The Stars of Sight (From the German of Arndt.) And the ran rode out on his endless ride 'Bound the world ; And the etarieta said, " We will by tbee ride 'Bound the world." Bat the blustering sun said, "Btay ye at home, For 111 burn out your golden eye# if you roam When I ride in fire 'round the world t" And the starlets went to the gentle moon. In the night; Bald, " Thou who bast In the olouds thy throne, In the night. Let us roam with thee, for our golden eyes Will ne'er be burned while thou rul'st the skiee." And she called thera " Friends of tho Might. " Mow weloomc, starlets and gentle moon. In the night! Te know what lies in the heart, alone, In the night. Oome ye and kindle the midnight dome With the lights I love as I dream st home In the starry hours of the night. Chat. F. Lumtnit. A Romance of Martinique. Ton have often told me that you knew the island of Martinique. Then you have heard them speak of the Oaravelle. It is a wild isthmus, so called by the sailors from a Spanish wreck. Tho sea is always raging wildly enough there. Ah, you should see the waves as they leap madly on the rooks. Then they break into dazzling white form—sheets a furlong broad—and then fall back in vain. And it is always goii g on; it never oeasee. There my father's honse was situated. But further down, the country changes entirely; it besomes perfectly fascinating. The two sides of tho isth mus resembling two fairy lakes. It was for this reason that its proprietor, the Count de Baint Croix, called it Bean Bejour—the beautiful home. The Saint Croix family and ours formed, so to speak, only one, wo wore so intimate, Francis, the count's only sou, was like a brother with my sister and me. Any one who had seen us, threo-in hand, running like deer over the sand, our hair lifted by the breeze, mingling onr laughter with the murmur or the waves, would have believed that there are some happy beings here on earth. Our greatest pleasure was to run ont on the caves, or sand bars, and hunt for shells. We left st sunrise, a little basket on our arms. The songs of the negroes, fishing in their log canoes, came to as over the water. One winter day we retained from run ning on the sands. It was an evening foreboding storm. Distant lightnings darted across the sky. Jnlie was de layed by endeavoring to tear np from a seafan a shell. The tide rose until the sandbank on which she stood became an island. The poor girl became alarmed, and lifting her arms, cried lond for as sistance, Her long black braids flapped in the storm-wind, and ooiled like ser pents around her neck. The negroes, hearing the cry, came in their canoes. Before they arrived, Francis had swam across, and stood by mysister, supporting her. They carried her beneath the palm trees which bordered the shore. With her arms entwined around her brother, she cast on him glances of love ; but from time to time look regretfully to ward the island. " Who will bring me my shell I" she cried at last. And, M if she had power to Command the elementary spirits, there suddenly arose a deep strange voice, which ex claimed, "II" A man of copper hne, gray eyes, brows, long hair dripping with Mlt water, came forth from the wavea, bear ing the wiahed-for shell. " Father Basaa I" cried all the negroes. Father Saaaa was neither white, mu lotto, nor black. He was of the in dig* nous Oarib race. His family, a last remnant of the original tribes found by the Spaniards, had escaped the maoM eras of civilization, and taken refuge among the rocks of our wild peninsula. But the family had been sadly reduced, and Bassa alone survived. He bora the title of cacique, though without subjects to rule. His name was Bassagari, but the blacks following their custom of giving diminutives, always called him Father SMBO. He bed brought the longed-for ahell to Julie. When he firat heard her cry he plunged into the wavee. '' Ah I whet e horrible ahell I" I cried, perceiving e dark mew in the hand of the Oarib, " Why ,'tian't worth the pain it bee ooet. Throw it back into the eea. Father Saaaa." "To the eea I to the Ma I" cried all the negroee. But the Oarib, deaf to tbeao mnrmum, advanced with na under the ahade of the ooooa treea. "Little whitea," aaid be, "you love what ehinea, and for that reaaon do not throw away thia ahell. It ia colorless on the surface, but it gleaaa within. The etara of night hare marked ita heart" " What, Father HIM," we cried, "do yon mean to say yon can nee through the ahell V The oadqoe stretched oat a hand toward the laat rock of the Oaravella, where hia Uttle hut gleamed out and vanished every moment in the frequent iSghtning. "Came there," mid he, "and you will learn more." And entering hia canoe, he diaap finarod The lightning grew more brilliant ; large drops, quickly falling, announced a coming tropical hurricane. We hast ened homeward, bearing the shell. The next morning the banana trees beaten down in the fields, the uprooted trees borne afar by torrents, were tba only indications of tba storm of the previous night. The heaven and the aea rested, calm and beautiful, after their wild passions had been gratified. We started for the oabin of Father SHU, ||We found the Oarib seated on a large atone before hie dwelling, preparing nets for fishing. Seeing ua be raised hia heavy eyebrows; his atrnge eye* gleamed aa with a gratified feeling that we had remembered him and what be bad told na the evening before. " Who gave me this twine to mend my net with t Mid he. " I, Father BUM," replied Julie. " who gave me thin good knife to ont twine, make me wooden needlee, cover my oabin with reeds. oarvo my canoe 7" "I, Father Bassa, 1 ' replied Francis. " And for that," ooniinned the oaoiqne. "Bassagari follows yon wherever yon go. Baneagari would let the shark* eat him before a hair of yonr heads should be injured. Bassagari saw the little master and mistress yesterday straggling against the sea; he went nnder the water; he saved their shell." " But what is this shell, Father Baa sat" I inquired; "and what was tho meaning of all the sorceries of Zombi (a fetich), which yon told ns yesterday evening nnder the ooooa trees f" " Bee I" Mid tho Garib, pointing with his finger to the fragments of shells heaped np aronnd his hut, " see what remains of Bassagari, my father, who was the first in these lands to walk securely beneath the deeps." We observed that the shells were of the same kind as ours. "The white strangers chased onr fathers from their home. To escape from slavery the old Bassagari embark ed hia family in his canoe; hnt he wonld not leave behind him these shells which bring lack to the fisherman and keep afar the witchcraft of the water. The whites suspected some mystery. They broke tho shells against the rocks. Fnnous at finding nothiug bnt the white gleam of the shells, they pursued ns; we rowed in vain! They shot all exoept tne, who saved myself by swim ming under the water. I was aloue; the sea did not require my bones. 1 have canght since then far more than they snapped np, the bloodsuckers. The rook only, besides Bassagari, knows the nest where they slnmber. But keep the shell of yesterday, little whites; when it speaks, Bassagari will reply. Be who sings in the shells the plaints of the sea, and who paints the sunrise on their faces, will make the stars of heaven sink into their heart." 80 the Garib spoke. Be was motion less ; be glanceu, sweeping afar to the verge of the horizon. We silently left him, and gained onr cool hall before the burning noon made it intolerable without. But these early happy days were coming to an end. Wo were about to qnit this pleasant paradiae for new scenes. "Wo grew up. Our parents spoke of sending Francis and me to France. When Jnlie heard this she sighed—was agitated. One evening my father came home from the town and said that passage bad been taken for ns on board a vessel which wonld sail in two weeks. My poor sister, the news was terrible to her. I think I can see her now dur ing those days. Hhe wonld sit for hoars nnder a great palm tree, looking st the deep bine sea. Once, when Francis stole np to her, taking her hand, ho said in the tender cat tones. " My lily, whet in it yon see there at the bottom of the ?" "I eee," she replied, " the white sail of a ship which beam yon far awir— away l w Tiie oonnt consoled them both, and passing his hand over the golden cnrla of hie boy, he said: " Ton lore Jnlie very moch, then 7" " Tee, papa; and if I were never to eee her again I would drown myself." The day of departnre came. We l>ade adieu. Julie, pale aa a sheet, came to na with her sheila. Bhe gave the finest to Francis, and taking me l>y the band, said: " J ales, I glee yon this horrible old shell; don't forget that I fonnd it that evening when Francis saved my life. Keep it in memory of yonr sister and her love for Francis." Hix years later, during the winter of 1747-8, a voting man oompleted a high ly-suooeasfnl oonrse of stndiee at the university of Paris, and entered ariato eratio life. It was the Vioompte de Ht. OMx, We made our preparations to return to Martinique. Between our departure and the wedding there aame an obsta cle. This obstacle was a revolution I The freedom of the blacks was pro claimed. The Oonnt de Bh Croix was ruined. He hoped to save his crop by borrowing. The money was obtained and wasted in vain efforts. Francis rose in dignity and energy daring this trial. "I will overcome this disaster," he said. "I will not be crushed; I will go to America; a few years of labor, ana we aha 11 be reunited, and Jnlie will be mine," He left soon for Havre and for New York. Not long after his departure his father, the old count, arrived in Paris. He hoped to obtain from government some indemnity for his lost estates. Every effort was in vain. One morning the poor old count tottered into my room, and, casting himself on the sofa, exclaimed: " All ia loet!" In andden alarm I started up to re lieve him, and that eo anddenfy aa to overthrow a heavy table. Owing to ita ooncnaaion, the portrait of Jnlie, which hnng on the wall, fell to the gronnd, and with it the ahell, which rented upon the upper portion of the frame. Aa the j ahell fell it neparated into two portiona, from which rolled three white ball*. They were the three ntara of night— three extremely large, immenaely-valoa blepearla I That very the flrat Jeweler of Paria gave na $1)0,000 for the three pearla. We met again in Martinique. The marriage was aolemniaed. We (ought the old Indian, and aaet ourselves, (bedding team of gratitude, into hia arms. " Father Baaaa," aaid Fraucia, "you told mi the truth. We found the stars of heaven in the ahella of the eea." The eyee of the child abone with a strange light, " Who were kind to the E Indian I Who gave him wood for anoa, a knife for hia flahing f Who were good to him f For ailthat, chil dren, follow me." He placed hia hand on a great amootb atone, or rather rook, which teemed cert where it WM by the fnry of the waves. "Saaaagari goea to the Booth. He goea to the hidden land to join hia father*. There they live in the silent city, where ail ia of gold, where the race of the lonaa of the South and of the Asteoa of the North talk the old aacred language of the serpent and of the ran. There the roioe of the white waa never heard. Children, adieu I" He rolled away the atone. It oovered the entranoe to a cave, in wbioh we new piled high hundredsof nholla containing pearls. We atood bewildered at the eight of anoh enormonaj wealth, and then turned to ombraoe the Oarib. He had diaappoared. Hut afar off in the laat rays of the netting aon, vanishing in ita purple miet, we aaw a dark canoe pad dled by one dusky form, whioh waved na an adieu. We had gained a million. On the grotto we had placed the inaoript ion : " To Baaaagari, laat of theOariba of thia isle." Where Artealan Weill Abound. A correspondent iu Fountain Greek townahip, Iroquois county, 111., writea aa followa on the subject of artoaian wella : I will atate that Iroquoia oouutv has not leaa than 500 or may be nearly 600 flowing arteaiau wella, of which nearly 200 are in the town of Watseka, the county Beat of Iroquois. The aoil of tho northern part or the county ia main ly a rich, hlack, aandy loam from twoto two aud a half feet deen, with mostly a yellow clay, more or leaa mixed with aome gravel, from three to twelve and fifteen feet doep. After thia cornea a soft blue clay at variable deptha, aav 100 and 150 feet, with aometimea but little change. Sometime* aamall vein of aand ia atruok at a depth of from forty to aeventy-flve feet, whioh oontaina auffl cieut arteaian water to flow to the top ; but after the boring ia oontinued again through the bine clay to tho depth of aevonty-flvo to 150 feet from the aur face, then thov atrike a aeoond vein, which is most alwaya tho atrongeat and will make a stronger and higher flow. I have not heard of any rock ever being found. Generally the now ia about two inchea, in which a one and one-quarter inch gaapipe ia pnt down from top to bot tom, when cornea the operation of pump ing aand, after which the water will flow, though it ia aometimea the caae that tho water will not raiae quite high enongh to flow. The atrengtli of the , flow of tbeao wella ia qaite variable— from the aire of a atraw to a three-inch j stream. The general aorface of thia arteaian country ia rather flat, and the , rmvinca on the prairie are few and not , deep. Home creek banka are only at the I moat eight to ten feet deep; in the tim j lier aomewhat deeper. The ooat for bor | ing and tubing with one and ooe-qnar ter inch pipe now doea not amount to over fifty to aixty oeuta per foot instead I of the former high price*. (Quinine. The alkaline substance known a* 1 quinine, notwithstanding it* universal ; use throughout civilisation a* a power : fnl tonic and remedy in intermittent and remittent fevers, has been discovered lean than sixty year*. . To Pelletier, tho j French chemist, noted for observation and analysis, belong* the honor of tho diacovery, for which the Aoademv of ' Bcience awarded him • prixe of ld.ooo franc*. Quinine has been much em ployed recently as a preservative of health when tho system is exposed to I certain noxious influence* It* vain* aa a prophylactic ia so generally recognised , that in our own and other navie* qui nine is regularly administered when ship* are within given distance of the fever infected ooast* of Africa. It ha* not l>ecn found effective against all form* , of intermittent fever; and the physician in medical charge of Livingstone's Zambesi expedition favored rum in preference. Procured from the yellow bark of that variety of the chinchoua I tree known as oaliaaya, it ia to be had | only in Bolivia and the adjoining Pe : rurian province of Gars bays, although the general impression ia that it cornea exclusively from Peru. Tbe forests in which tb* calissya tree is are ten to twelve miles' journey from inhabited place*. They are penetrated by com panies of Osacarillos, men who make an encampment, and roam through the region felling tree* and gathering the bark, which ia sent to Africa, and thence shipped to Europe and thia country. The medicine commonly taken in such quantities in tbe West and South is the sulphate, or properly the disulphate, of quinine, and onnaists of one equivalent of sulphuric acid, two of quinine and eight of water. A Meteor Ignites a Hayatark , Tbe Portland (tregemxan saya: Our readers will remember that some weeka ainoe we gave an aooount of a brilliant meteor which fell in southern Oregon. The Roaeburg AYar contains the follow ing additional facta: " It was seen to tbe north of us ss far as Oarvaia, on tbe line of the railroad, and aa far south aa Hacramento, and was seen at aea by the officer* of the steam ship Dakota, but we did not learn in ♦hat latitude. At Oervaia it appeared low down in the southern horiaon, and at Sacramento it appeared to tbe north; it pasaed to the south of Roeeburg, its course being apparently from east to west While near the senith at thia place it was seen to explode. No report was heard, but it ia stated that frag ments of the mrolite struck several places on this ooast. One near Oak Grove station, about twelve mil** south of thia eity, and others in Josephine county, and one further west in Del Norte oouuty, California, while tbe officer* of the steamer say the main body fall into the oooan. "The most singular coincidenoo, how ever, has just come to our knowledge. On the evening in question, whet ia sup posed to have been a fragment of the meteor, but to ell appearunoes a bail of fire, struck a haystack on the old Flour farm, belonging to F. Arehambeau, some nine miles southwest of thia eity, immediately communicating (Ire to the bay, which was consumed. Several re liable persons report having witoeaaeu thia pUenoiiH'Doij. Thia i the most re markable meteor that has been seen for many years on this ooast, and we would advise those living near where the frag ments fell to dig for them, as they are valuable to scientific men as curiosities." It is stated, to proof of the assertion that worry kills mere people than work, that tbe Quakers, on account of their quiet ways, live ten years longer cm the average than other people. A School ater aa a Wag matter. In Edward Kggleaton'apoi •Borne Wee tern Bcbo lialied in Soribnar ooura thia anecdote of aobool diacipline in Indiana in the old timee: To a ncrvoua child the old diaci pline waa, indeed, very terrible. The long beech awitchea hanging on hooka •gainst the wall haunted mc night and day, from the time I entered one of the old aohoola. And whenever there oame an outburat between matter and pupil*, the thoughtleea child often got the beat ing that ahould have fallen upon tho malioiona mischief-maker. Aa the maa ter waa alwaya quick to fly into a paa aion, the fun-loving benra wore alwaya happy te atir him np. It waa an excit ing aport, like hull-baiting, or like pok ing atioka through at a oroea dog. Bometimea the ferocioua maatcr showed an ability on hia own part to gut aome fun out of the oonflict, aa when on one occasion in a school in Ohio the boys were forbidden to attend a circus. Five or six of them went, in spite of the pro hibition. The next morning the school master called them out in the floor and addressed them: '' Bo you went to the circus, did you 7" " Yea, sir." "Well, the others did not get a chance to see the circus. I want yon boys to show them what It looked like, and how the homes galloped around tho ring. You will join your hands in a circle about the stove. Now start I" With that ho began whipping them aa they trotted around and around the stove. Thia story ia told, I believe, in a little volume of "Sketches," byErwin Houae, now long forgotten, like many other gooi books of Western literature of a generation ago. I think the author was one of the boys who "played home " in tho master'* circus. A a Ambitious Frontiersman. Near tho site of Old Fort Kearney, in Weatern Nebraska, there baa resided for year* a queer character who ia well known to the national representatives at Waahingt m. At each recurring sea *'on of Congress, Mr. Moses 11. Syden ham, for that ia h's name, appeals per sonally and through letters to Senators and Congressmen, to remove the nation al capitol to Uiia, "the geographical ! center of the United States and the uni i verse." He ia a monomaniac on the subject, and haa designated the exact spot with a framework of poles. Tour lsta who have time to do so, stop off at Kearnev Junction, to view the scone of Jules Yernes' pen portrayals in " Eighty Days Around the World," visit the site of the old fort, and to hare a chat with old Mr. Sydenham. We did not find ! him at home. Those, however, who in formed ns that he had gone to Wash 1 ington, communicated several new and interesting facta about the old gentle , man. In hia laat general circular to the Waahington Solona, he guaranteed them that, in caae they ahould decide to re move the capitol to thia " geographical center," he would sell enough corner lota and adjacent territory to p*v for all the npontes of removal, and leave a small balance for the national exchequer, after he himself had deducted three per , cent for transacting the very important , bntineaa.— Anv-riran Agriculturist. How te Wet Married Cheaply. Yesterday forenoon, while a Detroit justice of the peace sat warming hia feet by the stove, and hia nose by a <*brar, a stranger entered and presently inquired: "Judge, how much will you charge me to read over about fifteen lines of j printed matter from a book I have 7" "Why, can't you read them 7" replied ! hia honor. "I can, but I want to bear bow the line* sound when read aloud. 11l give yon a o#c to establish schools to secure ex (•erienoed hands for their service. Airrage Ivalh Rate* or firest ClUe* Al*U' weekly report of tbe New York Ixmrd of health contain* aome interest ing facta and figure* relative to the aver age death rate In that and other cities in this country and in Europe. For the week in Question the ertnal number of death* in New York we* 569, a Might in crease over the aatue period for the past five years, and an average of 27.09 per 1,000. The annual death rate per 1,000 person* living of the estimated or snum cratod population—according to the most recent weekly returns—of Phila delphia wa* 22 08, Brooklyn, 19.90; St Louis, 11.64; Baltimore, 19.52; IV*too, 21 69; Cincinnati, 16 57; New Orleans, 21.54; Richmond. 23 69; Charleston, 41.42, L>ayton, 9.88; Lowell, 18,69; Worcester, 18.87; Cambridge, 16.22; Lawrence, 10.11; Lynn, 1187; Spring field. 21.52. Monthly returns—San Francisco. 18.62; Buffalo, 12.57; Wash ington, 28.06; Providence, R. 1., 24.84; St, Pan!, Minn., 12. Foreign citiea— weekly return*—London, 26.2; Liver pool, 56.7; Birmingham, 27.4; Man cheater. 81.4; Balford. 34 4; Glasgow, 29.8; Edinburgh, 24.6; Dundee, 81; Dnblni, 48 9; Belfast, 45; Cork, 18; Brnasela, 80.1; Antwerp, 25.4; Ghent, 28.9; BndaPestb, 35.8; Pari*. 28; Turin, 29.5; Venice. 23.6; Berlin, 27.5; Bres lan, 81.89; Vienna, 29.7; Trieste, 39.4; Copenhagen, 24.58; Stockholm, 21.4; Christiana, 17.17; Amsterdam,2B.l; Rot terdam, 20 5; The Hague, 30.9; Calcutta, 49.9; Bombay, 88 8; Madras, 34 6. Gene va (without suhnrba), 25 8; Basle. 26.8; Berne, 29.9; Warsaw 24.91; St, Peters burg, 48.41. MauthiT return—Alexan dria, Egypt, 41.09; Hamburg (stats), 21.77. The Cssr*a Beer Hunt. Tha otr wiihtd to shoot t bear. A bear wh accordingly found, a ring of peasants snrroanded it, sad word of its whereabouts was sent to the imperial sportsman. Unfortunately, while three preparations were being made, the crea ture contrived to slip through the ring and escape. What was to be done? That the emperor of all the lluaaia* should eome and find no game would never da A happy idea seised one of the foresters. Regardless of coat, a tame bear waa procured in the niok of tune, turned loose within the ring, and now all waa ready. The circle closed in ; brain waa discovered at the foot of a tree; the attradsnts fall back, the emperor ad vanced to fire, but now came the dimes —joet as the trigger was shout to he drawn, brain roee slowly m> bis hind feet end began to perform the national dance 1 This exhibit!on saved his life, but it did the reverse of, securing far those who introduced him to the pres ence that royal Cavor which their inge nuity deserved. A Ofar that wu Nmeked. nr WOULD mm. I win oot qm lb* flltliy wd, Mo, not in soy form I The vllwrt Icuect on It fastis— The slimy, crawling worm. —PorUnnoUilt WttJciy. UVT V* DID. Than Lied be to bla dismi) den. A prsy to griping grief ; And sweet nepenthe found be In Nlootten* fragrant leaf. —llrukrntaik lUj/uJAUam. KM TBKV wMBUtn ttc aan* t. He soon grew pate, and Am became A prey to griping grief , lie held bis stomach In bis bands - His anguish past belief. ODIM AMD EX OH. What does Vicksburg Mi— in it that a bat farnaoe in al ways Pitnri ia tbe name of a narcotic in dulged in by tbe native* of Australia. One-fourth of tbe {United Btote* na tional debt has been paid since tbe war Excellent papei may be manufactured out of tbe usually-rejected ends of aspar agns. The wealth of England ia oom pules at (39,200,000,000; the wealth of France at (40,300,000,000. Tbe question of tbe period ia not who struck Billy Patterson, but, whc , did Charles Lamb f I Tbe school-boy manages to be more perfect in " recess " than in any other exercise of tbe scbooL " Mare you beard my last joke yet ?" asked a would-le wag. "No," replied i Twinkle, "but I wish I had." Spring poetry rarely wastes its sweet ness on desert air. It is generally crowded inlo damp waste-paper bags, i and sold by tbe pound. A Boston merchant closed bis store "for improvements," sunk tbe floor about a foot, and then advertised to sell j goods lower than ever before. Tbe smallest pianist in the world, j Bignor Lnigi OusUvo Faxio di I'linto da Campo Basso, is now in Rome, Italy. ! He is only two feet high, and is said to ! be extremely clever. Tbe young man who took up tbe ool i lection in church tbe other Bunday, j when nothing but five-cent pieces were forthcoming, remarked tbat was • neat bit of nickel-plating. "Bee here," said au eccentric old man to an office tx>y who bad brought a doo tor's bill to him. "Bee here; tell your master that 111 pay him for the items of medicine cbargeJ in this bill, but as for I the visits, why—l'll return them !" Disappointments come to us early in life. One of the first we experience is when, in achool-days, the teacher's rod , comes down upon the palm of the hand which we hold out unflinchingly, be cause we have generously rosined it. Ouch 1! I— Puck. There are said to be but six woman , lawyers among all tbe forty five mil j lions of people of tbe United Stoles ; Mr*. Lock wood, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Mira Brad well, editor of the Chi cago Legal Newt, Illinois; Mr*. Pbebe Coxxens, of Missouri; Mrs. Foster, of 1 Iowa; Miss GoodaU.iof Wisconsin: and I Mrs. Foltx, of Ban Francisco. | In ancient times the ring usually : served as a seal A law of Bolou, to prevent counterfeiting seals, forbade the seal engraver to keep the form of a . seal made by him. Ancient aealringa I were of gold, iron and ivory. They were , worn by both sexes in Greece, common ly on the fourth finger, but the fingers were sometimes loaded. Gems were frequently used, tbe onyx being the favorite. The New York Home Journal says tbe amount of luxurious tenderness be stowed upon pet dogs in tbat city is al most incredible. It is net at all uncom mon to aee a carriage, with two livery men upon tbe box, driving through Oec tral park on a pleasant morning, with only a dog, or perhaps a pair of them, inside, taking a sniff of fresh air. They have had their bath, their locks have been dressed and freah ribboos adorn their necks, while a short-haired dog ie , carefully blanketed. Pacific COM! whaler* e< forth from their winter quarter* early in the spring, provisioned for a long crniM of at leant ! six month a The crews number ahont thirty-fire men, a force snfßeient to man four or flee boats. The number of boats carried depends on the locality of the | hunting ground and the nature of the whales to be captured. In the extreme : north whales never attack a boat, but in the south they do so frequently. The best of the weapons carried is the patent harpoon gun, which is darted from the band, and exploder after striking tbs k whale, censing instant death when it * enters a vital part. A Lawyer's Oeertohlp. Being in a oonfl Jeotial mood the other evening. Lawyer r lead well was induced to tell why he didn't many young Miss Tendorfaeart, to whom ha bad formerly paid attention. "Well." be began, "one Hnndsy evening I called upon her with the intention of bringing things to s forma. I bad thought of nothing elae for a week, till my mind had got into such a state of agitation that I hardly knew what I was about Wa wars ait ting opposite each other, talking am casual matters, whan I suddenly braced tip, and looking Mary in the eye (rather sternly, I snapeef), said i, 'Now an- ewer ma without equivocation—mind, you're on oath—tell me whether or not, to the boat of your knowledge and be lief, you are ready to become Mm. PleadweUr Well, gentlemen, the showed a spirit I bad little suspected, and which thoroughly awakened me to aa appreciation of the fool I bad made of myself-" Mary was on her feet in an in stant raked herself to her full height— aha had aevur seemed so tall before— aad with 'Mr. Plead well, when I am ready ami willing, I will send you word. sir 1' ehe flounced out of the ro*a. And V I—well, I thought I'd ha going. Now, gentlemen, this to not to be repeated,* added PkedweU, half repenting his band of confidence. All promised not to tell, and that is bow we heard of it Boston IS awstrtpi