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There ore fewer death by railway
accidents in Persia than in any other
oouulry.
The Fronch have invented an oconU
ecienee of arithmetic which they oall
"nritbmomanrty."
If the United States had as great a
1'olativo popnlntiou as Japan it would
have a population of 800,000,000 peo-
r.
Scientist say now that beauty in
mora than Bkin doop. Ilalf of the
charm of a pretty faoe, they claim, ia
imparted by the little muscles of the
skin.
When civilization ranches a higher
standard than has yet been attained,
the New York Advertiser is convinced
that there will be a law makicg it i
ponnl offonso to fry instead of broil a
chop.
The number of American horses in
Itnly, England, France, Germany Bud
yiusaia is already quite largo, is rapid
ly increasing, and the result of cross
ing them with the native stock has al
ready proved far more satisfactory
- than almost any one anticipated.
From a tabular statement published
in the Japan Gazetto it appears that
Japan has altogether 89,601 doctors,
of whom only 10,5T3 are qualified ou
modern principles ;' the rest, over two
thirds of the total, boing old stagers
of the purely native school, the chain
pions of froga toenails and burnt joss
There are 20,000 woman cycle ridor
in New York and Now England alone.
It possible, the latter staid and con
servative locality is more wheel mad
than Now York, maintains thn Din.
patch. The enthusiasm has spread to
the tinibst towns, and. a little moun
tain hamlet of 800 or COO souls will
have its quota of wheel women.
1 It is said that horses are choapor in
Idaho, just now, than anywhere else in
the world. Ordinary unbroken, ranch
bred horses have been aold at auction,
' in Boise City, during the last suuiuor
at seventy-flvo cents a head, and
horses broken to harness and the
saddle as low as $3.50, although, as a
farmer romarked, 'it you want a good
team they are surprisingly scaroe."
To reaoU the north po'c, an archi
tect, M. Ilauin, has proposed to the
Geographical Society of Paris tho
ooustrtction of wooden huts ono or
two days' journey apart. He considers
Greenland the most favorable locality
for an erpcrimont of this kind. Each
of the huts would become in its turn
base of supplies for the construction
of the nozt As tho distance to lie
covered is about 000 mi Ion, a score of
huts would be necessary to establish a
route to the polo.
The sacred cattle of India take mora
readily to Amerioan ways than do the
people of that land, acoording to the
caretakers of the National quarantine
for cattle at Garfield, N. J., where
there is a small herd of the animals,
imported for Oliver 'II. P. Belmont.
Said one of those men: "Mr. Bel
mont sent over for the cattle some of
the native feed. It is a grain or berry
which when ground up roiouibles
ground chicory. The cattle ate itall
iriirUt, but after a few d&ys here they
became sickly. Tho superintendent
guvo thorn some Yankee feed, on
which they immediately began to
thrive, and now thoy won't touch tho
feed sent-over with them."
Among the reasons for the almost
uinterrnpted Biiooeis" of Japan in
proaiioutiug the prosent wor with
China is the tipirit of saorifice and
generosity exhibited by her people.
Voluntary contributions amounting
to almost $15,000,000 havo boon re
eeive4 . . by the Government. Tho
Bank of the Nobility, which has given
1,000,000 outright, has also plaood
315,000,000, interest free, at tho dis
posal of the authorities. The noble
men and wealthy merchants have been
most jjutriotiu, and a number of them
have contributed more than 100,000
aeh. Viotory under such conditions
is comparatively easy and certain.
Publio spirit iu China with rofereuoo
to the unfortunate conflict presents a
molaucholy contrast. Unhappily for
the Chinese, the name spirit of indif
ference to use no stronger word
seems to pervade a great part of the
army and navy. Admiral Ting hire
self had to report that seven of his
ships remained ooucealed during tho
fight on the Yaloo ; that several offi
cers had to be court-martiulled fur
cowardice, and that it was tlccnirJ es-t.-'iUitl
to behead Captain Fong, who
flt-d be fur the beginning of the tat
tle. It appears to be a hopeless tusk
f.n- the Chtiio.-e to fl ;ht the deu'-orsli-"''I'.'Uiu
Ihti'' fore. if.
OA I N I NO '.lCt
A (wig whore dung two soft conoons
I broke from a wayside spray,
And oarrlod home to a quiet desk
Where, loog forgot, It lay.
One morn I ehnnced to lift the lid,
And lo I as light as air,
a moth flow up on downy wings
And settlod above my ohalr 1
A dainty, beautiful thing It was,
Orange and silvery gray,
And I marvelled how from tho leafy bough
Buoh fairy stole away.
Cad the other flown? I turned to see,
And found It striving still
To free itself from the swathing floss
And rove the air nt will.
"Poor little prisoned waif," I said,
"You shall not stragRle more "
Kxti tenderly I out the throads,
And watchod to boo It soar.
Alas I a feeble chrysalis
It dropped from Its silken bed '
My help had been tho dlrost harm
The pretty moth was dead I
I should have loft it there to gala
The strength tlmt strarrRle brings
Tie stress and strain, with moth or man,
That free the folded wings I
EdnoD. Prootor.ln Youth's Companion.
SAUNDERS'S ROMANCE.
AUNDER3 had
read dime novels
as a boy in New
York. In the after
noons, as became
home from school
he h ad bought
them from some
stroet corner ven
aer of "penny
dreadfuls," and
had gloated over
them as only
born and bred in
a small boy,
a great city, can
gloat over tales of the West.
lie had
not been discriminating, of
course
and had had a natural loaning toward
the most blood-curdling rooitals ; but
he had chosen always something in
ome way connected with army life.
The army was to him a beautiful
dream, a highly varnished picture,
and to be a part of it a major part,
of oourso, something like a General,
or, at the very loast, a Colonel had'
been from the first his one ambition.
But destiny, in the shape of parents of
stern and old-fashioned mould, the
kind that thought, and aooepted it as
a convenient oroed that, having fu
flioted life upon their offspring, they
were entirely at liberty to ruin that
life this destiny ordained that he
should have a profession other than
that of arms ; iu short, that he should
be a lawyer.
Now, Saunders was of an age to
judge for himself, and he knew that
he was not the stuff of which lawyers
are made. .Not the slightest vestige
of eloquence had he; he was blunt
and truthful to a degree. He disliked
a lie for its own sake. All this and
more he told his paronts, but he was
answered by the logio whioh has re
tarded the world's progress through
bo many generations, that they were
older and tborefore wiser; that he
was their son, and they knew better
What was good for him than he conld
possibly. Saunders, more from a sense
of duty shan a fear of being disin
herited of his father's goodly estates,
aocepted their decision and began the)
reading or law.
About this time he chose for a chum
a yontn wnose only possible reoom-
mendation must have been that hoi
could boast of army relatives. He
bad visited in his sallow gosling days
at a garrison, and was full of highly
spiced tales regarding the wild daringl
and fascinations of a soldier's life.
Baunders would drink in all theseJ
stories, and despite his valiant efforts
to forget thoin and put temptation,
away, they would come back to him
as be sat over the inexpressibly stupid
folios relating to the law.
One summer this chum of his invited1
Baunders to visit him at his country
house on the Hudson. Baunders went
and spent the happiest two weeks of
his life. For it was there that he met
Madge Kean, the bewitching little
daughter of Colonel Keaa, of the
Tenth. Saunders caught his first
glimpse of her as he walked with
young Milton np the driveway. Madge
was armed with a FJobert rifle, and
was teaching the little eon of the house
how to aim and pull the trigger.
There was something iu her very pose,
in the fact of her knowing how to
shoot, that appealed to Baunders at
onoe. He could npt see her face, but,
nevertheless, he said to Milton that
she was a "mighty pretty girl." Mil
ton replied with pardonable pride
that the young lady was his cousin,
had just come from the far West, was
of the army, and a "mighty pretty
little flirt." Therefore, before Baun
ders had even been iutroditoed to the
fair Madge, be was perilously near to
being in love.
When he stood beside her and Mil
ton was saying, "This is my chum,
Baunders, Madge; Miss Kean, Mr.
Baunders," when her bright eyes
glanced at him from undor her
long lashes just like an untamed
mustang's when she smiled and
put out a hand all smutty with
powder, Saunders thought her the
most bewitching woman he had ever
seen. And Madge, iu her turn, made
note of the fact that Baunders was tall,
blond and extremely handsome, with
that unmistakable air of self-poaes-sion
and refinement of a New York
gentleuian. She determined that he
would be much better material to ex
pend her faboiuations on than that milk
sop of a cousin of hurs. bhejwas glad he
had oome, and said so. hauuders an
swered, iu a tone which curried con
viction, that he also was glad she had
come, and Madge blushed through one
of those clear, tanued ukius which
change color with every e.uotiou. Not
that she was shy aud suhuoltcirlibh iu
bUcy wore not a result of
timiuity.
Cupid did not hit Banndors s heart
with the traditional golden arrow this
time. It was the tiny bullets of lead
whioh wont from the muzzle of the
Flobert straight to the bull's-eye of
the target that made the wounds which
are infiictod sooner or later on every
man. By the time the wee cartridge
box was empty Baunders was hope
lopsly smitten.
In the course of the next fortnight
he oa me to that point where he would
have even studied law with pleasure
had she expressed an admiration for
law students. But she did not. He
had confided to her all his baffled am
bitions; had told her how his soul
yearned for shoulder-straps J and she,
in turn, told him that the life of a
soldier was the only one worth liv
ing.
He was too old for West Point ; why
didn't be try for a civil appointment?
This had never ooourred to him ; he
would think -it over. He asked her
some questions, and oonfided some of
his ideas of garrison life to her. She
laughed at them and told him that he
was a "dohr old tenderfoot." If it had
not been for the tone of voioe in whioh
she said it, for the roguish, half fond
glance from her mustang eyes, Saun
dors would have been terribly cut np
over that scornful word
"Tenderfoot tenderfoot, "he ! After
all he had read on the subject. Could
it be that his source of information
was bad? He did not ask Madge this,
howevor ; he never put forth any of
his ideas on the subject again, to her J
asked for no further information ; he
knew he was missing golden oppor
tunities for enlightenment, but he did
not care to be laughed at. He was
aware that nothing would bo much in
jure him iu her eyes as to make him
self ridiculous. And Madge in that
fortnight exerted, first, every charm
she possessed, every power she could
command, to bring him to her feet.
Having succeeded in this, she need
quite as much skill in keeping him
from asking her to marry him. She
didn't want to be married ; she didn't
even want to be engaged, and he was
only the pastime of a summer s jaunt.
Nobody took such flirtations seriously ;
that is, nobody witn any sense. II ne
couldn't see she was iu fun it wasn't
her fault, was it? She wasn't account
able for his being dofloient in powers
of preception, waa she? A New York
man ought to know how to take care
of himself.
Well, the littlo summer play was
over. Baunders went baok to town
with the secret determination to out
loose from the grind of the law read
ing to go into the army. He had not
told Madge of this ; somehow, looking
back on it, ho hadu t told her any
thing that he had meant to ; he had
been half afraid that she would laugh.
It would never do to have her laugh.
Of course, there was a big row at his
home when he announced his determin
ation. But the breath of free air that
he had drawn in from contact with
Madge made him see that he should
have something to say in the matter
of his own career. Moreover, he had
the strength of love to nphold him.
Ho surprised his parents by assorting
his freedom of action, and when they
mado it too disagreeable for his self
respect to allow him to stay under
their roof he left it, wtth paternal
and maternal maledictions following
him. ne started in to obtain a civil
appointment, and learned more, be'
fore he realized his failure, of the
nature of human beings and of the
struggle for existenoe than ho had
ever known before.
It came about that he obtained no
civil appointment, and he knew that
his father had done his best, oovertly,
that he should not obtain it. This
one thing he could not forgive.
Meantime he longed for Madge with
the whole power of his heart. He
wrote to her and received no reply.
Bo he supposed that she had not got
his letter. The thought that she had
ignored it did not oome to him. The
final refusal of a commission was a
blow from which he did not recover
for some days he had lout heart fur a
time; but he read in an Army and
Navy that Miss Kean had been doa
peratoly ill. That afternoon he en
listed as a private soldier, and the
next morning wore the blue.
This was not being a Colonel or a
General, but men had risen from the
ranks to sudden fame and honor in
the books he had read; besides, he
was at his laut penny. A little wave
of disgust ran over him as he learned
that $13 a month, with clothing, bed
and board, would be his share of the
world's goods. He enlisted with that
vague notion, which the average citl
Een of that day had, that oflioers and
men inhabited peacefully the same
quarters; that the barrack-room was
a sort of happy-family cage, where
shoulder-straps and chevrons went
side by side. He had not stopped to
think that the West was wide, and
that he might be assigned to a post
several thousand miles from the ono
whioh his lady-love lighted with her
preuenoe. It was not uutil. the deed
was done that this came to him, and
then he could only hope and pray.
As luck would have it, he was sent to
the very pout where Colonel Kean was
stationed. This did not exactly sur
prise him ; be took it as a matter of
course that Providence should inter
fere in behalf of Baunders of one of
the handsomest aud most popular fel
lows in his Bet. lie wouderel what his
friends at home thought of his esca
pade. Then he settled down to the
discomfort of sooond-olass accommo
dations in a railway oar. Fortunately
for him, the garrison to whioh he was
ordeied happeued to be very near to
thn railroad, and he was spared a
crous-country trip of a hundred or two
miles.
Words oannot paint the miseries
that Baunders went through. They
were not physical miseries, for he was
well sheltered, well clothed, not over
worked, and was spared the humili
ation and pain of the raw recruit, who
learns for the first time to bestride a
bare-backed horse. Saunders was an
old hand at steeplechase, and had lit
tle to learn, save a few technicalities.
He did not even Bee Madge for thre
days, but was induced to overcome hii
predetermination to call npon her. H
saw within sn hour after he had
stepped upon the reservation that h
would hardly be weloomo. It was bad
enough not to be able to Bee hia di
vinity ; it was infinitely worse when,
at last, he met her. She gave a great
gasp and start, blushed, and returned
the bow, with just the slightest nod
andjeondesoending smile. He saw with
dismay that he was to her simply s
menial that he could not dare tt
overstep the line which divided them
He got over his desire to shoot him
self every time he was given an ordoi
in her hearing after awhile. H
watched her flirtations with a gorge
ous first lieutenant in bitterness ol
spirit, and the thought dawned on hint
that she wob not true ; but he hoped
she would leave the first lientenanl
whon he (Baunders) should have woo
his spurs. But even the spurs doomed
far away ; he had come to nnderstand
that the jump from the uniform of an
enlisted man into that of an officer it
a diffloult feat, or was in those days,
and no chance for physical prowesi
piesented itself. Morally he was as
brave as only a man in love can be.
Ho would have killed himself had he
not been.
More courage than to carry a 'stand
ard to the cannon's month did it take
for him to obey the first order to "po
lice," with a fatigue party, the back
yards of tho officers' quarters. To
"police" is army for cleaning np, and
it is left, as a general thing, to the
prisoners who happen to be in the
guard-house. But at this time there
were very few prisoners, hot more
than one or two, for the men had been
upon their good Lihavior, it being al
most two months since the paymas
ter's last visit, and no cash left to be
expended upon whisky at the sutler's.
Bo Baunders sallied forth in fatigue
suit overalls and coat of canvas
and he heljyd the others to sweep
with stable brooms and to shovel np
the back yards.
In the Colonel's yard he was meroi
fully Bpared meeting Madge it would
have been, he thought, the lost straw
and he did not know that from be
hind her filmy curtain she was watch
ing him with amusement and pity, the
wliue sne turned about on the third
finger of her left hand a large solitaire
ring, and wonderod what he would
say when he heard of her approaching
marriage to the dashing youog lieu
tenant.
Then the polioe party went on its
way and came at last to the yard of
that very lieutenant, lucre was 8
half sheet of note papor in one of the
Eiles of dust and rubbish whioh had
een swept up. Baunders noticed thif
noticed, though it was crumpled,
that the writing npon it wa Madge'a
pointed scrawl. He picked it np and
slipped it into his pooket. It was not
an honest thing to do, but he did not
stop to think he only wondered what
a note of hers was doing in this nian'r
baok yard and what was in it.
When he got back to the barracks
he read the note. There was enough
therein to make him understand thai
Madge his Madge for whom he had
given up everything, for whom ho had
endured so much humiliation, was to
be married in one week to that first
lieutenant ; that she was in love des
perately in love with him, and did
not hesitate to say so. Was the man
in love with her? If he was, why did
he crumple np and throw away a note
for whioh Saunders would have given
nis very soul?
Then Saunders looked about him
with eyes opened by despair. He saw
at lost the barrier of caste in all its
height and strength ; he saw what he
had done, and he shuddered. There
were . but two ways out of this unless
he waited until his enlistment were up
four and a half more years and
that he could not do. He could kill
himself, but he was young, remember ;
it was cot to be lightly done. And
ha could desert. To his mind a de
serter was not what it is to oaman who
has been long iu the service all the
disgraoe of it did not occur to him. II
it had been explained to him he could
not have grasped the full horror of it.
Bo he waited his ohance for four
days, and then "bolted," as his com
rades termed it. He went away from
the railway, thinking that he would
put those who were sent after him ofl
the scent, and aftur a day or two oirole
round to reach the iron road, which
would lead him far from all this.
On the third day, as he trudged on
ward to the railroad, dodging like a
hnuted criminal behind every clump
of mesquite or greeuewood, he way
overtaken, his hands tied behind him,
and marched back to the pout under
guard.
At a turn of the road the party
drew aside aud waited for an ambu
lance to pass. The soldiors salntod
the officer inside.
Bauuders could not salute; his
hands were tied. He knew the officer
it was the first lieutenant; he was
going to the station with his bride.
Madge looked out aud saw the de
serter saw him and turned her head.
Ban Francisco Argouaut.
Fig (; row I n if lu California.
For 18il the output of cured figs
in California was 300,000 pounds.
Tho increase since that time has not
been as rapid as in other branches of
production, so that it is not likely
that a million pounds of merchant
able figs are yet produced iu that
State. The quality of the product
has, however, greatly improved, aud
the prejudice in favor of the import
ed article is slowly giving way, sc
that all conditions are lavorable to an
almost unlimited production. Nuvi
York World.
RCIEM1FIC ASI INDUSTRIAL,
Cinnamon kills the typhus microbe.
Children's first teeth have a great
effect npon the second sot.
Soap is one of the best known steri
lizers of water suspected of infection.
Substitute for glass is made from
eollodion wool and is flexible, not
brittle.
The fiber of nettle weed is being
nscd in the manufacture of textile
fabrics.
The phosphorescence near tho Cape
Verde Islands is at times so bright
that one can easily read the smallost
print.
Spontaneous combustion ooours in
many substances because during fer
mentation heat is evolved and inflam
mable gases are engendered.
A closed room is bad for Bleeding,
because air once breathed parts with a
sixth of its oxygen, and contains an
equivalent amount of carbonio gas.
The France Militatre says that the
French and Spanish Governments have
agreed to the boring of two railway
tunnels through the Pyrenees to con
nect the two oountries at Saint Chiroo
and at Oloron.
It is estimated that 12,000,000 tons
of coal are used for gas making annu
ally in England. A train of ooal
wagons three miles long, each wagon
holding a ton, would be required to
bring into London the coal for an
hour's supply of gas.
That lizards will catch and eat but
terflies is stated by Jane Frazer in an
article in a London entomological
journal. In the Bamoan Islands she
saw a "skipper" butterfly when
lightod caught and instantly swallowed
by a beautiful golden-green lizard
with a bright blue tail.
A living specimen of the largest and
most deadly snako known (Ophiop
hagus elaps) has been added to the
Zoological Gardens of London. It
grows twelve to fourteen feet in
length, and is hooded like the oobra.
It occurs in India, Burm and in the
East Indian Arohipelago, living in for
ests and jungles and readily .climbing
trees.
It has been disooverel that mi
crobes oapable of germination exist in
the ocean everywhere except at great
depths. They seem to be more plen
tiful in the Canary, Florida and
Labrador, currents than elsewhere,
and are not deteoted in the ooean bed.
They are, however, plentiful at a
depth of 1300 feet, and are found as
far down as 3500 feet certainly deep
enough for all practical purposes.
Some of these microbes are phospho
rescent, and are found on the bodies
of living fish.
Li Hnng Chan? and Foreigners.
It was never an easy matter tc
transact business with Li Hung
Chang, the Chinese Viceroy, and yet I
always found him a man of his word.
He would turn a question over and
over again look into it minutely
quiok to detect the slightest error in
your statement. It was never safe to
go to him without having your case
prepared. He would take nothing for
granted, nor accept "assurances" ol
"understandings." No Itialto usuret
was severer in the reading of the
bond. Blandishments or menacef
were in vain. He knew the tension
which each State would endure what
was meant by Gladstone or Salisbury
ascendency in England, and the mean
ing of Democratic or Republican ad
vent to power in the United States.
He knew how to play one against the
other when to give a significant
smile to the Ambassador of one power,
or a no less significant shrug to the
envoy of another power. . He nevei
overlooked the relations between Ger
many and France, nor neglected the
jealousies of Russia and England. But
when onoe you had an nnderstanding
with Li a oomplete accord the mat
ter was done.
He never professed affection for
foreign powers, and was free from sen
tiineut so far as they were ooncerned.
If he ever had sentiment as legards
foreigners, it was toward General Gor
don and General Grant But to the
average foreigner Li was the man be
hind the counter his business tc
make the best bargain. Ycu came
there to serve your purpose ; he would
serve that of China. He had no pride
of opinion as against a fact, and once
the fact beoame patent, he would fol
low it to its conclusion with logio and
courage. In this Li was unlike any
other statesman I ever met in China,
and it gave a reason for his prolonged
tenure of power. Review of Reviews.
Cheap .Meals.
Two English institutions, framed in
the interests of workingmen, might
well he adopted in our large cities. In
London, Liverpool and half a dozen
other places there are located in the
main streets han Isoine coffee palaces,
where a cup of tea or coffee, with
sugar and milk, and a slice of bread
and butter can be obtained for three
cents. There are other cookeries to
which a workman takes the slice of
raw moat ho will bring with him from
home in the morning. Iu the noon
hours this is cooked for him on a grid
iron, aud he is supplied with knife,
fork, salt aud pepper for three cents.
Bix ounces of bread with butter can bo
added for six cents. St. Louis Star
Sayings. Aa Eccentric iHillluuaire.
According to the Paris Figaro Mr.
Coates, the Amerioan millionaire, dur
ing the whole of his lifetime has never
taken any medicine. Uu has con
stantly consulted doctors and chemists,
and all the medioiue they prebjrilii.-J
for him ho put away iu a room. The
result of this strauge fancy iu thai
Mr. Coates has now 1900 bnttlus ol
medicine, 1370 boxes of powders aud
M70 boxes of pills. Atlanta Constitution.
THE STREETS OF CANTON,
PICTURESaUE 8IG1HTS IN THI
BUST CHINESE CITY.
Thronged With People Narrov
Thoroughfares Funrrnls IIav
the Itlght of Way A Tluay Scene.
FLORENCE O'DRTSCOLL,
member of the English Hons
of Commons, has a timely ar
ticle, "In the Streets of Can
ton," in tho Century. A second
paper will describe life on the river.
Of the street scenes in Canton, Mr
O'DriBcoll writet :
Little if any sunlight struok down
into these ways. Their narrownest
would have prevented the intrusion o)
any but vertical beams, or those slant
ing parallel with the street, and, tc
guard against even these, a ehade
loving people ha I hung matting over
head. This gave the city the aspect
of a huge straggling bazaar sheltered
beneath a great ragged roof.
The thorongfares in the older por
tions of tho city vary from about four
to six or seven feet in width. In the
newer quarters there are frequently
ten and even fifteen feet of space be
tween the nouses on eaoh Bide.
These narrow ways were thronged
with tens of thousands of people;
looking along them it seemed almost
as if one could walk upon men s heads,
bo close were they. High and low,
rich and poor, all rubbed shoulders.
boolies, carried, on eaoh end of a six-
foot stick, water, firewood, and bur.-
itens of various sorts ; when an excep
tionally heavy load was to be carried,
fome four coolies bore it, slung on the
middle of a bamboo, two at each end
af the pole. Peddlers carried their
wares in baskets slung at each end oi
a stick, or in flat trays hung like an old
fashioned pair of scales, with the pole
or beam on their shoulders. Carrier!
thus bore creels of fruit, fish, and all
sorts of esoulents ; live rots, cats, and
dogs in wicker baskots ; fat pigs in
wicker cylinders, sometimes with their
legs hanging out; and boxes, bales,
and trays of toys. Through the throng
exalted Chinamen, fan in hand, in
silken gowns, and with queues pen
dent far down the back, made tbeii
slow way in dignity. There were
plenty of women and children also, in
the crowd, some of tho women hob
bling painfully along on their
tortured and distorted feet,
whioh, from the tight binding,
were so shrunkon and "diseased that
their shin bones had become fleshless
skeleton supports covered with
wrinkled parchment skin, and theii
limbs seemed to bo little better than
gnarled and knotted stumps. Occa
sionally an empty chair was seen in
this crowd, or a chair in whioh sat
some mandarin, with awning and deli
cately fashioned lattice-blinds closely
drawn, or a man who hawked small
wares or sweets for sale, and carried
in one hand a little flat metal plate
and a string with a small weight tied
to one finger. With each btwitch ol
his finger a clear, musioal note rang
sharply in the air. Ping I ping ! ping
sounded his little gong, heralding hit
approach from a long way off. Whc
knows? Perhaps from this primitive
but artistiQ applianos has in the
course of ages been evolved our muf
fin-bell sweet music in the oars of
those setting forth in quest of five
o'clock teas. Anon our progress was
checked by afunoral prooossion, whicu
struggled past us amid a blare of dis
oordant trumpets, beating of gongs,
and screeching of stringed lnstru
ntents, the mourners bearing aloft pa
per and tinsel dolls, bright streamer!
or little travs of food and sticks of in
cense.
The coolies, who had their queues
knotted up, wore, for the most part,
a hat shaped like a flat lamp shade
about two feet across. A little cup
shaped wicker basket fixed under
neath it held this covering over thoii
heads, and it served more as a sun and
rain shade for the body than an actual
head ooveriug. Clerks, merchants aud
well-to-do people carried their queues
loose, and were otther bareheaded oi
oovered with a black satin or very
fine black wicker skull cap with a
coral button on the top.
Every one seemed busy ; no one
soemed unhappy ; each individual was
polite, and prepared to make war for
another. To keep to the right was the
rule of the road, a rulo strictly ad
hored to, without which all progress
would have beeu impossible. As 1
looked along the crowded .way, I
could see always two long hues of peo
pie in single file, passing one another,
and keoping close to their respective
right sides. Iu places tho streets bo
narrowed in that passers-by rubbed,
shoulders. Every one stood asido for
the passage of a funeral or a priestly
procession, after which the ackuowl
edged order of precedence was first a
chair with a pauseuger though even
this movel aside to allow a parage to
the lowest class laborer utaggoriug be
neath' a heavy load then auy persou
carrying a loa 1, and lastly those who
were unencumbered by burdenH.
maudarin ou foot, or a wealthy mer
chaut with a richly embroidered
gown, moved aside to allow the coolie
wood carrier to piss aione uuiuter
rupted. There were no policemen at
corners to reulutu traluc; old oslab
lished custom, based ou a policy o
mutual obligation, took the place of a
man in blue.
The City II n -c Jrut;utl Bead.
A dealer iu horses receutly took to
Clyde, N. Y., a lot of horses that had
beeu iu use ou a New lork street
railroad. 1). II, Cady purchased one.
He was driving it home when a traction
engine, which horses native to Clyde di
uot notion auy more than they would
a sheep, met theiu iu the roa I. The
city horae stopped, looked wildly at
the strange thing for a moment, gave
a shudder aud fill dod lu its trasks.
--thioavi Herald.
THB MERRY RAIN.
Sprinkle, sprinkle, comes the rain
Tapping on the window-pane,
Trickling, coursing,
Crowding, forcing,
Tlnyrtlli
To the dripping wlndow-sllls.
Laughing raindrops, light and swiff,
Through the air they fall and alft
Dancing, tripping,
Bounding, skipping
Through the street,
With their thousand merry feet.
Every blade of grass around
Is the laddor to the ground, ,
Clinging, striding,
Slipping, sliding,
On they come .
With their busy, pattering hum.
Ia the woods, by twig and spray,
To the roots they find tholr way.
Hushing, creeping,
Icratlliig, leaping,
Down they go (
To the waiting life below.
O, the brisk and ni - ry rain.
Brfnglnggladnessinttstratal -. .
Falling, glancing, y
Tinkling, dnnolng,
All around
Listen to its ehoery sound I '
Itbymes for You and 110.
RUMOR OF THE DAY.
Lives of great men remind ns of
'ittle episodes in our own. Puck.
Every cloud has a silver lining, but
many of them fail to turn over.
Peck's Sun.
The Chinaman loves solitude.- Even"1
(he soldiers seek their retreats.
Dleveland Plain-Dealer.
She "It takes two to make a bargain,
you know." He "Yes ; but only ono
gets it. " Boston Courier.
If the bass drum could think, it
would probably wonder why it has to
to keep still so much. Ram's Horn.
To lose a chance for a free advertise
ment is the Kansas man's idea of fu
ture pnnishment. Kansas City Star.
My shelf holds books of many an age,
Ana many are books oi price ana lame,
and writ on many a title-page
Is many a different owner's name.
fudge.
Marriage is tho hereafter of court
ship, and people never know what it
TT ... UC .11. UBJ IUD1C, .K.'G1IU.H
Free Press.
1 We never see a citron without
thinking it should be arrested for try
ing to look like a watermelon.
Atchison Globe.
It is said that a photograph can bo
taken 500 feet nndor water. We have
seen several that ought to be taken
there. Chicago Dispatch.
I've studied women sweet for years
And got to know them so I
for now just what they'll do (the dears !)
I know that 1 don't know.
; Judge.
Pastor "You ought to be ashamed
of yourself. Even animals know when
to stop drinking." Toper "So do I
when I drink what they do." Flie
gende Blaetter.
One of the greatest sorrows of age
ia that, with increasing years and ex
perience, a man loses that blase feel
ing which was such a pride and oom
fort to his youth. Fuck.
Kashem "Why don't you put a
chock to that fellow who is ever
lastingly dunning yon?" Bilker
"YVhat'd be the use? The bank
wouldn't pay it." Buffalo Courier. .
"Hello I" said the chestnut to the
robin, "What are you?" "I'm a little
bird," said the robin. "What are
you?" "I'm a little burred, too,"
said tho chestnut Tammany Times,
Stuffer "You know that girl who
refused me? She has just insulted
me by inviting me to dinner. " Dash
away "What ore you going to do?"
Stuffer "Swallow the insult." New
York Sun.
An absent-minded Southwark woman
went to the bank the other day to
have cashed a cheque her husbaud
sent her. She indorsed it thus
"Your loving wife, Mary Miller."
Philadelphia Reoord.
A man who would bo indignant at
beiug called a grumbler will accept
without disfavor the name of pessi
mist. Nevertheless, most pessimists
are, after all, only ohronio grum
blers. Christian Inquirer.
"So you lot the prisoner off on his
word fur a couple of days, did you?"
asked the captaiu. "I did," answered
the lieutenant "And do you think
he will oome baok on it or go back ou
it?" Indianapolis Journal.
"Why didn't you give the alarm
when you awakened aud saw the burg
lars iu tho room?" Mr. Nupah "I
saw they were eutertaiuiug the baby,
aud what was a paltry $100 compared
with that?" Chioago Inter-Oceau.
"Parker uses a great deal of co
logne, it seems to me. Awful bad
form 1" said Hawkins. "It would be
in you," said Hicks, "but it's family
prido with Hawkins. He comes of
old oolugnial stock."- -Harper's Bazar.
Mrs. Flatter ''George, dear, the
cook is going to-morrow." George
"Why, what is the matter with her?
I thought ribe liked the place." Mrs.
F. "That is the trouble. She says
she is too contented with us." Brook
lyn Life.
"Everything that-is douo in this
house is always blamed onto me,"
sniffed the small boy, "an I'm jiut
gittin' tired of it. I'll run away, that's
what I'll do. Dug-gone if I mean to
be the Li Hung Chang of this family
any longer." Ciueiuuati Tribuuo.
Stranger "Would you kiudly chow
me the way to the cathedral?" In
telligent Native "That is not difficult
to find. You juut walk down that
street yonder, and at the farther eud
you will sue a small provision shop ou
your left. The cathedral is exactly
opposite." Fliegeude Blaetttir