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1 4 ?VR WEEKL tDI.ON ... ", ".. - I. . . - . BLISHED1 The 1other's Vigil. wakeful anlit with tealthy treo, Q'er weary day had crept. As near her dying infant's bed A inother watohed and wept, She siw the dews'ef death o'eripreao , That brow so white au4 fair; And bowing down her acling head She breathed a fervent prayer: '0 Thou," ahe erled, 0 a mother's love Hast known-a mother's grief Bend down ftom starry heights above, And send my heart relief. - Sweet lips that smile are drawn In paing Yet rest his lie may keep, AU4 give him to my arms again: "Oh, let my baby sleep?" W4en sicklo dawp 4glqam e. cast Otlight on night's Wack pall. Through gates of heaven in 'Meroy passed An answer to her call, On soiber wings, through gloomy skies, Death's angel darkly swept He softly kissed those troubled eyes, And lot the Infant slet:. MANETTA'S REVENGE. - -wo men were seated some few years ago on a fallen oak in the woods near where the flourishing city of Puebla, Mexico, now' stands, One, Emanuel Blanco, was young, handsome and in telligent. The other, Pedro, as lie was ogaled, was far advanced. In. years, though 'of a very observing nature and possessed of considerable practical com mon sense. Emanuel had been sent to this locality by a company to survey the place with avlew of subsequently build ing a town on the site. Pedro was an old axbman, thoroughly acqualutel with the country, and of great value to Emanuel in his present enterprise. "If you marry that girl you'll, repent it the longest day you live," earnestly remarked Pedro, during a lull in the conversation. "Why should I repent my mar riage?" asked Emanuel, somowhat not tied at his companion's remark. "Don't consider it prejudice on my part when Lexplain the reason to you. Now you don't intend to live here always in this uncivilized region, and you would be ashamed to.take her back home. It wouldn't do at all. You probably haven't thought of that. Better leave the girl alone. She doesn't know any better and is happy here. You couldn't civilize her any more than you could a wolfor. a wild Deprivedof all home associations and soolety, 'Emanuel naturally enough sought and enjoyed such as could be found; the accidental falling of a tree upon one of his legs had rendered him for a time unable to petform his arduous duties, and he had found shel ter ti the home of a redeman-not 'one of the normal savages who live in mis erable wigwams and carry their house hold goods around with them In their wanderIngs-but in the log-cabin of a semi-civilized and Christianized Indian. There he had been kindly treated, not only by the parents, but by their daugh ter, a young, black-eyed and -raten haired girl of eighteen. - In her society, while the elders were hunting, fishing., or cultivating theIr little patch 6f. ground, he had spent his time, and before he was aware of the fact his~ heart had been touched by her artlemss manner and tenderness for his suffer tngs. - In every respect the girl was pure In dian-one of unmixed blood, though freedom from the usual tolls of her race in a great measure had softened. her features, and the little education she had receIved lightedl up her .nature. Still she was emphatically Indian in pride, love and dress, and passions. She would, when once loving, love to the end-$f injured, seek revenge to the death. Amid the unpleasant sur F oundings of ordinary Indian life, 'nanuel would not have noticed her. FOI her neat home and picturesque at r h.asutgned after the models -of her *.h~t sisteri,>tbough exhibiting the high colors that e'er-gratify the savage, It was etherwise,; She was tall, lithe, more than ordinarily handsome--was even niore thgn attentive to his wants, and It was pleasant to listen to tier bro kenEnglieshduringL~lholong, lonelyhours of his confinement Thus lie became interested In her-thus, without rellec tion, he won her love and gave her-his own. For a time after his . conversation with old Pedro he sat In deep thought. The truth of the timely warning he had received staggered him in his r'esolution to make the gi'l is wife. But' he was young, ardent, Impulsive, and when, a few mornents later, he saw the girl coming froni the woods with a basket filed with berries, witti her stop light -amid proud as a fawn, with', her black eyes daucing wlth health and happigess, with her olive cheeks dlushed, and her long, black hair woveh with and lighted up by crinson flowers, and ther full lips parted as she sang, so as to re-. veal the white. line of pearl within,. al his stropg .resolutioul vanispied like nmist le ~uele ani stream weregripp.11 in pilver alhadps,--Eniin peI ..gund th onigh ethp fragrant pitips rbi spefathtloclks, wth teandaa;t Mnetta ljfhis side. Bly a2littte A2elcc her#'. the ortajhson spot4ed stroiW leftbed lin th' mo'onlight, they seated themselves, $ nd t4led -long, tow and earnestly. At Was not in the nature of the child' Ohe hear4 apy a tale from the elders of her tribe 6 the white man's woog and, desertipn. She could look around her and *de half-breed hil4 en who know no father9 and she could not give herself Into his keeping Withotit quos. tioning. "The sons of the white man have not been true to the daughters of the red one," she said; sorrowf11y, when he palnted his love In glowing words and urged her to be his we "deMas eta o W~o9,, - t h hbe no replied. ""All are not alike In nation. Some are good, some bad in every one." "But you would be ashamed to take me-me, a poor. Indian girl- to the wigwamsof your fathers." "AshamedI By heaven, no!" "But' I would not be happy there. 3 should long to see thq green woods and flbat In My c6oe over the spariling ,*aters." "Then we will live liere. "And you will always'stay with me?" she asked, looking him full in the face. - "Yes, yes, except when called afay by business." "Atd would you com eback again?" Lover like he was not long in con vinoing her, and before the midnight hour theyhad,plighted $heir troth. On the Meorrow Eimanuel obtained the con sent of the fither, though the stera old ex-warrior questioned still more severe ly than his daughter. His heart was not wild with love. "My child has chosen; may it be well with her," he said when he could no longer resist the importunities of Emanuel. "If it is In my power, it shall be," re plied Emanuel. "The promises of the young are like the green bow-they easily bend and spring not back again, As you deal with her, so let the Great Manitou deal with you." For a time after their marriage the young couple were exceeding happy. But-soon Emanuel began to realize the great mistake he had made.. Manetta was not society for him-not of the kind to.which he had been accystomed. It was not the life for which he had been educated. Father, mother and sisters began to clamor for his return. He had not written them of his mar riage-dared not do so. He could not re t@~wita-to.,their. levelrand. t1. warning words ok old Pedro rang. again in his ears like a death kufell. Still on through tlie dreary winter he dragged himself, often seeking compan ionship at a tavern, and returning home -home? what a mookery the word was to his earsi-only when. compelled so.to do, and then like one-going to prison. 'He was gathering the nettles his own band had planted. Patiently his wife bore his ill humor -cheerfully she submitted to every, exaction. It was the lot"of her sex and race to do so. Constantly dhe exerted herself to make him happy and to keep him with her. She was contented with a smile, and a kind word was considered recompense enoughi for a day of toll. h4~ 44owger,N -M et~o nature pv <d , f 6was truly rly the case n' hess - ostof -A and com for'j d making pro tien odr t ure 1jp longer he C6iired to mou fo t of his youth, for a mog&O Iza tion and its luxuries. ather, motilet, Wife were all. rejoice dd fear was driven from their hearts. Old Pedr.- alone, -appeated to distrusti Emanael's attehti'I:'a. ' "Maybe he is going 'to, settle down and maybe he ain't." heremarked to himself when -he witnessed -Emanuel's new change of base.. "Ihave seen jitt such. things done before. It is not In the nature of things that he shotild be happy wvith Mtenetta fNr a wife, andi doh't believe he is. I suppose he feels hind of sorry for the .ypig girl, and wants to leave her kind ofnoomfortable; -bit I'll miss my guess, if h'g oesn' desert her at-the very first oppoerttinity." Time, hoWever, proved in .this In stanute that Etnanuel did Intend. to remain, Hie 'engaged in tiow pursuits, and though he was, often away .from home fer days, yet he always returned, greatly to th'e joy of'his wife, who could not'baut tremble in his absence., The- summer brought with It gay par ties making a tour of the places of in terest in that locality. .. Emanuel often met these touriats, and his profession of a surveyor *readily accounted .for his living in that part of the counjy.~ At his own home proper,. hoWever, lie avoided them, but not always with sue ceis, for prying atound' as strangera take the -liberty of. doiag In an Indian' country, with little delicacy, -he -was tflely surpris4d, Still (198 inary rjeg0, ixad. n ot b dt11.scovered, and thoug restless anid fearful, he yet! retui hxtes ,reg414*ly updl. made It plinit jMutubis oul44not last. There canlg a time When it ended, and endefl Mid. delyok As jlive,4here Is Ewanpel BlancoP' came ringing, upon his ears oiie iporning as he was a d~i his blroey4 ba1 in his ars e." reply. QiYinethe chid inta thea arm at te Nrlo. swor'denail V sser tions e he woo' the f ot erb his words he aco . thel rendezvous some Wa'4iie amid 0N~li 46% 06ofiiad long been a strafir, eo6t for '. tio'his data-browed wire and child. Buti did Ue fokget binm? 'tealing throughdtJ ogep; fi her chd pressed to ber bo8o h she- hea ho ~Jte ~ na, ~her shewatched him, herself unseen, aid. when, at a late hour.the-party staied, and sheo knew that 'ef husband V4 going-knew thai she was to deserted-she hid herself and bided HOF teoeVenge.,. urist er ure, Br gilt the group on a grassy promontoty, watching nature smiling in the sun. light, and, as if perfectly relieved fropil thraldom, the gayest 'of any was Emanuel. To a fair young, girl at his s!de he was pointing out the objects of interest. "There is the mountain of good. it is called in the Indian language, *Death's Door,' said Emanuel. "A strange name, is it not?" No, It waslgitly Pnodr Tears :ago a very large, -umbr56f Indians ere butchered there, and-"' The sentence stoppedesuddenly, and ie became pale as ashes. Standing di rectly before him was'his wife, holding her child in her arms. With a brutal' gesture he motioned her away and offered his arm to his companion. A kind word would have been life-saving. for him-that gesture was death. With a cry of revenge-of utter' des. pair-the. woman sprang upo4 him and buried a long knife in his breast. Then, before any could sufficiently recover from their astonishment to interfere, Manetta, clasping her imiocent -child tightly to her :heart, leaped from the' mountain Into the precipice below. They gradually disappeared beneath the seething waters, * and at the same moment husband, wife and child passed through the gate of death to eternity and to Judgment. A Curious Dream. -.Agassl bad been two weks trying -to decipher the somewhat obsctire im pression of a fossil fish on the stone slab in which it was preserved. Weary and perplexed, be put his work asideiat last, and tried to dismiss it from his- mind, Shortly after he waked one night' per. suaded that while asleep .he had seen his fish with all the missing features perfectly restored,'' But when he' tried to bold and make fast the image it escaped . him, Nevertheless, he. went early to the Jardin des 1laates, think ing that on looking anew at, the impres sion he should' see something which would put him on the track of his vision. In vain-the blurred record was as blank as ever. The next night he saw the fish again, but with no more satisfactory .result. When lhe awoke it dlsakpeared'from his memory, as before. Hoping that ithg same oxperience might be repeated, oni the third night he' placed a liencil 'and paper beside his bed - before going -to - sleep; Accord ingly, toward morning the fish reap peared in his dream,.confusedI at first, but at last'auith such distin'ctness that he had no 'longer any doubt as to its zoological character. Still half dream ing, in perfect darkness, he traced these characters on the sheet of paper at the bedlside. 'In the 'lornit ie was sur prised to~ see in his nocturnal sketphi features which he thought it possible the fossil itself. should reveal. He has tened to the Jar~din des Plantes anid, withi his drawing' as a guide, succeeded in chiseling. away the surface of'. the etone, under which portions of the fish proved to be hidden. When'wholi ex p6sed it. cerresponded with his dream and his drawing, and he succeeded in classifying it *Ithi ease. SwIss: papers report'ithe fall of an avalanche on the atossi Alp, near Amisteg, in' the' Canton of Url, o1,04'to the St. Gothard road, by which a fathe and his three sons, all yo'npg ien, wer buried. They had gone dp from the village to secure aqme hay -they had. been oblige'd tola on (fie mountal - last autumn.'- The foin .arose, .and a. great avalanche fell 'on the Brieitocek, in which they .wfere - verwhelmned. Late In the .evening f~he danghte alarmed at th'eir lorfg absence, went It search of tlpim, and touna a dog bow" ling ibeside a hat at the spot where it is supposa 'they were entombed. 'Ihe villagers seatrched for the adissing men, but withou6 sucess. Thiey had taken that-, therdisasterdmust have been suds' den, fo1 s81lly1tl1be sagacious anitgals deteti .befor'oband te signs ofeali proaohine -atmospherij -change, An -All marriages in 1sndlau4o het 1 e place in thf pn~rnifig,.ttsaryggIe majorityfoi them dg..ttho hoirsif;o4g. h~ylybetng frosi gt (2 $5f W1eh16is desifra Abat the4s4ngdfk stibuld -be in the afternoo4 at, lleenRO ismeear, atM 'ae ?10 or muore ektra, V the hand ielbd 'y' be+at h ed ybut .ears, ;hki Well acos to i t MU- 'W64e oi ironn -4 pg icer and principal gbstag,1e I C his littleiboy in theh c6igt (t rc*,u wlth a prb.l linib; a si6 about twce. thesi o ade lde heel, Thaezt" llig rid a few feet from the.shIld'A A- g" ? rp. ed 'the hilt of tlie' s*0 'nd began bran'dishing' the weipon ~id n i the air. -The blade wa " nely timpered, so that .t 04n0 d be seen ,to quiver and undtilate thr it its en' tire length as it flashed ih the -rays of the setting sun. suddeint the muscles of the athlete mighli P opeti to stiffen themsolves' a short pau . then a sud' den and lightning like s*oop andithe lime under the boy's heol was safey severed . -I do not think many, e of'the old. est Inhabitants of the 4 bave oten ivitnessed a performanc .quai to that which this havildar was Wbnt to give to conclnde his exhibition. he boy hav ing taken- uphis* positio as before, a small open box, about the size of those we usd for tooth powde, was 'placed on the ground at his feet. 3j was fll. ed with a black powder dalled.soorna, used by the natives for darkening the eyelashes? Round this Utle bok,, and about the boy's head, the sword was now made to -play with ;vedoublod ve locity. In the midst of t4eomost dazzl ing . passes the weapon Would dart to ward the little box and Athn reappear, steadily poised at the full ittetch of the performer's arm, in 4ont of tjie eyes of child ; then a suddel turn oftbe Wrist, and Oheavy rkine d# poy4wr'wps lying on one -Of the boy's lower eyer: lasbeb, placed 'ther bythe* sharp point: of the sword. Tho same was then done to the other eye. This feat was' performed -,weekly, always with .unde.. vlating success, and wasati,> moat won derful instance of nervo and steadiness that. I over witnesged. . PFAMCOVS HORSES. Chargers That Sdimedas iuond of Battile as their Uig rs. 'Dick," a favorite war..horse, died ia Oswego, N. Y.,- in JaniTy, 1884 He was bokn in 1862 in Mexico, that little village whose old academy~ has sent many noted men. out Into the world-tInventors, scholags, tatesmien, poets and sgientists. Dick was as -care;. fuilly trained as the / hild ft alfond pent.* When, in 1861, th var broke Qut and th a ne Yogk was or~a -, 'OsWed ~nnty chitens;' looked a oEfol' e horse to send wfth Adjutatib to01ett Oliver, Jr,, totheiront. '.otil-Jamnes Doyle and William tI. Pheolps selected Dick. When the* regciment bad proc'eeded as far as Elmira, Colonel Doyle 'overtook it and had -the patisfgetion .of seeing Dick mounted by Edjutant' Olivei Dick went to the front with the boy0, who pette4'hm-asthey might's favor ite; dogs The :horAQi speedily acquired an understanding of the dangerous1 and ihbportant work designed to hin. Hie showbd himdelf an intelligent, well. disposed. animal, . sharing .othe rations and aibnost drinkin'g ont'f th(e same canteen with the soldierd; Wher his hutaan friexuis stuffered he' ae'E (1 to -know it'Aind to st'ibpathiize with then. Great battlos ease inin their 'dr* The-filds of'carnaget iotd';DiqIghand his maetei At the-foreg The abredtes of blood, the flight .f' blle,'thn rai of balls, had no terrors for him. -Withi mhight ~io'as gteulltif diered t i).,n Fburth t *lI$ %ot$ithe war he * U 9~Aum6~ted liy r.0 and o0ers of uoh ~ fl t *e of seemed to At an arta ypy. Vv ~ ~ ee T"6PO :I"..A 0that ~X~44lu~tAir.Wk ajon~ I nel~~ of V ~ aoaai e anot by Mny,eas of Isontaging nature. Ait poeni % ag~editat the cand1 caIt b*n' doubt iorgex O Ipendituriteasan wre atdrab thoughbinecessary will b abrbod; but On the od ~eesausw0, be unit Wb t y tuat avonly 12,- dd h o ati 9 ttu ~ h * _rdtfihiw not"A~ _Made , 11094Oi lb is i tihoibk ,l1is *Opor6 &1r'9O O to y 4li of the Niet. Auilt he4oeS so'reprt M. do' 4e1sep Iti ;once be authorized' to 0ir'r- 16u6id lOttery schiele, which ywil h nr six hliidred r relieve it'ot present. Arssments. Upon the report of the French agents all depends, so far as as Iitnuedis'te dentifiiice-bf the work Is CQncerned.. - It will not in any event be possible to ol1en the canal at the date named by M. do Lesseps, 'that In 1889i Only fifteen -millions cubi meters out of one hund rNO nd tligty-five raillions of dirt and o1c have been .eicavated, and under the inost favoralple circumstance3 the remainder, cannot be completed in four years. It is more likely to require ten years. The Chagres-river problem is now fairly in the course of settlement, and the immense American dredges are now at work in the soft ground which Is found in nearly all parts of the line. 1Iow fast the hard-rock sections can be blasted out has not been settled. ' The work from ocean to ocean has been let to competent and responsibles parties, and if the needful amount of money is forthcoming, the canal will be opened to shipping in about ten years, always pro viding no unforeseen obstacles present themselves. All who have recently visited the Isthmus Iran offlcial or rep. resentative capacity, will it is thought, agree In saylpg that the completion of the canal is only a matter of 'time and money. The people of i'rance have gone too far to retreat and it is safe to say that the canal will be- cqmpleted e0etuallyjand,.that too, without any coisidceable caiige of-the presenti co trol of the great enterprise. This planet is m'orning star until the 6th, When lie bhanges his role to that of evening star,, for the samb reason that has been illustrated in the.case of Jupi ter. He comes into opposition with the sun on the 6th; at,7 o'clock id the morn Ing.. Since the last opposition in- 1884, e-.carth wAl, op the 0th, have made two revolutions in her orbit, and ad. vanc'ed fifty days on her thrd revolu tion; while Mars has beep completing his synodic revolition of 780 days. It requires this amount of time to bring the sun, the earth and Mars 'into -line. At opposition, as the word im -plies, Mars is. "opposite" the sun, and turns his 'ed, round face towards us, presenting himself for terrestrial inspec tion4 We do not, however, get the best view -of our. ,celestial neighbor. 'his Will not occur till 1892, two oppo .sitionis intervening 'before the much-1 de'sired epoch occurs. The bestpopposi .Lions occur at Intervals of fifteen years.1 For-then, as-in 1877, when the Martiaun moons wdre discovered, the eartlisbeing fartheap from the sun and Mars nearest to him, the two pienetsimust be at their clOsest pointstof approach. - Mars,' however, presents a fine ap pearance. at his preent opposition, with his tuddy hue and briliit face, but his day of distmnetion.'quickly gases, and in a moutha perceptible ~ecrease 4i.-ize and brilliancy will'. tak place. Mars'id in godd conditiorte for telescopio 9bservationi, or he Ifresents the appiar si4* ol lioii rislig. through a risddy W4,. Ithrent~res ' good .,glass $Jipratied eye to discern, the'won derful-featiires and markings that eagle 'ed fationomers have mapped out on. etpr ce rokain ersia. rcha ' teristic sight in the flh~ iethe- b#L Per. t~ 4~dQ she0Its tlie'thick .~~t~)pie i ;'the .b~egt quality is 5mBiat thin~ner. It is formed In the 8~'dsidst a aide Of leathier. -The ' $ 4t1iate arms dfettekously-raises b f thi# doijhifrotm tbe'counter A ou, thesand rolle ~V~Leftrvutiledtced to the 'p~en(by With'a -rapid fling of 'Wthi~n 'le theti spreads it over ~<~~i~r, !diie ovan. in a' few 1Ik nd spteyl"et to ct~a(Qlonveniurkleig ini ti.tre t dlarthe shot one ei a eta 61deo diet Wih 1NPSTZAW' LOCTUIW ON WALI. INMa LIRles Ibr Gottlng Along in Sllppry Weather--Boward-orXou. Heels. "You've seen postnlen climbing ip fronstOops, diving -into b" too scooting adross Atreets fri theul - kind of woether," the old mn , lit1'pa sge'dt' nover saw a pt fall doWn, unless lie :was very young and inexperq90dl._. Walking, you se, is the mosimportaint port of a post. Man'S 4 h%1ezb to ingIng door bells 8s As to li lhi girl on the flrat ring. Ioan teli ye two m, uuq,.ii. eiEWzmny niore. In thi first place yod must go alohg with-ybor feet yretty fki abart. Most' perdons walk with thet, feet oloe 'to .gether--very clope. That's all right In summer, but in Winter it's all wrong. Your- foot is, likely to land on a round piece of ice and snow and 6l? sidewiso towardls the other foot, which Is going along all right. If your feet are el6sb together, nine times out of ten the olio that slips will knock the bthier one from under you, and down - you go. It it doesn't it will get so thoroughly mixed up with it that your ankles will curl all together, just like grape-vines, and be fore you can get them straightened'ont dlown you go anyhow. If your feet art, well apart, as they should be, you hav time to think,'reflect, and get ready bU fore the crash comes, and perhaps swy a bone. Another important thing, la t land well on the ball of the foot whenl you walk. If you can't get the ball ol your foot down first, bring it down just as.soon as you do the heel, anyhow. Come down flatfooted. That, isn't fan cy heel-and-too walking, bnt it's' busi ness, and It's safer. - And this is why you may slip and fali a million times, and every time, if you notice anything, you will notice that it was your heel' that slipped, and not the ball of your foot. It is always the heel that slip-'. I don't know why, unless it is that the sole of the shoe, being broader, gets -0 firmer hold. These two rules, if you follow them out carefully, will save you the price of a good many bottles of arnica. Thiere are some others, but they are not so im portant. One is always to keep the body limber as you go. along; keep the legs limber at the knees, too. It is al ways a stiff di inod.. Nort o 4 iaS Rhat. o'dd himelf f that l6 Is not prepared to lean quickly one way or the other and save himself. I don't want to see the nation get round-shouldered, but to hold the shoul ders too far back in slippery weather Is not very good either; - It fixes one already to fall. The best way to hold oneself is in imitation of those Indians that you see pictures of going along at a sort of a dog trot, with their bodies Stooping a little for ward. Keep your eye on the ground .a front. of you, as though you were following a trail, and look for slippery spots, and ob3erve the other rules; and if-you are a lady, you can dispense with the humiliation of holding your muff behind your back, trymng to make folks believe you prefer to carry it that way." H~ow Chiinalfieni Bargain for Wiyes. An Australian Chinaman, when anx ious to have a wife of his own nation, sendis a letter to an agent in Hong Kong. The. following Is a condensed1 translation of the epistle : "I want a~ wife. -She must be a -maiden under twenty yeariof a'ge, and must not have left her father's house. She must have never read a book, and her eye-lashes must be half an Inch In length. Her teeth must be as. sparkling as the pearls of Ceyloni. -Her 'breath must b6 like unto the gcents of the nmagnificent odor groves of Java, and her attire moust be from tihe silken weavers of the Ka Li Cifing, which are on the banks of tiie greatest river in the world--the ever flowing Yanktse Kiang. The price of a CQhinese woman deliv ered in Sidlney is $88, but two Chinese women only dost 252; thereford, the heathen Ohinese finpot womnen in coui ples. The importer never #bdeiwo. men before they 'arrive, 'axicd-then lie generally sol~ects the best-looking one. The other Is showh around' to a numn ber or well-to-do Chlnamen, and, aftr they have Inepeoted her, she is submib ted to what may be called public auc tion, At a recent sale at Sydney -a young gIrl aged about nineteen was offered, and, afte'r some spirited bid ding, she was purchased by a wealthy Chinese storakceeper, ,whose place' of business is in one of the leading towns of New South Wales, for 6120. The melancholy aspect of the Celdstial-glg as she went awaiy in compiny with the nan who purahised her, was deplora Ie to the last legree. Distress at Windsor. Princess Chrlst1en, in liew of-the tealvdlstres 'prevg~ing ab Witidsor, Ior &ning cheap afuIters firs chil cdres. As4 irited etrel believo). it'tglE t, assIt her.- The Lord 00o0nof ftio has given athe ase~of this Quildhak1alid will aet as t eagurer, of thef dnd,'to' litoh the rIt bese atea Nga -TPri has named a stTeetAfteDar. win. -NeVadi is being 'drained of beef cattle -There are 660 baskets of peaches in a car load. --Steel nails, are taking the pIAce of iron obs. ~-A'Green!indirhae'he 'fyard in diameter. -The iormons have sept a n*ssion ary toeaytI. mop., - C m~'en are0 grew m ar7k ga0 for Lie an GrOely Womn are employed inChli a con. duotorsiof, horse caws . -There are 580 Ie01anders in Mani. tobao engaged as farm-r, -,St. Petersburg was founded by Peter the Great ln1708. -A wooden-ldgged bicyclist whirls around Salem, Oregon. --The Boston postoffic4, begun in 1871. cost over $2, 0,90. --The British war ship Devlstation is the most powerful afoat. -A woman in Rutland county, Yt., Is the mother Of 27 children,' -Americans have $125,000,000 in. vested in Mexican railways. -American cutlery n6w , goes in large quantitles all.over thke world. -The wals.of several of. the British war ships aro.constructqd of paper. --From end to end the St. Gothard Tunnel is flluminated by electricity. -The expense of governing New York city Is oter $30,000,000 annually. -It has been declded to build an underground metropolitan railway in Paris. -Twenty-five ypars complete the round of a well-cared-for canary's career. -There has never been a hdliday, a theatre,-or a circus on the Island of Malta. -Russian flourhas been offered by sample In the New York market for $6 per barrel. -Water is selling for $2 a barrel In the district of Sierra Mojadaj in North ern Mexico., Since 1878 a new state house has been erected in Hartford at an expense of $2,500,000. -There are 250 disabled ex-Confed erate soldiers 'in the poor-houses of North Carolina. -Until Andrew Jaokson's time, oflice-seekers were not permitted,to see ar e iniwt Willianis College has been fnished at the cost of -$ 3645. -Mr. Kagan Paul, the London pub lisher, paid $26,250 for the imanuscript of Gordon's diary. -The French Goyernment has asked a credit of 101,500: frans oh account of the Hugo funeral. - - -A good baseball player in Rhode Island gets a bigger salary than the governor of that state. -The pine tree, says an authority, serves as a refuge for more than 400 species of insects. -It has been calculated that the free lunches in New York saloons cost $11,800,000 annually. -A professi-nal wild beast .aer uses electricity to subdue the anml when they are unruly. --The water frontage . of Bostopi is about 20,000 feet, and ships are accom modated at.164 wharyes. -There is no legal tender in China, and silver Is the money metal of: that country, passing by weigig . -Governor Ross is the 75th~Gornor o'f New Mexico, in an unbrokerl line extending baok 200 years. -Dom Pedro..of Br~azil,' Isthe oldest living sovego. fle has reigned 58 years; or mlac he was slx yersiold. --Suldides are daid to b ndre fro quent -in Barbny In Geuany thaiany wvhere else 'In tha world. -The thhunle was i~ 200 years ak y,Nicholas van lter, a gdnitof .Afstdari. -it 1a estim~c thaM,~~0 o~ the Inhabitants. -~ iiagow g t In .toxica,~tdeevery 6aurdpy nig.ht ~4 -The Mohamm dns. have .ninety nine names fore God bub amongethemn all they have not Ourjather.-. --Very small eleottic Inoaiidescent or glowlataps ae -used as front sights -on flreatmas for shopoting ia~ diilIght. -The fl t ste hfnah todthe oceapi brdfht in hiet praflin tht aio stdo -The eye of th a -~osooed blind.coweddi .-W3h&. peseni reL of Indiaii corn mow growl. in this counr .is 400 000 acres greter than thpt plnte, . aa . -Te Iniansoft Westernfrentier haye -givent Genieral 8herldan the name of " The-Qhunky-man-who-means-busi ness." . -aWith 4,575 miles --of navigable rivers ande 2,000 of ,canals, the French railways must enoonater some comipeti tion. * A: 'M-.erIhhs moere thaflt700 2nlilin aires, in the, Gerra sehse of thyertord, {4 re ning with mnarks or~itAttelof a - > ~ dollar.. - .*; dl'Wr '~ t'h' 68the 'lhdG of aci n'Q~os. ceeie 4 ~l ahe $ttall - jpac