t MS OP AND THE PEAS iS. He sat amoDK the wocxle; he heard The fcylvau merriment; he saw The humor* ot the >• at and b rd. The praakH of donkey and daw. And in the ion and the frog. In all the tnbert of swamp and den, In dour and liaru, in stork and log. Marked the similitudes of men. "From these, of these," he cried, "wo cotr.e- Ourhearts and brains doaceud front th*n;* *• And lo the beaats no more wore dumb, tut answered out of brakes and trees. And thus, porchanoe, their saying ram "Nay, not from us your folly springs. O, deeply fallen race of man. bewildered about empty things! For we. have neithor hope tor dread, Wo look not forward uor behiuu, We lead the life our fathers led. W ■ l.v< like clouds, or streams, or wind; "For wo have neither doubt nor faith. For we are neither bond nor free. ' We hear the word that Nature saith. And nigh to Nature's heurt aru we. "Behold, we neither laugh nor weep. Are well content with everything, but ye w< uld 11 y that scarce cun creep. And ye would speak, (hat scarce can sing. Nay. were there cause for UIOHU or mirth 'Tie we, not you, should sigh or scorn. O. latest children of the oarth, Most childish children earth hath borne." They spake, but that misshapen slave Told m vet- of the thing ho heard. And UJ.IO men their portrait- gave I u it ken t sses of beast and bird. —The Independent, ATT.UEEf) BY KDBBRRS. fONELV Is th . na 'o 1111 roa i be tween tiie istws of Vera Cm,. und . Mexico anil it nas been from t i in u • . ' . ',HH immemorial in -1 -• 58j steil with rob fi ansaaJ is, who have t •*- •,( liy plunder }Vv jJ®/, ruvele,-., i\v" • '/f 7 wucthcr Dative TV j / iVt "V or f o reign. ' mounted or on , ,n companies of their own forming o. in the regular diligoneiu for passen 1 'n; and so much of a matter of course I a,I tliis become, that, tip to within a ■••ne of years, the natives generally pre en ed themselves with ptir-"s to begiv-n a iy at tho first demand, and couute ! t. I'M forced contributions among tncii I i ncidental expenses. I As a general thing tho highwaymen j were not blood-thirsty, if met in a spin; I of peace and submission. They wanted j :• • isey rather tlian life, and seldom tnoit i :c except in eases of resistance, or in i '\eiige for some former defeat, it was •4i dr custom, when attacking u diiigeu • i. to order the driver to halt, ami the ; ,'issengers to tlirow themselves on ticur i.iees: and whenever this order u , rcnptly complied with, thoy took then i 'ty with a few merry jests or witti -•i- us, wisiied tlf plundered party a .ire and pleasum journey, and rodo oil iii i he best, ot good or. • Whenever the highwaymen had only O&ll.ea to tioal witli, such was generally Me rt ult—for tlie Mexicans, mote dis i ■ sod to pay than to light, were seldom without a puree, pi spared beforehand, tor ioo eaballoros del cuiuino, the grutle inen of tho road; but when thoy encoun ter d foreigners it was quite another u .air, for the latter often preferred piut i:iwith the lead in their pistols lo the a or. pietdous n'.ctals in thoir pocla t . The difference v.us, that wlierea, one ! bandit might rob nine Mexicans with im- i pui.it,,, it as often required nine robbers I to make sure of one American or Kug lishuian. ■ j L. tho year of 1815, Capt. Jacob Wil -1 a .us and Lieut. Henry fiimcoe, both Amoricuii.l, who had been s nding some weeks in tlie city of Me .. . took pas wage in the regular diiigcii 'ia for Vera Cruz. As they had gone over tho national road oa their visit to the capital, and , Lad learned a good deal of the Mexican j manners and customs during their so- , joum in tho country, they knew exactly : what thoy had to be prepared lor, uud, being, rtiong, couiagcous men, they ro bolM'.f, if auuci.i d, to defend themselves , I" the delttll. In ;he same diligeucia four others took j a sii .'c, two men unil two women: atut fccavcely were the horses well on the toad ore too subject, oi robbery uud the l ob bies was started by one of the females, a >;ai.icr pre ty woman, who, addressing iierseif to ( apt. Williams, inquired it in thought there was uny danger <>f Im parl y being molested by the bud knights of the road. ••I can't tell any more about it than you can,' somewhat gruffly answered ihe captain, WHO .V. IS no her noted for tun honesty than his poiisu; '"but 1 know vine thing, Sotiui ita; it w ill be a—a blessed sight, belief for them if thoy don't." At this the Mexicans looked horrified, and one ol the men exclaimed, in a tremulous voice: "Ave Muiiu, i'uiissima! God be mer ciful ! You don't think of icsisting, Jv* or • * , lie captain with an angry frown, sur veyed the otlior from heuu to toot; uud " thru, with an expression of contempt, tu ' "tl to his own companion, and re manted, in English: -Why shouldn't highway robbery flourish in this cursed country, lilied as it is with such miserable cowards? Yes,' he continued In punish, addressing the whole parly, ratiiei than the timid ques tioner, '1 do iliiuk of resisting if a nuked—l sliould count myself worse tuan a jackass if 1 didn't; and it you mts **. üb.c poltroons would only leant to do L o same, there would soon be un en: ol this detestable business. "Ah!" exclaimed the other male pa s'uger; "there would soon lie un end of v i, - vtiier, Scnor. The k. chu of it., i ■ IT don't now kill those WHO don tic : but tlieu I hey would kill everybody w —saints proicet u.I • it'cll, in ti. 1 - •<-•• in particular, you might as v.ell ...... as sit s„dl gf, i.i -d ilio capialn ; "for as both my frh , o and 1 are sworn to icsist, the scmtli i "is on t b" abie to toil wlio're for liiern o no against them, ami o you'll enuic in l c the su II" .remuieut a-ourselve liere the enin produced two biaee d pistols,said li:s companion was equally nni ed, and n-marked tiiat there were "igiit good shot , teady; and if the Mexi ui'S would pluck up courage, and swear o do their diif. like men, he would ieud ■ each of tli''in a weapon. The wretches held up their hands in horror, and sluank from the uccoptance of the projio-iiioii; whereupon tlie young est female audibly declared them cow ards, and said if she only knew how to handle the weapons herself, she would take them and put tho others to shame. "Thank Heaven for some redeemifig qualities in the race, even if in the sex where it least belongs!" said the cap tain. "For which, ladles," putin the lieuten ant, "we will protect you with out „ Jives." One of th" two men now wanted to get waut to sp.uik with the driver, he said, but Captain Williams,suspecting fib,purpose, told him he must remain inside; and that, should lie uttempi to communicate with anyone except, the party present be fore the danger slioulil I,c past, or show any sign of reaohery wuatever, he would blow his brains out, hist. "Whether you choose to fight or not," he lidded, "you havo got to remain here and take the consequences." It Is not a pleasant tiling to bo a pas senger in a coach through a wild, lonely region, that you kn< is infested wi:h robbers, and be in constant expect at tan of an assault that may result in the 10-s of all your personal possessions, if not your life; and to a brave, detoimined 1 man, the suspense, the uncertainly, tho constant dreed of attack, is really uiore trying upon tho nervous system than tlie moment of action itsol: So it was with our two friends, as they watched tlie gradual decline of day, till the night had sot in, and thon, rulnuto alter minute and hour after hour, waited &MI more anxiously for the crisis of their journey. If not tlu'lr fate. It cannot last. Tho dlligencia was slowlv working its tortuous way up a steoi ind dangerous hill, with a high, wal iiko bank on tho right and u danger ous precipice on the left, when a hoarse voir suddenly culled out: "Halt, and surrender your purses to the knights of the road !" i The dlligencia stopped, and tlie two cowardly Mexicans iu.- ido groaned audi bly. in an instant, our American friends were ready, a pistol in each hand. "Make the slightest noise, you cow ards," hissed the captain through his shut teeth, addressing the limiinliug wretches Inside, "auvl you shall have tho Ilrst bullets in your worthless bodies !" "Come out aud throw yourselves on your faces!" cried tho stentorian voice of the robber chief. As no one stirred inside—tho Mexicans through fear of tho Americans, and tlie I latter because they intended to resist ! where they wore—the robbers, becoming uqpatieut, jerked open the door, with 3a, hs, threatening to tiro into the velii :e. Although it was very dark without, the persons within could dimly perceive 1 several figures standing beside tho dill ! goncia; and at, these our heroes tired four i snots in quick succession. Two of the bandits instantly dropped, nun there were loud cries uud groans of pain, auu shouts of surprise and rage, with a quick ; falling back of the re6t of the assailants. Tlie next moment a whole volley was poureu iuto the diligencia. creating a tor j riiu.' scene of shrieking and confusion | among tiie passengers. ! "Ave Maria, I'uiissima! lam killed!" cried one of tho men. '•Ah —k! I urn dying!" shrieked the ; other. ••'saints have mercy ! they have broken I toy arm !" groaned one of the females. •All right with me. How is It with 1 pin, captain?" inquired the liuuten , Bill.. "A mere scratch," said the other; 'a I matter of a couple of fingers, that's all. 1: won't do, though, to be cooped up in 10-re, for the scoundrels to riddle us; the . chances will be better outside." I i.o started up as lie spoke, and was endeavoring to step over one of tho men I who was writhing und groaning on tire I bottom of the coach, when two more shots were simultaueoudy liied front ; without, aud he fell down, exclaiming : ••God help mo ! I believe the thieves j have done for me this time!" His companions at once bent over him, | tenderly inquiring where ho vvn- hurl. | and endeavored to lift him tip into a more , I i i nitortable position. The coach u.t.-, , v ' ' this time like a liedlam—shrieks, groans, J players, and even curses, all coin mitt- I gied together. Before auy one couid get , out, however, or the wild uoiso and eon ' fusion had in any degree abated, the I door was slammed to, the animals were 1 cut loose, aud the vehicle aud all it coa i tained sent tumbling over the piocipico to the left, down which it lit-1 dropped some distance with a heavy eiash, aim I thon roiled over uud over itovvn a steep ; hill, bringing up ut last again t a hug., i rock, split opcu and shatter.:o. For a brief moment or two was still I as death, and then a few uioaus pru : claimed that life was still t 'e.'te. Lieut. Sirncoo was the fi,l to speak. He v\u_- | much bruised, but not falal.y injured, ■ und no bones were broken. "Are you alive, cuptuiu? ' he anxiously I inquired. No answer to the question, but a l'e ! miiie voice feebly moaned out: •O. save me! faints and angels, be | nierciuit!" ••Scuoriia, can I uid you?' inquired the lieutenant. •Help! help! for mercy's sake!" re plied the same voice; but all tho others 1 were still. Sitncoe raised hints?l anion..; the frag ments of the vehicle, mi ! i> It auout in the dark in tho diree. ion o! the voice. His hand came in couiucl witn a wound ! that covered it with bloo.l and he drew it back with a shudder. Then ho pas-ed lo - hand over the body, ulul discovered ! to hi.- uorror it was thai, of iiis compan ' ion, Ciipt. Williams. Ho spoau to him j again, bu; received uoau-wer. lie felt ■ for vlio pulse and heart, but lound both \ s:ii;; and then ho knew lie was dead. A further examination, conducted in tho same manner, disclosed the thrilling l'act j that only one beside himself had escaped ' with life. Ttiis was the female who iiud prayed for help, and she had a leg and arm broken, besides other serious injur ies. With great exertion he managed to j got. her out from the wreck, aud lixing 1 her in as comfortable a position as he j could he left, her, groaning with pain, I and crawled away some distance from the horrid scene, and hid himself in some | bushes, not knowing but the robbers might pay their victims a visit, to plun der tlieui uud murder those they should j find alive. It was a fearful night ttiat tlie lieuten ! ant passed triere in that, lonely place un j der the trying clroumsiunces, listening to :.•• groans and prayers of tho living woman ►tilToring a great deal of pain iiimseit, and ult the time in dread of : some new Horror. But the ' igands, satislied probubly with the revenue thev had taken, did uot approach their victims aguin, and early the next of.vy :t parly of mounted police Biipc.irod in scarce of liio dlligencia, and tin.-, iko'living were relieved from further ' fear. Although at no time con lined to his bed, Lieut. Slmcoe never fully recovered from tlie effects of that daugerous fall and tiie shock tho whole affair gave to his nei vous system. He was aide to at tend as chief mourner at the grave of , Capt. Williams, and a few Uuys after he . i resumed his journey and got safely out | of the country and home to his friends. , j The wounded fkdy subsequently died i ! of her injuries, so that lie proved to be , the only one who escaped with life from the vengeance of the thwarted tobbers. ' —N. Y. Ledger. The city of St. Petersburg, which does not count 1,000,000 of inhabitants, con. sumes each day 10,000 bottles of wiuo, 1,500,000 quarts of beer ana 1,000,000 glasses of an alcohol known under the i nan: j." vodsky ['THAI HAMILTON AFFAIR THE ATE A STIC CITY TRAHKIiT WHICH XXCITES TUB COVVTXV. A lYnmr of Itntinns! Rnpntatlritt ni'atßfl Into the M lrp S> thp IVtud Act ofa Vlrlnvtiiitnif Unprincipled Woman. ( Some Facta About tlp Partlea Con- i nertod With tl,p Trngpdy. Following close upon the Terry-Field ' tragedy in California, Atlantic City, N. J., tne well-known and popular watering place, furnishes a sensation creating al most as much excitement throughout the country, owing to the ororoinence of HUBERT RAY HAMILTOS. the gentieinau conneeied with tho cas> ? —Hol.eri Lay Hamilton, a member of i the New York legisialuie from the Mur- i i fay district. Now York city. Ho is a son: of Gen. Betiuylor Hamilton, one of tho j leaders of New York s 4tMI; a grandson , of John C. Hamilton, author of a "Life of Alexander Hamilton," and a great grundson of Alexander Hamilton, the secretary of the treasury under Wash ington, who was killed in the duel with Aaron Burr. Ho is a member of the New j York Bar, the possessor of an income of I SIB,OOO a year, and was until a fow years ago. a prominent iigure in society in the I metropolis. i The story of his courtship and mar riage is as romantic us tho story of the tragedy is thrilling. Hamilton is about 40 years of age, and I his wife about ten rears younger, und a | hopeless victim of the morphine habit, j About two ypars ago tiiey were clan ! rtestinely married in New Y'ork. Some j months ago lie took his wife to southern California with tlie intention of locating permanently. Mary Donnelly, a nnrs" to his six-month's-old child, accompanied them, lie returned disgusted and then stopped at Atlantic City. Hero Mrs. Hamilton's display of diamonds and magnificent ens. nines at once created a i sensation, and the movements of the | conplo were noted with interest. Many stories are utlont as to how the j tragedy occurred that was finally brought, \ to what at lirst looked to be a fatal end j ing. hut tho most generally accepted ' story runs about like this : | It seems that previous to Hamilton's ! acqunihfanco With his wife, she had j formed an attachment with Joshua, ior I "Dotty," as be was almost always ! called! Mann, and even after her marriage ! she still kept it up, meeting him at I times ami places when the knowledge ot , her doings could bo kept from her hus band, and also supplying him with funds. Hamilton finally noticed Mann. . and also remembered lhe fact that at every place he and his wife had been, ; during tlie season the same man had been about. He a! lirst thought tho man wax a thief following them about for tho purpose of robbery, but at last j the reul facts of the ease broke upon his ! mind. He said nothing for a day or two, but j i when his wife announced her intention of j I going to New York, his indignation over- | i came him and lie grasped her rutker j roughly and said, "You are my wife and i 1 von remain here; let 'Josh' Mann take ; j euro or himself." Nils. Hamilton grew furious und des- j j perato, uud Maty Donnelly, the nurse, j ; entering the room at that moment, she j I turned her wrath upon her. Snatching ] t:p a Mexican dagger, and with a cry of j j "you LULe exposed tne," she plunged the I | weapon into tiie poor girl's abdomen. MAN AMi 11 1 EE* j 1 In I?frfli, 'K'ltMe mttl ( iiinucter Thitf Wf*rf Diffrrnif in Kviry Respect. j Robert Kay Hamilton Is not the lirst man whoso name and reputation havo I been sullied by this woman. In horoom ; parativ"ly brief career she has had many | victims, .-ome of whom have nurrowly I | escaped ruin at her hands, while others have been glad to escape from her with their lives So far s tho story of tho prisoner's life has been made known, 6ho has lived in loss theu tonfeurs under tho following names : Miss Brill, Mrs. Parsons, Miss j May, Mrs. Mann and Mrs. Hamilton, each ' time living under tho protection of u man j l ouring tho name she assumed, until Mr. j Hnoulrtoa made her his wife two years ago t P Iri S Vt-fq !! ' ■'• : MRS. IiAMIhTOHt j(t is said by !us li tends. Mr. Hamilton i was regarded by ull who know him as a I ; man of groat promise aud of undoubted i honor and probity until he met, three i i years ugo. the woman wl>o is now his • ' wife, bin ■" then he has sacrificed fam- I | ily, honor, friends, fortune, reputation i | und his future to her. She, on her side, i i bus spent his fortune, used most of tho $l2O u week pin money lie gave her to I maintain another lover, and Anally : I draggtd an honored name in the mud. I Mrs. Hamilton is now about 32 years of . | age. She Is very protty, very selfish, de | proved, passionate, uneducated, vulgar I and vicious, j | Not many Americans have a better . i line of ancestors than has Robert ltay Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton was his ; I great-gruudfather, his grandfather was , John C. Hamilton and Gen. Schuyler : Hamilton Is h lather. He has an inde pendent annual in corn o or from $35,000 to ; 840,U0U, which he got from hie gruud i father 011 his mother's side, Robert Ray. He is a member of the Union League, the i University and Tuxedo clubs. Ho was graduated from Columbia collego and the ! Columbia College Law school, and is a lawyer, but rarely practiced his profes sion. Polities were more to his taste, and, wishing to be known In politics, he j gratilied that desire. His record as an assemblyman and as ; a private citizen, was such that no roan ! eoutd point a linger at him and say that ; there was anything in it of which he j need be in anyway ashamed. He was al | ways prominent in any movement iojK- I ing toward the progress and advance ) mentof his fellows. he is a muu of refinement—a eulturod, | studious man. His name and his for tune, together with his attainments, made him naturally a conspicuous figure in society, but he was not regarded as 11 ••marrying" mtu nor as one who was reckless in his pursuit of pleasure. He was even to hie intimates a quiet bachelor. Within a few months after Mr. Ham ilton's infatuation for Eva Stool began the fact became known to some of his friends. In fast, he seemed to take no very great pains to conceal It. While he never talked about the woman, he had 110 hesitation in being seen with her In public places, at the theater, in the park and other resorts, where he was morally sure to meet some of his friends, and to have attention attracted to liitu because of his companion. And, after a time, lie came to notice that he did not have so many cordial friends as he once hud hud. His political associates, many of them, began to evince less pleasure in his ; society, and big family did not regard ! him us ufl'eetlonately. However, the in j fatuation was absolute, and nothing I'' seemed able to reJiovo him of the un fortunate passion. Many of Mr. Hamilton's friends In New 1 York believe tiiat he married Evangeline out of a mistaken souse of chivalry to save her reputation, but nothing human could do that. Her record, now traced buck lor some fifteen years, shows he: always irredeemably, hopelessly wicked. She grow from girlhood into womanhood tho same creuture of vicious habits an I passionate temper. She lias lived under more names titan she has fingers and toes. If she was ever an innocent oent child she rid herself of her child hood as early as possible and plunged into the dissipations of iifo, an abandoned woman at an ago when other girls are yet in short skirts. Mr. Hamilton's friends were not his wife's friends, and the apparent impossi bility of his ever being able to introduce iter into the society to which he had been accustomed drove him from the city and sent him traveling through tho country. Gen. Hchuyler Hamilton, the father of COTTAGE WHERE TRAGEDY OCCURRED. Robert Ray Hamilton, was dissatisfied with tho life his son was leading, and had frequently written to him to come home and settle down. The general was so much interested In this that only a few days before the tragedy ho came down to Atlantic City to bring the desired end | about. It is said his wishes were ac ; ceded to, and that at the time of the af | fray tho couple were packing preparu j tory to going to New York, j Descended from a father who was a s brute and a mother who had not suffl j cient will power to make her imperious 1 daughter obey her, Eva .Steel was porn j in Desliaure, Fenn., in 1857. 1 It is a mining section of the state, and : her surroundings in childhood wore not those calculated to inspire either moral j ity or refinement in any young girl. Her i father was & man givon to excesses in I liquor; he beat his wife and chased hei j from his house when indulging in one of f his sprees. This ooeurrod several times, i and 011 one occasion tho mother brought Eve to New York for a short stay. When she returned to Dosbauro her heatl was tilled with what she had seun in the great city, and she determined to oujoy some of the luxury of which she had been a witness. \ A mining superintendent named Far sons gratilied her desires to see life, and for two years she traveled about with him as his wife. She then drilled about in various cities leading a fast lifeuntii her meeting with Humiltun in 188(1. It waß thus they mot: Eva hud gone to tho ball of the "Circle ! do l'Hariuouie" dressed in u diminutive | costume that exposed lior figure, and was walking through UlO hail like a tigress searching for Its proy when Mr. Huiniltou caught her eye. Later in the evening Mr. Hamilton found himself In a proscenium box, whore fun was raging fast. Suddenly an altercation occurred in a corner, and Mr. Hamilton saw tho pretty blonde that he had noticed earlior in the evening beating a man over the head with a cham pagne bottle. He stepped up to the in furiated woman, more beautiful than over in her wild auger, und pacified her. Here the infatuation begun. Although at the zenith of his fame, tho refined statesman allowed himself to visit the vile woman whose idea wus to trap him and make him hers, body and soul. Wliul he could see in her to fascinate a man o his education and refinement cannot he understood, but she must have possessed some occult qualities to bo able to enter tain such u man. Mr. Hamilton's visits to her grew from occasional ones to those of regularity, and finally Itis infatuation grew deeper, and he removed her to a place where he could visit her at will. Even when he gave her the right to use his name and made her a member of one of the proudest families of America, she dragged him further into the depths of dishonor and soiled him forever in the mud of vice. "Otil Black Joe" Dead. The original "Old Black Joe" died at Mount Holly, N. 0., a fow days ago in tho little cabin where he has lived for years, just on the outskirts of the town. His proper name was Joseph Queen, ami he was undoubtedly the oldest man in the Btpte. being 112 years old. He was born in Virginia In 1777. "Old Joe" was a runaway slave and came to New Jersey in 1827, where he was taken oare of by eoine of the residents of Mount Holly. Por years past the townspeople have mlnisterod to his wants and kept him in eompara! ive comfort. He wae very pa triarchal In appearance, and hie form was bent nearly double with the weight of years. -Exohange. "MOI.LV MISCHIEF." Cur little Molly Ml-.hef Hot proper uamu Roue Ih ulwayn biiny us a I>h\ And ovorybt dy i h.wh Th* been are full >f bnaincfit The livelong summer day. And so is Molly Mischief, lint in quite a dilb t-eut way. Her lt J t e rosy fliiyra. ho pretty in their place. Are often t •••.I together behind her, in disgrace. Becnufte, if uininma l a\esa thing For only half a minute. Th\\ like fluttering Are aure to settto in it. One ftuuday. after meeting. She vanished from our sight, But uo 0110 m\r the going Of our littlo wauderiug sprite. We ran around to seek her Among the girls and boys. And found bur in tho organ loft, "A-bunting for ze noise." And oneu, when wo forbade her To pick tho ctirroanU red. We heard her ill the bushes, Ami tills was what she said; "O ittle lonesome halites, Is you al'waid to stay? Come to your own. dear muzzer, I'll hide you safe away. I leave my little readers To guess the hiding plueo. Perhaps It something had to do With the stains upon lor face, —Youth's Companion. KING FREDERICKS RUSE. One streamer morning, a great many years ago, a boy was lying sound asleep on a beneh in one of the rooms of the Sans Souci. the country palace of tho king of Ftussia. witli all his clothes on. Very gay clothes they were, from the trim blue jacket, with its embroidered cuffs and shining brass buttons, down to tho smart shoes, with their well-polished' steel buckles. But tho poor little fellow's face was not as guy as his dress by any I means. It looked sadly pale, and as I worn and tired as if he had been up all night. So indeed he had. for tough old King Frederick, who could work from 4 in the morning till 10 at night without seeming a bit the worse, sometimes forgot that his poor littie page-boy was not as strong as himself, and would often keep him on. duty till Karl fell asleep from sheer fa tigue, just as he appeured to have done now. All at once a bell rang sharply in 'the next room. At that signal the page ought to have jumped up and gone in to receive his orders for the day, as lie 1 iad to the first thing every morning, no mai- THE PAGE ASLEEP: ter at what hour he had gone to bed. But he was so fast asleep that he never heard it; and the bell rang again still more sharply without any answer. Then the door of the inner room opened, and out catno a very strange figure indeed. It wus a small, loan, gray-haired old man in a shabby uniform coat and u pair of long riding boots, which looked as though they hud not been cleaned for a month; and as if he wore not untidy enough already, he had smeared the whole front of itis coat with snuff, which foil off in Hakes whenever he moved. His face might have been carved in stone, so cold and hard did it look ; but in the midst of it there gleamed an eye so large and bright and piercing thai, it seemed to go right through every one I upon whom it rested. But for this com manding glance one would most finely have taken him for a beggar, and have* wondered whut business such a slovenly old follow could have in tho palace at alt - But in reality this queer, shabby little old man was no other than King Frederick of Frussia himself, the great est general and statesman in tho world, and famous throughout all Europe under the name of "Frederick the Great." One could see by the Hash of his eye and tho set of his hard old mouth, as ho came striding out, that he was very angry at being kept waiting, and that a terrible scolding awaited the poor little page, who lay sleeping there so penco j fully, knowing nothing at all about it. But us the king's oyo fell upon the lad s unconscious face his mood seemed to change. "Hum!" muttered lie, with the very ghost of a smilo flickering over his Iron face. "How famously the youug dog sleeps! I only wish that I could have such a nap now and then. One can see that he hasn't got to worry himself about governing five millions of men, or carrying on war against five nations at once. Ha! what's this?" EMPEROR FREDERICK READS THE NOTE. A crumpled sheet of coarse paper, which seemed to have dropped from Karl's hand, wras lying on tho iloor lie side him. Tho king picked It up, and these wore tho first words that caught his eyo, writ ten in the shaky, straggling hand of u very feeble old woman: "I thank you very much, my dear child, for the money that you have so kindly sent me, which has been a great help. Tako your old mother's blessing for it, and see that youJalwayß energy and enthusiasm go. Tho salary attached to the important ofllce of comp . troller of the currency is $6,000 a year. > less by $4,000 a year than W, H. Vanderi j bllt pays his head cook. 1 j ' Tho 125-foot English torpedo boat, oarrying a load of twenty tons, makes a speed of 22 1-5 knots per hour.