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FATE. ? A sunbeam kissed a river-ripple?"Nay, Naught shall dissever thee ami me!"' In night's wide darkness passed the beam awn v. The ripple mingled with the sen. ?John Vancr Cheney, in the Century. THE TIDAL TRAIN. There was a great rush for the tidal train that morning fram Paris. It started at a very convenient hour, 9:10. and was patronized by a crowd of people. As the time for departure approached, there was the usual outcry for seats. The French officials, if asked, shrugged their shoulders and pointed to the nearest carriage; what they meant was, that there was stiil room and to spare if people did uot cover up extra seats witn their belongings, and so monopolize more than their share. Late arrivals thus neglected .wandered miserably up and down the whole length of the train, seeking accommodation excitedly, and in vain. Among the rest were two ladies, one of whom, the elder, seemed greatly Hurried and put out. "1 knew how it would l>e," she cried, in a despairing voice, "every seat is occupied! What shall we do? why were we so late?'' She was a middle-aged, somewhat plethoric-looking dame, with an air of much importance, marred-for the moment by helplessness and ill-temper. "We shall find places presently, dear Lady Jones," replied the younger, who had the lather sycophantic air of a humble friend. "The guard will help us." "They never do, and they don't understand. Dear, dear! why didn't we come in time? It was all your fault Hester"? this to the maid who followed them as they ranged backward along the platform? "you ought to have packed last night. What shall we do? Oh, thank you so much!" she cricd suddenly, with effusion. A gentleman, who apparently had been watching her distress, pushed open the door of the carriage he occupied and in* vited her to enter. His companion, another man at the far end, made room by removing rugs and bags, and presently Lady Jones, with a sigh of relief, sank back into the cushions. Then with feminine selfishness, and forgetful of the trouble she had but just escaped, she proceeded to prevent any one else from getting in. "Cover up the seats well, Milliccnt," she cried, "and do keep that door shut. Oh, thank you, sir,'' she added to one of the men, who seemed to fall in readily with her idea of keeping the carriage to themse'ves. There was nothing very remarkable about Lady .Tones' new-found friends. One was a tall, dark man, with a cleanshaved face, and very dark eyes which glared out from under the shade of a black felt hat; the other was-smaller?a restless little freckled-faced man, with a short red beard cut and trimmed to a point. They did not look like Englishmen; but they spoke the language fluently with a slight accent. The firm, somewhat fiercc demeanor of the dark man had the desired effect. "When he said, abruptly, "II n'v a pas de place," people retired discomfited, and as time was nearly up, Lady Jones began to hope that their privacy and comfort would not be disturbed. Almost at the last moment a man came to the door, importunate and persistent. 'Any room?" he asked in English, as he stood on the doorstep. Then getting no answer, he repeated the question in French. "How many are you?" Still no answer; so he counted for himself, and went away. Lady Jones was delighted: but her triumph was of short duration. The last arrival came back at once with a whole posse of French officials at his back, the chief of whom, in a voice of authority, repeated the inquiry. "How many are you? Four? More to come? Impossible! The train is starting. Entrcz, monsier; entrez, vile;" and the nest minute the stranger was bundled into the carriage, the door was shut with a bang, the horns sounded, and the train went off at express speed. The occupants of the carriage. Lady Jones in particular, resented this unceremonious intrusion. "Extraordinary!" she said, iu aloud aside to Millicent. "People never know when they are in the way." "So forward and presuming!" replied the young lady. "In my country," said the dark man, "mep never intrude themselves on ladies. They wait to be asked." "We have a very short way of settling with them if they do," 'added the short man, offensively. "And pray what do you do with them," asked the last coiner, quietly. He was cool and self-possessed, with a I broad facc framed in by S(juare-cut grayish whiskers. His upper lip was cleanshaven, showing his firm, rather hard mouth, and his blue eyes were steady and penetrating. Not a man to be trifled with, in spite of his calm manner and unobtrusive demeanor, "What do. you do with them?" he repeated, looking hard at the insolent [ little red man. "Pitch them out of the window, or on i to the line." "Would you like to do it now?" said | the other. "Be quiet, Tliaddy," interposed the ! dark man; "remember there are ladies j present." "Don't mind me, gentlemen, if you i wish to give him a lesson." said Lady Jones, who had espoused the part of her i first friends. The Englishman looked at her rather | keenly, but made no remark. Nor, al- j though they continued to talk at him and I about him for the next lalf hour, did he j take ar.y further notice of them, but i read a novel attentively which he had extracted from his little black bag. By the time they reached Amiens, quite a pleasant intimacy had sprung up between Lady Jones and the two men. The four went to the buffet and breakfasted together. Returning to their carriage they found that the Englishman had disappeared, so they made merry at his expense. But they had not done with him yet. lie was there on the quay as the train ran alongside the Boulogne steamer: | they saw him again on board with his j little hand-bag, and always calm and j imperturable. Only once did he betray the slightest emotion; it was when a man came up to him as lie stood near the funnel, and, with an almost imperccpti- j ble salute, addressed him as Mr. Ilopkinson. "Ilush, you fool!" he replied angrily. "Don't mention names here."' "It was too late, however; many of , those around had heard the name, and i among the rest the two men, who were j smoking close by. "Come aft, Thaddeus!" whispered the | tall man. "Did you hear that name?" j "I did. It must be that murdering j villain himself." "And you, you fool, to get quarreling | with hiin in the train!" "Do you think he has his eye on us?" "You may take your oath of that." "What in the name of conscience shall ; we do?" "Leave it to me; I have a dodge, if I j can only work it." The steamer l>eiug very crowded, Lady j Jones and her party had been unable to secure a private cabin. They had to stay j on deck, and in by no means a good j place. But, thanks to the attention of j her friends, Lady Jones was made com-j fortab!e with rugs and wraps near one of ! the paddle-boxes, while Millicent and the maid sat close beside her. The j voyage across the channel was not good, and the ladies reached Folkestone in a j more or less battered condition. Now j the^trangers, like chivalrous gentlemen, j came out in their true colors. Nothing j could exceed their kindness. They took I infinite trouble to prepare the party for I going on shore; they helped the maid to | , fold and strap up the rugs, aud made | themselves generally useful. Lady Jones , was so grateful and so charmed that she ( begged them to call on her in London, j and gave them her address. ( "When the porters rushed on board, f Lady Jones desired one of them to go at i j once and secure her carriage. "Can t be done, mum," he replied, j "All the things have to be examined J before they let us through to the train.'' i J "Absurd!" said her ladyship; "they j a won't examine mine. I am Lady JoDes." i f Bnt her ladyship was no better than ^ an ordinary person before the law. The ^ custom house officers were inexorable; a and, in spite t)f her protests, all her c small parcels and those of her party, ) ^ were taken into the search-room,and laid I _ out on the counter. With an imperious j j wave of the hand, an official ordered her t to follow them. To make matters worse, n the quiet Englishman, to whom she had been so rude in the train, was standing in the doorway, talking to two other men, j and laughing,as she thought, at her dis- j f tress. | c For a moment her two friends Averc : r nowhere to be seen. i $ "I never heard of huch a thing 1" she j I / said indignantly to Millicent, as the officious searchers turned everything out of Uer gold-mounted dressing ease, and then proceeded to unroll the rugs. "What do they take us for?" "Everyhotly is treated alike,dear Lady Jones. 1 suppose they arc afraid of Fenians, or dynamite, or something.*' "it is preposterous, disgraceful! Sir John shall write to the papers?I beg your pardon." This was to an oflicial who had said to her twice, "What is this?" A small parcel done rp in strong brown paper securely tied and sealed. "I haven't the least idea. Something of my maid's or Milliccut's?this young lady here. I really cannot say." Hut while she chattered on with accustomed garrulity, the custom house officer had already cut the strings, undone the parcel, and laid bare a small plain tin case. It had a lid, which was easily opened. Inside were a number of slabs of a whity-brown, sugary-looking substance, which might have been tenth-rate chocolate or indifTcrently-niade "tolTee." "Some sort of sugar, "said Lady Jones. "How odd! 1 cannot imagine? "It's just what I expected," said a quiet voice behind. Hand it over, Mr. Saunders. This is my a Hair." "What, Mr. Hopkinson, arc you here?" "Very much on the spot this time. I think, Mr. Saunders. Now, ma'am"? to Lady Jones?"where are your other friends?" "How dare you speak to me!" she replied, hotly, recognizing her old enemy of the train. "I am Lady Jones." "Of course, all right," replied the man called Mr. Hopkinson. "Hut there," he went on. half to himself, "we don't want any scandal or noise. We might lose the others;" and with that he whispered a few words to an attendant, and drew back into the crowd. The examination of Lady Jones' baggage was completed, everything was repacked, and the party proceeded toward the train. Just as they passed the refresh- j ment-room, a railway guard came up, and, touching his cap, said: "The stationmaster has reserved you a compartment. Please come this way." "How uncommonly civil of him, to be sure!" cried her ladyship. "I suppose it is to make up for this annoyance. I am really much obliged." Within five minutes the two ladies were stowed away in a, carriage by themselves, and the door securely locked. Presently the train ran out of the station up the hill to Folkestone town, and Lady Jones, who was rapidly recovering her equanimity, after a few ejaculations of delight at being home again, composed herself to sleep in the corner of the carriage. But fresh annoyance was in store for her. At Folkestone Town station the carriage was unlocked, and three men ) cot in: one of them, to Lady Jones' in- I dignation and dismay, was Mr. llopkin- ' son, with his black bag, which lie kept j on his knee. "You mustn't come in here," she j said loftily; "this carriage is reserved specially for me. I am Lady Jones." "Oh, are you!" replied the other. "It is time you should know who I am. My name?" "I am sure I don't care to know." "My name is llopkinson. I am chief inspector of police from Scotland Yard." "Well," said Lady Jones, still bold, I but with much inward misgivings. "I really do not understand!" "By this time my men will have arrested your two confederates?your friends who helped you in trying to keep me out of the traiu at Paris. I knew them all along."' "My friends! I never met them before this morning! Why, I don't even know their names!" "That won't do. You know as well as I do that they are Phclim Cassidy and Thaddeus O'Brien, American Fenians?" "Gracious Heavens!" "With whose connivance you have attempted to convey dynamite into Eng- I land?a nice little lot of 'Atlas powder,' in slabs too, for convenience in packing.' " I deny, most positively! I! I!?" " Case is too strong against you. Why, the stuff was found in your possession, and I have it lierg in my bag; enough to wreck the whole traiu." Lady Jones shrieked. " Do you mean to tell me that there is j dynamite here in this carriage? Oh, do. | please, throw it away!" " The concussion would certainly ex- i plode it, and we should all be blown to j kingdom come! Don't be frightened; j you traveled with it all the way from Paris, and would have carried it on to London yourself." "I assure you I know nothing of this. | I am Lady Jones, the wife of Sir John Jones of Hurley street. Millicent, help me to explain who I am." The detective shook his head doubtfully. "It maybe as you say; but I don't see j ray way. Wait till we get to London. If you can prove your identity, at any rate you may escape being locked up; the magistrate may give you bail." With this cold comfort Lady Jones had to be satisfied, and in dire terror and discomfort she made; the rest of the journey to London. Ilopkinson, it must be confessed, had already made up his mind that it was as Lady Jones had said; but he chose to keep her in suspense. On reaching Cannon street, the guard brought him a telegram. The detective [ read it with strong symptoms of disgust. "Slipped through ray fingers! Just when I thought I had them, too! It's the very mischief. What shall I do next?" After a pause of deep thought he turned suddenly to Lady Jones. "Do these men know your London address? Yes? Well, if you will assist us now, I think I can promise that nothing more shall be said about this unfor- ! tunatc alTair. But first, you must be j secret, silent as the grave. Can I trust J you? And this young lady?'' junicent auu i-uuy .jones unswurcu iu ; a breath, promising to be most circum- i spect. "My idea now is that these men only planted the stuff on you, hoping it would pass unnoticed; whether it did or not i they would know bv the morning papers, ! which would be sure to publish an ac j count of the seizure of dynamite. Well," I went on the detective, "no one must j know a syllabic of this; there shall be | nothing in the papers or anywhere. To- j morrow or next day they will call at | your house to recover their small parcel, explaining that it slipped in among your rugs by mistake. If thev do. we have them; do you understand? And will you help?'' Lady .Jones only too gladly assented That night the house in JIarley street i was practically in the possession of the j police. Sir John entered into the spirit 1 of the thing; gave his hall-portci a hoii- ' day, and installed llopkinson disguised J in his place. On the third day the dark i man called, sent up his card, and was I given the dynamite. As he left the : house his companion joined him. and ! both were arrested before they had j turned the next corner. The trial, with j the examination of Lady Jones, was one j of the events of the season.?London ' Wvrld. Olives in (irecce. < ur host took us to inspect an olive-oil J factory, of which there are several in ! Pyrghi, so that the stream which waters j the village is brown witn onve juice, like water tinged by peat in an Irish bog. Here they use no machinery or modern appliances in pressing the oil; merely the old primitive wooden press. Women, or sometimes mules, walk round and round revolving a wtfeel which crushes the olives; in this condition they put them into sacks, and then into that "black-faced heifer which devours oak wood," as the Chiotes in their figurative way are wont to describe their ovens. The sacks are then placed one over the other in the press, and two men turn a post, which pulls a rope, which drags a stick, which tightens the press, and the : i)il oozes into the receptacle prepared for 1 it, with water inside. The oil and water >f course do not amalgamate, the dregs j dnk to the bottom, and the pure oil 1 lows into jars prepared for it. 1 It is impossible to realize the affection 1 )eople have for olives in a purely olive- ' jiowing country. "An olive with a 1 cernal gives a boot to a man," is a true I 5 idage with them. It is :he principal ' attening and sustaining food in a coun- '' ry where hardly any meat is eaten. It { akes the piare of the potato in Ireland, ^ nd on the olive crop depends the welfare 1 if many. An olive yard is presented to r he church by way of glebe, and the 1 lesants collect on a stated day to gather ( hese sacred olives, which they buy from j 1 he church, and always at the highest j ' i arket value.?Bazar. I ( !! The Rev. W. II. Key, a colored i . ireaeher of Tennessee, made with his j >wn hands the bricks-of his church, and low he owns church property worth MO,000 and a congregation of 1,000 3 >eople. J SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT. SKETCHES THAT WILL DRIVE AWAY THE BLUES. Tl?c IteaNon?Convenient location? liOvcN Appetite?."Not Wcicliing; So Hiich?It Mothered the Doctor. "My darling, you never have kissed mc yet," lie said. "Haven't I?" she answered, with a gurgling laugh. "Never," he repeated, "and I wish you would now. Will you?'' She did. "Ah!v he sighed, "how sweet it is to feel the pressure of your warm lips on mv cheek." "Do you know why my lips are so warm?" she asked. "Because-because," he stammered. "Because," she broke in, "noicecteam lias passed them for ever so long." He took the hint.?SmncrciUe Journal. Convenient I.oration. City Boarder?"I thought you said this place was convenient." Honest Farmer? "Ycsmarm. We have found it very convenient." "But it is two miles from the station." "Oh, it ain't convenient to the station, of course. When 1 said the place was convenient, 1 was thinking about the malaria." "Malaria! Good gracious!" "Ves'm. It's mighty convenient then." "In what way, pray?" "We are only half a mile from the ccm- I etcry."?Phihulc'plna Vnll. l.ovc'fi Appetiici ' Did you say love took away a man'* appetite?"' remarked the landlady to young Snooks at the table. ' Yes, madam. 1 am deeply in love, and that is my experience,'' he responded, with his hand on his heart and a don'tJ ask-me-for-money-now look in his weak blue eyes. "I begin to think pretty much the same way myself." "Why, madam, are you also touched by the soft caresses of the little blind god?" he queried, taking another spoonful of potatoes, a slice of roast beef and a big hunk of bread. "Well, not hardly," she answered, in a zinc-lined refrigerator tone, "but some things I have recently seen convince me that it takes away a man's appetite and fives him a hog's." Snooks did not ask for any desert.? Merchant- Trarc/cr.. Not Weighing: So ."Hueli. "You arc looking remarkably well,Mr. Litcwait," said Crimsonbeak to the young man who lie used to see behind the counter in the village grocery before his account rendered it imperative for him to change his provision man. "Do you think so ?" replied the young man with a bland smile, "I'm not weighing as much as 1 was." "Why, really." came from Crimsonbeak, in surprise; "You arc looking heavier." "I am heavier," replied the puzzle. itVAirm luit vmi wrnorli so much!'' exclaimed the astonished man ; "Have you gone crazy, Litewait !" "No; not exactly, Mr. Crimsonbeak; but I've gone to work in a carpet store where we don't have any of that to do." "Any of what to do ?" shouted the beacon light. "Weighing!" "Oh!" was all that Crimsonbeik remarked as he went out to look for a Jeep well.?Statesman. II Ilothercd the Doctor. Dr. McCosh is celebrated for his egotism, and the best of it is he is never conscious of it. He has a broad Scotch accent, and the habit of gnawing at the joint of his thumb when busily thinking. Some years ago he was lecturing before the senior class in Princeton co lege. He j had been discussing Leibnitz's view of the reason of evil, to the effect that mankind was put upon the earth because there was less evil here than elsewhere. One of the seniors inquired, "Well, doctor, why was evil introduced into the world ?" "Ah!"' said the doctor, holdingup both hands, "ye have asked the hardest qucs tioninall feelosepliy. Suckkrates tried to answer it and failed; l'lato tried it. and failed: Kalint attempted it and made bad work of it; Leibnitz tried it, and he begged the whole question as I've been tellin'ye; and I confess" (gnawing at his thumb knuckle) "I confess I don't know?what?to make of it myself."? Troy Press. Jtauic-nciu o? wnicnuu. The battle-iield of Waterloo as it lies to-day is an uninspiring spectacle?a good place to sit down and muse on life and men and the vanity of human things; but we had a vivacious little guide who spared no time for musing, hut engaged us with a very dramatic recital in broken, though quite intelligible English, of the stirring things that happened on that bloody Sunday in 1815, when Bonaparte's brief candle went out and the European kaleidoscope rattled itself into a fresh combination. I can't help sympathizing with the bottom dog. The dramatic symmetry of Napolean's career wins us against our reason. I went out to Waterloo with some Englishmen, and I took solid comfort in giving them my small opinion of their Iron ihike, although we must allow that he did this business very handsomely. But that guide. I shall not soon forget him. lie made more of an impression 011 me than all the hooks I have read 011 the subject of Waterloo. He omitted nothing. He opened his soul to us, and he suited the action to the word. He gesticulated, he attitudinized, in short, he fought the battle over again for us. His English was doubly English. He was especially happy in his ''hup, guards, hand hat hem!" He recited this thrilling incident over his shoulder as lie led us down the two hundred and odd steps that mount to the summit of .Mound of the Lion, and it was only by the most extraordinary presence of mind ihat 1 grasped the railing in time to escape a fall. The Mound of the Lion is an artificial elevation which has been reared (very illadvisedly, 1 think) in the midst of the iie!<l ami of its earth, thereby modifying the configuration of the landscape, so that one cannot now gain so accurate an idea of the liattlc-ground as mi^ht otherwise have been obtained?unless, indeed, the loss is compensated by the fact that the summit of the mound affords u commanding view. The tranquility of the scene is impressive,and one is reminded of Byron's line: "How that ml rain has uiaile the harvests grow!" I never saw a fairer stretch of country ?hills and valleys and winding roads and shining villages. Every feature of this sweet landscape played its part in the drama of that day. On the right is the Chateau of llougomont, against which, all day long, the French lines beat like the waves of the sea?the key of the English position, held to the last by the gallant Coldstream guards, though the house was burned over their heads. The old brick wall around the orchard still stands pierced with loopholes, worn away by the pelting rain of musket balls. If you have any sort of imagination you can stand there to-day and see the tight. I suppose there has scarcely been a closer, hotter, bloodier battle in modern times. The lines were posted only a mile apart, and from the moment of the first assault upon llougomont to the low, despairing cry of the French general, "Tout (st perdu! Sauve qui pent!"' the battle was like the straining of wellmatched wrestlers.?" A Buffuloninu Abroad." Much Ado About a Penny. A penny will make quite a stir in the accounts of bankers and business men [sometimes, in closing the accounts 01 the National Broadway bank, some years ago, a draft was drawn by Treasurer Spinner for the balance in the bank, (mounting to $18,450.10, which was honored, and in the letter of transmittal the :>ank cashier notified the treasury that here was still due the government the >um of one cent. An examination of the edgers and cash accounts was instituted, tnd the error was discovered. The imonnt should have been .*>18,-150.11. < forthwith. Treasurer Spinner notified he cashier that he could forward the imount. A press copy of tins letter was nade and a proper record of it kept. In lue time the bank responded, inclosing i draft for one cent, the transfer being | nade without disturbing the financial , ;ircles. The necessary records were made n half-a-dozen books, the proper indorsements obtained, and the money drawn uid deposited to the credit of the proper fund. A "dry-air' store has been established n England to attempt to keep butter 'rom summer till winter. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. J Chalk-white lace is again in vogue. White embroidered mull ties are re- * vived. Sleeves grow fuller and larger in the armholc. Skirts grow fuller and bustles more bouffant. White and black lacc scarfs are revived < for neckwear. 1 There are now 155 women students in ' Boston university. The horse-hair cushion is the latest 1 form of the bustle. Fifty-seven American women writers . were born in .Maine. < Mrs. Cclia Tkaxter, the writer, owns .1 1 large farm at Kittery, Me. Mrs. A. T. Stewart, of New York, is ! the richest widow in the world. Women voted at Clinton, X. Y., 011 the question of a water works tax. Nearly ">,000 women are employed in the various government oflices in England. The poke of Valenciennes or Oriental lace is the bonnet to wear with lacc and muslin dresses. Decatur county. Iowa, has ;i girl who j captured and sold fifteen wolves during the last season. Dotted net veils are not worn at all. They have been superseded by the plain ones made of colored tulle. A late fashion is to send presents of flowers in baskets locked with a tiny padlock, each person having a key. In San Francisco all of the day district telegraph work is done by women. They are paid from $40 to $00 a month. Some of the summer parasols are so pretty that it seems almost a pity to expose them to being faded in the sua. The wife of L. F. Fisler, the Camden baseball player, is said to be the first real Chinese lady ever seen in this couutry. A Cuban always smokes two packages of cigarettes and four or five cigars a day. The women and children do nearly the same. A fancy is for "rose pokes;" they are simple black or white straw pokes with the whole brim hidden by clusters of deep red roses without leaves. A fnfAritn wow /\f cnunnff nn lnno tine >. " "J -1" " *"o year is gathering the lace, then sewing it on the wrong side, turning and catching it down at intervals, making a pull. Miss Sarah O. Jewctt is considered to be the handsomest woman author in Boston, with perhaps the exception of Miss Blanche Howard, who wrote "One Summer." The old fashioned challie?a light woolen fabric with which some silk is woven?is revived for summer dresses. The ground is light in color and is strewn with flowers. Many skirts of silk and brochc are cut into tabs of various forms at the bottom, with thickly gathered or plaited ruches of plain silk set on underneath to make them set out. The old-fashioned challie?a light woolen fabric with which some silk is woven?is revived for summer dresses; the ground is light in color and is strewn with flowers. Poppy red and jonquil yellow crapes are used by those who do not employ cither llowers or feathers on round hats. A twisted scarf around the crown is used as trimming. Wild millinery plants are the last invention. By this term is meant grasses of every kind, tied in little bundles which show the stalks, and fastened on the hat with a brooch 'or clasp. French grey of the palest shade, ecru and violet colors arc very stylishly used in crapes of different texture, and also in tulle for bonnets to match costumes of cashmere of shot silk, foulard, etc. A Western physician writes pathetically to a newspaper complaining of the conduct of a female doctor who has taken away all his patients, and left him and his family on the brink of starvation. German cross-stitch still holds its own among needlework. It is very useful for tea-table cloths, toilet covers and the like, and is an easy, comfortable kind of work that does not require any thinking. Mull pokes for the country arc trimmed with roses and Valenciennes lace when white mull is used, but for the pale blue, pink and poppy red mull are white lilacs, violets or some llowers of contrasting colors. At a contcst in a swimming school at Manchester, England, a young girl swam 000 times around the bath-house, a distance of eight miles, while the best swim- j mer among the boys made but 504 j rounds. Dotted Swiss lawn, with raised spots and colored printed figures, made with gathered flounces edged with black French lacc, with shirred and belted waist, is a showy summer dress for a young lady. A pleasing design for a polonaise has each of the two front pieces of the waist about half a yard wide and laid in folds at the center. At the belt these cross, and the upper one curves gracefully and loses itself in the folds. Very thin delaine or wool muslin is popular for young ladies'country dresses, and "may be had so sheer and of such delicate hues that it is made tip over colored silk linings throughout in order to give deeper tones and more character to the dress. White cambric is greatly used for fete dresses this year, and for children's -* * - "1 1 -1- - C hocks wim uroau uanus ui uuiui ua trimming. These are woven with the dress, and very pretty frocks are mudc by trimming with bands of reJ, pink, blue or old gold strips. The Lethargy of Oriental Life. General Loring. in his book, "Confederate .Soldier in Egypt," says: "Society among the inmates of the harem means simply smoking cigarettes and pipes,and the most trivial amusements. Instead of the sparkling conversation and pleasant music with which the sexes reciprocally entertain each other among AVestern i people, horrible screamings, the monot- i onous noise of drums, and the clang of i tamborines are here the solace of woman i in her hours of ease. The boasted lux ury of the palaces offers in its isolation ! no attraction to a refined nature. This life makes people prematurely old; a 1 man of fifty is wrinkled and superanu- < ated, and a woman ol thirty has passed < her meridian. Noon e works unless com- i pelled to it, as tranquility of mind and person best pleases the Oriental taste. They ignore the passage of time, which never disturbs them with the cry of bukrah (to-morrow); yet people write of the 1 fascinations of Eastern life. It may be the climate, with its sunny sky and the quickcning air of the desert, or possibly the stagnation of existence which deludes them. It cannot be the effort of thinking or of feeling that awakens pleasing impressions, for there is nothing here that does not clash with every sentiment habit and custom of intellectual life. Society is the isolation of a prison, hough the captives are surrounded by numbers of people. The philosopher residing in the East is forced to meditate bitterly upon the waste of humanity around him. Only an anchorite whose religious duty consists in counting beads could be charmed with such monotony and silence. The man of energy and thought would think it a cruel punishment to be forced to undergo the ordeal of intellectual stagnation amid a. people whose ignorance and indolence fill their minds with egotism, obstinacy and selfimportance. It is a common thing for Egyptians who have been educated by order of the government in the best colleges in Europe to come back to Eastern life and immediately throw away their books, abandon intercourse with intelligent foreigners, shut themselves in a harem among ignorant women and there end their existence. This is probably what they mean when they say that 'in their education of mind they do not neglect the heart.' An Eastern man will sit for hours inhaling the perfume of a sweet flower and enjoying the music of a fountain (murmuring at the time a chap- n ter in the Koran, without stopping to t understand its meaning) and the bcauti- s fill objects of nature which Allah has c spread before him. lie enjoys to-day t but never thinks of preserving objects a which please him in sculpture or paint- L ing, however dear to him, for the sake (1 of the pleasure they might give in the future. This their writers call a life rich in sensations." t Placing Her at Her Ease. Dumlev had accompanied a friend j? home to dinner, and, as they seated ? themselves at the table, the hostess remarked : (,I trust that you will make allowances, tl Mr. Dumlcy. My girl left me this morn- q ing very unexpectedly, and I was com- tl polled to cook the dinner myself." t< "Oh, certainly, my dear madam, cer- h tainly," responded Dumlev, with much o manner; "I can put up with anything," h ?New York Sun. h 1 BELLE'S SAD DOWNFALL. 3HE GIVES WAY TO A CRAVING FOB XJQUOB. <urToimdcd By Mixury and tlie Idol of it Yoiuik and Affcctionatc Htisband?A Sorrowful Story. A jury of inquisition at Baltimore recently decided Mrs. Gertrude E. Grove :o be insane, and she was removed to Spring Grove Insane asylum for medical :reatmcnt. Commenting on this, a letter from Baltimore says: Probably but a few ot the friends and acquaintances of Miss Gertrude Henderson, of Chicago, ifterward the wife of Eugene B. Grove, of this city, recognize the downfall of the above named belle in the brief article quoted above. The story is a very sad one. Miss Henderson's parents died when she was quite young, leaving her in charge of her aunt, a married sister of Mr. Henderson, the wife of a prominent grain merchant, residing in Wabash avenue, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, Chicago. Gertrude was reared with great care and tenderness, and her debut in society was made in the latter city during the Masonic celebration about seven years ago. Among the visitors to Chicago on the above occa sion was Eugene B. Grove, a wealthy young Hour merchant of Baltimore. Voting Grove met Miss Henderson at a social gathering, given in honor of a lady from Kentucky, who was visiting a wellknown society lady, residing in Michigan avenue, Chicago. From almost the moment of the first meeting of young .Grove and Miss Henderson both appeared to fall desperately in love with each other. After Grove's return to Baltimore a correspondence began, and a few months later Grove announced to his friends his engagement to Miss Henderson. Shortly afterward Miss Henderson paid a visit to this city, accompanicd by her aunt. She was cordially received in the highest social circles, and soon became a general favorite. She was highly educated, spoke several languages, possessed a rich soprano voice, and was a skillful pianist. Germans, parties and other festivities were given in her honor, and upon every occasion she was accompanied by her aflianced husband, young Grove. Notwithstanding the fact that her matrimonial engagement was generally known, she had many suitors. Her treatment of them was ladylike, and when their attentions became too ardent, she would modestly take of! her engagement ring, hand it to her admirer, and remark: "Mr. , this will explain to you better than words why I cannot hear further from you on the present subject. Please let us be good friends, but remember I am the promised bride of another." At the closing reception given by Governor and Mrs. Groome at the State house, Annapolis, Miss Henderson was the acknolcdged belle, and was considered not only the most beautiful, but the most elegantlv dressed lady there. A few evenings prior to her announced intention to return to Chicago Miss Henderson was a guest at a fashionable gathering on Mount Vernon place. At supper she indulged too freely in champagne, and when the guests began to leave the banquet room to return to the parlor, Miss Henderson was discovered to be unable to stand upon her feet. She was removed to a room on an upper floor, and restoratives given her without any perceptible effect, and t?s a consequence she was forced to remain at the residence of the hostess all night. All sorts of excuses were made for her nonappearance in the parlor, yet the truth it'na 1/nnn'n fn mnnv WVif>n Mis<a TInn derson awoke the next morning, and realized what had transpired, she was inconsolable. It was several hours before she ceased weeping, then she solemnly declared never to touch another glass of liquor of any kind under any circumstances. She little knew how hard it would be to keep her resolution, as the sequel will prove. After the above episode, Miss Henderson did not appear again at a social gathering here, but left rather hurriedly for homb. In November, 1870, she was married to Eugene Grove in this city, and the newly-married couple entered shortly alter upon the responsibilities of housekeepers in a handsome dwelling on Madison avenue, near Hoffman street. Mr. and Mrs. Grove did not remain in Baltimore but a few months, and then went abroad. They returned from Europe about a year ago. It was th n noticed that youncr Grove was growing very despondent, and that his young and pretty wife was seldom seen outside her house. The truth was not to be kept long from the gossiping neighbors, and the rumor prevailed that Mrs. Grove was a slave to liquor, and that the taste had been acquired during her dissipations here in 1878. Her husband had noticed her terrible cravings for wine, and his visit abroad was for the purpose of avoiding publicity. Mrs. Grove was often seen at the window of her bedroom with her hair dishevelled, her eyes bloodshot and her appearance indicating the terrible inroads made upon her personal appearance by the excessive indulgence in liquor. All efforts to keep it from her were unavailing. She would frequently go to the front door of her dwelling, call in a small boy passing by, give him an article of clothing belonging to her husband, with instructions to sell it, buy wine, and bring it to her. One day she became so enraged at the refusal of a neighbor's son to do her bidding that she struck him a violent blow over the head with a heavy cane, severely injuring + l.i/I Daring all this time the young husband had stood nobly by her, but her conduct became so outrageous that it was found necessary to place her in an asylum, anil accordingly she was placcd in charge of the sisters at St. Vincent's Asylum for Invalids. Young Grove then sold all his property here and went abroad, lie has regularly remitted money to pay all his wife's expenses, and has given instructions to spare no expense to insure her comfort and recovery. The latter is impossible. About three months ago her mind became affected, and a few weeks later she was pronounced insane, and her removal to Spring Grove Insane iisylum decided upon. Although, of course, she is a complete wreck, there ire still traces of great beauty, and her voice has lost none of its rich melody. She is now about twenty-six years of age. Her adopted parents have not been heard From here since her marriage, and the supposition is that they are cither dead ar have disowned her, owing to their discovery of her fondness for liquor. A Live Fly Catcher. "Of what earthly use is a toad?"' a natjralist was asked. "It is a very useful animal about the liouse. There isn't a better fly catcher. [ trained a toad once, and kept it in my ooni. Its place was on the window jcnch, and it was my diversion to sec it iatch flies. If riflemen could aim as it Joes with its tongue, they would be invincible. Its aim is as unerring as its jlancc. Its tongue a made so that it :an shoot it out nearly two inches. It is 10 sharp that it spears a fly as upon the joint of a needle, and it is done as <juick is a man can wink. It requires very jrcat attention to sec the operation/' "IIow do they live in the winter?" "Toads crawl into a crack in the earth )r bury themselves in mud. There are uimerous stories about the length of time hey can live without food or air. Mr. Auckland's experiments showed that they :ould live two years, so that we must :onclude the legends of the discovery in he bowels of the earth of toads that jossibly lived before Noah are misleadng. They certainly get a modicum of lir in their hiding places. There is no rustworthy account of a live geological oad. There are toads found in stones, nit they arc merely housed up in a solid ' :oat of "sun-baked clay, which on the ex- | ' erior seems as hard as a stone, but i vhich, in all probabitity, contains some issure invisible to the naked eye, through vhich it gets air and drink. "The toad is occasionally found eonealcd in a knot of a tree, where il has j ' teen encased in bark; but here, too, it is , nir If IviS I 1 tut UJIUll> IUtt\CU H | / iiuiii ???.. . w he power of contracting its body and welling it to twice its natural size. It 1 ertainfy cun live in a greater state of ( orpidity than almost any other animal, nd, being l>orn a tadpole, it is likely to ' ! ie carried in the water to verj? extraor- | 1 linary places." I ' ' Does it have any cry?" "Yes; curiously enough, it has a cry 1 hat sounds like an infant screaming } nder a pillow. Its utterance is strangely j itiman, but it comes forth only when it j J ? injured or frightened."?Kan York I lun. ! 1 ? I f In Morocco, when a thief is caught in j i he most trivial offence, they politely re- I ^ nest him to hold up both hands. Then < icy ask him what hand he would prefer , I > have in his possession, and when he 1 as made his choice they cut off the ! < ther. When a thief has thus lost both i s ands. and also his feet, he loses his f ead, and quits stealing. ? SELECT SIFTINGS. In Japan the sandals are left outside of the house. The sturgeon fishermen in Winnebago lake use lines six miles long, and use 20,000 hooks on a line. The guanaco of Patagonia is described as having the head of a camel, the body of a deer, wool of a sheep and the neigh of a horse. In Madagascar the crocodile is sacred, and is seldom destroyed by the inhabitants, although it frequently kills cattle and human beings. The register of Hyde Abbey, Winchester, written in the reign of Canute, is still in existence, and forms part of the Ashburnham collection. A cure has been discovered in South A mAMt/tn ?< ??? AlnnltnnlinaSa Tf !a f A n<l f I illlJUl lUtl 1U1 UIU j'iKlULltlOiO. X\> JO l/V \,?%v the flesh of a turkey-buzzard?a bird, so loathsome that starving people have been known to refuse it when offered as a dish. A tenant in a house at the cast end of London, that last refuge of poverty, recently testified before a charitable committee to having taken twenty-two thickuesses of paper off the walls of a room, preparatory to repapcring it. The caju is a Brazilian fruit which has some curious properties. The seed grows outside the fruit, and is encased in a pulpy covering filled with a very powerful acid capable of blistering the skin. When the seed is roasted it is edible, but the smoke which arises from the roasting irritates the skin, and, if it enters the eye, destroys the sight. HEALTH HINTS. The Medical Summary recommcnds the external use of buttermilk to ladies who arc exposed to tan or freckles. Spirits of camphor and starch applied to a burn will extract the lire and give speedy relief. The starch should be kept moistened with the camphor. Khigolinc spray is recommended in the treatment of neuralgia, especially of the portia duo of the seventh nerve. It is said to give almost instantaneous relief, and in some casc3 to effect a complete cure. Its action is explained on the supposition that the intense cold effects a radical changc in the nutrition Ul tnu xjvji v i;, In one dozen cases of poisoning from the bite of the rattlesnake, iodine proved curative, given in one or two drop doses of the tincture every hour, according to the severity of the case. In one instance, where the patient was swollen terribly, mottled spots appearing over the entire body, breathing with great difficult}-, and apparently near death, four drops of iodine were given every hour, with entire recovery. There is nothing new in saying that lemon juice is good for malaria: or, in other words, that it is useful to combat intermittent fever by the victims of that disease. A French iredical journal recommends a decoction of the fresh lemon, that is. a lemon cut. into slices and boiled in a new earthen pot, making, practically, a lemon tea. It is to be given four hours before the fever, and is said to be as serviceable as quinine, without having any of its ill effects.?Dr. Fool J $ Health Monthly. Sufferings from lice Stings. T. F. Iiead writes in the Bee Keepers Magazine: One bright morning in the latter part of last May, I arose early, as was my habit, to attend to my bees, and as I completed my inspection of them my wife came to call me to breakfast. As she approached, two bees flew in her face and stung her; one on the right nostril, about a quarter of an inch from where it joins the face, and the other on the upper lip, just at the base of her nose. I extracted the stings immediately, .inrl inv wife annlicd some moist earth. thinking it would remove the inflammation, and went into the house. While my wife was washing her hands in the kitchen, I irot some ammonia and rubbed it on the wounds. After washi ig her hands she proceeded to wipe them on the roller towel, when she suddenly exclaimed, "I feel faint!" I turned just in time to catch her, as she was falling, and carried her up to the sitting-room, placing her in a sitting posture on the sofa; I sat beside her. This was not more than five minutes from the time she was stung. She said: "I feel so strange; my throat is filling up. Oh, dear! it is getting so dark!"' and then consciousness left her. She fell heavily against me. I laid her upon the sofa; her chest heaved violently, her breathing was painfully labored, and a blowing sound proceeded from her lips, which were blue and swollen; her eyelids and limbs twitched, and her face was repulsively pale. I called the servant, and bidding her sit by and render every attention in her power, I ran for the doctor: he was not up, so I left word for him and returned home, where I found my wife still unconscious. The servant had ioosened her clothes and was bathing her head. I found her heart was beating, but feebly. It was thirty minutes from the time I left the house till the doctor arrived, and ray wiffl ivjiq iuof. rprnvprinnr consciousness. but was as helpless as a baby. She could not speaic or raise her head, or even her eyelids. After an hour or so she could talk a little, and as soon as she was fully conscious, was taken violently sick at her stomach. Iler.face did not begin to swell until two hourf from the time she was stung, and then it lost its proportions entirely. My wife was not able to leave the sofa that day, and it was a week before she recovcied entirely from it. I asked her what her sensations were. She said when she was stung her whole body seemed to tingle as with electricity, which was succeeded by a languid feeling, followed by a sensation as if her heart was stopping its pulsation, and then her lungs seemed to till and she suffocated. I asked the doctor aljput it, and he said the connection between the nose and brain, by way of the nerves, is very close, and that the shock was first sent to the brain, and from there conveyed to the heart and lungs. My wife has never recovered from the shock, and the buzzing of a large horse-fly terrifies her. She says no words of hers can convey the anguish she suffered iu her struggle for life. Romantic Character of Arabians. The romantic character of the Arab race is too well known to need more than a passing allusion. The power of Mahammad lay in a great measure in the charm of his poetry; and the Anacreontic bards of Arabia were famous among their fellows long before Iiis time. The imagination is excited by the wild landscape of the desert in a manner which the dweller in cultivated lands can little appreciate. The fancy of the Arab peoples the wilderness with ghostly and demoniac forms; and the silence which oppresses tlir. mi ml in stirh vast solitudes, where the cry of the eagle or the bark of the jackal is reechoed by the naked crags, can only be known by those who havo wandered alone in stick a region. Thus the ghoul, the afreei, the ghostly wild goat, under which form the demon appears to the hunter, are creations of th? imagination ever present to the Arab mind. The tribes who love to tell the wondrous stories of Zir and Jandabah, the fables of Lokraan, and the songs of Antar, are men of character very different from the hopeless and timid peasants of the Delta. The Koran appeals to their immugination in a degree of which the fellahin arc incapable; and its legends, its fine poetic images, its oft-repeated descriptions of paradise and of hell, its claim to be a "reading made plain in the Arab tongue'' to unlettered men by an unlettered prophet, appeal to the Bedawi of to-day, just as they appealed to his ancestors twelve centurics ago.?lilarkicood. Smuggling at New York. ' Tne professional smuggler," said a New York custom house official to a Mail iml Kv)>re?s reporter, is now almost ex tinct. It is :i business that does not pay, for getting stulT through the custom liouse is not so easy as is imagined. In the lirst place, honest- dealers assist the jflicers in detecting the smuggler and sometimes render most elTcctive aid. As i rule \vc never have any trouble with irofessionals. They quietly give up the ,'oods and hasten to tret out of the way. [Jut the amateur smuggler! The novices, ,vho cannot see they arc doing any moral ivrong, are the ones who bother us. Threats for damages, listicuJTs and complete annihilation are not infrequent. 1'hc goods most persons try to smuggic hrough are diamonds, laces, silks, satins ind velvets. The experienced eye of the nspcctor is not often mistaken, and vhen his eye fails him his fingers are very |uick to discover irregular proceedings*, t is not likely the practice will ever be >roken up, but it is indulged in less tolay than ever before, and will still be topped to a much further extent. As ar as the present year goes, let the smugglers come on; we are ready for them." THE KITCHEN CLOCK. Knitting is the maid o' the kitchen, Milly, Doing nothing, sits the chore-boy, Billy: "Seconds reckoned, Beconds reckonod; Every minute, Sixty in it. Milly, Billy, Billy, Milly, Tick-tock, tock-tick, Nick-knock, knock-nick, Knockety-r>k, nickety-knock,"? Goes the kitchen clock. Closer to the fire is rosy Milly, Every whit as close and cosey, Billy: "Time's a-flying; Worth your trying; Pretty Milly? Kiss her, Billy! Milly, Billy, Billy, Milly,' Rick-tock, tock-tick, Now?now, quick?quick! Knockety-nick. nickety-knock," Goes the kitchen clock. Something's happened; very red is Milly, Billy boy is looking very silly; "Pretty misses, Plenty kisses; Make it twenty, Take a plenty, Billy. Milly, Milly, Billy, Right-left, left-right, That's right, all right, Skippety-nick, rippety-knock,"? Jumps the kitchen clock. Night to night they're sitting, Milly, Billy! Oh, the winter winds are wondrous chilly! "Winter weather, Close together; Wouldn't tarry, Better marry. Milly, Billy, Billy, Milly, Two one, one-two, Don't wait, 'twont do, Knockerty-nick, nickerty-knock,"? Goes the kitchen clock. Winters two have gone, and where is Milly? .Spring has come again and where is Billy' ''Give me credit, For I cUd it; Hw.o+ H.wlK Mind you wind me. Mr. Billy, Mistress Milly, My?Oh, Oh?my, By-by, by-by, Nickety-knock, cradle rock," Goes the kitchen clock. ?John Vance Cheney, in the Century. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Armed to the teeth?A dentist. The woman question?May I order a new bonnet? The requisites for the best kind of a "batter" can be ascertained by carefully reading the baseball news. Wilmington, N. G\, has a baseballist whose name is Stitch. They hope he will prove the Stitch in time that saves nine. ? Yonkers Gazelle. It was an unhappy flamingo, Who said: "They have shot me, by jingo! I must pick uj> my bits As I gather my wits, And evolve?where the deuce did my wing go i ?Harvard Lampoon. A poem published in a Brooklyn papei commences: "Come back, sweet memories." Ah! yes; lei us think of those old days when a 50-cent sun-bonnet was good enough for any lady.?Philmlel]>Ma Call. A blacksmith advertised for a helper who "must be as quick as lightning." The first man who applied for the situation carelessly picked up a hot horseshoe, and the blacksmith hired him al once. fir* vmi anrmnon m'filrn* mum: T, MV VAV J worms get on me?" asked a young mar at a Sunday-school picnic. "I don't know," replied the young lady who was with him, "unless it is because worms are so fond of green things."?Burling ton Free Press. A Western paper says that a wild woman is running at large in the mountains in Oregon. But whether her wildness was caused by the relusal of a husband to crown her with a $17 bonnet 01 the declination of her young man to helf to shingle the roof of the village ice crcam dealer does not appear. ?Statesman. Acorn Bread. The Indians scattered along the fool hills of the Sierra are a quiet, inoffensive people. They do not appear to be governed by any tribal laws, yet adhere to many of their old traditions. One 01 two men of superior ability and industry from a nucleus around which others less ambitious gather. Here they fence with brush and logs a tract sufficient for theii rnnuirpments of havmakim?. nasturaire. etc. Although they often indulge in the food of civilized nations, the acorn is still a favorite article of diet in every well-regulated wigwam. The process of converting this bitter nut into bread is curious. Under the branches of a grand old pine I found them at work. They had shucked and ground in the usual manner a large mass of the acorn meats. A number of circular vats had been hollowed out of the black soil, much in the shape of a punch bowl. Into these was put the acorn pulp. At hand stood several large clothes baskets liiled with water, anil into tbese they dropped hot stones, thus heating the water to the required temperature. Upon the mass of crushed bitterness they carefully ladled the hot water, making it about the color and consistency of cream. Not a speck appeared to mix. A buxom muhala stood by each vat, and with a small fir bough stirred the mass, skilfully removing any speck that floated upon the surface. The soil gradually absorbed the bitter waters, leaving a firm, white subtance, of which they made bread. I asked to taste it, at which they said something in their language, and all laughed. I asked again, and after more laughter I was handed a small particle on a lief leaf, and found it sweet and palatable. Tliey began to remove it, and so adroitly was this done that but a small portion adhered to the soil. They spread it upon the rocks, and in a short time it was lit for use. This, I am told, they mix with water, put it into thin cakes and bake before the fire.?Sun Francisco Chronicle. Among the Cliickasnws. A letter from the Indian Territory says: The Chickasaws have no written language of their own, but have adopted Hiil L Ui IUU V^UUliaW Dy "llll.il U.U-3 lilt ilU" man alphabet. The Old Testament scriptures have been translated into Choctaw, too, and including the second book of Kings, and the translators are now engaged in translating the book of Psalms. The translation to the end of the Pentateuch has been in print for several years, and the translators are only waiting to sec the. new revision of the Bible to send the remainder of their unlinisbed work to the printer. This they expect to da by November, at the latest. It will doubtless surprise many readers to learn that the negroes greatly outnumber the Indians in the Chickasaw nation. The Cherokccs, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles were ail slave-holding tribes before the war, and held a larger number of slaves than was generally supposed. By the treaties made with these tribes in ISliO, the freedom of the negro was guaranteed in each, and political equality was to be conferred upon them on certain conditions and for certain considerations. The C'herokees refused to acimit the frecdmen and the Delawarcs *n ii sli!in? in flu> 000 iirmrrmrint-Jrm made to the tribe by Congress last year. This will lead to a complete examination into the whole matter, and the probable elevation of both to the full and uni|iiestioncd right of complete citizenship. The Choctaws have lately conceded full citizenship rights to the frccdmen in their nation. It is understood that the Creeks have accorded the rights of citizenship to negroes ever since the war. The Chickasaws alone stand out. What Girls Eat at College. To give an idea as to the quantity consumed by such a large family, says the New York Times, the following list of a few of the leading articles furnished Yassar during the past school year to close is appended: Fresh moat, 11>8 94,15s I Milk, quarts S6.591 Flour, lbs OS,600 | Kcga 92,000 Hotter, lbs 14,561 Canned vepetSuynr, It>s 2S,lSt | tables, cans.... 5.917 Coffee, lbs 2,?3S I Bananas 28,s56 Caramels, lbs 4o5 | Oranges 21,102 Dried fruits, lbs 5,5461 Clams 36,200 Nuts, lbs 1,527 J I'ickles, bottles... 209 The largest item of expense was for meat, $15,540.52, and the next largest, $4,044.05 for milk. Hut if there is one thing more than another that the average Yasssar student yearns after, it is a nicely browned pancake. Yassar's pancake griddle is ten feet lon^ and three feet wide, and 2,400 pancakes arc consumed at breakfast. Animals Tried In Court ^ The progress of the world from the j crudeness of the past is, perhaps, in no ( particular made more manifest than in 1 legal proceedings. I do not refer to the j "trial by ordeal," by poisoned water, or , by the duello?for which some apology i may be found in the faith of the times that the Deity is so regardful of the < maintenance of the truth as to be willing < at the demand of crisis to perform mira- J cles in its behalf. We may pity such credulity now; but a sense of theridicu- ' lous is awakened when we read that four or live centuries ago, brute animals were made subjects of legal process, and treated by courts of justice as amenable to '< sentence and judgment equally with ; their biped owners. They were liable to arrest ns responsible for mis./emeanors 1 and crimes, imprisoned and held for trial. On set days they were arraigned, 1 - - ji ft iormai muicruieni was rt*?u iu hearing, and their cases pleaded by the public prosecutor and a defending lawyer. If the verdict were against.the animal, sentence of death was passed upon the culprit with all solemnity and executed variously, the condemned being sometimes clad as human beings. In the ancient law books of Europe may be read accounts of the trials of swine, bulls, horseB and other beasts tor murder. In those early days of jurisprudence ecclesiastical courts held jurisdiction over a certaiu class of cases, and their decisions were no less absurd than those of the civil courts. For example, rats, as a race, were in one instance cited before an ecclesiastical tribunal for destroying the grain of a certain region. The learne 1 counsel assigned for their defense maintained that his clients desired to emigrate from the country, but were prevented by the multitude of cats lying in wait for them; that necessity compelled them to eat while they remained and so the barley suffered. The decision of the court was in their favor. In two other countries the Spanish flies and weevils were respectively prosecuted, and their lawyers endeavored to forestall condemnation by i etitioning that a distant region might be assigned them, to which they might be warned retiree The case was pending so long in th. "glorious uncertainties of the law" that cold weather removed it from the court by destroying the defendants before a decision was reached. Do we here find an explanation of a practice still pnnHnnprl in this YAflr nf crmrp 1884, of warning rats on premises by a writing to that effect laid in some of their runs? Abbott mentions a casp in Brazil of legal proceedings against a swarm of ants, and even so late as the settlement of Canada, turtle doves were excommunicated for mischief. He partially accounts for this seeming boys' play and nonsense by the vague belief, then floating in a benighted world, in the transmigration of souls, which claimed for the lower animals iWiar treatment as was due to human:J)eii?gs, lest injustice be unwittingly done to the souls of poor wretches, once in human form, which had been compelled to sojourn for a time in bestial, and even lower, shapes until their final disposal. Strange as it may seem, this opinion was held by Louis Bonard, a French gentleman in New York, the disposition of whose fortune by will on his death in f 1871 was directed by his peculiar belief to placing the Society for the Prevention ' of Cruelty to Animals on an independent monetary footing.?Springfield Iicpubli1 cnn. Tae Bursting Force of a Boiler. ' Few people conceive how powerful is the force imprisoned in the interior of a steam boiler when in active operation. The steam gauge shows a pressure of per; haps 100 pounds per square inch, and the uninitiated spectator who works or walks ' carelessly beside the apparatus, may imi agine that 100 pounds represents the i force with which its fragments would be propelled in case of an explosion. But i the whole force of the live steam in a boiler is equivalent to the urea of the internal surface of the boiler multiplied by [ the pressure per square inch. Suppose, for example, the internal . length of the boiler is 240 inches, and . that the steam gauge shows a pressure of 100 pounds. A mathematical calculation , shows that the total internal area of the . boiler is 36,005 square inches, and hence . the imprisoned agent is not 100 pounds, but 30,005x100 pounds, or 3,605,000 {rounds. Think of that the next time you icar of the employment of an incompetent engineer to handle a boilfer whose ' explosion is liable to send half a dozen ! men to eternity! ' There are 20,000 oil-producing wells in Pennsylvania, yielding at present 60,000 barrels of oil per day. It requires > 5,000 miles of pipe line and 1,600 iron 1 tanks of an average capacity of 25,000 barrels each to transport and store the oil and surplus stocks, i ? ? The name and title of Fortescue came ! from the conduct of the ancestor of the house, who protected William I. with 1 his shield at Hastings, and thence acquired the name Fort-escue, or strongshield. - ? r- u i _ - ^ Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures dyspepsia. Silk is now grown in twenty of our States A Remarkable Cure of Scrofula. "William S. Baker, of Lewis, Vego county, Ind., writes as follows: " My son wa* taken with scrofula in the hip when only two years old. We tried several physicians, but the boy got no .relief from thiir treatment. Noticing your Scovill's Sarsaparilla anl Stillingia, or Blood and Liver Syrup, recsmmended so highly, I b u?ht some of it of you in the year 18ti2, and continue ! taking it till the sores finally healed up. He is now twenty-one years of age, and. bein^ satisfied that your medicine did him so much good when he used it, we want to try again in another case, and write to you to got some more." Life Preserver. If you are losing tour grip on life,try ,rVVells' Health Renewer. ' Goes direct to weak spots. G'oinc. Gentle Spring, and bring malaria, dyspepsia, biliousness, torpidity of liver and a train of kind >1 maladies. Fortunately Kidney-Wort is 5 hand. It may be had of the nearest druggist and will purify the system, correct the stomach and DoweLs, stimulate the liver and kidneys to healthy action, remove all poisonous humors and make you feel like a new man. As a spring medicine, tonic and blood purifier it has no equal. 25 Cents Will buy a Treatise on the Horse and Hra Diseases Book of 100 pages, valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid. New York Horse Book Co., 134 Leonard Stree^ New York city. "Hough on Toothache." Instant relief for neuralgia, toothache, faceache. Ask_for"Rough on Toothache. "15&25c. "Hough on Itch." "Rough on Itch" cures humors, eruptions, ring-worm,tetter,salt rheum, chilblains. mi 1- 3 -i. J iDOBUnpit) ttiiu percei;!/ uytsa. xiubiuug z*j simple ana perfect for coloring as Diamond Dyes. Far better and cheaper than any other dye. 10c. Druggists sell them. Sample card for 2c. stamp. Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, \_t Pretty Women. Ladies who would retain freshness and vivacity. Try ''Wells' Health Renevver." For a cold in the head, there is nothing bo good as Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. The cotton crop of Mississippi is put at 005,508 bales for 1884-85. Secure from Scrofula If you suffer from (liat terribly disagreeable ami painful disease, scrofula, you will be cured if you will tako Hood's Sarsaparilln. the great bloo fier. Wo can give hundreds of testimonials as to pos- ] iti ve cures of scrofula, some of them ca-ies givea up as absolutely iucurabla Tako Hood's Sarsaparilla and you will be secure from scrofula. "I wasseverely afflicted with scrofula, and for over ' a year had two running sores on my nook. Took fivo i bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and consider myself cntlroly cured." C. E. Lovejoy, Lowell. Mass. ' Purify Y our Blood "I have been troubled with scrofula a great deal, I and was advised to use Hood's .Sarsaparilla. I have now taken three bottles and have nearly eradicated the scrofula from my system." W. A. Pekby, Bourne, , Mass. , "Three years ago scrofula broke out on my face, head and ears so tliev worn one solid sore, my hair I fell off. my sight ami hearing were impaired. I com nieuct'U taKiiiKHood .^arsiii arilla. and in ono year was entirely cured." Miw. Maky II. I'akkman, Dexter, Mo. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all dniKpista. $1; six for $*>. Pr^i arnd only bj I O. I* HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. | IOO Dnsfls fins nnllnr Horsemen ai for /W/25 ci In stamps we will postpaid, a very ^^/horse I .^f^Syj/hescrlblnif the diseases apt tc VrTC*yrgivinK the most approved reme ^^^for tellins: ape by the teeth, how lo ^^>ther information of great value to llor / \ HORSE BOOK PUB. CO.! 1341 . There is ^t^nebefitTxilor for butter, and ;hat that is Wells, Richardson & Co. s Imjroved Butter Color, no candid investigator loubts. It is the best butter color in the world: is free from sediment or impurity, ilways read/ for instant use, and it imparts lo butter that rich dandelion yellow, without i tinge of red, which is the acme oC desirability in any butter color. , It Stands to Reaaon chat bp. oil devoid of all irritating properties, that never becomes rancid, shouldmake an excellent Hair Dressing. Such is Carboline made Crom pure Petroleum. _All_druggists. Advertising Cheats-It! "II has become so common to begin an artlde in an elegant, interesting etyla, "Then run it into some advertisement that we avoid all such, "And simply call attention to the merits of Hop Bitters in as plain, honest terms AM pos"To induce people "To give them one trial, wh2oh so proves their value that they will never use anything else." "The Remedy so favorably noticed in all the papers, j 1.. i? iveugiuus (uiu secium, 10 "Having a large sale, and is supplanting all other medicines. "There is no denying the virtues of the Hop plant, and the proprietors of Hop Bitter* have shown great shrewdness and ability * * * "In compounding a medicine whose virtues are so palpable to everyone's observation." Did She Die? "No! "She lingered and suffered long, pininj away all the time for years," "The doctors doing ner no good;" "And at last was cured by this Hop Bitter.: the papers say so much about." "Inaeedl Indeed!" "How thankful we should be for that medicine." A Daughter's Misery. "Eleven years our daughter suffered on a bed of misery, "From a complication of kidney, liver,rheumatic trouble and Nervous debility. "Under the care of the best physicians, "Who gave her disease various names, "But no relief, "And now she is restored to us in good health by as simple a remedy as Hop Bitters, that we had shunned for years before using it" ?Thx Parents. Father is Getting Well. "My daughters say: "How much better father is since he used Hop Bitters." / "He is getting well after his long suffering ; from a disease declared incurable." -?? "And we are so glad that he used yoar Bitters."?A Lady of Utica, N. Y. t3T None genuine without a bunch of greeo Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile, poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hops" in their name. NYWU-29 Cataw r h t?aofcs5?ftjw ^ * peculiar Minptomi. Itfi H|V%>I attenced by an Inflamed "T 9 ~ condition of the lining m^LRCAU DMW^Smembrane of tha netDn?",fvl Hill, war-duct? and mWtt*nZ*rH HPAnl An acrid mncnfta**WCv^O/ n 7^4/* mil creted, tb? disc buz* 1* rHwFEVER?! ijsekss.iIS* [fy ityS Tbere are ??T?r? ipuai M- iJ V" /SB uf ! e?zing, freqaenl K* / V\A/ attacks ol beadaob#. '.rater/and i&fiamea F53Mwi\C!0^q9/ Cream Bala is ^ remedjr foondad onm liJVCcO ^ correct dUgnods of this IsE^ZjisJ ass "Sr ? HAY-FEVER siroplo'botSe tJ'mSii 10c. Ely Bbob., Druggists, Owsgo. N. 7. HUDSON RIVER R. R. Bondnctor Melius Sath Something of latef est to All Travelers. . . * PouoHKZxrsir, N. Y., Feb S3, VXL I Or. D. Kennedy, Rondout, K. T.: i Dxab 8a: I have used roar medicine called Sr.* KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY, for Iodlfe* don and Dizziness. to which I was subject at times. u?d know from experience that is worthy ot all ihat can be said of It for disorders of that kind. Respectfully, W. S. Mbmus,69 Harrison street That Dr. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY is extensively used along the Use of the Hudson River Railroad, ia shown by the following 'torn Tarry town. The writer is none other than Mr. DeRevere, the Station Agent of the Hadsoa River Railroad Company at Tarry to wn, a man wsfl known In that community: ; ] Tarbttowk, N. Y., Feb. 99,1884. j Dr. D. Kennedy, Rondout, A. Y.: 1 Dxab Sra: For a long time I was troubled with evere attacks of Duzintu and Blind Siei Headaches. I thought It was doe to impure blood and a disordered state of the system. I was advised to try FAVORITE REMEDY. I did so, and bare been completely cured. It's the best thing I ere? heai d of for any disorder of that nature, and I've recommended it to many with like success. A DxRara*. Dr. KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY Is not confined In Its sphere of usefulness to one State or locality, but is balled as a boon by hundreds la every Bute. as the following letter'from MUlrde, N. J., will show: , MnxvTLLi, N. J. Dr. David Kennedy. Rondout, Ar. Y.: Dear Sir- I had Wn a sufferer from Dyspepsia from the time I was sixteen years old. I had consulted various physiclana but could find no relief hflrofftPA h*f\ ftlmrnt flrlvAn nn in f)ACT\A.{r of ATM recoTsrWhealtb, when Dr. l&NNED^'S FAVORITE REMEDY wa? recommended, which I trl?d and bare been cured. It'* the best medicine I ere* knew of, and worthy of the greatest confidence. MB8. & C. Dopohmtt. Wainul Leal Hair Keiurw. ^K|i7^PfnivMp 1% li entirely different from all others. and aa ttajuaa Indicates Is a perfect Vegetablo Hair Restorer. It wfll immediately free the head from all dandruff, restore gam btir to its natural oolor. and produce a new ?*oirtfl where It has fallen off. It does not affeot the health which sulphur, ?ug*r of lead aud nitrate of (liver pregar bona hare done. It will change light or faded hair in a few days to a beautiful glossy brown. Ask your drontt for It. Each bottle is warranted. Smith, Kline i Co-, Wholesale A<|ts, Phila.. Pa., snd O.W.Onttenton.W.T. D? FOOTE8 Original METHODS MY! CVCQUftde New without doc- 07 ULU LI CO tor?,medlclneorglMs?a|f Alf n RUPTU RE Ssa&asSsflvfll PUIUfKK Cnpe< *'tbontcutting;HIJDUII rnimuoio new.palitfeM.safe.sure.l I K|li! NERVOUS CHRONIC flo cnlled "incurable." SSS&. Address Dr. E. B. FOOTF. Bot 78S. y. Y. Ofr. t'aynes' Automatic Engines and Saw-IUIlt?. ^ OUR LEADER. TTe offer an 8 to 10 H. 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