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imlp, ‘J Ode to tlie Bmfffeto Girl. 'Will the Buffeln rlrl oome out to-nlfht And dancr by the light of the mooof On the eleratnr tower It fllokcre bright. The lunar orb of Juno— And an underfed poet can danee aa light Aa a fay In ailver ahoon. 0 Buffalo girl with the wealthy And the flour-wills huge and _ _ There’s a wonderful charm to which poets drop In your tender asure eye; l oould rhyme for you with never a stop To the saccharine by-and-by. 0 Buffalo girl, your great big lake Is a duck-pond beside my heart. That throbs and throbs till It’s nigh to break— And ’tls you that hare caused It smart. 0 rise and giro the eternal shake To the fate that keeps us apart! 0 Buffalo glii oome out to-night. And elo|>o by the light of the moon I And a Wagner oar ahall aid our flight, Aa we skip ’neath the sky of June— And your ptarenta will probably do what’s right. And oome down With the scads full soon. —Puck’s Annual. nfe-ftf* yon hurtl” “I think not,” replied the girl; “nay; good madam, I am sore not, 1 ’ steadily raising her arm: “bat look,” and she shook rack the loose sleeve, “you seo I had a narrow-escape"; and in fact the sleeve was pierced and torn by some sharp instrument “In IN SILENT DREAD. A clear, soft warm summer night fragrant with the odors'of honeysuckles, rosce. and heliotropes, and silent save for the singing of the locusts in the grass. Suddenly the silence was broken by wild and hurrying footsteps along the principal street. A flying figure cloeely pursued by another figure vanished into the deep shadow caused by a half-doxen large, leafy trees about midway the die* tance of the street and from out the darkness came a terrified and piercing cry: “Help! Murder! Oh, help—help! Murder!” A few seconds of breathless •Hence, and then the silence was broken again by the sound of hurrying footsteps, growing fainter and fainter in the dis tance, while several persons who had been aroused by the cry for help hast ily drew on clothing and shoes and rushed toward the spot whence the cries had proceeded. It was 1 o’clock In the morning and naturally the inhabitants of the street were all in bed and most of them asleep. Of those who had been awakened many stopped after the first alarm, rushed into the street, questioning one another and awaiting for some repetition of the cries; but the xtreet was silent again—even more silent than it seemed before tlie outcry. Of all who had gone so far to rush in frantic haste at first only two actually proceeded far enough to leant the cause of the alarm. “I think the cries came from this di rection,” called out William Korney, running in the direction indicated by his outstretched arm. “1 think so, too,” answered Charles Lemon, following him. The first speaker ran so fast and head long that he nearly stumbled over a prostrate body, amt while bfl recovered himself his companion stooped rawed the insensible fignrs. “Why. it’s a woman!" be eiclaimvd; ~a girl, I should say, she is so slight and slender.” ' “Of course, 1 knew It was s woman's voice. Can you carry her, Charley? Let me help you. Bring her to our house. Mother is the most kind and thoughtful, dear, good mother that was ever known," he added, lending his as sistance. — "She is either dead or in a faint,” said Lecson. Ami then the two young men lapsed into silence, and did not speak again till they had entered Mrs. Forney’s par lor, where they laid their iniHnisi r ble Dur den on the lounge. "Now Charley, do you light the gaa, and I will go and bring mother here, and we’ll see what can be done." And he left the room as he spoke, while Charley Lesson proceeded to obey bis orders. After- groping about the mantel-piece bs soon found, by the uid of the moon light which streamed in, the match-safe, and having lighted two gas-jeta. he gave his attention to the still inaensible Her hat had fallen off, awl her rich dark hair, loosened and disheveled, flowed back from her death-pale face over the sofa pillow. Her features were delicate and regular, her mouth amall, and tbough distorted from recent fear wonderfully attractive, and her general appearance betokened refinement and grace. “Quite pretty and interesting,” thought Charley. “Looks very paleb ut not dead.. Wonder what kind of eyes she has? If they are fine the chances are she’s quite a beauty at her best” Young Fornqy now entered, accom panied by his mother, and the kind lady at onoe proceeded to the sofa. “The young lady is only in a swoon,” she said, at onoe taking the girl's hand, “and, I think, far more frightened than hart But we shall soon know, for she is ahradj recovering. I can see the color is returning to her face. See, William, her eyes unclose. What a sweet-looking creature! I wonder who she is!” “Ileavens! It is ” Tbs exclamation burst from William Forney, who, at his mother’s words, had oeme over, to the sofa, and now saw the stranger for the first time really, for, notwithstanding the moonlight, he had not caught even a glimpse of her face while he helped Charley Leeson to oargjr her. Even as the words which surprise had foreed from bhn bunt from his lips he suppressed them, and from the expres sion of iris mother's face he oould wot be sure whether she had noticed his ex clamation of not Indeed, her attend lion was presently absorbed by the oon- And GeiUidc promised, and she kept her word—nor is William behindhand in responding to her devotion; they most truly live for eaclt other. She Was No Friend ol'Labor. was so frightened,” the girl went on, “when he struck at me with the knife that I thought I was killed. Oh, dear! what trouble I must be giving to you all” Bin. Formey disclaimed all idea of trouble and led the young girl up-stairs to her own room. “When we are all alone she will doubtless explsin all this mystery,” thought the good lady, for she guessed at race that there was something unus- uaibetween her son and this stranger, judging from their glances and excla mations. „ But she was disappointed in her ex pectations. The stranger was lovely, she was charming. She was exquisitely f rateful for the kindness shown to her, ut she was dumb in regard to the strange events of the night. She neither explained nor referred td the mystery of her sudden and extraordinary -entrance on the soefle, and she oftereu no solu tion of the looks and words which had passed between her and William For ney, and Mrs. Forney began to think that she was not treated with a proper degree of ooulidance by either of these young people. After making the young stranger as comfortable as possible for the night she bade her a rather cold “adieu," and added: “You shall tell me who you arc and where I am to send for your friends in the morning, my dear. You are too weak and too much alarmed for further afforts of any kind to-uight.” And, indeed, the mysterious young lady did look pale and wan, so tbat a harder heart man gentle Mrs. Forney’s might have been touched with pity for her. But it was not in human nature not to wonder at those things, and Mrs. Forney was, in truth, consumed with curiosity, and this feeling on her part she at once communicated to her son. “You wish for an explanation, mother, dear, and you shall have it so far as I have the power to give it to you. But I must begin by tolling you that all this affair is almost as mysterious to me as to you. I know the young lady—that is nearly all I can say by way of gratify ing your very natural desire for Knowl edge. Shu is the step-daughter of the O rip an gentleman from whom 1 was taking lessons in that language last spring. Her name is Gertrude Steiu- weU. Having seen her it will not sur prise you to know that I wax, and still am. passionately attached to her. I had hoped to make her my wife before now, and proceeded so far as to tell her so, and «riu iVj. CCS —- ’nt the next day to arrange with her as to when . I might bring you to call on her, when, instead of being met by the lovely und blushing girl who had the day before promised to be my wife, a note from her I was placed in my hand containing these. words: We meet no more in Ibis world. Ask no ex-! plaoatlon. Do not attempt to see me. Fare well forevt*. GKBTHCDE. "Of course I did not obey. I did ask for explanations. I did seek to sec her again and again. But all in vain From that hour until to-night I never set eyes upon her; and the events of this nigkt—the attempt upon her life, her presence here, her terror—arc all part of the mystery which has surrounded her since 1 received that note, and which is as incomprehensible to me as to you.” . Mrs. Forney warmly pressed her son's hand. Her sympathies, bofh as a wo man and a mother, were thoroughly roused, and for William's sake she do- A very fat, red-faced woman, with two big sachels and a hand-bag, got off a train at the Lake Shore depot yester- wipe Inters*ling History of a Famous Brilliant. I and began, to* to^implor* the pfotodfaB “Don’t tot him kill me—he will do it he ewore he would kill me, and he Wurin keep Me word, for be ia terrible— F' tarribtor efee said, wildly ; and then, as her cane wandered from face to faea, she alarted to her Met eta recognising Wilhelm! h is. then, yen who knee raved me?” and over- earae with emotion, and perhaps shame nt haring betrayed herself, she covered her evimeoning face with her hands and knot totn teem Mi oome, my child, you are sate Ho one will hart yon ia - my Mrs Forney, wondering the i term i nod to penetrate the raysterv. But this was a far more difficult mat ter than she anticipated, and had not circumstances favored her there is little reason to suppose that sho would have ever overcome Gertrude's obstinate si lence. The girl was, however, completely prostrated by the nervous shock and unable on the next day to leave her room. Mrs. Forney, therefore, felt herself justified in sending for Gertrude's moth er, who came as rapidly as the train could bring her, for she had been quite terrified by Gertrude’s disappearance, and only needed a clew to her where abouts in order to fly to her. An evil 'fate, she seemed to wink, had overtaken her household, for her husband’s son had been drowned the night before, and his dead body had just been brought home a few minutes before she received the telegram from the Forneys. “Albrecht dead!” exclaimed Gertrude, joyously. “Then I am released. My oath binds me no longer. Ah! do not think me heartless, Wilhelm—mother; I am only so overjoyed from the pressure of silent dread now removed. Albrecht was a terrible man. I do think he was not in hia right mind. He loved me, and strove to marry me, and when he knew that I loved Wilhelm his rnge was too fearful. He made me swear a terri ble oath never to marry while he lived, and he swore that he would kill Wil helm if ever I spoke to 1dm qr let him ago me. "Oh, I wae horribly frightened! I oould not resist his rage, his wildness. I was sure he would kin Wilhelm, and that only gave me strength keep my tihfh- Last night he w* In «a fearful t’affe. He threatened a score df times to kin Wilhelm, and w hen at a late hour he left the house I followed him. Hither and thither he led me, trU at lost he took the train that brought us- here; and still I followed, not daring to let him out of my sight Just as we entered this street—he must have found out in •ome way that you lived here, Wit- halm—he turned suddenly and met me face to face close at his heels. He knew BM rad in a moment a knife gleamed above my head. I flew past and fled for my life, but he pursued roe, and gained on me, and then, as I felt the oold steel graze my flesh, I shrieked aloud, ana I mast have fallen in a faint No doubt he thought he had killed me, hut 1 was only terrified out of all sense rad reason." "And it wae to save me that you suf- ' this torture my darling?” William Jepot day morning. Sho had hardly reached the main entrance, accomplished after a terrific struggle witli two sachols and the hand-bag, when she was accosted by a vigorous urchin. “Say, ma’am, don’t ycr want <yer valises packed ?” • “They are packed, sonny,” replied the fat lady, stopping to rest and the perspiration from her face. “Ob, you don’t catch on. I mean don’t yer want me ter carry the grips?” “Well, you are a real good boy. You can carry the sachels and show me where the nortli side cars run.” “Terwentv-tive cents is what it’ll cost yer,” replied the youngster, in a busi ness-like way." “Mercy! What are you going to do with all that money? I’m not rich, lit tle boy.” “it's nearly a mile to dcr north side cars,” responded the youth, with a blush. “I’ll give you 15 cents,” said the plump lady, in a coaxing tone. "That’s alt the change I've got.’ r “I s'iiosc I gutter take that, but ’taint ernuff for two such big fellers as them grips be'*.” After a little more, parleying the boy shouldered the baggage and was soon sailing alongside the fleshy lady down the street. At the corner of Jackson and Clark streets he came to a sudden halt, deposited ids burdens on tlie side walk, ami put his, hands in his pockets. “Are you tired, sonny?" inquired the lady anxiously. "Naw.” “What is the matter? I think you are a bad bov.” “Well’ I’lf toll yer, ma'am. I’m a’ goin’t’ strike on yer fer 20 cents more. An’ I can’t move till 1 gets it, aither.” The fat lady was evidently very much disconcerted. She tried to speak several times, but her tongue failed her. The horriEle youngster took a seat on one of the sachels. “You only wijnt 10 cents more," sho finally said, fumbling in her pocket- book and producing a dime. “You on ly asked 25 cents at first. "Can'^ help dat now,” coolly re sponded the striker, “Tve lost time go in’ out ou dis strike, an’ 1 needs do 10 cents ter git square. You better give in; I kin hold out f rover an’ ever.” He looked as though he could. An other bright new dime came out of the pocket-book, aud as the two pieces of silver jingled in the urchin's band he arose amt grappled with the big dusty sacbi-ls again. "Ycr see, I couldn't ‘rat,’ marm. I’m a uniou rren,” he said, apologetically, as be marched Uow^.tbe street; “an’ when I took der load I seed y - -.* no frien’ of labor; country people never is.”—Chicago Scwi. Increase of IttMtitif)'. 4 —*■ - Tlie stffti-tica of insanity show that, in general, tlie proportion of insane is jrtater in the older States, where the orelgn population is most numerons, and it is less where thtrcnniTmTniries are new, as, for instance, in the pioneer counties of Wisconsin, Tlie Sotlth, whidi baa draw n comparatively little from immigration, suffers from insanity to much less extent than New Kngland and New York: and it is an established fact that the negro race is much less liable to insanity than the white. The average of insanity in New iuigland is JL to every 359 of thepopulatiop; in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 1 to every 424; while in the extheme Southern States the average is only 1 to 935. ThOfcWeflt, like the South, is more free from insanity than the Northern sea board States, the average being 1 to every 610 in the interior States, and 1 to 750 for the Northwestern States. In the far Western States and Territories it is only 1 out of 1,263, they being settled by a picked population, whose energy and soundness make them pioneers. It is noteworthy, however, that insanity is about as freauent in the Pacific States as in New England, the explanation be ing that vice an«I indulgence prevail to an exceptional extent among the popu lation drawn to the Pacific by the mania for gold. The average in Massachu setts, for instance, is f to 84S, in Cali fornia 1 to 345. It is also remarkable that the ratio of insanity decreases as we go west and south of New England, as these averages will show: New En gland, 1 to 359; Middle States, 1 to 424; Interior States, 1 to 610; Northwestern States, l to 750; Southern States, 1 to 629. The State where the proportion is highest is Vermont, 1 to 327; and New Hampshire comes next, with 1 to 329. We are at a loss to understand why in sanity is so frequent in the District of Columbia, the average given being 1 to 189; but perhaps the large average in Vermont and New Hampshire may in part be due to the circumstances that those States receive the refuse of Ca nadian poor-houses, they having a much better organized system of charit able relief than the Dominion cap boas! of; and it is undeniable that some of the very worst of our immigration comes from over the Canadian border. That immigration, too, is now great, and there are factory towns in New England where the population is largely made up of French Canadians.—New York Sun. One of the best-known diamonds in Europe down to the close of the last century was the famous Sancy. As ia the case with all prominent gems of this species, many legends, some of pleasant some of a painful character, arc con nected with it. One legend of the Sancy is thus narrated: The beautiful diamond inventoried as the’ Sancy, and of the weight of 33 12-16 carats, and valued at 1,000,000 francs, was stolen and never recovered. This gem has been associated with the for tunes of the redoubtable Burgundian Charles the Bold, ami its his- warrior, tory has done more to perpetuate his name than the record of all his misdeeds and his desperate battles. To prove, however, that this is the identical gem lost by the Swiss will bo a difficult task, for the antiquaries have unearthed more Sancy diamonds than there were Rich monds in the field. The name of Sancy has, indeed, become famous by em bracing in one story the fortunes of three distinct gems. The erudite King has patiently traced out the traditions connected with the name Sancy, and appears to prove that throe stories in stead of one are included in the history of Baron Sancy. But the stone that was stolen from the French casket ia 1792 is inventoried at the weight of 83 12-16 carats, while the gem that has lately gone back to India, and is sup posed to be the stolen gem, weighs quitc.64 carats. Here is a new mystery for the antiquaries to clear away or did Belattre and ids associates, who made out this inventory with exceeding care, write thirty instead of fifty-three? ^ Leading pigeon-fanciers say that there increased interest in the raising of pigeons, particularly among the ladies, wuo caro*for them at odd n irtv The histories of these diamonds are so interesting that we will attempt to re peat them here, following, in part, the views of King. Not long after the in vention, by Bcrqucn, of diamond-cut ting by the process of abrasion, Charles the Bold, then in the full blaze of mar tial glory, submitted to him three large rough diamonds. The native of Bruges succeeded so well in polishing them that Charles presented him with the princely sum of 3,000 ducats. One of tb(*9e gems Charles gave to Tope Sextus IV., and it was mounted in the tiara, where it is said to remain. The second was presented to ^tiis XL of France; while the third was reserved by the Burgundian hero, and set in grotesque manner to be worn as a personal orna ment. This jewel, of true barbaric de sign, was formed of a triangular shape, with the newly-eut diamond in the center. This diamond was five-eighths of an inch in its widest diameter, and was shaped as a pyramid, with the apex cut into a four-rayed, star in relief. Around the gem was set three largo Balais rubies and four magnificent pearls, each more than half an inch in diameter. One of the Fugger family, in 1555, made a careful drawing of the jewel, with a written description of it, and these were afterward published by :ci“ ir. “Bibliotheca Csrsa- rea;” so there can be no doubt about the appearance of the original diamond of Charles the Bold in its early days. When the duko led his band of free booters into {Switzerland on his long- projected foray, he took most of his 5 ems along with him, not dreaming of isaster, and probably loving to view his treasures even amid the hardships of the sometimes art and nature as more delicate and re fined organizations, and Charles the BoUl anil Souvaroff are not the only examples. The terrific onslaught of the Swiss at Grandson crushed the Burgun dian ranks so quickly that Charles had ottty time to escape with his sword, leaving all his cherished treasures in the hands of # the dauntless moun taineers. “In the sack of the camp which speedily followed the rout, a soldier found the golden box fn which the famous pendant was kept, but regard ing the jewel as a gaudy and worthless bauble, he tossed it away under a wagon and retained the box only. Shortly afterward he began to suspect thatHh* contents of so beautiful a box must have some value, and, returning to the place, he recovered the despised jewel. He did not long after retain his treasure, but sold it to a priest for 1 florin. The priest also did not appear to have a nigh regard for his purchase, for ho dis posed of it to the magistrates of his own canton for 3 francs. When it became known that the Bernese government had possession of the duke’s famous jewels, Jacob Fugger, one of the mem- moments at home and obtain from the sale of the birds considerable pin-money. A resi dent of New Jersey, who is one of the best-known pigeon-fanciers of this coun try, and whose lofts of Hearly five hun dred birds includes some of the hand somest and most valuable in the world, sky s: “Every one of my birds knows me, and whenever I enter the loft they flock around. Most people have the idea that pigeons must ba bred in the dark. This is not tlie case, for it makes them wild. All mine are bred in the light, in glass boxes painted white, about six by eight inches in size, and with hay inside for the nest. A curious fact I have noticed about pigeons is their loyalty to each, last a pair bo once mated anil they will never forsake one another while alive. How long do they live? Twelve years, and keep up their full vigor for that period. We feed them on Canada peas, wheat, cracked corn, and occasionally a little hempsoed. The weight of k pigeon varies from three or four ounces to several pounds. The biggest figure I have heard that was paid for a pair of pigeons in this country was $500. It was given for a pair of carrier pigeons.” “Will you tell me something about the different kinds of pigeons?” Dr. Mo- Cook, a lover of the bird, was asked. "Anyone having owned pigeons of any kind will know what is meant by common pigeons. They are not of any distinct breed or color. There are but very few common pigeons now in which some traces of the higher classes can not lie detected. At the same time 1 believe that were a flock of the so- called common pigeons kept entirely to themselves for a number of years color- markings and other characteristics of the higher classes would entirely disap pear and the birds would be more like ly to resemble in color and shape those they originally came from—the Blue Rocks. Next to a common pigeon, |>er pige st by difficult to breed ami good ones i ? campaign. Rough soldiers -are coranian(1 p r iees. Fiftv dofl imcs as fond of he beautiful in , o( first-clasa birds wduld . dearest?” “4 vu terras, Gsrttafe’ “The Duchess of Edinburgh is said to be more than ordinarily clever and cul tivated,” writes Adam Badeau in tbs last of his papers on aristocracy in En gland. “From those admitted to her intimate society I have heard that she is better informed in politics than many women in Europe in any sphere. She reads the newspapers of all countries, inclodiite those of America; she is ac- a uaintedwith the position of parties in ie United States, knows the names and histoty of our public men, and can dis-. cuss the measures important here with greater facility than many of our own ooantry-women who think themselves well informed. If this is so with re- r rd to democratic America, of course is so with reference to European with refei 8te**s and Uwln" r be era of the celebrated Nuremberg fami ly, went to Berne and negotiated for their purchase. The iambus pendant, together with the duke’s cap, which was made of silk covered with pearls and Balais rubies, and a plume case set with diamonds, pearls, and Balais rubies were bought for the sum of 47,000 francs. Fugger retained tlie pendant in his possession at Nuremberg for many years, indulging in tlie hope, it has been said, that the duke’s great grandson, the Emperor Charles V., would purchase it as a family relic. When the celebrated capitalist died the ornament was still in his possession, but his great-nephew, who inherited the jewel, sold it to Henry VIII. of England. After the death of this monarch his danghtejr presented the diamond |o her brioegroom, and thus, by a remarkable coincidence, and after an absence of seventy-six years, the royal gem was again restored to the rightful heir of its original owner.—St. Louis Qlobc-Dan- ocrat. A large publishing house states that it generally employs as readers men and women of culture who themselves have done literary work; sometimes a lawyer who finds time from his professional duties to give attention to literary pur suits, or a doctor similarly situated, find sometimes a woman of refined educa tion qualified to do the work. When any manuscript on a scientific, medical or special subject is handed in, some re cognized professional man in that par ticular is engaged. Nearly all writers bear a part oLthe expenses of the tint edition; all new writers do. It is a fact not generally known that Longfellow paid within a small amount of the total cost of production of his first volume of poems, and James Russell Lowell paid all the expense of bis first work. Of the 4,080 works published ia oomtiy Irat jura wrau Dovflk haps the best known, at least by name, is the homing Antwerp, which is the carrier pigeon, so called. It is the bird known to make long flights. The fan- tails are special favorites. The white ones are me most common and easiest to breed, hut they arc. also to be had in black, brown, blue, ml and yellow The two hitter are rare, and easily bring from $10 to $3<) a pair. Fans, with fowl feathers, mottled or checker- oil. arc not of much value. No breed of pigeons has so many varieties ami sub varieties as the tumbler pigeons, nor is there a variety so well-known that is as yet so little understood by pigeon-breed ers. Many who own them expect them to perform, whether the birds are given a chance or not. Usually they are kept with a lot of other birds and are flown with them. There are also many tum blers who do not tumble at all. All oi the short-faced varieties are not sup- jiosod to be performers, although I have seen some tumble very well. Pouters are the first selection of many promineut pigcoti-fancicrs, and rarely is this bird entirely abar.-Qnpd for other varieties. A Baltimore citizen who i* an enthusi astic breeder of pouters has at present probably the best birds of that variety in the country. They are somewhat difficult to breed, and good ones always “ars for pair of first-class birds would not be extravagant in this country, and in En- f land perhaps the same birds would ring twice that amount and more. 1 remember that Mr. Schell, of Brooklyn, had one he refused $250 for. They can be had in pure white, black, red, yel low and Isabella.”—N. Y. Mail and Express. Lord DeaconsfleltL Singular Abnormal Growths Obsorrod-A Study la Morbid Anatomy. We think the most careless man has not failed to observe that women have become subject to a curious deformity within the last few years. The matter is a delicate one to discuss, but realW the evil is getting to lie so general that public attention ought to be called to it and methods of counteracting it ought to be considered. We allude to the ugly and abnormal development Inst where the dress begins to set out behind. There is something strange abont this deformity, inasmuch as the victims of it do not seem in any 'n ay ashamed of Jt, nor does it appear to affect their gener al health gmu spirits. Indeed theta is nothing commoner than to meet a pretty creature with smiling tips and sparkling eyes tripping along as gayly and grace fully us Diana on the borders of Euro- tas; and yet when she passes, you ar# shocked to observe an immense hump bobbing up and down on her back witn every movement. The dear afflicted creatures chat with each other cheer fully, go about their shopping with the same conscientious punctuality as of old, and even appear to take pleasure in the society of the male sex; but while admiring their heroic endurance we can not help svmpathizing with their misfortune ami sighing over their de parted grace of form. With feminine skill they have contrived a kind of cloak which is cut uwav at the buck aad has pieces hanging down at each side like the flaps of a saddle, and in such a gar ment the hump )>uts on a jaunty appear ance. and even suggests the |>ossibility that it had been develo|>ed to tit the new- fashioned eloak, but not infrequently, when an old-fashioned clonk or circular is worn, the protuberance is thrust out through the folds of the overflowing clotji Tike a rock among the ripples of a stream, in such cases the effect, if not grand, is at least gloomy and peculiar. If there be any truth in the modern theory of evolution or in the old saying that the back is fitted to the burden, there may lie some punsiee in the devel opment of this curious ntuup. It would certainly afford a flue resting-place for a market basket or a carpet bag, and a baby might be set astride of it with great advantage: but, curiously enough, the women who carry loads off any kind in the street !M“cm scarcely ever afflicted with this deformity, while those who ap pear to be out for no other purpose than to exhibit themselves are the most sadly misshapen. What the character of the growth is wu have had no opiiortunitica to investigate-, but there has been not a little discussion on the subject among the scientists. The opinion long prevailed that the bump is a mere fungoid growth, a cha otic am) incongruous bulk, but there is now good reason to suppose that in majority of raws it is a highly complex organism built up about a regular skele ton, and some* hut resembling in form and action tjic jointed mechanism of lobster's tail. Possibly the hump of this character is a later development and the fungoid growth is a mere survival; but at any rate its existence can not be de nied, as instances have been known in which the hump has Urn squeezed out Of shape in a crowded street-car and rw- mainerl-twisted, distorted and limp as if it were a mere mass o* or old newspapers. The fact that in'sucfc-Cfift- es the woman has been known to atop out of the car unconscious of injury, may bo regarded as positive proof that the hump can not t>c very sensitive or else that it can not be vitafiy connected with the person to whom it is attached rufessor Huxley after a scries of care- eul experiments declared that in twenty- five crises out of twenty-six he foond Germany sent oat 101,667 last year. Ex-King Theetraa’s nominal ] Madras is next door to • F Congressman Springer invariably ap- E ears with a yellow rose in the lapel of is coat - '.itjijgw The thawing breeze that follows the blizzard Is known In the northwest na a “chinook.” The death rate from chloroform is, according to a recent estimate, one in one thousand. > . The average age of those who enter college in this ooan try is seventeen; a century ago it wu fourteen. Mias Sweet says she to happier eat of the Chicago pension office than she wu in it, and ta “making more raaney, too.” Quids rays if the Venns de Medici could be animated into Ufa, women would only remark that her wotot woo Urge. The late Joshna B. Lippineott Waj probably the rioliest of* American ushers. He was a shrewd iaveotor in railroad securities. There are still public Unds open to settlement in nineteen states .rata eight territories at prices ranging from 91.26 to $2.60 per acre. Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, sister ’of Gen. Grant, to lecturing in Mateenho setts under the auspious of the Wc en’s Christian Temperance Union. ' Haller, the scientist, has kept perfumed with a single grata df Dcrgis for forty years, and mere i ipreciable diminution ia the odor. The ear of Weber, the oompoesr. to •aid to have been so sensitive that ha oould tell the diffcreace of a thoaeandth part, or one vibration more or Iras la the thousand. Billy Cook, who to ninety yean did and Uvea at HpcUsyUaara, Va., Uken for bto thud wifa Nellie hae of roller boxwodd. Is ranch -a year a colored woman, twenty-five yeers old. Mr. Cook to also colored. ('rowfoot, chief of the Blinktest, has accepted with thanks a peapetoal para Over the Canadian Paoifle Railroad, and Chief Kahkewaononaby thraatons the Toronto Ulobs with a libel soli As an evidence of the skating an exchange cites that I of which the rollers are made, cheaper now than at thto ago, and it to likely to go Some of the money Northern c>t > by aieetric went to bt v Jersey cattle for Father Hurst's farm, aad now ho to I Georgians an exoaUent quality of I Dr. Salvia, aa Italian surgeon, rap It is always possible to transplant a por tion of muscular tissue from one animal to another, differences of speeira having no effect upon the definite ronlt of the operation. Edison's patents have now 1 numerous that they have a i of index or reference numbers in the patent office—the only enae in which sucb separation from the general index bits been thonght necessary. &*•=— An order for a farm In Washington County, Ind, wu reetfeed by a local rqal estate ageat there from an Ohio maVwtffi wiSt&S, aJ*>r H poesiUe, '“a wife between the agea of tweaty and forty-live years,” to go with the farm. When a fair maid wu wed by Ctdiraal Gough, of the Hussars, in London, the other day, his deep-voiced, hearty *T will,” made the bride jump ao notice smiled. Ba wu » talked ta tona^of ably that ovary man of Man Lord Beaconslield may be fairly called a great man on his own definition of a great man—as “one who affects the minds of his generation, whether ho be a monk in his cloister agitating ChrisL endom or a monarch crossing the Gran- icus and giving a new character to the pagan world." iiord Bcaconsfield cer tainly affected the minds of his genera tion, and the part he chose to play in doing so was more akin to that of Alex anjjer than that of a Jerome or a Mar- thr Lother. Indeed, the difficulties that the young Disraeli had to encounter in his career were scarcely less imposing than those which opposed, but did not retard, the progress of the Macedonian king; nor were the victories of the one less splendid than the triumphs of the other. The young Disraeli began life u a Jew, when to be a Jew meant to be deprived of every social and civil ad vantage that makes a public career worth striving for. The position of a conquered Samnite in a world of Roman citizens was scarcely more galling than the position of a Jew in England in the early part of the present century. He was not, it is true, any longer tortured at the pleasure of prince or noble; he was no longer condemned to dwell in a ghetto or wear garments of a peculiar cut or color; but all, or almost all, chances <>f political promotion were ctos u against him in his adopted coun try. He might amass a fortune; he might win distinction in letters and the arts, but he oould not place hto - foot on the lowest round of the ladder that led to political distinction. These difficul ties did not long restrain and impede the vonng Disraeli. He bad been brought up a Christian. As a Christian he oould enter the parliament, which it was then impossible for a Jew to enter, and once in parliament, he felt that hie career was etear before him and his suc cess certain. But though he never pro fessed the religion of his race, Disraeli never forgot his reverence for that race nor bis love for the people from whom he sprang. In his writings, in hto speeches. In all the action* of hto life he was the champion, and a most S owerful and effective champion, c3 the ewish people. Into the month of hto favorite character, Sidonia, he pots an eloquent tribute to the genius and the glory of the Jewtoh race, which repre sents hto own convictions and the prin ciples which governed him daring the whole of a career that was in iteeu moat eloquent tribute To the feniiu hto people.—''England Under Glad stone," Justin U. McCarthy, Member of ParUamenl. ^ The people of the Congo have no ception of a Godof ray kind, and fhip nothing. They believe In oh ■ cases out that the protuberance was not sensitive I thunder, to a darning neiAile, and yet in every ' instance he was convinced that it wae [ subject to the volition of the wearer. He I atup nothing, is of opinion that as wo can know noth- to keep off all evils.’ They do ing clearly and comprehensively on the Ifeto in sicknera or deotk M natural, subject, it is outside of the sphere of and seek oat the ranee when any tern scientific investigation, and that any I dies or to token ill Manv oeraone ore man who tries to find out why modern thus killed in pantohmeatT and wen it women have this deformity imposed up- not for thto the populace would! on them might better be engaged in I very rapidly. ehamne not W twisting ropes of sand. But the prevailing opinion seems to >e that something ought to be done to retard or modify the unsightly growth. For our own part we confess that our axiety is not confined altogether to the evolution that ha* taken place. If a •ingle hump had been developed within brief period, why may not another flump be added to it in obedience to some curious hump-producing tendency in feminine nature? And a* a result, may it not come to pass thatour women will in time be backed like camels? For the production of such monstrosities it is clear that this is a hustling world.— Rochester Rost-Express. Two Gentlemen. Mine. Adam to rick and dialikee to be disturbed w It to told that one day a her sanctum eaUattrag old for a school. “Put me down for SO frrara” (94). she said, without looking up. “But, mednme,” raid tin other, “think! It to for the higher eduoataon of .girto!” •Twenty francs,” repeated aha, “and now excuse me; I mnet go on with my work.” The canvasser left in despair; but the next day received from Man Adorn a cheek Mr 9LM9. ♦» *. <»■ The qneetion is i the significance o! the display! aft* ol the Government rhyming < (dated & entire flog code mUkmm, A sun of bine tar A encoent ved is i A oreeowt muc h A star of red no el A blue war loeal etod A square of btaek on I AcdMvnvscsertatt “Lord Jostles deck Chambers' Journal, **i words rad of rad. out I saw two gentlemen on a street-oar lately. One of them was grown np. He was handsomely dressed in a gray busi ness suit, and bad very neat kid gloves and fine boots. The other was about 12 years old. His jacket had several patches and needed more, and hto shirt was of Srown cotton and not very clean. Do you wonder how I knew he was a gentleman? I will tell you. The boy went throogh the car to give some message to the driver. A* he ro-i turned, he gave a little jump through the door, and aa he did ao hto bare foot touched the grown’e gentleman’s knee, and left a little mud on it Turning around on tlm'platform, he raised h5 straw hat and said very politely, in a clear tone, “Please excuse me.” - Theta the other gentleman bowed in hto turn, i . . just as he would have done to one oi hto] « own age, and said with a pleasant' smile, “Certainly.” looking ^oa just day after 1 i’e eonttoural i BfA tt! the No less than 926,000 hae been epent] by the German Government in boring a hale. Thto costly hole was maf Bchladebock, near Lei pete, and mode with diamond dzilla to the, of 4,660 feet—the deepest done. The object woe to i timate of coal deooslte i Senator 8a the richest ate, usually goia^to an lawyer, and sin I Canal has 109.0001 whom 16.000 l ta