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Guard woll thy lips; none, none can know Prov. xiii. 3 What evils lion; the tODgue may' flow; James iii. 5, 8 What guilt, what grief may be incurred - Judges xi. 3 j Hy one iticHiit ioun, busty word,. Mark vi. 22, 27. -i Be "slow to nponk," look well within, Prov. x. 19. To check tvlmt thore may load to sin; - James i. 26. And piny uncctisiugly (or aid, Col. It. 2. Lest ulWWnrc thou lo betrayed. Luke xxi. 34. "Condemn not, judge not "not to man Jamee iv. 2. Is given his brother's faults to scan; ICor. iy. 5. On litftk in thine, and one alone Matt. vii. 3. To search out and subdue thine own. John viii. 7. Indulge no niiirnnring, oh, restrain . ICor. x.10. Those lips, so rend y to complain; Lam. iii. 22. And if they cn alio. numbered, count Pa. oiii. 2. Of ono day's murclcs the amount. Lam. iii. 23. huti vaiu disciiwdoiiH, trilling themos; Titus iii. 9. Dwell not on earthly hopes and schemes; Deut. vi. 4-7. Iet wonts of wis loin, inooknoss, love, James iii. 13. Thy heart's true renovation prove. Luke vi. 45. Set God before thee; every word (ion. xvii. 1. Thy lips pronounce by lliin is heard ; l's. exxxix. 4. Oh, could'st thou reiilizo this thought, ' Matt-.xii. 36. What caro, what cuution would be taught! Luke xii. 3. The time is short," this day may be 1 Cor. vii. 29. .The voiy hist ussignad to thoe; ' '. ; , ' Eph. v. 10. 'So speak, that should'st thou ne'er speak more, Col. iv,- 6. Thou may 'at not this day's words deplore. 7 Koua. xiy. 12. MR. BEVEL'S HOBBY. It was in a quaint, old-fashioned i . ' quarter of London that old Mr. I level lived, lie had been young, Mr. Bevel, in his time, when the quarter was not no, quaint, 'nor tho street so shabby, though even then the irresistible re Ilux of fashion had begun to pet in another direction. Hut gentility lingered after fashion was past, and when Mr. Bevel installed his bride in her new home, the region wastill spoken of as " eminently respectable." Alas! nobody called it re spectable now. The very fact of resi lience there implied a certain ignomy a fact understood and resented by all the Bevel family except its bead. Even Mrs. Bevel, who, when first transplanted thither from her country surroundings, had looked upoi the London residence as unspeakable promotion, regarded it now with a contemptuous disfavor, which was instigated and egged on by ' her sons' and daughters, j . " It is really quite too bad," declared Maud, the eldest-born and beauty of the family. "I'm absolutely ash nied to let Arthur come and see me. It might be enough to lose him his place in society." " Arthur" was Maud's fhuicoc, Arthur Brook, and the society thus imposingly alluded to Consisted of his fellow-clerks in one of thn lesser public offices a lim ited though " stylish" circle in the neighborhood of W estbourne Groveand an oft-quoted second-eousinshtp to that city magnate Peter Brook, of Ixmihard street aiLd Lancostcfgatc, whilom Lord Mayor of Iondon, and a great man-in his own set. The readiness of ' ybung man so connected to show hirr. .if occa sionally in such a locality as that inhab ited by his lady-lovo and her family could not be regarded as less than conde scension. Maud felt it; the. boys felt it; f tuv felt, it except that insensible t-J J11 whose banns lay the power to . stay and the power to go Mrs. Bevel fylt it also, but she deemed it her duty to . protest against TMaud'a remark. " My dear, you are foolish- to talk 6o. . Arthur' is quite too sensible to mind where wo live, I am sure.". "Nothing of the sort, mamma. He minds a great deal. There is nothing he hates like an omnibus, and Cabs all this distance are an inuwense expense. He ought not to take them half so often as he does." For all her blue, sleepy eyes and fluff o( golden hair, pretty Maud had a Keen eye ior tne main chance. - " Yes, and the most provoking' thing about it is that if pa would only stop buying those ridiculous old things he is sp fond f, wo could go where we liked and live like other people," remarked Matilda, tho next girl ih age, casting a look of displeasure, round the room. It was a hideous room, Matilda thought, o d-timy and queer;, but to an nrtist it ' would have been a treasure-trove, a very paradise of quaint and picturesque and valuable disorder. For old Mr. Bevel's hobby was bric-a-brac, and tho house was stuffed with his acquisitions through forty years of prac tice. Like all pioneers in special lines of taste, he suffered the fate of being re garded by his contemporaries as little better Ihan a maniac. With him the taste was inborn. He had been a collec tor before his marriage, twice a collector since. Beginning in those early days when there were few competitors in the Art. he had worked the rah mine thor m iughly before others became aware of its l ame. Little by little his treasures had accumulated. Armor, ' brasses, carved furniture, china of every age and style, fragment of rich stuffs, of altar linen, ancient missals and breviaries, quaint tomes In early English, ivories creamed by time to a delicious yellow, bits of bronze, of silver, old tapestries thread bare and tarnished but still splendid, lace, pictures, parchments, spoils of cot tago and cathedral and quaint Tudor mansion there they were, crowding every crevice and corner, every cupboard and closet, till Mrs. Bevel declared that she couldn't turn round in peace, and should inevitably go crazy if one single thing more were added to the stock. " Oh, dear!" Matilda sighed, as her eye ran over the accustomed objects which to her were such unspeakable grievances. " I fairly dread to see pa come home, he is so sure to fetch some ugly thing or other to add to our trials. Maud Sin namon has just got the loveliest pair of vases blue, with the emperor and em press on them, and only ten and six a pair fancy ! I wanted some like them so dreadfully that I borrowed one to show pa, hoping he'd be tempted. But, fancy, he just made up a sort of a face, and gave it a push, and said : 'Take it away, my dear take it away. It's ex traordinary that no one of you has ever learned to know a good thing from a worthless one.' Then when I said they were only ten and six, he shrieked out: Ten ana six I they're not worth a farth ing!'" " It's pretty hard on us all," observed Bi ynn, the older son. ' I asked the gov ernor this morning if ho couldn't afford to give me a run on the Continent this vacation just a short one, you know, with a second-class ticket: I don't want to travel s Well -and he said, in a sort of abstracted way, as if it were of no con sequence in the world: 'No, I think not. There's Slater's sale next month, and I've been watching his Henri Deux these five years. I shall want myready money, my boy.' Henri Deux, indeed! What's thatP Some rubbishy oldpjate, I suppose, w hich I should like to smash." " And the'worst is," put in Mrs. Bevel, " that these things your father buys are like so much money thrown into the sea. Nobody but he will ever think of want ing them. There's no sale for such old rubbish none whatever. It's just so much out of your fortunes, my dears." " Only papa enjoys them so much," ventured Rose, the youngest girl. Out of the large family, slie was the only one who had the least sympathy with her father's pursuits . It was the sympathy of affection unappreciative, but comforting. " There's pa now," said Maud, rts the door clicked below . Slowly Mr. Bevel climbed the Rtairs, like one who bears a burden. A literal burden it turned out to be ; for presently he entered, carrying in both arms a huge grotesque wooden 6ign-board. A (lush of pleasure tinged his thin face. ' See, Mary," he exclaimed "see, my dears what a windfall I haveiust dis covered. This is the identical sign cl La Belie Sauvage, which was ono of the most famous coffee-houses' a century or more ago. I dare say you'd find men i ion. of1 it in the 'Spectator1 if you'll look, or the 'Bambler.' Se what a quaint thing it is. The head was black and red once, but it's faded brown now. And do you notice this little extin guisher below P That was for the link boys to put out their torches with. London was a queer old place in those days. I don't know when I've been so pleased with anything;" and he rubbed his hands. " Good gracious !" sighed Mrs. Bevel ; while Maud pertly afiked : " What on earth are you going to do with it, pa?" " Do with ltf It's a curiosity, my dear." " Oh! And what did it cost, pnP" "That's the best part of it all," said the happy collector, again, rubbing his hands, " I got it for a song only two pounds fifteen." "Two pounds fifteen!", screamed Maud. "Oh, pa, when we all need so many things!" " two pounds fifteen!-' chimed in Matil.la, almost crying; "and those lovely blue vases only ten and six; and you wouldn't even look at them, pa." " By George! it's quite too bad,'' mut tered Bryan. " My round ticket would only have been six pounds;" while Mrs. Bevel repeated, in a still fainter tone, " Good gracious!" as if her cup of woe were indeed full. Dejected and discomfited, her husband slunk away, his brief-lived glow of sat isfaction merged in sudden depression and penitence. No one but little Rose followed. Shefoundhim in the farther drawing-room, propping his purchase up on a little Chippendale card table, with all the light gone out of his face. He did not seem to care about the sign board any longer. "It's a very curious thing, isn't it, papa?" she said, slipping her hand into his arm. " I never saw anything like it before." "No, my dear, I suppose not; and you are not likely to see anything like it again. Most of these old signs have been destroyed ; they are growing scarcer every day." He began to tell ner the history ot the old eouee house, ana as ho talked his cheerfulness gradually re turned. Rose was often a comfort to her father the only one he had, poor man, in the family, by whom his ruling passion was held to be a nuisance and wrong and daily aisanvantage. Time went on. Old Mr. Bevel's col lection became gradually celebrated among the now rapidly increasing army of bric-a-brac fanciers. Now ana again some Btranger would call at the house and ask leave to inspect this or that cur ious object; but these visits remained a perpetual nuzzle to Mrs. Bevel and her brood. What on earth could any one find to rave about in those old thingsP Too completely aside from the world of fashion to have the least recognition of its ebbs and flows, they never imagined that the curiosities which remained to them a standing grievance had become of interest in the eyes ol those " higher circles" of which they read and dreamed. Maud's marriage was still deferred till augmented income should warrant it. Bryan and Ralph had plans which only money could further. " Matilda, and even little Rose, experienced the lack of certain private gratifications: and the snare cash " which would have made us all so comfortable," thought Mrs. Bevel, was provokingly locked up in the quaint and multifarious wares which filled the house to the exclusion of more desirable things. " I declare, I would almost as soon he did something wickeder which wasn't quite so inconvenient," thought the poor wife, and then chid herself for the thought. She chid herself again and more sadly when, a little later, it became evident that her husband was declining in health. Never; a strong man, it attracted little attention at first that he came in spent and exhausted irom his daily walks; but when the walk gradually shortened, and at last one eventful morning there was no walk at all, and Mr. Bevel, for the first time within the memory of man, remained in-doors all day, Mrs. Bevel's anxieties, slumbering till then, awoke to full life, and communicated themselves to her children. The result was much well-meant but wearisome restriction. Papa was to eat this, not eat that ; must not walk, or tire himself, or talk too long ; above all, must not follow his own inennations in anything. Very patiently did Mr. Bevel endure these cures, but he did not improve under them. His occupation was gone with his failing strength. The experienced fingers which had handled so many choice things lay idle now, with nothing worth handling within reach. Life had lost its savor for him ; he made haste, as it were, to be gone from it. And almost before his family realized that there was cause for alarm, all was over. The last morning of his life he was lifted, at his own request, into an ancient ebony chair, spoil of some Siennese pal ace, which was one of his special treas ures. High, hard, straight-backed, it was not the most commodious resting pluce for a sick man, but Mr. Bevel seemed to like it, as he lay, propped with pillows, gently following with his fee ble fingers the rich and intricate wander ing of the ivory pattern with which it wiis inlaid. His wife and daughters were with him; they rarely left him now. " My little Rose' he said, after a long silence, "I should like you to keep this t liair. You are the only one who cares for such things. Keep it for your own, my dear. The rest wouldn't value it. I made mv will a while ago," he con tinued, after a short silence. " I have tried to do fairly by you all, and to act justly. Some of you have thought hard' of me at times. I am afraid, for buying so many things, but you'il get over that later. "All tho arrangements are made for the sale of everything advertising and all. You are not to have any trou ble in the matter" turning to his wife. "All is left in the hands of Leonard Ashe. He knows the full value of every thing, and will see all properly done. The sale is to be advertised for two months beforehand. Ashe will attend to that." "Yes, my dear, yes," replied Mrs. Bevel, soothingly. " Don't worry your poor head about those old things now ;" while even at that mournful moment M vtilda could not refrain from a glance at Maud, "which meant, "Poor papa! still harping on that absurd craze of his." Only little Rose, with a pitiful tenderness, stroked and kissed the wasted hand. Misunderstood in death as in life, old Mr. Bevel passed from his narrow corner ol this narrow world into the wide liberty of the next. The will was read in due time. Mat ters proved in a worse condition even than the family had feared. There was a small life-insurance lor tho benefit of tho widow, five thousand pounds in con sols, the house that was all, save the collection, whose proceeds so the will ran- were to be divided among the six heirs. Mrs. Bevel was stunned, the others were indignant. "It was really like insanity," pro tested Maud. "If we had only guessed it, and stopped papa in time! Why, Arthur estimates that pa could not have spent less than seven thousand pounds in buying those trumpery things. Seven thousand pounds! And think what that would be to us now." "Oh, dear! oh, dear! how comfortable we all could have been!" moaned her mother, while Matilda, between angry sobs, protested that she " never should be able to forgive pa quite. It seemed as if he hadn't cared a bit for his own family, only for those horrid, useless, ugly old duds, which nobody would ever want so long as tho world stood." "Oh, Mattie! don't talk so!" urged her mother. " Your pa never meant any wrong. It was just a disease with him to buy things. And they'll fetch something, I dare say. We shall get a part back." "Yes, a couple of hundred pounds, perhaps. What's that out of sevtn thou sand poun:!s? I declare, to think of it makes me feel as if I should like to bite somebody," remarked the amiable Ma tilda, with a click of her sharp little teeth. The others, more outwardly re spectful, were no less inwardly miser able. None of them had any hopes from the sale. The two months' advertising were duly fulfilled, and the collection removed to the auction-rooms. Very bare did the old house look after it was gone; but that mattered little, for its occupants were preparing to move as soon as the sale was over. They waited for that, but with so little hope or interest in the affair that it was not till late in the after noon of the third day that Bryan troubled liimselfto "step down "and learn the result. He came back so red and ex cited that his mother turned pale with apprehension, while the girls crowded about him. " What's the matter? Has it all gone wrong?" " I always knew it would." "Haven't they fetched anything V this from Matilda. "Anything! I should say so. Mother, my father was light all through, and the rest of us a pack of fools. What do you think the things have sold for?" "Two hundred." "Five hundred," "A thousand," the last in a timorous voice. "A thousand I Just wait and hear. They were selling the last lot when I got there. By Jove, it was the old sign board we all jeered at. Well, that brought thirty-twopounds!" "Oh, Bryan, perfectly impossible!" It did. though. Well, that was a stun ner ; but when at last I got hold of Ashe, and heard the lull amount of the sale, you might have knocked me down with a pin-feather. Now listen! what do you think of forty-three thousand pounds?" Tableau. Mrs. Bevel nearly swooned. "Oh, my poor, dear John!" she cried, when she came to. "And me thinking him so silly all along!" "Silly! He was the only knowing one among us," declared Bryan. " If he had put the amount the whole cost at com pound interest forty years ago, it never would have fetchea anything like it. You see, he began when people didn't know the value of such things, and he has held on for this r!,se. I heard 'em talking about it the Marquis of West minister and Lord Dudley, and any num ber of tremendous nobs and they said no collection like it had ever been offered for sale, and they didn't believe there would be such another again Every thing was choice; selected with the ut most judgment and ability, one of them said. I declare I'd give a good deal if I could ask the poor old governor's par don. He was the wisest of us all, and none of us suspected it." " Well, I never was so astonished !" gasped Maud. "Forty-three thousand pounds! Why.it makes rich people of us. How pleased Arthur will be !" "Yes; and he wasn't overpleased when he thought we were only going to have two hundred pounds apiece," said Matilda. " I never would have believed it. " Dear pa, if we only had known, how differently we should have felt about it all!" Little Rose had stolen away to her own room, where stood the ebony chair, her father's last gift. She touched it gently, with tears in her eyes. "Dear papal poor papal" she mur mured, " if only we had Known. For I was as bad as the rest of them some times, papa. I was, indeed; and I thought you were foolish and whimsi cal, and felt vexed with you. How un kind we were, and all the while you were doing this for us. Oh, papa, papa, I hope that wherever you are, yon know that we understand it all now, and love you, and are so sorry. Do you, papa?" So, though too late for his satisfaction in this life, old Mr. Bevel's hobby was vindicated in the end. Let us hope, with little Rose, that wherever he is now, he has the comtort of knowing it. Harper's Bazar. A Lawyer's Big Fee. During the first year of the war, Capt. Pellatier, a Frenchman by birth, but a naturalized American, was sailing with his merchant vessel in Haytian waters, when he was seized upon ny a war ves sel of that country. His vessel and prop erty were confiscated, and he and his crew condemned to death on a charge of piracy, notwithstanding they clearly proved their innocence. All the crew except him were executed ; why he was not also he never knew. He was kept a prisoner for two years in a very un healthy prison, during which his health was permanently ruined. Finally, he es caped to the United States. He presented his case to the authorities at Washington, but owing to the excitement and press of other business during .the war, his case was neglected by the authorities, and continued so until four years ago. At that time Judge Cason was serving his second term in Congress, and at the sug gestion of General Ben Butlei, Captain Pellatier employed him to press the claim. Judge Cason advanced money to prosecute the case, both at Washington and in Hayti, and for Captain Pellatier to live on, who by this time was in stiaiteued circumstances. Finally, he got the United States authorities to recognize the claim ps just, and through tho United States Minister at Hayti pre sent it to that government. But here was a further delay, as that government disputed the claim, the government hav ing been changed by revolution since the outrage. At last the United States, through her Minister, demanded a set tlement at once, and the Haytians went to work in earnest to examine into the claim. Last week Judge Cason received a letter from Mr. Langston, United States Minister to Hayti, that that gov ernment had agreed to settle the demand of Captain Pellatier at $000,01)0, payable $200,000 in three, six and twelve months. Only a few days ago the Captain wrote Judge Cason that he was actually s ufl'er ing for want of the necessaries of life. In a few days he will be a wealthy man. By agreement, Judge Cason has a fee of thirty-seven per cent, of the amount re covered, giving him a fee of $222,000, by far tho largest fed ever paid an In diana lawyer. hulianaopolis (Ind.) Jour nal. A Centipede's Deadly Claws. Several Mexicans were in camp at the mouth of Memphis Creek. U. T.. and were lying about the fire, when one of 1 1 1 111 , ICirSlUlU VI 11, Ot T Oi A At K I II- tipede, fully nine inches long, traveling slowly over his leg. Knowing that the least motion would make it sink its deadly claws into his skin, without moving his leg he got out his revolver and waited until the beast had almost reached his knee, when slowly putting the mouth of the pistol to its head, lie pulled, and the centipede wss gone. But a centipede's claws are quicker than gunpowder, and Crucas began to cramp in a few minutes, the track of the reptile along his leg turned a brownish vellow. and the dace where it was killed swelled up frightfully. Ciucas rapidly grew worse, and in a little over four hours afterward he died in great agony. But the most singular part of the story is that the bullet from Crucas' pis tol cut a small nick in the foreleg of a mulo that was tethered near by, and at daylight next morning the mule was also dead, with its leg so swollen that the skin had burnt in several places. Catton County Vigilante. TIMELY TOPIC'S. "The yellow fever is a curious dis ease," says the Memphis Avalanche, "and the more it is studied the less we seem to know about it. One of the greatest curiosities in connection with this plague of mankind is the case of the island of Jamaica,- where the disease prevailed for years, but where during the last half century it has not been known. Yellow fever i is round it on every side, in Cuba and in San Domingo, but in Jamaica it is unknown. Jamaica lias no State Board nor National Board, and consequently does not quarantine. A German journal speaks of the de scription of a storm that is often found in novels in more or less varied forms, but usually somewhat like this: "The waves rose mountain high over the frail vessel, threatening every instant to en gulf it. Then suddenly they lifted it to the clouds, only the next moment to let it sink again into a watery abyss," etc. This is poetic, but by no means accurate. Careful scientific observations have es tablished the fact that ocean waves sel dom attain to a height of twenty feet, and never rise higher than twenty seven. -' During the jumping contest at the horse show, in Birmingham, Mr. Robert Leaman's hunter, Surrey, ridden by Mr. Henry Grayson, made such a splendid jump over the mimic brook as to set the great audience applauding frantically. The horse, wild with excitement, went right on down the ring, and rising at the barrier of the ampitheater with one tre mendous bound, literally sailed over the bars and five rows of spectators, alight ing in safety and injuring nobody. The distance was measured and proved to be thirty-seven feet, a jump even more sur prising than that ever made on any steeple-chase course, all things being taken into consideration. At a meeting of the board of managers of the International Dairy Fair, it was resolved to hold the fair during the sec ond and third weeks of December, at the American Institute Rink, New York. The president, Mr. Thurber, was about to sail for Europe, and was empowered by the association to invite all the agri cultural societies of England and the Continent to send butter and cheese to the fair for exhibition and competition with American products. Letters from cattle raisers in various parts of the country encourage the managei-s of the fair to believe that they will have a much larger number of blooded bulls and cows on exhibition this year than they did last. At the recent convention of the National Cotton Exchange, in New York, Mr. Trenholm estimated the cot ton crop of this year in t he United States at 5,250,000 bales. If they were placed together in ono long string they would measure about 4,500 miles, and stretch from New Orleans to New York, and thence across the Atlantic Ocean. Every linear foot would represent 100 pounds of cotton. With regard to the piospects of the future, Mr. Trenholm said that now but one bale of cotton was produced to 2 4-10 acres ot land, but it was possi ble, by proper management, as experi ence had demonstrated, to raise one bale to every acre, lie believed that ulti mately the crop would bo 12,500,000 bales. Surrounded by Snakes. Three young men from New York, Gideon llensch, William Croft and Henry Dickison, spent their vacation in a camping out trip in Pennsylvania, and Mr. llensch relates the following story: " We are all of us clerks in insurance offices in New York, aud we concluded to spend our vacation this year in the wilds of Pike county, where we expected to tind game of all kinds in abundance. We took with us a large 'A ' tent, camp ing utensils of all kinds and some 'tanglefoot. Upon arriving at Laeka waxen wt were told that the best shoot ing in the county was near ' Little York Woods 'in Blooming Grove township; so we hired a team and went thither. We final'.y found what seemed like a good camping place six miles from any house and we pitched our tent, sent our driver back to Lackawaxen and pre pared ourselves to enjoy the luxury of 'camping out.' Night soon came on, and to keep away wild animals we built a lire just outsiife the door of our tent. About ten o'clock I fell asleep and shortly after was awakened by a pecu liar whirring noise. I found that Croft and Dickison werfl both asleep, and as the noise still continued 1 seized my gun and pulled aside the tent door-flap. The sight that met my eyes fairly paralyzed me. Tho lire winch still burned brightly was surrounded by rattlesnakes in every conceivable position. I quickly aroused Croft and Dickison and, armed with our tout ash Alpinestocks, we stepped out side and began to slaughter the reptiles. We had already killed six. and as I was Btriking at the seventh, who was an un usually largo one, he sprang at me and bit mo in the fleshy part of the hand, near the wrist. I immediately threw down my stick and ran into the tent. Then I took a razor and cut an incision in the flesh directly across the wound, applied my lips to the cut and sucked from it the blood and poison. I then bathed the wound with brandy and drank a large quantity of whisky. Croft and Dickison had in the meanwhile dis patched the remainder of the reptiles. In the morning we measured the snakes killed-, and their aggregate length was sixty-one feet, three and a half inches. There were thirteen killed. During the following day I kept ticking liquor in quite large doses and felt no inconven ience from the bite. But," said Mr. llensch, baring his wrist and pointing to the wound, " we moved our tent further on, and all the wealth of Golconda would not tempt me to spend a night in that locality again." Mr. Croft told a corre spondent that after they changed their camping place they were not troubled by the snakes azain. The Kind Reply. " I've written yon a letter, Mend," A little missive ran ; " I've opened all my earnest heart And told yon every plan. In confidence I've quite outdone Myself, you canrt deny ; And this much I will ask of you Oh, write a kind reply." I thought of this most humble wish, And could not understand Why " kind replies " are not as thick As are the grains of sand; As numerous as tb smiling stat Tlint answer ns Irom heaven ; As nlonty as the aching hearts For which earth's balm is given. Who has not sometimes felt when sad, By care and pain oppressed, A litUe sunbeam strike the soul And tarry there to rest T II might be but the hourty lmki Of some dear hand near by A tender look, a loving word, A smile, or kind reply. How many loet We might have turowl Fiom out tho evil way, And started on the narrow path Up toward the gate ot day, II we, when at the Three Cross Koads Whcuoe came the questioning c y, "Which way?" had turned back in our haste Aud given a kind reply ITEMS OF INTEREST. A cold spell I-c-e. Jackson (Mich.) convicts are to make 20,000 dozen hay-forks for England. P. T. Barnum has sold 94,000,544 tickets to his "show" in the last forty years. The kangaroos are dying out. They have for years been on their last legs. lHcayune. It is claimed that there aie eighty-fivo silver producing mines, in Leadville, Colorado. Extensive beds of saltpeter have been found in Utah about eighty miles from Salt Lake. When a man's temper gets the best of him it reveals the worst of him. Yon kers Qazette. The deepest spot in the Hudson river is opposite West Point, where tho water is 216 feet deep. Flood, the California millionaire, weights 220 pounds, and lias a private park containing 2.000 acres. " San-too-qut-choo " is the name given to "a material found in a Nevada mine, and from which soap is manufactured. A child was born at the Berrien (Mich.) poorhouso in February last whose father is eighty years old and the mother twenty. All three are now county charges. Victor Hugo says, 4" In the twentieth century war, capital punishment, monarchy, dogmas, and fiontiers will all disappear. There will be for all one groat country tho earth ; and one great hope heaven." The man who is superlatively fast idi ous about the purity of the water ho im bibes wili deliberately drink alleged cllampagne without question whether it is the offspring of the grape or the oil well. Iioslm Transcript. We know a girl who will wrestle with a croquet mallet in I he hot sun for hours and not complain. But just ask. her to hold on to the wooden end of a broom lor a few minutes and bhe'll haye a lit. Stillwater Luiuhciman. "(.'an you see the whole of me?" asked a fellow who wanted an entire view of the photographer. "Oh, yes, sir,' was the reply, ' 1 can see scarcely anything cite except the hole. You had better close it." The fellow instantly shut his mouth. The South will raise this year about a, 000.000 bales of cotton, 200,000 hogs heads of sugar and very nearly 000,000, 000 pounds of tobacco. ' ThU will be half a million more bales of cotton, twice as much sugar, and 12,000,000 more pounds of tobacco than she ever raised before. A Dry Cannl Across the Isthmus. Mr. Adolph Toellner, of Moline, III., has developed a new scheme for trans porting ships across the isthmus of Pan ama. Tho new idea contemplates the construction over the isthmus of what may be termed a dry canal, in the form of a letter V, but having a narrow, flat base, which, with the sides, is con structed of masonry and lined with steel, with a layer of rubber between. This canal is to be of width suftlcicnt to re ceive the largest vessel, and at each end of the route to slope gently into tho sea. In this canal, or channel, is what he calls a movable dry dock, construe tea of steel, built in sections conforming in shape to the channel, and supported at tho base and sides upon a multitude of small rollers similar in principle to tin skate roller. Of these rollers hid plan calls for over 18,000. The movable dock is to be sunk under the water; the vessel to be transported is floated into it; tho hull is supported evenly in the dock by hundreds of air bags inflated by a powotful air pump; by rubber wedges and by wooden stays. It is then drawn up the incline by sta tionary engines, and thence across the icthmna hu nnwerfnl locomotives run ning upon tracks laid alongside the ca nal. These are tne principal poinis in volved. Mr. Toellner estimates the cost of the Nicaragua canal, built on this plan, at $20,000,000 to $10,000,000. As this plan admits of easy grades, avoid ing locks, with their expenf-e and de.ay, it is believed that it can be built and op erated more cheaply than any other sys tem ol marine transportation, while it is adapted to any place where it is de sired to move floating craft from one water to another; ta overcome rapids and other obstructions. Exchange.
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