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OUR FAITH. When the earth lay in darkness? long ago, The Morning Star shone bright against the ' gloom With hope an i promise in its radiant glow. Now a clear light floods all the sky and air; And in the day it brought to fill night's room Th? Star is lost to sight?but it is there. ?Margaret Wilson, in the Current. The Wheel of Fortune. "Julian, when are you going to marry?" ' When am I going to marry? Father, you should not ask point-blank questions of that kind. 1 feci as if I had ha 1 an electric shock." The yonng man put his glass down with an exhausted air, and the elder one stood up and looked admiringly at him. "Julian, you are a handsome fellow. Ah! very like what I was at your age? vfirv!" "Glad to hear it, sir; for, if so, I shall probably be very like you at fifty. Grant this, and why should I marry for twenty years yet? i don't believe there is a girl in our set that would refuse you, sir, just as you stand to-day." The cider Raleigh turned to the mirror as he answered, "Perhaps not. .Julian; but then I have an income of $30,000 a year?a trifle certainly, but still enough to make a handsome man interesting. " "And I have nothing." "You have the fifty thousand your aunt Priscilla left yon," "My dear sir, that is three years since. | You can t imagine I have much of that left." "How much?" "If I pay my debts, about $600," "Then you must marry. I really can do nothing for you. Out of my small iifnmc T have two establishments to keen i up, and?and my own little private expen-es besides. Annette -Ick is not bad, and she owns some of the tinest-paying property in the city." ' Oh, then it is Annette, is itf" "Old Jex managed the Raleigh estate in my father's time, and Annette's father knows all about our affairs. It is an old connection, and he would be very proud to make it closer. You would be taken into the business?that is, you would draw your regular salary?and Jex \ v^ould give Annette the Waterside man- ! flion as a marriage gilt. In fact, he is ! so anxious for the match that you can j make your own terms. Think of it, Julian." "I'll think of it, father. I don't sup- : nose it, is anv use. T don't see how I ! ever could bring m\self to go through life with an ugly woman." < "But Annette has money enough to . make her?well, interesting, at least. Think it over, Julian, I entreat you. Are : you going to the opjra?" j i ".Not to-night. I have another engagement." "Then adieu! Try and familiarize your mind with the idea of Annette. She is a good creature, and 1 really see no i other way to settle yourself." Julian lit a cigar and sat down to think. Of Annette Jex? By no means. He had not the least intention of marrying Annette. "It would be wise," he muttered, "but for that reason I shall : not do it. Who is wise at twenty-seven? It is too absurd of father to expect it. Besides, I love Sydney and S}'dney loves me, and sho quite expects that we are to marry. I could not break with her, un- : less?no, I could not do it under any < circumstancss. I think I will go and j' see her at once." |; He had no fear of finding her out; her !; mother was an invalid, and Svdnev was i1 a faithful companion. Julian could see, before the carriage stopped,the bright light glowing through the crimson curtains, and as soon as he entered the room a briglit face flashed a j sort of glory on him?a face for which a man mi^ht well count Annette Jex's millions worthless. t '"Oh! how exquisite you are, Sydney!" Julian cried, as he clasped her in his arms; "and your costume, darling, it is perfect." "Yes," she answered, with a low j laugh; "Ithink Solo;non in all his glory i would be rather astonished if he could j see me. But hush! Mamma is asleep, and she must not be disturbed." "Jib, darling, not lor the world!"and the lovers withdrew to a little sofa as far from mamma as possible, and carried on it. 2.1 ? i_ : xneir conversation 111 wmspuis. "I have something to tell you, Julian;" j and a sudden pallor made Sydney's face j still more tender and lovely. '"We are joing back to England next week." "Sydney!" "It is true, Julian. Mamma is no be'ter, and never will be here; the Colo- | raao journey onlv tired her. She says | she wants to die among her own people, ! 'and in our dear old home;" and the j iv eet tearful eyes and white fad face lifted to Julian's gave him a feeling of j intense pain. Yet this sorrowful hour i was just the one thing needed to rivi t { forever the chain that had been slowly j binding him for weeks, for though love ! nursed in sunshine is a fair ilower, love ' washed in tears is imperishable. Without a moment's hesitation he j offered himself, and his debts, and his i six hundred dollars to Sydney Dacrcs. j TT? rlifl lmt anvthin ? iilimit tVin I two items; there was no hurry; his creditors were not troubling him, and he ha l a kind of sublime faith in the advent of money somehow or Irom somewhere. So he only at this hour named himself, bat ho urged that suit so eloquently anl so eagerly that Sydney answered him by I shyly putting both lu-r ha:ids in his. She looked so bewitching in this sur-; render that Julian could hardly believe in his happiness, and for one lalf-hour ; he drank of the purest and yet the most j intoxicating cup that life oilers. Then Mrs. D::cres stirred and languidly opened her heavy eyes. Julian and Sydney were instantly at her side, and she divined in one glance the relation between them. She closed her eyes again, and slow! large t.ars weled out from the heavy j "You arc glad, mamma?" whispered j Sydney. "Say you are glad. You like Julian, mamma?" "Yes, darling, I am glad; but it must not be while I live. Let me have you all to myself for a few weeks longer." She had taken .Julian's hand, and he felt it impossible at that moment to oppose he;- | wishes. Ater all, on reflection, it was i nece sary on his own account. He had asked a beautiful girl to marrv him, and he had not m oney for a month's expenses. He must do something, though lie hod not the least idea what. He had not even a clear idea as to what amount of income would make him an eligible suitor in Mrs. Dacres' eyes. He knew that they had traveled in an easy and almost luxuriant , style, tha Sydney dressed elegantly, and that they were accompanicd by three servants, who had been many years in their family, all of which argued at least a comfortabe income. One night, just before they were to sail, ilrs. I'acrcs saids &. It:' . "Julian, before Sydney comes in I wish to say a few words to you. I know your family is old and wealthy, and I suppose you have the means which en+ TTAn fA orlrJrr>- a o xrnnnnr lflflv of her portion. But what I want to feel most is that you will be very gentle ami lovincr to my darling when I am gone. Sydney does i:ot care much for money, but she would break her heart if you forgot her. My income dies with me Julian, but I have shown my confidence in you by lcavi'v you all my savings." ie:\r madam, I cannot, indeed I canno.? ''Hush! here is Sydney; say nothing to her of this conversation." It was almo-t the last they had together. Two days afterward the Dacres sailed for England, and Julian felt himself to he more absolutely alone and wretched than he could bear. In his misery he thought of his father. He was the only creature that understood him, and he resolved to go and sec him. He found him, as ne expected, uiuue, and just arranging the menu of a delicate little supper. "I got your not?, my dear boy, and stayed at home to see you. Make yourself comfortable, Julian; your mother is gone to a reception. My dear boy, how nandsome you arc! And that suit is perfect. Who made it? Melmont? Yes, I suppose Melmont made it; there is always character in his coats. And how about Annette?" "My dear father, let us understand each other at oncc on this subject. I have thought it over, as you asked me, and I can't possibly marry that woman. She is ugly, vulgar, and a dowdy. Now would you like to have p'.-o/t!" point her out as your daughter? Would you, really?" "Well, here omts supper. I hope you wiil enjoy it. Julian: I:rave a verr pleasant hour to its arrang uvnt. Ah! dear me! life is a mistake iu many respects; | but Le Grange's dinner; are always satis- j factory. Pots and pans bccome almost respectable in his hands." Julian knew that one of the nearest ways to hi* father's heart was to praise and enjoy the good things he provided;! and the young man was not re illy disin- j clined to do sd. Perhaps Mr. Raleigh's estimate of Le Grande was a little ex- 1 travagant. but he certainly exercised a j wonderful influence over those for whom i he condescended to prescribe. Both j men, after catino-hi* artistically prepared j dishes, were delightfully human?the ! elder calmly and cheerfully philosophical; ! ' tvtAKA OAn_ I 1 tnc younger iuoie uupaui auu muiv; <.Vu , fidentin himself and inhis<rond fortune, j' Suddenly Julian took out of his pocket, f sachet an exquisite picture of Sidney, 1 and said: "What do you think of that} face, father?" "I think it is perfect! lovely! ex- J quisite! That is no fancy picture, j Julian." " No. thank God: it is a real woman; I and I love her with all my life and | soul." "Pooh! pooh! that is a common feeling at twenty-seven. But I am cuiious : ?who is she ?" 1 Then Julian frankly told his father the ! st.nrv of his acquaintance with the 1 * */ J Dacres; how he had met them at Mani- j i tou Springs, and traveled with them | through the high table lands of Colorado, I and visited them at their hovel in New J York. "Sidney and I are engaged, I father; but how I am to keep her I have not the least idea." " Where do they live ?" "Near Downham, Norfolk." " There are a great many queer places ;' in the world. Julian, and one cannot be '' expected to know about them. I never i Heard of Downham, Norfolk. I assure j you. And she wants you to live there, you say, in her old home. Then, of course, she owns the place ?" ' I should suppose so." "I should think you micrht have made , ' yourself more certain about things of i such vital importance." | "My dear father, I only thought of! winning Sidney. Look at that face; you: would have done ju*t as I did." "Perhaps I should. She is lovely, 1 very lovely. I never had a daughter. I ' i - J i- - i .1 , It would be very easy to love tnat uear, beautiful creature. I'll tell you what I will do for you, Julian. I will see Ouiraby in the morning, and tell him that he must raise the rents sufficiently j to bring in ten thousand dollars a year , more, fie can put two thousand on the i hotel property very well, and the rest on j the stores near the slip. I will give you i every cent of the rise. If she has a nice j old house, tea thousand dollar* a year : will go a long way in those old English places, and I shall be proud to entertain sur-h a charminir daughter whenever you i.'iii. u arc a niuu usui, After this happy thought, both men j were supremely satisfied. Mr. Kaleigh | felt as magnificent as if he had given 1 away an estate; Julian, ns content as if; he had received a tangible fortune. It j was a comfortable settlement, and they, were both in the most amiable and confi- j dential of humors. In the course of another month Quimby , had arranged the rents in a most satis- i facto:y manner. Julir-n was eleven thousand dollars a year richer, and a few other people were a little poorer; but, as Quimby said, "it was time the estate took a step upward, and it was a great wrong to all the property owners in the city to kei'p rents down." and certainly Juiian felt opposed to wronging all the property owners in the city, many of whom were his personal friends. When ^ummer came, he determined to go and see Sydney; but when he was nearly ready to start, Mrs. Dacres died. Julian was informed that .she had left j him ?8,000 in the English funds, and with this information cnme a letter from Sydney saying that she was going with her uncle and aunt to Pau. and would not return until December, when she would be twenty-one, and her own mistress. Then, if Julian liked, he was to meet her in England, and their marriage could be j celebrated during the holidays. The ?8,000 was rather an annoyance. Mr. Raleigh, who had usually liberal ideas ab ?ut money, was clearly of opinion that Julian ought r.ot to touch a penny of it unless Sydney and he married. "It is aggravating, my dear boy, when you tiiuik of ?>,000 worth of pleasure locked up, but there are s ;me things a gentleman should not do, even for ?8,000." Sydney's birthday was on she ll)th of December, and Julian left early enough to arrive at Downham on the evening of the 18th. It had been a lovely winter day, and his ride from Lynn to Downlinn Imrl been charm inir. lie could easily imagine how perfect this flat, rich country must be when the pretty cottages would be covered with purple grapes, and the hedge-rows and beeches garlanded with wild hops. When the train entered the little depot at Downham, the first object he saw was Sidney leaning upon the arm of just such a figure as the world accepts for the typical English man?a stout, bluff, middle-aged man in drab broadcloth, vith a short ridingwhip in his hand. He smiled benignly at Sydney's meeting with her lover, and gave Julian his hand in a very gracious manner. It was rather an embarrassing meeting, b:it he treated it in th-j most i matter-of-fact way. "Come, Sydney," he said, ''the horses don't like waiting, and I dare say Mr. Raleigh is bothhungrj and tired." As they passed through the little town, Julian noticed that the people were hanging wreaths of holly and mistletoe. sind spanning the narrow streets with arches of evergreens. "Thov ;ire ornttincr rpariv for Christ ,3" O J mas early, arj they not, Sydney?" he asked. "Oh," she answered, laughing low, "those are in my honor, Julian. All the village keeps ray birthday with me tomorrow." At length they reached a stately old lodge, and great iron gates flew back and admitted them into a grand park shaded with oaks and beeches centuries old. After th:s entrance Julian was noways surprised to see Dacre Hall?a noble specimen of Tudor architecture, covered witii ivy and lichens, and surrounded bj a wilderness of rare shrubberies and old gardens. Very few words had. been spoken during the short drive, but when Juliar stood in the splendid reception hall, Sydney said: "Look around, dear Julian. Here the Dacre3 have dwelt for six hundred years, and here, with their pictured faces round me, and my dear uncle Sii Jasper Temple by my side, I take you with all mv heart to be my husband and my guide." Julian never knew what an answer he made, and Sir Jasper never could tell his lady what he said, but it was in both cases something that made every one blissfully happy. And then the servants threw open suites of brilliantly lighted rooms, and stately ladies came forward to welcome the stranger, and Julian felt as if he was an enchanted prince in an enchanted palace. Two weeks after this event Mr.Raleigh senior sat eating his breakfast in a very queer temper. He had been expressing his opinions to Mrs. Raleigh on the manner in which the New Year's entertainments had been managed, and that lady had not received them kindly. He had scarcely recovered his usual placidity when his sen Jerome entered. His sleek hair, freckled face, and humpbacked nose roused a feeling of antagonism at once; and yet there was in the iatners face a look of triumph that was strangely at variance with his ill temper. "Where is my mother, sir?" said Jerome. "In Sulkydom, I suppose. I have been giving her my ideas about asking so many of her relations, and such people as the Jexes, among ladies and gentlemen. She has deprived me of her company in consequent e." Jerome helped himself to some broiled kidney: and, after five minutes' angry 3ilence, said: "I think it right to tell you, sir, that I shall marry Miss Jex next month." "The information is of no consequence to me." Presently Jerome said: "It will look very well: 'Jerome, eldest son 01 Jtticnard Darrel Raleigh, to Annette, only child of Simon Jex, Esq. The bride wore $60,000 worth of diamonds, and received the splendid mansion of Waterside as a wedding gift.'" "I don't think it will read nearly as well as this does," said Mr. Raleigh, triumphantly. ''Listen: 'On the 19th ult., by the Bishop of Norwich, assisted by Dean Walsingham, at Downham, Norfolk, Mr. Julian Raleigh, of New York, to Lady Sidney Dacres, sole heiress of Dacres and Diss, and only child of the late Major-General Sir Egremont Dacres, The bride was given away by her uncle. Sir Jasper Temple.' "?Harper's Weekly. Guarding the Rich. The residences of the Vanderbilts, the Astors and Jay Gould in New York are constantly guarded against cranks by private detective?. The private service for the protection of the Vanderbilts, Astors and Gould was organized three years ago, and is ostensibly separate for each family, though the men who defend the Vanderbilts and Astors are provided by the same establishment, and practically work together. Regular patrol duty is done, night and day, and twenty detectives are exclusively employed for the purpose. Theie are four Astor residences and five belonging to the Vanderbilts, all in or close to Fifth avenue, between Thirtv-third and Fifty-second streets. The spies are on watch eight hours each per day, and the beats are so nrranged that the nine houses cannot be approached unseen by one or more of the guardsmen. Willinm H. Vanderbilt was the originator of this system, and he wa3 incited to it by the large number of cranky letters which he received. He professed to have no fear of rational evil doers, but was apprehensive that maniacs might at'ack him or some member of his family. Since his death the mails have been laden with all sorts of appeals, demand?, and threats directed to his sons. Jay Gould's self-protection is more secret and characteristic. He does not entrust it to a detec'tive agency, but hires his own body-guard. For years he has always been accompanied by a stalwart young fellow. But that is a safeguard against Wall street enemies. Cranks who might cut up capers in or around his home are under tlie view of spied whose quarters are in a room of the Windsor hotel, across the way. That is additional to patrol duty done by a sep arate set of men. These employes of the millionaire families, whose names are poor people's synonyms for wealth, are kept informed as to every new demonstration by a crank, and they are alert to descry and drive off the monomaniacs who attempt any exploits.?Cincinnati Enquirer. To Cure a Stoop. A stooping figure is not only a familial expression of weakness or old nge, but il is, when caused by careless habits, a di rect cause of contracted chest and defeC' tive breathing. Unless you rid yoursell of this crook while at school you will probably go bent to the grave. There i.< one. crond wav to cure it. Shouldei O / braces will not help. One needs not an artificial substitute, but some means tc develop the muscles whose duty it is tc hold the head and shoulders erect. ] know of but or.o bail's eye shot. It is tc carry a weight on the head. A slice]; skin or other strong b:ig filled with twenty or thirty pounds of sand is a good weight. "When engaged in your morning studies, either before or after breaklast, put the bag of sand on your head, hold your head erect, draw your chir close to your neck, and walk slowlj about the room, coming back, if yoi nleas.\ every minute or two to your book. or carrying the book as you walk. Th( muscles whose duty it is to hole the head and shoulders erect are hit, noi with scattering shot, but with a rifle ball. The bones of the spine and the in tervertcbral substances will soon accom modate themselves to the new attitude One year of daily practice with the bag half an hour morning and evening, wil give you a noble carriage, without interfering a moment with your studies.? Hall's Journal of Health. WORDS OF WISDOM. Choose always the way that seems best, however rough it may be. Custom "will render it easy and agreeable. The bow cannot possibly stand ali ways beat, nor can human nature or human fraility subsist without some lawful recreation. i Pastime is a word that should never be used but in a bad sense; it is foolish to say that a thing is agreeable because it helps to pass the time away. There is some help for the defects of fortune, for if a man cannot attain to the lenfrth of his wishes he may have his I O - l remedy by cutting them shorter. 1 Worldly faces never look to "worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect | of grating incongruity as the sound of a ! coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of niidit. r & I There are moments when by some strange impulse we contradict our past selves?fatal moments, when a fit of past sion, like a stream of lava, lays low the work of half our lives. If heaven consists in a state of holy . dispositions and affections, and not in [ ''pearly gates and purling brooks," this > is the state we ought to cultivate if we i would reach the heavenly life. A recent careful calculation shows thai England owns nearly three times as larg< j : | ail extent of colonies as all tlie rest ot u.u1 i rope together. Her colonies are eighty five times as big as the mother country i " Life Studies by Lige Brown. The late worm escnpes the early bird. Nothing but time can keep up with the indicator on a gas meter. The man who loved the watch-dog's honest bark was not a tramp. The Chinese have a sure way of removing dandruff. They do it with sand paper. A man is obliged to die before his will omniinto nnvthinor.hut that of a woman UU4VU..V.J tv "--J OJ is always in force. In the pursuit of knowledge man never gets on the right track until he finds out that he doesn't know enough to brag about. The man who said that "htipe is brighter when it follows fear," had just finished occupying a chair in company with his wife's bonnet. The papers are searching for the man who is nlways ready for an emergency. The woman always in waiting for an offer will be found fir3t. A woman may not be very far-sighted in business matters, but she can diagnose the trimming of a bonnet as far as a mau can smell fried onions. "Conscience makes cowards of us all," wrote the immortal bard, but the mao with his stomach full of boiled cabbage has his own private opinion on the subject. A foreigner at once understands how it happens that the United States is al| ways prepared for war when he learns j that there are upward of four hundred , colleges in this country. It is said that the ratio of marriage is declining, but if so, statistics are sometimes contradictory. Over six million bottles of hair restorative were sold in this country last year. A Michigan man by feeding a tramp found a long lost brother of his wife. We suppose this ought to be taken as a solemn warning against something or other, because he has had to keep on feeding h i in ever since. Prometheus was chained and tortured to have his picture taken, but no master of the brush has ever had the forethought to cut "across lots" to immortality by emb.ilming on canvas the sufferings of a man in a barber's chair. j When placed under a microscope the I sting of a bee presents a polish of dazzling beauty; but when placed in the end of a man's nose the poli?h is missing, i and the appearance move like that of a j rat-tail file dipped in vitriol. This is'official.? Chicago Ledger. How Alcoholic Liquors are Made. Whatever may be our individual views or prejudices in relation to the use and abuse of alcoholic liquors, the process of their manufacture is a very interesting chemical operation. Proof-spirit is de fined by the United States internal revenue laws to be that of alcohol aud water which contains one-half of its volume of absolute alcohol and 53.71 parts of water. When the alcohol and water are mixed l together?while oombining?contraction ! in volume takes place to the extent of i 3.71 parts, resulting in 100 parts of I proof-spirit. The law declares that the duties on all spirits shall be levied aci cording to their equivalent in prt;ofI spirits. The hydrometers adopted by ! the Government for the purpose of test- | j ingthe degree of strength are graded I I aiiu marked (0 degrees) for water, (100 degrees) for proof-spirit, and (200 degrees) for absolute alcohol, at a standard temperature of sixty degrees Fahr. Alcoholic liquors can be made from ' any substance that contains saccharine ' matter already formed by nature, or i. from any substance that contains tho constituent elements that can be coni verted by some artificial process into the saccharine principle. In the United i States they are generally produced from corn, rye, wheat, barley, rice, molasses, i apples, grapes and pea: hes; sometimes from potatoes and beets. Vinous ferf mentation converts sugar, glucose, or ' saccharine matter into alcohol and car bonic-acid gas; the latter passing off into the atmosphere. : In order to bring about vinous or alcoi holic fermentation five agents are iadis'< pensablc, viz., saccharine matter, water, heat, a ferment and atmospheric air. fciKmr or saccharine matter in its various forms is the only element from : which alcohol can be produced; the oth; ers are mere auxiliaries to the decom position.?Popular Science Monthly. ' Fiddling: to Cure the Dyspepsia. , One of the leading teachers of the ! j violin in Boston?and in America?relates i t ! that a young woman came to him for ( ; instructions, and after a lesson or two, he ( 1 very frankly and honestly said to her: [ | "It is of no use for me to teac-h you. . i The simple fact is, you have no musical > j ear." { . "Oh, I know that," she returned with the utmost sweetness and candor. "But why," he asked, in astonishment easily imagined, "do you come to me if you know you have no ear?" , "01i, it is because of my health," anT i swered the interesting pupil. "My docL j tor says there is nothing so good for my dyspepsia as the exercise of the arms J 1 j get in violin playing."?Boston Budget. [ | "Webster, N. H., ought to be the liap; ! picst place in the country. It has neither i -nminer nor criminal, and has no resident | J to whom it gives aid, and there is no j [ penal or reformatory institution any- | j where that contains one of its so::s or [ daughters. " ! Over 22/ 0,000 lobsters were capturcd " { and canned on Prince Edward's Island ' la t year. PAINT-STONES. A. CURIOUS RELIC OP FORMER INDIAN" LIFE IN OHIO. How the Indians Decorated Themselves for Battle?Peculiar Mode of Manufacturing Bright Colors. A tfainDriage (unio) letter to tne | Cincinnati Commercial Gazette says: One of the most romantic localities which the great vandal, civilization, has left untouched in her conquest of the great State of Ohio, lies along the precipitous banks of Paint Creek and Kocky Fork, about four miles from Bainbridge, and near the dividing line between Ross and Fayette Counties. Lofty hills, wilieh the inhabitants of the country dub mountains in their local pride, lise proudly from the plains. The j celebrated Kocky Fork caves honeycomb | one of the largest hills, and attract | crowds of tourists and sight-seers in the j summer. Paint Creek, or "Paint," as it j is familiarly called, flows placidly I through some of the most romantic and ! beautiful scenery in Ohio. In spring the j sun shines in golden splendor on the j forest-covered summits of the great hills and on the liquid depths of ''Paint" Creek; in autumn it converts the great forests into gorgeous variegated pyramids, and gives the forest depths the appcarance of cathedral aisles, through which the sunlight falls, tinged with the scarlet and purple splendor of the leaves. A few farm-houses, the Rocky Fork hotel and a post-office form what is known in postal guides as the village of "Paint." The village and creek enjoy the name of Paint from the fact that the Indians in the early days of Ohio were accustomed to secure their supplies of : paint in that vicinity. The local authority on all questions re-1 lating to the history of the place is a gentleman rejoictngin the sanguine-name of Hope. He has been postmaster of ? - - ,i J f_ xl JPaint postomce since tne war, ana in iue little grocery, which he keeps in connection with the postoffice, he lives a placid life. In one corner of a little carpenter shop over his store, Mr. Hope has one of ; the most interesting collections of Indian { curiosities I have ever seen. All the j specimens were gathered in the vicinity j of Paint, and are interesting as showing j the methods of life of the Indian tribes ! in the early days of Ohio. Among other interesting specimens are several of the Indian paint-stones. When I picked one of them up I thought that it was one of the otone hatchets which occupied so prominent a place among the weapons and tools of the Indians. The paint-stone is about five inches long and three inches broad, and J tapers to an edge like a stone hatchet. It; is extremely heavy and looks like a smooth piece of polished iron which has ! been corroded, or like a piece of polished 1 iron ore. A hole drilled through the middle makes a place for a string or thnng of deer sinew, by which it was attached to his belt by the Indian warrior. "What was the hatchet used for?" I asked Mr. Hope, picking up one of the painted stones. "Do you call that a hatchet?" he remarked; "look here a( minute and I will show you." He picked up a small saucer made out i of granite, and rudely fashioned on the principle of an India ink saucer. He i iillcd the hollow of the saucer with water and then rubbed the "hatchet" in it as he would have done a cake of water-color paint. In a few minutes he had a tea- j snoonful of brilliant veruiillion paint, j Applying some of it to the back of his I hand in stripes it proved to be a brilliant I vermillion flesh dye, bright enough to i send the most dudical Indian beau into ; raptures. "This," said Mr. Hope, noting my: look of amazement, " is an Indian paintstone. It was found in this county, and is a remarkably fine specimen. The In- J dians were accustomed to tie the paint | stones to their belts by means of thongs, and always carried them to battle. The mode of manufacturing them was quite remarkable. The Indians hunted up i springs whieh contain oxide of iron, j The iron in such springs always floats on the top in the form of a scum. This they would patiently skim off the sur- ; face with a rude spoon and collect it in . a vessel which they used for the purpose. : When they had collected a sufficient amount of skimmings" to make a paint stone they added certain other substances, and then molded it into the lialchet shape which characterizes all the paint-stones left by the Indians. The method t.hey employed in doing the molding is not definitely known. The springs in the neighborhood of 'Paint, ' i-i- j*.... 4.k..?^t : Were rCmiU'KILUIt: iur UK" auiuunt vi jii/ji scum they yielded, mid tliis region was a favorite resort for tlie Indians to make paint-stones. This one gives a bright vermilion tint, but thf re are others which give a bright yellow or a rich purple tint. With these colors the Indian braves could get. themselves up in superb style. They would rub the paint-stone in water in this stone saucer, and then apply the stripes to their skin directly with the stone. The color which it i yields does not nib off, but remains on the skin a long time. The exact receipt, which the Indians employed in making the paint-stones will never be known, 1 but the Drincinle of all the coloring mat tcr is the oxide of iron. This paint seum can often be sccmi on the springs and .streams in this vicinity now, but alas!; the children of the forest, whose eyes it gladdened, are gone forever. Glass Blowers' Clieeks. It is announced that Messrs. Appert of Clichy, France, have cusco%-ereu a process that will make glass blowing by the j mouth unnecessary. Many attempts i have been made to get rid of this painful process in the operations of glass making, but to this day in eveiy bottle lions.* may be seen pale-faced men with their cheeks hanging limp in folds, the result of years | of glass blowing by the mouth. Cases j have b.'cn known in which men's cheeks : have been worn so thin that they have > actually cracked, and it is a common sight in a bottle house to sec blowers at work with their thin cheeks pulled out like the lingers of a glove. o ? A Groat Man's Weakness. He could write like Roman Pliny and could i libn Pjior/lllilli. ly,,V *'"w **Ov" 7 ( And compass like Mendelsohn or Bach; He could climb a wall like Remus, rule a State like Nicodemus, And compare with all the mighty men of mark. He could preach like Simon Peter {and he'd bore like Amos Keeter Relating lots of eloquence supernal). Ho could sway a listening Senate and excel James Gordon Bennett In the running of an influential journal. He was full of light and sweetness yet ho felt his incompleteness And often had occasion sad to rue it; For it made him feel much smaller when he couldn't put on his collar And had to ca 1 his neighbors in to do it. ?Lynn Union. A Population Armed to the Teeth. Hyderabad, says a London Telegraph correspondent, is unquestionably one of the most peculiar and interesting cities of India,, although of no ancient foundation and possessing no very remarkable i !i m 1. "U ^ J DUIlUin^TS. IVOOIUD OIIIIXJ, wnu urcuicu this capital in 1859, A. D., beautified the place with a stately mosque and the picturesque edifice called the ChaharMinar, or the ''Four Minarets," through the archways of which the main traffic of the bazaar still parses. Outside the gray and white walls of the city runs thcKiver Musuh, in stony channels, which are filled with a turbid, flood during the rains, but at other seasons trickle feebly with a chain of shallow pools, where elephants bathe and the town washing is clamorously done. This rocky stream is spanned by three broad bridges, separating the Hindoo subupbs from the town proper, wherein all?or almost all?is Mohammedan in character. The lon? whitewashed streets of the capital, witn their shop fronts formed by Saracenic arches ;'the mosques occuring at frequent intervals ; the tall sculptured minarets seen constantly rising above the city roofs ; the sign-boards bearing Persian, Arabic or Hindi inscriptions; the names of the shopkeepers, and the multiplicity of beggars on the mosque steps and at tVio rrof-miTn ttc envp tVip rrpnprnl i m r.rpssinn r"' ~ v**" b ? ?r- ? of a sort of Indian Damascus or Cairo. This is intensified by the busy throng blocking up the main streets with a perpetual tide ol life; for here one sees perpetually the snow-white turban of the " true believer " mingling with the red tarboosh of the Mohammedan negro and the green caftan worn by the Syed, or the Hadji, who has made his pilgrimage to Mecca. This population goes armed, as has been said, to the teeth?to the stomach, to the back and legs, the neck and head. In truth, it is hardly less the fashion to wear pistols, sabres, daggers, guns and spears in Hyderabad than to carry umbrellas in Piccadilly. At the guardhouses sit the Arab troopers, with long matchlocks held spearwise between the knees, and cotton fuses smoking. The Muslim "masher," as he caracoles down the bazaar, strokes his moustaches with the blade of his sword; the noble on his elephant lays his crooked tulwar across his knees; the messenger goes down the street with the letter which he is to deliver stuck into the sheath of his silverhalted knife; the dealer squats at the shoe-mart with a lapful of poignards rattling against his lupees; and every fifth or sixth shop sells lethal weapons. The whole rapital gives the idea of being, as it were, "on half-cock," and ready to go off at a touch into turmoil and revolution. It is, however, only an idea; and though the populace has decidedly an independent, free and easy manner not witnessed elsewhere, and although a I European might be somewhat carelessly jostled here and there if he walked through the more crowded ot the bazaars, there is no sign of turbulance or want of civilty that I could notice, and broils are said to be of singular In frequency. Charming and Catching Bats. "There's not a rat-pit in Chicago, "said Ed. Dorney, one of the recognized 1 ;cal authorities in such matters, "and ratcatching exhibitions have not been aiven here for two years. It doesn't pay lure." "Are there any professional ratcatchers here now?" was asked. "There are one or two semi-professionals. Dick Toner is the best professional rat-catcher in the country. He'll catch you mo;e rats in a nigiit than a dozen traps will, and he'll bet big money on it. He is at the Fifth Avenue Hjtel in New ? * * ' t 1- - o York now, 1 believe, wnac does ne earns Fifty dollars a week. If you should see him going down Broadway you'd think him a railroad president. He is a finelooking man and dresses elegantly. He only -works three hours a n:'ght, between eleven and three o'clock, when all is still." "How does he catch the rats?" "In various ways. Sometimes with his hands and sometimes with tongs. He goes into a room and turns out all the lights, and waits. When he hears a rat | he flashes a dark lantern on it and the rat is so astonished it rises right up on its haunches, as you've seen a gopher do. "* ^ A '?- ? ???? ? l??<i 4- * /la ^4* in I iJeiore xne rai kqows wuul lo uu ? m seized by the tongs. Of course the number Dick will catch in a night depends on how many there are about the prem- : ises. Rat-catchers have vaiious me.ms of ----- -1? getting tiie rats to come out tn men holes. They have ways of charming and entieing them through their sense of smell. Then they have tame rats which they carry about in their pockets and use to drive out the wild rats. The ratcatcher stops all the holes but one, for instance, puts his tame rat in that, and then rintfs a bjll. A rat will always run when it hears a boll ring. The tame rat runs down into that hole and the other rats hear it coming and they start and run. There's only one hole where they can get out, and when they come out they are caught."?Chicago News. A Substitute for Gunpowder. A substitute for gunpowder is described in Science as having come into recent use in the American coal mines. Caustic lime is ground iinc and consoli (liitea uy a pressure cu iuity tuuo u tridges. After the holes are drilled in the lace of the coal, an iron tube half an inch in diameter, with a small groove externally on the upper side, and several perforations, is inserted the whole length of the hole. The cartridges, which have a groove to fit the tube, are then inserted and tightly rammed, and the hole tamped. A small force pump injects through the tube a quantity of water equal in bulk to the lime. The watei escapes through the perforations and along the groove, saturating the whole, and driving out the air. The tube is then closed by a tap to prevent the escape of the steam, which, by its force, cracks the coal away from the roof, and then follows the expansion of the lime. Concerning: Coffins. Some one not long since invented a papier mache cofh'n. Among the advantages claimed for it was its close resemblance to wood, its lightness, waterproof 1:4... t ?m 1 mof 11 v 1 it v t.hmiorli 1] IJ il 11 l<_y , illJtl iUwmyuwuwi.i.j , 0 .. why this latter quality should recommend the new casket is not apparent. The paper casket has been patented, but has not been put upon the market. lion and bronze caskets have been for some time in favor, and recently marble caskets have come in. They are practically indestructible, being made of a composition of powdered marble dust and Portland cement, and molded and baked like pottery. A certain peculiar postmortem vanity has found gratification in ' n* 1- --A 1 j transparent glass comns, uui nuru wiw is still more used than any other material, and for all practical purposes it is, doubtless, as satisfactory as anything else. On the score of healthfulness, indeed, the less durable the casket the better for the surviving population of the ea'-th.?New York Sun. " m LIFE IN HAVANA. , PICTURESQUE SCENES IN THB CUBAN METROPOLIS. Everybody Bides in the DaytimesBusy Streets at Night?Ladles Lounging in the* Windows? "Doing the Bear." '-IX As the traveler enters the harbor of the City of Havana the most striking objects that arrest his attention are the big galiiot-shaped rowboati by Which passengers are transferred from the New York steamers to the shores of Cuba. Their colors illuminate the harbor and add greatly to its foreign and picturesque appearance, though the half-cylindrical awnings are not prized for their beauty one-tenth as much as for their shade-giving qualities. In Havana nobody lets the sunlight strike him a second longer than can bs helped. The sun is no hotter than in New York in midsummer, but the people know enough to keep out of its rays. They carry parasols, nde in covered victorias, sit indoors, or on covered piazzas or balconies, put up awnings over the sidewalks, and even stretch $?? canvass across their narrow streets. Curiously enough, wherever there is shade there is coolness. Cuba 4 seems to lie in the path of some constant winds that blow softly but steadily over her surface, so that her people are fanned ja and cooled by them night and day, and though these breezes amount to nothing in conflict with the sun's direct rays, they are so powerful in the shade that stepping out of the sunshine in Havana re- VI minds a New Yorker of stepping from a hot sidewalk into a cool cellar. Nobody walks thj streets in the daytime in Havana. Tumble-down, rickety but everlasting victorias at twenty centa a mile are so plentiful that they seem to stand in front of every fourth or fifth house even in the suburbs. The drivers 4'$ are always asleep in their seats 'pA and have to be punched and sworn at in Spanish. Nearly everybody u*es the victorias to shop, to make calls, to go sight-seeing, or even to go from a hotel to a cafe, a couple of blocks away. The volantes do not cost much more, but those in Havana are gradually falling to > pieces, and as no new ones are built tney are growing scarce. The volante is not a beautiful creation, but even on an q?dinary Cuban road, built on the sadM principle as the bed of a mountain torrent, it rides as easily as a baby's cradle. Cuban maidens sigh when they see the AmoriMn vnnnrr mon fal'o fVioir '?flr)vw< loves riding in one of these vehicles, with the driver half a block away on horse-. back; and Cuban parents hold up their hands in dismay at the same si^ht. The V Havanese who can't afford to ride stay at home until dusk, when the sun sets as suddenly as if the sun-set gun in Morro Ca3tle had brought it down with a banjaf. By 8 o'clock at ni?ht the three main streets become as busy as the Bowery on Saturday night. The air is clearer than we see it, except on winter nights, and as cool as in early autumn at home. The ladies are out in full force, wearing man- /; ' tillas instead of bonaets,and accompanied by their husbands, fathers, mothers, or duennas. Some are on the way to the theatres, and many others are going to sit in one of the parks on the Prado- and hear the delightful music of a military band. The windows in Havana are very tall ! and broad, and close to the sidewalk. Whether with or without sashes and glazing, they are embrasures guarded by iron bars, more or less ornamental, ana consequently more or less prisod-like. The sills are as broad as lounges, and the young ladies are fond of sitting or half reclining in them in the afternoons, after they have dressed for the purpose, and the setting sun has shaded the street so mill pedestrians oegin co appear upuu aw I never in my life saw a sight that surprised me more tha 1 that which met my gaze, when, after registering at the Paris Hotel in Santiago. I turned the first corner for a stroll and saw one or two beautiful girls in everv window of every house along a whole block or more of dwellings. The sidewalks were so narrow that my shoulders almost brushed the plump brown tinkers that here and there clasped the iron bars. The pretty young women all looked at me with great curiosity, for I was dressed as I had been in New York, and when my eyes met theirs they still stared, n t boldly, but lazily. One or two flirted a little, rolling their great black eyes over the edges of their fans, and tittering mischievously. I hurried back to the hotel, and found I had been reviewed by the elite of Santiago. The same thing may be witnessed in other cities, but in Havana, of course, one sees more of it and sees it to better advantage than anywhere else. It was interesting to watch the young men "doing the bear" a-; they call it there; that is, walk up and down the opposite side of the way like a bear in a cage, or a sentinel on his post, to attract the attention and, if pos-ibl.', the sm'les of the ladies who have smitten them. A passerby can see into any house in the daylight, and what he first sees is a parlor with two rows of rocking-chnirs faring one another opposite the window. The floor may be tiled or not. It may have a chandelier and pictures or a rug, or it may have none of these things, but the two rows of rockers it is absolutely certain to have. On these chairs sit the members of the household in th3 eariy evening, or at night, to enjoy the cool uir that plays between the street and the open interior court, whose palms and tropical flowers are also seen through the windows. The theatres are enormous and well managed; the clubs are brilliant and cosmopolitan, except the one that is Spanish and aristo ratio. There are two or three good hotels, and the murket from which the restaurants arc supplied is one of the finest and cheapest in the world. For the wicked there is gambling, bullfighting, cock-fighting, and a chance to invest in nearly a dozen lotteries, to say nothing of the Theatre Cervantes, which leaves Paris lacking.?Brooklyn Magazine. A Government Ratcatcher. A colored laborer in the United States Treasury, Washington, has the record of having killed six hundred rodents with liis bare hanus. He lias the knacic or grasping the animal by the skin bstween the ear and the jaw and by a sudden twist ending his existence. There are a number of rat traps in the building and the ratcatcher makes a daily round to see what the supply is, killing the captives as he proceeds. He is not entirely dependent upon traps, however, but often catches the rats as they scamper oKnuf w.qatp nnnftr rnnms. Tho auuuu v?*w " ?? - Treasury employes say that he never has yet been bitten by a rat during his career. Some of hiu victims are great, big mossbacks that have defied capture for years. The ratcatcher feels secure In his government position.?Baltimore News.