Electric light is to be introduced in j Basle, Switzerland, at the expense of ' the Government. A Princess, a Couutess, u Duchess and the daughter of a reigning Priuco were among the 1000 thieves, profes sional and unprofessional, arrested in Paris during the first six months of the year. The General Federation of Women < Clubs and the State federations that are doing so much to acquaint Ameri can women with what is being done by their sisters in various lines of work, have yet to be introduced into England, says the New York Post, where countless individual enterprises exist, having little or no knowledge oi each other, and lacking the strength and knowledge that come from union and a comparison of ways and means. A lew years ago most of the mando lins, guitars, harps and other similar instruments sold in this country were manufactured abroad by hand. One iaidor}' in Chicago last year turned out IL',OOO banjos, as many or more guitars ami 700!) mandolins. The ( same concern also makes harps, and ] makes them with many mechanical ( improvement over the old stylo of im ported instruments. They are said, in the New York Sun, to excel greatly the '■ foreign instruments in every respect, j Seattle, whose ambition is to bo 1 "the Chicago of tiic Northwest," has ' begun H $7,000,000 waterway known \ as the Puget Sound and Lake Wash- j ingtou Ship Canal. The project has < been under consideration forty years, and it starts with a local subscription of $500,000. The canal is only about ' four miles long, states the Now York i bun, but it lias to cut through a couplo ' ol hills; au I since, also, it is to ho ' eighty foot wide a! the bottom and ' tweutv-six feet deep at low tile, it | becomes no little of au undertaking, ' Lake Washington, which is twenty miles long, by from three to live | broad, and from fifty to seventy-tive , feet deep, will then form a now l'resh- i water haven for ships. Among various other reasons for the declino of the reading hnbit, 51. Oim, a French expert, mentions tho ' bicycle fever, which has also injured the business of tho theatres, cafes, | etc, , the quautity of reading matter furnished by the newspapers; the ex- ' eessive production of books, many of 1 which are published for account of tho authors, who arc usually out of 1 pocket by tho venture. The boolcsell- ! ers have endeavored to arrest the do- , cline of their business by forming a > syndicate, which has entered into ue- ' 1 gotiations with the publishers' syndi- | 1 cute with a view to fixiug uuiform ' } prices and trade discounts, and cut- i ting oil' the supplies of dealers who 1 undersell, lhis measure was princi pally ninied at the largo department . or dry goods establishments, which have taken over booksolling and ob tain extra discounts by buying large quantities. ' The following is from the report of the Interstate Commerce Commission: During the year 1823 railway em ployes were killed and 23,422 were in jured, as compared with 2727 killed and 31,729 injured in 1803. This ! marked decrease iu casualty is iu part duo to the decro.ise in the number of men employed, and tho decrease iu the volume of business handled. Tho increased use of automatic appliances on railway equipment ulso may have rendered railway employment loss dangerous, and it may be that tho grado of efficiency of employes has been raised, tho number of passen gers killed was 321, nu increase of twenty-five, and the number injured was 3304, a decrease of 195. Of tho total number of fatal casualties to railway employes, 2ul were due to coupling and uncoupling cars, 139 to falling from trains aud eugiues, fifty to overhead obstructions, 113 to col lisions, 108 to derailments aud the balance to various other causes not easily classified. To show the ratio of casualty, it may he stated that one employe was killed out of every 128 iu service and one injured out of every thirty-three employed. The trainmen perform the most dangerous service, one out of every 150 employed having beeu killed and one out of every twelvo having been injured. 'Tho ratio of casualty to passengers is in striking contrast to that of railway employes, one passenger having been killed out of each 1,912,(518 carried or for each 4-1,103,218 miles traveled, and one injured out of each 201,218 carried, or for each 1,709,771 miles traveled. A distribution of accidents to the territorial groups exhibits tho diversity in the relative safety oi rail way employment and of railway travel in the different sections of the coun try, T;IE I.AND OF LOVE. Lev is -i pr n-t. not a god, btarlil and piive-1 with flowor-sowu sod Secret from all but lovers' eye.. Love i neiime transfigured oft-- Storin. ealm, llereu bias's midair* most soft; An I blinding, bafiling mist, that rise Veiling flowered lawns aud starry skies. -—Mrs, Puller Malt hunt* A MISER'S RETRIBUTION, j " s '°amer Catliar- : ine, Captain Hap- j jßk worth, had been j THE captain, worn and wan nnd re- V> "uorsefnl, as though [ he had not done I A all that living man j Could do to save I ship and those ! "pon her, stood in I th o company's ' office, nnd talked W ''h Hiram Basset, j ®\tVvW ' cven moro worn, V \Tv\v moro grieved, and j ' v more remorseful than he. ' 'They came on board, then," said ' Hiram. "You uro sure—inv wife and i child?" "Their names were Mrs. Emeline j Basset an 1 Bella Basset," said the captain, "and they wore coming to j Now York. One Donovan Craig j brought them to me and bade ine j watch and guard them—two children j almost they were,and timid and afraid i of tho sea—aud J did my best, I did ! my best, an 1 God knows f wish this j old hulk of inino had gone down that 1 night instead of their young bodies. 1 , did iiiv best—l did my best!" "Tell mo about it," said Hiram. "The ship had sprung a leak tho j day before," said the captain, "and in j such a tempest wo knew what was ! abend of us, wo sailors ; tho passengers j didn't. Just before twelve bolls struck i I ordered thu boats to be launched— i ami them that could go in them to go i —for the rust wo made rafts. I went j to her first—your wife. She sat still j and quiet, holding her baby close. I j —I told licr what was coming. " ' The first mate is aboard tho life boat,' said f. 'The women nnd chil dren will be safer there. Go you along | of him, lassie.' "She caught a hold of my arm—so. j " 'You arc going, too,' says she. " 'My duty is aboard until the last.' | Then says she: 'III stay until yon go. tin afraid to go without you. I You'll sa vo me, captain.' "Tho others crowded in, aud one ' after tho other the boats were tilled, j Tho women were all gone, and most of the male passengers—aud still says she, a sitting there, 'l'll go along witu the captain when lie goes.' "And when our raft was built I j took her in ray arms, her nnd the j baby, and wo went on to it together. I Tho storm was worse, aud the ship n-sinking fast. I don't know more—a drifting through wind and rain in darkness—a drifting away in such a stormy daylight as landsmen never see, and she a-growiug colder in my arms, and no sign of land, aud no ship. Au 1 then another gnlo worse than the first, and our raft going to pieces, just as, far away, wo heard the boom of signal guns, and up aloft saw the lighthouse lamp. ".-ihe laid over my arm like a dead J thing— perhaps she was dead— aud a j hand that had been aboard— Dutch Jim we called him— hold thu baby. ! Take care o' her, cappen,' says he, ! 'l'll save thu young 'un'— and then we ' parted, all of us. "1 was the only one they picked it]). 1 had a bunch of women's clothe, in my fist when I hey pryed it open." "Aud Dutch Jiiu?" cried Hiram. "if lie's conic ashore we'd have met," said the captain. "Ho was a good seaman — no, there's no hope. Even his body wern't washed ashore." But Hiram Basset turned on him I •Vitti eyes aglow and cried ; "My child lives! 1 tell you my child lives!" From that moment the bereaved ' man clung to the belief. He was not rich, but he pinched and savod in all i ways to get money to prosecute his I search for the child. It had about its | neck a trinket, a little cross of gold, 1 pendant to a coral necklace, by which it might lie known. He sent adver- i tisomcuta all over tho country. He j paid detectives to assist him. Long after all scusiblu people looked upon his hope as a mere delusion ho j kept up the search — and indeed never J quite abandoned it. When it began j ho had been a plain, rather economi cal tradesman ; when it ended lie was a wealthy speculator and a miser. To I enable himself to search for his child i lie had begun to save, and now he hoarded stili — saving to himself and to others, "When NIV daughter is found she shall bo au heiress. lie lived most miserably, ho wore gar ments that would have disgraced a beggar. HE had no friends, no com panions. All his talk was of money,' of land, of bond aud mortgage. And now and (lien in its midst he would j pause, and, looking at his listener with eyes in which tears gathered, he would say : "You see, 1 have to BE sharp, I must. When thut pour girl of mine is found she must he rich." And some would think the poor mau cr* ;y, and laugh, aud some would pity However, ill his own unfurnished home Hiram kept one room under lock and key—a gorgeous ehniuber, furnished, as one unglil see, for a wo man. I'll: vas for his daughter whom c\ •-r.y one else thought dead. So the years passed on, as they pass with all of us, until twenty were num bered. Wall street knew old Hiram well. Ho was always lucky. Strangers took him sometimes for a beggar. Once a gentleman had offered liim a coin and thought him proud wheu he replied that he had "no great I need of it." And of all hard men—of all unyielding, cruel and unpitying men—of all avaricious, crushiug, grinding men, Hiram Basset was the most unyielding, most unpitying, most avaricious schemer nnd grinder, j Yet, under all, lived the hope of his life; still at times he prayed for his j fruition upon bended knees; still he ■ wept, yearning, longing, loving- tears i for the child he had never seen. One evening Hiram sat alono in his | empty little room, when there came a rap upon the door. He cried "Come in 1" and there entered n woman. ! She was young and rather pretty, decently shabby, timid, and with eyes j that looked as though they had been | weeping. j "Mr. Basset?" she asked, Hiram nodded, j "I am Anno Ileldt," she said, j "Don't know tho name." I "Perhaps you know James Ileldt?" said tho girl. j "JamesHeldt! Yes, yes! Tho man ! who has been trying to cheat me ; the j man whose mortgage we forecloso to . morrow," The girl clasped her hands. | "No, sir," she said; "ho has been j robbed and ho has beeu ill. He'll | pay in time. Don't soil the little i | houso; it can be nothing to you with ! your great fortune; to him it is all." "Women's way of looking at busi i ness," said Hiram, "What's due must bo paid, Ido nothing unlawful." "No, no," said the girl, "hut I ask j of you—mcrcv. Give him another | : year. He is so old. He is soventy-six, j ; and this would kill him. It is all we j can do to live ; a word from you would j put a stop to these proceedings. In a ! year we may manage—or—or—l may •be alone. Out ol mercy to him. You j arc au old man yourself." "Don't sue the argument. Good : many men older than I owe me j money ; no excuse for nou-paymeut. | Who are you—his wife?" "His daughter," said tho girl. "Oh, sir, could you sec liira—" "Business is business," said Hiram. Tho girl reheated to the door. She saw it was no use. "My poor father," she sighed. The words touched Hiram ; he lifted his shaggy eyebrows aud looked at her | i moro kindly. 8,"If I could I would," ho said, "but, you see, I want to save for my daugh ter's sake. Every man's relations | might beg money of me—l—l couldn't | let every mau off scot free—present I him with a piece of property and say: | 'Never mind the money.' I may seem ! hard, but it's for my daughter's sake. I must leave her rich." "I don't know who your daughter may he, sir, ' said the girl, "hut were 1 sho I should have money so unmer cifully gained. A curse will como to : you for it, remember that." Aud with these words she left. Hiram was alone, not quite ns com i fortablo as he might have been in I mind, but not one whit moved. Tho case was no now one. Au old seafar ing mau iiad bought some years before a little piece of ground with a small house upon it, on which remained a small mortgage. Since that time the laud, owing to certain improvements in the town, had multiplied iu value. It wa3 not the policy of such a man as Hiram to be lenient in such a case. He j bad been noxious to regniu the prop erty, mid had seized tho first oppor | tuuity of doing so. The next day the mortgage was fore j closed, and in duo time tho property was sold at its increased value to a mau who desire 1 to erect a factory upon it. A writ of ejectment was served. Aud again in the twilight came a rap at Hiram's door, and the young girl who had entered it once before stood again before him. "I ask very little," said the girl, "Y'ou have killed my father. He is dying. 1 only want you to let him die in peace. Wo are ordered to leave thu honse to-morrow, aud have no place to go to. A month at farthest aud all will bo over; there is not hope; dou't turn him into tho streets : to die." , 'There's the almshouse," said j Hiram, "it, can't be helped." I "You can help it," said the girl, j "I—X dou't choose to ! I can't af i ford it." | "You must." The girl departed, but next day tho I agent came to Hiram complaining bit | terly. Tho littlo house was still' oc -1 eupiod by its tenants, the doors and I windows were barricaded, and the wo | man appeared with a revolver and threatened to shoot any one who en j tereil. j Hiram started to his feet in wrath. ! "I'll show them who tho houso be longs to," ho cried, and proceeded with his agent to the little house. Hiram marched up to the door and struck at it a buavy blow with his cane. "No more of that," said the agent. "Wo'vo been at it all day." But to liis surprise the door opened ; on tho instant, and the girl stood bo fore them. | "Come in," sho said. "X do not wish to keep you away any longer. My lather is dead. 1 had my way; ho died iu the houso ho tried iu vaiu to pay for for so many years.'' The men entered, abashed. "You killed hiiu," she cried. "Oh, 1 how dear he was to me I No real fu- I ther was ever moro kind and true!" "I thought ho was your father," cried Hiram. "Ho was in heart," said the girl, j ".Since he tool; me a babe from my dead mother's arms and bore in his 1 bosom to safety i have never needed a 1 parent's iove- I sailed with him upon the sees ; 1 lived in foreign ludn with i; bun; I knew how he toiled to save the sum that should secure us a home. My father? Yes, more than my father." The old man became to tremble. He went close to the girl and peered into her eyes. "Found you," he said. "Took you 1 from your mother at sea.* "What do you care for all this?" said tho girl. "But I will tell. He i was but a common sailor. He had j neither money nor friends. With the steamer Catharine he lost his lit j tie all—" i "The steamer Catharine !" cried the I old man. She went on as though she had not . heard him: j "But in his poverty he cared for me. We wore picked up by a vessel i outward bound and went to France, j There he left me with a peasant wo- I man for four years. Ho had me j taught. At last we came here. Al ways he thought of me—always, even when he wauted bread 110 would not let me sell a little trinket which he hoped would some day proved my identity." "Let me see it!" cried Hiram. Hiram had clasped tho necklace with its golden cross to his lips, and said: 1 "My daughter! my daughter! God j has given 111 c my daughter!" He held his arms toward her. "Keep that man away!" she said. I "But you are my child—l am your i father. This necklace was about my j baby's neck. My wife was your mother. She sailed with you on board tho steamer Catharine twenty years ago, and was lost, A sailor saved you. Jim! Jim! Yes, that man's name was James. Oh, my daughter, come to me!" Oucc morello advanced. ' But she again filing him off. "If you arc right," she said, "I hate my self for beiug your child. There lies my real father. I loved him, he loved me. Ho cared for me all the days of his life, and you, you murdered him. I hate you!" "But my rnouoy !'' faltered Hiram. "It is all yours—all I saved for you." "Your money and you are aliko ac cursed," said the girl. "Leave mo alouc." Hiram turned from her and de parted. He went straight homo and to the room he had so long kept iu gorgeous solitude for his lost child. There he locked himself iu. Twenty four hours later somo oue who had been alarmed by his straugo mauner and long siloucc broke it open. Some thing horrible dangled from a great spike by which a picture had beon up held. To it Hiram Basset had huug himself. His daughter had eveu then no pity for him. Nor would she have willing ly touched his money, but his agent was too shrewd a lawyer to miss his own fees. Almost perforce the prop erly which Hiram had amassed be came that of the daughter who had begged iu vain for mercy at his hands for the old sailor who had saved her life.—New York News. lies sued "Old Put's" Plow. When the news came into Connecti cut that tho British soldiers had fire l tho shot heard "arouua the world" Israel Putnam was plowing in a stony field in his farm in Pom fret. Tho plow vanished from tho unfinished furrow aid from history, thou aud there, when "Did Put" took lip arms for his country. It was rescued from a Windham County barn loft a short time ago and bought for a song by E. A. Brooks, an enthusiastic relic huuter of Hartford, Conn. It now occupies an honored position among his collection of cu riosities. The Putuam plow is a pretty tough lookiug relic, but it is in tact iu all its parts. It is interesting aud valuable, aside from its associa tions, in that it is a capital type of tho plow used iu New England during tho colonial period. Mr. Brooks has also secured a wrin kled old image of Bacchus, tho oldest in the eonutrv, under whoso benign countenance travelers found enter tainment iu the old Staniford Tavern, iu Windham town, Conn., in the sev enteenth ccutury. The figure was carved from a log of piuo by British : prisoners in Wiu.lham Jail iu 178 G. j Nov/ York Herald. Bought His Own Furniture. All amusing story is told of a gen tleman living iu London. As tho anecdote goes, it seems that he had a ' passion for the purchaso of second- I hand furniture at auctions, aud that j in making "good bargains" lie had I filled his house with antiquated and j almost useless articles. Upou oue oc i casiou his wife took tho responsibility, without consulting her husband, to have a portion of the least useful of the pieces removed to au auctionrooni to bo sold. Groat was her dismay when, 011 tho evening of tho day of the sale, the majority of the articles oamc back to the house. The hus band had stumbled into the auction room, and, not knowing his own furniture, had purchased it at abetter bargain tliau at first. —Harper's Round Table. Largest Elk 011 Record, The largest elk of which 1 have an authentic record was formerly owned by Mr. G. It. McKenzie, of Sullivan County, New York, and kept in his park until it hail to be killed for vic iousness. It measured as follows: Length of head and bod}', 7 feet 8 inches; tail, fit inches; height at tho shoulders, 5 feet 1 inches. Jam glad to be able to add that its skin is now in the possession of tho American Museum of Natural History, aud will soon be mounted by Mr. Rowley— which guarantees tho quality of tho finished specimen. Tho weight of that, animal could scarcely have been less than 1000 pounds, but the weight of a full-grown elk sometimes is as little ap 400 pounds.— St, Nicholas, THE SIX RICHEST MEN. HOW THEY MADE FORTUNES AG GREGATING OVER $1,000,000,000. LI Huug Chans on Top With $500,- 000,000-Klnss of Oil, Real Ins tate, Nitrate and Tea. WHO are the richest meu in the world? It is doubtful whether oue person in a hundred could answer this question off-hand. Certainly few would put at the top tho name of Li Hun# Chang, the great Chancellor of the Chinese Empire, yet that is where he belongs. After careful search aud investigation, tho Sunday World has arrived at tho following list, which may bo accepted as authentic: Li Hung Cham: 8500,000.000 John l>. Itickofoltor 150,000,000 The Duke of Westraiuster 100.000.000 Colonel North 100,(100.000 Cornelius Vunderbilt 100.000.000 Woli Qua 100,000.000 , 81,080,000,000 Hut two of these niulti-milliouaires inherited their fortunes. One is tho Duke of Westminster and Ihe other is Cornelias Vauderbilt. Li Huug Chaug alone is in danger of losing his, but then his head might go, too, and a peisou without that necessary orna ment wouldn't enjoy even a cracker. As Viceroy of tlic Chinese Empire he was for years in a position to accumu late wealth of every sort. With bis live hundred millions he is the owner of great rice fields aud innumerable pawn shops, which are most profit able. In the district where he resides lie is looked upou as a veritable god. Hundreds of slaves aud servants wait upon him, and except when lie is called to court to visit his employer, I tho Emperor, he passes his time' studying. Colonel North is an English man. 11c is not a man of groat refinement. When he was fourteen years old he could not read or write. Ltko many of his sort ho kuocked about the world, serving sometimes as a common 1 sailor aboard ships which carried ma terial from the old country to the now. He is a Yorkshire man and ar- 1 rived in Chile when he was but twenty three years old. Originally a boiler riveter, he fouud employment in the town of Huaseo. At this time tho ui- i trate fields of Peru wore beginning to be talked of as fields for speculation. Ho had a talent for mechanics, and mastered every detail of the busiuoss. , After he had seen tho fortune in the 1 stuff, ho raised capital, iuvestod it, and founded the fortune which is to day rated at a hundred millions. He 1 secured control of tho nitrate beds and | urrauged for a water supply in that re- i giou. Seeing the vast fortune which was to bo his, ho availed himself of his opportunities, and when tho war be tween Chile and Peru broko out found uu opening for accumulating more woalth. He got control of the railway, water and gas works and other corpo rations, which 110 managed most suc cessfully and made payiug properties. After tho vast flow of wealth which tumbled into his pockets he returned to Eugland, leaving his business in- , terests in good hands, and then pro ceeded to enjoy himself. Although he is a chief figure at the race-tracks j now, he is too busy a man to simply j sit down and look on. He is interest- | ed iu many new schemes, most of which have proved more than profit able. His rcceut defeat for election , to Parliament he takes calmly. He ! scatters money lavishly. Tho Priuco of Wales has become his intimate I friend. His raciug stables are among j tho best in England. His country I house is in Marvel. The Duke of Westminster, who has enormous interests in London prop erty, is not only the richest of Great Britain's peers but also ouo of tho best liked men in England. His pop ularity with all classes lias been gained not altogether iu politics or in tho tangled webs of diplomacy, but iu tho hunting fields. He would as soon race , with his tenants as with a lot of prince- ' lings. Once ho was master of the j •'Glorious Cheshire Hounds," nud 1 once won tho blue ribbon of the day. [ No other living man is a better judge of 11011803. He is over sevonty years old, but is as youug, apparently, us a spring chicken. His fathor was a Marquis, ami he himself was created a Duke iu 1874. His income is variously esti mated at from live to seven hundred thousand pounds a year. He owns tho land on which many of the principal markets in Loudon are situated. His ancestral seats are many and his hos pitality unbounded. John D. Rockefeller made his vast fortune, which is estimated at over $180,001),000, out of oil as oasily as the farmer's wife gets piu money from her chickens. His golden eggs were laid by obliging refiners, who had to do as lie said or go to smash. He started a refinery iu Cleveland, Ohio, and organized a company which is now the Standard Oil Company. From this beginning ho lias achieved immouse power aud wealth. Ho is a strict Baptist, and has given two mil lions to the Chicago University. With his family lie lives quietly in this city, a most unassuming man. In spito of Rockefeller's enormous wealth, his charities aro large, and his wife aud two charming daughters as well give away many thousands each year to persons who thoy think deserving of more than alms. Cornelius Vanderbilt is probably tho thriftiest of tho sous of William H., and has actually more money thau he knows what to do with. His magnificent bouse facing Central I'ark is eagerly sought by almost every vis itor to this city. His daughter Ger trudo is, after Hiss Rockefeller, tho greatest heiress in the country. The Vauderbilt money was inherited, and tho system bearing the name is sup posed to be worth near three hundred millions, of which this favored sou owns a third. While ho is somewhat of a society mau, Cornelius Vander bilt does not care for that kind of life, except for the pleasuro it gives hii family. He finds inoßt pleasure in th quiet of his library. He wants to be left severely alone. He enjoys par ticularly a month's walk in the Swiss Tyrol or a vacation in the wilderness j of the Norwegian forests. ! Woh Qua, the great Canton ten | merchant, has a fortune estimated at 1 hundred millions. For years tho trade ! in tea has been centered in him. From tho smallest settlement in Maine to tho largest capital in Europe, tea is everywhere a daily beverage. Whether it comes by caravan across Siberia or by boat around the Horn and Cape of Good Hope, it is us much a necessity as bread. Years ago W T oh Qua, who bad worked himself up in tho firm with which ho was couuocted, looked uhead fifty years and saw the vast pos sibilities of the business. Ho lives in a magnificent villa on the edge of Canton an entertains persons of all Nationalities. A good share of his money, like part of the fortuue of Li Hung Chang, is iuvestod abroad. His vessels are numbered by the thousand, and as a matter of fact ho commands more ships than tho Admiral of any principality. There are, of course, other groat in dividual fortunes, such as those ol Baron Hirseli, tho Astor.s and the llothschiids. The two latter, however, aro jointly owned by half a dozen members of tho family, and while tho sum itself is great, it would not make each member as rich as either of the six men mentioned above if it w erf to be apportioned among them.—N eu York World. WISE WORDS. What man has done, woman thinks she can do. Melody is tho soul of music, while harmony is its mind. A pretty woman is the prettiest thing on earth—to the eye. Tho more a bachelor thinks of malri mony the less of it he does. A pair of soft brown eyes in a man's henrt makes kiui blind all over. Faith in men and things is one ol mankind's slipperiest possessions. A wife may easily love herself enough to make her husband unhappy. Love is the great inexplicable, and marriage sometimes makes it rnoro so. Htroug action can issue only from strong faitli. Only oat of certainty comes power. Sorrow herself will reveal one day that s'uo was only the beneticieul shadow of joy. When a man is no longer able to do harm, lie becomes possessed of an am bition to do good. You will not learn anything if you nie not curious, and people will uol liko you if yon are. Tho honeymoon has waned when the bride stops telling things, and bo gins to ask questions. It is harder work holding back when one starts going down tho hill thnu it is to get up when one starts going up. Women are safer in perilous situa tions and emergencies than men, ami might be still more so if thoy trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood. It is good to know that he whe makes nobler life possible by any con scious work of bis, for other people therein lives nobly himself, not merely in their lives, but in his own. It is not our fortune in life, our sor row, or our joy ; it is the explanation which wo give of it ourselves, the depth to which we can sue down into it that make: our lives significant qt insignificant to us. To do what wo ought to do is au al together higher, diviner, more potent, more creative thing thau to write the grandest poem, paint the most beauti ful picture, carve the mightiest statue or dream out tho most enchanting commotion of melody and harmony. Hunting the Moose. Thanks to tho fact that the mooso is rather solitary in his habits, quick witted, and koeu of eye, ear and nos tril in detecting danger, he is uol destined to be exterminated so easily as the moro stupid bison, caribou and elk. Barely, indeed, does the hnutet find more than a family of moose togetlior, even IU the dead of winter, when they "yard up" iu a given locality for days or weeks at a time. By reasou of his great size, his savory flesh, his much-prized head, and the difficulty of killing him, this animal has always been very attractive to sportsmen and naturalists, and pot- Uuuters also. Asa result, our leading scientific museums now possess more aud liner mouuted specimens of this : species than of any other large gams 1 animal of America except the bisou. | The museums of Washington, New : Y'ork and tho University of Kansas possess magnificent groups that are lasting monuments to the greatness ol Alces Amerioanus, aud a credit to our country besides.—St. Nicholas. The Avalanche. i Tho gnido gave the word to leave ! the channel of ica au I tika to the I rooks ou the side, for a snowball or two bad rolled dowu from above, and ! lie was afranl moro might follow, j Scarcely had we got out of our trough I and up on the crags, when dowu cams I au avalaucho with a vengeance, and we were within twenty feet of u tre mendous dischargo of thousauds ol tons of suow and ice, which swept dowa tho track that we had just asceu led. We were perfoctly safe, but somehow the half liiss, half roar remained in my ears for some time; and for many nights afterward, when iudigostible suppers produced evil dreams, the avu | lauohe was sura to figure in them. ! Blackwood's Magazine. THE MERRY SIDE OP LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Tlic Bicycle Face —Those Gentle Crea tures— Sufficient Cause Why Ho Old It—A Touchy Point, Etc.,Ktc. •'Ah, me, what perils do environ The mail who meddles with cold iron; I started on my flyinK wheel, The Hush of exercise t<> feel, When, discontented with its load Jt scattered me along the road, Anil though T lit on every place, The most of it was on my face. —New York Hun. THOSE GENTLE CREATURES. Miss Olclura (playfully) "l'm older than you think I am. " Miss Caustiquc—"l doubt it." — Chicago Record. WHY HE inn IT. Fond Parent— 4 'Bobby, did you pick all the white meat of! this chicken?" Bobby—"Well, pop, to make a clean breast of it, I did." SUFFICE NT CAUSE. Daughter—"Papa went away in very good spirits this morning." Mother—"Good gracious ! That re minds me that 1 forgot to ask him for some money!" THE TROUBLE WITH IIIXT. ''Rising nicely, ain't he, mamma?" "Jimmy! What on earth have you been doing with Fido?" "Ho's just e't three yeast cakes and drunk a pan of sour milk."—Chicago Record. KILLS EVERY TIME. •'I seo they aro introducing an army musket which is said to be very dead '?•" , "Yes, it is so constructed that no- ' --** body can tell if it is loaded or not." —Detroit Tribune. A TO!THY POINT. Ho (plendingly)—"Why can't wo bo married?" She (coyly)—"Oh, I can't boar to leave father alone just yet." He (earnostly) "But, my darling, he has had you such a loug.loug time?" Sho (freezingly)—"Sir !" Tittsburg Dispatch. ONE OP THE COMMON HERD. Mrs. Do Stj'lo—"l am afraid that young man who called on vou last evening is not accustomed to good so ciety." Dnugbter—"Why, mother?" Mrs. De Style—" Whenever he speaks, ho says something."—Now York Weekly. HIS ANGEL. "What is that, dear?" the young husband Rskod. j "Angel food," said she, sweetly. "I—l guess you better eat it your self. You are the only angel in tho house." And ho helped himself liberally to the broad and boef.—lndianapolis Journal. AND HAD NO RETURNS. "Odd about that killing of Smedly, wasn't it?" "I hadn't heard." "Yes; took out a $5009 policy only last week aud yesterday was shot and killed." "Well, sorao fellows wcro born luoky—l've been paying piemiums for twenty-live years."—Chicago Kecord. TOMMY'S LOGIC. Mr. Bliss—"No, Tommy, you enn not have auv more cake. Don't you know it is very wrong to ask the sec ond time for anything?" Tommy Bliss—"You did it, papa." . Mr. Bliss—"l did it, Tommy! Why, * what do you mean?" Tommy Bliss—"Why, mamma's your second wife." —Ycnkers States man. AT A LEGATION RECEPTION. Miss Fuller —"Wheu our Americans go to China they build railroads, start live enterprises, and are of great bene fit to your country. Wheu a China man comes here ho is content to open a laundry. How do yon account for it?" Mandarin Hit Rice —"Melicans need bleep more cleaning."—Leslie's Weekly. HIS OBJECT IN SPEAKING. He—"Miss I'orrymead, white I may not bo the man oE your choice at this moment, yet I venture to hope—" She—"l can only be a sister—" "As I was saviug. Miss Perrymead, while I may not bo your choice, I don't want you to forget me when the tirno comes for you to look for a chauee instead of a choice."—lndian apolis Journal. THE UNEXPECTED. The landlord presents his bill to tho traveler. The latter looks at the sum total aud prepares to pay without de mur. Mine host, stupefied at this unwonted promptitude on the part of a gueit, stammers out: "Beg your pardon, sir, will you let me have anothor look at the hill? I must have omitted something." A CANDID MAN. Mr. Billus had bought a new piano. A lusty lellow with red hair'was as sisting in carrying the instrument into the house, wheu Mr. Billus thus addressed him : "What a pity it is, Lally, that yon and I were not born rich instead of handsome." "Excuse me, sor," replied Lally, taking a good look at him, "but I think we were bate on both."—Chi cago Tribune.
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