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NO. 40. A Wetter* Maid's Dream. f 11I could ketch onto the wtngt at ft bird, to Prom Jtmtown clear out to tbe sea. . would warble n nolo of suob terrible force Tbattbo elements wild)/ would oraok, . And the Indian obleftaln would fall from bla And epUt hln shirt clear up tbo back I I*1 ' ' ? *'? - ?" ? H y I If I were outfitted wttb elepfaant'afeet. My terrible tread would resouud Till aHaulutalllfo would iu turror retreat -* rtte?tofind. ] roar *0001 wtaft Ind tbe birds would fpld u AnJSKteu-a! fita If'I wor? a dweller beneath tbo oeep tot, With tbo flKuro and pow?r ot a whale, Every creature around me In terror would At thofantastic flirt of my tall. 1would swamp a (nreat vessel or two every And down lu the ocoab so blue, ftl" lk? toast I'd soy jriraoo In tbo usual way. lE.WO'orflL yy.': And mnke a square moal of tbo crow, ??'.v*- But at ?*? . 'Awl Those longiuir aosiree i am reaiiy errata . I&if.'. _ NUHt be downed, as It were, and supprossod. Since I eannot ralao Hades by suon a rank My%a?of doelre I must furl. And tirontn tho doleotnble hours away At aawoet, tlmld, Kent'o younff girl. ?LoulsvMo Courier Journal. < ONLY A PIMPLE. Lord Bortio Elloxmero walked into hi* wifo'8 sitting-room ono afternoon, With an unusually serious expression en bis faoo. For Lord Bortio was a young man of a ehoerful disposition, not given to serious thought*. Ho found Lady Bertie in her room, engrossed in the absorbing occupation of looking In ^the glass. Sho did not turn when ho entered, bat continued to study the dimples in her obin. She had been a Xreoognliad beauty when sho married, and still held that position; thoreforo she must bo forglvon for continuing to look in the glass without apology, wliothor hor husband or any one elso ?jterodtho room. Aotrosses do not logiae for settling" their rnffior-and udylug tho effect of their "make-up" the green-room mirror all the while they catry on a conversation; why, then, should not a society boauty watoh hor own face, while sho talksP It Is but a matter of buslnoss In both oases. Lord'and Lady Bortio had boon mar two years, and they wero still ex collont friends. No jealousy or mis understanding had, so far, marrod their ooutout with oaoh othor. Lord Bertio sat down and lookod at utively for a momont at "his wifo's ok, but its prettinoss did not ocoupy ottoR, butiupvetunosscua not ocou his mind at this momont. "May," he said suddonly, and in pravo Toioo, "is thoro anything you wantf" "Anything I want!" exolaimed Lady Bortie. "Well, I should think sol I want a new idea for a ball dresS) I want an E*quimaux dog; I want my diamonds reaot; I want to go to St. Petersburg tliis wlntor; I want?I can't think of tnern all now. but I want * hundred things." "l>o you want monoyf" "Money! Not particularly at tho moment; but if you are ovorburdenod With bank notos I fool sure loan nso thom." "Don't talk nonsonse, May; I'm in oarnest. And I do wish you'd turn arouud." "I'm busy," replied Lady Bortio. And so, Indood sho was. She was ap plying with the groateBt care and skill a rainuto patdh of stioking plaster to a tiny dofoot whloh she had disoovored on her obin. "Fanoy you being in earn ^i?sti" sho wont on. "What can. it bo , about?" "May, have you been gambling?" ...-Hiked Lord Bortio abruptly. "Gambling!" cried Lady Bortie. "Cortalnly not Why, I should havo hollows undor my oyos In a fortnight! What oan have put such an idoa in yourhoad?" "I'll toll you," said Lord Bertio. "Just now, for tho sooond timo, I have seen a dreadful looking Jew, with any quantity of watoh chain oror a* im ??? ?-tooat, going o?t of thla V what on earthean you Jew, if it Isn't to borrow ir mei" said Lady Bortie, with . "what's poverty-strlokon lm jatlon yours must be! One might at a great many things Of a Jew, I >uld think. Jews blote>" n't yon mean to tell me, what oomos to see you for?" asked tie in a gloomy tone. o!" said Ladj^xBortio airily, but muoh decision i "no, I don't. gbd you think sol" ox Beetle. "With fervor, ght thon," And she left and oame to a low ol * ittsband. She was oxooodl sit down In hy ofrfthe -|n outstreto^ed and round, his hrf&d# in * Sitting thdshet i^rife all over, with a de* (it," ho said, I mystorloq. jl i far. May, Ufon cut it short it not ItUo scandal for .... town. Mis 'I want to make A I ffl sure I've no dc~, 1 be talked about; but onrlosl But if you are la dlffl. ly to get yot* out of toy hand on It, May? don't go to anybody ond M ine oonversatlou ended of neocs slty. For three weeks Lord Bertie lived in n atato of glooui and uneasinoss, play, ing th? amateur detective, and playing It with no results. Ho saw no moro oI tho Jow; and as the oonvlotlon (oreed itself upon him that the man had been told not to oomo, he grew more gloomy and moro uneasy. For three whole weoksho said no word to Lady Bertie except in publlU and even then he somotimos fixed his cy6s upon her in a truly melodramatic manner. For a young man of a oheorful disposition this soomod strango; but ho was haunted by a oonvlotlon that Lady Bortio was much clevorer than himself, and he was resolvod not to be docolved by her apparently light-boartod Indlfferenco to his dlsplcasuro. Tlio broach gradually widened until it bocqiuo evident to thoir Intimate friends that Lord and Lady Bertie woro no longer on good terms. As to thoir domestic lifo, it was shipwrcokod, and that vory oasily. Lady Bertlo went through hor aCouatomod found of so oial duties, and was Just as gay and Just as bright as eVer; but sho nover saw her husband excopt when he offer ed her his arm as a matter of business. For a little while this amused hor rath or; it was liko playing in a Frenoh com edy to havo a sulky, jealous husband, and to bo consolod uy a hundred oharm Ing creatures, ail aumirablo specimens of tho various approyed typos of lady klllors. For consolation of this kind was offerod on tiro instant Lady Bortio rocognized, with a half-angry and half triumphant amusomont, that tho ad miration offerod her to-day was of a different order from that whioh had been hers throo weeks ago. Porhaps this senso of power, tho consciousness that there wns abundant mookery of lovo ready to hand, holpod her to un derstand tho valuo of tho real love which tho world alroady boliovod her to have lost. .Ono morning sho sont a' mossage to h6r iVusband, asking him to como to hor room. Ho oamo, and stood silent ly at attention. ' As ' beforo, sho was looking at horsolf in the glfiss. ??Good morning, Bortio," sho said, gayly, and turnod from tho mirror to look at him. "Don't you think that this nonsonso has gone far enough? I expect In tho next twQnty-four hours to havo at least half a dozpn projects of olopement submitted for my considera tion. Now the Duko wouldn't liko a scandal of that sort, would he?" "Porhaps not," answered Lo&Bertio dryly. "Well, I don't proposo to rim away Just now?that is, if you'll bo reason able. Tho presont agrooablo state of things has dated, I uoliovo, from the day when I wouldn't toll you who my friend tho Jew was. Now I am going te'proposo torms. If I take you Into my confidence will you koop what I tell you from every living soulP" "That dopomls," said - Lord Bortio, oautlously. - .'"Then I will not tako you into my oonfidonoe. Consider that nothing has boon said. We will go on as we were, and things shall tako their courso." '?But Fm awfully tired of it, May. Como, oay what you havo to say, and I'll swoar myself to eoorocy." , "AbsolutoP" "Absolute." "Tho subject must novor bo mention ed when my maid is in tho room; 1 know sho talks." "I won't forgot." "No mombor of tho family is to ever hoar of it;. I'll kill you if you toll your slstor." "I havo sworn." "Yes, I know, but you must swoar also not to teaso mo or drop hints." /? "I swear." ? , "Well, (he Jow is coming this morn ing, fmd you shall assist at tho inter* view, if you liko. Do you soo this spot, |)im^)lc?call it by any bad namo you "I see it" "Well, ho is going to tako it off." "Good hoavonsi. May, you don't mean to Bay you'd Tot that man touoh you?" "I'd be touched by?-by anything, rather than have a pimple on my faoo. But ho only doeB it with a oamorg jiaJpJ brush and aomo BtuffJtoLslhie#." "But this is r/tifoulous nonsonso, my "Not At all. Ho Is supposed to un derstand all about tho skin, and ho has Invented all sorts of lfttlons for clear* Ing tho oomploxion. Half the womon you know employ him, I assure you, Bortio; but I don't want anybody to know I've oome to it yot" "But what's tho good of this absnrd ! sooreoyP He'll go and toll all these wotaen." "Not ho; he's too wlso to risk his foos". I "Thoro's somothlug In that, I'vo no doubt But I can hardly boliove any wan calling hhnsolf a man oan havo Bucit x tra?f??." "W'll, iio'il be horo in two minutest von ?;vn <!hv r.int seo for yourself that 1 Ji>v.* ?p;.k?u ili" tvmh. Aroyougo J" ? ? i*-' t< r the Hfo vonTve lod .. ,"-y\ * ' u ;.V.K\ :' ">? ?; mi I'll toll you what, < :i vour oomploxlon olonror for tho futuro. We'll go yacht ing to tho Mediterranean tbls yoarj that'll take away the ipote, and you can throw this bruto ovor." Lord Bertlo did not wish to ftasiat at the doromony, aud ho hutrlod out of onodooras tho Jow oamo la at otlior; Hot he ouino Sback iMorjlh morning* and wont out with I Bertie ft her carriage in tbq ftfterttJI_ They eecraoU absurdly contented with oaoh other's soolotyj and the many ad mirers of tho beautiful Lady Bertlo taw very soon that what thoy had takon for a very serious affair was nothing raoro than a lover** quarrel, . where thoy spent ft sort fmoon. And at presonl Tho ?T^o Von Frlta, as he Is familiarly oallod, It ft | gonial old German Wh6 koops ft beer* saloon. He labors Ondbr the dlaadvan* tage of being extromoly dosf, hence he hae ft deputy who attends to the spirit lial, Wants Of the customer* v Onn <lajM ft fumlovlhg vonth, naniotOttead, on tered tho naloon with ft fow friends, Jholr ohjoot i?olng to test .iome of the boo iff probably ftf the interest of sol smiling as ft bankot id raised his mug - In it, and bfttt* to FrltilF' i old linage, bobbing ,h1s bead S>ur hoaltb, y/OU nilwr ate A CItKAT JLANl>L?OItl>. Pen and Ink Sketch of tbo Third Htohoat Man tn the United State* The third rich oat man In the onion, according to the Now York Morning Journal, la John Jacob Astor, the ohlof owner and heir of the Astor estate. Unlike many millionaire#, Buys tho Journal writer, Astor has both namo and rlohos?a name linked with fabu lous wealth for throe sueoeoding gene ra tlona. .Tho ostlmated value of the estate Is from #90,000,000 to $100,000, 000, a vorltable mountain of gold- John Jacob and William B. are its sole own ers, tho formor'e interest said to- be two-thirds. ? For nearly a contury tho title of be ing "tho landlords of New York1' has attached itsolf to thom. John Jacob's interest in bounce, lots and farms may be computed in tho thousands. Among tho valuablo buildings prin cipally ownod by Mr. Astor as chlof holr to tho ostato In tho old .landmark, tho Astor houso, which was sold to his father by his grandfather, tbo founder of tho immonso estate, for $1, Its present valuo is said to bo $2,000,000, being assossed at $1,750,000. The Guaranty and Indemnity building, ohiofiy owned by Mr. Astor, wae pur chased a short time ago for $1,000,000, whilo tho Astor ostato pays taxes on $60,000,000 of real estate *ituatod bo , low Chambers stroot, most of which oonsists of butiinoss houses on Broad way and Wall street. Thoro is soaroo |y a ward, street, or avonuo in the olty in which Mr. Astor does not own real ostato, on which tho total amount of taxes is ovor $400,000 annually. Another point of difference botweon Mr. Astor and othor mlllionarles is in his invostmonts. In Wall street bis namo never appears as a speculator I and seldom as an investor or seller of stocks, bonds, or othor similar securi ties. Having an inoomo of 10 por cent on the gross amount investod in roal ostato, he quietly buys paore houses or landB when opportunity for good In vestment offers. In an inventory mado of his various propertlos an Itom of $6,000,000 in oasn appoared as "money in trust companies and banks waiting investment In real estate.M Mr. Astor is a man of striking por sonal appearanoo, boiug ovor six feot. in height, stout, somewhat .inolinod to corpulenco, and straight as an arrow. When on the stroet hln quick, olastlo stop and smiling faoo, fringod with Bmall gray sldo-whlskors, invariably attraot attention.' His dross is simplo and surprisingly neat. At buslnoss or in the stroot ho wears a broadoloth cut away or frock coat, with trousers to match, comfortablo-looking shoes, al ways lightly polished, whilo in his hand usually swings as ho walks a largo, purple silk umbrella. In sum mor his costume is ohangod to a blaok serge ooat and trousors of somo lighter color, whilo an easy straw hat rests lightly on his Ivory-white h*' Mr. Astor, though soldo*, peaking of himself, rooontly told a friond that although ho had completed threesooro yoars, ho felt as well and hoarty as he did at 40.. Bonovolonoe is his striking characteristic, one probably inherited from tho foundor of tho Astor library. Many of his oharitios aro published, though tho actual amount of good dono with his ovory-day ohock-book is littlo known. In noarly all tho charitablo institutions of this city the names of himsolf and his wife and often Jointly, appears as largo givors. Dur ng tho wiotor months Mr. Astor is either at his offloo at No. 21 Wost Twenty-sixth streot, or at hirt homo at No. 388 Fifth avonuo. Tho latter is familiar to noarly every resident of Fifth avenue, and is conspicuous for nothing but its plalnnoss ana the spa cious grounds whioh surround it. It is built of fino molded brlok, with trim mings of brown stono, and has a double stairway leading to the front ontranoo. , The interior compares fav : orably with any palaoe. During the late illness of his wlfo, Mr. Aster's timo was ohiefly devoted to eheerlng her weary hours attheJbed* side with the ?amg - ttfltWhg i^eotloa i has jKo^n throughout tho many yoWjTbf bis married llfo. Ills principal recreations are visits to his ologant seat at Bhoinooliffo-on-the-Hudson and yaohtlng. The country soat is an an dent-looking establishment, kept In tho finest order, and Is a remlnlsoenoo of olden time. Well shadod with trees of overy kind, its Immense lawns and gar dons aro traversed by long drives and: Here, in the long days of the sum mer months, Mr. Astor sits on the ooOl' piassa or voder some shady troO and roads. Ho Is having built one of tho. finest pleasure yaohte yot launohed in' the waters of this country, the cost of whtek is plaoed at 4 trifle over $900,-' 000. It WlU be oompleted oarly In the oomlng summer. ? " 1 ' ? ?' ? A Georgia Rn?ke. So many published oy the Southern prons that ovory Norther nor who crosses the Ohio; River begins to look for serpent*. A Miohigan man, who was taking ft brief trip iMtJiD;' down Into sonland, reached Homo, Oa., without having soon ft snake, and ho fqlt so glad, ovor. it that he eouldn't keop his feelings to hlmssli ^.At the hotel-: ##*e' Mnmlk guost* who dtitorrainod on a Joke at dollar, and a plan was perfected to give the Mlohi#andor a vorrlbln scare. Snakes had been talked Ot for a day or 'a foellngs proporly to evening lm was got the man1 HP J _ up, and one evening bo was to take a seat on the Voranda smoke. His ohalr was so plaoed x boy oould oroo? up and deposit the spoolmen under and when this had been done some one began to talk abont the way snake* sometimes o*ept into house*. . . v ' "Ono evening last summer as a lot of 044at0ttt tore/' obsotved one of the crowd, "a rattler about seven feet long orept up there, dropped down on the Door, and raoh ft time you never saw!" ' .Evory m*n bent over to look under his oh air, as If suspeotlng tho.prexonce of a snako. Tho Wolverine caught tight of tho serpont under his, and he slowly roso up, pulled tho ohalr away, kloked the roptllo clear over the railing of tho veranda into tho streot and sal down with tho romark: ! "Well, I s'pose I'd get used to it after living hero awhile, but Just now the sight of a snake makos me rather nervous. Who tolls the noxt story J1*? ML QWUL ' ' '^l''r- 'r - i1 ' 'v' I Furstonfioljl, in Germany^ boasts the oldest tree In the oottntry. It huge linden, believed to be 1,000 y old* and growing at the back of VflJago ohuroh, Jti tho midst of tombs of tWoOenturleA It* trim ?l fully fifteen feet In diameter, and ite twisted branohos stretch out far and BnobtWrj QotlWfc. Th? Nsw York correspondent of tfco Atlanta Constitution tolls sowothing obout a Judo" clothing store ; Wo worship that which U exponalvo, I was reminded of this forcibly by a firm whioh has won itis way to tho top rank In its own partlbnlar liuo by' nn> blushingly and shamlosaly overcharging for everything thoy solL They describe thnmsclvoa as "habordaahors," and keop what is known In tho vulgar par* lanooof the (lay oaa *"genls <nrtush ing goods" stores Tboy have a superb establishment It is tho site of two stores ;.is fittod in polishod mahog any from floor to coiling, and tilled with a small ax*my of. snobbish clerks. A pago In livery opens tho door for those who enter, and thoy nover allow a customor to tako uny article homo himself. If it lu only a nock-scarf thoy will send it to him, though ho lives livo miles away. They havo two dolivory vans for that purpose, drlvon by uni formed coachmen with flunkies by tholr sides to deliver tho goods. Altogether, the style of tho establishment is stnn ning. Tho prices nro so high that mon of modest moans do not puy thoro. This is ontlroly to thoir satisfaction, as thoy do not want that kind of custom. Nothing in tholr shop oan bo bought at tho rogular prices, Collars, for In stanoe, which soli usually at 25 conta, aro 60 cents thoro ; and they ohargo 80 conta a pair for cuffs that aro olsownoro 85 to 40. It is lmposslblo to buy any sort of a soarf or nocktlo for less than ?2, and tho pricos for smoklng-jackots, bath-robes, and artlolos of that sort aro positively enormous. They de mand $28 for a bath-robo of Turkish towoling which could be bought any whoro oiBo in town for $12. A few days ago a friend of mlno dropped in casually to ordor some shirts. Tho door was swung opon by an obsequious attendant, who bowod and pointod to a olork who was loaning gracofully on tho end of tho counter. Tho olork stopped forward, bont and smiled. "I iWmt somo shirts," saldmyffiond. "Will you bo kind enough to atop this way, sir P" and tho fclork rubboa his bands togothor and walkod softly down the storo. Tho oustomor followed until thoy ar rived at tho office in tho roar. Thoro tho olork was met by a mombor of tho firm, who was introduced to tho cus-* tomor. The customer, ,rathor aston ished at so muoli ecromony, was asked with groat politonosa to step up-stairs, which ho did. On tho way tho pro prietor askod him if ho would exohango cards. This boingr accomplished, tho next floor was renohod, ana proved to bo a richly-upholstered and hoavlly carpotod parlor. The proprietor touched an olootric bell and convorsod oasily with his oustomer until the shirt makor appeared. Ho said nothing about the shirt, and seemod to treat tho oall as purely sooiaL Aftor he had boon measured, tho oustomor said: "You may mako mo a samplo shirt first" . \ "Wo novor mako less than half a dozon shirts, sir, and our prioo is $50 a dozen," said tho Bhirt-makor laooni cally. "llut I don't oaro to pay $26 foe a half a dozon Bhirts, and then find that thoy do not fit mo ; and I think it 1b an oxtortionato prioo, anyway." ? "Our customers " said tho proprie tor, grandly, novor suspoot uu of 111 flttlng thom, nnd nover ask the prloe." "I don't caro whothor thoy do or not,'1 said my friend, "I wantono shirt for trial and I will pay you $6 for it, and that is tho end of the wholo mat tor. If you wan't to do it you may; If not, don I troublo yourself, Thoro aro plenty of shirt-makers in town who ohargo at loast roasonablo figures." Tho proprietor lookod at mm coldly, twirled his oyo-glassos In his lingers, and said : ??Our oustomors, sir, aro not grumblers." Thereupon my friond frood his mind, stalked down stairs, and out Into tho ?treot, whllo tho flunkoy oponod tho door and bowod to him rosuftytfpity' SOP"'snooblshness [takes m New York, for the firm is tho most successful ono of its lino.* xno Jb'irnt ice-I'alaco. The first loo-pnlaco was built by tho Empross Anna Ivanovna, on tho Neva, In 1789. In tho construction of this work tho simplest moatis wore used. First, the purost and most transparent ice was seleoted. This was cut into largo blooks, squared with rule and oompass, and oanred with all the rogular archi tectural embellishments. No ooment was used. Each blook when roady was raised to Its destined place fry oranes and pulleys, and Just before it was let down upon tho blook whloh was to Huppovt it, water was pourod betweon tho two ; the upper block lints Immediately lowered, and as the wator froee almost instantly, in thatintensoly cold climate, the two blooks became literally one. In fact, tho whole bullde lag appeared to be, and really was, a single mass of lee. Theeffoet It pro duood must hate been infinitely more beautiful than if it had boen of tho most costly marble?Its transparency and bluish tint giving it rathor the ap? poaranoo of a precious stone. In dimensions, the struoturo- was fifty-six feet long, eighteen feet wide, tWroty-bne foet high, and with walls three foot In thioknoss. At oaoh oornor of the palaoo was A pyramid of tho samo hoight as the roof, of course built <4 loo,, and around the wholo was a low pallsado of tho samo material. The actual length of tho front vlow, including the pyramids, was one hnn irtfd andfourteon foci The palaoo was built In tho usual stylo of Russian arohltcotnro. The facade was plain, being merely divldod into oompartments by pilasters. There was a window In each division, whloh was painted In Imitation of green marble. Tho wlndow-pahe* were formed of slabs of Ice, as transparent and smooth as sheets of plato glass. At night, when the palaoo was lighted, the windows were curtained by canvas screens, on whloh grotesque figures wore painted. Owing to the transpar ency of tho wholo material, the gen eral offoot of tho illumination must havo boen fiuo, the wholo palaoo seem ingly boing fillod with a dolicato pearly light. Tljo central division projootod, and apponrod to be a door, but was, In fact, a largo window, and tvoe illumi nated like the others. Surmounting tho facad* of the building was an or namental balnstrado, and at each end of tho sloping roof was a huge <5him noy. ^Theentranco was at tab rear. At each side of the door stood lee imitations of orango troos, in leaf and flower, with loo*bu>ds porched on the branches.?#*. Nicholas for April. . .in , , ^ i <Si < Sti***"1' "?1 ???? "Do you not think I would make a vory attraotlve angelf" said a dnde with Tory largo oars to # young lady* ??Well,, no," she replied, pointing to \ A Vlr^ttU Humimofc While visiting an old friend in ? Vir ginia villago a month ago I attended worship ono Sunday At tho parish church, and was very much attracted hy an agod and handsome couplo who sat in the pew opposite mo. Tno pas tor preaehoit a voiy interesting sermon on "11x0 rrodlgjal Son's Rotnrn," which, I notiood, tiffoetod tho old lady to toars, and had ^ marked effect on the gentleman. I mentioned tho clr cumstanco that evening to my friend, whoa she related toT mo the following sad, truo story: Tho old couple were Mr. and Mrs. Colonol D . Thsy wore both of tho mo9t aristocratic, wealthy familios of Virginia. Colonel D was an hon orable, upright gentleman, but vory proud and passionate. Ho had one gpn, "Gus,M Ids only holr?a warm hearted, generous, pleasing young man, Just turning his tweuty-ttrst year. Ilo was woll known throughout tho coun try, add was beloved by all who knew him Ho inhoritod hfs father's prido but not his violent naturo. About a milo from Oolonol D 's ros(<!onco lived a COntiftBlWX.-botwoen whoso family and the Colonol's a feud of lone; standing oxisted. Colonel X)/^~ had f-equ'ntly warnod hi? son n#t, under any circumBtanoos, to visit hy member of tho gontloman's family. A daughter of tho hated house, on hor eighteenth birthday, gavo a largo party, p whloh a.l tho young pooplo woro in 'ited, including tho vonerablo Colonol's n Gup. On hoarlng of tho party and s son's invitation to it, ho sont for and most positively forbado him to nd. Tho son promisod ho would lot. Tho invitations woro for four o'clook, i .a a suppor on tho lawn was a part of 1 ho programme. About three o'clock on that day Gus oallod for' his team, a i plondld pair of handsome grays, and ?rderod the coachman to drive him Somo timo oftor his departure, Colonol ) , who had beon away since morn* ng, returned, and on asking (or h'B on was informed that ho had driven <Wt a conplo of hours ago. Tho Colonol flow into a passion, oallod for his hunt ing whip, mounted his horso nnd rodo swiftly toward tho mansion of his neighbor. As ho dashed rapidly past ho saw Ids son's team undor tho trcos, and oared for by his own ooaoh man. Ho kept on to a small shady lauo loading in an opposito direction from the houso./when no suddenly came upon his son walking with a young lady, and, without a word, ho rode up, Boiled hiui, and cut him soveral times over tho fnco and baok with his riding whip- "You ungrateful scoundrel, said ho, "nevor cross my path again." Tho Colonol's faoo was white with pas sion as ho rodo away. ' This happonod ovor flfteon voars ago and although thousands of dollars havo boon spont, and overy offort made to find somo traco of tno missing man, thoy havo boon inoffootual, and not ono porson who know him beforo has evor seen his faoo sinco that day. The sad truth was that the Colonol's son, it was t found aftorvvards, had not gone to tho v>arty, but loanod his toam to a young friend to whom both his fathor and himsolf wore warmly attaohod, and who drove Gus as far as tho lano whoro i his father had met and ohastisod him In tho prcsonco of hor whom ho loved, and whom ho had accidontally mot.?Phila (iclj)hia Press.. Saved by an Albatross. A singular story has boon related to us by tho mastor of tho bark Gladstone, whloh arrivod boro from Londou. While-?ho vessel was In latitudo 42 de grees south,- and longitude 90 dogroos oftct, a soaman foil ovorboard from tho starboard gangway. Tho bark was eoudding along with a rough soa and a modorate wind, but, on tho alarm of "man ovorboard" being gi von, sho was rounded to, andtl^-fttarooard lifoboat wasl<jB3H?<^1^o<n^ ?GW- and four men. A soaroh for tlfiK unfortunate man was made, bat owing to the roughness of the soa, he could , rot be discovered} but tho boat steered to tho spot whoro ho was last soon. Here they found htm floating, but al most exhausted, clinging for dear life to tho legs and wings of a nugo albatross. The bird had swooped down on tiie man whilo tho latter was straggling with the waves and attemptod to peok him with Its powerful boak. Twioo tho bird attracted its proy unsuccessfully, I boin j? boftton off by tUo dospor ato Hftilor, buttling with two enemies?the water and tho albatross?both greedy and in satiable, For tho third time the huge whlto form of the bird hovered over th6 soaman, preparatory to * final swoop. Tho bird, eagor for its meal, fanned its vlotim with iU wide-sproad wings. ? Suddenly a thought ooourred to him that the hngo form so closo to his faoe might beoomo his involuntary rescuer. Quick at. thought he roaohed up and seised, tho bird, whioh ho proceoded to 1 strangle with all his might Tho hogo creature struggled with its wings and Saddlos to free itself. In tho contest 10 sailor was beaten black and bluo and cruelly laoerated, but he hold his own, ana slowly tho bird quivered and died. The oaroass floated lightlyon tho waves, its feathers forming a com* j fortable support for the exhausted man Who had so natroWly oscaped a Ungor ing doath. But anotnor dangor awaitod him. He was ^ot muoh of a swimmer, and the exoltemontof the extraordi nary confUot began to tell on him. He wai faint and grow giddy. , But with ono arm over tho albatross* body, un der the wing, and ono hand olutohiug ; the bird's foot, tho sailor awatted his chance for a rosouo. I'rosontiy he hoard his oonirades shout from the1 boat, and in a few minutes mOro ho was safo on board the barquo, though a good deal shaken and exhausted. -Byd ncy (Australia) Telegraph. Alloc Stone BlaokWoll, who write* in the Boston Herald that the servlcos ? commonly rondorod by w Woe. are con sidered worth muoh more than board and lodging, when they have to be per formed by a hired servant, farther remarks: "In 1880 there were in the Unitod StdtoH, according to the oonsus, 0,^45;916 families, and only 1,076,655 domostlc sorvants. Thus only about ono family in nine keep a servant, oven if ho family kept moro than ono. Tho groat majority of wives do their own The Connecticut Senate has passed an aot proscribing tho stud leu In the public Sohools. whloh specifics thatthose shall be Heading, Wilting, irithmotlo, Knglish grammar, geography and suoh other studios, including training in the manual arts, as may bo proscribed by the school visitors." Senator Plunkett, a member of the Now Haven board of Odnoation, said the system of manual JgiMa bnd been Introduced there, ohil rcn that stood perfect being allowed a little time to work with carpenter** tools, and it was found very successful. It Eogliahmka Superior to thoj American? ? An Engliah baronet who traveled ro-' ?nmtly in tbo Unitod States has written) tin artlolo for tho Nineteenth Century Review, in wbioh ho compares English men and women with American mon and women to tho disadvantage of tho latter. Our women, according to him, oro not as handsome or as woli do el opod as thoso of England, whilo our1 mon aro inferior in physlquo. This ho Bays is duo to tho greater attontion given in England to outdoor Bports.' Tho Englishman plays urickot and lawn tonnis, practices In boats and lu voohts far more than tho American. The latter Is absorbed iu buslnons. Ho goes to 800 a baseball match by pro fessionals, but raroly plays himself. Then, tho averago English man and woman do far more walking thuu do our pooplo in tho United Slates. All oduoated Englishmen hold to tho vlow that tho praotieo of athlotlcs is vory do sirablo. At a recent rural dinner, Sir Charles Dilka, tho well known cabinet minister f;avo it as his view that "England owed o tho practioo of physioal oxorclao not only a groat doal of its muscle and powor, out also a srront doal of its suc cojs, and, undor rrovidonco, much of its glory iu tho world/' Had Mr. Glaastono boon onllod upon ho would doubtless havo givon tho samo testi mony. For, although in hiB sovontios, ho sponds hours ovory wook In foiling troos and in taking long" and rapid walks. A Now York writer who was at tho Carnival in Montreal thus des cribes tho typo of girl ho saw: "Tho English girl Is tall and strongly built. She walks with hor tigur j rigully eroot and hor hoad hold up, from nonsclous noas of strength rather than from prldo. Hor chooka aro like tho sides of a ponoh that has Just bogun to rlpon. Tho roso blush blends with tho pink, that is in turn lost in tho gonoral creamy tint of tho whole faco. Waves of flaxon or light brown hair curtain the forohead, or perhaps hor hair is puffed into a cloud that projeots bo yond hor soalskin oap. Sho has big, doop-bluo oyos. oloquont of good hoaltn and good nature, and blazing at a touch of excitomont. Being an athloto she is a tjiodol of good hoalth, and tho oqual of her brothers at tho dinner taolo. Hor noso and mouth aro not too fashionably small. Thoy match hor fino stature, and tho healthy, gracoful carriage that tolls of stout limbs and devolopod musclos. What a lesson tho Montroal girl toaohos to tho Now York mothors who bring thoir daughters up in-doors liko hot-nouso plants, for foar they will not bo lady-like and womanly! These ro bust girls, in modosty, in grace, in eoftnoss of spoooh and femininity gen erally, are tno peors of tho daughtors of Murray Hill, and yot thoro is hardly ono that cannot stand by her brother's sido in whatovor sport no is enjoying. These girls can olimb a mountain Hko door, thoy oan skato liko tho womon of | Holland, thoy are at hoino on snow Bhoes. tho mad sport of tho toboggan hills is overy-day fun to them." Thoro has, howevor, boon n roform In this country during tho last quarter of a contury. Gymnasiums arc moro common, especially in colleges. Out door sports aro far mora popular than they wore, and tho oducatod young man has plonty of ohanoo to improve his physlquo by good muscular exor clsos. Our <*irl8, however, aro not so ?woll off as thoir English sisters. Long country walks aro not popular with our young women, but. making allow ance for thoso shortcomings, few Americans will admit that our Klrlfl aro not in evory rospoct equal to tnoir English sisters. Bismarck's Disliko of Ajunorlca. Bismarck is not enthusiastic in bis lovo of Amorioans. Ilo believes in bltio blood, unci thinks thoro is but lit tle of it in Amorloa. Ilo is convinj^" tbat we>Qx ft^?4^otluoatod|)Ctapjo. or wo^fittiuldaentl odiioatoOmen to rep ent ua in foreign oourts. Ho snubs Minister Sargont ovory ohanoe be gota, for the roason that ho oan spoak noilh er German nor Fronoh, and is a moro flguro-hoad in tbo Gorman capital. Jho book . "Germany Soon Without Spootaoles," by Henry Kuggleg, re cently published in Boston, has kiokod up a good deal of bobbery ovor hero, from all accounts. It has had a largo biroulattflJL in Germany, many copies having been sent by Gorman-Amerl oans to their frionds in fatherland. Tho author says he haa lived two years in Germany, and several chapters of the book give the Germane rather un moroifnl criticism in their habits of liv ing, customs, troatmont of their worn on, duelling, boor-drinking, etc. Thoso oh aptors have been translated and extensively oopiod by tho German press, and ol late one eould not go into n Berlin olub or cafo without hearing the book onergotioally eussod and dis missed. A fow weeks sinoo, report says, ft Berlin publishing-house hud mftde arrangements for issuing an en tiro translation Of this book, but Bis marck on hearing of It sent ft llote to the publishers, with his own signature, which quietly put an end to tho matter. A Gorman told mo seriously, yester day, in the Cafe Bauer, that Bismarok would novor smilo On Amorioans as long as they publlshod such harsh things about the Gormans, ovon If thoy were true.? Berlin Utter. ' t '1- V* ',c. Ro porta to the Mmc<Ktln Club. The librarian reported tho feooipt of sovoral vftluablo books during tho past weok, ono of thorn being a Volume con taining the history, trial, and' oxeou tlon of thirty difforont murdorers. lie annotinoed that tho roof loakod in sov on diflforent places, and that much of the literaturo had to bo plaood in the oven and driod provious to boing lent oat to members. Ho asfcod for an ap propriation of $136 to stop tho leaks. 'Vat's eaotly do way wid somo folks," replied tho president "Doy buy ft;$400 korridgo to bo pullod by a $50 hoss When we oxpend $125 to protorve $60 worth of books wo shall liavO Inaugurated a financial polioy dat will soon obloege us to rent nost-oflloo boxes to recoive our dunniir letters." The troasuror said he had discovered an attempt to taumor with tho olub safe. Home ono ha<l ovidently trim! to unlofck the door with a boot-jack, an the kpy-liolo had heon found filled with sorap-fron. Ho would announce for the benoflt of orooks that the t>afe never contained abovo BO gents in cash, and that any attompt to blow it opon would eutrely result in bringing down the entire roof of the hall. . < ? Tho janitor reported that th* north west oorner of the hall had lately sunk night Inches, but he had/no recom mends to mako. If t>o rest of the building didn't sink t^'tho same level members would soon( got acoustotnod to walking on ft slant and no ex pense would be entailed/ As most of tho lamps \had gone out for want of fodder, .the meeting then adjourned.*?, Teaching Aittmals to Converge. ?1. Stuart Wortlev writes as follows I to JSature: A dog of uiino kuows in ' stantly wkothoi bo may go out with my housokoopor or uot, ? according to whothor sho wo?.rs hor hat or her bon uot. * In tbo first instance ho knows ?bo In going where ho muy go, and ho is on his foot barking with joy as Boon aa sho appears. If sho bns tlio bonnet ou, ho knows it to bo church, or a visit to friends in the country, where ho can not go, and, liko the "oldest oyster" (I quoto from ruompry). ho "winks bis oyo, and shakos his hoary head." If drawings of hat and bonnet wore made, i ho would know them at ouco. i Somo years since I had u remark l ably clover Syko terrier, whoso wisdom i was at the timo shown ir. a loiter to tho ) Tinuj. This do^ I taught as follows; j When I wout out it was quite sudden t | 10 say "Yes" or "No'' in an ordinary I tone; but wanting to take him boyoud ! that, 1 taught him very quickly to ; know tho two words when printed ou j cards, YES or NO, and fitter a fow i weeks' teaching ho never mistook them. I have no timo now for much tcaohing; if I had, I am Buro it could bo dono with tho dog 1 now have. Tho intelligence of cats is greatly undorrated. My wife's favorite cat follows hor everywhere, and conies when called wherover sho may be. Catu, too, aro very grateful for kind ness. When I went Into tho Malakholi', i I fouud a eat on whoso paw a bayonet | had fallen and pinnod it to tho ground. 1 roloased it and took it homo, and It nlways followed mo all over camp till tho ond of tho war. And this cat did as follows: I look hor to a doctor of tho nearest regiment for two mornings to have her foot dressed. Tho third morning 1 was away cn duty boforo daylight, and tho cat wont herself to tho doctor's tent, scratching the can vas to be lot in, and then held up her paw to bo .doctored. Tho intelligonco that can bo dorolopM iu almost nuy animal doponds on our trcatmont of it Ldtno Kiln Club I>omcstlo Economy Tho following resolution, forwardod ' by brother Blackberry Davis, of Mobllo j$a., was thon iutroduced: Rofiotvod. Dat It am do dooty of do J.lmo Kiln Club to cncouruKO do orgnuizuBhutiof t\ catl'od society for do dlccushon ai>' dUspousft shun of doiucAtlc economy. Tho rosolution being open to debato, BullniRh Jinks took the lloor, and bopod it would prevail. ShiUlcssnoss 1 in domestic matters was tho bano of ? ' tho colored raco. Ho had known a ; i family to heave u bushel of frozon po ; tatoos into tho alloy, when tho sumo | would have uiado a score of rich pud- , dings, or could have been saved to . lond to neighbors In tho place of sound j ones. | Unclo Luther l'orkins hoped to 9oe Bueh a Bocioty formed without delay. Domestic economy was the last thing thought of in tho average ooloreil housohold. Ho know plenty of families , which Mfod on fried oysters ouo day j | nud bean soup tho next. Several othor mom bet s spoke In the * j name volu, aud tho ^resolution was put j tb voto and udoptod. Brother Gard ner thon appointed Nelson Slabs, Cssar Anderson and Transparent Smith aa a j committee to or-jaui/.o svu'h a r.ocioty, and suggostod tho. foliowin ? points to . 1)0 considered, invootigatou and pro mulgntod: 1. Is it hotter to go without tablo buttor than to bo without two big yul- J lor dogs? ? ; 2. Isn't it possible to invent a mince j pie with oabbago and carrots for a ; foundation? ; 3. Can't potato ekins and apple par- ; Inga bo worked o\or iuto a puddiug for , tho childron? | 4. Do wo eat more than is really j uocosBaryP Isn't tho varioty groatcr ( than tho health demands? Don't tho j man who fills up ou pudding B'lf) fool jUBj u s giiutt La if aJf nou r af to r j "(Fating as tho man who has fonsted at a ] lirst-olass hotolP?Detroit Free Prens. \ A Cool Client, An acquaintance of mlno?a young lawyer, tired of being brioflosa ana fooloss horo In San Francisco?dotor minod a your ago to establish liiinaoif in Homo Intorlor county seat. A fow months aftor ho wrote rao that ho had won it. It was a hard caso, ho wroto, ono that roquirod much study and in genuity, but ho had won it, and assur ed mo that ho oonsidorod his foe?fifty dollars, I boliovo?as woll earned. His ollont was an old countryman, situplo and unsophisticated, and ho had on doavorod to post him on tho ways and doings of cout:?. .to that ho should at tend tho trial wi< tout embarrassment or. tropldation. By his coolness in oourt tho ollont did.honor to his lawyor. My friond oamo down horo to spend tho holidays, and we met. I askod him, laughingly, whether ho had had another oaso sinco his first Ho lookod at mo curiously, and told mo that something inorodlble had happen ed In rogard to that affair. That samo morning ho mot his forinor oliont, and ovor an appotizor thoy had discussed tho matter. ??That only cost mo ,a hundrod doll ars," said tho oliont ??A hundred?" askod tho lawyor. ??Yos?I took tho judgo out for a drink, and gavo him fifty dollars. That'll Why I was so cool In court" Tho feolings of my young lawyer friend oan bo better Imagined than de scribed. Htlll ho lookeu upon it as a good Joke. 1 rothor spoiled bis amuse ment by asking him whothor ho had re* turned to his ollont his "well-earned foe."?-Ban Francisco Nnus-I,clter. Iltii Orocor XV ho Caved. Thoro was, up to a vosr or two ago, n man in tho grooory business in ono of the villages of Wostorn Miohigan who wai famous for his hatrod of drum mers. Travelers for Chioago, Detroit and other houses woro ordorod out of his storq in tho roughost manner, and sovoral woro assisted to loavo in a stylo more hurrlod than graoefnl Tho boys, however, rather enjoyed it, and a *r>rt of ring was formod among them with a solemn agreement to kdop calling on tho groeor until lio gavo some ono an order. On day, eight or ten months ago, an agent for a Detroit house ontcrod tho grocery prepared for tho worst, but what was his amazement to bo recoived with a smile of welcome. This was followed by kind words, and later on by an order for about |800 worth of goods. Tho agont was so olated that no tolographcuthe news homo and to soteraF of his acquaintances, and it was n wook beforo ho rocovorod his equilibrium of spirits* "And did ho continuo to buy of your houso P" asked ono who had listened to tho drummer's story. "Woll, no." . "Why not P" "Uocauso, within ton days after ho got our goods ho failod anil couldn't >ay five cents on tho dollar."'-Detroit S&% OUBANINGS. M* Hereafter tho postal notes will bo printed on blue paper- ' . . ' Tho libraries at Yale College eon-' tr.in IG1.000 volume? The coUe{$o 11 brury proper has llo.OOO volumes.. , The Supreme Court of British Col- . . unibia holds that a Chinaman'.* msr rlugo uuder th-j Methodist form in void. Children umploycd in tho lace-maK tng schools In Belgium work twelve hours, anil ruiuutitues warn six con's per da). Tho ballot that tilled General War ton at tho battle of Buuker Hill, Is* lit , the possession cf William H Montagu", of Boston * Archibald l-orecs. iho war corres pondent, h:u uiado hb numerous for ei?u orders luto a uocklaec f >r h;^ daughter. quartette of Inggagonsen *vlu> run t'uvn. ;h Manchester. N. H., boar tho . names of Lovolnnd, Lowering. Lovej .y and Lovely Abraui Fisher, of K. oz. county, Indi ana. has boon marnod live times. Ho is new uiucty-tilx year* of age, and hid present wifo Is sixteen. Joaqmu Miller's mother hae begun suit aguiijst niiu hi Lane county, Ore gon, tor tho partition ol certain real estate held jointly by them. Franco oilers $10,000 reward, open to all competitors, to any ono who {suc cessfully and economically anplloa electricity to tho hoatiug and lUfhtlu^ of dwellings. An applo troo in Mercer county, Kentucky, has borno fruit for sixty seasons * without failing. Five foot from tho ground ita trunk is ten feet una nine Tnehes in eireumfcrencci Doaoon Mayborry, of Windham, Mo. recently sold a quantity of hay that hftd boon cut twenty-two yoar*. Ho ha.) boon holding it all that tlmo for $22 a ton, and finally got his price. Ono of Davy Crockott's old hunting knives, with a four-inoh wooden handle and a six-inch blade, with a silver band around Iho handle, has boon pro sontod to tho Tonnosao Historical So ciety, . Mrs. A. It. Allon heads tho list of mllUonairos In St. Louis, paying tuxou $1,197,300. Henry Shawls put down as worth $1,176,130; the heirs of Jesso (i. Lindell $1,116,-1G0 and Miss Burnieo Morrison $96-1,990 A young lady in Hartford objectod to the mutilation of a ttoe in hot front yard by a party of telephone linenion. They didn t hoed hor protest until she covered them with a rovolvor, and then thoy deoidod to stop. ' I wiifl a soldier for two years," satd .'Jig. Salvlm to a nowspapef ropovter in London rocoutly, "and fought under Garibaldi at the siegool Komo, In 1?4'J. My campaigns on the stage have hap pily been more fortunate. (Classing women who never marry by thoir complexion, it is said thoro aro more blondoe than Ir.inettOH amon-; them. This is supposed to bo duo to tho preferoi.co of marrying men for brunettes. But perhaps tho women who do iu>t marry fade out. The J'syJichtfical Journal gives the increase of the number of insano po.v Pen* in the United Slates nt, from IrtftO ?o 1M0, H.832: lSt?0 to 18V0, 13,390; <87'J to liWO, v-1,665. Tho wliolo num ber of or.* insano is given lit 91,987, Idijtf, 70.Sfi5. Movo thau one-half arc not under hospital tioatmunt. Tho inllueuco of Japan is beginning to bo foil vory considerably in archi tecture. Some things in Jnpr,..oso architecture wo shall, of course, juya a prominent architect, probably nover ? lulroduee- tLo heavy' roof, for instance. But for verandas ol country houses, lor screens, and for interior dedoratlou ? ^lapane-io art and architcoturo Is rapid- V ly rS^Ait'.e. | ' >? At tho recent annual inco11 :'!*j Sco'-laud of the Northern AaoidohT^Qij#fti ruranco Comnany, tho ohairman etatW^ that thoy had abandouod all rUkaym,; connoction with foot-ball and bloyollnpr.'' a Tho risk was so great that tho nary premium would not ooyor it.^" Tho prooont policies of the kind wore noarly run out, and thoy had deter- . nlined not to ronow them. , Alleo Steno Blaekwoll, now in J3o4? V/ ton, Is good onough to admit that mou mean woll onough #by women, andrj^ inako such laws as thoy coridldor fop, thoir good, but she wauta to know wlio gavo men tho boIo right 40 deoido what is good for worn on P ShO roasonahly.) concludes that if womon hftd absoluto logal powor ovor mon, hWovor.^pfiwfi; thoy might treat tliom, the men would ^ ix)be). . ? WMRRKjeM Oonoral N. P. Banks' daughto'?!'? Maria, Is an accompllphod olooutloulj^'? , Inheriting tho gift from hor father, wKO i? yoars ago was a mombor of a theatrf* ^ cal company In Boston. Boforo aVj4.,s tempting to bo an actor ho woe a dnnc? lng master, but his most famouH 'oji- / plolt In tho torpslehoroan art w?i whon S^onownll Jackson lod him suoh a foarfnl danoe dowD tho Sbonandoab ' Valloy. r Last year 220,922,660 lottory tlckoto woro sold by tho lottory ofllcos in ItAl^* on which 71,826,683 franca wore staked, ?' boing 2 franos ii contlraos on an avotv age for oach of tho 29,000,000 inhiibl* tante. Tho wlnniogs on these vod turos ainOuntod to 44,411,628 frunoft, loaving a not profit of 27,416,164 franca to the state. Only forty-foor winnings ' woro abevo 10,000 franos. eaeh, tno ' hlghost two being ono of 78,000 franca mado In Turin, and tho othor of 60,000 francs In Na?>lop. Kdward King tells ono of tho moat delightful anecdotes of Carlylo yot put forth. That portentous psoudo-phtlos* ? ophor, Mallook, called on tho 'old' Seotehman and lot himself loose, talk ing L'arlylo almost to death. Carlylft listened Imp trturably, Invited him to tea, and hftd him to tmeke Iq tho li brary afterward. Whe.j at. Ifts^ th<V. youthful sa?<o Oiought propor to lnl?o his loave, (. arlylo aco^mnanled him to f the doer and said: "Woll, good by,,/ I've received ve kindly, bocaneo 1 know your inotnor; but 1 nov^f want to set eyes on ye again!" The City of Mexico correspondent of tho San Francisco Alia flays: 'Tno wife of I'rosldo&t Gonzales, and mother of Ms ten ohlldfeu, nfTlrnifl that ho hrt* ' noghictcd her, lu those days of him st prosperity. In hor phjuo and JealoHAy at her fancied and actual wrongs, she Injudiciously abandoned hor husband , and children, rented a shop upon the most fashionable promenade of the ' capital, not three blocks from the pal ace, and there soandalifcod tho entlrfl > oouutry by opening a milliner's shop. ? Tho sign was largo and atrikin#, In forming the pnbllo that "Tho wifo Of Matmol Gonzales, Prosldent of Moxtco, wM roadv to serve hor patrons with latest Parisian Importations, eto.' Bho continual In buslnofts for sevoral months, And criticism ran high, hut, at lof)t It e^ASOtlOn O# hoilHties ooenrred, and she (trowed the border into the f>nJt?4 fitatei" K ^'f ' ' '* \? *, ,