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* Wtf HOT THAT KIND 0? A POST. ST ?T M. a BUOWX I "No, William," the maiden f?ltwed, M And a tear stood in her eye, BR *1 never, never, can be your wife, S And 111 tell you the reason why; .? You're only a poor spring poet, K Without any proapecta in life, IT Asa altho' you're as nice as nice can You could never support a wife." H Yoang William arose from hio bended kneM, And hia voice rang proud and clear; "If you tnink I'm a go ling, Uatildy Janei m You've got the wrong chick by the ear; I I ain't none o' yer dishwater poets, 0 That howl about spring and its oharma, K I write patent-ruedicine puffs," he cried, And she tumbled right into his arnu. ?Yankee Blade. 1 mm Dm urn > UUUA & uujiLmi) ?OS ? ; -The Victim of Circumstan}; tial Evidence. . ( ? I Story of Nihilistic Settings and Crimes. , ? BY LEON EDWARDS. I i CHAPTER XXV. IN DISGRACE. There is a worse disgraco, your Maj esty, than Siberia," said General Paul, with a ring of defiance in his voice. The Czar looked at him with an expression of questioning wonder. "It is," he continuned, "to lose my own self-rcspect. So far, that has not forsaken me." n "There is no standard for self-respect. I It depends on the moral nature of the y man." Il The Czar again waved his hand, Bf *ose, and strode out of the room with Rfc.an angry glitter in his bluish-gray S^^cres, and General Paul was so astound IB ?ecl ~ fit tne aorupmeaa ui ma masuci o \ manner that he didn't even rise from I 3iis chair. The Czar passed tlirongh the ranks of the pruardd formed abont the sleigh, I every man standing at a "salute," and staring straight before him, as if his i 'fate depended on hia not moving an ! -eye-lid. ? "To the palace !n This command the Czar gave as he . >entered the sleigh and drew the soft I fur robes about him. i" At the approach of the outriders all people on foot came to a standstill, ?nd, on hearing the clatter of the spurs and scabbards, all the vehicles in front sped into the side streets, to make way for the imperial cortege, though >it looked like the flight of doves to their cotes at the cry of the swooping hawk. Here and there along the route, <4here were groups of men in the alleyways, or drawn back from the crowd in . whn cfftzftd sullenlv after M UVVi?l-jW, " O * H the imperial guards, and shook theii (heads and spoke in eager tones, like I IB "men who have desperate work on hand, j Eg On reaching his apartments, the I - Czar at once ordered the attendance oi I -Count Lin wold. S That obsequious and crafty courtier M .at onca obeyed the summons, and '-strode with bowed head and abject I mien, into the presence of his master. K "We have just returned from the g9 'hotel of General Paul," began the gj -Czar, "and we fear that rumor has not ^L^-alanilered him." "Would that I might be able to say ^^^fcatrramor has slandered him," said B 'the Count, bowing, and speaking in Hf 'the tones of a man whose heart ia ^ deeply pained at the perfidy of the Wm 'man he was discussing. ^."He has permitted his unreasoning love for this adventuress to blind him W to 'the duty he owes us, and to make S him indifferent to his standing amonp I ithe first nobles of our empire. W? Iff have deposed him from command, and [nominated to the office of the Chief of the Secrtt Service our trusty friend Count George Orloff." "lour Majesty could not have made a better selection," said Count Linwold, who, in his heart, hated Count Qrloff nearly as much as he did General Paul. "We have given General Paul five days, in which to decide whether he shall follow his own lawless desires or obey the imperial mandate." Here the Czar took a paper from the table, on which his right hand had been resting, and, unfolding it, as if to assist his memory, he oontinued: "Within forty-eight hours, the man Pulaski and his daughter must leave Russia. This day they shall learn of our purpose, and should they refuse to obey, then let him back to the mines of Siberia." "And the lady?" suggested Count Linwold. "She goes away with him. As to 8g General Paul, we have here ordered H the forfeiture of his estates and his exill ile. All that is necessary to carry this N into effect is our royal signature, which m in mercy we shall withhold for the time ^^Apam?d." "If your Majesty's empire is weak in K \any spot," whined Count Linwold, "it H has been made so by your Majesty's exH cess of meroy. I am well assured that H General Paul will not keep his marSi riage contract with my daughter, whose foir rAiinff lifo mnaf. lvn lion r??>fr*rf.Vi clouded. But that apart, I fear that -association!with] these outcast Poles has polluted the young man's mind with the vile theories of the Socialists, who aim at the disruption of the empire and . the destruction of the imperial house. Pardon me, pardon me! your Majesty!"' cried the Count, as he saw a black cloud gathering on the brow of the Czar. "It is my devotion to your Majesty that forces me into this frankness." "Ah, Count .uinwoUT,"" said the Czar, ?s he folded up the paper and laid it down with a sigh, "I often wonder if the crown, for which I never ceaso to battle, and to protect which I hourly risk my life, is worth all tlio trouble. Go! I would that all iu our empire were like you, then our days would have less anguish and our nights fewer dreams of torture." The Czar waved his hand in token -of dismissal, ana count l-iinwoici, dow ing at every step, backed out of the X presence of bis imperial master. H Amoujr the many discontented little H groups tliat watched the Czar returnI ing to the palace there was one c?mn posed of three men, whose dress and fi .general appearance showed they were m in the service of the government. B Those were Colonel Orlott'?the lovet $? of the Countess Elvira Linwold?Dr. I IMulek and Peter the student. The Colonel had jnst whispered." L^The time is ripe for our work. His jV Majesty -will soon take his last drive ^ through the .Neva Prospekt," when I Oeorge Nevski, the old theatrical cos turner, appeared. ffi The old man greeted the three like B old friends, and in reply to their ques HF. .tion, "How prospers the cause?" heaa /' fyered: "Slow, slow; all too slow; but mj hands are full." "How so V" asked Colonel Orl?!T. "My little bouse is full of friends in hiding," said George Nevski. "Who are they?" was Peter tha student's eager inquiry. "That I cannot telL" "Wnat, not to friends?" "No, Colonel, there is only one place to toll secrets, a knowledge of which is not immediately necessary to the safety of a brother. I shall be at the rendezvous to-night, and I promise all who attend a great surprise. The im5>erial ukase is very strong, but it is weak coniDared witn tbe will ana pa tience of a piople ri solved to be fre'e." I . Having said this, the old man | grasped his stick mora firmly, and hobbled out of sight. The three nihilists adjourned to a wine cellar near by. All were educated men and they spoke in French, so as not to be understood by the rabble coming in and going out. They paid no heed to a one-armed soldier, who occupied a table near them, while he smoked a black pipe and sipped a mug of smoking-hot rum. "It is rumored," said Peter the student, addressing the Colonel, "that your oousin, Count Orloff, is to have General Paul's place. If that be so, we could get liim out ot the way, tnen all the fair estates of which he has despoiled you?by order of the Czar? would be yours, and with so much wealth the cause of liberty would flourish." "Wait, Peter; wait. Should that rumor be true, before the week goes by there will be a dead Czar in the Winter Palace, and a vacancy in the office of the Chief of the Secret Force," whispered Colonel Orloff1. "trijf. I" infwrrin>fflrl Dr. Mulek. "this XA40W. is not the time nor place for that subject; let us change it. Who has heard of Ivan Berger?" "Not I," said the Colonel, "though I am sure he is stilJ in St. Petersburg." The one-aim?d soldier took a sip of punch and refilled his black pipe. "He is a devil if ever there was one, and his sister is an angel?even though she prefers the smiles and rubles ol the handsome Count Orloff to the manlj beauty and constant love of the accomplished Dr. Mulek," chuckle J the owner of that name. "I would wager a million rubles? if I had them," said Peter the student, "that a close watch kept on General Paul's hotel would result in the discovery of Ivan Berger. "Wherever Lola Pulaski is, there Ivan Berger, il living, can be found." "Yes, by those who have supernatural powers," said the Colonel. "1 think George Nevski knows something of him. We shall see to-night. In the meantime, let us not lose sight of the fact that while Ivan Berger lives not one of our heads is safe." Colonel Orlotf settled the score for the wine they had been drinking, i and the three men went out, leaving the crippled soldier still smoking his pipe. "Ah," whispered Ivan to himself in French, as he saw the conspirators vanishing, "never were truer words than Madame Roland's spoken: ' OhLiberty, Liberty! How many crimes are committed in thy name.'" He paid his reckoning and went out, still smoking his pipe. He plodded along the crowded streets, meeting many whom he knew, without being known to them; and in the security of his disguise he felt that ihe possessed Eomething like a saporI A. 1 natural puww, He was now virtually in the employ of General Paul and "Count Linwold, his identity known to the former; yet the police were searching for him. there was a price on his head, and he did not even dare to visit the mother and sister for a sight of whom his generous heart so niutHi yearned. He was not for an instant indifferent to the dangers of his anomalous poBition. He knew that it was not prudent to go near the house where his mother and sister lived, but prudence ne\er was the companion of desire, so ho went on. He reached the vicinity of the cheerless old tenement, and he was not sur prised to see a number of armed police pacing back and forth before it. They were wafChing for him. As he stood looking up at the house a policeman pushed hi.*n rudely, callinc out: "Move from the path, old fellow, and make room f< r the ladies." J.van moved to one side, then turned to find himself face to face with hia mother and Elizabeth. He bit his lip to restrain his impulse, as he saw his loved ones entering the house, escorted by two armed men, like oommon prisoners. CHAPTER XXVI. ANOTHER OBDER FROM THE CZAR. But a few short weeks before this " 1 ! i. mere was no man wuose i odiuuu was more to be envied than General Paul's. He was a prince of the empire. He was young, handsome and wealthy. Hia name, as a conspicuous hero in the late war with Turkey, was on every lip, and he was an especial favorite of his Majesty the Czar But there is? there can be?no permanency to honor under the rule of a tyrant. The General did not care for the loss of his uncongenial office; if he had had a choice in the matter he would not have accepted it, but he was profoundly troubled by the almost violent anger of the Czar. He well knew wliy he had been subjected to tho last humility, and that his only hope for a return 01 the imperial favor lay in his complete surrender and obedience to the will of his master. He must wed tile Countess Linwold or lose his vast estates; and he must help to hound from the empire the woman ho so profoundly loved, and her father, whose life had b^eu blasted through the brutal authority of hi3 (General Paul's) father. A less noble and a less resolute man would have debated long before deciding to brave tho wrath of the Czar by being true to himself; but the General's de-ision was tliat of a man who has only one course before liim. After the Czar's departure General Paul left the great otfice, telling his subordinates that his authority was at an end, and then ho went to his own private reoeption-room aud threw himself into a cLair, with a compression of the lips and brow that denoted unshakable resolve. He remained absorbed in his thoughts for more than an hour, and he might have remained longer indifferent to his surroundings, had he not been aroused by a knock at tho door. It was opened, and a tall young man, dressed in the picturesque oostume of a courier of the Czar, entered and saluted. "Excellency," said the courier, as he J. r drew a sealed letter from his pouch, 1 *1 bear you a communication from my imperial master." HaviBg delivered the paper, the courier turned like a machine, and strode out of the room. General Paul opened the letter and read as folio vva: To his excellency General Paul. Prince of Moskeva: Your Excellency?It having eome to the knowledge of his Imperial Majesty that you are now harboring in your hotel one Count, John Pulaski, a recently returned convict, and a woman calling herself "Lola Pulaski," who claims to be his slaughter. you are hereby ordered to send them from under your roof, and to see that they at once take their departure from the empire. If within forty-eight hours the gald John and Lola Pulaski arc found within the limits of the empire, they shall be ar" J "* wifliAiif fnrthar TUSbUU ttllU C*U UUV/O ovjlifc, ?? ituvuw LU? v?v trial or hearing, to Eastern Siberia. By order of the Czar. The General rubbed hia eyes and read this paper over a second time, aa if he doubted the evidence of his senses. Then he sprang to his feet, dashed the paper on the floor and crushed it under his heel as if it had been the head of a venomous serpent. "Oh, God!" he cried, in a paroxysm of anger and grief. "Can this cruel order come from the head of the empire, for which I risked my life on a score of battle-fields? "Must I, to prove my loyalty to such a monster as this, and to hold the estates?which I value as nothing compared with my own manhood?must I become a blood-hound, to hunt down the brave man whom my father so cruelly wronged and outraged? Aye, more than that; must I take the alternative of showing my loyalty to one who has proved himself a tyrant, by driving into exile the only being I ever have, ever can love?" The General might have oontinued his soliloquy had not the door opened and Count Lin wold stood before him. "Pardon me, your excellency," said the Count, "but I knocked, and imagining I heard a reply, I entered." "1 Have just receiveu mis communication from the Czar," aaidthe General, picking the paper from the floor and handing it to his visitor. "You already know the conteuts and no doubt have come for my answer." [TO BK CONTINUED.] A Legislator in a Blouse. When an American workingman is elected to a representative office of any sort he usually puts on the best clothes that he has upon going to occupy his place, the idea being, undoubtedly, that such a proceeding is a proper manifestation of respect for the constituency that has honored him, and of appreciation for the dignity conferred upon him. Across the water a different course has been pursued in at least one instance, and M. Thivrier, a workingman elected as such to the present Chamber of Deputies in France, wears all the time in public tne blouse which is the badge of a laborer in that country. M. THIVRIEI*. M. Tiiivrier began work in the coal mines at Commentoy, Franco, when twelve years old, and for twenty yeRrs remained in them, handling the pick. Afterward he became a vine grower and dealer in wine9. He is a Socialist, but not a Communist, "for, having," as a French paper puts it, "acquired his capital by his own hard work, he cannot pftsilv understand how thatcaoital should belong to all the world." Through all his career he has stuck to his workingman's blouse, and it was largely upon the strength of that peculiarity that he was elected a Deputy. He is said to be a man of unusual intelligence and a good speaker. When he came to Paris to take his scat, his blouse, which he wore not only at the Chamber, but at receptions and all other functions that he attended, made him at once famous. The garment, it will be seen, is similar to the outside shirts worn by Chinamen in this country,aud would doubtless bring the Deputy ridicule rather than honor or popularity if worn here.?New York Sun. r Striking Up an Acquaintance^ ; ?> Ybung Black Bear (to young polar near?ii recent arrival;?''say, 110?v uiu it happen that you turned gray so young?" ?Harpers Young VeopU. The biggest edible oysters in the world are found at Port Lincoln, in South Australia. They are a9 large as a dinnei plate, and the same shape. They nro sometimes more than a foot across tho shell, and the oyster fits his shell so well he docs not leave much margin. It is a new sensation, when a friend asks you to lunch at Adelaide, to have one oyster sel before you fried in butter or egg and bread crumbs. The only Territorial delegate in Congress who was born in his own Territory is Antonio Joseph, of New Mexico. , 3c;- - - - >79 -n EARRINGS. CURIOUS ADDITIONS TO THE LOBE OP THE EAR. Barbaric Devices of Torture and Antique Examples of Beaut y?String, Trough and Button?Odd Earrings in All Age~. The strange fashion of mutilating and adorning the human ear has been practiced for all ages, and has been in vogue all over the world. It has especially en joyed great favor among the Orientals, and by Persians, Babylonians, Lydians, Lybians and Carthaginians the earring was worn as commonly by men as by women. Figure 1, taken from Thomas Hope's "Costume of the Ancient3," shows how the monarchs of Phrygia adorued themselves, and there are numerous evidences in gems, etc., to bear out the assertion concerning the vanity of the antique male. In the "Iliad" Juno is represented as adorning himself with earrings made with three drops representing mulberries, and most of the jewels so worn at that time seem to have come under the head of what some old-fashioned people still call "eardrops." From this period down to the latest the practice prevailed in Greece, and one finds the ears of the Venus d' Medici to be pierced for the reception of earrings. Pliny says there was no part of dress on which greater expense was lavished among the Romans, and Seneca mentions an earring of which a drawing, the lower right-hand specimen, copied in Fig. 2 is taken from Smith's Dictionary, Fro. 1. A PHRYGIAN KING. which he says was worth a patrimony. It has four pearls, two above and two below the precious stone in the center. In the more valuable of the antique earrings pearls were almost al ways used; and they were valued for the completeness of their form, as well as for their whiteness. In place of a ring the ornament was often attached to the ear with h hook, a custom which still prevails in Italy. Many Egyptian earrings of very beautiful design have been preserved, of which the one to the left in Fig. 2 is nn example. These antique designs have been frequently imitated in modern times, and if the use of this ornament is to be continued it can scarcely assume a more graceful form than was often given to it by the ancients. The smallest earring in Fig. 2 is a sketch of one of a pair copied from the "Masterpieces of the r\ ^^1 FI?. 2. FROM THE ANTIQUE. Centeunml Exhibition," where it was shown among the Castellani antiques. The original is about two inches long, the pair representing the dolphins, which were emblematic of Venus. The eyes, fins and other details of the figure are executed in the professional materials of the jeweler's art, instead of by enrrr-awinrr /.V mnlrlill Ct flint, l'q trt SAV. t.hftV 6"** '"6 , j j J are sketched upon the smooth surface by lines of rope-work applied and soldered on. The minute gold cords of which this rope-work consists, so dclicate yet so even, and so firmly soldered as to become homogeneous with the body of the object, constitute the grand technical superiority of antique jewelry. The date HO. 3. A LITTLE GKEEK TRIPLE. of this objcct is assigned at 350 B. C\, the place of its discovery being Tarenturfr, in Calabria. The earring seen in Fig. 3 is also of the nature of a votive offering to Venus, the design being that of two doves. It is sketched from oue of the illustrations in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts,the original having been discovered in Etruria and dating probably to the fifth century. It id ui ^uiutiuu i.ii.iLuui, uiu uuuuiuu tuiuia of the plumage being most faithfully reproduced. That the earring was ftscd in Britain during the Bronze Period has been proved by Dr. John Evans iu his ,:Aucicnt Bronze Implements." In a barrow at C'owlnm, in Yorkshire, touching the temporal bones, he says, which were stained green by the contract, were two earrings of bronze. They were made by beating one cud of a piece of bronze flat and forming the other iuto a pen-shaped termination. The Den had been nassod through the lobo of the car and then bent round, the other and flab end being bent over it. Thus the earring must have been permanently fixed in the ear. This scoop or basket form of the ancient Briton's earring was sometimes carried to a ludicrous size, a3 witness that r#prescntcd in Fig. 4. This was taken out of a stone cist at Orton, in Morayshire, Scotland. In this case, however, the earring, or rattier the ear-trough, was of gold, and might have been worn by some unsubdued Celt who caused the Roman many an unhappy quarter of an hour in his home. Earrings of silver have also been found in the British barrows or .. . :-X . , . " . ' burial mounds, but both fa England and on the Continent, after the commencement of the tenth century, the fashion appears to have declined and earrings are neither found in graves nor discernible in paintings or sculpture. M. Viollet Cedric observes that the style of head-dress and wearing the hair may in some measure account for this. In the thirteenth century, however, the fashion evidently revived, mention being made of earrings in the "Roman de la Rose," but there is no graphic description of their form, and neither monument nor miniature is found T?* fVin oivfoonfK nan . LU aoolob uo. xu mt oiAv\.uubu v,^utury earrings were in high favor except among tne purists, who denounced the ''women who were not ashamed to make holes in their ears whereat they hang rings and other jewels of gold FIG. 4. ONCE WORN BY A BRAWWT SCOT. and precious stones/' Elizabeth revived the antique love for pearls and wore "rich drops," two large ones with a third depending from them being seen in her portrait by Zucchero. Continual mention of them is made by writers in the seventeenth century, at which period they were given as love tokens. They were also worn by men at the same period all T7., uvcr JJUIUJJC. ucui^c T micio, jLsurvv ui Buckingham, wore diamond earrings, and all courtiers wore either gold, stones or pearls in their ears. Men are not seen wearing them after the restoration of Charles II, but there was a singular fashion existing at the same time on the continent which found its way to England about the time of James I, viz., the wearing of two or three strings of black silk. The noble red man who once ranged through the forest primeval was not content with a simple pair of earrings, but tied his ears up in thongs of stained skin. At least that is what George Catlin says in his "North American Indians," from which the sketch seen in Fig. 5 has been taken. This species of fantastic ear decoration is, however, simplicity itself aam*va?a/1 4-yv 4-V?ft4- Kh rtiirtftin nn . uuuipaicu 11/ tuab pai/bitbu \jj wi u?u uuFIG. 5. THE NOBLE RED MAJi'fl IDEA. civilized nations in other parts of the world. Take, for instance, the Kaffir, whose ears are pierced at a very early age and the hole continuously enlarged until it is capacious enough to hold a snulf box, an ivory knob or a lion's tusk. But the bo?s people of the t* orld for slashing and distorting the car are the Dyaks of Borneo. The lobes arc pierced when the child is only six months old, and from that day the hole is forcibly increased in size till it forms a loop from one to four inches, or even more, long. At first -wooden pegs are placed in the hole, these are afterward replaced by a couple of tin or brass rings, while if the Dyak belle cannot afford such luxuries FIG. O. A DYAR BfcJL.L.1S. ?he will take a leaf and roll it up aud insert it in her ear. Gradually the weiirht is increased by the addition ot other larger rings, till the lobe often gives way and splits. Carl Bock, in his book on "The Head Hunters of Borneo," asserts that he has counted as many as sixteen rings in a single ear, each of them the size of a dollar. The rings are generally made of tin, and cut so that they can be removed at pleasure. Sometimes disks of colored wood running up to an inch and a half in diameter are used. In addition to this mutilation of the lobe, the helix of the car .is pierced or slit in several places, and in these holes pi?^^ of colored ribbon cr cord are lied," or D"ttons or leathers inserted. In Fig. 6 there is given a sketch made from one of the illustrations in Bock's book. It represents the head of a Dyak belle, the I mnnonpflmnn + o nor hAinnr ft.Q ffil U4V?WUiWUiVUlO W* mv, Jows: Total length of the ear 7.1 inches, length of the gash in the lobe 4.75 inches, distance between the level of the chin and bottom of the ear 2.85 inches. ?Sun Francisco Chronicle. ; Will Exchange His Position. """ A young man accustomed to lighthouse work, would exchaugo his present position for a life-preserver.?Life. The Chinese Minister at Washington is said to have concluded to permit his wife to conform with the social usuages of that city, and she witl hereafter receive and return visits. \ TEMPERANCE. XJQUOR AXD LUNACY. rhef CJniversity of Vienna has added to the list of ber eminent professors the alienist Dr. Krafft-Ebing, or Oratz, who to his profound knowledge adds a clearness of literary style that would have ensured him eminence in belles-lettres. In bis openiqg lecture on mental diseases he stated that sixty per cent, of all cases of insanity inherited a predisposition from their ancestors^ In twenty per cent, of all cases intemperance is found to be the sole or ohief cause, and in: thirty per cent, more, one of the causes of mental disease. He advised legal measures to combat the habit of intemperance, or the formation of societies to counteract it. A TEMPERANCE BANQUET. A banquet was given to Judge Brewer, by leading citizens of Leavenworth, Kansas, in honor of his elevation to the United States Supreme Court. The Commitee of Arrangements for the banquet had prepared to-provide its guests with milk punch. In: some way this fact reached the ears of the Police Commissioners, and the proprietors of the hotel were warned by Commissioner Lowe that if any liquors were served they would be arrested on such information. The Banquet Committee gave orders to pay no heed to this threat. Commissioners Lowe and Abernathy heard of this, and declared that if the punch was served the police would certainly enter the place during the banquet and confiscate the liquors. Rather than nave any disturbance, the committee consented to forego the punch, and the only beverages at the feast were tea, coffee, milk and chocolate. HOW TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE. Henry Clews, the Wall street banker, laughed pleasantly when the question was put to him, and said: "This is the problem that bothers ninety-nine out of every one hundred men living, and when it is solved life should bo worth the living. Some men have the art of speculating with success. A great many haven't, and they lose their little all in discovering the fact. Others are successful mechanics, scientists, merchants and inventors. Every trade and industry has its rich men, and every man possesses the peculiar qualifications which fit him for some special trade or art. He should find out these qualifications and their course, and then he snould act accordingly. A man should keep his head clear and bright and free of liquor. Nothing can be gained by drink, and considerable can be lost. Mnd out what you are fit for, work at it with your whole heart and soul, and you will be doing what men before you have done to get rich."?New York Journal. BARNTTM UPSETS STATISTICS. A small controversy is going on now among certain English newspapers regarding the duration of life of persons using intoxicating liquors, and a recent issue of the London Express says that, according to the statistics, P. T. Barnum, who is now in his eightieth year, should have died twenty-six years and some months ago, his allotted age being less than fifty-four years. The same paper further states that the total abstainer's average of life, on statistical showing, is a little over fifty-three years, while the moderate drinker has ten years more of life than his totally abstemious brother. Barnum has been, according to the same authority, "a teetotaller for the last twenty years, I ?j <3Afi*nnriirior t.hA nnmnilers auu Uiamivovij uvi.iuuuw^ ? ?j of statistics, or else playing it very low down on the other total abstainers, whose average life he is cutting down to a frightful extent by living so much beyond his rightful statistical turn. As a matter of fact, Mr. Barnum has not tasted intoxicants for a period of over forty years (not twenty, as stated), and has many times knocked the conceit out of the national statisticians and all their tables on this subject.?New York Times. RELIEF-MONEY WASTED. The Cincinnati Times-Star reports a gentleman from "Washington, who, as a member of the Red Cross Order, served on reli^ committees during the yellow fever visitation in Florida, and at Johnstown, Penn., after the flood, as saying that "a great part of the funds contributed by the pnbliefor the relief of sufferers at both those places indirectly found iu> way into saloon-keepers' coffers." This gentleman, according to the Times-Star, is also authority for the statement that the first carload of lumber received at Johnstown after the disaster was used in constructing a saloon, and the first dozen new buildings erected were saloons. The army of laborers spent in these saloons a great proportion or the wages they received out of the relief funds. He stated that many of the officers on relief duty there were incapacitated for work a great part of the time from too much indulgence in the flowing bowl. The defeat of prohibition in Pennsylvania. he stated, was celebrated by a tremendous drunk on the part of a large number of these officials, militia and civil. Thus does the drink curse supplement and aggravate other calamities ?New York WiU nesn. EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON THE MIND. T. D. Crothers, in the Scientific American, says of the effects of alcohol on the mind: It is one of the curious errors that alcohol stimulates the imagination, and giv;s a clearer, more practical insight into the relation of events of life. The whirl of thought roused up by the increased circulation of the blood in the brain is not imagination; it is not a superior insight or conception of the relation of events, but is a rapid reproduction of previous thoughts, soon merging into confusion. The inebriate never creates any new ideas or new views; all his fancies are tumultuous, blurred and barren. The apparent brilliancy is only the flash of mania, quickly followed by dementia. Alcohol always lowers the brain capacity, and lowers the power of discriminating the relation of ortrl ovonfc Affflr a fow narirtHc nf in toxication, the mind under the influence of spirits is a blank, blurred page. The poets and orators who are popularly supposed to make great efforts under the influence of alcohol only repeated what had been said before in a tangled delirium of expression. The physicians t^o are supposed to have greater slcill w^iCQ using spirits, have paralyzed higher braiij centres, and b^,0 l0,|. au S6i18q fear ^ i appre^ulQn 0j consequences of their acts, aud hence act more automatically, simply doing what they have done before without any clear appreciation of discrimination of the results. The inebriate is the'best of all imaginative persons, and the one in whom the higher brain forces of judgment, reason and conception are the first to give way. The man who use9 spirits to give mental force and clearness is doing the very worst thing possible to destroy this effect. Alcohol is ever and always a paralyzant. It never creates anything; it never gives strength or force that did not exist before; it never gives a clearer conception and power of execution, but always lowers, destroys and breaks down. I TEMPERANCE NEWS A.VD NOTES. It is estimated tbat there are now 35,000 total abstainers in Denmark. "Woe unto those who would protect the drink shop rather than the home! The King of Bavaria receives an income of $1,000,000 a year from the Hofbrauhaus brewery. "One woman's footstep," says Mrs. O. W. Scott, "may tross the saloon threshold noiselessly, but when two hundred thousand cross it, there is a trembling behind the bar!" The National W. C. T. U., through its President, has received a bequest of $1000 from Mrs. Dinah Mendenhall, of Pennsylvania, whose death occurred in November. The six-year-old daughter of a hotel keeper at Hickville, Long Island, took a draught of whisky to cure a cold, which caused her death, as was shown by the post mortem . examination. The Chicago dolly papers say that 1,800,000 barrels of beer %vere sold in that city during the year loS!>. The output for the year was larger by from 75,000 to 100,000 barrels than the year before. Threo new total abstinence Catholic bishops ?Sbauley, McGoldrich and Cotter?have been added to Archbislion Ireland's force. Two of them will work in Minnesota and one in North Dakota. I A novel result of the temperance inestings at Noblesville, Iud., is reported. So many have signed the pledge and received badges that the supply of blue ribbon in the stores of the town bos beon exhausted. Ethelbebta Angelica Mabguebita Augustina Pattebsoh is tlio name of a Belmont County, Ohio, schoolgirl. . I RELIGIOUS READING. -* GOD CABK3 FOB UK. I sat in the door at eventide; My heart was full of fears; Ana I saw the landscape before me He Through mists of burning tears? I thought to myself, the world is dark, No light nor joy I see; Nothing but toil and want is mine, And no one cares for me. A sparrow was twittering at my feet, With its beautiful auburn head, And looked at me with dark mild eyq| As it picked up crumbs of bread, And said to me, in words as plain As the words of a bird could be: ''I'm only a sparrow, a worthless bird But the dear Lord cares for me." A lily was growing beside the hedge, Beautiful, tall, and white, And it shone through the glossy loaves of green, Like ?n angel ctothed in light; And it said to me, as it waved its head, On the breeze3 soft and free: "I'm only a lily, a useles< flower, But the Master cares for me." Then it s-emed that the hand of the loving Lord Over my head was laid, And he said to me, "Oh, faithless child, Wherefore art thou dismayed? I clothe the lilies, I feed the birds, I see the sparrows fall, Nothing escapes my watchfal eye, My kindness is over all." ?Jfr.iv Matilda C. Edmund*. ? . 'H SEVEN WAYS OF OmiTO. 1. The careless way: To give something to every cause tuat is presented, without inquiring into its merits. 2. The impulsiv-j way: Togive from im? pulse?as much a-.d as often as lore and pity and sensibility prompt. 3. The lazy way: TO make a special offer to ram money fur benevolent objects by fairs, festivals, etc; 4. The self-denying way: To save the cost of luxuries and apply them to purposes of religion and charity. This may lead to asceticism and self-complacence. 5. The systematic way: To lay aside as an offering to God a definite portion of our gains?one-tenth, one-fifth, one-third or on?naif. This is adapted to all, whether rich or poor; and gifts would be largely increased if it were generally practised. 6. The equal way: To give to God and the needy just us much as we spend on ourselves, balancing our personal expenditures by our gifts. 7. The heroic way: To limit our own expenditures to a certain sum and give '.V awav the rest of our income. This was John Wesley's way,?HomiUtic Review. DEPRESSION. Whatever may be the cause, there are few of us who do not know by experience what it is to be depressed. The causes of this unhappy frame of mind if they can be discovered and removed, may afterward, as far as possible, be avoided. In any case we must [ always be concerned as to ways of behaving ourselves when the mood is on us. Some people find relief in infecting those around them with tbe malady, and when the infection takes, recover rapidly from their trouble. Some find solitude a cure, and shut themselves away alone till the paroxysm is over. Some plunge into worfc, and forget themselves in | tbe rush of business. Some soar away, with the help of the philosopher, the litterateur, or the poet, into regions of perennial light and beauty. Some find relief in visiting and comforting those loss favored than tnemseives. some Detail e tnemseives to tbe abundant sources of consolation found in the Old and New Testaments. Moses, David, Elijah, Jeremiab, Jesus Himself, knew what it is to pass through deep waters of affliction. They all passed through, and so shall we, if we hold fast, as they aid, xo the Source of everlasting strength. Steady occupation is as good a preventive of unaccountable depression as we know of. A great many people are unhappy because they have not enough to do, and that in sucn a world as this, where there are so many books to read, so many sciences to explore, so many arts to master, so many ignorant to teach, so many hungry to feed, and so many in prisons to visit. Work is a panacea for a great many woes, and invaluable in warding off and driving away attacks of depression. GOD IN CHRIST. God never performs an unnecessary act. We know most of God in Jesus. More than in nature, more than in any verbal revelation, God is manifested in Jesus the Christ. His motives and emotions are learned, not by a long process of generaliza tion from the facts of the world, but by a simple, open-hearted, child-like observation ot the movements of the intellect and heart of Jesus. If the life of Jesus be the index by which men may know the workings of an infinite nature, then we must believe that our heavenly Father never does a single thing to afflict his hnman children unnecessarily, never takes any delight in their sufferings, is always ready to save them from their sins, and does whatsoever an infinitely wise and benevolent nature can suggest to make them happy. So Jesus was. So God 5111st be. Now, it is a remarkable characteristic of Jeeus that he never spoke an unnecessary word nor performed an unnecessary deed. He never did for another what that person could do for himself. There seemed to be omnipotence at his command. He claimed that there was. He performed flfto Twhifh pn ns far as acts can eo to Drove such a proposition as the possession of limitless power. All disease was under his control. All nature seemed under his control. He could still storms, multiply bread, and chaDge water into wine. He was the master of the grave. He sent his summons through the gates into eternity and called back tue spirits of the departed, to re-inhabit their fonflfcr bp^i.es- There is no penjapti^e linv* fa hi? power. And yet he iiGver perfomiea a miracle to gratifv 0wnpassions ot those of others, never exerted hil efeat powyLfCi aimnimv t( .Tmdii J-*-*" ? r?j ? - note a i iyj>re man, to whom Almighty God had for a'season delegated his almightinflss, it is inconceivable that he shonld not at some time have put forth his hand to gratify the curiosity of his beloved friends, or to indulge his own ai?:re for display, or bind tne hands of foes, or destroy them with hi3 word of potfer. But he never did. I never koefr a man, never heard of a man, find no record of any history of a man, so continent, so gloriously self-controlling,that he would not, at least once in a lifetime, break otfer the bounds and exert this delegated power selfishly. Jesus never aid. Then God never does. It is the merest fanaticism to desire and pray that God wjU give us a sign, do a winder, and set the univess agapfe at his rnnn^j^1.13 power. He netfer 3uT. He fievsr Will. If his power seems glorioiit to us, it is because that power I is glorious. All that men see is what Habakkuk calls "the hiding of his power." Gfod does only what God cannot leave undone.? Dr. Deems. I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him.?Sum iuI Rutherford. Nearness of life to the Saviour will necessarily involve greatness of love to Him. As nearness to the sim increases the temperature of the various planets, so near an intiifiiate communion with Jesus raises the heat of the soul's affections towards Him.? Spurgeon. The New Testament is occupied from first to last?especially the Sermon on the Mount ?in showing that acts are nothing except as they are fruits of a state, except as they indicate what the man is; that words are nothing except as they express a mind or purpose.?F. D. Maurice. Que/sn Victoria lately gave her consent to the abolition of a number of useless court appointments, including the mastership of the bucthounds, but Lord Salisbury declined to make tho sweeping changes involved because ha needed the patronage to keep his party friends together in the House of Lords. Ax Williamsporfc, Md., is a maple tree that has a full crop of green leaves, while every one of its neighbors is dry and leafless^