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SLIMiS AND AIMiOWS Ity liUUU CONWAY. Author of "Culled Hark," "lurk Dayi," "A Family Affair," Lie. I J imped In 0 l,r unnm, ami drove to the hotiil. Ni; Mr Lorain m not th r'. 1 urora to Mm Roller's, Viola i.al lean then in the morning, but had I oft about 11 :30 o'clock. 1 did not sett Miss R titer, who, I was sorry to bear, was ill Id bud. As a late leoouron, I drove to Grant's bouse and adced for bun. Ha was out. Hail not Loco home slncn. the morniu Quito uncertoU wheo be would return. It was now tout 8 o'clock. Anxious and annoy el, 1 could do nothing Lut go back to the hotel and wait mr wife' return, bill not tbiUKbt ol the truth. J spent tiie rent ol tlie afternoon and evo ng ,ftmin! from the hotol to Mi Uossitiri, from there to Oram's lodgings, and from Uraai'i lodging back to the bob!. U.iiy at ons of the -a throe places could I bone to find tiding' of Viola. K'peatelly as I baJ rallod, it was not until nearly 11 o'ciock tbat 1 found Eimtace Grant at boms, But l now 1 was In a different mooJ. Khali I be blamed for saying tbat tou long and unexp'alnnl absence of Viola's in win pnov, it seemed, with Grant, brought a bor rible dread which I scarcely dared to breathe to nyselll The news that Grant was at laxt at borne lifted a weight from my heart He would b) able to U.-U me when and where be partol with Viola. No doubt he bail a mntpage fi r me which would clear up everything. Bui althiugh Mr. Grant was at home, the tervaut Informed me that be would so no one to-night. , I made no comment on this doniaL I simply fore d the door open, and, putting the frightenel nervaut aside, strode through the ball and entered the sitting room in which Grant had, on the nighi when I first met him, interrogate 1 me. It was empty. 1 threw myself Into chair, and waited until some one made my presence known to the man whom 1 wai bent upon seeing. No doubt he beard thenokaof my forcible entrance. In B minute the folding door, which, as is often the case in lodgings divided the sitting-room from the bed-room, opened, and Eustace Grant appeared. As he did so 1 caught a glimpse of the bed room from which be emerged. An open portmanteau, apparently bait packed, was lyln? on th-J bed, and there wre other evi dencna of preparation for a Journey. Grant advanced toward me, but b made no pretenw of greeting ni". He neither offered his hau I nor baJo me good evonliu. If) and fatud biiiL He was imUo, almost ghontlv piiK His brows wore bent, and a slight twitch of the nostril tol I ma lie was suffering from somo frreat, though smpreJ, emotion. Hi ooked at mo haughtily anl angrily; but whatever he bad wherewlib to reproach hlnis df, tliiTO was neither fear nor triumph in his gs.. I lookel at him and woiidrod but I felt certuiu (hut be knew all about Viola's absence. , r'till, as tliat absence ml ;ht even now lie ntmfnctorily explainer, I rmolved that I would not, by evincing prematura distrust or suspicion, let this man triumph over uie Ho 1 HHke with forcid composure: "Mr. Grant, 1 lutva missed my wife somewhere. C'au you give me tidings of berr1 ,. "Icanuot," be replied, collly. ''Where did vou uart with herl You left Sir. Monk's with hoi In a cub. When did yon Inavo her I" "1 cannot tell you, Mr. Loraino." ''Do you mean that you are ignorant of her whemaboutsf' "You have bad my answer." My blond boilol. "You moan you will not, dine not tell me, you utter villain I" I cried. '1 will know, or I will kill vou!" Thi table wns between us, or 1 should have sprung at lit throat. "1 euro nothing for your threats, Mr. Lo rain;)," ba sild, with galling contempt, "Wherever Mm. Loralne may be, hIio is the- of her own trm choice." "S'io is here in this house with youl" I excliiiuuHl, "L-xik for her search evorf cupboard and cratiuy. I will ring; you shall lie con ductet over the whole buildinir. Make it public property that you are a Jealous hut Isind liMiking for a faitliloa wife. No; Uiat shall not be dou for her mike. Wnonver . she is, she ii not hero." He spoke an if e.ieeliig me to believe him. ritrati:;e to say, 1 did believe him. The thou;ht that bis huns-i would lie tho last laoo in which ha would bide Viola from my Honrch, no doubt conduce 1 to this Im liof. Hut now I could no longer doubt the horrible truth. This man, by some develish craft, bod torn my wlfo from mo had taken away tin) woman who, a few hours ago, pnKwd a Judas' kiss ou my lips, even as she, was going to moat hur lover. Htavl nrha ho had killed Iter. Such tilings have boon dono U'fore now by men who fail to win the wemau they love. Per haps he had dmiye l her away, and was de taining her aguiust her will Kven now he might lie longing for too to come and free her. All the thoughts whirlni through my brain, and for a moment unmanned me. I - sau'c ii)ii a chair, cold and trembling In very limb. GraiA. stood like a statue until 1 reeovonxl myself. "You villain!'1 Igaspel, "I will know I will mm berl Tell me where she is!" He loaned forward, He looked at me sternly. "Listen!'' he said, in a fierce voice, "In tills room I said to you, 'Toko bor, and make her happy.' Have you done sol" 1 luughed wildly, "If liemg willing to shod one's blood for her can make a fal.se woman happy, she should have b.cu happy. Does she expect to tlud bliss in Ule of shame with you?' His eyes hlu&jd. "You bad better go I1 be said. "Uoatoncol" I laughed mockingly. Now that I had lost all hoie; now that my on donre was veug)ance I could speak calmly. "1 shall stay here," 1 said, "until yOU leave to join her. I shall follow and be with you. Purely a bridegroom can claim the right ci bidding bis bride Godspeedl Hera I stav." Korreplr' Grant rang the ML "Leavo the front door and this door wida ovn," he said to the wrvaut; "thn go out ut the way." lie cam toward ta. I started to m feet, and Mruck fair and full at hit whitu, set In - lle)hmvl thi fierce blow, au,l In a uomeiit his arms were around me. AUhounh physical strenKth is an acci lent, or at tiia m Kt au inheritance, no man Ilk n toc'Ufii tbat ano her it imuieaurably his superior in muscular power. B litis with feelings of keen annoy anc that 1 am ol ligvl to relate the result of that haud-t haud struggle. 1 as strong, and bad iihouul my surength with innny, lut n ver wi h such a man as this. Ibe niometit we rliwj I 1 felt that Ishoull bicuqured; tbat ryhl doe Dit always gain the victory. Grain's arms were likj lars of iron, the nirih of h. cbe-tVliuist abnormal; moreover, be t.sjj two loc h m Ul.or tuan 1 did. llai 1 Ui:i told that any man could have lit: si uie from my let, earned mi thmugh two pa dcMvrt, and finally thrown m s:a;ir iu into the ceuter of the roadnar. 1 suojil havalaugnel ina irina torcori. But Eat. tan Grant did all thii, anl shut anl UJ.el tlie outer door before 1 could recover my self. Mid with the rage of defeat, le-aipel the railings and pauted forbreatii. Icursjl Euiiaos Grant. I cursed my faithle wife. 1 cumed myi)lf and my iinrjotonoa. Such was my state thit, could I have obtalne 1 a pistol, I would have waited on that door step and shot fbe man who bad betrayed niJ, as soon as ba emergoJ from bis place of tafety ibot him dial without compuno uon. Nor was my mind any way loothel by hearing the window thrown up, and tee ing my bat tossed out contemptuously. 1 ' was fain to stoop and pick it up, in order to ave myself from becoming an objoct of curiosity to passorsby. What was 1 to dol My mind at present cculd only grasp oua fact tbat Grant bad, by some diabolical means, induced Viola to leave me and give bemlf to him. For while my course seemvl limited to one issue! I must wait here, outside bit house, uutU at hut be came forth. Then I must d')g bis foobiteps until they led me to the faithless woman who bad ruined my life and brought me to shame. I groaned at the thought of what little more tban twelve hours bad done. This morning I was the happiest man In England; to-night I was the most miserablel Ko, for hours I walkel up and down in front of the bouse which held the traitor. I saw the light extingu'sheL Oaca or twice I law the blind drawn aside, and iMiesrxl that Grant was looking out to see if I had left my pot. No, you traitorl you villain 1 1 am still there, and shall be thire until you come out. Then I will dog you to tin bitter end. The hours went by, the dawn began to break. Still an object of curiosity, if not suspicion, to the policeman I kept my post, and should have kept it for hours longer, bad It not all at once occurred to me tbat so long as 1 was there so long would Grant remain where he was. 1 must meet craft with craft Nevertheless, I must perforce ktep watch until 1 could find some one to whom the task might be deputed. At 7 o'clock I was able to gain almwidTO to an old-fashioned fumilv and commerc al Inn which stood some short distance off. The bay Window of the coffee room com manded view of Grant's bouse. Here I seated mytelf, and, having obtained a Lon don directory, wrote and dispatched a letter to a well-known private detective, request ing that a clever, trustworthy man might at once be sent to ma Then, from the win dow of the hotel, I resumed my watch. At 9 o'clock the man whom I had sum moned arrived. I told him what to da He was to wait until be saw Grant depart. He was to follow him, and, having ascertained bis destination, wus to telegraph to meat ouca Then I left the accursed spot, wont back to my hotel, anl tried tosleo. Ah 1 ent'Tisl Uie room which Viola and I had occupied 1 could ulimxt persuade my telf that I Iml dreamed the events of the Inst twenty-four hours, All hnr jiemou'il effects were as she loft them; bor glov.j, her brushed, her tollut indisputable wen all th're. Even her watch she h&l left behind her. She broke the sprint; at tho seaside, and there was no time to get it ro puiroi before wo started for the continent; beside i, 1 lial Inktn led buying bor a new one in Paris. To-morrow yes, to-morrow would ba Thursday to-morrow we had proposed crossing lo Frnuce. Ibaveud what did It all ui uut Klocp, with my mind In this whirl, was unattainable. Later in the day, mora for something to di3 tban in pursuance of anv hope, I aunt to Viola's old home and askol if she had been tiioru to-dav. No, not rince yesterday morulng. This the servant rather wondered at, as Miss ltosslter wai very ill; two doctors were with her now. In my promt frame of mini I cared nothing for the old lady's illness; but I knew ihut the motive which kept Viola from her sido when suffering must bo a strong one. Yo', littlo a woman who could leavo her husband, as she bad left me, would reck for the ailments ut a frliudl Curses on ber false, fair facet The hours passed somehow. At 3 o'clock a toleraphio message was brought mo. I tore it 0wu. It wns sent from FoUostona, end ran so: "Folio wod him here. lie left by II u lcgno boat Was joined on pier by lady. Tall, closely veiled, luir hair. Wore costly riii'x cf diamonds. Hceined ill and Umj. Did not fidlow to France, baviug no in structions to leavo England." The Inst the very last hops was gond Viola and Eustaco Granthad fl si togotb jrl I ground my teeth. I bit my lip until tho blood came, 1 curs.il the detective's stupidity at not having followel them, if needs bo, half over the world. Burulv I had piv.u the fool ainplo instruct ion. I For the lut nro, 1 would trust no one but myailf. I throw a few things into a portmanteau; I rang for a time table. Was there a traiu I could catch was thers a itoatnor wlrci crtwse.l to-ul';ht! Perhaps, at Boulogne, I might giit ouco more ou the track of tin tugilives. Hut before Iliad solved tho doubt abut trains and steamer), I hud changed my mind. Why should I follow! Lt them go, and my cun go with them. I wilt not take, at present, om step in pursuit 1 will have Vcngcaucu, but vongeaiic.) by waitiu'; will bo the more coniJeta. Bx-l sho must lovt thli mail madly, even as 1 loved her, or she would not have done this thtn. He, too, must lov.i her. Lit my silence, my imiet lies i, lull them into false security. Lt them dream their dreiimof happiness, even as 1 dreamed mine. Then I will tiul them and strike! For 1 swore that tooner or Utter, by fair meant or foul, Eustace Grant should dta by my huuH CHAPTER VI. A CI.KV7. I hate the task of dcacribini; what manner of lift) I led during the next two years. I hate the memory of everything counoctod with that tiiiii I wUh It could be blotUyl out from my mind. Two years which hold no action, no thought of my own to which 1 ran look back with anv pleasure, I must write of that wretched time, but I will make its record as short as possible. Nevertheless, I will bs candid, and show mvselt In as bal a light ai truth compels. Ido not seek toexcuxi myself by sawing that many another iu my place would have acted as lactel. 1 hope thera are few in the world who hare passe 1 through such grief and shamj as mine. At tlrst, without for a moment losing tight of the venjeanci which 1 meant to tuko on th traitor, Eutfjoe Gran I tut myself tbo tadt of for got tin- tlie fade woman wbo ba l fie I from mr fld 1 vowe I I would destroy tho love I bore her, and lcara to look up.m her with scorn anl contempt, as tlie lsest of ber sex. If the thong lit of suing ior a divorce eu'eral my bead 1 banished it at ouca. I cared not to recuni) my freed tin, rV long at I was bound tJ one vioinan then was no ch.inej of my be'nj cnjo'.ed and deceivel by an thr, if fj r I could be fool enough to love and trust another woman as 1 bad lured and trusted Viola. lieiidtH, I shrank from t rxpnicre; I shrank lrom the thought of being mid) a public la uhin j stock, as a mm waie w fa left him a fortnight after ber mrr.are. No; I would teach niv-.f to scorn, loathe lormt her that nut alL But bow to forgell It I cursed her by day 'I dreamed of ber by night Then she came tome, sweat and pure as I thought ber on the day when I made her my wife, I saw her soft eyes, b r graceful form; I beard ber fresh young loving voloi, and in mr dreams waa bappy, for I could never dream aril of ber. Dut again and again, when I awoke, and remembered what she now was, Isobb d as few' strong mea permit themselves to sob, and then only in the dead of night, when none can bear or see them. 1 would forgetl I swore I woull forget I So, in search of forgstfulnoas, I plunged into a whirl of fierce dissipation. I became to a'l appearance the most reckless of a reckless set I gambled for lurge turns, 1 lost or won tboutands at a sitting; yet only proved to myself tbat I was as.indifforent to money as I was to everything else save the loss of Viola, Curiously enough, I di 1 not rum myself at the gaming tabli Ou the wboh, I won largo I y, and so constantl that my luck became a byword. My lucx! 1 smiled bitterly aa men spokj of ui4 as "lucky Loralne," I tried in every way to force the memory of Viola from my miud. For while 1 blush to say so I drank to excess; perluipi I hoped to kill mytelt. In these and o uer unworthy ways I passe 1 half the year. Then came the reaction the loathinz of self the ditgust of the life I was lead.n. I sickened at the sight of my booo cou pan ions. Everything was weariness; noth ing brought the flush of excitement to iny cheek or carriol m for a moment soa from my gr'ef. Suddenly I turned mr bac upon all my pursuit. I went down to nrstal Abbev, which wns now at my disposal, and, with as supreme a contempt for mankind as ever my predec ssor felt, I buried myself even as lie bad done. . And people around said that eccin ,tricitv ran in families, and that young Mr. Loralne was following in bis father's Steps. But why during these months bad I not sought the excitement of revenging mysdf upon the man who had wron 'ed mel Wbr had I not kept my vow of killing bim wh -n his dream of joy wat at its height? Simply because I knew not where to look for bim. He and bis no less guilty companion bad left no tram behind them no clew tbat might be followel until it brought mo fao to face with them. I bal made inquiries, and inquiries were still boin j made on my lehalf; but as yet I had not discoverel Grant's biding place, 11 j seemed to be a man with, so far at I could ascertain, no fr.euds or connections. Miss Rosdter, with whom It is possible be or Viola mic,ht have corresponded, died two days after tho elopo mnnt Her brother I foun l, but he c .uld give me no intellig ince, Mr. Monk, the so licitor, acting, ha said, on instructions, re fused to give me any. So I could do noth ing but griud mv tojth anl loug for the hour when my path might once more crots Eustace Grant's. I wus fatalist enough to believe thut, sooner or later, this mast lnp pen. 1 lived on in tho dreary solitude of Her etal Abbey. Each day found me more cvnlcul and misanthropical: but each day I renewed my vow of vonge.'inco. Its ac complishment was the only thing in life to which 1 could look forward. When Grant lay dead nt my foot, life for me would beat an end. t'o the mouths passed. If the orig inal Julian Loraiue could have seen me as I sat hour after hour brooding iu bis chair, he would have thought the son of bis adop tion well wort'.iy ot his choice. So tho long mouths pass'd. Spring, sum mer, autumn, winter came and wont, mak ing little dillerencj to mo. Ones or twice 1 forced myself to quit my secliuion and pay a visit to Lou lou or Paris iu the nope of iln iing distraction and forgutfuluois. My efforts avadod nothing, and I returns 1 to my borne more moody aui miserabU than when 1 loft it I hail, for (ha saka of occupation, per forine I a task until now postponed. I went throu-'i my reputid father's letters and private jiisri I found nothing that in any way bore UKin mys,.lf, except a written account of tho shipwreck and my birth on the barren roe'e It was signed by tho narrator. Although tho existeno of this papir ma le no dilfireuce to me, iput it away unJor lock and kjy. Yot, for ail I flllll yiiif it away vmler lock and key. card, tho whola worll might know that Julian Loraini was not my father. Such trivial thingsi as accidents ot birth wen now matters ot indifference to me. The other pnpors I burnjl I did not read one-halt of them. They clearly si: owed what manner of man was Julian Loraino jeforo be bought Horstal Abbey an I settle I dowu to the life of a reeluso. My life, I told myself, was spoiled spoiled by a woirau's treachery I Aid ret I could not bring myself to hate her. No let tha truth be kuowu 1 loved hereveu now loved her, although she was living iu shame with my enemy. 1 hungered, I craved for a sight of ber face. The touch of ber hand would bavo thrilled ma ai ot old. Although I told myself that were she at my foot praying for pardon, I would spurn her and cast her from me, I knew that I lied. I knew that if Viola came to me if my eyes once mora in 't hers I should throw all manhood's pride to the win Is, and such was the strength ot my passion taka this faithless woman to my heart anl bold her there un til, as I told myself bitterly, some fresh lover robbed me again. Such being my true f.s9lin, p'eture my emotion when, one niornin;, I founl alettsr lyinj on my table a letter ad.lrestel tome in VioU's handwriting! 1 tore itopen w.th a cry of delight; 1 pressel it to mr lipv Had not h-T fingers touched itl Then I read. It wat but one lins: "7jou knew all, you might forgit "If 1 knew all!" What more was there to knowf 1 knew that shj had loft me without a word or a sigu of warning; that the hvt fled, accompaniot by a man who b-tl loved ber passionately long before I i rat Nt eyes upon h"r; that tuey w.-ro, somewhere or other, hid lea from pursuit. 11. veil I what more could I wish to know, "ForgiveP Yes shame on my weakneti for say iug so I could forgive. I could dj more; I could persuada mvselt tha- th.t strong- illed man bad forced ber to fly with him, perhaps halt against hir wish. I could believe that she was nnbarpy, tuat sha was peuiteut, that sh bred me still I could Jo more tban forgiva, I could take ber I should ba force 1 to take be.- agaia ta my heart; even to trust her, and ba proud of ber elorioua beautv. Yet, I could do tt-U after I bal teon Eustica Gran: lying lif less at my f t Weak ai I was, it could not ba until then! IT M awUaiuil NEW YORK FASHIONS. The latest Styles In Visiting and Beeep. tlun Dresses. Combination dresses of fnillo (ran cftise, Bcngalino, or other ropped silk with velvet are among the most tasteful importations for visiting and reception toilettes. These may be in monotone when tho velvet is figured or striped, but if two plain materials aro used, they are oftencst in contrasting colors. In theso dresses there is greater fullness in the skirU and very long druperies, and the effect is given of one skirt opening over another. As an example of mono tone dresses is a rich gown with tlie ample skirt of sapphire brocaded vcl -vet, with large raised velvet flowers on a ground of repped (uncut) vel vet of the same shade; this is arranged with three straight black breadths of velvet gathered to a very small space on the belt, whilo two front breadths nearly plain at tlie belt drop down to form a longr apron shaped only by pleats catching up the sides, and cut out in deep scallops across the foot to show a border of otter fur set on the foundation skirt Down each sido hangs a sawh-like breadth of Benguline silk fringed at tho lower end and pleated into a space of two inches at tho belt; on ono side this sash has a deep loop falling from the belt, but the other is plain and straight. The basque of Bengaline has a square plastron of tho figured velvet, and is cut up in seal lops below this pjastron; thoro are also scallops at the end of tho middle forms of the back. For a dress in contrasts of color seal brown Sicilienne or faille francaise is made up to open over a tur quoise blue velvet skirt which shows in a wide band inlaid down the front be tween three plaits of tho brown silk, on which are placed cross rows of blue beau fringe. These plaibt are wide and not set stiffly, yet are held well in place by the fringe; tho silk drapery back of the plaits is caught up high on each side, and descends again in tho back to show the blue velvet from belt to foot. The basque is of the silk, with a velvet vest and inside culls, l'lush skirts are used in the sumo way under soft repped silk draperies, and in some instances there are wide bands like borders of metallic galloon straight around them: as this galloon would sink into the deep pile of the plush; modistes make tueks in the plush, and attach the galloon to the lower edge. Tho ret! gilt and copper galloons are very effective on black or brown plush skirts. By way of change from the brown ami blue costumes that prevail in rich fabrics, many green gowns are im ported this winter, among them ono of changeable green and red satin over a plush skirt of tho same coloring, with reddish gilt galloon for trimming, while others are of green velvet with repped silk, and many are of green clotli with velvet. In many dresses a third color is introduced, ami this color is otlenest bright poppy red, which gives an effect ive surprise by appearing, perhaps, only on one sido of tlie skirt, or else inlaid down the front between folds of the color which is least prominent in the costume. A novelty in cloth costumes shows panels and borders woven along one selvedgo to represent ribbed Hercules braid. 1 liese borders are tliree-eighths of a yard wide, and are put lengthwise in panels on tho skirt, meeting at the belt, but opening as they descend over pleatingsof tlie plain cloth; they also bonier jackets and form a vest, cuffs and collar. Lacing of braid or of cord is much used on cloth and lighter wool dresses, both on tho basque and skirt; for in stance, a green cloth dress has two rows of lacing down ono aide, made of silver braid passed over small buttons of the cloth on wooden molds. The postilion basque of cloth then opens over a vest of green velvet, and is laeed from tlie bust down to the point. Silk cords are used also for lacing basques, as in a pretty houso dross of mauve cashmere with cord lacing over a pansy-colored velvet vest. This vest should be six or eight inches wido from the throat down to tho top of tho darts, with the cash mere lapping on its sides, and stitched there; along tho darts tho velvet shows only two inches wide, as the cashmere 1: pj over it, is finished with whalebones, beyond which eyelet-holes are worked, and a lacing of silk cord passes through these and crosses on the narrow velvet vest Harper's Bazar. A GREEN GRANGER. Ills Veribtiicy Whs l'erceptlhle, Hut Still lie MniiiiKi'd to Take Care of Himself. "I admit I'm pretty green," said a passenger, "but I guess I can take care of myself. I have just been spending a few days and a few nights in Chicago seeing the sights, and I've seen 'em. Here I am, on my way home, safe and sound, and with my purse in my pocket, though I've had some narrow escapes. Night before last I wandered down on Third avenue. Don't know how I happened to be down there, but there I was. Just wandering around looking at tho sights. Pretty soon I noticed three men follow ing me. That scared me, but I kept my wits about mo all tho same. I looked for a policeman, but, of course, I couldn't see any. I was about to cut and run for it, but as I looked back I saw tho fel lows coming for me. An idea struck me, and I turned quickly and walked to ward them. Before they could do a thing or say a word I exclaimed: ' "Will you please give me ten cents to get a night's lodging with?' "You ought to have seen the look of disgust that came on those fellows' faces as they swore at mo and walked off. Yet at that very minute I had down here in my pants' pocket tho monev I had got for six car-loads of hogs. 1 know I'm mighty green, but I guess I can take care of myself." Chicago Herald. A bad ease of it: Several gentle men were talking about love, and Gil hooly said he had an uncle who went crazy on account of the tedder passion. "That's nothing!" replied Gus De Smith, "my cousin Tom is moro in love than any man I ever heard of." "Is he really in love?" "Is he? He is so much in love that ho hat become a letter-carrier so he can get to ro4 her letters sooner. Beside, as letter-carrier he knows if sho is getting letters from any other feller. 'lexas Riflings. MEASURING SUNSHINE. the English Scientists Have Solved Ito a Great l'rolileiu. When the British Association first met at Birmingham, in 1839, the famous French astronomer, Arago, was pres ent. The weather was cloudy, and when at the end of the meeting it cleared he formally took off his hat to the sun, aa he declared he had begun to fear that he had come to a land where that luiniuary would never show his face again. This was, of course, only a joke of Arago's, but in the course of this last spring two Russian officers were visiting Kew Observatory, and on being shown the apparatus for sunshine registration and for solar photography, these gentlemen ex pressed their honest surprise that such researches should be attempted, as it was a well known fact that the sun never shono in England. It is, however, in that country that the subject of sunshine registration has received the most attention and been the most successfully studied. It is now nearly half a century ago that a plan for recording sunlight photograph ically and continuously throughout tlie day was submitted to the Royal Corn wall Polytechnic Society by Mr. T. Jordan, while the proposal of the late Mr. J. F. Campbell, of Islay, for reg istering the sun heat dates from the year 1853, and was described in the re port oftho British Meteorological So ciety for 1857. It is this latter process which has met with general acceptance, as it entails so littlq trouble. The record consists in the amount of charring an organic substance such as wood or paper undergoes from the solar action, and which is of course perceptible to the eye. The photographic process, on the other hand, always entails a certain amount of development of chemical treatment, even though of a simple nature, to render the solar trace visible. The least reflection will show the reader that in order to obtain a contin uous record of sunshine throughout a cloudless day, some contrivance is nec essary to follow, so to speak, the sun in his course. This was formerly done by means of an instrument termed a h'eliostat, by which the sun's rays, whatever be his altitude, were always reflected along the same direction throughout the day. This entailed the employment of clockwork to drive the reflecting mirror, and a similar power was also required to move the paper past the slit through which the sun's ravs were admitted. Mr. Campbell hit on the very ingen ious notion of employing a glass sphere as a lens, so that as the sun traveled round the ball its image should travel round on tho opposite side. The first instrument consisted of a ball placed in side a mahogany bowl, turned to the exact focal length of tho bail. Such a bowl was capable of receiving a record for six months from one solstice to the next. It was, however, impossible to distinguish the record of consecutive days from each other, and accordingly a plan had to bo devised by which the record could be obtained on a slip of card board or other material which could be replaced daily. A very ingenious frame was finally devised b Prof. Stokes, of Cambridge, provided "with grooves into which the cards are slipped. Tho grooves are in three pairs for the summer, the win ter and the equinoxes respectively, and the cards have hour lines printed on them. Tho instrument can thus be used as a sun dial, for the spot where the solar image appears where the burning is taking place of course cor respond to the spot where the shadow of tho gnomon would cut the scale of the dial. These instruments were first brought out at the end of 1879, and by this time there are nearly fifty of them in various parts of the United Kingdom. The Microcosm. THE SISTER-IN-LAW. A Disagreeable and Eipenstre Addition to a Happy Family. The mother-in-law has had her day. Sho has had many days. She will have many more. All joking and senseless puns aside, tho mother-in-law is a very handy creature to have around when the baby is taken suddenly sick, when your wife has a chill or when you want to borrow funds to settlo for last winter's coal before filling tho bill this season. I used to make wretched jokes about tho mother-in-law. I thought a funny scribe yiuld not get along with out having his occasional fling at her. I don't say hard things about the mother-in-law now. I have got one now. I havo got something else. The mother-in-law is an angel compared to what I've got. When 1 married I didn't agree to marry my wife's sister. That's the case in a nutshell. I've got a sister-in-law. Did you ever have one? Be very careful. Don'tl My mother-in-law never cost me a single cent. My sister-in-law, if she continues, will bankrupt me. Ono year ago I bought a parlor set My sister-in-law and her friends have created disaster among my parlor furniture. She sparks by my coal tire. She reads gush to her beau under my gas. She wears out my gate hinges. She has the best room in the house. She must have a sealskin like my wife's. She says Chawly don't like to hear the baby cry. She goes to the seaside with my wife. She bosses my servant. She she well; if any mother-in-law could be more expensive and disagreeable than my sister-in-law I'd like to meet her. "I'd trade my sister-in-law off for a yellow dog; then I'd shoot the dog. H. S. Kclkrn SU Louis Whip. "Well," said Mr. Snaggs, looking up from his paper, "a seat iu the New ork stock exchange has just been sold for $34,000." "Mercy!" commented Mrs. Snajgs, "who is goin? to sing?" "Sing!" howled Snaggs. "What would they sing for at a stock exchano-e? Have you got an idea it is a kind of a concert?" "Well, don't get cross, dear. I thought some foreign singer would be there, or seats wouldn't be so dear." Pittsburgh Chronicle. Uncle Sam has just run his hand into his long wallet and counted down ten thousand clinking dollars, and all for a hole in the ground a one thou sand five hundred-foot artesian well at Mare Island, Golden Gate. San Fran cisco Call. GOING UP. Hats Will Be Taller Tliao tf . ; Mlll-Wlntar. Hats unfortunately are taller ever thin winter When will they tn irrnw in heicht? Slirelv tl.o .. " b o j "o "lUefo! .1 L .. .. come wneii uuuu eaggoraiion 8hocJ be checked. Crowns now are ton k: 1 and massive; height was not to f when tne snape was conical, t o.ll In thn hud olVcct bp!,.,. ' ' -.., BreTr, narrow and are curled tin at th .u'-i In a word, there is a trongresemblJj ueiweou mom nmi a gi'iuienutn t f hat, a by no means beautiful object bv no means so comfortable as !J . j... i ti.: i i.. .. oe aesireu. hub iuiiu is me nj(j vorue iui mo mis umwj "Ms, whir' consist of a buckram shape neatly tn ereu with nne sua siockingette. i are also made in felt and in silk hvj gentleman's hat Another novelty 3 the felt or silk hat covered with a y silk network. The plain felt is prettiJ on the whole, but at the samo time it j a useful method of hiding the shabh ncss of a last year's felt hat the h,J of which the owner likes. Both i? Jersey and netted hate are so net,,f finished that a band, where ernwn ,.i brim join, is not necessary and is run- employed. The only trimming erany is a piume oi leathers a notion now in Hunt must be remembered that JerJ hats can not be made by cutting out; shape in stockingette as one would t velvet; no, the covering is speck manufactured to fit the shape, and y onlv seam is up tho center of the W V . e ..I. ! 1.1 . L . .. reaim-rs are lasnioiinoie, out vm.r. principally placed at the back to dm; over the front. Rich oriental fabrics t. employed for scarfs, and a large variu of embroidered braids and riblionsd bows and draperies. Chaplet be.; (tlie wooden beads) are preferred to i. for edging brims or embroidery mi.. rials for bonnets and hats, being light, and having the sanctity of novel. They are employed to embroider i manner of jackets, mantles, and te as well. They have put jet and h beads considerably in the shade (ot time. Ribbons, especially those c ployed for millinery, are usul beautiful and fanciful. There is a pre, gauze ribbon just out which has ;, usual satin edge on one sido only.'ti other side being finished with a jer. of scallops, embroidered with colo; silk. A charming hat for a ' young k is of beige felt; the crown is tall i, pointed, the brim straight and wiikv lined with green velvet A beige ostr feather is laid across the brim in fro on the left is a beige aigrette, Mi large bow of green ribbon. This La worn rather at the back of the licad. that the short, ciulrd hair in from well exposed. The same hat is v pretty in black, with lcnion-colorod beige feathers and aigrette. Hoi Lady's llouk. RELIGIOUS AMD EDUCATION The colored people of Georgia p taxes on six million dollars' wortki school property, the sum thus derm being nearly sullieient to maintiond colored schools of the State. C'Ai'c Current. In speaking of the Bible, Jo! Milton said: "There are no sods be compared with the sougs of Zio no orations equal to thoa sa i prophets, and no politics like those) Scriptures teach." Ex-Senator Charles Maclay, of Si Francisco, Cnl., has added $50,000 his previous gift of $150,000 to cstabE a theological college at San Fernafi in connection with tho Methodist Ci vcrsity at Los Angeles. . On a recent Sunday Mr. Watkii a missionary iu South Africa, bnptii fifty-four adults, all converted lu heathenism during the year, and il thirty-one children. At the same til he married seven couples. At Cornell University the Balarri tached to the professorships of civil i gineering and of physio have been i vanccd to $3,200." Those of elt other professorships were increw from $2,750 to $3,000. Ono was rail from $1,800 to $2,500, and fotirm raised from $2,000 to $2,200. Mi (N. Y.) Journal. An effort is making in Boston I take the schools entirely out of vmi pal politics, and to this end sepd elections are urged. 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