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- -.. , 4,4 ', -4 .. pi" W, ' IV* WINSBOROSESTABLISHED 1848 A LULLABY. Sleep, my child! the shadows fall; Silent darkness reigns o'er all 1ird and bloom are lost to sigit n the folded arms of night; M whil 1 soo from cloud-towers peem Breathe thou softly! .]test is sweet For tired hearts and aching feet; No dull care nor toil is thine Nor sin thou blessed child of mine; Trainquil on thy soft couch rest With dreams of heaven in thy >reast. Buds are sleeping close thine eyes. WaKen with asoft surprise; Greet tho.morning with thy smile, And sweet prattle without guile, - Scents lie slumbering in the flo-wers; Sluimber till the daylight.hours. Sleep! Thy Father guardp thy rest; Lay thy head upon his breast Sater than these arina which iold thee, IlIs dear love will firni enfold thee, Higher love than inlne shall He Give, beloved one,'to thee ! Sleep! The wives iave long been sleeping; Angels o'er thee Watch are keeping; O'er us both the pale stars shine With a radiance half divine. Slumber, iniocent and light, lall f1om heaven on thee to-night. HAUNTED BY A FAUE. Only one glimpse of It was all that Julian Chestwick caught in the swaying crowd that filled the rooms on the night of Mrs. Folgrove's masquerade ball, yet it struck on his consciousness like a new sensation, a revelation of untried capacities and possibilities within his heart. Julian Chestwick had always. laughed at thle idea of love. 'There is no subLi thing,' lie said, 'Love forsoothl People marry because its a mutual convenience, an established custom011I' But when lie saw the case at Mrs. Pelgrove's iasquerado balli, lie furled his baiiiers and sent in his letters of capitulatioii to the little blind God with the bow and arrows. Julian Chestwick in spite of the theories of a lifetime, fell in love with a Marquise of the time of Louis the Fourteenth, with big, black eyes, a pal oval face, and a miuth whose sweet archness corresponded not 11My with powdered jetty locks, patches, and dainty high heeled boots. It canue and went like a shadow-the bewitchinig face-and Julian Chestwick hastened to his hostess withi a heart that throbbed and cheeks allame with the fevered quest: 'Tell me, Mrs. Pelgr!ove, who is the .Mwrquise in the velvet trained dress and the redt heeled boots and the diamond st.omach'ler?' M rs. Pesgrove stared. 'Aly dear Mr. Clhestwick, there are at least hialf it dozen Marquises here.' ,Julian bit his lip. To him, there wis b,ut. one in all the world. fle hauuted the rooms like an unquiet sirit al the evening until people began to belioee ihAt tie 1ungarian Prince, with the tawny moustache and the velvet blue eyes was an ubiquity; but the fatce shone upon him no more. 'So you won't marry Miss PearIfleld?' (ltoth his uncle, at choleric old gentle 1111111 who was particularly fond of two i hings iii this world-utitty-i-avored port, am11 hi,s owNN1 way. 'No, sir,' said Julian recklessly. 'Alud what the-tile dettee is the rea sol?' 'Because ' love somebody else. 'W ho?' .Juilian looked awkward; lie could not very well say, 'a face,' nor yet could lie describe the qtuiti t loveliness of the days of Louis Qtatorze. So lie said notilg at aill; and in consequence there of his unicle wenit ihome in aL pastsion and altered his will. .. I iss tiearliield mnarriedl somebody else, anud Jnlian Chestwick worsipedi at tile shirinie of the oval face, contentedi with its remembered smiles ats they haunted his dream. 'I shall see her 501me day,' lhe told hlimself', 'and until then 1 will wait Ile huam/.ed the galleries of phloto graphiic artists-lhe pioredl over the albums of the various friends and ac qjuitances--he stalked up and dlown the aimmiy side of Broadlway at times wvhen the tides of fashilonable piromnade indated it most overwhehningly, starig piersistenitly into every feminine lace that paIssed-buit all in vain. 'I shall see her,' he kept repeating, 'if .I only bide my time!I Whenm Mr. Field Pakenham Invited him down to a Christmas party at Pakenham Court, an old-fashioned place with wie-throated chimnneys and groves of holly and laurel and nodding over greens Jul ian Chestwick hesitated. New Y ork was a great human beehive; In New York his chances of realizing the dream of Is life-time were as fly'e to one, compared wvith any other place, and yet Juliani Chestwick was too good aL chess-p)layer not to comprehend -that the tide of luck needs a change now and then. 'You'd better come,' said Field P'ak e, nhiam 'we shall have no end of larks!' 'SiaIl you have a large p)arty?' asked Chestwick, with a sort of lanquid inter 'wenty or thirty,' answered Paken iham 'Lots of pretty girls.' 'It will be such a bore?' 'No, it won't.' 'All right, then; I'll come.' 'But whi en?' denmanided Pakenhlam, who, having been ordered by his sisters to 'be sure ai secure that handsome Ar. Chestwick,' wvas naturally desirous ' ~~clinchu the nmail of assent. 'Ntme e..ChitassonFriday. W com down, to -the Qourt ThiursdaLy 'All right,' said Pakenhamn;.'and mii you fall us, we'll have you iiuing, awn anid qutarterd?. Why, muan alive1 ecre are ifteen girls coming, aund if i ni't get some umsculinie help I haven't; idea what is to becomne of me!' .D)on't get discouraged old fellow d( Julian che~erily; 'I'll stand by youl' Pakeham wrung huis friend's hand nd went on his way rejolcinugi Mr-Ohestwick'M eye roved SJrom face face, as he took his seat at tile long Iliant table in the antique old dining in oalp-panneled and, low celled, at l alibhi Odut. There- were blondes n tuiuttes~ and blue ejres and. gray, Lgythroat and dhap d houlders, white silks and blue merinos, but there was. no look or feature in all the gay assemblage which might su gest the French 3farquise an C in hisf,agrl, opher of old, 'Vanity of vanities, all is Vanityl' 'I wish I had stayed at home,' thought our self-absorbed hero. But Lucia Dallas took him in hand and made him talk, whether he was villing or no. 'It's all nonseqise about your being a Dlognes,' said the sprightly young lady. 'Where's your tub and your lantern?' 'They're coming down by the next trai,' said CiestWIck, with the utmost gravity. 'Well then, until they come, I shall make the most of you,' said Lucia, nodding her curls. 'Do you dance?' 'No.' 'Do you sing?' 'No' 'Do yol flirt?' 'No.' 'My goodness gracious!' said Miss Dallas, putting the tips of her phunp figers together; 'what do you do?' 'That's Precisely what you must find out for yourself.' Lucia looked at him meditatively. 'Are you fond of pictures?' 'Yes. Did you bring your album?' 'No; I was thinking of the old picture. gallery up stairs. Only imagine it-the portraits of the Pakenham ancestry for two hundred years backl' 'They must look awfully ancientl' 'Oh, they do. I'll show them to you to-morrow. Lucia Dallas kept her word. She was not one lightly to let off a captive kilight, consequently Julian's pleas of 'letters to write' met with no considera tion in her eyes. 'At all events,' thought Julian, as the :picy little daw.-el dragged him off, 'Im glad it isn't leap-yearl' The Pakenhain picture gallery, how Bver, was, well worth seeing. A long, lofty room, lighted by a dome of glass, its walls lined with portraits, it remind ed one of the same old baronial hall in 1ngland. Julian Chestwick looked Ireamnily round, and shuddered a little. 'I prefer the future to the past,' said le brielly. And'then turning his eye fell upon a )ictured face which thrilled himx throtgh .tnd through. A dimpled, smiling face with black eyes which seemed to mell ,ud glow, even against the opaqueness 'f the mneaningldss canvas, a mouth full 'f arch expression, and a dress of the .ime of Louis Quatorze. Julian Chest vick stood staring as if lie had seen a ghost. . 'Field,' he said, turning to his host with features as pale as if they had been carved in ivory, 'who is that lady?' 'Who was she, you mean,' laughed Field Pakenihai. Why you know lie's been dead these iwo hundred years or morel' Julian Chestwidk felt an odd, icy bremble through his veins. Was lie Ihen in love with a ghost? ie remen bered the vow lie had registered in his iecret heart to wed none but the Aftr juise whose fair face had haunted him io long. Could it be possible that this ihadow should rise from the grave of -entrues to claim his vow?' 'It is Marie do Roudise, of Normandy Prance, afterwards married to Gerald Piakenham,v syto, died ht Jerusalem two years after -her marriage-my' great, ,reat grandmother-and a very good looking woman too,' added Field, rather irreverently. Julian Chestwick listened silently. lie was not superstitioq%, yet there was 3omething in all this that lie regarded umost as an omen. Lucia Dallas' gay .hatter had lost all interest for him iow. The jewelled finger of the beautiful Mfarie (Ie Roubise seemed to beckon tim-her - archued, jetty brows to coni Lract frowningly. 'You are mine,' the linmpled lips seemned to syllable, mind thme ,aunting eyes, full of strange meaning, hlled his heart with a vague dlread. Had it then boon a ghost whlose beau y had gleamed on hin once, at Mrs. ?eligrove's naasqluerade ball? And was t piossible for men to look on the face f a woman wvho had been dead two hun .redl years, anud yet live? lie .followed the gay part,y downm stairs, compi~reheonding nthing of what vent on around himn-walkinug like onue ni a dlream. 'Marguerita has comne,' lie heard Mirs. Pakenhuam say to l)er Sonl. 'Was it not ucky? We hIad just given her sup.' 'The more the merrier,' said Field, hilosophically. Mr. Chlestwick had taken his seat at linner in a mechanical sort of a wvay when a youig lady glided into the seaL >pposite him-a young lady in a black elvet waist and a diamond necklace. 'Merciful fate!' li' ejaculated, half starting from his place-'Mario de Roeu ise!' '11old your tongue,' whispered Field,. Iragging him back ite the chair; 'It's mnly my cousin Marguerita Leslie. Stop staring, and let me introduce you like a Dhristian.' And as Field J1akenhamn spoke their tames to each other, Julian Chostwick rotmd himself looking directly into the lovely dark eyes of thme radient Marquise f the days of Louis Quatorze. 'I never thought of It before,' said Liold Pakenham; 'but she does look like bhe portrait,of our French ancestress.' 'I dressed like it for a masquerade ball In New York last winter,' laughed Margueritai herself, 'and you would have fanci'ed I had just stepped out of the frame.' 'Before you well't to -Havana?' askedl mne of the Miss Pakenhams.' 'Yes, hii'i 1 (veint i20'L.%'. 'The riddle was solved at last. JuliaI Chestwick's heart grew light as a foathi or within his breast, and life became a possibility of brightness once morel 'I'll marry that girl,' said Juliani to himself, 'or Il die a bachelor!' You see our friend hadn't cured him' :elf of the habit of rash vows even yt. But lie kept this one. When he%weit' avay from Phkenham 'Court, Marguer ta Leslie had. pronmised to become his hake of .hir diamond ear-drops. 'o, it i8m't~ it's a very long omn, ?, 10Pani Am1on0g Cattle. Last fall, A large herd of big steers for market were being driven acrose the country from Musselshell to Bil. uegs, on the Northern Pacific railroid, I whpre they were. to be shipped on the o forOhicago. There were about 2,00 head, I should judAe, the prop erty of a Mr. .Do Hass, a very younI mdn. One evening a military camp hqd been made ja4t ahead of the cattle, and on the same side of the creek with them, up wlich. the herd was being driven. A storm was coming up, anc and the cattle exhibited - some signs ol uneasiness. Mr.,U6 Hass ser.t word t< the military ofile6 that he had bettex get his men, ( a ,ud animals or the opposite sia. be creek. and ou of the way, as he fered there was goin to be a "night run," The herderm were instructed to keep their horse k saddled and be roady to mount at a L moment's notice. The cattle were ver.y uneasy, getting up, lying down again, and shifting about. At last, about midnight, there came a sharp flash of lightning, followed by a heavy peal of thunder, and in an in stant the whole herd were upon their feet. "Mount and whip outl" cried Do Hass, and the herder who was P.t the head of the column drove off a few of the leading steers in the direction they were to go. All the others followed, and the herd was soon in- full flight. The herders made no effort to check or control them further than to keep them going straight; they rode at the head of the column, one on each side of them swung to the right or left to keep the trail; bluffs and precipices were avoided, and the open fiat ground courted. The run laited about two hours, when a gorge was being neared, in which the cattle would crowd and break their limbs. They were now quite tired, and the herders determiied so exerG their authority and stop the run. The head of the column was bent out on the prairie, and circled round and round until the cattle became tied up in a huge ball and could not move at all. In this way they were obliged to stand until morning, the herders riding round and round them, and keeping them completely tied up. At daylight, they were obliged to "open out." First, the outer edge scattered, then layer after layer, until the large pile of beef was a herd grazing as quietly as if nothing had happened. 440o1ig to tho Halt." A New York letter says: I remember, a good many years ago, when one - -'th -- llininnv,,. r%V 4u city was to give,a fancy ball, that I was at Bryant's Minstrels, when Dan Bryant and Nelse Seymour discussed their costumes and their probable reception at the great event. "What shall you go as?" asked the middle-man of Seymour, who was about the size of seventy - four inohes of gas-pipe. "Weli," said Nelse, "I was thinking of braiding my legs and going as a coach whip." "Chalk your head and go for a bil liard cue," put in Dan. "I suppose you are going to the ball yourself?" said the interlocutor to Dan. "To be sure I am," responded Dan; "I am going to put some red pepper on my brow, carry a piece of lemon in one hand and a cracker in the other. "I'm going as a raw oyster." Now, all this cha was extempora neous "patter." The ball was a looal topic, and every night for sonie time the house screamed at the new funni monts perpetrated by those lost favor ites. In the now plece called "A Muddy Day," by Harrigan and Hart, there is an Arion suunmer-night festival, to which all the actors and singers and public people go in proc'ession. The heads and masks are periect, and the audience will roar as John McCullough escorts Billy Birch and Lawrence Barrett brings on iP. T. Barnum. Harrigan, who is always thinking out new "jingles'' or "wheezes" as he terms them in his peculiar phraseology, wants to introdauce into the procession, towards its close, a few bars of "Auld Lang Sync," and the dearly loved forms, sh~e unforgotten faces of the mighty d, aid -Edwin Forrest, Charles Fetcher, Dan Bryant, the big, bulgy-eyed head of George Uhristy. Wny, the house would rise to re ceive die cherished semblance of George Fox. I can imagine no greater sensation than this transition from gay to grave would make, for New York holds warm and fresh In its heart the memory of those bright spirits who contributed so largely to its happ)iness, and who have never been displaced by equal ability in other actors, 14ememuiwr m.y dona. Remember my son you have to work. Whether you handle -a pick or a petn, a wheelbarrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing an auction bell, or writing funny things, you must work, If youe look around you, son, you will see that the men who are the most ale to live the rest- ot their (lays withQut work are the men who. vorked the hardest. Don't be atraid of killing your self with over work, SOn. It is beyond your po,wer to do that. Men cannot work so hard as that on the sunny side of thirty. They die sometimes, but its because they quit work atS in. and don't get bomne until 2 a. in. t's the. Interval that kille, my'son. The work gives you an appetite for your meals, it lends solidity to your slumbers, it gives you a pe:rfect and grate. iul'appeig of a holiday. There are orldme who do nogi~k, tr son ; but hewrdis not proud- ot t them. it.d'oeu Inot know their names, sOven- it simply speaks of them as old so-n's boy., Noboldy ikes them; nd7 ,hat0? them; the groat busy world. cd'C' toven know that they ate there. Be [f& cud what you want to be ad to do, in, and take of! your coat, and make a di at in the world. Thoe busier you are t,beleOss deviltry you will be apt to got 1nt4,'t$e'sWeeter willI be youir alep tie brighter a d' h#ppler you, heO ~afs, andi the bott atSlid twill tij i:db abe you. said Julian earnestly. And then hI told her how, when and where lie ba( first fallen in love with her! n i have really loved me al ils t me?' she asked. 'Yes, I havell Dear me--I didn't know there wa so much constancy in manil 'Man is too often a misjudged Indiv idual,' said Julan sententiously. No: was he altogether in the wrong. With the Lion Tamer. "Lalla Rookh is seventy-five years oh and Sampson over 100,". said Georgo Conklin, the lion tamer recently ",Jim tie 'em loose and we'll take 'em into thi rhig and show how to break elephants Lalla Rookh only camte back to me thre4 weeks ago, and she's a little cranty fron the qccident which happened to the-Kir alfy show. You remember that about I month ago there was acollision in whicl four train men lost their lives and LalI had her head projected through a freighi car, which bldw knocked her silly, bu she will soon be all right, I guess. Tha tackling there I use to teach them t< stand on their heads. I make Toni lit down and my assistants hitch that chah and pulley to his hind legs, after whic) another elephant is put in harness aik hauls Tom's feet up into the air an' makes him balance on his head. All thi elephants shed their milk teeth whei about twelve years old. Hlere's one thai Lizzie cast about two weeks ago. Sanp. son is a heavier elephant than Jumbo but not quite as tall. lie is, however, the largest Asiatic elephant in Aimeric to-day. 1 come of a circus stock. M3 brother, Pete Conklin, is a clown, Joit Is a Hercules or cannon ball manipula. tor, and my father was a tamer of wih] beasts." . " Is your life' insured." "No; the agents never bother me, and those to whom I have applied foi insurance, refer me to the company, whc invariably decline the risk. Bitten i Oh, yes ; I'm scarred all over, but I an not maimed as you see. I got the tNc lion cubs up here all right the other day, and shall begin to perform them as sooi as possible, but 'in afraid that felloi with his eye partially scratched out ain't going to make much of a trick lion. I put him in there with those two old liom yesterday after putting a collar and chaiin on him, and you oughter seen the wool fly for ten iinuites, but lie got enough jinl is quieter now." Mr. Conklin then opened the door of the den and entered, after jokingly invi ting the reporter to join him. lie per formed the older lions, placing his head in their mouths, but the green fellow who left England but three weeks age would accept none of his overtures, and growled ominously. " i Can a zebra be broken to tricks?" "Yes, but we don't do it because the people could not be made to believe othei than that it was a painted trick mule. Ostriches can be broken, and Barnun1 will have boys ride them around the ring for races. The rhinoceros, which lost its horn a few weeks ago. is sporting al other, you see. I'm going to teach that hippopotamus to stand on a pedestal ad(] (lance, but lie's good .now for nothing but showing his lungs through that big jaw of his. The most interesting aini mal here is that kangaroo, which has a daughter six months old that she carrieF in her pouch yet. Look down in thert and you'll see the young one's head stick Ing out, and the little eyes looking shyly at you. The baby kangaroo will stay iu the pouch for two months longer--fmny, ain't it? I lost my sea lion a few week. ago; it committed suicide by drowning. "How?" "Laid down on the platform and put its head in the water until it died; yoti see it had heart disease and was very weary of li.fe. Sea lions are often aaLleUt ed with heart disease." New Waiys of ouring Uontsumnption. A good story is told of a well-knowni Boston phlysiciani who was much puizzled to know howv to treat consumnption. Learniing that the disease was uniknown tunong the lmnbermien of Maine, het instituted an inquiry as to dliet and hiabits of the wood-choppers. To his surprise hie found that their chief diet was sailt p)ork, and their p)rinicipal drink was whisky, whtereun hle p)rescribedl pork and whisky for his Boston conisump)tive patients, not however, with happy re~ sults. Thme real secret'of the immnunity of the humberman was that lie lived in the pinie woodls and had abunmdant exer cise in the open air. Two Paris phlysl cians MM. de Bore and Beaumuetz, hiave invenited a system of treating consump tion which is saitd to be quite successful, It consists In a p)ractice styled super alimentation, which is not oiily over* feeding but forced feeding by means of pumps)1) andi other appliances. It is found that patients who can not retain food Ii their stomachs in the ordinary way art not Inconvenienced when literally im mense quimntities of food are introdluced into the system by a pup. The tdiet la a comnpositlon of minced lean meat, which is tdried antd then pounded iito ai powder. It Is then mIxed with milk 01 boulloni, anid sometimes raw eggs are added. This Is found to be highly nu tritious and easily digestetd, and has p)roved eilicacious in hysteria and othier wasting diseases as in consumption, for which it wvas first devised. The first dose givenu is not more thtan twenty-flye grammes per meal, but thme quantity i gradually and rapidly Increased until the large portion of six hundred grammes It dlaily given, which Is equivalent to aboul four pouiids of lean meat. How largt this quantity really Is shown by the fact that one pound of meat Is quite sufficient for an ordinary working man, and tw: litres of milk and sevendl eggs are i.e. IBatY a W4!S.hiistr,ation~ of the dose The rep)ort is that thia'smia'~ves, if not too far gone, have rapidly. gained in weight under this process, their dall avergge increamie having ranged fronr eighty to one huund/eud grammes. Tht cough is liess frequent, and' the lung begin to heal under this forced feeding WliTch, it Ist aa~d&d Woiks as well in dys pep)sia as In phithilsis, never p)roducing nausea or vomthiting the food being pas ed down the throal without any obec tiotn on the part of even hyAterlcal women. No doubt the experheente o those French - physicians. 1%ill soon be tested i thiIoountry. Vest Pocket Dynamite. Prior to his departure for Europe, about a week ago, to attend the coming coronation of the Czar, Professor Mezz. roff had a long conversation in his lab oratory with a reporter, in which he explained to him the wonders and beaut. ies of soience as illustrated in the do structive power of some of his recent inventions. "The progress of invention in this department of science, said the great dynamitist. "has been so rapid that it is diSUoult to know where to begin, but if there is any special point that you wish to %uggest, I am prepared to give you tho desired information, so lilao ay, of course." "I should like to be more fully iTform ed about your new 'No. 50,' which dy namitiste have so frequently referred top" "That is tri-nitro-glycerine with fifty times the power of gunpowder. It explodes at the rate*of 200,000 miles a minute. To get a more comprehensive idea of its power or momentum, suppose you take 100 pounds of it. The mom ,Entum of this, which is found by multi plying the weight by the velocity, will be foun: to be 20,000,000; that is to say, 100 pounds when exploded,has the same force that 20,000,000 pounds of any other material would have moving .at the rate of a mile a minute; that is as quick as a fast express train. Just im agine the execution this enormous mass of rook, say, would do moving through the air at. that rate and coming in collis ion with any ordinary object, such as a house or a fortress. Then you will have some idea of the latent power that dwells in 100 pounds of tri-nitro-glycer iae." "And this,.you say, can be handled in any quantity, large or small, without riAk. Will you explain how this is?" "I shall, in so far as I can do so with out giving away the secre. The explo sive is perfectly harmless, or, paradoxi cal as it may seem, it is non-explosive until auother substance is brought in contact with it" "What is that substance?" "That is just the part that can't be give for publication, and that, as you are aware, is the qualitity that gives it value as a secret." "Can it be applied without danger or suspicion ?" "It can. This is the beauty of it, You can carry it in your vedt p)cket, and if it should be found with you, nobody would suspect what purpose it was for, and it would not injure a fly until it is brought in contact with the 1 other compound, which is also harmless when alone." tri-nitro-glycorine being so enormously powerful ' "The chief reason is that It contains oxygen within 'each molecule. This rendera its combustible force quick and irresistible makiLg the explosion in stantaneous." "How did you make the discovery for exploding so readily?" "As all great discoveries have been made-while trying to find out some thing else, I discovered it in Germany a few years ago, while working at somo experimenta on Bunson's lamp. Through the substaaee was in a very diluted form, I had a very narrow escape from a fatal blow in the frst soci iontal exper- 1 imont. I saw its power agin tried at 3 Plevna on a pretty large scale, with terrific effect, where the gallant 8kob oleff barely eacaped with his life. On that occasion I saw dynamite that was supplied by the henchmen of Disraeli ireely used by the Turks." "What objct ha've you in view in the manufacture of this infernal compound, as the newspaper term it?"4 "My first great object is inmanitarian. I am conymnced that, It will eventually destroy the art of war, and that nothinst else will do. What have all t.he peaces congresses amounted to'since the move- ~ mont began? Do you think the ruling px>wers of E1urope have any faith in per manent pence? Von Moltke, whom I take to be a pretty fair exponent of the minds of the governing classes in Eur ope," said Mozzroff, "I think, has ex pressed the prevailing notion in those circles in a letter to my friend, Professor Bluutschli. He saiys: 'Eternal peace is a dream, and not oven a beautiful dream. War is an clement of the order of things established by Gid. The most noble virtues of man develop themselves ini it; courage and self-abnegation; faithful p)erformnance of one's duty and the spirit of devotion; the soldier offers his life. Without war the world would begin to rot, and would lose itself In material. ism.' Ninety Da,ys. When Wili Foster came out into the M1ayor's omic at Detrolt, he looked around him in the greatest astonishment andl after a time turned to the desk and signified by signs that, lie was deaf and dumb.] "Well, you arc a pretty subject to get1 drunk, I must say !" exclaimed his Honor. "Where do you lIve 2" T1he prisoner shook his head "What arc you docing here 1" Another shake. Tihen the court wrote the first question on a slIp of paper and banded it over, and the prIsoner took the pencil,,run out his tongue. and after a great effort wrote in answer : "[ live in Tawrontow." "Oh. you dot Thiey ought to haveI learned you how to spell before they let you travel. You were not only druuik, but ugly, and something ought to be done-in your case." Then came a period of allence as the court looked the. man over. The prisoneri stared around him in a stupid manner,-' bhut gave a start of surprise as a spectator rose uip anti called out : ""dilt.onor, can I speak I" " "Yes, air. "The pra.pier tiere i's Sh'@piig on I "Yotx are a liar Iu tentyt rpplied the~ deaf anddum1b mn ' "" E}e tried to taae it back, but ttie jig was up and lie wont to.the Work Rlouse for1 nidety days.~ The hards hn n h wrdi said to feel that e ,iu the Abdoryd i neighboi' # the trtth, The St. Bernard Dogs of Home. In Rome there is as fine a colectiot of four-legged dogs as can be found i any city of Europe A -certain toDurs said he would "rather be a specimen ol the canine family in Rome than th< Mayor of Birmingham!" Chaopn a eo gout. It is proposed to have a dol show in Rome I Well, we have hae worse shows. But we are pleased tha1 the St. Bernard dog is to have a loca: habitation and a name in it. 'here h but one place where we know the slmoz pure St. Bernard. TChis is the Cantoi Vaud. .. 1 The raoe of this flue dog is ke vig orous and pure there, though all through out the canton we have noticed a numbei of these animals which evidently havo strains of other blood. In fact, except. lng from the St. Bernard Monastry, it, lelf, the Valaisians say you can nol procure a thoroughbred dog, and nol always even there. Their poeuliar braining for the assistance of wayfarers begins, of course, only on the mountains, md it was from the Monastery on the it. Bernard that the Prince of Wales >btaiued, when passing there, the flue )anine specimans which are the orna nents of his kingly kennel at Sandring ihm. These dogs are fed three times a lay with vegetable and animal food. Che Uhristian dog there, contrary to iome ''dogs of Christian" elsewhere, )bserves the monastic regime, and is imited on fast days and days of abstiu mce in his food. Next to London joint itook companies we never saw oanine reatures with so much "limited liabil ty." There are about 200 dogs held hre in training orders for the final les ions in humanitarian seeking and find ng on 13t. Bernard's bleak top. These logs have most attractive names, and espond to them as intelligently as a iorporal's guard on roll. call. A sort of tud-book is kepf, which, for its details ind accuracy, would draw tears of envy ron the racing authorities of Newmark At and our Roman "Jockey Club," and >r learned in dog pedigroethat theywould kmaze and amuse a Darwin in a Herald's Jollege. The first family of dogs here kre as proud of their lineage as if they )elonged to the bluest blood of all dog lom chronicled in the "Bow-wow Peer kge," or the canine "Who's Whol" or anILUIUMUR UU XAF(PmUU. One old family traces its origin to the log-days of the celebrated Bishop of Aeon, who was hurled from his palace vindows in the fourteenth ceutuary by spendthrift nephew, who was the romc )ur of the canton. We may mention on the subject of hose dogs and their sense of smell that t is keener than in dogs of the smaller Lud more domestic typo. It is by the imell they are guided in their chief vorks. Ithas been said that "pet dogs,' ap dogs, and clogs un4oged, if we may iso the term, by silly fondling and fe nale nursing. are less strong in their linse of smell than the natur el dog puro ind simple. A dog dnprived of stuoll ng power ceases to bo a dog. Schiff, n his treatise on dogs and their facul ie's, says the diog wit,h a loss of smell oses its faculty of attachment and faith ulness towards its master whom it re mognizes and lover simply on account of is individual perfume, He caused ome young dogs to be deolfactorized, nd forever after they forget their cnn ing and knew no master, be lie ever so ind. The olfactory nerve in the Mount It. lBernard mastiff is particularly large, iborally containing sinuses for increas ng the olfactory surface, and you do iot discover it so developed in small logs, The RlouAe or ?.ords. This branch of the legislature is coin pose:l of hereditary landowners, who sollectively own 14,258,527 acres of land, mud whose collective incomes are about ?15,000 000. They have persistently >pposed, so far as they dared, every neasure of reform brought forward dur ng the present centuary, and more es >ecially every measure that has militat 'd against their own class interests. Rot only are they conservative In the real sense of the word, but in the party sense. When a conservative ministry is in power they are useless; wvhen a iberal ministry is In power they are act ixvely pernicious. Notwithstanding ~heir wealth, they are not independent. ('hey ore place-hunters; they are clam >rous for decorations, and they dip ineavily into the public exchequer, In ay, pensions and salaries they annual y divide among themselves (including he salaries of the bishop) ?621,886 per bnnum. It may be an open question whme her tihe systemi of one or two chambers s the more desirable. No sensible per on, however, can advocate a chamber, lestined to act with.controlling impart ality, composed of enormously wealthy aen, draining vist incomes from lands, ibsorbing large aillounts of public men wy In pay and pensions, and perpetual y ihtriguing to Aecute. the triumph of hie party to which' the great mnajority.of lem pei'manently belong. It is eu giittt' so astonadings a legislat%ve usemzby- uI o z'w% 9 of ca,B, a iv q1iod,so losg in a country inhabie )y'bh1O Mtdebanb'oiss, and tistnd n any oountry whore thte p p1~i alla emzbly is eleoted by a nrlo m~3ra FOOD FOR THOUGH'. Holiness Is an unselfing of ourselves. Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns, H Rope is the cordial of the huma heart, A man may hold his tongue at the wrong time. Real glory springe from the silent conquest of ourselves. True wisdom, in general, consists in energetio determination. Chance is a word void of sense; noth ing can exist without a cause. Bunshine is like love, it makes every thing 0hine with its own beauty. ewill easiy be c&AWnt and "at peace whose conscience is pure. Ill fortune never crushed that man i whom good fortune deceived not. One pound of learning requires ten pounds of commonsense to apply it. There are more people who can forget themselves than govern themselv:s. The tongue of slander is a' sword which is seldom allowed to ow rusty. That man has attaine to wisdom who can do everything t the proper time. The very nature of lov - is to find its joy in serving others, no for one's own benefit but theirs. Don't judge a man b his failure in life, for many a man fail because he Is too honest to succeed. Character is higher t an intellect. A great soul will be as str g to live as well as strong to think. A man that studieth rev e keeps his own wounds green, which uerwise would heal and do well. He who doem a base thing in zeal for his friend, burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. There is a fellowship among the virt. utes by which one great, generous pas sion stimulates another. Every lie, great or small, is the brin of a precipice, the depth of which nothing but conscience can fathom. "It will pass away, weak parents say of some fault of their children. Oh, no! it will not pass away. it will de velop. Certainly man is of kin to the breath of his body, and if he be not of kin to Uod by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble oraature. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who laithfully use them the society, the ~s$*itual presence, of the greatest and bet of our race. Political parties cannot forever live PruIM N7N b ntA0ap r that he has "seen better days." Feelings come and go like the troops following the victory of the present; but principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed and stand fast. There are men in this naughty wort so mean that they would even consent to "take the beam from their eye" if they could only sell it for timber. Wrong-doing is a road that may open fair, but it leads to trouble and danger. Woll-doing, however rough and thorny at firat, surely leads to pleasant places. Satire can no further go than when ham Johnson said to a booby, "if I have said anything that you understand, sir, I humbly crave the pardon of the rest of the company." There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things, each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. There is nothing which so thoroughly depletes and robs moral character of all substance, there is nothing which so effectually destroys all robust in dividuality. as the continuous asking of the question, "What will people, say?" Always say a kind word if you can, if only that It may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room like a beautiful fire-fly, whose happy convolutions he cannot but watch, for getting his many troubles. The thought of time Is solemn and awful to all minds in proportion to their depth, and, in proportion as the mind is superficial, the thought has appeared little, and has been treated with levity. Let but a man possess himself of that thought--the deep thought of the brevity of time, the thought that time is short, and that eternity is long-and he has learned the first great secret of unworldliness. We live, but our beloved ones who have died also live; we stand weeping on this globe, floating in infinite space, but our glorified dear ones are, like ourselves, in God's world. We arc not sep)arated. No time lies between us; for we, like them, dwell in eternity, rest In the arms of God, If God gives me work to 'do, I will thank Him that he has bestowed on me a strong arm, if He give me danger to bravo, I will bless Him that He has not made me without courage, but I will go down on my knees and bes,eech Him humbly to maKce me lit for ngiy task, If He tells me It is onl,y to stand and wait, It is a celebrated thought of Socra tes, that if all the misfortunes of man kind wore cast into a public, stock, In order to be equally distibuted among the whole specmes,~ those who now think' themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that *hich would fall to them by suchla division., *A mans transIt fi oa on~e 4J