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hii out chul Woo Sung, III., is prc town in the country that lu| uaine. It was named by tains who had been in the and purchased land for the new town about 1855. The accumulation of wealth, esti mated at fourteeu per cent of the gross earnings of mankind, now ag gregates $5,000,000,000 per annum and is increasing, relatively-as well as •jsolutely, from year to year. An interesting investigation has been made in Switzerland concerning the heighth of men in the various Classes of society. The results show that on an average the students are ihe tallest men, and the shortest the tailors and workers in factories. There arc now 19 states which have itcel works w’ithin their boundaries, states the St. Louis Star-Sayings, as sgaiyst 14 in 1880, and the number of plants has about doubled during the decade. The increase in the produc. lion is more lemarkablc still, being nearly SOO per cent. The Italian Government proposes to spend about $15,000,000 toward the new Navy during the current fiscal year. It would seem, suggests the New York Tribune that Italy has con cluded best to make sure of her naval position in the Mediterranean, and no body can well blame her for this. What would Lord Nelson have thought of having telephone and elec tric lights on board bis ships, marvels the Detroit Free Press. For that mat ter, what would he have thought of iteam? Nowadays the captain may ring up the central an 1 call the mate a •iubber without leaving his state room. The Emperor o^ Austria is repre sented as deeply cast down by the fate cf his' relative, the ^^Wnuukc John,the third great calami ty during his reign in the family; his brother Maximilian having been shot in Mexico, and hU son and heir Ru dolph having committed suicide. The Emperor went one day recently to ’ pray on the spot where Prince Ru dolph died. The American Dairyman has learned that one man has a dairy farm of eight acres, near Chicago, out of which he makes $1000 a year. An other makes from $5000 to $6000 a year oft' of 320 acres. They only raise enough grain for their horses and a few pigs, everything being in hay and grass for their cows. Even the calves are sold to save the milk they would consume. 0 ■ ~ The present Russian chancellor is a swede; the late Persian ambassador in London was a Scotchman; an Irish man was three times prime minister of Spain, and a Celt, MacMahon, was president of France. The Russian ambassador at Paris is a German, the French ambassador in London is an Englishman, and the Italian ambassa dor in Berlin is a Frenchman. Tae chief consulting admiral of the Turk ish tLet is an Englishman, as was also the late admiral of the fleet. Gerhard Rohlfs, the African ex plorer, expresses the opinion that the Trans-Sahara Railway could be built only after the complete disarming of all the peoples through whose terri tory the route would lie. For this purpose 20,000 picked soldiers would be necessary. One of the greatest ob stacles in the way of the constructors, Herr Rohlfs says, would be the sand banks. The largest of these banks might be funneled, he thinks, while cuts might*be made through the smaller ones. In many localities sand sheds built after the plan of the American snow sheds, would be neccssarv. The much-disputed stature of that majesty among mountains, Mount St. Elias, in A’aska, grows more interest ing by reason of the fogs and clouds of doubt and contradiction raised by the scientists, and which encircle its head. Professor William II. Dali, of the L'ni cd $t.-;tcs Coast Survey, pub lished his report in 1875, and now comes that of Russell and Ken, and i the latter insist upon taking oft' abou* | • six thousand feet; or, in other words, i the whole white-haired and snow-; frosted scalp of the mountain. Pro fessor Dali, in Science, contends that j the top of the mountain is still there, but he says that ihe matter is one really to be discussed by expert surveyors, j IT 1(1 it Kith small roots, dc kr crop of sugar. ska is rejoicing over a new )le industry,” announces the Fireside. “The beet sugar rrand Island is reported to success. It has been turn- jar at the rate of thirty tons The success of this, the first Eperimeutal season, assures the Fe of the industry. The soil and »ate of Nebraska are both adapted to the sugar beet. The cool climate, the nature of the soil, the spring mois ture and the summer drought all favor the production of beets rich iu sugar. The success in Nebraska will stimulate other states equally adapted to the growth of the sugar beet.” It is becoming the style in London, notices the New Orleans Picayune, for the rising generation to shave clean, which shows that fashions repeat themselves. It is only very recently that the English barristers and clergy men permitted mustaches among them, and no judge or bishop would think of having one without beard for company. In the Queen’s navy the rule is whiskers without mustache, to tal clean shaving, or the whole of the hair on the face. The mustache is al so forbidden in the army, the chap lains being excepted. The police were only lately relieved from the prohibi tion, and an actor with mustache was unknown twenty years ago. “Lord Dundreary” Southern was one of the first to wear it regularly. Says the Chicago Herald: Many people have a way of sneering at sci ence and scientific men. But they are useful after all. 'Ihe biological sur vey of the San Francisco mountain re gion has shown that mammals, birds, reptiles, insects and plants so coincide in distribution that a map showing the boundaries of an area inhabited by an association of species in one group serves equally well for other groups. This is important to the agriculturist because it shows that what is true of animals and plants iu a state of nature is true also of animals and plants as modified by the voluntary acts of man. Every race or breed of sheep, cattle or swine, and every variety of guain or vtgetableAhrives best under peculiar conditions of temperature, moi exposure, etc. Hence a map dJ natural-life areas of a country will tell the farmer what he can expect to produce most profitably on his own farm and what crops will not thrive in his neighborhood, thus saving a great deal of the time and cost of experi ments, which aggregate hundreds of thousand* of dollars each year. and that another set of observations will be needed to determine which of : those already taken is most correct. Sheep-Eating Parrots. Curiously enough there seems never to have been any animals in New Zea land in early days, save a sort of bat that presumably flew across Australia.- There was a parrot which could never in those times have had any opportuni ties for flesh feeding on this account, and its diet was composed of fruits and seeds. ‘When the country became settled by the whites and sheep herd ing was made a big industry there, something happened that puzzled and worried the shepherds greatly. • They found many of their sheep wounded or dying from unaccountable sores in their backs, and it was not for a long time that they discovered the cause. It stems that during one winter, which was very unusually severe, most of the fruits and seeds upon which the parrots had been accustomed to de pend were destroyed, and the birds were driven to seek other means of sustenance. This was discovered by those of them which survived in the carcasses of slaughtered sheep. They found certain parts of the meat to their taste and acquired a liking for it so thoroughly that they never cared to go back to the vegetable diet. Consequently, they made a business in subsequent seasons of attacking the living flocks and biting out the flesh of the beasts with their s rong beaks, choosing the portions in the neighbor hood of the small of the back, where the fat about the kidneys was espec ially succulent. When this was found out a bounty was set on these parrots, and it still remains at a liberal figure iu the colony today. Iu New Guinea and certain outlying islands there are small ‘bat parrokeets,’ which sleep hanging by the feet, head downward. Our Carolina parokeets do just the opposite, hanging at night by the hooks on the ends of their bills, which they stick into crevices or wherever may be convenient.—£Wash- ingtou Star. Catseyes in Ceylon, The gemming industry in Ceylon if reported to have good prospects befort it. According to the Ceylon Obser ver, a Colombo merchant recently •aw some very fine and valuable stones in the h^«d of a Moorman dealer. Tte fiiicst was a splendid specimen of caFseyo, for which $5,000 was paid in Colombo, and it was believed that the stone must have been quite recently found. cs ml 'Land, inti groe» we see, ik e'er the mists expand, |ho wind-swept lea. our wishes are all made true, »wns may not mar the brow, torms never mutter the whole year through, Where Then is transformed to Now, And only the dreamer who idly halts With a pencil and brush in hand, Can travel the path to the mystic vaults, And the treasures of Maybe Land. — [Philander Johnson in Washington Post. A Tale of Pioneer Life. On tho third day of May,' 1807, a pioneer on the Solomon River, Kan sas, heard the reports of rifies to the west of him just as he had finished breakfast. His name was Cherry, and his family consisted of a wife and two boys. Only one of the boys was a home at the time. He was a lad of 12, named John. The Indians had been surly and menacing all winter, and every white man knew that an outbreak was likely to occur in the spring. Believing that the blow was about to fall, Cherry closed and barri caded the doors, and made ready to hold out as long as possible. Two hours passed quietly, and then the settler argued that the firing must have come from a party of hunters. In order to satisfy himself on this point he slipped out of the back door into the brush, intending to go up the river to tho other cabin. He had gone only a quarter of a mile when five In dians fired on him from an ambush. Every bullet, as they afterward rela ted, inflicted a mortal wound. Cherry fell to the earth, but as they rushed forward to scalp him he killed the foremost man with a shot, and then drawing his knife, lie attacked the others and cut two of them badly be fore ho fell down and died. The reports of the rilles warned Mrs. Cherry of what had happened to her husband. Ho had taken the rille, while she had a shotgun and Johnny had a single-barrelled pistol. They did not have long to wait. A band of nine warriors came toward tho front of the house waving a white shirt as a flag of truce, and when within ten feet of the door the leader called to the occupants of tho house: “4Ve no hurt you if you open the door!” “If you try to get in we shall shoot!” replied Mrs. Cherry. Tl^^^^^^^Jaughcd in d and door, hoping to get clear of the house, but as they opened it two warriors were found there on guard. Mother and son fired together, and the two men fell, but before the fugitives had run a hundred yards they were over taken. Mrs. Cherry and Johnnie were taken to the other settler’s, whoso name was Robinson. He had been shot down in his door, and his wife and sisters were prisoners. The house had been ransacked and set afire, and one of the Indians had Robinson's scalp at his girdle; Tho prisoners, who now numbered four, and were guarded by only two men, were con ducted along a s.nall creek which emp tied into the Solomon, and after marching about seven miles were halted in a grove. The grove had been named as a ren dezvous, and the four prisoners were the first to reach it. One of tho guards had an qld wound in the side, and about an hour after reaching the grove he pulled off his shirt to dress it. Mrs. Cherry’s arms were so securely bound that she could not release them. They had been more careless in the case of the boy. As the two Indians were employed with the wound the lad worked his arms loose, and with an encouraging nod from his mo'her he made a rush for the rifles. Wi'h one of them he shot the wounded Indian dead. The other was wrested from him before he could tire,but he turned and ran and got clear away, dodging the bullet sc:;t after him, and the sur viving Indian did not dare to pursue him for fear the women would get away. This brought the dead up to four. What happened to the lad after his escape no one will over know, as no trace was ever discovered. I my self was employed for nearly six mouths searching for him after peace came, but nothing came of it. He was not killed as he wandered about; neither was he retaken. I believe be perished on the plains from exhaus tion. The remaining Indian sat with hi* - rifle across his knees and guarded the women until a hand of seven or eight of his companions came in. They had as prisoners two children belonging to a family named Hascall, a woman named Deering, and a boy, 10 years old, named Lawton. This boy had been living with an uncle named Thomas, and both his aunt and uncle had been killed. In the raid on the settlers quite a number of Indians had been killed and many wounded. But for the efforts of the sub-chiefs all the prisoners would have been toma hawked. About 5 o’clock iu the after noon the party left the grove and headed to the northwest. swarmed wi ast off to en- ove faster and Ton of starting Mrs. managed to pick up and secrete unting kniffc which had belonged to the Indian her boy shot. After traveling four hours the Indians made a camp without fire, food or water. Here one of the Indie is attempted to strike Mrs. Cherry and she gave him such a blow across the throat with the keen-edged knife that his head was almost severed from his body. She was disarmed and tied hand and foot, and the Indians promised that she should be tortured for three w'hole days before death camo to her relief. I must now continue the story from a different experience. Twenty days after the party of prisoners had disap peared into the Indian country I was engaged by the father of the Lawton boy and by a brother of Mrs. Cherry to make an effort to find and rescue them. The northern and western parts of Kansas were then in the hands of the hostiles, many of the forts and posts besieged, and there were no rail, roads to transport troops. Indeed* the lethargy of the Government in re inforcing the troops occupying stations greatly encouraged the Indians, and prolonged the war. When I cut loose from the frontier I had as comrade a scout and Indian fighter named Reid. We were mount ed on fine and speedy mules, had Winchester rifles and revolvers, and the pair of us were put up against four or five la; go tribes of Indians- Scores of prisoners had been carried off along tho entire frontier, and to look for any particular one seemed a hopeless task. We knew, however, that the two we wanted had made their start from the grove on Mink Creek, and we decided to make that our point of departure. It was then forty miles from tho nearest military post, but we reached it without acci dent. We had not yet unsaddled our horses when Tom made a discovery that furnished us with a clue. He picked up an Indian tobacco pouch which had belonged to a Sioux. Up to this time we did not know whether the pair we were after had been captured by the Sioux or Chey ennes. This gave us a big start in the right direction. We must bear more to the west and search among the Sioux. It must not be ifTingined that we went riding*boldly around the country on our errand. There were days and days that we lay in hiding. If we moved at all "it was by night, and then only short distances. The country tfHuns, and there was :tr that we w'efB^nc^i^ ^verc gradually working lages on the. Smoky HiU Ford an(Tits~ierritories. and our game was to play hide and seek. Wc had one close call as wc neared the villages. We had advanced about five miles during the night over ground so hard as to leave no trail, and wo were lying in for tho day in a dry ravine. About 9 in the morning, as I was on watch, I espied ft couple of Indians to the east. They had been sent from some war party with a mes sage to one of the villages. They were riding at a gallop when I first saw them, but of a sudden they halted, held a council, and both rode into the ravine about eighty rods above our position. They could not have seen our trail, nor had they reason to sus pect our presence, and I never could fathom their action. They were com ing right down upon us, and I had Tom awoke in a jiffy. Just above us was a sharp bend, and bore wc took our stations, revol vers in hand. The ponies of the In dians came scrambling along the rough patli, one closely following the other, and the first rider never knew what hit him. The second saw us but was dead live seconds after, and wc at once secured the ponies. This was the fourteenth day of our advance, and the thirty-fourth day of Mrs. Cherry’s capture. Let us now return to her. The prisoners were marched across the county to the villages on the Smoky Hill Fork. The first idea was to put all of them to the torture, but the chiefs finally decided to hold them for a while and see how even's would shape. Two sons of prominent chiefs and a great medicine man had been captured by the whites, and it might be that they would have to be ransomed by giving up prisoners. Mrs. Cherry and the Lawton boy were kept in one village, while all others captured with them were sent to another. They were made to carry wood and water, live on the food thrown to the dogs, and every hour in the day were told of the fate in store for them. Both were beaten by Indian women and boys, but they . did not feel their lives in peril. They slept in a tepee, with an Indian boy about 18 years of age and an old hag of a squaw. On the afternoon of the day we killed the two Indians in the ravine Mrs. Cherry secreted a tomahawk under the dried grass composing her bed. It belonged to the Indian boy, but he djd not miss it. She heard them talking ^hat day about moving camp, ling was done, because no came. At midnight, when ' g was quiet, Mrs. Cherry crept o\¥r to the Indian boy and sunk the blale of the tomahawk in his skull. Me raised his arms but made no outcnl, and was dead iu two or three minutes. She disposed of the old woman in the same way, and then waking up young Lawton she took him by the hand and walked out of the village. At 1 o’clock in the morning, as I ( was scouting on foot to locate the village anil was within a mile of it, I met Mrs. Cherry and the boy. She had the Indian boy’s bow and quiver, ! and Lawton carried the blood-stained tomahawk. We pushed back to tho 1 ravine as fast as we could go, and , after reaching it we lost no time in mounting and heading to tho south. We were not followed from the camp, as an order reached it at daylight to move to a distant point and we dodged the war parties until another two hours would have cairicd us into a post. We were then suddenly confronted by a band of thirty warriors, but af ter a race of two miles we beat them in securing possession of a grove, and for three hours we held them at bay. Troops from the post then came to our rescue. I had been hit in the arm, Tom in the shoulder, Mrs Cherry in the cheek, and the boy lost two fin gers by a bullet. We had killed throe warriors, wounded two or three more, and knocked over four ponies. The Indians were scared away from the post very soon. What they did with the captives among them we never learned. —[New York Sun. LADIES' DEPARTMENT. Hott the Russians Eat. “The Chaumiere” in Moscow is cer tainly the most luxurious and elegant ly appointed restaurant in Europe. The large dining hall is a huge Win ter garden with feathery and blooming mimoso as a background for the ex quisitely served tables. In the middle of this unique restaurant-garden is a great marble fountain wherein trout and other delicately-flavored members of the finny tribe swim in deep clear water. When a guest orders a fish for his dinner, he is forthwith con ducted by the head butler to this novel aquarium ami is requested to select the fish most likely to tempt his fancy- A long-handled silk net is then given to him and he can, if he pleases, catch his fish with sportsmanlike zest and dexterity, a feat which materially adds to his enjoyment and general apprecia tion of the dinner he is about to eat. Russians, who are very fond of flowers, do not relish a repast when tho table is not one mass of fragrant blossoms, and nowhere else in Europe does one see such gorgeous table dec" orations as in St. Petersburg or Mos* cow. Thousands of rubles are often spent for orchids to adorn the board of some wealthy Boyard*. and at the d.li ner given some time ago by Prince Narishkiire to the Diplomatic Corps at St. Petersburg the flowers in the din ing hall cost over 20,000 rubles.— [Kansas City Times. PINE BATHS. One of the newest fads among the feminine portion of New York is that of taking the new pine bath. The majority of the ladies of the upper crust indulge in them about three times a week. They lay in the tank and have the tepid extract of pine poured in upon them. They find it very exhilarating, and you will hear the expression often: “Take your pine this week?”—[New Orleans Picayune. WHITE BRIDESMAIDS. If you have set your eyes and heart on a young man who is slow in re turning the affection and the gaze, suppose you ask a friend who- is on the eve of marriage to suffer you to be a bridesmaid. Then may you— must you if you follow fashion—wear a white silk frock and cover your head with a tulle veil. You will not put on lacc and diamonds like her wh i is entering into matrimony, but you will look more pretty and equally bri dal, and the passage of a thought will be facilitated into the brain of the young man. — [New York Commercial Bulletin. EVANESCENT ECUADORIAN BEAUTY. The females cf Ecuador are proverb ial for beauty, those among the aris tocracy being said to have the fairest complexion of any in South America, while all possess large, soft and ex pressive dark eyes and the blackest and most abundant hair, the whitest teeth, well-rounded figures and small hands and feet. Like all women in the tropics they mature early and fad-* quickly but perhaps their average span of forty years includes more heart- happiness than comes to women of colder climates iu three score years and ten, for these are harrassed by no “carking cares” or high ambitions.— [Chicago Herald. Old-Time California Hospitality. The kindness and hospitality of the native Californians have not been overstated. Up to the time the Mexi can regime ceased in California they had a custom of never charging for anything; that is to say, for entertain ment—food, use of horses, etc. You were supposed, even if invited to visit a friend, to bring your blankets with you, and one would be very thought less if he traveled ami did not take a kuife with him to cut his meat. When you had eaten, the invariable custom was to rise, deliver to the wo man or hostess the plate on which you hud eaten the meat and beans—for that was all they had—and say, “Muchas gracias Senora” (“Many thanks, madame”) ; and the hostess as invari ably replied, “Bueii provecho” (“May it do you much good”). The Missions in California invariably had gardens with grapes, olives, figs, pomegran ates. pears, and apples, but the ranches scarcely ever had any fruit. When you wanted a horse to ride, you would take it to the next ranch— it might be twenty, thirty or fifty miles—and turn it out there, and some time or other in reclaiming his stock the owner would get it back. In this way you might travel from one end of California to the other.—[Century. MARVELOUS HEAD ORNAMENTS. What woman would go to the trou ble of having an ornament for her hair made after the fashion of that worn by the Duchess of Orleans dur ing the reign of Louis Le Grand on her first appearance at court after the birth of her sou and heir? She had on her high pouf a representation, in gold and enamel, of the entire nursery, the nurse, infant, cradle, and play things being most conspicuous. Another marvellous head ornament was that worn by Mine. d’Egrcmont, daughter of the Due de Richelieu, after her father had successfully taken Port Mahon by a series of strategems. She wore a little diamond foiTress, with the sentinels keeping guard, and, wonderfully enough, they could be made to walk up and down the minia ture ramparts! And yet women of to-day think they spend much money and much ingenuity in getting up new devices and in using their costly jewels to make themselves beautiful. They don t know until they read what wo men used to do 200 years ago whaj extravagance really is—[New York Sun. but no! orders everytl A Lake of Pitch. ‘‘Near where we live,” said William Creig of Trinidad, West Indies, “is a pitch lake. It’s at La Brea. It covers about ninety acres aiul it is soft enough to take the impression of your shoes i as you walk over it, but take up a bit of it and strike it sharply and it breaks off with a conchoidal fracture like a lump of anthracite. I dont know where it comes from, but I do know that it’s most awfully hot there. Tho sun pelts down like fun, and the black pitch absorbs all the heat. All down to the coast and under the sea and across in Vcnesuela there is a streak of this same formation. The British Government owns the lake, and a monopoly pays a royalty of not less than £20,000 a year.”—[Chicago Tribune. A Last Resort. “You had a narrow escape on the lakes I understand?” “Yes, indeed, the coal ran out and the captain had to split up the ship’s log to keep the fires going.”—[Muu- sey’s Weekly. The Report or the Head. Algie—I heard a report that Chappie fell last night and hurt his head. Gus—Well, there’s nothing in it. THE SHINING NAIL. The nails of a fashionable woman are often—to put it strongly—a posi tive abomination. They are vulgar, just as anything that is overdone and pronounced is vulgar. And they are altogether “agin natur’,” quite as much as if they were stained with henna like those of her East India sis ter. To conform to nature the nail should be trimmed round to follow the line of the finger tip instead of being slanted up In a long, sharp point, which is supposed to add a tapering look to the finger, but which really suggests the claws of a bird. And then they are polished too high ly. To a fastidious mind the over wrought glistening of the nail is as of fensive—because it is as unnatural— as the painted cheek or the darkened eyes. Artifice in the finger-tips is no less vulgar than artifice in the face. And it is not beautiful. Nature is an artist who does not make mistakes. If the beauty of the nail were really en hanced by laying a hard, glistening polish upon it, she would have known how to do so. — [New York Journal. latter that the intensest misery abounds. Those who have studied tho subject assert that it is absolutely im possible for the Paris working girl to live upon her earnings, and the fate which too commonly overtakes her is a striking comfirmation of the state ment. Needlework brings in only from forty to sixty cents a day, the plainer sort loss. It is said that from fifteen pence to eighteen pence represents the'average daily earnings of working girls, a sum on which it is hardly possible for them to exist. Many die of slow starva tion, many more, putting scruples aside, sieze the readiest avenue of es cape from their lot and a residum, to whom life is one manner or the other has become unbearable, seek in tljj Seine a rest that cannot tJc'"TitstIIfued. — [New York Press. SUFFERING PARISIAN SHOP-GIRLS. The terrible condition of the work ing women in Paris has at last attract ed the attention of the French Govcrn- Hient, and inquiries are being unde with a view of alleviating some of their sufferings The working wo men’s lot is not an easy one in any great city, but iu Paris it is excessively hard. The statistics being brought out by the investigation referred to show that only three or four of the many trades in which women arc en gaged are fairly well paid, and these require not only natural talent, but an expensive training as well. In the china manufactory at Sevres, for in stance, only two women artists earn as much as $400 a year; tho rest earn not more than $250 or $300 and the posts are hard to get. The men employed receive a retiring pension; the women do not. The reason is said to be that tho latter are inferior to the men in originality, and do not make good designers. Such trades as china painting are, however, far above the level of ordinary work ing women, and it U among these FASHION NOTES. Some of the new dresses are fes tooned very prettily about tho hem. Pocketbooks are small and nearly square, and are made to hold car.ls. Black corsets, with pink or gray points, have come greatly into favor. Newly decorated bedrooms have been hung with chintz after the English model. The Cleopatra belt is a novelty made of gold embroidery studded with colored stones. The Pompadour clement asserts it self in most of the frail, filmy stuffs for evening wear. Fashionable women spend more money on perfumes for tho bath than for other purposes. One reed is .still used in the skirt foundation of dresses to hold the gathers in the back. A freak in the ivay of a muff is three-quarters of a yard long, but not wider than ordinary. Little girls w’ear ividc rimmed felt hats of light color, trimmed with rib bon or velvet or birds’ wings. Carriage cloaks and evening wraps remain very long, and are more amolo than they have been for many years. Finger rings with marquise medal lions are of a length which would not formerly have been considered good taste. Some new arrangements for the drawing room in copper or wrought iron are lamps by night and flower stands by day. If you cannot afford a hat or bonnet for every gown or every occasion, se lect a black felt and have a dash of gold introduced iu tho black trim- Either starched linen cor cuffs are to be worn with wool dresses this winter, crosswise pieces of ba tiste or something white to relieve the unbecoming straight band so long in favor. The novelty in ornaments for bon nets is turquoise studding in jet, gilt, silver or steel, in passementerie, but terflies, heads of pins and bandeaus. Pink coral, amethyst, rubies and em eralds are also employed, but pale tur quoise are most favored by Paris mil liners. Heartless Meanness of a Forger. It was related to me that when tho crimes of Smith the forger, were made public by a gentleman who re sided opposite to where the artful banker dwelt, that every morning at 8 o’clock promptly his carriage was driven up to tlie door with a groat flourish. The coachman, all liveried, had then to sit on the box until 9.30 o’clock, when his gracious master ap peared with a bustle, jumped into the coach and was driven oft* to Now York. This operation had been the custom for years. R in, hail and snow the coachman was compelled to sit there for a mortal hour and a half and wait for his liege lord to come out. Now, this same coachman, who had been in Smith’s employ for over 12 years would like to know what has become of the $2700 which he says ho has given his master in all that time to speculate for him. His cook also, as well as a position, wants to know where the $300 is which he gave him. Alas for human frailty! the horrible greed of gain, the fever to become rich seizes the humble in its mad grip as well as the lordly.— [Brooklyn Citizen. Persia's Handsome Shah. The Shah lives in Teheran in great style. He has a large palace and as many as seventy-five wives. He is a very good-looking man—part Tartar, Turk and Koord—which is the finest specimen of physical manhood found in Asia. He is not very tall, has very black eyes and a fine black mustache. His dress is both of European and Asiatic style. He wears the shirt Und pantaloons of the European, a coat with a waist like a Prince Albert coat, but it has a very full skirt gathered on. He wears European shoes and a Per sian cap of astrakan. His outer robe is of Persian silk and lined with sable fur. He is a very liberal man in re gard to opinions, for a Mahometan. He is very progressive, but can do nothing without the consent of the mullahs, as he is bound entirely to them. He is very liberal to his peo ple, and he gave the Christians money to establish a church. Herds obliged to show the Christians tome favors.—