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01,, IT 3~ I.. 4 001, TRI-WEE ,INSBR0 Coo MA o,183 BOYS IVANTED. Boys of sirit, boys of will, Boys of -mU14c, brain and p)ower, Iti to copo with anything e are wanted every hour. Not the wea whining dionem That all trouble in Not the watchword o "I can't," But the nobler one, "I'll try." Do whate'er you have to do With a true and earnemt zeal; - Bend your sinown to tho task Put your shoulder to the wieel. 'hough your duty may be hard, Look not on it ats jn ill; If it bo an honest task, Do it with an honest will. At tho anvil or the farn, Wheresoever you itay be, From your future elforts, boys, Comos a nation's destiny. IN TIE WIONG HOUSE. It was in Boston. The first snow of the season had fallen the night before, and the wind was dashing it off the tops of the high buildings, filling - the air with tiny particles that glittered like diamonds in the brilliant sunshine. It wasn't quite so pleasant to have it come with a rush right into one's face, but every .one was merry and brisk this mornig, and why shouldn't the wind be so too? Two bright-faced girls were rapidly threacing their way through the crowds that thronged around the great dry goods stores. For an hour they had been flitting from place to place, attending to matters important or other wise, hovering over the pretty things piled high upon the counters, but laughingly shaking their heads over their eenpty purses. "1 shall have to appoint myself your guardian, Alice, and put a veto on your buying what you don't need." And the speaker linked her arm with that of her companion, and drew her towards the door. "I ought to be grateful, for I am in debt now, and I really ought not to spend a cent. Did you ever see such a good-natured crowd? Now, you have that call to make, and while you go there I will run in and see Mollie. Don't stay long, will you, Grace?" - "No, I won't, What a wind! I should think it came straight from Labrador. This was rightly named Winter street! Here, give me your hand. Let us get into the sunshine, somehow, as quickly as we can. Hand in hand, laughing, breathless, with heads bent to meet the fierce I winds tnat came tearing around the cerner, the cousins struggled forward until they gained the corner, where Alice halted for breath; but Grace ran oh, across Tremont street, and stood in the flooding sunlight, waiting for her companion. "Which way shall we go?" asked Alice, when they were together again. "Up Park street or across the Com. men?" 5 '.'Aeross the Common by all means," said Grace. "I go out of my way when in Boston, to walk on the Common. It is such a relief to me to escape from the cold shadow of the high buildings." I So on they went, with faces so bright from the cold air and their merry hearts ri that all who met them smiled and went their ways more blithely. Suddenly their path was blocked by the snow, on which men where still at work. An un broken white expanse lay between them ,and their goal. "Three alternatives," exclaimed Grace, gayly; to wade through this snow, which looks rather deep; to wait till the men finish the path for,us, or to take this path over to Park street.'' "In view of the lateness of the hour, perhaps we had better make a conces sion and accept the last. See, there Is olhie's house. You see the house >with the roof higher than the others?" "Yes," said Grace, not very decided *"Well, it is the third house from hat. If you finish your call first you stop for me, or vice versa, I will go - meet you. Now don' stay long." And they parted. Alice keeping on own Beacon street in the sunshine, race turning north over the hill. either had far to go from the corner here they separated, and Grace was oonw aiting .for admittance at her icnd's door. The servant who took he card returned presently with the ntellugence that her mistress was so ill at she was quito unable to receive hyone. So It happend that In a few oments Grace was again upon the -eet.. This is nice,"' she said to' herself, as o retraced die steps. "Alice will not urry herself, and, meantime, what .is become of me? I do not wish to orten her call. I will walk down the reet very slowly and try to kill time." What an e?quisite picture It is! And lily it was beautiful. Tihe leafless es on the Common lifted the delicate cory of their branches' against the udless sky. The newly fallen snow ,still spotless, on the streets and usetops. Along the few paths that d been opened on the Common people sod and repassed. The roar and h of the great city came softfl to the across tbe white plain., ea at d the State House raise I its shining .me high in the air, and the tinkle of gh bells and the merry shouts of Idren added life and- Interest to the ne. 'I am getting somewhat tired of this ade, although I doubt if there found a pleasanter place for It je city. Which house did Alice *a sure I don't know, if I walk * t this club-house a few more ball create a sensation. .That do at all, Let me try But as she turned,.the corner * wind met *her, and' her feet angerously,op the icy .pave stalid this, In more senses Why doesn't that gi-l appear? not for the snow, now, 1 might a e Uommon in the most unno ay.possible. 1 yiIl cross over thee Jos.What did Alice I) a ttupidnot toAsk hertbI~e StW the .shouldn't havd *~h d~~l'me ~ren to what people are saying. I declaW6 don't even know her friend's nase. Mollie, Molle-what? I ought to kn#w. I haYe heard her name times enoug when I have be here before,i S1 one of ' At-AZzition her last name this morn ing. This must be the house, Shall I try it? Grace, who bad been carefully sur veying the house that she was approach ing, suddenly looked very determined, mounted the steps and rang the bell. The door was opened almost instantly by a dignihed old servant in livery. "I bei pardon if .I am makeing a mistake,' she began, in her most win ning voice.. "Indeed, I am quite at lo-s to explain myself. Has a young lady called here within a half hour to see a friend, a Miss Mollie--; m cou in did not mention 'her surname. And the paused with an embarassed half.. smile. Bu. the old sorv.t had already shaken his head. "No, miss; no one has called. I know, because I have been right here all the time." "Then I have made a mistake. I am sorry to have troubled you. But, could you. possibly?"-she hesitated. "I think there is a young lady next rtoor," indicating the house with his band. "We have no young ladies in this family." "Thank you," aloud, To herself: "That accounts for a slight trace of 3rustiness in your bearing, my good sir. However, youltreated me very well for a tramp.'' Should she dare again? Her blood was up. The merry mood of the morn ing had not passed. It would be no worse than this horrid promenading, and she ,might find her. This time the door was opened by a pleasant-ficed young mulatto, who seemed instantly to appreciate the situa tion, for a suppressed twinkle in his eye answered to the smile that, do what she would, Grace knew was twitching at the corners of her mouth. "I beg pardon," she said, with an air of frankness that would have disarmed the most suspicious mind: "My cou sin Miss Raymond, left me to call on a friend, while I madq another call in the near neighborhood, My cousin pointed out the house to me, but really I do not know the house, the nuwber, or her friend's name. She called her only Mollie. Is there a Miss Mollie-? Bas % Miss Raymond called? You see, I-. It is really very absurd," and the young lady ended with a little appealing ges. lure of the hands that would liaye done 3redit to a 1"rench woman. The young follow smiled, y9t very respectfully. "There is a Miss Molly," he said, Grace looked relieved. But she was not yet sure. "A lady may have called," he con tinued, "although I did not see her. Miss Mollie is in Naw York." "Oh, then," began Grace, preparing to retreat. But he went on. "If yoit will step into the parlor, if you plenwe, miss, I will go itd inquire." "I thaak you. I am sorry to trouble you." "How utterly ridiculous this is," she said to herself, as she took th ]prOffered ieat in a most elegant apartment. "To think that I. Grace Carter. should be in such a sorapo as this That man is % true gentleman. How does he know what I may intend to carry off in my poeket while he is gone? What would Alice--" The sound of a half suppressed cough in another part of the room started her. She became conscious that she had been thinking aloud, Throwing, for the first time, a rapid glance around the room, her eyes met those of a gentleman who was almost hidden from her view by an angle of the room and the de.np chair in which he was sitting. He rose from his seat, seeing himself discovered. Grace arose also, turning towards the door, for she heard the sound of returaing footsteps. "The lady is not here miss, I am lorry." All Grace thought of now was to get out of her awkward positi1on as soon as possib)le. The gentleman advanced to offer assistance, but Grace rapidly and somewhat incoherently uttered her thanks and apologies to the servant, tIed, and drew a long breath of ielief us she reached the sidewalk once more. "I feel as if I had lived an age, and it. is not fifteen minutes since I blundered into the first place, If that girl docs not a ppear ~be[ore I reach the next corner I shall go home without her'. There she is this very minute, bliss fully unconscious of the mischief I have been into," "How nice; you are just in time, Grage. I told Mollie you might call for me, and I have been listening for the belt for some time. Did you have a pleasant call? Molle wvas looking very lovely this morning; she had on a new wrapper that is extremely becom ing." "Mrs. Benton was indisposed, so that 1 did nsot see her at all," said Grace, ra ther grimly. Alice looked up and laughed a queer expression on her cousin's face. "Why what did you do all this time?" she ask ed. Grace hesitated. "Oan you keep it to yourself, if [ tell you something?". "Yes, indeed!" "Well, then. 1 have been making morning calls, on New Year's Day, up on the elite of Beacon street, Boston!" "G*race Carter!" "Pereisely; that's just what I say." And half laughing, halt rueful, she told the whole story, Meanwhile the gentleman who had been so suddenly disturbed in his quiet doze did not seem inclined to-return to his chair. "You say she gave her cousin's name as Miss Raymond, Alfred?" - "Yes, sir." "Very atoll. 'That will do, How long before dinner? "I think I will go to the store.aft#r dinner, My headache seems "What a face that girl had!" he con. tinued, wh e~ talne FShe s9sibe a . haoft,i 3hea not a Bio.tn & A edl lt a ha tackI .. 1aynod, that is all I have to guid me."' . Alfrefe went away.chuckling to him elf: "Mi. Frauk's struck at last gfdl too. But. she is Titt y, that's a fact!" But Mi Frk. t to the store and studied th dirtWoy with great care. H been invited to a little No, Ye 's partf that eV34ing, r -d as it we to arp avery>quiat, infoi*mal affair, h ha eneihted to golt?g, for althoug] belonging to one of th6 most aristoore tic wealthy fAmilies in 'the city, he wa no society man. He wished now that i had not promised to go, for he wantei to take steps toward beginning hi search for the apparition of the morn ing. "Fortune favors the brave." "A Mr. Ellis turned away after paying hi respects to his hostess, his eyes met thi very eyes that had looked into his the morning in hii mother's parlor, an( although they were instantly turne: away the swift rush of color showed the het was recognized. With an adroi excuse about "a very striking resemb lance," he soon' gained the desired in troduction and made himself so agree able to the young lady that grace forgo her determination to be frigidly polite and ore long the two were ohattinj together like old friends, to the utte: astomshment of those present who kne Ellis. Among his conpanions he wa considered a little short of a "womai hater," and there he sat completely on grossed by a little, plainly dressee country girl. [The months fly swiftly, and. again i is the eve of the Now Year. Come witl me to a house in one of the pleasantesi suburbs of Boston. A few snowflakei are beginning to fall. Look! the doe is opened and a servant stands on th: threshold, and, shading his eyes, peen into the surrounding gloom to see il there is a promise of a storm. W: recognize Alfred. Let us slip past bin into the light and warmth of the hall and looking into the drawing roon where the ruddy fire light is dancing oi the wall. T'wo persons are standing be fore the open fire, and the the taller hai his arm thrbwn carressingly around th: slight little figure at his side. "Grace, my darling," he is saying "JL never can be thankful enough tha you got into the wrong house last Nov Year's. It was the making of my for tune-and Alfred's." he adds laughing "Do you know," Grace answers de murely, but with the merry sparkle it her eyes as of old, "I am not sure, it the light of subsequent events that ii was the wrong house." A Wooden Log Unter Firo. A fashionably dressed matron sat in th: rear cabin ot a Fulton ferry boat, Nov York. Sho-wam neeompania by n-- thin legged, restless-eyed little girl of 4 0 thereabouts. A few seats away was a ma with a wooden leg. With unerrig instine the child's eye had lighted upon this man That eye at once became fixed, dilatinp with concentrated Interest. The chik crawled down frum her seat, upon whici she had been kneling, in order to affore that eye better facilities for observation, The object of scrutiny squirmed uneasils In his seat. Turning to the mother th( child exclained in a portentous whisper: "Oh, ma I Look at that man." "Hush, my dear. You must not bc rude." "But ma" (in a very audible whisper), "do look at his leg." "Be qiet, Ethel, I tell you," frantical ly urged the matron in agitated tones. "Thc poor man has lost his leg. It's very rude to notice it." "What's that one made of ?" "flush I ot wood, my dear. Look at that pretty little boy over there. See how good be is." "Did you over have a leg like that "No, my dear. Look over there at that-" "Wili pa or Uncle John or I ever hiave one, ma?9" "No dear." "Uould be kick a bail with that leg?9" "Hlush, do I" "But, ma At this juncture the man with the wood= en leg sought, in turn, to create a diversior lHe drew from his pocket a prett.y littlh bonbon box and offered the child somi sweetmeats. The child accepted then with some hesitation end mistrust. Ai instant later the boat reached the slip. Thi -nother rose, and smiling graciously, said : "T'hank the gentleman, Ethel, and saa good-bye." Ethel advanced, her eyes still flrmhi fixed upon the object of interest. S3he helk out the tips of her little fingers. "Good-bye," she said, in a voice full o: emotion; "good-bye, you poor man." The mother seIzed the child by the hiant and, hurrying through the boat, gameci the bridge." A 110ad Man.m A story is told of a prominent Wlnmng tonman, who several years ago was mnclihed to he full of fun, a little irreverent ani somewhat short of cash, One afternoon perhaps seven or eight years ago, he wai met by a friend who addressed him thus "I say, Charlcy, who was that nice looks ing old lady, you bad out riding the othe day on the Kennett pike?i" "That," replied the young man, "wa my rich aunt. S3he is about 95 years old and I was afraid she had been forgotte and was never going to die, so I took be out to fhiow her to the Lord." TIhe questioner was somewhat shoeko: at the reply, and made no further remarki In about three weeks, however, he met hi friend Charley, the old lady in the mean time,bhaving died and been buried, an: thus addressed him : "Well, Ubarley, see you plan worked, a,nd the Lord ha taken your aunt. How did you make ou by her will." "Only a part of the scheme worked George," replied the young man, with lugubrious east of features and J-havent got-a-cent-in-the-world-voteo. "The oh lady wasn taken, that's true, but when he: laet will and testament was -read 1 founm she lef t all, her wealth to two old datkel servants ahd a home for aged inen, whif: I only redeted as ihy share of the estate ' do earned ,and thumb-marked faly. BiA The trouble didn't pay at all, b~e sieI am'a dollartand ahalf out for eat riage lure. The htert tibne I trot vw jofi ount that has been overlooked, you'll Igno, e About tlie Bed. A Spanish minister signalized his ac. cession to power by going straightway to bed and staying there, lost ho should bo expected to do something. No a English minister ever adopted that ignoble expedient to escape performing r his duties; but Walpole relates that s William Pitt and the Duke of Nowoastle once held counsel together in bed. i Pitt had the gout, and, as was his custom when so afilictedolay under a , pile of bed-clothes in a ireless room. 3 The Duke, who was terribly afraid of catching cold, first sat down upon 3 another bed as the w Mest place available, drew his legs j t -it as he grew colder, and at lobt -i j*j6dged himself under the bed6elotes. 8ome. body coming in suddenlilmlield "the two mainisters in bed at the' two ends of t the room, while Pitt's long nose and black beard, unshavod for some time, i added to the grotesque nature of the scene," Tho great Commoner was abed and asleep when Wyndham and others of his colleagues -burst Into his room and shook their chief out of his slumbers to toll him there was mutiny in the fleet, that the Admiral was a prisoner on board his own ship, and in danger of death. Bitting up in bed, Pitt asked for a pen, ink and paper, and wrote: "'If the Admiral is not released, fire upon the ship from the batteries;" and turned over on his pillow, and was in a sound sleep a few minutes later. When, in 1814, the military affairs of the allies looked somewhat unpromis Ling, it was around the bed of General Knesbech, at Baruur-Aube, that the Emperors of Russia and Austria, the King of Prussia, Hardonborg, Vol. kousky, Sohwartzenberg, Motternioli, Radetsky, Dlebitsch, Nessolrodo, and Uastlereagh held their council (f war; and the issue of the campaign culmi nating in the occupation of Paris was virtually decided by Castleroagh in sisting upon the immediate transfer once of waWring Bornadotte'i battalions to Blucher's command, and taking the responsibility upon his own shoulders. It was in bed, at the Jittle inn at Waterloo, that Wellington received the terrible casualty-list of the memorablo 18th .f June; and as name after name fell from Dr, Hume's lips, lie threw himself backt on the pillow and groaned out: "What victory is not too dearly purchased at such a cost?" Wellington, who possessed the faculty of sleeping at will, held that when is was time to turn over'it was time to turn out. Napoleon, a man of another tempera ment, provided for wakefulness by keeping the returns of his army under Ins pillow, to be conned apd considered when tired hature's BwetA rtorQr je IU904d tO Mh" 11ijA4 "iltiOtrm 1053,aI~ One of, Johnson's earliest ventures in book-making was the translating of Lobo's "Voyage to Abyssinia," whion put fifty dollars into his pocket. Lying in bed, he dictated sheet after sheet to his friend Hector, who carried them off to the printer without waiting for John son to look over them. When the fit was on him. iousseau remained in bed, carefully drawing his curtains to keep out the daylight, and gave himself up to the fascinating delights of composition. In bed, .L'aesiello composed hid "Barbiere di Seviglia" and "La Moli nara." One at least ot Rossini's operas was composed under the same condi tions. Swift, fond as he was of lying in bed of a morning thinking of wit for the day, wrote to his friend Sheridan: "Pray do not employ your time in loll. ing abed till noon to read Homer." Bettor, perhaps, do that than imitate George IV., and lie in bed devouring newspapers the best part of the day. Many very clever p.eople, however, have scouted the idea of health, wealth and wisdom coming of early rising. Macauley read much In bed, and anxious to keep up his German, Im posed upon himself the task of perusing twenty pages of Schiiller every day before getting up. Maule won his senior-wvrangleship by 'studying hard, long after ordinary folk were up and about, snugly esconced under the blankets. John I"oster thought his sermons out in bed; methodical Anthony Trollopo regularly read for an hour before rising; and Mary Homerville made it a rule not to get up before twelve or one, although she began work at eight; reading, writ Ing, and calculating hard-with her pot sparrow upon her arm-four or five hours eyey day, but those four or flve hours were spent in bed. Not Insulted. "That man to whom you sent me, in. suIted me,*' said a young drummer, who had only been a few months In the busi ns,to his trainer in a large house in this 'Insulted .you," reiterated the trainer, with an expression of contempt almost sufficient to make the novice sink into the floor. ."Were you never insulted," timidly re sponded the young man. "Never, sir; not oven during the period -of my novItiate, which passed through very rapidly, and I have twenty years mn the business." "That is very strange," said the novice, skeptically. S "Very strange if you don't understand it," ferociously observed the old'drummer. "I have beeni often badly abused. 1 have L been ordered peremptorily to leave the premises. I have been frequently knocked down for standing on the order of 'my go ing, and several times I hare been uncero monlously kicked down stairs; but," he continued, gazing fiercely and triumphant. ly at the young man, "I have never been insulted. 'The mnoment a drumninor tel ,hImself insulted lae is no longer fil for bileiness." --The law~ hbrwy of the late Justice Clifford, of the Unilted Statesf Supreme Court,pnow. ffered for- sale at rort said to by the lggstl IEngland except 0ne in0oto 1orax. There is one article of merchandise enumerated in the new tariff bill on which an import has been laid for the purpose .of discouraging its importation and en couraging its home production, which is largely a California product. This is borax, of which large quantities are gathered in that state and in Nevada. Few people, except those engaged dit ectly in its production and sale, are like ly to taka much Interest in the tariff on borax, and yet it is an article of almost universal use. Prior to the discovery of the California and Nevada fields lar e quantities of the mineral wore imported from T.Vurkey and Italy. > Its value then .Wasbout thirty-fiveoents apout M present the production of American bor ax has depressed the price to ton cents a pound, and it would have gone still lower and caused the cessation of mining operations in California, if mining it can be called, if Congress havi not imposed a customs duty upon the foreign pro duct. This duty is five cents a pound, and is to be levied after July 1st. The local producers look formard with much satisfaction to that period. The production ot borax in the United. States at present is not suffloient to sup ply the demand. But it is thought that when the price shall have risen a few cents under the fostering influences of the ..duty first imposed the production will increase sufficiently to supply the entire market. At now ruling prices, borax making in the Pacific states is not a business which yields .a great prolit. There are; it is true, immense fields of the mineral, but they are in distant dis triots, not easy of access, and while the cost of condensation is. not great, the cost of freighting is so heavy that there remains but a very small margin. A number of incorporated companies, who, in the euthusiasm engendered by the first discovery undertook the business, have gone the way of all flesh, Somo years ago there was one company which operated quite successfully in Lake county. There was in the emiloy of this company a young engineer who sometimes struck an idea. The borax in that pal ticular locality was conduct ed from the waters of a little lake, which was very strongly impregnted witi the mineral. The engineer, therefore, con ceived the idea that if the water on top .contained so much borax, that under ground must contain so much moro. He therefore induced the company to bore at the banks of the lake. The au ger went down and struoi, not borax, but a good, strong stream of fresh wat er, which began to flow into the lake, and thined it so much that it did no longer pay to condense its waters for the sake of the minoral. The borax ftldswhich have boon SYWihihve been gendihily sni in extent. Only those in the neighbor hood of good roads have been operated upon. These are easily exhausted, and the operators have to hunt for new bor ax-floelds. This is the cause and origin of the numeraus borax mining compan ies which are incorporated each year, Several of those lately formed are to operate in Inyo county, whore the borax fields are very extenive. The 'water of Lower Owens' lake contains a very large percentage of borax. In early days prospectors loved to wash theirigray or black woolen blankets in this water, because it removed not only dirt, but also color. They also liked to bathe in it, bohause the poorest swimmuer would float in its saline fluid. But the water was not good for drinking or cookiug purposes, and a very small qnantity is sufficient to produce sea.sickness. The use of borax has materially increased of late years. It is now used for a great many manufacturing purposes, such as making agate household ware, pigments, &c. The trades, also, use it in liberal quantities, and so do the soap-maiters and housewives, who.*hate grease-spotsa and cockroaches. The industry promis es to become important in California. saved by a 1ion-Iirti. A singular story has been related to us< by the master of the bark "Umadstone,"< which arrived from .iiondoen at Sydney, 1 Australia,on the 22d, of March. While the I vessel was in latitude 42 degrees south and longitude 90 degrees east, a seaman fell everboard from the starboard gangway.< The bark was scudding along with a rough sea and mYodierate windl, but on the alarm of "man overboard" being given i she was rounded to, and the starboard lirei boat was lQwered, manned by the chief officer and four men. A tearch for the unfortunate man was made, but owIng to a the roughness of the sea he could not be < discovered; but the boat steered to the e spot where he was last seen. Here they found him floating, but exhausted, clingting for bare life to the legs and wings of a huge albatross. The bird had swooped] down on the man while the latter was struggling with the waves and attempted to pca~ him with its powerful boak.Tlwice the bird attacked Its prey unsuccessfully, being beaten off by the sailor battling with two enemies-the wate-r and the albatross --both greedy and insatiable. F.4or the third time the huge white form of the bird hovered over the seaman, peeparatory to a final swoop. The bird, eager for its meal, fanned its victim with its wide-spread wmngs. Suddenly a thought occurred to him that the huge form so closo to his face might become his involuntary rescuer. Quick as thought he reached up and seized the bird, which lhe proceede to strangle with all his might. 'The. huge creature struggled with'wings and paddles to free itself. In the contest the sailor was beaten black and blue, and cruelly lacotated, but he held his own, andaslowly the bird quivered and died. Tihe circass floated lighty on the waves, Its feathers I forming a comfortable support for the ox- I hausted man, who had so narrowly es caped a lingering death,' Buat another danger awaited him. Hie was nbt muchI of a swimmer, and the excitement of the i extraprdimary confict began to' teU uponi hun, lie was faint and grew giddy. But with'"one arm around the albatross' body, under the wing, and one hand clutchingi the bird's feet, the ,sailor awaited4 his I chance of rescue, k'res6ntly he heard puIs .I eomrades shout from the boat, anud in a 'few niinutee more was beafe on'. bosrd' the bark, though a good deal shaken and' et hausted ' Mexicanx C,ssnmaun Lute. You will find the miserable jacals (huts) of the Mexican lower class on the outskirts of every town, made of mud, sticks, straw, cornstalks, 1'arrel staves, shoe boxes, tn cases any old drift that will hang together when once fastered into place. They are tightly roofed with tule thatch, which slopes almost to the ground. Sometines they stand in rows in the suburbs , some times they are perched on the top of a clay cone, and sometimes tucked away in the cracks of dry ravines. Every jacal has its garden patch, where the women eultivate a few onions, red peppers, beans and sweet potatoes. A little mud oven stands close by. A Moxican family can live on a hill of beans per day. in the ,wnter a five penny soup iie and a yam will satisfy their needs. Nearly every one keeps a sdiall donkey and a kw chick ens, a couple of goats and a blue-akinned dog, with no hair on except a white tufs on the top of his head and the tip of his tail. They singe the thorns off the cactus and feed the pods to the donkey; give the soup-bone to the dog, and the goats have what is lefl; in the bean-hill. Other dogs have they, marvelous in number and va riety, whose bite disturbs no one, but whose 'nocturnal baying dividea the voices Df the night with the cock-crowing that resounds from house to jacal, and from tarin to ranch, In surges of souna like the waves of the sea." Of the interior of these huts, it may be 3ald that the earthen floors are always 3wept, and the gaudily covered bed looks Mlean and neat, thanks to the house-thrift Df the women, who seem always busy. rhere are abundant evidences of extreme poverty, but not of filth or squalor. As ror pater familias, who dozes in the sun :r shade alternately, according to the sea ion, it costs him a mighty effort to turn aver, even to light his cigarette is too great an exertion. Occasionally, in des perate straita, he musters energy enough to b"otride his d-nkey and ride out to the Dhaparral for a black load of mesquite ticks, which he will sell for a "bit" on his return, driving his beast before him. This is the most momentous event of his life, ind stimulated with the proud conscious ness of having earned a shiling, he rises Ln his rags and salutes you with the grave Dourtesy of a Spanish (Ion. It is the eli inax of his ambition, but it Is painful. ils Aildren are more active, and they vary Lheir out-door play by throwing the lasso it each other, the (logs and the goats; but Jhoy never lasso the old man. lie is too hgnified to be trifled witb. And you wlil otilce that he never demeans hinself by ittempting to speak English-ho has not nunk so low as that; but he will accept Anerican money without question, It pre sented to him in a respectful way. Vul game dios i It ii interesting ' -k through these strange purlieus ot LL, -wns and watch the beggars at the cht. -cn doors ; visit the uoueo~strniu-Un U'n1 pi no-ui-w r carts on their marciful errands ; the wo men at their spinning wheels or pounding corn for their frugal meal, and the grotes que milkman astride his donkey, going his morning rounds, dipping from one can :>r the other as he serves and sells. It is ill very strange and foreign, but not a whit like the halls of the Montezumas or ;ho Alhambra. I see the acequios run ing through the streets, and the irrigat ng ditches dug by the early Spanish co onists. I saunter under the shade of huge grape vines with stens as large as a treo, Lnd hear the clang of the iron bells in the >ld stone belfry, built two centuries ago. recognize all these traces of an attempted :Avilization, like halt-obliterated footprints n the mire, It is the imprint of the terling coin upon the basest sort of com )osition, I would fain lee In disgust from he squalor, poverty, ignorance ani( sni )arbarism which has settled in the valley Ike a miasma-but already I behol the un of a new dispensation; I see that all hese Mexican features are being rapidly viped out by the settlements from the Cast, which have followed the completion >f the railroads. A Quoeer Joke. The cash office of the Treasurer s Do >ar tment in the Treasury Liuiding at W1ashington of ton contains many hun Ireds of thousands of dollars, and great are is taken against the possible do redations of thieves: The room is very uigh stuldded and contains a gallery vhichb can be reached by the general mublic from the floor ab)ove. The inter st;clork is ain auburn-haired individual i the most nervous temperament, and motwithistanding the fact that he has been ni his position for many years he has iever lost sight of the tremendous re ponsibility of handling the vast sums >f money which daily pass into his pea ession. Hisi nervousness has grown blronic, and his made the butt of many quito practio al joke. The greatcst of hese was played some time ago by one >f his intimate personal friends who ob ained permission from Treasurer G3ilill an to try his little scheme. The gen leman armed himself with about twen y-flve feet of twine, and attached to one nd of it a machine composed of a steel rodl pointed as line as a needle, and a olid piceo of rubber as a ballast. Hie tationed himself in thme gallery directly >ver the interest clerk's desk, where here were heaps of money all nicely lone up in packages. Then he slowly ct down his string until it was directly ,ver a large package, and releasing his told on the twine, the steel prod impal id a bundle of notes, Which he quickly irew to the gallery, and having secured hem, rushed to the Tfreasurer's office vith his prize, which proved to be $6, 00 in legal tendeis. Meanwhile the in erest clerk sawr his money going sky. yard and gave the general alarm, but LOt in time, however, to detect the cul >rt. The clerk was nearly crazed when me received a note signed "James (111111 an," asking ini to come at once to the lDreasurer's office. He went as fast as ns legs could carry him, and imagine mis joy when the TreArstitor lhanded him he missing $6,000, advising hiin to be aore~oareig1 tfat huis moiydid not 'takte uintd it4911 iis and ilr way" in he fnture, Thi ~iactica joke has aught 'tio depastia ago4esoi, o-wit; that It was possible for a eleov #tief to a treet oc ith nhh0 tat, of aiar.*o an eyi xot il likely (o ha?~ Agahi NEWS IN BR1E1P. -Snow has fallen for eleven success Ive Sundays at Bar Harbor, Me. -Longfellow's daughters are spend ing the winter in Washington. -TPhe lParisia iorist says that spring is the very worst season forselling flow ONa. --Oscar Wilde is studyig for the stage. Oneo of his first effortq will be "Riomeo."I -[i the United Statemone pers9on in 285 is said to be a pauper; in England one in 35. -.lhere are 2,187 miles-of telephone wire In Pais gn what.4s bet, they are all indor,tomd. -Undetlie new 1 the tat TreAs urer of Colorado has o ive bonds in the sum of half a million. -Ex-Senator David Davis is to be presented by admiring friends Jji Texas with a chair made of ox horns.. -Dr. Yates, of Shanghai, says the , Chimese pay $154,752 000 annually t uIlet the spirits of their ancestors. -(i each I ,000 of silver dollar the' Govermuent. clears $183.75. The liver costs $803.75 and the labor $12.5 -The Crow I1dalus of Montaml num ber about 3,400 and are el 'elly ngag ed inl agriculture and stock raisii. --A thousid dollar bill was >laced up1oni (i he cont rihlitionl plate in St. auil's Church-0, Pawtilcket,1R. I., 11,astet norn ing. --A hady tourist'at Jacksonville, ;la., took to a Jeweller a live lizAtrd, a. cing that it he nonited in gold for a. rf pill. -Franklin Pierce's old home in the outskirts of Concortt, N. 11., is to be tmuislforimed intoa Protestant Episcopal school for girls. -A man up town made a wager with a lady that he could thread a needle quick(ir tihan she colild sharpen a lea(l pen<cil. The 1an won. - Tarr1-i ng and feathering is a Euro ealn invettioi. It. ivas one of Richard Coeur de Lionl's 0ordiiances for seaiel in punishient for (heft. -Edwar(I the Confessor was the ih-st monarch of England who used a seal in hi4 charters. This is the origin of the brmad seal of Enlgland. ---Between the years of 1783 and 1857 six great, earthittakes took place at Na Wdes, which host. thereby 1,500 inhabit ants per year for that period. --Orange trees are cultivated from seed. A tree requires fifteen years to reach ma-turity, but produces both flow ers and fruit in the fourth or fifth year. -Canal locks were kcnown in Upper Egypt from the most ancient times 1052. -Of the $150,000,000 worth of wheat imported by Great Britain hast year $100,000,000 worth was from the United States. -There is talk in Georgia of pitrchas ing Liberty Hall, Alexander 1I. Steph en's late iesidence, by voluntary contri butions, and to retain in it his famous rolling-chiair and other relics. -Mrs. Carter, of Bellair 0 says in her appl ication for divorce tilat ier hIms band compolled her to swallow spools, but tons, long strings of wrapping yarni and marbles as punishment for smiling at other railroad men as they passed the house. -Of the 11,000,000 acres of land oc Cupied by the Sioux hlidians in Dakota Uncle Sam will take 8,000,000 for white settloinient, placing the Indians on sepa rate reservationus. -The Indian territory west of Arkansas will be the nuext cus tot er. -For a long time oflcial circles in Lonidont have been agtitated over the (questionl whether or not a wvomann should be apploinited to be superintendlent of the female empItloyes in the p)ost-oillce. 1t0 has at last beeni decided by the appoit mient of a womuan phlysician. -French mails have increased in in closures, etc., sent from 8615,000 000 ini 1877 to 1,340,000,000 in 1881; fPrench telegraphs from 8,174 00 (dispatches in lH76 to 19),4Ot6,000 in l1 1; French money orders froma $1 ,3411,000 in 1879, whent they were established to $9., 775,000 in 1881. -Since the Cotton Exhibition at At lantta hist year, $[,500,000 of capital has been invested there; a graini elevator and a cotton compress built; a spinning comt pany completed, and nearly filled its cap)acious building with machinery, andl a concern organized for the mnufac tuare of oleonmargari no. --1There is an earniest attempt being made to root out the terrible disease of leprosy from the IIawvaiian Islands. Fifty lepers have recently been removed from IIonolulu to the leper settlement at the island of Molokal, to be separated fronm their friends and families forever. -Sir WVilliami Tihompson finds that sunlight has about 70,000 times the in tensity of the light of the full moon at any placee on the earth, andl about 63,000 that of cand1le flame. Tihue latter result dliffers widely fronm that obtainied by Arago, who found the light of the sun to have about 15,000 thnes the Intensity of 05andle liamie. --Antwerp, a city of 200,000 has no water supply but wells and canals, and in 1879 works were built to fIlter the waters of the Nothe by passing them through filters of sand and spongy iron and gravel. The plan has prove suc cessful, but the supply is very striall, ac cording to American iea being'rsceiY ed in a talnk of only 340 gallbns. --The number of ne ppa nowv pulishled in (Gm'eat Britain and ~reland is 1902, of which 15i30 are pibf~ d in England alone, London claiMt of43 them. In Walsthee te 7 irs 11 Scotlarnd 184 in' n 11 6j~~t 21 'The ii1di .i'r' hti sti. uted:127In hln,4ila~ 22'Inh Scothind1 16 in i6,be~ IR. n 841 heRtlb