SHIR GMOCRAT PUBLISHED EVERY '"IIIDAY MORNING, IUB FRANKLIN STREET, J'h \ and a queen wh< had only on< daughter, anc this girl, named Sollna, nearly drove her roya parents to des pair on account of her excesslv shut up alfulont in a chamber, and they each toon turns In carrying her hoi meals. They groaned with despair every time that they saw her. "Oh, unhappy girl!" they said to her. "By your birth you ought to become a queen, but, alas! no one will wish to marry you." As she grew older the poor princess beeame plainer and plainer. When she was 16, she said to her father: "I can no longer remain shut up thus. Let me go away. Perhaps I may find happiness in traveling. Her father was unwilling to have her go, but she entreated so earnestly that he finally yielded. Ho gave her a largo sum of money, und ono night, wln-n every one was sleeping, she slipped out of the palace and started on her journey. .She walked and she walked, und the next noon she soutod herself under a tree. Suddenly she heard a plaintive cry. She looked around her, and finally dis covered a little lizard, which was lying on the grass moaning with pain. "Why do you cry'" asked Solina, bend ing over it. "A naughty child trod on me. I have lost tho end oi my tail and I wish to find It." The compassionate princess found the lost tail and gave it to the little creature. "Thanks!" said the lizard. "Take this for a reward." Anil it gavo Solina au onion. "But what am I to do with this?" she asked. "Keep it. Some day it will be useful to you." .solina put it in her pocket and con tinued her journey. After walking some distance she met an old woman carrying a sack of wheat upon her back. The sack broke and the wheat fell upon the ground. Tne poor woman began to lament. "Do not weep," said the princess to her. "I will gather up the wheat that, lias fullen from tho sack." "Ah!'' replied the poor woman-, "all the grains are counted, and if thoru Is one missing my husband wi 1 beat me." Bending over the ground with a re markable patience, Solina gathered up every grain. "Thanks, my good girl," said the woman. "Here, take this for your re ward." And she gave her a little knife with two blades. "What am I to do with this?" asked tho princess. "Guard it preciously. Some duy it wilt be useful to you." Solina put it in her pocket. She walked and she walked, and camo to a ditch, at the bollom of which lay a little goat. "What arc you (loin,? there," asked the princess. "Unfortunately I foil into this ditch end 1 have brokeu my leg." Tho kind Solina drew it out of theditch and bound up the broken leg with her handkerchief. •' i hanks," said the little goat. "Sine you have been so good to me I will give you mv bell." "What shall I do with It?" "Keep it carefully. Some day it will be useful to you." Solina put it in her pocket. She walked and she walked, and in the evening arrived at a lonely farmhouse. "Christian souls," she said, "1 pray you give me shelter for the night." "Who are you? Whore are you going?" asked tho lurmer's wife who was prepar ing the supper. Solina told her truthfully her whole story. "Very well," said the woman, "you shall bo cared for." A moment later, seeing her husband returning totiie house, she ran to meet him, and repeated to him tho strange Btory she had hoard, and asked : "I have an idea which may mako our fortune. It is this. We have a daughter as beautiful as the sunlight. We will present her to the king as his own daughter transformed by u fairy, and shut up here this ugly girl, the sight ..r whom he cannot endure." "But it will be impossible to deceive the king, as you propose." "Our daughter will tell him certain particulars which will certainly allay any suspicions." "Well," replied the husband, "we will try it." So in the night the poor princess was taken to tho attic and locked up there. The noxt morning the farmer and his wife took their daughter to tho palace. The king and the queen admired her beauty, and tho more beautiful they found her tho less could they believe that she could really bo their poor Solina, yet could not but think so. The third day tho unfortunate Solina, overcome by hunger, cried, and, in a loud voice, implored pity. No one answered her. ' Suddenly she recollected what tho liz ard had promised her. She drew the onion from her pocket. "Can you give me something to cat?" she asked. "Immediately," ropliod the little vege table. In an instunt. a little table appeared, with a delicious dinner spread upon it. And Solina, altercating with tho great est relish, took the little knife which the old woman hud given her, and suid : "Can you opon that door?" "In a moment," replied the knife. And at once the door was cut in two. Solina took tho bell and rang it. Immediately an enormous flock of goals appeared. "What do you wish?" asked tho largest. "Oo into the fields and devour all the grass and herbs." In an instant tho vines, the garden and the fields belonging to the farmer were ravaged. Tho princess then left the house, and walked and walked until she reached a city where lived a king who had an only son, who was very ill. All tho physicians in the kingdom had been called in consul tation, but none of them could tell what was the matter with him. Some said that he was mad. He seemed, however, per fedtly rational. But ho had strange ca prices, and he grew worse and worse. One day as ho was seated at his win dow he saw Solina pass. "Oh," lie cried, "what a homely crea ture ! I nover BUW one like her I* Make her oome here." In vain the king and the courtiers sought to turn him from this strange de sire. So they sont out and had her brought in. "WMI you enter my eon's serrloer asked the king. "Very willingly," replied the prlneess. The prince at once began to give hei the strangest orders. Every day he was seized with some new fancy. Thanks to her three talismans, Sollna was aide to procure the curious things he asked for, Out one day, in one of his wild moods, lie said to-the patient girl: "Upon my word, you are altogether too homely. Go!" Solina left the palace weeping, and, us she was walking along, she met the good old woman who had given her tho knife, and she told how she had been turned out of the palace. "Do not weep, my child," said the woman. "I know how gentle, modest and patient you have been. Some day you will havo your reward. Come with mo. Close by is a grotto in which is a most marvelous spring. To whoever bathes in it it gives an incomparable beauty. Tho access to it is not easy, but, thanks to your three talismans, you can overcomo all obstacles. At the en trance to this grotto you will see a terri ble dragon ; throw your onion down its throat and ho will let you pass. Further on you will meet a giant covered with steel from head to foot and brundishing an iron club; show him the blade of jour little knife, and ho will let you pass. After passing him a hungry lion will spring upon j-ou; ring the goat's bell and lie will let you pass. When you reach the spring, throw yourself into il, all dressed." Solina followed these instructions to the letter, and came out of tho water cbmpletoly transformed. Sho was now as beautiful as she had been ugly beforo. She returned to the city which she had just left and hired a room opposite the palace. The prince saw her and cried : "Oh! What a charming young girl! If she is of royal blood I will marry her." The king, who could refuse nothing to his only sou, sent one of his courtiers to the beautiful unknown to tell the prince's desire. "I ain of royal blood," replied Solhu, "But if the prince wishes to marry me ho must first make me three presents—the comb of a golden cock, the hair of the Moorish king and a tish without scales. I give him three years to accomplish this task.' The prince, who had fully recovered his strength and who was very coura geous, accepted thooe conditions. He de parted and went in search of the gulden cock, through forests filled with wild "YOU HAVE DONE WELD." beasts. After having undergone the most terrible hardships and braved many deadly perils ho finally discovered liiiu one day perched upon a tree. Ho cut off Ids oorob nod returned triumphantly: "Very well," said Solina. "Now I must have the hair of tins Moorish king." This king was a man of colossal figure and extraordinary strength. The most valiant warriors could not look upon him without a feeling of terror. But the prince, desirouauf pleasing the beautiful Solina, challenged this redoubtable king to mortal combat. He throw himself against, him, sword in hand, and received a severe wound. He rushed forward again, and a second time he was wounded. But Ids ardor was unabated. Ho continued the struggle, and at last ho reached his terriblo adversary. He plunged liia sword into his heart, cut off iiis hair and carried it to Solina. "You have done well," she suid; "vou have now only to find the lialt without scales." That was, indeed, a difficult task. Among so many miliion fishes, how could he discover tho one without scales? But. the prince was rosolute. Hebe gan In li-.li and lie fished the whole of thut day and the nexl. day, and for weeks and for months. The time assigned by Solina had nearly elapsed, but he still sought the wonderful fish with a marvel ous patience. Tho evening boforo tiie day which would end the three years came at last, and, in his net, he discov ered a wretched looking little fish, and on examination, he found it was a fish with out scales. He carried It to Solina, who said: "I have no further task to impose upon you. I will gladly marry you. Only you must ask the consent of the king, my father." Tho prince sent ambassadors to the king, but presently they returnod in a groat rage. "Tho king," they said, "received us insultingly. He declared that he did not understand our mission. His daughter is with him, and ho has no other." "Ah!" cried the prince angrily, "Solina is mocking us. Let her be cast into prison!" Poor Solina was again locked up without knowing the reason why. She took her little bell and rang It vio lently. ■ 'Oh, those who have already aided mo, grunt me still your assistance!" she cried. "Here," replied the goat, who at once appeared, "take tlds herb and place it in your mouth." Solina obeyed and immediately she be came as plain and ugly as she was bo fore her transformation. "Now," suid the goat, "follow me." Anil by its magic power, in spite of locked doors and guards, it led lieroutof prison and conducted her to her parents. At sight of her the king and queen saw they had boen imposed upon. Tho farmer and his wifo confessed their de ception and were punished as they do served. Then, noting upon tho instruc tions of tho goal, Solina took the herb from her mom li and suddenly appeared in all tier startling beauty. She married the prince, and they both loved together happily to a good old age. —Boston Globo. "Miraculous Berry." At a recent meeting of the Linnißan society In England a most extraordinary fruit was exhibited, the so-oatlod "mirac ulous berry" of West Africa, belonging to tho sapotaceiß. Covered oxtoruallv with a soft, sweot pulps it imparts to the palate a sensation which renders it pos sible to partake oi sour substances, and even tartaric acid, lime juice and vine gar, and to give them u flavor of abso lute sweetness.—Exchange. (trnti Medicament! In Parle. The authorities are at present conducting a orusado against the sesquipedalian nomenclature of oertaiu obeinlcul conooutlons and modlcamonts whloh oome from Germany. Among these commodities are Antipyrina, Phenacotino, and Sulfouul, which are manufactured successfully in Gormauy, and after hav i lng been duly tested and analyzed by I Freneh chemists tuko a place in local therapeutics, being eagerly purchased by Parisians, who are much givon to the as sumption of doses and stimulants at the present moment. As it has therefore been found us impossible to "boycott" the "enemy's" drugs as It was to oiose the market against his beor the medical authorities of this metropolis have turned their attention to the labels of tho Teu tonics philters anil potions. French peo ple will bo ullowed to convert their inte riors, as usual, into receptacles for all the drugs in tho Gorman laboratories, but t-Ucy will tuko their medicine under Gallic names. After all the modlcal authorities are right for it appears that tho familiar An i tipyrino has been christened by Its Ger -1 man manufacturers with the name of 1 "Dimethyloxquinzine." Another Greek derivative of equally "learned length and thuuderiug sound" is used to denote Sul fonal. In order to save tne delicate jaw bones of Frouch ladies who require these medicaments tho learned academy of medicine has proposed that doctors in preparing their prescriptions for patients should use tho French or ordinary name of tiie foreign drugs, and that chemists should furuiah them to customers iu tho same way, taking euro to write tho sci entific appellation of tho medicine in their books. It is thus hoped that the max illary members of Frouch patiouts will bo spared, and that tho German origin of popular drugs will bo concealed as much as possible. I 111 {ItM lH I I'l llgl'BNd. It has been understood for some time past that tho mightiest sovereigns were beginning to grumble at tho expense of their imperial and royal progresses. By ail accounts, ind -ed, it is so enormous that the most lavish must be staggered when tho bills are laid before hi.a. The public has been told that tho young em icror of Germany disbursed ".CIO,OOO in presents of ouesort or another among tho courtiers of St. Petersburg, leaving nis expenses and "incidentals" aside; while the czar was yet more liberal. We learn, therefore, without surprise, that Ids imperial majesty is thinking twice and again before accepting the invita tion to visit Greece at the time of his sis ter's marriage. Toil would bo taken at several points on that journey. If tho German monarch passed through Vienna, oven though he did not stay at any cap ital on his routo, there would be deputa tions of welcome from the Austrian, tho Servian, und, doubtless, the Bulgar ian courts. If ho took steamer from Trieste, much more from Venice, the king of Italy would not fail to send a galaxy of notables to do him honor. And the o attentions, as we learn, signify a ••rani of gold boxos," diamonds and jewelled orders. Then there is the Greek eourt, and, abovo all the sultan. For the latter a visit of such importance would mean something like bankruptcy, and this fact supplies a magnanimous ex cuse for dropping tho whole soheme. Tho German emperor i 9 checked by tho promise of such superb hospitality at Suimboul as his Turkish brother cannot afford. And he saves all pockets by abandoning his notion.—l "ndou Stan dard. A Soda Locomotive. Four locomotives to bo run by soda, winch tabes the placo of lire under the boiler, have been built in Philadelphia. They are for service on tho streets ot Minneapolis, Minn., where steam en gines are forbidden. The engine is about sixteen feet long, eutiroly boxed in, with no visible smoke stack or pipes, as there is no exhaust or refuse. The boiler is of copper, b! 1-2 Inches in diameter and 15 feet long, having tubes running through it as in steam boilers. Inside tho boiler will be placed five tons of soda, which, upon being damped Dy a jet of steam, produces an intense heat. In about six hours the soda is thoroughly saturated, when the action ceases. A stream of superheated steam from a stationary boiler is then forced through the soda, which drives out tne moisture, and the soda is ready for use again. The cxsanst steam from the cylinders is used to saturate the soda, and by this means all refuse is used. These engines are the first of their kind that have been built in tlds country. They will have the same power as those used on the New York elevated roads. Soda engines are used in Berlin and otiier European cities very successfully, and they also traverse tlio St. Gothard tunnel, under the Alps, where the steam engines cannot bo used, because the tun nel cannot be ventilatod so as to carry off the noxious gases generated by a lo comotive.—Kail way Age. A C'oitrugpouM Young Womam. A daring act lias just boen performed at Montlucon by a young woman of 19— Mademoiselle Jobard, who is the daugh ter of a cafe keeper. She had manifested a deep interest in Pezon's menagerie since its arrival in the town, and it ap pears that the lion tamer, either througu pure fun or because Mademoiselle Jobard made light of his exploits among the wild beasts, defied her to enter the largest of the dens with him. The chal lenge was accepted with a light heart, and all Montlucon turned to witness tho spectacle. Punctually at tho time appointed the daughter of tho cafe keeper appeared on l; 10 carpet attired in her bust, and escorted by Pezon she entered tho cage amid tin-, plaudits of those who had assembled in t ho vague hope of witnessing her demoli tion. Mademoiselle Jobard was slightly nervous at first, but after a few moment s siie walked around tho cage with Pezon. tho lion and lioness watching her lazily from their corners. Finally the intrepid young woman stopped out of danger without a feather in her hat being damaged, and the spectators instantly clubbed together and presented her wltJ. two splendid bouquets.—London Tele graph. A £tory of Herman Oelrlclis. One of tho tlireo young swells wlic were dining with Oelriohs in the New fork Athletic club determined to put his host's far-fumed marine daring to a se vere tost. The four men were arrayed in full ovening dress. Aftor dinner the large and deep swimming tank on the llrst floor of tho building was inspected. Standing on the sprlnging-boord, ono oi the young men suddenly said: "Her man, join mo in a header," and instantly dived overboard, swallow-tailed coat, broad expanse of shirt bosoin, white tie and all. Without saying a word, and dressed just as ho was, Oelriclis sprang aflcr him. Tho other two could not withstand this foolish challeugo to thoir nerves, and in another second four men in evening dress were swimming in the tank. All this may have beea idiotic, but it was certainly novel.—Philadelphia Vews. THE CRT OF THJB DRHAHE% I am tired of planning and tolling In the crowded hirea of men; Heart wearj of building and Hpoiling And spoiling and build in g again. And I long for the dear ol d river Where I dreamed my youth awagf For a dreamer Uvea forever. And a toiler dies in a day. I am sick of the ahowy seeming Of a life that la half a 1 i; Of the faces lined with scheming. In the throng that hurries by. From the sleepless thoughts endeavor I would go whore the children pla/i For a dreamer lives forever. And a toiler dies in a day. I feel no pride, but pity For the burdenH the rich endure} There is nothing sweet in the city Bvlt the patient lives of the poor. Oh. the little hands HO skilful. And the child mind choked with weadg> The daughter's heart grows wilful. And the father's heart that bleeds. No, no! from the street's rude buatlw From trophies of mart and stage. I would lly to the wood's low rustle. And the meadow's kindly p age. , Let me dream as of old by the river. And be loved for the dream alway; For a dreamer lives forever. And a toiler dies in a day. —John Boyle O'Reilly. ROYAL RUT HUMAN STILL. Head With a Crown May Be* long to a Cowing Person, Even in the court gossip of newspapers published in different European countries wo find the puthotie hints of human love ind suffering which prove all men to be sf but one blood. Christina, of Spain, wo aro told. At the time of her marriage was an an- * gular, hard-faced, repliant woman. Whose manners offended those who ap proached her. But her passionate desire that her baby son shall luherit ids fath er's throne has altered her whole char acter, She is gracious and friendly; has acquired flue tact, and her manners are now as charming as they were oueo uupleasing. She has subjugated the haughty grandees of Spain,and inadetheiu loyal to their little king by her direct personal influence alono. Every day is new ba*ttle for her boy; and so far she has won every battle. The czarina of Russia, sovorul months ago, with her husband miti children, was" in a railway train which was wrecked by conspirators. ror some time she thought her oldest boy was killed. The result was thut for a time her mind was affected; the dead boy was constantly before her. The empress of Austria, it Is rumored, owing to the suicide of her son, has lost her reason. The queen of Sweden lias long been an invalid from some obscure disease. She is extremely fond of mnsic, and her hap piest hours are those when her sons sing to her. The most touching story which comes out of the court surroundings is that of the duchess of Cambridge, aunt of Queen Victoria, who has just died at an ex tremely old age. Her sou, who is over seventy years old, invariably oarae twice a day to sit by her bed side and entertain her with family gossip. He never left lier without bending his white head that she might lay iter hand upon it in blessing. Many people are apt to think of roy alty as removed into a state of splendid triumph, insen-ible to pain or anxiety. Vet the.,e brief glimpses show that kings and queens ure but fathers and motheus like the poorest slavo and dra.v their misery and happiness from their children just as keenly as though no "golden rigol" bound thoir brows.—Youth's Com panion. Shooting the Ibex. The Il ex is a wild goat, once distinct ive feature of wnich is tho knotted horns of large size. This tine animal was sup posed by BtifTon to bo the original parent of the common European gout, us well as of the chamois; but modern zoologists have found another primitive stock in the Caucuses and in Persia. The mule is nearly black, and stands three feet nine inches high at the shoulder, with power ful limbs, and with horns twelve inches long. Not only good marksmanship is required for success In the paisuit of the Ibex, but a sure mountaineering foot, and a steady head I hut. will look over a precipice without getting dizzy. The buck ibex has great speed and agility, leaping chasms thirty feet wide from rock to rook. Fogs are not nnfre quent, am! the huntsman after search ing for game all day, will be astonished . by the sudden vision of a herd of ibex, revealed at the lifting of tho vaporous veil. C'upt. Henry bbakspear, in his' "Wild Sports of India," relates how once the black male of a herd actually ran against him in a fog. The ibex, when wounded, is very tenacious of life, and may sometimes got away, sliding down the clilT, after ho was thought to be dead. —London Illustrated News. The Luke Metre Drive. "A plan is on foot," says a correspon dent of a New York paper, "to make un addition to Chicago's Lake Shore drive, which, if carried out, will give this city one of the iinest and most extensive sys tems of boulevards and drives in the „ world. The present idea is to extend tile ' beautiful drive which runs along the lake, through the handsomest portion of the north side and through Lincoln park. This drive now stops at the north end of tne park. The now plan, which is well under way, is to extend it as far north as Lake IJIufY, twenty-five miles north of Chicago. This section of coun try is by for the prettiest in the neigh borhood. Tho flat shores of Luko Mich igan gradually slope upward until at Lake Bluff they assume the shape of al most perpendicular banks, rising to a height of 100 feet, and showing the waters of tho lake far below. A heavy growth of timber stretchos to the west v while at other places it is broken by deep ravines that open up unexpeetod glimpses of the lako through tho dark foliage. The new drive will run along as close to the lako as possible, and through the villages of Evanston, High land Park, the new military post, Fori bheridan, and Lake Forest." sanitary Celling* and Walla'. This subject was brought before the last meeting of the sanitary convention at Hastings, Mich., by a Mr. Church, who reecommonded the use of a coatiug oi gvpsum or ulubaster which had been cal cined by subjecting it to u great neat in retorts. He states that after fifteen ' years' study of the subject ho believes the sickness caused by so-called poison ous wall papers containing arsenic is due to other oondltions than the wall paper, or at least largely contributes to it. Cnatom llouae and Photography. Attention has been drawn to tho prac tice of custom house officers open'ns packages of undeveloped photogm pih plates, and thus spoiling the labors n'i trip to the antipodes. It is suggests that it be sufficient that the owner ma ,et a statement, on oath if neeossaiy, th.it ihe contents of the package pro untie, volopnd photographs and will spoil U opened in daylight.