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FOREIGN GOSSIP. In Tarlii the ilnncUilloit U In great favor among artmeiai towers fyp a-i,,, mlng hnls. In Gorniftiiy housiiholdars are R. lowed t treat trespassing cat and jog us lieimW of proyj that la, they vnn KUi uhmu in tiny way lm,y ohdhso, At ft London auction tho other day ft w"s a oblong wrlling.tal, of inariii)torlo fetched 1,7.50 guineas, iul ft pslr ' lunula XVI candelabra went at fi!K) guliienc, In Pari small of clotted cream, slightly Hour, nre sold fur a fvv pence. This cream is callml St. Gor vnN; It Is excellent whim euteu alone, but mill bolter with fruali fruit or wiili tart. Of tho 258 Pope of Rome, 101 were natives of Italy, 14 of Fiance, .f (i rotate, 7 of Germany, ft of Asia. 8 of Africa, 3 of Spain, 6 of Dalinatia, 1 of Kng mill. 1 of Portugal and 1 of Holland. ' Tho birth recorded In London every week I'XocOd tho death by mure than a thnusnnu, and during llut next ten year the lucrinsit In tliu number of inhabitant will probably U nearly thro. -quarters of a million. At i ivla l" Pari tho other day a fiiUndld dish of tho rare old JH'n I respective companies. ,,Blilnd the ' .... ..... i. ...i i-nnj i . . ' I ,.;r... . ... '. , . wain icienmi ioo-t. ii was twuiity IjicIich fn diameter, and was beautiful. r painted with Cupids and (lowers. There aro dome very II im specimens of this china In tho private apartment at Windsor Castle. Knglnud. .-It In stated that a syndicate, com posed chiefly of Belgians, Inn obtained nun lint Persian Government the con cessions fr construct in tliu Persian railway. The first lliui will run from I lie capital, Teheran, to tliu celebrated i.eeof pilgrimage, Shiih-Abdul-A,im, I place of !)0,0 )) InhnldiaiiK ami it i, iH I- ali'iut ten kilometers in length -Public Opinion, A gossiping newsmonger writes (iiiiii I-onilon that whmi they bo-ran to put Buckingham P.ilnco in order for ll'.n n oomtnodatlon of tho jnbileo jiifstn, ill condition win found to 1 inylhing hut edifying. Tim upper itnries, which had not bi'rii Inhnliilcd for yearn, were absolutely lllihy, the itiprts and curtains ull tailored, and the wall paper in mnnf places defaced. DosUm Transcript. That noma rich families, are left iniong tho old French nobility I illus 'rsted by tho ease of tho lain I)uko of Lai oi'hcfotirauld-Dohd en vlllc, w ho dur ing hl lifetime gave away mora ihan VCNX.0X franc for charitable objects. Hid yet . left to hla hoir Liiroche'ou-tauld-H;accla, over 20.000,000. Tho latter already had an income of f 10, H) a year before ho received this aunt. Cleveland Lender. 'Jim Italian Government ling or-jt-r-d tho excavation of tho ilto of the t city o Sybaris, In that part of Southern Italy known "Magna f Jro- I Hi " Tho city lira m'.ven feat uiulor yjrff'trRn r of th "rier Crall. whore it v li reixaieil for twenty-tiiro ceniud,. Th rfulta nro fx'td to be a inur M ing an tlinmf attending tho renurrwj- , a ot r niipcii. Lhtrajo Mvnnec A number if palniinjra hv Hogarth m his father-. n-law, Sir James Tbornhill, h ive been curiously brought mli'ht In an old bouso nt (irwiiwicb, Kiigland. Tliey wero painted on jiau it'U in the wall, but a butcher who tilne ii 'titly ocenpied tko liouso cov wwl them over with a rich drab. Now Ji drub liaa peeled off aud rovealod tll I'lctlll'CS. Tho N rdonfel.lt torpedo bont, which has just Won completed In Ku luud, is a si eiil veis 1 one humlivd and twenty feet long and twolvt) feet wido, with a speed of aeventoitn knots an in hour when moving on tho anrf.tco Of tint water, and about four knots whirt sulnnergi'd for purpose of ul Biarino warfare. Aecutuiilatcd steam propel her under water, and tho air taken down in tho boat Itself aulllcca for the crew of ninn men to luvatho for icvernl hours. (Jroat rosults from ttili novel craft aro anticipated by her ii'iiKiicr. Slio is aubniergod andralsod by tint admission and expulsion of sea Watfr, for which' great luuks aru pro Tidl.A'. ". Le(lir.r. A VIEW OF WEST POINT. Ths Equlsttlf Trim Rtirrnunillnji of Iha ' N'atlnu'l Mllllsrf Helmut, NVh and enst tho Point is hemmed In by tho mighty river, w est and south h lha rock-ribbed highland. The pU'oaii, little by, liilln hi boon vi'lwl and graded, until to-diiy It is a inml, "bwaulifitl, pass-grown plain, bonnJd on th ) west by tho cony homes of tliu ofllrora and professors, on tho outh I y tho stately barracks, tho grim, olil-fuMioncd "Aeademlo," tho (irccinn chapel and tho domed turrets of tho tyhrwy. Skirting tho precipitous nver bimkn, broad, graded road, encloses Ull'l(i fan on tho north and oast, and oili as levol and carefully kept bmdii It on tho west and south, nml ,i ,u.y bisect it along tho tiwidl.ui, . 'Covered with well-cropped 'Jurf. tiwcHterd half of tho "plain" iili)voi ! to Infantry drills; tho bnt- : Ji'1hi a ttho crnnehiiig hoofs of tho rei a limited to the gravel of tho ; H rn hMf. All around hre tho rocky ""l'hts t immiid with piuo aud flr and fHar, vl h hero and t hero a poop at the utony parapet of some old redoubt whtittn thrown up In tho day of the j Wvnlutb,;,, Xhu square-built hostelry. ' onw mid i!or years known as Roe's, "land perched at tbo northeast limit !' tj'a plain. Statnos in bronwi or MiHrbln gleam lmre and thnre amid tho fc'llajcp, ,,(! loi of ,i,,,i, heroism wl deToiir)n on tho port of tho sons of t,, Old a.mdeniy. Tbo tall white staff strlit,.T,, ninnt the dark background ot tts U hlnaida. m-!. ll m ooo, high 0Tr all. the brilliant col-1 or of the Stars and Strlposj and on the easternmost verge of tho broad piatoau turn the campground, the si uier home of the Corps of Cadets. I'tllll Ollt In niatllrltimllnnl -.,., 1 .. ..I I .. with woll-giavolud pathways, suntry posts and color-lino." and shaded by bountiful trees, tho encampment, like very thing Bt West Point, is so rMjumii-iy trim and nont as to have little resemblance to tho "tonted Held" as seen in aotual service on the front lee. rri.A ...l.t a..., , . niuui leius gioiim in aO' coinio ranks that look as though they ""' I'oenou uy aid of tho "straight, odgo" rule. Farthest to tho wost are the guard and vWtW tents; then cimies an open spuco botwoon them and tho color line, along which tho nrms are stacked every bright day. It is in this space that tho citnip ceremo nies guard mounting, dross pnrade ami me weekly inspections take place, t ij in-iumi me color line are tho tents of four companies, two in w ai d-fiiclng rows to each, with a broad alley, known as tho general parade," separating tho right and left wings. Tho company streets run cast and west per pendicularly to the color lino, and the tenia of the cadet ofllcers are pitched looking west along tliu streets of their rows ol company officers' lenls. and opposite tho right and left of camp, are mo larger domiciles of those cade magnates the adjutant and quarter muster. Hack still farther are the doublu touts of the four army officers who are the immediate commanders and Instructors of tho four companies and bcliiiul them all, at tho rear of rump, is tho big "marquee" of the Commandant of Cadets, Dolled about the rear of camp aro the little tents occupied by the drum boy "orderlies, the boot-blncks, variiHhers, etc.; am: around them all. day and night, pane tlm chain of sentries, which, posted in mid-June, Is never removed until the simultaiiuous fall of every tent on tho of August Captain Charles King, m uarprr $ Miiiazine. REMARKABLE FIGHT. A rrni li liitrr's Htrmxlo mi a Glean, lis Mann Mnnatrr. a inver nauii'd iuintree nad a re markable fight w ith a formidable fish called the boultous or Wndro, a kind of hurk which infests tho Itreton coast at Douarnenex. the other day. Ac cording to all accounts Q lintreo had narrow escani, and his own report of his terrible submarine encounter reads like a stanza from Schiller's famous oem, or a psg from Jules Verne's ro mances. The diver, an old salt, was employed by the Coycrnmeiit. and iu pursuit of his daily labor duly de scended. In a diving apparatus, off the Diiimrnenci iiier for the purpose of hiving the foundation of an ad- litlon to that structure. While he was at the bottom of the sea, the men who were working the air-pump In the ponffxin b"t above were suddenly frightened by feeling tho alarm signal They instantly pulled up. and brought a largo boultous nearly eight feet long to the surf ice. The marine monster's head foiiiu'd three-quarters of bit length, and his under jaws wer of im. mense s'sa. Shortly afterward Quin- tree came up, his hand on the air-pi e of his helmet, and his diving apparatus somewhat damaged. It appears that w hen he went dow n to his work he had scarcely got to tho last rung of the ladder when he saw the sea monster lying between two iumps of rock. Il had in his hands only his stone chisel and a hammer, and he intended logo up for a crow bur at onee, but the full w as loo fast for him. It came toward him throng the green with its enormous jaw wide open. Without losing a moment t liutree managed to wound the animal in tho throat with his chisel, and then hold it down on a stone white he drew his knife and made a hole in Its holy, through which ho passed a rope, and thus sent the fish to the sur face. Had it not been for bis quick ness and dexterity the diver, owing to the rents w hich the (ish would make iu his apparatus, would have been drowned, aud then devoured. As it happened it w as the boultous that was not only defeated but eaten, for its body was divided among the victor aud' his comrades, w ho made a capital bnuUatxiitite of its prime parts. 1'arii Cor. London Tele'iraph. in m p - An Orator's. Sorry Blunder. Tom Corwin used to'tell in his in imitable w ay a story about a Mr. Jones, who was running for Congress in an Ohio district, and who, while filling his round of appointments, made a speech, at tho close of which, by way of commending himself to tho "bone and sinew." tho "regular sovereigns of tho country, he wild tiial no was a sclf-mudo man. of "obscure birth and humble origin"; that, in fact, ho was sinuu" from "the very dregs of tho people. n.V. icllliw-cilisi'iin, ' he, warming up ana oievaung ui voice, "my parents w ore so poor that when 1 was eighteen years old my mother had to tie me to tho bedpost to keep mo from falling into the lire whenever she went to tho spring for a 'pad of water." Of course ho intended to say eighteen months, and Mr. Cor win, who was present, cried out: "Oh Jones, Jones, wliat a uiuniuoS o.K 1...1.,. vm must have been! ine cmwu saw' tho point of iho joke, and Jones i.h,.l l., n at onee. amm men- jeeis. Bi'ms Verify Poore, in Ronton Buiiqal. Tl. work of rebuilding China town, recently destroyed by fire, has been commenced at San Francisco, Cai Tho old site Is being used. Ser crai substantial brick buildings will be put up. Tho celestials were given a lease of ten years, with a privilege cf UlU UliiUfc .- 1 YANKEE INGENUITY. A Clarsr !da Whloh Kuplitly Knrlehed IU ' Tliougbtrut junior. The Ingenious toy-maker of old who made a coach-aud-four, complete as to all details, so small that the shell of a hazelnut would coyer it, has been sur passed in the line of ingenious play things by a Rhode Island Yankee. With trim Yankee shrewdness,' this toy maker has o constructed his creations that they make money and drawr it from two channels into one coffer. Tho devices are. the .little gold and silver stuHinhimts, locomotives, fire engines and Corliss engines, which are found in the luxurious New York hotel lobbies and In public resorts all over tbo Union. Tho Idea of constructing these toys, whose niech aiiinm should be in ado to move by dropping nickels into a slot In the pedestal ou vrlilclt they rested, origin ated with an ingenious New Etiglmd niodul-makcr and fortunes are now be ing made out of the enterprise. One large firm in Providence, It. L, has a large factory devoted entirely to the biiMincss and scores of men einployud.J bt range to say, the makers refuse to sell their goods. Lant week the pro prietor of the principal hotel on Union Niuare one red the inanufacturor Iu question tS.OQQ for the model of steam lire-engine, the machinery of which runs to the tunes of a music box after one hits dropped a nickle into the slot in the pedestal. The offer was refused hecnuse the firm never per mits its goods to go out of its posses sion. 1 hey lease tho toys for the hand some sum of ho per month, or give the- proprietors of prolitnble resorts a percentage of the income. In cases where a percentage I given the col lector of a bank, designated by the owners, ci'lls once a week to clean out the nickels that the toy has accumu lated and to rive the proprietor of the place hisslmre, which never exceeds 38 per cent. In popular resorts tho in come from these toys amount to ?8 and tl2 a day. They are model of lire en gines, locomotives or eteauiersof some well-known manufacturers or lines which pay tho company for making them a handsome sum for advertising their corporations. Thus money from two sources accrues to the rich Yankees who originated the idea. The Yankee lias not yet been able to make musio boxes that equal those of the Swiss manufacture, and' the makers of the toys In question, all of which are pro vided with music boxes, send abroad foO.000 a year for them. The most profitable model is a steam fire-engine. A niaginificent locomotive, perfect as to every detail, ranks next iu popular ity. Its machinery works, its electric headlight blazes forth and a music box underneath it plays pupular airs at the instance of a nickuL In a few weeks habitues of one New Y'ork place who choose to spend their nickels on the de- rice will see the perfect model of a modern perfecting printing press, I i i i : 1 1 . t ... ' . ; t SW wuicu sia mrow uu us goto coo s uojiies of a newspaper. The manufacturers will derive income from the nickels, from the royalty paid by the newspa per advertised or from certain firms whose advertisements appear iu the souvenirs. A mot J. Cuminiius, in I'liiUtiUlfhitx Press. THE PETROLEUM SUPPLY. IU Complete Kiliaiutinn Within a Fnwl- cadis Conttu4itly rrruleUd. It can hardly lie doubted, I fear, that the supply both of oil and gas has How been so largely drawn upon that within less than a score of years scarcely any will he left which can be brought at reasonable cost into the market Tho boundaries mid extent of the oil regions have been deter mined. Ail the sands iu which oil will ever be found in such quantities as to be worth working are known, and have been drilled through in various places. It is scarcely possible that any new fields will lie discovered which will lie comparable either in extent or productiveness with those now known. Mo far back as January, 18H3, Prof. Lesley pointed out that no petroleum is now being produced iu the Devonian rocks, either by the process akin to listillation or otherwise. What lias Wen stored up in tho past. procerus which jirolmbly lasted for millions of years, mar bo got out Hut when these reservoirs aro ex hausted there will he an end of tho jH'troleuin supply. 'The discovery of a few mora pools of two or three mil lions of barrels) each can make little lifleronee." Mr. Carll, whose opinion on tiie geology of the oil-bearing dis tricts may bo regarded as decisive, has come to a similar conclusion. "There are not at present," lie pointed out quite reccutly,"any reasonable grounds for expecting the discovery of new fields which will add to the declining products, of tho old, so as to enable tho output to keep pace with the shipments or consumption." The stored petroleum in this region ins then Wen very nearly exhausted. In less than a generation a email part of the population of this continent alone has used up nearly nil tho val uable stores of energy which had been accumulated during millions of years of the geologic past. More recent inquiries confirm tho conclusions of Prof. Lesley and Mr. 'aril. The signs of exhaustion in the oil-producing regions can now bo learlv recognized. During the last nir years there has been a steady diminution in the output, accompanied by an increase in tho price per bawd, which nevertheless does not even main tain the noniihal annual value of the supply." Mr. Wrigley announced in 1882 that 154,000,O(X) barrels of oil had already been raised up to the beginning of that year, aud expressed the opin ion Wlat not more than 00,000,000 bar- rols remained to be raised. In this last estimate he was undoubtedly mis taken, for up to the beginning of 1SS3 no fewer tlum lHl.OOO.OOO barrels had been raisedand in the year 1885 as many as iJl.04a.041 barrels (nearly 8.000.000 fewer than In 1884) were ob tained. Rut although tho estimate in 1882 of the quantity of oil still remain ing full far short of the truth, and though we may admit as possible that even now much more oil remains to be put out than the most experienced geologists suppose, the signs ol ap proaching exhaustion are yearly be coming more unmistakable. The ex pense of bringing the oil to the surface grows greater year by year, and threatens soon to become so great that the profit of working the oil stores will befyannsccnt So soon as that state of things is approached, we may be sure that the oilmen's occupation in i'ennsylvania and Western New York will be gone. It has been stated that the Japanese, unwilling to let the least fraction of the earth's interior stores V lost, have been known to excavate a vertical shaft to a depth of 600 feet in order to raise a few gallons of oil per flay.jBilut in America when the oil miflj Vj-e so near exhaustion as this, the fpt' lie abandoned; nay, they will ue aiinmioneo, long pelore tliey ap proach such a condition. ith the failures of the oil supply, all thecollat erul branches of industry associated With it will fail too. hnowkdije. SALISBURY SPIRE. " Dr. Ilolmm ImpreMUpng of One of the World'! Most Famous Nt rurturr. In my various excursions from Salis bury I was followed everywhere by the all-pervading presence of the towering spire. Jus, what it was in that earlier visit, when my eves were undimmed and my sensibilities unworn, just such i lounu it. now. as one onves away from the town, the roofs of the houses drop out of the landscape, the lesser spires disappear one by one, until the great shaft is left standing alone soli tary as tiie broken statue of Ozymandi as in me aesert, as tne mast ot some mighty ship above the waves which have rolled over the foundering vessel. most person will, I think, own to a feeling of awe in looking up at it Few can look down from a great height without creepings and crispa tions, if they do not get as far as verti gos aud that asrial calenture which prompts them to jump from the pin nacle on w hich they are standing. It does not take much imagination to make one experience something of the same feeling in looking np at a very tall steeple or chimney. To one whose eyes are used to Tark Street and the Oid South steeples as standards of height, a spire which climbs four hun dred feet towards the sky is a new sen sation. Whether I am more "afraid of that which is high" than I was at my first visit, as I should be oa the authori- of"i"fcrTk-s5teteg, I can not say, but it was quite enough for roe to let my eye climb the spire, and I had no de sire whatever to stand upon that "bad eminence," as 1 am Sure I should have found it I soon noticed a slight deflection from the -perpendicular at the upper part of the spire. 1 his has long been observed. I could not say that I saw it quivering in the wind, ss I felt that of Strasburg doing when I ascended it swaying like a blade of grass when a breath of air passes over it. But it has iieen, lor at least two hundred years, nearly two feet out of the tierpendicu- lar. No increase in the deviation was found to exist when examined early in the present century. It is a wonder that this slight-looking structure can have survived the blasts, and thunder bolts, and earthquakes, and the weak ening effects of time on its stones and timbers for five hundred years. Since the spire of Chichester Cathedral fell in 16(11. sheathing itself in its tower like a sword dropping into its scabbard one can. hardly help looking with ap prehension at all these towering fal ries. I have before referred to the fall of the spiro of Tewkesbury Abliey Church, three centuries earlier. There has been a good deal of fear for the Sal isbury spire, and great precaut ions have been taken to keep it firm, so that we may hope it will stand for another five hundred years. It ought to lie a "joy forever," for it is a thing of beauty, if ewer there were one. Oliver Wendell L'vlme.1, in Allnntia. They Rented the House. "It seems to me," said the man who was lookLM cftw- a hiruse," that this building rWtogether too close to the milroml. J don't want to be waked np at all hours of the night by a thun dering fc eight traiu or the screech of every en ine that passes." ' "It may be a little close to the cars, Mr. Jones," replied the owner of the building, "but it is in a good neighbor hood and well lighted. These build ings on the sides hardly interfere with the light at all. You can see straight through Mrs. Do Brown's house on the east and the kitchen of Mrs. Swyniper's on the west. Then the pantry has nineteen shelves, and " I think we had lietter take it, Mr. Jones," said Mrs. Jones, decidedly. Chicago Tribune. m m ii It is a curious fact that persons far from robust often outlive those of ex traordinary strength and hardihood. Upon this subject the Canada Health Journal says that tho vital parts of the system must be well balanced in order to nttnin long life, and that excessive strength in one part is a source of dan ger. Hence an over-developed muscu lar system invites dissolution, because it is a continuous strain on the less powerful orgatis, and finally wears them out INCREASE THE YIELD. m The Necessity of Kelnlni Mare Ituehels of Grain on Fawar Are. No fact is more patent than that with nearly or quite ail of our crops the yield is very low. Once in awhile we may find a farmer who succeeds in securing large yields, but ..they are rare. And yet it is very evident that at the present time large yields are the only ones that give us a good per cent, of profit. If we make, save and apply all the manure possible and yet are not able to make your land fertile, it is evident then that we are farming; too much land. We can only keep stock in pro portion to the amount of crops we raise, and If we are farming a consider able acreage and only securing a small yield, we can not, of course, keep a numlierof stock that the farm would seem to Indicate. We are, then, scattering our work. Attempting too much, and in conse quence fail to make a success. If we can only secure ten bushels tif wheat, twenty of corn or oats, we are paying a high price for them. But if wo can secure thirty bushel of wheat, seventy of corn, and fifty or sixty of oats, we fan realize aJjnd-Mmo profit. and to a great extent it is attempting too mm n that gives us this small yield. Decrease the acreage one-half or more, if necessary. Have whatever soil we cultivate rich; this it the real founda tion. If we can secure this, thorough preparation and clean cultivation will do the rest The last two are valuable aids, but in order to secure the best yields the first is essentially necessary. And to do this manure well as you go; securing of large crops even on a smaller acreage will enable you to in crease the number of stock you caa keep, and with care in saving aud ap plying we can gradually increase the acreage of rich soil. Better either seed down Ut grass and use as a pas ture, or let remain uucultivated, what ever acreage you can not properly manure, rather than scatter the work over a large acreage. The cost of pre paring the land, procuring seed, plant ing and cultivating is about the same if the work is properly done, whether the land is rich or poor, and whether we secure a large yield or a poor one, and the difference iu the cost of harvesting and putting away or marketing is really the only difference in the cost of secur ing a large yield from rich soil or a light one from poor, while the risks of securing a profitable crop from a rich soil is considerable less than even making expenses with a poor one. And this applies to all crops that are raised upon the farm. If the soil is not naturally rich, make it so by the application of well-rotted manure, using clover or some other gTeen crop as a fertilizer. Decrease the acreage to what you can make rich. When our profits at best are small, the plan of improving is to increase the yield as much as possible. The three essentials of a large yield are a good, rich soil carefully prepared, good seed carefully planted and thor ough cultivation. But, in order to make the last two most effective, we must have the first A". J. Shepherd, in De Moines (la.) Leader. BOWSER BUYS DRY-GOODS, He Save five Dollera, But FelU to win His Wire' Approval. Some weeks ago 1 referred to M Bowser's liberality in the matter of pin money. He began in the most liberal manner, but ended with the declara tion: "See here, Mrs. Bowser, this is all nonsense! We are one. What be longs to me belongs to you. This (riv ing you a certain sum of money every week makes it appear as if you were a servant When you want money take it out of my wallet If you can't find the wallet, just mention the sum you want- "But, Mr. Bowser I- "No buts about it! You are going to say you hate to be obliged to ask me for money I, your own husband! When a wife gets as sensitive as that she should be obliged Ut go barefooted for three months in winter!" llet the matter drop for a few days, but one day when I wanted a dollar to buy some notions 1 went to Mr. Bowser's coat, which was hanging or? the hall-tree for the moment, and took out the family wallet No, I didn't, either. It wasn't there. I decided to wait awhile, and that night, when Mr. Bowser was sound asleep and blowing his fog-horn, I got up U Wk for his wallet It couldn't be found. All the money he had about him was one poor, old lonesome nickel. I was wondering whether half of that belonged to me or not, when the fog-horn ceased to toot and Mr. Bowser rose up in bed and shouted: " hat in blanket blazes doing with my clothes?" are you "I wanted the family wallet !" "Oh! you did! Y'ou get up at mid night to rob your husband, do you?" But half the money is mine." 'Mrs. Bowser, you drop that coat and jump into this bed as quick as Heaven will let you, and if I ever catch you trying to rob me again I'll apply for a divorce within an hour!" When ho thought I was asleep he slipped out of bed and took the wallet from under the dresser, where he had carefully hidden it, and inspected the contents to see if any thing was gone 1 had firmly made up my mind nefer to ask him for a cent, but next day he seemed so good-natured that I ventured to say: "Thei-o aro several little things I badly need, and as I am going down town this afternoon I'd better boy them." 'Certainly my love. Will a five tlof". "Oh; yes." '' "All right here it . If five isn't enough take ten." - I took five and I was just making oat a list of the articles which I proposed to buy when Mr. Bowser came in with a bill in his hand and said: "Here's the shade tree man after hla. pay. You may give me that five and I'll give you three silver dollars." An hour later he sent up a dollar's worth of strawberries accompanied by a note asking me to pay for them, and so I got down town with only two dol lars In my pocket. I made them tro a far as possible, and was rather proud of my purchases when I got home. I had them spread out on the table in the sitting-room when Mr. Bowser came rushing in with: "Say! that colored man is through cleaning up the alley, and I can't make change with him. Haven't you gots dollar and a half of that money?' "Why, no!" "Nor a dollar?" - a "I haven't a penny left" 3 "What! Squandered every cent of that money ? That's jut a I expected! I was told when I married you that I'tt bring np in the poor-house inside ol ten yeans, and I bl-in to beJUtre it was-v a true prediction!" "But, Mr. Bowser, tou only gave me twodol ." He was gone before I had flniehett the sentence, and during all the even ing he hadn't a word to say. I think he was eonscience-strickeu, however, for next day be' said: "Mrs. Bowser, you have the look of a child, and you don't know the villainy of this world any more than a child seven years old. What I object to is the way these dry goods clerks swindle you. They take every advantage of your greenness, and when they cheat you they rob me." "But have I been cheated?" ' "Have you! What did yon ever boy that you were not cheated? Mrs. Bowser, you are no more fit to walk in to a dry goods store with a ten dollar bill in your purse than our old cat is to judge of a lawn-mower! After this I will do the buying. Is any thing needed just now?" "Why, baby ought to have some new dresses, and we need some table-linen." "Very well; I'll see to it." 1 I knew about what would happen. He slipped off early next morning and was home by ten o'clock with a baek load of dry goods. "Dresses for the baby," he observed, as he untied the package. "What do you think of this and this and this? Got ten per cent off on each pattern and I saw to it that the meas ure was fulL" He held up seven yards of alpaca, a pattern in green worsted, a third in striped summer silk, fourth in second mourning calico, the fifth and last in satin, which was as stiff as a Brussels carpet." "Mr. Bowser, what on earth have you!" "And here's stockings for him red. white, blue, green, orange, terra cotti and black. 1 don't propose that any young'un of my shall go barefoot" "And here's three green tablecloths and two dozen red napkins to match, i i. -i aim niiiiuisruu uun,r "N nothing!" xk "Didn't I get enough?" "But we can't use these things not a single article!" He looked at me in a wild-eyed way for half a minute, and then sailed the green tablecloths and red napkins through the air into the parlor and said: "That's the last time you can make a fool of me! Don't never ask me to do any more trading for you while we live together, for I wouldn't do it to save your neck! I've saved at least five 'dollars over what you could have done, and yet you find fanlt and show your insane jealousy!" Detroit Fn Fress. . THE NATION'S WEALTH. ! Marvelotu Material Progrmie of the pie of the United State. "The wealth of the United States is phenomenal. In 1880 it was valued at 43,642,000,000; more than enough to buy the Russian and Turkish empires, the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Denmark and Italy, together with Aus tralia, South Africa and all vt South. America lands, mines, cities, p.'i!aee ships, flocks, herds, jewels, money, thrones, scepters, diadems and all ih entire possession of 177,000,000 pcoplev Great Britain is by far the richest na tion of the old world, and our wealth, exceeds hers by 76,O00,0OO. Th most remarkable point of this is that European wealth represents the accu mulations of centuries, while the great part of ours has been created in twenty years. In 18G0 our wealth was valued t $16,160,000,000. In 1H80 it had in creased 170 per cent During that leriod a million producers were de stroyed by war, and not only were twe great armies withdrawn from pro-. dnctive occupations, but they devoted marvelous energy aud ingenuity to the work of destruction. Moreover, dur ing the same period slaves, whose value was estimated in 1800 at f 1,250, 000,000, disappeared from the assets of the Nation. But notwithstanding all thiR, our wealth during these twenty years increased 127,482,000.000 110, 000, 000. 000 more than the entire wealth of Russia, to be divided between 80,- 000,000. From Dr. Strong" "Our Country." Some trickster inserted the letter S into a bill pending in the Illinois; Legislature. If the trick had not bee a discovered it would have been illegal to sell "spools" on race tracks in that State.
