CATCHING LADY NHUUULKRN.
How the Rnalnrw la Maunr<| on the Can
adian lliirdrr A Imily Hrtrrtl v*s lix
laerlrlire with Ihe IVr ikrr Nex—Women
the llolileat and Moat Itanriiloua Siiinu-
Klera-Mome of tho llrvlrra llioy Itraort
to.
Going to and fro on the regular ferry
boats anil observing the ladies who
crowd the unper decks, one is astonished
at the clumsiness ot feminine fashions—
the prevalence of ultra huge hoops, the
ungraceful drapery of shawls and the
bulkinesa of the tournure in contradis
tinction to the sheath-tike slimness oi
apparel which has so long been the pre
vailing style. It is noticeable, too, that
these very respectable ladies are of all
ages, single and married, some very
handsome, others quite ordinary in ap
pearance. They scent to shun observ
ance, and sit in remote corners. They
have, too. a Hushed, disheveled look, as
if they might be refugees from the fever
district. Sometimes they are shadowed
by a plain respectable looking woman,
past tlie boundary of youth, who seems
to take a deep interest in them. Each
rest less matron or maiden passes under
her surveillance, though unaware of the
fact, until the landing is reached, ami a
sudden tap upon the shoulder is followed
by a low-spoken "Come with me," as in
exorable a command as theedictof fate.
Who are the much be-olothed victims?
They are one and all smugglers; excel
lent people, belonging to the best Cana
dian or American families, but as intent
on defrauding the government out of its
tariff as if the object were the most rncr
torious in the world. Women are na
tural smugglers. They enjoy the perils
as well as the profits of outwitting n
government detective. There isa smack
of outlawry about the business that is
delightfully romantic, and not the least
bit wicked—so the dear creatures argue.
The woman who confronts them with the
fact that they have smuggled goods aliout
them is a government detective,several
of whom are employed to watch the
ladies and compel them "to render unto
Ca>sar that which is Cmsar's." A repre
sentative of the Free Press had a recent
opportunity of a momentsVliat with Miss
liar iet Thompson, the new employee
of the Canadian government, who is
only interested in goods passing from
Detroit to Windsor.
" Have you been long in this business.
Miss Thompson?" was asked hy way of
prelude
"About two months only; it was en
tirely new to me. but I think I under
stand it thoroughly now."
" About bow many do you average on
your daily trips?"
"I do not make daily trips—some
times I am at Chatham or at Sarina, and
I have an office where ladies are
searched. It is my business to assist
them to disrobe—gently, iftlu-y will, but
forcibly if they resist. It is not a
F feasant business, I can assure you, but
have my duty to perform. Some of
the ladies are very nice. Tho younger
ones will cry and wring their hands, and
sometimes faint; they hate to give up
the goods and are so ashamed at being
caught."
"Where you find smuggled goods, do
you keep them ?"
"No, we compel the smugglers, if we
can, to tell what they paid for them.
They can then keep the goods by paying
us what they originally cost. We ap
praise them ourselves if they give false
prices. Sometimes the Detroit firms
make out bills of lower value, or furnish
the parties with bill heads, which they |
611 up to suit themselves. These we es
timate at our own tlgures and release the
parties on payment."
"What class of goods do the smug- j
glers give the largest preference to?"
" White and gray cottons, heavy '
colored drillings, fancy knitted goods
and that class. The duty on such is j
about twenty-five per cent. The goods
arc bulky and hard to hrndle; that is
why they are so i-asily detected. The I
Indies pin whole pieces of cotton about
them, sometimes folded in their shawls
or disposed about their skirts, and it
makes their movements very nwkward.
I brought one young lady in here the
other dny who won l a very large bustle,
composed entirely of American laces.
She cried and pleaded, hut had to pay us
Ike value of the whole lot."
"IJow is it about the Canada side—
do the Detroit ladies smuggled from
here?"
"(III! I have nothingtndo with that;
it is for your government to attend to
that. But our goods are principally
.laces, kid gloves, riblmns and small arti
cles that are easily secreted. A lady
can wear a pair of kid gloves, and carry
a new umbrella in her hand, and swathe |
herself in laces, and no cne will be the ]
wiser. Tim French women are said to
be expert in carrying plaited straw
across without detection. I could tell
you some funny stories of shrinkage in
dry goods of ladies who rome in liere
plump and who went away very much
attenuated. One stout lwfy inventoried
one piece of white cotton, four pairs of
embroidere hose, several yards of black
cashmere, one dozen pocket handker
chiefs and a pair of children's shoes, be
sides linings, buttons and trimmings.
She was nearly dead with tli wecight of
the things, but when we took her intotl.e ]
office she gave us a sight of trouble. I
was obliged to take the things almost
by main force, until she saw there was
no help for it, and it cost her pretty
severely in the end.
" Will they not recognize you as being
in the employ of the government if you
frequent the boats?"
" No: they never see me watching
them; besides, there is nothing about
me to attracts attention. I nm not in
nuiform, nor do I ever seem to lie watch
ing them.
" How it is aliout the male passengers?
Do they never smuggle?"
"Yes; hut the custom-house officials
can lie much more peremptory with
thetn. They are not In my line; it is
only the ladies I am commissioned to
watch."
" Is the situation lucrative?"
"It pays very well. I have a regu
lar salary and a commission on all
revenue derived from my work. It is
an ungracious business, but perfectly re
spec table. If I a<lics are surprised to see
a woman fill iiuii aa office, it surprises
me as much to find tliem engaged in
smuggling and breaking the laws of the
country.—Detroit Free Press.
AI.THOI/OTI Henry Lnmlay, of HtraC
ford, Ct., was 70 years old, he not only
fell iu love with a woman of 30, hut was
hopeful that she wonhl marry him. She
was cold and persistent. Finally she
forbade him to call on her,and then he,
after bequeathing all hia property to an
Episcopal Church,committed suicide.
"WOULD you like to be fynched?"
eakoil an exasperated Missouri farmer
of a horse-thief. "No, 111 be hanged if
I dot" wee the reply.
Use and Abuse of Athletic Exercises.
On thedavaftor the wnlking match in
New York for the Astloy championship
belt, the Kcv. Dr. Kggleston, pastor of
tho Church of Christian Kndouvor, in
Brooklyn, prooehed to a largo rongr'ga
tion upon the "Use and Abuse of Athletic
Exercises." Dr. Kggieston took for his
r 4 ix.24. Hi* Hpok<> aa
follows: Ido not intend to make a spir
itual application of these words iu the
liberty which I nllow to myself in this
pulpit to preach what relates to the eon
duet of life, ranging froni the conven
tional standard which excludes inary
tonics from the pulpit. I will to-night
follow in the direction of your thoughts,
and speak on the use and abuse of ath
.otio exercises. A man is at a discount
if lie has not the right sort of body.
There can be no healthful or wholesome
action of the mind or the moral percep
tion lithe physique is enervated. There
have been great men with weak bodies,
but no man is at his best without physi
cal strength. A man like John Ran
dolph, Irritable and excitable, is bril
liant for a "short head," to borrow a
sporting phrase, but he cannot last.
'1 lie rule in. to weaken the body is to re
duce the mind, and nrcn great with fee
ble bodies would be twice as great with
strong ones. A Keats burns out; pro
ducing at twenty works which should
have been deferred until he was thirty
or forty. There must he an equation of
mind and body and a proper balance
kept. There cannot bo any happiness
without health.
But we go to work in many ways to
systematically break down health. Send
ing children early to school is one of the
most effective of these methods. "Child
hood abhors quiet as nature does a vac
uum," says one, but children arc put in
school and kept quiet; it puts an extin
guisher upon tic in and lays the founda
tion for future misery. The crying
shame of our times is the weight and
restraint we put upon children. Busi
ness nien here have no rest; they go like
heads UIIOII poles, bent forward. As a
foreign lady said, men run in New York.
We do not walk enough; the street ear
is an enemy to health. Muscle is not
to he cultivated at the expense of brain.
Cairy physical culture too far and the
brain is drawn upon. Men like Ir.
Winship, all muscle, frequently die sud
denly. There is too much muscle in
our colleges now. The boating men
cannot learn anything else, as I see.
Their snorts show the character of
people. In their Olympic games we se
the su|ieriority of the Greeks over the
Romans. The latter, in their gladia
torial contests, showed the in fernaldepth
of barbarism in which they were sunk.
The Greeks had no tremendous test of
endurance for six days; no gate money
or bookniaking. They offered no prize of
money value alter the first few contests,
but gave the victor in afoot race a sim
ple wreath of myrtle. How different
from the knightly tournaments of the
middle ages or the bull baiting and cock
fighting of our forefathers! But bru
tality is not alisen! from our sports. We
are not content, as the Greeks, to have
contests in running or wrestling only,
hut must see men prove their endurance
by walking. I have had that universal
human interest in walking matches to
know how the score stands. I seethe
good in pluck and tremendous endurance
and cannot help admiring it. The ever
lasting hold on which keeps men up to
their work is to be admired whorevci
seen. But when their railing out f all
tin* forces of human nature is allied with
gnmbling and betting [we see how bru
talizing it is. Such a scene as that in
front of the Hcr<ud office of four hun
dred or five hundred persons watching
the bulletin, and when it stated that
"Haznel is going groggy and complain
ing severely of his knee*," putting their
hands deep in their pockets Ixi ause it
affects them there, is not a noble one.
It is not a sport worthy of the patronage
of the noblemen of England or the gen
tlemen of America. It is not noble to
measure men by their legs. Tenacity of
purpose belongs to brutes as well as
men; bulldogs have the bang on which
does not give tip. When nun rejoiee If
Rowell is sick, or cast brickbats at an
other contestant, it shows how degrsd- 1
ing such a content can become. 1 will
say nothing about tin; waste ot money
and time by the spectators. If New
York wishes to pay $70,000 in a week
for the spectacle I suppose it will; 1 i
would not suppress it by law. But it,
is wnrih while to notice how?the police
forre wink at crime and how betting
and gambling are tarried on in their
presence, for aught I know they taking
part, if the truth were known. This tre
mendous excitement effects each one of
us. It issnvngery coming to the surface.
I am no Puritan, but F desire to stand
against anything which dehumanizes
and degrades, and the lessons of the past
week may, I hope, IM corrective* to us
all
Marrying Chinaman.
_ Tlie alisenee ol Chinese women in the
East lias compelled the male* to inter
marry witli the white*. There are in
New York at the present time nearly 300
Cliiniwnen who have white wive*. They
are mainly Spanish and Irish women,
the Mongolians preferring the latter on
account o - their skill In domestic labor.
Few of them allow their wives to work.
This is due to a spiritof gallantry which
is visible even in the West. The inter
marriage ol race* commenced about six
years ago. Consequently a young
China-Celtic generation is springing up.
the oldest of whom is aliout five years
of age. As these ehildien are iM i-oming
very numerous, they may become an
important factor in strengthening the
kindly relation* lietwecn our citizene
aud Chinese emigrant*. In a year or
two some of them wilt be old enough to
cuter school. Notonly have the Chines*
married Spanish and Irish women, but
at No. 15 Mott street there lives a China
man who married n colored woman.
The pair have three flne-iooking chil
dren.— New York Herald.
The " Devil's Horse."
The mantis (meaning prophet) is de
fined by Webster as a Lin tie" an genus of
voracious insects, remarkable for their
slendor, grotesque form* One specif*
lias a pair of legs in front resembling a
per'on's hands wl.ru lolded in prayer,
and is often called the praying mantis.
It is better known, however, by toe
profane appellation of "devil's horse."
About a year ago Mr. N. N. John—who
pr -fesee* to be not much on physics, hut
some on entomology and liortleulfure—
rut the head off one, the trunk ot which
lived lorty hours afterward. He now
reporta that lie cut the head off another
last Snt.day at 10.40 o'clock A. M , which
was alive at 4 o'e ock P. W. on Tuesday,
fifty-two hours lat-r. Facts which
seem to argue that there are important
net ve centers In the trunk of the insect
as well as in the head.
TIMELY TOPIL'H.
The Indies of the Bible ami fruit mis
sion in New York city have cret tcd and
paid for a substantial ami attractive
three stroy briek building opposite the
Bellevuc hospital, to furnish refresh
ments for the hare- cost of material anil
eooking, to draw away as many as pos
sible Irom the drinking saloons. I'lie
first story is* a restaurant, tne second
a lccturo-room, rcading-ioom and par
lor; the third is for lodging-tooms.
There is field enough for several estab
lishments of this kind in New York.
The London TYme.* prints some statis
tics relating to the population of the
United States, which "exhibit a picture
of progress that cannot fail to gladden
the patriotic hearts of sanguine citizens
of the Nortli American republic." "The
citizens of tlie United States," it odds,
"will doubtless have ample reason to
congratulate each other as the ligure-s of
each succeeding census are made public.
They are certain to become as numerous
as the most exacting among them
desire. We witness their ptogress with
satisfaction. As they widen the circle
of their nationality they at tlie same time
enlarge the bounds of our common race
and of our mother tongue." The popu
lation in the United Htnle* in 1870 was
38,555,983. Seventy years before it was
about 5.308,000.
The fire-desolated city of Readwood,
in the Block Hills, wassituntcd in a gulch
with a few house* scattered on tlie sides
of tlie hills, and when once on tire a
draft was created which was lrre*isti
blo. It was the largest and richest town
in Dakota Territory, ami it will be
promptly rebuilt and in a niueli more
substantial manner than before. It was
built so hurriedly and eh aply that the
wonder is that it was not sooner destroy
ed by fire. The character and enterprise
of the sufferers by the Dead wood fire are
illustrated by the fact that for days since
the fire the tcl< graph wires from there
were so burdened with orders for goods
that it was almost impossible to get any
news through. The telegraph operator
established himself temporarily on a
bluff a mile anil a half from the town
with a barrel In ad for n desk and bad no
reason to complain of dull business.
A photographer at Scarltorough, Eng
land, who died lately, was famous in the
business fur the shrewd way in which
he induced persons to order portrait* in
oil, when they had intended only to sit
for card photograph*. Selecting the
niiwt pleasing of two or three negatives
which bad been taken, it was handed
into a distant department fitted up for
rapidly producing transparencies. A
transparency obtained, it was placed in
a magic lantern kept ready, and a life
sized image was thrown on tlie screen.
The photographer had. in the meantime,
invited tlie setter into a gallery of Ble
ster portrait* well painu-d in oil and
handsomely franu-d. These, of course,
elirit-d admiration, anil eventually In
led his visitor into the room where a
fine portrait of himself was presented
life-size on the screen. The effect, n.
all photographer* know, is very striking
and fully mlmils ola little eloquent talk
on it* fitness for pninting.
Since 1871 there has been a consider
able development of the paper manufac
ture by machinery in Japan. The first
pnj*T mill was built in that year at
Mite, Ycddo, by Mr. Doyle, an Ameri
can. who carried it on with two Ameri
can managers and 150 Jajmnese workmen.
Great opposition was thrown in the way
of this undertaking by the governor.
Oyclaku. and the under finance minis
ter. Mutzn. who afterward fell from their
high estate and were stripped of their
dignities. This paper mill i* now gov
ernment property. The second is also
at Ycddo and lxdongs to Assano, Count
of Gcischu. and was envbd bv an Eng
lishman nano d Rodger*. A third i* at
Osaka, and a fourth Kioto, built and
carried on by German*. The fifth j* an
American undertaking at Oji, and the j
sixth was establishes! by an English
company in Kobe for the working up of
rag* to half-stuff, but it did not *uc< xl
and wa* sold to Me**r. Walsh, Hall A
Co. It Is now carried on as a paper mill.
NealDow examined the English postal
service when recently in England, and
Ills opinion is that it could not easily lx
improved. On the great mail routes the
railroad trains are run very rapidly, and
they take inland throw out the "letter
bags without stopping as they fly along
at tlie rate of fifty mile* an hour. They
pause only at tlie principal town* upon
their way. AnywluTc within three
kingdom* a letter of one < un'e weight
grxw for a penny, "-ed the teimi are very
cheap for other mailable matter. Tins
penny rate includes the entire cost of
service in the transportation and deliv
ery, not only in the large towns, a* in
tills country, hut also in all the smaller
town* and villages aad rural districts.
There is no cottage so remote or retired
that the letter-earner dow not reach it.
The perfection of thi* system of actual
dellv*ry.|H possible, is thus illustrated
hy Mr. Dow: "I have received among
the Highland* of Hcotland a letter ad
dressed to me at Liverpool, It was
marked at the office • Not here Try
Manchester.' There nffnin it wax re
marked 'Try Kdinburg.' And there it
wa* ninrked 'Try Stirling.' where it
reached me."
Awful iind Appalling Alliteration.
We wont to welter in the blood of the
blamed blatherskites who perennially
persist in aiming at "apt alliterations
artful aid " in all articles appearing in
their particular papers. Wc want to
welcome all well-wisher* of our common
rountry, of our corrupted common
wealth and our Ixdovcd Boston to ouf
aid in seizing upon this sign of sensa
tionalism and dreadfully drubbing the
driveling, dreary and drooling draff, and
driving U from the columns of contem
porary collocation* of composition. How
dircfully and distressingly disgusting to
the lover of light'or lofty literature to be
pertinaciously and perpetually pestered
with some such sentence as " Dear
Daniel Drew Dead," or "The Boston
Batter* Beaten Beautifully," or "The
Fire Fiend Furious," or " Murky Mur
der Mangles the Mortal Manes of More
Massacred Men." There is a kind of
meaningless, musical madness about
this literary lunacy that decidedly de
ceives its devoh-es. They think tlie'y are
doing doughty dewis with their queasy,
querulous and quixotic quills, whereas
they but mechanically manipulate
meaningless maundering*. mArrytng
meretricious mouthing* and mournful
muttering* with mendacious and medi
ocre matter. Out on the nulrt and out
rageous outpourings ol these outcasts,
these outlaws <>ut tlieni out if you
can. outdo them if you can't.—/foium
Trantcripl.
FLOODING TIIE HA IIA HA.
Important*, of U> Itraulti to IJo ObtalnrS.
tKrofu llarjxr'a Vwkly.J
Two plaiiM have been net Iwfore the
public with regard to tho great project
of flooding the immense basin of Ha
hara, known an El Juf, which is now
generally conceded te be the bed of it
former inland sen. One of these plans
is so fur in actual operation that pre
liminary surveys are now in progress
under tne direction of M. Ferdinand de
Leaseps, to test the feasibility of cutting
a canal from Cabea, on the coast of
Tunis, to let the waters of tho Mediter
ranean into tho great central depres
sion. Reports from these parties are
very favorable. They find the soil free
from serious obstacles to engineering
work, generally sand, to a great depth,
resting on a calcareous foundation. 'I hey
entertain no doubt that the work can he
more cosily accomplished than the ex
cavation of the Hues canal.
The other plan is that of reopening
the ancient outlet of the inland sea to
the Atlantic, at a place called lioe.a
Grande, or Great Mouth, and thus till
ing with water the vast depression of
El Juf, which lies far below the level of
tho ocean. This busin, irregular in
shape, extends frotn within twelve iniles
of the sea-coast to as far south as tho
region of Azawod and Walata, to the
north of T imbue too. Tho greatest
length of this depression is given at
about 800 miles, and tho greatest
breadth at about 120 miles, altogether
covering an area of about 00,000 square
miles. The breadth of El Juf is much
greater in tho south, but toward the
northwest it seems gradually to get nar
rower, terminating in the great channel
which in former years connoted it with
the Atlantic ocean. There cannot be
any doubt but that El Juf at one time
formed part of the Atlantic ocean, and
that the connection existed within his
toric timeH seems char enough. Upon
the cause which led to the drying tip of
the El Juf sea the classic writers ore
not very clear. It is recorded by Di
odorus Hindus that, according to an
cient tradition, a lake called Hesjx ndes,
in the portion of the Sahara now oecu
pied by El Juf, was suddenly dried up.
Arab traditions point out that several
depressions in the Hahara were covered
with water in A. D. 081, but, since the
year 1200, the water gradually disap
peared. *
The imixirtanee of the advantages to
le gained by the accomplishment of
this vast enterprise can hardly lx> over
estimated. Hondan has a population of
aliont .'lß,<.Kk),(too <.f the most intelligent
and energetie of all the African races.
They have successfully been brought
nnder the influence of Carthagonian,
Roman, Egyptian, and Mohammedan
civilization. They have formed them
selves into imlejiendent states, and pos
sess numerous walled towns of com
mercial imjiortanoc. They have estab
lished laws and education, ami stamped
out many of the worst forms of pagan
superstition. They cultivate the soil,
ami carry on several branches of manu
facture with remarkable success. The
people of Koudau receive their supply
ol European merchandise across the
Hahara from the porta of Morocco, Al
geria, Tunis, and Trijxili a system of
communication with the outer world
which baa existed for thousands of
years. Caravans proceeding by any of
these routes con only make one journey
a rear, traversing about 2,000 miles of
mountainous and difficult country be
fore the nearest market of Sotiihin is
reached. These paths, formerly used
by the merchants of antiouity, now
serve the Arab caravans. Notwithstand
ing all these difficulties, the annual val
ue of the trade between tho northern
ports and Houdan amounts to about I
M.OtSI.OdO. An easier mode of transit
would evidently lead to a large develop
ment of this trade.
Tho distance trom Cape Juby to
Timbnrtoo, on the Upper Niger, is
alxnit twKI nnles of level couutry, thus
being 1,200 miles shorter than the pres
ent routes. On the line proposed by
Mr. Mackenzie there are no less than
forty-two stations, with plenty of water.
Ho thinks that caravans could make
three journeys a year by it with greatoai
ease than oae by the present roads*" 1
Therefore, without any outlay whatever
for roads, an annual trade of id 2,000,000
would soon he established. To attain
this object all that is necessary is to
form s commercial station at Fort Hi j
Bartholomew, Capo Jnby, where the
climate is equal to that of Madeira and
Canary, obtain the protection of the
Ilerlcr chiefs of the Western Hahara
(under whose protection the present
trade is carried on), and place agenta in '
the princi|l towns on the road to Tim
hnrtoo. The road to Central Africa
would then lie procticallv opened to
commerce through a healthy country,
and frojp a point within nine days' sail
of Euiopean shores.
With the Hahara flooded, direct navi-
{ ;tion with Europe would be eatab
ished. And thus will also !e opened a
morn extensive market for American
goods. We have heard of the desert
lieing made "to blossom as a rose;" it is
eertainlv a fascinating idea that s vast
and arid waste is to lie coveml by a
portion of the waters of the mighty
Atlsntio. And if this opening up of
the interior of Africa to civilization
and commerce is to atxitish the African
slave trade, with all its attendant hor
rors, then do we most eormstly wish it
a hearty Godspeed.
Lurk and Labor.
ff tne Ixty who exclaims, "Jut my
Inokr was truthful, he would say.
"Just my laziness I** or "Just my inst
tentiou 1 Mr. Colxlen wrote proverb*
aliout " Luck and 1 <abor." It would lie
well for Itoys to memorize them:
Luck is* wailing for something to
turn up.
Labor, witli keen eyee and strong will,
will turn up something.
Luck lies in lied and wishes the |<ost
msn would bring lihn news of a legacy.
Labor turns out 8 o'clock, and with
busy pen or ringing hammer lays the
foundation of a cotnpeteuce.
Luck whines.
Labor whistles.
Luck relics on chaneee.
Lnlx>r on character.
Luck slipa down to indigence
Labor strides upward to independ
e.— Watchman.
Perishing on the Plain*.
The dangers incident to travel aero**'
the track less alkali plains of the West, 1
unless the traveler is familiar with the
route and well prepared for a journey,
j an- well understood, yet people are found
| who undertake the hazardous ex peri
. ment, and many leave their bonea to
| whiten on the sands of the desert as a i
; eon-oquenec of their raslines*. As Deo
MAlcolm, who arrived in town on \
Thursday from his home in Tulare
county, was crossing the Han Joaquin if)
' plains, he found D. man lying in the f
| sand nearly dead from thirst He was
i unable to stand or articulate, his tongue |
. was so swollen as to protrude from bis
j mouth several inches: his eyes were j
wild and glassy, and Ids mind wander
ing. Deo moistened the man's lips and
poured water on his face, but failed to
! restore Idm to consciousness. Jf<- then
S placed him in his wagon, administering
! the water from time to time until he
rear-bed an alkali pool some eighteen 1
miles distant. The watr-r being unfit to
drink, Deo Ux<k out bis man and gave
liimh thorough soaking, which seemed
to revive hiin a little. He then pro
ceeded with him nlxiut eight miles to
Shaw's, on the I'onoelie, where there is
an abundance of fresh water. Here, ,
j afbT a time of careful nursing, tlie man
recovered sufficiently to lx- able to talk j
anil, walk, though still very weak and !
debilitated. He infoimed Mr. Malcolm
that h<- had spent a few days in Hollistcr '
and had started for White's Ferry to
Ion), for a job of sheep-shearing. He
, had ."i small canteen of water, which In- '
consumed the first half day out, and up
to the time when found had not tasted
water for forty-eight hours. It was by
the merest accident that the man was
discovered, as Malcolm was traveling an
almost unus-d track. 'lhe spot where
lie lay was not far from where the re- '
mains of poor old man .Tost were found
a f.-w years ago—another victim toi
thirst and exposure.—7/oWuf<r \Cal.)
FAU< rprise.
The Hun's Power.
Is atj interesting and eloquent paper
on " I he Sun a Source ef Power," I'ro
fi *sor I-aiigii-y lakes the following
method of giving some idea of the work
pi rformcd by the sun's heat on our
earth, which receive* only a small frac
tion of the i-normou* quantity te nt out
yearly from the center of our system.
He shows, by a simple calculation, that
Manhattan Island receives 1,393.920,000
cubic feet, or 3x.7hl.6rKi tons, of rain in
a year. " The amount of this." lie says.
" may he better appreciated by coin- |
parison. Thus, the pyramid of Cheops
contains less than 109.000,000 cubic feet,
and weighs hss than 7.000.000 tons; and
this water, thej, in the form of ice.
would maiiv times r- place the large-t
pyramid of Egypt. If we had to cart it
away it would require 3,231.60(1 ear*
carrying twelve tons each to remove it;
and these, at an average length of thirty
feet to the car. Would make six train*.
ea<-h reaching in one continuous line of
car* across the continent, so that the >
leading locomotive of each train would
be at Han Francisco before the rear had
left New York." A day's rainfall of
one-tenth of an inch spread over the
United States represents ten thou
sand millions of tons, and would take,
lie state*, more than all the puiniiing
cngine* which supply Philadelphia
( hit ago and other large cities, depend- 1
ing more or less on steam for portable
wnter. working day and night for a cen
tury. to put it back to tlie height to
which it was raised by the sun before it
fell. It has been found liy careful ex- i
periment that the effect of the heat of a
vertical sun in the month of March,
acting on a square foot of the earth's
surface, after having lost a portion of its
energy through absorption by our at
mosphere. i* equivalent to 0.131 horse,
power; and other problems with equally
startling results can lx- readily flamed
from this and other accessible data.
i,
The Moment of Fear.
lost four aides-de-camp <
during the short lime he was in Egvnt.
tine of them, ("rolsier, appearing to Sa
no loon to lack the proper degree of
Isdilnes* a! the proper moment, lie hurst
out ngairt him in one of his violent
and humiliating attack* of abuse and
contempt The word coward escaped
him; Crolier determined not to survive
it; he sought death on several occasions,
but did not succeed until the siege of
JBPF. lie was in attendance on Napo-<
tßsin tlie trenches there, when such a
' Wliarp lookout wa* kept by the garrison
that if an elbow or feather showed ilselj
hlkjvc or beside tbem it was immedi- '
ntely grazed by a bullet. Troisier !
watched his opportunity and jumped
ujKin the platform. "Come rtnwn, I
; command you!" cried Napoleon, in a
voire of thunder; but it was too late;
lite victim of lib severity fell at bis feet.
Murat. the chivalrous braver of all dan- j
ger. bad also his monfent of fear, which
lost him the countenance of his general
I until displeasure could no longer resist j
tlie brilliancy of his achievement*. It I
was at the siege of Mantua, in the first
Italian campaign, that Murat was
ordered to charge a body of troop* that ; I
were making a sortie from the garrison.
He hesitated, and in his confusion de
| dared himself wounded. He was re
moved from the presence of the general '
and in every way discountenanced. Ir.
Egypt he was sent out on the most dis
tant and dangerous services; in short,
he more than reconquered his character
•-before tlie battle of Ab>ukir, on which
occasion Napoleon himself was obliged
to declare he was superb, The brave
i Marshal 1 anno one day severely re
l primonded a colonel who hid punished
I a young officer lor a moment of fear,
j "That mar," said he, ' is worse than
> n poltnwm who pretend* l.e never know*
j ear."— Chamber*' JonrmJ.
What a Single Dean Can Pmdnrr.
The history ola single bean, acci
dentally planted in a garden at Soulli
brhlgv, Mas* . is traced by a newspaper
correspondent, who figured out its pro
duce for three years. The bean was
planted in a rich, loamy soil) and when
gathered In the autumn its yield, a*
eounled. " was 1,516 perfectly developed
beans from a single stalk. Now. if a
single bean produces 1.515 bean*, and
each lean produces 1,515 more, the sum
total of the second yaar's product would
he 2.895.885. equal to 1.195 pounds. 597
quarts, or 8.390 army rations, equal to
eighteen and five-eighths bushel*. Thi*
would bathe product of the second year.
Now. If we plant this product ami the
yhld I* the same, we have a product of
5.908.058,800,685 beans, equal to 1,371.-
BMO tona, or 49,871,57)1 bushels, or 548,-
750.008 soldiers' rations. This third
planting would give the steamship
Great En*tcrn ninety-two ftill freights."
Few beans, however, start so well as
this one did.
A Rhyme of the Time.
Mi* TVlln* Kudorn Von Blorky
She 'liiln't know ehi-ken Irom Virki-y;
"Ik'l Ipwltli a/id t.muk she omul fluently
•pask,
Hut her knnwlndga of poultry WM murky.
She could tell tlic great uncle of MOMS,
An<l the dates ,4 tiie r* of the H/ws,
An-1 the routon of things—why the I relume
wore rirq*
fl n their rod, „ m>i ;gi u*l oo*<w 1
Why Hliakespoaro wa* wrong in hi* gr<un mar,
And the meaning of Kraerson's •• Urahma."
And *bo went chipping rock* with a Luie
hlack box
And a sinull geological hammer.
She had view* on oo education
And the principal need* ol the nation,
And her glasses ware blue a/id the nurnhse
•he knew
Ol the Htar* in each higii constellation,
And *he wrote In a handwriting clcrlcy,
And she talked with an emphasis jerky,
Ai*l ah i painted on tiles in the woclal of
■tyle*;
Hut ahe didn't know chicken frotn turkey!
—AeJIu G. Con 4.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There art? Kventcm ia/licg regularly
connected with the Chicago preaa.
American corned l>cef j superseding
all other kinds in the markets of Ger
many.
Women are archers by nature. Tho
bent of their inclination is to bend ix-aux.
—Sew York Mait.
The entire population of Paris, whether
floating or permanent, is counted offi
cially every month.
It is proposed to erect a statue to Lay
fayette in Ifruid Mail I'aik, Baltimore,
at a cost of $ Hi, ooo.
Truth is the most powerful thing in the
world, since fiction can only please us by
its resemblance to it.
The cotton factors of New Orleans be
lieve there will be 250,000 more bales re
ceived there this season than last.
Hundreds of Esquimaux have been
starving to death, owing to the wanton
destruction of walruses by whalers.
"A Fraud in Silks," is the -tartling
head line in an exchange. Ah! Went
back on you. did she?— Rtyidand Courier.
Quite a brisk demand for American
windmills has sprung up in the British
colonies. West India islands and South
America.
The greatest evils in life have had their
rise from something which was thought
to !K> of too little importance to be at
tended to-
Anybody is apt to be mistaken, but a
boy neveg but on<*> attempts to pat a
short horned bull on the head. —Scvo
York ExprcM.
.The barber's razor took hold, of his
beard with a vengeance, when he look'-d
up and said, apologetically, " My dear
sir, I tarn' 1 to get shaved—not to get a
tooth pulled!"
An article is going the rounds headed,
" Abuse of Tobacco." There is no help
for it. Tobnnco must take its si/arc of
abuse if it isn't strong enough to help
itself.— Honor Sf rUincl.
The St. Petersburg Qlo/x says that
11.Ml persons were incarcerated in the
Central prison at Moscow during the
summer, 10,477 of whom were con
demned to exile in Siberia.
The man who fell off the fence into
the brambles was much nettled by the
occurrence. "We hope thistle be ap
preciated," say* a punster. Weed havs
said the same thing.
Louisiana's temperance alliance give
the amount of liquor drank in the Stats
at f 42.000.000 yearly, or $*.000,000 mors
than the value of the combined cotton,
sugar and rice crops.
If you want to convince a boy of six
teen that this world is all a blank just
kindly inquire about these days if he is
going to block out a pair of ehin whis
kers for tl.e winter season.— fYet FYcm.
That was an observing little feilow, il
he was but six years old. who said:
" Pap. 1 wish you d quarantine against
Tom Jones coining here every night to
see Jennie. It's got to be too epidemic."
A Chinaman in Paris committed sui
cide because his tormentor* had cut off
his Queue. He fastened the cherished
braid with pins to the place where it
ought to grow, and jumped into the
river.
The sum received by Rowell, the win
ner of the node*trian match in New
York, equalled $5.90 for every "lap"
around the track—a lap being equivalent
to one-eight of a mile. He made about
$3 every minute of his walk.
Wm. Har.left, of Portland, ttrcgon. in
the shadow of fatal illness concluded to
shorten the fight over his estate some
what by burning $22,000 in greenbacks.
He soon began to mend, however, and
is now as mad as he ran be to think ha
got well.
Now, then' lit* woodland oollonadao
The wit tiered bannerets ol Jans
Float downward to Ui* lowly bladsa
I hot igb the summer's parting boon.
Kmn man? a lowly tnsadow nook
The thistle float- it* snowy flakes.
And eotnelb to lbs Isithtul oook
A growing hint of Imckwheat rakss.
Foster* Uosrtlt.
A commercial Iran ler at Marseilles,
Fnuire, having refused leave to his
maidservant to take his daughter to ths
skating rink, they did not appear next
morning, and on the bed roc/o being
burst open both were found suffiwatetC
A note in the maid's writing said: "You
shall no longer have your daughter; I
take her to a better world." Their ages
were twenty-six and fourteen.
Caries* Fact*.
Man has the power of imitating al
most every motion but thai of flight.
To effect this, he has in maturity and
health sixty bones in his head, sixty in
his thigh* and legs, sixty-two in his j
arm* and hands, and sixty-seven in his
trunk. He has also 434 muscles. Ilk
heart makes sixty-four pulsations in a
minute, and Umrefbra 9.H40 in an hour, ]
and W. 160 in a day. As to the speed of
animated beings, sine and construction
seem to have little influence. The sloth t
i* by no means a small animal, and yet I
it can travel oniy fifty paces in a day: a
worm crawl* only five inchta in fifty i
seconds, but a ladybird can fly twenty 1
million times ita own length in lee* than ' I
an hour. An elk can run a mile and a half
in seven minutes; an antelope a mile in j
a minute; the wild *M of Tartar baa
speed even greater than that. An cagla M
can fly eighteen leagues In an hour. A f
x lolcnl winds travels sixty to seventy
miles an hour.