"RIBAUB, THE MISRE. For five years up to the 20th day of December, 1874, James Ribaub lived in a little roadside cottage with in a stone's throw of a post-house on the highway leading from the village of Raificy to Paris. He was a little hunchback old man and a wiser. Report bad it his hoardings were nearly a million francs. He had lived alone, but once his bouse was entered by robbers and himself so terribly beaten that bis life for a time was despaired of. The robbers got nothing for their pains. He then re- solved to live no longer alone. He engaged a young and sharp- eyed girl from Raincy as a house ser- vant. Uoskoown to him the girl, Fanchette, had a lover—Adolphe, a student—whom once a week she was in the habit of slyly meeting at the post-house. Once a month she had a holiday and passed it with her lover at Rainey. Ribauab,so the neighbors gaid, had once been a rag picker in Paris. Oo the morning of December 29 Fanchette had her usual holiday and went to Raincy, returning to her miser master’s house at nightfall, During the night two of the host- lers of the post-house, who by the light of a lantern were playing cards in one of the stables, heard a wild cry of agony, as of one in mortal terror, It seemed to proceed from the direc- tion of Ribaub’s cottage. They laid down their cards and listened, then went outside. All was dark at the cottage ; not another sound did they hear. They returned to their game of cards. In the morning they inform- ed the landlord of what they had heard. Stupids ! why did you not go to the cottage? Now you go there aad see ifall is righ. The hostlers obeyed, and reachiog the cottage, to their surprise found no one stirring. The miser was always an early riser. They knocked and called louder, but no answer came, They tried the door. It was unlock- ed. In the front room they beheld a horrible, ghastly spectacle. They saw Ribaub lying in the middle of the floor, his throat cut and his head beaten as if with a heavy bludgeon. Blood was scatterad and clotted on the floor, on the walls, on the bed. In the rear room they heard a wom- an's voice faintly cryiog, as if smoth- ered: Help! Help! There they saw Fanchette, gagged and bound, hand and foot, face downward, The two men ran out and gave the alarm. The girl Fanchette was re- leased, and when safficiently recov- ered, told her story. It was brief. She did not see the old man murder- ed. She only knew that just as she was preparing to undress—the miser allowed her no light—a h avy hand was clasped over her mouth ; she was then thrown violently backward. She fainted and knew no more. When she came to consciousness an hour later she was helpless ; all was silent as a tomb. She knew nothing about his hidden hoards. The cottage was searched, but no valuables were dis- covered. The police wereat fmult; they could only vaguely surmise, The miser was buried, the cottage razed to the ground, and Fanchette returned to Raincy. On January 2 the account of the murder was published in the Paris papers. On the third a shabby old man came to the perfect of the Seine. Monsieur, he said, I am a rag-pick- er. I koew this poor Ribaub, the miser. We worked together until hy left Paris. But what has that to do with the murder?! Why come to me ? Because Monsieur, I may aid in the finding his mordererss You see, be had one treasure of which only he and myself knew. You remember that tenyeuare ago a jeweler of the Rue Biron lost and set the police in search of two magnificent diamonds the largest ever seen in Paris, except those in the emperor's possession. They were intended for the Due'd Aumale. Well, ragman ? They were never found, for Ribaub had them safely hidden. He bad them in his cottage. Nosenso! The disnionds were lost, not stolen, Not stolen? That depends. I Eoow Ribaud had them. Monsieur, you will see mo again. The person ae who now has the diamonds is the murderer of Ribaub and kuew where to find them. The rag picker left the office, but at the corucr of the street he was ar- rested by an officer of the perfect. This fellow knows more than he will disclose I'll keep him awhile in secret, During the following month of February Paris had a sensation in the appearance of a washing couple. The Count and Countess De Trouville, as they reported had just returned from a continental tour; on their way to their chatesu near Malines, They hired magnificent apartments in the Faubourg St. Germain, and astonish- ed even the ancient noblesse with the extravagance of their style. At the opera, the theaters, on the boulevards, among the shop-keepers and trades men they became notorious, Evi dently the count’s wealth was inex- they the made haustible, luo their apartments held at times high revel, and count aud the friends he had had the wildest orgies. The kept a wary eye upon them, for they ax funds. Pp ice could gather no information to where the count obtained his July came, with the heat. but still kept in surveillance. quard, one of the keenest of Parisian detectives, was sent to Raivey by the prefect to endeavor to find a clue to the muraerer of Ribaub, the 1 be girl, Fanchette, bad disappeared. Her lover, the student, it was said, had gone off with her. She asserted that she bad received a large legacy from an sunt in Normandy. The detective returned to Paris with only a minute description of Fanchette and her lover. Ove day he the Count and Countess De Trouville on carriage miser, saw the boulevard in an To the prefect he said : The student open lover are in Paris. They are now called | the Count and Countess De Trouville. Suppose they are. That does not | baub. Monsieur, you do not forget the rag-picker's story of tle Jen d moods ? Well ? Yesterday one of them was offered in pawn at Monte de Piete by a mao evidently disguised as to bair sod beard and wearing shabby clothes, Noting a look of suspicion from the bank official, and being asked =s 10 where he got it, he fled away, leaving the jewel behind him, Tha. was ove of the lost solitaires of the Ducd Aumale. The official’s description of the mao leads me to believe it the count, Then he is not likely to return fir it. Within ten days I will satisfy my self. If it was he, then he has the uther solitaire, and we have a c'ew to the murderers. The detective went to work hope fully’ Dressed with faultless elegance he looked every inch the Parisian swell. In two days he made the ac quaiotance of the Count. On the third he contrived to obtoin an ivi tation to his aja tments, The Count received him in what he called his “den” a small room elegantly furnish- ed save in one respect. The open grate, half filled with cinders and half burned coals, was unscreened with the usual cover. Ah, everybody notices that grate, It is my fancy to have it exposed, It is a contrast which to my eye make, the surroundings appear all the richer I do not permit the servants to dis- tarb it. Besides you see it isa handy receptacle for cigar ends and paper soraps. Wine was ordered The count was delighted with his new friend. Adroit- ly the detective turned the conversa tion upon diamonds and causually mentioned the incident of the Dae d’Aumnale’s solitaires keeping his keen gaze upon the count’s face. Instinctively the count's eyes tarn- ed toward the grate. The detective poured out a glass of wine, the coun did the same. By the way those diamonds must have been very large—too large for ordinary use. One of them—let me sce must have been (here the de tective glanced at the coals in the Was grate) as large as—this picce of half the grate he singly took wa Ll Tike Lerign. i ig y ‘h HT AEE large ashen lump in his fingers. Like a madman the count sprang to grasp the piece from the detective’s band and his face became al most livid, No, no! throw it back. It—it will 80il—"" I beg your pardon, monsieur, said the detective, cooly, but really this is the lightest piece of conl for is size Why, it is as light as wood. Whay is the matter count? Are you ill? The count sat glaring, trembling The detective saw that the bit of coal was eomehow leading him to the end of the trail, to the dismond and the man. He examined the lump care: fully, but only for a moment. Then he quietly placed it in his pocket. I will keep this , count, as a souve- pir of my visit. An odd souvenir, is it not! With one Trouville sprang between his visitor aud the door and quietly drew a re- hound the Count de volver. Mouosieur, your words are an in- sult. Either toss that bit of cool back into the grate or I will make you. The detective took out the lump. Suddenly dropping it upon the car- Mean- it. while the rag-picker was released, | | Jae: Adolphe and | Fanchette, the servant of the miser, | connect them with the marder of Ri- | pet, he placed bis heal heavily upon It cracked the pressure like the wood, sud there, as be stepped back, lay the other lost dismond, apari beveath You may keep the coal, I will ake the diamond and you. Before the count could comprehend the movement the detective, by an adroit trick peculiar to his professicn sprang upon him, dashed the pistol from his hand aod held him at his mercy. You sre my prisoner, Adolphe, alias the Count de Trouville, as Fan- chette will be within an hour. I ar rest you as the murderer of Ribaub, the miser of Raincy, and she as your { accomplice. An hour lster the woman Faso chette resplendent in silks returned from her drive, was put under arrest | and with her companion was sent on her way to prison. | and with tears aud lamentations con- | fessed her guilt as an accomplice to the marder other old master, Ribaub, the miser. Briefly, ber story was | this : While io his service she one day | came upon him uoawares, and unseen by him, saw him remove a brick from 8 ter examining them replaced them in their concealment. After this watch him fou she was stimulated to closer, and wl where he had hidden his mon- ey —uunder a water barrel in the cel. I «. Three hundred thousand francs fren; besides in the onk chest were 100 G00 fraucs in notes. All this he ht wmwased while in Paris a rag- picker, and by the purchase of a lucky ticket in the lottery. She told ber lover all. He was poor, unscrupulous. He proposed to murder him and make away with the body. She was to admit him, sad the horrible work being done and the robbery accomplished, he was to gag and bind her, and leave her there to ward off suspicion. All worked we |. As the Count aud Countess De Trou- ville they came to Paris. The cry the hostler heard while playing cards was the death shriek of the miser, The weapons used were a budgeon and a bread-knife. It was the count who tried to pawn the diamond at the Monte de Piete. Fearing that—be- ing tracked by the bank officials and the houvse searched-<the remaining diamond would be found he devised the idea of concealing it in a bit of wood, over which, with a coating of glue, he sprinkled com! dust ashes, and placed it carfully in the open grate, keeping always the door of the roam locked. Adolphe was hanged and Fanchette was sent to a penal settlement for life. To Jacquard the Dae d’Aumale made a generous reward. On the morniog following Fanchette's con- fession the rag-picker came to the prefect. You see, Monselur was true. The diamonds and the murderer were to: gother, eh ? How came Ribaab to have them ? Ah ! be found them in the case as they were dropped by the ae of a Jeweler bringing them from the Due [dAumalein his osrriage. Ribaub saw them drop; he threw his rag-lng bw Lissa ol en That night she sent for the perfect | the jam of the fire-place in his room | and take out two large diamonds, and | she at last | over them until the jeweler entered his shop and then made way with the prize. That's all, BEMIRAMIS, The history of this woman is in volved in such obscurity that it is difficult to separate the true from the false among the many wonderful deed” attributed to her. Bat, although many of the details of her story may be fabulous, it still contains some un- questionable facts. There is a mys tery surrounding both the time and the circumstances of her birth, but the former is generally allowed to have been about 1215 Bn ©. Bhe is known first as the wife of a general in the Assyrian army, named Omnes, and, while visiting her husband in his tent, attracted the of the king Ninus, The king immediately fell a a prey to her beauty, and determined to have Bemiramis for his own. He offered Omnes another wife in place notice of Semiramis, and, upon his refusal to give her up, the king had him sec retiy murdered. After ber husband's death, Semi. ramis warried Nious, and became, ivdeed as well as in name, the Queen of Assyrial. She completely ruled | ber husband, and be readily granted | her request that she might be allowed to rule the kingdom absolutely for! twelve hours. The first use she made | { of her brief authority was to cause the king to be strangled, and at ovce | proclaimed herself his successor. And | now life began in esrnest for Queen Semiramis. Mistress of herself and | sovereign of ove of the most exuen- | sive of the ancient dynasties, her am bitious epirit had full Not content with her dominions, put | herself at the head of her armies and | invaded the neighboring countries of | Persia and Ethiopia, of which she con | quered many portions. She gratified ber passion for adorning and impioy- | {ing her dominions to so astouishirg | extent. Her greatest achievement | was the founding of the magnificent city of Babylon, of which even the | ruins have executed universal won- der. It was built in an immense plain | on either side of the river Euphrates, | | and the workmen numbered two mil-| lions. The walls of the city were in| | the form of a square, with twenty- | five gates of solid brase on each side, | and streets runoiog in paralled direc. | tions from side to side. The river was crossed by a bridge connecting two superb palaces, toone of which be longed the celebrated hanging gardens {one of the wonders of the world These gardens were built in terraces, one above the other; supported by | immense stone arches and filled with Be ope. she trees and plants from all the known portions of the world. The city of Babylon was the richest and most beautiful of its age, sod Semiramis must have been a queen worthy to rule such a city. Her voconquerable ambition led her tw attack India where she was defeated with the loss of the greater part of her army. Her mortification at this defeat caused her to yield the sovereignity of the Kking- dom to her son Ninyas, when she was about sixty-four years old. Her death occurred soon atterwards. ~The fund for the widiws and or phans of the policemen who were killed during the Chicago riots is to be dis tributed on the basis of a payment of $1000 to each widow and $200 to each orphan under 16 years of age. ~The Naval Department of Japan proposes that the standing fleet consist henceforth of fifty war ships and sev eral cruisers, involving the expendi- tare, including the cost of torpedo ap- paratus, armament, ete, of about $30, 000,000. ~<A pair of elephant sks measur ing 7 feet 8 inches, were exhibited Ww a reporter recently. They weighed respectively 139 and 131 pounds, and were valued at $1000. The same dealer bad a pair measuring eleven inches, Gathering potato bugs is quite a lucrative business in parts of Vergin. in, and as high as $2 u day Is earned by some of the women engaged in it. Compensation is at the rate of five cents per “youst powder” canfull of the insects, house was robbed went 10 report his Toss at a police station, but says that when he had made known his errand the sergeant in charge soswered, “Ob, go hang yourself.” Hewnsibly wrote { of a high degree of ment, and {| chased by ourselves in the open i World's Exposition, | walue, «A citizen of New York, whose | POAC to the newspapers of biy treatment j- degree COMPARATIVE WORTH or BAKING POWDERS. ROYAL (Absolutely Pure)... GRANT'S (Alum Powder) ® AAR RC A ea RUNFORD'S (Phosphate) tres SE | REDHEADS. ....coniinnns aE EE i oh’ pw CHARM (Alum Powder) .... AMAZON (Alum Powder) % CLEVELAND'S ; PIONEER (Ban Francisco). .... ENOW FLAKE (Groff, St. Pau) LEWIS COSUMESE. ci cvsssis rns weld IRETYETIT HECKER'S GIES... cob iannd gr. HAXVORD'S, when not fresh... INSEE ANDREWS & 00 (contains alum), Milwaukee.) *’ Begal."s ot a RBUNFORD'S, when not fresh. Si BULK (Powder sold loose) REPORTS OF GOVERNMENT CHEMISTS As to Purity and Wholesomeness of the Royal Baking Powder. “1 have tested a package of Re ket, and find it composed of pure and whole substances, “Tt is a scientific fact that the Royal Talk! Baking “1 have examined a package of Royal I find it entirely Ire from alum, terra al “ Huy Mourox, PL.D., Pr “I have analypes d a package of Royal Dakin posed are pure and 1 wholesome, “June 23, 1882 cream of tartar powder of the hirbest degr some, and useful Ingredients. y iY ] Lh | i Wi Alpert Mex ' The Royal Baking Powder received the 1X78; at the Centennial, st State Fairs throughout the rountry, No other article of human § being as Indicated observant consumer O eosls a few besides, affords the advantage of better work, A single ur convince any fair minded person of these facts, val Baking Goes not contalu «f ba, Or any 5 lent nr, M.D. LL, M.D, highest award ¢ Philadelph wird hus ever received such | ment from eminent ehemists, phy sicians, scientists, and Bounds of Health all over the world, Nore. ~The shove Disonax illustrates the comparative worth of various Baki: as shown by Chemical Analysis and experiments made each powder was taken, the total leavening power or vo Toh practical test for worth by Pr f the Roval Baking Powder know cents per pound more than the ordinary r, which 1 purchased in the open mar : ents, It is a cream of tartar powder Ler alum or pho "pi ales, or other inj urious LG, Love, Ph pure, Hh. A. More, PD.” Po wi der g Powe ier Is abrolutely Powder, purchased by myself in the market, other injurious substance, of Stevens Institute of Technology.” g Powder. The materials of which it is com- “8. Daxa Haves, Btate Assayer, Mass.” ~We have made a careful analytical test of Roval Baking Powder, Jasrkel here, a se Of sire nd in the original package. We find ito be a gth, containing nothing but pure, whole Analytical Chemists, Bt. Louis.” ver all competitors st the Vienna fa, 1570 ; at the American Institute, and gh, emphatic, and universal endorse- yz Powders, ound can of y Pr EET] of. Schedler, A one in each can calouist roof Bihad ior only proves ha at every by pra cal experience, that, while it wis, it i far more economical, and rial of the Ro yal Baking Powder will ~ # While the diagram shows some of the alum powders to be of a higher degree of strength than other powders ranked below them, it is not 10 be taken as indicating that they have any All slum powders, no matter bo wh igh thelr strength, are 10 be svolded as dangerous. Englishmen’s Food Inth Eoglish restaurants sod st English tables geverally, one is par- ticularly struck with the absence of | any great variety of vegetables. There | are plenty of meats, fowls, game, fish, and all the rest of the solids, but of vegetables there is a poverty. Po tatoes, French beans, French peas, cauliflower, cucumbers, lettuce, rad- ishes, and a thing they call vegetable marrow, about fill out the list. The peas are those little, flavorless things | we get in tins in America, the cucom” bers are long, thin aflairs, sometimes growing to a yard in length, e lettuce is about the sweetest and best thing of its kind in the whole world. Then there is that vegetable marrow Yes, it is there. And there it ought to stay. It tastes about like what an over-ripe cacumber should taste, hav ing been previously bolled, so that it might be served hot. It is insipid and watery, aod soft, and it “squashes” in the mouth. American peas, beans, cucumbers, radishes and potatoes are much better and larger and more richly flavored than are the same ar ticles over here. Itis all in the cli- mate, | suppose. Beans peas and those things come mainly from France. Even the bulk of the straw- berries, and at least three quarters of the asparagus, consumed in Eogland are grown in the hottest countries. Corn is unknown. Ask for that suc- culent vegetable and the waiter will stare al you in helpless amazement. Insist on haviog it, and he will prob- ably bring you some wheat on a plate. Wheat is called corn in Eogland, and corn is called maize. That, perbaps, is why the waiter looks amazed when you ask for corn. The potatoes over here are general. ly little things that look like English walnuts, The Irish potato, as seen in Ireland, is a nrieetable dwarf, and its English cousiu is a Futhe or fio bet- ter. Sweet potatoes they [iftve none. Tarnips, parenips, squash, carrols and she like seldom reach the table. ¥ believe they grow in Eagland, but they don't seem to be moch in de. mand. Tomatoes grow in hot houses, aod are contly. They are uot particu. larly liked, citer. Peaches, too, are ether grown on vines inside the roofs of hot houses or afe trained up a south wall. An orditary American h tree would have no show in the world in such an atmosphere sa this. Peaches are, of course, very rroat luxuries. They cost at least a shilling apiece if they are of any sizs, and they are eaten alter an elaborate of that makes thew seem doubly valuable. Melus are | | nonest, unless they be especially the fact that r—r— lm | . | ported from France, and even those | do not bear sny own full flavored, juicy canteloupes. compas ison 10 our The water-melon 1s entirely unknown, Bat there are such delicacies as green walouts and almonds and green figs within reach of easy importation, and they make up for a good deal in the way of shortage elsewhe re. The Corn Miller calls sttentionto where two varieties of corn—dent and flint—were grown on the same farm, care was taken at the busking to determine the relative pro- portion of corn when in the ear and when shelled. The resultshowed that the dent variety gave eighty bushels of shelled corn per acre and the flint sixty bushels, but when they were dried and weighed for market it was found that the yield of flint exceeded that of dent. ~The Pennsylvania Railroad Uom- pany uses 6000 tons of coal a day on its variors lines, and is the largest consumer of soft coal in the country, It is now experimenting with nataral gas as a fuel for its engines, and pro- poses, if the plan should prove to be feasible, to ure gas on all the engines running into Pittsburg. ~The public revenue of all Austral. asia amounted in 1884 to £22 285.000, and the public expenditure £20. 659,000. The public debt at that time was £07 044,000, the value of imports £64,353,000, and of exports, £44,336, 000. 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