&. .<- * ' ' ' ? ____________ The City ot Mexico is progressing rapidly and putting on tlio best habiliments of modern civilization. It is projecting the best sanitary system on tho continent, and will soon be illuminated from centre to suburb with tho electric light. Philadelphia florists have adopted the Parisian conceit of printing inscriptions ion the petals of roses. A tender sentiment inscribed on a rose leaf in a boquet is supposed to bo more effective than any other form of floral language. The rosa may wither, but the inscription on tha faded leaf can still be read. The drink bill of Great Britain for 1885 was less than that for 1884. The amount of this drink bill is equal to the nation's expenditure for bread, butter and cheese, is not much less than the rents paid for farms and houses, is three times tho amount spent for tea, sugar, coffee and cocoa, and six times the amount spent for linen and cotton goods. A French physician asserts that he has discovered" a soporific whose effects can be exactly limited to tho time required. This will, lie says, enable travellers to sleep comfortably and confidently during a journey. He measures his doses by miles. Thus you can take a fifty-mile dose before starting on a railway journey, and open your eyes, pleasantly refreshed, at your proper station. The song of the shirt can be given to an instrumental aecoinn.mimnnt. now A Berlin inventor has attached a musical box to a sewing-machiue, which doles out its melody as long as the machine is in operation. What with this and the sewing-machine itself, Tom Hood's famous lyric is becoming decidedly oldfashioned. Bat its sentiment holds good, however, tho attendant circumstance xiay have changed it. The books their authors liked best, says a publisher, were invariably the least popular. The best books are, however, not always those that are the widest .read, and the authors may have been right after all. The solid gold often lies ncglccted on the publisher's shelves, while the spangles and foil and tinsel glitter in the sunshine of popular favor. Do not judge what you read by what people say about it, but by what you think of it. You may be wrong, but you will at any rate form an opinion ol - your own. - The correspondent of the Cleveland Leader says that old friends of the President whisper that he will never marry. They say the only woman that he ever really loved has been in her grave more than twenty-five years. He met her, they say, when he was a school teacher in a little town of New York, when the down' had just begun to come upon his lips, and she was sweet 10. They loved, but they were too poor to marry. Cleveland had decided to go west to make a fortun, when his sweetheart became sick, and, within a few days, died. Robert Garrett's small hobby is his through railroad line to Philadelphia and New York; but his big hobby is walking-sticks. "His canes, hats, and patent >., leather shoes," says a Baltimore correspohdent, "are positively numberless. People who go into the hallway of his house, while he is at dinner, usually conclude after a brief study of the hattack that he is entertaining a vast congregation of his friends, whereas there is 110 one there but his mildly eccentric self. If he should ever be dragged down to poverty, he can subsist in comfort during the balance of his days upon the sales of his old canes and clothes." A New York paper contains a sketch of the career of George M. Pullman, the inventor of the Pullman palace cars. He 1 lived in Albion, N. Y., where he was born, until he was twenty-five or there- ' about, and followed his father's business, the removal and raising of buildings. He was very careful in dress, good-looking, 1 popular and exemplary in conduct. Ho 1 was very ingenious and fond of figuring ' out schemes and drawing diagrams of 1 many kinds, to show their feasibility, j He was so liberal in his dealings that he 1 never saved any money, and indee'd,, in ' bo small a town,naturally did not make a I 'great deal. Several years before the war, 1 when the level of the streets of Chicago was to be raised, Pullman went there and ' took the contract for elavating the Sherman houso a certain number of feet. It ' was thought to be a prodigious task, and ' many persons predicted that it could not be done. Pullman wont to work scientifi- ' cally however, and achieved his object. ' That gave him such a reputation that ho I had all he wished to do. When the min- 1 ing excitement occurred at Pike's Peak ' he hurried to Colorado, and started a 1 miners' supply establishment, which was very successful. "While there he devised ' the plan of sleeping cars, sold out his in- 1 jterest in the supplies, and returned to 1 iChicago. Ho showed his diagram to a : number of experienced persons, and they all encouraged him in his undertakings. 1 After working a long while in perfecting I his plan, he had it patented. Thereafter ^ his progress was rapid and his fortune ' sure. He is a man who likes big operations, being a natural speculator, and f make) and loses largely with equal * 1 equanimity. * frv.--' to*.v?57X-A"n-,; ' 1 ,S : '. ;: ? ; ; ' ?pw ? . v Compensation. >In that now world toward which our fee6 an j . set Shall W3 find aught to niako our hearts for got Earth's homely joys and her bright hours oJ bliss? Has heaven a spell divino enough for this* For who the pleasure of the spring shall tell, When on the leafless stalk tho brown budf swell, "When the gross brightens, and tho days grow long, And little birds break out in rippling song? O sweot tho dropping ove, the blush of morn, Tho starlit sky, tho rustling fields of corn, Tho soft airs blowing from tho freshening seas, The suu-llecked shawdow of tho stately trees, The meilow thunder and the lulling rain, Tho warm, delicious, happy summer rain, When tho grass brightens, ami tho days grow long, And little birds break out in rippling song i O beauty manifold, from morn till night, Dawn's flush, noon's blaze, and sunset's ten dor light! O fair, familiar features, changes sweet Of her revolving seasons, storm, and sleet, And golden calm, as slow she wheels through spaco From snow to roses; and how dear her face, When the grass brightens, when the days grow long, And little birds break out in rippling song. O happy earth ! O home so well beloved 1 What recompense havo we, from theo re moved ? Oi>e hoi?e we havo that overtops tho whole; The hopo of finding every vanished sold We love and long for daily, and for this Gladly wo turn from theo, and all thy bliss, Even at thy lovliest, whon tho days aro long, And little birds break out in rippling song. ?Celia Thaxter, in the Century Two Strange Meetings. Tlicy met first in the oddest way. She was standing at the approach of the suspension bridge in a bitter, blinding snow storm. Iler umbrella was inside out, her wrap had broken from its fastenings and was flying in the wind; the icy breezes and fine particles of snow were whistling up her sleeves, while her bonnet and hair were in a white, feathery tanglc; becoming momentarily more pronounced as the fierce blizzard swept across it from the river. She was trying hard to keep herself together, looking despairingly around die white for some means of getting across the terrible bridge in safety. What could he do? He was not the man to look unmoved upon such a picture of distress, especially such a pretty picture. For she was pretty. A petite, compact figure, with unmistakable evidences of refinement in every curve and outline; bright, dancing eyes, all the brighter in contrast with the glowing red cheeks; a small, firm mouth, and a chin absolutely trembling in its soft nest of feather trimming. He took in all these details at a glance, saw that she was in real trouble, stopped, and said: "You had better wait for a street car. You cannot walk across the bridge this morning. There is a blast coyiing up the river that cuts like a million knives." "I cannot help it. I have to be at the depot at nine o'clock, and there are no street cars in sight," was the breathless reply, as she struggled with her unruly umbrella. He took the umbrella from her, and as he forced it into the proper shape, said: "Then you had better let me pilot you across." She turned her eyes full on him and looked searchingly into his face. She saw a tall, handsome, brownbearded fellow, the bronzed cheeks tint cd with a rosy hue that indicated the lover of out-door life. She saw tlrnt the bronzed face had a kindly, honest expression, and as a proof that her inspection had resulted satisfactorily, she put heif daintily gloved little hand on his arm and said, quietly: "Thank you!" So he held the umbrella to windward, ind with the compact little figure tucked iway under his arm, and the wind hooting and groaning his disappointment as t tried to get under and around the umbrella at the dainty bonnet and hair still n a tangle, he pushed boldly across the sridge, with his heart thumping a sym lathetic accompaniment to the pattering feet of his companion. Then as he handed her the umbrella ind raised his hat, she said: "Thank you very much for your kindlesa. I should never have crossed the >ridge by myself, I am afraid." Whon the young lady got home that ivening, and told the assembled fam:iy iow she had crossed the bridge in company with a strango gentleman, there vas a general uplifting of eyebrows and ihrugging of shoulders, though no one , vas va.j much surprised. , Kate Selby had all the independent , ipirit of her age, Rex and nativity, and , atucr enjoyed defying tho proprieties . vhen it could be done with moderate . safety. , Perhaps it was this independent spirit hat made her adopt such an unusual , plan for getting into the. house of Mrs. < Douglas on the night of tho fancy dress ? >arty, a few evenings later. This party had been tho talk of society or weeks. It was expected to be somehing unusual in its gathering of well- \ mown people, not only in soc'ety per w, i . .*~ J* ; .' "- ',' ' *," r V \ ut in the professions of medicine^ law, 3 literature, music and art. { The costumes were to embrace every " | known covering for the human form, and f 1 the whole affair was to be an event to be i remembered. The Douglas and Sclby residences , were each surrounded by a large lawn, i ] divided only by an imaginary boundary I line. Miss Selby had chosen for the party a simple country girl's costume, and very pretty she looked as she stood in the parlor showing herself to her father, whose tiresome, wounded foot, a reminder of j Gettysburg, would not allow him to go ; out to-night. J A light calico, with a white apron and i pinK riuuons and bows, unci a small basJ ket in her band, made Kate Selby as sweet a picture, a la Watteau, as ever met the gaze of a connoisseur. Five minutes later, Kate Selby 'was standing in a small grove at the side of the Douglas mansion, watching the dancers flitting past the long windows ! reaching to the ground. j She could see nearly all over the room from where she stood. All were masked, and as they moved in rhythmical cadence to the music of the orchestra, Kate felt that creepy sensation which the sight of twoscore people with hidden faces, but piercing eyes, so often produces. She turned quickly and?looked into the face of a red-bearded, dirty-faced man, witu a black eye and a livid scar across his cheek, which did not improve his naturally repulsive appearance. The man was intoxicated. Kate saw that at the first glance. She stepped to one side, with an indignant flash from her gray eyes at the fellow's insolence in looking at her at all, and was about to run toward the side door, when lie placcd himself directly lu her path. j "No' so fas'?hie?my dear. I wan' shome ze funsh?hie?an' I'm goin' to dansh wiz j'ou." Heavens! there was another one! A bundle of rags, whose shining black face and close wool showed its Ethiopian descent, made its appearance from behind a large tree and grinned silent approval at the other's remark. Kate could still sec through the trecg the dancers passing the long windows. She opened her mouth to scream, but before she coul.l utter a sound the redbearded man put his hand significantly behind him as lie said: "Scream an' I'll shootsli yer." This was awful. The red-bearded man grasped her hand and pulled her toward him. Then?she never could tell how it liappened?the red-bearded man fell flat on his back. At the same moment the whole scene seemed to be pervaded with a mountainous expanse of brown woolen, rope girdle, and tight-clinched white list. "Pax vob'scum!" said a voice she thought she hud heard before, as the brown woolen, rope girdle, and white fist resolved themselves into a Capuchin friar, standing tlireateniugly over the redbearded man and uttering the pious benediction with a heartiness that must have been very soothing to the drunken ruffian at his feet. The friar's large, pointed hood had fallen back, revealing a bronzed face, with r. brown beard, nud two blue eye.i that blazed in the light which fell full upon him from the long windov- s of the i. uuuau. They recognized each other at the same instant. "You seem to be mjr protecting angel.n she said. "As is consistent -with my saintly character," he answered, gravely. "May I take you to Mrs. Douglas and get an introduction?" asked the friar of Fate. The introduction resulted in Miss Selby finding that the friar's name was Morton. But she calls him Fred now. An Effective Prayer. i Some time ago, as the story runs, W. < W. Erwin the criminal lawyer,pressed for a little change, dropped into the office of D. W. Ingersoll and asked him for the loan of $5. Mr. Ingersoll declined to make the advance, but suggested that, instead, if Mr. Erwin would go into the basement with him, he would pray for him. Mr T^rwin mnaonfncl on/1 *" " _ OUU tUU t>TU went into the depths, where on bended knee Ingcrsoll prayed long and well for his Vother mar. When ho had concluded Erwin said, "Now I'll pray." i Mr. Erwin's prayer was a peculiar one. i It was deliveren at the top of his voice, and consisted of an exhortation to tho Lord to direct Ingersoll how to dispose of his vast wealth wisely. As he warmed up the pitch of his voice raised materially, and Mr. Ingersoll grew nervous, and urged him not to pray bo lond, as it would bring those upstairs down. If} was of no avail. The exhortation grew i more fervent, and finally became howls. Then Ingersoll, with a despairincr ex- I tarnation, sprang to his fret, and said: 1 ' Stop praying, Erwin; here's your $5." rhe devotions ended at once.?St. Paul i Pioneer Press. > Some one has figured up that it would ;ake a man 3000 yean to read books which arc generally accepted as standard. V- ''k'' M Vv's 1 > ; . '' ' 'jASB-MLL. is About the Natlorn Game as a Business. he Expense Attendant Upon Maintainii a Firat-Olass Club. Twelve or fourteen years ago it w redictod that baseball would ere now ne of the things of the past. In tho liys elubs were organized on tlienarro1 Bt monetary margins, mostly by spccul ive and irresponsible men, who, in mai ases, when it can*; to paying their del ailed to do so, and at onee declared th here whs nothi??r in bns(>ltnll unrl tl? i would soon die out. But instead .us struggled along, year after year, u il it is now the leading American spoi nd is backed by some of the wealtliic len in the country. To-day there n horoughly organized and fully cquipp< iglit associations as follows: The N ional League, eight clubs; the Americi issociation, with eight clubs; the Sout rn League, with eight clubs; the Nc Sngland League, with six clubs; ti nter State League, with eight clubs; Northwestern League, with six clul nd the Gulf League, with six clul These eight organizations employ ov 100 men, whose salaries for the scas< rill aggregate $1,000,000 or more. Tl alary list alone of any first-class clu oots up from $2o,000 to $40,000 a yen .nd individual salaries, in some instance rnve nearly reached $5,000 a season, ai n many cases they have range from $2 00 to $3,500 for the season. But there to class of public amusement or spc vhich, when properly conducted, giv )ctter returns than baseball. The travelling expenses of a club, for |uitc an item in the expenditures, ar jenerally foot up to $10,000 or more du tog the year. This includes all railror ares and accommodations at first-cla lotels. Each club has about 12,0( niles to covcr during its regular char >ionship season, not to mention ho nany more while playing exhibitic panics. Then there is the addition :ost of keeping the grounds in prop< jlaying condition, besides paying gat nen, ticket-takers and special men en jloyed about the grounds. All thci hings are well understood by those wl lave studied the subject, and they kno ull well that a large capital is require :o properly conduct the business. T1 lay has gone bjr when half a dozen mc :an organize a club, unless they en iliow that they are financially able 1 larry out their engagements during tl: icason. A year or two ago fancy sail ies were paid in a great many instance: md players who happened to receive ittle notice demanded such exorbitm jrices that it camc near ruining some c :he clubs. To nvoid any unreasonabl jrices by players, the leading organizi dons have passed a rule limiting a pi a] ;r's salary to $2,000 and doing awa with the advance money system exccj lust enough to defray travelling expenst it the beginning of the season. Th paying out of a large sum of advanc noney during the earlier part of the sen ion proved a great burden to most of th jlubs, and the abolishing of that systei aas met with general favor tliroughou :hc country. A year or two ago a gooi first or third baseman could not be cr gaged for less than $1,200, and from the up to $2,200. A first-class second bas man could obtain from $2,000 to $3,00C A."*short stop with any reputation wantc from $2,500 to $3,500 a year. Outfieldci command from $1,500 to $2,500 for tli season. The pitcher, who is a very in portant man in the nine, especially if h lias any known abilities as a twirlei ? A ~e e fTVUlVI J1IU1VU 41 iJIV/UL'91 UUIUilliU U1 1IUI $2,000 to $3,500 for his season's work and then he would want a man to altei nate with him. There are some me who are really worth more than the $2, 000 limit, and they should be paid in a( cordance with their merits but ther must be a line drawn somewhere, an the men who make unreasonable demand! Bimply because they happen to do we during a season, should be kept down t the limit. For $2,000 for one hour work, six dnys in the week, for seve months in the year, is good compensation ?New York Mail and Expresn. Seals us I'ets. Your friend, Ernest Ingersoll sends yo a message about some Indian boys of th Makah tribe, who live at Neah Bay. T find that place, by the way, you must g just behind Cape Flattery, wherever thi queer-named cape may be. The dcaco Bays most likely it's a dangerous cap< judging from its title. Well, it seeir that the Makah boys have pets and form of amusement denied to mo? youngsters. In midsummer great quar tities of fur spals approach the shore i that region, and are chased in canoes an killed by the men of tribe for tho sake c both the hides and the flesh. With thei come many little "pup" scnls, some < which are always captured and take home. Tying strings around the necks of thc> "pups," the Indian boys make thei swim in the surf, just outside th^ breal ers, and tow their canoes across the ba> and even after them up the rivers. I short, the Indian lads have a world ( fun with these gentle and graceful wj ter-dogs.?St. Nicholas. N ... Two Rcmnrknble Children. Perhaps the two most striking instanQ1 ccs of home training that have been given to the world, writes Agnes Itepplier in the Atlantic Monthly, ure those of John ag Stuart Mill and Glaeomo Leopard i, the principal diilerence being that while the English boy was crammed scientifically by his father, the Italian boy was per" mittcd relentlessly to cram himself. In both cases we see the same melancholy, so blighted childhood, the same cold indifference to the mother, as to one who had *1no part or parcel in their lives; the same j joyless routine of labor; the same nnboy- ; i ish gravity and precocious intelligence. ! , Mill studied Greek at 'A, Latin at 8, the , OT 1 | Organon at 11, and Adam Smith at 13. | Lco|>ardi, at 10. was well ucmiuintcd i II- t" ' 1 ^ with most Latin authors, and undertook ^ alone aiul unaided the study of Greek, perfecting himself in that language be^ fore he was 14. Mill's sole recreation was to walk with his father, narrating to a- . him the substance of his last day's read- I I ing. Lcopardi being forbidden to go about Recanati without his tutor, acquij eseed with pathetic resignation and I ceased to wander outside of the garden gates. Mill had all boyish enthusiasm '' and healthy partisanship crushed out of him by his father's pitiless logic. Leopardi's love for his country burned like a smothered flame, and added one more to I1C I the pang's that ate out his soul in silence. ' Ilis was truly a wonderful intellect; and ; ir' whereas the English lad was merely ^ forced by training into a precocity fort cign to his nature, and which, according to Mr. liain, faded to produce any great ls amount of scholarship, the Italian boy fed on books with a resistless and cravCS ing appetite, his mind growing warped and morbid as his enfeebled body sank nj more and more under the unwholesome strain. In the long lists of despotically ,rJ reared children there is no sadder sight than this undisciplined, eager, impetuous soul, burdened alike with physical and moral weakness, meeting tyrannical aun" thority with a show of insinccrc submisw sion, and laying up in his lonely infancy >n the seeds of a sorrow which was to find expression in the keynote of his work, pr "Life is Only Fit to be Despised." e- _ ll" The Hog's Importance. sc The hog is not only of importance at 10 home, but is beginning to make a rew spectable showing in our exports, although Bismarck is doing what he can to 10 keep him out of Germany. Meanwhile, 1,1 we have frequent discussions on eating in pork, and the propriety of setting one ( ? side the Mosaic law which prohibits its lc use as food, a law which our Hebrew l~ friends religiously obey. ( 5> The hog is not, however, to be cxter- ( a minated. A newly arrived Irishman once ( said to the inmate of a pigsty: "Bedad, , you are the only gentleman in America, 1 Lc the only being that lives without work." 1 He breaks into gardens and roots under | the gates of frout yards. He enters into ] y the composition of half your articles of 1 food; lie lies down boldly in your meat 1 >s platter; he gets into your pics and cakes, i e making a sad mess of them. Your cook 1 C mfilrnc vnn n Innf nf HPU,r* x j ? av??A \ri M1V.U1I. JL 11VJ UUJ^ 1M | l" in it. Yon take a slice of "nice Sarato- 1 c ga potato." The hog is all around it in c n a delicate film, giving it flavor and crisp- t l* iness. lie is at the uottom of much of I our dyspepsia and biliousness. "We can- * l" not escape him. lie is everywhere, dead c ^ or alive. We eat hog, breathe llog; our r ;e midnight slumbers arc disturbed by the \ ' yell of his drivers, "making night hide- t ^ ous;" and finally, our htinianc sensibili- i *s ties arc shocked by his cries, as he is belC iug offered an unwilling victim to our c l" swinish appetites. c lC I have somewhere road that some hca- i; *? then cosmogonist made the earth to rest B n on a boar, the boar rested on a turtle, s '? and the turtle on an elephant, and the el- t r- i a. j!.i ?a x ? ujjiiuutf uiu not rest on anytiling. VYo n n take the liberty to question this theory; [j >" but it is quite unquestionable tlmt the o world of Christendom rests to a certain (i e extent, commercially and dietctically, g{ upon the hog, which the great lawgiver i '? and writer of the first five books of the ft ^ Bible absolutely prohibited, and that r> ? too, doubtless, for sanitary reasonn, w s which are everlasting and immutublo.? h n Ben Perley Poore. Bi A Penny Fraud. * In the year 1804 there wfcre very few j pence coined at the mint, says an English : ^ u paper. This arose simply from the fact j. c that there was little or no demand foi . 61 0 them. A short time ago this fact seemi o to have dawned upon some ingenius per* ^ sons supposed to be the flower-sellerj n round the Bank of England. It is cer- ^ tain that the subsequent "bullying thf ,s market" commenced with them. Thi ? story became circulated that through acjt oident or .oversight a quantity of gold j had become mixed with the bronze used . I CI i; for coining, and that this had been madt ' ^ d into pence in that year. Those in thi! ^ ,f fraud?for fraud it was?eagerly offered j ^ m woiwnoo aniftpft for ns nwnv ?r>n. . . r - -I- J 1 fl( ,1 nies as they could obtain. The story got ^ 11 ibroad. Everybody endeavored to go' these coins, and the original collector) ic rapidly sold their pennies at threo anc it four times their value. The fact thft1 : there are comparatively few penco o: that year in circulation materially assist < ?; -d the deception, and the "speculators' fa > lid a good trade. It is perhaps needles t <> say that there is not an iota of trut) re .a tho story of the gold. j bi lakes^f~fTre! (Extinction or the Greatest Volcano in the World. 'A Description of the Fiery Beds Which Make up the Crater of Killanea. Recent advices from the Sandwich Is-^ lands to the effect that there was no more /ire in tin*crater of Killanea, if true, means that tht; largest active volcano of the planet had been snuffed out. Tho now lake of molten lava of llalcmaumau, wliieh is mentioned as having disappeared, has not been in existence many years, and the period of volcanic activity and .earthquakes, which accompanied its formation, immediately preceded the last great eruption from the neighboring crater on the summit of Mauna Loa in November of 1880. The island of Hawaii, which is the southmoHt of the Hawaiian or Sandwich group, is in the form of two great twin peaks, Mauna Loa and Manur Kea, each of which risen to an elevation of nearly 14,0')'> feet. On the summit of Mauna Loa n a crater which is intermittently active. On the slope of Mauna Loa is the crater of Kilauea (Lake of Firej. Kilauea is unique among the volcanoes of the world. It is situated in ? a great pit in the Hide of Manna Lon, 1,200 feet deep and three miles in diame- y tor, the walls of whieh are almost pcrpcn- \ dicuhir, bo that they can only be dc- /' sccnded where zigzag pathways have been made. The lakes of fire which make up the volcano of Kilauea are in the southern end of the pit. There is nt all times more or less volcanic activity in these pits, and they are constantly changing in form and position. In the ordinary condition of the volcano people can descend the sides of the great pit and walk over the floor to the lakes. The floor is black as coal and so hot that it scorches shoe leather. There arc great seams in it ftt intervals, from which issue steam and sulphurous smoke. The shores of the lakes themselves are high and steep. One can go close to the edge on the windward side, and by holding a hat in front of the face or wearing a mask, peep over at the infernal bubbling which is going on in the abyss. *' The surface of the lakes, when quiet, is covered with a thin layer of black, newly hardened lava. The surface is never quiet long nor over its whole extent. A pulsating mound makes its appearance at some point and swells by slow degrees, until cracks appear running from the upex. The fiery molten lava appears welling up through these cracks; the layer over the surface breaks into great [jakes, and tilting on edge, these cakes1 iennnoor o*wl **?11 "* ?uuvi mc swmiowea up uy tne red liquid underneath, which boils and * bubbles and sputters in the vent it has found, throwing up spray which is caught ay the wind and spun out as fine as silk, [n this condition it is found in crevices of -lie lava on the banks, looking much like junches of blond hair. The native Ha vaiians term this stuff Pele's hair, Pole jeing the goddess supposed to inhabit his Halc-inau-mau (House of Everlasting ?ire). Natives who visit the spot throw :oins or edibles into the lake to appease he wrath of the goddess. The high >anks of the lakes arc swallowed up in he seething cauldron below. In periods >f great activity the surface of the lakes ises and sometimes overflows the banks, vhen a long stream of lava creeps over lie floor of the great pit, disposing itself n smooth folds like giant taffy. Kilauea is 4,000 feet above the sea lev1, and is about twenty miles from thorntor nn onmm?f ^T 1 ' * ...U a.tuuuiu ui iiiuuuil ljOU wmca 3 over 9,000 feet higher. Yet there eems to be some connection between the umrait crater and the vent in the side of he mountain. During the summer lontlis of 1880 there was great activity a Kilauea and several severe earthquake* n the Island of Hawaii. The new fire ike of Halemaumau, which the report ays has disappeared, made its appear nee during this period. One night in foveraber of that year an eruption broke ut on the summit of Mauna Loa a rith a loud explosion, and tho streams of iva came pouring down the mountain ide in floods. The country through rhich it came was wild, an impenetrable opical forest. In the first nights after le eruption broke out, the stream could e seen from far out at sea, looking ke a fiery serpent lying on the mountain de. As the months went on, the upper art of t^ie stream cooled on the surface ad crusted over, serving as a conduct to wry the liquid to the terminus of the ow, where it broke out and pushed its av more slowly. The flow of lava con- - I nued into the summer of 1881, when it opped about a quarter of a mile from le little tropical town of Hilo, having iten its way sixty miles through the ^ irest, which was utterly swallowed ui> "" i its pntli. No such flow of lava had >mc from Mauna Loa since tho great dw of 1950, which rcachcd tho sea? rew York Sun. Bat aud Bawl. Stern Parent?Here, here I What's all lis racket? Mirror broken, two vases 2molished?what are you doing? Small Son?"We were just practicing . ir the match next week.