Spring. Old winter bands his hoary head, And sighing wildly steals away ; His stall is quivering in his hand, For lo' & maiden fair and gay, Crowned with a wreath of opening buds, "Midst which the zephyrs softly play, Comes forth, and smiling on the earth, Asserts her magic sway. Welcome!-—sweet, gentle, beauteous spring We welcome thee with joytul glee; Beneath thy smile the buds will blossom, The birde will warble merrily. Beneath thy touch bright tender leaves Will clothe each naked shrub and tree; The streamlets freed from ioy bands Will homage pay to thee, The sengsters warned by antumn’s blast To seek a warmer, sunnier lime, Return to meet thee with their strains, And offer music at thy shrine. The insects’ tiny, hamming voices, With the sweet tones softly chime; The daisies spring up neath thy footsteps ~ A flowery train is thine Tamar A Anne Kermode EA — In 1780, In Seventeen-Hundred-Kighty They sat by household fires, And talked of matters weighty, Our grandams and our sires; They wlked uf matters weighty, While broad the blaze nprolied Beside their hearths in "Righty, That time of awial cold. The hard frost figured grimly & ; Along the window glass How large the old-time chimue How wide the firey Ine The solid coals drorped unde wed 1 he hrazen andirons gio The lore-stiok tell asande: Deep rifts the buek-log showed They talked of wives and widow: Of woes thal war reve While round the walls the shadows Of British armies wheeled They talked of Earl Cormwallis Of Britain and her might; only e Their cause thei Their only They told of And guessed wit At what Sir Hen BUA strongth the right inagits wanton i forward view O With opening spring, woul ry veh friendly na HOM They nanied ¢ France, Holland, even Spain And gathered consolation From Stony Point and Wayne With retrospective fervor, They talked of Charlestown Neck Of Gates by Hadson And Amol Recalling riven Lal Quebe men and places And battles lost or won, They breathed with a The vame of Wash Fhey talked They spoke of ({H shy With CHSSURS Ten ot red-ooat regula And thus Thi Each household hen wilh matlers wernt ngs hast or tia Was stirred as by the ds The warrior cold And streaked the sanded floor But ever with the knitt Or with the open t Went thought to Or Howse off Sandy — Youths Compa $100,000, AND THE THREE THERERY. 3 § Hook MARRIAGES" CAUSED “My mind is made up, m« young Dr. Delancey, “so let our breakfast and not spoil o tions by thinking of the oid curmudgeon who could not even let Lis eccentricity die with him, but must dispose of Lis fortune in this idiotic manner.” ** But, my dear Arthur,” remonstrated Mrs. Delancey, “one hundred thousand dollars is too large a sum to refuse with- out much consideration.” “I know that, mother mine, but still I refuse it, or rather refuse fo accept it with the condition attached to it. 1pre- fer to choose my own wife." ** Is there no alternative? “ None" “What are the letter?” “hese,” answered Arthur, taking up a ponderous letter which had been lying on the table, and reading from it: “My dear sir—Now that the estate ot the iate Tobias Queerby is settled, it be- comes my duty to inform you that Le had imposed a condition upon his be- quest to you. He bequeaths to you property to the value of one hundred thousand dollars, on condition that vou marry Miss Fidelia Fairfax within two years 5 after his death. The same amount has heen bequeathed to Miss Fairfax, and I have this day notified her that the same condition is sttached to her share of the estate. This condi tion was not mentioned in the will, as it would not have been recognized a valid by the courts. You need not obey his request unless you wish, and your legacy will remain unaffected, but he charges you and her, as you are upright and honorable, not to enjoy his hard- earned wealth unless you do as he de- sired. 1 enclose a copy of the letter to me Asking me to acquaint vou with lis desires. by which you will see to what charitable societies he wished vou to give the money he left you in case you o not yield to the conditions imposed, and in case you decide to act as a man of honor. Iam, sir, yours, ete., Greenfield Kent, attorney for the estate of Tobias Queerby.” “There!” eried Arthur. *“is not that a terrible condition to impose? Of course 1 am a man of honor and T must ~yes, must give up this fortune.” ** But one hundred thousand dollars, Arthur, is—" ** Is one hundred thousand dollars. I | know. But marriage to one I do not care for wouid be misery for a life time. Therefore, as 1 said before, my mind is made up. What! Did he think simply because he was the friend in yonth of father and this Mr. Fairfax, he can force their children, who have never seen each other, to marry whether they love or hate? No. Father has left you well provided for, mother, and I will soon get a practice, and so I snap my fingers at the old fellow’s matrimonial schemes and willmake havpy a half dozen orphan asylums, to'say nothing of Miss Fairfax, who, though she has never seen me, must detest me as she reads her letier this morning.” **She may be a very nice young lady, Arthur,” mildly suggested Mrs. Delan- cey. ** When your father was alive he | often spoke of the pretty girl Mr. Fair- fax married, and daughters generally resemble their mothers, you know.” “Undoubtedly she is a nice young | lady, mother, as society ladies are. [| dare say she can rattle off the first con- | jugation in French, recite Tennyson by | the heur, lead a german, tell just which | corner of her card to turn down for a call ofecondolence or a party call, rave | about majolica and the art decorative, give the points of a pug, yawn interest. | ingly behind a fan, extol the opera, | write mawkish poems, each one with an | Envoi and, in short, be a credit to Ler | tamily and the seminary where she was | graduated. 1 can see her now,” con-! tinued Arthur, shaking his yellow curls | and laughing. “She considers me ns | ® her property, but hates me because she | feels sure of me. * Yes,’ she says, to her | confidante (chums no longer exist, they have been massacred by confidantes and | bad French). ‘I suppose I'll have to marry him, the practteal wretel.’” _ “Now, Arthur, you are not just: neither are you kind to speak so of a girl | you do not know, and have never seen,” | said Mrs. Delancey, i “By jove, mother!” cried Arthur, | bringing his open hand down on the table with force sufficient to make the | china and his mother jump simultan- | eously, **I have an idea.” exact words of the i @ § youn 3 lives in Metroville. Now, a train leav here at eleven and reaches there at tw Metroville, and I'll go there, see him, and try to see Miss Fidelia Fairfax witli- out being seen by her. If I like her looks I'll introduce myself, if not 1% eome home, bid farewell to the fortune and settle down to bachelordom and physic.” VOLUME XIII PA. THU W RSDAY, MARCH 1880, A EO SAO SR NUMBER 9. “ You forget that vour cousin Uriah “Mother,” returned Arthur, mock away from this comfortable home with more speed than my curiosity to i Miss Fairlax it would be the knowledge that that dry old book-weorn, Cousin i Uriah, was coming here to bore me with his learning and his praises of that blue stocking, his ido! Araminta, for whose hand he is too bashiuito propose. He's a voung fellow, but, oh, such a ! That decide = ie, RO ni ele yen n in the smoking train that lend Opoliston at eleven o'clock bound for Metroviilesat Dr. Arthur Delancey puil- i : gravely “Farther,” sald Miss Fairfax, whi presiding over a cunning littie break- fast table in a cosy little dinning-room in the most comfortable little house in the little city of Metroville, ** my mind is made up 1 cannot take the money 1 cannot marry 8 man at other even if that other does offer mi hundred thousand dollars to doso” “Wall, my dear Fidelis," returned My Fairfax. “1 do not fee: competent to ad- vise you further than bid you foliow the dictates of vour own heart. Still, my counsel you not to soe noe oY » i a 2 © y 4 the order of love, I would be hasty, ii vour dear mother were alive she could tell you in a moment what to do—1 must ss though, Fidel hat one hundred thousand dollars is—' “Yes, pa, I know, one hundred thou- sand dollars great deal of money, but even that sum cannot tempt me to marry a man I do not love, have never mot. Was a girl ever placed in wmiliating position? 1 wish ntri Mr. Tobias Queerby noontent to Keep ls eccentric he i t ys 4 is a 4 L y Od had I nm you and Mr. m the right to and heans of Lis existed {i him gave hands iidren.” But you needn't marry him, yen know, my dear,” said Mr. Fairfax. “Ii I had not beer unfortunate the past few years I would say once give up this fortune; but I os leave you mush, my love, and I know what a com forting thing money is.” “But [ can’t mary him, pa.” “ Well, Mr Greenland Kent, t ~ . ¥ . selivd 3 wr torney, says Lhe condition 1s not | Y iyi : shi thal Delancey and GIspose of The & tr ig Ve ' n sO Ld thot is Mr. Queerby rel » Lake the in the OO ‘ kes the condition | Miss OER honor ma } a *" : the law does not," said ime, my dear,” replied the go man; ‘yet this I must say, Fideli have often heard your poor dear mother speak of Mr. Delancey, and always in : praise, and, t ’ 5 rie sons are crms of the highest : . : ANOW 88 R SENETARL -~ 5 atiors, You fHRve no doubt he that he don’t f understand, can write sonnets and triolets in a lady's album, can tell t) best time of all the oarsmen and horses, can play polo, can te ha kind of a coat ought to be worn on ea day of the week, can say ‘Very clevah, bal jove,’ as if he were a thorough mw of the worid, can tell what new pla going to be a success, can flirt w everybody and vow all the girls are breaking their poor hearts for him, ean tell cols yarns all night and laugh loudest ut his own wit and, in short, prove himself an honor to soci Ly and Harvard college. 1 ean see him now talking to his pal (there are ore classmates; pals and college sang mur- dered them long ago) and saying: * Ou, bai lah, it's a dogeed v { i © no Jupitah, oid fel bore, ye know. but the poor little gir! will break her heart if I don’t marry her, and I suppose 1 will have to, bai Jove, yaas," while all the time hie hates me » poison.” ‘Now, now, now, Dealie. my love !" cried Mr, Fairfax, “ this is not right " vet he could not refrain from langhine. “You are unjust, unkind—you should not speak so of one you have never “Oh, papa!” exclaimed Fidelia, suddenly clasping her hands and shak- ing her black curls, merrily. “What, my dear!” asked the father. “1 have an idea. The lawyer's lett says Mr. Fairfax lives in Opoliston, Now, Rena Lester lives there, and she’ my schoolmate and she's heen begeir me to eallon her. There's a train leavs at eleven and I'll go to-day. I'll con- trive to see Mr. Arthur Delancey with out being seen, and I'll judge by his iooks whether I’ ask to be introduced. Ii 1 don't like him I'll throw the for- tune fo the hospitals and become an old seen » So for make my darling must stupid, joving haste, pa, I journey.’ “But you sre not going to-day, my dear,” complained Mr. Fairfax, * you forget that your cousin Araminta is coming to-day to stop with us, and she might be offended if you were not liere to receive her." ** Pa, if anything could drive me from the house it would be the thought that I would have to listen to the disserta- tions of the learned Aramintaand hear her praises of that modest, unassuming Uriah, whoever he is. Araminta is a good enough body, pa but she does weary me so. That decides me. 1 zo to-day.” In the drawing-room ear of the train that lett Metroville at eleven o'clock, bound for Ovoliston, sat Miss Fidelia Fairfax reading the latest novel. pa. prepare y room and throwing himself on lounge, * are you quite sure you were right about Mr, Pairfax’s house being the seventh from this ?” “Of course I am. I've often been there to see him and his daughter,” an- swered Jack. **Ah, his daughter! I think I saw her at the window as I passed.” ** Undoubtedly you did ; shesits there all day.” * Lively girl she must be, black hair and eyes ?” “Nae IN *“ And she is—well, not pretty.” “Taere you are wrong. She pry.” is Why she quogk ideas of feruale beauty. Is she one ro like a school! marm. of the cultured, clever sort ?" * She is a very clever girl.” “She is, eh. Then ['ve geen her, no “That must have heen her in the 1 house.’ “Oh,” muttered Arthur. “I'll run to the telegraph office, Jack, if you'll ex- cuse me, and then I'll beat your service and we'll have a jolly night of it.” That afternoon Mrs. Delancey received a telegraphic dispatch in the following words: Have seen the “ condition.” Good-bye, fortune. I wouldn't have her for a million. I leave at eleven to-morrow morning. Arron. “Rena, my love,” said Fidelia Fair- fax, as she came into Miss Rena Lester's boudoir after a long walk; “I am not sorry you could not come out with me, tor I kept walking up and down one. street which, though it pleased me by its pretty houses, would have wearied ou who know it so well.” “What street was it?” asked Miss “The street on which you said Mrs. By the way, who was ESgtieman 1 saw sitting on the porch? “Oh, that must have been Arthur. | All the girls are in love with him.” i ‘*Idon’t admire their taste.” “Ob, Fidelin; why he’s so hand- | some. | “Then I did not see him.” | *“Oh, it must have been he; he is the | only man in the house,” » * Has he light hah Cos, very light” “And a book-wormy look?" “For shame, PFidelia He's very clever: but 's handsome, * I don't doubt he was the one 1 saw Well the Opoliston girls are welcome to him Suppos we stroll to the tele graph oft Rena: 1 want ¥" yery, Bh he joe to send a message to pa That ale iegraphi Mr, Fairfax received Tt essage as ol alternoon OWS I have se hundred thousand dolla Prise ould be too | I take train 10 morn Midway between Upo and Ma. troviile was a junction of t radi roads Tracks crossed and curved around each other the ground peared to be covered with an iron Work, How but two switches had piaced, and as the train bound from Upoltston to Matrovillie eame thunder hot off in the wrong direction, ston 3 ¢ (IRE ol 1s ! iid ap i net it happened no one ever learned, been left mise i then seemed to stand still for a second, then seemed to shiver all over, and the next second the engine lay on under two coaches, its driving wheel revoiving so that no spokes could be seen, fli arth i Li Ana ike a vo Ig On its its side, ing & stones and ashes CANO Then, ere any warning conld he gis on rushed train from Op bound for Metroville. A shriek the whistle, and engines, oars, bay ¥ { bs 5 the rRiiroaa Lies unsightly mass, sleam. discovery was been killed and In five minutes the made that no one haa very few injured, and those but slightly, ‘There's n young lady lying on the vntform who says she thinks her leg is broken,” said an old gent A group w i thi ¥ i lepot ean (o ho were assisting the adies : band: * Ab, now, that's continued, addressing he added, turning if 5% It goentieman + around § a Ww WAS Wrapping a an oid ndy's wrist iv,” he “ Now," gonptigman, you ald ho aone nico the to the old duct me with you. [am a surgeon : urgeon was Arth Delancey, conductor presented him to a retly young a rough She to the he s and his very p ing mail 2 eyes and eK curis pear to be in 1m archiy at Arthur * It Miss Fairfax was only was Arthur's t thought Her injury ankie, and Inughis mer fears she aco physician and pern carry | hie ager oO addy WHO Was re extemporizged of very pretty hia She did not ap- pal syttged COUCH < hand A bin I uch n, and } ¥ ed to be but ! merry the i him tad ea Lee wie iy the He and insisted on giv patient his person: pliment she Snare 1 i supporiea bo 18 he DRCK-ev attention, a com aid not seem Some time was lost in send eine, and over an hour had surgeon had band foot. He was stanaing th mantelpiece under the mfluence of tu biack eyes, and she seemed content say nothing but quietly admire the doc tor's golden curiz and frank blue eve when the hall-bov, who had iv several large gratuities from the docter for having run for medicines, apd who was, therefore, his friend for life i into the parlor, saying I Some nt tel ton and Metroville, saying a fearful accident, and saving about no lives heing lost So two trains have in, oni om exch r lace, full of people looking after rela- are or of passed god the patient's RNID OF n y 4 POY red rasiu One se grams to Upolis- i £3 ngs } waere Q Wren nothing i (Td Dia Visitors both ALY had he finished vy ran four people. They were Mrs Delancey, on the arm of a fair-haired little man, and Mr. Fairfax dragging a very tail and very black haired and ADEUIAY Young . *Fiadelia Fairlax, Arthur, as he saw the angular * Oh, my, Mr. Delancey!” the black-eyed patient, as she fair haired little man, * My son!” cried Mrs. Delancey, em- bracing the doctor * Fidelin, Fidelia, roared Mr. Fairiax, black-eyed patient, “Mr. Uriah!" softly murmured the angular lady, crossing to the little man. “Oh, Miss Araminta!” squeaked the little man and he shook hands feebiy with the angular lady. * And you are really Miss Fairfax! said Acthur tc his black-eyed patient. “Pm so glad.” “And you're Mr. Delancey.” said Fidedn; “I'm so glad,” and then she blushed. “My dear Miss Fairfax,” said Arthur, then, bluntly, “may I hope that we may both retain our hundred thousand doliars? * Do you mean retain it with honor?” she asked, blushing again. *Yes. Don't you think it would be a shame to destroy the calculations of that good old soul, Queerby, who is now no more? Don't vou think we ought to do as he wished us to? * Ask pa, doctor,” said black-eyes. i! Araminta,” said Uriah, ** this met. {Ing is auspicious. I-—l—will you—will | you~" “1 understand you, Uriah. Take ime,” returned the angular one, and { they agnin shook hands feebly. Two months later, at Mr. Fairfax’s cosy little Louse, the guests were assem- bled to witness wedding the i monies of two couples, They | ho $y fe Oy Jove serenmed saw Lhe daughter!” tl my embracing 10 I Core. were minta. After they had been happily united {and congratulated, Mr. Fairfax, who was consoling Mrs. Delancey for the loss {of her son, said: * My dear Mrs. De- | lancey, you are a comfortable sort of i woman and Yam a romfortable sort of man. I have been made to-night father to your son and you a mother { { my daughter. Do you know of any just | cause and impediment in the way of our { becoming, ahem—" to | services of the minister was again put { not the least happy of the party. A I HAT IT I ——— A $1,000 Prize. Thetreasurer of the Franklin Institute | has in his charge the sum of $1,000, which has been deposited by Uriah A. Boyden, Esq., of Boston, to be awarded a8 a premium to any resident of North America or the West Indies islands who all rays of light and other physical rays are or are not transmitted wiil: the same velocity, Each competitor will be required to transmit to the secretary of the institute before the first day of January next a memoir describing in detail the apparatus, mode of experi- menting and Phe results. These memoirs will be submitted to three judges, to be appointed by the board of managers of the institute, and who are to be citizens of the United States,’of competent scien- tific ability. Should the judges uhink proper they may require the experi- ments described in any of the memoirs to be repeated in their presence. Every memoir must be anonymous, but must contain some motto or sign by which it can be recognized or designated, and must also be accompanied by a sealed envelope, indorsed on the outside with the same motto or sign, and to contain the name and address of the author of the memoir.— Philadelphia Record. aia————————— A victim of domestic infelicity, who ig in the habit of dreaming, should never go to sleep in church. A con- gregation near Quincy was somewhat startled last Sabbath when a venerable member excitedly yelled, ‘“ Here, new, drop that skillet, old woman I"— Quincy Modern Auge. ON A FLOATING CAKE OF ICE. nn Far from Shore in a A Pertlons Midwinter Insane Man Terrible tale Adventure, A letter from Claytor, N. Y.. to the New York Sun says: George Penn, one of the survivors of the party eaught on whitie crossing fromGananoqgue to Grind stone isiand, tells the following story of the night's adventure . At 3:30 p, um. 1 started from Gana noque for Watertown, by way of Grind. stone isiand, with the following party of farmers, who came over in the fore. noon on the ice with a team and sleigh, mnde the crossing without diffi. Ell Stetson, and Charles Ke ndall, Whidd cuity § and Eimer Calhoun, David Harwood, Lewis Kittle and Willard Robinson We had in the sleigh, and had no trouble until we reached the middle of the channel, where we found the {ce i grist shaky, and detaching the horses We i them separately and pushed the sleigh by hand Soon one of the horses went through, and in his struogeles broke up the for about one hundred feet be Wi him landed Seeing hat our weight was too great for the separated, and also soon found we had nasi OUr course and were heading ahove isiand toward water. Cum. Robinson and mysel! staved to- r and pushed the sleigh, which we unioaded, which soon went and we abandoned he ew a hurricane, and it was he pitch dark. Suddenly we all through at once, and then each i, 1 found a cake big enough to sustain me in & kneeling wition, and Cummings and Robinson ’ nsaited, and 1 d go no further pert : t f vid fOr got Lie open min and i it to save himss and ashore ipped off his ged into tl a hundred on © 10 RG we I should think | re- nees about two hours, BROKE LO Jide ti d erawled ost sight of hin 4 i fh 1 al out tl 3 ined on my & under me, ¢ walter and chilled 4 moon nasa cone the eake on which wiiich 1 found to square and some found te sna wae feet his mind and add, POOY Ow perisii- my aim r 80 | took spped it around de to pro y add to overcoat off and wi and got on t! gif 1 i of 1 waves and made mu siiouid Cummings was grow- -, and 1 stroy about hb LO arouse Lun. y, and how te sald five, iim for their sakes to bear Wi about a mile dis- Him to Jook, help was com- d exclaimed . two, three, He was io ol hey He became une able, broke away from me, sald was going as! and walked off the him by th numb, and be- lim Lie gave a violent i and went dow n i and I watched t is fan id | begged | A Furry } Aout i time SAW lights on we, Apparently i i ins I Lim short iy aga } ore i dos fe HANGS Wore re Of cnuazit i £8, Oui my Wi I cou kick. broke m Was ving | id raise h FOr i now alone party had per ouid be my fate, . but 1 against moving much, were crashing and trust myself ought 1 would call, in hie ard. i did SY BOY. times. Alter waiting, it seemed fo s, 1 saw a light moving on the nd called again I Was an- y William Rusho, who had and was going to the bam to He got a boat and some men and they pushed thr ugh the ma was rescued at ive, having been on the | six and a half of it on float shinson reached the shore so ak that he could scarcely crawl. He unable to give any account of what The rest of the party, who took a different course, got ashore without difficulty and saved the teams besides, 1 oO hy dod a take care of his horses, ee out to fHali-past tw § * ours, » mppened., A —————————— Small Dividends on Crime. £1 The income of a t! small and precarious compared with the pains taken to secure it, that one won. ders that thieves do not abandon the occupation in discouragement. them recently arrested in New York, described in minute detail to a reporter the whole process of his stealing $1.000 werth of diamonds from a Fifth avenue boarding house, and the balance which it left him. He was stopping al a ** dis. reputable” down-town ed when he saw the rooms advertised, and made up his mind to go and see what business he could accomplish there, out his cheeks: deepened the sockets of his eyes with burnt cork; reddened his complexion with vermillion; painted wrinkles on his forehead, and added a tall, tight-fitting beard and a a bald crown. When his toilet was complete he looked like Wall street broker, or an American statesman. Putting on a handsome, well-made suit of clothes, and buying a he hired a cab for ** the round trip,” at three dollars, and drove to the house. Being left alone in the parlor he sat and strummed the * Anvil "on the piano, apologizing to on entering for doing it. Chorus man, just over, who would require four suite at 835 a week, The lunch bell which he accepted, saying that he would first wash in his new room. After a | set to show him the way to the dining | was quiet again, he proceeded to busi- | NERS, I Locking the outside door of his room | he ww bed away from another { door leading into the adjoining room. { The door was fastened with a hook only, which was easily broken. { door he found himself in another bed- { room, but saw nothing but a sealskin { sncque which he eould | Then going to the bureau drawers and { opening them he found two morocco cases, from which he took the diamonds, putting the jewels into his pocket, went back into his bedroom, from which he informing the butler that he had decided not to stay to lunch. Reaching his ho- | out to negotiate his plunder. treet for 8500, but was obliged to take $450, about one-tenth of their value. But for the necessity of getting rid of them he could have done much better than this. Half of the money he gave to “a young lady friend,” who soon after- ward deserted him and ran away to Chicago; the other half he lost at a gambling-house, A few hours after the theft, therefore, he had absolutely noth- ing left to show for all his ingenuity, labor and pains, but goes to State prison for n term of years instead. He was formerly a London physician, and a man of pleasing address and marked intelligence, But none of these served to command very large dividends on the capital he invested in crime. Detroit Free Press. | FOR THE FAIR SEX. The Ladies of Pern, A San Francisco lady, writing from | Lima, Peru, to the Argonawt, savs | Lima is called the paradise of women. i They are ealled beautiful: | if you admire their black eyes and ebony | dresses——not the dreamy black eves of the harems, nor the sparkling black eves of the Syrians, nor the liquid black eyes of the Egyptians, but the black eves that easily reveal the different types of character, and are not afraid to show it; yet we hear nothing of equal rights and privileges among them. They are generally occupied, but do not werk: the ¥ look upon labor as degrading | #0 10 MASS neat and pretty; in this respect they surpass us. The dress is black, and j never touches the ground; there is no | fussing or fumbling with trains. A | below the dress, with a deep hem and two tucks, and always white and clean | Pranciia gaiters are generally worn: the hands are bare: the manta is thrown over the head, falling gracefully down { almost to the bottom of the skirt, The | mania, not being worn with us, needs | some description. By way of illustration, let us take one large silk shawls, with deep of the one side, about a vard from one corner, remove half a yard of fringe, and put in its place a plece of hiack lace about two inches deep; we now have a manda. is Spanish the indies In eves tion the beauty of the women. It has undoubtedly this advantage: it may conceal many defects of 8 face that is not handsome, and it sets off to advan. tage the charms of a beautiful tace. To drape one's self gracefully in a manda is an art that must be studied. It thrown over head: the brought down on the | Hena, times over tl dropping y draw around is first inoe is &OMme It is Kk: end eft oulder, and pinned so as to fall down fold on the 1 The left hand noeaded, but the right holds either a praver-book and rosary PAraso! A ady never goes out two three to and a colored woman servant walks behind, Young girls are their friends Sd are never pers persons of the opposite sex hie matches are made by the older people, and so effectually is this done that the ladies all are divoread The subjec their time te Ore tiie eves, fastened so as the ne the We } Ri ng is carried over the inn foi ell sid 18 or Aa none; go together, eReOTLE d bh r they y Tey mitted i gi, 10 Soe Rie, t of dress claims the most of and attention; their dresses and opera and soiree suits are magnificent. Their boots, especially, are beautiful, No people have naturally as small feet as the Peruvians. The Pe. ruvian made boots are too small for fore figners Peruvian gent: SCHOOI-giri period indies are not very intelli. As soon as they pass beyond the they care iiftle books or literature. Many learn to play the He ile conti when married. They are exedsively courteous in their manners, but we are not to be misied hy appear. Their mode of salutation is more om brag n anything else, and they niways san My house and al that I haw entirely at your disposal, and we are to be as one family.” They AVE Aiways wealth msg nstion—al ienst tuey never speak of poverty. They to smoke. Although handsoms when voung, they searcely turn twenty when they begin to fade. One thing al- ways s with them, and that is their gait. Their movements are gliding and graceful, and the same irae of the men. Although the streets of Lima are nerrow and the sidewalks cramped, you are jostled jess by the passing throng in to ANCES, of an i% ¥ ¥ y In ove nat is or San Francisco, the iandies generally turn upon domestic affairs; instead of asking a foreigner tries that she has visited, they ask her what her name is now (although they have been properly introduced), what 4 old she is, how Jong she has been mar. ried, if she has any children, the names speaking Spanish, what she thinks of | Lima, ete. Fashion Nates, Oil calicoes are revived, Cotton erapes will be much worn. Turbans are worn far back on the | head, The turban is the bonnet of the mo- | ment, Large pelerine collars of Ince are re. | vived. Lace is again used to excess in mils linery, fonahle The English woman generally wears a large bonnet, Lace-striped buntings appear among the new goods, small children. for red oil ealico. Chips will be the favorite hats of New York women this spring. loves of small bonnets. | Fiat tops and round tops for turbans are equally fashionable. | Albatross cloth is one ef names for French bunting. the in all printed cotton goods, Flower bonnets and flower turbans appear among evening coiffures. Colored satin gathered bands are worn half way ub the arm, bracelet fashion. Lilac and straw color will be favorite combinations of color for spring wear. Gilt and silver balls for the hair are a | riage. | combination with figured rouge Adri- anople, Yellow, red and brilliant dark colors are mingled with the faint fade colors in new goods, Misses part their hair in the middle | and arrange the front in soft flat rings on the forehead. Giirls in their teens will wear large round collarettes of cut work, Maltese | and antique lnces, | the strings edged with lace. { black rogale of large reps and Ottoman silk trimmed with the same. Crape Yeddo and French bunting, or fine camel's hair, form many of the | Wear, Sunflowers, jonquils, yellow wmar- | guerites, in demand for corsage bouquets and dress garnitures Silk and wool brocaded mixtures of light quality in bright Oriental colors and designs will be used as parts of costumes with plain French bunting o light camel's hair. ———————— The word * butter” occurs in most of the ancient languages. Butter, supposed to be a thousand years old, has heen found in a peat bog in Ireland, It was rather cheesey. Some Egyptian butter supposed to be at least twenty-five hun- dred years old has been discovered. Though a little turned it still tasted and smelt like the genuine article. FIMELY TOPIUS, Preliminary arrangements have been made for a new Amebican Arctic expe Hessel, ; inte chief of the scientific stafl of Lhe iti Polaris. The expedition will be fitted out by private enterprise. It will gail for the North next year, via Jones’ sound, where the vessel intends to es tablish a meteorological station to co- operate with those of the international congress, At this station a yacht will be left to maintain communication, while a powerful steamer will push as far north as possible, A short time since an item went the rounds of the press to the effect that W. Chappelle, a show agent, who, eighteen years age, befriended a young Irish girl, had received $500 frem the girl, who it seems had married a wealthy Californian, The item went on to say that the money was sent to pay Chappelle's expenses to California only, and the inference was that hie would be made a rich man by the grateful Irish girl of years past. People who read the Hem with « tinge of envy toward Chap. pelle and regret that they had allowed # number of golden opportunities to east | bread upon the waters to pass hy un- heeded. thinking perhaps if they had been a little more liberal they might now be reaping their reward — people of this sort will no doubt be pleased to earn that the whole affair was sn grand hoax played upon the showman, He thinks Wambold, the New York min- is at the bottom of it. v ® sired, house The Keatucky of repfesenta- tives has passed a bill to punish theft hy a mae with punishment by stripes, not exceeding thirty-nine, or hy imprisonment, i ii ) jury. The American Israelite, in notice iis act of the Kent ky house, gives the origin of ft Inshes, 1t says: ** The thirty nine ashes are taken from the Raboni- SOY ih not in the di ing u if the thirty-nine, or forty } Hes GLE, in the the law of Moses to thirty-nine, he Lie who received that punishm Seriptare Rasha, *a wie man,’ and the iegisinted that none in wranded as a Kasha for the commission of one crime of that eatagory ; therefore, they would not inflict the full punishment of the nw on any ouiprit, and changed the forty lashes to thirty-nine.” Theft un. Mosaic law was not punished a fine, or loss of liberty until | the fine was paid by the eulprit's labor, wins Lhe punishiment for theft according iH Moses, Is ORIG In 3 rahbis i Israel should iw dey the WW RLEIpes | The evidenoe Laken before the court of imgquiry into the Tay bridge disaster brought out nothirg of any importance, except the fact that one of the officials | A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY, (An Inve Arilcios Con 4 iy ster-Froof The New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer was present at ** an exhibition of an invention which is | pronounced by Professor Doremus and ex-Secretary McCulloch one of the greatest of modern times, and surpass ing the electric lignt in importance as promoting to a remarkable extent the health and comfort of mankind,” The exhibition was given at the house of the inventor, Mr. Daniel M. Lamb, The | vorrespondent says in his letter { Itis very generally known that, in all really water-proof garments, the rub. ber, no matter how applied, remains on the surface to a greater or less extent, or, {Of course, visible to the eye, detected frequently by the odor, and always by | the touch. Fortunes have heen spent by rubber companies in the vain effort to discover some solution of hydro- carbon gums that could be applied to fabrics without perceptibly in their appearance and adding to their weight. Day and Goodyear alone, it is sald, have expended $100,000, but in vain; and it was to sce the result of the labors of a practical, self-educated Mr, Lamb, plain in speech and man. | ner, yet with an honest, pleasant coun. | tenance, and a smile that lightened Lis somewhat stolid features, was seated at 8 oenler-table when we entered, and while waiting for the others to arrive | your correspondent chatted for a few {moments with him, asking casually if this was his first invention. He re. plied: “Oh, no, I have taken out i : | An iron manufacturer remarked that it would prove incalculable in his trade as preventing castings from becoming rusty, In facet, every one present grew very enthusiastic, though a few had seen the experiment repeated a number of times, and a silk merchant from Lyons, France, wished to make an immediate arrangement to use it in his house, hay- | ing the raw silk treated before wearing. As a final experiment a piece of the brown-stone used in building, which hind boen brought in from the street hy one of the gentleman, was booker in two, weighed and one-half treated, was Inid in the water for five minutes and ad not perceptibly increased weight, while the other had three-fourths of sn ounce. Thi in stone, as its absorption of water resul in its crumblmg away. The Country Bey from Home, boy grows weary of the mossic sur- roundings of his life. The old home- stend looks small and cramped up. the siow, matter of fact life he is leading € yesrns for the fre to develop his latent energies. He takes his father's hand in a “ good. | wwe,” kisses the tremulous lips of his | mother, strolls down to the neighboring | furm-house and takes sn awkward but | loving farewell of his sweetheart, and | The Engine. Into the gloom of the deap, dak night, With panting breath and a startled sotensa Swilt as u bird in sodden tight Darta this creature of steel enl steam. Awinl dangors are lurking nigh, Rooks and chasms are near the trek, But straight by the light of its great white eye It speeds thre’ the shadow, dense nod black. Terrible thoughts and fierce desires Trouble ita mad heart many an hoot, Where burn and smolder the hidden fires, Coupled over with wight and power, It hates as a wild horse hates the rela, The narrow Wack by vale and Lill; And shrieks with a ery of startled pain, And longs to follow its own wild will, | Ob, what sm I but an engine shod | With muscle and flesh by the hand of Gods | Speeding on thro’ the dense, dark night, i Guided alon s by the soul's kite light, i | Often Sud oftan. uy. saad banst ties, | And hates ita way with bitter hate, | And longs to tollow its own desires, | And leave the end in the hands of fate. Oh, ponderous engine of ste and steam : Oh, human engine of flesh snd bong There lies salety, and there alone Lit by the soul's great eye of light, Alone will earry you thre’ the night. — Ella Wheler, in Inter-Ocean. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Peter Cooper is in hi, ninetieth year. Back yards—The trains of the ladies dresses, ‘There are 2.00; (ndisns living in Mis sissippi. Trade doiiars make a big nolse on a chureh piste, The Sultan of Turkey keeps nearly 4,000 servants, Over 1,300 men are engaged in stov making in Detroit. More men brake in the railroad busi- ‘thing and another, and 1 never am happy except when at work to discover something. 1 was born in Canada, brought up out West in Michigan, and have spent the last twelve years and [ail my money, perhaps $50,000, in ex- perimenting.” _ "What do you consider your most important invention next to this? * 1 may say discovering the use of the milkweed, which I consider the most valuahle of American piants. You see the supply of rubber is hecoming more dear and scarce every year, and at Jeast twenty-five per cent. of that imported is nothing but dirt and sand mixed in by the natives to inbrease the weight, Iv struck me that judging from the present state of things in the course of a few years it might prove necessary to find u substitute. and one day on pull- i how gummy and sticky the juice or sap was, and, after working over it for a time, 1 decided it could be made to take (the piace of rubber, and, on account of 1s superior lightness, would be especial. '¥ uselul in manufacturing teeth-plates, some of which 1 had made. ** From the seed of the milkweed oan be made an oil equal to the best linseed, the city. Here he will learn the secrets of business life, erown his labors witha fortune in about a year and a half, and retiring to the haunts of his youth, bring forth the hand.maiden of his heart to surroundings fitted for her wonderful goodness and sweetness, So he thinks. Arriving at the goal of his ambition he is charmed and delichied, blocks on blocks of houses so close togetiier that a | sheet of paper cannot be slipped between them, the hurly-burly of the enormous trafic of the streets, the crowded side. ted to fil] his eyes with wonder and his beart with enthusiasm. He enjoys Limself hugely. a brie view of ®he brilliancy of the streets by gaslight, he jeisurely finds his way to his boarding. house. He half way remembers that be | has forgotten something, that the cows are not milked, or wood for the kitchen fire not brough. in, but his tramp on the hard pavements has made him foot- sore, and the confusion of sights he has sen has tired out his receptive brain, and he wearily tumbles into hed. moment his body touches the easily- yi awake, the strangeness of his surmund. Did you ever see a dog hark his shins? — Philadeiphia Jem. Thenext Fesruary with five Sundays in it will be in 1920, Benconsfield says: “When [I want to read a novel on RY Londoners are 1o have sea-water pipes connected with their houses. Chicago now siaughtersahont hall Se hogs packed in the whole West, Nearly 300,600 persons are employed on British and Irish railroads. poy A poor reiation—The crude eTort of a story-writer. — American Punch, The Indians in the school at Carlisle. Pa. are taught military tutios. There are ecightytiwo churches in England and Jreland The English laws compel the veloei- pede riders to erry a bnadiigit sod a Everything is susceptible to change but an editor's pocket. — Yonlers Sales. The e-al-fieids of Aluibaws sre estie ps to contain 52,000 006 000 bushels of coal. A pork packer nt Indianchiis has in- sparks issuing from the train through- | out nearly the whole distance hetween | the south side of the bridge and the high ders. These sparks appear to have been due wo the great pressure of the grinding rails on the eastern side of the bridee. the | fuse of the plant makes capital fuel. planted a ten-acre lot on purpose to CArTY on my experiments, and am satis. fied it wouid pay better than missing hay, if there was a market for it. These myself to finding a perfect water repel. his eyelids and keep them open. There | is not that reassuring resistance to ihe bed thai there is in his own cot in the attic at home; the noise of the city is the katy- dids; the flickering shadow of the street wien 8 very strong wos! 110 is having Re thinking an axle was put on the brake Al the where the ocatastrophy oo. rails were broken out on the as though torn up by the pressure of train from For rest, nothing has Bor 18 now (ikeiy 10 be character of the il one witness living Ww ridge, but above it, de. hat, broken, he x t i. thie iy i side, eXOURsIYe Tid Heir pince Lhd oten discovered £1 Hu worst of the b i that fall int © hare i i 0 the river before the train In Belgiom the flying of pigesns has In no coun- try on the raising of carrier pigeons carried on to the degree of pers And inno coun } 1 ZiOHe 1s i he form such an item of importance to the | government as it does there, Here are | some figures which seem incredible, but | which are vouched for as “official” £30,000 to the Belgium government us freight for transporting pigeons last year mone, It is claimed that 1,500,000 piseons were taken from Belgium into ‘rance~ the former country being too small for the starting of any important races within its own bounds — during 1879. The greatest race of recent years was tha: of Inst year. from Rome to | hundred birds were entered and less { than two hundred ever returned. The rest were lost one way or another. Four of these birds, singularly enough, got to Philadelphia. They were picked up at sea by nn Italian vessel, the Clara Pick. ens, bound for that port, a short dis. | Mediterranean, 400 miles from the land, | so tired that they alighted on the ves. and were caught while asieep. | These birds had th 3 sO ION 55 Out of the Ordinary Run, At a ball in Chicago a visiting miner | threw off his coat that he might put | more of the old John Barleycorn en- { thusinsm into his arms when whirling his girl around. An officer who, an | found in its pockets R127,000 in money; { but the officer knew better than to keep | any of the money. The Omaha Herald makes | announcement as follows: will not longer permit publication of | the language that is used and accounts | of thie scenes that oceur in the city coun { oil. Respect for the people of Omaha { and regard for its good name influence 1 us te this course, and no reader of this | paper need expect to find more than a | general reference to any riotous and vulgar outbreaks that may hereafter | occur in that body. A pious farmer, Cheaney by name, | was in the habit of sweeping out the country meeting house, near his dwell. {ing, on Green river, Kentucky. He {| went to the church one Monday to do hig usual work. He was missed from | home, but his family concluded that he | had gone to Curdsville to visit relatives | On the next Tuesday night some one { heard groans in the church. It was | found that Cheaney had been stricken | with paralysis while sweeping and that | he had remained prostrate on the floor, | without food or care, for thirty-six | hours, Three small boys who were tired of | school, being pupils at the Vincennes | (Ind.) Catholic academy, put their { heads together to think out some plan | of relief. Tt was proposed to run away, { but they feared that should they do so they would starve. Jt was determined at last to burn down the school build ing. Shavings, pitch { the fire. One of the boys followed the lend of his conscience and revealed the plot to a policeman just | match was applied. An opium smuggler having been put fon trial in the United States district | court in San Francisco a few days ago, i sought to prove that the article offered | for sale by him was a second-cl {ele. The prosecuting officers claimed | that the opium was of the best quality. of the opium in question in open court. Chan Jdng, the Chinese interpreter, | was tickled at the thought. He touched {the flame to the opium, drew a long, ! lingering breath and grinned from ear te ear, winking the while at the pris- oner. ‘‘Velly best,” said Chang and | the defendant was convicted. been treated with it, yet could be played upon with the hose and remain chip dry, By the time Mr. Lamb had concluded speaking the rest of the company ap- peared, including ex-Secrctary MceCu!l- and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Carpenter and Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, the philanthropist. Mr. Lamb was introdaoed by Mr. Carpen- ter, who really discovered the discov- ever And then, with a large basin he- fore him and a pitcher of water at hand. nod ~ nid soend, yet we remain with a dry smile, or smiling dryly, or rather dry and smiling. A pair of new pale-pink kid gloves and it was decided they liad not heen treated, though Mr. Lamb said one of could decide, for they looked precisely alike in color, gloss snd freshness: however, one was Jaid in the basin and some water poured on it; in a moment it was discolored, flabby and spoiled. water poured on and in it until the fingers were filled as if by a hand, then was—smooth, pink, and without one particle of moisture. & This seemed a little like legerdemain | to try the experiment upon a piece of | mosquito-netting, | tabries and turned on the water. A! and, as the volumb increased, went through the meshes, but leaving the thread dry. This was a convincing | answer, and immediately afterward Mr Lamb handed Mrs. Opdyke two sam- were apparently alike, but at last, de- tecting one to be a little creased, the indy decided it had been treated. [It wns then thrown in the basin. In a i second it was satyrated and draggled: | while the other, heing freely soused, | came ont as blue, justrous and smooth as before. Every sort of dress fabrie, including silk, velvet, brocades, matings, cashmere and even muslin and calico was treated in the same way with the same resuit, and while the different guests guessed in turn as to the samples having | beag treated, nine times out of ten they | settled on those that had not as having i been, This passing of the water through th fabric proves it will permit of perspira- [tion evaporating. One resson why | water-proof garments have always heen {objected to is that it will not permit that, said Mr. Lamb. Ostrich feathers were dipped again and again, retaining y their curl; kid boots like the glove | were niled and set in waler in vain; | and, as some one remarked. the major. general's daughters (pirates of Pen | zance) could go in paddling with their | shoes and stockings on. Paper bags were filled with water and hung up on { the wall, and with a twinkle in his eve | Mr. Lamb dropped in the basin an arti- { ficinlly waved front, and it emerged as | crepe as before; a piece of sealskin, a | book-cover, a silk hat and a square of { broadcloth were successively and sue. { cessfully treated to a bath, and all alike | rejected water with the scorn of an old toper. A breadh of green silk went in and came out immaculate. This suggested | an idea to one of the ladies, who ex | elaimed: * Good-bye to the hideous | water-prools of the past. I shallhave- one made ot sky-biue silk, * treated,” you know, and trimmed with swan's- down, also *‘ treated.” ** Yes," some one added, “and you can carry a “treated " parasol to keep the rain off your complexion,” This was rather an | envious suggestion that the complexion algo was ‘‘ treated.” The value of the invention, as applied to military clothing, carpets, kid goods, dress’ fabrics, and the numerous. other articles tested, cun easily be seen, espe- | elally when it is remembered that mil- lions of dollars are expended alone to replace every year the military goods destroyed by damp and moth in service of the foreign and home governments. I say moth, also, because this repel- lant renders stuffs treated impervious (alike to water, moths and even rust, { There seems no good reason to doubt the honesty of the inventor or the valve of the invention. Professor Doremus has subjected the latter to a minute and searching analysis and pronounces it “ perfect,” and says it is all the inventor claims it to be, and moreover cannot be boiled out even in ammonia, it perme- ating the filgrs or threads and hecom- ing a part ofthem. upen the coverlid knit by the loving hands of his mother. He grows more ‘ wakeful, the curious sounds that he hears put him on the alert jest some foul | deed of violence is being committed in | the next room, and he starts up in n | coid sweat a dozen times only to find | everything all right. He wonders if Lis | father and mother are talkipg them’ ations to which they know he is ex- posed ; if Jennie, the dear little creature with the rosy cheeks and dimpled el- is dresining of him with the last rosebud he gave her under her pillow. He somehow begins to feel that he is out of place, and if he could only see the old black cat asleep at the foot of the bed he would be reassured. He turns over his home-life in his mind as often as he turns over his body in bea, and that is about once in ten minutes. At the first gray streak of dawn hie asises, as has been his habit. Nota soul sur- | ring, except now and then an early milkman, and he would give his old | boots if he was on a milking-stoo! that minute. As he looks out of his window the sun rises plump up out of the north- | west and looks upon him as coldly as if tit really did come from that corner. This is oo much. A solitary tear {trembles on his eyelid, and before he knows it he is hard at work at a crying match, the first since the schoolmaster | made him sit with the irks. He | upon the street again, and secs not a face | that he knows, not an eye that looks kindly on him. He buys a second-class | ticket for home and remains the joy and comfort of the old folks, and when they | {die takes Jennie and both the farms, | and never goes to the city agin except to sell garden truck.— New Haven Regis- or. Hereditary ** Genius,” That the son of a man, who, when he | is not breaking into shops and houses, is | in the State prison, and of a woman. | who, at the age of three, was convicted of theft and bad lived among criminals ever since, who was the daughter of a woman that kept a disorderly house and drove her daughter into the streets to | steal —that the offspring of such parents | should have lived a lite of crime is as | natural as that night should succeed | day He is but fourteen years old, and, | on being at his mother's request ar rested and brought into a New York | poiice court in the hope of saving him, cried in a loud and impudent tone, ** that | | woman is a thief and a shoplifter, and | waatsto get rid of me” She said that | she had lavished money upon him, | sending him to three different Cana.’ {dian colleges, but hie always came hack | i The soui-stirring almanae is flooding the land with an electric ligh' of statis- tieal information. Words are chesp, except when they are sent over the Atlantic cable.>Cin- cinnati Saturday Night. The aggregale salaries of the New York city school teachers for 1899 amounted to 81 009 207, : The Sultan of Turkey spends $19.- 000,000 a year on Limsell, the cununichs, stltana and courtiers that reside in his paiace. An exchange wishes to know if gar is extracted from dead beats. No. wir; dead heats have no “sugar.” — Waterioo server. A man ean buy a hat for one dollar. It takes ‘rom tn to fi for a woman to go comparatively barchesded.— Val legjo Chronitle. The packages ol tomatoes put uo last year in the Uniwed Siates resehied the total of 19 968 000, of which New Jersey put up 5.502 000 cans, A patent has recentivheen issusd for the manufacture of paper pulp sad paper from any of the common fivld, iawn or meadow grasses, There are sixteen daily and week! papets devoted to the interests of published in the United States. Five years ago there were but two. The carpenter never takes Loarders, and yet ev carpenter in the world keeps boarding houses ali the time.— Times. Henry Smith, the famous razor strop man, of New York, was a heavy specu lator, and lost in one day, a few year- ago, $60,000 by the fall in stocks. Red ground oil calicoes, with all the old fashioned figures that used to be seen on such goods forty years ago, appear ameng iate importations of drass goods. _ Chicago's lumber receipts the past year have been greater by Juemy goa per cept. and its shipments by fifleen - vious year. However strange it may appear, the fact of 8 man eg ie it is no ventive from the bank suspending. ut, of course, the check is al] write. — Yonkers S The New Orleans Picayune has pub- lish~d five columns of names of eligible bachelors and widowers in that ciry, for the convenience of the ladies, in view of An Albany merchant recently shipped some goods by way of New York to London. The freight to New York was £20.90, and from New York to London $24. The distances are 150 miles and about 3.000 miles. Young men get so much gratuitous advice, that it is no wonder they do not value it. Nobody values anything that is vory cheap. But there is one thing that all the rising generation to New York. frequenting low saloons | should remember, aud that is that a | and consorting with desperate charac. | Sure way to incur an old man’s enmity ters. She obtained a good situation for | is to join issue with him upon the prob- ‘him in a second-hand furniture store, | able state of the weather to-morrow. — {but when the proprietor. a woman, | | threatened to dismiss him for bad con- | | duct, he seized a carving-knife and, at | | the point of it, made her write out a | { recommendation of good character, to | | the effect that he had been a steady. | | honest lad. When his mother stopped | speskin he began abusing her again, | and said she was always trying to get irid of him. Twice he came from Mon- treal to Detroit to find her, but she had { left for New Orleans, leaving him only | five dollars to get back to New York | with; and at another time she put him out of the house. He confessed he was never happy in school. The tutors made it unpleasant for him. When the magistrate remanded him to prison he cried so that he had to be brought back to see what the matter was; whereupon he began abusing his mother again. His mother is named Lyons, and is well known in various cities as an expert shoplifter. — Detroit Free Press. Census Facts, Supervisors of the United States census receive a salary of £500, and enumerators are paid $4 per day. There is one enumerator for each 4,000 inhabi- tants, and as there are 400.000 people in the district, one hundred enumerators will be required. They are appointed by the supervisor. The field work will be begun on the first of June, but a great deal of work will be required in advance of that date. In due time a multitude of blanks will be sent from Washington to each supervisor, and they must be distributed among the enumerators They will provide for the asking of a great many questions touching the products, manufactures, and general business of the country, and the social condition of the people. The law fixes a severe penalty for refusing to answer the questions of the enumerators, also making ef statements known to ke false, The enumerators will call from house to . témore News. A French lad, aged ten years. recently ran away from is school in the village of Savelot, and went to a neighbor's house where a wedding was being cele brated. The nuptial party made him drunk on wine, and told him to beware of his master's rod next day. This so trightened the youngster that he got a rope and hanged himself in thie garden, whers bis body was tound frozen the next morning. Old Nickelpineh's grandson ealied his attention toa bird the otherday. “That's no bird,” began the oid man. “Why yes, it is, grandpa,’ interrupted the boy “don’t you see it pick up the ecrombs at the door.” ‘That's no bird,” repeated Nickelpinch, when the youngesi again yelled, “ Tsay it is a hird, an’ I'll, leave it to gran'ma if it ain't.” * That snow bird,” caim.y remarked grandpa. “is the first one I have seen thusseason.” Yale has graduated 4 signers of the Declaration of Independence; 140 mem- bers of the United States House of Rep- resentatives; 44 United Staies Senators ; 15 ambassadors to foreign courts; 16 cabinet officers, including Mr. Evarts; 16 lieutenant governors and 20 governors of States; the lexicographers Webster and Worcester; 4 presidents of theo- logical seminaries; 65 presidents of col- leges, and 250 professors in colleges and professional schools, The comparative force of gunpowder and dynamite was discussed by two miners at Tunka, Cal. They ngreed, ns a test, to explode certain quantities of the substances under two planks, the friend of gunpowder to stand on the dynamite plank and the friend cf dyna. mite on the other. The trial was made in the presence of an interested crowd of Spediators, It resuited in a broken leg for the man who was lifted ten fegc into the air by the dynamite, and un- counted bruises for one whom the gunpowder threw against the trunk of « tree. t .
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