Where Shall Baby's Dimple llet Oyer tho eradle the mother hung Soltlv crooning a slumber song; Anil tlicxo woto (ho simple word* sung All tho evening long: " -Check or chin, or knucklo or knee, Whore slioll tho baby's dimple hoT Whore ahull I ho nngol's anger rest When ho cornea down to tho baby's neat ? Whore ahull thoangol'a touch rouruin When ho awakens my Write again T" Still a aire bent anil sung art low, A mttrntur into her music broke; Anil sho paused to hoar, lor she could but , know Tho baby'a angol spoke. << (,'heek or ohln, or knuckle or k tee, | Where shall tho baby'a diuiple be T Where shall my finger lull nnd rest When I enure down to the baby nest ? Where shall my finger's touch remain When 1 aw aken your babe again ? ' Silent the mother sat and dwelt ljong in tho sweet delay ol choice; And then by her baby's aide *ho knelt, And sang with pleasant voice. •• Not on the limb, oh, nngt i dear ' For tho charm with its youth will dis* appear; Not on the check shall the dimple be, For the heritor ingsmile will fadeart.l flee; But touch thou the chin with on impress doep; Ami my baby the angel's seal shall keep." Saturtl.iy Magazine. ALONG THE LINE. "There, Winn \\ right, you have tracked your horrid boots over tity kitchen ifixtr! Won't you ever learn what doormats are made for?" cried Meb Wright, fastening her sleeves before the open uoor of tho little sitting-room. " I titt detest these warm, sloppy Febru ary days. I wish when we freeze up in November we needn't thaw out until the first <# April. The mud and the sloy must bo gone through with in the spring, anyway, and litis freezing and thawing between whiles is just exhaust ing!" est, Winn Wright, locomotive engineer, a big fellow, not graceful, sat absently gazing into the narrow front yard, and drumming on the window lodge. lie looked tired. " I'm tired, too," thought Meb. " It's a hard, tiresome world, harder for work ing women than for men—no use in whining over it. though. We must take life rvs it comes." "I don't believe you tare mu* It for me nowadays, Meb," said Winn, bluntly. Mob curled her lip. It set mod parte - ulariy ridiculous in Winn to talk senti ment now, for ire had a tar streak ol>- liquely across bis forehead, and wore coarse cloth with imperfectly-pressed scants and ragged buttonholes. " I wislt you wouldn't drum on that sill, Winn, you know how annoying it is." After a half hour which Meb spent, for the most part, outside the little sit ting-room, Winn said good-bye and started for tire depot. Out to Plympton and hack would make up iris day's trip. Meb put on Iter pretty brown cash- i mere with white lace and cardinal rib bon at her throat, nnd cardinal loops in iter hair, and took the chair by the win dow. Sho heard the occasional siusli of wheels through tho melting snow out side, or the thud of rubber shod feet through the water on the spongy ice, tho ceaseless drip from the roof into the tin conductors, anil the drowsy chirp of the canary above the window-garden. Meb felt sad. Little did srjc think when playing the organ on Sundays in the Sweetviile Methodist church, and taking lesson.-tin French and water-oolore at the Young Indies' Institute, that she should one day be doing iter own work, and economizing to pay for a little house witli four rooms only, on the lower floor. She might "have done better." There as Samuel Fletcher who every sum icr now eame to Sweetviile with his trriage horses and his saddle horses, here was Charlie Fordyee and—, why inn was a good fellow. She loved Winn, of course; hut Winn had a kind 3f honest stupidity that site feared would a revent his ever "rising." Thatstupid fty wearied her. Idle waj wearisome anyway—cheerless and prospect less. Meb's door-bell rang. She was fa miliar with the humiliation of answer ing it in person. Charlie Fordyee was on the steps. Charlie Fordyee had no tar streaks arross his face. He -was starched, brushed nnd polished to the last degree. Charlie was employed at the " Office." lie inquired for W'inn. " Has he left the depot, think?" nsked he as he followed Mob into the little sit ting-room. " I heard the Hucfplia.tifcsign.il at the Ferry-street crossing a minute ago." " That's too had ; Ellis sent word to have McGregor take ' Little Khody ' out to Plympton in Winn's place, and the Bucephalus to goon to Sidon anil come in witli thenight freights. We've just bud a telegram that there are a hun dred and twenty-five c ars waiting to he moved from Sirton. They were delayed by the snow-storm on the Central and Snore Line last week, and have only lost got through." He The rhnir Meb had set for Mr. For dyee was very easy. He was tired after the sjippcry, sloppy walk. and. sin< e the pay went on jttst the same, why shouldn't he linger? Jjt " Were yon out to hear .Linnusehek last evening?" " No; there wo*some delay a bridge gone—and Winn didn't get in until nine o'clock." "Of course you were at the eoneert Of the Glee Club Inst week." "No; Winn seldom took Iter any- Wte. He liked to settle down at borne evenings." Mr. Fordyee reviewed the ncrform aticcs, mingling the choicest of the nrt phrases culled from his daily paper with others of unknown derivation hut legiti mate sound. Very huntbie and hard seemed the fount! c.f uneducated laltor in which Meb moved to the circle of art and cul ture in which Mr. Fordyeeornnmriitally revolved. Meb fniinl to re. ollect that Mr. For dyee'* monthly receipts wet, little more than Winn's, nnd that artistic revolu tions, if continued for any length of lino*, must defend U|ton some consider ah'e pecuniary streni power nnd quite tangible bcjtir.g. She hud all libit blind j; contidi nee in the money-getting powers f J of a fluent num. which i* one >| the w, most ruriotts segmn is in tliat dr-ieof faith from the center of which women look out upon the world. Mr. Fordyee's grandmother had small, inexpressive black eyes. She had deeply sorrowed and suffered, and here and there amid her descendants appeared large dark eyes, with a weight of sorrow in litem—limpid, melting eyes, calcu lated in tJieir turn to produce sorrow and suffering. Mr. Fordyee l>ent those eyes on Meb. His voice grew tender and gentle. In his musical generalizing he had alluded to the power of the human voice to stir the heart. "You look tired, Mrs. Wright." " 1 am always tired—lately." This old friend of the days when she played the church organ and took les sons in French and water-colors—he seemed so well fitted to sympathize with her. Two or three bright, irrepressible tears fell over her cheek. Agitatedly she laid iter hand upon tho sofa arm. Mr. For dyee's chair was at the end of the sofa. Very reverentially Mr. Fordyee bent over tue hand. " You don't wear tho moss-agate now." '1 can't; my fingers have grown so large —with doing my own work." Mr. Fordyee's hand rested for an in stant on Men's. Site drew away her hand; but Mr. Fonlyee understood that his sympathy was not offensive. After this, constraint slightly stiffened Meb's manner. They talked of agate and onyx, opal and jacinth, and all the secondary stones. Sir. Fordyee said a ; design once nit in jacinth was never obliterated. He wits sympathetic and grave ami tender to the very last step | over the front-door threshold. Then he 1 whisked through the gate and buttoned 1 up his coat with the comfortable assur ance of a man who had successfully en -1 acted the part of lady-charmer. Ids pay going on all the same. Meb stepped into an adjacent room to ascertain l*y the mirror how her hair looked and whether the cardinal loops under tier chin were not disarranged. Gentlemen of Mr. Fordyee's taste were not inapnreciative of cardinal loops against a background of white illusion. As she turned away satisfied, through a haif-onen door, she saw n pair of coarse hoots— he ■'. set against the wall, and toes pointing accusingly outward. >f a worse-looking pair of Ismts it would be difficult to conceive—worn in the wet and dried hatd and red, hard wrinkles above the short instep. A revulsion, strong as Nemesis seized Meb. She crept into the other room and sat down alone. What had she said to that man Fordyee-' What liberty of percep tion hail she accorded and he taken ? What sympathy had she heeu so deficient in self-respect as to solicit, and he so daring as to accord? She sat down again. The snow had i< Ited off the circular verts na mounds. Winn help* 1 her set tho-*> liordcrs. He had always helped her. She covered her face with Iter hands, constdoua only'of her own ingratitude. The prolonged whistleof a locomotive at the station startled Iter—oniy a call for switch. Meb sat for a few minutes, her face buried in her palms; then parted her hands and looked out—to see soaki-d snow stiffening; water-filled foot-print* and wheel-marks growing blue and etiilly; the street* full of returning shop-hands. From out the moving figures one stood within the gate. Or ton ! Or ton was employed in a very humble capacity at tin* office. The company ha*l a habit of failing hack upon him when had news was to be communi cated. Meb had strength to ojien the outer hail door; then sank hack upon the lower stair. "Don't tell me, Orton, don't! Is lie dead ?" "The Ird help you, Mrs. Wright; we don't know how had 'tis. The Hu cephaius is off the track—down Deep Gully—thirteen < ats down. Thay liadn t taken him out when the last telegram eame." Meb elutclied iter nail* into lirr cold paints. "I must go; ha* the wrecker started*" "dust gone; hut Ellis'H find an en gine to take you up. Perhaps you'd better not go, though. It may be pretty had." Mrs. Weir entesed. put on Meb'a hat and shawl, drew on Iter overshoes, sup ported her to the floor and took the key. Meb grasped Orton'* arm. and wa* conscious in a dazed sort of way of slip ping over ice and water to the depot. The Flyer wa* just steaming through, fired up to go out on the Rivervjew H ran eh for a few empty cars. It was short work to run hT on to the turn table ami come up headed for the Gully. Superintendent Eili* handed atcb into the cab. Engineer Habcock nodded, speechless, nnd turnip to his engine, pulled out the throttle, struck the bell -knell-like in the chnr air—and the Flyer shot out across the plain, the plain with it* withered brown mowings, l>atches of dark plowed land, nnd shallow pools reflecting the purple twilight. On now to the Gully! Every racing r*>ek and three in tin' approach left Meh's heart tieating faster and more suffocat ingly. The "Flyer." a* she * ante to a stand still, seennil to shiver through every heavt driving-wheel, through every pol ished rod and cylinder. The stoker, first on the ground, reoched up to take out Meb. The moon, not a yard ai*oYO the east ern horizun. let fafl a weird, oblique light. Two or three engines stood on the track venting steam. The great wrecker rose wraith-like, it ropes and timbers en crushed and piled in between this place and the engine hut how rapid ly tlie is troleum would penetrate, or i how quickly it might bo ignited by some unextinguished ember, no man could 1 tell. A sttddi ii pau• in the wo !, tic had teached Winn. A silence like that fol lowing Meb's cry—they have drawn him forth. Up the sides of the ravine strug j gled the procession—stretcher. woman, physicians, men witli tol/.cs, axes, shovels, crowbars. No one olxoTYed a slender spire ofbloe j smoke that curled up at tin l edge of the saturated grain; hut tn less than ten minutes all the wreck was a mass of , crackling, roaring llaine— flame blazing up in red and blue points to the oooC moon-lit heavens, lapping the weather beaten sleepers of the bridge and snap ping through tin branches of the over* hanging hemlocks; tail Winn was safe, safi utx n the trick. He had lain with his low< r limbs too near the scaping steam. Fastidious people, reading ol tie- accident in the earning papi r . wished reporters would spare the public such horrible detail ~ The dot tors administer d brandy and injivted morphine, and Whin was un conscious of mU'-h pain. While the train liaekul rapidly tiown to thet "inehy ! turn-table lie lay with his head upon a pillow- in Meh's lap, looking up at In r silently. His eyes f--il at !<-ngtli from her face to lmr shoulders. "Oughtn't you to have worn sonic thing thicker?" " Oil, don't, Winn; you'll kill me if j you think ol me now "' Tin- first tear* Melt had slieti sinci those elicited hy Mr. Charies F'ordy i-V tender sympathy raile d on Winn's up j turned lace. The" Flyer" was racing through the tortuous defile now. On and in to tin opt n plain again, and familiar building rushed past. "We're almost home, Winn—home' I>o you understand ?" Mob le nt, covering one side of Winn's I face with In r tears and ki***: wiping i it dry with the precious illusion that liad unfastened and d angled from her throat. The house was lighted, litu-n airing by the tin-, nnd Mrs. Weir moving shout witli a wet bandage around her head. Railroad men thronged in. proffering assistance. "Under the circumstance* she can't wish him to live," Mr. t liarlie Forilsre had remark'- enteii. sonn what at.art. guarding a pair of ling su-j ' lldeu lr> 111 tripoda nun of branches, and each witli a ■ and it- to at tract tin-e\ [a-eti d .-ann . while tin forms of the'JVxnns wi-ri rapidly di appearing in a dire, lion opposite to our lirn of ap proacli. My fellow-watcher moved about a little wliite, and Hen i aim to my station. ''S<-en any qtlai, yet '•* ' said lie, some what quizzically. "Now. si <• 1. re don't you under-'land that those h-iiew will h<- ba<-k nt tin h. while we sit lo re an.; hold hags to cat. h tnoon*hin< ? Put your < andle on a stake and follow me." A light broke upon my mentali -ion Walking rapidly after my guide, we w re so fortunate a- to gain tin' firry ahead of our ' lit •i. r*. though tin a had ulriu -I • ir- led the candle*, and as Wr I addled quietly m ro-* tlie stream tln-ir footstep- were he • r>t approaching. Concealed by a deep shrub w on the op posite shore, we struggled almost vain v with our risible-, while the ijj . omfited practical jokf r- -ought hop!e**ly for tin* nowt, and ti-aliy departed for a ford two niiie- up stream, using language j moreempliatie than i "herent. Ilorptr't Monthly. Tlie Drink Diffinilty. Drink lum always Ihi-h a difficulty. ' In all ag< s individuals have made great mistaki * as to the nuantity of intoxii at ing liquor which it was beneficial for them to consume. Intoxication i* a *pi - 1 eiirs of poisoning. ina>mu> li as aleohoi is a brain poison; and at first sight it •eems strange that nnv one should w ih. even temporarily. to damage ttiat think ing power which is tlie sole distinction | between the human animal and the l asts which perisli. Hut theri an- some obv'oUS explanations of tlii* apparent anomaly, first of all. alcoholic drink* are to many very delicious beverage*. A Quak*Ke the truth. Would not the j great hulk of tfiese who talk about I health, fashion, etc., say the same thing iftli j spoke from their hearts? Then there is so much misery in the world that it is easy enough to understand Byron's lines: " Man i* * reavninMe being, Thereto' e he gel* rtrnnk." But tlie pia-t* liave nun li of re*r>onsi hility in tbi* maltei' " Bowi"rliymes with " soul." Many c.f our ino*t l>e.uti- i fui song* are drinking songs, and some how or other it has rente to pass that al- ! though drunkenness i now pretty gen erally condemned "from the teeth out ward " as Carlyle has it, yet drinking is ! still lookeif upon a* a delightful and honorable exercise for rational beings. , But no exec**, oh, no. No one favors excess, but though i i one favors execs* j it is admitt'-d on all hand* that, a- ana , Hon, we do exceed, and that ffMO 000,008 per annum i* far too much to he spent j on brain poison by tlie neople of tiie United Kingdom. If drink were merely a liarmlesa luxury, the above wou.d bo a stnrtlinff national expenditure: but when we reflect tlint Iheeonsuniption of tlii* drink is. by tlie almost unanimous testimony of our judges, police, prison nnd poor-law authorities, and all those in a position to know tlie habits of tlie, people, pronounced to !* the main eau*e | of crime and pauperism, it Ixx-omc# truly alarming.— Nineteenth ('rnturu Hidden Hurt*. Many a babe get* n wrench from |ov-, ing hands that might account tor the : sudden attack of spasm* the day after, ! or for hour* of fret fulness that no coax ing Weill- tO soothe and no medicine up. pear* to reach. Falls from little per ambulators while in charge of nurse*, though they leave no outward and visi ble sign in the *ha|>e of cuts or bruise*, may have inflicted something worse by far than cuts or bruise* would have proven to he. Cases have occurred fre quently where infants have had falls of which nurse* have not told, and no marks from which were visible to the eye.hut which tnad< thnchlld unaccount ably fretful lor weeks, until curvature of the spine told its frightful story. For this reason mother* cannot be too care ful in handling their little ones and look ing after tlmm personally, rather than trusting so much to hired nurses. A child is a tender thing, and a hurt which leaves no sttrfaco sear may have laid the foundation of an early death or future deformity. TIMKLY TOPICM. The benevolent interest taken hy the ' sovereign of Japan in the condition of hi* subjects lias been frequently mani- - tested. His majesty, the mikado, k.w now made presents of five thousand ven to the inhabitants of Kioto, and tliree thousand yen respectively to the people of tin- district* of Tant>a and Togo in I nnasliiro. The donations are to in- ap plied to uieasun s of precaution againse against cholera. !,cndvillr. Col., {* having :i relapse The feverish excitement which maik" France, l thji; to Jta.y, I to Austria. 500 to l'u-d a Tin word- u I.uriisrtine, yt'h* *nld that "jouvna! : -ni wouid almost superwde and aieorti ail other literature la-fore the elrate of tlie present century,""wili not fall far short of the in tual truth.— hurhantH ■ < 'aiifomia has otii'-r phenomi na rifle riien iict-iiii-, lie. Carver. Char leg Km.u h. a young man in Sacramento, considers it a not extraordinary feat to hit nincty.eight out of K*t smull apple* thrown into the air. and John Ruth, of Oakland, is altout t'> depart for \u.-lrn ii to gi wix hi bit ion ■- of bis -ki J. Ann. g hi* feat* with the rifle istliat of sliooting a i i.-nr troin tli ■ mouth of hi- a-si.-lant. witli tlie rid'- h'-'d ui'side down on top of lii- head, and with a mirror to tiL • -ight in as lie stand- with hi hack to the mark. The Mexican vo. nn of 'liiza! ;, 17.!ai0 fi I t alios e tlx c. i]( Ve], ha* ix CJI tser-nded _liy M. \;.,.uza, a i -idntof Furbla. Tuirteeu pn nn> (rmmpaalfd liim. one of wliont dll at the top from ran fa ' >n of tie air, and another a few days afterward from ery-ip' .a- < au- J by the p fli ijon of the sun on the snow. '•I ven thou and Steps had to he cut in the snow to gain the -unimit, and the expedition occupied four days, one of whl !i WM a bwak iw ing to ram nod now. Har< n Muiier. in IKW. fir-t n :nl< the ao< ent. and In ha* luui very few i *u '-ssors. A i-arned German doctor ho* di* ov en d a ine:in if dyeing the eye* of ani mal* In general an< ! of in< n in paiii> u.ar any color he ph-osi s He j- n> eomi in ie.fon bis travel* of propagation by n dog with a rose.eolorml eye. a eat with an orange-rrd eye, anjl a monkey with a ■ Imams-yellow eye. But th< most u --rio- *|- ■ ini' n- of iii* art are * colo-ed man with one black eye and the other blue, and a eo)or<*l wt man with one •-ye gold-colored nnd the oilier silver while. Tli-'doctor says the pro.. - of 0 ular transformation, far from injuring i the *ight, strengthen* and Improve* it. An American journal whit h make* *• *!>••) ialty of marine matter* dm-* not hesitate to make the l.;d a—' rtion tliat " F.ng'iand i* tn the eve tif losing her great prestige n* the (milder of sliij.- for ; all nations, and thot in five year* from tlie present time we ' bail have built oc'-an-going steamers for all the leading nation- of Flu rope, -iniply be. a use *< ! eon built vessel* of better material at I !■* price*, ot supi rior workmatisiiip. I : and in les- time, and we see no reason why we should no! supply even Flnglami witli an Improved Ivpe of iron sailing | vessels, iu*t a* we did in the days of our famous clipper ships. A fhurrh iell which h:< just I<-R a Troy foundry for lVrsla will fiave cer ] tain peculiar asMviation* attacle-I to it. The funds for its no rehase were given by 1 Treabyterian Sunday school in t'sli fornia, nnd it is int'-ndeell* in use in •ustern countries have for tlie niost pari j lea n obtained in Russia. - . A Rrauttfnl Dwelling. Jennie June, writing from Sew York j to the Baltimore .Gnfnc/in. gives the : following description of a remarkable dwelling; A well-known pat nt lawyer. Mr. Udward S. Dickerson, said hy those who know him to lie one of the most re- j mark aide men that this country ha* ever produced, h.a* just built a unique house ! in Thirty-fourth street, near l'srk j ! avenue, which is attracting a great deal of attention. It is .a pity that it is wedged in as one ot a mock, for had it , occupied a corner in an up-town neigh hood, iike that of Mr. Fuwin Stevens. F'iflli .avenue and F'ifiy-ninth street, it would have fairly challenged comnari -on with it in the effectiveness of it* ox -1 tcrior. while the interior linish far sur passe* it. It i* a five-story house, occupying only a city lot. hut is built in Quern | Anne style; and the quaint, windows 1 liave tops of cathedral stained glass. while the stonework which relieves the I Philadelphia brick, is all hand-carvcd. I "llio dining-room is said to be the most j Iw-autifu) room in the house, and it is finished in Japnnesestyle, witli window* set in an alcove and richly stained. Bark of It is the beautiful door exhibited in the Centennial, whose hand-carving of birds, fruits, flowers and the like is Hie finest in the world. There are eighteen different kind* of lianl wood used In the flooring, and ebony, ash, French walnut, mahogany, maple, satin wood *nl many other* in the finishing Tlie interior is arranged with a center k dome nnd grand staircase. Telephones connect with every room, and there Is an elevator, electric light* and other ap pliance* which will doubtless *om come to be regarded a* ordinary modern im provements. Apart from it* complicated interior machinery, which will require a who.r patent office to keen in order. It is a very heattUftil and sightly object from the street; and Mr. Dickerson de*erve* tlie thank* of his neighbors for avoiding the commonplace nnd showing tVm how thoroughly artistic a dwelling can be mode. LRADVILLK. XVhal a MxMtal • I*lll.l,urn 1., Pa . Think. „t Thla < olurado Mining I CHr. T. It. Wileus, who emigrated from I Pittsburgh, I'M., to l>**dville last March, and .who was con*cqu<-nt ly one |of the ecrllwt wttlm of tbi mat <-ar : honilc ('limp, arid who recently sold hi* j interest in th- M:it<'hl'-H* mini'to Gov ernor Tahor, tliu* writes in rii|itiw' to ':i series of question* froni a friend: Now iim to your <|Ui->ioti- Question: "How are you?" " Well. I'ui trouhhd vunr with the rheumatism. Konn-lini'* 'tis lot atrd in one pkue. and in an hour it flies to another. Thin i* an excellent eountry for rh'-unuttiaiii " Qu -lion '* What atn I doing?" "I am mining; have interests in uhcut a down claims, in different lo'alilnn; indications an* good. I fieri- i* not a man of.my iv 'jUnintam e hut thinks he is within ten feet of j.ay mitn-r-i. The business re mind* in* very much of boring for oil. in tin* nil*--1. That you ar- on the look-out lor certain strata of rock, a* indication, etc., and you watch the chanson in formation mm carefully up a doctor wiil for change* in a taction I." Question: •• An you satisfied witfi so ciety liUhin. -* pro-pe.-ts. . fc..s;iflj, i* nt y to make<"olora/lo vour home?" "Not if the court retain* it* Imlanec. Tle o< ji ty i on*ist- of 5* If hoodlum*. 3-111 plug-ueiieH. and an intinitessimal friu-- tioti of decent folk- There arc r* pn i> nted to to alaitit 1.190(1 women h<*n. cliustd a* follow*: One hundred wise, 200 unwise and 000 otherwise. The country i principally straight up and down, Persons that have Jivi-d here over nix month* are invariably top nded from witUiig on the hi wide so much. Hu-in*-- ■ pro-feet* are nfit tirst ela*, the place being, generally speak ing. overdone" Question: "Whnlef (•a t hits the rarificd atmosphere on your respiration?" "( 1-ai days I havl- no difli> ulty in breathing when not work ing. hut on cloudy davs'lis alioutiii.* one Want- to d-i to v. p StM for hi- oxyg'-n." Qttostion ■ ' What ha* I* cn the general hcaltliofthe people?" " Weil,not good mean*. Too much expowur< and privation, added to .-old winn-nod thin airs, brine- U* to your nxt question. The pp vaiiing di-easi-* are pneumonia, quin-< y. rheumatism and hemorrhage otthewigi." QnatUoß: "Hfiwwould the atino-phi-re affect a consumptive or a cn>c of pulmonary hemorrhage' J " •• It would kii! th rn a good deai quicker than an lias Urn doctor, and not half try. Then* is :.n excellent crop of sage hush here, and 'tis about th'- only tiling tl.it in* to stand the climate. This i* a Hi--*. p]nc, to live il a man could only train him-* If to think NO. hut I would not live here for |4OO a day the year round, and I know i wouldn't like to 1* found dead here." Question " Have vou mad* anything yet ? ' "I've made off rnv mine-. ati'l Other share* look favorable. Hut 'tis ail Ju*k. and I know of severa do/,.n per*on* w ho hive ),..t ail till y had. " An up-and down ;i(e, fraught with much care and anxiety, ranging from abje t j*v.rty to atliui n'-e in a few hour* One flay you may ho ' dead broke,' anfi the next not ha\ a cent: one day >ti lose, and the ne\t e.an't w in. In fact, I've knfiwn person* here to have a distressingly Imd strmk of luck f<*r months—and tie n it wou.J gond*, which were unregistered and easily negotiable, in an envelope so flimsy that it broke otien before it ieft ' the stamper's table. Similar Instances of earclcssnet . could l>- repeated almost without nuuiorr. Indeed, it is bardly ! to be wondered at rtiat the officer that | relatsd these eireun>*tames feh called * uj>on to exclaim in i*rmciusion: "The I p*Mtoffice has to deai with a great many I curious jieople." A Menagerie Lien at Large. W. W. Coie's circus was in 1 >etiance, Ohio, recently, and at night, almut ten o'clock, just after tlicy had got the ani mals loaded on the cars and the train started, and as tliey were passing the coal shutes one of the rones from the sliutes caught in one of tlie cages and brought do\vn the npron that lets down tlie coal, which struck the cage contain ing two lions, throwing il off the train, opening t_ e door of the rage and letting out the lions. The small one was got Iwek at onee, but the large one ran oft' dowh the track, passing scviTal m< u at distance of about thirty rods to a barn, where he snied a door open. Tlie door „ was double, and tlie bottom was elosed, the top pari being open. He bounded over iike a kitten and grasped a cow by the nose, and in two minutes had suck ed her blood and the sow was dead, the lion going into the other part of the Iwfti and lying down, llis master came, and leaving several men outside, went up in the 101 l and came down where tlie iion was. After talking to the lion some time he laid down by liim and played with him. and after two hours' work succwd ed in getting the lion Imek into the cage, which was brought to the door.