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VOL.XU!, IRONY FATE; v. phe Bai*l to bfrn “Gor and b« W» nt To wtn for bee fortune tyxl fame. And the laltor of Ion* years was spen^ _ Ere the covt^ted ooinp^tonce came, fie returned, fliletj with low and with pride, To the home of his youth quickly «*pod. But tbe dream of his (ifa wai denied— Hto bride to another was a A po<*t bad strtJKgled aloujt * Through a life tline of Korcowful years, B*it the busy world heard not his soc#, little twiohed at the sight of his tears. Pe sought to win the world's praise. While his heavy heart hungennl for bread |t came; but the chaplet of bays V\ as placed on the brow of tlie dead. r -tVrscei* B. Doherty In Upston Transcript A WILD RIDE. In a saloon in Dcnvey ono evening pot long since seven*! men wcrcgni^- eredwho were sipping various liinds f>f liquids, smoking cigars and pipes -7^' and telling stories. TOne of them was a swarthy man of some 35 years of age. who sat with his feel, in Jtnge' pnioor s btx)ts, resting on an adjoining table. He wore a large brimmed black )iat, and sat with closed eyes, as if pslcep or it; profound thought. 4 story had just been finished, and there only remained the dark nian *vho had not l>een heard from. Some one suggested that lodgings must l>e paid fur in advance, and then a young fellow went over and slapped the ap • parent sleei>er, and asked what time jic would like to be etdied for -break fast, and whether he had not besttafce rtrdrnrfhet for ft^ur of catching cold. . 7'no man took down his feet, pus lied Jiis hat on 'the back of his head, and # ■581x1 he had not been asleep. “Then give us a story. It’s your ,um. H > “All right, boys." And then ho told them what fol- j owgl In 1890 I was irr Deirver and wished fo go .b»»«*k to Iy»adville, where I had ffttnc claims. — At that time there were ^\vo ways of getting to that p*int from this place. ()ne was to lak#lhe rail- «vray from here to Buena Vista and the Mage up .the Arkansas river. The trtber was the stage from I^euver across the mountain*. 1 had generally g«ma to licadvillu by tl»e river road, and for /[he sake of ninety I concluded to bike llhe all stage route. We were otf at daylight, one of my Acquaintances calling out to me as we started: “Good-by, old man ; 1 11 never , fcee you again. ,< “Not Why ?" % “Xou’ll lie smashed up so that even line toothed comb won’t collect the •plf'CCS. ” With this ominous good-by we rolhsl away. Tlie nvudi was one of the old AVmconl |>atter*i, and almost ;is large as Noah's ark. It was swung on hmtb- ern binges, so arranged that H was ca(iable of every couceivahlc form of motion. It would lurch, ditch, roll like a ship in the trough of the waves; it would rear, kick and buck like a mustang, and had the aolid jolt of a dromeuaH^. Uke-all the other coaches usq-J for parrying passengers over the inoun- ^lins, it had a nitsdianicul attachment .vrithin the easy control of the driver (by which he could in au instant detach you want *) shoot at Uie. dog fori \\ T hat liarm has he done you?** The young man, very much abashed, iputtered somethingabout “only want ing to hava a littlo fun and scare the dog, 11 and sheepishly returned his pis tol |o |ii$ pocket. The little Incident had the effect to raise the driver in my estimation, and the favorable impres sion was further heightened when the l^nglisman offered him a drink froin a flask of whisky, which he refused in a gruff manner. The second morning we readied the summit Pf the pass. The road was steep, difficult, and in places very dangerous. The driver seemed al- ways cool, and began to exact the con- ddeiK?e of the jiassengers. It was not quite light when we reached the divide' and began the de scent on the further* side. The pass was scarcely a pass in any proper sense of the term. It was simply a broken, ragged hollow, which cut through the ridge at an elevation many thousands of feet alnlve the level of the sea. The shadows of night were just sinking from the mountain tojis, and the scene was one of grand eur. Above us, to the left, rose a single peak, clad in snow, and which, catch- ing the earlier rays from the eastern horizon, stood in the clear atmosphere clean cut, massive, and glittering with a resplendent opalescence. Just below us extended a cloud formed stdfrtark wifh the shadows of night, which was as level us a floor and which extended to the distant horizon. • The myself for the leap tbe moment oppor tunity offered. Just then the driver rose to his feet His long whip described 4 sttift circle and fell across the backs of the leaders. They sprang forward like a shot from a cannon, dragging the Wheel horses from contact Vlth the coach. As the lash struck the leaders the driver tight ened the reins and gave a yell of en couragement to his team, and then,' leaning far back, guided them with taut lines directly down the narrow road! The four horses at once leaped into a wild run, and tbeu.I compre hended that he was undertaking to keep in the road instead of abandon ing the couch to its fate.— ^ It was not a f ull second from the giv- ing way of the brakes till we were shooting down the steep incline with the swiftness and momentum of a thunderbolt. Tire broad sombrero of 1 the driver was'snatched away bv the 1 wind and his long hair tossed oh the air like the mane of a r u n a way. horse, j How I saw this detail and others 1 know not. What passed was like the hideous visions of a nightmare. I felt 1 nothing; I saw objects near me and in the distance which rushed hy, inter mingled moving wheel CONDITIONS UNDER WHIQH A MAN* HOUSE IS HIS CASTL6. - The Imaginary Wall by Which Fiction Surroiiudn a Jlcaidcnce—Cur|<»ui« Caftri* Have Arisen IlcKnrding tho Mean ing of the Word “Entry.’- It is ;r principle well settled that the law does not regard trifles, and yet when' it is a question of an officer’t entering a dwelling to seryg a civil ])nxess it does trouble itself aloiit vcr>* small things. For every man’s houae is his castle. Though it be of thatched straw, and though the wind may whistle tluough it,' and Uie ratmtiay ehler. yet tlie king can not. So the rule was laid down by Sir Edward Coke. * But manV curl ops cases have ari-en re 1 like the spokes_of a swift eel. My most sa)icnt~rec- ollections are the long liair fluttering - about my face, and the horses, which did not seem to be four in nurnlier, garding the meaning of the word “entry” and what constitutes a wrongful entry. It h;w long lx<en settled that the officer may not break opon the outer door to enter, but if the enter door l>e open he may break down an inner d<xir. . So, also, the question has arisen wheth er it is a breaking in to open the outer door by lifting the latch or drawing hack a sliding'bar in the ordinary way in winch persons entering a house open a dour.—In England it is held that michun entry is lawful and not a hreft king into the castle. In the United States, however, the ! but with trouble. Motw Any l>ag Can Taught Roma Trick amt IIo*ll Never FiStgel It. Professor Burton, who has a {roupe of clever dogs, jg an old circus man. Ho us<h1 to bo ,tam bier |ty iho ring. There comes a day in the life of every circus tumbler'when he must quit the business and go into sometliing else. Bdrton went tp.trainingjdqgs. Ho has b»*©n ^ith’ ^vemT cornrHihieH, but is now on his 0W11 ho6k. lie hud a val uable troupe of dogs once in New York, but somebody poisoned them. The professor’s pre.^ent family ol dogs consists of Italian greyhounds, German poodles; a Russian ikxkIIo, n Russian sjiaiiiel, a liver-and-white spaniel, a spitz, a black dog that does the somerset act, ami several others. — ‘*Therc is no dog,” said the profes sor, “which can’t bo taught a trick of some sort. Of course there are some dogs that learn quicker than others, “and more tricks. I am always asked how l teach dogs these tricks. Well, there is no-trick about it that I evef knew. It takes, patience and judg ment and kindness. I seldom use the whip, and never in giving instructions. In fact, I have' btlia flying, solid mass of white driven ocean, like g pn-JrtxL frain the front of*a powerful steamer. ^ .♦ 1 , . , ,, , ^ , t 1 latch or pushing open a closed butun- fur as 1 can recall there was no won! > . j 1 . . fasteard door, or any entr>’ whatever right of immunity in one’s own house is more’jealously guarded, and such an en try is considered -a breaking in mid is therefore unlawful. The raising of a to be very cautious. The oilier day two of my family got into a squabble. I separated them. In doing sol had •q? th uttered after the shout of the driver, high peak, with its brightness, seemed^ Within and without the couch a par alysis possessed all. The only sound was the tierce pounding of the iron kuuiimn of the -of rocked, like a temjics.t tflpaad.Vaaael. On neither ilfte did anything take definite shape. W<? moved, as it were, lie tween two great walls of darkness.- somewhat, as are s£eu in a swift rail way train when passing through 11 narrow gorge. There was no differ a huge dome of light, as if a great lamp to illuminate the cloud laud be low. As we dVsoenJed we entered the ocean of clouds^wlikli way 1 from us, making it seem as if we j were dropping down into an enormous well. Through the walls of this cloud shaft we could see distorted objects; pines assumed, fantastic shapes, and great fragments of fallen rocks l»e- camc hideous monsters ready to spring on os oifcof the void. The rompuM- j ence between tho wall of rock on one tmn of this ocean wa^ something won- side and the abyss on the netful. It was of two colors ^ fleecy | continue*! stundin white and a blue. These two were not intermingled except In large ma-mes; tliero was clearly a defined stratum of one, and then the other overlying it. They Hero like facia? of the blue and white, all exhibiting a superb .-4nation. Suddenly we psjped through the eloud masses, which left oimui the view belmr. The hollow in which we which lias no relation to tho license ex- pn , es or implied, is luilawfnl. Likewise in Tlie ch«h of a window. If it to cut one of them with the whip. 1 Tlait fellow is henrtbrokfui. He has had the sullmyvor since. Ho won’t eat and he won’t act: I’ve got to send hun away f<rr n few' days. ^ „ “A dog should bo at least a year old l*}forc lraining. I select different training. _ breeds for ditlercnt acts. The grey- be found oi>en the officer may come in, uimnd is a natural lea per. The spaniel Um rockfaeed road, the roar and ifTt Tie ftWind to some extent open It he wheels and tho frantic creaking f may thr*leutiiem * sprinted Wiacli as il j 1^1 is a trickster. Tlie spit* is the do\m7 y for this pnigy^o l>e ()j)onixl turtl^r; ^JIUlLhUw.k Aiit&m ilia ihisAk-AAd ten owe l sii eh try may notlie inade by break- —is the acrobat. Stiulytug ChrmlHtnr mid Trying tv Coa- strnrt u 8«lf Sharpening Pencil. , Ap intersling pamphlet on “Crimin als,” prepared by Dr. Charles D. Baw- in, for five years physician at the Massachusetts state prison, contains authoritative statements coheerniug J esse Pomeroy. Dr. 8a wi n say s: “The public estimate of his char acter, as revealed in the newspaper ap- countsof his actions in prison, U wim- out justification in fact. Tlie expres sions, ‘the boy fiend, ’ ‘Ileiid incarnate,’ however applicable they may have been to a former state, aio unwarrant able at the present time. The various stories circulated about his ‘torturing a cat,’ ‘cutting up mice and rats,’ are circumstances of Pomeroy’s con viptipit and oLiho expert opitndus gi ven as to his sanity at his triaj foruie mtirdcr of a boy 4 years and 3 months old, and then adds; “Pomeroy entered thp prison, his sentence having l>eefT commuted—to^ t**m the Dead by the EgyptlMH. ‘ A ipackagoof peas was once found in 4 fold of the wrappings of an Egyp tian mummy, where it had lain undis- turlied 3,()00y*ears. The peas were at once soaked in tepid water and after wards planted. They soon germinated, grew finely, and produced a good crop. It tfiil bo remembered that various times kernels of wheat miTe been found in the wrapping cloths of mummies, w hich, on being planted; have grawn and flourished finely. The above facts teach us a very in- torstiiig lesson regarding the Egyp tians of the years far, far back; |t » "ttrix; Their religion taught them tq provide for the continuance of the absolutely without foundation.” r r -- Dr. Saw’in gives-a sumumry of the fruits of the earth in remote times, 1Y . ’• -• ' * el.^.4 aU^ 1.1 • „# /"i began to desceiHl hud sunk rapidly to tewstd ip n on the other. 1 , clinging to the i [ stanchions w;ith h deadly clasp, poa | j sesacd hy a vague impression that a I jump must be made at some approach ing crisis. I have an indistinct im pression that the woman in the driv er's sent had both her arms about the waist of the Englishman, and that Tie j stood with his face to tho wall to the { left, and clung to the railing of the seat, like a drowning man to a storm i a fathomless ravine, and we were seen to bo crawling a narrow shelf blasted ! out from the side of the. mountain, j and which was but a few inches wider \ than the s{>acc n*quirod for the wheels I of the coach. Wo were between what seemed two . parallel mountains. 1 ' glanced up; it was like looking out of a deep slit in the earth. I looked down to the right, iuYfl withdrew my eyes j with a dizzy foeliug-of horror. It was on the very edge of a precipice that wc were moving, and so close was its ouU*r islge that it seemed as if with my extended hand J could have \ dropped a pebble directly into the £ he tiorscM from the coach. It was to j abyss. In the momentary look 1 had caught Aight of pines so fur down that they seemed like hot house plants strewp along the walls of the chasm. Not a* sound was hoard save tb< v querulous creaking of the leathern hinges and springs of the coach, ami XLceu wereU-Uie dulL. graliny-x»4- »h» brrrkrxTnr flfn' »esid«-s the ! wheels. Even though the latter wen* used to save the team in case the ^vehicle toppled. There were three seats inride, each of which had three pepnb*, w ho were •o closely packed that in case qf an « [r»uru there was no extrication, but !n.iu*L gu ovor, .aAone, o seats on tl^P top ,1 nH*all that we seemed scarcely to touclAthe gnxind; that we flew; tlmt our moyemeut w as one of vast Irakis, in which we struck tho ground with a resounding clash like a vessel in a storm when its bow is met by a wave mg a pane or pushing In or raising a window Which is closed but not fastened, even though it be hung on pulleys; nor, for a stronger reaaou, when thu window is fastenM by a hasp. The fiction underlying all those de cisions is that if a man done his door* and windows tlie law surrounds hie home with an imaginary wall as safe for prac tical puriKwcs as that of a medueval castle. — e ' Eircutiona In ShallTfm«. In old London, whenever setitence of' death by hanging was pronounced (for there were many other dmth itennltira lierido, some nmat bletnl curdlingly dreadful), tlie place of exe^urion was an , oi*en field, Tyburn, where dftorderly ' raaswH asserablcsl in tens of thousands on hangman’s day. Macaulay declaree! that at tho execution of Jonathan Wild the si>octutors imuilx red no less than two hundred thousand. It was a fete occasion. L.dx >r wae suspended os much »« on any holiday. * Upon the gallows, then more particu larly known as the Tyburn tree (a thing of many UiuIm), the corpses of tnalcfac Tlie air .pushed against my face as I toTh wt,re K»*«erally kept dangling in a 1 • 1 row. ^xiMisi'd for nuinthM driver's, all of whieh were fillcul, mak- jng A total of eighteen, including the man who held the reins ovgr the four horse team. I occupied* the seat be hind the driver and on the right hand ^ide. In the front seat were an Eng lishman and a young woman; he an .agent of some English, capitalists to inspect some mines, and she a variety Actress—a* I- afterward learned—go ing to Leadville to secure an engage ment The driver is always the most Im portant feature.of the outfit. The one who had charge of us was a mere boy in appearance, not apparently more .than 20 years of ago. He wus rather alender, very blonde as to his hair, and smoothly shaved save as to a mustache, milky in its whiteness. He more an .immense sombrero with # a round top, and his hair was so long that the ends lay on his shoulders. I studied him with curiosity and something of anxiety. Ho seemed to mb to be very young for the responsi ble duty of holding tho ribbons over four horses on a route that is regarded as the most difficult and dangerous m itbe Rockies. J fpund that this wag bis second trip on this line, and that * before coming here he had been .driv ing in the Ban Luis Valley. This was aiot in his favor, as the valley is al- niqst a dead level and affords no train ing for mountain driving. * He was very reticent, unlike the average driver, and hence the passen- jjers did not take to him. We tried to establish social relations with him, but be would only .reply in surly mono syllables. He spoke only once to the extent of moee^Uan one or two words. ^Ve were passing a shanty on a bit qt * tableland,,besufe which stood a dog t fegarding us with g friendly glance and exhibiting his satisfaction by wag- ipng lris taiL * '* |||Hctenly from tho seat behind me a y^Prwis heard r **^ay, drivejr^will your horses scare?” The driver as well as the rest looked ^pjouiid and saw a young man holding t a revolver, pointed in the direction the dog. ••Pul up 4hat gun, you fool!” tho blonde driver. “What do so fastened that the hind wheels no longer revolvcnl, they were not suf ficient to control t!;e speed; held hy a grasp of iron, the wheel horses were almost on their haunches, and were tugging at their |>ole straps till they ,wei*e apparently about rio 4>o carried from their feet. I glanced along the road in our front with the ho]*> that there might be some visible termina tion of the appalling situation. At this moment we entered on a com paratively straight line of road, which appeared to run till it was cut off a long distance down by a*spur qf the mountain that extended across the track, and at which tho road seemed to ^nd. We'were descending at an angle of not loss than 30 degrees, and at each step it seemed as if the horses would he carried off their feet by the tremendous pressure of the coach. The wheels at one instant would sink- into the soft wash from tho mountain side, and the next strike a detached frag ment of rock, sending the vehicle now to tho walls up the left, then over to tho right, till tho abyss yawned bo- nurih me like thtf ravenous jaws of heR: We bad descended a .short distance down this straight piece of road when, in the midst of a lurch from which' there seemed no |K>ssible recovery, there rang out a kl^rp crack like a musket shot. There was a sudden ces sation of tho grinding noise on the brake, the heavy coach plunged for ward like an avalanche, tboro was a fierce confusion, a platter of wbiffle- trees as the stage appeared about to roll over the horses, and then came the conviction, like a blinding flash, that the brakes had given away 1 ^ ‘Xrod in henveuj Jump!”' was* shrieked by some one behind me. Then I rose to my feet as I waited for tho driver’ to detach tho plunging mass of horses from the stage, and stoOd.rpady to spring wheii the way was clear. For tbe ipiBioqik part of a s^coud my attention vyas distracted by cries from the passengers within the coaeb, who were howling and ‘ShrfeVintT Hker madmen, and then* I recalled my own danger as I clung with difficulty to the seat and braced if it weto some demoniacal energy trying to wrench me from the coach. All tho time, in my hazy consciousness, the rock which 1 had noticed in the distance, lying apparently across the road, was impending death. I felt it was the fate which menaced us; it was a black wall against which wo would break, and then—annihilation. I have no notion of the time; it might have been a second, it might have been a century, for aught that 1 comprehended during our descent 1 can only recall that \re went rocking, thundering down the steep grade, and then—unconsciousncK-e f ^ in ‘re thedark man stopped Ins nar ration as if there were memore to say. “You weren't killed, evidently,” said one of the listeners. “Whot else hap |jciied/'’ “Nothing much. When I came to myself wo were in front of a'rancTT used for a station. The coach was stopjHid and st^veral men were runni-ng toward us from the stables. Tho road along the precipice widened into a broad, level space. The four white horses stood, with di'oqping heads, in front of the coach," and were hardly visible through the dense ehmd of steam which rose from their heaving bodies. The*driver was sitting in his seat, his elbows on his knees, his chin resting on his hands, and himself as impassive as if cut in marble.” “How about that rock you were go inr ip smash up against? that’s whati Fd like to know.” “That’s what I’d like to know my ■self,” replied the dark man. “I be lieve, however, that just where wc rounded the rock there was a deep im pression in the road on the side next to tho wall, and it ivas the dip of the wheels in this Lullcw which pravented the j:pacTi swinging outward so that, as Jt righted, wo had passed in the open place just a few feet from the gulch. It was the tremendous shock as the wheels plunged into the depres sion and tlie thought we had struck the rock and I was killed which .made me insensible.” “An y bod y -hurt ?”' — k ^' T “Not even a hair of one of our heads. The driver Janded us in as good a con ditionals we ai-e at this minute in'this room. We made up a purse for Jiim on the spot of $500, and the company made him' a present of $1,000 more. That’s all. I’m off. Good night.”— CUjcago Herald. Look Out for Culur. * “ Experiments with English cavalry horses show that gray .or dun colored animals are the most easily frightened. The blacks are the most obstinate, the chestnuts the most enduring, and tho hays have the most intelligence and do the most reasoning. These Jaois probably hold good, the world over and araa guide to purchasers.—De troit Free Pres*. . - — row, expofled for months to - the jatnes* play of the elements, swayim? hither Aid thither, while daws Ikjcked in great black clouds to peck at every expoM*d morsel of carrion (men the wretchetl things hud erased to be, mainly dying “without lienefit of clergy"). Tho gar ments of tlie dangling objects, torn to fa<W sIuxmIh, flapjKHl moI snapped spec- tra-diaLilienilly with every gust, while tho air around was rank with tho pene trating stench of putrefaction. Tlio sight was grew’some, kept thus obtrusive to every eye and diRusting to every nostril, until each juxir coiq*^' lit- erally blew to.pMH'efe—mdely fq. terrorize “Under ordinary circuniKtanccs tho average dog will leara lustrjc^ fij flyt) weeks. Then the teat oomeii when ho gejos chi the stage the first tilno. Talk about p»*opl^ having stage fright! I've known dogs when brought on the stage for the first time nuiko a break and run away and tremble like a frightened child. When they get usc’d to it, though, they like the stage, mid the mure applause'Uiey get the better they act. You may- think that is stretching it, but it is a fact that trick dogs do-better if they are applauded, ' and this is especially true if the ap . pUitMc comes from children, j “Tlicae trick dog* know tlieir place* j on tho stage and take their cue from my looks. They are aa eager for tlie show to U’gin asthildrnn arc eager for play. This, 1 Uiink, is Instinct, for anybody could go on the stage with them if lie knew the words to.speak and the motioiui to make, and thedogs N-ouId go through tlie same pro- grarmueThcy go through with me. “I keep them in cages after the show. Every morning at 9:30 I take them out for exercise. They arc fed twice a day—in the morning and after tho show at night. This troupe con sumes about iiflkcn loaves of bread and a large size market basket of cooked meat eyery day. “They never forget a trick. I laid off some months ago mid sent thedogs to tho country. I laid a vacation of several weeks—me and the dog*. When I returned to thqultago with them they went through every part without u.breaR. There is good feel ing between the members of the pres ent family. They arc healthy and nil (.■ra)i l 8. ai.J w.irn tli^m in <)ninli l»u-f Thm - ( a lot.”—iJliicago Tribune. gmtgf*'oTThT;' pTui : nt>*t * kiud that the primordial diflomnce lietweeu mgum and Imun was a most important matter, must l>ide.world without end and l*? respected always accordingly; that jK-rsons must neither kill nor steal (over “the value of a shilling"); that there must be total abstinence, too, from much else likewise more or less morally rvprthen- feible or statutorily inhibited throughout the unfortunate England of Shakspeai?, if Englishmen loved life.—London Law Journal. A “nine Lew” of OM Time*. In view of the large number of breach of promise cases which have been brought of late years the following extract from an old statute of New Jersey, jiassed in colonial times and, it is said, still nnre- pealod, which shows how our forefathers viewed this question, is of interest: “That all women, of whatever age, rank, profession or degree, whether vir gins, maids or widows, who shall after this r.ct impose ujK>n, seduce or betray into matrimony any of his majesty’s sul>- jecta by virtue of scents, cosmetics, wivshea, paints, artificial teeth, false hair or high heeled shoes, shall incur the j>en- alty of the law now in force against witchcraft and like misdemeanors.” H.iril «>n the Twelve^ Rome years ago Hon. Henry W. Pain© defended a man in a capital case which was tried in tho state of Maine. Tho de fense was insanity, which was clearly proved to tho satisfaction of the court ml of one else except tha i u *T» tmo gritlo the backbone, and protest- VH., to ta. -rtonldimeot of uU, brougl^-^ a > imt ^ you 11 a verdict of “guilty After receiving the verdict, the pre- liding juflge .iskcnl Mr. Peine if ho hod .any motion to mKke. ■ -r- ' “Not at present, yonr honor, 1 ’ he re plied; “my client haa had his* constitu tional rights; he has.been trie<l by a jury of his peers.” The verdict was afterwards set aside. “Caith,” “Net CmIi” mid .“Prompt A bill marked “cash” leaves it in un certainty: whether it is tojbe paid im mediately and whether or not a discount f.fe to be made. “Net cash" dispones of the queation of discount, and “Promirt cash” disposes r f the queeticu a? to when the .bill acie. 4?y ordinary business custom cash Mils may run as long as thirty days. Tlie only way to insure prompt payment is to bill the. goods "C O. P.” or “Proiai* Cash.” Tlie C ni*«> for Odd Leather. A4J extensive leather dealer of Lon don, traveling iii this country, says that never before was there such a craze in^ London for queer leather us at the pVesent {line. Ho adds: “All kinds of skins, from elephant’s to frog’s, are proved into service to meet (he demands of the fashionable. Some of our shops are stftckcd with a supply of.fancy articles that arc maffe from the skins of all sorts of beasts, reptiles aful fishes. These queer objects are displayed in the windows, inhere their appearance attracts wonderinjjcrowds. Made up into various articles are yel low iR’licau skins, lion and panther skins, buffaldskins, fish skins, monkey skins, snake skins, and the coverings of almost every living tiling known. They are tanned and sometimes color ed with blne,.4p ay oreyd. 1 think it looks hidepus to see a pretty English girl walking along the streets winging a portemonnaic made of tho scaly hide of a l>oa constrictor. ‘But it’s fash ion s order, you kno,w.”— Exchange. Preferred Uiit Own Importittlon. Ck>l. Reynolds vv^s•wounded. His thigh was shattered by a ball, and af ter a grave and protracted lion the surgeons informed the brave Irishman that hisjeg must bo ampu tated in order to save his life. He was solitary imprisonment for life. Sept. 9, 1877, when lie war 17 years did. Dur ing a |H>rtiou of his term he has-been permitted many privilgge* and diver sions, snch as reading and painting. At one time lie evinced a strong desire to improve his mind, and he tsudied French, German and Latin. His knowledge of the languit^es is, how ever, only a mattering iMfc. lutir he lias taken a special liking to chem istry, and a slight spark of inventive genius 1ms been manifested in his en deavors to Construct a hollow self rimrpciimg lead pencir, itj 'wfitch he takes great pride. His paintings are ix> wi ly*W4»rih-adm ir i rig." but" htTtOfSkk upon them as works of art, this fact demonstrating to tho observer that his standard is not very high. _ “Without doubt his intellect and moral sense must liave improved to a i^rtain degree, since he has not been associated with other prisoners, -and ho hasn’t passed through any stage of ‘devolution.’ His first punishment in prison was four and a half day,* in a dark cell on Nov. 9, 1877, for ‘trying to escape, digging cement out of a cell.' On the average ho has received six and one-half days' punishment eucl; year, in most cases for tampering with his Cell structure in attempting to escajm. He on one occasion was punished for ‘insolence to an officer;’ once ‘for Hi fusing to olicy au order,’ and once ‘for writing an insolent IctteV to the war den.’ Not very serious offenses these. He has never exhibited his former love to torture ut any time during’ his incar ceration in prison, which seems rather strange were he insane at the time of the murder. Ho is remarkably cun ning, clever and quick to see thu drift of any conversation, logicoTand clear in Understanding, but notably self willed and persistent. His bodily health haa been remarkably good, eat ing and sleeping well, seldom com plaining of hi* diet, and never asking for favors of extra rations. “In a recent interview he stated that ho thought his memory was vary good in regard to some occurrences; as, for instance, his lifo itVj&il and his first four years in prison, hut ho hod no rec ollection'of ever inocting Dr. Folsom, and only an indistinct remembrance of his trial." ' ^ A #<M»*^ria»*rnjr, — ' r Oae day, when-off the snrngc island of MalaiU of lhe Solomon gnmp, Mr. Woodford and otiiers, under the pro tecthm of sentries, went to liathe in n pool. While in tho water he saw a huge butterfly coming slowly along tho beach, and,-hurrying out ns he was, he seized his net, (Joshed off, fell over stones, rose again, and just in time to catch the fly. What u picluro! “1 leave it to any ardent cntonmlo gist," he says, “to inuigine my feel ings.” Ho had “redileovered the long loft Ornitliopte/a Victora*,” and why should he not ff'el like AJexaiider on tl>c Granicus or‘f launihal at Caumc? these “bird winged” butterflies are some nine iqelies across the wings.,. One is blue with a yellow body, ati other is velvety black and metallic green. They excel in size, hut other kinds''wear equally magnificent rai merit, a^d make the glorious forest beautiful. Spectator. - ou cure the’ leg?”' ho pleaded. The sur \ geidjis shook their heads, and one of 'them informed him lhat“it would not be so bad after all, as he could wear a cork leg. “It’s a Cork leg t have now,” he replied, with a griiu smilp, “apd I think a great deal of it because I imported il myself—I imported it from Ireland.”—Chicago Herald. 4. ' 1 ' Once In m While. When a judge tells a prisoner that he ‘ha* been tried by a jury of his peers, ho may be correct, but tho lances are, with the jury.Ry*tciu~x^n. the way jt is, that-the average prisoner lias more'sense and Inteliigancelhaa the average man sitting on his case. l .Ie has got td~beTa mighty poor man who is thp peer of a juror.—Detroit Free I'rpsg. — Cloiuts an<! Tlieir Ifeliehtn. • For practical purjibsesclouds are di vided into four classes—cumulus, stratus, cirrus and nimbus. Meteorolo gists, however, recognize mapy differ ences of form in each class. Amber oroiobie gives tbese ten principal vari dies, with their rpeati height in sum nrer at Upsala, Sweden: Cirrus (pure y chnid), 27,OOP feet; cirro stratus (thin r high, wispy or strutted sheet cloud of all sorts), 27,600 feet; cirro cumulus (fleecy cloud at high level), •20,000 feet; strato-cirrus (a similar cloud to the cirro-stratus, but at a low level), 12,000 feet; stralo cumulus (extended Jumpy cloud), 6,000 feet; cumulus (pure rocky cloud), 4,000 feet at base; cumulo-nimbus (rocky rain cloiujy, 4,000 feet at base; nimbus (low ruin cloud), 4,®§0 feet; stratus (puce sheet clcud), 1,900 feet.—New- Telegram. ‘ 'T ~ -m.., „ n .i,, ' , A Pblyphonle Oirgmm- A grand organ is being built Crema for the sanctuary of Valle di Pompei. It is called a gan. The chief instrument' is. tha which it whole strings and keybuortU, ais so that the blessings of God might l>e made “manifest to man as well through the bounties of nature as in the growth of tho spirit And thud they made use of death for tltc trans mission of the germs of life to ages in thu inculculahlo future, for they knew that the repose of thed«ad sac ret} among the pv^nle of the passing gen erations, and that only chance and natural changes and causes would re- md their good wo/-ks—reproducing for other*, perhaps Ut a time when tlie need would be greatest, thorn life giv ing plants whose benefits they had enjoyed.”" • . . . IHhe ggyptUin» ~faoficj6<} t)ie dead with costly bum)*, they took care that life should have tlie benefit of death m somelliing more durable than monuinenul stone and the fulaom^ in'** of eulogy. How much nobler. V how mtich higher, Uie economic moral- * "Hy tff ehii Jtian th® fntrr custom of placing marble memorials over or be side the dead, and inscribing, upon thorn, not always tlie true character of tjie occupant of the tomb, but a! su^ posititious one which wealth could purchase— perhaps a lie to the genera tion then passing onward, and only % description of tliat which should come after. Tho Egyptian priests tried their dead, in solemn court and oik! with an inipoKiug ceremonial, pud they gav4 honorable burial only to those who hud been honorable in tlioir lives/ Why may we not believe tliat those dead in whose custody were left seeds for the reproduction of fruit in after ages were persons of peculiar sanctity , of li vie or distinguished by the noblest virtues? We may venture to suppose .that these (Tiings were confided to tlieir ghostly keeping so that the blessings of tbe iuherifauce might bo m: guifiod thus. ’ ‘ ‘ The world is oyepy dar learning by s’ptrply presented coiilmku to fhspecl more And more higlily tlie wisdom and religion of tlicMe mighty men of Egypt whose histories ihey have so carefully hamlUl down to ua. Tlieir monoliths and tablets, thus inscribed, now thou-', sands of years old, if left where they belong, under tlie burning heaven of (Tifc eftat, and enveloped, by a pure, clear atmosphere, will be fir*;h, 00m- imratively, as though newly hewn when our shafts and memories shall have crumbled into dust, (*ir Vookf become mildewed and worm eaten and the memories of our honorably dead shall bo )>erpetuated only 111 other and perhai>* inaccurate histories.— .fames )C Stewart iq ^Yttshingtou rusL", •• ~vT* r:.. '-W A Fluti That A Chine.su fish constructs a nest, not of grass or seaweed, but of frothy se- cretioiis._ The male prepares bubbles in tho air by sucking them in and strengthening them with mucous mat ter from his mouth. Then he brings them into the water, and expels them p) construct n nest. The female euterft this cavity, and lays her eggs there. The eggs sink to the bothsn of tlie water, and the male is thou obligdH to raise |bem into tho nest. He appears to be unable to carry them «i .his mouth, so he swallows a largo sfipply of air, descends beneath the eggs, and violently expels the air accuinmulaied. Thisair.fiiiely divided by tbe fringes of thu gilfs, escapes in the form of twq jets of gaswous |>owder, which euvelcm the eggs and raise them to the surface. •—Youth’s Cooa ^:iion. ~ ... it * * r dilckeiiM for A«pM. New England enjoys ;\n export trade with Jaixrn in cocks and hens. 1 learn that a Boston fancier, noted for the excellence of his Hamburgs^ has sent several cdisigmnents of tlicm to this far away hind, the birds making the journey by way of. California, and casting the about $10 apiece. Their beauty, it seems, is the quality which appeals to the .Oriental Imagina tion.—Boston Post ‘ r' ■>. i,*ii, . Cofftljr N»ral Warfare. Tlie figures given for thdeost of 1 ing the great ordnance led to • lation that the Beubow, which iwo llUton gbhs ^id arras, would in, two ordinary meuts use tip guns and to the value of naval en mow