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THE TOWER OF LONDON, & Bnning Whose Origin rA Lost In the Mist of Antiquity. The most ancient, the most pictur :sque, and the most interesting pilE in the world, says a writer in lar per's Young People, stands half a mile below the London bridge, com manding the Thames from St. Sav ior's creek to St. Olave's wharf. and is known as the Tower of London. The very name of this wonderfu oulding suggests a thousands dramas. It is a palace, a court, a hall of coun cil, or a state prison as the fancy chooses to make it. Its very wall speak with human interest and every inch of the massive structure ih identified with human life. Its ex istence began before history itsell took definite shape. A part of it was a Saxon stron bold, as is mentioned in Saxon chron icles. The remains of a Roman wall may still be traced near its founda tions, which many writers insist have existed since the daysof Ca-sar. The plan of the building in its present form was commenced by William the Conqueror. As it surpasses all other edifices ir interest, so its antiquity dwars them into comparative insigniticance. Witt its 800 years of historic life and it years of traditional fame it may b: said to be a part of all we know anc a part of what we are. The historit pride of other famou buildings pale, before this grim battlement. 'The oidest piace in continental Eu rope-the west front of the burgr ir Vienne-dates from the time oi Henry III. The old Louvre was corn menced in the reign of Henry VIII., and the Tuileries in the time oJ Elizabeth. Versailles had no existence befor the !ime of the civil war in England and its site was a swamp and wilder ness. The wonderful Esc-urial be longs to the Seventeenth century and the beautiful Sans Souci, th< r-ide of German emperors, wa: e. ,ted as late as the eighteentl century. Thi kremlin of Mosccw and the ioge's palace in Venice can date onlt to the fourteenth century, and th< oldest part of the vatican was coin menced by the man whose name i bears-Borgia. The seraglio in Stain boul was built by Mohammed II. and the serai of Jerusalem was erecte< under the dominion of the Turks. The palaces of such ancient name as Athens, Cairo, and Teheran ar but modern inventions. Within the vaults of this ancien pile many a book was written. Then the accomplished Duke of Orlean: wrote his charming "Poesies.' There Sir Walter 1 aleigh wrote hi "Histories of the World." Ther Eliot produced his "Ionarchy o Man" and Penn his "No Cross N Crown." Upon its stones men and womei have engraved the thoughts whic] burned within their souls, and ever chamber tells a story ot human ex perience. The mighty structur, seems to echo with human amb~itioi and glory, love and hate, hope an< despair. Tragedy and comedy walked hand il hand through its corridors. Et gland's history is there, and with much of the history of the world Cranmer, and Latimner, and Ridl~e --speak to us from its walls; Lady .Jan Gray, Annie Boleyn, and Elizabeti haunt us at every turn, and Raleigh and Wyatt. and Sir Thomas 31or have stamped the very stones wit1 the impress of their own lof ty d ign ity Great in history, the tower is als great in literature. It colors th thoughts of Bacon, and the inspira tion of Shakspeare, and the on structure in the world which seems t h-ave gathered into itself the grca stream of human experience is th Tower of London. Ship'iirecked in the North. A sealing brig, immersed in th densest fog and driven by the gale was running down a narrow lane o opening in the ice, when the shout c breakers ahead and the crash of tha bows upon a reef came in the sami moment. The crew sprang overboar, upon the heaving ice-ield, anid a] most Immediately saw -their stronm and beautiful vessel sink into th< ocean. The adventure is related il "After Icebergs with a Painter." Without food or clothing, tha forty men were remote from all help To the west lay the precipitou shores of Cape Bonavista, and to this, the nearest land, in single tile with Captain Knight at their head the men commenced at sungat thei lreadial and almost hopeless mrc~h All night, without refreshment o: rest, they went stumbling and plung lng on their perilous way, now an< then sinking into the slush betweer the ice-cakes, and having to be drawi out by their companions. But to their leader and a few other bol< spirits, the party would have sun! down with fatigue and despair, an( perished. At daybreak they were still on the tolling ice-tields, beclouded with fog with nothing in prospect but thi terrible cape and its solitary cenanrc of deliverence. Thirsty, famikhed and worn, they toiled on, more ani more slowly, all the morning, all th' forenoon, all the afternoon: anid then bewildered and lost in a dreadfu cloud travelling along 'parallel wi the coast, the poor fellows passed th< cape without knowing it. The captain looked back from tim' to time on the worn-cut and sutT'er ing men, the last of themr scarrceli visible in the mist, and a thrill o: discouragement passed over him Unless there was some change ir their prospects, he knew that few ca them would live out another nirh1 on the ice. They had shouted unti they were hoarse, and looked int( the endless gray until the'y had nt heart for look ng longer. Suddenly, just before sund~own, they came to a vessel. A few rod! to the right or left, and they must have missed it. "We were led by the hand of Providence," said C-apt. Knight in telling the story. A New Eind of Creditors. '-My dear," said a lady to her bus band, as she was looking over the newspaper, "what are preferred cred itersy" '"They are the---the-thE creditors who nev-er send in their bills. Leastways that's the kind .1 nereer."-ena Siftings. T .F7HEN THERE'S NO MOR&. When there's no more of sighin '' When there's no more of song Whe n there's no more of dying For right, or yet for wrong; fie world will still be in God's grate, Bat not-but not our dwelling placoI c When thrds no more of lovin; When there's no more of hate; The world will still be moving On to its final date; Still in GolTs love, and in His grace, Uut not. thank Go 1! our dwelling place. -F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution, ANET3VICTORY. I.Y BERTHA PACKAR.D ENGLET. HE sun fell in : L mellow flood o y beauty upon the nev t rag carpet of thi t guest chamber. The ' ' ereamy eurtaiins wer< .V Pulled back, so n( k 11w chance was left th' h, sunn for doing lesq than its whole dity. A great bouquet o: autumn grasses ani fluffy goldenroi rested in a prett) t t( "A new chamber set and it will bt h nice," and Mrs. Mavier half closed hei eves and took in the supposed effect. 'hen for the twutieth time, perhaps, she went over the same road, calculat. ing how nmeh hter chickens and turkeys would bring. "An: if they are as far as I think, I svi 'y enouihi for Christmas pres. ents all aroundl and subscribe for that journal too," and with a light hearit and smiling face she hurried down- B stairs. Babe was busy with his blocks. F s she wen't into the kitchen to pre pare the htdt supper-just hersell and 'ed and little Boy Blue- and 8 quietly happy family it had ever been. If it was hard sometimes to bear and forbear, they tried for love's sweet sake. And if Janet was the oftenesi to vield neithevr seemed to notice it. Only a look at her bright, loving facE and one might guess she was very well acenstomed to forgetting No. I alto gether, and lie--he was a man, jusi an easy-going, h-L-liad man that was all. After supper the poultry was al. shut up in their houses for to-mor row's sale, and after an almost sad o'-by Janet the next morning saxs part of her hard summer's work rol: away over the hill to market. It war Tue'sday. "And about Friday Babe and I will go to town and invest oar money, and she lughed almost like a child as she tossed the baby up. 'Papa's coming, baby mine," anc down to the gate she carried her boy t for his delightful ride up to the barx vith papa. "How did they sell, Jed? Fat,wers they?" she askied when the wagor 'stopped at the barn. "Fat as butter and got highes. orice." "Cash?" and she patted old Pride oi. his velvety nose. "Yes," and he led the horses ints their stalls. e "Supper piping hot," she calle. ~ back over her shoulder, as she went tc the house. Supper passed pleasantly, Jed relat ' ing all the news from town and she ~ listening and feeding baby, going or frequent journeys into the little bot. [0 tomless mouth after stray crusts eit other forbidden matter which hap' ' oened too near. i "And now let me have it, JTed, all ii D my hand, and see if it's worth the con- 0 stant care and work I've endured,~ 2 Ld she set the boy on his knee. "What, Janet?~" and he looked a' her absently. I "M\y mnoney," and still her hand war ~ outstretched. "Why, wife, I paid for the binding b twine with it." "You did !--and von said last spring ~ 'Do your best and reap the proceeds,' " ~ Iand her eyes flashed indignantly. "Why, I didn't suppose you ha6. - any use for it, and you are reaping the Iproceeds when the debts are paid,' and he tried to look naturally. "But that was mine, earned by put ing in over hours and extra days, ' and she could not hide a sob. v "'Oh, weillnever mind. What's mine'E yours and yours mine," and he puil 2baby down without his evening romy and went out with the milk pail. And Janet hurried into the dim sit sing-room1 and had a good cry-good,. c because it relieved her over-wroughit g feelings. H-e must have noticed het swolleni eyes, for after an attempt te p talk over his pap~er, he went to bed. c Days pase on and months too. a antil litie Bloy Blue wa a little mar ji of three. Uaring that time Janet hac b been a patient wife to a good hus- e band, but she was wiser, and that lit- I tie lesson learned a year p~reviously she had never forgotten, and she deC-3 :termine'd, for the sake of her inde- [ penldence, for the sake of their futurE t wedded1 life, and for his sake too, i never to be so peut upon again. She had discar-ded her idea of raising pouiltry. but she had a nice fat steem ? wi'ch wats to be sold with the rest oJ te- car load sooni. 3 When h ahv was still a little slee.e r og buudle, Jed had brought into the [ kitchiu a tiny calf. It was a raw, bit ier cold day, and the little thing was alnost dead when discovered. "Might as well kill it, and donr with it," JTed suggested. -I "Oh, no, let it live if it can," Jane' 0 olOaided. "Well, fuss with it if you want to, and~ von can have whatever it amountu ? to."'and so it was settled. it was days before it could stant alonelbutby and by it began to gel interested, it seemed, in its own life,' Iand grew and waxed strong. Its leg; e were ve'ry short, but stubby and firm. E It had always been a source of amuse a meat betw en th tie, to see .lanet-: steer o~vertakei and then slowly out strip Jed's of the same age. But it was now considered in prime condi- I tion, and was to go with the rest to Chica~go. Janet said nothing, but f feit a sgreat d.-al. So wheni the returns s tme she waitedI for him to give her a bohr share. But no word was said, so ~he reminded him of it. "Oh, stuff' and nonsense !" he re- e olied, almost angrily. "If we must keep an account between us, I think it's a pity. If I have it or you have A what odds?" .- - - - -' "Tut you always have it," she re. lied, quietly. "But I am the man, and its my lace-" "Not to cut me down to ,aking for hat is my own. You gave me the Lf, and would have killed it but for "Who fed it?" he asked. "If it's half and half as you say, 1 A it, and six of the other thirteen iat you say are yours." "But it's nonsense your acting so. in't you comfortable'?" "Perhaps. But it is not that. It') question of right. Have I not as Dod judgment as you?" and her face as very pale. "Well, of course, you'll have the. st word, but I have the money and u haven't"-and he failed in his at mpt to smile naturally as he turned go. "Wait, wait! and so you claim yon ave a right to sell my property and Dep my money," and sho looked at im haughtily. "I say its ours. If you need a neu ress or anything, say so," and he ammetl the door. She did not sob this time. she wat oroughly indignant and proceeded > carry out her plan. Jed went to )wn the next day again, which favored r plan. As soon as he was gone she took be and walked a mile to see a man ho had long wanted to buy a two ar-old colt of theirs. At one time ed had almost accepted the offer, next iought better of it, and would not let 1 colt go. She found little trouble I closing the bargain, he supposing ed had sent her. Her only fear had een from his inability to pay cash. ut he handed her the money and she ld him he might take his property irectly. So when Jed came home at night he >und an empty stall. He hurried into i house. His step sent the blood a tle faster, that was all. "Where is Topsy Jen? His stall is lpty?" "I sold him to Mr. Forrest." "Sold him! Sold my colt?" "Ours, you mean. I thought besm ) let him go, and what difference does make? It's.all in the family." "Difference ! I would not have sola im for seventy dollars! "I want you > understand I am able to run my wn affairs," he cried. "Quite likely you are. But you in st that my affairs are yours and so, f course, yours are mine. I knew here I could put that sum to good vantage, so I let our colt go," and e sat down to rock babe to sleep, hile Jed stood as if dumb. "There's no use talking, Jed May. hr," Janet went on with determina on, "I never was used to having no Loney whatever to call my own, and 1 m too proud to beg." "No one asked you to," he answered oggedly. "Let me carry the purse one month ad see if you don't call it begging," ame back with emphasis. "I will not be a hen-pecked hus and," and he gave the cat a smart ap which sent it out of the rocking air and out of peaceful slumbers at ne and the same time. "Nor I a dependent, begging, grov ing wife," and she left the room: 'hile Jed stood as she left him for any minutes. This was getting to be retty serious. Jeuz standing in op osition to him, and he lord and mas 'r! He'd show her-he'd cut her own to bread and butter, he'd-and ist then his eye fell on Dandy, his mny five-year-old colt. It had come at of the county fair with flying 1:rs (blue ribbons of course). What she should sell him! Back over 1ir married life he went, and with a ng drawn sigh he remembered Janet's ipabilities of carrying out what ver she deemed necessary. Then he. egan to walk up and down, while net, in the next room, tried to ascer un the fierceness of the storm by the eaviness of his tread. Suddenly it eased. He poked his head in through 2e doorway. 'Well, what do you want?" "I did not speak," Janet answered mocently. "No, what do you expect me to do, >lift you out of pauperism ?" and hiL oice was mocking and stern. "Srely, your business capabilitieL n suggest some plan," she answered. "None," he continued mockingly. "Then I can. I will either hire out > you as cook, nurse, washerwoman, hamnbermaid, housekeeper, waiter, ardener, seamstress and 'bottle asher,' or else I will go halves in the roceeds of our united efforts, and rry sone money as long as you carry a and spend when and where my nigment dcems best; and more, if 3 y extra work try to raise money foi dra luxuries, that money is to bE lin." "His scorn turned to anger as shE nished. As long as I am a husband, am tho head of the family and mats ar," and he stalked out of the house x a furious rage. "I wonder if I have lost," Janet oaned, as she sank down helplessly. But I will not yield. I'll try once Lore," and so feverishly she brought o her trunk, dragged it down, ither, and set it in a conspicuousu lace. Then she slowly went through ie process of pschking but she did noi jameice uutu time for Jed to come iafter the milk pails. He saw her busily at work, and his eart sank within him. But he went at again, to Janet's dismay. He yuld not endlure it long, however. "What are you doing, Jen?" and he ased on his make-believe errand. "Packing." "For what?" "Going home to see mother," an~a e looked so unconscious of his pres ace as she tosed some spools to little oy Blue, he was thoroughly dis "Say, JTen, I surrender." "On what terms ?" "Equal shares, and you youL atras." "Very well. Here are six dollars. took out of the money' just what my Weer and the chickens would have mounted to, and I had this more." "No, keep it," he answered. enerously-"h't, say, what did the ct bring?" "A, but that is a secret," and she. uughed gaily. "Ask his owner." 'Dont, Jen-dont be so offish ouAd' eum. like my little ola aietat all," and he uillide t6 urm. "I'm not. I'm Mrs. Janet Mayler, >artner and equal sharer in the firm g f Mayler and-" and his big palm topped further speech. But he took t away to kiss the lips that had once >een so hardly won, and then to toss r ittle astonished Mayler, Jr., up and ip, to come down safely again upon >apa's shoulder, for a dizzy ride Lround the disordered sitting-room. After supper, while Jen was busy rashing dishes, Jed was in the sitting -oom, rocking baby to sleep. He 2ever could sing but just the first trainsof "Sweet By-and-By," but he would go over these with untiring t est, never even halting long enough h he let his voice fall, until sometimes, a >ut of very agony, Janet would plant o ier foot where she knew the period ir elonged. But to-night she listened u with sweet content. She knew he was d won completely, for he never at- o tempted his one song unless very a peaceful with all the world. And as a he thought over her little attacks y ind skirmishes she felt well repaid, u and from her heart went up a prayer a For strength to be a woman-fearless p, nd independent where right was t! oncerned, and a mother worthy o mch a dear little boy.-Farm, Field n nd Fireside. d Thrifty Carelessness. P A very amusing story is told by a famous story teller about a harness maker who lived many years ago in London. He had a handsome saddle a in his shop occupying a conspicuous place therein. , On his return from luncheon one day he observed that the to saddle was gone. Calling to his fore man, he said: "John, who has bought the sad. le?" a "I'm sure I don't know, sir," saia t the foreman, scratching his head as if n be were trying to think. "I cannot tell, and the worst part of it is it hasn't been paid for. While I was at to work in the back part o.' the shop a P gentleman came in, priced it, decided to take it, told me to charge it and, throwing it into his wagon, drove ofi p ')efore I could think to ask his name." r "That was very stupid of you," said ;he harness maker, disposed to be . angry at the man's carelessness. "Very 'ikely we have been robbed." "I don't think that, sir," said th, n oreman, "Ifor I am very sure that thi c gentleman has traded here before." So "Well, I can't afford to lose the U oney," said the harness maker. "Well have to find out who took it a and send him the bill. Ah !" he added ? with a smile, after a moment's reflec .ion, "I have it! We'll charge it up P o the account of every one of our cus omers who keeps accounts here. E'hose who didn't get it will refuse tc V pay, so we shall be all right." The bookkeeper was instructed lo this, and the bills in due course of A. ime went out. Some weeks later the e harness maker asked the bookkeeper C i~f he had succeeded in discovering who C* the customer was. "No, sir, "he replied, "and we nevn hall, I fear, sir, for about forty per-k ons have paid for it without saying a word. "-Toronto Mail. Greatest of Their ind- b The longest canal in the world er o ends from the frontier of China to '3 St. Petersburg, Russia. It is 4472 niles in length.p England has the greatest number o1 o ighthouses and lhghtships-one for a every- jourteen miles of its coast bn The largest sun spot ever noted uT~ stronomers appeared in the fall of 3 1867. It was 280,000 miles long and s and 190,000 miles wide. Four hun- b ded planets the size of the earth o could have been laid side by side in il bhat "spot" without touching each a other. t The deepest lake in the world it e: ake Baikal, Siberia. It is 4350 feet p deep, and its level is only 1350 above u that of the ocean. The greatest depths 1E of Lakes Superior and Michigan are o but little over 800 feet.b A check for ?5,333,650 on the Bank f ' England, in payment for the ' Kimberley diamond mines, is said to a' be the largest ever drawn. r< The highest price per pound eve: a ,aid for tea was at the Mincing Lane q tea auction on February 5, 1891, u when a five-pound parcel of "Golden a Tip" from Ceylon was knocked down at ?25 10s. per pound, or at a sum c equal to $123 in United States cur rency The building with the highest alti ;de is the Alpine Clubhouse, 01 Mount Rosa, in the Alps. Its founda tion stones are exactly 12,000 feel t above the sea lrevel.-St. Louis Re-~ ublio WORDS OF W1SDO02. All sour grapes are not out of reach. Gossip is the sugar of old women's Judgment is forced upon us by ez a perience. Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall! ,They lose the world who buy it WitL t< much care. a What is mind? No matter. What~ is matter? Never mind? Vice is a sponge which sucks in honor and gives out tears. bi A man's own good breeding is thit b. best security against other people's ill m manners. Humility is not necessarily a virtue, A The violet would smell just as sweet r5 on a tree. The man who fears being taken ai his true value is always on the alert k for slights. The old man who has forgotten thai ,F he ever was a boy is but a living tomb stone to his buried youth. When any calamity has been suffbreo a he first thing to be remembered is, ji how much has been escaped. The tears we shed for others art a: mellowed by inward congratulation' a: those shed for ourselves are brine. I] A millstone and a human heatrt is el driven ever round ; if they have noth ing else to grind, they must themselves ti be ground. The circumstances of the world arm 0 so variable that an irrevocable purpose 0 or opinion is almost synonymous witL a a. folih one. FOR1S OF MONEY. YMEI OLD AND ODD MEDIA OF EXCHANGF. !ssibility of Cold's Displacement by Some Rarer Metal-Many Priril tive Methods of Barter Anon; Uncivilized Races. ONEY is a subject that has risen into such prominence of late that the first extra (, ordinary session of the nited States Congress since the '701 is been convened particularly on its -count. This event seems to be one the later stages of a sort of descend ig replacement among the metals ;ed in coinage, a process that has. aring the centuries and millenniumi human history, slowly but plainly ibstituted copper for iron, silver foi )pper and gold for silver, says the ashington Star. Each of these etals seems to have made its appear we as coin in ascending order, and >me are even ready to speculate on ie possible appearance in the future some still more rare and costly etal to press the coveted yellow andard lower in the scale, as it has jne to silver. Iridium, osmium and ILladium, metals scarcely known out de the chemist's laboratory, are men oned, but hardly with seriousness. ussia, in 1828, undertook the coin ,e of platinum, but the scheme was >andoned in 1845 because of the greal )st of minting and because of the in ability of its value. Aluminum seems > have larger prospects of gaining a Lace in the monetary system, par cularly on a level below silver, witb probability of displacing copper, for ie intrinsic value of the material in ie prices of lowest denomination is jw far less than the face value. The cent discovery of means for the ex mnsive production of the new com etitor is made in part to account for ie depreciation of silver. The word denoting money to tht ople of one of the north European es has an equivalent in the Lappish nguage, which still retains its orig Lal significance as the name for a skin L common with its later use. So oney to a citizen of the United States teans golden eagles, silver dollars, >pper pennies or their paper repre mtatives. Familiarity with these edia gives to the innumerable othei edia, that are or have been in use nong the peoples of the earth, an ap. earance of almost silly oddity. But perfectly coined money is a com %ratively recent convenience, and the or y of the development to that which at present in use is full of interest. The natives of the Society Islands as ey lived not many years ago will rve as the subject of the first lesson. Parisian singer, making a profes onal tuarudheworld, gave a ncert in the islands. She was to re sive a third part of the receipts. Then counted her share was found to ynsist of three pigs, swenty-three tur eys, forty-four chickens, 5000 cocoa uts, besides considerable quanties of ananas, lemons and oranges. At the 'rench capital all the material would ave added 800 francs to her resources, ut on the islands it was worth to her ily the value of that part which could e consumed. Other travelers among tribes where rimitive barter has not yet devel-i ped something having semblance to common medirum of exchange have een given a still keener appreciation f the advantages coming from the stofmoney. Wallster iwhezip +:he [alay Archipelago, could not secure ipplies for dinner without a special argain and much bickering upon each acasion. Because the vendor of ed >les did not always happen to meet ith something desired among the ar dles which the party had to offer in ehange, Mr. Wallace and his comn anions were often compelled to do ithout a meal. These experiences a them to hold in readiness a supply fsuch articles as tha natives would ivariably accept. Such was doubtless the first form o. oney-any commodity which was es semed by all persons, which would be sadily received at all time, and which l desired to possess in unlimited: uantities-the generalized value hich constitutes the lubricator of :mmerce. Probably the most primitive money :msisted of the skins of wild animals. he foundation of this theory is the sumption that the earliest creatures hich could be called men were hunt s. The meat which was procured id not possess the requisite durability, ie bones lacked high value, but the red pelts possessed both qualities, tym'ological researches, moreover, iow that the earliest races used skins ithe representative of value. Classi sl writers have recorded traditions to e effect that the earliest currency ed at Rome, Lacedssmon and Carth ewas made of leather, and such oney is said to have circulated in ussia as late as the reign of Peter the reat. In time some particular skin seemb have become the standard. This nong the aborigines about Hudson's ay the early traders found to be that the beaver. Some of the earliest forms in wahic1 e crude metal was shaped were smafl rsB or spikes, and wire, rolled intc ~acelets or rings. Abundant speci ens of this ring money have been und in various parts of Europe and ia, and probably constituted the at approximation to coinage. It ia ,id to be still current in Nubia. Impressions were first made on onlj me portion of the ingot, spike or ng. The early flat coins were stamped 1but one side, and rough edges pre ~iled until comparativelyrecent times. hile circular coins vastly predonul te, the forms into which others have om time to time been cast are pecu ar. Many octagonal and hexagonal ices have been issued in Germany, id money in the the form of squares id lozenges has been used in England. >lates of copper, sewen and a half iches square, bearing an imprint in ach corner, circulated in Sweden in i eighteenth century. The Japanese coinage is composed Eoblong flat pieces of silver covered u both sides with designs snd legends, rid oval pieces of copper with a square g le in tho oenkbT he~annZejhole In sne e!IV6IfeM money permits the coins to be strun imeter-shaped pieces formerly cireu' lated In Persia. The first issue of continental urneMM3 in 1776 figured a sum over a dial ani the coins bore the admonition; "Mini Your Business." This, however, waW but an experimental issue, and until the mint was established in 1792 the several States maintained each its ows urrency. The designs are fantastil and varied. Household Accidents. F 1 A slight out or abrasion of the anb or a slight burn, may become a serious matter if it is totally neglected. Where the skin is torn or cut it is desirablE in the first place that the wound shotd bleed freely. Cases of lockjaw are 1 rare occurrence where this is the case, nd a very slight wound of the hand Dr foot has been known to produci this dangerous malady whore bleed :ng did not follow. One of the greatest dangers lies i1 a wound of a kitchen knife, which may have held impure matter,-. and ven from the scratch of a pin; and 'atal cases of blood-poisoning have fre luently resulted from so simple a cause. Absolute cleanliness, therefore, is necessary in the treatment of such a wound. After the wound has bled I ittle it should be washed with perfectly 3lean water. That which has been boiled is best for the purpose, and there is no harm in using a little Ca bolic acid in the proportion of a drol )r two to a quart of water. Do not attempt to stanch bleedini by the use of cobwebs, which are aturally dirty and full of impure germs, but use a little lint and a clean otton or linen cloth. These should be always kept in the houses for use in case of such accidents. A trustworthy druggist will always supply some preparation of carbolic acid, properly weakened for household use. Evel household ammonia, though it is pain ful at first, is recommended as a mild way of cauterizing a simple wound. A thick paste of equal parts of common baking-soda and flour, wet to a paste with cold water, is the best remedy for a burn. It is better than lime water, because lime-water is liable to become incrusted, while the paste of soda and flour is cooling to the surface and can easily be removed. The ob ject of treating a burn is to cover the extremities of the nerves which have been injured and give them opportun ity to heal. While such a paste is be ing prepared cover the wound for the moment with common flour and wrap it up in clean cotton. A simple healing plaster which ma e prepared in the household calls foi aalf a pound of rosin, an ounce eacl Df mutton tallow, camphor-gum and beeswax, half an ounce each of Britisi il, cedar oil gum myrrh and linseed il. Melt the rosin, mutton tallow, eamphor-gum, beeswax and gum myrrh together and add the oils. Thiu plaster should be spread on cotton when needed and applied to the wound.-New York Tribune. Bacon at $10,000 a Paund. "No, sir ; I have no use for Mexico,'' nid Miner B. N. Drazad to a Chicago Iribune reporter. It was ten yeara ao when I purchased a strip of land near Sonora, Mexico, forty miles from the mouth of St. Pedro River, and thirty miles from Cananara. The land was good mining property, and Ihknew if it were worked right I could make q good many thousand dollars. I had 8000 when I started to work, and with part of this I pur - minin implements, pow3 etc. For eighteen m~'onths I wbWl7e alone at the mine, drilled a tunnel 605 feet long througb hard rock, and finally struck what I was looking for--an arsenica ledge of silver. I had worked Sundays, Christ mas, Thanksgiving and figured out 40,000 in sight. "All at once I felt a craving for bit of bacon. There is no such thing as Mexican bacon, you know. Hoga there have to lean against a tree to grunt. The duty in Mexico on pork is seventy per cent., and, as I could get bacon for twenty cents a pound across the line at Orchoville, Arizona. I determined to ride over there and get some. I did it, and enjoyed my bacon ; but ten days later the Mexi cans seized me and confiscated my mine. That bacon cost me $10,000 a pound." Whistling Fireworks. One of the features at the. Crysta Palace (London) fireworks display re cently were whistling pieces, which in burning give a wild, screaming noise. There is some mystery about how this noise is produced. Messrs. Broek themselves are unable to say, and do not know any body who can tell them. The firework consists of a stout paper tube 2* inches in length, and with a bore of about * inch. About two inches ~f this little tube are stuffed with picrate of potash, leaving i inch or so empty. When lighted by means of a fuse it does not explode, but burns away with great violence, and with the ancanny shriek which gives the thing its interest. Pyrotechnists have tried many other compositions and many ther kinds and forms of tubes, but pira~e of potash is the only thing that will give anything but the faintest hrace of a whistle.-Scientific .Ameri Bengal Peasant Proverbs. The wisdom of the Bengal peasant ultivatorE finds expression in proverbs, of which a collection has been made by a Babu in the Agricultural Depart snent of that province. His apprecia tion of the outwardly revered Brahmin betrays itself incidentally in the maxim. "Rain and inundation disap pear when south winds blow, like the Brahmin as soon as he has received his fee." Other Bengal rural aphorisms are 'Have the land which receives the. washings of the village, and the bullock which walks fast, and marry the girl whose mother is good." "He who works in the field himself with the laborers gets the full profit; he who, beg unable to work himself, super vises the workings of the laborers, gets half the profit; he who orders the labores from his house does not get enought to eat."-London News. -ykhomey is the smallest State ir SLY-REYNA RD. irHE FOX IS A MERRY BEAST A&M A BOLD FREEBOOTER. Restless, Alert and Full of Resoure, -His Career is Often Sheet-Lived, but His Existence fs a Hap py-go-Lucky One. OW few people know what aninterestingchapthe fo is," said the naturalist is theNewYorkSun. "They know him only by reputation and that as a chicken-thief, which he is. Ba he has lots of points, I tell you. A merry, sly dog is reynard. All sum mer he lives in luxurious ease, roam ing the woods and sauntering by the pearly brooks, or basking in the noon lay sun. "He loves fish; and going down to ;he stream he waits tillhe spiesa plump trout. It's all over in a twinkle. A leap, a snap, and off he trots with his Juicy morsel. A stupid crawfish pnoozes by his hole near the water's edge. Reynard drops his tail in the rater and tickles him with it. The ongered crustacean comes out of his biding place andis seized and crushed, armor and all. When the ripemne Porn is ready to drop, and the luscious iruits have reached their maturity, and %l natare is plethoric with ripening fullness, then Master Fox is in clover. rimid rabbits prick up their ears and 'un, unconscious of danger, along the hillside; the quails skulk noiselessly in the wheat stubble; birds pour forth their notes of praise-and he catches them all. He loves fruits, stealthily stealing into orchids, where apples and plump pears tempt, and in the vine pard he fairly revels in grapes. His tubs grow fat and saucy. He shows them how to pilter honey, and when the busy bees have laid up a winter store he crawls to the hives near the garden fence and jumping up to the small opening licks the sweet drops with pure delight. Out come the itinging, humming honey-makers, and settle like a pall on his thick pelt; buf ie doubles up in a twinkling and roll ng over and over crushes them by the core and eats them as a relish. "Cunning? No animal beats him. book at his brainy head. His delicate ears-broad below to catch every sound fiom the highest note of the shrill warbler to the low crooning o1 the cricket, or the distant murmur ol storm, or the fevered pants of the Prancing hounds, and tapering so sharply to a point that they can shape themselves to every wave of air that makes the tiniest rustle of noise.- Note the crafty calculation and foresight o the low, flat brow. What a nose! Now full of resolute purpose pointing straight forward, and anon turning 2p with concentrated malice and scorn. 'he eye, deep set, a regular robber's Iye, Lacking the soft beauty of the ;imid deer, or the fascinating glare of ;he cat's, yet it trembles with modest humility or glares with 'murderous rage, flashing fire and vengeance. En srgy and self-control speak in the thin, synical lips, and the mouth opens from ear to ear. He can leap, crawl, ru and swim with the velocity of lightning, and his wiry body is carried so noiselessly. along that searce a. trace is left. His delicate footfalls echo na response even among the dead leaves >f the forest. His walk is treacherous, uis glance sinister. Seizing a buncb >f grain in his mouth, he will swim nto the midst of a flock o ducks ani ~ialiiire ppeafoa dinner. "He will feign death like a 'possun., ma even the hound's teeth and the aash of gunpowder have failed tc arouse him. A farmer surprised one in a hen-roost Believing that the fox was dead from over-eating the farmer kicked the stiffemed body on the floor, p'icked it up by the tail an3 faung it out in the barnyard. In u jiffy the fox gathered up his legs an' ecaped. "He is voracious, is reynard. When iunger-pressed, and gaunt and lean from starvation, he'll not refuse ser pents and toads and moles and rats. He has been known to attack and kill young calves and lambs, and if thesea shore is near will revel in oysters and shellfish. A group of rabbits are feed ing in a clover patch. He'll crawl along, nibbling the juicy flowers until near enough to make a grab. He'll stalk a bird with his hind legs dragging behind him, until near enough to make a spring. How farmers dread his inroads in the poultry yard. Fas ten the yard up tight and he will bur row a winding passage into the ground beneath and suddenly appear among the drowsy chickens and stupid geese, whose shrill and alarmed cries arouse the farmer from his bed to sally forth nding all safe. Then the fox wil! meak back and pack away the plump st pullet or the fattest goose. "February is the month when rey aad goes a-wooing, and a wide range he takes, flirting and toying with any ixen that chances in his way. It is fully simr days before mamma clears the brush all out of her burrow and brings forth her young, from three tc six at a litter. It willbe fully a monti before the sharp-nosed cubs begin tc play and gambol about the doorway o! their home. Perhaps it will be at the root of an old tree, beneath a ledge ol rocks or in the hollow of a re. oree trunk or a burrow with several en trances in the s md or loam. Tell-tale ohicken bones' and feathers and fur strewn about (the entrance speak ol many a hen-roost robbed or of foolish rabbits and ovprconfident grouse that have furnished; food for the ever-hun ry cubs. Thae mother fox faithfully feeds her young and boldly steals tc spport them.! She knows,as all sports men knew, t'hat the hounds will noi follow her while she has a family de pending upon her. "A merry, never-say-die life doea Ithe for lead,: indeed!i It may be a hort one, 'for traps and anares are many, hunters are many and the scent Df the houned is keen. But reynard rollicks and roysters and plays the bold freebo~oter amid it alL" Sot Rid of Hjj.u De Sm loe-Why don't you go to see she De P'1nkie girls any more? De~ Bore-Tlhey are too c'areless Thej leave ther front door unlocked, and I lose a nelw overcoat every time 1 ge ter-4ew York Weekly .