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FOB AN ALBUM. The day 1? oold and dark and dreary," The rain deecenda as though 'twere weary; While o'er mv heart a feeling creep Of sadness, teat is low and deep. I fain would drive it all away, And give to happiness oomplete sway; But that's a task, voa're well informed. Much easier talked of than performed, As long as with tenacious hold It clings, like a miser to his gold. THE MYSTERIOUS GUNNEE JOCCOOCOC An Exciting Story of the War of 1812. BY JOHN R. MUSICS. CHAPTER XXIII.?(Continued.) The detail of red-coats went down the road, and our friends continued their way. When about half way between the enemy and their friends tliey halted ana listened. The detail could be heard marching away. The Americans were now far enough away to converse with each other with little fear of being overheard by the enemy. "Tommy," said Griffith,"we mu6t hurry to onr men and cat off that party." "Can we do it?" the doubting Thomas Mked. "Yes, yery easily. Be cautious, make so noise and keep both ears and eyes wida jpen." "I?I?I'm doin' that, Griff," answered Tommy, who was shivering, despite his efforts'to be calm. They reached their comrades, and Grif nui Aiion Eaia: I "Come, bojB, there's work to do; follow ] me." "Where are ye goin\ Griff?" one of the illagers asked. "Down to the beach." "What ye goin' down there fnr. Griff?" the same man asked. The question was of coarse out of place, from a military standpoint, but the citizens of Mauoahad very little regard for military rules. They could not understand that it was i for them to obey and not ask questions. Griffith had had no little difficulty to keep them even within the most moderate i bounds of military discipline. i T Zion't arnloin n/HE " hfi Bald nnt a ( little vexed at the question. "It is all i right, come on end we will learn all about it at the proper time." "I'll be dad blamed ef I'm goin' any- < whar that I don't know whar I'm a Roin', ] and what I'm goin' far," the villager began. ] "Oh, come on, Len, an' quit yer bein' i so 'tarnal contrary," said one of his companions. > It was not without considerable coax- < ing that Len was induoed to go. Cnp- I tain Alton would very much have liked to make a close application of military i authority to this unruly soldier, but at this time he dared not do it. Among these citizens his good sense had told him from the beginning that strict military discipline could not be enforced. In i fact, nothing but their common danger, admiration for him, and his personal t magnetism had enabled him to hold them i togeiher so far. The Americans went lowly alon? throuch the woods, moving t as silently as shadows, And taking care to avoid the main body of the British. They entered the old road half a mile nearer the beach tban they were. Here they halted again and listened. It was a very dark night and the stillness seemed almost oppressive. The young Americ n feared that the slightest sound might be heard by the enemy. If they hould have their suspicions aroused, his cherished plans might be frustrated. All depended on his being able to cut off communications between the land forces and those on board the man-of- . < war. Captain Alton remembered that Ola, the being whom he loved dearer J than his own life, was on board that dark c ship, and her life and honor depended on 1 the success of this plan. Snould the land forces succeed in getting aboard the ] Xenophon (and he had concluded that cm/%V? rrnm t fkotr nmnl/1 aoil i way, and she beyond a doubt be carried off to a hostile shore. The young | American felt reasonably certain that his countrymen had triumphed at Baltimore I and Fort McHenry. He did not know i that Hobs bad been slain, that the British were in full retreat, and that the i Americans, encouraged, were springing 1 to arms all over the land, determined to drive the invaders from their shores. i The Americans were silently and can- 1 lio'aoly, yet swiftly, hurrying along the 1 pathway toward the beach. Captain Alton I himself was in the lead, the others following in single file close at bis heels. < Suddenly he stopped and held up his I band in a warning manner, and whispered: i -Halt!" ( Faint as was the whisper every man 1 beard it, and came to a standstill. At ' this moment the faint tread of distant footsteps came to their ears. It was only . one man who was coining from the beach toward them, and for a few moments our hero was not a little puzzled to make out what bis intent wa?. t 1 "What is it, Griff?" one of tho villagers asked. , nrtiAf. Tf ic nf fhAir mpti rn_ turning. Leave him to me, and stand near to aid me if necessary." t The rapid tread of footsteps approach- ( ing could plainly be heard by nil, and the j ounds momentarily grew louder. ( Captain Alton stepped forward, nnd, | as the man came up, seized him by the , throat. "H?h?hands off!" the fellow hiB&?d. "What do you mean?" , ! "Keep quiet or yon are a dead man!" jr And the muzzle of a pistol touched the ebeek of the stranger. ' i "W?w?why, Leftenant, it's me?it's "Wiggins. I was 6ent back to say aB how the coast is clear, an'we hare just goin' { to fire the rockets." , "Quiet, sir, or you are a dead man!" f aid the deep, 6tern voice, in tones which conHnot be misunderstood. i The Englishman had such little thought of an enemy being near that the ( idea that he was in the midst of foes had ? not yet entered his head. "A Honrl muni \V'nt. ri'vn moan T,?f. I tenant? I ain't done nothin*. Hi come back to tell ye that hall was well." by thi6 time the fellow was surround- i ed by the Americans. Still He had not his suspicions aroused. He had dropped | bis gnn, and was, in fact, completely at the mercy of his c iptors. j "Oo are you?" he finally asked, in a voice which trembled with apprehonsion. , "Amerieau8, and yon are our prisoner." Such a terrific name did those daring free Americans have, that a Triton always trembled at mention of them. Khe moment Iip heard the announcement the soldier gave np in despair. "Ho, don't kill me, hif you please, good Hamericans; don't?don't take my life!" "Keep a still tongue i n your head, yon fool, and yon shall not be hurt," snid the Oaptain to his trembling captive. "Don't make any outcry, tnougn, or it wilt be 3'onr last." Tbe Briton's life was very dear to him, and his patriotism not very great, so he suffered himself to be disarmed, and under guard of two Americans followed the party which was to surprise the signaling party. After his arrest he bee tme snllen and refused to communicate with his captors, though Griffith tried hard to learn from him some of tbe enemy's plans. Finally the Americans rame to th# long, sandy strip of beach which extended down to the water's edge. The distant roar of waves could be plainly heird, and ss the wind set into land Griffith could distinctly hear the sound of human vo.ces encaged in conversation. lh:ii words wer6 very indistinct, mingled as they were with the rolling, dashing waves that heat against the sandy beach. As the Americans were marching with ell the care they could across the sand, there suddenly rose on the air, with a loud, unearthly hiss, a 6ky rocket, leaving a broad, white trail behind. It was almost immediately followed by one with a red and ona.wit^a blup lipbt. "That is ufe signal," saidOrriffith, in a cheerful undertone, to his companions. He detailed two men to guard the prisoner, and with the others started toward the cluster of dark figures to be dimly seen at the water's edge, at a run. "Steady, careful! We must not fail this time," he whispered. Each rifle was cocked, teeth eet with /i?farmin?Hnn and from the manner of the patriots there 6eemed little clanger ol failure. chapter xxiv. THE AMBUSCADE. Like spirits on evil intent the Americans 6wept silently over the sand. So unexpected was their attack that the British were wholly unprepared for them. Even after they were upon the party that had given the Bignal, their deadly rifles leveled at their heads, the BritonB did not seem to realize that they were others than their own friends, who had blundered upon them. "Surrender!" cried Capt. Alton, in b low, determined voice. " 'Old on, there! there is some mistake 'ere," Baid the officer in command, who, when excited, resorted to his cockney dialect. "We hare friends, hare we not?" "No, you are our prisoners. Ground your arms, or we will blow you into eternity. " W'y, 'oo hare you?" "Americans." "Hamericans! You muBt be joking?" "No, we are not. You are our prisoners, and must ground your arms to a man. Keep them covered with your rifles, men, and if one makes an effort to resist, pour a volley into all of them." "Don't yer be skeered but what we will," one of the Americana answered. His peculiar dialect and accent convinced them more than any assertion that they were Americans. Standing back within the darkness, fhai* ffirmq nrilv vaoBftlv outlined, the Americans seemed n legion. Some of them could not be seen. Only the long barrels of the deadly rifles protruding oat of the darkness were visible. This Bight, and the cool, determined threat, was enough to intimidate the boldest, and in three minutes after the young officer had demanded their surrender, the last gun was grounded and the Britons disarmed. 'Now, Griff, that we've got 'em, what ere goin' to do?" asked one of the villagers. "We must in some way get them to Manoa. But listen?do you hear nothing?" A death-like silence fell on the party. The faint sounds of the measured dip of jar? could be heard coming toward the }each. "Don't you hear it, Tommy?" Griffith isked of the little tailor. "Yes, I do." ""What do you make of those sounds?" "A boat comin' in to shore. "That is it. We must take that in, ilso." "Why, Griff, we've got more here aow han we kin guard,"said one of the Amerenns. "We will manage that," said our hero, mcouragingly. "A few of you must juard these, shoot them down if they ittempt to escape, and the remainder of is will look after the boat orew." Four were detailed to guard the British jmoners, each having four men to guard. 3-riffith, with the others, took his place ;lose to the beach. The boat came rapidly in, and when jut a few cables' length away some one n the Doy nauea inose on snore. "Ahoy, there! shipmates, ahoy!" "Aye, aye," Griffith boldly responded. "What ye want to tnmble np a null lino's crew at this time o' the night for?" "We've got important messages," Grifith cnswered, boldly assuming the role >f the British officer who had fired the rockets. The boat without a shadow of suspicion came into land. "Where are the cowardly Yankees tolight?" the officer asked. "All in their holes, sleeping like hedgejogs, with one eye open." "The cowardly knaves. I would like :o enter their port and cut their throats is they sleep, the Briton responded. The boat ran upon the sand, ana the officer standing in tho bow reached out lis hand for the dispatches. Griffith Beized his outstretched hand und jerked him from the boat, head first upon the sand; and at the same moment half a dozen Americans leaped into the boat with fixed bayonets. Low but deep rang out the command to surrender on the startled ears of the boatmen. They each found the steal point of & bayonet at his heart, and in the fierce, ietermined men who held them they recognized their executioners, unless they jomplied with their demand. They could do nothing more than 6urender. "Now, Griff, what ye goin' to do with em?" asked ono of the villagers. Their prisoners were swelled to twentj'wo in number. "We will have to send them all to the Hinge." "How'll ye do it?" "In the boat. Make them all fast save welve men to row the boat, and Tom Donley will take the tiller aiid steer it nto the village. Six of our men for guards will answer, and I want you to ake twenty-five or thirty more of our Ben with you." "What d'ye intend, Grit.?" "I intend to drive the British back. 3ring this boat and another 60 we can ?'reat by the water if necessary." The sea ran high, but with very little liffi :ulty the prisoners took their places iuvi were lashed to their 6cats. Tom Conley seized the tiller and they >ulled out into the water. The boat iwept around a point of land and di6ap>eared into the harbor. Griffith, with his lemaining companons, waited upon the sand. "I don't see what yer waitin' hero fur, >ritf," snid Tommy ltuffles. "D'ye intend igbt'in' the British?" "We may abuscade them and drive hem back before morning." "How kin ye?" "They will grow tired of waiting the etum of their companions. and sburt down to fee wnat is the matter, then we shall have our ambuscade ready, and make them think they have entered a hornet's nest. Griffith had taken from the British officer the dispatch intended for Major Bridges, and having both flint and steel, he gathered np some dry sea-weeds and m ule u small light by which he re?d it. The dispatch stated that news had just been received from Baltimore, and the British army was in fall retreat and the Americans rising in every direction. Their condition was growing desperate, and they begged to be taken aboard ship. Iheir artillerv. thev said, wonld have to be abandoned to the euerav. Griffith wan well satisfied with th? course he had adopted, and wniied patiently (he return or his comrades, with tlie boats and the recruits. With these re-enforcements he might, by a wellplnnnfcd attack, drive the British back to tneir rormer posraon and hold them there until daylight, when they would not dare to attempt to cross the bench. In the darkness the euemy would have no idea of their number, and would very likely imagine their forces to be ten times as many as they were. He could hold them back until daylight and then plant two pieces of artillery and drive them away if they should attempt to cross the sund. It seemed ages beioro the boatB camo. Again und ag.tiu did his anxious ears deceive him into the belief that he heard the dip of distant oars. Bat nt each time he was deceived. At last the welcome sound came beyond doubt, and in three minutes after he first heard the real dip of oars, two boats, loaded to the water'* j edge with heavily armed Americans, came into view. They were landed, and Capt. AUod discovered he had forty addilional men. ^ "I came, Griff," sa d Si Cole. "Ithorl ye'd hev a scrimmage, maybe, an' I'm not goin' to be one as is goin' to be behind when a scrimmage is on hand." "Very well. Si, I am glad you ar? here. AVe will now proceed at once to carry out plans that will insure victory." , *> * ? ? ' -~.?L 4 Via V\Aof a rive men were leit iu ^uaiu and with the others, all the arms they had, and all that had been taken from the British, the Americans started across the sandy beach toward the wood ib which the British infantry lay, waiting and wondering why their companions did not return. The Americans each had a rifle, some one, and some more pistols. Twentytwo of them had in addition to his own gun a British musket. They were in reality a formidable body of men. When they entered the forest path they halted, and Silas Cole and three more were sent ahead as scouts. In a few moments they returned, saying the British were coming. "I thought so," said Captain AUod; "it is time that they had grown uneasy." ^ ^ 1? Kio man Vtohirtrl t iic UaDbllJ XVlUlbu UIQ UiVU WVMIUM natural barrier of stone, and told them / to wait his orders to fire. 2 In a lew moments tbere oonld be heard the steady regular tread of men who Lad been drilled to march. They came slowl> forward, and Captain Alton discovered that they had not even taken the precaution to throw out an advanced guard. A long column of men massed in a bodj could be seen in the darkness. Very dimly were they outlined. Nearer and / nearer they came, until only a few feel lay between them and the concealed Americans. Already the deadly rifles were aimed at the British, and they, un? conscious of danger, still advancing Suddenly a sharp, clear voice rang out ox the air: "Fire!" |TO BE CONTINUED.] HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. EIDE DISH OF GIBLETS. A nice side dish is made from the lets of fowls. "Wa9h well and 6oak in warm 1 water for twenty minutes. Out in thick ( slices and fold cach in a thin slice of 1 Btreaky bacon; tie or fasten with a small * ikewer and stew forty minutes in sea- s soned brown gravy with six small button ! onions. Dish the rolls, lay the onions around and strain the gravy, slightly ] thickened, over all.? Washington Star. COHN CROQUETTES. These may be prepared at this season of the year with canned corn. Proceed as follows: Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, stir well in half a teacupful of flour, cook a few moments over a slow fire, add a little milk and one yelk of egg. This should form a good heavy sauce. Half a can of corn may now be put in and stirred well. Sweeten with powdered sugar; cover the pan and allow it to cook slowly for ten minutes; thei remove from the fire, and when cold divide in small portions and shape with a knife blade; dip in beaten egg and milk, roll in bread crumbs and fry in plenty of hot lard.?New York Press. ITALIAN SPAGHETTI AND LAMB. The spaghetti, after having been boiled only until tender in plenty of salted boiling water, is to be drained from the boiling water and thrown into the cold, to remain until the sauces are ready? i.e., the tomato, white an Bechamel or brown sauces, only a little of each being used, sufficient to moisten the spaghetti; not enough to make it sloppy; stir in enough grated dry cheese to season it. It may then be kept hot by setting the saucepan containing it in a pan of hot water until needed for the table. To cook the lamb first wipe the uncut meat carefully with a wet cloth, treeing it from bits of bone, saw'dust, etc., put it over the fire in enough boiling water to cover it, with a little salt, a small reu pepper pod, three whole cloves, a bayleaf, any bits of celcry, parsley and sweet herbs except 6age available and boil the ir.mb very slowly until it is tender enough to allow the bnnes to be pulled out. Strain the broth and use it to make enough sauce to cover the lamb, thickening it with the white roux and seasoning it palatably with salt and white pepuer; the meat can be kept hot in the sauce by placing the saucepan containing in a nan t of hot water.?Chicago Netcs. f c ON'ION TICKLE. t Select one gallon of small-sized silverskin onions. They Are nicest when just grown to the size of a May cherry. Peal and wash thtm nicely. Put two quarts of fresh milk asri two quarts of water in a granite kettle and make it quite salt. "When it boils put in the onions, and boil them until a straw will readily pierci them. Drain through a colander, pour fresh water over them and drain again. Select for them glass jars with glass tops. It is not well to put pickle in jars that have metal tops lined with porclain, for the vinegar acts on the cement that holds the porcelain in the top, and pickle and i top are both ruined. Do not fill the jars quite full, as horse- ? radish, celery and mustard-seed have yet | to be put in. Fill one of the jar3 with vinegar to see how much will be needed for all. Measure it and put into a porcelain kettle. Put into it four tablespoonfuls of cracked allspice, two of cloves, two of mace, one of ginger, and one of cinnamon, and let it boil about ten minutes. Mix in a bowl one tablepoonful of mustard, one of turmeric, four of sugar. Stir to a smooth paste with cold vinegar, and then stir it into the boiling vinegar II and remove it at once from the fire. In- o to each jar of pickle put one tablespoon- t ful of scraped horseradish, one of celery- i: cod anA nrirt nf a.-liito TrmQt?rrl-fif>f>r}_ t Pour the vinegar into the jars boiling i hot, stirring it bo that some of the spice v will be ia each jar. Seal close and 6et in a cool, dark place.?Ladies' Home Com- t panion. v v household hints. 1 For a slight cut, bind on it a piece or , common brown wrapping paper. I.. >Ynen acia ux iwijr mw uu wmuing,usc spirits of ammonia to neutralize it and then apply chloroform to restore the color. A tight shoe mny sometimes be made easy by laying a cloth in hot water across where it pinches, changing several times. The leather will shape itself to the foot. "Women have great respect for ape. Watch a young lady seated in a streetcar betweou a young gentleman and an elderly one, and see how determined she is not to incommode the latter by crowding against him. __ SIBERIAN JUMBOS. ? fi jEGENDS and relics op pre- * historic giants. Trapping a Mammoth ? The Lore c and the Romance of Hunt- t Ing Big: Animals in a } Bygone Age. ( t When the first Europeans visited China md began to obtain information regard- B ng the traditions of the country they t earned, among other things, that in the 8 latural history of the people was an r :normous subterranean rat called tyn- , ichu. This rat was five or six times as large s is a horse, had terrible teeth and lived 8 :hiefly in the northern country, -where it j orced its way beneath mountain ranges, t ;o that when a tremor of an earthquake j *as heard in Chioa the parents would ;urn to the child and say: 6 "My son, behave yourself. The tyn- f chu is boring beneath the mountains, g nakiog the earth tremble." E I " c a A MAMMOTH IN THE ICE CLIFFS. t' a Thus it came to be believed by al! 5( hat the big rat was an actual fact. No & )ce could be found, however, who had ?, net with the tyn-schu until a huntei g] rora the far north was discovered who taid he had seen one, and here is his ? story: |( "1 am a fisherman, and some years age g [ traveled in Northern China and Siberia, 'ollowing up the rivers to the northern ^ jcean. One winter the cold had been w nore severe than usual and we started y T KofAro thn had ornnp. 1U.YU kUU c [t was still very cold, but wt kept on, 0 loping to secure many fish to dry and n :arry into the interior later on. ^ "One day we were passing a high 0 :liff that was partly undermined by a ^ urn in the river, when my comrade e; iskcd me if I had ever seen a tyn-schu. I ^ eplied no. 'Well,' said he, 'there is _ me coming now.' "I looked up, and there, about forty eet from the beach, was a big black nass of something. I could see two ong teeth, a long tail and its shaggy fur, ind it. was evidently struggling to get >ut, as the ice cliff was cracked. " 'When he sees the sunlight,' my :omrade said, "it will kill him, and ?hcn wc comc back we shall find him lead.' And this was true, for several nonths later when we went back there ay the monster on the beach, dead. It ' lad crawled out of its hole and died in he sunlight, and was mostly eaten up ? 1 ? ?J \XTa Aff fho V\irr ?y Dears auu wuivco. nc ceth, which were as much as two men :ould lift, and took them up the river, vhere I sold one, which I heard was sent ^ 0 the Emperor." Such was the Chinaman's story anc* h&t he believed that the rat was really a 1 living creature there can be no doubt; ft md the belief is supported by the find- f; ng in China of gigantic bones, beneath tl he surface, of thest rats that have acci- s< leutally been caught by rays of sunlight, c1 The origin o 1 this superstition is a veri- 1 able giant of the ice; a huge elephant h vhich existed thousands of years ago in w icarly all countries, and especially about h Northern Europe and Siberia. it In the long ago of geological ages the fi :limate of the far north was much milder tl han at present, and the Siberian islands lj n the Arctic Ocean were covered with e' recs and were the home of vast herds of tl nonster elephants. When the first white tl nen visited this desolate region thev o: ound the shore in some instances literally it overed with the tusks, everywhere proruding from the sand, partly hidden : it I"" ' t. BORN OF HAIRY RIIIJiOCEitOS. ^ Ci t, showing that Dere was a graveyard o f monsters of the olden time. When S * *-it- 1 c ^;-;i ne account reacueu me ircuirca oj. utuiation men went out to see if it was tl rue, and in a short time an extensive b vory trade in these ancient relics sprang r; >p. s] There was then an inde'nite idea of c he animal which bore them, but grad* T lally the fact bccame kuown that they tl vere the tusks of an enormous elephant n mown as the mammoth. tl Imagine Jumbo a third longer, a third ii ligher and covered with a coat of woolly c lair from two to three feet in length; h maginc liiui armed with huge recurving usks ten feet in length, and some idea ^ :an be formed of this king of the ole- a >hants that lived in the long ago. For 11 i long time u very exaggerated Idea of he animal was entertained and some cu* l ious pictures of it were made, but linal- ^ y a specimen was found ana theu an- v )ther. The first and best specimen was dis- 81 :overed by a native fisherman. He saw ^ ts tusk protruding from the bank or ^ uuda, and watched it for several sea- "c ous, until finally he found it lying upon he beach. The wild animals had been f eediDg on it, and, think of it I the mam- u ooth may have been dead anywhere rom five to fifty thousand years, yet its lesh was so perfectly preserved and the !je so fresh that a scientific man said he :ould hardly distinguish between it and he eye of a living animal. Thousands of years ago this gigantic ireature had perished, perhaps failing ino a crevasse in the ice, and ever since lad been frozen up like solid rocks. i?3?u? j :?a jiuuumij uuuciujliiicu. uj iuc htu kuw )ody had fallen out, as we have seen. About thirty pounds of the red hair md wool was collected by this fisherman, he tusks and portions of the feet, and ill sold to a Russian official, who imnediatel sent word to St. Petersburg, Thereupon the Emperor ordered that the intire skeleton should be preserved. The keleton was secured, with some of the kin and hair, and all are now in the loyal Museum of St. Pettersburg, illusrating the enormous size of the prehisoric giant. This was in the last century, and evei ince people have been on the lookout or these giants of the ice. Several pecimens have been found, the most reoarkable by a Russian engineer, named Jen Kendorf, in 1846. He was engaged n surveying the coast off the mouth of be Lena and Indigirka Rivers, and his tory is so striking that I give it just as t is taken from a letter writtci to a riend then in Germany: "Afterward we landed on the nes hore, and surveyed the undermining and lestructive operations of the wild waters, hat carried away with extraordinary apidity masses of soft peat and loam. Vhile we were all quiet we suddenly icard under our feet a sudden gurgling ,nd stirring which betrayed the working if the disturbed river. 4 'Suddenly our jager called loudlj nd pointed to a singular and unshapely bject, which rose and sank through the listurbed waters. I had already renarked it, but bad given it no attention, onsidenng it only driftwood. Now we 11 hastened to the spot on the shore,had he boat drawn near and waited until the lysterious thing should again show itilf. Our patience was tired, but at last a lack, horrible,giant-like mass was thrust ut of the water and we bebeld a colossal lephant's head, armed with mighty isks, with its long trunk moving in the ater in an unearthly manner, as tnougn ;eking for something lost therein, ireathless with astonishment, I beheld le monster hardly twelve feet from me, ith his half open eyes yet showing the 'hitcs. It was still in good preservaon. "A mammoth 1 A mammoth 1" broke ut the Tschernoniori; and I shouted, Here, quickly I Chain and ropes!" 3 the animal again sank, we wait for an pportunity to throw the ropes over his ead. This was accomplished after many fforU. Wc then threw a chain around is tusks, that were eight feet long, drove ' , 'T' EAD OP A GIGANTIC HAIKY RHINOCEROS PROTRUDING FROM THE CUFF. stake in the ground about twenty feet om the shore and made chain and rope ist to it. The day went by quicker rnn I thought for, but still the time jerned long before the animal was seared and the water had loosened it. 'lie soft peat or marsh land, on which e stepped thousands of years ago, gave ray under the weight of the giant, and e sank as he stood on it, feet foremost, icapable of saving himself, and a severe "ost came and turned him into ice, and je moor which had buried him. The itter, however, grew and flourished, rery summer renewing itself. Possibly le neighboring stream had heaped over ic dead body plants and sand. God nly knows what causes had worked for s preservation." If this specimen could have been pre:rved the entire skin of one of these lonsters could have been mounted. In :cent years other specimens have been )und, and there is hardly a locality but as produced its teeth and bones, showig the wide range of the great ele nam. Near Colchester a fine specimen -was ncarthed, and at Scarborough the teeth avc been dredged up in numbers, showig that where the water now flows foricrly was a grazing ground for the hairy lephant. In Italy the bones have been discovred in the volcanic gravel of Pontc folic, showing that they roamed Italy rhen the site of Rome was covered by a iver of lava. In Germany prehistoric man undoubtedly hunted the mammoth. Near CronLadt its bones have been found in great uantities, packed as closely as if they ad been placed so artificially. In the illagc of Thiede, near Brunswick, eleven isks were found in a heap. In the southern portion of this couu :y an allied form?probably as large, ut without the hair?was found and illed the American elephant. Recently ne was discovejed near San Juan, outhern California. The writer as soon as he learned ol ac find attempted to reach the spot, ut little was left to tell the story. The lilroad had cut directly through the keleton, so that the tusks were all that ould be secured and some of the teeth, 'he locality was examined afterward by ric writer, who found that the body lust have laid in a bed of fine sand hat was undoubtedly a quicksand, and 1 this trap the big animal had been aught thousands of years ago, to be eld until to-day. The mammoth has lived its time, and clones to past geological ages, the cx ct cause of its extermination being a lystery. That it was known to man nd huuted by him is very probable, 'he evidences of this arc rare, it is true. l piece of tusk has been found in France ;ith a fairly correct representation oJ be mammoth engraved upon it, preurnably by some prehistoric artist, igain, arrow heads have been taken from eneath remains, while the much disussed elephant pipes of the interior adian mounds of this country may be videncc in this direction, though thia i not positive. / The mammoth was formerly as com- | mon as are horses to-day, and the ivory ' A WHALE FROZEN IN AN ICEBEP.G. from its tusks is still an important commercial item. Mammoth tuslcs frequently weigh 320 pounds apiece, and fine specimens bring large priccs. One tusk was sold some years ago for $500, and fifteen years ago ten thousand were received in London. They weighed about one hundred and forty pounds apiece, the price being Is. 6d. per pound. The mammoth is not the only ice giant the ice cliffs of the North conceal. Some years ago a hunter, in traveling across a rough country, came to a deep crevasse, and upon looking in saw the body of gome monster that had been washed out. He lowered himself into the chasm and found it Jo be a huge rhinocerous, an animal that was as well fitted to live in Siberia as the mammoth, having a covering of thick hair and wool to protect it from the rigors of the cold. The head of the monster was large and the nose armed with two tusks, one of which was enormous, being nearly four feet long and large enough to be used as a club by the natives. If you can picture an ordinary rhinocerous a third larger, or perhaps half as large again, covtred with reddish hair and an underclothing of wool, with a tusk four feet in length, another two feet, some idea can be had of the strange creature that roamed the country with the elephant and perhaps fought with it, as these animals are known to do in Africa to-day. The big rhinocerous is also well known to the Chinese; its horn is supposed to be the tooth of a big dragon or a unicorn, and when ground up forms a valuable item in medicine. We need not go so far back to find animals preserved in the ice. Whaleis tell of gigantic whales which have been seen entombed in icebergs, and several authentic cases are on record where big whales have been observed thus imprisoned, held aloft and floating around at the whim of the Arctic currents.?Neta York, Herald. Princess BIsinarcb. The wife of Prince Bismarck has been ?arely mentioned in the chronicles of the German Court because she seeks to avoid anything like publicity, but for all that she has been of great assistance to the man whose name is so closely linked with the progress of the fatherland in the last thirty years or more. The Prince js is a member of a distinguished German family. She married when her husband was little knowo. She has always been a believer in the greatness of her spouse, and has devoted herself to making his home life as peaceful as his public career has been full of acrimony. Her tact has had much to do with sipoothing away in social intercourse asperities or? in nnnrco nf nnll'tiVft'T /?An. PRINCESS BISMAKCK. trovcrsy. It is said of PriDcess Bismarck that she is happier, now that she and her husband are permitted to live quietly upon their estates, than she has been at any time since the King of Prussia made her husband his ministerial representa tive. In this connection the story is told that once, in company, Princess Bismarck expressed a longing for the life of a plain German gentleman's wife, when the Prince said, in a manner at once grave and gay: "That time will come, my dear, when, grown old, the nation will have no more use for us." If there is regret in the Bismarck mansion that the day of retirement has arrived it is not harbored by the wife.? Chicagi Post. A Yontlifal Speculation. '(122S. JRSjb /Q u ajL - in?ri*vjr"", "I'll tell you, Harry, you hit me ahd IT howl. Then I'll get some cake and whack up." Tradition has it that the last assemblage in the hall of Tara took place in the year A. D. 544. The great triennial council of the Irish nat:on was held there for several centuries previously, out bccause a criminal who had fled for safety to the raouastery of St. Raau had been dragged to the hall and executed, the holy abbot and the monks cried aloud against the sacrilege and pronounced a curse upon its walls. "From that day," says an old chronicler, "no kiujrs ever ajrain sat at Tara." "Take auy twenty-five tall, lean men," said an old court officer to a reporter, "and you can secure a jury in a murder case. They have no conscientious scruples against the death penalty. As a rule, short, thick men have doubts on i this point." ^ i - ? m ?? LARGESSE. ' I In chivalrous days of yore, jB When knights held a tournament gay, I And castle and terraced court jfl Gleamed with banners in brilliant array, f V Each lady gave to her chosen knight 1 A favor to wear in his helmet bright. I J i a A scarf or a glove, a bracelet or veil,. M Or a gemmed clasp to fasten his coat-efr? 1 mail,? '{>' With his "ladye's largesse" he entered the' fray, ? I , A-tilting his lance as the rode on his way. Fled are the days of jcusting, ' With squire and yeoman brave, ; ^ And, thought no knight in glittering maQ, A favor still I crave? A ,v? ^ I ask not scarf or veil, bracelet, clasp or, ? glove,? ' . The only largesse I ask is?my lady's love.. j j ?Mary Fisher Boston, in Boston Traveller* * PITH AND POINT. 1 ? . . ) Never kick an electric light wire when it's down.?Buffalo Expreu. The saddest words that e'er ware writ ' i Make up the sentence, "Please remit." ?Neva York Sun. A greedy man should wear & plaid vest, so as to keep a check on his stomach. The trouble with the airship may oris* from its defective flew.?Chicago Tri- * burie. A pretty girl doesn't object to reflections on herself when they come from a. J looking-glass. .V. d^f.4 $ Cobblers are eligible for medical dip tomas, because the; are skilled ia the art of heeling. A man would do pretty poor fishing if; he used a book-worm for bait.? Bmg~ . hamton Republican. There are some people in this world who wouldn't be satisfied if thej were- . perfectly contented.? Binghamton Leader*. Sanso?"Women are wedded fashion." Blood?uYes, and they love, honor and obey it chcerfully."?NewYork Herald. 'There is always room at the top; that's my motto," said the athlete with, large feet as he stood on his hands.? Washington Post. -if, ; .; Love makes the world go round, bufc it finds it impossible on occasions to "induce the girl's father to come round.?? ' St. Joseph Gazette. 'Would you permit me to read yoo my last poem, my dear young lady!"" . "It it is your last really, certainly."?- \ Flieqende Blaetter. Stranger (in Chicago)?"How doesyour plan of underground wires 'work?" Enthusiastic Resident?"Out of sight."" ? Chicago Tribune. The Stop-Over Privilege: Passenger? "Is this ticket good to stop off?" "Yes'm. But it won't be good to git on again."? New York Weekly. A Now Tork museum manager is try- , ing to get up a corner in giants. They come high, but he says he must haVe'em.?Rochester Post- Express. It is strange how a man will himself admit that he is a fool, yet if anyone else-" tells him so he will get hopping mad. risht away.?Boston Herald. The great men are all dropping out, v i I And dying by the score, : And we're not feeling very well, B And our throat is awful sore. : I ?Dansville Breeze. 4| 1 'Look at the crowd around the corner.. I What's the matter?" Baggs?"Oh,. B nothing, only a policeman killed by an I accidental discharge of duty."?Harvard? I Lampoon. ] jfl Cora?"I would wait ever so long for- I any man that could love me for myself; I alone." Violet?44What patience! And you have already waited so many years.'* ? The ledger. - -fclH A Drop in the Market: He?uDar- B ling, this engagement ring is worth; H $350." She?"The last one I had cost $400." He?"You are older now."? New York Herald. H The finger of a sharp old maid, ' 8 For upwards of a minute, H Gazed on a fine engagement ring, H And sighed: "I am not in it. M ? Washington Star. 1 H Mustard plasters are very usf ful iife their way, but there is no reason to be? - -i - a Ml H neve tntt nnyuouy win ever autuecu us. h utilizing them to teach the children in* I the public schools drawing.?TexatSifl- H ingt. n When a girl is sixteen her ideal man is- H named Reginald. When she is twenty- B four it doesn't matter to her very muck H what his nnme is so long as it will work- H well on the business end of a check.? H SomerviUe Journal. H Fair Shopper?"What is the differ- H ence between those two pieces of goods?"" H Clerk?"One is marked higher than the- H other." "Yes; but what is the real H difference between them?" "I just told D you?a marked difference."? Express. H Quin was once at a small dinner-party. The master of the house, pushing a de~ B licious pudding toward Quin, begged H him to taste it. A gentleman had just H before helped himself to an immense H piece of it. "Pray," said Quin, look- H ing tirst at the gentleman's plate and then at the dish, "which is the pudding?"?Argonaut. "Waiter," said the smart young man, H pushing his plate away from him, "you Hj may bring me a glass of aqua pura to wind up with." The waiter, who had romped on Boston Common in the guile- In less days of his boyhood, brought a glass of water to me smart yuuug lliUU uuv changed the figures on his chcck from H thirty-five to sixty. "Articles not down oq the bill of fare chargcd extra, air," he said.? Chicago Tribune. Bfl "Thunder Month." 9 Two years ago George Hein, of Sonoma, Cul., enlisted in the United States Army as a musician in the First Regiment Band. The regiment was ordered to South Dakota to take part in the Indian war. A few days after the arrival of the regiment and the band at thoHn scene of the Indian troubles the band serenaded General Miles at the Pine^f Ridge Agency in the presence of the^f troops aud a large number of friendly Indians. It was the first time iu their lives that the Indians had heard martial^H inn<??V and their amazement knew no^B bounds. But what took their eyes and HB attention mo9t of all was the young fel-^H low who played the big brass horn. was a most wonderful personage in their^H eyes, and it was not very long before^H they gave hia a characteristic name^H n.a,.rrn> Hr-in of Sonoma, is now known^H UW4Ov ? ' ~~t 1 - # among the Indians, both hostile and|B friendly, in and around Pine Ridg<^| Agency, as "Thunder Mouth.'*?BottormB Trantcript.