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'Twas an old fashioned church in 'a new fashioned town, Shrinking back from the turbulent street, And the sun through the untinted windows shone down Like a blessing boseechings to meet, if the old lashioned worshipers knelt in the pe ws To hear the good,minister pray, Was that cause for an unkneeling stranger to lose The prayer, and to let his eyes stray? It was not? Then suppose that his stray in-eyes met, J ust'over the top of a pew And beneath a bat laughing with feathers and jet, Two eyes of a heavenly blue Was hat very susceptible stranger to blame If lie heard not the minister's prayer, If ho thought of the creature and guessed at her name, And forgot the Creator uh there? You insist that 'twas wrong? Well, per haps, you are right, But this much let a sinning man say ; Every maiden's blue eyes should be kept out of sight When she kneels in the old fashioned way. A DISCOVERY LOST. A month ago last Thursday I re ceived a note from my friend Samuel Paige I1utle'r, asking me to call upon him the following evening, provided I had no previous engagement, and give hint my opnion upon the beauty of a piece of Japanese porcelain ware, which ii had recently bought, and of which li was extremely proud. Mr. /Bulder I a little less than forty -years of age, 1 is a wide experience with. the world. Por ten years he livid in Ja pan and 'hina, after he had resigned a lieutenai cy in the navy, and is thor oughly p olicient in the history, tra dltions a it wrl- tn languages of both nations. - The ph to which I was summoned to examine aud criticise was of Hizen ware, wh ch is among the old oldest of Japanese 'orcelains. It. was larger by onhe-half -'Qm' the usual porcolain ulaque. The face of the plate was in descriibal. rich in color. The back grouid w s dark green, over which there were n raisei enamel of purple and gold igures of beautiful birds, whose gor "eous plumage vied with hues of tbei rainbow in brilliancy.' The reverse side of the plate was dingy brown in color and mottled with ago. "This," said my friend after I had expressed my opinion of the beauty of his purchase, "is one of the rarest specimens of porcelain I have ever ,scen. I have seen but three pieces in Japan any older. I bought it from a ignorant dealers who, got it from a sailor and pirted with it for a sum so pitifully small that my conscience re proached me for accepting his offer, and I shoult have doubled his price if I could have done so without exciting his cupidity to such an extent that I would have been utterly unable to pur chase it at any figure. It. is my opinion that it was made at least three con turies ego, somewhere about the time of TJaiko Sama, as Hideyoshi, the great Japanese statesman anid warrior was commonly called by his subjects. Dur ing his sway the art of making porco L. lain rose to a igh'state of p)erfectioii, which soon after his death fell Into a -state of dlesuetude and was revived a century later. In the island of Kin. shin this arlitook its origin, and at HII zen this plat~ was made. The pecu. liar style of tacery-on the, face proves it to have be4 n anufactured there. In those early ~aya porcelains were de corated with painful care, and often an artist would only live to fashion two or thiree designs~ as the monks of the~ dark ages illu4innted the pages of * their Bibles. Y ou will notice the pa-. tience of the artist who painted this plate. 'The drawing of tpese'birds andl the blending of the colors ~'could not' have taken him less than years of pa. While Mr. Butler .was talking he leatmed the plate against the globe of his student's lamp so that we might the better observe its beauty. After discoursing for some. time, upon the 2 manufacture of earjy porcelein-a sub. ject in which he wa& deeply interestea * -he reached for tile .plate to examine it more carefully, but tinding that it had become uncomfortably hot ifrom~ Its,contact wIth the lamp he laid itface downward on1 the table to coot. It had not been in that positfon many seconds before we-both nobicedachange in its appearance. -The dingv brown surface of the bottom of tehe plate had beoome clearer and lighter In dolor, but whet astonishled us far more was th6a appSare ance oif 'certain indistrict olhaWacter* * hloh were rapidly fading aiway As the iate cooled. As nearly, as we could -idge from our hasty insnectian We thought these cb.,acters bore some re. semblance to J44anese lett9rs. "Some. thing very singular about this," ob served my friend. "Very rqmarkable indeed. As the plate cools these let ters, if letters they be, seem to. fade away. Suppoae," he' added after a short pause, a"suppose we heat the plate again and see if we can learn what they really are." One of Mr. Butler's apartments is elaborately Qlted up, at a chemical la boratory. In a corner of the room there is a small furnace. It was the work of -a few moments only to put some charcoal into this and start a fre. As soon as this was done, the plate, face d0riwards, was, carefully laid 'ovr tiie. top -of this furnace, and we leaned over it anxiously awaiting the result.. In less than five minutes the brown color had entirely disappeared and the characters began to slidw themuselves as.before. . As the hest in creased the background bf the plate' grew clearer until at length it was pure white. Meanwhile the characters be camo more and more distinct, until finally they were as plainly visible as the day they were first transcribed. They were indeed Japanese letters traced in many lines of blue and cir cling the plate like the signatures, to a "iound irobi." All the available space on the'plate was thus filled. To say that I was amazed at this metamorphosis would express my feel ings feebly, Butler, more calm, was pale with excitement. "Take a sheet of paper," said he; "sit down at that desk and I will trans late this for you to write down. It is in the classic, or written language of the language of the Japanese, and I can read it readily." I sat ddwn as I was bidden,- and he proceeded to roughly translate from this strangely discovered scroll, while I faithfully set down his words. This is thestoty the plate told, precisely as it was given to me that night and copied verbatim from the notes I made, which are now lying before me on my desk:, I am Tikipoto, the son df the Ivey asu, once the 'chief man'in the town of Saga, and this history is written so that my children and my great grand children may read and know of my great discovery. When my father reached the middle age of life the great llideyoshi impressed him into service. He marched away with a million other soldierf'to conquer the great em pire across the sea. (This is evidently a mistake, for the writer must allude to the invasion by China which took place in 1592. There were only 160, 000 soldiers in the Japanese army, ac cording to history.-B. N.) He never came back. 'y ebler brother took my paren.s' place, and I was sent out into the world to make my own living. Think you that easy, my children? i may tell you it was not. I had had my slaves and knew little about the means of making money. I had spent my life in studies and in my pottery. I was a deep scholar in the art of'mak ing earthen ware--not the crude and purp)oseless article which are now so common, but something greater and far more beautifLI. When I found myself deprIved of my fortune I turned to my work with renewed interest. That was my solo object in life. If my studies should be successful I Would wvin both fame and- wealth; if not, I could die. Who could do 'more? I had pondered deeply over the mystery of colors, tleoir admiixtures and their p)ropertles. In these studiles I have discovered a new paint. That .this discovery will produce a change in the art of decorating earthen ware there can be no doubt, for by means of it'I can reproduce at Will the pictures.Of nature without the use or the artist's pencIl. 1 can place a platp prepared with this discovery before an ob.ject and its lines--yes, even.ita, colors -will appear on the surfac,e of the article. A fter this has been dqne 'the ware must be heated and then further -pre. pared4 when the picture will-'be visible, to remain so until the end of the world. By this means landscapes and faces may be preserved with an accu racy. our most skilled artists know no.thing about. .(Here the autobie graphy was suddenly broken off. The writer was probably called .away frotn his task and did not resume .it until some time later, how long though can, of course, not be told..-B. N.) I have made other excperiments with my precIous paint audl prolpose on this plate to show my first finished result. To-morrow I will complete it. (Here follows another break in the narra tive.--B. N.) SThe 'tIme has slipped by so rapidly since I last was In mif Worisehop that the;ohe day, has 1epgthened Intdo many Weeks. I have been too happy to work. I have married. Finding that 'mry work was to be sunenaCuh i ventunedi to take a iife' When I write of her my pen becomes clumsy and my p int fades. She is so beautiful, and, Iovb he' :so iich. The sun a iit)s my wih elh, is in my ptesencel I ,,nd that . mnat work more :seoeU.} My great disobvey is suspected., I caught a Corean potter hanging around my house last week.. He asked many qies tions, but was , sent away , fitl out learning anything. I must fork #or4 carefully, tiqugh. 1 must enolpo mt room,, more tightly.. ada proceed. viti more caution. (Another break here ocours.-B. N.) Yesterday I discovered a man hid den under some clothes in one corner of the room while I Wse at work. I drove him away with blows. The world must not know of my discovery, I have given a life of study to it, and shall defend the secret wlth my life. If any one comes in to-morrow to in terrupt me I shall kill him. I will keep my knife by my side while I work. No one shall know, what my discovery is. (This part of the history was hurriedly written and evidently hastily com posed. At times my friend hesitated in his translation and certain words were almost illegible.-B. N.) To-day I finish the great work. I am-now writing the last words of this history, which will make the name of Tikipoto famous forever, and anyone who copies within these walls will die I thought I heard a footstep, but I was mistaken. Now I will expose the plate to the air. On its figured face I will paint with my wonderful discov ery the interior of this room. Mfy 'first work will immortalize, the room where I was born. I bave covered it with my paint and now Thus abruptly ended this remark able account. There was not another word of comment. We allowed the plate to remain on the furnace until it was as hot as fire could make it. but a single additional letter did not .appear. He was evidently interrupted for the last time, never to continue his strange story. "Well," observed Butler. "this is the most yemarkable. thing ....ever read." "Do you believe It?" I asked. "I don't know what to say," he re plied thoughtfully. "The fact that.this paint he has used was not visible until it had been heated seems to give a show of reason to the tale. It would not be at all impossible for this chemist, for that he certainly was, to have stum bled on a now unknown method of photugraphy or porcelaln by a means the present scientists know nothing of whatever. It Is easily to be seen, however, whether I am right or not." "How so?" I asked. "It . is evident," continued Butler, paying no apparent heed to my iquiry, "that this Japanese potter must have been interrupted by some- accident in the completion of his task. He had carefully prepared the plate, the ap pearance of the letters on the back of it, under this ereat heat, shows that beyond a doubt. All it lacked was the treatmnent after the firing, which would make the characters permanently vis ible. Still the progress he made shows the possession of a great and wonderful secret. Nowv what is to~ prevent our turning the plate over on the furnace and seeing what picture is there im prInted ? Possibly we learn what it was that interrupted his work so rudely. That is, provided there be any picture at all. The chances are that under these circumstances the picture will disappear the moment the p)late cools, but perhaps with that for a clew'we may be able to discover tis secret our selves." "What shall I do?" I inquired breathlessly. "Here, take this pair of tongs and carefully turn the plate over While I observe closely the other side of it." I took the tongs in my trembling hands and with mnfnite care grasped th'e rim of the plate between the nip' pers. Slowly I lifted the plate from the iron frame work of the furnace. Then I began turning it over, until at length I had it extended in midair, several feet from the furnace at a level with my face. "For the sake of heaven!" exclaimed Butler,- his face white with emotion. "Just look at that." Slowly I brought <the : plate within raDge of my eye-glasses. A moment later I saw the most remarkable sight of my life--a sight so extraordinary that my heart almost sto)pped beating asi looked upon it, There was a plot. uire there, in truth, and it did explain the cause of his interruption. The gaudy surface of the plate was suffused -by a faint pinlt:tint, under which the strange and fanciful decorations I had observed when I first aaw the ariol( were faintly -visible, as theugh tinough a veof atmuze. t1pan this was" danso. ted Ab strange a'scene as mortal u1'a ever. r. It was of a small room,. rude ,furnished., In one corner stood a forg nd along one wall extended a rough nob. i In the center of the picture stood a wor ,an,olad in the i'ough "garen'nts of t laioratory. In dne hand .he hied 'bandie of a knife., Tlip blade' was Aried to the bilt in the bosom 'ofu the .ieturber. " However tertible this was; he expression on 'his fade wasw a tho d ' tiies' lnore so. It was'lig ribli its terror: and dismay. ltemorpe was V able in every line. Its eyes were rollhil* In frenzied horror, and it was ghastly pale even in the picture. I theu ttutned' the other side of the plate toward me to view the remaining fgurie. It ws Shere my self command -forsobk 'mle This was the sight that caused me t%dyop the precious plate upon the door .#ibere it was shattered . into a thou*nd -fragments.. The eyes of 'his victim were turned uponUiiim with mute reproach whidh even the glassy film of death could not cloud, ! The arms were thrown around his noak,.and the -lips were turned ap pealig toward his face. He had evi "ddnti een' disturbed at his' work. ke had' Yelt a pair of arms steal around lils he4ki and, without waiting for an ex planation, he had grasped his knife and murdered ils wife. The Curse of Gold. In)apan the mining of gold and all. ver wes prohibited in olden times le cause'fbf the suffering which it' had caused'; tle people. 'The Porttgues, 1had 'hone t;o Japan 'and establislied.a syster' of slavery in the mines. Thou sands of the people had been forced. to worlin the mines until death had re leased them to furnish gold for the monAtrchs of Europe. 'It w'as'iot untl 1024, after a long anl dlisastrous war, that the late Portuguese were expelled from the country. For years after that the Japanese would not work the mines nor allow others tb-do so'and they oven refusgd to allow Eurdpegns to enter the country. .T e negroes of the Congo know the locAn of rlcl}"gold mines in.thcir dis ;trict b't,'bieuose of the sufferings thdy have been subJected-to, they refuse to ,divulge their biding' place, for fear they will again' be dragged into slavery. The mines of the Malay peninsuls are closed for a like reason. Since the Portuguese, who .held the Malays in subjugatian for centures, have been expelled, no mining has been done, and the inhabitants keep the superstitionp alive by horrible stor'es of the atroci ties practiced by the old Portuguese. Cheese Two Centuries Old. Boyd Winchester, the consul-general of t4iq United States to Switzerlaid', has jtlst comyleted some exliau tlve i searches in regard to the cheese ind6s try of that country. He has made c?r taii discoveries that the cheese-makers of this country will be a little slow to believe, le claiinaito have seen cheeses that are more thlnii 200 years old. One of the customs that formerly prevailed in the cheese regions of that country, Mr. Winchester says, was for the friends of a bride and bridegroom to join in the presentation on the wedding-day of an elaborate cheese. This cheese was used a,s a family, register and heirloorn on which the births, marriages and deaths are recorded. lie says that lie has sen some of . theso "old cheeses"' that dite back to 1000. In many parts of Switz erland ''heese forms the principal diet of the people. lie hays thatneiv cheese often caiuses sickness. When this is the case the patient is,treated in the homoepathic fashion with old cheese, which generally effects a cure. Kissing not in Fashion. Kissing the bide at~a wedding is' no longer 'fashionable, so the clergyman who officiates at s society wveddings in the future w 11 miss the labial perqui site. inkleed, kissing -in pubice is no longer, permissible in good society, and refined womanhood has been l6ng in rebellion -Against this usage -without having It abolished untllquite regently. This public may be her .own 1ny1ted guests, 6nit itl' tile .sme ehe objects to being kissed In their -presence, and very properly. Inldeed, few brides. an -will luig to have" their veils raised an~d thrown backward until they have left the chtirch, This also'is In excellOzif tAst&'. Miesmerizing Fowls. If a fewl pe p14cgdLsitLiOg 4oi 4ith~ Its beak to,uo,ldng ie narrow chalk line, it will generally 'etiahd rouiching in that positiof uitil for'ebly re'moved, in bpfte ofVahp194et 'lihnf be' mee or' Peoilew'mvi&i bs 'near.' AU'fowls are notr infinlenced, biit.the: .nliority will be. '1'e he-eason given: is -tli(at the hen.grifs fo die the -dhanc' 111,' aind rivets ally, IA4ttntio 'io,'it, 'for is mpiabya trrt of mesmerism. " Full Dress In New Guinea. The beaux ad belles of New Guinea are by no 'means forbidding. Imagine, a man about five feet nine inches i6 height, his body a nice brown color, covered, if le be a - masher, with red earth, and varnished with oil, his face painted in,different colors and a piece of polished stone throutlh his nose, his long hair frizzy, ornamenited wii bird. of-paradise plutgts and cockatoo feath ers, his teeth black or red, his ears weighted down with huge ear orna ments, his waist compressed to wasp ish proportions with a, broad belt of bark, shell armlets upon his hrms and dogs' teeth necklaces around his neck, a breast ornament of- boars' tusks or pearl shell, a gayly printed waist rib. bon, with long streamers in -front and behind, anklet and kneelets of colored flax, and a small,'netted bag over his shodlders; imnagine ai this, and you' have a typical, New ,Guingan. The women are like the men for ragginess. The young girls wear a great abund ance of ornaments, but after 'marriage fewer. They1 are alt profusely tattooed, and wear a colored petticoat which reaches, to. the knee, Volcanic Eruptions in Java. Herr Fennema, a mining engineer at Buitenzorg. in Java, has made some observations a the recent volcanic eruptions in thlat island which are of interest, as setting at rest a matter on which some doubt has existed, On the authority. of Junghulhn, the general belief has been that in historic times all the volcanoes of Java (and of Sumatra, it hpay be added) had thrown out solid matter only, and never thdso streams of hava which are so characteristic of most eruptions. But a careful exainination of Smeru and Lemongau, during the catastrophe of April last year, shov that the notion must be 'abandoned as incorrect. The foimor is not only the highest, but alsb the steepest in Java. From 700 to 1,400 meters the slope is about 60, up to 2,100 it is 200, and from 2,100 to 8,671 meters it is more than 300.' For a considerable way from th summit the striking cone consists wholly of the detritus thrown out regu larly by the almost uninterrupted activity of the crater. .Up to April 1885, the existence of torrents of lava was unknown. On the 12th and 13th of that month a stream appeared on the south-eastern side and forced the resi dents.on the plantations lower down to fly. The stream increased for several days, until it reached a height on the mountain-side of about 2,100 meters from the level of the sea. The loss of life was duo to the avalanche of stones sent down .the steep sides of :the moun tain by the stream. Similarly, at the same time, Lemoigau threw out a lava stream, but there was a curious differ cnce between this and the one issuing from Smeru-tho latter was andestic in Its character, while the former was basaltic. A Lover's Test. "Do you see that row of poplars on the Canadian shore, stand ing apparent ly ait equal distances apart?"'asked a gravefaced man of a gronp of passen gers on the Fort Erie ferry-boat recent ly. The group nodded assent. "Well, there's quite a story connected with those trees," lhe continued. -"Some years ago there lived on the bluff in Buffalo, overlooking the river, a very wealthy banker, wvhose only daughter was beloved by a young surveyor. The old ,man was inclined to question the professional skill of young rod-and-level, and to put him to test directed him to set ouit, on the Dominion' shores, a row of trees, no two of which should be any farther apart than any other two. The trial proved the lover's inefficiency, and, forthwith lie was forbidden the house, and in despair hb ilrownedl 'himself in the'riVir.' Perhaps some of you gentle men with keen e es can tell which. two trees are the farthest. apart.". The group took' a'critical view of the situationi and -eaci 'nmember selected a different pair of trees. ,Finally, atter' some discussion, an; appeal was taken to the solemn faced s.tranger to solve: the problenm. "Te first and the last," said lhe, calmly resdining his cigar and wvalking aiway with'the aIr of a sage. A 'German entomeldgist, F. Dah'l, clafma that spiders have prfect sight onWf"at? 'very short di tne. Thell' sense of touch is conse ~ ty remnarka bly well devefoped. .Their smell is 86 #ood 'that they can distinguish odors, and their bearnng Is eceelledmt, - ome of them show, a remarkable Instinct In building their webs--even,their first. in rperfect geometrical foris. , A reflec tive powe.r is evinced by their refusal of tough insects which. have been once attacked unsuccessfully. . Hie 'wh6 ikudha at cruelty sets his heel on t.he.nank o eiigitatn. UAUGH' WVITU SUGAR. The Monkey's Fatal Curlosity ['roves Its Ruin. A gentloian who returned recently from Aspinwall, says the New York Mail, tells the following curious story of the manner in whicl4 the nativeb of the interior of the Isthmus of Panama capture monkeys: "Almost all the pet monkeys in this country said he, "come from Gorgone, a small village half way on the line of the Panama railroad. Tihe inhabitants are mostly. native negroes, for no white man could live in the village a month unless he drank whiskey and tcoK fui nine constqntly.. The surrounding country is swampy and covered with a dense mass of luxurous vegetation. At nightfall a, thick pniasm rises from the ground and hangs over the forests like a cloud. This place is the monkey's par adise. They travel through the forests in troops, going wherever the king mon key' leads. When the natives have been appiised of the presence of a troop, they go about warily to catch thom. Their plan is a simple one. A hole is cut in the shell of a cocoanut just large enough to admit a monkey's unclosed paw. The cocoanut is scooped out and a lump of sugar placed in the hollow. A string is then attached to this novel trap and the negroes conceal themselves until the monkeys pass by. Curiosity is one of the chief characteristics of these little creatures, and when they espy the cocoanut lying upon the ground they come down from the trees and proceed -to inspect It carefully. The lump of sugar does not long escape their notice, and one of them thrusts a paw through the aperture to grasp it. With the lump of sugar clasped in his hand, he finds it impossible to withdraw it, nor will hi.i greedy nature allow him to abandon his prize. The negroes have no dificulty in drawing him near, er and nearer to their ambush, the whole troop scampering madly about him, chattering and gesticulating as only monkeys can. When they have arrived within easy reach a large net is thrown out and they are made prisoners. Twenty and\itlrty are ofteli captured at one haul. Thd natives sell them to the employes of the Panama railroad, who in turn disposo of them i the American markets." Heights Beside Which Shakespeare's Dover Cliffs Are Dwarfed. From 1881 to 1884 Dr. Guillemard was cruising about in the steam yacht Marchesa in Chinese, . Japanese' and Malayan waters. Within those tolera bly comprehensive limits lie went every where and saw everything. Now, thlis is a very large order, forDi'. Guillenard is an experienced naturalist, an acute observer, and an amusing writer, so that adequately to review his two splen did volumes, crammed full with ,facts replete with interest, and teeming with out-of-the-way information about out of-the-way and unknown places would be impossible within the space of two or three columns. At the very outset ho gives us an opening p1 sture of the giant precipices on the Formnosan coast, whose slicer height of 5000 feet or so dwarfs the cliffs of the Yosemites to nothingness, makes the sea wall of Hoy3, in the Orkneys, sink into insighlflcaiice, and overtops, by inore than double, the 2000 feet of perpendicularity which the Penhia d'Aguia, in Madeira, exposes to the wild Atlantic surge. "The coast from Chock-c-day to the n'orthmward," says that useful but ex tremely prosaic publication the "Chipai Sea Directory," "is the boldest ;and most precipit'us that can be cong,eived, the mountains rising 7000 feet from the water's edge." 'Attracted by this un smaal' burst of superlaitivos in a generally sober and cautious%uide' the Marchesa steered her course for the district so.e1 thusiastically described, and the sun rose for her upori "the highest sea'pre' Ipice in the known worlil." From these Titanic svalleys-a-deep gorges srcored through perpendicular cliffs afi clothed from base to summit with ferns and rattan canes--Dr. Guilleniard and his party made their wayto the li.ttle-visited IAu-Kiu Islands, of whose .quaint, old world life, charming, as he ncutely ob serve#, for his upreelIty, he gives us some most delightful pen-an4.enoil. sketches. A NIUROLAR MECIJANJO.---Mrs. 'Briminer--' dont see *hen a map thus a good trade why he should prefer to be aburglar. Mr. B.-,"Who are you talking ' "That ia who was catight bteaking into a store last night. lHe's a ana obinist." "Who' toid you.that,?" "The paper says that.vihiie be was at the -etation-house and 'the onIhcer was: znaking his toport; the b)urglak! made a oit for the door."