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GROWING OLD. T fiilropt lir.nn dri.oi nt evci.tLlc. Tun swoetest ro lull from utr thnstom; The rnrost lliinits qt eart'i can nut aliicli- Anti we are jiniir to. away like tlioin; Ho r growing old. We bad our droams those roxjr dreams of joum; Thoy faded, and 'twas well. This after print UmIi lirought us fuller hopes; and yet, for- IMIOIh, We drop a tear now In this inter time To ful nk we're old. We smile at those poor fancies of the putt A xxlili'iiwl nin i lo, almost akin to pmn: Those h artt ltti r"H. those purpose! m vast. Ah. our poor hearts! lliuy can not coin attaint We're (trowing old. Old? Well, the heavens are old; th!i eanh In, ton; Old Willi-1 bent. iimttireM fruit moat awed; Much have we lo.it, mure gained, although 'tin true W trtntj life' way witb most uncortulu foot. We're growing" old. We movn along, and aeattor. an we pure, toft grHKtm, tnnili'r hopes nn every hund: At lam with gray Here i It od balr and hollow face, We stop acros the doundarr of the land Where none are old. -Kiln 0. Q. I'tot, in ChrMian at Work. AFRAID OF LIGHTNING. A Peculiar Nervous Fear, and Ilojt a Want of Courage. Tlio victims of hay fever aro not more in number or more to b pitied , than ' tnosu wnu sutler from nervous dread of Hghtn.ng. Probably more people than ; usual have learned to sympathize with tli ia terror during the August thun derstorm which made such panic at summer hotels. Only persons of vory strong nerve can go through a hard electric storm without unearned. But there is a class whom electricity affects with such poeul ar force that, as ono of them said, ouch storm in like being led out tor execution, uncertain whether one Is to be shot this time or next As one who knowa this species of bliss pret ty thoroughly, for over twenty years, permit me to offer the doepe.it sympa thy to such unfortunates, and mention ouch alleviations as a 1 fc time of acute misery ou lliif account lias found for lUolf. Tho dread Is ne'ther fane ful nor curable by any effort of will. Usually it comet from a violent shock early in life, and lightning docs not more clearly print tho imago of veins and branches on the sk n in some cases than it leaves its possession upon the entire nervous system In others. Hours before the torni comes on the electric changes in the air are felt by the person, cither In ' nervous excitability and restlessness like that of birds and an mats before storm, or intense depression and sense of im pending doom. No Tartarus has cur tains of more awful gloom, or such shapes of unformed dread as inhabit these hours of oppression. I do not doubt that many of the apparently causeless suicides we hear of are com mitted under the Inlluenee of such dis tressing moods. They are beyond all vis tations of the mind most ngoni.ing ana unoearaoio mi ono learns to reeog nle them as purely physical, the cllcct of ill-digestion, of overwork, bodil weakness or the subtle electric change which bring tlietu on with especial trouble,. In some cases, while yet tho t sky is brilliant ami not a threatening ciotid snows i gn. tito oiled of coining stortii is felt in drastic purging, or the eyesight is affected, wh lo neuralgic per sona have a double portion of sullering meted to them. As the baromutor i nks with tho coming storm, the vitality sinks w.tli It, breathing is hard, and the heart alternately beats so low It can hardly be detected, or with a sharp con traction that seems tho precursor of the pang or death. J lie danger may he entirely fancied, but the distress Is be yond description real. I have known the llrttt flash of I'ghtning In a summer storm to aend a strong person Into an anaoK into ciioiera in three minutes, and strike one buoyant and blooming mo moment ooiorc, colorless, shrunken and unable to stand. My own memory of storms for nearly thirty years has boon ono of wretched ness that turns mo sick to think of. At best, endurance; at tit her t mo, a palsy log aofiHation that tho next bolt was to come down my spine, a tension of ovorv none to Its highest, that folt every flash 01 lightning like the lash of a whin, and whon it could boar no mora went off in , the darkening, ringing, swimming luges wf swooning, but never its mer ciful hiicoiiso ousnesi. It has left mo unable to stand or sit up for an hour after an was over, aud made a wreck of nid for data. If any man sti tiers more horrors of distracted brain and nerves the morning after a debauch than J do days after a thunder storm, I ran not imagino how he ever drinks twico In his 1 fe. A body of uustrung nerves with unsteady lingers, heart and braiu each rapping independent d i cord, a head with nu alarm spring just , running down in It, nnd a sepurato achs lor tiacu jo nt iu my frame, aro mo e uel for two or three days alter a tonn. In Mich dog-dayi as we have had this voar, with three storms a (lav coming up to atir tho murky air. I have enduntl inoipient delirium tremens, and may be believed without ditliculty in saving I hate lightning like a malignant spirit. Only oiie thing oan add to the atllictinn of such a lot, and that ii to havo dense people lay: "You should ei erciso your reason and control this dread. Kit well undertake to reason with St. Vitus' danoe, or erysipelas. Tho roirery of the dread la that it ia io wholly reasonable, and consists In a lively apprehension of what may take plaoo at any moment. Tmo, as these excellent crvutures assure you, thorn Is ouly oni chance in fifty thousand of your I cltig imiek by lightning that one chance la enough to destroy the bar pines of 1 fe for those who "nave seen its visitation. The only way to redt'ce the fear ia to make that chance Infinites mal by every precaution. You can never get rid of the horrible Im pression lightning gives, but there Is choice between the agony that comes ofexTHvture to It and nvre physical wreckage. As ono out of every twenty pe-orn in the United States probably sullen from thia fear, the most Armor alhsing influence on the nerve possible, serious attention ought to be given to lessen thdr troubles. Brain fever and paralysis bave followed as direc t efleots oi tlie.so hours of overmaster rig tear, which is precisely such tension as poo iil'i suffer in a bombardment. There is just ene thing to do with one who Buffers acutelv from this dread of 1 o-htning. Send htm to California, or one of those blissful spots of earth whore storms are unknown. Peru U one: I believe Madcria is another. Rut the Cal fornia coast enjoys almost en tire freedom from electric storms, and one had bettor sell his house, farm and merchand so, and go there on a third class excurs;on ticket, than to live on tho rack of summers East I am not ashamed ti say I have been there twice, not for scenery or curiosity. not for the geyser, the big trees or Yoe mite, but solely lo escape the demoniac storms. Californians born look on our Atlantic thunder gusts w th as much horror a we feel for South American earthquakes, and well they may. alter their Eden like climate. few years free from tho depressing f-ar may re store tone to the nerves so that it is cas er to bear storms. Even one season ia of great benefit, and lessens the torment for. succeeding Mimmer. California ought to be reserved for people who dread lightning. To drop the n'ghtmare of dread, to lie down and rise in tho morning without fearfully scanning the sky for signs of storm, is a relief that seems a if ono had es caped mortal ills without the pain of dying. It is not the weak alone who s"fler in this way. One'ot the stoutest, coolest men I ever knew used to leave h sprint ing case every t;me a storm came up. and seek refuge iu the basement A party of ladies sew ng together late one evening in a storm, were surprised by the head of the house, a middle-aged farmer, rushing among them in undress, seared out of his wits ty a clap of thun der. It is not women only who crawl under feather beds in storms. There are army oflicers, brave as the bravest in every other case, who are almost in sane at sight of lightning. A well known college professor always took to tho cellar, and Mary, tho mother, of Washington, after receiving a shock by lightning in hnr youth, so feared it that she never left her room and feather bed till tho last note of thunder died on tho horizon. I repeat, there is no reasoning awav this terror. It is the result of nervous shock, liko blindness and deaf ness which sometimes follow a lightning -stroke. If cseape to a kinder shore Is impossi ble, there Is great comfort 'n knowing that people aro seldom hurt by light ning unless they put themsolves in its way. Count the casualties, summer after summer, and it is the person sit ting bv the open window, or on a porch or under a tree, the woman cooking over a hot stove or running a machine by a window, or some careless lad lean ing against a mantel with a mirror on It, who receives the stroke. Lightning chooses tho beat conductors always. A human being is one of these, and out of doors stands tho fairest chance of draw ing the d schargo, as long as he re mains upright Iet him carry a gun scythe or crowbar over his shoulder, or hold an umbrella, and he increases the chance of being struck a hundred fold. Driving on a stago or load of hay he offers himself to fate. Tho onlv tint dent thing to do on the approach of a storm is to got Inside a house with good lightning rod on It and stay there, with doors and windows shut, till the shower is wholly over. It is sur prising to see how few summer re sorts pay tho slightest heed to protec t on against storms, though it must bo for the comfort of their guests to feel safo in this respect. If there is alight nine rod on the tall house, perched prominently on a hill-top or a knoll by tho seaside, ten to one it is a half-inch patent twisted one, that might resist a weak discharge, or an old one worn through with rust, and a great deal worse than nono at all. A stout, round Iron rod, at least three-quarters of an inch throngh, with points at all chim neys and gables, connecting with the main rod Dy largo curves, not by angles, which hinder tho passage of the Impa tient fluid, and run down to permanent moist earib below, will insure safety. ?rovided the house is closed in a storm, 'hero is also a chance, if a fire is kept. that lightning may prefer the column of hot a r rislnir in the ohimnev manv feet above the roof to the rod, so that it Is wise to let tiros go out before a storm or to use kerosene stoves that can be put out at once. It is well to hare as llttlo metal In tho linings of a house as possible, Stove-pipes, the foils at back j)f mir rors, gas and water pipes are good conductors of eloctrioity, and one should avoid their neighborhood In storm, lirick furnaces and stoves aw better every way than iron ones, and there is so much gam of safety in dis pensing with those masses of metal in tho house. Gas is a barbarous thing lor dwellings any now, Killing plants and poisouing people, so lis pipes may bo got rid of. As for wator iHs, rub ber hose iu proper casing will lie futind to answer well and hare the additional advantage of saving plumbers' bills, as it will not frecse in wintur. Even tile drain-pipe may be used instead of tin as furnace flues with good effect. It is argued from a scioutitio view that the emnlovment of so much metal in house building is injurious to tho health of the Inmates, as it Interferes with the magnetio currents, and that delicate persons condemned to lire in buildings with metal roofs. iron stairs and girders, or with a battery of gas and wator pipes, steam coils and electrio wires about them, infallibly suf fer in strength and nerves, ho that as It may. and the view is quoted onlv as a curiosity, it is certain that low houses, broad rooms and the least motaJ about them aro safe bouses In thunder-storms. And all the clatter about modern con veniences or the rid cule of friends In rosiAvl health, who never knew tho quiver of a nerve, will not weigh a feather against tho (rain in peace rf mind in the constantly recurrine crisis of weather. People do not laugh at a man who takes every precaution against fine In a building, who lays h s beams In tuortar and his Poo s iu con crete, cases his ash-bins with brick and threads hi rallsdes with fire eitio tinpu shorn. Tho chance of tire mav come once In a lifetime, but it is worn all pains to bo ready for it. Why should not Lto cnanoe ot aavmg a buddini straok by lightning, which happen a doen times a season, m prepared against by e vory devioe and forethought imaginable? The chances of accident from 1'ght ning are about equal to those from shot guns, vet people treat the latter with great respect, while they laugh at any one who is cautious of exposure lo the former danger. As nearly all injuries from it come of foolhardy exposure out of doors or at open windows, the jest does not lie with those who study to avoid it. Children should be taught to guard themselves in the few moments of danger during a storm, to stay in doors and keep away from windows, chimneys and large mirrors or metal fixture', of any ort. That their cider should learn care seems past hoping for. In the heaviest storm of the season doz ens of p-ople went trooping from the trains across open linlils and country roa'ls, strung with telegraph and tele phone wires, braving all chances sooner than wa t half an hour in safety at the station or accept offered shelter. Few ra lwav stations are guarded a thev should be. and a city depot, with iis reels of electrio wires and high iron castings, is the last place a nervous person wants to bo caught in during a storm. Telegraph operators, in their narrow dens between the wire ami window are as exposed as it is pos sible to be, and it is simply foolhardy for them to slay in their office in a storm, yearly every country icwn nns its record ot an 01 oratr atrti iron. r ."rr"no:' " ".V. . . I - il .... a, U . ... . K' " killed at her instrument two summei ago. A telegrapher doesn't want to tako any ehan e. for the odd aro again-t him anyhow. M st mortals would rather die than take care for the r lives; st 11 a few are of suilie ent value to themselves to practice caution even avnst light ning. For when p"orle say it is no use guarding aga nst it. for it will strike anyhow, they Hv in the face of science and fact, winch comfort u with the as . surance that its stioke is to be prevented as surely as cholera with care. taico go J out nai A WEDDING IN NORWAY. Ifow the llrlde Lnik Ant and Dmses I'p In the Kr Norili. A wedd ng is announced at the church, whoso bejis are peal.ng. We invito our selves. A score of us en'er the building. It is, liko most Lutheran church!, plain: but there is an altar, with "seven candlesticks" and candles; a large cro'-s. perfectly white; a pulpit midway, and commodious pews and seats. The hour is two in tl.o afternoon, not in the morn'ng. though as to lighting the chnrch. it is "all ono." Some do;n or so of tiie natives, all females, with handkerchiefs upon their heads, are present Our party Is seated at the front I rema n at the door. My wedding gar ment is not made up to the highest style, but as the procession enters the door I fall in behind with the small b v of tho family. The bride is a tall g ri, with inflammatory hair and cool de meanor The groom I a thick-set. stout man, whose hair is erect, and whose Imperturbability is quite equal to that of the woman whom lie holds, wo hope gently, by the hand. A long white veil depends from her b.ick ha r. hold by a cir.let of ivy, a plant in great request anil reputation hero in orwnv, The fronds of the bride and bride groom, mclud ng parents, pass up to tho platform with thum and take seats on either side. A priest comes out from tho aavtum nnd stands before tho altar silently, with his back to us, while tho precentor from a side platform raises a sweet song, with whoso mus.c there is not so much accord by tho audience. Then the bride and bridegroom kneel praver is said and the two are ono, and all are happy. Tho brido is arrayed at the door, and the scene Is concluded. A'orwag Cur. A'. 0, Times Democrat. A MEDICAL CURIOSITY. Screaming Kxehan Spdrulator and Their Afflictions, A medical curiosity was revealed to me by a physician whose specialty Is throat diseases, and whose practice is principally among members of tho com meroial exchanges. Much ot the busi noss of the stock exchange, the pro duce exchange, and other speculative marts, is done in whoops and Tells. The scene on the floor, with a crowd of exoited otwrators pushing and hauling, gesticulating and screeching, has often been described, but it had nover struck me that the wear and tear of vocal chords was consequential. "Nor would it be," the physician sa u, "ii an too speculators and brok ors had strong, high voices. Tho trouble comes to tho.se who have to strain their throat In making them solves heard in the din. Acute bron chitis, partial paralysis, or acute lesion of the parts, s lunco them aftor a while. and thev have to go to a doctor for treatment. 1 happotied somehow to get into tho way of this prac;ii, aud I suldora have leas than fifty men under mvcare. The extreme vlolonco with which busi ness is conducted iu the exchange fre quently disablos th less robust mem bers In other ways. I know shouting partnors ot speculative firms who are limp as rags on getting through with a hard day's struggle, and who habitually take a Turkish bath, with a thorough: aftor-rnbbing down, to put thoni on their feet for the evening. Others be come athletes by means of tho exorc'se, and there are fellows of muscular cul ture In Wall street capable of Graco Kotnan wrestling, whos only gym nud um is the stock exchange. Too neces sity for so much veeiferousnevs and act ivity is not apparent A system of quiet bargaining could easily be devwaX bnt nobody seems to think of such a reform, and the screaming farce ia Ikely to gu on. A'. Y. for. Vttca Oi icrver. A Philadelphia journalist owns tho best Halatnin cow in tho world. 8he is a tine type, nonpareil in all her points, perfect form from muule to twl.-t, bcr milk roes to pres daily and her cheese is rck.Ch:euqo Herald. -A subscriber asks an eiolian 'When Is th best time to marrrF" Mr. Enpcu sav th best time for suoh a ceremony is on th 81st ot Februara CAPUCHIN CATACOMBS. Oroti,ae Scene. In Harlal Chamber at ra'croi", Ily a The soil upon which the Capucldn Monastery t Palermo, Italy, js buip. possesses to suoh a degres Uie singula property of hastening the decomposi tion of a corpse, that in one year not in rtnu ni unon th bones except aiew n l IHI OI D1SCK. withered skin and. perhaps, some of the hair of the beard .ml eheeka. The coffins are placed in small lateral vaults, each of which con tainaaabmt eight or ton dead; and, after a eK posses, the coflin Is opened and the corpse taku out, a frightful mum my, that Is then suspended In one of the main galleries, where the members of the family come to visit it Those who wish to be pres-rved by this drying process make t elr wills accordingly; and they will be filed away under those black vaults so long as their relatives Lnav a certain annual supuuu. u ffliis is no longei paid, the remain are taken away and buried in the ortfma'y manner. To enter, we pass through a chapel and slowly doscend a b a 1 stairway of stone, beor rfs i immense gallery, to whose wafur are tuspended a whole nation of skeletons clad in the most oddly grotesque cosaiuies. Some harnr in the air side by side. A line of desd siands erect upon the ground. Some head are gnawed by hideous en-eiation. which deform even still the juws aud the bones of the Vsow. stiU preserve their hair. -r.nhpr fragments of mavKuT. others a lone bit of Ix-ard . And thev are all dressed, these dead thesd wretched, hideous and ridicu lous dead all dressed by their relatives, who have taken them out of thoir cof fins in order to make them take part iu this awful assembly. Almost all are clad in a sort of long black robe, with a cowl whicu is generally drawn over the head. Hut there are" others whose friends dcsiie to attire more sumptu ously, and the miserable skeleton, wearing an embroidered Greek cap and enveloped in a rich man's dres.ing gown, Siern. as it lies upon its back, to sleep a nightmarish sleep a sleep at once ludicrous and terrific. A pla card like a blind man's begging card, beariu? the nama aud tliH date a'. death, is hung to the neck corpse. Those dates make shiver pass throu h the very of ea -ii a cold marrow of one's bones. Here aie the women, even more bur lesque than the men. for they have bean ooquettishly attired and bedecked. Their heads stare at you from within bonnets decorated with ribbons and with lace, making a snow-white fringe around each bluck face, Ml petritiud, all gnawed by the strange chemistry of the earth. Their hands protrude, like the severed roots of trees, from the sleeves of new dresses, and stockings that con tain the bones of the legs Joek empty. Sometimes the dead wear only a pair of shoes, too large for the poor dried up feet. But now we enter a gallery full of little glass coffins; this is the children's burial chamber. The bones oi tho little creatures, still soft could not resist the work of decomposition. And you can not tell exactly what you are looking nt the miserable little tnlngs are so de formed, so crushed, so frightfully shape less. But tears come to your eyes when you observe that tho mothers have dressed them all in tho same little drersus they wore when alive. And they cotuo bore to look at them some times. Often you see beside tlio corpse a pho tograph showing the living person as he was, and nothing is more striliug, more terrifying than this contrast We pass through another gallery, lower and darker, which soems to have beeu reserved for tho poor. In one black recess there are some twenty of them, suspended all together under an opening under the roof, which lets in .he outor air upon thorn in strong and sudden winds. They are clad in a sort of black ' canvas, fastened about the neck and feet nnd as they lean one over the other, vou Imagine thev were shiver ing, seeking to escape, screaming for help. They look like the drowned crew of some suip. Here is the chamber of Jtho priests a vast gallery of horror! At the first glance they seora more terrible than the others, robed in their sacred vestments black, red and violet But as you examine them one aftor the other, a nervous and, irrepressible laugh seizes you at the speetaclo of thoir biarre attitudes, the ghastly com edy of their poses. You behold some who sing, you see others who pray. The faces of all have been -lifted up; the hands of all have been crossed. They woar tho saoerdotal biretta upou their fleshlcss brows. Soniotimes it hangs sideways over one ear iu a jocu lar way, somutimo it slips down over the nose. A very carnival of death is this, made more picturesque by the gilded ricliuess oi the ecclesiastical robes. From tiiuo to time a head rolls down upon tho ground, the attachments of tie neck having been gnawed through by mice. Thousands of mice dwell in tiiis hum' n chiu'nel house. On certain festival days the cats com! sol the Capuchins are thrown open to the public. Once a druuken man got into the place, lay down to sleco and awoke in the middle ot the nigbt Ho cal'ed. screamed, howled with torror. rushed tnndly to and fro in vain eft or. to escape. But no oae heard bim. In the morning he was found clinging to the iron bars ot the gate with so desperate a grip that it re quired a long time to detach bio hards from them, lit was mad. Since that time a great bell has been suspended n?nr the entrance. Paris Figaro. . , At the leginninc of the war Nath SEiol Kimball, of York Countv, Penn sylvania, paid a djbt he owed at the store with a pumpkin seod. on xvhich hwrtre; "(joixt for 73 cent' -Xat. Kimball" This currency was accep.od and I-is pasied as cuircit money th roughc.it the eoiamuuit over s.uco. Mr himWl has tried to re ice .u the pumpkin swi, butths o-ner will not part wth I Ml vitlplua Frtst. P-cars have iccreasni greatly In numlers In Orvgoa since th rreat vlnd-stonu of January, 15W), vitich urew down f :ai.. n-onnt ot timber t - A rendeioo. i je . ols almo&t injj. a 1 in tome pa t of the Sta tau, p vvevJag Ui nrnuug of t i wUh NEGRO MINSTRELS, A Georgia View of Ilia rhnomana,-Noi Kren a Faalle Iturleaqna. While the weather is too warm for s circus, it seems to us that it Is just about right for a full-fledged negro minstrel troupe. Everybody would enjoy it and the most cynical would refrain from se vere criticism. Of course, negro min strelsy is an illusion. It represents noth ing on earth except the abnormal development of a most extraordinary burlesque. Perhaps the yery breadth and statue (so to speak) of this burles que, overshadowing and putting to shame all other modern burlesques.gives it strength and vitality, for it is enjoyed with as keen a relish in the South, where the negro is supposed to be known, as it is in Hny part of the North, where all that is known of the negro Is that he was a slave, and that he has what may bo called a humorous turn. fn Georgia, for instance, we have long ago ceased to ask ourselves why the stago negro appears in variegated clothes, with his coat tails dragging the floor; or why It is that his paste-board shirt collar threatens to scrape the hard oil finish from the moon; or why his buttons are as large as saucepans. We have long ceased to remember that the negro was nnd is anything but a comic character; that ho made no puns and asked no conumdrums. Under the vital influence' of tho stage, we have even ceased to remember his seriousness, a feature Intensified rather than lightened bv his humor. When, therefore, the Mammoth (or the Mastodon, as the case may bo) Aggregation of Minstrels march In and proceed to crack tho old j' kes we hare seen in the almanac, and perform on all sorts of diflicult instru ments, nnd warble sentimental songs, wo accept it all as genuine at any rate wo enjoy it as keenly as if it were an ex aggerated transcript from life. But it is all false in fact It is not even passable burlesque; for a burlesque, to be pass able, must have some grain of truth at bottom. At' ant a (O'a.) CoruiUulion. CHANGE IN COMPLEXION. Tli Imp irtnnt Pnrt Hammocks Vlaj In llrRutlfj'Ing Women. Humbug permeates life, even in its politest circumstances. A hammock hung in tho rear veranda of a suburban resilience. One end was considerably higher tl.an tho other. The occupant of the graceful couch at the beginning of my visit was the eldest daughter of the family, a round, roseate creature, whom I had previously deemed rather too natural for unqualified admiration; but now she looked positively beautiful, as she lay picturesquely disposed, with her head lying on on bent arm nt the higher end of the hammock, and her feet dangling barely visible over the side at the lower portion. Pretty soon her half sister took possession of the hammock, but in a reverse position, her head being below the level of her heels. Strange to say, she also appeared to bettor advantage than usual. The yel low bilious pallor commonly hurting her complexion was somewhat abated oy a faint ti litre of pink, and I marveled much. Then I asked wherein lay the magic of that hammock. "I don't wish to enchant you." was the reply, "and so will tell yon all about it. You notice that tho hammock is hung with one end up ami the other down.- That's not done for comfort, except such as arises in a girl from the consciousness that she is prettier than usual. My sister is fat and full-blooded, Mie lies here with her face elevated, so that the blood runs out of her checks, nnd for the time her complexion is about the right thing. I'm too bloodless in the visage you know. I pose m the hammock t other end to making the blood settle into my face instead of draining nut of it inducing mild vertigo, you understand and thus produce a rusiness that I can't hope for when standing or sitting. Albany Jour- mi. He Was Not a Dud. "Let roe state to you nt first, Judge, that 1 am a dude, and I am proud of it You ought to use due moderation in my case on that account. I plead guilty, but I think, sir, that the justice you dis pense should be hiirhlv seasoned with nwrcy, for lama dude and not entirely responsible. The foreninir statement, camn frnm Edward IVrkius, whom the old sailor oflicer with ships and things done in blue on his wrist had just led up to the oar oi mo lorKvuie i'ohce Court yes Urday morning charged with petit larceny, tie was a uuue mat had seen a good many hard winters, and had a omiv i vicuna tutu, niiu cviueuuy re posed in nn ash barrel. "Of course, you know what a dude is. T.. 1 .,, . ttuuge. ne continued. "I do," replied Justico Gorman "but it don't bear a red nose nor t week s growth of beard like you. A dude is a good suit of clothes with noth ing in them. You are not a dude and you aro hold." A", r Herald. m e A Most Unique Lawsuit. A Russian paper gives an account of th circumstances which have led to a most unique lawsuit A rich lady at her death placed her pet doe- Gvnsv in the hands of a friend, with the reanesi to provido for her with thn annual intuv est on one thousand rubles, set aside for mat purprse in t.er testament The other duv Gvnsv died, and Ma l.v . --'. ' " uu had charge 0f her took it for granted "'t-- mom y was now ner own. An other lady, however, appeared on the scene, who owned a son of Gypsy, and who claimed that hrr A OCT VMM Koil in tb income of the one thousand rubles, Mu- n jining was said in tbe testament ree-a'-dins' the disnoaal after the death of Gypsy. The result of inn mai wiu re awaited with interest a. i. rw. '' net opals are now found in "nngr.riaa mines. When first extracted 0)1 reins are aoft. fri',l anA ...n nijkea: so it is inn,unr tn thfrr to the air and light for a few dav that I kn . L i . .J uy uwuomo nsra, aaa then ' -Mir volci begin to apptax. NIAGARA FALLS Rrcesilun of the Great Cataract Daring MS Years. ' Tho fallacy of Lyell's guess at tho rate of recession was always plain If w referred to the first aocurat account that of the Swedish traveler Kalm, ia Gent. Mag., January, 1775; since which tho gorgo has both been enlarged full 100 acres and had miles of its bed deepened many feet In p. 16, col. 1, A. he said: Canoes can go yet half a league abovo tho beginning of the car rying place, t . . but higher up it is quite impossible, the whole course of the water, for two leagues and a half op to tho great fall, being a ssriet of sma'lerfMi, one under another." Now plainly this wholo series have so levelled their bed that the main falls now de scend some 160 feet instead of the "137 feet', that ho repeatedly maintained (col. 2. E) to be the utmost the engi neers, "with mathematical instru ments," then admitted. But as for the plan, he is yet more definite 'P. 16. col. 1. E: "Tho river (or rather strait) runs here from south-southeast to north northwest, and the rock of the great fall crosses it, not in a right line, but forming almost the figure of a semicircle or horse-shoe." (Professor Tyndall has well remarked that the upper stream having probably been always much wider than the gorge, the chief fall, has always been concave; but Kalm's view makes it appear very slightly so, and we know that very flat segments are. by a perspective illusion, commonly thought semicircles or even "horse shoes.") "Above tho fall in the middle of the river, u an island, lying also outh-southeast and north-northwest or parallel with tho sides of tho river; its lengih is about 7 or 8 French arpents (an arpeut being 120 feet). The lower end of this island is just at the perpendicular edge of the fall." II- proceeds to tell huw this island, once thought inaccessi ble, had been the scene of the heroic res cue, twelve years before, of two Indians by two others. Then p. 18,col. 2, F: "Tho breadth of the fall, as it runs in a semi circle, is reckoned about six arpents. The island is in tiie middle of the fall, and from it to each side is almost tho same breadth" (barely 350 feet then, but in his engraving not half that). "Tho i read tli of the island at il.s lower end is two-thirds of an'arpcntor thereabouts." His view makes it but one-third tho height, t. ., ono-third of "137 feet," Now this mere reef, about 900 feet by less than 80, was plainly one .whose length the falls were reducing. Is there the least ground for holding they have ever reduced Gout Island (now ten times lureer than that) or will reduce it one rood? But, prolong "Luna Islet" north-northwest till 900 feet long, and you will have tho site, I submit of Kalm's middle rock, barely 350 feet from the point Mr. Wesson marks, on Fig. 2, "New York Shore." and about as much from a Canadian point west southwest of it As for Goat Island, it cannot, in his time, have vet been touch ed by the falls, but may be one of those the hunters had habitually visited above. His description can be so well plotted on this last survey that the amount of gorge excavated since 1750 should be k notable to an acre. The west fall, then, only slightly the larger, has ever since been widening, lowering its edge, and getting more of the stream; so that the east one, comparatively stationary, retaining its height and decreasing hi volume, must dry up, and its bed and a!) the isles become part of New York Stute. E. L. Garbett. in Aature, m m LAKE DISCOVERIES. The Oldest Human Habitation on th American Continent. Maj. Powell, Chief of Ihe Geological Survey, has discovered out in New Mexico, near California Mountain, what he pronounces to be the oldest human habitations upon the American conti nent The mountains In this vicinity are covered with huge beds of lava, in w hich the prehistoric man and his com rades had excavated square rooms.which were lined with a species of plaster made from the lava, and in these rooms were found various evidences of quite an ad vanced civilization, among them a spe cies of cloth made of woven hair and a large number of pieces of pottery. In tho sides of the rooms cupboards and shelves were excavated. In one room, sticking out ot the bare faces of the wall, was a small branch of a tree. When this was pulled out it was found that there was a hollow space behind the wall. Mr. J. H. Stephenson, Maj. Powell's assistant, broke this with a pick and found a little concealed niche in which was a small carved figure re sembling a man, done up in a closly woven fabric which, with the touch of the hand, turned to dust It was black ened and crisp like the mummy clothes of Egypt In all, some sixty groups of these lava villages were found, there be ing about twenty houses in each gronp. The evidences of civilization were simi lar, but removed by their crudity and evident want of skill a good deal from tho articles found in the cliff houses which have been so fully written up In the reports of the Geological' Survey. Wathmgton Special. 2 Clean Heads and Good Hearth. A clear head is rarely found beneath an unclean scalp; but a clean head and good health are, generally, associates. a distinguished physician, who has spent much time at m tnmntinn oiil tViav . . - - Maeu nsvt U BV 9 son whose head was thoroughly washed ncij uay rarciy iook contagions dis eases, but, when the hair was allowed to become dirtv and mattMl It u hardly possible to escape infection. Many persons find speedy relief for nervous headache by washing the head thoroughly in weak soda water. Cases are reported to have been almost wholly cured in ten minutes by this simple remedy. borne persons find that it relieves "rOSe noflt:" tllA Anld irnnlnmianllicff leave the eyes after on thoroughly washing of the hair. Th head should be thoroughly dried afterward, and one should avoid draughts of air for a little wuiic. j man i wmpamon. Th Afosn Would v a. bvww) natL lor ft quarterly nisgaaLn.