TIMELY TOPICS. The mustache is again the subject of legislation in France. Clerks in the national bank are not permitted to wear itl At Berne, Switzerland, recently, an American and Austrian girl passed as doctors of medicine, and Mile. Lina Berger, a young Bwiss, toon the decree of dioctor of philosophy after a brilliant i examination. A Glasgow pajier gives a list of up ward of 150 failures in Glasgow and the west of Scotland directly and in directly traceable to tho stoppage of the City of Glasgow bank. The total lia bilities of the Scotch firms who have been dragged down are $125,000,000. To beautify the coats of eight horses, value $B,OOO, and also four oxeu, s Cambridgeshire (England) laborer put so much arsenic in their food that they all died. Sentence: a month's hard labor. This treatment of horses is com mon at Vienna. It makes them foam at the mouth, too, or it is supposed to do so. The latest robber triok in New York is to don the clothing of a porter or market carrier, lounge round a stall till some one is observed to make a pur chase, then, having ascertained the pur chaser's name, to return at a busy timo and glibly demand snob and such meat for him, the trick usually proving suc cessful. Mr. E. Kingsley, the engraver who has achieved much success, some of his l>est work appearing in Scribncr'n Monthly, was formerly a compositor in a news paper office in Maxeachiisetts. At one time he gained a precarious living by designing fantastic cigar-box labels and engraving illustrations of local manu factories. When Professor Chamnney, ♦he artist, went to Northampton, Mass., Mr. Kingsley took drawing lessons of him, and then visited New York to study anatomy. His success in a short time became so marked that he returned to : his work as an engraver. A woman's hair has suddenly turned 1 white in Milan. Bhe was a mother, and i was going from church with two chil-1 dren, one of whom could walk, while the other was held in her arms. The one who could walk ran down the church steps into the street where a carriage was passing. As the child disappeared between the wheels, the woman uttered a loud cry and fell ipsensible, with the other child in her arms, on the ground. The child under the carriage was picked up unhurt The mother, when she was restored to her senses, found bar bair had turned perfectly white. In sugar refineries large iron cylinders called boneblack filters are used. They are usually about twenty feet high and five feet in diameter. Two men went into one of these vessels in a Bt Louis refinery to ooat the surface with tar, as a Sreventive of rust during a season of is use. They sat on a suspended board and put the tar on with brushes by the light of a lantern. The lantern fell to the bottom and broke. Instantly the cylinder was converted into a fiery fur naoe, the tar on its sides blazing furious- ; ly and a hole at the bottom providing a draft. The men were completely charred. I The government of Honduras is make ing great efforts to develop the agricultur- I al resources of the oountry. Coffee plant ing has been vigorously carried on, and the government makes, free grants of land to all persons desirous of under taking the cultivation of ooffee, or sugar, or of cocoa, and gives free trans port of the necessary material and labor to the site of the grant. Besides these advantages, planters are exempt from military service, and all implements and material necessary for the use or formation of plantations are admitted into the oountry free of duty. Btrangers are admitted to the same privileges as citizens of the republic. While the English steamer Warrior was off on island in the West Indies, but out of sight of land, a human cry was heard, and the carpenter said he had seen a man struggling in the water. The engines were at onoe stopped and a boat put off. After a long pull in the direction noted the cry was again heard, and half an hour later a man was dis covered and picked up. He proved to : be a native of Jamaica named Alexander Hughes, and said he bad been three days in the water dinging io a clothes chest. He was one of the crew anil pas sengers of the schooner The Little Min nie, which capsized at sea and sank while on her passage to Oolon. The accident occurred sixty miles from where the man was picked np. He was the only survivor. A writer in the Atlanta (Ga.) Oontlt lution says that Senator Gordon was wounded five times while fighting as a colonel in the battle of Bharpeburg. The fifth ball entered his cheek and brought him to the ground. Aa be be gan to recover his senses he says his thoughts ran an follows : "I have been struck in the head with a six-pound solid shot. It baa carried away my bead. On the left side there is a little piece of skull left. But the brain is gone entirely. Therefore, I am dead. And yet I am thinking. How can a man think with bis bead snot off? And if I am thinking 1 cannot be dead. And yet no man can livs after his head is shot off. I may have consciousness while dead, but not motion. If I can lift my leg, then lam alive. I will try that. Gen 1? Yes. there it is, lifted up. I'm all right I The Senator says that every stage of this solikmuy is indelibly stamped on his mind, and that in his ex hausted state the reasoning was oarried on as logically as ever a man reasoned at bis desk. If you want to know whdtber your oanary bird is a male or female just put some angle worms in the cage. Then, if the bird eats only the nude worms, you may be sure your bird is a nude. If • the bird eats the female worms and leaves the male worms, then the bird la a female. Sure every time,— Rot ton Pmt. ' DIAMOND KOBBKIUEN. Ma* aflk Pesallar Cnirlinarn Hcaarl- Ml la by Thaaa la Paraall af OiHrr Paa- PIR> llrai MIFPI Itraiarkabla i n*—. A Bt. Louiii Olube-Democrat reporter Tut an entire afternoou in the office B. Bpyer, a well-known diamond dealer, and listened with rapt attention to reminiscences and traditions of dia mond robberies, successful and attempt ed. One day a respectable-looking gen tleman with a young lady, to all appear anoe his wife, oame into Bpver s and 3 lent several hours looking at diamonds, no cross and ear rings, valued at $5,000 seemed to strike the young wife's eye. The husband demurred at the price. The wife pi 'yfnlly ooaxed him to buy. •• Well, well, I will think about it," said he, aa they departed without buying. The next day the young woman drove np in a coupe, and said : "My hus band deairca to see those sgain. I think lie will buy. Ho is sick in lied, and will you go to the Southern with me or send a clerk ?" Warned by a previous bitter experi ence, involving a loss of $l,OOO, Bpyer did not send a clerk, bnt went himself. The couple bad a suite of parlors on the second floor. The young lady was Suite engaging. Her husband was eeping. Would the geutlemau wait a few moments? He would. The lady was unusually interesting ; and, alwsvs susceptible to the charming woman, the time passed agreeably to the diamond dealer. The young lady got up and en tered the inner apartment, but retnrned immediately with the announcement that her husband was awake. With the sweetest affectation of enthusiasm, she picked up the case containing the jewels, and, with " Let me show thi-m to my husband," disappeared within. The door seemed accidentally to blow shut. Bnyer jumped up; and ns he did so ho beard a key turn in the lock. He at once recognized what was up, and spraug to the door opening to tho hall. He found it locked. He WHS a prisoner. The solid door mocked him. He was desperate. In nn instant he drew his revolver, placed it to the lock, fired ; it was shattered, and the door swung open to his touch. Like a madman, ho hire along the halls, down the stairs, through the rotunda, and around to the ladies' entrance, just as a lady in a carriage gave the order, " Relay depot, East Bt. Louis." He leaned into the window of the car risge, and aaid, " Will yonr husband take the diamonds, madam ?" Bhe gave him one long, searching look, qnietljr aaid " the price ia too j large, and then they are each hard 1 thinga to keep;" produced the eaae | from the receaaea of her muff and hand- ! ed it to him, saying, "I abonld bare been quicker." HpTer looked at the | diamonda, aaw that they were all right, and bade the yonng woman good day. , Within the hour ahe and her confederate had left the hotel. Bince then Bpyer baa never let a diamond leave hia band for more than two aeennda. The Gall hooae at Louiaville ia now defendant in a anit for $40,000 dama ge*. It ia the cnatom of traveling dia mond merchant* to deposit their atock in the rude of the boteL A New York traveler bad been at the hotel for aev- , eral day*. He came down from hiaj room at about anpper time one evening, and banding over a little aacbel to the ' yonng clerk in charge with " put that j in the aafe;" the amart young clerk took ! the aaehel, gave a cheek for it;the drummer walked away; the clerk waa j called by a gneat who wanted ice water | in 1878, put the aacbel under the oonn- ' ter ; another man ram* up and loudly aomplaiued that hia baggage bad not been aent to hia room ; the clerk took to explain, and the man who, perhapa, had followed the drummer thouaanda of mile*, and for month*, reached over and under the counter and aeenred the valuable package, and baa tbua far ea caped detection. About aa intereating a caae aa there ia on record created a profound aenaation among the diamond dealer* of Maiden lane, New York, neveral year* ago. The ntreet ia a narrow, dingy little thorough fare, and on it are located the establish i mcnt* of twenty-five or thirty wholeaale | diamond dealer*. They import direct, and supply the trade. The jewel* are wrapped up in little paper parcel*, flat ly folded, and are, of course, not mount ed. A man of solid and respectable ap pearance became gradually known aa a buyer of small diamond*, *ucb aa are n*ed for cluster* and settings for ladies' jewelry. The teat of the purity of a diamond is found in holding them close to the month and breathing upon them. Flaw* trill show up as little black spots under : this process. This solid and respects ' ble gentlemau waa alwsyn particular aa |to the purity of the diamonda Le ; wanted, and when satisfied generally j made a purchase of from two to five car ats, the gems being sold, of course, by weight. It waa customary to note on the outside of the package the amount sold. One day one of the dealers walked into the store of another and found him in a state of perplexity. He had juat weighed what remained in the paper and added to the aggregate sold, and found that this package was about five cnriU short. Diamonds are worth $BO per carat. The viaitor, in aome sur prise, stated that he eras troubled by exactly the name thing, and he oould not for hia life account for it Their discoveries spread. The other dealers were at onoe exercised, and on examina tion it was fonnd that there waa not one of their nnmber but had this mysterious shortage to aooount for. A close watch waa then set by each individual upon all of their employee* and upon all their customer*. It was left a few days later for one of the nnmber, an old man sixty years of age, who suspected the solid and respectable buyer, to detect the tongue of the aolid and respectable buyer aboot suddenly out aa be leaned over a paper of jewels to breathe upon them, and return with forr carats of di amonda upon its end. The old man aeiaed the adept thief by the throat and found the sparklers stuck to his tongue. The thief compromised with the old man for $3,000. There was no arrest in this case. It is estimated during the three years that this roan petgenised the diamond dealers of Maiden linn that ha realised fully $&0,oq0 from hia adroit dishonesty, . , In the Easter" <*tie* thsyHeorgmiixed .timed that followed the clogfe of tbo war, r tJt when orimc took its moat violent form, wore attended by suoh cases aa the smashing in of Tiffany'a abow window in broad daylight and the eaoape of the gang with $40,000 worth of diamond jewelry. A mode of robitery that ob tained for several years was the throw ing of snuff or pepper into the eyes of the salesmen, and an immediate and wholesale theft of all the goods in sight. A Broadway (New York) jeweler, with a very valuable stock of diamonds, had an automatic connection between the door and the curtains of his show win dows, so arranged that upcn opening the door after it had lceu locked for the night, the curtains would roll up and leave the interior of the store exposed to the passers by. A gang of English burglars came to New York city in 1071 and selected this establishment to commence upon. By the use of forged letters they succeeded in introdncing one of their nnmlier into the establishment as porter. He was unnstully faithful and well liked by his employer. He found time daring his labors to tske an impreraion in wax of the lock to the front dour. The aocret of the window curtains rested alone with the proprietor. One night four of the gaug entered the place by means of the fslse key made from the impression. They did not notice the curtsin roll si lently up. The privste watchman on the lieat saw them at work on the safe, summoned aid, and after a desperate re sistance, succeeded in arrentiug the four men. They were all sent to Sing Sing for long terms. After this attempt, the old gentleman who owned the place, grew very nenrons on the subject of burglars, and formed the habit of leav ing his house at all hours of the night, visiting his establishment, entering to assure himself that everything was all right, and then returning Lome. One night the old gentleman came along al>oat 1.80 o'clock, spoke pleasantly to the private watchman, quietly entered the st< re, pulled down the blinds, and after a half hour emerged, bade the watchman good-night. The next day it was learned that the old geutleman ha 1 been found lying nnconscions in the street. Home of the Kugliah gang had waylaid him, and procured his keys. One of their nnmber,made np to person ate the old man,had walk oil down to the store, and with the aid of the combina tion to the safe found on his person, opened it, and quietly walked away with a stock of diamonds* valued at $75,090. The perpetrators of this singulsrly bold robbery were never apprehended. ' Keported I'nder Fear of 1.1be1." A lawyer of Pall River, Ma**., eial the Hrrald, of that place, for lib*!, an i claimed $15,000 damage* because the Eapcr published a three-line item alxmt im. The suil brought oat conniderable editorial irony, of which the following, taken from the Hrrald'* polioe-couit report, ia a unique specimen ; Poor of oar moat estimable and re spected citixcna. Michael Rowland, E*q., Jamea Bwatn, ESQ., Patrick Hbep|ard, Esq., and Michael Conroy, E*q., and a very refined and cultured lady, Mary Downing, were the recipient* of dis tinguished honor laat evening, having reoeived kind and preaaing invitation* hi a reception held by hia honor in the dia triet ooartroom thi* morning. The eminent gentlemen and lady were re ceived cordially by hia honor, and dar ing the interview the judge broached the subject of evila existing in the land, applying hia remark* more especially to bo prevalance of intoxication. Hi* ad don* on tbia oocaaion waa elucidative to the illustrious gentlemen and lady, and waa intimative that they might gencr onaly donate to the fartherance of public morality an amount eonal to two dollar* each, with a alight addition to meet the reqnirementa of legal process. A very respectable gentleman, William McLonglin, Eaq., who had been prevail ed upon to visit hia honor, we* also con ferred with by the jndge on the "object of frequent imbihatioo, rfaulting too fre quently in inebriation ; bnt aa the view* of Mr. McLonghlin were diver** from tlioae of hia honor, no conelnaion waa arrived at, and another conference be tween the gentleman and hia honor will lie held on the 14th inah, when it ia hoped that a definite concloaion may he happily reach*], and the diacnaaion terminated. Bo endeth the flrt leeaoti. A Whole Family llrownrd. A heartrending and diatreeaing ac cident occurred recently at Laneaville, la. In the afternoon Mr. Lane, with hia wife and two children went on the me in the Mtaai*aippi river to enjoy i them wive*. He improvinhed a hand aleigh and a large box, into which he placed hia wile and children. Two handle* extended from the rear of the ; aleigh, with which Mr. Lane shoved the i aleigh on the 100. They were having a delightful time. The km near the ahoro waa about threa inches thick. The river waa open in the channel, and tha iee naar the open water wi.a, of ooaiwe, much thinner. Mr. Lane, unfortunate ! IjFi ventured too near the open water, i He felt the ioe giving way, bnt before : he oonld retrace hia steps it broke ; through, ingulfing ia the atreem the wife, the children acd toe father—all in a moment were launched into eterni ty. The maddening ahriek of the drowning family waa heard by a party of woodaboppera on an adjacent island, who aaw the cataatrophe. Tliey has tened to the rescue, bat were anable to arrive in time to be of aervioe. Laoe and hia family were under the ice, their deed bodies probably fioetiag down the river. It waa *ad to contemplate, and the bronxed faoea of the hardy wood obopper* were moistened with tear* they oonld not control They went to the station and gave the alarm, and then proceeded to Lane's cabin. They found the door unlocked. Inside a bright fire crackled in the stove. The aiiver bright tin tea kettle waa ainging for the return of the unfortunate family. The oat and dog were nestled under the stove awaiting the return of the two children who petted them. Everything about the honae indicated happiness and neatnei a. Mr. Lane waa the ticket agent at the station, and ia spoken of aa a man of industrious and frugal habit*, and a man who thought the world and all of hia Utile family In 1838, whan Walter Hunt Invented tf sewing machine, hia wife protested that it throw sewing women oat of work. AA KfIUIKKEH'M AbVKMLKK Trs kr S WHS Hoar ssdSstM Irmm Death h* a lllark Rear. A letter from Honesdale, Pa., says Aleck Frobes and Charley Hulsizer, of Port Jarvis, are two well-known Erie railway engineers. They have lately returned from a two weeks hunt in the wilderness of Canada, 150 miles north of Bt. Thomas. " Last year Charley and I went out the same woods," Aleok said. "Then I got treed by a wild boar, and I thought that was worse than going down the hank at tho rate of forty miles an honr. Yon see, some old fellow out there turned tome hogs in the woods three or four years ago, und they wont wilJ. I started one of 'em one day, and thought I'd have a littlo fun with him. I sent a ballet after him. He changed his course, sud made plumb for me. I skinned up s beech tree. I thought tho blamed animal'd go away when be fontid I was out of his reach. Bnt he wasn't that kind of a hog. It was colder than Greenland, and ul>ont two o'clock in the afternoon. Charley and the rest of the party we-e scattered about in the woods, out of hearing. The boar—for he was a boar, and u big one at that—waltzed around that tree, spitting out froth as if he'd chewed a barrel of shaving soap, and showing up a pair of tusks like a young rhinoceros. He trie/1 to gnaw the tree down, and worked a*ay for an hour with hia teeth. 1 thought certain be inteuded to keep right on till he brought me down. Bnt by and by be gave that plan np. The tree wasn't more than eight inches through, and I think the hog made a mistake in quittiug, for there ain't any donbt but that he'd a fetched it by early bed time. But lie stopped gnawing. " fhen he went off ten or adm home to niv folk*. 0.-.ee, at abont eight o'clock, I thought IM sbm down the tree ami try a race with the boar, aa I might aa well be killed in trying to got away aa to die like a sheep in a pen. Bo I lie g*n to let myself qnietly down. 1 had my hand* on tho lower branches with my legs hanging down the trunk, wb*n the hog smelt the rat. He gave a snort that made the vcrv tree shake, and raised np ou hut bind feet to meet me half way. I waa liaek to within two feet of the top of the tree in less time than it would take a red squirrel to jump a rail fence. " It's no nae," I said. " Unless some o' the boya come along inside of an honr, I'm a goner." About ten minute* alter that th* hog suddenly stopped dig ging. He seemed to listen tor a minute ; then, with a string of the roost unearth ly snort*, he started ou a dead run off toward Wolf swamp. "What's up," 1 said. In less than five seconds I knew what was up. Out of Uie brush to the right came, tearing and growling, one of the biggest bears I ever aaw. He never stopped, bnt let himself oat the beet he knew how after the boar. Pork ia one of the choice delicacies in the provender of a bear. The bog had considerable start of tlie bear, but at the rate the bear was going, aa I aaw him by the light of the moon disappear over the brow of the riiige, I think ho mnsi have come np with the bog and had hia oowtod lunch. I didn't wait for any news from the seat of war. but got out of that tree atiout as lively aa I bad got into it, picked up my gun and made for camp. I got in abont twelve o'clock. The boya had been out looking for me, and had given me np for lost. They felt good when I showed up. Little Mil) on tlf I'irNi. My aiater aayi no man wich ihooU pi Jgin ramlcbfw ahal marry her, bnt no man a ode want to marry her, I gneia, an long aa the pidgin ehootin held oat, oo that wad ne fan ennff. Wen nhc naid it her ynng man got red like a beat, bat didn't nay nothin. Nex day he ant my Uncle Nod did be kno nobody wich wad like to bi a jam op good atibt-gnn. Uncle Ned, he aaid : "fd like to bi it my own eetf if it waa a good pidgio gnn, but I gene it aint, coe it ban come mitr ni npilin a match." Some pidgine cai - rya letter*, name aa the poatcfßce, and one time wen ray'aiaterVyung man aenl away he cot one of oar pidgina and took it a long for to fetch back a letter to her, jeet for a flier. Nex day weoerer that girl herd the dore be! ring ebe waa jeat wild, ooe ebe thot it was her letter eome, for her idee was that the pidgin wade teere it at the poetofllro, for tone delivered by the letter carreers. But wen my mother tola her the pidgin moat come thru the winder, aha wont and thro np m winder in the hooa, and'it waa a cole Jar, and Franky, that's the baby, took COM and come mlty near pe> terin oat, , .j ; V' i A man in Lexington, Vt., mailed e latter to e flctition* namo in Japan, with a request that it be returned if not call ed for, and started it byway of the At lantic. Hi* object waa to eo bow long it would be in going around the world. It iMune bock tor the way of San Francis oo in joat 100 day*. Hew a Man Leeks the Dears. There is something curious sbout the ways man closes up tho house for the night. A woman will secure all the doors iu the bouse in ten minutes and spend twenty minutes tiking down her hock hair and getting ber frizzes ready for morning. The man of tho boose, having no I wok hair to take down and no frizzes to put up, spends his time in closing np the bouse. Ho begins st the bsck door, and locks and bolts all the doors from that to the front door. Then he takes off his cost and oollar. By that time one of the children wants a drink of water, and he has to unlock one of the doors to get it. Then be locks the door carefully, goe buck and takes off bis vest and winds tip bis wntch or clock, as the case may be. His wife suddenly calls out from among the bed clothes—it being the winter season— and asks her liege lord to make another expedition to the kitchen and see if the pancake hatter ia liable to riae in ita might and overflow the dish. He an lcks two more doors and makes s tour of inspection. 411 is well. He removes his stockings, wi rms his feet and pro poses to retire. Suddenly be is over come with the conviction that the rear door is not looked, and away ho goes barefooted over the cold floor of the kitchen and woodshed. By the time he reaches the woodshed door he is nnoc-r -lain whether any of the doors are lock ed, and he makes the grand round again. All is secure. Ho removes his pantaloons, blows out the light and is jnat about to lie down, when his wife suddenly bethinks herself that the girl probably forgot to put the milk pail out, and away ho goes again in a huff and white flowing garment. Before bo gets back to lied again he steps on two mar bles and a sharp piece of tin which the children have left on the floor. At last he gets between the sheets and lays him down to pleasant or horrible dreams he is never sure which it will be. As Morpheus gobbles him np and is about to take him to the land of Nod, the bril liant thought that the hired girl ia out flashes athwart bis brain, and begets np and unlocks the kitchen door. In ex actly one hour and eleven minutes from tbo time be begin* preparations to re tire he is in bed for good, ami one of the doors is still unlocked. He aays softly but solemnly to himself that he'll be blowed if he'll undertako to lock the doors again if robtier* surround the house fopr deep. Eu' the Dext night he repeats the performance, by apecial re quest,—Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel. The FillH el Memphis. Memphis is situated upon the east bank of the Mississippi, upon a bluff varying from fifteen to fifty feet in height. Upon the crest of thia bluff run* Front street; from thia street the ground slope* outwardly away from the river, o that all ruin, surface gutter washing*, nlop and whatever of floatable filth there may be, ia drained into the bayou, which winda through the heart of "the city. Across the river the Ar kansas aboro stretches low and flat, a vast marsh, notorious for it* malaria; north and east of Memphis upon the Tennessee aide, the land ia low and awampy; the soil in and about the city, of clay. The bayon runs through the moat thickly populated parts of Mets fihis. Into the elongated cesspool ia ooi eeted all the floating filth of a city of 55.000 inhabitants; garbage, the drain age from privy vanlts, gutter and street washings, dead animal matter, all and everything ia poured or thrown into this receptacle, there to decay and fester under the broiling ann of that southern climate. Consider it, if possible—ten miles of rocking rottenness; not a yard of it covered except where crossed by the bridges of the various street*. Dnr ing a rise of the Mississippi the back water fills thia bayon bank fnll, it* ac cumulated filth then soaking into the llie clay of its hanks. Whn the river fslla, the enrrent of tbo bayon ia not erf sufficient strength to empty its content* into the river. Th street* of the city of Memphis are beyond description filthy, and completely out of repsir. The wooden pavement is only one in nae, or rather was the pavement originally pat down. The street* and vanls are heavily shaded, th magnolia Iwtng the tree mostly need. leanest and Clinic. Ail OHkIuI hrlter of li.mlel Bonne An nriKinal |pl(r of I>aiiiol Boone it on exhibition in Cincinnati. Lite letter it toe property of Colonel John Taylor, of Newport, Kf., and wa* addreaped: " To John Overton, of Lincoln oonnty; to ti left at Elijah Hmitb'a, Lniogton." The letter reads: Jnly the 20lh, 17fW. Bm—The I Ami haa Been Long Hnr vayd ami Not Knowing When the Money would ba Radev Was the Reason of my not Returning the worka however the may be Returned when yon pleaa. Bnt 1 mnat ft rat have a Nother Copy of the Entry aa I bar* Lnat that I had when 1 I oat my plating Inatrnmenta and only have the Bbnrt field No tea Jnat the Oorae P'Manc and Corner treea pray aend me Nother Copy that I may Know how to give it the proper Bonnderry agreeable to the Ixioation and I Will aend the plat to the oAa a medetly if yon Chnae it the Expenaea iai* follows, via.: Hnrtayera fata £9 I I Rmwtiti faca 7 It 9 <3aM>n>en and Marker It Day* . I 0 0 pnrrMJon* for the boor > 0 (urarlnoiui for tba tour). - £33 17 0 Ton Will also Bend a C >py of the agreement Iwtwixt Mr. Walaa Overton and b Self Where t red the warrant*. 1 am air yoar nmMe aervant. Dakucd Boo*it. The above ie a literal copy. The letter ia written on nnrnled paper, in a clear, round hand, very legible and ci Atneteriatie. The p. of nee employment of capital letter* and the total abaenca of pnnetnatien marks are notable in the manr r He Had fargette*. A profwr in Letpsto nniversity asked a student what the anrjra tmrealia was. Putting hi* finger to the aide of his bead and looking wise, tba student aa!-' • " 1 know very well, bnt I forget jnat no* - hat it ia - *% " Tbere," said lha professor, "wa arw iu h*. The only man in tba world who evar knew what the anmra ia haa Mfotah Ibimufuf of aa Apple Ktaad. "Jennie Jane," writing from Mew York to the Baltimore American, Mb this romantic little story of ooe of the innumerable fruit-stand* sprinkled aU over (iotham : Tin-re is an apple-# l*nd on * oorner near Fourteenth street, winch baa been presided over for many y<*r* by an old man, a philosopher in but way, who re cently grew rheumatic and retired on bia navinga, wbicb, notwithstanding bia oonatant grumbling at the prieea be *u obliged to pay ana the small profits ha had to put np with, must bare been considerable. Hia anooeaaor waa an Engliah woman, neat, quiet, reserved and with a certain refinement of appearance and manner which would strike even the tnoat casual observer, and with precision and oor redness of speech very different frota tbe ordinary tvpe of apple women. Her reticence ami her lady-like manner served effectually to check qaeatiouing, wbicb must have savored of imperti neuoe ; anil ao aho remained in ber place, behind ber stall, selling ber apples, week after week, in all kinds of weather, for a number of months, until finally she disappeared. Two weeks sgo ber place was taken by two little girls, eight and eleven years of age—little women both, qniet, neat, gentle refined iu speech and manner just like their mother, and with the same reserve and self possession. Black cloth English walking-jackets were buttoned closely over their dark stuff dresses, and their shy eyes and timid manner seemed only a vail to nnosnsl decision and an almost painful maturity of character. One year ago these little girls lived with their father and mother, the former a working mechanic in a small town in The man became uneasy and dissatisfied, collected his small sarings, sold out their household furniture, and with the proceeds, to his wife's infinite sorrow and regret, brought the family to New York. Here be left them to try and find employment The woman took a small room, an attic, for herself and children, removing them from the lodg ing-house in which they had first found refuge ; she sold her wedding ring and a set ot jewelry left ber bv ber mother, and consisting of an old-fashioned brooch and earrings of aome value, to purchase the good will and stock in trade of the apple-stand, by which she hoped to livs until her husband returned. Exposure soon killed her, aided by want of proper treatment and medicine. The two littlt English girls now oocupy the attic alone at night when they return from the corner of the street, whiob is the scene of their daily labors. They keep it anxiously neat and clean, as nearly a* possible as their mother kept it. They are only waiting with that pitiful patience which belongs to the well-to-do poor when great misfortunes overtake them, altering no word of rebellion, finding their only relief and oonaolatioß in the iudnstrions discharge of every little duty. Their father does not know of the death of their mother. They do not know where to vrilo to him, nor perhaps does it matb r much if he never returns to them. They will in some way work oat an honest future for them selves, to which, perhaps, be would only be a hindrance or a blight. Trials ef as Editor . Mr. Willard A. Oobb, himself a jour nalist, in an address at Lorkport, ( X. Y.), told his audience what aome of the trials of the newspaper editor are. He enumerated the following: "The placidity with which c rreepondentr write upon both sides oi the sheet, thus aettii g all tLe compositors to breaking the third oommandmeui ; the appear ance in ibe sanctum of the man who has a grievance; the presence of the fiend who carries away the host ex changes ; the coming m of the man with the latest news—one of those characters who has an idea that when he goes west the east tips up, and Ho* eerso." Mr. Oobb might have added to that last clause the man who comes to the editor'a private room to ask what is the i news; also the man who has come in i for "a little talk." Htories of ludi ; crous typographical blunders are legions j in number, and Mr. Oobb recalled sev | erl good ones. By the dropping out ! of n single letter, the Book of Common Prayer once went to press with the sen tence "We shall all be change! in the twinkling of an eye," tcanafoHesd into "We shall all In- hanged in the twin kling of an eye." A poet who wrote "Bee the pale martyr in a sheet of fire," wns startled to see his line chanced into "See the pale martyr with his shirt on fire." Mr Oobb ■ Suite right in thinking such ' rsusgrea ■nt rr*> na pardonable aa the blunder* aotueume* made in other profession*, and tells (he story of the minister who was aiknl to read the following notice: "A man having gone to sea, his wife i desires the prayers of the church and i by the misplacing of a comma in read | ing it, gravely told the congregation i that " a man having gooe to see his ( wife, desire* the prayers of the ebnnih." Xerwegiaa Oemmeree. | The Norwegian nation is the smallest | of all European nations, bat it* cummer - : oial fleet is the third largest in the i world. The Norwegian flag is, of all foreign flags, that which is most fre quently seen in the harbor of New York, sad through the sound which connects the Baltic with the North sua and forms tha highway from London to Ht Petersburg, often three to four hun dred Norwegian craft of every descrip tion pass daring one single day. is Norway, although not every man is a sailor, every person is, nevertheless, more or lees directly connected with the shipping in tercet. To build ships or to sail them, to owe ships or to hare a neat in them, is a point in .rybody'e lift all along those thousand fjords which fringe the ooaat of Norway; and to (he inland fanner the moat common manner of placing hie seringa Is to go down to toe aae and boy u part in a ship. Many a Norwegian vessel, carrying timber to England and coal back to Denmark, or dried flah to Kapha and oranges berk to St Petersburg, represents the tor tunes of a whole village eg pariah, to which even the servant girl ma* hare t share, and to many a well-to-do Korww glso firmer the only aouiee from whic" he draws, and can drew, ready money is hie ship-part.