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Augustus Van Quirk was her fortunate flame (Victoria loved his euphonious name) A wt ak little fellow, Whose whiskers wer yellow,; W.th little white hands and a yo ce rather mellow. He took her to oporas, dances and plays; He courted and wooed her in various ways He whispeed a store Or affectionate lore That blighted the hopes of a dozen or more. They were married at last;'twas a most famous affair, Made brilliant by presents of real plated waro 'T. ttransient display, Th k of the day, And this a o ( . )ie y'ar t Quirk Has never been guilty of going to work. Just over the way Is a small sign to-dg, Boarding-by Mrs. Van Quirk" (nee Victoria Giay). The Portrait. Maurice was wandering aimlessly In the depths of the forest. It had ceased rain ing, but the drops of water were still rolling from leaf to leaf" with the slight sound of a nelrJy?okh4}sto4 joi4iptrigg ling Into its halffllled basin, and in the distance the dark path opened out into a wet glade of a de.ep green of exfluisite soft ness. The trunks of the treeswere very black, their branches blacker still, and the massive boughs of .th chest ut trees a ove the young planter's had n:ied l4ce , igh arches of a cathedral at the hour when all dark in the church and when the colored windows east into the gloom, gleams of light do intense and so mysterious that you would think them lit up by a fire of live coals from withont. Maurice loved this hour at the dqcline of day, when after the rain the sun has .not shone out, and when a gray tint is cast ver everything, blending outlines, soften ng. angles and investing every shape with smooth and exquisite roundness.' He walked slowly, discovering every moment in the well-known forest some beauty till ihen unknown, and he was thrilled- to the cry depths of his being by that tender ad iration for nature which is one of. the aracteristics, of genius. Hlaving reached the glade,- ho -looked ound him. The grass was .green and rilliant; the delicate leaves of the shrubs, hining beienth the water which had askied them, formed a fine, lacq-llke net orik against.the dark backgrounel of the great forest beyornd.. He stopped in or ier to see better, to observe better and to take in better the impreslion of the wet forest, more impressive and more hiuman, so to speak, In its great shadows.than beneath the sunshine in all the splendor of the day. The pretty and graceful figure of a roung girl stood out against the foliage .of ho birch trees. Blue h4anced .with: a uple movement,. without perceiving 3Mau ice, who, as immovable as the trunk of a hestnt tree,. was wat,ching Jr. ,' theyp we steps fr if1(11? t3he ydu,6g ,r per. lved Im. Bhe started, and let fall a few twIgs eom the iagot of wood that she was carry pgon her head. "You frighten me," said she smiling; ad hei black- eyes shoife butt itiily be. o ath the tangle of her blonde hair. Hie looked at her without answering. A omplete harmony, which no words can ander, reigned between the slender figure, oe laughing face, the lace like foliage of o glade and the tints of th lag~~~ -10 port She wh topush b eri Lair, wTch ad fallen over her face, but he prevented er by agesture. - "Remnain as you are." of his young model. She was a peasan but delicate atnd refined as the young girls of the peasantry 'oftets are before their complete -and, oftse $gl ppypt The eyes weyd Akegdy Mip if the smi9gas grtiil $l1atot "Hpy old gre yot\se p ey9b [still working. "I shall soon be sIxteen." *"Alreadyl I saw you three-yd16 6'~ little bit of a thing." day I shall have lovers." cent eyes, that childish .mouth, all these were to be profaned by the boorish gal lantry of a rustic! Maurice felt a vague jealousy dawn in his heart. , "Will you have me for a lover?" said he, resuming his work. "Oh! youl you are a gentleman, and I anm a peasant; good girls do not listen to gentlemen." That is the village code of morals; the young man answered nothing. "I cannot see any longer; will you come back here to-morrow, a little earlier?" "For my portrait?" "Yes." "I will come. Good evening sir." She raised her bundle of wood, and went away Into the deepening shadows, beneath the archway of the dark chestnut trees. Maurice wont home dreaming of the fair haired child. He had seen her ofte:t, and had always looked at her, but with the eyes of an arklat.,, Now it seemed to him that ho looked at Her with the eyes of a jealous lover t'hat night and the next day seemed interminable to him; and long be fore the appointed hour he was in the glade. Ile worked alone, and when the girl ar rived, a little late-already playing the co quette-she was quite surprised. "It is really myself!" said she. "Will. you give it to me?" "No, I will make you a little one foryour self?" "And that one, what will you do with i't? "It will go to Paris, it will be put in a large frame, it will be hung in a bgqutiful .allery, and ev;yyp,g v9 .m'and look "Ail yes, I kn , in th'e,lbitbii." "Hiave you her lithe axibition? There are gentlemen painters here who work for the exhibition, as they say, but they never"took my portrait." Daylight was fading gently; Maurice found as on the preceding evening, the ex quisite soft tints which had so charmed him and his work advanced a hundred cubits toward posterity, Iiq saw her again several times beneath the checkerdaylight of his improvised stu dio, and he took pleasure in making this work his best one. Already celebrated, lie ba( no, nsed to make him ielf a ,name, and et' ld *as duie' that this icture would put the seal to his reinoun. By: the tinp he was quite, patistled with it, winter had come, and Maurice loved his little model. lie loved her too much to tell her, so, too. much to sully this field sower of whom he could not make his wife, but enough to suffer at the thought of leav ing her. She had none of those qualities. which secure the happiness of a life; neither depth of feeling nor the devotion which causes ue to forget everything, nor the passion which is an excuse for every thing; she was a pretty field flower, a little vain, a little coquettish, with no great faults, nor yet great virtues. Maurice knew that she was not for him, and yet he loved the graceful lines of her figure, as yet scarcely developed, and with her home spun go'w> chastely enfolded without dis guising. He loved the deep eyes, the hiughing mouth, the fair hair that was al ways in disorder, the little handkerchief tied across her breast-he loved it all, and it was~with reluctance that he went away. We always go away with reluctance wvhen we have nothing to hope for on our return. It is so hard to leave behind a bit of one's life, of which nothing is to remain. He carried away his picture, however, and It was before It that he passed his hap piest hours that winter, alwvays perfecting a work which was already~ perfect. The picture wats admired; tihe critIcs who were unanimous in their enthusiasm, declared .that such faces could not exist, except in the brain of a poet, or in the imagination of a painter. Maurie. listened smiling, and kept to himself the secret of that swecet face that had Inspired him. lie received brilliant offers for his picture; never had so high a price been offered for any of his works; but he refused, and lhe r6fused also ,tollQW .it, to be )copied. Qimce he was uee r td poise~ anything o.0his model b,ut her likeness, lie intended that that should lie his alone. - Autumn was drawing near wvhen he re ~urn d,to he vlage; twice had the fires of - . tZobnhdeti 'the whirls of the merry anee since he had painted the portral, and when he thought of the young girl, It was with a smile that was somewhat sad, as he asked himsnlf on which of the village rustics she hed fixed her choice. li fl r ago on trli to of October-lhe wandered down the long path; but it was no longer dark; it wasi ~tisvrsed by an amber sunbeam, which seemed to hayc fastened itself on every one if $1 ,eggs. rwplhh ggiver~d, on sthe Iabches or crackl~ed' beneatifhis'feet, The odor of the dead leaves brought to him a whole world of regrets, of remnem brances of bitterness, stirring up within ini, sn upopaka lo1sadness,and,a more' comn 'p'legg disgust, wIt}u ovorything that ho 'htad ,Roughtyph that 1tImp. , ,When~ le reachaed thq,5ad he~ atgOwi1uoi)ne epothere eighteen months before he had made the' sketch wlich had since crowned his renown. tIo~old stone seemed to laugh at bun Ironloally for all that he had suffered. have aeoed painters, and have followe1 flces to chimeras the real goods of this world: the love of a beautiful girl, the glory which talent gives, the fortune which success brings. While he was thus denying the goods of his youth, he saw coming toward him, in the well-known path, the young girl of other days, who had grown up, who had become a woman, in -one word. She was not alone; a rustic was walking beside her holding her by the little flnger; a fine fellow, for, that matter, st"ong and well made and richly dressed for a peasant. IIe bent to ward her, snd from time to time wiped away with his lips a tear from the young girl's cheek. On seeing Maurice they stopped, confused and surprised. ''And I was for that," thought ho, " that I iespected this flower?" And he was thinking with contemptuous pity of his folly when the young girl a( dressed him: "They will not let us marry, sir," said she, her voice broken with sobs. "I am ppor, he has some property, and his mother will not have me for a daughter-in-law. She talks of disinheriting him." "And you do not wan't him' to be dis inherited, do you?" said Maurice ironically. "Indeed!" answered the lad, "we must live." "That is only too true! I pity you, my children." They went away. Maurice left alone with his head bowed down on his hands, thought for'a long titne. His idle fancy had'flown away-nothing remained of the slender young girl but' a pegsatit who was still handsome, but very near becoming an ordinary matron. "So it was with our dreams," said 1t, risipg. MThe only sure thing that we caa gather from them is to do a little good with them." The same evening he wrote to Paris, and a few days later he presented himself at the young girl's house. "I have sold your portrait," he said to her, in the presence of her astonished' niother; "I received a large sum for it. It is quit,e a fortune. I have brought it to you in order that you may marry your lover. Down in the Crater. A Philadelphia traveler writes from Naples as follows: "Now that Mount Vesuvius is belching out smoke and fire, a Visit to the summit is the fashionable thing to do. Recently, the eruption being unu sually strong, I made a hurried visit to the top of the mountain. On the way to the Ilgrmitage, asinall cafe, near the Observa tory which was erected by the Government to watch the operations of the mountain, you pass many vineyards, and through a district showing its volcanic origin. You can go as far as the hermitage in a car riage, but after that it is necessary to walk, and,to assist you in that fatiguing opera tion, one guide will poll at a strap he has placed around you, and the other will push behind. The material over which you walk'in some places is red, in others black, and of a shifting character, so that at times you slip back two steps after taking one. From one to two hours is required to reach thQ summit, but, when reached, if the day be 'clear, the grand panoramic view of Naples, the Bay, the Island of Capri and ruins of Pompeii are all distinctly marked. The crater is almost in an am phitheatre, three-fourths of which are en closed, while one-fourth is open. The en closing walls rise above the bed of the crater from 80 to 50 feet, and are apparent ly ccmposed of sulphur. The diameter of the opening is over 300 yards, and the whole of this area is filled wvith lava on fire, buit crusted on the surface with a skin a few inches (deep, which Is of chilled lava. Looking between cracks in this covering you'see the glowing fires only an inck or two b)elow your feet. rThe operation of the mountain in throwing out the burning lava Is as regular almost as the moyements of a clock or the piston of a steam engine. The dense smoke and fumes of sulphur continu ally issue from the cone, and at every pulsa tion of the great mountain, a noise is heard like the firing of cannon, and then inmense qumantities of molten lava shoot into the air at least 40 feet, and spreading out in its (descent something like a lady's fan, pre sents a sight to the eye that it is not possib e to see in any other place. This upheaval is continuous, and senms to get more wvond rous at each grand display of shooting lava. Notwithstanding this operation, It is safe to descend the crater, that is, the opening be tween the cone, through which the lavo is ejected, and the outer rim of the crater. In your descent you pass over thinly en crusted lava, which can be penetrated with a sharp stick, and the fire seen benieath. As you descend dhe noise of the explosions every half minute or so, and the volumes of mn,oke above your head lit up by the sun light,'croate an impression of awe and ukinder tipon the mind. At night the burning lava as it pours over the side of the iinountain is plainly visible, and the up heaival of tIme burning mass above the cone could be plainly seen at Naples. The do seQat from the mountain is quite easy, and canm be made from the top to the starting point in eighti or ten minutes by an active yoftpg man. *Itcearkabte sagnoily of a aoa. A emarkable- Instance of the sa'gacity of animals occuredi recently at ',ho residence of Peter Killcan, New Orleans. - The partici pants in the event about to be related were e goat,' which for sonmc years past has bsen a groat pet with the children of the !amily, and a pup, a comparatively rio int arrival in the domeoste circle. The goat and dog were on the best of terms, and ha~d conic to enjoy occaslonly -ramhbles together ar-mund the.yard during the goat's spare momients, $9 fahroer6 ho oyster cans door scrap. 'era or other edibles for it to dlispse of. The simgular hlavior of the goatt drng the af tdrn$n, sonme days since, .attracted the at tention of the family. It ran to and frci cr,ying In the most piteous manner, anJ Woam4 half distraete l. Some on at las uusu ed thatithe a l a should be folloW d4d t eoumingoAp recmate tte fact that 'id Qend44'retO pled ti. way to the w'ai he yat heres 1 ?n3 cOmtypin he puy suI resu1 t( the Wt '0ip ktod It Death by Decaplitation. A special reporter was recently sent by the Paris "iparo to witness the execution < at Beauvais of an atrocious murderer c named Prunier. The moment the guillo tine had done its work the body and head f weic placed in a basket and taken to the cemetery, where Drs. Evrard, Le Sage, 1 Chevaliier, Lesgnillion, lochu And )eciusne were present. M. Evrard had asked for 1 and ob.ained the body of the felon for ex periments, which," says the reporter, "we followed with deep interest, for besides their purely seieztitle character, they re- 4 lated to a question so often discussed-does life survive decapitation? Five minutes 1 had clapsed from the moment when the I head was separated from the trunk, and it i was placed on a stone In the open air, in I front of the little chapel of tho cemetery. Comparatively little blood had flowed, and - some drops were running from the carotid I artery. Although the neck was very short s the cutting had been very clean. Pinched I stuck with needles, submitted to the most 1 painful experiments, the head never moved I the face reilhained unaltered, not a muscle < ogvered. The left car was completely 9 calcined In the flame of a candle without < obtaining the smallest appearance of sensi- f bility. Then they divided the skin of the ' head into four paits, and, using hammer, I scalpel and saw, they took away the e upper portion of the skull and withdrew the brami. This occupied ten minutes. In- a mediately on being submitted to an elec rie battery the remains of the head at once dis- < played nervois contractions--the teeth t chattered, the mouth shut, the dye and c cheek made those grimaces which are ob served in sleeping people when tickled < with a feather. With the body the same 9 result was obtained. It was absolutely t without feeling. It was opened, theheart, I lungs and Intestines were removed, and a then, on being placed in contact with ,tlhe I electric battery, the arms and legs instantly t moved. At this moment Dr. Evrard asked i me what o'clock it was, and It appeared that forty minutes had elapsed from the time of the execution. Lastly game the concluding experiment. Under the action of the battery a shred of hanging flesh, dis placed by the operatins, stood on end, oscillated, and quickly placed itself back on the spot from which it had been out." The conclusion of the doctors is that the move ments observed in the bodies of persons guillotined on being subjected to the action of electricity are absolutely mechanical and display neither any remainder of life nor 9 of sensation. The experiment will be the 1 subject of a metnoir, which will shortly be presented to the Academy of Medicine by M. Evrard, and in which he will demon strate that death by decapitation is instant aneous. how the Pyramida Were uullt. To get the base of the pyramid--702 feet e on each edge-perfectly level, - they must have adopted the method of ew.ting. out. from the rock a place for the foundation of the pyramid, and them pouring water, marking the height to which it rose on the sides. To obtain a due north and south line It would have been necessary to bore into the solid rock in such a direction that from the shaft thus made the north pole star could have been observed at Its lowest point In the small circle it makes around the pole. Then by boring another small per pendicular hole to meet the shaft, and drop ping a plumb line and connecting the ori- i lice at the surface with the orifice of the r shaft at Its corresponding point there was I formed a true north and south iine. Ac- t cording to Ilerottotus a fresh set of 100.- 1 000 men was employed in building the i pyramids eyery three months, so that there s was plenfy of labor to conduct all these ex- t perinments. After getting the base stones t laid the other layers of stone could bhe put t on carrying up the shaft that had been a suink. This would terminate one of thei faces, and to continue it higher It would have to turn or branch out in another dlirec tion. A reflected ray of light would give them the means of turning the shaft at right angles. Thus was completed the inst.ru-t meat for tho measuring of the exact ihne, and its large gallery into which the Interior a passage widened out would be useful for observing the stars passing over it, and, being very deep, the stars could be seen In ,~ the day time, and observed not only by one I observer but by many, who could take the time of the stars southing at tihe same umo nment, and get rid of what is called "per~ sonal equation" or differences in the readi ness of different obser-vers. A Chuid'i Mr-veona Escape. A lady and two children were on the way fromt Kansas City to $taunton, Va.4 The youugest one was about one year of age, and while its mother was asleep It I crep)t back to a rear seat, and clin-bing up I to an open window,'leaned quite a distance I out. A sudden jar of the traIn caused It4 to fly out of thme whidow unobserved by any I of the passengers. The train was near Parkersburg, and the motLher happening to1 awake, a moment after,: spcovered her] oss and a search through thk r falling to re-1 veal the infant, she became frantic with grief. The passengers all enhisted in thei search, and, surmisinig that the baby had fallen out, the train was 'instantif stopped1 and a large crowd went back, and at a die- 1 tance of at least half a mile, discovered the lost -me sitting on a pile of brush, where it had adighted crying lustily. 'rho joy of the mother In beholding her baby safe was truly pathetie. It waB found that the child was totally uninjured, with the exception of a slIght bruise on its head. Domestic Economy.4 An excellent housekeeper, whose success in dressing on small allowance made hor b)y ther husband is a mystery, and who,.always complains of the frightfully high price of overythiny, is settling accounts wIth hew green grocer. She-I neverhad you send mec this bunch ofasparagus at .0 francs; it was 5-I recol lect it was only 5.. IIe-i beg your pardon, madame; you see it was qtuite a long time ago and per hapa your meomry-- -- She (triumphantly)-Oh, I know it was 5. Beec, here is the house-expense book I keep for my-husband; lhe is very particular about his accounts. "One bunch of asprera gus, 10 fra. If it had been the price you say the entry would have been, "Ono bunch of,asparagus, 12 franca. Don't you :THU dlfforetnce between~ a pocket: mnesure-and a vegetaraina Is:One is a foot rule, and the other is a i-ool tool., '11ie Wife and1l tie, lirahr. 'rom was to be gone several dals, and I lid not like to stay alone, at .t 'Susie to omae antid stay with te. 'T'hvr,. had been everal burglaries attempt ed and successful, Lad I felt little more nervous Ih,an usual. esides, it man who owed Tom quite a arge sum of mloney haid come to payl hint, aid I had taken the money, and h.id not een able to get to the bank and deposit It. had often heard that bmiitlars kept track >f all these things, and taIlked the matter >ver with Susie, as a way of fortifying murselves. We grew more and more nervous every ninute, and when bed tune camne we could tardly get coura'e enough to go-and lock he doors. We finally did it, howoler, and heni the consoling thoutght came to t' that ve shoulu have done it saveral hours sooner, -that if there were any burglars about, hey had had a glorious time to get in and ecrete tltemnselves. It was not comltorting, mnt could not be helped; and we tried to luek up courage -enough to search the ouse. We lually did ii, and found no ae, though Susie thought s:hb had when ,he put her hand on Tom's overcoat in the loset, and drew back with a scream that rightened us both half. out of our wits. Ve talked a little after we went to bed, but eli a>leep quite soon, In spite of our auxi ty. In the middle of the night we were wakened >y a terrific crash in our bed om. I think I never experienetd a feeling f more perfect terror than I did as I lay here, breathless, with the thoughts of our vening's conversation rushing over me, mad the confused conselousness of that ra3h, which had awakenedt me from it ound sleep. 1 was sure soate one was in lie room. The blinds were closed; it wias >erfectly dark, and utterly inpossible to see nyone if a person were there. 1 imagined to had knocked over something in his at empts to go about in the co-nplete dark less. I reached over and touched Susie, autioulsly. "Are you awake ?" I whispered, as near oiselessly as possible. "Yes.' "I)id you hear anythling'" This tune vith my head under the ciothes, to shut mut the sound. "Yes." "What do you suppose it is ?' "I1l don't know." Then we lay perfectly motionless, and airly shivering with terror. Alter what cented an hour, but I suppose was not alf that time. I- whispered again : "Do rou suppose there is any one here ?" "Yes. Don't whisper." 'I'hen we lay still tgain ; so perfectly till that I felt as if petritled, and it'seoled is if we should never be able to breathe ree again. At the end of another seeming y indefinite, or infinite, period of time, 3usie whispered to me: "What shall we lo? Do you dare strike a light ?" "No," very decidedly. Another long time of perfect stillness and itter rigidity of muscle, in our attempts to >reathe quietly. Then Susie whispered gain: "I don't see how any one could eep still so long. Iti nust be a mis take." Just then there came a report like that f a pistol, but not as loud, though we felt are that waiS 'hat it was; and it. seemed a if it were in the kitchen or down the ell9r, we could not tell which. We be ame bientlaless with terror Ilien. What ould it be ? Whom could they lie shoot ng ? Then I remembered I he dog. I had aot heard him bark, but it must be they tiad shot him. We did not dare move af or that, and lay there perfectly still until t began to grow daylight. Such a time as t seemed-judgeng by our feelings, we hould have been old and toot bless when hat faint streak of dawn crept in through lie blinds. What do you think it liselosed o our terrified eyes? A set of laanging hlv es, loaded witha books, int ana ignoaman as heap on the floor, wvitha the (cordl brokent ahecre It, land been worn by thec pictuare-tnail vhaach supported it, aul so ntot leavinag us lhe chanco to bellcve that, somte one lad nocked it down. Anad whaen we wvent to beo head off the collar-stairs anid founad a an of toamatoes popped opena, oia the broad haelf, we knew w~hat land been shtoothing. Tom said: "Just like a cotaple of wo iten, to scare thaemselves to death: Whay lidn't you load mty revolver at ighat, and iavo It ready ?"~ Baron Trentok Rivailled. The jail at Geneva, Switzerlanad, conasists >f three stories aiad Is separnated front the uae dua Choltre by a walh reahing to the ccoiad story. At the anagle of the buildinag iearest to the street are three wilndowvs, me above the oter, all haeavily barred; lae ighacst of themta Is further paotected lby hood or peat-house and( belongs to thae >rIson workshop. Recently theo arder-su >erintendlent of thae workshiop was having It leaned out by two prisoners, one oif whaom iears the name of Menassade. Wheni thec work was nearly finhshaed Menaassade was old to carry some chtiders into the yard. Whaen thaoy arrived it the yaird the superin-. endent was surprised to see a long cord laiagling from tnte workshaop window, iIe an hastily upstairs to aiscertalin what t,his uould maan, leaving the prisonier alonae wvitha hae turnkey. The tuarnkey, having nao ap rhaension as to the safety of his chaarge, 'an to the chief jailer ona dty to inaformn aim of what had hiappoened. Under the >ont-house of the workshaop window tRio uperinatendent found a rope-ladlder, of whaich thec cord hanging from thle wVind(ow ormaed a part. It lad been placed there )y Menassade when lhe was cleaninag the WIndow early In thae morinug. amnd, as be lame known later on, the maaking of it land >ccuipied eight months. his work was ahiocmaking, and with thae bits of strinags, broadh, boot-laces, &c., lhe nmanaged to so. rete, lhe wove a long rope, amnd .then with pieces of woodt he lad picked ump hero and here lie formaed It Into a ladder in every respect sufflicit for his purpose. Uis Idea was when lie took the cinders Into the yard, n whichh occasions hae was unaccomtpanled, to draw down the ladder from the penat lIouse, mount by meaus of it to the top of. thue wall, then detach It (to whaich end h'o haud contrived a very Ingenious device), do-I mcend by It into the Ruem dui Cleitre, and gt alear away. On tihe retura) of the superin. Londent to thec yard Monassade had dilmap peared. The theory fommed by the prje9n, authorities was tht-twhile thte suprintpn.: dent went up stairs to the syorkshuo aLsad, by the means of has Lbe connivance of the. ved to get over the, g escape. Under this tuke was Ar'reeted and pl o.1I totogramus wer. Lions, gendarmes stationed on all the roads leading to the frontier, and every place in Geneva likely to conceal a fugitive from justice, carefully overhauled. All this time the missing man was inside the jail. The momeut the turnkey had turned his back, he had followed the superintendent to the workshop, and while the latter was busy with his discovery of the rope-hulder he had hidden himself in a place where it ne'ver occurred to anybody to look for hin. Hiigh above the superintendent's roe trum, whence he surveys the prisoners at work, is a window, almost (lark and sunk deeply in the wall. With the agility and noiselessness of a cat, Menassade climbed up to this receas and doubled himself up in such a fashion that when, shortly afterwards, the police.scarchcd the room it never occur red to them that the bundle :: rags they maw lying there was other than what it seemed to be. In this position he remalnVd ittil night, when he descended from his poerch, and with the help of the tools found in the workshop removed a boatd from tbe' tage which sustains the superintendent's rostrum Creeping inside he made it il.s tiding place for eight days and eight nights, only coming out in the Intervals between the warders' rounds to prepare for another plan of escape which he .had conceived. lie fixed a hook on the board to keep it in its place when he was inside. As there was a lavatory attached to the workshop he had an ample supply of water, and he sustained life on two slices of bread a day, abstracted from the breakfasts of the pris oners, which were placed near his hiding place, More he dared not take for fear of exciting suspicion. With a piece of steel amid a stone he struck a light ; by the help of some cardboard he converted an old pe troleun lamp into a dark lantern, ane from the string which abounded in the workshop Iti manufactured at strong knotted rope. On Sunday mornings after the rooms were swept it was the custom of the ward.ra to carry the waste materials ip to the garret, on which occasions they generally left the door unlocked. Menaesade's plan was to remain concealed until the following Sun day, follow the warders to the garret, slip in unperceived and lie there perdu until nightfall. Then the garret window being unbarred,, he would, by the aid of his knot ted rope, have let himself down to the win dow-ledge below, on which therc is .sufll clent standing room for a man of his cat like agility, and so on until he reached the wall, whence tl-e descent into the street had been a comparitively- easy task. As lie would have taken the rope with him, no body would have known how or when lie had escaped. But this hopeful scheme was marred by an untoward incident-one of the warders In leaving the workroom turn ea the key in the lock. Then Menassatde's courage failed hun; another week of semi s'arvail in and suspense under the superin tendent's rostrum on the chance of the door being left open the following Sunday was more than human nature could bear ; and when the warders returned they were surprised to see before them the man they had so cagorly sought, and for whom the p:b even then were scouring the country far'and wide. "Ale voita!" he exclaimed, '"je ne rends /" The individual most re jolced at this denouement was natnrally the disgraced turnkey who had been locked up a whole week for an offense of which he was innocent. As for the superintendent, he is still greatly disturbed, that fo' seven lays he should have literally sat upon one :f his prisoners without knowing it. nurglary as ani Art. As one of the mot prominent young bur ylars of San Francisco was walking out of yourt the other day Just after having secur .d an acquittal regarding his latest job by t prompt and business-like "divy" withthe powers that be at the usual rates, a well :c-do bat anxious lookinmg stranger touched als arm and beckoned huim into a doorway. "You are 'Teddy, the Ferret,' aren't you," asked thme gentleman, "the mua who wvas t.ried for safe-cracking ?" "Well, wot of it I" replied the house breaker. "Why, just this-you'll excuse my speaking so low, but the fact is I've come ill the wvay from the San Joaquin to look upi a party in y.nur line of business." "Yes-I-well, I've a little proposition to make to you." "Exactly," said time Ferret, calmly ;" "you're a bank cashier down in the koot "How did you know that ?" stammered the gentleman, much amazed. "And your cash and accounts are to be gone over by the directors on the first, .and as you can't r.elize on your stocks, you want me to gag you seime time next week, shoot your lint full of holes, find the combhnatioh In yotm breast pocket and go through the safe in the regular way." "Great heavens, man I. how dId you find all that -out ?" "Why, I guessed it. It's the regular thing, you know. Got three orders' to at lend to ahead of yours now. Lemumo see. L'an't do anything for you next week, but night give you Wednesday and Thursday of the week after. Hlow'll that suit you?" The cashier said lhe thought he could make that do, and in less than five minutes they had struck a bargain and arranged the whole affair. Tranisformnation Etoene. As a ferry-boat steamed out of tie tumltow slip on the Now York side . sundy morn ing, a pretty girl of.about 13 yearq of, a entered the ladies',eabin, wbdeli~ fwla with persons going to church In rQlyn, and walking has.tily grpund. eo 'st ,I6 every lap a printed' card,sl 4,dq gd a~ "hlIt's~ mny fat1ier,a sp n'?the itleg1fl explained, addressingJ (I,;34h% e'In' her eyes, to a latly. I se very odand blind, and he has on one ri,at 1'. waiting for me .intl e oky,.Fsr "Poor little girl ~' tlly~ aynutsed. "Your's Is a bard lo," p~A~jpe dime into thei tin late ht1$?'d red around as she gath.r ; ,hoed ~ t die ributed. the ti.ante adc w eor4 Webt,sor, Choato and eurmner. Thirty yeara i.go,. when-a student, at Amn herat College, I remember .going over py#h Reveral of my classinatcs to NQrthsln Lc o, where Daniel Webster and Itutus C ogto were the opposing lawyern In the 'great Oli ver Smith will case. I shall never ,for4ot the Inpression made by the great contrast between the.manter ad gesticulation of these two (listinguished pletu'ers In their closing arkumhonts. The court roonl was crowded almost to suffocation, and the Ai mense interest involved, together with the. high reputation of the oppoaing coupsel, combine to excite the attention and Interest of all to a remnurkablo "degree. WebsteVs gestures as well as his Words were coinoar itively few, but Weighty, massive, thb vary embodiment of dignity an . conscious strength. Most of the time during his half hourargunent he atood perfectly motinless, his body slightly bent forivard and his hands behind his back, Choate spoke for nearly two hours ina nanner'the very coun terpart of Webster!s, and yet oqually ap priate to t1ie speaker's individualty. 1e was all alert,-every vein swblled,to tulh every muscle at Its utiniet teibion. le advanced toward the jury and retreated. .Ie rose pn tiptoe, and, several times in his excitement peolneo to spring up entirely off his feet. lie ran liis long, nervous fingers through his dark hair, and anonAhdok them in the hir above this hoed with so sa ift a motion that they seemed to, run into each other like the spokes on a spinnjqg wlpeel. IIis plea lasted two hours. Tlq (ay %yas hot, and~when he had concluded lie sank into the arms of attendonts 'ih a state' of perfect exhaustion, and was borne, out ihto the lobby like a corpao., The excitement in the court room was intense, but Web uter's caln, stern logic carried the day Qver Choate's brilliant and fiery rhetoric. 'The verdict was for Webster and the will.' 'One word concernihig the gesticulation of Charles Sumner. ile was always dignified and self-possessed, and in his movements, as well as words, always conveyed the idea of deliberation and scholarly culture, rather than that or spontaneous warnith and m. pulsivo feelinir which Is most apt to. stir eniotion in a hearer. But he had one ges ture which he used not often, but always once or tivice in his great speeches, which never failed to send the blood thrilling' to my temple, and I noticed it had a similar elfect on many others. ,He raised his hand higher and higher, with appropria'e tlc ulation, while building a climax, and, ten he came to cap it, he rose pn tiptoe ud thrust his hand up into the air with gi-eat force and with a look of exultant/trinnph. It was muagnticent. It fitted. the subject and the man. oa a of the han. A handsome hnnd s aidha'rming object in itself and deems to iudioate refinement in its owner. . I To be perfect, the hand. sh9uld be, iell cato and g i e v t upn . 'The back shol hJo just plump eu ugh to prevent the veins from ieing teb pro. minent. The fingert must be long 'afid'tapering, forming little graduated coluums of-perfect proportion. Whbn the hand is open thero shbtilc be little- dimplos at the knuckles, *hicb dught lb be sllghtly prominent when the hand is closed.' Mueh o> tie beautty of the flnger,and hand: depend ,npn thb proper 'care of the nalls.+ -These, if out tdo close, deforit the Onger endsi rpndering them! stubby. TIhe upper and free border Qf ,hp nl, eh9uld a ways bo left p ojtetig-a .1, b be 1d the , xtronljty. , o the rnd should tie hAroi otily to o ,ai li ' th out endroaching t$ much 6n lea. Soap and the ig pish" 't ' "i t is nbcesary for Oleaning a d hlshln the nails. The habit of biting the palls'.1 as ugly as it is fatal to themn. 'When th6 sklin of.the lihd, i1 and rough, they shdid 3e k'ept con stantly gloved and.,wasug i ,frqegtiY, but not too often with. lukewarm At r' and fine sop to whichtuidy bid adc~ le 'ilttle bran. A little cold cream' heoo.gb to bied is acomgp '.and uofe ,ap~ l*on. The'skip of tifo ha dl. shoty) - a 3'be soft and febe : Broken-U4eartedtorsoa. smin;ing,one of the 1elvI4hores.f the, pche stage, the p.eporter liJ up alongside, jStime to hiqar him remaik,.sotto,yolco; ,"T-ere's Dick going t9 the devil,.just lIke .,i1 the rest, .and he ain't ieQn on, the ~a ix months." An Inquiry as. to the eage.e of Dick's-a hors--evil, destingtien,,ied to tedevelopment of son)9,isets 19 regpyd to me ; "tlhat inmal was pst on the optep 'six monphms ago, afpd he.was a good.one, ,,ll of lifem and ambition, tnd..whten h9, tfrs went ino harness It .tookttwo goed~ pien ,~ hold Ag.4wna before sth tart,.and i sart dl*rito hol4 Mm afterward. ow' p's as boggy. no a dray-hioye, find hs' pirit qeQugh to holdl. his het$. up,; ,Tk nust all go thmat way... li sr: J,i ts. ~ You can drWe 'eru $wlt , y on all sorts9%4 ron4d, and . ' ta an41of ol14~; b4 ,~f,9~~ teen mle o un,. here.t)p : ~the samerqut evpy4,p :~ , resjc their, hearts an~ eal~ tbq, eP,ars. It works-Iike.a tradil ,e a nug o pan'i stand t.4e mQ1notong'~~ On a.narrow iladJme~ the ~*E land cos,wir hiioodd aW rrmaln, where th roier jotb taabodt the Whd tmey ju s autbb bamrnd roof ihas s5 inett lt 'o 'gorteas ot 39r, Lamily,* it wc little -4 less than ali efiifquak q o her . from l ao ~at drheoe-4~~