" PALLEN ROYALTY. The Ex-Empress Eugenie and Her Recont Visit to Paris, {Paris Letter to London Truth.) The Empress Eugenie spent asad week with the Duchesse de Mouchy in her new Bouse near the Hotel des Invalides. the was attracted to the scenes of her former triumphs, went to look at the balcony of the Ecole Militaire, where she witnessed 80 many reviews in imperial state, was at Longchamps, St. Cloud, in the Tuil- eries gardens, and everywhere passed almost unnoticed. Her cousin, ! M. de Lesseps, hastened from Berry to pay her respects to her. She was paid many visits, but was not in a mood to receive any but old and valued friends. It is not at all true that she wants t6 make peace be tween ber cousin, Prince Napoleon, and his eldest son, whom she calls ber petit- neveu. She was very much agitated in going over the theatre on which the im- perial drama was played by her and the emperor. But her general attitude was that of a person who through much suf. | fering has come almost to be insensible, | Her complexion is bleached as her hair. The eyes of pale blue have lost the fac- | ulty of lighting up. It would be hard to say whether they express indifference to most things or resignation. But they look as if they had eried so much that no more tears were left in them. The empress drove about in a plain coupe. She was always in black crape and merino, Her figure has lost all flexibility, and thouzh the Carlsbad waters were of service to her, she has the stiff walk that rheumatism or the weight of years gives. The outlines of the shoulders, however, retain some of their former elegance. As the adherents of Prince Victor are anxious to organize an electoral campaign by next year, and to obtain pecuniary assistance from the empress, the house of the duchess de Mouchy was closely watehed when she | was there. If the wo.ld has not gone | from her, she has lost all taste for it. | The seclusion of Farnborough sometimes | weighs upon her. Neveitheless, she! said she would be glad to return to it after her continental trip. At Carlsbad she refused all eceeptional honors and favors, lived quietly at an hotel, and took her place in a queue at the pump Her old vivacity has died out. 1f it had not, she would try to sub ugate it, for she ascribes to her impetuous dispo- sition the culminating error of the empe- ror's reign, and another event for which she will mourn as long as life and con- sciousness remain to her. She has the generosity to admit the errors of judg. ment into which she was hurried, and which were attended with disastrous consequences both for her family and for the nation over which, by an as tounding freak of fortune, she becam: the sovereign. The empress still thinks | aloud, and talks often and rapidly of what is on her mind. She ill bears any mental tension, unless in religious exer. gises, and has not the resources of music, embroidery, knitting, or sewing, which enabled Marie Amelie to beguile the tedium of a residence at Claremont. Her infirmity prevents her walking as much as she wishes. She lives alto- gether at Faruborough in the past and ari objects reminding her of de parted glories of the emperor and of her ill-starred son, of whom she can now speak without falling into paroxyams of sf. The inner woman is chastened affliction, and the outer woman ; but she is more interesting, per- | haps, than when she had the prestige of | heats, a throne, and (externally) the | most brilliant court in Europe have heard her compared to Henrietta Maria, who also had reason to deplore the im- petuosity of her di tion. That queen, however, had a trial in her old age to which the empress has not been | subject. She lived in France when she was a discrowned queen and widow in dire poverty. Her house at Bois Colom- bes was in the marshy part of a wind. swept plain, and being too poor to buy | firewood, she had to stay in bed in win. ter to keep herself warm. A Destroyer in the Spruce Forests, [Science Monthly.) According to accounts of observations | published in the third bulletin of the en- | tomologieal division of the department of agriculture, the ravages of the spruce worm (Tortrix fumilerana) have m extensive and destructive in the coast forests sid Ma ne west of the Penob. | scot river. mage appears to have | reached only a few miles inland from the coast, but the belt in which it has | delicate | young man, { Then { which was only quelled when 1 acknowl. | thing, which iavold all the hatitual | was looked upon A a Go Ten=Cup FortuneTelling. {8t. Ni holas] 1 have a friend who is quite renowned for her success as a fortune-teller through her skill in shaking and tapping a teacup until the grounds or tea leaves in the bottom of the tea-oup assume in a rude way certain shapes or forms repro. senting people, animals and various other images which she professes to understand as referring in some way to the person whose fortune she happens to be telling at the time. I was present once when she told the fortune of a young lady, The prophecy and method of making it seemed to me to be very vague; but the gist of it all wis that in a short time a young gen tieman of extremely prepossessing ap pearance would arrive, and exert a , powerful influence on the future pros pects of the young lady. Wishing to discover what was in the cup to warrant | such a forecast, I obta ned possession of it without being observed. In the bot. fom of the cup 1 discovered that the leaves had assumed a form which, with a little aid of the imagination, might be uecepted as resembling a very spare, and altogether debilitated With the aid of a teaspoon, and using i a few other grounds of leaves that were lying on the bottom of the cup, 1 quiekly i changed the young man intoa Uisrepta, looking old tramp, with a big bundle on { his back, and accompanied by a ferocious looking bulidoz. Then 1 awaited the result. Presently the young lady whose fortune had been told took up the cup with a blush of pleasure, to examine its contents. The moment she saw the dreadful figure of the old tramp she exclamed, “What a horrid old fright!” there was a great commotion, edged my guilt, Bat | lesrned some was that with a little management and a teaspoon pictures of any Kind could be made in a tea cup. Personality in Handwriting, [The Countinr-R om.) Persons writing naturally do so with. out thought regarding the pecuiiazgon struction of their writing. The hand operates thu pen ms it wer automat cally through the sheer fore of habit, by which all the innumerable personali- ties are unconscious imparted to writ ing. Learners and forgers think re specting their writing, and Lence, the more stiff and formal style of their work; there is wanting the easy, graceful flow apparent in thoughtless or habitual writing. Lines show more of nervous ness and hesitancy while the whole con- struction of the writing is more exact and formal; and, besides, every different handwriting abounds in welluigh num beriess habitual peculiarities, of which the writer himself is unconscious, and | cannot, therefore avoid. Thus, two other insurmountable difi- cuties are placed in the way of the forger: First, to observe and imitate all the characteristics of the writing he would imitate; and. second, to note and characteristios of his own hand. Haiit in writing be comes so fixed and arbitrary (not to mention the great artistic skill required to exactly imitate an unpracticed hand), that I do not conceive it to be possible for any one to similate the writing of another, or to so dissemble his own writing, in any considerable quantity, as to defy detection through a really skilled expert examination. The Japanese ** Treaty Box" {Boston Budget ) The principal object of the mission of the Japanese embassy, which lately ar rived at Washington, was lo get a copy of the treaty between Japan and the United States signed by ¢ president The original was burned in the great fire at Jeddo in 1558. The copy in Ja anese was saved. This they brought | with them, and a copy of it not signed, and a letter from the Tycoon to the pres ident. The box containing these documents ¥ thein as almost sacred. It was called the “treaty box,” | and was never allowed to be out of their | sight. It was 3 box three feet long, twenty six inches in depth and eighteen inches wide, covered with red morocco leather and neatly sewed around the edges. There were three japanned boxes placed together and thea covered. Around the box was a light frame, and when carried was borne on the backs of four men by poles. The embassy brought with them $50,000 cash for the purpose lof making purchases. Their money was | all brought from Japan in Mexican dol. {lars and American half dollars, stamped in the terminal buds, which are eaten Jay, snd when that is done, the case is » : fatal character of the attack is | owing to the fact that the spruce puts forth but few buds, and those mostly at | the end of the twigs, and, when these | "are destroyed, it has nothing on which | to sustain the season's life. The attack | in Juve, when the wth is | most lively, and just at the time when | the check on it ean produce the most The Iarches are also at- with the Japhnese mark. They brought an immense amount of ba r, Over eighty tons, which made four full car loads over the Panama rulroad. They had fifteen boxes containing valuable presents for the president of the United Ntates, Emperor cud Workinai [Chicago Herald. } A favorite amusement of Dom Piro I, of Brazil, is to leave his NIT bw a ho chamberlai a y- n ral BA rn walk the distance of a square or more to a mann factory Tv other stablishimein a ue prise the proprietor employes sodden and unannounced | hopes to get some § 00 {ing rhow i will be to the north, ~ BUNDAY IN NEW ORLEANS, The Coming Exposttion=The Father of Waters— Wickedness, {Joaquin Miller's Latter.) 1 arose at 6 my first Sunday and took a car to the Fremch market. This famous piace is dirty. 1 wish I could raise it, but it's impossible. The place ponehid nasty. Dirty water flow- ing all about, dirty people hustling, bustling, shouting out their wares: and a smell rising to heaven. Three hours in this famous pince was not enough time to see it all, but enough to make me sick. Returned to my hotel, breakfasted, and went to hear the cele. brated Carolina preacher, Dr. Palmer. a strong man in every sense. Dinner, and then a four hours' drive with an editor, a native of the city, about the vast exposition buildings. More than fifty acres under roof! More than thirty acres ina single building! “Will yon get her ready” 1 asked. ‘Get her ready! We have 1,500 hammors dri ing every day. Fifteen hundred thou sand nails every few hours will get her done migh!y soon, now." The buidincs sre a rifle shot from the banks ef th: Mississ ppl. The place is high and dry now. of course above all approach of floods: level as a lawn, green, cool, beautiful, with avenues of oaks that have no equal on earth, but the grounds are going to be muddy The ground is a deep black Oregon camas muck; it is the mad of Hlineis, in fact, worked over and washed down and ado tenfold more sticky by its long transportation, But, of course, planks do there are plenty of them here will keep your feet from the mad. [It 15 going to be simply a tremendous sue I can tell you more of the de fails two weeks later. In the three great expositions of the past 1 was sent to roport upon the show-grounds I wus sent to Vienna, to Paris, and also to Philadelphia, as I am sent here, long in advance of the opening: and 1 ean only say that things here compare most favorably with the best prospects, as | remember them and recount them, mt these other places And that is all that | am justified] in saving now I will say this, however, tomy frionds and readers, that any one who fails to visit this city and these sornes at this coming fair, health and all things per mitting, is simply silly This city i the com 1 out of The main good, my friends, ORS about something of the size, the glory, and the splendor of your land You want to see these people here, too A vanquished, beaten and impoverished people; but brave, end good, and true, and warm af heart as the sun above them. | am already assured, from what | see, that it is going to be the test thing of its kind that has ever en on earth. That is saying a very great deal, certainly, that outside of the $1. 000 000, those brave, sunny-hearted and show loving people have perpetantod their carnivals through all their trials, and long have been celebrated for their matchless skill in getting up such things. So you can safely caleulate that to miss this exposi tion will be a life regret. But to continue the Sunday's exeor sions. | went to see the “Bandit King” an “Bunch of Keys" at night, alternat- ing betsgen the two theaters, which stand close together. The heat was too intense, and before the ¥8 were over | went out and walked down Canal street, stripped, and plunged ‘nto the river from the whurf, which slopes from the water'sedge. Not a soul in sight, not even a policeman. The electric light made the water a sheet of silver, and | did no! see that the swift, strong river had caught me in its arms and was rushing on with all his might to the sea. Perilous! Bat what did it matter? When 1 back and sat catching my breath on the edge of the wharf, | saw a lot of jet-black bugs as big as miee sit. ting on the edge of the plank at my side. 1 never saw such crealuns in my life. Now and then they would dive off into the water, One of these bugs finally elbowed around, and lifting up on his hind legs, looked me squarely in the eyes. He had a mustache like the king of Italy, I Sed precipitately. I sauntered up Canal street locks and turned down a street to the right. 1 heard men calling out games and names which I had not heard called for thirty years. Up a wide, bright stair of brass, and gambling wa« before me in all its doubtful glory, A police man looking om, good order, no noise eacept the men calling out their games. Twenty-seven tables going in this room. No woman in sight. The dealers were nerally little potbellied and band aded Frenchmen, The language mostly spoken was English. | went out, down, up agnin; saw four other places, all so alike that 1 need not mention them, I passed on, down a hundred yards or | so, toward the French quarter, and I i heard wild, discordant music and the packed with men It was time to go home. not seen it all. J wish | truthful chronicler, have The Hope Dancer's Mirenge Custom, (Bin Franco Chronicle] A strange custom presails inthe Him- alayan districts, 14 is 8 corcmony por- formed by the Badis, or ropedan ers, to bring prosperity to the villages to which they belong. A rope is stretched from the summit of a cliff to the valley be- neath, the ends being made fast to stakes driven into the ground. The Badi, seated astride on a wooden saddle, well groased to make it run freely, rides from the top to the bottom of the rope, The pace, of course, varies uccording to the degree of inclination given to the rope, but us may be imagined, i§ is always very rapid and sometimes terrific, Precautions are taken to prevent acc dents. The saddle is fastened, for in. stance, so that it cannot slip round the rope (as saddles on horses bare some times been known to do, to the discom fort of their riders), and the Badi's feet is from a possible breaking of This is usally made of Uhabar grass and naturally the Badi takes great care to vee that it is eqnoal to the strain it has to bear, Badi for this novel form of Blondinism is 1 rupee (50 cents) for every 100 of rope traversed, and the longest jour ney of the kind on record which 21 rupecs 8.670 fost | now-a-days as it was in the native rule, when tothe risk | {of a fall was added the certainly that | { times” of Badi fell, for the {to promptly d But bear in mind | three | danooraun “good old The practice is not so entail death whenever a TONING specinlonrs eh him with swords | such a because mishap would it was the custom The rope or bast 1s is Suppose d to be endowaod with © mark abe properties bye the complishiment of the fe | up and distriouted among the people of the village, { eaves of their hous s to serve as charms, The Badis hair is believed to have simi'ar properties, snd is cut of presarved, and Le himself by contribu grain lagers, in suecossial ac is supported from the vil monetary re ons of addivion to thn ward for his feat, the theory being that | his share in propitiating the gods to se eure fertility to the land of makes bis own land anlucky and seed he might sow ue to germinate. You want to learn | story, the ) A Departed Industry. [ Baltimors News, ) Two old sea captains were standing on | the wharf when a reporter came up. Une | { of them remarkel: “I miss some familiar | faces that | used to see on this wharf,” | and turning to the clerk in charge, he inquired: “Where are the old Dutch women who used to pick ap coffee grains here’ | The other captain e-hoed the inquiry, saying that he bad always seen them as thick as bees when he arrived in port | { with a eargo of coffee, mo Lnssos, SUgAr Or ! a serio-comic countenance, “that is one of the departed industries of Baltimore It went with our sugar efineries, great cooper shops and other tumngs conneated ‘with onr lost foreign trade. Ten or | fifteen by the merchants was then private warchouses and on its arrival, it wis sampled by runnng a ‘tryer’ into a | beg as you see that clerk over there | As a matter of course, some of | to the ground. The | stevedores also dropped some grains in | handling and sometimes a bag was torn | ain, | long the grains fell and more grains would fallout. A when the bags were thrown on the drays more grains would be spilled and these | women, Huth like, would lean after the laborers. When the dravs | reached the merchant's store, the women would be on hand and gather what | Often a clerk would | | smmple the sacks to see that the coffee | grains would fall. graded all right. This gave them an ther chance F merchant's store, “Now you can well imagine that on Cindustrious and lively woman conld gather from five to ten pounds a day | They had tv. expense; they brought their | meals with then, and ate when the men ! stopped work for dinner. Some of them | i got on the right side of custom house i mon, who, 3s there was a duty on coffee { then, had to te around, and they often | got a cond gleauing from an extra large (rip ina og. how, ten pounds of coffee | was worth at Yeast #2 then, and, by count. Ling that up in a year, you will see that {1 was not wrong in the statement that fthe business was a good one. Besides, lrofee was not their only commodity. ; They did very well in sugar, too,” American Hdelwelns, [Chicago Tr.bune | Lovers of the edelwels, who may in are bullastod by sand bags to maintain | his perpendicular, and the only danger | the rope, | I'he remuneration paid to the | : pits | ix one for | were paid, and which i accordingly mensured 2,100 cubits, about | « for the ceremony | if, and # is ent | who hang the pieces to the | and | others an) ¥ ould be certain not | : “Gentlemen,” replied the clerk, with | years ago, these coffee plokers | piled their trade regularly. 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