferers like myself. Mas. L. Q. Tawxxb, Ho. ljfl' B Pearl Street." ______ Great Praise. fl Auiebt g. Mann, of Cottago Home, 111., says: '1 B havo been prostrated for three or more yean with fl kidney disease ; at times I was not able to put on my > boots; my wife has often pulled them on for me. X was not so bad as that all the time, but I never knew ^9 what it was to be without pain in mv back until I commenced using Hunt's Remedy. Since I began to taio Hunt's Remedy I have been free from all pain and take pleasure in saying that it is the best medl- H dne that I ever know for Kidney and Liverdlseases." A TLemarltable Core of Scrolsuu William S. Baker, of Lewie, Vego county, Tnd, , jrrites as follows: *' My son was taken with scrotal*: Ifl ia the hip when only two years old. He tried mt< >ral chysicians, but the boy got no relief from (heir treatment. Noticing your Roeada'.is recommended lo hlgMy, I bought some of it of you in the year 1802, and contiuued taking it till tlin sores finally ^H| sealed up. He is now twenty-one year* of ace, arid being satisfied that your mediclno did him so much H food when ho lued it, we want to try it a^aln Scan- ! other ease, and now write to you to get some mora 'lfl Baker's Pain Panaccj, cures pain in Man and Beast. flE Use Externally and Infernally. t ? ~atmiwm~ i Otfrw away that tired fc*Un? and tool waarin? wMah H ?eeet tho dlU-^nt and careworn In tho ?prfEj. No othar article take*holdof th*?y*tem and hit* exactly the spot Oka Hood's Sarsaparilla, which combine* ths beat H remedi** of the vegetable kingdom, and in each pro. H portion a* to derive their greatest medical effect* with I ihe leaat disturbance to the whole cyatem. H "Hood's Sarsaparilla cured me. I can eat anything H without that awful dlstreaa, and hare a tremendous millitni " nil Pattzk, Gardiner, Me. ^ "1 consider Hood's Sarsaparilla I me of the beet medicine* for spring when the blood Is In Wt i low oonditlon and needs cleansing. I hare been benefit 4 by it* ue."?W. H. Cdetis, B. R. Agent, flh Haverhill, Mas*. , Don't wait till your system is rodnccd, bnt get Hood's rm j&ruparilla immediately. No other Saruparilla ha* inch a sharpening effoct upon the appetite. No other J preparation tones and strengthens the digestlre organ* JU Uce Hood's Sarsaparilla. T9 Hood's Sarsaparilla * Sold by druggists. Price 91; six for $5. Prepared only ^ by 0. 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