Lyra lira at* la. Within n ouiUo haunted. Ah enatlna were ol old. There hung a harp enchanted. And on ill rim ol gold Thin legend wan e use rolled: "Whatever ban! would wia me To atrike and wake within bmi. My one aupiemo endeavor, A chord I lint aounda forever." Three bnrda ol lyre and viol, By mandate ol the king, Were bidden to trial To find the magic ati ing (II thoro were auoh a thing), Then, alter ranch essaying Ol tuning, came the playing; And lords ami lailiee splendid Watched aa those harda contended. The flint—a minstrel hoary, Who many a rhyme had spun— Sang loud of war and glory— Ol battles lought and won; But when his song waa done. Although the bard waa lauded, And clapping hamla applauded, Yet, spite of the laudation, , The harp ceased its vibration. The second changed the measure And turned from Are ami sword To sing a song ol pleasure— The wino-cup and the liosxd - Till, nt the wit, all roared. And the high hall resounded • With merriment unbounded I Thg harp—loud as the laughter- Grew hushed at that, soon afrer. The third, in lover's laahion, And with hia soul on Are. Then sang of love's pure passion The heart and its desire ! And, us he smote the wire, The listeners, gathering rouad him, Caught up a wreath and crowned him. The crown—bath faded never • The harp—resounds forever I T%todorn Tiiton. Humors of the Telegraph. The majority of the rending, nnd all of the educated world are familiar with the accepted theories regarding elec tricity, anil with the application of thene theories by which we have the tele graph. Hut comparatively few have lifted the veil of the temple and wit nessed the peculiar results of its practi cal working. And these are the em ployees ol the companies whose business it is to control and make use of the mysterious agency and " wonder-work ing wires" for the convenience and hap piness of lite public. In the historv of the Western Union company I recall but two instances of the Known betrayal by operators of the contents of important messages among the millions of opportunities and in ducements offered. In noother business are mistakes more common, or for many reasons so excusa ble. For instance, a compositor or a copyist has his manuscript to easily con sult, and, to a certain extent, is mas ter of his own time; but an operator's time, especially if receiving a message, is governed by the one at the other end of the line, and he must depend for ac curacy upon the correctness of his ear and memory. Nearly every one has read of the indignation of that father who received a message that his sickly daughter, who was absent nt school, " had a child this morning," and the subsequent appeasal ol his wrath upon finding o<'t that the original message read "chill," not "child." Not long ago a certain charitable institution was considerably mystified by a message ask ing for the whereabouts of "Monkey Wrench." The inquiry was instantly changed to " Mother French," how ever, upon being returned to the tele graph company for explanation, and apology made for the unintentional blunder. It was. I think, the same operator who, in taking an Associated Press article, innocently spoke of "Mrs. Herman" as secretary of the treasury— a sudden advance in woman's rights to which the secretary, Mr. Sherman, would doubtless object. And a peace ful family circle ought not to he sur prised, as it was, by receiving the fol lowing; "John is dead beat. Depot this evening.' when a correct transmis sion of the dispatch would have rendered it, " John Is dead. Be at depot this evening." I recall another family agitated by the telegraphic information that " Brother lied last night," only to ultimately find out that he had departeil life instead of truth. Some time since a message transmit ting the intelligence that " the Presby tery lacked a quorum to ordain," caused a prodigious amount of nrclreiaslical wonderment and dismay on reaching its destination by announcing that "the Presbytery tacked a wiirm on to Adam." Comment is unnecessary. The worthy and sedate Dr. Blank, of one of our eastern colleges, once accepted an invitation to lecture in a western city. His letter of acceptance, appoint ing in early date, omitted to state the subject of (lis discourse, and, to adver. tlso in advance, the raminiittee was obliged to telegraph him. requesting his subject. They were somewhat aston ished at his icplv, but not thinking of the possibility or a mistake, handed it over to the only daily paper, which in a highly eulogistic but misleading article advised all its readers to bear Rev. Dr Blank deliver his oelnhrated and ex tremely humorous lecture—subject: "A Flew for Activity." The Doctor arrived too late to have the announcement changed to what it shonld have been "A Plea for Activity"- and the result was a disappointed house and a grieved lecturer. The mistakes of tbc telegraph, often provoking and sometimes amusing, nr. occasionally in their results of great im portance. It was not long ago that a wheat speculator in Chicago made Sr/) 000 by a small order being accidentally changed to nn immensely large one. 1 believe he lias made no complaint, find the mark' t turned the otlier way though' Some ypars ngothednngMirofn well known ritixen of eentml New York, named Jennie, had unfortunately,as tin father tbett thought, formed aa attach merit for a young man named John. To separate them the father seat her to spend the winter with a married sister, Mary, who resided, in New York Spring approached and -leanie was ex pected home on a certain day, hut. in stead, the father received a letter from his son-in-law desiring that she might remain a while longer so thai his wife could accompany him on n short south em trip, and requesting nn mwwerj by telegraph; whereupon the father sent the following dispatch: "Jennie may stay and Mary go, if she wishes to very much." The message as delivered in New York read: "Jennie may stay and marry George if she wishes to very much." 'Hie fid her Immediately received this from Jennie: " A thousand thanks for your permission; John nnd I marry at once. The telegraph stupidly made his name (leorge, hut of course you meant John." How it happened that John wns so wonderfully convenient is, probably, not our concern, and we can only hope that tlie father and Jennie have never re gretted this mistake of the telegraph. The hieroglyphlealVharaeters supposed to be writing in some messages handed in over the office counters is sometimes fearful and wonderful to contemplate. The telegraph is only used in cases of importance or emergency, and the incor rect reading of a single word in a con densed telegram is apt to rentier it not >oly valueless, but is liable to lead to a serums misconstruction. Business men especially should bear in mind that a plain, clear chirngraphy not only lessens the liability to error, hut helps to hasten the forwarding of a message. To illustrate the carelessness ol some men's writing is the story of that Eng lish nobleman who wrote to n friend in India to "please send at once two monkeys;" hut he wrote the two with out crossing the t. and otherwise so blindly that Ids (Vicnd mistook it for 1.0(H), and on the first Isiat came thirty five monkeys, with a note saying the balance would follow as soon as so large an order could be filled. The members of the press are not ex empt from this carelessness of untrans latable handwriting. I remember a special sent by a metropolitan reporter from a small town, describing an execu tion. Thesending operator complained of the writing, and stumbled along slowly nnd grumblingly, finally capping the climax by saying tlie "doomed man then arose, partook of a hearty break fast. and Went out and buried himself will) his fife." Tlie city operator re quested a halt, and after a long silence and evidently much study, was told by the sender to change the last five words to " busied himself with his pipe." Mentioning newspapers, recalls a men sage sent by an energetic Cincinnati edi tor wiio h:ul heard a false rumor of a heavy rain and tlood In the country edi. tor's vicinity, to the editor of a country weekly. It read: " Send us particulars of the flood." Tlie reply was quite prompt: " Yon will find a lull account in Genesis." An operator gets accustomed to these messages, and also to such as: "Send tuo two daughters of an outcast:" or, " We have no desperate menfor lie rightly concludes that the last mention ed are either to or from some book dealer. Why telegraphers, as a class, are so seemingly card ess and mirthful need not lie discussed here, perhaps the lively character of the fluid with which they are brought into constant contact ( transfused and causes this effcrveson'-c of mental activity. < >neof their honored customs in tlrr initiating of an operator, frreh and verdant fnnu some small coun try place into his new position in a city office, with its babel of sounds and per plexing rush and hurry, reminds one of college hazing, or the sailor's baptize tnent on his first crossing of the line. The victim is requested to take a "special." How timidly he sits down, and how nervously he sharpens his pen cil to take for the first time in his life press for the papers. How the instru no-nt buzzes when he says " go ahead." and doses his key. He feels the watch ful eye of the chief, and he must not, he will not, fail in his first trial. And, oh! what a dispatch for a newspaper! It begins all right about i railroad acci dent, but in some mysterious wny this connects itself with n temperance con vention. which branches into afirecalls>si by a walking match, with Congress call ing upon Mexu-o to prevent the duel lie tween tlie polar expedition and the IV cifie railroad which— He stops matters for an investigation and wonders if it's he or the correspon dent t lat i entirely daft. Then lie rubs his ama/.ed lead. and looks cautiously around and discovers that lie seems the sole object of interest to the others; and if he takes good naturedly the roars of laughter and the pointed questions that greet him when lie also discovers tlint liis wonderful dispatch originated in the fertile hrnin.nnd by nelevcrswitch ing of tie- wires, was sent bv the fash at operator in the office from the other end of the room to test him. he has taken one long step toward fraternizing. The all-night men while away the tedious hours after the dropping or busi ness withconveisatinn and stories; and the belter the story-teller, and the fresher his jokes, the "more popular lie is. And how easy to dispose of a bore! It is said that on one of the circuits I'fl tween New York and Chicago and in termediate cities, the nil-night men had oniy to request one of their eo-laborers. who lind no otbor fault than his long, pointless stories, to relate something, and then, unsnown to him for. tlioy had no desire to offend him —would ent him out of the circuit, and have a social good time for an hour or two. On readjusting the wires the honest and solitary story-teller would be ratt ling along, unconscious of his loss of nuditors, and ierfectly happy in their remarkable attention. Perhaps the ! reader has in his youth told with much enthusiasm a capital story to a sleepy bedfellow to find, on Hearing the end, j that his companion was sound asleep, i It's rather depressing. A story, first told by a San Francisco paper. I will venture to repent here for ' no better reason than heeause it is j strictly true. It often liappens that tele- ! grnphers are tailed into service at tlje representation of a stage play. In which occurs what is known as a " telegraph < seine." such ns the one shown in Byron's "Across tlie Continent," cr Boucicnult's "long Strike," and nt such times the operator la-hind the scenes manages to amuse himself by "talking" toAlie audi ence, unknown of course to only those of the fraternity who are present. The drama of " Across the Continent" was several years ago produced at n certain hall, and for the manipulation of the telegraph instrument which plays an im portant part in tlie most exeitjng scene of the play, nnopcrnt if, whom we will call Frank, was engaged. His position was sti< h that he eotiTd sen tlie audience without being seen, and upon taking his position lie direovered in the auditorium a hrothrr operntor frnm out of town, Hpieer by name, who had that day ar rived. Frank Is fond of a joke, so when the lime come for sending the first dis pa*eh he loudly sounded on the machine, "How are you, Hpieer?" The profor slonal car of Spicer instantly caught tlie words, and, wondering who it was, straighten!*! uti and stared at tlie stage as if lie would give two dollars and a half to know something more. "Spicer, how's your mniiuuu?"quickly followed from the instrument, and the mystified Kpiccr confidingly turned to his lair partner to express his astonish ment at the most singular circumstance. As luck had it the auditorium held quite i a delegation of operators, who knowing Spicer ami hi* great characteristic of bashfulnesH, with one accord began to look around the theater for him. Spierr lind hardly began telling the young lady about it when there came another message; "Aha! old Spicer! Don't fool that confiding creature with any of your non- M DM." | This aroused the telegraphers to a 1 pitch of curiosity, and many of them i Hlood gazing about tlieni as if their only I object in life was to discover Spicer. I Ami lie felt that they saw him, and the I confusion which had ln-cn gradually ; covering ids features grew into mortiti ! cation when lie saw so many eyes leveled I at htm, and at last culminated in his | hasty withdrawal from the theater. But Frank sent a parting shot, fur a* ] lie faded from view he heard "Good-bye, Spicer; hut don't forget ! her tendency for ice cream." When it is considered that this ccne forms the climax of an cxc e-dlngly thrilling point of the play, and Mr. Byron is dramatically explaining with ! wild gesticulations to the audience what ' the instrument is supposed to be saying, , the modest Spicer's embarrassment can I he understood. Hastily as we have glanced at tlie brighter and cheerful side, there is now | room for tlie dark one. But messages of sorrow and death burden the long slender wgres and trip through tlie nick ing instruments. Living dramas are constantly wrought through tin ir mute agency, and of this perhaps they are speaking when at the quiet of midnight we hear from them that strange .Eolian music like voices from a spirit land, that deep within us finds a responsive chord, thrilling and saddening us.—(Vnciiinoli ; Kti'{uirj:r. Words of Wisdom. | The path of moderation is the safest to tread. It's poor foolishness to run down your | enemies. i The mother's heart is the child's ; school-room. Make yourself necessary and your suc • cess is certain. Hide the faults of other* and irake i known tlie virtU'*s. K' fts<>n is tlie test of ridii ule—not rid icule the test ol truth. When reason is against man, a man will be against reason. Oar actions are our own; tlie com- • quences licking to heaven. The festival which Ix-ar* the grcates fruit is the festival of duty. Our acts make or mar us; we are the children of our own deeds. Every undertaking is involved in its fault*, as tiie fire in its smoke. Oft expectation fails, and in out oft here where most it promises. Age that lcs* n.* the ciuoyment of ife inenas'-s our desire of living. Watch your own speech and notice how it is guided by your lea* conscious purposes. iKist thou love life* Then do not squander lime, for that is the stuff life i made of. Commend a tool for hi* wit or a knave for his homntynnd they will receive you into llieir tiosom. No triumph is so great as that of tlie soul over tlie body. It is inspired by the highest motive. When gratitude ha* liecome a matter • f reasoning there are many way* of escaping from it* bonds. Many a sweetly-formed mouth lias been disfigured and made hideous by the fiery tongue within it. A clear conscience can rest easy on a lied of granite, while nn evil one would he uneasy on a bed of swansdown. Uphold trutli when thou canst, and for her sake he listed; tint know thv in dividual cause is not tlie cause of truth, and beware that they are not confounded. It is easy to advise a person, hut how difficult to receive, under similar eir cumstanees, that same advice from another, because wc are so prone to Im>- lieve that what we accept i truth, and that those who cannot see with out eye* are all wrong. The Hull and the Retil Fish. The Teipcko f Japan) 7Yme* says tlie story given below wa communicated by a correspondent: Tlie author of "Bchuyukidan " who lived some sixty yearsago, was once traveling in Muttii, one of tlie northern prox Incc*. Walking one dny near tlie sea beach lie heard the bellow of a hull, and went in the direc tion of tlie noic. He war. then witness of an extraordinary comlmt lietwcen some cuttle fi*h and a hull. An enor mous poulpe, with bright purple e-e* and tentacles six feet long, had attacked the qundruped. Throwing it* arms around the lately, Hie monster tried to make for the water witii it* captive. Meanwhile other octopi, in large num ber* ami of great size, swarmed on to the shore, which seemed tobc alive with their big round head*. Some of tliem assisting their comrade, soem ike him attacked tlie hull, dragging it down to tli* sea. Their quarry, however, made a brave resistance, and succeeded in gor ing its flr*t foe in the head nnd belly and shaking itself free from it* embrace. Before it could escape, Iwiwever. it wss firmly held by a still larger monster, while other* Uiok solicitous care of tlie wounded one. Tlie unfortunate beast's bellowing attracted a crowd of fishermen to tlie spot. One of these, stronger and braver than hi* fellows, hi* limbs swayed in straw bandage*, ami a sharp knife in Ilia hand, boldly rushed to tlie rescue of the hull, and cut through the tentacle* wlii'M inclosed it. Other poulpestiien attacked the Asher.to whose aid his fellows hastened, and a fierce fight ensued bet ween men and monster* in which tlie former were victorious, many of tlie squills being killed, while thereat esenped into the water. Two of the tentacle* wound round tlie hull were so heavy that one man alone could not carry tliem. One was tarrive and the other six feet long; the largest of tlie two was subsequently boiled in sections at different times in a big kettle. Home years previous to tills battle, cattle had disappeared in a mysterious way from the same shore. The fight between tlie cephalopoda and the hull enlightened Hie proprietors a* to their low. London— ltd Greatness. London in 11 viint world in itself. You are- ImprOßHod, wlii-n you lind yourself in it, witii ltn Immensity; a* one in ini pre-ssee! iiy the vn*t reach ot tin* oe-can WIIPH lie ste-am* over It dny after day without n glimpse of land orthe-sight, perhaps, of a single sail. You feel like ii mere atom in thin vast billowy tide of human life. Cut up into Rmnlipr e-om niunitie-s Ixiodon would make a dozen cltiCH equal in population to New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Haiti more, Washington, Buffalo, Cincinnati. Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans and San Krunciseo! It contains more people than our six populous New Knglnml States, more than the whole kingdom of Denmark, more Minn twice as many as Norway, nearly as many as all Scot land. It is Haul to contain more Jews i than Palestine, more Catholics tliar. j Koine, more Irishmen than Dublin, | more Scotchmen than Edinburgh. ! Tliere are omnibuses running across the ; city, by as straight a route as the oow i path streets allow, which start before j live o'clock in the morning and bare-lp make two runnel trios before midnight. And yi ar by year the great city pushes out its borders, encompassing village j after village oi the outlying suburbs in i its spider web of pavements, and witlei mains, and oninihUM-*, and busy traffic. I The villas around its fringes, as linre says, seem to tie constantly making an | eflort to get into the country and never succeeding. Many m-ighimrhriods in ; tliesolinly built city still near the names 1 by wliicli they were Known wlicnthey were only little hamlets in the fields ! miie* from the city gates—such as Chelsea. Kensington.('amlierwell.Baya water, St. John's Woid, etc. It is ' partly because of the absorption of so many villages in the great mctropoit ; that it is afiticteel witii such confusion in its street nomenclature. If you wish | to visit King street it is possible for you to explore ninety-four different stn-e-t* of that name before you lind the right |one, If it is Queen stre-et, your chance of hitting the right one the first time is just one in ninety-nine. I toes your friend live on Church street—you are | confronted by one hundred and fiftt I streets of that name besides the one yot I want! Even of John streets there are one hundred and ninctee n, and of N< w i street* —new a long while ngo in most e.iiM-s—one hundred and sixty-six! It become* A ncccMpy, in sueli ease*, to give the street a surname, so to speak— a* men iiegin to take surnames when •lames and John and Mary became fie. | it legs at alinie. It has six legs, throe on ; side. When it walks it balnnev-s itself ; on its edge and move* along at a good I pace on three leg*. After walking in thi way about a minute i- flop* over and .walk* on tlie other three legs. Some time* it walks on its two fore leg*, like a man in a oircu* walking on hi* hands. Mr. Hunt as*e-rt that the hug e ; tween two tables, and tlie bug walked j tlie tight-rope on edge and then hung down from It by hi* hind feet The j Piute* venerate "the insect, and ny that when it appears in tlie fall with gold mark* on it* hack it means plenty. Black spots signify death and white *pot* famine Aside from the absurd superstition, tlie hug is certainly a w< ndertul tiling and ft* antic* vaMjy amusing Mr. Hunti-eftim-d ten dollars j for it this morning, offered by Tom Ruekner.— Eiryieiur Ctiy (Act.) f'Arow - - - Horning a Read Elephant. Bomehodv asked a great Herman chemist, " What is man P " A pinch of i phosphorus and a bucketful of water." was his answer. It recalls this con t< mptuou* definition (made from a i chemical stand-point), to read of a two ton eli pliant mlue-cd to a wheel-barrow load of chip*. The Ixmdein Tdmraph , ehmcribes the disposal made of "Boy." a dead elephant at tlie Zoological Gar* ileus at Berlin: Tlie corpse of this co lossal public favorite was found to weigh considerably over two tons, ex j elusive of the bones, and had to be divided into several sections before it could be conveyed away from the gar den* to the furnace by wliirh it was eventually consumed. Eight strong nun failed to lilt the skin alone into a cart. " Boy's" hide Weighed twelve hundred weight, and was found to be two inehem thick in some part* and an inch and three-quarters thick along tlie spine. It wa so much dam aged, however, by the illness to which "Boy "succumbed, that eminent taxi dermists, to whose inspection it was submitted, pronouniiMi it until for pres ervation, and declined to attempt to stuff it. Accordingly, it was reduced by com bustion to ashes, and yielded half a hun dred weight ot manure, valued at £4s. fld. Tlie whole of ids carcass, witii the ex ception of the bones, which have been preserved for tlie purpose ol rcoonstiurg ing Ids skeleton, was consumed by the action of steam until all that was left of it could lie carried away in a wheelbar row, and sold to a gardener for IBs. Hut fertile* are covered with feathers: hairs are hollow tutu-*. Tlie surface ol our bodies is covered with scale* like those of a fish. A single grain of send would cover a hundred of these scalna, ••at a scale covers hundred* of pore*. Through these nvrow openings pcrspir* I "lion forces itself out, like water t luougt | sieve. TIMBLI TOPIC*. Eighteen of the State-* have civil dam age liquor laws. Their provisions are substantially the same, making de-ale-r* responsible pecuniarily for all harm re sulting from the sale of alcoholic bev rragi-s. New York, Ma no Massachu setts and Illinois have Minutes precisely alike. The Russian government is about to introduce on<- more penally against journal* published without preliminary censorship. They are now prohibited from publishing business advertise ments. The Husskaia l\rnroui* paper. j The United State* consul at Tien Tsin, China, in adispa'ch to tlm Department 1 of State, report* that two English physi cian* have had remarkable success in their practice in the royal family, lead ing to an immense practice among the i common |>con]e. The viceroy has es tablished a free dispensary and placed one of the doctors at it* la-ad. The whole expense i* borne by the viceroy. He ha* also noticed favorably Miss Howard, M. I).. an American lady, who hold* high rank among the physicians of I'eking. This lih< ral and humane course by tlie foremost man in the em pire will do mueli to break down tlie piejudiecs of the people. The Nevada .Vim r saj mat wherever in any part of tlm world silver mine* have bis n worked tlmy nr<- work'-d now, unless by war.the invasion of Indians, J Me., the xvork has tss-n stopped. There i i* no silver mining region in the world ] that lia* givin out. Mexican mines J worked by the Aztec before the con quest bv <\rt 7 are stiil as profitable as ever. The old Spanish mine*, opened long ix-fnre Hannibal'* time, are stiil w.irkwl witii enormous profits. Tlie South Anmri> on mines have constantly yielded their wealth for more than 3ob years, and are a* productive a ever, i Mines in Hungary that were worked by tlm Roman* before the time of Christ, stiil yield an abundance of ore. The Hungarians are exceedingly jeal | ous of their identity a* a distinct and I sovereign people, and carefully preserve I their nalio al Usages and language. With Urn later, however, tlmy have milch trouble, the tendency being to ii* gradual extirpation before that of She more numerous and powerful Teutonic race, witii which they are so joined that | one or tlm oUmr must give way. Ger man is the official and judicial language of Hungary, and the srhoois | are not on'y not conducted in llun ' garian, hut that language l is not taught in them. An effort in tlm Hungarian Parliament to mske instruction in the ! native tongue compulsory in the schools was und'-r discussion some time ago. and was linaiiy defeated because it was feared that it might create trouble wilh j the rest ol the empire. Tlm annual report of Dr. W. W Strew, the njedieal Miperint' ndent of the ' City Lunatic Asylum, at Blaekwell's Island. New York, present* an interest ing and valuable exposition of the work of tiiis import.mt public charity Dur j ing tlie last year tlie total number of patient* undiT treatment in the asylum was 1.7W7, of whom iWM were discharged ; eiiiier eniireiy or partially recovered. , Tlie deatli rate among tlie inmate* was extraordinarily low. and the sanitary '•ondition of the institution appear* to ! have been admirable throughout. Dr. ' Strew, in iiis report, i-all* e-*peeial atten tion to the fact that a tmnevolent laejy of this city hit* intcre*ted herself in pre euring employment for cured ami dis charged patient* who, afW re-oovcry, usually find it difficult to obtain situa tions, anel expre-s*e>* the liepe that other friemds of theme unfortunate people will follow thi* laudable example. A singular foot lia* been recently re ported ed the pe-ople of the little visited country ef Annum, an it depende-nt though tributary state on the south of China. Tlm native-* of the country ol pure descent hare the great toes of each loot separatee! from the other* like the thumb on the hand, and can and do U*e their toes in much the same manner • h it the thumb* are used, though. ef cnuim, to a much less extent, in the vie-inity of tlie seaport of Sargoo, where foreign intercourse ha* produced an admixture of races, tills t ypieal characteristic of the Annauicsc is graetually passing away; hut in tlie northern sertk ns of the king demi. wlmre the race lias remained dis tinct, it is rarely the ease that a child is beirn without flexible toe*. That thi* Eeeuliarlty is of great antiquity is shown y the fart that in the Chinese'- annals of tlie year 23u0 B.C..there i* a de scription Siven of the barbarian tribe* that were ie-n to be found upon tlie borders of the Clilne-se empire, and ameeng theme one tribe or race is mentioned a* having thi* peculiar formation of the big toe. They hax-e no civil damage net in Ger enany, hut even there the necessity of some restriction upon the sale of aleo ho!lc liouors'to such as have not suffi cient disiTetlon to use them properly appears to lie exjneeded. In vanous dis trict*. by authority of general instruc tion* proceeding fiom the government, the police have prohibited tavern keep ers mini selling or otherwise ftirnishing to minora under the ag of sixtem, ap prentices or persons mentally derang-d or weak, any dialilled spirituous liqw • of whatever description, and n similar prohibition will apply to hui'-k to con finned drunkards, whenever the name* of thew* latter have• been giyen to the ihiuor vender* with a proper caution. l)ioWii'iiif of th" n read ali around Isitli princi pals blamed themselves a* being too nasty aad apologised. Spaa oar alhHl leaving for home, and during the war joined the Union army. Hall start'-d for ' the Salmon river gold mines, hut find ' inp gold in Montana in the Slinking WaU r mines, he went there and was married. This is th° true story ol the whole nfTair. Down a Chafe. 1 At huie is laid from the river's lwink ■ up tin- steep mountain to the railroad, and while We ar<- telling it the monster I log* arc rushing, thundering, flying, leaping ond with a report that '°an be beard a mile distant. Logs fired from a cannon could scarcely hare grike a grand | plume of diamonds and rainhows. the feathery spray is hurled into tlie air to tli" li< iglit of a 100 feet. It form* the grandest fountains ever beheid. How the water* of the pond foam and seethe and lash against tlie shore. One log, having spnt its force hy it* mad plunge into the deep waters, has floated so"a to be at right angles with the path of the descending monster. The mouth of tlie chute is perhaps fif i t'-en feet above the surfaceol the wati r. A huge log hurled fnun the chute cleave* tlie air and alight* on the floating log. You know how a bullet glances, but can ; you imagine a saw-log g.snce? The lend stiikcs with a heavy shock, but glides quickly past for a sliort distance, I then a crash like a rcverbemtioil of artillcrv, the falling log springs 150 feet ; vertically into the air. ana with a curve j like a rocket falls into the pond seventy ' yards from tlie log it struck.— 7YucAu Set.) R'frtMican. w Thirteen Days Without Food. The steamship Kngland reached New York front Liverpool after a rough pas sage. When a 'longshoreman descended into the fore hold, which was stowed | full of harrrls. packed so closely as to leave only a space of about three feet ; between them and the deck, he heard talking.and suddenly touched something that his lantern showed to be a human body. Soon aUerward the sailors dragged to the light aman.still alive and conscious, hut so rcdu<-ed by starvation that hewn* only a living sfceieton, with skm.like sliriveledparehntent drawn over liis Uines. The ship's pbvsirian trie Ito force nmirishment clown the stowaway'* throat; but be wn* 100 far gone, and in hnlf an liour he died. It was evidc nt% that he was a foreigner, and when be 1 wa* first taken on deck an Austrian girl from among the steerage passengers suc ceeded in undcrstanoing a few words that he was able to murmur, lie begged for watcr.saidthat he had lasted neither food nor drink since the day the ship sailed and that his name wa* " llanrv. ' That was sll lie ws* able to say. His body was sent to the morgue. In the narrow space Into which the stowaway had sqneesed himself iust before the steamship sailed, he could only lie down or craw i around over tlie heads of lh*& , barrels; iut could not s'snd nor could* he sit upright. His clot hint showed lliat in his terrible hunger lie had gnawed it, as he had also gnawed hits of wood from the hands The man who wrnis a wateh cbaia should keep a wsteh on H.