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j. I -' 3 i IN THE CONSERVATORY. ' Earl Marble.) But wo muiit return! What will they tayl . Yut, I know it' awful nice. ' In the window bore, from tlie others away, With a taxtn now and tlicn of the ice, And now and thi n of Ob, you wretch! It wann't at all required That you should Illustrate thin with a sktitoh The ttpweb that of course you admired. No marbr how naughty. There you bay . RKllld ' The 'cbvwicnl Grecian knot' In which you like my hair to lx colled, And I really don't know what Other mischief you haven't done! Your just T1...-T .. v.... inuun lilrn A vim! hair Why can't you mn ink trirnrthinz on trust, Ami bo more uanny anil nicer Thcrel I'm ready now. What! just on more? Oh. aren't you a darling toiw? .And love me o( oue, two, three, four! There! rome now, dearest, plentm. I'm almost afraid of tho parlor Rlnre. When tbny look at my lipi they'll tee The ldsca ujxm UVui." ".No, not thoro; But, tweet. In your eyes, maybe!" A STROKE OF LIGHTNING. II VUlcd Clll ! While LUtenlnc to a Concert. Denver Opinion.) 1.st week we went up to the Coliseum at Minnenpolia to hear Theoilore Thomas' or e Iwstin, the Wnpier trio and Christine Mlt ton. The Coliseum In a large rinlc Just out of Minneapolis on the road between tliat city and 8t 1'nul. It ran tent o0(X people comfortnlily, but the management like to wtxliio 4.fi00 ix-opl In there on a warm day and then watch the jicriplratJon trickle , out through the clapboard! on the outside. On Uie chains aftur- noon, Uiirinj; the inalinee performance, tlie buihlirur was struck by lightning nnd a hole knocked out of tho Corinthian duplex that surmounts the obliqna portcullis on the off siila The reader will see at once th" Io"aliou of the bolt. The ilghtiiing struck tho flag KtafT. ran down the lcz of a man who was repairing the electric light, tiiok a chew of Ills toliacco, turned his hoot wrong mlo oui and indu:-ed him to change hit sock, toyed with chilblain, wrenched out a toft corn nnd roeuishlv put it in his ear, then ran down the electric light wire, a mrt of it lin ing an engagement in the Coliseum and tho balance following the wire to the depot, where it miulo double-pointed toothpicks of a pole fifty feot high. All this was dons very briefly. Thoso who have soon lightning toy with a Cottonwood tree know that tho fluid makes a specialty of it at ouco and in a brief manner. The lightning in (his rum broke the glitu in tho skylight, nnd deposited the broken frag lunnte on a half-doicn paro,uette chairs that were empty bscnuse tho sjxcul.tors who owned them couldii t get liut Sou apiece, ana were wailing for a man to mortgngehlM mil deneo and sell a team. lie couldn't make the transfer in time for a matinee, so tha tentii were vacant whim the lightning struck. The immediate and previous fluid then sliot athwart the auditorium in the direction of tho platform, where it nearly frightened to death a large chorus of children. Women fainted, ticket speculator! fell $J on dtsirablo eutn. and strong men coughed up a clove. The scene lieircared description. I intended to have mid that liefore, but forgot it Theodore Thomas drew a full breath, and Christine Nilmon drew hnr salary. Two thousand strong mon thought of their wasted lives, and .'.(tOO women felt for tholr buck hair to see if it was still thero. I toy, there fore, without successful contradiction, that tho scene lieggared description. 1 A World In Pawn. Federal Australian.) ' Tlio lilcu of the whole globe Isdng bj pothe- raleil by count lew millions of debtors to calculable number of creditors is a very startling one, when It Is abruptly and nakedly presented. And it is dilllcult to imuginu so vast an estate in liquidation, or to , conjecture t wlmt bankruptcy court tho creditors would prove their debts, or who would lie the otllelal axsigneos to collect and distribute the aweta. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the whole world Is in iawil, and that its balance sheet shows as on aggregate of liabilities which is aleolutely plling. They have Isien siumnwi up in Tlie Fortnightly Review by Mr. A. J. Wilson, an exiwrionotxl writer on financial subjects, nnd tlie totrd is the tiiKndous sum of i.:im,(MO,(KiO an amount which, if reproxenteil In toverelgua, 11 wow take a man 1?J years to oount, at the rate of a sovereign a minute, without a momunt'i . ' 'oumitlon from beginning to end , , To defray the interest on this enormous debt reouire i.-'OO.OW.tKK) PT aiiiuim, wbicti Mr. U'ilwm repretnnU to bo fully equal to the entire earnings of e.tKW.lKW ot people; ana i Mid each individual in these H,IH1),U.I mip " ' port a family of three iroiis only IkwiI him self, the interest upon these Ueiua wouiu mi ply the alworption of the entire support of a lxuniLition coual to that of the I'nited Kingdom." Ot course, a calculation of this kind takes no account of tho debut owing by tnuiiiciiiali- ties, counties, cities, railway, canal, gas, water, hisurani and other public eomjiaiiica Hut thtue would assume still vaster propor tions, for tho capital sunk lu railways alone is ' 4,(MKi,()iK),(MKl, and this Is of couive a del; owing to bond nnd shareholders; whilo the local debui state and city in the I'nited Mates amount to ilTS.UXUKX). The mothei countJ v is the greatest pawubroker in th world, ami drawl AaW.tXW.OOO jer annum from the nations and colonic indebted to her. Mr. Wilson Is of opinion that the time Las arrived when a stop should be put to this .. system of mortgaging the future to nirr t the exicuditure of tlie present, Bint wnen J.ng- , . laud, more ixirucuiariy, snonia iin 10 e lliiguisb hr itiug liabilities. Rut his ad- vice is not likely to attract much attention. Is'atious are just at improvident us indiviilii' als, and not one of them hat ever lieen de tcrml from nisliing iutoa war cf ambiUoo ' or aggrandirement by concidenitiont of tlie lnu-itens it w at entailing on puttcnty; aud the Uuitcd ISUites it the ouly one whi h bit taken prompt measure to extricate icLf from ' vationul debt 111 llalrplna. Cor. Fan Krancitco Chrvnicle.) ' A friend of mine who knows Joaquin Mil ler gave me a funny description of how lie used to go culling with him in Washington. That was liefore Joaquin cut his hair and then he carried It all carefully fixed up with hairpins. They would reach the house and ring the belL If the lady were out they would go away. If the were at home Joamiu would take oft hit bat, carefully take out th hairpins, k-t the hirsute mass ' fall over hit shoulders and maivh into the ttitwing-roi ra with tha poetio stride of Walker of Nicaragua. Philadelphia Call: IVpla with delirnU olfactory perceptions may be inUTei'ed in knowing that a a rule out of 1,UU0,000 cod Cih eggs only 100 survive. Boston Courier: Bugar it selling at 2 centt pound in many pltcet In Cuba, an I the qurttlon arise what do th grocers adulterate th sand with I the dark noun. i 1'blll.di.liia Call.) f'tf.none. Bwkv." said the little lome robbk-r, dropping his h"ftd uiu his hand and nM'.np, be felt, the pemomucaiuni oi d;-Tiir. I ve ofrrnlel me i.m, sniiicnow, nd Ho won't li t me have a chance to keep a home over your hfads. I know I'm not all I oujrht to be, aud I'm punished." Jlccky went ncroM the mom aud putteu nor htlslianr on the back. "Now don't bike on, ick, don t, Mie saii. Tliat can't be, for Heas knows all, knows how good you are. Rotter timea'll eome. i ney re furo to; and you'll 1 rewarded for nil your patience yet 'The darkest hour it just lie fore dny.'" Tl.o cobbler shook his head. "I've L'i'n ui) hope. Bm ky," he wid, "what with tho rent and the bill for medicine. It wot like me to get Mck just nt tho worst, and no work coming In; nnd the new shop with tho gilt t!gn tempting folks from our shabby basement even for tho mending of their old shoe. I'm crudied down. Why, you are as thin and white at a glwrt. You haven't tasbd meat this week, Reeky." "No more have you," snid Reeky. "Hut la, why there is folks think meat unhulsome, Wegitariaiis, Nick, they call 'cm; where I lived out once I saw one." "Rid he wiy bread wm unhulfome, toor asked Nick. "Oh, gal, I 'ish Id left you llvlnir out at servico, nT and bright anil happy; but I meant to do lietler tliuil I did. If I was an ablc-W.Itd man I'd work somo- iow and somen here, but II the lnt or noth ing with me. Reeky, why didn t you tiike Tim Rolf, the wlholwright, and m nd tlio lit tle limping cobbler nlxmt his business." "1 don't like Tim," sold Reeky, "and I just knew how uli nud rosy we'd be together. Never a nuarrcl. Ni k. Aud bow so uwsl to go to Holmkc n and have lemonade in tho gar den, nml cfime home arterdark un afternoon, and how we used to (lo to church Kumlay mi'iT.ing In clothes as g"l as sny one "I'hsI," fi-hiI pior Nick. "Why, It can't I nil up hill." fid Reeky. I haven't the time to po gallivanting now, hit h. I don't wild It Were nb-ady mnr- riod fo'lis now. you know." Oli. Reeky," said the cobbler, "you try to keep up In art, but you know it's come to itarviii;:." Thcv listed nt cm h other, nml llien liccKy put her arms nlsnit her bn.-ihiiid. Kb" did licit wis p iijcu his lioMim; she was so big nnd utronrnnd be so small nnd frail that it only nl mihinil lo reverse matters. Hho i..,,..mI ,,,. in, to line ulinuliler and rovenxl IMIJA1 ill'". "I' -. his bend over with her apron, and put her neck down niit.ddn the bundle thus imvle, nml wsdhisl mid patted him ns if he had lieen n Ubv. Rut sbo cril, too, and tho apron was wet through in no time. It was a bad state of things. No money, no food, no I'm, and winter at it coldest; tho children tent to ichiKi brenkfnstlts for the take of the warmth ami comfort of tho n-hnol-liouse; no work to be had; the lit tie cobbler as helpless ns man could well lie, except nt bis trade, aud Bis'ky's washing stopjied, for heaven only knew . how Joni, by a great felon in tho pulm of her nf:ht hon.1 Rut Reckv loved the fiuecr little mor tal she had married so well that lto stopjieil rrvinr. and riii kiil up his heHd and pnttisl It, nnd kissed him Is-tween tho e.vcvs great, frightened, light-blue eye', tlmt seemed mailo for crying. Yon May home and mind the place," sho snid. "I'm going out awhile, rerlinps there'il be a bit of luck who knowst" She rut on her Ismnet nnd i-hnwl such a thin little -hawl, which bad ln useil for an Ironing cloth, nnd had an iron-slmped scorch letwccn the shouldersand took up a basket Tlie cobbler loo'jed nt her. "rvky!" bo said, honr.ely; "Reeky!' 8h knew lu t what he meant. "Tlie little children. Nick." she wild; "wo rould starv.---but tin in poor little critters. Nick, it won't seem like lagging when it's for them." And then t'ie d.xir flint behind her and Nick limned after her, e thou, h to Mop her, then unused and fairly flung bim-elf down iisiii the l!isir, wUilng be were under the ground Ik'HciiIIi it "(iisl foi-givo tho mini that merries woman to itarvo her," l e toblied. "Why. I'd known it would have come to this I' mver have courUnl her. It's timo I was dead. I'erhniw, lelng a stmnge, impuMve, little fellow, there might have lieen a tragic end to thi scene bid that the children came in firm scbiX'l and begun to cry, partly at the sight of their urostrate father, imrtly because ol hunger, and Nick forgot himself to do w hat he could for them. He had no dinner, but he had a great deal of love to give them, and untie pieces of riv kid. Only the youum'st rhewtsl the kid. Am Hie fact tbnt "mother" and the basket were gone together Impressed them with a bo iiiotIsIo-is. Meanwhile, Rivky bad gone a-lcpc;lng. It would Is? horrlblo, no doubt, she thought, to hike food from strangers; but she found there was one tiling even more terrible not to bike It Poor after door was shimmed in her fnoo. Once a dog was set nt her, or she thought so. Professional beggars hnd made themrelves linisaiK'os lo many iieopli and how wen' they to know real foverty when it n: k(-d alms Men whom they had pittwi ns pnuners enivisl to Isj the owners of real cstnte. Crij pics nnd blind men whom they bad nidis were found to have bound up strong limits and glued their eyes together eo they were hard upon real ill tre and refused it broke: bn-ad. At ! tbnt cvenim; Reeky sbxnl nt a sMxfi comer with cue crust in hrr bosket more. Reyond biv a pnwuliMkers shop, am Reeky Uxk.sl at its golden lalls and nt her wfsbiing ring. Phe had worn it flftivn years. and. it wot thin and frail, but It was pure told. Through all she had kept It until now Must it go! Tlio thought wat worse than begging. Rocky bxk a sti-p forward, another laek. llien slie legan to cry a little. Nick's ring that he put on her luuid to long ago oh dear, oh disirl Rut she grew brave again, and walked into the shop and pawned the ring. It was not much they gue her for it, but it would buy supper, ami perlia Nick wouldn't no Ui, and perhaps sho could get it lack. That wat a very faint ''jvrhay however. A woman wat in the pawnshop as she waited, bargninlng w ith the proifietor over a suit of little clil's clothing costly things, strangely out of ploi In hor han.U. I!'ky uotb'cd Uiis, saving to lrself that th wore never fairly come by. Rut she bail forgotten all abtit it when, coming out of tlie laker's a littl voice fell on her ear, ami looking down, sh taw a luuvfoot child ot four, in wretched rags, tubbing plteously, Iwky wat toft of heart; but in poor quarter crying children were common nough, and her own were waiting for the loaves in hor banket Mie walked on bastly and to Uwt the toddler. Then Reeky must Derdt stop aud Mck her up. "Why dou't you go home to your mot hoi thit night time," the said "and not stand ber to be knocked downr And a htU silver thread of a roior , aatwertdi "I can't find m-imma. I can't f.nd ny home. Where Is iiinmmaf Oh, nuinima! Reeky knelt down. A white head of a-umt'ed curls and a pair of blue eyot twin- uiiug in krs she could just uuiko out Rut the chil l ciuld nothing. It was lainly lost Rocky took It in her anus owl lado inmiirie at the corner grocery, wli-re die bought a slice of ham; but no one kiew tho c hild. It wot growing late, too, Mid Reeky could not have It to its fata 1 11 take it home," sulci sho, "and to-nnr- row find its folks." Ko, when the cobbler and hit children law the dixir own at last, there entered by It not only the mother and a basket, butabtby also. A new baby came frequently to this es!al- shment and the children, in their juvenile view of such matters, opined that they had another littlo sister." "It it a isxir lost child," said Rocky. "I'm going to ko.p it to-night ItM pan-nb are poorer than wo are; you can see that by it bare feot aud only one little frock, ioor tiling! Now hold her, Nick, while I cook supper. I dtiln I beg it, ?ili-K, to cion i irei. And then, keeping her ring linger out oi right, Ro.ky fried the ham and mude gravy and nit bread, and sent for two ccnta worta of milk which, judiciously diluted, made a quart of milk and wuter and triod to be very heerful. Tlie lost child cried, but Rocky fed I: nnd soon coaxed it to talk ; then camo a story of a bu dens" and a "nanny woman." The youngest, who hod chewed the red kid, acted as interpreter. Koon it wat discovensl tluit si'Uie woman, dewnbod as "nasty," hail taken away tlie child's blue dress and otbisr garment, and bud whipped her. Ihs'ky listened intently. "Thut ilress was blue, Nick," she cried. "I new it warn't hers a tiiwy, ragged woman; and folks tleit own them things don't coma tawning. I" Tlien she paused, the sooret was out. M"K t evs bad dnnid toward her wedding-ring, and bai k again to hr r fiu'o. Oh Reckv I" he cried. "Rocky, we didn't think-" Rs-kv flusheil scarlet "1 didn't mean to tell," she cried; "but now Its out; I'm married all the same, thank (.oiL It was at the imwnshop I saw the blue dress. And she told them of tho woman whom sho had wiitcliivl mid her suspicions. It's a gcnt'S'l child, you can see; and if wo can but j.d its liunio out, wo may save some ono trouble we've never had. Think of ono of ours being gone all night, Nick." The baby's nnmo seemed to 1 Minnie mith, though "M. B." might lo anything lse, and lsitting tho children all to boa, all ill n row, like tho little ogres in the fuiry tales, kuvo that they had no crowns on, Nick and his wifo started off to the pawnbroker's. Tho mau was good-natured, and looked at Ihe garments. They were marked M. H. "I'm right, then," anid 15e -ky. "lhey are the child', and they were stow. And if we an but lliid it poor mother, we'll nive her more than any but a mother can tcIL" "Rut think of all the Smiths," said the I awi.broker. "There thoiLsand of Vm." ind tbou.s;mcls." sulci liw-ky. "isui meso men ilio police they may know." Aud out went Mck and Rivky to question tho guardian? of the night, until, nt last, despairing of an answer, they were turning homeward, when a blaze of light from an men door fell over thorn, and they saw on the htc; a weeping womuu and a tail, handsome Dl II. "Hush! we will find her if she is alive," taid the man. My brocious little Minnie" criod the woman. Then Nick and Reeky gave a sort of little cheer of unison. "If them," said Reeky; "them, certain sure. Oil, mum, u your namo is rvniui, una you've lost u littlo girl, wo ve found her. And then the cobbler ana His wile were pounced upon and the story told. In half on hour tlio six poor little ogres without crowns were amused from their slumlxrs by an arrival, and the odd baby In their midst was token out, to their distress nnd consternation, for Uicy bad counted on keeping her. And Nick and Reeky forgot their own trouble in tho ivireuts' joy. And Nick snid it was "like poetry," and Rocky siuJ it was "l'ko n piny." And so it wav-mo w ith a happy ending for what should tho lady do but lxg and pray Ikvky to b ll her w hat she would like licat, and Rocky confessed that to have hor wedding ring lxick was tlie hope of her life; and this led to tho cause of ibi awniiig and all tho story of poverty and sorrow. "I'hon the dark hours ended and day broke; and there was bxxl in the house and fire; and as it happened that baby Minnie's father needed just such an honest man for such work as jxxr Nick could do, ho gave the place to the cobbler; and from that day there was enougn aim 10 s-paro m mo niuo nome, i- causu of the simple goodness shown laby Minnie. "So it's never timo thrown awny to do a kindness to any one," says Rocky often, "for somehow you always are rewarded for it If I'd left the little lost beggar's child, ns I thought it, in the street, and never stopped to care for it as I might l.avo done iu such trouble where would Nick have l ocii and tlie children and me this night f Not that I diil anything but what a ChrUti.in ouht, but seo how wo were laid for it" (ielilng; liven Willi a Felly ll'iolinno. Tyrant. Hie linllte domestic tvmnt, the coneierRn, who mica the houst with nil iron band, some tiimis tinds his match, according to a story in The I orus h ij;nn. lino Jirticulnrlv severe I'arisinn iiincierge lately forbade all lodgers in tbe house U kwp do, cats, children or piaiioo a prohibition strongly opposed by one ccntlemnn ho lived thero for ten years and owned a favorite cat and dog. He gave no tice to quit, and, as the concierge exacted a fortnight's notice, the lodjjcr contracted with a rrofessionnl rat-cat'her t bring him a ccrtoin number of rata daily during the fortnight Ho duly handed up his key and left, whilo the next day the concierge went to insxvt the vacate! apartments. Cm crening the door ho found a vast colony of rats inhabiting tho rooms, and all efforts to dbJulco them wvro of no avail. Since then the rats hnvo multijiiied, have invailixl the iwt of tiia houso and driven away the lodgers, and I nully the landlord 1-is turuod Uio conciurgo out of his situation. She 1'rartlrcd Itabjr rarmlus. Texas Siftings.) Khionable Ily Havo you had much exixTicuce in hiking care of little children! Motherly Old Creature Much rxperien ! Just step around into the back yard and see our little graveyard. Twenty-one dn'.ki out of a possible twnnty-thna. Fashionable 1tdy You understand your busine. I'll tend the child aiund to- morrow. Any Quantity of Turin. Lowt U Citten.1 Iloward. tha chiLmthroeivt. was a near man in his own family. This should not d tract from hit united reputation, however There are any quantity of m m who are m "ai in their own foioilitM who aro not ri.i'.air.h.-v i,ts ouUido. IN THE "3IQ FIAT." 1 Tenement House with Over Clglil Hundred People In It. IW. M. Donuellv in Texas Hiftimrn.1 Ve will go up Mott street to thnt tall brick building labeled on the front, in lct!erRCvef.ythi''h, "THE BIG FLAT." It is dutaehcil. in wven htoric high, lias driven windows on eflch thxr in front and thirty-two on each floor nt the sides, and runs right throui;n to hlizabetn street. T . : i . - 1 c. r.t nn i 11 in saui 10 ii uiciiiuui nuu immiraio to Is? so. Two broad MigliU of stone stairs w lh ron balusters, one on the Mott street and ono on tho Elizabeth stn:ct end, lead from floor to floor. At tho top of each flight is a long, dark corridor, off which sixteen doors open on cue side and thirty-two windows on tho other. Each of the doors lead into a suit of throe rooms, with windows opening on tho court -yard, aud each suit, except the end ones, which cost $13, is rented for $9 to $10 a month, payable in advance. There are at present, the janitor lniorms us, lietwcen ow ana vuu peu- plo living in the house. Most ol them are Roucniian jews, out mere are sonio KussiaiiR, Italians, unucso ami Irish also. "Wo have very few Irish," says tho janitor, "for we don't want the lowest of thorn, and tho better class wouldn't eomo here." Tho tenants are childly tailors who work at homo, and Hlreet peddlers. Tlw l'.ig Flat," continued the janitor,"" was oridnaHv built for colored pcoplo, and was afterwards turned into loJg- inc for working girls. Now it belongs to tho New lork Stcatn-lie.uing company. What aro my duties? Well, to collect rents, to see that the tenants keen their rooms clean Jews are niostly dirty lo have the water-tank on the rool, winch h tilled by a steam pump in the cellar, l.epl alv.ays full; ana to exO' etito general rerairs. 1 here is no gas in nit v of ;lie rooun n:'pt iuino, and the tenant i burn koi-oicn;'. They br.ng their own e.u.i-in.c!.ici.. vi. h them. No. there is no elevator; if a man lives on tho top floor, he must walk up and ('.own to his room The B:2 rial?" savs tho wrg 'ant al the de.-k in tho Elizabeth street ititio'.i; The most trouUosnnio house in the precinct ! Not so mueii t no lemurs, you know, tvho aro hard working people, but thieves und pickpockets, when they com mil a robbery, make use of tho passage from Moll to Elizabeth, to escape the ollieir chasing them. We get a good many complaints of all sorw lrom tlio tenants, loo, but they don t amount to much. Go and seo some ot tho Italian tenements in Mulberry street. 1 lie Italians aro a saving people, and are rapidly buying up all the Mulberry street housea." Up long flights of dirty flairs wo toH, until at lengui we reach an open door, A woman, apparently about flu, but in lealitv not more than half that age, stands in the entrance with a fortnight- old baby in her arms. Sho is unkempt unwashed, and altogether unattractive Is this a sample of the bngnt Italian beauties of which we have read aud dreamed so much, with their darkly flaihintr cyos and raven locks, and clear, pale olivo skins to which tho rod blo xl lusiios on occasion! iiiasi uuciuuiw. iUlia's maids aro women at 15, mothers a year later, grandmothers at 80, and decrepit, hags in a year or two more. Hero in New York the descendants of tho Masters of tho World live liko rabbits in a burrow. They Rleen nnvwhero and anvhow on the floor or silting on a box w ith their backs against tho wall, lou will nnd twelve or fourteen domiciled in a loom tliat would fairly accommodate two persons. Iliseaso is common among them, and " uu ,6 "? their douse Knoraneoot tho commonest things mnk'W the evil worse. J hey eat nnviiiin'' thev can iret. whether they buy it ir.i Inn Imti'lielM' lit :l or tUCK 11. OUI of the ash barrel or tho gutter, lhey will not snend money on tuel, and pork is cheap, so thev eat it raw, and tri chinosis Is rife. They can live, like the Chinese, where men of other nationali ties would starve, and so they are suv- U money and becoming householders, and nro forming a permanent Italian colon v in Mulberry street nnd its neigli- boruood, ns ttiey nave aireauy uono iu tho vicinity of Snow Hill and llolborn alley, London. An Dilute Cyt. IFxehaic-e. 1 A story is told of Van Amhnrgh, tho nTc;.t lion-tamtT. now dead. On one oc- casion wnue m a oar-roum ue iw ium.i . . .. i. ..i... i how he got his w onderf ul power over annua s. He said: "It is by showing them thnt I am not tho le.v-t atraidot tnem, ana oy Koop- ini mv evo steadily fixcxl on theirs. 1 11 give you an example of the power of my eve." l'ointing to a louruii follow who was st'indiiiL' mar by. ho said: "iou see that fellow? He's a regular cbwn. I'll mu';e him come across the roo:n to me, an 1 1 won't say a word to him." Sitting down, he fixed his keen, steady eye on the nun. Presently tho M!ow straight- enrt.l hims-'lf irnidu.illv, irot u.) andcann slowlv neross to the lion-tamer. When ha Lot elos.) enough ho drew back his arm rnd struck Van Amburgh a tre- men loui blow under tho thin, knocking him iLtr over the chair, wun mo re mark: "You'll stare at mo liko that again, won't you. A I.lltlo Absent-.'nindcd. fN w Y,, k Tint 1 A Whitehall woman, about to boil an egg for her husband's breakfast, asked the loan of ha wateu to tuno tno dou- "i our watch has stopped, sno erica; "the fK id in and I can't tell how long it ought to remain in the kettle." The husband hastened to tho stovo, and was horror-struck to find that the good woman h vd dropped his elegant gold watch into tho koitbj, and was hold ing tho egg to her ear. Crmrnt lor ratchlnj Shoe. (Tt xi tift.ii.l Tho rxmout u-sed in patching the up pers of tine shoos is geuerally made by Uusolving gutia pervna in cuionuorm until tho mixture is about as tnieu a syrup. Serapo and pare clean around tho nolo to bo covered, and thin care fully with a long chamfer the edges ol the bit of leather to be applied. Only a littlo of tho cement is needed, but the surfaces must be pressed close tegot ler. The rarts will adhere firmly in a few minutca. Itloroce o Drlc-a-Brae, l Leidt (Eng.) Murcury.) . The loather-work for which Morocco has so long been famous will probably disapjioint most perHons who visit the country. Tho usual red und yellow Arab slippers. lu-o to be obtained hero at a very cheap rate. Tho common ones cost 2 shillings, a pair, which is about half tho price paid in Tuniu. Forludi' embroidered slippers, any sum up to 5 a pair may be paid, remaps me most uful fonn tho leather-work takes is in . . , wiuwiupo i co..iD .o. .w.n.v. These oroiueruu m goiunn . oii.ci nUK, covers may be bought for 18 jxwe each, and when they have been stuffed will wool or horsehair ttiey make rcinarKaniy good and handsome foot-stools, which have the advantage of harmouizing well with the present fashions in furniture and house decoration. I have seen in ferior specimens of these cushions of fered for sale in England, I need hardly ay at prices greatly in excess of that which I have named. It is impossible to resist the conclusion that a brisk trade in those leather covers might easily be organized between Morocco and Eng land. Another staple industry of tho country is pottery. Before me, as 1 write, stands a collection of platters, vases, jugs, etc., brought from Tangier. The cost of tho whole collection was probably less man 150 shillings, and yet it includes many remarkably fine specimens of thegor- geous Eabat wan.-, which forms so tell niir an ornament m a modern nan or in a room in which a little brilliant color is desirable, as well as several bhapcly pieces of the blue and white wares of Fez and Mekenes. There arc, too a num ber of tho earthenware drums, or tomtoms, as well as some of the quaint lamps which are used in tho interior of Morocco, and which surely furnish the very earliest and crudeot form ot me duplex flume. ijistlv, i;i iviineciio:i wun mis rpies t ion of bric-a-brac, something must be said about tlie tiaintod woodwork from Tctuan which is so popular in Moorum houses. It is quite possible that its brilliant colors and rich arabesque pat terns may seem gaudy to the Etirq.aii eye. hut, gaudy or uot, the braeiieU and mirror lratnia which arc sent out from Tetuan are often singularly beauti ful, and d'.'servy a pla:-i! in any houso. How lie Was Cnrcd. i(Ji lo.i: ie "Un ertou'S. I kuow a young man who is just a trifle fond of flirting, lie has that sympathetic nnd altogether charitable notion tlmt a w'c;it many young imm have, that any lady who sits alone by tho window watching the passers by must inevitably be lou-ly and pino for masculine attention. Sevend mornings as he came dow n town he saw what lie look to bo a wistful face at a bay win dow looking longingly into the distance. lie lirst became curious, then interested and finally excited. The lone, lone female should not pine in vain or waste her young life in loneliness if he could help it. Ho gradually worked up a smile for her, growing broader and broader, until it assumed the propor tions of a enn. He thought she appre ciated it and he kept it up. "Ah, mo! 'Tis sweet to know thero is an eye that watches for our coming and grows brighter when we come." At last he mustered coumgo to add a bow to tho smile. Sho did not show any displeas ure. Tho other morning he eamo along smiling so broadly that ho could be sceu two blocks off. Mio was at mo winuow He raised his hat, and just as ho did she rose, disappeared ior a moment, nuu then returned with a gentleman in his shirt sleeves, to whom she pointed in snrnihcant manner, und a und a baby wnicn , ,,,,, ,n ,liln inth,, mnst Vindlv '" "i ."" " " ;, . , n and expressive way. iuo juuu nuiu K" uu" l"c ULAl Arizona's Fertility. Tucson ( V.T.)Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. Those who declare that Arizona will never be prominent as an agricultural country aro mistaken. Take I'hu-nix, for instance. It lies in the Gila and Salt ltiver valley, and is surrounded by land which is extremely fertile and which is lieeoming more productive every veil r. I lie sou is a neavy duick loam, anil tour crops are cut m a year, Tho planting season extends from No vember to Marco, Aiiaiia is raiseu in p.rx quantities. In Maricopa county, of which rho-nis is the chief town, there lire idready C3.000 fruit trees and 216, 000 vines. Cotton was raised in Salt tliver valley by the I'ima Indians Ixforo De Soto reached the Mississippi. The average yield of wheat ixt atro is 1,500 ioiinas. Allalfa yieiu.-. 3.000 pounds per aero. In 13 Mari copa county produced 14,000,000 pounds of wheat and 18,000,000 pounds of bar ley. As to grazing lands, it is safe to say that there aro f ally 60,003 square miles upon which crows a tine, nutnti otis L-rass. Water can be had by boring. Tlie cattle I have sren in tlie valleys where there aro streams, have invariably been fat and sleek, and stockmen have saiil to mo that their cows and beeves wero in far better condition than any crazing elsewhere in the southwest. As regards t.mber, the largest tract is tho Mogollon forest, . containing 12,000 square miie3. Tho timber is mostly pine. The Fund and Ihe Millionaire. Chicago News. A wee littlo Fund approached a mill lonaire. "Please, sir, won't you give mo a little a SLstanccr "Are vou one of those ruiserablo pro fessional besr'ars. "Yoi, sir. It is tho only way I have "Well, here's a dime; now doni come torn again." "Oh, sir! ' said the little iund, great tears of joy running down its cheeks "oh. sir. vou are so kind! You hav iriven so much that it almost takes my breath. A penny is tho most anybody think, of givim; mo, and now I see they are trvimr to have a half -cent coined for me." "Who are vou. anywayr "Why, I'm tho littlo liartholdi pedes lal Fund. "J la it worth white that we j Ue a brother Bearing hit ltd on the rough road ot life! U it wor.b while tbat we Jeer at each other In LUrkiKi of heasttl Ihat v. war to the kuuVI Gild pity nt all in our pitiful atrife. (Jcaqnia Millar. LEARNED FROM ANIMALS. ' Reverting tbe Favorite Theory Thai Anlmala Are Imitative. Cincinnati Enquirer. It Is a favorite theory of tome that mills are imitative, and what man do they follow after and try to perform. Pot. si lily man learned first from the anituala. Jinny nnimiils are born nrmed and weaponcd both for offense, rupture and defense when attacked or pursued. The gorillas of Africa fought the soldiert of Hunno, and apes use buiidstoiic t, crack nuts. In the days of Nirabo, Uui historian tells us thut Indian monkcit climbed mountains nnd rolled stones down on their pursuers. Take throwing, forej. ample. The primitive man learned it from beasts. The squid (cuttle lish) j,. . fends itself by discharging iut ink-bag, ha. bedded in the liver, and escapes iu th, blackened water. The toxotin or archrr brings down insects with u drop of watr when thcv arc three or four feet high in the air. The archer tlsh of Japan Is kept in a glass jar and fed by holding Hies u the end of a rod a few indies from U surface of the water, und it never fuilt io hit them. The lluniu or gunnaco throw their acrid nnd fetid saliva some distant and with accurate aim. Men would learn to strike by Watelilnf the blow of the bear, nnd the kick of tha auimuls which defend themselves by kick ing, us the horse, zebra, tho camel and giraffe, while the ostrich, eagle and larger birds of prey would teach him a lcs-ou in assaulting with ready wings. The whalt vises its head with such loree mat it ha sunk a whaler. Combats of goats, stiei. buffaloes und wild bulls, all of which rush forward with their heads dowa und drive their horns into their enemy's body, would suggest Uit thrust., 'ihe oii'.ern, ire peacrxK mid and the American white crane stab at th eve. And the oiacK rmnoceros, lueiicrcctt of any, when angered his lioru becomet burd und rect, and, diving beneath ibi canoe, he pierces a hole in its bottom and sinks it, and with the same weapon at tacks mid rips opeu the huge and ungainly lephaiit. The iitie i?ant ami pariririge, me coet nnd quail, would suggest, with their spun, the use r f the poiiinru. l imy says mil olphins which enter the Nile have i nue-eut'td si ur en iiieir pucks io protect llieui from croeoUi.es. J lie imuncau Ukti Las n many-lark d horn on its dorsum bich must have taught the Ltquuuaui nd tuviiires of f-outli America and Au stralia the use of their spears. Poisoned dajjsrr-initkers took a hull irom the stinf sii, or adder juke, whose dortuls and pnics nave uoiiuic grooves, in wu.cu i poisonous secret ion is iouna. i ne sunj;- nvs twist their long siemier tans roiiim tbtir enemy and cut the suriace, luiiieiirj wound not e.'.silv healed. I lie flint MMiirtimrs breaks off in the wound. Tlit iji Islauders, the Siunoims and liihitiani J ., . : M'l...... fO HUH JlOleOIl t A 11 IC I I IJf . 1 IlL-.-.t- lutliv auiiuiils would bii.rgesi me powinwi daeL'er with which the Italians of tot lUdle aget were so lianjy. Juat Like PlUubnrs. Denver (Colo.) Opinion. AVhat we tall "The Kingdom of Ii Animus" is a southeastern Colorado county, the urea of which Is almost identi cal with the size of Mutatliusetts. Tlie oimty scat, Trinidad, is down on the hew Mexico border, in a crotch of the Knton mountains. It is not as large ns Loudon, but will be shortly, if tbe real estate circu lars arc to lie trusted. When you go down there bo sure to say the first thing: "Oh, this is just like Pittsburg!" Hint will make you solid with Ihe 1 iinidaders, ami they will know that you tire not from ruettlo. I lie uus arivcr win repori your words at the hotel, und the mayor wil presently call on you, and the real est dealers will drop in find invito yoi out for a free ride, and the owner of tin oiH'ra house will send you tickets, and Ui ollticians Win senu you ineir carus, auu ife will no longer seem the lonesome aud aching void vou have hitherto found it Thev know how to do things in 1 ritu- dad if you only make the right impression, and they never uo unytuing uy muvej. a plain, comraon-looKing gin irom umaui came down Here lasi summer ami re marked as she stepped oil the train, "On, this is just like Pittsburg," und in too than three months the shrewd little man mind vou, she had never seen Pitto- was married to one of the millionaire ral tlemcn who have their homes there. Th Riicccsslul girl wroie io ner cousin, u"lr ting a him iu the letter I suppose), who ciinie on. rcpcaicri me remiirn, anu ehieved the same brilliant result. The tret leaked out, aud for the last ten mouths there has been a constant stnun of girls from Kansas City coming down there and marrying splendidly among v cowmen. (heap Telcirnipby. Cath" iu l'hi!aUelph:a Times. Telegraphy, it seems to me, must cost some o: tlice days to lnaue so many m. rich. 1 understand that nt the last nntioniu onvtntion some of the new companies (lio the newsouper wori for i cent a worn overl.0i0' miles of country. This only makes fomethiii" like 2 cents a line, or ? a column, for telegraphic transmissun. I can renumber when 1 was a boy in Phib dclphia that any plain, ordinary burgher would nt well go into a store ana cuy miiri.le statue as drop into a tciegra oillee and send a message. In those u.iji tlie l or.est Philadeliiiiaas borrowed u ncw.-naixrs from each other. One entct prising person would take a paper, psywf 1 cent a day lor it, ana tno two ucy bors on cither hand would borrow a. Now we have so grown in grace tn nir crtna nt thfi liecA OT flllll O wulkinU a telegraph otlico ai'd send iiKtsage to their aunt, in the AitoswH'' All tins lorwaruncss, l iuiuk. to fmoktng cigarettes, lor i can " other reason for such confidence. heads of the boys seem no bigger m formerly. The cigarette, no doubt, brinp the nervous system forward. X I'oinpellau Venn. Chicago Tribune. A carious discovery has just been e" at 1 ompeii in the course of the exes1 lions carried on there. A fine ttituetie oi a crouching Venus was brought to hc1" a sculptor' workshop just cleared. iw tculptor must have been engaged i"1 pairing the statuette when overtaken ry awful catastrophe of the yi-ar VJ. i!" head of the figure had evidently Just ' nmodtled anew, as it is far lufcnpr w Ftylo to the rimaining portions ol L'ody; the two arms were also new, had been fastened to the trunk by nw pins. The body of the artist himself" also discovered in the shop, lying prostrt" .1.. .. H . ill. . lr I inlU.lin still grasped in his hand. A cast oi man was effected by the usual P0!, running plaster of parts into the ca" . formed by the body in the solid dust Zion's Herald: The disinterestedncsi the maacs cannot be overestinated nwani of political tecurUv. o
