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AT TIt OLD FARM, Olive Delno was in a brown study, nor lovely pirlted face rested in. the -palms of her. white .hands; her 'eyes, large, dark and soulful, were bent upon the carpet,-but seeing nothing of its heavy.ric)ness, for Olivp was conjuring up a-handsome new. ball costume, that was all,. yet it was of more serious moment than you may'imagine. It was the last ball of the season, and Olive desixed to appear to better advan tage than.at any previous one, and as a small frown gathered about 'her pretty eyebrows, a soft gentlo zephyr sto in through the purtially opened vindows, that told mist plainly of spring time; - "Oh!" she exclaimed, "I know nQw; t will be lovely, and--and it will iseem like' other 'days, before Aunt Mary's death left me aii heiress to all this handsome forttitie when I" ww bbly poor Olive n, tho vill sg;chool teacher, 'an Frank Drake was my lover. After all I have never seen any one quite like him, since;. so noble; so true. Oh, Frank' slie moaned pit eously, "it was cruel to grow so cold because .[ was 'an . lheiress;iand to turn from'ine as you:lid, tviile I, a woman, could oniy"be silent, tho%lgh' my heart v' as breakhig." ii N ayt the little. secret repining was sooh passed. Olive Deat' was not a -woma;, wear her htipn her sleeve; .and thtilh. the pos that day went a 441 tte? t old fa rl;ere she had tbe evept 'Aln rplled In, on' le.' igitt ie d ball; It hrl glt ~~ ~ Openn li tYr t l: :i al '13:esl onto ls. Til ox was d with apple blossoms. Oh, e cried, with a little laugh, tlhey ha e gathered them Trom the aiberian'crab-tree in the lane; no other tree Over boro such charming, rose tinted, fragrant blossoms. On, here lies a letter from Nellie." "DEAR OLIVE. "We were so glad to get .our letter, and learn that you were well, and, of course, ' nppy. fnmina is much better, thank you, anid I should love to see you in your - elegant ball-dress, but cannot come this time. I should be at beat only a field daisy amonig such nagnificence. "Cousin Frank gathered the blossoms for you. N Er.Ll l." Olive's face saddened a little at the close. "1 ear apple blossoms," -she said, touching them lovingly, "if you could but kniow howv precious you arm to me." And then with a little sigh she began dressing. for the ball. Hecr dress was 3reamy-3'wh ito satin wvith overdres of some ileecy white material, resembling at cloud. 'The only ornaments she wvoro ~ere t,he exquisite and fragrant apple blossoms, which graced its loopings and rested upon her bosomi and in her dark braided hair. When all was completed hhe surveyedl herself in the long pier glass with a sigh of satisfaction, for she was simply perfect. In the ball-room that night all 'other handsome toilets paled by the .side of her exquisite and poetical custom, so suitable to the season. Men who had raved of Olive Deane's superb beauty went almost mad as they beheld her now. - Franz Cur'tiss, a young merchant prince, bowed low over her hand and clung to her side with a persistence that could not be mistaken. "It will be a match,'" was whispered here and there. Hfow handsome they are; really a most suitable arrangement.". But Olive Deane appeared utterly unc9nacious or public opinion, or en tirely careless. A half-bored expres sion came over her face; After all what (lid It matter--the show, the glt ler, the hollowness of everything?-ex cether apple blossomus, They alone seemed true and sweet as the tender love in the olden days, In the midst of their enjoyment a cry rang out that thrilled all hearts with terror and consternation.. "Fire--ilre!" "See-the curtain!" Olive turned her head, and behold just above her head the fiery tongue that was running up the hiandsomo lace curtain. Ilow it b'ad caught was a mystery, unless from. some luckless cigar-smoker on the verandah, but it wats no time to speculate as to causes, for a little spark fell from the burning lace upon Olive's fleecy dress and caught like powder. Wilsd consternation ensued, but while *men- ran forward as if .intending to cr'ush out.the flames withy their hands, ome- one leapt 'A through the open window nd wouind his heavv r.1akt about her, smbtheribg the fIa 'ea'" instantly. Olive looked up at ozpro server, whispered .one word w tiith 1 white .lis, "Frank," and aint b whether rpain r au Is e r&bu t -imnost'f arntfd his re taore, tor no one else cai harmed. any in R sdon tore dgrnihe burnt eiiri run o ehigiiulaheftihn preading! liatn'ee; ut 019l@ b'ltoilhy days, hoverin hetweon life atid death, before the change camid Ahe began to re cover. The burns had not been severe, but the shock t9 her inervous system, the doctdrs saididhirotrated her. Franz Curtiss sent flowers every cny" and often came himself to Inquire after her, until one day a white.! slender maiden. met him in the parlor, and to his:earnest pleadings gie.no decided a "n11o," he. Was perforce compelle'd to re linquish his fond liopeo. "[ would . ,idvlse a ,few -weeks in tid. country," said her doctor one morning, "out among ,old friends and assoola-. tions." And Olive, smiling.faintl.y, took his advice to heart, and. went to the old farm once More. "Oh, Olivet" cried Nellie Morton, as she kissed her welcome; "18 this Olive? -really.and .truly our friend?" "Yes, really your old Olive, and no other," smiled the invalid; "1 grew homesick for the old fields-and home, and so I came. I could stay away no longer." But however much she desired to' meet Frank and learn of his strange and opportune appearance at the ball, she held her peace until one day as she wandered out in the green grpve "near the old farmhouse, he chanced upon her. "I am most happy to. find you so nearly recovered, .Miss Oliye,'" he said, eheiancied coldly. "Thank you, Frank. I-. 'You know to whom I owe my slight wounds; If not thy life, and-and--.' But she could go n,o further she was still weak and ill; and the tears' flowed readily. Thrk.tears rendered Frank reckless ,of lcopsequences, and lie cried out in a husky voice: "Olive, my lovel .niy rlingl Why do yon weep? I thought q were so happy, and to be mairiec soon." "I. am notl" she cried indignantly, ther happy or going to be 'marrled. "OhPi ekh aiied rank, a faint light breakitig up6n him. "Why, you fool " ish girl. I called many' times, and the doctor-one of my old classmates-sent me:word every day in regard: to your progress, for, OI(ve poor and common farmer as -I am, I have continued to. love you, oven when I knew you were a great heiress and so far above me; and when I gathered those apple-blossoms the longing to behold you again, myself unseen, was uncontrollable, hence my sudden appearance in time of 'heed. . I know I am presuming," he added in a sorrowful voice, putting his arm around her tenderly, reverOntly. . ".1 will make this the last time I ever so far forgot myself,' but oh, Oiiltif yIost love, 1 shall love you till I die." Bunt her arms were flung around his neck, anid her bright face raisedl from his breast as she answered. "What is - Nealth, fashion, or qilI the world, with out you, FrankC? Nothilng, nothing to me. JHow blind11 you have been not to see it long ago." And Frank married an heireas, and wvas happy notwithstanding. The "Small. Mocns." Dlepait tment. A large clothing store at Vienna, Austria, hias just introduced a new "department for small means." It is located in the underground, and con-. tains second. hand goods. All those attending to fashion and appearances' huy new clothes every season, their last season's .wardrobe being very good yet. They return the latter 'at a 'compata.~ tively low figure, and pay gino dttep. ence between It and the prich they 'arei charged for their new, fashionable clothes. These returned goodis of -the preceding season go the "small means"' department, and are sold-at a little ad-, vance, enough to 'cover' Okpenses. In that department workmen, clerks and others are thus able' to buy good clothes at 'Very low'flgures. luo Bleoog Lunatics,. It 13 singularly .unfortunate that the royal marriage laws in -Europe prevent thme Infusion of some healthy plebeian blood into the veins of tle' reigning dynasties. Continual intermarriage among relatives during a period of sev ernl hundred years has naturally engen del'ed in sanity, epilepsy and that agree able malady known as the "king's evil." The gradually mucreasing ndtin'.. her of mnsane princes, apd, prmncesses is is beginning to ,alarmi oven the most coniservative of rnonamfchists; In addi tion to the Duchess d'Alencon just re ported, the names of tihe presenit king of Bavaria, the"duchesso.Oumberlatai,' the ex-sultan of-Turkey, Prince 'Alex. ander of Prussia, thme Archduke Otto of AustrN, the Grand Duke Nicohas Con otantiowita of ihttssia, the'9x-En1pfess Charotte of M.ex1co, are .sufpceead'o illustrate the evils'of'blood which is o "bitie." . *The .wolst 'd el Aana 29 those thAt are constantly serutng-their pbsIous. n pt r pYtr i non ~ 4 ____ q i 01 f)VQ 4 4 The tooth piok,Avhen used withi d"is crotion . and - at proper. times and in propor - places is an unobjeotionable lit-le, irtst1 uunent. Its .ocoasinal' ent ployment Is, as a rule, , necessary to ec l p r tion.. of t t l the t brush. This. adjunob o ih6. toile ;s, however, never :used in publio. The Tpsi4 t , qt f.tparj4kigqf .ti: meal, should.proceed, top'itly,u*e. his tppl brush would pel (iihnelf.'>bap ished from- decent fbciety: Yet'sih -action would' e' les objectionable' to witness than the service to whlcli'some people iwho piretend t'ifineneit and culture. put - the tooth. pick. There is b t one; ptaceefa wihi?h it niay bQ .1Ilit , 91?ed-ilfe dressng .roon igandA o person who has the slightest considera= tion for. the feelings of thers Nill han die itanywhere else, . . It =would seem to be; aligost mangeoes ,nary to mhke su'dh statbiennte as those In the foregoing pardgaph. ''o Oie possessing any' delicacy of feeling or squeamishness of digestion will dreamn of controverting' them, And yet the public use of the tooth pick is daily in. Oreasing, nd' ls alrda y aoahea;d "o? portions that , trike'thbefodeign 'vIsit or with . astonishment and disgust, and make the lives of !mnny. of our citg eps anyihiugbiigreeable, . The practice has doubtless grown owing to the large riumber -of people who . live or have lived In hotels and boarding houses,- wier'o tooth picks were furnished with- the idea that gttests would take theintq'their rooms, and in' same oi the gOodh1otel ku'ests can even now only procure tooth picks "t,the loors by which. they ,leave the ,dining rooms. In other hotels and in many boarding houses, and also, it is sad to -have to write, in? sonie priVate houses, the tooth pick holder is 'arbgu. lar 'rnanient (?) of the hal'tbe tid its contents are assiduously worked. In. no other. country that the writer las ever;vis ted .haae tdoth givky been UliclyriseZ "i l hiouses o "in the presen'ce ofe'women. 4iE gish woman or aipreich nman ?f, tho Vet ter plash'not only nevee dream ofuing a-tootl'pick beforo people, but she conw evo, it is no unepnyuon ocogrreuc. o hear a lad ask thr "thetooti ficks and select the one that she thinks will fit The Chailtof Seven Flad. In the museum of the Hotel Ciuny ii : Paris, tlorg is a: curlus chain: Should you search ever so 'closely, I hardly think you copild find it, for It is a very small, insignlficant' looking oh. joct.--Soven pins,not even of one size and almost entirely eatep through with rust, joined togother in a gold c.hain of seven links at the end of eaRch of which are miniature goldon'shacklesi It rests In a velvet case;-case and- all. recall tho te of the last cent ury but., a.'vJ have said, it is very insiginifcant inap pearance, it is hardly worth 3eeing, certainly not worthsaearchiing for. .iiut I was interested in it and in ansiver to my inquii'y the old1 custodian toldl mc the following story: "tIthe year 1735"-~4hus ho began "a young and much*'respected noble man,,was sentepced to the penitentiary fora .term of twenty yeinai. T do.nt just now know3vbit foi but it Is i~n material for the purposes of' this story for there is no doubt that the prison was very lonesome especially to him, for his life .had beOa gay and joyful, HIe demanded, prayed for some sort 'Of deyvers'on, but It was stubbornly re fused;him, lHe feated that he woul1 egentually~ loose his inind and began, pehaps"areadj:Igalf crazed, to search for somze.object in:his small vacant .cell thli woid Ccctilig It. Hie searched and Aearched atid beholdiiftei lon, long search-he found-a pin. This, to be sure, brought him -some, though very litiite'diVeislon.T He considered for In stance how long the pin had already been there-It was almost consuined with rust-then, who had lost it? Dut this was about as much as he could:e *pect froni one pin and he stucik it in his coat." Then he began to search anew--to cut the matter short, he was fortunate enough to fnd six oth.er ins. True, he seairched a long time after the sevetmth :pil in the" hopd of flnding something else-Aperhaps another pin but all in vain; he found neitherx pl.n nor' anything else. In short, segre1i#, this was all he had found. Notvr much,.to besure, but'the prisoner wAs noyerthelese happy, for even iC the pies lhe had found could no lonfer entertain him, did* not their search divert his mind? Who knows-perhaps it' fdok hunr d% year, pethapq ,two. ydars to find thetan. 'And whilst revolving these things In his mind,. he thought of sa good. means to drive 'away the speetre of loneliness and 'deadly 'ennzui. \vhich, hoverep oVer. h-h i,Ad thrntened' to darketi his ' mind 'f@tevet. 'Whatn tllotgbt he, "If 't should 'throw .4izese pins away and should seatch, for Ahem anew?" ' ~eming the pins whioh had icost hi'r so mi.ch' labor,. he hurled the into tly darkness of his cell irderstauIrease the dialenitsyof 1i ts'lh li attam.a floor or that it li len t qftle eall. } ie 1 t p eat his meals 2t d ben wo aiIilehe 4Igt hore ouhu f flor osthat i h and fnakO 111s"i t 1hfbetbe Again A'ndhaa 6 trt~~ them in, b ft 20 wouldfliye hi day of resurre i T~he ting a4 . mnitted teun S p f his sent nee-il novel and unt ;e cene. btid itse, see h.They saW - k cf n abgut the floor he had .i"oe 4 ead t .. mo in and hp .ii e?i'o .1p0n When they told ht ht'e msiht leave -the rpy tO ,eurreOt . ,. Th16 longer mittd t ye i ienti pin ? All thought i demente d,iOit he was not so, L beli 4thepins saist hii. After two d the nobleman found 'e seventh pildi nastened again to eiity freed'p . "Tu16st~ fact of a- prisoner beg--. ging for an 'tiion of his sentence reached tht l ieo:Coutd not undera ntsod I.g b iey tl os saveedcoithnned terusto ip4Ith9 1e is not the turiou' th eQot the' story' The king s;umntli n-' he noblea1n to na private audiMph le prooured t he pins and ad th t in thisfauios foir his prvt u w{c they -came t iie Maosea lie 'tioel Chny3 Hola u odrhand -n" ue to TuspeI wahs a rmanYof slight but cifues ihil'th a steigyg eye aiv9olu$4dk ~ finpdng vQicen aindg sum .,:g of one,.h obeas bsolute niastet of. e situ .tion. Attired n hls 1Noby.Ue$11 1e stood4il a doorwaf of tn dad lietm f this oari honse, an elegant ,ion on.the boulev rd, and hr heid ayid oa -calibre revol "oTK a peay'\ghv ahead of him itht 'aried n t the mallcst aeadth, mpowerfi ol frai and sinisr asrct, H4 'tood in frint rof an elaberate sideboardr,. a door of which was open, exposng in he'dAi,mgla e'of o ' bok lantern whose rysv e flashed . ' the iberior a glitteing arTai 'o t' tly plate whith ho was about to lay his brawny hand coiind \venricady the startling coiadalreA.4uted. Taken by surprise, the atalwart ma rader turned his face in tho direction from which the voice procee,ded and atood for a momene inesolute, Some sbtle influence by'whieh mind sways .mind, independent of physical environ *mente dre'disparities, apparently mas. tered him, for he reluctantly ra.ed his hands, and tl tiwo mn'i faced each other in the da~rkenled room1, amid ai silence N.o profound that the mulied he:a.beats that shook the frame of the banlid hailreay col almost .be heard uy the eana, self-poied relentl1ss man,, who .ill pointed the death-dealing im pilemielit straight at his heart-. "Move a muscle and you are a deadl man," suddenly exclaimed the voice that hutl alreadysiitten hiIe:l;erculeap forod af thom eiir,ndthe owner of thatice.oen d frwaid an y took the dark lantern from the nerveless hand that held it.. With swift and methodical movements le placed it on ,theis5ideo1ard' so: that its ray's feebly outlined the form before him, and, with that terrible weapon Still aimed unerringly at his heart, lie thrust his hand into the pockets of the helpless wretch, one after another, and draw forth a clay pilie, a Waterhiury wa-tch, a plug'of tobacco, a pint bottle, thirty-six cents In money, and a bunch of keys; and as lie led him to the outside door of the house, lie handed him a card on. which wvns'Iuscribed the name "Ameri ous V.'Getthere, President Gas 'Cdn pany,"? and hissed, in the, ear df the despairing man, "I am something of an operator myself." . . 5olenu1'n the iInman.'rethi 'piepoison conveyed by the hiuman teeth is one of the most annoyiig - that a khys.ie)(n ever had o deal' withi e chewed ear or nios Is 'months heing. wIerc a more inportant-wound Indlict *sd ',bt an" Instrutnexdthifou) readily. glOl t6&simp!e rei diMO have' hiad under- my attention sovero gu ns complheated cases of blood poisqning, in which the patient haid buti slightly abraded the-hand in course of a fight b[stiilgig fhis, kmucekles aialst the teeth of his opponent. I have knosyn hands thus poisoned only sne.d ?Lrom ,amputation by thg application of all ,e resources of science. 'folacco oN whisigy di, disarrangepqht 6h stomach 'froin many othgor'.atises, snaya be 'esponisible ifor -thispo nucn. 11ared to usay that 4.yn:ssqth god iotivef til'PoIso,MM eicn only I 'peak of,the -fregneney of this~ Qeing of dasddridtij difial end auervBr alt aa mnntamu 2..0tell, 2 telling lij ' b e r ago {, chr " ''a niy1 1o Sabanoy ( I i; 4 o"W l h1iad inot io'r.l the e iity' of the Molly Maguires, 'yo OO1uitc .entoVe'hir. J, Soioo co4ii:e l, dt pan" who v i't}te4 t t. rtolasa ~ shot,.waisaj nted'to dthe dirty work. The as ainJ. concealed. iiiself on a dark +,pa4h where 46, ti i Pass and waited x'ear rtce speaker said he liad. always been. 4n habiutl agoker, anld on the ight in questionwas sroking a .igar,;rom which he had Just kncked the ashes: .before,aopr0aoling the murderer'splace of corcealment, put the cigar in :his montl and turned his head, as an u'n ally strgng gust of wind cane -aonund'a .point ahead of him, when le heard a shot and simultaneously a bulletwhtgt,l pd pgst iis.fage and took op h4 ondot .his ,igari HIno.'trned imeadiately, and before the purpose of the Molly could be accomplished lie was out of sight. Sevei tl years afterwaid the maii wlio had attemptod to murder him ivas dy ing and made. a death-bed confession, stating' that lie had been appointed to kill the speaker, and had fired directly ,at the end of his ltghted cigar, but for some unaccountable 'reason had' missed his mark. As he concluded then Vfra' 'v di'y _a sigl ob apparent relief and s ia dJ ,ws thle most iarrow escape he di4r 'hiad; aid attrbuted'the saving of hislife;.to 1hiphpitof.s,aking, . hepe Violins are Made It is truly astonishing how many vio, lina thpe are imported into -tJin coun 4 hi ialy, #sfeo,iahl3r. If we consider ,,ittr; 1yU ne;lcin the, " oI i ro made ozten e1y a; e o u eu -tiien, with Its- urdindin vill n liigen til,Tle s. en Stlohrl$ali ani raslitz, in axbny Cemany;,here l 0 "etter'aboti(O t 0 ople livi" g"theie; who do nothing'else day after" tiay btt< t e-. viins, -'t9nt- tp orhe o, an i . iiSi6"i ffe of E 'd ultt-i forenst itt1 I:; e0 enjoyed iitall-my life.. ,The inhabitan,,s, from the,little urchin' to the old grAy headed man, the small girl and the 0k( grandmother, all are engaged- in making some parts of a fid. die. - A good one consists of sixty-two di'. ferent' pieces. They are cut, plaiiie, smoothed and measured, everything be lug accurate and precise with the model. The older men make the nger board from ebony, and the string holder and the screws. The small boys have to make themselves useful by looking after the glue pot on the fire and bringing their _elders things as they mak want them. A man with strong, rteady hand(s and a clear eyo puits3 t.'n di fferent p)iecO toget.her, and this 1is tha, mrost. difliciult task of all. Most violins are made of mnaipl.wood that grows ini that part of the country or over the ,frontier in Bohemia,. .I'ho woe generally occupy t,hem selves as polishers. This requires long p.ractice, andl a family that has daughi toer who is a good polisher is coi sidsred for'tunajto, :Even a- young muan~ . wvheat lie goes a-wooing, inquires whether the Toiing gh:l.s a good polisher,.and if she iti certajnli Will increase hlg aftec LidW' forihere at 'least' twofoldi. The. polishing takes a good deal of time, some of the best violins being ; twenty and even thirty times polished, Every famly has'its pcculiar styl6 of polish Ing, and they never vary from thlat, There is one that. makes nothing but a deep wvlne color, another a citrdn color, yet another an orange color, and so. on - What They Tr'emibed. for Out .West, A re iWalist in'a Michigdn town had discourq9d opi the Bibli for two hours and!got hjsagidience w,#rxed-.pp to the point of enthusiem. . "Now, my hearers, there is one thing it Would be impossible for us to get alodAglithbfit, Wlto can tell what it is ?" Hie expected the audience to say-"re 1igloi1k" but lie discovere~rtthat he. had Nitaken th9 character #6 s hearers whien a, grtiy a long-beard arose- ai' said: .Quinine." A gTapaznoso Iepoter. A traVeulen wyho i3en :visitinig Japann; writes home that eyes there he was not freofront the interrogatories of the newspaper interviewer. "I had got &Iin .in.Uskodadi. over one day,".he says, "before A .scholarly.gentlegian api pro*achQd1 me. qnd adhased my inter preter'. . He.had theo 1ongit repi-esent. h,thQ,iA1odadi newspape, 'hm sjig atid would * like to aslkeonf~We*ge t1lous I consented, And' he !ydnted to ini codng ~ . &iab.gia nv Other inatteXs!cnpAted .with my yvsi ahd' I1e cdmnit;ted'napnr .in tu , aostn.. 3apltt' oelate bth or the? Great poutn'Amorioart Nation. During the last tWenty flve years the onlntion of 'the Argentlne Republis has 1 cre ed 1a4 p,rcoh, while, that 'o . United St teWl as iofe~ased - but per cei}t., 'anitl.tbe city O. Buenos :Aytes:1tgrowJingfaster than Minneapo. lie or,Penver. L'pst - year- it ieceived 124,000 immigrants froin EurT4pe; d .the. naturul Iuc:ease is. very largoe. Th e .new; comer.aro mostly Italidus and Easques, with a-sprikling of Germanpj $ Ifta and $vcles, To temptthe imini" gratts into the agricultuial. districts the goVerineitj has endeted 14Ard. laws ecn ire liberal than '.ours. Iacli head-of family is oititled' to 250 .:aoxs frea,4l}s nyli nore as.h.desiree"to purQhas;,to aImitm of 1,600 are, at abottt;eventy4ve cents an acre In 'our mone'. Or Abe settier iay uaiake 1,600 acres free tr five years1 yplai t ;ig.0O e, Reito'r I a d, tliwe#ty-four ires to timber, rgq transpiortation from Buenos 4res to tl3e plaeof loca tionis grahted to all settlers and their families, exem'ption frorm taxtation for ten years and colonization societies are orgaiized which issue: bonds, 'guaran teed by tli6 governinerit, the proceeds of \yhiah-are loaned to the settlers in' sums not greater than $1,000 for five year., with 1nterest at six pdr cent., upoii the ,cultivation of a certain amount of land and the erection of a certain amount of improvements. The results of . these betieficient laws are conspicuous. In, 1880 nearly nine hun dred.thousand acres of wild land' were ploughed. and.. planted. One firm in Buenos Ayres sold 1,200 reaperh manu factured- in the United States, and other.firms a lesser number; elevators are being.erected,upon the banks of the rivers from which wheat Is loa4ed into vessels.for Brazil and Europe, and the average crop was twenty4wo' bishels of wheat to the acre. The Giaut 11elios. Tho. Grant relics, which have been dir saeyral months safely gu:rded in' one,of the private rooms of the ]Tational museum' are now on public expibition. Recently two handsome plush liged ca?ep, filled with articles from the col Jotipnn were.placed in'thenorthihall of um-neatr the-'main entrance. o tatied the presentationswords,. v4 eA l" teitecskets, medsllions, i iy~ 6tl W'6stlyLsi;r elegant' ar! ;tleles presented by diferent people at different times to: Gen. Grant. Many of these articles are souyenire of his trip around the world: There is a spiendid collection of Japanese coins, -one series of seven pieces,old Japanese gold coins, of huge size,, being valued at $5,000. There arb also. invitation. cards, menu cards, and reminders of. entertainments given iji his..honor, engrossed on gold plates. One inyitation card ton masked ball given at 8an :Francisco upon Gen, Grant's arrival at that city, on his re turn from his famous tour, i engraved oh solid gold, and was inclosed In, a silver envelope,, with the address' on. graved upon It. In the right hand cor inor is a two cent stamp and in the. left tieo Usual "If n'ot declivered in teni days 1.eturn t'o," etc. The articles shown, besi.des their historical interest, are of great intrinsic value. .Trick of' tire Imasgination. .. -A short-time since~ a 'mnanas taken to one of tlh'hospithlls suffering intend4 pain. *iie lnformed the doctois that his home was down In the country and' that If he died lhe wished to be sent there. The physicians,.asked him what hie supposed cauged thie ,pin. "Why, I swallowed my* plate and four. false teeth Shlle asleep the other night," was the' answer. The patient was put upoin liquid fobd and all tihe examina-. tions- made by the medicos failed to locate the swallowed article. The man's sufferings ivete lessened considerably anid as a test It was decided to give hln. a little piece of'. beefttoak. Thiat was dons ands the poor patient was writhing in. agoily as soon as he had swailloed a mdttuil. -"Ohm, my God!" he ex claii, "this is killing me. I know I .shall die," and. numerous other such speeches. The physicians and nurses could hardly keep him in bed-he symf fered so much.. Again he broke forth: in1 exclametions. This time he said: 'SOh, how I suffer. I can feel the teeth. tearlnkmy stomach apart. Oh-," he did 'not fihish until a niikse 2'opened a . 7t#14gram from his~ wife. - t read: T~ound teethi under bed." Tu e s.uffer hig man, who had swallowed those teeth, got sup. and dressed, paid his bill :and sleft the hospital without a woi'd. This is onlf an fltstration' o~f ~vhat Iiagintfoli will db. - Ynste La;ids ii Jndi... Tihe result9f the survey and last-cen~ -onls of India are tha6 'the area of. the iosula of,'tindostan. - is 1,382;02i gie iduIles,'.Ar\d 'the 1'opiilatieni 253, ~91482L4. Altho'ugh immenO &'acts of $f.,douaitty (re aunt~I1ty' culydtedi, ac dording to the most- recettt dryey '10,.. e00,000 apred of hand. suItalhe or cul tivation have nQt as .y~et)Seen plowed. pre returned as waste lands, 94'~ ~k f caolves iaving thoe "scours.", it - checks the o6dmlaal,t gradually 'and does'no hra dg haion.h~s 'NEWS3IN BRIEF. -A turkey gobbler owned by a farmer near Rockville, Ill., fights hent troin theiir hets' and covers and batohes th eggs himelf. -A loYely woiman%a'4uatin, in per feet health, and posgessing lovely tresses; lost all of her hair in one night. 43urgla's"found it on. ,thet wash stand, As for baqk a 160q an English w'titer rempdarked: 'It'l useasonable and 'unwhol soine ib all inths that Iae not an''r' in their rnues to eat at oyster, "s d --(i'ant Johnson. a colored resident of West ,Chester, bas been living three ionths wi i g-htiet in his brain. He is 'totally' pathl ,ed, being unable to. move a musole or talk. -Sdme cows that, were in a i1eld that she was crossing, at Sag Harbor, L. I., receptly,. -ade a movement to" ward Mrs, Rogera wio became :30 frightened tha't'she' rbpped dead. -T- he fibre dexiveA from the inner bark of young mtibetry shoota is said to yield a faldo much finer and stronger than cotton, and which, wheu w?ven, very much reseiibles silk. -1iai1ermen at 1' Oseuurg, on the Sluslaw river, in Oregon, caught 10,000 salmon in one night recently, notwith, standing.fthe cry being raised-that the fish are rapldly leaving Oregon waters. -An. Orange (1T. J.), shoemakei found diamonds vatlud at $2000 in a pair of .shoe sent himh for repairs. The stones had been put -n. the shoes for safety .hy the owner and been forgotten, -The Glerman town. having the greatest nutmber of saloons, relatively, is Glessen, one to every 80 inhabi tanta, and Schwerin has the smallest number, one to.every 478 inhabitants, ---The dog of George Marion, of leusselar,, Ind., began barking at a hole in, the grounid, Marion dug down and killed 113 blue raters and 27 bull snakes. The dog, is still in the hole hunting for the lie. --The floating island on Lake Dr wentwater, iingland, has again made its appearance, after complete aubmer sion for neatly three years. The cause of the phenomenon is said. never to have been satisfactorily explained. It Is computed that. the death rate of the world is sixty-seven a minute, and the birth rate seventy. a minute, and this.seemingly light. percentage of gain is sufficient to give- a not Increase of popularion . each year .of almost 1,20.00O.souls. -A - resident of:Sun er, Ga., was - driving a mule through the streets when the bteeze" caught up. a big piece .of blue-,iaper lying in the guttes and wl4rle it dreotly tlefor :the animal's faco, he ule, it l tcrQp d; started teror, trembled violently, I. th9 , lf.Yer id : , . A st 10,000 preseire umg birds are now embraced in the collec ,tion in the Urrtieh museum, The flhesl collection on this side of the At lantio, Containing about 2,000 spect mens, has been presented by Mir. P. G. Eliot to the American Museum of Natural History of New York. -At Aeosta a Roman metal pon has been found. It, is a bronze pen alit in exactly the same fashion as the present steel pen.. 'The Dutch invented a metal pen in 1717, but it was not unti:t - many years later that the hand-screw press, which, made the firat - cheap stoel pen, came into .ise. -Thakore Sahib spent. $250,000 during his short visit to America, Some of the money went for jewelry \ and some for railroad supplies for India. ;For Christine .. Nilsson in, bought a fan,set with diamonds antd rubies, and for Queen Victoria a $300 riding habit etnbroitiered in gold and alver. - - -It has been ascrtained by an ob s'orving pbrson that' flocks of poultry Which have'gtlinea fowls among them aufe never interfered With by chicken thieves. The .gulilea is always on the alert, an4 -the lea8t disturbance will cause it 'to niake a very lend outcry -well known to --farmers. This fowl should be found on every farm and on everyv hen roost. ---The.)ncrease in the wages of work. ing people In the. Unitedi States was more rapid duiring the 'decade endng mi 1860 than it was during the next de cade or the. last one.. The rate of in - crease in England for the past forty years has been mqre raid than the increase in the United States, "-A ragpicker, in Londona, whro ro., cently- found a p)urse with a sov0reign In it.on the street,atraiglitway rep)aired, with 1)18 wife,.to purchase ar ticles of' Which they were in pressinjg need. They are now in jail, an astute magistrate having d1ecided, that they should have reported their good luck to the police, --The following testumonial from a lady has been left at. this office, for .hale, by a dealer in pafent medicines: "Dear: Doctor-I will 'say 'that, while suffering from' a - severe 'backache. I took my purse. Z my handi and went out to buy one of your phisters. I met a street 'thief on the o'rner anA~ was relieved 'at onces You can use this for. what It is worLh.'-iutngton, -391lzabeth Patterson B3onapar te was l3orn 'in h~altimnore un 1785, .9he wvas the 'daughter or a wealthy merchiant, and was' inarried' to Jeroine B3ona parte in 1808. .Napoleon commanded Jer(mo to fordake his wife, bunt theo yting man would n9t..dQ this untiu 187, when the~ Frendh council of stat annulled- the marrdtg oMd' N~apoleon .gr4nt&d ier a l*rge' S#suon. She had onf who waa 4ducatet abroad. She dtid Apsil 4 18792lea\ving a large for ttie to her grandsons" .W INtth E'hn In Chicago reposd o' curetin boxes just argeenouh toholdan ordinary spndWieb, piece, of pie,- a flask of coff'ee and a Chigese natpkin. 'He will till aS ,4ihht agon with theap and at,a certain bour-ahe lunich our-will deliver to his 13atrn j$o an4 contents for the naibt'~t '~aa l~ says his sese a 9 li he haes Se.'tred of 8OJIWI 'on $tate and Dear-~ bora tr ekE 48 rApidly as alis busi n sjka~ i i1put on more