It iJ estimated that 11 9,000,000 cop- 1
per pennies have been lost to circula
tion iii the century siuco tlio United
States began to coin money.
It is a fact of curious interest tlmt
twenty-four of the (>IOO murderers ar
rested in the United {States in 1800
cere blind men.
A queer new law in Chihuahua, Mex
ico, perm its any one to shoot at sight
a person caught stealing cattle. Such
a law seems like a dangerous invita
tion to the holders of private grudges.
The American mosquito has crossed
the Atlantic, is entertaining itself to
its heart's content on the bluo blood
of England, and, according to the
New York Ledger, is getting in its lino
Work most effectively.
The religions census of Australia,
just completed, shows 1, 185,066 mem
bers of the Church of England, 84,118
Catholics, 493,369 Presbyterians and
394,504 Methodists. Thcso are the
four most numerous denominations.
A learned German who lias devoted
himself to the study of physiology aud
allied sciences makes a startling asser
tion that mustaches uro becoming
commoner among women in the pres
ent day than in the past. Ho say.-;
that in Constantinople among tho un
veiled women one out of ten possesses
au unmistakable coveriug of down on
the upper lip.
Kerosene oil is rapidly growing in
favor as a cheap illuminant in China.
The consumption, which was 8,256,-
000 gallons in 1882, had risen to 49,-
348,000 gallons in 1891. Of this
amount eighty per cent, was imported
from America and twenty per cent. I
from Russia. Tim illuminant before
kerosene was introduced was bean or
tea oil. The Chinese have discovered,
however, that kerosene is cheaper and
gives a much better light. It is called
tire oil by them.
It is mentioned as au instance of
what the fashionable world has come
to that a recent private concert given
in London cost the hostess $12,500.
According to this figure entertaining
one a guests will soon bo impossible,
ami society must inaugurate some new
method of keeping its end up in that
line. First-class artists over there ask
sums ranging from SIOOO to $2500 for
three or four songs, but, fortunately,
tho number of these artists is limited,
and those who employ them are the
painfully rich.
The Sergeant -at-Anns of the House
of Commons would feel lost if lie ha I 1
to exercise similar functions in one of '
our American h gislatures—say in Kan
sas or even Illinois, declares tho Chi
cago Herald, lie is too easily upset.
Mr. Erskine—for that is tho gentle
man's nunc—is describe! as going
about duriug the recent fracas "be
seeching infuriated legislators who
were engaged in the fray to desist,an 1
begging others who were marching
around with their hats on, to remove
the offending headgear." Imneine an
American Sergcant-at-Arms hoggin '
and beseeching. He would use a club.
Tho series of official reports sotting
forth tho material and educational
progress of tlm country, recently is
sued by tho Mexican Government,
though not marking so .great an ad
vance as expected, is still very encour
aging. During the past twenty veur.-,
tho period covered by the comparisons,
the railway mileage has inu-. tsed
twenty fold, and th • telegraph milage
eightfold, followed in each case by a
proportionate increase of business.
Exports and imports have largely in
creased, as have-also muunfa \ur -s and
agriculture, and tho appropriations of
tho Federal and State Governments
and municipalities for educational
purposes has advance I from $1,600,-
000 to $4,500,000. ]\ 1•. uu | 'j, ri ,'.
parity have b(en se< ured, especially
during the Presidency of General
Diaz, who holds the reins of Go vera
ment with a firm hand, aud who is not
afraid to suppress tho tendency t >
revolutionary movement by the proinot
application of military force. The
country still suffers, however, from
the lack of esteem for productive in
dustry on the part of tho upper classes,
whoso chief ambition is to hold public
offices, imitating in this respect tho
Argentine , and tli absence of trained
habits <>f industry on th.- part of the
Indian aud mixed ra • , whiah <• >
tuto four-fifths of tin p-.nuluti >-i
What is most need lisin lu tre. i , im
migrants to develop tin v.t t u itur il
resources of the Republic, a fa -i •■].. ir .
Jy perceived by the Gover uu d,wh • ,
has already permitt- 1 the . • ,j; r
went of Mormon colonic ; in t , ~.
linn and Sonoru, and bid for iia .i
\iou frum wvtlhoru Europe
fBONG OF A HEART.
ftpnr heart—l love you ! till tho day I wonder
If skies nro rich with blue,
Or bending black with tempest nnd with
thunder,
Dear heart, dear heart, o'er you !
Dear heart—l love you ! when palo stars are
gleaming
("Sail stars to m \ and few !)
X wondc r if God's lovelier lights nro strcam-
Dear heart, dear heart, o'er you I
Dear heart—if life had only one bright blos
som,
One rose to meet tho dew—
I'd kiss it, climbing to your restful bosom—
And wear its thorns for you !
—Atlanta Constitution.
nw ROMS'ROMANCE.
T was n barren
Vj country, and Wad
„ M pcry was generally j
Ira —\ shriveled wit 'li
- A hut ho nl- I
k rr'Si if J ways had roses in j
his garden,- on his
i d window-sill or in
his bulton-holo.
' i. .. -w Crowing flowers
q- under diliieulties I
was his recreation.
That was why lie j
was called Old Hoses. It was not other- j
wise inapt, for there was something
antique about him, though he wasn't
old; a flavor, an old-fashioned repose
and self-poss -ssiou. He was inspector
of tanks iro:u this God-forsaken coun
try.
j Apart from his duties ho kept most
! ly to himself, though when not travel
ing ho always went down to O'Fallon's
Hotel once a day for a cup of tea—tea j
kept especially for him; and as he I
drank this slowly he talked to Vie, the
barmaid, or to any chance visitors
whom ho knew. He never drank with j
any one, nor asked any one to drink,
and, strange to say, no one resented
this. As Vic said, "he was different." I
Dicky Merritt, the solicitor, who was i
hail-fellow with squatter, homestead
lessee, eocatoo-farmer and shearer, j
called him "a lively ohl buffer."
It was he, indeed, who gave him the
name of Old Hoses. Iliekey sometimes '
went over to Long Neck Billabong,
where Old Hoses lived, for a reel, ns !
he put it, and he always carried away j
a deep impression of the Inspector's |
qualities. "Had his day," said Dickey ,
in O'Fallen's sitting-room one night,
"in marble halls, or I'm a Jack. Hun i
neck and neck with almighty swells I
once. Jliglit live hero for a thousand j
years niul lie'd still lie the nonesuch of
the hack blocks. I'd patent liim—(lie
my caveat for him to-morrow if I could
—lmlly Old Roses!"
VictoriaDowling, the barmaid, lifted '
her chin slightly from her hands, ns !
she leaned through tho opening be
tween tho bar and the sitting-room, '
and said : "Air. Merritt, Old Hoses is '
I a gentleman, nnd a gentleman is a geu- |
tleninn till he—"
"Till he humps his liluey into tho
Never Never Laud, Vic? But what do
you know about gentlemen, anyway?
You were born live miles from the I
Jumping Sandhills, my dear!"
"Oh," was tho quiet reply, "a wo
man—the commonest woman—knows
a gentleman by instinct. It isn't what
they do, it's what they don't do ; and
I Old Hoses doesn't do lots of things."
"Bight you are, Victoria; right you
nro again! You do the Jumping Sand
hills credit. Old Hoses has the root
of tho matter in him—and there you 1
have it!"
Dickey had a profound admiration I
for Vic. She had brains, was perfect
ly fearless, aud every one in the
Wadgery country who visited O'Fal
len's had a wholesome respect for her
opinion.
About this time news came that tho !
Governor, Lord Malice, would pass !
through Wadgery on his tour up the j
back blocks. A great function was
necessary. It was arranged. Then
came the question of the address of
welcome to bo delivered at tho ban- I
quet. Dickey Merritt and the local 1
doctor were proposed as composers, I
but they both declared they'd only
it," and suggested Old
They went to lay tho thing before!
him. lliey found him in his garden, j
He greeted them smiling in his enig
matical way, and listened. While
Dickey spoke, a Hush slowly paßsed
over liim, and then immediately left
him pale; but be stood perfectly still '
his hand leaning against a sandal tree
and tho coldness of his face warmed
up again slowly. His head bavin-!
been bent attentively as he listened"
they did not see anything unusual.
After a moment of silence and in- i
scrutable deliberation, lie answered
that ho would do as they wished. I
Dickey liintod that ho would require :
some information about Lord Malice's
past career and his family's history,
but lie assured them that lie did not j
need it; and his eyes idled somewhat'
ironically with Dickey's face.
Bat in his room, a handful of letters, a
photograph, aud a couple of decora- I
tiorts spread out before him; his fin-;
gcrs resting on them, anil his look en- !
gaged with a very far horizon
The Governor came. He was met
outside tho township by the citizens
and escorted in-a dusty and numer- 1
oiis cavalcade. They passed th,. | n J
sped ion house. The garden was'
blooming, and on the roof a flag was
flying. . Struck by tho singular char
acter of the place Lorcl Malice asked
who lived there, nnd proposed stop
ping for n moment to make tho ac
quaintance of its owner, adding, with
some slight sarcasm, that if tho offi
cers of the Government were too busy
to pay their respects to their Governor,
their Governor must pay his respects
to them.
But Old Roses was not in the garden
nor in tho house, and they loft with
out seeing him. He was sitting un
der ii willow nt the Billabong, reading
over and over to himself the address
to bo delivered before the Governor in
the evening. And as he rend his face
had a wintry and inhospitable look.
The night came. Old Roses entered
the dining room quietly with tho
crowd, far in tho Governor's wake.
According to his request, he was given
a seat in a distant corner, where he
was quite inconspicuous. Most of the
men present were in evening dress.
He wore a plain tweed suit, but car
ried a handsome rose in his button
hole. ft was impossible to put liim at
a disadvantage. He looked distin
guished as he was. He appeared to be j
much interested in Lord Malice. The
early proceedings were cordial, for the
Governor and his suite made t-hcnir
selves most agreeable, and talk flowed ;
amiably.
After a time there was a ruttlo of I
knives and forks, and the Chairman |
arose. Then, after a chorus of "hear, j
hears," there was goueral silence. The
doorways of the rooms were filled by
the women servants of the hotel. Chief
among them was Vic, who kept her
eyes mostly on Old Roses. She knew
; that he was to read the address and
speak, and she was more interested in
him and his success than in Lord
I Malice and suite. Her admiration of
j him was great. Ho had always (rented
i her as a lady, and it had done lier
| good. Ho hi I looked earnestly and
kindly into her brown eyes, and —
"And I call upon Mr. Adam Sher
wood to speak to the health of his Ex
cellency, Lord Malice."
In his modest corner, Old Roses
stretched to his feet. The Governor
glanced over carelessly. He only saw
a figure in gray, with a rose at button
hole. The Chairman whispered that it
] was the owner of the houso and gar
j den which had interested his Excel
lency that afternoon. His Excellency
| looked a little closer, but saw only a
rim of iron gray hair above tho x>aper
held before Old Roses' face.
I Then a voice came from behind the
, paper: "Tour Excellency, Mr. Chair
man and Gentlemen—"
At the first words (ho Governor
! started, and his eyes flashed searching-
Iv, curiously at the paper that walled
tlie face and at tho iron gray liair.
The voice was distinct nnd clear, with
modulated emphasis. It had a po
; euliarly penetrating quality. A few in
| tho room—and particularly Vic—were
I struck by something in the voice—
that it resembled another. She soon
| found the trail. Her eyes also fastenc I
;on the paper. Then cho moved and
went to another door,
j Here she could see behind the paper j
jat an angle. Her eyes ran from the I
screened face to that of the Governor,
j His Excellency had dropped tho lower
part of his face in his hand, aud lie
was listening intently. Vic noticed
that his eyes were painfully grave and
concerned. She also noticed other
things.
| Tho address was strange. It had
been submitted to the committee aud
though it struck them as out-of-the
• wayish, it had been approved. It
seemed different when read as Oi l
! Roses was reading it. The words
| sounded so inclement us they were
I chiselled out by the speaker's voice.
Dickey Merrit afterward declared that
many phrases were interpolated by
| Old Roses at the moment.
| The speaker referred intimately and
with peculiar knowledge to the family
j history of Lord Malice, to certain
more or less private matters which did
not concern the public, to tlu aufchor
ity of the name and the high duty dc
: volving upon one who bore tho earl
i dom of Malice. He dwelt upon the
personal character of his Excellency's
antecedents, and praised their honor
; able services to tho country. Ho re
| ferred to the death of' Lord Malice's
j oldest brother in Burniah, but ho did
it strangely.
j Then, with acute iucisiveness, ho
( drew a picture of what a person in so
exalted a position as a Governor
| should bo and should hot be. His
! voice assuredly had at this point a fine
edge of scorn. Tho aides-de-camp
were nervous, the Chairman apprehen
sive, the committee ill at ease. But
the Governor now was perfectly still,
i though, as Vic Dowling thought,
j rather pinched and old-looking. His
eyes never wandered from that paper
nor the gray hair.
Presently tho voice of tho speaker
changed.
| "But," said he, "in Lord Malice we
have—the perfect Governor; a man of
blameless and enviable life, aud pos
sessed abundantly of discreetness,
judgment, administrative ability and
| power; tho absolute type of English
j nobility and British character!"
Then he dropped the paper from be
■ fore his face, and his eyes met those
jof the Governor, and stayed. Lord
i Malice let go a long, choking breath,
I which sounded very much like im
| measurable relief. During tho rest of
j tho speech—delivered in a flue tem
| pored voice he sat as in a dream, vet
| his eyes intently upon the other, who
j now seemed to recito rather than read.
He thrilled all by tho pleasant reson
-1 mice of his tones, an l sent tho blood
; aching delightfully through Vie Dow
ling's veins,
j When he sat down there was im- !
: mens© applause. The Governor rose
jin reply. Ho spoke in a low voice,
! but any one listening outside would
; have said that Old Roses was still
j speaking. By this resemblance the
; girl Vic had trailed to others. It was
j now apparent to many, but Dickey
I said afterward that it was simply a
case of birth and breeding—men used
to walking red carpet grow alike, just
•is stud-owners and rabbit-catchers
did.
The last words of the Governor's
reply were deliverod in a very con
vincing tone as his eyes hung on Old
Roses face. "And, as lam indebted
to you, gentlemen, for the feelings of |
loyaly to the thronq prompted j
tliis reception and tho address just de
livered, so am I indebted to Mr.—
Adam Sherwood for his admirable lan
guage and the unusual sincerity of his
speaking; and to both you and him
for most notablo kindness." Imme
diately after tho Governor's speech
Old Roses stole out, but as he passed
through tho door where Vic stood his
hand brushed against hers. Feeling
its touch, ho grasped it eagerly for an
instant, as though ho was glad of tho
friendliness in her eyes.
It was just before dawn of the morn
ing that the Governor knocked at tho
door of the house by Long Neck Bil
laboug. Tho door opened at once, and
he entered without a word.
He and Old Roses stood face to face.
His face was drawn and woru, the
other's cold and calm.
"Tom, Tom," Lord Malice said, "wo
thought you were dead—"
"That is, Edward, having left me to
ray fate in Burnnh —you were only
half a mile away with a column of
stout soldiers and liillmeu—you waited
till my death was reported, and as
sured, ami then came 011 to England;
for two tilings, to take the title just
made vacant by our father's death,
and to marry my intended wife, who,
God knows, appeared to have littlo
care which brother it was. You got
both. I was long a prisoner. When
I got free, I know; I waited. I was
waiting till you had a child. Twelvo
years have gone; you have no child.
But I shall spare 3*oll yet awhile. If
your wife shall die, or you should have
a child, I shall return."
The Governor lifted his lioad wearily
from tho table whero ho now sat.
"Tom," he said, in a low, heavy voice,
"I was always something of a scoun
drel, but I've repented of that thing
every day of my life since. It has
been knives—knives nil the way. I
am glad—l can't tell you how glad
that you are alive."
He stretched out his hand with a
motion of great relief. "I was afraid
you were going to speak to-night—to
tell all, even though I was your
brother. You spare me for the sake—"
"For the sake of our name," the
other interjected, stonily.
"For the sake "of our namo. But I
would have taken my punishment,
| taken it in thankfulness, because you
are olive."
"Taken it liko a man, your Excel
lency," was tho low rejoinder.
"You will not wipe the thing out,
Tom?" said tho other anxiously.
Tom Ilallwood dried tho perspira
tion from his forehead.
"It can never be wiped out, for you
shook all my faith iu iny old world.
That's tho worst thing that can hap-
I pcu a man. I only believe in the very
common people now—those who are
not put upon their honor. One
I doesn't expect .t of them, and unlikely
as it is, one isn't often deceived in
them. I think we'd better talk no
I more about it."
"You moan I had better go, Tom?"
"I think s>. lam going to marry
soon." Tho other started nervously.
"You needn't be so shocked. I'll come
back one day, but not till your wife
dies, or you have had a child, as 1
said."
The Governor rose to his feet and
went to tho door. "Whom do 3*oll in
tend marrying?" lie asked, in a voice
far from regal or vice-regal, only
I humbled ai l disturbed. Tho reply |
1 was instant and keen. "A barmaid." j
I Tho other's hand dropped from tho
' door. But Old Roses, passing ovar,
opened it, and, mutely waiting for the
other to pass through, said: "Good
da 3*, my lord!"
The Governor passed out from tho
pale light of tho lamp into tho gray
and moist morning, lie turned at 11
point where tho house would he lost
to view, and saw the other still stand-
I ing there. Tho voico of Old Roses
kept ringing in liis ears sardonically.
He knew that his punishment must go
on and on.
And it did. Old Roses married Vic-
I toria Dowiing from the Jumping Band
| hills, and there was comely issue, and
' t hat issue is now at Eton; for Esau
came into tho birthright, us he hinted
ho would, at his own time. But he
and his wife have away of being indif
ferent to tho gii3 r , astonished world.
And, uncommon as it may seem, he
has not tired of her. —Loudon .Speaker.
Substitutes a ringer for a Nose.
Fred Dnrc\y, a boy eighteen years
old, is at St . Mary's Hospital, Rochester,
N. Y., recovering from the first stage
of a peculiar surgical operation. When
young, necrosis of the nasal bones de
stroyed his nose, leaving an unsightly
depression. Doctor John O. Rowe, u
Rochester specialist, undertook to pro
vide an artificial nose. Ho lias done
so by amputating the third finger ol
the left hand at. tho first joint and
taking tho bone of the middle finger
for the bridge of tho artificial nose.
Tho skin of the face was raised and the
finger put in place and stitched to the
tissue above the nose. In order to
secure circulation and maintain life in
the finger the hand ha 9 been bound to
the face for a week, but will be re
leased on Sunday by an amputation at
the finger's second joint, after which
new nostrils will be established in con
nection with tho old. Doctor Rowe
has had one case of the kind before.—
Chicago Record.
Human Skeleton Twenty-flveFeet Long.
M. Lo Cat, the Frenoli scientist, in
his monograph on giants nays: At
Dftupliinc ou January 11, 161 i, at a
place known as the Giant's Field, a
brick tomb thirty feet long, twelvo
feet wide and eight feet high was dis
covered. When opened it was found
to contain a human skeleton entire
twenty-live feet and a half long, ten
feet wide across the shoulders and
eight feet thick from the breast bono
to the back. His teeth were each
about the size of an ox's foot and his
shinbones each measured four feet ju
length,-?-. St. Louis Republic,
THE IMITATIVE DISEASE.
A. CURIOUS AFFLICTION THAT IS
COMMON AMONG MALAYS.
A Form of Nervous Excitement Pecu
liar to a Single Race—Symptoms
of the "Latah."
IT seldom happens that any form
of disease presents an aspect as
purely ludicrous in its ordinary
it manifestations as to bo a fit sub
ject for lay discussion. Such, how
ever, is the singular and as yet unex
plained affection known by the Malay
name of' 'latah." As might bo inferred
from its title, it is, although not un
known amongst other nationalities, an
ulmost purely Malay disease, and has
naturally attracted the attention of
Europeans residing in the countries
peopled by the race in question. It
is at the same tin-- questionable, says
the Pall Mall Gazette, whether one
person in ten thousand in Great Britain
has ever heard the word, or known
that such a curious affliction prevails
amongst any portion of tho human
race.
How to defiuo latali is somewhat
puzzling. If any short equivalent be
desired, it may be described as an ir
resistible impulse to imitate tho words
or-actions of those around thorn. An
other form of the disoase, very often
not less startling to tho onlooker, is
tho exhibition of intense nervous ex
citement when somo particular word
is mentioned—usually in tho form of
most, abject fear. A third and less
noticeable form is tho exhibition of
alarm at some unusual but not ordiu
arily terrifying sight or sound, much
as a child will start at the sound of a
gun, or a grown person on suddonly
discovering a corpse.
The two first-named manifestations
arc, of course, those which striko the
spectators and auditors as most strange
and inexplicable. The nervous im
pressionability of the Malays in other
ways is well known to all who liavo
lived among them. A very slight
cause will change an ordinarily placid
and inoffensive nativo into a very dc
pnon of rage, the extreme illustration
of such a mental condition being
known as "running amok"—or, as
(foreignersusually call it, "amuck."
(Over and above a readiness to take of
tfense at unjust blame, or what he con
siders disrespectful treatment, native
public opinion considers a Malay dis
honored who does not avenge a blow
by taking the lite of the party giving
it, not at the moment, but on some
subsequent occasion when the intend
ed victim is off his guard. It would
jbe going too far to say that a tendency
ito sulk and take revengo ac
counts for the Malay liability
to latali, as many other peo
ples among whom the disease is un
known develop tho same disposition,
while almost destitute of the child
like good tomper and unaffectedly
| good manners of the Malayan tribes.
I All that can be asserted is that such
iv disease would never exist among a
J phlegmatic race. Nor, again, must it
! be imagined that latah is of everyday
| occurrence. Many people have lived
| in the Straits Settlements for over
I twenty years without ever seeing a
] single case of it.
Let us then describe its peculiar fea
tures. The impulse to imitate the
words or actions of others is some
time evinced in not merely a ludicrous
but a most distressing way. In some
cases it should be premised the attack
occurred only at loug intervals; in
others the patients are habitually sub
jected to the disease, and can at almost
any time be compelled to exhibit it.
When this results in any unpleasant
consequence the latah (it is customary
to apply tho word both to the disease
and to the patient), while quite unable
to resist tho straugo inliuenco exerted
will keenly resist the practical joke.
An absurd manifestation of the dis
ease was provided by a Malay woman,
who, on seeiug her master tear up a
letter and throw it out of tho window,
at once followed suit with a basket of
clean clothes she wus carrying. No
great harm, of course, resulted in this
case, but tragical affects have more
than once followed practical jokes
with latahs. The following instance,
related by Mr. O'Brien, happened while
the writer was residing at tho place
where it occurred.
The ship's cook of one of the local
coasting steamers happened to be a
pronounced sufferer from the disease,
and, as but too commonly happens in
such cases, was continually victimized I
by his shipmates. As a rule tho effects
were simply ludicrous, and hugely
amused the crew, who shared tho fond
ness for horseplay proverbial among
European sailors. On the occasion in
question the cook was dandling his
baby on the forward deck. One of the
men, noticing this, picked up a billet
of wood, and. standing in front of the
latah, commenced nursing it in the
same way as the latter was dandling
tho baby. Presently ho began tossing
the billet up to the awning, the cook
imitating his motions with the baby.
Suddenly the sailor opened his arms
and tho billet fell to the deck. The
unfortunate latah did the same, and
the child, falling on the planking, was
instantly killed.
The second form of latah mentioned
above, in which inteuse nervous ex
citement is caused by the mention of
some particular word, is scarcely less
curious to onlookers than that already
illustrated. Tho patient iu this case
will exhibit uncontrollable fear, evinced
by running away at full speed or plung
ing into a jungle if on shore, or by
jumping overboard if in a ship or boat
at the mention of some animal or rep
tile. Some are thus affected if a com
panion shouts Ular! (a snake), others
at the words Rimau (tiger), or Buaya
(crocodile). The strangest fact in this
connection is that such patients seem
to have little or 110 fear of the animals
themselves, or certainly not more than
any prudent native exhibits when meet
ling them in the river or jungle. Thru
a rnun who will jump overboard in hot
fear at the shout of "crocodile !" will
readily stalk, and when it is disabled
approach one of these reptiles. Tho
Malay, it should be added, is an ex
cej)tionally plucky and expert hunter
and woodsman, so that this particular
form of nervous fright is the more re
markable.
WISE WORDS.
A bad habit is a chain. '
Birds with bright feathers are not
always fat.
Your most deadly sin is the one you
love the most.
Love never has to go to school to
learu how to speak.
If our eyes were better the stars
would give us more light.
Tho wounds made by a friend arc
the ones that smart the most.
The trouble with the man who knows
nothing is that it takes him so long to
find it out.
Tho glory of love is that it delights
in doing for nothing what nobody else
will do for money.
There arc communities in which
►Solomon would not have received any
credit for his wisdom.
If sunshine had to be paid for, thero
are people who would declare that
candle light could beat it.
Every sinner reasons that if there is
happiness in the heart there ought to
be some sunshine in tho face.
The man has to fight for his life who
undertakes to tell other men great
truths that they do not know.
The sin that shines has as much
death in it as the one that docs not.—
Ram's Horn.
Breathing lor Health.
Of all the cur \ which have emerged
into public notice from time to time,
the simplest and the most easy is that
which Major-General Drayson de
scribes in the Nineteenth Century. Ho
calls it the art of breathing, and ho
seems to have hit upon it by mere ac
cident when he was climbing a very
high mountain. Tho rarefaction of
the air at that altitude rendered it
necessary for him to breathe twice as
fast as ho would have done at a lower
level. All inconvenicnco caused by
tho rarefaction of tho air disappeared
when he doubled the rate of his breath
ing. Reflecting upon this he stumbled
upon the great discovery which should
immortalize him if there is anything
in it. Breathing in the ordinary way
he pumps fourteen pints of air into
his lungs per minute, containing three
pints of oxygen, with which he can
sufficiently oxygenate his blood. But
on ascending to 7000 feet tho pump
ing of fourteen pints of air into his
lungs per minute would only take in a
pint and a half of oxygen, and as it
requires three pints to oxygenate tho
blood, he became almost suffocated.
His heart palpitated and ho was in
danger of his life, but by suddenly
i doubling the rate by which he had
been breathing he found instant relief,
j He has tried it under a great many
; circumstances. Whenever he was in
a vitiated atmosphere he was able to
get rid of his headache and incipient
palpitation of the heart by takinglong
breaths twice as rapidly as he would
on ordinary occasions. He maintains
that in a very great many cases pain,
sleeplessness, headache and many other
ills which flesh is heir to could be al
most instantly relieved by this simplo
practice. Moderate exercise in the
open air, upon which all doctors in
sist, ho asserts is quite unnecessary.
All that you need to do is to breathe
as rapidly as if you were taking mod
crate exercise.
A Curious Snake.
A curious serpent has been seen on
Mount Hamilton. It is represented to
bo twelve or thirteen feet long, with
red eyes that shine liko stars in tho
night out of a head as long as a man's
fist. This curious reptile was seen by
a stock ranger named Jack Wandall tho
other day when he was out after cattle.
Wandall had only a long rope with a
ring in the end. He was on a horse, j
ami when the beast saw the reptile it
stopped and snorted and refused to
proceed that way. The snake was ly
ing almost in tho trail, apparently
asleep. Wandall backed his steed,
swung the rope, and let go at the mon
ster, hitting it upon the head, where
upon the reptile rolled down into a
deep gully at the bottom of tho moun
tain, whero the chase ended.—San
Jose (Cal.) Record.
"Cow's-Foot-in-the Milk-Pall."
One of tho curiosities of reflected
light from a curved surface is the
"caustic," jiopularly known as "the
cow's-foot-in-the-milk-pail.'"' It is a
well-know property of light that its
rays impinging upon a reflecting sur
face are thrown off so as to make the
angle between the reflected rays and
the normal equal to that between the
incident rays and the normal. In con
sequence of this law, when the rays of
any light which are practically parallel
are reflected from a curved surface the
intersections of the reflected rays take
upon themselves the form of a cow's
foot. This shadow, as reflected in the
milk pail,is given the name used in the
headline. Prove it by taking off your
ring and laying it upon the table so
that its inner surface will reflect the
rays of tho lamp.—St. Louis Republic.
The Creole Horse.
This is a diminutive horse, which
originated during tho war along the
Gulf coast, when many planters allowed
their thoroughbred mure* to escape.
The latter bred with tho native horses,
an I the result if a breed that rarely
reaches thirteen hands. These diminu
tive horses are quite spirited, and
their good blood shows in their sym
metry, stylo and action. Their gait
is a long gallop,—New York World,
THE WIND' 9 STORY. "1
Inm sure that tho wind is speaking, \ .
For each flower is nodding its head,
And tho limbs of the treos are creaking—
I wish that I know what it said.
Boine story, perhaps, it is telling,
A story of some distant land j
But to mo it is liko tho swelling
Of breakers upon the white sand.
Tho loaves wa't a moment to listen,
Then shako with a perfect delight,
AU the flowers like diamonds glisten
And nod first to left, then to right.
Tho wind passes on in its measure,
And long ore tho story is through
Tho forest is dancing with pleasure—
I wish I could understand, too.
—Flavel Scott Minos, in Frank Leslio's.
IIUMOR OF THE DAY.
The general run of men —After the
last street car.—Philadelphia Record.
The man who falls in love very often
dislocates his common sense.—Puck.
To make bills is human; to pay them
—these days—i 3 divine. Pittsburg
Bulletin.
Forged notes onn always be properly
classed among the gilt-edged paper on
a bank.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The most popular bird of passage
arriving at tlio port of New York this
month is the gold eagle. Baltimore
American.
"That," said the man who smote a
calamity howler, "is one of the best
financial strokes I ever made." —Wash*
ington Star.
The photograph of a boy never looks
like him, because no one ever saw a
boy as clean as lie is in a photograph.
—Atchison Globe.
The clerk who attempts to live be
yond his means will soon be obliged to
live beyond the roach of liis friends.—
New Orleans Picayune.
"What sort of a girl is sue?" "Oh,
sho is a miss with a mission." "Ah?"
"And her mission is seeking a man
with a mansion."—Sketch.
Occasionally you will meet a man
who seems to think just as you do.
What clever ideas he lias, and what a
pity he is so scarce.—Blizzard.
Jack the Clipper has been arretted
in New York. The girls whose tresses
he cut will be present at liis trial to
upbraid him.—Galveston News.
Customer —"Do you suppose you
can take a good picture of me?" Pho
tographer— "I shall have to answer
you in tho negative, sir."—Yoguf.
Unmixed evils rarely occur. The
fact that money has been tight is /aid
to have resulted in a good deal ol
sober thought.—Baltimore American.
It is not true that "every man
His price has," as thoy say—
I know of one, an honest man,
Who gives himself away.
—Vogue.
A man never looks so helpless and
insignificant as when standing around
a dry goods store waiting for his wife
to get through trading. Lowell
Courier.
It is very hard to explain the attrac
tions of country life to a city man who
has just investigated tho voltage of a
black-faced bumble-bee. Baltimore
American.
"And you are poor?" "Yes, but we
are happy." "Happy in your pov
erty?" "Yes, for every one around
us is poorer than ourselves." —New
York Press.
Miss Antique—"How mean these
newspapers are! Hero is a column
headed 'Proposals,' and it is all about
public improvements and such non
sense. " —The Club.
Mrs. Bkidmoro (reading) - "Ph'l
ippa Fawcett, who won such great dis
tinction as senior wrangler at Oxford,
is still unmarried." Mr. Hkidmore—
"No wonder."—Detroit Frco Press.
Watts—"l can't seo what reason
you liavo for comparing old man
Gotrox to a sausage." Potts "Be
cause his staff iH all that makes him of
any consequence."—lndianapolis Jour
nal.
Gaswell—"l'm disgusted with young
Mr. Van Braam." Dukaue—"Why?"
I "He does nothing but flirt with the
girls." "Then you don't like to see a
man's efforts all miss directed."—
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
"Can't you settle this bill to-day,
sir?" asked the tailor of the delinquent
M. P, "No, Snip, it wouldn't be par
liamentary. I've merely glanced over
it, you know, and I can't pass a bill
until after its third reading."—Tid-
Bits.
He blushed a fiery red; her heart
went pit-a-pat ; she gently hung her
head, and looked down on tho mat.
Ho trembled in his spech; ho rose
from where he sat, and shouted with a
screech, "You're sittingon my li.it!"
Tid-Bits.
"Bo you onty have a week's vacation
instead of two, this year?" "Yes;
they told me I must either give up
half my vacation or io33the situation;
and I concluded that half a loaf was
much better than no bread."—Brook
lyn Life.
"Men are not to be trusted," she re
marked to her younger and more suc
cessful friend. "Oh, mv dear," said
her friend, sweetly, "has it taken all
these years to teach you that?" The
silence that followed couldn't be
broken with a sledgehammer. —De
troit Frco Press.
A young lawyer talked four honra
to a Indiana jury who felt like lynch
ing him. His opponent, a grizzled
old professional, arose, looked sweetly
at tho Judge, and said: "Your honor,
I will follow the example of my young
friend, who has just finished, and sub
mit the case without argument." Then
he sat down, and the silence was largo
and oppressive.—Christian at Work.
There are now seventy lines of ocean
mail steamers. In 1888 there were
107)137 steau} voaeolti oa toe WgUeetw,