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Terms, - . - (.60 per Year. tMfctot The temperance hospital just estab lished in Chicago under the lead of Miss Frances Wilhird is tho second of its kind la tho world, .the first one having been founded in London In 1-873. Alcohol can only be administered In case where a council of physicians decides that noth ing else can avail. At a reemt Moxican bull fight just across tho Klo Grande from Brownsvillo, Texas, one of the bulls broke through tho enclosure and began climbing up tho benches. Women screamed and fainted, men scrambled to get out of the way, and a general fusillade began, every man near enough popping away at tho bull, uho succumbed with thirty bullets in his boc y. California carries on a largo business in sea shells, which are gatherod on its coast and shipped to Europe. One firm has a contract to ship forty tons of shells every sixty days. They aro worth from fTOO to $1,000 per ton. They aro used In all kinds of decorative industries, re turning to the United States from France vastly increased in price, when trans formed into pearl buttons, brooches, shawl clasps, knifo handles, or inlaid work. Tahita shells, large flat mother of p?arl shells, arc worth from $1,50 to 14 each, and the finest selected pairs are sometimes sold for as much as $50. One of the forest curiosities of the Isthmus of Darien and lower Central Amcr' is tho tree killer (matapalo). This Marts in lifo as a climber upon the trunks of largo forest trees, and, owing to its marvelously rapid growth, soon reaches tho lower branche. It then bo gius to throw out many shoots, which en twine thcmsclvet all around tho trunk and branches, and also aerial tendrils, which, as soon as they reach tho ground take root. la a few years this gigantic yarasite will completely envelop the trunk of the tree which has upheld it, and kill it. Tho whole of the inner dead tree will then rot away, leaving tho hollow inatnpalo standing alone and flourish ing. Experiments have reeently been made by Dr. Younger, of San Francisco, on the subject of the transplantation of tecth( with a view to their growth in tho new position. It would appear that, if proper precautions bo taken to secure perfect appositim andcleanliucss.he operation is often attended with success, and pos sesses many advantages over tho use of false teeth. Tho inflammation of the gums, however, is somewhat persistent, and constitutes a drawback, from tho in convenience which results therefrom. Recourse to this method is more particu larly indicated when tho teeth to be re placed are front teeth, antTesscutial both for appearances' sake, and for perfect ar ticulation In the opinion of M. Cambicr, Chief Koadmastcr of the French Government railways, the Lest plan yet discovered for consolidating, by tho interlacing of its roots, the loose toil of a newly made embankment is the double poppy. Ten years' trial has enabled M. Cnmbier, as he says, to guarantee that tho poppy will be found far more efficient for this pur pose than any of tho grasses or clovers usually employed; and while these re quire several months for tho develop ment of thoir comparatively feeble roots, the double pppy germinates in a few days, and in two weeks grows enough to gITo some protection to tho slope, while at the end of three or four months the roots, which are ton or twelvo inches long, are found to have interlaced so as to retain the earth far more firmly than those of any grass or grain. Although tho plant is an annual, it sows its.-lf after the first year, and with a little care the bank is always ill good condition. The subject and fact3 of longevity have been made almost a life's study by Professor Humphrey, of London. His investigations show that in tho first year of life the mortality among males is much greater than among females the latter, therefore, have tho start of tho former at the very beginning, in inherent vitality. The average height of women he has found to be five feet three inches and of men five feet six inchej; in pulse aud respiration, also, the women have the ad vantage, showing eighty-nine in com parison wth the men's seventy-three, while the latter's respiration is nineteen as agiinst twenty-two of the weaker sox. Tho bones of men and women which, up to maturity, increased in weight, after that period lost considerably, though with no decrease iu sue, but more often an iucrease, to which latter fact may bo attributed the bony appearance presented by many old people. The average num ber of teeth iu men an I women above eighty years of age was six aud three respectfully. Tho greater proportion of tlnj-e old-lived people, l'rofcssor Hum phrey found, came of long-lived families. HALF OF MY LIFE, "Half of my lifo in gone, and I have let The Team slip from me, and have not ful filled The aspiration of my youth to build Some tower of song with lofty parapet Not indolence, or pleasure, nor the fret Of restless passion that would not b tilled; v But sorrow and a care that almost killed, Kept me from what I may accomplish yet, Though half-way up the hill, I seo the Past Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights; A city in the twilight dim and vast, With smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleam ing light, And hear above me, on the autumnal blast The caUract of Death far thundering from tho heights." Longfellow, from hit Biography. A WIFE'S GRIEVANCE. "Maybe I'd go to Boston with you, Warren, if urged," said young Airs, Oer rish, archly, standing on tiptoe to smooth down her husband's nodding scalp lock. "It's too late to think of it too late altogether," cried Mr. Gcrrish, in haste, rushing to his desk and scattering the papers like a Dakota blizzard. "Where's my bank-book? Seen it, Mabel?" "There, Warren; I forgot to tell you. I thought it would bo safer behind the clock,'' "Safer behind tho fiddlesticks," cogi tated tho annoyed husband, as he tipped over ths timepiece in laying hold of the missing property ; but being a gentleman, be merely remarked impressively t at ten to one ho shou.d lose the train. "It's only eight, Warren. You've half an hour." "But I've I've something to attend to before going to tho station," he stam mered, obviously embarrassed. "Oh!" Mrs. Gerrish dropped her ques tioning brown cyei, flushing hotly. Why did her husband reject her proffered company? And what was this mysteri ous errand that he would not tell of? "Good-by, wifekin. Take care of yourself till I sec you," he ndded, in a Iriondlier tone, as he jumped into his carriage. "Well, I must say!" ejaculated the lit tle lady, frowning after the retreating vehicle. But she did not say it. In stead, she set the clock on its legs again, and fell to musing. She was sorry she had vexed Warren by meddling with his bank book, but he need not have been so cross. What did he want of the book, anyway? Had he not only yesterday told her that he didn't owe a ceut in tho world? And why this was a vital query why had he gone off wit hout her, too preoccupied to saatch a good-by kiss? Last week ho had left her behind in the same way. She would not havo minded tho neglect so much if it had not afterward come to her cars that ho had gone straight from her to Miss Ebbitt, and escorted that young lady to tho city. Ho never had hinted a word about it. Mrs. Gerrish secretly hoped tho rumor wasn't true, but it was shocking to have tho neighbors talking. And now to think that, after. humbling herself to ask her husband to take her, she should have me, with a flat refusal I The stroke of nine surprised her just this side of tears. Was it possible sho had, idled away a whole hour in arranging tho writing desk, and bridget gone for the week? Hurrying into the kitchen to wash tho breakfast dishes, her eyes rested on a quaint-looking man in the doorway. "Mornin', Miss Gerrish," said he, dof fing his hat for coolness rather than cour tesy. "Good-morning, Uncle Jabez," re sponded she, kindly. "Have you come to split mo some kindlings?" "Sartain, ma'am. I suspicioncd you must bo about out," said the village fac-' totum, wiping his bald knob of a crown, which rose above its encircling fringe like tho seed-vessel of a poppy above its corolla. "I knew your husband wasn't here to do for you," ho continued, putting his hat ou again with a screwing motion, as if it were the cover of a fruit jar. "I'd been clearing out the Widder Ebbitt's pipes, and I was crawling along on her rug, when Mr. Gerrish drove up for Jinny. He didn't have to wait. On tho flat of her foot Jinny is, for all her fuss and feathers." "Did they catch tho train?" faltered tho young wife, her face averted. "Yes, ma'am, they catched it. I asked ITimm HlnrlnrAtr. wlipn h. L.tehofl - . - - - . . . - - - - - ..W 1 1 J V II I horso bark to the store," answered Undo Jabez, his confiding blue eyes fixed on the sky. "I'm jealous of a shower, ma'am. Remember that pealer we had the last time your husband took Jinny to Boston?" "Last Thursday, do you mean?" queried Mrs. Gerrish, anxiously. That miserable rumor might be true. She was ready to believe anything. "It strikes me 'twas Thursday. Yes, ma'am, 'twas a week ago to-day, fori was in the Widder Ebbitt's stable mendin' her crib when your husband drove in with Jinny. The waterway a-streakin' it oif o' the kerridge, but he'd wropped Jinny complete, 'o't she skipped cut dry as a grasshopper. She told him she wastio end grateful for his care, and faith she'd orter been; for if he hadn't held her bhawl round her so. her silk gownd would 'a been spotted hitherty yonder." " hut did he say to that, uncle?" "Oh, he was even with her, ma'am. 'I'm the one obleeged, Mi-s Jinny,' says he. 'You know you're everything to nie.' I lost the rest, ho spoke so low." "Yes, certainly," murmured the daed little wife, absently abutting L'ncle Jabez into the shed. Mist l.bbilt everything to Waireuby Warren's own confession! Could Blie trust her own earsf Ketentrie and t ut-ter-biained Uncle Jabui uiiht be, but dear or prone to mischief he was not. Sho could not for a moment doubt his word. That her husband should be seeking clandestine interviews with any lady was enough; that the lady thus sought should be Miss Ebbitt was beyond endurance I In her fierce perturbation Mrs. Gerrish hnrdly heard the crash of the sugar-bowl that slipped from her hand. Who would heed breaking china vrhen the very sky was falling? To bo frank, from the time she came to Oak land a bride, Mrs. Gcrrish had suffered intermittent spasms of jealousy on ac count of this same Miss Ebbitt. She had never been able to forget a jesting remark made by one of her best callers. "Among our village celebrities we reckon Miss Ebbitt, our talented organ ist," the guest had said. "Really. Mrs. Gerrish, I must hasten to introduce you to your husband's old flame." "Old flamel" the coarse words rankled. One moment tho young wife would resolve to repeat thein to her hus band, the next she would shrink from alluding to them, feeling that if he had once loved Miss Ebbitt, she would rather not be assured of tho fact. She recalled the nervous headache produced by that unpleasant visit. How devoted Warren hud been, so grieved by her suffering, that for shame's sake she could not have hinted at its cause. Dear old fellow, of course he had loved her then, and of course ho loved her now. Undo Jaber.'s distracting gossip could be easily explained. To think otherwise was absurd. "Jehu! I was satisfied I heerd some thing smash," cried that simple individ ual, pushing the door ajar with his moc casincd toe, and shuilling in, his arms full of wood. "There, there, ma'am, I wouldn't take on so about the chancy. Your husband won't feel getting you a new sugar dish, bein' ho's in the crockery line." " It breaks the set, you see," equivo cated the proud little matron, humoring his conceit. Better pass for a ninny than a jealDus wife. "We all have our pesters," philoso phized Uncle Jabez, placing the sticks in tho wood-box with fond deliberation. "Now you know how 'twas at my house last spring. My wife was sick, and I had a narrer squeak to get along; but now my wife's dead, and I'm out of debt, and I thank the Lord I Hullo I here's hLunt's team." The entering grocer nodded affably to Mrs. Gerrish as he dropped his parcels upon the table. "Warm morning, ma'am. Shower brewing. Mr. Gerrish to be gone long?" ' 'Only till noon. lie has run up to Bos ton." "Oh, I supposed he was going further. Noticed he carried a valise, and got checks for New York." "Guess he was seem' to Jinny Eb bitt's traps," volunteered Uncle Jabez, following the grocer out' to beg a ride. "She's started for New York. They're tinkcrin' the mcetin'-house,and she's free toJunofT' "And to stay off, for all of me," mut tered the little matron, sweeping up the scattered sawdust with a spiteful flirt of her broom. "Why didn't Warren tell me sho was going? He's amazingly coy about speaking of his old love." Old love in more senses than one. Miss Ebbitt was thirty at least, for all sho would persist in dressing as youth fully as herself nineteen this very day! What ravishing bonnets the coquette did wear, and what airs she did put on in the choir, where she always sat next to Mr. Gcrrish! Often whispering to him too. Was it necessary for organist and choris ter everlastingly to confer with each other? In that case, aggrieved Mrs. Gerrish wished that she might be tho organist herself. With a little more practice in tho me of pedals, she was suro she could play as well Miss Ebbitt. At all events, she could have played as well before she left her father's home and the dear piano. Warren had praised her execution in those days. Ho needn't trouble himself to praise it again, if Jenny Ebbitt was "everything to him." What else had he to say to MUs Jenny that day? Had shebeen in Uncle Jabez's place, Mrs. Gerrish felt suro she should Lave heard every word, had hor husband whispered never so softly. Was he at the present moment holding Miss Jenny's shawl about her in the curs, as he had held it in the carriage? Didn't the woman possess a shawl-pin? Ten o'clock, and the dishes unwashed! The belated little housekeeper bared her dimpled arms and made a feint of haste; but the stroke of eleven found her hands still in soapsuds, and her thoughts in Boston. Warren called Miss Ebbitt a superior woman. Pity he hadn't married her! Twelvo o'clock! Well, by this time he had doubtless seen Hiss Jenny off to New York, and ho must be on the train for home. She would put the pudding in to bake. At one, the usual hour of dining, the pudding was dough, and the lamb not half roasted. What ailed the oven? For once in his life her husband would havo to wait for his dinner. Mrs. Gerrish said to beiself that she didn't care. He had been partaking of nu intellectual feast with Miss Jenny; ho must make that do. But when at two o'clock the dinner was smoking in the warming oven, she chafed at his non-appearance. Why shoald he delay on this of all days, while the heavens bewailed a furious tempest? He knew her dread of lightning, lie bad never before neglected her to cruelly. What if absurd fancy what if he had really gone on a journey, as the grocer had supposed 1 Chiding her self for the thought, she rushed up stairs to prove its fallacy. Through ail.eriug gloom she glided straight to In r husband's closet, suguestivcly open. v here was the valise tliut had stood iu o!;e corner? Where indeed? The space it hal tilled mocked her with its bliink nos. A new suit fresh from tho tailor's had also vanibhe 1 yes, and the bank book 1 In pity's name, why had her hus band needed that? Had he gone on to New York with Miss EbbrXt? Transfixed with horror at the suspicion, the miser able young wife glared at the dismantled wardrobe till roused to physical fear by a terrific thunder-bolt. Then, half frenzied, she lighted the lamp, drew the shutters, and flung herself on the bed. In the grasp of that memorable tempest tho cottage trembled like a living thing, and the ground shook as with an earth quake. Older and braver women than Mrs. Gerrish shuddered that day, and she, poor fasting soul, was all a ae, and bat tling with her first anguish. Oh, the cru elty of itl Gradually the storm subsided. Sho grew calmer. Spent with exr'te ment, she may have drowsed. SudtV nly she started up in a panic. The cock was striking five. The September night wss shutting down upon her. She could not confront it unattended; but, on the other hand, .how could slao proclaim her desertion toiho neighbors? Could she ever tell living mortal of tho tress of hair hidden among her husband's old letters a snaky curl just tho shade .of Miss Ebbitt's? Shrouded in misery, lit tle Mrs. Gcrrish buried herself again among the pillows. From this premature interment "Some body exhumed her five minutes later somebody with broad shoulders, and beard slightly frosted with gray her own husband, in fact. "Frightened, Mabel?" cried he, blink ing at tho lamp-light. "Why, my blessed girl, the shower is quite over. See how bright it is?" He threw back the 6hutlers, and let the sun shine full into .her tearful eyes. "What why how did you happen to come back?" gasped she, fluttering from his embrace with the dignity of an insulted sparrow. "Cordial query, little wife I I came for my dinner, but it seems I was not ex pected." "Dinner!" Mrs. Gerrish choked with indignation. To be put off like a baby in this manner was too humiliating. Her husband regarded her in surprise. "How ill you look!" he said, tenderly. "Strange thunder showers should pros trate you so. Don't try to come down. I'll forage for myself in the pantry. Must bolt my dinner in order to be at the store at 2." "At 2? It chances to be past 5 al ready." "Past 5? My dear Mabel, how inco herently you are talking ! Don't tell me you've been struck by lightning 1" cried he, in real concern. "Look at my watch. It's just a quarter past one." "One two three four five six, disputed the clock below, with lying im pudence. Mr. Gerrish threw back his head and fairly roared with laughter. "Oh, that's the game, is it? So much for my tipping tho thing over taking time by the fore lock, as you might say. But, dearie, how strange that you didn't suspect that the clock was going two hours in one! How absorbed you must have been this morning!" "More absorbed than you were?" queried Mrs. Gerrish, viciously. "Well, no, Pussy, maybe not," re sponded her sublimely unconscious hus band, with a roguish twinklo. "You see, this is young Mrs. Gerrish's first birthday, and I've been deeply engrossed in choosing a gift worthy of her." "Warren !" "We've been engrossed, I should say. Jenny Ebbitt's judgment has been every thing to me. We didn't find everything satisfactory last week, and had to wait till to-day for tho new lot; but Jenny de clares that we've at last hit upon the sweetest-toned piano in Boston. I'm dreadfully cut up because you can't have it on your birthday; but you can try it to-morrow. ' Meanwhile, here's the bul of sale, made out in your name, as you'll perceive. Mrs. Gerrish allow me to present it to you with your husband's love." "Warren, Warren, you're lots too good forme," sobbed his little wife, with self upbraidings as wild as her grammar. "Nonsence, goosie; no man created could be that," jested he, highly flat tered. He thought her simply over wrought by the fierco tempest without. Of tho fiercer tempest that had raged within ho knew nothing, either then or afterward. Next day, along with tho piano, came Mr. Gerrish's valiso containing tho suit left at the tailor's for alteration. And the post brought a letter from Miss Eb bitt. The writer had secured a lucra tive position as organist in a New York church; might she resign her former situation in favor of Mrs. Gerrish? "How kind of her! It's more than I deserve, Warren," cried the contrite young wife. And it gratified her husband to see that she put the letter carefully away in the very drawer which held her dead sister's curl. 1'enn Shirley, in Baiar. An Armor Plate That No Shot Can Pierce. Tho latest victory in tho long drawn match between the gun and the armor plate has been scored in favor of armor. At Spezzia a German chilled steel armor plate, five feet nine inches in thickness, weighing 100 tons, was fixed against the face of the clilT, and battered with chilled shot from the 100-ton gun. A thunderbolt weighing almost exactly a ton was hurled against the face of the plate by the explosion of 7i cwt. of powder without producing more than a slight indentation aud some trilling cracks. Three shots failed to make any serious impression on the plato, which has thus come off victor in the struggle. It would seem that no shot yet invented w ill go through six feet of chilled steel. - J'all Mall UazUtt. They have fogs so dense in Pittsburg tlv.t iKAi.llivbnu llLdli.m n liV ll.u u aud mattress with. Washington Critic, i HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. Xlinta and Iteclpes. Wash the hair in cold sago tea. To remove ink stains soak in sour milk over night. To brighten and clean old alapaca wash in coffee. To brighten carpets sprinkle with salt before sweeping. When cooking beans add one-half tea spoon of saleratus. To polish a stove rub with a newspaper instead of a brush. Mix stove polish with vinegar and a tcaspoonf ul of sugar. To remove tea stains from cups and saucers scour with ashes. Soft waffles One quart of milk, four eggs, one-quarter of a pound of butter, yeast; to be made as thin as pan cakes. To remove grease from wall paper lay several folds of blotting paper on the spot and hold a hot iron near it until the grease is absorbed. Crackers that are not fresh can be made to appear so by putting them into a hot oven for a short time. Watch them care fully, as a minute too long will servo to brown and spoil them. A good potato, when cut, will show a light cream color, and a white froth will be tho result produced by rubbing the cut surface together. Reject that variety where drops of water appear. Another test is to put potatoes into a solution of salts; tno good will sink, the poor float. Bishop's bread Beat iiJWrteen ounce? of sugar with the yolks o six eggs and ttie whites of three lor "half an hour. Then add slowly eight ounces of flour, six ounces of blanched almonds cut in thin strips, six ounces of raisins and three ounces of citron cut in fine pieces. Pour in a well-gressed pan and bake Blowly. To bleach a sponge, soak it well in dilute muriatic acid twelve hours. Wash well with water to remove the lime, then immerse it in a solution of hyposulphite of soda, to which dilute muriatic acid has oeen added a moment before. Alt : it is bleached sufficiently remove it, wash it again and dry it. It may thus De Dieachea almost snow white. Birds' ne:t pudding Peel and core eight tart apples ; in each hollow, stufl Bugar and a little cinnamon ; make a bat ter of a pint of flour, a spoonful of corn starch; a large teaspoonful of baking powder and a spoonful of melted butter. Mix with milk to the consistency ol drop-cake, pour over the applies and bake three-quarters of an hour. Eat with sauce. Petroleum jelly serves to clean and take away all traces of dirt from the hands after work in the shop or labo ratory. For that purpose, yoa need only rub the hands with a small amount of the jelly, which, penetrating into the porej of the skin, incorporates itself with the greasy matters which are there. AVash them with warm water and Castile soap, and the hands become cleansed and soft ened. A palatable supper dish Line a veg etable dish with well-seasoned mashed potatoes; leave a large space in the centre, wet it over with the white of an egg, or with milk sweetened with a very little sugar, and put it in the oven to brown delicately; take about two dozen oysters, and a littlo milk, with butter, Eepper and 6alt, and let it come to a oil on the top of the stove. Put in with the oysters a few thin slices of cold roast beef; when this is sufficiently heated and the oysters cooked, pour it into the space left in the potato-lined dish. Some Washington Callers. I am reminded, apropos of nothing at all, of the difficulties foreigners have in learning the customs of the American Court, says the New Orleans 1'icayuneU Washington correspondent. The green members of the various legations some times make funny mistakes. It is well known and laughod at, the little error ol the foreign Minister who called on a lady one afternoon, and when leaving was invited to come again, lie made a deep obeisance, departed, and in half an hour called again, repeating his visit with as much formality as on the first oc casion. He Lad beer asked to call again, and courtesy in his country re quired the command to be instantly obeyed. On another occasion a member of a Celestial Legation made his first call on a lady. He stayed an hour, two, three four. Ho could speak but littlo Eng lish, and looked bored, worried and bothered to death. His enforced hostess was at her wit's ends, but still the luck less visitor stayed on. Sho called in her husband, and they entertuined the at tache in relays.relieving one another like guards of a camp. Finally, at the end of the7thhour,withthe humblest munner andgre.it deprecation, the visitor asked forgiveness for the mortal offence of re tiring from the fray. The joke then came out. The poor fellow had been pa tiently waiting to be dismissed, as was the custom in his own country. A certain young lady living in Wash ington earns a tine sulury by teaching American small talk to these young at taches who are great beaux in society. Her plan is simple enough. Her pupil c ills, is received, and converses with his hostess teacher for two hours. The talk is confined to drawing-room topics. This wicked young teacher taught six young fellows precisely the same round of pretty and wi'ty phrases, and at a cer tain grand bull they were havering around .Miss Daisy Rickctts, one of tht youngest and most popularof the Wash ingtou yii Is, and each and everyone was saying the tame things to her. If the night air is unwholesome, why do owls livu no long. Xtiunii W'etkly. NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS. One cottage porch, with open door, Shelters a nestling brood and mother; ' jpon the toy besprinkled floor A sturdy baby guards the other, The maplos and the cherry -tres Shut in the boys and birds topether, find here the honey-eoented bees Are busy all the summer weather. fhe farmer husband, early, late, Tilling his land, his produce soiling, By thrift compels unfriendly Fate; He makes a home of labor tailing, Broad bams and swelling stacks of fcrttis, I ut, placid sheep, contented cattle, Prove that hit toil is not in vain. And mark the progress of the battle. Mis round-faced wife, with chubby boy) Goes briskly by in rattling wagon; The pewee, frightened at the noise, Darts from her nest, poor timid dragon! Whirling about, with ruffled crest, Her mate pursues her, tender, savage, As who should say: "Beloved, best, Who'd dare this happy home to ravage!" The stubborn farmer would but scorn The plucky spirit of his neighbor, That lightsome heart, of sunshine born, That sings its songs to sweeten labor; Yet bound are both in love's own chain, Each tethered to a central dnty, To the house-mother, with her pain, And the bird-mother, with her beauty. D. 11. R. Goodale, in Youth's Companion. HUMOR OF THE DAT. , Always ready to strike The police man. The interests of the butchers are always at steak. Somebody has written a book entitled : "What Shall my Son be?" Has he failed as a baseball player? . If not, there is still hope. Call. "Love is blind." True, true. The young man never discovers the dog until it is too late to escape in a dignifiod manner. Philadelphia Item, It is boldly asserted thati the American hen is not doing her duty. She stands around doing nothing, and expects ;he patent incubators to carry the heavy end of the contract. Philadelphia Call. "Now, miss," concluded a pompous young Pittsburger, "I've given you a bird's-eye view of the whole subject. Have I not!" "You have," was the be wildering response; "a goose's." Pitts hurg Bulletin. A man in Lawrence, Kan., has been ar rested for burglary. He attempted to Erove an alibi by declaring that he had eenout fishing, but he couldn't produce any fish and was held for trial. Here is a state of things. A string of fish abso lutely necessary to prove that a man has been fishing! This is against all prece dent. Kansas City Journal. He called at six, and then remained Until the midnight bells had rune;. And it was two o'clock. The niaid Was anpry at the way he stayed; At length she said her tone was hot "You are a striker, are you not?" "How sot" his eyes he oj-ened wide ; 'Twas then the little mnui replied: "At least you'reopen to improvement; ' I see you're in the eight-hour movement. Tid-hits. Ship-Worro.9. There are several species of what are popularly called shi)-wcrm8, which arf ordinarily included under tho name of teredo. Although they have a worm-like appearance, they are not worms, but shell-bearing mollusks as much as the "common long-necked clam" of the At lantic coast of the United States. The teredo is not particular as to the kind of timber into which it bores, but always goes with the grain, unless it meets with some obstacle, such as a nail or very hard kuot. It is not believed that the wood it pcrforatei furnishes any nutri ment to the animal, but thitt its susten ance is derived entirely from tho watei which is constantly passing through itl body. Upon the water fronts of Sun Fran cisco, I have known (says a writer) piles of Oregon pine and fir, over a foot in diameter, rendered worthless in eighteen months, and have heard of even a more rapid destruction of wharf piles in the harbor of the city. In tho case which enme under my notice as ubove. tho wood of tho pile had not lost its original fresh ness when it had to be removed Iroin the wharf, and a new one put in its place. One caso occurred of tho destruction of tho supports of a small pair of piles in six weeks. The money lots entuihdby these little mollusks upon private parties and business corporations engaged in commercial marine enterprises, and on the naval equipment and appurtenances, is enormous, aud has led to a number of experiments by governments and invent ors, for the protection of woodwork used in marine structures; but from the result of experiments, it is believed that the t'oustitution)f the ship-worm is poison proof. The palmetto tree of the Southern States is said to be never bored by the ship-worm, and some Australian woods have similar immunity. The Pen. Kvery graceful shauVxl line, KtruiiKth and U uuty ih.es combine 'Tis the jieuiniu'ii pride to draw Kairk l'nir i'i.i vo without a lhuv. 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