LORI BERERFORD'S CAREER. Tlir llcro of tho llomlmnliiieitt of lrln—l.ort! ftiiirlr* ItrrcolorU unl III* .\l venture*. A New York reporter fell in with an Irish waiter at a restaurant who had served with Lord Charles Beresford and was full of interesting reminiscen ces of his career, lie said: " Well, i sir, 1 give you my word that young fellow was the wildest, most reckless boy I ever saw in tny life. Ho had everything in the way of money any one could want, and he would risk his life twenty times where I wouldn't risk mine once, who was slaving for a living. There was nothing he wouldn't do. And with all that he was a splendid sailor, lie could show older ©Ulcere than he was all over the ship. Wild as he was, too, he was always up straight to the mark when on deck, but between decks—well, there was noth ing too hot for him. if there was ever a dangerous place to get into Beresford was there first. I rememlier during the Fenian troubles in 18b7 we were olf (ialway in a had storm. We had been warned not to go out, but there were rumors of cruisers comiag from America, and we bad to go. The top sail had to be furled, and it was really I dangerous to go aloft, for she was washing her yards under. Well, sir, if a British sailor gets his order to go lie will go, but the captain was not will ing to send the men aloft without an ©flieer. 1 mean he would not risk men's lives where he would not risk an officer's. He turnisl to the officers and asked for sue to lead the men. I give you my word, sir, Beresford was out on the end of that yard before another officer could look aloft. "Ueisaslight-built man unless he has falhTi into flesh since, but at this time he would not weigh more than 110 pounds, but he fought the ship's cor poral, who was a big man, and a boxer, too, and made him give in. <>f course it wax kept very quiet, as it was a breach of discipline, bat 1 knew about it. We were in the harbor at Holy head. and the corporal went to call him in the morning. He said he wouldn't get up. The corporal made liim, or said lie would, or something, but anyway Itcresford jumped out and says to the corporal: 'Look lu re, cor poral, you're a pretty big fellow and a good Ixixer, and you think you're the cock of the ship. Now you say nothing al>out it and I won't, and we'll settle this thing at once.' So he dressed and went for ward. There was no one alxiut at that hour—alxmt -1 in the morning and we lx-ing in harbor—except the sentry, and there they set to. Well. sir. you never saw so battered and bruised up a pair in your life as these two men. They were both good lxiAcrs, but the i corporal, as big as be was, had to give in. At the same place Beresford went ashore one night with another officer, and they came to a public bouse called the Kagle. There was a big eagle, all goid aud paint, and great big wings over the dcxir. Beresford eliinWsl upon the other man's shoulder and pulled it ' down, .lust as be was getting it down the man inside woke up by the noise, jmd opening the window liegan to yell for the (sdice like mad. The two started for the beach with the eagle, ami the police hot fixit after them; as ■oon as one would get exhausted carry ing the eagle he'd drop it, and the other would pick it up and go on. , They got to the beach and Beresford jumps into the lmat and says to the t boatman: • Now get to thn( ship if you want to save your life!" At that time I was after being made second ward room steward, and when I came into the room in the morning to set the breakfast what should I see hut this big wooden eagle set out on the table, with a stick-up collar and a little pair of white pantalets. I knew it wax s une of Bcreaford's work ax soon as I saw it. " One trick <4 his I know of, lieeau.se I Haw the picture, but where it oc-. curred 1 can't remember, because it was Istfore I knew him. Any how, young lieresford and another ixiy like himself were ashore, and there was a flag-pole carrying the flag at the America! consul's residence. It was at night, ami for pure devilment the ! boys rlimlxd the polo and carried off . the flag, took it atxiard the ship and hoisted it at the mainmast in a basket. Well, sir, you may believe there was a time when the captain came on deck in the morning. He was in an awfiM stew, and of oounte the coosul, or who ever was in charge, was tearing mad. There was a great row, the two boys were brought up, and the c*d of it was they were sentenced to climb the pole and put the fhy hack. Then llereaford saiil he Wouldn't do it, Of course lie would have been dismissed from the navy for insubordi nation, but some one who knew the family well sent word to his mother, ami she telegraphed to him that he must do it for her sake. There was nothing he wouldn't do for hitt fhothor. When alio came to visit him on the ship he used to have grand ceremonies of re ception—not on hoard, of course, lav cause discipline would not allow any thing to he done there, hut on shore. I(o thought the world of her, and when she telegraphed to him he said he would put the tlag hack be cause of his mother's request. Then they put it hack in grand style. There was a public ceremony, he had a pho tographer on the ground, and there ho was taken climbing the pole, he and the other boy, with the American Hag trailing over his shoulder. lie hail the picture enlarged, and kept it in a scrap book with all the newspaper notices of the affair cut out and pasted under it. The Research, when I was with him, was paid off in lSt8. I next heard of him as Hag-lieutenant on board the (ialatea, and since then he lias been out of the way until 4 saw about his commanding the Condor at Alexan dria I used to think lie would only remain in the navy long enough to be able to retire with the title of Captain Beresford. but lie seems to stick to it, so I suppose he lias some higher ambi tion." Keep Chwrj, One (if the most delightful sights we know of is that of .sunshine in human faces. How such a man draws us to himself. See his large, sunny nature. Nothing seems to cloud his face. While others are gloomy and discouraged he is full of hope and full of courage, lie looks on the bright side ; lie laughs at adversity and snaps his lingers in the face of discouragements. He Laics up all around him. Soldiers on the march feel the invigorating effect of such a man's presence. Tired workers every where ;ire cheered and strengthened by the sight of sfich faces and the sound of such voices. This is a priceless possession to a mother, wife, teacher, minister or any leader of men. Think of the discour agement and weariness of working on. day by day, by tin* side of oneor under ; the authority of one who is always glomy ami morose. It were as pleas ant and as easy to labor in darkness and in shadows. I 'beery limn and women are stronger men and women. Tliey do more. They age Uss, carry no useless s and avoid much friction. Their faces are known and read of all unci, and w hat a joyous, health-giving tale they tell. Do you say this is all beautiful and true, but these we speak of have no trials? No ill-health, tr broken for tunes, or erusbisl hopes hn% e e\ • r come to shadow and embitter their lives? Stay, friend, this siip|xsitiiin of yours is all wrong These men .tad women could tell you often of severe sickness or great reverses of fortune. These things have not prevented them, need not prevent any one from li>ing in the sunlight. Oh, how we need such men and wo men now. We nesl them in every home and every church. Are you one of these? Then you are doing gmxl contanually ; doing it as the sun shines in heaven or the rain falls on Hie earth, tlixl lihws you in your helpful ministry. Are you not one of these? Tlusi you mias much of the great sweetness and 'joyousness of life. Get out from under the clouds. Ton were never meant to live in tears contain ally. Re joice! Cheer up! Whistle, siag. do something to bright •*> yourselves. Live honestly before tuxl and man and do gixxi. Cheer up others and thus fill your soul with sunlight. "God bless us every one," and fell oitr souls with the sunshine f His presance, and our daily life with wmny faces, kind wunls and unselfish acts. Uolthn Huh. Eight Hundred Ton* of Silter hollar*. A Now York llnlhlin reporter n!e tained permission some time ag<> to , WO the vault at tho Xew York SIIIH treasury, in which the silver now ac cumulating .*<> rapidly, is deposited. He was courteously ushered by Sule Treasurer Acton through the offices, j anil tlnci lowered hy a lift to the vault. Its entrance is guarded hy a massive i safe door, with complicated lock. I'n derneath the vault are, it is said, twenty feet of solid granite, and the sides are aliout eight feet in thickness. The vault i is divided into twelve compartments, each having its door of stout wire. , Here are stored, in 28,000 canvas hags. : no less a sum than $28,1)00,000 in dol -1 lars and smaller silvw coinage. The money weighs 800 tons. immense ( stock of silver coin lias Is en received. I it is statist, within the past two years. To the door of each compartment is attached a laliel stating the value of its contents. This accumulation Is ex pected to grow larger so long as the coinage of silver goes on. The public dislike handling it in large sums, pro vided greenbacks or certillcatea can be obtained. Traffic In Old SIIOM. Says a New York paper : Hows of shorn .st;*ad at the head of basement stairs on the lower side of llaxter street, all the way from Chatham to Canal street, from early in the morn ing until late at night. They are patched and pieced, and the soles and heels on them are new, but their ap pearance tell of long and hard wear. There is not an unworn shoe to be seen along the entire street. They are all second-handed and in the worst pos sible condition at that for the most part. Peering down into the gloomy basements hundreds of others w ill he seen on the floors, while on insecure benches from one to four cobblers will be stitching, patching, soling and heel ing dilapidated shoes. Here, scarcely a minute's walk from the busiest part of the metropolis, in the lowest quar ter and in the most unpretentious manner, is condueted a business the proportions of which one would never suspect. The old shoe trade is confined almost exclusively to Baxter stris-t, although here and there in Sixth and Seventh avenues are places where better grades of second-hand articles are sold. Both men's old boots and women's shoes are dealt in. From five cents tosl a pair is paid for men's shoos. Boots are worth a little less because the sale for them is not so large. For women's shoes from five to thirty-five cents a pair is paid. So long as the uppers are not 'completely spoihsl the shoes can be utilized. Shoes that most people would suppose were entirely past r demption can be patches! up and made presentable. After soles and heels have been pat on the sh'K-s and the rents conceuhsl by patches, the price is increased ulsuit fifty cents on the average. A pair of SIUH-S for which twenty-five cents was paid are sold, when repaired, for seventy cents. The profit to the dealer is from ten to thirty-five per cent. The dealers pay their cobblers, as a rule, eighty cents a pair for n ! constructing sh>M-s, and in addition to this they count the cost of b-.-ither in their exjens, and thus it will lie wen that their profit is not heavy. One of the shopmen was asked how b>ng the sliis-s would hist. "We don't like to sell sh'H-s jn wet weather," he replied. | " The soles are liable to float off and leave the uppers without any liottoms. Mavis- they will wear for one day and mavis- they w ill last for one month. We guarantee no goods because the pr--fits are so small. 'The cobblers' can't afford to put in many pegs. ■id w>- can't afford to put in much leather." The reporter picked up a pair of AIK-*. and he was lint b>ng in reaching the conclusion that, likp glass, they mu*t Is liandlnl with ran*. The business is nut t<> the retail trade, hilt includes the wholesale. A great many ' c.wd nf the shoe* are -11ij• jI tu It.il mure, Washington, Boston and other cities on the order* f second-hand .dotlitc'n Health Monthly. The most dangerous of the vegetable poisons at this season of the year are the hemlocks (including the hemlock drop wort, water hemlock and the com mon hemlock), fool's parsely, monks hood, foxglove, black helleliore, or Christmas rose, buckbrun, henbane, thorn apple arid deadly nightshade. In a ra*e of vegetable |M>isoniiig, says Knowledge, "emetics (the sulphate of zinc, if procurable) should las used at once, the hack of the throat tickled with a feather, and copious draughts of tepid water taken to excite and pro mote vomiting. Where th-sc measures fail the stomach-pump must IK* used. Neither iperaruiuiha nor tartar emetic should la UJUKI to cause, vomiting, as •luring tlm nausea they produce IK-fore vomiting is excited tb<- jxiisoti is more readily absorU-d. Vinegar must not be given until the poisonous tnatti r lias been removed ; but afterward it may !>•• given in doses of a wineglass, tal, one part vim-gar to two parts water, once every two hours in mild e.ivc-, but oftener to half-hour - m cases of greater severity. Where tlieri is --tup r. the patient shtsld IK kept walking alMiut, and if the stupor is gre.it cold water may be dashi-d over the head and chest. Strong ciiff#*e may be used where the narcotic • fT-ct of the poisoning is very marked. It is all-inifKirtant that in cas<-s of vegetable {Kiisißiiair a mistical n.w. should b< sent f■ r at • <-<-. Japanese Pinner*. The peony is the standard of beauty, a applied to the charm* of the fair sex in Japan, says a letter fran that com try. No higher compliment tan Is* offered a lady than to compare her to a peony. The Japanese do not give a glance and turn away from their favorite flower, hut w ill sit fr hours contemplating a floral display. They n >t only give their time to visiting them, but they appear to iadnlge in blissful intoxication of sentiment while they fonteinplgle their lwautie*. The chrysanthemum is also found here in great variety, and of all shades of color and of enormous dimensions. The chrysanthemum display in Tokio every year is one of the notable inci dents of t lis season, and is visited from far and near. To lie deprived of this pleasure is one of the pains of life. The iris is also found in gr*t pro fusion. attaining a size and beauty un known elsewhere. The variety of shades wd form of flower is almost endless. Lilies are lilies here, putting it beyond the Wasting of any other hmd ta equal them. Camellia* att.iin the dimensions of forest trees, bearing such a wealth of flower* that with hesitation one would dare to attempt t> skate, approximately, the thousand* that inav le wen upon one tree. One could o* weil number the blossom* on an apple tree. The hartnonv of color j that is so noticeable in ovirytliing the j Japanese make or wear is no doubt the result of constant association with their beautiful (lower*. There mast lie a large sale for the different (loners in their season, as there are numbers of plants peddler* constantly porani* ; lailnting the streets with different , varieties in |Kita, or in mat coverings for the protection of their roots. At night, all through the par, there are exposed for sale on the streets large collections of plants in (lower. There arc no bouquet sellers, nor ore cut (lowers offered for sale on the street. The great passion appeals to he to see j them growing and attached to the mother plant. About the 20th of April ruses are in bloom. The rose lias lieen widely introduced in Japan from abroad Mid Onds a songenial ' home here. The Ituello In Louisiana. In an account of some duels fought years ago in Louisiana, a New Or leans correspondent says: A type of a Southern duelist was young Orrin Bird, every member of whose, family li.-ul the reputation of having killed •' his man " and died " with his Issds on." Bird would never have struck the average observer as a dangerous or determined man. The son of a Carolina preacher, lie had been thor oughly educated, and was refined and gentlemanly in his manners, lie was a great ladies' man, much admired and petted by the young ladles of New Or leans, and, witli his delicate com plexion, graceful figure and faultless costume, gave one the impn-ssion of being somewhat effeminate. lie, was never disputatious, quarrel some or Isiaslful, always sober, and extremely courteous to every one, and while lie never sought a duel he never shirked one, and always seemed blessed with success upon the field. One of liis first affairs was with Colonel Richard Hagan, whose utterly fearless character had been demonstrated in half a dozen " affairs." In one of these, at Natchez, Miss., he hail receivi-d ! a wound which ninety times out of a j hundred would prove fatal, his carotid ' artery lieing severed bv the ball of his antagonist. His life was savs] by his siirgi-ou, Dr. Slone, and lie recovered to tight a second time the man who had so seriously wounded hirn, and this time to kill him. The meeting Ix'twetn Bird and Ha gan. which occurred on the Mexican (iulf railroad, wax awaited with in tense interest by every one, as it was well known that loth parties were good shots. To make the affair sure, the two principal* were posted in the center of tin* track, thus affording them a much 1 tetter aim. Both com batants, as was expected, made line shots. 1 lagan's ball passed through Bird's leg, inflicting an unpleasant hut not a serious wound, while Ilagan's femoral artery was cut, a wound gen s-rally deemed mortal. Fortunately for liiiu. lie had tie- same physicia® as it the Nat' her duel, and his life was again saved. But he was never the same man, and when he again ap pearisl in the world, after months of nursing.it was •• crutches, crippled b>r life, but still the same brave spirited, popular gentleman he hail alwavs lw-en. It should In- stated, by the way, that this duel was fought on th< very eve of Bird's marriage. llMttrhkj'i Pigeon. A writer in the Journal Korku re lates a touching incident in !>ostocfsky's exile life In Silieria. In the household of a cert ain "ffi < r. to whose charge the novelist anil other prisoners were at one time committed, wa* a governeas, to whom belonged a number of tame pigeons. The governess was ctasidered to have great influence over the officer, and the exiles stood duly in awe of her. though among themselves she was spoken of as " Nyetka " (a disrespectful iliminutive of Anna). " Nyetka's pigeons used often to fly into our yard." says the narrator, "and many of us looked at them with covetous eyes. The warders, however, kej* a sharp lookout that we did not catch any of them." One young pigeon grew particularly attaihed to Dostoefsky, w ho fed it reg ularly with bread, so that it came every •lay to him for its dole. At first the warders were for preventing this, but accing that Dostoefsky meant the bird no harm they winked at the slight in dulgence. One day the prisoners, on account of some unusually laborious work upon which they had been em ployed during the day, were brought ha 1 k to the prison a little earlier than the wonted hour. It happemsl that they passed by the officer'i: house just a* the governess was feeding her pig -1 eons. A madcap thought came into Tkwtoefsky'S head. He yielded to it, ' and whistled hi* favorite to him. The hint* all rose in the air, and the pris oner's pet flew up to hiin and began circling round bis head. The gover ness, enraged at this, rushed straight up to Dostoefsky. "Is that you, yon scoundrel, who entices my pigeons? You shall pay for this." The narator could not catcli the wonts of Dostoef sky's reply;] they However, to | convey some impressive rebuke. Con trary to expectation, Dostoefsky was | not punished in any way for his bold ness. A fortnight later the prisoners learned that Nyetka had goon was found after some search—sugar, also, I got by importunity. The |r<— curing of milk was a longer proofs*. Evidently the goat had to be hunted 1 up. By the time the goat oaine to term® the coffee was cold. I then brought up the subject of bread. That was sent out for and delivered. Butter, alsow was called for, not that I wanted it, or could cat it when it came, hut lx-causa butter is a conventional thing to have for breakfast. This butter was a sort of poor cheese gone astray. The last article to be got was a knife. Tlie knives were generally very good, or would have lt*n if they had lx*n clean. By patience, after this you can have arM mullet and an egg and soma sour oranges. All the orange* in Siiily are sour. The reason given for this, however, is that all the good one* ara sltipjxil to Ami rica. The reason given in America why ail tin 1 Sicily or.fcgcn an- smir is that all the good onta .are kept it home. When the traveler rendu* Malta and Tangier he will ham what an ' range i really in. Ido not know that I ran say am thing more in favor of the lintel sole, except that the proprietors were as indifferent to our departure as to I our comfort while we stayed. We left at 10 o'clock at night, to take the train for Malta. We procured a f;u-< hinn outside to move our luggage, and not a soul connected with the hotel was visi hie. The landlord had exhausted him aelf in making out our hills. Them i was some difficulty in separating our several accounts, aTul when the land lord at last brought a sheet of paper on which the various items were set in i order, and the figures w ere properly ar ranged, he regarded his work with ju tiliable pride, and excUimed, "It is un cont* magnified." We agreed with him that, in some respects, the account w as magnificent. A Show Faglc Willi a History. Th<- Denver (OoL) Tribune says: For some (lays past the large gnl.ira ••agio placed on exhibition in frait of the curiosity store in the Windsor block has received much attention ; but the many who have pared at it in wonder ment have little thought that the bird had a history quite tragic in detail. The story has been told in paragraph, but never in detail before. La