OPT ON THIS Diserfy Out on tbe deep, wlion tho sun is low, And tho sea with splendor bnrns; With his scaly spoil, from his evening (Sl)| The fisher homeward turns. And his oars flash bright. In tho ocean lights And he knows that eyes on shoro Look ont on the doep, for his bright oar stfefp I And be sings as he sweops his oar; "A long sweep, lads, end a strong sweep, bdyi. And a song as along we go For the hearts that yearn for our homo return. When the evening suu Is low." Out on the deep, when the sun Is dead. And tho first sweet star (loth gleam ; Of aday that is dead, and a love that is fled, The fisher oft will dream. And he thinks, tho' afar, like that first bright star, She is still besido as of yoro. And his oars gleam bright, in its sweet pale light. And he sighs as he plies his oar; "A low sweep, lads, and a low sweep, boys, And a song as along we go For tho star of lovo, that is bright above, And its gleam in the wave below." —Samuel Cowan. HER MOTHER-IN-LAW. . am ND one thing, I'm resolved upon," said Kate Itlder to hor Vv sister. "I'm going JjKax. to be mistress m my own houso. I won L 1)6 r ' ( '^ on over by a Bjfeirwl dreadful mother-ln "Stick to that, Sj Kate, and you'll bo ( ' ;? " It os o had be en i I WW* married two years; M ifj y u tfcxW Kate two weeks, /illti 1 SM Rose's husband was it ' 13 B flsSl'h" a young lawyer, who THI 11 firTP I '® lived in a thriving kJ II ll I fll' town, and had no Zs"relatives that lie ' cared anything about, or even desired to seo again. Henry Ridor, Kate's husband, was a yyung physician, who had struggled into pfactieo in an out-of-the-way village, where he had lived all his life with au old-fashioned mother, to whom ho was extremely attached, and two plump, good humored sisters, who, if neither accom plished nor stylish, wero tho bestgirls in the world. Kato was a boarding school girl, with nil manner of accomplishments, and a natural aptitude for the latest fashions. She had a little incomo of her own, aud was considered a beauty by vory many people; and Henry Rider had yielded to her fascinations, courted hor for a month, been engagod two, and married at the '■nd of a throo months' acquaintance. He was very much iu love. As for Kato, it was her first offor; and Henry was very handsome. To bo a doc tor's wifo was well enough; though, had -•he inquired more closely into his in come, sho might have hesitated about giving so ready a "yes." But since hor marriage she had heard so much about "mother" and Jano and Fannio that, alarmed at the prospect which seemed to spread itself before hor, sho had put the question plump: "Shall you expect mo to live with your people?" And roeeivod tho uuswer: "I thought you know we always lived together." •You were putting up at a hotel when i met you," said Kate. "I'm sure 1 never thought of such a tiling." Aud immediately resolving that she would alter those domestic arrangements she took counsel witli her sister, und the result was the declaration above recorded —"I intend to be mistress in my own house." With these words on her lips sin sought her husband's presence. "You soe, Henry," sho said with a smile, "young ladies and old ladies don't like tho samo things. Our ways of man aging would be different, and we'd quar rel ; and it is really more tiinn you can expect that I should manage for so man v at first; and I won't bo managed for— ' "But you don't want mo to turn nr mother and sisters out of my house?' asked tho doctor. "Of course not—only we can live somo whero else," said the girl-wife. "But wait until you've seen them," said tho husband. "They arc the best of people." "Oh, no doubt! One's own relations always are," said the wifo. "But one family is onough for one house, and 1 shall stay witli sister until I havo a home of my own;" with which words she left him, conscious of having shown the "proper spirit" in time.'. The doctor sat with his head upon his lined for a long while. Ho had foresee); nothing like this, and Was unprepared for action. However, li 4 was still mr,\ much iu love, and lie co+ld not, but feel that many wives might havo felt as Kate did, and "that ho might have objected ti a ivndy-mado family. "Better, after nil. /to livo amicably apart than to dwell together In strife, ho said; and aftor one more converse! i i la with his wlto, he wroth to his mother u engage board for himself and his bride within a short distance of his own home, adding only: "K it.! thinks alio would liko boarding best." To this shortly oatao an answer: ' You have kept the truth from i:ic, ia kind • 1 know how it Is. Your wife object* tea M :'I r in-law: but. my mm. your practise would be in Jnr- d by removal; your comfort dostroyod by lie gin.iing ill:'".' t life tu a boarding-house. Thi girls and uiy r will find n new home. I havi enough, -.anli Heaven, for all three, and am not In the least offended. Faunto and Jane art younger than I, and you must qot blame them i they are diiferent." Indeed, buxom Jane came to tho cit tint very day; and in the excess of it,cognation, heaped roproachoa on le i brother, and spoke of his wife as a "nasi ; stuck-up little wretoh." ••Sec her!" cried Jane, with tlie tear: streaming down her round, dimpled checks. "Be introduced to tier! No; neither X nor t'uimie wants to see 01 meet or speak to tiiut woman who hut turned our dear old mother out of tut homo where she has nursed us all; that viper, that has sot her only son again t her. I should insult her if she cairn into this room. 80 don't bring hoi nasty, white-faced beast!" "Kumember you are speaking of in;, wife, Jane," said the doctor. "And why need you have married such a creature?" cried Jane. "How we've worked for you and done for you, up late and down early, to make a homo for you ! But it's like man's ingratitude. 1 don't want to see you again, Henty lJldor. ! hopo I may never Bee you again as long as I livo." "Do you mean that?" asked tho man. "X do!" sobbed tho girl. "I'd rathm have seen you in your collin lhan hove it come to this. 80 good-bye forever." tar as I go. And away went Jane to toll her mothei and sister that Henry's now wlfo had mride him harder-hearted than a stone, uud to woop blttor tears ovor tho pack ing of her few possessions and hor de parture from hor lifo-long home. The doctor said nothing, but he wag very grave. Tho homo-ooming of the bride was not a gay one. To be sure. old Mrs. Rider name ovor to call on tho first afternoon, and showed the yuling housekeeper a great deal of politeness and kindness; but Kato did not, to uss hor own expression, "take to her." The oid lady was homely and countrified, and used the English languago as care lessly as do most old country ladles; and she wore a hoino-mado brown alapaca, and a cap with a border all round, tiod uudor tho chin. Kate rejoiced ovor her resolution as sho bade her good-bye. hut the husband went far on tho road with his mothor, and was not ashamed to shed a few tears; and coming homo, ho wished aloud, unheard by anything but the old eow who grazed in tho lane, and who seemed to turn hor head to listen, that, ho had never mot Kate Stephens. For other und less tender reasons ho wished it very ofton during the onsuing year. The good family cook ing was supersoded by the inartistic ef forts of a scries of" poor cooks—the ancient "help" of the household having left in indignation to follow the fortune of her old mistrosa. For weeks together there would bo no servant, aud Kate openly declared that she couldn't cook. Then meals of tea and broad and butter wore out tho hard worked doctor's patience, until, aftor repeated visits to the city, a new servant was found and a new list of misdemeanors was rohearsod for ids benefit every night at supper timo nndjevery morning at the breakfast table. He was vory uncomfortable, but ho had not ceased to love his wife. She was only 18 years old, and much was not to bo expected of hor powers in tho house keeping lino. Ho hardly wished to see hor in working attire, with hor hands reddened with tabor aud a cooking apron on. Her dainty helplessness had a charm in it. Her soft hands aud unrulllod attire pleased him mightily, and thoro were moments when ho was vory happy. But no man can remain so if ill-red ; and tho daily discomfort, combined with the twinges of romorso which ho felt when over lie saw his mother's patient face or his sisters' indiguaut countenances, quito altered his temper by slow degrees. Ho did not reproach his wife at any Hmo, but ho sulked bohiud'a newspaper, or spont long evenings out by himself, and now and then alluded to mother's pies or dumplings in a tono which wives understand vory well. All this only confirmed Kato hi hor lisiiko of her mother-in-law and sisters in-law; and whon tho first baby came •m refused with a little string of spito ;oi remarks about old-fashlonocl names, to have it christoned Margaret after its grandmother. Then Henry refused to think of "Rose," but yielded when his wifo cried over it; and Kate's sister mmo to the christening, though tho grandmother did not, to tho great caudal of all tho congregation. Kate's "airs" bad wounded tho old lady too far at last Sho had resolved never to outer her son's door aguln, and Kato rejoiced t heroat. So tho baby grew to bo two years old, ■aid anothor came, and a nursemaid was inlded to the establishment, and the trouble with cooks went, on, until one day, Kato, led by an advertisement sup posed to oe inserted in the paper by an unexceptionable servant, penetrated into tho dirtiest stroets of Now York, and into a room where tho dirtiest of all treated children was ill in bed. "Poor craythur!" said the mother. "tVhat ails him I don't know," and Kate, if tho sympathy of motherhood, patted tiie child's lieuti and spoke to him kindly, and advised a warm bath, which the ma tron took as an insult. The elllcient ser vant, however, was engaged and Kato ■ ent homo to fool conscious in a few days of being very unwell, and to break down last and take to bod, while her anxious ui-band felt that at last tho greatest i rii of their married lives had come upon tiiom, for Kate had taken the small-pox ni one of its very worst forms. "Shall I send for your sister, my dear?" asked ho, after breaking tho nows to his wife as tenderly as possible. "To Eoso?" said Kate, "Oh.no. She wouldn't come, and I couldn t expect it. Don't send for any ono. Let mo die; I hall be pitted if I livo, and after that what would life bo worth? ' "I should love you as well," said the husband; "but I'll save your pretty skin as weli as your lifo, if I can ; but there'- a trial before you, and before mo, too. I wish—" Ho paused and did not say—"l wish mother was hero." As for sending for her, ho had no such thought. Tho servants had Hod in dis i! and a half-witted boy, who was not afraid of small-pox, inasmuch as he h I bad it himself the year before, was •minding" the children in the apartment farthest romnved from the sick room. There was not a nurse in tho place who would under;.i •• such a case, and he neighbors wont.! have bolted their "i < against him. What should he do .11 ,v contrive for the safety of his babes? uddenly a volco sniolo his ear. "This is n time of trouble, Henry. Let old scores bo forgot. Jane is dressing the children u go homo with Fannio. and vill stay hersolf to help mo. Don't, Tret about nothing, ray boy. We'll do the best the Lord allows us." Henry took her in his arms. "My good mothor," he said, "how can you be so good to us?" As for Kate, slio was fast tailing into that condition when iio could speak or think of nothing. Hut bravo old Mrs. ltidoi did. as she had promised, mo best tho Lord allowed, and hor best Was very good and wholo sonio. Jane made all comfortable in tho iohon, and Fannio cared for hor brother's babes in the now homo in which die had wc:>; so many bitter tears for her old one. And at last Kate passed from ruler tho shadow of tho death angel's ■l'ings, and her face took a likeness to it sell' again and reason returned. Then who was tender of her as of a new-born babe, save old Mrs. Ridor? And who .>U her with dainty blnnc mango and jelly but dimpled Jano? And whoeamo to toll hor how the children were growing, and how well they were, hut Fannie? Until nt last, paler and thinner, and with her soft hair out short on her nock, but with a skin as smooth an I fair as over. Kato went into her husband's little otlico one day, and find ieg him alone, knelt down at his foot. "Dear Henry, forgive me?" sho said. •'For what, love?" asked the husband. "For robbing you of such n mother and sinters," snid Kate. "I was a foolish, weak-minded girl; I did not understand; they have been angels to mo; they can never be thaukod enough for what thov have done. Oh, Henry, will they stay with us?" The end of it was that they did stay. The old lady could scarcely believe that the rale, sweet young woman whom she had just seen pass through such suffer ing was the haughty creature who had repulsed her friendship, and banished her from her son's home. Jano deolared that nobody could remain angry with the poor little soul: and Fannie had grown to love the children very tenderly; r> the two families became ono; and more tlian the love of mother and daugh ter exists between Kate and the woman whom she once styiod "My dreadful mother-in-law." —N. Y. Lodger. A UOLE-liUKINQ CRICKET. The jl'tcnllar Inauct Which la ltarag- , Ing the Grain Crops of Algeria). A peculiar species of cricket, the Stan- j ronotUß maroccanus, infects tho eastern provinces of Algeria, and is ravaging all i the growing orops of grain. The insect's mouth Is armed with two strong horny hooks in tho upper jaw, moving horizontally, crossing oaoh other like tho blados of scissors. With thoso. having climbod a oorn stalk, they first quickly strip off the beard and husks of the ear of oorn, which they allow to fall to tho ground, and then out open overy grain, devour ing only Its farinaceous part, and this to tho last crumb. Five or six insects will ascend a corn stalk at oneo, till it bends under their weight; millions and millions are in the field, swarming all round, soeking an un occupied stalk, for they will seldom eat the husks or the stalk itsolf. The female insect, whioh Is much larger than the male, lays her oggs about tho end of Juno or beginning of July, says tho "Illustrated London Nows," Shousos dry and sterile ground, in which she bores a holo an inch deep by the instrumentality of a valvular sucking-tube at tho extromlty of her ab domen. Applying the end of this tube to the grains of earth or sand, which are loos ened by its moisture, she lifts and re moves them sticking to tho tube, and continues tho process till tho holo is ex cavated. Then sho deposits in tho holo a cylindrical ovary, a case or shell of hardened mucilage, containing about forty eggs, very neatly paekod to gether. The eggs remain nine months in tho earth, and aro slowly hatehod by the heat of tho sun, till tho spring of the fol lowing year, when a littlo white caterpil lar comes out of each egg; it is speedily transformed into a cricket; and theso in sects, collecting rapidly over spaces of bun.rods of miles, form vast and terri rible armies, which begin thoir march as creeping things, but aro presently fur nished with wings as Ihoy attain tho full size of adults, while they procoedin their devastating advance, guided by some mysterious instinctive knowledge, to the corn-growing regions far distant from the laud of thoir birth. Inflammable* Flowera. It is well known that dictamnus ' fraxinolla at the closo of a dry sunny day uvo surrounded by a gas which is inflam mable, and will ignito with a sudden flash of flame when a lighted match is applied to them. Certain plants, and very notably tho rutacem and labialie, secrete various products, such as essen tial oils, rosins, gums, balsams, etc. When ono of tho glands containing tho active sectotion was examinod with a luieroseopo on a hot day it was ompty, its contents having been drawn out by tho heal through tho cells of tho epidor luis, or through tho air that terminates the gland. It must be understood that tho surrounding air has to bo prctty stronglv impregnated with tho gas of the volatilized resin in order to tako fire when a lighted match is applied it. This !• ;periment has also been carried out in Franco by placing a pot plant of a fraxinella in bloom under a boll-glass and leaving it there for soruo time, when tho air in tho boll-glass was found to be so highly charged with tho resinous gas that it Ignited tho moment a lighted match was applied to It, and, it may be added, without doing the slightest in jury to the plant.—Exchange. How Kuaaluais Eat. The Russiun outs on nil average once every two hours. Tho climate and cus tom require such frequent moala, tho di gestion of which is aided by frequent draughts of vodki and tea. Vodki Is tho Russian whisky, made from potatoes and rye. It is fiery and colorloss, and is generally flavored with somo extract like vanilla or orungo. It is drunk from small cups that hold perhaps half a gill. Vodki and tea aro tho inseparable accom paniments of friendly as wollas business intercourse in tho country of tho czar. Drunken men are rnro. Russia and Swodon aro tho only coun tries in which tho double dinner is tho rule. When you go to tho house of a Russian, be ho a friend or a stranger, you aro at once invited to a side table, where salted moats, piokoled col, salted cucumbers, and many other spicy and appetizing viands aro urged upon you with an improssivenoss that knows no refusal. This repast is washed down wit h froquent cups of vodki. That ovor. and when the visitor feols as if ho had eaten enough for twenty-four hours, the host says: "And now for dinner," At the dinner tablo the moal is served in courses, with winos grown In tho Crimea Bessarabia, where excellent red wines are made.—New York Star. Two-Pound UuiUtonHi An extraordinary phenomenon oc curred a few days ago at Yillafranca, in Piedmont, writes the Paris correspondent of tho London"Tolegraph." Tho peasants wore eugugod in tho fields in taking in tho harvest, when suddenly a dull, rolling sound was heard and tho sky became as black as ink. Thero was no thunder or lightning, but a fow hailstones of onormous size fell, somo penetrating into the ground ami others rebounding to a distance of sev eral yards. This preliminary shower ceased for somo minutes, during which the peasants cropt under tho carts and hayricks in thoir neighborhood. Some, however, wore unable to find any aholtor, and when tho storm was ovor they wero in a pitiublo condition, with the blood flowing from thoir numer ous wounds. A boy of 15 and a girl of 11 had their skulls fractured, and expired a fmv hours afterward. More than a hundred persons were badly hurt. The weight of somo of those monster hailstones is estimated in tho reports at two pounds. The crops luiyo boon to tally destroyed; many of tho treo3 have been wrecked, and tho roofs of houses and cottages considerably damaged. Auslria —Hungary's Richest Man. Tho Archduke Albreeht, commander in-chief of tho Austrian army, is the wealthiest man in Austria-Hungary. The other day. while on a tour of in spection in Hungary, ho spent forty eight hours in a small provincial town. The bill presented to him amounted to K153.P25. It was paid without a mur mur, but the next day the officers of th > garrison, received strict orders not to sot. foot in tho hotel in question, and for the next twelve months no military band will be allowed to play In the town. That will probably make tho innkocpor's extortion tho dearost transaction he ever attempted.—N. Y. Sun. Tbat 110-Ton Uun. The 110-ton gun at Shooburyness is stated to havo cost .CIS,OOO, and tho car riage, with Its various mechanioul de vices for handling It, £II,OOO a total ol £'25,000. Each tlmo It is fired it Is cal culated that, including wear and tear, the explosion costs £001), and experi enced gunners assert that 10!) rounds is the limit of its capacity. Its range 1* fourteen miles.—Exchango. The Rwutlnf Slcknti < A century later this country was at tacked by another serious epldemlo, the sweating sickness, which was so called because, In tho words of an old writer, "It did most etand in sweating from bogluning to ondlng." It first made Its appcurance in England, and was generally known on tho continent as the "English sweat." It was observed generally to sparo foreigners In this country, and al6o to bo specially fatal to Englishmen when it appeared abroad; and It was surmised that the immoder ate use of beer, then so common In Eng land, rendered its Inhabitants particu larly susceptible to tho diseaso. Beginning in 1485 in the army of Rich mond, afterward Henry VII, it spread quickly over the country with most fa tal results. It seems to have been a spocies of violently inflammatory fever, which suffusod tho whole body with a fetid perspiration, tho crisis generally occurring within twenty-four hours of the first seizure. Like most other opl domics, it was specially fatal to hoalthy, vigorous mon In tho prime of life, and hardly 1 per cent of such recovered. In London, where it raged with peculiar violenco, two lord mayors and six alder men died in one woek. This first outburst continued Its rav ages until the end of tho yoar, Its cessa tion being nearly coincident with a vio lent tempest on New Year's day, 1480, which was theroforo supposed to have caused its disappearance. Further out breaks of this opldomic occurrod in Eng land in 1500 and 1517, when again London buffered severely; and in 1528 and 1520 not only this country, but also Franco and Germany, and, in a less degree, Holland, Swodon and Poland .were vis ited by tho same pestilanco. Tho last appearance of the sweating sickness in England was in 1551, when the disease was particularly virulent in Shrewsbury and the valley of the Sovorn.—Cham bers's Journal, To Jerusalem to Escape dialling. A man must bo troubled with a very sensitive nature who, in order to escape from tho jokes and witticisms of which he is tho object on tho part of his ac quaintances, puts betweon himself and them tho distance of such a long jour ney as that from Franco to Jerusalom. This, howevor, Is what a French printer, employed at Versailles, did, whose name, a little less than a year ago, was in al most every French papor as that of a fortunate individual who had been loft 25,000,0(10 francs by a bachelor uncle, who many years ago, had gono to America, and had mado his fortune thore. Suddenly the alleged heir to this large fortune, the printer Alamacher, disap peared, and people asked what had bo como of him and whero ho .had gono. Some conjectured that his good fortune had turned his hoad; others hinted at possible murdor. But neither the one guess nor tho other was right. Tho missing man has just turned up again at Marseilles, his statement being that the horltago oxistod only in the too lively imagination of somo of his follow com positors, and that he was so vexod and worried at becoming thoir laughing stock that ho loft liis country for Jerusalem, where ho lived in peace until recently, when ho returned to Marseilles.—Lon don Standard. Tile Rhinoceros. Tho idea in bringing out the rhinoceros was to get something that no other country could boat for ugliness, says the Detroit "Free Press." While thero are several other brands of tho beast, all put up in different packages with difforont labels, all amount to tho samo thing when you cut tho string and untie the bundle. While the giraffo is two stories high with a hip roof, the rhinocoros stopped short at the basement and has never been finished up. To reward him for not being quite as homely as the hip popotamus, ho was given a hido so thick that a grape shot would only tickle him, and as an offset for not having a mouth as lurgo as an alligator ho was given a temper as hot as wild cats and hornets boiled down together. The rhinoceros was not expected to out anything of a dash in this world. Ho was given to understand that if ho took oaro of his appotito and mado It un pleasant for ovory living thing which canio within a mile of him, nothing further would bo expected of him. So far as man has beon ablo to discovor, the beast never cracks a smilo nor makes a joke, and nothing ovor steps on his coat tails and gets away alive. Tho legend in regard to him is that ho puts in tho hours betweon daylight and sunriso grieving becauso ho wasn't a turtle dove, but legends arc not to bo depended on. I.ftfe on u Cuban Plantation. In Dakota and Manitoba tho employ ment on siuglo whoat estates of 100 reapers and an aggregato of 300 laborors for a season has been regarded as some thing unprecedented in agricultural in dustry ; but on ono sugar ostato in Cuba —"EI Balboa," from 1,500 to '2,000 hands invariably negroos, are employed, who work under sovoro discipline, in watchos or i olaye, during the grinding season, by day and night, the 6amo as in tho largo iron mills and furnaces of tho United States and Europe. At tho same time there are low village commuultios whore a like numbor of poople experience tho samo care and sur veillance. Tho malo workers occupy quarters walled and barricaded from the women, and tho women from tho men. Thore aro in every village an infirmary, a lying-in-hospital, ft physician, un apothecary, a clmpol and priost. At night and morning mass is said in chapel, and the crowds aro always large. Thero is of a Sunday loss restraint, though ceaseless espionage is never remlttted. tbi theso days and In parts of holidays, thero are rude inirtli, ruder music und much dancing. Popular Science Monthly, Artlfii'tul Whalebone. In many branches of industry it has of late been found nocoseary to supersede natural by artificial products. The sup ply of whalebone hue for somo tlmo been gradually diminishing, and now an arti eial whalobono has been produced which is said to bo a perfect substitute. It can bo produced very choaply, as tho process of its manufacture ia a simple no. One part of soaked and softened India rubber, one-fourth part of shellac, oue-lifth part of magnesia and one-fourth port of gold brimstone are mixed to gether. They are thon heated in an oven at 120 lo 150 dogreea Celsius, and tho material is ready for the markot. Keeps Ills Kitlte at Work. •Thero is a man in Biddeford, Jle., who lias whittlod so industriously and skil fully for eleven years us to briug himself into notice. Among the products of his jackknlfo are a violin case of '2,937 pieces of wood of 100 different kinds; it yoke of oxen and a cart, put together in a glass jar with a small nook, and a groat num bor of really woll made animals tha' would sell readily for toys. But this Maine genius will not part with any o: his croatlons for love or money, and as he does nothing but whlttlo lie is getting together a largo and interosting collec tion.—Exchange. M WAB HIS OWN wars. Haw m Swindler Collected Ineuraaaa Money on Hie Own Lite, Insurance frauds more remarkablo than that alleged to have been attempted <n the Hlllman case havo been attempted In Germany. There is the case of the man Kumf. who was imprisoned for collecting insur ance monoy on his own life, says a writer In the St. Louis "Globe-Democrat." This man was a skillful impersonator, and dis guised as a woman, ho applied for an in surance on his own lifo. As tho husband of the applicant he presented himself for medical examina tion, was accepted and the policy Issued. In course of time he feigned sioiiness and was attended by a short-sighted old phy ilcian ho had selected as a man easily to be dupod. Ono day during this spell of sickness he got up quietly, disgulsod himself once more as his wife, went to the Insurance office, paid a promium about duo and tearfully announced tho grievtous sick ness of tho insured. The company seem to have suspeotod -hat this Illness was not at all straight, .'or, having casually asked tho name of tho attending physician, they sont to that gentleman, whose replies to their luestions allayed their suspicions. Ono day this doctor was called in great haste and told that Kumf was load. Tho old fellow does not appear to havo been very conscientious or painstaking. On his arrival at the house he was met by Kumf, this time disgulsod as tho wife or alleged widow, and taken to a dark ened room in which lay a corpse. His examination of this must havo been nominal, for in a short spaco of time ho quit tho house, leaving behind him the desired death certificate. As the boroavod widow, Kumf at tended tho interment of what purported to bo hie own body. Still, as the widow of himself ho obtained tho insurance money on his own lifo and his littlo plot admirably answered. Unfortunately for him, howevor, he got intoxicated, first with success and thon with liquor, whereupon ho ne glectod to keep up the disguiso, wont about us tho dead man redivivus, was detected and now languishes in jail. (jUaristone's Courtship. Mr. Gladstone had been acquainted with his future wifo ftvo years beforo they were married. Tholr first mooting took place in 1834, at tho house in Tllnoy streot, Park lane, of Mr. Milnos Gaskell, who was an intimato friend of Mr. Glad stone at Eton and Oxford. Mr. Gladstono and Miss Glynno met again at tho Han del commemoration at Westminster Ab bey in tho autumn of tho samo year, and for a third tlmo at Hawarden castte, to which he paid a visit in 1835. Tho seal to their engagement was set, howevor, at Romo in 1838, under circum stances alluded to by Mr. Gladstone in his "Chapter of Autobiography," pub lished thirty years later. "Tho book," he says, "entitled 'The Stato in Its Re lation with tho Church,' was printed dur ing a tour of tho south of Franco, which tho state of my eyesight had rendered it prudent to undortako." During that tlmo ho again foil in with Lady Glynne and her two daugh ters, who passed tho winter in Rome. Lady Glynno's health, always delicate, nado it necessary that she should seek a milder climate, and it has often been stated that a visit paid in company with uany other friends by Mr. Gladstone and diss Catherine Giyune to the moonlit volisoum, under circumstances similar to those immortalized by Lord Byron in "Manfred," revealed to both a tender secret which soon ripened Into an engage ment when they met again in England in the spring of 1835.—Exchango. Indian Superxtlt lons. A curious light is thrown on the rural lifo of Bengal by tho contents of a paper reprinted lately in tho annual report of tho Bombay Anthropological socioty. From this paper we are told the follow ing, among other things. Shouting tho namo of the king of birds (Garuda) drives away snakes. Shouting ram, ram, drives away ghosts. Cholera that at tacks on Monday or Saturday ends fatally, but not cholera that attacks on Thursday. Tho ilowering of bamboos augurs famino. In fanning, If tho fan strikes tho body It should be thrico knocked against tho ground. When giving alms tho giver and re •oiver should not bo standing on differ ent sides of the threshold. It Is bad to pick one's teoth with one's nails. If a snake is killed It should bo burned, for it is a brahman. At night tho words "snake" and "tiger" should not bo used; all them creepers and Insects. Do not wake up a sleeping physician. A morn ing dream always comes to pass. Devo tion without headgear is wrong. Iron is a charm against ghosts. A black cat with a whito face is very auspicious.— Calcutta Times. Georgia'* Wealth* Georgia is tho grandest state in tho union, possessing more wealth and ad vantages, says tho Macon "Tolograph." Gold is found in fifty-six counties of tho state, copper in thirteen, asbestos in twelve, manganese is four counties, dia monds, goms and proolous stones, otc., in twenty-six counties. Diamonds aro found in Hall and Whito counties, opal in Bullock and Washington counties, galonu in seven counties, graphite in nino coun- Lies, kaolin in iivo counties, fire clay in throe counties, litnostono in thirty-one counties, buhrstono in twenty-seven counties, marl in twenty-eight counties, green sand in four counties, marble in nino counties. Gilmer has it in white and variegated, Walkornas black. Coal in three counties, turpentine in eight, in twenty-throo counties, granite in forty-eight counties, in suf ficient quantities to bo quarried and used for building purposes. Sandstone in nino counties, lithographic stone is found in Walker county, polishing sand stone in ihroo counties and muck for agricultural purposes is found in Charl ton, Clinch und Waro countios. Great liritaiii'a Insane. The forty-third annual roport of the commissioners in lunacy for Great Britain contains interesting figures. On New Year's day last thero were in the kingdom 81,310 insane porsons. Various causes of insanity are set forth in a table covering 130,178 cases. Of tnoso 9,509 porsons lost their reason from domestic trouble, 8,060 from "advorso circum stances." 8,278 from overwork and worry, 3,709 from religious oxcitoment, and 18,290 from intemperance. The in iluence of heredity was ascertained in 28,003 cases, and congenital defect in 5,881.— -Exchange. How It'* Done in Texn*. In the southwest they do tilings differ ently from most every other part of the country. At l'leasanton, Atascosa county, Texas, they hanged a man last week. To express their great joy the cI.T/.ons got up a bnrbcctio, which was largely attended. In the adjoining oounty a whito man who was on trial for killing a Chinaman, was sot, at liberty because the presiding judge could find no laws providing for his punishment. ■fho IIMW 'Moil., 0-:e thing tnat never tuna to inferos, all who seo it, whon it is found on t' ■ mountain heights of tho Sierras, is t! snow plant, known to botanists as tl sarcodos sanguines, moaning blood, liosh, says tho "American Garden." >' tlesh or blood could be so oxqulsitel beautiful; Imagine a rosy and snov tinted, crowned hyacinth, from eight t twenty Indies in height, every mlnlatu: bell wound about by r- -osy and frosted silver ribbon, all topped by a huge hen of asparagus in hoar frost and silve: Tho frosted papilla is vory marked < . every sopal and bract. Though tl) whole translucent spike is Hushed with rose and curmlno, tho petals are tho deepest and most brilliantly-colored parts of the flower, which is live parted and each open one showing slightly ti stamens and pistils. Thore havo been seon spoclmens boa ing eighty perfect flowers and a psoudi bulb twenty-two inohos in clrcumforeno. hrlttlo almost as spun glass, and, a though solid as a pinoapplo whon llrt dug up, dried away to tho st/.o of th stem. All attempts at cultivation hai thus far failed, tho bulbs refusing t stand transplanting and tho seeds 1 sprout. It was onco said that the would not survivo below tho lovel of tb summer snow line, but they have bee since soon almost covering the groun far below. Tho snow banks soem, how over, to protect them from tho wind sweeping among the mountains, nr. they mako their early growth and dove opment beneath tho driven snow, ar when the approach of summer leavt the surfaco of tho ground oxposod it covored In a few days with fho re crowns of the snow plants.—Omni' Bee. Who Own* the Country! Let us inquiro whether there is an excessive concentration of woulth goin on in tho United States of Americ. Leaving more clamor and unsupportr assertions out of consideration, o either side, lot us look into facts. /. lately as 1817 there was but ono man i this country who was reputed to 1 worth more than $5,000,000, and, thoup some estimated his wealth at 8.10,00b 000, there is no good reason forbolievi' it to havo beon so great. At the Bmalic reasonable ostimato, there must now more than 250 persons in this count: whose woalth averages over StO,1)00,00, for each. But let us call tho numb only 200. Income tax roturncd sho that tho nurabor of in omes, whon a ranged in largo classes, multiplies t from throo to fivefold for overy redu tion in amount of one-half. For o tremo caution, however, wo ostium: the increaso in tho number of incom at a very much lower rato than thi At this reduced rate, tho amount • woalth in tho hands of porsons won over $500,000 each In tho United Stat would bo about as follows: 200 persons at $20.000,000 $4,000,000,0 400 persons at 10,000,000 4,0U0,000,' h 1,000 persons at 5,000,000 5,0.J0,000,' 'J,600 peraoua at 2,500.000 0,250.000,0 7,000 persons at 1,000,000........ 7,000,000,0 20,000 persons at 500.000 10,000,00J,0 Total $36,250,000,1 Tills ostimato is very far below ti. actual truth. Yet, ovon upon this basi wo are confronted with tho startlii result that 31,000 persons now posse three-fifths of the whole national woalt real and personal, according to the nig est ostimato ($00,000,000,000) which at one has yet ventured to rnuke of tho a gregate amount. Nor is this conclusio at all improbable.—Forum. Animal Life in the Gull Stream. Tho surface waters in the Gulf stroa teem with minuto Ufa of all kinds. The tho young of larger animals oxist, miori scopie in size; and adult animals whlc uever grow largo enough to bo plain! visible to the naked eye occur in i, menso quantities. By dragging a fi.. silk not behind tne vessel, those mini: forms aro oaslly taken, and when plac in glass dishos millions uncounted r. seen swimming backward and forward When looked at through a microsco. wo see young jelly fishes, tho young barnacles, crabs and shrimps, bosici the adult microscopic species, whiclru very abundant. Tho toothless whi finds in these his only food, itushi through tho wator, with mouth wi opon, by means of bis whalebono stra. era t he minuto forms aro soparated fri tho wator. Swallowing those obtain after a short period of straining, ho i peats tho operation. Tho abundance • this kind of life can lie judged from ti, fact that nearly all kinds of whales exi exclusively upon thoso animals, most thorn so small that thoy aro not nolic. on tho surface. Popular Scler. Monthly. A Boiielicent Rug. George Bice, quarantine officer of t California horticultural commission, coivod a private letter from Los Ange recently relative to the operation of: Vedolia Curdmalis, the new Ausl . .tli pest-destroyer. It stated that J. Dobbins, of San Gabriel, who own forty-acre oraugo orchard, which wa-> infested with the cottony cushion sc.' that ho had about determined to root; His trees next winter, put In tho Aust. lian bug byway of experiment in Mar last. After watching its operations , awhile lie stated that ho was satlsti. that the orchard would bo freo of t' post by next January. Aftorwnrds 1 believed tho ravenous little Vodol would clear it by Docember, then N vembor, then October, and now be o fers a dollar each for samples of t' cottony cushion scalo found in bis chard. In this short time tlio bo havo multiplied so rapidly and ate ravenously that tho trees of the oat', forty acres havo beon cleared of i worst post known to orchardists.— S-. Francisco Alta. Koot Cramping in China. Tho "Hu l'ao," a Chinoso newspap< has boon investigating tho origin of io cramping by Chinoso women. Tho pre tice is of vory ancient dato. Somo a ill' that it arose in tho timo of tho I. Dynastios—that is, in tho tenth ceutu A. D. Jao Niang, tho mistress of Li i tho last emperor of thoso dynasties, t. up her foet with silk into tho shape tho crescont moon, and all Iho oti beauties of tho time imitated her. : literature of provlous dynasties not allude to tho custom. During reign of Rang Hi, 1064, A. 1)., u:i e • forbade loot cramping under v.iriu penalties, tho local ollicials being he responsible in somo degreo lor violatb of tho law by people in their I'istr 1 But the fashion was too strong. to 1068, at tho instigation of the o > iru ceromonies, this edict was wim.irav It is still universal in Kiisntung Kuangsi.—N. Y. Sun- A peculiar industry nas sprung MI n Albany since 188:3; that of h'-'-tn,. crushed stono for asphalt uuo one amized roads. Tho quairy from w: the stono is taken in operated nig it a (lay. One thousand tons of ••<k a c aro crushed ami 250 oars are used l ansporting the fragments of rock to .. pjrts of tho country.
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