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SEPT. 29 $1.50 PER ANNUM. t14 men It Is said that there is a movement on foot to establish a land league in Scot land, similar to the Irish league. Pi, content among the Scotch farmers has been growing of late. Woman's sphere, rolling along the track of time, grows larger and larger, like a snow ball in winter. Soon there will be no pursuit which man can call ex clusively his own. Spain has now a woman bull-fighter. Her name is Do lores Sanchez, and the cities of tho land of Cervantes contend with fierce rivalry for her presence on gre it occasions. It seems that sunstroke is not sunstroke at all, ifweareto believe tho Lancet, a medical authority. It is insolation. A person may suffer from insolation in a closo and heated workroom as well as in the direct rays of tho sun. Beer and all intoxicating drinks, should be avoided, and no heavy clothing should be worn. Sunstroke by any other namo makes a person suffer just as badly. The entire globe, it seems is likely to be at last girdled with electricity, thanks to that well-subsidized and enterprising corporation, the Canadian Pat iflc Railroad Compaiy. Its ajent.Mr. Sanford Flem ing, is in England conferring with tho Imperial Government and Australian representatives in regard to cable com munication between Canada. Japan, China and Australia. Tho idea is to lay a cable from Vancouver, British Colum bia.thc terminus of the Canadian Pacific, to tho Aleutian or Sandwich Islands; thence to Yeddo, Japan ; thencj to Hong Kong; and from there to Australia and New Zealand. The following statement, furnished by tho Pension Bureau, shows tho nu ber of pensioners on the rolls of the Burcat who are affected by tho recent act of Congress granting increased pensions for certain disabilities and tho increase per month in each case : A'o. pen- Inc. per Disability. aionera. montli. Loss of one arm above elbow. .3,105 $0 0) Loss of one leg above knee 2,041 Loss of one arm below elbow. . 839 Loss of one leg below knee. . . .1,185 Loss of arm at shoulder joint. . 443 Loss of leg at hip joint 10 eoo 6 00 6 00 7 50 7 60 This will make a total increase of about $50,000 a month or $000,00) a year. "The dwelling recently purchased by President Cleveland on Georgetown Heights has been remodeled, enlarged and so improved that tcarcely a vestige of the former appearance of the'structuro is now visible," writes a Washington correspondent of the New York Herald. "At least, the two-story stone residence which Mr. Cleveland bought has disap peared, and on the site stands as beauti ful a mburban villa as adorns any of the summer resorts along tl$5 ocean banks of New Jersey. There are few localities in th'g i art of the country where the etiot:h of landscape is as diversified as it is at this elevation looking southward from the President's private residence. Other executives have been owners of real estate ut tho capitol, but President Cleveland is the first to build a country home for himself in the neighborhood of tho White House." A number of very curious Indian relics, says tho Chicago Times, have just been unearthed in Wabash County, Indiana. They have been in possession of members of the Miami tribe of Indians, to whom alone their existence was known. Among them is the cross worn by Prances Slo cum, tho famous female captive, who, with a very few other whites, escaped alive in the Wyoming massacre. The cross is eleven and one-half inches long and seven inches wide, and is of solid silver. It has been in tho Miami tribe for more than a century. A modal pre su ted to the Wyandotte tribe by George Washington and afterward presented by the AVyundotte chieftain to William Pe cnda, a Miami, has also been discmeied, This medal, also of silver, is oblong in form, measuring seven by five inches. On one side occurs tho words: -'George AVnshington, President," and a medallion representing an Indian holding the pipe of pence to a colonist, while a tomahawk is carelessly thrown aside. In the back ground is seen a pioneer at the plow, (in the reverse is tho coat of aims of the United States. An oiler of $500 litis been refused for this medal. Another medal, circular iu form and two and one half inches in diumeter, is also held by a Miami. A pipo and a tomahawk, with the words: 'Tetce and Friendship. A. Jackson, President, 182!," are shown on one side, while two hands clasped ornament tho reverse. Tho relics are regarded with great veneration by the Indians Hiid unfe:gned curiosity by the whites, ftDd nothing can induce the red men to part with their treasures. THE BETTER DAY, Abetter day! All prophets speak Is coming, with their tongues of Aims; It ever comes, it is, it came. But eyes are dim ami hearts are weak. Broad as the universal sky, Deep a? the renter of its sphere, Its glory flashes on the seer, Its vital heat goes pulsing by. Faith calls the lily from its tomb; The coming day has come to them Who see her garment's golden hem Shake star dust over midnight's gloom. The lit le soul may draw its fill, And ciow on Nature's daudling knees, The larger life, more hard to please. Drains all her breast and hungers still. In every hope, in every pnin, The promise breath:s; our very night Is but our shadow in the liht, We turn and all Is clear again The Coming Day's eto-nal dnwn White is the shore lin3 of our east, Unrison still, bat still increased, As through the unending spirej we're drawn. A LONE WOMAN. "Evenin', Mis; Dolly!" Dolly Blake set down two pails of foamy milk she had carried up from the cow-yard, and turned her blooming face toward the bluff farmer who stood, whip in hand, his homespun overalls tucked in his cow-hide boots. "Good evening, Mr. Toser. Come in nnd have a chair," she returned cordi ally. 'Which way's yer Uncle John?" in quired Farmer Toser, accepting the rush bottomed chair Dolly placed for him and standing his whip on tho floor, in the corner. "Uncle John's not at home. lie's gone to the city," answered Dolly, bringing from tho pantry crocks in which to strain the milk. Farmer Toser looked disappointed. "Aint, hey? When's he comin' home?" "Not for two or three days, I expect, ne and Bob took up a drove of sheep to sell," explained Dolly. "And may bo gone i-cveral days. Did you wish to see him particularly, Mr. Toser?" "Wal, yes. 1 did want to see him per tickler," returned Farmer Toser, emphat ically. "You see I've got five hundred dollars I was a-goin' to pay him fur somo beef-cattta I bought. But sccin' he's a-goin' to be gouc lor that long, I mout as well turn it over to you, Miss Dolly, an' you kin sign fur it, an' put it away. I don't like to kerry it about mo no longer. '' Dolly received the money and signed the receipt, as sho had frcouciitlv rlonn ! iu similar cases when her Undo was away. For Dolly was Undo John's 'busi ness man,' as he often told her.and knew more of his a'Jairs than even Aunt Cath erine herself. "Take good keer of it, Miss Dolly, an' lock tho house good," admonished Far mer Toser, as he strode away. "The:e's some talk lately o' robbers around, an' one or two houses has been broke in." Bobbers! And here was five hundred dollars in the house and only three women to guard it! Two you might say, for limp, helpless Aunt Catherine would he only an added burden in case of trouble. "But then Susan is as stout as a man, nnd plucky, too," thought Dolly. "And I won't say anything to Aunt about tho money or the robbers, either." ' After locking up the money sho hurrie I down to the cow-yard where Suan Bow ers, the buxom 'help,' was feeding the cows and doing up the evening chores at the barn. "I say!" cried Susan, when Dollv had explained the situation. "Bobbers? I sh'd think they was. Why, Jo Tllsou says they broke in C'anady'.s house night afore last, an' tuck all the money they could git, and Miss Cauady's old teapot that was her granma's. I "didn't tell ye before, fear ye'd be skecred.' Susan's revelation increased Dolly's anxiety. "Don't say a word to Aunt Catherine about it, Susan," she returned. "And I waut you tosl .p in my room to-night, and we'll take the old shotgun with us. You know how to load it, don't you?" "Loud it! I Fh'd say I did!" asserted Susan, confidently. -'If I had a dollar fur every time I've loaded a gun, an' fired it, to, I wouldn't need to be alivin' out now workin' fur wages. But I've got a little money favod up, too, an' hid away safe in astockin' foot in my burey drawer I wouldu't like to lose it, cither, I kin tell you." "Well, Susan, you come to iny room and bring tho shotgun after Aunt goes to bed. We musn't let her know." "Course not." agreed Susan. "She's as skeery as a bull frog, anyhow, an, I reckon she'd hcv a fit if she heered ther was robbers 'round." "Dolly," whispered Aunt Catharine, coming out on the back porch as the two girls reached the house, "there's a poor woman in the kitchen, an' I've give her the cold vittles that was left over from supper an' a cup of coffee. I reckon we could make her a bed on the kitchen fl jr, to-night. She said she was a poor, lone womau, an' hadn't no place to stay. Dolly and Susan exchanged glances but then a woman would be no match for both of them, reflected Dolly, even if she had come to rob. And setting down tho bushel basket she had carried up from the cow-yard, Dolly went up to her room make some necessary preparations for the night. A few moments later, Susan came mysteriously tiptoeing into the room. "Jolly," she whispered, cautiously, "that womau y,-r aunt tuck in has got boots on." "Boots !" "Vet, sir, reg'lar men's boots, an' she's a big. strappin' cirtter, too, big as any man. It's my 'pinion she's a man with woman's dress on." "Oh. Suan!" Dolly sat down en the edge of the bed, wints and trcmbhng. Ana nut.t has promised she may stay all nigntl VY hat shall we do? ' "Cain't do nothin'," was the encour aging answer, "being there aiu't no lock on the kitching door. If they was, mout lock her up in there..' "Mavbe vou are mistaken. Susan. Maybe she is only a poor woman, after an," said Dolly, hopefully. "Wal, mebbe she is an' mebbo she aint," returned Susan, phlcgmatically "But I reckon I know boots when I sec 'em. I wasn't mistook in them. But you come down, Dolly, and take a peek ior yourselt." And, assuming as much composure as possible, Dolly went down, carrying a pillow, while Susan bore an armful of o'd comforts for the 'poor woman's bed. One glance at the tall, powerful figure conviuccd Dolly that Susan's suspicions were correct, while tho palpably dis- S"i tones oi tnc intruder as sue re plied very reluctantly to a few questions, confirmed her fears. "Iftwan't so late." whispered Susan. when tho girls had once more retreated to Dolly's room, "one of us could go somers fur help." "But it's over three miles to Farmer Toser's, and that's tho nearest place," urged Dolly. "And Uncle John and Bob have the horses, so we'd have to walk. And there's no telling what he might do, be fore we'd get bajk," said Susan. "No, Suson, we must do the best wo can, by ourselves. You and I together with the old shotgun will surely be more than a match for one man, if ho only has no accomplices." And so the matter was decided. Aunt Catherine retired to bed early with a complacent conscience at tho thought of having done her duty to a 'poor lone woman,' and when all was still, Susan appeared in Dolly's room with the old shot-gun and her precious 'stockin'-foot.' She had also taken the precaution to bring the carving-knife and the axe. "If you cain't fire the gun, mebbe you kin chop him with the axo while I'm load in' up agin," she remarked philo sophically. Dolly's room adjoined her aunt's, with a door openiug botwecn which was left unfastened; but Dolly carefully secured both doors open'nginto the hall and hav ing turned the light down, the two girls sat prepared to await the coming attack. Light o'clock, nine o'clock, ten, eleven struck and still no sound was heard, and in spite of their fears the watchers began to crow drowsy. Tired with her day's work, Susan lay down on the foot of the bed where she had been sitting and bv twelve o'clock her heavy, regular breathing announced that robbers and all things of a like na ture had faded from her mind. Dolly persisted in sitting up, but as one o'clock struck she found herself do.ing in her chair, while a confused medley of axes, shot-guns, and gigantic figures in women's raiment flitted be fore her mind, und at last she suc cumbed entirely to the somnolent deity which is said to "knit up the raveled sleeve of care," when suddenly crash! crash! bang! tho report of a revolver and the sound of a violent altercation in tho hall below aroused the sleepers from their dreams. "What what is it?" Rasped Susan. seizing the shot-gun, while Dolly hurried to her aunt who was sitting up in bed screaming "Murder!" at the top of her voice. Tho scuffling in the hall continued for a short time, then another pistol shot was heard, and then all was still. Presently a light knock Bounded on Aunt Catherine's door, and a low, firm voice called: "Mrs. Blake!" "Murder! Murder!'" shrieked Aunt Catherine, but Dolly clasped her hands ovor her mouth. "Who is it?" she arked, reassured by the tones of the stranger's voice. "A friend," was the response. "Have no fears, ladies. The robbers are cap tured, and the danger is all over." Hastily throwing a shawl over her aunt's shoulders, Dolly, with Susan at her heels suspiciously clutching the shot gun, opened the door. A tall figure stood there the figure of the lone woman who had sought shelter the evening before. But the skirc and shawl, and the t-louchy sun-bonnet were thrown aside, thowing a tall, muscular looking man, clad in his own proper habiliments. The disguised tones were gone, too, and the stranger, in a reassuring voice, explained tho mystery, Susan, in the meantime, clinging bravely to her gun and eying him apprehensively. "I am a detective, Miss Blake," he an nounced, addressing Dolly," nnd have been on the track of these burglars for some time. Hearing they intended to attack your house to-night, I adopted the pluu of disguising myself as a women, in ease they should be on the watch, and thus securing a position in the house. 1 was anxious to capture them both, you see, and I have done so. They are bound ami handcuffed in the hall below, and with your pcrniu-s:on I will remain here with them until daylight, as I have given orders for a boy to meet me h' re with a wagon at that time. Of course the permission was given. "But tho pistol shot,?" asked Dolly. "Was no one hurt?" ' Oh. the fellows fired at me once or twice before 1 captured them," returned the detective, coolly, "but no great harm was done. I believe they hit me once iu the arm, but it was only a fie-h wound." But though 'only a riesh wound.' it began to grow painful, and Dolly insisted on binding it upand applying Mien reme dies us the farm-house afforded. Aunt Catherine recovered from her tenor, while Polly and Susan, too much excited to think of furt!:ur test, Hew around and got breakfast ready, which, they insisted upon sharing with the stranger who had so bravely protected them. And before ho left the farm-house with his prisoners. Detective Lawrence Stod dard had received a wound in his heart more serious than tho one in his arm. And it was Dolly Blake', bright eyes, blooming cheeks, and tender touch as she bound up his arm, that had done tho mischief. "Hello! And so, after capturing tho burglars, Mr. Lawrence Stoddard has been trying to capture my niece, hey?" said Uncle John, a few months later, with a mischievous look at his niece. "Well, Dolly, since I owe him something for his exertions on that occasion, I reckon I'll have to let him have you. But it's on one condition, mind. He must go out of tho detective business altogether. It's ton risky, and besides, I don't want you left a young widow on my hands." Of course, the condition was accepted, and shortly Dolly and her husband went to house-keeping on a snug farm adjoin ing Uncle John's. As for tho plucky and valiant Susan, she married Bob, the hired hand, and the contents of her cherished 'stockin'- foot' were soon, it is safe to suppose, ap plied to some more useful purpose than to bo 'hid away in the burey-drawcr.' St. Louis Magazine. The Founder of Negro Minstrelsy. T. D. Bice was born in the citv of New York, May 20, 180S. At an early ago ho learned the trade of a carver, joined a dramatic association, and went to Ken tucky under the management of N. M. Ludlow, a well-known actor and man ager. hue a member of this company ho displayed considerable talent as an imitator of the negroes in their peculiar ities ond eccentricities, and was at length announced to make his first appearanco in a negro character in the city of Louis 1 ville. Prior to this, however, ho had played both in New York and in the west many low comedy parts with suc cess, but not until he commenced his negro singing and burlesque operatic performance was he considered of suffi cient note to render his namo attractive. In the fall of the year 1832 ho made his Ethiopian debut, at tho Old Bowery theatre, New York, in tho character of Jim Crow." This character, both on account o! its novelty and tho excellence of its representation, attained a popu larity unequaled by anything of the kind before or since. Bice during that season is said to havo brought more money into tho Bowery treasury than any other American performer during the same period of time. After a most successful career in New York, Boston, Philadel phia, and other cities, be visited England in 183(i and performed with great ap- .j alause at the Surrey (London), as also in Dublin and Cork, creating a furor unpre cedented even in the annals of the British stage, and almost literally driving for a timo from tho boards such favorites as Macready, the Woods, and other distin guished performers. While in England re married a Miss Gladstone, the eldest daughter of a former munager of tho burroy theatre. He so;m after returned to his native country, appealing at Wal lack's National theatre, corner of Church and Leonard streets, New York, October 17, 1830, m his specialty, tho "Virginia Mummy." For n any years subsequently Mr. Bice was eagerly sought after by the managers, and played s a "star ' in nearly every theatre in the union. His popularity, however, waned in his later days, though he appeared, eliciting much applause, as late as 1854. Stricken finally with paralysis, his death occurred, after a season of prolonged suffering, in the city of his birth, September lit, 1860, at the ago of fifty-two. Neu Yurie World. A Modest Soldier. A singular instance of soldierly mod esty was brought to light recently in Washington. Almost everybody who has been famil iar with tho capitol at any time during the last six years must have noticed an elderly man with one arm, w ho was door keeper to one of the ladies' galleries of the House of Representatives. He was notable for his courtesy and his infallible punctuality at his humble post of duty. Few people in Washington knew any- , thing about him except that he was a faithful doorkeeper at $100 per mouth. ' Those who saw his empty sleeve naturally j supposed that he had lost an arm on one side or the other of tho civil war. Ho was a quiet, dignified old gentleman, who came from bis home to the capitol I and returned to his home again when his work was done. One day last June he did not appear. ' A pale woman came to say that he was ' very sick and could not be at the door for j a day or two. lie was never there again, j In a week lie wnsdead from pneumonia, j Then tho reporters begin to write long sketches of the dead doorkeeper. It turned out that he had a history. His name was George .1. Stannard. lie vol unteered iu Yeimontus soon as war was declared. Promotion came to him rap idly and at last ho rose to the rank of i Major General. There never was a ! braver soldier. He was shot ten times I and had his right arm taken off at the shoulder by a shell. At Gettysburg and Cold Harbor he greatly distinguished himself. Iu the army ho was universally loved and honored. Not onu of his as sociates at the capitol ever heard him speak of his services, brilliant as thev were. He accepted his lot in life with cheerful resignation and fought adversity to the last as bravely as he ever faced a hostile army. He was a faithful, modest man, who never dreamed that he was a hero. He left nothing but one mouth's salary. Atlanta Constitution. In packing bottles, India rubber band slipped over them will prevent breakage. REVIEWED BY THE QUEEN. THE ENGLISH ARMY PASSING BE FORE VICTORIA. Description nfa llevlew at Alilorahol How tho Various IteglnuMit s Looked The Tenth H tissues. "CockaiguP in a I ondon letter to the S.m Francisco Argonaut describes Queen Victoria's review of the British troops, tho first great review that has taken placet before tho Queen in some time. Says the writer: There was an immense crowd of people present, on foot", on horso bnck, and in carriages, stretching away on either side of tho flagstaff, where tho Queen, on her arrival at five o'clock, took up her position in her carriage. Sho drove over from Farnborough station (near where tho cx-Empress Eugenie lives), having traveled down from Yi ind sor by special tram. Tho famous Tenth Hussars formed her escort, aud tho Prince of Wales, who is its Colonel, rode on one sido of tho carriage in full uniform, the Duke of Cambridge on the other. Tho weather was perfect an almost cloudless sky, with a faint brece. As soon as everything was in readines, the Dukeol Cambridge who is in his clement at a review gave the order to begin. The procession was headed by Sir Archibald Alison, tho General in com mand of tho Aldershot Division, ac companied by a brilliant staff. As soon as he reached tho saluting point, ho turned to the right, and, leaving his stall to keep on without him, took up his position beside the Queen's carriage. 1'hen came four b ittcrcs of horse artil lery. The horso artillery always have precedence of all other troops, and toko the right of every column at a review; Tho tirst two batteries wore twelve pounder guns, drawn by perfectly matched chest nut horses; the second were nine-pounders, and the horses all bays. The uniform of tho Horso Artillery is a very showy one. Sable busbies with scarlet "bags," and bluo jackets covered with braid across the breast and up tho cuffs -gold for officers, yellow cord for men. All the men are horsed ; none rido on limbers or caissons. Next came tho First Lifo Guards, one of tho regiments of Household Cavalry. Nearly every visitor to London knows tho uniform of the statuesque warriors who sit on horso back on each sido of the gateway of the Horse Guards. Though but two huudred and sixty strong, they went by grandly, in their bright steel helmets ami while plumes, steel cuirasses, whito leather breeches, Ion 11UIV JIIVA'UUUW, null After them camo tho First scarlet coats, Dragoons, in brass helmets and scarlet tunics; and thon the Scots G.cys, with black bearskin caps, instead of helmets. Tho Fifth Lancers followed. They are known as the "Royal Irish," and just now attract additional interest. Th ir uniform is blue with green plumes, and their arm a lance with a red and whito pennon at the end. Following them came tho Tenth Hussars. Tho Tenth is perhaps tho swellest and most fashionable cavalry regiment in the English army. I Tho Prince of Wales is its Colonel (get ting pay without doing duty), and his son, Princo Albert Victor, is one of tho Lieutenants. Like all English hussar regiments, its uniform is bluo with gold Lice cords across the breast. There are several good stories told about the Tenth Hussars. "Ouida," iu her novels, speaks of them as the "non dancing Tenth." Tho origin of this name, so goes tho story, was this: At a ball to which the officers were invited twenty or thirty years ago it. was the lady of the houso went up to them, one after another, asking them if she couldn't get them partners, but always receiving tho stereotyped reply, "The Tenth don't dance." She at lnt became so angry at the exhibition of puppy. sm, that she went up to the senior officer present, from whom sho had received tiio same answer, nnd said : "Do the Tenth march?" "Ya-as." "Well, then, bo good enough to order the Tenth to march out of my house.'' The major scanned her through his eye-glass, twisted his mustache, and lisped, "Ya-as." In five minutes every man-jack of them had gone, Tho Field Artillery camo after tho Tenth Hussars. Their uniform is much plainer and serviceable than the Horse Artillery, being dark-blue tunics with red facings, and felt helmets. They sit, ! too, upon the limbers, etc. After them I camo some Royal Engineers in red uni- I forms, und commi-sarint and transport corps wagons. At this point the cavalry bands ceased playing, a:;d gave way to the different infantry bauds, which iu turn massed themselves to piny while the foot soldiers passed. Keeping ti ne ' to the air of "'1 ho British Grenadiers," the lirigado of Guards went by, making, perhaps, the finest display of all tho troops in line. There was a ' battalion ! each of tho (ireadiers, Coldstrcams, und j Scot,, all, in tho main, drcs-ed alike iu ( high, black bearskin caps and scarlet tunics, and each battalion munbciing aiiout six hundred and fifty ollicers and men. Interest generally flags by tho t mo tho infantry come up. They look so much alike iu their red coats aid black helmets, with now and then a break uiado by the raccoou-lur caps of the Fusiliers ' i their di-tiuctive head gear), or tho dingy, dark, invisible green of tho Killes. There was such a want, of uniformity in the strength of the differ ent infantry battalions, also ranging, as they did, from three bundled and sixty four men of tho Lancaster Regiment to the seven huudred and twenty-two of the Iiiniskiilcn Fusiliers. As soon as the monotonous tiling past of the "weary Foot" was over, the Jiorvo Artillery ami Cavalry revived the spirits of every ono by going twice more tho first time at a trot, tho second at a gallop. Then the troops moved oil and tho sham fight begun. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth examine- him all o'er. Judge. BROWN KYItS. To break a heart It surely ought. That modest glance of pensive thought, Though it should boat'neath kingly crown, So potont are those ryes of brown. Oh, dnro I hope all, or naught f Was that swift look from Cupid caught? Hns ho hinis-lf those brown eyes taught, In t-liy, sweet fashion glancing down, To break a heart f What havoc is there can't be wrought, When eyes with charms lika these are fraught! Brown eyes, you'll make me knave and clown, If your dear owner do hut frown; But that smile tells me you've not sought To break a heart. T. D Kniyht, in Current HUMOR OF THE DAY. Always looks down in the mouth- -Tho dentist. New Jlaren Xetrs, A dentist is a funny man, liy his profession shown, lie works on other people's teeth, To find work for his own. Texan Fig ro "Every nation has its customs," re marked an old lady, placidly, when in formed that her sailor husband had just been eaten by cannibals. Teiat Sijl- The young Tammany man who asked, his best girl which party she was in favor of blushed when sho said sho was in favor of a wedding party. New York Acs if. A correspondent asks: "Would you or any of your readers inform a constant render how to learn to play tho tlutef" Not if we know ourselves. Burlington Free Prets. AV'hcn a man stops at a railroad station with three minutes for refreshments and is handed out a scalding cup of coffee, it is dangerous to ask him, ' is this hot enough for you?" Poverty progresses arithmetically. When a mnn meets with reverses, ho ad-verti.-es his houso ili Let." When he is utterly ruined, he advertises it "1 Sale." tSirinrrcille journal. While some ladies were visiting at Mrs. Dee's one of them remarked: ".Johnny, there, takes after his mother." "No, I don't" replied Johnny; "mother always takes after me." Kentucl-y State Journal. "Isn't it heavenly?" ejaculated Miss Gush, in referenco to Miss Pedal's per formance on tho piano. "Yes," re plied Fogg, "it is indeed heavenly. It sounds like thunder." Boston Tran tcrijit. A New York lawyer foil on tho street from tho weakness of starvation tho other day. Wonders will never cease. Now, if it had been ono of his clients wo shouldn't have been a bit surprised. Boston Budget. A New York journal devoted to tho tailoring interests says: "Lawyers aro tho worst dressers iu tho world." This assertion is ditlicult to bclieo, consider ing that wo frequently read of lawyers winning sf.jOO.OOO "suits." Norristown Jhrald. A Strange Sect of Italian Robbers. Tho capture of a brigand near Boc chigliere, a hamlet situated in a remote part of tho Calubriuu highlands, has re vealed the existence in that region of an extensive sect, remarkable aliko for the wildness of its tenets aud tho nefarious character of its practices. Its head is an ox-Sergeant, Gabriel Donnici, who claims to bo tho Deity, and repre sents the Advent as still to come. During the last livo years he has been organizing this sect, which comprises nearly all tho small farmers ami shep herds of the district. His gospel seem to be a sort of communism of tho lower type. 1 he clandestine meetings of tho sect are alleged to be marked by orgies and rites, recalling tho worst features of Oriental paganism. Donnici's own sistcr in law, for refusing to conform to these practices, was shut up in a cave and left there to die. This nearly led to tho breaking up of the community, as Don nici and his followers were arrested and tried for murder; but, owing to the im possibility of procuring witnesses against them, they were acquitted. The sect has now been brought into fuller notice by the enpturo of Scraflno Bruno, ono of its leading members, or saints, as they nro styled. This worthy, after murdering a doctor, betook himself ' hist April to the woods, and with tho connivance of his co-religionist llour ishel there as a highway robber. The poli e having failed to track him, Bruno was arrested the other day by a local landowner, Count Conversano. His cap ture occasioned great demonstrations of irief at Boceliiglicre, where hundreds of men and women hung about this precious saint and ki.-sod him rapturously. Lon don A c era. ! lrl uking in hoi ii earner. 1 We venture to hope that those who ar i caljusly urging the policy of refusing ! to quench their thirst in hot weather be j c ause "drinking makes people more tUir-ity," will reconsider their policy from the phys'ological stand point, and they will rei ognic that to thirst and cliink, unci perspire an l drink a'aiu, art the natural steps in a process by which nature strives to maintain the integrity of tho'O organic changes whic h the ex ternal heut has a tendency to impede. The nut iral an I trtio policy is to supply an ado jtiate quantity of lluid w.thoiit ex'ass. Therefore do not til 'Main from drinking, but drink slowly, so as to al low time for the voice of nature to cry "enough " There is no drink so good as pure water. For lliesako of tlavor. ami been is I ho vegetable acids are uso ful, a dash of leino i juice may bo added with udva.iUc. The i-kiu should b kept fairlv c ol so that a sufficient quan tity of tl.ii lluid take n up may pass off bj the kidiiev. -''
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