TIMELY TOPICS.
There is hope for Charley Ross yet.
fn New York the parents of a fourteen
year-old boy, who lost him when sepa
rated eleven yenrs ago, recovered hiiu
after ho had been lost ail that time. Tho
boy had had availed exp<rience, and
passed through many vici-situdcs, nnd
was finiilly found on Blackwi il's Island,
where he had been committed as a va
grant.
Thus far this year there have been
built in the United States 3,288 miles of
railroad, against 1,863 to date last year.
The increase is large, but the results so
far do not entirely sustain the estimate
that 7,000 miles would be completed in
1680. The prices of iron and steel rails
declined so much during the summer,
however, that provision may have been
inadc for a larger construction this fall.
John Moran was under engagement
f to marry Ix>ttie Church, at Sandy
Ala. lie deserted her and went to live
In an adjoining county. When told of
: his perfidy, she prayed that he might be
punished by instant death. It chanced
that at exactly that hour he was killed
by the fall of a tree. believes that
her prayer caused his death, and is
: crazed by remorse.
j Great excitement has been caused
throughout Australia by the discovery
of the Temora gold field, near Sydney.
The rush of people into the township,
says the Sydney Morning Herald in
creases daily, men arriving even from
Victoria. The great drawback to the
field is the want of water for puddling
purposes. Gold is being struck very
freely.
The Bible society of England was
founded in 1780, just 400 years after the
f first translation of the Bible into th
{English language. The American Bible
society was organized in 1816, under the
If patronage of the Rev. Dr. Goodenough,
J. of New Jersey. From these two socie-
R ties, established within '2OO years, have
g; sprung thousands of auxiliaries. In
■ seventy-five years they have published
II 160,000,000 copies of the Bible.
I The secretary of the Iron and Steel as-
I sociation reports 697 blast furnaces in
■ the United States, with an annual ca
ff paclty of 6,5n0,f00 tons of pig iron; 38-2
K rolling mil's, with an annual capacity
I of 4,000,000 tons, the capacity of the rail
I mills being 2,150,000 tons; eleven Bes
■ semer steel works, with an annual ca
■ pacity of 1,7ft('.000 tons, besides ll,80
I miscellaneous works.
A resident of Germantown, Pa., has
■ In his possession an int resting relic of
■ a public benefactor. This is a silver
■ tankard weighing twenty ounces, which
■ was the property of Gabriel Wilkinson,
Bthe first marb e mason of Philadelphia,
■ who died 148 years ago. He hung the
Btank&rd from the pump in front of his
Bmarble-vard for the benefit of thirsty
Bpassers-by. It would not be safe for the
Bpresent owner to hang that silver tank-
Bard in such a conspicuous place—even
B In Philadelphia.
[ An odd proof of the inexorable ob
■ atinaoy with which the Englishman up-
R* holds ancient isndmarks, or customs or
Rj laws, even when they oppress himself,
R is seen in the recent vain tff.rt to pro
■jpaote a bill doing away with the gates
■•nd bar 3 which obstruct traffic and
Btransit in the most crowded parts of
■London. Portions of the metropolis, as
Ball American travelers have noticed
■ with astonishment, nre thus barred at
Bertain seasons of the years, while other
Bplreets arc reserved for the passage of
■livened equipages alone, the ducal
■ owners of the estates in which these
Bphoroughfares lie thus showing their
■ proprietary rights. The proDerties of
Bthe dukes of Portland and Bedford are
Bin this way made exceptionally ob-
Bptructive to the business of the ordinary
Beiti/sns. But ordinary English citizens,
Bthouvh numbered by ligions, will bear
■Any discomfort for generations rather
interfere with an old custom.
i Thirteen of the widows of Brighanr
■Young still live in the Lion house at Salt
Their shares of the estate were
Bn2 1.000 each, according to the will, but
Bfey threatening litigation they obtained
only tho income from their
|| jk®perty; but that is sufficient to give
exccl.rnt tare in the old home,
jHfith servants, horses nnd §75 a month
Kb money. Louise, one of the daughters
Bpf the prophet by Emcline Free, the
■jtosl intellectual and intelligent of the
eajs that all of her lull brothers
Hhid sisters have renounced polygamy;
* majority of Young's forty-seven
Hkldren are Motmons. Speakingof the
as it used to be, she says:
■We lived very happily. My fathers
band had a good deal to do with
HR. He tan ght ns to love one another.
morning wives and children met
ggkfi the parlor, where we had prayers and
■Bilging. People have oPen asked me i
BOW in the world father knew all his
■Rhiidren and wives, but I can tell you If
one was missing at prayers he
it, and found out where he or she
Our house was like a great hotel,
B 1 ! we the guests. Our father was a
manager, and very practical in
his household affairs.
Bpur rooms opened on to a long hall, like
onr ' in the hotel here, but larger, and
BBhen we wanted anything from sisters,
or wives, we went into this
Bpuom or
g One Havana (Cuba) paper which an-
Bpounced the loss of the steamship Vera
Hpruz, off the Florida coast, was fined
■Kfioo because the government bad
Bwdered that no mention be made of the
■faaater until further particulars be re-
MAJOR JOHN ANDRE.
A Krw Ntorr of Ilia rawtnrr~.Nl! men
Nnlil to llnve Keen Knwmt| in it,
John Paulding, David Williams und
Isaac Van Wart have their names on
the Tarrytown monument as tbo cap
tors of Major Andre, hut it iH claimed
that three others assisted, whose de
scendants thus tell the story:
The smallest schoolboy knows that
Benedict Arnold had mndc terms with
Andre to surrender West Point to the
British, and had prepared dispatches for
the British commander in New York,
giving detailed information of tho condi
tion of afl'airs in the department thutthe
traitor commanded. It was while re
turning to New York as a private citizen
on horseback that Andre was captured
and the dispatches found. The spy was
eventually executed. The men wiiose
names are mentioned in the foregoing in
scription are the historical captors, and
were so recognized by act of Con
gress A reporter of tho Herald having
made inquiries among the old residents
of the county, has gleaned some infor
mation of an interesting character which
lias been handed down from their ances
tors. From Caleb Van Tassel, of King's
Bridge, Henry Romer, of Pleasanlviile,
and Alexander Van Wart, of Tarry
town, the following history of the cap
ture was obtained: On the eventful day,
Paulding. Williams, Van Wart, James
Homer, John Yerks and Stephen Van
Tassel were sent to guard the roads
against cattle thieves. Paulding had
been a prisoner for several months in
the British camp and had escaped four
days previously, and was attired princi
pally in British uniform, the rest being
dressed in ordinary rural style. Pauld
ing and his two companions stationed
themselves on the Albany road aud the
other three took chargj of th White
Plains road, which branched off the
Albany road half a mile northward and
led eastward, each party being stationed
about half a mile from the forks of the
two roads, and being in a straight line
over a half a mile apart. About ten
o'clock in the morning, while Paulding
and his companions were sitting on a
rock, playing a game of cards known as
" seven-up," they saw Major Andre
coming down the road. He stopped at
the brook to water his horse, and Pauld
ing's party approached him. Paulding,
who was the spokesman, said: "Good
morning, stranger. Which way are
you going?"
He thought he had found a cattle
thief, but when the man spoke like a
gentleman and said he was going to
White Plains "on important business
for General Arnold," Paul ling's opinion
was changed, and ho quickly replied
that he guessed he had missed the road.
The man seemed to be a little.confused,
and Paulding said: "Which party do
ou belong to?"
"To your party," said the man.
" How do you know which party I
belong to?" said Paulding.
"lean tell by your dress,"said tt.e
nan.
" I suppose, then, you belong to ill
ower party?" said Paulding.
" Yes," said the man.
" Then we must detain you," replied
Paulding.
" I cannot be detained," was the an
swer. "My business is urgent."
" What business have you with the
lower party ?"
"Oh, I belong to the ether party,"
ttie man said, and exhibited n pass
signed " B. Arnold,"requesting the safe
passage of " John Anderson on import
ant business."
Paulding and his party held a brief
consultation on the propriety of detain
ing him and were in doubt. Andre,
seeing this, started his horse forward
and had gone about three rods when
Paulding commanded him to halt. The
man stopped and begged to be allowed
to proceed, but Paulding said that as he
was going toward the lines of the lower
party, he should take him into custody.
The man then offered Paulding's party
his gold watch, which was a curiosity
to the ruralists, to let him go. They
refused the bribe. Then he offered to
secure for them any amount of money
they might name if they would concea
him and communicate with such parties
as he directed, and then liberate him
upon the receipt of the ransom. This they
declined and ordered him to dismount
Upon searching him they found nothing,
and were some w hat in doubt about
their right to interfere, when Paulding
commanded him to take off his boots.
The man then turned pale. In his
stockings were found the dispatches
from Arnold. "My God," said Pauld
ing. "he is a spy I" On making this
discovery they started for North Castle,
near White Plains. They went to the
forks of tho road, and turning into the
White Plains road with their prisoner
they met the Romer party, to whom
they imparted the information already
given. It was agreed between the six
men that And** shout 1 be deliverd to
Colonel Jameson, at North Castle. It
was then about noon, and they stopped
for dinner at the Landrine place, and
Andre was placed in a room under
guard, and the room in that bouse,
which is still standing, is called " the
Andre room." To Colonel Jameson's
camp the prisoner and the evidence
against him were delivered. His
watch horse and property were all sold,
and their value divided among the six
men. Soon after Andro's arrival be
wrote a letter to Arnold, and Colonel
Jameson sent a messenger with i to the
traitor, to whom it was delivered, the
old tradiiion says, while he was eating
dinner with General Waihington, near
Tarrytown. Upon reading it, Arnold
hastily left the table, saying he had im
portant business "to attend to over the
river," nnd departed. Taking a small
boat below Tarrytown and rowing to
tho British s!oop-of-war Vulture, he
was never seen again in the American
lines. The trial end execution of Andre
are well-known historical facts.— New
York Herald.
A Lonely Grave.
That afternoon I found something I
had never seen before—a little grave
alone in a wide pasture which had once
been a field. The nearest house was at
least two miles away, but by hunting for
it I found a very old celhir, where the
child's home must have been, not very
far off, along the slope. It must have
been a great many years ago that the
house Jiad stood there; and the small
slate headstone was worn away by the
rain and wind, so there was nothing to
be read, if indeed there had ever been
any letters on it. It bad looked many a
storm in the lace, and many a red sun
set. I suppose the woods near by had
grown and been cut, and grown again,
since it was put there. There was an
old sweetbrier bush growing on the
short little grave, and in the grass un
derneath I found a! ground-sparrow's
nest- It was like a little neighborhood,
and I have felt ever since as if I belonged
to it; and I wondered then if one of the
young ground-sparrowß was not always
sent to take the nest when the old
ones were done with it, so they came
back in the Bpring year after year to
live there, and there were always the
stone and the sweet-brier brush and the
birds to remember the child. It was
such a lonely place in that wide field
under the great sky, and yet it was so
comfortable too; bt the thought of the
little grave at first touched me strange
ly, and I tried to picture to myself the
procession that came out from the
house the day of the funeral, and I
thought of the mother in the evening
after all the peopb had gone home, and
how she missed the baby, and kept see
ing the new grave out here in the twi
light as she went about her work. I
suppose the family moved away, and so
all the rest were buried elsewhere.
I often think of this place, and I link
it in my thoughts with something I saw
once in the water when I was out at
sea; a little boat that some child bad
lost, that had drifted down the river and
out to sea; too long a voyage, for it was
a sad little wreck, with even its white
sail of a hand-breadth half under water,
and its twine rigging trailing astern. It
was a siliy little boat, and no loss except
to its owner, to whom it hod seemed as
brave and proud a thing as any ship of
the line to you and me. It was a ship
wreck of his small hopes, I suppose, and
I can see it now, the toy of the great
winds and wnves, as it floated on its
way, while I sailed on mine, out of sight
of land.
The little grave is forgotten by every
body but me, I think; the mother must
have found the child again in heaven a
very long time ago; but in the winter I
shall wonder if the snow has covered it
well, and next year I shall go to see the
sweet-brier bush when it is in bloom.
God knows what use that life was, the
grave is such a short one, and nobody
knows whose Jjjtle child it was; but
perhaps a thousand p<ople in the world
to-day are better because it brought a
little love into the world that was not
there before.— Harper'g Mayasine.
The Demand for Heavy Homes.
The Factory and Farm states n fact
which we have observed to exist in this
city for some time past, i. e., an increase
in the number of large horses used on
trucks nnd heavy business wagons.
During the past filtcen years, the writer
remarks, there lias l>ccn a great change
in the demand for horses in this coun
try. Formerly nearly every one bred in
relation to speed and endurance. Now
a large proportion of farmers breed with
a view to increasing size and streugth.
This change is not the result of caprice.
There tins been a steady, increasing de
mand for heavy horses, and a corre
sponding f uling of! in the demand for
light ones. Fashion has had little to do
In the matter. Heavy horses are wanted
because they supply an existing want.
From present appearances It will be
many years before the supply of heavy
horses will equal the demand. Tin
country is now well snprlicd with
horses. At no time in its history, per
haps, were there as many horses to a
given number of inhabitants as at pres
ent. Small work horses are low, hut
heavy draft horses continue to be high.
The importation ot Clydesdale and
Perc heron-Norm an horses increases
every year. The first that were brought
over were regarded as very uncertain
ventures. At present they are of no
doubtful value. The importers of hoises
from France and Scotland have suffered
none of the reverses of the importers of
short-horn cattle. With rare exceptions
they have become rich. From present
appearances we shall soon be sending
Clydesdales to Scotland and England at£
Normans to France and Belgium. The
value of heavy draft horses was recog
nized in the old world before It was in
the new. Now that their worth is ap
preciated here all persons having team
ing to do seem anxious to procure them.
Large horses are less liable to ir.juries
from the swinging of the poles of wagons
than small ones. Their hones are firmer,
and they are commonly more hardy.
I/trge hones are more noonomioal as
respects harness, stall room, feed, and
work required to take care of them. In
ail t4ie countries of Eastern Europe heavy
horses havs taken the place of light ones
In general farming operations. That
American farmers will soon generally
employ heavy horses In field work seems
certain.—iSot'eabAo American.
St. Bernard Bogs.
The breed of Bt. Bernard dogs is a
very old one indeed in its native Swit
zerland. The monks of the order of St.
Bernard, when they first settled in their
monastery to tarry on there their work
of self-denying mercy, found that tlioy
eouiil hardly go on with it unless they
cou'd find some band of efficient help
ers; accordingly they began to search
out and train certain large, powerful
dogs of the country. Experience soon
proved that the worthy fathers had
chosen their friends uright; constant
companionship with mendevelopid in
the dogs an intelligence which fell little
short of reason; firm hut gentle discip
line showed him to lie capable of the
most complete self-restraint; he ex
hibited u vast capacity for attaching
himself to individuals; his perfect tem
per made him a safe and trustworthy
guardian for a woman or child. Thus
year after year the St. Bernard lived on
in his mountain home doing noble work
there.
The chief reason, perhaps, why he
has so quickly made his way in general
society is his singular aptitude for
family life. In spite of his immense
size, he is, most essentially, a house pet;
he is a born gentleman in all bis tnstcs
and habits; a very little training will
give bim the most perfect manners; bis
heavy body renders bim not at all averse
to sedentary hours of dozing and medi
tation upon a hearth-rug; bis fine,
placid temper makes bim an excellent
children's playfellow. He is also, by
nature, a friend of man and a lover of
man's company; that what enables
bim to do, with such generous free-will,
bis work of mercy among the mountain
snows: and that is what causes him, in
domestic life, to be never so happy as
when he is sitting in a room filled with
people, or lying close to his master's
side. His extreme sociability is, at
times, somewhat cf a trial to his neigh
bors, for if for any casual reason be is
banished from the house for a while to
sbed or stables, his loud and prolonged
lamentations and his angry, impatient
barks cause the air for no small distance
round to be filled with anything but
sweet harmonies.
There are two distinct breeds of St.
Bernard dogs—the rough and the
smooth. The monks prefer the smooth,
because in their mountain excursions
the movements of these short-haired
dogs are, of course, less impeded by con
gealed ice and snow banging about them
in stiffening clots and lumps than those
of their thicker-coated brethren; but in
other countries they enjoy about equa
popularity. There is certainly a great
charm for the touch of master or mis
tress in passing the hand through a
rough St. Bernard's coat; rough though
it is called, it is like fingering a vast
mass of the richest and finest silk. On
•he other hand, if be is taken out for a
winter country walk, he comes home
with a dress of plastered mud thnt his
smooth relation would never have to
wear.
A St. Bernard dog Jshould be from
twenty-eight to thirty-one inches high,
and should measure in length, from
muzzle to tip of tail, some six feet; bis
color should be a tawny orange mixed
with white. In the smooth breed a
white collar round the neck is regarded
as a mark of good family and pure blood.
In the rough breed the orange should
be of a very deep hue. The points of a
real St. Bernard are immense, very
strong, wide paws, huge limbs, deep
lips, a broad head, large drooping ears,
brown eyes, which, though not very big
and full, atone for their want of size by
their depth of thoughtful intelligence,
and a long curling tail, which is always
in active, talkative ' movement, at d
which, when its owner is in high spirits,
imperils greatly the safety of glass and
china on bracket or side hoard. To
these marks of aristocrnrv are added, by
some people knowing In the breed, dew
claws on the bind feet. but judges differ
as to whether these latter are or are not
indispensably necessary. For a dog of
his size and strength, the St. Bernard
needs eareful feeding; if overcrammed.
or allowed to overeram himself, which
ho will do, like all the canine f..mily, he
is liable to had attacks of indigestion.—
Harper's Weekly.
Mask.
Musk is a concrete substance found in
an animal having a near affinity to the
deer tribe, a native of Thibet, China and
Siberia. The musk deer is n timid ani
mal. ond'rnrely appears during the day;
consequently the musk collectors watch
and surprise it at night. The best musk
comes from China, and to be genuine it
should be purchased in the natural pod
or bag, as it is very often adulterated.
The Bengal musk is inferior, and that
from Russia the worst of ail. The hair
on the pod of the best musk is a fawn
color; that on the inferior a dirty
white. A variety of musk is found in
the muskrat of Canada, an animal about
the rise of a small rabbit. Musk is of
a bitter taste, and of an odor more pow
erful than anything known ; substances
in its neighborhood become strongly
infected by't. end when once perfumed
with it, long retain the scent. It has
been known to affect chests of ten
placed at a considerable distance, even
though both had been packed tip in
leaden boxes, for which reason the Eut
India company gave an order not to
import musk and tea in the same ships.
Many persons dislike the odor It has
the property, wben employed in very
small quantities, of augmenting the
scent of other suboanctt, without im
parting Its own.
Darwin says "Man, only, fun whistle."
Dsrwln certainly never lived ant where
nssr a raiiroad crossing.— B tulmsville
Hi. rail.
The Vocal Power of Light and the
Htatno of Menimon.
It is quite possible, says the Boston
Journal, that a singular phenomenon
connected with the famous statue of,
Mcmmon at Thebes, which has been the
cause of much speculation for centuries
finds a scientific solution in the paper
read by Professor Alexander Hell, on the
production and reproduction of sound
by means of light, before the American
association for the Advancement of
Science the other evening. The discov
eries, Mr. Bell stated, were made by Mr.
Summer Tainter and himself. Their
researches show that all classes of mat
ter, with scarcely an exception, are sen
titive to vibrations of light. They have
found this sensitiveness in all metals,
rubber, paper, wood, mica and silvered
glass. The only substances which failed
were carbon and thin microscopic glass.
When the vibratory beam of light falls
upon these substances they emit sounds,
the pitch of which depends upon the
frequency of the vibratoiy change in the
light. By means of this quality of light
they have spoken about HOO feet apart
and they believe there is no reason to
doubt that the results will Jbe obtained
at whatever distance a beam of light
can be flashed from one observatory to
another.
As is well known, the peculiar vocal
powers of the statue of Memmon arc
noticed at sunrise, or soon after. The
sound resembles the twanging o a
harp-string or the striking of brass,
and in the lap of the statue is a stone,
which, on being struck, emits a metal
lic Bourn'. It is said that similar sounds
have be< n produced from stones by the
sun's rays, and several of the scientific
men attached to Bonaparte's army in
Egypt have stated that they frequently
heard such a sound, always shortly after
sunrise, apparently issuing from one of
the roof stones of the temple of Karnak.
Another observer says that in a neigh
boring temple he heard repeatedly a
sound like that of a harp-string from
some stone above him. This occurred
at noon and he supposed that at this
time the stone became exposed to the sun,
and the sudden expansion from its
warmth produced the sound.
It has been held by some writers that
the wonderful attribute of the statue
was due to the jugglery of Egyptian
priests, but this theory has not been ac
cepted. It would seem, however, that
the chance observations of scientific
men in Egypt, corroborated by the
scientific discoveries of Professor Bell,
furnish the true solution of a mystery
which has greatly interested the learned
world.Jand that the " sweet Memmonian
sound," as Pe Quincy terms it, is due to
a beautiful natural law, the knowledge
of which has just been clearly revealed,
and of which science proposes to take
nuvantage as a material agent in prac
tical life. Whether the ancient Egyp
tians were cognisant of this curious law
of matter, and placed the metallic stone
in the lap of the statue, lor the purpose
of producing sweet harmonies, is a
question for the learned to puxzle over.
Japanese l.ife.
The Jnpanee is the cleanest of man
kind. Cleanliness is, so to speak, more
than godliness with him. Though he
has no soap, he washes all over at J least
once a day—he worships hut once a
week. His candles are made of vege
table wax. He uses a oottcn coverlet,
well stuffed and padded, for bed-cover
ing and mattress. A sort of stereoscope
case—made of wood—makes bis pillow
He resorts to that, and so do bis wife
and daughters, that their carefully ar
ranged hair may not be disa-ranged
during sleep. No bead-covering is worn
by the Japanese. No nation dresses the
hair so tastefully. Usually it is with
the men shaved in sections. They are
coming now to wear it in European
fashion. They are adopting all Euro
pean customs.
On levee day I saw the reception at
the mikado's palace in Yeddo. Every
one presented bad come in European
full dress. That dress does not become
the Japanese figure. He locks awk
ward in It. His legs are too short. The
tails of bis claw-hammer coat dragon
the ground, and the black dreas trousers
wrinkle up and get bsggy around
his feet. His European fashioned
clothes have been sent out ready made
from America or England, and in no
case did I notice anything approaching
to a good tit. Yet be smiled and looked
happy, though be could not get his
heels half way down bis Wellington
boots, and his hat was either too large
or too small for his head. He always
smiles and looks pleasant. Nothing can
make him grumble, and he has not
learned to swear. He is satisfied to be
paid his cue, and never asks for more.
As a New York cabman be would be a
veritable living curiosity.— Harper's
Yuut s Ptopl*.
A Basse that Worked bat Oaee.
Aheddin Pasha, minister of foreign
nffairs, presented himself the other day
before the sultan in such a seedy coat
lhalhjs majesty could not refrain from
kUjUffsMng to him that it was only
decent he should put ou his best clothes
when te wa- going to see his sovereign.
Aheddin replied humbly that ha had put
on his very beat. Whereupon the sultan
directed oneoi his secretaries to give an
.rdi r on the imperial tailor to rig tlu
pa-lia out completely. Abaddin accord
ingly ordered thirty-five coats, thtrty
five waistcoats and the same number ol
every other garment. Since then the
mean attire of functionaries who have
■ ailed at the pa I*oa has been quite
striking. bu none of these imitatoft hit
as yet excited the sultan • commia r*
lon.
The mtn we ourht to "no"—The
best who endeavors to borrow mon-y.
A Literary Ctrleslly.
The following rather curio in piece of
composition was placed upon the black
board at a teachers' institute, and a
prize of a Webster's dictionary offered
to any person who would read and pro
nounce every word correctly. The book
was not carried off, however, as twelve
was the lowest number of mistakes made
in pronunciation:
"A sacrilegious son of Belial, wlie
suffered from hronctiitis, having ex
hausted his finances, in order to make
good the deficit, resolvsd to ally him
self to a comely, lenient and docile
young lady of the Malay or Caucasian
race. He accordingly purchased a cal
liope and coral necklace of a chameleon
hue, and securing a suite of rooms at a
principal hotel, engaged the head waiter
aa his coadjutor. He then dispatched a
letter of the roost unexceptional calig
raphy extant, inviting the young lady
tea mitinee. She revoltel at the idea,
refused to consider herself sacrificable
0 his desires, and sent a polite note of
refusal, on receiving which, he procured
cirbine and a bowie knife, and said he
would not now forge letters hymenial
with the queen, went to an isolated spot,
severed his jagnlar vein, and discharged
the contents of his carbine into his ab-
Qomen. The debris was removed by the
coroner."
Tue mistakes in pronunciation were
made on the following words: Sacrileg
ious, Belial, bronchitis, exhausted,
finances, deficit, come'y, lenient, docile,
Malay, calliope, chameleon, suite, coad
utor, caligraphy, matinee, sacrificable
carbine, hymenial, isolated, jugular and
debris.
A Female Faster.
The Meaford (Ont .)]Monitor, of a re
cent date, says: There is within a mile
01 Meaford a young woman whose
achievements, not undertaken for the
Btke of notoriety or profit, are more as
tonishing than the forty days 1 water diet
of Dr. Tanner. The young woman is
now under Dr. Maclean'scare, and from
him the profession may learn more iof
the case by-and-bye. About a year ago
last February this young woman gave
up eating, not on account of ill health,
but simply because the felt no desire for
food, and for six months thereafter she
took absolutely nothing but a cup or
two of buttermilk once or twioe a week,
with i.n occasional drink ol water. At
the end of six months she began eating,
and ate regu arly and heartily for about
six months, when she again repeated
her fast of half a year under like circum
stances. A little over three weeks ago—
not having yet broken her second fast
she was piaced under Dr. Maclean's pro
fessional care, <nd for nineteen days
thereafter, l "bough offered food fre
quently, but at the same time being
carefully watched, nothing pasted her ...
lips but a cup or two of oold water
daily. During this time she lost weight
at almost exactly half a pound per day.
On Saturday laat she was persuaded to
c at a very little watermelon, and for the
next three days her loss was only half a
pound in all. The girl is under the
medium height, but when eating like
other peeple Is unusually fat; she now
weighs eighty-nine pounds, but is in as
good condition a* most girls of her sixe,
looks and is as cheerful, walks about the
bou-e a little weakly, but without assist
ance, and does some light work.
A House of Held Bricks.
There is a certain brick building in
Cheyenne, not a thousand miles from
the leader office, which is almost worth
its weight in gold. The bricks in its
walls are at least impregnated with the
precious metal to a valuable extent. The
discovery was made accidentally by a
gentleman who has an office near by.
He frequently noticed shining yellow
partic.es in the bricks, and imagining
that the colors were gold, he took out
a brick from the wall for the purpose of
ascertaining the farts. This brick he
first pulverized and then " panned out'
the colors. He could not get rid of all
the dirt, and concluded to send the
residuum to an assayer in Denver. In
a few days the assay certificate arrived
and showed that there was thirty-eight
cents' worth of gold in the brick. The
gentlemen then took out two other
bricks in different carts of the building
and pulverized and panned tliem uhe
did the first. The same assayer gave his
certificate as follows: Sample N. 1,
gold, forty-seven cents; sample No. 8,
gold, twenty-fouroents. With remark
able secrecy the gentleman proceeded to
learn whence came the bricks. After
considerable inquiry it was learned that
the bricks were made in a yard that was
formerly situated on Crow creek, near
Cheyenne, but which i now obliterated.
Further investigation, among the oldest
residents, divulged the tact that placer
mining was at one time carried on along
Crow creek, but the miners thought that
the pay wasn't big enough, and they
therefore abandoned their claims. It
was near these claims that the brick
yard, mentioned above, was started, and
that explains how gold dustgot into the
bricks.— Chryenm* ( W ¥om * S ) Leader.
In the course of n eerier of investiga
tions, Professor Geikie has found that in
some eases tombs ton is of marble art
worn down n quarter ol an inch in less
than a century by the action ot storms;
in other oases the stone is disintegrated
internally, so that the very subataaoe of
the marble crumbles away. On the
other hand, slabs of freestone and other
un !<m<natcd -and rocks are so jriag
that the sharpness of the letters cut upon
them Is scarcely blunted U. aa appreci
able degree by a century's exposure.