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EUGENE CITY GUARD. t. 1 CAHrltKLL, . trtrletr. ANOTHER'S CRIME. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK. "IkV HutcblnaoD'i Advantura with HU Fathar in Carrying Lath Mr. B. P. Hutchinson hai a promlHlng on Isaac, of which thi story U told: "Old Hutch," m the world culli biui, was seated one afternoon on the fence fin-rounding a piece of his property upon which a comfortable dwelling house was being put up. The veteran merchant waa whittling a stick of wood and super intending the actions of "Ike," who, under his instructions, was transferring a lot of laths from the open air to the In terior of the unfinished house in a wheel barrow. It waa not an easy task. Any body who has tried it knows how bard it is to wheel a barrow up a single plank. But "Young Ilutch" was performing the job creditably. "Old Ilutch" watched and whittled for a while in silence. Then an idea struck him, and he lumbered down off the fence and approached his perspiring son. "Ike," said he, "you know us much as an oyster." Ike made no reply, but looked a little ulky. "Sc here," went on tho old man, "don't you see that you can get twice as many laths onto that wheelbarrow if you pile them crosswise instead of length wise, as you've been doing? Just watch me, and see the load I'll take in thero." The boy silently watched his father laboriously pile up the sticks. When he started the wheelbarrow slowly up the plonk a bystander might have perceived a huge grin of delight spreading itself over "Young Hutch s features. When Old Hutch reached the brick doorway he stopicd. Why? Well, bo- cause when piled crosswise the laths were too long to permit tho wheelbarrow to enter. The old man turned slowly round and mopped his brow with a red silk handkerchief. Old Hutch looked at Young Hutch. Young Ilutch looked at Old Hutch. "Father," suid the younger of the twain deliberately, "you don't know as much as the shqlj of an oyster. The old man told the Century club crowd all about it the next day, and Towed as he related the circumstance that Ike would be a bigger man than his brother Charley some duy. Chicago Tribune. nOM TBI DIARY OF WRPKCTOB YKIOCS. By JULIAS HAWTB0R5E, Author of "Tin Great Bank Bobbery," "Aa American Penman," Eta (Ooprrlftht by 0 tL Duntuun, and publUhad, tkraufb special arrangemanl tj the aaancae tnm AaaaclaUoa with CumU Co, Ktw Ysrk tad Loodom.) 1 Fun fur On of tli Boys. Tbo spirit of the Sanish inquisition lives today in the form of the small boy, and particularly that portion of the genius coimnonly known as thegnmin. For discovering particularly Ingenious and soul racking methods of torture and annoyance, the small hoy stands pre eminent and uuupprouchucle. This great truth was homo In tion the mind of The Man About Town by an incident to which he was a witness on Olive street the other day. A youngster who, from hlsarlbtocratioaiH'aruiiee, wagevlilenlly the hopo of some West End family, and who had strayed down town, had become deeply Interested in tho mys teries of the cable, road and was ondcav oring to Hnetrato lis secrets by a careful investigation through tho slot. A gamin stood on tho curb. Ilia roving glance took in tho boy in the middle of t!io street, and his active mind Immediately conceived a plan to Improve tliesii nation for his own amuse ment und the inter woe of the boy from tho West End. He drew a long string from his pocket, mude a slip noose in ono end and wurily approached his vio- tun. "With a sudden spring ho seized the other' nutty hut, deftly slipped the nooso nsoiiiid the crown and running a few stops up tho street before the other boy hud taken in IhoHituntion, hodroppod tlie tree end through the slot Instantly it caught tho cable and held fast, and the next second the hat was sailing up the street at the rate of eight miles an hour wim us owner wumy pursuing it, a hopeless second in the raco, while the bystanders cheered, and the author of the trouble smiled a smile of exceeding peace, and rail up an alley to reluto his adventure to a few other angelio spirits. St. Louis Republic, A Tip from Spook Land. We commend to tho attention of the Society for Psychical KeseaMh tho latest dream story in connection with racing. A well known cx-mililury sK)rUman for some weeks mt had made up his mind that he would try and dream the winner of the Lincoln handicap. This Ingenious idea of his he announced to several of his friends, who naturally smiled some what skeptically on the would be seer. However, on Monday night five times in succession he dreamt that No, 13 had won the lace. As there was no horse of that name the sportsman in question cam to the conclusion that his vision must refer to the number on the card. He made no set-ret of his beliwf, and yes terday ruorulng he sent a messenger to King's Cross to get the card aud back his dream number. There were no curds to be had at the station. Accordingly, be wired to Messrs. W. II. Smith 4 Sons' bookstall at Lincoln for the name of Ko. 13 on tho day's card for the handi cap. The answer came back promptly, "Wise Man." The resolute dreamer im mediately backed the horse, with the happy result thut all wise racing men now wot of. Every detail of this slngu 1st story is absolutely trtio, and there are many who can testify to having heard the prophecy of No, 13 delivered on Tuesday afteruoou. London Tele graph. Why tla Oldal Baar It, They are laughing over a blunder of United States examining surgeon up iu Caribou. He was examining for deafness an applicant for a pension, and to test the man's left ear held a watch at some dis tance and akked him if bs could hear it tick. Tli answer was "No," and the sains reply was given to repeated quee lona as the watch was brought nearer. "Put him down totally deaf in left ear," the surgeon sold, and holding the watch away from the man's right ear, the satin question was asked. To his surprise, tha I answer was the some. It then occurred j to the surgeon to examine his watch, and i he round that it bad stopped. The ex amination waa begun all over again. Lewiston Journal. CHAPTER XIL THE SHADOW OF DEATH. ARTLN and Per- cy looked in the direction lndicat-1 ed by tho officer. ' It was then about 0 o'clock In the afternoon, the sky clear over head, the sea calm, the sun sinking red to- wurd the west, over Cuba and Hayti, which i tii were oeiow me nonzon, some lji hundredsof miles lI away. Tho teni- , perature during the last few days had been growing warmer and warmer, and they were now near the twentieth parallel of north latl-1 . . . t ,,, .,. ,m the tudo, and about on the sixty xih me-ltaffrai to the the dark. nuiun wesi iron urecnw.cn mce- ,hut dowo anj ab. passing between Hattoras and the Bcr-1 mluUs thal th(J obgerver niudos they had had fair weather, with mt0 impapablo pIUsn. and then Ughtairs between the south and cost witha parulvzing 8llock the hurricane But today there hud been no breeze ,moUj the vessel, beating her down into whatever, and tho heat had been op-1 ,,, . i, n, .i1w)1. "ih. ,, inclosing dome. It sang and resounded and roared, but still with an inner sound as if that which uttered it were still afar, or walled off by someolmtacle that it hau not yet overcoma Everything else was deathly still; the plash of the foam against the vessel's bows and under her stern was the only other sound, but thai seemed abnormally loud. The captain's voice on the bridge broke out with startling distinctness, though be spoke not above his customary pitch. He gave the order to put the tesscl about Immediately she began to swing round on her course, describing a semi circular sweep with her stern; and in a few minutes she lay with the cloud at her back, and her bows pointed towards the unclouded regions of the northeast Her propeller still moved, but slowly; she was like a champion awaiting the onset of an enemy and gathering himself up for the struggle, Tho enemy was now at hand. Dy this time the central advance had thrown out two long black arms that crept along the horizon to the right and left, inclosing the vessel In a deadly embrace. Dark ness fell over them as from an eclipse, the unshadowed east, ere It vanished al together from sight, looked like a scene viowed through a tunneL The moment was one of awful suspense; no human creature could long have endured it without giving way to some outbreak of intolerable emotion. The blood flowed thick In the veins; the brain throbbed confusedly; the breath came in diflicult siglis. With a sudden but majestic up wurd gradation, the minor roar swelled to deafening shrieks of noise; there was a vision of a white fury of waters astern Tho Pomologies! Society o( South Riv erside has lieen discussing the best sea son for planting orange trees, and hsi derided on the experience of growers that it should be dune in the spring or early summer, or at the latest bifnre the new arrosth reaches a length of two inchea. pressive. Tho surface of tho sea looked oily, and lay quite flat, without any per ceptible heave or swell. Masses of drift weed were passed occasionally, strung out in long lengths, aa if drawn by in visible currents. Sometimes acocoanutor an orango would float past, silent heralds of the islunds near at hand. The course the steamer was steering was taking bor toward tho group of little islands be tween tho greater and lesser Antilles, of which Bt Thomas Is ono. It was there that thoy were to make their first landing. The officer had pointed toward the southwest, or a few points off the star board bow. Percy could soo nothing re markable there; but Valentino, who was familiar witli the sea, at onco fixed his eyes upon a small dark cloud, low down on tho water, the peculiarity rf which was that ft changed its shape with great rapidity, and without any apparent cause. Ono moment it looked like a band, with the fingers extended; then it was like a hut, tho crown of which grew turgor and lurger until it presented the aspect of a pointed foolscap. Then the ' cap suddenly inverted itself, and stood I on Its apex; then the foolscap divided down tho center, und took the form of a bugo bird with wings pointed upwards. ' "that bj rather oild, muttered Valen tino, intently watching the protean littl-t cloud. "1 have seen a hurricane bcirin that way. I hoo it will give us a wide berth. This is u bad place to bo caught by a tornado, with thut string of islands right ahead of us." "It must be a couple, of hundred miles to tbo nearest of them," aid Percy. "Wo are safe onougli. This steamer cun stand anything." "There comes tho captain." obscned Valentino, Without noticing Percy's re mark. In fact the captain emerged from his cabin and mounted tho bridgo; ho cast a glunco at tho cloud and then gave some orders in a low tone. They were fol lowed by an fmmcdiuto activity on the part of the watch on deck. The sailors moved rapidly ulxiut, and socmod to be occupied in stowing under hatches or otherwlso making fust various barrels. cases and other looso objects that had hlthorto been kept on deck. Meanwhilo tho captain had got out a telescoio and was contomplutlng tho cloud through it with great euruestnegs. Presently he passed the glass to tho officer who stood by him on the bridgo, aud who also took a careful observation; then thev con versed together in an undertone and oc casionally issued a new order to the crew. There were no suilaset on the steamer; but tho sheets and halliards wero hauled taut and securely bolaved. and everything was made fust and but- tenod down in such a way thut nothhm short of a hurricune could dislodgo it "I no old man understands his busi ness," remarked Valentino, and I fancy he thinks thut It may need all ho knows to pull us through. Look at the cloud nowl" Valentino again turned his eves toward the southwest Tho small cloud had suddenly becoiuo very much lurger, aud wus now seen w ue connected with u moss of dark vapor that was runldlv crowding upon thut section of tho hori- ton, and of which it was tho nioneer. This vapor was of un extraordinary dark ness, or rather blackness; it had not tho blue shade thut is often seen in storm clouds, but was of tho huo of tho densest factory smoke, with yellow and greenish streaks upon it here and there, Tho rim or upper uiurgln of the oncoming bluck- ness continued to advance with such as tonishing rapidity thut after only a few momenta it hud blotted itself upon all that quarter of the horizon, and now seemed to have embodied the forerun ning cloud, or to have Incorporated Itseif witu tt booking more closely at It. iu edges and surface upcared wildly com niotod, flukes and shreds of vapor, like bluck fleece, being torn off from the general mass, and whirled arouud, or snatched in various directions, so swiftly uiaiuie eye con id scarcely follow their movements. The green and vcllow streaks were multiplied and other col ors were represented until the Inky surface assumed an sectof hideous in doscence. Meanwhile the northern aud eastern portions of tho sky and sea re- maineU unchanged in their sultry calm. excejt that, the light of the setting sun oemg cuiou, ineir aspect had a strain foverish gliastlineas, unlike the tints of nature. A hot, fuiut air drew post tha Teasel in the direction of the .black can-' opy, as if it were sucked thither by some malign attraction. Presently the ears of the observers began to be conscious of a 1 singular minor sound, somewhat remm-' Wing that produced by the wind on a' telegraph wire, only Infinitely more hot low, deep and reverberating. It re sounded ail over the level surface of the I pallid sea, and appeared to be echoed back from the horizon and the vault above, as if the heavens were a metallic hand. The next instant, with a shudder and a spring, she leaped forward, stag gered, and leaped aguia Fragments of boiling surge hurtled along her decks, striking what they encountered with the of grape shot The mizzen mast broke oil within a yard of tho dock, and, lash ing forward, struck the main mast and brought it down in ruin, though the noiso of the crash was inaudible in the yell of the frenzied gala The steamer was rushing onward at headlong speed, yet she seemed to be standing stiil. so fast did wind and sea fly post her. She reeled, staggered, leaped, was buried and rose ngain, again to be overwhelmed. It seemed another world, another ago, com pared with tho sunlight and calm of a few , minutes previous. Wind, whirling, wel , terlng chaos had engulfed all things: ; nothing could be seen, nothing heard, nothing dono nor directed; only, awful ' plungings and strainings could be felt, and thunderous blows and shocks. Only by these signs could it be known that the vessel was still above the water, still l being swept onward. Whither, and to what fate, none could foretell. The sea was at first beaten flat by the wind, though great pieces of water were stripped from the surface and dashed through the air; by and by, however waves began to form, but irregulars' some rolling low, some reaching aloft and staking gigantic. One of these, hurrying through the blackness, mounted tho steuuier's stern and traversed hei deck to the bows, carrying with it the funnel, the remaining must and every thing on board thut offered resistance Thut wave struck the forecastle with a report like the bursting of a siege gun, stove through the oaken planks, and dashed a hundred tons of water through tho opening. All therein were drowned and crushed to pieces, and tho bodies ol several woro whirled out again and car ried like rags oil into tho waste of the tornado. Heavily tho ship rose from tht blow; it seemed as if she could nevei rlso aguia Hut up she cumo, and tin weight of water went booming aft. breaking down partitions and deluging cabins and state rooms. Moro than fifty men wero killed or disabled by that sin gle buffet, and tho survivors believed that the end of all of them could be not many minutes distant But it so happened that no catastrophe of equal terror followed. Tho ship drove on, sometimes threatening to broach to. yot maintaining her steerage way beyond all expectation, on tho whole; and when some time hud passed how long, no one ever know tho hurrieuno fell faint, and in a brenth or two, as it seemed, died quite away. The darkness lightened and straight ovorheud appeared a patch of sky half veiled by wheeling shreds of mist They wero in the center of the tornado; and now the waves leaped up with a rebound so breukneck and astound ing that all sense of vertical and hori zontal was lost, and the vessel reared and pitched liked a maddened bronco. This phase of tho buttlo between ship and storm bade fair to be more dangerous than the opening experience; but, how ever that might bo, it did not last long Tbo inky cloud shut down again; again rose the shriek of rushing winds, coming now from the opposite point of the com pass, and onco more tho dismantled and prjiised hulk sprang forward on her fear ful race, galvanized, as it wore, into pre ternatural activity by a force not hei own. Stripped bare as she was, and weighted by tho water she had taken on board, she moved more steadily than at first Nor could the nerves of those who still manned her continue to re spond as before to the call of hor ror. The worst was past for them, even should death itself be in store. None know at that time who were living and who were dead; each held on to what ever supiwrt was nearest him and waited in darkness and uncertainty for what might come. Tho engine fires had been put out, and all the men available were taking turns at the wheel, in a desperate and unequal struggle to keep her before the wind. Some felt that it would be a relief If the ship would founder and go down, ftut she swept on. outstripping death Itself, Suddenly one of the pas sengers, wt--had been alternately pray Ing and blaspncuitng in the cabin, broke out in a yell of mad laughter, and rushed up the companion way and out on the ieck. The hurricane caught him and hurled him forward, he was jammed be tween the stump of the mainmast and the shaft of one of the anchors which had somehow been carried there; the wind turned his coat over his head and whipped It Into ribbo.is In a moment; In another moment be was naked to the waist; then he was twisted and beaten and lashed about until he was a shapeless mass of bloody flesh and sliattered bones. At length a sudden pitch of the vessel kwseued the anchor, and it and the corpse went overboard together, and the ship swept on. 1 WH Prbr bour aft, this, and long after tho most sanguine had yielded dumbly to despair, tliut the steamer rose nn a monalmus wave, wlllcu niouniou and mounted beneath her until It seemed as if it would end by carrying her through the sky; then, with a last furious effort, flung her forward, and slipped back under her keel. The great vessel was carried on by the impetus of the onset and fell with an appalling crash, not on the sea again, but on the solid earth. Hor voyage was over, and she was in port at lost Her Iron ribs were crushed by the fall, but her frame still held together, and all motion ceased. The wind still shrieked and the sea bellowed and thundered, but no waves struck the ship. She seemed to have been lifted beyond their reach; but where they were no one knew, nor could have guessed within a hundred miles. After an interval, the quarter master, who had been the last man ai Die wheel crept to the companlonway, and, securing himself by a rope passed round his waist and made fust to the railing below, looked out At first he could distinguish nothing, and the rush of the wind stifled him; be dragged himself back and waited. He had not waited long before it appeared to him that the noise of the hurricane was abating, and tho darkness was less intense. At length he ventured forth again. Moment by moment the wind was decreasing, the change was not so sudden as it hud been when the center of the tornado passed over them, and occa sionally there was a return of rage and fury. But theso bccuuie less and less frequent, and there were grent cleavages upwards through the clouds, revealing the remote spurklo of stnrs, for the sun bad gone down long since. One by one those of the ship's company and passen gers who remained camo on deck and stared about them. Were they on a desert Island? A number of square objects, curiously symmetrical in shape, and distributed with an appearance of regularity, be came visible in the immediate neighbor hood of tho steamer. They were ull of nearly the same height, though in their other dimensions they vuried consider ably; tlieir sides were whitish, tho tops darker. In front of the vessel, as she lay, the land rose upwards in a gcntlo slope, and these rectangular objects showed themselves thickly in that direction. "They don t look unlike houses, re marked tho quartermaster, peering earn' estly through the gloom. "I don't know any coast hereabouts that has rocks like thut" "If they were houses," said the second officer, who stood near. nth bis arm broken, "we should be in the midst of a town, and no small town either." "Hark! what's that?" All listened. There was the sound of a halloo, clearly repeated, and in a mo ment it was answered from a further distance. Then in several directions, near and far, were heard calls, cries and lamentations. Tho listeners uttered mur murs of surprise and perplexity. Just then a great mass of cloud in the east broke away, and the full moon shone forth with surpassing brillinnco, shedding over the sceno a light which, in comparison with the previous dark ness, seemed as bright aa day. It re vealed an extraordinary spectacle. Beyond the stem of the steamer ex tended the tossing waters of a large bay. strewn with wreckage und an indescrib able medley of floating objects. In front and on either side were the streets and houses of a half destroyed town. Tho steamer had been carried over the sea wall and lay beyond the wharves, be tween the ruins of a hotel and a large warehouse. A little way off was what had been a public pleasure garden or casino; it looked as if a gigantic roller had been passed over it In a terrace higher up u heavy iron gun stuck out like a half driven bolt; it had been whipped out of a vessel in the bay and borne, nearly half a mile, passing completely through a house on the way. Nearly every house left standing was unroofed; many were torn from their foundations and thrown topsyturvy. The iron shaft of a street lamp was bent over and twisted like u corkscrew. In the center of a small fort to the west of the town wus a brig, with one most still standing. A floating wharf just outside the sea wall was sunk; a steamer was on top of it, and on top of the steamer, lying crosswise, wero the remains of a three masted merchant sliip. A large provision store had been blown to pieces and the stores whirled about in all directions over the town and ad jacent lauds. In the bay, now rap idly becoming calmer, appeared the masts of a score of sunken vessels, ticking up uko reeds in a swamp Among them floated casks, blocks, spars, boxes, quantities of oranges and cocoanuts, fragments of trees, the rafters and beams of houses; and bobbing about everywhere were the drowned and mutilated corpses of hundreds of men and women. But these were not to re main long visible. Ever and anon thero would be a swirl In tho water, a jerk and a splash, and a shark would glide away wiw a nuinan arm or leg in his jaws. The banquet wus an unusually rich ono. and the banqueters were assembling in thousands. "Well," said the quartermaster, as his yes rapidly traversed the scone, "I've hoard of miracles, but this is the nearest to one that ever I saw. Of all the things that might have happened, this is the unukeliest; we get caught in ahurricano, and blown north and south, we don't know where, nor whether we were under water or above it; and here at lost we find ourscrves high and dry, in the port we were bound for, and within a dozen rods of the very wharf we should have lain up tol Tins is a queer world!" "What place do you say this is?" in quired one of the passengers, drawing near. "This Is St Thomas, sir what there is loft of it and no other place in the world. Oh, is that you, Mr. Martin? I'm glad to see you safe and sound; I ex pect a good half of us will never speak again. Whore is your friend, sir?" "I dont know," replied the other; "I hav been looking for htm. I havent een him since the wind first stopped blowing out at sea," "It was that big wave that came aboard us. most likely," suid tlie quar termaster, gloomily.' "That carried off the captain and nmnv a good man with him. You may tail the teas till vou re an old man. sir, and never see tlie like of that storm again. But his interlocutor had moved away, and was beginning a search through the ship in the forlorn hope of finding at w uia menu. MAGICIANS' TRICKS. MAkP.RELIEVE MIRACLE3 PERFORM ED BY MODERN MORTALS. Ills Mlirjln Inventions of ! Kolla. "Orl-nlal OcciillUro" EHy EsplaiWMl. Tlie "Illiw-si Art" I Very Simple When Too Knnir How. Magic urt has undergone many remark' 1,1.. ii-iiiKforinutions since Robert Hou din. tho father of ull modern muglc, lived In Paris half a century ago. Perhaps no ono could couimiro with him In celebrity excentim: tlio originul Herrmann, who died at Carhibad a couple of years a; and from whom tho Herrmann who at present perambulates America took his numo and learned what he knows. The Dresent Herrmann was known as Neu- man. and was an assistant to his greute prototype. He wosulwuys remurkuble for ono thing, und that is his very greut dexterity in sleight of hand tricks, to day there is nolxidy thut cun compure with him in this line of work, what is known as palming. In fact anything that can bo done with tho hands alone excepting a deaf muto who travels through the cheajier museums, and who is said to liavo even far greater ability in this lino, but without the gift of express ing himself. THE FLYING BIRD CAGE. Herrmann, however, has never been an inventor. Ho flnda his. tricks ready made for him abroad and buys their se cret As a result ho is compelled to travel around with a vast paraphernalia that the old magicians would have looked upon with great contempt. In fact, the tendency of modern mugio bus been tho elaboration of tho cumbersome, and Herrmann needs a wholo roomful of fur niture to carry out ono of his illusions. Tho brightest mind in magic at the present day is a prestidigituteur named Do Kolto. Ho holds forth iu Paris, and, being ulmost a fientleiuun of leisure, only anncurs ubout three nights a week. Ho has mailo all the most important of mod' ern inventions in magic. The ono thut brought him first into prominence in the hue of invention wus tho flying bird cage, which b now so familiar that it can bo bought in msgio stores for a few dollars, but it uiadu a greut sensation at tho time. Kellur was tho first to buy it from Do Ilultu, and took tho trick to Australia, whero ho madj eoiuo $20,000 out of it Ik only paid 8 )00. Two or three season agu in New Yorl tho Vanishing Lady was accepted as a very remark ablo novelty. This was ulso an invention of DjKoIIi's. During the past year another of his inventions, tho Cocoon, has been given in New York both by Cellar and by Herrmann. But the ono that is now most familiar and surprising Do KolU first brought out two years ago. Wo hnvo seen it with Ilurrmuun under tho name of Black Art, and with Kellur under tho mine- of Ori ental Occulti j;ii. The trick is precisely tho sumo wit'i them both, and is merely an illusion ot liluckness. llio whole stugo is draped i:i tho blackest of bluck; tho magician, bo it Kellur or Ilerrmuun, is completely robed in white, so that ho stands out cl.-urly ia tho gloom surround ing him. Th(?a ho order j various objects tj r.:ipcw, a cup, a sword, a table, a chair. UAOIO IS WANING. Thcso things scorn to suddenly start into being, nuj yot tho device is of tho iph-st. Alio object ia question nro conccalod behind a black cloth until the order for them, to appear is suddenly given. Tlio cloth concealing tlicm is dropped, and they seem to have como out of chaos. In tho samo manner Mrs. Herrmann or Mrs. Kellur stands on tho stago drajted in white, but holding up a black cloth between herself aud tho au dience. At tho word of tho magician she drops tho cloth and stands revealed. To the uninitiated tho trick is most puzzling. It is tho sumo way thut tho head de tached from tlie trunk appears to bo car ried around tho stage. Tho illusion is that tho trunk is closed in black; and standing against tho blackness of tho scene, cannot bo distinguished; the head being white, ulone appears. Tfiis is per- naps tlio cleverest of all Deholtasin ventions. Of mechanical tricks Maskelyno, of London, unil Kollar uro tho most noted inventors. Psycho, or tho hand that taps on a glass table in response to tho ma gicians command, is nn invention of Kellur, and is simply a piecoof very deli cate und intricate machinery. It is very similar to tho Clio of Maskelyuo, and both liavo u family resemblance to Kel lur's chess board, originally invented by Maskelyno. Magicians generally give tno palm to Kellur for ull tricksof mathematical kind. Ho has a marvel- ously quick mind in this respect, and tho most ubstruso problems he cun solvo in a few seconds apparently, of course allowing it to be dono by some mechani cal figure. Whether all this comes within the ex act domuiu of mugio does not so much mutter us thut such tricks aro now ac cepted in magical entertainments and vastly moro enjoyed than tho old pistol, card and rabbit tricks to which some niugiciuns still adhere tricks thut neces sitate the use of a confederate, and which are, thereforo, of little account and ut which even locals laugh. Ihofuturoof magic is hard to fore tell, Lverythmg in the Bleight-of-hand way has become familiar, aud outside of ItoKolta there is no inventor of anv !.! n. .... J uuug new. me result is that rcx-iit prostidigitutours, such as Herrmann, are compelled to add to their own some sort oi variety entertainment to fill out the evening, tveu Kellur hud to go back to mo oiu Indian Dusket trick for a novelty, New York Journal. No. Thanks. " kr. piiyii traveler who never bud fSU hMJ , how dihcourteoiw w th use of the i.lirosc, "No, tliunks, was taught the lesson when lie visited Norway and ventured to translate thut brief and slangy substitute for "No, I thank you," into Norwegiun. The les ion was given him by the waitress In a restaurant at Hainer. The young if he would take wnVfl and he replied. "Ikke tnk," whlehls a literal translation of "No, thanks." The young woman, writes tho En glishiiian, unswered In quick, strong and unintelliiible Jargon. I knew that magnates and iiieniuls intermix in Nor wav. and concluded that here was lineal descendunt of some fierce Viking princess. Fearful tragedies might have ensued had not a Norseman crossed over to my rescue, and on bowing to each other I understood him to suy to me: "If you please, what was it that you aid, or wanted to say? Hue says you were not asked to give her anytning; and she serves here gratuitously ; and the is a free and Independent elector; and you ought, at any rate, to have thanked her for her attendance, where- you would not give her a 'thank you for her coffee." I said 'Ikke tak.' I want no coffee, and I said '2fo, thanks,' did I not?" said I In self defense. "Ah I you should always give 'Tak I said the interlocutor, insinuating thut I needod Instruction. Tell me, then, how you say 'Ino, thank you,' " said I, bewildered. "Nal, tak! Nai, tukl" said he, bow ing himself away. Work to Do at Home. Women of slender or reduced Income who ore compelled by stern necessity to do home work of some kind might se- eure remunerative occupation Dy em broidering spangled flowers upon gauze and silk. This kind of material is in great demand, and, being a novelty, is expensive. This question of home work Is a very puzzling one, and often leads to much disappointment for those who cannot get employment because they have no reul technical knowledge in any branch. Newspapers have daily to refuse "copy" sent to them by women who think thut the field of lit erature is a golden one and that uny body capable of holding a pen und of spelling correctly can make money in that way. Now this Is a great mistake; and, moreover, it is not so much the way of treating a subject as the subject chosen that is of importance, and many a well written article is refused because it treats of mutter of small interest to the general public. To succeed in the paint ing of dainty triilcs for sale it is neces sary to possess not only tulent, but the chio belonging only to true artists. Ordinary embroidery or needlework does not pay ut ull. China painting as a professional pursuit seldom pays out side of the factories, except in the case of artists of great merit New York Tribune. A BATTLE OF BULLS. THE DESPERATE ENCOUNTER W(4 LEFT BOTH COM9ATANT8 OEaq A Flendl.b. Frrorlty Guided b, most iiumun luuilllgtura Aa Hint uurleci rroiu (ha Traeipi,, Dull with IU IH-rtlh Wound, Ik Thomas S. Moore, a well known substantial citizen of Garrard ct Ky., tells a gruphic story of a iu"'1 encounter that occurred on tliecn a knob of Ids neighborhood bet couplo of enruged bulls, in wiiY' wero killed. The nnhuuls had wand, to thews bights, und, upon sightjjT other, nt once engaged in a duel toiu death. Thoso unucquainted with UVi Btincts of such creutures cannot easT imagine what extreme fsrocity tU sometimes display. In speukinir f V Incident Mr. Moore said: " "Being interested in the study rf geology, I hapiH'iied to bo on the Li at the time, and was startled abouti o'clock in tho afternoon by a fearful tJ. lowing. Looking somo distance uhJ" I saw tho animals udvancing towari each other with their noses on tk! ground, turning this way and tliat, and casting du.st into the nir with their hi feet. When only a few yards awn they suddenly leaped to tho attack with a frightful noiso und began togoroei'h other with a frightful energy. aC. tho fierce and noisy trampling could ll heurd tho grinding of their interlock horns and tho violent 6nonkg of brutal rage. m HORN'S rsHD LIKE DAGGERS, "Tho breeze blow nisido the dust andre. vcaled tho tigerish character of the on set, as with vviilo set liiulis ami :" curlin.-r in tho nir thoy charged apiia stabbing with their pointed horns. Tinr streams of Llood shot down their necti and Bides, while their distended nostrils emitted u reddiuh foum. Tho prodigious strength of thess mngnilleent nnimnls thus brought into violent activity afforded a spectacle both tumultuous und thrilling. Tho exertioa of tho encounter, udded to the pain uf each newly inllicted wound, inflamed their combative Bpirit to the pitch of tempestuous fury. Cno of the bulls, fot lowm;r up a tomiwrnry ndvantaw plunged his horns into tho chest of fl antagonist, and, with a quick upward jerk of the head, ripped open the flesh to a depth of several inches, while from tho gaping wound jets of arterial blood boun to t;purt. In a towering passioa and with gleaming eyeballs, cliarging luiit'imij ui.uu ma uuvi-rsury, the The Little Circle, Each ono is bound to make Out littlo circle in which ho lives better and hap pier. Each of us is Iwund to sea that out of that small circle the widest good may flow. Each of us may have fixed in his minu ine tnought that out of a sincle uuumuoiu may now muuences thnt a ha II stimulate tlie whole commonwealth and me wuoie civilized world. Dean Stanley. fro Mr cDxnsitD.1 An I'nrxpected Mretlnir. Mrs. Carrclltrm - j "v in iius- uiuiur i nnniiencu ti nuot. Mro v Kortland and daughter at Ciridley 's today. 1 always thought she was altogether too j w aueu a piace. kiio was even lookini: over the barrain mi in tii r Husband And what took vou there? Tou wouldn't like to be considered loss well than Mrs. Van Kortknd? Mrs. Smythe (liaughtily)-Certainly i - 1. merei-v' weut t0 some goods - outrruiacu m specially low tatoa. The Enoch, rrinting In raised or euibosscU letter was begun at I"aris, by Uauy, in Kstt. A Perieferlng Ben. I have seen one or two good hen sto ries, but I think tliis one beats them. One day it happened that not far from my house a board was resting on two barrels which were about ten feet apurt, and somebody hud luid nn old, discard ed straw hut on the board, the crown lying on the board. An old hen, which was a greut pet with the family, saw this arrungoinent nnd evidently decided that the old hat was just' the thing for nest. So she carefully hopped into it and laid an egg. We decided to humor her whim, and therefore fastened the hut to the board, She continued to lay iu this queer nest for some time. But one dnv the hut became unfastened in some way and blew oil the board. When Biddy saw this she began to sing disconsolately, and we thought she would give up the bat and seek another nost. But we were mistaken. In a little while she seized the lint in her bill and flew with it on the board, where, after a greut aoai oi Hissing, she adjusted It so that the could lay in it. After that we fast ened it so that it could not blow off. Cor. Jiew lork Tribune. An Interesting Ialand A naturalist says: "One of the best hell collecting grounds it was ever my good fortune to visit was Long Key, in tlie Tortugas group of islands, about six miles from Cuba. This was the shell- picker's paradise, as an examination of the island (an island by courtesy of the ocean) showed that it was made up of shells, their broken fragments principal ly, the residue being plates of a lime secreting alga and bits of coral I have often sat here and picked until tired before moving from the spot, the treas ures being mainly small univalves of many species. "A curious and interesting feature of this picking was that numbers of the hells, especially tlie little periwinkles, as we called them, were inhabited by hermit crabs that, during the operation of collecting, made not the slightest demonstration, but once in the pocket of the finder they would assert them selves, and soon the shells which you had placed in these receptacles would appear streaming out conchological processions that were productive of much interest and amusement to by standers. After a gale I have seen the shore of this bay so lined with the beautiful purple ianthina and the little pearly coiled spirula that the white line could be traced for a long distance away. San Francisco Chronicle. A Mad Raoa. Mrs. Drnbbins (who has been i -1 n vi iuc iwrionuances oi a somnambulist) -The iMiper says that last night a maa jumped out of a window to the roof of another house, and ran along that till he came to a church roof, when he leaped to that and climbed np the steeple. Mr. Drnbbins How long had they been married? Good News. Joseph Jefferson ia not nnlv An Q.lml. able actor, but he is a painb-r of mnch more tbuu ordinary skill and power. The work that he has performed ia either de partment would have been sufficient to have secured for him nor than common reputation. on Inn wounded bull drove his horns intn t,i abdomen, making a horrible opening through which tho entrails gusheu. 'Tho impetuous and stormy nature of tho coutest had carried tlio couibatanti to tho verge of tho cliff, but, blind with deadly fury, thoy saw no danger. Each, mortally wounded und weakening mo. mcntanly from profuse losa of blood, waged tho buttlo with that fiendish des. pcrution Bhown only hi wounded ani. mills. It was evident, however, that a crisis was near nt hand. Tho situation had resolved itself into tho grim condi tion of a death struggle. With lowered heads thoy backed uwav a few vank defiant, implacable, and again collided with a force that seemed to split their B&Ulla. THE duel's terrible exdixo. "This terrible shock staggered the bull with tho chest wound und forced his eyeballs from their sockets. lie sud denly plunged forward to his knees on the brink of tho precipice nnd remained hi a quivering 6tupor, with his open mouth burrowing in the dust. Thoother, tottering und covered with blood, but still terrible in his weakness, charged heavily upon his kneeling and sonseles foe, struck him on the flank with tlw forco of a ponderous projectile, and hurled him headlong over tho precipice, Tho body executed a somersault in mid air, fell with a noisy crash through the treetops ujion tho rocks below, when it was subsequently preyed upon by vul tures. "The remaining bull Boomed to realize in a Btupid way tlio danger to which he himself was exposed, lie drew hack from the brink over which his hideous muzzlo had been momentarily thrust, and with entrails trailing on tlio ground staggered a littlo distance off, fell prune to tlie ground, rolled over on his Bide, shivered a moment, and tluti lay still in tho embrace of death. Tho battle lasted nearly an hour, and in point of sanguin ary details nnd tragic horror has no parallel within tho limits of my recolleo lion." Philadclpliiu Telegraph. Temperature of Living Rooms. There is a chango of lato years in the winter heat of American homes. With almost universal substitution of better forms of heaters for old time stoves, and bettor understanding of ordinary health law by the people, has come a cooling down of the sulioenting temperature that mndo our homes dry forcing houses and Bent our ieoplo out into wintry cold about as well fitted to face it as if they wore naked. Except in rooms where ciek are or ngod persons, mercury should never rise nlwve it) dogs., nor fall below 03 dogs. A narrow range truly, but within such strict limits lies the zone of health. Foreigners coming here in cold weather used to lind our houses insupportably hot, nnd more than ono visiting medical man has said to nio: "Now I see ono of the causes at work to produce American nervousness." Dr. Hutchinson in Amer ican Magazine. Concerulnu Onr Naturalization Law. "I have had a vote for a treat many years," said nn tin town barber tho other day, "and I did not discover it until was too late to register. Tho fact3 ought to bo made known. My father was naturalized citizen. Ho was born in Ger many. I was born thero also, though I have lived here a great many years. It hannened that I was under 18 vearsold when my father took out his naturali zation papers, and that gave me a right to vote, though I have never known it. It seems that when a father takes out hu nanorfl it nnt rmlr enroa Mm a vote, but entitles all of his sons under the age of 18 fit thnt. timn In iha tlntioa nnil rirlltS Of citizenship, even if they are born out of uus country. Tney must, nowever, in the United States before they are 1 years of age," New York Sun. For the best results there needs be the longest woitinor. The true harvest is tin longest in being reached. The failures come Cret, tho success last The unsat isfactory is cenerallv soonest seen. vur- rent Literature. A Mithologiral Pliantany. Bright Boy (gazing at the Venus of Milo) Mamma, was Venus just like that! Mamma Yes, I think she must hart been. Bright Boy And I sumiose Jiipit punished her in thut way for letting tb other gods hold her hands. Judge, Ilia Reason. Dolly You ack me to marry you D yon think I'm an idiot? De Garry WeiL I thought perhP you might refuse me. Harper's Bazar.