PEARLS Of THOUGHT. Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish. To meaßnro one with his own yard-stick may be hard, but it is fair. The evil cannot brook delay. Tho good can well afford to wait. When alone, one can moro perfoctly lose himself in tho lifo universal. * Lot a man do his work ; tho fruit of it is tho caro of another than he. No one ought to complain if tho world measures him as he measures others. Happiness is perfume that one cannot shed over another without a few drops falling on one's self. How pcoplo deceive thomselvos when they think those around thorn do not know their real character. The way for an orator to avoid making heavy speeches is to weigh his words well before speaking. Gold can buy pretty nearly every thing in this world except that which a man wants most—viz., happiness. He is a very ordinary man who never finds fault with himself, and a very ex traordinary ono who never has reasyv to do so. Men are naturally charitable, but they have a bad habit of feeling every where for the poor except in their pocketbooks. Kindness is stowed nwav in the heart like rose leaves in a drawor to sweeten every object about them ; and to bring hope to the weary-hearted. More hearts pine away in secret an guish from tho want of kindness from those who should bo their comfort than from any other calamities in life. Killed by a Tame Bear. In theThiergarten, at Pesth, has livod for as many as fifteen years a fine spec imen of the bear species, dear to nur sery maids and children in England and to all sections of the population in Central Europe. For the whole time of his abode in captivity at Pesth this ani mal had been attended by a man called j Stephen, who seems to have reduced it —as well he might in so long a time— to a condition of apparent helplessness. About a week ago the attendant went into the bear's pit to administer to his friend a ration of uncooked beef, and to the delight of the spectators above, ca ressed the beast according to his cus tom. Nothing could be more mild and conciliatory than the conduct of the bear until, in leaving him, the man by accident trod on one of its feet. But the moment this supposed attack upon him was made the animal raised a sav age roar and rushed upon its warder, knocking him down in a moment, be fore the man had time to fully recover ' from his surprise. Ho was, however, . able to get up again; and then ensued a struggle which must have had a horn- j ble fascination for all within sight. The | man, unarmed as he was, contended j hand to band with his foe, and for a considerable time maintained the nn- i equal oomlwt, while bis clothes were gradnally torn to rags, and hisarmsand flesh were fearfully lacerated. The spectators, with what speed they could, ) came to the rescue with bars of iron and other weapons, but there seems to have been no firearms available, nor, indeed, any efficient means of delivering j the victim from his horrible fate. Be fore the bear could be beaten off he had received such injuries in the arms, feet and body as to make his recovery hope less, and he died shortly afterward ~ This is the second or third example of death in a barfut within the last few years. London Globe. An Indian's Pretest. Address of a big chief when invited to take a walk : When the white father starts the mnsic we waltz to it. Wehavo been asked to irrigate the country here and hoe corn like the white man. Our hearts are heavy; we will do what is right, bat we cannot work. The Indian cannot lmnt the potato bug when the deer and antftlojie are ripe. He cannot dig post-holes in the hot sun when the chance calls npon him to go forth into the forest. Here, where we have roamed through the tall grass and banted the baffalo, the paleface asks na to dig irri gation ditches and plow the green earth with a mnle. They come to ns and tell us to go to school and wear pants. They ask na to learn the language and go to Congress. They send men to ns who want ns to learn to spell and wear sus penders. We cannot do this. Oar cus toms are aa old as the universe. We eannot change. We can leave our land, bnt we cannot change our socka every apring and do as the white man does. We can go away from oar liomee and live ln& strange land, but wo cannot wear |l open back shirts- Warriors, we will go to the land our white father has given us. W® will take our squaws, our dogs, and our wigwams. We will go to our new home beyond the river now, and I when the autumn comes we will take a tour back to this country. This is all. I am dsso. ______ jjt A very MI.H!I b<>y can get outside <>f a CLIPPINGS FOB THE CURIOUS. A big mushroom, weighing sometimes twenty-flve pounds, is fonnd in Italy. Cocoa trees produce nothing for ton or twelve years, and thon boar fruit an nually for fifty years. A criminal who has robbed the public treasury in Siarn has melted metal poured down his throat. According to Aristotle largo oars are an indication of imbecility, while small ones announce madness. Tho ancients beliovod that tho blood could be stanched by repeating incanta tions or by tho use of charms. Among the Indians near tho Amazon there are no words for numbers, and a similar want of arithmetical power. A kind of rat in Kamscliatka makes spacious apartments under ground and fills them with food for tho winter. Frogs have been kept torpid in an ice house for three years and a half, and have revived when brought out into tho sun. It was onco believed that tho houso leek, if grown upon tho roof, would protect tho house from being struck by lightning. The invention of tho harness is ascribed to Erectheua, king of Athens, who lived three or four hundred years before Christ. Tho earliest company for insnring against firo was instituted in London in 1690, and was called the " Hand in Hand Firo Offico." A single pound of cotton has been spun into a thread seventy-six miles in length; the samo quantity of wool, ninety-five miles long. There is a weekly sale in Paris of toads, which aro brought in casks filled with damp moss. Ono hundred good toads aro worth from §ls to 817. These are bought for gardens. Pawnbrokery was established in Eng land by Northburg, Bishop of London, and if redemption of any snm borrowed was not made at the year's end, the preacher at St. Paul's Cross was to de clare that the pledge was to be sold in fourteen days if it was not forthwith re deemed. Bachelor's Homes. New York is a pretty good place for bachelors, anyway. It would not be easy to find a place where they could fare better, if they are adequately sup- I plied with tho essential commodity of cash. And it may bo said that their social condition improves right along. I Up to a few years ago they had to put up with hotels and lioarding-houses, or accommodate themselves to tho fur nished room plan, hut now they can do better. Homes for bachelor* are among the now features of New York life. The unmarried men need no longer wander disconsolate about a hotel, or poke himself away in a musty room in a boarding or lodging house. If his purse affords it he can set up bachelor's quarters in good stylo in a bouse specially designed for his class. Four or five handsome houses of this kind have been „ built within a few years, and they seem to pay very well. They are called apartment houses for bachelors, anil they aro arranged much like French flats, the chief difference Iteing that the number of rooms ia leas. In some cases the bachelor's apartment consists of two rooms, in other* of three, and in no cases of more than four. The cost of living in thi* way is considerable, bnt the life itself i* com fortable and pleasant. That there is a demand for snch houses is shown pretty forcibly by the fact that among the present building projects is a bachelor's apartment houao that is intended to cover four lots and will cost about 8110,- 000. Its location is on Forty-first street near Broadway. This house is by far the largest bachelor a ball yet projected. —.Vein York iMter. Uurlons Inquiries. Tho postmaster at Boston receives a good many curious epistles asking for instruction, advice, or information. An Ohio correspondent desires to be in farmed about the honesty of a firm that advertised organs for salo for 85 each. Two Western young men, very occi dental indeed in their notions of mat rimony, requested the postmaster to pick them out " a con pi o of good-look ing, healthy, stroug girls" for wives. A Virginia mother wishes to have her son fonnd. A New Hampshire woman preferred the samo request on account of her wayward daughter. An Ohio girl commissioned the postmaster to purchase for her " some spotted sea shells." A Long Islander, who wrote a good letter, desired full particulars about rents and health in all the suburbs of Boston. A Mobile dancing- I master asked the postmaster to intro { dace two of his dances in the city. A New Hampshire rag gatherer wished to heoome acquainted with a dealer in old jnuk ; and a young man asked for the names of all the Boston lawyers on one postal card. The postmaster is said to receive two hundred letters a day, and many of them contain inquiries that might be addressed to the police or to About Advertising, If you have goods to soil, adverliso. Hire a man with lampblack kettlo and a brush to paint your name and number on all the railroad fences. Tho cars go whizzing by no fast that no one can read them, to bo sure, bnt perhaps the obliging conductor woald stop the train to accommodate an inquisitive passenger. Hemomber the fences by tho road side as well. Nothing is so attractive to tho passerby as a well painted sign: " Millington's medical mixture for mumps." Have your card in tho hotel register by all means. Htrangcrs stopping at tho hotels for a night generally buy a cigar or two beforo they leave town, and they need some inspiriting literary food be sides. If an advertising agent wants your business advertised in a fancy frame at tho depot, pay him abont 200 per cent, more than it is worth, and let hira put it thoro. When a man has three-quar ters of a second in which to catch a train, ho invariublv stops to road depot advertisement:", and your card might take his eye. Of courso tho street thermometer dodge is excellent. When a man's fingers and ears are freezing, or ho is puffing and "phewing " a the heat, is the timo above all others when ho reads an advertisement. Print in the blackest ink a great ! sprawling card on all your wrapping \ paper. Ladies returning from a shop- j ping toar like to bo walking bulletins, ! and if the ink rubs off and spoils some I of their finc-ry, no matter. They never I will stop at your store again. Don't fail to advertise in every circus programme. It will help the circus to pay its bills, and visitors can relievo the tedium of the clown's jokes by looking over your interesting remarks abont " twenty per cent, below cost," etc. A boy with a big pla*ard on a JKJIC is an interesting object on the f.treet, and lends a dignified air to your establish ment. Hire abont two Patronize every ogeui ihai shows yon au advertising tablet, card, directory, dictionary or even au advertising Bible if one is offered at a reasonable price. Tbo man must make a living. But don't think of advertising in a well-established, legitimate ncwH|per. Not for a moment Your advertisement would be nicely printed and would find its way into all tho thrifty households of the region, whero tho farmer, the mechanic, the tradesman in other lines and into the families of tho wealthy and refined, all who have articles to buy and money with which to bny them, and in the quiet of the evening after the news of the day had l>een digested, it would be read and pondered, and next day people would como down to your store and patronize yon, and keep coming in increasing numbers, and yon might have to hire an extra clerk or two, move into a larger block and more favorable location and do a bigger business, but of course it would be moro expensive— and bring greater profits. Two Thousand Hen Looking for Hold. There are at this time scattered | tbrongh the mountains of California ! two thousand prospectors. Their lives are spent in looking for signs of gold. They are poor, and their dress proclaims it. They live on hope and scanty food, and never refuse to " take something." Pick in hand, their sharp eyes are quick to spy a speck of gold in tho fragment of quartz turned up. The country is corered with their little trial shafts and with stakes marking their pre-emption claims, always 1,200 feet along the sup posed outcrop of tho vein. Of 1,000 so marked perhaps one or two may amount to something, and one in 1,000 of these adventurers, after a life of privations, may succeed in realizing a small com petency. Bnt they average happier lives than most people. They imagine themselves prospective millionaires. A bit of quartz with three specks of gold seen through a magnifying glass sets them wild. There's millions in it. But their gypsy life end its happier excite ment unfit them for quiet enjoyment. In age some give it up and go t>ack to the wilderness and to tho excitement of prospecting adventure.— San hVancitco LeVer. Where Hosts sre Plentiful. Tho island of Cyprus is overrun with goats. It is estimated that thero are 230,000 of these animals on the island, and planting is almost useless on ac count of their ravages. " They carry no wool," says the St. James' Gaz/Ute, "furnish only s bad meat, and hardly give more milk than tbo sheep, to which, however, they .aro preferred on aeconat of their feeding on ligneous vegetation, which the sheep reject. They are fed, therefore, almost entirely at the exponas of the woods, and not only, it is stated, does the goat destroy the yonng frethly growu plants bnt it browses on the yonng branches of olJer trees. On the southern mountains, also, where the •oil is loose, the goat i< accused of in creasing this looseness by scrambling about, and thus injuring yonng plants, which are dragged down and torn away by the falling of broken stones." ItadfirAi. j,:, ?! i j Ferocity of the Creek Brigands. j One or two stories, oh related by tbo gang of Greek brigands to Mr. Sutor (the Englishman who was recently lib erated on payment of 875,000), round their evening meal, show not only their utter beartlessness and brutality, but also the prido they take in displaying these qualities. Ar in tides one day came across an old Turk, out shooting, who had with him his pioco of forked stick, which is used in order to obtain a better aim by resting on the barrel of the gun. Without the slightest provocation, and simply for amusement, as he termed it, the brigand chief strangled the man, after placing him in a kneeling position, putting hia fowling-piece to his shoulder, and resting the barrel on the crutch in the most natural position, so that tho passerby would never suspect but that it was a peasant s|>ortaman in stead of a corpse. Another anecdote was told with great gnsto. Niko, the chief of the band that took Colonel Hynge, caught a man near a sawmill whom ho thought ho resign ized. The conversation commenced thus: "Did yon not onco spy for me?" "Yep." " Did I not pay you five liras for so do ing?" " Yes." "Did you not tell the soldiers in such-and-such a village that you had seen me?" "Yes." "Then," said Niko, "tuko a bit of paper and jx-n --cil and write as I tell you—' This is the way Niko treats traitors.'" After this was done he first sawod off the man's right hand, so that he could never write anything against him; next he deprived him of his ears, so that ho could hear no more questions about the band; and finally cut his tongue out, to prevent him from telling tales. Then, wrap ping all these fragments into ahandker ehief, he bade him walk to the village, to present them with the note to tho pasha. The poor man, not daring to refuse, struggled on until he dropped down and died from loss of blood. I could enumerate several other outrages just as bad, and of which I can guaran tee the truth, but I think these will suffice. Beggar*. In some instances begging is a profit able business. A California million aire says that twenty years ago ho and his wife eaino to New York. They had one hundred dollars. He was taken ill and had to be sent to a hos pital. When he came out his funds were gone and he was a wreck, while his wifo was but skin and bono. He walked the streets in search of work, but to no purpose. Utterly exhausted he sank to the pavement, and fell into a deep sleep. Hnddenly waking he stretched his hand to hia hnt, which hnd fallen from his head. He was surprised to hear tho rattle of coins. In it wore twenty-seven pennies, which the pnblic had thrown in while he slept- Over joyed be went home, and with his wife had the first sqnare meal of the week. •'I determined then," said he, "that the public which would not pay me for work, should give me a living for noth ing " He disguised himself somewhat, and for three years followed, in differ ent sections of the city, a system of lagging. At the end of that time he had ten thousand dollars in bank and had lived moderately all the time. He and his wifo went to Chicago. Lnck attended hia ventures, anil subsequently with twenty-flvc thousand dollars they wer.t to California, where to-day they lire bappy, respected and rich. The story is true and carries its moral on its face. It's not proliahlc that all beggars aro well off, bnt it is probable that they arc better off than they appear, while maDy are thorough shams and hum bugs. Language of the llair. Each of onr features is supposed to have a language -eyes, nose and month. Bnt the language of the bair has been formulated in the following manner: Straight lank, stringy-looking hair in dicates weakness and cowardice. Curly hair denotes a quick temper. Frizzy hair set on one's head as if each indi vidual hair were ready to fight its neigh bor, denotes coarseness. Black bair in dicates persistent resolution in accom plishing an object, also a strong predis position to avenge wrongs and insnlts real or fancied. Brown hair denotes fondness for life, a friendly disposition, ambition, earnestness of purpose, ca pacity for business, reliability in friend ship in proportion as tho hair is fine Very fine hair indicates an even disposi tion, a readiness to forgive, with a desire to add to the happiness of others. Per sons with very fine light brown or au burn h lir, inclined io cnrl or frizz, are quick tempered, and are given to resent ment and revenge. Old, but good: "Mr. Smith, father would like to borrow yonr paper; be only wants to read it." " Well, go back and tell yonr father to send me his sup per. • Tell him I only want to eat it." The Blackfeei Indians call journalists Cbeetahmoahkaniteharomahgs.yet even this does not deter collage graduates from playing like moths around the journalistic candle. -Detroit Frm Fru*. TOPICS OF THE DAV. It was recently stated by Hocretary Blaine that thero aro 1,500,000 applica tions on file In the various departments in Washington for appointments in the government service. The prize fiend of the year is tho man who tied a boy to a railroad track in Illinois when a train was approach ing. By some strange feat of twisting the boy escaped with tho breaking of his ribs and foot. It is only a few years ago that petro leum was discovered in this country. The export of tbet article last year amonnted to $10,315,500 against $31,- '218,G25 in 1880; yet this is but a small part of tho production. To-co-bo, the chief of tho Hhoshone Indians, would astonish his ancestors if they could see him driving his hand some Bpan of trotters before a glisten ing carriage, bis pockets stuffed out with profitable mining sliarcs. Besides being largely interested in mines, he is an extensive breeder of cattle. California has boon in American pos session] but thirty-four years, and its ex ports aro this year moro than twice as great as those of tho twenty-seven States and two Territories which com pose the Mexican republic, though California's population is less than one twelfth and its area not more than one fifth of hers. England, according to the latest ad vices, will need at least 128,000,000 bushels of wheat over what has been produced in tho British islands this (season. France's product is short, and ltussia's wheat crop will not much more than supply the heme demand. There fore England will have to look to this country for its anpply. Believing that lie who makes two blade* of grass grow where but one grew ln-foro is a benefactor, B. F. New comer, ot Baltimore, lias offered a prize of s'-tOO to l>e divided among the five farmer bors of his nativecounty (Wash ington) who sliall next \ear produce the best yield of corn from lire quarter acres of ground, 'lho farmer of the lcst quarter acre will get SIOO, the sec ond H'Mi, the third $25, the fourth egan there. These accumulations are due to tailings and sluicing* from imperfect mining, to washings from the rich bank* and to original ore veins in the river beds. The Yorktown Centennial association estimates that there will lie present at the Octol>er celebration not less than 00,000 Masons. There have already been 10,000 troops announced as preparing to come, and most of those have already arranged for their transportation. The Heventh regiment of New York will be present, and the governors of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu setts, Rhode Island, tVuinesticnt, NsW York, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Michi gan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Mississippi and Georgia have announced their ac ceptance of the invitations to be present, and will be accompanied by their re spective staffs. For the first month of the President's illness his food was prepared entirely by one of the most famnnn nurses in the world, known as Jim Werni'.ey, pro prietor now of Wortnley's hotel. A half century ago he was a jockey, and mvur a hard ruoo did the little mulatto boy ride. Worm ley became a nurse and cook, and in course of time also became famous in thia capacity. He nursed Webster and Sumner and Douglas, and a score of other great men in their last days. He used to practically manage Sumner's house. Nothing was pur chased for it, except a book or picture, perhaps, that was not bought by Worm ley. Bo popular did Wormley become that some wealthy Bostonian* advanced him the money to start hta hotel, and to day it is a favorite resort of the capital. After all, there is said to he away by which the habit of smoking can be broken. " One day while crowing the ocean," (mid Judge Tyner, the assistant po*tmastor-gencrsl, "I had * severe P|l of seasickness. I went np on doc* in the hope tlutt the fresh air would act M a reviver. Mechanically, as wan roy habit, I took out a cigar and lit it. Before it was half consumed the sickness came on again. Ugh lit make* me pale to think of it even now. Any how, overboard went the cigar, and from lhat day to thin a couple of whiff* are enough to turn me n pride down. If you happen to know anybody who waste to let up on the habit, junt ad vim him to take a weed and a done of K< wrick neen together, and I'll warrant you he wiil he an anti-tolmcco man ever after ward." Much han been said in the newspaper* of Mr. Dorney'n marvelous New Mexican estate. It embrace* 12,000 to 15,000 acres, and in no located that it com mandn the water nnpply to tenaof tbou sandn of acren that he does not own. The grand jury at Hants Fe ban recently investigated the mean* by which the title to lands in that vicinity wan pro cured. It han found that within the last three yearn a large number of fraudu lent entries have been made. Per sona interested have caused the nec essary pap-TH to bo filed by Mexicans unable to speak English, who have falsely sworn to the period of residenoe required by law. In many instances the names of Mexicans long since dead have been used. The fraudulent title* so ob tained have been bought up for trifling sums and consolidated in vast estates. According to statistics presented at the recent congress of European brew ers at Vienna, Europe has about 40,000 breweries, producing nearly 2.500,000,- 000 gallons of malt liquor, threat Brit ain produces nearly a third, then comes Prussia, Bavaria and Austria. Bavaria consume* fifty-four gallons per head; Belgium (whose beer is chiefly made at Iouvain, where, too, is her chief uni versity), thirty; England, twenty-nine. Outside of Bavaria, u here the verv bathes lap beer, the average consumption in Germany is nineteen gallons. In Soot land it is nine; Ireland, eight and one quarter; France, four, but steadily in creasing. The past twenty-five years have seen an extraordinary increase in the beer production of Scotland and Ireland, whore formerly whisky was the prevailing drink. Bound ta Bet Married. The story of a romantic chase, in which two young lovers and an irate pursuer figure c in*pie;iou*ly, comes from Kentucky. Joseph CarpenWr s:,d Ollic Brown, a las* of fourteen, have made ono or two attempt* to elope, the girl's parent*, who live in BootUvilie, about flfieen miles from the T< unc-see line, having oppose 1 the marrisge of the young people. A few days age, however, thir love affair* reached s climax. Young Carpenter drove to the home of bis sweetheart in a boggy, and pleaded as only an anxious lover can, with the mother of the girl, who proved as obdurate as ever. Nothing daunted, he asked the girl to choose between himself and her mother. Her answer was all be could desire, and "catching her in his arms," as the chronicler re ports, he leaped into the carriage and drove oflT. The alarm was raised and a young j ustice of a police court, mounted on a fleet thoroughbred, started off in pursuit of the runaway pair. The race ] was a hot one, and now fortune seemed to favor the lover* and now the arm of the law. The Western Icbinvar had provided himself with s good bone, aud be reached the Tennessee line a few minntes before the justice. A town was reached. '.Squire Fikes was hastily summoned; the knot was almost tied, when, alas, up rode the horseman, hot and angry, and forbade the marriage. The prudent 'squire hesitated, and while he was pondering over the the young people slipped away and started in hot haste for Gallatin. The justice was after them with equal speed bnt his horse threw a shoe snd he suc cumbed to fate. He arrived, howver, in season to congratulate the couple with the best grace possible a few min utes after they were married at the prin cipal hotel of the villg\ in the pres ence of some " specially invited gusts." Mosquitoes. Mr. Irers W. Adams writes from Bath nrst, N. 8., to Fbrgst and Str+nm, that be tried a dozen proscriptions for repelling mosquitoes, flies, and similar pests, and found none of them effective until be came across the following, which are dead sure every time: Three OK. sweet oil, one o*. R*rl>olio acid. Let it be thoroughly applied upon bauds, face, and all exposed parts (care fully avoiding the eye") <""" tr *l hour, when the flies are troublesome, or for the first two or three days, until the •kin is filled with it, snd after this it application will he necessary only occa sionally. Another receipt, equally eifc, - carious. is: Six parts sweet oil, one fart creosote, one part pennyroyal. Either of these is agreeable to we, and in no way injurious to the skin. W* have both of those in our oump with us, and U fikm keep a safe distance.