FOR THE YOUNH PEOPLE. Thr Hm.nl of Virtue. His dear little eyes were lull of tears, Ilut his dear little mouth wns smiling. With his dear little lists in his dear little eyes, Ho was really quite beguiling. He wanted a dear littlo randy dog Wldeh belonged to his dsnr little sister, And his father railed him a dear little pig, Till ho gave up tewing and kissed her. He couldn't help crying a little still, But he felt like a dear little hero; Then his sister promised to give him a taste, And railed Itini a dear little dear O. I*. tj. Smith in St . YScholai, The Apples of lilnan. We extract the following legend front a story entitled "The Apples of Itluna," printed in St. Xirftolns. The scene f the story is laid in lee land, late in the winter of the year 1150. Olaf is seated, holding his son Thorold and little Thurida on his knees. A great wood-tire crackles and blazes be fore tlteni, and the children listen as Olaf speaks: "Once," said he," a long time ago, he fore the Ohristians came to Iceland, the god Odin, with Iltcnir and the wicked Lnki, went on a journey. The ancient gods surely differed little front mortals, for, like us, they often were hungry and thirsty and tired. When these three had traveled far, they came to a beautiful valley where a herd of oxen were graz ing. Being very hungry, these gods— not even the Ix-st of whom was really good—did not scruple to steal and kill one of the oxen for their supper. They cut the ox into quarters, which they put into their big kettle to lioil. But lxtil the beef would not. In vain the three travelers piled <>u the fuel; in vain the water in the kettle bubbled and lioiled. Every time that the lid of the kettle was removed the meat was found to he as raw as at first. While wonder ing what the reason for this could he, the perplexed travelers, hearing a voice, looked up. and beheld an enormous eagle, perched on the stoutest branch of a very large oak tree. "'lf ye are willing,' said the voice, 'to let nte have my share of the flesh, it shall soon belxtileu.' "Of course the hungry gods said 'Yes, 1 when instantly flew down the loud-flapping eagle, and with his great beak snatched up three-quarters of the beef! "'Stop! stop !'exclaimed Loki. 'one quarter only is thy share" and with that he struck a fierce blow with his travel ing staff upon the eagle's back. So much the worse was this for Isiki. for while one end of the unlucky staff stink fast to tin* back of the eagle, Is>ki found himself unable to loosen his bold from the other end, which he the more de sired to do because he now found, to bis dismay, that the supposed eagle was no other than the renowned Krost-CJiant Tlyassi, who, with his great eagle wings, went flying over rocks anil forest tops, dragging after him the unhappy l.oki till lie was torn almost in pieces. "For a long time the giant took no notice of Isiki's piteous entreaties, but. at last. Thjassi deigned to fell him that lie should bo released when lie had hound himself bv a solemn oath to bring liltina and Iter apples out from her safe retreat behind the bright walls of As gard, the city of the gods. " I/oki, who was selfish enough to do anything, willingly took the oath. ami. all tatters and wounds us he was, soon rejoined his companions. But he told them nothing of his oath. "'My father.' interrupted Tliurdia, ' what an 1 apples?' "'They are round things that grow on trei-s. ns I've been told,' said Olaf. ' but I never saw any.' " Now, tbi se;t>pie> of Iduna wen- very different from all other fruits, for it was by eating tin in that the gods kept them selves always young and handsome and strong. So fxiki did not dare to tell of the oath lie had taken. " On the return of the three travelers to bright Asgard, the crafty and cruel I/Oki told the beautiful and kind Iduna that in a forest a short distance off he had found apples which lie thought were of a much better quality than her own. and that at all events it was worth while to make a comparison between them. " Iduna, deceived hy bis words, took ber apples and went with him Into the forest; but no sooner had they entered it thnnTTlOassi, clad in his eagle plum age, flew rapidlv toward them, and catching up Iduna. regardless of her tears, carried her and her treasures with him to gloomy Jotunhcim. the dreary city of the Frost-Giants. "Now the gods, left in loftv Asgard without the society of the lieautiful Iduna. and without nny of her youth giving apples to eat, soon became wrinkl and i.ent and gray. Old age was creeping fast upon tliem, and tbeir mourning for Iduna was loud anil sin cere. It was long before they discovered that f>oki was tlieautliorof the mischief. When they did so, he could only save himself from their wrath by promising to bring safely luck the beloved Iduna and her youth-giving apples. "To do this, Loki borrowed from the goddess I . igga the falcon plumage whieli she sometimes wore, and, dis guised in it. flew to Jotunhcim. " In spite of his disguise, it was not without fear that !x>ki approachi-d the grim and terrible walls of the city of the Frost-Giant*. Cautiously and silently he flew about it until lie discovered that Tlijassi was on an ice-floe, far out at en. scaring fish for bis dinner. Then, with a joyftil cry, Loki flew into the city, and lost no time in changing Iduna into a sparrow and flying off with her safely cmsped in his talons. "But before tbey were far on their way the Frost-tjiant returned to his gloomy city, there to lenrn of the escape of liltina. Into his eagle plumage hus tled Tlyassl, and, screaming with rage, flew in pursuit of tin- trembling sparrow and swiftly-flying falcon. " Upon the bright'walls of Asgard, eagerly watching the uncertain race, stood the impatient gods. Rapidly ap proached the pursued, bllt close behind * them followed the terrible pursuer. The JNKIS trembled with terror lest Iduna should again fall into Ills cruel hands, and as fast as their now aged limbs would let them tliey begnn to gather upon the walls bundles of dry chips, while the good Balilur waited with a firebrand in ids hand. " Over the bright walls flew Ixiki anil Iduna. Close afler them came the loud flapping Tiyassi; but Balder had been too quick for him, and had al ri-ady set fire to the ready chips. The rapid flame caught the bor rowed plumage of Hijassi, and he thus fell into the power of the gods, who slew him witliin the walls of the sacred city. Then great and loud was the rejoicing, while the gods hastened to moke themselves young and hand some and strong again, by eating freely of the apples of Iduna." " My hither," said Thorold, " the good priest tells us that alt those ancient fables about the gods have a meaning that Is not a fable. Canst thou not tell me and Tliurdia what this one means? " " 1 do not know how it is of myself," said Olaf, " but I have beard the good priest say that Iduna means the heauti iul spring, wb'l Thjassi means the des olating winter. Henre, when the short days and long nights begin to come, we say that Tluasst is onrying off Iduna. And. when the days glow longer and the nights shorter, we say that Iduna with her apples is returning to us. The lire kindled hy the gods upon the walls cf bright Asgard is the sun, before whose lieut winter dissolves ; while all nature, partaking of the fruits of spring, grows young again." " My father," murmured sleepy little Thurida, " 1 will wake up to eat some of the apples." Olaf laughed, anil, kissing his little daughter, laid her tenderly in one of the | lied-lmxes tilled with elastic seaweed, and spread over her a sack of scafowl feathers, saying: " It is not for many a long and bitter night yet, my Tliurdia, that the beauti ful Iduna -hall reach our cold land. "Yet," he continued, patting Thorold on tlie head, "when Iduna is with us, Iceland's the best land the sun shines on!" Basely Deceived. Hiram Oldham lives at Lockport when home, but if he doesn't appear there this summer his friends may rest assured that what is his loss is their gain, and the biggest kind o' gain. He wandered this way because he heard that day labored in Detroit were paid six dollars per day anil bail free tickets to the opera house every night. 1 !• t bought he would come here and earn a few thousand dol lar- this summer and return to Isickport in the fall and buy him a residence with walnut trees in the front yard. lie arrived here on the trucks of a freight ear, and after sleeping one night in a coal-shed he was open to engagements. He didn't find any jobs at six dollars per day. and when lie went around to the opera house the man at the door shook a club at him and cried out: " Yes, I'll give you a kingdom for a horse—oh. yes!" The police finally gathered the Ixx-k -portcr in. They have away of linking arms with n stranger who doesn't seem | loaded down with good clothes and cnsli. The prisoner's face wore a blank look as he stood before t lie bar. He seemed to feel that he was hooked for a watering- i pirns-. " i mi -ee. it dncsn t look exactly right for a full-grown man to he free-lunching around and sleeping in dry-goods! boxes," observed the court, as he wiped off bis icn. " I want to light right out of this town." replied the pri-oner. " You would only light down on some other. This is the headquarters here, and you can lie sent Up far cheaper than from the interior. I permitted a pris oner to start for the interior a few days ago. and yi-sterday he came to tin* Hou-c of Correction from one of the western counties at a cost of .*.'tO. 1 shall IMHIW you foi sixty days " "Can I -end ray poor mother n check on the bank before I go up?" asked tin man. " Yon can. -ir. Bijab will furni-li you all kinds of blank check- and pen and ink Write your name plainly." The prisoner finally concluded not to forward a check at all. He sent a lniy out to find him four good lawyers who would carry bis ease to the Supreme < 'olirt, but the bov was gone -n long that the police wagon backed up anil removed the tourist to another and more useful sphere.— lit trait Frrr Pre**. Bees on the Wing. When a swarm leave* for the woods they are off before you fairly know it. They drift away from the hive in a wide spread and apparently aimless conixiurse, then suddenly gather up their skirts, draw together tln-ir force*, and away they go. a humming, flying vortex of IM-CS, the queen apparently in the center and the mass revolving about her as a pivot, over orchards and meadows, across creeks and swamps, or woods and deep valleys, -traight for the appointed tree, slow at first, so that you can keep up with them, hut presently with a speed that would tire a fox-hound. In this flight the individual 1M * - do not move in right lines, or s'raight forward like a flock of birds, but round and round like chaff in a whirlwind; unitedly they form a whirling, revolving, nebulous mass fifteen or twenty feet across, that goes as straight as a projectile to its mark. They are not partial as to the j kind of tree —pine, hemlock, clni. birch, maple, hickory—any trisi with a good ! cavity high up or low down. A swarm of mine ran away from the new patent ! hive I gave them, and took un their , quarters in the hollow trunk of an old apple tree across an outlining field. The entranec was a mouse bole ni-ar the j ground. Another swarm in the neigh- ! borhood deserted their keeper and went into the cornice of an out-bouse that stood amid evergreen* in the rear of a lnrgc mansion. But there Uno account ing for the taste of bees, as Sainson found when lie discovered the swarm in the carcass for more probably the skele ton) of tire lion be had slain.— John Rur rough*, in Srrihnrr. Jokes from Paris Papers. Frederick WUliam IV., of Prussia, once upon a time stopped at a little rail road station where a deputation headed by the mayor of the wljaccnt village awaited him with an address. •Just as the mayor braced himself up to deliver Ills oration " a neighboring ass did sing both loud and rlear." A frightful silence ensued, but the king did not long delay in breaking it with the paternal and inraccful remark: " One at a time, gentlemen ; one at a time." Man who is endeavoring to strike t.s otlier man for $lO hill Saturday at one o'clock : " Now, old fel', let's have the X. You know what the JJible says: ' Help one another."' His friend, with a sail, sweet smile: "Oh, yes, I know; but, I say, you know, you're alwnys the ' another, you are." A lawyer charged with the defence ol a rufllan of unprepossessing apponrnnro depicts bis client as the itniwe and em bodiment of all the peaceful virtues when, lo! the prisoner. Rented just be side hlin. begins to stretch loin-. If un easily and gives signs of Impatience. " Yes. gentlemen of tlie jury, ss gentle a* a lamb, and as implacable of inspiring tcrmr as—hi, there, policeman, hold liiro tight!" The Rattle at RorkeN Drift. On tiie same day nstlie fatal battle and disaster at I*amllaiia, in South Africa, a Zulu army numlx-ring at least 3,00(1 men attacked witli great bravery anil per sistency tiie post of Koike's Drift,at which 130 men—thirty-five of tliein patient* in hospital—were stationed. A graphic ac count of the tight is given by a I'ull Mull (hizette. correspondent, who say*: The advance guard of the 'Zulus ap peared at first at four p. M. It came round the aotith corner of the hill in a body of from .Km to fkst strong, led by a chief 011 horseback. Tliey halted a moment, and then advanced quietly but quickly, at a run, taking advantage of every hit of cover. It seemed ax if they had expeeted lo surprise tin- cunip. Our men opened lire at 600 yards. The first man to fall was the chief. He was shot by Private Dunbar and fell off hi* horse headlong. Numbers of the enemy fell at once. Tliey hesitated, broke, and tin greater number scattered to their left, occupied the garden and orchard, where there was plenty of cover. A f.-w got up close to the houses and lay behind the field oven and kitchens that there were built. Scarcely any of these men had guns or rifles. Others came on in a con tinuous stream. Occupied the hill ahovc, and gradually encircled tin- two houses. All tin- men who had guns were sta tjoncd on the hill, and kept up a con tinuous and rapid lire on tin- yard. It caught our men in their backs as tliey were guarding the garden side, and five men were tints shot dead. it now licrauic dusk. The Zulu* crept up nearer and nearer. Under cover of tin- hushes and long grass tliey were able to get within live miles of the hospital without being seen. Front thi* point, in parties of fifteen to twenty, tliey re ncatcdlv attacked the end room 'if the hospital. They made these attaaks in tin- most delilH-rate manner, advancing after the manner of their dancing, with.a prancing step and n high n< tjon. They cared nothing for slaughter, hut endeav on-d, in tin- most persistent manner, to get over the barricade and into the lio*- nltal. Many times, seven or eight at least, Eieiit. liroinliead, collis-ting a few men together, li.-ul to drive them oft' witli a bayonet charge. Tlu-n they would re tire. and all of them in chorus shout and strike their shield*. Our men cheeri-d in answer, and let them have it. There wa* plenty of ammunition. After the lir*t half hour then- was no waste. How deiilM-mte and telling tie- lire wax may i*- gathered from the following in cident*. l'rivnte .Joseph William*, a young Welshman, under two years' ser vice, h.ui a small window in the hospital to shoot frotn. N*- ar, the same man who shot the chief on horse back. wax posted to watch the hill. A the Kaffirs streamed down from tliejr right, this man (also a Welshman, and of lex* service than th< nlovr mcntionisl) shot '-iglit of the enemy in a* many c-on sct utive shot*. Lieut, ('hard wax "land ing liy him a* he did it. ami the I iodic* wen- found leaped on-- on the otlu r n' Xt morning. Tiie enemy at last effisi'sl a lodgment in the lospitsl. Thirty of the patients wen* got out in time M>*t of th'-m wen- pushisl anil pulhsi through a win dow which opened on 111'- yanl. S rgt. Maxfield. a fine voting soldier, uax v- rv ill with fiver and delirious. He could not tie noivl'd, and lie wa* killed in hi* lied. Tin y now s.-t tin' to the hospital. The roof wa* that' 11, and it quickly blazed. By it* light our men w- n- en ablisl to *<■!' tll'dr foe* liett'T. and many fell Iwliiri- tie y n tn-itfed to I* tt'-r cover. After a |>au.M'.i ni ouragi*l by a chief who fwm time to time shoutis! hi* onb r from the hillside, t hey came on again The lighting in place* i** ante hano to hand over the incnlic sai'k*. The OAsailnnt* UM'd only tie ir a**-gais. Tiles'-tin v did not throw, but tiM-d only a* stabbing weapon*. Dins'tly a soldier sliowisl hi* h'-ail over the parapet to git a shot, he wo* thrust at. ttni-' or twice the Kaf fir* actually scizid the bayonet* and triiil to wrench tie 111 off the rifl--. ()ne of 'uir men loaded while a Zulu wa* tugging at hi* bayonet, lie pnlii-d the trigger and blew the plucky fellow to atom*. They next trii*l to si t tin- to tii tliateh'-'l rMif of the store, in fwi' nf a hot fin- tliey got up to tin- house, *nnd one fine savage had hi* brain* blown out a* lie was holding n brand ngnin*t tile eaves. And *0 the fight continued till aftit midniglit, front which time till four A. M. they gradually withdrew, only every now and then making a charge! Tli'-v carried with them all tln-ir dead and wounded that tliey could. The last o| them left just iM'fon- dawn. Tliey left 370 lb ad on the field. These were counted and buried in lii-np*. Many ol them wen- recognized by their shield* as belonging to one of the crack royal regi ment*. The nu\joritv wen- of a certain age. in pr condition, and of small stalun-. Our loss, counting live of the patient*, was thirteen killed and ten wonnded. Three of the Intter have since died of their wound*. Russia's Plight. A New York paper nays: No country in ail civilization seems to la- in *0 1 pitiable a plight nt present a* Russia. In addition to In-r immense fon-ign debt and her general financial derangement, 1 her political afliictiona continually crop-' ping out in defiance of law, and mys terious assassination, and lier losses'o| every kind from the late wnr, she is threnteni-d witli famine. Lost year she suffered exc-cdingly from nniught; nearly on--tliird of Iter crops wen- de strayed by tier-ties and marmots *0 that the seed lias iw-n deficient, nnd fleld lnl*ir Is inadequate in isinseouence of tiie excess of holiday*—niiout 100 viw and the widi-spread drunkenness 01 many of the people, involving grant waste fulness. Grain, which i* the cltief arti cle of cx(yrt. which furnishes the means of pnyintr taxes and of getting all sup iles, now seem* Insuflieient to home eon sumption. Her domestic debt is very oppressive. Most of Hie land nf the empire is mortgnged to banker*, and its owner* are scarcely able to pay their Interest, much less the prinripnl, their nrn-ars lieing from twenty-five to thirty per cent. Russia is a vast country of vnst resources; but she lias drawn on them very heavily of late, nnd nil indications are Hint she is approaching a crisis in her fortunes whicli will require the fttli e*t wisdom of lier Statesmen to meet. She tuipears to be socially, politically, financially and morally disorganized, or very near it, nnd she cannot go on much i onger in her present condition. BRAIN AT TIIK WORLD'S PAIR. FarU from the Keport of One of the t'om mla.lonrri lo Herl*. The report upon agriculture by J. J. Woodman, of Micliigan, AssiHtant-Com mixsioncr u> the Pari* Exposition, con tains an interesting accountof the exhibit of lt say* the finest exhibit of agricultural product* from the United state* wa* that of the Oregon State Commission. Of tin- other great agri cultural and cereal producing State* of j the Union, some were not represented at , all and some only partially, j 'lite report contain* a comparative , statement of the present condition of agricultural inten-xU in the principal countries of Europe, noting especially the point* in wiiicfi tin y differ from tin same Industrie* in our own country. In Franc the average size of farms 1* six teen and a half acre.* arable or thirty three ntid a half acre* of productive land, making 3.W77.7H1 fnrins. ()f these, >j, Han,. :ISIH, or seventy-one tier cnt., are culti vated by tin- owners; KU.itKI, or only twenty-one |ir cent., are rented at ii lixed price; and eight per cent, are worked on shares. The free use of fertilizers is mentioned ax the reason for tin- heavy crop* realized from siniill arctut. The rid vantage of rotation ha* also I wen fully demonstrated in France. 111 t lie English exhibit samples Ol Molds' new varieties of wheat wen shown in tin- straw and attracted much attention. It was claimed that thist wheat could be sown one month earlier and would re quire only one half the iiunntity of tin old varietii-*, and would produce 106 grains from a single stalk, and 112 hushels from a single acre. The rcporf shows that the average production o England per acre is greater than in any other country in Euro|w, if not in tin world. In Austria and Hungary, !r.'4 per cent, of tin- whole territory Is pro ductive, and the soil j* highly favorable for agriculture. Tin- farmer* generally own the soil tliey cultivate. The aver age yield of wheat is (ilt<* n bushels to tin- acre. An elal*irate and compri lu-nsive tahh giving the average amount of the cen-al proilm tion of tin- European countries wliieli furnish a surplus for coniiieTcc, ami also tlneu- which are obliged to im port breadstuff*, shows that the average annual production of cereal* in Kurop< amount • to A, I IT.7tNi.tMMi |nmheis.of w bi> h l(u**ia produe< * l,t|&6,ogi,tMin liusln l*. or nearly one-third; tin-whole oftier tnany, 7rLi.Oisi.noo bu*ln l*; France. ?to.- 1 .to.ooo hu-hel*. anil Hungary. 300,3;i0, 000 rtn tin* la*is of an average of 15 I'MMI bushel* of <-' Teals for-each nerMin for In une con-umpt ion. Botimaiiia. lt'nmark, Russia, Prussia. France. Hun gary, _ Bavaria and Sweden alone rai*e suflieient for home consumption. A coni pari win of tin production of c n-al* per capita for the whole population of Europe with that for tin- United State* gin * the former about seventeen liti-ln ls and the latter atxuit forty hu*h<>bi. Tin- report *ny* that many of the countries of Europe, especially Great Britain ami Eranee, are largely d< (i j< nt in mint product*, and that tln v an now turning their attention to the United State- for xumAb . The riqsirt says that English *tok raiir*. who have Is*nine alarm-d at tin- sueee** which lias at tendeil tie- importation of American 1-. f. iiave rvowuiy diwovvml that American cattle can i>. Imparted and fed upon American grain at pn-wnt price* with considerable profit to the ilnglisli imjxirter. Biding (tier Their Prostrate Bodies. A 11 rrixpondent of tie ('oatmbu* (<>.) •Sf.i/i J/uriml, writing from t airo. Egypt, of tie- Mohamini-il iii festival whn Ii clos- s the t< n day* of rejoicing that fol low* tlx- return of the Mecca pilgrims, says: "At twelve o'clock all the rc 1-cully returned Mecca pilgrims gather at one of the mosque*, and tlc n march, thousand* of them, uu n and I toy* (no women), witit tluir pilgrimage lianners and their rag* Thotivinit* of tin in, some well dressed and quiet, others half naked and wild witli excitement, wav ing tin ir arm*, or banners, or naki-d sword* in th- air; some praying loudly, <>. no apparently lw*idc tie m*cjve* with religious excitetn'-nt (or tluu lu.rriii strong drink. ra<- a(. were foaming at tiie mouth, li'j'f up and dragged along by their companion*. Tlien a lot wilder tlian tie- other* atij*-are never injured. r rather that the horse does not touch them at all. Some of the men and lwy* were in spasm*, or • w-ooncd through iffjury and excitement. Tlu-sc are inime.liat<'ly 'carri'-d out of siglit and no report i* ever maile of ncci dent or physical damage." A Poor RUT* Hair. A young and poorly-clad girl entered a barber-shop in Vb-nna. and told the proprietor that he must " buy iter head.', The fris'-ur examine! her long, glossy elicstnut I.M-k*, and began to bargain, lie could give eight florin*, and no more. Hair w:i* plentiTu) tlii* year; the price lial fallen, there wa* ]e* demand, and other pitas.-* of the kind. The little maiden s eye* till'*) witli tear*, and she h.-xitated a moment while threading her flng.-rsthn.ugh iter chestnut locks; she Anally threw herself in a citair. and said : " Tlien take it ouh'kly." The hari*-r. satisfied with his bargain, was about to elineh It witli hi* shear*, when a gentleman who sat half shaved, I *tart on. Then the old Blocking wan raveled and the yarn wound on this rublxr basis until the ball reached proper proportion*, when it wax covered with leather. The Imy who owned a nice, wdl, covered ball, wax a king anion* Id* kind. Next to him mine the boy with a good bat. The iirirni pal official in the old *tyie of base ball wax tbe fellow who *at on the top rail ol the fence and kept tally. He cut tile notelii'- for one party on one ixige of a xhingle, and for tbe other party on the other edge. Sometime* a good tallier would do more for hi* favorite *ide than it* batman. There were no umpire* in those day* for both captain* to quarrel with, a hen tliw two captain* were ready to choose side* one t<>xwd a ball club ti the other and they went hand over hand to the top: the butt hand that la id the dull had the lirxt choice of player*. Sometime* a boy would in*it that hi* hand wax laat, while it projected over the end of the hat. Thi* wax wt tled by another boy striking with an other bat the end of tie* i hooxing bat. if the laxt hand could stand the stroke* it wax all right, but if the hand prajicted a little too high it wax generally with drawn after the lirxt blow. Those Were tin* day* when bone ball wax not coin po-cd of four part* e. ?#. Fan*. It is only of late years that fan* and parasol* have com'* into general use with aIJ cria**c* of society. Before I*3o their use winconfined to the ]uxuriouela**c*. to a stranger visiting our country in summer the unlreran! uwi of fan* atill seem* a national feature, and if he h< a -me l d l , * nit f , 7 invited to preach. he will find it crnharrasKing in the extreme to address the fluttering congregation before him. Of the cheap fan* of China and Japan exported by million*, coating " little or nothing'' to the conaumer, but reniunerating tiiou*:ind* on th*ir way from the Oriental manufacturer to our ! own lands, we will not apeak: ourJju*i no* at pr<-Mtit i* with fun* of price and fanliion. On them- in France alone alx.ut 1,000 workmen are employed. In one department, not far from I'ari*. I.VX) person* earn their bread in cutting out. ornamenting and polishing the stick* of fan*. These arc marie principally of ivory, l*mc, liorn, mother-of-pearl, 'bony, olive wood, etc. Work of thin kind ia done entirely by hand in France with tin>j saw* made out of watch 'spring*. Ihe nilk. paper, vellum or linen part of the handsome fan* is chiefly prepared in I'aria, and many nrli-t* in th''4e day* ot decorative art do riot disdain to take their share, lik<- Wat teau. in ornamenting them. Vet, after ail. our linndsomot fan* lock an hide -< riliable m-i-ti- something which dis tingui-lied tlie fan* of tile seventeenth ! century. Ibe earliest u*i- of fan* wa* proba bly in hgypt. where, indeed, they Ki-cm to have known everything alK.ut tw' tity N-nturic* in advance of our own civilization. lan* of peacock fui- Will., j>r. -cntcd In r in the early day* of her marriage with a beautiful fan, on which were inscribed some lima of delicate flattery : '* In tin heat <4 thrw cummer day*, glny buys Itnisscl* carfwts, lace i-urtains, Stein ways and build* marble mansions. It drive* us to church in a splendid " turn out it set tire* the best |*'Ws, and in some place* it (mvs the |>ar*on. It buy* a I'aisiev and rich satins for tlie tna