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Grandma overheard her and answere' with a smile that made her piercin: black eyes sparkle like diamonds. "I don't think you will ever run th toll, Peace and Plenty," she said. Tha was tlje name she had given Lily whi she was a baby. "No, Indeed; one in the family of tha sort Is quite enough," laughed the girl "but here Is Hattie waiting to b amused, and you must tell her abou It." "Well, how shall I begin, chatter box?" "Why, tell her abont the old hous: with - the gray moss clinging to the raf ters, and the haunted window and th great barn, first. "The hauntmg was easily enough ao counted for," said grandma, rolling ul the stockings she had been mendinj and taking oft her spectacles; "that wai the tapping of the old horse-ohestnu when the wind blow, but it was a lonE time before I found out the meaning o the three mysterious knocks-alwayf three-and when I did, what fun I hac at the expense of Miss Silaha Oross, ou dress-maker, who had taken infinit pains to prove that I was favored witl spiritual viNital Poor Miss Silenal never saw a creature more disappointed As for the barn, it had originally been built for a meeting-house, but neve having been finished on account of laol of funds, my grandfather took it foi debt and turnedit to very good account That old barn was a great institution and was regularly farmed out durini winters for revival meetings, dances - huskng frolics and aunIry other thing One nighlt we let a tramp sleep there, and the consequence wns that by noo: next day there was nething left of the barn but smoke and ashes. Poor father It had been a source of income, and nothing could uake its place. Every body mourned the destruction of 'Unol Hiram's barn,' but nobody, offered t, rebuilt it. "We were poor, not that we sufferot for the necessaries of life. The farn kept our table, but my father worked too hard for an old man, and his 'boye were all girls.' The fact of our poverty never troubled me, however; I was toc S happy, Only give me plenty of fun plenty of sunshine and nothing seemed hard to me. My genius at improvising all sorts of amusements made me a general favorite in society. Nobcdy looked down upon me because I wor( .calico and worked from morning til night. in fact, 'Jack' was always i: requisition; it was 'Tack' who took th lead at our merry gatherings, who filled the gap with some audacious gosisil when nobody knew what to say, wh( was afraid of nothing-who was, I an -rather sorry -to add careless of conse quences, so that she had a good time. "But I was happy; nobody can eve * take that consolation from me. I neve aighAed for whatt was unattainable. Fai weather or foul, washing or balhmg, a home or at the country-sido parties I was always at peace with the world though my one best muslin gown bat done duty for several years." "Oh, grandma! what would you hay thought then of a pink satin re3eptioi * dress, and everythmng to match, lk the one I am having made?" exclalime *Li y, "Shouldn't a' i'een a bit happier, mn: * dear; couldn't a' been," wvas the cain response. "B3esides; young girls neve wore satin in those days, bless you I= plain white mull was .conskderod dress -enonght, with flowers, which, to m taste, are prettier than jewels and day And now I am coming to -how I ran tuh toll. Ned hamilton u as considered on: .of. the best young men in town,. H would a' boon -handsome but his nos: Rwas too thin and hus eyes were too clos -together, though they were fine eye:, At all events, he was a great favorite and the girl who secured him for partner considered herself fortunate * Nobody treated him just exactly as. did, for I would tell him to his face tha he was concelted, though secretly I dii feel flattered by hus attention. .L sup pose the great l3osedale farm hlad som~e thing to do with it, and the two gray; and the handsome carryall. Perh pa. was amabitions and didn't exactly knoi it; for to tell the truth, when I did thin] of him at all seriously It was the bis farm that loomed up, not my liking fo him. To be Mrs. Hamilton-the namn was .a good one-to step from ou homely one-st.ory house into a grand oli mansion, where the furniture had stoo< for a hundred years--that was sonme thing for a poor man's child to achieve * I Was' very proud aid happy .when Ii showed me any unusual attention. .1 did stir what vanity I had to see I team at our cottagQ door to' pass ou acquaintanu,es seated beside him, to b aingida out at parties--me in ry plat dress, with perhaps only a rose as mn throat and another in my hair," "Now confess that 'you were band some, grandma," said Lily. "That'a, not for me to say, my dea.i though I believe they did ct4lme rathe Spref4y, Ofie day Ned Eamilton ivte e togo with him to Silyer Lay eenbfu~lt wate*.l 'six milesay. Fatheha mdrIg e a exactly but vory; *ery miserable. TJ sight of his sorrowful face and the sou of his depressed voice caused uq all feel mOre or less wretched. "That mght th9re was to be a par at the house ot Judge Mills. They on gave ,one - a year,. on the OGcasIon Meeny Mill's birthday. Poor. Meen A homelier girl never liven, but ti juke was rich, and she wore all t1 latest fashions, so perhaps she* ney realized how plain she was. I had be< busy over my only white dress, takii a tuck out here and adding a bit of la - there, wishing, for a (onder, that could have something new to wear, sight of Ned and the team, however, i my troubles vanished into air, and I ri down-stairs laughing. "I do wish you'd be a little sobe i minded" Said' ty father in his fretf way. It seems kihker heartless to 1 laughing when there. ain't a cent in tj house, and robody,, knows when the will be.' "Why, father, there's always potato and meal," was my merry rejoinder. "Yes, and there's always cares ai b troubles," be answered lugubriousl 'I don't seem to git ahead like oth folks, and I've pretty much about giv< b up trying. If you girls was only bo; now!" "Think what you'd have to lay out boots alone," I said, still laughing, which he frowned and turned impatien ly away, while I ran out to be helpf into the handsom6 carriage. "What a glorious day it was! TI vines lining each side of the road i seemed dripping with sunshine. TI shaded valleys, the dancing brooks ta the highways bordered with maples ai elms-and then my escort beguiled. Ll hour with odd and merry fancies, talk< about his farm, his hopes, his aspir b tions, and if I had not willfully turn( the subject once or twice," said i pretty old lady, with a prim little go ture, "I think !te might have propose, But I wasn't ready for that yet. 'l the quiet of the home-going, 'I said myself, 'I will listen to him perhaps.' "At last- we reached the water-fal which, with its accompanying hoigh and charming scenery, repaid us for tlI long ride. It was.hard to tear ourselv, away, and when we did turn the hea( of the spirited horses im the direction, home it was very late. "We shall never be In time for t1 party," I said, as the twiliglit deepen( into dusk. 'Must you pay at the to gate? The old man is half-blind, and will take him an lour to hunt up *hang, Run the toil, just for the fun of it-yc can pay him afterward.' "That won't do," said Ned, 'I'L haj to &ot a bill changed though. Just tal the reins a second. By the way never heard in end of the sentence. J that moment the sPrit of mischi seized me. I snatched the whip ay touched the near horse. Then I on heard the thunder of hoofs and the whi of wheels, saw Ned's eyes flash fire j the semi.darkness and his face gro pale. Before he could take the ref from my inexperienced hands, we h 'run the toll' in good earnest, and t1 horses were flying yoer the bridge i only faightened horses can. It was i much as Ned could do to guide ther ,an i twice we were in deadly peril. On they sped, young Hamilton stan ing without a hat, his teeth set, his li white, hi-- frame rigid, while. the vei t of his forehead stood out like whip-cor ) I just sat back and held my breath, t< frightened to cry out, and catchi whatever was nearest to steady mys( as they raced down the long, hilly stre L to the village, at the foot of which th( slackened their speed andl were so< under control. "That wvas a mad freak of yours," w Sall the young man said, as he help' me out at the door; and .I knew by ti I expression of his countenance that never should be asked to ride behimd h grays again.. "I went to the party, seemingly gay and light-hearted,.as ever. If ai feeling of regret lurIked under my car less speech and manner, Ned shou never know it. In the midst of the fu I when I was holding my little court, a the laugh and the jest were going roun< who~ should appear upon the scene b1 my father, in his homely, patcht clothes, quite regardless of the figure]1 cut in the midst of that brilliant c6z pany. He walked straight up to mn his hair in disorder, his face as pale death. . "Jack," says ho, 'did you run the tc to-day?' *"Thohorses ran," I said, with a tout of levity, though I trembled from he] to root. 'What did they know abol toll?' "Well, the bridge-keoper has been the house, Jack. He.told me the youa man was getting the money when y< Lcaught up the whip and set the hors, b to runninug. Now, there's a fine fI I that, an' i've got -to give him $5;]i .won't let me off.-and I ain't got fia cents to my name.' Tears stood in t Spoor) weak eyes, and, regardless of tl surroundings, ho took out his handke chobef and wiped; them away. Imagin . it you can, how 3; felt. "Allow me to pay, sir,'' said Ne coming forward; and that capped til 3 climax. I could have screamed wil r mortification. I just ran out of th I room, without waiting for wraps or an i thing else, and. flew, home so asham - that I think I hardly knew what IL w doing. As you may suppose, I cr1 s pretty much all night, and it was a lea t time before I recovered my spirits. i "1 have no doubt it lost me N< r Hamilton, too," said the old lady, wil a queer little toss of the head; "but thi a didn't.nyatter muc.h. He left and tot r 1Mary .lean, old I)eacop .Bean's daught ---the pjzk of propriety, and who won no mnore have dared to pay her Aoul w h*own thtan she would have dared ride wild horses. It. was a little mor r f"ing first, .but after his marriai 16k! si that he wais miserly alm( ibeypna tweof1 andX. am positive Mo] A. .aiillttiu oij has one~ bw' bonnet nae ojee tol--hu h y d4(ti wasueJefthy toI niP(u'~o1ttopak,-w le more than. that, I paid off the mortgage id on our little home, in time."l to "And then you married grandpa?" said Lily. y 1'Yes,- dear, -he was worth a thousand ly Ned Hamiltois-but poor fatherl how of often I have heard him say that I was yI just as good as a boy." le i umnbee-wnded. er "Hom! hem!" coughed Chas. Grafton 3n* as he limped out and toed the. rark. ig " want to know where I am." ce "At the Central Station Court," De I troit, answered His Honor - at "What for?" il "The charge is drunkennesb." n "And who's the Judge?" "6I am." r- - "Well, I have rights and I am bound ul to maintain them. -Efore this trial Ae goes any further I,want to go. holne and, le put on a clean slart and get some ehew re ing tobacco. - I want to look half-way decent and feel balf-way human." es "Can't let you go." "Then I won'.t be tried!" id "But you willI The law doesn't care y. a copper what sort of a Ahirt a priboner er has on, and if you are dying for some 3n thing to chew on Bijah always has a ys chunk of shoe-makers' wax lying around." i I ,"Did you say I was drunk?" at "That's the charge." t- "Well. I won't be tried on no such 3d charge. The idea that a man of my years and dignity would get drunk and .1o be staggering around the streets is all dll nonsense." le "Officer was this man the worse for id drink?" id "He was almost helpless, sir." le "1 ias, eh?" queried the prisoner. id "Now, sir, do you make oath that I was a- drunk?" id "I do." te $'How did I act." s- "You cried, talked silly, and said you 1. would like to adopt me for a son." [II "Your Honor, I can't stand this; I to appeal this oase, and want that man or rested for perjury." i, "I shall fine you. ten dollars." ts "'ll.rot in the bastile before I'll pay e it." s "Then you go up for sixty days." Is "I never will." Df Bijah keeps an empty barrel in the corridor for just such occasions. When ie Mr. Grafton began prancing around, id and declared that he would sell his life l- at the highest market price, he was it picked up and doubled together in the e, center and crowded into the barrel, and iu six minutes had not passed away before he was as humble-minded as a boy at ,e the bottom of a well. 'I Boiled Water. Of tifor cookery, Mr. W. Williams called kd attention to. the danger of using drink 1Y ing-water full of organic impurities. rr 1uch water, he says, supplies nutriment L to those miero4copic abominations, the w microco-ci, bacilli, bacteria, etc., s which are now shown to be connected with blood-poisoning--possibly do the 0 whole of the poisoning business 1 These little posts are harmless, and 8 probably nutritious, when cooked, but in their raw and wriggling state are horribly prolific in the blood of people - who are in certain states of what is a called "receptivity." They (the bacte is ria, etc.,) appear to be poisQned or I. somehow killed off by the digestive >0 secretions of the blood of some people, I and nourished- luxuriantly in the blood Ilf of others. As nobody can be quite sure et to which class he belongs, or may pre y sently belong, or whether the water m supplied to his household is free from blood-poisoning organisms, cooked 34 water is a safer beverage than raw 3d water. "Rehlection on this subject," 1c says Mr. Williams, "I have been struck .I witih a curious fact that has hitherto is escaped notice, viz., that in thre country which over all others combines a very 3.5 large population with a very small iy allowance of cleanliness, the ordinary e- drink of the people is boiled water fla Id vored by an infusion of leaves. These a, people, tihe Chinese, seem, in fact, to id have been the inventors of boiled-water d, beverages. Judging from travellers' Lit occounts of the state of the rivers, rivn 3d lets, and general drainage and irriga 1e tion arrangements of China, its popu a- lation could scarcely have reached its 0, present density If Uhinan,on were drink 3.5 era of raw instead of cooked water." He was about to take a Woodward savenue oar in Detroit,, wJien he changed id his mTind and waii;ed for a man coming at i,p the street. He looked stern and solemn and unrelenting and there was to Ice in,his mouth as he replied: ig "Yes, fine day enough, Mr. Jones, m do you remember that you met me one as day two years ago 'and. asked for the or loan of $10?" 1c "Two years ago-$10-asked for a re loan? Let's see. No, I do not remem Is ber, but 1 do not wish to dispute your re 'word," r- "Well, sir, yon asked for a loan." ,"And did I get it?" "Of courso you did," di, "is that soY Well, If I did, it was 1c the only time iu my life, and I ought to thi remember it, Did you want to lend me at, ten morc?" y- "No, sir! I want you to return that 3d loan!" as "S3orry-very sorry, but I can't do it id this month." Ig "I want that money before Saturday or I'll take steps!" Id "Ahx!" bh "I'll post you as the meanest man in at Detrol '" )k "Honor bright?" er "Yes, sir." Id "Say,". said Jones, a heo looked as greatly relieved1 "I wish you'd go ahead to and do that,l1 ye no commeroiail rating Li- no social standing, and ani ontinually gae struggling in a hialf-wvay osition be. at .tweeh beihg able to get e it atid dodge ly old eroditors.. If you'll only -pbet nie a I'll aknow juist where t a'Mc and what if0 .to look out for and It'll omie work a' itig'half'an hour t$ get,a IM lt-vendez good-natured enough to L'z te ye Dr&Wbi4ge0ignag. En Easter raIlway company h adopted a sytem.of drawbridge siguc which, It is claimed, will greatly redu the danger bf accidents. These signE are worked by a series of levers, five number, the Arst two working sea phore s3gnAls at A distance of 1,900 fe ad 800 feet, respe tively, from a bridg The other three work the switohes the siding and the -lock of the b( Which holds the draw in place. Befo the bridge can be unlocked that a v( sel may pass thkough the draw, the levers must lhe .worked in - their ord( It is impossiole to work them in ai other way,: the. 1terl JPg Preventi the 4ra ender 9 u a'mMan fiom mc ing the higher,numbe , vor until has first moved the 1o cannot, when the dra place the levers excep th6 regdi reverse order. It folloIv that a dang signal must first be shown at a distan of 1,900 feet from the draw, and if th warmnig to bring his train under contr for a stop is neglected. by the enginee thu signal is again given at 800 feet di taut. Should.this warniug be noglecte the engineer will find his train switch( to a side track, and thus preventU from plunging into the open draw, fo the draw cannot be open unles it hi previously been ur looked ; it cannot,I unlooked until the safety-switch h first been unbolted and set for the i ding; the switch connot be set uni the home signal kas been set for da ger, and the home signal cannot be a for danger until the dihtance signal hi been so set. These operations are r peated on the other side of the drai which is fitted with a bolt at each en< iupplementai apparatus is provided i that the signalman may know at a di tance of 1J miles that a train is a) proaching, so that the draw may ni be opened and trains - delayed unnece sarfly. It is further claimed that wi the draw, even if closed, should be ui looked, the safety switch cannot I thrown on the main line either by acc dent or design, and therefore no trai can possibly run into the draw. Cutnuous Meakeo. Somewhat over two years ago 'A Herisson, tMe French Minister of Publ Works, issued a circular enjoining a French railway companies to supp] their passenger trains, running at L1 rate ot 87 miles per hour and upwar with continuous brakes within a spa of two years, and altough this time hi now elapsed, no definite measures -ha yet been taken to carry out tins pla Various railway companies, it appear are making extended experiments wil different kinds of b:akep, and accordit Westinghouse automatic and the Achal electric brake. Although the lists hai been quite exhaustive. none of the cou panies have adopted any of the differei patents, and it has been found ncesai to put fresh pressure on the compani4 to induce them to furnish the propi security for their passengers, and .6 Rerisson has now issued another circi lar, informing the companies that suf cient time has been allowed for expe menting, and that it is necessary f them to make a definite Qhoice. E distinctly disallows the chain brakes i unsatisfactory for ordinary use, an, judging from all appearances, desir< to see the Westinghouse system gene ally adopted, A tochnioal committ4 that was appointed to consider the sul jeet reported against the adoption of uniform system on all the lines as ten ing to discourage invention and hindi the introduction of improvements, 1\ Herrison, in setting forth pointedly ti alleged merits of the Wenger bral concludes by leaving the compam< eiftirely free to adopt aily model whi< is both continuous, controlling all ti wheels of all the vehicles and automati and capable of being worked by the e gineer or brakeman. Whatever tyi they adopt must be fully applied In tl course of the present year. It Is thong: rather singular by some that the Weng brake, with which very little experien, has been obtained, in meeting with much approval by the Minister of Pu lie Works, who regards it apparently an equivalent for the Westinghouse, tl efficiency of which has been so exhar tively tested in this and other countri and with such excellent resulta. Steam as a Light lieflector. As everything pertaining to the ii provement of the methods and parap ernalla of illumination Is at the preseo time looked upon with.special interei we reproduce, for the benefit of 01 readers, an account of a recent pate: granted In Germany to Eterr L. Bra dau, of B3erlin, in 'which he proposes utihize the emissive properties of stea for Illuminating purposes. In descri ing his plan, the patentee refers to tl fact that steam In condensing fort dense white vapors, which possess tl property, when exposed to an inten source of light, of partly reflecting ai partly absorbing and subsequently emi ting it, as the clouds behayc toward tl sunlight, diffusing a mild and 'unifor brightness, in adapting his system overhead and side lights, Herr Bradi employs an apparatus consisting esse tially of a glass chamber into wIl steam is adiitted, on passage way I its exit being also provided, This then either illunxinated directly, or wi the did of mirrors, by 'tite source light. Novel as it may seem, the plan a pears to us to have decided merit, al it is not impossible thaVthe idea Herr Brandau may contain in it the el ments necessary for .tie muccessi noderatba and diffusiont of the blir ing brIlliancg of tie electriolight, wail has In most situations peed to be serious drawhack to its r leau1iss, Tj high Lbsorptive and emliye popr1 of wette Yapors, both fo~ t and ligi are well 1410w4 physicalgat;a*idt oonmmesplaoo' allnsion 191eada gleaeii of brightness that fIos tel T.vpe sises. as Originally there were but seven sizes. 1i6 The first was called "Prima." whence 0e the name Primer. It is now known as hIs Two-Line English. The mecond was in called "Secunda," now our Double Pica a- -in France, Great Paragon. The et third was "Tertia," at present our e. (*reat Primer. Then there was the of middle size, still being called in Ger >lt man ,Mittel," but it is now our Eng re lish. After those came the three sizes 65- on the opposite side of the scale-Pica, sO Long Primer and Brevier. in Germany ir. the names Secunda, Tertia and Mittel IY are still retained., ig "Pica." in France and Germany, is ,v- called .Cicero, because the works of lie that nuthor were originally printed in Ie it, Eaglish printqr so styled 'it from ' :4IfiiAtelype Iiin which 1i, O1dinal- or W Serce 13ook of the -Roinan Church or was originally set. This Ordinal also 3e was at first called "Pca." "Bour at geois" was so named because it was in DI troducedl into the country from France, r, where it was originally dedicated to 8- "Bourgeois" or citizen printers of that It capital. "Brevier obtained its name d from having been first used for printing id the Breviary or Roman Catholic abbre >r viated Church Service Book. W "Minion" is also of French origin, >W and was so termed owing to having i rapidly become a special favorite on its I- introduction in that country. La i Agone is "the darling." "Nonpareil" L- was so named because at the time of at its introduction it had "no equal," being the smallest and finest type then 3- produced "Pearl is of English origin. V The French have a type of the same 1. size, which they call Parisionne. It is 10 a smaller type than Nonpareil, and was 8. thought "the pearl of all type." "Dia ?- mond is another fancy name given to >t what was regarded at the time of its 1- origin as the ultima thutle of letter n foundary achievement. i )a3 Trapannji)jg in Prelitaturic Tinios. n One of the most curious traces of primitive belief which have come down to us is found in the trepanned skulls which have been discovered in several caves and dolmens of France belonging to the earlier portion of the new stone i age. Dr. Paul Brooa has devoted a I pamphlet to the description of these Ly trepanned skulls and the discussion cf t their significance. The fact is certain i that a great number of these skulls Mwere tropannod during lfeti-proba bly in infailcy and early youth-and re that they healed up again, the subjeot . of the operation surviving it for many years. M. Broca supposes this trepan ning to have constituted a sacred rite of some sort, for we find that the skulls Ia gone the operation in their lifetime 1 were after death subjected again to the same operation. A number of small disks were out from them in such a way It that each disk contained a portion of y the cicatrized edge made by the original s trepanning. These disk were used as 3r amulets by living persons. But the skuh thus treated was in its turn pro vided with one of these talismanio disks in place of those which, had been eut from itself. From this custom M. Bro >r ca lias argued a belief in the survival of - the dead man, and supposed that the a disk was placed with the skull to serve 1 as a kind of viaticum into another 3 world. AaAmphiblottie Sloy Divers. 3 a In the Singapore harbor, and in other I- places, we saw the boy divers spoken of ir by all travelers in the East, writes a 1. clergyman. The moment we came to io anchor our eteamer wais surrounded by to a swarm of naked boys paddling about is in their tiny canoes, laughing and ,h shouting to us to throw a copper or a ie sixpence in the water, promising to o, catch it before it reached the bottom. a- In broken English they said: "Now, ye you throw sixpence in water; me go ic down; me catch 'em ebery tiime; me lit good diver." Holding up a piece of er silver, we shouted, "Ready'?" A dozen ae eager tongues answered, "Rleadyl" ao Next moment the coin was glittering in b- the water ten or fifteen feet beyond as them. In a moment two dozen feet 1c were in the air and a dozen black heads .s- cleaving the water. Every boy die es appeared. For fully h'alf a minute, which seemed half an hour, there was silence; then, one after another, up came the boy-divers, one of them u. shouting, as he held up the money, b- *T've got it, master; I've got it, master." at Chucking the coin into the only pocket t he't hsd (his mouth), he murabled out, d. "Now pop in- a nudder one." We at "popped in" another p:eoe, still further u.. away, and down again plunged the am to phibious boy-divers, never falling to mn bring up the money. .A Judge 3roole.. as' As illustrating some of the remarkable ie laws of indiana on the subject of divorce, 30 the Hon. Thaddeus P. Rollins yester id day related a story of a divorce which t- he pr,cured in Casb county some years ie since before Judge Chase. The m allegations in the complaint were to drunkenness. and general worthlessness in of the defendant. W hen the case came n- on a witness was called to prove the h character and habits of the defendant. or Mr. Rollins asked him the question: is "Do you know Mr.--- the defendant lh in thi case, Mr. Baird'?" The anawer of was in the afBirmative. At this point Judge Chase looked up and said: "Mr. p. Baird, tell me if that manl is the same id Mr,-who was in 00mipany K of the of --Indiana Regiment during the war." e- "The same sman, Judge," was the ul answer. "You'need go no further, Mir. d- Rollins," said the Judge, "the divorce ih is grantd" and judgement was entered a .accordingl for the phtifr. After ie Court ' adourried the Jde was jokced es about the hast eiitii 6t judgetnent, it, referri6 to.'th faot,tM4 eyidepe Lie had been lnWouod inton teoage. on "Why, belemen" dac hig. Moa, "'L s. kan t ftell*Mr AwMitt1 odin. o. pany dt~mgthe ~ eyer Mis PugIMtO Pa. "Where did your pa get the black eye?" asked the grocery man. "Did the minister hit 'hi, or was it one-of the sisters?' "0, he didn't get his black eye at prayer meeting," said the boy, as he took the mittens off the stove and rubbed them to take the stiffening out. "It was from boxing. Pa told my chain and me that it was no harm to learn to box, cause we could defend,ourselves, and he said he used to be a holy terror with the boxing-gloves when he was a boy, and he has been giving us lessons. Well, he is no slouch, now I t6lI you, and handles himself pretty well for a uuc h member. I read in the paper 1k Bruce played it on a friend Ping Jem Mace, the prize 441git -4o 4nook hint aillypaWd!I asked paie wouldn't let mebringu 'por boy, who had no father to teach him boxing, to our- house to learn to box, and ia said certainly, fotch him along. "He said he would be glad to do lany thing for a poor orphan. So I went down in the Third Ward and got an Irish boy by the name of Daffy, who can knock the socks off of any boy in the ward., He fib a prize-fight once. it would have made you laugh to see pa tell him how to hold his hands and how to guard his face. He told Duffy not to be afraid, but to'strike iglit oui and hit for keeps. Duffy said he was afraid pa would get mad If he hit him, and pa said, 'Nonsense, boy; knock me down if you can, and I will laugh, hal hal' Well, Duffy hauled 1,ack and gave pa one in the nose and another in both Lyes. and cuffed him in the ear and punched him in the stomach, and lammed him in the mouth and made -his teeth bleed, and then he gave him a side-winder in both eyes, and pa pulled off the boxing-gloves and grab bed a chair, and we adjourned and went down-stairs as though there was a panic. I haven't seen pa since. Was his eye very black?" ' Black, I should say so," said the grocery man. "And his nose seemed to be trying to look in his left ear. He was at the market buying beefsteak to put upon it." "0, beefsteak is no account. I must go anu see him and tell him that an oyster is the best thing for a black eye, Well, I must go. A boy has a pretty hard timo running a house the way it shouli be run," and the boy went out and hung up a sign in front of the grocery: "Frowy butter a speshulty." This delicious breakfast beverage, distinguished' origin. It was Invented by the celebrated French Philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire hit upon this new and brilliant idea while he was guest at the Sans Souoi, a favorite residence of Fredrick the Great of Germany. Ho partook of it constantly at breakfast. Voltaire made in one part of coffee and milk and the other part chocolate. He made the name by writing the first syl lable of chocolate- cho-and cafe-eal these two first sylables made cho ca. Each beverage was in a boiling state when lie united them. He poured them into a common vessel slowly. He held both at an elevation of about eighteen inehes. This he said made i' extremely light and digestable. This drink be came a great favorite, also, with tho great Napoleon. He used it constantly. It was frequently remarked by those who attended his person that after the excitement and fatigue of a great battl3 two or three cups of this beverage seemed to restore all his wanted energy and strength; on ordinary ,occasions he used( only one cup. The celebrated culinary artist, Boyer, admired this beverage exceedingly'. In regard to it lie wrote to his wilfe in the following enthusiastic manner: "Here, dear Eloise, is an entirely new alment which has never yet been introduced into this cou.ntry. A semi epicare of our acquaintance, on retuarn lng from our visit to the National Guard of France, presented me with a pound of It which he purchased in Paris. But cven there, lie taid, it is .almost in ita Infancy, You may fancy if I were not anxious of making an immediate trial of It. I have found it most delicious. Mr. B. has not yet tasted It, being for a week in the country, but I am confident he will like it, especially for breakfast. As usual, dear Eloise, you will no doubt reproach me for having so such enthusiasm. I,will now give you my formal recipe for making cho-ca. Make your besit coffee; blend hot milk with this coffee, half and half; this makes ecqfc-au. tl, or half milk and half coffee; now, in your usual way, make your best choc elate; and these you are supposed to have In seporate vessels, boiling hot and duly sweetened; now hold both well up, say eIghteen Inches, and pour to gether into the same vessel; now say grace In your deovoutest manner and proceed to sip. It Is certain that the glass houses of Alexandria were celebrated amnong the ancients for the sill 'and ingenuity of their workmen ; and from thence the Romans, who did not acquire a knowl edge of the art till a iatef period, pro cured all their glassware. Moat of the large, greenish glass vases In the Brit ish Mtuseum are probaibly the produc. tion of extensive Egyptian or Roman iyorks; they are larg, and of eteelient form and workiainsh ; but the glass i somewhat ifnpure, ofa greenish tint, has numerous globties and 4Wig and is not 1i e the niodern oommoi crown or sheet glas i .relt. tr a NEWS 11 PRiEF. -Indiana has 60,000 mord6heop now than in-1880. '.-A full kit of bank burilara tools is said to be worth $2 000. -There are 60,000 color9d Baptists i Tennessee; with 150 churches. -In 1880 only dne-thirteenth lof all the manufactured products used came from abroad. -Anthony Trollope left his fami7 $125,000, and the copyright of fifty novels. . -The Marquis df 'Lorie *a6s the Princess Louise was ordered t6 Bermu. da by her physicians. -The directoi of the'mint states that he coinage of the new five.ent pieces will1bejconiued.4 ., .., -Bostoi reports an increase of $30, 000, last year in the atount received from fies for 1i0s(111eeie -The cable system of stroet-car traction is about to be ifltroduced into, England, at Highgate. -'.nnsylvania made 850,908 tons. Illinois, 862,250 tons; Ohio, 118,800 tons; New York, 105,021 tons. -The somi-annual dividends payable in Boston in March will amount to 84,. 231,881. -A resident of Woodburv, Tenn., but 80 years of age, has just been married for the fourth time. -A Florida orange grower hasorder ed 200 barrels of snuff from Connecticut for use as a fertilizer. -harles Mackay, LL..D., the Eng lish lyrleal poet, is justrecovering from a long and dangerous illness. -Russia had last year 776 periodical publications, including newspapers. The largest circulation was 71,000. -Canadian papers report the arrival of a new bird in considerable numbers which preys upon the English sparrows, -Sir Moses Montefiore, the oldest English baronet, will be one hundred years old on the 25th of October next. -The productioi) of Bessemer rails was 1,438,155 tons; iron rails, 227,817 tons ; open hearth steel rails, 22,765 tons. -Of the 1,700 mules employed in the Philadelphia and Reading company's mines but few see the.light of day once a year. -The value of our farm products for 1882, are estiDlated at $7,500,000,000. Exports of same, $600,000,000, oreight per cent. -The ice harvest from the Kenn bec river is now estimated at 647,000 tnaUC and there were 200,000 tons left oveIr from last year. ing the last twent years, and thoy number noarly forty thousand. -Mrs. Augustus Hemenway, of Bos ton, has given $5000 to the permanent fund of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of that city. -The total production of Iron and steel rails last year was 1,688,794 not tons, or 1,507,851 tons gross, a -falling off as compared with 1881, of 8 per cent. -Mr. Dennis, the British antiquarian, has bought the site of the temple oi Cybele, at Sardis, Asia Minor, and grea( hopes are entertained of the discoverioi among the ruins. -Saint Gaudens, the well-known sculptor, has modelled a colossal bas. relief of Dr. Alexander Vinton, to be placed in .tumanuel Church. Boston, where he has so long officiated, -Lords Wolsely and Alcester have been presented with swords of honor by the Egyptian people. The weapons have fine Damascus blades and .hilts studded wvit~h jewels, and cost $8750 each. -William Beach Laurence bought a farm at Ochra Point, Newport, forty years ago, for $12,000, which having been cut up into buiding lots and sold han netted the Laurence fan fly $800,. 000. -During 1882 over 1,200 electrical patents were issued. The electrical. division is the largest in the patent ofice. Considerable attention is now being .glven by ,inventors to secondary or storage batteries. -The Moody Church, in Chicago, built duringsthie e Moody excitement in that city some years ago, has a Sunday school which, perhaps, is the largest in the country. Two thousand names are enrolled on the school register, and the average attendance' is "itoen 1hundred., -In 1881 there were examilned in the Municipal Laboratory, ParIs, 8,001 samples of wine, of which 271 were found to be good, 991 passable, aind 1, 781 bad. In the first five months of 1882, 1,860 samples were analyzed, of which 872 were good, 088 passable, and 814 bad-145 of the latter being very injurious. --The Census reports show that dur ing the census year, the raeilways of the country tranisportedl190,897,895 tons freight, for an average distance of 112 miles, at a cost of 0,76 cents a ton' per mile. The passengers nuanbere4 289,. 588,840, carried an everage. of Lwenty three miles, at an average co M of 1. 1 cents pet mile, * -The moving bog in the vioinity of Cast leiea, in Ireland, is. avancing rap. ,' idly t.oward that town, Sever, thorisaud aoesf land are ptibmegdmaitt sad brides, Are o 4~4 and stleres is now stisvended ieb6' 18 Basl e~m ~~ttet -o*' heScot 1 as4