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WE ALWAYS WAIT. "We always wait, the promise unfulfilled; The spring, the summer, the harvests we may see; But never from the cradle to the grave, To any thought, however strong and brave, Shall full fruition be. The child would snatch a bauble of the moon. The you*.h, the ecstasy of love that leagues with fate; Manhood, dominion that is lost ro soon, And age, the trembling shadows at the gate; For nope grows weary of the solemn noon, "Wherein we always wait. Behold the sodden fields, now newly sown; And there the husbandman with anxious eyes, "Watching the wind and rain, in hope and fear, Till summer smiles, or blight and rust appear; Where all the venture of his harvest lies. The clouds are auguries of dread to him, The sun a laggard, or the rains are late; The wind shall sometimes soothe him with a hymn; The si>ectral fog shall be a thing of fate; ror nope, tue iwuigui ui mo wm, dim, Wherein we always wait O paiient optimist?a smile or tear, Are honest kin, they spring so near together. No man hath ever lived all satisfied, No human heart that is not sometimes tried Bv . leak, unfriendly weather. There never was full measure of content, Even to him most blest and nursed of fate; The morrow brings its hazard for us all? Some one demands oboli at the gate. Whereat sit Hope and Fear, who sadly call The souls that always wait. Not one is found to thwart the dead Parcse, Nor stay the ravel of the ghastly thread; Nor birth, nor pride, nor wealth, nor wit can JEbcnpe or compromise with destiny; The surge betwixt the living and the dead ! 0, sapient sage, 0, orator sublime, Poet and priest, 'tis idle here to prate, Of latent will, of creeds that mock at fimo "Within the Law there is no small or great; Man is but man, whether he fall or clime; H? waits; aye, he must always wait Must wait for what ? the doubt, the great " beyond !" The new to-day, to-morrow will be old; All human empire soon is desolate. Decay and change, with sure, unflagging gait, Trample heroic dust and peasant mould. The my th of Kings 1 Republics! what are these "Bat vague Ambition platting Hod's estate i No man hath warranty for aught?a breath "Will cancel legacies of love or hate, Will waft his latest title deeds to Death, On whom we always wait. Tls much to flutter on the broad highways, And boast our opulence in wit and art; To clothe in golden grandeur that which diesHan only owns the moment he enjoys, In all life's comedy, a single part! The splendid scenery of seas and stars, The gorgeous Cosmos girding him with state; And all the costly trappings loaned of time, Leave him at last alone and desolate, Within the vestibule where all men go, Alas ! and always wait One fain must laugh?perhaps 'twere best to weep? When some poor soul, a leader in the van, Asuires bv ethics or some covert claim. To win himself a precedence in name, And chant heroics o'er his brother man, Be he high priest or Fortune's parasite, Or plumed by circumstance (men call him great) Or placid, smiling mediocrity, Hare all must meet and jostle at the gate Of that cold house where we in company? The playecs?always waitl "We always wait?our work is never done, Our lives are full of all things incomplete; The sun, the rain alike for every one, Mav yet find gardens in our hearts begun, To bloom or wither in the summer's heat Tho' Sowers of Love and Hope may blossom soon, Or onJv ripen wearily and late: The'planet Peace must be oar harvest moon? Knowing these things, we find no fault with fate? We enter doors where love is still attune, Wherein we always wait. . Alas! some summers I have called my own, Some scenes, some marvels of great lakes and wootis; The thrilling paeans of the ocean sent JJJ oiai 1 J p?uu ?? ttj O VUI VU^U VUW Ut u.w.uvuv, . These and the like were mine in the ancient moods. Here was no smell of parchment, dog-eared j books, Ifor wiles of mortgage, lease, or pawned estate; But by the mighty legacies of God, Each plant that bloomed, each iiower that ! blessed the sod, Shared my inheritance with a friendly nod, \r*lrin? atvcuif mnrmiipc uvinir nnfchincr I loath, "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof," Wherein we always wait. ?John Antrobus, in the Minneapolis Star. DOWN A CREVASSE. BY LUKE SHARP. "Now," said Dr. Bunts, "I'll tell you 1 "wnat we must nave. ?e uum warn, a common guide. We want a guide with a story. When I reach a place I always | look out for some fellow who has had ; an unusual experience. In such a spot | as this there must be dozens of men who have had thrilling experiences. Right here at the foot of >lont Blanc there must be men who?" "Yost, but look here," I interrupted, , "you have to take the guides as they ' n come. I understand that there are about 240 guides in Chamonix, and that the traveler has no choice. They are engaged in rotation." "True," answered the Doctor, " but I there are exceptions to this rule. A lady al/v>\a fAw innfnn/iA Viaa V\nr aTiaIaO 6"' "6 OIU"?l 1U1 IlOO V1AVIVV of guides. You can talk English only, and that at times not unmixed with slang, so you can choose a guide that ! talks what you call your language, and as for me I have the privilege ol taking any guide I wish." "Why you more than another?" "Because I am a member of the Alpine Club." The Doctor was a rather peculiar man. I imagiue that if it had not been for a misfortune he would have become a noted physician. This misfortune was the death of an unclc, who left him a Jarge fortune. Then the Doctor gave up practice, gave up his body to travel and nis mind to mystical science, as he was pleased to call it. He expected to make some great discoveries in the way of mesmerism. Even while he traveled he was continually experimenting with anybody | who would allow him to experiment on ; him. He said that the great discovery of the present century was electricity, and that the great discovery of the coming "">"1'' ?V./> nfitivniinn nf f:hat mysterious force of which we get indications in mind reading and that sort of thing. Electricity, he said, was only faintly known at the beginning of the century, while now it is a household necessity. He certainly did some wonderful th'ngs with people in the mesmeric trance. Tie would put a person to sleep ! and have him actually describe the interior of a house thousands of miles awayknown only to one of the auditors. Once tVin di nner vividlv told hoW a murder / had been done that he had never before | heard of. The Doctor expects that when I "he gives the result of his researches in his forthcoming book it will be impossible for any murderer to hide his crime. When the Doctor and I went to the ~ * .1. .! | omce OI IUC J^UlUt-3 IU seture UUt man, | the result of the Doctor's inquiries was that Hert/off was the very man we j w.i n tod. HertzofT some years before h'd had the most thrilling escape ever recorded in the Alps. He had fallen down a crevasse in the great glacier of the Mer de Grace. He was alone at the time, but they found his broken alpenstock at the lip of the crevasse, and down in the depths they heard the tooting of his horn. It took 800 feet of rope to bring him up, and ever since then he was a guide much sought for by those who had any choice in the selection of guides, and, besides this, the recital of his thrilling story had filled his purse on many an occasion. So Hertzoff took the Doctor and myself across the glacicr that day. We left the beaten path somewhat so that we might see the spot where he fell in and hear the story just where it happened. The crevasse was a wide one but it had been narrower at the time the guide slipped over. "What made matters worse A ~ /vuS/^ATnno olnnn was mat ai me time mcguiM He had taken a party across the glacier and was returning by a short cut to Montanvert. He aod nis brother were to take a party up the glacier in the afternoon and his brother, who was waiting for him at Montanvert, b "ame alarmed at his absence. With another guide he started to meet him, and knowing the short cut that the guides generally took when alone, they followed it. Coming to a valley in the ice at the bottom of which was the narrow crevasse, they saw on the other side a broken alpenstock stuck fast in an ice crevice that told the whole story. Hertzoff had come down the incline as usual with ais alpenstock to keep the decent from being too swift. The alpenstock caught in the crevice and snapped off. Hertzoff fell and slid helplessly over the lip of the crevasse. He went down feet first. He tried to stop himself by bracing his feet against the opposite side of the crevasse, but he slid dawn the blue, clear ice with appalling swiftness. About one-hundred feetdown the crevasse turned, and from thence to the bottom he slid down on his back, and ir> on inatonf. fnnnd himself in two feet of ice water that rushed to help form the River Arve that flows tnroughChamonix. When his brother and the other guide saw how matters stood and heard the faint toot of the Alpine horn in the ice depths, the brother shouted down to encourage him to hold out, while the other ran back to the big hotel for ropes and help. All the visitors and many of the guides came back with him, and in a short time they had the half frozen man up on the surface again. It was a fearfully narrow escape. Hertzoff tied ropes -1 _? -3 t- U V!1 .4 arouna us anu. neiu on nunc wc v cut down and looked over the edge of the crevasse. The side3 were a clear luminous blue, darkening as they went down. We could hear the rush of the water below. The Doctor dropped a stone into the chasm and that, more than anything else, made us realize' its depth. The stone dropped to the turn in the crevasse and then we heard it ringing against the sides as it went down and down, seemingly to the center of the earth. As we returned the Doctor and I walked together beh'nd the guide, who was some distance ahead. We were both ! very much impressed by the story told I on the very S|)ot where it had happened. ! ' That ought to be a great lesson for you," began the Doctor. "Why for me?" "Well, in the telling of a story. Now, if you were writing that adventure the chances are that you would spoil it by piling up the agony. He told it in his simple, direct way, that to mv mind was j * xl -Ml! J ?11 ! innnneij more lunmug iuau an im uu^ . writing in the world. What impressed me aboutjiis narrative was the simplicity of diction and the evident truthfulness, : and, besides that, there was an absence of brag that strikes me as admirable." |: "Still you must admit that the guide is a man of rather coarse feelings; prob- : ably the only sensation he felt was an (! animal desire for safety. He did not' describe his feelings because he had l none. Take a more refined and educated , I person in the same situation, and his |! sensations during that slow slide to the |1 edge of the crevasse would be something I painfully intense?something that this j1 man co.ild neither appreciate nor understand." "I don't admit that at all. This man's modesty prevents him from telling us just what he felt. Human nature is human nature all the world over. Now to prove this, when we return I will try and i get this man into a mesmeric trance. I j i think he would be a good subject, and J if I succeed, then we will have his story ; I with all his sensations at the time of fall- j' ing. I wish that if he proves a good !j subject you would take your pencil and get his words as nearly verbatim as you 1 can. By the way, do you write short- ' j hand?" "Oh, yes, but the trouble is I can't; read it, nor can anybody else after the notes are written, That has always been my drawback with shorthand." "Well, do the best you can." When we got to the hotel the Doctor invited the guide up to his room to have a ?lass. He asked the gu'de to sit d own, j and I softly turned the key in the door , so that we would not be interruped. Tkrt + rlrnwr im Vl?Q r?VlQ if Hpfn 1*0 the guide, and said: i "You seem to be a very healthy man?" , The guide said he had to be. The guide business was not an occupation for invalids. "I am a phsician. Please allow me to , feel your pulse." ; The guide somewhat reluctantly gave ' i his wrist to the Doctor, who finally took ! both the guide's hands in his own and looked him straight in the eyes, while ; his lingers seemed to caress the horny ] palms of the guide. The Swiss seemed very uneasy for a few j moments, but at last his stalwart frame i appeared to subside in his chair, and as j the Doctor's face moved closer to hi3 the i guide's eyes became fixed and glassy. It ! was intensely silent in the room. At last the Doctor moved his open ! hands before the guide's face, and the 1 disengaged hands of the Swiss fell listlessly to his sides. His eyes closed. "You cannot stand up," said the doctor. The man moved heavily, but seemed , rooted to his chair. "It is the 10th of August, 18? " "Yes," said the guide, hoarsely. "You took a party across the glacier j, that day, didn't you?" "No," said the guide, iu the same sepulchral voice. "What!'' cried the Doctor in surprise. "Didn't you take the purty across the glacier and come back by the ji?%rt cut?" I "No," said the guide. von and vour brother to 1 take a party up the glacier that afternoon ?" ' No," said the guide. The Doctor was nonplussed. He thought he had mistaken the date, and askeu nie if it was correct. "The date is the one he gave us. Ask him wh it he did that day?" "What did you do that day?" * * ' v x _ J ^ "There was noc mucn to uu mcu, Chamonix was not much sought. There were no accidents for a long time. Accidents bring the people. iMy brother Kudolph, he wa= the clever one of the family. He said he must have nn acciiie. t He is the clever one; I am the strong one. We went together to the morane at the foot of the glacier. 1 1 1 - ?- ?? r\f +V? a w8 triea 10 go up suuic vi ?u\/ crevasses at the bottom, but the water was too strong. At last we 1 found one that was narrow and the current weak. We found we could walk up long distance until it became too narrow, j He said that would do. Then we broke my alpenstock and I took one piece. He went round to the top of the glacier and I sat anions? the 3tones until he would blow his horn. He fixed the alpenstock in the crevice. Then he went to the hotel and told them he was uneasy about i me. When he and the other guide came 1 across the ice they blew their horns and I went up the crevasse aud blew mine. After a long time the rope came down. I tied it around m<? and they pulled me up. 1 When the accident was printed in all the papers all over the world a great many people came to Chamonix." The Doctor himself seemed in a trance while the guide slowly told how the deed ; was done. He was amazed and cha- ] grined. His hero had crumbled. < "What I like," I said as I finished the last of the writing, "what I like about this story is the simplicity of diction; the evident truthfulness and the absence of ! all brag." "Oh, yes," said the Doctor rousing himself up, "of course I will never hear the end of this if it once gets out. All the same, you believed his story quite as i much as I did, although of course you won't admit that now." He made a few passes and woke the fftiide un. "You are tired," said the Doctor, "and i I think you dropped asleep for a few i moments."?Detroit Free Press. A Girl Snake-Catcher. She lives in Makien; she is seventeen years old, or thereabouts, and she is an ! ophiologist?that is to say, her specialty is snakes. Very often, in pleasant sum- ] ? ? wamh/w /vml rrifV? Vionrla mcr w earner, iuio jvuuggw, clad in high buck gloves, and armed with a bottle of chloroform, lurks about the fens and pools and thickets watching for snakes, a girl fair to look upon, sauntering, one might imagine, with eye upon the ground, in maiden meditation, fancy , free. She is in maiden meditation, in- ] deed, but not fancy free, because her fancy is bound to snakes, and she is j infnnflir fnr enmo rnrief'.v not 1 OUaiUL iU^ lUbUUVlJ 1V1 wwiMw ? ? w J yet added to her collection of several hundred. Presently she stops; with an eager gleam in her eye she crouches along a step or two, her glove-clad right hand drawn back as if to clutch some object; she springs forward toward the ] ground with a swift motion, and then ( stands erect with the body of a snake \ writhing about her arm in desperate throes. She has it by the neck, and \ proceeds calmly to thrust its hoad into the neck of her bottle of chloroform. Not many days ago this young scientist, after a rather desperate contest, captured in the fells a black snake so ] large and powerful that when it wrapped } itself in the mad grasp of its body about her arm it strained her cords and muscles so severely that she was lame for a week. , It did not prevent her, however, from ] sallying forth again, and when she happened to perceive, at the margin of a , pool, a big water-snake of a variety which , she had not secured for her collection, ( she lay in wait for it. As the snake , pounced upon a frog she pounced upon the snake; but the reptile was in his , element and escaped her. Was she to be ) baftled in that way ? Not at all. She j managed to anchor a frog in some way upon a stone at the edge of the pool, at < a spot where the bank overhung with : hushes Then she stealthilv laid herself t flat upon her face under the bushes at | the brink of the water, and there she lay in ambush for a long time, while the ( snake curiously eyed the frog. At last f the snake, with sudden resolution, made , bold to seize the frog; but as he did so a gloved hand, swifter than his own ( sinuous motion, darted from the bank, , and he was a prisoner, splashing the | wrafnr nf the T>ool in his vain effort to i escape. The girl has one grief?she has J not been able to capture, with her own ; hands, a rattlesnake.?Boston Transcript. A Race of Monkey Men. The well known traveler, M. Ed Plau- J chut, contributes to the Revue Scientif- ^ ique an interesting study of the native , inhabitants of Luzon, the largest and most important of the Philipine Islands. ^ They are divided into two races, the ne- { gritos and the savages, aitogetner comprising some fifteen tribes more or less distinct in type and costume. The negrto*, supposed to be the aborigines, are dwarfs, averaging about four and a half feet in height, but are well formed. Huts or villages are unknown among the.n, but they sleep where night finds them. Their strongest characteristic is 1/mto nf fpAprlrtm Wlipn one of IHCIX 4VI V \J A *4 vvvkv>M? ii ? ? ? _ _ their number dies they attribute it to some evil influence, and avenge the dead by killing some person of another race, and are constantly at war among themselves and with the savages. These differ in most respects from the negritos. Their toes are very far apart, and are used like fingers, they being able to pick up the smallest thing with them. Some have even been seen to descend a tree head foremost, using their feet like a a monkey. They have all some idea of a supreme being, one tribe worshiping a god who had two sons and two daughters. from whom descended the human racc. They deify such things as the rain, ~ powder, the metals and ceitain trees, as r well as truth and noble deeds. They v have bad spirits also, as darkness, lying ^ ;ind some diseases; but neither good or B bad have any sacred places. "What need ^ of temples," say they, '"for beings who fear neither wind, sun nor rain?" They chafe under the Spanish yoke, and praise the apes for their cunning, saying, "They do not speak for fear of being obliged to pay taxes.?New York Post. " ? mAKl.nn Tnrnnflflna rillVCU ruillvus AlUCllLaii The fifteen great American inventions of world-wide adoption are: (1) The cotton-gin, (2) the planing machine, (3) the grass-mower and reaper, (4) the rotary printing press, (5) navigation by J steam, (6) the hot-air engine, (7) the sew- r ing-machine, (8) the india-rubber indus- a try, (9) the machine manufacture of horse-shoes, (10) the sand-blast for carving, (11) the gauge lathe, (12) the grain elevator, (13) artificial ice-making on a larsre scale. (14) the electric magnet and J its practical application, (15) the telephone. i His Only Comfort. ^ i London Vanity Fair says that resi- t dcnce at Balmoral makes the Queen j t5""""" ill.humored, t a mj\,too jjuuvutb ??? r and Prince Henry, of Battenberg, melancholy. The Prince is said to be bored ], by the whole thing, woods and hills included, and though he shoots a good deal he is far from deadly among the s grouse He is, therefore, practicing on c glass balls, and his one consolation for the weariness of the day is a pipe of strong tobacco when his royal motherin-law h:is retired for the night. ? BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM . VARIOUS SOURCES. ( f 3e Hadn't?A Shoeless Damsel?The All-Important Question?Proof of Insanity?Comparisons ( Are Dangerons, Etc. j a "Well, ray little boy," he said to his leighbor's son, "so you've got back ^ lome, eh?" "Yes, sir." "Been out in the country rusticating?" , "No, sir; we've been out in the coun- j iry living on grandpa's folks."?Detroit Free Press. A Shoeless Damsel. "Would you believe it?" exclaimed a poung lady who was fitting herself to a pair of boots in a Clark street store, the Dther evening, "there is Miss Blank, . who lives next door to us on the Boule- . vard, and whose father is so rich?can jrou credit it?I knew her when she J hadn't a pair of shoes to her feet." "Impossible I" replied the dealer, "were they ever as that poor? When was it?" ! "Oh, last summer) when we were East, together, and she bathed at f he beach at Newport."?Chicago National. t The All Important Question. ] "Charley," she said, softly, "I often J think what a noble thing it is to have a sphere and fill it as you ought." "Have you?" returned Charley, after some study. "Yes. And I have oftened wondered 1 what my particular work in life is." "Indeed I" replied Charley, after some hesitation. ? "Charley, tell me, do you think I am . fitted to ma'ce a home happy?" "I dunno," said he, absently, "can you cook?"?Merchant-Traveler. Proof of Insanity. He was being examined as to his sani- , ty before a jury, and a great deal of evi-. dence had been introduced without proving that his mind was out of repair. Finally his sister was called upon for her testimony and was asked: "Do you believe your brother to be insane?" "Yes; I know he is insane." ] "What proof do you offer?" i "Best in the worid." I "I.pf. ii? hp?r it." i "Why, just yesterday I heard him tell { bis wife that she must really get a couple f sf new dressed and bonnets and not to ? think of the expense." 1 An application for his admittance to i the asylum was made out at once. ? 1 Nebraska State Journal. 1 < Comparisons are Dangerous. } Johnny was guilty of an infraction of < household law, and the frowning mother 1 reacnea ior ner supper. ' Here, mother," said Johnny, soberly, ] "If you're goin' to do _any thing like that ( jse the fire shovel. Your slipper ain't i aalf big enough to do any sort of good." ? The slipper was a five, several sizes I wider than the fire shovel, but Johnny's c nother was a woman, and he got a ( TiritVi tqqInq in it: in lipn nf ft 1 ,V/VIV<V ? ? ? paddling. Two hours later Johnny related his scheme to little Dick, who stowed it iway in his not very capacious tow-head for future use. An occasion came betimes. "Mother," 3ried little Dick in his fulsome eageraess to be of service to the angry dame, "use the snow shovel. Your slipper is too big." Wlion liffln Tiirk recovered from the jffect of the seance that followed, he ] sought out Johnny and gave him a ( sound thrashing. ? Johnny's shrewdness, it is thus seen, jould not preserve him from this result )f another's stupidity, which is often the case in this world, and shows the Fniiv nf shfirincr a valuable but dancer DU3 secret witlT a blunder-head.?Binq j \ampton Republican. ( I Neither Bull Nor Bear. ( Once down in Wall street it is hard to 1 ?et away, as many a man knows to his i :ost. The sudden revival of interest in ( the career of tne .Nortnern racinc nan- i i way reminds me of an anecdote I heard I | Jay Cooke tell of himself when he was i j imong the powers of the Stock Exchange t ind the chief promoter of that newly > conceived railroad enterprise, the inspi- c ration of which was the brilliant start c nade by the Union Pacific. According 1 :o his own assertion, Jay Cooke was not 3 i speculator in the usual sense of that r word. While his Northern Pacific was eally a gigantic speculation, ue was lever an "operator'' at the Stock Ex:hange. His failure was duo not to a gambling at the board, but to the invest- j nent of all his own and his depositors' j noney in advances for the construction c >f that road. Why he was not an opera- s or he related as follows: "Gentlemen," said he to the little t mrty gathered about him, "I learned t ;arly in ray experience Wall street that c ipeculation was not my line. In the be- a finning of that experience I was a bull, t ! bought some stock, but the price went ? lown, down, until I was very unhappy >ver tho mistake I had made in not sell- e ng short. I jumped to the conclusion ^ hat I ought to be a bear. A bear I be- t :ame, at once. I sold out that stock and r old as much more 'short.' Then the v narket changed and the stock went up, g lp, until I was just as unhappy as be- t ore. I covered at another heavy loss, t ind then I came to the conclusion that I t vas neither a bull nor a bear, but an ass.a ?Brooklyn, Citizen. q Perseverance Rewarded. J He boarded the trnin at Rochester and j :amc to the only vacant seat in the car, a >eside a young lady. u ''This seat taken, ma'am?" v "No." d "Well, then, I guess I'll sit down." t Two minutes' silence. o "Ilavc some peanuts, ma'am?" t "No. I thank you," i< "Jiminy, don't you like peanuts? j] Tust like my wife. My great holt is pea- 0 nits and bananers. Perhaps you'd like g i bananer, ma'am ?'' ji "No. nothing, thank you." t "hive up in Buffalo, ma'am?" d "Yes." t "P'rhaps you know my friend C'ap'n ]( fack Sloan, lives down in Elk street." ]j "No, I don't know where Elk street t] s. c - - - "By gol! ana you live in d?u?iu. r, iVhv, I've sold butter on Elk street 0 nar'ket nigh onto twenty years. My s, lame is Johnson. Your name ain't rones, is it?" "No." " 'Tain't Williams, or anything of that :ind?" "No." "That's what I thought. I don't 'nose now it's Erown or any o' them :olors?" "No." "Been far?" "Not fur." "Syracuse, mebbe; or Albany, chi" * "No." "No?gol! Hain't been to New Yorkf' "Yes." "Jiminy, I've never been there, though ^ saw a pretty slick feller from there mce. Them New Yorks is regular joers, ain't they? Any relations there ?" t "PV.w ? "Gosh! "Wonder if they know my :ousin Jake. He's getting $10 a week est to walk around a store and look ilick. Your folks ever speak of Jake ?" "No." "Jake and me bought some land out 1 SVest last year. Ever buy any?" a "No." \ "Don't. Jake and me lost $500. It 0 vas way at the bottom of the river. r 2ver been West?" * "Chicago." " J "Jee, you hev traveled, ain't youf 1 father and mother living?" s "Father." . ? "Live in Buffalo?" J .. c "INO." "Our folks live together down to ? Rochester. My father and mother have t jeen dead long time. My wife's mother ^ ives with us. Her name's Martin. That r lin't your name, eh?" "No." c "I was jest thinking you looked like a nan I know in Buffalo named Waters, j He ain't your brother?" "No." "We must be a comin' pretty near Buffalo. That there lot of tricks looks . [ike it. You don't happen to live on Main street?" "No." "Then your name ain't Robinson?" . "No." : "You must have a curious kind of name. Sure it ain't Sanders?" "Sure." "Wal, here we be; can I help you J gittin' off?" "No. thank vou." ' Oh, is there a door-plate on your * house?" "Yes." J "Name on it?" j "Yes." j "P'raps you wouldn't mind tellin' what the name on the plate is?" "Smith." "Goll"?Buffalo Courier. 111' ( A Gypsy Songr. 1 Edgar L. Wakeraan, writing from "< Maine to the St. Louis Olobe-Democrat < lbout American gypsies, relates this in- * :eresting incident: The true significance i md flavor of the gypsy song are only ] jot after real study of the gypsy char- 1 icter, a proper comprehension of that i lingular principle of gypsy nature which i lolds fox-like alertness to be an endless i equisite, and in retaining the inner 1 rue essence and meaning of "Chee," 1 vhich is the Romany for "be alert," t 'hist," "look sharp," and a score more < yarning ejaculations condensed in one juick, sharp note of warning. I once < leard "It's chee, chee, when the bob- * )ies come," aung by fully 100 gypsies, i [t was a lovely May morning, balmy, but i :risp, and at a time when every atom of < lature seemed bursting with the prodi- t 1SfA cnr!r> re If Tcroa AQ 1*1 XT on/1 I 1 ?tll 1U& V/i ?>?S1AI??. AM n ww VW. mj y UUv? j jut few sounds broke the stillness of the t :amp. The birds above, and a rollicking >ld tinker below, had it all their own way. Suddenly the tinker bellowed >ut: 7"or its "Chee, chee," when the bobbies comei tnd instantly every member of the Irowsy camp was astir. Smothered voices n the close hooded tents took up the -efrain; grinning heads, musical as the norning, protruded from wrinkly wagon :overs; half-dressed gypsies everywhere lame in sight. Every one seemed ready ; "or a frolic. The old tinker repeated ;hc refrain; more and more voices joined; ic looked up from his mending mis- ! jliievously, knowing the power of his 1 long upon his fellows, and, ufter petting ! some dogs that had bounded to his side ] is if with a jolly knowledge of what it , ill meant, began the song in a voice :hat silenced even the sauciest birds of :he neighborhood. Then they nil joined, ' ind I never saw or listened to anything J )n or off the stage which had a tithe of :he same untutored, but wonderful, iramatic interest. Gradually moving to . :he center of the cfmp, from every direction came the gypsies, still singing, j ;very face from spae-wife (old woman; :o chauvis (child) aglow with the imiressible humor the song held for them. ' Some of the men sung iu wonderful bari;one, and there were powerful bass ' roices heard. The women and children arried the soprano, rich, hearty, elo- J juent, and many an old woman, raising i ier voice to a shrill falsetto that thrilled 1 rou, sang clear and true above all the J ' 0 ( est. , A Bird that Sails. 1 The most wonderful thing about the r .lbatross is their flight. It is an unfail- r ?"? inf/ifnof THVinTT X7PTV r.'l fpl V ng awuiwui miviwv. J j j )ly their wings, but keep the fluent ten- t ir of their way with giant vans outtretched and motionless. All flight is a >ercnuial marvel. We see and partly inderstand it, since in its common cases he forces which produce and govern it ? an be determined; but we have no resizing sense of it. But over and above c he case of ordinary birds, problems of s light remain which almost battte science. a Vhat power conveys the osprey at a lev- c 1, for furlong after furlong, to sweep a ipward without effort at last? How do ? he condors sail around Antisana and So- 11 ata without the least vibration of their ? viners? Save when they are rising from the r ;round, Mr. Darwin, duricg a long and 1 inremitted scrutiny, failed to detect a I remor of their quills. lie was driven , o surmise that in a fluid like the I1 ,ir, where friction is so slight, the freluent vigorous movements of their necks j1 nd other members might suffice for irogres3 as they floated 011 their vast sup- " icrts. But albatrosses do not move at ^ II, except by a slight bending of the ~ leek from side to side as they search the . vaves for any nutrient morsel. Fly they ^ [0 not, in any common sense, but sail; 0 this conclusion we are forced. The ^ pinion is confirmed by the continual al- * erations of the angle of their wings (that 3, of the whole bird, with wings always a a line with another) with the surface ' f the water, which probably is done to . ;et the full advantage from every little ' mil or current. These take ali sorts of * urns, often at a steep inclination up or * [own, and the albatross, when he feels lie brcc/c, at once assumes, with fault- ' jss instinct, the angle which will give " im most propulsion. In consequence of ( hiSj his flight often exhibits a great vari- ** ty of motions, or rather variations of di- 1 iction, swerving to the right or left? ,! bliquely upward?withersoever it may nit him.?>t. JameS& Gazi tte. n: The Two Snails. ^ Si She was a plump little fcngnsn snau, He was of French extraction; The channel rolled between them, yet l n He loved her to destraction. til He asked her, through the telephone, jn In tones of deep emotion, If she would brave the sea for hira, And cross the stormy ocean. " No, thank you, sir," she coyly said; "I love you. but no matter: 0/ I could not feel nt homo in France, e; Where snails are fried in batter." ?r -Little Folki ar THE NASAL ORGAN. ~ L UUCAUIVS uistuunsti urun ] THE NOSE. | J jarge Noses Denote an Active and ^ Small Noses a Sluggish Tem- 1 perament?The Bony Nose ^ and the Gristly Nose. As a general principle, says Dr. Simons 1 a llaVs Jovrnal of Health, large noses 1 re indicative of active, energctic charac- 1 ers, apt to be proud, pompous, impatient, 1 a# Kai?? luA/lora an/i rnm. J KJL UCiU^ uuvft vvu* nanders, aud often overbearing and vrannical. On tlie contrary, 6mall, low loses denote weak characters, deficient n government, even of themselves, and laves of their appetites, loves and hates, ather than persons guided by reason and udgement. The larged nosed, in critial positions and circumstances of ex:itcment, will be cool and self possessed ;nd competent to act more prudently han the small nosed. Large noses are ound chiefly among the inhabitants of nountaiuous regions and their descend ints small ones originate in low, flat lountries. When the nose is long in pro- 1 jortion to its general size it bears the mpress of discretion, timidity, caution ind thoughtfulness. Noses relatively hort from the forghoad to the point ivince rashness, carelessness and selfwill, vhile noses that stand out prominently 1 epresent characters that are discontented i vith their present lot and are anxious j , tnd aspiring. But when the point of he nose clings to the upper lip the I ; endency is to be miserly and to love ! , larthly things. The nose that is thin as well as gener- I illy small, prefigures a poor, weak consti- I ..^aaKIa rt^oro^fnp wifli a fan. I i Li Ul/LI nUU KCUib v<iiaiavtv.t^ itivu u hvu lencyto consumption,presajrin# an early i leath. On the other hand if the nose is 1 :hick where it joints the face we feel asiured of a strong constitution and strong )assions, and have good reason to expect ong life if proper care and prudence be sxercised. Persons with sharp pointed loses are keen, intense, penetrating and nostly quick tempered. A nose that is prominent and almost straight, seeming I o have two points formed by a vertical I lepression through the end, signalizes a j ogical and meditative mind. A person j vhose nose reaches toward the mouth is autious, but is specially considerate ibout bodily wants. Noses projecting ; n a straight line forward at the base imply that their possessors are of quiet dispositions, regular habits, especially in niddle life. Round, knobby noses are ' nostly connotative of speculative minds, | etentive memory and musical tastes. , rta small, low, round nose, generally cnown as the pug, turning up a little at he point, signifies a pert, forward,saucy, j conceited individual. | A nose that shows a large proportion ,?f bone in its size denotes a stable char- | icter. slow, deliberate judgment, firm and , eliable; while the soft fleshy or gristly 11 lose Is expressive of a sly, deceptive, 1 j sunning, treacherous character. The { i )ony nose originates generally in tem- j 1 aerate climates, and the gristly fleshy in 11 ;he torrid zone. Examples of the gristly | iose mav be seen in the cat and all i )ther members of the feline species. The itraight nose inclines to science, art, ' Dolite literature and political economy if Inly educated thereto. But the nose of. :onvex form from the forehead to th? point is cmblamatic of the inclination #C3 ;ommcicial pursuits and true speculative , :alent. A dull, obtuse intellect, with nuch physical power and destructive in- ' ;lination, is typified by a nose very ! sroad at the base. When the lower por- j tion of the nose forms an obtuse angle with the face, and the point is elevated ibout forty-five degrees, we see a person J inclined to snobbery and fashion. If tht ;cptura is longer than the sides we may ' infer an original and suggestive mind, a.' well as a penetrating and sagacious one. rhe nose that is high and thin in th( upper part bespeaks moral courage, lov< of argument, quick apprehension, capac lity "to use to the greatest advantag< what is known or at hand. Wide-spread nostrils argue strong < lungs, while the closing of them beto- [ j kens pulmonary weakness. Wrinkles' j across the top of the nose are signs ol j ] thoroughness in every sense. A fiery, I j red, warty and enlarged nose betrays a ' , diminution of energy through disease 01 j strong drink, or scrofulous inherited ten- ] Jcncies, or excessive study while living ^ orincipaHy on animal food, without suffi- \ nent vegetable diet. Long, 9harp and j well formed noses have an acute scent, x f not subject to catarrh. As a general <] ule square noses symbolize a masculine, 1 ^ ind round ones a feminine cearacter. c rhe lower animals, as well as humaD , jeings, with long noses, are uneasy,1 f vatchful, suspicious and prone to travel. ' e rhose with short noses are slow of move- ! z nent. If the bridge of the nose ishigfr ' t evinccs a deposition to assail tbocf I ^ hat are considered to be doing wrong. ' c 11 ?* ? ? -m 41.. c_l I * t rim wardens 01 me SHimru. | >j It is well known that the Sahara 5s not j C iverywhere synonymous with desert, and a hat region, despite the dryness of iti s :lim;ite and the general aridity of its j J urface, possesses many a well-cultivated \ ind thickly inhabited oases, where the ' fc ombination of the two elements of sun I n nd water nas proaucen marveis in me { ray of vegetation. The Lower Sahara ? 3 an immense basin of artesian waters, nd at times there is a superabundance; >ut the number of cultivated tracts is nctea^ing very rapidly, there being no . ewer than forty-three oases in the Oued- J {ir, which, after a period of thirty years, ^ as 13.000 inhabitants, 520 palm trees in a nil bearing?that is, which have been . 0 ilanted more than seven years?120,000 v roes between one and seven years old, ' nd 100,000 fruit trees, while "the valu< ? f the dates grown each year averages ? 100.000. The oa=es of Lacrhouat and 1 >uefi-Mi7.i and tho<e of Ycryvilie and a Lin-Sana have 100,000 palm trees, and * liosc of Figuig 140.000, while Mzab. ~ ith its 30,000 inhabitants, nearly all " hopherds or merchants, cultivates 200.- n 00. Zab, together with the Sahara slope * f the Auees, has fifty oases, which grow ? 00,000 palm trees and 500,000 fruit " -ees. Souf, with a population of 15.00;). 8 as 150,000 palm trees of the choicest ^ ind and over50,000 fruit trees. Lastly. 8 u: various oases of Ouargla have over " 1)0,000 pahn trees and 100.000 fruit ees. All these re.-ults, to say nothing 11 f the trade in wool, the cultivation r>l vf-rf<?faWoc r?r\rn tlm vinP flTlii w... "?v ' '""I tner things grown beneath the shelter of ie palm trees, and of the raising of it riches, which, it is considered, mijrh} si c made as profitable as it is at the Cape, s] ivc been arrived at partly by the p ttives and partly by the French, though v ic latter had not begun to coloni/e sj ihara until within the last ten year*. v hey began by buying oases and gardens (j i the Zab and the Oucd-IMr, and after a tat ihev set to work to form fre<h oases i ti the region of Bishra, and especially in b ic uuad-lfir.?rau Man uazene. lj The actual cost of the Impcricuse, 01: i tho latest built British ironclads, was ^ i, 801,625, exclusive of the cost of amine.*. ^ POPULAR SCIENCE At least 10,000 preserved humming* jirda are now embraced in the collection la the British Museum. The finest collection on this side of the Atlantic, containing about?2,000 specimens, has been presented by Mr. D. G. Elliot to the "-v? American Museum of Natural History in % New York. Flour is like butter, it ab3orb3 smells eadily. It should not be kept in a place ? where there are onions, fish, decaying ^ vegetables, or other odorous substances, >r in a damp room or cellar. Keep it in '} i cool, dry, airy room, not exposed to a rj freezing temperature, nor to one above leventy degrees, and always sift before jsing. A recent observer of sunflowers attributes their antimalarial action to their absorption of water from the soil, as well is to their accredited properties of absorbing malarial germs, and emitting much oxygen. During June, 1885, a quarter of an acre of sunflowers exhaled Xr: in the form of vapor an average of sixtyfive gallons of water daily. The most sensitive instvament yet made for measuring degrees of heat has recently been exhibited at a toiree of the English Royal Society by Mr. C. V. Rnvn. who calls it the "radiomicrome ter." Mr. Boys is able to produce a visible effect of heat on a half-penny held at a distance of more than 1,000 feet from an ordinary caudle flame. Cotton, according to a scientific v.; authority, is not a fibre, bat a plant hair. It holds to be spun into a thread because of peculiar twists in each hair, shown " under the microscope, especially in polar* ized light. Linen thread may be spun, ; because the flax fibres hare certain roughnesses on their surfaces, which enable them to cling together. Hence it is impossible to make as fine linen as cotton v cloth, but it is much stronger. Mr. Erie Bruce, who has worked oufc the idea of signaling at night by a cap* tive balloon lighted inside by electric incandescent lamps, has just completed .n* jne for the Belgian government. The signaling is effected by cutting off and letting on the current feeding the lamp# t>y means of a key like that used in telegraphy. Mr. Bruce's latest balloon is fifteen feet in diameter and 2,000 :ubic feet in capacity. It is made of varnished cambric and is translucent. 3ix Edison and Swan lamps of eight md ten-candle power are mounted iu? jide. M. Alphonse de Candolle believes he aas established as certain, by his relearches into the heredity of the eyes, the 'act that women nave a larger proportion >f brown eyes than men; that where both parents have eyes of the same color the ihances are eighty-eight to twelve that ;he children will have, at ten years of ?ge, eyes of the same color; and that svnere the parents have eyes of different jolors the chances are fifty five to forty- ( 3ve in favor of brown as against blue of AS jray for the children. He also thinks it probable that persons of the brown type are more likely to be healthy than the blonde. ' Russian archaeologists, who are under the patronage of the Czar, are working throughout the empire or wherever the imperial army open up new fields. They " ^ aave done much during the past decade to illuminate dark blanks in Byzantine md earlier records. One of the most interesting of their discoveries is just announced. At Tashkend have been recently found extensive Greek remains, :hiefly terra-cotta vases, silver-gilt >' ornaments, and small statuettes, all purely Hellenic, and obviously bespeak* lug a common domestic use. This dis- . :2 jovery shows that the frontiers of tha Glreek kingdom in Bactria must have extended many hundred miles further lorth-east than has heretofore been supposed. Probably it is the beginning of i series of developments giving to Central v isia an entirely novel archaeological interest. Nerrons New Yorkers. Tne vanaeruut noys, wicn tne exception of the poetic George, are early risers, rapid walkers and nervous in their movements. Chauncey M. Depew rushes into lis office like a hurricane early in the norning and is constantly on the move intil he goes home in the evenings Go nto any of the resorts where propiihent Sew Yorkers take their luncheons, and ?ou will at once be impressed with the act of their nervous tcmperraent. The brothers of Robert Bonner take their nidday meal daily at the Astor House. The moment they drop into their seats a veil trained waiter rushes out to the Irving table and orders their luncheon vith the supplementary remark: "It is or the Messrs. Bonner; hurry up." Robirt Bonner himself is a man of slow movenent compared with the other New York iditors. Stick a piu in him and he vould probably turn about with the almness peculiar to the old school of *Tew Yorkers and ask what you meant. Try the same experiment with James Jordon Bennett and he would wheel bout and offer to give you battle on the pot. Resort to the same artifice with oseph Pulitzer and he would spring up rith rage, turn upon you and probably mock you out in a jiffy. He is the most lervous of all New York journalists, and ralks rapidly, with his broad shoulders hrown well back?Chicago Herald. Great Losses of Fish. - -r /^_i Til in tne vicinnj 01 umcua, Xli*l buv uua a many of the streams have lately died >y the million, and the few that are left re rapidly following suit. The banks f the Galena River branches are lined irith dead fish of^ll sizes and varieties, rom the tiny minnow to the mammoth at and sturgeon. At Buncombe, Wis., lead fish are so numerous on the banks hat the stench arising from them is !most unbearable. At Lancaster, Wis., he scene on the river bank beggars lescription, over fifty wagon loads of lead fish being in sight. There are unierous theories afloat as to the cause. )ne is that the rccent rains have roiled lie water with mud, so that the fish ave been unable to breat'ae, and strug? onrfona fnr air KQVA 1111*5 IIIU cuiiuvv . w w.vw inother is that during the dry, hot uniraer, the valleys and marshes above rere liiled with some poisonous growth hat with the recent floods was carried ito the streams and poisoned the water. -Scientific American. Poisonous Fishes. In the exhibition at Havre there is, lys Nature, an interesting collection of peciments of poisonous fishes. Some are oisonous when eaten; others are merely enomous. Among the first are many paroids, a tetrodon, and many Clupea, hich are abundant near the Cape of tinno Tn the .Tanan Sea is found IWUV4 1AVJ/V. - very peculiar tetrodon, which is someimes used as a means of auicide. It rings on sensations like those produced y morphia, and then death. Every trace of the Colorado beetle has eon destroyed in Germany by the timely >e of disinfectants ar*i tilling of the elds in which they first appeared.