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CHRISTENING. To-day I saw a little calm-eyed child Where soft l:RhU rippled and tho ghadowi tarried Within tho church's sholtor arched and aisled Peacefully wondering, to the altar carried. White-robed and swoot, In semblanco of a flower. White tho daisies that adornftd the chancel ; Borne like u Rift tho young wlfo's natural dower OttcrpA to God as her most precious hansel. Then ceased tho mus'c, nnd tho little ono Wns silent; and tho multitude nsscmblcd, Ilarkcncil; and when of Futhcr and of Son He spolcc, tho pastor s aecp voico orono una trembled. ( Dut she, tho child, knew not tho solomn wo rds , And suddenly yielded to a troubled walling , As helpless as the cry of frightened birds, j Whose untried wings for flight aro un--availing. now like Is this, I thoueht, to older folk I Tho blessing falls: wo call It tribulation, A And fancy that we wear a sorrow's yoko Even at tho moment of our consecration. i Oiorae 1'artom IMhroy, in Ilarptr'i Maqatlne, STOKY OF A VASE. Tho Tragedy with "Whloh It Was ! Connoctod. j George. S. Goodwin stood with his j back to tho firo-plno and ono hand in , his pocket, thinking. Wlten hi9 two hands were strong lio usually hadthom hotli in ills pockets, but on this even ing ono hung in a sling, brokon. Half nn hour before his wifo liad departed for church with Mr. and Mr.. Whittier, thoir next-door noighbors. and shortly afterwards llio sorvants had gone, prosuninblv lo church, too. So for once tho master of tho liouso was in complolo possession. And every fow inonionts ho reached over with his loft hand and gently slrokod tho ono In tho sling and muttered: "It's jolly painful. I know," nnd then fell to thinking again. Although Into in tho autumn, no lire burnnd in iho grate. Uut Good win felt just a little lonesome, and second naluro drow him to tho firo placo for comfort. Whon a man 13 lonosonio a lire, if it does not actually choor him. at loast is very compan ionable, and wlieu there is no lire a person must just put up with tho plnco whero a lire should be. So Goodwin In eked up to tho empty grate, looked at tho coiling, gazod slowly round tho room for somothing to interest him, then down at ids toes and lonnod bnck againsfc tho mantel piece. Thou thoro was a crash. Bo hind him stood a haudsomo Dresden vase, rulluelod in a mirror, and as Goodwin loaned back tho wonkly stip j ortcd manlol-sholf partly gavo way under his weight, and tho vaso an heirloom and to him priceless toppled ovor, fell against tho shoulder of his broken arm, slid an Inch or so nnd stuck in a wrinkle of tlio coat ho was wearing, and there it stuck while numer ous small ornaments clnttorod and smashed on the fender bolow. Good win stood perfectly still and gazed for a moment ruefully at tho .smashed articles on the iloor, thou slowly turned his bond and looked at tho vnso. There it stuck, a delicato pink flower caught insecurely on tho wrinkle of the coat a hold that any move, however slight, might unlooso and then for a smash on the mantel piece and fender. II looked for a mo ment without breathing, thou said: "Well, I say," aid looked again. Cautiously raising his left hand across Ills breast, until the linger tips were up to his shoulder, but there stopped, for without moving ids injured arm ho could get no far her and to move tho limb simply meant certain destruc Hon to the vaso. Ho thought of all the schomes that would come into his mind, whether by a quick turn ho could catch the vase before it hit tho mantel-piece or could ho catch it by putting his hand behind his back and letting it fall into the hand. Hut all tho schemes ho felt certain would end in tho breaking of the one ornament in tho house that he could not atlbrd to spare. "No," ho muttered to himsolf, "There's nothing to do but stand right hero like a statue till Gracio comes home. That's all about it. As Gen- i rrnl Grant said: 'I'll light it out on j this line if it takes all summer.' When ! Grade comes and relieve mo I'll , probably sit down. Stand bravely with my back to tho foe." Tlio clock behind him struck seven. Tho house was now quite dark and a fog hung low ovor tho ground out side. As Goorgo Goodwin stood, as still as a man without a cigar oau bo ex pected to stand, ho thought he heard a grating sound in tho kitchen. There was a rasp and tho back door seemed to bo opouod quickly and shut softly. As ho strained ids hearing ho caught the sound of inullled footstep-!. In stantly tho thought of burglars tlashod through his mind. Church burglars without a doubt. Ho had road repeat edly of men who watch for those Louses left tin tended by occupants nnd servants, all going out of a Sun day evening. What if tlio fact that no light buruod nnd every thing was on quiet In the house, 'had caused soma of those rulllnus to believe the house untenanted. It was more than likely. What to do ho did not know. To move wns out of tho question. Yes, ovoti though (hoy stole tho house from over lilm ho would not break that vase. If he shouted ho was afraid tho motion necessary would un lodge it from Its frail hold. Anyhow, his nearest neighbor ho knew hud gone to church. Tho only thing to bo done was Jo koop as still as ho could, and, If possible, got a glimpse of "ho burglars so that lie might make it interesting for them afterwards. H tlw caught sight of him donbtloss thay would douamp a good deal quicker thau they cnnio. If thoy didn't ho might got cvldonco . . si'iiiciont to capluro ami convict mem. Tno noiso In tlio kllchon incr ased. Thoro wns now no doubt of tlio char acter of tho visit. Into tlio hall llioy came, two men willi a dark lantern throwing a small circle of light boforo them. Tlio door of tho sitting-room where Goodwin was stood partly open. Hi dimly snw them peer into tho dluiug-roo u; then ono of tliom coming toward1 the sitting-room door, said in a loud whisper: "Bill, lot's s art 'etc." "No," said Uio other, "Micro ain't I over nothing in asittln'-room. Thai's j tlio sUtin'-room. Lot's find thoir bed-i room. Thai's where they keeps thoir jjwols anil money if they've got any." "Well, tlion, up s'airs wo goo.," and up I hoy went q i lolly, Giodwin know I hoy would be ro warded. His wife's jewelry was sure to bo exposed. S miio of it was valua ble and some not. It was all too good to bo lost, any how. "Ono thing is certain," thought Goodwin, "I can tell the height of thoso nio ii. and ono of thorn is called Dill. Both ar.i illiterate, and one lies a peculiar, rasping voice, easy of Identification. A cood detectivo will hunt thom nut. Probably thai ! soon light will fall o.i one of their facos bo fore they go." After a short time the stairs agnin creaked, and the circle of light again shot past the door, and as tho lantern swung in the ha ids of Bill: "Tills here Is a pretty slick haul," said ho of tlio raspy vice, "I t-ny them's real, don't yon?" "Course them's real all right, thov'ro big glitters loo. Shall we look for any silver, or havo wo got all as wo want?'' "Well, I'm for some of thoir silver f we can find it." "If you ask me," said Bill. "I'm for off with tills as we've got. It's all wo can handle. I say wo go." "All right. We've got plonty of tinio and we'll divide here. Thou vou'll go your way r.nd I'll go mine. Wo can't both bo nabbed. '' "What? Divide 'ero? It's dan gorous. Tins nin't no place to di vide. I've got 'em nil safe in my pockets, and we'll divvy when wo gets homo. L't'sgi. " "No, you don't," said tlio raspy voice, "I'm for a divvy right hore and I'm goln' to have it. Then wo can go our own way. Sit down hero. G'vo nn tho light. 'J hat's it now bundle (lie tilings out on the lloor. Thoro you aro." Tho two nion sat down near tlio open door with the light botweon thorn sad Bill slowly began to dis gorge. There were llio wife's dia mond rings, ,two of them; Goodwin's watch, which he had laid aside whon ids arm wns broken; a lino gold nocklm-o and locket, a diamond for llio hair, four gold bracelets, jewolud; a number of smaller articles and tlion thoro was a stop. As tho light shono on Bill's lingers Goodwin noticed ids index linger on tho right hand was gone. B it both hud worn a mask. "Where's tliom gol 1 studs and that thoro gold brooch I saw you take," sal I tho raspy voice. "Oh. yes, lliom studs, I forgot," said B 11 as he put his hand in an in side packet and took thorn out. 'Where's the brooch?" "There wasn't no brooch as I got." "Yis, there was. it's the host thing of the swag. Out with it." "1 say 1 haven't got no brooch." "Y-r tryin' to suoak it. You can't fool me. O it with it, or by tlio L or' I'll make ye." "1 haven't got stand off, Tom. Don't you lay hands on inc." "Out with it." Both men were now on their foot." "Stand oil', Tom. I warn ye. 1 hain't got"- "Glvo it up," saiil Tom, in a low, savage voice, as ho sprang at tlio throat of his companion. There wns a sharp, quiet struggle, a fow gasps of exertion, a gleam in tlio air. The sitting-room door flew open. A man staggered backward Into the room with his hands lo Ids breast. "1 warned" "You've done for me, Bill," gasped the man as ho sank to his knees. "1 warned you," half shouted Bill, with terror in his voice as lie stared at his companion. The stricken man shuddered nnd gasped, stood up, staggered and foil backward with a heavy crash on tho lloor. His arms spread out, his head rolled to one side and ho lay dead. Tho lantern, now on Its side, streamed on Iho uncovered face of the murdoror, and stamped the likeness on Good win's mind. The murderer clutchod the door and stood for a second glar ing in terror at the dead man. Good will stood traustix'jd with the awful scone. "My Godi" muttered tlio man, "I've killed Tom." Then looked at the knife hold in his hand. Holding it at arm's length from him he throw it at tho ) rostrate form. Felt in ids coat, tore from its lining the fatal brooch nnd oust it from li'.m. With one last look he t do out of the room and w as gone. Then tho strength faded from George Goodwin. His knees gavo wav, lib sondes reeled, his head sunk on lib breast, and as he fell to the lloor tin heavy vase toppled over, smashed on Goodwin's head and lay in pieces in the dark room beside the s-onsoloss spi'ctntor and the murdered man. Moull s after tlio time, George Good win recovered from the terrible fevei that followed the night when the serv ants found him lying on the Hour. Hi lay delirious frtm tho Inji.rl.s u lit. luted o.iuil by the vaso he had It i.d so hard to protect- Eury person i 'supposed that In a dosporato strugglo .till (11 . i t I ...I.m lie hnil klllod tho burclar. and when the spring time camo and ho got sironger in health, and tho wound had almost honied his wifo and friends realiz) 1 that ho was hopolossly insane. He rapidly gained in strength, but his fnco bore a troubled look, and for hours ho sat brooding always refus ing to enter tlio sitting room and in sisting Hint all tlio mantle-pieces ho taken down and that Ids wifo put on no jiwelry. Nit until Miy was ho able to take short walks. Ono bright morning Mrs. Giodwin put on him a lioavy coat and sonthim for li I:i usual walk in charge of a serv ant. Tho path lay over one of tho many hen! lis that surround tho groat city of London and past a row of houses in cours i of erection. As tlio Invalid ami ids attondant ap proached ono of liieso houses n hod carrier came down a ladder and commenced filling his hod with bricks. When the Invalid was almost opposilo him tho man looked up and shouted to n fellow Jn borer on tho half built wall. This companion looked over tho sido and the 1 right suuligh. rellectod from a piece of tin rooting, fell strongly on his face. Giodwin stopped short. Then with a bound ho tvachod the lad- ler, and before tho servant could stop almost flew up. In nn Instant ho had tho man by tlio throat. "You murdered llio man Tom," ho shouted. "Stand off; you l:e; back!" shouted the man, recoiling aghast. Tlion springing forward and putting fori b fill his strength ho hurled tho weak man lo the ground bolow. For a niomont the double murderer stood still. Then, buttoning his coat over Ids broast and stepping forward ho said: "Mm. I killed Tom Britlon." E. Ill Sabel, in Detroit Free Press LEMAITRE'S JOKES. How mi Kmlnmit Frniinti Actor Trlml HI Itiilu hi 11 ml I.ll'.i. Whon tho eminent French nc'or Le maitro had a now role to play ho in variably tried it on the public in the aTery-day courso of his lifo before iic'ing it on tho stage. Ono day he wns traveling in a crowded stage loach when iho idja struck liiiu to rohoarso a scene in which ho was to rorsonato tho part of a sick man. Suddenly liis visage became, as it wore, decomposed; his eyes grow dim; his arms dropped down motionless; his body doubled up, and ho sighed and groaned most hoart-rendingly. All ids fellow-travelers regarded him with fear and troinbling; soino thought ho was seized with black cholera and on the point of death. The coacli stoppod and ho was about to bo romovod to llio nearest doctor, when L.iinaitro, judging that he had gone quite far enough, and delighted with his success, gradually bccaino himsolf .again, and a fow witty re uarks disclosed tlio secret of his ill noss. On nuothor occasion ho indulged in i Minilnr rehearsal at the Cafo dos Variotes, but this tinio ho nearly got into hot water. He entered tho cafo, swaggering like a bully, and after gazing at all tho cusloinors with con tempt, stoppoil at a table where a voung ollleerand his wifo wore sitting. Hero Ids bearing beeanio so insolent hat every body protested, and callo 1 ni llio landlord to turn him out. Tlio voung o til cor, palo witli rago and indignation, rushed at him and dc .unntfod an explanation. S.uldonly Loinaitio again changed ,iis appearance. Ho was no longer lie Captain Fracnsse of a fow minutes noviom, but a confirmed idiot, un 'ouscious of wlia' ho had done. The Ulcer shrugged his sliouldors in pity ind resumed Ids .scat, while tho actor, aking tho next table, sat down liko an military customer, ordered sonio cof ee and proceeded to read the papers is if nothing had happened. 1'all Mall Gazette. BARBARA HECK'S WORK. I'hn I.lfa of a Womuii Known ns tlio l-'oiiiiilrsits of Aimtrluitii Methodism. Barbara Hock Is known in church ilstory ns "tho foundress of American .Methodism." She was born in Iroland i Gorman parents, who bolongod to a .ettleinont of German emigrants from lie llliino Palatinate to the Emerald isle. These people soon came under ilio lullueiice of Wesley and his preachers, and formed one of the Wrongest Methodist societies in Ire laud. In 17G0 Piiilip Embury, aMelh id is t preacher, with a number of these G minus, including Paul Hck nnd his ttifo Barbara, sailed for New York. Settling there, for sonio reason they gavo up their Wesleyau ir.ootings, but In 1766 Mrs. Heck had become in impressed with the wickedness of this falling off that she felt called upon to arouso lior friends from their lethargy. Her earnest words so im pressed Embury that he again under took his work as a preacher. She rested not until she had gathered a 111 tie congregation to meet at his house, and by their joint exertions tho famous "Old John S.roet Chapel," tlio llrst Methodist Church in America, was built. When Wesley's preachers camo to take charge of the John Street Church, Mrs. IL-ek removed with her family nnd that of Embury toNoitheru New York, where they founded M thodlst societies. They finally set tled in Upper Cinada, and beer.mo tho founders tf thoir denomination in that locality. Barbara Heck died there, at lie rojddonoH if lior son, Samuel Hook, near Augusta, in ISO I, at the ago of suvuiity years. 1immijo Inter' Octan. 'Suite, dweller hi isuito home," sings the tho family hotel. A". Y. LEAP-YEAR PRIVILEGES. Tlme.llonorrit Illclita nnd rrcrocntlTe of Ihn llrntlrr ffl. It is probable that man of tho fair and nt least an equal number of the unfair sex have scarcely bestowed a thought upon the fact that 1888 is leap year, in which tlio ladies' law, as it is called, may prevail. In three years out of every four man has the privilege of "popping the ques tion." and the annoyance of sometimes having a plain-spoken "No" for tho re ply. On tlio fourth year woman may propose, if it so plcaso her. A lady his tho privilego in leap year of suggesting marriage between her self and a bachelor acquaintance. In the event of his refusing, the penalty is that the ungallant gentleman shall pre sent tho tender damsel with a now silk dress. Thoro is a reservation, however, that the right to claim this penalty depends on tlio circumstance that when she proposed the damsel was tho wearer of a scarlet petticoat, which (or a little if tlio lower portion of which) she must exhibit to tho gentleman, the under stood idea being that tlio silken dress "hull cover tho petti -oat, and thus as suage dire feminine indignation at tho rejection of her offered hand. If any of the readers catch a glimpse in 18S3 say in a high wind, or when a carriage or car is entered, or a muddy street urosso I of the slightest bit of scarlet in a lady's most comfortable tnd usually unexhibitcd garment, they may imagine that she has quitted the house with the dire intent of asking somebody to marry hoi or of getting the silk dress mentioned. It is said that in a work entitled Courtship, Love and Matrimony,'.' published in 1606, ten years before thei death of Shakespeare, is this explain tion regarding ladies' privileges inj leap-year: "Albeit, it is now become a part of the common lawe, in regard to social re-) lations of life, that as often as every bissextile year doth return, the ladies havo the solo privilege, during the time it continueth, of making love unto the nion, which they do, either by wordes or lookes, as to them it seeinoth proper; and, moreover, no man will bo entitled to benefit of clergy who dotho in any way treate lior proposal with slight or contumely." This quotation is given by a corres pondent of Notes and Queries, but there aro some words in it which were scarcely in common use in Shakes peare's time. "Social relations of lifo" is a com paratively modern phrase; and though the word "relations" is used once by Shakespeare, "social" never was. Oddly the word "contumely," though not given in "Ayscough's Concord ance," occurs in "the proud man's con tumely," which is put into ono of Hani let's most thoughtful soliloquies. Tlio follow ing is tho statute in tho old Saxon code referring to leap year: "Albeit, as often as leapo yearre dotheo occure, the woman holdctli pre rogative over tlio meiine in matters of courtships, love and niatrinionie; so that, when the lady proposeth it shall not be lawful for the man to say her nae,' but shall entertain her proposall in all glide curtcsie." A Scotch statuto of 1228 reads as fol lows: "It is statut and ordaint that during the reino of her niaist blessit majestic, ilk forth year, known as leap year, ilk maiden ladye of baith high and low estait shall have liberty to bespeak ye man she likes; albyit, if ho refuses to take her to be wif, lie shall bo mulcted in tho sum of ono pound (1) or less, as his estait mai he. except and awls if ho can niako it appear that lie is be trothed to ono woman, and then he shall be free." Leap year natural! makes ii3 think of marriage; and wo hope all tho young ladies and widows will bo bold enough to "pop tho question," and do it with out blushing or stammering. Now is your opportunity. Troy (X. Y.) Times. ADOPTED CHILDREN. How to Mnke Adoptions According to All tlm I'lirms of Law, The lovo of children is so much a part of our natural instincts that it leads many childless parents to adopt as their own some child, the lovo of which they hope shall satisfy tlio needs of their na ture in this regard. They so often do this by niero word of mouth and tho taking home of the little one that It is well to know that, unless tho adoption is made formally and by proscribed le gal steps, they aro only making future sorrow and vexation for thenisvos in stead of tlio happiness thoy have airsiei patod. For at some futuro time, when it may havo become convenient, or do sirablc. tho former owners or guardians of the child may claim it and take it aw ay, though they should tear out the new parent's heartstrings with it. It is titling, then, in order that there shall bo no trouble by and by, that tho adop tion of the child, w hen made, shall be made according to all tho forms of law. These require the petition to the court of both tho husband and wife desiring to adopt, accompanied by tho written consent of the child's parents or other guardians, or, in tho absence of such persons, of some ono appointed by tho court to represent tliom. When tills petition has boon granted, and the adoption has been sanctioned by tlio court, it can not bo undone, and the child is, to all the intents ami purposes of law, the child of its adopting father and mother, and can inherit from or through thom every thing that U not entailed upon dosoondnnvs by blood. Any appeal from the sanction of thtt court must lid made within n your, or otherwise it is usolesa. Harper's Jlttzar. AN INGENIOUS DEVICE. Tlie Inrentlun of CHlifnrnln I'liyslclan fnt ThIcIiict Chloroform. Ono of the most peculiar cases is thai of a doctor who was formerly one oi tlio finest practitioners of tlio West Coining from an excellent family, pos sessed of largo wealth, ho received a liberal education, and, deciding to become a physician, studied at ono ol the best Eastern colleges, and gradu ated with unusual honors. Many year? ago he camo to San Francisco, and after having been established here fot a short time began to acquire a fine practice. In a few years lie had among his patients some of the most promi nent and wealth men of the city. He had occasion to use a largo quantity ol chloroform in his treatment, and when lie began to bo troubled with insomnia, tho result of repeated attacks of neu ralgia, he also turned to the anicsthctic for relief. But tho remedy subse quently proved to be worse than the disease, for with repeated applications he found that ho was unable to discon tinue its use, and soon became a con firmed user of the drug. He would frequently return to bed during tin? early part of the day for the purpose of enjoying the drug, and not a night passed that lie did not avail himself ol its sleep-producing powers. Tlio cun ning of an insane mind began to devisi! means to add to the enjoyment of the body, and finally evolved an idea which must bo admitted to bo certainly orig inal. Obtaining a long rubber tube, which could bo easily stretched, ho attached firmly to tho ceiling at a spot which would be directly over his head when in bed. To the other end ho fastened a medium sizeil sponge. After getting into bed he would pour throe or four ounces of chloroform over the sponge, often using half :, pound during the night, and then pulling it down to his face would hold it to his nostrils until unconsciousness ensued. When his hand fell to ids side, the tension on the rubber tube being relaxed, the sponge naturally flew upwards, leaving the victim to continue Ids sleep without tlm possibility of receiving an overdose. If he awoke duVng the night the operation would be repeated. "It was a great scheme," to use a slang phrase, but it is not known if the doctor ever applied for a patent on tlio invention. It is possible, however, that the prac tice continued until ho had been a user of tho drug for some time, and so continued until lie had merely patients enough to cnablo him to preserve a proper appearance of respectability. Although practically a slave to tho drug for years, it is said, but with what truth can not be readily ascertained, that of late ho lias begun to see the handwriting on the wall, and realizing what the end must be unless tho habit is abandoned now uses tho drug to but a small extent. San Francisco Chron icle. m TRUTH OF WEATHER-LORE. The Kovcronco for Tnitlltlon Kutertnlned by the Average Mortal. Tho persistent survival of weather lore in these days of intellectual eman cipation is not at all remarkable when wo consider the extent to which tho vulgar sayings embody real truths. A ,few years ago Messrs. Abercroniby and Marriott embarked on an extremely interesting inquiry with a view to de termine, by actual comparison, how far the popular proverbs express relations, or sequences, which the results of me teorological science show to bo real. Tho investigation proved that some thing like a hundred of the moro popu lar savings are, under ordinary con ditions, trustworthy. Such being tlio case, we need not bo surprised that simple country folk prefor familiar couplets to all the "isobars," "cy clones," and "synchronous charts," in tho world. If "hills clear, rain near," means thosamo as "tlio presence of a wedge-shaped area of high pressure, accompanied by great atmospheric visibility, is likely to bo followed by tho advance of a disturbance with rain and southerly winds," which for nil practical purposes it does, tho preference is justified on tlio niero ground of breath economy. Tho thir-ty-ono words demanded by science stand no ehance against four. But it is unfortunato that, along with tlio limited number of folk-sayings founded on truth, there has sur vived a very largo number founded on tho grossest error. These latter havo borrowed credence and respect from tho proved credibility of the others, and apparently they are all destined to dnk or swim together. Hammer as wo will at certain favorite proverbs which wo know to bo based upon error, it is all in vain. Tlio reverence for tradition is too much for us. And of nil the superstitions, pure and simple, which defy our attempts at destruction, tho most invulnerable aro those ascrib ing certain effects to the inlluence of tho moon. John West wood Oljver, in Popular Science Monthly. Senator Bate, of Tennessee, was a Confederate officer, and one of his peculiarities is the carrying of an un lighted cigar in his mouth. It is re lated of him that he was standing on a Held of battle in conversation with his brother, and as ho was in tlio net of lighting .i cigar Ids bro'hor fell dead at his feet, picked off by a Federal sharp shooter. Since that time it is said that General Bato has never lighted a cigar. Mrs. Mulligan, pension ngont nt Chicago, reports 86,609 pensioners on her rolls, of whloh number two are widows of soldiers, of the revolution, thirty-live survivors of the war f 1812 and -to'-' widows of veterans of that war Last year she dispersed uearly J7.000,-000. AN AUTOGRAPH MAR I. Vntue at the Slcimturp if a Numtier of J'Hinom Mm mid Wiiinen, One of tlio new fads of tho season is the collection of autograph letters from living men and women. Ono day this week a Broadway shopkeeper showed me an odd collection and told mo the' prices that ho hoped to get for oaeli letter. One from Browning, the poc is marked $l..r)0. A humorous letter to President Garfield, signed Mark Twain, is held at So. Tlio great humorist says: 'It seems to mo that it is better to havo a good man's flattering estimate of my inlluence and keep it than to fool it away with trying to get him ail office." A brief note signed by Wilkio Col lins, tho novelist, is held at $1.50. Another from Sir Charles Dilko. tho English statesman, whoso escapades caustPl such a sensation a year or more ago, is valued at $1. Ono from General John C. Fromont, the pathfinder, and the first candidate of tlio Republican party for President, is ticketed $2.75. An autograph verse and siguaturo bv Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is $2.25. A short letter written by eloquent Bob Ingeisoll is not valued very highly. It may be purchased for 75 cents. One from the Marqui.s of Lor no, ex-Governor-General of Canada, may bo had for $l.7o. Justin McCarthy's auto graph is valued at the same figure. John Buskin's is more highly prized. 1: is held at $ 1.50. Clark Kussell, the author of so many weird tales of tlio sea, has a name of some pecuniary moment. It is marked $2.50. A scrap of paper signed by General W. T. Sherman will bo sold for $5. A letter of Spurgeon. the famous English di vine, in which he mentions the Tory pres is "bullying mo very badly," may bo had for $1.2,). A letter from Charles Algernon Swinburne, tho poet, apologizing for his illegible handwtit ing, is valued at$l. One from Sir Arthur Sullivan, of operatic fame, may be had for $2.75. Another from Alma Tadema, the dis iuguisiied English artist, is held at SI. 75. A badly writ ten note from Edmund Yates, tho En glish j nirnalist, is quoted at $1.25. The signature of Albani, th" sweet sin ger, may bo had for $4.50. Horatio Alger, Jr., the writer of boys' books, is not so high priced His may bo had for 50 cents. Lawrenco Barrett, tho ac tor, can get SI for his own signature; George Bancroft, the historian, SI; James Gillespie Blaine, $1.25; Benja min F. Butler, 50 cents: George William Curtis, 25 cents; Samuel Sun set Cox, tho witty member of the House, 50 cents; James Freeman Clark, tlio eminent Boston divine, $1; Simon Cameron, tlio Nestor of Keystone State politics, 75 cents; Georgo W. Cliilds, Editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, 50 cents, and the signature of his old enemy. Chas. A. Dana. Editor of tho Now York Sun, at the same figure; Roso Eytinge, tlio actress, 50 cents; Edison, tho Menlo Park wizard, 50 cents; Emily Faithful, tlio English philanthropist and writer, $1.25; Cyrus W. Field. $1; Mary J. Holmes, the novelist, 50 cents; ex-President Hayon, 50 cents; Joel Chandler Harris, "Uncle Renins," 50 cents; James Russell Lowell, $1.50; Modjeska, tho actress, 50 cents; Levi P. Morten, cx-Ministcr to France, only 25 cents; Louise Chandler Moulton, the Boston writ'? 75 conts, Bill Nye, 50 cents, Edward E. Rice, the theatrical manager, 25 cents, and Stuart Robson. the comedian 75' cents; a poem by Stednian, $6: a signa ture by Carl Scliurz. 50 cents: one by John Sherman, 75 cents; Richard A. Proctor, tho astronomer, $1.25; and Zola, tlio French novelist, S6.50. Three signatures by people of tho stage may be had for 50 cents; they aro Fanny Davenport, Mary Anderson and Wil son Barrett. Senator Evarts, Roseou Conkling, ex-Senator Mahono, Senator Chandler, Fred Douglass, Speaker Car lilse, Stove Dorsey, Samuel J. Randall and Senator Vest for 25 cents each. Tho most costly siguaturo is tliat ol Ouida, tho novelist. $7.50, and tho clioapest Boston's only Mike Kelly, the ball tosor. 10 couts. i.V. Y. Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. An Accommodating Climate. "Pretty cold out your way, winters, isn't it? Mercury twenty below, and all that sort of thing?" "Why, yes," said tho Minneapolis num. "it is kind o' cold; but then tho fact is, tlio cold sort o' strikes right in and takes hold, and stays there; and you really aren't conscious of it till it bsgins to thaw out of your system in the spring. And then llio weather 's warm, and you can stand it," Puck. The colored school atHawkinsville, Ga.. to bo known as tho Dempsey Clarke Institute, was named . after Dotnpsev Clarke, who years ago was sold as a slave on tho block by the sheriff at Hawkinsville. Ho ran away from his new master, took to tlio swamps, and for years lived as a runa way slave. Ho was at length captured by dogs, but again ran away. His owner Bold him while yet in tho'woods. Dempsjy was pleased with his now owner, and bccaino ids most trusty servant. After tlio war ho became a landowner, prospered, and is now ono of the most prominent planters of Houston County, ami his liberal gifts have resulted in tho new school. A rubber ball, two inches smaller than the pipe, was placed in one ond of a new natural gas main in MoKeosport, and live pounds pressure suddenly turned on. The ball turned several sharp corners, pnsiod through two T joints up six ftjut u thii top of the regu Utor mm landed at Iho other end of uio main, a mile distant, in foriy-livo seconds, actual time.
