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THE ALU-KIND MOTHER. La, whatever is at band Is fall meet for the demand: Nature ofttimes giveth bast ft hen she seemeth chat i93t. Bhe hath shapon shower and sun To the need of every one? Bummer bland and winter drear, Dimpled pool and frozen mere. All thou lackest she hath still, Near tby finding and thy fl;L Yields her fullest faith, and she Will endow theo royally. Loveless weed and lilv fair She attendeth, here and thereKindly to the weed as to The lorn lilly teared with dew. Each to her hath us9 a3 dear &s the other; an thou clear Thy cloyed senses thou may'st see Haply all the mystery. Thou shalt see the lily get Itsdivinest blossom; yet Shall the woed's tip bloom no less With the song bird's gleefulness. Thou art poor, or thou art rich? Kever lightest matter which: All the glad gold of the noon, All tne surer 01 me moon, She doth lavish on thee, while Thou withholdest any smile Of thy gratitude to her, Baser used than usurer. Shame be on thee an thou seek Not her pardon, with hot cheek, And bowed head, and brimming eyes, ' And her merciful "Arisd!" ?James W. Riley, in the Century. A CASTAWAY'S STORY. We were on the run down from Yokaft&ma, Japan, to a port in Cochin Chiua, on a ?nglish tea brig called the Russell. Our course lay to the south down the ! Pacific to the island of Formosa, and ; then around into the China Sea. I*; was the season for squall*, and the first four i, days out gave us plenty to do, although we made good progress. One the evening of the fourth day, iust as twilight was coming one. a sudden squall laid us almost on our beam ends, and while in that position we were swept by a sea which carried me overboard. I don't J suppose I was even missed for the next i ( quarter of an hour, and I was no sooner ! . in the water than I understood the brig ! could do nothing for me. No craft leaves a man to drown if there is the slightest show to save him, but I knew , the brig had her hands full with the , quail. I was near done for before I got ! a breath ot air, and I had not yet pulled , myself together when I flung out my . arm and tou.hed a solid object. It ! proved to be a cage containing about j twenty live fowls, which had fctched ( away,and I wasn't over five minutes mak- , lag fast to it by raean3 of my belt. By ! ! . the time I could look around the night'. had come down and the brig was no- . , where to be seen. The squall lasted j about twenty minutes, and then passed , away, to be followed by a steady breeze J daring the entire night. < I had no idea that the brig would re- , turn to look for me, and the best thing , 1 could do was to make myself comfort- . able. The water was warm, the night J, balmy and starlight, and the sea was not i ( beavy enough to annoy me much. I had . every hope of being picked up next day, ! ] as vessels were numerous on that route, j and so, taken all in all. I was not in de-', pair. I was driven to the west at a ! Kcady pace up to about midnight, and then a queer thing happened. 1 was on ( lop the coop or cage, which was buoy- j ant enough to foat me a foot above the ( surface. It had no doubt been lashed to !, Ibe deck by a rope or two, and portions ( af these ropes might have been trailing mnderneatb, or it may be that in going averboard it entangled a rope. At any rata, at about midnight there was a sudden commotion under and about me, , 1 urn then my craft started off at almost railroad speed. I have an idea that a b'g shark came nosing around after me ?nd became entangled, but it might have been some other large fish. Whatever it was, was fast and acting*a9 a tug, and the way he towed that cage along the surface was a caution. He tried diving, but he could not pull it under, ! nd seeming to be more frightened by this discovery he set off with increased peed. For at least three hours the shark, or j whatever it was, ran to the west at a rate of speed which could not have been less lhaa ten miles an hour, and the first flush of day was in the horizon at my back when there was a shock and a crash, j and I went end over end off my float. . To tell the truth, I was asleep. I had J been lowed so steadily and rocfe so easily ' that 1 went to sleep without knowing : that my eyes had closed. I struck out and began swimming, confused and , frightened by the shoc\*, but I had not Bade a hundred strokes before I beached ! jsolf on the sand and saw that I was ! ashore on an island. I sat down to wait , ior auyngnt, ana wnen it came tne situation was plain. I was on a thickly ' wooded island, and 200 feet f ora the beach due east of where I stood was the . wreck of my hencoop entang ed in a ! oral reef whxh now and then showed ,, its head above water. Between me and !. the reef the water was ten feet deep and . quiet enough to f oat a canoe. Off the southern coast of Japan there are ! lot of islands called the Lieon-Khieon Eoup. All of them are inhabited now, j' it at that time only the two or three ' larger ones were peopled. I was only a common sailor, but it did not take me great while to figure out that I had been cast ashore on oue of this group. I Had I started out to become a second Pobinson Crusoe, I could not have chosen a better location to begin busi,?e s. The climate was perfect, the island loaded with various wild fruits, and fish were leaping up all around me. My first move was to take olf ray wet clothes and hang them up to dry, and while they were drying I made a breaklast from wild fruits. After getting into my clothes agan I took an inventory and found myself possessed of a sheath j knife, a plug of tol.acco, three or four i buttons, and a few silver coins. Had j there been a wreck to draw on, as in | Crusoe's ca-e, I should have been more cheerful. I then set out to survey my domain, and by noon I found that I was I on an isluud about two miles long and ! enc mile across. It was a regular grove, j with high and dry ground, and an | abundance of fruits and berries. In that walk I found the wild tea plant, potatoes mai/e, onions, cabbages rice, ?tWTups^ mulberries, and bananas. There were plenty of birds, but I did not find a reptile or wild animal of any sort. The island was a paradise in almost every sense, but long enough before igbt I was greatly troubled in my mind ; as to how I was to get along A young sailor with a hearty appetite craves something more solid than wild fruits. I wanted a fire, and I had no means of procuring one. I wanted company, but even the birds avoided me. I wondered how I CDuld make a signal, and what sort of a craft came that way, and how lartothe west the other islands were, sod before night I was so homesick and broken op that I was ready to shed tears. I crossed the island Iwice during the afternoon, looking more particularly to make sure that there were no snake3, of which I felt an awful dread, and as I failed to find any I made my bed that night under a tree on some boughs I cut Off I slept fairly well, and ray second breakfast was again made cf fruits. When I got my fill I determined to make afire. The novelist of to-d\y will have a cast-away youth rub two dry sticks to? gcther for a few minutc9 and start a blaze, but I got the dryest sticks I could find and rubbed until I wa9 completely tired out, and I could not even blacken thorn. I got some dry moss and struck stc>ne3 together, but the a; arks would noc ignite it. Three-quarters of the day was spent in eflorts to get a fire, and then I had to give it up. A smoke woi?'d have been the best signal to a pacing crr.ft, but I could not get a fire, aud a? I had no clothes to spare, being in my shirt sleeves when I went overboard, I had to abandon the idea and hope that some native craft would touch the shore. I had landed midway of the island, on the eastern shore, and the spot was as * - ? ??. - rr?i pleasant as any oilier locality. ini-refote, on the third day I built me a comfortable shelter under the trees, and settled it with myself that I was in for it fst some time to come. Twice that day I saw sailing vessels to the east, but miles away, I also went to the south, west and north sides of the island, and piled up shells on the beach above tide mark and placed sticks on top of them porting my way. Whoever landed wou d be apt to see them and understand that some one had been cast away. A week passed, and no craft came near. At the end of five or six days I was thoroughly tired of my feed, but there was no change, unless I wanted raw fish or rfesh. I could have made a net out of vines and caught some fish, or I could oociltr li.nTn L-illiirl cntriA nf tVift llirds with a club, but tho absence of a tire was the drawback. Few men get less sound sleep than a sailor. Many a time I have promised myself a slumber of a week at the end of a voyage. I ought to have slept like a stone on my islaud as there was nothing tu make me afraid, but I was more wakeful than on shipboard. About the middle of the second week I had an adventure which quite broke me up for the next day or two. Having seen no sharks inside the reef, I had taken a swim in the clear, still waters every morning. On this morniDg, soon after getting"out of bed, I stripped o f and jumped in with a great splash and began floundering about I was about to strike out for the reef when I saw the dorsal tin of a shark between me and it, and I turned and landed without loss of fimo a a t tnnlro/1 ha- v anmethinc struck at me and fell short by only a foot, and I leaped away just in time to avoid another feeler of a monstrous devil fish. I could plainly make him out on the bottom, and he came within [in ace of getting hold of me. The shark, which wa* fully sixteen feet long, advanced toward the beach, and as he reached the spot where the devil fish lay a row began. The shark was sei ed by at least two of the feelers, and in the first moment he was rolled over and over. Then he pulled himself together, and for the next five minutes the water was churned to fury. I think the shark got the best of the tight, as he made off after a while seemiugly unhurt, while pieces of one of the feelers came ashore t<J prove that it had been severed from the body by the shark's teeth. The second week pa?sed, and a third and a fourth. During the time I sighted mauy sails, but they were always afar off. I had become so sick of my fare that I scarcely ate anything, and the lazy life became a positive disgust. At the end of the fourth week 1 woukl have agreed to work one year at ditch d'gging without pay for a parage to civilization. On the second <luy of the fifth week there was a gaie anu a neavy sea irom ine eusi. At about noon on the third day a ship's yawl nearly full of water, but containing a woman, drove ashore almost at my fe?t. There was a heavy surf, notwithstanding the coral reef, and had I not been on hand the boat would have been pulled back by the undertow and carried out among the rocks and smashed. The woman had lascd herself to one of the thwarts, and was nearly exhausted with hunger and exposure. It was little I could do for her except to give her water and food, and it wa3 sundown before she could tell her story. She was the wife of Captain Bradbtirn of another English tea brig, the Constellation. I was coming down the Pacific when washed overboard. She was going up. A gust or scjua'l heeled the Coostellat'on over, and she was boirded by a sea which swept Mrs. Brad burn and two men away, a id took with it the boat and a lot of deck ratfe. The men she saw struggling as she got hold of the boat, but they were doubtless drowned. It was almost d;uk, as in my case, and she als;) dro e to the west llow she got ir.to the boat sbe cauld not remember, nor was she clear as to how long she had lloated. She thought it m ist have been a great deal longer than I figu ed. It was three days before the woman picked up her strength und courage, and by that time I was ready to leave the island. The mast and sail belonging to the boat had been stowed under the thwarts and were safe, and all I had to do was to fill a number of big shells with fresh water, of which, as I have forgotten to state, there was a supply on the island. We left in the morning heading to the south, and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon we were picked up by an American ship called Happy Home. She was bound up for .'a;>anese teas, but that same day we signaled an Knglish ship coming out of Shanghai and bound home, and Mrs. Bradburn was transfeircd. That was the Inst I ever saw or ! heard of her, though I know the ship i reachcd Kngland safely. I was a roving I sailor, witn no nome or acturess, anu no matter how badly her husband wanted to thank me he knew not where I was to be found.- iVVto 31 rk Sun. Chinese Nuptial Preparations. The preparations for the imperial wedding go on uninterrnptc dly at Peking. Thirty oltieials of the Ilau-lin Academy are copying out hanging scrolls of au spicious and poetical inscriptions, to bo : hung in pairs; and twenty operatives of ; the paste pot come every morning, cach ' with his passport in his belt, to the palace to decorate the walls. The court painters are also hard at work at the mun^hin. or door josses, for which paper, j paint, etc., have been issued to them by I order of the Board of Revenue from the j Color Department. ? JSan Francisco Chronicle. A Contract to Light Mexico. N. A. Haven and John J. Iladdy, of St. Louis, have received from tlio Mexican Government the papers conceding them twenty years' exclusive privilege to manufactuic and furnish water gas to all the cities of Mexico. The company is known as the Union Light and Fuel Gas Company of America, with a capital stock of $3,u00,U00. The President of the company is D. D. Dewey, and the secretary John D. Norton, both of Pontiac. Mich. The papers are signed by President Diaz and other officials of Mexico. -vi.v- i : - .. / .. BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS 8KETCHR9 FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Signs of the Season ? Misapprehension?Musical Item?A Considerate Judge?Put In a Different Light, Ere., Etc. When the water s'owly freezes Jn the pump, IVhen the merry winter breeze is On the jump, When the people of this section Get a purplish complexion, And the mercury's direction Isa-slump; When the merchant dons his great Rubber boots, And the school-boy on his skate Executes Most astonishing gyrations, Elephantine demoustrat.ons, When in full bias: are the uation's :Boggan chutes; vvuen tne attic room aoiu grow Quite too airy, When the streets because of snow Become glary? Then 'tis very safe to say That 'tis not the month of May, But the blizzardously gay February. ?Harper's Bazar. Misapprehension. "Doctor Jenkins," a9ked an-anxious patient, "don't you think it would be dangerous to go into the water after a hearty meal?:' "It would be more dangerous to fish ! it out and eat it," growled the doctor.? Judge. Musical Item. "One of these dollars is a counterfeit, ma'am." "How can you tell;" ".imply by sound. Just tap it and hear how clear the genuine sounds. That's tenor. JS'otice when I tap the other one. That's base."- Siftinga. A Considerate JudffO. Judge?"Miss, how old are you?'' Wituess?"Well, I'm thirty." "Thirty what?" "Well, between thirty and forty." "I'll put your age down at thirtynine; I guess you won't lose anything by that."?Texas Siftings. Put in n Different Light. In the garden. "Are you not ashamed, cousin, to kill a pretty bird like that'?" "But, my dear girl, I thought it would I look so well in your hat." "True, I didu't think of that! It's exactly the same shade of gray. You are very kind!"?Ju/ge. An Excellent Dressmaker. Mi9s Travis?"Don't you think my' new dress is too sweet for anything?" Miss DeSmith? "Oh, lovely?exquisite! I do believe your dressmaker could, make a beaupole look graceful."?Burliny ton Free J'ress. Ho Wag Slow. Drill Sergeant?"1 say, Schmidt, have you any idea of how slow and stupid you are?" Private Schmidt?"I don't know." "Of course you don't, but let me tell you that an i- gyptian mummy is frisky ; compared with you." Not At All. De Smith?"Don't you think Miss De Collete is a splendid creature?" Travis?"ies, all but her eyes. They : aren't exactly the same color." De Smith?"Vou ought to overlook a little fault like that." Travis?"I cau't. She's a foot taller than I am."?Burlington Free Prtss. Practically Unanimous. At the beginning of our late war the secession of one of the States was being discussed in a little company one even- j ing. How do the ladies feel about it?" j asked one gentleman of another. "Oh," replied the person addressed, "the ladies are for uuion to a man!"? I iiU/^/o/ It Had Been the Rounds. Miss Clara?"Is that a new riDg you have od, Ethel? It strikes mo 1 have seen it before." Misi i thel (blushing)?"Yes, Clara; young Mr. l'aperwate presented it to me j lust night. I have accepted him." Miss Clara?"Oh, indeed! I'm so1 glad. Accept my best wishes. 11 thought that ring looked strangely fa- j miliar."?Life. The Mother's Joke. Mother?"I would not put too much faith iu Miss Pert, John." Son?"Why not? She's all right." Mother?"Don't you think she's a little llighty, apt to change, like a weathercock?" Son?"No. What makes you think she's like a weathercock?" Mother?"Because she's a little vain." ?Boston Courier. He Didn't Advertise. I?;-** TrnHpsman ? "How's business with you, Smith:" Second Tradesman (dejectedly)? "Pretty poor." First Tradesman?"I see you haven't got any sign up." Second Tradesman?"Xo; I don't believe in signs. Goods Bpeak for themselves." First Tradesman?"No, they don't. It's my opinion, Smith, that, with respect to a sign, you have either got to put up or shut up."?Burlington Free J*rau Easily Suited. Landlady?"Docs the turkey suit you, Mr. McGinnis!" Boarder?"It is excellent, Mrs. Hashwell. I do believe that cook of yours could roast a side of so'e leather and make it tender and palatable. This is (feeling confusedly that he has made a blunder), I meau, of course, tender enough for me. I'm not?ah?at ali particular, you know. I can ?er?worry dowu any sort of cooking, Mrs. Hashwell." landlady (icily)?Thank you, Mr. McGinnis!"?Chicago Tribune. The Size Nothing to do With If. Magistrate (to complainaut)?"Do you mean to say, sir, that this woman's baby can annoy you so excessively as you claim? "Why, they live next door!" Complainant?"Yes, your honor." Magistrate?"And the baby doesn't weigh more than fourteen pounds; it's about the smallest spec'men of humanity I ever saw! A baby that size can't make any noise." Omplainnnt?"Judge, you ought to get married and have a few babies yourself; it would broaden your intellect and give you information that might be even of legal importance to you."?Epxh. Supposed a Ca?e A small boy entered a Fourteenth avenue grocery the other day ahd asked v? i fa the proprietor to trust him to two cents' worth of candy. "I don't know you," was the reply. "But I live Just two blocks down." "But what made you suppose I'd trust you?" ' I supposed so because you've got two barrels of kerosene out doors and I could have bored gimlet holes in both of them last night without anybody knowing it." The grocer compromised by trusting the boy to a cent's worl;h of candy and rolling the barrels into his shed.? JDctrdt Free Prer. He Admitted She Was Right. He was seated across the room. "George," she said "if a fire were suddenly to break out in the house what would bo your first impulse, do you think?" "Well, my first thought would be for you, of course. I would get you to a nlace of safety, and then do what I coula to extinguish the flames." "That would bo very nice of you, George, to think of me first; but if afire were to break out now, for instance, wouldn't you lose valuable time in reach ing me from away across the toomr" "I don't know but what I would,'1 said George, as he changed his seat. ?Sunday C'ritque. Both in Hard Lncfc. This story opens on the third floor of a magnificent Harlem compartment house. He had been twisting about on his chair trying to find words to express his undying devotion, and had already begun to hem and haw, when a voice camo from the floor below: '.Miss Candlewick," it said "I love you passionately?madly; bid me but hope, and all the dark colors of my life will change!" This was a bonanza for the young man above. "Miss Clara, darling," he said, tremulously, "them's my sentiments." Then another voice came from below: "No, Mr. Goatee, I cannot bid you hope; I love another." "And them's mine, Mr. Morris," remarked Miss Cla.a.?Harper's Bazar. Salary No Object. Young "Woman (at intelligence office) ?"Any situations open to- day." Manager?"Yes. There is a fine opening for a 'second girl' in a good family on Sunny avenue, $4 a week. Duties light. And you get your board free, you know, and two afternoons off every week." Young Woman (haughtily)?"Any other chances?" Mauager?"Let mo see. H'm. Yes, Grindem & Hardface.the dealers in green hicies and tanners' supplies, in the basement this side of the docks on Dingy Row, want an assistant bookkeeper. Salary small, of course " Young Woman (excitedly)?"Never mind the salary. Giva me a note to the firm!"?Chicago Triiune. Brains Always Win. Stranger?"Beg pardon, madam, for calling you to the door, but will you be kind enough to te 1 me who thai ignorant, vulgar, commonplace woman in the house across the way is?" Mrs. Gabb?"That's Mrs. Stuckup." "Stuckup. Thank you. I must je member the name so as not to waste ume i on her in future. How did such a hope-1 lessly ignorant woman get on this very I respectable street, I wonder?" "I'm sure I don't know. I called on her onco, but bhe never returned it, and that ended our acquaintance,you may be sure, the odious thing." "I should say so. Why, that woman wouldn't know a lady frr>m an orang outang; she wouldn't know a bright spoon from a black one. It's an actual fact that it isn't five minutes since she said she had never heard of the Skihigb silver polish; and when I even went to the trouble to brighten a spoon for her she said it looked just the same. Never saw such ignorance. I suppose you:j have always used the Slcihigh polish, of course. You have the bright, cheery, beautiful appearance of ladies who do, but perhaps your supply is meat out, and in that case " ' I believe it is. I'll take a package." "It come3 in cans, madam. One dollar, plea3e. Thanks."?Philadelphia Record. Drove Him Away. Mark Twain, during h:s early days, did not stand well among boarding house keepers. The drawing youtn was too lazy to pay his board. Once, while working on the St. Louis Republican, Twain, after many boarding house hardships, cast his hungry lot with a ' hard featured widow named Perkins, j The printers had told h m that she wa3 a woman of gentle nature. They gleefully ' nnd nf thn first week. Mon- I uwaiiv?u iuv day morning when Mark came to the office his face wore an anxious expression. "How are you, Clemens?" said the foreman. "Slow." "That's a fact. Glad to see that you have entered upon tne week in so truthful a way. How is your landlady?" "Bad." "Did you pay her Saturday night?" "No." "What did she sayj" "Nothing, but she looked as though she were chiseled out of stone." "I should think," a tramp printer rejoined, "that she looked as though she were chiseled out of board." Twain cast a quick glance at the speaker, and, lazily reaching for his coat, said: "My immortal so:;i is too tender to stand the cruel shafts of sarcasm. Good bye." He dragged himself out of the office. His career as a printer was at an end.? Arlcunsaw Trace/er. A Dependent Citizen. The following true story is told of t j well known member of the bar in Allegany County, New York, than whom j there never lived a gentlier, kindliei j spirit. With his scholarly attainments and profound knowledge of legal lore he possessed the simple, dependent nature of a child, aud, it may be added, 8 child's utter guilelessncss and faith ir j his kind. His wife, fortunately for ihe worldlj j success of the pair, was shrewd aud, practical in a marked degree; upon ho strong independence of character ,Judg< I C leaned heavily, except within th< i domain of his profession, where, curiously enough, his op nions were singu larly prompt and infallible. In the do mestic and social circles, however, hi deferred to Mrs. C in the simples matters, and so habitual had this stat< of things become that it did not occui to cither of them that there was any thing unusual in it. From donning hii . winter flannels to leading a card at th< whist table he never pretended to ad without "Helen's" sanction and advice. But one day he showed his condition of mental servitude in a really astonish ing way. He was suffering from toothache, and his wife sent him to the vil lage dentist for relief. Obediently hi went, got into the chair, and opened h i mouth for the prelim nary examination. "Which tooth is it aches, Judge." in - f v, ; : ': i ' '.v ; ' l - t quired the dentist, poising the forceps. There was a moment's hesitation; then the Judge sat up from his reclining position, and looking innocently at the dentist, said, in all good faith: "Well, now, I don't know; I'll go home and ask Helen." Country Versus City Life. The general death-rate in large cities, says Dr. J. M. French, in the American Agriculturist, is often twice as great as in the sparsely-settled country, while among children under five years of age the difference is even greater than this, t'o constant and well ascertained is this difference that Dr. Farr, the English rogistrar-genenil, has formulated the law that the death-rate of districts increases with the density of their population. Investigations which have been recently made upon a large scale prove conclusively that all persons living beyond the age of eighty years only, an extremely small proportion were born or spent their childhood in the city, while a large pro-, portion were reared upon a farm. In one case, out of one thousand octofenarians, four hundred and sixty-one ad been farmers all their lives, and nearly all of them began life upon the farm. In auother instance, out of many thousands, only one person over eighty years of age had been bora and brought up in the city. Many of them had removed to the city, and engaged in business there, but all except one had spent the years of body-building in the countrv. The great majority of the successful business men in our cities, and of men occupying responsible positions in pub lie life, were country born and bred. In the country they obtained that roDustness of constitution and strength of body without which no one can long endure the strain of business or professional life. Thero, too, they build up that strength of mind and character which is necessary in order to overcome the temptations of city life, and that steadfast determination which enabled them to achieve success. The reasons for these things are not hard to find. The conditions of city life are such as to lead to a much greater prevalence of nearly all epidemic and cnntacious diseases. Then tho country lads and lasses enjoy plenty of good air and sunshine, simple food and out*door exercise. Their habits are regular, their hours of rising and retiring are early, and they live close to nature, In the city these conditions arc reversed. Pure air is hatd to find, night is turned into clay, and life is artificial. The strain upon the nervous system is greater, the body is not as well nourished, and the vital forces give out earlier. An Arctic Explorer in Tropic Zones. Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of Arctic fame has just started for Mexico to traverse an unexplored region of the Sierra Jladre Mountains. Lieutenant fchwatka's career as an explorer and traveler has already made him famous. He is a native of Illinois, who rcceivud a West Point cadetrhip from Oregon and graduated in ls71, when he was assigned to duty with Colonel Crook in the cavalry service on the frontier. lie was with the great Indian fighter until 1877, having participated in nearly all of the Indian campaigns. He was afterward associated with General Sliles, Commander of the Department of the Columbia, as aide-de camp. In 188o he made the trip to King William's Land in search of Sir John Franklin's party. The remains of a considerable number of the ill-fated company who abandoned the ships Lrebus and Terror, and unsuccessfully endeavored to find the settlements to the southward, were discovered. Scraps of Sir John Franklin's records were found, but as they had been torn up and strewn arouud by the Esquimaux' they were of no use. It was during this expedition that Lieutenant Schwatke made the longest sled journey ever attempted in thu Arctic regions. Subsequently he made an exploration to Mount St. Llias, Alaska, ana last year he penetrated the iuterior regions of Yellowstone Park.? New York Graphic. JLorse Dentistry. "See that horse;" asked Ceorge F. Case this morning. "Yes." "Well, in about two minutes a dentist is coming around to put his teeth intc Bhape." "A horse dentist?" (Cvnptic He'll trim the rou<?h edires off and iu fifteen minutes he'll be the happiest equine in the stable. He won't feel any more's if lie had three boils in his mouth and a scalded tongue." The dentist arrived just then, opened a tanned calfskin case and exposed a set of shining tools. The horse, which had been standing in a somewhat despondent attitude, brightened up and looked expectantly, but a little nervous. The dentist didn't stand on cercmony. He thrust his arm deep into the mouth and acquainted himself with the length and locality of the spike?. Then he thrust in an instrument like a pair of tongues and began cutting the teeth. The roughened edges c<tmo off with a loud, crunching noise. A smaller pair of tongues was then inserted and about one eighth of an inch was cutoff the front teeth. They were then beveled with another instrument and then all the teeth were filed off smooth. The horse looked satisfied as he was led away to a stall.?D.troit Journal. Thi Velocity of Elcrators. Few persons have any idea of the speed of an elevator. An ordinary gues9 wouldn't probably come within half a mile a minute of being right. i^ome elevators run as slowly as eighty feet a minute. You always ask the conductor about elevators of this kind, and hetelli you apologetically that the old thing is worn out, auu tnat mey rc soon guiujj i get in a new one that will take tiie cake. < The average sj eed of elevators is about 221 feet a minute. This includes ordinary stoppages. The elevators in the Equitable Building have a run of 13/5 feet from basement to top of building, nnd it takes twenty seconds to make thai run without stop*. In a day of ninis hours these elevators run over ten milos. The elevators in the Western I'nion Telegraph Building, and in Aldrich Court are exceedingly lively. They have developed a speed of 500 feet a minute. That is going pretty fast. A person with a weak stomach would be unwise to ride down in an elevator making that speed. It would upsei his calculation.?New York Frew. riiiladelplna Built on a Gold Mine. A few days ago I met Professor Alonzo Chase, geologist of Cornell University. The conversation happeucd to turn on gold, when the Professor remarked "One of the most interesting facts about gold is that it is found in greater or less quantities in all parts of the world. For instance, the city of Philadelphia is built on a gold mine. Tests have been made of earth from various parts of that city, all of which show the presence of gold, but, as it yields only a few cents to Ihe cubic yard, it would not.pay to work it."?New York Star. 'V ~CINCHONA BARK. THE PRODUCT FROM "WHICH QUININE IS MADE. How the Great Malaria Remedy Was Discovered?Gathering the Bark in the Forests of Bolivia. The cinchona bark, from which qui- j nine is made, is found all along the ; western slopes of the Ande3, from the j Caribbean fcea to the Straits of Magellan. The product of I'eru and Bolivia is the best, and from those Republics, until re- j cently, the entire supply of the world I was brought, and an enormous quantity^ it is, for the shipments to Europe alone have frequently amounted to twenty I million pounds a year. The natives of i'eru and Bolivia call the cinchona tree the cascarilla. Although it is asserted by some of the Peruvian antiquarians that its virtues were known to the Incas before the Conquest, the credit of the discovery has been gi7cn to the Jesuits. History, nowever. has failed to preserve the name of the padre to whom the discovery isdue. The bark was introduced into Europe by the Countess of Cinchon, the wife of one of the early viceroys of Peru, who was cured of a fever by its use, and who sent a quantity as a gift to Cardinal de Lugo at Seville. The cardinal spread the knowledge of its virtues through Spain and fiance in the early part of the seventeenth century, and gave the remedy the name of the lady who brought it to his notice. It wrs originally known as Jesuit's bark, and even now is frequently leferred to as Peruvian bark. The process by which the alkaloid?quinine?is extracted was discovered by Pelletier, a French chemist, so late as 1320. The tree is beautiful. It usually attains a height of fifty or sixty feet when full grown, and is four or five feet in circumference at the base. The leaves aro large, oval-shaped, dark green on the outside, light green on the under side, and they glisten in the sun, when a breeze stirs them, like the foliage of the the silver popular. The flowers are small, white and fragrant. The roots contain the greatest degree of alkaloid, but are difficult to obtain. Moreover, as the life of the tree is destroyed when the roots are disturbed, the trunk and branches are depended on for the supply nf Karlr Vi uut u? The cascarilleros, or bark-hunters, eater the woods at the closo of the rainy season, about the first of May, and rema n until the last of September. They are organised under the direction of a superintendent, or Examinador de C'ascarilla, who is licensed to pursue that vocation. Bark may be taken in the forests by any one, Out under a law of the Bolivian Congress all the baric must be sold to a company which has a monopoly of the trade, and pays for it a heavy tax to the Government. It was formerly the custom to fell the tree, and strip all the bark from its roots, trunk and branches, but in 13(51 a law was passed to protect the forests, and now the cascarilleros are allowed to remove only half the bark, which theyejt in strips with long knives called machetas, and in a few years nature heals the wounds, and replaces what has been ;aiten away. The best quality of bark is that taken from the new limbs, aud is called the 4,tabla." This is worth, when dry, from thirty to forty dollars a quintal of one hundred and twenty-five pounds. The second grade comes from the larger branches, is called "char.jue," and is worth fifteen or twenty dollars a quintal; while the least valuable bark, that stripped from the trunk, is called ' canulo/'and sel.'s for five or ten dollars a quintal. One man can cut a quintal of bark a day if the trees are plenty, but the caacarilleros are paid only small wages, forty or fifty cents a day, by the speculators who send them out. Before the season opens the cascarilleros are organized into gangs, each under an examinador, and carry Into the forest supplies of food to last through the season. They have a common camp or headquarters, which is moved from place to place as occasion requires; they go from it in pairs every morning, searching for the tree9, and at night re- j turn laden with the results of the day's ! labor, which is stacked in the sun to j dry. The bark shrinks to about half its [ original weight when the sap is dried . out. At the close of the season several j days are spent in tying it in packages, which are carried on the backs of the ] ? * ? nAnnnnionf PonH07.VA11fi for ! D1CU IU lUOHJUOH,UUTV...vu..v-> the mule or llama train?, and are then i taken to the citics, where it is inspected ' by the tax gatherer and then packed in raw hides for shipment. The cascarilln trees, scattered through the dense forests, are located with great skill by the cascarilleros from the tops of high trees or the sides of ravines. In gathering the bark the smaller limbs are stripped first, then the larger limbs, and j finally the trunk. ? Youth''a Comj.anion. His Name Against ilim. The Hon. Daniel Dougherty, who was heard at Central Music Hall last night, entertained a few friends at dinner in this city, and for three hours charmed them with his fund of anecdote. Three brighter hours never passed, from all I have been told. "My name has always been against me," he said, as he turned the conversation to himself. 4,A few years ago I was invited to be one of a party of promineut people who made an inspection of the State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. In going through one oi the corridors an attendant had occasion, not knowing who I was, to call ou* the j name Dan Dougherty, and in the twinkle j of an eye three of the hardest-looking ! /?riminnla T l>vpr 8a\v nonned their heads j tiuiuLig v? r*ri j lout and answered 'Here.'" .Mr. | Dougherty's guests roared at this story, for he had to'd it as it can never be made to appear in type. They had i hardly recovered from holding their hands on their sides when he added: ' There has been a Dan Dougherty hung in Pennsylvania every year since I can j remember." The plates fairly danced on i the table. ? Chicago Mail. Tiie Japanese Emperor. The Emperor of Japan is a very ] studious man. He rises early and break- j fasts at seven or eight o'clock. He uses | the knife and fork in eating when he j takes foreign food, and he adopts the chopsticks at his .Japanese dinners. He varies his meals.sometimes takiug foreigc food and sometimes Japanese. He is fond of meats, and has a well-trained Japanese cook to serve them for him. It is not customary for him to eat with the Empress, and he usually eats alone. After breakfast is over he goes to his study, and at 9 o'clock he receives such Ministers of State as have matters to report to him. His audiences with them often last until 12 o'clock. He then roturns to his own room and takes liia lunch. This usually consists of fish, meats, bread and wines. He is a good I eater and likes good wine.?Londoni Figarj. J rnrnrnm CUBIOUS FACTS. Chicago leads in its number of enufll parka. The "Beaux-less Social" is a unique title of a Baltimore Club. A New York man recently paid $25 for an almanac 275 years old. Among the students at Princeton College is one seventytwo years old. 1 Sixty-three snakes were killed in on* hole near Harvejsburg, Ohio, the other day. Few ladies consider that they carry some forty or fifty miles of hair on their heads. 2? The Tour de Corduan is a fa morn lighthouse at the entrance of the 61 ronde, in France. The Chinaman is peculiarly distig' guished from the European by his absolute nervelessness. A wonderful burning lake, abont hjrif a mile in circumference, is discovered ik Knox County, Ind. Acrophobia is a new term used to describe an exaggerated condition of feu whan in hiffh ulaces. o- *> TV A tame crow belonging to a farmet near Ridgeway, Canada, has been taught to distinguish colors. The streets of ancient Jerusalem wen kept remarkably clean because everj man swept his own doorway. A citizen of Palmyra, Mo., got up ill the night, went into the woods anil felled a large tree while asleep. Milan, Paris and London lead the world in all that pertains to a thoroughly artistic knowledge of dancing. A Ulysses, Neb., man hsus built th( "largest corn-crib on earth." It it 40< feet "long, 42 feet wide, 12 feet high,anc holds 25,000 bushels. Experiments have proved that the faa of a snow breastwoik eight feet thicM and not sloping can defy most ordinary projectiles fired into it. There is no salary attached to thi title of Emperor of Germany. The King of Prussia, however, has a modest income ot $1,200,000 a_year. A person convicted of any crime it China, except that of murdering one o the royal family, can hije a substitute to take the punishment, even if it is death. The word "folk lore," invented bj late W. J. Thomas for use in English has been adopted by the French and ap pears in the titlc3 of new publications. A. New York dry goods firm give* ] as its reason for paying low salaried that ''the less an employe earns th J less temptations he has to become a ba?| man." H The viola played upon by Nahaifl Franko at a recent symphony societfl concert in New York was a Gaspara dfl Salo made in 1612 and recently sold fofl 13500. , Male sopranos are still to be heard ill some of the churches in Italy. Twofl one old and thin, the other young awfl fat, divide the solos in St. Peters! Rome. A man in New York has fitted himfl self for an expert witness in chirographjfl and once h avingaeen a man's signaturfl he can identify it again if simply show J one single letter of the name. fl 0. R. Herr, of Stamford, N. Y., iM said to be the possessor of the goi<9 watch whi -h ^'ajor Andre, of Rerolul tionary fame, offered as a ransom to hifl " "'on if ivniilH letliim eo free. . H Perhaps the youngest couple that ere married in Butts County, Ga., was Mr. Allen and wife, who were joined in wed lock rear Worthville. Allen was jus past fifteen years and his wife wa9 Jiia< years his senior. .-ii ::* Fire Company, No. 10, of Cincinnati owns a dog which is said to have sare< the lives of several firemen. The aui mal is described as *a large, handsom Newfoundland, and is credited with be ing able to climb a ladder three storiei high. Working a Paper Mine. I recently met Henry Palmer, an ol< California friend and one of the Argo nauts, who told mc had abandoned th West and had settled in St. Lawrenc County. "What are you doing u? there?" I asked. He excited mycuri osity by replying: "Working a pape mine. "What do you mean:" 'Til tel you. When I was a boy I worked in I paper mill at Camden and became fa miliar with the cluys used for sizing anc weighting paper. I concluded a shor a:? If?1i/nrnill ond nrWTlf IIUIU UJJU IV i\.?T W VMtiiVtuiM wu?? W|- ? ? the balance of my days in the East While on a visit to St. Lawrence Counti I was riding one day along a new roa< which had been cut for some distanc through a peculiar formation of soft white rock. I examined it carefull; under the microscope and found that i was fibrous, and seemed peculiarl; adapted to paper makiug. I had test made by manufacturers, who reportet favorably, so I bought the land and be gan lpining; we are now shipping oyer) hundred tons a day, and it is rapidf displacing the clays formerly used, as it fibrous nature makes it a part of th* warp and weft ot the paper, instead o si ing only. No other such depoJit i known iu the country."?New York B ar A Qneer Family. There resides in Urbana, Ohio, veritable family of cranks. Two sister and a brother are now living. Years ag the father bought coats for the boys,bu neglected one of his sons, John, Jr. whereupon the boy said he would neve wear a coat as long as his fathe lived. He went upsta rs to hii room * *? *411 t /mi nfnnn rroor wnere ne rcmaiueu uum iuum,i,u after, when the father died. The hous was afterward painted all over with th most grotesque and curious designs While John, the peculiar, and a brothe were disputing about these designs, th brother said: "John, I wish you woul< go upstairs and stay there." John die so, remaining as before for four years coming down to attend the brother' funeral. John, the recluse, is bleache< as white of a woman because of his loni confinement. He is sixty-five years old A sister has charge of the finances, bu the sisters and brother live a seclude< life, never mingling with the world with out. An Interesting Legislator.; An interesting figure in the Pennsyl vania 1 cgislature is the Hon. John S Hhev. member of the lower Jlouse fron Cambria County. He is pSst seventy* was Speaker of "the House in 18o2, and i^| the only representative of the old fchooH Democracy now in public life in Penn'^g sylvania. As S|)eaker of the House iiM 1832, he appointed the committee thaH looked after the entertainment of LouiH Kossuth and his suite when they visitet^B Harrisburg and escorted them across th^l State to Pittsburg, a large part 'of th<fl journey having to be made in sleiehsH^ there being no Pennsylvania tfailroaa tS Pittsburg then, ana the State cana^| being frozen. Mr. Rhey is one of th^| oldest and Ablest lawyer*, journalists an<H politicians in active life in the State toM day. His mother is living, and will soofl be 100'years old.? New York Sun, I