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THE QUESTION. Btill on the lips of all we question The finger of God's silence lies. Shall the lost hc.ndsin ours be folded? Will the shut eyelids ever rise? 0 friends! no prcof beyond this yearning, This outreach of our souls, we need; God will not mock the hope He giveth; No love He prompts shall vainly plead. men let usstretcn our nanus in ?ar&uras, And call our loved ones o'er and o'er; Boinetirae their arms shall close about us, And tho old voices speak once more. ?John G. W'liittier, in Bjston Budget. MY STRANGE LEGACY. When, as a very young man, I announced to my friends and relations my fixed determination to become a journaliit, their attempts to dissuade me from adopting that career were almost unani- i mous. They pointed out with great force the precarious nature of such employment, its difficulties, its hardships and the comparatively few prizes that were offered in such a lottery. These arguments were, however, unavailing. I was infatuated with "the power of the press," and I already saw in imagination tlie tune when I should become a "we," and help to enlighten mankind?and womankind too, for I was then unmarried and filled with plans for the elevation of the fairer sex -by my luminously expressed and well-considered opinions. One single friend counseled me to "go ahead" and try the work for which I felt an inclination. This good genius was an uncle, who had in his earlier years won distinction as a newspaper man, and though he had. abandoned that field for the more remunerative one of novelwriting, was still in complete touch and lympathy with his former employment. "It's a hard and wearing life, my boy," hp ftaifl 44 Kilt if hoc ifrc nloncuroo anH ?tc triumphs. If you've anything in you, and I fancy you have, you'll either get weil on in journalism, or get out of it. Don't be content to settle down in a subordinate position, however fair the salary or light the work. I can, perhaps, help you to get a start, and when you want a 'lift' and I think you deserve it, I'll try to give it to you." Through my uncle's influence I did get my "start," and though for nearly two years I was doomed to the worst kind of ' 4< reporting," I stuck manfully to my work. Certainly I was a little disillusioned about the glorious delights of the journalistic career, but I was confident that they were yet to be found in the sacred precincts of the editorial rooms. After the two years had passed, advancement began to come, elowly at tirst, but by dint of hard labor and untiring energy I forccd myself into the notice of the "chief." It was live! years before I passed from the "cityroom " to the managing editor's depart uicui, wucic jl osaiaicu mu uiuuiauu uiiu literary critics. I was at last in a position to begin ray schemes for the elevation of womankind, and I speedily raised " the dearest girl in the world " into the dignity jf a "Mrs." This was not perJxaps, a great "reform," but I flattered jnyself it evinced my appreciation and good intentions. My plunge into matrimony was like that into journalism, opposed by my j nearest friends, who cheerfully empha-1 sized the fact that my income was entirely dependent upon my health?a most uncertain reliance. Again my uncle rallied to my support. "Insure your life for a decent sum, try and save something every week, no matter how little, and trust in Providence," was his advice. It is almost needless to say I took it, though I regret to say that I did not find the weekly saving to be always practicable. Our wedding-presents were neither numerous nor extravagant; still some useful articles lightened the expense of setting up housekeeping. I must confess that I had a hope that my uncle would "come down handsomely," for was he not the only one ot my relatives wnose aavice i had taken ? My disappointment was considerable when I found his contribu-1 tion consisted of a copy of his last novel ?a book, too, that I had already favorably reviewed. "This is gratitude and generosity indeed !" I exclaimed, as I savagely pitched the volume to the farther end of the room, and opened the note which had accompanied the precious gift. It ran 1 thu?: 'My Dear Jack: "You are about to take my advice?and a j wife; I hope both will turn out equally good, j Never having been a husband myself, I can fearlessly say to you that 'a good husband mates a good wife' As an earnest of my best wishes, I send you what is most precious to me, my Benjamin, my youngest child, in whose pages I trust you will find some of my most valuable thoughts i our anecuonaie uncie, kobep.t." ' What is the matter?" exclaimed the; "dearest girl," whose attention had been attracted by the noise made by the fall ing book. "All that my liberal uncle has sent me is a copy of his last book, which didn't cost him a cent. It's jolly lucky for him I reviewed it a week ago." ''Don't be vexed, dear; at any rate, I wanted to read it," and she walked to where the offending volume was resting and picked it up. "Why, Jack!"she cried, as she opened j it. ''here, pinned to the title-page, is a $500 bill !" To say that I mentally kickcd myself for an ungrateful idiot, would be to give ' a poor idea of the state of my feelings; 1 during the next hour the "dearest girl" i and I had the most delightful talk about i the ultimate disposition of that beauti-: fully engraved fly-leaf. I think I must have been a very good | husband, for I certainly had the best of J wives. It is just barely possible, however, i that the converse of my uncle's Quotation i> tree, and that a good wife make? a good ; husband. I rather prefer to flatter myself by not believing this, and assuredly I see many good wives who have not good husbands* My uncle Robert was certainly a very clever man! Twelve years had glided swiftly by i since the date of my marriage, and though I had become a managing editor, the expenses of a somewhat numerous family kept me from accumulating any consider- j able reserve-fund. On several Christ- j masses handsome presents from Uncle , Robert had tided me over many tight j places, and when I expressed my crati-1 tude, he assured me that he intended j ultimately to do something handsome for : me. His books increased" in popularity. ' and I knew he must have a very comfort-' able nest-egg. The "dearest girl" was, I j belie e, even a greater favorite with him j than myself. Her quick sympathies j seemed more fully to enter into his some-1 times strange ways and increasing: crotchetiness. Old batclielors are apt to have singular notions, and curiously \ enough, none seem to understand them as j well as young married women. Although my uncle had been failing for 1 some time, the news of his death came at last quite suddenlyand unexpectedly. M?y grief was sincere, but I must own. tempered with anxiety to know what he hid done for us. It was a weakness, no doubt,but despite my wife's high opinion of me, 1 am not above acknowledging that I have a few?a very few?of the weaknesses inseparable from humanity. When his will was opened, it was found that he had "cut up" up much more richly than was expected. Very considerable legacies were left to relatives with whom he hnd Tint. hof>n on the most intimate terms. My name came last on the list. ".Now for it," I mentally ejaculated. The lawyer was terribly long coming to the point. "To my favorite nephew. John Rut gers Treinont, I give and bequeath my oak library-writing-table, with all its notes, memoranda and contents, in the hope that he, when sitting before it, will find, as I h:ive often done, profitable inspiration. And I charge him, by his regard for me, never to part with said writing-table." "Is that all?" I cried, unable to conseal my disappointment. "No further bequest ?" "Nothing whatever, sir, only the table and its contents. The drawers were duly sealed, and your legacy will be delivered to you with the seals unbroken, replied the lawyer. I went sadly home, and told my wife nf nur ill-liiplc. Don't despair, dear," she said, there may be something in those sealed drawers. You know how eccentric he was. Don't you remember our wedding present." ? "Uncle Robert was not the man to leave money or valuable securities in an old desk," I exclaimed a little petulantly. "I wouldn't be too sure of tha:,"said the "dearest girl," who has a quiet but determined way of sticking to a point and a slightly unpleasant habit of too often remembering when she was right and her lawful lord was wrong. The next day the tabic was delivered, and my receipt therefor taken. It was a solid, but battered affair, having a row of drawers on each side of the hole for the writer's legs, and a flat top covered with a much ink-splashed piece of green baize. With the most careful scrutiny we went through the contents. Nothing but worthless old paper and memoranda J - J .... rcwarucu us. "Perhaps there is a secret drawer," suggested my wile. I probed and pushed and sounded and measured till I was firmly convinced that no such receptacle existed. ' Idon't want the lumbering old thing," I cried. "I shall call in a second-hand dealer and sell it." "Oh, no. Jack, you mustn't do that! Remember how kind he was to us, and he expressly begged you never to part with it. Now you really have not a comfortable desk. If we have this varnished up, it will do splendidly for your den." "I will not have a cent spent upon it, and I won't use it." "At least, Jack, let me put a new cloth on the top. I can cut one to fit, and glue it down at the edges, and put the old leather back as neatly as can be." "Understand me, Belle, not a cent, and I won't use the blessed thing." I passed a miserable evening, reviling the general deceit of man, and the lack of appreciation in uncles in particular. When I went to my den the next day I found the table duly installed in the center, and all my papers neatly arranged on the top or in the drawers. I think I ? l- -r < l A r. A saiu ueiurt; iuui> mc ucui^i ollL uuo " quiet but effective method of getting her own way. I did not care to add to her disappointment (which I know was as keen as mine, tnough she boro it better) by thwartingher so-plainly-shown wish. And, after all, the table was convenient. There was no denying that, but I am afraid I did not voluntarily acknowledge it. Nearly three months had elapsed from the time of receiving my legacy, when' on sitting down to it one morning I discovered several long slits in the cloth. I summoned my "wife, and inquired who had been there. "I think Bobby was in here cutting out a boat." ' Bobby cuts out too many boats, and cjits them out in the wrong places. Be so kind as to find that young gentleman and send him to me." "Now don't be too severe with him, Jack; it's only a worthless bit of baize that ought to have been replaced long ago." "That boy is getting too destructive. Oblige mo by staying away while I talk to him. Your sympathetic looks destroy the effect of my scoldings." "Well, if you will only scold, I don't mind. "One would think I was a brute, Belle, to hear you talk." She went away, and in a few minutes Master Bobby appeared, looking very guilty. "What were you doing here yesterday?" I enquired. "Only cutting out a boat, Pop." "Haven't I told you l will not be called 'Pop?' and you cut my table at the ame time." "Only a little bit, Pop?I mean Pa." "Do you call that 'a little bit?' I asked, indicating a ga^h about seven inches long. "I can giue that down for you." said the unabashed youth, calmly sticking his fingers into the rent. As he did so, he gave a cry which instantly brought his mother into the room. I suppose she had been listening at the door. "See here, Pop," my hopeful exclaimed, "here's a bank bill under the cloth;" and he drew it out in triumph. Sure enough it was a $.10 greenback. In an instant 1 had ripped that old baize off, and found that under it, neatly arranged, was a lining of big bills, amountiug in all to $3,000. There was also this note: "My Dear Jack: "It has for years been a whim of mine to write on the proceeds of former work. I seeme 1 to get inspiration from the thought that beneath my paper was other paper more valuable and which I had fairly earned. Then, too, I rather enjoyed my posthumous joke of 'selling' you with my legacy. I know that you will not part with the table contrary to my request, and I feel sure that it will not be many days after you receive it before your dear and clever-lianded little wife wfll insist on replacing my old ink-stained cloth. May you and she enjoy all the good the lining can bring! ''Your affectionate uncle, Rorert." I looked in blank but delighted amazement at the "dearest girl." She had not moved, and I fully expected that she would have thrown her arms around my neck and kissed me. "Do you "remember, Jack," she said, "that you wanted to sell that desk to a second-hand man''" "Did I?" I observed, with as much show of innocence as I could command, for it never does to put too formidable a weapon in a woman's, and above all, a wife's hand. "Did you! you know you did. Perhaps you will say that I didn't want to put on anew cloth the very day after we got the desk." "Did you, my dear?" "Did I, or did I not? You remember I nroll onAnrrlt j 4,I think I do remember your saving , something of the sort/' | "Now Jack, I will give you a kiss and i a hug." an indention that she irnmedi| ately and vigorously carried out. _. * ***** * * I ! I almost forgot to say that Bobby didn't get scolded, but was rewarded i with the handsomest boat that he could find; and he was three days looking for i the oue that would cost the most.?Juli inn Magnus, in the Epoch. Ilow Burmah Ruby Mines are Worked. Ruby earth is called by the natives of Burmah "byun," and is generally found at two dilferent depths, the first layer at about four feet, and the second and richer one at twenty to thirty feet I below the surface. It is jrencrally ex- , 1 tracted by a company of miners, ten or 1 twelve in number. Pits are dug about eight feet square, lined with rough timber, and braced with four crosspieces at intervals. Water enters the pit on sinking a short distance below the surface, and the principal work and source of expense is keeping the mine free from J water. Upright posts are let into the i ground at a short distance from the ! mouth, and a fork is cut in the upper 1 end of each. In this fork is balanced a 1 lever, the longer arm of which hangs over the pit, while the shorter arm carries a bucket weighted with 9tone to counter1 balance the contents of the basket, which is connected with the longer arm by a bamboo which "reaches to the bottom of the pit. This contrivance forms a most 1 efficient though simple means of raising both water and earth by manual labor, j Generally six or eight of these levers ! 1 overhang each pit in actual working, and probably the proportion of water buckets in constant use to earth baskets is ' two to one. Three men at least are be- | low, occupied in filling both baskets and j buckets^ they rise and fall incessantly | during the working hours, which rarely [ exceed six daily. The ruby earth thus extracted is placcd in a heap at the side j of the pit, and on first exposure, while wet, sparkles ia*thc sun with myriads of small stones, brilliant in color, but not large enough, unfortunately, to be of any value. When a sufficient quantity has been obtained it is washed in bamboo trays and handed over to the sorters, who, after carefully examining it and taking out any stones of value, pass it on again to a small colony of women and children, who generally surround every pit, and who again sort it slowly over in , the hopes of finding some smaller stones that may have been missed by the men. It is a ludicrous sight to see two or three little children, who perhaps can scarcely walk, sitting down before a heap of this washed earth and sorting away with most : serious faces, as if they realized that their ; existence depended upon their exertions. No machinery is apparent in the whole , district, though it is stated that a pump ; was brought up a few years ago from Mandalay, but it soon got choked and j was thrown away as useless, probably be- ] cause no one understood how to work it. ?Murray's Mnqazine. \ One Man's Lnck. ' "Wall street raised a howl of delight when N. B. Ream sold his Stock Ex- j change membership. But while the mat- ; ter is fresh it ought to go on record mat i j Ream left the street, all in nil, tremen- | i dously ahead of their game. The fact is j J that he is a lucky man, has always been i ; lucky, nnd probably always will be | lucky. Ream says this himself, and as an | i illustration tells his experience as a Cap- | > tain of a Pennsylvania regiment in the J bombarding around Charleston. The ' work of his regiment had been so severe < that in his company there were left only ! I thirteen men, and they were ensconced behind willow earthworks filled in with 1 sand. The shells that were directed to-1 < ward them had fallen short of them for a j t day, and, while they could sec the mis- i siles sailing toward them, they appre-1 1 hended no peril. Ream says that crowd- | i ing behind the defences having gotten i irksome he left his thirteen men lor a mo-1 i ment and went out in front to stretch I himself. He was standing a few rods in < front, springing his saber into the soil, so ] that by letting go the hilt it bounded into ; the air and turned a summersault before ! i it came back into his hand again. While Ream was amusing himself in front a 1 black object shot before his eyes; there i was a terrific explosion behind the works, i and shrieks and groans from the men. A shell had fallen behind the willow works, i and of the thirteen men whom Ream had | < left for a moment not a man was left j without some terrible1 gaping wound. Not j a man escaped. Ream was left without ] a company. But if Wall street ever be- i lieved that it could beat a man with luck j like that, it is beside itself with vanity.? j Chicago Mail. ^ < A Wonderful Armless Man. ! Recently there died at Potsdam, New i York, a wonderful man, says the Augusta 1 Chronicle. An accident deprived him of i both arms, which were amputated at the ' shoulder. He earned a living by using his fppt and his mouth instead of his arms. We are told that he owned a i horse, of which he took the entire care, harnessed it, fastened and unfastened the buckles with his teeth and drove with reins tied around his shoulders. Being in need of a wagon, he bought wheels and axles and built a box buggy complete and painted it. He went to the barn one winter day and built a cow stable, sawing the timber with his feet, and with the hammer in one foot and holding the nail with the other, he nailed the boards on as well as most men could do with their J hands He dug a well twelve feet deep on a farm in the town and stoned it himself. He could move away hay by hold- , iug the fork under his chin and letting it rest against his shoulder. lie could pick up potatoes in the tield as fast as a man could dig them. He would dress , himself, get his meals, write his letters, , and in fact do almost anything that any , man with two hands could do. Many a man with all of his physical faculties unimpared mourns because he cannot get along, and yet this armless brother made himself independent without arms or hands. He was like the Crimean hero who, when his lower limbs were shot away, wrote to the woman he was engaged to marry releasing her. She anawprpd ; "I will marry you if you have | enough body remaining to contain your noble soul." The Telephone of 1G65. "There is nothing new under the sun," not even the telephone. Permit me to state that in the year 1665 there was publish?d in England a book with the title of ".Micographia." The author was Dr. Robert Hooke, a cclebra'cd scientist, mathematician and philosopher, who was born in the Isle of Wight in 1635, and educated at Oxford. The work referred to con- : tains various philosophical descriptions of minute bodies, made by magnifying | glasses, as indicated in the title, to gctner wun "UDScrvaiiuuo uuu im|uu?ig on them. In the preface, the learned scientist asserts that the lowest whispers, by certain means (which he does not make public) may be heard at the distance of a furlong; that he knew a way by which it is easy to hear anyone speak through a wall six feet thick; and that : by means of an extended wire, sound ' may be conveyed to a very great dis- j tance, almost in an instant.?The North . American Review. J WAR'S VICTIMS.' WHAT THE CIVIL WAR COST IN HUMAN LIVES. The Most Deadly Ever "Waged?The Known and Unknown Dead in Seventy-Three Cemeteries? A Comparison in Losses. Official returns show that about 2,053,000 Federal soldiers enlisted during the war in response to the successive calls of President Lincoln, and that of this number 180,007 were colored troops. Reports show that the Northern and Southern armies met in over '2,COO skirmishes and battles. In 148 of these conflicts the loss on the Federal side was over 500 men, and in at least ten battles over 10,000 men were reported lost on each s:;de. The appended table shows that the combined losses of the Federal and Confederate forces in killed, wounded, and missing in the following engagements were: Shiloh, 24,000; ^.utictam, 1S,000; Stone River, 22,000; Chickamauga, 33,000; McClcllan's Peninsula campaign, 50,000; Grant's Peninsula campaign, 140,000; and Sherman's campaign, 80,000. Official statistics show that of the 2.653,000 men enlisted, there were killed in battle 44,238; died of wounds, 49,205; died of disease, 1SG,21G; died of unknown causes, 24,184; total 303,843. This includes only hose whose death wnue in me army nau oeen arcuaiiv proved. To this number should be added first, 26,000 men who are known to have died while in the hands of the enemy as prisoners of war, and many others in the same manner whose deaths are unrecorded; second, a fair percentane of the 205,794 men who are put down on the official reports as deserters and missing in actioD, for those who participated in the war know that men frequently disappear who, it was ccrtain, had not deserted, yet could not be otherwise officially accounted for; third, thousands who are buried in private cemeteries all over the North who died while at home on furlough. The nation's dead are buried in seventythree National cemeteries, of which twelve are in the Northern States. Among the principal ones in the North, are: Cypress Hill, with its 3,786 dead; Finn's Point, N. J., which contains the remains of 2,614 unknown dead: Gettysburg, Pa., with Its 1,907 known and l.fXJS unknown dead; Mound City, 111., with 2,505 known and 2,721 unknown graves: 1 hiladelphia, with 1,909 lead; and Woodlawn, Elmira, N. Y., with its 3,900 dead. In the South, neax the scenes of terrible conflicts, are.located the largest depositories of the Nation's heroic dead: Arlington, Va., 16,204, of which 4,319 are unknown; Beaufort, S. C., 9,241, of which 1.4!K3 are unknown; Chalmettee, La., 12,511, jf which 5,074 are unknown; Chattanooga, reiui., 12,962, of which 4,963 are unknown: Fredericksburg, Va., 15,257, of which 12,770 ire unknown; Jefferson Barracks, Mo., 11,190,of which 2,900 are unknown; Little Rock, A.rk., 5,002,of which 2,337 are unknown; City Point,Va., 5,122,of which 1,374are unknown: Marietta, Ga., 10,151, of which 2,9153 are unknown; Memphis, Tenn., 13,997, of which 8,517 are unknown; Nashville, Tenn., 16,5% of tvhich 4.700 are unknown; Poplar Grove,Va., 5,190, of which 4,001 are unknown; Richmond, Va., 6,542,of which 5,700 arc unknown; Salisbury, N. C., 12,120, of which 12,032 are jnknown; Stone River, Tenn. , 5,602,of which 5SS are unknown; Vicksburg, Miss., 16,600,of ivhich 12,704 are unknown; Antietain, Va., >,761, of which 1,818 are unknown; Winches ;er, Va., 4,559, of which 2,365 are unknown. In all the remains of 300,000 men who "ought for the Stars and Stripes find guarded graves in our National ceme:eries. Two cemeterics are mainly deroted to the brave men who perished in ;he prisons of thesamcname?Andersonrille, Ga., which contains 13,714 graves, ind Salisbury, with its 12,126 dead, of ivhom 12,032 are unknown. Of the vast number who are interred in )ar National cemeteries 275,000 sleep beneath the soil of the Southern States, and 145,000 of these rest in graves marked unknown. The total Confederate loss will never t>e known, but the best estimates place it it about 220,000 men out of 1,000,000 men who served in the Southern armies. The total number of men furnished to the Federal army by the United States luring the war under all calls was 2,G33,52-3. The total number of colored troops in the Northern army was 123,150. The heaviest loss by disease was suffered by the colored troops; while but 2,997 died in action and of. wounds, the enormously large number of 26,801 died of disease. A.mo:ag the white troops the proportion of deaths in action and from wounds to the deaths from disease was about as one to two; among the colored troops as one to eight. Of the colored troops enlisted one out of every seven died of disease. The proportion among the white troops was one to fifteen. Now that we are brushing up these fig ures it will be well enough to remember how many men were furnished by each State, and the following list will show: Maine 71,745 : Ohio 317,133 N. Hampshire. 34,745 | Indiana 195,147 Vermont 35,256 j Illinois 258,217 Massachusetts. 151,785 Michigan 90,119 Rhode Island.. 24,711 j Wisconsin .... 96,118 Connecticut.... 52,270 Minnesota.. .. 25,024 New York 455,568 j Iowa 75,8150 New Jersey... 79,511 Missouri 108,778 Pennsylvania.. 360,326 ! Kentucky 78,540 Delaware 13,651 j Kansas 20,097 Maryland 49,370 West Virginia. 30,003 Tots.l 2,653,002 ^ 1?- 1/* I u. oi LOiumia. iu,oi* i Waterloo was one of the most desperate and bloody fields chronicled in European history, and yet Wellington's casualties were less than 12 per cent., his losses being 2,432 killed and 9,580 wounded out of over 75,000 men, while at Shiloh ore side lost in killed and wounded 9,740 out of 34,000, while their opponents report their killed and wounded at 9,616, making the casualties about b'O per cent. At the great battle of Wagram Napoleon lost but. about 5 per cent. At Wurzburg the French lost but 3$ per cent., and yet the army gave up the field and retreated to the Rhine. At Racour, Marshal Saxe lost but 2.J percent. At Zurich, Massena lost but 8 per cent. At Lagriz, Frederick lost bui 0$ per cent. At Malplaquct, Marlborough lost but 10 percent., and at Ramillies the same intrepid commander lost but 6 per cent. At Contras, Henry of Navarre was reported as cut to pieces, yet his loss was less than 10 per cent. At Lodi, Napoleon lost 1? per cent. At Valmy, Frederick William lost but 3 per cent, and at the great battles of Marenog and Austerlitz, sauguinary as they were, Napoleon lost an average of less than 14j per cent. At Magenta and Solferino, in 1859, the average loss of both armies was less than 9 per cent. At Konigrath, in 1800, it was 6 per cent. At Werth, Specheran, Mars le Tour, Gravelotte and Sedan, in 1870, the average loss was 12 per cent. At Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Atlanta, Gettysburg, Mission Ridge, the Wilderness, and Spottsylvania, the loss frequently reacned, and sometimes exceeded, 40 per cent., and the average of killed and wounded on one side or the other was over 30 per ceut. i Of the gentlemen who were at West Point during one period of cadetship, fifty-six were killed in battle, and csti mating the rate of killed and wounded at one to five, 280 were wounded. From the discovery of America to 1361 in all the wars with other nations the record gives the deaths in battle of but | +.n.> A n 10^1 tcu xxmeiiuuLi vrcuuiaia, wuiic AIULLL IOUI | to 1865, both sides being opposed by j Americans, more than 100 General officers fell while leading their triumphant columns. From 1492 to 1861 the killed and wounded upon American soil in all battics, combats, and skirmishes, added together, as shown by reports, hardly exceeded the casualties of single battles of the great American conflict.?Commercial Gazette. WORDS 0 WISDOM. Those who are never weary can never know how sweet rest is. Tf wfi were never trier! nnr true nhamfi tcrs never would be known. Do your duty in little things and you will be faithful iu great ones. Improvement in the daughters will best aid in the reformation of the sons in this age. Silent sympathy is to troubled hearts what the soft spring rain is to the frozen j earth. The true value of a good home is too often only realized when it is broken up and gone. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried, before you give them your confidence. Revengp is a debt, in the paying of \ which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, ana, so far as he is able, punctual. Good breeding is benevolence in trifles, or the preference of others to ourselves in the little occurrences of life. Books arc among man's truest consoler.?. In the hour of alfliction, trouble or sorrow, he can turn to them with confidence and trust. Why does the new moon bear the form and the name of a sickle? It is because it mows down our joys and our sorrows as it moves onwards. The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to your opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your neart; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. We get gradually accustomed to mental as well as bodily pain, losing our insensibility to it; it becomes a habit of our lives, and we cease to imagine a condition of perfect ease as possible to us. Do.ys of Constantinople. A description of Constantinople would be very incomplete that passed over its dogs in silence. They are poor creatures, with reddish hair, pointed ears, thin flanks, medium sized, and wild, in that they never attach themselves to man; but they are, however, gentle and inoffensive. They belong to the wolf-dog species, and chaugc their color twice a year. Always living outdoors and sleeping under the open, sky, they receive from nature, their master, a summer garb and a winter garb. The first consists of a light coat of hair, which is very thin and of a dirty yellow color; the second is thick, more silky, and of a d:?rk gray -t. - J J; xC color. wnne ineyare sneuuiug men coats, which occurs in spring and autumn, their hair falls off in matted locks. This leaves their skin bare in places, making broad black spots, which are repulsive. They never go into a house, and never allow themselves to be drawn to one by either caresses or kind words; not even by tid-bits, which they .eat, nevertheless, with avidity, when thrown to them on the street. They sleep a good deal, especially in times of scarcity, which for them is the normal condition of things. Lying down all curled up on the sidewalks or on the rough pavements, they do not allow themselves to be disturbed by threats or noise, or by the crowd; they get up only when they see a toe that is going to strike them, or a carriage that is going to run over their bodies. In these cases, they move away slowly and lie down a little farther away. The Turks never injure them,and, lazy as they are. condoscencd to turn to one side a little in order not to disturb them. The Armenians, Bulgarians and Westerners have a good deal of sympathy for them, never maltreat them, and often j throw them food. The rerotes ana i Greeks like to stone them to death, crush their bodies and sta'; them with sharp sticks. The poor creatures utter cries so prolonged and dismal that they pierce one's heart as well as ears. The dogs of Constantinople and its . outskirts, which form a population of more than a hundred thousand, appear to divide the streets of the city among them- i selves. The hiiry occupants of one j quarter never allow those of another to i enter their domain. When a dog driven | by hunger or thirst, attempts to pass the i limits of its street to seek its fortunes | elsewhere, it is repelled by a concert of I howls, accompanied by a good deal of biting. All the dogs of one quarter are united for the defense of that quarter. At the first howl announcing an invader, oil run nn/1 nffpn let the unfort mijmi.uu,. i unate alone only after they have killed | it. I The food of roving dogs, when they ' find any, is not. we may believe, either v.iried or dainty; it is the waste scraps from cooking, constituting choice but rare food for them; it consists especially of filthy thiLgs of all kinds, among which figures most prominently the excrement of passing horses, camels and catt le.?Cosmopolitan. Four Bears at One Shot. Mr. McNeil, a fanner of Randolph County, carries the palm of being the most successful bear-hunter in "West Vir-J ginia, and the only man who ever killed four bears at one shot. This feat was actually performed not long ago by McNeil, who tells the story in the following words: "My two horses?a mare with her colt? and my riding horse were left one morning in my pasture, which lies in a narrow valley betweerf high hills. Early the next ^nlt- running frantical ly down the path loading to the house. I [ knew something had frightened him,and . taking my double - barreled shotgun, which was loaded with heavy charges of buckshot, I started for the field. Justas I got to the fence, about one-third of the length of the field, I heard fierce growling and snarling. I peered through be- j tween the rails. About thirty yards distant, through the rising fog, I saw what I thought a couple of bears rending the old mare to pieces. Taking as good aim as I could at the animals, who were clove j together, I fired both barrels right at the centre of the black mass. After the sni6ke J had cleared'away I could only soe a slight . movement of the black pile and in a few minutes that ceased. I then loaded up my gun and walked up ready to give them another dose if necessary. "When I got to the spot I found that I had not only killed two full-grown bears, but also knocked over two cubs about the size of a wild cat. They were all dead and iay j in a pile. That, I beliove, is the first time four bears were ever killed by al hunter at one shot in these mountains.'' . ?Nsw York World. _ ' 4-1 BUDGET OF FUy~ HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. The Difference?Incompatibility of i Temper?Fond of the Vegeta- i ble? Neither Went ? She 1 Studied to Please. < 1 Midle Aged Lady in Market?"How > do you sell berries ?" 1 " Two (Quarts for a quarter, ma'am." 411 guess I will look a little further." 1 Same Lady to (next dealer)?" How do ? sell your berries V " Two quarts for a quarter, Miss." "I'll take four quarts."?Merchant- 1 Traveler. Incompatibility of Temper. 1 "Have you spoken to my daughter pet?" asked the old man. < "No, sir; I wanted your consent first." "Well, I advise you to give up the 1 idea. I don't believe she would marry ^ you, and if she did, neither of you would be liappy." "Why do you think so, sir?" "Because you part your hair in the * middle and she parts hereon the side."? * Puck. Fond of the Vegetable. A young physician of small practice noticed a man buying some cucumbers, 1 and he followed him home and waited ] outside for developments. Four hours later the front door opened and the man came hastily down the steps. "Want a doctor?" gasped the imoecunious physician. "No," responded the man, "I'm going around to the grocer's for some cucumbers.''?New York Sun. Neither Went. Two mothers sat opposite each other in a car on a Michigan Central train going to Toledo the other day. Each nad a baby about a year old, and each baby came in for a share of the admiration of the passengers. This seemed to make the mothers jealous, and after thinking the matter over for awhile one of them leaned across the aisle and said: "I feel it ray duty to tell you to go into the car ahead with your child, as mine has the whooping cough." "Oh! has it? Thanks for your kindness, 1 1 A Z N nil Anna 4-V? r\ nrV*AA?\?n/Y O All rfVl UUl mine 19 2111 yvci tiic vyiauv|.*hi^ wugu and is now coming down with the measles, t Perhaps you had better go into the car < behind!"?Detroit Free Press. I She Studied to Please. ? Speaking of "Washington society, Mrs. 1 Gen. M planned a series of receptions, v and allotted her friends in such manner ? as to form congenial circles and prevent s crowding her salon. Colonel . a i crusty old bore, attended the first one, i and the following conversation took t place: c "Very pleasant lot of people here this 1 evening, ma'am; but one misses a good f many familiar faces!" t "Yes, my dear Colonel," the hostess c replied,-ybut I shall give another recep- u tion next Friday evening, and then a t good many familiar faces will miss you." (j ?Philadelphia Record. i The Official and the BulL There was once a very important state official in California, who thought that * everybody knew him, or ought to know a him. He was one day walking through * a field, when a bull addressed him in an y undertone and made for him with its I head down and horns in a position to t raise him. He was a state official, a man * of dignity and political power and J natural pomposity, but he ran. He ran I surprisingly well. He ran even better E than he did for office, and he got to, the * ' ?? ^ Ua nlntnKfli-arl AVOI* Allf nf ll'UCC iiidl. IXC Ciauii/btwu uTvt VUK V* breath and dignity, and found the ' owner of the bull calmly contemplating * the operation. ""What do you mean, sir?" asked the c irate official. "What do you mean by J having an infuriated animal like that * roaming over the fields?" c "Well, I guess the bull has some right y in the field." - " k "Right! Right! Do you know who I 0 am, sir? Do you know who I am?" The * farmer shook his head. "I, sir, I am i Gen. ." "Why the deuce didn't you tell the * bull?"?San Francisco Chronicle. a . t Romeo and Jnliet. f He (languishingly)?I have been hop- 11 ing that you would* in time come to rc- ? gard me as your company. jj She (bashfully)?Company! What do you mean by that? c He (encouragingly ? Well, as your * beau. She (blushingly)?0 I That's what company means. He fsmilinsrlv)?Yes. And if you con- v aider me as your company I should like c to consider you as my misery. d She (wonderingly(?Your misery ? c He (triumphantly)?Yes; because, you 3 know misery loves company. ii She (demurely)?I see. "We'll admit, I then, that you are company and I misery, a But don't yon think misery a very disa- v greeablc name for a girl, and that it ought r to be changed?say to company. d Then he popped.?Boston Courier. i A Dakota Train. 1 "Seen a man go along here lately?" ' asked a Dakota conductor, leaning off t platform, as the train passed a farmer at to work near the track. "Yes." to "Red whiskered man!" to "Yes." 8 "Grip in each hand?" a "B'lieve so." to "When did he pass?" t "'Bout ten minutes ago?he's just to 'round the curve. He's walkin' mid'iiug \ fast, though." c "That's just the trouble, but I'll catch t omrv whfipl nff the ensrine! F 111LU XJl !*??* ^ I've no objections to his walking if he's j in a hurry, but he wants to put up his 11 fare first, and you bet he'll have to if we catch him! Hi, there, Bill, pass the fireman some more of those dry express packages!"?Dakota Bell. Only too Willing. J "Penelope," said the young man. as his t frame shook with emotion, l,in that cosy if cottage. I'm building on Ogden avenue, s; where you are to be the mistress, you o would not object, I'm sure, to my fitting a up a snug little room for the occupancy of ti an aged mother, who may come occasion- 1: ally to visit us, and who will be glad to h know that she has not been forgotten in c o u r hap pi n esss?'' s< "No, Cyrus," impetuously said the fair <3 young girl, "your generosity moves me ii aj flan exDres.*. I have o JUUIt UVV,|/IJ VMUU 4always.intended to have ma come and live r with me, but I had not thought of fitting s up a room for her. Your noble offer will C afford her great pleasure. She will come a not only occasionally, but will come as i soon as we are married and make her g home with us always, and?" n "Then, madam," saidCyrvs, in anal- s tered tone, "permit me to say that I start n for Australia to-night. Henceforth our a uatlis lie aDart. You can take the house n v . ' ;-V and we'll call it square. I have the honor, madam, to bid you, in the most respectful manner, ta, ta.?Chicago Trilvne. Not Man and Wife. " There are some queer couples in this world," remarked a Dearborn street real estate agent. "The other day a man and women called to sec about renting a flat on the North Side. The women did iU the talking, and turned to the man For confirmnation or corroboration. He llways agreed with her and did it very neekly. II I 1*7.11 1 il. 11 I T vveu, me wouiea uuauy, l sill give you $25 for the flat, won't we John?' " 'Yes'm,' replied the man. " ' And I'll pay my rent promptly, too, >von't we, John?' " 'Yes'm' " 'And I'll take good care of the louse, won't I, John?' " ' But,' I inquired, as usual in such :asse, 'are you man and wife?' " 'Man and wife!' exclaimed the vomen sharply, 'indeed we are not; are ve John?' " 'No'm.' ' ' What!' says I, ' not man and wife?' " 'Not much. I'll have you know hat in this family we are wife and man;. lin't we John?' '' 'Yes'm."? Chicogo Herald. Ill-Tempered Monkeys. The Brazilian Mvcetes monkey, or red lowler, defends itself by means of its appalling voice, writes Felix Oswald. At ;he mere sight of a jaguar a Mycetes assembly will set up a general whoop, raisng their voices to a deafening uproar, ;ill the enemy prefers to retreat. Some +V?o nlH IiawIpim flrp tlipn ftnf" f.A TMirflllA lira for a quarter of a mile, -breaking out nto fresh execrations whenever they latch sight of his speckled hide. It takes lours to calm their excitement and in noonlight, when every bush seems to lide a lurking foe, they often make a light of it, and keep up a far-sounding oar, renewed at the rustling of every ;wig. The East African baboon often falls a victim to his passionate temper. If' th* Vrabs wish to catch a rock baboon with>ut bringing on a conflict with a whol? ;roop of hisfisty relatives, they have only 7i 0 insult the desired specimen by hitting lim with a stone. Ten to one the en pged four-hander will rush down from he rocks and charge the offenders on heir own vantage ground, when they :an easily capture him by a stunning ;j )low or by means of a net. I have a Chacma baboon who flies into 1 passion at the slightest provocation. '.{ she sees anybody eat or drink she i isually stretches out her hand for a share, nr) if her wish is not instantlv Gratified he grab? the iron bars of her cag? and nakes it rock about the floor like a ship n a storm. Once she managed to bena ' wo of those bars out of shape and ea:ape through the gap. But we caught c ler again by getting a boy to shake hit ist at her. She had taken refuge in a ree in front of the house, but in the ex itement at the offered insult she leaped ipon the roof of the veranda find chased he culprit from room to room into a :j piret, where we succeeded in recaptur* ng her. - How Bleod Oranges are Prodaced. *j| Strolling about the neighborhood of tha IJuincy market, writes a Boston corre- pondent, my attention was attracted by he sign, "Blood Oranges, $7.50 a Box," vhich decorated the exterior of_an im>orter's shop. I had always supposed . ; hat the blood orange was a freak of na* ure, to be found semi-occasionally like a -ellow fire-cracker in a pack of Golden Dragons brand; but this, it seems, wa?a aistnke, for the dealer assured me that he ruddy fruit was a distinct variety. " It is artificially produced," he said, 'by grafting an ordinary orange tree with ' he pomegranite. The result is an orange ike any other, so far as flavor is conerned, but with red juice that is visible hrough the skin. It brings a slightly tigher price, because it is regarded as a uriosity. The people of Sicily culti ate it mostly. Yes, there are'one or two :inds of oranges I know of. The pinepplc orange, which has something of he pine-apple flavor, is finding its way nto the market. I hr.d a few sweet lemons in stock he other day," added the dealer. "They re quite a rarity. People in this part of he world have poor tastes in tropical ruit, any way. They will aVways pay lore for a red bananna than for a yellow " ne, though the former is considered an nferior fruit where both are grown. The ; ime, too, is far more prized in tropical ountrfes than the lemon, but northenera hink it is only good for pickling." A Sea Tragedy. The story of life oa the high seas rhich came out at the Thames police ourt on Tuesday, was one of the most .?? ramatic and peculiar that even thatpeuliar locality has ever produced. The lalay Sailor Hassin had made himself, . mpossible on board the little bark Lady )ouglas; he secreted the carving knife nd hid himself in the fore-peak, only ittering from time to time the Delphic 7?; emark: "If I kill one, I die;" nobody j: lared go near him, for he wanted to die; mprisonment and intimidation were ried in vain; he possessed himself of ucifer matches, and it was feared he Fould fire the 3hip, so at last the Cajv -! ain and .ill the ship's crew agreed to jciu.-^g lira, "as it was too dangerous;" so they looded the forepeak with water to drive lira out, then the c;irpcnter made an em>rasure, the mate tired through it witH a hot-gun, a sailor hooked Hassin's clothes nd drew him up on deck, another sailor )lew out his brains with a revolver, and hey tied a weight to his feet and dropped lim overboard. Now they are all being ried at the Thames police court for murler. In their defence it should at least ie remembered that in the East it is the. V tractice?and the perfectly wise aud ; ustifiable one -to kill at sight, like a nad dog, any fellow who "runs amuck." -Pall Mall Gazette. Paper Car Wheels. Not only is traveling by water in- 9 lebted to paper, but traveling by land, i. paper car wheel seems even more a conradiction of terms than a paper boat, yet t is generally acknowledged to be better, afer,and longer-live^ than one altogether f metal. It was the inveution of Richrd N. Allen, a locomotive engineer, aferward master-mechanic of the Cleve- j ind and Toledo Railroad, who took for is aim in life the production of a better ar wheel than those in use. His first | et of paper wheels was made at Branon, \t., in 18?9. and after much scoffng he was graciously permitted the use f a wood car on the Central Vermont oad, under which they wore tested for ix months. The Pullman Palace Car ,'ompany in 1871 gave the first order for ViimdiWl wheels: ten vears after, the illen Paper Car Wheel Company, with reat shops at Hudson, N. Y., and Pulllan, III., produced and sold 13,000 In a ingle year. One of the set first ex^erilented with under a "sleeper" is shown t Hudson, with a reconi of 300,000 riles' travel -Harper's Magazine.