NEWSOF THE WEEK. —Mrs. Lizzie Adams, while going home from church, in Pittsburg, on the evening of the 23¢, was murder- ously assaulted by John Bosso, The Jatter was drunk and a crowd of hood- lums were tormenting him. Ie drew a knife and turned upon them. Mrs, Adams, who happened to be passing at the time, was stabbed in the back by the frenzied man, the blade passing into her left lung. Bosso was saved by some determined citizens from béng lynched, and the woman was carried home. She is in a critical condition, — During a fight in what is known as the “*Italian Barrracks’ in Jersoy City, New Jersey, on the morning of the 23d, Frank Danmo was stabbed three times, and his wife, Rose, shot In the left breast, both being seriously if not fatally wounded. The man who did the stabbing and shoting was arrested and made counter charges of atrocious assault and battery against Danmo and his wife, —An oven used for japanning in the works of J. H. Sessions & Sons, at Waterbury, Connecticut, exploded on the morning of the 22d, setting the building on fire. When the fire was extinguished the dead bodies of Willie Young, aged 14 years, Burt Cleveland, aged 15, and John Shane, aged 31, were taken from the ruins, Six or seven others were injured, two severely, —-A furious gale accompanied by snow and rain, raged on the 23d, on the Upper Lakes. At Sheybogan, Michigan, the ground was covered with snow, It was feared that ship- ping in transit would suffer from the gale. A spow storm was raging at Ot- tawa, Ontaro, on the evening of the 23d, with a fall two inches deep. A southwest gale raged on Lake Erie, on the 23d. The velocity of the wind ranged from 35 to 60 miles an hour, Vessels were windbound at many ports on the lake,and it is thought some wrecks will be reported, One of the severest snow and wind storms ever known at the Black Hills, Dakota, set in on the evening of the 22d, and con- tinued all night. Eight inches of snow fell, and the drifts seriously impede travel. —Masked highwaymen stopped a stage coach, near Redding, California, on the evening of the 2lst, and when the stage horses became frightened and started to run, one of the robbers fired, killing a passenger named Hen- derson, a prominent citizen of Adin, California. Armed parties started in pursnit of the robbers, —Joseph Quintero, a clerk in the New York Agency of Fernandez Brothers, of Havana, Cuba, has been arrested for obtaining $3000 from the Bank of Commerce on a draft purpor- ting to have been drawn by Fernandez Brothers, Quintero confessed the for- gery. —Joseph Duncan, under a twenty years’ sentence for homicide, was shot dead by the Sheriff at Hot Springs, Arkansas, on the 23d while try- ing to escape from the jail. A San Francisco pugilist, named McClellan, being drunk, recently challenged any one of a beer drinking crowd at Las Cascades, Panama, to fight with him, A powerful negro canal digger ac- cepted the challenge and threw McClel- lan violently three times, inflicting in- ternal injuries, of which he died a few days ago. Evans Shelby, a farmer, near Paducah, Kentucky, has been arrested for the murder of Mrs, Steven Moore, who was 70 years old. Alter the murder $680 was taken from the house, In Winn [Darish, Louisiana, Washington Adams and his wife sep- arated a short time ago, and she went, with her child, to the house of her father, Andrew Smith, A few days ago Adams went to Smith's to get his child, and the two men got Into a quarrel, which resulted In the killing of Smith by his son-in-law. Adams then took his child and left, but was arrested on the 24th and put in jall. Adams’ father, when be heard of hisson’s crime, committed suicide Frank Gorningon, a barber in Cairo, Illlinols, shot bis wife in the mouth on the 24th. He then cut his own throat, stabbed him- self with a pair of shears, cut several gashes in his head with a hatchet, after which he jumped into a dry cistern. He was taken out and sent to a hos- pital, and it 18 thought he will die. His wife will probably recover. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause. Perry King and Andrew Green, both colored, charged with attempting to break into a house at Lamar, Louis. jana, were taken from the jail at that place and lynched by a mob, on the 20th. King confessed that he and Green had Intended to assault two young white women. — Henry Berhayon committed sui- cide in San Francisco on the 23d. He was a brother-in-law of Dr, J. M. Pow- ers, who is under sentence of death lor poisoning his wife, two years ago. It is sald Berhayon left a letter addressed to the Coroner, in which he confessed that he gave the poison to his sister to obtain the insurance on her life, and exonerated Powers from any conpec- tion with the crime. The police are working on the cas«. The evidence against Powors wa circumstantial, and Berhayon was one of the principal witnesses for the prosecution. ~— Leopold Gottlieb was fined §100 in the U, 8. District Court, at New York, on the 24th, for attempting to ship matches in the People's Line of steam- «rs without properly marking them, as required by law, -—A violent gale ranged throughout the Lake re on the 234 and 24th, and It was mpanied on the Upper Lake by a blinding snow storm, A pumber of marine disasters are repor- ted, one of them involving a loss of five lives, The high wind did much dam- age on shore. A wind velocity of G0 miles an hour was reporthd at Buffalo, At Mitchell, Ontario, a dwelling was blown down and two of the inmates were killed. Fifteen inches of snow tell at Deadwood, Dakota, on the night of the 23d, and the temperature fell to 16 degrees below zero. Eight Inches of snow at Fort Meade, in the Black 1'lls, ‘Temperatures of 20 de- grees at St. Paul, zero at Aberdeen, Dakota, and 15 degrees below zero at Billings, Montana, were experienced on the 24th, —The Pacific Express on the Wa- bash Railroad ran into a wash-out near Missouri City, Missouri, on the 24th, The engine was derailed. Engineer John Mrtthias was killed and Postal Clerk C. N. Black badly injured. —A white man named Parrish shot and killed three colored men mn Cal- houn county, Florida, a few days ago. Four men were using the murderer’s boat to gather up logs which had broken loose from a raft, when he came on the scene. They explained that they were not stealing the boat, but he would not listen to them, and shot three of them down. The other jumped overboard and escaped. A colored man named Collier was under arrest at Galloway, Arkansas, charged with attempting to dispose of mort- gaged property. He attempted to make his escape on the 23d and was shot and killed by a constable, An- drew Henry, a colored rough, was shot and fatally wounded by Henry Harris, also colored, at Marietta, I’ennpa., on the evening of the 24th. Henry had assaulted the mother of Harris and was trying to force his way into Harris’ house when shot. Henry L. Jones shot and killed William 8. Adler, his farm hand, in Isle of Wight county, Virginia, on the evening of the 24th, in a quarrel about some trifling matter. Last week Benjamin Howard met his wife, from whom he had been separ- ated, in Goodloe, Kvntucky. She re- fused to return home with him, and he shot her and left her In a dying condition. —Snow fell in Staunton, Virginia, all of the 25th, but melted as it fell. It snowed at Charlottesville all day. The Red river is reported frozen over from St. Vincent, Minnesota, to Pembina, Such a thing has not happened so early in the season for thirty years. At Cheboygan, Michigan, on the 25th, the snow was six inches deep, and iL was freezing hard. —A cyclone raged at Progreso, Mexico, from the 12th to the 16th, The wind began from the northwest and shifted to the southeast, For five days there was no communication with the shore. Several vessels were blown high and dry on the beach, trees were up- rooted, houses demolished and part of the railroad washed away. — An attempt to burn thirty Italians asleep in a building in the township of Paris, Kent county, Michigan, was frustrated on the evening of the 24th by the timely warning of one awoke and found the building in flames, An unknown man sei fire to the house and then joined a party on the outside, who barricaded the doors and used every effort to keep the in- mates from escaping. They managed to get out, but lost all their clothing Jacob Reston, the confidential Sec- retary of B. C. Faurot, Presdent of the Lima National Bank, In Lima, Ohio, has disappeared. He is said to be a defaulter for several thousand dol- lars, supposed to have been lost in gambling. — Lawrence Riley, a saloon keeper in Indianapolis, Indiana. was arrested for selling liquor on Sunday. On the 25th, the boy who bought the liquor swore that it was vinegar, and Riley corroborated the testimony. The boy subsequently confessed to the Mayor that he had committed perjury, and said that Riley had induced nm to do go. Riley was fined and given a work- house sentence, and was also placed under bail for tnal on the charge of verjury. ~— While the Brainerd Rifle Club were at practice in Brainerd, Minne- sota, on the 25th, William Monroe, tar- get marker, was shot and killed. The ball was swerved from its course by a sudden gust of wind, he being out of range some 20 feet, —A threshing machine exploded near Ellendale, Dakota, on the 256th, killing three men and wounding two others. A second case of cholera from the steamship Britannia In New York Bay has been sent to Swinburne Island, Thirteen new cases of yellow fever and three deaths were reported in Tampa on the 24Lb, The British ship Salon, at Savannah, which had three cases of smallpox during her voyage, was sent to quarantine on the 25th. There are now 600 cases of typhoid fever in Cin. cinnati, and the disease is rapidly spreading. Most of the patients are children, -—Joel Deitz, an advertising agent from Pennsylvania, s=ettled in Bay City, Michigan, about four weeks ago. On the evening of the 24th Dr. Baker was sént for at his request. As the physician was going to Deilz’s room he was shot twice, but not senously in- jured by Deltz, who bad becomé a maniac, Oflicers were summoned, but when they reached the room Deitz was found dying, with a bullet through his heart. —John Mason, a notary, has been in- dicted at Orrick, Missouri, for forging a pension claim, on which he obtained from the Government about 8517, ~Alexander Norman, aged 20 years, and William Andrews, aged 30, plea~ ded guilty on the morning of the 25th, in Kingston, Ontario, of having set fire to the Salvation Army barracks and the Third Methodist Church, They were arrested by policemen who discovered the fire before it had made much headway. The culprits said they were drunk at the tune, ~The President of the United States on the 256th issued a proclama- tion designating Thursday, November 24th, as a day of National Thanksgiv- ing and prayer, «The Chinese transport Waylee was lost in Pescadoies on September 15th, and 280 Chinese and five Europeans were drcwned, Du a typhoon in the China Sea, about same time, the steamer Anton lost her second offi. cer and 24 Chinese overboard, The steamer Maxwell arrived at Parry Sound, Ontario, on the night of the 26th with the crew of the barge Victor, which was wrecked on the 23d on Moose Point, the tow line parted, The crew made a raft of the cabin and got ashore. When found they were in a perishing condi. tion, ‘T'wo of them had their feet frozen. A telegram from Yort Col- bourne, Ontario, says the schooner Seaton, stranded near Port Burwell, 1s in a dangerous position, her hold nearly full of water and listed badly. The schooner Neelton, sunk by the Seaton, is in a better position and may be raised, Wreckers with steam pumps and a lighter have gone to their as- sistance, ~John Glass, 60 years old, a resi. dent of Loretta, Penna., while driv- ing a pair of horses over the railroad crossing at Lilly's Station on the 26th was struck by a train and fatally injured. Both horses were killed, Lewis Lanyon, 30 years of age, was killed in the iron shaft at Pittston, Penna., on the afternoon of the 20h, He stepped on the side of the bucket as he was being lowered into the pit and fell to the bottom, 2205 feet below, William H. lee, 45 years old, was found dead in bed in the Leister House, in Huntingdon, Peunna., on the morning of the 26th, He had blown out the gas and was suffocated. — Advices from Port-au-Prince to October 16th say that from September 224 to date (Oct, 26th) shocks of earth- quake had been felt almost dally on the island. The inhabitants were panic- stricken and business was almost en- tirely suspended. A private letter from Santiago de Cuba, dated the 14th inst., says that, since the great earth- quake shock of September 23d, there had been 30 slighter shocks, all causing more or less damage and a panic among the people, It is estimated that over 18,000 persons have quitted their shaky dwellings and are living in boats or camped in the public squares, — Richard Paxton on the evening the 25th, entered a saloon in Harrods- burg, Kentucky, in which Henry I’ass- more, the barkeeper, was alone, Three shots were heard, and Paxton emerged and shortly fell dead. ~The local election was held on the 26th. aggregate 05,075, and regular Democratic candidate for Mayor, got 42050 majority, a Demo- cratic gain of 2000 since the election for Mayor two years ago, The new City Council will have 12 Democrats and 8 Republicans in the First Branch, and 7 Democrats and 3 Republicans in the Second. of in Baltimore The vote polled Latrobe, the —*Ped" Sheckley shot and killed near New Burlington, Indiana, on the evening of the 27th, Carrey was Sheck- ley’s father-in-law, and the shooting was the result of an old grudge. John O'Hara died on the evening of the 27th in Alpena, Michigan, from a gunshot wound in the head. Ile sald Philip Cross had his skull factured, and, it is thought, will die. The cause of the tragedy is unknown, but it is supposed to have resulled from a quarrel aboul money matters. Dink Buckalew, convicted of murder in Chambers county, Alabama, has been for some time at large, and a reward of $400 has been offered by the Governor for his arrest. A special to the Moant- gomery Advertiser says that on the afternoon of the 27th, *‘two detectives, Scarbrough and Brown, went to a house where Buckalew was known Lo be. As they approached the outlaw shot Scarbrough in the neck and head, killing him, Brown went fn the house nd fifteen shots were heard belween bim and Buckalew, Whether both or neither were Killed is not Known, as the place Is off in the country. A surgeon has gone lo the scene,” BSu- perintendent Gates, who was assanited by a number of convicts in the prison in Yuma, Arizona Territory, on the 26th, is in a dangerous condition. Four of the convicts were killed by the guards. A petition to the Governor is being largely signed for the pardon of the convict Riggs, who shot the convict who was stabbing Supenin- tendent Gates, Workmen unloading a carriage shipped from New York at the Pennsylvania depot, in Chicago, on the 28th, discovered in it the dead body of a man, wish his skull frac. tured and a gun-shot wound over the right eye. The body was identified as that of Barney Harren, a glass packer, of West Bridgewater, Beaver county, Penna. He left his home jon the evening of the 23d. - Large double boilers in Holten's fire brickworks at Mineral Point, Ohio, exploded on the 28th, fatally scalding four persons and dangerously injuring five others. The fatally in- jured are Frank Horter, James Mil- ward, W, Taunstagel and a boy named Grabam, —A freight tram on the Midland Railroad was derailed near Florissonit, Colurado, on the 25Lh, by a broken rail. I"ireman Torbett ana Brakeman Kelly were Killed and Engineer Meyer fatally injured. Two freight trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad collided at Glen- lock, Penna. , on the afternoon of the 28th. One locomotive and six cars were wrecked. Willlam Stedden, engineer, and Joseph Dennison, fireman, were badly hurt, A freight traln on the Ilinois Central Rallroad was thrown from the track in a deep cut south of Freeport, Iilinols, by a broken brake beam, on the 27th and eight cars were broken to atoms or wedged between the banks of the cut, The loss is placed at $20,000, Two freight trains on the same road collided near Dixon, on the same day, and the engine and twelve cars were thrown from the track. Ten of the wrecked cars caught fire and were destroyed. One engineer was severely mjured, ~Sixteen new cases of yellow fever and no deaths was report from Tampa, Florida, on the . The weather Ia oppressively warm there, ~John Reddick, aged 55 years, was crushed to death, on the morning of the 28th, by a car in the gangway of No. 4 slope of the Susquehanna Coal Company, at Nanticoke, Penna, In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the 28th, Lina Geissert, 20 years old, a maniac, pe Rind. thes ng w roseve, set fire je She was fatally burned, Moses Weil, a clothing merchant, of Ironton, his room at the Howard House Washington, on the 28th. in was accidentally shot dead, on evening of the 28th, by Jordan N, Idraei, another young lawyer, They were in Israel’s office examining a pis- tol on which Israel desired to obtain a patent, when the weapon was accident- ally discharged, The saloon of Peter Camp, at Rassiaville, Indiana, was blown up by dynamite on the morning of the 28th. A stable adjoining was also wrecked, and a man who slept there was badly Injured. —A telegram from Joliet, Illinois, says a telegraph pole, laid across the Rock!Island Rallroad, between Menoo- ka and Morris, early on the morning of the 28th, wrecked a freight train. Englueer John Mills and Fireman Orff were instantly killed, and the head brakeman was fatally injurod. It Is thought the miscreants intended to wreck thef Kansas City express, due at that polut at 4.20, The railroad company has offered a large reward and detectives are on the ground. —An explosion resulting in the death of John Buckner and Alfred Stein- brook, and the severe others, occurred on the 25th works of the Tophff Carriage Hard- ware Company, in Cleveland, Ohio, The firm manufactured a patented bow socket for buggy tops. The sockels are dipped dried in ovens, ploded, A One of the ovens ex- United Press despatch sald: *'It was reported early this even- ing that the body of A. T. Stewart had been found.” mm A A HUMAN SACRIFICES How the Revolting Practice 1s Car ried on in Africa. The rifice is on the upper Congo by the Bayanzi tribes, revolting custom of human sac- river, principally All slaves, both barity, These people are under the impression that a man dying in world is simply transferred to another, there to carry on exactly the same ex- istance, requinng the same food and attendance. Upon the death of a chief relatives or friends kill about half his slaves, men and women, lo go with him, they say, to attend to his wants and to serve for his protection, it being very infra dig. for a chief to make his entry into the next world certain following. The women are strangled. A rope is put around the neck of the victim; a man climbs a tree and ties a rope to a branch, the woman his her go she is swung in midair in her dying struggles. These thinking that at least a great many of later, The men are beheaded, The stakes are then driven into the ground, one on each side of him, and as high as his body, inclosing it in these stakes; then two stakes are driven by his knees and two by his ankles, one at each side, and he is securely bound to them with a rope. A ring of cane is then put around the neck with several leaders of string, which are drawn up and tied in a knot above his head; a pliable pole about eighteen feet long is then driven into the ground, nine feet from the man’s seat. It is bent down just above the man’s head; a small piece of rope is fastened to the top of the pole and the other end of the rope is made fast to the knot above the man’s bead. This being now at very strong tension, the whole body 18 quite immovable, and the neck is stretched to its full extent. The executioner then makes his appearance. He makes a chalk mark on the poor fellow's neck; then, with one blow, severs the head from the trunk. 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Y oudoo doctors--and there are plenty of them in the Southern BStates-—carry on an extensive traffic in human bones and other portions of the body, They use the skull to perform a mystic cere- mony for the sick, or to bring luck to a poverty-stricken family; the ears are employed in another ceremony, the out- come of which is to find out what your enemies are saying about you, and the other bones all have a mission to per- form while the voudoo 18 humbugging i his vietim. The voudoo doctor 1s us- ually a naturally smart darky, with a good flow of conversation, and as much | inventive genius as a Bowery confi dence man. In Washington of late the y.udoos have become rather scarce, as police arrest them as vagrants whenever they put in an appearance, The country negroes in South Caro- ina, Georgia and portions of have a very pretty and somewhat Du when the gentle swaying s t the al ” » i cal superstition, ng the ! of the night, families will sit their doors and listen music forest. In its | melody they hear the voices of the dead whole cabin of the quiems, to this future secrets of the temb, No reward could induce the surfman on the North to walk along the beach pecially iring a st Lightning flashing a: or revealing negro Carolina coast ht beac! the phospl is who were lost at astride of the huge bil accou )f in on the sandy they can see in i the forms of | sea, riding In { lows, On | it has been | negro coastmen to euler | service, no matter how { they may be for the work, T | night parol along the desolate is what they object he average seashore negro would almost rat { than to encounter the | departed sailor man In the surf or on { the beach, { There are many minor | among the colored people. BAL nt ¢ aL 0 and {mi found imposs to. superstitions If a cow is a sure sign that some one on the | premises will die, twice the party marked for dissolution : | times, which | death will occur in less than one week. | have visitors, To crow just outside the | door indicates that the residents of the house will be suddenly called away on a mission, Sometimes an overfed hen will make a sound which resembles the | faint crowing of a young rooster. This | is regarded as an evil omen, and the luckless hen 1s always decapitated when the owner is at all Scintists say the sound is caused by indigestion, The darkies have a verse they repeat in this connection. Itis this: A whistling woman And a crowing hen Wii never come To any god end, The owl usually hoots three times, When this uncanny bird forgets itself and Increases the number of hootls to four or five, the plantation negroes re. gard it as an omen of sickness, starva- tion or death, To kill a cat means that the person who did the killing will have seven years of bad luck. To catch a water snake on your fOshing line is a sure sign that your enemies are trying to entrap and kill you. Thus the Negro says: Catch a snake, Lot him go, For death 1s a comin 8ho and sho. To see a flock of crows hovering about yeur house 13 a very bad sign, and to drop your Bible while going to church Indicates that the devil 1s after you. To see three white horses at the game Lime is an omen of death, and to find a toad frog in your path is a cerg tain sign that a marrage will shortly take place in your family. The aver} age Southern darky sees an omen for good or evil In nearly every animate and inanimate object, and they believe | in these cmens almost as religiously as | they do in the Bible, d——————— - Queer Love Letter, Charlie had a queer smiie on his face as he left me in the morning. 1 told him that I had intended to make a call with Mrs. Wickliffe, but had noth- ing to wear. He laughed and told me that I must get along for awhile with what 1 had; that he was making too little money to buy anything. “1 won't be home at the usual time,”’ he said at the door, *‘for | am expecting some friends.’’ 1 wondered at his manner, and after he bad gone Sakdown and had a good cry by my- self, After I bad sobbed myself into a better frame of mind, I went out and got down Charlie’s common coat to mend it. I emptied out the pockets firs t and then got out my needle, Wiat a mixture there was in those ets, Three or four handkerchiefs, en cigars, pencils, buttons and of a letter. A letter! y 1 looked at that letter Then I did a mean thing, I ope and read it. It was penned in feminine chirogra- phy and ran as follows: Dear CHARLIE: The dresses are + all ready and the navy blue is exqui- i site, I shall come on Thursday, Lhe 10th, Be sure and meet me at the station, and for goodness sake! Keep the whole thing a secret. There the sheet was torn off, 1 read these lines over and over, lost in won- der, What woman has a right to ad- dress my husband ag “Dear Charlie?’ I was 80 startled by the letter that 1 know Mrs, Wickliffe must have no- ticed it when she came in. *““Are you not going to see the bride with me?” she asked, “I can’t,” I stammered out. 1 for- got when I promised to go that I had uothing to wear!” “Why, my dear child, where is that handsome silk 1 saw your husband buy?” ““You must be mistaken,”’ I faltered. “Oh, indeed, but there is no mistake about it, my dear. I saw him pay for it, and have It cut off; it was at Dray- ton’s some three weeks ago; the hand- somest navy blue, $3 a yard, The words of the torn letter flashed across my bewildered mind: ‘“‘The dresses are all ready, and Lhe navy blue is exquisite.” A sudden suspicion, a suspicion sharp as death itself, possessed my soul; o suspicion that some other woman had come between me and my husband. The room and its occupants seemed to reel before my eves, but I controlled myself with a desperate effort. “My husband must have bought articles for another party,” I “Ah, there is baby’s voice, cuse me for one moment, She went away with a pity in her eyes, leaving me as a Woman can About o be. #) 1 gave baby and a crib; then 1 arrayed syrup, AWAY in § 1 must know the truth, left. With the terrible ad y nit \ tainly, I bent my tLe coun was ' tar ends Wit RET LO00 WAL I truged on, and reached th just the traln man I iepot calne SAW Was seaming in. 58 Charlie, me face + ad tal yeni no in a glow of eager expec LA * 3 Po What I felt at tn ) Words i, jealous out of f behind In came the t iitiie lady, veiled, appeared “Oh, Charlie!” ‘*Ah, my dear, here And her in carried A perier Fou are his arms and off to a followed whirled ue L00K ber, and carriage. hier Standing there, like a gulily crea- wind and rain, with my woman's pride and my woman's love insulted, 1 looked down towards the sullen walers of the river, below the town. There was a cure for ali wy pala, Bat I remem. bered baby. I must live and sake. I turned sullen water and my face homeward, and groped on through the mud and rain, blind and almost unconscious iz my misery, The cottage was all alight when | came in sight of it, every window in a blaze, What if it had taken fire! The thought winged my weary feel i rushed on breatilessly, Charlie confronted open the kitchen door, wilh his arms, “Well, bless my where under the sun I found the house all the poor child screaming itself to death, and 1 had to break open the window to get in. What bas bap- pened. Jennle? Good heavens! you are ill.” I caught a glimse of a face beyond him, a woman’s sweet face, and as I recognized her my oversirung nerves gave way. Charlie caught me as 1 fell, and when I awoke to life again his arms still held me: his dear, faithful arms, Kitty—my sister Kitty—who had been off in Europe for years, stood near by, with baby in her arms, With my head on Charlie's shoulder, in pain and humiliation, I made my confession. His handsome eyes looked at me, full of grave tenderness, when he understood all, “Jennie's a little goose.’ sald Kitly as she kissed me and cried over me, and then 1 beard the explanation the mystery. Kitty was coming home, but wanted to keep her coming a secret in order to give me a great and glad sur- prise, She was obliged to remain for some weeks in the city with the family for whom she had been governess for a number of years. ‘ the for baby’s upon the 3 nd ners cauule my back me as I burst baby in soul! Jennle, have you been? locked up and ’ Of she Knowing this, and wishing to make my surprise doubly pleasant, Charlie purchased matenal for a couple of handsome dresses and expressed It to Kitty thal she might have them stylishly made up. 1 said that a day badly begun rarely ends well, but I must take it back. No day that ever dawned ended more joyously than that. ———— I ————— & French Wit's Revenge. ———— That was a neat compliment that a French wit paid to an enemy who had come and scribbled “Coquin®’ (black- guard) upon his door one night with a piece of chalk, Next morning the wit went to the fellows house, and said, in the politest way possible: “Monsieur, you left your name at my door last night, and I have come to return the gisit,” ros miso ~The first iron ore to be discovered in this country was found mm Virginia mn 1715. I'eople who suffer from pervous de- bility accompanied with dyspepsia, Suge for a time to hve largely on milk.
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