A REMARKAHI.K CEREMONY. The Ntin-DMrr u Performed l>* the (Horn (itdlotitf Yoiiiik ImllMtm Tlirotiifli n Horrible Ottlenl. The Philadelphia Time# publishes a , letter dated at Pine Ridge Indian Agency, Dakota Territory, giving details of tlie sun-dance, an annual sacred festi val of the Sioux Indians. About 50,000 Indians of all ages anil both sexes were present. Tin* warrior* only wen* allow ed to take part in the ceremony, and on the first diiy they chanted and danced around the sacred staff or sun-dance pole, guv away their property to one another, ami pierced the ears of infants for the pur pose of inserting heavy leaden rings. Tin* dancers rested at night, and resumed ' the dance at sunrise next morning; and, as the sun approached its meridian height, the preparations for the more in teresting ceremonies were made. As the I sun reached its highest point, one of the | ashen-hued dancers advanced to the pole, ami. with hands and eyes toward the burning sun, uttered a fervent and impressive prayer. This prayer was in terpreted tome by Mr. Charley Provost, the gentlemanly and obliging agency in terpreter, and was perhaps the fust prayer of like purport ever delivered by a young warrior, lie asked that the Great Spirit would give him strength and courage to bear the ordeal through which he was about to pass; and that j the Indians might bo free of plague and bad luck; that they might increase in ■ wisdom and in numbers; that thev might live at peace with their pale-faced breth ren, and might learn their ways; that the hufl'alo might return and the pony herd grow larger until they would hide A* the green grass and beautiful (lowers by their great numbers. And thus, through it all, was breathed a loving, tender spirit, widely tit variance with the usual inclinations of the young men. The solemn, utter silence with which this in vocation was received; the fervent earn estness of the supplicant; the extended arms; the parched, cracked lips, past which food or water htul not been during sixty hours; the evident suffering—ell I made a some of the very deepest solem- ! nitv. and instinctively I removed my hat j and Iwiwed; and 1 can readily imagine ' how one might have been affected to 1 * tears The prayer ended, he gently and calmly laid down upon his back, and two : of the medicine men advanced, and be. I fore his burning eyes slowly whetted a glistening butcher-knife, and, after re- > peated trials, finding the edge sntisfac- j tory. bent over the prostrate form and felt for a moment of the flesh upon the ! breast; then, elevating the knife an in- | stant toward the sun. it was slowly i thrust through the quivering flesh. I ' Stepped close up, saw tic bright blade j _ withdrawn crimsoned, saw tic form ot 9 tin* dancer writlic and quiver, the toes I and fingers drawn up convulsively and than relax, but no hand was needed to \ stay him, for lie did not raise a finger or shrink a hair's breadth, and no moan es caped his _ips. The cutting was then j * repeated upon the otlnr side of tic breast —the two punctures being about eight inches apart, through which skew ers were thrust, when tic two ends of a lariat suspended front high up on the I ftolc were tied to the skewers, and, thus | iterally lariated by his own flesh, In wa.s left. Slowly he raised himself to a sitting posture, looked sadly at the man gled breast, rose to bis feet, staggered n moment and inserted the feathered whis- j tic between hi.s lips. Tic arms were 1 raised again; the h< id was thrown hark let wren the shoulders that the sun ' might reach straight into the eye and he ■ again began dancing, slowly tightening ! the lariat by pulling back until the skin . and flesh upon the breast was drawn * outward six or eight inches. Thus Ic danced around the pole, winding and unwinding the lariat, and then violently threw himself back in the endeavor to i tear loose from this flesh-fastening; but the human skin is tough, and it refused | to tear, and he was thrown violently 1 forward upon his face. He arose slowly again, danced a moment, and stepping ' quickly hack, threw himself with such j force that the flesh was torn out with a plainly-audible snap, and he again fell ! lead long. He lay thus unheeded a mo- i ment, and then rejoined his companions j ami proceeded with the dance, il.nl Ic i failed to break 100-c himself, others would have jerked him bek until tic flesh was torn. This was repeated with the others, with little variation—all passing the ! ordeal bravely; one, however, Icing up ward of a half hour breaking loose, and repeatedly falling rind fainting. Rut al though he had been sixty-live hours without food or drink, no drop was al lowed him—the nearest approach to this being the blowing of a spray of sa liva over the blistered face from the mouth of the attendant and rubbing it off with a bunch of some nourishing weed. One, nt content with the common mode of worship, had cut from nis body on*- hundred and eighty distinct pieces of fl'*sh. He was a brown small leilow of about thirty-five years, lie advanced and encircled the sacred pole with hi arms, laying his cheek close up agalns it, and, while standing thus, one ap proached him upon either side, and sim ultaneously cut from the point of his 0 shoulder a piece of skin antl fbwh about the size of or. thumh-nnil; then a] similar piece was taken from the leg. near the ankle; so. alternately nhove and below the cruel knife did its work. To suspend for a moment this steady cut — cut, he once wheeled anil stepped quickly across to a position close beside where! stood, and knelt against a pole there stanodies was borne without wail—it will be realized of what stern stuff the Ogalallas are made, nad will cause many a wish that this almost heroic material may be pre served in some civilized and harmless m manner. ™ But what is the significance of all this? The popular belief lias been that the young men are thus proving themselves worthy of being icq on the war-path; and there is no doubt that to acquit one's sell bravely In the dance girea him somewhat of prominence; but the ' cremony is one of worship mainly. I Also, the torture is undergone ns a thank offcrlngto the Great Spirit for favors re eeived. Selling n Mine In Willi Street. Not many months ago a man pretty well known on the t'omstoek went East to sell a mine lying iti the Pyramid Dls triet. lie had a map of the claim and its underground workings, all done up nicely in pink and blue ink, and on it was a fine piece of draughting as one would wish to see. He took ltis maps, traps and samples of ore to New York and be gan to " lay " for a customer. Presently he fell in with a wealthy Wall street manipulator, who got him on a string and wanted to get him a cus tomer on commission. "Now look here, old man," said the Wall stricter, "you are from Nevada, and probably a little green in the ways of the street. You will meet gome awlul sharp men here, and you must manage to IK* a trifle sharper or you can't do anything. I,ct mc manage this tiling, and give me all I can get over $lO,OOO for the mine." The Nevadan agreed, and the New Yorker took him intoaroom and began to give him some confidential advice. " Now. here's the way to manage title tiling. Of course, if you haven really good mine, it won't lie at all out of the way to make it look big. Now, take this map—it is a good map, hut it ain't big enough. We must show up some ore. I'll get an artist to put in some extra ore bodies—just scatter Vin through like plums ina pudding- and that'll half sell it. The buyers will he sure to discover these ore liodies, afterward, all the same." "This don't look to met.) he hardly square,"said the Nevadan. with a frank expression. "I want to Mil my mine on its merits. I never sold a thing in my life on false representations, and I'm too old to begin." " Now, don't get riled, old fellow You are not supposed to know what I do. (live me maps and the ore and let me attend to the business. You can't be too tricky when you sell a mine." After considerable persuasion, the mine owner turned over his maps and ore samples to the Wall stricter, and that astute operator went on tiis way. His first step was to get an assay of the samples, and lliey showed up .ft,500 to the ton. This set the New York chap thinking, and he went back to his Ne vada friend and asked him how high the samples would run to the tun. • " Well, I hardly want to say." replied the Nevada innocent. " I guess them samples you've got now are good for s.'ls or $4O a ion. (If course, I just took an average from different parts of the mine. I don't believe in picking samples. Su<-ls frauds are lioiind to come out sooner or later, and a- I've gut more mines to sell, I concluded to act pretty squ ire and g*-t a good reputation for business on the street." The New Yorker drew his conclusions, and thought it would boa sharp thing to take thai mine in himself. " I've found a customer, old fellow," lie said, and eagerly drew a cheek for $lO,OOO, professing to have found a cus tomer and made a neat turn 'in cimm!-*- sion. "Hiing along some more mini's and let me sell 'em for you," he added. " You sis 1 I have facilities which you have not. We'll go round and fix up the deeds." The Nevadan took the check, folded it up and ri marked: " Now, I hope you've sold that mini on the square and not got too much lor it. It's worth SIO,OOOasa fair specula tion." The two men parted for good a couple | of days afterward, and the New Yorker' came out last week with a couple of ex- > pcrts to visit the rich property he had so shrewdly acquired. Arriving at Py ramid he asked for the Gold Run Con- j soli dated. " No such mine," was the reply he got everywhere. "Gn at Cresar! I've lionght the claim and paid $lO,OOO for it." " Got hit. sure." " A man showed mc a man. Here it is," and the New Yorker pulled out the map which he had received from the seller. A crowd of I'ynuniders gathered round and laughed uproariously. " That's old Sawyer's work. Oh. he's n smart one." Just then, old Sawyr, the foremost citizen of the district, and as innocent an old mine-owner as the coast ever pro duced, came up and looked over the map. " It ain't correct, old boss." he said, addressing the New York "hardly knew which she thought the | most of, excepting it might Ik* the land tortoise, which she would not sell for any money." She was stroking the head ol the tortoise with her linger, and. as she spoke to it, calling it "my pet," the shelled anirnnl looked up into her face and turned its head to one sid., and then to the other, as If listening to and understanding what she said. When the reporter came rlosc it quickly drew hark out of sight Into its shell, and she remarked. " The little pet is afraid ol strangers." " What do you feist to the little pet?" " Bread and milk in a huekpt." " How long have you had it?" " About two years. I received it from a friend in Philadelphia. A cousin o mine residing in thnt city has one that makes a peculiar noise when It wants something to eat, and It follows mem tiers of the family all around the yard. They keep it in tlie yard in summer, ind at the approach ol winter |i goes to the cellar door, when,some one opens it and it goes down and creeps into tin* ground, where it stays until spring. Observe the man who advertises. Ho means business, and he don't care who knows it. The man who don't ndvertise may mean business, hut he is afraid to say anything nbout it .—Modern Argo. FOR TIIK FAIR SEX. Wl of thr frrililoula. " What wives of any of the former I'residents of the United States are now living? and where?" Mrs. (icucral (Irunt is living, having accompanied her husband on a tour around the world, now nearly completed. Mrs. Lincoln, according to the Spring lie Id (ill.) Journal, is residing in the ro mantic little city of I'au, near the base of the l'yrences, in Southern France. It may he added that her mental condition is now considered normal, and her fre quent correspondence with her friends at home indicate it cheerftii and happy frame of mind. Mrs. Sarah I'olk, widow of the tenth President, James K. I'olk, resides in a beautiful home in the heart ofthe city of Nashville, Tenn. She is a charmingly dignified woman, well advanced in years, and distinguished for her kindliness and Is'.'iuty of character. The home she oc cupies is beautifully located, and it was here that the ex-President died, six weeks after his retirement Iroin the White House, thirty years ago. Of those not living, Mrs. Franklin Pierce died December 2d, IMttJ, at IIT homo In New Hampshire. Mr. Pierce died in l7<>. Mrs. Pierce never fully recovered from tiic shock occasioned by the sad death o| her youthful son in the calamity on the Boston & Maine iail road, January sth preceding the inaugu ral, on wliiiji occasion the President elect himself narrowly escaped death. Mrs. Fillmore, who was a schoolteacher in her earlier life, having pursued her studies in Massachusetts, in part, died suddenly at Willard's Hotel in Washing ton, in March, IK',:). Mrs.Taylor—whose dislike for public life is proverbial, de monstrated as it was by the declination on her part, while mistress of the White House, to "receive"—died at Iter home in Ismisiana in 1*52. Mrs. Andrew Johnson, thongi f>r j years an invalid, survived her ho and only a few months. Mr. Jotyison dual j in Nashville, Tenn., ,Fuly 31, 1*75. President Tyler's llr-t wife died dur- ■ ing the second year of his ndrninistra- ' tion. lie, later, married a daughter of i Mr. (iardiner, of Gardiner's Island. A j sad inciih-nt is related in this connection. Mr. (iardiner and his daughter, with i'residt nt Tyler, were guests on board a government vessel, enjoying a sailonthc j I'otomae, in I*ll. <>n this occasion it was that tlm •• Peacemaker." a heavy ordnance gun. exploded, killing nearly all who were near it nt the time, among j whom were many of the presidential I party. Mr. (iardiner was among the ' victims, and lie was buried from tli<- • White House. Mr Tyler died in Rich mond, Va., in 1N62. His widow died about two years ago. President Harrison's administration lasted only one month, during which period his widowed daugh ter-in-law performed the duties requisite at tlm White House, Mrs Harrison r main ing at North Bend. Mrs. Van Buren's decease occurred as recent as December, 1*77. The wife of President -lackson lived to see irr husband *j*-*-t-d 1 President of the United States, hut died j before his inauguration, in Drccmlwr, 1-2*. Mrs. JohnQuincy Adams was tlm lost of the women of the Revolution who held the position of mist! '-* ofthe White Hon- . Mrs. Monroe died at " Mont- j pcli* r." Mr Monroe's Virginia * state, in l-*3rt. Mr- Madison di'd in while in Washington, when- she attend ed th t\ hit" Hons*- -e i ptions as lnt' -us Mr. Poik's administration.— HorUm Trti iwnpt. Fiitlilnti >lr i. Muslin jackets are still wont N"e kiaees encircle the throat closely, i I'crcal's arc trimmed with roare- Incc. Seme sunshades have hand-painted stripes. Short dresses become more ami more I fashionable. Thread Stockings with i!k stripe* are fashionable. Underskirts ar< trimmed with colored embroidery. All muslin gowns nrc mode with el bow sleeves. Sprays of wheat in dull gold make the prettiest of la*-*- pins. l>og>t* and owls'heads are still in favor for parasol handles. ' Veils of white dotted tuili ire thought to be very becoming. Pink and silver is one of the n* west combinations in gauze. Neeklaoet are now mn cheap, and are sure to come into fashion again when the rage for stripe* is over. The last freak is for every young lady to choose a color and ww It. either by itsdf or in combination witli block, white or neutral tints, for the rest of her life. lawn gowns Are much worn this year. Tliey are simply made, but not sosimply that they wash easily. Fortunately tliey are very cheap, and one can afford to lay them nslde when soiled. Itoo ami Xln for tVnmrn. At Bolton, Fngland, an Episcopal church lias a woman for church warden. Thirty-eight ladies hnve received de grees in Franco as doctors and bachelors I of art. Society Indies have exact portraits of their favorite dogs sketched and painted on their fans. Selling introductions to beauties is the Inst method of money making introduced at the English fairs. Two female nhyslcians residing in Chicago realize front their practice f 12,- CHMt and $15,000 respectively, "A farmer's wife" writ'* that a cradle in a nursery is a nuisance. " I don't wonder children -rv when their brains are muddled by continual rock ing." An Association for the Advancement of Women has been organized in Pougl,- keepsie, N. Y. It gives a course of free lectures on science, and all the lecturers are women. Two ol the best journalistic positions in New York city are filled by women, the editorship of n weekly and monthly publication; eifch is said to receive sr>.ono a year. I lie English factories a't requires that no woman shall he employed continu ously for more than four iionrs and a half. Aftcr working that length of time • she must have a rest. A well-patronized and novel company ! has been organized in N< w York, which furnishes, on application by la iics, torn- j pornry escorts to places of amusements, ' or wherever on escort is n * dark, when tle ./iV. of the city were taking an airing, there Were 213 dogs sitting in the different rarriages, and but >igbty-threc little children. (Jerome, the painter, i- credited with the remark that young American women have the lovelli it dun * |,.■ ba* cv,-i* -e.n He oft* n walks along tie boulevards of i'aris and drives in the Bois purposely to itdmlr*'them. j The Chieagi' Exchange for Woman's \S 'irk. which was organized four 1 months ago, recently gave it* first re ception. '1 h*' exchange lias alsiut four! hundre*t menihcrs, an<( i* a very *u-c< :s -ful organization. Naie-v Wa-pa-'-o-t i, th*' Miami Indian maid of Wabash, who gave notice that she wouid settle a farm upon any re spectable white man who would marry her, has received two foreign npplien tions, fine from a "count." Thr I Athlon*. Nov F.l. Tits IS Lltf-S*rj>.-.MnilJ of the fr< sh lofiklng and Inexpensive striped fabrics Introduri <1 thiss- i-on have their tfilors luatchefi in the half transparent wool goods, which are a* a most delicate old-fashioned de laine. Such a combination a* white gauze, delaine and striped pale biu<' and white satin rayc* is cx* < * dingly effective. A < lionning *!i ** of pink batiste, triniin* *! witli bands of the same, embroidered in the gayest colors, has a short train, and a wide, plait* d flounce. lnnni*sl In-fore ! plaiting with n three-inch band ot tie gay cmbroidi ry. Tlie familiar reversed *ir " I-avui-i" ov**i>kirt lias tic upturn* *1 piece fini*h* *l on the edge with embroi dery also, an*! th" back, corresponding, is arranged in puffed drapery. Ribbons •■oniprislng tic color* of th*- nosilework nrc u*ed for !ing. A stylish f pink an*l blueplni*! gingham ho* a short walking skirt, triuilicl with a d< < p side plaiting, fa-tn sid" by row* of shirring, th* opposite sid'- drooping toward th*' mot of the dress. 8* veral puffs disco." of the drapery of the bn' k brcar lion, nltbougli a great rnis tak<- is mad*- in using Breton for many purpose* to which torchon can la- ap plied. Breton in*e is pre-eminent ly adapted to such garments as do not re quire washing, but l*r underwear and whatevi r involve* hard u sage or real service torchon is infinite')* Vwtier and more nnpropriate. Nce*ll**work seem* to have mlTnncal a step and tak other trim ming has la en Us**d so much this season for idiintzf deciding the prefer ence. Tlie most attractive materials in tlie market at tlie present time are the American foulard silks. They are some whnt heavier than the French silks, more lustrous, nre said to IK- more dura ble and have tlie merit of washing ns handsomely as a piece of linen. The favorite patterns arc t!u> sprigged, in a dark color on a light ground ; tlie polka dotted and the pekin. Very Ixautiful effects are shown in grounds of pearl color, cream white, pale gold and laven der. with fringes in navy, gendarme and peacock blues, seal brown, garnet, ruby and Bordeaux reds; cream white and yellow. Entirely new designs for sum mer wearing have been introduced among stripe*! silks recently. In thnoe the combinatlons of color are wheal color, blending in alternate stripes with chocolate brown, and dark blue stripe* shading to a light blue. These siiks are for summer, and. therefore, are light, and the stripes are a HIM inch In width. Merchants have introduced for summer dresses many fine qualities of woolens, which pass under different names In dif ferent place*, and therefore confuse IT ruler* at a distance. Zephyre, I'anama mixtures and tweeds and Zulu cheeks are all light, fine and soft and much em ployed for summer dresses. French and American buntings, chudriah cloths and wool grenadines arc especially intended for the Hctutliorc. ITKMS. —SmaII cape* are fashionably worn, made of block bruswls net. mounted witli rows of liu-e ami edged j with a deeper row, which forma a scant ruffle. Ribbtns, which areao extensively , used for trimming nowadays, require a little forethought In rejection, and are i never more out of place than when i tliey are 100 petty In width or do not harmonize with the color of the dreauty and the niot lifting and natural adornments for summer. It is the little ; things, the finishing touches, which freshen and brighten a lady's toilet and add so inueh to its grace and elegance, I and this season there is no limit to these 1 i harming little accessories to make the lair sex still fairer.— New York If* raid. Ilow Australians Capture Wild Bucks. Thoi-' who hat < perused tlmt ttdven turou aiel fa-< inating novel of Charles K< vl- s, ■: 'it., 1 "Foul I'lay," wi '.doubt l< - remember th it when Robert ('enfold v..;* n king bis I, rains for tbe neons o 1 sending out in) llig**ncc two per 1 son* w< re east away on one ofthe is.ands of tie . tcilie, he bit upon the expedient of making wild dicks the bearers of m**— sages de>( ribing the locality of the i- am! and the na'ure of the assistance needed • The novelist d< rile sat some length tin m< tliod by which IVnfold > aptup-d his dU' ks for this purpose He fastened a number of common r<*i* to a hoop,! and going into tin- water in the morning ixfnr* the day broke. up to his neck, tdaci <1 the hoop with reeds over his In ad. Tin-unsuspicious du< ks, seeing nothing but a hunch of reeds. where other reeds were, swam within his reach uncon scious of dang*-*. Seizing a duck he drew it under the wat*-r and stealthily glided ! to the shore. The duck in ing suddenly drawn under water uttered no outcry, and hence Pcnfuld managed in a short tinw-t , recoil*i t ion of having previously irn -1 parted them, and will not believe lie ha done so. but prefers to 1 relieve that lie i> j in the prcsenecofdivinity. It is not only possible hut easv for s practical adept to draw out in this way minute an 4 cUlmi-alc details ot secret family history. A few years ago. while connected with one of the public insti- ! tutions of this eitv. I made a number of ; experiments in this line. I told the i j patients afflicted with various forms of nervous and allied disorders not to tell 1 mealmtit their symptoms, nor give me anv facts in tleir eases, hut to lot me tell them; and th*-n I would proceed to indi'ate. after the manner of a clairvoy- I ant, the locality of their maladies anil j the history of their troubles. In the 1 majority of ow* I was sui-eeasftil. and I maw out tic diagnosis to tic satisfac-j tion of those who sought my advice, j and with good reason, tor nothing that ; I could do prevented tlicm from telling mo. although I asked them no questions: ' unintentionally and uneonoeiously. they would guide me at every stage of the in terview. By a littie practice anv otic could easily acquire this art: a,u( long study, such as professional clairvoyants bestow upon tills subject, develops great skill in thus managing and deluding the uowarv and non-cxt>ert. — Scritmrr. Boose Telegraph Wires. In Warohani, Mass.. the telegraph wir< fell from one pole and hung dangling across the raui. A traveler in a horse and wagon came along, saw the wire, hut after getting out and ex amining.enncluded that it hung so low he could safely drive over it, and tried to do so, very carefully. However, the wire caught the hind wheel, threw the wagon over and the driver out. the horse ran away, and a good deal of damage was caused. In a Colorado case, tne company's superintendent was hanging a wire along a new route. He allow e*T it to hang low for a short time across the road while the work was Cing on. Meantime a man on horse rk passed, the wire tripoed up the horse, horse and man were thrown down, and the man badly hurt. In an Indiana case, the Western Union posts grew gradually mttcn. and. at length, one evening posts, wires and all fell down in the highway: the telegraph company knowing nothing about the casualty. An hour or so later a traveler In a carriage ran Into the wreck, in the dark, and sustained an upset. In all these instances the courts considered that the companies were liable to pay nil damages whieh their wires had caused. Their right to build their lines did not give them any exemption flroni making | good injuries which tho lines occasioned. Jo One Maid Weather to Him. It wim hot yesterday morning. It wan hotter ut noon. It w;is no hot Unit pa* senger* in the street-cars took off their lumped their brows, and fiercely • !' l , l, "-y kn,w ail the time we'd catch It about this time. A Woodward I "veriu< ear hail iuat one seat left when it t reached John It. strict, iuid thin win takr n hy a ri-d-whiski-n-d man, adown whose check* the perspiration fairly ran. Hi* clothing stuck to the small of hi* back, his big, red hands were wet to the finger-nails, and it wan evident that tho nun had been trying to comer him. Seven or eight men were making ready to tcJJ him that it was a hot day. when the stranger drew out a big revolt., laid it on liis knee, and looking up and down the aisle, slowly remarked : " I Jentlemen, I am a atranger here, hut have bought a house and lot up the street and H J Kill ride on these darn Hl* times a day. 'litis is my day for opening tho Ite anon. J. very man look'd at him in a wondiT ing way, and gently earressing (lie weap on of death, the stranger added : It is hot weather. Even a fool knowa tlii-t. It s going to le hotter. Two weeks h'lire it will lie regular old frying-pan weather. Now. then, while I shall re alize it as forcibly a> any one, I am going to shoot the first man who savs weather to me. 1 won't have a word about it, nor hear to it. I'm willing to be broiled, baked, or roasted, but 1 don't want to talk about it. Now let someone remark that it's a hot day—good for corn—looks like showers—too rnueh rain—splendid for < lover—awful dusty, or beautiful hree/s-s, and I'll begin shooting." Not a lisp wiu< heard. If anyone im agined t(|i re might be a frost at night in the lower lake regions he kept his tbouzlits to himself, and the ,s to itiv< r the lawer part of the lace, and in tin- hollow le dropped two sweet-pias. The little boys were told to look at tie in every day, and tliey would learn what was going on under ground witli similar seeds. Next morning the boj-s hurried from the break fast-room to look at the glass with the jM*as in the south window. They found that while they were fast asi" p the little brown skin* had burst, and a tiny wbite sprout was seen on tho side of ear h pi-a. The little sprouts soon grew long enough to reach through tli 'noes in tli' laic, and < n the top of the peas two little green leaves were sc. n. In time the boys saw the white thread like roots reach almost to the bottom of the glass, while the green leaves grew larg. and gave way to a stalk or item. In this way most seeds may be seen to grow.—AYir i'ork Observer. K Spendl briO's Lock. 1 In .'.-unfiling hell at Monaco n turn* within a trifle of $'.\500,000 to its pro prietor. The princely n*venu'e will lie short thi- year to the income of a grand duke of l'umpi rni' ke). One of the most remarkable instan. of lu< ky gambling ever recorded lias just set the crowd at the .ittlc free city afire with envy. Early in the spring there was rumor of dis aster impending over an ancient Hritish iaron"tcy, which has given heroes, poets and lawyers to the countrv. The heir had inherited $1,000,000 debts, added to a round sum he had raised at A room mod at i< n Hank interest- When ths Usurers found their sii-urity a shadow, andthemor*' .gees discovered that the successor t" in title and estates hail be gun by dipping the property furtlur. it was i solvisi to force payment. A noble duke, whose name was much mentioned in connection with tlie Glasgow Hank. gMWroasly lent as mudi as deferred ths vil day Hut the smash would have e >nie all the same, but lor the wonderful stroke of luck which befel the spend thrift patrician at Monaco. He broke the hank three nights running. His last coup made a round $300,000. in addition to thes4oo.ooocaptured by him the two nights previous. I,earning to Swim. When the air is out of a body ita owner sinks; when the air is in the body its owner floats let any one slowly draw in his breath a* he draws back hit legs and pushes forward his arms, retain it whilst he is preparing for the stroke which is to propel him. and slowly allow . it to go through hi* lips as his arms are passed back from before lilt head to hit ' sides and hi* legs are stretched out. The action ol the stroke should not bs j quite horizontal, but should be made on a slight incline downwards. The real reason why people take weeks to learn how to swim is because swimming pro fessors either do not know, or not choose to tench, the philosophy of breathing, so as to render the body buoy ant. In order to acquire confidence, the learner should first try to float. Let him He on his bm k. hold his head well lwk. stretch nut his arms and draw in Id* breath. So long as lie mains it hs will float on the water like a cork. As he expels it from his body he will find himself gradually sinking unless he— keiying his arms well in the water makes a slow downward stroke. This will bring home to him the principle on i which a swimmer, generally without knowing it. acts. The Way to Know People. The only way by which people can be thoroughly known is by living with them in the :ime bouse or traveling with them in the same carriage. The smooth surface which we can maintain with so much success for a short time gets broken up then by the thousand petty details ol dally life, and tempers are tried and characters revealed to an extent which years of an ordinary draw ing-room intercourse would not have allowed. Then the real man or wcmi a comes out, and the human nature whl rh has been surprensed assorts itself, some times with startling sincerity, and almost always In unexpected places; Ibr n- i one ts what his casual acquaintance s and ! superficial friends believe liim to be, ; and the depths reveals secrets '.irvcr so i much outlined in the shallow * —Mm dm Recorder,