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5000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 y000OOOOOOOOCKXOOOOOOOOCOOCX)CXOOOOO 1 T t- K sat togctlier III me f A 1n at Khephcarda Y V C'nlro lay beneatl d tin-Cairo filthy, multl-t k sat together III the veran Hotel. nth aud nultl-colored. .Morons, but always piriur- !, guddculy au Arab Ny came TnJ Hi corner, and with a salaam , .wocst. bunded Mine mall to Tbcu lie squatted down fc.nhaw. .1.4 TlTlllKln IKIiiniB, Willi 1MB lili ui i.. ...i.i. .i- ......... k ryes fixed on my companion's , wnltins f"r further orders, y'mir !"'. Captain?" I Bskcd. T.n,"' replied Grlmshaw, "but a jrood I more than that. I should le burled smul.-iu now If It were not for iiblni yonder." Tell me nlxmt It, please," 1 asked, fcir eagerly; for tills small Arab In jl(r, white tunic, and brilliant tur- interested nie mightily, jrlmsliaw nettled himself bark In the Ignlow chair and began: You know, of course." he said, "that fin In Khartoum with (tordnn. I Snot regularly belong to the Oener forces, but I had volunteered as of lil aides-de-camp. Well, we fe shut up In that dentb trap City of ierioiiii). surrounded on every sldo the forpos of the Mahdl myriads of uit tea I Si udnneso Arabs following It high priest of bloodshed. We En sh were but a mere handful of men; i auxlllnr- forces were wretchedly sll. Our only hope was aid from ypt: and, as the whole world knows, tt never enme. I'oor Gordon was ai red to fall a victim to the Mahdl's ord. and most of the garrison were In. With the exception of Statin f, who became a Mussulman, I think ros the only European who got out Die doomed city with his life. That jil so wns due to Ibrahim." Jere the Arab boy hearing bis name fXioued-looked up and smiled, rwitig a row of teeth exceptionally m and white. A few days after we entered Khar an." continued Grlmshaw. "I was Ruling th? towu under Or n. Gordon's a?r. when we came aprons a groat iMe of boys, hallooing and shouting $ deafoul.ig rate. I sent an Egyp I sold'cr to discover th onuse, and reported that the young 'fuzzy-wuz-if lit Is so that Private Atkins of her Jesty's troops denominates the Rou jese) were 'hnvlng fun" with one of ir number. I was then, as now, In Sely interested In native manners customs. Halting my men, I en ed the Imlstorous cordon of lioys to ermine the reason of their tumult. The little rascals were teasing one their number. Tensing,' Indeed, In I case, Is too mild a word. They re hcntlug and stoning the lnd, who bruised and half-blinded In the gnt .' li s turlmn wns off. and his al Sy scant clothing had been torn to eds. I sprang Into the middle of the b and demanded the cause of such ifnl treatment. At tirst they affect . not to understand my Arabic, and tit on boating their victim, but when I d soundly cuffed one or two and ltnoiied my Interpreter to my aid, 1 icceedod In lunklng them answer. lie Is the renegade's son,' said a i leader 'Hassan, the renegade's ! Stone him, In the name of the " flien I understood. The poor boy's f icr Imd taken service with Gordou, ring his offspring to suffer all the titles which the Khartoum chll n, eireed on by their elders, were 9 to Inflict upon him. I lost no time Calling up a few men and sending t pnek of youthful fanatics to the !t nbout. They went awny, vowing 9 vcnger.nce on the 'renegade's it,' a ud 1 raised my protege from the tt lie had fainted from pain and a. of blood, but one of our surgpons '0 brought him to. When he opened i cyts and saw me he smiled like a le coffee-colored angel and wanted 're and then to give me his best anin. Of course I ninde him He down in, but lie blurted out his gratitude i- preservation so vigorously that he tie iienr fainting again. ' Next day Ills father, Hassan, one of rdiiu'g servants, came to see him. two had a long talk, Mid tlnally ssnn announced tint for his son's ho hud decided to have the Gen J and go back to his cobbler's stall the bnznnr. Ibrahim for the lnd m I had helped to rescue wus the 'Be ono now sitting before you n recovered, thanks to his native, I'll constitution. He left my hut. ulutely refusing to touch any of I money which I offered him. 'Protector of tho poor, he said In i quaint, grandiloquent Enstern way, p hnve saved your servant's life. I not the mouse once repay the lion it had been his benefactor? I.o! Mn the mouse, effendl; and you are lion. Perhaps some day I niny re t you. Snlaam, friend!' Then he eked out of my hut, and I saw him 1 for many dnys. 4 II. 'Tine evening, whilehurrylngthmngh bn.aaron my way to Gen. Gordon's rters, a boy sprang out of a cob 's stall and handed tne a tiny bun--slipping away Into the darkness f"re 1 had time to do more than reo Blze him as Ibrahim, son of Hassan. Carried the bundle to the General, together we nndld Its fastenings. ve you ever deciphered an Orleutal ect letter? I mean a letter which t written upon paper, but of which sense Is conveyed by objects flow and the like. The bundle handed by Ibrahim wns Just suph a commu- eatlon. It contained a queer collec- of articles. They were: A piece broken knife blade, a scrap of green Kb, two nowers (marigolds. I think) !th only the heads remaining, a brick om the walls, and, lastly, an Iron af lr, which I at once recognized as the int of one of those sticks with wblcb 8iels are urged onward. "Gen. Gordon lost no time In unrav "8 the mystery of this missive. The fn cloth,' he said, 'means the Mahdl. his sacred flag la green. Ths f blade stands for a sword, and tfi "-iuud fiowsr dhu tbJtt car iiesos are going to tie rut off. The brick, 1 take It, hlnia of treachery In side the wsIIm. The enn,e. spike al vlses you to tly from Khartoum Imme diately. Where y01) ttiisV "When I told hlin the source of my Information he wns Inclined to pooli. kw)(i Ibrahim's letter. 'It Is a boy's fear ami fancy,' he said. 'We shnll lie re lieved In a few weeks.' "Hut the Mahdl's men formed an Impenetrable circle amund the town a circle that grew narrower and nar rower. Iny after day we scanned tho desert horizon for some sign of the ex pected rellpf. but without avail. Hay after c ay the Impression grew stronger upon each aud all of us that we were doomed. "1 Hiring an early morning wnlk Ibra him accost cd me as suddenly as he had done before. 'Fly. effendl.' he whlser ed. The city Is tict rayed. My father and other Mussulmans have derided to let the Mnhdl wlthlu the gates. Dis guise yourself and tly before It Is too later "I shook tny head, for duty kept me In Khartoum; and Ibrahim retreated with tears In those big, honest eyes of his. III. 'The very next ulght his warning was fulfilled. It would be Idle, my friend, to tell you over agnlu all the horrors of the capture, or rather 1k trayal, of Khartoum. The Mahdi'a sol diers were like fiends Incarnate. Spent with fatigue aud slender fare we could not stand before them. Gordon, poor fellow, was slain, and a remnant of us was driven, fighting for life, from hut to hut across the city. I-'innlly, with empty revolver and broken sword, I found myself u the stairway of a rude minaret, waiting for the death which I felt would be Inevitable. It Is all very well to meet death boldly on the field of battle, with comrades and friends around one, but to sit down In a dark stairway and count the minutes until Its coming might mnke the bravest man In the world feel uncomfortable. All around I heard the hideous sounds of slaughter aud watched through a tiny loop-hole In the wnll the red finmea shooting across the sky (for It was mid night, aud a starless midnight to hoot). A sick feeling stole over me. To re main cooped up thus seemed Intolera ble. I bad Just resolved to rush Into the thick of the Soudanese ami sell my life as dearly as possible when a foot fall on the stairs lielow arrested me. "It was the sound of a naked foot, and as I peered, every sense on the alert, Into the half-light by the minaret doorway, I vaguely distinguished a dark form aud two shining eyes. Was It one of the Ma lid Is in search of hu man prey? I gripped my broken sword tighter and prepared for action. " 'Effendl!' whlspen-d a voice, 'Is It you, protector of the poor?" "The voice was that oi Ibrahim, son of Hassan. My heart gnv a leap for gladness and I answered him that It wns. Indeed, myself. " 'It Is good,' he exclaimed. 'My lord, I have come to save you. Ilnsten down and don these garments which I have brought you. They belong to the old blind priest who lodged with my father. Ho died Inst night, but uobody knows of It yet. You cnu pass as the old priest and escape. Mnke haste, sn lilli, make hnste!' "I saw the chnnce and solaod It. Re fore you could hnve repeated the pro verbial 'Jack Itoblnson' many times I had pulled those baggy Mohammedan clothes over my soiled and bloodstained uniform. A turban took the place of my khnkl helmet, and arohnd my fm-e I drnped, the white hood which the Soudanese Arabs wear. Then, In-fore I could protest, Ibrahim coolly seized a hnndful of mud aud liberally daubed my fnce. " The sahib Is too white,' he explain ed. The olo blind priest wns always black and dirty so kick off your boots, sahib, and let me daub your foot.' Off went my boots; and In a minute or two my legs from the knee down were ns brown (and as dlrtyi as they well might be. "'You are all right, now, effendl,' said Ibrahim, 'let us make for the Cairo gate.' "With all my heart I thanked the boy; but he would listen to no thnnks. 'You saved my life; I'll save yours,' he snld. iteiuember, effendl. the mouse aud the Hon. Let us husteii to the gate.' " 'But you are not coming ,' I be gan; wheu tny protest was Interrupted by a troop of black Mahdlsts surging Into the little bystreet where we stood. Never shall I forget the sight they pre sented. In the false light of the burning pity, with their huge piles of hair, their ferocious faces and their spears ami sdiiieters a-drlp with bliss!. I had given myself over for lost, when Ibra him, gripping my hand, led me onward. calling In sl-.ig-song t s: "Room for the blind priest. Room for Anied. son of All. the soothsayer. The light of Allah Is upon the blind priest.' "Taking the hint 1 plucked up pour sge enough to shout the war-cry of the Mahdl. Tne 'fuiity-wuzzles,' entirely deceived. Joined In my cry. 'Bide your time, holy father.' snld one of them; 'we'll give you plenty of Christian bead later on.' . . . Then tbey left ns whooplng like demons down the street, but Ibrahim plucked at my sleeve aud mechanically I followed him. Many times we met parties of the Mahdlsls, but In the darkness our ruse succeeded lieautlfully, and we reached Cairo gate In safety. "Around the gate, despite the con fusion, a strong guard had been posted. In the open space without many scores of cameli were srrawllng. A camel for the Mahdl's messen ger!' cried Ibrahim In his shrill voice. 'Ho, brothers! A camel for tin blind soothsayer, Amed. son of All, who bears the Mahdl's defiance across the desert.' "A doxen dusky warriors surrounded os, and as many awkward camels were nrodded to their feet One or mese un gslnly beasts was made to kneel walls iDnhlss mads a grt show of bslplng the supposed blind priest to a seat noon his hack. "Just then a tsll fiiMy-wnMj-rfear. ly au officer-rushed fin-ward. 'Who Is thlsr he deiimndi-i!. 'Where does this limn go? The orders sre that no man shall lenve the gut..a -f,ire daybreak.' "My heart wink, but fortunately for me iiaiurui superstition of the Arab came to our aid. Have a carer cried one of the iioI.II..n -li u . 1.11...1 - im m I'lltlli 'IITB -a HiKitiiHiiyiT. He mny cume you.' The oillcer stepped bark Involuntar ily, eying me with fear. 'Give us your,' blessing, holy father,' cried a doreu on-i lookers. "Here wns a new predicament. I could not remember enough Arabic at the moment to give the desired blessing; but a w hisper from Ibrahim recalled to tny mind a simple form of words; which, ekPd out by discreet tnumbllng, 011 my part and the loud resKinses of the boy, suited the Arabs well cuough. They prostrated themselves the offi cer with the rest-amld a great cry of 'Allah Ackbar.' Then Ibrahim smote our camel soundly, 11 ml awny we went, through the outMsts. speeding fast from the gory City of Khurtouiu. IV. 'The perils and adventures of the journey were too numerous to be told st one sitting, but It wns nearly a month after that awful night that our camel limped Into Cairo, carrying 011 h's buck two emm-lntod fugitives who had once Is-en an oillcer of the line and an Arab boy. "Ibrahim has lwn all around the world with me since, and will probably continue to be my comrade until one of us twain departs this life forever, eh, Ibrahim, old friend V The Arab lad siullcc. slid spread out his hands. "My fate Is thine, cffeudl." he said, "yon saved my life." "On thnt score, Ibrahim," answered Capt. Grlmshnw, "I think we are quits. Itememlier Khartoum." Atlunta Cou stltutir n. THE POLO BROTHERS. Ther Wandered lota tha Unknown La mil of (athijr. Many hundred years ago, In the year let us say, ln-fore Columbus dis covered America, or the art of printing had been Invented, a strange thing hup- pened In Venice, Italy. Three men, dressed In outlandish garb, partly Eu ropean aud partly Asiatic, apcarcd In the streets of that city, making their way to the gntes of a lofty and hand some bouse which was tlicu occupied by members of the ancient family of Polo. Tho three strangers, whose speech had a foreign accent, claimed admittance to the mansion, saying thnt they were Maffeo and Nloolo Tolo. brothers, and Marco, son of Nloolo, all of whom had been absent In the wild aud barbarous countries of the far Enst for more thnn twenty-four years, and had long s'nee been given up for lost. In those days nobody In Europe, knew much atKHit the regions In which the three Polos had traveled; and what lit tle they did know was from vague aud few reports. Two friars. Piano Car plnl ami William Hubruquls, It Is true, had reached the borders of Cathay, or Northern China, and had brought Imck accounts of the wonders of that mys terious land, of which they hnd heard from the subjects of the Great Khan, who relgie'd over a vast empire. Hut nobody among the learned and most traveled people of Europe knew exactly what manner of people lived, or what countries lay, beyond that western lsmndnry of Cathay. None knew aught of the Inhabitants (or If there were In habitants! of the regions that we now know ns India, Sumatra, Jnpan, Corea, and the eastern consts of Asia and Af rica. It was supposed that the farth est extreme, or eastern edge, of Cuthay ran off Into a region of continual dark ness, a iHig or marsh where nil manner of strnnge beasts, hobgoblins, and mon sters roamed and howled. And It was not surprising that when the three Po los, for these were they, came back from thnt desperately savnge country and cl.ilined their own, they wen; Inughed to scorn. It seemed reasona ble to Ixdlove that the three, bavin !een gone so ninny years, had wander ed off Into the Sea of Darkness and hnd perished miserably or had Is-en de stroyed by iho wild creatures of that terrible region. How the three Polos so fnr convinc ed their relations, who were In isisses- slon of tli- Polo mansion In Venice, thnt they were willing to let In the new comers, wo 110 not Know; nut jonu Baptist Itninnslo, who has written an entertaining history of the Polo fam ily, sets forth what was done by the three Polos to prove that they were what they claimed to lie, after they had taken possession of their house. They explained thnt they had been In the service of the Grent Minn, or km peror, of the Mongol Empire, and thnt they hnd ainnssed wealth while In tho n-giou variously known as Cathay, China, Mongolia, and the Far Eust St Nicholas. A Chinaman Sera a Plsno, A Clilnaiiiau, lately returned from a trip to Europe, treated his couiitrym -n to the following description of the iilnno: "The Europeans keep a four legged 1 urprlslng as It may seem, the scarlet! !eiist. which they can innkeslng at will. ; ri,Pn followed the dnrk grfly, while the A man, or more frequently a womnn. anrt Mne and the green remained vlsl or even a feeble girl, sits down In front i,iw ing after all ths others had dls nf the animal and steps on Its tall, it annpared. Experiments In firing at ille sntne time striking ns wnno teem with his or her fingers, when tho crea ture begins to sing. The singing, though much louder than thnt of a bird. In pleasant to listen to. The Is-nst does not hlte, nor does It move, though It la not tied up." Oolit King In a Hturneon's Noae. Tbaddeus Swizzle, an Enstern Shore nnhprman, captured in his net on Thursday night Inst a sturgeon with a gold ring In Its nose. The tlsh weighs about 00 pounds and the ring, which Is fully IS pennyweights, hns evidently i - in iha rranee restins Diace lor the strange resting place tor several years, as the flesh was grown poet and the Fatherland many dlstln around It Mr. Swizzle removed the gutshed statesmen. The Baron, who rln with his Jackknlfe and let tht Uvea on a neighboring estate, bad rid stnrseon go. . den to the auction place quite acciden- English Tostsl Orders. More than ,)," poatsl orders are now Issued snnually In England, and the amount tbtu sn through the uost exceed iWW). Lawyer-Do you thluk that you are capable of filling the p.sltlon, young man? Boy-Capable! Why. my Uat boss said I knew mors than b did. That is way I had to UaTs.-VanlV- BBS U I Irf ' ,Vlo e.0V-.'4 AtrenBthenlng Iron. It was formerly believed that cast Iron, when subjected to long-continued shocks and Jarring, became "crystal lized" and brittle; but Mr. A. E. Outer bridge, Jr., of Philadelphia, hns re cently shown, by a series of experi ments, thnt Instead of being weakened, cast Iron Is really strengthened by re peated blows and concussions. A Oho.tlT Cat. An Invention calculated to terrify mice and rats Is described In Popular Science News. It consists of a metallic cnt which, being covpred with lumin ous pnlut, shines In s dark room with a mysterious rndlnnee which, the Inven tor thinks, will be more effectunl thnn traps, or even genuine cats. In ridding bouses of rodent pests. Carnivorous Tlnntm Thnt such plants as "Venus' fly-trap" t actually catch and squeeze to death files and other Insects alighting on : their leaves bus long been known, but ! the discovery Is comparatively recent ; that the plants digest the softer parts ; of their prey by means of a peptic fcr j ment secreted by the lenves. These, ! then, are real Instances of plants feed . Ing upon animals. Marrrlloiia Meaanrement, At the recent "conversnzlono" of the Royal Society In London a pendulum Instrument wns exhibited, lutended to record the slightest tilts and pulsatloni of tho crust of the earth. It was as serted that this Instrument would ren der observable a tilt of loss than one three-hundredth of a second of are. In other words, If a plnnc surface were tipped up only so little that the rise would amount to a single Inch In a thousand miles, the Instrument would reveal the tilting! A !tearh of Iron Sand. On the westeru roast of the nortborn Island of New Zealand Immense de posits of mngnetlc Iron sand are found. The sand Is brought down by many streams from the slopes of Mount Egmont. The cliffs consist of a mix ture of ordlnnry slllcn snnd and Iron snnd, but the waves sweeping tho beach carry the lighter silica sand away, leav ing an almost pure deposit of Iron snnd1 fourteen feet lu depth. Furnaces have been erected by which the sand Is smelted and formed Into pig Iron. Killed by I.luht Dr. James Weir, Jr., who has studlpd strange Inhabitants of the Mammoth Cave In Kentucky, says that tho cele brated blind fish from thnt cavern, when placed lu Illuminated aqnnrln, seek out the darkest places, snd he be lieves thnt light Is directly fatal to them, for they soon die If kept In a brightly lighted tank. The avoidance of light seems to be a general charac teristic of the sightless creatures dwel ling In the great cave. Doctor Weir hns seen an p.vpIpss spider trying to avoid the light, and nnlmnleulcs from the waters of the cavern hiding under a grain of snnd on the stage of his mi croscope. Ho thinks the light In these cases Is In lomo mnnner perceived through the sense of touch. An Air Teater. An Instrument for measuring the amount of Impurity In the air of a room" or shop wss shown at the Zurich In dustrial Exhibition recently. It con sisted of a glass bulb containing a red liquid which turns white on contact with carbonic acid gas. The liquid In the bulb was kept from the air, but once In every 1N) seconds a drop, drawn automatically from the bulb through a bent tube, fell upon the upper end of a stretched cord aud began slowly to descend the cord. If tho air was foul with carbonic acid the drop turned white at the upper end of the cord, and the purer the air the farther tha drop descendd before changing color. Alongside the cord ran a scale, like thnt of a thermometer or barometer, Indi cating the degrees of Impurity of the atmosphere. Qn'er Facta A hoot Colnra. According to Information given by a German officer to the Horse Gunrds' Gazette, an experiment wss recently made In Europe to determine what color In a soldier's uniform Is the least conspicuous to an enemy. Of ten uieu two were dressed In light gray uni form, two In dark gray, two In green, two In dnrk blue and two In scarlet. All were then ordered to march off, while a group of officers remained watching them. The tirst to disappear In the laudscnpe wns the light grsy. aud next, I blue and red targets, according to the same authority, proved that blue eould. be more easily seen st a distance than ; red. i Mansolenm In Tree. 1 One of the most curious mausoleums ! In the world wns discovered the other day In an orchard at the village of No ebdenltz, In Haxe-Altenburg. A glgan- ' tic oak tree, which a storm hnd robbed of Its crown, wss up for public auction. Among the bidders happened to !e a Baron Von Thumnicl, scion of a fain- ' lly of ancient lineage that hns given A llt..nittir nritt .lis i-inl ti 9 tns worm 01 - down to blm for 200 marks. I'pon his arrival at the castle be told an old ser vant of his purehsne, describing the tree and Its' situation. The old servant said be remembered attending the fu neral of a Bardon Thummel seventy or eighty years ago, and that ths body had been burled In a LOOO-year-old oak. belonging to fhs parsonaga. In Tsstlgatlon clsafiy proved tbt ths Gr 1 r v . is v 1' raFS chard had ones been the property of the village church, and that at one side of the old oak was an Iron shutter, rusty and time-worn, that the ieopl of the town had always supHsed to have been placed there by some Joker or mischievous Ihjs. The Iron shutter proved to be the gate to the mausole um of Bnrou Hans Wllhelui Von Thuiii met, st one time Minister of the State of Saxe-Alteiiburg, who died lu and wished to be burled "lu t!i ' l.OOil-yenr-old tree he loved so well." In the hollow of the tree Baron Hans caused to be built a sepulchre of solid masonry , largo enough to accoiiiiuodato his collln. The cetfln wns placed there, ns the church records show, on March 3, 1S.M, and the opening was closed by an Iron gate, lu the course of time a wall of wood grew over the oinmiIiik, which had t-cn enlarged to admit the workmen and the coffin, and for tunny years It has been completely shut, thus removing the last tcstlge of the odd use to which the old tree had been put Chlneae Treatment ol Children. However little liked the Chlntimnn may be by his white neighbors, I have at all times found that the Chinese had at least oue good aud praiseworthy quality the kindness shown by nil of tlieui toward their children. The poor est parent always seem shin to save enough money to array their Utile ones In gay garment on New Year's day or other holidays. The children In turn seem to be romnrkabty well-behaved and respectful toward their elders, and rarely. If ever, receive corporal punish incut They seem very happy, and apparently enjoy their childhood more thsn most American children. On al most any sunny day the fond and proud father may be seen at every turn In Chinatown carrying his brightly attired youngster. Ill his arms. Other little tots, hardly old enough to feel quite steady on their legs, toddle about with Infants strapped on their backs. They do uot appear to mind this, and It does not seem to Interfere w ith their child ish pastimes. About the time of the Chinese New Year Chinese children are particularly favored, and the fond fathers deny them nothing. The little ones always appear to be well pro vided with pocket-money to buy toy and candles. St Nicholas. Statues of Corpses. The pleasing possibility of transform ing the dear deceased Into a marble like statue that may be set In a niche or on a pedestal was suggested to the members of the Academy of Sciences of Paris recently by Mr. Mortlu, who read a paper detailing his discovery of a process of converting animal matter, before decomMisltlou sets In, Into a substance resembling marble, being sufficiently hard to allow of Its being sculptured. He called the attention of the society to the osethlllty of his In vention, which he has taken tho pre caution to patent, being utilized to pre serve human Isxlles after death. Inas much as this mnrhle-llke substance can lie sculptured, It Is possible to remedy little physical defects that, unnoticed or at lenst not obtrusive In life, might de tract from the attractiveness of a stnt tie. This process Is a step ahead of the St Louis sllver-plnler who for ten years has been experimenting upon a plan to succeed embalming by hermetically plating In gold, stiver or nickel the an cestors of such people as see willing to undergo the expense of having them decorated for future Inspection. Victor lingo's Youthful Work. Victor Hugo, the great French poet and novelist, Is famous everywhere. Ho iN'gan his literary career at the age of 13. At 10 he drew up his first novel lu two weeks! The Academy at Tou louse crowned two of his odos that ho wrote at 17. At 20 his first volume of poems was so good thnt he received a pension of !imj from the French Gov ernment; and you are all aware how he came to be one of tho grintest, as well as one of the most popular, of tho French poets. Ills sitrlotlsm wns as grent as his literary gifts. His life Is one of the most Interesting In the lit erary annals of France. I saw his fun eral In Paris, In Mny, 1HX3, when he wns followed to the grave by a concourse of sorowful people. The procession wns mlliM In length. Few emperors or suc cessful generals have had a more Im posing burial, nor was ever man laid to rest who was more di-eply, truly mourned than this grand and gifted Frenchman. St. Nicholas. "The Wood a of Nhornn." Leaving th highway by a pretty lane, we are presently In a most magnificent wood, a vast cathedral of nature. Its columns are tall dark trunks of elm trees, supiKirtlng leafy, Intersecting arches of golden green; Its nave and transepts are carpeted with the softest moss, lu which a footfall Is silent; Its screens are of hawthorn aud honey suckle; lis chancel Is strewn with the growing violets; and Ita chapels are adorned with rhododendrons and Ivy. Through and upon it all floods the soft ened sunlight; over our heads sings a vsst choir of birds; and around us tho melodious hum of the bees sounds like soft organ notes. Here aud there In the woods we come upon handsome, russet-plumsged pheasants strutting about, rabbits hopping fearlessly across the clearings, and squirrels scampering from tree to tree. St. Nicholas. raahlng's llerolo Deed. . In 18H1, at the very beginning of our civil war, a young lad named William Barker Gushing entered the navy as a volunteer officer, though he hsd pre viously been through the Naval Acad emy at Anna mils. He was only 111 yenrs old. but a braver or more reckless sailor never grasped a cutlass or stood by a gun. Never a fight but he wns In the thick of I , never a bnttle but diall ing's name was uientloued In orders. He dared do anything that man dared. One dnrk night, at Plymouth, N. C, he took a boat's crew nnd, stealing quiet ly away, be crept tip beside the Con federate ram "Albemarle" a id inking tho cliances of slmost cerinlu death, he sank her by a torpedo fired from his steam launch. Then he fought at Fort Fisher with great bravery, and, what Is ever rarer, be used sound Judgment, se curing for his comma rid all the fruits of the victory. St. Nicholas. A woman never seems to bare any good times until ber busbsnd dies, and sh gets bis 11 fs Insurance. Every man Is mors or less of a fool bout torn thing. Miss Kate Sanborn's forthcoming book. "The Little f.oo," Is said to be sn amusing and picturesque aeoouit of animals In literature. It Is said that Gen. Lew Wallace, author of "Ben Hur." receives higher psy for his writing thsn auy other liv ing American author. Hamlin Garland Is going to writs a life of Gen. Grant for Mr. McClure. Hs lias recently be-n In Mexico studying the scours of Graut's Mexican cam pslgn. E. I". Benson, of "Dodo" fame, Is now In Egypt. Hs Is writing a romauce, the semes of which srx laid In Greecs during ths time of ths war of ludrpru deuce. Sightseers of Victor Hugo's old bom' psy a frsnc In order to see one of the famous author's teeth. It Is elegantly mounted lu a plnab-llned caae, careful ly covered with a crratal shade. Gibbon devoted over twenty years ef bis life to the lslsir of reading for snd writing the "Decline and Kail." It la one of the most stupendous lltersry fests ever accomplished by the labor of oue man. One of the niany good qualities of the works of William Dean Howells Is ths fact that In addition to his graceful style, which gives such a charm to ven commonplace character and In cident, his stories, ss a rule, uufold healthy moral lesson. Alfred de Musaet's sister refuses to hare any of his works lu her possession published, as she says they will not sdd to his fame as a poet. She likewise re fuses to let his letters be seen, sinong which Is the correspondence betweeu the poet and George Sand. Speaking of the retirement of James Psyne from the editorship of the Corn hill Msgnzlne, ths Bookinnu calls to mind the slmost forgotten fact thst tho most spirited and the most unfortunate thing ever dons by the Corohlll was to purchase George Eliot's "Ilomols." The sum paid was Immense, but the novel wss too heavy for ths general reader and the circulation of ths tuaga sins fell off about 10,000. Good Hutu for Traveler. Ex-Governor Brown Is srrsnglng bis affairs preparatory to his departure for Eurojie on June tl. He said yester day thst he expected to meet a nuin- ber of Bnltlmorean i during his trip abroad. Hs Intends to spend some time In Buda-Pesth and to study the model street railway of that city. The ex Governor says he can speak no lan guage except English, but In his trav els abroad heretofore has ujansged to get along quits well. ' Said he: "I have found that there Is but ono ssfe rule In traveling abroad, and that la to Imitate the elephaut and follow your trunk. In my former trav els I made It a point to get my trunk checked through, or registered, as they rsll It. When I ssw the baggageman put my trunk on a car I at once got Into thst train and took a forward sent, where I could see the baggage car door. Whenever I saw the baggage man take my trunk out of the car I got off. In this way I never made a i mistake, though I could not speak the , language of the country I was travel ing In and had no Interpreter, i "On one occasion I was at ths sta tlon In Berne, Switzerland. The sts tlon was a union affair and so many I trains wero coming and going that I got uneasy for fear I would get on tho wrong train. So I sat on my trunk aud waited. While I was sitting there I was approached by a young lady who, like myself, could speak Kugllsh ouly. , She w silted to know which trslu to j tske. I told her to do as I was doing -' sit on her trunk. She did so. I gave the same advice to a man, and both j of them went right It's the only safe rule, for ths bsggags generally goss right" Baltimore American. Strange-Hare ofNIintans. In the Islrnd of Borneo Is a race of wonderful monkey They are called the prolmscls monkey, from their long nose. They arn very large; Indeed, they are the largest of their species, meas uring four or five feet lu height, wheu standing In an upright position. These crest ures are seldom or never seen on the ground, spending slmost their en tire time lu the tree tops, where they are perfectly at home. They are the most difficult to tnim of all the slmlsns, being very wild aud unmsungeable, and llso on account of their size. This monkey gets his uam from bis curious rountensuce, which resembles a ninn with an exceedingly long nose, and they ran also be recognized by a beard and side whiskers which extend from ear to ear under ths chin. Ilk , the farmers' beards In the comic papers. They so much resemble a human he- Ing that travelers In the Interior often used to mlstske them for a race of peo ' pie. One of them was exhibited some , fifty years sgo throughout England, the sdvertlaements calling It the "Wild Man of Borneo." The natives who Inhabit the Interior of the island believe that these monkeys re descended from an old man who re tired to the forest to avoid paying tri bute to the King, and they bold blm In the greatest respect for being clever enough to devise the means of evading the responsibilities of society and es caping the powerful hsnd of the ruler. On this account also they cannot be Induced to kill or Injure one, thinking and believing thnt It might be rela tive. Tbey Inhabit the central moun tainous portion, principally, and are generally found In troops In the vicin ity of streams. Borneo has many other curious and wonderful plants snd ani mals, but this Is the best known. Education of Women in Turkey. Turkish girls of the better class In the cities after they are too old to at tend ths primary schools, are largely educated at borne by governesses, many of whom com from England and Francs, bu4, unfortunately, do not usu ally represeut ths highest culture of those nations, so that real love of study Is not mis developed under their Influence Turkish women hav a graft aptltuds for foreign languages, gcd thos w nsst en to steamtrt of la Boapborua iftn speak French, aid It la not unusual for them to speak German and English also. It Is a well, known fact thst many Turkish women sr engaged In trade, some even carry Ing on aa extensive busluess Involving frequent Journey to Egypt and otnsr places, which presupposes lb ability to resd sud write, as well as soins knowledge of arithmetic. Moreover, conversation with the Mussulman wom en In the capital reveals some progress at the present time In Independence of thought, and. while social conditions bava unavoidably arrested the develop ment of Turkish women as a class, forces are slowly but surely working among them that will result In their dual emancipation. Forum. Hrerd 'I'oiinnit. A young English fanner, II. I. Twtgg by name, bas receutly purchased a large tract of land lu Keuturky, near Rich mond, and auuouncea that he bss eitab llshed 'powutn farm. Were hs Van kes It would be suspected that the an uouuceiueiit of the 'possum ranch was pnTt of a scheme to coloulze the adja cent district with colored people, possi bly buyers of small tracts of land. But Mr. Twlgg Is said to be quite sincere In bis undrtsklng, having figured out thst, as 'poasuin Is considered such delb-acy as to command fancy prices, tNre Is money In the scheme, lis has under sdvtce of an experienced old col ored gentleman, who has sssured him thst "the 'possum am a very dainty eat. rr," pluuted on ths ranch a large num ber of persimmon and haw trees and hazelnut bushes. He has started In with twenty 'pes. tun In ths warren, and, calculating upon ths remarkable fecundity of ths aulmals, expects by next fall to be abl to supply ths Louisville demsud at lecst. A similar experiment Is being mad In the cultivation of rabbits lu P-'Jlltvan County, this State. The difficulty Is to secure food for ths growth on limited reaervatlon, and ultimately the animals overruu the surrouudlng country and become a peat as, for lustauce, lu opos sums of Loug Island. General Putnam and Major Small Au lustauce of personal regard over coming ths war spirit was told by Maj. Small to John Trumbull, while Hio artist wss imlutlng In London, after ths revolutionary war, bla well-known plo. ture of the battle of Bunker Hill. MaJ. Small Is tha British officer Been lu tlm center of the palullng, turning aslds the bayonet of grenadier who Is about to pierce the dying Gen. Warren. When ths British troops advanced on tho redoulH for the second time, Small, with other officers, wss In ths lead encouraging his men. They had advanced nearly to the breastwork when a volley was poured In upon them which wss terribly effective. The Brit ish troops fell back, and when Small looked around not an officer was left standing. 11 glanced at ths Amer cans, and aeelug several muskets lev. eled directly at blm, gave himself up for lost. At this moment Gen. Putnam, an old comrade of Small In the Frenc'i and Indian war, rushed forward, and striking up with his sword the muzzles of his men's pieces, cried out: "Don't fire at that man, my lads; I lovs him as I do my brother!" Tbey were so near each other that the Major ssys he "heard the words d!s tlnctly." Bowing, be flunked Putnam, and walked away uuhamied. St Nlco olus. A llrave Defender. The author of book on early Cana dian life says that young girl was one sfternooo on her way to the spring for a (mil of water, when a lis beard her pet lamb bleat and ssw what she supposed wss a large dog worrying It. . Being a brave girl she dropped the pall, seized a stout stick which lay on the ground, and rushing forward begaa to beat the brute with all her might The animal let go the lamb and turn ed upon the girl, showing his teeth and siiBrllng. She saw then that she hsd to deal Willi wolf Instead of a dog. Tho sharp ears, bushy tall and gaunt figure were convincing. But she was not frightened; excitement and fears for her pet gave ber courage, and when the wolf again seized the lamb aus valiantly attacked blm and again ha released his prey. She used the club vigorously and rained blowa npon the wolf, crying for help meantime. Her brother, bearing her outcry, ran w 'h his gun toward the spring, but the wolf ssw ths re-enforcement coin ing and fled Into the woods. When Inspiration fame. Bellini could uot compose unless he hsd large store of bitter almonds or sugar plums on hand. He worked slowly, from the fact that bla time was divided between bis notes a nd his sugar plums, Lortslng was also somewhat queer In Ida ways. When bis working hour arrived, which was generally from 10 a. m. until 2 p. m., he would provide a large quantity of black coffee. Theu, linking the door carefully be hind him, he would begin to ting at random, and drink between times. Whenever he struck B few good notes he would Jot them down. Herald, the French composer, was also an eccentric. He not only ate or anges while composing, but made bis singers est orsnges at rchearnal. Schubert bad a Jovial way of wooing the Muses. He would produce several large bottles of wine wheu his working hour arrived, and would vary the monotony by drluklng copious Ilba tlous. Trotect the Toads. In portions of Europe gardeners not or'y tsks especial care of the toads In the garden, but frequently buy to keep the stock good. Underground shelter are made for the tosds by covering a small hole with board or ablngle; this prsctlce might be Imitated by American gardeners. A garden well storked with toads would be greatly protected from many of the Insects that are now so destruc tive to many kinds of vegetation. Two Iloaion I.adle. Mn. Wilson tried to get Mr. Jones' cook away from her (relates the Bos ton Traveler), and actually went to Mrs. Jones' bouse when she was out nd offered the cook more money. The next time tbey met at big dinner, Mrs. Jones did not notice her. Some one w bo sat between them aald: "Mrs. Jones, you know Mrs. Wilson, do you notr "No, I believe not" said Mrs. Jones; "she sometimes calls on my cook, I understand. Walter, some leO