"Swrglt Amart Allqnld." <>iiirrniNa IHTTEK KINKS. If over at tho font of joy I'oor mortal stoops to fill his cup, Still welling flush to his anno}', A bitter something bubbles up. So one sang sadly long ago,— Sang how tho fairest flowers amid, K'ett whore the springs of pleasure flow, "Suri/lt arnari al iqutd." And echoing down tho vaults ol time ''he warning sounds for me and you In fAttn verse, in English rhyme; Twos true of old, to-day tis true. Ah! brother! have you not lull oft Found, even as the Montana did, That In life's most delicious draught, "Surqll amart a liquid." You run the nice, the battle fight, And eager seize nt lust the prize; The nectar in its goblet bright Is yours to drain 'neuth beauty's eyes. Yet ttt o these honors out ol date, — They would not come when they were bid; Tho longed-lor draught is all too lute, — '•Surqit itmari aliqutd." Or, haply, in the cruel strife, You foully thrust n brother down, And with his broken heart or lite I'urchitsed your bauble of u crown. Wear it; but ol remonielul thought In vain you struggle to bo rid; The triumph is too dearly bought,— "Surgit amari illiquid." And NO the cup IS turned to gall, The lout pollute 1 Ht lis wmice. Envenomed and embittered all By dull tcgro'. or keen remorse. Well hast thou siid, t> ge lle— -sige' From thee not all tliu truth was hid, Though ever on tliy mignty page "Suri/it amari aliqutl " The Flaguc of His Life. "That girl has done nothing l.ut provoke and annoy me ever Mitee she came front seho >1 three months ago. I wish, Carrie, you would send her away somewhere anywhere out of my sight. She is the plague of my life." Miss Carrie Ives looked pleasantly up from her reading, her plump linger marking the paragraph that had Uen interrupted liv her Brother's impatient speech. "Why, Fred, what has the child done now?" she inipiireii. Ills tine, pale, grave face llushed a little, and a half confused expression came into his serious, gray eyes. "This is the young vandal's latest achievement in the impertinent line!" he -aid, with a short laugh of • hagrin as he pushed toward Iter a Big v>ltmii of some abstruse work and turnisl the fly-leaf. Thereon had Been -ketched an inimi taßle portrait of himself, sitting in his familiar and scholarly attitude in his Icathern chair Before his library table —an inelegant study gown hanging ungracefully from hi- large shoulder* —and the hand that supported a We) sterian head clutehing an untidy shock of hair. It was too consummate a re semßlanee to Be gratifying, and alt>- gethertoo exact for caricature; the dexterous pencil had not in the least exaggerated the peculiatitics of Fml erick Ives, for he had his own little eccentricities and mann risms. just as we ail have, if we chose to admit the fact. •'lt is .an amazing likeness of your self, Fred," was his sister's laughing ci Jinment. "Possibly," he returned in that half mortified, half angry manner; "and I dare say it may be good for a man to see himself occasionally as 'others' see him. Hut this sort of embellishment is not precisely desirable in a valuable I took of science. Jessie Kvelyn is Be coming quite too mischievous, <'arri>-; and I fear if you cannot provide a home elsewhere for her, I shall feel compelled to leave you." "O, Fred!" the gentle little lady cried in dismay. "Surely you cannot mean that ? Jessie must really stay with me while she is a minor and re mains unmarried. If you would Be less captious toward her. perhaps she would Be more amiable toward you. You treat her as if she were a little vixen, and she resents it By Being as vixenly as possible; But that is a wo man's way, I sup|tose," she added hu morously. "I know nothing about women and their ways," he answered grimly. "Hut you could try to win Jessie's liking. Fred," she returned coaxingly. "I win her liking," he repeated in a strange, harsh voice. "You suggest what is impossible, t'arry—it is only too obvious that our pr- ninn," Fred declared crossly as ho re sumed his leathern chair. Certainly the gentleman had expert, enced very little peace since that per verse girl of seventeen that incarna tion of audacity and witchery, had in vaded the tranquil country home of his indulgent spinster sister. If he wished a little season of particular quietude, the tinkle of the piano and a distract ingly sweet voice would sound through the house. If he consulted his labored notes upon some especially favored his , tcirii'.ri < r p ictical work. Bis equanimity would Be disturbed By keen and perti nent interpolations that Bis own wit had never suggested. Il lie attempted any remonstrance, she would blunt his 1 censure with a putt and defy rebuke |by an ingenious repartee. She Would a fleet s ientilic thelites that site might iliseoneert Inn: By some problem BM> (liiticult f"r Bis elucidation; site dared I his opinions and ehallenged his senti ments; she Wore the colors, the l! ov ers, the gems she knew he most ili*- : liked; and she was indeed the plague of his life. "Why do you always wear the topaz, Mi-s Kvelyn?" lie asked her later that day. lie had glanced up with a roads frown at the e\ijiii.-:'.e sltapi an I charming brunette face, perceiving only the yellow gem he whimsically abominate I, glittering in B> r (nil- Black hair arid amid the white laces on her 1" out. "As an amulet." she ri-plB- I quirkly, merrily and m< aningly. 'lt t- a pre servative against p tsoit, vat know." Ihe spei It was It t quite . ivil; the laughing g.ati the Big Ma 1. ey< wa- saury and -ignriic.int; but her manner w as the pi rfectß n of inttoi ■ nt playfulness. Bird's frowning face rriiii"nod. "What monster t iniquity would wish to harm so gentle and gracious a lady'" lie re* rri I, with ungallant irony. she regarded him for a moment with a etir.oit-ly intent and questioning look. Is-(ore which liis rottnfrmr stt ' h-nly ehangfl suddenly It 1 ilefenstve rather than aggressive, as one who feate 1 his own weakne-s rather than the strength ot the ene my. I'erhap-she d. - • rued something in hi* uneasiness that -he wilfully de ii;e d to tin B-r t.md; perhaps -In t o prehenibsl a pain that thrilled her lttore than she cared t > acknowledge for she, too, changed. "Mr. Ives," s'.e Began at length, with a singular new splendor in Iter sweet smile and .i singular new sweet ness in her voice, "any sarcasm is ai -ttrd Between }ott ami me The can did truth is so much M'tter always even if it he disagreeable. I am per fectly aW'are that yoil detest me; that everything I tlo displeases or annoys you. You have given me abundant proof of your dislike, and never yet vouchsafed me a kindness m>r a cour tesy It is you who are ungentle you who are ungracious. Why you are so, I may not inquire; hut I shall Implore our dear 'arrie to send me away, and trust that you may never again lie atllieted with the presence of so luckless a jwrson as myself." And while he marveled if this new amiability, this charming combination of humility and dignity, were sincerity or a snare, she had gone, leaving him soinew hat Bewildered and wholly un comfortable. "1 have a mind to try the suhjugat. til black horse myself," he thought presently, as he noted the gleam of a white dress and an amber scarf among the trees up the long shady road. Hut the black horse had not la-en subjugated for Fred's pleasure, evi dently. The mettle than had la-en obedient to tho slightest command of one dainty, daring girl, had not lioen tamed for his control. Jessie, pausing by the pleasant way f side, wits suddenly started by the un steady tramp of hoofs, and looked up to la-hold the unmanageable animal galloping toward Iter. The next in stant he Biased his vicious head aloft and reared on his haunches; simulta neously, the saddle girth snapped asun der, ami the unfortunate rider was precipitated upon the level swanl al most at her very feet, i "0 Fred, are you hurt?" she in quired in tones of tenderest concern, • as she knelt down beside him and slipped her pirtty arm beneath bi.s , fall n head. "Ye-s," he answered gazing straight up into her anxious eyes. "1 nn liurt to elenth for love of the girl who hate* me, who fancies that I have disliked her." It was an odd love-making, doubt lessly; but there and then, holding fast the little willful hand, the lover re hearsed the ancient and delectable st. "Of course I will marry you. Fred," she assured him sweetly. "I always knew I was doomed to be the plague of your life." Inhospitable Country. The report from the Xordenskjold expedition brings a double disappoint ment. Hopes had been Indulged that the interior of tireenland, at least in the wider parts of that eountrv, would piove more hospitable than the fro/en coast line. Jt was also thought I that the steamer Soda might be able to get inside of the ire belt along tllO eastern shore of (.rem and from Cape I arew ell northward to Cape I tan, so as to examine a region which has been ealed from lie- eyes ot civilized man for three centuries, and which expla nation would perhaps uncover some traces of the lost Xorse settlements of Ostre Itygd. I'rof. Nordcnskjold him self held the theory that the pcrum. runt ice band along the coasts of (ireenlaud might rod extend over tin* whole country, and that the central region might be-i-oiiiparatixcly i-h-ar of ice. There was ex.-n a chance that a Wooded liistriit might I e found in the southern • tour of the interior. That lored theory has h< • n • (It < tualiy exphshsl by bis jourio v inland from Aubit-dvick bay. At tins point I.:ci iilaiid attains ;i breadth of some live hundred miles, or within about one hundred i. . of it, extreme Ir< nitll. \ the -i ■ 'it." ■ f the e\- pi-. *:g 1 arty i .vertsl two hundred and twenty-four mil- I • lor.- turning ha< k. tlu-y may fairly be .ud to have fea 1,.-.: the h< art "t the 'outitr-. They foi.rol im s.gn- of improvement, but titr;ry•. lii-ti .ol l coming upon aw ...*] d ihstrii ?. tin y elise-ov i red that tin whole land was one \ nt xhe-e-t of ire. broken | \ mounta.n chains which rise, in the region traversed b* the sc.aits, to an altitu f sex en thousand fc.t, and are Ulu-vi-i to attain double that hight in the v;.mity ..f I ran/ f i rd on the east, n I ■ Ist. p.is ■> • into the limb of di-i arde-d the. R.i s tl.e hb-a t a fertile region in the enter >.f • n land The attempt to examine the eastern I.,et a1 - • ml' el in di-a|* j intment. The steam, r was unable to j. m trate the !• . -belt which guards that i< ng in i.h-n -fi■ -r• fr.-ui the aj.pi *.h of any keel. !-bc had t<> -til along j,n tlm or .( t).<- 1 • It. barely xxith n sight ~f the 'i r.. so that no liglit w,i- thrown uje.n the I ' ahty • t the ..;d settl -ments . f i tstrc itygd. Tlie I "e of ComlimenU. A Prem h physician has bean rank* ingsome interesting experiments on tliu efT> t .f eisliments used with fo -i. They show, amoi.g otlo-r things, that in c.4\uig meat only an ounce of .••alt sh-.uld !• used with troiu six to twelve pounds meat. If more is empl yd it w .11 do one of t wo things! it will iinsi. y th> structure of a js.r tion of the nins nlar fibre so as to ren. o Visible Proprietor. There is one very singular about all the hotels on the continent, writes a corrcsjxindent. You never see the proprietor. The whole estnls linbment is conducted utterly different ly from ours. A bustling, active fellow with a blue cap and brass band on it, and the always mispclled lala-l "portier," stands in the entrance way gives you your welcome, tells you if you can have a room and for what i jiricc, and so on. Then the waiter in the dining room takes the executive charge of that branch of the business; anil w hen you leave, you And still an other department, that of the cashier. Hut if you dislike your room, your fare, your treatment in any way. you ran no in ore llnd the proprietor than the king He probably does not stay long around the place. Few owners I of gold mines bang about thejiremises, and to own a foreign hotel must lx . very like posstfoing a mine, not mlo i lng stocks. TRUE SPANIARD*. IMrluroa of Inhabllßtila of airily mill Sl.nl i. I remcmlxsr, a decade ago, sailing 1 from ralcrmoto Valeni ia.thcn coasting along, stojijiing at each j.ort, until, jas sing the I'illiars of Hercules, we came to the fair city from whence I acrid you this. We sailed from Klclly, with i licr wondrous Noil and climate still, as it was a thousand years ago, one of the I grandest in the world; where every thing tells of material prosjte-rity; where even the constant civil wars and jirivate feuds, the ever-present, armies of some ruler foreign t tier soil, and seeking only to force from her fruitful hills and active peojde the largest jtossible tribute; .Sicily, which lias never la-en free since the fall of Syracuse, which lias borne the armed heel of one conqueror aft'-r another j upon its willing neck, through ancient j as well asm'. Icrn times; a land j" "pled by a race of slaves, who have, it is true, now and again shown the trie servile initinct of revolt, as when in j Messina, they r-> not word m hand, j but with the secret dagger, and mote their loaders on that night known to history its the Sicilian \'. -j.er- A vih breed, yet the nun are the nc -t -tal wart of all who people Southern l.urojie, ami the women miglit in liandsoiin- bad tla-v what they be b. aid be I, be. a .- tla- men havi no manhood the femiuine something tliat make - women tie-in ai .... the l.riit' -. Ibe M' ilian is .macule trader, w.'h tie- instmet of I'b tub ian and tin (,r- ek f. r cum lie-i I. at i.. . xx..r •r. vvi,.. lie-Ids bring fortli year by year, eorn, wine, ■•I aii'l fruits in xa-tly gr> ater quan- ( tit.' - tlian t' ib iiiand "l the j -j>le for f-> .!, xx Ii• se steamer- ir• n't iii•- i I oiizing tin- M. .pterrain an trade; Wb. ra N through"-.:' tie wild, billy ■ • .n'ry, are .> perfw' as engineering, t".l and ex p.-t, e.anuiaki them, whose ■ it,.-, though i.,: t. xx boasting tla the in. lll. ui la -e days, ate i a it:f ill clean, xx el i pax.il, xvi-U-lighteil, com fortable, alMiiitiding in trim j ark- and ganle-iib.wers, tr. i ar.-l fountains. fl e man xx h.> jnha ;t.s tbi- j aradis.- is a eowardly lave. To tell one of tin-in In is a tldef <.r a liar br.ng- .>nlx a ,-im. ■ of xxtiit. teeth, a shrug <>f the "h older and a "ma che- x'l h< xxoioan I..UP. it seems to me. )• ' the c.sjiic try of In r sex. I have seen - j.rittl'-st f • t wa* unsightly to lick ujmn. Then tlm st.s-kmgs, of which a ' arele s display xxas fri-ely made, were g-m-rallx ill-drawn and xvrinkbsl. the skirts bung in pla • s l..xver than a' others; the xxalk xxas ungrateful, and the freshest young face seen in a carriage lost its charm 1" fore theoaner rrosses) the trenhhul 1 of the garden. 1 have, in other countries, see n old w-m men thus, and j'itiisl them as having done with life. In no other did 1 ever see the young " seemingly indifferent to what a proper Instinct should teach j them. How different is ail this from Spain where the men are formal, stately 1 dignille l. grave-of discourse, courteous and demanding as their right courtesy front others. They are poor, living in j a land bv no means fertile, where th<- lack of trees has made each stream by turns a whelming torrent or an almost waterless bes| of sand anil pebtdea; where the provinees have never yet lies-n truly united, and their own name of La Ks|>anas, the Sjialns, is the only true one; where faction and revolt and foreign war have brought unrepairisl ruin; where-tlie e-hangeis of the century liave been so few as to have the ! .Spaniard seemingly la-hind in the haste- of inolern iinjirox-ement. Hut i the race is |iroiid. stern, unbroken in ; individuni manhood, truthful by in stine t and because too proud to lie, a race with a future la-fore it because it is strong. Not wise at self-govern ment. and long in accepting changed conelitiona, flic Spaniard of to-day Is the same as his fathers who marcheel unelcr Cortex ami l'iz.zaro, the same as they who foriueil the Spanish infantry which st rode in triumph over so large a part of Europe; We In America are apt to judge of the Sjinnianl by the Mexican and Cuban. Nothing can lie more different. Whatever their faults or virtue, (he i HispanevAmericans seem to have taken nothing but the language from j what of the conquerer'ablood they may have. All else has come from the; native. Unbroken In priele, undebased by evil habits, self-re-sjie-cting, sober In sja-ech as in fined, tin- Iberian nee-ds only ale ader to again take bis rightful |>lace in the family of the; nations. And the woman? Is she; beautiful? I hardly kneew; but she- is the; most bexvllib ring, In-witching, fascinating of all Eve's dauglite-rs. The-re Is a magic in in-r Htcp, a joise of fesit, a grace; of rythmic motion, a jirouel ten dcrnews in her dark eye; a something volujituous, which is ye-t ctiaste-; a magic in her smile*, such as no other race ore-lime can show, iicautiful? A man whose bhod runs re*el witliin Ids ve-irs may se-o beauty elsewhere, but he has ne-ve-r felt the- jn-rfect e-liarrn of woman's womanline-ss until he has iii<-t love limking from the melting brightness of those: matchless ejrbs which none- but Sjiain's dark-glari'-ing inaulens Is-ar. There is no neglect here. The- elre-ss may not be rie-li, but there is not a fold ill-jilaced. 'i'o ln-r l- paid the re-viT(-rieo of jia-donate de votjon. ">till is Sjiain tlie- land of romance and of song, ln-eatis.* iie-r iiie-n are brave, 10-r woine-u worthy" to In loxi-.p The lover who, having 1.-te-n -••■i to a slaii'l'-rons tale th'-y xx• r- of tlie- Working < la- is .-iiid could sjeak together as love-is bighe-r |ilacel may lies er hope- t i do having llste-tie i to a l.ui' • roils tale, xxri te in the heat of j a- ion to I. s love, harshly upbraiding Iter, tie nfo im! slu-bad . n blame-b-M and o,it {,- .iu his wrist the hand w ide h Ia i j■<-tin-< 1 the line—* and had i 1 nt it to lu-r begging forgiven'--- for what re mained, xxas a true-.-j.aiiiard. ' or., JL '•>; JIJ ,try f. mi fa'. • ■. b'- t |'j>esl n< ar a gr Tie t. ill xx illt • f i e I to < -".k his r;c . be i it down a d< ■, . tres-wln- h happe-ni-d to hi covere d xxitb 1--rru-s. 11. • in'-;,is I-.-ing c ■ k' ! nii'l t .ii■ 1-• t rc-ume h s ourii'-y. Tin- b; ky Arab gathe nsl .ls many be-rrie a- he < ni l. an I having arrive-d at Ad' ri. in Arabia, he- inform ed th 9 Mufti of ins eliaoovery. That worthy divine xx a-an inv.-t'rate- -pi xiin sinoket, xx hroduceel a tree anil cock and ben. a second a penny floxxe-r and leaves in natural colors, the third the shaele-el Im*!v of a eliiek. In each case they coinmenceel hy marking out on the paper a few almost imjeerceptible dots with the charc®l point, and then put ting in what njxpeareil to la- random dashes of color, lxcginning at the tojt of tlie- paj-e-r and working downwards. The; luslies of the hirels were merely in shaded outlines, but the lloxver-painter, after making one leaf xxith a sweep of his brushful of green pigment, varied the shaele-s of e-nrh succossive one leaving them finally of an even color. The peony he- shaded hy merely putting a little water upon it before- the- color was ahsevrlied. .lim Smith, who xvas released recent ly from the Tenneww-e state-prison, is a master mechanic and toolmaker, who can cam $-1 a day. He xvorkesl In the machine shojx 2,S.'W days, and his good lichavior cut two years and elexen months off his te-rm of ten years for robbery on the highway. Deducting the cost of his support, estimates! at eighteen cents a day, he carneel $10,746.94 net for the state. MTKSTIFIC WRAPS. Itoth in Klcbe ami Alicante, on the south-east ooant of Spain, grove* of date palms flouriHh in soils saturated with sere water. A resident of Egypt is credited with tin; statement tliat the bird* ha/1 le-en observed t/i depart l- i preach of cholera, and that a town might Is- considered safe so long as | the bird* remained. JteJativc to tin; Java ice story Mr. J. j I), llanner nays in tie- .Buffalo Courier: ' 'The tremendous evaporation of water from the surface of some subterranean I lake near the volcano, and communica ting with it by a channel, abstracted 11eat so quickly and in such enormous juantities from the lssly of water that it was frozen to a great depth before the eruptive power of the volcano roa'-iied it, and consequently there were bel'died forth immense fields of ice." Mons. Faye hits shown that the whirlwinds of dost ob-erved i>y I'reje \;dsky in Central Asia, like those of i Mexico, India and the Sahara, have tie i- mo- origin and mechani'al action ■ its the torriiidm of the I'nitod States, 1 .iiid all water j.., its. They are all spi ral movements descending Witil UJc ' r.ght axis ami always travelling hori i x<.lit illy in a nearly straight line. The general belief that the Ou-i on land ; and tie- water at sea ascend from the > erf.i e high into the ...r i due. Mons. i 1 ay<- tell us, to an optical illusion. ' A :o years' inv< stiga'.on of the sule .• < t I.as < n . n<' IM. \'. Burg of the • y ~f , , pp, r ;t , !4 preventive and curative < fcholera. The metal ale ,rlr ed into tr.' sy "> m, tie -ay-, a< l* as an all: i-t perb • J j r>,j..e- . the ex cejitioriH not lrf>,ng more numerous than in the ><■ of \a" nation in defending people fr in small-pox. Ai rig other ]re ant; r.s he re< m -n.ea-i. the external a; pi at. .n of /oj.- pr in ti-e'al form, ti..- b .rning .f ! dichlorida of copper in alcoholic lamps, wine niixe"! with the natural mineral water of st. (')iristan. and the uv <1 vegctahh-s rendered green I>\ sulphate ' of cop|"-r. * >r-w Stamps. The A: ' r. an letter writer lias f. : vi many year ha 1 his patriotic sym- I.t? ■ - harrowed and hi- re\en no f r the 1 ather of ii;s Country -or-ly trod bv the painful (-armature of f.o,.rge Washington, with its swollen jaw. brutal f> at nr - and dropsical nock. sat hi-a ir , untidy dinner napkin. on the three-cent j>ostage stamp. in the new two-cent stamp it u to lie seen that the a. lung iik lar has l"en jiiilhsi. and the facial swelling ha- ;uart j rtrait in the refinement i the line- and expression --f the fa. tores. There is an improvement in the arrangement :, i a copy of Iloiid.n's cast taken from life. The raw head rests in an oval medallion on an heraldic shield. The lettering shows niore sharply and dis tinctly tlian in the j r.-sent stamps; at the top, the legend. "United states Postage." an 1 In-low the medallion. "Two J cents," standing out clearly on groundwork darker than the body of the stamp, while the color, a pair cannine red ink. in which oxide ol iron is a powerful component, sufficient ly distinguishes the denomination w ithoiit blurring the design. The double rate, or four-cent stamp, is of a green color, and bears the head of the Hem of New Orleans, some w hat less unkeiupt and frightful than other government caricaturing of the grand old democrat. If Andrew Jackson actually resembled his post age stamps, he needed neither military skill nr equipment; he had only to go forth and look upon his foe "and tht | red field was won." The process of printing these stampt differs essentially from that of Kng land and continental nations who c >n ) tinue to make their plates directly | from the original die, and to print I from raised designs on Works like types. The American Bank Not* Company's process is. however, to cut the original die on soft steel in sunken lines, and from this, l>elng hard* nod. • 1 roll of raised transfer* like type art obtained, arid from these, in turn, art I produced plates of two hundred steel I ©pies of the original die. In sunken lines, from which the stamps ar finally printed.— New York Sun. A tnan living at Minneapolis has ■ pet pig which follows him about like a dog. At one time pigs were made pets of hy Spanish ladies, and very, very long ago dogs and pigs roamed the streets or towns In England an 1 Scotland, and were petted alike.