CHILDREN'S CORNER. Swing Song. Exchange. Swing, swinr! sin?, sing! here's my Throne and I am a Kin:; Swing, sin-; ! swins; sing ! Farewell, Earth, f r I am on the Ming! Low, high, here I fly, Like a bird through sunny sky! Free, free, oyer the lea, Over the mountain, over the sea! Up, down, ud and down, Which is the way to London town! Where, where ! Up in the air ! Close your eyes and now you are there I Soon, soon, afternoon, Over the sunset, over the mooi Far, far, over all bar, Sweeping on from star to star! No, no! low, low! Sweeping daisies with my toe. Low, low, to and fro, Slow slow slow slow. often she had wished she could take Urns motion, which; feeing transmitted one home to play with! She crept out through the fin' thread, moves the j w Grandmother's Curtains. Ever so many years ago there was a little girl named Polly who lived on a beautiful farm where there were plenty of cows and pigs and chicken.-;,, and apple trees and daisies. Polly's grandmother lived in the town, in an old house, older than you ever saw, maybe, for it had been built more than two hundred years. It had the great lireplaee and chim ney that used to be the fashion, and a great square parlor, with a wonderful nre-board: it had a pantry where there were sure to be p es and seed-cookies, go when you would, and it had, best of all, the nice, sunny 'keeping room," with deep-seated windows, where a little girl could play house all day, and with grandmother's own bed in the corner, hidden by great, llowing chint'. eurta;ns that reached from, the tester to the floor. Those curtains were Polly's- never fail ng delight, for they were covered with bunches of roses, and little boy angels sitting on clouds and playing their harps. Once a week, and often twice, the farm horse was harnessed up, and Polly and her mother went to see grandma. But Polly always felt that she never sta ed long enough, .she would just have started house keeping in the window, perhaps, or have just reached the middle of a cooky, or have just caught the kitten, when her fath er would come in and say his business was done, and they had better get home before dark. "Oh, mother, do let me stay all night!" was Polly's regular request, but she nevjer did stay 1 11 one particu lar winter afternoon, when it grew -Where's Polly?" asked her father, when he came in to hurry them off. "Where's Polly?" asked her mother, getting the little shawl ana hood all ready. "Why, here she is on mv bed!" ex cla'med grandma, as she went behind the curtains, "and she's fast asleep! It's cruel to wake the lamb up. Do let her stay for once. Ann." Mother came to look, and smiled a little as she not ced a twitch in the eyelids, but it was snowing out of doors, and she thought, maybe, on the whole, Folly had better stay; so she sa:d, cheerfully: "Very well, we'll leave her, and her father can come for her to-morrow night." bo they went, and no sooner had the wagon fairly started than there was a shout., and a great peal of laughing, and a rush, as Tolly jumped off the bed and flew to her grandmother to give her a hug. "You're a little rogue 1" said grand ma, giving her a little shake and a big kiss. "May I have jell for supper?" said Polly. Of course she had it, and everything else she wanted, and after supper grandmother held her in her lap, and told her an old fairy story about "Slee, Bet and Polly." "Was I named after that Polly?" asked the little girl. No; you were named after your great-grandmother on your father's side, Polly Rogers. I used to know her." Polly sat still and wondered how many Pollys there had ever been, until her little head began to nod. Then grandma undressed her, and lent her one of her own n:ght gowns 1o sleep in, and Polly sank down in the great feather-bed, and knew no more till morning. When she awoke, there were all the little angels looking at her, and the sun was shining in, and she could hear grandma in the kitchen. In a minute and a half Polly was there too, watch ing the biscuits in the tin baker before the fire. After breakfast she had a splendid time. In the first place, she went up to the garret with grandma after the quilting-frame, and she hid inside the old clock for as much as five minutes, just for fun, and got a whole handful of dried peppermint to nibble. Then, wi en they came down, while frandma got her quilt in, Polly kept ouse in the small window, and had all the pieces of a broken saucer for dishes. But by-and-by she moved to another house, and where do you suppose it was? Under the great flower-basket quilt that was st: etched upon the frame, and you haven't an idea, unless you have tried it. what a lovely house that makes. There Polly gathered her dishes, and the cat and a rag baby, and was happy as a queen. Mrs. Clark and Miss Avery came in presently with ther thimbles to help grandma get her quilt out. and they all three talked and stitched, and talked and stitched, quite forgetting little Polly down at the r feet. For a long t:me .-he watched the pretty- diamonds, as they appeared, one after another, in th3 roof of her hou-e, and when she tired of that, why, there were Miss Averv's sharp scisUors on the floor, that had been dropped and never missed. Now Pol ly's mother hardly ever let her take scissors, because she wasn't qu t2 five ,-et, and m'ght do misc-h'ef. But th's iime there was nobody to say "Xo; no!" Those dear little boy-angels! How from under the qulting frame, ami no one noticed, for they were- very busy talking about how to wash feather At last there came a moment when Miss Avery missed her scissor.-., and pushed her chair Lack to look for them. "Where can they be ?" she-.-a d, and then she exclaimed: "Vvhv, massy ,-akes! that- little Polly's got hold of 'em, and. I do believe gshe's in! mas chief!" "You little tvke!" said grandma, getting up as quick as she could, and both the lad es ran to the- spot. Polly had ust iin. shed cutt.ng out the sec ond angel, and there they lav sm.ling in her lap. "Your nice chintz curta'nsi"" crd Mrs. Clark. "Whv. vou ain't hadi'em but a year. Miss Garner!" "She's cut 'em zig-zag," said' Miss Avery, examining the holes hoplessly. "You little tyke!" repeated grand ma, and she really did not knew what else to saw The dear little angels were- taken away from Polly, who almost cried to part from them, and Mrs. Clark and Miss Avery went to work laying pieces under and darning down, until at last, after a couple of hours you wouldn't have known, unless you looked1 twice; that the little winged boys had! ever lett their clouds. "I know they wanted to- oome button. Much anansement can be had by putting the name of the peopl&'in the compartments, and then seeing of which one the c-xpyBr,-menter is think ing. I A New Mexican Sunset. S. Fiomno Heed in Cincinuati Xmmercial Gazette Ihe Eastern weather men often rc port disturbances originating Rocky Mountains. s. In and beyond the surrounding ruountrtMiSi near and far. are the many caves-: of iEoliis. the laboratories of nature's electricity, the arsenals of the celestial artillery, and the peaks which 3ake the sym pathetic clouds give down. Often the j still air is suddenly surprised by a t breeze from some unexpected quarter, 'j as if some mountain god of the winds had awaked. And it :ay cease as: suddenly, and as suddeoJy may come from another quarter. From the Santa Fe 'Sa-sin may be seen in the mountain panorama several (ist net showers at onoe, with clear skv between. Often thai setting sun displays several rainbows at once, with suggestions of more": Last week a rainbow, springing fnv:B the moun tain top, with a breadth more like a tower, had an illumiuatVsa more like a column of tire than the- usual rain bow faintnes-. But this was rare even live-1 fE" this wonderful skv. While all is with me and plav w.th me,'' so, d Pol ly, when she told her mother all about it that night on her return to the farm: Well, they d d come to live w.th her at last, but it was not t 11 runny years after, when the dear grandmother had', gone to live am ng the real angels.- Then the chintz curtains wore taken down and folded away. And. now they belong to Polly, who sometimes takes them from their box and looks at them, and feels like a little girl again. Trades For American. Hoys.. St. Nicholas. The track's in our country,, of late- years, have almost been monopolized. I by loroigners. Ine American boy, however, when, he does take a trade,, goes straight on to the top of the lad tier. It seems as if our boys, would) rather be fourth rate lawyers or phy sicians than earn their living by work ing; w.th their hands. Only the othor day I rjad in a New York new.-paper of a young lawyer in a distant c ty, whom I knew some years a.-o when I resided in that sect on of the country,, who literally starved to death.. He made scarcely any money, was too. proud to tell of h:s want, lived as long as be could on crackers and water, and was found one day in his office, dead from lack of nourishment. He should never have entered the- legal profes sion, for he had no ab 1 ty :n that, di rection. As a farmer or a mechanic he-might have lived a long, useful and successful l.fe. No boy. of course, should enter a trader unless bm feels himself fitted for it; but, on the other hand, he should not, it seems to me, let the false pride aga'nst niaaual la bor, which now preva Is to sneh w tie extent in our couatry. prevent him from endeavoring to do better work w.th his hands than in Wis inmost thoughts he knows he can, do with h s head. Oyster- Farmings Harper's- Young People. In addition to. natural oyster beds there are many "oyster farms," where these dePcious moilusks are regularly cultivated. !-takes are dr.ven in the mud .n shallow water, and branches of trees, rough boards, or stones are placed between, them for the baby oys ters to fasten themselves to. vv nen the nursery is ready several boat-loads of oysters are dropped near the spot. They increase and grow rapidly, being ready for the table in from two to three years. Oysters are generally lished w'th a dredge. As this instrument is drag ged over the bed the teeth pull up the oysters, both large and small, from their rest ng place. Those that are too young for market are thrown back into" the water, and if they fall on a suitable surface they will attach them selves and continue to grow. Many of them, however, s'nk in the mud and are snil'o?ated. The process of dredging 's also des tructive to the oysters wheh remain on the bed, as they are roughly torn from each other and dragged into the mud. Here they cannot open the r valves w thout adm . tt ng the mud, and this is certa n death to the oyster. Oysters are h:ghly esteemed for food on "account of their delicious flavor, and the demand for them is constant ly increasing. 'I his leads to excess ive fishing of the oyster beds, and in many places the beds yield a much smaller supply than formerly. Such is the case with many of the European oyster beds. The French government has been obliged to take control of its shores and to enforce certain laws with regard to fishing them. Xlie Toll -Tale. With the aid of a pair of compasses or pencil and a bit of string, carefully draw two concentric half-circles; that from the same center, and one serene over the valley, the? lightning mav be g ving grand shiows in the mountains. Somet'mes a diffusing light cloud between gives ihe effect of a. general ill :m in at on. Who can lonee.ve, without having ' seen it, the scene in wn eh the siin.i baring set from a great bank of sin-j gaiariy leaden cloud- through a streak of clear sky at the hor zon. which it changed to a brilliant golden, then I from behind the mountain, lighted up tke edges of the leaden clouds to a bright silver. th:n gradually changed th s to a fire red. strangely contrasting ; with the growing bla kivthis display 1 reaching far toward the zenith, and wide in the horizon! Meanwhile the election from the wess illumined. i several distinct showers in the south ! to a golden ra n, and gave-a red color to light clouds at the zenith and in the east. And while all this gorgeous show ; was go ng on in the west, south and east, a black cloud w.th vivid light- I ning was spreading over all the north, its western edge reddened with the i general illumination. And so lasting j was this reflect on that when the thun der-cloud brought a shower into the valley, the color was as .si. a golden mist. attention Tori lire at Sing Sing Exchange. At this moment the everybody was attracted .by the. keep er, who was actually smiling. It, was the first I me his featu es had relaxed; during the day, and the erowd gath-, ered around h m. "I'm going to show you a. little - in vention of my own," he said, pleas antly, "which has been adopted! all ; over" the country. I suppose you know that the cr.minals often get ugly. The place that harbors more than liftaen bandied of .New York's . worst scum, must nccessar ly have a number- of ; hard characters to deal; w th. Mien here get resell ous, ill-tempered and unmanageable pretty often. In far mer years they used the lash, the paddle the douche, and often calmed men; by putting them into the- black-rooms.. Ihe fiercest spirts are-quelled by im,- prisonment in a dungeon. Ihe felT Davis on a Sour Apple-Ijsse, behest r'Argua Avffew days ago we sa.WTn" the' Leav enworth T.mes a cl prnng' from an eastern paper living the authorship of We'll hang Jeff Davis on e sour apple iree, to a Leavenworth boy. KfiO wine! hat GeorgoA- Huron, now a prominent at torney in Topeka, formerly pnabate nidge of this couutv, was the ' author. we senfl him the clipping aadu received I e- -f-.7 - i Topjcka Kan.. May 7, 18a3: LoW. i RoBisseN, Editor Argus Dear sir?: In answer to yours of the iOtb-'ult., in ; closing-'clipping relating to authorship of the ilaeof the "John Brown Body" song We'll hang Jeff Davis on a sour "applo-tiree. ! As we t;o marching on, have to'say that while I do-Knot re- gard the athorship as important to the world as- even that of '-Beautiful Snow." yo. since you have r-skied nae. I mut-:contradiet the statement thai they originated with a Leavenworth etc any other newsboy. The vsrse - "Was tirst-sungby myself, at the time o.isol-d'-sr inbrave old Jimmy Shields'- 4i vijion in tb Shenandoah valley, . near New Market, Va., in the spring of 1862. We-were at the time pushing "Stonewall Jackson" up the Taliey to Harrisburg, had cheered the weariness of an all-night march 'through rarin ancl'i mud;, singing "John Brown's Bcdy'r until the words seemed a3-badly worn ; out as the tired troopsi Cmr brigade had halted at the roatisiie and were hasrHy boiling coffee for their scant breakfast, while in the -jolumn still trampling bv a tired sol and there wearily countinued frain: While his iul goes marching on. When-; suddenly the old dity heard --vhea a boy about A siclmonkey on a sour anrJe tree, Cameiinto my mind, and I remarked to' my ohum, "Let us give John Brown a rest" He said, "how will yo:i do it!1." 1 nepl ed singing: We'll hawx .leff Davis on a sour apple tree. Whan:rapidly as sound could.: travel the words were caught up. and in a few .- anoments Shields' division-: "was singing them. The-Graph'c is not the first to characterize-the lines as "coarse and-! half brut 3th ' for after his li;tle episade- in skirts, while Jeff Davis andifamily were-guests of the nation at Fortress Monroe I remember to have i seen a published copy of a letter frojn Mrs. Davt3 in wh.ch she complaino-Jrbittse-r-ly o. the brutality of the Yankee sol diers,, who had taught her youngest child! (I think she called him "little Jeff"") to "sing the coarse wordsy"' and said the little innocent neves: .seemed so happy as when singing: We'll nanir Jeff Davis ou a tour apple in-ee of;.-; ia feh neighborhood of his --fattier' s celii At this d stance it not snir prisimg that the line grates harshly on fastidious ears, but then it -was not constructed for use in adrawiiig-rcsm. Iaifact, there was no special ' thought iniits construction: it was eac of those things which simply drops into a cache and fits, and if the thousands- .ofr sol diers who on the weary march were invigorated by the impassioned; words are not ashamed for bav ng sung them neither am I ashamed for having originated them. Truly youcs, G. A. Hi uox. Two Ugbtmng Strokes. ie'r here the- re- IJ iiaid g The Chillaaos. Pbfladellipla Press. The Chillanos are -the Irtsfomen of South America quick, keen, witty. w. lei- i impulsive and reckless. Many of the is. about half an inch with'n the other. The size of the design makes but little difference, but the result is more easi ly seen if the diagram is as large as convenient. Divide this double half circle into a number of compartments, and in each place a letter of the alpha bet, a numeral or a name, as the fan cy may d ctate, the object be ng that there shall be no possible mistak ng of one compartment for another, hule straight 1 nes from each compartment to the common center. Now take a small button a shoe-button is as good as ahy and fasten a b t of. fine silk thread about eight inches long to it, making a knot in each end of the thread. Now, let one of the party take the thread by the end and hold it so far above the figure that the button shall hang about an inch and a half above the paper. Let him fix his mind very firmly upon one of the compart ments and then close his eyes. Very soon the button will develop a pendulum-like motion, and before long, gen erally in about three minutes, it w 11 beg n to move toward the compart ment of wh ch the holder is t!i nking. It rea!ly seems, at the lir-t glance. that the button itself is influenced by the uneonsc'ous exertion of will on the part of the experimenter. But close nvestg-tion will reveal the fact that the hand moves with a slight trem- est case we ever had, turned, to a lamb after twenty-five days' imprisonment, without a gleam of light, in a blank cell. All that is settled now, however by my little invention.. We don t have to use the black-cells, or anything else, and the men are so, thoroughly scared by what I call my 'weigh ng machine' that they no longer tight and rebel." He then showed it. t us. If a convict becomes desperate at ill-treatnaent, overwork, or a realization of the aw ful duration of a twenty-years' sen tence, he is dragged into the keeper's room and a pair of iron handcuffs are screwed t'ghtly about his wrists. Then the chain which connects the two handcuffs is hooked to a pully and the man's ban Is are drawn up until he is almost lifted fram the floor. Here he hangs against the wall until Irs spirit is subdued. The wall was smeared with the stains of blood from the wrists of the poor wretches who had hung there! "It's a daisy," said the keeper, ra diantly: "the toughest man in the whole jail has never been able to stand it more than three-quarters of a min ute. Itcuies rheumatism, blindness and all other ills that criminals are heir to." ''It must be torture." "Well, rather. It stops the circula tion of the blood yon know." And he still smiled as he stood with his hand on the pulley, -while the crowd wandered away. Its a great thing to have a clear idea of the numerous. A Rich Islander. The business of the little cluster of islands which lie in the Pacific oceaa just off the southwest coast of Pata gonia is sheep-raising and selling, and is nearly all in the hands of one man. Mr. Keir by name, who is the govern or. He went there many years ago as a poor man, and is now worth more than $5,0 J0,00. There are no bashes or trees of any kind on the islands, and the entire surface is covered with a bed of peat many- good quality. There is sufficient fuel to supply the world for an indefinite length of time. Covering the peat is a thick growth of short, but very nutrit- when the leading families of Chili .are descend- j ents of Irish ancestry. Barney O'Hig- gins was the Liberator and the first j dictator of Chili, the Washington of I this country, and Patrick Lynch was the commanding general ia the late war with Peru. Patricio McGarry is a prominent merchant in Sant'ago, and ; Miguel (Michael) O'Herne. one of the j conspicuous statesmen. The O's and ! Macs are frequently seen in newspaper j articles, andi when combined with I Spanish surnames look very funny. They w.U fight at the drop of the hat. j with anybody, for any cause and ! against any dds, and are always anx ious for somebody to stcsp on the tails of their coats. They make splend d soldiers, are fond of pomp and parade and have no sense of fear, as the late war with Peru demonstrated, in which a regiment of Chilians was always good for doubb or trebel its number of the enemy. They love a hand-to hand fight, it being their habit in war to capture-everything by charge, drop ping tiheir muskets and using ther "machetas," or cursed knives, which are alwavs carried in war or peace. The Ch llano does not fight with his fist, or a club, or a revolver, but al wavs with h's kn'fe, and he generally killfe by throat cutting, as the Italian stabs with a st'lelto. Their wit is proverbial. Chili is the only country in t-auth America where comic papers are-published, and these contain cartoons and witicisms that would do crcd t to any country. Dur ing the struggle between the church and liberal party, the priests and monks are objects of much ridicule, and the printshops are full of pictures representing the devotees of the church and the fathers in all sorts of comical predicaments. Rev. Sam Jones on Darwinism. Louisville Couirler-Journal. Good character is the immortal part of man. While we lay down our bod ies as a shool-boy lays aside his books. Atiavantay nnttivoa tho niftiviii'iU , f nroll feet tlrick and of j rounded( and complete. When I speak to you af Cornelius, i say to you that he was a heathen. When I look at this h&athen I am ashamed of myself and everv other man that walks the ious. grass, upon wn;cn tne sneep ,.,k in tho nnintuip hkw nf th; thrive wonderfully well. The number j nir,eteenth centurv, with its capacity of sheep on the islands is about 40(,- , for the highest keights and deepest 000. These islands are very high, the , ahs T find nn man who can num. hills rising many hundreds of feet, and i are covered with points of sharp rocks that somet mes rise 200 or '600 feet above the surfitr-e of the peat. It rains i nearly every !ay in the year, and as j pare with (Jornetiius. l iook at him and reverse the Darwin theory. If Cornelius was a sample of what men were, then w are going back to mon keys. Some of us have nearly reached the peat is water soaked, the water tnat 'pojnt already, and if we could get stands in pools everywhere. It seems to be unable to run down the hills and the hilltops are nearly as wet as. the valleys. Sedan liohmc, bo;n of ashlar's wife on the iield of Sedan so.m aider the battlti, has just been adm. tied to the mil tarv school at We lbui:g Germany. a little more nan would set ua up. and a few tails it. James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California, died at his, home nea.r Placeryille. He was 74 yars old, and died a poverty-sir ic ken and dis appointed m.a.u4 N. V. TriDune. The fact tbatHvViio lightning strokes', ; one of which fsllion the site chosen fop G:n. Grant's-tom3 in the Riverside i Park, and ' the- other at McGregor' wi ere his body- lay. should have occa sioned scarcely any comment, shows the extent of the advance made in ap pre hension of mam's relations to na- tun and the virtual d sappearance of one of the most prevalent and persist ent of suppositions. To-day these oc eurt ence are simply regarded as co incit lences; strange, perhaps, but per fect! y natural, andi josse -sing no hu man signiticance: But for ages man k nd, and even the most highly civil ized races;- firmly believed that the death s of great men were marked by pertM rbations in- nature. The history of rel gion shows that in regard to the founds 3rs of creeds this belief was uni versal, and 'throughout the history of pagan Rome prodigies were supposed to atte nd the -accession and death of rulers. Shskspeare has faithfully rep resents d the feeliag of that period when h e makes -an old Roman say: The he avens themselves blaze forth the death ot princes. And th e reverential credulity of the age find s expression in the assertion: It is t he partrct men to fear and tremble When fi he most -misrhtY gods, by tokens, send Such dr eadful heralds to astonish us. During t he rep-.tfclia-o' Rome the Sen ate itsell undertook to interpret such prodigies 5, and the augurs had class ified ligh tning strokes into eleven cat egories, :ach cf'Wlr had its special applieatii in ancks gnilicancc. Nor die I the belief, in portents, and especially in th?-oociiBrcnce of convul s ons of n attire upon; tbe death of great men. ceas e with pagan sm. The nat ural tende -ncy t? .associate earthly im portance 1 vith some-special relation to the cosma s prou'dfow strong for the renaissance to -extirpate, and even long after sciencer- hatt removed the foundat on from the jpreva ling pop ular super stitiois this one survived. That it did so, however, is certainly due quite a s much to the occurrence of co.ncidances ;x to tiie inherent force of popular eredaiSty. In the infinite variety of n aturalphenomena of course it must ha pperc-n sometimes that re markable st onus or other convulsions coincide wilh the deaths of great men. In such Cases the -coincidence alone is remembered: and tho- great majority of ca-es in whieL.Hothing happens are ignored. And 30 it is possible to find many curious instances of such events, most of which have -been noted by his torians deprecaiingly,. yet with" that touch of superstition, or feeling for the unseen, whichuis otpart of human nature. Down into comparatively modern t'mes this kind of coincidence has been remarked. . Thus, on the death of Cromwell, a g?eatistorni swept over England, a storzsiu commemorated by Waller in the lines: Heaven his great seul'dbes claim In storms, as !otltas h.ts immortal fame. .surprised it whn garrisoned 'by only iightv men. Of course, Xiur holding (Gibraltar is an arrangement aboHt as pleasant for Spain as it would be t England to sec a French garrison; in' full possession of Dover Castle andi fortifying impregnable galleries- itt I Shake-peare's Cliff, beneath the pro tection of which all manner --of - smugr j gSers might find safety, wber-ears any' rash revenue cutter venturing within- range would be forthwith tired at and! probably sunk. No wonder that Spain1 would again reclaim this heaven-bu.lt. bulwark of her shores. An Elegant Bath-IIouse. ' - AS&ntlc Cily Cor. Baltimore Sun. A wealthy land-owner here 'a 'few-' seasons back conceived the idea that the then prevalent style of bath-house -(i. e.. dressing-houses) was barbarous, and that if something comfortable and convenient were provided the public -would appreciate it and pa r miz-e .the-' enterprise liberally. Before the.'pro-'-jeetor finished it" he added so many improvements that his investment ab sorbed some $10,000. Finished it.; stood a model of beauty, consisting of-reception-room, register and safes for valuables of bathers, shower-baths, a well-furnished reading-room for-'da-dies, smoking and card-rrt.-sis forr gentlemen, a ad spacious disrohirig rcoros, with a furnishment noticeably perfect in detail. All this was erected , right down at the water's edge, where -any spring storm might destroy it tin: itc--wi!d embrace. The old- fogies smiled, shook their heads like a balky horse, and if they d'dn't say the in-i vestor was crazy, they looked as though they thought he wasn't right. Prior to th's the average bath-houee- -wa3 about as crude a thing as sne could imagine. Since then the bath-hctise- settlement of Atlantic City is a i thing of beauty, comfort, and c'onve--nisnce-. The noticeable particular, however, is the immense red umbrella u sod it tfj s establishment. In front : of the building a bulwark has been . erected So stay the ravages of the - surf,. whih at high tide reaches close tc the' building. Thus has been filled ? in with fine whiSc-beach sy.ncl, and here -dtrrng all hours- of tie day (but paT--ticularliy bathing t mie fifty to a hun dred of these grsat resi sv nshades. held ereet by the longrpoirntedl handles being -sunk in the sand, give! color to the otherwi monotonous scene. Accompanying: eah umbrella dsa niat'i off carpet andi a board about! eightesni inches widie;. te ut to a point at. onconi- This pushed into the sandi a': an- angle ts suift forms a resting plaee flour the back; th carpet is toisit. on. Th brilliantrcGilf r, the lounging attitudes of tho lad. s and children,, the swashing orfthe- 1 ireakers against the wlharf, thnowinjj the spray high-iatO'tfae- air. mkcit a scene that.isnot smii: f(rgotto?ii A small.' charge is ciade-ftr the privilia 'e of ;the parlors ana i nti-sse oeacn, an payineat securing! Siitiamtire dayv. icoutrements one the privilege, fev Sifch a storm lashed! the- desolate plat eau of St. Helena, and wrecked the plantations about Longwood when Na poleon breathed his last, and it is re corded that a fa-vorite fcree under which the de id Emperer had been wont to sit was e ther struck, by Lightning or pros trated by the, winds at the moment ( when, muttering. icU d armct he passed away. . CoincidencesiSucbjasthese have often occurred, but. it is only recently that their triiechuriiicter has been rec ognized. Not: many generations ago the two lightning-strokes at Riversidia Park and Munt MeGrezor wouldfi have caused! a widespread sensation, and people with, blanched cheeks andi fear-haunted ayes, would have whia pered to ,one- another their fanciful ideas as toiihe- supernatural meaning of the occurrence, and would have eag erly discu.isod its supposed bearing up on the career or- the ultimate fate af the great departed. Now the wonliS has passediheyond such illusions, jtiri coincidences, however seeming stra"ji have lost their mysterious aspect. . The Strength or Gibraltar. From Bclar avla. French and Spanish troops, 40,ty0l In number,. Sor four long years.from June. 1779. .till February, 1783, beleagjiered the fortress of Gibraltar, then htAd by Gea. Ebot. with a garrison oil 7,000 men. The enemy erected bakeries righttac-Boss the sandy isthmus, while in the-bay thev had forty-sevan ships.' of thp lfae and ten "battering ships," besides, eountless le-ser crafts. One night Rock narrowly escaped bein; taken, by surprise. A goatherd having undertaken to guide the Spaniards by a path then-unknown to tho Englisj, 500 troops followed him, one dark n'ghtt. and crept s lently tot a hollow called Silleta, or little cehair. nd theneo to the signal station, wHere they slew the guard. There 'they awaited re-inforcements from below? these, however, were delated, and th garrison meanwhile were arorused, and, sallying forth, drov back Die i -st ymie s. The Silleta was. immediaUlgr ) linen up ana tne paon utierij- as troyed and made accessible, aad Ipa siege wore on through weary ;non&s At last a furious general atty.ck hm: met by an incessant, tire of' rei,hc t balls on the enemy's fleet ,000 wei-e thrown in one day bill at lengtt, tfje battering ships took: lire, as owing to the thickness of their timbers, t as. 'red hot balls sank cieog. into the wood.-and could not be dislodged. The.- 9cene that ensued isi the. darkness that terrible night must have bee, lawful indeed: and so -fearful were th groas and shrieks, of the wounded vpd dying that brave. Englishmen forbo.na to" let their foe perish in the fumes and ventured ti their rescue, thy marine brigade bainsf foremost in iis work of mercy, which added fresh 'laureis to their 'do'cory. It was sai that in this A WtaAter M Organ. . ir Lutrt Letter. That organ im the gseat Mormon ieaupht at Salt: by ake has 2,704 pipes sundia7 stops. Sic .me of the pipes are &f fftt long audi, large enough to-i ad mit the bodies, of three men. The tow.ers that raaa h on either s'de are-48 ;feet fcigh, withi a niche left between thenn lor theegy ddess of music. This immense torap e of music, which is Pnearly as liirgr as a cottage. is alabo- naitely earvneL-r y hand. I is alm'stt impossible to estimate the cost of it?, as it was built in early days, wheiofiii lighting was done by ox teams a:rosss the plains, and many of the workmein only received provisions for their tab)? r. But they are a people who will, an t be outdone, and when the Ep'sciirni 1 Church built their, beau tiful orgaoii is ere the Mormons afcance began toiuif prove theirs, which w as all show airdi .' framework, and . have al ready ex-ps-i ded igl.OOO on it. Sitting in the va'sft auditorium, 200 feet long by loO feels wide, where the acoustic's are so yfl-rf ect you can hear a; pin. drop from oa end to the other, a mid the cool arucl silence and. .solemnity of the vast asou'phitheater for it is .circular im its foo-mation with the melodious, rythnaical, silver-toned strains ..of thaft" powerful organ, under the master band, one is -exalted for the tisie be-.ag and feels a;, I imagine he will! when broiht face to.. face with rise Great Macerl When listening to the graad oft story (ifn D) by Baptiste,. I im agined I knew what Dante's-Infcrno wa; pandrmonium seemed 1st Ickose, w'jen a low- voice,. in a. minor strain bagan to sing, and one -wuW only I 'i nk oi thf; wail of a lost soul, and the' tears mbjddcn start so. sad, so iweetv so far away is this voice,, which, after all, is.no voice at aJU hat only the 3ffect of the organ,. Then comes a bfirst cf melody, like the halleluiah chorus from a thousand seraphiws and cbarubi-jQS The effect; as the Come. lir.is March, by Mendelssohn, on this sruperb organ, played! by this brilliant 'performer, oan he mors- easily im agine! than described,. Nothing Less Than a fienpral. Miaria Mayo,is.saidito have refused mope than, at hundred suitors before she accepted GeneiwJ Winfield Scott, who courted;ber;-when he was a mem ber of the Richmond bar, as Mr. Scott. After entering the. army he continued his addresses, and was refused success ively as Capta n Scott and Colonel! Scott,, and, it was smly as General ScoAt the victorious, bftra of Lundy's Lancv that he at last won the hand of uhe much admired belle. Mr. William Henry HaxalL of Richmond, reffttea that on one occasion he visited Mrs. Scott soon, after one of her trips ta Europe, He went in the evening at & o'clock, and after some time, wien h thought he-had paid a calA sufficiently long, he slyly looked at his w.atch, and to his amazement fouud it was 1 engagement the Spaniards los 3,000 ; o'clock. On. his apoloizijg for the merit "while the garr son had only six tee killed, and the dsijpage done ta tire fortress was repaired in a few .hours. A few days later a formidable length of h:s visit Mrs. Sott assured h'm she never retired bofore 1 or 2 o'clock, but she had no idea it was so late. Mr. Haxall beiag one of tho most English fleet came t, the riiief of the ! agreeable gentlemen sbi had ever met. town, the s ege was raised, and Brit- ! when in fact, he had, not spoken a, ain once more left in indisputed posses- dozen words, but was a charming lis s' on of the stronghold which, in the tener, to her interesting descr ption of davs of Queen Ann, she had acquired I her travels abroati, as a sort of lutek-pennw while fighting! r ; on behalf oi the Archduke Charles, in ! The f 100,000 required to complete whose name it had been seized by Sir I the pedestal for the Statue of Libert? George Rookey, July 24, 1704, who ! uas been ra -sed in New York city. .