THE FLlfSHT OF THE HEAM
Th hrs-t fiM up like a bird
From a nest of cnr i
t'p, up, to a lrior sky,
To a soflrr nlr !
Io ry. rnn measure Its flight
An1 no haml fan tani" ;
It mount In l.mly nn 1 llg'.it,
In music, and flnmc.
Ot all thn rhnnif'"" of Tim
Tlirr I none Ilk this :
Tim hnnrt notnt up Ilk a bird
At tho Mrokn nf lilis.
Thn henrt nnn up liko n Mr!,
Hut It wings niton 1 1 r j
Cnotivli of r.iptur" and son:?,
Tin i'Idii.I mi l tm Urn '.
Its look. tl look of a king
Of n nvi IH l.lrth,
Tli poor, tin' I, Impotent thin;
Sink Imi-k to tlm earth.
An I thn metln-rspr.'n I lnr lap,
Ami Mi" lull it p. nn ;
'(Hi. thou who xli:hiM for thn sun
Art Hum mini- .tiMin'.'"
-Icra Hon ! (loo lull-. In lni1sm,nlr,&i
STUPID JAC0UE3.
i.v in m. TKo-rrrn.
HI thnt yen nrc !
W re t C h e d be-
I.--IVH.
'. nntiibal :
pfctr3v- IV:-
'1 nig Hint
v ml i n wasted
this Mni.i'l
.1l('lll, ftllf.lill)
mlleiily before
him.
.liieiMU'S wns tlio
lrude. The iimny
in nreiits tnward the
freelv visiteil on the
if village
S.IIH of 1
conimuuit v wer
soil, who remembered nothing ia life
but hard wordf, averted looks mid
blows. Avelted looks, fur a!lloll"t
other evils descending to him from his
forefathers Wis the horrible goitre,
which made the lad uu objci't uf loHth
ing to M rang r.
.Taeipies was ileiith in life. His heill t
had seldom bint to the spring of joy.
He wore an expression "f misery, es
pecially irritating to tho artistic eye
of Monsieur lYrrot.
I'oor Bbused !o;,'S nrid mulev, lind
they been aide I i speak, iniuLt have
praised the delicato touch of the boy's
hamls, hlid his kindness to their
tnisi ry. Th 'ir bruwlaut. n benefuelor
was scarcely more capable of express
in; hi i null ko.iiiHMs tliau thev.
Diyby iliv his lifo w.n the same
dull round. He r.s. Varly. luiddle-1 :
oil inn in;;', nil' l st i nil III lo Ills unites
nt the workshop of Monsieur lYrrot.
This establishment, iu w hich Monsieur
Terrot presided over a largo number ;
'M'pri :d ices nnd pui iU engaged in '
r csrviug, stood -n the out
ilhige. Tho style, the
f ol.jocl per nitted to ,
hop liinl "nndered I
Jtlonsieui 1'eri.ot famous, and the pro- !
jirietor of the) largest shop in Inter-1
laken supplied tho connoikseurs ;
amongst his patrons from the wealth
of artistic ilc'n" brought it liiin
twice a year by the old nrtist.
' re sides the sweeping an 1 iblslin.j of
the workshop, Jnciilcs was expected to
n-.v wood, attend t the tires and be nl
the and cull of all the workmen
as will as of monsieur, whose tcntuer
was ever of the most irascible. In the
bov'n o Id lllonieiits of leisure he Wii
permitted to listen t t Monsieur Pe
rot's gcucr.il instruction--., an I other
wise b arn ns much about carvine u
. i . i , . . i . i .
lie coiil I from t!u use of eatawsy
lo'':i and ivjt -ted 'iisteiial.
',' This nioi iiiii,: .In -ipies had eoini Iste
1.) the workshop, for In- h.d been dc
't.ri.c I on the v, iy by a housewife who
Jiiipt-tled 1 i in t perform a task oi a
i. vulinrly ilis.ixreeable kind. Such
t'.i tt lit loll ot tell befell hilil, for peole
acre not inclined to let him rise from
the old position of villas.) drudge to
the snil is o!' slavery for Monsieur lYr
rot alone. Alter the old artist had
rented his rage on .lac pies he turned
to his workmen with fury
"Voids that you are! Would that I
might be young again for one week.
Ih, had I the use of these rheumatic
limbs! Idiots! Content to go on year
hy year, copying, copying. When an
pporhiuily comes of ilitiiiKuishiiii
joiii'se'.ves, you feebly cry, you can't
think of a I heme. Tigs!"
Jiicipies had never seen the master
Iu sii -h mi inclusive rage, llu pupils
Lung their hea ls.
"Vive hundred fr'.ncs!'' cried mon
sieur, taking up a paper from his
desk and hoi ling it to hi failing eyes.
"Vivo huiilred franca I It is a for
tune, and then tho renown!' He
pause 1 and glared round the room.
"vVould monsieur read it a.gain?"
tsVe I o:ie voice, faintly.
Monsieur did not read so n:u?ii as
iliont again.
"1'ivu hundred francs for the most
hiMuiifnl and natural design cf the
t.b-leiss. Nothing conventional nl
owe I in the c.nnpetitiou. The prize
Ik oS'cred by a wealthy Amerieau who
b'sir.'M to take back a souvenir of the j
X.llh Alps to his country. "
Mous.eiir threw aside the paper as Le .
tried passionately :
"An I you say you hsve never seen
f i d'e'weisa srviwill;.', tiiat v kl)o ,
j it win re to fill. I ii. lieuce do you '
mpi'iiso 1 wrought that lb-sign tttid
iat," pointing with trembling hauds
I'j the models copied by his pupils
ear after year. "I searched until I ,
mud my edelweiss. True, it is not I
pleutiiul in this legion, but it grows
I -nougat tho rocks below tho glacier
fondir."
He pointed to the mountain above
luo village, sighed, turned abruptly
Iromthe window, nnd sat dowu at his
iesk. The oM man was very angry.
If ere wua a chsuce to iii"reo I he fame
f his wor'is'Uw;. r.ni thcrs was no
, loirit iit tU yo'utlu before hiu.. He
' ooied from one to auother, with
4mot patuetio longiui to see sou.
spark of genin in the fur. But all j
wore bent over their work, qmte con
tent to copy with exquisite skill tho
beautiful designs he had made from
ten to fifty year ago. Now his old
hands had quite lout their cunning
though hi brain wan an clear a ever.
Jacques Htood behind hi master.
His usually downcast eyes wore up
raised and shining. A daring thonnht
had come to the boy's mind. Dead
ened by hin own injuries, hi brain yet
found t .rong impetus in tho sympathy
which tilled hit generous heart. He
felt in some oco-ilt manner that mon
sieur wan suffering acutely, and to suf
fering Jacques's soul was keenly re
sponsive. "I will do it," ho aid to himself,
"I can carve. I can invent." Ilia mouth
rlom-d tlrmly. His flashing eyes were
be tit on monsieur's bowed head. When
th! master turned, he met this intense
gaze, which combined tho look of a
faithful dog with intelligent aud dur
ing sympathy.
The old ni'iu'a eyes filled as ho mo
tioned the lad away. Was it come to
thin, tint he should bo pitied by this
dull KOlll ?
Jacques went out into the sunshine
like one in a dream, uplifted from the !
earth bv wings whose powers hu senree
ly ilari-d to test. Hut ho was speedily
recalled to the present by rudo de
mands on his services. I'y the time
lie reached his lair aliovo th goat's
she. I, it whs past the .sunset lmur, and
the afterglow was spreading from tin;
base t'i thu snowy peaks of tho Ober-
land.
lac pun sought in the sonii-darkness 1
f t ho loft for wooden box, with
which h 1 crept down tho ladder to tb"
light. Hero beside old Natmette,
po it, he sat at ease, gloating over, .ne
treasures which he hildforth one by
one. Nnniiette herself'iad oft'jn been
his model. Again the familiar flowtrs
and lYtvts had served his p.-pose. !
N ) r. pupil in the workshop of moii- j
sieur could huvc improved these woiks ,
by a touch.
.Tactile knew it. Ho had listened I
too often to tho lectures of the mast'T i
t:ot t know tho difference between
fjnn.l ii:i'l bud work. His insuctiou
of his designs M't ined to give him
couriuo s his gaze rested ou tho fail- '
ill',' glow which tinned tho rocks by tho
glacier.
"I will do it, monsieur," naid he,
aloud.
Ni.nht was falling when he sot out
for the heights. Tho moon had not
yel risen above the rocky spur. of the
mountain, for the valley was nurro
and deep. Tins air was chilled bv
w in,1 th,,t !,.w,'l'1 fr',w the ?acr- j
of the glacier through tho ra-i -?u gnr
ments of .biO'iues. Dut hope) hrilled
his heart to endure physical
fort. The lust light from th
iiseo'.v
tillage I
icyond j
rs and I
ard the 1
""t to I
1
disappeared as the boyclimbc
tin; intervening trees. . IL,
hours he must toil upward t
cluster of chalets wh-re ho
awuit tho dawn.
"Wtleii JseijueK stuiiildjd kj Yin
iiiouulit road, the rough men of the I
chalets were asleep. Cureless of a
welcome, the wcarv lr.d boldly entered
the neatest shelter and lav down to
rest. He was awakened from his ;
dreamless sleep by the hospitable ow iu-r
of the chaiet who ynsn him food, and
the clwcr of kindly words. Jacques
received this strange experiene-j with
his usual silence, Imt a radiant smile
r- i i - in.- from his uplifted eyes, he
stui te 1 again for the heights.
I'ive thousand feet In-low him the
valley was enveloped ill mist which, to
-I icpies, seemed a veil that shut awny
IroM him the accustomed life of .'ruel
trudery. Ah! here was the sui:!
Its, -It not vet visible, but the snowy
pi aiishal emerged from their cloud
.!' mist, and stood tinged with piuk
and gold against the blue sky. Jacipu-s
I'l '.'HIl to sing.
I'p and ii rose the sun above t.li
mouutsius, till they shone with heaL
'i'iierc was now no shelter, uo trees, lur
shrubs. The tlowery slopes lay far
below, and the goat track censed at
tho foot of tho glacier. Henceforth
the way t tliu rocks pointed out by
Monsieur lYrrot was broken and hard
to follow; but here and there eivl
streamlets guryled from utld'.'r the
hotildcr.4 blocking the road, nnd
Jiicipies sank beside them to drink
and rest.
He eoul l almost hear the throbbing
, of his heart in thesn solitudes. He
looked down at the village, a mere a l I
m mo y.u ey. ine uhoi ef.-.iy
n.oruing had long since vaaisucd. He
v.illcv. lhe uuie ot et.:lr
1. l......l..l....... L..f.l I.I lA 1.
llli'lie'i uniiiini irmiuiu bv tuv iifikt
of the torrent tearing its way over the
roe'.iy precipices. Afar the solemn
resonance of tho avalanche seemed to
thrill the universe. Jacques was now
in sight of tho huge rocks to which
m MiMcur had pointed as the home of
the edelweiss.
Jacques rubbed his eyes, dazzled by
tho glure mil glitter of sunbeams
around him; thou with breathless
eagerness climbed ou beside tho tor
rent and up, up, up. At last tho
edelweiss !
Fright though the "tie. might be
a'lout Jacques, that wsi but a di'.rk
, day in the workshop. Everytniug
', went wrong. Models were dinplaoed,
dust covered thn lloor, and vuo pupil
who volunteered his services to clear
the room upset tome fragile work of
the master's. Monsieur lYrrot cried
! vehemently a hundred times that
morning, " uere is tins jaequesr i u
belabor him soundly wheu be arrives!"
A tecoiid day passed, and by this
time a goat-herd, arriving t the vil
lage, mentioned iucideutally that
Jacques had passed the night in his
chalet. The villagers learned t ) miss
him in the week that followed, uu I
nursed their wrath at his temerity in
thus breaking the routine of his life.
The authorities decided that messen
ger should be sunt to bring him back
to the village: but this step was
rekdered unnecessary, as one day
Jsyquea reappeared. lit" oalux and
more ragged than before, Imt appar
ently tho same humble drudge. Home
thought him even more silent than be
fore. Nothing could induce him to
tell why or where hu had been on tho
mountain.
As by magio the workshop re
turned to its former order, and Mon
sieur Ferrot could devote his time to
the choice of the goods for the storo
at Interlaken. He was enduring bitter
mortification of spirit. His friend,
the proprietor of the art museum, had
said :
"It is certain some pupil from tho
workshop of Monsieur Tcrrot will
carry oft the fire hundred francs."
"Why ?" monsieur had replied
with eager vanity. His friend waved
his hand iu tho direction of tho works
of art just laid out for choice. "No
other w"rk comes up to this," ho re
plied, "though I've seen all the de
signs before."
I'oor Monsieur Tcrrot ! Ho would have
permitted this season to pass without
visiting Interlaken if his living had
not depended on these sales.
Home weeks later he opened tho
door of his workshop with a gloomy
i air ono morning. In a few hours ho
must start for Iutcrlnken. Ho paused
with his hand on the Intel), casting
angry glances on his pupils ns they
camo clattering and laughing nloti
the stone-paved afreets.
"Fools! Tigs!" ho murmured.
"They have no souls, no ambitious!"
He entered tho workshop and up-
proached his desk. Hero he halted
t in extreme surprise, and hmked round
with eyes that swam with tears on tho
noisy youths ns they entered
Toll
i'A he.
Which cf
VOU I
He pointed to his desk, upon which
stood an exquisite carving of edelweiss
apparently growing from some rocks
piled skilfully around it. In a mo
ment the whole troop clustered round
the master. Mouths fell open with
surprise, eyes widened with intense
astonishment. Monsieur lYrrot looked
upon them benignantly.
"You were not willing that the old
nan's workshop should lose its re
nown?" said he, his voice trembling
with emotion. "Let me pmbracohim
whohus done this beautiful work!"
They hiiug their heads. "Not I,
not I," was heard, until, abashed, all
slunk away to the benches.
Monsieur stood bewildered. His
enraptured gaze seemed absorbed in
the perfoition of tho edelweiss. At
iengt'a he turned t j his pupils.
"Messieurs," haul he, scathing
them with his cUti'v, "this is a work
: !aln1 Y,;u Brri ribt' TUiH "
nc'iio ot vours.
Ke mused. His roving, fiery glance
caught tie radiant smile of Jiicipies,
who htood breathless in the doorway,
leaning nn his broom. A light broke
in upon tho mind of tho old artist;
scales fell from his eyes.
"Jacques !" he cried. "You?"
Well mit'ht tho ntndents be struck
dtlino wlllcwiirp is for tbe-letlT
stant saw "stiiiid .Is.tues," the village
drudge, held close iu the embrace of
the master.
"You shall sweep no more, my son,
niv son!" cried Monsieur lYrrot,
brushing aside his tears of joy. Then
politely holding out the broom to tho
workmen, he said :
"Mi ssieurs, for the future this im
plement will be v. ielded in turn by
me mvl another of you, for
Jiicipies "
Ho looked down on tho 1ml w ith un
speakable ti ndeniess.
"You have saved the old man's nnme
from dishonor. Henceforth we shall
be as father and son. Come!' To In
terlaken !"
tie released the bewildeled liul from
his embrace, and carefully took up
the precious work of art. Monsieur
lYrrot held it out well iu view A tho
open -mouthed pupils.
".Messieurs, adieu !" said he, bowing
derisively iu their direction.
Then laying one arm around tho
bent shoulder of the village drudge,
he bore Jactpte away to the world be
yond tho vulley, where famo and
fortune awaited his genius. Yuuth's
Companion.
NorwprfAii Superitltlon.
Tliu simple faith of tho Norwegian
peasants is thst tho seeing or see
ing beings ot the other world is a mere
I question of strong or weak nerves.
Only, reversing tue creneraliy ac-
; t.t..)t0li belief, it is tho Northmnuof
, Mt nerves who has power to see
" ... ---
the unseen, says All tho Year Kound.
And ho who sees it fears it not. "If
you have tho grit," says my informant,
"you amy seo dozens and scores of
forms pass your door, but you know
uot what it is to feel alarm."
"There's a ghost on every ship,"
says tho same authority. "My own
uncle, who saw tho unseen pluiu from
his childhood, was married to u woman
who could not believe iu spirits. He
had a Ashing smack of his own, aud
saw strange tuings oi nights, t'no
uight ho asked her to go out with him,
and she went. 'If 1 see anything I
will call ' for you,' ho said, and she
agreed to it. In the dark middle ot
the night ho could see three men como
walking on th i water townr.l tho lit
tle vessel. Ho wjut and called his
wife, saying:
"Look out now ; do you see nothing?'
'No,' said the wife. 'I see nothing
but the water and ho darkness.'
"'Well,' said he, 'there are threo
men there, plain to bo seen, and now
I'll go aud get up the nets, for a storm
is surely coming.'
"Two o'clock was thn wonted ho.tr
for getting up the nets, but wait, he
would not, iu spite of all that his wife
could say to him.
"When two o'clock camo the nets of
all the other fishermen were lost, and
their boats nearly wrecked iu a aud Jen
great storm that rose, but my uncle
was well out of it, and anchored ia
safety, because he could read the signs
they were all blind to.
NOVEL 8.W-M1LL
IT IS OPERATED ALMOST EN
TIRELY I1Y KLKPIIANTS.
A forre of Clant Pachyderm That
Carry Iog ami Arrange Them .
In I'lles Two Art as Over j
see rs and KIor the Lazy.
T ISPLAYSof trained animals,
I I broken for show purposes;
I J cannotofler t he slightest com
C psrison in interest to tho
trained elephant exhibition one see
in the city of Moulmein, British Dor
in ah. The most absorbiugly enter
taining feature of the novel sight ia
the paradoxically industrial charactei
which tho work of these huge Indit.it
pachyderms as-.trnoJ. It hardly
seems possible that the wor!: of a saw
mill, usually done by human hands',
could be accomplished through the
medium of the elephant's trntu ann
the elephant's ssgacity; nevertheless,
it is a fact that the Irrawady Hteamshi
Company uses some forty to fifty ele
phants in the operation of its saw-milli
nt Moulmein, and the teakwoo.l aii
largely eutering into the construction
of ships is here made ready for the ar
tisan, says the Ht. Lo.iis Globe-Demo -cr.it.
The logs are chopped iu the interior
and floated several hundred mile
down tha Hnlwin river to the mill,
whic is situated on the banks of tho
stream at Moulmein. Here tho logs
are formsd into a boom, and hence
forth tho work of transportation i
done by the elephants. '
Tho boom is very similar to tho'j
we see in tho lumbering districts of
Wisconsin and Michigan, but instead
of the sight of men, brightly garbed
in red and blue, running from log to
log and moving them with long stcel
pointed poles, we see great, ponderous
elephant wadingaud swimming!., i;
the teak logs and pushing them toward
the shore.
Tho logs are not sawed directly from
tho water, but are lirst seasoned, aud
tho elephants not only bring tbe logs
from the water to the land, but also
stack them in huge piles, convey them
to the mill, saw them and afterward
pile the lumber. Ot course each ele
phant performs only such certain parts
of the work for which he has been
trained and the entire herd is divided
into companies of from two to eight.
One division of the pachyderms does
the work in tho water, another com
pany carries tho logs to tho drying or
seasoning stacks, others pile them, an
other cluss conveys the dry logs to the
mill, where some of the elcphmts do
the work of sawing, still othi rs pile
tho sawed lumber and another herd
carries hay and prepares the food for
this great industrial combination of
brute strength and intelligence.
Hut tho most wonderful, in tweet
ing, novel and almost incroi ibV
(ontm. .." ths entire mi Hnn
the night of two monstrously large
innlo elephants that actually act im th
capacity of bosses or overseer of the
work. These move from place- to
place among tho 'working elephant,
spurring them on, pushing, driving
aud frequently chastising a lazy ur
recalcitrant member of the force.
Very ftw men are needed to direct
tho elephants in their work. From
six to eight of the nnimals nsuaily
work in the wutr. These wade or
swim, according to tho depth of tho
water, to- tho log boom, and, loosen
ing several logs at a time, tow them to
shore at a err tn in point. Each of the
company of elephants thnt convey tlio
logs from this point to the drying
place has chain attached to his neck
and reaching to the ground. At the
bottom of this chain is a loop through
which tho lug is run. A man directs
tho movement' of the clophauts in
placing the bsg within the coil of the
chain. Tho elephant picks up another
log by his trunk, uud in this maimer
drags two-at a tune to the seasoning
stacks. AJiout eight elephants are em
ployed in this capacity. The work of
piling the logs to dry is doue by two
female obtphsuts. Each winds her
trunk about the log near tho end, and
together Uy raise it in a horizontal
position and place it ou the stack.
After the logs have dried sufficiently
they aro ready for the mill. Two fe
male elephants take the dry logs from
tho piles and de-liver them to a herd
similar in training to those that worn,
between tho water and the seasoning
stacks. Thi-HO couvey the logs to a
track over which a small car ruus to
tue null, wiiiy ono log at a time is
placed upon this car. As aoon as a
log L ia position ou tho car an ele
phant trained for this particular part
of the work pushes the car to the mill.
Arrived at tho mill the log is pushed
from tho car to a carrier that passea
beneath the buzz-saw. As soon tut the
log is thus transferred to tho carrier
the elephant operating the car returns
for auother lop, while another huge
beast, trained to do the sawiug,
operates the carrier aud puhea t,he
log against the saw. Hut the interest
ing part of the work does uot end hero,
for as the log is beiug sawed into
the desired boards and timbers ku
other elephant receives tho completed
material, pilling the slabs on oue side
aud the more valuable product on .ha
other, ltut two men are required .to
oversee and direct the elephants Jin
sawing tue logs.
Another detachment of the herd
is
asnd in carrying the lumber from the
mill to the yards and sheds. For this
purpose very long trucks with the lew
tront aud back wheels close to Htoh
other are used. There are elephnuts
trained for loading the sawed mate
upon these trucks, while others p
the loaded truoks to the sheds,
the lumber yard are the "niters"
Vial
ish
Iu
or
elephants that take the lumber flora
the truoks and place in piles for further
seasoning.
At stated before, inert u one
I . .
tachment of this strange arm of la
borers which does the "kitchen work"
for the hotel de elephant, or whatever
the feeding place of these big fellows
may he called. Some may be seen
carrying hay for the stables, but by
far the roost interesting sijrht ia the
preparation of the food. This is com
posed of gmsii.bran and molasses, and is
mixed iu a large vat. While eome are
carrying thes? different components of
this highly dele.7tsA.-Ie elephantine
boarding-houso hash, others are en
gaged in mixing it with pestles which
they dexterously manipulate with their
trut-ks. The narr.tk r observed one of
the elephants suddenly stop in his
work with the pestlo and refuse to
wield his mixing stick any further.
One of the two big boss elephants w.s
called to th-) scene, and. picking ir
the recalcitrant's pestle, bent him with
tt over the back nnd hips until he re
turned to his work.
Only about ten men are employed
in directing the work of tho entire
herd of dephanls. Tho who havo
seen this novel mill nt Moulmein in
operation all aicreo iu giving it the
credit af being the greatest exhibition
of trained animals in the world.
0n ol Knssla's Ouror Seed.
Tho 01 1 Believer?, or Mien of the
Ancient Faith, niv .1 loissiaii sect, so
called because they cling tenaciously
to tho old service books, the old ver
sions of the .liible, the old hymn
book, tho old prayer book and all the
customs that were in vogue in tho
IbiKsian church previous to the re
forms effected bv the Patriarch Nie.m
in the seventeenth century. They use
the old Slavonic nlplnibet in their lit
nrgical books; they make tho sign of
the cross in a different manner to that
customary iu tho parent church. Tho
processions in their churches walk
from right to left instead of from left
to right, as Nicon ordered. They think
it unlawful toeatcertain kindsof food,
including har! and potatoes, and they
prove from the Old Testament that it
is unlawful to cut their beards. They
never celebrate tho eucharist, and
only administer baptism at tho ap
proach of death. Some of them are
fanatics, and delnr all temporal and
civil government to bo anti-Christian ;
tench the community of goods, extol
suicide aud voluntarily burn them
selves alive rather than be forced into
compliance with the rites aud cere
monies of the National church. They
are chiefly found among tho peasants,
and their poverty may be oue of the
causes of their possessing no places of
public worship and meeting in each
other's houses instead. They were per
secuted tinder Peter I., who laid double
taxes on them, but his successors, es
pecially CathsritiH II. and Alexander
I., adopted a milder policy with the
hope of winning them back to tho
Eastern church. Br:oklyn Eagle.
Calamities Which Have Invaded Paris.
Paris has undergone atrocious suf-ri-
'amine, pestil
ence, and calamities of all
Normans, after burning ont- ilf ot
Paris, allowed th remainder to bo
ransomed with an enormous sum of
ruouey. In ono of tho famines by
which Paria in its early days was so
often visited pcoplo east lots ns to
which should be eaten. Tho taxes
were so excessive that many pretended
to bo lepers in order to prolit by the
exemption accorded in such casus.
Hut it was sometimes not well to bo a
leper, real or pretended ; for it was
proclaimed one day to- the sound of
the horn and trumpet that lepers
throughout the kingdom should be ex
terminated. "In conseqiieuce of a
mixture of herbs and human blood
with which, rolling it up in a linen
rloth and tying it to a stone, they
poison the wells and rivers." iu tho
centre of the so-called "towns" Paris
iu general, that is to say, as distinct
from the city was "la Maubee" (do
rived, accordiug to Victor Hugo,, from
mauvaise fumes), where Jews innumer
able were roasted over pitch and green
wood, to puuish what a chronicler of
the time terms their "authropouiauey,"
and what the Counselor de- 1 Ancra
further describes- as "the marvelous
cruelty they have always shown toward
Christians, their mode of life, their
synagogue, so. displeasing to God,
their uncleanliuess aud Uunr stench."
Old and New Paris.
The Jiidgo's (iallantry.
A judge, ridiug in the cars recently,
from a single- glance at the counte
nance of a lady by hi side imagined
he knew her, and ventured to remark
that tbe day was ploaM&ut. , (She only
answered :
"Yes!"
"Why do yon wear a veil?"
"Lest I attract attention."
"It is the pruviuoe uf gentlemen to
admire," replied tho gallant man of
law.
"Not whon they are married 1"
"But I am na."
"Indeed!"
"Ob no ! I'm a bachelor !"
The lady quietly removed her veil,
disclosing to the astonished magistrate
the face ot his mother-in-law ! Boston
Courier.
Car Loads of Human II Air.
Eight oars loaded with human hair
arrived in Paris recently, consigned to
dealers iu that merchandise. The hair
came from India and China, whence
thousands of pouuds are annually sent
to England aud Franoe. This traffic,
a foreign medical journal says, is the
cause of the introduction of many dis
eases to Europe. The hair is out from
persons after death in China, and al
though it ia disinfected upon arrival
in France, it ofton carries the germs
of diseaiio. Asiatio hair, owing in part
to its coarseness, can be purchased
cheaply, , it selling often as low as
twenty cents a kilogram. The hair of
Europeans, howevor, average about
20 for the !. amount. Chicago
xltrald,
lDrt'LAR SCIE3CE.
A thimble will hold over 100,000 of;
the smallest screws made.
The monster water wheel at tho Cal-amc-t
and Heclo copper mine, Lake
Superior region, weighs 200 tons.
The pneumatic guns of the Vcauvina
throw shells weighing 430 ponnds all
tho way from threc-qusrters of a mile
lo a mile and three-eighths. . .
The venom of poisonous reptiles,
Inserts, etc., kills by changing the
thape of the blood corpuscles so as to
make it impossible for them to circu
late. This, of course, causes blood
(oisoaiug. A method of treating tho most stub
born and refractory cases of malaria,'
inggestcd by an Italian physician, M.
Xibilis, consists in the hypodermio in
lection of quiuinu until it produces an
tVsccss. The theory of this treatment
is that nn abscess draws to it all the
infectious perms in the systom and
innihilates them by raei.ns of its snp
Duration. An artificial abscess would
ibu naturally servo to drain from tha
Mood the organisms which cause ma
bria. .'.JTl
The "rod spot" on tho disk of Jupi
ter, which his been visible on lhe
loutheriv lnmisph"ro of tho planet
inco 1S7 h is purhsjis attracto-; more
attention than any modern astronomi
p.il oddity, unless, says the' St. 1 ouis
llepitblie, wo give the palm to thi so
railed "canals of Mars." Tho first
hint ofv. tin) tinted markings on tha
tri.mt's face wcro, we believe, given by
Professor E. M Holden ns early as
1S75, but Professor E. E. Barnard ap
pears to bo Iho champion "spot
tinder" and observer. He has found
that Jupiter's great red spot rotates ia
nine hours, fty-livo minutes and
! thirty-flvo seconds. Near tho equator
of tho planet, howevor, is a w hite spot,'
which is equally us interesting to the
astronomers as tho red one, of which
to much his been said and written.
This p ile blemish is a puzzler. It ia
th-ipcd like a comet's tail, and it make
its regular rotations iu nino hoursi
llfty-tivo minutes and twenty seconds!
What causes that fifteen seconds' dif
ference in tin perind of rotation be
tweeu the two spots is an enigma to
all observers.
A (lever Kihp.
A steamer was plowing her way
through the wide wnters of the river
Volga, goiug in the direction of tha
Caspian Sen. Luto in the evening a
young man approched tho captain and
asked that ho might bo put on shore
p.t tho next village they passed. The
captain complied nnd the steamer con
tinued on her course.
Later in the e 'ening another pas
ucuger ran to the captain aud said:
"My valiso has Wen stolen from my
cabin. It contained S3D00."
The enptnin cautioned the passenger
to keep silent aud to tell no one of hia
loss.
' tb r " tm and -
.. assen-
gt-rs, if nnj, . ( me yes.il
had turned in a largo circle and waa
now returning np stream and traveling
back over the same course. A flag of
tiiffirent Nationality was hoisted and
u canvas was thrown over tho bnlr
warks so us to conceal tho vessel'
name.
A shrill w'uistlo nnnonnced the ap
proach to a village. Alnmt was rowod
out from tho wharf and tie) ve.ssel was
signalled to stop. A mail camo on
board carrying a valise. It was tho
Kiimo man who,, thinking himself safe
on the other vessel, fell into tho hands
of his former captain. Ho could hard
ly believe it possible, but was con
vinced when the steamer resumed her
rightful course and ho was landed at
a station where he is likely to make a'
long stay. New lork Herald.
A Fortunate Tumble.
Among the passengers on tho Penu'
sylvania day express this morning waa
James Peterson, a wealthy gold miner
from houtlteru Nevada. He is en
route for Portland. Me. , to visit hi
relatives and friends. Mr. Peterso'
, vent wost ten year ago with tb
U'litiou of starting u cattle ranch,
had somo money, but lost it iu spec.
lationsinTexas, aud finally drifted into
the mining rogion-s. Ho worked as a
miner in Colorado, Utah aud Cali
fornia, but got nothing but the wages
puid him by the operators, aud at lust
decided to- return to his home. Be
fore starting, howevor, ho concluded'
to visit tluv placer mining region of
Southern Nevada. While out prospect
ing one day he tumbled over a piece of
rock and fell heavily to thoground.
Ho was stunned for a few minutes,
aud while .sitting thero nursing hia
bruises ln saw a bright looking object
near tho stone over which he had
stumblwd. lfe picked it up, examined
it and won overjoyed to find it waa a
gold nugget It was nbont the size of
a marble, but was sufficient to con
vinco him that ho had made a great
disoovery. He then searched ovor tho
ground iu the vicinity and found o
half-dozen nuggets of various sizes.
He took his bearings, hastennd to tho
camp, and returned and aUked out a
claim. Ho has since made thousands
ot dollars out of that claim, and now
has stook in several valuable mine be
ing operated iu that section. Pitts
burg Press. '
Freak Among Fowls. ,
A dispatch published in the SC.
Louis Qlobe-Deiuoorat tells how Mrs. j
V)r. Beach, of Olath, Kun., found a'
two-cent pioco in the yolk of an egg
which she had bought in one ot tha.
stores. How the coin got thero is, of'
course, a mystery, but if tho samo
fowl could bo induced to lay the
same kind of egg right along, it
would be a good spociiueu to breed
from, Tho strain might iu tir
duoa a rival to the famous
laid tho goldea egg. O-