"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<iUgr detests
me."
Just then a dark, swift something
rushed passed the window outside. ' It <
was only a handsome, smiling girl rid
ing a superb black horse rapidly up the
gravelled path toward the stables; But
at the sight Carrie uttered a quick cry
of surprise and amusement, and the
man started to his feet, his features
ashy and his limbs unsteady.
"I advised Jessie not to ride at all.
I forebade her going near that horse,"
he exclaimed after a long, incredulous
stare at the composed rider and admi
rably behaved animal. "I wonder she
is not killed."
"She has subjugated your horse,
Fred, just as she manages to subjugate
everything else which opposes her,"
the lady said admiringly. "Olwurvo
her and allow her cleverness. fSlte lists
metamorphosed my old Mack clot It
mantle Into a really protty habit; with
characteristic ingenuity she has ar
ranged your man's saddle to suit a la
dy's seat; and she has utilized your
best silk hat, Fred—it becomes her too
with that Bit of deep gauze about the
tall crown "
"I detest anything mannish in nwi>-
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 <ir> • 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.
<lerit morn resistant to the action of
the gastric juice, or it will if-elf cheek
and retard the peq-tic fermentation
the very ground work of digest inn. It
follow s that saltisl and smoked meats
are more indigestible than fresh, t in
egar.it a|i|cars, may I*-used with
g.Hsi etTect, jirovided it is not in a
quantity to irritate the stomach, and
is a pun-iflution of acetic aekl, freed
from sul|ihnric or hydrochloric acids
the latter of which, thoiigli an active
jirincij.ie of the gastric juice, must not
Ire in excess of the stomach, or it w ill
retard digestion.
>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 <i. ruii ug and ra >
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 <ar
ria.-e after carnage in l'alermo bring
itx load of expc-li-ixely dress.si young
xviuii. n to xvalk in the garden near the
arl-ir. and l.axc not"! xxith amaze nu-nt
that they were sin, i xx .tlx dreadful
mushy-]-".king dim-* of what I Is-liiX',
is i albsl Hack lasting, a -ufl - tine
xx bat 1 ke a thick Iminbazinc - ralpa< i
The e came hut to the ankle-lioae. On
i-a b .dc they had triangles of robber
fabric, to pr-x •nt the ne -;ty • f fa-t
-eti ing and a great tag or straj. front
orbnekywith which to pull thotnon.
They always bulged out where tlm
elastic came;the- strap stuck out. ami
th>- 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 <r.
The Hi-cox cry ef ( ofTe-ei.
An \ral-i en bg< ml gixe-s the- follow,
ing ac. ..oat of tin- d:-. <ry of coffe-e;
Ms.ut tin-middle ..f t),- :ft - .'nth centu
ry a j-- o Arab xva- tra-.elling in Ale
y- in.a, and timling himself xv ak and
xx>,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 <at en. tl.e
travell.r d • ove-ri-el that the- half
burn' ! bcrri'-s xx. re very fragrant.
He e-olle t,sl a num! r of these, and,
n i-ru-1 -I* tim •r of tln-:n with a
• ne. be l 1,1 that tiu.r ar u.a ir
ire i .-1 to gr. it ' t ' l.t, Wh.le xx n
eb-r -at tbi*. lie a- ientallx 1-1 fall
t . •am ' a can xx Inch e- n
tam 1 b.s canty -■upj.ly of wat<-r
1..-, what a mira lc. The almost ; ntrid
li-jiior wa m-oiiitiy j ,ri . i. He- j it
;t t - In* lij.s .' xx.i- 'red . agree.idle'
and in a m- -iie-ii" aft'-r the- trav. lle-r
bai V far re-1 bis strength and
e-nergy a-t > 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 h<i had n suffering
fury ir. from the influe-ne s of that
jMiisonoii* drug. He- triesl ;ui infusion
of the ro.ist.-d 1m r;j. and xvas so de
light. I at the re-'-ovi-ry of lii.s own
vigor, that, in gratitude to the tree-; he
calle-d it cahuab, which, in Arabia, sig
In tics force.
Art iu .l.ijmii.
It Iresse-r giv-s an interesting
account of the inctliols employed by
.lapanc-e artists in tln-ir xxork. Five
of the- meet cele-litatesl natix -elraught.s
nicn xvcre mvitisl by sir lie-nry l'arkes
to the Lngiisli eml-as.sy for the juir
jxisc of cxliii'iting their skill to the
visitor. Each competitor had a long
sb-ndcr piece of e liarc" tl on a 1 a.ob
holder, some broad. Hat brushes of
dear's hair and round ones of xcge-t
-able filter. On a slate was a quantity
of Indian ink. The- artists xvho were
calhsl on proceeslesl cacli in turn to
carry out an original cotnjtositinn.
The first j>roduceel 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<cfore the aj>-
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- <u!ided, while the head and fa*"<
ir some resetnblan t" the (Blbert
>;uart j rtrait in the refinement i
the line- and expression --f the fa.
tores. There is an improvement in
the arrangement <f tlm hair and queue
The engraving is by Alfred .Tones
fr >:, 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.