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1 Companies that insure against loss by iwind storms are fast being organized in 'the West. One of them has this adyertisement in a Kansas City newspaper; "The black monster of the air has already appeared in 1886. Take out a tornado policy in the Pioneer Cyclone and Windstorm Company." Of the twenty original families in the Dunkard colony, Norton county, Kansas, only five remain. They are rolling up wealth. The colony now covers a territory of eight square miles. Each farmer has on an average 100 acres under cultivation. Some have 200 ncrns. A wind mill may be seen on nearly every farm. Meteorologists, it is said, have found that there can be no thunder and lightning without rain. When thunder is heard beneath a clear sky, the report must either come from distant clouds or be the result of some other cause than a discharge of electricity. Harvest or heat lightning is produced by a distant storm. Texas has a new industry. The Clear Creek Crab Canning Company has been organized in Galveston county, and is doing a big business in catching and canning crabs. The shells are removed entire except the claws, ground in a mill, and shipped to France, where they are manufactured into a dcntrifice. The oil that arises on the vats where the crabs are boiled is used in making soap, and is said to be equal to cocoanut oil for this purpose. The crabs themselves aro packed in five-gallon cans, and are reckoned good. A United States Treasury expert says that it is very difficult to detect counter feit gold coin. He says: "Those, filled with platinum have a fair ring and the joint in the edge is effaced by remilliug. Platinum is worth only about one-third of the value of gold, weight for weight. I have $20 gold pieces out of which $14 worth of gold had been taken and replaced by platinum, making an exceedingly dangerous counterfeit, which only a good judge of coin can detect. The ring is good and the weight is there, while the whole outside of the coin is genuine." A.t the meeting of the Presbyterian ministers of Philadelphia recently the Rev. Dr. W. D. Roberts delivered an address on "Suicide, its Causes, Laws and Cures." He said that the publication of the suicides of the world by the newspapers caused weak-minded and sick persons to tend toward suicide. In France the first part of the week predominates largely over the latter part in number of suicides, because Saturday is pay-day, Sunday drinking day, Monday repenting day and Tuesday the day of suicide. The remedy, he argued, against the suicidal inclinations is for all people to become devout Christians and fully believe in God. An animal whose identity is at present jnknown there, was landed in San Francisco lately from the interior of Japan, where it first saw the light of day. At a glance the curiosity might be taken for either a dog or a monkey. It is shaped like the former about the head and neck, IVI if. olhoruriun oniyi/inrKnt ? 'v-1 ? it ~ W*MV? ?T?WW ov/uiuuuuu luaciuuius ILLC monkey. The animal's favorite position is on its haunches, but with a little urging it stands on its four feet, the body sloping downward from the head like a giraffe. The claws on the four feet are like those of a dog, but two extra pairs are furnished on the hind legs a couple of inches above the balls of the i'eet. The animal appears to be gentle, but has a strong, high-keyed bark, which it gives when spectators attempt to stir it up' The tongue, says a medical writer, is the indicator of the system. A white- 1 coated tongue indicates febrile disturbance; a.brown, moist tongue indicates i disordered digestion or overloaded prima} 1 tin; a brown, dry tongue indicates depressed vitality, as in typhoid conditions And blood poisoning; a red, moist tongue indicates debility; a red, dry tongue in- | dicates pyrexia, or any inflammatory fever; a "strawberry" tongue with prominent papill? indicates scarlet fever or .rotheln; a red, glazed tongue indicates debility, with want of assimilative power 1 of digestion; a tremulous, flabby tongue indicates delirium tremens; hesitancy in protruding the tongue indicates concussion of the brain; protrusion at one side indicates paralysis of the muscles on that side. _____ One of the small, rocky islands of Pyramid Lake, Nevada, is alive with rattlesnakes. It is supposed that the progenitors of these snakes were wafted | to the island on bunches of floating reeds I or rafts of driftwood. There are thousands, if not millions?the people about the lake say millions?of the rattlers on the island, and their right to it there is "none to dispute." The reptiles have their homes among the rocks and feed upon the eggs and young of waterfowl and dead fish that are cast on the island. Stories have been told of these snakes rushing forth in a body, hissing and rattling, to attack any one landing upon the island. The rattlesnakes of the island, when disturbed, glide away and )' hide themselves in the crevices of the rocks, just as would similar snakes on %. ... the mainland, though they halt and show fight when hard pressed. In the city of Pesth, Hungary, practical scientists are engaged on an experiment which should be regarded with the utmost interest in this country. It is to supply the city with warm water derived from subterranean sources. An artesian well, the deepest in the world, has been bored to a depth of about one thousand yards. The work was undertaken by two Hungarians, the city of Pesth contributing $200,000 toward expenses. Already there is a supply of 175,000 gal Ions a clay at a temperature of 1G1 degrees, rising to a height of tliirty-five feet above the surface, and the work is to be continued until the temperature, which progresses regularly as the borings descend, rises to 178 degree?, and then no doubt is felt that there will be a bubbling perennial stream sufficient to meet all the wants of the city and to convert the surrounding region into a tropical garden. The judges of the United States Supreme Court are thought to be among the sleekest, most contented, most urbane and most esteemed citizens of Washington. Their gluces arc for life, and they receive $10,000, having the privilege of retiring at 70 with a continuation of the same salary. This freedom from an uncertainty about the future and removal from any temptation to dabble in politics doubtless have much to do with their amiableness and serenity. Judge Bradley is 73; Judge Miller is 70; Chief Justice Waite and Judge Field will be 70 in November, so that President Cleveland will have it in his power to appoint their successors, provided they retire. This fact causes the Supreme Court to be a source of unusual interest just now to many lawyers all over the land. The judges enjoy excellent health ?they average 200 pounds each, Bradley being the only thin man among them? and have, as a whole, been remarkable for longevity. There have been but forty-three occupants in all of the Supreme Bench, and but seveu Supreme Justices. The government has already paid thom more than 1,000,000 in salaries, one-third of the entire number having served beyond thirty years. For ease, comfort and dignity, no political position in the republic equals that of a judge of the Supreme Court. Speaking Through the Eyes. Prof. Hugo Maguas recently delivered in Berlin a lecture on "The Speech of the Eyes." First he showed how various thoughts and emotions may find their expression through the eyes, how rage, joy, sadness, sympathy, all may be indicated by one look, and how a question may be asked or be replied to simply by one scarcely observable movement of the eye. But the most interesting part of his lecture was a point with which many a physician may not be acquainted, not iium iguvjruucc, ?ui simpiy uecause he has never given the subject any thought, viz.: the fact that all the various expression of which the eye is capable aro not all made by the eye itself, i. c., by the eyeball, but ; by the movements of neighboring parts. The eye itself may be stationary, not the least motion may be observed in it, and yet this rising of the lids expresses our surprise, half closing them together with contraction of the 1 \HAtir lnrl 1 -T ? utun luuaawa uui iiit-piUUSUr';, UI1U U I peculiar abrillar-like movement of the lids, the orbicularis palpebrarum, and the parts around the nose together form what we are in the habit of calling ' 'a merry twinkle." Many a one who will read these lines will at once acknowledge that such is the case, and that the f&cts are as stated, but at the same time he will acknowledge that he had never thought about it, and had never imag* incd that as all the manifold expressions which we ascribe to the eye?the mirror of the soul?the eye itself has no share. When a criminal has his character pictured in his eyes, it is not they that tell us the moral depravity of tho man, but the play of the neighboring muscles, which, perhaps for years, always obeying the impulse of the brain, form together the group wo call physiognomy. ?Medical Reporter. Misunderstanding About a Flag"I tell you, Darringer, the red flag's got to go. We've had enough of it. "Bromley, I'm with you there. It has cost me a heap of money. My wife may protest, of course, but?" "Good gracious, Darringer, your wife isn't on Anarchist, is she?" "Why, of course, not." "How does it co t you a lot ef money?" "She spends it, don't you see? Buys things she's no manner of use for, and-" "Bakes, alive, man, what red flag are you talking about?" i <mi? A! - iuo uuuuuucers. weren't youi"? CaU. She Wag Busy. May and Edith are sisters, four and five years respectively. May had been very naughty and mamma had taken her over her knee to adminstcr corporal punishment, when Edith suddeniy pushed the door ajar and peeped in. Turning her chubby face as far around toward her sister as the peculiar position would admit, May said very gravely: "Go right out, Edie! Don't you see Fm busy?" It is needless to -pay that mamma granted a respite.?Bottom Record* 0l- 1. ' "Vv, ..>?'* ' Vs 1 /v.?* *V'?* > i 0*' hhhbhbh '" 'V ' '; ' V>. V;;^'i:-.-^VV:v ;" ' '. ' v ' Thus Would I Leads t Come, little love, lot us go f Where the full throat of tho woo I warbles A on in its devious singing, Where the soft chime of tho brook on tho bolls of tho pebbles is ringing, ' Where tho faint hum of tho beo on the breeze I of a perfume.is swinging, e Higher and low. c Come, little sweet, let us roam t Far to tho s:iade of the oak that beckons with bows that are nodding, W hotv^ fl?<% #?* ?1 - ?* ? ? * ? - A1 * ' * _ *- * uro na, iuiuun.ing uee witn mo weignt ( of his plunder is plodding, Where tho woodpecker, so liorce with the 1 drumming delight of his prodding, c Taps his brown houie. Under the boughs of the green? i Sweet with the fragrance of woods and the n murmur and rustle of^flowers, | ( Cool with zephyrs that played through tho ^ ancient Acadian bowers? There are tho minutes found that are only tho s hearts of the hours, a Throbbing unseen. I Come, dainty one, at my need, 8 Fatm would I show you the way where the ^ fern-leaf in shadow reposes, \ Whero tho bland buzz of the boo is hushed in the pause of his dozes, Where you can seo tho half-shy, half-petulant face of wild roses? ? Thoro I would lead. 1 f Thus would I tako you through life; Giving you only, my love, tho honoy and 1 roses and singing, n Only tho smoothest oE paths whero tho scent c of wild flowers is clinging, r Noarer and nearer to peaco, and ever your , innocent bringing Fur. her from strife. ?1>. fll. Smith in Chicago Nawa. THE BENDERS. ' A PEDIJIjEU'S ADVENTURE IN KAN8AS. J "I have been a pack peddler for more ^ than twenty years," said the old man, as j he whiffed away at his pipe to get it alight, "and you may suppose I have met with some stirring adventures. I have travelled a great deal in Missouri, Kan- ^ sas, Nebraska, and Minnesota, and for weeks and months I have been on the alert, not only to preserve the contents of my pack, but to defend my life. My j line of trade has been Yankee notions, ^ with jewelry added. I have had with me at one time as much as $2,000 worth ^ of gold and silver watches, ear rings, ^ finger rings, &c. I have sat on a log ^ beside a highway in Kansas and sold q $400 worth of stock to three or four ^ men, and I have disposed of $50 worth of ladies' jewelry at a pioneer cabin ^ which had neither floors nor partitions. * 'On two different occasions I ate din- ^ ncr at the cabin of old Bender, the Kan- ^ sus fiend. On the first occasion the old n man was away, and I saw only two women about the place. Six months later, when I called again, it was about 11 ^ o'clock in the forenoon. Then I saw old y Bender for the first time. I havo heard him described as a pleasant-faced old ^ man whom no one would suspect, but I tell you the very first look at him put ? me on my guard. For the first time in a ^ year I felt that my life was in danger. The same two slatternly women were . about the house, and there was a young man whom I took to be old Bendor's ^ son. This young man disappeared soon ^ after I arrived, but whether he hid in the house or rode off across the prairie I never knew. Bender's women purchased about $2 worth of notions, and the old man dickered with me for an hour over a gold watch. It seems he had but a small stock of cash, but he offered me ^ personal property in exchange. He had three or four silver watches, all of which * had been carried, two or three revolvers, ? two bosom pins, made of lumps of pure gold, and three or four pairs of valuable ^ cuff buttons. We had nearly effected on AV/iVinnivn utTi ?-?? 1.** n.. ? ? I? J ! -1 - ^ uu vivuiiu^u n uvil 111; 9UUUCIIIV UCCiUCU ? J ? to leave the matter open until after din\ nor. "Months afterward, when the discov- ? \ eries of his crimes came out, I thought ^ the matter over, and could remember just how nicely he played me. Without 0 seeming to interrogate me for informa- ^ tion, he asked how long a trip I had made, what success I had met with, who ^ I was, where I lived, and whom I knew in that locality, The old murderer was , ... ./ - - ? h ngunng up mo cnances ot my being missed in cose he put an end to me, and he had a curiosity to know beforehand what the harvest would be. While I K told you that I did not like his looks, and that I had a creeping feeling in his presence, I had no idea of an attempt to e murder by daylight and in the manner c he was planning for. I had a trusty re- f volver and I had the courage to defend I myself. Had I met him out oh the t prairie, or had we been jogging together along some lonely highway, I should f have been prepared to pull my pistol at his first movement. "Dinner was announced soon after 12 o o'clock. I took my pack with mo into the dining room, where I found the table set for one. There were three rooms in the house. The front room was a I general sitting room and office com* bincd. Bender kept a sort of tavern, you know, and travellers had this front room. The next room back was the din- f ing room and family room combined. There was a bedroom leading off. On j the walls of this family room were a few old-fashioned prints in old-fashioned frames, a shelf bn which stood a clock, and a few scant evidences of women** i presence. The back room was the t kitchen. "I had my eyes wide open when I en- t : . . . % V -.r. . . C- M ' ' v } :'y .]'' ' ' '* ?red that dining room, and tho verj irst thing I noticed was that tho tablo vas set lengthwise of the room, and that ny chair and plate hail been so placed hat my back would bo toward tho citchen door, which was not over five or lix feet away. Had it been at the other md my back would have been toward he office door. Tho first move I made vas to turn the chair around to the side ind sit down. I now faced the bedroom ioor, and had the other doors to my ight and left, where there was no winlow behind me. The younger woman vas in the room, and she looked at mo n a queer, strange way as I upset the irrangements she had perfected. Bender lid not look into the room for two or nree minutes, una tncn retirca without peaking. A minute later lie passed iround the house and catered the kitchen >y the back door. "While I could not ec him, I heard him and the woman vliispering together, nnd I caught tho vords as spoken by her: " 'I tell you he did it himself 1' "I could not catch a word from him, ind directly he went out and she came n with the rest of the eatables. Her ace was Hushed and her manner very icrvous. She put on a plate of bread md a platter of meat, and then went >ut for the coffee. As she set the cup md saucer on the board, she partly upset the cup and spilled half the contents >n the table. " 'Excuse me?I'm sorr}\' she said, as ' shoved back to keep the hot liquid rom dripping on iny legs. " 'Never mind?no harm done,' I redied. " 'It was so careless of me. You had tetter change your scat to tho end while sop it up.' " 'Oh, don't mind. I'm not hungry ,nd shall eat but a few moutlifuls any T t * i ll mj. x luigui id icu yuu mai x prcerred water to coffee.' " 'But?you?you' " Tin all right.' She gavo me one of the queerest looks ever got, first flushing up and then urning pale. Spilling that coffee was , put-up job to get my back to the :itchen door. I suspected it then; a cw months later I had plenty of liorri?le proofs. Before the meal was finished Id Bender looked in from the kitchen loor and drow back, and when I shoved way and entered the oilicc he was not here and did not show up for five minttes. "When I went to dinner a double arrelled shotgun stood in a corner of he oflice. When I came out it was ;onc. The old man came in after a Aile, and it was easy to see that he had o force himself to couverse. I paid him or the meal and was ready to go. It ras a lonely road I had to travel, with 10 other house for miles, and it suddenj struck me that the younger man had ;one on to lie in ambush and shoot me n ease I escaped assassination at the iousc. For a minute or two I quite lost ? a ?i ? -i? ?i--- - - ij buiiu, uuu )uu tail juujju willtL U rcief it was to mo to see a team drive up fith three men in the vohicle and room or one more. They stopped to water he horses and chat a few moments, and cadily gave me a lift on my way. I lid not impart my suspicions to them, nd it was not until the horrible stories ame out that I felt sure in my mind srhat a close call I had had. "Do I know what became of old Bonier and his family? You remomber that hey fled the country, or that the paper, o reported, and for months we used to iear from one locality and another of the ugitives being seen or captured. I lavo reason to believe they never got out T (Kn Qh o fo nni? vnf o /I >* n?v WW.* w\_ j "V/I JV? ? liUUMiWU U1UU3 rom that lone tavern on the prairies vith its horrible cellar underneath and its graveyard in the rear. Bands of men rere riding in this or that direction, >ent on vengeance, and one of these overhauled the party. I have been told his on the best authority. As Bender lad shown no mercy toward the unsus>ecting travellers who were shot in the >ack from that kitchcn door as they ate ,t his table, none was shown to him or lis. They were wiped out and planted rhere their bones will never be turned ip to the light of day."?Neva York ?un. His Reason. A jury composed of eleven busines3 nen and an old fellow from across the reek retired to the jury room. The oreman, when selected, remarked that ie thought the prisoner ought to be sent o the penitentiary for five years. "That ain't long enough," said the old ellow. "Let's put it on him fur ten." "Oh, no, that won't do." "Wall, then," stretching himself out m a bench, "I'm with yer." "What, you going to hang the jury?" "That's about it." "My dear sir, we are anxious to get >ack to our business." "Then send him up for ten." "But that would be a great injustice." "Then squat an' make yourselves comortable." "Ilave you any special reason why tin >risoner should go np for ten years?" "Think I have." "Will you please name it?" "Yes, fur it won't take me long. H s my son-in-law an' I have been suppo in* him ever since he was married." He went up for ten years.?Arhantau Traveler. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Two human vertebrae found at Saraiota baj are regarded by Prof. Hcilprin i as conclusively proving the existenco of prehistoric man in Florida at a very re- l period. ^ An Italian physician recommends the daily administration of about seventy- t five grains of borax fis n nrovcnHwo nf I - t T J cholera, his observations having shown that "workers in borax factories in chol- ^ era districts always escape the disease. ^ An ingenious astronomical theory is that of Mr. Monck of Dublin, who suggests that as shooting stars are known to be dark bodies rendered luminous for a 1 Bhort time by rushing through our at- 4 mosphere, new stars are dark or faintly luminous bodies which acquirc a short- ] lived brilliancy by rushing through < Bome of the gaseous masses. J An insect "never before seen by orange i growers" has appeared in Florida. The new-comer is very small, and is found t under the leaf, which it saps so quickly i that it (the leaf) turns yellow in a few i days and within a week falls. Some of < the groves are badly infested with them, j but it is believed that they will not stay i long and the damage done will be small. 1 ^ A lioness' brain was recently dissected \ and studied by llerr Familiaut at the ! * Anatomical Institute of the Berne Vete- . rinary School. Among other results he : Onds (Mitthcilungen of Berne Natural- ( ists' Socicty, 1885), that in form it is in many rtspects intermediate between the dog's and the cat's brains; from both it is distinguished by a relatively small i projection of the cerebellum and narrowness of the lobus pyriformis. i Fish lizards have been found in large 1 numbers in the vicinity of Rock Lake, i Manitoba. The lizard is about eight to ten inches long, has a smooth, scalelcss skin like an eel, a month and a head like 1 a catfish, gills like a fish, but the cover- i ing furnishe l with extensions at each side fully an inch and a half long, four < weak legs like a lizard, with webbed ? feet and a long tail like that of a tadpole. The head is large in proportion to the body. Capt. II. Toynbee, of the London Meteorological Society, has arrived at the conclusion that clouds of less than 2000 feet in thickness arc seldom accompanied 1 by rain, and if they are it is very gentle, consisting of minute drops. With a , thickness of betwonn 200ft nnrl 4nnn f?nt ? *VVW I the size of the drops is moderate. When increasing thickness comes increasing j size of the drops, and at the same time their temperature bccomes lower, until, , when the thickness is greater than 6000 feet, hail is produced. ( The best opinion now is that the "flying fish" do not fly. The average , weight of the muscles doing this work in birds is one-sixth that of the whole ] body, and that of bats one-thirteenth, . while that of flying fishes is only one 1 thirty-second. The impulse to the propulsion of the flying fish is probably de- 1 livered while they are still in the water by the powerful masses of muscles on , both sides of their body, which are of , much greater breadth than in the ease j of the herring or any other fish of their ( own size. The visible flickering of tho fins is, therefore, only a vibration akin , to the flapping of a sail. A Surprised Soldier. A Baden Baden letter tells this story about the Empress of Austria: The Empress Elizabeth has been in the habit of taking long walks every day some fifteen or twenty miles, generally accompanied < by only her maid of - honor. A short time ago they were going to Rastadt, a little town about twelve miles from here, containing a royal school and barracks, when they lost their way. They were in despair, but were relieved by meeting two private soldiers, whom they took as guides, not telling whom they were. The empress walked with one of the soldiers, the maid of honor with the other for the whole afternson, conversing very pleasantly. The Empress told hei companion that she was an Austrian, and would like to see him again, inviting him to call upon her the next day and giving him her address. The day arrived?so did the soldier?he was ushered into a room, where he met the Colonel of his regiment, who questioned him about his behavior the day before. The poor soldier was struck dumb with horror when he found with whom he had chatted in such a friendly manner, as her Majesty dresses very simply when she goes on these tramps, and had simply told him that her name was Elizabeth; he, of ? course, had no idea of her exalted rank. c She presented him with twenty marks. 8 Out on the Fly. * "Say, look here, waiter," demanded a x commercial-looking man at a Ha 1b ted street restaurant, this morning; "say, what do you call that?" pointing to a dish on the table. c "That?why, sir, that's butter." e "Youdon't say sol And can you teU t me whether it belongs to the Boston, the Philadelphia, the St. Louis or the Chica- r go nine?"- I "I don't understand you," replied the amazed waiter. "Please explain." "Well," continued the guest, "I judge t it had better go out on a strike,' or a c short stop, or a foul, or in some other c manner, and deuced quick, 'too?it's the best 'fly' catcher I ever saw."?OoodalVt ^ Bun. t 4 PEARLS OF TMOUUHT. Set not too high a value on your own ibilities. lie that will not look before him will lave to look behind him?and probably vith some regret. The appellation of gentleman should1 lever be affixed to a man's circumstances )ut to lii? behavior in them. Those who sneer habitually at human mture. and get to despise it, are amongts worst and least pleasant samples. If a man's religion is pretentious on> 3unday and obscure on week days, you vould better do business with him on a :ash basis. Happiness does not consist in our aossessions, but what we are in need of >urselvcs. The person who has a clean, leart and conBcieuee is far happier than f he was the owner of untold millions. Goodness is beauty; and beauty cannotstay inside; like the sap in a tree, it uust come out in fresh leaves and buds md blossoms. Good, pure, kind i*ener3us thoughts light up the plainest face,, md make it beautiful and youthful. Idleness is the hotbed of temptation, the cradle of disease, the waster of time, the canker worm of felicity. To him who l as no employment, life in a little while will have no novelty; and when, novelty is laid in the grave, the funeral of comfort will soon folllow. Forestry and Cyclones.* The only means of which we can conceive within human power for the prevention, or at best the rendering less frequent, of cyclones, is in the covering of the face of the country as much as possible with trees and verdure. Let there be ascending moisture instead of ascending currents of heated air. In the great timbered valleys of the Amazon cyclones are unknown, yet when we look at theformation of the land it is probably one of the most monotonously level regions on the face of the earth. In the vast area drained by the Amazon in its tributaries might be packed the whole United States and not one of its boundaries would anywhere be touched. Seen from any of the eastern spires of the Andes, this whole region is a sea of verdure. The boundless and unbroken forest give it the appearance of an illimitable meadow. From the grassy steppes of Yenzuela to the treeless pampas of Buenos Ayres expands this sea of verdure. In it we might at almost any point draw a circle of eleven hundred miles iu diameter, within which all would be an u*> broken evergreen forest. And so matted,, corded and festooned with vines are all the trees of this forest, and such is the exuberance of the undergrowth, that a "macheta," must be used with which tohew a way into the wall of vegetation the moment the voyager on one of theseput a foot ashore from his canoe. Such is the steaming moisture within these great forests that salt soon becomes brine, the best refined sugar becomes syrup, epsom salts and many other kinds of medicines deliquesce, and the best gunpowder becomes liquid in a few dayo^ even when enclosed in a canister. Take awav the forests and verdure. ? " T and leave this region a vast desert plain, > and it would no doubt at once become a rery playground of cyclones.?Salt LaJce Tribune. The Dend Sea of the West, The famous Dead Sea of the "West, Mono Lake, situated in Mono county, California, is thus described by a writer in the San Francisco Chronicle. "Itswater is so strongly impregnated with alkalies that the hand held for a few minutes in it will crack open and the skin be eaten off. No living thing exists in it, though it is said that often, ifter strong winds have blown across its surface, there is a layer of worms several feet wide on its leeward shore, [t cleanses clothes dipped in it almost instantly, and if they are not as speedily removed does worse. Its shores are barren, bleak and lonely in the extreme, ^ordered by a soil that will grow nothing but the scrubbiest of sage brush. In ; ;he prosperous times of Bodic a steamer ilicd on the lake, but it is now laid up n ordinary. The length of the lake is iDout yu mues, ana its greatest width ibout 18 miles. Seen from this magniicent point, surrounded by the walks of Bloody Canyon, it is one of the noblest, riews on earth, but at the same time it >nly proves to one who has been about ts shores and toiled across the deserted ind sandy interval to the welcome foot >f the Sierra, with even no better way icross than the Bloody Canyon, that ruly 'distance lends enchantment to the riew." ? Taking Hlra Down. They had just been introduced. Shevm a pretty country girl and ho a wheelnan, who was very vain of his personal ippearanco when clad in 'cycling cosume. He?I assure you there is scarcely a nan who does no find the wheel suit nost becoming; Sbo (doubtingly)?Indeed I He?As for myself, everybody insists hat I look 100 per cent, better in abi- . ycle costume than in an ordinary busiless suit. ' 1 She (innocently) ? Dear me. How wfuily you must look in an ordinary tusiness suit.---Boston JRccord.