Wheat. MAT. man v shades ol tender glcfill Are rippling, shimmering, pulsing with do light, Jn. cool and billowy, like the glimmering sheen • IX some grand river in the morning light, Thrilling with hope, its life is Inir, , Its joy is lull, sll through the lovely Msy I Amply grows anil waves, uor trios to bear The coining hurilen ol the harvest 'lay. JVSIt. ' SUeepcd in hot sunshine, lightly swing "The long bright stall - whose bearded heails hang ilown Reueath their fruitful bunlen, which the spring, Departing, !■ 1 upon them s* it crown. Sweeter anil graver life has grown, The green jul touched to goM hv decp'ning June, Warm, bright with glowing, with its mellow ing tosie Flecked with tlie shadows of. the afternoon. iUir. s serrieil ranks tlie golden shear e* (•leant lainlly in the sunset's lading red, While some reluctant blackbird slowly leaves The fruitful gleaning* for his rjulot bed; And thus, with full iruition blest, The wheat stands rrnped. It bath no uiore to yield. Aral thnnklully, tielorr be seeks bis real. The weary reaper gn/c* o'er his tlcld Cornelia Sri taring THE CHILD SPY. [lis n tup was Stenne, little Stenne. He was a "child of Paris." thin and pale, and was ten, perhaps lift eon years old, for one can ncv.i r say exactly how old those children arc. 1f i mother was dead, and his latin r. an ex-marine, was the guardian of a square in tlie quarter of the femple. The nurse* and babies, the old ladies who always carry their own folding chairs, and the poor mothers, all that small world of i'aris which seeks shelter from vehicles, in those gardens that are surrounded by pavements, knew father Stenne and loved him. They knew that under his rough mustache, which wig* the terror of dog* and dis turbers of benches, was hidden a kitid, tender and almost motherly smile, and that in order to bring it forth they had only to say to tlie good man: " How is your little son?"' For Father So* ne loved hisuit.e son *o inueh! He was so happy in the afternoon when, after hi- school, the little IMJ> would call for him, and together they would make tlie rounds of the paths, stopping at each lunch to spenk to the habitues of tie square and to answer their good wishes. But when the sieg< began everything was sadly changed. Father Stenne'.* square was closed and filled with pe troleum. and the poor man, condemned to an incessant surveillance, passed hi.* life in the d'.si rtcd, upturned paths, quite alone, not permitted to smoke, and only seeing hi* little son late in the evening at his home. You should have seen his mustache when he spoke of the Prussians. Little Stenne. however, did sot complain of this new life. A siege! Nothing is more amusing for suelt urchins. No more school, no more studies! Holiday all the while, and tho-strects as exciting ns a fair. Tlie child ran aiwiut all day till niglit fnll. He followed the battalions ol lh Quarter to the ramparts, choosing those tnat had a good hand. Little Stenne was well posted ob that subject. He would tell you very glibly that the Ninety-sixth band was not worth much, hut the Fifty-fifth had an excellent one. Sometimes lie would watch the mobiles training, and then there were tlie pro cessions. • * * With his basket un- 1 Cer his arm he would join the long fib-* that were formed in the dark cold winter , mornings, when there was no gas, be fore the butchers' and bakers' shops. There, with their f.vt in the wet, the people would make acquaint ances and talk politics, and, as he was Mr. St enne's son, everybody would ask hint Ids opinion. But the most amusing of all were the afternoon game*, especi ally the famous g.imeof gnlo hc, which the Breton mobiles made the fashion during the siege. When little Stenne was not at the ramparts or baki r's ihop you would I*- sun* to find him at tlie sqnnrc of the Chateau d'F.au. He did not play, however j it needed t<H> much money; he was satisfied in watching the players with ail his eyes. One especially, a great fellow in a hue workman's hb>U e. who only p .id with five-fran pieces, excited his ad miration. When he ran one roubl hear the coins jingling under his blouse. One day as h<- was picking up a piece Ilia' had rolled under little Stenne's teet. Ihe great, fellow said to him in a low tone: "That make* you wink, hey? Well, if you wish. I'll tell you where they're to be found." The game over, he took him to a coiner of the souarc and proposed that he should join him in selling newspnpers to (lie Prussians—that lie would make ti.it ty francs for every trip. At first Stenne was very indignant and refused, and what wis more, he remained away from the gnme for three days—three t<T rible day. lie neither ate nor slept any more. At midnight lie would see great hen|>* of gaioche* piled on the foot of his bed and five-franc pieces moving over it, bright and shining. The temptation was too strong for him. The fourth day he returned to the Chateau d'Kau, saw tlie large fellow and was overcome. • • • • * They set out one sunny morning, a linen bag thrown over their shoulders and their newspapers hidden under their blouses. When the* reached the Flan ders gate it was yet hardly dawn. The great tellow took St une by tlie hand and appr incited the sentinel—a good civilian witii a red nose nnd kind air Ue said to liitn, with a plaintive tone: " Let us pas*, my good monsieur. Our t ••liter is 111 nnd papa is dead. We are gelrg to see. my little brother nnd I. if * VTi enn't find some potatoes to pick up in the fi •Id*." fie eried, and Stenne, who was ashamed. lower* d his head. The sen tinel looked at them a moment, and the->, giving a glam-e over the white, dorert'sl road, "<Jo quickly," said lie to litem. moving aside; and then they were i in the road to Auncrville. How the' inrge follow laughed! Confusedly, a* though in a dream, lit tle Stenne saw the manufactories trans armed into barracks,their tall ehimneys, which pierced the fog and seemed to | I roach the sky, fireleas and batteretl. j Now and again they would see aHont i , nol and officers who were looking far oft through their field-glasses, ami their | small tents, wet with snow, which was ! melting before dying fires. The large fellow knew tlm way, and would take I short cuts over the fields in order to es ! cape tlie outposts. But suddenly they | came upon a large body of sharpshooters I too late to escape them. They wore in | their little cabins, hidden in a ditch half I full of water, and encamped along the : Soissons railway. This time, though thc'largo fellow recommenced his tear ful atory, they would not let him pass. As lie was lamenting, an old sergeant, white and wrinkled, and who looked like old Father Stenne, came out of the post guard's cabin. " W ell, little ones, don't cry any more!" said he to tlto children, "we will id you go after your potatoes, fait before you leave, come in and warm yourselves a little. * * * lie looks frozen that small Im>y there!" Alas! It was not with cold that little Stenne trembled; It was from fear, from shaiue. * * * lit the pout-house tlicy found some soldiers gat lu red round a small fire, a real widow's tire, by whose blaze they were thawing their biscuits on the end of their bayonets. They crowded close together so as to make room for the children. They gave them a drop of wine and a little eoft'eu. While they were drinking, an officer came to the door, called the .sergeant, spoke to him in a low voice, and then quickly went away. "Boys?" said the sergeant, as lie came hack radiant, " there will be tohaccoto-night. • • • We have found out the Prussian*' pass word. i think this time we will take hack from them that Bourg< t." Then there followed an explosion of bravo* and laughter. They danced and sang :uid swung their sabers in the air. Profiling by the tumult, tlie children disappeared. Having pas-'*! the breast work nothing remained to be crossed but the plain, at the end of which was a long white wall filled with loop-holes. They directed their step* toward thi*. stopping i v< i v now and then and mak ing believe to look for potatoes. " 1,1 t u* return; don't go any further," Huh Stenne said all the while, but the large one only shrugged bis shoulders and went on. Suddenly tlu-y heard the click of a gun ts'ing aimed at them. " Lie down." said the large bo v. throwing himself on the ground. When he was down he whistled and another whistle answered him ov<r the snow, and they went on, climbing on their hands and knees. In front of the wall, and even with the ground, two yellow mustaches under greasy rap* appeared, and the large Imy leaped into the ditch beside the Prussians. "That is my brother.'" said he, pointing to his com pan ion. He was *o small—little Stenne —that on seeinghim the Prussian* Imgnn to laugh, and one of them was obliged to take him in hi* arms in order to lift hint over the breach. On the other side of the wall w. re large breastworks, fallen Irec* and black hoies in the snow, and in each one of these was the same yellow must-m be and greasy cap, and there was great laughing sis the soldiers saw the children pass hv. In a corner was a gardener's house, cnarmatrd with the trunks of tn*-*, tlm lower part of whieh was full of soldier*, who were playing cards and making soup over a char, bright fire. ll<>w good the rnbtingcs and the bacon smelt, and what a difference to the sharp shooter's bivouac! I'p stair* were the officers, and tlmy heard them playing •>n the piano and opening champagne bottle*. When tlie Parisians on ton d the room a hurrah of joy greeted tliem. They gave up tlmir newspapers, and the officers gave them something to drink and made tlmm talk. They all had a proud, hard look, but the large l*y amused them with his Parisian gayety and his gamin slang. They laughed and repeated hi* word* after him. and seemed to wallow with delight in the Parisian mud lie brought them. Little Stenne, too. would have liked to luive taikeii and to have proved that he was not stupid, but something em barrassed him. Opposite to him, sit ting apart, was a Prussian, older and more serious than the others, who was reading, or rather seeming to rend, for he never took his eve* off little Stenne, and there was in hi* glance iMith tender nis** and reproach, a.* though this man might have had a chiid of little Stenne's age at home, and as if lie to himself: "I would rather die my son doing such a thing," looked.at little Stenne the lx>y felr "is if a hand was clutching at his hear! ami keeping it from beating. To e*eap< the anguish he began to drink, and soon everything turned around him. He heard vaguely, amid loud laugh*, his comrade making ftin of the National (Juards. of their way of going through their drill. h<> imitated an assault of arm* in the Marnis. and a surprise at night on the rampart*. Then tne large Isiy lowered his voire, the oft'n er* ap proach 1 nearer to hirn nnd their face* grew more solemn. The miserable f ( ). low was telling them about that night's premeditated attack, of which the sharp shooter* had spoken. Then little Stenne rose, furious and eompli tcly sobered : " Don't tell that fe!low,l won't have you." But the other only laughix! and con tinued; but before lie had finished the officers were all on their feet, and one of tliciu, showing tlie door to the chil dren, told them to " Begone!" and tliey began to talk hurriedly together in Her man. The large boy left the morn as proud as a doge, efinking his money. Little Stenne followed him, holding down iiis head, and as he was passing the Prussian whose look had so dis turbed him: "Not nice thai, not nice," and tlie tears come into his eyes. Onee more in the plain the ehiidren began to run and return toward Paris qufekly. Their sacks were filled with potatoes whieh the Prussians had given them, and with these they passed tlm sharpshooters' encampment without any trnu ,!e. They were preparing for the nigh; attack. Troops wore arriving silentlVj and woro massed behind the wall. Tl le obi sergeant was there, husilv engaged arranging his nun with such a happy look. When the children passed near liini ho recognized them and smiled kindly at them. Oh ! how badly that smile made little Stenne feel. For a momentum felt as if he should burst out • ryfng and say to tlnm: "Don't go them. • * • We have betrayed you," But thenthm Imy to.d hint tflat ' he spoke a word they would be shot, and *o fear kept him silent At Courneuve tliey entered an alwui doaed house to divide thuii money. Trull, compel* me to *a,v that tlie division wa* honestly made, and, when he heard the tine crown* sounding under hi* blouflc and thought of the future gnme* of galoche, little Btenne thought . hi* crime win not ho ilreaillul after nil. Hut when lu> wn* alone, the unhappy T child —when at the gates of the city tint r Urge hoy left him, tui'ii hit pocket*grow • hi'iivy mill the hum! t hut had I him i' I grasping hid heart licit! it tighter mill, c Pari* hci jiuhl no longer the same to him ; • the passers-by regarded him severely, am y if tlu-y knew from whenco lie came, ami I i lie lienril the woril "spy" in till the it j sounds of the street anil the hutting of f tiie ilmiits along the canal where the e troops were exercising. At last lie li reaelietl hit home, anil, glnil to find that •- iiis father hail not conic in, lie hurried to i, his room and hid the crowns that were , ! weighing so heavily under his pillow. 1 ; Never hail Father Senile heeli so gooii e ' humored and joyous as lie was that night oncoming home. Good news had y been received from the provinces; thi ll : country's affairs were going Is-itcr. e Whilst he was eating, tin* old soldier s looked at liis gun hung on the wall ami t lie said to the hoy, with a hearty liutgli: " Hey! my son, how you would go alter c the Prussians, if you were old enough!" ii Ahout eight o'clock they heard the y sound of a cannon. "It is at Auln-rvil a licrs; they are fighting at iiourget!" said, tin old tiian. who knew where all the s 1 forts were situali-d. Utile Strum- grew y pale, and, feigning great fatigti", went to !• lied, but not to sleep. The cannons Were i thundering continuously. He pictured to himself the sharpshooter* going at r night to surprise the Prussians, and lall , ing into an ambuscade themselves, He i ri'eulled the sergeant wlio had sniih d at n S him, and saw him stretched out there , in the snow ami so many others with ' liiin! • • • The price of all that - blood was hidden thereunder his pillow, • and it Was lie, the son of Mr. Ste.me— of a soldier— liis tears choked him. In f the adjoining room lie heard Ids fat tier I walking to and fro, and then open a window. Down in tiie stris-t the rappel i was MitimlM; a battalion of mobiles Were getting ready to start. Then then [ was no doubt about there being a real i battle going on. Tiie unhappy boy could Hot keep hark his Soils. " What is the matter with you?" ask* .1 his father, entering hi*room. Thoehild i could bar it no longer; lie jumped from hi* lull and threw liiruseif at hi* father's fi't. In so doing the silver I crowns rolled down on tin lloor. " What i-tlti-? Have you (wot -t-ic ing?" asked the old man, beginning to ; tremble. Then, all in one breath, little . Stcniic told him that In- had heen to the Pru**in*. and all that In- had done, ami , as he was speaking, lie felt his heart • grow lighter; it comforted him to make the eon ft-don. His father listened to him with a terrible look on hi face, and when the story was told, he huri'xl i hi* face in hi* Ii inds and wept. "Father, father —!" the child tried to say, hut the old man pushed hint on without replying to him. and pti k'd up the money. " Is that all?'" he asked. Uttie Stciim niadi a -ign that it was; then the old man took down his gun and cartridge*. ■ and putting the money in his pocket, said : "1 am going to return it to them," •-aid lie, and without another word— without even turning hi* head, he went down into the street, and .joint*] tin- mobile- who wen-starting off in the night. He was never ,e< n again' from thr /■'•cifh of AlphotUf fktmU (. A Pigmy I'alnter. In a p-ernt exhibition of old ami oi rloiis painting* in Holland wa a por trait of <HiM-r Cromwell, it was by no means a masterpiece of art. Is ing a somewhat fi-ebie imitation in style of Sir !'• ter I/dy. the court painter of Charles 1. of England. Hut it wa* ap al curiosity in its wav. Its painter wn* Richard tiibson, other wise known, as the "dwarf artist." Gibson was tlircc feet two inches high. He was liorn in IMS. While serving as a page for a lady at Molt lake, sic no ticed his talent tor drawing, and caused him to be instructed bv lie Kcevn. the superintendent of tin- famous Nfortlake laj* -trv works. The little artisi tieeame ■ very skillful a* a copier of Sir Peter Udy's pictures, and attracted the atten tion of tyueen Henrietta Maria. Slie made him tier hut>and's page, and mar ried him t' a dwarf young lndv of ex actly his own height, who wuiw-1 on In r The wedding of the dainty little t-.lir was honored iiy the presence of the ing and queen. and Kdmtind Waller, the poet, i-oinnieinornted it |,y a poem. lost hi- *- epier and hi* pa--' d with hi* queen out Ol Kniftali lines, hi* little protege lived and throve. lb- had painted the king's por j trait, and now was called upon to iimn that of the proti tor. Cromwell re garded hint with particular And kindly favor. On the n v -torntion he again changed coats, and entered the*<-rvj<-rnf Chnrle* 11, !!• was drawing master to the Prince**. - Mnrv and Anne. Hut the wild court of the *.>n of hi* old master did not suit the last.* of the pigmy painter, now grown old. lie ntind to ; private life, and died in IOW. His wife, after giving hirth to nine children, all of whotn attained ordinary . size, died in 1701). at the age ofninety. A l'lltshnrgb Man's I,nek. X. w -paper* nowadays are full of *tor ie* of the marvelous link which has be- , | fallen people who did not look for any thing of tiie kind to happ. n. Every now ( and then we hear ofsotnclxidv having a ; large fortune left to tin m by the death of ; a distant relativt, a cousin In California, or sotnethingof that kind. Not long ago a voting Pittsburgh! r had a singular piece of Juck happen to him. One day the young gentleman in question was walking down Fifth avenue when he saw an old and rather decrepit man slip on a crossing iiinl fail heavily. He aided him Ito regain Ids finding, and helped hitn ; into a neighboring drag store, where the i old man had Ids leg mended with stick ing plaster, as he had knocked some of j the skin off. The old iellow seemed very \ grateful for the courtesy which had been shown l int, and, after asking the name of the young man who had heen of sit- ; vice to hint, lie wrote it down in a mem orandum hook, and said, as he shook hands, "My name is ,1 am front Man , SAchusetts. Suite day, perhaps, you may i hear from inc." Time passed on. and all recollection oftlie occurrence passed front the Pittsbiirglier's ndnd. lie became embarrassed in business, and was rc duend to extreme poverty. One day wlien be felt extremely down-hearted and did not know which way to turn for a livelihood, heeluuicrd topiek up a ltos ton paper, lunl, to In* intense Health mi nt, lie saw tliat tlieold inan whom lie had picked Up on Fifth avenue was dead, and by his will, which was published in the paper, the Pittshiirghcr saw that a tort tine of over $300,000 lntd bran left by the dead man to found a theological sent - I inary. I TIMELY TOPICS. The faience uf IJailUt says: "If farm ers would avoid suddenly cooling the liody after great exertions, if they w ould be careful not to (jo with wet clothing and wet feet, and it they would not over eat when in that exliaustisl condition, anil bathe daily, using much friction, tliey would have little or no rheuma tism." A Zulu land letter says that the Prince imperial died lighting, and must have sold his life dearly. In the rigid hand ! of the corpse wo* found a tuft of hnir, ol native filter, while tin path marked by 1 the Zulu* in quitting the fatal spot was stained for a hundred yard* with gout* of blood, supposed to have dropped Irom wounded men being borne away by tls-ir I comrades. In Itu-sia, a* well a* in Germany, Aus i tria and on* or two minor northern realms, a nobleman'* title i- inherit'd bv all his son*, whn tran-iuit it to their olf -pring, and so on, <ul iufiniiuiit. Nenlv nohh- neeesNnrily alMiund. There are forty nr fifty Count Zlcbys In Hungary, or four of whom are wealthy mag nate*, and the ri-*t pas- their live- in the army or government ofl'n - on tin- -mall ■ •-t pay. In Galii-i.-i there are entire vil lage-where every peasant native has tlie right to pref.iew hi- iiutiic with the title of prince. It 1* a fact nut generally known in San I raneiseo that there i- a < him -e marin< inMUranee company in that city wlih li i* doing a pretty good husine-s in taking risk * mi treasure shlpnient* from Ran Francisco to Hong Kong. The institu tion goes hy the name <>f the On Yai In suranee Company of Hong Kong. Tie com punyri-k- iast year amounted to $1.3/ti,Out, and tie pr> miuni- i<- sl.'l.o(Ki. Tie- li>--. fur tiie year were s3,3'i|. Tiie company'* agem-y in San Franeiseo is in tin- hands of Uii lbng, I.ung V Co. Thi Rgvnt* -/ii' a bona in tie- sum ol $".ooo to *i euri the pay tr.' tit of munici pal taxi - in tiie busim *. '1 he Sunlxfv AttnrUan says that tin milrnwe.t gauge and the chi afa-st rail way as vet brought out is that ol I>. H. Jalil'-s, Vi-alio. t al. Two stout liars of Wisml, -ii laid a- to leave a groove be. twe.-n tln-m, form the track. On this tra< k a whi-i-1 with a bulge in the mid dle of it* periphery that fit* the groove is used, tic wheel having a hroail flange at each side of tie Imige. One of the-, wheels placed at i-.-n-h end of a pinnk form* the ear. It i* alleged that twelve uiiluK an hour can Is- got out of a wooden railway of thi* construction; and tliat its '-nrrj ing capacity i- very great. The co*t i estimnUsl at one thousand dollar* a niih Gne of the pettiest and no am-t sort* of Htenling done iii New York i* that pi rpctrated on little childn n. Tin children are sent out hy their parents to the grin -ry or other pine, - t,, purihasi sonn-article, when the little one i ac i o-ti-1 by generally a youth of almut --v. enlei n. asked w hat he has got in hi* hand, p< rsuaded to show him. ami then lie t.ak'-s the money and frighten* the ■ hild so it run- home in gr- at terror. These miiut theft* are gi-nerally porpe- I trali'd on the eliildren of [*-op)e who • an ill afford to laie miia (• w jH-nni'. The (K-riH-trators are the youth* tliat iiif around tlie corners, having no visible mean* of supjsirt, nvniy to eonimit any petty act of i ritip-, and who insult pass i-rs-ny. • *p"eially girl* and women. For a yrar or two past the newspaper* have tx-i-n printing long list* of the great and universal -vils predicted by astrolo -1 ger* and astronomers to follow acer- j tain extraordinary conjunction of four iiianet* in l*l. Hut now comes the Washington critic with the assertion that it has interviewed l'rofrasor Simon X'-wcoinb on the nuhjri-t. and lie says that there will 1m- no such conjunction— tlmt instead of uiarsliaiing tlienisi'lves in an order unpn i • dented simv the date ; n--igii"d to the i ri-iition of the world in the Mosaic chronology, tip- planets dur ing the year P*M wi.l continue the even tenor of their way. and present no plm nomenon that • rui Im- considered at all remarkable. The Mexican government i* trying to replenish it*exlir.u*tcd treasury by levy ing a heavy internal tax on the cotton and woolen manufacture* of tliat coun try. These manufactures amount to about $900,00,000 n yrar. and the government think* that the manu facturers can afford to pay at j least $300,000 in Internal tin-. in order to protect the home manufactur* r from disastrous fopign eomitetHioii. the tariff on A me. ban and Engli-li goods i proportionately inereaiwd. Tic new tax i*. However, very unpopular, the manu facturers. tradesmen and |*onle being all opposed to it, as they an' ail nlle<'tei| I>y it. and come of the manufacturers threaten to r]o*e tip ir mills nltcgother. | Montana, during tlm post sixteen i yenr*. lias produi ed $133,000,000 of gold and silver. Of this *um. $117,000,000 was in gold. This make* Montana rank next to t'alifomia as a producer of gold, j Thep- an already 80,000 quartz niiin-iMn the Territory. Iron and lead mine* have ; I liecn opi-ned. ano wial is plentiful. It is j claimed tliat the i-ost of keeping herds of . cattle in Montana is only sixty cents a lead, including taxes, a thrii'-year-ohl la-cf steer, which will sell on the ground , for $3O. only cost* $3 for feed anil care The loftsr* in raising are estimated at two per rent., while the profits vary 1 from twenty-live to forty cents per an num. In 1H73 there were hut Hfi.Wltiwt lle in the Territory; in I*7B there were 330,000 head. whileiH.ooo. rallied at $BlO,- j 000. were exported to Eastern markets. The new Khedive. I'rinee Tewkfl. is -aid to )m*c*s all his deposed fat Iter's j • harm ol manner with a good deal more ! of dignltv, both In stature and nppear ! ance. lie is the onlv one of tiie late j K lied ire's hovs who has been brought Uh exclusively in Egypt. Some years ago lie started on a Eiirapean tour, but when lie had got a* far as Vienna he i was recalled by a telegram from liis father. lie speak* French fluently, and inn read English sufficiently well to un derstand all written in tiie papers al>out : Egypt, a subject to which lie devotes | great attention. His children, who are f-till young, have lieen brought up h an j English governiss, and sneak English! easily. PtineeTewflk. unlike his father, ! has been always a sedulous attendant at tlte mosque, and Is lielleved to te a de ! rout, but not an intolerant. Mohamme dan. Unlike Ids father, too, he is nn abstainer from the iKivi ragra forhiddtui hy tiie Koran. A gentleman named Daniel Mi Arthur I writra to the Chicago l\mr* ftom tiie far-off Pacific' slope to say that he is dying of solitude and is anxious to get back to civilization again. Ifi says that lii* knows of thousands in Arizona who are in the Name fix ami add*; •• Arizona a fiords no better i-linnee- {,„ people con templating marriage than to select wives rom among squnw*. half-breeds or (irwni, who form tin* major iiy of tin* nomndie tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. If your overcrowded Eastern cities knew of the chances of marriage decent worm u would have among these ! wealthy miners and farmers of Arizona they would flock here in droves." To whn h the Hultimore <hi:<U< adds : "per haps, in view of ail th. solitude in Ari zona, a majority of theovi rerowded girls in thi* section would prefer single bicsv eihii'ss to lifv among the wealthy miners and farmers. However, we i, u t do our duty to the ladies in laying Mr Me ( Arthur's statement before tic in." An Italian professor has mail, some very agreeable niedii ..1 ri -i-arehes, re sulting ill the disi-ovci v that vegetable perftline- exercise a |s. -itivi-ly lealtliful influence >ii the ntnustpherc, converting its oxygen into ozone, and tliu* inerea*- ing it- oxydizitig influence. The Hi'iiei H found to develop the Inrg -t quan tity of ozone are thosi- of the cherry, lau rel, clover, lavender, mint, jumper, b-iiion, ferm.'l ami liergntiiot; tin.-*-that give it in a -mailer quantity ar'- anise, nutmeg ainl thvim . rit- flnw< r- of the 1 narcissus, hyacinth, mignonette, helio trope and liij of the voile) dart lon osone lin clo-.-l ves-.'l*. Howci* dc-tnut< of perfume do not b*vi'lop it, amt those which have hut slight pi-rfuun ih*velop it only in small quantities. Reasoning from tlion- fa.-is, tin- professor recom ; minded the cultivation of flowers in inar-hy ilistrii-t- and in ail place* infested with animal euianations, on account of the |s>vv.-rfn oxyilizing influetce of ozone. I e ilihahitiilits >.f -lli h region* -holt ,to av*, -urroiiiid tln ir hou-i -' wit,l hi i|s lif the most I-lorotl- flowers. P oj, who do not p :ul the -hipping list- or liavyoi'. asion to < rui-' about tin* harbor, -ay* a New York ■>:>; r, may hi surprised i<i li-arn that of tori ign v< -els arriving at the port of New York. Nor way has more than any country save Gn at Hritain, and Italy follow >-los*-ly after Norway. S. am an-hip i* not a mat ter of climate in Kurop<. Thi 1 fi"nH'w, the Neapolitantuid the Sicilian tak- to the salt water a* readily a- the dweller* by the Norwav fiords. The favorite Italian build for vessels is the stubbv brig, but the Norwegian* prefer the Inn k. nod usually model a inon- gra< cfu) hull. Ib.tli nation* an- sharp eomjs ti ter- for the jobbing trad of navig.aton. Their v. *<•;* are -mall and an- is.m tnsnded by shrewd, tldfty captain* who arequiek to pi< k up a< argoforany qiiar ter of the world if a trifling profit 'an is- earned. The i leap construi-th of these iTafts and the low wages o tin *< nnien i nable ihem ti> <am money for tie ir owner* at rate* of freightage tha*. would Is- unprofitable for our well-built ami well-manned American -bin*. Many of tln-m founder at sea every year owing to tie ir flimsy build, but tie r are ptinty of new on<** to take tle-ir place*. I lie A/I<l Xt'ht .SAiu'a/fi. a .lapaii'--! nevvHpßiMT. tell* a story which ought to b< int'-n-ting to ethnologist*, whoi-laim that some of tie American Indian trils-* an- <|ese*'n<li-l from p<T*on* who were ■■arried t this continent against tle ir wiii by the storm* of the ocean. About forty year* ago Yamanioto Otokiclii. a native of Gnohara-mura, t'hitagorl, in the province of (tw.ari. Japan, who fol lowisl the *ca, Was, while stilling with two companions Is-twecnTokio anii Na goy.a, !-arri-d by a typhoon to the Ameri can coast. They landed on tiie shore*of the I'acifn . nnil were hospitably received by tic Indians. An English -hip subse quently t<s>k Otoklflkl >ack to Japan, but the Japanese law* at that tim<- for tia<!i' any Japanese who had departed from hi* country to return to it under penalty of death. The English vessel, therefore, tisik tludr pa**' ng<r to Shang hai. There Otoklcln married. He sub sequently w nt to Signapore, where he resid'sl until hi* death. He bad one son. who assumed the English name of John AV. Hud-on. but it was the father's carmst wish that lie should go ha. k to Japan, anil b'-'oni<' a Japanese subject. Mr Hudson accordingly tnailo an appli cation to the authorities in Japan for leave to l>e naturalized Tin- petition wo* grantisi. and Mr. Hudson has *in<-e bi<'n ap|Mint<-d t< a goveraim-nt offli-e Emigrant Icelander*. Among t'lii-pa*.*i ng< r* landed at Cas tle Garden. New York, by the eean sti-amer Am-lioria, were fourteen fam ilies of Icelander*. con*i*ting of seventy i\ person*. They are the first large Imteh of Icelander* that ever arrived at N- w York, ami it i* their intention to go to Minnesota, where thev will found a colony, which will Is- furtlu r increased by emigration if the pioneer* should find success in their new home* Tbey had a very pleasant VOJsge. keeping nltogi-t her apart from the otiier passenger*, and the only thing that happened to mar their journey wn* the di-ath ol Kiestcuin llyensen, an out lady of the party, who died at sen just previous to the'ship's arrival. The Icelanders seiqncd very much pleased when they had been landed at Gitsllc Garden and expressed themselves so to the interpreter. They complained, however, of the warm climate, and, slantingly, not without just cause, a* they were wrapped in heavy Arctic clothing, which they seemed very re luctant to relinquish. The imrtv 'con sist* of about thirty middle-agisi , i rsnns with a great iniuiy eliildren. Tliey ali spoke in the Norwegian tongue. The men were short ot stature and seemed to lie intelligent, Tliey were dressed in heavy pea jackets, coarse trousers, thick flannel sldrts and cans with ap piodages for the ear*. The women wore woolen dresses and heavy woolen shawl*, and instead of hats they had a sort of head dres* consisting of around piece of block elotli crating on the top of the head, from which depended a long black tassel attached by a silviT hand, which swayed to and fro in re imonso to the movements of the wearer. The children were also dressixl in heavy clothing and. as well as the women, wore moccasin* instead of shoes. The party bring some money with them, one person havingsl,73s and the otiier* sum*'ranging from shf& to $730. 1 hey seem to tie very simple and confiding poonle. and were perfectly sntisll'd with all that the autlioritios aid for tlietn in • tiie way of exchanging money end pro curing railway passage. The livlander* left Castle Garden for Minnesota, by way of the Pennsylvania railroad.— Sew York Herald. TIIK BATTLE OF (TLUNDf. How thr /.ulna wrrr ntfralril In thrlr Ulrninrtiold, , "t to til- Lon don Idrnrnitli Ui- following account of til- battle of Ulundi. " At all oVlo-k in the morning thp combined columns of N-wdignte and Wood -roHH-d tli- White L'invol<<*i. A* tli- force* gathered on the l-ft hank of ! river in all th-ir strength of artillery, cavalry ami British infantry, the Zulu pr-'li-tion. that the -raille of the nation in tli- valley of th- IJrnvolosi would also ih grave, m-eined —rtainof fulfill- Jss'' What OOUld th-Zu!u IWITM win (.-ith-r-' 1 along th- (pun, with all th-tr courage and instinct for tw ti-n, -fleet in the fa-- of th- army that with unwont-d —l-rity and precision moved down th- alone*, and massed upon the furth-r hank? Koppie l>rift. upon the regular mi-Dion road, wa< th crossing point. "All passed over and r-a- h-d tie high level ground h-y.nel the river. Home two mu-adiatarit rose th- steep bowlder eapped hula, over whi-h, do tie thirty *ears the Zulu* hunted the hralru Boen, aaaoclatod, therefore, in Zulu nnndi with victory and victorious pur suit. Jo th- right lay lower thorn eov-red hill*, whi-h extend to the la goons at tie mouth of tie White I invo lute, It. hind and on th- left stretched broken country, senrn-d with ravin-* and vail. \k. xiirinkl-d with mimosas— -lumping in pla in into awkward-look ing -over- and bran-hing euphorbia*, whi-h give lie- country HO -Hiking a -liarie t<-r < |iw on tin* right lay a gloomy gl-n. whi-h, from the day* of WWII, tie Zulu- have u-.-l for tie < *-• -ution of -riminal*. ,fut l>eyond we -ro--'*l a little Htre.un nearly dry that, wind- among tie- king'* field— h-r- all i- roval d-m'-Hn-—and *u]iplie*tlie royal kraal- with wat-r. W-found our—lv. * in vi-w of tie arunhith-iitf r, where sland thr-- gr—at miutarvkraa ■ Nod w-nga, 1 dahakaomhi amf I'lundi. Our position wm i x-eil-nt for *trat-gi- pur uo-' -, -ointii 'tiding the -c m> ground 111 front, and, -x-ept on th- e ft. wh-re stood th- Kodwnga kraal, a thousand yard* distant, affording the Zulu* no rallying point in th ir disorder. Our rear flank-, from tie nature of th-coun try. w-r> equally pro*.- i<*l from -ur pri-; "11-r-th- army hait-d, awaiting tli itnpi that \\a- <—n -urging down the hi on our (■ ft, taking -kiiifui a>lvan tag- of th- Nodwenga kraal on ourr-ar, and . tie rging from tlie bush on our riglit fremt. At -30 the mounted irr-gular*. under Huller, were thrown out on the rear, l-ft and front, k-eping th- -n-my in < h-> k th- thr— -id—; hut, from an -rror, th-right, wler-it was thought tl- lan-'Ts would have n tod, wa> at first unprovided for. Thi* omission was discovered, and tie mount-d Baau to* and th- native -onting-nt und.r Co< hrane rapidly deployed in th-pr-t tiet manner pos*il>e . and skirmished toward I dakaomhi kraal, returning the -e my'* fir- lri*k)y. and holding them pluekilv in <le ek. Tie Zulus w-n tori strong for su-h a handful, and the Ita sutos, r-tiring on tie right fa—. came into a-tion with what may Ik -aiifd th- - ft horn rif tie Zulu army. " Meanwhile, however, tie enemy had -o . \t-ndi d tle ir formation that all . four rides w. r- soon ottpd—theZaini advancing in skiimishing order, with great steadiness I eel une xp< t—i idlence. There was no shouting, clashing of shields, nr.r arage demonstration, hut strictly ordrly discipline. Our fir< was terrific, and tie- artillery practice -x-ei l-nt, hut the determined Zulus advanced within seventy y.trdson all tour sides be forc th-y le-gun to hr-ak. as a furth-r advance was really impossible. In ah 'Ut half an hour BUS-UN -onine W -• nmntof th- infantry fir- th-y were mn falling back in -los- masses, becoming rapidly disorganized under the storm of bullet* and shells which poured upon tli-ro, and tlic wavering mob broke into open flight. "The lancers, now lonspnrd, were among them, and within a minut* ww-re riding through and through, cutting them down right hd l-ft, while th-gun* continued t-aring up th- flying ma***-* with their fin-. Within an hour the whole affair was over. " The Zulus certainly w-r- from twelve thousand to thirteen thousand strong, in-luding the flower of the army. S-vcn thousand warrior* were engaged. Prisoners state that they went into action under CVtywavo's own eye. Our troop*. young • d old alike, b-hared ad mirably; hut the firing, considering the small loss of the Zulus—eight hundred in all—must hnv-lv—n rather wild. <ur loss was ten killed." The King of Solo's Band. At last ims ounts a Javanese prim-e, the King of Solo, wnsexnes-ted in Paris. Hois sook-n of as wealthy and accom plisliM. having an annual income of fn.MIO.OOO and speaking several lnn guag-s. King Solo is ac-ompani-d by a full hand, which is thus described b? (Jaiignan*: The musicians are seated, afl-r the Oriental fashion, upon a plat form. attired in the gala of Javanese costume. The jacket is ol blue cloth, with gilt buttons, the waistcoat white, while a dark-colored liandkerchief winds round the head, and the leg* and thighs are enveloped in the national "sarong." The instruments are of ham lax., with llie exception of an immense copper gong, whieli serves as a big drum, a couple of two-stringed ivory violins, and a harp strung With copper or ire, a sort of piano whose keys are struck with hammers in stead of fingers, and a few wind instru ments. At a givn signal all set upa groaning, crying, or humming, as well without false notes as without melody, while time is kept by the contortions of the dancers, the celebrated Roggenys, copper-colored and almond eyed, with their jet-black liair bound in "knots be hind the head, which i* itself adorned with flower*. Below Par." "That reminds me of a llulc anec dole." is what every bright man has h-ard over and over again, as his memory has been jogged by some one'* telling a i ood story. When good stories and ready repartees ate going on.'one • itty little thing is sure to suggest an other. Thus w-thought, a day or two since, when reading in an evening paper that t'harles Summrwaa no musician, and that a lady friend onee told liirn that if he was to huv a music box set to "Old Hundred." she did not believe that he could make it play "more than seventy-five." It was doubtless some thing in the same vein that prompted old Mr*. Rothschild, when ninety-seven, to say to her physician, ** Doctor, you must keep me up for three year* more at least; It would he discreditable for a Rothschild to go off under tar."—War per's Mugnrin*.
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