AFTER THE PRIZE. The Horse Reporter and the Autho of a Bundle of Competing Mum, {Chicago Tribune.) “1s the literary ¢ ditor in ?® The horse reporter looked up an¢ discovered a very pretty young lad: standing in the doorway. “No,” he re plied, “he is not. The literary editor i s very aflable will-o-the-wisp in rathes tight pauts, and the extent per wi ok which he is not in would surprise if you only Knew He with airy grace through the building once or twice a week, and then hike beautiful vision with box-toed shoes, i gone.” “] would like to see the editor,” said the young lady. “I } to compete for The T'mbune’s £10 priz for the best Do thirk would have any chance to win it?” a pair of soft brown ees looked wis fully into those of one who would soo be taking another bite of hard tobacco “1 can't exactly tell,” said the horse reporter. “It is more or less difficult, by simply looking at a person, to judge of her power of weaving from he surging brain the style of romance which this paper is at present 810 worth of bread waters, The pos dress, a hat with a Ot x tid ib . about it story. you per week and a pair of high-l mdicate lit and then ag hate to Tennyson fish Juhien, “I sh the story, bu some of it. i when a per entical juign work aliy in ap the effu “Her youu £g TORII “{Jh, § ful tone. abot t For a i ¥ hen Uh, porter. the shot-tower Eke tlLat. too far {. talk about ble tie. YOrce sui rimonial #eatl 1 one “Do you said the “I don't ¢xu meplied thie hi that last sented The young 1 aud read as {oll a 3 A aot a bieatu ¥ took the manuscript OWS : f wind, not est sugypestion of a Z¢ phy r even the leaves of erimson, and purple, and gold magic of an early trost-—under : Vivian aud Natal.e were stavding. Th golden haze of an October morning was tinving the hills with its glory, and as Vivian bent his head and pressed on the beautiful face that was apraised to bis the betrothal kiss, hie said to her, ‘1 will never leave you aga.n.'” “Vivian said that, did he?” asked the horse reporter, “Yes, sir.” “wuld In October, right after a frost bad knocked the leaves endwave, that he woud uever leave her again?” “Yes, sir.” “That won't do. No young man with 8 head lice that gets in‘o our cha te eolomns. Why, he ought to have left ber be.ore noou that day.” “Why?” asked the young lady, “1 really do not understand youn.” “ihis story bas "em out there under the trees ou a frosty October morning, doesn t it?” “Yen, gir.” “That's no place for a young man who has the true Saxon spirit. He ought to Le over on the board of trade buy ing corn. Any young man v ho puts in his frosty October morning making love will gaiber no moss.” “Yuen yon don't think my story wonld be accepted 7” “Hardly at least in its present sta'e. Yon had better make Viv te.l Natalie that he loves her with a wild, mad possion that makes him stub Lis toe when he thinks about it, but that he eannot ask her to Le his bony bride until alter the Lease ball championship is decided. That kind of an ending would have the true Chicago tinge.” “Good day, sir,” said the young lady. “Bon jour,” replied the horse re porter. “Faw your story into shape and come around again,” tha Lhe the linden trees £ 3 i i © , Enmamity Among Sheep -Herders. [“H. H." in The Century.) The sheep ranches are usually deso late pla es; a great stretch of seemingly bare lands, with a few fenced corrals bisckened and foul smelling ; the home and out-buildings clustered together in a bollow or on a bill ride where there is water; the less human the neighborhood the Lotter. Phe loneliness of life is, of itself, a salient objection to the industry. Of ing; they can live where they like. But for the small sheepmen, the shepherds ble life- Sometimes, after a few months of the life, a herder goes suddenly mad. Af ter this fact, it is no longer possible to see the picturesque side ol the effective groups one so olten comes on suddenly in the wilderness; shee) peaceably grazing, and the shepherd Iving on the ground watching them, or the whole flock racing in a solid, fleeey, illowy scamper up or down a steep with the dogs leaping and } m all sides at One sean he shepherd's face alone, with pitving fear lest he may be losing hus wiksa. learning oneae. locking Up the Tower of london. [Chicago Times. ] Register has been p the history of the tower of LLondon., sud finds that some curious sremonies are still kept up in that grim old pile. That of locking up the ghts is the most anc ind 3 most stately The 3. 2 lox RIDE © American tonerof n risinly v “ fmogcination aud Pain, 18 Dell cut off, he frequently cried out When the arm found unmorked The Loek had ooly of the jacket! via bod ACIHRWU by auteraed the sleeve even o as real as if the hook bad ripped up the flesh of Lis arm. The brain had received a false bat a real impression, and the nerves responded to it by pro ducing pain. Patents of Nobility. {Lon lon Worid 1 Tt is as easy to buy a patent of no- bility ns an old mader—the peerage, if anything, being cheaper than the O M., and most likely much more genu ine. The pope has countships and dnkedoms galore for good Catholics willing to pay for them: and thers is no power on earth to prevent a poten: tate who arrogates the presidency of the European roval family and has never recognized any other lord in Rome than himself, to refrain from creating dukes os Disaceia in the persona of aspiring diplomatists, or counts of Q(onionges out of Parisian linen-drapers. There is a Yankee dentist in a certain city who is marquis and koight, until the heads of the common people grow giddy al the sight of his signature in full. It requires, however, amall proyetatioa for the sovereigns who decreed Stalz, the tailor, a baron, and another London artist of the same description a Portu- guese viscount, to exercise their recog nized functions. especially if the wheels within the wheels are properly greased. There is, indeed, a book published, en- titled “L’Art de se Decorer,” in which the mys'ery is frank'y explained and the secret of gaining all the cheaper orders aod titles taught for the sam of £5. Nearehing for Milver, [Uor. Bosten Transeript.) A young English gentleman at New pert tells mo that when a child he was taken by his father to hear Coleridge, b “the silver-tongned orator.” His oratory had no effect upon the child, who heard not a word he said, so eager waa he to get a glimpse of his tongae, whic) he believed to be silver, and he returned greatly disappointed, having failed t. discover the metallic member. This reminds me of my own very literal childhood, one examples of which I give you: Overhearing that a playmate of mine was born with a silver apoon in her mouth, I made a hant for it, which resulted in a serious quarrel bedwoen us, the other child resenting the search, and I returned home indignant st the imposition upon me, deciaring vele mently that she bad wuothing but a tongue and horrid teeth that bit when 1 looked for the silver spoon, witch was not there. . A Brooklyn Man is Shown Some Real Country Butter, Recalling Dayn. {Chicago News] “T wonld like to look st some butter,” he sank tub in a Vesey stroat Hin, nx said a smoothi-voleed upon an verted tu [EE ER $1011 B.Ore, iro= prictor inserted a knife firkin and handed it remarking. grade.” “pPelicions!” said the man “Orange county to emell the sweet clover the waving grass gently kissed by the sumn- phyrs, while the lowing kine call to the rosy chioeked maid to draw their mill Ah, there's poetry in the thought of Orange county butter.” " Yes, and into an open the cnat “Orange county, to OIer, gir: fine ’ . emooth-voiced ! i and see Been ner 2 38 cents a Could I sell you half maouey, 100] “Oh, I would other variety, to look at some You have other brands, said the smooth-voiced Like [ suppose?” HR ‘Oh, ves,” gaid the man of butter, as he uncovered several gra les; “creamery, western, Philad: Ise 1 Old Methods of Lighting. cans of people wer blowing the but Was Weary often 3 wor k with the servant who had to kindle tae first fire if the tinder happened to be damp or worn or the flint and #eel “ a temper” In athe spat k and match to a ff out, "in deed, in many honses a rushlight was in some burnt, so that in ease of sudden illness, or any disasler, there might be light ready. The rushlight having, as its pame implies, a rash wick was about fifteen inches long, and was burnt in a huge perforated shade; it was the “farthing rushliglht” which very poor people were said to use for other pur poses than a night-light The picture of a half starved in her gar ret would, in those d AVE, have been very incomplete without the thin rudh candle: bot its flame was so fo bie that I ean hardly fancy anv eves could have served to thread a needle by it Hen st asa The Romance of Gas. Tar, {Cincinnati Knaqu Prof. Fisch of Munich, has ceeded in obtaining from distilled coal a white eryetalline powder, w hich, as far as regards its action on the human stomach, can not be distinguished from ninine exespt that it assimilates more readily with the stomach. its eflicacy in reducing fever heat is said to be re markable, even rendering the nse of ice nanecessary. The importance of such a discovery as this consists not so much in the actual fact achieve] as in the etimulus given to scient.fic research by the opening up of a new channel of in- vestigation. The romance of gas-tar is evidently far from being exhaus ed. In addition to the sw ccoteat scents, the most briliiant dyes, the most powerful dida- fectants, and even prasde acid, are some of the numerons and woaderiul products of its decomposition, ror} auto Goldamith's Segiectod Tomb, {New York Herall] There is a lonely court close to Fleot #‘eet where the body of another poot lies forlorn and forgotten. No railing protects Goldsmith's tombs'one-—-no barr.er keeps it sacred from the indif- ferent clerks and busy lawyers who hurry over the mouldering graves around it. Dr. Ingleby would be doing right good service now if Le would situate for the disinterment of “pout Noil's” bones. They have Iain where they are too long already for the eredit of the millions whom his works have Jeligted. tis time they were better sheltered from the weather, and elias fitter shelter could there ba for bom then the roof of Westmnnter Abbuy ? ; Chinese Medien! Treatment, {Shanghai Cor, Globe- Democrat. } The most absurd snperstitions are held in regard to sickness and disease. It is always attributed to the evil pirits floating 1a the and when a me; Ly ttacked with illness they ar, her of a family is a ; send {i These sacred in dividuals come attended by a full band of music, that is to say, a hb rth priests several drums, and an mstr ape, N ~~ 0 No y can be Lag merable pravers placed road ¢ end of each one he himself to the earth, ar on a sort of easel, in large hara ers. trates struments renk cordant clamor A womal { gates of ony in a village just I ind nor conrse, the o ut the 1 well house ‘ . can thunk is tl silo (1 reioval pos £48 the pr ests were sent for, and they | i been k ing it A Wicked Joke, 2 { nesd iad ertain tite he should Then the joke r called to the driver: take this box to the looks of that box I wonder who left it TIcan this an dismally ray and said Here, Jack, 1 don’t like the around dee uere, The Lox wae placed upon the dray, snd the dravman mounted started for station it half the length of groan of the box beneath him, ‘The driver was not certain that he rightly eaught direction of the nose, but he Ltened np on the box, the perspira- un oozed out apon his furehead, and ¢ furze upoa his hands rose up in ing horror at the sound. “What dat?” he softly asked himself, Care de _ and the hi How from iy street when a up oop “Umrhi-h-albi-oh