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(TIti-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO.
i In an Old Fashioned Chus-ch.
'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."