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rARTINO. Weep nut that wit mart part; raiting are short; eternity U loiij; Life la but one brief stage. And Uwr that aay love ends with Ufa are wrong. Idst to thlue own heart's cry Ix)e cannot die. What though o far awarl Thy thoughts ara atill with ma, and with thaa mine, And abaaiuw baa no power To IfMen what by Datum ia riirine. List to tbina own haart's cry Love cannot die. Then irfere no mora. mT love! Grieving btit aliuwi thy trust in me ia iraalL Faith ia bv mlinnma nrnrrd. For know tbia truth thou canst not lore at all Uuleasthlneown heart cry Love cannot die. ANECDOTE OF A QUEEN. A fcterr faarrrnlag Dewaarrr Cor. Han Francisco Call. The arrival in this city the other day of that "Queen of Tahiti" who was no quoen of Tahiti at all. remind ms of a story the yuecn-dowager Emma of the Hawaiian islands told mo of her ex perience the first time tthe visited Han Francisco. "Zinnia," a she ia fa mil iarly but always resprct.'ully spoken of Dj her poople, i throo-quartsrs "white, aa the expression goos, Iming the daughter of an r nghsh father ami a "half white" (Hawaiian and English) mother. Hhe ia therefore not darker than decide llv brunette Caucasian. In her suite of females wore a number of half-white and pure-blooded Hawaii ana. One of t'te latter waa a strapping nig girl, witu the Independent swagger and upright carriage peculiar to band- wicn Island women of all clashes, and thin woman nearly evervbodv here who itaw tho narfv insisted upon waa the queen. ISho waa b g aud very dark, which satisfied tin popular mm con cerning Emma bott.r thnn tho queen's own proper description : l'ctite in person and comparatively light in completion. "Lalani" that was the luggirl'i name received the homage of clerks, shop peoplo, ehainltorninids, waiters, boll-lioys, and tho unmformod puLlio gonernlly with such evidences of royal condescension as she thought tho occasion demanded, boing en conrageti in maintaining tho common delusion by tho queen, who thus os caned in and out of tho hotels and stores, etc., unnoticod and ineon venionco l. Tho party was in a fndiion ublo dry-goods Iioiiho one day, w hen, as usual, the crowd was thiokost around Lalani, and thinnest about Emma. The former, seeing some particularly rich and Ua.lmglv bright silk and voivct, ordered a liunai supply lor a dross, to bu sent to her hotel. "And when shall I send tlio bill, your majesty inquired the over cautious though obsequious salesman. "Oh, never mind about that; Lalani will pay tho cosh now," replied Lulaui herself, and then, attracting the queon's attontion try speaking in uutive to her, nddod in English: "Here Lalani, see what my bill is aud puv it, please. To have rebuked tho hussy there would havo niiido a scone, but tuat con siderntion aside, the splendid assurance of the girl, and the split of the ha f grinning, lialf-all'rightod faces of the other women in the suite, drove out of lior mind whatever iiidigiiitioii the qu .en may liavo felt, stepping to the . wtlosmnn, sho inquired, "flow much, please?" The queen ralhor choked at the nnswor, "One hundred and fifteen dol lurs, please, but swallowing her amazement the best she could, pro ceodod to settlo the bill in good gold coin, while the triumphant and only slightly trembling real Lalnni regarded tho success of her joko in apparently queenly iiidiflcrrnt-'o to such trillea as dry goods bills. In telling this story Quoen Emma concluded : "I never even rebuked the girl, who I afterward learned, played the joke on a 'daro' from the other girls. I thought I owed that much to Iter for tho share of the public attention lif- tendod for mo which she roliovod me of." rrntrried Ilia fr'auilly. Arknimnw Traveler. A Little Hock lawyer of prominence went homo tho other morning at an uu seemly hour. "Why are you so Into?" askod hit wifo. "1 am not late. I am early. " "Whv didn't you como'homo last night?" uPrunk." "Couldn't you w alk V . "Not without staggering." "Why didn't you stagger borne, then? "Well, I'll tell you. My houso has the name of being an orderly place, and I didn't want people to be seen stagger ing into the yard. Every man must protect his family, you know." Artlflrlal Cork. tScleutiflo Journal. Artificial cork is among the recent Gorman inventions. The method of production consibts in mixing powdered cork with starch and water, and kuead ing the mass while boiling hot until it ia thoroughly mixed. This sulwtanee ia then poured into moMs for forming uie articles, ana aitorwara uno 1 at a very high temperature. The material ia described as quite light, and pos sesses nonconducting properties, Lamlaaaa llaraeaa, (Exchange. ' Lnminoua harnesa is the latest de viie used in Eugland to make the dark horse viaible at nisht. A phosphoric, paint applied to the b'iukers, collar and other Prominent parti of the trappings is usod to bring alout the result, aud the night trotter, thus prepared, is said to resemble chain lihtuing as he plunges into the darkness of the coun try side. t'oaaalldatUa. la IVe'pcrt. Cuuimlnfs Clirion. A subscriber at Caatoa, Tex., writes ns that there is a widoier iu t'iat town who has nineteon cliildren an I is aux lose to wed the Alabama widow w,tU twonty-one children, meution of whom was mado-ia a reoeut issue of this pa per. The Alabama widoar cn 1 take no tic and govern herself accor J mgly. FLAT JANITORS' TYRANNY. The Aataerat oa (he Raxemeat Maor ('antralllng lha Can m laaarjr aaS lllaiarblns; the Family reaee. New York World. The absolute tyranny practice 1 by New lork janitors U now being freely discussed. W hat matters it to a family living on that modern contrivance for putting oustt cople into the smallest osibla space a rlat whether a high or low tariff be the policy of the gov eminent when every quart of milk and every pound of str-sk that comes into the house ore levied on by the enter prising gentleman iu charge of the basement? The "butcher, the baker.. anil, the green grocer," are equal sufferers at the hands ol the tyrant 1, lor the profit on the goods is small enough at led, aft 1 how can they afford to nr it or some times 10 percent, on a 1 their salon? The buyers are made to pay the difforenca in receiving short weight, indifferent quality aud watery milk, and they must submit or wage perpot ual warfare. When a family rents a flat the janitor generally suggests that it will be wise to have coal put in at once. It is so much more convenient to have it on hand. He knows a coal dealer who has the best of coal at the lowest prices, and it is better to let him order it bet ter, indeed, if one has any craving for peace. Perhaps the tenaut has had a bakor with whom he has dealt for years, but he must give him np. The janitor has a man who supplies all the families n the house, and one will have to get use I to inferior bread. .Should the tenant persist in having his own man he will, if very persis'ent, s.ipplv him for one week, after which, in all probability, he will cease his visits. The janitor will begin, as he enters, by tolling him that ho makes too much noise, or that lie believes him to bo a sneak thief, or that he is a goose not to understand the working of the "dummy," and finally that, nnother time, he will kick him out. Iho baker is at t'r-4 surprised, and th'uks he has probably run across an escaped lunatic, but after putting up with abuse for a few davs, and perhaps tiuding the base went door locked on bun, ho retires t sot' k customers who are not guarded li a llei co ogre. "Hut, dear 1110! that is oulr the be ginning ol the troublo, said a very gentle-look n ( little womau. "What uunoys me most is the dreadful fashion pur janitor has of screaming np the speakuig'tuuo for the ashes, lie gener ally chooses the time when wo are at dinner, und if the ashes are not sent to him at once wo havo to keep them until tho next day. Hut you see ho doesn't call for ashes, but 'garbage.' Whe w e ato our first dinner here my husband nnd I wero sitting quietly disuussing our new quarters, when wo were stai tied by a shrill cry of 'Swill,' com iu apparently from directly behind iny chair. Wo found afterwards that it was tho janitor's pleasant method of letting us know ho was ready for the nshes. Wo allowed him to do tin once more and then uir hus band told him Hint if he did not improve his language wo would complain to tho landlord. Ho did reform in a measure and now usuall calls 'Ashoi' or 'Ciaibage' unles we 0 fend him. It was only lust week, when we tin J a mo company to dinner about whom wo wore ory particular, that tho janitor happened to bo cross, and so as wo sat at tho table tho samo awful cry which startled 1110 on tli lirht evening astonished mv guods. Of course wo paid no attention to it nt tho time, but 1 felt the blood rush in my face nnd I knew 111 v husband would feul even more angrv about it men usuall allow these small affairs to worry thorn more than women do. She ictirod to see what tho elevator boll was ringing lor. It was a vory pretty flat, with n T.u-y attractive young mistress, whoro the reporter whs told that the janitor was a model of cleanliness, sobriety nud hou cstv. "Hut. oh dear I ho is so very crost," a ladv added. "Ho scolds mv little boy every tune ho takes out 111s velocipede, will nut allow him to staud on the front steps even for a few minutes, and altogether ho is about as disagreeable ns ho can be. Hut you see ho attends to his duties very thoroughly, so we cannot complain." les, having an elevator is a great convenience," said dweller on the up per tloor of largo aud expeuMve apartment house, but of course when we are out in the evening we have to climb tho stairs, and a very serious uu dertaking it seems, too. Our janitor is vory good on iho w hole, though I must ray lie prevents ones liomoxooping from going very smoothly. 1 have been unable to keep any servant. There are only my husband and myself, and so I consider one girl quite enough, especially aa all the washing is given out, mid the work on tint is always much lighter than in house, as there is no running up aud down atairs. Hut on the floor below ns there are two girls employed, fact I should never have discovered had 1 lived here for five years alono. Hnt my girls never re bero for wees without Innwmg II about it. 1 be trouble ia that they all talk everything over with the iauiCor nd .ia wife, who tell them that to girls are little enough on aflat Who ever heard of one be. ng e.pected to do 11 the work, etc ? The result is that at the end of few days they become verr dissatisfied, grow impertinent, and 1 have to discharge them. 1 have had five during the past month, and almost one-half of the time have boeu witliout any. You wdl find that everybody liv ing on rlat will complain of trouble in keeping servants, and i believe this to be entirely duo to the influence cf the janitor, whese rooms fo:m n ien dezvous for the gills. '1 ley id; et, com pare notes and complain." Of course, the janitors have thc!r aide of the story to to'.l aa well cs the tenants. Often they complain that i; is almott impossible to keep the ImlN nd stairs clean, ai people sreni t i l avo no regard for the work they make by throwing cigar ends, a?raps" of pi; r r, etc., on the careU; that people will stand on the steps or allow their chil dren to do so, w..en they know it to be distinct'? against the rules of the house, that in sni'e of said rules brndlos are constantly carried in at the front en trance, containing bread, cake, elo. rilllac the Msar Barrel. (New York H111. A down-town flour dealer was past ing a gaudy label on the head of a Hour barrel when yonng ra in stopped by his side to watch the operation. As the dealer gave the label a parting wipe he straightened np, paste brush in hand, and, looking aidewise at the laln-1, said : "it is easier to fill a hirrel with flour than to paste on the label." The young man looked astonished, and, seeing that, the dealer asked: "How do you suppose barrels are filled with flour ?" "Shoveled in with a scoop " "That's where you are wrong. There is a flour packing machine. It would be imposibli to pack a barrel of flour by weight in the common flour bar rel, using only a scoop. The Hour-packer consists of an upright shaft suspended several feet above the floor. On the lower end is a screw liko a propeller wheel, or more like the cutting blade of a post-hole auger. A tube of iron aliout as large as the inside of a barrel is suspended around the vertical shaft, so that the lottoin of the tube tis on a level with the lower end of the shaft. The barrel is placed on platform below the tub 1, and the platform and barrol are raised by coiled springs working on a shaft that wiuds up small chains until the bottom of the barrel reaches the bottom of the tube. '1 he flour is fod into the tube from a hopper, the screw revolves by steam, pressing the Hour against the bottom 'of the "barrel. As the barrel tills it is forced away from the screw. The tens on of the cni e l spring is ar ranged to overcome the weight of the flour, and thus the flour is forced into tho barrol under an even procure from top to bottom. "How long does it take to till a bar rel?" About as long as it would take yon to wink. Sacks are tilled in the same wav. nniall tubes, according to the size of the Backs, aro tmed, and the coiled spring is adjusted to suit large and unall s icks. There are several different styles, but they all cost tho flour packer 10J ea di." Men Who Have Iteen Overfed. New York Cor. Inter Ocean. IfThomnsKiusella halpaid practical attention to some form of athletics, he would still lo tho living editor of The Hiooldyn Eagle, lie was a big tdruclure, and for ninny years ho made active use of only Ins hoad and stom ach, leaving tho rest of his ma:e-up in idleness. He ovorworkod h.s brain. As the hoad of tho leading journal ( f a village of about fKHj.OiK) inhab itantsfor 8'ich it llrooklyn in its hubits of life ho was hns imper sonal than any other journalist in a great city. He did not seek to avoid this, but rather tried to till the place by taking a hand in politics, society, and other pub io affairs. He ovor-worked his stomach. Club at tachments, dinners of occasion, nnd the luuctioiis of a gonial host under his Own roof, sowed to put more victunls nnd drink into him than he could digest. Plenty of exercisa would have mudo him capable of do.ng U'lhurt nil this writing, oiitiug, managing and drinking. iut ho do.'liued to take the tiuio or muko tho effort. Ho sank con sequently into liver complaint, jaun dice, and a condit'on which ma lo him defenseless against pneumonia when it attacked him. tl en. Orunt is onother man viho has, by high, if not by hard, living and too little exercise, rendered himself liablo to dentil fto:n causes which othoi w.so might be easily ovo.'couio. It was on his arrival at homo from a meal too hoavy to comfortably carry, that in alighting from his carriage ho got the fall which has kept him in doors ever Rinco. He hai led a lazy nnd overfed life ever s'.neo his arm v davs, and that is why his condition now is al.irui'ng. "Ho ha too much dogged pluck to die so easily," said an admirer. "ihat is what tliev raid of hmsolla, I replied, "and now we are goiuj to his funeral." The Sinn with lonn 1,1 re. Chic 1 go Herald "M ddler." Wo met a man on a cor.ur who sim plv bowed and passed on, Tho bov uul something in it whioli nt.raoto.l mv ntte:itiiu,and I naked who ho was. "Ho is a gambler the proprietor of a g.im bling house iu t.iH city. Or the al leged proprietor .'or you 11 list know that you can't chnrgo it cn a man iu this city unless yon ran prove it. I havo heard him tell some strange things, for ho seems to liko to study what he soes. lie tout me onco aV0.1t tho infatuation which some men had for gambli.ig. Then he reh'o.l nn in stance 01 an out pentieiran wno was the superintendent of 11 Sunday school in one of the suburbs. Ho stolo uway from hia villncre everv dav. und .imn In the c.ty, played all day, took his trait home, and to for ns anybody in the gambling house knew, ho was in the former a sport, in the latter a consist ent, Christian gentleman. He won vory large sum one n ght, ir.ilkad away, and has never gambled since. I nrder- tand ho reocntlv contributed laro'y to the louml.ngof acliantabie institut on. A Itnjah'a Thraae. Ciiongo Dfrald. A huso crvstal throne has just boen manufactured in Englaud for au Iadiiui ra.ah. Somo idea of tho elaborate workmsnship which has been cmp'.oycd in the construction mny I e 1 ainod from he fact thut tho fii.in s of tiie leps are each tut into 3-1 mathematically co- tuat) facets. Wood ami iron are u-od to some extent to make tho throne tub- tautinl, but all inch t arts ate cover d with class nnd h.d len. Ti e cushions tnd hangings are of crimson vehet, and I cgetLcr the ra.ah is destined to ros es g( r eotis na probably very uucomfcittblo B?it. Illit ! Ilaai rrrer. To gt rid of ths sme'.l o! frc!i mint in a chnmber or lining room, slice a few onions ar.d plate, theiu in the middle o' the rio.ii. After t int it w. 11 be desir.i 1 j to cet rid of the smell of the ou.ons. This can et ily b d ne by putting on another coit of paint. JUSTICE WAfTE'8 DILEMMA. AtnaslBa ASventqrea af the Head of the ttnpraaja C'aart. Washington Cor. Chicago News. Having an imperative engagement in Baltimore sometime ago, Chief Justice Waits, of the supreme court, hurried to the Ualtiraore & Ohio depot ten minutes before the train started. As he was abont to purchase ticket he discov ered to Lis horror that he hud only a few pennies in his pocket. He loo.ied around for a friend, but, finding none he resolved to nse a desperate measure. He tiled up in the line to the ticket window. As he reached the agent be smiled an awful smile across the full width of his enormous mwith, and asked the ticket agent if he knew him. "No, I don't," snarled the agent; "and what is more I don t want to. What do you want?" "I want a ticket to Baltimore and re turn. I am the chief justice of the supreme court. I have no money with me. It is purely a;cidental. 1 can give you my personal cheok," repliod the representative of justice. Oh, X know you. 1 know alt the bloods. But that dodge won't work on me. I have jnst had two members of the cabinet try to bilk me out of tickets and no chief justice dodge gets me, Take your ngly mug out of the window and get out of the way of people w ho have money. The chief justice glared. He could not tine the young man for contempt of court. ' He felt worse than if he had been a real fraud, and he blushed and perspired so that the agent had his be lief strengthened. The chief justice dashed out of the station to see if he could not find some one to identify him lie had only five minutes left, it was too short a time to run to the capitol. He saw no one. Across the street there was a saloon and an eating-house. The ehiof justice made a rush for the place, but stopped at the door. Spying a private eutrance, be rushed in and ac costed the proprietor with the frantio inquiry, "Do you know me?" ' Yer bet yer head I do, yer honor, siul a short-haired, lreckied-face man behind the bar; "ye are the boss of the shupramo coort. I seo ye ivory day going by here on tho cars." "Will you cash my check? I have no time to explain." Here the justice grabbed a piece of paper and a ron upon a desk near by, and began to write hurriedly. "Shure I will. I have seen old I ovs off on a tear before, get out of money. 1 rtisnt me, sor. is it a twenty ye win ? Here it is. Will ye have a drop before ye ruu Hnt before any further explanation could be made tho chief justice grabbed tho money aud was running across the street, in some way the ticket agent had learned of his blunder during the the judge's absence, and was all polite uesi when he saw tho money. Mr. Waite barely made the train, but he has not had siu-h a shojk to his dignity tince ho wont upon the bench of the supremo court. I'enple with Nhort Meinorlea. New York Sun. "I see many curious ca-es hero," said the detective, "of people who forget just what they most wish to remember, who do proeiselv the thing that they did not intend doing, and who go just whero they had no idea of going. I had a short-minded case lust week of a man who has givon me more or less (rouble for two years past, but this time ho cxcolled himself. Ho was hardly aboard of his traiu before hewaso.T a;aiu nnd rushing for this room; he h id lost something, of course. Hut what was it? He wont over and nndr the benches, turned his pockets inside out, and even searched his hat. The train had been gone fifteen minutos, and ho had not even got so far as to remem ber what he was searching for. At last he gave it up, and wont to the tele graph office, where he" wrote out a mes sage to a Philadelphia friend to wntnh every man who left the train which ha had intouded to take, nnd try to recog nize any of his property, particularly his 'mode's.' Ho was an inventor, anil thought the lost article might have been a model. Then he started back to his olnce to see if he ha I left his lost prop crty thero. As he was crossing West street ho chanced to run against what ho was looking for. It was his Ron. a bright lad, whom he had taken to busi ness with him iu the morning. That telegram to Philadelphia cost him $3. "1 believe I have now on hand nn a sortn.oiit of every known variety of suori memory in me market. The re mark most frequently heard from the great r.nrel ables" is, 'There. 1 tout 111 it man to remind me of it.' They are the men who forget because they don't givo a'.ten tiou to anything; thev are always in a hurry, nnd always get left. One of my custoxers ha 1 a memory which may be called uo;iiiy stiort. lesterdav he for got w here ho had put a package, spoke to me about it and found it five minutes afterward in his coat tail po.-ket. This morning he cirue run ing np to me and asked me if I had heard anything about his lost package. I said I thought he would find it in his tail pocket, which he did. He first forgot the article, then remembered af ier he cot homo -that he had forgotten it, but forgot that he had found it. It s rather tough when vou come to look at it." Bread fram rasa, 'cHOtiflo rnwa. On tho west coast of England grows a sort of sei grass (porphyra lainiata) which is made iuto something very lino bre id. Inthemiin it is gathered bv women; thev then wash it and rluck all other plants carefully from it After this it is boiled for some two hours: then the moss is cut in pieces with knivei aud kneaded into loaves. Oat meal is then streaed over it to trive it f rotter coh'sion and a more noting appearance, an I then it is baked. It keeps in summer for four davs, and in wiiter for eight. Many women on the const of lVvonsiiire r aril their living by se'iiiig this bread, an 1 most of it it bent t Swjnva, in Wales, where it is much l.keJ by the poorer cla;ses. La-idon : Ua!f our forebodings of onr reighbora are bjt our wis tei which we aie ashatned to utter ia any other form. People Wha LUa the Rallroafla. Detroit Fma Preas.1 Thee is distinct railroad pop ulation that is constantly grow ing. It is composed of com mercial travelers, lecturers, show agents, actor and actresses. They eat more meals in hotel cars and railroad meal stations than they do at home or in hotels. They spend more nights in sleeping-car bunks thaa in beds. To s person who travels only occasionally it is interesting to note now thoroughly equipped theso professional jonr neyers are. Upon entering sleep inir-oar- early in the evening, for instance, they remove their shoes and put on slippers, hang their hat np and don silk traveling caps, take off' their coats and put on short sick coats or smoking jackets. In the morning, when the occasional traveler, obliged to wear the only cloth ing he has brought, goes to the toilet compartment in his coat and vest, and thus struggles in an effort to cleanse his skin without soaping his sleeres or his coat collar, these professionals again excite his envy. They come along all smiles, having slept well and feeling perfectly at borne. They hang up their smoking jackets and display snowy white robes, ornamented witn colored binding and braid, and capable of being thrown open at the nock and rolled np above the elbows. From a pocet in the suspended jacket one pro duces an ivory-backed brush and costly comb, a tootu-brusti, and perhaps a nickel-plated soap box. Another opens out a prettily embroidered receptacle, composed of many folds, each one a Kcket and each one labeled. In these pockets are a comb, a brush, a tooth brush, shaving-brush, soap box, pair of ra.or cases, nnil-hriudi, whisk broom, hand gluss and cologne bottlo. Their familiarity with their surround ings is ns noticeable a part of their equipment. A glance out of the car window is almost certain to reveal to them thoir whereabouts w hen they arise or when thoy are waked np, or are abont to go to bed. They carry their tinio tables in their heads, and give good ad vice as to which station has the best caterer. They are sociable and demo cratic. Slnde IIIh Fortune Out Went. Chieniro Herald "Train Talk.") Been out west, have you ?" I said to a smart-looking young man who sat in the seat beside me. "Yes, sir; been out there for ten years. Where were you Incited? Xo place in particular. Chnuged around a great deal." Make any money ? "Yes, made a fortune. Am now -going east to enjoy it. Shall live iu a big stone mansion at one of the prettiest towns in New York state. Don't sup pose you will believe it, sir, but it's a fact, I shall have 150 or UOO servants to w ait on me. I shall keep my own physician right on the premises. J shall entertuin hundreds of guests from all over the state of New York and a lew from the territories." "Now. that will do," I interrupted. "I'm not a greeny; no use to tell such inch stories to me." It's a fact, thonch." he replied, "and here's the proof of it." And he hn!d up bis Mumls aud exhibited a pair of hand cuffs adorning his wrists. Yes, sir, he's mv prisoner, nnd I'm taking him from Montana to Auburn." said a keen-eyed, bearded man behind him. "A misunderstanding between you and the special agent in regard to ho whereabouts of some registered etters, wani t it, Jim ! -A Civil lard Indian. Chicago Herald "Train TalU."l On a Fort Wayne train approaehinir imvago tnere was a short-sutnred, straight-Hatred, copper-colored Indian. going back to the reservation after a rip to the Indian school at Carlisle. Pa. He wore a nice suit of clothps. which fitted him badly, and a paper couar wiinoui any nocktio. lie at tended strictly to his own business, nnd wns unmolested until a yoiinn pric came into me smoKing-car from t he sleeper. "An Indian, I guess," said the young chnp, as he lighted a cigarette. And then, approaching the son of the plaius, bo attracted general attention by shout ing, with strange gestures: "Ugh, heap biglnjunl Omaha? Sioux? Pawnee? See great father? Have drink fire water; Warm Injuns blood!" The roppor-colored savage gazed at the young man a moment, with nn ill-concealed expression of contempt on his face, and then he said, with good pronunciation, "Yon must have been reading some dime novels, sir. I am goiog back to my people in Montana, after spending three years in the east at scnoof. 1 advisb you to do the same thing. No, I do not drink whisky. Where I live gentlemen do not carry whisky-flasks iu their pockets." The cigarette was not smokod out, and, amid a general laugh, a much crest fallen young man retired to the sleep-ing-ooach. A Qnerr Article of Diet. Western Latter Indians eat the horns of the deer when in the velvet. One day, on the Sioux reservation, in Dakota, deer was miiea near camp and bronirht in j..;... ii .:ii . , , p. rui.ua. Bigm 01 h, rauianiote, Minneconjou of some 50 years, dropped his usual statuesque attitude, knocked off the horns, and, eeatnr himself by the fire, began at the points to eat them, velvet and all, without oookiug, as if they were most delicious morsels. The others of the party looked cn as if they envied him. They said the "alwars ate them so." A Tarantala'a mt. Cincinnati Ti:nei-S a-. From a casual examination the nest looks like a rudely fashioned clay cyl inder, something on the stvle of "nu'd dauber's nest, but on larger scale, leing about one and one-eight inches in diameter, with walls one foirth of an inch thick. The tipper portion to all appearances was her:r.o:icallv seabd. but on reversing it tiio top dropped down, disclosing the interior, wmrh was beautifully Lned with asilkp.n !. covered by hinged vdve or lid. I adv'a .Tnnrnal . TV1, . - . is threadbare it 'is easy to p.ck a hole in it. 1 A LANGUAGE IN A FORTNIGHT. Haaaethlag Magg-pated That la qaite IMffereat Krans the Caveraatleaa txpon. Chicago Trlbun. 'Die art of making oneself understood in a foreign language may be easily ac quired and should receive attention at the hands of every tourist The first rule of all is, do not carry a grammar, or, if yon do, never look at it; for in or der to speak the language in manner to be understood utter ignorance of its grammar is t primary essential. 8e ondly, never attempt to ask for anything, or to say anything, in the form of sen tence given for the purpose in any of tiie "familiar conversation" books; and, as general rule, avoid as far as possible the use of any sentences whatever. Thus, suppose the subject to bo eggs. The grammatical tourist looks to his "Conversations Lexicon" under that head, and finds sentence such as this: "Landlord, if your fowls are in flour ishing condition. I shall be supremely obliged if yon will do me the very great favor of preparing few recently da posited eggs for my supper." lie reads this from the book, pronouncing every word most incorrectly, and laying the greatest emphasis on the adverbs and prepositions; and the poor host is in state of desolation. The practical traveler never attempts to speak any complimentary phrases, but always looks his compliments, shakes hands, smiles, nods, etc. ; sits down to table, o)kus his mouth, points down the mid dle of it, and exclaims, "Eggs 1" and not another syllable tdl assured that that one is nudorstood. Instead of reading from the "Con versations Lexicon" such a sentenoo as, "Being rather dyspeptic, and occasion ally subjoct to flatulency, I find it indis pensable to my comfort to avoid eating hard-boiled eggs; will you, therefore, be so kind as to boil my eggs no more than is necessary to render them pulpy ?" he points to the eggs nnd ex claims, "Soft!" If the subject be politics, instead of saying, "In the present aspect of Euro) ican affairs there is reason to be lieve that rnpture of diplomntio rela tions, or even actual hostilities between England and Russia are imminent" beholds up his right fist, and says : "England!" then his left, and says, "Kussia!" then he thumps thorn to gether, and says, "Fight to-morrow P If yon can thus divest your mind en tirely of nil prejudices concerning num ber, gender, case, tense, person, mood, aud all sentimeutnlism relative to agree ment with nominatives using none but the words necessary for expressing the main ideas, omitting all the connecting words, and those which merely express the relations of words, nnd taking care that ench idea, before it is expressed, shall be mentally clear and definite, with a sharp outline, and no metaphor ical blur or shading you may learn to converse intelligibly in any European language in the coarse of two or three The I pas Tree. Cr. New Orleans Times-Domoerat Java is the home of the upas trees, nnd as it is only recently that true scien tific explanations have been given of them, probably one theory may be in teresting. Wonderful stories were told nbont the valleys where they grew. N living creature was able to live an in stant exposed to its effects, and even birds iu living over would drop dead, so that tho whole valleys were covered with their skeletons. When scientifis men first began to inquire into it they could only with the greatest difficulty induce the natives to accompany them to the spots, with such dread and super stition were they held. A peculiar fea ture in the earthquakes in this part of the world soon solved the problem and exploded the theory as to the trees themselves. It was found that at cer tain times the sulphurous v ors and noxious gases escaping through craoks in the earth iu theso valleys were so dense and poisonous as to be destrno tive to animal life, and at such times had so a fleeted the natives that they re-. tainod the memory of such places and avoided them forever afterward. No evil effects wero experienced by those w ho traversed tho valleys, though there wns unmistakable evidence that at peri odic intervals they were deservingly to be avoided; rREFKRUXD TUKA'ECKTIS. "Gath" iu Philadelphia Times. Emery Storrs, the reparteoist, tells & story of a gentleman who bought a bill of goods for $1,500. The firm being suspicions of their customer put $300 on the usual prices. The customer could only raise $1,200, which w as the regular rate, the rest being in excess. He said ho would give his note for the remainder, and they took it Then he said he was in tho habit of receiving present on making so large bill. They gave him a necktie. He bitterly objected to such a meau little present. The proprietors then concluded to pre sent him with his note for the $300. He took it with a look of cunning, and then said : Well, Mr. Alexanders, I think I will prefer the necktie, if it's just the same to you."' European Mleeploc-Cara. Chicago Tribune. 81eephi2-cara are now buiit in Munici by s well-known railway firm. Four cars wera recently ordered of this firm by the Paris Constantinople company. They will each con tain one sleepinz-room, one aittinr-room for day travel, one pantry, and one toilet-room, and are intended to be sufficient for the ac commodation of twenty-five passengers. Each will cost abont 40,000 marks. Plana have been drawn by tlio firm for a set of four can containing sleeping accommoda tion! only, with bathing arrangeuienu at tached. Thomas A. Edison : Tve beer trvintr ' experiments for a dtcade, and eteryVav almost some w ise nianre-e3 and calls me a fool for all tar pains, lint tha world moves in spite of the Davys aud Lw-dners of science. Let them Wj out. The platform sneaker has his espocial dangers as conspicnnusly as the lawver or the clergyman; he as ,nirei, ir.senai- .h" ha,,-it of el litpr. and the bet- er uia i ncuig ma more be beco.xoi tho stave 01 nis own Ultnt.