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A Little Child's Message. She wasn't on the playground, she wasn't on the lawn, The little one was missiug and bedtaie com ing on. We hunted in the garden, we peeped about to see If sleeping under rose tree or lilac she might be. But nothing camein answer to all our anxious call Until at leq? we hastened within the darken And then upon the stillness there broke a -fl The rling ite was standing beforo the And so y, as we istened. eame steeltng down the staire: "R'Io, Central! Give me Heaven' I want to say my praers." HOW 11E LIKED IT. "And t3 this the girl my nephew Paul has married?" said old Mal. L'Estrange to himself. "Why, she is nothing but a child, and a lovely child, too." The soft, yellow twilight was enfold ing the drawing-room in its enchanted glamour, and Dolores. rising from her piano, stood with large eyes and hight ened color to receive her new uncle. She was only 16, but she belouged to the beautiful creole race, who blossom so rly into womanhood, and she had the dignity of a young princess as she stood Mere all in white, with her jet black.hair gathered into a net of gleam in. gold. Young L'Estrange looked first at his wife and then at his uncle with natural pride. -Here she ts, si" said he. "1y little Dolbreei" And then the oldeman ourte ously advanced,hordng out one slender, arisiocratib hand, on which gleamed a diamond of rare size and water. -I am very glad to see you. my dear." said he, courteously, and not without a ten'der accent of affection. A-nd from that moment A Dolorea' secret fear and dread of her husband's incle vanished. "I am so glad you are not a eross old crab." she said Impulsively. "Has Paul given me such a bad chatracter as that?" said the old gentle man. smiling. "Oh. no, no' cied Dolores "1Bt he :dwavs says 'M uncle will like this -my uicle ~will -approve of that.' until, don't you see, I have learned to be' afraid of this unseen potentate. But." with a shake of the blue-black curls, "I im not afraid now. Oh,I am sure I shall love you very, very much! Might I kiss you, please?' "7You might try," said the major, looking very much Ileased; and from that moment Maj. L Estrange and his niece-in-law were sworn alhies and firm fsiends. : And You love him very much?" said then* majr. speaking. of course. of the one Prince Ciarming who had ensnared the creole's heart. "Oh. ves!" cried Dolores. --I am sure, Unele Gerald.that there is no one like him in the worM. No one!" "And he is good to you?" "Ye. alwayrs." "A'nd are you happy?" "Yes. and-exvc.p---" "Hlaho!" said Uncle Gerald. "Here's a flaw in the diamond-a crumple in the rose leaves! There ought to be no such thing as an except!" Thir isn't." stoutly maiatained Dolores. --Only-" "It's the same thing," said Unc* Geral. shaking his head.. "An 'Qnlyi' Come Dolores. what is it?' Open cont fession. rememiber,is good fcr the soul What is the meaning of this mysterious Dooes hung down her bead, the inkblack lashes drooped orvr her peach-blossom cheek. "It Isn't anything at all, Uncle' times." "Oh!" said the nmajou'. 'Why, how Is this? Paul isn't a miser, I hope. "Not in the lerat," ceded Dolores. "But-but--I hardly know how to ex plain'myself - he thinks I ought to cpme to him for every penny I spend. He'thinks I should keep within a cer tain limit. Of course he's rgt u it's'a littje hard sometimes. Te'sno ne'ed for a woman's spending money. - he sayvs." "Al!" commented the major. "And I wanted some bon-bons dread fully vesterday," said Doloreslaughing andl b'lushing. "Of course it's nddica lous-.a grownu woman like me wantix~ bonbons like a ehild; but. indeed Uno' Gerald, I couldn't help it, and I was - ashamed to ask Paul for $1 to buy French candles with; and if there's an organ-grinder, or a beggar, or a poor woman selling buttons and shoe-strings why, I have my rings, and my ribbons, andi fuy bracelests, but nothing els'e." 'Jhe major smiled and stroked his white silk ~bard as he sat there in the bihnboo chair in'the shadow of the sweet southern passion-vines. "It is a.hard case," said he. - "Yes~isn't it?" cried Dolores, earnest IV l. "I told Paul he ought to give me a regular sum for pin-money, but he o agsat me and says I am a littlepgoose. How would he like it him-1 so',Iwonder?" "Ah!" said the major; "how~iadeed?" "And flowers!" cried Dolores, clasp ing her hands. "There was a flower girl along yesterday with the siteetest aspapt lilies and tuberoses always make we think of beautiful New Orleans. OUncle Gerald, I-did so want those. *raxen darlingsi But Paul says It makes a w nan extravagant to have all the mon~ -she wants. Would the tuberoses have been extravagants~ncle Gerald?" "No." said the old gentleman, look lpg at the beautiful speaking face, "1 don't think they would. But now, lit tle Dolores. there comes your pony up the dritp. tio for your siring ana ieave me to sleep." ~ But the major did not slep at all. lie mieditated. Hec-faced the financial problem & the L'Estrange household and r'eso'led to conquer it. -Paul L'Estrange came up, from the city that evening i excellent spirits. S da:unele," he said, "I shall have to call on your generosity once again. Only fancy my meeting Hall and ,Ovington on the parade this after non! And they tefl me that CoL Puaed and young Jerming are in town also. 86 I have lust ordered a little beehelor supper at ~auramo-s ror to morrow evening." "Ah? said Maj. L'Estrange. "I looked at that chestnut mare, sir," added Paul. "She is simply perfect~so I toldthenmanto bring her up here. Ml m to have her for $375. It's a bar gain." "Indeed?" Paul L'Estrange turned quickly ar'ound and looked at his uncle. "Is anything the matter, sir?" said he.. "The matter? No. Why .should there be?" "Only your tone was so peculis that is all." "Well, to tell the truth, I was think ing," said Maj. L'Estrange. "Of what, sir?" quetioned Paul. "Of where you meant to ,ret the * money to paf'for all these tings." drylv answered the old man. "Why, fromt you, of course," said Paul, half puzz'/ledl, half amused. "You have always given me all the imonmey I wanted." "But thatt is no sign that I shall al renmarked the old gentleman. "Look here, L'aul, I am thinking of turning over a new~ leaf." "I don't understand you, sii.' L"Don't you? then I must endenver to elucidate m1y mea g a Inte-. TnE matNOr Is mine, isn't it ?" -ae.t .ssurelY it is." Paul answer - 111.t,11. I n1:1V :1 11.,1t to a10al it out as I pleast. Ayil I amn seriously thiinking of stopping your allowance.' *"Of--stopping my allowauce, Uncle Gerald?" --Yes. If you want anything you cau comte to me for it. you know." *Like a school-boy, Uncle Gerald! cried the young iau, with crimsoning temp 'les. " Why not?" serenely questioned the old gentleman. --Do you know. I have an idea tha it imakIs a man Ox travagant to have the handling of toc much money. That, I believc, is youl opinion also." "Mine. Uh7' echoed Paul. --It is what vou tell your wife," said Uuele L'Estrange. with a twitch of the corners of his nouth. Paul looked puzzled. "But she is a woman, sir." "And ergo. she hlas no wants! I that logic, my boy?" I am always ready to give her any thing she wants!" exclaimed the young man. "Exactly the platform which I oc cupy in respect to you." said Gerald. "And yet you don't seei satisfied with the arrangement I propose. Come Lets be judicial. my boy. Let us ha perfectly impartial. Fi:d justitia. rual colum, you know. If my niece's money is to be dealt out to her a penny at a time., so must my nophew's." "My dear uncle," cried Paul jump. ing u, --I never looked at the thing in thatight before. My poor. littkl Dolores. What a sordia old miser I must have appeared to her. Why didn'1 some one do iw the favor to tell me what an e-re-lous kllot I was iaking of mvsef What shall I do, Uncle Gerald1? Shall I make her a regulaz allowance-so much a week?" -I dare sav we shall tiud some satis. factory metiod, of adjusting the bal alce," said Maj. L'Estrange, with a smile. "It's of a sort ad hominen ar vuueut. this of mine, I must Confess: Eut it was a real trouble to little Dolores and so I thought I would jusi hold up a looking-glass to yon. Nephew Paul. But don't look so grave, you shall have your supper at Auranio's, and vour oficatant mare, and all those other little luxuries of life which have grown to be necessities to you. Bul Dolores nust have her bon-bons and flowers and little charity coins also. As I said before, flat justitia." "With all my heart, uncle," said Faul, laughing. And so little Dolores %%-on hor cause after all. She came to her uncle the next day. "Oh,uncle," she said, "I am so sorry I told you that about Paul." W-Why, my dear?" asked the major. 'Because we have talked the mattex all ov'i" said Dolores, "and he is sc good. I an to have a separate allow. ance all of my own. Isn't he splendidl And I wouldnL't have him think I com plained of him for all the world!" "Don't be afraid, my dear," said the majop. "It shall be a state secret be. tween us two forever and a day. And yon are sure Tole quite happy now?" "Oh. yes, quIte,' declared Dolores, with emphasis. But she did not know that Uncle Gerald was the magician who had wrought this wonderful chauge--N Y. 1xlger. Laughea. The word "bell" amnong Germnans is not looked upon wit~h a horror that ft Is ameincr Americans, andl evcn the most euftared German would not hesi tate to use It any more than he would the werd "hearon." A young lady who kearned the English languague in her home in the 01(d country and can speak it fluently went to a fas.~iionabla party th e-tiedaV ~ A grteto ire had -ncw indled and the room was uncork. fortably warm. There w~as a pause in the conversation, when in a rathor loud tone of voice was heard the re mark in Eniglish, but with a pretty German accent: "It is hot as hell in this roon." The ele'ctrified guests sat as if stunned for a mioment. and then as if by prean-anLlged signal. ali broke out in a lauzgh. L'yi to this udate the German gir~l doesni t know what the laugh was all abiout.--OClean~d 1'&jin Dmir. Death to the Crow. The American agricultural depart ment has been making careful inqairy as to the food of crows, and the result. as set forth in the report by Walter B3. Barrows, is likely to surprise those wiho have always contended that these birds do very much umore good than harm. It is n'ot disputed that they destroy in jurious insects. that they are enemies of mice and other rodents, and that they are occasionally valuable as scav angers; but these services are slight ir. comparison with the mischief for which they are responsible. T7he in jury done by them to Indian corn, wheat, rye, oats~, and other cereals is enormous. According to one observer the crowv eats corn "from ten miinutes after planting until the blades are three inches high," and more than a score of other observers testify that he not only pulls up the young planta, but digs up the newly sown seed. His depreda tions extend to pot.toes, beans, pea nuts, cherries, straw berries, raspber ries, and blackberries, and he widely ditributes oertain pisouwus planits, the seeds of which are improved rather than iimpaired by passage through his digess.e organs. As if all this were not enough it is shown that the :row eats beneficial insects and thatt he makes himself a most formidable nuis ance by destroying the eggs and youngr both of domesticated fowls and wild birds. Asbestus Mining In Canada. Mining is carried on by cutting down the hills of asbestus-hearing serpentine, much as a farmer cuts down a stack of hay or straw. or by open quarrying on the level. The rock is blasted out, and the asbestus, separated from the con taining rock, is "cobbed"-i. e.: separ ated by hammering from adhering for eign matter. This "cobbing is a com paratively easy matter in the case of the finer quality, as it usually separates readily from the gangue, but in the lower grades nmuch~ difliculty is experi enced in separating the fibrous matter from the non-fibrous. At best there is reat waste. Much of the asbestus is in thin or narrow veins, and is wasted. as by the present mode of operating it does not pay to separate this from the serpentine.~A machine that will enable these narrow veins to be utilized is a desideratum. When "cobbed," the asbestus is graded according to purity, color, and length of tiber into three grades andl bagdfrshipment. T1he tinest quahi tv f "irss"linds ready' sale at prie ranging from $80 to '$110 per' ton: seconds' fetch from $50 t.> $70 per tc.": whTe ''thirds" may be valued at $13 to $15 per ton. Ia good mines the ield of asbestus is from 3 to 5 per cent of the rock quarr'ied, and th. cost oi mining may be lput down at a:?5 to $o0 per ton. 'Returns obtainei' by th~ Geological Surv'ey of Canads ahmow that for the year 1888 Canada's ou:tput was 4,404 tonsTalued at the miu< cat $225.. 000, and the output of nin: different mines. Over three-fourth< (If the whole output was shipped to : c United States; small quantities goin:.: to Great Britain, Germany, F'rance, Be gium. and Italy, and beling u.ged in domestic manufacturinig.- " Sirs. (adabout- "0, Mrs. Snappy I saw your husband in the park wit! three or four ladies around him.' Mi's n-p-"'That' al1 right: but let m THE BIGGEST SYNDICATE YET. A corporation Forned to Light Two H1t-m isheres. "Fiiiauriers in PhiladelphiA nd in Yew oirk imve succeeded during the iP past week in placing stock for the biggest syndicate ever forined on the face of the globe. The syndicate embraces in the plans of its prodigi- i oLs enterprise no less a feat thak the ( ighting of two hemispheres, and the re-quisite cash is now in hand. The incorporators of this great eoncern expect to meet during the coinXg week and perfect an oganiza tion uideL the title o the Anglo- t Ani:rica: Gas Lighting Company. ? Arrangenients have already been coaileted to list *50,000,000 of stock 1 on June 1 on the Philadelphia and New 'Yoik exchuiges. The person nel of t.e Phdadlelphia contii:gent of 1 of the s. dic-ate has a decided -trac tion" aspct all the leading capital- I ' ists of ti"at nctwvork of street ral way; liguILg proiinently in the gigantie amalgaation. They a e riI I forcled by tWe leading spirits ofV the old Gas Trust. aid by no less iinportant, individual cupitalists. W. W. Gibbs, Presidenat of the Unitud Gas Lmprovement Company of Plula delphia is the leading spirit of tle zneW enterpris'. His subscriptions aggre gate nearly 5,.00.oo0. He has been at work on the scheme, which origi nated in his brain, for nearly eight Years, and such has been his success that he is already alluded to as the Jay Gould of Philadelphia. Eight years ago Mr. Gibbs was unknown to local fame. Then he occupied a small offico in New York city as the pr,-sident of a company similar im character to the vait enterprise now successfully launched1, but on a de cidedly miniature scide. Mr. Gibbs removed to Phila.. and his estab lishment of the now great ULnitel Gas Improvement Company was at tended with phenomenal success. A number of leading citizens were among the incorporators. including William G. Warden, George Philler, Thos. Delan, Henry C. Gibson. Wil liam S. Elkins, P. A. D. Widener, John Wannam.-ker. Henry H. Hues ton and C. A. Griscton. During its existence of nearly a decade the Uni ted Gas Imprevement Company has secured ownership of the gas-lsght ing franchises of more than forty f] cities. the most important of which are Kansas City. Omaha. Des Moines, Allentown. Jeresy City, Patterson, Atlanta, Savannah, Columbia, Water bury and Lewistown. When English capitalists. following their lucrative experience with Ameriean breweries, began casting ] wistful eyes upon general American industries and examining their earn ing capacities, their attention was quickly attracted by the alert and enterprising Gibbs to the United Gas improvement Company. English agents who are now in New York city were sent oat to negotiate with the Philadelphia and New York share holders of the plant. They repre sented Sir Julian Goldsrind, a Lon don banker, and the Imperial Conti- n 0 nental Gas Company of London. Mr. 0 ibbs spent Friday and Saturdayin (lose conference with them in Now York.a O ON CRUMBLING LCVEES. Many Po1e in LouisIina in Dkedly Jeop 3 ardy.a A special to the Daily Skate from I Bayou Sara, La., says: "The relief tt steamer -Doctoah' reached Bayou C Sara landing yesterday evening. She t: has made a trip to point IRupe and b come back to Bayou Sara. Her ar- h rival was a Godsend to the people whose lives are in .ieopardy, for she] has not only already saved any s< amount of property but a goodly a nonber of lives. The real condlition j of things in the overflowed district is a just coming to light. No pen is ci equal to the task of picturing the de- a vastation and desolation of* the peo- tl ple. More of the levees baa gone. I The water is backed up all around g the surrounding country, and hun- k dreds of lives ar in jeopardy. The ~ small stretches of levees still stand- i ing are crowded with men, wom-n Iu and children side by side with horses and cow.i Ini an old raised gin v. house five hundred negroes were t found huddled together~. Their con- I dition was pitiable. They were o afraid of their lives, and were pite- it ously begging to be taken to a plae h of safety. The crevasse at Allen- - dale will overflow thirty of the finest plantations of the river. The dlam age is inealculable. The distress in the overflowed district cannot be tl told. The Texas & Pacific boat "E. o B. Wheelock" succeeded yesterday fi in saving 200 people from the back e country around Morganza." I The Marnnikin Mamilotta of Afr-ica. Nelson had a curious aceount to give si of the dwarfs of the Con go Forest. Ho u describes them as the ugiloest and mo st 2 depraved specimens of humanity he n ever heard of. "They struck mie as ti the dark and forbidding features of a y nightmare," he said. "rather than ti actual human beIng, when we first sawv them. 0. they re a bad lot. I tell voni. Sometimes we struck a district where thea' seemed a trifie less wild or 1 more conddent, and they used to come in SWarms5 to the camp. They. of ' orse, had sever seen a white mian C before. "The meist disagreeable thing about " them was their guilty. sneaking ex pression. They arc cannibals, of course, and it always seemed to mue that they came into our camp for the purpose of feasting 1teir eyes on us, asi a pack of hungrry diog might gaze f loningly at a leg of mutton. T hey coud never look us In the face. *1 ~ have felt their baleful gaze on me as I t eat at my tent door, and the moment ~ that I looked all eyes would instantly be dropped. But i have detected thmem ~ sizing up thec others, and fairly lieking a their chops. It used to make my fesh k creep. They used to pay more atten tion to Jephson than any of us. We wro none of us overburdened with a brawn in thoso days. but Jephson Is of plumper build than any of the others, i hence his popularity with these impish , cannibals. They admired Jephson be- ~ cause they sawv at a glance that lie would ~ cut into 'more steaks and better rib- v roasts than we others. "I tell you what," continued the gal- a lant Capt'ain, "somebody ought to call t the attention of the miissi onary societies ~ to these depraved manikins. It would b e a Christian and a civilized act to t send out to these benighted beings t twenty or thirty plump, rosy-checked ~ Iyoung missionaries and a few bottles s ef Worcestershire sauce. There is no such field for missionary usefulness in I all Africa as in the Congo Forests. I Africans, I know, are as a general thin g ungrateful and unappreciative. j bu tlIassure you there is a positive de mand for missionaries amongz these, dwarfs, and I will Cruarantee that every I one sent will lbe d iy appreciated. withl or without the Worcestershire sauce." -Thmias Seccen.. John 1. (Ourtis (f Portland. Mie., hase I nmae uaeam~v:i St5.11) in thec mann- t Economy in Good Road.s. The English horse, ilploy il It streets of at %i. or !)n the( road-, r the comdry ' . dle~t ticc a:11; e orkas tw' Amet 1han h-1 s- simu1 'ly Lace1. How Why' I, tTo Eii lish iorse better than ti- Amiiu'u iOt at all. Is he ovi wor:,-? I ave seen no evide'nce that lie is. I are seen but one imit law se m Lin on. The siilet explaamtion is. fl :nglish have intVsted in poi iect and erimaneint roads what te Alniricalns xpend in perishb:le hors' thtt re( mre to be fed. We are supporting unldreds of horses to dem; loads tirough holes thut 'ught i) be tiled, ver sand that sloul,l bU hiardOiteLd irough mud that ought not to be' ermitted to exist. We' have the iisery of bad roa.1s. und are actually r practically calle(d utp.n to pay a remium for ihoim. It would be emonstrably cheaperc to have good >ads than poor one4S. It is so here. road well built is easilv kept in re air. A mile of gnoot iiuntledamilized ,ad 15 mtore e''ily 'tppoti'd than ai our h. I;,. . !]I-el. 01. broad rt'A oi E'g1hsh ve-*.Srtein d do with a;vin' th' .ads, while .., mnowon .,e... .,. ay adly SpriniglieldRp bir. Ule SCa1de conitiiee on edu(a onI antd Libor ha & c'ived Lt Com1it .'e of the Assiociution of Aimtrican rLieultural G4ll0 :4uid- Expce iimenth'd Sations, o ;-' sen ted a ieiorial of their TI... The con ittee con*isted of .ieniy 1. Alvord, re4sident of MCrylas. . g:James [. Smart. In1shana: Io ill *1. Gates, [ew Jersey; James P. l'.Ltte'rson, entucky, and Ihnry 11. G(odcll of [assachusetts. The nemorial sayib Ltt.; a 'ultur i colleges, estabi It. i unde the inited States law of iSL2. are' now lucatiug nearly n thu sani stiu ents. As a rule, all wto in1ish i murse of study at thi's" inl-ditutions re at once in deimind for reinunera se positions, many of th(m as teach. es of natural science inl oi.er institu ons, where the good effect of these :lleges are multiplied. Th. farimers Inifest a growing interest in the -ork of the colleges. The memorial says that the speial d innediate needs of tiwse col "ges for more genei 1)l1H stlpport ftrise -om1 these two facts: The cost of a roper equipmeit for scientific work, ud the great inmease in the num er of students. These colle ges ave now reached a point in their de lopment where their future growth d usefulness ar e conditioned upon icir securing incrtased facilities for oing a larger work. The memorial sks. therefore, that at least $15,000 year be provided now for each tate, to be increased until a limit of ot less thani -25,000 is reached. Mrs. H arrison's Laudable Wlih. A lady who is quite intimate with [rs. Harrison says that her great mbition is to have the projected iterations to the White House com tenced during her husband's term f office. "You would be astonished >know," she says. "how much Mrs. [arrison is really interested in the Iatter. She has a great dealof taste, ad would doubtless like to have the pportunit~y of exercising it in the ow arrangements for the Executive [ansion. But it is not that pardon ble vanity which raakes her so ear est in the matter. She really diesires > have the White House made a reditable estab~lishmntt( to the coun *y, and one of which Americans can] a proud, as well as to have it mtade abitable:' ____ An Opiuam Vietim's Vagarlis. ?articularshtave bhcon received mnMas llon, Ohio, concerning the strange nd inexplicable conduct of Justice 'eter Hawk, who resigned his oflie t the village of Bolive. south of this' ty, last fall, and 'ontintued to exe Lse the various functions pei tatining iereto for about four moc:nthis after. addit' . a to executing deeds. moirt rges tu.d other legal paes it is uown that he miarnied zt least six cou es, which acts were unlauwful. It not yet developed who the unforb nately mated people are. as they ere non-residents Who')drove to the illage to have their nuptial knots. ed. Th1e Justice's acts are n0w ex laed by the fact that he is a 'victim lthe opium habit. has been driven tane from the use of the drug and as been sent to the county iniimary -Cleveland Leader. The Lame Walk. Pitifu:l indeed is the condition of 1o0 who are confined to their beods chairs unable to walk. How grate dl all such mast feel wheni they re ver from their helplessness. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) has made oe than one lame person happy. Ms. Emma G3riffiths, Unitia, enn., writes: "My little boy had ,rofia so bad his knees were drawn p and knee. stiff, and he could not alk. He derived no benefit from Ledicies until I tried B. B. B. Af r using it a short time only. he can alk and has no pain. I shall con nue to use it." Mirtle M1. Tanner, Boonville, Ind., 'rites: -I had blood poisoni from rth. Knots on my limbs were as tge as hen's eggs. Doctors said I 'ould be a cripple. but B, B. B. has ured me sound and we'll. I shall er praise the dlay the meni who in. nted Bloodl Balm were born." Water Metaphore. According to the New York Ledger tore is nothing under the sun which Sthe basis of so large a number of gures of speech as water. Its flow ceanward is likenedl to the lapse of ime, and the scean serves the poets ough not very happily-es a symbol f eternity. But ft is i the familiar flgures of ordi' arv conversati that onte hears inost f vater. A poor argum ent "won't ldi water;" a baber s a "Iseaky es ala half drnnkeaniman Is "hal f seas vr;" "1l'shing in tronbied waters" is nther name for gettiag 'mto difik ultty' "still waters run deep" is a hint lat your quiet and demure person has ire in him thatn the world supposea; trong dislikes are compared to his attame majesty's antipathy to "hOly rater;" if a man is in a bad predica 2nt he is in "hot water;" disapspoint ent is a "wet lanket"-we't with wat r, of course; when a loter gete "the ltten'' -cold water is thrown en his opes;"~ the hungry man's "mouth Wa 3rs;" fortune hast its "tideg" as well as me sea; the nmuse informs nIa that there e "tongues in the rnnning( brooks:" >metines it "ratins" ble'ssings; and -hen an orator has exhiauste'd his sub 'et and~ b~egins to bei tedIious. we say e has ''run dry;" ::ews is atlways I:" many plui)e findt it hapiible~'j to) keep their heads above watt'r.'" andi erv often ini the .absentce 'f datas for ajecture "e.re "all~] at sea." A shti trade joutrn:al "avs iat the e'st tiinei to get littued to) shoe'S 15 the ttier part of thet dayt. Tlhe- feett arie On The Grindstone. A hundred years ago or more it was customary in some parts of New En land for mien and boys to wear trousers made of leather. says the Youth's Con- i psion. The historian of the town of Wells.Me., reiarks that such garments were not altogether satisfaetory, for the rather Curiouis 1Sreason that they I lasted too long. We remember hearing a natron of the olden timie tell a story of the two boys of one of their neighbors. They had beoged of their mother that they night fa aside their leather trousers and have a pair made of domes'.tic cloth; but all their entreaties were in vain. She would give them no other encour agement than to promise that when the leather was worn out they should have a vair of homespun. ?hey endured for a long time the vexation of the unyielding garments, which promised to be as lastiug as the raiment of the Israelites in the wilder ness. Finally all hope failed the boys and their wits came to their aid. They took to the grindstone. One sat upon it while the other turned the crank. In imaginatiou they saw themselves al ready clothed in the long-desired honie spun. But, alas, their hopes were suddenly blasted. All at once their father came round the corner of the barn and dis covered them thus em ployed. They had still to wear the leather-for how much longer the historian is unable to say. Didn't Like The Memorial Window. Not long ago a prominent lawyer in a western town put a handsome stained glass window in tho church whicih he attended. The design was tho giving of the law to Moses in Mount Sinai by God, and. appropriately cnough, the text under the )icture was '"There is one lawgiver wh o is able to save and destroy.'" Soon after the window was placed in the church an old townsman of the lawyer attended a service and began to notice the window, whose beauty had been the town-talk for some time.' It ma. be nientioned in passing that this man had been recently de feated in a lawsuit in wh'ch the lawyer in question had been retained by his opponent. So he was quite prepared to see mauy defects in the window. Apparentlyie iaw what he expected, for with a look of disgust on his face he soon turned away from it. -'Didn't you like it?" asked an acquaintance after the service. "Naw, was the energetic reply. -I think it Is an out rage to allow that man to advertise himself in the church." "What do you meanP" "Why, didn't you road the statement nnder the picture 'There is one lawyer who is able to save and de stroy!' I call that about the cheekiest piece of advertising I have se for a long time." Either throu*' A un familiarity with German t, r be cause of near-sightedness. i mis taken the word ''law.. ' for "lawyor;" hence his rightei ligna 0awed Watel kn a . That is a terriblo story c. from North Queonsland abou:t I who was lost in the bush. Ho i. ip aU his water and thon dropped billy" in the agony of his thirst. i .id by, fortunately. ho came to a --hole where he staked his thirst a: found the road again. He had still some thir ty miles to go, hover, and he had nothing whateve~r to carry water in. Of course It would be madness to at tempt to travel thirty miles on foot under a Nor-th QueenslIand sun without any water, so his ready invention came to h1s aid. lie bad been horrified ai short dlistaneo back by the skeleton o:! a man who had erhiently been deadL several rears. He~ went back andi got the skull. plugged ump the eychmoles with clay, and :iiled it with water. He then tra'mpe.d that thirty miles on the water contained in the skul. Can any novel ist limagine a mnoro ghjastiy and fright fuml idea thaun this, for- which we can Depew at Vassar. Popular miale speakers declare that the hardest audienee in the United States to fatce is the 400 or 500 girls who are attending Vassar College. There isn't a woman's face upturned towar'd the lonely ma~seullne person ad drtessinig them but expresses 10,000 shafts of wit upon his bearing, gesture. voie, andl upon'f what he says. Yetj our own Chane, a few days ago. wont up to Iaughkeepsie and daring~ly and unillnehludly endlured this ordeatf. Mr. Deunw was introdluced to tihe Vas sar' girls lbi one of tiheir number, a Miss Sand'ers, a pretty and bright woman. . As 3he was escorting a r. Depew up the aisle of the college hall she was observed to speak to the orator quietly. wh relupon he almost laughed loudly, and, w ith his face overspread with 'merriment replied to what she had said. There waus a good deal of curiosity felt as to this chat. andl finally one Vassar girl said to Miss Sanders: "W\hat did vou say to Mr. Dep2aw when you wero walking up the aisle wvith h im?" - I was weariug my iirst tralu." sahl Miss Sanders, ''and Mr. De pew went too fast for me, and so I said to hinm, 'Whoa, whoa, you'll break my train.'" '"You dIidn' t darxe to say -whioawhoa,' to such a man as Mr. D~epew?" "-I did---why not? And he said lie wvould 'slow tip' at once. Being a rail way man hie knew what breaking tr-ains meamt."-A. .YS: Gaul and 1euton. A friend who has just returned from Paris tells nie a charac'teristic anedote, says tho Ciei.. During tho recent ex position there was a little railroad, five miles in length, running around the grounds. The track ran In and out amog the trees and buildings, and so near themn that a passenger's head or arm thrust out of the window was In danger of being knoeked off. To pre vent accidents of tids sort warnings were printed on large posters and tacked up) at intervals of a few ya -ds. along the entIre track. They are pr ist edI in almfost every known langi:me,' inchluding Asiatie and Afrisan ton gus shorthand and volapuk. My friend counted over thirty languages and dIia Lects. You would have supposed that none was omitted in such a list. But there was one omission. and a very im portant one. Not, a single word of warning was printed in German. Somie one saId to the manager of the road: "It looks as thougth yen don't care whther the German:~s got their heads suiedl a quiet smnila. and r-eplied: I does12 look tht~ way, suret enough~." It imiiat e-s t '' h-a:r:n Major. The Eig~hit Ilussairs of lhe lirii army hatve a en:Wiin for -yhlibl of the regiinent - t? accomipanih the log: ment everywhere, and is an especiauly church p-irao. -n ta.necompanie~i the band. Lin the 1ue with a state of th-endro 'i p ,<. routa "'X e gC''ot 'a hlteri s('hemel now mairkedh a Weer :.111 robbier in) . fritni. ''V t ' i i ' "We simply )&om." -.i' A . . . I'l.-r M.-re'' at -''ourI expenses w er" ver i gh n i; i 'ri last trip. ri. Mledal.' i~in mer--"'Yes. .sir: bamedia high. [ goit snowed in with S poker. gamie at ike' PeI ak, and had to ar. .. tve l- _.i: -- FREAKS OF T L Large Flock of Sheep Appa own 0 Out Iuto Space. 6. W. Doyle. of Siuithfield. Henry ,ounty, was in the city yeste-day. nd told of reimarkable freaks t-r ormed by the tornado in his neigh- a )orhood, for the truth of which lie I rouches. About one mile west of is ,mineuce lives James Drane, a pros - t1 perous farmer. His farm was directly a n the path of the toniado. A Mr. le tiadox and child, who lived on the Ic )lace, were killed by a iiling house, a aid Mr. Dane's resi.c- nue was un- 0 oofed and his banis a! molished. ti But the most siligL.Iar occurrence vas that a large flock o sheep on the arm was picked b~ly up by the vind and blown away. The sheep w vere missed ihe day following the V toi in and diligent search was made ti or them all over the surrounding n ouitry, but no trace of the animals e: ould be found. So thorough was is he search that it left no doubt in the t< ninds of those engaged in it that the if sheep were actually blown out of the n .eigliberhood. C A few milets further on from the u Drane farm a sink hole was found, in- e 1c whic'h the tornado had disgorged tself, but had evidently held on to d ts mutton, as none of the sheep were t ound in the hole Into this hole the . ornado had dropped a large quantity i f articles, some of which had cer- : tainly been brought a long distance, %s they were unknown to the people T f that locality. The article attract- s ing most attention was a large, ele- h gantly carved pulpit. i None of the churches in that neigh- 0 borhood had lost a pulpit, and among F them all, such a fine one could not 1 iave been found, even had the torna- 0 o gone around and selectedthe best. Beside the pulpit was a large quan tit a tity of bed clothing, mattresses, h fetherbeds, pillows comfortables, f sheets. etc. The bulk was held down by a number of tin roofs, which also must have come a long way, as the c roofs of that section were made of e shingle.-Lyuisville Corier Journal. t -The New York Association of Working Girls is composed of eigh teen clubs, with a total membership of 2,635. The association has rented thirteen whole houses and thirteen rooms. It has 182 classes in dress making, sewing, cooking, etc., twenty hree libraries, five music clubs, welve provident and benefit schemes, nd twelve resolve clubs. -Ex-Secretary Bayard thinks Grover Cleveland is "the grandest Democrat of them all," and that he will be renominated and re-elected in 1892. THE VIOLVERINES. A Ferocieus Animal That IUves Only i the North Woods of Michigan. --Miehigan is called the Wolverine state, but I don't believe there are two dozen persons outside of that state that I know what a wolverine is," said a na tive of the Green bay region, now a New Yorker, to a New York Sun man. "For that matter, the people in Michi an itself who can tell you what a wol verine is are mighty scare. Why this animal should be particularly a resi dent of the Michigan wilderness I do not knowv, but I never heard of it being seen or heard of elsewhere. The wall is a common animal all over the west, or at least it was before civilization limiltedl its habitat, and the black bena is also found everywhere in greater 01 less numbers. Then why shiould the wolverine only have made its appear. ance in Michigan, where it was in the pioneer days as plenty almost as the wolf, and even now is a dreaded fre quenter of the woods of the northern part of the state? The wolverine is an animal that has some of the charpeter istics of the wolf, and partakes in other was of the nature of the bear. The old'settlers of Michigar. always insisted. that the animal was a cross between those two beasts, and that is the belief of north Miehigan woodsmen to-day. When Michigan was admitted into the union the wolverine was still common, in fact infested all the forests of the state. and the state was named after him. owing to some of the characteris tis of the animal admired by the hardy piners who hewed a commonwealth ut of the great wilderness they found about thkelr inland sea. 'It is a singular fact that no museum or zoological gardens has ever yet had a specimieu of this unique member of the animal kingdom. I say it is singu lar, and I do not know that it is either, for the reason that they have never exhibted the wolverine is the great difleuty, not to say impossibility, of capturing it alive, or of keeping it alive after it is captured. They are the most savage of beasts They have the ugly temper of the wolf, which they resemi ble in appearance, but in size and sav-] ageness they resemble the bear of the western fastnesses. But while having the size and savageness of the bear. they excel him in aggressiveness and fercity. They (do not have his clumi siness. Their woltish appearance makes1 the fact that they are expert and agile treclimbers seem odd. In lying in wait for their prey they also resemble the panther, for they will crouch close-] ly in the branches or forks of a tree and drop down upon their victim like. one of those great members of the cat family. They will attack a man in this way as readily as they would a fawn, and many an unwary hunter in the Michigan woods has fallen a victim to some hungry and indiscriminating wol verine. The claws of this strange ani mal are much longsr and sharper than the bear's and their teeth bigger and more pointed and curved. Their wari ness Is said by hunters to exceed that of any animal on the continent, and they are seldom hunted for the sport of the thing, the danger being too great. It is only when a wolverine Ias made his presence so destructive to ths pastures and sheen-folds .of the backwoods farmers that the entire loss of their live stock is feared that the farmers organize for a raid on the wolverines, usually employing a num ber of expert and daring woodsmen to direct the hunt. I can't see for myself1 what the pioneers of Michigan saw min this animal to perpetuate its memory: by nicknaming thei? state after it, but the name is there, and Michigan will remain the Wolverine state long after: the wolvcrine Is extinct."1 European Colonists for Califbrnia..1 Several thousand families from En gland aind Denmark will be settled in the San Joaquin valley in Californis this season. A large tract of land has been cut into twenty-acre fruit farms, and the colonists are now on their way from the 01(1 world. Frt Tratop-"Ah, Jerry~ you are s corluer, ausi no mistake.' Second r Tram-'"I'd aheap drether be an un. I corker- fou've no ~bjections.. faS1 that bottl6, will yoi?'- Terre EBaut4 Exprss. Overzealous Dealer-' What's the matter, doesn't the clock keep t4ie Watchman-' Yes, that's the trouble, it does keep time. It guards it so jezdously that I can never find it outi" -Jwclers' Review. Mrs. Teakum Strake-"I see that: boiling the hair in a solution of tea will darkenj." -Teakumi 6trate-&'o I've h iard, my dear, but Iprefer to have my a. darkened in some other way." - i LIFE iN ANEGADA' me of the Stragest of All the Strange Places In the World. hj The island of Anega-la is one of the , ran'est of all strange places in the orli It lies near the northeastern k igle of the main chain of the West tt idies, and differs from all the other lands near it in being tlat and low, e neighborirg isles all being stoep a ad mountainous. -It is nino miles ti ng and two miles across, and lies so w that in heavy gales the sea makes a clean beach over the lower portions 1 it, whence its namo, for anegeida. is e Spanish for "drowned island." d In 1881 it had 719 inhabitants, of , hom only three were white people. a population is noted for idleness, and e main occupation for many years as wrecking-for an extensive and .ry dangerous coral reef surrounds ie island, and once gave it a very ilancholy notoriety. But since the tablishment of the lighthouse on the land of Sombrero (forty-seven miles v > the eastward), there have been few. d any, wrecks on Anegada. since the iain cause of the shipwrecks was the astant and swift current which sets pon the island from the cast. Ac >rdingly, the natives are now not (ten aroused by the cry of ''a vessel a the reef"-the only call in the old ays which would arouse them from eir almost perpetual inactivity. In tet, they are about the laziest people i the West Indies. although that is * tying a oreat deal. Anegata used to be covered with s nderwood-notably of the kind called .aside grape, which here is particu Lrly rci in the valual~le gum called t amai'a kino. Anegada is the home f very numerous and singular tropical lants, but it is perhaps rather more oteworthy for its immense numbers f mosquitoes, gallinippers and scor ions, not to speak of venomous and ther rentiles. The surrounding seas re rich in scale and shell fish of many Inds. Among its singular birds the amingo is one of the most numerous pecies; and most of the ponds are the bode of ducks, which on the approach f man, rise and fill the air with their langorous cries. It is no easy matter o reach the island. A few years ago ,n attempt was made to open mines ipon it, but nothing came of the effort >ut disappointment and loss. Among ho many disagreeable features of life n this hot ands-eaming climate is the >rosence of large salt ponds, which in he dry season give out an intolerable tench; and the same ponds in the vet season till up with singular rapidity Lad flood a considerable part of the sland. When Schomburgk was on Anegada any yer.rs ago there was one morning L great out-cry that all the north part >f the island was flooded; and so to all Mpearance it was; but on examination t was found that the supposed waves >f the sea were in reality only a low ying fog which was rapidly sweeping ono-. Another curious thing is the erial refraction; and this brings into riew other islands which lie below the iorizon, and which, according to the )perations of nature, ought to be in 'isible. A part of the surface is com ,osed of sand dunes, but there is a con ;iderable proportion of calcareous, or oral land, with belts of fertile loam, ind if the soil were intelligently and aithfully cultivated, it would no doubt rield good returns. It would be hard to find anywhere a otter, wetter, worse-smelling, or more renerally disagreeable place to live in han Anegada; but singularly enough t appears to be for the most part a pretty healthy place-at least for the atives. of whom nearly all are black :r colored. In the antecolonial days ,he Indians used1 to come hither in heir canoes, and they have left im mense kitchen-mniddens or heaps of hells, but no Intdian could ever bring hmself to make a permanent home i2n Ane'ada with its steaming fogs, its qal.its sea Iloods, its fresh water inundations, its strong smells, and itS dense swarms of insects. -Amenican Notes tand (,ueries. MEN'S WOMEN. Ehat Thzey .tre' and Why They (Mr the Masculhne Sex. "What arv -meni's womenP"' asked >l the other day the most ebarming f her sex. ''Ment are forever saying : So-and-so. whom, by the way, I de Legt. that she is a 'man's women.' reah mie how to be one, please? Where in lies the charm? Must I smoke like culr Venetians? Must I talk horse? ~Ist I adopt all the other of your .lreadul ways?" 'ertainly not dear madame. Yet it is quite true that while one man's ideal .1itters most fortunitously from another's, b one star difi'ereth fronm another star in gloy, there are those who are known smnoug us "men's women" for a happy combiaton of qualities somewhat dif tiult to describ~e. "A man's woman" : begin with, is old enough to know the world thoroughly; yet, though, she aced never have been beautiful,she must have kept her vouth. She is in no sense A light woman,neither is she ovei 'autel lectual; she would not speak Greek, ven if site could. She is a creature of .ntinite tact, whom every being with Lhe outward semblance of a man in :erests profoundly. With him she is tiways at her best and contrives to get >ut o~f him the best there is. She listens wvell, and grows sympathetic as she istens. Has he a special weaknessP She alf tempts him to believe it is a virtue. An adept in the subtlest forms of flat :ery, she would force the meanest of is to shine even when he is ill at ease. A~nd yet, above all, she remains sin :ere. Her interest in him is real, and mrvives the tieeting moment. He is a :an; that is to say, for her, the bright ist page in nature's book. She re peets convention well when she may rentur to be unconventional; yet she 's unapproachable and irreproachable. n return he adores her. This is all very well, you say, but I ion't-like that woman. Dearmadam, as ,t never enters into her calculation that ou should, she does not take such pains 'ithl you. She makes dear foes among rou, of course. Soumetinmes, even, she 1es not e'scape calumny. But this,. inving no actual basis, fails of its own veigh, and in the end, as you yourself vil adit, youi stand in awe of her. iour question proves it. I have tried o tell you why we like her; and if you nu,t have a word detinition, hero it is: lte is one who has the gift to study :nen, and who. having studied many, inds the process still amusing. If you Lack this primal requisite, abandon the nequal contest; youi will never be yomne like her by a servile imitation of ;ricks ad her "manners. In spite of' :hese, whicht set you so against her, let .ne entreat you to believe her a dleserv g oman~ indleed.-Scribusr's Yaga Something Substantial. 'No, sir." said the new se'nator' fronm laine, as ihe sat dowu in the new estiurant. "'I don't like all this fancy msiness, with your big bill of fare,aud hese larkv, waiters in dress-suits tudit: rond. 'Tain't that I mind 'm iat :ll, lbut a man eau't get a decent ical in a place like this with all these ;uey ixi n's; that's whnat I object to. Vhat I ant, sir, is a gtoodsublstantial tel'i, and11 I initend to1 g't it. llere, ,aite'r, ring mee a piece' ' eustardl pie ' eU' o' 0 oten'' - i14larar Lwunw W hten a womtanl tanites to, her'self tihe sbad she w'ouldI like to have', he is -e neral ly diterent ini important re pects frot the huisbandt that she hasa Irea',' - -4IzrL'ik J~r1SSL.I WIT AND HUMOR The man who truly and sincerelyv love; mself has no fears of being jiht."l. mnercille Journal. Is it not odd that our fondest ret l ctions should be about waisted otqpc nities?-Ashland Press. How little and dried up the ehe >pears to the rat after he is ca.i.U in e trap.-Atchison Globe. The strength of women lies in tiheir curate knowledoe of the weakueesa men.-Somerv' le Journal. Wickwire-"By the way, what parbIItv 3 you belong to?" N. Peck---My ife."-Terre Haute Express. It is as easy to tell the truth to your ife as to tell a lie, but it is not alu' S > expedient.-Boston Courier. She-"What makes you have st"a a Dor opinion of the meaical fraterniic. ' ;e--'m a doctor myself."-lo" The man who depends upon wa s ill get rich sooner than the ma' %,h.) epends upon wagers-Boston 11. ra'At. Dress shirts for Iowa and North lakota wear will this season be imtadii ith hip pockets, half-pint size.-.!s/ iu Press. Mr. Gould's Adirondack lake is to be tocked with trout The suckers aire to e slowly but surely pulled out.-X. 1. !ommercial. Pallette-"Has young Dauber any rtistic ability?" Mahlstick-Well, 've seen him draw a cork with great uccess."-Life. A genuine bibliophile is a rich man rho cares a great deal more for books ban he does for what is in the. romerville Journal. The Temple of Isis was not an ice ream saloon, as some have supposed. t wts a sort of creme de Ia creme aloon of worship.-N. Y. Cuntmuercial. Angeline-"Do you 'believe that love lies out of the window when poverty .mes in at the door?" Howard-'"lt t does it goes out for a divorce." ime. When the poet wrote of the "break ng waves" he undoubtedly had in nind the seaside resort and the grasp ,ng summer hotelkeeper.-(1arney - Entrprise. Josie-"Can Mr. Hugg drive with mne hand, Ethel?" Ethel-"No." Josie -"Not much fun driving with him ;hen." Ethel-" O, yes there is. I drive."-Epoch. Conviet--1 started o-t in life to walk the narrow way." The Rev. Primrose- "Well?" Convict- "The world switched me off on a siding. Drake's Magazine. Women are proverbially curious, but the girl who gets a love letter with one of the new stamps on the envelope never stop to look at the stamp. Somerville Journal. "You are here for safe burglary, I believe?" remarked the prison visitor to an inmate. 'Naw," replied the latter, "I thought it was safe, but it wasn't."--. Y. Sun. A woman begins to find beauty in a man as soon as he shows that he likes her, but a man never discovers that a woman has freckles until he has mar ried her.-Achison Globe. Belle (suddenly)-"I'm afraid all this talk about students is rather frivo lous for Sunday." May (easily)-"O, but they're all theological students, you know."-Harper's Bazar. "Fido ate the canary Yesterday." Ate the canary! What di you do .to him?" "We gave him some pepsnm, poor thing! You know he isn't used to such strong diet."-Puck. Ted-"Was it hard to tell Miss Prim u loved her?" Ned-'-Not very. he hard part came in a mouth later, when Iad to tell her I had made a mistake."-larper's Baar. Father (at foot of stairs) -" Bill, didn't you hear mec call you two .hours ago?" Bill--"Yes, but I can't see ou, father." Father--'--Well, then,j 11l come up and raise you."-Toledo uinme--ti was just gomno to ten yorl something I heard Jennie W~atts saying about you. buft I can't recollect it.' Mamie-"O, well, it was nothing bad, or you never would have forgotten it' -Terre HFaute Express. "How beautifully soft it is," he mur nured, laying his hand on her glorioms white arm. "How less beautiful, but Oh so much softer," she tenderly re plied, laying her jeweled hand on the top of his venerable head.- Washington Star. "This is wvhere we cast our cannon." said the polite attendant. "How inter esting!" said the sweet girl. -And where do you blow your great guns? I've heard a yachting friend of mine speak of that so of ten."-Harper. Biazar. Lawyer-'"Did you ever notice any signs of insanity in the defendant?" V itness-'"Only on one occasion. A passenger picked up a dollar in a horse car one day and he was the only nman. on board who said he hadn't lost it." Epoch. Mrs. Hayseed--"What's all that hooting' and yelling on tbe road t his time of' night? Mrs. Pitchfork-"The Prohibition Committee had their monthly meeting to-night at Farmier Apple's, and I guess he set up the haird cider."-Y 1. Weekly. Clara Van Streek--And what did papa say?" Alfred Sellers (sio'hing) "e said: 'What! You? 'hyv, I'll hoot you down-stairs before rIl let you marry my daughter!"' Clara tan Streek (practicaY)-"And of course you let him-and now I am yo AlfyN. Y .Sun. Friend-'-How are yo ig s' Author-'"Good. P've-ot the material on hand for a first-cli~s novel." "You are a lucky man." "That's not all; I've got the material for a splendid comedy besides." "You are fortunate." "Yes, all I need now is the material for a new pair of pants."-Tczas Sipinags. It was a wideawake Buffalo boy who, on being reproved by his mother for discussingo a wrestling match Sunday with his brothier, meek ly replied: ''All rigrht, miamma. Will va read us a Bible story ?" "Wihm pleasure, dear; what shall iit be?" "All about how Jacob wrestled with the agel."-Bufa~lo E.cq>ress. The Fascination About a Jail. I think there must be a fascination about life in a jail, for nmen who have been in there for a little while seem to leave it with regret and do not lose their interest in what goes on there for some time after they are released. Timie a~nd again I have noticed men who have been conined for a few months come back every' day after their release and stand at the door looking in. They have no friends in there, unless they made friends among the otber prisou ers, and they do not speak or wish to speak with any one. They lean against the grated door and look in as if they wished they were back. I really thin-k omie of them become attached to the Mfe, and one reason is that unless they are men of gentle feelings, they do not el the shame of their position as long ss they are inside, but when they como ut and meet other men they kno r' hey have the jail stain on them and hey imagine every one sees it. I have >ften watched them standing there by be door, and wondered just what feel" n it was that drew them back.-EZ Juunge. There is no scorn like that which is ttere in silence. The shears give the