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D. .DOUGTLAS' Attorneys and Counsellor at Law. ho.6 LaW-angs, WINNSBORO, - - - . . Practices in the State and United States Courts. - OAxoF A3C has been revived as a , : palar heroine in France, largely, it through the influence of - actess,Sara Bern " IIdes In her own *ay quie as effecttd ally as Joan herself. One of the most popular entertainments in Paris to-da. is a series of tableaux representing scenes in the history-6f the Maid of Or leans, and on Sunday, June 29.h, a statue to her memory, erected at Nancy, was unveiled. She has already been - thus honored several times, but wi- hin a year or two there has been a marked revival of interest. in her strange his tory and sad fate. SEVERAL years have elapsed since there have been so many deaths caused S by excessive heat as have been reported from Western cities in the last few 'weeks. The weather over a wide stretch of country has been like that of the Centennial year. Philadeilphia has been favored with breezes that tem pered the heat so that there have been few casies of deaths directly due to the sun's energy, but the death rate has been largely increased by the warm *weather. *Very nearly one-half of the deaths record'ed in the tables published recently are of infants under one year of age. The hot weather is particu larly hard on all who are in feeble con ditIon, and "old age" alio furnishes several victims. The greatest care should be exercised during such warm spells to nourish and protect the young children. Nothing can be better for -them than trips on the water, not trips taken as a last resort, hut before the children have become enfeebled by the beat. CENsus returns, as far as received, show that in general the cities, espec lally in the West, are growing at the expense of country districts. The growth of population in the United States shja~sa~ Increase of about 30 per cr~ .880, but there are only a few os. :cities on the Atlantic seaboar, 'o not show a larger growth.> -upations of the coun try do not s many induceme:its to aprogrea .ople as do the occu pations of tb, .aties,nor is there as great Aa demand for agricultural labor as for merly. Machinery has entered the fields and enables the capitalist to pro duce a given quantity of food products with less manual labor. Many of the' Snewcomers enter agricultural life, from which progressive Americans retire to engage in business of some kind car -nred on in cities. It will probably be a - long while before tis movement be-. gntohave appreciable effect, but~ country will be unable to furnish even * 4 our own people with the means of lite, and the United States will follow the, course of Great Britainl. A few years, '4ago that time seemied tobe alongWay, I rapidly, and it is not unlikely that the .Ichild is born who will see even this country partly dependent on Central -Africa for supplies of wheat and -corn. CALIFORNIA CORK TREES. The Forests There Are Already Showing Good Results. The available for?sts of cork trees are already relatively extensive, although hardly sufficient to supply the demands now made on them, or which, as the world grows in prosperity,' must be made on them, for there is harlly any end to the uses for cork, and none of the substitutes for it which have yet been tried are very satisfactory or prom ise to take its place to any great extent. The latest estimates of existing areas of available cork oak forests make their extent from 3,3 0,000 to 3,500,0)0 acres, of which about one-half,incuding those on its African possessions, belongs to France. The wood of the cork oak is heavy. coarse-grained and of a ye'low brown color; it shrinks and warps badly in seasoiing, and decays rapidly when exposed to the action of the atmosphere. It has little value in the arts. but fur nishes a useful fuel and makes good charcoal. The inner bark is rich in tannin, and the trees too old or untit to produce cork are cut for the sake of the inner bark The cork oak is an interesting tree to Americans,as Its cultivation now seems destined to become an important indus try in Caiifornia,where the climate and the soil in many parts of the State are admirably suited to produce it. This is not a me-e theory as the trees have beex growing now for several years in California and have already produced crops of cork of excellent quality. It is probable that the tree will grow rath er more rapidly in California than it does in its native country, although the quality of the soil, the exposure in which the trees are placed, local cli mate,and the treatment which the trees receive will influence, of course, the rapidity with which the bark is devel oped. In Atrica it is found. that the trees which grow the most rapidly pro duce bark of the poorest quality, and that within certain limits the s'ower the tree grows the more valuable the prod uct, provided the growth Is , not too slow, in which case the bark loses some of the elasticity which makes it valua ble. Tha conditions which Induence the developwent of the cork are so numerous and complic tted that the product of all the trees in a grove or forest can never attain the same uni formity of thickneas or quality in any giv lime.. Th is so well understood econn ere'i ork is grown that the best mit a esting has been found to be to go over the forest every two or three years and remove the bark from such trees as are covered with merchantable cork,and not to strip all the trees at the same time. All the:e-matters must, of course, be con sidered in connection with planting for ests of cork oak in California. The planting, and care of such forestsin Por tugal and Spain has long been an im portant industry,and there is no reason why they may noti be made so In Cali fornia, where the local consumption of cork is already enormous, although the wine industry is hardly more than in its infancy.-G'ardfen and Forest. WRITING FOR NEWSPAPERS. Sensible Words Which Young Authors Should Read. I am very frequenl.ly asked whether the newspaper is the best starting point for young authors, and in this question les, in; nine cases out of ten, a grave misconception, writes Edward W. Bolc, In The Lad es' Home Journal.. Many young wvriters believe that work r'ject ed by t.he monthly magazine will finti a market with the daily newsvaper. It seemns to be taken for granted that the same degree of care is unnecessary for newspaper work as for magazmne writing. "The new.spaper dies with the day, the mnaazine lives for a month," is the general feeling, and ence she I mipression that ephemeral work will find a ready market with the newspaper. It has been my pleasure to write for the newspapers rress of America for six or seven years, and I give young writers a leaf from my experience when I say to them-Do not allow yourselves to believe that minor work will find favor with the modern Amer ican newspaper. There is just as much demanded of a writer in the newspaper editorial office as In that of the monthly magazine. A writer commits the greae"mistake of her life, when she looks "khe newspaper as a gradu ating se to the magarmne. The same stanu~ -f grammar and express ion set by the er.zine holds good with newspapers. Where the newspaper offers -to the young writer an advantage over the magazine, is In its wider field, and its larger capacity. Publishing thirty times against the single Issue of a mag azine, the newspaper naturally absorbs more material, and a writer's chances are correspondingly better. Then, too, subjects which are out of the range of the magazine, fall directly- within the scope of the newspaper. This is spec ially true of timely articles. The mag azines of to-day with their large circu lations. and the necessary slower pro cess of priting, are prepared so far in advance as to make it Impossible for them to get close enough to timely happenings to make their disoussion of them fresh and interesting. With t he nwapnrs this is,of couraet dhfarnt~ and it is precisely In its ability to treat of what is latest and freshest wherein lies its strength, and in these respects the field is necessarily broadened to the writer. But, bear in mind, this advantage is only one of greater capacity, not of less requirement. Disappointment can be no more certain than when a manu script is sent to a newspaper editor with the belier that he is less critical, or i hat his constituency is less exacting than is the case of the monthly magazine. BIRTH OF AN ICEBERG. Origin of the Great Floating Glaciers --How They Are Formed. The dynamical law by which the gla ciers abutting on the sea generate their bergs is still somewhat vague. In ear lier days It was held that the. glacial tongue broke off by its own weight. To this has succeede-l the following expla nation, perhaps more popularly than scientifically accepted. Moving down the fords to the ocean the glacier's front enters the waves, at first plowing up the sea-bottom into a deep furrow But as the ice prow pushes over the sloping ocean floor,the weight resting upon the bottom steadily diminishes. The float ing power of the water tends constantly to lift the ice, which is held down by the rigidity of the glacial sheet below Its normal sea line. Moving on still, the glacier's front reaches the point in deeper waters where it is lifted from the bottom altog'ther. btll it remains unbroken, the strength of the~ sheet, hundreds of feet In thickness, holding it. But as it proceeds, the awful lever age on the unsupported tongue waxes. It is like the van of an army drawn farther and farther away from its main body, and encountering increasing at tacks of the foe. Each surge of the tide, every onset of storm, racks its structure. At last comes the point where the hardly susta:ned equilibrium of forc s ends,and the glacial tip breaks away into the floating berg. Finally we have a third and more recent hy pothesis based on the differential move ment of the upper and lower parts of the glacier. This latest theory asserts that the glacial front is thrust , from .above by the swifter d of Its upper portion-a moveme . which may be roughly likened to/the break ing comb of a sea wave sseeping to the shore. : But whatever the spscific diIrecti1) of h - a the glacier, the grandeur of the i8 nomena which often attend it iswitbout question. Constantly the brow or 'the glacier over the sea is shaking off with sharp explosions smaller masses of ice, which drop to the water in cloudlets of spray. Suddenly thAre comes a st of louder and deeper blasts that blend into a subterranean roar. A great section of the fissured front of the glacier bends, with water-falls pouring from its sides, and obscured in. clouds of vapor from the cold surfaces newly exp>sed. to the air. As these clear away the broken-off glacial tongue surges down,forcing upa wave of water dangerous to near vessels, to boats or men at the water's edge. Up and down the new-born berg sways, moving, meanwhile,slowly away from the glacier and out to sea. It bas been born amid the travail of the icy elements to begin i life journey, that is to be long or short, according to its own size and the places to which the currents of air and water are to bear it. Disappearance of the Earring. Ras any one except a woman and a jeweler noticed the gradual, and of re cent years, the rapid retirement of the earring? Not many years ago two Iwomen out of three wore them. 'Little girls a' school begged to have their ears pierced, and heroically-it may be call ed heroism-submitted to the painful puncturing of the delicate lobe of the ear only for the gratification of vanity. To-day, except among the Italian and Portuguese peasant women of the Niorth End,the pendant earring has almost wholly d sappeared. A few still cling to the ear ornament in the shape of a stud, but the jewelers say that few women nowadays submit,to the pierc ing process. Some whose ears are al ready punctured still wear their orna ments, but many use little artifices to conceal the traces of the needle. A Jewish Opinion of the Passion Play. The JewisA Ckronfote (London) thus refers to the Ober-Ammergau Passion Play: "The grotesque elaborar'on of the scenic effects that mark the present production are not without their value. Far from dep'oring them, we think that, on the contirary, they may be wel comed. For they have, if a well-au thenticated report speaks truly, effect ually killed the play once for alL There is very little doubt that the Passion Play has been given for the last time. And surely it is well that this be so. It is not Christianity alone that must suf fer by the conversion of Its most sacred beliefs Into a theatrical medium for making money. Religion generally shares In the blame, and Judaism must rejoice at the removal of blots from the face of religions other than itself." Who seeks those that are greater than himself, their greatness enjoys, sand forgets his greatest anal'ties in their greats ones, Is already truly Ier Jirn. ll Br MA EARET CARPBx 'MTE. Mary Heth looked wls seaward: s Her eyes were dimmedwtltas For her lover was going fropi e, Perhaps for many years. He looked at her long andfindly, With his hand on her goUlf hair, "Are you sure it is best for U darling?" He asked in tones of despala t She turned her blue eyes " brown ones 1 And answered, "You knoF bat I think." "O help me to take what sends me, And not from this burb You know she is blind and c With no one to aid her My duty is plain, to help While you sail over the a "And what if I come to In the day that some time When the'Angelof reeaedyon g And called the weary one Wiln you still be my o -a With heart so tender an - 81 May Ilivein the hoeo Being happy, mydarling She turned h".r face once _ As'she said, "While your There's a eart in thiol That will'beatonly and So they parted out = And years rolled on And for two, old grsm? n. a In that city sosilent Mary worked on And watched, as But no tidings am6 __ er Her prayer at dayo One nig:it came' 1oa Ashi tOh,Go And nmesp Then lughor,and er.. Men, women and While the cries_ nrdl .wild, Butno one Not a man, nota. a"d. "Will no one. "Oh. men, wha Will yous osd Mid-danger "Come, I-can Come with ey set And a10s mercy, gth a ldng, As they ro. The waves; While the? waer . Were mingled the sbce a shore,'~, W hen Mxry- fel At the Shesa" i Withb As ofa, darkn Of sue She reed And gth Along tLdi u ows, . Failythe, "Heer. aman'f oasre? , Yes.theae ~ -~byu. so"thyd-mald a With' w11death, -' For. fo "Had revive cit ] He-stood up,turned his face to M _ie. t ' She looked,land lot 'twas her And now, bytnat sea girt d F When the white-cappedwaves n Mary alks and-n-hanawit And thnks (iod for savig her bsad PLAYED CRiIPPL. I Colonel Bloodgitt's daugh ,Zade was exceedingly handsome, t was so haughy an impriou mhrcy yn livedin anold sone huse, e - an coere Wit vies.A a t cametumingoutof h ymsept H-st. h ooto thed giadea c ofShed hou o,ndtahert y~~n Anowth purplear srt are the onih thrhgh.ave ys romane, an ever souden.u lurin sntmen. heol da 1 al aynkth bod orchVimgkher olelit Blogo dauhe s,Zad grass sloeeingy noe, ha was to beliveght the gmpr iseha young scon marrie omnityr getled aeo tflwanther. h ooe asnot isw ught all cvdwthe ines.hoA that4t brathhpetubwlning fther swp Luk te fooztinte, whordenedt ofinet hose, nd the oilayingd throre terg clars, barkedhe the whoe hi h lieohcruh aberyi sur wildmnce,ard reens, aond ant oy been praeeed tob wasiel b ae dowkngth stiest. the old man 8Sl tall dand thboadl ph owmokaingt pipeer, thie aldcloel shook him on ,or pady grith andguish th lst dv grd as se.vey onehi ad om t Oniee da ah s ir youn e ton Gcrgn mriage oinson, genle as n thru a,h th eteenascaogh saingin all the eiagheorhood ththe o brHe a hoe ha waning ler.i,e Lue strwenased aot ownd the heardthore muic ofher c,r an de therefore trong h m,oad wn her~ e toa saro it walifte ofnandlbrd- nd~ weing whtr geennew and ha. Then eean ofjectiod, anduh was reatly kd uours, for aGthoghge wned ayr r mil had aticedtyefar arjutice of baye steer, he oldp claoged sokly himtd hil s sdued ctsyn tyme hi 5 Oead against tel.ung p;lawn ed GrIgglebed'heM.oisaid thi e ng wiheroughdthe lemn, cug-ht h of wrterl f morges ae wouldthe d , he! w ill goha ht h ou s er pifu cripple, wha fkew olhers Ihn mye ponetf acn, endage boad Tety e11 det praeuose earh will conegan wit nod,he gt u, laghedsofly, nd his ubdud ectasygenty buped I er as the uays pass, and my own rords and her own pity shall' kindle hcr )ul into a flame of love. Then, when le is mine, I will stand out before her sound and strong man, and what was ity shall turn to pride. Griggle M. obinson you were born to be great.' The afternoon was beautifuL Zaldie, [ed of play and tired of singing, sat rith her father on the porch, and the og, witb a garland of larkspurs about is neck, snapped at the horse flies that ame buzzing through the warm aWr. 'Who Is that at the gate?' the colonel sked. 'oh, it is a poor, crippled man,' the irl answered. 'Come right on inI' the old man Louted. 'Zaldie, help him up the leps.' 'Oh, no,' the cripple pleasantly an wered, coming forward; 'I can help Qyself. He came up on the porch not un racefully, and after bowing with a ratetul air sat down on a chair which ie girt ran and brought for h:m. 'You look so tired,' said the girl. Lt me get a pillow for you to rest our head on.' 'Oh, no,' Griggle responded., looking p and smiling. 'You have already ade me so comfortable that-that' re he broke dlown. nut, tut,' said the colonel, wheeling 't in his chair. 'We have only done you what-we should do for any one ress. Where do you live, hah?' live many miles from here,' Grig plied; 'that is, the brown hills which I once happily dwelled a weary day's journey from omantic riace.' y my dear -slr, you do not talk Ignorant-excuse' me-a crip papa,' the girl interposed, 'crip n, I should think, can talk ae -any one else.' said the old man, scratching 'not as a general thing. There Smith, for instance He is and I don't know that I ever talker. However, that i. nor there. Wha -can wE you will, do a great deal lain my situation.. .I is: c ry for me to scene, and J started in . view. I have - have crossed o.come at one .to the point, . wanttc oard with you for a while.' 'Why, my dear -sir,' the old gentle nan exclaimed. 'I never took a boardei n my life.' 'But, papa,' the girl quckly spoke up, do let us take him just for a while, inyway, It can do us no harm, and will be so much of a benefit to him.' 'All right, have it your way.' What a glorious time it was for Grig rel He woulM sit on a rustic tench i :he yard watching the girl In her; coy us play, and occasionally she would rome up mischievously and throw .andful of flowers at him. 'on't you wish that you could romj with me?' she asked one day. Griggle sobbed and leaned his head~ )n the back ogiffiDench. 'n g don't cry,' the girl Im ~ I didn't mean to hurt yoni ~eeings, Come, look up now. Sei what a pretty flower this is.' 'It is a lovely flower,' he answered ooking up, 'but I have seen loveliel >nes--in fact, I see a lovelier on a now. 'I wouldn't allow any one else to saa abat,' she answered, smiling. 'Then I indeed enjoy a glorious privi 'If it is glorious to you it is surel; pleasant to me.' 'Won't you sit beside me?' he asked She sat down. He stroked her hai 'The angels must have spun this silkt Lie said. 'Well, I wish the angels would tak care of t, for it Is very troublesome.' 'Zaldie is a pretty name.' Do you think so? I always though It was. horrid, but If you thirk it pretty I will try to think so.' 'Do you know what I wish I were little girl? I wish I were a great stron man, with a face so handsome that yo ould not help loving me; but alas! am only a cripple.' He leaned his head on the back < he-bench again. 'Oh! please don't d that.' she implored. 'If you only kne how I pity you. Icannot tell how muc bay enjoyed your society-you can to me as something to care for and' 'And what?' He looked up and, gazed into hi 'And It would grieve me to give yC up,' she timidly re,joined. 'Then why give me up?' he passlo1 tely cried. 'Let me live here; be ii Both of them put their heads on tl back of the bench. That night as Griggle straighten< ut hIs leg and got into bed he muse 'She is mine. Glorious being, Grigs M. Bobinson has won you.' The o'd man, whose heart was he by the girl, gave his consent. The we ding day was fixed. It was evening ai Griggle and Zaldie stood near the gt den gate. 'Loved one,' he saId, 'ye sball never be sorry.' 'I know that, dear.' 'Adwe you see other 201L AL tive and strong you wm nos nave a secret contempt for me?' 'Never.' 'Zaldie,' he exclaimed, 'I am sure yon shall not. I am no cripple. I am one of the Eoundest lawyers you ever aaw. Look.' He straightened out his leg and hopped about six feet.' The girl shrieked and fled to the house. Griggle, knowing that her joy was overpowering, and that she had run to tell her father, followed. The old colonel came out. 'My daughter has told. me all,' he ex claimed. 'Vile wretch, you bav. de ceived me and broken my daughter's heart. You are not a cripple, but a lawyer! I will teach you a lesson.' He seized a hickory cane that stood leaning against the ?railing of the gal lery, and with the wild strength of jus tice raised a goose egg between Grig gle's eyes. The shrewd but unfortunate young man has gone back to the turmoil of his cross roads home, and is practic ing law before a negro justloe of the peace. Not Homesick. There are some feelings, Innocent enough in themselves, which neverthe less a.man does not like to express in so many words. If he must acknowledge them, he prefera to do it indirectly,-not taking a straight course, but, as the old saying is, going 'round Robin Hood's barn.' The captain of Company G, Twelfth Vermont regiment, was. strolling in the woods just out of camp, says a writer in the Salem Wdch, when be came upon a member of his company sitting on the stump of a tree, and looking as though he had fought his last fight. -- - 'What's the Smatter, Bill?' said the captain. 'Oh, nothing,' was the reply. 'Iam all right.' 'You look as though you had a fit of homesickness.' 'No, sir,' said Bill, with some resent ment, 'nothing of the sort.' 'Well, what are you thinking about? asked the questioner. 'I was thinking,' said the Ter monter, 'that I wished I was in my father's barn.' 'In your father's barn! What on earth would you do if you were. in your barn!' The poor fellow uttered a long drawn sighand said, 'I'd go into the. house mighty quick!' A Woman's Clever Capture of a Thief. Mrs. Kate Jennings, of Freepot7 : L,-wwy robbedo~ detective work not only recovered her money but also captured the thief. She was riding home from New York on. the train when she felt the -hand of a man sitting next to her steal gently in to her pocket, and she soon realized that her pocketbook was gone. She wisely made no outcry, fearing the ras cal would either pass the pocketbdok over to a companion or throw .it out-of the window, but engaged him in con versation, Intending to hand. him over to a policeman on reaching Long Island City. But when they reached there the policeman on duty had gone for the night. Mrs. Jennings, on the pretext of wanting to find a friend, persuaded the pickpocket to assist her, and the pair book a walk through the streets of. Long Island City. The min refused to' walk on the well-lighted avenues, anel Mrs. Jennings, after they had walked for perhaps an hour, almost despaired of finding a policeman in the side: streets. At last she requested the man to go to ahotel and get her a glass of. soda water. While he was Inside Mrs. Jennings espied a pohiceman standing: across the street under a gaslamp, and when the pickpocket came out of the. hotel with the soda water she took hold' of him and held on until the officer ran across the street and placed the fel!ow under arrest, On the way to the po lice station the man tried tothrow the pocketbook away, but his action was detected by the watchful Mrs. Jen nings. He then declared that he only took the pocketbook for fun. The Philosophy of It. There are now confined In the county jail eighteen prisoners charged. with complhity in murder-a larger numbei than have ever been confined at one time heretofore-and all the crImes chrged against them were committed withing the past five months. With this number should be remembered the fact that there has been no legal hang ing in Allegheny County for the past half dozen years, for the two have a close relationship. Not all the eighteen fmurders would Dave been prevented If the custom was to hang murdert, but a a considerable proportion of them would. The knowledge that the gal lows awaits him who takes human life has a very straining influence upon the. murderously Inclined. American Politeness. In America politeness goes, as It should, before all else. One rule can be laid down for general observance where a person's Ideas of the proper thing to do are unsettled-let him make himself at home. He should do so in aman nr to create some respect for home, unlike a young man who called at the office of a noted Philadephian, some what famous for his straightforward sutterences. 'Make yourself at home for a few dminutes,' said the owner of the offle'to his visitor. The young man, having setdhim taking a table for a footstool, re U sponded cheerily: qI always make myself at home.' 'Then I pity the people at home,' c. was the quick epo . -There is afirm irC.ncinn b mch year beats 21,000 go-ddolitai cold leaf. and as each :dollar can .be eat Into a sheet that wil carpe-tw rooms 16} feet square, same,-ids :may be formed of its tenuity. - .. -Flowers are said to be'rmnted"inw dtead of purchased at ntn; _ f t clever florist recently used the eams loers o pcat e at w ,w tOU ~ . ' lowers at an early afternoohlnch-at b o'eloektea and a card. ,receptionl ;e evening. -More bridal eduplea are sa d ' ave visited Walhigton this Zan ever before Onilof the fakes a pesent of a bouquet to esk, )ride that enters Its ding as, _ ,t flower bills this son as eea ,normnous. - -A tortable-homse-:of paper 1te r onstructed m Haniburg, r anusi a estaurant, has walls with ae etgine Ayer impregnated-aganst fire-and an nter one against moiture. Th.jes a fixed in readily conneed frames he dining-room isninety fat long. -A wse for -flowers tat ovas if not altogether newrwas afn at-Jersey Cityby a eoasiet. r :arried a huge bouquet f a ide the:adcuffas ehihe led :hs wrists. He wasbeing-4akei to seres t hs sentence.-- ". .-A litgtge ida iealthy and flourishing, ;wll> av1,,. have to be fed by human% racts attentlouin Nori i . The uppe hat ofit s RbTl 3s , backa a tight ball etwnr the lower haltIs nais n ert: -M . Hling, a -Rhodes san, being thrown into the watec ' . the filling of a boati Jawhich wo lady friends wereeP, wi.er drowning by clinging to bw:ddgjehkj swam with her to the aboue.Bam. riends were drow. -The sum of- 155;O6tIn goia was sent from San Bernmno to'8a- - . - !rancscogf mall recentlyfas s^ lass matter at oneceentan Ou . I Y f - Insurance company tooS'ela' d m;in, and thebank'aavedEll@ the maj. - -The old Aquidneek mill. at w port, which has long been purchased, it is said. and bi!.j converted into an he Summer demand. <' w Miie factory win "carafes, f faues.* . bos Tes av twenty yersn ui rrSs tingth him trifle ove. oneiith _ a' 9lectriciy,A tri4 under onet second. 3.c - r? ' -rattlpgts ?800 a sight f~~ - the entire fees paid to aiig s icca1 - 1 season at the London Opera Hose, from arch 10 to A 1 2866, whi'e ?0,000wentforthe: F r4 let. The only singer who :got mctev thana thousand ponnds.;for -a seua was Camporese. Two ballet aner received A1,785. and ?1,67 -remu lively. -In the'Catholic Catbedralof Wt'1l England,aCeloCk was put up as in. back as 162 There is -also -ueinn '~ made mnold records of a clock ofnew construction invented.by.tile Abbotta - St..Albans, Right Rev. Robert Walln forn., in the following year. Down.'to~ the time of Henry VHI. :thi antkilla timepiece was In inerunnin rsr -An interesuing event tobk plac cer the Clyde recently In the:launchhio a Japanese steel-plated war-,eLek is 300 feet in length by 42. feet IstN epth. Her tonnage Is 2460; sb has twin screws and three masts with Si tary tops. She carries twenltySee guns and three torpedoes, -an -i manned by a crew of 300. Vlscountein Kewase, a Japanese lady, ebrseed the ship the Chiyoda. -The ways of the itinerant vender of he delicacies of the season are oitan amusing if trying. Through a suburbmu street toiled a cart whose driver jelled, "Watermelons! Nice ripeaerloi' In the tones of a stentor. Called to alt by a housekeeper, be.00niies' that he bad nothing but.potatoe to selL "Why did you call wateunelonai then?" was the Indignant qeetom. "To attract attention, mum; egeyod has potatoes." -A s "ycaught In thae RivIe Parker b heenof Newbury, port, Mass., was a day or so afterwards rtred tothe river, "butit reused t be left behind and followed the men back to the wharf, crying to be taken into the boat. Finding It imprisible to force the seal to leave them, they iade a litte house for It on.oneeot the wharves, and every day sine ita gone Iito the water to get to',retrn-' g at night to be locked up I no.w, quarters." -A singular case of blood ~sfN Is reported from IWyack, . Am brose Cells, a young man well known there, lost a favorite chicken, and be inganxious to know the cause of the fowl's death, he proceeded-to dissect it. While cutting the chicken his knife slipped and wounded the hind of h wife, -who was assisting bhimr. The~ oman's hand soon after- began sel ing, as did also her entire arm and faeem and soon she was in a terrible --ondi tion. Medical aid wascale,and lirs Cells isnow consdered out ofdanger~i..X -The swearng~of blcod brotherh'ood in Africa is a pecunlarfunictioniof much solemnty and responsibi ty In there lationshp it institutes. An Incision i made above the fifth rib, on -the right sde, and coferries ere te the blood and exchanged and eaten by the persons makdng the YoW wlich binds them tobe staast to eachodher throughout lie, nd t~ gino ntme of danger. Dr. Peterais re ported to have made a covenant of this ' nature with Mwanga, th King of Ugarda, ad he will not doubt make the bestuse ofhfrindiip latb9 Gean inteet.