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ij?fp-' p i _______ LIFE'S CHIVALRY. Where, in the bu6y city's care and strife, [ Its thirst for riches and its toil for bread, Is found that soul of chivalry in life Which somo aro mourning for as tru' dead? Ehall wo seek for it in the forest glade; In hoary, dim cathedral, gray with age; In chancel, where the mailed knights are la With rusted lance, no further war to wag In mold'ring castla or in ivied tower, Where pomp and pageantry were wont i be? Ah, no! But yet the ancient spirit's power Is with us, and its form, if we would see, To labor chearfully from hour to hour, To do good graciously is chivalry. ?Chambers' Journal. ?r**t?nri n * r en n at at> e UAl'XlA XA.Uh3.Kj l/VUUJAih fc-. a sailor's queer yarn. "You say that a man has got to hav a knowledge of navigation before he ca command a ship, do you?" said an ir telligent looking seaman to a boarding hou3e runner tho other day as the pai stood on an East River pier -waiting fc an incoming ship to be dockcd. ' do," said the runner. "Then you ai out of your reckoning," continued th seaman: "fori have known a man t command a ship and make good runs i her, and yet he didn't know any moi about navigation than you do." Th runner and several others who stoo near and had heard the seaman's peculia statement asked him to tell them abon the strange captain who knew nothin about navigation. This request teeme to strike the seaman as quite reasonabl and ho at once proceeded to spin hi yarn. ftronfr mo ra n rrrt " 7?r? Viorron "when I was first made an able seaman, shipped here on a full-rigged clippc bound for Callao, Peru. The captai was as fine a looking skipper as I eve saw. He was tall and stout built, wit a heavy beard which he took a good dea of pains with. They called him Captai Phillip?. Though he was mighty Cut looking and talked as if he knew every Ihing, when you looked at him close to fc a minute somehow he didn't look a smai man. The first time I went to the whc< he wa3 on deck, and I watched him good deal more than I did the compass and the more I looked at him the inor I made up my mind that with all hi taking ways and looks he wasn what I called a smart man. On queer thing about Captain Phil lips was that he kept a servant That's something very strange for th captain of an American ship to do. Bu they said that the captain was born ii England, and he talked a little as if h was. But that servant of his was i queer looking fish. They called hin &2v;utlj? iuai iciiuvy >?U3 awivvtuiu. AH legs and arms seemed twisted. Nothinj fitted bim, and he had red hair, and hi ugly face was all covered with bi? freckles. But somehow about the eye he looked smart. Every now and thei while I was at the wheel the captain anc Scotty would be on deck, and when heard them talk I couldn't help think th i Scotty was much the smarter of the two although the skipper was ft man pas forty, while Scotty was little more thai half that. Scotty never had anything to do with the men. He lived in th cabin and was almost always with th captain. Although they called him ; servant I never saw him do any work Sometimes he would come on deck ant give tho male in charge of the deel some message from the captain abou changing the course or going about, o something else about navigating the ship X3lL LI Hit-3 1U UCOVJ ?CUIUC1 Ul YWICU iu captain was putting the ship about h would walk up and down leaning 01 Scotty's shoulder. Scotty woul; look out kind of queeri; from under his eyebrows whil he walked alongside the captain, and h always seemed to be muttering some thing. All this seemed kind of Strang to me. Once in a while the captaii would be the worse for liquor. He neve came on deck much then, but when h wanted the courso of the ship changec or anything like that done, he woul< 6end up word to the mate in charge o the deck by Scotty. "One night when we were gcttinj down near Cape Horn our watch ha< from 8 to 12 o'clock on deck. I wa standing near the pumps, and the mat told me to go aft and coil up some rope that the other watch had left down, went aft, grumbling, of course, an< began coiling the ropes. I noticed i lighted window, and getting down to i ?I was curious when I was young, yoi see?I could look into the captain's cabin On the lounere lav Caotain Phillips, win looked as if he'd been drinking to much, but my eyes stuck out when I sav Scotty. That young fellow sat at a tabl with a chart before him. He had a pai of compasses out and was making ou bis course on the chart. He jumped u and took a look at the weather glass, am then he started toward tho after com panionwav. I jumped up and went t coiling the ropes again. I heard Scott come on deck. Says he to the man a the wheel: 'The captain says change th course a point to the west.' The mat came aft then, and Scotty told hiu about changing the course aud then said 'The captain 6ays when you chang the watches tell your men to b ready for a call, for the glas is going down, and we're likel, to have a heavy breeze before morning. I finished coiling up the ropes and wen forward. Thinks I: This ship is navi gated by Scotty, and the captain, wit] all his airs, ain't any more of a naviga tor than I am. He may be captain, bu he's no more than a speaking trumpc ior Dcutiy so xar as nanaiing mis sin goes.' "At 12 o'clock ray watch turned in but somehow I couldn't sleep, I key thinking about Scotty. I saw he had a! along given his own order9 about hand ling the ship, while he seemed to b only giving messages from the captain. When the captain had come on deck an given any orders I felt sure that Scott had tola him what to say before he lei the cabin. And when he had give orders with Scotty by him, Scotty ha muttered, and what had he muttered bu the very orders that Captain Phillips r< peated after him. I saw what a "frail the captain was when I thought it a >over, but what puzzled me most wn why didn't Scotty strike out for himsel and be a captain, instead of pretendin to be a servant and letting Captain Phi lips use him that way. There was som jnystery about it, that was plain, but /couldn't guess what it was; I could onl puspect that in some way or other th captain had got a tight hold on Scott] While I lay in my bunk thinking aboi all this it came on to blow, and all haud -were called to shorten sail. Scotty ws right when he told the mate that w ,wero likely to have a storm; althoug .when he said it the weather looked r nice as you could ask to have it in thos latitudes. That showed how well Scott understood what he was about. "We got into Callao and landed ou Jj^^fflBj^htomoall right. The captain then s:ii San Franciscc where we would be paid off and the ship would take on a cargo of grain for Europe. Early in the afternoon of the second day out from Callao the mate went out into the main channels to see if the ly paint work there didn't want touching up. Somehow he lost his balance and went overboard. The 9hip was hove to aud we started to lower a boat, but the i(j mate was seen to throw up hishands and sink out of sight. Captain Phillips came ' on deck with Scotty by him and sent for t the second mate, who told how that there was no.chance of saving the mate. The captain asked the second mate if he rni J understood navigation. 1 ue scconu mate said he could brace up the yards and such as that, but he d.dn't understand navigation. "Then,' said the captain, 'I'll put back to Callao for a new mate.' J, "Scotty turned to the captain and said: 'Why not make me mate.' "The captain looked mad and said to e Scotty: n " 'Why, you don't understand naviga?. tion.' p "Scotty looked madder then than the ' captain for a minute. Then he came )r alongside Captain Phillips and began whispering in his ear. Scotty talked ,e mighty Jearncst and seemed to be begc gmg hard for something?I suppose it 0 was to be made mate, but the captain a did nothing, only shake his head and look ,e sulky. All this time the ship was lying to. "Finally I saw Scotty looking mighty ^ ugly out of the corners of his eyes. He r was pale, too, but he went up to the ^ I Uil [J I lull UUU JCfLUCU K\J UtUl VUUV ? more, but the skipper again shook his g head and said loud enough for me to j hear, 'We must put back to Callao.' ; i Then he went up to Scotty and stood by him. I knew he expected Scotty to mutter to him what orders he was to j give to put the ship about and head her back to Callao. I thought at first Q Scotty was going to rebel, but he began muttering as usual, and the captain gave k out the orders with as biff nirs as if he j owned us all. In a minute or two we a weVe sailing close to the wind on the , port tack. As the trade winds were ' now against us we had to beat back to j ~v Callao. Four bells struck, and I was | i cpnf tn flip Tvhfipl. An hour later the . | captain and Scotty came on deck and ' : t le ship was put about on the starboard i tack. This time Scotty's teeth Eectned j ' I to be clenchcd, and he looked mighty | j ugly. I heard the captain say in a low j tone to Scott} as they walked up and ; down, 'You know that I've only got to tell the English consul and you're as i " ! good as hung.' Then Scotty said: j ' ~You know very well I only : struckhim in self-defence. If I'd j told the captain at the time it: would have been all right. I've a good j mind to tell the consul myself.' Then : they got out of my hearing. But I saw how it was then that the captain had his ? hold on Scotty. Scotty had killed a " man in self-defence, he claimed, but the s ! captain knew of it, and was holding it ? ! over him. S | a | "At 4 o'clock I left the wheel and my ! I j watch went below. At 0 o'clock we ; j j came on deck. "We had not gone about j .. l fio-ain hnt. T snnnnsed that we would verv i L : rr ; * ; I soon. The captain ana Scotty were t j standing in front of the cabin door. a ! Scotty was pale as a ghost. Says he to T j the second mate: 'Thecaptain says send e j all the men aft.' The captain looked e ' surprised at this. The men all came a aft. Then Scotty cried out: 'Captain j Phillips, will you make me mate? This j j is the last time I will ask you!' Scotty c said this in such a way that the captain j j looked frightened. He stuttered for a \ r minute, but he saw a wicked look spread- j ing over Scotty*s face, and he said, 'Yes, , g Scotty, I appoint you mate.' Scotty took ! e ! two bounds that look him up on the after- j a j house. He had grown straight all of a j i i sudden. He held up his head, and there | - i was fire in his eyes. For the first time | c I in liis life be really looked well. 'Helm e ; to lee!' Jtie cried; 'we must put about!' j Then he gave out his orders' as rapidly c i and as clearly as if he had commanded Q | ships for years. r j "The ship swung around on the port e I tack, but as she did so my hair must j ! have lifted my hat up about two inches, j ! for right close on our port quarter lay a j! line of breakers which dashed over a ; ledge of wicked looking reefs. I had no ? . doubt that Scotty had intended to run I; the ship on those reefs if the captain had 91 refused the last time to make him e ! mate. Captain Phillips was leaning s; against the bulwarks and looking j i at the breakers. He seemed to be regu3 I larly stunned. Scotty after tacking wore a j the ship slowly around until she headed t i about northwest before the southeast 1[ trades. During the rest of the run to : Sau Francisco Scotty was not only mate o I but commander of the ship as well. Cap- j 0 tain Phillips did nothing but mope. He j v gave no orders himself, but left every- j c ' tiling to Scotty, who seemed to be a first i r rate navigator, and he was mighty proud t; to show it. p! "The day after we nrrived at San: j. Francisco we were paid oiT. I stumbled : . I across an old shipmate of mine called ! 0 ' Liverpool Jim, We were stauding to- i y ' gether when who should we see goiDg t! along the sidewalk but Captain Phillips c I and Scotty. Jim started back at sight ; e ; of them. Q j " 'Why, I am acquainted with those fel- | . i lows,'says he. 'They are?' g j "Says I, 'They arc the captain and e ' mate I've been sailing under.' 3 ! "Says he, 'Which is the captain?' y | "I pointed out Captain Phillips, and "?1 he laughed. '(. | "'Why,' said he, 'that's old Bill .' Jones, a steward I sailed with on an Engk I lish bark four years ago. He put on so . j many airs that folks took him for a capt : tain when he was on shoro, but he never t had as much brains as I've got, and p ! that's saying mighty little. But the ' young fellow with Bill Jones has got , brains. He was an apprentice boy on lt the same Dark, ana was mighty smart at II navigation. They said he'd make a first |_ class shipmaster.' e ' "Then I questioned him a bit, and it j turned out that on the bark the second ^ ; mate was down on Scott}', and was aly ways using him rough. But one mornj ing the second mate was missing, and it n | was supposed that he fell overboard dur| ing the night. No one suspected Scotty. I made up my mind that this second ' mate had attacked Scotty, who had c] killed him in self-defense and had made 11 away with the body. The steward knew 1S ! hi; secret, and by holding it over him [f made Scotty do just what ho wanted, ? j until he finally broke out and got made ? I mate. The steward probably passed him,c I self oil as a captain, and by forged letj ! ters or something of that sort got comy mand of a shin. You could get command LC of an American ship then without passf ing an examination. "I never learned whether Scotty tol3 Is | his story of the killing of the second ls mate to the English consul at 'Frisco. e But about two years later on when the h bark I belonged to lay at anchor oil l3 Staten Island, a big American ship that ,e was being towed to sea passed quite ;y close to us. On the afterhouse stood the ! captain. It was Scotty. There was no r j mi-.taking him, though he had grown a j full beard and stood "up straight, and , really looked well. But when I looked ') i on the main deck who should I see come out of the cabin but another man I knew well. He had on a long apron and a, white cap, but he put on airs enough for a captain. lie was the steward of the ship. But who do you suppose it was? It was Bill Jones, the man who for several years passed himself off as a shipmaster, and who then called himself Captain Phillips."?New York Thies. Expensive Weddings. In India, and in the great cities of Central Asia, the expenses of a wedding arc very great, and consequently some parents excuse themselves in disposing of their daughters on the score of expense?the dilliculty they Jind in defraying the expenses of the wedding. The unnecessary expenses ox meir uiurnugi; ceremonies, the dinners, the music, and the marriage presents, often hamper a family through life. Parents, however poor, think it absolutely necessary to celebrate the marriage of their daughters at a great expense. For example, a raunshi, or clerk, receiving the modest salary of thirty shillings a month, will speud a hundred pounds upon his daughter's wedding, especially if she should be fortunate enough to secure the hand of a husband in a nobler or better-born family than his own. The dearly-loved customs cannot be passed over. And if parents find it impossible to meet the pecuniary demands of the marriage ceremonies, th3 needless parade of music, the useless artlI cles of finery for the girl's person, and I the marriage portion in goods and chat| tels, tbe girl has no alternative but to | remain single all the days of her life. There are many daughters in highborn but needv families in this position. it IS C111S cumcuuy mat 1U uurnci urn] induced Mohammedan villages to follow the example of the Rajputs and to destroy their female children at their birth. It is related by Mr. Meer Hason Alt, an English lady who married a ; Mohammedan gentlcmaa in Luck| now some fifty years ago,, that Nawab Asoof ud Dowlah, hearing with horror 1 of the frequent occurrence of female infanticide amongst poor villagers, issued a proclamation to his subjects in Oudc, ! commanding them to desist from this barbarous custom, and as an inducement to the wicked parents to preserve their female offspring alive, offerini; grants of land to every female as a. marriage portion. Even in the present day the birth of a daughter casts a temporary gloom over a Muslim family, while the birth of a boy is a season of rejoicing. Some 8ay tt is more nonoraDic 10 cave sons than daughters, but others believe that it is the expense und trouble of settling the daughters is the real cauae of this unnatural feeling.?The Leisure Hour. The Paper Age. Since the discovery of paper from rags, about 000 A.D., we date the papor age. Since then all has been easy enough. Books took the lead, newspapers followed. periodicals, magazines and trade journals closcd the triumphant march toward complete happiness. Scientists, always short-sighted folk, began to look upon the paper age as nearing its close. | Poor souls! Paper bags and paper boxes made them smile; paper boats, paper Darreis ana paper wucuis jjuve mcui u chill in thp dorsal region; paper collars and paper handkerchiefs set them hem mingand hawing; paper bottles, paper tea caddies and paper chimneys created quite a flutter in so-called "scientific circles;1' paper timber and paper flooring render them rather uneasy; paper shirt fronts and paper slippers broke them down entirely. But tne end is not yet. AVe are, in reality, only just entering upon the border, bo to speak of the genuine paper age. In a few short year3, in our paper shirts and paper trousers, we shall set down to our paper tables, upon our paper chairs, and drink our coffee out of paper cups and eat our eggs with paper spoons. '"When we go out of a morning, we shall make ready j iv>nnr chnna nannr nverno&t. naner I VUI w?www, i"~[ - j r r gloves, paper umbrella or paper cane aud paper hat; kiss the baby, happy in his paper pinafore, trip lightly down the paper stairway, over the paper sidewalk to our paper carriage, and start down town, and continue our noiseless ride over the paper pavement, stopping once more, possibly, to order the latest paper novelty for our better-half. Oh, no, ye wise men, the end of the paper age is not yet.? Cultivator. ^ 1... r ' VlnikV i n f n rnnn liil' rii9t UUHA. IU liUi V|IV. The bank of Venicc, the first of its kind established in Europe, was founded in 1171. It owed its existenco to the long wars between the Guelphs and the (iliibcllines, and the government's need of money for conducting them. Having exhausted every other resource, the state was obliged to resort to forced loans from its wealthy citizens. Then was organized the chamber of loans, which by degrees assumed the form of a bank. It is said of this institution that "it was for many ages the admiration of Europe, the chief instrument of Venetian iiuance, and the chief facility of a commerce not surpassed by that of any European nation." Fuuds once deposited in the bank could not be withdrawn, but were transferable at the pleasure of the owners upon its books. So thoroughly did the bank credits become the tln-rtiirrh -irifl l)V wllich the finan "J cial operations of the people were conducted, that with scarcely an exception during its entire existence, these crcdits were at a premium over coin, the latter j beinir often clipped and worn, as well as being of various countries and uncertain valuer We may infer that the people were well satisfied with the workings of the bank from the statement of a well known economical writer that "no book, speech, or pamphlet has been found in which any merchant or dweller in Venice ever put forth any condemnation of its theory or its practices." The bank of Venice continued without :inuntil fho VpnAtian rAmiMift j ' ? ?? ""I I was overthrown by the revolutionary array of France in 1797. The Seal Fishery. The seal fishery has been unusually successful this year. Many steamers have returned from the sealing grounds loaded down almost to the water's edge. Steamer Hanger with over two hundred men on board, returned to St. John's with 35, GOO prime young harp seals, the largest catch for her tonnage ever taken into auv port in the world, every nook and corner of the ship being jammed full. She was compelled to steam slowly from the time of leaving the ice, to prevent upsetting, and had to creep home inch by inch. Fortunately the sea was calm all the way. Her deck covered to the top of her rails with 7,100 seals, was a sight never before seen in St. John's. The companion-way was covered in. only room chough being left for a man to squeeze himself Into the doorway. The)lazaret contained 720,and 250 were stowed under the bunks in which the men slept. Eight puncheons were filled with oil, and the rest was stowc-d in the hold.? Island Press. WORDS OF WISDOM. The seeds of love can never grow but under the waim and genial influence of ^ kind feelings and affectionate mauBers. We spend half our lives in making , mistakes, and waste the poor remainder j in thinking how we might have avoided ; them. . [ True friendship increases as life's end ( approaches, just as the shadows lengthen every degree the sun declines toward setting. ! If one only w is'ncd to be happy, this I could readily be accomplished; but we 1 wish to be happier than other people, 1 and this is almost always difficult, fo:: we \ believe otherci to be happier than they ! are. Tlio lnv*> nf sinorularitv nrocceds from has intellect, heart, 'imagination, taste, | as well as bones and muscles; and he is j grievously wronged when compelled ex- | clujively to drudgery for bodily subsistence. I Punishing the Patagonlans. I The dividing line between the Argentine Republic and what was known as [ Patagonia was the River Negro, which flows along the forty-first parallel, nbout nine hundred miles north of the Straits J of Magellan. The greater portion of this country is woll watered painpns or prairie, extending in plainly-marked terraces, rising one after tho other, from the Atlantic to the Andes; but toward the south the land becomes more bleak i * % ii-- -- * t--; u .j i ana uarren, me sou uem*j a ui;u ui ?uai? with thorny shrubs and tufts of coarse grasses, upon which nothing but the os- i trich can exist. The wintera are very severe, ficrce winds sweeping from the mountains to the sea, with nothing to obstruct their course. These winds are called pamperos, nnd are the dread of those who navigate the South Atlantic. I During the winter months the Indians were in the habit of driving their cattle northward into the foothills of the 1 Andes for protection, and, leaving them 1 tdere, made raids upon the settlements of the Argentine frontier, killing, burning, and stealing cattle and horses. Ter- 1 ror-stricken the ranchmen fled to the cities for protection, and year by year the frontier line receded toward Buenos Ayres, instead of extending further upon < the plains. i President Roca was then a sreneral of cavalry, and had won renown in the war against Lopez, the tyrant of Para- i guay. lie was sent with two or three regiments to discipline the Indians, and he did it in a way that was as effective as it was novel. "While the Indians j were in the mountains with their cattle j ho set his soldiers to work, several thousand of them, and dug a great ditch < twelve feet wide and fiftoen feet deep from the mountains to the Rio Negro, i scattering the earth from the cxcava- l tion over the ground with such care as < to leave nothing to excite the savages' i suspicions. Then when the ditch was < completed, he flanked the Indians with his cavalry ;ind drove them southward on the run . Being ignorant of tho trap < set for then., the Indians galloped care- i lessly along until thousands of them < were piled in the ditch, one on top of < the other, a maimed, straggling screaming mass of horses, men women and children. Many were killed by the fall, others were crushed by those who fell upon them while those who crawled out were dispatched by the sabres of the ca/alrymen. Those who were not driven into the ditch fled to the eastward hunting for a crossing, which the soldiers allowed them no time to make, even if they had had the tools. Shovels and picks and spades are unknown among the Patagonians, and as they are the wards of no nation, muskets and ammunition had riAv?>r hppn furnished them to do their fighting wil.h. It was very much such a chasc as Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces gave General Howard in the Northwest ?fcw yearii ago, and finally ended in General Rooa driving the Indians into a i corner, with the impassable Rio Negro i behind them, where the slaughter was < continued until most of the warriors fell. The remainder were made prisoners and 1 distributed around among the several j regiments of the Argentine army, in which they have proven excellent soldiers. The women and children were sent to the Argentine cities, where they i have since been held in a state of semi- i slavery by :families of officials and men of influence. Tho dead were never i counted, but were buried in the ditch 1 which encompassed their destruction.? 1 York Sun. ] ( Concerning tho Cereals. A German scientist presents some in- j teresting information in a paper on the ! ! original habitat of some of the cereal* Barley was cultivated before any of the 1 i other cereals in Scandinavia, and to it ^ the generic name of "corn" was re- ! stricted by the Northmen from the earli- ; j est times. As a proof of the high lati- ] fn/ln of- TirliinVi Piirn aaiiM l\n rrrnwn in ft 1 remote age the Egil's Saga is cited where ' : mention is made of a barn in Helgoland (sixty-five degrees north latitude) used ! for storing it ar.d capable of containing i tables sutlicient lo accommodate 800 j guests at a feast. Barley was cultivated i in Iceland from 870 to 1400, and then ! the inhabitants ceased to raise it and i became dependent upon the home coun I try for their supply. Lately llis Danish 1 government and private individuals havo introduced into Iceland with consider- 1 able succe ss not only barley but vege- 1 tables and fruits. In Norway anything 1 like good barley cannot be grown much ] further than seventy degrees north, and in Sweden the polar limit is about sixtyeight degrees. Rye came into use as a 1 breadstuff in Scandinavia at a very early time. The summer crops of rye are generally fit for cutting when the barley i haive&t is ready. a restless mind, possessing some portion 11 of genius and a large portion of vanity; | it prefers novelties to truths, and aims at 11 being distinguished for its talents rather | than its deserts. Always try to be of use in any erncr- ( gcncy, and keep your nerves as steady , 1 *1 ? 1??AII /ion* (inH ana your wus us un^m u? juu if there is nothing actually for you to , do, avoid hindering those who do some- | thing, and do not distract their attention i by restless folly. | A great number of our wants arc special wants of the imagination; we want them simply because we think th:it ! wo want then; they give us no enjoy* I msnt when we obtain them; the want of them is only known by a disagreeable feeling that we are without them. The way to make yourself plea*iug to others is to snow them those small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voicc is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and aflcctionate looks, and little acts of attention and kindness, giving others the preference in every little enjoyment, at the table, in the field, walking, sitting and standing. Man has a vurioii3 nature which re- , quires a variety of occupation and discipline for its growth. Study, medita tion, society, and relaxation should be , mixed ud with his physical toils. He J; . TIMELY TOPICS. Statistics show that the -wheat trade of California, Oregon and Washington Territory with Europe give employment anlually to more than four hundred sailng vessels going around Cape Horn. The average passage for each vessel is ibout 16,000 miles, in an average time >f a little over four months. The Japanese government constituted i mixed commission of native and European scholars, with the object of finding ;he way ef expressing the immense mass >f Japanese written symbols in Europein letters, and of fixing rules for spellng Japanese words in our alphabet. They have eo far succeeded that they lave compiled a Japanese dictionary printed in Roman characters. Soldiers guilty of desertion during the Civil war, who afterward voluntarily relumed to the army, and finally were lonorably discharged at its close, were aot considered as being entitled to arrears of pay or bounty. A recent dc;ision of Second Comptroller Maynard ihanges all this, and such soldiers will liareafter be considered as having as ralid a claim to such compensations as if they had never deserted. Mrs. Laura de Force Gordon, who jhares with Mrs. Lockwood the honor of being admitted to practice law before the United States supreme court, is the pioneer in securing the admission of a.~ i.L. !. i... ai>? wuuiuu iu iiit; v/uuiuvuiu umi, uuu uuu Mrs. Faltz secured the repeal of the State law which provided that only men should become lawyers, and they afterward secured a mandamus compelling the law department of the California State university to open its doors to them. Mrs. Gordon was admitted in 1879, and her Brst case was the delense of a mnn accused. of murde* in which she made a jury speech and secured her client's acquittal. The Indian chief, Red Cloud, Is evidently a born aristocrat. He is the only chief who refuses to allow hia children to attend school. His contempt for labor is almost inexpressible. It was lately suggested to him that his men should learn to cultivate the soil and support themselves. To this he replied that the Instructor of agriculture furnished by the government was by no means satisfactory to the noble red man. "He comes here and wants our warriors to work. What we want is for the great father to send us white men to plant our corn, hoe it, reap it and put in barns, which they should build us. We are warriors, and don't work. Only squaws work." California and Oregon are liable to the ravages of three species of locusts, the most dangerous of which is tho great Rocky mounta'n locust, whose attacks several years ago came near starving out the people of two 6r three Western State.'}. The locust is remarkable for its power of flight, and travels in dense swarms high up in the air, darkening the sun, or filling the sky with the glistening light of their wings. Observers have stood on the highest peaks of the Rocky mountains,and.straining their eyes upward, seen the sky filled with clouds of these tiny insects, so high up as to be barely discernible. After devastating one region, they rise into the air to look for fresh fields and pastures new. Some of tho opium dons in the large cities are owned by Americans, it is now said, while seemingly the enterprises of the Chinamen who conduct them. The practice is to briug men in through the enticements of fellows who pretend to be like the victims, bent on seeing the vices of the town. Pretense is made of inquiring out a den, and of difficulty in gaining admission. Then the two smoke, und when the dupe is unconscious his pockets are rifled. He discovers his loss on awakening, but his companion pretends to have been plundered too, and they conclude that to make any report to the policc would expose them to ridicule. In this way robberies are committed in the mock opium resorts very extensively. About the most curious item of news coming from "the other side" is the formation in Dresden of a society of painters who oppose the wearing of the niod2rn garb, and are to wear nothing but indent costumes. The society consists of some eighty members, all of whom took their oath never to put on modern habiliments again, and as the Germans are famous for not only binding themselves by all sorts of oaths, but for sticking to their compacts, the streets ind lager beer saloons of Dresden must occasonallv present a curious appearance. The ligures of the old masters in thfl famous <rallerv of that city serve as patterns of dress to the new association, and the strange costumes that are to be met with look like so many suddenly animated pictures which have just jumped out of their frames. The average American probably, does not realize how dangerous a great crowd is, remarks a city paper. In this country, even in rough neighborhoods, thousands of people often get together in close quarters without harm. So orderly is everybody that the fear of death is the last thing one thinks of when he starts out to sec a great spectacle. In Europe, however, a large crowd is seldom collected without some one being tiurt or trampled to death. So simple an incident as a gathering to give a serenade to Nilsson in Stockholm resulted in the death of seventeen persons and serious injuries to iweiuy-muo utuw-u. The reason for the difference between Continental and American crowds may possibly be found in the fact that the American carries his habit of self government always with him. This "is how Chicago strikes a New England woman who writes about it to the Hartford Times: "But the city gives an expression of mixed vulgarity and magnificence. For one example, in the hotel where we stopped the floor of its gaudy barber shop was partly inlaid with silver dollars. Between GOO and 700 of tbene large coins were cemented in marble blocks. This inexpressibly vulvar ornamentation is looked upon with awe by thousands of mistaken American people. It is no doubt a paying advertisement. It is also the worst example of depraved taste that America can show. All the more when the hotel that can afford to pave one of its floors with silver dollars apparently cannot afford to furnish the bedsteads of some of its bedrooms with comfortable pillows. No bolster, and very small flat pillows that bring the head almost on a level with the mattress is a discomfort that some have to bear at a first-class hotel, even when paying the regulation high prices. If you ask the chambermaid if that is the general rule in the hotel, she replies: 'some of the rooms have larger pillows.' And this hotel explicitly advertises that it is a 'homelike haven,' where every comfort will be provided for the 'weary traveler.'" The Moscow Cathedral. The great Moscow Cathedral, lately completed, has cost more than $11,000,000, and will accommodate 10,000 worshipers. It is, says the London Times,. one of the most remarkable churches in Europe: ' Not many* cathedrals can boast of having been built in a lifetime, but there are liussians still living who saw the French army depart froin Moscow, to commemorate which event the church of St. Saviour has been erected. In less than three months after the retreat of the foe a decree went forth from Alexder I. that a memorial temple should be built, and five years later the foundations were laid, but not on the present site. The emperor accepted plans which, had they carried out, would have given to Russia the highest building in the world?namely, 770 feet, on the Sparrows Hill, between the routes of the entrance and departure of Napoleon; but the undertaking for a while collapsed, and the architect and building committee, after expending or misappropriating . upward of 4,000,000 roubles, were banished and their estates confiscated. The .Emperor Nicholas adopted new' plans, and chose the present site, which has erst, with ' embonkmentp, and terrace, etc., upward of ?180,000, and where, at the outset, a nunnery had to be removed and 70,000 cubic feet ol earth to be displaced before, on July 27, 1829, the laying of the foundations was commenced. The building continued slowly to rise for twenty years, and in 1858 the scaffolding was removed, this latter item a!one having cost 177,000 roubles, or upward of ?49,060 (reckon- | ing the rouble, that is, at 3s, as throughout this article). A quarter of a century ( has been expended on fittings and decoration. The style is ancient Russian or rather Graeco-Byzantine, the most striking feature of which, to a western eye, 1 on the exteriou is the five copper cupalos, for the gilding of which were "re- ! quired 900 pounds of gold, their total cost being upward of~ ?170,000. The domes are surmounted by crosses, the centre one, nearly thirty-nine feet high, standing 310 feet from the ground. The building covers an area of 73,000 feet. The bells, as usual in Russia, are of ponderous weight. The largest, or 'holy, day'bell, weighs twenty-six tons, or half as much again as 'Great Paul'. Even the sccond, or 'Sunday' be'.l, is within a trm'c TTttiorlif nf nnr hantlinc: while the smallest of the 'everyday' bells descends to about thirty pounds. The cost of the peal was upward of ?13,000." A Terrible Tale of the Sea. An account of wiiat Captain Morland calls one of the most remarkable escapes on record appears in the Times of India. If this story be true, nn Arab seaman, Abdoo!abin Ahmed by name, lived without either food or water for eighteen days and drifted upward of 500 miles in an empty tank before striking the coast of Cutch. A large bugla, the Jabree, owned in Bombay, foundered off RasalHad while on the voyage to Muscat. The crew numbered sixty souls, and there were fortv masenerers on board, seven of whom managed to climb into an empty water tank that had been washed off the deck as the buglasank amid the "whistling of the wind and the apparition of men and spirits in the sea." Here in this tank the seven men lived for ten days without either food or water; but after the teuth daj one person died daily, the bodies being flung overboard. The tank drifted on toward the coast of Cutch at the rate of twenty-eight miles a day. The sixth man died while within sight of land, and the seventh managed to crawl ashore at Jackao, in Cutch. He saw a Pir's fa saint's) place with a flag, Knt. it. tvftq <i->sfirtr>d. ''And as I was." he says, "quite naked, I apologized myself to the Pir and appropriated his flag to cover myself." He also found a pot of millet; but this, on account of his parched throat, he could not touch until he had moistened it with sea water. Thus refreshed, he wa9 able to find a human habitation, where he was kindly treated, and where he was laid up for a long time with fever. The tank and the corpse were found in confirmation of his story. Intelligence in Animals. The London Field tells of a pair of swallows that built a nest inside of a school room where more than 100 children were in di.ily attendance. A goose was seen fluttering on the surface of one of the Wisconsin lakes, and investigation proved that a fortv-two pound turtle had it by the leg. Both were drawn into a boat. When ostriches are breeding they are very savage, yet acolley dog will tame them completely, ana at the cape of Good Hope the dogs do the work of herding with great sagacity. A dog belonging to Charles Porter, of 1 Parkersburg, W. Va., goes regularly to the postoffice and brings back the mail, gets the mi k from the milkman daily, and has delivered a deposit at the bank correctly. An immense Newfoundland dog, be- 1 longing to a gentleman of San Francisco, ' snapped at a child who was plaguing ! him. The child's mother upbraided the 1 dog, who slunk away, but soon returned ! with a rose, and, with very extravagant 1 capers, laid it at the feet of the child. Then it hurried to its mistress for a caress. < John H. Osborn, of Belleville, N. J., tried breeding quail in an immense wire 1 cage. The third day after the female 1 had begun sitting she died on the nest. 1 The cock was greatly distressed. He ' - - ^ - I dragged tne aeaa uira xo u cumer auu busied it, leaving only the long feathers on one wing exposed. This done he ] returned to the nest and sat on the eggs, j and eventually succcedcd in bringing out j a brood of ten young quail. The young i birds are now alive.?Xew York Sun. < i Knows When to Laugh. , "There is a man in this city," said a 1 well-known "Washington lawyer to the New York Telegram correspondent, , "whose chief stock in trade is in know. ( ing when to laugh. Yes," he continued, . and that man's profession is that of a i lobbyist, lie is a smooth talker and al- ! ways has his hands full of business. One j day last winter I w;is in his com pany, when he introduced me to a Jerseyman, who had come down to Washington to look after some matters before Congress. In the course of the conver- ! sation the Jerseyman told a joke?a veritable chestnut. 3Iy friend laughed immoderately, but as I had heard the so-called joke a thousand or more times I could not join in the merriment. The ' next day I met my lobbyist friend, who ' said: 'I was probably as much bored ' last night as you were; but the fact that I indulged my Jersey friend and laughed fit. his stale iokes has brought mc ducats. Here is his check for $1,000, which he gave me as a retainer to represent his claim before a committee of the house. ! Sam Ward,' he continued, 'made fame and fortune by knowing how to feed people. I ranke my money because I! know how and when to laugh.' " TEE VILLAGE ORACLE. Beneath the weather-beaten porch That shades the village store He sits afc ease, an aged man Of three-acore years or more; That ample seat for him is placed Beside the open door. His face is very keen shrewd, And piercing are his eyes, As with an air of prophecy He scans the cloudy-skies, ~ And children look with awe on him, For he is weatherwise. ... ? And jolly farmers riding by On fragrant loads of hay, Call ontr "Good-morning, Undo Dan," And "Will it rain to-day.<" While boys who would a-fbhing go Await what he will say. 'Wall, ei the wind should change about" ?They listen eagerly, But he is very slow and calm, For thus should prophets be? "Mebbe them clouds will bring us rain, But I dunno," says he. , And ever as the seasons come, And as the seasons go, The oracle is asked the signs Of wind, or rain, or snow; But still he never hesitates To answer: "I dunno." ?Texas Sittings. ' PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Like truth, cheese is mite-y'and will prevail.?Life. The most reliable sanitary engineers ire soap and exercise.?Barbers' Gazette. "The most important thing in connection with a house is the haul," remarked the burglar.?Pittsburg Chronicle. Gas corrodes brass. Strange that commercial travelers don't resemble old boiler iron more than they do.?Broolcl^ti Times. The sting of the bee is only one thirtysecond of an inch long; it is said to be imagination that makes it seem as long as a hoe handle.? The Cook. Parlor croquet has been succeeded by v baseball at cards in the library, and we .: mav exnect to hear of "Cricket on the Hearth."?Pittsburg Telegraph. I iLilla 31. Cushman, the poetess, savii "My back is almost broken with thi4 weary, weary load." She ought to make her husband carry up the coal.?Hauleye. The railroads of the world are said tq oarry 6,500,000 passengers a day. It takes all this vast army to down the railway eating house sandwiches.?Louisville Courier-Journal. A Nevada hunter spent three monthf looking for a grizzly bear, and the man'0 relatives have spent three months looking for him. They think he must have found the bear.?Detroit Free Press. Sons of great men all remind us that, to make their lives sublime and appreci* ative to find us, they must manage,every time, to fulfill a hard condition; for no fortune is se sad, in a youth of high ambition, as to own a famous dad.?Chicago Tribune. "Oh, hubby, I've had Buch a dreadful accident!" "What is it, my dear?" "I've broken the hall mirror, and you Irnnw it is a aiirn of bad luck to break ft mirror." "So it is, my darling, especially when the mirror costs fourteen dollars." ?Ch icago News. Brown?"What a sad-looking fellow Smith is. What is the matter with him. I wonder?" Fogg?"Why, didn't yot| ever hear I He was disappointed in love." Brown?"Got the mitten, eh?" Fogg? "Oh, dear, no; he married her."?Botton Transcript. The czar frequently seizes the ladiefl of his court and waltzes them gayly around the corridors. He also frequently seizes some of the gentlemen of his court and waltzes them to Siberia with out exciting much comment.?Philadelphia Call. ' Things one would rather have left unsaid: She -Would you mind putting my lawn-tennis shoes in your pockets, Mr. Green? He?I'm afraid my pocketa are hardly big enough, Miss Gladys; but I shall be delighted to carry them for you.?Punch. Any one who has never heard a woman talk about a tooth she has just had -while slip disnlava the interesting souvenir to her friends, will be willing to admit that men are not the only or the best stump orators in the world.?Bur* lington Free Prest. The winds come back from their paths on the sea. The eagle flies home to his nest, And the child returns to its mother's knee, And hope to the sorrowing breast. The summer returns with blossoming cheer, "The clouds return after the rain." But the old umbrella I loaned last year Will never come back again. ?Lynn Union. A Boston writer thinks that the sexej ire "drifting apart/' The reason of this drifting is very likely in the fact- thai the representatives of the male sex find it impossible to "raise the wini" sufficiently to sail in company down the harbor to places of popular resort.?LoweU Citizen. The latest scientific whim is a surgical operation for the benefit of piano-players ?clipping a cord between the third and fourth lingers. What a long-sullering public demands of science is something that ivill benefit the entire neighborhood wherein the_ player resides. ? Chicago Ledger. Rcbatement?Old lady (a little hard of bearing): "Eighteen shillings! It's monstrous! I know the value of these ,1 ".i-'rl mArn fViun OOrAH. irilCiUS, UUU liuvci pti.u 1UV4V kuuu wvfVMteen." Shopman (shouting): "I said light shilling*, ma'am, not eighteen." Did lady: 4,0h?eigljf shillings?for these? I couldn't think of giving more than 7s Gd."?PuncTi. "I half wish you weren't going to marry Miss Spareribs," said old Mr. Cautious to his son. "Wny not?" replied the young man. "She's worth " " *** " - ?-? ' >" 4/% 51UU.UUU." JMie may uc nuuu * . you," said his father, "but I doubt if she'll fetch it." "She doesn't need to fetch it," said the young man, "I'm going after it."?Brooklyn Eagle. At a fire recently a brave fireman came gasping and panting from the burning building with his beard and eyebrows singed in the flames. Under one arm ho carried a small but heavy box, which he deposited iu a place of safety with the air of a man who had saved a box of government bonds from destruction. On opening the box, it was found to contain six bottles of a new patent lire-extinguisher.?Argonaut. F. Houghton, of Corning, Tehama county, C'al., will soon have probably the largest poultry farm in the world. He has nearly 5,000 heus, and has his hen house built on sleds, so that he can move them from place to place on hi# wheat stubble.