The Beauty of the IMTU
A lovely form may charm the eye
With feireet loveliness end grseS;
And oft wem%y bo captured by
The entrancing beauty of a face;
But there's a beauty far more true.
Whose radiant charms shall ne'er dspmA
Bnt every inorn and ove be new;
It is the beenty of the heart.
Beneath the weight of passing years
The proudeet form must stoop and band.
And all the charms that beauty wears
Must fade away and have au end.
Tfco sparkling light must leave the oya,
And from the oheek the bloom depart;
But thero'e a charm that ne'er shall die;
It Is the beauty of the heart.
Tie this that scatters o'er life's path
The gems of happiness and truth;
And many charms in age it hath.
As in the rosy tnorn of youth.
A charm that uroath"* the earth with flows™.
And doth the swsotoat joys impart,
Which brightly gilds the saddened basis;
It is the besuty of the heart.
MAY'S MISSION,
Pretty May Browning sat in her own
little room in her mother's cottage,with
pen, paper and ink spread before her,
and though her eyes were intently gaa
ing through the open window ahe saw
neither the bright flowers in the care
fully trimmed little garden nor the
fleecy clonds sailing in the bine aky on
the distant horizon, nor heard the low
bnzz of the bee flitting from roee to ram,
nor the load song of the robin to hia
mate. The sun glinted her hair with
flecks of gold, the summer breese ea
reused her temples, bnt for onoe the
girl was deaf and blind to all save one
great purpose, one absorbing thought.
A week before she had met Vernon
Wilbnr. Picnics were a favorite ram
mer dissipation in the qoiet little
country town where waa May Brown
ing's homo, and it waa at one of theae
fate bad thrown her and Vernon Wilbnr
together. He was a stranger, spending
a few weeks at the small hotel in tho
village, whioh occasionally attracted
summer guests.
At flrst something in his light bine
eyes had repelled rather than attracted
her; but as they sauntered together
through one of the leafy paths, and he
had told her how as soon as he hail aoen
her he had wished and aaked to be pre
sented to her, and oonfided to her how
fow people in the world possessed for
-him tho subtle chord of sympathy, abe
began to beliove she had done him gram
iojastioe, and waa quite oonvineed ahe
never before had met so charming a
man.
Of coarse this sweeping assertion did
cot inolade Dick Tnren, tor she sad
Dick were engtged to be muriti la
deed, Dick talked of the tall as the
proper time for tbs wedding to take
place, though a* yet she hsd not girsa
her consent to inch speed.
She knew now that it was impossible,
for in this one short woek she and Mr.
Wilbur had held many long, eon&dee
tial talks. lie hsd told her that he
wrote, and was s poet—that erery ooe
in life shoald hsre s mission, end that
be was quite rare she ooald make bar
name famous by her peo that he saw
the inspiration of poetry ia her eyes
If his words were true she had woa
derfal difficulty in getting the aeid ns
rpirstion any farther than her eyea, for
it was at thia task she was oooupaed on
this lorely July day.
" May 1" called her mother's rotes.
"Will you come down, dear, and help
mo shell the peas? It is wash day, yea
know, and Mary has not time."
Hiell the peas I Oh, what a fall frees
the clcti Is!
And May, am ally so bright sad
ready, slowly pat swsy her writing ma
" terisls and, with s decided post aa the
.. we' t, rid lips, slowly desaeaded tbs
stairs.
Hir tMk finished, a sudden ibdov
(ell athwart the windiw, thrtu{h which
was thrust a handsome, class cropped
head, and teolanghing, brown eyes ew
veyed the interior, while a cheery mice
broke the ailenee.
"I're come to take yon for a drrve.
May, It's too lovely a day for in-doora.
Come, get yonr ha;, dear, and let as he
off."
"Not today, thanks, DiekT" aba
• answered, indifferently. "It was eery
kind in yon to come, bat I've something
I particularly wiah to do thia afternoon.'
" Not drive. Slay I Why, what is to
be done? I will wait (or yon a little
while iI it is important."
•' Don't wait. I can't go."
" I re hardly seen anything of yon far
a week, May. Last night that Wilbwr
follow deliberately ontateyed me. He'd
here had harder work, but that he
made me mad and jealous. How ou
yon tolerate him May ? There isn't aa
inch of real manhood abont him, yet
yon smiled on him, and enoonmged him
to stay until I oonld stand it no longer,
and left him a bee field."
"We saw yonr temper, Dick. Toe
need not recnrto it. Mr. Wiiber said
it was greatly to be regretted yon were
so rash and hot-headed."
"Mr. Wiibnrl Confound him I What
right has he to express any opinion of
me to yon ? If yon lored me, May, yon
would not have listened to 11"
E For all roply the girl •xasperaiingly
m.
sbswfged her shoulders, and rose to pat
away the peas.
When she turned back the face at the
window had gone. Fearful of giving
km another illustration of his muoh to
bo ragrotted disposition he had sought
refuge in flight; and she was onoo more
free to seek the room which henceforth
Vernon Wilbnr had told hor would ap
pear In hia eyes, though they uover had
beheld it, as the onshrinod bower of a
poetess.
An hour passed aud only four lines
were imprintod on the sheet; but of
theae meter and rhythm were qnite
perfect, and her heart beat high in ex
altation.
When again hor mother's voice ro
oalled her to this mnndauo sphere—
this time, however, to announce a visi
tor-Mr. Wilbur was below.
Very, very pretty May looked, as
with flashed cheeks and bright eyes
ahe ran down to meet him. His light
bine orbs dilated at the picture.
"I have come to ask you to take a
stroll with me," he ssid, in his weak,
low voioe. •' Bach dvys as this are in
spirational, and I am snre in every bnsh
and tree yon will And larking some new
and beantifnl thought."
Ah, if Dick had bnt asked her to go
out to seek inspiration she might have
responded with as much alacrity as
now!
So it happened that, roturning from
his lonely drive, a little repentant for
hia hastineas, and ready to blame his
own jealous and impetuous temper for
unjust suspicion, ho saw directly in
front of him two figures slowly stroll
ing along.
Ho was not long in recognizing them
both, and a great, hot wave of indig
nant anger snrged up to his face. Ho
was wonderfnlly tempted to leap out iu
front of them, and by a vigorous appli- j
cation of his whip teach this miserable
pretendor a lessoD he would not soon
forget. Bnt he resisted tho temptation
and drove on, deigning them, as he
pasaed, neither word nor glance; but
May, catchin? a glimpse of his face, felt
a sodden fear.
She had never seen Dick—dear old
I)iek—weor that look before, snd Mr.
Wilbnr, for the rest of their walk, fonnd
her very ailent, and it is to be feared
that neither from tree nor shrub nor
the radiant sunset did she gather in
■wration. And though Mrs. Browning's
delicious teae were far more inviting
than the rej-ast spread at "the hotel, he
waa not biddan to enter in and feast. Yet
Msy had condemned herself thoerby to
a long, lonely evening.
If Diok bad oome in all might have
been explained; bnt Dick, white and
miaarable, was bending over hia desk
writing a letter, which, thongh savoring
nothing of pootry, cost him as infinite
labor as all her inspirationa. Many a
sheet he began and never finished, be
fore, at laat, a few cart linos, which at
aacat hid the pain their birth had given
him, were loft to stay and reach their
destination.
Next morning May found them be
side bar breakfast piste. These were
all the words they contained:
"I hare been blind. May, bnt I see
now. I know now why yon oonld not
drive with mo josterdsy, an 1 why yon
Ist me go awsy the night before. You'll
forgire me that I didn't recognize the
trnth yon have tried to tell me in every
thing bnt speech, and so the sooner
given yon back yonr freedom. If you'll
keep the few gifts I have sent yon, I
shook! be very glad, for they are hate
ful enough in my sight, and the
weather is somewhat too warm to build
a fire for their funeral pyre."
Tins was all Bnt for the last phrase,
born of the great bitterness of a yonng
heart. May might have relented and
seat Lack a few baas which wonld have
ksonght ber lover to her feet; bnt tbeee
hardened her.
Within an hour she had gathered to
gether every token of his love; then
slipping from her finger the pearl ring
wbieh | bad betokened their engage
meat, aha pat that with the rent, and
dispatched them to him without a
word.
•* Mr. Wilbnr aays that every woman
has a mission," she told herself, lest
she should fancy her heart ached.
"Nothing now need interfere with my
work. I shall write a great poem; I
sea make my own experienoe its foun
dation, and so send it into the world to
teeeh other women man's perfidy."
"I have broken my engagement," ahe
said that evening to Mr. Wilbnr, when
he sailed; bnt the shadows hid the
sadden flash of triumph in his light,
steely eyes.
It was strange, ahe thought, as the
days wore on, bnt Vernon Wilbur's
attraction for her bad fled. Somehow
bo wearied her. Hbe wished he wonld
not come so often; bnt she did not oare
to offend him, for he was to glvo her
the name of tho editor to whom her
precious poem, now rapidly approach
ing completion, was to bo intrusted. A',
last ahe had pat t} it the final correo
lion, the last H op, signing her initials
with infinite precision and care.
Hbe had tasted some of the first frnits
lof fate re triumphs, when she htd reed
it to him in its completed form, and he
had listened with upturned eyes snd
bated breath.
"Your mission soon will bo ful
filled," he said to her; "but oh, May,
what might wo not aooomplish to
gether two auoh poetio minds! I
would not soparate you from your
mother, dear, if you would become my
wife; but here, in this pretty oottage,
wo would be happy together. May I
hope, my love? Will you cast your lot
with mine?"
But May had flod shuddering from
his extended arms; and a few hours
later thore followed him to his hotel
tho hsstily scrawled note, which he
rosd, cursing his fste, since the pretty
nest ho had so carefully striven for, hf
learned, all luxuriously feathered as it
was, never might be his. Ponniless and
love-lorn he must again return to daily
toi* for daily bread, too mnoh time
having been squandered in a vain pur
suit for food and shelter, with the ne
cessary accompaniment of a wife.
There was now nothing left for May
bnt to find consolation in her mission.
With trembling hands but hopeful
heart she dispatched her poem to its
destination.
Days merged into weeks and sho
hoard nothing from it, nntil at last she
sent a tiny note asking for sumo news
of it. The reply was brief:
Her sacred work had long sinoe been
consigned to the waste psper basket,
condemned a* rubbish, and unreturued
to ber for want of return postage.
Tho blow wat terrible. She had not
even kept a copy, and never could she
gather up courage to make a second
effort.
With the heartless letter in her bauds
she flew to tho woods, where, secure from
j interruption she might fling herself face
1 downward apon the sward and sob out
some of her heart's grief.
So wrapped was sho in her own misery
; that she heard no step approaching
| nntil some one called her name.
, It was Dick, her loror, who stood bo
! side her. Ah, her lover now no longer !
" Msy 1" he said. " What is it child ?
Will you not tell me? Poor little girl 1
What is troubling yon?"
The tender ton i was more than sho
I could bear. llow It happonod she did
not know, but in a moment she found
herself sobbing, not toars of wretched
ness, but tears of joy; for Dick's arms
were about her and her head was on
Dick's heart.
Hho tried then to make him under
stand some of her hnmiliiting oonfee
sion; bnt ho would not listen to it—
only a few <lsys later he csme to her,
with a roguish smile on hi* face, and
held up before her a little slip of paper.
It was an adverti -oment, in doggerel
verse, for some patent toothwssh.
" This is one of Mr. Vernon Wilbur's
poems," he told her. "Evidently not
a vary lucrative oocupation, sinoe he
has left the hotel a month in arrears
for his board."
But seeing the rjuiok teara of morti
fication start to May's eyee he bent and
k'aaod them away. Bat in long after
years the girl learned that only her false
mission in life had failed her, aad her
true mission—the mission of a loving
wife and tender mother—had met its
richest snd its fnilost completion.—
Jenny Ifre*.
A Carious Conundrum.
The Buffalo Erprra i is in receipt of
the following curious oonnndrum, which
Ibe Mndar suggests ought to l*> printed:
A crocodile stole • t*by, "in the days
when animals conld talk," and waa about
to make a dinner of it. The poor mother
begged piteonsly for her child. "Tell
me the troth," aaid the crocodile, "end
70a •bell hero your baby again.''
The mother thought it over,
and at last aaid: "Too will
not give him back." "la thia the
troth yon mean to tell?" aaked the
crocodile. " Tea," replied the mother.
M Then by oor agreement, I keep him,"
added the crocodile, "and if it ia a
falaebood, then I have alao won." Bhe
aaid: "No, yon are wrong. If I told the
troth yon are bound by your procaine;
and if a falaebood, it ia not a falaebood
nntil yon hare giron me my child.*'
Now, the qneation ia who won 7 We
are not certain aa to who won, bnt if the
crooodile waa hungry we are willing to
back the opinion that the baby loat.
Accounting for a Deficiency.
At the end of the year, when an Ohio
bank oaahier could not make hia booka
balance, the preeident aat down with
him and aaid:
"Mr. Hymonde, it ia evident that
yon have made a clerical error oome
where."
"Bnt I have verified my figurea over
and over again," pro tea ted the oaahier.
".Taat ao, bnt yet yon bat* over
looked the error. According to your
booka thia bank ia 1700.22 abort?"
" Yea, air."
"And according to my private mem
oranda yon are e 9400 trotting home
end e 9000 diamond pin ahead; while
the rate probably ate up the tireniy-two
ce.ta. Please correct the error and for •
niah a clean balanoe sheet."
Mr. Bymonda icn't a bank oaahier any
mora. Hia health waa ao bad that ha
had to hare outdoor employment.
MOKAL AMI Kt.LIUIOUM.
Varkrarssn.
It ia In our daily assooiationa with
other people, whether in aociety, in
business or at home, that we are in the
deepest need of forbearance. We are
irritated at many things, and seem
goaded on to utter bitter words, or
spiteful allusion, or stinging repartees.
We see error so plainly that we long to
ornsh it out by violent means, or wo
see faults in others which seem to
merit our severest rebuke. Or, we are
suffering under some real or fancied
unkindnoss or injustice which wo burn
to resent, and which appears to u8 to
warrant the sternest indignation. The
forbearance which, while enduring
these heart-burnings, can yet enforce
silenoe on tho lips until the hot emo
tions have had time to cool, and have
been brought to the oar of reason and
judgment, command our respect and
admiration.
UII*UB Xpiti aid 5.1 M.
There are 108,000 Dunkards in the
United States.
The Methodist Protestant church in
the United Btatee has a membership of
118,405.
The American Bible Bsciety distrib
ated over 100,000 Bible* among emi
grant* daring the patt rear.
The Chnrch of England temperance
society! report* .'130,687 members in
twenty-fire diooe*e*, 4 against 302,610
members last year in twenty diocese*.
A rigorous movement t or the evange
lization of the people is being made in
Geneva, Hwitzerland, halls being
used for the purpose in different parts
of the city.
Tho Iter. J. H. Blaster has left the
Congregationalisti in Miami because be
has changed his views as to sanctifica
tion, believing in it now as an instanta
neous experience.
The Methodist Episcopal church, on
an average, organizes ten new Sunday
schools, dedicate* fourteen new
churches and adds two new parsonage*
each week during the year.
Dr. E. T. Baird and Dr. It. L Dab
ney are publishing articles in tho South
ern Presbyterian paper* to prove that
the oonstitntion.of the Southern church
was meant only for "a church of white
ministers."
Tne king ot Siam, tbougb lea* than
thirty years old, is said to be oae of the
moat enlightened and progressive mon
arch* now living, and though a pro
nounced Buddhist, is extremely liberal
toward all other faith*.
There is in the Congressional Library
a Bible which is thought to be from
four to five hundred years old. It is
written in Latin upon vellum, and is
embellished with 146 mtnatore paint,
ing* and more than 1.200 illuminations,
which are aa brilliant now as when ex
ecnted. It cost 82 200.
A census of church attendance in St.
Louis shows that the total on a recent
Sunday of churchgoers was 119,493.
Of these, 85,171 were Ituman Catholics,
6,926 Presbyterians, 7,420 Methodists,
3,651 Lutherans and 4,515 Baptists.
In the Sunday-school* there was an
attendance of 23,102.
A bold Baptist missionary in St.
Petersburg recently baptized the
cashier of a great railway in a swimming
bath of the Imperial bank, and in the
presence of the officials. He seems to
have great influence with the Russian
official*. He ha* mads an appeal to
Genera! Iguatieff in behalf of sailed
Baptists.
Queer Habits of Ants.
Writing upon ante e naturalist re
marks that among the habits and cus
toms of some species ia one whieh he
dares not set down as a mark of civili
sation lest ha ahonld incur the eonsnre
of the Anti-Slavery society. Jt ia,
however, true that certain species of
ante maka systematic raids upon their
neighbors, in order to rob them of their
larva- and pnpm, which they oonvey to
their own nest, and bring np with care
aa their own ohildren, in order that
they may become their slaves, and the
•laves moat frequently selected are
bleok ante, although the slave makers
are not vary particular.
One species of ants is simply a war.
rior; its mandibles era not adapted for
working, bnt are excellent aa weapons;
and it has become so dependent npon
He slaves that it oan neither attend to
its own larvro nor feed or clean itself.
To deprive this species of its slaves
wonld be equivalent to oondemning it
to extinction. Strenge to eey, on the
return of the warrior ants from an ex
pedition if tbey bring no pnpm the
•laves reoeivs them with threatening
gestures and seem inclined to resist
their entrance; bnt if the warriors re
turn loaded with captives the slaves
hasten to careas them end relieve them
of their loads, to whioh they attend
with great oare.
Several years ago the bleaching pow
der made in the world was 6ft,000 tons
per annum, wheroaa it is now over 150,-
000 tons. By thia increase every sheet
of white peper and every yard of ealioo
mado in the world have been cheapened.
TOPIC* OF THE DAT.
A statistical abstract Just issued by
the United BUtes treasury department
contain* statistics of the annual produc
tion of gold and silver in the United
States from 1857 to 1881 inclusive.
These flgurea show that the production
of gold baa declined from $55,000,000
in 1857 to $80,500,000 in 1881, and that
the production of silver baa increased
from nothing in 1857 to $42,000,000 in
1881. The total production of gold and
silver for 1881 was $78,000,000, au in
crease of $8,000,000 over the year pre
vious. The largest production recorded
in any one year was in 1878, when over
800,000,000 was produced of gold.
It is estimated that there are in Lon
don at the presont time no fewer than
25,(XX) unemployed mechanics, artisans,
clerks and unskilled laborers, and that
throughout tho country there is a float
ing imputation of 50,000 vagrants. Tho
depth of misery reached by torno of
these unfortunate people is brought to
light by an inquest lately held on the
body of the wife of a London watch
maker. A daughter, aged nineteen,
testified that there were seven in the
family, and that their food consisted
chiefly of bread and lard and tea. They
all slept in one bed, the father, mother
and five children, their only covering
being the clothes they wore during the
day. Sometimes they went a day or
two without food.
Mrs, Boecber told an interviewing
correspondent of the Indianapolis Srn
tirvl so many interesting things tho
othor day that ho wrote two columns
about it. Some of the incidents related
may psss into biography. Her bus
band's first congregation st Lawrence
burg, Ind., consisted of twenty-four
women and one man. "Henry'' ex
pelled the man for unworthiness.
Henry received six dollars s week, and
Mrs. Boecber hired two rooms over a
stable, where tbey began housekeeping.
Their only article of furniture was the
bed upon which Henry had slept while
at collego. " When I got here to
Brooklyn," concluded Mrs. Beecber,
" the public began to get my husband
away from me ; be couldn't help it, of
oonrsc ; he is one of the most modest
of men, and flnsbos now when he
meets strangers."
An exploring expedition has left Ban
Francisco for Alaska, under the direc
tion of Edward Bchieffelin, who ha*
been a practirwl miner for twenty five
years, snd has amassed an ample fortnne
among the mountains. He intends to
ascend the great Yukon river aa far as
possible, and for that purpose be has
constructed a small stern-wheel steam
er, which will be carried upon the dock
of a schooner to the month of the river.
He has taken three companions with
him, and made all the necessary ar
rangements for a three years' cruise.
He will establish a base of supplies at
the point where the Tananan empties
into the Yukon, and thence make pros
pecting tours by land and water in
every direction. The chief purpose of
this expedition is to discover mineral
treasure*, but it can scarcely fail to be
otherwise important if the generous
plans npon which it is projected are
carried out. Mr. Bchieffelin believes
that Alaska is upon the " mineral belt
which encircles the world, and the
proof is strong enough to take the
chances."
There waa an extraordinary scene at
the Grand Opera honae in Cincinnati
one afternoon not long ago. A gentle
man, apparently thirty-five yeara of age,
waa not red walking aronnd the lobby
intently looking et the an lience, aa if
aeercbing for aome one. Hia manner
waa aomewhat excited, end it wea aeay
to be aeen that he did not go there to
witness the performance. All et once,
juat after the oloee of tke Brat act, he
quickly peeaed down into the dreaa
circle, and taking a handsome, well
dreaaed lady by the ear, compelled her
to go oat with him. Bhe waa literally
led oat by the ear. The hnaband states
that he has been married to the lady
ten rears; that she has an inordinate
inclination to go to matinee perform
ances, thereby neglecting her home and
ohildren ; that he endnred thia as long
at he could, and then told her if ahe
went to ths matinee agiin be woold
leed her out by the ear, and ha simply
kept hia word. He furthermore ex
pressed great affection for hia wife, bnt
eaid he was determined to prevent her
farther demoralisation. The parties
are connected with eioallent families
and stand well in social circles. The
lady ia young, aooompliahsd and intel
ligent.
Commenting upon an important mat
ter. • New York peper obaervee: " Borne
statemeate a hich have just been made
by Dr. Williem IL Bmitb, health ofH
oer of the port of New York, ere ex
tremely interesting. A lsrge number
of our cltiaena, belonging msinly to the
lowest classes, however, are prejudiced
•gainst vaccination, whilcat the same
time they believe the smallpox is bred
in this country by the immense number
of emigrants eontinnalty arriving. It
is wall to learn, therefore, on good
authority, that out of noarly three hun
dred end fifty thousand emigrant* who
entered thin port daring the ten months
ending April 30,1882, only eleven cases
of smallpox developed among them
daring the passage. Thi is an exceed
ingly small proportion. It prove* that
the measure* taken by the various
tranaatlentio passenger nteamabip lines
to prevent the spread of thi* dreadful
disease among person* intending to
emigrate were prudently suggested and
effectively applied. It will therefore
bo seen both that vaccination is an ex
cellent preventive, and that the extreme
feeling against emigrant*, because they
are supposed to propagate smallpox, is
nothing bat an ignorant prejudice that
should be immediately dismissed."
In applying for an increase of her
pension from twenty-five dollars to fifty
dollar* s month, Mr*. Priscills D.
Twiggs, of Baltimore, now in her
eighty-first year, *bow* an honorable
title to the bounty of the government.
Bho write*: " i imagine few have
stronger claim* upon the liberality of
tho government than I have, every malo
relative having been in the United
States servioe; my grandfather, Com
modore Decatur, Sr., having been in
the French war ; bis two son* also held
commissions in our navy. Commodore
Stephen Decatur, Jr., distinguished
himself by recapturing and burning the
frigate Philadelphia in the harbor
of Tripoli, in which engagement
hi* brother, James S. Decatur,
was killed. Again, during the
war with Great Britain in 1812, he fur
ther distinguished himself by capturing
tbe British frigate Macedonia. My
father. Captain McKaight, was in tbe
marine corps at the time of hi* death.
Both my brothers were lieutenants
in the navy. The elder, Lieutenant
Stephen U. McKnight, was with Com
modore Porter on board the Essex, and
wa* afterward lost at sea on board the
Unite'! States sloop of-war Wasp. As
before stated, my husband fell at the
storming of Chapultepeo, and my only
son, George T. Tariggs, was killed in an
engagement one month previous, hs
being on bis way to his uncle, Oeneral
D. E. *1 wigga, as his aid." The Senate
pension committee reported the appli
cation favorably.
An Arctic Tratr<-dy.
With Horn sound begins the interact
in Spitsbergen, m the place wu the
aceno of u cruel • tragedy a* was ever
enacted. The atory baa in it all the
dramatic element* of a thrilling novel
of the old school, and finds a fitting
denouement in the mines of Siberia. On
one of the innermost island* of Horn
eonnd, a few year* ago, were
fonnd a heap of nine skulls, said to
be those of a Russian crew mur
dered by a party of whaler*.
These murderer* were never discovered,
but another and atill more remarkable
dieoovery waa made in the year 1835 by
a Norwegian see captain, near thia
place, and it ia of this I intend to tell.
It ia the commonest occurrence tor
ahipe that venture up here to loae one
or more men a trip, and ao when the
other member* of the small crew* —my
fire or *iz men—return borne and re
port that tbey have loet comrades, no
particular atteotion i* paid to the new*
beyond the little circle widowed by the
lost men.
It happened acme where about 1849
that tbe crew of • Russian whaler mad*
their way bwck to Archangel and report
ed that they had loat their oaplain and
two men on Hpitzbergen through an ao
cident, detail* of which were given.
The captain and his men were moaned
and in a little while the affair waa for
gotten . In 1853. however, tbe Norwe
gian captain in question, while oat
banting for reindeer, found three
ha man skeletons, and betide them a
gun from which the etock was rotting.
On tbe barrel of the gnn were ecratchad
a number of inaeriptiona in Raasiaa,
which the Norwegian waa nnable
to make oat. Ho brought the
gaa home with him, aod aent
it to Archangel, where it waa found to
contain the hietory at the captain and
the two men. previously reported aa
having been killed by accident. Tbe
inscription told how the owner of the
gnn and his two men had been basely
deaertad by the other* of the crew, for
whom they were oat procuring food,
and left to die of exposure. Thoee of
the crew then alive ware arrested and
sentenced for life to work in the mines
of Siberia. The poor captain and his
man moat have Buffered terribly, for,
from tbe dates on the gnn—the last of
which was March A—it waa learned that
they bad survived a greater part of the
winter.
Estimated oost of building railroads
in different countries, per mile: Eng
land. *130,000 ; Prance, 1100.000; Roa
ns, $135,000 ; Austria, $109,000 ; Oar
many, $105,000. Italy, $100,000; United
States, $58,000;
There have been 8,802 persona in
dicted in Inland during the present
year, and the total number of arrests
under the coercion sot has been con
siderably over 900.