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-iUE UIILEFEN WE KEEP. ... ,i iMrrti Hl remit t. fi b er' '! Ill hi tirewn h"" w llh fun "bluZoied IUU0tMl'J llUNSIW. ii i r il'l lilm ei " ' f'.1 ncbr.... ai? Miiiuto'i. ."Vf sti'l I hur.l bla fate S!VrV" h-'riw" bid r. a. L-ir .lender feet. atiiL. itt- fii-luri'. ! n i" ' ",e btm; he root 'f l.i-d onward b jond the .lot: A iil ."" . ru y lent. Tbe l'J Pr"" ' ........I and (air a 1,1 iin i.ranae biowx.m. lu fcrildtd lialr. Tft?o ' d Home leJt. new h'.iaw W begin. tii one i.T one; the cbllilx-a litro gone ' ihS b.y wreflre aud 'Ue glria wre threw And Ml" M " !" ' (E1(0,"y "d loue With bin iwo o il folka for I i-oinpDy. They tota-li cilier shout t!ie ai', A the J "'I VKe'homi OTW.ll'tf , And wy. "A I the children wa i. pt at last Are the bo bd girl wao In iMiidUood died. IN THE 3l.lBi.ULY MIXE. "John Wttllacel" culled tho mino su perintendent through the spooking pipe, down in the cage. You will be kind enough to show them through the tunneis. nViD;trt-al" T rrnnitted to mvSC'lf. "I iw'.' - r ,, , . . mast be lackey, too. as well as drudge! Well, so be it.- It is only onotber stick to tho load I am carrying. If it breaks my back so mucu tue oouer. i uuu uo UUUO fill" v. When, aj my father s death, finding his estate heavily euoumuereu, i uau deemed it mv doty to place it at tho dis posal of his creditors, I found myself, socially speaking, in ice water. Those who had known me in my happier days knew me no longer, and houses where I had once been a woluoine guest were now as impenetrable as their owner's igno rance of my existenoe. I could have i n ti.li irnll nnntiffh had onlvone UU1UD Ml fcu.w " " o r homtf remained open to me the home of Eve Uulon. , She was a beautiful girl, young and, as I had bolieved, sympathetic I had .i:.,j tnn tlmt I had sfen crlimnses UCllUTCU, " " O-- . of something in her face that proved my hopes not to DO 80 WUU as moy oecmcu. But that, too was over. A polite note from her father informed me his daugh ter could henceforth dispense with my attentions, and as I received no intima tion to the oontrary from Eve herself, I concluded she, too, had declared my os tracism. Alter this, I lost hope and made no attempt to better my worldly condition. I loft the village and aftor two yeors ol wandering I, often in destitution, strand ed myself on tho Maborly coal mine as gang master in the pits. Our mine had a doubtful reputation, having been the scene of several dis tressing accidents. Consequently, we weie rurely troubled with visitors from the upper ea:th. This was a godsend to mo. I could manage to endure the lifo I was living only on condition of not bt-iug too fre quently reminded of tho life from which I had been exiled. The idea of encoun tering those persons whom I had known in better times was a constant terror to me. It may be imagined, therefore, with what feolings I awaited the descent of tho visitors who had been signalled from above. . As the cae stopped upon the level whero I stood with my lump in my hand and the passengers alightcd.I recognized them with feolings of downright misery. I saw before me the two persons whom of humanity I had least wished to meet Eve Onion and her father! Had thev heard of my whereabouts and come to witness my degradation? No. Who could identify the name of gang-master John Wallace with Wallace Orovor? Besides, I remembered that Mr. Ouiou was a shareholder in the Maberly Mino. It was merely a simple eight-seeiDg tour after all. Two years of hardbhip and tho growth of a heavy board had changed my appearance s much that I was sure thut neither father nor daughtor could possibly reoognue mi stepped confidently forward, there foro.and introduced myself as the guide, Johu Wallace. Eve looked at me close ly, but, I thought, only with au expres sion of curiosity as to the appearance of a man whose life was spent under the 'ground. My head swam and my heart beat nick and loud, as I stood beforo her moro beautiful, because more serious and womanly, than when we had been intimato two years before. I noticed that her face was a little palor, and that there was a look of sad ness in it that was new to me. The sea son I had spent in wretchedness, then, had not been wholly free from sorrow for her. Not, of course, on my account; uch a notion never entered ray head. "Have you been here many years? she asked, as we were preparing to de scend into the galleries. "Yearn enough, madam, to know tuo mine thoroughly," I answered.evasively. "My father will have more than enough to do to guide his own steps," aard Eve, coming to my side and quietly placing her hand on my arm. "I must trust to your gallantry, M. Wallace." I made no reply, but wondered if, woman as she was, she had no far-away bint of the cause of that sledge hammer beating of my heart under her round arm. We remained iu tbe galleries two hours more than twice as long as was necessary, to their thorongh inspection. The old man was growing impatient, but the gloomy pits and chambers seemed to have an unaccountable fascination for Eve Onion. She loitered on one pretext or another until I began to fear that I must have be traved my identity to her quick eye. Her face had grown strangely sad and anxious. I saw, too, that when she thought herself unobserved she watched my face intently. Hd she detected me and was she seeking an opportunity of making her discovery known without be traying me to her father? I determined that she should not ac complish, her design. I knew very well that I should lose my self-control and all of my love, littorness a:ul dcrpuir woulj burst out in a torrent. I there fore was careful to avoid being alouo with her for a moment. And I soon saw tlmt I had guessed aright. Sue was endeavoring to separsto me from her father that lie might speak to me. But I foiled her quietly but skilfully, and after tho galleries hud been explored twice over and thero was no longer the shadow of a pretext for remuiuiug, she finally prepared to depart. As we entered tho upper level wo passed the dark opening of a diniisod chamber, which I liu.l deemed unsafe to be visitod. Eve's eye caught sight of it. "Here's a chamber we have not seou, ' slio said. "No, mad.im," I interposed, "it is no longer worked. The water has brokuu into it twice and it is considered danger ous." "I mean to see it at all events," she re repliod. "Father, wait for ns hero. Mr. Wallace will not refuse to guide mo, I amsuro." She oast a strange, significant look at mo, which said almost as plainly as words: "I know you, Wallaco Orover, and I mean to speak to you iu spite of your caution." Then she entered the chamber. But she had miscalculated my tact. I turned to ber father and req nested him to enter with me in order to disHiiado her from her rash adventure, and wo fol lowed her togother. Sho gave me a re proachful look as we entered, and I heard her sigh. The moment I put my foot into the chamber, my scuhcb, trained by long ex perience to note the varying phenomeua of tho undor world, detected a hint of .coming danger. Thoie was a faint rumbling in the earth. The air was closo aud had a taint of electricity iu it similar to that which precedes a thunderstorm. Thete was surely peril in the mine, but how and whenco it would oome I. could not guess. As I turned to urge my visitor to a hasty retreat I caught sight of some small fragments of wot earth dropping from the wall near ut hand, followed by a jet of water. Then I knew what was coming, "Out! out for your lives!" I cried, springing toward the wall. "The water is bursting into the mino. Ring for the cage and give the alurml" The old man needed no second warn ing. With a cry of terror he sprang out of the chamber, and the next mo ment I heard him give the alarm. Thon followed tho shouts and trampling of the escaping mon. I knew if I could hold the water in check for ton minutes I could save tho lives of every one of them, As for my own well, one life, and that a useloss one, seemed a good exchange for a hundred fathers of fumi lies. When I first saw it, the jet was no larger than a man's finger, bnt in a mo ment it had enlarged to the size of my arm, and a heavy stream of water began to Dour into the chamber. Thero was no apparatus at hand, neither clay nor sand bags to cueoK it, as I wen unow. A httijuv insuiration came to me. With a Titanio effort I managed to thrust my arm into tho fissure, and for the timo being I succeeded in cueoKing the leak. Then, with my arm in the wall, I turned half around toward ths opening in the chamber, and there, to my horror, still atood Eve Onion. I saw thut her face was very pale, but firm and self possessed. "What are you doing here?" I cried. "This place will be full of water in fivo minutes." "And what are you doing here?" she asked, quietly. "My duty," I replied. "I am tryinj to hold this stream iu check until the men escape." "Thon you will bo drowned!" she ex claimed. "What of thai? Bettor one than a hun dred. But co." I entreated. "I tell yon you have only a bare ohanco to got out as it is. iue water is pressing uuruer evurj moment. It will soon be too much for my strength." "Then I will stay and help you, Wol- laoe," she said, in a strangely gontle voice. "Ah, you know me! I cried. "I have known you from the momont I entered the mine. I came here to see you. "To taunt me with my poverty!" I cried. "When your father turned me away from your doors, wnen i nccame outcast and wretched, I thought I had the right to hide my misfortuues irom your eyes." ."It is fcecause my father used you so cruelly that 1 am here," she said. "I . . t- II T 1 was not to uiame, aiiucu. a kuuw nothing of it until you wore gone. Since then I have tried to learn of your where abouts in order to let you understand my feolings. It was only yesterday that I heard of John Wallace jn the Maberly mine, and on tho bare chanoo of identify ing him with Wallace Orover I influ enced mv father to briog me here." "Wen" said I, sorrowfully, "it is too late to thiuk of tbe past now. Go, Eve. Go and keep poor John Wallace's secret. It will soon be over with him." "You persist in remaining here?" she "I 'innst!" I said. "I should be a coward and a wretch to desert my post now." "Then," she replied, very quietly, "I will stay with yon." . , "Why?" I asked, amazedly; "are you jesting with me?" "Can I jest with death, Wallace, or love?" Then before I could comprehond her words, she came to my side as I stood with my wrist in the wall, and, putting her arm around my neck, drew my cheek down upon hers. "It is Lard to die so young, Wallace," she oaid sweetly, "but it would be harder to live without yoa. In the hour f death, my dear, we can dispense with false delicacy. I know that you have loved me many years and I have returned your love. If we have met again only to die, death at least cannot separate us." With death staring me in the face not five minutes off-X have never known a happier mcment in my life. As I stood there, with my arm in the fissure, with the blood surging in my bead, and all my muscles straining with the effort to keep my position, I knew nothing more than that I felt the heart of tbe woman I loved beating against my own, ber warm young cheek touching my colli one in tho embrace of lovo aud death. Then consciousness of her position rushed upon inn uptiti. "No, no!" I t-ri ' l. "You must not die. Oo live, mv darling live until it comes your timo to meet mo in the other world, whero I bind I bo beforo you, (I.-, aud btdicvo no man ever met death so gloriously as I shall." "Wo go out together, or we die to gether," bho said firmly. "Speak of it no moro." Then u solemn silence fell upou us. The men raiiHt have nearly ull o.-ciped as I could tell by their distant shouts. Tho earth was breaking uwuy wronnd my arm, and tho water was already ncur ly two feet deep upon the floor of tho chamber. I could hear tho subterrauean streaiu roaring more threateningly In the bowels of the mino. Another pouud of pressure and I should be fluug down and tho chamber would fill. Then came a great desiro for life. How could I bear to have my new found joy sosud leuly smothered in the ground? Was there yet some hope? The sounds of the escaping men had ceased. If wo could get the cage down once more in time we might, perhaps, escapo after all. I explained my hopo to Eve. "Kun," said 1, "ring for the cage. I will hold on here a moiueut more. If we can reach it we aro safe." Evo looked at me sharply an instant sho feared I meaut to deceive, her into escaping while I remained behind, but sho divined my intention. With a quick movement she seized tho light, lifted her skirts and ran through tho water out of the chamber. Tho next thirty seconds seemed like hours. I desperately hold my own against tho water.while every nerve seemed bursting with tho strain. I heard the bell riur for tho cage, heard it slowly descend, then tho water overcame me. I was Hung down as by a giant's hand. There was a roar and rnxh us of a Niag ara, and, with a whirl of lights and fucos, a chaos of confusion aud terror, I knew no moro. Whon I slowly struggled back to life, after many days, I was far from Maberly mino. 1 was no longer John Wallace, gang-master, but Wallace Orover, gen tlomun. I was in my father's house. My old servants wero around me, and, like a fairy who had worked a wonderful transformation, sweet Eve Ouiou was tho dominant angel of the sccno. My affairs had been settled with my oreditors very rnuoh more to my benefit than I hud imagined could bo possible My ancestral homo and a modern compe tence were still left to mo. This, too, was the work of Evo Ouiou, whose love and faith in me had never fal tered iu all my wretchedness and exile, and whoso strong will had drawn com fort and happiness for mo out of the depths of sorrow. If Mr. Ouiou objected to the turn af fairs were taking he bed tho sen so to offer no fruitless opposition to his daugh ter's inclination; and I will do him the justioo to say that he performed his part at our wedding with a very good grace. Coffee (Jrowlug. A goutlemau who traveled through tho principal coffee plantations in Brazil iu 187-1 furnishes some very interesting points in rectird to tho cultivation of cof fee and also tho country nod climate. Ho says tho soil that is considered the best to plant the cotleo troos in is dars Drown sandy loam, but the reddish colored soil (similar to that of Ceylon, through not so dry and hard) is also considered to bo excellent. Tho plantations are from 1500 to 2000 feot above the level of the sou, and are generally situated in mountain ous regions, ou the sido of hills and on plateaus. The sizo of plantations differ considerably, as they range from 800 to 2500 and 8000 acres. The coffoo treo when full grown stands from sev. n to ten feet high, with branches extending six to eight from tho bottom. On each branch, between ovory two leaves, there is a bunch of about a dozen pods, some what resembling in size aud form the ediblo part of a cherry; instead of which, in the shape of a pit, is a thin shell like covoring, containing the coffee beans, of whioh thoro are two varieties, namely, a flat bean and a pea berry, so called from its similarity to a pea. This latter variety there is in very limited quantity to be obtainod, and its difference from the common flat bean is said to result from the delicacy of the tree, although the fine appearance and qualities of the berry comuiuud a higher price. The troos are planted in rows, and on each twenty-four feet square a large shade tree is planted, which must have a large trunk end moderate crown. Around the trunk of tho coffee tree a holo from ton to twelve inches deep is dug, in order to provide for the rin and moisture. The coffee troe produces aftor three years few beans, but on the fourth year double the quantity of the pro ceding, and in five years it is generally full grown, and yields according to its age and tho soil and climate in which it is planted. Soruo trees produce from two and a half to thrco pounds each, and there aro trees yiolding fromonototo thirty two pounds each, while many raise from ten to fifteen pounds apiece. A large number ore said to have prod need from eight to ten pounds olean coffee to a tree. The fol lowing provinces are where tho princi pal coffoo plantations aro situated: Bio Janeiro, Santos, Campinss, St. Paulo andMinas. In Santo the country is very fine, and railroads have greatly improved the transportation of the coffee from the interior to the coast. One of the great est wants of tbe country for a long time was laborers. When the railroads began to extend their operations thiongh tho provinces it liberated a host of hands; those wL were formerly engaged ia mule driving were then employed in the cultivation of coffee on the plantations. The Santos coffee is used very largely in Europe, and is ot a somewhat milder flavor than other Brazil coffees. The province of Sntos produces from 1,000, 000 to 2,000,000 bRS of coffee. ' Some idea of the immensity of these plantations may be inferred when it is stated that on this plantation in question there are said to be 360,000 acres includ ing nearly 200,000 yonng trees from one to three years old. The railroad facili-ti-s are very effectivo in bringing the coffee to market, and the gradual aboli tion of slavery in the Brazils is doing much to extend the pndeiful trade of this staple production Since Septem- j ber, 1871, all children bora into the kingdom are free, t!. iuo tii pvnrn incut agrees tbnt I... ir ai-i tires ii to I ho (szellda or lti!itir. ii)tiv vo l trc t inonl eijicclh lo let i'ii i!mr fume hi r fieee for a fa'r icin'i'.i ratii The proviu 'ii i.f Mina'. H.iotlicr lir;;e ei'ffen producing region, has an aret of 20U,(XHjmuuri! mile or wore, v i . ii uln.nt from l,rUO,000 to 2,K:il,(;0! iniialniants (the best populated district in the lira zils) and a most sulubrioux climate. The elevation is about 2K)0 to 2'MH) ft., t, uud tho cotleo trees after six years pioih average from oce aud a quarter to one and a Imlf pounds per tree, which it much below St. raulo.aliboiih'h ou some plantations they havo yielded as much a fifteen pounds per treo. Iu Minus but little fertilizitioti is nt, and tho trees aro planted from ten to eloveu feet apart to tho square, aud when full grown are from ton to twelve feet high. The roil is mostly of a reddish tiittiire. Minus, which contains suunt splendid views and pieturesqno lacoH, together with its tropical plants, is well worthy of a visit from tho tourist. Among the great plantations of Brazil, which have a world widu reputation, that of tlio 1'r.izoudu St. Anna, belonging to the ISaron do Bonito, is said to ,be tho lust conducted and most profltublo estab lishment in tho province of Rio Janeiro. Tho proprietor owns four plantations closely lying together and containing soveiul millions ot trees. Every depart ment uud every detail connected with it is very systematically arranged, and tho labor is, therefore, made (irodtictive with very few bauds. Tho number ot laborers employed on this estate is estimated at 1000, including men, women aud chil dren. From Brazil, which is one of tho finest countries in the world, uud which pro duces tho largest crop of coffee, tbe United States is said to havo imported in 1882 over 2,500,000 bags. Four year ago the ebtlmuted area of seres under cultivation was 1,600,000 which annually produced about 5,000,000 bags of coffee, though at tho present timo of writing Brazil, it is said, produoes annually about 7,000,000 bags on a vast area under cultivation. Now England Grocer. The Exchange Editor's Mind Weakeuiug. "Now I wonder whero that bald head ed old old clump has gone," murmured tho boys thoughtfully, as ho turned tho odgo of tho exchange editor's slmros by trying to cut a cast-iron joko out of a New Jersey agricultural weekly. At that moment a very tirod man, with a red-hot nose, beer on his mustache and mud ou his white vest, glided into the room and seated himself at a tablo with gloomy diguity. It was the exchange editor. "Oo and get a club and prepare to kill 50 year old fools," he growled. "All right," said tho boy, skipping gleefully across tho room for a poker, his piquant features sparkling with satisfac tion at tho order. "Trot out yor fool," ho added, "and I'll flatten him out so yer can use him for a blotting pud." "To think thut I should huvo livod so long and know so littlo," wailed the ex chango editor, heedlcrs of tho lad's en thusiasm, the remembrance of his griov anco rushing to bis brain with force enough to mike a dint on tho sido of his skull. "Woll.ver know you can't help it. Mon ofyourshupo aro ouly half wilted,'.' said tho boy, with a tender effort at con solation. "But what huve you been doin' to youiBu'i? You look us if you'd been loadin' up a mud cart. "I huvo beou helping a street car dri ver pick up his horse." "Then your mind must bo gone,"whis pored the boy, in foarsomo tones, liko those of a man usking a colored restuu rant wuiter for a second supply of fried potatoes. "Yes. I saw the mangy thing fall, and liko an uu intellect u:il uioddlor, I hud to proffer my services." "Yesl" iutoijectod the boy brooth lossly. "The driver had his mouth too full of oaths to answer, but I thought he would appreciate my efforts, so I loosod up the martingale and tho center bit.shovod tho crupper throngh the hawso holos, bent the piaton rod around the breeching, took iu a reef from the collar, and inado a true lover's knot with tho oar hook aud the tonRUO polo. Thou tho horse kicked me iu the diaphrams and ohowed off tho driver's coat pocket." "And then?" queried tho listener, al most bewildered by tho avalanche of tenohnical terms. "And thon tho driver called mo a mut ton heud, and tuid that wheu ho got the horse right side up ho'd twist me until I could wipe my noso on the back of my vest." "Woll, there might bo somo conven ience in that," said the boy. "But what did vou do next i" "I)o? Why I saw the horse gradually being pried ou to his feot.and I sized up the driver to have nearly as much mus clo as profanity, and I went in to ask a saloon keeper's opinion. Ho told mo that no one but a fool or a prizo-fighter ever offered to assist a man whose horse had fallen on the street. "Maybe ho'd been thare," remarked the boy.'' "I guess he had," replied the exchange editor. And then the old man and tho boy shook their heads gloomily and know-ingly.-Pittsburgh Sunday Traveler. Au Inlet lor (juurantlup. Rosently there was to have boen a meeting of the state board of health in this city, but nono was held, owing to il.s l.i.noA nf utvpral of the members. Two members reside here Dr. Hatch and Dr. Cluness. They consulted to ni.t),t.r ami wprn of the opinion that some measures should at once be tuken to prevent the introduction of yellow favAi- bv rail from Ouavmas. Mexico. Dr. Gibbons, a San Franoisco member, was of the same opinion. Ut. uatcu, oi this city, therefore, went to Sun Fran xiiuut tn tiiik with other members. The result was that on Sunday he started south to see wnat couui ue aone. ii. is nniti.ri.too.1 that the railroad companies are willing to do all in their power to prevent any person wttn tue yeuow lever hnina lirnnffht to the interior. On the Atchison, Topska aad SanU Fe railroad last week, east of Deming, the railroad compaoy employed a physician to in spect every train going east, and detain auv persona who were troubled witu tue . - - i fever. ... I Dr. Cluness was asked tbia morning as to what would be doim ind wlu fo a quarantine was likely to bo ouforood. Uo answer that all was uneortain, and much mu-t be loir, to Dr. Hatch. The stu'e board had no riht to go out of California and establish quiiruutines. Yuma, he said, would bo u irood place Tho town is on the cast Lank of tli Col oiado, which H ere forms the Culiforuiu state line. To go far beyond thero for t location wonld alo leave the miles oneu us there are stage lines from tho Mexican coast to Tnesou and other interior towne, wiucii luruuli snorter routes to uaii forma than the ones from Ouaymus over to El r.tso or Deming. Persons reachiug the raihoad ut any of tiio.io points und coming north must pass Yuma. Dr. Cluness was emphatic in KtviiiL- I hit t tint fever cull lie Miroad liv railroad as well as by sea, and referred to tho acknowledged tact tunc in li'J tlio fever was taken to many tovus in south ern states by rail, uud that quarantines were enforced on all lines of railroad. S icramento ltecord-Union. riajlug wl'.h a Kuttlesnake. The singular fact that venomous snakes will frequently permit children to play with Hioiu uud handle them without mo lestation had an apt illustration iu Eldred township. Two littlo children, tho one but two and the oilier three years oi ago, woro playing together. Tho former was tho child of Franklin Smith, tho latter the child of Johu Heius. They were playing in Smiths yard. Mrs. Siuitu having occasion to go to tho door saw the two children sitting sido by sido ou tho grass. Her child liad a short stick in its hand with which it was giving fre. quent light tups on tho grouud in front of it. Mrs. Smith Biipposod tuey were playing with a small laud turtle which hud been about tho yard for some days, and after watching tho children's mirth for somo timo sho walked toward ttiem to see what they wore doing to tho tur tle When she had approached to withiu a few feot of them she was horrified to see tlmt tho children wereamusiug them selves with a largo rattlesnake. For a moment sho was speochless und motion less. The smtko lay full length, appar ently onjoying the caresses and attention of the children. At tho touch of the stick the snake would simply raise Its head open its mouth aud dart its tougue in und out. It was this that made the ohildron laugh, llecovoring hersolf.Mrs. Smith advanced a step or two. The suako discovered her. Instantly i s whole at titude changed. Liko a flush it threw itself into tho ooil of spriuRing.by which it alono can inflict its deadly bite. This movement frightened the childreu aud they moved away out of its reach. Mrs. Smith then found a club and succeeded in despatching tho snako. This done she fainted away. Sho was found uncon scious ou tho erouud by a neighbor who1 was passinc. with tho childron cryiug ut her sido and tho dead snuko a fow foot away. Sho was Boon resusoituted and told tho above story. Tho snuko was over four feet lonif ami had soven rattles. Stroudsburg Dispatch to St. Louis Dis patoh. Tho Man With a Vow. They met on tho orowdod avenuo, yes terday, in front of tho city hall. One was a young man oi auout aa tna otnor was GO years old. One lives iu tho northern part of the state, tho other iu tue soutn eru. Fate had brought them together. Thoro was nothing cordial in the meet iug. They didn't cry out, "Put it thurl" aud pump Iiauillu cucli otnor like a cou plo of old friends. On tho coutrarv, tho young man grow rou iu mo nieo unu breathed hunl. and summered out: "Ten ysurs ugo I weut to sahool to you. "Yes. you did," was tho calm reply. "Aud ono day you liukod me almost to death for an oflouso committed by au other bov." "Well, you wero always in ncod of a licliing. "And I swore," continued tho young man, "ayo! I registered a solemn vow that if I ever mot you uftor I had grown up I would have my revenge. Preparo to be pounded to a lifeless masvl'1 "I'm preparod." repliod tho old school master, as ho spit on his hands, and in a minute tho fuu was raging, iue young man rushod upou him with a war whoop, but his nobo struck something and ho full down. He got up and rushod again, and this lime he was fluna down, rolled over, stoppod ou and left with a nnmbor of looso teeth and a splitting headacho. Tho polioe took him iu, but whon they came to hunt lor mo ou man ue was across the street trying to pin up a rent iu his coutand savins to some of his friends: "Ah! it brings buck all the memories of tho old red sohoolhousc to got my hands on an unruly pupil in the first reader cluss again I" Detroit Freo Press. Primeval Tindkb. There are somo kinds of mushrooms, notably the woody and lcatberly onos, thut no moro suggest ideas of a meal to us than a log of tim ber or a pair of old boots do. But if wo do not think of eating tbeui we cun fash ion them into excellent ruzorstrops or other useful articles ou occasion. Bov eial polyporcs make flrnt rate tindor, and for such purpose they havo undoubtedly boen used from very remote tiuios. We inter that fires wero kindled by this means in tbe ancient Swiss lake dwell ings, from the fact that they occur among the remains in almost every one of these old habitations. Tho common tinder polypore' has also been found in tho lake dwelliug at Locbloe, in Ayr shire Perhaps they moy have been pot to some other use. These old lake dwell ers were probubly not without their vices, and may have pounded polypores to dust, and sunffed thut up as eagerly as certain natives of Northern Asia do at this day. Good Words. A TWkptivh MoBklOM MlSRIONAllT. Itegina Anderson, a young and beautiful blind girl who had been deluded into nlintrin(7 her linmfl ID Sweden for One in Salt Lake City, but who was rescued as Castle Garden by her brother and sis ter, said of tho missionary who had de ceived ber: "He told me that in Utah the weather is always pleasant, and that nlmriv lived there but rich mon. a great many of whom wanted wives. He told ma Out . litifclmnil was waitin? for me.' among bis people, and said that he owned big coal mine, lived in a palace, and owned a dozen corriges and a great stable of horses. "No " saidthe city editor, "the dra- mtin rritin U not in. Bnt I can no ont and take drink just as well as ha can." SHORT BITS. ' Cod liver oil from soloeteJ livers Is tlio latest asuuribg advertisement. N. O. Pieayunne. "No." said a Philadelphia belle, "no electrio light for me, It can't bo turned dow.i low enough." "I'm sitting on tho style, Mary," said Mary's father when he refused" to buy her a new bonnet. The Piiuoo of Wales will visit this country iu March. And what will poor Oeliliy do then, poor thing. When frieuds applaud your sudden wealth bo on your guard. Tho hungry dog wags his tail becauso he thinks you have something in tho sack for him. "Adele." Yes, your poem, "He loves mo very dearly," is a remorkublo pro duction, but if you want those pleasant relations to continue, don't lot hi in boo lt The dry goods youth of the Yonkers Statesman says that it rather perplexes a clerk to havo a colored woman enter the store ami usk to be shown some flesh-colored kide. Tho treasurer of Jackson oounty, O., has not only skinped out with about $8000, but has eloped with a pretty girl. The Ohio man never docs tuiugs in hulves. N, Y. Com. Teacher "Dellno tho word excavate." Scholar "It means to hollow out." Teacher "Construct aseuteucoin which the word is properly used." Scholar "Tho baby excavates when it gets hurt." "What ore you BoiiiR to do whon yoa grow up if you dou't know how to cipher?' asked a teacher of a slow boy. "Ini eoniff to bo a sehool-teaoher and make boys do tho ciphoiing," was the re Tlio omstown Herald rotates tuat when a church committeo called upon a merchant for a subscription toward thoir oyster supper, ho liberally offered to contribute tho oyster aud yot thoy wore uot satistied. . A Kentucky newspaper is anxious to enter tho presidents 1 canvass on a plat form calling for whisky lor snake mtos ouly. It's all right if it only adds second plunk calling for more suakes. Bos. Post. 1 "Do you ever observe how very dovo tionul Deacon Buffuni is?" asked a good lady of her husband. "Yes, my doar; the deacon Is very devotional; he always keeps his head bowed in prayed till the contribution box has passed." Som. Journal. ) Oscar W. Certainly, dear boy, tho critics woro wrong they always are.. All your play noeds is revision, ltowrito tho sots, put in new sceuery, und get a few fresh characters, and it will bo a success if it succeeds. Lifo. "How many races are thore?" was asked by a Kentucky sehooliua'um. : Up sprang a shockod youngest, with a ysrd-wido smile on his face, and ex claimed : "'hrerj"- spring meeting, midsummer speeding, and full fairs." "You aro on tho wrong tack," said .the pilot's w ife, whon the hardy son of the loud-scunding sea sat down on it and arose with thousual exclamations. "No," he replioirTiljir a critical exam ination, "I'm ony!a riSut tack, , but shoot mo dead if fjiin t ou the wrong cud of it." -t.lt A man in Pennsylvania cracked a railroad torpedo with a hammer the othor day, and his widow remarked to tho wit of tlio ltoehostor Post-Express, shortly after tho funeral, that William possessed a good deal of information ou. genoral subjects, but .VjD fortunately knew very littlo about torpedoes. Somo time ago a dispatch was sent from St. Louis to Memphis, addressed to "Juinos Giles, pie clerk, steamor Ma genta." There was no man named Gilos on tho boat, aud the message whs, not. dolivored, whereby a lawsuit ensued. Theporson meant was James Gillespie,' olork of tho Magenta. , i Oiiginally, tho peach was a poisonotS almond. In olden times its fleshy parts wero usod to poison arrows, and it was for this purpose introduood into Porsid., Tho transportation and cultivation not ouly removed its poisonous properties, but produool tho delicious fruit which wo now enjoy in its season. - J ' An ancient estate in Leicestershire was offurod on sale on August 7th lust. Thoa The proporty, which comprised an aroa of 3010 acres and produced a gross rontal of $31,000 a year, exclusive of two man-' ors, sporting and hunting, which in the aggregate, worth a considerable Bum, in eluded a great part of tho town of Mar ket Bosworth. The mansion had been for three oonturios the uucestral home of. thfl noble family of Dixio, an J from its windows the battle of Bosworth field, lu which King Ttiouard lost his lifo, was witnessed. This mognillcent proporty, howevor, failed to find a purchaser, as no ono was willing to start with the lim itation offer of $750,000. Trout Striped nidi Cold. I W. B. Bondor, ohief clerk of the Ophir Company, who has just returned iroui loyo, says mut in some lanes suuatou well up toward tho summit of Mount Whitney, aro found tront that have along 11...:. .M... . ,.1.1.. ut.tn Kn at.nl. trout are found in any other pluoe in the known world. - They are from ten to oighteen inches in longth, and thoso who have seen them say they are the most' bountiful fish they have seon in any part of the world. After tho fish have beon out of the water for some time and have luiMiniii .lr an.l all pi v1a1 tllA ltriffltL HDVVUIU J ' ' ....... i- i v. v. , .. w - Q - ness fades out of the golden stripo to a considerable extent. These beautiful trout are found in a chain of lakes lying in a deep canyon. A fow days ago a party went up from Independence and caught 200 of these trout. Without much trotblo they might be planted in many places in the lakes and streams of IIia Miari-ia Tnri.itnrial F.ntetiiriflA. Cvnioca Castings. Among the curi ous things exhibited at the Louisville Southern Exhibition are thirteen medal lions or castings of iron representing Christ and the twelve apostles Those were cast from nativo ores nearly one hundred years sgo, at the old Bellewood furnace upon the Cumberland river, in"1, eastern Tennessee, in molds made oi green sandstone. Considering the rude ness of methods and the infancy of art ia that section and time, they have a finish, smoothness and polish that is remarka ble. The dolineation of features, tbe eyes, brows, chin, etc., are nearly if not quite equal to the very best grade of chisel work.