Bistorionl. It ir » well-known historical fact that mauy monarchs and conquerors who bad unlimited sway over the fair- est territonies in life, and who com- mand the homage of half a continent, died miserable deaths and received ig- noble burials, Perhaps the most un fortunate Kings in this respect were the Bourbon monarchs of France who reigned in the eighteenth century. Few menarchs had more power of glory than Louis XIV, the arbiter of Europe, and yet how igneble was his end! On his deathbed he warned his grandson, to eome Leuis XV., to shun what bad been the rocks on which his life had split, fondness for war and extrava- gance, After his death, the Regent hurried his body to the tomb, with no pomp whatever, and the road between Versaiiles and St. Denis was lined with drunken crowds, who hurled mud and stones at the mourning carriages, and the great Louis whose behests had been obeyed by half of Europe, was hustled into his grave with less ceremony than woukl have been displayed for one of he reigned. ios S000 be- Louis the f his grandfather, and he, (oo, his equerries while AV.d Vice id not choose to follow ad Of met with a miserable end. died of small-pox. and, the inieclion spreading through the les became like a lazar hous hree &, HILY sons, including own daughters dving. section of the Parisian by A de heari for they had were King wi always tre phin, soon to bec account On accouns ol the greatest impuience § ¥ § $1 roped vid t his antagonisin to the proii grandfather's Was King. summoned, the Abbe Mandoux, i i FACY Of IS court. A prelly ne enacted al thbed I'he Confessor who had beer th 1 LiL dei 11818 ted that the King should subscribe to a ol be made public declaration that repentance As he re last statement was drawn a King owes God only. be ensued, and al HD up. account it he tieclares th repant for having eaused scandal to his Wine Making Along the lladson, “The enormous shipments of Concord grapes made this fall from Ulster Coun- ty and elsewhere along the Hudson Valiey to New York, Boston, Philadel- phia and the Northern, Eastern and Western markets have shown the mag- nitude of the fruit growing business in this part of the State. The richness and flavor of the fruit have also bean made apparent. The recent cold snaps have attracted the attention the wine makers to the great grape product and ” Of vintage. During the past two weeks agents for Canadian houses and wine have visited the southern Ulster vine- yards and made large purchases of frozen fruit. Tons and tons of frosted grapes were purchased in Highland, Milton and Mariborough alone by par- ties from Montreal, Quebec and from other points in Canada, The price paid was from $15 to $25 per ton, delivered in barrels at the stations along the line of the West Shore railroad. Thegrow- ers who sold the frozen fruit for these figures have been looking the matter over, and many of them have coms to the conclusion that if it pays for wine makers in Canada to send agents along the Hudson to purehase grapes and pay freight and duty on them, there mast be money the busines. periment some of the fruit growers have will pr and are now For several years wine, been made AQ ity 4% in A8 Gil eX- purctiased Cab 3S making . however, wi 1 viz] 143%} . ff 1 Y parties 1 Isew here al i y "1 Hudson river pi ines: ot bo Liiese 1 MALS i . niles inland on the y er and iron x1 der that he may devote hamself to re- Hoion and to the happiness of his peo ple.’’ Uinou the Cardinal de la Roche Avmon to read this declaration, de Richelieu grasped hum excitedly by the ann and warned him that he mnst not read out ‘“the stupid declaration which Mandonx had dictated, Wil Was 1 the sturdy Mandoux plucked him by the rochet, and adjurned him to do his duty, upon which the Cardinal. for Richelien +3 se31 he loudly The Duc de faltering voice, was 80 incensed that fied the prelate with the most insul epithet.” Lounis XV buried night with no state atl the and trotting the » tigger ving Was al all, hearse coaches all Way. the cortege pass, and they greeted it with inaledictions. “Not a raised,” says Besenval, ‘even the wom- en did not make the sign of the cross; nothing was heard but bad language all the way, and the guards listened to it with indifference In 7064 Hononns was the san time, in the of Lybia, there dwelt an obseure mouk named He bad heard of these awful scenes in the far-off Cols eum at Home, Depend upon it, they lost nothing byt eir transit across the Mediterranean the bands of Greek and Roman soldiers. In the baths and market-pluces of Alexandria, in Jewries of Cyrene, in the Fastern story-teller Lhe of the Coliseum would be clothed in truly appalling, yet scarcely more than the truth, Telemachus brooded over these horrors until his mission dawned upon hun, He was ordained by Heaven to put an end to the siaughter of hu- mai Heings in the Coliseum. He made his way to Rome. He entered the Coliseum with the throng, what time the gladiators were parading in front of the Emperor with uplifted swords and the wild mockery of homage “* Movituri te sabiant.” Elbowing his way to the bamer, he leaped over at the moment when the combatants rushed at each other, threw himself between them, bidding them in the name of the Christ to desist, To blank astonishment succeeded imperial con- tempt and fury. Telemachas fell slain by the swords of the gladiators. I. gend may adorn the tale and fancy ill out the picture, but the solid fact re. mains—ihere never was avother glad- iatorial flight in the Coliseum, One heroie soul had caught the flow of prs ular feeling that had already begun to setin the direction of humanity, and turped it. He had embodied by his act and consecrated by his death the sentiment that already lay timdly in the hearts of thousands in that great ¥ emperor, At remote deserts Telemachus, i tae mouths of every itinerant festive masaores doubtless colors Charity is a virtue of the heart, not of the hands, and gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue, i 1 ‘Early during the past sum Lihat the g il became apparent duct was going to be very | iW Of growers asked other what would do with it. The producers s hat if they kept Y ork exclusively the market utted the entire season. ¢ bs *34 4 CHE SEPP WE TES Wels musdeas far and as far north as esuil pre feinu- wwe 18 a lit to the the producers say, ‘and as the acreage increases, we must make wine.” One of the Canadian agents lately that he would advise his house to build a vault costing about $30,000, here. The indications are the business of wine making will be s urge Chicago, Mouptreal, and the ‘Bat % t Yl I Lie Oil i AIA At Jacob's Well. of the tradition ry identity, This 1 And now we are lookin This 1s one few all whereof v4 FL able, 3 watered the flock of his father Jacob The top has been partly arched over should call the “curb of the well. and rim down a few feet to a point where | got a nearer view of the depth below. let me over this upper and outer found it over a hundred feet deep, but it. But how cama Jacob to dig such a weil? isa question often asked. le was close to the Vale of Shecham, which is full of streams. What need of boring a hundred feet through a solid rock to what a mile or two distant away Wis in exhaustleas abund- not always friends; that the inhabitants of the towns and the shepherds of the plains had little to do with each other, add even might be in open fend, In Christ **ihe Jews had no with the Samaritans. and seventesn hundred yveacs before the pro- genitor of the Hebrew rac have been fo them a stranger and an alien, the time of dealings may The people of Shecham mig be friendly day and epemies to-morrow; and though they might have waler flowing through their city, they might at any moment shat it off from him. With all his flocks and herds, he could uot be dependent on such an uncertain sup- ply. And so he dog his well, *and drank thereof himself, aud his children ad his cattle.’ The women of Sa- maria, who came hore to draw water, had probably been oul on the plain tendiug the flocks, and at the sixth bour—noon bad no other spring to go to but Jacob's Well, But the chief interest of this spot is that One greater than Jacob or Joseph has been here. On this very ground, sitting where wo now sit, our Savior sat, and talked with that women of Su- maria, revealing Lo her astonished eyes List in the worship of God the place matters ttle; that “‘peither in the mountain,’”’ looking up to Gerizim which rose nbove him, “noc yet at Jeru- salem,” shall mon' worship the Father: for that ‘God is » Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.”' to i Ho alone 8 wise who ean accommo date himself to all the contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and is struggling like a swimmoar aguine the roam, pa Biity, After a man struck by a policeman’s club has ascertained where he is, says the New York Journal, he naturally asks what struck him, Being satisfied on the latter point, he will, if be be of inquiring mind, desire to know more about the hstrument which has seri- ously disturbed his innate sense of the fitness of things, The policeman’s club is made of locust, covoawood, rosewood and ebony, and a man who has been struek by either thinks the others are the softest. The Locust sedatives policemen’s clubs are excellent times Keepers -—the might-clubs being made of locust and the day-clubs of either of the other materials—rosewood predom- inating. The length of the night-club is twenty-six fine, that of the day-club twenty-two inches, It is four inches pleasanter to be hit with the daylight baton, The locust club is used also for rap- ping for help, this wood giving forth a when stiuck with a The locust has lately been # means ol Besides being used as sonorous sound sidewalk. giving an alarin of fire, and efficiently, ubs wal it aro more ornamental if used a works The day ¢ cannot be u in this manner, i less useful than the noett yy ciub cosy 8 The 13 Ivose wood Are and cost y young clul = ger boys w wuld Tif f Haine ol Picture of a Prison. Right in the centre of the city of Baltimore, there exists a community of wer five hundred people, men and Wie men, whose daily lives furnish an ex- ample which could well be followed profit with by the balance of Baltimo: e's citizens, Thess people arise early and work all day. They are frugal in they habits, they waste nothing, and all save money, ‘They are all total abstainers, not a drop of intoxicating liquors ever passing their lips. © When through with their daily toil they retire to their rooms and spend the evening in read- ing, after which they go to bed and the next day arise refreshed and ready to resume the day’s labors. They neve; discuss politics and do not know who is the candidate for any office or what party is in power. The men never quarrel, and the women never discuss the fashions or gossip over the latest scandal. They are cleanly in their habits, none of the men wear beards, and “bangs and “frizzes” are un- known among the women They all attend religious services two or three Limes each Sunday, and profanity lmproper language 1s unknown along them. Their clothing 15 made more with a view to comfort than fashion, for in fact they know little the of the times, TI ress. pectful in their deme each iher and to those whi t them, and iad calm and pacid lives, el with all these advanta ¢ if sein iH Lhese advantages few, if an or about fashions ale 0 id number, and it was remarkable to wit- ness the complete discipline under which they had the large number of prisoners. The tables were waited upon by colored convicts and the food is also cooked by them. When half the room was filled a signal was given and all seated thewselves and com menced eating; the walters passed around each table earrving large pans of bread, whith was given to all who desired more, Many of them do pot eal the meat furnished (Mn, This is removed from their plates by the wal. ters and given to those Appi tes are larger, or who desire a greater quantity than that originally furnished them. The white : seated together and the colored by themselves; little or no clatter was made with the knives and forks, and the waiters passed silently to fro. AT THE CLOSE OF THE MEAL one-half the number marched back to thelr work, and the other half immedi- ately followed, The same system is observed at breakfast and supper. The former meal consists of bread and cof- fee and fish, or of bread or mosh and molasses and coffee, The prisoners come from their cells to breakfast in the morning, and go from breakfast to work. Their supper each sists of bread and coffee, ner is changed daily, BOUp and bread, Ww Hose convicts were all night con-~ and their din ROIETI Tes Blew well a sometim it val a 1% $id roag «4 Corned bee! referred to. ’ SOIeLInes Laat dents of in ow Likls guie tfhiint $ LHR BLS Owner Lo pay a une ol 3 in an Uhimoney Over Fire. . . Once Laxit Wis aining waters, when at an abrupt turn of the of life being a white-headed oid the stem cabin, the Only sign about it "Cracker, hes Ww Inilin fn - WIO was oling on doorstep, i % +1 s $e ua 7 ously sucking at tu of fire alDey Qily © pe AY Pi} As 1 was tired rode up and asked him i be could give i } and very thirsty, I me a drink of water, Hacdly looking up, he hospitably pointed to a bucked and said: “Light, strange: " q water, offered him a cigar and yurd and help your- a drink of took a , Lake the go self, dismounted, took seat on tue coorstep beside him cigar seemed to have a magnetic i and he wid me of a most surprising adventure he had once had with Indians during the war of 15837, One cold night in December he gone the look at traps and. it being a time of supposed peace, bad left his trusty gun atl home, It was an day f Florida and, besides his heavy clothing, he had a large thick blauket thrown around him. He had reached a point about five miles from his house, when, looking through the woods, he saw a large body of Indians moving in his direction He was aluost petrified with fear at first and could nol move from his posi. tion. Another moment and it was too late, The Indians had discovered him, and with fiendish pursuit, Now came a wild race a human the had his into woods to unusually cold " yells were in hot with aud briars and tangled gaining at every He knew they would catch him before he could Bouse, so bent all his ens 3 iife at down hill, through SAVales the stake; up hill woods, the step. ong reach his own towards a dismantled monastery that had been erected by the Spaaiards more than a century Of these ruins only the chimney remained. With a supreme effort he managed to scamble up this chimney, and climbing nearly to the top was, as he thought, beyond the reach of his foes, When the Indians saw hum disappear in the ohimpey, after their first vell of disappointment, they gathered heaps of bark and brush and made a roaring fire Lo roast the imprisonsd foe, but he told me he frustrated their amiable design by taking off all his clothes, and laying them with the blanket, which he had strangely held on to all during the race, in the chimney below him, and this prevented the flames from reaching him, “Bat,” sald 1. **I should have thought the clothing would have taken fire and burnt up.’ "So ‘twould, stranger, said he, “but ye see 1% war powerful warm whar 2 war, an’ I sweated so smart like that it kept then ar fixing’ soakin® wet, an’ the firewouldn’ ketch on, Arter they thought I war all burat up, they left an’ I olim' down and went home. That chunk of rock in thar kem outer that self same chimney,” “Goodby, old man,” said I, as 1 re- mounted my horse, “‘yon can discount El Perkins every time.” rons Ag Le, before, fall wiki and wisi ana i wil clothes, physician 8 1 IS assigned i ion by the Le 3 iLents i to HYsical » tied Ona work L Oiled Hog From » Lie , Bi now life he ex } his Carceraiion ration mlence hie s aliowed 1 with 0 AYE NO « z $ 4% Yada y VEIN 1 AY one. exes upon must be of the He is shaved hair is cut monty. no newsapers and is « ignorant what is going on in the outer world, He is albwed to write to and ietlers and that ost bret weekly and ie TE08 Ves 1st 4 x LAER Y Fei Ve from his frie y ies al stated per- | A : ‘ each must jess under the eve ! of one of the official tis tect id i Sad LOC Institution, daily, and can, i UR, IHAaAe working overtime, in 0 i 1 i i Lier hed for Lin Or 18 sé may elect SOIDE Ino i to Lis fam SeEVETrad i iy i for which they atid 68, i's care large minounts as $300, have wd by working overtime, When discharged, eact fur- uishied with a suit of clothes and $2 in money, receiving in addition all he has saved during his incarceration, ony «se hoo] aud church services adn held the chapel. The Catholi services are under the charge of the f St. Vincent de Paul, and the as eri CONYICL 8 «Mili WENA Y i charge of Protestant services are conducted by different denominations, There is a fine livraary in the chapel, to which eight hundred books bave lately been added, It is well pationized by the prisoners, works of fiction being their FAVORITE READING MATTER, The employment given the strougest of the men Is in the foundry, where stoves are completely finished and some parts of them nickel-plated. Here a crowd of nen, atlired in Prison gars, work steadily and silently under the di- rection foremen furnished by the contractors, who come each morning and leave each evening. Guardsquiet- ly stroll ere and there to prevent dis- order, which seldom, however, ocours, and the men appear to be interested in their work. In the marble department tops for furniture, wash-basine, and similar ar- ticles are made. Work is commenced upon huge blocks of marble, which is sawed in.o slabs, polished and cut aud finally pocked tor shipment. In a third department, where boots and shoes ace made entirely of wool, those of the convicts who have the least phy- sical strength are employed. Here, as elsewhere, everyone is busily al work, and the silence is only broken by the whirr of the machinery. When the warden entered each of the different rooms the men only stopped work long enough for each to remove his prison cap, and then resume. Two or three convicts quietly handed Gen eral Horn a letter as he passed through, posaibly a request for something, or perhaps a communication they desired sent to their families. Promptly st noon eech day the bell in the tower clangs forth the signal for dinner. The first signal is to get ready, and a moment or two afterwards a so. cond peal Announces the order to march in. Their dinner has been prepared. On the day referred to, it consisted of a large Jlecs of corned Boh A plate full of mash tatoes a in wedge of Bread. RC tan ashaare Wom od | upon one of four hundred plates in front of four hundred seats upon rows of long tables. Each prisoner was fur. nished with a knife and. fork and a tin cup containing about a quart of water, The janis wera stationed in the cen tre of the dining hall seated upon stools; they were only hall a dozen in # 04 dormitories vif wihiere tu ined con . i i €rass ip 1OUT SAPOUIK tenliary proper. feel turul jrgeon dows of his laid two egas, subsequently tise] her young he Craps of and fed wialer c¢ prisoner carried ti 3 1 $ y s $usl ity pom ae ald EH REL Ais0 iD iP Decalne placed his wher s . could drinl . sr} 1 ougiuyY d Lo sare Liu Nhe soon f s HOSA ated and has conti softment of Hap Lier found friend and from Lme hatches out a pair of young and Ltaein in her adoptid hone Taisos EE ——— The Best Receipt for a Long Life, Moses ng entry a subject of such general Apropos of Sir #PPronci: Fuar is On nis 1 itd Grea © obiect for a very long lil SUppOsIng a man fer it an worth attain Milton laid stress on “the rule of hi,” which is no doubt an , but vague in its applica- Moreover, Milton followsd own advice, and yel falied to live years, Foutenclle, whose life embraced almost exactly a century-—11th of Feb- ruary, 1657, to 9th of January, 1757,- was formally asked hisopinion on this weighty question, and replied that he ascribed his length of days to two maxims he had lad down for himself and rigidly adhared to—the tirst, every- body 1s righty” the second, “‘every- thing is possible.” The late Canon Beadon was less sententious, and would laughingly explain that he bad reached a hundred simply by never wearing an overcoat, It was either he or another centenarian who said he had never eaten cold mest, but always hot, and thus savad his digestion from pre- wature exhaustion owing iw double work, It is related of Lord Manstield that whenever a bails and hearty old man gave evidenos before him he would question the witness in a friendly way a8 to his habits, with the result tial he found every oue to Le an early riser, Ihe topers are said have been us numerous as the waler«irinkers, which is propable enough, the latter being an extremely limited section of the Eag- lian people in the eighteenth century. ay +3 ingr iol LOG Id t i Plenty t AUREL UL 3 fo — osr— a IA “Farser On." A day or two ago a well dresscd man, who had taken three or tour drinks too much, was weaving around aod falliog down and getung up ou Montoalm street, Detroit, when along came » kind- hearted citizen who asked: “Where do you want to go?” *“Waz go home,” was the reply. “How far 1s 1?" ; I'll show you." They walked along in company jor a block or two, when the insbriste sudden - ly paused and said: “Ziah ‘er place,” ‘You recoguize it, do you?” “Shurtinly-—shurtinly, I'm ‘er great. recoguissr in Detroit,’ amma JAS RY Luther Relies, The “Castle Church,” which is eall- ed “the Cradle of the Reformation,” was erected in 1499, but the original building exists no more. In 1760, dur- ing the Seven Years’ War, Wittenberg wis beseiged by the Austrians, and during a bombardment the church and a large part of the city were destroved by fire, (n 1770 the present building wis erected on the old walls by order of Frederick the Creat. The old wood en doors, destroyed in 1760, on which Lutter had nailed the theses, were re placed in 1857 by Frederick William IV. by double bronze doors, ten fest bigh; bearing in Gothic characters the original Latin text the ninety-five theses, In the interior of the church the most interesting object is naturally the bronze slab marking the Reformers grave. It lies on the southern side of the middle aisle, and bears the follow ing inscription-plain and sumple as Beformer’s life: — “Martin Luteri, 85. Ti pus h, 1. &. e, quian, Christi MDXLVI, xii. Cal Martii Eyslebi in patria o.c. v. ann, LXIII m. 11.4. X.** It is certainly a noticeable fact that this inscription does not coincides with the usually accepted of Luther's If he really lived sixty-three ‘0 months and {en days as stated ab, he must have been Iv December 1482. as he died ii Fy : of the weologia DD, eon 1 « In. # id In on B. 1482 as he died bevond i s EVO {4031} yd i ue. tbt, « ary 18, at 1asy > ¥ i + al during his vy Wenberg on I'he great proessnce r raf tiene] it im ALLUMNG SUD Als) Couinenot 118 $year ¥ ving 5 : ana | laik ou the door, isl autograph has | preserve two centuries by be- wilh glass, Luther's study emains unchanged in its original con- uge stove of colored tiles, Luther's own the i 1 window benches, or ill Covered ition; the Li Lier design, SOQIHNES We Lhe He CArvedd celiing, ail remnsins as if Projpielor Lad only just the Oh. Coutain un step TOOLS nuinier ou od wedding rin the elder Kranach, the ns of Luther's Bible in parts, printed by Luft, at Wittenberg, medals and pamphlets of the Reforma- Lei, house 1 sats » : » Luthier relics:—liis 2%. Lhe excel L Dy ¥ speciinens etc. Unfortunately, this inter- esting collection remains without a de- scriplive catalogue, ———- Fepnlation of Paris, An analysis of the population of Paris, just published, gives very singa- lar statistics as to the inhabitants of the gayest city in Europe. (i seems, also, for ils size, to be the most indus- trious, The proportion in which the working classes exceed those whe live on their own incomes is the wore re- markable as Paris the recognized centre of expenditure and extravagance for all France. There are no cities that hold he capital the same fela- tive position that Liverpool, Manches- ter and Birmingham occupy relatively to London, More than hail a million of Parisians are employed lu commenee, is to the arti=an class there are considerably more than a million and a uaiter. The liberal professions seem Lo 0OCUPy but a small proportion of the popula- tion. All combined do noi amount to 200,000, and in the sub«divisions the prominence is quite different to what {it would be witb us, The great majori= { ty are in the public service, which em- ploys more than medicine, law and divinity all combined, Bui, alter the public service, it is ari which gives em- ployment and livelihood to the greatest number of Parisians, Forty-two thou sand get their income {rom this branch of industry. The doctors come after, bul a long way after, Medicine in its branches supports 18,000, the branches, of course, including chemists and ail compounders and venders of medicine, Then cotnes the law, with its 16,000 votaries, tron judge to bailiff, Liters tare figures very low on the list, for, grouped with science and journalism it gives employment to only 11,000 peo- ple, while all the clergy of all the per- suasions amount to but half that num ber. On the whote, Paris would seam to be more industrious, more artistie, less 1 and less religious than the ordinary visitor would suppose, ——- Loni AIA. Four Parsalls The American Silk and Fraud Owl- turists classes silk, poultry, honey and fruit pope claiming that on sucali farms orchard cannot only be made Ee Eas oy of iu - a “During the hon tion srason for silk-worms that indutiry can be made a remunerativeone,and the hedge of csage will furnish leaves for the worms, For a family of means the four pursuits can be combin~ ed with greater profit than can be pro- cured from soy one of them alone.
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