THE LIBERTY BELL.
to! At Its coming how nil mn rejoice-
A ringing cbnrus swlls ! '
For on? it spnk with Libert y's ovftf l?e
Tbls boll ot botln I '
It toiuruo malo horov In tlio days of olJ,
Air! Mill, as J'Br as thin,
Its doatlilivw story to tho sis tol l
Makes patriots of nn'n !
Aii'l In lt. !m"n' swift fr imstun lto 'tnnd
K'vsoiiinl thi Imle n't.
O'er Its triumphal journ-yimr through tbo
Ian. I
Tlio (lute ' glory floats !
And tho wild rivers iln-Mmi to th" deep
Ktlll pi'Iio loud nml long.
Air! nil their silver wiivf in K'"ry l''l
To one Immortal somr!
Ono s arini? s in;? nf llliertv an 1 Ufa
Tlint was mi 1 N to
Till tyrant (ln ur tntmpl" I in tlin strif
An'! nil t)m worl I Is frn !
All hull our c ejiitrv! la hli?'u gr.v:o sho
s'fiiiU
Nor f "Mrs th war-drum's I) Nit j
The sword of fr 'l m In hr tt ! v hand-
TIih tyrnnt nt her fe"t !
-I'. I.. Stuuton, In A'lanta Constitution.
THE TWO CAPTAINS.
nv TOM II ALU
O tho kinS."
"To my king."
The toasts, though
libt!y different,
wcro uttered simul
t a ti c o u s 1 y. T li o
sccno was tlio broad
veranda of h South
Carolina plantation,
nt fifteen miles
from tlio famous
fity nf Charleston ;
tlio tiir.o was the
curly fi'ilimn of 171 ; wbilo tho char
acters wi to a yoiin. captain of His
Majesty's artillery, u portion of which
was guarding tho city of Charlestou,
nil u young woman in perhaps lier
twenty-sccon 1 yiiir. A famous beauty
was thin Miss Pliodio Foiiidcxter, ami
a most captivating picture sho made,
in tho eyes of tho captain of artillery,
as hho sat thrumming tho keys of her
harpsichor 1. Tlio latter was a lmtid
omo young in ki . apparently thirty
yeurs of a ;e, with a perfect air of
goo 1 1 1 r ' "O 1 i li nil 1 evidently of NOy
grace, for ho had j ist finished a solo
ou tuo Hut)! to tlio iico-juipauiuient of
the youug ,i y.
"Tho fact is, Miss riinbe, I hardly
know what I should do with inyneif
we ro it not for the possibility of ril
iag out h'-ro to spend au occasional af
ternoon with you or should I Kay,
both iu gallantry and truth, every nf
ternoon with you? Tho town is him
ply too dull for aNoldier now that Lord
Cornwallis has taken tho major part of
our army with him iu his chaso after
tho rebel flreeno."
"And what do you think, captain,
are bin chaucos of capturing General
Oreene?"
"Oh, the chanoes are Tpfct, my
r"'Jj tltu l j at wars au-
.uuied, acoording to our dis
bji.'M, at tho battle of fluilford
Court l.oti'-o, and ho badly demoral
ized that they ran from tho field liko
shce-p. Indeed thoro was nonnecessity
fer further pursuit. Groono is starv
ing up thero in tho mountains of
North Carolina and will surrender at
discretion in tho course of a week or
two. His defeat and reduced
circumstances will bo tho ex
ease, but the real rea
son will bo British got 1. You remem
ber, of course, our Hiiccet-s with their
General Arnold. Well, after a iuhu'm
ambition has been killed, he will uot
fipfht in any causo with neither food
nor pay. And that is tho diro ex
tremity to which Uroct'o has been
forced by tho glorious uucee.ss of His
MnjestyVarms. My Lord Cortnvallis
Las turned north and iu a mouth will
have defeated and captured that littlo
boy of a Frenchman, La Fayette.
With their artuiei of tho South and of
the Centre defeated, ho will move next
nprlng upon tho only remaining army
of tho rebels, tint under the miscreant
Wahhington. It will bo a tdiort cam
paign, a battle, a rout, it pursuit and
then peaco and with pence will come
its delightful hnudmaidou, love. Ami
then then, Mistress l'oiu dexter, I
ehall have tho honor of eluiiuiiij,' you
for a bride, of selling out my commis
sion and living the ijuiet life of an
Luflish country eiitlemnn for, I LiLpe,
tho rent of my life."
"A charmiiij.; nrrnntrenient of eveuts
for yourself, my dear Captain Webb I
Hut I must H'.iy it appear! to mo as
thouyh General Coruwallis's movement
into Virginia is nmro liko a retreat
than tho advance of a victorious and
conqueriii;; uruiy. And as for Gener
al Greene, they wiy that ho is not only
Larassine; General Coruwallis at every
btep of his northward movement, but
Las detached his cavalry and a portion
of his ritlemeu to reconquer tho Caro
liuas and Georgia."
"On what utter nonsense do theo
misguided colonists feed their despair
ian Lopes I" nuswered tho captain.
"Why, it would be no more ridiculous
for you to assure mo that a detach
ment of Marion's outlaws were here,
urroundiug this very house, and that
, I was iu danger of becoming a prisoner
to them, as to what was that?" Tho
captain jumped hurriedly from his
scat and, grasping the railing of tho ve
randa iu front of him for support,
lookod anxiously up and down tho
road that run iu front of tho old plan
tation. "It scorned to mo mobt liko tho
winding of a Lorn," said tho lady,
calmly.
"And, by mv faith, I hoard tho wal
loping of horses and a nhort com
maud," continued tho captain, ex
citedly. "Inside, inside, enptain, as you value
your liberty," said the lady ; " I saw
a mountod man in a uniform there in
the bushes just now, and I know the
uniform well.
"And the Wearer ?"
"Yes, the wearer."
"Then it is detachment of Marl
on's outlaws indeed. 11a, I will bo an
agrerablo prizo for Captain Tickons.
An interesting meeting between two
rivals it will be, indued I I mutt bo
saved, mndnrn, or your own loyalty
will be put in question."
"And, pray, what can I do?" asked
tho girl, drawing her iclf up to lier full
height and looking at tho English offi
cer with scornful and indignant eyes.
"You cnu tell them that there is no
ono concealed in your house. He
will never daro to doubt your word."
"You would have mo toll a lio to
savo you me, tho woman you pretend
to love and wish to make your wifo?"
"It is a case of necessity quick,
they nre approaching on all sides.
limy imvo been informed. It is a
trick!"
"Where will vou Lido?" askod tho
girl, with an insulting emphasis on
tho word "hide."
"You will tell them that no ono is
concealed in tho house?"
"J shall tell thorn nothing bat the
absolute truth bo quick."
"Then thero is but ono place where
I will bo safe, answered tho captain,
"and thero only if hobo a gentleman."
Saying which, tho captain darted np
tho stairs ami entered Miss roindcz
ter'a own chamber.
Ho ha l no moro than closed tho
door when a lithe, athletic young offi
cer in tho pnrtisancavnlry leaped over
tho railing of tho veranda aud stood,
embarrassed and Lat in Land, bowing
beforo the young mistress of tho man
sion. "Phmbc!" exclaimed tho young
soldier.
"Would it not bo better to address
mo nr, your prisoner?" answerod Miss
I'oitidexti r. "If I am not mistaken,
you Lave surrounded my home with
arme I soldiers and havo eomo your
self on no gentlo errand."
"Prisoner, rhenbe?" answered tho
patriot captain. "I would never wish
to hold you prisoner, savo in tho bouds
of love. My presetico hero nood" nn
explamil ion and I will make it. I Lave
received information that un English
olliccr is visitiug you this afternoon.
It is a matter of duty. I havo been
ordered fur in advance of tho return
in,' troops of Marion and Sumter, for
tin; rxpiv-s purpose of catching some
of th'. iilli-vrs of tho garrison at Chnr
kbtou oil I heir guard; aud I expect to
appear at tho very gates of that city
beloro I am done and let them know
that, far from beiuj? defeated as they
suppose, General G ret no's nrmy Las
driven their red-coats from tho Cnro
linas and is chasing Cornwallis him
self to tho sea.
'kVLat a romnnco!" laughed tho
young lady.
"I wish I had timo for romance,"
said tho officer; "thoro could be no
m'oro delightful opportunity. 0nly
when this war is over will I bo able to
ask you to reward a love that Las boon
faithful to yon ever sinco we wore
children. But to 1'Ujr Arc ton but
boring an English officer hore?"
"Why, of courso I am," she ans
wered, laughingly.
"This is no timo for joking," said
the captain. "Jf ho is not here, ho
cauiiot have bjen gono u very long
time; and if you delay me, bo may
yet get within tho gates of Charleston."
"It seems to mo that you arc atrillo
difficult to-day," hho replied. "Do
you not believo mo?"
"Of course," he said, bjting his lips
nervously. "I shall havo to seurcU
tho house," ho continued.
"O, we are nnito used to it," sho
answered.
llo ordered up his men and boan n
systematic circh of tho mnnsiou and
surrounding buildings. Ho himself,
however, stood immovably in front of
tho door that ho knew opened into her
private apartments, and permitted no
one to enter. Tho search was there
fore useless.
"Well." said sho. teasiusly. "hv
do you not enter my own room?"
if ho is an olhcer he should boa
gentleman, and could uot bo there,"
uiihwored tho captain. "You havo
been fojling me, l'lnobe, in order to
give him a start. I do not blaino you.
llo was a (Micst and you havo but ob
served tho laws of hospitality, even
though ho is an enemy to our couutry.
Farewell remember always 1 sha'll
come to you when this war is tiuished."
"Why not como beforo to-night?
You will not wish to camp nearer
Charleston than this, I am sure.
Gniudmothfr. who is in towu to-day,
shoppiug, will bo back by tea time,
and you cau tell us all tho news."
"Aud may I tell you Bomothing
else?"
"Yes without even waiting for tho
war to end. And 1 will tell you some
thing, too." Tho young patriot turned
about quickly for a moment aud for
a kiss. Then springing iuto tho saddle
ho iihoutod the commands : "To horso,
tho road to Charleston gallop!" and
was off.
As soon ns ho and Lis men were well
out of sizht. tho English artillery
captain made his appearance. "I sup
pose," he said, "that I am under obli
gations to yo-.i and yet I thought
your truthfuluess would havo been the
ruination of mo."
"And could you Lave admired or
loved a woman who had deliberately
lied?"
"Well, that is rather an odd ques
tion. If 'you had told an uutruth it
would havo beou iu a uoble cause. All
is fair in lovo and war, you know."
"Kveu hiding in a womnu's apart
ment?" "Oh, yes when necessity compels
it."
"Well, Captain Webb," said Miss
roindexter, sljwly, "will you in your
turn do mo a favor?"
"With the greatest pleasure, I am
sure," auswered the gallant captain.
"Will you please mount your horse
nl set safely baok into your own
linos," said Miss Toindeiter, "and stay ?
there?"
"Br Jove 1" said tho csptsin to
himself, as he turned away with flushed
checks, "I never intended to mnrry
her, but I'm blest if I don't believo
she'd make a wife that any man could
be proud of." Xcw York Truth.
Chinese liable.
Whi!iChina Is certainly not setting
tho example at present for the rest of
the world to pattern by, tho wives and
mothers of that land show a practical
wisdom in regard to tho care and nur
tnro of babies of which wo can imitate
many points with considerable bene
fit. Tho first rule is that everything
worn by a child should be loose. The
coat or gown, jacket or dress, is a
world too wido and is suspended from
the shoulders. Shoes and stocking)
are looked at withdisfavor.and are'only
put on to little boys after they learn
to walk, and only then when they go
out for a promenade or when they are
to reccivo important company. A
youngster goes round in his bnre feet
and enjoys tho rajsterions pleasure,
which only babies know, of playing
unltmitcdly with his toes and heels.
Tho third rule forbids the use of a
belt, girdlo or cincture of any kind
czcopting in full dress, ami then it is
worn loosely. The rule given by the
Chinese is sound science, and is that
Iho littlo child should breathe with its
stomach, and that anything interfer
ing w ith this kind of respiration is in
jurious. Another rule is to give tho
child playthings and to cultivate its
love of play. Birds, chickens, pup
pies, kittens, kids, lizards, flowers nud
nil sorts of objects nro given to tho
child, where wo confine his habits to
tho rattlo nud the rubber ring. Ono
result of this system is that tho Chi
ncso child will entertain and amuso
himself tho day long while tho West
ern child frets and wants something,
it knows not what.
Another style of toy consists of
children's furniture, stools nud shairs
no larger than eiar boxes; clumsy
littlo tables a foot high; littlo chairs
that swing with ropes from the top of
A doorway an I so low down to tho
grouud that a child can get iuto it
himself; littlo earth"uwaro bowls,
cheap but strong, with which it cau
make believo to have dinner. These
ami oilier thinsM of the kind amuso
millions of little folks. Still auollur
good rule is that of the parents be
coming children for tho time being
every day, and devoting nu hour or
two to baby talk and baby play. It
does good to tho children, and, it is
said, ns much moro good to tho fath
ers mid mothers. Last of all tho chil
dren aro allowed to play in tho sand
nul gravel as much as they desire.
New York Mail aud Express.
Calls a Moose a Wurd.
Uio Stato of Minnesota has on its
hands ono of tho most .novel suits on
record, and the outcome will be
watched with great interest by tho
legal fraternity, ns it will determine
whether or not a Stato i rspoosibl
for tie acts of tho game animals which
it protects for several months in tho
year.
Iho plaintilTMsjAIexandor rhnir, a
Willow Kiver homesteader, who was
some days attacked and badly injured
by a mooso which ho met in tho woods
whi'o on his way to Grand Eapids.
The law says moose cannot bo killed
for nearly three years yet, ami thero
fore i'liair did not shoot tho animal
when it rushed at hitu. Duriiur tho
fray l'hair was knocked down aud
badly cut up.
llo arrived at Grand Rapid and at
onco instituted proceedings against
the State to recover damages fcr per
sonal injuries, alleging that tho mooso
if a ward of tho State and tlio latter
in responsible far tho animal's acts.
If the case comes to trial, and l'hair
says ho is iu earnest in his suit, ho
will urgo that ho was prevented from
defending himself by tho fact that ho
would been severely punished hail ho
killed tho unimal.- Han Francisco
Chronicle.
Traces ol I'relilsforic Men.
Bomo weeks ago a Sun Diego (Cal.)
newspaper reported interesting dis
coveries inado ou tho north slope of
San Miguel Mountain by Herman C.
Cook uud C. A. I'uuvri, two mining
prospectors, tho discoveries compris
ing a prehistoric roadway, a number
of mining tools mid unmistakable
traces of an aitoicut mining camp.
Tho stone-paved road was traced to a
wall of solid and well-executed mason
ry. This was found to surround an
iuelosure, now filled with debris but
which is believe I to bo an oldarastra.
Near this urastra was discovrroi'. tho
mouth of a tunnel filled with debris.
In tho vicinity are also traceable tho
foundations ol' no loss than nineteen
Bin nil houses. It is believed that tho
cleaning of tho tunnel uud tho push
ing of tho investigation into tho tun
nel will load to more interesting dis
coveries thau uuy yet made bearing
ou tho life of auoieut man in this
region. Chicago Times-Herald.
Sunk the Axe Iuto His Hark.
The Episcopalians gave a harvest
festival at Nelson's Opera House,
Mount Clemens, Mich. Ou the pro
gramme was a farce iu which Cab Kicls
and Calvin Davis took leading parts.
Kiels was to pick up an axe aud hit
Davis iu tho back, where tho latter
had a board concealed under his vest.
Kiels's intention was to stick tho axo
into the board, but he missed his uim,
and instead of striking the board,
sunk tho uxo iuto Davis's buck. Davis
rushed behind the curtain and the
wildest confusion followed. Several
women iu the audieijc j fainted. Dr.
Wilson, who was present, attended
the wounded man, While the cut is
a serious one the doctor apprehends
no fatal results. Kiels feois doeply
regretful over the u-ishap. Chicago
Times-Herald.
FELONS AT PLAY.
A SCIENTIST'S fSTt'DY OP TIIK
SPURTS OF CRIMINALS.
Oames as Ilrutnt as They Are Re
pulsiveCruelty the linsM of
tbe Criminal's Amuse
ments. ArrtO CAHARA, a disoiple
of Cesare Lombroso, tho
' Italian expert in crimiual
anthropology, has made a
special stndy of the sports that crim
inals engage in. The innocent games
sf childhood, in tho case of criminals,
re tinctured with cruelty and somo
times accompanied by homicide. Crim
inals skip the rope, but part of the
a;amo is to trip np the jumper and lot
him fall heavily upon the stone pave
ment. Criminals play leap frog, but
part nf tho game is that ho who makes
tho "back" shall rise suddenly and yi
olently just as the frog mounts and
throw Lim to tho ground. The crim
inals play blindman's buff, but the
man with tho bandaged eyes carries a
handkerchief bearing in one corner a
jagged stone, n piece of hard, sharp
ened wood, or a bit of iron. With this
weapon he strikes thoso whom ho pur
sue. Another form of this gamo is
for tho blinded ono to bo strack by
ono or another oT his companion1! if
ho fails to name the ono that strikes
him. Tho pennlty is not the innocent
on 3 of tho children's'gamc, but a blow
so sovere that a physician has often to
bo called in after the game is over.
It has been found iu thoso Italian
reformatories where prisoners are not
kept in solitary confinement that pris
oners' games aro often acoomponiod
with bloodshed, and that it is al
most impossible to prevent cruelties.
This is especially truo whero prisoners
work together, for they secrete tools
and uso them as weapons iu brutal
sports. In ono of thoso games tho
player has in each hand a stick, bav
in:: fixed in Iho cud a keen metallic
point. He interweaves his arms, re
volving tho sticks with rapi lity, and
the gamo is for nnothcr prisotier to
thrust his head between the nrms nud
endeavor to follow tho revolutions of
tho sticks without being wounded. It
usually happens that ti3 receives fif
teen or sixteen wounds and comes out
with n bleeding head. Tho victim in
another game has his eyes bandagod
and places his palm upon a table, with
lingers spread fan-like. Another
criminal then repeatedly strikes be
tween tlio finders with u pointed in
strument. If ho wounds a finger then
the two change places, nud woo to tho
man who reluses tho exchango. Tho
game is daugerous, although tho crim
inals assert that tho wouuds to tho
fingers nre not dep or severe, bo
cause, as they say, tho metallic points
aro short and do not penetrato tar.
Tho sport of criminals is accom
panied by characteristic craft. This
is especially shown in ho methods in
whicj) tho uowooiatfr ii'"ioiti4t0 1 into
prison life. The nowcomer is con
ducted into . an improvised court
chamber whero tho judges aro his fel
low prisoners. Ho is placed upon a
Ktand and gravely tried upon a pro
tended charge, and ho has barely been
condemned when tho stand is sudden
ly ilrawu away so that ho is thrown
violently to tho earth.
Many games necessarily imply re
sistance to pain as an absolute con
dition of success. For examplo.thcro
is a game of "needles." Ono of the
players places bis closod lists upou
tho table, holding strongly two
needles, ono iu each hand, the points
being slightly exposed. It is tho
gamo then for a companion to slriko
with his own fists those of tlK other.
It is n question of endurance between
tho ono who is pricked with the
needles nnd tho ono whoso fists aro
beaten by tho other's knuckles. There
nro games in which tho fingers and
hands nie deeply wounded and the
sears aro an honorable distinction.
Tho characteristic featuro of all these
games, which aro tho recreation ex
clusively of criminals in prison, is tho
love of combat. If, as is hold by ex
perts, sports nro iho means of working
oil tho superfluous activity oflife.it
is evident that superfluous activity, in
case of prisoners, is especially power
ful, it has been noted iu tho case of
prisoners that thero is a prevalence of
erroat agility ami litheno.rj, which
l'rofessor Lombroso consider nega
tive evideuco of mental weakuess,
since it testifies to a greater develop
ment of tho motorial centros at the
expense of the other cerebral ctntre i.
liut usually this physical energy is not
properly used in tho or.liuary life of
the criminal and finds outlot aud en
joyment iu sports.
Another characteristic of tho games
of criminals is tho admiration shown
for physical force, manifested iu the
docility with which tho vanquished in
such sports submit to tbe brutality of
tho victors, a thing observed among
savages. Finally, the insensibility to
pain exhibited in sports of criminals
proves that such men are less acute in
their physical senses as well as less
seusitivo to the pains ot others; sinoo
what seems to others uselessly cruel is
only the usual thing with criminals.
As tho drunkard, his taeto hardened
by alcohol, has need of a stimulate
coubtantly stronger, so iu the cas: of
tho criminals tho nervous system de
mands stimulants so strong that, to
tho ordinary individual, they would
be actually painful. ,
The Crack Hull Fighter.
Gaerrita, who is now the first bull
fighter in Spain, hasappearod in fifty
eight fightsthis season, and hi engaged
for, uiuetoen moro. He receives $1200
for each appearance, aud, as his ex
penses average $100 a performance,
his clear income amounts to overgoO,
000 besides the present made to him.
New York Sun.
I Kcw TrUk ot Plckpocletf.
Tiiomss Marrsy, who, the police say,
Is noted crook, was arraigned in a
New York City Polica Conrt, charged
;k -v. i.e. tr
Todd, ft denier in artificial flowers. '
Todd, while walking through Four
teenth street, saw two men, who como
out of a restaurant, appear to quarrel.
One of them punched the other in tho
eye. While Todd stoak watching
them a third man, who said he was a
detective, placed tho men who were
fighting nnder arrest. As they started
away the man who had bocn struck
turned to Tcdd and said :
"You saw this row. Won't yon
come to the station house and tell
what yon saw?"
Todd said he would, and the four
men moved toward Third avenue, fol
lowed by the crowd which had collect
ed. When they reached Third avo
nue the supposed detective stoppod,
and said he would let the two men go
if they promised not to fight again.
The three talked it over for a few
minutes, and then the two men who
had been fighting and the detective
disappeared.
Todd now pnt his hand in his pock
et to get his watch, and was surprised
to find it gone. Murray, who was
standing besido him, looked innocent,
but Detective Webb, who had crossed
from the opposite corner to ace what
the crowd had collected for, arrested
Murray when he learned that Todd's
watch nad been stolen. Tho watch
was found on the sidewalk under Mur
ray's foot.
Tho tight nnd arrest of tho scrap
pers, tbe pohco say, were both fakes.
It is a new game played by a crowd of
pickpockets, who rob tho crowd which
collects. Murray, they say, is ono of
the gang. Murray was held for ex
amination. Chicago '.limes-Herald.
An Electric ( lly.
Great Fall, Montana, is run by
electricity. Not only nro its street
curs ptopollcd and lighted by electri
city, but they nro heated by electric
radiators placed in each car. Eleva
tors, printing presses, cranes and all
kinds of machinery are operated by i
electrical force. Thero are automatic
clectrio excavators, electrio pumps :
and electrio rock crushers. It is not .
unusual to see on tho street a mortar i
mixer attached to au electrio wire '
leading elown from a polo. Tho res-
taurants cook by electricity; tho
butcher employs it to chop his sau
sages, tho grocer to grind his coffee.
Electricity is looked upon ns a wet
como blessing in every home; tho
housewives run their sowing machines
and heat their flatironsby electricity ;
they bake their cakes in wooden elec
trio cake ovons that can bo sot away
on the sholf liko pasteboard boxes.
They have electrio boilers, broilers
and teakettles. The hydraulio works
and power houses aro erected about
throe miles from the city on tho banks
of the Missouri. Atlanta Constitu
tion. .The "Broken l'late Club.
In a little villago in the Department
of th J Nord, France, thero exists a
curious brotherhood. It is called the
"Broken l'late Club." This is its his
tory : A few years ago some merchants
and manufacturers wero dining to
gether, when a pinto rolled from the
tablo and, falling iuto the fireplace,
broke. As it happened, tho number
of the fragments exactly corresponded
with that of tho guests. Tho coinci
dence was regarded as a goo 1 augury,
and then aud thero a society was
formed which imposed upou its mem
bers the bonds of brotherhood. Each
man n t ho loft carried away with him
his fragment of tho plate. According
to tho rules no new member was to bo
introduced, and at eanb death tho bit
of porcelain which was iu tho posses
sion ot tho deceased is restored to tho
Frosident, who glues tho fragments to
gether. Tho last surviving member
of tho club is charged with tho duty of
cementing his piece to tho rest, and
when tho plate has thus boon reformed
it is to bo buried. Loudon Tele
graph.
Au Honest Man.
Maurice Dore, who was a real est lie
agent at San rrancisoo for many
years, ilieil the otuer week. Iho
noteworthy fact iu his career is that
when ltalston died Dore came forward
and turned over to tho heirs 3 1'0, ()().
which the Fresideut of tho liauk of
California had transferred to him in
trust. There wcra no documents to
show that Doro hold this largo sum iu
trust aud no witnesses to prove that
tho money did not belong to him.
His honesty served as a contrast to tho
conduct ot several others with whom
ltalston had confidential dealings and
who kept what really bolonged to tho
dead financier's widow and children.
New York Tribtino.
Calamity to Coffee Trees.
In 1867 the colTeo trees of Ceylon
were attacked with a blighting dis
ease ; it spread rapidly, aud now the
coueo crop oi ,iuut isiauu no longer
influences the market. In 1879 tho
same disease appeared in Java, and in
1880 alone caused a loss ot 910,000,-
000. Until lately the Brazilian plan
tations seemed to bo exempt, but at
last the calamity has spread there also,
aud iu another generation coflfee m ay
bo a luxury, indeed. New York
World.
Cotton and Lincu.
Cotton may bo distiugulshod'frora
linen when ono is buying handker
chiefs by moistening tho tip of the
finger and pressing it to the handkec
chief. If it wets through at onco it is
linen, while it any oottou enters into
its manufacture it will take several
seconds to wet through the threads.
Also in linen the threads nre mom
uneven than Iu cotton. Now York
World.
Cl'BIOtS PACTS,
The glass mouse trap has not proved
success. '
Georgia hai 3G21 pensioners within
her bounds.
The first books printed on this con
tinent were mado in tho City of
Mexico.
Daniel Webster is said to have been
able to repeat tho most, if not nil, of
"Faradiso Loft"
Granny Davis, who died recently in
the County Infirmary in Mnnolc, lnd.,
was said to be 101 years old.
Lieutenant-Colonel Craigio nalkctt,
an English soldier, has not drunk ft
drop of water for twelve years.
York County, Maine, farmers are
telling of a snow-wbito deer that has
been seen in that region several times
of late.
Threo hundred years ago all tho
men wore baggy bloomers, only very
short ones, coming to tho middle of
the thigh.
The Japanoso method ot lacquering
is said to be at least 2000 years old.
Fieccs mado ten centuries ago aro etill
exhibited.
The British Government has given
81 apiecotosomo uativo Indian soldiers
as a reward for "conspicuous gallantry
in the late campaign."
According to the dictum of art, tLo
Grecian noso is tho most beautiful;
but a fine pair of eyes will lend beauty
to any noso or any face.
Tho heaviest tnau whoso weight is
recorded authentically was Miles
Darden, of Tennessee, no weighed a
littlo less than 1000 pounds.
Fully two wagon loads of straw and
trash wero found between tho roof nud
ceiling of tho old Lancaster Methodist
Church, which had been carried thero
by sparrows.
John H. Curtis, of Portland, Mo., is
ono of the largest land owners in Ne
braska. Ho Lai one pasturo under
fenco which is eight miles long and
live miles wide.
A woman with apparently lots of
lime of little value, in Kausom, Mich.,
has just completed tho sewing of au
even 17,1)00 littlo bits of cloth into a
patchwork quilt. , .
Winderlord, Klavirta and Vlerdora,
nro tho names of threo children of
George Frye, of Kansas. When asked
whero ho pot tho names of the chil
dren, Mr. Fryo mid his wifo c-hoso
them from among those of various
brands of collars.
Ii, is suid that New York policemen
may bo swingiug rubber clubs beforo
long. Tho Commissioners aro consid
ering an invention of a Connecticut
doctor, who says that tho rubber club
has all the stunning effects of wooden
weapons and will not break heads.
Litmus is produced from lichens
which grow on tho shores of tho
Mediterranean. " The licheus aro
ground, moistened and treated with
potash, lime, and am m on is, and con
verted into dough. It is then fer
mented, end afterward mixed' with
plaster of Paris, and dried and
pressed.
A Lifetime of llallronilliig.
There was a certain pooti;? time
liness in tho death of Joseph Hell,
which occurred in Loudon a few days
ago. ilo was eighty-three year.sold,
aud had spent most of his life as a
locomotive engineer. Ho was t-t ill
halo and hearty, and, except for fail
ing sight, might still havo been in tho
t'ligiue-cab. His death was caused by
nu accidental fall. Tlio incident oc
curred just after tho extraordinary
performances of railroad trains, in
Great 1'ritain between Loudon an 1
Aberdeen, and in America between
New York and P.uflY.o. Between those
achievements an I his death thero was
no connection; but tho coincidence
was remarkable and suggestive'.
For Joseph Hell's life spanned tho
wholo railroad history of tho world.
Ho was, in his youth, tho engineer of
tho first locomotive ever constructed
Georgo Stephenson's famous Kockct.
For half a century his plaeo was at
tho throttle, at first ot the littlo slow
going onginesot tho Rocket typo, mil
nt last of tho moustor which outstrip
tho whirlwind. Ho had teen aud
had personal experience of every
change aud development of tho carry
ing industry which has revolutionize I
tho world. Ho heard Stephenson's
audacious prophecy tliat a locomotive
would attain u speed ot tea or twelve
miles un hour. Ho ran tho P.ocket at
fourteen miles an hour on the average ;
and mado on ono occasion tho be
wildering "world's rocord" of twenty
nine miles an hour. And he lived to
seo trains run for hundreds of miles at
more than a roilo a minute, aud for
shorter distances at tho rate of more
thau 112 miles an hour".
It has been given to few men to wit
ness and to particinato in such a trans
formation scene as that which beau
with the llocket and ends, for tho
pretent, with No. D'J'J. But what a
sonso of the rapidity of modern prog
ress it gives us to think of all that
boing included iu a single lifetime;
and what a field for prophecy of what
some lives, now just beginning, will
see if prolonged tc theyears of Joseph
Belli New York Tribune.
Maiilmtlan.
Speaking of In liins, I should liki
to ask bow many New Yorkers kno
the origin ot the name of this island.
There used to be a noma lio tribe
called the Man-u-tauB, I am informed,
who used to live iu Jones's Wood,
hunted in tho forests ot Central Park
and fished in the waters of the Et
River. What we now call Hell Gate
was a terrible whirlpool then, known
ot the Indians throughout all the coun
try. Man-o-tan means the "people
who live by the ciroling waters. The
Man-o-tans were evidently ft branch ot
the Algonquin. New York Press.