CITY WAIFS. Taking Care of Lost Children in the Metropolis. Parents Seeking their Little Ones at Police Headquarters. A great policeman, big enough and strong enough to havo fcllel a horse with a single blow, carrying in his arms a little golden haired girl, upon whose sleeping face the tears had washed cloan J>lacos in the dust and grime, walked briskly toward Polico Headquarters in New York city. The child was slumber ing as comfortably as though she had boen in tho little crib at home, and the offi cer was as tender as if the little one was his own and helped make sunshine in his home on his days off duty. Half a dozen children of tho street, quick to catch sight of tho pair, followed close on the big policeman's heels until, says a San scribe, he went up tho steps to tho marblo building in Mulberry street, and was lost to view behind the swing ing doors. Bluff Sergeant Kclleher was on duty, and when he saw tho little bundle of humanity brought in, he sat down at his desk and began to turn, in a busi nesslike way, tho leaves of an enormous book which lay in front of him. Ho kept turning until he came to the page whore he had written last. Then, after carefully adjusting his eyeglasses, and dipping his pen in the big inkstand, he queried: "Boy or girl, officer I" "Girl." « "How old ?" "'Bout four years." "Whore did you get her ?'* "Sixty-fifth street and Third avenue. " "Take her upstairs." "Upstairs" meant to the top floor of the big building where Matron Webb presides and acts tho part of foster mother to the waifs and strays ami foundlings of this big city who are picked up by tlia police. The same scenes are enacted overy night, and each day sees the pages of the big book which Sergeant Kclleher keeps fill up one by one with the brief stories and records of lost children. Every night in the year fathers and mothers visit P.dico Headquarters and nsk for the children who have been lost during the day. On pleasant evenings they sit on the stone steps and wait, if the child has not already been found, and on storm/ nights they go home, to return again later on. A woman conjos running down the street. She is one of tho East side poor. A shawl answers the purpose of cloak aud hat. She stops long enough to ask of an idler ou the corner: "Where is tho headquarters?" "Down where you see the greon light," is always the answer nnd she is off again. Up the steps she runs eager ly. As she passes the swinging doors she almost runs dawn old Joe, tho door man, who keeps a little private record on a slate of tho children who aro brought in during the night. Joe's voice is gruff, but it belies his nature. "What's tho matter?" he growls. "Have ye found me baby?" and the toil worn hands clutch nervously at the frayed edges of the old red shawl. "Boy or girl?" "A little girl with light hair." "Go upstairs and look—top floor." The stairs are steep and tiresomo to climb, but mothers on such errands don't tire easily, and up sho goes. Five minutes later a step is heard on the stairway. She is coming down again and the red shawl is the background for a head of golden hair. Two dirty, Chubby hands arc about her neck. The woman is smiling now. Sle isabout to go out to the street, but Old Joe again Is in the way. "Go in there and give your name," bnd he points to S rgoant Kelleher, and chirrups at tho baby. Tho sergcint takes tho woman's name »nd address, and, hugging the lost one lightly, the woman passes out into the iitreet. Stowaways. The ship was hardly well out on the ocean when two stowaways made their appearanco, and later in the day five Inore. The next morning six moro Came up, and during the two following days they kept coming up in twos and threes until they numbered 25 all told. Tho ship sceme l to be teeming with stowaways, and the officer on watch was fairly bowildered. There was a plaintive pleading in his voice as he Baid to the last comer: "Say, hadn't you better send the rest up at onco ?'' "They are all up now, sir," replied the stowaway with repressed cheerfulness, and the officer gave a sigh of relief. Whon the vessel arrived at Que bec the captain scut a dispatch ashore with tho pilot boat to be forwarded to Montreal, asking that a detachment of hod,'' as the general himself expressed it. Before the article was sent back the old warrior diedsuldenly and his sham limb remained in the ancient smithy until the presont day. It will now be p'aced in the artillery museum of tho Hotel (lei Invalides among many other martial and historic souvenirs. — L>nd'»i Telegraph. The East Indies. The name East Indies is now gener ally disused; it was former.y applied vagnoly to that part of Sou",hern Asia lying east of the t'.ve- In lus and to tho islands adjacent. Thus it took in on the mainland Ilindostan, Burmah, Siam, Annam and Malacca and tho islands of Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, liorne >, the Celebes, the Philppinos and tho rest of the great archipelago. More recent y, according to Coiton's atlas, the name was applied to these placet, excluding Ilindostan and Ceylon. So the term takes in both mainland and islands. Modern Improvements. lteal Estate Agent (out West) —''This is the house 1 told you about." Eastern Man (anxious to grow up with the country) * 'Bather a pretty place! Contains all the modern in>- provents, does it?" Agent—"Yes, siree. Which will you look at first, th l ! cvt:l»no cave or ttio earthquake cella A York V/\tkly. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. That a sealskin sacque doei not al ways keep the heart warm. Hospitality sometimes degenerates in to profuseness and ends in madness and folly. It is better to sacrifice one's lovo of sarcasm than indulge it at tho expense of a friend. That "doing as woll as you know how" is all right if you always know how to do well. We should do by timo as wo do by a torrent, mako use of it while we may have it, for it will not last always. The surest way of governing both in a private family and a kingdom, is for a husband and a prince sometimes to drop their prerogative. There are certain garbs and modes of speaking which vary with the time*; the fashion of our clotho3 being not more subject to alterations than that of our speech. Some people will say things about other people without thinking that other people can say things about some people as big as beams compared with motes. Throw physic to tho dogs, if the physic is liable to provo fatal. There is too much physic in tho world and too many dogs. Lot one evil destroy the other. If courting be a fraud, in which each deceives the other, and the parents and friends deceive both, you must not mako faces and growl at "marriage be ing a failure.'' Tho main principles of reason aro in themselves apparent. F»r to nuke nothing evident of itself unto man's understanding wera to take away all possibility of knowing anything. Ilope is a prodigal young heir an 1 Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honored, since thero is often a heavy balance against him becauso he draws largely 011 a small cipital, is not yet in possession, and if ho wcro, would die. The Women of Touqnin. Both men and women in To iq lin wear their hair long and twisted u;> into a kind of chignon on tho top of tho head. It is, of course, always lanky and jet black. Their dress is of the most simplo kind. Tho men wear a loose ja 'kot and trousers, and tho women wear a long, straight shift reaching from neck to heels. The An namito man is a very poor creature, and it is only among the upper classes that one sees occassanally a well-formed or handsome face, with sorao elevation or dignity of expression. Tho women aro much better looking, and would often be pretty except for tho stained mouth and teeth, which renders thein horrib'e to a European eye. But in figure they are much tho more favored of any seen in the East, and in tho course of a walk in Hanoi, tho principal city of tho country, you may meet a dozen who are straight enough and strong enough and shapely enough to serve as a sculptor's model. Their native danc-j is a bur lesque of the Japanese, to tho nccom. paniment of a fiddle six feet long.— Washington Star. Tho Snow Flower. Count Authoskoll's curious discov ery of the snow flower is likely to inter est floriiulturists for sometime to come, as from the accounts given of it, it ap pears to ba not only a re mirk able but a singularly beautiful plant. It wat dis covered on the perpetually frozju ground of Siberia, but Count Anthosk. (I has succeeded in raising plants from seed placed in a pot of snow at St. Petir,- burg. The bloom lasts only for a single day, and comes once ia two years. A French contemporary thus describes it: The leaves are three in number, aud each about three inche ■ in diameter. They are developed only on that side of the stem toward the north, and each seems covered with micro scopic crystals of snow. The flown when it opens is star shaped, its petals of tho same length at the leaves, and about half an inch in width. — Londtn (Jlvbt. How SIIO Counts Her Children. A Philadelphia woman who attended arecption given to Gjorgo Macdonald, the English novelist, when in this country, tells of a queer fad indilgid in by the author's wile. Tim latter wore, wherever sho went, a b It hem 4 which dangled what appeared to bo a number of g >lden ballj. Daring a conversation with the novelist, tho Philadelphian happened to ask how many children ho had. "One the wrong side of twelve," wan his answer. "1 suppose you moan thirteen?" "No, madame; I have only cloven." Ti: n M". Maedonaid called bis wile, who Ipin >I tho golden bills (which proved in be lockots), and sUowe 1 t.e photo-'ruph* of all hor children.— Neio 7r ' Hi, tld. Origin of the Diamond. Some theories about the origin of the diamond are very ingenious and interest ing, though the amount of truth they emhody remains to be proved. It has been suggested that the vapors of carbon during'tho coal period may have been condensed and ervstalized into the dia mond; and again, the itacolumite, gen erally regarded as the matrix, was sat urated with petroleum, which, collecting in nodules, formed the gem by gradual crystalization. Newton believed it to have been a coagulated, unctuous sub stance, of vegetable origin, and was sus tained in the theory by many eminent philosophers, including Sir David Brew ster, who believed the diamond was once u mass of gum, derived from certain species of wood, and that it subsequently assumed a crystaline form. Dana and others advance the opinion that it may have been produced by the slow decomposition of vegetable material and even from animal matter. Burton says it is younger than gold and sug gests the possibility that it may still be in process of formation, with capacity of growth. Specimens of the diamond have been found to inclose particles of gold—an evidence, he thinks, that its formation was more recent than that of the precious metal. The theory that the diamond was formed immediately from carbon by the action of heat is opposed by another, maintaining that it could not have been produced in this way, otherwise it would have been consumed. But the advocates of this view were not quite 011 their guard against a surprise, for some quick-witted opponent has found by experiments that the diamond will sustain great heat without combus tion.—American Analyst. 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