The Marquis' Shot. There Is a Rood story told of the j Marquis of Waterford (Lord Charles UV Beresfgrd'a uncle) and the way he M erved a young fellow whose Indlffer effre to the lives and limbs of other people when out shooting with them ' had gained for him somewhat of a reputation. The young man, though !fce ought to have been deprived of his gun license by special net of purlin- I nient, was the son of a duke of such high standing in the political world j that nobody ventured more than a mild I remonstrance with him for his care- ! lessness, and while few cared to join a | * shooting party of which ho made one, his position got him invited where j men of more caution but less blood ( Would have been excluded. It. so happened that one October both tho marquis and Lord Jocelino Clinton—the young man in qiies- i tion—found themselves staying for the shooting at Wolterton park. Lord <)r ford's place in Norfolk. There was a large party staying at the house, and more than one fortunate escape from Lord Joceline's reckless gun was the nightly topic in the smoking room. Several of the men had already been grazed on one or two occasions by shots tired at close quarters, and one who had been his nearest neighbor one morning had one of his whiskers and eyebrows singed off by a tkish from a muzzle hecdles-lv placed within an inch of his cheek. Lord .Jocelino paid small heed to the remarks he heard, and laughingly treated all that was said as a joke. But Lord Waterford smoked his pipe in silence, only joining in the talk so far as to contide to a friend, who sat near, his determination to put an end to the young man's ex- | ploits should it come in his wav to do so. It is said that Lord Jocelino over heard the remark but said nothing. At all events, next day the party went out as usual, and, as chance would have it, when shooting an outlying cover, Lord Waterford and Lord .loco line stood ten fe t apart. In tho midst of an exciting battue a rabbit started out of the bushes and ran between the two. Lord Joceline, disregarding all orders to the contrary, leveled and fired at it. '1 he rabbit got safely away, but about a dozen of the shot intended for it lodged in Lord Waterford's legs. His back happened to lie turned at the moment, but wheeling around without a sign of pain, ere the rever beration had died away, he called out in a loud tone: "Whoever lired that last shot hold up his hand!" Lord Joceline, in the bravado of the moment, held up his hand with a laugh. Hardly had he done so when Lord Waterford raised His gun an 1 let him have the contents of one bam l in his palm. Fortunately it was a defective cart ridge, from which rivst of the shot had fallen, else it would have been a bad day for Lord Jocelino. As it was, he carried away enough leaden pellets among his linger-joints to make a sadder and a wiser man of him, and cure him efiectively of the peculiarity that had made him a terror in the shooting field. No one after that had ever cause complaint against him. Quickly Settled. In Geneva and some other parts of Switzerland a v ry practical custom exists for the rapid punishment of cer tain petty offenders, A policeman who sees a publican keep his house open after closing hours, a cabman driving after dark without his lanterns lit, or a servant shaking a carpet out of a window overlooking the street, not summon the transgressor be- a magistrate, but serves him with which, setting forth Vie nature is offense, adds: "If you acknowl ■dg' yourself to have committed the Kf .resaid breach of police regulations, Hum: are to pay a fine of five francs at 4 ■the c ' Mice on • U'-h a day. If you guilt, von are hereby siiin i/jmwd to appear on such a day at the S Tribunal of Police, where you will have to answer to my charge." By 'this -ystem the i .pense, waste of time Inn 1 worry involved in attending at a ,police-court to meet a trivial charge! are avoided, and no injustice is done, since the accused, has I lie right of ap|a'.al to a magistrate if he thinks he has lusen improperly fined. A Braie Engineer. Joseph A. v eg. :iti engineer on the Pennsylvania ltailr >a l, saved.the lives of six hundred pa Mongers by bis pres ence of mind and heroic daring. The v call of the engine had caught fire, and Y forced the engineer and his fireman from their post*. The train at the, time was going at the rate of thirty five miles an hour. Great consterna tion prevailed among the passengers, j As a last resort Sicg, tho engineer, climbed back Into his engine through flames and smoke, and succeeded* in stopping tho train. Ho was horribly burned, bis face licing disfigured and his clothing, completely burned from him. Ho is In a very serious con- > ditioii Industrial Accidents In Germany. A recent German paper contains an Interesting census of accidents that oc curred in the factories anu manufactur ing establishments throughout Germa ny during August, September, October, and November last year. The inqui ries extended over 93,554 shops and faetorios, employing 1,015,253 work men and 342,295 women—in all, 1,957,- 548 individuals. Of these, during the four months, 002 were killed, eleven of them being women. In addition, there were 121 rendered completely, though not permanently, incapacitated. Tem porary loss of work through accident happened to 27,'i1l men arid 708 women, the total number of those who had suffered bcing29,574. 'faking this calculation for the year (although it should not be forgotten that accidents fluctuate according to the time of year) the total would bo 88,732, or about 45 per 1,000. Among the list of industries that figure in these accidents, the greatest number of fatalities was experienced in coal-mines, which employ (not in cluding women) H7.522 work people, in which the number of mortal or tie tally incapacitating accidents was 292 ; iron and steel works, employing 115,- I2s. showing eighty-six accidents ; ma chine shops, employing 101,"09, with ev euty-soven accidents ; quarries, em ploying 17."d7, with sixty-four acci dents : building works, employing 11.- 221, accidents fifty-seven ; mills of va rious kinds, employing 7",1"d, acci dents fifty-seven ; sugar mills, employ ing 44,41*2, accidents fifty-six, etc. t'l.issifying the occupations according to their degrees of danger and the number of fatal accidents, we find thai mines are the worst, and t<> thcin suc ceed building works, chemical works, distilleries and sugar-beet mills, quar ries, works nf lighting and heating (gas), saw-mills and wood-workers, machine works metal works, paper mills and tanneries, textile factories, printing ami photographic establish ments. The Squirrel's Winter Habit*. John Burroughs, in an article in the ''• ntury, speaks as follows of the cun ning of the risi squirrel: "I have said the red squirrel docs not lay by a store of food for winter use, like the chipmunk and wood-mice; vet in the fall Ik* sometimes lioards in a tentative, temporary kind of way. I have seen hi.s savings -butternuts and black walnuts—stuck here and there in saplings and trees, near his nest, some times carefully inserted in the upright fork of a limb or twig. One day, late November, I counted a dozen or more black walnuts put away in this manner in a little grove of locusts, chestnuts and maples by the road-side, and could not but smile at the wise forethought of the rascally squirrel. His supplies were probably safer that way than if more elaliorately hidden. They were well distributed ; his eggs were not all in one basket, and lie could go nw.iv from home without any fear that his store-house would lie broken into in his absence. The next week, w hen I passed that way, the nuts were all gon but two. I saw the squirrel that doubtlc laid claim to them on each occasion. These is one tiling the red squirn! knows unerringly that I do not (there are probably several other things), that is, on which side of the butternut the meat lies. He always gnaws through the shell so as to strike thi kernel broadside and thus easily ex tract it, while to my eyes there is no • xternal mark or indication in the form or appearance of tho nut, as there is in the hickory-nut, by which I can tell whether the edge or the side i,r the meat is toward inc. But examine an number of nuts that the squirrels have rifled, and you will find that they always drill through the shell at the one sjKit where the meet will lie most exposed. It stands them in hand to know, and they do know. Doubtless, if butternuts were a main mrce of mv fiswl and 1 were compelled to gnaw in to them. I should learn, too, on which side my bread was buttered. f orillal Iteintions Broken. Mrs. Ilezumliee, a tall, elderly lady, who always dresses in deep blaek, and is very much given to making calls, will from now on make no more friendly visits to the mansion of Col onel Bailey Dayton. She was sitting on the gallery surrounded by the family, when a large turkey buzzard alighted on a tree near the house. "What a large buzzard P remarked Mrs. Bczumhec. "Is that a buzzard?" asked little Emily, very much amazed. "Yes. my child, that's a buzzard." "But it don't look much like you?" "Of course it don't look like me. Who says a buzzard looks like me?" asked Mrs. Bczuinbee, indignantly. "Why, ina does. Every day when she apes you coming, she says, 'there comes that old buzzard again,'" Tableau.— l'cam C'LIPPIM.'S FOR THE CTHIOPH. Tlx l tomb of A.h'iii! is still shown to travelers, iilKitit ten miles from Dam ; a ell*. The ground upon which Cincinnati stands win purchased by J. C. S\ mines, i about ninety years ago, for sixty-seven j cents p.-r acre. A French paper records the case of a ! ladv whose hair turned from black to ! may between thehoiirs of'J and 7A. M., | .mring a v.-ry severe attack of neu ; ralgia. I'll, tirst washing machine wua patent.din England in 1(591, by John Tynin l.c ; it was called "an engine to In- worked by one or more men for the well and more easy oyling and dressing of lent Iter. and cloatli." Why is it that a young man and a young woman will sit for hours and hour-, together in a parlor without saying a word; and then, when it is time 1..r him to leave, stand ail hour talking . arm stly on the front st.sip in the still pneumatic air? The lirst trial of transfusion of blood on man was made in Paris in 10*3(5. Some of a sheep's blood was conveyed into t lx- veins of a maniac, w ho seemed to heroine more sensible, but who died during a repetition of tlx- experiment. A Nova Scotia lady has a canary which one day found tlx- water in its glass too low to rcadi, and, alter -evi rai unsuccessful attempts to drink, hopped , on its p. r.-h, and -.it quietly for a f.-w minutes. Su.ld.-nlv it turix-.l around, pulled II liM.se feather out of its tail, and dipp.d tlx- tip into tlx- water, put ting its claw crosswise on the tenth. .-. and wetting its beak in the moisture The canary repeated the tri. k several tiiix-s, till its thirst was quenched. The eiderdown duck feeds chiefly it: Iceland on th<- refuse of fi-h thrown out from the houses. In Spring tlx female duck plucks h.-r br.-.tst to liix h-r n<-st, and. instinctively known that Summer is coming, lin-s it lavishly wix-n it is stolen s!x- phicks !x-r brea t again, and : x! time assesses the drake for .-> mo dowi. from his breast, and the n.-st is built for a third time. The quantity . I genuine down obtained is but atxiiit 7,jMiunds a year. The value of mesmerism was illus trated in Louisville, Ky., r-<>ntly. in the following mantx-r: A man nanxsl William I'cll, was afT.-ctol with a turn- r of the throat and fa< e, and had a difli cult operation p< rf .rincd on him by Dr. F. W. Koehler. 11.-f.ire using t'x knife the patient was nx-nx-ri/.sl 1 y one of the students, and while in that condition the tumor was r.-inov.sl. Th<- pati.-nt never felt the slight.-st pain during <>r after the operation, and doing well, I he Tomb of Jakon. Tlx* "Hermitage," writes a Nash ville (Tenn.,) eorn-sjM.ndent, is a;> pr.a. he.l through a long r -w of c.slar on either hand. Hen', in this qui.fl old build ng. main rooms and slx-d rooms of brick, with w.. |.-n . - lumn and wiolm coping in front, r--id- Colonel Andrew Jack-on, ailopt.-.l grandson of the Ix-r.., with his wif. and mother and two old negro.*, man and wife, alxuit sixteen years old when purchased by Jackson, nearly sixty years ago. (i- ix ral .Lx kson and hi wife >l. < j. side bv sld<- in tlx- little gar den near the residence, e.-r h 1" rx ath a broad griuiite slab. Ir.s< rilwsl in old fashion.*.! Itoman letters are the words on the slab which covers Mrs. Jarkson eom|xisc•■< ciuber. DJs." | in old hero had been elected President his tirst term, but did not take his scat til March-Ith following. The Inscriptir-i recounts her virtues in words fumble and tender, and closes: "A Iw-ing so gentle and yet so virtu ous. vile slander might wound, but ••ould not dishonor. Even Death, when he t- re her from the arms of her hus band, r old but transport her to the tiossoni of Hod." The day of the funeral Jarkson. feeble and heart-broken, walked slowh In-hind the coffin, boning upon n long cane he was arcustirtr.'sl at the time to carry almut his farm. As the friends of the dead gathered about to look for the last time upon her fare. General Jackson lifted his cane as if appealing i to heaven, and by a look commanding i I silence, said slowly and painfully and with a voice full of bitter tears: "In the presence of this dear saint I •an and do forgive all my enemies! lint those x ile wretches who have slandered lx-r must look to God for mercy." One of the most beautiful and re deeming traits in nil this ruggod and heroic nature was the unalterable mvo and devotion he bore his wife. For seventeen years after her death toe memory of this noble woman was cherished, until the summer of 1845, when he was laid to rest beside the only woman he ever loved—lover! with a romantic tenderness and strength .*urp.| k ' i:ig the dream of .iet'.or. BI.AIX BY HIH WIFE'H LOVER. A l.oulxlnnn (urpriit.-r II ol.br <1 ut III* t\irr ■ n di i arity in tlu ir age.. It w as a union of June ami !• ■< ember, y.t he cherished the idol of Ins ln art. and lav ished all on her, and such was the re turn she made. This was In r grati tude; so had she fulfill.*! the vows she had taken to love, honor and obey him. Yet he had conquered, and that same day he stood in the presence of the man whom he had every reason to believe had rubles! loin of all lie held dear, and greeted him w it fi a smile. Tim betrayed and betrayer walked together and start xl out in search of the woman. In this city they entered a 1 ar-rHim on St. Louis street, and after a few glasses together the old man ;i' omi| McClum of stealing Ins wife. Th latter drew a p stol and shot his com panion dead. As I'.c kb r was armed McClum surr. n-b-rod himself, and stated that hea'-t.*l in sclf-defcn -e. as it was only a question of who could shoot the quickest. McClum gax.-bail to await the action of the grand jury, and has gone North, pre-cinahly ae companied by Mrs. Fackler.—.V. o. I'vxtyn nr. Chlromanrjr. M. Alexandre Luiii.ls is preparing an important work treating of the science of chiromancy, in which he is an ar dcht lielievcr. According to him the hand is the indication of the character; past, present ami future are written in the lines of the palm. Whem Lambert, who w asorganizir g hisl'olar • v p*lit ion calbsl on M.de Saiilcv ami told him that everything was r adv, and that he was starting under auspices which guaran teed his success, he met Di-sbarolb-s. who told M. de Sauley, when Lambert had gone, that the cx|>cdition would prove a failure. In sbarolles was laugher] at, but b< fore the enthusiastic Lambert could start, the war hrokeout, and he joined a fr>*' corps to meet his fate—a Prussian bullet under the walls of Paris. In 18<50, when the empire was at its 7.enith, the same man read in the hand of the Empress the en a*troph<-s which were to liefall her after soiuueh happi ness. He saw the reverse of the medal, and grief choked his utterance. He could not tell w hat he had seen, but the empress told him that when she was quite a child a git ana had read her fate, predicting her marriage to an etnjieror, her splendor and then her fall, with a long period of suffering, and' then the scaffold. Deal>arollD* admitted that much of what had lteen predicted would lie fulfilled. hut that the lines of the palm denhsl thnt the ladv would meet the same fate as Marie Antoinette, al though her life would probably be ended in exile. It was statcsl before the American Medical association thnt only nine of the States nre now without a State twiard of health. Then .hre Florida. J Ham as, Maine, Mi* re-ult, ib-.stcd. "If you will stand la-hind me,"said the young Englishman, "w.-will >.p. n the door ..-! t Ft th<-birds ..ut f..r their in- rning airing. Tlx-y are danger.-as when let .it hi ■• rt \." Johnson pushed bark the sliding door of the hut. "Now-." continued Mr. Protheroe. "y-ii will go something that you have not had the privilege of seeing in America before. Johnson gave a low, pc-uliar w hist le, r. -.ml ling somewhat the "brounuing" of the birds as he walk.d ■ ut f the dr intothe grassy inch,sure. The ungainly biped* rushed after him |>el!-m go among them now. unless. like Johnson, you were familiar with them," said Mr. Protheroe. Two of the male ostriches liegan to fight at this j>in(. They fae.sl each other with distended mouths, flapping wings and glaring •y. s. Then they began ape. king match, whi
  • fek* the wiaxl" ami held* with fflory, l.'util Winter Btri| them hare; " hen the white miu* flowers bIuMOID In the garden of tlieair. He*! lie Irf-iiiiiy i,f the morning Turns to glowing gold at main J Itojal hue* ill njn- t yield them 'Jo the radiaiH-e of the main. Though th ihtrkrc following daylight Heeiiiingly it~ hnghlnc rnara, Act th' nignt, rrowm I witli beauty Jn the grandeur of the "tar*. Ho we hmi full comja nnation hir all changes life dolii liear; Hun and ahade alike are pleaaaut, And the world in ever fair. I*l Vt.KM I' tit AGICAPIIH. Omal-for-notliifig; (i. On thels-at Your heart. 'I li<• crow in a shy 1 >irl, hut ha gr-neT lalJy has t awn for alarm. The easie. t way to "put up" a stOTt is townd it to Die pawnbroker's \A heu a powder magazine blows Off it run, W. stlpp .-e, l,e. allml flash litC ature It in dangerous to ask a woman idle quest ions when she is adding up a grocery 1011. Earth bus nothing softer than a woman's heart, unh . j.erhajis, it bca tomato in the prime of life. "What inadd"] me," said the man, "was m t that tin goat chased me, but that th'' sympathies of the folks look ing on were all against me." The largest bar of gold ever east in the I'nit'il States weighed 4.V.) pounds. An itivitation to walk up to the bar would have ben a< <. ptel by aim cad any man. Mr. J. ,J. 11. Grig rv says thfJt an acre of land may contain six tons of worms. So it may : but if Mr. Gregory ever tried to dig U IM>X of bait on ten , minute- notice of an invitation to go fishing in a dry time, he knows it don't. A (' w yeaTs ago a fat fjl<>w vked old Sir I ran- - Hurdett, while in Par liament, for some position, saving; "Don't you retneiiilier me? I used to lie a ] age." "Well," n-p nded Sir Francis, y• >u have grown into a volume." "I thought I'd call round.** as the ball s;iid when it came through the window pane. "I'll get square with yon," soliloquized the housemaid, hid ing it in the ou pi mar und, hut the housemaid made them pay f< r the broken square The London I.un it says that people who sn t-ze often are the healthiest. A nieeze s ts th" lil hbl circulating and throw - off a cold which is trying to S'ttie. This medical opinion is evi dently made in the interest of snuff, and the public is not yet up to it, fine of Curran's friends, a notorious and lucky gambler, getting entangled in leaver *t;• .n with him. gradually lost hi- temper, ami at last said, with great vehemence : -No man, sir, shall triile with me with impunity." ("urran corrected hiin by saying. "Ilay with ymi. you mean." A gentleman in India, putting on his I-mts. f. It a horrid prickly object, like a centipede, in one of thein. AVith great present mind, instead of withdraw ing his fiwt he forcsl it vio lently down and stamped furiously, though enduring exquisite agony in the process. Hut it was not .icentijKsle —only a small blacking brush left there bv a careless si rv ant. ( hinesc filial Piety. The mother of a young gentleman Icing ill, he secretly prayed that his own life might redeem hers. His prayer w as, however, unsuccessful, for the ladv died. Thereupon her son, unable to take up his aliude at her tomb, owing to the duties he owed his father, visited it three times a day regardless of wind and ram : and when his father died he built himself a rush hut at the grave of his parents, wit ; only sufficient room in it to allow him to crmich in a most uneasy attitude, and continued the last sail rites long after his three years' mourning had expired. He was found one day in this wretched dwelling by the local magistrate, engagixl in punctuating the Yi king for the Icnefit of the neighbor ing students. His example has hail a most ennobling effect upon the people, and he is now* rewarded by the le --stowal of imperial honor. — PenA-t (China) Hostile. There is hnt little originality of character in the world. Most men are imitators. They do that they have seen others do. and they say things they have heard said. Few have the genius or courage to strike out a new path in thought or action. The general mode of education tends greatly to this I result. Everything is lowed on Lxik*. youth are hardly allowed to think for ihemselves; they arc not taught to look i within, and draw upon the rmmrrea w hick u.iturc :;u pluoed there.