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tt CIZ vffl 41 \0 I.. 0 lvA*w' Jr A& -'~ ~~ I '4ty r, , , ~. I IM A I-WFiL EDITION.' t TiINN 6gji &%rur 22 1886 . .ESTABLISHED1848 The Broken Chords. 1~tte asndr 40wna1 wonder; Finding he no more could play, Laughed and flung the wreck away. Borrow eanght it as it fell, olosely to her bosom pressed it; Moaning o'er the broken strings, ObA with tremblpg k aressed it; So with sad oaress sa o g, All the musid;i6 ito y d Cold &ad.mtitehg~d 1 tU - Borrow held it close and fast. Hope in passing turned aside Hopet and as her fair hands llngerei. O'er the striugs sweet music swelled From the chords so'softl bgred.. N oath her tender toucliie - e:aing, &' h4 a o ol Hope awoko new life again. PA9 R'_ _FLIRTATION. I was engaged to Angelina Melville, nd't ho ivt myspf. thse luckleskman, ving. A ielina was so hliidsolife that )Mo strager even saw-..her without ex 1 1esig admira'tion "and one did not l ary of thp face after years..of, famil ity with it. "She vas well bred, ac complished, and a great heiress. I had reason to believe that she was very fond of me.-. To4nan could be more entirely douteitthadi-I wa'ai [leaned bWk in rat-clas' carriage whicli took me tGlas t nto the countty to the fO .whe 1 was t preacih a e SAbbat11 A. The pulpit was vacant, and I was going to try my wings. With my pe cuniary prospects I scarcely thought I should care to accept a call to the %le of Cruix, but I had no objection liigg its pulped eq a.few week e allg) git ihs1hl~jIQone to! the. est coast, and Glasgow was warm, and uffy, and stupid. Casual remembrances of elegant par nages'built in Queen Arnie's style; of study where the footfalls were soft ened by Persian rugs, and the doors drad. W th-portieres. of velvet:..hairs and a desk carved richly as some old confessional, fftted tir.oitgh -myt ihind. nd I thought also of a table, spread h silver and rare china, with a lady who bed n on the plat as coming to ng bag from the hurrie4-..out of the e porters had Just pullebd or var tunks on the* pl)atform.. . 6 old wagons stood in the road one diven by an old w6inn'ii a' sui:bon' net, the other by a red-haired bqy, with bae feet; and a''qnee in ock-kneed h6rse,..attached;-tq ,a queerer .914 gig, was standing at a little distance. A young marimadlikht-;suinmer suit.-and.a city family, bent. on rural happiness, were my codWi'ii oi the'patfdin.' .he former put his trunk into the grstWig3n, kis'ed th -,old f'ortian in the sun-bonnet, took the reins and drove away. He was evidently the son of the family come home to spend the vaca 'tion. -' le rest'bfirthe tt'ishke and the Gity family, mother, father, little boy, btiikmaid; anid baby; Mvre: put Tnto the wagon driven by th~e. boy, When thie train moved away I'va-f lbft: a1lN on the platform-alorg.btf1or .theation master, .who sat up~on a bench 'smok ing-al clay -pipeg ,- ''' - In a moment mnore tle oalcial, with out lookihi a~ as 1 le ath femark: "Deacon Stgvenson has co the new mninister. ''s6ve'r'in the lob .. he statation-magiter -took no notice bR~i 'dlii nfinn'astool and made some chandes in tme regis ter on the wall of the statiqn,focked qpe door, put the key in lhis .pitt and sauntered away dow, is railroad. 4jo0% e ?.14 bench and waited. In~ a few mixtutes .a primie 1eTtht ahrni a-jfloeri ~a $ah I i91eW aWi ghkico 'ths't it' wat Stevenison. y r6you311. astaggert?" '1I ini gilg Rpillly; .as. he ftpprohiedj "I oRA/I-hatt-.r4y expecta tEf~ogbein Isst%5so io.g,. butW.yohsee ate$4 W ge~folktoublq~o ?etoh things over when I drive lng/l .e6t4% iai this.'cani oXf parafflne ile on behind. S~oeoligs dislike the smel maybe you'~do. We jug@r-loaf,i tea and cogfee gmn gd undoe! the. seat just qp well ib. dId'you~.healthpsig- and o4&r do yo~i ie'Mal SkCiui*Wn-e .nthtIhad not;de:y.efjlen juh of' ele of' Cruix. sai "No, you hae', adthe old ge leman. "Well, you'll drive through .it n ." And he shook the reins; and -the ol horse began to stumble .plong. Anr tcettaiW ws of 'bri W~ei~1t~ liIbdach other, and wit the same flowers in their fron)t 19Aj 0~ ggAssedythf a alt ef o e t~ which he drew up. '. A girl stood at the gate-a fair girl - inua blue muslin dress and apron. Tarke the sugar, Mary, before it gets anset aid tha. Dsa4nm. 1.i . Mggtagert, that's to preach for us. Mr. Mac aggrt,'this is my dauighter Mary." We boWed and she vanished with the parcdls. What a lovely, little creaturel.sid I to myself. "Nothing. likeAigelina, liit so pretty!" And I found, mYself thinking of her as I washed my hands> and combedmy hair in the blue-walled! room on the second floor, with white-l fringed counterpanes and two black, silhouettes over' the mantel-piece, on either side of the chiva vases of roses. Tiere wvre ornly '.Iour of us at the table-the- Deacon&his wife, a stout. lady who never said more than she co*. help, ana Mary. She had spent thQ ist winter in Glasgow, and we talke about all she had seen. She was 4el6. p'ossesed without being forward,~atif oli,"sa prettyI Now, Angelina was splen did and queenly, so this was mild aise that she could not object to, onlfI Iaid it very often. I preached on the next Sunday. It was settled tluit I' should .pend'the summur there. I wrote this to 'ilgelina: "Since you cannot be with meIt does hot reaitter wihe're I ani-thlastApid placp as well as any other. AddiQss to the ca' 6f'D6don Efevenson. I shall remain with him while I preach here." It was a pleasant' summer despite the dullness of the place. How good the quaint old Deacon: was when one really knew himl How motherly was Mrs. Stevenson! As for Mary, she grew sweeter every day! I often wondered what Angelina would have said could she have .sen me- helpiiig her to pick blik'berries, to find the run-aimy coW, to carry home the milk-pail, driving her over to the country grocery and return ing with a freight of groceries-Ange lina, who knew nothing of domestic de tails,., and whose monogrammed and perfum ed.otes weoie -often brought to me from the office in c6mpany with the paraffine can. I wrote .iny sermons at one end of the round table while Mary sat at the other sewing. Now and then a big bug would fly into the window and go humming about our heads, or a moth would try to singe its wings over the chimney, and I would drive it out The old people would go to bed after a while, and then Mary and I would find ourselves.jmngpy,.and she would go into the kitchen to find "something good.* I alsiys held -the, ligit'for her. When .somethi ;od. ?0 A dwo 4" r .She was. so like a child, that littl Mairyy that it seemed 1io hari to ask her to kiss me goodnight, oi- to hold hed hand in mine, as it rested on my arm; il pur long walks home. rom, .hurch on .8unday evenings. The summer passed; October came. Angelina returned to the city and wrote to me. 1t was while we were'iing peaches and crealn, in the back p9rch that evening tha I said to' Maiy, "I will tell you a secret, if you will keep it for a while, Mary." . "Oh, of course I will, Mr. Mactag tert.". "I am going to be married this au tumn, Mary," I said. 'Those pretty letters you always thought came from my. sister are from. the lady whojs to marry me. She is very beautiful, very~ rich, very stylish, but very kind. Yotu m\1st come and see us, Mary, when we are married. I shall tell Angelina how good you have been to, me-what a sweet little sister I found out hie in Yale of Cruix.' -Why, Mary For, as I spoke, I felt the little hand I held grow cold and heavy in mine. I saw ,,hter shrink' backward. Th big dhin'a bowl of pedches aiid cream siipped with a cragsh; -on fjhe - ground and shat tered to pieces. I caught the poor child ini my arms. In a. piomnel$ shp . cajne to..bherself, .gnd said she hdd' 'ov.ertiied 'herself, she thought. They had been baking all day and cit. ws *wqrm, And now she bade me good' night.' YBuf 'did not se$ her next day, nor the next. She kept 'her r'ochi, and" A 'not well en'oigh to: bid me goq-by. Poor littld Mary! I'felt 'very miisera, ble. However, Angelina met me in' Glasgd~~:.g Slte whasimore beautiftf1 than ever---mnore elegant in contrast to msjinple coutyfig-nvr . I as a lJer . ~andl Ioh, Sher~ she ick, is.'?l.. MMMEMBERNR~fM~dd~idtat bazaar for the benefit of the Church of St. Matthewv. After ve'' had roa? ahogt the bm zaatK !ifkilougl % 'ti'f knick kride "Tecoi'te Xhlnatt t seat athgr (a1t dejy. yvaltivile one of t t ig four Coffee with their backs towvar 4, "I am vory tired; are not you, Mrs. Russell?" And the other answered): "Yns I am tihed I An't thh*t nt 14; 10 o A t he ig1e6 gow, hist * le i~ o~ dt~enson's iearost neii an id i'er and apeofMd e6 yet did npt feel quite ni.li i-o ngelina would like in in baotionand'a)refrainedr(K look LE~nni ad Makli~ ing i dn. 'L i h .*o .' l getteri A * said tan'.Qfre 0, how is:ary nday rhink of my never asking beforel'? : k'QMr.poorly,' did Mts. Russell. 0 Mrs. pildn, h . a Vy i s that tLg young minis iieai n. to ple 4f 11pcI di hat pourting faiy $lhe did, poor ch'ild*. She loved.liidearly, and theooday, be engag9 to: some girl in G in.''m a'ri' ' it's broke her i/~:Sitohl m'11about i't. '0. Aus Rus~el, . she said, 'I know~ 1 ought to be ashamed, but I can't help it. ie seemed to like me so. I hope I shall die of this fever for life is nothing to me.' Ashamned Why, it's he that ought to be ashamed. Of all things a minister to be a cold, cruel flirt! And that is what figl Mactaggert is!" I listened, but L could not move oi speak.' I felt as though my heart wat also breaking: and 0 the shame I Luf fered -The women drank their tea and left, and then Angelina turned to im with a cold, sarcastic smile. "I see by your face that little story ii perfectly trud," Mr. Mactaggert," he said. "Angelina," I faltered, "I liavi done nothing that should give offens to you. "Nothidn but love another woman,' she answerdd. "Love her and let hei see it, meaning to marry me. Don't think I am hurt indeed I am- relieved I should have kept my word to you bul for this, but not so gladly as I onc4 should. You are a very good-looking man, but on the whole. you don't sui me. I met Mr. S. at Millport, and he does. Frankly, I have been thinkinj what a pity It was that I must declini his offer. As for this-Mary, is it'not? wouldhi't'she make a very good minis ter's wvife?' It came tomy min -.that she would.. .gena -65~di neter havepnade, iue happy-.;!.: * "ButtI-only said, 'Miss.Melvillhe, i y desire to have your freedom, I hav -I dest greatly," sie answered.. It is yours, I with 'a bow. After that I thinI e were both hlap pier than we had been ' years, aii( shook hands when we parted. That night I went up to VYa, Cruix, and I told Mary that my mar riage was broken off, and. hiit she wx the only'Wmai I lild' 'etr loved. Sh< tried-o sumjoi 'u'p h'7pride and re fusee, Iit filled -n'the attempt-au let feaaleier'to'my heart. To-day I a'mn ' tor6 tfie church at Vale oj Gi I aff sy w ifej and Xvd ire a. plain and quift Sa pair as you couk fincy" I often ielp, ny wife ick cur rants-for tea, and have taken a turn a: the garden whenr help, was scarce, Blut I do not envy Mr. 'S. his wife, nor pini for the hixurious-possibilities that I los: with Angelina. gary and my. little .lemne content me, But one thing Is on my cenisdience. I have niever been able tio ask myself the question: "Did I flirE 'with Mai-j~? If lot', 'what- was it?" * Carin'als. According t'o ani ec'ha'uge, the pope0 appoints a ca'rdinal in a consistory, the chief..eeregnony being ,the delivery of the dialis, "B3e a cardinal,'' and the digni taiy'so'ceated'is thereafter presumed to be a brqther of the c~hief pontiff, At first the cardinal's hat had three scarlet knots, f$ines or tassels on eachi side; thgse were.Iicreased.to five, while'aigli. bisliops .liad four of puttple colok, andl biphiops thriee, of green material. Dur iik the lh'st two cenituries, howdyer, biphiops have .worn..four green ones, and prelates, abbots eand prothonotaries thrd~e of purple or black. Their dress Bolhsists of 1a red soutane,' or ca'ssock, with a clnicture~with tassels of gold, r'ed caps and stockings, a rochet And a large, clgak, with ,n e'rmin'e cappa ini witer. Every cardinal has his chap ah); who wears a 'purple soutane and 3in'ctuare, a surlice an~d stole-lilI' scarf, with which he supports his 'fhaster's nitre when not actually worn, W~hch he popeO officiates, or In a procession the 3ardhials wekr 'White klarniask"imitres, :edl shoes, and if .bihoqps, a .cope; If priests, , a chasuble; If deadcons, a dal naic 'n tines of penance the color of herrobes Is velvet; and on a fewv par icndar clays, rose instead of red. " Their Iress of -tate when not enigaged in sa red functions consiets of a large purple nantle called the credia; on less ltipor ant occasions, of a niantelet, or 'short sloak, .through which they put 'their Irms, and worn ever the rochet while ver. this is a mozzetta, dr tipppt,bhow-, ng only the chain of a pectoral cross Bones have been proven to quickly Liesolve in sea-water. They are conse. oizet elo obtained durmng ocean regnlhghtth, w0hich. :e 'lst the action of the water indellaltely; tre offan hrnnehf; up. kajor BA3eetkiOvethdf%)lloW. i g addoud lidin*githdo'Ctor, and ti U , d 11 afl W.(iA,gs r betWeen tlih IdO Beveral iktly prpnojndedu tisg.Butt a no.uiexe let M .Itcy-doc I fro 34ie Sa he was de voured by0', ind eptiles intef-. na She int fqr. $hiw*tch wes'' i i ( o-lo6klig ratute. liffi 1 het' hehr, a. fangled massi tdol,'with. Oses' baddexa and the 'insides- of rep tiles tied here arid'tire This hg ltk -omnienced t6 "smell 'out'.i thd bg tnhiitter. This she did ija vairi Of ways, craiyling round the- ht hiWi.'nd -out, b.urning charms, by .gesticulations and exorcisms of all sorts.. But before doing this, she de manded fen 10bad of cattle, Sve to be paid atonce, aId -he' otiers:.when the cure was effeated."' We were invited to. witness the stratig6 roceedings, and see her rethove the living things which she said were in thq mau. First, the patient had to be "ov eiyb4led"' by this fearful specinn-of h14!04A iy. He was in great pain, but she.was:nerciless; his arns and legs were Pulled, his body pinched 'and squeezed,'.he howling in pain. At last, she found 'the 'tenderest poliit-at the extreiniy, of . his>. right slioulder blade; then she began fantastic .gyra tions; and declaed-that the reptids were thee. Then phe .howled, and again crawled roitnd te liut, and returned With 'a corn cob,; !th which she ap proached the sick.nan and rubbed his shoulder-blade. She ,then applied ;her mouth to the spot, and siicksd Ili a stream of. blood followed. Shb'thep'ran from the house to' a little rivuled close by,. but soon retujapg and again applied hei mouth- ' to the6peij -woiind, and brought, foath a, n i9 d stream of blood She nowi e ry one. to r n;s * M~ look nto lieri moith, and eveif into-her ears. Sh'e then. re-applied her moith to the sick mai's" wound, aid spat' out a grasslioppert -. "There," said. she "is the monster! but heie are morel" . And she again p;qcqded to iuck .the wound, and this tIm6 ipat out a black beetleI 'She again acted the "vampire," anid out camue a lizard, a long, narrow, akivling reptilel -The sick man was ex ScitAAd declared he felt better. Again applyingMr mouth to the wound, she spat out a mingtl clotof hair. This she said w-the bewitdbAtmatter. Here was.a mystery which weitamined to unravel. We offered the hag-, five pounds to tell us how the trick *t& done. Slie refused. Theh we convert ed it to silver, and again tempted her, but to no avail. Neit we turned it to copper, and thotigh this seemed like un told wealth to her, she was still ob du'rate.- But .wh~en we turned It to beads, knickknacks, looking-glasses, etc., it was too muoh. After making us .pr'omise solemn secrecy, she told us. She had collected the. reptiles In a calabash.' Whn h ran dowvn to the 'water, shle gorged herself with fluid, and then swallowed the' creatures we saw jher produce; 'And she had the unusual power, by-an effort of. nature, to bring these -livIng creatur'es' back into her mnouth. The' ZkaBi~ as cured by the counter-irrption and by his imagin atioui, and he'.and .liis. benighted breth reun still belheve that',thelhiving creatures weretaiken froni his body. -MGRATION OP Simds. nter a rla non i Subject .MeuOh Thought A1AoiaC *The comuiitteo apite by th4 Brit ish' sgoclathgn .h~ve xeeoj thy Issued thesi 'Inuarport on. he,"Mlgra-. tion ofBirds inthe:Spring anid Autumn of 18842'..The stations on the east coast of'-Scotiatd fr unbiwhih rbports have 'been' recefyed' f oni the1h1 Jitkeepere, eg.. .tend froip f4orth Uu i, 8h19tjand, Iwhere 'the lighit'on therlighthouse is .280-i feet above sea 16vel, to St4 rAbb's Head, Ber wickshire, where the light is 224 feet a bove sea level. Th~Ie (ftilobu on -the east coast of En'gland incleip tlie 4ong-~ stone Ligthouse (onsth6~ -3areIslands, Northumnbrian coast), atndall'alon . the oust and sodtteast cdas9/ to'the6 F'Hnois TLlglitho~uie, G$nergiey, Ono of tdizeChan nel Islands. The statlobeon 'th~'west coast of, Scotland.-. eteo-frqm Cape ~WrathI, Sutherlaridshire~w ere the light is8460 fe-et,6o'~~ Tlbt1 Little Ross Lighthousd,i irig ri he, 175 feet abcd 4pu ea ,The 1repo/s .from tlie wvff coato t naglan4 #auWales extend; fronr the Bahama; hank light vess(ito StertPbinht Lightlouse, en the Iris~doaent~fioh' e, Ounty Cork, to Dursy- Island forty tstations I all. Thoughqh )yiuteupg 184, was coinpgratilyygIl4 tblrs We'l' very ~cotlan4 an4 gluad, eoo e chig 4out the middle ot October and aftet. ward prooeeding steadily day and n1glit. Briefly stated, the southernmovement f migrants was well estiblished in July; a6n14 from theti to. January thexe was asteady low, a vast uiajority of birds omiig -to the east coast of - Englahd across the stormy North Sea. There was h Ihrinense rush In the middle of Oc , Wnd t41 illiln eid of the month. On h 6 boast Sdptnd the heaviest K ,Y,ere recorded in the middle'of Nov0mbpr.'a :ipovenment in- opposl e di io- #W& ierfed -ii the North the 2&rth B~l'k .a lnary'ntumbers in September ahd Getober,1884. On the night of october 4,the -time of the- total eclipse of the Moon, during the hours of greatest dark .noss, goldorests were striking the lant ern of the Isle of Man lighthouse. The mabi body of woodcocks arrived in two flights. They migrated during the night. Supposing, therefore, that those biils left'the coast of Denmark at 5 P. M. and travelled across Heligoland, so .as to arrive (as they did) at Nash at 3.30 -o'clock next morning, their rate of prog ress would be about fifty-two miles an hour. There was an unusually extensive migration of gulls to the" Scottish coast in 1884 in connection. with vast swarms of garvies (culpea sprattus). This marked aggroation of gulls on the above coasts has been attributed to the vast accumulation of ice west of Spitzbergen in-the summer of 1881 and the conse quent lowering of the temperature of the sea, which had impelled the fish food along the course of the milder Gulf Stream. One of the most interesting migratory features of the year was the large arrival of pied flycatchers along the whole of our east coast. There was a great arrival of these rather rare birds during the first week in May, 1885, at stations betweenYarmouth anaPentland Skerries. At Flamborough they arriv ed in a northeast wind, accompanied by male redstarts. The result of this unus ual movemeit was that during the past season paid flicatchers were found nest ing in various localities in England and Scotland where they had previously never been seen at any period of the year. The rare Arctic blue throat also oc curred in some numbers between Sep-. -tember.8. and, 18.. Eighty to 100 of these lia'ideoine and coniparatively rare birds. -fttti the *dr folK coast on the 12th of the aboye month. There was also a large arrival of gold crested wrens on the east and west coasts of-England. The migration commenced on the 28th August, and appeared to stop on the 16th of Novem ber. It seems singular how these tiny, feeble looking birds are able to brave the dangers of the stormy North Sea. Great numbers, however-as well as other species, large and small-are often drowned when contrary winds and fogs set ift during their oversea flight. The woodcocks usually arrive on our coasts in two large and ranging flights, known as the "first. flight" and tihe "great flight." Owing to comparatively mild ,weather, the immigration of this species in the autumn of 1884 was more pro '1lrngrjthan in preceding years. The "great ffightZlfrom October 10 to Nov ember 13 extendealtta Q~jeNash East Lighthouse, in tihe Bristol Claiamat Pentland Skerries, in the north of Sdot land. The migration of this species continued over 142 clays. Brave Sailors Rewarded. On the morning of the 5th the Old Dominion steamer Roanoke, Captain Couch, while on her' wvay from this city to Norfolk, sighted the schooner Emma Aery ashore on tile shoals near Cobb's Island, with signals of distress flying and. the crew of seven men clinging to the rigging. The sea was running very high, the wind blowing a gale and the cold was intense. Captain Couch hauled up about three miles away-as near as hie dared go-and.- prepared to render assistance. First Officer Dole and, five seamen volunteered forth work and .gat'ou$ a boat.' The voyage was a hayMrdous and hard one, but after1 thi'ee and a half hours they reached thei schooner, which by this time was aig uwider water except the bowsprit andl deckhouse. The stranded crew were takeif off, but sqveral in their party as well ad among tihe rescuers, were severely frost bitten when'thiey reached the steamer. On the 20th on board the Roahoke, thme Life-Saving Bene volent Association presented Captain Couch and Mr. Dple with a gold medal each, wybile every seamnen who took part rieceived a silver medal and $25. The Old Dominiori Ooiipany supplemented this by. giving Captain Couch,a handsomely engrossed complimentary. letter from the presi dent; and Mr. Dole a handsome gold watch, while each of tihe boat's 'crow got as uit of clothes.* - *Ancient Dooumont. Among the curiosities at the National hiuseum in Washington are several very old Spanish documents under- royp1l seal, one of them dating 1684, but writ ten so poorly that visitors cannot make. oith even the signature. There 4* also a deed of land signed by Lord Fairfax.' Thosignature of Benjamin Franklin is affixed to another deed, but afterward crossed out at the expiration of the Loan, It beai the date of 1747. Robert Etulton's lame Is signed to a letter In egrard to his anmbat natant .. VOURISJP. IN LAPLAND. Where Girls Rarely arry witheom - Their Parents' Consent. No crime In Lapland,' saving only: that of murder, is punished more sever ely or summarily than is the marrying of young women against the express wishes of their parents. The blood of the people never boilg, save with that anger which is inssharable from sense; and warmth of spirit Is a thin'g called 'Into being by will, rather tlan an Invol. untary passion malipng theyiole body captivei B3it*I meant chliefl' to speak of Lap land courtship. It Is rather a pleasant conception,. and one under which the rights-of all are preserved. A girl is not forced to look a suitor In the eye and tell-him she does not love him; nor shall she be forged to give her reasons for re fusing. Nothing of the kind. The par ents of the damsel, when her hand has been asked in marriage by one whoin they are willing to accept., cry to one anoUier: " Now, see if our daughter will have this man, we will accept him for a son. Let the. case be aecided when Lulea of the glen turned in her flight and bowed her head to Lapp-Alten. It shall be done." Accordingly information is given to the daughter that a suitor has applied for her hand. Perhaps she knows the young man; while it may be she has )iever seen him. However, on a day ap pointed the damsel and her parents, With their friends, together with the suitor and his friends, come together and sit at meat; the suitor and the ob ject of his desires being placed opposite to one another, so that they converse freely, and each viewsg the other's face. When the feast is concluded the com pany repair to an open plot, where the " Race for a wife "' is to be run. The distance marked off is generally about two English furlongs, or quarter of a mile, and the girl is let out in ad vance of the starting point about a third of the whole distance, so that if she be at all fleet of foot, and so desire she can easily avoid the suitor; for if he does not overtake her before she reaches the end of the race she is free, and he may never trouble her again. In this way, it will byeen, a.. nodest maiden is spare all r fility,aor possible s'hane of r-fuew If she does not wish the young man for a husband she has but to keep her back to him and make for the goal, which she is sure to reach if she wishes. While on the other hand, if - the suitor has pleased her, and she will have him, she has only to waver in her flight and allow him to overtake her; and if she be par ticularly struck-if she would signify to the lover that his love is returned-she can run a short distance, then stop and turn and invite him with. open arms. The Lapps are not a moral people, nor excessively honest, but their marriage relations are, as a rule happy and peaceful. Stages of Architecture. America is to-day in the second stage of national architecture. In this stage the general idea is mn the fineness9 .my materials used. The natjetrsfln wants aflM1 tl~ 'must be made of the finest marbles and the most highly polished woods. The third stage in which fineness of material and .grand eur of size are combined in harmonious artistic beauty America has not yet reached. All of our public buildings are like the wvorks of a pauper who has suddenly become a millionaire. Money Is thrown around profusely and extrav agantly, more for the sake of showing that the man has money than for the ac complishment of any beautiful end. Look at our public buildings both here and in other great cities! They are big and costly, and the glitter of marble and the gilt of varnish and veneer runs through them all. There is little artis .tic conception In them and their Inter iors are as a rule comfortless, cheerless and ill, adapted, to-. thes purposes for which they are designed. MZoving the Orange Crop. - , The orange crop of. California is rap idly pouring out of the State to sulpply the great. demand at the: East. The overland> roads are putting. the fruit trains through to Chicago at the average rate, itis reported, of from twenty to twenty-five miles' per hour. A little ever. four. days from- L'os Angeles to Omaha via Ogden Is given as the time which trains have made.- 'This fast time insntres that fruit shall reach its dlestinma tion in 'very good condition. It is rep *resented that the East. requires 75 per cent of our orange- crop. The statenmen I is~thiat at least fifteen cars per (lay for four moniths'iil'be required to .tnove the oinhge crois but of Soitthsrn Califor nia. Allowing the .usual twenty-six workIg days to the month, a little ciph ering will give a product of 1,500 cars, and allowing an average of 200 boxes to .the car, the result is .over 800,000 boxes, and,this only.a portion of 75 per cent of the croll, 'which has been mov ing Edist" fdt some time, The present promises t6 lbe a great year 'for Califor ~ia frdit at .he East, and It certainly will-be if th~e growers make,.that. united leffort which the prospect seems tq war irant. IExcess of ceremony showi Want .of. good brewdng. A GREAT 3IATHEMATICAN, Devoting HIs Energies to the Caro of a Truelc Garden. Thq Librarian of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey is an odd sort of a person. The only name lie personally cares anything about is Artemus Martin, but he has a half a dozen prefixes and suffixes, all given him by learned societies. Mr. Martin is one of the first mathematicans in the world.. The problems of calculus are to bdn more child's play. .Nothing short 4 agthematical sopistries of th6 most gtbstruse and impractical sort have any fascination for him. Oddly enough, Mr. Mktrtiii was, until his appointment in the United States Government serv ice, a market gardener. le owned a small piece of land on the south shore of Lake Erie, within a lialf-dozen miles of the city of Erie, which he tilled, rais ing mostly kitchen truck for the city market. Twice every weck lie was to be found in his stall, as little known to his customers or people of the city as was the vender of poultry or the seller of beads and buttons in the neighboring stalls. One day it was announced in the telegraphic news of the papers that A. Martin of Erie, Pa., had been elec ted an honorary ineniber of one of the leading learned societies of Great Brit ain, the Royal Mathematical, or some thing of that sort---I have forgotten just now what. Everybody said, "Who's Martin?" "Jhave we any such distinguished individual in our muidst?" No one seemed to know. A few days later the University of Michigan con ferred the degree of A. M. upon A. Martin of Erie, Pa. Here was a fresh bit of news. Well, after a while, this learned but mysterious man was dis covered in the person of a gardener, who tended a stall in the city market. A man of perhaps 45, he was tall and ungainly, dressed as became his calling, looking as little like a Fellow of a Royal British Society as British royalty itself. But fame made no change in the appearance or occupation of the market gardener. le continued to tend his stall and study, too, I suppose, as before, dropping the former only when appointed a few months ago to the gov ernment position for which he is emi nemitly qualified. When Edwin Forrest was playing at the old Eodwery Theater in New York Dity his piece was: followed by an exhi bition of lions by the'r trainer, Herr Driesbach. During their stay there Forest remarked one day that lie had never experienced the emotion cauied by fright-that he was never scared in his life. Driesbach heard t.l3 remark and one evening took Forrest home with him. They entered a .house and after passing through long and devious dark passages Driesbach opened a door and said:. "This way, Mr. Forrest." As Forrest entered the door was slammed behind hitn. Forrest -felt something touch his leg inl the dark - al ITic ing down his ? fouched what he thougjjg/wi~ a cat's back, which he Nmnify stroked. A rasping growl greetedl the motion and he saw two fiery eye balls glaring at him. "Are you afraid, Mr. Forrest?" asked the lion trainer, who was invisible in the (darkness. For rest reptied, "'Not a bit," when the lion tamer said something and the growl deepened imd the back began to arch. Forrest held out for a few nun utes, wvhen lie exclaimed: "Now, let me omut, you 'infernal ~scoundrel, or I'll break every bone in your body.'' Tho lion king kept him there and he did not dare to move a finger, while the lhon kept rubbing against his lcg. Forrest finally promised a champagne suIper if Driesbach woukt .take him out, which was done andl the bet was .immediately paid. Prison of Cillonm. Francois de Blonnivard, the pri. of Chillop, ivas born. ihi Fra noe .lr By-inheritance he camw into pos. of a rich priory hear Geneva, anj ferring his residence thither.h espouse:1 the cause oft against the claims of the In 1530 he was seized b Duke and imprisioned I of the Castle of Chill fell into the hands 1536 he was restore turned to Geneva, floW free, Th gj~oy rewards which his Fron) 1541 to 15521 writi'ng the chronicles nivard was one of the his time, and was ven erature, theology and. I a number of work,, ii lyith the books in his II ejueathed at his death, in city of Geneva. This beca tkmtlf of the present exten Ilbrary of that city. Byro " The Prisoner of Chillon, "w ed~ by the story .of the long im mont of Blonnivatrd In Chuillon Castle Some remarkable and vegy uccess. rul experiments have been .made at l'ortsmouth, Eng~land, on the use of crbosdie as a steaan generator in ships of wvar. The Croqsote Is kept in a tank anid kept at a uniform temperatule and onsiatency by steata coile rqnning through It, and steam injector0i force the vapor int'o the furne.