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AM5 rillLOHOpHY. I. A.BMOII if Jrt la n t:, lklf obf, dV a p jll jouf An' - h U '.uiae-fW la d iktlM L7 1 fir: Lamm; my k(i wtoo d brkks to a ak n,J tola's flow, A a' 1'!! r )" l60' ' 10 bpf' 5 w, m 4 bair WMrkfti davi, dy's rbanjH A'y uwlu'i Wjk to tmrtkuli to furnish ya "d rauotit; Ni w, whn you' wantin' ! i br-d, you r f W' " An'f jrou'i wini.n' liih yott mart uij yni mirni an' kcth 'tm: fur ym km pol it down as aariin dt de tin i lrz r"" by Wh Bi on' UUr ami to rio froirt otiti ay! Kyo think ai-wit il lrfiill, ond pal it lot) Ti u"l inkirrIt dc at?' plan i gnuIIy de Ef yoewamMani lViriU'-De' on' roke At kriu-n ntlcr, T dn't tun' dar like tol an'ars-rfy de nalti-K Aa'wh'ad yall-r f-T come n' etl ll around, T brtlrr dan de karranleen to ahuffie out 0' town. Par' a lai ff drilf'il tmuie in lle ery CW Mil A rip and n -llr apple may be rotten io do tw wiin' l.kin' tmbh-r mar I de bi(rirV fool Par's a kit 0 solid kit-kin 'in de huaiMen' kind 'mules De piwher nn I do holies' dal w'in de rnerkii' look. An'diMd loudee bangin' on da kicr ol d Hk! P pwpla pits deir biggf' bill ill buy in' Iota n' Ud'k ry matter ill di'ir pinyunei r'uu' de peanut tun'! ) iwsnlixs an' de fifties gra in yin' or! dir rnt. Put IMx-n sn'de organ grinder gill de copper tenia. I Dbbrliki de culled oian dat tbioki too much vwiui Pat 1rinM an wurkin'days and inuo.et at de DiK'tlD i I)t jinn de temperance 'tictr, an keejai giltin' tight An' pulC-s hit waU'r-millins In do middle ob de iiignU lVa milerteiry nigger chaps, with musket in deir nan a, Perradln' fro' de rlly to de inuilc ob de ban's. Had better dop deir gum, au' g' In fnan hin' wid dnr boeii, Ad' it boueat libbin' a dy chop de cotton rowi: Or de Klate may put m artrr while to drilliu' in d ditclica, Wid inor dan aingla atrijxt a runniii' Vrona dnr breeclie. Well you think dawloiu' nuflin' 'tall it miglrty of an nkv. But il huntd up da renlcn In the lilhly Paradini! Von aee.dey b"fa waa human bain't.jea' like 1110 an you. Aa'dryoouldn'trrgjurUtcdrirKlreawid tint a tnini toil"; Wid plenty wuk Mo' 'em an, a cotton crop to make, Dry 'd nam thought o' loafln' 'round an' chat to' wid the anake. nuciuu ox sail. A large percentage of dinajttora at hps are alirexrtljr duo to the anMion of driving or cracking on. AmoricHn ahipmatcn ex cel In thit tmrticular no other whips are recklemtly ntauaged, and no ahipa iu tho world are ao poorly naunod. Thon, too, it a man has a goncrul idea of noa mansliij), and wealth, or wcultliy friomln ho in at once put in command. Fertility in roHOiircoa, cncrgvtiu ami prompt to exocute, and other nauiolfa quahtlca tions ought to be esKential elumonta in the man who aastitnes tho iliitchargo of a vhip-tifUoor'i dutica, and yut ahip owners accm t ignore all that, seeking to 11 ml the half, the third, or even the quarter, interest, as of a deal mora importance It is very true that a good tnunv good seamen tmvo command of ships who are indebted to wealth or luflueuco for tho dintinctiou. Hut the rulo is to givo tho vfKjiol to tLo ruan who puU the laont money in tho venture, without regard to the necciutary ability to hnudlo tho ahip. Tho Mosrs. Blunt, FiU'h & AVadleigh were ship-owners, - ami their ulllee in Ho nth street did a large South American business. They hnd several sbiiM in tho Liverpool trado, not speukiug of tho round don of co&Kters owned by this firm. Tho firm always iiisiitUHl on money nnalinVations in a mptain, and the result was that their ahips were driven until tlioy were almont worthlos. Then they were loaded un with odds and ends, heavily insured and sent to sea. They rarely caino back. If they eamo back they were suro to diitupptar tlie next trip, and tho captain was bound to find a now shift waiting for him. Occasion ally the Mewrs. JJlunt, Fitch A Wad leigh would lose a ship uuexpectedly, but as long as they were safe ou tlin Un derwriters book they did not much care abont tho ship's company, or inquire if anybody wan saved. The ship I'lanut bolongetl to tho above Arm, and when my story commences she won in tho Waterloo dock taking iu emi grants and their stores, lies destina tion was New York, ami alio advertised to sail in a day or two. She was a lialf cliptwr, heavily sparred, and bearing the evulenco about her that she was not al lowed to loiter by the way. Khe hail all tho features of a safe and trustworthy ship, and so thore was no difficulty found in securing the four hundrttd ami odd passengers that wore about to trust them selves to the tender mercy of the Atlan tic Thocaptain was a slourhy individual, with bloated features and a conspicuous rednoits in his face, but ho rarely eamo on dock or interfered with the tlrst otllecr who performed bis duty with a great flourish, evidently calculated to impress the passengers with a due sense of his importance. Tho day before the ship hauled out into 'the stream a quiet, gentlemanly ap)curiug man came ou board, and, alter a keen stare at the nmto and a glauco at the cabin accommodations engaged a state room. At this man eltwwed his way among the passengers, thoso wrho notioed him little thought that the day wonld come when their safety depended npon his ability to handle a ship. He did not stay long, but hastcneJ away to send his "traa" on board. The next morning, aa the ahip was hauliug out. he came on board and sundry trunks and boies marked "It- II. W." were stowed away in the hold. A small leather trunk and valise were transferred to his state room, after which he disappeared from view. The nsxt time he emergen, irom ut cal.in the hiD hod th-i.re.1 the channel mid ws rnctnng to Hie westwaid with a light breeze under a jrfe t cloud of canvss StUililing soil vu mnu wu uy to the main t-gIlaut sail, and the crew a ,rd.l(K,kinir. virions gang of Liyer- pool trtrn the hardest character in the world were being drivan abont fif-m Ml.oet to brakes. The captain was en- raced in h favorite amnsement of ' ..... .1 H fit . "cursing and bloating me eyes 01 me roan at the irbocl, and it was evident at a glance that the red face and those blear eyes wce the result of a long debauch. Kach lurch of the ship canned him to sway to and Iro by Uie iwcKMay, wnicu u hia nual haniring-on place when "sliahtly sprung." The mate was a fair seaman, but standing in mortal fear of tha cantain and the same might be said of the other ofticers, who stood in mortal fear of the mate. It was the mate's watch, and he. was bnnily engaged in se curing things for the long trip acroe the Wentcrn ocean. The passengers, in oiien eved wonder, looked at the crew as they scui-ried about the decks, snrorised that a man con lit calmly ute sncn ueany abuse without at least resenting it by word or look. Alter a day or two out, things beoume shaken into their places. 1 ne capuun in nort and the same man at sea were alto gether different individuals. ow he was a cross, sulky man, with a villainous odor of whisky clinging to mm. I here were obout a dozen cabin passengers, and after each of them had received a snub or two, they preferred to let the captain alone. The quiet man didin't seorn to have eyes (or anytning uui a Wik which was his constant companion. Occasionally a game of chess, checkers or Hpanifth pole enlivened tne cabin peopio, and when these things failed to intero&t, they wonld saunter about the deck until it was time to retire. The other passengers, mostly Irish and Dutch, had a hard time of it, and bit terly complained of the trashy stuff served out to them, as 11 they were uogs. For the first ten days battling winds and a nasty hand sea did not tend to make the captain a very amiable man, but on tho morning of tho eloventh day out a fresh breeze from the northeast overtook hor, and all the morning tho hasty tramping of the tailors intimated to those below that there were lively times on deck. The hoarse orders of the mate wore succcedod by tho still hoarser roars of tho captain, setting studding- sails, and when the cabin passengers be gan to crawl on dock the ship was cov ered with canvas from the lower sails to hor royals. All that day the wind increased in vio lence, and, in the dog-watches, was in creased to a galo. Still those in the ship did not uotico that so much on account of the fact that sho was running from it. Tho sea, too, came in regular ridges, and the heavy pressure on her masts kept her steady; so she skimmed along with a gliding motion. Toward night, it being the mate's watch, he took iu the. stud ding sails and hauled in the royals. He was getting ready to clew up the main sail, w hen the captain staggered on deck, and, lurching in the direction of the back-stay, he managed to grasp it as he roared out: "Hie! what the are you doing. Jamison? Didn't I tell you to crack on with this wind in our starnr oend the hands np to loose those royals agin, and just pock that mains 1 on her, you lub berly coward. What in are you afraid of a capful of wind, hey?' Tho mate strodo np to tho bAck-stny and explained that there was an occa sional squall passing over; that sho was steering wild, and so ho thought he'd coho her a little. "Slio.s going twelve knots now, which is fast enough, I take it." "You slat) that mainsail on to her, you fool. Don't you supposo I know what I'm about? And if you'ro scared go bo low and put your head in a bag." Tho mate strodo away; the throe royals were set, the mainsail sheeted, and tho Planet, trembling in every joint, went boring into tho night that was now fairly shuttiug down ou the Hying ship and tho heaving ocean. The captain, chuckling to himself at his own during, crawled back to his stato-room, took another " nip, and reeled liack to his post at the back stay. After a bit ho got it through his head that tho studdiug-suils were taken iu, and he roared oat: "HUmd by to set the inaiutopmaHt stuV-suil!" This order made tho men express a hopo that he'd take tho sticks out of her, and tho niato hod tho hardihood to say that the old man was either very drunk or getting crazy, but he went about tho diflleult Job of totting tho studding-sail, and after au hour's labor succeeded iu setting it. As tho night wore on, the wind in ercasod in "volume, the waves grew higher and broader, and the ship began to shoer wildly. Occasionally a big wave would overtake hor and lno inboard over the rail. Sho began to roll heavily, and tho watch below in the forocnstlo turned out and gravely discussed the usual iu cideuU of a ship running away from a tempest under press of sail. The morning brought no change in tho aspect of affair, only worse. Tho tern- Hst roarel through tlie top-Hamper, ami the mast bent under the heavy strain. The steering of the ship had now become a very difficult matter, and it was evident that should the ship by any mischance bo thrown in the trough of those heavy seas, she would roll over at once. At lost a heavy lurch cased her of tho studding sail, which lent down to lea- ward ou the wings of tho wind, and, un der the excitement, the mate clewed up tho royals and had them rolled up. Tlio captain came on deck soon after, and at once began to abuse tho mate for taking in tho royals. The mate soon after weut below, being relieved by the second mate. Toward noon a heavyx squall took tho three top-gallant-mosts out of her, and then there were horrid oaths and impre cations in order until the wreck was cleared away. During the afternoon the seaa tiegan to tumble in over the rail, and tlie compass grew so nu steady that it became unreliable. The ship was sheer ing wildly. The two men at the wheel were whirling it about, in spite of the mate's incessant caution to "steer small," and tho captain was hanging on to hia back-atay, exulting in the idea that he waa rnnuing down a lively gale of wind under three whole topsails and courses. A little before eight belle in the last dog watch (eight r. m.) the mate bluntly told the captain thai he "waa going to hattpn down t!.e roajengers; that if ssil wann't shortened at once the ship would get tripled np in some of the high waves that were now racing 'after her. She's going sixteen mile an hour now, and if she goes any laaier sue u ue uumauagi-a 1,1a " "Let her rip, my sweet-scented son of a sea-cook, i m cspuin, 1 am ; ana 11 1 hear any more of your impertinence I'll disrate you, my buck. Let her rip, I say; she a all rigm; mow, goou ureezes blow!-' The mate turned away and tolJ those of the passengers who still lingered on the deck, to go rx-iow; oui uie quiet, gen tlemanlv chap didn't budge an inch While a sense of eoming danger filled every heart, the nuiet man did not seem to be alarmed. After a while the hatches were put on and secured, and a few things attended to that were of prime importance in view 01 me present siiua tion. After eight tells the captain horrified the second mate by securing the fore and main sheet with a padlock and chain, and with the parting injunction to call bim if it came on to blow, he reefed aft and diaaptieared down the alter compan ion-wav. The watch below turned in all standing heartily cursing the man who was risk ing their lives in inch a foolish way. The quiet man took np a position near the wheel, and, to the surprise of the second mate, began to con the ship. Now, this conning process consists in watching the ship's head, and moving the hand in Uie direction the wheel should be turned. It is often resorted to in a high seaway, when the motion ef the ship renders the comp.HS card unsteady. The officer, mentally making a note of the fact that the passenger waa a seamen, went for ward, and be bad scarcely reacuea me waist, when a flashing light gleamed out of the gloom ahead a hnase voice shouted "Light, oh!" then a confused hubbub on the forecastle, with am imperative order to port the helm. Impulsively the men at the wheel be gan to whirl it to port, but were stopped by the passenger sternly shouting to do no such thing. A moment's reflection convinced them that to alter her course in those tremendous seas would be instant destruction, and thongh the mate was frantically shouting port, hard-a-port, she was held in her course simply be cause she could not leave it. Sheering wildly, she rolled np the slope of a mountuinona wave, in full sight of a ship's light, dead ahead. The next in stant there was heard a crashing and snapping of timber forward, then a tre mendous shock, followed by a loud de spairing cry the tribute nature wrings from humanity in its dire extremity. Another crash succeeded by a grating sound nnder the keel, and the Planet lurcliod heavily to port. As she rolled buck to the starboard, she took a wild sheer; at tho same time the sails began to slat, and in a moment they were torn into ribbons. Still sheering, sho climbed a big sea, and, as she sunk away into the tho trough her fore and main top mast snapped off close to the cap. Thou, as she lay canted down on her portsidc, a huge wave top ped with foam and fairly glowing with luminous sparklings emitted from the phosphorous held in solution, came down from tho windward. There was a terriHo grandeur in its grand sweep, and as fur as tho eye could reach black sides extended, with bore and there a patch of foam flocking its tower ering bulk. Other waves wore pressing it from lohind, and, as it mounted up higher and higlur, tho crested top tumbled over; thon the ship rolled to meot it, and w ith an angry hiss it leaped over the rail, sweeping everything before it. hen tho watch on dock saw that fearful sea about to break, there was a frantic rush tor the rigging, each think ing only of his own safety. The two men at the wheel also de serted thoir posts and clung to tho miz- ron rigging, the quiet passenger alone remaining nt the helm. As tho tons on tons of water leaped over the rail, the Planet listed over, and another wave, following swiftly behind, laid tho good old ship on her beam-ends. When the crash of tho collision aroused the start led pas.sengors, tho captain came hur riedly on deck, and as ho attempted to gain his usual placo by tho back stay the sea overtook him and swept him over the sido to tho leoward. Tho mate, too, who was in tho waist, was overtaken by the sea and swept overboard. , It was a thrilling moment, and the disaster oc curred in less time than it takes me to deseribo it. lleforo one could have ar ranged tho details of tho disaster, a hard ringing voice was heard, in tho direction of tho wheel, screamiug: "Lay aft, all hands! Homo ouo slip down aud closo that starboard companion-way! Lay aft hero, I tell you!" It was the quiet cabin passenger, and there ho was, up to his waist iu water, Lunging on to the w heel, which ho had managed to jam to Bturboard. Ilatless and coatless, every 0110 within the souud of his voice kuow that he was captain, aud a good ono, too, and his next words confirmod the conviction. " Cut the main brace and nnreeve it. IiCad it along fore and aft aud haul taut! lie quick, boys; work lively, we havo time to spare!" When the brace was secured forward and hauled, as taut as it could, the next order rang out hard mid clear: " Get an axe and sever the forward starboard lanyard yon will find one on the break of the poop. Some of you tlud a hawser aud Wild it securely to the fore yard, (.let the hawser bent on aud then cut away. Take tko w heel, two of you!" Tho Planet lay brood-on in the trough, aud each passing wave pressed her over more and more. What damage she hail sustaiued iu her hull could not be ascer tained, but the shock that hod sunk tho other vessel must hav.o started some thing forward, aud the wonder was she did not go down at once. After a pain ful suspense, the haw se was secured to the fore-mast close off. All the top hauipor lay to tlie leeward, holding on by the lee-shrouds and back stays, and occasionally pounding. Presently the order came: "Lay aft, yon all, into the niixzen rigging. Is that hawser all clear lor wardr The hawaer waa reported clear, and the crew, or what waa left of them, took their place in the miazea rigging, and, the wind acting on the resistance their bodies offered, slowly urged the ahip away from the wreck, forward, bringing a strain on the gear attached. As tlie atrsin srrew heavier, ahe began to head Dp to the sea, and alowly righteJ. Then the lee riggings were cnt, tho hawser yeered away until thirty fathoms stretch ed away to windward. '.Now, then, my lads, let us see where we are hurt. Sound the pump. We are all right if she dots not leak badly. The pump beiug sounded, showed nearly four feet d water in the well. So the brake was rigged, and some of the steerage panger were got on deck through the after bulkhead and set to work. An hour's steady pumping show ed a slight gain which infused new hope that her damage im not as serious as miu'ht be exicted. All night long the pumps were kept going by relays of passengers, and by morning it was an nounced that the pumi were steadily gaining on the water. Things looked badly by daylight. The bulwarks all gone, the deck swept clean, and half the crew, tho captain and mate, swallowed np all rehMted from "cracking on." Lut with her utont three-inch hawser fastened to the wreck of her foreyard to windward she rode out the gale as well, if not better, than unjer canvas. The new captain rigged jury-masts when the vAsthr-r tnndirnted and lliado sail to the westward. The easterly winds favored him and he modo good time to the Lank. After clearing the fogs that prevail there he sighted a large steamer one morning, heading east. In an hour she was a cable's length ahead and slowed down to tha battered and rusty shin, w hose squat masts created considerable amuse ment on the spiemim steamer, men sme the hoarse hail "Ship ahoy!" "Ave!ave!" "What ship is that?" "The Planet, of and for New York." "Who is the Planet commanded by?" "One of her cabin passengers Water man, of San Francisco." "Waterman?" "Yes, bully Waterman, at your ser- vio The two vessels united apart. The steamer's bell ring to hook her on, and poddies went around, and with a wave of their trumpets the two captains parted. Here, men, was tne mosv notorious bully that ever commanded a ship, a man whose name was famous and on every aailoV's lip from Singapore to the Golden Gate; every newspaper almost, in those 1nvs hail something to say about "bully Waterman" and his ship . . .i ! a 1 Challenger, ana me snip never nouieu that could out-sail her, nor the man ever breathed that could cow the daring spirit of this quiet gentlemunly man. Therianct at lost reacuea .ew lorn and was delivered over to her owners, ulin did tlm handsome thincr by Water man. The passengers had a card in the papers praising to uie quiei cauin pueu ger and ranking with the greatest heroes that ever lived. It was never really known what vessel it was that struck the Planet that terrible night, when sho was running free at the rate of 16 miles an hour, as there were one large steamer and a dozen ships at sea abont that time which were nover heard from again. Who pun uiv tinw mnnv hfivfi been ruu down and run under through this "cracking on." Intemperance and Immorality la London. The idea prevails in America that the English are a virtuous nation, and Lon don is an exemplary city. I have 110 hesitation in asserting that this is about the falsest statement thutcau be made on the other sido of the Atlantic I may refer those who doubt my proposition to the declaration published the other day by the great Dr. Pussey, of Oxford, that tlio. inhabitants of London were all pagans; to tho police court columns of tho English papers, which, by the way, only published a very small portion of tho crimes committed, and finally to the daily moaning upon that score of the most celebrated men of the country. Two terriblo vices flutter over this realm and pollute with their slime the nnfortnunte subjects of her Majesty; thoir names are intemporanco and immorality. They pervade every rank of society. Napoleon I. said the English were a nation of shop-keepers! Parody ing his words, I may affirm they aro a nation of drunkards. Everybody drinks. It is not ouly the men of the lower class, who, like in America, disgrace them selves sometimes, by too many libations, it is every individual, from the gaudily dressed, ostentations, affected noblemen, to the rough, hard-working laborer; from the higlily-perfnmed, dollish, bright featured lady to the two penny-a-penny market woman. The disease is a ghastly, hideous, universal one. Opportunities to drink nro given everywhere. Taverns, or as thoy are called here, public houses, abound; you count them by thousands; there is oue for every hundred yards; sometimes they hang by clusters of three or four together, like strawberries in the fields. For all that, they pay well, and very well indeed. If you enter oue of these during tho day, whom do yon see ? A number of men and women, but es pecially women, sitting down and talking loud, often quarreling, sipping enormous mugs of beer or tumblers of hot mm or hot gin. These females are mothers of a family, young girls of 18 or thereabout, women with bullies in their arms, teach ing their offsprings to gulp down whisky at the same time as they hold the breast. Saloons are not tho only places where spirits may be obtained; they are re tailed in every imaginable corner. There is not a railroad station, not a theatre, not a music hall, not a steamboat, that is not provided with its conspicuous bar room.! London Correspondent of Chi cago Times. This story of a troop ship is just aw current iu London: In the ladies' cabin were four wash-basins, oue ef which was much larger than the others. There were three ladies in the cabin whose hus bands were about equal in rank. The women always think they have a right to presume on the rank of thoir husbands when taking choice of berths, etc., and there waa a great discussion as to who was entitled to the big basin. It was referred to the paymaster of the ahip who could settle nothing, and eventually to the captain. He gave a decision worty of Solomon. After first asking them if they wonld abide by hia verdict and sot give any more trouble in the matter, which they readily agreed to do, he said he thought it waa only fair that tho oldest lady should have the biggest baain. LioJ nesketii'i Jewel. Marrving an heiress, rays tho rhilu delohia'Timea, is a verv cool thing in its waj. but. like other things, it 1. possible to Lave too much of it; and having too much of it is just what is the matter with Senator Sharon's son in- aw, Sir Thomas Heidieth of P.ufford Hall in the Loyal Duchy of Lancaster. The poor man s troubles have just Le-un.and if they keep on as they have started he will be thank ful enough, in thecosrsj of a week or two, to sink down quietly in tho money lesi, restful oblivion of tho grave. 15." fore the bride and groom g t down home frou Livertool the rector of lintTord irn-h received an anonymous letter bid ding him "warn the proier authorities to watch carefully the valuable jewelry of Lady Hesketh," and as tho rector nat urally concluded . that the proper authority to look after Lady Hesketh s traps was her busUnd, this startling communication was handed to Sir Thomas tho very moment that the coach drawn by six white horses decked with wedding favors drew n,i at l'.nff nr.t Hall door. Sir Thomas acted with a prompt military skill that would have been the making' of Lord Chelmsford and the salvation of the Uritish army iu Zuluhmd. He ut onco issued a gen eral order to his retainer to "remove all ladders from the neighborhood of the hall, and to watch oil means of in gress while tho family were dining." ibis order was carried out witn ceier ity, and a considerable body of the ten aiitry preseutly moved off, loaded down with oil the ladders pertuiuing to tho outdoor premises, together with all the step-ladders belonging to tho interior department. An excess of zeal even led to the removal from the laundry of the three clothes horses. While the procession filed down the avenue to the lodge-gates, and so out iuto the open country, the cuuso of all the commotion, the rich dower of the bride, began to arrive, nnder guard. "The luggage was escorted to the hull by the jKilice," says the dispatch, "and everv orecaution taken to insure safety." Jnde'ed, so well were the orders of the commanding officer conceived ana exe cuted that the lawless bands of thieves were completely overawed. They seem to have hung timorously on the flanks of the police, as these stout defenders of the eace marched sturdily up from the railroad station with their precious con voy; but they manifested no disposition whatever to make a dash up the ladder, or otherwise attempt to carry the hall by storm. And so Sir Thomas and Lady Hesketh worked their way pleasantly through a dinner of nine courses without a single interrupting shot from the revolver that, loaded and cocked, lay ready to the Baronet's hand. But if this sort of thing is to be kept up Sir Thomas Hes keth will pay a rattling price for his heiress whibllc. Of course he cscnnt pect to have a guard of policemen on hand all the time, and under certain con ditions as those of house-cleaning tlie step-ladder will have to be returned. And then he will have to look out sharp. Moreover, even if he arms his footmen and plant Gatling guns sous to command all the salient angles of itulloni Hall, ho never can tell when his manifold precautions agaiiiBt foes with out will be rendered vain by treachery within. In short, Lady Hesketh's jewels, like Lady Pargiter's, sooner or later, surely are destined to suffer the fate that befell the traveler from Jerusalem to Jeri cho to fall among thieves. And until they are stolen and done for, Sir Thomas cannot have a moment's peace of mind. Killing a Tiger. At Rangoon, in Burmah, recently in ono of the most populous quarters of the town, a tiger was killed in broad day light. Tho brute had been banging about Dallah, the straggling village on the other sido ot the river from Rangoon, for several days, and early one morning swam across the river to Rangoon. Fag ged with the long mile through a swift current, and no doubt astonished at the number of people he came across.he ens conced himself beneath a house. The District Superintendent of Police heard of the arrival, and, armed with a Win chester repeating rifle, went down with another Englishman in the direction pointed out. They came upon the tiger rather unexpectedly. Entering one of the houses on tho river tiunk, they all of a sudden discovered the animal ouly a few inches below them, with nothing but the scant protection of an open bamboo floorwork between them and him. A bullet between the shoulders, however, dropped him before any harm could be done, and a couple more shots made things sure. Then the Burmans came crowding in scores. The inspector tried to keep them off with his gun, forgetting it was at full cock. Suddenly it went off, and i Burman was shot through the shoulder, and died a few hours after ward. Tho tiger was just under nine feet from tip to tip. A bill has been introduced in the Leg islature of Wisconsin which authorizes and requires women to vote at the next general State election npon the question whether they desire to have an elective franchise conferred upon thom, and to assume the duties and obligations of male citizens. Separate boxes are to be pro vided for them. Any female citizen neglecting to vote, unless prevented by age, infirmity, or sickness, to be proved uy medical certificate of disability, is to le retarded cuiltv of a misdemeanor. and fined not less than $100 or imprison ed not more than three months, or both, and any man gnilty of intimidating, con trolling, or willfully obstructing any woman in voting, or of insulting any woman in going to or from the polls, is to be fined not less than $2000 or impris oned not more than two years, or both. If the women suffragists of Wisconsin are not satisfied with this law, nothing they are likely to get will satisfy them. "Go to the carrier pigeon, thou glut ton; learn its ways and be wite. When traveling it never feeds. If the distance be long, it flies on without stopping to take nutriment, and at last arrives thin, exhausted, almost dying. If corn be presented to it it refuses, contenting itself with drinking a little water and then sleeping. Two hours later it be gin to eat with great moderation, and sleeping again immediately afterwards. If its flight has been very prolonged, the pigeon will proceed in this manner for forty-eight hours before recovering its normal moaa 01 reeding. , Astiocemlcal Ihencniciia. To the interested observer of the starry spheres, tho latter part of tho month of February and the beginning of March will this year afford an interesting and sublime view of the planetary bodies iu their various ohk3cU. If we turn for a moment to glance at the western ky soon a ter sunset, we are at onco im pressed with the magnificence of the scene. Within a compass of a few de grees are presented liefore us the three most radiant members of our planetary group Venus, Jnpiter and Saturn; w hile a little higher up in the zodiac the invisible Neptune stands guard, and lower down, just abovo the western hori zon, the swift wingod Mercury gradually shows hi twinkling countenance. 80 that five of the seven contemporary members of our system are ull iu the re gion of tho heavens. It will be extremely interesting to ob serve the varying motions of their bodies. During the winter months of lust year, Jupiter and Saturn were our evening stars, but were high over head at this time in the evening. In January last, they were to be seen slowly sinking to the west, while Venus at the same time was just coming into view. These three planets then presented a straight line, with Jupiter in the center. The motion of Venn is so much more rapid than that of cither of the others, that she soon overtakes them and passes above, and on February 25tb, the threo planets will form a perfect equilateral triangle, whose sides nro 5 degrees in length. After this, the triangle is gradually altered as Venus moves eastward, until on March 1st it presents the form of a right-angled one, with Saturn occupying tho position of the right angle. This group is just below the head of Aries, and in the direction of a line drawn through the two principal stars of that constellation. Venns is constantly growing more magnificent, and soon leaves Jupiter and Saturn far behind. Their brightness is slowly fading, and ere another month has passed they will have dissappeared in the rays of the approaching sun. Ve nus, however, continues to illuminate our sky until May 3d, when she, too, is lost to view. Thus are the beautiful combinations broken up to make room for others.for endless variety is the most sublime charm of the grand science of astronomy. Mercury reaches his greatest distance east of the sun on February 23d, and be comes evening star. On that day he sets at 7:20 r. m., an hour aud a half after the sun. So that while observing this beautiful triangle of Venus, J upiter and Saturn above, we can cast our eyes toward the horizon and also steal a glimpse of the god of light. - To add to the charming scene, the yonng moon modestly places her slender crescent among the group. On March 3d bhe passes very uear Venus, and and north of 40 degrees north will occult that planet. This will be a beautiful phenomenon, as Venus suddenly disap pears on the dark edge of the moon. In the latitude of Cincinnati the planet touches the lower border of the moon as they are setting, at 9:15 p. m. Stage-Struck. A writer in Harper's Bazar thus takes off the stage-struck damsels: If these damsels talk freely with you, they will tell you that if they are not strikingly pretty, they can "moke up" well; that they can shed real tears at pleasure; that they even know how to simulate a fuint at call; that they have practiced the stage laugh till they have it perfectly; and as for their sobs, you should hear them I Meanwhile, the stage is never forgotten in their last motion. If they sit at the piano, it is with a sense of the audience down at oue sido they stand, rather than sit, for freedom of dramatic movement. They emphasize their re marks with fingers touching together on the chest and their arms flung wide opsn with circling grace; with an upraised arm, and every, finger trembling, with hands clasped over a lace handkerchief, and just a little liftedwith all the pret ty lines of grace, in short, that one sees iu the motions of the lovely ladies who play society dramas. By and by, if circumstances have never pushed them forward, if tho native im pulse were not strong enough to give the impetus to seek a stage manager; if modesty, after all, got the better of them; if the thing did not, on the whole, effervesce in private theatricals, or if no private theatricals came to stimnlute and develop the taste, they subside into the choice reader of a do mestic Shakespeare club or the teacher of an elocutionary class, or else they fall in love and marry, and housewifely cares and children weed them of their folly, as the old king said would be the'eoso when the enthusiasm of the Princess Ida was in question. And usually no harm has been done, and their sons will, perhaps, be the better public speakers that their mothers had a little dramatic turn. Usually no harm, we say; but occasion ally a great one has been done. A pe culiar vanity has been fostered that is poisonous to the system and infects tho wholo character, and the bloom has been brushed off the modesty of nature by the very fancy for odniiration and applause; for only where it has been the real historonio genius that is able to inform the dead shell with life, and infuse it with blood and spirit, is the longing for admiration and applause the support of the creative power, and not its source. Old Bob Keyworth is one of the hard est landlords in Galveston. Jim Groce lives in one of Keyworth 'a bouses and is a very good tenant, while the landlord has never yet bad a dollar's worth of re- Jioirs done to the house. Not long since lim went to Keyworth and told him: "I want you to have that house painted. I am paying $20 a month, and you ought to have it done." Keyworth refused, so Groce had it done at his own expense. As soon as the painting was over old Keyworth raised the rent to $25 a month. "Why do you raise the rent?" asked Jim. "On account of the improvement," re plied the old man; "you know the honss has just been painted, and a newly paint ed house is always worth $5 more than a shabby-looking one." A little girl who applied to Queen Vic toria for her autograph received the fol lowing : "For of such is the King dom of Heaves. Victoria Regis.".