SONG OF LABOUR,
Work, work, work,
In meadow and mill and mare
Work, work, work,
Till the dews of labor start.
Where the sailors launch thelr
And plow the waves apart,
Work with a song on the lips,
And work with a prayer in the
ships,
heart.
Let the dreamer lie at ease,
And gaze at the bright blue sky,
Laulled by the murmuring bees,
While the summer winds go by.
Though its skies be cold and gray,
Be this thy heart's content,
That thine is the sweeter day
In useful labor spent.
Better to delve all day
With the blessing of peace at night,
Than to fritter the time away,
With fingers idle and white.
For labor is God's good gift,
Though it be the curse of the fall:
And the hands that struggle and lift
Are the noblest hands of all,
. «Ola Moore, in Youth's Companion.
A CIRCUS TRAGEDY.
I.
Gugusse, the favorite of the Winter
Cirque, which stood in fhe shadow of
the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, was
pot a handsome fellow. He
neither the wit of the clown, the grace
vet he was
more popular with the Muscovites
than all the three together. He owed
his popularity a good deal to nature,
who had sent him into the world,
equipped with an enormous head,
large, fanlike ears, and a hunchback
balanced upon slender which
bowed beneath their weight. He was
the king of the dwarfs and the idol
of the mob-—for, to a mob, grace, wit
and strength are nothing compared
with hideous deformity. .
Yet he was a man.
sions like other men. had a heart
within his bony body capable of
human affection as that possesssed by
any of the public who applauded his
tricks. And this heart he had thrown
at the feet of Mile. Nina, daughter of
Adolphe, the equilibrist, the hand-
somest horsewoman in the circus.
When she appeared at the elircus for
the first time he was dazzled by her
beauty. She danced into the riug in
a cloud of gauze, among which span-
gles glittered like diamonds. A white
rose, suspended from pearly teeth,
contrasted with the rich red of her
cheeks and coils of jet black halr,
which streamed luxuriantly down to
her waist. was proudly, inso-
lently beautiful, and the dwarf
whom the whim of a cirenus manager
had taken from the cobbler’'s lapstone
—was completely dazzled by the sight
of such radiant lovelinesss,
As time went on the star dropped
from the sky. The distance between
them grew leas and less as the illusion
faded from his eyes. Every morning
he used to see the dazzling beauty of
the previous night, in a dirty morning
wrapper, patching her seanty wand
robe as she watched the pot boil in
the open air. He began to talk with
her, and then he began to dream, and
fn his dreams he saw Nina walking
by his side radiant with happiness.
Nina laughed at his gibes, screamed
at his jokes and shouted “Encore, Gu-
gussse!” when the love-stricken dwarf
made some grotesque movement,
which, he hoped, would be interpreted
As an exhibition of affection. The fair
horsewoman occasionally
him as she would have caressed a dog.
He was less than a dog in the eyes of
the circus people. Jealous of his pope
ularity, they cuffed Lim whenever
they wet him, and the dwarf found it
useless to protest,
One evening he told Nina that he
loved her. The girl stared at him
moment as if she had not Qeard aright
and theu burst into a fit of laughter.
augusse frowned, and drew himself
#p to the full height of Lis little fig
ure, hoping perchance to impress her,
Then he told her how he had loved
her from the moment he first saw her,
and how life was impossible without
her regard,
Every word the dwarf uttered was
like a jest to the merry-hearted girl.
She sat in her chalr and shook with
the exuberance of mirth,
stepped forward dnd took one of her
white, plump hands in his horny palm.
Nina jumped up with a gesture of dis-
gust, drew her hand away, and sthuck
the dwarf a blow in the face.
A few hours later the circus rang
“with cheers as Gugusse entered,
the dwarf had no heart for Lis work |
that night, and he was hissed from |
the ring.
ity of the ringmaster,
legs,
He had pas-
He
as
She
I
The next day the circus bills bore
the imposing announcement:
“Unparalleled Novelty. Stupendous
and Gugnsse”
At 7 o'clock the house was crowded.
The usual exercises took place--tight
fope, trapeze, horizontal bar-—but
they passed almost unvoticed. The
people were waiting for the promised
tragedy. They wanted to see the
white-robed maiden devoured by the
bear.
At last Gugussse and Nina entered
the ring, and the pent-up excitement
of the crowd found vent in cheers.
Nina was witchingly beautiful in her
white toga, over which fell tresses of
rich, dark hair. She looked like the
Sulwwnied SUID of old, for
whom ¢ had no terrors. She
jazanced to the center of
: Gugusse disappeared and reentered
the ring with a tame bear, which had
been his playfellow since he lefy his
Polish home, He held the animal by
the ear, and as the brute struggled
and growled menacingly, the people
| applauded to the echo.
| They watched Gugusse approach
the maiden, and heard some words
uttered, which they took to be an ap-
peal for her recantation. In reality
Gugusse was murmuring a passion:
ate declaration.
“Nina, I love you. Have pity on
me. Can you not hear me? Have pity
on me or I will let Biska fly at you, I
have made him drink brandy, 1 have
beaten him, and this morning 1 stole
his meat from him. He is hungry; he |
is mad; he will tear you to pieces. Will |
you be mine?”
Nina shook her head with a gesture
i of impatience,
{ “Nina! Nina!
I am a man-—I have a
[right to love you. 1 love you with
my whole soul. 1 cannot live without
vour love. Be mine! Do not make me
desperate. Ah! you shake your head
You will not! You despise me. 1
know it. You shall pay dearly for it
now!"
As he finished speaking the dwarf
brute which pawed the ground vicious-
ly at his feet. Nina turned pale,
face—there
Her cheeks blanched with terror, and
{ from her lips came the cry:
“Help! help! help”
With a rapid movement
unmuzzled the bear,
the helpless
claws,
The scene was so realistie,
ingly rendered, that the audience ap-
plaunded until the clrcus was
with a deafening roar. They
ed, and thought it was part of the
“business” when a beautiful
dropped down and blood spurted from
the white, unclothed arm.
of the wretched creature who stood
watching the horrible sight? Was he
conscious of his infamy? Was he selz
ed with pity at the sight of so much
youth and beauty being
torn to pieces?
what he had done?
No one can tell, but just as the bear
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
the state $£103,000,000 a year, accord-
ing to the estimate of Le Temps,
Again the old ery
must go,” Is raised; but, for that mat.
ter, the horse has never done anything
else,
Iritish trade, §. g., the sale of Brit
ish manufactures abroad, Is shrinking
to a rate so rapid as to amount to a
collapse. The lost markets are going
in what proportion it is not yet Pon:
sible to say—to Americans and Ger
mans,
Man shows his superiority to the an-
imals by digging potatoes with a hoe,
The hog roots them up with plenty of
speed for his present uses, but the
speed Is Hmited, while with machinery
the limit of speed of man has prac.
tically never been found. Machinery
is the saving of man. His spiritual
and moral salvation, as well as his
intellectual, is being worked out hy
the spread, the domination, the com-
plete entrance of machinery into
part of his life; by the absorp
by machinery of that drudgery
hitherto has inexorably held a
certain portion of the human race sub
a portion which would
and larger but for
power of machinery.
Several English
been publishing their
on the trade of Great
branches of
newspapers have
annual reports
iritain in the
Industry. In
and notably
London “Times” and
“Herald,” references
American competition
a growing Influence on British
and the complaint is made
American makers have been suc
many cases in securing
in those of the
the Glasgow
were made to
white shoulders of the
girl the dwarf sprang forward
seized the brute in his muscular arms,
With a mighty effort
bear off his victim and flung
the ground.
The passion which famine and ex
citement had aroused in the bear
caused him to turn with farious force
upon his master. As they rolled over
together in the sawdust the
caught the dwarf in a terrible em
brace. There wag a cracking of
bones, and before the people belong
ing to the circus had time to ran to
his aid the infuriated beast had plant.
ed his fangs into his neck.
And the crowd, little suspecting
that a grim tragedy had taken place
before their Jumped on
seats and howled out, amid
of applause:
“Encore,
gusse!”
him to
eyes,
Gugusse! Encore, Gu-
A FAMOUS PAINTING BOUT.
Grapes that Bird« Pecked at, and a Curtals
that Deceived Zeuxis
In a chapter on “Grecian
in his St. Nicholas Serial.
Sides of History” Mr. E. H.
lets one of his characters tell this fa-
mous story in his own language:
“Well, uncle, 1 may not remember
everything, but I will tell
as well as 1 can. Zeuxis was the one
to start the business. He went around
«thens ‘win bis chin in the alr,” gv
- Mr. Besant says, telling folks he could
i make better pictures than all the oth
; or fellows put together. Parrbasius
dida’t think he could stand that. on
any terms; so they challenged each
other, and it wax arranged that each
of them must get up ax gol a piece
of work as he could, and let the public
decide which should hold the cham.
pionship. Zeuxis led off with a man
carrying a basket of grapes, life-size;
and Parrbasius followed with only a
big curtain. When the show opened,
a lot of birds flew to the grapes and
i tried to nibble them. The people went
wild over that, and Zeuxis felt sure
he was going to win in the first round.
i He eallad out to Parrhasius to hurry
and lift his curtain, If there was any.
thing worth looking at behind it: and
then the match same to a quick finish,
for the curtain was the picture, yon
(see, and there was nothing at all on
the other side, As soon as Zexuls
i saw how the thing stood, he owned up
{that he wasn't in it. He had only
i fooled a flock of birds, but Parrhasius
| had caught a first-class painter, who
i ought to have known all the tricks of
| the trade. Then Parrhasius held his
(chin fn the alr, and walked off with
the belt. But Zeuxis behaved very
decently after it was all over. He
admitted that his man carrying the
grapes must have been badly done, or
else the birds wouldn't have dared to
go near him; so for that alone he de
served to be counted out. That's all
there is of it, 1 believe. What are yon
laughing at, uncle, Haven't 1 told it
right 7"
“Oh, yes” sald Unele Claxton, as
soon as he could get his face straight:
“right enough, after a fashion; though
I never heard it just that way before,
and I didn't expect you to report it as
if it were an Athenian prize-fight.”
‘aluters,
“Bright
Brit
manufac
“Here is
American
were bwite
markets, The English
has hitherto sald:
I sell Take it”
methods, he now admits,
The American manufacturer suited
market, and Is now,
Bull's sorrow, reap
ish
turer
to John
the profits.
ng
reorganization,
Some
undergoing
bankrupt
corporations, ruined
travagance in manag
ganized by creditors;
holders in
the industrial
is
Spain
like a corporation
by reckless
fement, are
some by stock
the
who correspond
©X-
reor
Spain
class,
taxpayers of
corporation
first Humiliation
class in war
enabled the to dictate
economy and prudence in government,
abandonment of the pretenses
great nation, reduction of military
naval expenses, of and
abolition of the costly ministry cren
ted for them, reduction of taxation
Hereafter
fe
their hand
aristocratic
trying
has
bourgeoisie
of a
and
sale colonies
pian factory, and will enter on a new
and saner era of national exist
The Grand Turk's order for Krupp
Thus
better
commercial
the
advantages,
Caliph will be
Powers
has wun
with the Western
than ever before, Russia
hand guns on China, but in dealing
a nearer Oriental Power Ger
better anywhere,
inuch Hberality,
with
officers to
whatever
to pre
sent, she is largely indebted to Ger
many for it, and ought to prove a sub
stantial ally If future events should
at any time make it desirable.
Khe has also,
lent out her
Ro that
The last generfl report issued by
the Government of India on the cotton
crop shows a deterioration in the
prospects since the issue of the previ
ous report in October last. The area
13.0060. 000
acres, being about one per cent.
than for the previous Sve years. Only
in central India and in the territory
of the Nizam of Hyderabad does there
appear to have been an lmportant in-
crease of area. In the former district
the increase in area is placed at nine
per cent. and the yield at 30 per cent,
above that of 1807, and in the latter
the increase in area is 4.0 per cent, In
the rest of the country the uncertain:
deficiency of rainfall, affected the pro.
nor areas there is a good showing in
both respects,
A ANN
porter presents a semiannual state.
ment of the new textile mill construe
tion in the United States which shows
that during the last six months, 107
new textile mills were constructed or
projected, against 155 for the first
half of 1808, and 68 for the last six
months of 1807. For the entire year,
the new and projected mills number
262, against 1560 for the year 1807. Of
the 107 mills, 78 have been or are to
be devoted to the manufacture of cot
ton, 11 to i Yeoalen, 14 to knit gooda,
hosiery, ete, and 4 to miscellaneous
purposes, such as silk manufacturing,
arpet manufacturing, ete. “From
this it would appear that textile mill
construction in the United States in
themselves differentiate men more, al
most, than they are differentinted
from the animale, “Boome one must
" is a phrase often
but every time that a machine
takes any of the heavy labor off the
man it rids the labor
demand for a lower
type ‘of man and calls for a higher,
observes the New York Commercial
Advertiser; it adds a few to the “#uo
who are a cumibrnsnee
to the earth, and must disappear, nud
furnishes a liveliliood to otiers better
provided mentally and morally, It
all seems very cruel and heartless,
and to the individual that suffers it is,
it.
or rath-
hand with the public
is taking mankind to a high
er and an even higher level of life,
The man that runs a trolley at ten
miles an hour, has to be quicker, more
alert, than the man that used to run
the horse ears at six; the man that
runs a threshing machine, than he
that threshed out grain with a flail
of the
er, hand in
schools
Further reports of the achievements
of the new French toy, the Gustave
Zede, have inflamed the popular
mind to such an extent that one for
gets for the moment that England
not already subdued, her battleships
sunk, and her jolly Jack Tars blown
to fragments. To quote the Matin,
“England vanquished in advance”
The “There Is to-day an
engine of which « either
aon or below rface, and fire tor
pedoes with success, Under it
cannot be attacked, It a dayviigin
torpedo-boat, more terrible than those
now in vogue, i chiletly
employed under cover darkness
Neverthelesg, it is purely
vessel,
At present two submarine boats are
built the Morse,
defense Narval,
of
$130,000,
the «
jp
is
Temps says:
war an sail
the =u
witler
jx
which must be
of
a defensive
being
Cherbourg
and the
boat. ’ Cost
at
nn
i
in
i boat,
offense
roundly
not the
building
Govert
each
It
nl
ent
fortieth
an ironclad”
of of
French
ordered
eis 1 © thie
start =n
MES
h
Zode
popular
hind £20000 for
pe fist
3
Bilis Hil
the purg » diay
ti Wis opened,
after
effort of
the Ger
the
biy
Large
that
arm are
nal
bs flan
rut
Kk boards, fir
Exsereises reduire
urged
-
bili
tlie entire
educate
As
an
fers nwn
laid w
3 5
® § thie ©
amd, so that the #1
tion The
Fi ELE
to
sip i
can prolgbily
that and
pniin
drawing
custom of
dren pract
wit
ise and deawing
font * Re f an ICR or sup
for the hand. Th are
atl the same time hey
« Jette
‘3 » tnugiit to use
in the The
given right arm
been explained physiologic
CONnSIrig of the
that enter the arms
bw tore
f« the
vy
taught to ar in
i rs of the alphabet
both hands
patural pre
has
the
equally task
ference fo the
ally by
and nerves
to the
The re
are
{ion vel
those right
arm prominent
in fon
linnded Many lustan
of men who
fmong
painters
ing
Verse the win
auturally left
are recorded
ambidexterons
renowned
Case
eR were
bwing
Menzel and
thse
two
KR limsch
WHY HE WOULD NOT GIVE UP.
The Beat ng Was Not Hall ss Bad as Ueing
Called a Spaniard.
Chimmie!”
Jake!”
to him,
3 him hard,
These and similar exclamations of
encouragement, repeated. came
from a erowd of intensely eager boys
and girls and pot a few grinning mer
assembled around two litle gladia
tors engaged in a serious fist duel wm
Mulberry street not very far frou
Police Headquarters
Some of the grinning wen looked
half ashamed of their role of tolerant
spectators of the encounter. The al
of superficial amusement of the re
miainaer scarcely concealed the real in
terest with which they followed every
movement of the fighters,
To the latter it was no laughing mat
ter. One, a slight, pale lad with a dog
ged, determined look and thin, firmly
compressed lips was obviously out
classed by his more robust opponent
who was punishing him severely, but
“Soak it
oft
od.
“Let up, Chimmie, he's bad enough,
interposed Chimmie's friends.
Jake, abused and bleeding, picked
himself up froin the ground and pro
with tne enemy, and proposed to “fin
ish him up if 1 get smashed.”
fhe battle was resumed and Jake
went down heavily, striking his head
He was picked up
A man pushed his way through tac
crowd and restrained him.
“You're grit all through, my boy, but
said, :
“But be eaved me a Spaniard!” ex
plained the boy passionately, with
tears of baffled rage in his eyes as Lie
struggled to free himself from the
fadder was killed in de war!”
“I wus on’y guyin' yer,” admittod
Chimmie, sullenly, seeming to realize
at this reminder all the enormity of
the insult. “You're all right, Jake”
A tall figure In a helmet and a bine
ering down the street from (he direc
tion of Police Headquarters, Chimmie,
the mollified Jake, and their admirers
HARNESSING THE NILE
British Government's Great Project for Re.
deeming Egyptian Soil
A tremendous task to be under-
taken by the English in Egypt-noth-
ing less than the creation, for the pur
pose of Irrigation, of a
ing two or three times the superficial
area of Lake George, Ex Consul Gen-
eral 1. C. Penfield describes the pro-
posed undertaking in the Century, in
an flustrated article appropriately en-
titled “Harnessing the Nile)”
Bays;
Engineering skill is to rearrange na-
ture's surface on the Egyptinn fron
tier, and pond back into Nubia a body
of water a hundred and forty miles
long, crossing the tropie of Cancer,
and estending southward pearly to
horosko—a goodly step on the journey
to Abu-Simbel and the Wady-Halfa
by means of a great dam across the
Nile at Assunn. The Pyramids and
the Sphinx bave borne testimony
through the centuries to the grandenr
amd power of execution which dwell
within the Nile valley: and what more
fitting pow than that the same valley
be the theatre of a gigantic engineer
ing exploit, audacious perhaps, but
certain of success, and ministering to
rather than to his
is
inns sities,
vanity?”
As
scheme
HOC s
achievement the
ix on a senle worl.y of a
Ramases or a Pharaoh. To'create In
the heart of the African desert a lnke
having from two to three times the
superficial aren of Lake Geneva, in
Switzerland, and control it with scien.
tific that the impounded
flood may be turned into distant chan-
nels at will, Is a stupendous under
ing. But the eng
plans can be carried out to the letter;
they have estimated the exact cost of
the dam, computed almost to the gal-
lon the volume of water that will
imprisoned, and figured the necessary
resistance provided at every
point of the masonry. In Cairo, the
experts of the ministries of publie
works and finance, likewise, have cal-
culated to a nicety the sum from fax-
ation that will com the public
treasury through the country's “aug
mented prod fIvenees,
fo the
not unlike
of the delta,
fire, is to
bullding
precision, so
fal
PAK
Iw
to be
¢ into
Subordinate great dam, a
the barrage at
apex ten miles to the
of be made at As.
Its function will be to give a
head to the river to force the
water into of irrigation
hundreds
smnller one,
the
north
wiut
stftlicient
the sy=tein
{ of thous
Assiut and Cal
the Cairo bas
Mehemt Al
of a French
effective until
the country
i 3 - %
ands of acres between
ro. The
{it was
completion of
rage begun by
Pasha from the
engineer, but
Fugland took
developed cotton culture as to ald the
public revenue of the at least
S10,000.000 annualls It may safely
ARsnun reser
series which will
wtedd southward to
Nyanza., The reestablish
authority Klar
i determine this
4% $e
dans
not made
in hand) so
country
concluded that the
of
nets
be
is but
thie
+» Victoria
{
0
voir one in
be ox
Liwedival at
iH Wi
Champion Losg Distance Hosseback Rider.
The champion long horse
rider of the world resides near
Allensville, He is a prominent farmer
living and one-half miles from
and owns another farm one
mile and threequarters from where
Every morning bright and
Ire rides to the back of the farm
where he resides, of one
mile, and returns, making two miles
Then he goes to his other farm, a dis
tance of one mile and threequarters,
and returns, making three and one
half miles
Then he comes fo Allensville, a dis
tance of three and one-half miles, and
returns, making seven miles, That
makes twelve and one-half miles he
rides morning. In the after
voon he makes the same trips, (After
supper he goes to Allensville and re.
turns home, making in all thirty miles
a day. He does this every day in the
year, making 11.680 miles a year. He
travels at least 720 miles a year fish-
ing
of 12400 miles a year.
r4listance
back
three
thai sila
1iilN pace,
Lie resides
early
a distance
every
He has done
pumpkins, Then (Fere's beef. Of
“PAhee—the w-h-at?”
“Click! click! Yes, old racers, Yom
can buy them br the bunch of a hon
in all 248.000 miles,
#0’ if he had
for the past
cumiference of the earth,
Kept a straight course
twenty years he would have been
around the world ten tmnes, He is
likely to keep this up for twenty years
longer.— Elkton, Ky.) Times,
Points for His Hotel,
He winked familiarly at the land-
lord as he paid his bill and in a con
fidential tone remarked:
“1 don't mind telling yon that 1 am
thinking of going into the hotel busi
ness myself for a change, Yes, sir,
that's wo! I've bought the biggest
place In Red Dog, Oklahoma, and
mebbe you wouldn't mind telling me
a few things about keeping a hotel
seein’ you're right in the business,
There's the menu, now; some little
points on that might work. We don’t
know everything down in Red Dog.
The landlord rubbed the bald spot
on his brow and thought a moment.
“There's chicken croguettes,”
said; “chicken comes high this time
of year”
“1 soe”
“Not one in a thousand can tell the
difference between veal and chick:
en”
“Geewhillikens There’ % a poluter to
Wtart with.”
The man from tad Dog turned pale,
all the points I can
ogee, and If you ever
come our way give me a call. Good
day, Fried rabbit? Owls on tone’
H-Lppop. I reckon T'll eall the line
Great business, this hotel-keep-
ing, anyhow.”
STORY.
Curious Way in Which the : ualipi Deposit
Was Found.
A favorite story among the Arizopa
miners Is one regarding the curious
way that the Hualipi mines near
Kingman were discovered. The lo-
eality had long been known to have
gold and silver wealth. Hundreds of
prosyectors had vainly hammered
away bits of outcropping rock and
had dug prospect holes throughout the
region until the country looked pock-
marked, A few thousand dollars had
been wasted, in feeble attempts
at gold mining. But all the prospect-
ors had finally abandoned the region.
Two cowboys ou their way across the
Territory from Ash Fork to the Col
orado River in the summer of 1880
camped seven miles north of where
Kingman has since grown up on the
line of the Banta Fe, They had sey-
eral sticks of dynamite with them for
when they reached the ‘ado
tiver. They put the dynamite at a
safe distance from where they rested
and camped, among some: boulders.
The next day was hot and the
and men were weary that
the journey was delayed another day.
Along in the afternoon when the ther.
mowmeter ranged from 110 degrees to
117 degrees in the shade, the dynamite
in some unexplained way, went off.
or the cowboys went over to
see what the dynamite had done, and
in looking ameng the broken
rock they saw even with their unprae
had
sold ore
P'rosoott
100,
se Color
HO
horses ey
CONUrse,
about
ticed eyes that it opened soe
mens
report
8 worth from $700
the
any fe velopment
for £2000 alto-
time to this the
been worked it
dozen sets of owners
The
March,
gotten as Ligh 25,
the property. Not
only that, but the accidental explosion
of the dynamite on that hot
day led to more careful prospecting
that region on new lines of investig
tion, and the known camp or
Chloride, Ariz. one result. The
camp has yielded $6,000,000 to the
wealth of the work, and now the San-
ta Fe Railroad Company is building a
branch road there to modate its
mining business York
very
An
e] that the rock wa
{to $800 n but
thelr mines before
Lad
gether. brow ti
Hualipl mine
has had half
and h
ent owners have
IND,
promising
“ot
ii
spe
ARKH Yer Inter
ton. cowboys sold
begun upon
them
nt
fins
a
as made each set rich
had
i pres
it Ringe
and have l
month from
as
ENN) A
summer
of
widely
is
accom
New
Sun.
Took Possession of California
William P. Toler, the midshipman
who first hoisted the American flag
on California soil fifty-two years ago,
died at his in Oakland, a few
days ago, at the age of seventy-three,
He wag born in Venezuela, where his
father was in the diplomate service
of the United States, was edoecated In
Virginia, and appointed a midship
man in the nav by Heopry Clay, four
years before the Naval Academy was
established. He went to the Pacific
const with Commodore Jones, and im-
home
rey landed with 5 small force on Octo-
ber 19, 1842, hauled down the Mexican
the same pole. Later, he discovered
that Commodore Jones had made n
mistake in being premature, and
therefore he hauled down the Ameri-
can flag again, afd on October 28th
hoisted the Mexican once more, salut-
ed it, and sailed home. On July 7.
1846, he again raised the American
flag at Monterey. taking possession on
behalf of the United States,
Porte Rico aH althy | Place.
Porto Rico is said to be the health
jest of the West Indies. [It is a little
south of Cuba, and is a little warmer.
The trade wind is here from pearly
east with a slight bend from the vorth.
The result is, as in Jamaica, that the
northeast angle is by far the wettest
and the northern slope is decidedly
wetter than the southern or Carribean
one, Indecd, the southern slope is so
dry that irrigation is needed in some
places, and it i= very imperfectly used.
The island ix more subject to hurri-
canes than is Cuba, It Hes pear the
customary path of their centres, while
Cuba is far to the west of the usual
pati. The miny season in Porto Rico
f& in Inte summer and in antomn. In
Cuba it is ih early summer and tn an
tumn, with’ a short dry season be
tween, Thig has disappeared in Porto
Rico, and there is only one rainy sea
son there, as in Florida.
WE’ " r
; The Umbrella Trade.
Speaking of the vast growth of the
umbrella trade, an old salesman said
that he remembered, in 1858, secing
umbrellas peddied from a cart, on
ainy days, at Brondway and Fulton
street. Formerly, he added, umbrellas
were sold in this city at but few places
except haters’ and