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Compensation. --- -
TN#9ruest Wadr . ' e /er jeak
Are words or'cheer,
: ,= .. ~ Life as its $bade, ft v ipiep
id bi ttfle'badows oreep.
To prove the sunlight near.
Between' the bills tooge V lep
The sun-arowned1t
And down their sides will thoae who see}c
With hapeul spirit, btave though nieek.
Find gentle flowing rills.
For every oloud, a silvery light;
God wil!s it so.
For every vale a shining height;
A glorioud 4 , * )ht;
And birth1 &of labor i t.roe .
:For sgov'q wbito;wing a verdantS.fleid;
A gain for lo$s.' ,.:i - : 1'!'r P
For buried seed, the harvest yield:
For pl1fi, ast#obktli; b joy rbvealed,
A crown for every cross.
THE NOBLE RESCUE!' "/
ThliII glish shipi Coiifdcius, home
w ir ognd from .Cape Towp out
ith uig alo
d"fPr Vtirolm n
e coast 's sa astern.
As the vessel had a good breeze-al
most a gale-she had sunk Table Moun
tain so low that its suunit resembled
the head of a huge white whale, thrust
upward from the sea.
The fragrance of such plants as the
x t u?tFapl d ,"} e niuz
WI . i66l 1 r,)Vl dW B the
breeze from shore, while silver leaves
blown from the protean tree, were seen
floating here and there upon the waves.
The gale kept increasing, so that by
night the captain took three reefs in his
topsails and furled the jibe The ship
rollgd aand pitched, heavily, her masts
cracking and jerking, as if about going
by the board, and her rigging humming
like at discharged bomb-shell. Through
the darkness, which was intense, the
light of anotIer craft was seen, far
,a myof1( Yoe dath, jl)9t, b t only r
a oiy it t :'j W lk haz ijAlt
past the vessel, obscured it,- wrappilg
ship and crew in an impenetrable cur
tain.
"Go below, one watch," now was the
odr t sa d b t? tu nbl up at a
"Ay, ay, sir," was the response; and
the men descended into tl forecoastle
-all lnto' Wf io ~Ered %Rieyink-in t
,varnt weather ,in ,.ho forohold.1
i o man had a pipe in his inouth,
pdrceiving whieh the skipper rushed
forward, angrily, ordering him at once
to put the instrument away.
"Pity if a man Ain't allowed to smoke
when it's his watch below," grumbled
the fellow, as he obeyed. . -
"Ay," 1nswered , the. captain, "but
don't you know, you lubber, that there's 1
petroleum in thtt fore-hold, and tliat a
spark.might send us all to eternity."
So saying, he walked aft, leaving the
sailor stretched at full length upon I
some canvas in the fore-hold.
"What m tprm' lie ilegrp,uttered;
"the cap won't know it, and there'll be
no danger, if I'm careful,"
iIN'reilled the pipe, and lighting it,
was soon enjoying a comfortable smdk~e.'
Suddenly there was a tremnendouis ext
plosion; the man was thrown upward,
blackened, scorched, and dlying; the1
fore-hatches flew from their comnbirgs
and a dense volume' of thick, black
smoke, mixed withl flame, wvas belched
forth.
"Great Heaven I" exclaimed the ofi
cer ;pbJe;ivpygebh b "#m0Veeteth -ha' .
exploded!"
Now a half stilled scream wvas heard,
and-py,sqty-t.ho -sco.rehed body of hIm1
who had disobbyed orders, emerging
from the smoke-cloud, rolled over one
of the hatch combings.
Hie lay upon deck, writhig in horri
ble pgipsyd.goediqathoeds hIs last.'s
aT he q of.f e rng sl ai lly5 a il up
Boon at work, but the dlames wvere mak
ing suc iggggu fpnyp M4at
nothing seemed capable of -stopping
them. The seamen exerted thertselves
wiae.Th ceib,lps'qirgycrpaesing, n rl
ing swiftly along, and finally shooting
up the shrouds. Soony all these were
ablaze, ' wheni the' ship was' 'one' great
mass of fire that crackled and roared,
ascenJing> almost to the very heavens.'
Soon down went the foretlagt, 1crash
.4., ,, ing $n1iissin* hifo tihe water, qufc'lay
followed by thi/ psiingst:
Then from one of the passengers
teen-broke forth ag ik
Her little1AdtMrf't nre
ward bound fWpllis ifaphmqiswegiment
at Caipe Town, In charge of his beautl
fuister vfbdlenh her grasp
and runi forward, was now hidden from
1WardMt'Myriad showers of appalling
A young iloI ,iamed
l4ryy Wilmgnt,4ho t1rd -mate, heard
the shrielcof, Clara iRoper, .and at once
divining the Catse, daAlted 'heedles,l)
Into the fiery syh 1kmo1 amidships.
y'h4 ?oung gi'l,(41th clasped hands
and bated breatl} stood waiting his rea p
pearhnCe'"Yaitih in vain-until is16
v, nA fofged from the quartei
dek into one of the boats which had
been lowered-alongsid'e.
1f t*il th ec 1 ho e3 davor
lt,1p o le ,1)j ,3e, b9til oppr- i} 4
kel i ' Q) eaye! Qh,,iLeaveni?r,p
And, sinking down' upn" th6ithwart
(seat), she bowed her' white face in her
hands, and sat the very picture of de
spair, with her beautiful hair falling all
about her shoulders in careless confu
; rCef i}pjI' said, th}eI,iit sate.
1Per liaps they may be saved, after
all !"
At tha p jnt, glceq\'a. h was
heard, as the blazing mizzeinnast top
pled and fell over the side.
Clara uttered a low moan, while ier
eyes rollin wildly, seemed to betoken
that 4easrr4k;~o~ ait
of sparks as thick as rain, the flames,
rolling along, wound themselves round
the ship, wrapping ifer, as it were, in a
fiery shroud.
The boats now were pulled away from
the scorching vicin ty pf the fl'6, ho,
m'e10'ekett9g henisel+eh ilith' at ill at
the oars.
Wh' a sufficient ,distance from the
Ifie lg r rts Utey wrv O dofedt td
top' ullmg. 'hen the rested on thei'
Mrs, watching the craft until she was
ihnnst.devoured by thq }ag'ng lement,
until ;o(li'ifo 'lie'r rei tha except
her smoking keel, emitting here and
;here a flash of light from a few re
ratu'irgfsparksi . . 1 01 t 1
Clara still sat with her face bowed,
fer whole frame quiverbng, and convul
dive s,obs rending her bosotn.
The kind-hetarted .captain and mtlte
rainly endeavored to console her. She
)nly shook 1 er head and ref se tq be
.omno1ted.t t be
Suddenly there was a shout from the
lien in icu'ate pat, w vas
iehrAstito ie flotdl 6ee1.'
c,FFodinhCll:fouudl" ex'claimed ah heart#
roice. "Heaven be prpised't'!. i
Clara lifted 'her head and started up,
for eys.gleaming,wildly; )
"What .is it, thley have fomaci," ahe
Ixelaimed, in a voice that thrilled far
>e} the waters.
''ie boy! W? lhave found the little
)oyl" was thb answer.
The noe)t moment the quarter boat
aie dashing alongside, and Cfarlt's
)rother was clasped to the bosom of his
eautiful sister, who kissed him again
Ind again.
"We found him floating along fast to
i spar, miss," said one of the sailors,
"to which 50 1)9dk?l41 l i1'e him!"
"Yes," said the boy. "I was right
n the milst of the fire. There was fire
11h aroulnd me, ansi I thought I wvas go
ng to be burned up, whien a saiior came
o me with a jump, took me up, fasten
md me t.q,a, spar, amgd thenyhle couk)nutt
lo any other way, b)ecause theO fire wap
iow rushing all'aroluid usat4hrew ine
nito the sea."
"Arid what bcarn'te of thle sailo o"
luerled tile mnate.
"I don't know," said tile boy slhak
ng his hsad, sadly. ' "Hie W5s notfa
~rop)~ m IM sAnre, p)ecause. I'lliard is
01ic9 cheering.mle up aftpr I str,uo tJe
vaier. Ju'st then 'tile other, mnat fell,
ight on top Of itn',C tijnik, f r4 in't'
31ara "let us look for hlii ! I q ay
"I think it's doubtful, miss," said
bhe mate, shaking his head sorrowfuliy.
"Still we had better look."
boward the sinking keel.
"Look sharp, lads," said the mate,
us he held up'thie/hdztilthter4.i T'
Tile men obeyed, 'but nothing was
visible until they had pulled further,
Ing through the darkness, some dark
bject afloat on the water.
"1gull1W gi,ed .thp mate, in a hoarse
voioe;'pull withi a will I"
,The sailors did so, and Au inouiher~
ater thd3 *erd -alonditl thle objeocQ
which proved to be lYarr-y ,Wlmont,
i shed.1tQ a board.. Smoke' begrimed,
i ruised and bloddy, 'lielayr notiple
ueroftlie' t1f4hki311d wherly pulled into.
Shle boat shlowed no signs of,life.
"A,poor, brave followt" 'cried'
Jlara, as' she' bent bvar, hile, and with
mer owe rhands.washedutebodfo
4*j face. ' , the blo fro
8110owas k'ght, for Hi
been stunned by a blow from the edgt
of the e s~p wvI7n ti fell1 ov ?pened
his eya a faintl a e he
was. ' e
Soon, fully restored to consciousness,
his first question was if the boy had
b43okivchedi .'y h'noble conduat, Clara'
loved him from that moment, and
months afterward, the party having
safely reached Cape Town ,and taken"
passage in another craft, she gladly qon-.
setited , hen he' asked hdt: 'to ' bbdie
wife.
Ti tivtii e'noi lvlig'hiiRppy' ind:
contentpO,pAe9. ,r9 Igith,.+ +nglalid,
in a cottage overlooking the sea.
Pretty NOw York. Womhn.
This is a good story about one of -our
pretty 96* Ydtke wolhehi ?*o itFried
an 1'nglishn ain, aid, .was rocqn lx pro-.
seiitel' to th? ice'c i Whi,. When
it was duly announced that she was, to
be presented to the prince, she was
taken Iin hand by'a disthhigished-ddw
agor, who proposed t coach in
the fdl'iiitfet N'yhiibli' nidcoiflj o so
portentous 3 oejit; One Qf, he form
alities was the 'kin1 d curtesy that a
woman make.. wien i she Meets- the
prince for the first time. "My dear,"
said' tlie'dow gbr, "y'it ndht 'boiv veriy
low and very softly, bonding your legs
gradually, and dropping one behind the
other. Xoi must sinll iaturally and
with perfect grace." Whereupon the
young lady replied: "Oil, I have learn
ed to bow in that way. .I was taught
in New Yoik' by bddworth." She
made the bow, much to the delight of
her instructor. On the following day
she was presented to the pi Ince. She
was 9tanding at the edge of a platform.
Duchesses and elderly ladies of the
court suroulded .her. _' he occasion
n h% 'im 8sifig!th i, (1 i,Miig . -'A1'1r-9
dowagers were nervoi, for t}ipy feared
that the Aiericin girl iniglht be guiily
of soma reggh,.Rf: gtiquette. There
was a moment of painful suspense. The
prince arrived'.' 1-6 began to' asceid
the steps leacing to the platform. .As
he reache(1 i, oir young'ilady' bean to
make hierssolemie b,og. , niclgily, sthe~
was on the edge of the platform. One!"
of her feet.des-ended :into space, Ah'
she would have fallen backward if th
prince lihd'hot"'been so d;tb to'htrI
t alance ' 6hi h giibb ime p1nd
by .tll ,arm, and .with. his assistance. got
to her feet. The dowagers nearly died
of mortificatibi. But the prince latugh
ed good-naturedly,. offered ,hisgrn, o
the la'dy, and'they tnt moriijy together
into,tho dhcing-i;o.
A Yout furProp.,
" What's this ?' thie Managhg @ditor.
and proprietor inquired, as his critical
eye swept the neV, r young 'reporter's
copy, and rested on an item at the bot
tom of the pagd! The new fothg 'r-.
porter, with a ,tr?mble in his voice,
sldwly said': " Hez uckley's old plug
got across a picket fence yesterday,,and:
the hired-man had to lilt him in the
head with an axe.N' L rhait'evor #i
do at all," said th ,runanagiig edtgr, p
verely, ani 'frai,n his pen deftly
through the obnoxious item, . hie wrote
on the margin below : " We regret to
say that a valuable horse belo'n'gif
our esteemed fellow-citizen, Hlezokiah
WV. Buckley, Esq., met with a severe
accident last week, necessitating put
ting'the animal' out of the way, wvhich
was done as gently and considerately as
possible," "But, sir," expostulated
thp.new. young reporter, gasping sliglit
ly, ' the horse, ya'm}'t! Worth mnore than
the mnanair)g editor rp4urnedi ,lliglyt
fluen~e wilth the County Board. Byl.
the tim (p'gvrpp a 9puijtry paper as
lonitt Ihave,4young muan, you'll
understand that nothing but a ' valua
ble ' horse liver hg. .And when tihe
Paper~ came out Mr. Buckley called in
and had ten extra copies done up in
wrappers. f gf0:iTI
No Lagging.
ly make up the season's multitude at
the famous seaside resort~ A 4ozen
mnen, lackB1t QJotI ih Ehd Mnoldn car
of the crowded train, went to enjoy
their cigars in the baggage car. er
waa je p4b3 g4fr,41 jly)n~ jon ,itf
"thus brihging one whieel uppermost and
horizontal. Not a minite had elapsed
before a brok%. w,rpped' ai bit of paper
around a spoke. "Now, gentlemen,"
he said, "stand around the wheel of
fortune while I whirl it thus" and he
ga.ve the wheel a turn. "It casts'yon
9h5 cents apiece, and the man in front of,
Wito e makellp estops
*wleLis er.ey,olyIZ.gal~ I)uin~ the ride.
42b an hotfr and a half, the ~proridi
gatdidh64fo'attinkdnIdg.
n thn theEt -
Reidis of , sol
em(Nggev t.j the
dise canment begins, before you are
afit i': nudef ite mighty shadow. The
traii4.ij Civita Vecohia hal. makes
the:diuit. of :t1. walls liefore iiinnng
ito';the 'grat' statioinhAntl Qdrinal.
Antlji' the semite1rclai' cbtY'e we pass
tlhrbugh}.sad panoi'atna of ruthlees de
ioltions and scanhlous reoonstruc
tions. Here s a svenerable kuin cut
clhe wvo, the aning windOws and
s@f ; 5lese a\iviing p tu ' he
sol eit WY gdk to
tt 6t ok b le1a ax '.. here;IS q
ta wf y,fvith t. oking cll mneys,
as you see them in Bermondsey or on the
Plan bf'8.. Denis while hard by is the
spruce ,habitaUon of the prosperous
owner, who, no doubt, duly pays his
high rates and taxes and is a zealous
:4 docato of. architectural ' reform.
:Emerging among the clamorous omni
"bus ca4s from the railway statioi,which
,la eftectuilly thrown into : the back
ground the neighboring Baths of - Dio
'aXetian, you see that the capital associa
ted;with enterprise has bean enorgoti
o&ly at work. The Quirinal, in spite
o the steepness of its 'gradients, has
been covered with the building$ of a
and new quarter, and with boulevards
,at may vie In heighth ani breadth
with those of Paris or Vienna. Heaven
lly kno vs what antiquities have been
1vep ou of the way, to give place to
such landsome shops and hotels as you
may find. all, the world over,... -Take a
.stroll along any of the unlnished side
treets vhere building goes briskly for
aId and you may ecC republican brick
Ivork . laid bare and : subterranean
Ftches half 'demolished, which would
rake the fortune of a town on the
rptok of the tourists anywhese to the
Otgrth of the Alps. 'I'lie price of ground.
a gone up fabulously, the "boom "
as been spreading to the Lateran, to
,the Forun, to the Pincian, and there Is
: o saying wher( or when it may stop.
As family hotels " are being opened
lose'by the Pantheon, so the lines of
mtQmbs along the Appian Way may give
Vlace to rows of snuti semi-detached
villas ..Tlh4fe ,L_:
ado before the Church of St. John La
teran used to -be the noblest and mbSt!
romantic within the walls of Rome,
that from the dome of St. Peter's not
excepted. We went to enjoy it in the
freshness of ea'ly morning the other
day, and looked- hoioss to the Alban
Hills over the roof of a factory, through
the blak clouds hanging roupd the
loty,.chimneys that certainly did not
consume their own smoke. A venera
ble building in a semi-square of massive
cloisters was b4ng blocked out by some
hideous houses being run up against
time. Yet it would be unfair to de
nounce the municipal duthorities'as de
structivg rather than conservative. We
naturall + bent our steps to the Coli
seui, and if the fate of Rome be bound
up, s tholdprediction has it, with
therofe oolossal 3mphitheatre of TI
tu,teecan assuredly be no immedi
ate prospect of the decline or fall of one
or tihe other. The amphitheatre has
been buttressed by stupendous struc
tur,es of the best modern brickwvork ;
the crumbling walls have been rebuilt
and newly faced in many places, and
ostentatiously pointed with glaring
White mortar ; the rich luxuriance of
vegetation that overgrow the vaults and
the vomnitoria has been trimmed or
shiven awvay ; as the stones' seem tQ
liave been polished with soap an4 water
wvhere' the mos~ses have been scraped
from.the seats and slabs they used to
cushIon. And the Coliseum, in its most
impressive trai ornations is tihe sym
bol' of tile modernized memorials of
democratic Rome, .whgre the .tram,cars
p$'fpgf in blir$ciibs irnikd cit4tdatioA
easy for bustling deputies and the new
Immigration of busy workpeople and
for; flyig parties of birds of pgsp e
personally conducted. Roba dif 1ton
is becoming an exploded -book, and
'Ha"wthorne,. who loved the old city so
well, inight have noW gitren us another
and sadder " Transformation.".
THlE CH1Nl|URU0,ElB BRIDE.
How the 0,rest Oelest.ial Selected His
Little MongolIin Ielpmeet.
It jooks very in Ihii the year~ of
our Lord :1880 Will be nioted In history
as remarkable for a kind of Spden)tg
w 11ee
Presiden\ 9)e phi ~smibgton,
d(nd noir the ponderousj festivitios of a~
Celestial wedding .are abot .to unite
Kwang Zu, the young emperor .of~
China, to the darmel of his choi9 . Tile
latter is kiid td be the MmgW of Wa
inandatin named Tao-Tai,'o thb6i'&
vince og Tohen Kiang, and it, is assert.
ed by competent authorities that she is
exceedingly lovely and clever.- At any
1ato the ybtihg indharch'of" 400,000,000
subjecte 'will be alone to biane if she is
not; tor lle personally selected her from
among' about a hundr6d and twenty
girls who' had been gathered together
from all parts of China for - his iispec
tion.
The latter took place at the end of
April.'last, and, as it was somewhat
curious, a short description thereof may
prbv? of interest to all, those who are
in any way matrimonially inclined.
Since the bdnniy of the D'andoiw
dg1/asP in. Chia i it 'ha alaya een'
custont}ry thatt the "emperors should so
let their wives and concubines from
amonk th daughters ;of -those familles
vhob belong to thoIaQhi+Cli"tin.
1!iese i the cedieidnt?diF tie wt''
ilors who took part In the Tartar inva-.
sion of China 200 years ago, and who
subsequently settled in the country. A
list of thesq families, carefully written
up to date as far gs births, marriages
and deaths are concerned, is kept at
each provincial capital, and in. March
last all the members thereof who had
daughters between tile ages of twelve,
and sixteen were ordered to bring them*
to Pekinfor inspection. On the night
before the day fixed for the inspection
the long processjon of covered carts, in
which the girls were seated with their
fathers, was set in motion, and at day
break reacligl the northern gate of the
Imperial Palace. Shortly afterwards
the young Emperor, accompanied by
his mother and attended by a large' body
of eunuchs, entered the court-yard and,
took up his position near a table on
which were placed a number of wooden
sdips, each marked with the name, age
and clan of the fair candidate. The
Emperor, taking one of the slips, reads
out the name written thereon, where
upon the girl in question was led up to
him by the eunuchs, while her father,
with the Govoi-nor and Deputy Gover
nor of the province to which"'she belong
ed, threw themselves on the ground and
remained prostrate until dismissed by
their Imperial master. The girl stood
upright, divested of her garments, while
the Emperor inspected her closely, talk,
ed to her, and questioned her father and
the Governor of the, province about her.
If she did not please him he merely
k Itatwn1 o a waste-bas
etanc nluoe JIV a 3'flLl-r-....
of the hand. In the cases, however,
where the young damsel 'obtained his
npproval he placed the slip with her
name carefully on one side, having pre
viously marlked it in red ink with a one,
two or three, according to the measure
in which she had pleased him. After
having all been duly inspected in this
mannei ' the girls re-entered their con
veyances and retired to their. residences
in the city. Four days later those who
had not been favored with the Imperial
approval were notified of the fact and
permitted to return to their domestic
hearth, while those named on the selec
ted tablets were spbmitted a few days
later to another and closer examination.
It was on this occasion that -the definite
choice of the Empress was made, while
two principal concubines, named re-i
spectively Pin and Fe, wvhich mean
Deputy Empresses for the East and for,
the West, and a number of ordinary
concubines, making a total of thirty-two
representatives of the youth and beautyv
of China, wvere likewise selected. The
position of these concubines is most
honorable, and should the EImpress eith..
er die or have no issue they stand a fair
chance of becoming Empress.
None ot the girls belonging to these
Pa-Ch)i-Chi-Jen families are permitted
to malform their feet, as the women fre
quently do in China with a viewv of ren
dering them,abnormally small.
As a rule the parents appear desirous
of evading the honor of surrenderin
their daughiter to the severeign, for
family affection Is strongl developed in
China, anid 'Yje once 1jgirflias cros
sed .the threshtfdof 1f6Valace, either.
as Emrpress or Concubine, spe is c t.off
forever from"p n &po4serni jIr
familii in edles,ta is obl,iged to obey
the Irnperil suiirnmon, ki1d only iecura
ble disease or malformation duly certi
fied after personal inspection by the
Gdver'nor. di the province carn: excuse a
father from giving up his daughter to
the Emperor. It may be spated irz coi.,
elusion that the latter is between lifteen.
and sixteen' years of a g6.'
A Present to a Blride.
Aniong l~ e presents received by a
titled bride at a recent Englishavedding
Ie who ha dlars toF Ws m bjects.
Is, 'btoitun y~, jie int o~ most
hecharacter thatneslaw to mend
it is hardly worthithe tinkering, .
HiOORIA AND EYES.
The Ingenious Maohines Used in Their
. Manufavture. I
For more than a dQzei years the
manufacture of hooks and eyes for wo
mnen's and children's .dresses may be
;aid to have been dead, buttons having
niperseded them. But there are indi
gations that hooks and eyes are again
to come into use, at lcast to a consid
srable extent. If this should prove to
be the case, it will gladden the hearts
Df some who have preserved their ma
ehinery from the scray let p. Thirty
years g9,.ge State of CQnnecticut had
inanufaotories within her territory piat
produ e se little articles $ the
alue o 2,000. annually, at fifteen
nept8 grose Jievious to ;1880, or
biereabot -hooks and 'eyeh .1r-lo
by 'hand-and'sold at $1 0 per gross.
The macliines foi' maling hooks and
ayes are quite ingepiouq, tiose fbr the
books being capable of making ninety
per minute and those for the eyes one
hundred and twenty per-minutei:i Tliat
for making the hooks takes the wire
frbm a reel through a straightener, cute
Dl the wire to the exact length, when
a blade strikes the piece in the .middle
Vf. its length, and two sile blades
mnoving simultaneously ben:l' the wire
double, liiying the two halves of its
length close together and parallel. Then
two pins rise, one on each side of the
ends of the wire, to form the eyes of
the hook, and two semi-rotating push
Drs bend the ends round the pins, mak
big the eyelets for sewing, the hook ozz
to the fabric. The unfinished hook is
still perfectly flat, when a horizontal
pin and a vertical bender working up
ward, curve the double end of the hook,
.nd a presser flattens the end to a
"swan bill."
The eye is formed in another ma
chine, but by means of similar appli
inces. Brass wire is used for silvered
liooks and eyes and iron wire for the
black or- japanned goods. The silver
Coating is made by mixing an acid pre
3ipitate of silver with comnon salt and
the cream of tartar of commerce to
produce a paste. Certain proportions
f this paste and of the brass hooks and
eyes are placed in a tumbling barrel,
and by attrition and affinity the brass
%nd silver unite. The articles, as they
3ome from the tumbling barrel, are of
hijjngt i tgro,1ol,sii d...
bar soap and rubbed with hot water un
fier the the vibrating arm of a washing
machine.
The Seine Washerwomen,
The French Ministry have decided to
:lrive the washerwon;en from the Seinle,
mnd they are likely to have a much live
Lier time with them than they had ex
pelling the French Princes. A Berlin
letter says :
The Government has now determined
oo get rid of the Seine washerwomen
mnd of the washing-ships moored along
hie banks of the river. Them;e are over
fifty of these huge barges, which are
made use of throughout the year by no
Less than 88,000 washerwomnen. The
Government.has been impelled to order
their removal by the fear that as all the
drinking water at Paris is drawn from
the Seine, disease and bacilli might be
engendered by the wvashing of so much
dlirty linen therei. The women, how
sver, are up in arms. They refer the
Government to some old charter of
rights and privileges granted themi two
centuries ago by King henry IV., 'of
glorious memory, and thi'enten that if
the measure is persisted in they wihll all
march in procossioli to- the Ministers
armed with the battoir, which they use
for beating the linen. They also deClare
they will resist by force any attempt'on
the . part,: of the authorities . to board
their ships. According to the latest in
telligence received from Paris, Gen.
Boulanger is conferring with the Minis..
ter of starine is to the possibility of a
combined movement. on the part of the
land and sea-forces, while the Minister
of Pub~lic Works has been consulted as
to the possibility of temporarily divert-.
h}g the Seine into anothpr chann6i agnd
thus taderug theenUmy's Afeei.
The Game of Chess.
Many tales are told,of the invention
of thme game of chess., The HIirdoos say
that it ja the inve44~n of an astrologer
ghio lived nore ttman 5,000 years ago,
and was possessed of Supermgt ral
linowlQd eAnd~ acutencas. Greekh4etori
'ans' assert that 1thogatio wais invepte~d
to be~gUill tleo ,teditin of , thme pidgp of
Trbf, 'tThe Arab 14genid ifs tI14t it wa
dei 'ot 'by Ifia thther, a 1Ahrhied' Airah
218 od h4btlthda akhi, no
upon his su ijcts top safety,
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