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THE OLD FIDDLE. (Boston Budget. We little know the thought that tweep Each heaving human biat, A on life' toilsome march thy hear Tbe souiiu tbejr onue loved butt. The cricket with hl thrill refrain, The thrush at close of day, The cow bell twinging in the lane, Tu bleating far away. Tbe partridge drumming on liU log, The tree toad in hi trnt, Tl yellow-hammer' first spring not, The bumming of the bee. The moaning wind, the beating rain, The lift of drifting snow; All them are sound that bring again The thought of long ago. But of them all, each one but brings Home part of life' young riddle; While none rails back no many thlugl Ai one old, well-tuned llddle. CATERINQ FOR WOMEN. New Wrinkle Adopted hf Mirewd Landlord of Ku ril Hold. ICitiuinnatl Enquirer. The hotel keeper of to-day i artful. He eaten to woman for lili popularity, anil wherein twenty yean ago her comfort waa secondary consideration, to-day it i stu diously consulted and placed foremost Why) Because women travel both alone and with their husliaiiil much more than they did for merly, and, quick to rcelve any deference to their own taste and convenience, they In aiit upon going to the ume hotel until they become familiur babltue. It l amusing to note tha different dodge employed by the manager of the great city caravunsnrieK. At the nitt exclusive hotel in Beaton it take the khupo of beautiful flower In vae and . Jar teattered aUiut the room, and in the Intent number of Harper', Th Century, nnd Atlantic Monthly roady to the hand. At a Kew York hotel, facing on Mudivon square, at lunch, when demwrt i brought on, a plute of choice confectionery 1 put lefore you, and while making use of a finger bowl the deft banded waiter whips out a ahoet of fresh white MiMr, twlt It with a turn of hi hand Into a comucopin, cnlptie the bouboiii into it, and prosenU it with an Orientul obviMiice for u-tnlr consumption. There is really clevermxw in this, for it ha put a top without vulgar remonstrance to the practice of women carting olf to their room plate loaded with fruit cake, and candle to nibble at between moult, . At another hotel on Madiwn tqtinre, when lady I seated in the dining-room, the waiter ha ready for her feet a dulnty tuHistry covered hussock. .No one but a abort woman, who Im eut a portion of her life In silting on the edge of chain, dangling her foet in the air, can fully appreciate thi comfort. At till hotel a roue or a few violet are alway found floating in tbe water of the linger bowl and lend it pleasant fragrance. The proprietor of a hotel on Union square bat availed himself of the suggestions of hi lady guiwU In Improving the tiiblo appurten ance. Kor example, instead of the cruet full of block or white peper, generally o adulteratsd that a dulugu in required to flavor the food, In substituted a tiny and pretty sll vor mill HIM with the whole jicpjiur corn. Two or three turn of the handle nnd you realize the deliglilfulnina of eper in reality. In place of the customary "salt," a thoy nre called, a small liimiie cupid hat a spring in hi tack, which, if you pret, cuusc Hue Npray of mlt to Ming from the hjIiiUi of hi cuniflug arrow. The fruit at dessert i put on in the Kronen fiuliion, dressed with Mowers and leave, a few ultlclng, an I the effect 1 moat pleasing, a nt thi neiuioii there Is a monumental stiff ne aluut a stuck of orange, apple, an I bunouiii. The lilory of an "A nee tor." (Iluhlettii in Brooklyn Knglo. Hut day before yesterday they buried you, then yesterday they buried your ton, and to day his sou was buried, and you are a great, great grandfather. And, oh, to hear them talk oliout you uow. Your Mntiou in society was only a little lower than the nngel; you hat in the sent of the giants and judged the rlty at the gates; you owned all this land, from the creek here up to the top of the ridge and six mile up the valley; you used to dine with the president on Sundays; you would have been knighted had you remained nbroad; you were at handsome a Apollo, and twice a good a Christian; yea, thi I yeur portrait (a fancy study, pointed by an artist who never aw you) ; there are fifteen children named for you; see, dear, thi 1 a cane the (Jiiecn presented to your great great grand father, and it ha ilcM-nnded to ou ; never forget, my child, that you are a dubbins, de scended from the great Jacob dubbin, your great great grandfather, who full at the siege of llabylon, I,. I. Ah, my hoy, you may only be a corporal now, live feet, two inche short, cross-eyod aud red haired, with a halt) lip, bow legged aud a wart on your crooked none. Hut w lieu you get to lie a great great grandfather you will be a general, six feet live inche, and a combination of Hercules, Adonis and Cmnus. Where Is the beauty aud glory of the spring tiuiel A Caan of Vertigo, Detroit Kroe Press.) "Judge, were you ever a victim to Ver tigo!" "Well, I didn't call it by that name, Mr. linger." "I've had it for tn yearx" "1 presume no. The seutence It for thirty day." "(ireat Neotsi Hut w bat have I donot" ' Had the vertigo." 'And it that against the law of Michi gan I'1 "It is, uiiIcm you bove It in a lunuVr-yard where the police can't llnd you. Prisoner, fall back, and let Itijnli check you for the work-house." The Knielltiig.lloliln ('rate. tl'hicago Herald Tlie tmelling-bottlu crate lias Isxmi a vert fabionable one w ith young girls in Washing ton In the put few months. It it a costly fashion. One Udle uow has her second IhiU tle pnwiited within three months, each of which cut tod. The first was crushed under her carrlago wheels In coming from a party one night, and it gold (topper with her initial on it alone ecd destruction. Another young lady carriei on at least a foot In length, and being of very thick cut glass, 1' it particu larly ponderous, A bottle of this kiud, even of moderate ute, (vkU (4X The ltle ( Ceaatrr I'.dttar. iUctlregor rUlndiler. IWdug proprietor, olitor-in-cbh'f, local editor, city editor, agricultural editor, putxl editor, fighting editor, paragraphed , proof reader, foreman, rmioaiUr, Job prioter, Uiokkeeiwr, colli-tf circulator, olicitor, uitna.Tr, preasuutn, to niok bill, order, pay bill, pay printer, taxee, pay bouse and ofllc) rent, pay insurance premium, buy clothe, food and shoo for biinarlf, wife and baby, be tmiiter-geo-rl, rouubout, doril. aad do chorea, San Franctaran: If it 1 dodrabl to make man contented with hard and hungry lot, then it It folly to ducat hi mind. A CALIFORNIA WELL That Huppllra Good Drinking Wtr aud Good Fuel al the Bame lime. fUn Francisco Bulletln.1 Cutlar t-alroon, of French Camp, not far from Htockton, Cal., sunk a wen wun a i..k t.,1 tnm. denth of about 640 feet. ,Q-llvu,y.- , and (truck a copiou stream of txcellont water. Desiring to learn wuetner lie couia i h fti.w br coin? deeper, and fear ing thut, should be continue tbe well the ..,. .1. ha in itht injure me quamy oi the upper traU of water, Mr. Salmon bit 'on the plan of linking four-Inch tube Inside of the seven-Inch one, and tbu making what might be called the ex perimental well four Inche in diameter. Thi inner one be bored to a depth of 1,250 feet, and then came to water again. Thi lower tream came to the turface, and, indeed, rose In a tube twenty-two foot above the groumL I he last wafer found wa unfit for drlnkhig, and but fnrkn accidental discovery of it wonderful properties might have been considered a nuisance. It wa found that there wa a lAi-irn amount of tra in thi water from the lower depth. Thi came bubbling to the sur face, making one think oi gigautio aoua fountain. Home one iu?geted the idea of teeing If Ou. onm would burn. A coal-oil can wa put over the top of the tubing, and, having a few hole punched in It, an Improvised gat fixture wa at hand. Only a match wa required to (vmmlnte the ureoaration. The match wa lighted and appliu J to a hole In the can, and flames hot up three or tour reel into me air and burned steadily. The go would burn. Mr. Halinon had lire and water coining out of the name bole in tho ground. Tbe tuba of the outer well, that which wa only 840 feet deep and furnished' the good water, was tappeil, ana um .int water for all domestic use and for the stock, etc., wa led off in pipe to the bouse and other locallte. A curnmg wa ouni uminKl the twin well in ucu a way that It formed a reservoir for the water from the l,ii.j0-foot level, and that jxirtion from aliove which was not conveyed awav In the tiliic. All through this water in the reservoir came bubbling up the gait, generated somehow, somewhere down below. When Mr. Bulinon next went to KUickton he bail a gasometer made with a top-coc, in me lop, ana mi ne took borne and fastened over hi well. The bottom wo beneath the surface of the water in the reservoir, aud the gas peedily tilled the IxlUhAiied receiver. The next thiliz wo to attach a gas-pipe aud couuect hi houin-uiade go machine with the house. He put a plie perforated with small boles acroa hi large ojien fireplace, turned on the gas, applied a match, and tho problem of cheap fuel wo instantly solve I. After that go plie wa put into the lire box of the kitchen stove, and now the meal are pre nunul with tlm hhw fuel. Mr. Hulmon has also used thi gna for illuminating, but it doc not scorn to entirely till the diii, uitnougn it I a great lmpr:vement on a tuuow uip. u lins las.ii NiiL'ci'Hted that, a this ens seem to be almost pure hydrogen, it might be car tumititd nnd its illuuiiuatliisr aualitv im proved. The go throw off a great amount o neat, aii'i, wituout uount, ucn a wen would supply a large number of families with the means of wanning their houses and preparing their foxl lred louglii and 111 ltrlde. "Cress" in Inter (Kiau. The other day I met on the train Fred Douglas and bit bride making a pilgrimage to llnrer' Kerry. With them wa a well known literary hidy from Cambridge, .Mass., who, under their guidance, wa about to col lect the material for an article ou the his toric little town. I bad never seen Mr. Douglas lwfore, but there wa no mistaking that powerful swarthy face, with it bril liant eye and magnillcent bush of white hair, which would make him a striking fig ure onvwhere. "Yee," ho said in answer to a nuet-tion, "it is three years sinco I have been to Harpor't Kerry; the lost time it was to deliver an ad- diwaou Decoration day, with"Johu llrown" a a topic. Tho llrst face that caught my eye In the front fow of the audience was that of John Hunter, the prosecuting attorney iu the great llr wn trial. utter, when I told him I was going through the south, he said rather mournfully: "1're ait) to llnd it quite fifty yeam behind the time." A to Mr. Douglu-s, on being introduced to her I came to the conclusion that between fulsome praie and olisurd abuse she ha boeumore inlsivpivsented than any white woman I know. She Is, I should think, somewhere between S5 and 40 yecrs of age, rather tail, very slight aud ladylike looking. Her most attractive feature are her eyes, which are large brown, and most intelligent. Her traveling costume wo well-lltting and UHMinlug, anil, to turn to something of mora ImisirUtiice, her manner exceptionally mod est and rclliied. Altogether, Mr. Douglass struck one as a women having the courage of her convictions, Ixit at tho same time one who must have felt most painfully the no toriety giveu to her marriage. She seem very devoted to her husbuud and be very fond of her. A Forenoon lCn galenic nt, I New York Graphic Oseur Wilde, among his various storie told In the United State of which be was alway the iv-itlietlc hero, roloted that once, while on a visit to on Knglish country house, he was much amuAed by the pronounced l'hillstiuism of a certain fidlow guest, who loudly stuted that oil artistic employment was a melancholy waste of time, "Well, Mr. Wildo," said Oscar' bugtxvir otio day nt lunch, "and pray, bow have you been passing your moriiingl'1 "OI 1 have been immensely busy," (aid Oscar, with great gravity. "I have siiont my whole time over the proof sheet of my txk of lyH'Ul.,' The l'liilistine with n gi-owl inquired tlx result of that. "Well, it was very important, said 0car. "I took out a comma. " . "Indeed," returned the enemy of literature, is that oil C IVar, with a sweet smile, said; "Hy no means; on matiiro rcftccliou 1 put luck tho comma. " This was too much for the Philistine, who took the next train to Iami Ion. WyouitiiK Nod lepolt. (Kxoliange. The oda deposit discovered iu Wyoming are unique. One eerie i on the old Laramie plain, fourteen mile fioin l.aramie City, where there it a chain of to-called lake Ave to twenty-five acres in area, averaging fifteen feet iu depth. These dcxiU are sulphate of soda. It cut out in chunks, like ice. When well are dug the water i o Impregnated with soda, that they are tilled up la a few days. In the Sweetr-ater valley, near Independence rock, are thirty-four deposits varying in it from three and four acre up to thirty-two tore. A few of these are simply bodies, of water highly charged with sulphate of tod. As Jay Gould's Income la estimated to be a minute, a statistician ny that be lost 1 115 by the change from toUr to tUn dard time. llrferrart to an Old Story, I tome Letter. Ilis holiness, the pope, has received the jireaent of 120 palm-tree branches, sent by the chapter of Sun Kenio, rep resented by Alf?r. Jiresca. T bin nion signor is the leading niotnber of the liresca family from ban liemo, which ....untfaif AVAfV vaaf lioforfl tllfi linn Bjj.vw w.w.y j ,r . ., pope on I'aliu Sunday since loMb. IIjih 1 ' . ...! U....t..ml,r.- Ul privilege wsi grauvcu di'iiwuiuoi v, when Kt. 1 eter's square was the theatre of a great e.ent. Cno hundred and forty homes and nearly 1,H0U work men, with thirty-rive machines, were raising the great obelisk of granite which now adorns the center of the sjuare. Architect Dominie Fontuin, with a silver trumpet, was giving the signals. A deadly silence was preserved by the presence of the hangman, who had projiarcd a gibbot by order of Hixtua, and was ready to huu? any me who disturbed the performance. The cclebruteJ monolith of the old circus of Caljgula was nearly erect, when the chafing ropes began to give way. A poworful voice shouted, "Acqua alie cordo," or " Wot.T to the ropes !" '1 ho architect caught the idea and complied with the suggestion. The obelisk triumphantly rose on the ped estul. The trespasser, however, was arrested and brought before the pops. He was one 1 re.cu, a captain of a sail-ing-visel from Sun liemo. "Why did you disobey my orders?" asked the pope. " lincunan 1 would rather die myself than see hundreds killed by the lull ol tbe monolith. "V11 done!" rcnlied the nope. "Thou slialt horeafter hoist the pon titicul ilusr on thy vessel. What else tun 1 do forvou?1' Tho enptuin requested the pope to grant him und his success rs tho priv ilcL'o of Biiniilvinu- naluis to the Church of St l'et. r Tor Talm Sunday, and ho obtained tho favor. For the lust thiee centuries tho Hrescas have aipeured Ik fore the pope of Home ou Palm Sun day. Itegululed by a Hair. Washington Letter. In the base of the capitol at Wash ington is tho enginery by which the house, the sonate and tho committee rooms are warmed and ventilated and the gas 'lighted by electricity. It is altogether a big apparatus, consist ng of three immense fans, four engines and eight boilers, with necessary appliances for regulating the temperature and moisture of tho air supplied to the na tion's legislators. Tho instrument which tells whether the air is too moist or too dry is operated by a biugle human hair. A porfortly dry air is put at 0; saturated air thut is, air carry ing all tho moisture it will hold is put at 100. A dial with a hand like thut of a clock represents the different degrees from 0 to 100. Tho human lia r absorbs moisture like a rope, und, like a ropo, it becomes shorter when wet. The difference in length between a hair six inches long when wet and tho same huir when dry is mudo to represent tho 1(X) do, moos of moisture en the dial, and the hand or pointer moves backward or forward as the nioisturo in the air varies. If it be comes to,) dry, more steam is thrown in ; if too moist, less steam is allowed to escape; and thus tho atmo.sp1 ero for the nation's statesmen is regulated and kept at the healthful point, which is about 50. flood al olletlng. Detroit Kree Press. One day at liirmingham an old dur key dropped down upon hulf a dozen of us at the Nixon houso und explained that his church building hud been blown away by a cyclone. We chipped in a quarter apiece and sent him oil, but in tho afternoon he overhauled us down town and wanted as much more, la the evening, at we reached the depot ho was there with a third demand. "See here," said one of the givers, "aren't vou going it pretty strong?" "How, suli?" "Why, this is tho third time you've naked us to chip iu lor thut church building." "(Hi, no, no, sah! e fust two bits was fur do building, kase we want a place to meet in. le nex' two was to nit in do winders an benches, an uis as' will be scrumpshusly usi d to pay do preacher an buy do hymn-books. "And next timo you meet us you'll wnnt uuother quarter for soaiething else?" ' "'actly, sah. We orter havo a bell ou dut imildin' jist as soon as we kin raise do funds to bttv it ! I V.o bin sort o' nxin you wid a restin' spell between so oi not to kick up a tlustrashuu." .'ami-Ill In ICjjypl. I.ippiucott's M iciizine.l , A word here as to tho camel, the much belauded "ship of tho desert," that enjoys among tliosowho have not come into contact with him a much better reputation than ho deservt s. l'u tioiice i a virtue with w hich he is sup posed to bo pre eminently endowed. As far as my expeiieiico goes, ho is about tho most imp:iticut brut j in tho whole niiimul creatiou. lie grumbles and swears when retired to stop; ho roars at you when you got on aud roars at you when you get nil', as he does when he w laden und when ho is un laden. His put enco is generally the result of sen lit v. He is usually vicious, and is irremediably addicted to bolt' ing. Neither is his intelligence sulll cieutlv strong to allow him to dis tiiigu!nh noxious plants, and he is at all tiinei a subject of anxiety to his drive on this account. Some l.urld Y riling. il'alau'a (A 'a.) Times. l!y this time the supports of the up per deck were being eaten rapidly away, and the fames circled round anil round over the hurricane deck, li king tho glass of the stato-room do rs, to disappear now and anon tiirou.ihthe black curls of douse and stitliuv; smoe, thou again to streak the black sky like tho livid puhe of destruction that it was, and then to sour away and vanish into the oblivion of heat to sear the in visible a'oms of the air. r.altiniore American: It is no exag geration to say that the cigarette is do ing sa much harm to the rising genera tion as . alcohol. All physicians who have examined the aubieot 'acknowledge that fact 8 LIGHTHOUSE BIRD CATCHERS. Uludlea For Hie OrnlthologUt-Daed and Frenzied Birds. Philadelphia Pre.) "Run, wife! Go below or tbeyll be dashed to piece!" The keer of the Atlantic. City lightbouiie wa watching the hydraulic floating lamp in the top of tbe tall tower one night lately, and bad jutf brushed a peek from one of the plat gloss tashe through which the intense ray from tbe great fixed light that warn off all floating ocean life from destruction, were streaming, when, turning hi head in anwer to a strange flapping and whirring noise, be uttered tbe exclamation. "What shall I dor asked the plucky little woman, who 1 in the habit of keeping him company during the early part of hi vigils. "Go for the netl Drive thera off! Take my overcoat with yon and nave all you can!" In the almost white heat glow of the lamp, outside of whose radiu everything wo im penetrable blackness, a spectacle wa pre sented unequnled in any of Dore' grotesque Imagining. Through the light, like motes in a sunbeam, and thicker than musquitoe., hundred of dazed and frenzied birds, of vari ous sizes, were circling and gyrating, per forming a mad aerial dance round and round the lantern Mr. Wolf came In directly. "I can do nothing with them," she said; "there are thousands and thousands of tbom." From out the bulging pockets of tbeovercoats birds began to fly, now dashing at the window as if to get out again, and the throe or four pal pitating feathered mites she held in each hand began fluttering and struggling to get free. They were of many hues, these south ern traveler thus arrested and carried out of their northward migratory course, although in tils' fierce splendor of tbe illuminated arc outside they bad all appeared luminous and white. There were robins, flickers, mud- hens, and a few rail birds, and one poor little pee-wit, perching itself sociably on its rescu er's shoulder, uttered It peculiar note. "Did you notice that scarlet tansiger in the house as you came up?" asked Abraham Wolf, the keeper, of his guest, the scribe. "Well, that gorgeous fellow got here from the West Indies somehow. I picked bim up in the net one night during a heavy thunder storm. Tbe net, you see, is on the land side, where all the birds come, ami keep them from spattering their blood on the glass. But the wild ducks, they tear the nets to shreds. V e bave bad a few spring birds the last week or two, but this is tbe llrst large flock. Our bouse during the summer is nearly al ways full of them. We leave them loose and let them go where they want to. One nigbt my wife and I took over 3U0 birds alive and let them go next tnoroiug. Kail birds, cat birds, wood thrush, missel, thrush, thistle birds and all the soft billed fly-catcher are tbe most numerous, but we get almost every sort. I keep a record of their visits for tbe American Ornithological society to help throw light on migration. I like to throw light on auythlng, you know it's in my line." The Child Who Got Paddled. l"Gath's Letter." Twenty-five or thirty vears ago, I think, at Marysville, ' Col., which wo then an estab lished, yet shauty-like, town, lived Jude Stephen Field, and iu hi law oflice was a young fellow named George Gorhnin, who boarded witb a plain family, and at the table another guest was a florid, WelsU-lookiug stranger. In the same bouse, or the next bouse, lived an Irishman named Murphy, who had a bright, interesting daughter, but he was foud of paddling her when any thing went wrong witb him. This paddling bad been going on some time, and one day the boarders held an indignation meeting and re solved to go next door aud see old Murphy, and tell bim that if he did not stop correct ing that child on every and all occasions they would take him down to the stream and duck him, etc. None of the guests were es pecially brave, but they put on a very brave front and held the indignation uniting. Several years afterwurl one of those par ties, Field, was called to be justice of the supreme court. Still Inter by several years the Republican in California nominated Gorhnm for governor, and they put ou tbe ticket witb him the preseut United States Senntor Jones. 'When Jones met Uoi ham be said: "Are you the little fellow from Long Island who boarded at Marysville with niel Don't you kuow uiei" "No, I don't think 1 do." "Why, I'm Jones, tbe Welsh looking fellow who formed one of tbe posse to go In and make old Murphy stop keeping that child screamiug." They shook hands warmly, and then Jones said: "Gorham, do you know what has be come of that Mary Murphy!" "No." "Wby, she is now Mrs. William Sharon." My informant says that consequently there met at Washington City Jones and Sharon in the United Stoles senate, Uorham, secretary of the senate, aud Field on the su preme bench all brought out of that boarding-house, Mary Murphy grew up to be an interesting woman, and the paddling was only temporarily disadvantageous. A Siiltuu'a Kew York mall. (New York Cor. N. O. Times-Democrat. The doiti up of a mail for the sultan of Turkey chances to come under my observa tion iu the oflice of the Turkish consul. There were numerous letters, wliich were none of my business; but a lockage of papers seemed public property, and so it is not an impropriety to tell about them. What do you suppose they were! You will exclude religions papers from your guess, because you kuow that bis majesty isn't likely to cure for reading praise of Chris tianity. H is impossible that you will presume tbnt the secular newspapers of America do not contain much to interest him, a potentate who knows little of this free conutry. But, aft T all, you will never hit upon the kind of ephemeral printing that is collected by order and sent to the sul tan. The bundle wa composed w holly of il lustrated police weeklies, of the kind ex eluded from several of the states, und the publication of which here has bee., followed by the indictment of the owners. I was uu able to lenrn whether it is altogether bis own taste which he consults in this selection of American journalism, and I gallantly refuse to believe that the pictures are liked iu bis hartm. Wanted to Write a Card. Exchange. "I wnnt to write a curd. I'm from New rort, Ky., sir, aud I may lie exceedingly prven. but when a lot of i-i.l.ti- .in - j j-iii card on my back w ith 'keep otr the grass' wnuen on u in oig leuers, au l I go around town all morning with it hanging to me, I think the limit has been reached out tbe matter liecome A Biihii. f., - - J ' - . uvnjNIvr comment Therefore, I desire to write a card, ami a strong one.' He backed out when informed that it would cost him 25 cents a line, A Mother Out of Dare. Philadelphia Call A pretty girl dropped to tbe floor in a faint tbe other day while she wa playing the piano in the parlor. Her life might bave been saved if a physician had been called in time, but her mother was washing dishes In the kitchen at the time, and did not bear ber fall Home Facta Concerning Aoatralla, ICinelnnotl Times-Star Interview. "Sydney is a very handsome city in deed. The structures are bnilt of stone aud brick, the streets are wide and clean. The houses are not made four or 11. e stories high, for there is no oc casion for it. O round is not so scarce yet. It is sa'd that Port Jackson, its harbor, is the most beautiful iu the world. In this harbor you will find vessels from all nations; also men-of-war of most all empire It is the center of export ng and importing. The city itself is growing very rapidly be sides. Last bcpteuiber unothi r medical colloge was opened in Sydney, now making two in Atistra'ia. The othor one is in .Melbourno." "What do you mainly import and ex port r" " vYe export a great deal of wool, mostly to a ngland, and also meats, then copper, tin and other miuoruls, skins and tallow, etc We import, however, from all countries. 1 rom i.ngluud we get cotton, i-ilk, woolen goods dry-goods, et.-.; irotn Germany we also got woolen goods, lrom America we import rural implements, machinery of allJiini'.s, espe.iully tools; loimeily wheat from California. Dried apples and canned goods are vory largely imported from your country. Tobacco also come 4 from here. 'Hie best cigars and tobacco in Australia tre American, loumay believe me," jokingly remarked Dr. Faithfull, "1 cannot get as good a cigar here as in Australia; t specially the tobucco itself is much better in Australia. Tor a good American cigar we usually pay there from 12 to 18 cents." "Tell something about the country in general V" " ti ell, the country is as large, I sup pose, as is tuo 1 nited States, with the exception of Alaska. The main occu path n is grazing. The mines are known os '(uuit nnd 'alluvial.' The latter are situated neur rivers. Min.ng is u very dangerous business. It is something like gambling, isemetiines you may strike a good thing, and ut other times again you lose all you have invested. Ihe wages are as high in Australia as here, while the cost of liv ing is much cheaper. The population i-t mostly composed of r.nglishmen, or of English descent, but the merchants ore of ull nations. The climate is about the same as in California. We have a good many schools and they are free for all who cannot aflord to pay. At present school-houses are being built all over. We have newspapers, quite a number of thorn. They are cheaper than in this country. For instance. Sydney's Morning nerald, the be t in the city, a twelve-page pa er, and much larger than your papers, costs only 4 cents. Cur street-cars are propelled by steam, and cost li i ents ; but if you puruha e a ticket, which you can get on every comer, it will only cost you i cents. l'ather and Son, IM. Quad's L 'tter. I wnnt my boy to rub against every day life a little while he is a boy. 11 he has the ido.i thut a hunter s life is full of juicy buffalo steaks and victories over grizzlies, Cm going to send him into the woods for a week to live on woodchuek meat, carry a cold in his head and be jumped out of hisbootsthe first time au owl hoots. If he asks for money I'm going to give it him, but 1 want to Sit down of a Sntu.duy night and see how he spent it, and show up some of his fool.sh bnrgo'ns. If he wants to sail the bouu. iiig billow 1 know of a laxe captain who will take him on a trip from i etroit to Saginaw, and if he can't cure him in just one voyage nobody else need try. Sit down and talk to your boy as you would to your brother. Don't bulldoze because you happen to be his father and have the bulge on him. Argue and reason. Don't expect to make asser tions and have him swallow thorn as gospel truths unless vou have backing. Teach him what to avoid, and what to cultivate, and turn him loose for a while, If he seeks the good he has the right instiucts; if he runs after the bail, don't walk him into the woodshed for a pounding until you have asked your self if he doesn't come naturally by that failing. A Good liiNtitutlon. Cincinnati 0 iiiimercinl Gnm'tte. A novel and salubrious institution has been establ.shed in Xtw York city. It is known as the "New lork Labor Ex- rliniH.fi nnd Lndflre ." Its ninnniror iu n -r- ir. D. M. Davidson. We may gather its purpose from the following "bill oi fare:" Atsolutely clean "square" meals. ... It) cents I M...I..1U nli.an.ul 1,1. ,.. I.....!.... v. i.iiT-n ii on iiiiuiuuuu, U CeilUI Hot soda or sulphur bath 5 cents Shave or hair cut 5 ceuts Absolutely chnn lieds 15 cuts fumigation and bath compulsory the first .... 1. i i. , . , ' J , iiiui uiei i-vtrv neea wi insure cleanliness. It is intended to "assist" honest men who have hard luck in finding employ ment. It is Said HCOlile conm llioro in a horrible condition of tilth, but the compulsory bath for their persons an 1 Al. - 1-1 .. iue suipnur lumigation oi tneir cloth ing is a Durifvincr urocess that r,tnriw a sense of self-respect, and they start oiii in me morning in search of work with a renewed spirit of manhood. Aiuiough not a self-supporting enter prise, yet Mr. Davidson thinks it soon will be, but its benelieent etlects ore such that it has the sympathy and sup port of the best people iu the city. Davidson claims that it has already saved hundreds of men from ruin. Where Were Dolla Flmt ?Iadc? (Coureutioiiaiis , Nobody knows, but they have been used s lice very early times, and by children in all countries, savage as well as civilized. The largest manufactories for dolls nre in England, and, as in other trades, there is a very minute di vision of labor. Some carve the heads and the bodies, others paint the faces and necks, others prepare legs and arms, and stil! others cut out, sew, and put on the dresses. The extmt to which dolls' glass eyes are manufac tured is surprising. One firm in Bir mingham received a single order for oyer 2,(VH) worth. It is said that the blue-eyed dolls are the favorites in England and black-eyed ones on the continent of Europe. Black dolls are wade of gutta-percha to export to this country, where they are in demand by tbe colored people." THE BARBER ON MARRYINQ. lie Narrate the Experience ut , friend lo III Aulatant, New York Bun. "A frent uf mine glu marrit, BunUv" aid tbe German barber in the Bowery but week. "He bopjied der quetdlon in dor ladest dyle. Der olWashloued-luNn-a-codda. grackers-und-kisset-peezne peen blayed owld. Mine front be lean ofer hit tweed, heart und dake her lily-vite hant, und eezing a momond pedweon der raddle uf dwo elevated drains, be tayt: 'My brecloug, mr veet und lufly darllug, I vould like to pri nounce yoursulluf my vife.' 'Cbonny, my own sveet luf, the bat sayt 'are you sure you can afford It? I vould not deceefe you, tarling; you haf calt me brecioiu und you vill find me to. Affegsbun coau nodlng, but lylishiies und high-tone cosdi a heub uf money. Can you all dot affort mT own dear luff ' 3 "He von arm blaeed ber valst arount, und vile be trank in dor ligwid egstacy uf her ad miring gaze, he'reblied- "I dink I can der pall keeb rolling rigbd sdralghd along, m own, my sveet, sveet pleasing." "'It's kind af you Chonny,' the replied, 'not to dulk apowd such foolishness a luf on a basemeud mit lixbence a veek, for der vorli is now run on peezness brlncibles, und such dalk makes me dired. I bad to git a diworca a fay from my first husband pecause he vot old-vasbioued like dot I musd a flrst-glasi allowance baf to pegln mit, to ve ton'd fall owld apowd money. Hoi1. ,t . bieces up me und my second husband, alrwty Und now, my luf, I haf pesides dot only yon dings to say: ve mused baf a blain dalk vonst effry dree months. Den, my tveet tarling, if I shall some Oder man luf more a you, I vill vraukly dell you to your face in front, und you must der same dings done by me. Also if I should got dired uf you mitowid falling some oder man in luf mit, I vill ibeau blalnly, und you must py me sbeik choon dor same. For 1 can'd stand vighting und row, my tarling. My third husband used to arkue und dalk mit me,, undil I vot corn belled a diworce to git avay from hiui on ac kound uf my boor nerfs.' " ell," Bind the barber, "my frent vo mit dot couwersation cradely blessed, und bland- ing a tousand kisses her cheeks und mout owitsite, be dolt her uf der drabble be got mit dwo brcflous vifes, alretty, todem should not hubbeu again mit ber-, und bailing bre bared der vay for a diworce in cose dem should visb to baf it, be vent avay dickled mit his pargain. "Chiminy Hookey I vot a Tickens uf a row der monkey parber got into himself mit dot fi frent uf mine ven my frent vo dolling vot t goot ding such a brobosal of marritcb, vot, I j, und how tine diworces are, und all dot L " 'Yah,' der monkoy parber hat sayt, 'dot'i vot I call der insdullment blan uf mar ritcb, " 'Vot Jer teflll do you meanf sayt my Trent "Der monkey parlwr vent right avay on, der same be alvay done. 'Dot's der net fashion of marritcb in sillilized gundries,' bt sayt, 'but it olter as der hills mit derstf- fagos. My ungle, vich vos a sailor, alvan got iu der Huulvitcb islands a vife in dot same vay each dime he vent to Honolu "Bong! Py Hooky 1 how dot monkey parbet did git a lickiug! My frent viped bim up mit dur floor." How Circus Lemonade la Made, Philadelphia Record. Signalling that it was all right, the circus niuu lifted up the nap of the tent for the n. porter to enter, and quickly followed bim in. I side. "This," be said, "is where all the circa lemonade is mudo, and," glancing at his watch, "if you will wait a few moments pa will see it done. Iu tbe center of the tent stood a large box j and on one side two huge barrel-shape j tanks each with a spigote was placed o I strong rests somewhat similar to a saw-horstl In a short time three men entered, and on of them proceeded to unlock the box, tt sides of which at once foil aart, di closing a very compact, and solid-lookio; engine, tbe steam for which wis conJuct through a piie leading to one of the boiled iu the cooking tent, while the other tsi brought a large tub, which they laid od tk ground and nearly filled witb filtered wtM drawn from one of tbe tanks. A steel l! mot squeezer was then attached to two iron turn of the engine, and a very worn and dilapidated-looking half of a lemon placed in it, the squeezer then being lowered luto the tub Steam was turned on, and the squeezer bi can its work, the lemon emitting tne mo harrowing groans of agony from i nd x tk water as the pressure became more auJ mor severe. Gradually these doleful tuuo& ceased, and the liquid assumed an ainbar-lik buo, while a faint odor of lemous filled Ik air of the tent "That'll do; take it out," said the engine shutting off steam, and tbe dripping squaw was withdrawn from the tub, the unbtpp! half lemon beine carefullv dried in a clef cloth and placed in a small iron safe wbid was then locked. The liquid in the tub then stirred vigorously with an hermetically' sealed gloss bulb fastened to tha end o: i stick, the bulb being tilled wit h the h white sugar. The man who stirred the nu ture stopoed at intervals to taste it after remarking "there, I guess it's S"1 enough, let's get it out, Bill," with the i of his comnanion carried the tub away. "This machine is the only one ia tk world," said tha engineer proudly, Datted the endue in a lovini wav. "and secret couldn't be boucht for foO.OJO. Wl?. with this here macbiue I can make tnon lemonade with one Ihihoh than anV oth circus man can with 5U0 bushels of 'tin- nressnre on that. Konnezrtr can be crraduawJ from one pound to 250,000 pounds to tl square inch, and one lemon will iiiakelemi ade for six months at the rate of loU gaU a day. One Hundred and Thirty Years. Chicago Herald. 1 A correspondent who has passed to years in Kuia states that in the villas v.,n..,t.,- i i. u......i,.,.. ,-.,vHrumM nil nlil wnmnn is livintr who has iUst att1D I i.r rinih i,iriii, t ti, r,i,t i.-i.lv is in tlx eujovmentof good health, but comply her deafness. Her hoir is still long aud pi tiful, considering ber age. She has oulliw three husbands; and bad a family of '' teen children, all of whom are now the last one to die being a daughter of She lives with one of her great-grandchild a man of 50. The Death or Prolit. fRnsitrin fYir more At.Rnlletin.1 An mr.,1 v.r,t,l wvn..mi( dOCtriM that "competition ia the life of tJe many manufacturers are finding that cot petition has been carried to such a rturr extreme that it ha been the death of pru In search from A to Y they passed And "Marguerite" chose at last But thought it touuded far more s' To call tbe baby "Marguerite," When grandma saw the little pet t Khe called ber "darling Margaret Kext, Uncle Jack and Cousin Ag? , Bent cup and tpoon to "little Mgi. And grandpapa the right mut be To call tbe lassie "bonnie Meg" (From "Marguerita" down to "Me?. 1 And now she's limply little jco0iaa,