A RIAL ROMANCE. ,ltiUriii>ikiil>l< Mertlllu In ■> Clnilrll WliM a CrrMki t', Karorst *;*■ Itr vcloprd. The Denver (Col.) 'lYibunc, ola reeent date, says: Once upon a time, as all true stories begin—hut for the sake of in'cu racy, say fifteen veal's ago—Rev. Dr. Warren, a celebrate 1 clergyman ol Phil adelphia, performed the marriage cere mony for two people, who afterward sent out their cards inscribed: "Mr. and Mrs. Avery, at home to their friends Tuesdays aiid Fridays, in the afternoon." A few weeks latr found Mr.and Mrs. Avery comfortably local*d in Manhat tan, Kansas. Mrs. Avery was one of that class tailed " strong-ndiulcd women." She was an advocate of female suffrage, made speeches and wrote for the papers. Solar, however, as the public knew, the married life of the Averys had the average amount of felicity in it. On" day Avery went away--nobody seem to know iust where. Some said lie went to Colorado to make bis fortune in the mines; some said lie bad gone to look after a railroad eon traet somewlu re. lie never came back. The people of Manhattan forgot hint, and even Mrs. Avery gave him up for dead. Her neighbors called her "a smart woman," and she is a very intelligent, energetic woman. She is now a member of the law firm of Kosb r ,V Foster, of Clinton, lowa, and is said to lie the only woman who has ever lea n admitted to the bar in that State. Her name isn't Avery now. One day fudge Foster wns introduced to Mrs. Avery Another tiny, a few months Inter. lie married her. she in the mean time having taken care to procure :i M --voree from Avery on the /round of de sertion. for fenr that he might turn up some time. Mrs. Foster studied law with her hus band. and assisted him in his legal busi ness, which is quite large, as .fudge Foster is one of the ino-t eminent law yers in the llawkcye State. Being a woman of spirit, or rather a public •nirited woman, she naturally enlisted in tfie catLse of temperance, and was elected president of the Women's Christian Temperance I'nion. She attended the national temperance camp meeting at Bismarck in August, ami took a very active part in the proceedings. She re mained also through the church en campment which immediately followed the temperance encampment. Rev. 1 >r. Warren, o| Philadelphia, who per formed the cercmrny at the time Mrs. Foster was married to Iter first husband, attended the church encampment and renewed their old acquaintance. When the church encampment closed, Mrs. .fudgt Foster and a lady lriend came to Denver togctlier. A f< w days later Rev. Dr. Warren took the train at Lawrence for Denver. In this city he was the guest of Rev. Karl Cranston, pastor of the Methodist Church. On the next Sunday after his arrival he sat in Karl Cran-ton's pew, and glancing up at Mr. Cranston in the pulpit, he no ticed a very strange look in his face. Mr. Cranston'- gaze med to he di rected to some one Is-liind I>r. Warren, and the doctor turned around to sec what hadattrai ted Mr Cranston'satten tion. On the next -eat behind him Or Warren nw Mrs. Foster, and just be hind her a man whom he rei ogni/'xl as the long-lost Avery. The look of sur prise and astonishment which the dim tor's features woic attracted Mrs. Fos ter's attention, and she turned to see what it was behind that interested o many people. As she turned her move ment attracted the attention of the peo ple in the next seat behind her. and she found herself faee to fare with her first husband, whom she suppose,! dead. Their eyes met and tho recognition was instantaneous and mutual, although they had had not seen each other for thirteen years. Beside Mr Avery sat two i>r three children and a womap. Mr-. Foster glanced at tlirm and turned pale. It was tds family. She got up and left the church. Avery remained through t he service. All that night Mrs. Foster walked lite floor of her room, silent hut greatly agitated. The next morning Mr. Avery called, and, in the presence of friends, had a:i interview. The meet ing was like that of acquaintances, cold, formal, and yet very quiet and devoid of any sensational features. Mr. Avery, so far as the reporter knows, gave no explanation of his mysterious disappearance and his subsequent mar riage, and was asked for none. He had married during his absence and lias five children, whotn fie invited Mrs. Foster to visit Later in the day Mrs. Foster called a luck .and went to see Mr. Avery and family. Mrs. Foster has returned to her desk and resumed her law practice in Clinton. The meeting in the Lawrence Street Church was a strange one. The man, the woman, and the clergyman who married them sat in adjacent seats. The presence of Judee Foster was all that was needed to make the tableau com plete. A Ibi d that t'rie* •• I'a, Fa, Pa !" Iet me tell you about some queer *irla that I saw in South Africa. They are calk*) " Hadcdn" ly the natives, and are a* large ax crows, with long leg*and bill*, and wings that are dark-green in one light and golden in another. The bird* look like gentlemen in dress suit* with their hand* folded undcrtheir coat tail*. Th<" hadeda live* in marshy plnces, hut they arr easily lamed to live in hnu.ut really representing no more work than II pressed glass tumbler; a micro soope would betray the cheat at ouoe, but ordinary buyers do not go about armed with microscopes, and do not wish to lie obliged to do so. Diamond pins with solid hacks are of doubtful perfection always, hut some of the new pins have a pit of silver foil set behind the fragment of glittering glas- that serves for a stone, and nre more decep tive than the dull stones worn by some men who sceni to think that they will he respected if they appear to have -1 >• nt three years' salary on an ornament. As has been said, there is no way of distinguishing between good and rump jewelry win n worn, hut there are a few details to which buyers should look sharply, unless they have perfect confi dence in the house with which they are dealing. Watch cases usually have the name of the firm -clling them engraven on the inide, unh-s they are of poor quality, (loud bracelets are an well fi. - ished close to the hinges ns anywhyre else. Fine brooches have good strong pins on tic wrong side. Kngraved or tooled surfaces are Tliore deeply indent id in gold jewelry than in that which is plated, and burnished surfaces on cheap good- arc likely to be w ratcix d, in cause they ai' more vnrelessiy Kept than those which are more expensive. There is a very slight differ' nee in the color of the two classes of jewelry, hut it only re veals itself on comparison. Large -i/.e is a danger signal in earrings, and false diamonds ought to wain any laxly from buying by their -etting. The demand fur the cheap jewelry in crease- almost daily, many of the new styles being so fantastic that even those who are determined to wear them hesi tate about paying much for tlietn. pur chase them in cheap materials and throw thetn away win n tarnished. This course is expensive, hut if a man or woman can afford it noltody is injured by it except the person who yields to the desire to as sume the appearance of wealth that he has not. But nolxxly wants to Is- cheat ed, and he who buys cheap j welry of ir responsihle persons is tolerably sure to waste his money.— Ro*Um Transcript. The Trne Story of " Robin Adair". Tlir hero of " Robin Adair" WM well known in tli<* Is>ndon fashionable rirch •• of the Inst century l>y tin- sobriquet of the " Fortunate Irishman;" hut hi* pa rentage and the exact place of hit birth arc unknown. lic WM brought lip a* a surgeon, hut " liii drtit'tinn in nn early amour drove liini precipitately from I'ublin,"to pu.th hit fortune* in Knit land. Scarcely had hcrro**cd tlie chan nel when the chain of lu> ky event* that ultimately led him to fame and lortunc commenced. Near Holyhead, perceiv ing a carriage overturned, he ran to ren der n*ti*tance. The sole occupant of the vehicle wan a "lady of fax hi on, well known in polite circle*," who received Adair'* attention* with thank*, and, be ing lightly hurt, and hearing ".hat he was a surgeon, rcqu< sted hint to travel with her in her carriage to I/>ndon. t>n their arrival in the metropolis she pre sented him with a fee of WO guinea*, and gave liini a general invitation to her house. In alter life Adair used to say that it wa* not so much the amount of this fee, hut the time it was given, that wa* the service to him. a* he wax then almost destitute. Hut the invitntion to her house was n still grcnter service, for there he met the person who derided hi* fats in life. This wa* Lady Caroline Keppel, daughter of the second Karl of Albemarle and of Anne J,cnnox, daughter of the lirst iMike of Richmond. Forgetting her high lineage. Lady Caro line, at the tirst sight of the Irish surgeon, fell desperately In love witlt him. and Iter eniot'on* were so sudden and so vio lent a* to attract the general attention o the company. Adair, seeing his advan tage. lost no time in oursuing it. while the Alhermarie and Richmond families were dismayed at the prospect* of *uch a terrible >nr.*alliawf. Kvery mean* were tried to induce the young ladv to alter iter mind, but without flNk Adair's biographer tells u* that "amuse ment*," a long journey, an advantageous offer, and other common mwlos of slink tig off what was considered by the fam ily as an improper match, were already tried hut in vain. The henllli of bady Caroline was evidently impaired, and the family at last confessed, with a good sense that reflected honor on their under standing as well a* their heart* that it was possible to prevent, but never to dis.-olve, an attachment; nnd that mar riage wa* the honorable and, indeed, the only alternative, that could secure her happiness and her life. When 1-ady Caroline wa* taken by her friend* from istndon to lintli, that she might he sep arated from her lover. *he wrote, it i* said, the song o! "Robin Adair" and •ct it ton plaintive Irish tune that site herrd him sing. Whether written by Isidy < 'aroiine or not, the song is simply exprcsaivcof her feeling* at the tinie.ann a* it completely corroborate* the cir cumstance* just related, which were the town talk ol the period, though now little more than family trndition. there can he no doubt that they were the ori gin of the song.— Ntwrmsflt CoiirnrU- New York's Wooden Statues Few people to whom the appearance of the wooden figures which form liter al ly a standing ail vert iHenicnt of the me tropolitan tobacconist is familiar, have the remotest conception of the number of them thnt exist. There are over two thousand cigar shops in this city. It is safe to assume that nine-tenths of these possess dummies. The number includes whole tribes of Indians, companies of soldiers, ships' crews of sailors, and baseball nines, with a lavish sprinkling of fops, whose glories of attire pale those of Dundreary, society belles, 'lurks, firemen, goddesses of liberty, female walkers, and so on. Tin-re are auite a number of Clinches and of Kir Waller Italeighs. Grim Highlanders, clutching big snull'-istxes or bundles of cigars, are common. Fairy oueens, heuutlful Cir cassians, colored dandies, miners, " itlnek Crook " Amazons and Caledon ian lassies lend an agreeable variety to the col lection. The hulk of the figures are those Af Indians and squaws, with pappoosesand without. Tie- Highland ers and the dandies, once so common, are now in a vast minority, and an growing f wer every year. "They don't draw custom no unite," said a tobaccon ist to a reporter. " People want gayer tilings to look at now. 1 had a Scotch man here for eight years, and business got awfully run down. Then I bought that " lilack Crook" figure, and I've been doing first rate ever since." The origin of tobacconists' dummies i- involved in obscurity. Figures of lligli'andir.-> w< re the w ■ • ■ i*t <1 sign* of I/mdon ."nuff-Mlaip- in tip last century. In Boston there i; a wooden midshin man marking a sailors' tobacco-shop anil liii'r-roniii which is seventy-lour years old.- Tin* oldest one in New York is probably Mrs. Miller's High lander. It is more than half a century old. It was originally sit tin far down town, in the vicinity of City Hall Park. Then it moved further up Broadway, till, atti r various stoppages, it found its present post of duty under the St. Nicholas Ho tel. The business it does duty for is one of the olih-st of the kind in the country. The tirat dummy figure* in l/indon were those of Highlanders. In those days sign-painting had not yet been made a line art of. Symlsils of various sorts Were used to point out the shops. People had little use for tobacco then, save in the form of snuff, which was a favorite luxury with both sexes, j'ho Highlander with his snufl'-horn, be came. therefore, a universal symlsd. The few that existed in this country, previous to the revolution, wre all sent froni Ixmdon. After a while local ship-carvers he. gan trying their hands at it As peo ple here smoked and chewed more to bacco than tiiev used in the form of snuff, the Highlander was voted not ex. prcssive enough. The figure of a plan tation negro bourne the popular sign. From this fact the wooden image* eamc to |**sess the teeliliit'll name which i applied to them to-day without regard to their character. They nre called " Pompey-.'' After a while the Indian, with Ids hunch of tobacco lcavi s, crept into favor. Tin n. tobacconists, wlm l entered to special classes of eustoniets, began to liave " Pompeys " carved to suit their trade. So. one finds along the water-side that images of sailors pre dominate, while others have dummy emigrants of all nationalities. The ad vent of many Cuban tobacconists dur j ing the revolution in tin- ever-faithful isle, cieated quite a gallery of Cuban , planters, peons and patriot soldiers. The baseball fever gave birth to nu merous wooden efligi* in white cap* and KniekiTl>oekers. So the vi ry lati st pedestrian craze has leen the father of a progeny of walkers, male and female, nearly as extensive in number as the maniacs who are now blistering I tlndr feet all over the country in order to make gnto>mnney lor somebody else, j The orthodox Indian warrior and abo ■ riginal maidens still hold their own, ' however, against all rivals, and form the vast hulk of our army of < fligies. The business of " Pomney " making is principally carried on in Canal street, where many oL the wood-carvers are, and along the water-side. Formerly the dummy maker* used to keep stocks on hand, from which a customer could choose his favorite. Very iittle of this is done nowadays. If one wants a 4 " Pompey," one orders and pays for it. Besides the regular woodf n figure makers, the ship-carvers ali make dum mies to order. The figures are made of seasoned pine. (Ine big block is made to serve fur the figure. To this the arm* and other proj'ctions are joined with wooden pins. " Pumper" makers work on areeumhent block. Thctimbor i* laid : on a trestle, and they assault it with a ferocious-looking steel instrument like a ship-carpenter's chisel. After rough shaping it tlmv finish it UP with hss savage tools. Then it is painted. T< n years ago t hr> wooden " I'otnpcy " makers hcpin t experience n change in their business. I'p to that time they had had pretty much their own way. and had got price* to unit themselves for th'-ir work. Hut suddenly metal figure* began to make their way into UM. Tliev were cast in zinc, on really good model* furnished tiy artist*, and were altogether an Improvement, in an artistic sense, on their predecessors. Re sidea. thev hi I the advantage of dura bility. k'ive years' exposure to the sun and rain will so split and wnrp a wooden figure tliat it will have to here paired. and once you commence to mend a dummy it is like patching a shoe. It ha* to lie kepi up. The metal figures, on the contrary. Inst forever. Their only necessity is the very humane one of wanting a new coat once in a while. The price of sine figure* is. of course, higher than that of wooden ones. I'lne " I'ompeys" range from $lO up to $ 10, zinc ones from $lO to #250. A life-si/.e wooden figure cost.* Irnm S3O to $75. In xine they sell for $1,500 a dozen whole sale, and are retailed at such advances a* the dealer chooses to make on them. In addition to the metal figures, plaster ones are now coining into common ue among cigar shops of the lower elass. They cost from ten to twenty shillings, a- 1. a* the small dealers say, make al m st as mttelt show when stuck up in the middle of a window as a wooden effigy at the door doe*.— New York New* The New York i ontmrrrtai Atlwrliter pathetically ejaculate*: Many a poor, but religious editor hns been compelled to receive pay for his valuable paper in turnips, string-1 ican*. pumpkin) and such-like articles of dirt, hut We never remember to have heard of a butcher who would nc"cpt a column of para graphs In return re a rortrrhoust steak < r a ma;l toast for Funday. The results of the Portuguese cent'lis of IH7B have been published, showing a population of 4,745,094 pen 0n*—9,314.- 593 male* and 9,430,50! females—lneuld ing Madeira and the Axon*. In the Trenches on Milk Hirer. A New York Herald correspondent narrates some of the scenes t hat took place during the six days in which Cap tain Payne's command was besieged by the I'te Indians on Milk river, Color ado: One morning a soldier in Payne's command, wouni'cd in the arm and so ill that lie had had no appetite for two days, turned toa colored soldier close by him. saying "Here, pard, stop shoot ing at them bluffs and for the Ixird's sake make me a little coffee." The col ored hero thus addressed, whose name the narrator could not recall, answered not a word, but set to work. There WON no coffee in the pit, hut there was some in the next one which was tossed over. Hut how to make a lire without wood, that was the question. The colored man calculated the chances, made a break lor the sutler's wagon, snatched a loose side of a provision l>o\ and came back with a bullet hole in the board, which was meant for his own body. 'J lien lie made a fire in a corner of the pit and prepared the coffee for liis patient. The sutbr's wagon was a fair target, and the sutler himself was hit in the leg while making an incautious approach to it. It had a limited supply of provisions, the regulation hard tack and raw baron and a little liquor, which was of great •erviee to the wounded. Another \e liiele which will doubtless be preserved at Fort Steele as a pet relic of ris ent his tory, is the ambulance taken down by Major Thonibtirgh. H stood out with I lie wagons, m ar the copter of the oval space occupied by the troops, and is ventilated by some thirty bullet-holes. Itankin, tlie scout, got under it one day f. a nap, and was awakened by a hall which struck one of the spoke- within two Inches of the top of his bean. In this way, unwashed, unkempt, illy fed. at a time when even night, iliu unned hy stars, refused its customary shield of darkness, the men of I'ayne's (white) and Dodge's (colored) com mands awaited further succor. They were not only beleaguered by savages, w Ii kept a cross lire on them from two commanding bluffs, hut were listeners to constant insults uttered in English and seeming to come from some white man quartered with their savage foes. When a horse or a mule fell a taunting voice froiTl the hltlffs would eo me. saying: " Itcttergo out and harness him again or your funeral." Again " I.ift up your hat* and give us a mark." Still again : "Conn out of your holes, you cow ilds and tight square." This last from the renegade ensconced with the I 'tea. Several witni s*- describe the arrival of Merritl and his troops, and say that when tip-general net < 'aptain Payne the two threw their arms around encii other and that tears were shed. This is not unlikely. Both men were exhaust'-d Payne by bis wounds and anxiety. Mer ritt by his long inarch. A* for tin rrt, there is no concealment about the tears. Tin re was such a seen, in that wretched corral for live or ten minutes as few men witness twice in a lifetime, or n at to. The Head t'lilef of the I'lrs. Ouray, the head chief of the I*tee at tlie I'neonipaligre. is an Indian of re markable ability. He ha* made two visits to Washington, and, sis ing the power and'tlie immense numls-r of the whit< s. has bctsinic in every *• nsc of the word a peai cable Indian. He lives in a house, cultivate* some sixty ai res of ground, lias a large flock of sheep, wears the clothing of a white man, ride* around in a covered wagon or carriage, and has largely adopted the habits and customs of civilization. He lias learned to sign his name, and wa in the liahit of send ing letters flips t to President (Irani stating his grievances and what be wanted. His influence has been all powirful on the side of pence, and that tlmre has been no collision Intween bis people and till wliites is du*- to him. tic is not. liowever, Hie hereditary hiwl chief, but Itecanie so many years ago through his force of character and the favor id the Indian agent,who acknowl edged him as uch. Frequent attempts liave been made to assassinate bim by the Indians themselves, especially those of the hereditary chieftain b'ooa. who are jealous of hi* power and di*atlsftcd witli lift change from the old hnhit and . ustoms. The wldtes much dread that in some ti.ne or other these at ti nipt* may succeed: then there will he trouble; there will Is- no restraining force, and the bad Indians will get con - tp)l ol tlie trile. It will not be their numbers, but tlie scattered eiiorncter of the mining population, the numerous mountain hiaing-plaees, and tlie Inac cessibility of the country wbicli will make them formidable enemies and tin war protracted and expensive. Many years ago the Sioux raptured tbe son ol Ouray while lie was on a buf falo hunt on the eastern plain* of Colo rado. The (toy then was tweve years of age and his only child. It has Ireen Ouray's great grief, and as lie was taken prisoner and is still living, he has made every effort to regain him. but as vet unsuccessfully. The government oiigbt as be thinks assist him, and get the boy hack. Ouray la*t year gave strong proof of his determination to keep hi* people quiet by the summary punish ment of O-sc-pnw, a Ute medicine chief, who was, if pi>ssible, even more resiles* than Colorow. He was constantly trav eling from the white river agency to tlie southern I'te country, exciting all tlie I'tes and endeavoring to get them to join him in an atta.'k upon tlie whites, claiming that they had iiee® defrauded by the Itrunnt treaty, and tlie whites ought not to be allowed to remain in tlie San Juan i-ountry. Ouray saw that he was getting quite a strong party on his side, so to stop the trouble, after an angry controversy, as he was leaving the council, while in the net of mount ing liia horse. O-se-paw was shot dead by opler of Ouray.—/lenecr (CW.) Tri bune. Tlie Inhospitable Family. The other day a genuine tramp with a stomach yearning tar a pickcd-im nn aj undertook to enter a yard on Wlndl' street. A large, fierce dog stood at the gate to give him a hostile welcome, and after vainly trying to propitiate the ani mal the tmrop called to a lad of ten who was making a kite on the veranda . " Iley. sonny 1" . " Yes. I'm hay," was the reply. "Say. hub, call off ycr dog." . "No use—r.o use," replied the lad. " Kven If you got in here inn's wniting at the kitchen with a kettle of hot water, Sarah's working the telephone to git the police, and I'm hero to holler ' murder!* and wake up the whole street."—AVcc Pre**. In France, horses end vehicle* exclu sively employed in farm woik, are ex empt from half the ordinary tax. TIMKLY TOPII'M. There is another astonished English man making a tour of the West—George Jacob Holvoake, the veteran English rc former and radical. He is "enchanted," lie says; " this is a marvelous country.'' and it lias a tremendous future; and lie adds: "The beauty of tile women and the comeliness of the men have aston ished inc. for that is not what we have been led to expect." Front this he bar,tens to infer that " the human rc.ee generally is improving. " From four to five carloads per day o( black walnut logs, rough sided (squared on four sid'-s and the corners dressed down), are brought to Chicago by the < 'hi< ago and Hock Island ana Chicago, Hurlinglon and Quiney railroads. These logs go East by rail and water to the seaboard, whence they are shipped to Europe—Germany being one of the largest consumers. The Jogs, on reach ing their destination are sawed to the i/.cs and shapes demanded by the mar ket The trade of this nature passing through Chicago is estimated at front KOOO,OOO to 10,000.000 feet p> r year. 1 he loss of life and property from the floods in Spain amounts to a national calamity. Making allowance for exag geration it would appear that at host 2,000 people have been drowned and • igiit million (lobars' worth of pn perty destroyed. It is greater than the de struction from all except the greatest tires; while a pestilence so fatal would lie remarkable. The mountain sides of Spain have been stripped of their forests, and those sudden floods overwhelm without warning whole towns and vil lages. like the bursting ot a mill-dam. It is reported that Hussia'wiil en- long attempt to place a loan in the American market. Her debt is already respecta ble as the following statement will show : Debt proper 8,450,000,000 rubies Paper money and forced currency. . 1,076,313,4 M Total ...3,580,313,480 rubies In American currency this amounts to alsiut $9,644,736,110. England's d-bt is JLT77.(tM|..V7. or f 3.889.007.085. The debt of the I'riitisl States is about fU.256.205.H03. France has made a decree in one of her departments that will in- approved by spinisti rs tie world over. The gen eral council of Rhone < nacts that, inas mucli as celibacy i* contrary to nature and the creeds of Providmee. and as tnaturi celibates are a class of men who till th< State with corrupt opinions, ail bachelor* in the department of the Rhone shall be taxed to the amount of one-quarter of their pay or tension for the up)xirt of abandoned children. The council disclaims any intention of un justly discriminating against the un married men. hut announi • * as its tins! judgment tiiat children who have beeo abandoned should )*• supported by bach ••lors rather than by nun who already have families d. jsndent upon tlietn. In view of th announced visit of the Mikado of Ja|ian to England, whither lie ex |m i t<'d to pro-sail liy way of San Francisco through tlie t'nited Slates, it is regarded hy foreign journalists as a lirool of the superior civilization of Japan. Some time agotle Chinese gov ernment imported a fleet of war steamers, but the Japanese have built their own, whetlier tor i ommer • or war. which are tangible evidence of their progressive character. Muteu Hito, the present Emperor of Japan, whom foreigners designate by the ancient title of mikado, or "The Veneiaide." was born in 1*52; succeeded ids father in 1*67; became absolute ruler in temj>oril and spiritual affairs hy the revolution of 1869, and though lie is aided witli the aid of the grand council and executive ministry and a senate, may IM> said to govern as well as reign. On*-feature of the la*' eruption of 'be remarkable volcano of Kilanea. in t * Sandwich Islands, is the fact that t) • great molten lake of lava, occupying huge cauldron nearly a mile in width ai I known as tlie " South lid I fuel drowsy No. 1 leitquietjy übilant and happy. The problem* of my life were all gone. The mysteries of life were mysteries no longer. I Jay there and blandly sneered at the world aa a tfiinK of no • ons<-.(uen< e whatever. I could not take rny from the light, hut it wflu h tiny no ft receded from rue and /n-w bigger ft wan a Star—it wan the full orie-d moon ; the attendant moved it a few inches, arid though I win conscious of iiia act. the light itself was a fiery comet with a sweeping tail that had allot through im measurable length of night. Now it grew and grew. It waa the nun. The whole world, the stars, the universe were Ising absorbed in it. I waa ab aorln-d in it. The glory touched me on all id; below me waa the tiny earth, a lilliputian hal!, U|>ori which myriads of crawling men fell down and worshiped me. Opposite to me waa Joe. I waa conscious of ltis presence—of cvTytliing about me. Had any one spoken to me i should liave answered rationally enough, yet the things about me were not so real iiM my dwelling-place in the heart of light. I w'riK liring :i dual existence. I wa* immortal. I hud commenced upon the eternal life. Kternity! The tiiougiit became real to nie. Time waa no longer, save in rny own person. 1 was the time-piece for et< rnal ages. I wa* wound up and going. The pulsations of my lif-arteacb measured a thousand years. A dread ful tension lengthened me out and stretched me in ail direction*. A great movement w- going on wliicli taxed all rny powers—the tension grew more and more tense, I could endure it no longer, there was a <|uiek sharp snap, a relaxa tion of all my energies, all my powers, and 1 was the eternal clock and knew that I had tiek'd and marked off one second of the fathomless ngw and that second had n-corded a thousand years of liuman time. The pendulum moved to two syllable*—f<>r—ever, for—ever, lor -ever' I lay dreading the billionth eternal year which should mark hut one mundane hour, and at the beginning of which I should strike. It i impossible for rri* to express the awful wiM'of expansion, indefinite ex p.-m-ion which everything took on, or to writ'- out one in a thousand of the wild fancies that tushod through my brain. I was not asleep. I was not dreaming; bj an exertion of will I could have risen, gone out of the pines- and walked home. I more than onoe counted my pulse. I rooted myself and looked to sec if my friend was be*ide me. He was quiet. and apparently sleeping. Kvery thought that passed through my mind took upon itself and surrounded itself with a ong sequence of quaint fancies.— HV/t M F. Hound, in Oood C"f/ifsmy. The Mikado of Indiana, The Detroit Free l*reM humorist give* this |K)liee court sketch: It was the hour of four o'clock in the afternoon. A voting man of twenty-four summers -udd'-nly appeared at the Central m.-tr ket and kicked a sedate-looking citron ky high with his right fool and maahed thre< nr four egg-plants with a whirl of his left. When asked to explain the fundamental principles of hi- platform he play eel pilch and h>* with sev nil heads of eahbage and crushed the juiey w.s-tnes out ol half a i>eek of the musky Ilartlett pear*. About this time several men and women row to a point of order and were rrofm ! sed by the speaker, who ruled that there was no show for discussion and peeled hi* coat to prove it. Tliis peeling brought i pse-ler, who put a stop to the destruction by putting a stop to the young man. who loudly declared that lie was tbe Mikado of In diana and away from borne on a boom. " I suppose it was temporary insan ity?" queried his honor, when the story had Iw-en told and the witness had fallen br.ck. " Either that or a fit." replied the prisoner " I didn't ntean to raise a fuss, out somehow the spirit came over rn e and I couldn't control myself. Th t sight of a citron always gives me a fee), ing of frenzy." "Citrons ." said the court as he looked Up to see what dav .of the month it was. "do not eon tain that satisfying sweet ness found in a watermelon." " That's true." sighed me prisoner. " ltut a citron, after it has passed through a certain process known to housewives, becomes a delicacy which ranks first in the affections of the pre serve-eating public." " I believe you—yea, I da." "Citrons, after they have been kicked into a pulpy state when raw. have lost all value, and are of no more good for* ever. Therefore ." " Therefore, I'm to be sent up?" inter, rupted the prisoner, " Yog." " For about sixty days?" ".lust about." " Very well. I'm the biggest hoosier in Indiany! I'm a regular mikado on rollers! I'm a catamount with extra claws.and I won't stay in vour old cala boose over fifteen minutes!" " All of which goes to prove that sixty days is too short a time, and I'll make it ninety I" calmly replied his honor, and at ninety it stood. A lonng Marksman's Feats. Captain Hogardtts, champion giass I ball and nigeon shot, gavi an exhibition at St. I'aul. Minn. Aftrt the captain bad finished. Eugene, his fourteen-year old son, took the stand, and for nearly 1 half an hour held the audience in brcath ; less attention. Eugene is a youthful ; prodigy, says the (ilobr. For one so voting his feats have never been equaled. With his little rifle, resembling more a , toy firearm than a death-dealing inst.ru ! tnenl, he astonished the lookers-on by breaking forty-seven out of fifty glass ! balls thrown Into the air. besides many | other odd and difficult feats. When . Dr. Carver gave his exhibition at the fair grounds, last season, nconle looked upon them as remarkable ann wonder ful. Hut now comes a mere youth, who. almost with a toy rifle, does equally, if not more, difficult feats. Carver used a large rifle, of which Eugene's is but a minature copy. Eugene's shooting re cord yesterday is ahead of anyting I>r. Carver ha* done. Despite a strong wind, he not only showed himself able to break glass halls, but to hit half dollars, attar ters, marbles, nickels, and even three cent pieces. His quiet, impassive, re tiring demeanor is also a matter of won dernv-nt. Apparently unconscious of performing any extraordinary fret, he •ontineea to lniui and fire his little piece, in no way elated at his success. Eugene ia certainly a prodigy, and will, no doubt astonish the world with still more re markable performances in his line. - y One hundred and thirty parsons are employed at Vassar Co lege, i'ougfa keepsie. N. Y., to wait on the girls and sgertd te the aside.