w" DOMINION. 8pirit and clay? Strange yoke-fellows theyl Spirit and clay, Linked for a day, Then away, away? Tarrying not for yea or nayOne comrade goes; Daisies bloom over one's repose. What did it mean, this union brief? Strange! Could tho sky ling by no othor birth j Have come to earth ? For the twain were at war. till for base relief, The nobler cringed?ay, shamo to te I! Cringed to the clay, and its sceptre fell, And all tho world did see 1UO UMil UC'i ? \UJWiy* Sweet is the rest In earth's mother breast; Sweeter the rest Up with the blest. When earth's transient priest Flies through the vast like a bird to its nest. When time is done. Quenched all the fires of star and sun, Calm o'er the wreck shall tin spirit soar. Yet (shuddering heavens, breathe not the tale. Lest angels wail,) Wrecks more than matter are strewn on life's shore When spir t with clay is too weak to cope. Child of such destiny!?horn to such hopol Behold that fair hope lost, And weep for a battle's cost. Spirit or clay Shall the scepter sway? 8pirit or clay. Which shall obey, Since either may? (Trembles the balance such issues to weigh.) I Dissolve we must? The dust return to its kindred dust; And shall it not bow to the lordlier mate And willing: wait on its proud behest, Till God see best That itself be lifted from mean estate? For He who created dishonoreth not, And even the dust shall be unforgot, And spirit to glorified clay Be linked for an endless day! ?Rosalie M. Broadus, in Independent. ; KINGS OF TEE JUNGLE. The idea with almost every person is that a lion or tiger is always beui on at- j tack, and that to meet one is to bring on \ an encounter. This is far from beicg true. When infuriated by a wound or ! pressed by hunger almost any wild beast j is dangerous to man, but there are occa- j sions when the most ferocious of them i deiire peace at any price. At Neliur, on the wc3t shore of the ! Gulf of Bengal, I went out with a party j of British ollicers to search for a man- j eater who had created great devastation : to the west. He had, indeed, driven i most of the natives out of a section five ! miles square, and the number of people j it was said he had eaten was above twenty. The tiger's lair was in a large thicket j which backed against the coa>t range of mountains. In the midst of this thicket! was an old ruin, and the beast probably had his bed there. There were ten of us in the party, including natives, and we had begun to beat up the thicket when I i tepped into a hole and wrenched my \ ankle. That settled me, for the day at least, and I was assisted back to camp, j which was about half a mile from the j thicket. A sort of easy chair was made for me at the foot of a tree, and one of , the natives was left to attend to my i wants. I heard the hunters beating up the game, but the pain took away my in lerest in me nunr. x naa my Doot on, and the man was softly rubbing my ankle with brandy, when all of a sudden he fastened his eyes on something behind me, and his face became terror-stricken. ; "What is it?a snake?'' I whispered. "No?the tiger!" he gasped in reply, j "Is he close at hand?" "Not fifty feet away, sahib, and look-1 ing right at us!" My gun was ten feet away, and we were pcrf?ct!y helpless. Overhead was afety, oat before I could reach my feet and pull myself up by a branch the tiger i would have me. "CaD you catch the branch over your , head?" I asked of the native. "Yes, sahib, but I cannot leave you." j "Save yourself if you can, or we shall j both be knocked over. If you spring j into the tree the tiger may be frighteued j off by your action." The man straightened up and made a , spring, and the next iustant was safe in the branches. He was hurdly quiet be- [ fore I heard the tread of the t ger in the dry giass a few yards away, and the na-' tive whi pered: "Say your prayers, sahib; he is here!" , In a few seconds the tiger came up. I was lving at full length, my head con Ll_ t_!_l .1 . 1 T i laeraoiy mgner man my ieer, ana so 1 law his every more. lie looked me full In the face and uttered a low growl, but j it was not one of anger. I sow that the J beast was full of curiosity and wonder, and hope sprung up in my heart. He unified ai my right hand, which lay beiide me, passed his nose down my injured foot, and the fumes of the brandy J seemed io delight him. He lay flat j down and began to lick my foot aud i ankle. His tongue wa3 hot as fire and as rough as a cow's, and I winced now j ?. end then in spite of my effoits not to. I It was something new for the man eater, ) and he was delighted. He licked away : until I thought he had taken all the skin off, and then he rolled over and over on ; the blanket, as you have seen a cat do \ after feeding. The hunters and beaters had beenj ^juict all this time, having come together i for counsel, but now they be?an to shout and tom-tom, and the noise came dowu j to us very distinctly. The tiger sat up ; and snuffed the air and growled. A gun was fired and he growled again, looked j up at the native in the tree, around the | camp, and down at me, and then delib-} erately walked off into the woods. Next day he was routed out of his lair by the beaters, and, without being wounded or unduly angered, he charged among them j with great ferocity and killed two and wounded a thrd. Eighteen months later, in the Bengalese district, I went out to a village called Manday with two officer.*, to see if we could not rid the ne'ghborhood of a man-eater who had as bad a reputation as the other. The beast was so bold that he entered the village almost nightly, invariably coming and goin^r by a certain route. The nights were bright moonlight, and when the sun went down we commanded the people to keep quiet and took up the stations selected to cover the approach. I was the nearest to the huts?indeed, I was seated belide one of the huts which had been vacated by its terror-stricken owner. The next man was 1.10 feet away, and the next 200. We had planned for a converging fire on one pa-ticular spot. The tiger had always appeared between !i and 10 o'clock. Ten o'clock came and we had seen nothing of him. I pulled out my watch again, and had just noted that it wa9 twenty minutes after 10 when I heard a loud purring close to my car, and next instant the man eater was beside me. The shock was so sudden that I almost fainted, and there must have been a full minute when I was unconscious of what wa9 going on. On the ground beside me was a large red silk handkerchief. When I could realize what was passing the tiger was playing with that, exactly as a cat would. He tossed it up, caught it, pulled it along the ground, and for three or four minutes he had great fun. When he was through he rubbed against me and purred, and with my left hand I smoothed his back. The old fellow purred louder and louder, but after a moment some noise in the village disturbed him, and ho uttered a low growl and i walked oil without even turning his head. Five minutes later ne auempieu | to leap into the window of a hut. got caught in the srr.ill opening, and we killed him while he was thus held a prisoner. There was a witness as to what happened between the tiger and ! I myself. Unknown to me, oue of the I hunters h id slipped back to one of the I huts for a drink of water, aud he saw | the tiger skulking along between the | huts, having entered the village by a new route. He was not over forty feet from | u?, as the beast made himself so agreea- j b!e. Captain Stevens of the Bengal Infantry was on one occasion waiting in a ravine for a shot at a tiger which the beaters were trying to drive out of a thicket, when the beast approached him from behind. Its presence was not known until it uttered an uneasy whine. When the Captain whirled around he could put his hand on the beast. He was greatly upset for the moment, during which the j tiger smelted of his legs several times j and licked his long boot legs, which had ! been freshly oiled that morning. After i three or four minuter, the beaters coming nearer with their confusion, the tiger uttered a low growl and trotted off, and Into* tnro o native nil tO llllUCU XUlUUtW.1 4HVU. Wtv ? pieces. While in the lion country on the Cape , of Good Hope a party of thirty of us ! were one day crossing a sandy plain. We j were not within a 'mile of the woods, | and it was the hottest hour of the day. A : sudden cry was raised, and a big lion came charging us across the hot sands. He came from the woods, and that without the slightest provocation on our part, and he came for blood. A dozen of us i fired at him, and he was hit twice before j lie reached us, but he came right ahead, i and had knocked a native down and was j standing over him when he got his quiet- j us. He was an immense fellow aud i well along in years. We tried to tind i some explanation of his conduct, aud j finally concluded that he had been hunted and perhaps wounded and had ! become reckless and desperate. I once had such an alarm from a lion ! as to send me to bed for a couple of days. ( We were riding on a strip of sand with the heavy forest at our right and a scattering line of bu camp he made a sneak lor the forest, a < quarter of a mile away, and had almost' readied it when the shot was lired. There [ was no hope of hitting hiin, but more by { accident than intention the ball struck j the target. The lion was wounded in i the ham. We saw him turn and bite at the wound, and were laiuhing at his antics when he suddenly headed for the camp. Although he was a big fellow, his mane stood up uutil it seemed as if he was the size of a two-year-old steer. His leaps were something tremendous, and he roared at every springy At least twenty shots were lired at the I. j lion as he charged, and some of the bullets tiung dirt into his face, but we | might as well have tried to stop a hurri| cane. He had be.-n insulted and j wounded and he wanted revenge. The first thine; he came to wa? a horse hitched to the hind wheel of a wagon. He knocked the horse over as he sprang, lacerating its bai-k in a terrible manner. Then he knocked down a native, brcakI ing the man's collar bone,pulled another j down aud shook the life out of him, and j then attacked a second horse. He was | on the horse's back as two of U9 fired I and hit him hard. He fell to the ground. i rolled over, and then sprang to the seat - of a wagon and pulled a native to the ground. I saw him seize the native by the right shoulder and fling him about as if he hid been a stick. He got another bullet here, and with a roar of pain and rage he reared up beside another horse, fastened teeth and claws in the animal's neck, and pulled him down. by main strength. He then fastened his teeth in the horse's throat and dragged him thirty or forty feet. Nearly all the camp naa taKen to nigm or sougut smctj ia the trees by this time, but just as the lion was approaching another horse a bullet broke his spine and ended his career. We found that he had a very sore hind foot, probably fiom a thorn or sliver, and this perhaps accounted for his ill-temper ana wonderful audacity, though there are numerous instances that a wounded lion fears nothing on earth except a wild elephant.?New York JSun. The Tnlip Mania in Holland. A remarkable financial delusion (for it could hardly be called a swindle) was the tulip mania of Holland. Conrad Gesner introduced the tulip into Europe in lf>:J4, and in Holland, for some reason unknown, it sprang into great favor with the wealthy and fashionable burghers. In another year its popularity had increased and gardeners were propagating new species, many of which brought great prices for their rarity. One bulb of the Admiral so.'d for 4400 florins. Another variety, the Semper Augustus, brought 5">U0 florins. One hundred thousand florins was paid for forty roots in Rotterdam, and that transaction started the gambling. This was in lG:iC. Everybody had rrrtno till in marl Oram old Dutchmen 6"*u r smoked their pipes and talked tulips. Noblemen turned gardeners and raised tulips. On 'Change tulips were listed, and puts,cal's and futures were watched as closely as "Old Hutch" or Phil Armour watch the hog and wheat markets. People of all classes invested all the money they could rake and scrape in tulips. Business boomed for awhile and fortunes were lost and won. The Dutch seemed to think that for all time to come people in all parts of the world would continue to pay fabulous prices for Holland's tulips. The flower had already achieved a shortlived popularity in Paris and London, but fashionable people were tiring of the new plaything. Even the Haarlem, a wonderful variety, of which one root sold for twelve acres of improved ground inM6, grew common, and seemingly all at once the tulip market slumped. Then there was a howl. Tulips could hardly be given away. Every man was accusing his neighbor of having led him into the rraze. Defaults on contracts and payments were common all over Holland. The courts refused to take cognizance of them because they were gambling, and it wrs years before the country fully recovered, tnougn it was in most cases merely a shifting of wea'tb, not taking it out of the c ountry. To this day, however, the genuine Hollander looks upon his tulips as the English farmer does his fat cattle or the Keutuckian his blue-grass-fed brood mares. Men Secretly Fond ot Jewels. "Because a man displays no jewelry upon his person it does not signify that he doesn't care for such thing*," said Editor Rothschild, of the }>ew York Jeweler's Weekly, the other day. "There are plenty of men who are as passionately fond of jewels a< any woman who ever lived, but they seem to regard the feeling as a weakness which they are half ashamed of. Some men will own right up, but they don't like to display their treasures, because it is not considered good taste to wear much jewelry. "I know of half a dozen business men and professional men who do not wear so much as a watch chain; yet they carry about in their trousers pockets thousands of dollars' worth of unset jewels. ? -1 TT KM* I'll 13 18 & Utile Out U1 LUC uiuiaaij, uu> it is a fact nevertheless. "The lato Henry Ward Beccher used to carry in his pockets a number of beautiful diamonds, pearls and other precious stone?, which he would sometimes take out iu his hand and gaze at in admiration for several minutes at a time. He explained this habit by saying that there was something so pure and beautiful about the gems that they delighted and fascinated him. He used to say that it was one of the traces of our far-back barbarinn origin?the iunate fondness for bright genis. "I know of a physician up town who, while riding about in his carriage on sick calls, entertains himself bv jingling a lot of unset diamonds, rubies ana emeralds in his hands. He sometimes groups them on the seat opposite and looks at. them, while his face is lit up with admiration and pleasure. "Do ladies have this habit? Well, I think not. I never met a woman who cared to hide her jewels in her pockets. On the contrary, they always like to have them set and displayed as conspicuously as possible. They don't believe in hiding the light of their gems under a bushel." Teaching n Do? to Steal. Dogs have been trained to do many useful and many amusing things, but the mo6t degrading instruction ever given to a noble animal of its species ha3 come to light in Paris. A great Newfoundland dog entered a noted store near the Bastile, wandered about for some time among the customers, and finally seized a bundle containing some shooting jackets with which he made off a3 fast as he could. Some of the clerks saw him, and about a hundred of them ran after him. The cry was taken up in the street, and the '"dog thief" was soon being pursued by halt a dozen police and hundreds of boys, beside the clerks. The animal wa< finally run down and marched off to the police station, and eventually to the pound, where he has probably been smothered before this. Several shopmen complained that they had been visited by the dog and had suffered from his depredations, so that 'i ~ flint lm horl }>oon mere is uu ........ ? , taught to steal by some Fagin of the neighborhood, which is not a particularly i expectable one.?Picayunc. The Yanderbilt Tomb. I saw Mr. Piukerton, who tells me that every fifteen minute? each clock placed in the Yanderbilt tomb is visited by a Pinkerton detective, two of whom are constantly on guard. One of these detectives patrols outside the tomb, while the other is locked iu and sits behind the bars with a loaded repeating rifle across his knee ready for constant use. It would be next to impossible for any robber to get away with the remains of William H. Yanderbilt so long as the tomb is protected as it i3 now. The Pinkerton men are hired by the year, and there is quite a little colony of them established on Staten Island, ver/ near the mausoleum. They keep eight or ten there all the time, so that those on duty at the grave are retired at frequent interval, and are, therefore, not liable to fall asleep at their posts.? ye u> Yore Letter, WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT IJTERATURR FOR FEMININE READERS. Maidens Coquettish and Coy. Rather inclined to ba pretty, Rather inclined to be good, Rather inclined to a vague, undefined Keeling or sweet slsternoou Toward the young fellows who lovo her; When they nave asked for hand. Rather inclined to a vague, undefined Keeling they don't understand. Fact is, this maiden can't help it? Natural born coquette? Rather inclined not to make up her mind To marry?that is, not jusc yet. Sister she'll be to them all, and Loving, and faithful, and true: Rather inclined round her finger to wind About?say a dozen or two. ?Chicago Times. "Kissed By Mary Anrler=on. Here is a pretty story of Miss Mary Anderson, the great actress, told in the Boston Transcript.: A few days ago, as | Miss Anderson was passing through one of the great dry goods stores, the salesmen recognized her and whispered to each other: "Tnere goes Mary Anderson!" A little cash boy, hearing the remark too late to see her face, exclaimed: "Oh? why didn't you let me know in time I I haven't got money enough to go to see her play, but I might have looked at her." The lady had not passed out of hearing. Turning back she stooped and kissed the boy. 4'There, my lad," she said, "you can not only say that you have seen Mary Anderson, but that she has kissed you." A Maine Mother. Cantain I?avis. of the five-masted schooner Governor Ames, recently built j at Waldoboro, Me., had a remarkable j mother. She was not content in bring-I ing up her own eleven sons and daughters in the way they should go, but adopted two or three other children. She was the doctor of the whole neighborhood. Physicians were few and inexperienced, as is usual in small country pliices, and Mrs. Davis wa3 always sent for in a hurry when any one was sick. Many were the men she saved from death. One man, given up for dead by everybody else, is now a very wealthy citizen of a Western State. Often there would be two calls for her at once, and in one case a couple of men carried her a half mile through snow waist deep to the sick bed of a friend. She was presen; at the birth of every child born in the village for over forty years.?Leiciston Jour ml. Distinguished Old Maids. Look at the list of old maids. Elizabeth of England, one of the most illus trious of modern sovereigns. Her rule over Great Britain comprised the most brilliant literary age of the English speaking people. Her political acumen was put to as severe tests as that of any other ruler the world ever saw. Maria Kdgewnrth was an old maid. It wa3 this woman's writings that first suggested the thought of writing similarly to Sir Walter Scott. Her brain might well be called the mother of the Waverly novels. Jane Porter lived and died an old maid. The children of her busy brain { wore "Thaddeusof Warsaw"'and "The I Scottish Chiefs," which have moved the j hearts of millions with excitement and | tears. Joanna Bailie, poet and play | writer, was "one of 'em." Florence Nightingale, most gracious lady, heroine of Inkermann and Balaklava hospitals, has, to the present, written "Miss" before her name. The man who should marry her might well crave to take the name of Nightingale. Sister Dora, the brave spirit of English pest houses, whose story is as a helpful evangel, was (he bride of the world's sorrow only. And then, what names could the writer and the reader add of those whom the great world may not know, but we know, and the little world of the village, the church, the family know and prize beyond all worlds!? Chicajo Her ail. A Model Vehicle. The handsome and fashionable wife of . Levi P. Morton is noted for the pos- | session of a most remarkable coachman ! William White, who sits stilfiy on the i high driver's seat of Mrs. Morton's car- , riotro wm nncfl in the emnlov of the ! " ? " ? "? I J ? I Prince of Wales, and was brought to this country by the JIaiqtra of Lome, while that aristocrat was Governor-General of i Canada. He has been in the employ of Levi P. Morton for four or five years, ; and is a sort of example to the other | family coachmen of Fifth avenue in de-J Eortment. The manner in which he tips is hat upon being questioned or an-1 swering, his stiff-backed pose on his' scat, his handling of the reins and whip j ?in everything he is taken as a model. Even the livery stable proprietors, in ' outfitting equipages that are meant to be mistaken for the private turnouts of their customers, are accustomed to point White out to their drivers as an exhibit! of what they ought to aim at. But M?s. 1 Morton's carriage has interior comforts that are not for show. A diminutive j clock is set into the side where she can | see it at a glance, and thus, in making \ a round of calls or keeping other en- j gagements, she may know the time with- j out the bother of taking out a watch. In a drawer are compactly arranged a hand- J glass, and a hair bru-h and comb, to be J used in the carriage whenever the slight- j est mishap of toilet requires attention, j A. bearskin rug contains a flat tin re- I ccptacle for hot water, and is thus kept in a condition to warm the feet. Like nmnv nf the vehicles made to order for ladies of wealth, the back seat of this one is of a height, breadth and up- i holstered shape exactly suited to be ! easiest for Mrs. Morton. This carriage,! although not singular in its appointments of luxury, is one of the newest in manufacture, and nothing more complete is owned by au Astor or a Vanderbilt.? Picayune. Marriage in China. After the usual preparations for her wedding garments, a Chinese girl is closeted for the period of thirty days with the immediate female members of her own family. The mother, or the next eldest of kin, begins a a series of instructions as to the duties of a bride, aud how she must from now on transfer allections and care to the members of her husband's family in the same munnor that they showed in the family of her I irtn. mau is tne iove and obedience of the parents and elders of the husband. And that after her marriage, for the per od of thirty days, she must be careful to know how "to hold her tongue, especially before strangers and neighbors. And she is especially warned to he neat and cleanly, as this would prevent the husband from getting a divorce from her. These long and tedious instructions ; are usually accompanied with much weeping on the part of the women, as they aro the final parting instructions of the mother to her daughter. When a girl is once married she has forevor renounced ber allegiance to the relatives of her infancy. Legally, she is i no more to her family than aa utter, stranger. But as a rule they return, upon festivities, to visit the old folks; even these visits any member of her husband's family could forbid her from making. One of the reasons the Chinese belles weep instead of laughing, as belles do in this country upon the eve of their marriage, is probably because they know their times of freedom and ease are at an end, or, at least, until they become middle-acred or old women. The moment the bride has thrown down her veil of thirty days, she is, as a rule, put to the most menial of domestic duties, by the mother or e'der sister-in-law. Chinese husbands are not supposed to own their wives until after the death of their pareuts. It is considered unfilial for a man to take a wife and leave his parents. There is no redress on the part of suc h young married women for injustice done to them by their cruel mothers-in-law, except to drown them in silent tears. Three days before the actual marriage takes place, the'Chinese belle, for the first time in her life, has her face shaved of any possible hair. This is done bj the skillful blending of two stout,silken threads made into an oblong noose, and twisted in such a manner that when this noose or loop is opened with the fingers of the operator the opening would sprin? together so quickly that it would cut off the finest hair on the skin without the least pain. The parts to be shaved are first well rubbed with warm pine ashes. This process is called "Cho Mien." oi the "female shave." Her next shav< would be after her thirty days' silence in her new home. The girlhood bang is now combed up and tied with the rest ol her hair,as this bang distinguishes the unmarried from the married wpmen in China. TV. - I : J _ J t- V.nnf JllO unuc UUC3 uut pub uu aici uwow apparel upon this memorial day, but the poorest clothes she has, and over them all is an immense red basr or curtain. This is thrown over her head and thus shuts her entire person from view, so that at a distance she resembles a red bag moving. But just before she is carried to the sedan-chair (marriage hearse), she is given a bowl of rice soup. This she takes into her mouth and squirts three times toward the south, which means that after her marriage she would have rice more than enough to eat for three generations.of America. Fashion Notes. Green is still a leading color,especially for combination with black or white. Golden initials, as earrings have more of novelty than of good taste in theft favor. The latest dangler for the chain or the chatelaine is a silver or nickel locket for car fare. Princess gowns, when worn by very young women, almost invariably button in the back. Some very handsome new party shoes are of white kid, with heels of chased gold or silver. mi. _ r e r ?J? ?i?? ? ?11 1 ne iaauy ui i~uuuuu jcwcicis iuus an to open designs set in small diamonds or other precious atones. A new boa is wide and flat about the throat and down the front, endiuj, with boas of bear or other long-haired fur. "White gloves are now fashionable for evening wear with white dresses, but light tan are oftener chosen, even by bridesmaids. Evening gloves should reach to the lower edge of the short sleeve, are iu mousquetaire shape, and simply corded on tne back. Watered silk gauzes are new, and very effective when used for evening cos tumes, with deep feather ruches about the hem of the skirt. The hair may be worn low or high to suit the taste of the wearer. It must, however,be either one or the other as the fashion demands an extieine. The slender effect nowso much sought in walking costumes may be attained by wearing with them a shoulder cape and deep cuffs ot long tieeced fur. Bla -k monkey fur continues to grow in popularity and is used quite extensively for capes, collars, cuffs, muffs and bauds down the front of long cloaks. A nnw fi-imminff fnr nrnwna is 11 " " " "o o cloth applique upon fur in the puckered flower designs of ribbon embroidery. The edges are covered with cord of contrasting color. A Farisian fancy for evening gowns in the Empire style is the wearing of four or five unhemraed skirts of tulle, the uppermost one bordered with fifteen rows of soutache braid. Watches at present reign supreme. They are used for everything?for card cases, umbrellas, bracelets, bags. A fashionable woman in Paris has put them in rosettes on her slippers. Deep yokes of passementerie are the only trimmings seen on the new accordeon-pleated cloaks. Over this is worn in the coldest weather a pointed shouU I der cape or collar of some rich fur. The exquisitely tine India camel's-hair goods and Henrietta clotli9 imported this winter present a wide and beautiful range of artistic dyes not obtainable in any other fabrics of corresponding price. Heavy checked tweed, made into a crnwn nf riffid simplicity. is incompara ble for walking. Added to thi9, for cold weather, is a newmarket of the same material, with overlapping capes and huge buttons, aud long enough to touch the dress hem. The velvet evening gown is the favorite in Paris. Toilets of black velvet are furnished with panels ut black Chantillv over petticoat of gold satin, embroidered in black and gold. The same black and gold embroidery appears upon the pointed plastron of the velvet waist. The sleeves are long under the arm and short od top or else draped a la Grecque. Beasts of Bunion in China. Chinamen have such regard for beasts of burden, iuch as the o< and the mule, that they make companions of them when alive and never use their meat i'or food when they are dead. These animals usually live iu the same building with their masters, hut in a separate apartment, which is especially devoted to them. They are not required to eat at the family table unless they wish to, and men's are served in iheir rooms without extra charge. They are expected to report any incivility or inattention on the part of servants to the master of the house. A pair of oxen can reside in the house of their master and enjoy all the privacy they would have in a stall of their own, and a sensitive and retiring mule is never in any danger of being intruded upon. Yet some people think Chinamen are not polite.?Texas Silting?. Tyranny. 'Ti9 said that tyranny is deal, And despotism powerless lies: How can this be when over me Fair Ethel so doth tyrannize And yet?and yet?do not forget I am content ber slave to be! I am not fain to break the chain, So sweet I find is tyranny. ?Clinton Scollard, in Harper'a. HAYTL A TURBULENT ISLAND WHERE ANARCHY REIGNS SUPREME. The Contest Between Legitime and Hippolyte for the Presidency of the Black Republic?The Haytien Republic Episode. Santo Domineo is one of the fairest and most fruitful islands of the ocean. Its soil is rich and its climate lovely. Coffee, bananas, oranges and many other fruits grow easily there, and the island lias several fine harbors. liut the western end of the island, which comprises the Haytian Republic, is cursed by almost perpetual auarchy, produced by revolutions. The hepublic, indeed, is only a nominal one. The President, far the time being, is leally a dictator, and the presidential office has long been almost constantly disputed by ambitious rivals, ready to attain their end, if need be, b/ civil war. One of these frequent revolutions broke out several months ago, and has barely closed at the present time. General Salomon has held the presidency? the term of which is seven years?since ls7l'. He was re-elected in lod*. But three ambitious men wished to become President, and for this object did not hesitate to stir up insurrection. President Salomon was deposed by a revolutionary committeee, and was forced to Hy for his life. He sought shelter on a British vessel, went to Paris and soon after died there. Hayti was now in confusion, governed by a revolutionary committee, which appointed a provisional executive body composed of seven men. Among these were Generals i egitime, Thelemaque and Hippolyte, all of whom aimed at Ko r?r<>siflftnnv Alter a struffirle. Thelema |ue was declared to have??received the electoral vote, and installed I himself as President in Port-au-Prince, the capital. His rival, Legitime, did not submit, however, but bombarded Thelemaque's house, and killed him and many of his guard. Legitime then assumed the presidency, wh.ch he has held by force ever fince, and has recently declared himself ' unanimously" elected by the electoral college. But Legitime's claim is hotly disputed, especially by the supporters of Hippolyte, the third aspirant, who are mostly in the northern pare of the island. The civil war seems, for a time at least, to have ended in the establishment of Legitime's power, but it may break out again at any moment. Meanwhile public attentionin theUnited States has been especially directed to the Haytian disturbances by the seizure of an American steamer, the Haytien hepublic, at the port of St. Marc, two or three months ago. The vessel was charged with having run the blockade; she was seized, taken to Port-au-Prince, and condemned as a prize of war. The steamship had, in fact, taken on board at one of the ports Hayti, a body of men who carried arms, and had landed the men at another port whither they went to engage in the insurrection. This act raised a question of international law. For, on the one hand the Captain of the Haytien Republic asserted that he did not know that his passengers wore, J ? or mienueu 10 ue, mauigcuw, ouu vu iuc other hand there was no real blockade of any Haytian port. Ia international law "paper" blockades?that is. blockades which are only declared, and not enforced, are not recoguL ed. The United States Government proceeded to take action in the matter.* A squadron of three American war-vessels, the Richmond, Yantic and Galena, was despatched to Hayti. That this naval force was sufficient is apparent from the fact that the Haytian navy consists only of a gun vessel of nine huudred tons, a vessel of eight hundred horse-power, a corvette, and two small sloops The seized steamer was promptly delis ered up to the American men-of-war, on their arrival, by the Haytian authorities; for they had no means to resist our naval demonstration. It is probable that, had any large European "power occupied the same position toward Hayti that this country does, some excuse would be made for extending a -'protectorate" over the Republic, with a view to its permanent possession; and it may be, even now, that we shall bear of an attempt on the part of France to take such a course. But while the United States will protect American commerce, and would no doubt oppose the conquest and possession of Hayti by any ?uropean power, the time is evidently not ripe for us to consider the expediency of occupying Hayti ouiselves.?Youth.1* Companion. Ice Fishln? Sport. Fishing through the ice is a sport much loved in all the Northern States. Our New England grandfathers tell stories of how the schoolmaster used to dismiss school once or twice during the wintei term and gajjown with all his pupils to the mill pond, and sit there on the ice duriDg the short winter days, a log lire roaring behind them and a good big hola chopped in the thick ice in' front ol them, eating New EngUnd doughnuts, cracking New England . okes, and last ol all, catching?perhaps?a New .Lns'land lish or two. Fine sport is often found on the Hudson Kiver during the winter months. It is not at all an unusual sight to see a crowd of skaters, boys and girls, men and women, skating around oa the f.ozea surface of old Father Hudson, each inteatly watching for the 4,tip-ups" to bob up, and indicate that some unlucky fish has been captured. It is on the Hudson, iu fact, that the sport is paid mo9t attention to,. The tip ups alone show that. There the plain, uuassuraiuir crossed sticks of the lake fisherman are relegated to a back seat. The tip-upmustbe brightly painted aud must bear at the top of t/te long stick a little Hag. This last, however, is not entirely for ornament, for ihe color of the lh'g indicates the ''ownier" o! the hole. The fancy fisherman has his own idea about how a tie-up, ought to be made. The old stager pins his laitli to simplicity and makes a tie-up in the form of a cross, the aims and front of which rest on the ice, while to the short end is tied the line. When the fish pulls, down goes the short end of the cross or tie-up. and up goes tne long enu, tue nsueiman lays down his pipe and captures his fish. Blue pike are the tishjchietiv caught, and each one of them will weigh very nearly a pound. There w a law against taking the yellow pike, j> but that fish brings more and weighs more than his blue relative, arm who c<>uld expect a fisherman to t?ow back a live-pound beauty who had caught himself on the hook? It would be riving [in the faee of Providence. No; he finds his way into a box with the other fish, ^ind the buyer on shore kindly fails toi notice him. Onco in a while the lucky: man pulls up a big sturgeon. i The fisherman counts 'fifty pounds a good day's work, and sometimes brings home 200 pounds. Prices for fish vary, but a good man can usdally make from $2 tu $10 a day.?New York QrapH:. j i - I , ? CURIOUS FACTS. , Over 1200 patents on cycles hare been taken out in this country. The Indians of Oldtown Island, Me., have organized a printing firm. The fight between the Monitor and Merrimac took place March P, 1882. jM A Connecticut couple were recently^? married after a courtship of twenty-four years. A Paris chemist has at last sncceeded^B m making real diamonds from a secretBj composition. H Chicngo has built more tall buildings during the last year than any other city^H in the country. \ A goose with her wings tied was sent^H over Niagara's Falls the other day and^f floated away alive. jfl There is a boy in Iowa who has lost both hands, both feet, both ears andH most of his nose by frost bites. The largest cannon in the world is at H Ghent, Belgium. The diameter of the flj bore is two and three-quarter feet. Twenty years ago there were ninety* B two lightning-rod factories in the United States. To-day there are but three. S A New Jersey jumper advertises him-^B self as ''the only and original Sam Patch, who has been in temporary retirement." The enterprising people of Troy.S^ N. Y., are already talking about ceiebrating the centennial of their great I collar and cuff industry in 1920. 9 A New York coin collector who had I his museum inspected the other day waa gratified to learn that he bad only sixty six bogus coins in the collection 01 tw. They generally run about half. The ldst sailing vessel built for the United States navy was the Constellation, completed in 1855. She is at preaent in commission as a practice ship, attached to the Kaval Academy. The maltese cat of a drug store in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., recently ate thirty leaches worth twenty-five cents each, and a box of lactate powder. The entire cost of the meal was $8.50. The word Gramercy, used to designate the locality. Gramercy Park in New York city, is derived from "der Eromme| See," which is the name given to that district in an old map, still extant. . Last spring the Brighton Beach (N. Y.) Hotel was rolled back from the ocean, which threatened its destruction. It if now thought that it will have to be : moved again on account of the damage _ done by the recent storms. There is fashion even in tombstones. White marble monuments are going oat and but few headstones are now made for the fashionable dead in white mate4 rial. Granite in dark shades is the prevailing rage, and nearly all the new monuments are being made in that . material. The Maharajah of Jaypore, India, ia buiiding a temple that will cost a million dollars. The architecture will be most elaborate, and ~*verv workman, from architect to coolie, is a native. Carved marble pillars, weighing several tons, are lifted into place with no help from steam or modern machinery. Damage Wrought by Smoke. The question of damage done by smoke in great cities where bituminous coal is . burned has received new light by a recent paper contributed by Hon. F. A. Iiussell, published under the auspices ot the London Smoke Abatement Institution. He shows that during the great fogs of London in 1860, fogs much were doubtless due in the main to smoke in the atmosphere, the death rate in London rose in January from the normal winter figure of 27 1-10 to 48 1-10 for the week ending February 7, which was the period of densest fog. At (he same time the death for nineteen provincial towns was only 2tf 3-10; in other words, the cases of death over the average of an ordinary winter period was 2?94. He estimated that at least tea times as many persons were ill from the BAme cause. It thus appears that the dead and wounded in this contest with a preventable nuisance was equal to that of many famous battles. Mr. Rus^ a. al - 1 Sell computes mat me auuuai iu;s tu the population of London in the way of damage to buildings, furniture, extra washing, waste of coal, extra lighting, etc., not taking into account the en?hanced death-rate, amounts to about $25,000,000 a year. On this basis he makes a new appeal for an effective resistance to this great eviL Many of oar -American cities, particularly those of the Mississippi Valley, are interested in this/problem. -New York, Graphic. , , ; ??_ Oiieer Rules on Danish Railways. ' Every one who has traveled in Denmark has noticed the enormous number of guard houses along the railroads, and the fac$ that women usually signal the trains. As a measure of economy man and wife are employed by the State, the former as track-walker and the latter as guard. The rules specify the relationship to exist between these two classes of employes, and rules are made to be obeyed. When it happens that either dies the survivor has just six weeks in which to find another partner. Neglect to do so is disobedience, punished with dismissal. The employment of brother, sister, or servant to till the vacancy is not allowed. The guard or track-walker must marry in six weeks or leave. A ease of this kind occurred recently sear the old town of ltibe, on the German frontier. The stricken widower petitioned the Government to allow him an extra week or ,two, alleging that hU work of walking all day nlong the railroad track did not give him a chagce to look for a wife, but his request waa refused as in itself an infraction of discipline. The hapless widower had only Bix days of grace left, but he did not want to lose his job and went skirmishing with such energy that before the end of the tilth he had a new wife flagging the trains.?Iiel.oboth Sunday Hirald, The Thinking Habit. One of our "passion poets1' ha? lately published a metaphysical poem, one stanza of which will suffice to give an idea of what it is: Tbink health, and health will find you As certain as the day, And pain will lag behind you Ana ioso you on me way. Why not pursue this same line of reasoning to the bitter end,somewhat after this fashion? Think wealth, and you will get it? A million, more or less; Think silk, and in the closet You'll lind a gros grain dress. Think land, when you are drowning, Beyond all human roach, Ani bv this happy theory You'll b; washed up on the beach. Think bread when you are hungrv, And a feast will there be spreud; Think sleep when you are weary. And you'll find yourself in bed. However much "thinking" may help to materalize all the good things thus promised, one grand result will certainly be accomplished, for it cannot be denied that the thinking habit will produce a thoughtful generation.?Hurpm-'t MorUfi3>y.