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,v | 1 ? BIno Skies. Sad twilight trails her heavy clouds Into tha night. Ono sallon zone Of mist, in nearer circling shrouds, Sweeps out th-? hills our love has known. Cold blasts go sobbing overhead, When harkl tho west wind's herald crios, | And by his sweot. persuasion lod, Behold one far faint sparkle sped I Thro' rifted mists, I keop glad eyo3, Dream happy things. Above arc spread Bluo skies I Lif t eagor heart of mine is storm; Tnou canst not part the lowering years. Closer and deeper phantoms form, Thy near horizon veils in tears. The world drifts from thy yearning sight, But hark 1 what free wind hither flies. Singing of strange unseon delight! A star shines in the death-wi ack's flight. Dream thou of morn and Paradise; Over thy grave shnll watch to-night di..? -I.:? JLJiUU SAlt'31 ?Ellen IJ. Butler. HUMOROUS A special train?A lady's court dress. Weighs that aro dark?The coal dealer's. A sentimental cxercisc?Women's eyes swimming in tears. Window shutters aro put up as orna- , menls. They aro only blinds. So far as wo know, Jonah was made i ^ the first secretary of the interior. Prisoner (to warder who is giving him 1 his rations)- "Wot! eat that? Not me! , ' I'll leave the jail first." |( "This is evidently a clcaring-out sail," ' said the captain of a yachting trip as he J looked around at his sea-sick passengers. ' A recent medical journal devotes seven columns of its space to the denunciation j of kissing, yet wo are reliably informed ^ that the pernicious habit is spreading. If a man has his hair cropped close he ! e is said to give himself the air of a prize- j fighter. If he wears his hair long he is e said to be a crank. This is the long and ^ Bhort of it. j 1 Baseball Captain: You say that you . t can catch? Tramp: Yis, sorr. B. B. 1 Capt.: You don't look like it. What i kind of a catcher are you? Tramp: I Ratcatcher, yor honner. I A Saratoga barber has made quite a a reputation as a performer on the * A harmonica. There is nothing extraordinary about this. Barbers have unusual facilities for practicing the mouth < organ. Travelling In gontli Africa. In a few hours we arrived at Cookhouse ^ Drift, then merely a thick forest of prick- P ly pear3. We drovo up to a low-roofed v wayside canteen, where I was ordered a (not asked) to dismount. I did so, and P was about to enter the hovel before me, but the entrance was well guarded by ^ innumerable pigs, who, evidently by their appearance, had been greatly revelling J' in the cactus fruit. There were dog- 0 also, who looked willing, able and anx- l* ious to eat me, "skin and bone, and hymn e! book too." However, the old host appcared at the door, drove the faithful C1 guardians away, ushered me in, and pro. n duced the proverbial Cape smoke (bran- u dy) in a decanter; it made mo feel very ^ ill and sleepy. We were then on a very ^ high bank, and just below was the Cl Great Fish river, rolling and roaring 'a as a Londoner never heard bo- P1 fore. To my surprise and dismay 0 I was next ordered by the driver to S1 "omba," with pointings to the river and lt then to the opposite bank. Foul play ^ seemed to be the programme; there was 9* -- *?'j ' r nu unuge nnu co swim was impossible. 1 But, descending to the edge of the water, I was surprised to find a frail I* rope stretching from the opposite bank, on which was suspended a small box. n< Into this they shoved me much against F my will, with a number of mail bags. ar I was immediately shot down to the centre of the rope, and there hung in a 44 most pleasant situation, with the sky ^ above me and a tearing torrent beneath. 'e A sudden jerk! I.held tight; then from ,a the opposite bank two Kaffir boys pulled me with leisurely pauses to land. There 1 found a dilapidated Cape buggy, je minus tent and cushions, with two raw- to boned horsey who perhaps had been fed jj on prickly pears, but had not thrived rj, on them; so once more I resumod my journey.?London Oloba. Soolal Nicety In Cuba* Not long since my attention was called *n in a funny and rather plebian way to one c0 of the local customs of the island. When te a family moves into another house, it is BU do rigueur to send cards?or to quotothe Spanish for it, "mandar parte"?to their an whole circle of acquaintances, announc- W( t lg the change, and, as they express it fc here, "offering them their house." m Those who foil to do this are not called rei on, even by persons who visited them before. This custom is observed through to all classes. I was immensely amused when my washerwoman (of the peasant ^i class and living in the country), business settled and talk began, said; "Ah. Hi senora, I had such a time this morning 1 I had to climb a fence 1" "But, why!" 'y "Ah, you see, the only lane leading into oc the highroad passes before my neighbor's house. Now they have moved in only lately, and as they have not sent me |n 'parte* of course I could not pass there, j' but had to climb the fence to get into the road; and (dolefully) I shall have to climb the fence a?ain when I go home.1 ?Nma Orleans Time+Democrmt. url . : < ;, * / ;, . . \ | LADIES' DEPARTMENT. | Tnllor-Wade Clothe* for IVomen. | The best dressed women nro now patronizing men's bootmakers, just us they i patronize men's tailors. The most wonderful boots in all tho world are those sported by tho ladies who go a Newmarketing. Ladies aro to appear moro manly than ever this year. Tho mere covert coat is to give way to a coaching coat of the same material. Tho seanr.8 will bo strappicr, the buttons pearly and tho cut boxy. As concomitant to this Yftrv KnnrHnrr rrnr? 1 - J _t gonuvuv rru IJUlJf 1UUIY iur a Snvernake hat. Some silver-gray tweeds, to be worn by lovely woman in the earlier days of autumn, are very charming. Improvers have been improved off the garment of woman, and a good tailor-made dress is a work of art and a joy forever. ?London World. The I.euntli ofVIrl** Arms. "That explains a theory of mine," said a middle-aged man. as he directed attention to a matron and her little four-yearold daughter, who, hand in hand, wore coming down Wabasha street. The matron was quite stout, and found some difficulty in reaching down to hold the hand of the little toddler. The matron was evidently in a hurry, and she walked along the street at an ordinary rate of speed. Her little daughter found it impossible to keep up with the prosession, and at regular intervals tripped md fell over, or at least would havo falen but for the intervention of the mother. 3hc had the child by the hand, and at very trip tightened her grip, and by nain strength jerked the child on her 'eet. The child's left arm was being ilongated. "I Imvn alwotro V???" ? A- '1 ?.<>u;a uciuu, uuuunueu me peaker, "that a woman's left arm is ongcr than the right; that her left houlder is higher than her right, and have >een trying to solve the problem, or at cast explain it in some way. Seeing hat woman dragging that little girl by icr left arm explains it all. Mothers isually start out holding their children's eft hands. Why not boys the same way? '11 explain that. Boys can usually run s fast as a woman can walk, even when hey are little fellows, and so don't have o be dragged. Little girls trip and the ragging process begins."?St. Paul llobe. Peculiar Pets. Miss May McClellan, daughter of the ite Gen. McC'.elLin, has very peculiar ets, two whito mice, which at times she ,'Ould take to the opera. They ran round the box at the academy, often icrched on her bare shoulders, and kept he audience quite amused or the reverse. 1 'hey were only permitted to run about uring the intermissions, but one night, \ ist as the prima donna was in the midst j f a pathetic solo, the mice came out as : to hear too, and the eyes of the audi- \ ace followed them. Miss McClellan , ied to secure them but they became exited and ran away over the cushioned . ill of the balcony until caught by an ^ sher and returnnd t.r? tVieii* - w *UV *4 UllObiLOO. robably the prima donna to this day oes not understand why her solo re- ' iivcd so little applause on that particu- 1 \T night. Young aligators are great 1 ets, and several fashionable young ladies wn whole families of them. There is a * oat living near mo that is a great favor- f e of its owner. It is named "Stephen 4 orsey," but is called "Dorsey" for lort. Wo never speak as we pass by. f have good reasons for being thus un- i iendly. ,4Dorsey" himself and h slip- s jry sidewalk last winter have much to o with it. There is a dog that lives r ;xt door to me. lie only understands i rench. He is forever running away, \ id his master stands at the front door touting "Plon-Plcn" (the dog's name), j venez ici," till sometimes I wish Plon- j Ion was off somewhere with his more or t ss, usually less, distinguished nameke.?New York Litter. Cuban Women. t ine Mo of the Cuban women, says a s tter from Havana, is uneventful, and t the American mind, monotonous, er principal occupations before marago arc sewing, fancy work, making ^ eserves, levando amores. After marriage ^ sr time is divided between the care of ;r family and following up the very ^ effi lent and unreliable servants of the y untry. She has not yielded to the mptation of intellectual tastes and purits. This is for the present a closed >ok to her. She is naturally bright, h timated and industrious. and. like al s< amen of southern climates, much more w tive than she has the reputatiou of be- e: g, although the warm climate, with no E al winter weather, and the sedentary a e custom allots her, are not calculated tl vukuuiu^u uunvity. jLiiKO our dear ft tod crcole women of Louisiana, she is s< nd and sympathetic, especially in time ai sicknesi and distress. w Neither venturesome nor self-reliant, o: e women here are tenderly and jealous- y< guarded by their men. The father ol cupies, as a rule, "a commanding posi- pi >n"?the first bedroom next to the re- pi ption rooms: and, if he has his offico al his house (which is generally the case tl he is a professional man), the office is ?i another "commanding posi- * tn at the end of the "zaqunn." w A Cuban lady, except in cases of li gent necessity?and then she muffles in up closoly and hurries along- the street? j nover goes alono. The native -woman I who ventures on tho street alono is brnvo. Such startling proceedings are I only excu-.ablo in tho independent "Americana." Going out for a constitutional is unheard of, ond, indeed, tho narrow, uninviting pavement*, whero two persons cannot walk abreast, do not tempt ono to it,though soino of tho days of tho lovely Cuban winters may. I know women who, except to visit tho sick or distressed, never leave tho bouse, year in to year out. Formerly, in the prosperous timo of the island, to own a carriage, oven by ? ...muita uisiuuii means, was a mutter of coursc; and women of position never went out on foot. A carriage then was such a necessity that I havo frequently seen, in small liouso? where tho parlor is ; entered directly from tho street?the ! ; means of the family being too limitjd to i allow them the luxury of a house with | a "zaquan"?tho carriage kept in the i parlor. In houses with a "ziquan" tho J carriage or carriages are kept in tho ; 1 zaquan, just inside the large front doors. < Shopping was and is still done by i those who own carriages from tho car- < riage; the ladies stop before the store and | 1 the goods are brought out to tho car- j ] riage by the clerks for their inspection, 1 but from the lack of prosperity now so j general all over the island few keep | private carriages and many shop on foot. 1 A great deal of the morning shopping is done at home. Indeed, this is tho favor- 1 ito way of shopping during the warm i hours of the day.?New Orleans Times 1 jjemocrat. ! j Faihlon Notes. ' Small fruits cover full bonnets. 1 Bright red sashes are to be very gener- , ally worn. i < All costumes this fall must be simple j \ but elegant. ! ( The old organdie muslins in dark i colors are iu style again. i A happy combination is -watercress < green with heliotrope tones. ? The newest gowns require from six to * ten yurds for drapery alone. 1 Q A high novelty is an Astrakhan bourette suiting in high cardinal. Tortoise-shell hairpins are the proper means of fastening the coiffure. White silk gauze is one of the prettiest c materials used to trim sailor hats. t In hats the last novelty consists in ^ having the crown different from the * L-! ? until. t Maliucs lace is revived for dress coverSi ings and trimmings over white or tinted silk or moire. n Red continues in favor for full dresses, jund is likely to tint mnny costumes for fall and winter. jj Gold and silver are to piny an impor- a tant part with all sorts of embroidery fl ind millinery this fall and winter. a The travelling dress this season, to bo tl in high fashion, must resemble a riding iiabit in simplicity and severity of effect, d There are woolen laces that shrink t( md there are those which wear well, and ^ .hose who purchase must use good judg- ^ iient. The Princess of Wales wore a diamond ^ lagger in the back of her hair, and now n ill the ladies are vieing for supremacy in C lisplay. ^ Young ladies wear sailor hats for the all season, although with darker trimnings than have obtained during the ^ iu miner. Short wraps or plain velvet aro more p md more worn, and can bo added to by si udi-pendent ornaments of jet or colored p >eads, with finish of- beaded lace. H The swiss fichu is a nrettv novnlfw Tf a ? J ? ? s made of flower brocaded India mousse- tl niue de sole or pale-linted crape. Some- hi irnes delicate colored surah is chosen. I The narrow plaiting at the bottom of it. he skirt is not altogether discarded, al- H hough it is not seen upon all of the new ti ty'.es. A newor fancy is a bias fold 01 Ue goods set on in the same way. rc Jerseys are now cat in the same style sordiunry dress waists, and are very andsomely finished, with whalebones ^ i all the Bourns and an inside belt. They re sometimes made with pointed fronta. lit more generally arc rounded in front Wl nth a plaited postilion back. Trcnlmont or Stiiminarhisr Children. wl An excellent and humane arrangement se as been introduced into the elementary tu :hools of Brunswick. All the children hi lio arc found to stammer or stutter are xamincd by a specialist physician, Dr. >L>ikhan, who reports upon the causo a 1 degree of their infirmity. They are len arranged in distinct classes, apart om the other scholars, where the les- 0f jns are given by teachers from the deaf a j ad dumb school. Four such classes an, ore formed last year, with an Average ^ f ten scholars in each class. After a a(j ear's patient and useful training, most ^ f the children wero declared to be Com- ma tetely cured of the malady, while an im- rm rovement was reported in the spcech of iou 11 of them. Dr. B rkhan states that ?i? io malady occurs far moro frequently ent mong poor families than among the Xh ell-to-do, and that unless it is dealt mo ith in the public schools there is smsll caE kelihood of the sufferers being healed Q0I i later yeara,?London Standard. u f .;? % ' ' ' ' ' * CHILDREN'S COLUMN. The Ambltloua Kangnroo. They hold a great meeting a king to select, And tbo kangaroo rosa in a digniflo J way, I And said, 44i'ni tlio one you should suroly olect. For I cau out-leap every boast bore to- lay." Said tbo eagle, "How high can you climb toward tbo sky <" Said tbo nightingale, ''Favor us, please, witb a song 1 ' Said tbo bawk, "Lot us measure our powers of eye 1" Said tbo lion, '"Como wrestle and prove you are strong I" But tbo kangaroo suid, "It would surely be ; best, j In our choice of a king, to make leaping , the tost 1" ?A. It. Weill, in St. Nicholas. ; A Qn?rrcl?omo Raby. | In a ccrtaiu menagerie, a baby clc- i pliant was added to the collection of ani- j mals. It was chained opposite the cage ] of a lion. From the first day tlieso animals became neighbors they evinced a hostility against each other that alarmed the managers. To prevent an outbreak, the elephant was removed to a point out of the sight of the lion's cage. It was thought the animals would forget cach other. Shortly after midnight a watchman on tho street was startled by the rattling of chains, followed by the trumpeting of the elephant and the roaring of the lion. Hastening to tho museum he found the managers and a num Der 01 tno stage workingmen battling ! with the little elephant, which had seized j the lion -with its trunk by the hind leg i tmd was tugging to pull the beast through J tho bare of the cage. The roars of the lion aroused all the other animals, and their cries added to the confusion. Twice the men succeeded in breaking the hold jf the elephant, which then, maddened t>y sciatchcs and bites of tho lion, strove ;o break down tho 6trong cngc in which ts enemy was confined, and twice the jlcphant renewed its hold. Finally the nen, re-enforced by other workers in the nuseum, succeeded in binding the little dephant with ropes and chains, and iccuring him at a place far removed from he lion. It was found that the lion's eg was badly wrenched. Tho elephant scaped with unimportant scratches and >itcs in its trunk. Birdie's llad Dream. Aunt Annie was getting ready for bed >ne night. It rainel very hard, and here was thunder, with sharp flashes ol ightning. Tho window was open, but he bliuds were shut. Suddenly she thought she heard some hing say, "Chirp, chirp I" outside the hutters, and a little tap, tap, against liem. Sho waited, and listened a molent; and then it came again?a sharp ttle cry?"Weet, weet!" She opened tho shutters, and in flew 8 ttle yellow bird. He had been fast sleep in some high tree, when the bright : ashes and the loud rain woke him up < nd frightened him so that he came tc lo window and begged to bo let in. i I think he must have felt just as you i o when you have a bad dream and want i j creep into mamma's be l. Perhaps he ; nought his house was on fire, or that the < ood had r.nmo nrrnin ! ? I j But, when ho got in, the gaslight and : t io strange place frightened him still ' lore. He flew round and round the : j eiling until Aunt Annie was afraid he ] rould batter himself to death. She had turned the gas down very low, ) as to quiet him, when he dashed into and put it out; hut he did not burn 1 imsclf. ' Aunt Annio put a towel over the water- i itcher, so that he could not full in, and 1 lo took caro to move about very softly. * fesently, the poor little fellow, finding i 1 lot nobody wanted to hurt him, settled | ? own on the gas-fixture at the head of j f 10 bed. folded bis Hrod min?? I i _ ? ? ? ?? w% mu(jO| vuuacu is little head (which must havo ached, J om sure, from the bumps he had given * ) under his feathers and went to sleep. ^ e looked very queer indeed?just as ' lough ho had no head.' * His tiny claws could just clasp nicely 4 mnd the smooth perch he had choscn. ^ Aunt Annie left the shutters and the ? indow both open, while birdie slept 1 1 night on this funuy roost; and, when c e bright summer morning came, ho * iw out into the fre3h air, before any- 8 >dy was awake. Away he went; and 8 3 never saw him again. a How astonished he must have been * ben he opened his eyes, to find him- v If in a bedroom, sitting on a gas-fix* 8 ret I guess he must have thought to n tnself: _ I "?low did I come here! I went to sleep last night in a tree; 1 And how I got here I do not seel" Earth Wares. A. capital way to discover the passage v earth waves is by means of the oil in c ccrosene lamp. If the lamp be of glass C d half filled with kerosene oil, when ! 5 shocks como ripplos will be seen to ii vrance regularly along the Surface of o1 > oil These are not ripp'.ea like those ti de by a jar of a building, etc. They b i across the oil steadily, not tremu- el tsly, and follow one another with reg- tt rity. Such is the reporter's ex peri'i'klA tirno A* 0 ..v .vox nog 1UOUD TOVOlttl Wines. II e oil being at the level of the eye its tion Is easily seen. The shocks here ae from the west, perhaps a little th of west, as this oily tell-tale in died.?Salttffh (If. (7.) New. ... v.'/.:. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS, Instantaneous photographs of the hearts and iu'o-tinos of various auimals 1 have enabled Dr. W. O. Thompson to de- i t ermine; the action of the organs more J clearly and accurately than is nossiblo bv i _ ? I other method*. Such photographs mtiy j prove of grout valuo in showing changes effected by drugs, as well as in their physiological teachings. The glaciers of tho Alps havo been found by Forel to change in size quite regularly?a period of growth of fifteen to thirty years being followed by a corrc- | spending period of diminution. The in- j crease seems to coincide with periods of . cold and wet years, and the decrease with . periods of warm and dry seasons. Since 1875 the glacicrs have been growing. A curious export of Now Zealand is a i peculiar fungus which ^rows on the trees I in some sections, and which is sold only i in China, where the demand is rapidly I increasing. Its uses do not seem to be well understood, but English officials have reported that it is employed as a blood-purifying medicine, as food in soups, and as a dye. A common cause of blindness is opacity of the cornea, to overcome which various means have been tried. The new plan of circuHr cauterization of the cornea with an ckctrically heated wire ' Is reported to be proving very success- i . fvd in Fin nee. whnrf in r>n? nnan ia . ' months of this treatment restored vision I ' to eyes which had been sightless for 14 i ' years. ^ Attention has been called to the singu- . lnr fact that European residents of the 1 ports of China and Japan nre peculiarly liable to death from aneurism?the ' broadening and bursting of an artery? * which is probably not so prevalent in * any other communities in the world. During a period of seven years this disense is said to have ranked fourth * among the causes of death in Yoko- * hama. c An inventor at Shanghai, China, has ^ contrived an electric sword, which, when the point touches the party attacked, sends a powerful shock through ^ him, and if not immediately killing, will at least put him Jiors de combat. The ^ sword is an ordinary military sabre, but c along its whole length is let in a fine ^ platinum wire, which ends at tho point ( of the weapon. A small but very poweTful storage battery is carried strapped about the waist, much the same as a T cartridge-box. Insulated wires connect fill a hnf 1 "* 1 ?? mm me sworn, ' ana Dy ^ pressing a button the holder can com- u ple'o the circuit at pleasure. The best examples of the eagre or bore, the phenomenon in which the tide moves in all at once, are said to bo fur- p nished by the mouths of the rivers Ama- S zon, Hoogly and Tsicntang. In the case v of the lust mentioned river, in China, the (< wave plunges on like an advancing cata- d ract, four or five miles in brearlth and d thirty feet high, and thus passes up the ci stream to a distance of eighty miles at the ai rate of twenty-five miles an hour. The ai change from ebb to flood tide is almost b Instantaneous. In the Amazon the whole a tide passes up the stream in five or six tc waves, following one another in rapid in succession, and each twelve to fifteen feet cl tiigh. tc ? tl 180 Whales Ban Ashore, g< As the packot Oipray of Westray, in |L)1 th? Orkney Islands, ^was returning to p, that place from the Kirkwall Lammas c] narket, and passing through the West- p< ay Firth, the crew descried a large w jhoal of whales disporting themselves in a ;he eddy of the firth. The boat vv ihortened sail, and some of the passen- da ers took the small boat, and both boats til :ried to keep them in toward the land. g0 Largo numbers of boats came off from ;he shore. At a whale hunt the first joat come 10 is iniccn 1101a or,despite the >wnership, launched nnd manned, and fo :very useful weapon is instantly se- tl< :ured, such as scythes, knives, spears, of fee. Tho shoal is cautiously approached pi ind surrounded, when the crews, by loud sil loiscs drive the whales ashore. A boat ni tontaining some English tourists, who lad been out seal shooting, came on the ac cene, and with their guns wounded th ome of the monsters, who ran straight bu ishore, the whole shoal following. At Fi his junction the noise of the dying da rhales gives a strange impTossion to the in cene. Ropes were produced, and the th nonsters, all nearly or over twenty feet, ca rere dragged above high water mark, of 1he number found to he lAnd?w1 wo? Tl 80.?London Standard. pe re Celestial Equivocation. pC Regarding the credibility of Chinese ritnosscs Collector Hagor is very skeptial, says a writer in the San Francisco IhronicU, and relates that on one occaion when a Ohinese was refused a land- wc )g he had the Mongol brought to his Its Sice and asked him a series of ques- th? ons, such as: "Have you lived here an eforef" "Did you live in this city?*' de to., (o which he received affirmative g" tplies. Finally, he asked: pei "Now, all that you have told me is 8'z ilse, isn't itt" coi "Yea," replied the Chinese. dM "Not a word of truth in it!" air "No; not a word of truth in it." Mr "All a lief" gi? "Yes; all heap lie." wa "T9 CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS. The nrch was familiar to the Assyrian! as early as the ninth century B. C. In old times tho schoolmaster wai often called upon to exorcise spirits, aa learning was considered necessary for an exorcist. The first herring c iught each year ofl the coast of Holland belongs to th< King, as the first English sturgeon belongs to Queen Victoria. An eccentric character in Susquehanni county, Pennsylvania, has an immense nn f*o " * " in nuiuu uru codnnca 200 rattlesnakes. He captured them early in th? spring, when they were coming from their winter homes. Among the voters at the rcccnt Alahama election was Thomas Garrett ol Ilolinau'a Precinct, who cast his first voto for John Adams in the fall of 1796. lie was then 20 years old, and on hii next birthday will be 119 years old. The suggestion is made that the question of fuel for steamers?the substitution of petroleum for coal?be solved bj freezing petroleum, using it in the form of bricks. It can be packed as safely as coal, it is urged, even more so. In Northern California there is in use the 4'frost bell," which consists of a wire running from different parts of the vineyard to tho house. On the vineyard end of the wire is an apparatus that rings a bell at the house when the thermometer iescend* to a certain degree. "When the bell is let off tho occupants of the house know that their vines are in danger, and immediately repair to the vineyard and ight fires in different quarters, and thus prevent, through the agency of this ingenious electrical device, the loss of torn >f the most lucious fruit grown on th? Pacific slope. The Earl of Nor.humbcrland, in the ;ime of Henry VII., had three country louses, but he had only furniture foi >ne. So when he moved from one ta he other he had to take his beds, chairs, ables and kitchen utensils with him. The servants who took care of tho pota ind pans and such like were called the >lack guard; and as they were the lowst of all the household, that name came >y degrees to mean any kind of low, oarse, rude person. My lord and ladj reakfasted daily a quart of beer, a quart f wine, half a chine of boiled beef 01 autton, or, on fasting days, salt fish, cd herrings or sprats. For dinner they fould have sometimes chickens, geese, ork or peacocks. A chicken cost a hall enny, a goose throo pence or fourpence, J pheasant or a peacock a shilling. ' j Canines of High Degree. Dogs of many sorts one sees in Newort, and tome very beautiful ones. plendid great St. Bernards of tawny | ellow; fat, low-bodied Daschhounds )r turnspit dogs); ugly bow-legged bullogs, etc., meet the eye, and some pot ogs, but not so many as of old. One urious little dog looks like an enlarged ad very fat bat. He has pointed ears, nfl nil fli/? cVir. ' vuv wn.iu j %ju tau auo unuer Ilia lanket through liia thin black hair haj smooth, unpleasant look, which is said > come from his being oiled every morn. ig like a prize-fighter. This dog is the aild?or pup?of luxury, and belongs > a rich lady of Newport. At one of le florists' stores on the avenue is a tiny . r cotcli terrier, no larger than a kitten; it like other small creatures, he is very jgnacious, hence is fastened to a large lain, nt the end of which one faintly 5:ceive8 this diminutive but fierce beast, hose bark is hardly louder than that of mosquito. A man driving in an open agon on Thames street was seen a few iys since with three Scotch terriers sit;.-J tig on the seat beside him, and not a \ rul else in fchn A7".? r ? , VM.vawi ?*WMSfSJSIV JLfGblOr* A Dispelled Delusion. The shining metallic incrustation und upon the teeth of some of the cat2 which are pastured along the banks the Carson river has been popularly onounccd to be a coating of gold and Iver deposited upon the teeth from the j ineral impregnation of the water and A ass, attracted through the magnetic jfl tion of the animal's body. Some of is bullion incrustation or deposit was j bmitted recently to Professor P. E. elding, chief assayer at the Consoliited California and Virginia assay office this city. Upon critical analysis of e material he pronounces it to bo pure Icium sulphide, with not the least traco I either gold, silver or quicksilver. j ius another hopoful delusion is dis> \ lied, and the contemplated source of 1 rcnue from scraping the animals' teeth riodically rendered useless and worthis.? Virginia City Enterprise. The Smallest Engine, / 'J" The smallest oscilating engine, the >rld has been made by John R. Hare i bore is one-sixteenth of au inch, and 3 stroke one-eighth. The wheel shaft ] d crank weigh eight grains, the cylin- J r five, and tho stand and pillar twelve | lina, making the whole weight one 1 any weight one grain. It is about the I e of a half-grown collar buttpn, and is nplctely covered by a No. 5, or child's ffl mble. It will be run by compressed fl , It makes 3,000 revolutions a minute. . Hare has also made a comparative ,nt, which is covered with an English. lnut shell. ?Baltimore Sun.