A CIRCUS NOVELTY. ttrxcrlptlnn of tlw Aininlnc Kntortnln mrntu nirrn t the cr Circuit In I'urU Tho new circus is a most rcninrka blc novclly. It combines gymnastics ami aquatics. It exhibits both riding and swlninilnir. It is the lioinc of tho iiicriiinn us well as of tho centaur. In appoarniiec tho new circus is like nioi other circuses. Tlio spectator takes Ins seat on one of tho furies of ci: cling lionchcs which arise from tho ring to tho other walls of the building. Tho tfnly peculiarity to attract immediate attention is tho huge cocoa mat which covers the nut: in plaeo of tho usual tan bark. Tho programme- is divide Into three p'arts, ami of these the first two aro not unlike those in other at ousos. There is a dor acrobat which turns somersaults, and rolls a banc! nniLstnnds on his fore-legs on a sword nnduhams dead. There is a clown who exhibits a performing nig, which is rid den by a monkey, and which jumps over hurdles and through a paper hoop. Then! is another clown, on whoso par ti-colored dress vou note the arms of Great Kritaiu and the United States, A great many of the circus performers one sees in Europe aro Americans, and tho clowns always speak J-mglish. There is a group of performing ele phants, the youngest of which wears a clown's hat. There is an acrobat who hangs by his heels. There are tiger horses, exhibited by M. Loval might; l'oreheron heroes. straiiircly spotted und striped. There is the usual assort nieiit of riders, doing tho pad act and tho bare-b.ick act and the viancyc act. After all these have been seen, the rinir ih cleared. The Inure cocoa mat is rolled into a long cylinder, and queer four-wheeled truck is drawn into th ring, astraddle of the rolled mat, which is then strapped to the truck. All hands then pull away the truck and its load through the entrance door and out of siuht. Thus the bare boards of the ring are exposed to view, and they an! seen to be pierced with numberless holes. An enormous glass globe con tabling a powerful electric light is next placed in tho center of the ring, which is then cleared, and its low doors are closed. The interested spectator. watching all these preparations, next hears u sound of inachincrv, and sees tho hoards of the ring tremble a little, and then berin to descend. There is a MHind of pouring water, and wntot streams up through every hole in the Mooring. In less than a minute the Hat ring lias Ijeeii changed to a deep tank, thi water of which is lighted and ln.ido transparent by the large electric lamp, now descended to the bottom. This sudden transformation is ellccled by ingenious n aehin ry, which pulls down into the swimming tank the franie-work of tho tlooriugof the ring. Within the water there is suddenly to bo seen a swimming ligurc, and then another and another and another be comes visible, until there are half doion who have most mysteriously ap peared. While the transformation is taking place the swimmers are in the water just I'utsido of the ring and tin alor the audience. As soon as the lloor of tho ring lias sunk to the bottom of the tank, the swimmers, one after an other, d ve under the cross braces and reveal themselves in the tank. It was J'rof. Johnson and his seven daughter" an Knglish. family - who gave the aquatic entertainment on the et ching I spent at the New Circus. A large mattress was placed ill the center of tho tank, and a spring-hoard at one of tho entrain es, The gymnasts turn ed somersaults from the spring-hoard tried to land t their feet on the mat tress, whence they might walk ashore dry-shod over the plank. Failing to reach the mat tress, they were ducked in the pond. It is easy to imagine what fun the clowns make out of their aquatic misadventures and misfortunes. Ar thur A in, in liarpcri Yonmj I'coptc. THE SHEPHERD DOG. KindncHw anil I'litlciice till" I'rliiclplr Itult'H lor llli Training. Train the pup from the the time lie is one month old; train him to know what jou want him to do, by kindness; show him what you want done, and then Jdndly but lirmly keep him at Ids task until he has learned it. Fondle and pet him for duty well performed and the next time he wid do it with greater alacrity and plcasiitc. Talk to him ,tf you won d to a child and you will be surprised to note how well he under stands you. A few lessons will serve to teach him from your manner tho dilleroneo between rigid and left; "go" and "coine;" and "walk;" "quick" and ".slow." If your pup is intelligent, it will take only a short time to teach him the above lessons. I have seen pups lx weeks old keep stock from coining through an open gate. The shepherd pup is much like a child; he is a great imi tator. 1 know a pup six months old that can tell as well as his master if his fourteen cows are In the lot at milking time. The owner of this pup told mo that one evening when lie supposed tho cows were all in tho pup caught tho gate which ho was closing and pulled it open and thou sturtt;ib on a run and brought in another cow that had not been missed. Didn't that pup know thirteen trout fourteen? Don't abuse your dog. (Slvo lite most intelligent pup on earth to a coarse, brutal master, and 1 guarantee ho will turn out a worthless cur. Kindness to animals is as much a duty us kindness to our fol Jow men. It is as natural for a well bred, intelligent Scotch shepherd dog to work as to eat, and the only rules or bis training aro to bo kind, patient iind faithful in your instruction. MlSiUCJlUSCttll I'fotUjIlllHttl, Tim man who never committed a folly never appreciated wisdom. IITu'fc JmH 'Jime. THE HUMAN HAND. A Nlre I.tt tin Lecture for ltoyn ami fJIrM Hml Hnnin Old Folk, Too. Young people have a great deal of trouble with their hands, and commit many faults wit.li them. When they go upon tho platform to speak a piece, they know not what to do witli those troub esomc and superfluous append ages, unless some good teacher of elo cution lias told them; and then it is hard to obey his injunction to "let them alone." Just to let them hang quietly and naturally by the side most of the time, is very dilliciilt for a tyro. A boy's im pul e is, to get hold of Ids coat, funiblo with Ids watch-chain, or make gestures which add no force tohis words. An old teacher of elocution lias given this excellent rule: ' When your hands have nothing to do, do nothing will them; let them hang." Some boys, yes, and some girls, too, have a world of trouble in keeping their hands clean. Probably, on this very day, in tho United States, one hun dred thousand mothers have spoken words like tljese, in various to cs: "Johnny, what dreadful hands to coma to the table with! (io and wasli them, sir, at once!" Johnny gazes ruefully at what his elder sister calls ids "hor rid paws," and wonders how tliey could have acquired their dismal hue. It is a mvstery. Ho started clean in the morning; at least, lie thought lie did, anil ho lias only been to school. Yet look at his hands! Rlaek as r harcoal dealer's, with nails fcar'ul o behold. Many boys wonder, naturally enough, how grown people keep their hands cle.in all day without taking milch trouble about it. Roys handle every thing, whether clean or dirty. Did half of them do not know how to wash their hands, or how to wipe them dry. Hands well-washed and perfectly dried will keopclcan four times as long as hands half-washed and half-dried. Nails, too, are much more easily kept in good order if they are attended to frequently and with care and thorou li nos. Many, indeed, are tho faults of tho hands. One of the worst is pointing the linger of scorn at the faults of other Kiting the thumb was the Italian method of expressing contempt in the days of Koineo and Juliet, the tragedy of whose lives lie-ran with their servants biting til 'ir thumbs at one another. It is with the hands that liovs pinch, scratch, light and steal. Hamlet called Ins hands "pickers and stealer. Hut, then, what beautiful and won derful things the hum. m hand can do! what lovely pictures it can paint; what 'iichanting niiisie it can play; what vnl ant deeds it can do; what kind acts it 'an perforin! Host of all, it can lift up the fallen, and welcome back to hope mil new effort tho ropentcut wanderer from the path of recitude. We said tho other week, that knowing teachers often judge of tho quality of their pu pils by looking at their mouths. Hut th(! hands, too, have a tale to tell and sometimes they tell very plainly. Youth's Companion. SMUT IN CORN. ItH I'rrvi'iitlmi ICIVcclcil liy Simltlnir llib SiimI In it Copper Niilphutii Solution. Smut in corn is fast becoming a pre vailing evil, injuring the crops and poisoning the todder and the cattle which consume it. its nature is worth study, so that some remedy can bo found for it. It is a pure parasitic dis ease, no d.uibt, which all'i ets every part of the plant and is as liable to infect the seed and the soil as the plant itself, hi fact the evidence goes to show that every part of the plant is infected for the outburst of the seed of the fungus appears in every part, the roots, stem, leaves, (lowers and seed being all more or less all'eeled. Tho soil can not help bill be infected by the large quantity of smut left upon in the debris of the crop and that brought by the winds and washed down by the rains from tho air in which it floats. The smut of corn is precisely like that of wheat or oats in prominent characteristics and dif rs front the latter in some invisible points only, and tho means for evading this which are used with etiect with tho mailer grains may be used equally with corn. Wo have lvecu experiment ing with corn smut for some years ami have found the soaking of seed in a solution of sulphate of copper or one of hlorhle of potash the common muri ate of pota bused as a fertilizer has the same ellect ut preventing smut in the crop as it has witli wheat and oats. A'. Y. Times. How inconsistent most persons aic! on shoot oil' a inin, a brand-now ouo possibly, ami you aro uireaionoii with instant annihilation, hut the .same man who thus objects will spend a dollar and a half and three hours at the theater listening to tho most archaic of word-twisting, laugh uproariously at every pun, and next day retail all ho can lvmcmhcr to Ids trleuds and ac quaintances. As Colonel Ingersoll once remarked, there's something wrong somewhere. I'MhulefjiIiia I'ress. John Monroe, a young man Hying with his widowed sister, Mrs. W. It. Citveii, in tlio northern part of Georgia, found tho other day $ 1, ISO in gold buried in tho cellar, money that wrs laid away ami lost during tlio war, over twenty years ago, by Mrs. Green's hus band. Monroe was moved merely by impulse to dig in the collar. Mrs. Cignavali, the woman who murdered her husband lit New York in order that she might marry another man, practiced two weeks under the Instructions of bur lover in order that tlio might make sure of hor nini when tho time ooinw, A. 1'. Sun. LINCOLN" CAREER. Tlio Three I'rtnripitl I'rrlmU tit t'.ie (Irrat HI it tram n it' 1,1 fr. Wo shall seo in tlio course of the present work how the life of Abraham Lincoln divides itself into three princi pal periods, with corresponding stages f his intellectual development ; t ho lirst, of about forty years, ending witli his term in Congress; the second, of about ten years, concluding with his final campaign of political speech-making in New York and New Kngland, shortly before the Presidential nominations of 18G0; and tlio last of about live years, terminating at his death. We have thus far traced his career through the .Irst period of forty years. In the sev eral stages of frontier experience through which ho had passed, and which in the main but repeated the trials and vicissitudes of thousands of other boys and youths in the West, only so much individuality had been developed in him as brought him into tliu leading class of his eon temporaries. He had risen from laborer to student, from clerk to law yer, from politician to legislator. That ho had lifted himself by healthy ambition and unaided in dustry out of tho station of a farm hand, whose routine life begins and ends in a back-woods log-cabin, to that representative character and authority which seated him in the National Cap itol to aid in framing laws for his coun try, was already B an achievement that may well be hold honorably to crown a career of fortj years. Such achievement and such distinc tion, however, were not so uncommon as to appear phenomenal. Hundreds of other boys, born in log-cabins, had won similar elevation in tho many, practical schools of Western public life. Kven in ordinary times there still re mained within tiie reach of average in tellects several higher grades of public service. It is quite probable that the superior talents of Lincoln would have made him fJovernorof Illinois or given him a term in the United States Senate. Hut the story of his life would not have commanded, as it now doits, the nu ll ageing attention of postoriiy had there not fallen upon Ids generation tlio usual conditions and opportunities brought about by a series of re markable convulsions in National poli tics. If we would correctly understand how Lincoln became, lirst conspicu ous actor, and then a chosen leader, in a great strife of National parties for supremacy and power, we must briefly stud)- the origin and development of tho great slavery controversy in Amer ican legislation which found its high est activity and decisive culmination in tlio single decade from 1S"0 to 1800. Wo should greatly err, however, if we attributed the new events in Lincoln's career to the caprice of fortune. The conditions and opportunities of which wo speak were broadly National, and open to all without restriction of rank or locality. Many of his contempora ries had seemingly overshadowing ad vantages, by prominence and training, to seize and appropriate them to their own advancement. It is precisely this careful study of tho times which shows us by what inevitable process of se lection honors and labors of which lie did not dream fell upon him; how, in deed, it was not the individual who gained the prize, but the paramount duty willed claimed the man. -.YiVoa (tint Hay, in Cvntitn. DUNDER'S SAYINGS. Tin- OlmtriilliH4 of Ouo Wh'i I.oiiUh at tlm Worlil ivltli Kxpurlnitceil llyet. I doaii' belief half 1 hear unless it vitas scandal. Djii 1 belief it all, and more, too. iJiT fact dot our neigdhor can hat a now coat while we haf to wear our old one vlias blcnty oveiise to hate him. Vhon a young man who vlias oudt of work and money und in rags comes to you for help, tell him "do re vlias room at dor top." It vlias good advice und worry slieap. If somebody robs mo of two cents 1 vhant him arrested for dor principle of it. Dor shnialler tier sunt tier more 1 stick tor principle, ton can huv a whole car-load of it for a cent. Vhon a man begins to pelief dot he owns dor earth, it vims time to put him up for candidate for constable and lot him seo how few admirers ho has. Vhon 1 meet a man who hungers to reform tier human race, I took notis dot ho vitas somebody who viias tired of honest labor, or ho vhas seart out of a wicked career by dor police. Vhon I goes into a grocery and sees dor sign dot honesty vhas dor best policy, l doan' buy some colVco dero. It vhas sure to bo half chicory. If wo lose a dollar on dor shtreot wo vhas mailt pecauso tier finder vhas not i honest enough to return it. If we hud i life dollar we feel dot dor owner ought I to lose it for his carelessness. I If you gif somepotly advice find out first how he b"lievos, und don inako , your advice to agree with it. Dor man I whoso advice doan' tally mit our opinions vitas no good. 1 doan' shudgo a Christian man hy dor length of his prayers or tier loud ness of his song. Dor question vluts if lie pays his debts und keeps his lions mit his own yard. . , If we vhas in tier coal peosnoss und giving eighteen hoouerod pounds for a ton, wo keep alt eye on dor wood man dot ho gifs full measure mit Ids wood. If 1 vhas a good man 1 like to half dor fact kept off my tombstone. Dor graveyard critic gifs nopoby credit. Anticipation vhas a bigdiunor which wo eat up und shtill fuel hungry all uUr.lhtr(tit i'rtts. ' Stettin pipos, hy a local ordinance, must be kept at a dbtunou of threu hobos from any woodwork, in San Francisco. T WONDERFUL TOWERS Somr of thr Mont Itfinnrknlito Strnrturn of the Kind In the World. The ancient city of Pisa, Italy, is fa mous for its lofty and magnificent structures, some of which have very in . cresting stories. None of them, how ever, is so wonderful as tho celebrated leaning tower. This building wag commenced in 1174 by a Pisan archi tect, named Honanna, by William of Iunspruek. It is of cylindrical form, one hundred and seventy-iiliro feet high, fifty feet in diameter, and loans twelve feet nine inches from tlio per pendicular. It consists of eight stories, each of which lias an outside gallery projecting from it. From the summit, which is readied by several hundred stops, a beautiful and extensive view may he had of the surrounding coun try. The misconstruction was discov ered before the tower was finished, and tho upper tiers were so shaped as to partly counteract the arcutation. At the top of the tower seven immense helix were so placed, as by thole weight, to counterbalance tho loaning of the tower. The highest tower in the world is at Cremona, in Northern Italy; it-is three hundred and ninety-six feet high. It was begun in 1223, and tho bells which are in it were east in 158. An astro nomical clock, m:ttlc in the, year lo'Jl, is placed in the third story. Ihe Moreutme campanile was com menced in lliiil, hy diotto, tde great painter, architect and scu'ptor. He commenced the erection ol the tower with the determination to surpass all the ancient .structure, of this kind, both in height and in ri(4iness of design. Hut t'liolto, having died in 133G, the tower was completed hv laddeo (,addi. Its height is two hundred and seventy- six feet, and it isdivided into four tiers. It is of equal dimensions from bottom to to, and is built on the Italian Ooth ic style. On the basement lloor there are two rows of tablets in relief: they are the work ol tiiotto. J here are also many beautiful statues on the upper tier. It was the original design of Giotto to have a spite surmount the present tower, and the columns which were to support it may still be seen on the top of the building. Ihe famous tower known as drama-. is situated at hevillc, tspain. I Ins tower when originally I uilt by Phillip fSuo- vam, the iWoor, was only two hunilrcii and fifty feet high. Hut in lftllS a niag- lrlicent belfry one hundred feet high was added, and it is now the seen d highest in the world. The campanile was called Ciralda, because of the brazen weathercock 'in its top story. Although the figure weighs a ton and a half, it is easily turned by the wind. It is said that a very fine campanile was situated at Salisbury, Kngland. It is supposed to have been two hundred feet high, and was probably destroyed by Sir Thomas Wyatt, the younger, while leading an insurrectionary mob. l.ouinritlc (A'.) Outlook: Some Mitigating Circumstances. "See here, Jones, I want to talk to you it moment," said an Austin philan thropist; don't you know you are not doing vour duty by your children in not sending them to school? That's not the wav a fond father should treat his ehi dren." Well, now. I don't know about that." replied Jones. '-I don't believe you fully realize what you tire talking about. Now, I have a brother whose oldest son was scut up for two years for horse stealing, anil the judge, in sentencing liiiq, said that his ignorance and lack of early education were strong mitigating circumstances in the case; and instead of niakingtlie sentence ten years, which he would have done had the boy never received any education, lie would only make it two. Now, do you suppose! I am going to rob my boys of those miti gating circumstances that have alteady been such a bonanza in the family? No. sir; before I do, I hope my right arm will cleave to tho roof of my mouth!" Teras fiij'UiHj. Toothsome Boiled Bread. A writer in a housekeeping journal allinns that bread can be boiled instead of baking it and with far less heat of the range. The new method consists mainly in steaming the dough instead of cooking it in tho oven. It is claimed that this is a great invention, as it .stives the time and experience neces sary to get tlio oven to the right heat for baking, which lias always proved tlto great obstacle to baking at home. The utensils required aro simply those: First a tin mould, or canip-kettlo, it which the dough is placed after it lias been mixed with the usual ingredients water, jeat, sugar and suit and secondly, a larger tin saucepan, into which the mould tits. The watf r in' the outer saucepan is allow ed to boil around tlio tin mould for two or three hours, tho litis of both utensils being kept closely down and at the end of that time tlio loaf may bo tinned out. It will bo found firm, solid and palatable, witli all the qualities of gotal bread. V. Y. W'vrM. The Presbyterian General Assem bly, of Kngland, have forwarded a pe tition to Queen Victoria praving for protection to their mission work in the New Hebrides. It is pointed out that the missionaries have been successful in civilizing a large portion of tlio peo ple of tho New Hebrides. Nearly X'ISO.000 has been expended in carry ing on tho work, iu which sixteen mis sionaries anil over one hundred native teachers and evangelists are engaged. The mission has mado 0,000 converts to Christianity whilo fiO.000 tmtivos had been more or loss u ilized. DRIhD DOGFISH. A l'rontnlilf Hut Kvcr-tllncly .'MnIoiloron Intliiatry nf Situtii Hurbnry. Four hundred tons of fish have found their way to foreign markets from this port in twenty mouths. This large ox port has been supplemented by the shipment of many tons of seaweed. This industry give employment to many men. and requires a schooner in constant service to transport fishermen, seines, provisions, ami the various paraphernalia necessary to insure a catch, as well as to perform the very important part of bringing in the haul. The fishing is carried on till along the coast, from San Luis Obispo to San Diego, but the headquarters of the fish-drying institution are hero at Santa Harbara; and it is here tlio drying operations are conducted. A reporter strolling toward the bench on Chapala street, in search of prehistor ic tumult, a runaway, a ehuckhole, a no- table arrival any tiling, in fact . to to make tin item was guided unerring instinct and a very by an robust odor to a barnlike structure at the end of that thoroughfare. This weather- stained building is t ho home, office of the industry which for two long years litis addled the atmosphere of the neighbor hood, curdled tho circumambient air, and stagnated Mission creek as it trickled musically on to the moonlit cstero. Forcing a passage through the odor of decayed fish, Ihe rep trier ac costed it veii"rable China man whose name is One Lung Gone. All of Mr. Gone's teeth were indeed gone, with the exception of live time-worn stumps, but that custodian of the drying es tablishment certainly travels under a misnomer in so far as his lung are brought into question. The gentle man made up in courtesy what he hicl'cd in molars, aiid extended the the hospitality of the institution in smoothest ot pigeon English. Arranged with great regtlrd for econ omy of space are six large tanks or vats, four holding probably a ton of fisli apiece and two of three times that capacity. A chimney of brick is built uj) from the fireplace, upon which hat ter structure is arranged places foi large .boilers. A small room parti tioned oil' for sleeping bunks and ti small loan-to roof hoarded in for ti work-room completed the in door arrangements of this establish ment. The process for curing the fish is ti very simple one. Upon being dis embarked from the sfJiooner they tire split open, cleaned and laid out to dry. After a suitable time they are packed away in the vats in layers of salt, and when sufficiently, cured are bound up into bundles in matting, and are then ready for shipment. Tins varieties iu most favor are a species of codfish, harracud.i and dog fish. The latter is now the kind most plen tiful, and long row's of them lay upon the frame, smiling, with a ghastly display of teeth, in the warm sun. The fish when cured are worth about 70 per ton, the four hundred tons cured dur ing thy last two years representing some Sis, 000. Forty tons of fish have been lost iu the curing, and these are those which made Home howl, or rather mado t lit adjoining residents wish they were dead or that the fish were not. I'he lisli of the largo teeth, called hv he Chinamen dogfish, are obtained be low S.in Diego, the fishing operations oeing carried mi many miles south of (hat point. Harracuda. in season, are of course obtained in great numbers in this channel. Most peculiar, however, is t bet ratio in sea moss. Thiseoinmodity s piled up in huge bales against the lire-place to dry. and there must be now on hand in the establishment sev eral tons ready for coiiMgnniont to the Chinese merchants in San Francisco and to the markets of China. The .noss is of ti beajit f til lavender tint, and is always conspicuous in albums ami sea-moss designs oh account of its delicate shapes and feathery loaves. It is washed up by every wave on the beach here tit Santa Harbara. but not in an amount nearly sufficient for com mercial purposes. Tiie great source of upply is the beach near More's hinti ng. The Chinese cooks Use it to make soups, anil it is said to tickle tiie Celes tial palate after a most delicious and savory ma niter. It i.s a pity that the American kitchen can not find a use for these two aban doned fruit products. Dried dog-fish and ser. moss, at the present writing, are not particularly luring baits to the pampered epicure of the Arlington or San Marcos, but there may be unlim ited possibilities iu the way of gastron omic glee hidtl"n within those rough exteriors, an I with this latter sugges tion tlio subject is turned over to those 'ntcrested in booming Stint a Harbara. Santa Barbara (Ca1.) Initrpemlcnt. Some Large Libraries. The largest library iu the worlil is he Hibliothoquo National, in Paris, tvhich contains 'J.OO.l.OOO volumes, and is wonderfully rich in manuscripts. The next largest is that of the Hritish Museum, w ith 1, i 500.000 volumes, and the third is the Imperial, iu St. Peters burg, with 1,100,000 volumes. Other ;reat libraries tire: Royal. Horliu, rOUOOO; lioynl, Dresden. and Royal, Copenhagen, A00.0U0 each; ttoyal, Munich, l.'iO.OtU; hit lorial, Vienna. 400,000; Con gressional, Washington, .SSO.000, and University. Loipsic, JtUO.OOO, The Hos ton public library is tlio next largest iu America, after the Congressional, hav ng, including tho branches, 35.1,000 foluiues. Tho Yale library litis 190, XKI; tho Astor, Now York, 180,000; tho Mercantile, iu Philadelphia, 135,000; he Philadelphia library, lOo.OOO. and he National, of Mexico, 100,000. The 'anions Hodloiiiu Library. Oxford Uni- rerslt,v. Kngland, has 330,000 voluntas. 1 Browhjn A'ay, BLASTED PASS. The AVur llctwcen the Ire and tho ltiiHwiiTfl. Hudsox, Wis., April 4.1 nrrived hero last week just a little nliead of the biting blasts of tlio i. c. b. By tlm 1. c, b. I mean to imply tlfe interstate commission bill. I noticed while en route that the new law had stimulated travel to a .vonilcrftil degree. On my way from tlio south, where I win during tho winter, I noticed that tho sluggth arteries of trade Lad nlrcndy begun to palpi tate, and crowds of people filled tlio cars on every train. 1 fcaid to myself, congress has at Inst solved this great question of flnniicial stringency und broken the great dam Unit held capital captive. On tlio Piedmont Air lino people crushed each other together In a mad attempt to travel. On tho Richmond and Dnnvillo and E. T., K. and O., as ell as tho L. and N humanity crowded day coaches and sleepers till the walls cracked. At Cincinnati I could not got a sleeping car at nil, and I bnd to telegraph twenty-four bom's ahead to get one from Chicago. Everywhere, as far ns tlio eyo could rench, thero seemed to lie a wild and restless desire to get somewhere else. Several companies hnvo to put on extra coaches to carry tlio'cager tourists. I arrived hero just in time to witness the last moments of a nortliK 3tern pass as its spirit took its flight. Had t iostioned my journey for ii hinglo tiny I would havo been too late. It was still yotmg. Life was beforo it. Rarely a quarter of tlio span of its life had iK'eu passed when it curled up and expired. It was a cute (ittlo tiling, with nil olivo coin ploxion and large, mournful, upper case eyes. A few weeks ago I noticed that it did not look well. It did not complain of illness or pain, hut I thought I detected n condition on its back, and so 1 hurried homo in order to Ikj here in ease it should expire. As soon as tho -oiidnctor looked at it and felt its pulso ho -au'd that heeould tie nothing for it. Tliointer stnto commerce law is one of tliosotliingstlint will have to Ik, tried before wo can pass upon it, I presume, though sonio claim thnt it is going to bu very dil.icull to pass upon it oven then. Tlio thought occurred to mo just ufter the gate keeper pushed mo back yesterday and told me to go nud get my ticket l then lirst rcnlin.il what it was to bo rudely ground under the heel of n cold coqioratioii that is devoid of heart, devoid of soul, dovoid of noble thoughts, devoid of refined instincts, devoid of kind impulses, dovoid of milk of human kindness, devoid of bowels of compas sion. From force of hnliit I walked up to the gatu with n joyous nod and the old password, only to bo coldly repulsed by tho hired bouncer of this heartless, soulless, iniptdseloss, milklcss and bowellcss corporation. Rut tho railroads will get tho worst of it, for I know that travel on sonto of tho lines has fallen otr since April 1, I can seo it already. 1 have fallen off myself since tho 1st if the mouth and others will do tho same That is not nil. A friend of initio who runs a paper, and whoso pass got tho hollow hoiv on 1'Viday last, says that his columns ere no!? open to those who wish to complain of tho management of this road. lie states thnt tho first hot box will be duly chronicled, and that hti will no longer close his eyes to the wrongs wo have heretofore buffered at tho hiindsof this unjust nnd ruthless vunipire that has been sapping the very foundation of our in stitut ions and smearing its long, dark trail with tho remnants of our liest milch cows, reluctantly paying for them tho price set at the tail of an unjust nud enervating trial by a corrupt, venal and driveling jury. IIo bays that "tho liino lias come for the press to arise and assert itself," nnd when tho train runs otr the track and kills a lot of people who have led exemplary lives, his pa llor will hereafter tell why and how it was done. Heretofore ho has not hnd suflieient help in tho oilice, ho claims-, and ho fro queutly i nn short of tyix;, hut now ho is go ing to give nil tho particulars of tho first smash up that occurs on tho road if tho paper falls into the relentless maw of a sheriffs sale on tho following week. Now York Worlil. The One II Forgot. "John, I would liko to invito my friend, Mix Sinidley this evening. Will you Ikj nblo tohoi.ii" "Xo, my dear, I must attend a meeting of tho Knights of Honor to-night" "Well, to-morrow evening?" "I havo tho Ancient Order of United Workmen, and you know" "What about Wednesday even ing!' "Oh. the Odtl Fellows meet that night, .and on Thursday I havo a meeting of tho Cjosen Friends to attend; on Friday tho Royal T- mplars; on Saturday there is a. speck. 1 meeting of tlio Masonic lodge, and I 'ouhhi't inks that; and then Sunday let mo ee what is there on Sunday night, my leai C "Tho Uraud and Ancient Order Christian Fellowship." "Why, I had forgot ten, am 1 member of that let mo see " "Cut you havo forgotten another socletv, John." "What's thut?" "Your wife's." Ros ton' Record. A Case for I'uoteur. VSiSi MI tVSIv I "Look henh, Sti' Jane, I tlono lef a qunht bottle of blaekbe'y brandy in dat cubbonud when I went out to took home dat 'ionin', an' now day isn't enough of dat tonic to weaken ono dose, of my cough inixttmh. Wliar dat likker nil appeahed to, I Vixseti" "How I know what coino of yeh likker? You might got moaU senso dan put anything in dat ar cubboahd; it's jes' lilin full of cockroaches." "Well, you' olo man done got bit by cockroach, don, fob, I jes' met him flown street tight in' wid two ohcemoa who was tyin' 1'iim down on a dray." Toras Sif t ingu. II Win Put ill tho Paper. A friend writing from Roston relates tho following nnecdote, toltl her by n head master of oneot tho schools in thnt city, as illustra tive of tho hold that a well known daily paper has upou the poptjar mind: "Tho recitation was in ancient hiitory. The pupil was expatiating upon tho topic of the Olympic games. 'A great many jieoplo ent to see them,' she said, 'because it was put in the paper when tlioy wore coming off.' 'The yaper!' exclaimed tho teacher. 'Dal they havo newspapers Ja thosodaysr 'Why, yuj,' won tho reply, it iaya to in t'f.o book, nny way ; it tvya llw Herald proclaimed tbem.' " Ojen BILL NYE'S f II 1 Court.