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The present wo slould live; And each inscribe upon our heart, The ample word forgivel AMICE'S WATCH DOG.' When the Armstrongs rode over to ton that afternoon, and left Alice in the house, they had no idea could be anydauger for-her. eir litl'e only daughter, y not leave her in per *prey would have stayed ,.olton forever. . sure the house was a good b away from any other house, :as a very nice one of its kind. It :;arge and well-kopt, with a broad ,za all around it, and two bay win Jws, and bad a general air of prosper 4Ey. Any one seeing the huse here on ithis country road, where nice houses j were not plentiful, would have thought that well-to-do people lived In it, and It was probably well furnished with nice things. However, no one had so far thought so, to the detriment of either house or people. Tramps and burglars were seldom heard of in this peaceful part. of the country, and the Ar&u stronga had lived here twenty-five years and never once. had been mo lested. S they never thought of such a thing. to-day. They did not even te.l Alice to lock the doors, Once, years before, a straggler had come along, and Mrs. Armstrong had given him something to eat; but he was quite in offensive, and that was so long ago she had nearly forgotten it. Such a thing as a straggler never entered her mind now, the chief topic of discussion, when they came to start, was Alice's luncheon. It might have been a bad plan, but the little girl had always had a plain bread and butter lunch between meals. To-day, however, she had an Idea that she mer.ted something a little ex tra to pay her for her lonely afternoon and disappointment. . Alice herself wanted very much to go to Bolton with Sher father and mother, :.l i she had a 0Wunch?"'' "Why, at you always have," said Mrs. A strong. "You can spread } uvsu a slice of bread and butter." 'There was a. little of -that honey left," murmured Alice blushing. Her-mother laughed. "I never saw such a child as you are for honey,'" said she. "You ought to turn into a bee yourself. "Yes. I don't care. All is, if you have it this afternoon, you won't have it for tea." "I'd rather have it this afternoon," said Alice, joyfully. She stood at the window and saw her parents drive out of sight down the road, She was a slender lit tIe girl with a pretty, serious face and smooth brown hair. When she finially left the window and looked around the yacant room, It seemed to her that the clock ticked about twice as loud *as she had ever heard it. However, * she was not In the least afraid, only, of course, a trifle lonesome. She got out her Sunday School book, and sat down in her little rocking chair and readi awhile, then she got her box of wacter O colors and painted. She had made up her mind that she would not eat her lunch until three o'clock, when her father and mother would have been gone about two hours. It was a quarter of three when she got tired of her paints. Shie put, them away and washed her hands, and sat dowL at the window to wait until the clock struck. She began to feel quite hungry, and -thought pleasantly of the honey. -She had only about three minutes *longer to wait, when she saw a main coming down the road. "Why, I wonder wvho that is?" said 6 she. She wiatched himl interestedly as lona as she could see him; then there was a 4shuffliing step in the drive, and a shadow stretched passed the window; the man had eome into the yard, Re gave a quick glance at Atie in the window, then lie stepped up on the piazza and kcnocked at the door. Alice Went promptly. When she opeAned the door, there stood the man, shabby and ragged., with a stubby white beard. It was no one she had ever seen before. ."Nave you got an old coat you could let me have?" said he. He looked past her Into the house as he spoke. ''I don't know," said Alice. "I'mi all alone thIs afternoon. Father and mother have gone away. Maybe if you coole again, when they're home,, they'd give you one. I'm real sorry.' She was honestly sorry. She thought to herself that the poor old man needed a coat dreadfully, the sleeves of le hupg in threads, and there was a real frneof rags around the bottom. "On; you give me something tc eat?" said the man. "h, yes, sir,'! said she eagerly. "1 cali get you 3mething to cat." oogi, and placed a chair for him with * he greatest politeness, "lease sit down," said Sie, sweetly, g 'and I'll get something for you." There was. a pretty black walnut Ideboard in the dining-room, and ipon it stood the spoon-holder, full of liver spoons. As soon as Alice had left he room, the stranger rose and tiptoed oftly over to the spoons. However, t e was In his chair, where she left him, n when she returned. She had in one eand a plate, with three slices of very sicely spread bread and butter, and in the other a little tumbler, with perhaps rour spoonfuls of honey in it. She looked hesitatingly at the man, and then at the honey. "I've got some bread and butter for you," said she, in her. gentle, little voice, "but I don't'know-do you like honey?" "Yes," said the man, with a kind of grunt. It hardly sounded like yes, but it was evidently Intended for that. Alice went up to the dinning-table, and spread the honey daiatily on the slices of bread and butter. Then she handed the plate to the man, and he fell to eating. She sat down in a chaie opposite, and watched him a little wistfully. She was as her mother said. very fond of honey, and she did not have it every day, and this was the last there was in the house. It seemed a little self-de nial; but then she was a little girl and dealt only in small treasures. The man munched his bread and butter and honey, and seemed to enjoy it she thought. bhe wanted to ask him if lie did, but did not quite get up her courage. Tbe man was rather rough and queer looking. "Won't you have some more bread and butter?" said she, when he got up finally and set the empty plate on the table. "That was all the honey, but there's more bread and butter," "No, thank ye," said the man. He stood a moment, looking at h( v curiously. Then he put his hand in his pocket, and drew out a bundle wrapped in an old newspaper. le laid it care fully on the table. "There's somethin t for you," said he. "You musn't open it for an hour, thougii, mu.. i's to pay you for the bread and honey, % 4'u can tell your folks. 'Cause, yb' u irn'L give me a crust, and unt the do'r in my face, the way tl y generally do." "T Tr.0 11 I 7 , , ng d c id hardly wait until the hour was up. When it was, she opened the p:ackage with trembling fingers. Theie were -all their own silver spoons. There was no doubt about it--there was her mother's monogram on every one. She studied them over and over, and then turned and looked at the spoonholder on the sideboard. It was empty. When Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong re. turned they found Alice sitting at the table, staring at the spoons in a brown study. "Oh. motherl" she cried. "Oh, father! what do you suppose lie meant by giving me our spoons for the bread and bu'tter and honey?" "What?" cried her father and mother, together. Then Alice told her story. When it was finished, Mrs. Armstrong caught her up in her lap anti hugged her tight. "I guess I'll never leave you alone again, if I know it," said she. "We'll have somebody--we'll get a watch dlog." To Alice's groat ato. 'iment, her mother was crying, I Her father looked pale himself, but he laughed and spoke lightly to re assure Alice. "I am not so sure but the bread and butter and honey, with a good little heart to set it on, was the very best kind of a watch dog that she could have had(." said he. Locomiotive Signals in England. The, blasts of a trumpet on railroads as a moans of giving signals to engine runners swvitchmen and others engaged in iwitchuingc and drilling operations, are now extensively used in the large yar ds of the Caledonian railway in and around( Glas,fow, and are about to be introdulced on some of the great rail way s3ystems haiving their termini in Lonidon According to the code of trumpet signals for shunting, in oper ation at St. Riollox freight yard, Gias. gow, the various signals are represent ed by long blasts, short biasts, and "crows'' of the trumpet, the repetition of each varying the directioras. For instance, one long blast of the trumpet means "move forward," and two long blasts are a signal to "move back." iCach shunter, and in some cases the signalman, is furnished with a horn trumpet, which Is eleven inches in length, having a reed inside the mouth piece, the whole being a very light con struction. The trumpet is carried by the shunter, slung over his left shoulder with a piece of cord, and hangs across the right hip. Another ancIent and pastoral imple ment, the shepherd's crook, ls also used for facilitating switching oper ations across the water. Each yard man carries a sort of shepherd's crook, by which he lifts the chain coupling. ft Is stated on good authority that since this method of coupling, and coupling freight cars has been adopted on the Caledonian, that not a single man baa been injured in coupling cars. This can be readily under3tood. as the shep herd's crook obviates the necessity of ur.ining between the a.a VIWSliES OP CONSTANTINOPLE. I cenos Whteh Are Likely to Aifcot the Nerves or the Spectator. These dervishes hold their "sorviees" a a sort of square hall around which is wooden gallery provided with a few enphes. for vlsitors. The dervishes hemsolves sat first in a row on the nor at one end of the hall, opposite hem the emir or, high priest. They vere clothed in long cloaks and wore eavy felt turbans on their heads. At rst both their gestures and voices are noderate. They simply away toward he ground, Intoning a specious of itany. Now and then the voices rise nto a shout, and the call upon Allah nd the word "Bismillah" are disting jished among the unfamiliar Turkish ounds. Thislasts some time, and one a beginning to wonder if this is all Nhen it stops. However, they all rise, md now, as the Germans say, "es geht os." Each man contorts his. body as best pleases him, some throwing it violently backward and forward, some wsting it from side to side, some turning their heads withsuch avolocity ,hat the eyes almost start out of their 3ocketa. Soon the perspiration begins to stream from their faces; an attendant goes about and relieves first one aild then another of his turban, which he kisses as he receives it, supplying in its place a white cotton skull cap, which the dervish draws on without desisting from his frantic motions, accompanied by Incessant measured stamping on the Door, violent cries or almost unearthly groans like a sound from some pursued and exhausted animal. 4he nerves of the spectator become so affected at last that it seems as if his own head must begin to bob and his limbs to contort themselves. Every minute you think that the "ecstasy" into which these men have worked themselves must hurl one or the other of them in a fit upon the ground; you actually desire that something awful and worth so much effort may occur, and you feel disappointed when, at a given signal, they stop short and stand there perfect lp quiet, wiping their faces as if it were merely a warm day. In former times, when a certain pitch of frenzy was attained they used to cut themselves with knives. This h a-. t; . The emir himself took pari "In the latter part of the performances, and it is not necessary to ha a dervish to par ticipate in them. Vairlons laymen howled and twisted with the others, and a certain Turkish officer has made himself quite famous with his strength of voice and suppleness of limb. I for got to say that they are continually in. cited to fresh efforts by a professional "singer"-a Turkish youth who sat upon the floor and screamed at the top of his lungs. At the close of the per formance persons afflicted with rheuma tism or other similar diseases lie do%n and let the emir walk over them. Children are also laid upon the ground thaLt they maylV kstep on themf; one0 (f these was a little girl not more than 3 years old. This tread is, supposed to Impart both healing and holiness. Very different fromn the howlers are their brothers, the dancing dervishes. These simply form themselves into two or three circles, and, with outstret,hed arms and air filled shirts, turn and turn, like so many tops, concluding with the same graceful composure with which they began. The Way to Itest, Hlamerton urges his readers to let their lives be like the summer wind, which has times of noble energy and times of perfect peace. There is a sug gestion here for the tens of thousands to whom the month of August brings a brief respite from the turmoil of the city. The rest of the year witnesses their more or less energy, and the mid summer holidays ought to be,to a great majority of them, a time of perfect peace. Men who have the leisure and the inclination to keep themselves in some sort of training all the time may find their greatest pleasure and benefit in the hard labor of long walks and bicycle trips, in persistent tennis or amid the exactions of camp life. BIuL the clerk and the professional man who depart for rural scenes with soft mus cles and short breath ought to remem ber that they will find it very easy to exhaust their feeble powers and come back the worse for their outing. Hie is wise who has ascertained what sort and degree of rest his systenit stands in need of, and doesn't waste a day of his vaca tion in beginning to supply it,. The man who lies on the sand and listens to the breakers is often a better rester than the man who has a tussle with the surf. One of the men whose capacity for work is not more extraordinary than the ease and gayety and vital force iWith which they seize their daily tasks from youth to old age accounted for his powers by saying that he was "a magnificent loafer," He knew the recuperative value of perfect peace. The man who is recognisspd as a mag nificent worker in town can well afford to be e magrniOcent loafer in the coun try. A not less essentIal a ihaps an even more ap*o.h ioliday.maker is a +i ana plentr f it. Too insy ie victims of he delusion thAtji ure and I xhilarating it 4o uh dif erence wha' tiey woreto sk a competent would e11 them that the oitSzeas, t >f New York do rov their t ;uiaer wanderia deterior- e ~ted In body 'solel ti of unwholesom; foo good appe- t Iites have enab dispose of. rmoh food they t Jvaht, but of t healthful food t Ctod in absolute need, and they- d et it. ;lush. Ing sunget, a clot i tiountain, a i storm-tossed du'nthmpled lake t are delightful a Otf, but they are less important ,Oary men ond wo men who hope t "plonh their sto1k' of vital energy .' a good dinner. They might. po y. have made Dr. Johnson's ill to kiled, ill dressed and ill cooko. le utton more pal atAble, but they 't have made It more digestible. rapturous but untutored ipalde exclaimed: "Oh, I just adore s ; it adds sol" stated a great tr without " meaning to. The beauti nature, redirded from. the point o w which we occu py for the mome d inmensely,but they can't su . t. Fortunately, there is not the necessity for get ting along with t. m. They are to be found on eve d in close priox imity to tab) u ntly supplied (not "groaning"-- av forbid that a table . should o' rj roan) with good I food skillfully ed tp tempt and satisfy the inn in . A Si ui r Story. "American and Queries" gives the follow urlous story as the probable found i fo.r Hawthorne's tale "Wakefe .' It' was originally told in Dr. Kin 's needotes Personal and Political. "About the 1706 I knew one Mr, Howe, a le,. well natured man, possessed a estate of ?700 or ?800 a year, matr O:a Miss Mallet, agreeable in her a d manners, who proved to *f.Atte~ seven or eight y he, one morning ro 'tbld his wife that I "-aTower o IA ng he Nlas unc r the nibeessnIy going to Iollandt and would be absent about a month. lHe remained away seventeen years, and in that time she neither heard fr6m nor of him. The evening befote his return, while she was supping with some friends, a note was handed to her, without any signa ture, asking her to meet the writer next evening in the Birdcage walk, In St. James' Park. She tossed the note to her brother-in-law, Dr. Rose, laugh ing: You Eee, brother, as old as I am, I have a gallant.' Rose declared it was Howe's writing, which amazed the company, and Mrs. Howe fainted. However, next evening, the whole company repaired to the appointed spot, and in a few momnents Howe ap'. t eared, greeta.l his friends, embraced blze wife, and wvent home with them. They lived happily togithier until the end of their union. Ween Howe left hais wife they were living in Jermyn street, and he took lodgings not far off, in a small street near WVestminster, disguising himself in a black wig. Wbeu his wife removed, he made the acquaIntance of one Salt, a corn hand ler, whose house was very near hers, anid usually (lined with him once or twice a week, when he could look into the dining room and see where she sat and received her friends. He had also the singular satisfaction or having his own wife recommended to hIm as a suitable person, Salt thinking him a bachelor. The last seven years he at tended St. James' Church, when from Salt's pew lie could watch his wife. Ho never would Confess why lie left his home, and was probably ashamed of the act. His two children died during his absence." Dr. Rose said that he did not belie.ve that lhe would over have returned, had not his money, ?1i)00 or ?2000, been exhausted, but King de clared that lie frequently saw him, and always heard hire utter the most lover like sentiments, and behave in the most devoted manner to his wife. A l.esson F1rom the Wasps. An English gentleman lately took a small wasp's nrest, about the size of an apple, and, after stupefying its indmates, placed it in a large case inside of his house, ieaving an opening for egress through the walli. Here the nest was enlarged to a foot in diameter, holding thousands of Wasps, and he was able to watch their movements, and noted one new fact-:.amely, their systematic attention to ventilation. In hot weather, from four to six wasps were continually stationed at the hole of egress, and, while leaving space for entrance or exit, created a steady cur rent of fresh air by the exceedingly rapid motion of their wings. After a long course of this vigorous exercise, tihe ventilators were relieved by other wasps. During cool weather only two wasps at a time we\ usually thus en.. gaged. , - -There are flfteen6emale prisoners in Naow nok Jailsfo em.r A STIRANGI LOVE STOIW. Low a White Girl Died fbr a Youut and Iandsome Savage. In Australia several attempts have een made to educate the blacks out of heir nomadic habits and into a civil fe, but in almost every case the phil nthropio effort has failed to eradicate lie instincts of barbarism. Mr. Ballou, i "Under the Southern Cross," telle be romantic story of one of these fall. rcs. A young native, a lad of 1C car, was taken from his wild life and rought to Brisbane to be educated and o grow up in the home of a white atpily. Those engaged in the experl. eriment secured the consent of the oy, of his parents and of the tribe, Chey did their best to make him com. ortable and happy. During nine yeari verything promised success. At school he proved to be an apt oholar and became a favorite with the 1upils and teachers. He was dressed ike his associates and seemed so satis led with a civilized life that many good nen and women looked forward to the lay when he would exert a strong and )eneficial influence upon his own people. )no day, sLortly after he had passed i:s nineteenth birthday, he was missing rom ISrisbane. No one knew what mad become of him save one young lady, md she kept her knowledge to herself. Alter months of search he was found it his former home living the nomadic ie of a native savage. No inducement .ould prevail upon him to ret urn and live among his friends. At last there same out the romance which revealed the secret of the young black's nine rears' sojourn among the whites of Brisbane. He had fallen In love with Jhe lovely daughter of the white famil3 with which ne made his home. She reciprocated his attachment, for he was i fine specImen of his race, and her in. luence made him studious and a so lourner at her lather's house. When ils hereditary feelings begat a longing 'or the bush and a nomadid life she re itrained him from returning to his ribe. At last he frankly told her that he oved her too sincerely to suggest that ile should go.with him to his savage buit that he was unhappy and d$ sihieativewrlds., Accepting the inevita lie to live as a savage and she so die. Tobocoo.Smoko. One of the incidental events < tobacco using is its tendency to dead( the finer moral sense, and to make or oblivious to the rights and to the pr, ference of others. The more attractha aroma of the best tobacco is secured 1 the smoker himself at the time of h smoking. The more offensive odo from it are puffed out from his moul and nostrils after he has absorbed tl bette'r portion; and vilest of all is tl stench of the residuum which chlngs i his beard and clothincg, or which is le in the hangings of the room wvhere I lias been enjoying his tobacco-smokini Dadies are continually making protes of the disregard of thleir comfort I smokers on the decks of ocean steamer Many a steamboat stateroom, or a rool in a first-class hotel, isi found to 1 almost unbearable for a person whol sense of smell Is undefled, because 4 the stench of stale tobacco remainir in it. It has aotually become necessau for some of the larger city banks I l)0sL a notice at the desks or the pa: ing or receiving tellers, requestir gentlemen to abstain from puflRng o1 their tobacco-smoke whIle doing bus ness at those desks. So, also, theci are similar notices posted in othe places of business frequented by genti men. Yet these notices are often dl regarded, not willfully, but thiroug the sodden Indifference to the feellnj of others which comes of the sem stupor of the finer senses in tobact using. And there is never a day wh1( inl the lines of passengers at the ticke windows or at the gateways of oi principal railway stations, there are ni to be0 soon those who would resent i Idea that they are not gentieme; pufling tobacco-smoke in the faces < ladles and gentlemen who are unab to protect themselves from this anne ance. A termagant woman was recen -ly arrested In PhiladelpThia for throwh dirty water from her window upon son of her inoffensive neighbors. Yet h misdemeanor was less objectionali than that of the man who puffs b offensive tobacco-smoke in the face an Inoffensive neighbor at a railwi .station or in a place of business. Th It Is possible to retain the habits of gentleman while in the habit of tobact using is not to be denied; butit sea so: tax on a man,-a tax which mo; smokers are unwIlling to submit to. -The centractors who undertooki bore a serIes of artesian wells to supp the Galveston Water Works f< which he is to receive $80,000 il sul cessful, recently struck lis first well a,depth of 747 feet. Boring was once suspended, and preparations a1 now in progress to sink a ten-inc strainer the entire depth of the wate bearing strata of sand. It Is given o1 that when this is done, and the we thoroughly developed. it will probab) yield from 400,000 to 500,000 gallo, daily. driving a Herd of Seals. The driving of the fur seal inland is not uninteresting, says Frederick Sohwatka. A number of Aleuts having got between the animals on the shore most of them probably asleep-and the water's edge, the latter, awakening and finding their retreat to the surf out off, scramble further up on the land. The Aleuts, probably a dozen in num ber, from a sort of funnel-shaped skirm ish line and approach the animals, that keep retiring before them. To prevent their being overheated by exertion, which might affect the skin if not Im mediately strippld -from the slain animal, they are seldom driven much faster than half a mile an hour, and often allowed to rest. As far as possi ble the selection is made from male animals about three or four years old, when the fur is in the prime; but as the maximum of strength and belligerency is not reached for a few years af ter this, it is easy to see why the best animals for fur have not the best places on the rookeries, but are found skulking of by themselves. So numerous are they, and so easy to drive to the killing grounds, that the Aleuts have no trouble in securing the whole one hundred thousand in a week or ten days over a mouth's time, There is an ob ject in hurrying the work, as the skins are better earlier in the season, but Ii there betoo much warm weather during this time the driving is slower and all other work is correspondingly retarded. The seals having cooled off for twc or three hours, they are killed in herd, of about one hundred and fifty strong, by striking them on the heads with peculiarly-shaped clubs made particu larly for the purpose. If the day if warm they skin the animals rapidly, killing but a few at a time, but if cold they can kill oven one thousand or sc before beginning work in taking the skins. It takes about five minutes tc skin a seal, a work that is very severe although in some cases it has been don( by very active men in a minute and i balf. Prices Received by Authors. These are some of the prices that authors have received for works nov famoue:. Goldsmith, ?20 for "'hi ~ ?60. for "The Vicar o1 f r 'Tho Desertec Johnson, aulay, ?20,000 for the "Iister England;" Boswell, ?1,000 for I "Life of Johnson;" Dryden, ?1,200 his translation of Virgil; George Eli ?2,000 for "Romola," and never i e than ?1,600 for any novel, it is sa Walter Scott, ?700 for the first Wav leys and large sums for later ones, w ?8,000 for "Woodstock" and ?18.( for the "Life of Napoleon;" Zola, $ h for his first story and $30 000 1 h "I'Atammoir;" Wilkie Collins, ? e 000 for "Armadale;" Milton, ?15 I o "Paradise Lost;" Byron, ?3,000 i S"Don Juan" and ?4,000 for "Cii rtHarold;" Moore, 3,000 guineas ie "Laila Rookh" and ?15,000 for "Ilrl Melodies;" Campbell, ?20 for "I'lea utes of Hope;" Burns, ?20 for first edition of lis wvorks and ?700 the last; P'oe, $20 for "The Raver Longfellow, $4,000 ($20 a line) for j 0 "Hanging of the Crane," the highi eprice - ever paid for a poem; W iiitti 5500 for the copyright of his worl gwhich he afterward bought btuck y$1,200, Tennyson, $10 a line for ' 1 venge." g The Cow and the Cat ish. e On the farm of Jacob Grnff, w r lives near Zoduac Springs, Mo., Is 3- large plondI where cows are in the hal i- of standing during the day. One h the cows acted so strangely when te the pond that she attracted the attc I- tion of Mr. Groff and the farm hai( lo She would go into the water an hc *n or so before the other cows, and af1 t- wading out a certain depth would at ir and commenco lowmug; as though ci >t ing to a call'. Immediately afterwi te she would remain perfectly quiet a u, seem contented. No cause could >f assIgned for her strange conduct, ke though on several occasions she y r- closely watched. 1Recently the wal b- in the pond became low.scarcely reai IR ing to the cow's knees. She wade I le usual daily trip, however, and took ai her old position. One (lay recently h was watched very closely, and it y ii discovered that when she ceased ci i ing a large catfIsh 'would come toi e surface of the water and suck milk i Mw til its appetite was satisfled. The I u. was caught by Mr. Groff in the 8 mc river a year ago and was thrown Ii et the pond. i JONES-Miss Arabelia, do you li cabbage? , Arabea-What,'a strange questic ,a Mr. Jones. n "I know it is a strange question, I: please answer It." at "Yes, Mr. Jones, 1 am very fond ID cabbage." S "Ah, I am glad to hoar that." F "Why?" r. "Your liking cabbage ges to i u, that we were born for each other. 11 dote on corn beef. Why should wo: y unite our fortunes?" is ,"0, Mr. Jonesl" TPheai beh maratried ne. week. NEWS IN BRIEF. --The loss In transporting cattle acros the ocean was in 1887, 87 per cent. It has been reduced- to 11 per cent. --One of the richest men of St. Paul, who owns block after bloek of real estate, lives on less than $800 a year. -Gold plate to the value of $12,000, is stored away in the gold room of Windsor Castle. One piece, a salver, is worth $50,000. -"loodlum" comes from the Ger tman hudler, meaning a loafer, or idler; so "bummer," from the German bummler, a word of similar import. -The preat furniture manufacturing centre or the United States is at Grand Rapids, Mich., where there are forty two fictories, employing 12,000 men. -Sunday-schools are increasing rap idly in this country. Last year the American Sunday-school Union organ Ized 1,502, with 0,826 teachers and 54,. 129 scholars. -Excavations made in Tzintzunt z'.n, in Yacatas, Mexico, in search of treasure, are satd to have revealed a magnificent palace, which is an archae ological wonder. -Davls Strait takes Its name from its discoverer, John Davis, who Au gust 11, 15S5, reached that Northern latitude on his voyage in search of a northwest passage. -Glass wan in use among the Ro mans at the time of Tiberius, andathe ruins of Pompeii show that it was in usa for windows during the first cen tury of the Christian era. --Tne Knights of Columbtug, in ildgeport, Conn., have voted to take part in a movement of their order for celebrating the four hundredth anni. vorsary of the discovory of America. -Jesse D. Carr, the rich raucliman of Fresno county, Cal., has been or dered by a Government agent to re move a stone fence which he has built around 40,000 acres of Government land. -It is estim'.ted at the . reasury Department that there has been a de crease of $3,500,000 in the public debt during the month of July. Over $14, 000,000 were paid out during the month for pensions. -A tombstone weighing sixteen tons, and cut in the form of a tree, with birds ani squirrels lodted in its branches, and forns, flowers, an open book and a scroll of music at the base, is a curiosity at Menosha, Ohio. -Lincoln used to say that it al ways did him good to look at the God dess of Liberty on the dome of the capitol at Washington, for it satisfied him that there was one woman in Washington who was not approachable. --The average yearly incoiie of the Syorking woman of Boston is $200.07, erage . exp *'Neigenad ite ments and books. ?o -There are twenty-two crematories , in Europe, of which ten have been ss built within the past year. There have id; been 600 incinerations In Germany and ar- 800 in Italy. There are seven crema th tories in the United States, and six in 00 orocees of construction. 8) --r-The origin of the rose jars now so fashionable is quite romantic. They or started in Turkey centuries ago, and 5,- no harem is complete without them. or They are'also much used in India. The or rose jars of to day are in hundreds of de styles and cost from 50 cents to M100 orapiece. or-The finest theatre in the world is sh the La Scala at- Milan. The stage is is. 150 feet deep, and there are six tiers of lie bo.xes. The largest edillce in the~ rworld is the Colosseum at Rome. It ., oo 0000 Jews ten years to build it, Sin honor of Titus. Its seating capacity lie was 87,000. ist -A Georgia girl aroused the whole 3r, houEehiold, creaming and declaring , t.hat some one had kissed her while she orwas asleep. Her father rushed in, with a Pistol in one hand and a candle in the le other, whenm the intrudier was discov ured in the shape of the damsel's pet kitten, nestling behind her pillow. --Whlin 1'hii Armour, the great Chicago poriC packer,goes on a journey lie greases his way as no oter million.. io aire in the country does, Hie goes to a New York by the Vanderbilt roads on one of the vestibule trains, and gives ofthe engineer, . conductor and WVagner oconductor each a' $5 note. Then lie [it gives the brakemen, waiters and hac ni- ber each $2. And yet lie does not s, travel a whit more comfortable tan ur any one else. er -The output of the Birmingham (Englanid) pin mills is 30,000,000 a day. Other factories in that country have a 11l- capacity of 17,000.000 pins per (lay. rdl France turns out about 20,300.000 a nd dlay and! IIoiland and Germiany 10,000, je 000 each. The pin machinea cut the ,wire to piun size, head, point, polish, ssort and sU,ck them in t.hepapers. erQueen" is a very much dhtipnted mat h-. ter. It would seem, hOwever, that mer bothi the air und wards were comnponecd up with very little alarat,ion as they now he now stanl, for the marriage of Kinit Henry ViiJ. w4hti Eliza''eh of York. ras The composer was a singer of St. dil- PaulPs Cathedral, The tune~ is very ho sImilar to that of te~c English national n. tune there. lih . -Professor Rludoiph Virchiow, upon ac whom Emperor Frederick itwently 1t9i the possessor of eleven deco,ratins including the Iron Cross anid t,wo mem-~ artal crosses of the war of 1670-71. ke is learned colleague, Professor The. odor Mommsen, wvears seveni decoira n, tions, among them the Order of the Crown,. at LA country girl has devised a new means of gaininig money. She gives of her time for twenty-five' cents an hour to muothers of families anid house.. keepersi who need extra help. . Sihe (dees rot hire herself out as a washier. >w womw.n or oeamstress, but takes upi 1 bits of Work for an hour or twou, accorn. mot panies children 'for walks, bees to t,be serving up of a dinner or oversees ~ . house cleaning. Iler time Is as fdilhy./ .occupied as her strength will permit,