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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
The Catholic Imve bu.ll iin Indian
rhooltS'-ilii-M,i),T..!HiixH)1(Klo.
Forty 40 Arapahoe and Clmycune
Indians arrived ut J'.tM'urgh. 1'u.. re
ocntlv'. to cuter tliu Jud.aii M-hool ut
that place.
Preparations nre nlrcudy being made
for the next I'mi-I'n-H .ivteriun Council lo
be hold in London in I kxx. The American
want a chance to make speeches, nnd
recommend l hut lc tiiiiii Imi given to
prepared papers mid mure lo discussion
than formerly
Maharanee Snrnnninveo, n poncr
mm Ilinilo liidv in Calcutta, has gven
7.') 000 to found n hall of residence for
native women student of uiil n-iim.
The government ha contributed ground
for the building,
J)r. Francis Hm on, of New Haven,
Ii an been iiptminted by tho Connecticut
Mate Hoard of Kdueation to compile
(ho text-books authorized by tho !egis
lulurn for u-e in lli'i public schools.
Dur.ng bin vacaton Itev. Phillip
Hrooks, so it in reported, absolutely re
fuses to receive hi Hillary, ask ng that
it be put to III" eredit of the clinrrli
fund, lie pays live hundred dollar a
year toward free seals in bin own
Ihurcli. Mr. Ilrook i well-to-do mid
unmarried. .V. . Khii.
A regard Ihe three leading do
iinminntinn in Scotland, tliu following
abstract of ligurc ha Ih'iiii pnbhshcil:
F.slilhlishcil t'liureli, .'if! 1,1 1') member;
contribution)!, JI.H.'i-U.Vi: I n o Ch-uvli,
;i.".l,.VII member: contribution-, bin,
1 (0; Uniied Pre-ln terian 'lnir. li. 177,
;17 tiicmhcr;eoiit,rihulioii, f.!i."iO.!':l.
- lYexidi'iii li nl I M. if I). H' iin. uili,
wa reprimanding the buy for Mime
lii'alliiini.tli conducl III", otiicr day nnd
hud ju t struck Ii '.ni' -hoiMired Mimiii
in ree.Miinieu hit mi uf "moral cour
li'e," when i i'ii n young i-i i t I ile
tprung a )'-.! 11 . 1 1 bell i"M Ii III. Tim
rll'eel of till! I' C II . U H " ill leiy
hpoih'd.
-A conv-p t i I. 1 1 1 of lip' iliris'iini
I'nioti, srit h,' In. in J 1 1 j 1 : : 1 1 . 1 . saislhat
llsll'llll II.Ci'l, . . nil 1 ...,l,. IIO.il. II t.lllli;
ill Nonconformist churchc oueeupl.ed
w.th a blue ribbon. I In i f r those
cnimimuiciints who olij.M-l lo ii ii uT any
but iinfcinielilcd W'lie. lie a that
nnothcr general custom i to su-.p-iil
nn v eouiinunieiiiit from eoiiimiiuion
privilege who. in business, fail to pay
twenty chilling lo the pound until in
vollgation vitidieati' hi honesty.
'I'lm r'.piipnl Hr.ivrtlrr, of Phila
delphia, say: "At 'be reeent lleliever'
Meeting of Niagara, sinongthc speaker
wa tliu mayor uf a Canadian city. Tin
fart, referred lo hv our own eorrepntiil
enl. xirikcN ii a a luo-t Higuilieanl one,
mid ai lo av il i 'ip' t ell nioh a
htrangu a n nil,, ..ii', io eitieii o our
own land. We, a!a. hanllv know ucb
luayorK. And et no one will deny tbn
(irnpriely of public men Im'ng eon
xpieuon a eiiritiiin, and very many
will unite with ii in the wi.li' that .it
wa with our ciliei a it i with favored
Toronto."
WIT AND WISDOM.
How mueh heller it i to get win
dow than gold, nml lo L'ct underhand
lug i rather to lie i'Iiommi than mIhii.
t'Aii'1171) StaniNril.
A man boulil never be alinmed to
own he ho been in the wrong, which 1
but Raying in oilier word that he i
wier to-day than he wa yesterday.
Hn (reading) And i n rounding
Sandy Hook tialiilea fell oil' two pomt.
Sh (not ihlereiled in Micbliii) - How
mueh ea.ier aim must' have fell, poor
thing, piutielilailv if thev were tack..
T.dlUU.
The Moral hell Ngcltlngtebn rather
utale for marriage eeieiuonie. W'hv
ahould not Mome euterpriiug eiiuple liii
married under a pair tree? lWi'o
VViAwmi'.
Uepiiiaiion I In It-elf onlv a farth
ing candle, of waver ng and uncertain
llame and eady blown mil: but il is the
light by wh eh the world look for, mid
lind. merit Jnm? I'mv I l.iu;ll.
it mieuiittilrangelli.il none of our
exchange have attempted lo make a
pun on (he name of Mr. llcuu. Captain
of Ihe (ialala. Welhmk II might lie
Hccompliidie I with a billc M-rateh ug.
Aiinvi.iii'N lift a ,1
lloarding-htiue wit. Adolphu
(takes he last piece) 'I hi invert good
bread, Mr. Thompson. Mr. Tlionit
mm, the landlady Yi. tindl think it
better hied than sonic ul' mv lui uilers.
yiiMfnH fi'd'ioi.
Some of Ihe New York lire eom
panieit claim that Ihey can hiteli up and
be readv lo Mart for a lire in three sec
ond. Chert isn't much Use In cbaiu
I'htn'ug fooling awny H time in that
iicighloihood. .V. )'. 7'iii'.
"I hay. Jobklu. ran vmi let me
h ive that dollar yon owe meP" "Want
it lo-dav. parlii-ulniU t" Well, von
fee, 1 have the toothache." "U lml
lliw that to do with II?" "A great
Iiim'K will cure ihe toothache. Jobkiu.
mid I thought tcrhap if vou paid me, I
-er. Thank you." - Vii,i..';iu t'u,7.
Hridget (who ha been ent toci ack
aome nut in ptvp.irat;on for Mr.
Ill ink' bllle dmner-pai lv to be held
tluriugthe evening tera w ih a few
badly cracked upon a pla'e) -An' in
tin do, M isu lllank, (ti 11 lost me place
Mm ti break me lathe a erackin anv
more av them mil. Me jnw' all lamii
now, m it a, o it i. .Dr.
A safety p.iHr desciilvc '-an old
in lit!' p cue here no men were al
lowed" Weren't "allowed?" Hv all
III" slioulder blade and ellmw hi' tbi
laud, on couliln'ljlmve lured them lo at
tend uch a p'enic. Now. had it been a
; ic ; nchl' pienle where no men
wi i j adow i'dbut pshaw, what a wato
ol tnui' to talk alxiut somethnig that
lievr l.apened! Iinr,t ltt.
"WheiK did you get that beaut ful
eo r, C ivly, dear?" wa tint greeting
of ier (i n ml an he ilro HH n for a
in., i ning call. "Why. don't yu know ?
I've jii t rsmid home from Ihe m-aide.
It d.bglilfid." "Seaide? Whv.
yi i must lot get. You aid yon wer
r g i ) n wountain." -li d I? t.
. . ii uu tho mnunia n. alu r nil. I
pi I'i'ic'i I get confustttl. ou kn ivv,
dev." N. H. The itilor a there
tt of m l wo wee'' eoursu o( biel.arJ
A WONDERFUL TRAVELER.
Th llinrklil Toiiri Mails ljr an lo
trlllU ltlln of Drlnill.
Mr. Theodwinkh) Hrown ia a man
with a large head. Id thut head ia a
vat Hinoniit uf imagination, pcroiial
and otherwie. Tho head ia not pro
jiorlioliato to the lody, but he get
along with il. Ho l s man of at re
aoiirco, and hu keep hi reHource at
hand. He believe that ft man' Imag
iiialion ahould rule tho man, or know
the reoMou whv. Tim whole back part
of hi city lot i laid o(T in an excellent
map of the world on an xlemled wale.
When the weather ia extremely hoi,
and ha take after the weather, he goua
mraight to tho North Polo ami enjoya
tho vliniulc. which i aaid to bo ao colu
that even our refrigerator can not
Htand it. He atuy there aa long a he
can endure it, and then hie him to the
other extreme, thu torrid .one, with a
few well-ilkec.ted stepx, and without
mueh expense for faro and tranaporta
tion, or rik of ahipwreck and lo of
life. Tim weather in that locality, you
know, i an hot that a cold of the worl
dcKcription will noon thaw and loocn.
and can canity bu pulled with a pair of
Htrong tong.
It i no trouble for him to crosi the
Atlantic, without aea aickne. and
mako u lour all over Europe, and there
i where he ha the advantage over
other traveler. Then it Ih o cheap
for him to go down town and talk
about hi late Kojourn in foreign
countries, and Itrown i a good talk
er, Itnd ha the lacnlly of making ten
minute hcciii an bour hv tiio sicei
jard. It i truly Ihrilling lo ec how reck
lesfily he vviilkn over I.nke Superior of
any id the other, ttii'l .si rides act'oas the
Ito'cky Moniilain w'lh n hingie tep.
It In nothing for Ii i it) to make a trip to
China or .lupan. mid to icluin l the
way of ihe Sandwich Islands anil feel
pr-'atly refreshed by the trip. Ili-:iy
Stanley only eios-cii Africa once, and
a great blow w a made about il, while
lie ha crossed il by a liiiii.liv.l ilillcrent
o'tiei ai! I never s-'iid i:r:c!i ah :ti! 11.
Snine night when he can't sici p hu
goes out ami roams about the wulil,
nml if Ihe night is very dark he some-
lillleH get lust it 1 1 I call I tell for the
lite of him whether he i in America or
on tint 1 acil"' Uccau, ami wun no
mean of liiK ng iislroiioinical ob.scr
valion. He ha frequently been lound
by hi wife fasl asleeji on the run lines
of KiiUlschalka. clo-0 to the fence,
without a biillalo robe, and the ther
mometer nowhere lo lie found.
Ilrowu i laid up ut present from the
clleel of an attack of u fcrocioii
humble bee while in Ihe wiblsof Africa,
by which hi right eye i all wrong,
with chance in favor of the eve.
Brow u correspond with the daih
paper from all parts of the world, and
has a portable writing desk, lie is
looked upon a being a lillle oil', be-
niie he contribute humorous article-
to the funny paper.- lUirmt t'rc.c
Vt'i:.
LIFE AT HOMBURG.
A rtiii'i- WIiith lhr ( liriuile lnviillil May II
hn ,lii)uil II Mr rlrilar.
Life nt. a (icrmau bath begin early;
at i in t hit morning, or acvcu
in the morning at latest, the ina
jorilvof health seeker walk dow n lo
the (lomburg well to lake their prc
Herila'il uiiantily of water. 'I he cene
then in tliia (diarmiug valley i inler
esting and lively. The long valley
leading from Ihe Kaiser to the Kliii
belli Spring I thronged with people of
every age and nationality, nil .lowlv
parading up ami down, listening to
the music of an excellent band near
Ihe principal well, thus shortening the
Interval ncccary between the single
iIohch of water. At nine o'clock the cu-
iron of the springs are nearly empty;
every one ha hurried home for break
fast. After a pause or pleasant rest
the remainder of the forenoon i ecu
ci ally emplo ed in thu use of the bat lis.
which are crowded, often over
crowded, in fact, from eleven to one.
at which lime lunch again elliptic. the
street and call isitor to the ilillcr
ent hotel and rcNlaiirant. The utter
noon Is employed In ilillcrent way.
KtiglUh visitor Hock in large number
to llie law n leiini ground, one of the
tincst in (iermanv, splendidly situated
in the middle of the park, and care
fully kept in order by the lolnniiistra
lion. Others prefer evulsion to the
mountains, where there is much lo in
terest ami amuse, and no one will omit
a visit to the ruin of the Saalbiiig. an
ancient Koman "catcllum." ltetwceu
four and live o'clock the neighborhood
of Ihe spring again grow lively; mam
patients now lake their Htlernoon dose
of water, and now, jn-t a the F.lua
bcth well wa the most (reilie uteil in
the early morning, the greater number
o( visitors are gathered around I be
l.iiilw ighrunncu, or the iron water,
the l.uiscn and Stahlbrunneii. After
dinner, which take place generally at
six or half-past, the Kursaal form the
center of attraction. It is a splendid
building, the survival of day when
Ihe ilcmon of play hebl high revels in
il gilded chambers, all of which are
spacious, Ihe dining nwim especially,
w hich I remarkable not only hv il
ie. bill for Ihe artistic and tasteful
decoration. Musio enliven the scene
there are constant performance bv
military band in the Kursaal tiarden.
or, if the weather is unpropitious in
the concert room. Halls and dances,
are of frequent occurrence, nn oiera
company give special performances
in the theater, and all but the com
plaining chronic invalid may he as
ivou a lliey plea.se. Duly the hour
tie early; at eleven or oon" afterward,
.vrtainly before midnight, all Hom
tnirg ha retired to rest. tWInryhtitf
Htfun:
An eighteen-year old girl in Colo
ado burned a ranch dow n to ecun
five thoimand dollar inutanei money
to a.it a mother and on In the peni
tentiary for cattle Mealing. Adetectiv
courted the girl, who told the torv to
her supposed lover. CAietoo l.r t'jrr.
- The old gold mines in the moun-
aim of Monroe County. Teiin., will in
Hu m ar future t niore ett usielT
orkid in the near funny !h..n ever
N fore. by the erection ut ru inio-mnl
and other inodein improved i. .! limry.
- LotiiHtlU Court. r-vHi4uC
. oiY HISlOiv..
A Kmc Which Una lleru I'rrsoruted and
llraplaril fur Mmijf tn turlf.
Gypales wcro deeended from the
wandering tribes of that portion of In
dia once known a Ilindimtan. When
the licrco Hindu camo down in mighty
horde upon India, the. tribes re
pelled them savagely, holding them io
check above the Nerbuddab and Tap
teo river. Hut in time, like a great
tempest, tho Hindus swept over tho pe
ninsula until the green waters of the
Indian ocean sang rhythmic chants in
honor of the conquest. Of the antiqui
ty of the race there is no longer any
doubt Hut strange and mysterious a
the race itself, the certainly of that an
tiquity and ditinctivenes is alone es
tablished through a most strenuously
guarded secret. This is of the Gipsy
language tho Ro"imany. It is San
skrit with Aryan modifications, but as
universal and pure to-day, to whatever
degree it has been retained by a people
possessing neither books nor homes, in
the camps of every part of America, in
thu canyon and on the calzadsof Cuba
along tho hedges and vales of England
and Scotland, in every village and by
every roadsido of continental Kurope,
fron Constantinople to Shanghai or
Siberia to Ceylon, as when tho eight
een Purancs were made by the myth
ical Vyasa. Hut the exodus of tho race,
began and continued from the tenth io
thu thirteenth centuries. The conquered
tribes of India heed these restless,
unconquerable spirits. They stole
away from their savage surroundings
in tht! night of the years. It was not
th.) instantaneous going out of a whole
peoplo. It extendi'. I through number
less gencretions. It was the wary glid
ing of the group or little band from
place to place, and, what might stir
yivedisinay and scourge, meeting again
in a month, a year, u decade. W eird,
savage ami cunning, relent les pursuit
made t In-in doubly mi. Hunted like
beasts, a subtle instinct grew into then)
akin to genuine powers of divination,
(ioaded by a revengeful fate, and pos
sessed of the eternal alertness of dread,
Ihe mantle of sorcery and witchcraft
clothed them. Compelled to clutch
at life with the starved and dex
terous lingers of chance, their jug
gleries, chicanery and dickering be
came, miracle of desperate art. In
these three hundred years they
crept into central Asia. They pene
trated the very heart of Africa. They
stole over the border and gazed
upon the wonder of coiilincnlal Ku
rope. Here, lo them, was, a land of
marvelous peace. Then the word passed
over steppes, beyond mountains, into
jungles: "Here is lliaven. Come!"
These were the mystic fathers of the
Gypsies of to-day. In the idyllic day
of my wandering with them, in sea
son of joyous nearness to the warm,
welcoming heart of nature these peo
ple adore. In conliilcnce told and
heard in tendcrest trust, through ro
mance lit for heroic verse, in friend
ship lolly and leal, hav e come such as
can make their story simple, plain and
true. And looking upon these swarthy
face about me, while realizing the
condition so niurvc lously favorable to
the rapid growth of these people ,in
Ameririi. 1 can look forward to no dis
tant day and see, in a spirit of no un
wise prophci , a time when not to
know this ancient race is to have ig
nored a people ceitiiin to gain vast
numbers, large material holding, and
no little respect among us. Eitijar L.
ll'ujUmuii, tit Chirma AVm..
LONG-LIVED WHIMS.
Cui'iuu Dirrrltont t'niitMliiril In tli Will
of YarloiM Tropin.
An old woman who died lately in a
village in Western Pennsylvania
was so attached to her home and its
belongings that she bequeathed it to
ler daughter so loig as not an article
of furniture wa removed from tho
place it had occupied during her life.
Any change made in Ihe house or fur
niture would forfeit the legacy. Not
a year had elapsed sftcr her death
when by an explosion the house and all
in it were shattered to fragments.
In no way do the ruling passions of
men show themselves .so strongly a by
their will. A curious collection re
cently made of these I. ist testaments ex
hibits the extreniest forms of vanity,
benevolence, malignancy and humor.'
dohn Heed, a ga-lighter in a Phila
delphia theater for nearly lift v years,
bequeathed his skull to thu proper! v
room, to be used only as "poor
Yorick's" in the grave-yard scene in
Hamlet.
Harriet Martineau left her skull and
brain lo a surgeon, tor the purpose or
scientilic investigation. Cartouche
gave his skull to a Gcnevese monas
tery; and Jeremy Hc'itham hi body to
a friend, who articulated the skeleton
and dressed it in llenthain's owif
clothe.
A wealthy English nobleman, dying
about a century ago. left live guinea
for the purchase of a picture of a viper
stinging the hand of his benefactor, to
bo. given Io an ungrateful friend in lien
of the large legacy left him by a former
will, now revoked.
Every kind of whim and freak have
been expre.sed by will. i,.ur Henoit
desired that ho might be buried in an
old leather trunk which had gono
around the world with him three times.
A wealthy Kentucky iron-master, who
died a few years ago. ordered that his
body should be kept iinburied bv hi
family, and a soon a it wasputn'mW
ground Ihey should forfeit their inher
itance. A shrewd merchant in Hrcmen left
large legacies to six friend with the
condition that none of them should fol
low him to the grave or show anv ign
of respect or grief on pain of forfeiture,
rive obeyed the conditions, the sixth
rode as chief mourner and threw
flowers r.por. his co'.'iu. A codicil was
diioovcrcd by which the loyal friend
who should disregard the will should
receive treble the amount given to the
others.
There is something pathetic in even
malignant attempt to make a man's
wbimliveafter ho Isdu.st It is ihe last
puerile eilort of weak human nature t0
Mr death.-YvUi'i Co )"au 'U.
STANDING A
AdiantHfffi of KUflelon ricnlatlii
Cuilile ol Imtmit Kwnliin.
The stereotyped criticism against the
American army is that it is topheavj
with rank and that tho officers have not
enough to do to keep them busy twe
hours out of the twenty-four. Thit
prejudice, like most others, i founded
on ignorance. The plan of the army
is that of a skeleton organization. Al
though not larger than asingledivisior
in a European army, it could expand
itself in a week into a vast body of hall
a million men. The Government, re
alin.ng that officers are not Hindu in I
dav. educates a great number of them
ready for any emergency; and, wisei
than the Governments of Europe, in
stead of burdening the taxpayers witt
hundreds of thousands of private sol
diers, merely provides the ollicers and
the organization, relying upon the peo
ple to till the ranks in the time of need
Three-fourths of tho private soldiers
are of foreign birth. The native-born
American has an invincible objection
to touching his cap whenever he meets
an officer, and forever wearing a uni
form that makes him an inferior for.
as in all countries where military serv
ice i voluntary, the chance are infin
itesimal of a private ever becoming a
commissioned officer. The practice ol
officer using the soldiers as servant).
for themselves and theirfainilies, whili
it is utterly indefensible, is not so hard
on the soldier as it appear. If he is a
foreigner he takes it a a matter ol
course, nnd if he is an American he
usually passe too much of his time in
the guard house to be available foi
mueh domestic duty.
These drawbacks and imperfection.)
of military life are common everywhere
and under all circiiuislanccs, but to
ol)'-et it nre many tigt able features
cotilincil almost exclusively to military
lite. In the oilier world men are usit
ally divided into tim classes - those
w ho have time and money in cultivate
the graces of .society and arc of very
little aeciuint for any thing else, and
those who do the world's work and sire
thereby debarred from studying the
humanities, lis the old-fashioned people
say. Army men, on Ihe contrary, arc
h'Uh men of idl'airs nml men of society.
They may be idle without discred.t,
nnd accomplished without being use
less. The w hole tone of army society
is lo elevnte merit above money. Hank
i every thing, and although a man
that toadies lo a Major-General can
not he a very superior person, he is
usually a lillle above the man who
toadies to a millionaire. A regards
the fancy of young women for the mil
itary , it is as old as time itself. It may
he called a relic ol barbarism dating
back from the time win n a warrior wa
the highest type of niauhoo I - but old
Sam John-ou (old Ho.zy the philo
sophic reason for it. "Soldiers." said
he, represent bravery. "Courage is
their profession." Anyhow the aver
age girl is happy when surrounded by
a cloud of Second Lieutenants, and few
of them, after one brief glance of life
at a military post, will stop short, of
marrying n cavalry officer and going
J out lo Montana to live on sedge grass
and a Second Lieut 'iianl's pay. Co,'.
Albany Aryit.
DISINTEGRATION.
The ForiTH Hi Work Tvniling lo National
Hrrity t'lllr Kn ( enters uf Decay.
The successive decay of the great
nations of anliqiiity is a wonderful
phenomenon. Hov, hard to realize
that Egypt, now at the foot of the na
tions, was once the head! that Rome
vwi the mistress of the world! thai
Greece, in nil the great products of in
tellect, was the master-mind of the
race, with a supremacy reached by no
nation since!
In modem times Spain has sunk
down from one of the highest scats of
power in Europe to one of the lowest.
A similar process is seen going on in
other nations. Do the element of do
ray inhere in the life of a nation as
they do in that of an individual, so
that decrepit age must necessarily suc
ceed to the most vigorous national
hi:in hood?
Why ibis national decay?
History show us that the ancient
nations perished because power and
prosperity brought to one class luxury
and elleiiiinucy, and to the other crush
ing poverty, and thus to both every
possible vice and physical degenera
tion. The same causes are ever prolilic
of the same etl'ect.
Hut it is the cities that nre the cen
ter of decay. In these the destructive
force are tin most numerous, strong
est and most incessantly at work.
Cant lie, in bis "Degenerat ion amongst
Londoner," says a pure Lomlu.ier of
tue fourih generation is impossible.
Certainly il is not a bad a that here.
Yet we lind, in each generation, that
the leading business and professional
minds in our great cities are importa
tion from the rural districts.
What would happen if this contant
supply of giMul blood should cease?
Two signiiicant facts now comfort us.
One is that the country i being more
and more conformed to the city type
of social life; the other is that large
cities are multiplying among us with
unexampled raphiilv. Steam and rail
road enable most of these cities to be
come .large manufacturing centers.
These two fact. must in time greatly
lessen the ability of our cities to re
plenish themselves with vigorous blood
from the rural districts, as has hitherto
bee.i the case in our national growth.
More and more we need to take care
of our cities -by insisting on the stew
ardship of wealth; teaching and en
forcing the right relation between
capital and labor; so caring for the
poor a to foster their self-respect and
their ability to help themselves; multi
plying and increasing the efficiency of
city mission; more vigorously enforc
ing the law against crime; adopting
every feasible measure to improve
tenement-houses, to clean out the slums
physically and morally, and to secure
lo every pcrsou an ample supplv of
pun air, gixnl water and wholesome
IikkI. J o'tlh'i C'oiiixt'iion.
While the liar h.is more pressing
i"?cd of good nirmorv than otiu-r
m n. be is of all men "lca.t likely to
Jesses it..'7-u.(Jei4 Vr.r.
Th Mntl and Fhyrtcl Kirrl Tliey
Itoceiv WhlU HelnB Kilurslitil. '
Tho sons of, the Manchu Emperors
(hwangtuz) undergo from their tender
st youth a system of the strictest edu
cation. Rising about three o'clock in
the morning, they first take their les
son in Chinese literature, under the
superintendence of the only tutor who
has the title of thih fu or master.")
The tutor rises from his chair as soon
as the Imperial pupils enter, and re
ceives from the latter a courtesy (ta
ch'ien). which is then returned in the
same form. The tutor takes the seat
of honor, and when the lesson is learned
the pupil brings up his book, deposits
it before his teacher, and returns to his
seat to repeat the task by heart If the
lesson is not learned the tutor requests
a eunuch in attendance to bring the
ferule (citing pan), and makes a show
of administering correction. But each
imperial pupil is accompanied by eight
fellow students (pwan-tub) known in
the Manchu language as ha-ha-chu, who
study the same books as their young
master. When it becomes necessary
to admonish the latter, more seriously,
the ha-ha cliu are beaUm with the ferule
vicariously; but when the Imp rial
pupil acquits himself well they are,
on the other hand, commended or
rewarded. A recalcitcant and ob
stinate Prince is as Ihe last resort
actually himself Hogged, though
probably only nominally, by tho
teacher, or taken before tho Euiporor.
who directs a eunuch to pinch his
cheeks (rltih )i-ivn). Tho late Em
peror T'ung-chih was frequently
tweaked in this way by order of th )
Empresses. The Chinese lesson occu
pies two hours; after this come the
M itichu and Mongol It) .sons in uoinpu
s'tion, given by (hu teachers who enjoy
the less honorable title of sefu, and who
are obliged to meet the r pupil at the
door and make the lirt obe;s:inee.
Then oouio lessons in various spoken
Ian uaj'-s Manchu, Mongol, T'atigut
and in lo.-al Chinese dialects. Alter
thoD come course of instruction in
foot, ami horse arehe'T (iwt-n-diii"i),
athletics fe;ic ng. putting the stone,
ft".. (.'' ir) I'tu-i.'iilt), under (ho guid
ance of a class of in .Iru 'tor cilhtd
tiii-ia. The whole of the voirig
Prince' day is taken u; with nient il
or physical oxereis i. an I lh y retire
to ret at a very enr'y h mr. At suit
able iuterva s their m ials are weighed
o".l for them, an I oi no jicoint an;
they allowed t i imlul in the pleas
ures of the table. At tho age of lifteen
they must marry, (in - year before a
wife issel icted for the heir apparent
he is privi'led with a hand maid taken
from the families of tho inner bann -rs
(Ht'f cA') of tho imperial household
(uri wu-fit), who m ist bo ono year
older than himself, and prepare him
for a husbands duties. On his
accession this handmaid (liia'i iioKo
k) receive, the title or fri, w!t eh is
given to her alone among tho-e in
niat:s of the harem vv. o nre selected
from the inner banners. No ono but
the Empress is allowed to pass the
night with th i Etup ;r r. T 1 1 E n
peror sleeps witt e gilt Inn I n lid
L-h'n'Kj tmi) sitting upon his bid, and
sixteen others (ta-ijimi) underneath
tho bed, all of them g rls fro u tho ue-wu-lu.
Their function is to keen vviifeh
over His Majesty, and limy an not al
lowed to sue ye eoirj; i, s it or utter
any soun 1. Tho m ivem ints of the
Emierof after awakeninj; in the
III. ruinir j re siniali.cl bv a chimiimr
o j - i -
of hand on the part of tho eunuch on
guard. Onej a yjar -on New Year'a
rt iv the Emper r and Empre pre
side at a rrand bin ti't, the Empre
;:!t'ngon tin Enpirjr's lefr iiand.
i ni is no onty ic : liton it ir it r in i
year on wuieii I'm E.npero.' can u his
wives tor 'ther an ! co ntiare their re-
vteetive merit. Tin E ii')res liivs mis
article of food (ke-hilt) iothoo'inuohs,
who receive it from her MaJ'sty on
their knees, and t'io E nporor porfor.ns
the same n d tones to tho women.
Hong King Daily '.rn.
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN.
S.imptltlni; A'tniit tli.t ''raft Dooine I to
r il-.it i II .luit'-inf nt Ii4i.
It i a fa-t not go ie.illy known that
the flying Dut dimnn was a real ship
and it captain a real character. In the
earlv sevciit 'en h century, when com
petition bct.vccii the Dut-li and English
.or K ist India ti ado ran lii jli, im
itip, plying between Rotterdam and
lava, w is kuutvii as the Flying l'u'cli
in ut. Its C'aptliu and ow icr wa ono
Hemard Eokke, wboo name d serves
to be exhume I a tuat of t io tiist man
w i used iron in tho construction of a
s up. Sheets of iron were Visible in
many par s of Fokke's ship, and th'
populace, knowing wA that iron nat
urally sinks, grew aj-picious when this
one, instead of sinking, surpassed all
others in swifines
It seemed "uncanny," as the Scotch
say. Wiseacres of t io w harf sh i ik
.ueir head as tin big taeitir i Capt i n
passed to his ship wliic.i so d.'lied tne
law of specilic grav ty. With what
ilark power of the air or the wave wa
he in league? When from onoof.ts
vovages the Plying Dutchman never
returned these suspicions organized
into the seed from which zrow th well
known superstition. It was whispered
that, in tning to round the Cape of
(iood Hope, the iron-bound sh p wn
reoeatedly driven back by st nn. till
at la-t tie Captain cried: "1 will round
that cap' if takes me till Judgment
Day!" Then a voice of thunder echoed
down the sky "till Judgment Day!"
So the Klvin'g Dutchman was bel e'ved
to be doomed to try and round the cape
till Judgment Day. M nciire D. Cori
in I'hilaildihia Pr.
Why They Were Unanimous.
How are vou and your wife coming
on? Do vou quarrel as much a pvr?"
asked a mutual friend of a Texas hus
band. ;
'Just about the same."
"Tell inc. canitiillr iliil vmi -n.l
wife ever a tree about anv 'tltin.ri iVo-..
yon ever a unit on any subjttft?"
t cs. once.
"When was that?"
"About three venri trs h
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cau.'bt lire and we were unanimous on
gemng out of the house as soon as pos
sible, but otherwise we hive never
lur.iioni.e I." Tuat Lampan.
IrtEY COME HIGH
Vh Pries Paid by an EiolUble mi, fc
a (irmnd Bed-Uug Hunt.
...... fvvu. fryj vi evil ,..
the little things ot this lifo ami th,
i i a .i '
worm, moralized a gentleman win,.,
business takes him past the post-mli
corner several times each day.
Cling-g-g!
'0, you need not ring your cles!.
nut bell on mo. The sontim uit lm ,
nutty flavor, I know, but the applj.,
tion is entirely original. Most pcud
believe that all small things arc tri;,..
and thore's where a big error ci .
into their calculations. Creeu,
That's just tho word I was gropm.
around after to express my applicatio ,'
1 refer to bed-bugs. They are sumii
things, but no trilics. , They are niort
expensive, weight for weight, t1;in
lirst-watcr diamonds!"
"Had to buy a new bedstead and
the old one to a second-hand d-aler
eh?"
If that was all I wouldn't mention
it No, sir, one little tramping, nle,.
dlcsome bed-bug has just cost inn muty
than a hotel clerk's headlight is worth.
i'll tell you what the parasitical little
wretch did to mo. The first thing e
did to mo was to gallop up and do,
my back and wake mo up. I made i
grub, or rather a frenzied series 0(
grabs, for him, but I wear a perfoiai.it
undersh rt, and the way ho wove ,
and out through tho meshes nulikiwi
all tho grabbing I wa capable, ol.
Ono would imagino that when i
healthy, muscular man, weighing on,,
hundred and sixty pounds, assaults
poor, lonely insect, nn immediate utul
hurried retreat would 'be made by thu
party of the second part, but this waMi t
tin, kind of a bug. Ho found an w.
pregnable position up between my
shoulders and ci.inmenecd erochetin''
my uudcrshii't u if it wa fun. Twist
ing my r ght arm over behind mv ear I
dealt vicious and resounding ili'imps
a far down my bifk ns 1 could rcacii.
Then 1 retreated in disorder and pearlr
dislocated my left aim in making's
so.'tie iroin the i poositi! direction,
' 'What in I'm world ai-" V"ii about?'
in piir 'd my w:f in s.v eland inell w
tones thai s ie brou'rht with her trout
Vermont, the drumming having dis
turbed her x' it in I er.
Crying to s nash (thump) an in
fernal bed bug filnmp), and 1 can't
(thiimti) reach him.1
Clin , strikes, out!' shouted my
wife, 1 lughing
" 'Hang b id-bug--, an I base Ball an I
all o h T p 'st!' re.ponbd I, mil a
soon as I commenced to talk excitedly
that hug mi '..le I as if ho had been an
umpire in Kansas City.
'Atieriny wife trot tlfo'rrh laughing,
she sa il she would have the bed over
hauled and re. In -e its census next day.
I was no' present tit the invcsCgatiou,
but I have no doubt lint it was
Iho'ough, for when I went h inie Ihe
next day to dinner, there wa none;
wife sa d she and the girl had b"on too
busy, and I don't think she bed about
it. In t!io back yard I found sevr.il
sections of discouraged an I disjointed
bedstead. One leff was broken, the
head-boa d was split, the varnish had
mostly b en turned white with boiling
water, and it- breath smelt of soap
suds an I lurp.'iit ne. The springs
looked as if tne Maniuis of (Queens
berry had got mad at them; the mat
tress had been 'bested' in an encounter
with a nail or hook; the cli Idren had
been belling each otlnr with the' pil
lows tint.l they looked as if they wore
moulting, and tho carpet was strug
gling t overthrow tho a ley fence.
'We've looked every where for
that bug and can't lind him. Are you
sure yo i felt one?' procla'nicd and in
cmircd mv wife.
Was f sure I felt one?" Think of
that for a question!
"Well, my wife ren arked that inas
much a the bug might bo Ivdden in
the wall-paper or in a crack of the
floor, it vf u!d b i well to repaint and
repaper the room, and I weakly con
sented. i;nee the painters nnd paper
hangers w. r inside the house, every
carpet came up, and for a fortnight I
slept in the kitehcn be;do th" cook
stove. I "aid th l bill th s morning
three hundred and twenty-live dollar.
"The lug? O. he escaped." De
troit Free Ve.
Rapid Railroad Construction.
Tho In "a'Vf ! Ttime givis thu follow
ingat'eo mt of tliu ! )ti'u -tio i of the
last s'age of t'n M rv railway: "ilc
tween Kaybe it and Merv tho rails
were laid to th ' extent of ono hundred
and n'neteen verst in the space of
thirty six-days, which, if Sit nlavs and
festivals tire exclu ted, b-come only
hiit. working days. To the one hun
dred and nineteen vers!. should also be
ulded seven ver-t of station eon-
rue ed durin ; Iho sunn period, so
that the total per diem w.-n rat her more
tiian four versts. or nearl three En
glish miles. Th ! works were carriel
on in military fashion. Morning work
began to the sound of the drum: the
men pr iceede I to tne line from their
huts at tho quick march, and the o Ul
cers tr ive t ie signal for break ng oT.
The hitter superintended the work en
horsct) i -k. The sold ers worked with
extraordinary emulation and eve i the
the ollicers ato in hat and were never
long absent from tho lino."
A lioston newspaperman s ays that
fireenough's statue of Frankliu in that
city is worth studying, b-eause it illus
trates a theory for which the sculptor
had the authority of the great physiog
nomist. Lavater. It is that each side
of the human face represents different
phases of human nature, man being a
dual animal, with a double set of chsr-let-ristl
-s. On one side of the bron.e
face of Franklin Greenough ha du
;i ted the expression of the man of
eienee who drew the lightning Iron!
the clouds: on the other lie Ii:ls u-pre-sented
the features of the author of the
homely philos phy embodied in "Poor
Richard s Almanac."
What an admirable thing it would
bo if every municipality kept in the
hank a thousand dollars or two. raised
by subscription, ready to be s -nt i
any community made to suffer by so-uo
reai public calamity. LjsIoi I'utt.
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