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ET7SSTJM THE BEATJ. Kow eocn on some soft snnriy morning The first thins my neighbors-shall know. Their ears will be ii?et 'with tho warning? Como uury "Ola Kossum the Eeau." ilj frienls then so neatly ?hnJ! dress mo In linen as white as the snow? And in my new coftln shall press me And whisper, "Poor Kossum the Beau." Aa.i when I am to b? buriel I reckon The ladies will all like to go; Let them form at the foo:. cf m7 cofEn, Andlollow "Old Kossum tha Beau." Then take yon a dcren goc 1 follows. And let them ail stagserin? go, And dig a deep hole in tho mea low, And in It toss "Kossum tho Beau." Then shape oat a couple of dornick3, Place oae at the head and the toe, And pray do sot fail to scratch on it The mime of "Old Kossum tho Bean." Then take these dozen good fellows, And stani them all round in a row, And drink from a big-bellied bottle, Varewoll to "Old Kossum tho Beau." Lost Lina; -03. THE BITTER AND THE SWEET. A Tale of Two Continents. BY MRS. SfOTA LAWSOW. CHAPTER XXXI?Continued. A scornful smile of triumph flitted across her dark, fiendish face as she threw the letter into Lenora's lap and left the room to return to her own. Aa she entered, a horrible vision appeared before her and never left her until the day of her death. In the distance was an elevated thrnno nf cmld and nnon that throne v " "* O " ***? T *? eat three angels of light that she could easily recognize; to the right-sat Ray, to the left Lenora, while in the center, like a little dove, pcrehed upon their shoulders, rested the little babe. On one side of the throne stood the angel form of the simpleton, and on the other that of the nurse; they were ever looking toward the throne, and pointing with their fingers down toward a bottomless pit, where the murderess saw her own image, surrounded with dark, horrible fiends, while in front of her was a great hot fire, and those fiends were dancing around it, all the while beckoning her to follow. At sight of this horrible vision-she staggered to her bed, almost iifeless. So she remained for weeks and weeks. As Jeannette turned to leave the nursery Lenora rose from the chair with outstretched arms, as if she wottld stop the retreating form, but she could not move and speech seemed to ha>ve leu ner, ior sue Bans tu uuui groping for breath. Lula -was by her side in a second, ani drew the limp little form to a low couch and laid her down. "My poor little lady, I will always be your friend, dp matter what may happen. I know they accuse you falsely." Lenora as jet could not sreak, but her eyes told how grateful she was for those few words of comfort; she motioned to her maid that she wanted some water and Lula soon brought it. The cool water somewhat refreshed her, and the maid bathed the poor wife's face and throbbing temples in It. "I feel somewhat better now, Lula," she managed to say, "and you may go and tell the cook to briDg me something to eat, with some good, strong "wine. "I am so weak, jet I must not give up, for there is much for me to do. I cannot stay under this roof to-night. No; I would not for the world, so falsely accused. "All this must be the work of my old enemy, and Jeannette surely cannot think me so low as to live so base and false a life. Go, now, Lula, and do as I told you." A<? arinn as "Lenora was alone she tore open Ray's letter and read it. It was short, but the effect it produced upon the poor, heartbrokon wife was eo gTeat that Bhe never wholly recovered from it. The letter ran thus, and in Kay's own handwriting, or one that exactly resembled it: Pacific Hotel, Chicago, EL.) Nov. 25. 1876. [ My Deab Little Lina (for so I must call you. even unto death)?We have both erred, greatly. I am to blame as much as yourself. I ought to have been stronger?more of a man?and controlled my feelings better than to have allowed myself to love a person of your character. Not but that you have acted properly since we first met do J speak of your character; but I have had { our life reVealejJ to me, and it is such that t even makes me shudder when I think of It. and then think of tuo happy hours and jlST? tbnt we have sgont together. I want to leave all the past?to forgel It, fDr my ?ood name, which is ruined for ever?to forget it all. To forget you, whom I so mad? ly loved, will be to lose myself in death, and resting-place will be the bed of the lake. I can't speak of the babe; my heart is too fulL The pen drops from my fingers as I write. Good-by, Lina! You were my true heart's mate- the only woman I ever loved?and if I could take back my .heart, I would. Fare"well! Wliy Jeannette Nathan -wrote that letter, convinced as she was that Ray had once loved her, remains a mystery. Perhaps she knew the depth of Lenora's pure, loving nature, and knew that just such accusation would cut deeper than the most severe. Whether this, or whatever was her motive, nothing could have been more cutting, or pierce tnat poor acmng, bleeding heart more than those few lines from Ray, her lost love. As Lcnora finished reading this letter, in her weakness she sprang from her Sed, ana threw her arms up over her head, in a strange, wild fashion. still holding that strange missive tight in her fingers. "Oh, darling?darling?my lost, lost darling! how could you have been so cruel to your poor little wife ? "Comeback to me?come back just a few moments, that I may tell you that it is all false, and then die at your feet. "If you wrote that cruel letter, some one has blinded you to the truth, at last. "it seems tnat my aeart will breai Sot the pain is so great." Bhe sank down in a chair, and buried her face in her lap, aud cried and lobbed as if her heart was broken; if ihere ever was a broken-hearted woman 1n the world, this poor little woman was. The maid had been standing foi ?ome time, waiting for Lenora to be;ame quiet, that she might eat a little. "My dear lady, do not weep so; I fcave brought you your lunch." At the sound "of Lula's Toioe, Leaora raised her head and dried nei ;ears. She ate the lunch, and the wine ecmed to strengthen her. "I must go now, Lula, to my room, ind prepare to lea Ye." 1 "Yon are not going to leave the manrion this miserable night, madam ?" "Ye9; I cannot remain here another lour under any consideration; I will lot stay near people who do not believe in me, and so falsely accuse mo," Lenora then went to her room and ;ook from a drawer in her bureau a ahotograph of Pay and a littlo gold iocket, which contained two little curls )f hair; one was pale gold, cut from flie head of her babe; the other a rich lark brown, that she had cut from Ray's head. The locket she hung round her neck with a fine gold chain that her husband had bought for her when she was i happy bride", while they were in Caljutta, India; the picture she lriseed igaiu and again, and then hid away ji the bosom of her dress. "Lula, you have been goo? and kind io me, anil I will divide what money I .ave with yoo. Here is one hundred ? "? n .1.11 X -I.*? 11.. iiiu nuy uouars, just xiuj_l iu? oum my poor darling gave me the other day for jpending money, and I have not had aeed for it yet" "Oh, my lady, you must not. I do lot want?it?you may need it?and nust keep all yourself." "No, no. I wish you to take half; il t need more, there will be some way provided, no doubt." The maid was compelled to -take iialf, and after Lenora had kissed again md again the chair that Bay eat in while in her room, she left the maniion, alone, friendless and brokenlearted. It was past midnight and very dark; .t was still raining, damp mist was rising from the earth, while the chilly wind whistled round the corners of the nansion, making & dreary, melan:holv sound as it swept over the lawn md tossed about the tall pine trees ;hat dotted it here and there. Oh, the misery, the awful burden that Lenora bore, as she slowly passed lown the long, broad avenue, from the nome where she and her lost love had mce been so happy. She was going to ;he city, and intended to take the first ;rain for Chicago, t>mt as sne entereu i :he thick, dark forest, 'her heart sank lower and her weary, trembling limba refused to carry her any farther. An old log lay near the roadside, by ;he trank of a tree; she sank down up)n that and rested her head against the tree; she sat there for some time; by md by it began to rain harder, and the arge, cold drops fell thi?k and fast ipon her pale, upturned face. The cool rain drops seemed to revive ler, for she again resumed her sad ourney. Occasionally in the distance she jould see a dim light; she could not Jell how far she had gone, but it teemed miles and miles. On she went *nd came nearer to that flickering light. By and by she got so near that she jould see that it was a lamp in the Kdndow of a house; on she went dawlv, step by step, until she stood at Ko rrnta nf iTio hmiCA. ttfllftrA t.llfi llL'llt ' I~r*' v ? -^7 ?O kad been placed in the window, itseemed, for her, and ehe called it her juiding star. She went to the door and gently rapped, but no one openod it. She rapped again and again, and yet no rejpoase. The rain began to pour down aow and her clothes were dripping wet. Just as she was going to rap again ;he door was opened and her little Dody, weary and exhausted, fell into ihe room. CHAPTER XXXII. Six months have elapsed since the ;lose of the last chapter. As time changes all things, so did it make a wonderful change at the Bristol manlion. Raymond Bristol's strange disappearince yet remained a mystery, and no one knew where his wife had gone, 01 what had become of the babe. Jeannette Nathan still remained at the mansion, but went nowhere and received no callers; every one presumed ihat she was still mourning for the loss of her brother, as she had often ivillpd him. and that she nreferred soli iude to the presance of comforting friends. She wrote the sad news and the public's opinion to Mrs. Bristol, ?ud the shock was so great and sudden that it almost killed the fond, loving ?other. As jet she was not able to andertake the long voyage back to Amcrica, and perhaps would never be &ble t) return. One night in the middle of April, *377. a terrific storm arose about dusk, and threatened to sweep everything before it. The wind blew a perfect hurricane and tore large trees up by the roots as it pissed along; the lightning finshed, while the heavens were in a perfect blaze of electric fire; the thunder rolled up from the distanoo and fairly shook the foundation of the .Bristol maiisiun. The stoira seemed to hang for hours ovc-r that once happy but now darkened and dc solate home. Th 3 servants were all gathered together in one room and all shivering with fright, while Jeannette's dark, wild-looking eyes told only too plainly her thoughts and feelings. Oa ragea that fierce storm unceasingly; the wyid and thunder still shook the mansion. By anil T>y the servants sought their beds, too frightened to leave each other, yet too weary to wait for the storm to abate. Jeannette lay dcwn upon her bed, undressed, weary and exhausted from fright. For some reason or other she felt strangely oppress-ed that night; whether it was the storm or not she could not tell. It grew late and all was still and dark within the mansion, except the vivid flashes of lightning that would illumine the whole building every fe'v moments. About midnight the alarm bell rang again and again with such force that the loud, thundering sounds echoed and re-echoed through the halls and corridors. "Help! help! wake up! wake up!" went ringing through the whole mansion immediately after the ringing oJ the belL The voice was a man's voice, and sounded strangely wild and painful. As Jeannette could not sleep, she heard the first tap of the bell, but did not leave her room, thinking it nothing o) any importance; bat when th.ise piteous wails for help rang through the mansion she thought there was something strangely familiar in tliosa tones, and immediately arose and turned up the gas in hir room. Presently the sounds came nearer, and she could plainly hear footsteps in the corridor near her room door. The mansion was now filled with humming sounds, as if many people were talking and passing to and fro in the halls. Jeannette's door slowly opened, and ' she ca'me out, looking wild with fright, while her face was ghastly white. Ae she opened the door, a cold draught oi wind fanned lisr cheeks^ bat shfi could nee n< tiling: yet slu could 1 voices ai d foot-i'e^.s. .She cautiously left the room and went down the long coir.dor toward the farther end of the building. The lightning still flashed, while the thunder roared even more fiercely; just as she got opposite the room door that the poor lost wife had occupied, a man came rushing out, aud almost ran against her. Old, faithful Tom closely followed the man, who looked like a raving maniac; to take a second look at this frightful-looking man, yon would think it was a skeleton, with the skin of a human being stretched over the bongs: ho.was hatless and shoeless, while nothing but an old ragged shirt and a pair of dirty, worn pants covcred his body. The face, or all that could be seen of it, -n as ghastly pale, while two dark, sparkling eyes were sunken far back in their sockets; Ihe face was nearly covered with beard that had been allowed to grow for months unkempt, and the hair was long and shaggy-looking; it was plastered to the head by the rain, and .great drops of water dripped to " r xne iiuot iruiu iuo uiua ui uuu liung over the shoulder. No wonder Jeannette shrank back, :flightened still more; she did not know who. he was, and in the dimly lighted hall it would have been hard to recognize any one, but frequently the hall was illumined by a lurid flash of electricity, and -then she could get a better look at him. There was nothing about this strange, wild-looking man that any one could identify him by, except the broad, noble, white forehead, which b-longed only to a_ Bristol?and this man standing in front of Jeannette was none other ihan Raymond Bristol. "Where is my wife and babe?" Aa these words rang clear and loud through the hall, there came a continuous blaae of bluish light, followed immediately by a clashing peal of thunder. Jeannette leaned against the wall, j gasping for breath, as she saw what she thought must be but the glio-t of : Ray standing before'hex calling lor hi& <wiie. "She is g " but at that moment there came coursing down the wall, but a few feet from -where she stood, a bright blue streak of electricity, and Jeannette fell senseless at Ray's feet. [to be continued. 1 H<nr Thej Make IToofcn Shoes. One of the most interesting places in a Holland Tillage is the "fclompen" maker's shop, -where klompen, or wooden shoes, are made. Not far from Rotterdam, surrounded by high dikes, lies the little -village of Rijsoord; in that village, beside the Bkalkydijk River, is a shop in which an old man and his son work early and late, supplying the peasants (who never go barefooted) with shoes. These are first roughly 6haped from blocks of willow wood, as a statue is first rudely outlined by chipping the marble block, and afterward the shoes are finished smoothly with sand-paper and pumice-stone. The willow trees aro grown for this purpose, and when they attain the required size, they are cut down, the branches are trimmed off and only the trunk is used, being divided into blocks, each one of which is tho length of the longest shoe. The work goes on without interruption through the morning.unless some friendly neighbor looks in over the half-open Dutch door; and this is the occasion Via tita mAn VfifilltntV DCUiCU U|A>U UJ MI9 * IT V uivu 4vt and lighting their pipes, and drawing few long whiffs, while they listen to a little village gossip. At 11 o'clock the good vrouw appears at the door with "koffij, jongens" (coffee, boys), and they iollow her into the adjoining room. It has a low, thatched roof of deep-yellow reeds, and contains the great fire-place, where in damp weather the newly-made shoes are placed before the fire to dry. All their food i9 cooked in the same fireplace, excepting the bread, which in every peasant's home is supplied by the baker. The shoes are piled round the smoldering embers,often with the tea-kettle simmering among them; and while the sap dries out, they give little groans, and Bighs, as if they knew the hard fate awaiting them when the time shall come for them to cover the feet of some sturdy Dutch peasant or workman and to clatter over the pavements of the town. After this morning's refreshment.which all peasants enjoy, they return to work. ?St. Nicholas. , | .. Drowned by the " Sea Pass." Heretofore one of the great cause9 of danger to bathers in the surf at the seaBide has been styled simply the "undertow," by which 13 understood that 6trong undercurrent of reflux which follows the breaking of the waves on the shore. In the disaster at Spring Lake, j ^here a eentl^tQ a ]^dy lpstt^cir livi?3 andmany otherlwere involved in a series of exciting mishaps growing out of attempts at rescue, the calamity is ascribed to the "sea puss." Perhaps the terms are synonymous, since the Spring Lake bathing master says "the people were caught in a 'sea puss' occasioned by the outflowing water coming in contact Ka tttottqo /trtminnf in nf nn n*KU VUW TTATW^ IT U4\.Uj WUllU^ IU t. MU angle, formed a whirlpool, into which the bathers were drawn in their helpless condition." All experience and observation point to this cause, whatever it may be called, as something to be guarded against in every way and with the utmost prudence, for it is a force more of less strong alwa>3 present in the Burf, and varying with wind and tide and sometimes complicated by currents. It is a danger to the most expert as to the least experienced and safety lies only in prudence?in not venturing out too fax or getting beyond the reaij reach of help,'?Baltimore Sun. Gotham's Monkey Market. une 01 iue attractions 01 ixew iortt I is the monkey market, where hundreds of sailors repair every week to dispose of monkeys and parrots which they have brought from tropical countries. The Italians are amoung the principal buyers. Five dollars will buy a parrot that will talk in half a dozen different languages. ?Times-Democrat. "Uxcle Dare," a oentenarian living near Sheffield, Ala., has just died. He was with Andrew Jackson iu the Indian war and helped to plot Sheffield over seventy years ago. His wife died in 1842, and every day up to his death he prayed at her grave. _ ' AN EMPEROR'S BOYS. " f/ HOW THE YOUNG HOHEXZOI> LERNS ARE REARED. The Spartan Manners of Frederick the GreatVHonsehold Are Still in Fashion at the Schloss? All Arc Early Risers. Plain living carried "to the length of affectation has always been a characteristic of the^Royal IIousc of Prussia. Frederick the Great, the domestic idol of the'family, had a hard time of ifc a hundred years ago. He often wasn't able to eat his food, it was so bad, or sleep in his bed becausc it was so hard. His regal papa used to chase the Prince's music teacher around the royal halls with a big stick, driving the unhappy man to take refuge, in his terror, up chimneys and under beds. The impression ever since has been that because Frederick the Great turned out such a swagger king, the sort of training lie received mugt DC mc ucsu WrMi TUD QEBMAN PgEBIAL FAMILY, . The present Emperor is a regular mar4-**sf\4 ttr\ 1\aliflttoo flm oai4 nf mill lifl IIUCIm XXV/ WUWf WO iu ?uv yvtv w* mm m? himself was put through, and thinks there is nothing like it. His little sona, two of them not yet out of long clothes, are literally spoon-fed by military rules. The royal nursery is a small barrack room, where everything is done witi iron discipline and regularity. The children rise at dawn and go to bed at about <5 o'clock. The three eldest are under the care of a still and starched military tutor of the most Prussian type. His orders must be obeyed with military alacrity. Disobedience would be looked on by the Emperor as mutiny and punished accordingly. ' sALxnrrae nons iAXQEB* The little Crown Prince "William has never been told that there is any difference between himself and his brothers in rank or prospects. This is by his father's orders, yet being a youth of an inquiring turn of mind, he has found out that he is to be an Emperor some day. The knowledge has given him a great sense of his own importance, and he now struts about trailing his small sword with considerable.self complacency. BtTEBOB A5D CHOTfa PIOTTCS. _^i Prince Eitel Frederick, when he is not at his lessons or taking csercise, passes nis umc conducting extensive military nnemt.inns with hnce nrmiea of tin sol diers, and whenever part of them are slain the dead are always Prussia's enemies. If the Emperor "William doesn't spare his children he doesn't spare himself or the Empress, either. He doesn't hold the ordinary German view of the restricted sphere of the Hausfrau. She is Colonel of a regiment, has a uniform, and, -what is more, wears it on review days. Perhaps, though, the fact she is proudest of is that 6he has borne five sons to Germany who able one day to fight for the Fatherland. She and her husband have begun the multifarious duties of the day at 6 o'clock ih tiie morning. They can be seen walking in the Thiergarten, even in midwinter, at 8 o'clock. During the day the Empress, in addition to all the important court functions and engagements which she has to at" * ' n - l tena to, assists xue .tmperor us u sort ui private confidential secretary. As her husband has to a very great extent taken the reins of the Empire into his own hands, and is very fond of putting his fingers into a great many pies, she has plenty to do. The young princes are dressed and brought up in a plainer fashion than the families of ordinary well-to-do people. There isn't a "Little Lord Fauntlcroy" in the family.?Xcw York Sun. New Musical Invention. A new invention in musical instruments is a violin piano. A case containing six violins, two violas and two violoncellos resembles a pianoforte fVomn Tim incfrii.iifints are connected by circular bands, which arc brought into contact with the strings by means jf the keyboards, the hammers of which bear upon the bands with varying pressure. A rcccnt Government report state3 that at the close of 1S89 there were 108 cotton mills at work in India. They contained 22,15G looms, 2,669,992 spindles, and worked up 347,000,000 pounds of cotton during the year, employing 12,120 mcD, women and children. The blight of the potato crop in Ireland is spreading, and there are fears of a famine. Iowa's Coal Palace. *' ,r^, Corn and culture have for a long time been staple products in Iowa. Ha zing, become foremost in the production of the former, Iowa is now about to take a step in another direction and exhibit to the States her recources for "light, heat and power"?in a word, her vast store of bituminous product. The palace idea just now is the prevalent one, and so while her corn pulace has been built in the region of her great corn belt, and her blue glass palace located in the centre of her best meadows, it is natural that Ottumwa, being in the centre of the coal fields, should te chosen as the site for her coal palace, a unique and massive structure which has just been constructed. Primarily the coal palace represents the counties adjacent to it so productive of cheap fuel. Secondarily, but of no less importance, it represents the best of the numerous manufactories of the Hawkeye State, for it is uThc Iowa Coal Palace and Industrial Exhibit." The coal region of Iowa is not extensively men tiQUQa iq tae geographies, perhaps, ana A PALACE MADE OV COAL. yet ten counties in the State last year mined over three and one-half million tons of coal, employed in the mines nearly eight thousand men and paid for labor alone more than a million and a balf dollars. It is not so startling then, that Iowa, so well known as an agricultural State, can build a palace of coal taken from her own borders, and thus prove to the sisterhood her wonderful variety resources. The "palace is an imposing structure 230 feet in length and 130 in width, the main tower being 200 feet in height. The architecture is a compromise between the gothic and the Byzantine. The palace is two stories in height, the first being about 20 feet to the ceiling, the nthPT rp?rh?nc7 to the ton of the structure. varying from 40 to 60 feet. The main ?ntrance is on Main street, through the grand arches in the tower to the right, whose summit Is near the grand tower. That tower is 36 feet wide and of the same proportions as the one to the left, which faces a unique and beautiful sunken garden on Washington street. The rear end is beautified by twin semi-circular turrets, one of which can be seen at the extreme right. A couple of similar towers, somewhat more elongated, just out from the other .side toward the opposite or Washington end of the palace, while a similar tower to that first described, forming the Main street entrance, symmetrizes the palace on the opposite side. In this tower is the stage, 30x36, and main hall, with the balconies ascending direct from the stage, gives the building an auditorium with a seating capacity of from 4000 to 60C0. On either side of the main room or nave of the building are the spaces above and below for the exhibits of the nine surrounding counties and from abroad. ... Sparrows as Nurses. In the Jersey City ferry-house of the Pavonia Perry, a few days ago, the passengers watched with much interest a . flock of sparrows taking care of one of iitm's TMimt-vof Tulm wm nvidentlv verv IlllWli iiULUL/VI | IIMV ? - ... ? - - m sick. There -was much chippering among the birds, until it was finally settled to put the patient behind the top cornice of a pillar. The sick bird was then carried between three of its companions and deftly dropped into the chosen place. Then a dozen sparrows perched on the telegraph wire and chippered loudly at the passengers beneath. When last 6een the sick sparrow was bundled up in some straw.?New TorJ/ World. A Bflbj'sTra'edy. Night. * Sfominff. There are at present 1300 beet sugai factories in Europe, and they consume 24,000,000 tons of beets every year. Their annual output of sugar amounts to 2,000,000 tons. It is said that over $30,000,000 are expended for labor and fuel, and that $100,000,000 are paid to farmers for beets. During the last financial year closing tho Ocrmau Government received a surplus of $S, 000,000 from the imperial postal and telegraphic department, and >f $350,000 from the imperial printing office. A Uaieo bachelor, who. tha advertiser said, was "eighty-seven years old, but rich," haa received 250 application! from ladies willing to be his wife?and risk his dying pretty soon, . $25,000 A TRIP. THE COST OP RUNNING A BIG OCEAN STEAMSHIP. The Receipts Are Considerably Greater, ancl the Great Ships Undoubtedly Pay?Details That TVill Astonish People. The magnificent steamship Nort&annia is not quite as big as the twin-screw boats of the White Star and Inman line3, but her expense account, owing to the greater length of her voyage, is just as formidable. The cost of running her from her dock in the New Jersey town of Hoboken to her dock in the German town of Hamburg, is about the same as the'cost of running the City of Paris from New York to Liverpool. "When the Normannia starts on an eastward voyage she carries nearly 3000 tons of coal in her protected bunkers. Some of this is American and some tor eign soft coal, and it costs about ?3.50 a too. The sooty stokere daily shovel into her roaring red furnaces between 250 and 300 tons. The expenditure for coal runs just short of $1000 a day, or nearly $8000 for the voyage. The cost of the gallons and gallons of oil used to keep her ponderous triple-expansion engines, her dynamos, her numerous smaller engines, her pumps, and so on, running smoothly, combined with the coal bill, is $8500. The salaries of the big ship's company are not an unimportant factor in the expense account. Among the 300 persons who look after the. working of the racer and the comfort of her passengers are, besides cool-headed Captain Hebich, eight officers, one surgeon, twenty-five onorinopra and machinists, two nursera. 1 JT ? five boatswains, twenty-eight seamen, 114 firemen, sixty-five waiters and waitresses, twenty-two cooks, bakers and assistants, two carpenters, one barber and fourteen skilled musicians. The total wages of these for a trip of eight days is about $2000, not counting perquisites. Captain Hebich receives the highest salary. It varies between ?3000 and $4000 a year, and depends somewhat on the earnings of the ship, of which he receives a small percentage. This is the way the skippers of all the colossal racing craft are paid, and it is not likely that any of them are going to cease racing, or to be censured for It, as long as a fast trip means money in their pockets and in tne coffers of their company. Every hour the Captain of tho City of New York saves means a saving in coal alone of $50. Next in importance to the Captain of an ocean speeder is tbe chief engineer. He is not as frequently visible to the cabin passengers as his gold-laced superior, and nobody makes much fuss over him, but he is, in the opinion of his employers, a very big man indeed. He is the man who makes the great ship "git up and git." He submits daily reports of how things are going on down below to the Captain. He tells how many tons of coal he is using, how much indicated horse power he obtains, and the number of revolutions the ship's propellers make a minute. If he doesn't get as much speed out of the clanking twin giants as the Captain thinks he ought to, the Captain pats him on the back and tells him to whoop her up, like a good fellow. It is essential to the Captain's interest that be should be friendly wltb the Doss 01 the mighty machines. For his great work the chief engineer receives $160 a month and his board, which is equal to that of the cabin passengers. The chief officer reoeives $80 a month, which is more than the captains of many steamships of the second class get. The food and drink consumed by passengers and crew during a recent trip of the Normannia cost about $16,000. | This is the complete list of the things that were necessary to make life aboard the luxurious floating hotel something like a dream: Two thousand five hundred bottles of red wine, 2000 bottles oi Rhine wine, 2000 bottles of champagne, 1200 bottles of cordials, 15,000 bottles of beer, eighty kegs of beer, 400 bottles of ale and porter, 2500 bottles of mineral renter 37 000 cnllnnq of drinkincr water. 70,000 pounds of potatoes, 16,000 pounds of beans, peas, and so on, 2500 cans of fruit, 1500 poundsjof jellies, tarts and biscuits, forty-five baskets of vegetables, 7000 pounds of butter, 1200 pounds of cheese, 10,000 eggs, 3500 pounds of sugar, 1500 pounds of coffee, 1000 pounds of tea, 250 pounds of chocolate, 150 gallons of milk, 10,000 apples, 1200 oranges, 1000 lemons, 400 glasses of preserved fruits, 120 barrels of flour, sixty-five gallons of loe cream, 17,000 pounds of beef, 12,000 pounds of mutton, 1800 pounds of ham, smoked beef and bolognas, 1000 potinds of veal, 700 pounds of baco%, 600 pounds of pork, t>uu pounds 01 game, ouu pouuus of canned meat, 250 pounds of lamb, thirty barrels of preserved meat, twenty barrels of salt pork, 16,000 pounds of fish, 450 chickens, ISO ducks, sixty "turkeys, sixty partridges, and fifty geese. From the foregoing facts and figures it may be safely said that one trip of the Normannia costs the Hamburg-American line not less than $25,000. To offset this expenditure, which does not include the cost of insurance, the Normannia must carry many passengers and some freight. The number of her passengers varies, of rivirse anr.ordincr to the season. She carries ia midsummer sometimes nearly 500 first and second cabin and about 300 steerage voyagers. The average price of a first cabin passage is abcut $110, and that of a second cabin about 860. The average prico of steerage accommodations is ?22. Tho [receipts from all classes of passengers on a good midsummer trip are over $50,000. Usually the Normannia carries 800 tons of freight, which, at the transportation rate of $10 a ton, amounts to $S000. The cost of loading and unloading is borne by the company. In the dull season theb ig tvrin-serew ships de not make much, but their receipts throughout the I year are large enough to warrant the dec j laration that they are great successes unan! daily, and that they are the passenger ships of the future.?New York San. A Lunatic's Curious Gun. A curious gun has been made by a lunatic on Robben Island, the leper settlement at Cape Colony, South Africa. The barrels are portions of the hollow legs of an iron bedstead, attached to a rudely cut wooden 6tock by a sciap of iron and two twists of wire, strengthened by lead and cobbler's wax. The maker was much annoyed at having his treasure taken away, as he declared it was most useful to shoot the lions which prowled around.?New Tori Telegram. \ r *_V/ A LYRIC FROM THE JAPANESEj^^B The maple lifts her head, flfl Crowned with autumnal red, H While I, who love the girl, jHE Piunge for the biggest pearl, BH Under tho waves, And up in the caves, Where stormy billows curl, And the angry waters whirl! "Wert thou a pearl," she cried, As I hurried to her side, "I would clasp thee on my arm, For a magical charm, That like the glowing sun When the summer day is done, IBB And rises the cold white moon, We might port?but not too soonf MSB "For like a stream that finds ^Dfl The way it must retrace; Or like the pathless winds That have no abiding place, j^H Upon my lonely bed, With the bride-wreath on my head, I wait thy first embrace! r ?B. H. Stoddard, in N. Y. Independent? PITH ANT POEKL* No news is bad news?to editors.^ The English race?After AmericaQ^H Every dog has his day and the seem to* bo quarreling over the nighfs.? The bears are probably responsible fojfln the squeezes on the Stock Exchange. The man who marries a widow knowi^H he isn't marrying amiss.?Detroit "And that stout son of yours, wh|ti^H| he doing?" "He's a hammock tes^^^MH Nee York Bun. At a marriage curious people watcnrMM the church door to see the tied go outfl| ?New Orleans Picayune. It is well to make the best of th^^J world, for you'll never get out of it alfoj^m ?Great Barrinqton News. RH "Why do they call Africa the 'Dark^H Continent?'" "Because there's 90 mucfa^H black ink shed over it."?Puck. ^Bj When a man says he has nothing td^H say, it is safe to say that there is a barreflH full of facts back of his teeth.?Pucl. HI "What makes Billings look so-proud?'!^H "His wife is the only member of tb^^fl cooking school who didn't receive prize."?Bazar. No, sir; we do not believe that 1 tomatoes produces cancers, but we seen many a can,sir,that contained toes.?Lncdl Courier. Strangs as it may senm, it is the who has lost his voice that makes loudest and most disagreeable noise in SHH choir.?Detroit Free Press. "There is an art in putting on glov^HH Bays a fashion paper. Come to thinb^^^H it you have to get your hand in bcl^H^H you can master the art.?Boston Some men have a notion . That it is their born right To imitate their kitchen fir& And go oat every night. ?Dansxille Brees^^^^m Art must always get its iuspirati^HH from nature. The zebra gave us oar idea of striped clothing,ani the elepti^^^J was the inventor of loose trousen^^^H The information that - property i^H "just a stone's throw from the cars" iaHH very frequently calculated to impress on^Hj with intense admiration for the man whqjj threw the stone.?Washington Pott. i Dumps^y?"Blabson's wife is ver^j^H email, isn'tshet" Popinjay?"Yes; yoq^H would hardly believe it, but I heard it eaid that she goes through hi^H^ pockets every night."?Burlington Edith (soliloquizing)?"I'm so glad ha^H proposes by letter. No fuss?no ing him on?and plenty of time down to papa's office and look him^' Bradstreet before I give him an answ ?Judge. "I am in charge of the whole de^^^J ment. As the boss says, I am the of the house." "Well, as I have grudge against the house I think I shs take this opportunity to give it a bla< eye.11?Bazar. ^ Lawyer?"Well, sir, we won th^^^^H but it was a pretty narrow vicrcjMjBfi Client?"Yes, I thought the other sie^^B had us, until you showed that tJK principal witness was a fishermar ' Mun&ey\ WeeUy. Boarding-house Mistress?"How you like that water, Mr. York?" Mr.^H York?"It has a milky taste to me.}j^| Mistress?"Excuse mej^| Mr. York, that is the milk you are tast^J^H ing. Try the glass to the left."? hers Statesman. Never waste time telling people a lot of good things you have done. the first place they won't believe y^^H and in the second place they arc wai?sflH| for a chance to tell you what a lot good things they have done themselv^l^B " T-?7 Tin ?aomerciuo ovunmi,. , Mrs. Brown?"Bridget, I don't underg^f stand. You said you paid ten cents a glass of soda-water for Master Edwardl^H and yet he tells me did not have any.'lHj "That's all right, mum; I bought it fon^H him, but he was so warm I thought might hurt him, so I drank it myselfJ^B mum."?Fliegende Blaetter. "Williams," said the proprietor of thgHH restaurant, "don't throw away the corkq^H of those soda-pep bottles." "What goodl^f are they?" inquired the new waiter; "There's a market lor them," replied thd^H proprietor. "Owners of excursion steam^^H boats buy them to mis with the straw ia^| their life-preservers."?Chicago Tribune J I love you well, my sweetheart shy, I'm true. 99 The maiden blushing answered, I HH Love you. , Why do you love me, my adored?? ' A pause, And then she answered with a word, "Because." ?Boston Courier. , Witness?"He looked me straightjjjl^B the eye and " Lawyer?"There, sir,;^H you've flatly contradicted your 'forme^^B I etrttflment."' Witness?"How so?",H Lawyer?"You said before that he bentH| his gaze on you, and now you'll please explain how he could look you straight in the eye with a bent gaze." ("Witness faints)? The Jester. According to a telegram, "lightningj^B struck a man in Springfield, Ohio, kille<|j^| him, burned the sign of a cross on hro^| back, and then dug a hole in the ground^H behind him, the exact size and shape of a grave." It is also rumored that thej^H etectric bolt paid all the funeral expenses, ordered a monument for his grave andj^f ofiered to marry his widow, but this port lacks confirmation.?iVbrratotwj^B