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-AND. ho atrn, Meg hive Hon t;oai nittti KM, had !tto coo-baps THE BEGGAR. KM Uet nights hi tool -VuMllwli 'ur-lolt. 1 uivrrad him the I-orJ In beni mr ulnu od earth! and tliej 5,j.rvljrWccoreatUe," wlnu. 0, Lord," lb beggar laid, Vurtbolf Uof prayer; JmU tJi'7 know of suck u wet .perlali unaware. (trlra to our wicked ouU, (itlieiu fur tile ry; U'"' the Lord God spake out of braves k.ttlb and angry pain: ) mro, fur whom my Son batb died, tit gun uth "red In win." -arUiur Byiaona in Woman's World. . it HIS REWARD. n, Chester, Lurrying along tlie upper It tlx . a be picked hlsway throuirh It mud of n unpaved crossing a sl;;lit Lira furious. Some elKlitonilne IW l,ll,ln,n nf tlin twwir lint u .M "j uttle fellows from the Queen Anne iLaot the neighborhood-stoning a man hoat among the rubbish of a new exca ISioo abandoned for the time by the work- .i l,n ummed to be Quite innrwiit. Tmt offense against thorn. So fur the lu, But even as lie looked one flung by u largest boy of the crowd struck the " pon the ,hoad and wounded it. The S-j onihed forth and the boys, frk-.lit- j gt last by what they hut done, dig zZd n nil directions and were out of Si before the doctor, even with his long ttjjea, bsd reached the spot. These Imps have hurt you," ho said, Mding over the man, who was trying to (inch the blood with the frugmont of an ja handkerchief. 'Ves," said the man. "It looks cowardly U here and stand It, I supirasc, but a Wow l clothes like mine would soon get linaelf arrested if he punished boys like ,tit u they deserved. It's a bad world for 0pty pockets." Toat'a true," said the doctor. "See here, ItlTsyi have some sticking plaster in my pocket. M fix the cut for you." And uliiig off his gloves he produced the little ait with Its piaster scissors auu sanuttiiy jsed the wound. ji appose you are out of employment?" leiaid when be bad finished. "Ism out of everything," said the man; t ork, money, health, friends, and luck ml food and shelter just now. I wonder Ibiren'tmadea bole in the water. Why men live when there Is nothing to live for one of the mysteries of this life." "We all have something to live for," said lit doctor, "though a hungry mun don't think 10. You are young and strong. Be temperate and you'll feel well again. Let ne help you out for today, and nftcr you've alea and slept come to me. I'll give you gome work rough work but it will be a (tirt-lf you want it, and come to me sober iwnorrow." "Thank yon," said the man, rising; "and God bless you. If I don't come sober I'll not come at all. But I think I'll come." He took the dollar that the doctor gave bim with his card, and bowed in a way that proved that he hail not always been in his present position. The doctor obeyed the Impulse of the moment, and with s smile offered the man his hnutl. lie saw that this ru no ordinary tramp. For that sort of creature there is no hope and no help. He bio vile that he scarcely deserves mercy, iml the doctor knew it well; but to this nan a friendly hand grasp was good medi one. It had its effect. A light came into the dull eyes, a smile moved the mouth. "I cannot express my obligations for your kindness," he suid, earnestly. So they parted. The doctor felt touched, and was rather pleased with himself, and a little further on, meeting a hoy he recog lizedasone of the poor man's assailants, betook him by the ear and gave him a lec ture, threatening to take hira to his father ud expose his conduct However, he did tot do it, nor did the boy fear that be vould. "I didn't throw the stone that cut the Mow," be said. "It was Tibbs." "How would Tibbs like to be arrested, ask him?" said the doctor. Then ho walked on and the incident faded into insignifi cance. After all, it was unlikely that the an would come to him. The doctor was a very popular man in the upper part of tho city, and bis day was teu nlled. lie was, besides, bent on two missions, both important ones. He was about to make an offer of his hand and heart to a lady of whose feelings he hod wy little doubt, and he intended to de posit in a certain bank a sum of money which he carried about his Derson. It was a large one the half yearly salary he hod waived from the managers of an orphan asylum to which he was physician. Such a sum would endanger a man's life jibe were known to have It ubout him as walked across those newly cut streets past blocks of yet untenanted houses. But then, who knew? And the doctor was "p and muscular. Need one ask whither his steps first took imf Naturally to tho feet of his lady love. 8b was young enough to look all the "eeter In the bright light of day, and her Pretty morning dress became her. She had Hpected the offer and accepted it without Jectation, and the young doctor mode all rte of charming speeches and was per Utted more than one kiss. At last, however, he was obliged to say "lieu, and as he ran down the steps ho said to himself that he was the happiest fellow live. Already out of fear of poverty, cn Ped to the only girl he ever loved, healthy, d with a clear conscience,what young pro fesional man was ever in better easef As he passed the spot where he had thatmorn-"s- een the boys stoning the unfortunate j! the picture arose once more before - What a contrast in their positions, thought to himself I Well, he had worked " his, and no doubt thut poor fellow had worked as hard in another way to bring Pon himself the fate that had befallen him. Kill it was pitiful. Parents who did their best by me, a JPPy home, more kindness than I deserve v been mine," he suid. "How do I wwhat the man's childhood wnsf I Pe he will come to me to-morrow. I am I helped him a little." iieWJUl vat Ka IIii. lit- know what threads of good or ill we "W into our lives by what seem our most "Portaut actions. from house to house the doctor went, fout mothers kept him on in talk. were those who felt that their well J" depended on telling the doctor all Jnout that "queer sensation" and that Tarried feeling," and banking hours were ""SI over when he emerged from theresi j? of the last patient upon his list, and, 7aeed, it was growing quit dark, and, M all healthy men, the doctor was grow ing hungry, and his dinner awaited him. He stepped forward briskly, but had only J6 few steps when an old woman ap hed him, wringing ber hands and wabing: 'You're Dr. Chester, aren't you, sir?" "Och, doctor, darlln, you'rs rMd immediate -it's my old man is taken bad down in our shanty by the rail r1 He fell upon the floor, he did, and "bmUss he's lyin'. I've ths money. r010! doctor, coma along; a minute may --MUie. It's near street. --"o. it near iireex. Th.- Js ., rv n'o,.n.i office b cIom by you," said the doctor. . -J did, bat he was away,".aaid the old . Uut It was not !. ... . . thinking .i. iV; I.. aocwr WM Naturally fnogh. fa. commemed inward". StllU ,,:r!dem,""U and wtaibSS, ,u " 11 wa.on W called for ImmZ - llO0, .na in moment mora h. berwe.?;.70"'""0"0 It was lonely walk across nnliifhtJ treeu and down aom. woSS rail, of the Hudson Hlver roai was n sight, but a light gleZed i ftr,mh. "n 0t ? dllapiauta shanty by th! 2! cud the wo,"an In that direction. She entered the door; he followed w lying npon tbe floor. The doctor knelt beshle htm. As hedid so some one from behind pinioned bis arms. The supposed patient sprung up and seized him about the waist, and in an Instant, strong though he was, he lay bound and helpless upon the floor. Four stout ruffians stood before bim. One rifled bis pockets while another crammed a handlterrl.tof hi. A - i . t mout h. Before bis eyes they examined his "aitu auu counteu me money in his pocket- "It's a good haul," one of the men said, come, we must lose no t im. v .m And thut fellow before to-morrow, still we uiikiiv ua wen net away." "But shoot bim before we m.n toll no tales," suid tbe man who had played the part of Invalid. "Throw him on the track." h t hl of the irroun. "The rnilmiul f,.lL-. .in help us keen our secret." The fourth Suid UOthlnir. hilt etnnntnr lifted the doctor by the ahouMurm. end thL oincrs louowetl his example. in vain uoctor Chester strove to break his bonds or to utter a nravcr for merr They dragged him toward the track and nung him across. Not contt-nt with this, they bound him by other cords to the milt and left him thus fettered to his fate; and tnus ine uappieai flay of bis life had ended. Full of youth and hone, with everr rea son for living, he must die, and such a hor rible deathl He strove to meet his fatelike man, but the thought of his betrothed wife was too much for him. He inanaced by degrees to thrust the hankerchief from bis mouth with his tonirue. but as he did so he felt the rails tremble beneath him tbe engine was approaching! It was far away yet; but what hope was there that he would be heard before It was npon hlmf Again he shouted again, still aeain as he saw the red glare from the head light of ine approaching engine shine out through tbe darkness! His case seemed hopeless, but he spent all his strength In one wild cry of: "Help! On the rails herel Tied to tbe rails! Help! help!" "Courage! Here we are!" shouted a voice near by. "Courage! courage!" Some ons knelt beside him, some one gasped: "Don't despair, I've got a knife with me." Ono of the cords was cut another he was freed from the rails and clasped in the arms of his preserver, rolled over into the little gully beside the track, safe out of barm s way, Just aa tbe express train flew by at run speed. And now there were others to help. Stout policemen with clubs and pistols who helped the first arrival to free the doctor from all his bonds, and by the light of their lanterns he looked into the face of his preserver, and saw the man to whom he had acted the good Samaritan that morning. "What does thlsmeanf"heasked. "How does it come that I owe my life to you?" "You owe it to your own kindness, doc tor," said the man. "An hour ago I found a lodging in a low tavern near this spot. I had crept into a bunk without removing my clothes, when four men came into the room. They fancied it empty, for early hours are not the fashion In that place, and talked freely, though in whispers. One of them hud some pangs of conscience about having left you tied ou the track, and spoke your name aloud, saying you were kind to the poor. Happily I am quick of hearing and jump at an ides, I crept out of my bunk behind their backs, jumped from a window which was close by and, only stop ping to put ou my shoes, I dashed down the track. I had no idea wulcn way 1 should go, but felt that the spot near the tunnel would be tbe most likely one. On the way I met a boy and bode him Dud a policeman and tell hira that murder bad been done. Happily I was in time. That is all I know about it. Thank Ood, who led me here." "Amenl" said the doctor. "My gratitude must be expressed In deeds, not In words, and there is one who must thank you also my promised wife." Meanwhile the police bad returned to the tavern, whither the doctor and bis friend followed them. They found the despera does drinking In tho upper room witheut suspicion that they had been discovered, while the old woman who had decoyed the doctor to the shanty sat at a table gloating ovor her share of the plunder. They were arrested before they bad an opportunity to make resistance, and the doctor was so un usually lucky as to get his own again after thieves had stolen it. As yet fortune favors him. He is married to the woman he loves, and by his aid and through his friendship the man who saved his lifo has become happy, respected and prosperous, and in their household be is as a brother. Mary Kyle Dallas in Fireside Companion. A Talloress' Bard Lot, One of three women who was visited, and who was supporting an invalid hus band, a little boy and a baby, was not more than 25 years old. Her home was one small room, about 12x14, on the ground floor of a queer, rambling old tenement house, whose only means of entrance was through an arched passageway which led back and opened into a small court yard, around which the buildings rose four stories high on every side. She sat stitching away on the piles of trousers, rocking the cradle with one foot while the little child was try ing to feed himself at the table from a loaf of rye bread and some molasses. The baby woke with a cry, and as she nursed the child from her famished breast she told the story of her working eighteen and twenty hours a day to keep her little family in food and pay her rent. There has never been any kind of organisation among tbe tailoresses, and they stand in mortal terror of doing anything that could imperil their place in theshops.-Cmcinnatl Enquirer. A regular industry Is being started In this country in the uianufiicture of gearing for electric railways out of raw hide. It Is preferred to metal, as it makes far less noise and wears better. The material is said to finish np in the working as well as metal The use of this material indicates that very severe strains are brought to bear npon cogs not capable, if of metal, of standingthe stress. Bow to Obtain Information. There is a family living at 110. and I want to know something about them." "Why don't you go there and make your inquiries P "That would be a Uttle Indehcato." "That's true. Well, then, go to the next door neighbor and you will find out all about them. "-Boston Courier. Aa ImpoMlble Animal. "I have an Idea that Bagsby Is some thing of a liar himself. n-hof make vou think thatr WpII he savi be has a trick dog " - - , . . . , n him tncu when tney y compajiy."-ew York Ledger. A HOME IN VENICE. AN ENGLISHMAN'S IDEAL ABODE IN THE CITY OF CANALS. 4 TeBetlas Palara, lit Treuures of Art and Personal lutereat A Vew of Ihs Maaj Ornaoiente, Picture. Uooks and Bits of Rare Brle-a-llrae. When some five and twenty years ago Sir Hunry Layard resolved to inakf for himself, and for the treasures of art which he had gathered from the fonr winds of heaven, a home in Venice, he found, fortunately enough, that the Ca' (or Casa) Capello was just at the veryihiti.' years, must have boon but the moment at his disposal. It had been the smaller part of what ho actually wroto, abode for several years of an English- l'a was always writing, and always man who had just died, and who hud lea- ing deposits' of his iiiunusorlpts in left Mr. Malcolm, then well known the varioiw lodgings whore It was his among the English residents and now'lmt;tto bestow himself. The irroator tnolr doyen, his executor. A friendship had long existed between Mr. Malcolm and Sir Heniy Luyard, born of similar ity of taste, which has ripened with many years of neighborhood and inter conrso. It was thus that tho LV Capello cams Into tlie hands of Sir Ilenry Layard, and from that day it bos been his home. Hither in the intervals of his ministerial duties, his missious and his visits to his English kinsfolk, he has returned with ever growing rest and affection. Here he has surrounded himself with a fine library, a noble collection of picture! and bronzos, marbles and mosaics, tap estries, ancient furniture and bric-a- brac, relics of the past, the spoils of a long and variod career. Here, too, in the year 18iil, he brought his wife, a daughter of tbe late Sir John Uucst It is barely possible to reach the Ca' Capello on foot. You may cross the Rialto and bear toward the left through and across a series of tortuous and intri cate ciilli, but the two handsome gon dolas, reposing on the broad bosom of the canal at the door of Ca' Capello, which has every right to be called tbe front, suggest to the callers the only rational method of entrance. It has been said that the house is not one of the largest; its aspect, however, is un doubtedly one of the most attractive in the most beautiful highway in the world. THE HOUSE. The two sides of the house, one in the Rio di San Polo, the principal, with the porch on the Grand canal, give scope for a display of color which elsewhere might suggest garishness, but which in Venice, par excellence the city of many colors, is natural and pleasing. As your gon dola reaches the brood flight of steps be hind the tall green pali, you cannot fail to notice that every window sill bears its burden of flowers after our English fashion, and that the portico is a veritable floral bower, with a conservatory over it, in which, beside the greenery, an im mense Venetian glass chandelier is a most striking object. It Is a mass of vine with depending black grapes, great creeping convolvuluses, canariunsis and white jessamin, all struggling for Ins apparently, with ao inconsiderable de gree of success, on the trellis work which supports them. As is common in Italian private resi dences, what we ordinarily describe at home as the ground floor is given np to the servants and the domestic ofiicos of the establishment A broad staircase on the left of the entrance, on eithor side of which, fixed in the wall, is a frag ment of sculpture from Nineveh, leads into a hall of noble proportions which divides the house itself into two une qual parte. Here some of the larger pieces of furniture, such as the cabi nets, are to be found; and here, too, a pair of admirable threo-quartor length portraits of Sir Henry and Lady Lay ard, painted in Madrid by Palmaroli, head of the Spanish academy at Itome, face each other. Anothor portrait of Sir Henry Layard challenges an even closer inspection that, namely, by Lud wig Passini, which was shown in the ex hibition of the Royal academy. Large reception rooms give out on either side of the hall. and. like it. all are floored v. . mntorin nrh tn ita great beauty adds the advantage of be ing absolutely uninflammable. TASTEFUL FURNISHINGS. The dining room and the drawing looms are filled, but not crowded, with beautiful works of art, including mas terpieces of such paiuters as Gentile Bellini, Bonafazio, Sebastian del Piombo and many other famous Italian masters. .Nor are the exquisite and delightful productions of the furnaces and work rooms of Murano forgotten. Of the modern Venetian glassblowing proc esses, Sir Henry fa most indisputably the founder, and some of the most per fect specimens of this beautiful art are, as it is fitting, to be seen in his house, as well as some beautiful inlay work, and the admirable woodwork by Biraghi, who executed the famous double stair case in walnut wood for Lord Wim borne, at Canford, under Sir Henry's directions. Sir Henry's own sanctum is on the upper floor of the Casa. Here are records and memorials of a more per sonal kind than were noticed in the lower reception room, and among them the Englishman does not fail to notice the framed certificate on Humi liated vellum, headed "Challis, Mayor," which set forth the bestowal of the honorary freedom of the city of Lon don npon Austen Henry Layard. Here, too, are some noble brouxe figures, portfolios, huge volumes bound in vel lum and gold, and a host of books nearly all, it may be remarked, of quite modern literature together wltn the latest periodicals. It is characteristic of Sir Henry Layard's wide and com prehensive intellect that, identified as he is in the popular imagination with the history of the remotest past or which we have any knowledge, there is no living man more completely what the slang of the day calls "np to date." London World. Where tbe 8nn It Hot. A nan down-east, a selectman of his town by the way, bought a pound of noil. hleh ha bad wrapped up in a piece of brown paper, and a bright new ... - 1 I. 1 , . . .1. tin pan, DOtll or WUICU u leu uu mo . seat of his wagon for a short time in the son. When he came out of tlie store again he found his bundle of nails in flames, the rays of the sun having set the paper afire. History does not re cord whether the nails were scorched or not Lewiston Journal la Great Demand. "I have no use for a man who lies," remarked an editor. "Well, I have," rejoined a publisher. It yon know a good liar send him to me. The Haggard school of novelists needs fxeab. blood." Epoch. A Volumlnont Wrlten T. 5 quantity of work produced dur ing his singular existence, from the time when Do Qtilncey first began, un usur'lylate, to write for publication, was very large. A collected by the autMr it Cllotl fourioou volumes. The collet ion was subsequently enlarged to sixteen, and tho contents of each volume have boon very considerably Increased. Hut this printed and re printed total, so fur as can be Judged Iron De Qulncey't own assertions, and fmi . the observations of thoso who were acquainted with him (nobody can bo Jd to have known him) during his par: or lie yuineey s writing was of a kind almost as easily written by so full a render and so logical a thinker as an ordinary newspaper articlo by an or dinary man, and except when ho was sleeping, wandering about or reading he was always writing. It Is of course tn:s that he spent a great deal of time, especially in his last years of nil, In re writing and refashioning previously executed work, and ilso that Illness and opium inado coasidornblo inroads on his leisure. But wo should imagine that if wo had all that ho actually wrote during these i ?arly forty years, forty or sixty printed volumes would more nearly express its amount than fourteen or sixteen. Macmillau's Mag azine. The Coluld Dollar. There are sold to be but 13S of the famous goloid dollars In existence. The flfjt one of theso ever coined is in the possession of Col. John A. Stephens, of Augusta, Ga., having formerly been the property of Alexander II. Stephens, ex-governor of Georgia and chairman of the committee on weights, measures c:id coins at the time these historic r 'eces were struck. T'le goloid dollar L about the size of a silver half dollar, but hardly as tliiek and much lighter. It has a bronze color, darker than gold, which is due to tho copper contained In its composition. On one sido are the words, "United States of America, 100 cents ;" on the rim and in tho center these words, tot ters and figures: "Goloid, uiotrio. 1, G. ; 18.1, 8.; 1.9, C.j Grains 14.25." On the other sido are the words, "E l'luribus Ununi, 1873," on the rim, and !n the center the head of a female, ,ith tho word "Liberty" across the Vrow. Tho figures indicate the ooinpo jon, which is tho invention of a man Miied Hubbell. Tho composite metals i its makeup v... Ill exactly $1 Li cash. Goloid is a composition of nine teen different metals, of which but one part s gold, sixteen and one-tenth silver and one and nino-tentlis copper. St. TjOtiis Republic Tlir Victim of Eiceulre Induetiy. Sonio men work because they love work and hate play. They do not shine in society; they have no conver sation ; the fair sex are not passing fair to their distorted vision; the white washed ceiling of their office and its shabby fitting are more attractive to them than landscapes or Italian skies, nnd they are under the agreeable thrall of no diverting hobbies. In heaven's name let such men work all through the day if they like it They accumulate Immense, fortunes, and even though they may be miserly in their lifetime, when they die some ono benefits by their millions. A man of this kind on an enforced holiday is a very compassionable object. I remember one such who, while drivings tlirough some of tlie most en- 1 i I . trancuig winery ui our uu.uuu summer u;:-, tuu mm iuud nullum Journal of tlie money market all the time. His doctor had told him he would kill himself if he did not take a change. IIo obeyed the lotter of the injunction, but not the spirit. And he did really die a little wliile after of paralysis of the brain, or something of the kind, duo to excessive industry. Ail tlie Year Round. Be Bent Dad. Whilo a Jersey City blacksmith was turning off horse shoes the other day amansuod In the door and watched him for a while, and then slowly ad vanced, stooped down and carefully picked t-i an old shoe which had been kicked n ide weeks before. He held it ready to drop on the instant, but after a minute grinned all over his face and chuckled : "She ain't hot" "Who said it wasT asked the smith. "But that's where I've got dad. He picked up one yesterday, and we heard him holler seven miles. Dad says my skull is too thick, but I ain't holloring any to speak of, am IF' New York Sun. The Difference. "I remember when we were Jn school together so many years ago you had a warm friend who was always praising your good qualities. What's become of him?" "Oh, we're friends still, but I never bear of his putting himself out to glorify me." "Then you had an enemy who was forever running you down. What's become of himl" "Oh, he's at it yet "Chicago Times. No Gun for Him. The Italian who comes to America Joes not adopt any new idea in the matter of weapons, but clings perti naciously to his stiletto. In thweity of Philadelphia within thsroe years this weapon has been used in over sixty in stances, and wherever.it has been used ! 1 1 : Una 1..A.,a wn aguiuai a revolver it nam unifi Detroit Free Press. His On Divinity. Mr. Humble To err is human, to forgive is divine. Mr. Haughtier Did you say "to forgive is divine? Former I did. Latter Ahem I Then 1 suppose I must forgive you. Chicago Times. Son The boas told me todrry that be didn't know what he woukLdoirltbout me. Father That was nioa. Wbmt didyoti ton Asked to a aalstXpook. ' PROGRESS IN ART, The Evolution or the Artlnlle 8nee la tbe Here ItrllGlon'e Part. Tlie history of the development of the artistic sense in the rueo isquite as surprising as that of tho evolution of any other faculty or power, or of any greut movement thut may have had centuries for its culminitEion. The student of art, coiiunencing-witli prim itive forms as discovered in the re mains of Oriental cities, mid passing through the cultured period! of Grooce to the domiimncy of medxvul im agery and on to tho preseutlimo, will bo struck with tho atlvuiiUigpsof each succeeding period, and the complete triumph of taste iinour latest civiliza tions. Primitive art .in Egypt, Assyria aad Phcenicia, with its grotesque images and iucongru(iH ideas of Iteauty, served to exciteetho fears of theteoplo, developing all the superstition of which they wereicapablo, und tlsut be came the source. not of moral educa tion but of dognulttion nnd oppression of the intellectual liio. Religion wasau tho mother of su perstitious art, for the latter really preceded tho firmer, ami becaiiio the mother of the Mqcirt!itious jiymbols-of religion. In tltis way tho trstlieticul principle, untnunod and without sub jective strejigfli, run to objective forms that discredited it, niftl really perverted tho religious princip.V) itself. With tho development of a ivfined a'stheties among the Greeks reiNgion had another clumoo of expressing it self, but whilo primitive art tinctured religion with 8tiorstitioii, Grecian ttft corrupted it, and in time extinguished its open manifestation. As neither tho ono nor tlie other In any way as sisted in tho purification of religion or the assertion of its teachings, Christi anity finally appropriated it, and has both borrowed from it its entertaining power and conferred upon it its ap proval and benediction. At the present titno art stands alone; it is not the handmaid of religion, nor is it related to religion any moro (Sinn it is to civilization. In this isofcited condition it may be better vie wed .and estimated than when vitally related to a particular religion or a particular form of civilization. It is now in bon dngo to nothing, but is seek big a chan nel of its own, a form and an expres sion that must distinguish it from all associated developments of the art life in man. Freo from tho direction of religion it is not particularly directing or aiding religion, but is developing itself in spontaneous forms according to its constitutional vigor, and with rcfurciico to no ends but art itself, ex cept the great cud of all conserving forces the education of the race. Art is not for religion, but for itself, and to be judged by what it is in it self, unrelated to other things. Thus its perfection, or imperfection, will be determined, not by its relation to re ligion, but by its own potencies and the ends it serves in human society. It has outgrown prim it ism, cultured paganism and Roman Catholic indi vidualism; and, being freo, like com merce, philosophy and sociul statis tics, it should powerfully aid the race in culture, rcfinomontand progression. Methodist Review. The Tactics of Love. Miss Hurryup Ah I Oeorge, you cannot tell whut troubles a girl hoi who is receiving the attentions of a gentleman. Mr. Holdoff-Troubles, Curriet Of what nature, prayf Miss II. Well, ono'a little brothers are always making fun of one, and one's relatives are always saying, "When is it to como oil" as if mar riage was a prize fight There's the inquisiti veness of oue's parents. They want to know everything. There's pa, uow; ho is constantly asking such thingsas: "Currio, what are Mr. Hold off's intentions? What does ho call upon you so regularly for, and stay so lata when ho docs cull?" And he sometimes looks so mad when ho asks these questions that I actually tremble. Mr. II. And what answer do you make to his questions, Currio, dearest? Miss II. I can't make any answer at all, for you see you haven't said anything to me, and and of course, I-I Then Mr. Iloldoff whispered some thing in Carrie's ear, and the next time her father questions her she will bo ready with a satisfactory reply. Boston Courier. Tom Corwlu's Dlieppolntment. There is something pathetic in the failure of the wits of political lifo. Thomas Corwin never ceased to at tribute to Ids reputation of being funny his Inability to compass the highest honors. He felt that his abilities and services entitled him to any honor with in the gift of the people. He rose to be secretary of the treasury In Fillmore's cabinet but that did not satisfy hlin. He died feeling that if he had not been so funny, if he had not Indulged In his exquisite ridicule of the Michigan militia general who attacked Gen. Harrison, he might liave been president Corwin was humeasurubly greater than his rep utation, and his fun almost always helped out his serious argument Har per's Weekly. An Electric yele. There has been considerable discus sion of late on Uw probable usefulness of an electric tricyclo, and it is stated that the Invention of such a macldne is now an established fact This, accord ing to report, has been affected by the use of a form of storage battery much lighter than the kind hitherto used. Several of these placed in a light, port able box are sufficient to drive the ma chine with an ordinary load about a hundred miles at the rate of eight miles on hour. The elements of the "active material" are supposed to be carried by the rider, and the batteries can be re charged whenever water is available. Is'ew York Commercial Advertiser. The Carthagenians were the first to introduce a stamped leather currency. Leather coins with a silver nail driven through the center were issued is France by King John the Good In 1301 How Aaelent Dree Were Secured. Two kinds of boring wa snails sup plied in ancient times the most famous of all dye, known as Tyrian purple, which was considered too splendid to be worn by any but kings and nobles. One pound of wool dyed with It was worth $175. the process by which It was ex tracted being very tedious and six pounds of dye liquor being required for Staining a pound of wool. The liquor was procured by placing the very small whelks In a mortar and crushing thorn. To this the animals extracted from the larger sholls were added, as well as cer tain proportions of urine and water in which thesuails had been allowed to putrefy. In tbe mixture thus com pounded the cloth or wool to be dyed was soaked, being afterward exposed to light Chemists say that by this proc ess there was effected a transformation of uric acid into purpurate of ammonia, termed for short "uinrexide," because one of the two species of snails used was the muni. The othor species was what is known as the purpura. The tnurex aud purpura were mixed uthe process in the proportion of two to one. Fabrics thus dyed had a very surprising and beautiful effect of color, presenting metallic green reflections from one point of view and in others showing brown aud purple tints. Chem ists for some time imagined that the Iridescence of the feathers of humming hinU unl neiiL'ocks wai caused bv a sub stance of the nature of murexido, but it isNcnown now that these brilliant hues are occasioned by a structure of the feathers which breaks up the light Uurexide is now obtained from guano s well as from mollusks. Interview in Washington Star German Dleclpllne. Thw Empress Victoria, wifo of the Idle EkiipcRpr Frederick of Germany, lias alWnys been a careful nnd keen vml rlkfinlinariun in domestic life. She noiroefl the slightest variation in tlie dress of a housemaid as quickly ai site used to detect a fault in her chil dren, and punishes ono as inexorably us the othe Prince Honry, the IVrotlicr of the present emperor, had, yAm?n a snmll boy, tlie greatest objec tion to his daily bath, aud the nursery k ,,,,.rnrv nunrninir the scene of a vigorous- and tearful struggle on his partagaiiist ".wooing. Li mttlifir ttuYd in vain to persuado him tlmt baths were inevitable, and that Ae nmst submit to them ; but she finally gave the nurse orders one mornii V to lot' him have his own way. Prince Alenry, confident that he hud miiniul a iwmaa-laibh victory, was ex ultant, and whvu ne set out for his morning wxilk took no pains ui cou oeal hia triumph. JIo indulged iu .,....i,.tr tnnniSnir remarks to his attend ants; hut on jKturnurff Iwme he was -ni,l in . ic tlmt (Die sentinel at ihegate did ncK presen t arms as he On reaching the palace ae louud a second scntitiel enuuliy mdm, m triinwiiini o a iirnl 1 IIS sVti of his .m 111 TV allg wa J , punctilious military race whix wtt due to his rank, the little iavr walked un to the man au asked, severely: "Do ,you know -rV10 lam?" "Yes, Hoheit," said tlie sen tinel, standing motionless. "Who am II" "Prim Hudnrich." "Why don't you salute, then?" "Because we do not present arms to an unwashed prince," replied the sentinel, who had received his orders from the prince's mother. Tim littlo fellow said not a word, but walked on, Jjravely wiuking back the two big tours' which tuieu ins eyes. Next morning, however, he took his bath with perftxit docility, and was never known to complain ot it again. San Francisco Argonaut Great Sli Ingle Float Flealnf. Joseph Murphy, tlie Irish comedian, is an enthusiastic ongkjr, and novcr misses an opportunity to go oiua lull ing trip. ' One da v he went out on a fl.4'iiniT ex cursion with a friend wlio was fuhl of bright ideas in the angling Jine As the two paused at an inviting-spot ul prepared to cast, one of ittijrpby 'l friend's bright idea struck lnm. Pick ing up one of a pile of sltingles lyinf on the bank he tied a line around it, put on a hook, which lie baited with .a live frog, and threw it into the water. The shingle floated on the surface of tbe water. "Now, Joe," -said Murphy's friend, 4,if a big fish bites lie wEll try to go to the bottom after he finds himself hooked, and the sltingles fufi broad side will offer such resistance that he will be held where he is. We can set number of these lines and then go further along and fish for perch. ,When we comeback we will probably Und a big catch." This Btrnck the comedian as a great idea, and tliey sot out eighteen of these shingio lines be fore tbey left the spot. Tlsen they went along and had greatlucic catch ing perch. "But whatdoyou.suppose we found when we returned to our traps?" Murphy asks. We found our eighteen frogs calmly amnsing tliem selves on eighteen shingles. " Clucngc Herald.' Balarlee of London Journalist. Here Blowitz, the Paris correspon dent of The London Times his salary is $50, 000 a year I), is the largest sal aried employe connected with journal ism in Europe. Several Loisdon critics are well paid notably Clement Scott, of The Daily Telegraph, who is sup posed to receive $10,000 a year. An drew Lang must draw a large salary as an editorial writer fur The Daily News, and, aside from his occasional journalistic work, he is a fertile book maker, and he lectures regularly be fore a number of educational institu tions. But the large majority of Lon don journalists are small salaried men ; the average reporter gets $13 a week, and one seldom commands more than $251 mean the local equivalent there for. -When Mr. Bennett started the London edition of Tbe New York Her ald he paid traveling expeases and $30 , a week to the American reporters he imported. But already he Isas sent most of the importations back home. Eugene Field in Chicago News, Higher la Patent Leather. "YoakaeptSshoesr "Yea." "la patent leatherf" "Yea; but we charge 6 for our' IS p enta." Harper's Baaar. ... HISTORY OP A RIN9. toeaanre nf a Jewel Owned by the Dnke ol Wellington's Brother' Hrlde. A gentleman well known in butti gH8 circle as a bold Hpeculutor ia one of the regular cuHtomers of well known money lender in this city, ami hut annul pledge is a ring, which the proprietor offered to show to the reporter. Tho manager took the newspaper man to tbe outer room and, opening I muminoth wife, pulled out drawer after drawer full of jewelry, watches, khuiDH, earrings and the thouxand ind one varieties of tbe jeweler's art, each with a tug attached and a number eorreHponding with the num ber opposite the name of tho owner in the big book kept for that pur-pone. After nolcvting a littlo box the man agor roKumcd bis sent and tuiid : "This nng has a history and a ro mantic oue. It has been pledged numberless times, and the owner would not noil it for any price on ac count of its history; which he ban re Intcd to mo minutely sevend times, nnd which I know to bo authentic in every particular. 1 can give nninea, except in Inter generations, just as ho has told mo. "(Jharlea Carroll, of Cnrrollton. one of the signers of tho Declaration of Indeiiendoui-o, nnd two beuutirui daughters, who went to England in 1791. Ouo married tho uuKoor useus and the other Richard WelleHlcy, afterward the Dukoof Wellington. At tho marriage or tho intter, wnicu took place tn the Castle of Dublin, the bndo roceivoil tuia ring rrom bit Arthur Wolietdey. You will see the two ngurea painted by Nomar, a celebrated min iature painter or tnoi tiute, are oenu tiful in design and execution, and the manner of the setting of the pearls and rubies to tho eye of the connois seur prove it to be genuine without doubt This ring was won at Brus sels the night before the battle of Waterloo at the party described in the well known poem of Byron, be-giuning- Tbere was a eound or revelry or mguu "To make a long story short, the rinor descended, cenerally by will. through different members of the CRrroll family until it came into tne present owuer's hands by gift from Letitia, the last of the Can-oils, now mother superior of a convent in Bal timore. "Think of the bright eyes which have gnzed upon this beautiful ring. "All the people living at the time this ring was given to the beau tiful bride in Dublin eautle are no more. All the great armies of Wel lington and all these mighty host which followed the war drums of his foe, the groat Napoleon, huve gone to the great beyoud, while the bau ble, just as bright, the colors of the paintings just as clear as ever, now rejioHOB in the safe of a Boston money leuder. From the Duke of Welling ton to a pawushop does this not furnish food for thought?"-Boston Uerald. A Lightning Arreter Wanted. $g vera thunder storms have done no little damage to electrical plants throughout the country, and forcibly call attention to tho need of a light ning arrestfcT that will arrest lightning, at least to th extent of protecting dyn amos. It Is worth noticing that there Isawido diftVrt.'nee betwocn the com paratively in'dd action of lightning on are machines and fts deadly attacks on Incandescent dynamos. In tlie first case the field magnets and the arma ture, with Its immense number of windings, serve as a pair of Impedance coils of Imposing dimensions, with the usual result of limiting the damage to a more or less erious are across the commutator. In case of the Incandescent machine, however, tlie Held magnets serve only to force an Incomtngdischarge to break fhrough the armature, which, with its few windings, offers very little effective ..Uiinm. The resnlt is a short cir cuit cither through the care or between ,oils, nd in either case tlie. armature is Immeately destroyed. The actual In jury done by tlie lightning is gonerally slight It is enough if It merely punc tures the Insulation, whon thesubse t Mnm'it coiiiD.utes tha work of destruction. Te protect this class of dynamos, then, It Is necessary to head off the- lightning very completely and to take elaborate precautions a gainst dan gefous short circuits. Tlie hi gh tension power dynamos are espe cially thin sto'nmvl, and create no little demand for some protective device that shall prove effectual. Electrical World. ' Two Kfa4 of Itoarage. in,someof tbeejverydaytoccurrences of life women exhibit .much more moral courage tharn men. VVo can see that on the "L" cars Jf yotroeeyour eyes. When a man retains his seat while a woman endeavors to mainbtia her balance by banging to a strap In front of him, he generally makes a pretense of not seeing ber. If be has a paper with him be will appear to be absorbed In its perusal If be cannot avail himself of that conven ient screen, he will pretend to be en gaged in snob deep meditation as to be oblivious to all that is going on around bim. La one way or another he will be tray tbe fact that his conscience is mak ing a coward of him and that be is try ing to cheat it It is very different with the average woman. Who that travels much In the -W cars hasn't seen her often drop ber child Into a seat that has just been va cated, while women in various stages of weariness are standing up all around her? She has paid no fare for the child; she could very well continue to hold it in ber lap; she knows that she is making some woman stand who would other wise get a seat But is she abashed? Does she act as if she were ashamed of herself? Does she seek to avoid the glances that are bestowed upon ber by hiding ber face beniod a newspaper? Not a bit of it She doesn't let ber con science make a coward of her. She looks tbe people about ber square in the eyes withoo flinching. She says, or rather seems to say. "Well, I know that yon don't liks it; bat what are yon go ing to do about it?" If this isnt moral courage what would yon call it? New York Heralo.