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IpF" ' According to the latest general cen luses and estimate? at ha ul to the'com non dnre of 1881, tho number of cities lntho wor'd of 200,03) population is al least ninety-six. Of those tho United 9thtos ha* ten, the United Kingdom ileven, Germany proper five, Italy five, Franco four, Russia four and the rest of | Europe ten. Africa boast< only two, South America two, Australia two and Mexico one. China is credited by the best minorities with twenty-eight cities of the class described, India seven, Japan Tour and 1 crsia one, making a total for A.sia of forty, and completing the grand total of n'uety-six. r fhe Boston Herald says tho boarding house women of Washington are numbered by thousands. There are two classes of these. The first merely rent rooms, and the second give board as well. It is a great business at "Washing ton for women to take large houses, paying from $75 to $800 per month for them, and then to sublet the rooms to single gentlemen or to families, as the case may be. They receive, as a rule, as much for their ground floor rooms as they pay for the whole house, and thore have been in 'stances in which women have made themselves independent by room-renting. One hundred dollars and more is not an uncommon rent there for a couple of furnished room in a good location, and $50 to $75 are often gotten for two rooms on the second floor. A good third floor front room will bring $25, and a house that rents for $100 a month, unfurnished, will often bring in $200 or $250 if furnished and sublet, beside giving a room for the landlady. A number of landladies make money there keeping boarding-houses, and the one who entertained W. D. Howells during his last sojourn in Washington has been able to buy the bouso in which she lives, which is worth about $40,000, and is now starting a new hotel near the Treasury. The clerks in the dead letter office at Washington show marvelous skill?an ingenuity that is sometimes almost inspiration?in deciphering the ignorant superscriptions from across the sea. What would the reader make of this on the buck of a letter: , v "Me Maria Peranala nura Pa Kamlin Ka ute takkata ter nurt amerikaa." The lady to whom it was allotted read it over to herself till well nigh distracted, and finally settled on: "Mrs. Maria Peratoln, Nora, Hamlin County,Dakota." And it was duly deliveied. The word "azzili;orno'" passed through the alembic comes out ' Hazleton,,' while 'Titzkonty S X Ajowa" reappears on a clean envelope as: "Essex, Page County, Iowa." 'And here is one calculated to d rive the rcconstructor into a lunatic asylum: j"Gi hon alio la ast ha gew lan har yor ohio laan Pok jas Ameriika." Ought an immortal mind to tackle such a superscription? It did, and from the chaos , came the clear designation: , "John Ahola, , Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio.* Occasionally the address, carefully copied from the bottom of an old American letter by some Finn or Hungarian who does not know a word of English, is tangled up v.-ith stray bits of sentence*, such as "good-bye" or "many kisses," and one recently received bore, caretully copied into the superscription: j"Lov to the c!e roan and the3 littleDoolans" A letter addressed to "Churhvat jova" lis forwarded by these gifted epistolary Idetectives to "What Cheer, Iowa," and ("Wait Kolud Namerlkaa" is at once dispatched to "White Cloud, Mich." Not much is generally known, cr re membered at least, of the early history of our leading colleges. Yale was named after Elihu Vale, a native cf New Haven, who after .vcrd settled i.i London and became wealthy by trading in India. He i gave it ?200, regarded in the early pari of the last centurv as a i?r.n? sum Th? i college was begun at Say i. rook in 1701, but removed, dixiee;. years later, to the present place. The College of New Jersey, founded by the Presbyterian Synod of New York State, which then comprised New Jersey, was opened in 1747, at Elizabctbtown, having been chartered the year previous. It was removed to Newu k in 18'8 and then tc Princeton. Harvard, the oldest cduca tional institution in the United States, dates from lGCti, having been founded by Massachusetts. An earnest siinilai j attempt had been rnnde at Williamsbug, Virginia, even before that. The spot chosen was Henrico, neur whit is now Richmond, in 1019, an endowment ol ?1,600 and 10,000 acres of 1 i:id having been obtained for the proposed college: but those who cam'- from 'England to undertake the work wcrolni j by the Indians, and the project was abandoned. Seventy-three years later William any Mary was instituted. Prown Univcrsitj owes its name to Nicholns Brown, one ol its benefactors. It was founded in 17ti4 | at Warren, Ilhode Island a id transierrcd I six years later to Providence. Nine col- s Urges were- established before the Revo- i lution, and nineteen before this century. 3 Now there ares ever I hundred, diatiib I uted through every S a o and Territory in the Republic. One of the first thing) c a hew Territory doos, after clearing c away the trees, is to establish what i 1 calls a university. No lets sounding i name would be satisfactory. c V\ V ' ?' ' ' ' 'v ' RECOMPENSE. Back to the east returns the Bun, ) Though long and gloomy be the night; ; All wings are turned, whin day is done, In homeward flight. i Tbe wave J with i*apturo touch the shore, To which they said a long farewell; Tho listening forests hear once more The s^r ? bird's swell. The tree receives rgaiu its crown Of golden fruitage, singing leaves; The fields but late so bare and brown Ata rifh in clmovnc Tho roving boo renews its pledge, By Summer's rosy sweets beguiled; Juno rcse3 lean from out tho hedge Where winds blew wild. O ! waiting hearts, O I eyes that plead, Through the long winter of despair, Shall ye not -ioo, find gracious meed, In days more fair. ?Linda M. Duvali. The Man With the Satchel Although Mr. Phibbs was a very en ergetic professional man, it could neve be said that he sought fame. Fame cam to him, and the only sorrows in his lif were caused by its arrival. If he had eve had his business cards printed, which li did not, both on account of his surpas sing modesty and the confidential natur of his affairs, they would have neceasaril; read very much like this: T B. PHIBBS," * : Burglar. I : All Business Strictly Confidential. : j Banks a Specialty. Mr. Phibbs was indeed of a retiring disposition. Moreover, he stood so higl , i ft Ilia r\rAf aonlnw J 1 ' J iu uig wi^aoiuu uiutjucfipiiu its irequeui interruptions, ho was beyond the fevei and heat of mercenary competition. Or a certain night Mr. Phibbs was plodding his way through Allen street in reply tc a professional call. A dark, dismal street it was. on which a burning sun had beamed down all day long; a baker's oven that had been xoasting rich and poor and was now cooling off, while the chimes of the far away church bells eang themselves to rest; a black cavern of a street, fit, you would think, only for murder and rapine. Mr. Phibbs was in it, and his eyes?very sharp, black eyes? set in dark caves of sockets, with lashes like bushes above them, wandered up and do'Wii the great storehouses. He was a well built man, with a very long nose and an over lip that was always being bitten by his white teeth as though it had done wrong. On this night he carried a satchel in hi9 hand. "Who could tell his thoughts as his eyes ran up and down the black fronts? Were they of all the precious things stored within, of the fabrics dainty and rare, or of the tired, weary hands that had made them and could never touch them again? Mr. Phibbs stopped at the door of one. He smoothed the iron bolts gently and soothingly as though the bolts had no one to blame but themselves for not knowing him sooner. He ran his hand up and down the iron shutter also in a reproachful manner. How still and calm the great street is, like a cathedral when the organ is hushed. Quickly the satchel is opened and a bar of steel is in the hand of the burglar. It rests on the iron shutter. Hark! Whit was that? A step? No, only the sobbing of the wind. The bar cuts into the iron deeper and deeper. A."\?1d the sound lower and fainter, but still the same. The bar of steel is in the man's left hand and a gleaming revolver in his right, when the sound comes again, this time from his very feet. The moon draws hor veil of cloud and the white light shines down on a little childish face there at the cracksman's feet. Mr. Phibbs, from the nature of his profession, was accustomed to surprises. He bent his glance and saw that the face below him was not of Allen street. It was a tender face?only to be kissed by a muLuer s ups. un tiie little finger of the left hand gleamed a tiny gold ling. The collar at the throat was of lace, and the other garments of rich texture. Mr. Phibbs read the story in a second. He knew some mamma shopping in Grand street had lost her child, and he knew that the baking sun had almo3t stilled the life beat in the little one. He felt the pulse. It had almost ceased to beat. What would he do? Let it die? It would >nly be one more little unfortunate swallowed up by the streets, or perchanca | ;ast on the bosom of the river. If he were to give it to a policeman he might j is well say he was Mr. Phibbs at once. | Let it die? Had he not seen others I prettier and fairer smother and starve n the tenements? There is a sound of footsteps along the way. Slow, steady rootateps, and Mr. Phibbs knows they | )elong to a man in a blue uniform. iVoul ho escape himself and trust the )oliccman to find the child? The footiteps are nearer. A memory comes over l man's mind; an indistinct, strango nemory and a face wrinkled and carcvorn comes with it. A face it is looknrr vnrir /?o1m A Dkjuu- - ? ?13 ? v? j vMtu?| uuu iUl* X I11UU3 OUU3 U o king cradle?what is that? The face >ends down and kisses the one in the iradle. How like and how unlike a miylar. Like a weird shadow a man is speeding noiselessly down Allen street. V.t his breast is the face of a child. Beyond the great warehouses flies the man; )cyond the shuffling men and noisy Tomen on a lighted street; beyond the lark forms sleeping in the thoroughfare Iowa where the houses are thickest, but lever beyond that wrinkled, careworn ace, nor the rocking cradlo fashioned >nly in memory. ' V, > i -r , r - -x.-i ;4.:'v. HR ?'*' ";'-7 ;*;^Kva;~' -, r v";^y*5v -'f -v^!\v*-?-.' -wVj: ' -V." ' ). *,' * * 'W'V???' * * # * * * Perhaps you read this one day ia your daily paper: Policeman Johnson of the Tenth Precinct last night discovered a complete kit of burglar's tools on Allon street. Most of them wore in a satchel, but a jimmy was found on tho pavement, and tho windows of the wholesale house of Edwards & Co., dealers in SUK, were party forced. The policeman met a man carrying a similar satchel several hours bofnra nnrl PnlioA Kliropinf^nHonf. Pri>um ?1 -w.w, ? 01though he will not admit as much, is confident from the description given that the notorious cracksman Bill Phibbs was surprised in the perpetration of a robbery. The pol co were looking for tho man with the satchel. ****** This single room with tho cot in one corncr and the tattered gamin asleep in tho other is Mr. Phibbs's homo. "Back a'ready," cries tho boy, suddenly waking; 4'why I thought?" "Never think," says Mr. Phibbs, "go l* for a doctor." ir "Oh, I see, Pop," says tho boy again, 0 ''abduction, eh? All right, Pop, I'm off," 0 a3 Mr. Phibbs places a senseless child on r th ; bed. Many strange things had tho e ragged Loy seen in that room. Ho had ' seen bales of silk piled on the and e Bill Phibbs standing over it parsing Y about an old man with a hooked nose. lie had seen rou?rh men divide piles of greenbacks there, and more than once had he seen Bill Phibbs totter in bruised and bloody and pale, and many a time had he nursed the burglar's wounds. r The boys returns in a minute and says \ softly: "No use, Pop, the doctor's b asleep." Bill Phibbs is chaffing tho r child's hands. Ho drops them, looks at 1 the shining barrel of his revolver and j murmurs: "I'll have to wako him." An old man returns with Mr. Phibbs, : exclaiming ns ho does so: "And you [ thought I wouldn't come. Why, blesa i your soul, sir, I was over anxious, sir. 1 Even before you stuck your pistol in tho i window, sir." Mr. Phibbs points to tho child and tho doctor hurries to the , couch. Through that hot summer night a burglar chafed the hands of a child and a worried doctor watched. All night long a burglar watched a white, delicate face on a pillow, and when the morning un had come, tho doctor gone and the i white face life-like again, a burglar thought he saw a smile on a wrinkled, | careworn facc that beat over a cradle* ! fashioned only in memory. Mr. Phibbs moved the next day to an- | other quarter of the town. Several men j who had called on him scowlcd at tho ; fair child playing with the gamin, and j said that Mr. Phibbs must give up keep- j ing a foundling asylum. ! I The child was very young and could 1 not tell its name distinctly. As near as Mr. Phibbs could make out the name was "Willie Grounds. It did not seem to mind its new home much, and played and romped as merrily with the gamin as though it had known him all his life. Tha next day Mr. Phibbs put this notice in the newspapers: "Personal?A child wearing a plain gold ling found; parents or guardians who claim the same may have it by identifying it through these columns." On the following morning Mr. Phibbs read that he would receive a liberal re? ward by restorins the child to No. I West street. He went back to his home. "Come, Willie." he said to the child, "I am going to take you to your mamma,*' and very tenderly he patted the curly ' head a9 lie spoke. The child's eyes I brightened, lie was anxious to go, and after kissing the gamin many times he and Mr. Phibbs set out. He had grown j accustomed to Mr. Ph bbs and was not surprised to see the cracksman wearing big black whiskers as they left the house, y.r. Phibbs and the child were within a block of the residence when Mr. Phibbs paused. A gentleman was coming down the stoop and Mr. Phibbs knew him. He was the Superintendent of Police. * \cm, my nearty," ejaculated Mr. j Phibb9, "so that's your game," and ba- i fore the child was aware of the fact he j was sitting by Mr. Phibba's side in a coach , , and roliing down town. *** *# 1 Allen street is no longer broiling and baking in the sun. The Christmas days have comol Christmas Eve with all its j legends, its ringing bells, its stories of < I ghosts and goblins 1 Christmas Eve, bright and cheery I Christmas Eve, like a benediction on the land! ( I Mr. Phibbs sits before his grate; the gamin plays on the floor and a lost child is playing at a burglar's knee. Slowly but surely the days are driving from a child's mind the memory of an early home. There were his tin soldiers on the floor and his rattle by the hearthstone. Mr. 1 Phibbs was very much changed. There ) was a solemn, settled look on his face. 1 He never smiled except when he held the I child on his knee. Ver-v annrnltr fhn J --rf ?Ow*J VMV gamin shook his head and told the old * gentleman with the hooked nose: "Pop's ^ going," pointing to his head. ( Mr. Phibbs went out that night. There * had been rumors of an over active Police * Superintendent and Mr. Phibbs was looking for another boarding-house. Hu found one and turned back to the lodg- ( i ings. The hallway was very dark and i the stairs creaked. Never before had a 1 hallway been so dark in the mind of Mr. ' Phibbs, And the stairs creaked as though ] (v" v ?* ".'>%' -h I they wore saying; "Phibbs, Phibbs, Phibbs, I've got you now, Phibbs." Ho turned tbe knob of the doer, swung it open and stood still. There before him t 6at the Superintendent of Police with tho child on hi9 knee. The burglar heard tho last words of the child: "And oh, pupa, papa, he's so good and so kind, j | you w.ll love him." The gamin was in ^ his corner. Mr. Phibbs's revolver was c pointed at the Police Superintendent's 3 heart. 'Don't move," he said, "or I'll boro f, you through." The child clung to its ^ father's knee, lie had never seen tho j] uvbr up as now uemg gnaslied by tho ^ wliito toetl), nor the gray eves gie*?? liko ^ a panthor'a before. He had never .seen , Mr. Phibba so cool, so deadly and so ^ bloodless ha lie stood there, holding tho y life of his father iu his hand. "Kid," said tho burglar, "pack that 4 bag and get down into the street." Tho n boy did so. "And now, said Mr. Phibbs, 3 a3 his clear, firay eye ran alons the bar? ,( rel, "I am going, too. *irou have your ' Christmas present in your arms."' Only for a second the eye wavered a3 it fell on 5 the face of the child. "Good-bye, Willie 1" said the man's voice. The door ^ sv swung shut and locked, and when Police Superintendent IJrown and his child were in the street they saw only the driving snow Hakes wrapping up the city in a white mantle, and covering all its sins ^ and its sorrows and its crimes beneath iti ^ : folds.?Neio York Graphic. j The Wasmngton Family. i j At the dedication of the Washington j 0 National Monument invitations were sent j tr to nearly 800 members of the Washing- hi ton family by direct descent or by collat- si cral marriages. Thirteen gentlemen bear- cl ing the name of Washington sat together ! ar on the floor of the House of Itcpresenta- j tn tives on the occasion of tho dedicatory j :c services, and besides, in the gallery, there j in were thirty ladies who claimed kindred \ w with the family. Washington, of course, v< had no direct descendants, but he had two M half brothers and one half sister, as well b, as two full brothers and one full sister, jn all of whom had families. His sister Betty married and left a large family. His two th brothers, Charles and Samuel, both mar- Lj ried and settled in the valley of Virginia ac on large and most productive farms, j Charlestown, the county scat of Jcffer- : cj; son County, "W. Va., was named after |ie Cliarles Washington. His brother Sain- (it uel owned an adjoining plantation of /Vi nearly 2,000 acrc3 of land. Samuel was i ds married five times, though he died at the ; ago of forty-six. The descendants of ! pr Samuel are very numerous. Those of th Charles, however, arc comparatively few- wi The Washington families are mo^t numerous in Virginia, Tennesiee, and Ken- th tucky, but a considerable number of them ov Also reside in Ohio, Minnesota, Penn- at sylvania, California, and Georgia, where in they have usually settled on the most m< productive farm lands. As another char- sic acteristic it may be stated that they are unambitious for public position, j [e, but whenever they have filled positions jxe of trust they have discharged their : duties with fidelity. The ability of | pj. Judge Bushrod Washington, a member [jt of the Supreme Court, and his able re- an ports, will suggest themselves to the minds of every one. George C. Wash- 8ai ington, who represented a Maryland dis- ! faj trict in Congress, was a man of fair abil- | nu ity. It was hie son, Louis A. Washing- ^ ton, who was captured by John Brown, for taken to Harper's Ferry, and shut up ^ with him when he was besieged by the United States Marines and taken. A few i other Washingtons have studied law, and some medicine, but a greater num- 7et ber of them take to mathematics, surveying, and farming When they have engaged in merchandising it has usually ^ been in connection with the management ^ v of their estates. Both the full brothers |t of Washington were deceased before the i x't, General. The General died possessed of j On large amounts of excellent land in Vir- i tj 1 giuia, vuiUj x uiiuoj lYuuia, auu uuvjbcu yQ these lands to his nephews, who were in [ v consequence put in possession of consid- ^ erable estates that made them independ- j ent, influential, and prosperous citizens w? in the neighborhoods where they lived. They nearly all married young and left m-( families. The Wasbingtons have always been fond of the gun, and the most noted horsemen of the sections in which they til 6 lived. Their personal appearance, as a class, has been characterized by tall, largo 8*e! boned frames and strong, well cut fea- utc tures. In their habits they are social and c hospitable to a degree of extravagance. *>a9 They have been free, good livers, and oc- t0 casionally some have indulged too freely 6Pr in spirits, but cases of inebriates among Pet them are exceptions. ?Ben: Perley Poore. ^oa ^ bre There is nothing new under the sun, Flo find even the fushion of banging tho ? liair, which has be.n supposed to be a lea1 modern invention for young ladies and an<3 jentlemcn, is very ancient. Herodotus the says of tho Arabians: "They acknowl- 1 rdted no other Gods than Bacchus and no\ Crania, and they say that their hair is sile :ut ;n tho samo way as Bacchus1 is cut, hoi u a circular form, banged rouud ful ;emples." sho * list An invention consisting of tho combl lation of some light-giving substance ivith printing ink so as to produce a ^r0 uminous impression is reported from unv rurin. A new daily paper will tx ^or printed there in this manner. Boil "'v V; ?' _ ' FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE. The Story of a Beautiful Visitor. All d:?y long there'd been a hush in he air of Fairy Palacc?a hush full of olemnity, yet with Expectancy softly Lptoeing in the near distance. All the White Roses, strung along on heir green ropes just under the eaves, ave out their daily toll of sweet inCnse. and Stirred nnfc a trronn lntif in thr> oing. Then the stately, and oh, tho bcautiul, the sweet-breath'd Carnations! how uickly tlicy answered that gentle greetig and mingled their own spicy odor nth the Roses' perfume; then with lately bows retired again to fix their aim gaze once more on Grandamc Ccniry plant, who calmly spreads out her j reen petticoats all about her on the high i eat of Honor, high above the heads of i 11 the flower family. This ancient Irand-danie is unto the flower family, j ear children, what the Old Clock in tho ! arner is unto you?a faithful teacher I od trusted guide. Since daybreak she had been leaning i vcr, thoughtfully, in the direction of a j oung 8milax vine (that dainty climber, | ho was always ambitiously trying to sach the sky), and lo! for once he had j opped climbing, and wa3 holding tight i to the white ropes and looking down, io, upon his next door neighbor, Maame "Nicjht-bloominjr Cercus." What lere was so intensely interesting j joutthat long, gaunt, homely body, who j otlied herself every day in such dreary j oking, faded green dressc, aud then j immed them all with prickly fuzz; who j id elbows in every direction, as thoush ! ic was forever starting off on new roads; ! linked her mind, faced about sharply, i id went some other way. Weil, a odest little Sweet Pei .just, across the >rnor there wondered at it much, then j-^an to see other neighbors looking that ay too. Even gentle Pansy's eyes were ;ry wide open, looking right up at that adam Cereus. And, yes, there was little isybody Red Geranium there too, peepig over the heads of the Begonia chil en, just starling out for school, with eir pretty pink prayer books. And ilv of the Valley Bell3 all stood still, id had quite forgotten to ring. "So sure as I live, and am Katureena veet-Pea, there's Jennie Phlox with xrew rod velvet bonnet on! And the ;tle Daisy Girls in their white dresses! nd why?why?what's going to be toiy, any way ?" S|peet Pea hastened to tie on h^r own etty pink bonnet, and then climbed e green ladder just by the window and lited. There was a sense of watching in all c air, and it settled down oppressively er all the beautiful flowers, as the sun last lingeringly bade them good night, d went over the edge to say good >rning to those waiting on the other le. Still Grand-dame Century plant leaned iderly over, and Sweet Pea's gentle art throbbed almost to suffocation a3 5 recklessly . pushed^back her dainty ik bonnet, and waited on. "When the tie Stars came out quietly, one by one, d looked down at their friends through j glass windows of Fairy Palace, they v a calm Stranger among them, of r and beautiful white form, held joysly high in the arms of Madam Cereus, e a new-born babe waiting over tho it to be blessed. [t seemed to the watching star3 thai ' ? beautiful Sfcrantrpr whs inst. slnxvlv king from a long sleep. White, long, slender leaves, and vel- 1 v, opened slowly in circles around, j and another aud yet another, till at ' t a pathway in their midst was re- * iled that looked made of lilagreed gold; rhite canopy of tiny flowers was above and beyond you saw the beginning of ? rumpet-shaped, ccreen-white chambcr- ] e little Star near the Moon whispered: , hat was probably the home of the f een Flower's Soul. Is it waking now> r ronder?" j t ?almly the white leaves kept spread- j t ;?sweetly unmindful of loviug eyes j 1 tching?wide away, till evening ( j ied into night, and slowly night into ( inight. 1 Fust then the proud young moon t kcddown upon the upturned face oi : ? i beautiful stranger, that looked I idily back again a long waiting m':n- J , saw tho glory in the moon's face and 1 n?a trembling of glad surprise * sed over the fair form, and it seemed 1 the watchers that a shining form v ang from out the green-wh.te trum- ? , sped over the golden pathway and 4 ited swiftly up' r 'Yes, yes," Sweet Pea whispered, 1 athlessly, "the Soul of the beautiful wer Queen has gone up to the Moon." 1 iurely they heard a sigh, as the white 1 ires, circle by circle, slowly fell back ? I folded themselves together and shut li Golden Pathway in. v 'he beautiful house was tenantless - 0 v. Madame Cereus stood quiet and 'J nt a whilo among her awed friends, s ding up tho limp form of her beauti- t child, till suddenly a singing j ut from far away was heard by nil the i cuing Flowers. Then Madame Coreus, 5 5se full heart had recompense now for t her lonely life, felt humbly that a c wn of Glory had been placed on her & worthy head. The Spirit of her first 1 n was Bafe up there, its brief life un* c ed. 8 . r\' ' \ "Y, I ; ' ' . ?? - . ? And the Morning Sta-s sang on to? rcof Knr in r?!?/l ^ ? ^ ? ? jjiau wiit jun;.?jtirj. /I mm x# j Midi*-. j Taking Cold in Baby Carriages. Perambulators aro the latest thing! which the much too inquiring inind ha< | discovered to bo fiaught with terribh peril to human life. Everybody hai been rather of the opinion hitherto that j these baby vehicles came as a l><;on and i ! blessing to myriad* of infants who ar? ! too weak to walk, and prefer I cing car ! ried; but this seems to be all a mistake. , It is just because permubulat >rs arc saic to be dangerous and very often, fatal tr ! infantile existence that an outcry is being I raised in the columns of an esteemed hygienic contemporary against their ira 1 proper use. These useful and meritorious articles arc .subject, just at present, to any number of medical broadsides Pneumonia is said to bo occasioned bj the fact that the nursemaid always wheel! them in front of licr, so that the cold an catches the child without any protection It is gravely suggested that, their was i good deal to be said for the old practict of a nurse drawing a perambulator be hind her, so that her bodv tiitomnsprt ? a sort of scrccu betwixt (lie wind a:i? his nobility in the scat. C'old-t ana coughs innumerable?with all th.'ir ao tual and possible accompaniments?are, ;t is asserted, always being contracted bv infants who have to sit still and bi wheeled iilon^ the crowded street, in th> teeth of a bitter nor'eastcr.?fyotulm Teivjrnph. Reminders of Benodlct Arnold. The old Bcncdict Arnold well in thil .town has been closed snys a Norwich [(Conn.) letter to the New York Sun. H !is at the rear of the lawn, cncircled by :tall evergreens at the fine Ripley plaea 'ou the road to Norwich Town. Foi imany years a Gothic curb has stood about it, but it became so rotten that i! was necessary to take it down. The curb having been removed, a big round stone was plpced over the well, which was not filled in. The old Arnold farm house, which wan not far from the well, was torn down a iquarter of a ccntury ago, and replaced :with a handsome modern dwelling. In Itho woods back of the house still if pointed out a towering oak into whos? 'crotch the youthful Benedict used to rlimlv 4 At Norwich Town, not a quarter ol a mile away, the squat brick box, with mossed roof and. bleached walls, still is standing in which Benedict learned from good old Dr. Lathrop how to mix pills and put up lotions. It is on ground owned by Henry McNclly. IU worn front door sill is almost in line with the dusty village street, and there is no fence in front of it. The country roadside walls have been built up to it, and then deflected so that it is in a walled recess. It i* one story high, with two or three old-fashioned dustj windows, which look somewhat severely at the brand new things about the old drug shop. The building is preserved as a relic. It has been padlocked foi many years, and it needs painting. Another reminder of Benedict Arnold, the old Spittle house, on Blackhall street, New London, recently was demolished by its purchaser, Bryan F. Mahon, to make room for a showy wooden house. In its dining room, on September 6, 17ft1 Arnnlrl fnnl- dinnor onrl ivo? ol. moat cliookcd to death by a fish bone, [t was on that visit that Arnold captured Fort Griswold, in Groton, and massacred the garrison and made a bonfire of Nen London to testify to his New London 20untv neighbors how much he still ihouglit of them. Kiepliants Scared by Little Things. "It is a well known fact that elephant* ire afraid of small objects, said Head Keeper Byrne at the Zoological GardeD, 'and I have seen one of them almost icared irto a lit at the sight of a mouse. rhese warm days we have been giving hem a bath at 4 o'clock, and to amus< hem and the spectators we have throwi lalf a dozen inflated bladders into th< lond when they went into swim. Al ir.st they almost scared them to death Then Empr.-ss struck at one with hei rank, and when it bounded into the aii >oth trumpeted and scrambled out of th< * ? ? .... >onu. impress, wuo u ip mc curiosiryol ler sex and a mind of hor own, gentlj ished one of tho bladders out of th< vater and then kicked at it with hei lind feet. No serious results following, lie continued her investigations, which ndod by her putting her front foot on he bladder. It exploded with a louj eport, and the two elephants scampered lome."?Phi)sn1c.inh['i Ww* A contributor to the St. Louis Globs Jcmocraty who has traveled through lexico, Central, and South America ays United States contractors and spccu itors always pay American rates o* irages, while Englishmen lake advantagt ,f nnv lnrnl r.itr>n whinli mnv nrnfit thorn rhujj in Mcxico contracts are carried ou' idc by side, and while American con ractovs pay $1 and $1.25 a day, Euro jean bosses pay fifty cents and seventy ive ccnts. It is just the same in the Ar jentine republic, on all the public worta here. Local labor is absurdly cheap md English contractors puy just as littl? is they can, while Americans pay decent atcs all through, and in tho long nu lorae out the bo it, their terms attracting ill the best mon. ... , , , .