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Ttire'e Lot that differauao in the tula i Or human Ufa. tLat aome pretend ; The cock may flaunt a laiubow tail, i Sud be a cockerel to the nL l'l from the earth alike come ; To Mothtr Earth alike we ten 1 ; One pth e tread ; oue common boma, Invites oa at the Journey 'e end. liiifb born" cr low ; IU ail tba eauie ; Who follow best God'a ilgbUoiu plan. For boneet living beat mi) claim, Tba title of a nobleman. Era cbile from yonder crawling worm, An ' fora j fo many au tumble hnntau form, tat balf conceal the angel wings. I-et'a bare a care, then, bow wa treaJ. La t we deapoil aome bumble friend, 1 bat by a d. Cerent path ia led. Wti ao life wa cannot comprehend. ! And if. perc! auce, a. ma b: other stray. From wisdom' atraigbt tnd narrow track j Though piieet and Levite torn awar, 1 it oura ts lead tba wand'rt r bsck. i Oue may la weak, another a'.rong ; E'eu boLeat men do err moit U.uJlf ; Vet, tbougb tba deed itaelf be wrong, j 'f were well to jaebje tba motive kmily. Forgiveness. I A short winter ifleruoon was fast deep j ening into twilight, and the snow, that had ; been threatening all day, was beginning to . toss alxut the first of its white favors, as a . lady stood at a large casemunt anxiously , ! gazing across the valley on tlie cedar- Ajj r;ul ijj e tmjre a, g,, as pos : fringed mountain road opjwsite. j jjui She was apparently about tweuty-five ) -rue haj-Jncs bad all vanished from his years of age, with soft gray eyes and a clear j nnor again, he was the sympathiziusr , though pale complexion. Could she have ; phygfc.bj,, g.s he turned to his wife saying: been transported to Chestnut Street or! .qJ night, Lucy, do not sit up; I may i Broadway, with the accompaniments of ; not ,u "uut.u before morning. This , crimps, rats, turban and pheasant wing, she ! cuiu ua9 gubject to these at : might have passed for scarcely twenty; but ; tro;n uer ulrtu i (ear each will be I here at home, in hex soft lavender dress j tuc j which harmonized so well with the shining j m Jupftrturei Luoy a ing t,mc blown hair plainly braided back from her . gazm, thoUi;ljlfuliy into the fire. "There ; face, and the tiny blue bow at her throat, ;Uno huIltjng tue a-ain," she the five years seemed rather to bo cn the j muJed .It u only in s, x-lea that u.issing ; other side But her cmintenance was not ; wUU auJ &rc founf, in olll furniture. dejxudent for iU charm on either youth or j go uay.ng nt iu,e ula;j , M, ant beauty ; but oue 01 tnose quid m..uc -e, ; which as the ycois pass along, gather by j the ride of sick-beds, over cradles and it i may be over graves a beauty which the i evanescent glow of youth rarely equals. So ; at least thought IV. Ashley, when three ; years before, be took her from tlie village scliool, and the tuition or rough miner s '. children, to be the light and comfort of his 'home. , , It ia for him that she Is straining her eyes wuu loosing - - ; g!ad smile rises to her face as something i 6 , . ,f ,i. nurH aniMKT tbe rfHlaTS. clatters across tlie 1 , bridge in the valley where the village light. J" Ptient better lying : pl -, j . .ip, . .,,., hausted on her mother s lap. The paro ; arc already twinkling, and a moment later ' ! the well-known gig rattles up to the door. - - : . hh . . , ',. Jnrtnr "ore, and the mother expressed real He was oulv a rougli old country doctor, " " &. ., . ,, sorrow for having brought the doctor out in this hustwnd of Lucy Ashley, but to her he ,m,w lur s i was a hero deuiigod the representative of ; the storm. iall that to Do!.le nd good in manhood. "Oh. matter .bout tW! he an 'And, indeL we might uke heroes of .. h.y ; then, after prepanng a I ' .., .i.. comtosine draunht. he bade them gofnl- i worse material man oi m" "- ! and weather-Uaten discilles of the i healing art, who, regardless alike of heat or ; cold, day or night, spend their lives in at- leuding suffering humanity. i : l 9t n.u1 il. .-l,.wnr . . ' i i (T . f voice, as having shaken off the feathery , ' , , ? . , ... , snowflakes the ,dort -entered the casement , wlach she held op forlmiu a.fiiiiur. iiU f i ..i.-v. ... ' j .,1... ,r..l. i m, "V , . V : " : ,r Xyeny Jfort lame, jei i!"".-" j which in more luxurious apartments tf t,ftcu lacking. After the pleasant tea was over and the t-blUln-d in dressins town and ! slippers by the fireside (a position he might : .i.i iuil.1 tl,nl,out the evtninc. but from whence It was more probably that he ! noon 1 called to drive six or eight ...ii,-r.r..r th mountains. Lucv 1 nought i her low chair and her knitting and sat be- ,that clearer than clan call, or blast of toc ! side him. Evidently she had something of j sin, reminds the lonely of the great brotber I importance to say, for her work progressed j hood of man. It aroused the doctor from ' fitfully till at last throwing it down in des-, hi musings He remembered that half an i peration, and raising her eye, she ex- j hoar ago, a train arrived in the village be-..-.mA wriru- .. ilu.iirh the suhiert hind bim, but, having overtaken no travel- was disagreeable and must be gotten mrougu .u., i. 1- :i-1-. Robert, another letter came to-day from .Mrs. Itervey. i .-foyou" "Yts at least addressed to mc, though of course it concerns you more nearly. I'll bring it." "No," said he, detaining her. "I don't care to see IL I auppoee it i. only a reas sertion of her husliand". innocenee?" Yes, principally; she aay. that his last word, were, "ask Com'n Robert to forgive me for these years of estrangement, and tel' him, on the word of a dying man, that I know nothing of the deed which has i . ,. tmnW- j UlU-A. as "I've beard all that before! Had the wo man sent the deed it would have made a difference ; but as she won't, why should she piesume to trouble you aliont it I" "I suppose she thought that I could plead i - ina. tit..., horoolf ami indeed Robert, I cannot help thinking that there have been some mistake. Another reason is, she says, that she to herself sink ing rapidly, that she has no relations In the w..rld. and asks us to receive her little j boy, who to your namesake. She add. that if she only could get your forgiveness to carry to her husband, she would Lie willing to travel on foot lay her baby in my arms, and die. "Xousense!" exclaimed the doctor. She need do nothing more melodramatic tlian sending on the deod. And a tor her hus band, if he has God's forgirenes. he doe. not need mine. I tell you, Lucy, that man injured me more than you ean understand ; but for him, I might now be in possession of a lucrative city practice, instead of drag ging out a beggarly existence among these hills" "But I would never have known you, then," said Lucy, laying her clasped hands on hi. knee. "Which means, I suppose," he rejoined, .railing and smoothing back a tray I real from her face, "that 1 would never have known you ; but 1 should, pet ; 1 would : have found you out somehow, and then ' you might hare bad silk druses, and ail I manner of fine things as other ladies have." I "I dou't want thein," she answered quietly. "I would much rather that you ! would let me have that little baby boy." '-That Is perfectly ridiculous!" he ex j claimed. ''Why should you wish to take upon yourself that burden ?" lint noticing j the expression of her face (he had seen too much of the maternal instinct in his profes sion not to know what It meant) he relent ed. "Well, my dear, as you deire it so much I wish you could have him. What ever makes the woman so stubborn ? Tardy justice is better than none at all. And I solemnly declare that unless she sends that paper, which I have every reason to sup- ! pose was in her husband's possession, neither the mother nor tne child suau cross my threshold. This seemed to end the discussion, and, for a long time Lucy sat looking into the fire. At last raising ber eyes pleadingly, she said : "Robert, you won't like my say- ing this, and I dont like to seem as though j I were preaching, but all day as though thev were written on my brain, I have seen the words : "If you forgiva not men their trespasses" " A laid knocking Interrupted the sent tence. A tall miner stood at the door ask ing for the doctor. "What is the matter t" asked the doctor, who was already drawing oa his overcoat. "Bill Carton's child has goU fits two miil4 t'other siJe of Lennox Bluff." p,, fngnnl chocolate, setting it where it would simmer slowly till the iloc tor's return, she resumed her seat by the fire, and her sad mediations. Meanwhile Doctor A.hly pursued his iournev through the stormy uight, and those wof(b oken by his wife were exertillg t ape on mm too. The mountain wjudi rudliug through the cedars, seemed ito sing-in trumpet toues, "If ye forgive , Jiy aureJs wuisnercd -forg,ve, forgive!" ,,., i ti. Arnvd at his destination, he found the - - ... "'g ""neu Lis homeward J" But the thoughts from which he would gladly have been free were only Interrupted, not dispelled. Aguin the unseen spirit ' voices seemed to wbispcr arouna mm, ami j ' . ...,, I memory went back to his childhood, when ,Uought cf lll8 i ... ... , summer days when, together, they had I fied in the old mUInooO, .ml mimic boa,, under the wUlow, Then, of the old ' - ii ,:., !. tl,o Mr vrainir student ;-""";. " I - " And now ! Ah I now he was dead. i The storm had increased in violence, but jthe doctor scarcely heeded it, for remorse was knawing like bitter hunger at his heart. Away to the right be heard, above the noise of the elements tue alinii wuisue of a midnight train. 1 He startling cry, e he felt thankful that no one had to seek ,ui nome among iuc uiua wmj,u.. moment later he saw something directly in front of him. "Only a cedar bush," he reasoned: but watching closely, he saw it waver more and more, and at last sink down upon the snow. As he sprung from hi. slnigh he heard a low moan, and hurryiug forward, he found a sad sight, a woman completely paralyzed with cold and weakness, and in her arms, closely pressed against her bosom, an un conscious, sleeping babe, ne placed them hastily in his sleigh, and five minute, later. Lucy by ber fireside was startled by an un wanton noise at the door. "It to well you're up, Lucy!" exclaimed the doctor, as he came in with his burden ; "get aome water, quick!" Lucy hastily brought the necessary remedies, and while the doctor applied them, hc took the now wakened babe, warmed him, gave him a drink of warm milk, hushed him to sleep and nlaced bim snuglv in bed. At last the patient opened her eyes "OR, ban. am If" she cried: "where is Robbie t" "He to mIc,- replied Lucy, holding warm wine to her lips; "he to sleeping sweetly." Ilavlng revived a lUtle more, .he re- iimed? "I ranpot thank vou enough for yonr kindness to a stranger, but if you will tell me where Dr. Ashley live. 1 will be going, 1 must reach there to-night. 1 came in the train, but 1 must have mis taken the direction." "You are there now. I am Doctor Ashley." "Are you Indeed !" exclaimed the poor creature "Oh, will you forgive nie for coming f I eoald do nothing else. "Forgive yon !" cried the doctor, with a peat sb in his voice. "Ah, Mary, If for Fred's sake yea will forgive, it to enough mine has been the sin of re u. or ales, cru elty. (he poor wanderer had found home and love at last. But not for long, for when tlie snowdrifts melted beneath an April sun, she too vanished from the earth, gladly going to rejoin ber husband. Year, have passed; the doctor's step is not quite so firm as of old, and aome silver hairs have found their way among Lucy', shining braids. But Itobbie, or the young doctor, as they ca'J bint now, is the com-! fort of his uncle's declining years, and the very pride and joy of Aunt Lucy's heart. The CouqaeU or the Mule. The western pack-mule is small, sinewy, and, like old Joey Bagstock ; ' tough, air, tough ! but de-e-vlish sly I " Most of them are bred from Iudiau ponies and are born on the open plains. Having previously been lassoed and branded, when three years old they are driven (or inveigled) into a coral and exhibited lor sale at bron chos. An untamed horse is a model of gentleness beside them. Sometimes they are accustomed at once to the saddle by one of those wonderful riders who can stick on the back of anything that runs, and more rarely they are broken to harness ; but or dinarily their backs are trained to bear the pack, winch is generally the only practica ble method of transporting freight through these rugged mountains. The first time the pack-saddles are put on, the excitement may be imagined. The green mule, strong in his youth, having beau adroitly "roped" or lassoed, is led out into an open space, stepping timidly, but, not seeing any cause for alarm, quietly ; before be understands what it all means, he finds that a noose of the rawhide lariat about his neck has been slipped over his nose, and discovers that his tormentors have an advantage, lie pulls, shakes his head, stands upright on opposite ends, but all to no avail. The battler he pulls, the tighter the nooso pinches his ; nostrils, so at last be ccmes down ana l keeps still. Then a man approaches slow ly and circumspectly, holding behind him a leather blinder which he seeks to slip over the mule's eyea. But two long cars stand in the way, and the first touch of the leather is the signal for two jumps one by the beast and oue by the man, for packer, are wise enough in their day and genera tion to fiht shy of the business end of a mule. The next attempt is less a matter of caution and more of strength, and here the auimal has so much advantage that often it must le lassoed again and thrown to the ground. It is a fine sight to witness the indiguatiou of such a fellow! Ho falls heavily, yet holds his head high and essays to rise. Hut his fore-feet are manacled by mpes and his head is fast Yet he will shake, almost free, get upon his hind-feet, stand straight up and dash down with all his weiaht in futile efforts for liberty. Se- cured with more ropea, allowed but three legs to stand UKn and cursed frightfully, he must submit, though he never doc it j with g'xnl grace, it is not always, how ever, that this extremity is restarted to. Some animals make little resistance while the strange thing to being put upon their backs and the fastenings adjusted all but one ; but when an effort to made to put that institution called a crupper under a! young niuKs tail, language fails to expresr the character of the kicking ! The light heels describe an arc from the ground to ten feet above it and then strike out at a tangent. They cut through the air like whip lashes and wald penetrate an impe- diluent like bullets But even mule-Uesh tires. Strategy wins The crupper is gained and the first hard pull made upou the sinch (as the girth is termed', which holds firmly every hair-breath, and will finally crease the contour of the mu.e . utliy into tne seriiinancc oi i.iiiui un. But this one pull suffices to set him spring ing airuin bucking, now.-with arched back and head between bis knees, landing on I . . v i . 2... t.: i... ,.n r BlllI iea w Jat lua inuueu mi, m icuiiu iuu wcigin on urn woe auu ruu.uS u,er scrapo it free. He will sit on his haunches and hurl himself backward ; will duck his bead and turn a somersault; finally will stand still, trembling with anger and ex- haustion, and let you lead bim away, con- quered. (J An Aval.nch. In Nevada. An avalanche recently occurred on the slope of the Sierras in Nevada by which three iue were instantly swept away and buried, and a fourth dangerously wounded, The slide occurred at the head of Marlette Canyon, near the mouth of the tunnel of the water company. Five men McLane, Kennedy, Birney, McCaul and Tail start- ed on a recent occasion to go up the mountain to work, lait told the others j own cognomen or one borrowed for the oc Ihat he feared there, would be a snow-slide, j cgjion. Hundredsof men travel under as- a. the condition, were favorable. Soon after the mow wa. aeon to atari over a large space on the side of the mountain at ! rriTate business which they do not wish ex the head of Marietta Canyon, and in an in- p,, . others aro private detectives, and slant the avalanche was upon them. Tait 0tbers still up to trickery of some sort! It saved himself by a stump and hanging on , i,y n3 n,eaus a sign that a man means to like "grim death." McUne, Kennedy and bcat bi hotel bill because he tukes another Birney were swept away and bnried under name, and it is seldom that we consider that the snow. McCaul was swept about fifty a p0jnt against a guest.'' yards and was found by Tail buried to the ,.As to my me.ory of facog- com.nued shoulders, the snow so tightly packed , he ,M(,lord .., ,lad a test case recentlv. about him that he could not move his hands j gmo four or five rears ago a stranger or arms A nat oeionging to one 01 111c others was found tome distance below where McCaul wa. discovered, and this was the only trace of them that was to be seen, About fifty woodchopper. were noon on the ground and engaged in searching tor the missingmen, but at last account, none 01 them had been found. Some arc of the opinion that the tomes will not be found until the scow melts on in tue siinng, as Marlette Canyon to said to be filled up to its full width for a considerable distance. .i ioK It w alum nf the ilrv. new snow, which bad fallen upon the crust that covered the old snow. The stump behind which 1 ait took shelter was not to large but that he was able to clasp hi. band around it and in this position he held on until tbe slide had passed over him. Be Forgot Them. There was an alarm of fire the other nicht. and Mr. Tolimglower, of Iniim I uu uu ' street, being awakened by tie noise of lhejheir movement, are noticed. They arc bells sprang hastily from his bed, and honest men and a glance at them is enough, thrust his head out of the window. A man lrson not registered here come in was rushing bv, and Mr. Tolimglower hailed him with. "Whash ish shwire?" The man .topped in hi. mad speed, and yelled, "What?" "Whash ish sbwlrei' repeated air. 101 Imclower. craninc his head still further out of the window, and scanning the darkened heaven anxiously. "I don t know what youe talking about," shouted the man, beginning to" get hi. legs ready for another run. "Ish shrz whash ish shwire crash shut tersthash:" yelled Mr. Tolimglower in a rage. "Oh. go swallow yourself," muttered the man, darting off with an exclamatory "fire!" And Just as Mr. Tolimglower was going to sliriak after him a wrathful malediction, hi. wife touched him on the shoulder and handed him hi. false teeth, which he had forgotten in hi. excitement to put on. And when Mr. Tolimglower had donned that most essential portion of hi. wardrobe, he was enabled to shout to a passing bey, ia a perfectly Intelligible manner: "Where to the fire I" A Notnlda Wafrer. Tlie life of Ben. Perley Pooro has been au eventful oue, and hi. warm friendship for Charles Summer and other prominent men has closely connected him with public events. Maj. Poore was a great diuner-out, and a frequent guest of Uen. Burnside. ll'S round form and florid complexiou tell that he is a high liver, lie is short in stature and weighs 270 pound.. In conversation the other diy, his wife related an old story of her husband. During Pierce's cauvass for the presidency, Maj. Poore, then a young man, wagered with a friend living in ISoston that Pierce wouid not be elected. He agreed if he lost the bet to wheel a barrel oi apples from his home, SO miles distant, through the streets of Boston to bis friend's door. The election came off, and the friend held the major to his wager. Mrs. Poore thought it too severe a task, and begged her husband to have the barrel sent in a wagon. The major was too con scientious to do that, and insisted on ful filling his wager. He went to a neighbor ing farm and bought the fullest barrel of apples to bejiad. Witnesses taw that the barrel was weH and closely pacKeu. lie nut on a pair of snulf-colored pants, tucked into his heavy farm boots, a velvet vest, a jacket and a large red felt hat some one had seut him from California. Thm amtyrd, he started at daybreak for Boston, wheel ing bis heavy load on a wheelbarrow. His wife seut a man with a wagon after him, so that in case he gave out, there would be some one at hand to help him. After the sun was up the country people began to pas. him as he trudged along, perspiring and dusty. Each one oiiered him a lift or tried to persuade him to give up tne job. He kept on 15 miles, tired and sore, then he concluded to put his apples in a farmer's barn and go back home for the nitrht, and start afresh the next Bioruing. lie rode home and was glad to rest. He was sore and bruised, but alter a gooa ruouing aim a night's rest he was able to proceed with Lis task. By this time the people along the road heard of his coming and they gather ed together to uieet him. Boys followed him and women stood at their door to see him go by. There was great excitement, and the news sood traveled to ISoetoii. It reached the ears of the authorities. They sent him word not to enter the city in the evening, but to stop outside and come in i. 1 t. f.. l',t,, h.. !.nne.l over nM.t. The next morn n; I . on the outskirts of the city he was met by I a large crowd oi ixvple ami 1 a brass haml. He was escorted by this procession through tlie principal streets of the city to his friend's home and froai there to the Tre ment house to" a $ilOU breakfast. He had accomplished his feat anil was amply re paid by the reception and breakfast given liiui bv the cify authorities. It was many Jays before he could appear without being stopm-d and asked "if he was the man who rolled a barrel of apples through the streets of Beaton." Mm Who Krep UoteU. "Beg pardon, but you are mistaken In the hotel! You don't want to stop at this house." These words wer uttered by the proprie tor of a Detn.it hotel one day "last week to ) a stranger who bad picked up a pen and started to register his name. The man stepped liack. looked first as touished and then indignant, and after the two had stared steadily at eaiji other for . twenty seconds, the stranger laid down the pen and walked out of the house without a word. "Rather cool, I admit," explained the i i.((Cj Iu;in but that fellow is a lieat. live years ago come next month, he beat this house out of three days' board." "And you reuiem!er him! "In an instant, 11c has grown a full set nf whiL:ni int tltfn anil ifl ff s nr five yearg oltl,.r but j remember tuttt 03c. j j never forget a fAtCj i can caii 5 0u0 ineler. bv name. "If a detective strike, three cases out ot flvo wiiPre be has to identity faces, ho is I lucky," continued miuo host, "but if we i did not do better than that w e should make j no profits I take an Inventory of every I face. Some are so peculiar us a whole that 1 tiK,y ,re never fcirjottcn. Many faces have tbe same general expression. iu such Jcase. you must look for a squint in the eye, goiutthhig peculiar about the nose and Uiouth, a limp in the gait, a peculiarity iu 1 tue m-ecc-ii, and even the teeth are not to he overlooked. I can mark my mmi while . be is registering. I can tell the moment he begin, to write bis name whether it to his j iume,i names Smc do not want to be 1 published in hotel reports; others are oa ; jumped tbe h,mse on , ,WOdaj's board bill, ; ,rnml ,hl. M,rr ,1 r-wi I . , , w.. .,, . i:,.i "..i j on w of ,lig- w, Lc fof hj, oue day, u j ai,(,Lj ,he oIJ , accouul. ne loote j thc fli:llrc3 over Uesi- . taC(1 looke(j af anJ ,Ue wh((,e without 8 w,)r(L 1 was prepiml to give j be ulmlber of tbc rtwm he occ ipie.1, the ... h ,.,. .... , ,lf m, hl. ! uad on . , ,. , , . "In tbo readme and smoking rooms and . 0 . ! the office," said Hie host, as be looked around, "are fifty strangers. More arc coming and goiug all the time. Now you would think it very ca-.y to sly up stairs or come down and go out and not be seen by any of the employes, but many have tried it to their cost. There are three of us here in the office most of the time, mid porters 1 "u "y " "u,,"'"'u- I a""B P ' , . - will know bis business He has either called upon a friend or bo is up to mischief. It won't take thirty seconds for word to come down here as to what rxui he has entered" "No, we hardly ever ask a person to pay in advance," he replied to tLe question. "It would be no insult on an honest man. but vet it to not the rule, I believe. I do not get mistaken in my man more than once in 5,000 times You or any other j man stopping here with money to pay your bill have a freedom of mind and body which cannot be assumed, ion come and go, take everything easy, and call for your bill when ready to leave. Tbe penniless man who tries to assume that easy demeanor al ways overdoes it. It Is a part which few actors could play with success A man coming here without baggage will generally tender bis money in advance ii he has it. If he to penbUess, he will most always state the fact, and give his excuses and promises "The regular hotel beat to not the penni less man. It lakes mors nerve than most men have got to walk iuto a hotul with empty pocket, and register as a guest. That is, men who cannot give good reference, or reasonable excuse, for being Mead broke.' We have guests here every day who have been roblied or lost their money or been j swmuicu or aoiuciuiug ui iuv auri, uui mcy can send home for funds or give security. No, the out-and-out hotel beat has money, but tries to beat u. on general principles. lie goes on the theory tiiat every hotel owes wUa"d.hu.Vd'LC! "c V"'.r . . 7 " v Z, 1 money, cahsfor the best, and is gone before you even become suspioous. Few of them ever come back on the second visit, and our only revenue .a to give them away to some other hotel men. The system of passing a dead-beat from man to man U now so per fect that the professional dead-beat has al most been driven to the wall." Tlie Daobab Tra and Fruit. Monkey-bread grows on an enormous tree , called baobab; botanically named for ( Adanson, a French botanist. The tree is a i native of Senegal, in Africa ; also found on ; the banks of the white Nile. It has been! c'l " England from the seed, and in j India. At Alipore, near Calcutta, there is oue whose trunk measure, in aome places j mala. Fowls multiply amazingly, and over sixty feet in circumference. The ' goats become numerous and flourish so well hei;;ht of baobab is not in proportion to it. in the bracing atmosphere that at length it diameter. It has very long roots, seeming I was suggested that a cow might convenient to like the earth better than do many trees, i ly be added to the farm stock. How the They have been measured one hundred feet I animal was elevated we are not informed, laid bare and were doubless much longer . but it is stated as a fact that It wa. by aome still. The lower branches of the tree bend i means hoisted to the roof, and was event to the ground, almost concealing the trunk. ually the ruin of the community. The They have large, dark-grevu, abundant j lowing of the cow came to certain official leaves. Tlie flower is large anil white, its ' ears, and led to an investigation and the stamen, gathered into a tube below, and total breaking up of the queer society, spreading like an umbrella above. The j Even at that time it is said that the Itussian tree is muci'agiuous in all its parts, the ' emperor felt so little confidence in his per fruit being, the most usefuL It is, for what jaonal security that nobody ever knew in reason cannot be ascertained, called Mon- i which bedroom be was going to sleep. A key-bread. It measures from nine to twelve iarge number wa. always kept ready and inches long, and four in diameter, at the ' uuoccupied, and at bedtime the Czar would middle, being rather pointed at each end. ! quietly slip into one of 1'iem selected at the It has a brownish color when ripe. The j moment. The Winter Palace is described pulp l. slightly acid; that between the j as the largest palace in the world, being seeds tastes like cream tartar, and ia used one-third larger than that of the Emperor of fo- fevers Strong cord, are tnado from ! Austria, anil unsurpassed in point of splen itis bark of the tree. The baobab wa. loug 1 dor. It is the residence of the Czar and his thought to be the largest tree in the world. ! court during the winter, and stands on the The discovery of the mammoth sequoias in California has proven the mistake of this U ' UUU. Livingstone judged a baobab u-l.wlk lift AT.niiniM In Afrifia ""-" "-" ""-, " to be at year ,old. J be tree is not easy The tree is not easy " -j--- - - disease, a son oi correspouuence io wuai is : one oi tne not least remarKanie iacts con called brain softening. Can it be that this J nccted with it i. that its present form was vegetable giant become, dizzy with its , the work of two short years. Custine gives grandeur and superiority, and thus grows 'a terrible description of the rise of this both vain and weak f It is sometimes easy monstrous citadel. In order to complete for imagination to invest inanimate life ' the ta.S at tlie time appoiuted by the Czar, with soul life; and what man shall say ; the interior works were continued during where the inys'criotis line, of distinction the great frosts; and when the thermometer begin or end in the divine plan and fulfill- i outside was thirty deg. below zero of nient? It is a question often asked before . Hcaumur, 6,000 workman were daily shut oae that sounds unreasonable, chimerical; ; up in halls heated to thirty deg. of lteaunnir but (iod has so constituted the human mind ; iu order that the walls might dry the quiek as to give it tue impulse and curiosity of jer; so that these poor wretches had to en inquiry. The baobab tree appears to have ' dure a difference of sixty deg. of tempera a positive limit fur ita age. It will sicken ture. No wonder a considerable number and die by a softening process, finally fall- j of them died daily; and it is said that those ing, by its own weight, into a ruined heap, j who were eugaged to paint the interior of The tiunk is usually hollow. Executed , criminals, to whoin the law denies riwa of . sepulture, have been entombed iu these trunks The bodies soon withered and be came dry like mummies. An lluneat Miner. If you go Into a ruining district in Corn- wall, England, you will see, not far from the mine works, rowsof neat little cottages; most of them 1 xtremely clean in tlie in-; terior, and here the miners may lie found seated at comfortable fires, frequently read- inc. or in the summer evenings workiug "n i their little gardens or in the potato fields r rcqueniiy tney oecome expenenceu uon-. cultuiis:s, and at the flower shows that occur at nually In several of tlie Coruisb towns they otten carry oil tbe prizes A pleasing anecdote is recorded of the honesty of a poor Cornish niiner. There lived at St. Ives a lady named Prudence orth, whose charity was remarkable. A miner living at Camborne bad bis gxxLs seized for rent, which be could not pay. He had heard of tbo many good deeds done by "Madam"" Worth, as she was usually called, and he determined to apply to her for as- siitance. He said: "Madam, I have come to you In great trouble. My goods are seized fcr rent, and they will be sold if I ean not get the money immediately." "Where do you live? inquired airs. Worth. "In Camborne, and I work In Stray Park Mine." "I know nothing of you," observed tbe lady, and you may be a drunkard or an unposter. Madam," replied the miner, with encrgv. as 1 live, 1 am neither; auu 11 you will lend me the money, I will return it in four months The money was lent, the period of four months elapsed, and, true to his promise, the poor miner, notwithstanding that bad luck had attended him, had managed to get the amount borrowed together, and set off on foot with it. Arriving at Hayle Kiver, he found the tide coming up, out 10 save a journey of three miles round oy cu Erith Bridge, he resolved to cross the water, which appeared to him tbxl ow enough for this purpose. 1 he poor fellow had, however, miscalculated the depth, ana was drowned. hen the body was brought to shore, hi. wife said that he uau leu iioiiio iiu n'- - pocket for Madam Worth. Search was made in km pockets, ana ao money was found, but some oue observed that his right hand was firmly clinched. It was opened, and found to contain the three guim as. mmm A White Squall. One dav. In 811. Notker. a monk of St. Gall, while watching some workmen build- place, and we have already saenfic d to ing a bridge, at the peril of their lives, : luxury. The value of a cigarette at this composed a Latin anthem. From it the ! mou.eut is that with the first whtff of its solemn words in the burial service of the ! fragrance the palate cease, to dsmand either Episcopal Cliurch, "In the midst of life we , food or wine. After a smoke the power to are iu death," were takcu. Tlie following i appreciate goxl wine is lost, and no judic iucident recalls the occasiou of their first ' ions hoet cares to ojieu a fnsh bottle from utterance: Uratt aliina met in a- m - mid-ocean, one heading for Australia, and the othsr homeward bound. 1 he day was ; fair, and the wind dying away, the vesael. were becalmed close together. The passengers at once busied themselves to write letter, home, and officer, and crew became occupied in the interchange of courtesies The placidity of the weather led to a feeling of careless security that can never be safely Indulged in at sea, AH tbe can- vass was set, idly flapping against the masts, when a squall struck both ships and passed off In a fow moments W hen the confusion and excitement re- suiting from it were over, and the crew of one of these vessels were able to relax the attention demanded for their own safety, they looked for the other ship in vain. She had gone down with all on board. and not a vestige of ber was to be seen any. where on the wide sea, which looted serene and beaulif id as if nothing bad bap peaed. lb. Cur's Tenants. In the time of Nicholas, the father of the present Czar, a number of sentries were Jjj posted on the roof to guard against fire or rinding the climate up there not altogether so comfortable as could be w 'tubed, this permanent watch at length contrived to convey on to the roof the materials far a number of huts or cabins, which lu course ..r t.AV .i... i... .i.nit... ..t chimney stacks. So snug and cozy did Ihey manage to make themselves that it at then lu , f - ;tll j as well enlarge their . - AccorUil)Kly wiv u(l families, oue after another, found their way out on to the imperial leads. Several of the single members of the guard, finding such a tempting opportunity of setting up housekeeping economically, took wives to themselves, and after a whi'e quite a con siderable colon v had siini'ii? ut. How far the development might have gone on if the individuals composing this parasitic little village had been r.-aaonably cautious and careful in their behavior it is difficult to guess; but the establishment of families ainoug the chimneys of the palace led grad ually to the accumulation of domestic ani- left bank of the Neva, on the site of a house, which in the reign of Peter the Great be longed to his high admiral. Count Apraxin, i. . t .1.. .1 i. . . i' i . ii "l,rau " -"i"" e'er n. ltwas so completely destroyed by fire in -.-.j w.cUU.. the must heated halls were obliged to place on their heads a kind of bonnet of ice in order to preserve use of their aeuse. under the burning temperature. The (lid-Fashioned Cotillion. Perhaps the only eld fashioned daiire ; that survives 1. the cHillion. The dance is full of Spanish grace. In South America they introduce some odd tricks iuto their dancing. Ladies till empty egg shells with eau de cologne and carry them to the ball ; there they break them upou tlie heails of the gentlemen. It is meant as a challenge, The irentlemsn who receive, this moist tri- j bute is bound in gallantry to find out the iady and return the compliment. Another trick is for a young man logo behind a girl, place his sombrero directly over her head, letting it fall over her eyes, and tben ' to spring back among the dancers If the ' cirl throws off the hat it means that she can j dispense with any attention the gentleman : would like to pay to her, and he is obliged ! to pick up his hat ain.d a general laugh, I If the hat is retained, then at the end of the 1 dance the owner claims it from the lady J and with it her baud the rest of the even- ing. The cotillion is clearly based on fancies of this kind. The introduction of . the chair, the soating of a ladv, the presen- ; tation of the gentleman, the blindfolding of 1 a gentleman, with a lady ou either side of j him, and hi. hazardous choice of one of 1 them as a partner, are distinctly Southern ' elements, giving graceful life and laughter to the waltzing accompaniment. This sur- 'vivesbut the other dance, are ended. 1 Whether they are worth reviving is a quea- tion for girls to decide. At all events, one ! may believe a girt could never loot more ; picturesque than when engaged in one of these old-Iasmoncu dances, lust as 11 is cer- j tain that a girl is never seen to worse ad- vantage than when she has releasrl herself from the grip of a man, after a long, pant ing, and perspiring waltz, as this dance to uow performed. IV tne at Dinner. Briefly, the rule, by general gastronomic for tho60 wuo imm!e in the luxury . - , , ... hh, P!ll L(l or ury Sauterne after soup ; a delicate Khjne win If re,liredt after flsh; a glass u jj,,, witU ,he joint uf nmtton ; the i Bame ((f. t.hMnpilgnedrT. but with some f (rue yinoai character in it, and not the taBlc,tta gpirit amj waler just now enjoying ! .. cv-iiK-scent norm an v diirniiT the en- trees; the N'st red wine in thc cellar, Bor- (K.aux or lurgundv, with grouse or other ,. anU but this ought to auffice tyeu )t that eXCeptin8i individual who is glipp0sed to 1 little if at all injured by j "moderate potatious." With the ice or j desert, a glass of full flavored, but matured ' champagne or a liquor may be served ; but ! at this point dietetic admonitions are out of : his best biu lor 1h smoker, nor win tne former be blamed by any man for a ihsin- - ichnatico. Value of spare Minute- Madame Do Genlis composed severs ' rharmimr volume, while waiting in the j school-room for the tardy princes to whom I abe iravedailv lessons Dazuesseau. one of the chancellors of France, wrote an able and bulky work in ; tbe successive intervals of waiting for din i ncr. j Elibu Burntt, when eariiing his living ai a blacksmith, learned eighteen languages and twenty-two dialects, by simply lm proving bis "spore moments A celebrated physician in London trans lated Lucretius while riding in his carriage on bis daily rounds - Dr. Iarwin comiiosed nearly all hi. work, in the same way, writing down his thought, in a memorandum book which he carried for the purpose. - ( Kirk White also learned Greek while ' walking t and fra from a lawyers offiae. ' An Old Criaaty. A few years ago, on au August after noon, mounted on a patient old horse, a man was Waving a cabin iu California where some comrades lingered over the re mains of a primitively cooked game dinner. The elder cf a jolly qiiartelt of h miters, he boasted the ownership of an ancient doub'e barreled shot-gun. His chums carried rifles and revolvers It is far from incre dible that he was the "colonel" of the group ; often the butt of their ridicule, the target for concerted fun, and, too, because, he so facetiously bore it. "The colonel, " be had more than once repeated, "will run tool of a grizzly some time ; then his old Daniel Boone piece will be the death of him." But he frequently declared that he wanted to meet a grizzly, to which he was as often retorteO : "Aye, you'd scratch up the nearest tree, or beat for your life, if he didn't swallow you instanter." "Leave the dishes until I come back. I'll have a treat for supiier," said the "colonel," on this August afternoon. His three friends uncorked another bottle of wit, but he retreated too rapidly to see or hear the effervescence. Galloping toward a mountain stream, five miles distant, which in the summer's decrease of its vo lume left in the narrow vallev pools here and there wherein small fish thrived, he hoiied to spy a stray deer. A few occa sionally loitered behind, after tbe herd that had roamed down from the mountain snow fie'ds in the rainy season returned at the approach of the dry season. They seemed loath to leave the green willows and chap parrel around these pools. Our horseman had trimmed his gun with nine piston shot bullets He now descend ed the slope, and, having reached a grassy spot, was preparing to lariat, not having dismounted. Suddenly be discovered au enormous bear lying fast aaleep under a scrub oak, not more than a hundred van! from where he had lialle.l. His surprise mav be imagined. He afterward licclartd that at the moment he feit no twinge of alarm, but that his first thought wiu to gal lop to the cabin and bring the boys out for grizzly. Then his repeated bouslirig came to mmd, and he thought. "I muxt shoot at him.'' And so he walked the horse cau tiously some paces nearer to the "game" between the bushes Now thc old gun was leveled, his linger on the trigger, but his hands trembled slight ly. " This won't do ; what ails my ami!" thought the veteran hunter, who would not risk an unsteady shot ever so little short of firmness. Ho lowered the piece, and a suddeu vision of a ghastly Rene Uaslu-d across his brain. Ho thought of a young man whose bowels had been literally torn out in an encounter with a grizzly foe, and whom he hail assisted iu burying in a mining district. lie hesitated no longer; slid down oil his feet; placed his arm within tlie bridle noose, and aiming at the bear's ear, dis charged. Quicker than thought he sprang to tlie saddle, spurred toutuiost speed, ven turing not a glance backwaid till a mile or more up the slope. Then, hearing no roar or rush behind, he turned and slowly re traced. Almo6t incredible to his judgment his eyes beheld the bear in a slightly alter ed position stone dead. The llective, judicious shot had entered the brain. Now thc colonel rode triumphantly back to his comrades "There's a big old grizzly over yonder. " "Why didn't you shott lain?" all iu a quick breath. I did shoot." "Don't believe it. Willi a shotgun !" "I leil you, boys, I have killed him." "Tell that to tlie babies." "I say he is as dead as other bears havo ded. Come with me and bring him home." A two wheeled- cart was borrowed of a neighbor. They all piled into it, and first drove impatiently in their hurry a mile iu an opposite direction to enlist the services ot t"o friendly ludians. When arriviug on the ground, and convinced unmistakably of the shot -gun's victory. Heir huzzas made the desert ring. Tbe Indians immediately addressed the hero colonel by the distin guishing title 0 "Waina Shai-too"' Bear King. His chum, long afterward styled him Col. Shactoc, but his name is not King. The dead animal was supposed to weigh 1,100 pounds; one of the largest bears ever shot iu California. The Indians had tlieir share of the meat with the hide, which after a rude manner they dressed and tanned, rendered it as hard as board. The writer has seen oue of the toenails of this veritable grizzly. It is in a curve, of course, measuring at least four inches. Tha Snadtlick. A consignment of fish quite new to tbe London market, was lately offered f Mr sale at Billingsgate, under the name of "shad- dick from Russia. 1 hey averaged eight to nine pouuIU, were very silvery, aud somewhat peach-like in form. At first sight they were taken for sea bass, or, as they are called at Raiusgate and Margate, "white salmon. I he sliaudics, however. turns out to be the "pike-perch,' J'erra lut-io jjercu or Zaiulr. The pike perch is name very appropriately applied to una lake or pond fish, as it combines the quali ties both of thc pike and perch. Its mouth is armed with a most formidable array f teetli, more carnivorous if possible, than those of the pike. Un the upper jaw there are four terrible sharp corneal canines. V hen the mouth is closed these six teeth tit together like a steel rat trap. The pike perch is a common fish in Europe. It is excellent eating, and is frequently served at table d'hotes in Berlin and other Conti nental cities Hcrr Max Vou dun Borne, tb author of a book on angling in Prussia, descrilx-s the pike perch as being an excell ent rod fish, giving good Sort, and biting freely. Pike perch would probably di well" in this country, especially in large lakes and ponds with sandy or gravely bot toms Several attempts have been mado to bring them over, but they are very dilli cult fish to carry, and the transport by means of eggs is impossible, as the eggs are very minute, and cannot, like salmon eggs, be packed in ice. At the late meet ing at l)WC9toft oi the ish Acclimalisa- tion Society of N-a-folk and Suffolk the merits of pike-perch were discussed, aud it was finally agreed that it would not be advisuMe to make any attempts to acclima tise this fish in the rivers and brooks if East Anglia. Notwithstanding thc pre- daceous habits of this fish, many piscatorial au'lKMities consider that it would form a valuable addition to ornamental waters iu private parks which at present, being full of comparative valueless fish, such as mach. bream, carp, tench and pike, would tie an the better for the addition of a fish that would prove to be a game rod fish as well is g'lod for the table. This fih is known by stuffed specimens to anglers, but it is not often that it is brought to this country in the flesh. We should recommend the owners of waters in Russia containing shad to try tbe experiment of splitting, curing and smoking these fish for the Loudon market. If properly prepared, they would, without doubt, fcrm a new arid excellent relish for the breakfast or lunch table, a these fish are so delicate that it is diilicull to keep them in ice for anv length of time. T lere tre 4l roiling mills in 0 1'0, ii ol which are in operation. ,
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