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^ \ .. ,VrItm a. !* - . ? ~ Timidity?A Hindoo Fable. A silly mouse, thinking each thing a cat, .Fell into helpless worrimont thereat; But, noticed by a "Wizard living near, "Was turned into a cat to eud its fear. ' \ No sooner was the transformation done Than dreadfid terror of a dog begun. Now, when tho Wizard saw this last throe, **Horo, be a dog," he said, "and end your woo." v* i But, though a dog, its soul had no release, For fear somo tiger might disturb ita peace. Into a tig?r next tho beast was mado, And still 'twas pitiful and sore afraid; Becauso the huntsman might, some illstarred 1 day, Happen along ana taico nis 1110 away. "Then," said tbo "Wizard, turning to his Lousp, "You have aniouso'sheart?now bo a mouao." 'Tis so with men; no earthly holp or dower Can add one atom to their native powor; Them from their smalluess nothing can ( arouse? No art can make a lion from a mouse. ?Joel Benton. HIS FRIEND. ; BY MANLEY II. TIKE. j Ariadne Adams might truly be cnllcd a fortunate girl. She was piquant enough ^ to have been wicked, but she was very "good; she was good enough to have been ugly, but she was captivatingly pretty; she was pretty enough to have been poor, but she was paralyzingly rich?so rich that she might have done up her bangs in Government fours and 110 one would have objected; for her father was a bankrupt by profession, and invariably broke for ten cents on the dollar. One might think there was nothing to add to these advantages, but Ariadne had more. She possessed a troop of devoted friends, of all ages, both sexes, and differing conditions of servitude, of whom this narrative concerns only a few young gentlemen. Slio managed to keep them all happy, and enjoyed to the full t.llP Vfirinna kind nf nfTnrrl ? I ~""J ed her, for n long time preventing any proposals on their part, which she was most anxious to avoid, since she loved none of them. Nevertheless she was in love. Thi?is often so. Alcidcs Monroe, the fortunrtc object of her passion, didn't appear to reciprocate. This, too, is often so?perhaps oftener. And the more she adored him, the more he didn't adore her. This is the oftencst of all. Matters approached a crisis. Ariadne was altogether too fascinating to allow her masculine friends to remain friends any longer, and thoy became?not enemies, but something almost as bad?lovers in fact. And when a young lady's lovers are not what she wants, and give her no end of plcasuro as friends, it is hard for her to refuse them and thus loso their socicty forever. One morning Ariadne was sitting in carcless thought, when George J. Fisher was announced. George was a producc-1 r ^kcr and lie knew beans and all other vegetables intimately. He was always well nupplied with money, but particularly so at this time?the fresh, just-opening summer time, when his country customers were sending in large consignments of early peas. This wealth he spent in driving Ariadne out in remarkably fine style. He mndc the object of his affections what might be called a business man's proposal, and awaited the result. "Alas, Mr. Fisher," said she; "I must decline. I do not lovo you; I can be only a sister to you." That wasn't at all the relationship he wished to stand in to her. lie said so, and left. "My delightful drives arc at an endl" sighed Ariadne. Then there was another arrival. Karl Fredrich Christian Ohrspelter, the celebrated musician and pianist, who used to play Wagner to her as long as the instrument held out, and then sing until the police interfered. On one occasion he had fought a desperate battlo with the "GotteTdammerung," and had three pianos shot under him. He proposed in a florid Gothic style. She said: "Alas, Herr Ohrspelter, I must decline. I do noi love you; but you shall find in uic a uuuoiii, He was not satisfied, either, and departed in wrath. Ariadne looked sad. "The music of the future is the music of the past for me," said she. Another arrival. There seemed to be an erratic ppidcmic in progress. This time it was a talented young dramatist. He was very successful in composing plays, because he read French with ease. "With him Ariadne had attended many a "first night," and acquired a vast knowledge of things theatrical. His decleration was adapted bodily from the last Paris BUCP.eRH- And Hid woHit nlilrn fn v.?a __ "~J ? ?v>wv??w M?4n.v W UIO feelings and his memory. Ariadne repeated her former speech, and suggested that he should regard her as an aunt. But he refused. "I have adapted almost everything,'* said he; "but lean not adapt myself to such a situation as this." Ho immediately folded his tent, like ( the Arabs, and quietly adapted away. ! There was no more theater for Ariadne. Next came her artistic adorer, who had painted a large number of plaques y and screens for her, as a slight testimonial of his lov% He had alio executed a 'nxr.fs iy. 'V > ' ' > . -? -A. >v< magnificent painting on the hall floor, choosing this singular place because all his other pictures had been ' 'skied" to such an extent that it was a real pleasure to have one, at least, as far away from the ceiling as possible, lie didn't by any means ^ take kindly to Ariadne's proposition that he should consider her his nieco. Then her saltatory slave, tho best waltzer she knew, put in an appearance; and wouldn't listen to her offer of a second? cousinship; nor did her muscular mash, who could run a mile in fivo minutes, and had the largest biceps ever seen off a trorilla. with whom she attended all sorts . of athletic games, wish her to be his third-cousin, which was all she had to to give, her stock of relationship beiug closed out. When she was finally left alone, she reflected bitterly that overy sourco of amusement and all her bost escorts wero lost to hor because she had been too fascinating. The question r.ow arose in her mind whether she was fascinating enough? enough to obtain the long-desired yot never obtained affections of Alcidcs Monroe. He was sure of a favorable answer if he proposed, since, as she thought, there was nothing she could be to him sxeept his wife without infringing on Llie patent of one of his predecessors. At this moment lie entered, amply provided with manfy beauty, immenso wealth, splendid talents, and everything slsc ncccssary for the equipment of a firstclass, super-extra hero. lie made his appearance in great agitation and a new suit, In fact, ho was so very much agitated that he had forgotten to remove the price-mark from his collar?but, as the figures wero tolerably high ones for a ready-made article, it didn't make so iquch difference. "Ariadne, said he, "this is the most momentous day of my life." "And of mine," she whispered. r "Ariadne," he continued, "I am daz- fl zlingly happy." t "Me, too!" cooed she. "Ariadne, I am about to?n + "I know it." ( "You have always been?" t "I have 1" ^ . "And aiways will?" "Can you ask?" t "Be my friend?" r "What?" 8 "Yes, my friend. It is to you that I t first communicate my felicity. Honoria t has at last consented, and next month ^ will see us united?consolidated, as it r were, agreeing to pool our receipts forever upon an equitable percentage, and ^ never to cut rates. Wish me joy!" t "Bnt Ariadne had fainted. Sho had 2 been too fascinating, yet not quite t enough so?and .she was Alcides' friend. r ?Manley H. Pike. r The Lost Tribes Israel. A proclamation was lately issued by the Ameer of Afghanistan which brings forward one of the most curious riddles in history; the disappearance of the ten lost tribes of Israel. Ethnologists and antiquarians have followed every tracs of these vanished nations with the ardoi ' of sleuth-hounds on a trail. There is hardly a race in Asia, Europe or America that has not at somo tim? ^ been proved to bo descended from th? lost Israelites. Chief among tlieso ar< * the Chinese, the Mongol Tartars, th? * Japanese, the Cossacks, the Gypsies, and 8 the American Indians. Even the Saxons, C through whom bluff John Bull aud Puri- ? i tan New England got into the world, havo had, and still have, their supporter* 8 as to this mysterious claim. A library oJ * learned tomes has been written on thii . jingle question. Tho Afghans in feature strongly resemble the Hcbrows, but they hold them* selves aloof from the modern Jews, ol whom there are large numbers in the kingdom. The Afghans call themselves Beni Melik Talut, or Sons of Saul, and the legend of their origin is that when David took possession of tho thron? of Saul, that King's grandson Afghan, a giant in size and strength, established himself in the mountains of Persia, and afterwards in the countrv now known as " 0 Afghanistan. Sir William Jones, the great antiqua- c rian, examined the proofs of this story and gave it credence. 0 The Ameer's recent claim is of interest * to the Hebrews and others who attempt to interpret the ancicnt prophecies, a* ^ many of them hold the belief that the * Hebrew race will all bo gathered again 11 into the Holy Land, and that immedi- ? ately before this restoration the ten lost * tribes will be discovered somewhere in the neighborhood of Afghanistan. It is, in any case, a curious question, involving ^ the descent of a race through the most mysterious regions of history.? Touth\ Companion. A Good Position. c "Whnt r??tr Hn trnn aalrad man ^ ?? **"? n?v j vu gv w u iuuu who had just arrived in a western Dako- ( ta town, of the marshal. "Twenty-five dollars a month." c "Isn't that pretty small wages?" c "Oh, yes, it would be if I had to work all the time. You see, whenever th*< cowboys come in and get drunk and th air begins to get sort of thick and sultrj like with bullets I go home and craw into the cellar. They are here prettj frequent so I have an easy time of it."? EtUtthu {Dak.) BdL j V , -r v ' V ,*;< ?| fg . *V , '?*.K" -I * SUPERSTITIONS And. Beliefs Concerning the Animal Kingdom. No Foundation for the Monkey's Alleged Mimicry of Man. Br. Felix L. Oswald says in the Chi:ago Times: A very widespread superstition is the belief in the dismal consejuences of a tarantula bite. Paralysis, spilepsy, choera ( St. Vitus' dance), paliy, and idiocy wero enumerated among lie minor effects of the virus, which nore frequently was supposed to cause | he death of tho sufferer. The Lycosa arantula, as well as its North American :ousin (Lycosa carolincnsis), is as puglacious as a bulldog and jumps even at a valking-stick; but its bite, so far from >cing fatal, is, in fact, considerably less 'indent than the sting of the common lornet. In Arizona they have a hairy pidcr of the genus Mygale, both larger rnd fiercer than its Italian relative, yet lie effect of its virus can but rarely be elt for more than ten minutes. The >itc of the true Lycosa penetrates the kin only in exceptional cases, when it jroduces an itching sensation, similar to hat following tho sting of a gadfly. 3oth the Lycosa and tho Mygalo prey on ucli small croatures that a potent vifus vould be a sheer waste of chemicals. i.nd, moreover, the tarantulasupcrstition ias boon traced to its origin. Tho taranella, a popular dauce of the middle ages, vas named after the town of Taranto(the mcient Tarentum), but afterward was inroduced in regions where that derivation vas unknown, and where, as usual, the ancy of the mythinakers supplied an eronoousctymoloflrv. By a similar solecism he tit-watch (like tit-mouse) became a leatli-watch, and wodan, the worldlunter (welt zagcr), a wild huntsman, rho "Great Bear," the puzzling name of i constellation resembling a plow, if anyhing has been traced to the Sanskrit irkahos, tho "shining ones" a word which ho Greeks adopted and changed into trktos, tho bear, just as Jack-tar changed he French name of a golden-yellow fish Jautie doree) into John Dory. The "joint-snake" superstition seems o be limited to the Anglo-American popilation. There are several kinds of nakes and lizards that break at the mere ouch of a switch, but the pieces can icver bo reunited, it is true, though, bat a bob-tailed lizard will recover its. lormal length ina surprisingly short time rho very prevalent belief in the imitaivo penchant of our quadrumanous relaives should not have survived this age of :oological gardens. I have owned more ban forty varieties of four-handers? nonkeys, baboons and lemurs?and have icver been able to discover a trace of the tllegcd propensity. The prehensile lands of a monkey are often used in a vay suggesting the manipulations of his wo-handed relative,but that resemblance s as unintentional as unavoidable. None sxcept trained monkeys ever'clap their lands because a visitor happens to express his delierht in that wav. nor stink >ut their tongues because they sec a boy ndulgo in that pleasautry. Gestures, >antomimes, grimaces can be repeated a lundred times without inducing an any mown species of monkey to make nn atempt at mimicry. The imitation of pecial tricks, though, may often be in:itcd by motives of self-interest. My >et baboon once exhausted his patience n a vain attempt to open a box with a crew-lid, and was just going to try the fficacy of his teeth wlieu a visitor voluneered to solve the problem by less vioent means; Ever since Jenuy attempts o overcome the resistance of a tightly losed box by trying to give the box a otary motion. The instinct of self >reservauon, too, may sometimes eimuato the effects of mimicry. If an angry nan should lift his hand Jocko may imiate the motion?to ward off an expected low. If my boy runs to the window fenny will follow suit, to ascertain the ause of the excitement. But, as a rule, he stories of emulative apes and tho prelosterous results of their propensity are s purely apocryphal as the anecdotes of onversational parrots. A parrot may earn to repeat a hundred mottoes without attaching the least meaning to the est-remembered word of his vpcabulary; hough, of course, a constantly repeated >hrase is not apt to be used always mala ropos. Parrots, like many other birds, oanifest their emotions in a versatile lan;uage of their own, but they never extress them in words. At Home aud Abroad* Hostess (to iioDDy, who is dining out yith his mother)?Will you have another >iece of pie, Bobby? Bobby?Ycs'm. Hostess (smilingly)?A.nd so you are >ne of the fortunate little boys whose nammos let them have the second picce )f pie? Bobby?Ycs'm; she does when we're >ut visitin', but at home I never get but >ne piece.?Harper's Bazar. He Caught Something* "Been fishing this season?" "Yes." "Where?" "Upabove Georgetown." "Catch anything?" "Yea; caught a street car and came xome.Washington Critic, Vy"VN v 1'A ~' : y v' ""'\- ": ' Sunday Might in Stockholm. j At night?especially Sunday night-? I tb*" scene is almost more animated, still liwrOer to find in any part of the world, says Charles W. Wood, iu the Argosy, writing of Sweden. Quays brilliantly illuminated, the electric light shilling out in dazzling contrast with the feebler gaslamp. If the king is not in residence the palace itself is dark and closed. The old houses on those rocky and more distant heights reflect a myriad gleams. Every window seems an illumination. From pleasure crardens on vondnr bill rockets shoot up and break into a tliousaud inany-colorcd balls, dying out liko meteors in the darkness. Smaller fireworks blaze up for a moment, and in their turn expire. For it is Sunday night, and the Swedes are at their favorite amusement. Tho water is one Bceno of flashing lamps, green, red and white. Too dark to see the steamers, you may traee their courses by these lights; courses so silent that the gleams seem to possess a scpa- ! rate and independent existence. Gigan- | tic fireflies, will-o'-tho wisps, flitting over the winding surface of the water. A scene of enchantment, beautiful and interesting, only to be rightly viewed and enjoyed from one of the upper windows of the Grand Hotel. This alone is worth a visit to Stockholm; would tempt you some day to repeat it. "Windows open to the dark blue Summer sky, the intense heat and glare of the day succeeded by a restful darkness and a cool, refreshing breeze, you may sit and gaze and muse for hours and never tire. The scene has neither weariness nor monotony. Before the hotel, on the other side of the water, under the very shadow of the i palnce, are pleasure gardens, with just sufficient illumnatiou to keep your footsteps from stumbling and permit poor deluded mortals to gaze into each other's eyes. Hero crowds sit in the evening cool, sipping harmless beverages at small round tables, under bowery branches, on a level with the river, able to watch the lights of the boats darting to and fro whilst listening to the music of an orchestra composed of boys. These strains are sufficiently distant not to disturb your meditations and enjoyment of the scenes. As to the gar- | dens themselves, distance lends them | enchantment. A closcr acquaintance ! shows up their atmosphere as frivolous and unpleasant, curiosity is quickly satis- | lied, aud you are glad to escape. Japanese Uont Life. In Poland some families are born and die in salt mines, without ever living above ground, and in Japan some are < born and die in the same way on boats, without ever living on shore. One of the most interesting features of Japanese life to me, says a reeent traveller there, was the manner of living in the boats and junks, thousands of which frequent every bay along the coast. The awkward junks always belong to the members of one family, and usually every branch of the family, young and old, live on board. The smaller sail-boats are made like a narrow flat-boat, and the 6ail (they never have but one) is placed very near tho stern, and extends from the mast about { the same distance in either direction: t. c.t I the mast runs iu the middle of the sail when it is spread. In these little boats men are born and, die without ever having an abiding place on shore. Women and all are nearly naked, except in rains, when they put on layers of fringy straw rants, wnicn give tnem tne appearance of being thatched. At night, if in harbor, they bend poles over the boat from side to side in the shape of a bow and cover them with this straw?water-tight straw?and go to sleep all together like a lot of pigs. \ A child three years old can swim like a fish; and often children who will not learn of their own accord are repeatedly thrown overboard unt 1 they become expert swimmers. In the harbors children seem to be perpetually tumbling overboard, but the mothers deliberately pick them out of the water, and c;iffing them a little, go on with their work. It is really astonishing at what age these boys and girls will learn to scull a boat. I have seen a boat more than twenty feet long most adroitly managed by three children all under seven years of age. I am told that notwithstanding their aptness at swimming, many boatmen get drowned, for no boat ever goes to another's aid, ? ai? tit ill onrr Krvof mon a o vf? onnfVi nir frnrwi J ""-?I I drowning, bccause, as he says, it is all fate, and he who interferes with fate will be severely punished in some way. Besides this, the saving of a boatman's life only keeps a chafing soul so much longer in purgatory, when it ought to bo released by the death of the sailor whom the gods, by fate, seem to have selected for tho purpose. He Was Invited. First Belle?There, dear, I want you to look over this list of people I'm going to invite to the party, and I wish you'd suggest another young man. I've got seveu girls and only six young gentlemen so far. There's Harry Westerly, .now. Do you think he will do at a pinch? Second Belle (blushing)?Well, dear I don't know, I'm sure; but you remember I sat next to him when wc went on the sleighing party last winter, and he's very good at a squeeze.??bmtrviile Journal -"ff'J'V ***: . .TV;'-; ...V. v y } ' r> ^ >-< . How tho Indians Hade Sugar. Thomas Conant, an old resident of Canada, writes to the Toronto Globe: Tho Jesuit fathers, who were tbr> first white mon in this country among the Indians, tell us that tho Indians made sugar regularly every spring by tapping the sugar maple. At this time the Indians did not have iron kettles for boiling tho maple sap in. Then it becomes a curious question how they did manage to boil down the succulent juice without a kottle to boil it in. They tapped the trees with their tomahawks, and inserted a spile in the incision to conduct the sap from tho trees to the vessel beneath. Their spile was a piece of dry pine or cedar wood, grooved on its upper side for the sap to <? w down. No doubt this process was extremely crude, still, with all its crudities, they succeeded in producing a considerable quantity of sugar each spring. Their buckets were made by taking a roll of birch bark and sewing up the ends with deer sinews or roots. Thus they got a vessel capable of holding a pailful, and 110 doubt the sap caught in such vessels was just as sweet as that which we now gather'in our bright tin pails at far greater expenso and trouble. Gathering the sap from the birchen buckets, it was carried by the original red man to the boiling-place. At this boiling-place was a large caldron made of large sheets of birch bark. Beside the caldron a lire was built, and in this lire was placed a lot of 6tones. As soon as the stones became heated to a red heat they were dropped into the birchen caldron, previously filled with sap. By taking out the cooled stones and putting in more hot A?/ia nvl ? A * *' uiiu icjuxiting me process, even slow ns it was, tliey got the sap to boiling. Once got to boiling, by reheating 'he extracted stones, they kept up the boiling and so continued the process, until after a time they got the sap boiled down, and sugar was the result. That was making sugar without the aid of a kettle, and no doubt many will doubt the accuracy of the statement. It is a positive fact, for my forefathers who came to this province in the last century have handed down in family tradition the story of the process just as I havo narrated it. Indeed, they were eye-witnesses of the process themselves. With tho advent of settlers of course the Indian soon learned better, and traded his furs with the fur-dealer for iron kettles, and then began making sugar much as the white man does now. Vitalizing luflaeiice of Sunlight. I have often been asked, says Dr. Felix L. Oswald, at what age infants can first be safely.exposod to the influence of the open air. My answer is, on the first warm, dry day. There is no reason why a new-born child should not sleep as soundly under the canopy of a warden tree on a pillow of sun-warmed hay, as in the atmosphere of an ill-ventilated nursery. Thousands of sickly nurslings, pining away in the slums of our manufacturing towns, might be saved by an occasional sunbath. Aside from its warmth and chemical influence on vegetable oxygen, sunlight exerciscs upon certain organisms a vitalizing influence which science has not yet quite explained, but whose effect is illustrated by contrast between the weeds of a shadv grove and those of the sun-lit fields, between the rank grass of a deep valley and the aromatic herbage of a mountain meadow, as well as by the peculiar wholesome appearance of "sunburned" persons and sun-ripened fruit. Sunlight is too cheap to become a fashionable remedy, but its hygienic influence can hardly be overrated. a "Dtenucmmi'8" .Legal status. Who is a gentleman, has long been a puzzling question; but an English judge has settled the matter, and passed judgment in a particular instance that a defendant before him was not a gentleman. The;e is an old Act of George II., which provides that cursing and swearing on the part of laborers, soldiers and sailors shall be punished by a fine of one shilling; by any other persons under the degree of a gentleman of a fine of two shillings; and by a person of the degree of gentleman or above by a fine of five shillings. A man named Bliss was arrested for profanity, and convicted before a Kentish justice, who fined him two shillings, thereby declaring him to bo 'Hinder the degree o! a gentleman." Perhaps Mr. Bliss might appeal, declaring that he should have l>ecn fined five shil lings. Who would not pay extra three shillings to be judicially declared a gentleman? Quite Sane. Harry?I hear that you havo lost your father. Allow mo to express my sympathy. Jack (with a sigh)?Thank you. Yes, he has gone; but the event was expected for a long time, and the blow was consequently less severe than if it had not been looked for. H.?His property was largo? J.?Yes; something like a quarter of tx million. H.?I heard that his intellect, owing to his illness, was somewhat fceblo dur. ing his latter years. Is there any propability of tho will being contested. J.?No, father was quite sane when he made his will. Ho left everything to Courier. %IV\ *'** v V - * * . "* '* ^ * X Fair Morning? In the Harbor* Fair morning is on tho harbor, And morning ou the bay, And tho boats that wero lying at anchor Now silently steal away. No wind in^tlio sails to bear thorn; They drift with tho tide afar, Till they enter tho outor harbor And silently cross tho bar. It may be the skipper is sleeping, He sits at tho rudder 60 still; It may bo tho Kkipjjor is thinking Of his young wife on the hill. She wastes no moment in sighing With day hor labors begin, Wide open she flings tho shutters To lot tho still sunshine in. Sho pauses only an instant To look at the steel-gray dew. Prom that to tho roso bush glances, Whero it sparki? frosh and now. And down tho slope to tho harbor, And over tho harbor afar; For hor dear littlo heart with tho skipper Is just now crossing the bar. "God bless hor!" the skipper is saying, "God bless him!" the wifo returns, Thus each for tho other is praying, While each for tho other yearns. ?James Herbert Morse. ; HUMOROUS. Plan facts?Western prairies. The way of the world?Round Ita axis. It is a wise railroad stock that knowa its own par. A cannibal ia believed to be vory fond of his fellow men. Professor?Which teeth Comes last? Pupil?the false ones, sir. The man with a No. 15 ncck and tt No. 14 collar has a hard struggle to inafao both ends meet. Dun (drawing out- n bill) : Excuse me, sir?Perplexed debtor (hurrying away) ; Pray, don't mention it. It was a Yassar graduate who wanted to know if the muzzlo of a gun was to prevent it from going off prematurely. "Who should decide when doctors disagree ?' We don't know who should, but we know that the undertakers generally does. TVi nfn l a o ^ ^x jluuiu *o u oiiglll< UlUCICUW UL'IWCCU the de:id beat and the apprehended tbief. One asks the bar to chargo tho account, and the bar asks the other to account the charge. Professor at Columbia?"We cannot taste in the dark. Nature intends us to sec our food." Student?"How about a blind man's dinner ?" Professor?"Nature has provided him with eyeteeth, sir." The Arablau Horse. Arabian horses are being imported into America to a slight extent of recent years. Messenger, the famous old stallion from whom our American trotting stock is all descended, had a large strain of Arabian blood in him. Arabian stallions have been brought to this country from time to time as presents to public men and others. But it ia doubtful if a full-blooded Arabian mare was ever in the United States. They are valued more highly than the stallions, and not allowed to leave the country. There are six distinct families of horses in Arabia, and the pedigree of some oi them runs back unmistakably for five hundred years. They come of old families. These are the horses for swiftness and endurance. They are not draught horses, but in the two qualities named they excel ^11 Ai1 1 -1- * ? un ubiiur ulceus in me "world. Tftey have delicate necks and fine, small, straight limbs, flashing eyes and a strong, flowing mane and tail. They are not large, fifteen and a half hands being an unusual height. The back is not arched much, the tail is high 60t, and the hoof* aro always small, black and very tough. Centuries of pouuding over the sands oi the desert have made them so. They have small ears and powerful chest, from which they get their great endurance. They are distinguished for soundness oi V wind and limb, though their high-bred, far-off cousin, the Kentucky horse, of late years seems to be developing a lack of hardiness. The Arabian horse is noted, too, for iti gcntic temper ana intelligence. Its mas ter, the Arab, says the horse is Allah'i best gift to man. A Wonderful Toy. A wonderful toy has been on private exhibition in Paris. Fancy seven lifasized kittens covered with real skin, but with eyes of emerald set in white enamel, and playing upon a flute, a zithern, a violin, a drum, a harp, a cornet and an accordion, all perfectly harmonized and going through the most striking airs of $ the new and successful comic operas I The unseen mechanism is of the same kind as that of a musical box, and the sounds given forth are most delightful, so that the owner of this remarkable toy can have a most agrcoable ooncert at an; time by touching certain spring* and winding them up. _ . '"SSeK Another Match Spoiled. They were looking over her family al. bum, Birdie aud her Harold, when the] came to a portrait of an aged gentleman. "Who is that old baboon?" asked Har? old. / "Why, replied Birdie, shotting U| the book angrily, "You don't thixflt vv grandpa looks like a baboon, do yoQ| Harold!"?New Tcri Graphic.