Master Johnny's Next Door Neighbor. It iva* spring the ltr-t time I hut I lutw her, lor tier pnpii mid iimmnm moved in Next door, (est as skating win over, nnd mar lilon about to begin - For the Inner in our luck yard *# broken, and I hi iv un t peeped tlirSngli iho Hint , There wei-o ' Johnny Jump-tips' all around her, nnd 1 knew it wuh Hpring just hy tbut. I never knew whether she hw me—lor she didn't wty notliing tome, But ' Mil! here's n -lilt in the feuee broke, nnd the lioy that is next door can see." But the next day I climbed on our wood shod, a* you knew, mamma say* I've a right, And ho calls out, ' Well, pekin' in manners " and I answered her, • Sass is pcrlito !' " But I wasn't a lot mail, no, papa, and to prove it the very noxt day, When she ran punt our fence in the morning 1 happened to get in her way, For you know I am ' chunked ' and clumsy, a* she says arc all boy i ot my size, At. 'ho nearly upset me, die did, |>n, and laughed till tears came in her eyes. "And then we were friend*lrom tlmt moment, lor I knew that she told Kilty Sage, And she wasn't a girl Hint would flatter, ' tlmt she thought I wn* tall for my age.' And I gave her lour apple* that evening, and took her to ride on my sled, And—' What am 1 telling you thi* for ?' Why papa, my neighbor is deml ' You don't hear one-half lam saying—l unity do think it's too Uul ' Why, you might have seen crape on tier dooi - knob, and noticed to-day I've been wul. And they'x'e got her a coflln ol n**<• wood, and they say they have dressed her in white, And I've never once looked through the tence, pa, since shedied—at eleven last niglit. "And ma says it'* decent anil proper, as I wn* her neighbor and Irieiui, That I should go there to iho Imiorul, nnd she think* that you ought to attend; But I am so clnmsy and awkward, I know I sliail t>o in tiie way, And suppose they should speuk to me, pn|si, 1 wouldn't know pi*l what to*ay. " fio I tiiink 1 will get up qnitc curly. 1 know I sleep late, but I know "I'll tie sole to wake up it our Bridget pull* tlie string that IT tie to my toe. And I'll cruwl through the fence and I'll gather the ' Johnny Jump-up, ' a* they grew Bound her feet the first day tlmt I saw her nial, papa, I'll give them to you. . For yon're n big man, and yon know, pa, can come and go just where you cticosc And yon lltnkcthe flowers ,n to tier, anil sure ly they'll never refuse; But. papa, don't they're Irotn Johnny. They won't understand, don't you sec, But just lay them down on her bosom, ami, papa, she'll know they 're Irom ino." /lortr. IN LOVE AND IN DEBT. " Who is Unit, Carrie?" " Dionysitu Harrington. Is lie not handsome?" " Handsome! I should think he is. What a partner for the Imnecrs! or to take on>- sleigh-riding, or down to sup per, or, in fact, anywhere where a Utt was a possible contingent." " He is sun- to be at the Nevilles' ball to-night. Perhaps you may he able to test youropinion on that subject." " If he is there, I certainly shall." " Provided you have an opportunity. | Handsome Dion' is in great request; but then yours is quite a new face, and a debutante is always (on of a certain ' amount of attention." Carrie'* tone was a little piqued, and pietty Margery H-y wood felt that it was just as well to drop the subject. Fortunately Fboadway a thuds plenty of conversational resources, and some'im ported costumes in a window supplied . topic of interest quite equal to hand some Dionvsius Harrington. i'erhap* In Margery's mind there was an unacknowledged connection between the two. Dion and dress were not so very far apart; for a man who attired himself so elegantly was not likely to be indifferent to the toilet* of the women whom he delighted—or condescended— to honor. • This point settled in !. . own mind. Margery wa full o oiifldence. She had mH-n brought up in a world where the milliner nnd tailor " Arc throne! powers, ntxl -hiiro the general state." Her own dress was always perfect ; 111- ribbons nevrr •■Uiffonw. lur glove* taw, her genera! costume tike a iimniing glory before twelve o'rlnek—it li id no yesterday. Indeed, she onsidcred neg ligenee in dress one of the deadly sins amngrespectable people. .So that, un der any eirctimstances,slie would linve prepared carefully for the Neville ball; but it was certainly nrortii extra trouble when she was hoje-fui of eyes that eould appreciate colors ami combinations. Iter reward was with her, for site had a great success that night. Her toilet was the rarest and richest in the room, and Dion linrrington signified his ap proval by the honor of three wait**. Afor sueJi a mark of distinct inn, Margery eould repose, as It were, upon the sense of her own perfections. They were sitting chatting together; and there was a look on Dion's face which absolutely indicated that ho had forgotten himself, and xvas admiring some one else-. Margery was certainly doing her best to charm lilrn, and she instinctively found out the liest way she was making Dion talk in a manner that really amazed himself. Among men lie was a sensible fellow, with plenty of his own opinions; but among Indus he generally relied on bis personal ad vantages. Besides, liis olyect was to conquer women rather than to amuse them, and he had generally found a few niglin and glance* a i vrrr*t tiling he eould think oi at the time. After their llrst waltz he began hi usual routine of remark*: •'We liave find verv bad weather lately, have we not?" Marge y did not assent according to rule and precedent. but said, "Konlly, I wonder you should think so. It is always changing. What more would you have? There was once an old lady who usfd to Ml her grumbling nephew that lie ought fo he thnnkftll for any weather at all." "I think nearly every one grurab.es at the weather." " ! have noticed that. If men " r " j" l ' j satisfied with a party, or if anything j Koi'# wrong i their business or in their view of politics, they grumble at tli<- weather. 1 don't believe that any two overs, or onyfottn of govdrniii en eould stand six weeks of settled sun sltin*.." . . Plon looxen at this strange girt. Hhe had a metaphysical, dreamy look in her eyes: there wan no telling how she might turn the oommonni subject. Ho re membered that he had another engage ment, and made his most graceful apolo gies. Still he was wondering, all the time lie was away from Margery, what she was thinking about him, and tor menting himseli with the memory of several good things that lie might nave said, and did not say. Perhaps that was the reason that lie ended upon Margery the next, day, and site next, and so on indefinitely. In a month the handsome Dionyslus was no longer at the general service; he was I devoted to Miss Heywood. Tin n pco | pie began to talk. Some very good pco | pie, professedly anxious to repress mali cious rumors, propagated them; and though they declared them to hi' incrcUi iile, still, unfortunately, they believed them to l>e only too true. It is easy to profess indifferenec to such ill-natured talk, hut people ran not he indifferent to the results of it. In this ease the rumors reached Margery's | aunt at I ley wood, and she sent a pre ! emptory order for her nieee's return home immediately. At this order Margery was very eross. She did not want to go hnek into the country, anil she did tiiink ttint, in some way or other. l>lon might have prevented people's remarks. And his little effort to I talk the matter over with her only made her more angry ; for her loving, anxious heart was waiting to hear something more sweetituiersonai than : "I eanniir imagine. Miss Mevwood, what pleasure people find in gossip." "You cannot?* snapped Margery. " Well, then, let no tell you that alt pleasures are short-lived exeept tliut of watehing the mistakes of our friends, and eoniparing lliem witli our own vir tues." "Where shall we meet aqain?" I am no diviner." Kb- was pale and angry, hut the tears were in her eyes. Slie knew that lie loved In r. Why eould lie not —whv would lie not- ay hi? "Why 3 " Sin' asked hersoll thi- ques tion all during the next -ummcr. For lHiin. having tflsi-overi'il that Miss If.-y. I wood was with ln-r invalid aunt in a small village in tin Pennsylvania moun tains, abandoned at once the delights of fashionable hops and drives, and de voted himself to Miss I ley wood and Miss I ley wood's aunt. It was a summer to date from all of life after ward. Sueh glorious mornings by the trout streams! Sueh evenings in the moon-lit hills! Sueh walks, and talks, and rides! "A young man so handsome—so very handsome a young man so clever end polite, and so respect ful to age," Aunt Hi y wood had never seen. Forty years before, slip had had a lover, who wont to sea nnd never rame hnek again, and she believed Dion jto be exactly like him. Yes, she was i-ertain that if ever she had been mar lied, and had children, all her sons would have been just like Dion. The old woman loved him, in her way, quite as mueh as the voung one. This fair and happy summer at length nunc to a close, Dion found the ladies one morning in the midst of trunks nnd toilets. A sudden frost had set in. and Aunt Heywood missed the comfort* of her own home. Dion Jing-red, silent and sorrowful, till after lunch, and tin n he asked Margery to go into the wood* for a walk with him. He had a conft-*- sion to make, he said, if Mi*s Heywood permitted it. Miss I ley wood thought he might have spok"n without lut permission. " Too much courtesy, too much courtesy," he whispered her own heart; but she signi fied her assent hy a little nas*iotv, she gave vent to her feelings In a very unwomanly exhibition of *area#tlo indifference. Hut when Dion had really gone, she fell with passionate sohldiig upon the ground, until the pine* talked sough- , fully among themselves, and wailed hack to her those melancholy tore's tie y learn 1 know not where. Aunt Heywood was as broken-hearted as her niece. She brooded on the loss of the gay. lieautiful youth, with something of both a mother's and a lover's anguish; and when, a week later, they heard that lie had sailed for the coast of Africa as supercargo of a frbud'sshln. all the sun shine died out of the two live* at Hey wood Park. A year later oh' Miss Ilevwood died, anil Margery was left sol" mistress of Imr person nnd fortune. There was some rumors of a strange will made hy Miss Heywood in her last hour, which It was thought Margery would dispute. But the rumor died, and the young heiress apparently settled down to a monotonous life, in which nothing seemed left her hut the " having loved. In the second year a little ripple was made in Heywood by the nil vent of Harry Ijike. Harry find been Dion's great friend, nnd was probably even then in correspondence with him. Margerv I tad idp'-ny* nvohk-d Harry's uncle hitherto; but now. with n sweet ness till* no old man eould resist. lie in quired after his health. his crops, and whatever other subject seemed of jm ! portance to him. In fact, she quite won tlie old bach elor's heart. It was u great grief to him 1 that lie could not hone to wed Ip-r for hint*-' If; and li"hnlfdlsllked his nephew for his chance* lttit nt any rate In- de termined that such a nice giri and such a rieli girl—should not go out of tlie family; nnd he soon let Marry kiiojv that the pixispeets of inheriting tie- fsk'- estate- rested very much upon ids mar riage with Margery. " Hut suppose tlie young lady will not ■ have me, uncle?" ! "You nj-e not to suppose failure, air, [in anything. You have no rivals Ipfe— , I'Ut inc." the old iuiidgrumbled, not very ! pleasantly. Harry was in a dilemma, and he sat I thinking long over it that night. Hut ' lie was endowed with a nature singu larly honest, and at this juncture it 1 helped him better than intrigue. H< simply wrote a little note to Margery, i asking permission to see )ier lu-xt day at noon, lie received, as lie expected, a cordial assent: an 1 so, putting Dion's 1 last letter in his pocket, he went almost confidently over to 1 ley wood lark. It was a very pleasant meeting, but | Harry was determines) not to let their : conversation drift into generalities. | " Miss Ileyvvood," lie said, " I am going to ask from you a very singular favor. I—l want you. In short, I want you to I refuse to marry me." Margery could not help a smile at | Harry .* awkwardness. She readily di vined that lie had something important to say to her, and that he had, in his '•agvrii'-#s to i>- perfectly plain about it, Itcgtiii at the end instead of the begin ning. So she said. "I shall certainly refuse you—when you ask me, Mr. Kike." "Oil, that of course! No fellow like me expects to get a hearing, after poor I>i"ii could not succeed. Ittit tin- truth . is just this: ioy uucle lulmires you so mueti that fie threatens to leave me noth ' lug unless I marry you." j " And you prefer U> hi disinherit'-d, of I course? " "No, no.no; hut. Miss HeywHsl, I am dead in love with the d-ar-t little girl, and I am ovi r lead and ear* in debt also; and if 1 vex uncle, he will give me no money—and don't you see how the thingis? 1 ' " Not exactly. Now what am Ito do? Tell me plainly." " Well, 1 shall writ'- yu a letter to morrow — a real, ohl-fashioned Sir Charles Grandison letter—and :ik your 1 jH-rmission, etc., etc., to pay my devoted duty, etc., etc., to you. 'And I shall show this letter to uncle, and g-t his suggestions and approbation " " Y'-s; and then I am to—" "To answer it.jxi-t in your iofti.-*t style. II hw Haywood. if you my a few words a little down on tlm fgikr*. i don't mind it it all, and it will finish the mat ter. Of course I shall tie cut up and ail that, if nty poor JHnn wg.* lon- lie would find some clever way out ot the scrape; but I can never think of any thing luit jut going to )i'adi|U.-!rt< rs, iis I have come to you." "lilitfM boot way A -tmight iim is st as goo Harrv pro- 1 nosed, wis indefinitely put oft. Hut Alargi-ry thought herself well paid for her complaisance; for in a verv short time Harry knew as well as ptowlbie the i true stat of her heart, and many a pre cious hit of new* h<- brought her con- 1 ecrning I>ijn. and one day lie uianag'-d , to forget a photograph of him and never afterward to remember its loss. So. witii litis fn-sli interest in life, tine- 1 •lid not srs-ni so heavy to poor Margery. She had Dion's pictured face, and every now nnd tle-n a few words of Informa tion about him. or elm- a long talk with Harry concerning the manifold pi-rfee- 1 ti-'n.s of one so !-ar to both. Hut though tlie final letter was de la] d :i- long o-s poesihle (ill li Likeol lost got impatient. "Harry had spent part of every day at IleywiH.l for fiiur months; if boys and giris did not know tie ir own minds in that time, they never would." Ho il old gentleman wrote the proposal himself, stat Iwhelors young and old. " However, he was sorry for me. Margery." said Harry, one day. a week afterward," nnd he has shown it in a way that I tlioroughly appreciate." " A check?" " Yes, for ten thousand dollars." " Did you | ine mo li. Harrv?" " N". I eotii'l not manage It; and, do you know, that nleased uncle. lie praised my spirited Is-havior, and said that was itist tlie w iy lie took a saucy woman's No tliirty y-ars ago: and then i lie gave me the -lie-k and told me to go to J'arisfor a season." " And you go, I suppose ?" ' Just as soon ns theih'arest littu- giri i ready to go with ne-." "Will you liave eiiougii, after paying your debts?" " I shall naturally consider my wife's comfort before my eredltora'." "Oh. Harry! Harry!" " Well, ifargery, I never could k'Tp out of delit ami out of love. The men I trade with and the yirl i love always have a lien on me." After Harry left letters were long Be layed. Addresses were lost or changed, and week aft.-r week and month after month passed without bringing any word from Dion, about whom lie hail promised to write. In I lie third summer Margery was so lonely that she deter mined to join sonic friends in a Kuropran trip; fvr she was sure by this time that Dion bnd quite forgotten her. So she wandered all summer in the sunniest pia--s of the earth, and was so charmed and happy that she really iie lievcd Iter iovc and her regrets were buried deeper than any memory could reach for them. She was sitting, one lovely afternoon, < n the top of Hk-tunond Hill. As she tat musing some one suddenly stood be tween her and the sunshine. She looked up. and Instantly put out her two hand* with a joyful cry to Dion. "Oh. Margery! Margen-' Margery! Oh, my own love! my dear love! my dar ling!"'while In a minor tone Margery wassohhing: "Dion! Dion! Dion! You have nearly killed me! How could you, Dion? Yi>u don't know tli.it you have nearly broken my heart. Ye*, you have, sir." Tin t) there wn* MU< II no explanation to hi- gone through that at t n o'clock that night tliey liu'l only got a* fur an their unfortunate parting. And* this serine' t>> remind Dion of soti-cthing, for he Said: Margery darling, I am afraid I must toll you the same old story. I have worked very hard, and all that, hill I am still in debt." " No, you are not. I have something to tell yiiu. also. Aunt Key wood left you nil foT money provided you claimed it within live yearn after Iter death; if not, it wan to In* mine." "It will Htill Ik- yours, Margery." "No, 1 do not want both you and the money; I have enough of my own." "Then I shall get out of debt at last." " No, you will not, sir. You owe me the price of three years of my life. You will never lie out of my debt, and you will never be out of my love." " I don't Want to. sweet Margery! and they who are deep in love can a (lord to spend twenty out of an income of nine teen; for you know the old proverb: "There was a couple who loved one an other, and they always took what they had, and they never wanted.—n Weekly. _____________ Staining Our Floor. "We'll stain the floor this summer," said Tombolina. " It's eoolcr for hot weather. Kvcrvl>ody'*doing it." "\\ ho'll do tin- staining? ' said I'tun hingo. "I'll, I'll do it. Mrs. I)ye did hers, and ever so much cheaper than the nainter. She's given me her reejjs-. Now, I 11 tell you what you must get for me at the paint shop." I'umbingo groaned internally. " first coat: Half and half of buni'-il umla-r and sienna. Also half and half linseed oil iind turpentine, with a little Jupiin<-*r dryer. That's '.lie fir-t coat. That must dry. Then fill nil the il nnd two-thirds turpentine, with a great deal of Japanese drvcr. Then varnish. Tliere!" I'u ni bin go iviim next seep carrying many pint bottles from a paint shop and emitting in the street ear a strong -nic-li of turpentine and varnish, lie was then required to search for sundry empty to mato cans. in which in mix the stain. At any otlcr time hundreds of empty to mato can* would have l*-cn Men kick ing about the i-tp-et. lie had for years Ims-ii pursued and waylaid by vagrant tomato cans. Now, not a tomato can could Is-found. Ail gone. Not a neigh- Isir or friend had an empty tomato ran A full day was required to liunt Up two empty cans wherein to mix the floor stain When found ail the absent tomato <\in again appeared. Now that they were not wanted, they lay in sultingly alsiut his door and grit under hi" f Then it was Tonitsillnn's turn. Sin 'lid the staining and varnishing. A friend loan's) hT a brush ; it was a -mail brush, too small by half. A bigger brush would have painted tw{e .. mu' li ill half the time. There was a gr at deal of mixing tin first day of hurti's! umber, sienna,' oil and turpentine. Totnholina *t.iin'*l fir* I the floor, then herself, tle-n the wash- ' boards in patches arid blotches, then : more of lu rM-lf. and finally more or les* i of the hard-tinisli'sl wail in jr girt hard at work '■n lier knees. "\Vlio* been squirting i tof'.T eo juice on this wall?" . " It's the brush which spatters." said I Tomfsillnn. Makes you freckled, don't it ?"says lie. | "tfli, do shut up!" said she. "lint, _"ce here." he continued. " the Stain don't w ill to equalize. "Tisn't an <-qual thing. IT- re is part of vour floor fvuttemut color, i art liglit yellow, imrt mahogany. How's that? fys.k* liken map of Kui ope." " M ell. you c-e Ilie cans were mi small j I had t> ni k' •> 1 1. . ■■■jiarate mixings ; of tlie muff. and every mixing somehow j makes ar knees have spavined,' and she can't get up without help, hut she's resolved to stain or dye in tlie at tempt.—AVw YetfkJlrafJtir. Justice In Albania. One ot the curious facts related of Ailianians is their strict adhesion to the lex lalionit. An assnssin is killed by the friends or relatives of the virtlrn. and if ! tliey cannot tlnd the c riminal himself tliey Jiave a right to kill his father, his ! son and brother or his cousin. A thiol! is forced to pay double tlie value of the i stolen goods to the person robbed, and n j tine lieaidcs to the tritiunai of justice. j Adultery entails the same punishment a assassination. If the betrothed girl re fuses to keep infr promise tlie deceived lover may kill a member of her family. A guest is sacred; and a man who vio lates tlie laws of hospitality nnd kills or wounds Ids guest Is chased from his tribe, and no one is permitted to have i any communication with his family. Tlie same dishonor falls upon tlie man who kills a woman. All his relative* receive the surname of " Woman-slayer." j The Ailianians numiier about U. 500.000 souls, and In the portion of their terri- j tory claimed by Greece there arc *50,000 j inhnhltr-fifs, ' TIMKKV Torus. A Kussiun paper gives an account of a plague of locust* ric;tr Klisabcthpol, which forced n detachment of troops on the march to retrace their step*. The insects settled so thick on tlie soldiers' faces, uniforms and niu-k'-i- that the commander, driven to desperation, or dered tiring at them. This was done for half an hour, hut produced no effect and the soldiers were obliged to march back. I lie swarm covered an area of twenty two square miles. I lie Louisville fourier-Jourtml bundles I together It* advice to protancmen in this wise: "To all who are afflicted with the habit of profanity, and who are d'-sirou* ! of curing tlionlsclve* of it, we would sug ! gest that, as a la-ginning, they resolve, and rigidly adhere to the resolution, that | whenever they fi-cl adisjaisition to swear | they will tak'- no other name in vain i-x -oeut that of the A /.tee god of war. Unit zlfopochtli. I hnt will give their anger a chance to cool and to disnnpenr ts-fore tliey get to the olh'-r end of tlie word, and they will not thus he guilt v of tie sir, of a complete oath. And if liuitzilopoi h ! tli won't break them, t'n-n their eases are hopchwH." Sitting Hull has been interviewed by a j correspondent of the Chicago Tribuw, | who says of him: "There is Mimetliing 1 remarkable in ids face. It is rattier bro.-to i arid fleshy, liut the determined line around tin mouUi destroy„ tie iiupn-s -| sion of (lahhinos. His ev*s are wide, and black, and piercing. The upper lids | are h<-avy, and tb<- outer i-ornersh ang over the eyes as if the brain had escaped int'i tie-in. His sliouid'-rs and clust are broad and strong, and tlie arm - iiiu*' u lar, :uid the hruids awfully dlrtv. H'- was dressed in blip- leggings, headed moeeasin. a liirt made of tlie same ma t'-rial, ligun d like the paturn*"f hns-h shawls, and hi* blanket was InjuiiU I lightly around hi- wui-t, f-u UIC after ; noon was intolerably hot " j That Mr. Kilison is working at hi* r electric light prohiem without stinting the expense is evident. H< -ays it has j c*t him about thirUx-n thousand dollars to p'-rfi-<-t hi* generator. He lias spent alsiut eight thousand dollars in experi ment* on his lamp. It est about thru thousr-nl dollar* ti diie over a new i nn-thfsl of insulating hi* wire. The ; meter experiments ate up fully two thousand dollar-, ami tie dynamometer three thousand dollar* more. He esti mates tin- total cost ,f iiis ex|s-nments thus far at forty-live thousand dollar*. | Sin I* devotion to an idea is one of his ! eliaracteristi--*. and, fortunately, in- is in :a position of |M* tmiary Indepeud'-ni-'-. :uid has at lii* Command all the money ' that M-< ni* to in- n's-'-ssary I nn# of 1 e.id. 250 tons of pearl ash, 2.T00 barrels of sail. 0,055 tons of straw. 4.025 - ord* of wood, t,525.T00 htish'-l* of coal, - TV3.500 tiusliels of coke, 1,210 tons of nitrate of soda, 46,340 tons <>f sand ami 1.50.000 fire firii k. Of tlie successful pedestrian, K P. ; Weston, the H< v. J. ( . Flirt nil IT "f IndlaaapoUa, *nys tliat wli-n a child \\ eston was tlie cleanest, mo*ti*t little 1 trlonde hoy he ever knew. He always hod his Siindav-sc|jCM>l le*<>n perfectfy, and was well trained at home, in I'rovi d> nee, by liis 'mall, slender mother. "Hut." ndd'-d Mr. Fletcher. " F,. I* Weston was tlie nmt uneasy bright Imy i I ever sa_w. Tliere was no keeping him s ill. Hi* father was a man resile** in lii* brain, and finally died in*an Tlie 1 mother of E. I*. W. wn a woman ol intclleetual pari*, and at her hn-b*nd'* death, in order to "import her family, she wrote a number ol int/T'-*ting tss.ks for children. Tho*e wer- print's! and then, instead of i ing published, w-rr hawked about I'rovidene*- and e)cwhere in the Stale of Kin*!.- Island hv Edward l'ay*on. who walked front house to house all over Uu> SUk-, and thus early a/-quired tlie habit of walking.*' Sergeant John P. Finley has investi gated the cyclones tliat swept ovi r Kan sas in May. He traveled in a wagon and rode altogitlier five hundred miles, visiting thirty-live town* and village*. "I started out in makingolnterralious , by first finding the center ol the tiqick of the storm, and then making correspond ing olwrvation on both side* to ascertain the effect of the wind on each, f found after a great deal of questioning that those tornadoes were always heralded by tlie appearance of hailstone* and rain, which only ended when the funnel dis appeared. The funnel, which resembles a wnter spout, was generally seen np proaching from tlie northwest and soutli wost, mill ha* the embodiment of the air ! currents coming from both tlie direc tions. The northwest clouds always re sembled heavy ruin-clouds, while those In the southwest Were n light, fleecy color, indicating wind. After their ap pearand the inhabitants would notice between Hie two, near the m>cx. a terri ble commotion, nnd in a few moments this would l>o ftillowed by the funnel ex- j tending gradually from the clouds. If ' was this funnel-cloud that always did 1 the damage. Tim majority of' these ! storms travel about tliirty miles an hour, and while they are on'the ground their force is great enough to destroy j everything within their reach." While it is true that our means oft making IniU tolerable are infinitely less than those of India, it is squally certain ! I that the heat which we die t>x turned to in. In the worst year*, almost a* nothing compared to wli.it has to lie endured there.wlmre European* oftentimes an- I pursuing occupation* fully a* arixiou* and arduous an any piTformi-d here \ where more than four or five day* of i-x -ocssive beat in extremely unu>ual. in Mad rax, for instance, there is a hot sun nearly wry day in tin- rear, which, after ten a. m.. can scarcely (• home with safety, and the great part of the night is frequently tv hot ax the day Madras lias pra-tii-ally no < old w ath< r. and Bombay hut about two months, hut Bengal has a distinct hot and cold wn *on. in June tin- tempi rature there is 1 in degrees Fahrenheit in the shade, and the humidity goes down to twenty-five ner cent, of saturation. By sitting be hind a netted grass scrum in a shady room, witii a fanner blowing in damp air, the temperature ean he reduced to eighty degrees. In Inw r Bengal and the northwest provinces the ]>ericdii-al rains set in during June nnd bring relief from )n t winds, hut both the day and night temperature remains about ninety two degree*. H v the middle of October the cold weather has set in, hut from 1 leven to three o'clock tiie sun is alwaia uncomfortably hot. Still, the fa. t of this change of season lias a very favora ble effect on European*, who do not age in Bengal nearly as rapidly a* in the Oiler i'residetieieh. <'..n-tituii.m and their extraordinarily temperate diet en able the natives in India to work throughout the day. The Champion Hot City, < hi. ago will have its littJe joke on St. l/iui" Here i. the latest. from the ' hi- luh r-(>< • n>i * account of an inter vi w with a par-iw>i]ed citizen: " I have la-en to Ceylon, < abulia. up the Nile to < aire, and to the Sandwiches and Brazil. At < eylon one summer the tarred rops hung like wet strings, and the. ship 'siz //i\ like hot iron as she went through the water. It's singular what a diffm ' nee then is in the effect of heat in dif ferent i liinat-s. We wen off Calcutta in iiii.l--unitiier, and the planks of the 'Gad-fly' were warped like barn I staves, and she took water like a sponge. W. threw overboard a valun.b'e cargo of (-ntton anil Sh< (field hardware, and toweil her into iort. where we had ii< r sle ntle d with Indian copper. went buck to I.iverpooi ami thin sailed for Bio. Just across the line we struck a calm and laid hy for eight of the hottest day- I evi-r experienced. The heat was te .!i . The ropes got so soft we could Hot fa ten tliem. and they ran down to thede. ks ami laid around like snakes. The enpp. r gradually melted from tin sides and rai-j d a e loud of -tri-ani an unit the ship as it dmti|s-d into the si-a. Tin ship sprung a leak, and the men worked at the pumps bare naked, and you could almost see tin- flesh disappear from lio-ir bom*. Finally we got a light' norther' and went into Bi<. with a lot of skele tons. I hav b-i-n when- it isliot. mess mate*. or gentlemen awful hot—but the ail-firodcsl iiotu-st weather I eviT hauled to in was St. Is'uis. i took a contract tliere last summer to pick up sun-stru- k people off the streets. I went bankrupt in three days. Whv. tlcy 'aid aroutid thicker than lb-ad dogs in t hicago dur ing the poisoning boosou, I haw pom flagstones lx-nd double,and whole block* of pavement twisted all out of shop. Tin fin- plug were red hot, and the water in 'em Ixiiling. The sun wa'nt more than a rial away, and looked as real a* a furnace mouth. The air was all in a shimmer, and tin- le at ciuce down witii such fo3 e that you couldn't raise v;ur liand. It was mst as had at niglit. Not a breath of air. and the heat crowded into the buildings and was packed in the streets. You couldn't get a breath. One night I went down e.n the lire* and found * gang of men with s< ow shovels throwing the heat into the river in great •-hunks. 1 dropped off and swam across, and came to Chicago. Poisonous paper rollnr*. It is. doubtless, in the first Instance, as the cause of a local skin disease, tli.at paper collars prepares! with arsenic in senile- form are deleterious; but when once the cuticle ha* been removed the toxic effects may become ge-ne-rai. bo. lause absorption is the-n very likely to take place, and the whole system may be poisoned. We make no Specific alio, gat.on on the subject of tlie-se- collars, but the information which has rca licit us. and is still iieing volunteered, is of a nature to render it indispensable to cau tion the puhlir. N'o one desin-s. and nothing we have said or may say on the subject should Is- he'd to re "fleet on the se-llers of arth les of dress obtained from • the manufacturers, and distributed, without the retail tradesman lxing aware of th.' pernicious properties. Meanwhile it is incumbent on all who manufacture good* for general us- to take iare that nothing calculated to in jure the health of a wearer is contained in them. It is impossible that arsenicm* acid can l> used unwittingly. As a mat ter of fact, we iwlicve white paper is often prepared with this poison; and if it is brought into contact with any ah seirptive surface, evil consequences may ensue. It is ei-rtainly timetlint the pro mt* of manufacture should be placed under official inspection, if, for the sake of cheapness or to give artificial luster to their goods, makers will use danger ous dyes and dressings, regardless of everything but their own coflcmercia) suceeas.—London Isttvit A Ghastly Re lie. Mrs. W. F. Peterson, who reside* at No. 77! Vallejo street, lia* in Irr iwmso*- sion a miniature of Abraham Lincoln, which, together witii its setting..form* one of the most curious relies of the President now in existence. It will be remembered that after the tragedy at Ford's Theater, Washington. Pn ident Lincoln was carried fo a noose on Tenth street, bet wren R and F streets, north west, opposite Uie theater. The house was the residence of William Peterson, Src It tgas an ancient-looking house, built of brick. In a room of this house, noted as the only private residence in which a Cabinet meeting was ever In id, Lincoln breathed Ills last. The bullet of Booth had entered bis victim's bead, and to staunch the wound a towel was wound altouf it. Tlds towel was pre served by the Petersons as s precious relic. And when afterward s portrait of Lincoln, painted by Phlriek. was added to Mr. Peterson's collection, n portion of the towel was employed as a cttlng for the picture. The portrait is an oval miniature, six by eight inches in siae. The towel stained with the blood of IJneoln—is stretched upon a square wooden frame. The portrait is spoken of by those familiar with the President's features as an extremely faithful likeness. In connection with its unique framing the portrait is of more than passing interest and possesses no •light historical value.— San AVancwoo Orunwfe.