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< -sv ' sy&F}-'? APART. Oat on a leafless prairie, where No soug of bird mnkes glad the air, No hue of flower brings to her ?yes Outward glimpse of Paradise,? A thousand iniles and a half away.? My lady is in love to-day. And all her heart is singing, singing, AnH or.irir nftw south wind is wincing Tidings jjiail from her true lover, And kisses bridge the distance overLips to lips and heart to h<-art, A thousand miles and a half apirt. ?Orelia Ken Be'.l, in ihs Century. FROM SUDDEN DEATH. BY LUCY H. ItOOrER. An intensely hot and breathless Summer day brooded over the lields and mountains of >cw >oik rotate. Seated in one of the leading cars of the afternoon express train on the Freightsville and Brightsburg hallway, 1 was speed- ! ing along, half asleep anU extremely warm, s uttering all the discomfort which | dust and heat and die-; combine to bestow upon the Summer traveler. We! were nearing the station where we were j to take supper?a small town known as Claynor. I Bunipity! bump! bump! buinp! The! motion of the cars had changed with a ! horrible suddenue-.s. Startled broad ?Vio fliunito nml ton nld >1 "J o-> railioad traveler not to know what it portended, 1 ga ed out of the window with alarmed intentues The* cars were oil" the track?that I knew too weil. "We were running at full speed, and the road led alongside of a narrow stream down whose precipitous banks we might in another moment be hurled. 1 saw the car in front of the one in which we fat sway and topple as though about to fall over. If it did so, a general wreck and ruin would ensue. J- till bump, , bump, bump, went the car-wheels over; the sleepers. I hen the motion of the train fclackeaed, grew slower still, and i finally it came to a stand-still. "We , Were saved 1 "Goodness gracious! what are you stopping for?'' asked a s'out lady, look- j ing up from her pictorial paper. "Twenty minutes for refreshments, ma'am," answered a youth beside her. He was pale as death, as was natural for one who had just looked death in the % face, for he had fully comprehended our peril, but even in that moment the strange recklessness which is one of our natioual characteristics h^d come upper n a?- ? UAUOb. As soon as the danger we liad escaped became generally know.!, there was a universal chorus of cries and exclamations, some of terror, others of surprise, aud some few of thanksgiving. In the midst of it ali most of the passengers started to got out of the cars to look over the wreck. We found the engine and tender half way down !hu embankment. The foremost car had lodged against a small tree, whose tou^h, te.;acious toots, running down the bank and spreading through the earth, had enabled it to check the outward motion of the train, already slackened by the breaking of the coupling that attached the engine to it. Humanly speaking, that tuugh little tree had saved the livei of possibly one-half of the passengers in the train. As it was, noboby was hurt, save one unfortunate boy who had been stealing ? J" xnno ft f< tft ft f ll\ft / r\ ?/i a nut*, puruucu. ujjuii ui tut ivitmost tars, and he was past either surgery or prayers. As I stood gazing upon the engine, standing on its head in the mud, a wellknown voice sounded in mv ears, a , friendly slap ting ed on my shoulder. i "Well, Urooks, can this be yau? Were we fellow-passengers without knowing it?" I started, turned, and warmly gra=ped the hand that was extended towards me. "How does the learned physician? Well, this is a strange rencontre. And where have you been this hot weather, in the name of wonder ? Rusticating among the mountains, eh?" ".No: I have been to Brightsburg on professional business." 'And what are we to do now, I wonder! It wiil take ten hours at ieast to clear the track, res.lace the rails, and get things in good runiiii.goruer again. This is what the conductor tells me. Ami to morrow is Sundh;. .00?worse lurk, for they run no trains or. this roud on that day, except the early morning o;ie.'" Dr. >ia> Mclfort buried his hands in the pockets of his linen duster, and looked abroad over the land. ' Have we got to stay here till Monday morning*" he queried, at last. 44 V ftf linf af /^larnnr Of nftn ran we shall reach there too late for the solitary Sunday train, which passes there about eight o'clock in the morning." "And how far is it from here?" We called the conductor and held a parley. "We found that Clavnor was forty miles off by rail, but that a road to it lay over the mountains, which was less than half thut lengih. "I tell you what, gentlemen," said the conductor; "if you are very anxious to get ou, why not strike acro.-s the fields to ' that little town over yonder?there ? just where you see the white spire a ove the trees? You can hire a horse and buggy tiiere, I've no doubt, and, if you're not afraid of a night ride across the mountains, you can reach Claynor long before the time that the train is due/' "I must reach i\ew 1 ork before Monday morning, it possible," said Dr. Max, < turning towards me. "What say you, Paul? Are you ready to make the attempt?'' "Of course. Anything is better than to stay stewing here, with a prosj ect of being roasted at Claynor all day tomorrow. Besides, the moon is at its full, so that a night-drive in this weather will be lather pleasant than otherwise." "Come along, then." And with a good-by to our fr.end, the conductor, we turned our backs upon the disorganized Wain and the idle groups that were collected round it, and started olF in search of the little town to which we had been directed. We reached it after about half an hour's walk and found it a very small and sleepy place indeed, though rejoicing in the pompous cognomen of .New Nineveh. The little white-washed hotel afforded us material for copious ablutions and ? good supper, and the bore and buggy were easily found, and were hired by us at a reasonable rate. We were to leave them with the proprietor of the principal hotel at t lay nor, their owner having business tlieie in the course of the next week, and as he very sensibly siiid, * he could go ihe e by rail aiid then drive himself home, jt:bt as well as not." The sun had not long been set when we started on our journey. The heat was still intense, while the atmosphere seemed stagnant with a dull, oppressive closeness that weighed on mind and body alike. "We shall have a storm before long," quoth Dj. >Iax, after we had gone a few mile-: "there is thunder in the air. But it will hardly come up before to-morrow morning. I think." Our way at tir=>t lay among verdant pastures and productive tields, which akirted either side of the road. Gradually ihe road began to ascend, the traces of cultivation became fewer, and ball clearcd patches of laud took the place c we.Milled farms. At last even the* gave way to a dense forest of pine* whic rose on either fcide like walls of glootr looking dark and dreary in the gathei ing snaaows oi tne twingtit. j ue roai too, became rough and stony, and oi progress was necessarily siow and iti peded. Suddenly a heavy roll of tLur der was aud.blc in the distance. The storm soon burst upon us in a its fury. The rain poured down in toi rents, wetting us to the skin. Th blazing streams of the lightning, ai tracicd by the tall pines that studel th wood, ran hither and thither like sci pent* of i ame on either side of u; j Finally our roa.l emerged upon a cleai ing half way up the >ide of the mom I t-iiu. By the quick flicker of the light j uing we discerned a long, low two-stor frame house, standing bacic from th wooJ, and with more thau one liyh visible in i!s windows. "i-iood!" cried Dr. Max, in a tone c relief: "here is a habitation, and pr< sumablv some hitman beings to help u to dry clothes and a shelter for th night." We drove up to the door, and aftc knocking for some little time, an Inne bar was withdrawn, and a woman, wit a lautein in her hand, presented hersell ".No, we could not come in," she said in answer to our queries. "She was i ??hehadjist sustained a terrible be rca ement?she wan tea no strange: peeking about her premises. Is'ot tha iliete was anything to hide?" And sh was going ou, maundering in an itnbeeil sort of way. when she was suddenl thrust asid;; by a short, sharp lookin: young fellow, who took uponhim>elf lb o.iiee of spokesman. "Comeiu? t;f course the gentlema shou d come in. It was not a night t keep a dog out in. The horse could I) put under the shed, and would do ther \ery well till morning. And if the gen tlemea wanted any supper, they couli have eggs and ham, aud some hn wlii^ky-and-water to keep oil the chill J;on't be a fool, mother; sta-id aside, say. a:;d let the folks iu, out of th wet.'" f/Mtn.? trnc nn *?ntprinnr in ' T ^ iVU"U vri. w ? % w " -) 1 spacious, lowceilinged kitchen, wh:c somehow looked desolate, instead c cheery and comfortable. The woman wh had first accosted us reteatcd to a sen beside the blackened hearth, whereon n fire had apparently been lighted io some time, and there seated hersel! swaying herself to and fro, with he hands clasped over her knees and he eyes fixed on vacancy. She was pa? middle age. and was red-haired am fre :kled, but with the remains of con siderable beauty still apparent in he regular i eat are*, white skin and shapel, form. The man who had insisted upo; our entrance, in spite of his hospitabl action, was anything but a genial an prepossessing-looking personage. II was thin and sickly looking, with shift " on/3 o ooliAiv imchflA'P lUJUUdJ U-*, auu (* o<?4ivr?T, MUWMW. V fa.:e. He seemed uneasily and ostenta tiously anxious to welcome us, brough us chairs, and set abortt lighting the tir and getting supper, while the woman sa rocking herself to and fro and noiice' nothing. Her *oa introduced himself a Ludwig Schultz, and also von lisafe the information that h's mother h;v married twice, her second husband bein old Jacob Gruber. *4Hc died of apoplex this morning, gentlemen. ' he continued "that's why she's so upset. And you' not mind things bein-r a bit dull, as th old man died so suddenly only a fei hours ago r" We assured him that we would not the idea of the presence of a corpse be neath the roof that sheltered us bein anything but agreeable or enlivening wh.lst the presence of that s'lent woman see-sawing her.-elf to and fro wit monotonous ac;ion, and her eyes fixe* on vacancy, w:is enough in itself to de press our spirit?. She meal when servei was more appetizing than might hav been expected, and we both did it ful justice. Before we had quite finished, door at the end of the room was pu<hei open, and n half drunken, heavy-lo >k iug young iellow staggered into th room. He glared at us with a sort o stupid ferocity mixed with ainnzement (>V/v?ir ii'Vi.it- il/llOf* ho WJIQ lir ginning, roughly, when his biothe seized his arm. and, saying something t him in Cerman in an undertone, hal dragged, half pushed him;out of th room. There was the noise of a shar alte'cation outside for a few minute^ and then the m in called T.udwig cam hack and offered to show us to our room We accepted his oiler, and be led th way to an upper story, around whic ran a wide porch, supported on rough hewn pillars. On this porch the win dows and door of each room opened There w;is no corridor, and the onl access to this upper floor was by a fligh of stairs, leadiug from the kitchen w had lust left. Our guide unlocked th door of one of the rooms, and set dow: the candle on the little table. 4,I)o either of you gent'.emen spea German?" he asked. "Xoi one word of it," answered Di Mclfort, much to my surprise, for hi V?<wl Ko.-in o Hnrni'in lnrlxr nnrl Vi spoke the language like a native. ' All right!" said Sch iltz, with a pei ceptible air of relief. "Only, you see the old woman speaks German bette than she does English?and I thoughtso, if you want anything . Well, I' say good night and a good sleep t you." He took his departure, and as soon a his lumbering footsteps had died awa in the distance, the doctor unfastene the door and stepped out on the porch "I am going to reconnoitre a little," h said, in a whisper. "Come with me, i you like." I followed at a short distance, andsa\ hm suddenly pause, with a stifled ex clam ition, before a window, the shutte of which had been apparently forcei back by the wind during the storm 'then, without speaking, he beckoned t me to come to him, which 1 did, am pausing before the open casement, looked, as lie hud done, into the roon beyond. Never, to my dying day, shall I forge the horror of what I saw. Upon a low bed, at the further sideo the little chamber, lay the corpse of ai aged man, unwashed, unshorn and un straightened for the grave. His clothe were the rough, soiled garments of hi everyday life and toil, lie lay on hi back, his limbs contorted, as though th 1 arting soul had left its tenement ami* pain and struggling. Hut the most feat fid element of that dead spectacle lay i the la t that above ihc half-open moutl hovered a cloud of pale, luminous vapor that steamed continuously upwards, am broke and quivered and floated awa with the slight disturbance of air causci by our presence at the window. I wa about to utter an exclamation of horru when Dr. Melfort laid his hand upon m lips. "Silence!" he whispe cd in my eai "Our very lives depend upon our makinj no sound, on our giving no warning c the discovery we have made. "VVe are i the house of murder!" "That strange light " "Is a symptom that the dead man hs teen poisoned with phosphorus?a dru V - A u. . ' common in crime, because so easy ob>f tained from ordinary matches. Back to ;e our room! We must get away from here h as quickly as possible." I, We stole back to our allotted chamber. 1 r- The storm was rising again. One of the I, sudden gusts of wind had blown out our ir candle, end we looked in each other's i- foAfia Ktr fV*n rtnlo rrlooma af th<-? liorVlh 4 A?v w .?v ?1 ning. # t After a brief pause, to make certain g 11 that all wis quiet ia the house, we - clambered down one of the rough hewn { ie pillars of the porch, and, making our s t- way to the shed, we unfa^ti-ned the j, e horse and waited till a long roll of j r- thunder came to cover the noi-.e of the [ , wheels. 'Ihen we started, turniug our * r- horse's head, not towards Claynor, but | J; i- in the direction of .New Nineveh, trust- J * t- ing to the animal's instinct to find his j t y i way home througli the woods. As we e i plunged into the forest, a shout in the c it | distance, followed by a rifle-shot, were f ' audible. t if i "They have found out that we are v 3-' gone," muttered the doctor between his Q is I teeth. "Now, Paul, for a drive for life." t e | He whipped up the horse as he spoke, f i and we dashed, along at breakneck E :r j speed. The road lay down hill, and il :r j we were pursued, we were soon out of h ! rfianh of the nursuers. U e saw and f. | heard nothing firther of the brothers. I, I In fact, the tempest, which had broken 11 j forth again in redoubled fury, -was j ! enough to check the progress of any one ^ s | who had striven to follow us. Amid the . .t | continuous bla/e of the lightning, the e violent gusts of wind, and the blinding j e I rain, we made our way, thankful when, y j at last, we emerged from the forest, as g | we did so, a red light 6hone on out 1 e | path, reflected from the lurid clouds y overhead?the light of a distant con- g n flugration. t 0 | it was not till we were comfortablv e established in the best room of the hotel j e! at .New Nineveh, our wet clothes exi? j changed for dry garments, and wino j 1 j and cigars on the table before us, that . t Dr. iMelfort told me one of the causes of I. his sudden t.ight. In the brief alterca- ? I tion between the brothers, held outside e the kitchen while we we e finishing our J supper, he had heard Ludwig essaying a to picify the other by a promise that wo h should never <;u.t the premises alive. , ,f When we were uearing New York, on o the early express train the following day, tt my friend, without a word, passed to o | me the paper he had just purchased, ,r j pointing as he did so to a particular D f I paragraph whifh ran as follows: "Ter- 9 r j rible Catastrophe.?A. House Struck by ir Lightning and Consumed?A Whole f. it I Fa inly Perish in the Flames.?During ^ d j th'j great thuuderstorm of Thursday v i. I night, the house of .Mr. .lacoi) Gruber, on F r j the road betweeu New Nineveh and y y I Claynor, was struck by lightning and a n I entirely consumed. Four persons, F e j namely, Mr. Cruber, his wife, and c -1 t T nrJnnor Srhnlf.z (thfi two C a | ? UUUUU Uiivt JiUV* M K/VMV. v e j sogl of Airs. Gruber by a former mar- ? > ! riage), inhabited the house at the time, ' a and all lost their lives in the flumes. ? The building was constructed of wood, ^ X aud must have burned with great r e rapidity, thus entirely cutting o.'f the es- T ,t tape of the inmates. It is probable that : d | the brothers Schultz, who were well 1 ,s 1 kuown in the neighborhood as hard ; ? rl j drinkers, were intoxicated when the lire j 13 d I broke out, and so were unaoie euner to i rr j take measures to extinguish it or to make Jy j their escape. Be this a3 it may, the re- {' ; mains of four human bodies were found 1 II j amongst the ruins, thus pioving -con- * e' clusively that the whole family had P x shared the iate of their home." Thrice, therefore, in the space of a *1 . j siDgle day had sudden death?by rail- ? J road disaster, by lightning, and by mid- l! ' ' night assassination?come close to our n ? J p ith, and had passed us by. And on J' j Sunday morning, when, with bowed ^ j head, 1 listened to the petitions of the j | Litany, my heart responded with an ' unwonted thrill to those well-known but n ^ newly impressive words, "/rom sudden f deatb, good Lord, deliver us!"?Frank a ii Leslie's. 11 11 i J Praying on Brooklyn Bridge. s "Do you see that old woman there?' n ~ said a bridge policeman who is stationed ^ at the New York end of the big aeiia F thmnu'rhfare to Brooklyn (o a -Su/i man. '' | "Just.watch her and see what she does.'* 11 ' j She was a tidily-dressed old woman, J ^ j with a pale, sad face, and she was mak, ing her way slowly through the tangle t i of trucks, carriages and pedestrians in i' e ! Park row, opposite the bridge entrance. n P j bhe rea hed the curb at last and 'slowly t ' mounted the steps to the bridge en- s ' | trance. Instead of following the crowd a ' | to the cars or footway, bhe went over to ^ ^ i the north wall of the entrauce, where s she stood a moment as though mcditat- to l* j ing. Then she suddenly knelt down, n ;* and, with h r eyes closed and her head 0 ' bowed, began moving her lips as if in d ? prayer. She was on her knees but a a 1 moment, when she got nimbly to her a I feet aud moved toward the promenade f entrance, where she pa'd her cent and c : started on foot toward Brooklyn. . ! "Every day at about this hour that P j same woman comes here and goes t ! through precisely that same programme. 0 'II asked her one day when she started e 8 away what was the matter, and she said, ^ ? i 4T was nnlv nravinc.' and that is all I t | ? ?/ ? .? ? O* 1 ever got out of her. Whether she is * ': afraid the bridge will fall when she 11 ; gets on it. and so prays before setting: d out on the dangerous journey, or whether * ,, she is in the habit of praying at about 8 that time of day and finds the bridge r j entrance a nice retired spot for religious ) exercise, I never could find out. All I i' lS ; know is that she comes every day and (| y I prays every day. and see.ns a perfectly 1 ^ , rational, respectable old body. The fact & u is that we here on the bridge do see n ? some queer specimens of humanity r< lf among the tens of thousands who go by i us every day." Scotch Proverbs. "i ^ j A gude word is as soon said as an ill. j? ! A dog winna growl if ye fell him wi' n a bone. v j ! Far sought and dear bought is good w j for ladies. * a Birth's good; but breeding's better. j, Better keep well than make well. s t He is worth no weal that can bide no P woe. h f ! lie that winna when he may, shanna y a when lie wad. >' Take a pint and 'gree; the law's costly. ? a He the same thing that ye would be ? a' called. 3 e Fiddlers'dogs and fleas come to a feast a I uncalled. ? Fair words break never a bone; foul ? tl words many a oue.? Wise Sayings of the t Common I'ulk. a j One aernion n Week a Hani Task. Jj y The Knalish Bishop of Kly has forbid- 8; i deu the deacons in his diocese preaching u more than oue sermon of "their own j; ir composition" each Sunday. If they re- a y quire to preach twice they are directed h j to "write out some sermon by a standard f( \ ! divine" and read it to the people. One a ir good sermon a week 13 as much as many h [f a veteran in the pulpit can well supply, a a and the young min sterial recruits may h well be permitted to concentrate all the t ! opportunities for study a week will give s is them on one discourse.?New York Lb- <j g' >trcsr. a ifejw 1 | v '"t v.: WOMAFS WORLR ~ ?LEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. Double Girdles for Slender Gfrls. A new devif e suitable for the cosumes of slender women is the double rirdle. The waist of the dress for this mrpose is made unusually long and oo.se, and then a metallic belt of some ort is worn just above the hips, while nother encircles the body three or four nehes higher up. The effect is to im>art an appearance of suppleness and jrace. 'i he suggestion for tlie duplicate ;irdle was probabiy found iu the bullets if the liastern nautch gil ls. It is cerainly novel. I saw at l.enox several legant morning dresses made for these louble belts in India cashr.crc and aille, in contrasting colors. Some of he tea gowns similarly encircled were ponders in richness. The picturesque iid fanciful costumes of Oriental counries had ail been laid under tribute to urn'sh ideas for these luxurious garaents. ?Pimeer-1're.g. Square Shoulders. Fashionable girls in New York are ppareutly gone daft on the question of quare shoulders. Anything to equal I he pose young women now affect, is liilic ilt to imagine. While they are oa heir feet they are beautiful to look j ipon, and beyond criticism or cavil. It j s when they are seated that the great I ind glaring tiaw of the present artificial j tna iasnionauie consirucuuu oi mc , American young girl becomes evident. | iVhile they succeed in holding their houiders back, it is impossible to keep he neck at the same angle, when seated, inless their faces are held at the same evel as the J oor. Hence, their heads j lecessarily droop forward, leaving a ong and noticeable distance between he neck and the back of the high :oll&rs. It gives the effect of cut-throat uffering. But it is remedied when the firl leans forward again, or rises to her , eet. Then everything fits in with the ; orrect and shapely beautv that is the I econd natnre of America's most beauti- i ul and famous product.?Argonaut. Lonir Lost Tapestry. "When Marguerite of France was narried to Victor Amadeus of Savoy, he took with her to Ita y twenty pieces I f the very finest Gobelin tapestry, il- ] ustrating classical legends," says Lonbn Truth, '-This unique tapestry, j /hich was of immense value, disap-; teaied mysteriously when Napoleon in- i aded iltaly, for it had been hidden j way in case the Frcnch might think iroper to carry it o!f, which thev would ertainly have done. It had been so arel'ullv concealed that, after some ears, when calm was restored, it was ound impossible to disco.er it. and the wo officials who had put it away were ?oth dead. The tapestry had been alnost forgetten till -vbout a month ago, ' rhen the Marquis Villamariua, the Maser of the lioyal Household, was mak ng a thorough investigation of the pal- J ce at Turin from roof to cellar, and belind some huge chests in a storeroom in kiryUoof ofAvtr l-?n f/utnfl a corTof ohnm a I- Ul^UCOl/ OlUi J aw ivuuvk u MVV.AWWUW..*. ier, in which was concealed the longDst tapestry, and it has been very little njured by its hundred years of hiding. Cing Humbert has ordered that the talestry is to be carefully repaired and leaned, after which it is to be sent to tome and hung in the Quirinal, in the partments which the Emperor William i to occupy during his visit next lonth." Are "Women Fitted to Govern? Most men who have associated much rith girls and women remember how iany needed lessons they have learned rom them in retinemeut and benevolence; nd how they have had, on the other land, writes Professor E. S. Cope n the P pttlnr Science Monthly, to teel their minds against their aimless-< ies<? and pettiness. And from youth to iter years they have observed one icculiarity for which no remedy has ieen yet found, and that is, a pro a r? !*_ ..e .1 1 ? I IOU1JCCU iramy ui LUC innuiiiu javuikjr iu bought or fiction. This characteristic 3 offset by a strength and elevation of he emotional nature, which shines with aexhuustible lustre in the wife and lother. It is to this that man renders he homage of respect, admiration and uch devotion as he is capable of. But re these the qualities for our Governors? j len who display personal bias in ever! o small a degree, unless accompanied >y unusual merits of another kind, are ! ot selected by their fellows for posit'ons f responsibility and tru't. Strong unierstanding, vigorous judgment and the bsence of "i'cur, favor and affection," re what men desire in their Governors, or only through minds of that character an justice be obtained. On account of their stronger sympathies girls always think themselves he moral superiors of boys, who are ften singularly devoid of benevolence, ?- 4 ?? <?/3 iu a 1 a ?->t n h nnimit )o ! SJJUL'lBl Jjr IUWOIU CI ig ivnui i umi.% iome women imagine, for this reason, hat their entire sex is morally the supeior of the male. But a gocd.many wolen learn to correct this opinion. In epartuients of morals which depend on ! he emotional nature, wo.nen are the uperior; for those which depend on thfi ational nature, man is the superic4T Vhen the balance is struck 1 can sec no 1 nferiority on either side. But the unlity of justice remains with the male. ' t is on this that men and women must like depend, and hence it is that wo* len so often prefer to be judged by men ather than by their own sex. The Corsetiere or Got ham. There is a dressmaker here in New "ork, says a correspondent of the Chi*, ngo Nr<rti, who has borrowed an idea rom the famous Parisian corsetiere. upon rh'th Worth tits his dresses, for he ron't touch you until you have gone ud provided yourself with one of Mine, juelquechose's corset*, which cost like un and tit like gloves. Now this cor- ! etiere was a very splendid and elegant i ersonuge indeed. Worth always made er gowns, too, and took especial pains ! ,-ith them. Her house was on a fashsuable avenue, and was luxuriously furished. It had the air of a private welling. Everv afternoon she hud tea nd chocolate set out on tables with the aintiest of silver, napery and china, nd she received her customers like uests. They dropped in for a cup of tea fter their drive, they met every one hey knew, and rnndame, in the most dorabie tea gowns, llitted about circuiting the very latest and most piquant it of ews. Her parlors were always full, lie always had something fresh and musing to tell, and she preserved with alinite tact an attitude that, while easy ud not subservient, never offended the ' aughtiest Duche?s. She made a great ortune and owns the ancestral chateau of ruined marquis, but her daughter-iniw still carries on the business. Now, certain clever costunier of this city card of this, and has to a certain ex-' ent imitated the Parisian example. Last priug she began to tit up her front j [rawing room with artistic upholstery j nd hired a pretty, graceful girl to look , ........ after a little tea table and serve her customes with a steaming cup -when they came in out of the cold air. This girl was also learned in alljthe latest freaks of fashion and stood ready to give informaf i/Mi tif V>n nn all t > t tl^Snrta iraha f n Vta liUU wucio ait luito ui buiu^o ww uw | found, the shops that were likely to have goods like samples hard to match, where the prettiest and cheapest bargains in town were to be had, and could give excellent suggestions as to a vexed question of becoming colors and styles. Out of this drawing room opened two other apartments where gorgeously arrayed dummies posed in attitudes to best display the imported gowns they wore. She found tbc grtatest increase in her custom | as a result of this innovation, and it is to be continued. Queen Kmma of Holland. Quite a singular style ot woman is j Queen Emma, tays a Hague letter to the Philadelphia bulletin, to whom tho Dutch are reconciled only because she is a gcod nurse for their King; popular she could never be, b-cause the Dutch detest even the most talented Germans, and Emma is a princess of Waldeck-Pyrmont. However, the King adores her and is only contented in her society and she seems to thiDk there is no difference between thirty years and three-score and ten. "When William went to Potsdam to attend the marriage of his brother he little dreamed of marrying, but he met T-fplsn nf Waldeck-Pvrmont. now Jjuche39 of Albany, and felt that at sixtyone life might recommence were she to become the Queen of Holland Helen looked upon her aged admirer with scorn and refused his flowers and jewels. One day William overheard Emma say to her sister: "I should never refuse to become a Queen." "Ah." he exclaimed, "as you find your sister is wrong will you marry me?" Immediately she accepted, and in 1870 became Queen of Holland. Those who were at the Dutch court when Emma made her entree say she wa9 simple as a child; that she looked upon her palnce as a marvel, danced and laughed as though she were not conscious that the courtiers were criticising her every gesture. The aged husband was shocked, but very kindly led her to the portrait of his mother, the proud Marie Paurowna, and said: "She never da.iced; a Queen should never laugh in public." Emma, like a ' country gretchen," accepted the rebuke with good grace, and "since then," say the l)utch, "we have nothing serious to criticise id her deportment, but the _ U.'.L -I, ~ manner in wmcu sue uiuiuao vui language we can hardly forgiye.'' Already has Emma begun to teach the i-rini ess Wilheimina the duties of a i sovereign. When, in 1886, the king was ill and the socialists very daring, (Jueen Emma, without a word to her husband, calmed the disturbance in three days. Of her daughter she wishes to made a king, not a queen. Not long ago her horses ran away. The coaciiman was j thrown out, and she, with Wilhemina, just escaped. Orders were given to bring out fresh horses, for 4*if we do not start again my daughter will learn the meaning of the word fear." i^ueen Emma is a brunette rather pretty, according to the Germans beautiful, but a peculiar habit of winking detracts much from her appearance Over the kiDg she has control, and if he objects to any decision made by her she threatens to leave the palace to him?a dream of unhappiness. Every day the royal family dines at 7 o'clock: afterward there is music and reading by the queen, whose audience consists usually of her husband, daughter, und the .ionkheer Alewyn, the only person whom j William cares to see. Fashion Notes. Cloth jackets are as popular as ever. Oriental combination of color are in vogue. 1 Russia leather in all colors is worn for house shoes. The favorite tint in hair is one shade I lighter than bronze. Lace skirts are generally accompanied by silk blouse waists. Ostrich tips and plumes are extensively used on fashionable hats. Braiding is without question the ; favorite trimming of the season. Ribbons for hat trimmings vary from i two inches to a quarter of a yard in i width. Some of the elegant winter wraps just imported are long cloaks in cloth, plush or velvet. The most elegant winter wraps are cloaks of the new cloths, matelasse, plush, or velvet. Itonnet strings of velvet ribbon are much worn, ' but the trimmings are of bias piece velvet. Some of the latest dress goods shown j are damaaKs.mateiasses, nneiy powaerea royale, and brocades in great variety. Flat fronts in phits from belt to foot, or long draperies nearly covering the lower skirt, are seen on the new dre-ses. On Dircctoire costumes very large buttons are used. It is not deemed ex- j travagant to pay $10 a dozen for them, i There is no fullness in the front of the 1 fashionable skirt. A good effect is produced by the use of Hat plaita from waist to hem. Cord passementeries are the fashionable trimmings. They h:ive knotted cords in loops for epaulets and for dauglint? fringes. Heavy lines of broad stitching on the backs of gloves will not be worn this seas.in, the narrow lines of former seasons superseding them in podular favor. For evening dresses and mantles thcro are tiny dotted royule grounds with stripes like soutache work on re-eda, pomme. tilleni, rouge, and light brown grounds. Dresses made in strictly Empire style have the skirts becomingly draped by catching up the front breadths slightly on each side just below the waist and gathering them to the belt. Egyptian Temples. Neither the boldest imagination nor the most exact study can enable us to learn an adequate conception of the splendor of an Egyptian temple in its perfect state. The vast space is oc- j copied; its lofty gateways; the long j avenues of sphinxes: the glittering j obelisks and the lifelike expression of I the monstrouH statues, form a combination of most imposing architectural grandeur. The iisthetic qualities of these structures cannot be brie y summed :ip. As we ponder them we shall be willing to acknowledge, for we shall I discover, the exceptional constructive power of the ancient architects; we shall see how closely they followed Nature, and ut times drew as well upon foreign art, though always preserving their own principles of form. We shall also observe how fanr-y and "feeling" are displayed in their temple-decorations, besides, there is always one grand imaginative vein running through all their work?which expresses the principal idea of their faith ? imperishability. ?ScrHmcr'* Mat/mine. The Bohemian element is rapidly multiplying in New York city. . .. ***.? f TiyrIadsofIbirdT" A HUGE IilVING CLOUD SWEEPS OVER THE SEA. Pursning Their Helpless Prey?The Sea Pigs Helping to Feed Their Winged Companions?A Wonderful Sight. "Talking about birds," said a veteran sea captain to a Sau Francisco A It a reporter, "when I was a youDgster aboard & 13oston clipper in the China trade I saw about the biggest and most variegated collection of bird3 that ever met a sailor's eye, aad old shellbacks see some queer things in their cruises. We were oil the Jiio de la Plata, that huge river whose mighty waters disembogue into the South Atlantic. Not a breath of wind. The intense heat of the sun caused a perceptible, transparent smoke to rise from the decks, and rendered the tarred shrouds and rigging soft and sticky. Eight bells had just struck and the watches changed, when suddenly away tc the southwest an infinitesimal black speck showed itself on the horizon. Larger and larger it grew. The mate, an ancient mariner, looked at it intently for a few moments, then went below and examined the barometer. There was no change there. "What could be the mat-, ter? He called the captain and pointed out to him the cause of his anxiety. It had now attained the proportions of a topsail. Its lower edge was lined with a bright silver streak. That streak was foaui, the water churned into milk. A IaaIt of tVia crlaca Qtil 1 nO XXUU luV/l iVVIV UK WVii* ?? chance there. The captain's furrowed visnge assumed a peculiar, puzzled expression. Surely that was a black cloud stealing up, full of wind, and the squall would soon be upon us. But why was the barometer silent? The old man looked up uneasily on the light sails. Blacker and bigger grew the cloud, and longer and whiter grew the silver edge beneath. 'Lower away the roy ' He was just about to finish the.order, the glasses glued to his eyes, when 'Never mind!'?he had changed his mind. .bang! wertt the glasses, a3 the old man closed them sharply, and turning round, glanced quizzically at the mate, who responded with a look of inquiry; 'What do you think ?' asked the Captain. 'Don't know,' answered the mate shortly. 'Well, they're bird*,' was the answer. "Ves, that black cloud was b:rds. It nvfAnrla^ avap fn/n nninfc nf tVic. /torn. pass now, and still increasing. In another second the naked eje co.ild distinguish their individual forms. They were birds indeed. Myriads of them. Every species of sea bird was represented in that vast army. There was the albatross, sailing majestically along, its huge wings outspread: the curlew, with its long, spearlike bill and taper leg*; the black diver ard its red throated cousin, the beautiful frigate bird, <;r bo'sun, as sailors call it. Ice-birds flew neclc-and-neck with the guillemots. Boobie3 and noddies jostled seagulls and snow birds. Here the stormy petrel uttered its pecu liar cry, and there the cape pigeon showed its mottled breast. Besides all these, hundreds of specimens unknown to the ordinary sailor, aad perhaps to the ornithologist. "In another ten minutes they covered half the sky, a solid black mass casting an ever-increasing shadow over the reflective deep. And that silver line of foam; what was that? A great army of porpoises. The secret was out. These seapigs, in an immense fi'?ltfi miles long, were pursuing the smaller fish upon which they prey. They were driving vast shoals of bonita, 41 ying fish and others before them. The fish, terrified, hopeless. sprang from the water in their agony and were caught. For the birds above swooped upon what the porpoise j below failed to catch. "it was a wonderful sight. Hanging beneath the blue vault a huge dark veil of birds. Birds everywhere as far as the eye could reach, north, south, east and west?all birds. The noise of those myriad wings sounded like the noise of a rushing, mighty wind. The sun was obscured, and thus to add to the solemnity of the scene a dusk settled on the waters. Then a deep awe fell upon the little knot of hihnan witnesses of the divine power. Never before hed auy one of those grizzled seamen beheld such a sight. All work was forgotten in the contemplation of that wondrous scene. And still tho mighty aerigl procession went on, and still the great host of fish hurried on their wav. pursuing and oursued; and still the vessel rolled heavily. But the fiap of the sails was no longer heard. The noise of myriad wings, loud a3 the huricane's roar, drowned all else. "In another, minute that line of rolling bodies was within a biscuit throw of the ship's side. Then a curious thing occurred. That long line wheeled correctly as a regiment of grenadiers to the eastward. Our ship as it lay there divided the line a it swept round, but did not break its symmetry, and the sea pigs, driving their shoals of victims before them, were soon away under our stem, still wheeling until they disappeared to the southward. But the vast cloud of birds still darkened the sky. Thousands settled down on the spirs and rigging and on the sea also, until to tire a musket among those floating bodies meant death to a score. "For halfjan hour the sun was hidden and we were bathed in serai-darkness. Then a break occurred in the procession, and soon a little black speck was seen to the southward. It was the birds disappearing. But not all went. Millions had settled down on the sea, until so tar as the eye could reach the water was covered with them. They remained there all night, and so great was the noise of their croaking and shrieking that no sleep visited the sailors in their watch below. "For two days we lay thus becalmed, the birds drifting lazily about with us on the waters, gorged with fish, quantities of which I'oated around dead. On the third evening a flash of lightning from the southwest caused the old m;in to shorten sail, and before night we were lying to in a racing pampero. When next morning broke we were the centrc of a vast circle of broken water. The birds had vanished." Climbing Mount St. El ins. Mount St. Elias promises to be the future mountain climbing center of this country. A traveler who h:is returned from there, after failing to ascend to the summit, reports that his party, al ter surmounting great di.licultics, reached a lieight of 11, *();) feet, and were then compelled to abandon the enterprise. The a-cent was covered with ice mounds, strewn with boulders. The party were at one time knee deep in snow, and at another were wading through icy waters fed by glaciers. He believes the mountain cannot be ascended without the assistance of trained Swiss mountaineers. The packers with the party could not climb.?Chicago Ihrald. , There arc twenty-five miles of shelves 1 in the British Mvseum reading room. i -* *._ riV ..... -mr ' =?.\ fopi'lab science.. . Vegetarianism does sot protect from cancer. A ray of light travels 11,600,000 miles in a minute. It has been estimated that an average of five feet of water falls annnally over ; the whole earth. Professor Emmerig, of Germany, finds bees the most reliable of all weather prognostications. t Aluminium resembles silver in appear- ( ance, is stronger than steel, will not tarnish and is superior to silver for all purposes for which that metal is used. ) Iceoergs have been seen in North \ Atlantic laden with lumps of rock, sand and soil. The banks of Newfoundland i would appear to have been formed in A this way. j The light emitted by the corona daring i the solar eclipse of was less than half as great as in that of 1878, according to Captain W. de W. Abney and Mr. T. F. Thorpe. As is now well known, the Great Salt Lake of Utah is an immense, limitless magazine of salt, that can be readily obtained in any desired quantity by the simple process of evaporation. A cubic foot of ice weighs about 930 ounces, Sut the same volume of sea water weighs 1280 ounces. Hence ice floats on -water, and but one-ninth of the volume of an iceberg is exposed to view. Dr. .Tastrow, of the University of Wis- J conain, proves that the ear is the dominant organ of the mind in some persons, and the eye in others. People ( are therefore ear-minded or eye-minded. According to a Chicago wagon-maker, white oak requires eighty years to mature; sheli-bark hickory, fro a thirty to fifty years; white ash, thirty years; tulip- ' tree, sixty or more years; and red or Norway .pine, at least sixty years. Long ago wise men learned to weigh their words, but an Italian scientist am invented a machine for weighing one'f thoughts. He can tell whether a friend is reading Italian or <^reek. the greater effo4 of the latter affecting the tfow of f blood to the brain. -.3 The fact that the satellites of Mars were not discovered until 1877 is considered very remarkable by Mons. E. Tlnlmia T7/> thnt fhflr hftVA i ^uwv?w* k"*obvw? "'"J ^ .r- ? not long held their present places, bat 1 that they may be bodies drawn?only >] recently?from the zone of little planets lying between Mara and Jupiter. Observations at sixty-scven stations in 1 Spain show enormous differences in the annual rainfall, wliirh is no less than 138inches on the Sierra da Katrelis, and' only eleven inches at Lerida, in Cata-. Ionia. The minimum rainfall at all stations occurs in July and August, and the max mum fall at some stations in 3Iay and at others in October. An instrument, callcd the autographometer, which records automatically the ; topography and differences of level of ' all places over which it passes is a new. : French invention, the utility of which cannot certainly be questioned if it reaii/.es the results cla med for it. It is : carried about on a light vehicle, and . those who wish to use it have nothing to do but to drag it, or have it dragged, over the ground of which they desire to obtaiu a plan. A Stopper of Runaway Horses. A Boston correspondent of the Woon- *i socket (R. I.) Patriot, tells how a young, policeman, Charles Maynes, stops a run* away horse: "When you see a runaway coming, do not try to check him by a rtish from the opposite direction or the side, for you will be immediately knocked Uat by the collision, but" in stead prepare yourself for a short run with the horse. Measure with your eye the distance, and start for the run while he is yet some way olf, perhaps ten feet in the case of fair to medium runaways. You may depend upon his keeping a straight line, for a really frightened horse is half blind and would not veers for a steam engine. He will go straight ahead until he smashes into something. So do you get close to the line on whioi he is rushing, and as he pusses you, grab the reins near the saddle. Gather the reins firmly, and theu, leaning backward as you run, give them a powerfuj yank. You may be able to brace your ? 1- v_ic self as you give mis yau&, mm ouuiuK _ on your feet. The strong jerk on the H bit tells the hor.-e that he again has a H master and prepares him for the final H struggle. A step or two forward after H the first yank, do it again. This is the H finishing stroke. It never fails when H given by a determined man. The horse H is on its haunches. Keep a firm poll H on the reins till you grasp the horse by H the nostrils, and hold him so till he it H pacified." In stopping a span of horses, Maynes H trios to get on the side of the wilder H one, as, if pulled to its senses, the other H one can be managed. The task is easier if the horse has a curb bit. A runaway H may also be -topped by the driver in H the same manner: "If you pull stead- H ilv with all your strength on a curb bit," Hj says Maynes, "the ellect on the horse's H jaw is just what it is if you lie a cord H tightly about your finger. The blood doesn't fiow and the finger becomes numb. After a nrm pun nas ueeu mamtained on the horse's mouth for awhile it ceases to have any effect. You can*1 not then force him out of a run if he is^H frightened. But give him his head a^H little till the mouth recovers from its^H numbness, lash him with the whip if you have a free road, and then give A sudden yank. He will come down. If the lir^t yank isn't enough give him one more. There isn't a horse on earth which can run away with a competent driver if the harness holds." Wayne# has risked his life a number of times, and has had some perilous encounters before subduing frightened animals. He has received a medal from the Huma dc Society and $50 from the cab company. BH The Carious Manistee FIsb. |B One of the leading restaurants had a novelty on its bill of fare last week, it being the first time that Manistee beef was ever placed before the Chicago public. Though called beef, it is in fact the tlesh of a tish extremely rare in these parts. The Mnnistee is a fish of the size of the sturgeon, found only in the Manistee IJiver, in Florida. It is sightless, but acute o; hearing, so that it can H| discern the appioucli of an enemy at a distance of a mile or more and seek safety in the reeds or s-hoa!s along the banks. It is speared by the negroes, by whom it is highly prized as fuod, ancf^H occasionally is to he found in the markets of Xew Orleans and Mobile, hut is seldom found in this locality. The fc*h is coarse aud much resemble3 beef, though^H retaining the lisby ilavor. Scientist^^H have never been able to discoveM^i^^H origin of the fish, but incli^^^^t j^H belief that it rises from soni?. stream or lake and has^M^^ and multiplied 111 the Ministe^^r, but, owing to its lack $f sigr.^ft has nof^H been able to mal-;-# its way into ?ther bodies of w-uter,/where it might be propabated. ? Chiap0 Journal. B / .