Summer at Sea.
"Tis dark but ih the distant eastern sky,
The chiil gray light of early dawn is
breaking;
Night's twinkling
high.
Yon fleecy cloud an orient tinge is taking
luminaries pale on
Sow tie long night's dark reign has neared
ita end.
Searce 18 the breeze the slumbering ocean
blushing;
A rosy hue the waking ast is flushing.
N here seem the waters with the sky to
blend,
Now
ascend;
from the horizon carmine streaks
fog:
Now o'er its breast the golden li
rushing. ana
Far as those paths of liquic firegxtend,
tht is
»
His head uprears, and sets the sea ablaze;
[llumes the trackless ocean with hs
light;
Assumes in royal state. imperial sway;
ROOUs Trays,
And ushers in another morning bright,
TN I TRI
PERE LEFORT.
It was 1n a little
ge on the Normandy coast
eard the story. Idly stroiling around
he place one day I came upon the bu-
ying ground. A lovely, dreamy spot,
and its living joys of nature. Further
and beyond the graveyard, on a little
marble shaft.
the other stones, yet there was some-
thing pathetic in its loneliness,
ing near I found ths line:
“After life's fitful fever he
well.”
No name no date, Truly a strange
Inscription to find over an unconsecra-
ted grave ina Normaady fishing village,
As turned to go I noticed an old
man coming toward me with flowers in
his hand. { waited till he had lain
them on the grave and then spoke.
“My friend,” I said,
me who lies here?”
He looked at me curiously for a mo-
ment.
“One of the noblest
made, monsieur— Victor Lefort,”
“Yes? Then why is he buried here
nud not in a graveyard? Can you tell
me?”
“None better, monsieur,
net many left now to whom Vie
fort 1s more than a name.”
He seated himself by the grave as he
spoke, and I followed the example.
“The man who lies here, mons 3
sleeps
1
‘can you tell
There are
Le-
Or
patting the grave with his hand. “He
and I were boys together, One 3
never seen without the other till Vie-
tor’s father began tosend him to the
Pere Petit’'s to study for a priest
Among us peor fishing folks, monsieur,
itis thoneht a great thing to be a
priest. We are all proud of Victor,
Even Pere Petit himself said
never seen such a clever boy,
“The time came for him to
Paris to be ordained.
get the morning he went away. We
came to this very spot and sat for a
long time in silence watching the fisher-
men mending thelr nets down on the
beach, just as they are doing now, and
the dim little specks in the distance
that we knew were the boats gone out
to the fishing.
“suddenly he turned to me.
“Jean,’ he said, ‘when I die I should
iike to be buried here,
go
ried? I am sure I would be happier if 1
could know the blue water was close
rolling by was crested with
gold.’
“Vietor wasa curious boy.
iaughed at him when he
that. Sometimes he got
with me,
Very angry
arms about my neck, and I saw that
there were tears in his eyes, Ah!
he was handsome. A fresh wind was
blowing that kept his curly brown hair
tossing about his face, and the big gray
ayes with tears glistening in them. Ohl
mon Dieu! what eyes! Why monsieur,
when he was thinking it seemed as if
they saw into eternity.”
The old man paused and turned
away his face te hide his emotion,
After all the years, for a moment he
was a boy, and lved
again,
sane as then; nothing but himself
altered.
all unchanged.
beach might have been
they were too far off to see their fases,
Some fishermen were hoisting the salls
to their boat, and the wind carried to
had
were singing,
and the sound of it seemed to rouse the
old man from his reverie,
“That was the last time,”’ he went
on, “that I saw ‘Vietor lLefort fou
many. many years, He went to Paris,
and was ordamed. Soon after his
father received a letter saying
was to be sent to America. &'riests of
the t we religion were wanted there; he
had been called and must obey.
**His father svent to Paris to Did him
I had no money for such a journey,
Even Henri Lefort himself weat much
of the way on foot. It was hard to
have Vietor go without one final word
of parting. Go toa sirange couutry
across the cruel, changing seas; and no
one knows so well as the fishing folks
how cruel and changing the sea can be
“When Henri Lefort returned from
Paris he brought me a note from Vietor
saying that he was to sail for a place in
Auverica called New Orleans, and that
was the last I heard of kum for fifteen
years. ©
“Fifteen years is a long £ime, mon-
sieur, and change is rapid. = long
after Victor left me I married. I was
very lonesome without him and needed
some one to comfort me. But the
God saw fit to take Marie and the little
one, 80 that I was more lonesome than
pver, .
Oune day Vietor came back to me. I
was sitting here watching the fishing
boats when I turned and found him
beside me,
on my shoulder, in the old loving way,
‘do you know me after all the years?
Are you glad to see me again?’
“Of course I knew him. But oh!
mon Diev! how he had changed! le
was handsomer than ever, but his eyes
~I never in my life, monsieur, saw
| such a look in any human creature's
| eyes, It was as if all the misery and
unhappiness in the world looked out of
them.
“I never asked him what his life in
America had been, but after a little he
{ told me, and I wept to think what he
| must have suffered,
“When he reached New Orleans he
| reported to the bishop, and
{eure of St, Catherine's chapel,
| any man could, and then he met the
woman who worked his ruin,
“It came about in this way:
{ a Catholic gentleman who had convert
| ed his wife and his mother-in-taw to the
{true retigion. But, alas! his
| be converted, Monsieur Linton came
to Victor.
s ‘Pare Lefort,’ he sald; *will you nol
| talk to my sister somet'mes? I am sure
she will listen to you, and as a
| you will know better what to say to her
than 1 do.’
“What she |
| cannot tell you:
ooked like, monsieur, |
was not half
moiselle Rose,
‘‘As a priest he was welcomed by het
friends at all times: Mademoisle herself
seamed always glad him, For
hours they would be left alone together,
but thinking over afterwards what they
| had said he found that when
spoken of religion she had changed the
{ subject, and in some way he always
| forgot to return to it. This should
| have warned him, monsieur, but he was
a priest,
| til too late that a priest is
{ after all
of us,
“Fancy his hurrying through his du-
ties to go to her. Dreaming of her all
| night and thinking of her all day, with
her face constantly floatiag before him,
LO see
he had
but a man
*
in, not knowing that he was falling in
love with her,
*‘I do not blame the girl, monsieur;
she never knew anything about it. He
was simply a kind friend to her—noth-
ing more,
“At last the awakening came, and a
very little thing brought it about, It
is always a little thing that bringsona
crisis, She had walked to the garden
gate with him, and pausing with her
hand on the latch
| ‘Pere Lefort,’ she said, *‘I feel so
sorry for priests, their lives seem so lone-
iy and loveless. Do you always find re-
ligion satisfactory?’
“That was the question that awoke
him. In a moment he realized that lo
him religion was as nothing compared
to the love of this one woman, With-
out answering he pushed past her and
hurried away.
“All night long my poor Vietor wun.
{ dered up and down, fighting for the
mastery of his love—a love that for him
was sinful and wicked, but which
ing. That was the thought which mad.
i dened him his never
speak one word of love to her, To
hink if he were but like other men he
might win this angel of light for his
Own.
i do?
voice: *Was religion satisfactory?’
“Na, a thousand times no! Religion
| without love-—what was it, after all?
A shell, a dry husk. The body without
the soul.
than the body for a lifetime,
| reasoned, if one so mad as my Vielor
that night could reason,
| “When morning came he found that
| he had walked far out nto the country,
him, and he sat down to wait for the
| sunrise. I do not know how that is in
your country, mounsieur, but with us it
is Is bon Diieu's portion ef the day.
**When the sun rose the next morn-
in years, had parted from his youth for
ever-—-—whose face was sterm and set
with a terrible resolve,
be sent his resignation to the pope.
“Think, monsieur,
like that, for the pope will never accept
a resigaation from a
him to remain in the church. He knew
| that he wae disgraced for life, and that
lingly, with his own hand.
“Was there ever a woman worth the
| sacrifice he bad made?
| “He determived not to speak to her
| until be was free, so he kept away, fear.
ing to trust himself in her presence,
“It was not long he had to wait, but
it seemed like eternity. After his ex-
citement and sending the resigaation a
reaction took place. He saw things
more clearly and in their true light; saw
that, perhapa, after all he had thrown
away the substance for the shadow,
“Yet so mad was he about tins girl
ihe did not regret what he had done,
is own love for her was so absorbing,
#0 great that ke never thought about
ber not caring for kim,
“When he poured forth the stery of
his deve he thought i must awake the
{game passion in her, as the wind
awsles the sea from ia calm,
“After awhile the sentence came,
and wy poor mad Vietor actually re-
ceived it with joy. Exeommunication
and disgrace forever he counted as
nothing, now that he was free,
“It wae at evening he went to her.
Twice, he told me, he had to stop on
the way to rest, A great fear seemed
10 take hold on him,
“She met him with a little ery of de-
light,
“4 am so glad
Lefort!”
“‘He sighed as she ealled his name,
You see, he had "po right to it now,
Still holding her hand, the words of
love he feared to speak trembled on his
began,
you have come, Pere
se
Mademosielle,” he
* ‘Pere Latent! she interru pod, 4
am in trouble. Wil you help me? You
5
remember Monsieur |
me, but my mother forbids it.
vou make her understand how
how noble he is?’
good,
had not heard the question,
“Child,” he sald, and thers was a
wonderful longing and sadness in his
Louis?’
astonishment. .
stlove him?’ she repeated;
him? Nes, with all iny heart,’
“A gust of wind swept by and blew
oven the window, seattering some pa-
pers over the floor.
‘love
he was doing it
“Mademoiselle,” he said with
I must go; my people are wanting me,”
not tell me, Next day he saw her
mother and used all lus
favor of this Monsieur Louis. In the
“It was the punishment of his sin,
and he drank the bitter cup drop by
drop, till the end of his life,
“He left America at once and went
If they knew of his dis.
never found out. In the
grace he
Mademoiselle Rose to Monsieur Louis,
and then a few months later her death
‘*After that he came back to France,
Ah! mon Dieu! if he had never left it!
There is his story, monsieur, in almost
Victor's own words, as he told it to
me,
*1 took him to my own hotae and for
a short time he lived in peace, Duta
man may never escape from his disgrace
in this world, It is always sure {
low and find him ont,
“So it was with Vietor., The people
heard he was no longer in the church
plague. Ah! how patiently he bore alll
I weep now to think of it.
“Wherever there was sickness or sor-
row there was Victor, At first
people refused his help and drove
by bit they learned
him
to
slow work.
Something happened, however,
tliat
VAL
“It was a bitter night in January. A
breeze had been blowing atl day,
wtif
Sil
ricane, About 10 o'clock we
startled by hearing people running
the house and shouting to each other.
Hurrving we found nearly
whole gathered on the shore
watching a vessel ofj some sort that was
on the rocks and not fifty yards away.
As well as I could make oul in
darkness it seemed be a pleasure
yacht, Deiween the shore d the
rocks such a sea was iz that
nothing could live in it, boats
were k but
were | back. vessel
rapidly breaking up and once in the |
of the wind we heard a woman's vi
calling for help.
“Suddenly 8a man stepped from
crowd, fastened a rope aboul his waist,
men how
raging,
were
out the
4
viliage i
¥
9
the
to
runt
Several
1
ail
ie
t
unched, the
3 swamped or
walen T
wd ull
ee
the
£
to hold it, ti
foaming sea,
“It was done so quickly I did not see
the man, but 1 knew-—my heart told me.
jumped into wat
from wave to wave till he reached the
veasel, At last Ie
and every soul saved but one
“For hours | waited. The
and wind and sea grew still. Not
trace was left of their night's work.
“Long before I had lost all hope and
knew well what I was walching for,
still when it came—ah! monsieur,
the
a
“They carried him home and all the
village followed, weeping for him.
worth, It is always the way, mon ami,
always the way.
“The people he had saved were all
English, and they gave this monument;
but he died outside the church, so he is
buried here,
“My story is finished monsieur. It
won't be long now before I meet him,
“Going, monsieur? Well, it is getting
late, No, don’t thank me; it has done
He was
t——
Joseph Arch in Parliament.
Almost evervbody bas heard of Jo-
seph Arch, the stardy Eagilish farm.
laborer and farm-laborers’ friend sod
Few have done more or so
much to stir the stagnant masses of
Himself grown to
to raise his class, both socially and in-
tellectually, He has induced many to
Ho has coaxed many
He has
tanght his fellows how much strength
there 18 in union, and how much can be
acovtaplished, even by the teeble, if
they work with a will and work all to.
gether. And now this whilom serl,
toiling to support his wite and children
on some 84 & week or less, finds himself
by the suffrages of the men of Norfolk
a member of the proudest and the
strongest legislative assembiy in the
world, And he is pot alone, Some
ten or a dogen labor representatives are
members of the lately-elected British
parliament, and they are all men of high
charactor and marked intelligence. Jo.
seph Arch opposed Lord Hebry Beat
inek, a wealthy and inflaential tory,
who has as blue blood as the old serv.
ant of Willlam IIL could transmit to
his descendants; but in spite of the
blood, wealth, and inflnence of his op-
ponent, Joseph Arch stood at the head
of the poll by a majority of 640.
In meny parts of Norway and Swe.
den are vast accumulations of moss,
“decayed, and often more than a
AN EVENTIUL LIVE CLOSED,
the Sporting World,
WHERE THE POOR DINE.
Walters in the Fanos Bows {
| in Detroit ot typhoid neumonia after
| an illness of only a few days.
{led an unusually eventful
life. He
pabout 60 years old.
| the Ohio and Mississippl
i ning between Pittsburg and New Or
hans, At 20 he was part owner a
captain of a packet on the Miss
and he followed steamboating
Western rivers until
| of the war, except for one or L
i
iy!
3)
Li Liles
the
WO VEeurs,
ia wrecking
{ Earlv in
company in Pittsburg
the sixties he was located
having disposed of his ves.
sel interests, and for a while he madi
| money by watching ths opportunitie
| that opened in the exciting state of
{ affairs of the country. A United States
Armny Pavmaster named Cook
in Cincinnati on his way West
headquarters one day and fell in
Smithers and a companion, one Fisher.
{ Through them Cook got admis
| faro den kept by “Baldy”
old-time gamblers, Th
had 2300000 in un
the government
! ted wi
Oelore he put
Cincinnati
Willi
$1000
{ Jim Conliss, @
| paymast or
long!
and
| quaintiances
here was
that all of
faro den—{
drunk most of the
recoliect
ioney be
n,
new ac.
aiaount,
tn show
HOW
to with hu
th ns
he lost tire
poithiin
the money wa it in the
4 FF 3
MIR it se i ing wen
i 4 $
ul unable Lo
8]
snivtl
Aaliyil
ff ~bitit Was gener-
ally believed that the money
{ded between
keepers of the faror
of the affair was that Cook was cashier-
ied. Smithers Windsor to
| avoid arrest on a Government warrant,
| He was in Wi but
] War he
along in
Assn.
crossed roit. on
| rance from the military autl s here
he { be He
was arrested by a United States Mar-
the old charge, but was subse.
rder of the War
arrest
ie infor-
Wis divi-
er and the
The upshot
Smithers, Fisi
O00
skipped to
ndsor some mouths,
years of the
1}
Lil
© SeCTred
oritie
| that would no molested,
shal on
quently released
I) i
was in consider
mation he
int
partment. unity trom
:
of
earned from
anada, and
the Government,
paid back a few tho
count of Pavmast
any rate he was no
about the matter
In 1504, believie
ure, his exchar
| and went to Fn
steam ram desig:
taking his mo
gold, with lum
Europe, introducing
the fall of Richmom
when, Knowing
ciate, he abandons
the United States
coin Into paper.
ort
=
ged all |
nee
to
horses 11 he
Oh ariel y
2:30 and under, an
son, up to a few 3
the seveuli
i 1
i
larve circuits
South, He was a he
winnings and I
often ran
Was aleo
| here For
Vears
up in
L intervals a curd
SaveTral
¥
ago, b
winters, two
Wash.
He
ATO On a
girl named
who had
md
was a lobbyist a
i ington, with considerable succes
was arrested a few years
charge of murdering a young
| Ida Jacols of Norwalk, Oh
been ruined there and flad to this city
ito hide her shame, where she fell in
with Smithers, who befriended her and
| afterward kept her as his mistress for a
| considerable time, At last Lining of
her, he had a quarrel with her one day
when they were alone. A shot was
heard, and the girl was found dead, He
claimed it was a case of suicide, and, as
they were alone, nothing could be pro-
| vad, and he went free,
Captain Smithers was over © feet in
{ height, thin, big boned, slightly stooped
and weighed not over 145 pounds
Though never physically strong, be was
| a man of unusual courage and coolness,
©
0
{ and among the sporting fraternity was
from the ordinary variety,
obtain or expect any
he maintains a
self-respect. If the
tomer orders anything in an arbitrary
tone of voice the waiter will sarcasti-
cally ask him to repeat if
Cal
not
high
degu to with a
“rr ix condescension i
{1 ils
$38.
techpieslities of the beanery are @
own, sod it pot ont] one Das
it that he is
Eulaoe
DeRls
in
abile
appreciate it, For u }
Ord bee! pid
the waiter cries 10 the man be-
“andag
¥ on
bai
“Beef and onel
the order had been ha god beans
and coffee, the waiter would have called;
“Haw-and and one,” “And” means
beans, nod eoffes is called *‘one,” t
is easier than to say *‘oue cup
¥y
the counter:
mm,
dainty sold in these rest
species of biscuit called a
but best known as *'a
sarcastic reecoguition
it 8 somewhat heavier
than proprietor 18 not nurt
if his wares are called spkeras,
recogn zes the title, and half of
customers this nam
from the waiters, these cakes
cost five aon
A popular
ITA LS
tter cage,
sinker,” in
fact tha
is 8
of
hie
lead, "Lhe
nt
thse
thew
Th
they a
and eaten with butter,
If the enstomer
k the ater shouts
t and
ame ne
order LY
res of
Eats, re served
orders ©
direction
: If two men
order th RIX out ou
two and two,” meaning ‘‘six cakes oo
plat and two cups of Teo
Ihe cnstomer who likes his beans well
ione and tells the walter his prelerence
hears the shout; “Beef-and plenty
tops,” the beans at the top of the keitis
being cooked the most, sud henee the
word “tops.”
A customer whois in a hurry
joes not want to be obliged to wait for
only has to
it " a rset
ooiiea ns
Sie 1
ies the
f‘Lhree ou one!’
0 Crigs,;
» wl
EWO 4H O48
0
mii
CoO i
calls for
went milk 1s
the desired tem
fried egus and the direction
« “Pat on one,” and if egg
desired -—a favorite dist
in the beaneries the sh
hash fry two on top!’
his coflee to in orm
walter,
right,” and
to bring it to
Lirder
st
the who
vy $%}
4
Ei 1
pas iu 1t
erature.
un the
-> -
Moving Time,
ds their regular moving.
uniform as many other house-
have
ws
time,
A HINT TO WIVES,
Their Husbands,
Many married women loss all pride of
The husband goes
he aid belere
And the matter of dress has
It is one
we must have to
But a wile says
can not dress well,
is poor and
beipg thelr own furniture vaos,
anything © move
slessed birds! Who
be a bird when they have
and make a new home; and
some trouble to the
birds migratory,
EpAarrow and !
us daring the Winter,
' rare exceptions,
ge their nests, and either mak
out out, or tear their
old ones to pieces, and freshen them
np Their instinst tells them when
to get ready tw leave the warm
mate where they have been spending
the Winter, and by some understand.
ing they all start together on their
journey, sometimes of hundreds of
miles, over land snd over seas, |
their Summer home April is the
time when most birds prepare to move,
Their preparation consists mainly of
walking 1t over and deciding when it
shall be dome, Having cleaned their
wings, quill by quill, and oiled their
bodies from a little sack which birds
always carry on their back, their prep-
arations are made, Some birds, like
the members of the Summer yellow
bird family, stop half way on their
journey from the south to the
north, and build nests, but these pay
us very short visits, only long enough
to rear one brood of young until they
oan fly away with them, Wild fowis,
like the wild goose, sometimes travel
400 miles in a day, and when tired will
| reat on the masts and spars of vessels,
and often help each other, If the
anda
Having but
nselves,
{a not
10 change
vet, hi
are but
ae
with Jove
new and
COLOR
Cid.
or
the mystifleations of
or Resartus” got down to the true
He never «x»
The
between clothes and no
11 is pot as great as the dif.
ial
what nature bas siready done,
can dress better than men,
have greater variety of siyles end
and fashion slways
range, There is
They
mauy women are there who
y slippers and smoking-jickets
¢ gowns for their husbands,
ine] ves sr about in
crow neglige. Perhaps
at ave rags are royal rai.
voru lor virtues sake,’ but
ean—and so ought
otherwise virtua loses hall
Munvy a wife is pained to
waning interest in her hus-
ting why or how,
routye 18 traceable
her part as to
| appearance, She assumes
longer impressed or ine
thie mere Appears of
ttires the children in then
to and mire, while
wpeei ania ’
ad sin
wi
nutiay, Care
ment
they ought to be ¢
the wearer,
ATID
observe ths 3
ud without euspec
the t
pegiigencs on
of
Bee a
el
Beloved reader,
Ly a picinre iid
ABIDE and
fare poes
5:4 HOt
cwile all
her fanny? Cher
fag,
#8 misiaxe,
f as well as the other
——-——
MAN'S
Gray-Haired Adolph Cohen tells of hi
False Step and its Retribution
AN OLD SAD STORY
i vllening
n entered the X
, $i
recenuiay,
step @ray
rk
Rug
a-Gauguie i ar huasbana,
d
WUBET WOre i
well-wy
clo hing,
{ earrings and
AKIN sacque 182
red a goia-o
“1 au nie
jefer
3
relia,
. oh
3 eaid Lil
‘and at one t worth
al I was born jn Germany snc
there I met my first wile, We lived
happily together and she helped me
«ave my earnings. When [ came to New
York I opened an upholstery and fur
nishing store on O Hundred snd
P'wenty-second street and Third avenue,
in timpe I lost all I had an
moved to Su Lonis, Drv careful saving
I got together some money from a res-
taurant and again came to New York,
From what 1 learned in the west I de
the meat business and |
opened a little store on Forty-fourth
street, My wife and daughter helped
we aud I started another place on the
corner of Leonard snd Eim streets, and
for a time did the largest business 1g
wk, I continued to make money
MAAN, ne Was
arta
Fianna,
©
a short
a BOOT
rk ad
to
.
@ .
“When she could not do the =»
home and my danghter got maciol
Detective Oaks there was nhio «
A widow survives him. He leaves about
$30,000 worth of property mostly real
estate,
Lr AAI RIA
The Canine Sheep Herder.
The agent of a New Mexico ranch-
man paid his semi-annual visit to a dis
tant grazing ground only to find the
sheap herder dead and the sheep quietly
feeding in afertile canyon near by, jeal-
ously guarded by his dog. In the rear
of the corral, into which the sheep were
driven every night, lay the skeletons of
a dozen or move sheep, Astonished at
the sagacity of the dog the ranchman
| geereted himself and waited until night,
{ As the sun began to sink the sheep came
trooping in with the dog in the rear,
They erowded into the corral through a
narrow opening, and as the last one
pushed forward the dog seized and killed
him and dragged the lifeless body to the
raer of the corral, where he made a com-
fortable supper off a portion of the car-
cass, leaving the balance for future
meals. He had been doing this ever since
the death of his master, and would prob.
ably have continued his guardianship
over the flock until he died.
From the solar eclipse of September 8,
the central line of which passed over a
part of New Zealand, near Cook's
Strait, it is expected that the cause of
the corona will be disclosed through the
labors of Australian astronomers.
Few people are able to ealeulate the
distance at which objects may be seen
at sea 3 but it is not a difficult matter
when their respective elevations and
Whe dlavation of the eye of the gr
are known. For instance, an ect
five feet high may be seen two and a
half miles (geographical); @fty feet
high, eight miles; a red feet hig
eleven and a half miles; two hund
feet high, sixteen and a quarter Juiles
five h feet high, twenty-five
a half julie} a thousand feet
thirty-six a quarter miles away,
Ro hw Do “hash, 18 oh
tv an
observer whose eye is en
a stronger bird flies under it, and car
{res it for a while on its back.
{ littie birds, too, often alight on tue
| back of the larger species they may
meet on their journey, and thus get a
| free ride, and a rest. Sailors often find
| decks of their vessels, who are too
| tired to move, but their bright eyes
| watch everything and they are sure to
be petted back to strength again, for
sallors are always kind, Some birds
seem to like moving their nests for the
sake of change, others for their greater
| safety, and some will build diflerent
| nests for each brood, even in the same
(room. The robin bas been kuown to
build four different nests within a very
small space daring the Bummer. Do
you remember our once explaining how
and why birds can fly? Their bones are
all hollow, and so are the gulls of
their wings and feathers, The more
soft down birds have, like owls, for in-
stance, the less distance and height
they oan fly, but the more bone aud
wing, like the eagle, the higher and
{ farther they can fly. Like the boat in
| the water, they are kept afloat becanse
they are hollow and hghter than the
same space they occupy would be if of
air or water, To repest-a solid chinnk
of either water or air would be a great
deal heavier than the same size of bird,
#0 of course boats and birds float in
either, With a flap of their wings
birds give themselves a start through
the air, and then the air, instead of
keeping them down by its weight of
fifteen ods to the inch, as it does
everyth else, helps fo buoy them
up, When birds want to descend they
have only to shut up their wings, and
Shen, as they take up loss upace, they
BAReEDp CustAnps —One quart of
milk, four eggs, five tablespoonfals of
sugar beaten
M unie Gravel, who had just come over
trom Germany. It was the beginning ol
My wife’ continued to be
sick, and I paid attentions to this young
girl, Finslly we eloped to Paris, lea: -
iug my wife here. I tarned most of ny
property into cash. In Paris we lived
She bonght
esses and wasted mv
Two years ago 1
ir
Gi
fortune hke water,
came back to N w York, bul my money
was all gone. Tne oulv thing I had left
was a house in Mount Vernon,fer whick
1 nad paid $3 000. Tins I gave to my
danghter, and she took me home with
her, I have nothing more, It is all
gore. If I could support my wife ¥
would doen, Recently 1 met with au
old friend and customer of mine in lhe
st, Stephens Hotel nn Eleventh street.
I borrowed £50 of Lim and gave it to
Minnie. Tias was ail I con’ give her,
becuse she has spent wy fortnae,”
Justice Smith listened to the old
man’s story and asked if thers was any
ane pressnt who koew him, Roubidsman
Maldoon said that be bad known him
for a great macy years sand believed
ist his story was true, The Judge
then dismissed the owe and the old
man tottered out of Court,
a A MI Mo
M Pdommiket, Prolessor «f Dotany
al Moscow, bas discovered upon ihe
tanks of the Oka, in the neighborhood
ot that city, a wild aquatic plant of the
same kind as that which excited so
much attention among (he botanists of
western Europe when it made its
there hall a ommtury ago.
mw plant, the Elodea Canadensis, was
first discovered in the rivers of