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When they who ?lgk, bat sigh lA vain, In their hourti oonooal it. Lot* is ? boundless bliu: All they who sh*re it, With lover's look and lover's klM Surely ah*11 dooUro it. Love with the crown of life Ills UDg nud quoeu oovore, ,When thoughtfal mftn and tender wife BUU are steadfast lovers. . Ah I and when envious De?th Oar life shell smother, Loto with his willow wreath Crowns that constant other* Toting men and maids, for love Beak till 7* And it; And having found, win heaven above Ahoutyour hearts to bind it. lie Two Wanderers. ' > v ?_ ? \\i> + * Two wanderers in a wood profound - Hoard, stroke by stroke, the ax* resound] And that which eaoh moat longed to own Bug to him in the weapon's tone. Hi* stalwart sahSi 'Tkero Use the strand? They build a ship for far?otf land.' The wearied spake: ? A homo they build By hand of lov* with flowers filled.' And through tb* tangled thicket's braid Tbsgr press, when lo I 'twas as eaoh said. They build a bark for far-off laud, A mansion decked by loving hand. Within the forest's swamp and brake A ooffcr fov the dead they make. A WOMAN'S STORY. I entered my seventh year when my father, M. Voile, gave me a new mother in the person of the bend* some and imperious widow of one Ool end ? brother in Mw, Ltlor'e only-child, a boy of twelve. jjflbert Lalor, with his handsome faoe, strong Will and pleasant ways, soon be else could, Madame Viele looked on idth a proud, self-satisfied smile, and more then once I heard her murmur in her sweet, imperious tones: Ion' ' ? It wm neer the close of ? Week winter 55 ^ 'AhP sEe exol&imed, half under her ?breath, as ehe held me off amomont and keenly sorutinised me with her great, lustams blaok eyes. Then a warm smile perted her lipe, and kissing me tenderly, ehe added: \ ? ; 'Yon are beautiful, my ehild?far more beautiful than I Imagined. .Albert will be oh armed. Ah, ft blush, dearest? You h?ye not forgotten my old hope, thent But oome, oome, dear; the air Is bitterly keen.' . And gathering up the shining length of her blaok satin she swept queen-dike before me, pausing only long enough in the hall to allow ft kindly word or two to the Assembled servants. ? Then, with ft rare oondeeoenslon, she led me up stalre to my chamber. As we entered the dressing-room she glanoed at the timepieoe and turned to ?Tbke mademoiselle's wraps, Hanton, she said quickly end imperiously, 'and then layout some of her handsomest dresses * adding smllingly,*ftft her eyes returned to me, *1 shall Superintend your toilet this evening, my dear.. Din* ner will be Mured in lees than an hour, ? and I want you to wppear el your best when you descend to the drawing-room. Albert shall be daisied ftt first sight/ ken We entered the brilliantly light awing-room it was tenanted by two a handsome, kingly-looking men. whom I reoogniaed et once ae my stepbrother, and ft tell, slender girl with heftrenly bine eyes, peertf<*kin and a shimmering crown of pale, golden hair. fenoied, too, thftt he bed even move has tily dropped one of the dainty white hende toying with ft bunoh of blue for get-me-nots that matohed a liny oluster Half hidden in the flossy gold of her I this fair girl, and that Jie nrst Ume it occurred >e might be destined to me ftnd the man I had to think of only too ten pft^I extended 'But why don't yon kiss her, my eon, ee in the old dsysf' she smiled gaywT7 IpAnd with ita enewerlng smile, Albert 'Ah, what ft oh*rmtng blu?h I' laughed my stepmother touching my glowing oheek caressinglytirith her soft, white fingers. I smiled, but my heart throbbed pain terly under the ruby velvet bodice thftt ness to a foil, fleroc, passionate love. I lifted my eyes, lustrous with the feeling, to the Ihandsotse, ee of my brother. ?nd again swsUeji witEpftlou !mMedeme Viele Ah, how the blood leaped through my voinel And how I hated the oharuthte oreaturo standing bt-Iore me, ao regally jmoefttl and sweet. Tve, I hatedher, ror there oould he no mistaking the brooding tendomess and passion with wbioh my stepbrother was regarding Z ?al instant did his eyes betray htm; and as the pleasaut hours of the evening flaw by, I grew hall dis ^?ssd to laugh at my jealous pain. ^Nevertheless, when my stepmother fol lowed me to my room I smiled lightlr. ?Peri is very lovely, ihamma, and Al bert seems ?/> admire her.'^T^ , Madame Viele turned a glanoe upon me that covered my face with a flood of ? . mw ; V|f . ? r A f ^ .. n 'Nsv, nay/ aha laughed aofUy the next instant, winding nor arm narosn ingly about me. 'You have no oaoae for Jealousy, my love. Albert is heart whole, and knows well that it la my *> him your husband. Know ing this, she addfed with haughty stern ness, ?he would not dare brave me by loving another.' Then, with a swift re turn to her former tenderness, she con tinued: ??My dear ohild. I trust you oan ftml noble^on?^ ^ ,0T^ lMLadAome 'Don't rush Into jealousy,Vi. Perl Isa good and beautiful girl, but Albert gives her only a cousinly affection. Though ehe is In no way dependent upon me pecuniarily, I promised her dying moth er to give her a home at Gray Pell, as 7?u know; and you oan see, my love, how veiy unpleasant it would make it tor you to brood over a foolish jealousy. So, dear, put all that nonsense out of yotw charming hesd and rest assured thai I am right. My eyes are keen, and In the eighteen months she has been at Gray Pell must inevitably have pene trated a secret of that kind/ 'Of oourse, mamma is right,' X mur mured as the door closed on her impe rial form, and I summoned Man ton. But, my maid dismissed, I sat down in my dressing gown and stared at tho glowing ooals, my Noughts and feelings In an anxious whirl, : After a time I rose, sighing impatiently. II can't sleep; I will go down and get a book." With the words I crept out Into the hall. I had traversed half Its length ?When the aound of stealthy steps onthe ftaira cent 'me with bated breath be hind the heavy damask ourtains of a window near me. Burglars were in my mind, but X mado no outory. The next minute the ateps passed a few feet from me, and I wax quickly undeoeived. A voise I well knew murmured In mydaritng, WTO all come right/Only my own.' Umu* beard the Soft Jalteringly. 'Where is it all to end twror of the future I stared almost WiMly at her as Aunt Ray presented me. ?Nonsense! Do you want to make me laughed ? m) stepbrother softly. Awl than he murmured in graver ao : *2? wy we have done wrong, darlmg. Remember that we had to choose between two evils. Remember that my mother possesses an iron will. She would have ground us both to pow der ratherihim consent to what weC 'Yes, yea. I know' sighed Perl,, be fore he oould finish tire sentence I was panting to hear. ?Then oease to grieve, darling,' he tridspered. 'And now, onoe more, good "And I knew he folded her dose to his heart tot a brief moment. As their doors olosed noiselessly upon their retiring forms 1 crept weakly back to myohamber, pride, anger and dea rth a stifled cry I flung myseif pas sionately on the rug before the fire and buried my face in the tiger skin cover ft"* J??6 ^ ^'t, yielding hassocks. * vLostt lost to melT X moaned in my fierce agony And then, starting up rifM, I panted with vengeful breath. ?But what meant that unfinished sen tenoef Oan they* And then I paused and atared breath lessly at the glowing ooals. 'Abt I Will watohl I will watoht' I muttered later And I shivered at the sound of my own low, relentless voice. I did watch. I listened to their fond specoh. The unfinished sentenoe X had oftught to the hall abovi^remainod unfinished, f Bat one wild, bleak night. ? month Jftsr. mvtask was ended. With stifled breath I noiselessly orept from the 11> brary to my stepmother's chamber. She sat in her dressing gown before the Are, lost in sn enohanting book. At my stealth^., and unceremonious en trance she glanced np. 'Great Heaven I' she cried, dropping I. laughod a harsh short laugh. 'Only transformed into a Nemesis, mamma.' ?ANemealat' echoed mt stepmother in alow tonaa of profouad amasement, the neit inntant adding imp?taonalv, ?Yon look like * beautlfnl apirit from X ahrtifted my nhonldera with another h?rnh langh. ,O0m< She stored at me wondering!*, And ha'f ihrnnk m my ley little hand olaap madamor 1 whiapeved, m we I left her room, ahe waa atandlng at the door, at whloh Jl had ao nalla aink deep 1st the pelm of my hand ea hor blaaiog eyea rested on the aeene beyond. X heard her breath eome in awtft, angry gaata. 7 For a fall minute tne aiood thns. 'It moans thin, iny mother/ repUd Albert, nufalt*-ringly, as ho pawd foj ward and circled more olo*elj tho sit der form of tba pallid girl^btside hi 'It mesne that for three months P haa been my wife*? 'Witel gasped my stepmother, eta j gcting back as if she had reoeived blow. And then she screamed, pic inglv: 'Not your wife, Albert?' 'xodt mother, my wife,' he ret sadly and firmly, while great tears rol ed over Peri's white fuoo. 'Wo grieve to do it secretly, mother, tut*? My stepmother lilted her band. 1 had quite recovered hoi>ilf now. 'Bilenoel' she commanded in those awfully hnahed tones. 'Ask no forgiv^ new? Ask no blesstogt Peri, got Leave, this boose, now and forever. Go or stay, as yon will; but know that from this hour I never epeak to yon agaii, From this honr know your blessing m r, bitterest curse!' 'Mother'?? 'Silenoe!' again commanded my < mother, in fearfully oonoentrated tont 'Qot Not a word! Pat that ore forth at on eel' pointing her white i at Peri's bowed head. ?Say you forgive, mother/ pleadec Albert. ?Say'?? ?Silenoel' almost thundered Viole, her face ghastly as the deed* He turned a way then. ?Come, my darling, we will go/ murmured with infinite tenderness Peri. And catolling up a cloak and hood i had cast there only a few hours bef he wrapped her tenderly in them led her to the door. . There they paused end looked beck i Madame Viele. ? Faro well, mother,' theyeajd, ?and Hoaven forgive us and youP , Madame gased stonily at them wit out word or gesture, and thegr " and turned away. / Directly the hell door olanged i after them. As it did s6mj <' f| turned oalmly to me: "**7 for you, Vi/ She briefly, in stern, evon tonee. 'Let us | And with firm stop and erect) led m? up to my room. There < ed me good night, saying olosod the door: 'From this moment they ere < us. Never mention their u*m*e It wss all over now. Xfc*d vesureanoe.' vW$s!P ?It is well!' I said, m. mytttf ed mr billow. ^ - The days came and went, mother was-oreot, oold and imj as ever. Not by word, look or. she betraar her seoret suffering. * ' e year she had lost every off,"' aOi Bee fraitJ;-.' V-' W? W H I gased at her, dimly com her meaning, Then she . Uhejr have a little daugbter, Ylj and they have named her ifter me-Bay r&.Vi. ami w.h.? She looked At me wishfully. There Wss e brief strife between the good and the evil, and then I replied: 'It is Dead Sea fruit, mamma. We will have them b*ok, I ean look upon Albert as my brother now.' ?Thank Heaven I' exolaimed Madame Viele, And three days later Albert, Perl end the little Bay were established at Gray Fell. Twenty-one Children Left Behind. An elopement is reported from the village of Springfield, Union oounty, N. J., in whien two families and twenty one ohildren are interested. The woman is the fonrth wife of her husband, and leaven behind her besides her hneband, two ohildren of her own and eleven by her husband's three former wivei. The man leaves a wife and eight ohildren in destitute elronmstfmoee. He is said to have taken part in an elopement osos before. Beside* his wife, the husband loses a good part of his property. He sgreed to sell the farm and wse to be paid in township bonds. ' Ton had better,' the far-seeing wife re marked to her husband, 'have the bonds made payable to me. Then if you get into money troubles no one ean louoh thom,' The husband thought the advioe excellent, and the bonds were made payable to the wife. Then the family removed to Springfield, where the woman beoame acquainted with the man. On Friday the man^the woman and the bonds payable to her disap peared simultaneously and have pot bean seen in the tillage sinoe. Institute of A Now York man went homo last night and found his wife wiping her eyes with ? *48 laoa handkerchief, no ?upper ready, the blinds pulled down, end the six-months-old baby sprewling on the hall floor, screaming and yelling ike a oalliope. 'Vox pity's sake, wife, *hat"ithe mutter?' lieXfltedfatvftgon. lied tones. "Has somebody attempted to kill yon, or rob us. or whatt Speak, dearest, spenk 1* 'Ok I' began the wife: 'ooo-hoo-hoo I?our?dear?little ? oh f boo-hooI' 'Speak, wife! Don't drive Answer me at onee T 'Oh, you brute I Boo-hoo I Yon'vo no sympathy for me. Yes, X will teu yon. Onr dear little dog hasbeen sent to the poundt There! Do you know how, you wretch V \ ? 1*1 n *imm*m?? ? I:;./. ? A New Textile. H|M|| A eurlous plant has been dieeovered in wisoonsin whioh produoee a kind of ootton and flax from the same stalk. It has already been woven into fabrics, and, as any artiole that will make as good eloth as oan be made from this plant Will make good papnr, it has be celled the pep4r plant. ? can be plant in the spring and out in the fell A winter. It bleaches itself white as stands, and will yield at least th four tona tb the sore. From a root that Wan transplanted! last eprin with 80ft i wiih at le this root i last spring, grew twenty with 806 pods (containing with at * ??-=?? Theatrical Episodes. A juvenile gentleman, \fho?u voico Was not by any means powerful, was representing Maoduff. Oa his obsetv* iug: 'My voice is in my sword,' one of hia auditors called oat: 'I'm glad yon told us, Harry; we were just wondering where it was.' Another actor in the aamo character?well known to be an ekoellent combatant ? was. one night eetaed with a sudden and. uncontrollable presentiment that ho would be mortally wonnded in the fight that terminates the dy, 40 threw his sword down, and ahasti !? a hasty and ignominious retreat? _'oor Maobnth, thus left in the lurch, imagined that some alarming illness had 'eausod liiA enemy to back oat. What was to be done? Hia death alone oould Efy poetio juatioo, and bring the ?to the orthodox conclusion; so in eration he rushed off and dragged in the first person he met with; this hap Sined to be the physician. Handing aodnflTs sword to him, he apoke this remarkable extempore speeoh: 'As kill ing ia thy trade, now try thy hand upon thy master, aa proxy for hia ooward foe.' The combat waft fought, and terminated, ofoonrse. with the tyrant king being defeated and stabbed through and through several times?to make quite f liim. The audienoe oheered and uproariously for the combatants, t the manager was not so well pleas* and fined the trio of aotors?Maoduff not attending to hia buainesc, Mao* 't for daring to 'gag* Shakspeare, and unlucky physician for doing what was actually forced to do. 1 -ary weak tenor, in Dublki, singing ;, caused one of the soda to snout aoauainianoe aoross the irallery:? what noise is that?' 'Bedad,' iey, *X believe it'a the gas In the? pipe.' -S In-the same y a late mayor gave his patron* waa hailed with *a cheer for ex-mayor]' When quiet waa restor Voioe called out: 'Now, boys, a for the Doable X mayor!' (Mr. the great brewer, ws4 the .then filling the civic ohair), William Fond love, in The Love ' summing up hia personal ad Lye, oonoeitodly enough, *I'm what a man ahonld'be.' A i lame waa playing the part, point a voioe from the pit % the game leg, Freddy,' rho waa disfigured by a |nity of vision, saying to r your eye thus/ one of ktoraunkindly remarked: 'He 1 fool! ho hasn't larut to squint' is old actor, whose flam* lr hours, waa once play 1 in a town in the Potteries, of emphasis, but no 'ladling out* the oele r. 4ToU~be?or?n< -not?to PPlltiffeuift I*g?l Oplntofcl Aujkmes* famer_onoe celled upon Sherman, the cele brated lawyer, and told him he wanted Mt opinion. Ho had heard a great deal about the value of Mr, Sherman's opin ions. ana how a great many people went to him to get an opinion, ana John, who had nererhad, nor was likely to have a lawsuit or other difficulty for a lawyer to help him from* thought he would have an 'opinion/ 'Well. John, what oan I do to help yon?' said Mr. Sherman, when John in his tnm was shown into the room. ?Why, lawyor,' replied John, *X hap pened to be fn town, and having nothing to do, T thought I would come and gel your opinion? ?Stab your oase, John. What's the 'Oh, nothing.' I ain't got no lawsuit; I only want to get one of your opinions; they say they are very Valuable? ?Buff John?about what?' ^'OJjtf anything, sir; take your plok and Mr. Shearman, seeing the notions of hJe olient on the matter in hand, took pen, and Writing a few words, folded them up and handed them to John. Wh# Ortrefully plaoed them in his pooket. ?What's to pay, sirT ? ?Four and sutpenoe,' Yankee money John returned home the next , he found his wife, who pretty 1t the lead in his business mat disoussing with his ohief propriety of getting in of Mis on that day, cut on the one previous, ~ some other labor. ' ialed to to settle the I eould not deeide. At I'll tell yon what, Pol ra lawyer, and got an that cost me four and sixpenoe. it is?read her out; it's a lawyer's ^and I can't make head or tail rnt Mail r put off All to-morrow mi* in be Ugh saidl' cried 3ohn; 'them oats mult be got in.' And they were got in*' and the 4*jne night suoh a storm came otf as otherwise won I a have ruined them afterward consulted the test 's in parttonlar. "ji M.vsitr n -/(- - Stealing a Loar Ride. a firm of carriage* with canvas, as is the usual* 1st the weather. get across the ted the put les enough aboard to last him "for the pub dey? trip ? trip, and then, hidden from the put for his 1 Bathing in the Mediterranean. The bath boated, built on piles, reach oat flity feet or more into the sea. Y< u enter a room 9x0 furnished with a table, three or four chain*, a washstand auu mirror, and carpeted with a broad stair mat. Yon bolt the landward door and, having donned your sea-dress, open the seaward one. A narrow flight of steps leads from your room to one of equal siae below, where the water roaches to the waist, and where you may, if you ohooee, take as privates bath as in your own house. U yon wiBh to go out, a bell summons the marinaro, and a oord drawn above lifts one of the sliding doors of whioh the four walls of the room are formed, and you are in the open sea, with a fine, soft carpet of sand uuder your feet and the violet waves of the Mediterranean abont you. 80 olear is the water that one oan oount the rare sheila or, as happened to me, dive and reoover a lost scarf-pin. The Mediter ranean is said to possess more iodine and sulphur in solution than any other bod)' of water. At Possano, specially, near Oastella Maoer, the eye observes yellowish streaks cutting sharply through the prevalent bine of the water. These are currents of sulphur where the bather may enjoy a genuine sulphur bath in the midst of the sea. Returning after * delicious half hour you find the linen allotted for your use carefully warned by the sun, and consisting of a towel and two large sheets of the nome spun linen of Italy, so grateful for bath ing purposes. A buoket of fresh water to rinse the hair and bathe the faoe stands ready also. Add that this luxu rious bath costs only twentigoenta to the transient visitor and fifteen to the habitue; reoall, if yon will, the misera ble huts of Ooney Island, Long Branoh and Rookawaqr with their narrow, sandy stripe of towels, and yon will agree that the art of bathing is not yet fully un derstood in the land of tho free. American Travelers In Europe. Dr. Holland, writing of the effects of foreign travel noon Americans, asserts that Europe to-day is a great inspif er to America and a great teacher. It is true that she gets but little of her politioal inspiration from Europe, but her in struction aad inspiration in art are al most entirely. European. In architec ture, painting, sculpture, and even in literature, European ideas are dominant. So this great tide of life that goes out from us every year does not return with out that whioh abundantly repays all its expenditure of time and money. For in all this impression Of European superi ority in many things, thereto very rare* ly anything that tends to wean the American from his home. He usually comes back a better Amerioan than he avail himself of what he has learned to titfuio ana hto country. The American, bred to great social and political freedom, cannot re linquish it. and oan never feel entirely at home where he does not enjoy it. He perfeotly understands how a European can come to America and be oontent with it aq a home, because he oan shape his life aooording to his choioe, but he oannot understand how an Amerioan oan emigrate to Europe and make a sat isfactory home there, beoause the social and politioal institutions would be felt as a yoke to him, and a burden. A Lucky Washerwoman. Mrs. Sarah Ray was the first Washer woman and oook in Leadville, Ool. She wasn't worth a great deal of money when she came, but she knew how to oook, and opened a boarding-house and now is Tery riob. To-day Mrs. Bay let the oontraot for the erection of a large four story brick, iron-front building, to be put up at onoe on the corner of Harri son avenue and State street. It will be the handsomest and best-bailt business house in all the Stale of Colorado. The basement will be arranged for large, airy railway or banking-houses, barber shops and bath-rooms. The ground ?floor is to be used for stores, and the seoond, third and fourth stories will be divided up into high-eeilinged, roomy offices.. The entire front is to be of Iron, and the whole building is to be as near fire-proof as it can be msde. The excavation for the new struoture has already been commenced, and it the intention of the widow washerwoman to have the building reedy for tenants oame Christmas. What Constitutes a Carload. A carload is nominally 20,000 pounds. It is also 70 barrels of salt, 70 of lime, 90 of flour, 60 of whisky, 200 saoks of floor, 6 oords of soft wood.' 18 or 90 head of oattle, 50 or 60 head of hogs. 80 to 100 head of sheeb, 9,000 feet of solid boards, 17(000 feet of siding, 18,000 foot of floor ing* 40,000 shingles, one-half less bard lumber, one-fourth less of green lumber, one-tenth of joist, soantling and other large ttaAbers, B40 bushels of wheat, 400 Of corn, 080 of oats, 400 of barley. 860 of flaxseed, 800 of apples, 880 of Irish potatoes, 860 of sweet potatoes, 1,000 of bran. Meaning of the Terms. Haoy persons are pnesled to under stand what the terms 'fourpoony,' 'six penny,' and 'tenpenny' mean as applied to nail*. 'Fourponny' means fonr pounds to the thousand nails, or 'sixpenny' means six pounds to the thousand, and se on. It is an old English term, and meant at first 'ton pound' nails (the thousand being understood), but the old JBnglish clipped it to 'tenpun,' and from that it degenerated until 'penny' was substituted for 'pounds.' When a thou sand nails weigh lesf than one pound they are oalled taoks, brads, oto,, and are reckoned by onnoes. H. P. Beeeher, son of theBerr. Henry Ward Beeeher, left Kern county, Cali fornia, three or four months ago to su perintend the driving of 18,600 sheep, the property ,of General Beale. to Halt bake City. In crossing the Alida desert, oter which the drorers and their herds traveled for eight days and nighte, find ing no water for the animals, J 0,067 sheep perished. General Beale was of fered ?16,000 for the herdsnt the start, but, refusing, now finds himself the k?**>y#ou*?7,< Terrible Hydrophobia. Benj.W. Hawkius, a nine-year-old boy of Ohioago,died a few days ago of hydropbo* bia contracted by the saliva from a dog's mouth euleriug a wound on his hand. A reporter who called at the residence of Mr. Hawkins learned from the strioken pareuta the details of the sad affair. They state that little B-jnny was playing in tne yard with somo other boys on Thursday, between eleven and twelve o'olook in the forenoon. The area gate was open, and a big blaok Newfoundland dog oame dashing in. It circled about, and finally, ooming up behind Benny, put its paw on his shoulder and with its mouth tore his olothes. He reached back with the out hand to push the animal off, and ohanoed to strike it in the mouth. He then went into the house covered with foam, and his mother washed and cleaned him up. That aame day in the afternoon he was sent out for some water, and oame crying 'Mamma, I can't get the water. I can't see it. It hurts me.' He oomplained of the ear aohe, and said he was tired and siok. Thereupon he was put in bed, where he remained in an extremely nervous state. On Saturday he began to bark, and told his father and mother to go away from him, saying that he was afraid he wonld bite them. The least sound threw him into paroxysm, and he would get up and run about the room, orying out that that awful dog was after him. 'Water hurts me,' he moaned continuously. Dr. Hall was oalled, and after his first visit he brought in consultation five other phy sicians, bat their united skill was of no avail, xesterday evening the poor little lad asked his father to oometo his side. 'Sit down, papa,' he said, 'I am going to die .pretty soon and I shan't ever see the big bright sun, or the green grass, or play with other boys any more. I know I've been a naughty boy some times, papa, but please forgive Benny, won't you, and pray to the dear Jeans to take care of your little son.' As the heart-broken father knelt by the bed* side, the tiny hands folded in supplica tion, the tired, worn features took on the expression that angels wear, and Benny passed the portal of suffering. Missouri.. .(5,020,804 Montana.... 80,084 Nobraska... 870,800 Nevada.... 01,203 N. Hampshire .222,808 New Jersey. 4,670,214 New Mexico 18,808 New York... 14,040.817 N. Carolina. 2,418 867 Ohio 116,300,662 Oregon.... 02,471 Pennsylvania 6,047.040 Rhodo Isl'nd 280,688 8. Carolina. 106,283 Tennessee.. 008,017 Texas 101,801 HUh 47,410 Dickens' Characters. Charles Diokens, as every one knows, went to real life for nearly all, if not quite all. hia oharaeters. Even the most unlikely of hia creations?Miss Haviflham, in 'Great Expectations'?had aprototypo in the flesh, who is still ^ive, and .whose name, though not in that capacity, was brought before the publio the other day in connection with a squabble which has agitated 'society' in Ventnor. This is a oertain Miss Diok, who lives in Madeira Vale, a tract of land oovered with gardens and villas, 1 Eifl-g. 1 ontnor and Boneohproh. Itjis many y ~ and then shti i?' "Mf er. The love affair was broken off, but the voung lady aooompanied the act of filial duty by a declaration that she would go to bed and never get up again, and she kept her word. The years have oome ana gone, and the honse has never been swept or garnished, the garden is an overgrown tangle, and the ecoentrio lady has spent twenty years between the sheets, Oharles Diokens UHed to stay atjintnora good deal in those day/, and so unique an episode waa not lost upon him. Internal Revenue Receipts by States. The commissioner of internal reve nue has prepared a statement of collec tions of internal revenue taxes in tho United States for the last flsoal year by oolleotion districts add States, wbioli is as follows: Alabama (122,282 Ariaona 24,470 Arkansas 116,210 California..... 2,217,408 Colorado.... 114,036 Conneotioat. 623.268 Dakota 88,602 Delaware.... 878,684 Florida 200,424 Georgia 822,770 Idaho 21,823 Illinois 10,470,607 Indiana 5,740,100 Iowa 880,443 Kansas 170,038 Kentnoky 7,004,064 Louisiana.... 688,606 n,na 76.88i V?,r\nont... 60 160 Maryland.... 2,260.671 I Viglnla.... 8,448,624 Maw'ohtueUs 2 488.667 I D.Oolumbla 80,277 M ohlgan 1,064.041 I W.Virginia 822,076 Minnesota... 81R708 I Wisconsin. 2,027,002 Mississippi... 87,271 | Wyoming.. 14,107 Improvement in Shotguns. W. D. Squires, of Sioux City, for twenty years has been experimenting with a view of improving the shooting oapaoity of shotguns, and howolaims he has suoooedod. The invention is simply the idea of slightly enlarging the bore of shotgnns for five or six inches from the mneele. This enlargement gives the shot more foroe and prevebts the oharge from scattering. The theory of the invention is this: The air whioh fills the bore of the gun before the oharge is flred is oorapressod in front of the eharge when tho gas from tho ig nited powder foroes the charge to the mnzsle. It is this oompressod air that soattors the shot when It leaves the gun. Mr.' Squires claims that whon the shot passes the enlargement the gas formerly behind the shot then presses also against the sides, and tends to prevent the soat* taring so disagreeble to sportsmen. A number of sportsmen have tried guns thus enlarged at the mnasle, and are well satisfied that it improves their guns both as to hard and olose shooting. Bridge Engineering Feats. The Niagara suspension bridge haa one large span of 821 feet: the railway traok above the water is 245 feet; the towers are only sixty feet high, being buljlt on either side of the snore. The Alleghony bridge has two large spans of 844 feet eaob, and the towers are forty* five feet high. The Oovington and Cin cinnati bridge has a span of 1,0B7 feet; its height above low water Is 108 feet, and the towers 280 feet high. Those we havo mentioned are finished and in working order; and we may mention also the fltot River bridge, oonneoting New York to Brooklyn. The towers of this bridge are also built upon the land, and af# 278. feet high. The single span Is 1,696 feet high. A flood Explanation. . of the learned professors of I a man oomlng in the opposite gaaing with equal "#* ? jpr The Wt ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. Wilmington. N. O., has a population of 20,000 inhabitants. A Michigan farmer oaught the glau- ' ders from liin hone and died in great agony. The Black Hills New9 farors the ro - moral of the coinage mint now located at New Orleans to Denver. A woman is on trial in V-adalia, La., for murdering a child bj pouring scald ing water down its throat Machinery Hall, one of the fine build ings of the Centennial exhibition, has been sold to private parties and pulled down. The Postal Guide, just issued, shows that the number of posjboffioes in the United States has doubled sinoe 1662, now numbering 41,000. The editor wrote 'Women's Wills,' bnt the oompoeitor knew better, and put it'Woman's Wiles.' Poor fellow I he had been the victim of suoU wiles. Twenty-five of the prineipal railroads of the United States earne d $8,783,582 in the month of July 1879, which was an inorease of 9704,968 over the same month last year. An assay recently made in Denver, Ool., on a sample of ore from a newly-. discovered rein of ore, showed a value per ton of $188,808, whioh is the richest produot ever found. The state department is informed that Switserland is in the habit of paying the expenses of oonfirmed paupers to this country in order to be rid of them, and has taken means to stop the wroxig. An idea of the trade in oanary birds is given bj the fact that one New York house during the past year purohased 54,000 m*le and 8,000 female birds? most of them being imported from Ger many. The State of Texas having imposed a lioenso tax of $200 on commercial trav elers, nearly all the largo houses in Now York have reoalled their agents, feeling that a submission to the tax in one State would lead to its imposition in others. ^ The so-oalled Indian depredations in Arisona are the work of Aj&lerioans, Mexioans and Indians. Nearly 200 biii*^ mals have been stolen. The raiders were followed to South Mule Pass,' where three Americans and two Germans were killed. It is n oommon praotioe for people, through ignoranoe of the law, when sending postal cards to write part of tho letter on the faoe of the oard. . Nothing bnt the address should be written there, else five cents will be collected by the pottoflloc on delivery. Wliou the California farmers began to > ifckfl.tr iyrain orops it transpired that a party of speculators^" ltt seeks, and the grangers chase at an exorbitant figure or iet their f'" product go to ruin. It Ts estimated thev% speculators made a profit of nearly half a million. The holder of the franchise for an un derground railway in New York city has perfected arrangements with Parisian capitalists whereby they will Advance ' four million dollars for the work as soon as he secures 8500,000 in this odnntry to start the work, and thus demonstrated' tho validity of his title. Among the English competitors who are ooming to this oountry to partioi pate in atnletio sports are a Mr. George, who oan mn a mile in four minutod twenty-five seconds, and four miles in v twenty minutes fifty-one seconds, and Mr. Ball, who can run a quarter of a mile in fifty-one and one-half seoonds. Superheated starch falling on a red hot stove in a oandy faotory in New York oauad an explosion: and thin, it is now believed, throws light on the cause of the terrible explosion in a similar es tablishment some months ago, whereby a number of lives were lost, and which could not be satisfactorily accounted f6r., Mr. Forbes, the enterprising journal ist who reoeives $10,600 for reporting the Zulu campaign for a London paper, on the conclusion of the last great bat tle rode 110 miles alone in thtTdead of night, through the hostile oonutfy, in order to reach telegraphic communica tion and transmit his account ahead of competitors. As an instance of the impartiality and eflloleuoy of the quarantine in Arkansas, it was stated that Governot A loom, who came up with his family from Friar's Point, Miss*,, and passed Memphis without stopping, was denied a certifi cate to go to Hot Springs, where his daughter, who married a son of Governor Rector, is now residing. The following shows the number of pounds oontained in a bushel of the dif ferent artioles named: Of bran, 12; blue . gra?, 14; shorts, 18} dried apples, 25; oats, 82; dried petohes, 88; hemp seed, 44; timothy seed, 45; castor beans, 4ft; barley, 48; flaxseed. 56;ryo, 58; shellddT^j? oorn, 68; onions, 67; wheat, CO; clover seed, 60} mineral Coal, 70; salt, 76; oorn on cob, 75. Under a law which went into force on the 1st day of la?t July, Illinois sheep ' are given rights which dog owners must respect. The owners of dogs are to pay into the county treasuries a dollar a year for eaeh dog, and from the fund thus oreated owners of sheep killed by dogs arp to be Compensated. If til* dog fax money shows a surplus at the end of the year the surplus goes to the school fund. Under the stimnlns of an Iowa jaw, which remits a cor tain portion of faxes for Ave year* on every aero of ' end for ten years on every acre Of : , trees planted in the State and kept ath a great Change has,Wen wrought In tl aspeot of the Iowa landseape, Oter Koventy-flve thousand acres of frntt and forest tree* hare been pnt out, and the remission of taxes rosnlting amounts to abont #200,000. In 1876 by exeoutive order an 8,269.200 sores in Dakota on the n< east border of the Missouri wad i drawn from settlement, to prevent white* from prssslngtooolosoty npot . a<lJaoent great Bionx reservation n? Ysoktott. This tract, however, haviu* * eome infested with white raiders, pillage settlers and Indians alike,: by executive order, dated Angnst re-opened for settlement. At the close of Hethodlst ehnfoh sir Hamlin, super! i onneed