TOMuHT.
"llfc.jcrmM'tnn iinc track
Ik&ttlic dnyltttlrt. inariotM Inck." Sappiio
IJcml low, OilusUy NlgM,
Ami civp my spirit rest,
Hold mo to j our deep hi cast,
Anil nut oM in res lo (light.
Give hack Die lest tlcl.'irlit
Tliat oticu air colli piM:st,
When Love whs loveliest.
Ucml low, O iluaUy N'glitl
Enfold mi; In jour arms
Tlio nole rmbriioe I ernvo
Unt 1 tile rin line ti tr grnvo
f li'clil mi; from life's alarms.
1 ilnru vour julitli-st i-linrins;
Your deepest spell 1 liriivc.
O. strong to slay or oavc,
Ktifnlil tnc In tour nriiisl
-Loutst Chandler Moulton, in HarjKr't iTag-aiint.
Mathias Sandorf.
-BY'-
JULES VERNE.
imnon ov "JounKnr to Tim cuntib
OK Tlin UAUTU," "TltlP TO THE MOON,"
"AltOUNi Tlin WOULD IN KKI1ITK
DAYS, " " MK'HAKrj STItOflOHJ',"
"TWKNTV THOUSAND nKAOUUS
UIJDElt TI 1 13 SUA," KTC, TO.
TnANSI.ATlON COI'VHKIIITEI), 18S3.1
CHAPTER III.
COUNT RANDOM'.
Tho Magyars settled in Hungary to
wards tho ond of tlio ninth century of
tlio Christian crn. They form a third of
tho population moro.thnu ilvo millions
in number. Whence thoy came Spain,
Egypt or Con (ml Asia, who'hor (hoy uro
descended from tho Huns of Attiln or
tho Finns of the North is iv disputed
question, and is of little consequence I
One thin;; in very obvious, that thoy uro
neither Solnvcs nor Germans, and havo
no desire to become so.
Thoy still Kpeak (heir own language
iv language toft and musical, lending
itsolf to all tho charm of poetical ca
dence, los-? rich than tho German, but
more concise, moro energetic; nlnnguiigo
which between the fourteenth and six
teenth centuries took tho plaeo of Latin
in tho laws and edicts, and becamo tho
national tongue.
It was on tlio 2tst of January, 1009,
that (ho treaty of Carlo witss gave llun
gurynnd Transylvania to Austria. Twen
ty years aftorwardH tho Pragmatic sano
(ion solemnly declared that the States of
Austria-Hungary were thenceforth indi
visible. In default of a son tho daughter
was to succeed (o tho crown according
to tho nilo of primogeniture. And it
was in accordance with this now statute
that in 17-10 Maria Theresa ascended tho
Ihrono of her father, Charles VI., tho
last of tho malo lino of tho llouso of
Austria.
Tho Hungarians had (o yield to su
perior force; lint 150 years afterwards
people were still to bo met with among
all ranks of society who refused to ac
knowledge either thePiagmatio sanction
or tho treaty of Carlowitz.
At tlio time this slory opens there was
n Magyar of high birth whoso wholo
life might bo summed up in these two
K'ntimenls-tlio hatred of everything
Geinian, and tho hope of giving his
country her ancient independence. Al
though still young ho had known Kos
suth, and although his birth and edu
cation kept htm apart from him on im
portant political questions, ho could not
fail (o lulmiro tho patriot's nobility of
heart.
Count Mnthias Sandorf lived ill mn
of the counties of Transylvania in tho
district of Fagaras. His old castlo was
of feudal origin. JJut on ono of (ho
northern spmvs of tlio Eastern Carpa
thituui. which form the frontier botweou
'Transylvania nnd Wallachia, tho castlo
aoioninid tlio rugged scenery in nil its
""Ku 7vidu-n stronghold that con
spirators could defoi.;! i Iho last.
Tho neighboring mines, rich in iron
nnd copper ore, and carefully worked,
yielded a considerable income to tho
'owner of the Castlo of Artenak. The
estate comprised a part of the district of
1'apntas, and the population exceeded
70,000, who, all of them, townsfolk nnd
countryfolk, tool; pains to show that for
Count Sandorf riioy felt an untiring
devotion and an unbounded gratitude
for the constant good ho had done in the
country. This castlo was tho object of
particular attention on the part of tho
Chancery of Hungary nt Vienna, for the
ideas of tho master of Artouak woro
known in high quarters, and anxiety
was felt about them, although no anxiety
was btlrayed about him.
Sandoif was then in his thirty-sixth
year. He was rather above tho middle
height nnd of great muscular strength.
A well shaped, noble looking head rose
nliovo his broad, powerful shoulders.
Of rather dork complexion and square
in feature, his face wim of tho puro
Magyar type. The quickness of his
movements, the decision of his speech,
the llrm, calm look of his eyes, the con
stant Binile on his lips, that unmistak
able sign of good nature, a certain play
fulness of gesture and Hpeoch all went
to show (in open, generous disposition.
It lias been said that there are many re.
semblance between the French and
Magyar diameters. Sandorf was a liv
ing proof of the truth of this obsorva
tion. Ono of his most striking peculiarities
is worth nothing. Although Count San
dorf viva careless enough or what con
cerned only himself, and would pass
lightly over any injury which affected
htm alone, ho had never forgiven and
never would forgive an offence of which
liiu friends were the victims. Ho had in
tho highest degree the tpirit of justice
und hatred of perfidy, and henco jkw
Moused a sort of imicrtoual implacabil
ity, being by no means one of those who
leave all punishment in thin world to
Heaven.
Muthias Sandorf had been highly edu
cated. Instead of confining himself to
tho hfo of leisure- his fortuno opened
out to him, ho had energetically fol
lowed his tastes nnd been led to tho
-tudy Of niedioino and tho physical sci
encen. Ho would have made an excel
lens doctor had the necessities of lifo
forced him to look after the sick. Ho
was content to bo a chemist in high ro
pute among tho learned. Tho Univer
sity of Pesth, tho Academy of Sciences
lnt Presburg, the Koynl School of Mines
nt Cnemnitz nnd tho Normal School nt
Temcsoar had all counted him among
their mo3t assiduous pupils. His studi
ous lifo had improved nnd Intensified
Ins natural gifts. In short, ho was
man in the fullest acceptation of tho
term. And ho was held to bo bo by all
who know him, and moro especially by
Ins professors in tho different schools
and universities, who continued their
interest in him as his friends.
Formerly the castlo of Artennk, then.
had been all gayety, life nnd movement
On this rugged ridgo of the Carpathians
tho Tmnsylvanian hunters had held
their meetings. Expeditions, many and
dangerous, wero organized, in which
Count Sandorf sought employment for
tlioso instincts of baltlo which he could
not gratify on tho Held of politics. Ho
kept himself out of tho political stream,
watching o osely tho course of events.
He seemed only to caro about n lifo
spent between his studies and tho in
dulgences that his fortuno allowed him.
In lho.se days tho Countess Hpua San
dorf was still alive. Sho was tho soul of
theso parties at Artenak. Fifteen months
before this history begins death had
struck her in the pride of her youth and
beauty, nnd all that was left of her was
a little girl, who was now two years old.
Count Sandorf felt tho blow cruelly.
He was inconsolable Tho castlo be
camo silent and deserted. From that
day, under tho shadow of profound
grief, its master lived as in n cloister.
His whole life was centred in his child,
and sho was confided to tho charge of
llosonn Lendeok, the wife of tho Counts
steward. This excellent woman, who
was still young, was entirely devoted to
the sole heiress of tho Samlorfs, and
ably noted towards her as a second
mother.
During tho first months of his widow
hood, Sandorf never left his castlo of
lYrtcnnk. Ho thought over and lived
an.ong tho remembrances of tho past.
Then the idea of his country reduced to
an inferior position in Europo seized
upon luni. l'or the Franco Italian war
of 1850 struck a terrible blow at tho
power of Austria. Seven years after
ward', in 18(10, the blow was followed by
one still more terrible, that of Sad own.
It was no longer Austria bereft of her
Italian possessions ; it was Austria con
quered on both sides and subordinated
to Germany ; and to Austria Hungary
felt sho was bound. The Hungarians
there is no reasoning about such a senti
ment, for it is in their blood wero hu
miliated in their pride. For thorn tho
victories of Custozza and Lissa wero no
compensation for tho defeat of Sadowa.
Count Sandorf, during the year which
followed, had carefully studied tho po
litical outlook, nnd recognized that n
separatist movement might bo success
ful; Tho moment for action had then
come. On tho ild of May of this year,
1807, ho had embraced his little daugh
ter, whom he had loft to the tender oares
of Itosona Londeck, and leav.ng his
castlo of Artenak had set out for Pesth,
where he had put himself in communi
cation with his friend and partisans,
and made certain preliminary arrange
ments. Then a few hours later ho had
gone to Trieste to wait for events.
There he became the chief oentro of
the conspiracy ; thence radiated all its
threads collected in Samlorfs hands.
In this town tho chiefs of tho conspiracy
could act with more safety and more
freedom in bringing tho patriotic work
to nu end.
At Trieste Jived two of Snndorf'ii most
intimate friends. Animated by tho
same spirit they wore rotolvod to follow
tho enterprise to its conclusion. Count
Ladislas Zathinnrand Professor Stephen
llathory were Magyars of good birth.
IJoth were a dozen years older than
Sandorf, but were almost without for
tune. Ono drew his slender revenues
from a small estate in the County of
Lipto, belonging to a circle beyond tho
Danube ; the other was Professor of
Physical Science at Trieste, anil 1ns only
income came from tho fees from his
lectures.
Ladislas Zatlunar lived in tho hnuao
discovered on the Acquedotto bySareany
und Zironeau unpretending place,
which he had put at the disposition of
Mathias Sandorf during the time ho waa
away from Artenak- that is to any, till the
end of tho projected movement, when
ever it might be. A Hungarian, llorik,
aged about (Ifty-ilve, represented tho
whole statVof (he house, llorik was as
much devoted to his master as Loudcok
was to his.
Stephen llathory occupied a no less
unpretending dwelling on tho Corso
Stadion, not far from Count Zuthmar.
Here his whole life was wrapped up in
his wife and his son Peter, then eight
years old.
Stephen llathory belonged, distantly
but authentically, to tho lino of those
Magyar princes who in the sixteenth
century occupied the throne of Tran
sxlvnnia. The family hud bevn divided
and lost in its numberless ramifications
sinco then, and ieoplo may perhaps
think it astonishing that one of its last
descendants should exist as a simple
professor of the Academy at Presburg.
Whatever ho might be, Stephen llathory
waa n scientist of the first raukono of
those who live in retirement, but whoso
work renders them famous. " IneUuum
lalnir illustrat," the motto of tho Bilk
worn!, might have boon his. Ono day
his political ideas, which ho took no
pains to conceal, rendered it necessary
for him to resign, and thou ho oaiua to
live at Trieste as professor unattached.
It was in Zathmar'a house that tho
three friends had met sinco tho arrival
of Count Sandorf -although tho latter
ostensibly occupied an apartment on the
Palazzo Modollo on tho Piazza Grande.
The police hud no suspicion that tho
house on tho Acquedotto was the oentro
of a conspiracy w hich counted number
of partisans iu all tho principal town of j
I Mil N
it w as noun: intuoducino
tho kingdom.
Zathmar und llathory wero Sandorf's
most devoted auxiliaries. Like him,
thoy had seen that circuinstancos wero
favorable to a movement which might
restore Hungary to the plaeo sho desired
iu Euiopc. They risked their lives,
thoy know, but that thoy cared little
about. Tlio house in tho Acquedotto
had thus become the rendezvous of tho
ahiofs of tho conspiracy. Numbers of
partisans, summoned from different
points of the kingdom, camo thero to
take their measures and rteeivo their
orders. A service of carrier pigeons was
organized, and established rapid and
sale communication between Trieste and
the chief towns of Hungary and Tran
sylvania when it was necessary to send
what could not well bo confided to tlio
post or telegraph. In short, every pre
caution had been taken, and tho con
spirators had not as yet raised the least
breath of suspicion. Desidcs, as we
know, tho correspondence was carried
on in cipher, and on such a plan that
unless the secret was known absoluto
security was obtained. J
Three days after tho arrival of iho 1
carrier pigeon whoso message had been '
intercepted by Sarcany, on tho 21st of
May, about eight o clock in the evening,
Zathmar and IJathory were in the study,
waiting the return of Mathias Sandorf.
His private nll'air.s had recently com
pelled the Count to return into Transyl
vania and to Artenak ; but he had taken
the opportunity of consulting with his
friends at Klasonbury, thooipital of the
province, and ho was to get bacl; this
vcy day, after sending them the de
spatch of which S-ircnny 1 ad taken tho
duplicate.
During tho time Sandorf was away
other correspondence had been ex
changed botweou Trieste andlludii, and
many letters in cipher had arrived by
pigeon-post. And Zathmar was even
now busy in working out the real mean
ing of ono of these cryptographic epis
tles by means of a "grating."
The despatches were devised on a very
simple plan that of tlio transposit
ion of the loiters. In this system
overj' letter retained its alphabetical
value that is to say, b meant b, a meant
o, etc, Hut tho letters nre successively
transposed iu accordance with the open
ings of a gratins;, which, laid on tho
nto.s.sag.t, only allowed such letters to
appear as wero to bo read, and hid all
the others.
These gratings nro an old invention,
but having been greatly improved by
Colonel Fleissner tliey neom now to
oiler tho best and surest nieann of ob
taining an indecipherable cryptogram.
In all the other systems of inversion,
be they systems with an invariable base
or a simple key in which each letter is
always represented by the same lotter or
sign ; be they systems with n variable
base or a double Ley iu which tho alpha
bet varies with each letter, the security
is incomplete. Experienced decipher
ers nro capable of performing perfect
prodigies in such investigations, either
with the aid of the calculation of proba
bilities, or by merely trying and trying
until they succeed. All that has to bo
done is to find out tho letters iu (ho or
der of their repetition in the cryptogram
o being that most frequently employed
in English, German and French, o iu
Spanish, i in Husslau and and i in
Italian and tho meaning of the toxt is
soon made clear. And there are very
few cryptograms based on these methods
which defy investigation.
It would appear, therefore, that tlio
beat guarantee for lndeoiphembility is
it Horded by these gratings, or by ciph
ered dictionaries codes, that is to my,
or vocabulariou iu which certain words
ropiesont fully formed sentences indi
cated by tho page number. Uut kith
these systems have ono grave draw back;
they roquiio absoluto secrecy on tho
part of those that use them, and the
greatest care that the books or apparatus
should never get into undesirable huud..
Without tho grating, or the code, tho
message will remain unread ; but ouco
theso are obtained the mystery vanishes.
Itwaathonby moans of a grating
that is to say a piece of card cut out iu
certain places that the corresponduneo
K'twoen Sandorf and his accomplices
was curried on, but as an extra pre
caution, iu case the gratings should bo
lost or stolen, every despatch after being
deciphered was destroyed. Thero tluw
remained no tmoo of this conspiracy iu
which the greatest noblemen mid mag
nates of Hungary were risking their
lives m coujuue-iou with tho reprea.utu-
count mathias saxdokf.
' tivo of tho middle class and tho bulk of
tho people.
! Zathmar had just burned his last de
spatch when there camo a quiet knock
i at the study door.
i It was Horik introducing Count Mh
thias Sandorf, who had walked up from
the nearest railway station.
1 Zathmar immediately roso lo greet
him.
i "Your journey, Mathias ?" nslced ho
with tho eagerness of a man who wished
at tho outset to iind that all was well.
i "It was a success, Zathmar," an
swered Sandorf. "I havo no doubt of
my Transylvnnian friends, and wo are
certain of their assistance."
I "You let them havo tho despatch
i which camo from Pesth thrto days ago?"
nsked Dathory.
i "Yes," said Sandorf. "Yes, they
have all been cautioned, and they uro
all ready. They will rise at tho first
signal. In tw o hours wo shall bo mas
ters of Duda nnd Pooth, in half a day wo
shall get the chief comitate on both
sides of the Theiss, nnd before the day
is out wo shall have Transylvania and
(ho rest. And (hen eight millions of
Hungarians will have regained their in- I
dependence 1
"And tho Diet?" asked TJalhory.
"Our supporters from tho majority,"
answered Sandorf. "They will also
form tho now Government, to take tho
direction of affairs. All will go regularly
and easily, for tho comitats, as far as
their administration goes, depend very
little on the crown, and their chiefs havo
tho police w ith them."
"But the Council of tho Lieutenancy
of the Kingdom that the palatine pre
sides over at lluda?" cuntiuued Zath
mar. "Tho palatine and the council at Huda
will immediately be so placed as to bo
unable to do anything."
"And unable to correspond with tho
Hungarian chancery at Vienna?"
" Yes, all our measures arc taken for
our movements to bo simnltaueous, nnd
thus ensure success."
"Success !" said Hathory.
"Yes, success 1" answered Count San
dorf. " In the army all of our blood, of
Hungarian blood, are for us ! AVhero is
tho descendant of the ancient Magyars
whoso heart will not beat at tho sight of
the banner of lludolph and Corvinus ?"
And Sandorf uttered the wonls iu a
tone of the purest patriotism.
"Hut'," continued he, "neglect noth
ing that will prevent suspicion! lie
prudent, we cannot be too strong ! You
luivo heard of nothing suspicious at
Trieste?"
"No." replied Zathmar. "Nothing
is spoken of but tho works at Pola, for
w hich the greater part of tho workmen
have been engaged."
In fact for fifteen years tho Austrian
Government, with a view of tho possible
loss of Venetia a loss now realized
had lieon thinking of founding at Polo,
nt the southern extremity of thelstriau
peninsula, nn immense arsenal and dock
yard, so as to command all that end of
the Adriatic. In spite of the protests of
Trieste, whoso maritime importance
would thereby bo lessened, the works
woro being pushed on with feverish
ardor. Sandorf and his friends had
thus some justification for their opinion
that Trieste would join thorn in the
event of a separatist muvemeut being
btarted in tho city.
Up to the present tho secret of tho
conspiracy in favor of Hungarian auton
omy had been well kept. Nothing had
occurred to cause the police to suspect
that the chief conspirators wore then us
sembled at the unpretending house iu
the Acquedotto.
Everything seemed to havo been douo
to make the enterprise a success ; aud
all that remained was to wait for the
moment of action. The cipher corn's
jKHidenco between Trieste aud tho prin
cipal cities of Hungary aud Transylvania
had almost owsed. Thero wero now
few messages for tho pigeons to ciUTy.
because the lost meewgo had been
taken. As money is the soul of war, so
it is of conspiracies. It is important
that conspirators have ample funds w hen
the signal of uprising is given. And on
this occasion tho supply would not fail
them.
We nre aware that, although Zathmnt
ond llathory could sacrifice their lives
for their country, they could not b:ori
Ike their fortunes, inasmuch as thou
pecuniary resources woro but nieagio.
lint Count Sandorf was immeusoly riolu
and, m addition to hia life, ho had
brought his whole fortune to tho help of
tho cause, l'or many mouths, through
tho ageiicj of his steward, Le:ideck, ho
had mortgaged his estates, and thereby
raised a considerable bum moro than
2,000,000 of ilorins.
JJut it was nccesrary (hat this money
should always be at call, and that ho
could draw it at anv moment. And so
ho had deposited it in his own name iu
ono of tho banks of Trieste, whoso char
acter was nbovo suspicion. This ban:;
was Toronthal's, of which Sarcany nnd
Zirone hnd been talking in the cemeterj-
on tho hill.
This circumstanco was fraught with
tho CTavest consenuence8. as will bo
seen in tho course of this history,
Something was paid about this money at
Sandorf's last interview with Zotlunar
nnd Ur.thory. He told them that it was
his intention to call on Toronthal and
irivo him notico that tho cash might bo
wanted immediately.
Evpntshad so progressed that Sandorf
would soon bo able to give the expected
signal from Trieste more especially as
this very evening ho discovered that
Zathmar's houso was the object of very
disquieting surveillance.
About eight o'clock, as Sandorf nnd
Hathory went out, one to go home to tho
Corsa Stadion nnd tho other to hia
hole, they noticed two men watching
them in tho shadows nnd following them
nt such a disfanco nnd in such a way an
to avoid detection.
Sandorf nnd his companion, in order
(o see what this might mean, boldly
marched straight on to theso suspicious
characters, but beforo they could reach
(hem (hey had taken fiig'ht and disap
peared round thocornerof Saint Anton
io's Church, at tho ond of tho cauaL
I -IO UK COSIISUIIU, J
An Ill-Timed Vis:r.
Prof. Jacques, as everybody knows,
has been investigating physical phen
omena. The professor has a brothe1"
who isn't so much interested in physi
cal phenomena as he is. This brother
called the other evening- to niako n
fraternal visit, lie entered tho house,
and struck, naturally enough, for the
hack parlor. Tho professor stopped
him nt tho door.
"Sh-h, sh-h," said tho professor,
"don't conio in don't make a no'so
there's a lady in here in a trance!"
The visitorstartod hack and attempt
ed to g-o into the front parlor. At the
door ho was met by somebody he
didn't know, who said:
"Sh-h, sh-h don't conio in; there is
a man in here who is just goinj under
the inlliicnco!"
Then ho start ud for tho library.
Somebody else met him as ho swung
open tho door:
"Sh-h. sh-h, bo careful; thero'n a
seaneo i;oiu on, and you'll spoil tho
conditions if you conio iu that way!"
He rushed up btairsaud rapped rat her
briskly at the door of the laniily sit-ling--rooni.
It. was his sisler-iii-law
who met him this lime, and she said:
"Sh-h, sh-h, don't make a noKo
you'll wake tho baby!"
Then he darted down-stairs, took his
hat and cano, and left the house.
Jtunt' n llccord.
A Famous Parisian licnuty.
01inplio Audouurd has subsided.
She was a harum-scarum bounty of a
Kubons typo. And did she not know
how to sot her charms oil' to the best
advantage! I shall never forget the
Dll'cct she produced in the Palais de
Justice when sho went there in tho
character of n persecuted wife. Tho
Bar gravitated to tho bench on which
iho was sitting. Elderly barristers
woro purlin ps more 'imiuxxsa in their
attentions than young ones. Olyinphe
had the pink of the peach blossom iu
her cheeks, largo blue, prominent
oos, n laughing- mouth, line tcotht
ilnnples galore, mid a well-modelled
nose. Tho white part of tho com
plexion was like the lily. Thoro was
such a wealth of light brown, wavy
hair, shot with gold, that no amount
of hair-pins could keep it from fulling
about. Olvinpho Audounrd was rich
and highly educated; imaginative,
credulous and good-natured. After
seeing- Adah Menken iu 'Los Pirates
des Savanes," sho wtnt to America to
ride across the prairies and was suc-eo-sfully
tempted to join tho Shakers
and tho Mormons. She ended by taking-
up equal Rights and Spiritualism,
und was asked ty tho Hinpross Eugenie
to give nt tho Tu'leries, the reason for
her belief in spirits. 1 heard her lec
tuio on the phenomena she had wit
uesscd iu America. She had Southern
lluoncy and lovely ban .Is. to which
niairnilicont rings called attention. A
fan lay on the desk before her. nnJ
sho olten used it with graceful o fleet.
It was very pretty to see how she
fanned oil a lly that buzzed about hor,
Her early history was this: Sho was
tho daughter of a very rich man, and,
against her will, was married to ono
still richog, who neglected her to i tin
ntter protty nctrossos. A revolt was
the consequence. Hut she enjoyed too
much the incense of admiration excited
by her beauty and bonne grace to cul
tivate her gifts wllh perseverance.
Olyinphe made, unintentionally, a
conquest, of the lalo lhnperor; but, as
she was not ambitious, she refused to
follow it up. Pan's J.itler to London
Truth
A Valid Objection.
A man who had boon convicted ol
stealing horses and whoso penalty waa
assossud at twenty yon re imprison
mont, was askod the usual question by
Judge Noonan, of San Antoniu, who
was on the bench.
"Prisoner, do yon know of any rea
son why sentence should not bo pro
nounced on you according to law?"
"Why, judge, of course I do. It
would break mo up in business."
'i'cxas Sip.ingi.
Do You Know "What You Look
Like?
From the Spectator.
Thero are men, nnd women too, who
do not remember faces nt nil, and who,
if compelled to entertain strangers in
thij evening, would not know them next
dny, forgetting their faces ns seen un
der a different light so utterly thntcvi
denco hardly convinces them. They
pimply cannot recollect a face, though
they would recollect other things they
had seen quite perfectly. The look of
the absent has for them perished, ana
they cannot call it up before them ev
en in a general way; and this Eomo
times nfter much association. Wo
would ask these who dotibt.this to in
quiro of themselves about a much
more striking development of tihcsamo
peculiarity. Do thoy or do they not
recollect their own faces? Would they
know themselves if they met them
selves, in tho great glass of a tailor's
shop? They all", when shaving or dress
ing, see themselves every dny; they
nil cure about their own faces, and
they all, therefore, ought when they
meet themselves to know themselves;
but all of them do not. St. James
thoii''ht none of them did, but he gen
eralised from his personal experienco
nnd fell, as generalizers do, into error.
A largo proportion of mnnkind.prob
ably half, do not forget their own faces,
but know them periectiy wull, detect
any casual chances in them, and nro
aware of likeness to homselves when
ever it exists. They would boastound
ed if they met their "doubles," and
would realize at once, without further
evidence, that peoplo who might bo
mistaken fr them walking about might
by accident bo the involuntary causes
of annoying blunders. Tho remainder,
however, forget themselves utterly, in
stantly, nnd after the longest possible
examination. Surely this wide dis
tinction, which certainly exists, nnd
which any one enn test for himself in
his own household, points to a special
face memory. the absence or presence
of which in a witness will account for
many otherwise unintelligible conflicts
of evidence. Why should tho man or
woman who docs not know his own
face when he or she sees it be expected
to bo certain ns to the face of an ac
quaintance? There is absolutely no
reason in tho nature of things for the
one forgetfulness more than for tho
other, and wo may rely upon it (hat
with some men both occur, nnd that,
moreover, clinerentiating marus are
often forgotten, and those marks on
ly, so that a man is honestly ready to
swear to an indentity which does not
exist. There is likeness, and for his
imperfect face memory that is suf
ficient. Honey in Koofs.
From tlio London Standard.
Two extraordinary takes of honey
have just been made in West Surrey.
For the last sixt.een or eighteen years
a colony of bees bus taken possession
of a niche between the walls of tho
Hautboy and Fiddle public bouse at
Ockham, near Pipley. The outer walls
of the building are about threo feet in
thickness, and (be bees made choice
of their store-house at tho very top of
tho building, which is three stories
high. Tho landlord and landlady, with
their daughters, resolved this year
upon finding the exact whereabouts of
the colony. A diligent search was
made one morning tinder tho roof of
the bouse, nnd a niece of comb was
found immediately below tho slates,
but in such a position that it could
not be reached. Mr. Smith, the land
lord, then descended to tho bedroom,
and, with chisel and hammer removed
a number of bricks from tho wall,
whero the whole stock of bees was
found. Id ore than two feet square ot
tlio wall had to bo removed, when a
wonderful sight presented itself. A
large mass of comb, about two feet in
thickness, filled with honey, was exposed-
The bees wero fumigated, after
which large pieces of honey woro cut
out, until dish after dish was 'filled
with a total quantity of about
pounds. Tho bricks" have, not been
put into tho wall again, but a glass
door has been inserted, so that any
one interested in bceculturo may have
an opportunity of seeing them.
Another and still more extraordina
ry tako of honey has been secured at
YVinter'K Hall, Hromley, the seat ol
George Harrett. Some men were sent
to take some bees which hnd got be
tween tho ceiling of the coach bouse
and tho granary. They succeeded in
taking .'!()() pounds of honey. The
bees had been engaged in thoir novel
hiding plaeo soveral years. It wus a
very interesting sight to see tho way
in which they had worked.
KecpiHST the Flies Away.
"What's that for?" asked areporter
of a waiter in a, Smithfield street res
taurant. Tho waiter had a has of table salt in
his hand and was sprinkling the con
contents behind tho countei and the
lloor whero the crumbs might fall.
"It is to keep tho Hies uvny,'
re-
plied tho waiter.
"How does it do it?"
"Can't say, sah; ask tho mannger."
"Wo find," said tho manager, "that
by sprinkling salt whero there are
broken victuals, dirty plates, and oth
er things which attract Hies, we can
keep theso pests tuvny. It tills the ait
with salino particles, and woiave no
trouble at all. You can see that this
is so by looking hero."
Scraps of bread, melon rinds, and
broken meats and pieces of plates
were in bnskcts and shelves behind tht
counter, but thero woro not a dozen
Hie in sight. Pittsburg Chronicle.
The number of Women House
holders in England is 217,000. Many
of thoso nro at tho head of magnificent
estates, and pay alargo revenuctotht
Government. And yet they aro shut
out of tho parliamentary franchise
and cannot have a choico as to who
shall represent their borough. Thoy,
however, havo tiio municipal vote,
which is most important to large
landholders and taxpayers.
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