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GRUMPY STAGE DRIVERS. Whu liars Kalian r mm Their f,llo n,h Klt I" ' PaL h Kurt Custer by a stepo h run. irora wui ""' i uw K Pacific to Ruck Creek on the Pacific, adiatnnco of 430 miles. Tit one of the ' ltnjort:int stage that have managed to survive the olive s raids. Its rout takes in ""ountainoiis districts of Northern mini,', whore there aro several wwni to which the railroads hare SS lametrated, 11 runs through ' -row country, the richest agrleul- t region of all Montana, j nero are bottoms" along the Big Hon V ... n i - t die Kittle mg nam rivers, ui irora -thousand to one hundred thousand In extent rank with prairie vege D whero the grain of a nation bo (frown, now all vacant and Kvery one of them could be rtlcd at nn expense of less than vLnu an acre. The stage drivers hht the e aro just such fertile bot- i along the Yellowstone and along be mountain streams that course ugh the reservation in all dl- k 1 lieso unvura are ouu J nUj u vus " luuung used to drive the Doad I knd overland stages In the enrly ,IS ...... tVlft old f.. II ., L nd they keenly leet tne numila- of their present position. 10 De knelled after such a glorious past, L bavin? driven six and elght-horso Lhes lb rough u land tilled with gal- troad agents, chivalrous horse- ' J .... 1 i ,, t Imllnn. .. ft ftV6S ailti YiHH,l. 1UUIIII7, UHUI kg born hold up a dozen tlmos. having won llirougu"m;i8sacres, Ihinffs. cowboy lights, and all that Lain hi" "Id age. to come down to K L-l ...in. Iil.iua llinniin). td country, is almost moro than , en bear. 1 hey sit on thoir lofty Ifloomy and taciturn. I hoy rare- ule or talk, iou must work if you hope to secure thoir or ongage them in a conversa- Tbo only glympsoof sunlight they csU'h through the dun clouds that ir their sky is when a dude, an lishman, or a fussy old lady be- their passenger. Then some- like a smile touches up their lly burned faces, and by the time I a passenger, or what lsleltol him, Ireached his destination, they aro almost cheerful. The stages i no springs. The cushions are with flint The trail Is and crossed continually gullies and deep buffalo trails. bue uf these melancholy drivers, ling his caroor to a disappointing I nothing is so comforting as to t a dude "tenderfoot" through the window upon a jag of rocks De serving that my driver was in a Ire humor I said nothing more to ban was necessary to procure por- lon to sit "up there" with him. rode for twenty miles in dead si- j ami at last when wo ncared the in at which we were to obtain din- nd a change of horses, ho turned and said: "I'ardnor, I like you I lirst see you I thort I didn't i da You're tho fust man thai rid on the top of my coach thai I start fer to tell me that gol dern- bry about Hank Monk and Horace ley!" The ice was broken and wt bued fast friends to the end of the -Cor. X. Y. Tribune. IE BIBLE IN LITERATURE. 0ance t'poo tha Home and the Lan guage of Scholar,. i safe lo say that there is no other Iwhieli has had so great an inttu- Upon tho literature of the world as Bble. And it is almost as safe at Iwith no greator danger than that rting an instructive discussion - r that there is no other literature has fe t this influence so deeply pwn it so cloarly as the English. cause of this latter fact is not Iseelc. It may bo, as a discon- 1 rrench critic suggests, that it is duo to the inborn and incorrigi- hdency of the Anglo-Suxoa mind K ru igion and morality into thing. Hut certainly this tond- ould nevor have taken such a ply liiblical form had it not been ! beauty and vigor of our com- Inglish vors.on qf the Scriptures. I qualities were Telt by the poople store they were praised by tho Apart from all religious pre- sions, mon and women and chil- ero fascinated by the native and iraoe of the book. The D a was popular. In the t SCiiic. lonff hfnm it. wm ric- I as oiie of our noblest classics. It ord Iho talk of households and Mi as woll as molded the lan- of Kholan, It has been some- Bore than "a well of English un it has become a part of the atmosphere. We hear the of its sjieech everywhere, and lc of it, familiar phrases haunts fields and grovos of our line lit m only to the theologians and "on makers that we lock for allmions and quotations. We id tho very best and most vivid ' in writers professedly secular. Wt hukospearo. Milton and forth; novelists like Scott, and Pi like Hawthorne; essayists oa. Steele and Addison; critics unsystematic philosophers, like l''d IS .?'cir all draw uoon the 1 treasury of Illustrations, and jts book equally familiar to r0" and to their reade s. It is we to put too high a value upon Universal volume, even as a P'terary possession. Rev. Ur . in Century. fiage may not be a failure, but e Ota nf l J i . ... o. innuo iu UJHii- - .. . . ....... IM that every rich man should r on up to a trade or suoh wining as he himself receiv- P"t it as one of the sad signs ""ation in rlvilit inn tn oaa lto-n Vain . I- .V- -ft MIWU 1U LUC Ml' noon may be called morn lr couDea. tn lirht .t th. Ijome of our exchanges, thera 10 wake believe at business, b, - 'went; to their own ruin. Ttainly to their demoralize aman wishes to curse his son. ""'usr w.v ik.n t.. it Kim VALUE OF A RECORD. """":;;' c...... oa K-Vlng . H.r. .nin U C8lcU'ated 10 interest. n andtomakohimorgreatorvaluotohi. employer than predion In hi, methods " w here tl.U predion add, to h' fund ofexrlonce. and enable, him to meet emo-gencie. promptly and in an intelligent and practical manner, it will prove of still greater utility to him In. career in which prompt,,,, and pre ence of mind mu.t go hand In hand to Insure success Capiain Cuttle1, advice to make note of every thing that is really worth knowing particularly applio. to vhe . ginoer In his daily, operation.. The most trifling occurrence, though It ma attract only passing attention at the time, may prove at some future period of inestimable valuo In solving a prob lea) that would be very difficult of ex planaUon without the key thus fur nished. while a knowledge of what he can accomplish with tho appliances h is using may materially assist him In the management of a future plant There is very little labor required to keep a record of suoh occurrences as may be outside of the common routine, and the thought It entails can only ex. ercise a beneficial effect on the lntolll. gence, while reference to the diary ol extraordinary events, when they havs long boon forgotten, will prove highly Interesting as woll as instructive. Not only this, but a simple record ol what you have accomplished, jotted down from day to day, will prove ol practical value in case an op portunity offers (or an Improve, ment of position. A well - kepi diary would Interest an intelligent em ployer far moro and bear greater weigh! than all the letter, of recommendation couched in goneral terms that could ba collected. The work of the engineer who con scientiously endeavors to perform hit duty has passed beyond the 'ule ol thumb" stage. There is a reason for every thing ho does that is based on scionce and founded on facts, and to familiarizo himself with thorn, as ha must do if he wishes to be moro than a coal shovcler or the manipulator of an oil can and a bunch of waste, his work must be to him as a book of instruc tions, the daily pagos of which teacb him all that is worth knowing of his important business, provided he famil iarizes himself with cause as well as effect Safety Valve. A COSMOPOLITAN CITY. Bueno, Ajrre, llu Many Lsnguafe, Mat Little Learnlnf. Buenos Ayre,, with her 500,000 pop ulation, is the most cosmopolitan city In the world, so far as language is con cerned. Any one who walk, for hall an hour along one of the principal streots of this city will have his oars as sailod by all known tongues, from Choctaw to Hebrew. Tho merchant who can not converse with equal fasiU ity in Spanish, Italian, French or Gor man is handicapped in the raco for wealth. This state of affairs is very demoralizing to the now comor, who has boon accustomed to consider . the English language all-sufficient and to look with contempt on any poor for eigner who failed to master any of its many inconsistencies. The shoe Is on the other foot so to speak, as English in this cornor of tho world avails ona little; but because the Argentines aro a nation of linguists It docs not follow that they are scholars. Force of cir cumstances has made these poople adepts at acquiring foreign tongues I remember recently conversing with a gentlomun. who spoke four languages fluently, who tried to convince me that Chicago lay In the route of vessels ply ing between this port and Japan. Geography evidently was not his strong point Tne fact Is over 80 per cent ol the adult population can neither read nor write, but it is safe to say that the coming generation will present much more flattering figures, thanks to the "Yankee school ma'ms" who came, saw and conquered, being already a po rar in the land. N. Y. Mall and Ex press. Wonderful Little Carving Properzia di Rossi, a maiden of rare bea ity. great refinement and unusual education, gave herself very early in life to the study of art "Minute tra cer." washer forte. The first work of thU gifted girl was carving on a peach stoi e tho crucifixion of our Saviour-a work comprising many figures, exocu tinners, disciples, women and soldiers; all most remarkable for delicacy and jierlection of expression, and an ad mirable distribution of the groups. In the cabinet of gems in the gallery of Florence Is still to be seen a cherry stone on which is carved a chorus of saints, In which seventy heads may be counted. Among other women of the sixteenth century noted as sculptors, fresco-painters and engravers, one of Titian's pupils. Irene dl Splimberg, highly educated, surrounded by luxury, and with everything beautiful about her dovoted herself wholly to art Some of her works are still extent and she must have used her time and ener fies to great purpose, for she died at the age of nineteen. -Harpers Bazar. A larmer of Torrington. Ct. with the assistance of his hired man. .laugh tered thirtr-one blacksnakes in a few minutes the other day. The largest was over nine feet long. The reptiles had their nest under an old barn in a sheep pasture. PoMiOlj. PrienO-Areyou going to taks a vacation Bus ,uninier. Hardware! Merchant-W ell, I nay step over to Poor Jis beech tm . fe UT clerks S fn Europe in tin- They are .pend i v.catKju there. -J.ew lo" SUB. Oppne1 " Stops-..t-You " hke tbe organ, maarn. Just M lm put to your Por ' f,w Hotwwife-''twi,tlt A-Bt-It has tea stops, aod ..fe-ldontcar.iltha.afty. It aot stop bre.-Dtroit free Prtsa He on M 'tea y-floyoor stotar is off oa WDJiel I WPP0- J tml rtrj smbwds boot berl .uoirv Te-es. I tottU -Oueago .'serial THE HOTEL SKIFF. arr,ullr nail Wondertully Made Plee ol Marina Arrhliectare. A man with orange eyus thought h would lake a girl with whom ho had been playing tennis out for a row. So be engaged une or the public boats at tached to the hotel. Ho had never used one of these boats before, and did not know that they weigh two hundred pounds apiece, without Including the twelve pounds of paint put on ovory ti-cm. Ho was also In blUsful Ignorance of the fact that no two oars connected with the est blishment came within five pound, of each olhor In weight or that the average weight of each va something like twenty pounds. But when he got out a little way. and found the boat sailing about in a circle, he concluded that one oar was about seven pounds heavier Uuui the other, and it would bo necessary to row much moro gently on the heavy than on the light one to atUiln any thing tike a straight course. Tho boat to bo sure, was not equip ped with a rudder, and tho girl would lean over to allow hor Illy lingers to trail In tho water, and then the wind would como up and cause tho water logged craft to head in a different di rectioa. To secure a straight courso, it would require a mathematical calculation tha: no oarsman could work out in his head, for he would have to consider the dif ferent weights of tho girl, boat an. I nrs, as woll as tho force of wind, n--istimce of water, etc. The man's ornngo eyes grow larger while tho oar handles took the palms and occasionally cracked his knuckle like so many English wnlsuta. It ought io havo been consoling to him to know that the girl In the .tern of the boat was enjoying tho row, and the beautiful surroundlnga "Oh, lot', go over to that lovely island." she said. He did his best to apoar delighted with tho idea, but his orange eye, be aa to dilate, and his heart felt as sore as his oar-brulsod knuckles. But he started for tho Island, which seemed three or four hundred feet distant, when, in reality. It was about two miles. It was the apparent lack of distance that lent enchantment to tho view, but tho enchantment vanished liko his cuticlo as he rowed on. By tho way ho was turning about ho would have to row probably six miles before reaching tho island, so ho hondud the boat for the mainland. "You are not pointing toward the island at all, now," she said. 'By rowing toward the mainland," he repliod, "wo shall reach the island sooner, bocnusu this boat is turning so continually that we ma ce tho greatest headway by going In the opposite di rection." "Yes," sho repliod, "but wo are go ing away from tho island all tho timo. Wo shall bo back on shore in ton min utes if you kcop on." "Excuse mo," ho wont on, "but do you notico my eos growing larger?" "Yes." "That confirms mo in tho opinion that I havo a fit coming on, and must got ashore as soon as possible." So, after a violent effort, during which tho girl was frightened half to death, he reached tho shore. Ho had no fit but he had tho satisfaction of knowing that that girl would novor ask him to row her again, and that she would tell the othor girls, and he would no more bo a victim of the hotel boat the fat poodle of the lake In contradis tinction to the Cunardor which is tho greyliound of tho son. "It Is lucky I can make my ornngo oyes bulge at will," he said, after re lating the circumstance to a frieild. "Let's soo you make them bulge now?" asked his friend. So he bulged his orange eyes until they looked llko a couple of hard-boilod oggs, shellod and cut in half length wise. Once a Week. Anxious to Please. "Young man," said tho editor, se verely, "don't you unow tiiat your poem was arrant nonsenso; the driest drivol iniau'liiabloP'' "Yos. sir." "Do you realizo that they are Inex cusably faulty as to rhyme and meter besides being dangerous in suutimont" "Yes; I recognized all that before I brought them to you. In view of your criticisms on former efforts I thought this might meet with your approval. ' Merchant Traveler. Quite the Contrary. A merchant engaged in an attempt to sell a wooden refrigerator to a lady, boasted of the various good qualltios of tho article Butl m afraid," said the lady, "that theso icfr gerators will teste the food." "Bless ye. ma'am!" exclaimed the dealer. "Tuste tho food? Why, they'll take the taste all out the food, ma'am, ovory bit of it!" Youth', Com panion. He Felt Much Better. Minister I'm glad. Bertie, to soo that you kept your promise to me and came to church to-day instead of going fishing. Bertie Yes, sir. Minister Don tyou feel better than if you had gone to the creek? Yes, sir; cos pa said If I follerod him to-day he'd lick me good. - Judge. Did His Best Henry So you asked old Growler for bis daughter last night did you. Fred? And bow did ft cr.me out? Fred It wa a window, I believe, Henry. That mis llie oast 1 Could do, though. N. . hun. It amuses us lo think that now and than we are vain of some work we have done; there is so much of irony in It After our Ut has been accomplished, bow poor is the result compared with what It ought to have been, and what in our better momenta, we desire. United Presbyterian. A venerable member of tbe Carlisle (Pa.) bar was seized with aa attack of vertigo recently, during which he ta allowed uis false teeth. He narrow lg escaped choking to death. GENERAL GRANT'S WlfJOW. he fetal KeW sli, UXeunsal Sr.. Hayea to lha While lluuee. "When the time came for us to leave Wi-hiin'ton my heart was broken. Whsja Mr Hayes was elwted 1 invited Mr. a id Mrs. Hayes to comedlrwtly to the White House, but they refused. On the Sunday previous to the Inaugura tion I tail, a dinner for them, so that Mrs. Hayes would not fet'l a stranger. The dinner was lovely and every thing was arranged splendidly. Then' were seventeen of my own family at the dinner and a large number of promi nent guests and the legation and Cabi net officers. 1 shall novwr forget Mrs, Hayeo when she entered. The large doors wasthmwn open land the (ienentl and I advanced to meet thom. She wa. walking by Mr. Hayes, but did not hold his arm. She was dressed In white silk and her dark hair combed smoothly over her ears. Hor soft, black eyes shown like diamon'ls and her checks were as ns.1 as ms I took her hand In mine- it tn'iubled a little- and said, 'Welcome, Mrs. Hayes, to tho White House', and then my guests surrounded us and she was soon at home. After dinner the Chief Justice admtnistonHl the oath of office to Mr. Hayes in the parlor. On Monday I did not go to the inauguration, because I was busy burning old letters and paH'rs that my father had owned, some Mir ing the date of 1800. 1 had seen two Inaugurations, those of the General, aud I did not care to see any more. I hiul a lov ely luncheon nmdy for them on their n'turn, and I also ordered tho dliuicr and breakfast for the following morning, so Mrs. Hayes would not have that worry the first thing. Then I told tho steward he must go to Kirs. Hayes for onlers after that After dinner, as 1 was still hostess, I -aJJ to Mr. Hayes: 'Shall we return to the parlor?' and ho gave mo his arm and I'lysses look Mrs. Hayes. When we got into the parlor I said: 'I aOpa, Mr. liny oh, that you will bo as happy here as we have Ikvii for eight years,' and then I said 'Good-bye,' and we drove away. 1 told Ulysses as we were driving away that I had Intend d to say to Mr. Hayes what General Bucknor said tohiin when Buck ner vacated Fort Doneison, 'My house is yours,' but I forgot It Ulysses just put his arm around me and said ho was glad I had not All tho servants who had served me during our term gath ered in the hall to say farewell, and they were cry ing and I cried with them. After two weeks of hourly festivities, I might say, we left Washington on a special train. My ear was tilled with flowers, and after we had In'on escorted to it a Senator made a speech thanking mo for so successfully filling tho osl tion of mistross of the White House. Then another Senator, a dear friend of mine, said It was wning that we should over leave it, and somehow 1 liegim to think it was. They went out and left mo, and I began to cry. All my pont up feelings burst forth at one bound, and, as I tell you, my tears would have floated the ship of State If gathoi-cd in a reservoir. I cried for easily forty miles, and then tho General came in and said: " 'Why, Julia, my dear, what la wrong?' " 'I feel liko a waif, Ulysses,' I sob bed; 'I have no homo.' "Nevor mind, wo will soon have an other one. R I n MntrTf what a relief it is to me to lie released from that posl X i Now we can do what 1 always wanted to do - visit Europe, and niaybo travel around tho world before wo re turn.' "And so ho cheered me, nnd I never felt domestic care afterward. It washed itself away is tho flood of tears." Nel lie My, in N. Y. World. The Wives of Statesmen. Not long ago, when scakiii of hi. wife. Prince Bismarck Is roKirted to have said: "She it is who has mado mo what I am." There havo boon English statesmen who could say quite as much. Burke was sustained amid the anxiety nnd agitation of public life by domestic felicity. "Every care van ishes," he said, "the moment I enter my own roof!" His description of his wlfo is too long to quote, but we must give an epilomo of It Of hor beauty he said it did not arise from features, from complexion or from shaHi; "she has all three in a high degree, but it Is not by these that sho touches the heart; it is all that sweetness of temper, be nevolence, Innocence and sensibility which a face can express, that form, hor bounty. Hor cyos have a mild light, but they awo you when she pleases; they command, like a good man out of office, not by authority, but by virtue. Her stature is not tall; she is not mndu to be the admiration of everybody, but tho happiness of ono. Sho has nil the firmness that docB not exclude delicacy; she has all the soft ness that does not Imply weakness. Her voice is a low, soft music, not formed to rulo In public assemblies; but to charm those who can distinguish a company from a crowd; It has this ad vantage, you must come close te her to hear It" Louiiville Courier-Journal an A fashionable lady in New York who recently gave a feast in nice quar ter. u a small horde of ragamuffins noti fied her friends in her social circle that .he desired waitresses for the occasion from umong the members of their families. Within three days the num ber of volunteer, was ten times mora than she needed, all of them roaobuda in fashionable society. It Is -aid by ladles engaged In charitable work in Now York City that there Is never any difficulty in procuring any amount of personal services of this kind. Education must embrace a knowl edge of God and a know I dge of his law, which teaches all that Is known of truth and justice. School JuurmiL When we turn to Christianity wa And encouragement to prayer and wa learn that Christ Is sufficient and willing to supply all our need. - Ckrit aan Inquirer. By desiring what la perfectly good, tven when we do not quite know what It la, and can not do what we would. e are part of tbe divine power against vil. widening the skirts of light and Baking the struggle with darkness aarrower. Otorgt Eliot. iCISSOKS AND SHEARS. Where Moal of Them (nine from anil H l '.. . Are Mail. Scissors and shears are not uninter esting articles of commerce. They aro complex and divers i iu shape, and In Methods of being manufactured. Tha point of distinction hetwo'i, them Is la the handle- The scistor bundle has a ring each for thumb nnd fore or middle finger. Shears have also a thumb ring, but the other opening is so much elon gated as to admit two Angers. Here does the manipulator get his purchase for the heavy work of the shears. Shear blades are likewise longer, heav ier and more carefully riveted to gether. Said a man of this town, dealing ex tensively In them: "At tho present time the bulk of the scissors ued In this country comes fmm Germany. In former days it was England that sup plied this market but now, with the exception of those of tho vary finest quality and finish, it Is Germany. Now, a good scissors ought lo be hand forged and tempered as well as crocus polished. What is that? Well, crocus polish is a very fine powder of a deep yellow, principally good for giving that gloss you will see on new scissors. I havo said that Germany sends us scissors except of the very highest quality. Now, a great number of thoso come f. em Franco. Franco's surgical scissors, for example, am among the very best made in the world, and In very line manicure scissors tho French excel. Perhaps, however, this is be cause they conceived tho Idea, or moro properly speaking, introduced that art or custom to us. As to manufacturing. In a fine scissors about eighty percent of the cost is in the labor, whllo with the lower grades It Is just the reverse. In tho cheaper scissors, therefore, vory little labor is used." But even if the foreigners do send to this country such quantities of scissors and shears, a variety Is manufactured here w hich, perhaps, they can not but they do not produce that Is, "laid" scissors and shears. Those of abroad, and many made hero, for that matter, aro of steel throughout The "laid" scissors are a combination of malleable iron and steel. Scissors of stool, the best, as has been said, being of hard forging, are made from a bar of fiat steol, tho end for the bow flattened and punched with a small round hole, which Is gradually opened unon the anvil. The Inm for the "laid" scissors is cast In the regular form of handle and blade. Bar stool is hammered Into sheets, anil the iron blade overlaid or "faced" with It Tho process Is un known, but It Is said to be by means of heat and extreme pressure. Not very much more than the cutting surface uf the blade, or the blado proper, Is "faced." The joining of the two metnls Is so nice that where the steel leaves off and the Iron begins is hardly dis cernible. It can only bo soon by hold ing the blade to the light Thoro the difference In the tinges of the metals will show the seam or point of junct ure. But the composite blades, mado In this country for over half a century, have a distinct advantage over tho for eign blado of steel. They can be tempered to tho greatest possible de gree, for the malleable Iron of tho blade forms a back to tho steol facing. Should blades of steel throughout be tempered to the point of tho composite blade, in the fitting together for the rrVcling at least one-third of them would snap. And this high degree of tempi r means nothing more or less than a superior oxco ence and flnonoss of edge. "Nothing that Is mado In Europe will compare with them." said tho before-moutioued dealor. patriotic, but also soiling Imported goods. The "laid" scissors, to speak paradoxical ly, aro principally shears. For the most part thoy are thoso used by tailors, paper-hangers, bankers and barbers, in size from six Inches up. Surgical scissors form an important brinch of the trade, but they are made independent ly, rather by surgical! list ru ment makers than tha ordinary scissor manufacturer. Their cardinal and es sential point is In the great length of the shank. Thereby the operator get. a greater leverage. Their especially careful workmanship considerably brings up their cost, and It is no un usual thing to find a pair of small size, but oddly-shaped, worth any where from .' to 10. They are, fur thermore, always of steol. It is Inter esting lo note that nothing In tho way of invention or improvement In this lino is of any direct benefit to tho de viser. He can not got a patent for It, and it must go for the good of the on tiro surgical profession. Yet new devices continually come forth, and the Inventor at least has the satisfac tion of hearing the Invention called by his name. N. Y. Mall and Express. Rend the Blblo when you are fresh ipd wide awake; when the brain Is lear and you aro not pressed for time. Road it as the only book on earth that bas dropped down from Heaven, aa irour directory for life and your guide k Immortality, and It will become a new book to you altogether. Rev. J. Thain bavidton. Bring thy children up In learning and obedience, yet without outward austerity. Give them good counte nance and convenient maintenance ac cording to thy ability; otherwise thy life will seem their bondage, and what portion thou -halt leave thorn at thy jeath, they will thank death for it, and aot thee. -Lord Burleigh. -Sin Is a very simple word, but It la . very awful thing. A llttluchlld could ipell tho word; but no one, not oven lh angels that dwell in Heaven, could xplain the thing, or tell the evils it has wrought It is a deadly tree, whose fruit and whoso shadows have filled the world, and from which everybody haa suffered. Our Voting People. The man who has a good round In some and fares sumptuously every day. and clothes himself and family In tha finest material, arid spends hundreds of dollars annually In recreation and pleasure, and then gives only 6 for benevolent purpose, calling It the widow's mite." by way of apology, must be aadly lacking In self-respect, to say nothing alout religious principle. Urulian Advocate. 1 HE CIRCUS. What tha Hill lloar.li Uliplay Tha Tratk A I ..." i It. The man wbo dealgiu tbe works of art that decorate the bill tajaxila throughout the United States at thi, aeaaon of the year should have Iwrn roiuulUsj before the first menagerie aa made to order for Adam and Eva and turned louse In Ike garden of Udan. LVV BTHOJIO HOI.0 IM HIS NOSJt SAI.AXCINO ACT. He could have given valuable pointer, about the proper proportion, of the various ani mal,, and would hare addisl to the collection beasts and blnlaand reptiles which could now be uaed to advantage. The circa, artist Is a wonderful man. with a phenomenal site of imagination nnd a mi pn-iiie contempt for facta. He look, with disdain upon the modern realistic school of hi t He haa no use for realism The circus artUt proliably knows hi, buslium Fur many, many years he baa boon drawing pic tures of elephants forty feet high tramping their way majeatlcally through acetic, of Oriental splendor. Five general Ion, have stood with glaring eyes and open mouths be fore those great works of the lithographer', art They have patroniiod each ,uciscdiug circus, and anallowcsl the rising lump of dis appointment ixvaaionod by tbe diacovery that the aevciity-flve foot giraffe could -tan I erect In a seven foot cage. Ona buudrvd years from now It will be lbs asine. No man look, at tho bill board, after tha circu, lis, left town. A, he passes by ha looks tbe other way. It I, a matter of regret that tbe cin-u, I, to far behind the progress mad,' by ttie artist and the advance agent The advance agent la a talented gentleman, with an enthusiastic temperament A, ths circus becomes mora ami more autiqusted the advance agent grow, more eloquent, lis announce that all former achievementa will ba cut in ths shade, that tbe colossal aggre gation 1, grander thai, ever and that ths price of admission will not he increased. Ths circu, artiat I, equal te Uio nccaalou. Ha de sign, a new el, .pliant, with a trunk thirty feet In length, and draw, a vivid repiawnta tlon of a life aud death fight between ths will yat of Patagonia and a couiany ot sailors wbo bavs stepixxl asbors from a man ot-war. .A, "LA T ASCOT." THE HUMAN VLV, OIVINO INTO A NaT. The Chicago Herald presents a ssries of pictures, roduciil from photographs, deplet ing actual M-cuue In one of the greatest ag gregations ever exhibited beneath cant as Their accuracy will not lie questioned by those Who have visited ths circus recently. Itsference la made to the apli'lted drawing of "LstTsscot the Human Fly," In her daring art of diving into a net Tbs artiat haa evi dently mad" a mistake iu his er,psctlvs, for a, the picture la drawn the suggestion that ths (takes are too short force. Itself on all who nuke a critical analvii, of tbl, spirited sketch The " La Taarot" on tha billboards Is a far prettier female, hut her face lacks tbs decision and character portrayed In tha original. Many are dianpHiuted that ths dWs Is not made head first, as per advertise ment, but tbl, feeling soon passes away. Tbe art i.t. haa ahowu Blgueor Kelly In ths tar set of tbe evenbig. Blgueor Kelly I, tbe champion "lasnr buck" rldsr of tbe world. Ttiiaw not anpiainted with ths dangers which surround the lifs of a circus wrfnrmar may fall to pi "'i if appreciate the rlak taken by Blgueor Kully In ths fost undertaken by him as shown In ths sketch. There I, a chance that ths upright so flnnly grassl by tbs rider msy break or pull out Wbst would become of tbe unfortunate man I Us would be dashed te the sawdust track. Then, again, ths horse might drop dead Those not In tb business have no right to criticise, but it Is bard to keep out of ons's mind ths recollec tion of a scene show n on tbs bill boards, where a flying horse dsabos around the great ring, carrying on bis back a graceful rldsr, whose toes seem hardly to touch the gallop ing steed. si.. -oat aaixT, ran aaaa-Bcca aiotm, There la no use in kicking becauss tbs man who was advertised to turn thirteen times over twslvt Urge elephants simply jump, off of a springboard and turns a somersault over ' ons solitary, uwlamboly pachyderm with a . tar away look In hla off sya Not half of tbs ' people In the vast audience would dare to per form that act. But In tpltsof all these petty disappoint OMdis it Is sve, hutiug fun to see lbs circus. A aialar la Name Only. Mrs. Parvenu-Mr. Travis, you know ev- I srybody. Who I, that pretty girl over there. silt. hi on Ilia 'II ran I Mr. TrsvlaTbat Is one of my aUtcr,, Mrs, Farreao. Mrs. Pervanu-lndesdl Too don't look as If yos keasaged to the same family Mr Tvsri, adlf)-No, sad wensvershall. -aVtrtSaajtot, vVas frssa A man of sense finds much less diffi culty in submitting u one wbo la wrong-headed than In attempting to set him right Don't despise systems of thought that other men have elaborated be cause you can not place yourself at nee at their point of riaw. Men get into grooves of working and thinking so that they become al most automatic. And tbe tendency la, when a habit la formed, for one to yield more and more to Its Influence. It la apeciallj true of a bad habit TEACHING PARROTS. Different Varieties of the Bird, and Where Ihev I Ai a reporter entered a bird fancier'. establishment a few days ago he was greeted with a series of yells and screeches, a discordant welcome from the parrots of all sizes and colors whluh wore ranged round the room, and appeared to vie with each other in making the greatest racket ' We have just received a fresh Im portation of parrots," said the bird man, appearing from the menagerle room lu tho rear of the store, "and from all prospects there are a good many fine talkers among them." "What varieties have you?" asked the reporter. "At the present we have but three varieties tho double-yollow hoad, the Cuban and the African gray." "Which variety leads in intelli gence?" asked thu reporter. "I prefer the African gray parrot" repliod the bird man, "yet tho Cuban and yellow heads make excclent talk ers." "Where does the gray parrot come from?" "He come from tho west coast of Africa. The colored mon take the young birds from their nests and sell them to captains or sailors of trading vessels Tho best birds come from vessels plying between Africa and Boa ton." "How does tho trip across the ocean agree with thom?" "Very well. They seem to get ao cllmated In their voyage and gener ally know how to talk some when thoy arrive." "How do you teach parrots to talk nnd how long does it take ono to leurn?" 'That's a hard question to answer. Different birds vary In Intelligence. A bird will get accustomed to a place In about two months, and It given a lesson ovory day can talk fairly well In that time." "How do you give a lesson?" "The morning hours aro the best for teaching. Cover the cago with a cloth, and thon In a clear voice .ay a word or short sentence until the bird repeats it Thon commence with au nt her. and so on. When once it be gins to talk It Is only a matter of lime aud patience before It Improves. 'Ob ject teaching is a good plan," con tinued the bird man. "A parrot need, only to see and hoar a barking dog, a crowing rooster or a mowing cat a few tlmos before an exact imitation 1. glvon." "Suppose you have a bird that can talk and won't talk, la there any way to make It talk?" "There is no method that I am ac quainted with, unless It be that of starvation, but that's cruel, and should not be resorted to." Washington Critic. THE PRECIOUS RUBY. Interesting raeta About ths Must Valua ble of Slonea. To tho question. "Which I. tha moat valuable precious .tone?" prob ably nine out of every ten, at least, would without the slightest hesitation reply: "The diamond;" but the value of a good-sized diamond can not ap proach that of a ruby of correct color and similar dimensions. The worth of small rubles stones, that Is, of less than a carat is, if any thing, rather less than that of diamonds of a llko description; but tho rare occurrence of largo specimens of that dark carmine tint which is looked upon as the sine qua nun of a good ruby causos the value of thoso gems to Increase In a far greater proportion than In the case of diamonds. Ruble, weighing mora than four carats aro so ex ceptional that when a perfect one of five carats Is brought to tha market It will command ten times aa high a sum as a diamond of the same weight; while a ruby of six carats without a crack or a flaw, and of the propor color, would, In all probability, bring aa high a price aa 1,000 pounds per carat, or fifteen times as rauoh as a diamond of like alia and faultless noss. All over the Eaat rubles are re garded with the greatest possible favor, and so It has been from the ear liest times of which wa have any rec ord. The largest ruby known was brought from China, and forms part of the imperial-crown jewel, of Russia. It la the slzo of a pigeon's egg, and waa pre-ented by Custavus III. of Swedec to the Kmpress of Rusala on his visit to 8t Petersburg. The finest ruby that has over been brought to this country waa ono which reached our shores la 1876. It was a blunt stone, drop shape, and weighed slightly more than 47 carats No one In England could ba Induced to give the price that Its owner placed upon It, and It waa, we believe, finally disposed of on tbe continent for a .urn between i'lfO.OOO and 30.000. The ruby la the hardest of all minerals except tbe diamond, and by Its hardness a ruby may be told from a splnul, which Is con.lderably otter. If. as Is often the case. It la not advisable to scratch or otherwise abrade the surface of a stone which It Is wished to test the greater specific gravity of the ruby will show whether It la entitled to rank aa one of those gems or not Curiously enough, the ruby and the sapphire are absolutely Identical In every respect except that of color. They are varieties of crystal lzed alumina, which la usually known under the name of corundum. Aa a general rule the crystal, of thl. sub stance are dull In hue and lack trans preancy, but when they chanoe to ba clear r.nd bright-colored they give some of our moat valuable gem t Loa don Standard. Times of general calamity and confusion havo ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore la produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt Is elicited from the darkest storm. Cotton. Our accomplishments are an ele ment of personal strength and power. There is a measure of truth In tho asser tion: "Give a boy address and accom plishments, and you will give him tbe mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goea He haa not the trouble of earning or owning them; they solicit him to enter and