A Living Death. A recent sensation in Parts was tho caseof Jean Mistral,who has been forty two years in tho private lunatic asy lum of St. Remy, in Provence. lie was, it is now admitted nil round, of sound mind when his father, on u doc tor's certificate and in virtue of the ( law of 1828, locked him up there. His reason for Incarcerating his son was to prevent him remarrying a Polish lady whom, in good faith, lie had married ~ abroad. Tho marriage ceremony on the petition of the elder Mistral had ln-en set aside by a French tribunal be cause there had been insufficient pub lication and other formalities pre scribed by the code bad not been ole served. • Old Mistral was a very weal thy manufacturer of jet beads. He wnnted his only son to heap fortune upon fortune in marrying the heiress of a Marseilles ship owner. The Polish lady was very beautiful, of honorable life, but poor, and she bad been obliged to turn an enthralling voice to merce nary account by singing in theatres and at concerts. Jean Mistral was taking steps to marry her according to French law, when his father one day ran againt him in the high street of Tarascon, in the year 184<>, and cried out to a couple of policemen who were with him to arrest the madman. The son made a desperate fight for his liberty, and soldiers were called in. lie was subjugated and manacled and sent off to an asylum near Montpelier, where he still is. The fact that ho re sisted Infarct pnbtique was taken as confirmation of the doctor's Ifttre on after she was turned out of France she gave birth to a daughter in Switzerland. Mother and child died 'n extreme poverty some years later. The news of their death threw the prisoner in the asylum into a state of frenzy. The fortune inherited by Jean Mistral from his father has gone on accumulating at simple and compound interest and has been very carefully nursed by the Bernards, who are his heirs apparent. M. Founder, who has been exerting himself to get the pris oner released from the asylum, is his first cousin. According to an article in the civil code a rich madman or irnul woman is not to be confined in a madhouse, but placed under treatment at home, and is to be provided with a domestic establishment corresponding witli his or her yearly revenue. Mis tral is an ordinary hoarder at the asy lum, where h<* lias passed nearly half a century, and is allowed one man ser vant, whose business is not to minister to his comfort, hut to prevent Ids es caping. He Got a Nickel. A hotel guest was standing having his clothes brushed. Dn finishing lie handed a five-dollar hill to the hall boy. He grinm-d from ear to ear. and nearly broke his hack bowing and thanking so generous a being. But Ids face fell so quickly that he had some trouble in catching it before it reached the lloor, when the generous being said, in tones not to be trilled with: "Get it changed!" He went away and brought liack the change—five one-dollar hills. Deliber ately pocketing four, the generous being handed the one remaining to the duster. Again a sweeping bow from the dust-broom, a " Thank you," and a sudden convulsion as the guest remarked in solemn tones: "Get it changed !" Once more lie 4epartsl and brought kick two fifty, cent pieces. One went into the trav. eler's pocket, the other into the hall boy's palm. He smiled, said " Thank you," and was slipping it into Ids pocket, when " Get it changed " again rang into his ears. Two quarters ?amo back with him this time, which he handed to the guest, who, putting one in his purse, turned over the other to the hall-ls>y. This time he was al lowed to walk off nearly across the hall, when, as if by an electric shock, he was brought to a standstill, with those terrible words, " Get it changed!" This time two dimes anil a nickel were deposited in the hand of tho guest, who put the two dimes In his pocket, handed the brush-boy a nickel and walked in to dtoiy,—Detroit Free f. 1 Snp-Sucker Shooting. Several of the smaller American woodpeckers are sap-drinkers; but only one kind, tho one of which I am writing, ever peeks holes for the pur pose of getting at the sap. lie is named by naturalists Centurus Caro linns. Ho is a very cunning bird. One of his habits is to move around, the bole of a tree just fust enough to keep nearly hid from you us you walk around trying to get a good look at him. This he will continue to do for a considerable length of time, but finally getting the tree-trunk fairly be tween you and him* he takes to his gay wings and flies in such a line as to keep hidden from your eyes. Usually ho says good-bye with a keen squeal as be starts away. Down in the mountain valleys of Northern Georgia I used to amuse my self with watching the little half naked negro boys trying to shoot sap suckers by means of their blow-guns. .Such a blow-gun as they had is a straight reed or cane about six feet long, through the whole length <>f which a smooth bore is made by punching out the joints. The arrow used in this gun is made of a sharp piece of cane-wood not longer or larger than a knitting-needle, with a ball <>f cotton-lint bound on tho end opposite tho point. The arrow is blown out of tho gun by the breath from the shooter's mouth. It flies with so great force that I have seen a bird killed at a distance of forty yards. Sorne of the little negro loys were very skillful in using the blow gun and as sly as cats in creeping up dose to a bird before shooting at it. Many people in Northern Georgia have China tree? on their lawns. The 1 terries of these trees intoxicate or render drowsy the robins which feed upon them, ami then the poor birds are killed very easily by these blow-gun Nimrods; but the sa|>-suekcr never eats berries of any kind, so lm keeps solter ami gives his persecutors gr. at trouble, nearly always outwitting them, for birds, like people, succeed better ly keeping clear of everything int..\i eating. In our Northern States, when the winter is very cold and all the niapUs and ash and hickory tret-s are fror.cn so that their sap will not flow into our bird's pots, lie is compelled to depend upon the cedar trees for food, since their resinous sap is not affected by the Cold. Often I have seen him pis-king away at the gnarled pole of an ever green when the thermometer's mercury stood ten degrees below ZTI>, and the air was fairly blue with winter's breath. Kven in Georgia it is sometimes so cold that he chooses the pine tris-s, finding between their bark and the underlying wood a sort of diluted turpentine upon which he feeds. While busily engaged pe<-king his holes on cold, wimlv davs, he is not so watchful as in fine weather. At audi times I have seen a little negro " blow-gunner" stick three or four arrows into the soft bark all around the busy bird before it would fly, and have been just as much sur prised at the IKJJT as at the bird; be cause, if it was strange how the bird could be so busy as not to notice an arrow "chucking " into the tree close by him, it was equally strange how that little negro could "stand it" to be out so long in such a cold, raw wind with nothing on but a shirt ! —Mauri'* Thompson, in St. Ni'-hola.t. A flock Which Does >ot Xced to he Wound. In .Septemlier last a new perpetual clock w as put up at the Gare dn Nord. Brussels, in such a position as to lie fully exposisl to the influence of wind and weather, and although it has not sinee lieen touched it has continued to keep g,„)d tilil" ever since. The.weight is kept constantly wound up by a fan placisl in a chimney. As soon as it approaches the extreme height of its course it actuates a break, which stops the fan; and tho greater tho tendency of the fan to re volve so much tho more strongly does the brake act to prevent it. A simple pawl arrangement prevents a down draught from exerting any effect. There is no necessity for a fire, as the natural draught of the chimney or pipe is sufficient; and if the clock is placed out of doors all that is required is to place it alwvc a pipe, sixteen or twenty feet high. The clock is made' to work for twenty-four hours after being wound np, so a* to provide for nny tem|orary stoppage; but by the addition of a wheel or two R may be made to go for eight days after cessa tion of winding. The inventor, M. Auguste Dardenne, a native of Bel gium, showed his original modeJ al the Paris exhibition of 1878, but has since considerably Improved upon It. Seventy mills in the South now work up 200,000 tons of cotton seed, making 7,(XX),000 gallons of oil, worth $28,- ,000,0^ a- I * A (ieorgla Corn-Shucking. The farmer who proposes to give a corn-shucking selects a level spot in j Ids lot, conveniently near his crib, rakes away all trasli and sweeps tlio plaeo clean with a brush broom. The j corn is then pulled off the stalks, thrown into wagons, hauled to the lot and thrown out on the spot selected, ( all in one pile. If it has hgen pre- i viously " norated " through the neigh borhood that there is to be plenty to eat and drink at the corn-shucking, ! ami if the night is auspicious, there will certainly lie a crowd. Soon after dark the negroes begin to come j in,- and before long the place ■ will lie alive with them—men, women and children. After tin- crowd j lias gathered and been moderately warmed up, two " gin'r'ls" are chosen j from the most famous corn-shuckers on the ground, and these proceed to divide j the shockers into two parties, later ! | comers reporting alternately to one j side or the other, so as to keep the forces equally divided. The next step, which is one of great importance, is to divide the corn-pile. This is done by laying a fence-rail across the top of the corn-pile, so that the vertical plane, passing through the rail, will divido the pile into two equal portions. Lav ing the rail is of great import ance, since upon this depends *fhu accuracy of the division; it Is occoin pi-ui.iff with much argument, not to s f wrangling. The position of tho rail !%jng determined the two generals mount the corn-pile and the work be gins. The necessity fur the "gin'r'ls"! to occupy the most conspicuous posi tion accessible from which to cheer their followers is one reason why they get upon top of the corn; but there is another equally important, which is to keep the rail from being moved, it lieing no uncommon thing for one side to change the position of the rail] and thus throw an undue portion of the work upon their rul- > i versaries. The position of "gin'r'l" in a corn-shuck) r differs from that of the soldier in that the former is in greater danger than any of his fol lowers; for the chancers are that, should his side seem to l> gaining, one of their opponents will knock the leader off the corn-pile and thus cause j a momentary panic, which is eagerly ' taken ail vantage of. This procoeiling, however, is considered fair only in j extreme coses, and not (infrequently lead* to a general row. If it Is possi ble, imagine a negro man standing up on a pile of corn holding in Ids hand an ear of corn and j shouting the words of a song below, and you will have pictured the "corn gin'r'l." It is a prime rispiisitc that lie should lie ready in Ids improvisa tions anil have a go *1 voice, so that he j may lead in the corn-song. The corn song is almost always a song with a chorus, or to use the language of corn shuekers. the "gin'r'ls give out" anil the shuekent "drone." These songs are kept up continuously during the entire time the work is going on, and I though extremely simple, yet, wher sung with fifty pairs of lusty lungs, 1 there are few tilings more stirring.— ! Century yfnyuzitv. IH-inarck'* Album Verses. Many a migbtv man, reluctant to ! make ii' of pen and ink, has Ixx-n overeoine by the smiling importunities i>l fair autograph-hunters, indexible in their n-solve to enrich their collec tions. If rcqnirt speak truth, for once in away a titled lady has this year succeeded in getting one page of her autograph album fillisl by the sib-nt Moltkc and by another great man, who. although not an artist, rarely ex changes Ids gigantic pencil for a pen. More remarkable still is the fart that I'rinee Bismarck lias commented upon Count Moltke'n text, which deals with the contrasts lietween pretense and genuineness, truth and falsehood, and with tlie distinction lietween inner worth and outer show, so admirably summarized in tho French proverb, " Mietix vant etre. que paraltre," ( Better lie than seem.) Count Moltke's contribution to the lady's album : " Hchein xergeht, Wshrheit bosteht," may lie freely rendered thus : " Bhnm* soon fade away, Troth endures for aye." Underneath this couplet are insert lied the following lines, in Prince Bis marck's handwriting: " Ic,h gianbe dam in jener Welt Die Wahrheit steta den Kieg behaelt | Doeh mit iter Laege dieeee Kaempft tumor Marsehail sol but t erg* liens.' Of wlilch I subjoin a hasty para phrase: " I do believe, forsooth. That is some distant' Happy Land* The spotless virgin, Truth, May oierciso supreme oomnmnd. Bot on our worldly scene, Where Falsehood and Tteoeptiira reign. Lies are SO strong, that e'en Our Marshal flghta with them in vain," -DmUmUUm-. LAIHES' DEPARTMENT. Iloukrrp!iig. Anion# the varied employments now fortunately open to women, none may ever Hiipirlaiit that of house keeping. And wnlle it is true that there are women to whom no amount of domestic training will ever impart a genius for it, it is equally true that nothing fits a woman with such grace. Thousands have been moved by the dignity of Lucretiu Mott as she pre sided over deliberative bodies met to discuss the cause of the oppressed of universal peace on earth, good-will to tnan. Hut the few who were privi leged to sit at her teat aide have been the more charmed by a hostess who, while remembering the woes of the world, witli her own hands wiped the silver and china. It is not too much to say that good housekeeping is a compound of chemistry, cultivatod taste, natural, mental and moral phi nsophy, economy, and that most un common article, common sense—sea soned with grace. Then if the true housekeeper feels all this to be inferior to her ofllcc as homekeeper, if hers is the spirit that calls into the house—be it stately or be it simple—comfort, trust, ambition, devotion, peace, then not only may the heart of her husband trust in her; so may the hearts of children, servants and guests.—Chi ciiijo Ad mure. A lltiMffttrlnn limit!?. The prize offered for the nio-t beau tiful woman at the people's festival in Hilda l'estli. Hungry, created a nation al sensation and attracted an immense multitude to witness the competition. 1 ti\i r I Mi women presented themselves be fore the l>eneh of judges. They were in.speeted one at a time, ,uid each can- ( didate, as soon as judged, was passed on to a waiting-room. When the whole number bad been reviewisl they were again taken before the judges l singly, and finally all were placisl te gethi rin a line. Aft< r < ritical insjMs-. tion the ten most txautifui ones were - selected and tlie rot dismissed, anil then fri>ni this number the two love liest of all were chosen for the first and second prizes. Hut this was a work of dilllrulty, and was not settled to the satisfaction of all. Tin- victor in the tournament was Miss Cornelia a maiden of sixteen, the daughter of an official in the imperial household. Her claims to lieauty rest upon a charming transparent complexion, I inciting brown eyes, a < small mouth, j rich dark-brown hair and a form of ; youthful grace; but her features are not wholly regular, and the mouth and ( head are not perfect in shajie. Her pliotograph, taken in a dress that is ix-ing made for her by the first dress maker of Hungary, is to l>e sent to all the illustrated journals of Europe for pub li eat ion. This competition is said to have shown the Hungarians that they j ran boast of every type of female love liness, and they are taking advantage of the privilege. I nthinn Fans rival sunshades in size. Moires retain their popularity. The jacket is tie* rage this fall. Velvct.-cn is revived for ski.'ts. Soutache embroidery is the rage. Chenille fringes will Is- much worn. Braided costumes will he much worn. Velveteens are mueli worn in Lon don. Variety rules in fashions for every thing. Feather trimmings are again in rogue. Ficelle lace has lwen introduced into lingerie. Pelerines and shoulder caps remain in Vogue. There is a revival of plain stuffs for costumes. Pokes will be more in vogue this fall than ever. Jackets and peliasas are the loading fall wraps. Kedlprevails in watering-place toilets for the fall. Bonnets are worn tip tilted fur over the forehead. Brick-red long-wristed kid gloves are all the rage. Sailor hats are the rage at English watering-places. Mauve and blue are comlftned in children's dresses. White flannel, cashmere and veiling are the favorite materials for lawn ten nis costumes. There Is a tendency to increase the size of the sleeve alxive the elbow and in the armliole. Chenille, satin eord and braids of va rious widths all play their part in new dress trimmings. Entire tabliers of netted chenille ap pear on imported dresses and among trimming goods. Velvet flowers on woolen grounds n strong contrasting colors appeal among fall goods, Flower garniture for wedding and ball dresses will lie more in demand this winter than last. A fashionable London journal urges l young 1 ailleis to lay aside tlie piano and take up the violin. White muslin or lace about the neck easts reflected lights on the face, thus clearing the complexion. Two and three rows of small but tons fastening the front adorn many fall jackets and corsages. Ruckles of all kinds, antique, moil era, medieval, metallic ;ind jeweled, will be very fashionable. Silk jersey cloths come in shades of white for the corsages of bride-maids' and other white evening dresses, A massing of color and a gentle passing from one tone to another is more pleasing than violet contrasts. The richest trimming of the incom ing season is velvet * bonds embroi dered in open ill-signs with silk floss. Darned work plays a conspicuous part in embroidery and fiarnod work and outline stitch usually go together. Jet and metal buttons corne in hand some improved designs that make them suitable f• >r the richest costumes. Elderly ladies will wear black cash mere costumes trimmi-d with black laces and brightened wifli nxl accesso ries. Standing military linen collars, fast ened with a gold •or jeweled button, are first favorites in plain nock lin gerie. Navy blue and rich re Is will lie popular colors for fall wear; but brown and rifle green will also lie worn. Coarse straw hats, white and black, trimmed with lace and flowers, are worn for the dose of tlie season in Saratoga. Bovs' sailor suits of blue flannel are trimmed with yellow kid cuffs and belt, and sometimes a kel waistcoat appears. Patent leather shoos are in fashion for little boys, and foxing of this mate rial is used with cloth tips for little girl's button l>oots. Large figure and flower designs sparsi-ly scattered over plain self-col ored grounds are the features of fall woolens and silks. PEAKLS OF THOt'liHT. It costs more to revenge wrongs than to liear them. Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. Man cannot live exclusively by in. tclligence and self-love. The word " impossible" is the moth er-tongue of little souls. Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debt as furies. Life, that ever nii-ds forgiveness, has for its first duty, to forgive. From tho lowest depth there is a path to the loftiest height. The trees that are not most in tho sun bear tlie sweeli-st fruit. Every day brings them, and once gone they are gone forever. It is less painful to learn in youth than to |>e ignorant in old age. We should not measure tlie excellence of our work by tlie trouble that it has ciwt us t< produce it. To pretend to have many good friends is a sweet illusion of people who li-lieve that they merit the affec tion of others. In youth, grief is a tempest which makes you ill; in old age it is only a cold wind, which adds a wrinkle to your face and one more white lock to the others. Our affections are like our teeth; they make us suffer while they are coming, after tliev have come and when we lose them. They are not lew the smile of our life. A Curious I*et, fn respectable native houses in Java a |>et is made of a curious little crea ture called the shooting fish. A small stick is fastened in the reservoir con taining the fish, projecting some two fi-et above the level of the water, and xrhen it is to exhibit a large fly at other lnsict is lightly fastened on this. The fish swims round the stick once or twice to examine the object; then, rising to the surface, remains for a few seconds motionless, and suddenly ejects a few drops of water at its intended prey, with a noise not unlike that of a squirt, generally bringing the mark : down with the first shot. If this fails ! however, he repeats his circuit of ob , Nervation, pauses again apparently to i measure his distance, and then dia j charges at the fly once more. This curious pet is described as seldom reaching ten inches in length, and be. ing of a yellowish color, marked with dark stripes. ¥ MOKAL AMI RKJJCHOCB. fmrg\rrnrm. It In quite easy to .talk BentlmcntallJ about the beauty.ofhi forgiving but who find themselves able so tofor* give one who wrongs thern as t dd him a favor? An English bishop garf a line example of this Christian virtu* when one of his clergy who had abused him through the newspapers solicited a favor. The. bishop promptly grantor! his request. |llis astonished re viler rt one such case h:ts occurred am ug those sent to Germany, France and ; England. The Episcopal Clergyman's Insa rance league in the last thirteen year* has paid to the widows and orphans of defeased elergymen, and of this sum #15,552 was paid during tlio past year. During the visit to England of Cot awayo, the cajitive king of the Zulus, % former missionary in Zululand j>re sent,-1 hiin with a handsome Bible printisl in the Zulu language. He w.ts much gratified at the gift. An English journal says that "Mr. Moody's evangelistic campaign will not Is- forgotten while Scotland stands." It regards his work in that country as one of the greatest events tn the history of Christianity, During the past two years sixty-five ministers of other denominations have boon ordained deacons or advanced to the priesthood in the Protestant Epis | copal ehurrh. Of these lit were Con gregatinnalists. 11 Presliyterians, 1 a Lutheran, 2 Second Adventists. 17 Methodists, 12 Baptists, .1 Universal ists, 1 a Unitarian, 1 a Reformed Epis copalian, 1 a Moravian and 1 a Hebrew Rabbi. Training Tirions Horse*. A new and very simple method of I training vicious horses was exhibited nt West Philadelphia recently, and the manner in which some of the wild,*t horses were sulxlued was astonishing. The first trial was that of a kicking, or " bucking," mare, which her owner said had allowed no rider on her luirlc for a period of at least five years. She lxvnme tame in aismt as many minutes, and allow,si herself to l>e ridden als>ug without a sign of her former wildmw*. The means bv which the mailt waa accomplish,si was a piece of light ropo which was passed around the front of the jaw of the mare just alwive the upper teeth, crossed in her mouth, thence secured Iwck of her neck. It was claimed that no horse will kiclo or Jump when thus secured, and that a hoiw, after receiving the treatment a' few times, will abandon his vicious wave forever. A very simple method was also shown by which a kicking horse oonld be shod. It consisted in connecting the animal's head and tail by means of a rope fastened to the tail and then to the hit, and then draw n tightly enough to incline the animal's head to one side. This, it is churned, makes it atwolutely impossible for a horse to kick on the side of the rope. At the same exhibition a horse which' for many years Imd Co be ltound on tha ground to lie shod suffered the black, smith to operate on him without at tempting to kick, while secured in the manner described. Naturalists say that • single swaN tow w ill devour <5,000 flies in a day. •*