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Farmer StcbWns it Ocean Grove. II I a a Hhotitkh Jonsti We got here safe my worthy wife an' me an' pitrnro our louts witnin a grove eontig us to th sea; We've harvested such means of grace aa growed wltltln ourrearu; We've tpndfd all ths mornin' talks, we've beard the Hihop preach : An' everri hing went pleasantly, nntll w bad a wli'm My wife and I one breezy day, to take an ocean swim. We wouldn't ha' vent'red ont, I think, If Bister Honnyhopes Hadn't urp it us ororan' ag'ln, an'aald aho knew the ne(. An' told how safs an' aweet It waa "in ocean rilla to lave." An1 " i'irt within the foaming surf," an M ride the treated wave"; An' o we want along with hor my timid wife an' Hill Two Inland noodles, for oar first acquaintance with the sea, . They put me In a work-day rlfr, as ns'ally is done Anampua an' short overhauls all sswed np Into one. I had io pnll an' fuss an' jerk to make the things go 'round (You are aware my peaceful weight will crowd thro hundred pound). The; took my wig an' laid It np to keep It safe, tbyeiid -An' strapped a straw-stack of a hat on my devoted bead. They tint my wife Into a drees too short by full third "Twas aome'at In the u Bloomer " style, an' looked a bit absnrd. Vou know she.' rather tall an' slim somewhat my opposite An' clothes that are not cot for her are likely not to at; But as wt was we vent'red In my faithful wife am me An' fomisd onr first acquaintance with the incon sistent sea. M!m Snnnyhopes she went ahead, a-loo kin trim an aweet ; She'd had htr bathln' salt all fixed an' trimmed front head to feel t An' I went ont an' grabbed the rope. Just aa ah told me to; An'wilt came next, a-lookln' scared, scarce know in' what io do. But Sister Sunny hopes to me a am Us o' sweetness rave, An' said, " Now watch your chance, aa Jump core comes a tewfy wave I" I must ha' Jumped, I rather think, the wrong time e' the moon 2 At any rate, the lovely wav occurred to me too soon. It took me solid, wttb a rods an' unexpected shoe!; j It beat the stoutest pair o' bona there i In all my flock. An' then, to top the circus ont, aa nvaka lbs act mere fine, I tried to kick the lovsly wave, rsUnqnlabln' the tin. On country fair an' l.tlon days, m waTkln' through a crowd, Tm rather Arm to Jostle 'gainst perhaps It makea me proud ; But If it doe, that wave discoursed how soreness never pays ; An' soemed to shout, M Row small la man, no odds bow much be weighs I" It sat on me, it Jumped on me, In spits of right or law, An' whisked an whirled ma aO about aa if I'd been a straw. my life; An' scrambltn' np, I gave a gas to find my faithful wire; But she had sort o' cnt ths wave, with all the edge she had. An' stood a-hotdin' to ths rope, uncommon moist and aad; While Hi.Mr Bnnnyhopea, with smiles, was lookln1 proud an' gay. A-floatln' on her dainty bark, soma several rods away. 8ne looked so newish-pretty there (an knowed It too, the elf), The crowd was all admlrin' her, an' so waa I mv- eelf. An' while apain I grasped the line beside my wife of truth, My eyra wouii rove to Sister 8., hor beauty an' her youth; When all at once another wave, tremendous broad an' deep, Come amaahin' down on wife an' me, an' tossed us in a neap. dead over heels, an In bunch, my wls across o' a-e. An' I on some unlucky folks who happened there to be; My hat untied an' floated off, an' left my bald bead bare. When we got oot,lf Ti ha' spoke, it would ha' warmed the air. We drank a good part of ths soa my gas pin' wife an' I While Water &, still floated soft, a-gasia ' at ths sky. We voted that we'd got enough, an' crawled oat of the way Before another wavs arrived, an' bid the aea good day. We looked as llks two drownded rata as ever such was called, With ens of 'era a mighty fool, particularly bald. But, like a woman true, she said my watchful wife to me, " We will not mind ; there's others here that looks as bad aa we." Now Sister Bunnyhopes, by-V-by, earns back Into our tent, Ai aloek or stacker than before, an' asked us whsn we went. rays 1. " -v r oear good Slater S-, please do not now preteud You did not see our v'yags through, and mark its dolefnl end. If you would play the mermaid fair, why, such I'd have you be; tut we're too old to take that part my faithful wifsan'ino." t'7J Carfcton, in Barptr't Wttkly. DIARY'S BLUNDERS. Dear rne ! Aunt Sadie, ia Mr. Co vert jilt Yea? Then I cannot take IE j musio lesson to day." " Yoa aeem to feel happy lor that re- lie)!." "On, dear, no I X rather prefer tak ing my lesson," Annt Badie glanced nharply ai her Buna, but that Tonnpr ladr'a face was palm enoncb. "It strikes me." observed the old lady, "that yon do not dislike Mr. Co vert aa much as vou seem to." " I never expreaaed any aversion to himreulied Carrie, demurely. "In fact," she added, as she molded the bis nnita she was making with deft Sogers, "I think I like Mr. Covert very much." " Humph 1" sniffed Aunt Badie, con temptuously. " He is only a poor mnsio teacher, and you cannot afford to marry a poor man with no prospects." "Well, I declare 1" flared Carrie. "Do vou thick it follows a a conse queiwe that I must marry a man I like? A tint Badie. I am surprised at you !" Aad Carrie took up the pan contain ing the doaen little round balls of dough and pu.hoi it into the oven with such a bang that the old lady dropped her knitting and almobt fell from her chair by the range. Then Carrie flounced out of the room indig tifcTitly and went upatairs to dress. Tea t-1 trite UUr eh ami f yifif baok to the kltohen, and her pretty litlla face wore a look of great const mation. "Lnd nukes alive! 'What's tho matter, child ?" cried Aunt Stdio. "I have lost my garnet ring, Aunt Badie." " Perhaps you left it on the table be fore kneading your bisouit dough," suggested the old lady. "No," tearfully replied the unhappy little cock " I am sure I did not; and I have searched all over my room. It was a present from papa when he sot the pastorate of his new church; and I am doubly anxious to find it because Mr. Covert wished it on my finger" "There, now, you are going off at a tangont about that man again 1" ex claimed Aunt Sadie, In an impatient tone. "I don't care; he's real nice, and he is good, and he is handsome, and I like him, and yon are adverse to him, Aunt Sadie, because you thought he was coming here to carry away your daughter Mamie for his wife, and he undeceived you." " There, there I That will do. missl" cried the old lady, starting up angrily. " I vow, this is nice talk for a minister's daughter I Yoa should respect your elders." I am sorry," retorted Carrie, "that poor papa's teaching docs not make a deeper impression ru your mind at least enougb sotot&k. 'our oon science the fault of looking dowiC Mr. Covert beoanseof your disapFoiatu" Well r gasped Aunt Badie, -n incredulous stare at Carrie overwe tops of her speotacles, "I'd always Heard that as a general thing ministers wives and daughters ain't the most ex emplary of mortals; and now I believe it. The very idea of you you, Carrie Bay, talking to me in this way I It teats anything I ever heard of before 1 What my religious principles are is none of your business do you under stand 7 and when my sister Ballyyour mother married Parson Bay, I kinder supeoted Home such goings on as this here, twenty years ago I' The ring was forgotten now, but the biscuits in the oven began to burn, and scenting them, with a scream of dismay Carrie turned fom her angry aunt, opened the oven door and took out the pan. There were a dozen beautifully browned bisouits in it one or two slightly soorohed, but not enough so to spoil them. " I s'pose those things are for your father's supper 7" "Hall are," returned Carrie, "the balance for Mr. Covert." " Good land sakes alive I" commenced Aunt Sadie. " Here, Mary," called Carrie to tho servant in the dining-room, "take these half dozen biscuits I bave wrapped np in napkin to Mr. Covert, down the street, number fifty-four." " Xes, ma am : an' will I say who they're from, ma'am?" "Leave word,'' whispered Carrie, that they are from Aunt Badie Hall," "All right, ma'am I" rejoined Mary, who suspected a joke. And taking the bisoaits off she went. I feel so sorry I quarreled with Aunt 8die,M thought Carrie, shortly afterward, " for she is good and kind to me, and his almost taken the place mamma held in my heart before she died. But her prejudice airainst Mr. Covert is sadly misplaced. Poor fellow -I must ask papa to call on him. And oh, won't he be surprised when he re ceives those hisouits, vntn tne message they are from Aunt Sadie T I will not say anything about it to any one, and when he is well enougjh to call there will be such fun 1" Yes, there was to be fan, but a differ ent kind from that winch Came ex pected. That evening she asked her father to call on Latin ce Covert, explain ing that be was ill. " Hum 1 dumber nity-ionr did yen say r asked the stout minister. " That is right on my way, as l was aDout to drop ia cn our new neighbor." " In number forty-rive V asked Carrie "Yes, my dear, an old bachelor, I think," replied her father. " I saw him in my church Sunday night, and I think I have seen him somewhere before, too, but where I cannot reoall to mind." When her father had left the Mom, Aunt Badie entered. I hope," she said, frigidly, "you are a little less combative to-ntght, fjsrrie;' and she sat down In a chair and stared at the girl in a most uncomfortable man' ner. "Oh, A ant Sadie, forgive my rude ness this morning,' cried uarrie, re pentantly, as she sat on a low ottoman at her aunt's feet, "for I was very angry" "Yon should learn to control your temper," replied the old lady, severely; but we will forget it, dear." She kissed her niece fondly. The door burst open at this juncture, and in rushed Mamie Hall, her daughter, quite out of breath from running. She was a tall, angular girl yet in her teens. and had a somewhat pretty faoe and charming manners. "My gracious, what a the matter?" cried Aunt Badie. "Oh, dear meT panted Mamie. " The funniest thing happened to me jnst now I I was returning from Ada Cray's house, and passing No. 15 of this street, a tall, thin gentleman iu long white duster ran out after me, waving his arms frantically, and called for me to stop. He looked so strano that I became frightened and ran, and, wruld you believe it? the wretch had auduoity enough to chasa me. I patted Uncle Benjimiu, who was going f oa tue oinor side of the street, bnt as J not wish to loit-'Ucate him in ucy troubls I did not stop him. And now hark I what is that? Someone at the door I Oh, good gracious I I really do believe that old monster is there I" There came the sonnd of a vigorous " bang 1" at the door, and thou the ve hement voice of Mary in stormy alter cation with some one. Then they heard a tremendous crash, and with simulta neous shrieks of terror the three parted. Carrie dove under the bed, Aunt Sadie bounced into a closet and closed the door, while Mamie sought refuge in flight upstairs. It's lunatic I" was Aunt Sadie's agonized thought, while horrid visions of dire tragedies floated through Car rie's mind. They heard noises below stairs which plainly indicated a souffle of some sort ; then shortly after there sounded foot steps on the stairs, " He has killed Mary, aud is coming up here to butcher ns I" thought the trembling old lady, as she crouched further tack in the darkest corner of the closet, while Carrie kept very quiet, although she was on the verge of screaming. Patter, patter, patter, sounded the approaching footsteps, nearer eaoh mo ment; then there was ft pause, and they distinctly heard heavy, labored breath ing. The suspense was beooming in tolerable to the two ladies, and dim thoughts crossed Mrs. Hall's xnmd of breaking from her concealment, of rushing valiantly out, confronting the intruder with a poker, or some other implement of self-defense, and by star ing at him dauntlessly drive him from the room; she had heard maniacs could be subdued by unflinching courage, and a stare as unwavering and giant-like as that of an owl. But before the could put her theory into practice the door opened; then Aunt Sadie sprang out, a low cry escaped her lips, and she sang feebly back into a chair. For the per son in the room was Mary. That female was In a stormy frame of mind, and there was ft vicious look on her generally good-humored faoe." " Oob, ma'm I" she cried, " Tve had such a motion wid the aould feller az got thim bisouits this very blessed mornin', down at the dhure, that I'm nearly dead now, so I am I" " What does all this mean?" demanded Aunt Sadie. "Shure, ma'am," returned Mary, in perylexity, "I don't know meself. Whin I tuk him Miss Carrie s bisouits this mornin' wid your compliments " With my compliments?' echoed the bewildered old lady. " Why, you are bereft of your senses, girl 1 Who did you give biscuits to this morning with my compliments?" " Why, the aould man as kern to the dhure jist now, axiu for your blessed self an' Miss Mamie, shure. Faith, he was that wild I wouldn't let the likes av him iu. an' bedad we had a tussle which same ended in meself givin him ther fut an' landin him In the airy, whin I schlammed the dhure inhisonmannerly faoe, so I did, or yes moight arl 'ave been kilt I If he'd kern daointly an' axed ter see vez, gracious only knows what ud a happined 1" " Who was that man T asked the old lady, in bewilderment. " I don't know, ma am, for he s on y moved into this etrate; he lives beya&t iu that ellegant bouse, number forty five, an' a more deoeivin mau I never soe. Its moighty quare be is, for this mornin' he was all schmoiles an' graces, an this avening he saamed to be claae earn in his upper story." At this interesting juncture Carrie emerged from her retreat, looking very foolish. That Mary had carried her present to the wrong house she had no doubt Number forty-five and number fifty-four are numbers widely different, and by not paying attention to what was said the girl evidently bad gotten the numbers transposed in her mind, and so made the blunder. ' "Well, I declarel" exolaimed the old lady. " I am at a loss to understand what this all means." "Aunt Sadie," interposed Carrie, gently, "it is partly my fault This morning I sent Mary with that half dozen of my bitcuits to Mr. Covert, and told her to say they were from yon; but she carried them to the wrong house, and the man who followed Mamie was the recipient of them, and probably wished to ask her why they were sent." " Well, I never I" gasped the old lady. " That aooounta for it." Though she said nothing about It, she appreciated her niece's kind act in saying she had sent the biscuits; al though, coupled with this intended kindness, Carrie had intended perpe trating a joke. The explanation seemed satisfactory enough, too, but the little shadow of mystery surrounding that day's doings was only just developing, and the following day they were to be very much more surprised. " It's odd your father has not returned for tea," observed Aunt Sadie, after all the dishes, save one for the absent min ister, had been cleared away. " He said he was going to make seve ral calls," replied Carrie. " He is always late," grumbled the old lactsas "Aunt Sadie," said Carrie, "what is the matter with you to-day you are so out of temper'" For answer, her aunt burst into tears. Carrie looked at her io surprise. "Dear Aunt Badie, have I offended you?'' she asked with a troubled look, as she kisved her affectionately. " No, Csrr e, that it not it. I know I am a burdensome old creature, but I have been harassed by so many doubts and fears since my Lusbaml went away that I hare often wi-shed for the peace of heaven. You don't know w'uut I mvaa?" M No, I do not," replied Carrie. "Why, mamma," said Mamie, is parta not dead. You always led me to believe so." " No that is, I do not know," said tho old lady. " He left me to travel for the firm he was connected with in busi ness, and went ont West. A month sfter he had gone I received intelli gence that he was thought to be dead. They said he was in a train which had been wrecked by falling through a bridge. It was a frightful accident, and the papers were full of the news at the time. Mamie was a little child then, about three years o'd. They did not find his body, nor have I ever heard from him since, and it was supposed that his corpse was carried away by the river. To day waa the fifteenth anni versary of the frightful event, and bearing on my mind so all day it has . made me exceedingly peevii and disa greeable.'' It was late that night when the Bey. Benjamin Bay returned home, and he rushed off to his library in great haste, and sat there nearly the whole night through, smiling benignly, and polish ing his bald head with his handkerchief until it shone again. No one in the house knew the oocasion of his joy, nor did he divulge it until the succeeding day. "Carrie," said he, at the breakfast table, "did yon send Mr. Covert a nap kinful of bisouits yesterday?" The girl blushingly admitted that she had done so. " Well, my dear," said the old gentle man, " I am glad you did, for it has al most cured him of his illness, and he is coming here to-day to thank yoa for them; you know I called on him." Carrie looked at Aunt Sadie in per plexity, and the old lady returned her a glance of the same sort. "But, papa," she stammered, "Mary delivered them to some one else, and the old madman who got them chased Mamie last night, giving ns all suoh a scare that we did not know what to do." "Eh?" said her father, glancing over his speotaolos at her. "The wrong party got them, did he ? Oh, I guess not l" Carrie and Aunt Sadie gazed at him, more bewildered now than before. "But Mary said so," began Carrie. Before she finished speaking there came a "bangl ' at the door; it new back on its hinges, aud in rushed the old fellow who had pursued Mamie. They all started to their feet and the ladies would have fled bad he not barred their exit by standing in the doorway. Then there sauntered other footsteps in the hall, and before Aunt Sadie could resist the stranger had her in his arms and was crying: "Badie I Badie I et las I bave you again !' "My husband l" she cried. " on, thank God I" Yes, it was Aunt Sadie's husband.and the old lady clung to him, weeping for joy. "And, William, here is your little Mamie." There was no fear of the supposed madman now, and Mamie found herself olasped in ft loving pair of arms and felt her father's tender kisses with hap piness indescribable, while Carrie looked on iu astonishment. " So yon thought me dead, eh?" said Mr. Hall. " Well, it was all a mistake. I received severe in j dries in that rail road accident, but soon recovered, owing to the good care I received at the hands of the miners' wives to whom I was carried. They persuaded me to stake out a claim in their mining re irions. and I did so, I was not rioh, you know, Sadie, and 1 saw prospects of sudden wealth in mining, aud my hope was realized after years of work. Once the gold fever was on me I oould not leave thereuntil I accomplished what I meant to do. I would have written you, but resolved not to do so until I oould return and say 'lam rioh,' or ' I am a beggar.' The surprise to you now is more delightful, isn't it, my dear?' " But the suspense you kept me in ?" she remonstrated. "I thought that, too but I knew yon would not remarry during my ab sence. " But that isn't what I mean," she expostulated. ' He laughed and kissed her, saying he knew it was not. " I was at the gate of my new house, and was making up my mind to come after you," he continued; " lor 1 learned your plaoe of residence by seeing Ben here at his church, and inviting mm to call on me, and he not knowing me the while, either, when Mamie passed bv, I knew who she was, despite her growth into young ladyhood while I was away for she is tho image oi you and x ran after her with wnat result you know, At this juncture Mr. Covert walked ia. He was young and handsome, but scmewhat pale. "Ah I Covert," cried Mr. Bay, "you are np?" "Yes, Carrie's biscuits half cured me," he said, laughing. "This, then, is the gentleman," said Mr. Hall, Hir whom the bisouits were intended? You see, si-, your name was written iu penoil on (he napkin, with your addrebs, and I raw there was a blander on the servant's part in deliver ing them to me. Aud when Mr. Hull came to my house I showed it to him and he took the paronl to you; so it went all right, after all." " Then Mary taunt have told him they were from mo," thought Ctrrie, Bat half an hour later she was unde ceived; for, ou finding herself alone in ths parlor witaUr, Cavert, that gentle man explained the mystery by handing her a little parcel, it contained the rinar she had mined when making the bipcuits. "I found it in one of the biscuits, where it must have slipped from your finger," explained he; then taking it, he added: " And will you let me re place it on your finger to bind the ac ceptance of my love for you, Carrie V She did not say no, for the bad learned tbat she loved him; and Mamie suffered nothing, for Aunt Badie was mistaken in supposing she oared for Mr. Covert, as another man roon after made her his bride. A Week In a Chinese House-Boat. To the uninitiated it may be said that a Shanghai houseboat is very much more of a home than are the craft called by the same name which are met with occasionally upon the Thames; and the bosses of the great banks and mer cantile houses vie with eaoh other in the lavish decoration and . luxurious comfort of their house-boats. Many of them are, in fact, little floating drawing-rooms, ablaze with mirrors and gilding, and very much better adapted for "loafing" purposes and entertain ments than for shooting expeditions and other rough work. The boat in whioh we made our trip np the river was com fortable and convenient enough; but it was a praotioai and not an ornamental house-boat. It was late summer when we started; for although a house-boat is generally tolerable during the hot season, when nothing else is, we were not much given to lounging and the re ception of company. All told we were six on board including the "lowdah" or captain, the cook, and two ooolies to tow or work the boat. Scenery there is none near Shanghai; and at the first starting, amidst the crowd of boats, junks and sampans which block np the creek below bridge, the only sense titil lated to any extraordinary degree was that of smelt. It was very slow work, but we kept in the boat, and passed the time agreeably if not profitably, in eat ing, drinking and smoking, and listen ing to the old lowdih's tales of his pirate life. The cook did his duty manfully, and varied our meals with the talent pe culiar to Frenchmen and Chinamen. Until we passed Sicawei, which may be termed the bouuaary of the foreign do minion, the coolies oared the boat in their peculiar fashion, the lowdah steer ing wih his feet when his hands were busy with his "chow" or his pipe, lint when we got into the open country the tow rope was fastened, and the coolies got out on the bank. It was ft curious voyage. Only one thing annoyed ns, and it was inevitable, it had to be borne the ceaseless attention paid to ns by the native dogs. -Chinese dogs in fact all Chinese animals possess an extraor dinary faoulty of scenting out a foreigner, and the former invariably announce their discovery by howlings and bark ings, whioh .only cease with the com plete disappearance of the obnoxions intruder. Sometimes in the country these dogs which, like those of Con stantinople, are the publio scavengers, and are proteoted from harm by publio ediot as well as by popular prejudice are positively dangerous ; for although singly they are arrant cowards, and run off at the mere aotion of picking np a stone, in groups they are apt to be ag- gieseiveespeoially if the foreigner bo alone. We oould alw.ys tell when we were approaching a village, when the high banks bid it from view, by the ex citement amongst the dogs ; and when we anchored for the night always in mid-stream their incessant barking banished all notions of sleep. Another annoyance was the mosquitoes; but at night the curtains kept them out. Everywhere we oould see traces of the horrible work of pillage and devastation carried on during the laiping rebellion, and, strange to say, in spite of the more generous ideas of civilization which are beginning to assert them selves in China, as it is nobody's busi ness to remedy the appearance of mat ters, the bare and desolate character of the country still remains. We must have passed during our week's trip at least twenty villages utterly wrecked and deserted, not to.speak of magnifi cent porcelain bridges ruined, pagodas tottering to their fall, roofless temples and even desecrated graveyards. Every evening we anchored in mid stream and jumped overboard for a swim; and upon one occasion, when the spot chosen waa not far off from a town rejoicing in the euphonious name of Sin Ka Kok, as we were espied jump ing overboard and striking out, the whole population swarmed out to Wit ness the sight, the bridge was a mass of human heads, and the banks were lined with a crowd of both sexes. Not far from here are the only hills anywhere near Shanghai, and being hills, they are a favonto pilgrimage of foreigners weary of the monotonous grave-studded flatness of the country round tne Euro pean settlement. They are but mounds; but there are actually some picturesque copses at their base which are greatly resorted to by picnic parties. We ascended the hills, as in duty bound, and then turned the prow of out boat homeward a proceeding which seemed to please our coolies mightily, for they took us bans iu half the time they oo copied iu bringing us. The extraordinary advance of what has developed into the human raoe is shown in the fact tbat Darwin lert au e lata valued at 972,000. Eighteen n.illinna nf vnr ucta no moukeV then extant was worth half that number of fj'ieitnats, SCIENTIFIC KQTES. Coke is to coal exactly what charcoal is to wood. Twisted magnetio wire loses its power by being twisted in the opposll direction. From statistics gathered in India it appears that cholera ia far more deadly ia the open than in the wooded dis tricts. This is another iuduoemen to preserve forests. Of the 8,000.000 tons of ore now an nually raised in the United States, a portion belongs to the clay or carbon iferous measures, while the remainder takes the form of either hematites or oxides. . Dr. Ii, Bioeiardi has analyzed six speoimens of the lava ejected from Etna in 16G9 taken at different depths of one and the same stream and in the same perpendicular plain. He found the only difference to consist in the various layers in th" different propor tions of iron in the highest stage of oxidation. As to the reduction of the production cost of wheat Dr. H. Juulie recommer ds the substitution of good for inferior varieties, sowing by drill instead of broadcast, greater care in the destruc tion of weeds, reaping in suitable weather, thrashing by machinery to prevent the waste of grain, deep culti vation in order to secure the plants from droughts or excess of moisture, and, finallv, the judicious management of manures. At a recent meeting of the Photo graphic Society of France, M. Janses handed round a magnificent proof of the late partial eclipse, and said a few words upon the long discussed question of ft lunar atmosphere. In speaking upon this subject he said: " Suppose for a moment that the moon is sur rounded by an atmosphere, what would be the result if we took a photographic view of it during an eclipse ? The lunar disk would be sharp enough, but there would be gradual decline in density, as in a vignetted portrait. This is ex actly the contrary which took plaoe, as the proof will Bhow. The lunar disk is very sharp and the negative is rather intensified noar the disk, probably from rofracted light." M. Jan sen appears to doubt the existenoe of & lunar atmos phere. The Alexandria KIols. The chief mate of the steamship Bifrost, which arrived at Dover, Eng. land, with a cargo of cotton seed from Alexandria, gives the following aocoun of the massaore whioh ooourred at that town on Sunday, the 11th of Jane, and of whioh he was an eye-witness. He says: "Ocr vessel, with one or two others, was lying alongside the quay in the harbor at Alexandria. We were discharging a cargo of deals. In the morning I went out with one 'of the officers for a ride on horseback, and re turned to the town about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. At that time every thing appeared to be quiet in the town. About 3 o'cloik we euddenly noticed batches of Arabs running about the town brandishing sticks, with which they attacked every European they came aoross, beating them in the most horrible and cowardly manner until they had killed their victims. Oae gentleman, who had taken refuge on board our vessel, afterward went to sea two of his friends who had been taken to the hospital, but they were so ter ribly mutilated that one of them he eould only recognize by ft button on his coat, and the other by a part of his mustaohe, the skulls of the unfortunate viotims being completely battered in. We saw one Greek marine running for his life down the street toward the quay in the hope of getting on board one of the English vessels. He was followed by a large crowd of Arabs, who were carrying sticks. They had evidently been chasing tim some time, for the poor fellow was nearly exhausted. On JWhing the quay he found the gate closed, and he tried to scale it, but be fore he had time to do bo some of the Arabs reached him and knocked him down. Borne one opened the gate and the Greek managed to regain his feet and run toward the quay, but one of the Egyptain soldiers stabbed him with a dagger, and he then ran into the street again, where he waa overpowered by ths Arabs. The man presented a very ghastly appearance. His face was bat tered, and his clothes, whioh were very much -torn, were oovered with blood. The general belief was that the soldiers and police killed more people than the Arabs. One gentleman we had on board told ns of a family who had been taken to the police station for shelter, but were shortly afterward found there murdered. We heard of other oases of this character. We took several families on board, our deck being crowded with them. At night we moored off the quay, and took every precaution in cas of an attempt to board ns. We had a number of Arabs employed discharging our cargo. As soon as they heard the cry tht an at taok was being made on the Europeans they left their work like one man and seized on anything which they could ay hold of which would serve as a weapon and ran np into the town. We transferred a great many of the ref ngees to other vessels, but bad alwut einhty passengers, including children, when we left Alexandria We dutembarked the greater part of them at Malta, bring ing about twenty on to Dover. One gentleman, whose family we bad on board, had fallen a victim in the mas sacre. Besides decapitating him they had mutilatbd him ia the most vaibr. eus kiuui
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