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"W p. : : ? HUMIL1 T"Y r ??'" 1 The dew that never wets the flinty mountain, j Falls in the valley free; c Bright verdure fringes the small desert foun. E tain, But barren sand the sea. < Not in the stately oak the fragrance dwellotb, j Which charms the ireneral wood: I But in tho violet low, where sweetness tcl- J leth, ] Its unseen neighborhood. i HIS ONE GLORIOUS NIGHT. | Mr. Block was bald-headed. Extreme < self-esteem hacl made him bald; for it had prevented him from selling his pic- < tures, except at prices which nobody ' would pay, and compelled him to make 1 etchings and sketches in the small hours of the night to keep soul and body to- ' gether. Such severe application and the sleeplessness which it induccd had deprived Mr. Block of his capillary adornments.! No lotions or magical compounds ' would restore to him the crown of beauty which he had lost. This was a severe 1 trial to Mr. Block, not because he was ( vain, but because he was engaged, lie ' had been engaged to Miss Apollonia i Schwingcr for nearly twenty years, and < what is still more remarkable, Apollonia I had been engaged to him lor nearly twice that period. For she devoutedly believed < that she had been expressly made for Mr. Block, and that Mr. Block, from the shining hour of his birth, had been expressly destined for her. Mr. Block declared himself in pcrfect accord with this arrangement, although at times, when he saw how gray Apollonia was getting, he had doubts. But he was a loyal man, Mr. Block was, and moreover he had gotton so accustomed to being engaged to Apollonia that he could not imagine how he should feel if he were not. Beside, Apollonia had her points; she had been decidedly handsome in her day, and at home in Switzerland 6he had been considered quite a catch. After the death of both her parents she had come to Rome, and after a few modest exploits in art had opened a boarding-house. It was generally understood that an Italian prince had proposed to her, but then there arc few flourishing boarding-house keepers in Rome who have not had the chancc of becoming princesses; that is, of course, 011 condition of boarding the prince free. Apollonia could not afford to do this, and therefore she declined. Her first consideration, however, was her tenderness for Mr. Block, from whose genius she expected a greater distinction than that of world lv ra-jk. | It will 'je observed that Apollonia was j s a trifle romantic. Art was to her a ! 1 sacred thing, in the presence of which j f she would have taken oil her hat, if her j t hat Jiad been detachable. When she s visited Mr. Block's studio, as she often j ] ^td, in the company of a chaperon, she j c T?-"walked on tiptoe and talked in whispers. t She believed firmly that the world would 11 some day recognize Mr. Block's great- | \ ncss, and then she would be rewarded j t V for her long and weary waiting. In the 1 t meanwhile she could only pity the world c for its purblind stupidity in not j t recognizing Mr. Block. Only think e of the splendid gallery Mr. Block had collected of his own works?gam- c bling peasants, shepherds from the Cam- I pagna playing morra, ctc.?think of all s these radiant works of genius, which c * ' - * * - " " _ j* i ? might be Ma lor the pairrv sura 01 any i a or sixty thousand dollars! Of course t Mr. Block was perfectly right in refusing v to sell such gems for five hundred or a g thousand francs. She would rather wait n until the moment of recognition came, ii when he would be able, jicrhaps, to sell s them all together'to his native city of t "Berne, to be preserved forever in a sepa- j t rate building, to be called the Block ; a museum. Apollonia wept for very joy I when she thought of distant generations u deriving inspiration and enjoyment from t this museum, and blessing her name be- L cause she had upheld and strengthened 1: Mr. Block in his defiance of the world's li miserable disregard. t I am very sure that the reader will now expect me to tell him that Mr. Block was a a poor artist. No, my dear sir; there e you are wide of the mark. Mr. Block 1 was, on the whole, more than a g fair artist. He was not a great a onfl aViininrr lirrht nfirhflns r bllt he C 'J? was far from being a charlatan, a ' He was a little old bachelor, who with v conscientious and painstaking industry h and respectable talent had devoted his 1 life to art. If, however, you had expressed such an estimate of him in his e bearing, he jwould promptly have li knocked you down. He might be too poor to get his dinner, but he was never ii poor enough to pocket a profitable snub, or to descend from the lofty pedestal on v his artistic dicnity. He never let Apol- s Ionia knnow that he sometimes suffered want: and he never condescended to c visit her in time for dinner. Moreover, in the matter of dress he was extremely b particular; when he pawned his waist- n coat, he only brushed his coat the more s carefully, buttoned it close, and allowed a fragmentary tic of a bri?ht silk hand- l kerchief to protrude slightly from the t outer breast pocket, as fashion prescribed, c He had bought this many-colored hand- ?. kerchief twelve years ago, and had cut it up into as many tips as its size would allow, using only one at a time, C ^ managing by an artful division of the pattern to give to each tip the q effect of a different handkerchief. In spite of all these precautions, however, tho rumor crraduallv spread in the artis tic colony that Block was miserably poor, p Some discreetly ottered to help him, f nd ^ were told, with polite circumlocutions, a to mind their own business. Others, jj who had perhaps seen him make a din- ti ner off a dish of broccoli and a slice of h dry bread, tried in all sorts of under- tj hand ways to make him their beneficiary; |, but his sensitive pride always detected s\ disguised charities, and promptly re- w pelled them. In fact, he suffered so $ keenly from these well-meant attempts w to succor him that his friends would q have done better if they had permitted gj him to starve in peace and self-respect, p Apollonia. as I have intimated, had p no idea that Mr. Block was having a $ hand-to-hand fight with starvation. She saw occasionally one of his etchings in 0 the illustrated papers, and naturally sup- f, posed that etching was an immensely j, profitable business. When Mr. Block }j entered her parlor at lmlf-past eight in j? the evening and made her the mose cere- ^ monious of bows, her old heart fluttered a and the tears often came into her eyes at 0 p$p8 tlie thought of his staunch aud loyal de- n Ril-IK votion. When, at the end of an hour's i. discreet and undemonstrative conversation, he arose to take his leave, be usu- j g ally stooped to kiss her hand, and re- j a marked, "Miss Schwinger, this day has j brought us one day nearer tD our mar- j j( riage." j t At these words Apollonia's foolish old ; 0 . heart positively ran riot, and her faded j r old cheeks exhibited a coy little virginal r blush. | p "The dear good man!" sho would say j to herself, with a sigh, as she seated lier- 1 t self on the sofa after his departure. And ! e then, for some reason or other, the tears ran silently, one by one, down her a cheeks, while the knitting-needles click- : s ed nimbly, and the toe of the stocking I ^ grew several inches too long, and shower, | no signs of contracting. f It was in the winter of 1870, I think ^ that Mr. Breitkopf, a wealthy manufac- t turer from Berne, made his appearance j in the lioman colony. Mr. Breitkopf, t it was rumored, had come to Italy for c the purpose of buying pictures for his ] frnllprv nnrl tlir> artists snrflmbied and , *v" ? * | i fought for bis acquaintance like a pack ! s of wolves for a fat sheep. Ilis courier j r made quite a fortune from artists' fees, \ and even his dog was made an object of a marked attention. Brcitkopf, however, j took his time before making his invest- j ment. lie passed by the works of the j most distinguished masters with a mere r passing glance, and expressed the most j, unorthodox opinions about everybody ' v and everything. Ilis ta.ste, if he pos- g sessed any such organ, was certainly ec- j centric; and a certain obstinate and selfwilled independence, characteristic of the self-made man, inclined him to sub- ? scribe to no opinion which he suspected of being en regie. After having passed a month in exasperating the notabilities v of the artistic fraternity, Breitkopf one i a . day happened to see the name Anton t Block on the door of n rather shabby j a studio. He inquired of his courier who j li Anton Block was, and his courier \ t nhriirrorAr] hi? shonlHpi-c jiq mimh as tn ! r say that he was nothing remarkable. | f That piqued the manufacturer's curiosity, e He knocked at the door and entered the a studio. Within fifteen minutes he had I bought three pictures at five hun- v dred dollars each. Here was actu- t ally an artist whom no one had thought c worth mentioning to him, and that an c artist from Berne, his own native city. ! t It was the blackest envy, of course, I o which had leagued the rascals together ; li in a conspiracy to keep this great man c from his notice. But he would teach the t courier-bribers a lesson; he would show r , . them that he was not to be duped. The c more he thought of it, the angrier he s ..... ... . * \ ? r jrew, and the angrier he grew, the more ic bought. Three more "pictures were ransferred to his possession, and two ;liecks, for fifteen hundred and one thou;and dollars, to Block's pocket-book. Breitkopf was in ecstasy; lie had dis:overed a man of genius from Berne?a nan who, so to speak, knocked the ;pots out of all his competitors. He alked of nothing but Anton Block. All he foreign correspondents, who had litherto studiously ignored the little r r> ?.?,"1 ,1 1.. ,1 rnrl nun uuui i>L"ruc, suuuvuiv uuw<uvu ivhot-a romantic cbaractcr he was, and illed columns upon columns with the itory of his poverty and his sudden good fortune. Block himself, however, accepted the latter as nothing but his due. lie behaved with the most admirable dignity. The only piece of indiscretion which he committed, under the stimulus of a pardonable elation, was to kiss Apollonia on the forehead instead of, as before, 011 the hand. But Apollonia thought that was so marvelous that she was scarcely surprised at all when he followed it up with the announcement that now he was at last in a position to marry. The only thing that troubled him (though this he did not confess to Apollonia) was the rumors about his former poverty, and the ivtlront to his dignity implied in the ?ITorts of his meddlesome friends to help him. The newspapers, particularly the French, made him furious, and he was consumed with a wild desire to murder some of those romancing correspondents. His regard for Apollonia, however, restrained his wrath, and after some mediation he hit upon another plan, which :iad the merit ot being both ingenious ind effective. He sent out supcroiv engraved cards?all strictly comme il faut ?inviting everybody he knew to a grand aanquct at the hotel Constanzi to celcjrate his engagement with Apollonia >chwinger. lie gave the proprietor of he hotel carte blaucho, and only told lim to get up some thiuir in the best style he knew, regardless of expense. It was a very grand assembly which greeted Mr. Block that night in the parors of the Costanzi. All his meddle- j >omc friends and all his pet enemies ivcrc there?Italian noblemen, French ind German attaches of legations, artists )f all grades of eminence and obscurity, aalf a dozen monsignori, ladies of lofty jirth and gorgeous toilets, and ladies of owly birth and dowdy toilets?in fact, jverybody who had ever done a kind >r an unkind deed to Mr. Anton Block, 9,4l*irfTT vonro nf lnq rpsiflnnftfi ?UUU? mv, JV. ; n Rome, lie had honored with an inviation. lie felt as happy as a king when le took his seat with Apollonia at the lead of the brilliantly decorated banpieting board, and he conducted hiraelf with a dignity which would have >een becoming an emperor. Apollonia elt as if ner heart would burst; it posiively danced to the tune of Mendelsohn's wedding niach, which the band ilayed as she walked with an ambassalor at the head of the proccession into he magnificently lighted sail a' manger. Uid when Block raised his glass and vclcouied the company, that same exciable heart of hers shot up into her hroat, and remained there for the rest if the evening. She was so jubilant hat she feared she would die from sheer xcess of happiness. The banquet went off with brilliant clat. Everybody was amiable, wellired and amusing. Great dignitaries, ecular and ecclesiastic, made speeches clebrating the host's shining merits: -J \r_ with nr,i UU JU. IJiUiiJVWjji, UKuiv-'Jujj ???%.** vu | husiasm, compared him in one breath cith Raphael,Leonardo, and Michael An[elo. That was perhaps a little too iuch, and Block, without conceding an ch of what he had held to be his lc;itimate due, deprecated his friend's exjavagance. lie made a positive sensaion to the dry wit, nea t conciseness, nd admirable taste of his reply. Everylody's face shone with delight and adniration; and Block stood, glass in tand, narrowly watching his would-be icnefactors'while he ^spoke, and in his leart he crowed over them, and sipped lis triumph like a precious wine, with ;een relish, in small delicious sips. There could be no doubt of it; it was n enormous success. But all things aust have an end.and so also a banquet, t was long after midnight when the quests departed; and when at last Anton nd Apollonia stood alone in the desertd salon, he suddenly clasped her in his rras and kissed her. lie had to give ent to his ecstacv in some way. If she tad not happened to be near he might iave embraced the waiter. ''Glory, glory, hallelujah!" he shoutd, and waltzed round the room with her ike a madman. "Mr. Block! Mr. Block!" she cried, a faint remonstrance, "let me go." "Glory hallelujah!" cried Block, and | whirled about with more maddening I peed. "I shall die, Mr. Block," she whisper- | d, sinking into bis arms exhausted. "Do die," exclaimed Block, with wild ioyish abandon; "let us both die. We nay never have another chance of dying o gloriously." Then flinging his arms about Apolonia's waist he lifted her up on the :ible, struck au attitude before her, and leclaimed: Oh happy he whom Death tho bloody laurels In victory's radiance winds about his crest, . (r whom in rapture of swift maddening ! dances He finds reposing on his maiden's breast; h, would that I, before tho Spirit's power. Had fallen stark and dead in victory's hour!'' It was a pity, perhaps, that Mr. Block's rayer was not fulfilled. He would then avc left a glorious name behind him, nd Mr. Breitkopf would perhaps have ought in his whole collection at aucion, and founded the Block museum in is native city. Moreover, if Death had iken him at his word, he would have een absolved from the unpleasant necesity of paying the bill for the banquet, hich, I regret to say, amounted to 3,521.30. Block came near fainting hen it was presented to him; but uickly collecting himself, he seated himjlf easilv. and without a murmur of rotest made out a check for the amount, t was done with such royal sang-froid liat the caterer, who had come prepared ) haggle, and perhaps to take off thirty r forty per cent., was completely dumbMinded. lie was about to apologize or ustify his charges; but Block waved im off grandly, and seized his palette, iut no sooner had the rascal gone than e hastily wrapped one of his pictures in pillow-case, ran to a pawnbroker, and btained the fifty fraucs which were eeded to square his account with the ank. Thereupon Anton Block resumed his enteel and well-disguised fight with his j ncient enemy poverty. lie represented I o Apollonia that, all things considered, | t would be rather an unwise proceeding | o marry just now, and Apollonia, good Id soul that she was, was tearfully and | eluctantly persuaded that Mr. Block was i ight, as always. What particularly im-| iressed her was the necessity of produc- j ng as many masterpieces as possible for j he post-mortem museum, and it was vident that if Mr. lilock was married, i te could not devote his undivided zeal ,nd ambition to this sublime cause. To be ure, there was a proposition which rumbled on the very tip ot her tongue, md that was that Mr. Block might oc:upy the position in her house which he Italian prince had vainly coveted; g., become a free matrimonial boarder 11 return for the dignity which his illusrious name conferred on the proprietress >f the establishment. But the unmaideny boldness of such a proposal presently ose before her in nil its enormity, and he became so flustered that there was ; lothing left for her but meekly acquiesce \ n Mr. Block's arrangements. The last j greement, I believe, is that as soon as ireitkopf establishes the Block Museum , n Berne their wedding day is to be fixed. ! }ut up to date Mr. Breitkopf has kept I emarkably quiet. Nevertheless, Apol- j onia never takes up a Berne newspaper ] without a feverish little blush and a j trange and unaccountable agitation.? j Ijalmarll. Boyc&cii, in llarper't Weekly. 7Iio Amount of >Vntor Trees Absor!). ! Dr. J. M. Anders, in a geological sur- j ey report,gives the result of his inquiry | sto the quantity of water pumped from j he earth by trees. lie finds that the j veragc exhalation from soft, thin- ; i-aved plants in clear weather amounts : 0 about one and a quarter ounces troy >er day of twelve hours for every square ; oot of surface. Hence a moderate sized j lm tree raises and throws oft seven and | nd three-quarters tons of water per day. j n the report the facts are applied to I 1 hat is going on in America, where cer- j ain inland fertile districts are becoming ' onvcrtcd into deserts by wholesale j learings; and in other places, such as he plains of Colorado, where only five r six years of irrigation and planting I tave already produced a measurable iu- I rease of rainfall. It is maintained that he deserts of Syria and Africa are the esults of cuttiug down trees, nnd that original luxuriance may be restored by killful planting.?Detroit Free Press. THE STRANGLERS OF INDIA1 MEW WHO MADE MtTRDEB A BEGU- S LAB BUSINESS. f The Thug* and Tlicir methods of Killing: People?<?uided by <?ood ] and Bad Omens. In the year 1807 a band of Indian ras- < cals was accidcntly detected in the act of dividing what turned out to be the , clothes and other property of some murI dcred travelers, and by laboriously fol . lowing this cluc that great mystery of inimiit.v _ ThufjTec ? was eventually "*"1 ""J oo dragged into the light. Some years later i)r. Sherwood, an old 1 resident in India, published a pamphlet ] about the Thugs which sent a thrill of horror both through the Anglo-Indian 1 and the British public. According to ) him the sect seems to have originated ages ago in the north of India, where its ( members were called Thugs,or Deceivers, , and thence spread south under the name of Phausigars or Stranglers. 1 Thuggee was not only a profession, but a religion as well,and so close and secret 1 were its principles that little was really known of it even among the natives 1 themselves. To speak of the Thugs, or ! even to think of them, was held to be unlucky. No good could, and much i | harm might, come of it. ; The profession of Thuggee was kept I strictly in the Thug families, descending I from father to son. If a stranger wished j to enter, he had to get some holy old I Thn.r to n?'rec to become his cooroo, or O - - "O ------ ? spiritual parent. After years of apprenticeship, aud having passed creditably , through the inferior olHccs of scout, grave-digger, and holder of hands of shamshea, he was lit to climb to the top of the professional tree as a bhurtote or strangles Having been ordered to purify himself by prayer and lasting, and to ' have as much silver money about him as possible, the candidate and his gooroo, with a shamshea, started off disguised as ordinary travelers. If possible, they joined company with some solitary, poor wayfarer, and waited patiently for the time when, after the midday meal, he lay down to sleep in the shade; but, before proceeding to actual business,it was necessary to withdraw and watch for a good omen. If it came shortly they turned their faces westward, and the gooroo, oUnir tV>/? hnnrllrprnliinf- tied at one end UlftlU6 # the goor kliat or holy knot, with a rupee inside it. lie then delivered it to the disciple, who, leaving the gooroo to pray to Davee, the goddess from whom they [ claimed to have sprung, crept stealthily with the shamshea to the uncon- , ^ scious slumberer, whom they awoke, and in an instant his hands were pinioned, the fatal noose passed around his neck; then came a stifled cry, a choking gurgle, a convulsive struggle and the sleep of the grave settled on his eyes forever! This work being done, the murderers, leaving the corpse to the gravediggers, who were not far oft, returned to "their friends, to whom the gooroo presented his sen in triumph as a fullblown bhurtote or strangles He then took back his own rupee as well as getting all his son's monej', for the purchase , of what was wanted for the solemn feast, ! to which ail friends were invited, and . the chief dainty of which was the dish . of goor or holy sugar. A sleeper, said The Thug informers, was always aroused before being stran- 1 gled, because their religion expressly j forbade the killing of one who slept. ' The reason of this probably was a fear 1 'est an attempt to slip the noose around ! the neck of a person lying down might be a failure, and result in an alarm and detection. In winter Thugs pretend to follow dif- 1 fercnt occupations, and in summer set ' out on their strangling expeditions. I Sometimes they traveled in small parties, and at other times in bauds of a hundred or even two hundred strong. If a soli- i tary passenger was overtaken his fate ] was scaled. Several Thugs would creep j up behind him, seize his arms and legs, j twist the handkerchief round his neck, ( and throw him to the ground a corpse. They often disguised themselves as merchants, artisans, soldiers aud pil- , grims. Their scouts, going on in ad- ' vance, entered the towns, and learned , what travelers were on the road, their , numbers, apparent wealth, and whether armed or otherwise. With them the Thugs would mingle like harmless wayfarers; gradually, and without exciting 1 suspicion, each traveler would be placed 1 between a shamshea and a bhurtoie,who, 1 at a given signal, would seize upon the 1 victim and draw tight the deadly noose. 1 Not infrequently a company of thirty or J forty persons, men, women ana cnuaren, who had banded together for mutual J safety, has been thus in a few minutes < destroyed. 1 In burying the dead, the Thugs first i broke all the joints and then ripped open 1 the bodies, lest these,by swelling.should ? crack the earth above, and be scented i out by the jackals. If possible, they dug the graves in the jungle; but, if the ground was open, they would encamp and light fires to dry the damp, freshly- i turned earth. Nothing was ever left to ] chance. The travelers' graves were often 1 dug beforehand in some lonely jungle. f At the beginning of the present century 1 there were supposed to be ten thousand 1 Thugs in all India who annually murdered c thirty thousand people. Between the i years 1830 and 1837 more than nineteen i hundred were hanged or imprisoned in t Bombay, Madras and Bengal. Thuggee t is considered then lo have become within < ten years afterward quite extinct. ] But ancient customs die hard in the a East, and it is not impossible that in the ? remote parts of India, especially in the s native principalities, it may linger even i yet. j] Of the thousands of persons who dis- 1 appear annually in India, there are many t of whom their friends only know that n they were and are not. Wild beasts 1 they suppose have destroyed them; bat t it may be that on some lonely road they t have encountered a savage more crafty s and relentless than even the man-eater r or hooded snake.?All the Year Jlouh/. c ? r General Gordon's I'aner Money. 51 A Gubnt letter to fi London paper says: "The Muhdi, when Khartoum fell, secured the whole of General Gordon's papers, together with a large number of bank notes issued by the gallant defender of Khartoum. These, we are informed, he is now taking steps to negotiate, and obtain much-needed ready cash by discounting them. As General Gordon pledged England's word to redeem them, it will require some ingenuity to defeat the Mahdi's object. Indeed, it will be next to impossible to detect the notes which the Madia lias seized 51 and those which have been circulated bona lidc by General Gordon himself, especially as all documents are in the False Prophet's hands. Many of the I people Irom Khartoum who came here in V Gordon's steamers hold these notes, which s thev obtained in a perfectly legitimate 1 manner, and such claims as theirs can ( scarcely be overlooked. Many natives, * moreover, who months ago held friendly c and trading relations with Khartoum, v have these pieces of paper, and they will * ccrtainly look for their redemption. s Many of the notes have been bought by t the officers here at a far higher rate than t tncir notniuui value, as u mcmcmo 01 " the licro who is gone. Another relic of '' the gallant defense of Khartoum, how- 1 ever, is even more sought after than the v bank notes, and that is the leaden medals 1 which (Jeneral (Jonl on ordered to be struck J and distributed to every man, woman and ' child in the beleaguered city, in token of f the bravery they had displayed. Scveial ' of these medals were in possession of ^ Gordon's men, but they were so eagerly c bought up, not only by officers but by a the men too, that they arc now at a ' premium, and at such a premium, too, " that an olTcr of their weight iu gold fails r to induce the lucky owners to part with c them." 1 A Novel Contest. r The great sword contest on horseback 1 between Duncan G. Koss, the champion 1 all-round athlete of the world, and Sor- 1 ge-int Owen Davis of the I'nitcd States T. army, for $300 a side, was decided at J Central Park, San Francisco, recently. c About :?,000 persons were present. The c costumes of the men were those usually worn by wieldcrs of the sword, consisting of au iron coat of mail, and having their htfads incased in an iron mask sup- 1 porting a helmet, on top of which a small 1 llag waved idly in the breeze. The con- t tcsr, which was very interesting, and at i times very exciting, was won by Davis I I araifl tremendous chcerinir. Ross proved ^ he was a finished swordsman, but the j r horse being a racer, was frequently un- j 1 manageable. The blows exchanged dur- j t ing the affair must have been very severe, J 6 as the thick armors showed deep dents j ^ on the back and on several parts of the < breast it was cut through. Both men I looked exhausted after the battle, on ac- a count of the bearing of their heavy armor t and the trouble which their horses caused a them. c n Within the last nine years 800 churches f have been destroyed by fire in America, t v;"-sv- -'izj&zsmzm&i&v^ # - .. * ' " I - i *EWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Miss Mary Anderson carries a life inurance of $100,000. There are 7.1G2 women missionaries j md preachers in England. There are GOO professional beauties in London who don't work at all. Yellow is a distinctively fashionable :olor in the new spring millinery. The old chine silks are revived, with ings of a dark color on light grounds. Tea gowns and morning gowns are joth made with blouse fronts and long :rains. There is a widow in Birmingham, Ala., hirteen years old, and she attends the public school. Tulle, embroidered with daisies, cornflowers and buttercups in chenillc, is unong the novelties. Susan H. Anthony began life as a school teacher at a month, and in fifteen years saved $300. In Valparaiso women have obtained their "rights1' so far as to be employed is conductors on the horse cars. The nine daughters of the late Bishop Jackson, of London, were married to nine vicars in the bishop's diocese. The .Empress Jbugenic is sam 10 own several houses in New York city which yield her a handsome income for the rents. Now silk jerseys arc beautifully beaded with jet in various designs, and sometimes in patterns covering the whole garment. The newest lace pins aro 111 the shape of a moss rose, and arc made of red gold set with a diamond surrounded by sapphires. Some of the new cashmere gloves have the long waists cmbridered in chain stitch on the closed tops, with silk of a paler shade. The women of Turkey wear the same kind of trowsers as ttie men all the year round, save when they attend a ball or upon state occasions. Upright jabot bows in front of a bunch of nodding flowers, which tower above the high crown of the hats, arc the features in Spring millinery. All the trimmings of hats and bonnets are placed directly in front over the forehead, on the forepart of the crown, nnrl tmrpr Ti-rrh nlinvfi the same. v~ 15" In the Ecole de Mcdecinc, in Paris, there are 78 women students, of whom 40 are Russians, 14 Frenchwomen, 11 Englishwomen and 7 Americans. Some of the new spring hats have high Tyrolean crowns and narrow brims, looped very high on one side with a space in the loops for the trimmings. Two pupils in a school in Washington Territory were recently obliged to stay at home and take care of the baby while their mother attended court as a juror. In underwear the latest craze is for tucking. Tucks in groups and clusters, narrow and wide, arc seen in all articles of underclothing to the exclusion of lace or embroidery. The new sateens almost rival silks and satins in beauty; the variety of styles arc almost innumerable. Tapestry sateens with patterns in imitation of cross-stitch work arc new and pretty. The most fashionable colors of the spring season are the smoke blue and grays, the stone shades, rock grays and Mushroom browns. The smoke blues and grays suggest color rather than show it. V>nit< ie on fnoViinnnhlr* tliflf. TCfiw Voi k ladies arc ordering white wigs to wear at evening entertainments, or thev use powder to excess oil the puITs and loops of their ever growing higher and higher coiffures. The colors in new silk gloves range from dark to pale shades of modes, tan, russet, and nut brown frcm filbert and hazel to chestnut, golden brown, grays from slate to pale Rxissian, and many intermediate tints of gray, blue, amber, ind mastic. Gilt or silver-figured woolens are shown again for spring; in these there ire merely a few bars, blocks or rings of lifferent sizes done in dark, twilled tvoolen, and these figured parts form the rest and trim the lower part of the front )f the skirt. In proposing by letter to a young lady, iu Indianapolis lawyer borrowed a fornula from a book on etiquette. The young lady learned the source of the nspiration of his pen, and by way of rer)ly used the formula prescribed in the ;ame book for a declination. All the managing mammas among the English nobility are arranging to bring >ut their debutantes simultaneously with .he Prince of Wales' two daughters, espectively seventeen and sixteen, who .vill be launched on the sea of English iocictv the coming season, which begins a juiv. Intelligent Seals. Tlircc varieties of seal seek tho great ce packs of the Newfoundland coast in March to bring forth their young?the lurp seal, the hood seal and the square lipper. There is another seal which requents this coast and is native to it, jut differs greatly in habit from the )thers. It is called the dotard, and does lot whelp until the fishing season is learly over, and as the young seals are he most desirable portion of the catch he dotard does not make up to any ;reat extent the cargoes of the vessels, [t does not escape entirely, however, for ill summer long and through the fall ind winter months it is netted and ipcared and shot in large numbers by the slanders, who are natural seal hunters ind many of whom do little else. The lide of the native seal is valued more han that of the three others mentioned, is it is beautifully spotted, and is used argely in making gloves, covering ruuKs ana lor iur coais. ine young ui he native seal is marked with black .pots, and as a morsel for the epicure is is delicious as the choicest canvasback luck that ever swam. The dotard seal lever leaves the island, and it will not ssociate with any other variety of the eal family. The female seal brings forth ts young in the latter part of May. They eek the isolated rocks in the bays surounding the island, especially selecting lie northern coast. The native seal of Newfoundland is very iutelligcntand sagacious. The educated seals of the mueuins and side shows are always members of the dotard family, and when aken young may be taught almost any rick. It is a saying among the Ncwoundland salmon lishermen, if a man is mrticularly shrewd, that "he is as smart is a dotard."?New York Times. Food of the Ancients. Julius Caesar, records that the ancient Jritons accounted it impious to eat ;oose, and Galen condemns tlie same avory bird as fit ouly to bo put on a evel with the ostrich. Shade of Father .'hristmas! to call the goose no better ban the ostrich! Who would dream of atingan ostrich?that omnivorous biped vhich is said to be able to digest anyhing short of lace collars? We say hort of lace collars, because that was lie only item found in the stomach >f a ; ame ostrich which mysteriously expired iter ii hearty meal of rusty nails and niscellaneous etceteras, among which mppencd to be some of the family vasliing of its proprietor. Hut Galen vas no worse than Aristotle, who comnended the flesh of hawks; and, ndeed, Galen himself recommended the l/idt r\C frtvna IFn roof riot n/I flirt CAflCnn I Vi 1 WW I lowcvcr, to the autumn, when they vere busy feeding on the stolen crapes >f the vineyards. Yet while Galen, iloni; with Herodotus, considered the lesh of dogs most excellent, Galen, ilong with Pliny, repudiated horseflesh is utterly abominable. "We have not :otne to eating horseflesh in this country, >ut in many parts of the continent it is sxposed for sale as freely as beef and nutton, and that it is quite as palatable, he present writer can testify. Herodotus ells that in Persia not only was liorselcsli eaten, but also that camels were oasted whole at times of great rejoicings, ust as In our grandfather's time, whole )xen used to be roasted on special oc:asions.?.1// the Year Round. Shop Signs. Shop signs were introduced into Engand from France in the reign of Edvard III., and they became so general hat nearly every Bhopkceper in London : j j i .i i.: mil one uispiaycu uuisiuu ins suujj. jircat ingenuity was shown in the in'ention of signs calculated to prove nost attractive to the passer by, and argc sums of money were expended in his species of advertising. These iigns were not affixed to the houses, but vore placed on posts, or hung thereon m hinges, at the edge of the footpath. ;o largely did these increase that they ibsolutcly obstructed the free circulaion of air, and are supposed to be unong the causcs of the frequent epilemical disorders of London. They ilso naturally aided the spread of con- ; lagrations, and on these grounds were af- I crward forbidden to bo displayed. I ... . . ' LIFE'S HUMOROUS PHASES. STOBXES TOLDCT MEBEY WAGS OF 1 THE PBESS. t ( Kcvcnpinu Pa?A Solemn Moment? t An AmeiTcan Fable?Typical Went- 3 crn Fertility?Subdued by Size. ' " It's a shame that Mr. Blobbs should 1 i -fofV.nT- ? 1 I1LLVC WCBICU. yuil au auuiuiuauij, auwuu. "Yes, it is a shame, daughter. It's I outrageous, it's scandalous." "Is lie a bachelor, pa?" "Yes, he's a dried up, crusty old "bach." "Oh, well, pa, don't worry then. I'll get even with him for you. You shall be avenged." "And how?" "I'll marry him."?Boston Times. A Solemn moment. After the marriacc of Miss Lillian Sniges, of Dallas, the bridal party partook of a sumptuous banquet, toward the end of which a younger brother of the bride got up, and said solemnly, raising his glass: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have to propose a toast, which, however, must be drunk standing. Please take your glasses and rise up." The guests, although somewhat be wildered, did so. "Now," said the young scapegrace, , "if you will remain standing for a few minutes I'll find out who has been sitting ] on my new stove-pipe hat."?Siftings. i I Fable of the Fox and Woodchuck, i A Woodchuck who had, at great Labor J and many Back-Aches, managed to cx- ( cavate a Hole for Himself in a Hillside, ] was resting and congratulating Himself when along came ?. Fox. who said: < "Ah?urn! Just Fits me! I've been i Looking for just such a Den the last i three months." < "You don't mean to Steal my Home i away?" queried the Woodchuck. 1 "Might makes Right in this Blizzard Country, and don't you Forget it! Take ; yourself ofF, or I'll make you sad!" ! The Fox took Possession, and the ] Woodchuck withdrew, but next morning i he passed that way to find the Fox fast i in a Trap at the mouth of the Den. ] Some boys had Baited for Woodchuck : and caught a Fox. As they Appeared on the scene Reynard called out: i "I am but a poor Fox, whilo you are : Learned and Intelligent Human Beings. You have no right to Sacrifice me in this . manner!" "Ah! Yes, but this is a Question of Might instead of Right!" was the Re- j ply, as he was Knocked on the Head. Moral: "It Ceases to be Funny when Both Sides begin to play the Same Game.?Detroit Free Press. Typical Western Fertility. Tlic following story of an engineer on a Western railway shows how fast the country i3 growing. We do not hold j ourselves responsible for the truth of the . story, but we do not hesitate to say that it is "not much of a story," compared with that told by the Western man who makes an eirort: "One day I was driving my engine over the prairie at the rate of forty miles an hour, without a house in sight, and 1 supposing the nearest town to be thirty ] miles distant. But as I glanced ahead ] I was astonished to see that I was ap- , proaching a large city. I rubbed my . eyes, thinking it was a mirage. "Jim," says I to the fireman, 'what's this place?' ( "Blamed if I know!" says Jim, staring , out of the cab. 'I declare, if there ain't : a now town growed up here since we j went over the line yesterday!' " 'I believe you are right, Jim. Iling the bell or we shall run over somebody!' . l'So I slowed up and we pulled into a large depot where more'n five hundred people were waiting to see the first train ctyme into the place. The conductor i learned the name of the town, put it down on the schedule, and we went on. " Mini,'says I, as we pulled out, 'keep , your eyes open for new towns. First ^ thing you know we'll be runnin' by some , strange place.' " 'That's so!' says Jim. 'An hadn't : we better git one of the brakeraen to watch out on the rear platform for towns flint anrinrr nn nffnr the enfrinn w.fs hv !' " "I o **!' ? o o ' "J ' ; ?Providence News.. Subdued by Size. Oncc upon a time a rather overbearing kind of a mau was driving a sleigh j along a narrow road, when he cncount- < ered another sleigh, also with a man in i it, coining in the opposite direction. ' The occupant of the second sleigh did 1 not appear to be a very large man, cov- < ered up as he was with buffalo robes. ] Ilencc the surly, overbearing fellow, i supposing that he could control the requi- < site two-thirds working majority on 1 joint ballot, made up his mind not to 1 give half the road, lie only took half 1 the road, but then lie took it, like the 1 scllish boy in the bed, who took his half ' out of the middle, thereby compelling 1 his bedfellow to sleep on both sides of < him. When the two sleighs got near ( each other there was a halt and a parley. 1 "Why dou't you give half the road?" J asked the supposed weaker party. J "None of your business; only I won't < do it?that's all." The reasonable f ?n?.fiT nv?\Acf?ilnfo/] onvrtnrr fhftf nnlv ( JMMbJ J asked what was usual and customary, i but the overbearing party merely replied, ? that if the other party did not make room and get out of the way he would run over them. ' Well, then, we might as well make a test question of it at once," responded the party of the second part, taking of his gloves, throwing back the buffalo robes and beginning to rise in his seat, probably to make a motion. lie happened to be a very large man, and as foot after foot of his gigantic structure loomed up, the astonished bully exclaimed: "There, stranger, that will do; don't rise nny more, I'll turn out for you." It was his duty and he did. After he had got past the big man, the would-bebully, as he touched up his off leader, soliloquized: "Je-e-whilikins, I wonder how much taller that fellow would have got if I had nor. stopped him."?Texas Siftings. HEALTH HINTS. A gargle of strong black tea U3ed cold night and morning is now fashionable in London as a preventive of sore throat. Headache with sensation as if top of ? the head would fly off, and all headaches from within or outward arc readily c relieved by moderate doses of cimicifu- 11 gaTo cure a red nose, take of vaseline one ounce, precipitated sulphur two drachms. 3lix well and apply to the n allectea part nignt nnu morning, ruuujujj in well. Continue the application for C one or two weeks, and the redness will disappear. n Infants should never be washed except in warm water, nor their bodies exposed to cold air. Their circulation is carried n on more actively externally, and their J1 greatest heat is on their surface. To l' check this is one of the most fruitful c sourcrs of many of their ailments. One hundred grains of fresh mullein ^ leaves or thirty grains of the dried j leaves, brought to boil in a liter of fresh s cow's milk and allowed to stand for ten minutes, then filtered, sweetened and j| drank when warm, is the usual prepara- ^ tion and dose in the mullein treatment 0 of phthisis pulmonalis. This dose is rc- s pcated two or three times a day. t( The compound syrup of saxifragia is d the greatef t and best vegetable alterative s in the materia medica. It possesses the ii rare property of stimulating all the ex- t! cretory glands of the body, and at the b same time acting as an antidote or anti- v septic to all poisons, whether germ or s parisitic that exist in the blood. Scrofu- v la, cancer and tubcrcula, all disappear u under its employment. ? Health and j llomc. The Smallest Republic. The little republic of San Marino is in- v closed in the kingdom of Italy. 1 San Marino owes its foundation to a v hermit of that name, born in Dalmatia 1' in the fourth century, and who went u to Italy to work as a mason at the re- li building of the walls of Kimina. v Its territory covers about twenty-two f< square miles. J1 The population numbers 8,301 souls, u and the canital, San Marino, has 1,200. 8 It is perched on the summit of a'moun- f tain called Mount Titan, or the Giants, n which sometimes leads to this state be- t in^ termed the Titantic republic. c The republic has an order of chivalry, v created in 18:10, under the name of Or- k der of San Mnrino. The motto is " Libcatas." When Italy became a kingdom Napo- " Icon desired to preserve this small state is intact. "It is a rare sample of a repub- tl lie to preserve/' said the emperor. * h ' SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. J A new porcelain, far superior to the 'amous old Sevres, and identical with D ;hat of China, lending itself to artistic lecoration and taking all kinds of jlazes, has been produced after ten T rears' experiment, by M. Lauth, of Sevres. Hermann "Wohlfahct, a German instrunent maker, has invented a substitute 'or powder, which he calls explosive pa- , ler, and for which he claims that it is . j norc effective than gun-cotton, and will loon take the place of powder altogether. , rho nvnnrimnnffl thliq fftr TTIfl.de hv the nventor have been thoroughly success"ul, and the subject is now put into the , lands of German government experts for an exhaustive trial.?Register. f It has been suggested that the dark a] pigment cells which give the color to a t] negro's skin are anatomically placed in ^ front of delicate nerve terminations, and t] that the function of the black pigment t] :ells is to lessen the intensity of nerve g sribrations that would be caused in a 9j naked human body by exposure to a a: tropical sun. Thus the pigment plays ? ibout the same part as a piece of smoked ^ Gflass held between the sun and the eye. j? The Washington monument has already d been turned to a scientilic use. Professor Simon Ncwcomb has been using the a top of the monument for measuring the fi velocity of light, and believes that ho n has obtained more accuratc data for csti- b mating the distance and magnitude of u the sun. The velocity of light is meas- si ured with a degree of accuracy never be- h fore obtained. Professor Newcomb tells t i reporter of the Philadelphia Timet that a lie tninks the error in his calculations ri cannot exceed one four-hundred-milionth ^ part of a second. t< Dr. J. M. Anders has reached the con- c elusions that only flowering plants,grown P in well-lighted places, generate ozone; h ind that the most odorous flowers pro- a 3uce the greatest quantity. The ozone attacks the organic matter of the air and a by oxidation renders it inert; and Dr. I A.ndcrs does not doubt that flowering v plants in clear weather give off enough ( of this natural purifying agent to be of "V hygienic value indoors. Foliage plants, 1' nltViniKrVi piol/Hnrr nn n/nnrv nittv bo of a advantage in contributing to the mainte- >! nance of a healthful degree of humidity s in the atmosphere of rooms. n Rag disinfection is carried on in an ^ air-tight box, into which each bale of * rags is drawn by means of five screws, Q which at the same time make live perior- jations from end to end of the bale. Superheated steam is injected ? through the screws, which are hollow ? and perforated with holes which permits 1 jets of steam to penetrate through the v rags in every direction. An escape in J the upper part of the box is provided ? with a bath intended to intercept the jj passage of any disease germ into the air. 01 Most germs of life are killed at a heat of a 212 or 215 degrees, but the steam em- c ployed in this process is raised to 330. ? An exposure of four or five minutes here ' lieats the bale so that it takes two hours ? for it to fall below the germicide point J1 Df 212. J How lioyal Families Lire. * England stands at the head of all Eu- 0 ropean nations in the cost of its nobility , !ind Germany in the expenses of main- T taining the royal family alone. The latter empire, with a population of not . more than 45,000,000, has to support J twenty-two royal, princely and ducal . families, and the direct cost of their j1 maintenance is $1G,500,000. In Prussia and several of the other 1 German States the reigning family, be- y sides its public income, possesses very 8 large private estates, and* indeed, in " 3ome of the States thejprinces arc the , chief land-owners. Turkey comes next to Germany in its royal expenditures, the total amount ab- J1 sorbed by the sultan and his family be ing about $10,250,000. The imperial f ' ** ? T-* _ i_ i-T? i. O tl larany 01 iiussiu costs luuicuuuuji i 250,000, and the greater part which . comes in the shape of rents from the 11 crown, domains which consist of a more than a million square miles ? of land, besides gold and silver- f3 mines. The Austrian imperial family : is tolerably well off, which comes directly 11 from the public purse. ? The sum expended on account of the British royal family will be iucreased by 0 $30,000 a year on the coming marriage s. of the Princess Beatrice, and it is expected that there will shortly be a call for an income for the oldest son of the Prince of "Wales. Yet the sum thus granted will be but a homccopathic dose c compared with the annual expenditures j, in appointments, salaries, pensions and moneys received by the families and re- ^ lations of dukes, marquises, carls, vis- j counts and barons, amounting to the prodigious total of $108,014,030,divided I is follows; Twenty-eight familes of * iukes take $9,700,000; thirty-three j families of marquises, $8,303,900; 200 families of earls, $48,181,203; sixty fnmilios of viscounts. $11,241,200; 211 families of barons,$31,120,188. Of these the Duke of Richmond heads the list ^vith $1,000,000; followed by the Duke 81 if Wellington, $1,425,500; the Duke of L1 Grafton, $1,115,850, r.ud so on. The old Duchess of Cambridge, now eighty-eight P fears of age, continues to draw from the ^ British treasury $30,000 a year, beside n ;njoving the royal palaces of St. James v ind Kcwas her residences. Her son,the ? ]ueen's cousin, receives about $110,000 i year from the same source to comnen- 0 late him for the loss of the throne, which ivould have been his had the queen died ,vithout an heir, or had never been born. " Italy pays her royal family $3,500,000 4] i year, which is a very large sum in pro- ^ portion to the means of the country, vhile Spain disburses on the same ac- ? :ount $2,000,000. This ends the list of j1 European monarchies of large populaion. But the minor monarchies also pay c heir royal families very large sums, h 3elgium, with about as large a populaion as the State of New York, pays ?000,000 a year to her king, and Portu- si jal, with three-quarters of u million less tl )opulation, pays $030,000. Monarchy lc :osts Sweden and Norway S587,500 an- tl lually; Denmark, $310,000; Holland, 5315,000; Roumania, $240,000, and Jreccc, ^210,000. But $00,000 of this 11 ast sum is paid by England, France 1< md Russia. Republican France gives lcr president $180,000, two-thirds of vhich is in the form of salary and one- ai hircl for household expenses. d The Swiss republic pays its president n <3,000 a year, wliiclx is j)robably the mallest sum that the head of any civilzed nation in the world receives. All he expenditures of Switzerland are on a ? orrespondingly low scale. With a'popu- * at ion approaching 3,000,000, the entire xpenditures of the confederation docs * tot reach $10,000,000 annuallv. 11 ; a A Queer Squirrel Yarn. Old citizens of Toledo distinctly rcicmber the time when there was an ^ migration of squirrels in this vicinity. 2 )n a certain day a gentleman was on the ank of the Ten Mile creek, when the umber of quirrels moving was unusually urge. Among the squirrels was one hat exhibited such motherly care and ;/%? ? f ,>?* lmr f rL'rv ltfflr* rmr?a hq tn rove a most interesting sight. !?hc cached the back of the creek -where a rossing was to be made. The little (|iiirrcls were quite timid about going ear to the water, but the mother coaxcd licm until they seemed to be satisfied to o ns she wished. She rati along the si horc, and finding a piece of bark about foot long and six inches wide, dragged t to the water's edge and pushed it in ? be water, so that only a small part of j, nc end of the bark was resting on the tl horc. She then induced her little ones o o get on the bark and they at once cudled closely together, when the old * ijuirrel pushed the bark and its load uto the steam, and, taking one end of he bark in her teeth, pushed it ahead of J ,er until the opposite bank was reached, rhcre the young squirrels quickly o campered up the bank of the creek, i-liere the mother rested for a few min- j tcs, when the journey was resumed.? 'Mo Jilihlc. . Imposed Upon. T T^Anrnennfnh't'O AVllltn nf IvPntlirkv r'hilc Speaker of the IIousc, in the ? Venty-scvcnth Congress, was so pressed .ith business that when lie had to de- I iver his valedictory he pot one of those ' icn who are always on hand to make a ittle money to write his address. It 1 ,-as handed him just tj little while be- ' ore the time he had to deliver it, and e put it into his pocket without readag. When the time came he arose,and, lowly unfolding the manuscript, read lie address. It was very brilliant, but t was Aarou Hurr's famous valedictory a the Senate. The Speaker never reovered from the shock. He went home, ras taken very ill, and it is supposed lie illed himself for shame. Wc agree with a recent writer that 'it's all nonsense to say that eating pies t ) unhealthy." It is trying to digest t liem that raises the mischief with ouc's t calth.?Boston Transcript, , w . HE CITY OF KHARTOUM ESCB2PTXOV OP THE PLAGE WEEBE OOEDOH PELL. be Picturcsquo City on tho Nile ?Its Streets and .Surroundings? Fatal Desert Wild*. Khartoum is no exception to the ruinno flonanf 4-V^of morlra oil A roll ffttPIIQ LAO UOJiWU U l>U?*U UiUlAO Uil AAiUW vwiiww hen seen from a distance. It needs all le picturesqueness of the graceful palms iat rise above it in every direction, the hite-sailed boats that flit along its lores like butterflies, the noble sweep f the Blue Nile on one side and the fhito Nile on the other, the rich blue cy and dazzling sunlight, to counts: a:t ic depressing effect of this mass of flat>ofed, whity-gray, tomb-like houses mid the dim, boundless emptiness of ic eternal desert, along the horizon of rhicli quivers a film of intense heat like ic reek from a furnace mouth. During le wet season the narrow, crooked, Ithy streets arc mere ponds, breathing :ench and fever. Many of the "houses" re circular mud burrows topped with a ointed thatch of com stalks, while the igh, blank walls encircling the coiintiss gardens enhance indescribably the reary effect. About 108 miles north of Khartoum, nd almost midway to Berber, lies the jrtified village of El Metemneh, conected with Shendy, on the opposite ank, by a clumsy native ferry-boat, on rhich an Arab stands upright with a trip of canvas held outstretched above is head to do duty for - mast and sail, r?rr\ Vtnlrlinrr 4-lua livinrr mnaf. firm "u t, , nd a fourth steering. Shendy has never scovcred its destruction by Mehemet Ji's son-in-law in 1821, and the sole 3ken of its former greatness is the huge rumbling fort overlooking the river, the resent "town" being a cluster of low ovels two miles distant, grouped around wide, bare market-place. In the hollow between the Upper Nile nd its great westward bend beyond AbuIamcd lies the Bayuda Desert, across riiich the British marched to Metemnch via Abu-Klea) from ICorti, General Volseley's present headquarters. The itter place, overhanging the Nile from steep bank shaded by clustering trees, 3 pleasant enough, despite the perilous hoals around its landing place. The ,ow memorable halting-place of Jebellakdul lies a little to the north of Abu[lea. But here, as everywhere else in the lUUUUli, LUU lliU-^lv ouuaiu jo j/v/itv;*.2ss to nourish anything beyond the spot n which it flows. The waters of the Tile itself are frequently sprinkled with he powdery sand of the mighty deserts /hich have pushed their borders to within less than a mile of its edge. So, oo, with the oasis^of Gakdul, or of Abu ea. Before tha refreshing drops have Iried upon your beard you are once more mid the hot, brassy glare and the dead, rushing silence of "the land where 11 things are forgotten." Waves of mrning rock or lifiless sand, wearying our aching cyc9 with their grim sameiess, surge up one beyond another into he dim horizon, while the bleaching lones of a skeleton start from the drifting sands at your feet in gloomy warning if what your own fate may soon bo. Here it is that the fatal " kamsin," or lot wind of the desert, which ill-fated Jritish troops are now encountering a ull week before its wonted time, blows a all its fury. In the old Arabian egends one often finds a caliph or pasha mnofiontlv f>Yplfuminrr nt the close of a J 0 ong winded story, "By Allah, thy talkng is worse than the hot blast of the rilderness!" No one can fully apprecite this rough hewn sarcasm who has iot been in Arabia or the Nile valley in he earlier weeks of March. Everything ooks suddenly dim and blurred, as if ccn through a wet pane of glass, and all t once you feel a gust of stifling, pricky heat and a qualm of overwhelming ausea. Your eyes smart and bum, your emple veins throb as if they would urst, your skin seems one vast pincushon filled with red hot needles, and in notlicr moment you are staggering as if tunned by a heavy blow, and groping lindly for any support that you can find, o the utter refutation of the polite Italin probcrb that nothing can face the irocco except l,un porco ed un Inglese (a .og or an Eaglishman). Woe to any sick r wounded European who meets its dctroying blast in raid desert!?David LV, in Harper's Weekly o 1 nuputuuiui. The following sepulchral epitaph was opied from an old tombstone in Scotind: [ero lies the body of Alex. McPherson, V'ho was a very extraordinary person. to was two yards high in his stocking feet, ind kept his accoutrements clenn and neat, le was slew at the battle of Waterloo? [c was shot by a bullet plum through his gullet; C went at his throat and camo out at the back of his coat. On tho Strike. "I wish you would give me a dime," lid a tramp to Parson Clippinger. "Imudent fellow 1 you beg, and yet, you on't ever take your hat oil to me," relied the reverend gentleman. "I hope ou will excuse me this time. If I take ly hat off that policeman on the corner rill suspect me of being a tramp and arest me, but if I keep my hat on be will hink that we arc two friends talking ver our family affairs."?Texas Stftings. A very large proportion of the suffer ig that alilicts mankind proceeds from 1- ~t Tv.?r>f HC Simpiu iUCLIU?? U1 UIO?.uuillgguu.uk. Icside the misery which it inflicts, there i the palsying effect which it exerts on 11 human effort. As long as hope reigns i the heart, no exertion seems too great; ; is when hope sinks away and despondncy takes its place that labor of head or and languishes. There is no river that presents more idden and enormous variations than ic Nile. For instance, fifty miles be>w Khartoum its whole volume flows irough a canyon just forty yards iu 'idth, but the stream is 150 deep at low rater, A mile below, the river is three lilcs wide, full of islands, and so shul>w that steamboats often ground. "Suppose we have no sugar?" suggests a English magazine. Well, then, we on't sec how you could successfully in apolitical campaign.?Loicell Citizen. A Chancellor's Opinion. lion. James Harlan, ex-vice-chancellor f Louisville, Ivy., a brother of Justice Iarlan, United States supreme court, ays of St. Jacobs Oil: "I use it, and I now full well whereof I speak in producing it a most extraordinary cure for 11 that is claimed for it by its proprieors. Every family should have it." The manufacture of artificial ivory from ones and scraps of sheepskin is a new ldustry. A hnvn nil nther parthlv ills. I hate the big, old-fashioned pills; By slow degrees they downward wend, And often pause, or upward tend; "With such discomfort are they fraught, Their good effects amount to naught Now, Dr. Pierce prepares a pill That just exactly fills tho bill? A Pellet, rather, that is all? A pleasant Purgative, and small; Just try them as you feel their need, You'll find that I speak truth, indeed. Tire desire for Egyptian curiosities has asamed the proportions of a craze in London. Tlie .Horning Urea*. It is said that a lady's standing in society an easily bo determined by her dress at tho reakfast-table; an expensive, showy costumo ldicating that the wearer has not yet learned tie proprieties. But no one need be afraid f being called "shoddy" if her loveliness is s apparent by daylight as at tho hops, 'erfect duty is never tho attendant of diseiso; above all, of those diseases peculiar to romcn, and which find a ready cure in Dr. 'ierce's "Favorite Prescription." Price rouced to one dollar. By druggists. Hf.nry Irving says much of tho mortality f this country is duo to buckwheat cakes. The "old reliable''?Dr. Sage's Catarrh lemedy. "Fhesii American oysters" is now a familtr sign in many places in London. If aniictcd with sore eyes uso Dr. Isaac liompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. -5c. Type setting is taught in Japanese prisons bums* reMEUi FOM. 3P^.xi\r. furc? KUF.l'M VTISM, NKCUALUIA, SCIATICA, Lumbago, Backachc, Hcadiicbr, Tooth holic\ lort Tbroat, Swelling. Spr*In*, ErnUf?? Burn*, hrtldt, Kr??I RIU*, in?l otktr rain* anil Arhr*. fifty CnUiW?>. At DragiUu ?? ! Dt?l?r?. Direction* In 11 Uafvafts* m OUKU& A. YWIUiR CO., BftlUaer* Id., l'7ki? f '" DOCTORS rCBiOPS. Shall a Physician Tell the Truth or Not). A JVlco Point in Ethics* A Sensible Health Official. . ., Baltimobe, Md.?A decided atir has been * caused here over the question as to the right of a physician to certify to the merit* or a remedy not in the modern pharmacopoeia Dr. James A. Steuart, one of the most eminent physicians in the South, and Health Commissioner of this city, had analyzed a newly-discovered article, and certified offL- m daily not only to its efficacy but to the fact ?i?f <* . rsnlniwl nM-timft nrflnaratJons of a similar character which, analyses had proved, fc were adulterated and poisonous. The medical ana chirurgical faculty, of which he is a member, held that ho had violated the codo of medical ethics, and much public interest _( was aroused because of the confidence 6 felt both In his professional standing and official integrity. It was argued that to thus place a limitation on the acta of a physician and especially ^ of a health officer, was "opposod to the spirit j of the age; that such reasoning might nave been logical enough when it was to the interest of rulers or societies to invest themselves u with a supernatural halo, but now when thought should be free and untrammeled, such things savored of barbarism. It was the duty ^ of a phvsician, especially of a health officer, gt to conaemn publicly any remedy which he knew to be injurious, but it was not right to say that he should be debarred from testifying to the merits of anything which he knew to oe good. If this were so, the world would not receive the benefit of half the discoveries ^ made in art or science. Thus the people argued, while the faculty threatened expulsion and talked of time-honored customs, ethics, professional courtesy and traditions. But the matter soon assumed a new and surprising phase. A few days afterward a certificate appeared in the daily papers bearing the autograph signatures of Governor McLane, Attorney-General Roberts, Mayor , Latrobe, city postmaster Adreon. chiefs of Stato and municipal d?partments, judges and jclerks of courts, Federal officials and Congressmen, emphatically endorsing the action >r of the health commissioner, and concurring j, in his opinion ns to the efficacy of the remedy, asserting that they did so from perjonal experience with it and practical tests and observations. There could be no gainsaying such evidence as this,but,as if to cap the climax, shortly afterward there appeared another certificate with ? autograph signatures of leading practicing y physicians from all parts of the State, inclua- j, Ing the physicians of all the leading hospitals, the physician to the city flro department, the port physician, vaccine physician and resident . physicians of infirmaries all endorsing the discovery and stating that it had been tested j by them in hospitals and private practice for j f| we*ks with wonderful curative effect. u and that analyses had shown no trace of | opiates or poisons, prevalent in other S cough mixtures. They further stated that | ? f.hev had hwn indnefld to take this steD in i F view of the many hurtful preparations which ? contained narcotics and poisons and of the ' t dangers consequent on their use. Ihereme- A dy in question is Red Star Cough Cure. Such a conclusive answer as this to the narrow arguments of the few, arrayed public sentiment on the side of the Health Commissioner, and it is significant that Dr. Steuart has since been appointed to office by the Mayor for a / third term, and has had: his appointment ' unanimously confirmed by the City Council. Owing to the high professional reputation of the gentlemen who endorsed his action, as & well as to the enviable standing of the owners I v of'the remedy, The Charles A. Vogeler Com- j J pany, of this city, wide-spread interest has j p already been croated in the subject, not only i here, but in Philadelphia, Washington and j other neighboring cities. The feeling is i *1 generally expressed by professional men that ; Red Star Cough Cure, on account of its freedom from narcotics and poisons, inaugurates a most desirable new departure in medicine. This is the pronounced opinion of authorities like Dr. Fawcett, who has been for thirty-three years resident physician of the Union Protestant Infirmary, in this city, and Professor John J. Caldwell, M. D., member of medical societies of Baltimore, New York , and Brooklyn, and with a long experience in civil and military hospitals. Both of these ' gentlemen, together with 110 less than fifty other practicing physicians of Maryland, have publicly put themselves on record as to the evil of narcotic medicines, and the consequent value and importance of the new discovery referred to. It is conceded that public opinion has completely vindicated Dr. Steuart in his action, and that in his whole course, he was actuated simply by an earnest desire to benefit the community at large. 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It contain.} blood-making force generating and lifo-sustaining properties-, ' invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard k Co., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists. "Bnchn Palba." Quick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bid der and Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation, Stone,Gravel,Catarrh of bladder.$L Druggists. Housewives, shop girls ana sales women all suffer from Weak Back and Sideache. Apply , a Hop Porous Plaster and get instant relief. A famous strengthener. 25a druggists. "Roach on Corns." Ask for Wells' "Hough on Corns."15c. Complete cure. Hard or soft corns, warts bunions. New York has 150 professional tea tasters Important. 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Our Favorite Medicine ' 'I know that Hood's Sariaparilla haa done mo a great deal of good, and we esteem it in oar family an old and valued friend. My husband haa been subjeoted to evero headaches, but is greatly benefited by Hood's Sarsaparilla. My son suffered from spring debility and loss of appetite, and was restored to health as soon as ho begah to take our favorite medicine.?mbs. Thalia E. Smith, Scipioville, N. Y. "I consider Hood's Sarsaparilla the best blood purifier, for it save J my life."?J.H.Mabtix, Delight, Kan. ' Hood's Sarsaparilla ! Sold by all Druggists. $1; slxfor$3. Prepare! only by 0. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, M.m. j IOO Doses One Dollar , 1 A l.ettor of Tlmnks. j I Mrs. LydiaE. Pinkham?Very dear Madam: j \ My wife Arie A. Green has suffered with a j displacement which caused ber unknown pains till I had almost Riven up all hopes of finding any relief for her. But the Guiding Spirit referred me to your Vegetable Com pound. I went 12 miles to purchase a bottle and the first two doses gave her immediate relief, and after the uso of the first bottle she declared herself a new person; two bottles en tirebj aired her. Your medicine is invaluable to me. It was indeed a messenger of [ peace in my house, it cured my wife, and God knows I am the happiest man alive to-day. Words cannot express our feelings towards you. ! i Geo W. Green, Campti, La. 1 ; This remedy contains no injurious drugs. ELY'S CREAM BALM.QATARRf-j I when applied into the mis-aniw?f j trils. will b<> absorbed, I ' tuully cleansing the ln a. ffTy/V'r'i i *_~T.% of catarrhal virus, causiiu fi'ntAM BnV?Vj5j| I healthy Keerctions. It a! LB rimroCOVDfl lays inflammation, protect-H iM I 1 ] the incnibraue^l'roin t sores and restores the mine? pHAyrFVFp ot taste, smell anil hearing Li MrC: &/A \ NotalipiorM^X^?!i j ^ A few application* re ' sgjSwr^-KWji^Y-FEVER ELY r.ROTHKBS. Lciik-^is. (hv.ro.N. Yj_ BRUCELINE! 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O.mtHrliro >k.C.?.ia | | Nervous Debility | 25 CENTS, A TKEATISE lEE <0> 2E8 ANI) HIS -T>] i Containing an Index of Diseases, which eives tho Sym I'ablo ldvinc all tho Principal druss usM 6r tho Horse ; A TahmblcjuT POSTp'AlI IOO PAGE BOOK the UNITED STJ CLUB R FIYE COPIER tl 00 I T TEN COPIES 1 70 | 0 One, Two and Thrca-Ont Ptiuapw i-f^lred. Add HOKSB BOOB 134 LEONARD SI Downright Crnelty. . Tbjjerznlfc yoaneit and family to w<?, afAVriMH whan it can bo yrawntwl' ad cured so easily " ' zk Witt Hop Bitters! I! Having experienced a great deal of "Trouble! from indigestion^ so.mncn so lat I came near losing my My trouble always came after eating vaf However light Anctaigestioie, For two or throo hours at a time I bad to ) through most Excruciating pains, "And the only way I ever got* "Relief 1" Was by throwing up all my stomach confined. No one can conceive the pain that had to go through, until , ' "At lest?" I was taken! "So that for three weeks I y in bed and Could eat nothing! My sufferings were so that I called two > Dctorstogive me something that would op the pain; their Efforts were no good to ma. At last I heard a. gooa aeai "About your Hop Bitters I And determined to try them. Got a bottle?in four hours took the con* nts of Onel ^ Next day 1 was out of bed, and hare no* >en a . '< "Sick!" Hour, from the same cause since. I have recommended it to hundreds of ott?? rs. You hfivfi no such "Advocate as I am."?George Kendall, Alton. Boston, Mass. Columbus Advocate, Texas, April 21, ^ ear Editor:?I have tried your Hop Bitten, ad And they are good for any complaint 'be best medicine f ever used in my lam* H. T ALEJTIB. lyNone genuine without a bunch of reen hops on the white labeL Shun all the ile. poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hop*" a their name. y Y >0 -ta iSkln of Beauty Is a Joy Forever. DR. T. FELIX GOUBAUMI HIEMTAL CfiEAH.OI MAGICAL BEA^CT . aeyre eild to ? Udy of the ?*< ?* (s S^SflkfU* ; . ou ladUt will KM lArt?, Irtcommnd 'dourawf# 0r?M^ r M< liitt harmful of ail ik* Sifn j>r?par?l(<mA H Om utile will lwt tlx month*, a Tin* it emj 4*7- ' -j oadre Sabtile remorse enperfiafta* turnl? irrto the akin. Mul M. B. T. QOUEAUD. Sole 48 Bond St.. N.T. ^orrtUto ^IDnwSUMd an or Qooda Peeler* thiroof boot the tJ. S./TJenj^M id Europe. VBewweof bate tmltatloiia. JftMlS* ard foe arreet end proof ol >ny cat tolling we ??. , A " THIS PLMTEH j I H 3 7 AotadlraotlmniteiMai 3 Kn ? Clei and tot ntrrn oXtt# ?. twek, tbe (tit of *3 pU. - myT ? FOJi ILL C at*. Luni Troublei, wbetlm loau or deeply tested Otic . /CI. -v, W **' ' ' A plMttr will be feud te ME*? * *\ flr< IwtMt rtllaf lr? SHARP fX I jkiE^as^Se^st 1 P?ln in the 8ide eedlSS Ifrannii-^-"""" FAINS. Sold by DtomUU fcr? 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