KEEP A.COIN', If you strike a thorn or rose, and whine { VOIur ine [OW some I's OF the looked ALRID A: he that the dr of July. Ever a creature of impulse, 1 was by noon day Brussels, I k 1d bees fore, : unobtrusive hotel de a Madek e | saw a flam 1 capital at ile in the © ng bill about tl td once to greet tue entran lottery, giving the drawing as July 4. A this, thought I, for that ! The first repre. sented an enormous sum, the very con- sideration of me dreams of a millionaire. I began consider my ticket as a really valuable possession, almost as though an actual draft for the amount of the first prize, and at the very least as a kind of talisman which was to pass me along the oad to good forttine, Such, indeed, it was to prove, manner 1 could never have imagined, During my stay [ wag determined to do Brussels thoroughly. 1 spent my mornings in work, my afternoons in wandering in all quarters of the city, and my evenings at Wauxball, Gay with light, life and music, the popiflar resort exercised a great fascination over me. . the tact date of the happy augury will prize be 3 i pendence day which gave it were On the first an obviously visit my Knglish an old man amd a eye wis by couple at near m The latter it was Her pale face and lit her whole expression be sndnes | gman, who atitne was full of char up by large, ¢lear Hy oon deck Hitude witl 1 1 ST rediiiion: ireely ever, wh ken, addres Night after ni; hall drawn--though assorted always sak { oupie Hg 1o one an tevlly to One n fool PEM ns the objed Down Royal up Stones them on taiking to the and began transferring the pebbles from the seat i youngsters, they promptly knees, laughing iil I was so taken i did not artled yoloe sas $ notice any one appros and. was st at hear familiar J “Mr. Drommond, children doing?’ what are those disturbance of their playthings. “Good-inorning, Miss Mortimer; this is an unexpected pleas ure. I rose at onee, to the She hiushed at my remark, seeing, | supposed. with feminitie sharpness that I was merely there on the chance of meeting her. The two little returned to more stable When isfactory comrade, and garden seat as a foundation for their buildings, »” her “Mees Marner, that 1 looked surprised, for she sald: “1 was about to tell you, Mr. Drum. mond. that my name is not Mortimer. are my young pupils” she added, “whom 1 bring out here every morning as a recompense for having made them try to twisi tongues into speaking our Inngonge this 11h During ng and it In « nor HOH } sequent aones-for urious how i often we happened to meet in the Ale tell of ng pert aie to Influence mw comedy ntance | endship cople | I telegraphed vi in two days Wore spmwy nn Brus made wife the affected in- sels | showed by n letter, and she said, with dignation afraid that 1 “1 am have married a mfortable home after all yor Two or three od ys after we reached London I had annoui my re I got a letter from Uncle Joe turn, but saying: "Congratulations! | number of that ticket 1 gave that not my marriage kept the you, and paper you have won the first prize.” i wrote an answer—hrief, but to the point, “Dear Uncle Joe—The lottery ticket which you Kindly gave me—how can i ever be grateful enough?-has | brought me something better than a prize—it has given me a wife” As for the fate of my comedy, every advertisement boarding in London in : forme you that it is “still running.” | Lloyd's Weekly. now see hy the Some of the New York dry-goods houses protect clothing and woolen fabrics from moths by placing the | goods in rooms chilled with cold air. laa ol sa it is unwise to have a house tos i much shaded. An Italian proverh | says that “where the sun never comes | in the doctor must.” | BICYCLING FOR WOMEN. DONE TO IMPROVE CONDITION. NHAT IT HAS THEIR PHYSICAL Wheeling Possesses Charms Enjoyed by No Other Forms of Sport---The Dangel of Attempting Too Much at First. BB. Potter light! 1a nes general the vad have tire of value a= a riders from and who do jars of a hearty ind i | by will attract thousands of among the of not yet know the petite and sound «i women fhe ap- of refreshunent 15 3 COLD-FIELDS OF CUIANA, An Arizona Miner's Prospecting Tour Among Them. Thomas Dalgleish, an old Arizona miner, has written an account of his own personal adventures among “The Gold-Fields of Guiana,” for the Cen. tury. Mr. Dalgleish says: The first fine placer on the Cuyand was found in IN8 by a Frenchman named Jacobs, His outfit was fur nished by two Portuguese named Carrac and Rosa. They took out from two hundred to three hundred pounds a month for two or three years, the gold being worth $165 a pound. When 1 reached there in 1803 the placer was in full working order. Jacobs is said Carlo; Carrara died insolvent; Hosa left a few thousands; that is, iu brief, the history of the owners of one of the richest placer mines in that country. The mine was sold in 1805 for $1.500, and Jacobs is now simply an employee he placer taken out mare inventor Ri un non or which would be considered a Iw sone people and does fairly ab i ienme of oyel "oid . SEEN Fine Cripples Carried to the Polls. liy the Poland Was rus fia race (4 alive lias bean 10any Years sinee, » of the Nations,” stroyed and divided up b amd Russia: but tional feeling of this noble nil sirong fo-dgy Thig {act brouglit oui at the recent by-election at Sehwety, Polish Prussin. The strag- ele was characterized by exiraordinary bitterness, Polish workmen who liad loft the constituency since 18 were Lirought back at the expense of the Polish landlords Cripples and confirmed javalids were caryied to the polis, and even a dying wan who had partaken of the last sae % (1 a § $a fa sia, Ausiria was where he deposited his ballot, A san nesailants, Buffalo 'N. YY.) Express. THE ISLAND OF SPITZBE it Was Once Fame for Shark Fis i its heries, Whale and fiat ective upon animal for Story of a Creat Painter. Munkacsy. man of Keen ia a ago a getting ‘ for art, ter and asked to pure chase some of hile works at a reduced indig- and then amused “By all sald Munkaczy. “I can tell you where you can get a great deal of work from my brush at a very low fig- ure. If you go to my native village of Munkacgy. in Hungary, you will find plenty of walls and there 1 1 painted when 1 was Michael Lille i for love connoisseur, wi hings cheap equi called on the pain price. The painter was at first nant means,” outhouses whi Lich, painter and glazier The connoisseur rejoined that he wanted to purchase Munkacsy's ple tures, nmd the great artist turned on him in a perfect frenzy of rage and drove him out of his studio. Munkaczy pover forgets, nor i= afraid to mention, his lowly beginnings. Now one of the greatest living artiste, he recalls with pride that at ope time he painted out- houses, sign poets and walls, gradually, by dint of sheer genius, rising to his present position in the world of art, incase osm The tortoise generally attains the age of four hundred years, In France a man can secure s divorve from his wife if she goes on the stage
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