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FAITH AND WORKS. Ko answer comes to tho3e that pray, ( And idly stand i And wait for stones to roll away At God's command. 1 He will not break the binding cords Upon us laid ? If we depend on pleading words, Anr] rlrw nftf. a irl 1 When hands are idle, words are vain j To move the stone; c An aiding angel would disdain { To work alone. . . But he who prayeth, and is strong < In faith and deed, And toileth earnestly, ere long ] He will succeed. s ?J. C. Rockwell. 1 ( The San Jaguelo Mine. < ? C To Joshua Main's widow it had always s seemed a simple thing for people to support themselves. Did not girls and s women do it oftentimes? Was there ever ' any difficulty about it? tirop lnff olrtno of JL CL, WUUU OllU >?ao iV.it uivuv ut i ^ the age of twenty, .she did not know in which direction to turn. D She was a soft-eyed, timid little woman, 0 with absolutely no experience at all in i:f, the ways of the world; and so she -went to her cousin?a brisk, bustling widow, 11 who kept a wayside hotel on the high- v road to Santa Barbara. ? "What am I to do?'' said she, looking 1 very small and pale in her deep mourningrobes. "What is to become of me?*' 'Why don't you go to Joshua's folks?" a Mrs. Chebburn, who was frying crabs f* for a party of excursionists who had ar- " rived by the noon stage. r "Ihave no money," said Alice. "Be side, I wrote to his father, and he wrote s back that we didn't ask his advice about getting married, and he certainly I * shouldn't interfere in my business now. 0 Such a cross, curt, hateful letter!" "Just like them!" said Mrs. Cheb- " burn, fiercely dredging her pan of crabs s' with flour. "Couldn't you keep miners to board?" sj . "I?I don't think I have courage for S1 that!" whispered poor Alice. "Beside, 0 it would require a large house, furniture, s1 capital." ^ "Might sew?" suggested Mrs. Cheb- " burn, who had a quick, abrupt way of speaking which was very apt to discon- 81 cert a stranger. lJ UI am dreadfully slow and awkward with the needle," confessed Alice. "You see, Cousin Chebburn, I was brought up " in a boarding-school. I can play on the c; piano, and speak tolerable French, t3 , and?" C( "0. my!" burst in Mrs. Chebburn. S "Ana p'raps you could paint on velvet and make wax flowers, or any such other * accomplishment which would be so use- ^ ful out in these California mountains. There, Alice, don't cry! I don't want to hurt your feelings, child, but people's ^ ideas about educating girls are so queer. " Get me a platter?two big platters?for these crabs. You can stay here for a 0 while. It's possible you may be able to f help me with the housework. But I've " r T? "U P nu use iur jruux ricauu auu juui jpiauvplaying." For all Mrs. Chebburn's short, blunt $ speech, the-e was a kindly sparkle in her P honest, gray eyes, and Alice Main ac- J cepted her invitation in the spirit in " which it was given. It was & strange existence for the girl who had been brought up in the artificial " surroundings of San Francisco life, this " wild home on the plateaus, with monster redwood trees keeping watch on the ai heights above, passion-vines swinging in purple fringes over the edges of the 111 cliffs, and figs ripening against the sunny rock 8. T ' With the coming and going of the 9 <?ailir cfocrP ramft and went. J also, of all varieties, and Mrs. Chebburn, assisted only by a pair of pallid China- t( men, and a fat old colored woman in the kitchen, ruled, an absolute queen, over ? the place. ' 'It's hard work, to-be-sure," she would v K' . say; "but lam my own mistress here, and I render an account to no one. If a miner talks too loud, I can turn him out " of the house. If a traveler finds fault G with the fricasseed chicken, I can bid ^ him go further and suit himself better. " Joshua's widow is welcome to a home here, though I misdoubt me she'll turn out a poor, shiftless timid thing." ? But Mrs. Chebburn was favorably dis- u appointed. Joshua's widow proved to n be possessed of better qualities than she Viorl fhrmorht J She was quick and dainty with the desserts, tasteful in the arrangement of s: the rooms, and affectionately anxious to * spare her cousin all that she could of a work or worry. v "I may make something of the girl ;yet," said Mrs. Chebburn. "Poor dear! s| fihe's very young to be left a widow. ti What a selfish scamp that old father-in- s l?law of hers must be! Joshua was as fine a fellow as ever lived! Guess he * in? av i. u v n wasu t iiilc IUC icot ui uw IUIIVO LIIUU^U. It was one December evening, when v the heavy winter rain was pattering on y the roof of the house and b3ating down 13 the shuddering boughs of the redwood- ^ trees, and the stage was several hours be- ^ hind time. v "Supper'll be clean spoiled," said Mrs. ^ Chebburn, with a discontented glance 3 toward the kitchen, "and then they'll all be grumbling. Men are so inconsiderate!" ^ Just then, however, Linn, the tallest and yellowest of the Chinamen, came ?huffling in. with the news that the rain had washed away part of the steep and narrow road that wound through the gorge, that the stage was overturned and Yt-ii _ #.ii i >ii ji ... ri "auee ioiKsee Kineai' I " "Linn, you are a fool!" said Mrs. Chebbum. I ? "Missee look for sheself," persisted j1 Linn. "Allee dead! Horsee leg broke !v i ? And presently two or three men came 11 up the hill, bearing the senseless body of ? an old man, who represented the "alloc ;) folks' e" of Linn's terrible tale. With this exception, the travelers had ^ been more frehtened than hurt. "Is he dead?" said frightened Alice, 0 with a glance at the yellow pallor of the c face, temporarily piilowed on a folded e shawl. c "No," said Mrs. Chebburn. who had T no contemptible knowledge of simple j surgery, "he isn't dead. But there are I c some ugly bruises on his head, and I j think there's a rib or two broken. Get I the little corner room ready, Alice, as s quick as you can. Light a fire and see 5 that the bedclothes are well aired and that there is plenty of hot water." "When Mrs. Chebburn came down stairs ^ again, to superintend Linn and Chee Sun . as they served the supper and to keep 1 old Aunty Felicia from braining those 1 brisk Celestials with her pewter spoons F ?for there was always an internecine * warfare between the Mongolian and African races in the kitchen?the stagedriver was warming his chilled hands before the fire. c "He ain't dead, eh?" said he, nodding i at the stairs. f ' Oh. bless you, no!'" s\id Mrs. Cheb- ( bu:n. s 2'J.' t "Well, it seems kind o'wicked to say ;o," observed George Geith, the driver, 'but I wouldn't 'a been sorry to hear he ivas dead!" "Come, come!" said Mrs. Chebburn; : 'don't talk like that, Geith!" "He sat on the box-seat along o' me," said George. "He'd come out here to ook arter the San Jaguelo mine. So he :old me. He'd a powerful gift of the rab, and a many questions to ask, for he -> o r} f Kaon c? Q_T*TOtt KofnrA Tf. I 11 f ? V, I UV/V/U VUX^ U-(TU J vv*v? v. -w itemed he'd a son come out here a spell igo, ahd they bought a claim together. \nd the son he got married all of a sudlen-like, and then he up and died. "And so this old sinner, mind you, Mrs. Chebburn, he mistrusts that the >on's wife don't understand business; so le has come on to pocket the whole concern, profits and all?for the San Jaguelo nine, don't ye know, is trebled arid piadrupled in value since they first bewail to work it. " 'Ain't you goin' shares with the voman?' says I. " 'Ain't the papers all in my name?' ays he, with a leer. 'I've al'ays heerd,' j ays he, 'that you "Western people was harp on business.' " 'Not that kind o' business,' says I. I sw'ar,' says I, 'ef I hain't the biggest nind I ever had in my life to pitch you iff the box into the bed of the creek be5W !' CL A ? -3 1 * ?'A i 4- -fif+AOn .1UU, sui t: as y UU in i;,n vr aau v umv/Lu linute* afore the lurch came, and over re all went together! Most like a jedgient, now ain't it? And I declare I'm no9t sorry he wasn't killed outright!" Mrs. Chebburn was busy spreading a iscious cream meringue over the top of pineapple pudding?for the desserts erved by the lady of the Redwood ouse have acquired quite a local celcbity?but she looked quickly up. ''Didn't say what his name was, did e?" said she. "No," said Geith; ''because I don't now myself. Grasp, I should reckon? r Gripe, or Grind, or som^e such thing." And he chuckled at the clumsy joke as e made haste to obey the summons to upper. . 1 It was late in the night before the tage was righted and a relay of horses ' applied, so that the tide of travel could nee more flow onward: and the clock truck twelve when Mrs. Chebburn 1 rent up stairs with the candle in her 1 and. ' "Who's that talkin'?" she asked, as she J topped on the threshold of the imromptu hospital ward. "It's the sick man," said Alice. "The ( octor said he would be more or less de- {1 riousfor a day or two. Do you know, ausin Chebburn, he keeps talking all the < me about 'Joshua!' And look at the :>lor of his eyes, and the way his hair rows down on his forehead!" 1 "Yes," said Mrs. Chebburn. glancing 1 eenly from the restless head that rolled ( \ r>r,,3 tfn <~>n fho rklllr>OT f/l fchfi ml ft. ' j anu nv vu vuv f/4iw i? ? j :artled face above it. "I know who it is," cried Alice, -ringing her hands?"it's Joshua's ither!" "Hush!" said Mrs. Chebborn. "I kind ' suspicioned it was. Now, don't cry! . sick room ain't no place to get excited 1. Keep cool?keep calm, and jest let rovidence workout its own salvation." Near-y two weeks elapsed before old ewell Main recovered?two week3 of ain and suffering; two weeks during hich he looked grim death full in the ice. "Who are you?" he sharply asked, hen first he became conscious that a gene hand was ministering to him day by ay. "I am Joshua's widow," Alice gently aswerea. i * H closed his weary eyes, and asked no ' i Lore. But he thought of many things. < ' 'I should have died if it hadn't been for { ou, shouldn't I?" was his next abrupt uestion. "But how does it happen? 1 oshua's widow here, taking care of me!" "Hush!" soothed Alice. "Don't try < > talk now. Don't even try to think!" i But he put out his skeleton hand to J nd hers. 1 "Forgive me !" said he, in a choked J oice. "Only say that you forgive me!" i "For-what?" she asked, in amazement. "For all that was in my heart!" said ; - T mi/wVf V*oxrt% rlnno if e. "fUT ail OLiat A uiigm uu<u uuuu, rod had not staved my sinful hand! < .lice?they called you Alice, didn't 1 iev?'? ' Yes." "You hare been like an angel to me. < [enceforward, nothing shall ever part 8. "Will you go back to the East with < le, Alice?" i And Alice went, only too bappy that 1 oshua's father had learned to love her. She never knew aught of the darker , < ide of his character. Stage-driver | Jeith never came that way nowadays, I i nd Mrs. Chebburn was one of the few 1 romen who can kcop their own counsel. "He's good to the child now," said Le. "They're as happy together as if j hey were own father and daughter. Why | hrmlrt T interfere?" | < And so the San Jaguelo mine made litle Alice rich in her Eastern home, and Id Sewell Main treasured her as if she ^ irere a rare tropical flower. While every 1 ear there came some loving token of re lembrancfc across the Sierras to Mrs. 1 Jhebburn, who still presided over the 1 ledwood Rouse,* and kept the peace, irith ever-increasing difficulty, between I i Luniy Felicia and the two sons of the < un. "The child doesn't forget me," said j 1 Trs. Chebburn. with a smile and a tear. I -Helen Forrest Orates. I Fuel of the Future. The house of the near future, the Bos>n Journal of Commerce thinks, will have i .o fireplace, steam pipes, chimneys or lies. Wood, coal, oil and other forms f fuel are about to^disappear altogether i a places having factories. Gas has beome so cheap that already it is supplant- ' ng fuels. A single jet fairly heats a ' mall room in cold weather. A New fork artist has produced a simple design or heating entirely by gas at a mere lominal expense. It is a well-known act that gas throws off no smoke, soot r dirt. The artist filled a brazier with hunks of colored glass, and placed sevral iets beneath. The glass soon be ame heated sufficiently to thoroughly varm a room 10x30 feet in size. This lesign does away with the necessity for himnevs, since there is no smoke; the entilation may be had at the window, file heat may be raised or lowered by imply regulating the flow of gas. The olored glass gives all the appearance of ire; there are black pieces to represent oal, red chunks for flames, yellowish vhite glass for white heat, blue glass for >lue flames, and hues for all the remainng colors of spectrum. Invention already s displacing the present fuels for furlaces and cooking ranges, and glass dong away with delay and such disagreea>le objects as ashes, kindling wood, etc. The use of paper ruled in square for liagonal lines has been forbidden in the Austrian schools, as such ruling has been ound to injure the eyesight of pupils. )nly plain paper, or with ruling straight icross, will be used in future. PUTING FOR T.TFEJ JL JL4i.X JL JLO-1 A W AV A SPY'S SCHEME TO TRICK HIS PRISON GUARDS. Making Believe Deaf and Dumb Under Trying CircumstancesThree Attempts to Catch Him Napping Fail. When General Early made his great raid on Washington, writes an ex-Confederate in the Detroit Free Press, I was scouting between his advance and the city, and was captured within the city limits twenty-four hours before his battle-flags appeared in sight. I was dressed in citizen's clothes, pretended to be deaf and dumb, and claimed to have been driven out of Richmond, because I had written threatening letters to Jefferson Davis. I had been inside the fortifications for half a day, and was slowly working out, when a couple of young men, both of whom were considerably the worse for liquor, halted me and wanted to fight. I had a pencil and a block of paper with me, and I wrote: "I am deaf and dumb." That made no difference with them. Indeed, they declared that it would be a novel idea to lick a deaf and dumb man, and one of them gave me a cuff on the ear. In those days "I weighed 160 pounds and had the muscle of a prize fighter. I tried to get away from them without further trouble, but when they seemed determined to have a row I gave them all they wanted, and wasn't many minutes about it. A crowd of soldiers and civilians collected, the provost guard came up, and the result was as I had anticipated. I was arrested and carried off to a guard house. One of the young men, who afterward turned out to be related to a member of the cabinet, foli j 4,-v.rt nffi/ia rtf fho nrnvoflt IOWCU 111U l/U L>11 C U1I1V/U V* ?# w . marshal and charged me with being a spy. No one seemed to entertain a doubt | that I was deaf and dumb, as I claimed, and my examination was carried on in writing. I was asked my name, age, where born and a hundred other questions, and then searched. They found nothing on me of a criminating nature, ind I reasoned that I would be detained until after the excitement had passed and then turned loose. After being detained three days an officer entered my quarters one morning ind said to me: "Well, dummy, you can pack ap and *et out." T?io offin AllfoMA T me minuitj j. numn uu _ was on ray guard, but he spoke in such a natural tone that I came near giving myself away. On three different occasions iuring the war I played the part of a loaf and dumb man, and I tell you it ;akesall the nerve andpreseuce of mind i man can call up. I sat facing the door, ind, while I heard his words, I made no novement. He came closer to me and said: 1 "Come, pack up your traps; you are :o be turned loose." I looked him straight in the eyes with>ut winking, and after a bit a look of ihagrin. stole over his face and he mo;ioned for me to follow him. He took me to the provost marshal's >ffice, and I was ushered into a private ooin, where the marshal and three or our other officials were seated. On the vay to the office, as we crossed a wide itreet, the officer suddenly exclaimed: , "There's a runaway horse?lookout!" If I hadn't been expecting some such , ;hing on his part I might hnve betrayed , nyself. As I gave no sign, continuing )n with my head down, I heard him J jrowling: "Tv.nTT fViinir fhflv've pot a sucker, but i "VJ -J - ? ;hey'll find out their mistake." I entered the office, knowing that jvey trick would be resorted to to break ne down, and my nerves were braced ' is if to charge a battery of artillery. I 1 was left standing by the door for a moment, when one of the officials looked ' jp quietly and said: "Take a seat, sir, and we'll attend to pou in a moment." ' I made no move, but looked around the room in a stupid sort of way. I was looking out of the window on to a roof when the same official said: : "You may come forward and take this chair.'.' * ' on/1 Vio TAW nn 1 stood liite a Biuwc, uuv* ixo -r, 2ame over to me, and led me to a chair at the table. When I was seated one of the others remarked: "Write your name, age and last place ( of residence on a slip of paper." That was trick number three and it ' failed as the other had done. By and by the marshal wrote on a slip of paper: "Who are you, and where from?" I wrote in reply: "I am Charles Jones, of Richmond." "But you are a Union man?" suggested one of the officers aloud. I saw his lips move, but he got no sign 1 from me. The examination continued in this manner for a full hour, the men 1 using every artifice to trap me, but they failed to score a single point. I knew j fchey would reserve the sharpest trick to the last and was therefore nerved up for ' it. At length the marshal pushed back 1 in his chair, pointed his finger at my ; . breast ana finffrny excujumuu. "Where did that Confederate button come from?" It was another failure. Then he turned to his companions and said: "Gentlemen, it's no use. The man is ' certainly deaf and dumb and a blamed fool besides!" "We have wasted our time," replied a second. "He is not only wnat ne cmiras to be, but may be of great service to us. I'd have the officer take him over to the secretary of war." ' "Iguess I will," said the officer, and j he rang a bell and I heard the door open. Then he turned to me, careless a^ you please, and said: "Go with the officer." It was their last shot. I never moved , a muscle until the officer approached and placed his hand on me. I was taken j back to the guard house, kept a prisoner e oriri thm thp dismisted I , ior itnuiriici v? tun, 0 marshal turned me loose in the streets. Goo:l Food and Buttons. I Good food is almost as important a factor of human happiness as orthodox reliijion. Second we reckon buttons, and here we must be emphatic. The Frenchman who committed suicide be- j cause he was tired "of this everlasting buttoning and unbuttoning" might have ] lived to commit a worse crime if in his ( daily and wearisome task he had found a ; button wanting. 1 The man who has well-cooked food j and well-fastened buttons has a great ; deal to be thankful for.?New York < Herald. m'mam { There was no gold dollar in 1834. It i i was not till after the discovery of gold ' iu California that the act of March 3, 1849, added to the series of United States gold coins the double eagle and the gold dollar. [1 THE HOME DOCTOR. Powdered Rosin for Cuts. There is nothing better for a cut than powdered rosin. Pound it until fine, and J put it in an empty, clean paper box with perforated top, then you can easily sift it on the cut, put a soft cloth around the \ injured member, and wet it with cold water once in a while. It will prevent inflammation and soreness. Food and Conscience. Never go to bed in any danger of being hungry. People are kept awake by hun- I gei quite as much as by a bad conscience. 1 Remembering that sleep is the essential for:e which the whole scheme starts, de- J cline tea or coffee within the last six < 1 l r i A? 1 3 T# 4-T,,* I iiours oeiore going to ueu. u. tun numtukir d insist you may have your milk and wa:er at the tea-table covered with tea; i but the less the better. Avoid all mathe- > ma tics or intricate study of any sort in the last six hours. This is the stuff dreams are made of, and hot heads, and the nuisance of waking hours. Keep your conscience clear. Remember that ( because the work of life is infinite, you ( car.not do the whole of it in any limited period of time, and that therefore you may just as well leave off in one place as another.?Edward Everett Hale. Various Cares for the Toothache. I find that there are distinct kinds of toothache, each relieved by distinct remedies. There is first, neuralgia toothache, which darts from nerve to nerve, be " the teeth sound or decayed; leaps from ( the temples to the p-ilnte?runs into the ears and destroys Thi- temper?does it ( not? It generally lwis special hours for ^ tormenting one, and denotes weakness of the system. Medical advice should be 11 * x i.i__ _c xaicen as to tne resiurauuu vi aticugtu, and, for temporary relief, a warm wrap round the head, as much rest as possible, or as little worry?good food, and when ? the pain comes on a cup of strong beef tea; sometimes ordinary tea, strong, but ] not infused too long, cuts short an at- < tack. I, myself, who have to rise early i to my house-work, have often neuralgic < toothache until breakfast is ready, when i a cup of tea and warm food sends it 1 away and restores smiles to my counte- J nance. i Akin to neuralgia is nervous toothache, which is agonizing pain in one i tooth, coming on instantly and vanish- < ing as quickly. Fatigue, worry or excitement produces it. Lie down in- 1 stantly and have a piece of flannel 1 wrung out of boiling water and 1 " spriQKiea witn lauaunuui appneu < to jour cheek. Drink a little sal-vola- i tile in water and rest until relieved. Next we have the toothache arising from 1 a chill; the jaw is here rheumatic, the gums are probably swelled and inflamed. If possible, go to bed at once. If you s have a warm room bathe your feet in 1 mustard and water, and roll up your head I in flannel. Hot fomentations applied to c your jaws will also be very useful and c soothing. Fourthly, we have the sad toothache, which arises from an impure state of the blood and is accompanied by gumboils, { voilent inflammation, and throbbing pain ( in the decayed teeth. In this case medi- j ml ftdvira must betaken, but the home , treatment should be hot fomentations or J poultices to relieve the gumboils, the mouth frequently rinsed with carbonate of soda (baking soda) and a dose of Epsom salts taken. This reduces the inflammation, I may mention that in toothace caused by cold I have often put on a mustard blister on the part affected and found it very efficacious, but it reddens the cheek for a few days. To avoid toothache attend assidiously to your general health and you will not be conscious you have teeth.?Jay Goffe, in Detroit Fret Press. Going to Certain Death. The Confederates had a boat which could be made to sink below the water and travel there for some distance, but they had not been able to overcome the ; difficulty, which has been msuperaoie till now, of making her return to the sur- 1 face at will. She was apt to put her nose < downward and make Btraight for the bot- ' torn with perfect disregard of the steer- ' ing gear. In experimenting with her, < precautions had been taken to counter- s act by external means such aberrations on ' her part, but in actual war she was use- ] less, unless men could be found who i would strike one blow in her, and die in * striking it. And men were found who 1 would do this thing. The Federal "fleet 1 were investing New Orleans, and it was 1 of the utmost importance to the Confed- i erate force that*the hostile flagship or one < of her consorts should be destroyed. < The boat was there in the harbor which could aro out and strike a fatal blow that her enemy would be powerless to evade, but the striking of this blow ( meant certain death. Men can generally < be found to lead or take part in a forlorn ^ hope. The danger is great, but there is always a hope of return, and the glory is ( in proportion to the danger. But in this , case there was no hope of return. Who so went out , in this boat must be prepared to give { his life absolutely for the good of his , country?to save her from her danger j and then himself die like a rat drowned - ' ? i* j ' in its hole. Ana sucn men were iounu. i > They went on board calmly, made their preparations, and then steamed out on their last voyage. All the populace turned out on the quays and the shores, and gave the heroes a godspeed, such as almost must have been worth buying with life. They never came back, and the Federal ship never returned home. Both Bank together, and when, after the war was over, it was proposed to raise the sunken ship, the diver who went down to examine found the monster with half her bottom blown in, and her little antagonist, who had dealt the blow lying by her side.?All tlie Year Round. Elephant Intelligence. | i The author of "Two Years in the Jun- J ?le," Mr. Hornaday, defends the elephant from the charge that its sagacity J is of a very mediocre description, and its reasoning faculties are far below those , of the dog and possibly other animals. He declares it to be the most intelligent of all animals. "A horse," he remarks, ^ "which will promptly back at the word of command, or a dog that will back or stand on its hind legs when told to do so, ! is considered quite accomplished; but in India any well-trained elephant, at a word or touch from his driver, who sits , astride his neck, will 'hand-up,' 'kneel,' 'speak' (trumpet) 'salaam' (salute Wltft < his trunk,) stop, back, lie down, pull down an obstructing branch, gather ? fodder and 'hand-up' to his attendant, turn or lift a log, or drag it by taking , its drag-rope between his teeth. He will also protect his attendants or attack a I common enemy with fury. Contrast with this the performances of our most intelligent breed of dogs, the , pointer. Even when young and trained under the most favorable circumstances, , they are at best but capable of being , taught a few things, as to 'go on,' to , 'charge,' to go on in a given direction, . and retrieve." BUDGET OF FUN. ; BUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM t VARIOUS SOURCES. J ? b rroubled About Iiabor?No Further t Use for the Dog?Not Re mark a- t ble?He Skipped a Sale?Cash Paid for Cat's Hair. latter frnn'hlM. Darnncrfir. are X. 1UCOU iai/(/i V*w?w?vvy ?0 J x *oing to ruin the country. Taken col- a [ectively?" a ' Oh, they don't bother me in the ag- r ?regate, Bromley, but simply in their inlivid ual aspect." T "Why so?" i "Well, labor has been a trouble to me i ill my lifetime. I wouldn't work a c stroke, if I could help it."?Philadelphia Call. 1 No Further Work for the Do*. J Wife (reading the paper)?"Well, I x declare, if that isn't the queerest thing I t ever heard of." Husband?"What's that?" j Wife?"Why, here in the paper is an / account of a wedding up in Manchester, j and among the wedding presents was a i bull-terrier, given to the bride by her father. Husband?<;I don't see anything odd c about that. She was the old man's youngest daughter, wasn't she?" n Wife?"Yes, but what has that got to i 3o with it?" c Husband?-"Why, of course, if she and t ** * - i 1 - 1 J 1 ill the reet were married, ne nuu ?u further use for the dog."?Somerville r Journal. ; c Not Remarkable. A party of gentlemen were discussing r Jomestic subjects. One of them said: a "Oh, of course, when a man marries he t may naturally expect to surrender many I :>f his liberties. He cannot stay out late ^ it night, nor can he go to so many places c rf amusement as he could previous to r marriage. I don't suppose there ever i svas a woman so sweet-tempered that she * refrained from scolding her husband for * staying out late at night." i "You are wrong," some one else re- ^ marked. "No matter how late I stay ? >ut, my wife does not scold me." 1 "She may not scold you. but she shows * ay her tone of voice if not by her words 1 ;hatshe does not like to be left alone." ' 'No, sir. The other night I stayed out 1 intil 12 o'clock and when I went home a ny wife didn't say a word." c "Didn't she ask you where you had * )een?" " ' 'No, I tell you, she didn't say a word." fl "She must be a rery remarkable per- 3 ion." I "Oh, no, nothing remarkable about 1 ler, and she possesses no peculiarities, ^ >nly that she is deaf and dumb."?Mer- a hantr Traveler. a I He Skipped a Sale. * "About four "weeks ago," said a farmer m the market the other day, " I con :luded to get rid of several old stumps lear the barn,. and I came in and purihased some giant cartridges. Next day * 'orenoon I went at the job, and had just * rot a cartridge tamped down in the first v itump when I saw a man drive up to the c louse. That was nothing to bother over, ? lowever, and I lighted the fuse and ran * iround the barn to wait for the explo- . don. I had only got in place when I 1 leard a voice calling: ? " 'Ah! there, Sharp! I want to sell * fou the best washing-machine ever } nade." J "It was the chnp who had driven up, * md my wife had sent him out to hunt * ne up. He was within ten feet of the ^ jtump when he called. I had a two- \ [minute fuse on the cartridge when I 1 lieard his voice and I called back: ^ " 'For Heaven's sake, get out o' that!' ~ " 'Oh, I'll get out, after I have sold * pou a machine. Sharp, where are you?' "Well, sir. you can have my ears if I that idiot didn't walk up and rest his ^ elbows on tbe stump, and he was there J when she exploded. He took a rise of J six or eight feet, came down spreadjagle fashion, and then scrambled up ind made for his wagon with slivers ? jtickiner out all over him. When he c event by the house my wife asked him ? f the machine saved ten per cent, in * soap, but he never answered nor came * :o a halt. He just sailed over the for3ivheel to his seat on the wagon, give the 8 loraes a cut with the whip, and was a nile away when I went out to the road 8 ;o inquire if his machine was full-jew- ? iled."?Detroit Free Press. c s Cash Paid for Cats' Hair. s "Did you ever hear," asked an old resi- ^ lent a few days ago of a Star reporter, i 'how the 'slaughter of the cats' was c jrought about?" I "No," was the answer, "I never knew t )f any particular slaughter of the feline s ?pecics." "Well," continued the old resident, ^ ''forty years ago or thereabouts there was l i square not far from the patent office in \ ivhich the cats had multiplied so that t .w was a iuuuulu i^ucouiuu nuwu^i 2 Jents or felines were in the ascendency, t The cats and kittens fairly swarmed, and :hose who lived on the square finally 2ame to the conclusion that the party who tvould devise soms effective means of a thinning them out would be entitled to r ;he gratitude of the neighbors. This set j ;he wits of some of the inhabitants at e work, and it was not long before there ippeared before one of the doors an immense placard; 'Wanted! Cats' hair, -r Highest cash price will be paid.-' As may ^ 3e supposed, this soon attracted , ;he notice of the boys, and due ^ nquiry elicted the reply that a sudden lemand for genuine cats' hair had sprung 7 lp and that the article at that time comnanded $2.50 per pound. The immediate esult was that for several days none of ^ :he boys of the neighborhood could * )e sceu on the street, but the contin- v ious sound of stones thrown at the cats in 81 he alleys told where they were and what k hey were about. Some six or eight days lad passed and the sign did not appear ,o have drawn in the first ounce. About v lundown the dealer noticed approaching ti ??o olu-wrk -ffz-irvi on allriril'OV ft crflWll of V XJO ouup iiuiu ua unvj ?? ?*j M v* w ?? M w. j ome thirty boys, bearing in their midst ti i long five-busliel hay sack stuffed full. ' 't was dropped at his door beneath his as- e onished gaze. " 'Why, boys!' asked the dealer,'what lave you there?' <, " 'Cats* hair, sir,' said the largest boy. Every bit cats' hair; killed them first md then plucked the hair; can swear to a t all, sir.' c " 'Why 1' exclaimed the dealer. I fear ri hat you will break me if you want your n iay in a lump, but bring in the bag. jet's look at it.' 4'The bag was carried in and hastily c >pened, when the dealer exclaimed: 'Tut, c ut! boys, you have it all mixed. I can't it io anything with the hair as it is.' After tl lesitating, he continued: 'Since you have a lad all your trouble, I'll tell you what s: t'll do. Just take it back and sort out si ;he hair, put every shade to itself, and h l'11 allow you an advance of seventy-five e *.-T V/ * % 1 .a.; .;/ : *, .' :sv enta on the pound; that will make $3.25 >er pound.' 4 'This satisfied the boys and they reurned with the bag, and it is needless to 1 ay that after an attempt to separate the 1 Lair they gave up the job. The neigh- 1 >ors had accomplished their object and 1 he number of cats were reduced *o less 1 han nothing."?Washington Star. MM ] A Soldier of Fortune. i Glancing through a Philadelphia news- ' taper a few days ago my attention was 1 xrested by a brief paragraph, d?ted at ] ,n interior town in that State, which ead as follows: \ i 'Isaac Taylor, a former citizen of this i >lace, committed suicide last night by langing. Mr. Taylor had been employed i mtil recently as a clerk in the treasury lepartment at "Washington, D. C." Taylor was one of the characters of < Washington. Thirty years of his life 1 he was sixty at the time of his death) i vere spent in travel and adventure. He < lad visited every habitable country on 1 he globe. He spoke half a dozen languages fluently, and was one of the most ( lelightful conversationalists I have ever cnown. He made the overland trip to ( California in his early youth. In San ( Francisco he joined a party of Americans \rviinrl fnr fliA SflndTTlph TfllATl^.Q W hllfi !n route Taylor discovered that the ob- j ect of the expedition was the overthrow 1 >f the existing monarchy in those lands ind the formation of a new government. There was a rebellious spirit afloat in the kingdom, and the adventurous foreigners :alculated to take advantage of it for heir own ends. Taylor said nothing, but upon their arival in Honolulu he sftught an audience vith the king and unfolded to him the letails of the plot. The conspirators ere banished from the island. Taylor emained and was speedily installed is the king's favorite. To crown all, he king's sister, a beautiful Hawaiian >rincess, fell in love with the dashing American, and, at the king's suggsstion, iffered him her hand and fortune. Taylor eceived the most positive assurance that Lis marriage to the princess would make dm heir to the crown. He declined the lonor, however, with thanks. In talkng with his Washington friends Taylor ised to say that, although he never repeated the refusal, he felt positive, that tad he espoused the dusky princess, the :ing's pledge would have been faithfully :ept. Years afterward Taylor returned to the Jnited States, and served as a soldier in , Pennsylvania regiment. In the course >f time he drifted to Washington, where >e secured a minor clerkship in the J reasurj department. About six months , igo he was dismissed from government 1 ervice on account of his irregular habits. 1 Jroken in health and in fortune, he at ] ast returned to the obscure Pennsylvania ] illage which he quitted a light-hearted, ^ .dventurous boy forty years ago. Within * , fortnight after his arrival he ended his \ ife in the manner above described.? ] Ihicago News. . J Funny Cause of a Panic. ' In some stories of John B. Gough, the { 1#?ntur?r. nrinted bv the ' 'hiladelphia TKmet,occurs the following: 1 )ne of the most terrible scenes I ever : witnessed throughout my forty years' areer as a public speaker, and yet one rith a very ludic rous side to it, occurred n Dr. Herron's church, the first Presbyerian, Pittsburg, in 1851. I was speak- ' ng to a densely crowded house, when .11 of a sudden there was a terrible crash n the gallery. A frightful panic ensued. ' The people thought the gallery was fall- 1 ng, and made a stampede to escape from he building. Borne threw themselves rom the gallery to the floor below. ( )thers jumped from the windows. In 1 he midst of the confusion the stove was 1 ipset. Fortunately the fire in it was ? cry low, and no conflagration followed, >ut the occurrence terrified the already J rantic people. Above the din I could ' Lear the stentorian tones of three or four lowerful men in the front of the gallery, vho seemed to be trying to quell the >anic by shouting at the top of their 1 oice, while they gesticulated wildly with i heir hands and arms, "The fiddle 1 it 1 vas the fiddle, the fiddle," but what on : larth the fiddle could have to nrao mArrt fllQH T OAllM mflVft I IU W ltu XU fTOO IJUV1V/ IMKU. A r , mt. At length some good brother near he pulpit struck up "From Greenland's cy Mountains," Others joined in the amiliar hymn and order and quiet were it length restored. The meeting did not j ast long, though, after that. When the oidience had dispersed the floor was trewn with false hair, hairpins, hats, >onnets, overshoes, gloves, skirts, canes, , ;apes and wraps of all kinds, overcoats md every conceivable article of wearing i ipparel. A large cart load of these things j , vere taken to the mayor's office the nert j J liurumg IAJ tfrWttib tiiC V/auiiuu v? ?mw?* >wners. After the trouble waa all over learned that the crash which created he panic waa caused by some man's J tepping upon the big bass fiddle, which , vas at that time used in the choir and vhich, when not in requisition, was al- j owed to repose on the gallery floor. This vas what the men in the gallery whom I leard shouting about the fiddle were try- . ng to explain to the fright-crazed people >elow. The Young Idea. Little six-year-old was obliged to take , dose of medicine that left an undeasant taste in the mouth. When asked low he liked it he said: "Its good ] nough, all but the end of it." < "Why, I thought you and little Flossy , Jrown were great friends." Little Miss ^ 'ashion?"So we are; but you wouldn't ] ave me play with a little girl who ^ xesses her dolls in last year's lasmon, i j rould you, mamma?" ( i Bobby is carrying an umbrella open 1 rhen it is not raining or the sun shining, i le is asked why he does so. "Cause ] -1 nnrl f* 1 IUtJLl lb mills pu nuuia u, auu nuvu >Uv un shines ma wants it, an' it's only this ] inder wedder I kin git tir use it at all." ] < "John," said a schoolmaster, "you 1 rill soon be a man and will have to at- ( end to business. What do you suppose ] ou will do when you have to write let- 1 srs unless you learn to spell better?" 1 lOh, sir," answered John, "I shall put * asy words into them." 1 i "Now, Willis," said a coaxing mother, ] 'I don't like to take medicine any more j tian you do; but I just make up my ( lind to da it, and then do it." The ^ hild looked up through his tears, and s eplied: "And mother, I just make up j ly mind that I won't and then don't." ^ A bright little girl who lives near Chiago, a-iked for a second saucer of iceream the other evening. "I don't think ;'s good for you; ask your father," said tie mother. The girl went to the library nd put the question. "Not much," lid her father emphatically. <4Papa ays I can have a little," she reported to cr mother with truthful and innocent J yea. j < POPCLAB SCIENCE. Large quantities of citric acid hare i>een extracted from the fruit of cranberry, but It is not probable that it will i t>e able to compete commercially with the lemon, which now furoiahes the bulk of 1 ? OUppIJ. * > A Boston writer declares that there is nore nutriment in a dark than in a white shelled egg. The glair of a white shelled egg is like milk-of-lime water, while that of dark eggs has substance, is gelatinous in appearance, and will hold together if lifted a few inches, and, it is claimed, is one-third more valuable for any culinary purpose. M. Hellriegcl has ascertained by & series of experiments that rye and winter wheat germinate at thirty-two degrees of. j heat, barley and oats at thirty-five, Indian corn at forty-eight, turnip at thirtytwo, flax at thirty-five, the pea and clover at thirty-five, bean and lupin at thirtyeight, asparagus at thirty-five, carrot at ;v thirty-eight, ana the bean at forty. Accounts show that the sal Deter beds of Nevada arc far better situated for their development than the niter region of South America, which is an arid deasrt. Water for all purposes is condensed from the ocean water and carried to tha niter fields, fuel being procured from the mountains in South Cnili. In Nevada, the salpeter deposits are in the vicinity of a rich farming country, with an abundant supply of water and wood. An interesting experiment, showing >>$. the influence of electricity on the growth \ of roots, lias been made in Germany by Professor Hodcfieiss. Plates of copper were thrust upright into the earth 'and :onnected'by wires with similarly-placed sine plates about 100 feet distant, an electric battery being thus formed, with the earth between the copper arid zinc in the circuit. Both potatoes and beets , \ iplanted between such plates gave an increased yield?beets fifteen per cent., potatoes twenty-five per cent.?as compared with other parts of the same field. Colonel u. JK. Braniii, late 01 tne survey of India, remarks as a noticeable feature in the meteorology of the southeast of that country, the frequent lightning storms, / v, which occur daily, for weeks together, before the setting in of the southwest monsoon, unaccompanied by rain or by any sound of thunder. They are seen along the coast where the land And sea breezes alternate, and along thd line of the Ghats, where the surface current is thrown up into the upper and opposite ' current of the atmosphere. In this region the rare phenomenon of interference * fringes is very frequently to be seen. Penont omppimonfo mnfirm fhtft nni'n. ion of sanitary authorities that, though natural soil is an excellent filter for impure air that may pass through it, it is a poor filter for infected water. Mr. Raphael Pumpellv, of the national board )f health, finds that sand interposes abjolutely no barrier between wells and infection with germs from cesspools, cemeteries, etc., lying even at great distances in the lower wet stratum of sand; ind that it is probable that a dry gravel, jr possibly a ary, course sand, is no obstacle to the free entrance into houses ibove of these organisms, which swarm in the ground air around leaky drains. American Fables. * THE THIEF'S APPEAL. \ ' ;V A Thief who had been Convicted of Stealing a Hog sought to Lesson his Of* fense by saying:, 4'While it is True, your Honor, that I Stole the Hog, you must take his Condition into Consideration. He was very Poor in Flesh." "While that is true," replied his Honor, "I must also Consider the Fact that you probably liked Lean Bacon better than Fat. I shall give you two years at Jackson." Moral: Such a thing never Happened, Df course. The Thiefs Lawyer would have cleared him on that very point. THE SAILOR AND THE SHARK? ? m v _ ^.ii r\ i j ^ tt.? A. Dauor WHO ieu uverixmru in a oatbor where many Sharks were swimming about and was Rescued without a Scratch, turned to the Fish and Returned Thanks for the great courtesy shown him. "Oh, as to that," replied a shark who came swimming near, "you owe us nothing. "We happened to be busy just then on a dead horse. We'll see you later." Moral: Don't feel too grateful too tho Hangman until you are out of a Hanging State. ( THE BURGLAR AND THE HOUSEHOLDER. A Burglar who had Ransacked a house without Profit entered the Bedroom of the Owner and Indignantly Enquired. "What sort of a man are you that your Silver is the cheapest plate, your Watch out of order and your Wallet entirely empty? Do you imagine that my time ia af no Acc ount, that I must Fool it away in this Manner?" H A IJ) ITniiealiAl^O!* Ailldl ICjJUCU VU\; JUVU0WUV4UV*} VMW fault is not my own. The holder of a chattel Mortgage just cleaned me Out today." 4 'Ah! I beg a thousand pardons. No man should have his house robbed twice in twenty-four hours. My Brethern should have Notified me by Telephone." Moral: Give the Burglar the Preference in such Matters.?Detroit Free Press. The American Tretter. It is now the American trotting horse, and not the runner, which is the high stepper of fashion. Runners are bred ana trained only for the race track, for exhibition, and the chances which render their performances of interest to the gambling class. But for pool-selling and private betting, the running race tracks - - J J iL - would soon grow up in weeas, unu me loble race of blooded runners would die )ut. For personal use the running hors? is of little practical value, compared with :he recognition of his merits when saddle riding was popular in the days gone by. But improvement in the trotting strains receives encouragement in the demand for aorses of good movement for road uses. Most horses which develop extraorJinary powers of speed, of course find A ? A^ ?* ? ? WH4- tMiKNrt :neir wuy 10 tut? rauu-irauivy uui ixhibitions serve a <*ood purpose in advertising fine blood, and promoting an nterest in improved horses among the jeople. The wonderful showing in the ;rotting records for the last few years nust bring out corresponding signs of mprovement, not only in the fashionable ;ity drives, but, also, in the country anes; and while the dashing gentleman lashes by everything on the road that Joesn't move faster than a mile in 2:30, ;he farmer's boy, with his girl by his iide, throws dust in the eyes of his .'ather's ambling "critter." Take last / ear's record and ponder. Two hundred PiVhtv-three trotters that in 1885, :or the first time knocked oft a mile in ess than 2:30, and twenty-four who enured the 2:20 list! There remains unnatched Maud S.'s time of 2:08 3-4, but ivho knows that in a few years this now "ancy record may he rated as rather slow md "unprofessional," and abandoned to ;he "speed rings" of the country pig and jumpkin shows.?Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. . . . . V