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Tan her weet fae ur,ed outwrd te,.hq *gloomihs uudo4r Yet.when his foot, waitulolihnpaten - stride. nt touched the step, the door a - h eager S LONE>i n Tthe fold. i OF/ Rom some celestial Yburdened through the GEOe ry blyt,at which I cower, b l ;Ag still,' t i noW how. brief ,he g within thy radiant, love-lit home o glad surprise to whisper when I come F'but a breath till I th door shall win d thy dear hands will swiftly draw m POOR JACK. ! When I got my rating as able seaman I could have navigated a ship to any part of the.world. I did not enter upon the occupation through force of cair cumstances, but because I loved the sea, I had a fair education, steady habits, and served my time with an uncle who was a splendid sailor and a God fearing man. I should have been his mate after receiving my rating, .but he .died while we were loading ship, and the owners k ept me ashore for a couple of months to look qver the pn pers and fx up accounts.' Then PIco ld have had a berth as mate, but a s,range 'notion had come over me. Several captains had been hauled up for abus. iug their men, and I had been present at the trials. . My indignation was aroused by the stories.told by the men, and, encouraged' hy half a dozen hliil nthropists, I determined to become a 's ohapiapo. It .was very silly, I nestly believed t was my was silly for one man to ton a revolution. had a h de to work ions set out and bee ndred champ eta and courts, o backed by own comi of it. ething might have My first p was to procure the ma of every country, with all the ules and regulations' bearing upon sailor's rights, I was very particular in securing definitions of the term mu tiny, and in reading laws concerning the rights of sailors, to be quoted at length before consuls in foreign ports. I had the help of alawyer in this work, and he gave me many hints of value. When I was loaded and primed I stowed $800 In cash in my pocket and shipped aboard the brig Adventure, bound from Liverpool to the West In. dies. This ship had been recommended to me as a good one to begin on, as the captain had been arrested several times fpr cruelty, but always escaped convic ton hrough the influence of the own. mate. . wa now23 ear ofage, 5 and as frad ofno allon hipboatrd. I wa stut s a ull a oodboxer day' siknes. s Itumledaboard the dvetur wit haf adozen other salr,Iwasdtrindt omy full dutyas fr a posibl, an toobey all rule andreguatios tothefullest ex ent Iefoe e wrefailyunder way I sa tha we ere o hae aloating hell Th aptin ws a arddripker and t 3 nd te,maes delighte$j to crs&Gabuse. Aboard of my unl'li' l-ors were treated like me,and drir and profanity were un. knw.I was prepared for the change, hoee,and let nothing astonish me. Iexhibited mny activity and willingness ingetting away, and before the athswere set it must have been paetto the officers that I was a thor ouhseaman. This should have coun te nmy favor, and it did for a little hi.,There is always a leader in eeycrew. He. not only governs .the. forecastle, but lhe sets the pace of the ne,especially thpse in his watch. I! h sactive and willing, the men will patrafter him.to a certain extent, If h,sagrowler and a laggard, Is dis poiinwill affect all. 1Jy tacit con setIwas made leader,. and, to the getsurprise of some of the old sailors, . informed them that I had corne aboar,d to do my full duty in a cheerfat anr,and that I wanted no growl la rshirking. This gave them the Tace, and yet it gft me into tr9uble. Togfficers icould find no 4xcusefor asngthe crew, and were evidently truldover it. On the third day otf sIwas taking my trick at the w11, noticed that both captaim and Artmate were in tigly miood, having heen drinking too much. There was nqit the slightest excuse for grutab ling. We had a fair wind, every'saih was drawIng, and everything below and albft was tidy and shipshape. The iola deck were all busy, and I WoWderd what excuse the captain could ?uveur zvr -mu ing , a prear. It WAR -eident tat he- was fihing for ony, and the mate was trying to help ht. By an( by, after looking aloft, he roared out: "Mr. Morron, what. d---d lubber have you got;at the iheelP aie is throe Poite4off"ber courset, 4It's Castle, air, d---a his eyes,!" replied the mbate. The captain turned and approached the wheel, while the- mate, knowga that a row was coming, sku'lked fqr ward..I was steering as One- as milk, d ah 4apt iioo into, tI bin ~1 Thi oi lead lrel t . for after a minute he growled out: "Blast you for a lubber, but hpw dared you ship as an able seaman?" "Bcause I am one air," I qui9tly answered. "Oh, you are, oh? Perhaps you are a navigator also?" he sneered. "1 can take this ship out and back, sir," 1 answered. "T'he--the- -hUell you canl'3 he hissed after a moment. "If;you are a.naviga tor, what are you doing forward among the men?" "I shipped as an ab:e seaman, 1sir, because po other berth was open at the ou ire aQiised'ia&0houted the enraged man. "You came aboard to show off your smartness and make trouble. I've had an eye on you, 4-n you, and I'm going to work up your old fron." Se drew back to strike me,ud I looked him .fair in the eyes.and said: "Capt.- Strong, If. you strike me I shall defend myself." le held his arms .ready for a mo ment, and then let it fall, seeming to realize-that hei was'in danger. Then it occurred to him that he was being bluffed before his mates, and he shouted to the steward to bring up his pistol. The weapon .was soon handed him, and he copked it and turned to me with: "Now, then,. you mutinous dog, get down on your knees and beg for your life." "Do you know what mutiny is?" I asked of him, as quietly as -possible. "Mutiny is refusal to ob},y orders nec essary for the woring of the.'sip. If you kill me you will go to trial for cold blodded murder," "And let, me tell you something more, Capt. Strong. You and the mate are the worse for liquor, as the %hol? crew can testify. Your license can be revoked for this. This morning you refused medicine to Brace, who is suf fering with cholera morbus. I can have you fined or suspended for that. Have you a medicine chest. aboard, as required by law? No. There is a One or suspension for that. You have threatened my life without excu4e. as even your mates must testify, and I can make you stand trial for it." I said all this in a low voice, and looked him full in the face, while I kept the brig on her course. His face grew the color of liver, and then as white as snow. IIe stood holding the platol fur a moment,after I had 1iished, and then turned and walked to his cabin, where the mate was soon sum moned to consult with him. -The men forward had caught on, and halt a dozen of them signaled to me that they -would atand by. I shook my head, It was not a mutiny. 1, plain Jack Tar, had certain rights which Capt. i5trong must respect. It was a fight-between us two. Before the cap tain' reappeared I was relieved at the wheel, and I went forward and armed myself -with a revolver from my chest. [ also took the papers bearing on the case and .plgced them in my bosom. Then I urg6d the crew to stand aloof and let me fight it out alone. . I defied mutiny until they ,thoroughly under stopd whatunet todo. fut there were only two or three brave fellows in the lot, the others had been hounded until they had no spirit left. They might have gone into, mutiny, f~or even cowards do that, bii~ when 1t came -to standing up for their rights they were curs. The dleck watch were all at work when the captain came on deck again. iIe had his pistol in hisi hand, and the .mate also had one, and the steward followed them bearing severa~l pairs of handouffs. "Call the mon aft to witness punish ment!" shouted the captain, and at the order of the mate all moved aft, while' the watch below came tumbling up. When we had all assembled the cap tain pointed me out and said: "Men, we iiave a dangerous fellow aboard. iIe shipped to stir up mu-. tiny and get u, all into trouble ashore. Fortunately for.all of us I have spot,. ted lis game at this early date, and shall now give him his just reward. Castle, stand out." ,I stepped out in front of the men. "Steward, put on the handcuffs." The atewardpadvanced with a pair in his hand, but I waved him aside and said: "Capt. atrong, yQu dare not put them~ on me until I refuse to .obey a legitimate order concerning the qare of the ehip. You have certain po wers under the laws of the high seas, but' the meanest sa4or also h4ps Oertain rights." lie was livid wit asin, a.nd I was only after a:great e ort tbt' said; will have you ,-trtoed p;.. flogged tQ death toward, p t,ot t a. irons!" But the steward dared come t0 nearer. The'Oaptain then ordered t o crew, to seize. mo, btt not a m ii moved. The, pponcl maate was 'ti n ordere l forward, butit ho ht;d the se to klsp tis fodt outof it, and hb - plied: "If Castle has;the law, let's hear t. I've.sailed twentn ears without kno - ing the rights of a sailor, and a want no trouble tnahQ;courts. I saw captain and first mate look mat eao.h other, and I prepared myself fo a rush. They were determined to do or me, and as the captain banded his pis tol to .he stoward I called out: eLkb,'you Ae ay 'Witbesses 2h have not ref06d to do duty or o4y necessaty orde*. No,.aptain has au", thority to tricea.man up, And be an be put'in Irons only.for disobedience of legitimate orders If they lay. hapds on toe, it is at their peril. They came with: a rush, but bbth were knooked off their, feet inside' of ten seconds. The-mate was satisped with that, but the captain came at again, and this tine I gave him, all ho wanted. Not a man raised I and; Or voice, and .I gavA, the brut. subh a drubbing that he, did not get out of the cabin for flve days. Then it was to signal an English man-of-war. We were boarded by an officer. I was. given in charge as a mutineer, qnd' our months later was put on trial' in Liver pool. I not only received a - full nc quittal at the hands of the jury, but was complimented on all sides, 'and captain and 4nate were both suspended from duty for a term. The affair raised a great talk, as may be,suppospd, and it was a seed which could ' hAve been well'planted. A few sailors did profit by it to assert their manhood for a time, but after a httle";things went backward And became worse than evor, To-day, despite,the romance of ;poets hnd novelists, the average salt Water sailor is a cringing- coward . Tle law gives him every right, but he dares not stand up to a single one. He has les' personal independence than a state pri son convict. My second voyage, which had:-to be made under another ;iate;.a9 att b p bark.En liantress. Just why bptain aud "mates let me alone I never khew, for others who did their duty as. wall were grossly abused; but' I' was t even threatened during the voyage Before we had beOn a week out tha mate broke a man's nose with a belay. Ing pin.. Next aay he cut open a nan's scalp in a terrible manner. 'On tihe third day the captain knocked two men down, breaking several teeth. for one of them. The second mate, a day or two later, kicked a sailor in the aide and broke two of his ribs. When we arrived at San Franoisc I took thir teen of the men, all of whom had suf fered personal violence and three- of whom had to go to the' hospital, and went beforo thn Ih,glis'h consul. He, sent for the captain and mawse, heard' their statements, and then dismissed us, with the threat of sending .us to prison if we made any further ado. I went to the United States authorities,i secured the arrest of the officera, and the captain was fined $400, the first mate $350 and the second $250. And yet, on the return voyage-whion was with a new crew--every man was beaten like a dog, and the ship went into Liverpool with half the ce aun.. able to pull a rope. I made a third voyage before the mast before taking a berth as first piate. This was on the brig Good in-1 tent, bound from Pl.ymodhb "to the Canary Islands. We left port do man short, simply to save money . for the owners. Our bread was full of weevil and worms, and the pork so tainted' that an open barrel of it scented the whole brig. We had not the boats rem qluired by law, and we. had no medi. Oines aboard-not even a dose of salts. Within a week the two first officers got so intoxicated that they could not take an obsei'vation at noon, and for three1 '-ays our -position was unknown -to them. The captais, wh.ile drunk. up1 set a lamp and set the cabin on fire,and his chief oficer, While in the same con dition, fell overboard and narrowly es caped drowning. We forfeited our in-i surance no less than three timies,and thei Iast 800 miles of our voyage wg an by sights,which I took myselt 'and worket. out. There wasn't a day 'without its ( brutal treatment.of. theimni 197 'toof'2 whoth were fired upon by the -oaptain,I and yet whenswer lqally made port not a sailor c9auld (, gqti to join me in a1 legal statetoent. 'The brig, cargo all our lives were in . constant m eyery right was denied to us, and men, were never more brutally uied; famd yetd the captain and his mates were sper.. mitted to escape without even a com-o plaint. As A1'artiol( of diet coao has beeu compared to milk. Itbluntains s largei quantity of fati end other' nutritive: properties, ivl}ich render it very nour iehink and therefore tiseful in debill. -ae4 States 4f the Waetere, and for, heatb' ~ne ~~ile'.adtgoing great --Dudd Dobld has oftered td &i'row a gatnsthe paQer, Dr. We ' Story of f This Title . 6 4~a rank, 'of Coyre qe ny 'that t ba; feneral-is tb 'g,bet oIcr l the ariny, bt rJpg the "ooi0 sition held - fore it is in ela ly no big haeQiaali aIw4ys; on held bytlia r fp o f ,r he; army, whether ie' tl Geneal,:.Lietdedi q Uq alr htajor-Geaerai. At to 0tirthe p6 e' enjoyed bythbo "itadvli greater. A iltitle, -boAit,t e e na the.hlghes t eQwplinp t a soldier by our: Goy AA'' as been created'by' act .gof J eo timea.-once in ;1799, as a onplIm nt to Washtington 'agati i> as an addit6nM 1oor or!,?an and reco t ly for the behoof of the lat ill. Sl r T! WgUltoiy. of et '-iffer ut acts is) ntoresting. " idf eighteentfl cedtry ph9t! as- a p os peet,pf ,i bet e_ the n' t( tes and France, aud in 1708 r.gre m. powered the rIdsident to alse a :pro ieSgiial army,pt 10,OOqip "jj by. esa $ ootaut the sanction of th,e Sonate "iommis4ion agI ten nt 9 neral illt be geltg nde.pt. ar wao on May, 28, 1798. O uy of he s me year President.Adams' nominated Genk oral George Washingtosj for the poMl tion, and the , enate unapinously con firmed him next day. Washington be ing notified of his nomaiiation wrote a provisional acceptanc1. stipulating 'that he'should?not be expebted to as. sume the-duties of the ofUco until the, 'army was raised anaregdy 'fQh) '10 take command. On March 3, 99, wr:still threatened, a d';vhie p;e ra. tions Were' still i'" pogess Co ess, .Wtyi 'its e customary . cirqumlooution,. struck out the first half of the title. .leaying it "General"Ais tgas of "Lieu. tenalt'General." ;. c:- i Washington died before the wrw' cloud - lifd ;but' neve , assumed the posititn or title, the highest cot mis sionle ever held beingtbat,,of Mhjor ,eneral Corneandin . After' his death, war being avert ., no com,i+ sion was issued Jof t' highest rabi and the .legislatiot 'i considered to be,Fepealed.by 6 uet 'Qr indirection, ' 1' manding' r Yi"alaed =the 1 ion attainable.. T. hi4 r nkt. Alexan or Iamilton succeeded. In t845 the congress again created he tile and rank of Lieutenant-Gener all avowedly as a complugent to Gen er,l Winleld : Scott for his servlces as -fiJor-General lnthe Mexican war. was enacted at the same -time thgt the new office, once having been filled and become' vacant, should thereafter cease. This,. accordingly, happened, at General Scott's death. In 1804 nearly the same thing was done for General Grant, who was atf once made Lieutenant-General by Pres ident Lincoln. Two years later the rank of General was reyivad, and Grant was appointed to it. The socona rank, that of Lieutenant-Generan was awarded to General S3herman, Wilen. Grant was made President lhe promo ted. Sherman to ttje ran#c of Gepieral; arid SherIdad; tfien a Major-General, to be y4eutensnt-Gsneral. In 1870 the -Congress agati fixed things up, 'ptoviding that when these two biliced shbOtld become vacan,t they 1iogld, cpase. This barred gheridai trom' prom6in tbdeneal '"wen iSher man was retired two years ago ol a6& oount'of!hilS hgW, and had it not been for the quick action of CJongreus it is 'f6t likely that there would' have been. pznqthet Gesral or the army unless in the future the Nation might have de sired to honor some hero as yeE unknown. A COflVII TRUIC Ifow,a Tramip Traveieed FarmOmahia to Now York on due D)ola~r - During the winter of 1877 a large ~14mber of telegraph operators who had gone out to Omaha from .New York were discharged owing to lack of work. Among theidi was one,/ Jim- Doody 'by name, who had saved nothing at1d was, totally unprepared for the catastrophe.' He awoke one morning- with jugt one dollar in his pocket. is .relatives livedl in New York and , hpw to get there was a qluestion that severely agi tated- Jin9's mind. 'Finally he evolved a scheme, desperate but clover. He waspdell'dressed. and looked as neat and genti0marily as gould 'be. Going into the tioket ofil,,' he asked for a ticket to11q9wYofk1 'Th9 clerk took onte out, stam ped z0 a1nd hanided it over. Jim looked at it a muoment, thell aud enfyerathdtizberede an .. engagebinent to bkept before leaving town and rushed >ut of the offlomo.' J1 this way he fouIqd.out what a New York tickets looked like. 'Next, he se -ured an old calendar, priated og~ paper iotnewhat rasesibhne d long-distante sectional railivay ticket, ana froi this 1ie out a strip of proper with. This' itrip he folded in suich a way as to rep repent the varou, Cpoupols, ,andt with thits esti d'on1er felt of a? tiocet he propose t reaOh New tofk. t cost lttnififty nte' to, cross the Um o setrb IqJewe mb J~ t t inOh leile Ji , rache.d ,u f1ie a ;ietorepqkwith ndor d@ a nIa s pr tward. It as late, '4ii4.beft'LUe wad made the night . very.. dark. While .the traie 4l.9g atto t#tott Jiga boarded ' fhp passger coaches and .pehqr h l gad iluff. '4t biQg Nhlll ]iat+]i : rck, lAo ,took a :St travelng iat from his sat6hel. In tie uext seat wero an old gentleman ad ie. wife. With thls couple Jim nte$d;into :onersation,-'and soon rnadle himselt. very. agreeable. lie caaually'mentioned.that he was going to New 'Yrk, anctnmade a great dls plahy' of Putting his "ticket" in; the .bant Of his_hat, remarking at the ga ne tinge that long-dlstenoe tickets were terrlbuy bulkyaffairs Then ho tallked iditho1e* peole-in the' car; taking particular care that everybody. shotild observe the t1l5et.in his hat band. When the trahn started, Jim opened the oar window and prepared his trap., I16 aduhoil alesso.. repted- his arm on the window ailll)ald his bead on his armin uioh ) tbat he could eitl)er hold his 'bat on or let it fall off, and awaited developments. 'fiho tratq was running at a high rate of speed when the conductor ;&e e through. 1 ithat time Jim :was, fast asleep. "Tickets," called the conduc. tor, but Jim did not bear, and tne ofiiaI could not bee the bogus ticket, forim hid,tuaned lils hat ,around -so that it was on the other side of It. Then the conductor gave the sleeper a shake, but it failed to arouse him. Au other shake followed, and still another, when; at last, the conductor lost pa tience, and while he exclaimed, "Here, wake up, thero'" gave Jim a rougher shake than tl ose p ecdlng. Now was the'critical moinent.- Jim jumped . up, raising his left armas be did so, which .S1ysed his hat tQ fall out, of tlhe ivin dlo faltaeleepily he ;began fumbling in his pocket for a ticket,. when the old lailn the next seat volunteered the informatidt that Jim had p it" his ticket in his traveling hat. Jim looked around for his hat, and now the Mund old gentleman came to the rescue by saying that he-had seen the hat fall out of t Ie, yindow. Jim then took a turn pte ponductor. "Confound it," he exclaimed,'"my ticket for New York was in my hat. It you hadn't tried to Aeh ethe life -out o me. my' hat ,WOl11.14 t bai al of l' I'lls: l~elort tloud' talking had attratc attention of other passengers, several of whom gathered around and volun teered the information that 'they had seen Jim's ticket. The conductor went on through the train and reflected that 'erhaps he had ben a little roigl. 'A little later he came back and sat down in the seat with Jim. Jim told a straight story and the conductor finally acknowledged his error, apologized for it, begged Jim to say nothing about :It and when they got to . Chicago took Jim out for dinner, gave him a. pint flask of whiskey, a new traveling hat, a pass to New York and an introduc-, Lion to the Pullman car condt'tor, with all of which and sonie sandwichbes .Jim continued his .Jou'rney to Nav York i style. He arrived in the chyv with seventeen cents. A WVedding in Iloduras. The- Hloiiduranian -wedding- is an 9vent of n)uch' ceremony, espially among the richer people. It begins aL 8 in the. evening at the bride's bomne. All tihe relatives antfii: riends of both families are present. < Th' patiO, i:ith Japanese lanterns h'ung here and there among the -orange and poinggranate trees-and the moon shedding her soft light over ' all-is thronged as well as the house. The gay musho wvhich had been performed by the musicians for Derupi a hpur now ceases, or else the band goes into the patrio and play very softlyi The bridal party emerge from privat6' rooms. The mayor appears. The civil ceremony is begun and care fully gone through with. This done the pure' takes his place and performs &a small part of the religious service. A ftel' this the cure goes away. Supper is .partaken~ of, and the ball begins. All nigh4 long'the music, the feasting, the adhampaglie, adthe Aancing con. tintie. At 4 in.the morning the cathe dral bell is heard. Instantly the merri.. ment ceases. The bride and groom set out, heading a considerable processIon' of frIends ahd. rplatives. -The priest meets them at the main entratice of the cathedral. There is a brief- pause. 'The' bride extends her hatnil-and the groom placesmn it talrteen coles, fepeating the customary phrase~ equivalenti to'"with my worldly gooas. I thee' endow4" The bride rOsponds~ meetly. Then the company, led by the curb, pass slowly toward the main altar an'd,all kneel while nuptial mast is cel. ebrated.. This concludes the,ceremony. l3ride and groom, instead of departing on a Wedding tour, go at once to their new home, where a remarkab,ly fine wedding breakfast is immediately piir talyen of by the relatIves and most In tiate friends. -A bale of Egyptian' cotton weighing 888 pounds and one of 1East Indian growth *eighing 409 liounds ha94 attraboted attention .at, the do6r way ofthe- New Yori Cotton Ex cbange. / PHYSICAIi CULTUltE FOil WOMEN. A Valuable Hint fbr Girls Who IHavo Hgadaohe. Do. yoyt...ha4 sb . headaches, or sutor-'from lassitude d weariness? Tr/ walking. Not 'the Ind of walk ing you do when yott-go shopping, and. the mind:is absorbed in the OMonstrous little things of 'life, but a, brisk walk for health, with a congenial companion and one's thoughts upon pleasant themes, so there will be efhilarstion as well as exercise. Dress for it; wear common-sense, shoes; walk with head and shoulders ereot, and let the arms swing naturally, nor burden them With holding up a trailing skirt, or in aiy other manner. Walk a couple of milet at first, if it is a new experience, grad ually~ icreaeing the distanee, and somi day a walk of ten or twelve miles the, usnal lipnit of, some of )y. athlet!t lady friends-will- be accomplished easily. Would you walk- gracefully, ditlj an elastic step, practice at homo in..slip pers, this movement; first stand square ly upon the soles of the foet, then al ternately.raiso and lower the body upon the ball of the foot and thIe toes, mak ing the movements deliberately and regularly. for severtl minutes. Or better, it .one has access to the gymna sium, try a somewhat similar mov m'ent upon the spring. board. The advantages of physical culture by out,door reoreations, where t they. may be employed, over gymnagIpm work, are twq-fold, one is ,sure of, pure air and plenty of it, and the mind is more agreeably occupied. In* fagt, I think the mind has 'quite as mudh to do with the beneficial xesults 'which us. tally follow out-door exercise as the pure air. V hile Upon the subject of frosl} air; a word should be said concerning liouso ventilation. To spend an hour or more walking out of doors in the morping, and eight hours at night In an illven tilated sleeping apartment, is deciderly a wrong course to follow if one woi.d grow strong. There 'are very few Pr r sons who cannot readily accustom'them selves to open Wlndows summer and winter, if the change is brought about gradually, and their own prejudices are overcome. At twenty the writer was thought a fit subject for consumption, if indeed, he had not ..already c9yntrac ted the ,disease. ,That was years ago, but by "vigorous doses of fresh air-so much pheaper and morq palatable than ptl .,ot@ den exercle has brotght streng(h. Under the very bast sat 1tary conditions, a house with ."modern im provements" cannot be as healthy as one without; and as this evil of the present civilizAtion enters into the con. struction of all modern houses, too great precaution cannot b taken h this direction. The Cat and the Iagle. A strange combat recently took place in Scotland, in the mull of Kin tyre. As a lobster fishing boat was passing along the shore where it is mountainous and bare, the crew's at tention.Was 'attragteA f a noise pro. ceedling from what seemed to be a bat tle that was waged on the brow of a steep hill near the shoi'e. For somo few minutes the fishermen failed to recognize the character of the comba tanta,.but thir minds were soon set at rest on thi's polnt when the well-known, s,qualling of. a cat. strupk their ears. The 'reiulifacts of' thie cnash were now apparent. A prowling cat had beenu pouncell 'upon 'bfy an eagle. M{p thie combat ants soared, while the feathers thit flew fromn the eagle and spread Jn all directions c'onvinded7the flliermeg that the battle was conanued in th6e air. The fishermen watohsd the strienge combat until Jthe cQmbatapts seemed a merg black speck ip the sky. Sudhily the speck resolved ' ilseif Into two and the cat came downu through the air wit,h frightful velocity, sometimes as round as a ball 'and' anon. stretched at full length. Jt soon teached theoground. Thof0sheimesi proceedeg on ,tpoir jour ney, but. ne xt day, Wvhen "passing nenr the scene of the previous day's, incideiit to their astorjdshnient, the. cat's caread'i~ could, nowhere be found,. Near the spot, however, a~ large, 'niewly-dead eagle was discoVered wvith the (Thsh lit erally torn off its body to sdch an e.xa tent that the bones wore exposed toe view. This clearly demonstrated that the cat was ihore than a match for the king,.of birds' but' how -puss'escaped 1261ng daishedt fu pieces When it struck the ground rmains a mvte'r. The Catalogue ftlfio srt4e Lt is -net from A thrj,' ht fromi France that the colliossad proeal c6mes 'for preparing' a catalogue ot' 2,000,000 of stars. This bold concep. Lion emanates from Dr. Gill, whose astronomical obseryations at the Cape and elsewhere hiave produceQ soime notable results, and who has put forth his scheme for a star catalogue on this gigantic scale in the organ of ,t.h bu.a reau of the P'erman9nt 'Interpat!onal (Committen for the execution of a phto t.ographiic map of the heavens. Dr. Gill contemplates the establishment of a centraul office under the direction of a chief,'wit,h assistant secretaries, and a staff of mieasurers and computers.. The work,.'It 1e citiculated, would occupy.25 years. Admiral Mouchez, who def'erds the pV6pdsal agatnst some rath'er fiMeni opposition whieh it has prokoked, Sty Lhpt alltrono rsestina th vbg star 'at 10f. It folf's' that the f>ro. posdd catal6gug woald cosa'20,000,000r. or ?800.060. NEWS IN BRIEIf -leteorites are said to sometimes attain a velocity of 180,000 feet per I second. ' --Queen Sophie, of Sweden, rgads the newspapers from every Europeau country after breakfast each day. -Four figs taken from a ' tree in Cherokee, Uat., weighed ode pound seven ounces, one of tl4em weighing eight ounces. ---A curious theft was committed by an old woman of Orange, N. J She dug up cobble stones from, the highway to pave her cellar floor. --Sir. Isaac Newton's autograph, in the shape of a letter, brought $815 at a recent sale in England. It was bought for Trinity college, Cambridge.. - -A volcanic eruption has ocourred at Bandison, Qfty leagues distant from Yokohama, Japan,, destroying several vtllazes and killing 1,000 persons. ' -In many of the back districts of Kohtucky the mails are often ca'rried as fat as thirty-fve miles by men who .walk the whole distance once a day. -+According to a rpcently pugblislied Italian paiphlet there .are now on Mount Athos 20 different-xmonasterles, 17 Greek, 1 Russian, 1 Servian and 1. -Bulgarian, -Glasgow, Scotland.. has a system of automatic telephone call boxes. There are seventy-six of the boxes scattered about the city, and every sub scriber has a key to them. -A remarkable photo engraved chart of the Pleiades, showing 2,320 stars from the third to the seven teenth magnitude, has been produced at the Paris observatory. -l'ederal Point, Florida, has a learned -blacksmith who$e sign reads: "General lepairing in. All Matermias Neptly and I'romtly Done' Epecialties, Surveying and 1'hotography." -It is estimated that $30,000 worth of diamonds are used every year in the cutting machines in Rutland, Vt., and vicinity. A single diamond'drill often contains stones valued at $250. -Seth Green says that one may ligure en a fiah for every ten, square feet .of water twelve, feet docp. I may be large or small, and' he may bite and he may not, but'he is there all the same. -The Queen of Sweden, sInce she learned and began cooking by the ad vice of her physician for her health, takes long walks, and often goes into the peasants' hiotfses and shows them how to make good dishes. -Under what is known as the Union of Calmar, Denmaric, Sweden and Norway were united in June, 1390, under Margaret, Queen of Nor way and Sweden, "the. Semiramis of the North." The union continued until dissolved by Gustavus Vasa in 1523. - Abgllrdi castin the r 1 , u Susan B. Anthony first became a belle. After the fall of Dtontezuma Indian slaves carried the ancient bell to New Mexico. --It appears that besides having ships with no guns, England has cav alrymen with no horses. For example, the Third regiment of Household cav alry has but. 800 horses for 1,300 men, and 17,000 dragoons and hussars have but 10,000 horses. In the German army the usual proportion 'is 1,000 horses to 700 men. -On exhibitioi at the Italian show in London Is a lamp designed by the Queen of Italy. It is of ruby glass with figures of gold olive leaves and blossoms laid upon it, and gold doves p)erching on the globe. There ia also a endelabra, partly designed by the same Queen, which has small winged angels ciimbing up by the suspendedi chains. -Nineteen emigration agents were arrested at Cracow, Austrian Giallcia, for inciting natives of the district to 'emigrate to America. Bonds and se Ourit,ies representing a valuat.on of '1,090,000 porins were found in their piossession. 'Similar arrests were made a t Bfrody 'and Czcrnowitz, .Austrian (Galtela. All of the inhabitants sought to bAe, influenced by these agents atre 11 sbie .to. ,military duty, Ihence the arri?t. -Quesien Victoria is a sort of crank Oh the snbject of' fresh air, which ~makes it.very' unpleasant .for many of her attendants. .Many, ecclesiastical dighitaries who 'have been honored by an invitation to visIt the Queen have groaned At being-ser,t for in the (dead of nilght in an open carrIage, 'and the Queen's regular physician Intimated icently that lhe would have to throw ip' his' iost if coripelled'to go about at ntight in a dog cart. -While; the gardener of .the rector of Ebghester, Engl.and2 was delving ini hbe -g.arden recentLly hle came upon a smnal,'regular building in the form of 'a sqtuare. 'HIe balled his master's atten tlin to it, and the fector at once sur mined it was a Roman sentinel tower. Consequently lie bad the excavations carried on on 'the other side of the wall, 'and they came uporn What he supposes to.be one side of the northern gatewyay -into othe camp, It is in Jendedt carry on' the excavations. in th6M eredtower' were found a pce o'flifgna-B litish pot tery, a stone (supposed;' to be a part .of a mill stone) amth thiQ.lhones of animasls. '-Salmpope it .isreported, are likely to become extinct in thieTyhe (Eng land).' 'An'nqiiy t'Mthe mnat ter was r'eenitl instituted at!Tynemouth, and at -a publao meeting jhe following g ures regarding the annual take of salmon in the 'fyhe were furnished: 1870, 129,000;"1878~ 88,000; 1873, 48 - 000 181-,45;00 186, 85.00;1887, 82,000. The chairman, satd the (he crjsase prose. from oneor of five causee---namelf, pve'hJi, improper Sishing, tlyer'p6llutidb,6btfuictioni to the passing of the. fsh, or;t'he killing of the fish~ byother,9e0 engs ,of destrue tion, such as 'tIfe otter, pNe'or birds, ".None 'of 'these 'quite aceont for the dimintition' of fish. IThe deep dredg ing- has' iracreasedl ri Volube of pure a aWMtr i4 t}e rJver, axld so dimin Il)eIpoll)tio, Ihe rnMurai.elements of et%dtion hMw4 hot ftlchrased, and thie fishermuen stoutly protest that there has been na near-fl-iv...