FOREIGN GOSSIP. C mm von Moltko wears a yollow ffig. Tho Nova Scotia gold mines ylold od about 5500,000 last year. Biionos Ayros, in tho Argontino Republic is now tho largest citv in South America, tho census of 1887 giving it a population of 481,003. Tliero aro thirty -so ven tunnels of moro Ihan 1.OJ0 yar.ls In England, tho longest boing thatof tho Scvoru 7.CG1 yards. It is stated that tho numbor of youths of noblorauKin Italy, studying for tho .Human pries thood, is smaller to-dn than ever boforo within tho incriiory of man. Tea-drinking is rapidly Increasing in France, especially in tho wine growing district. It Is rocomtnonded as not only tho best digestive, but as tho sweat moans of sustaining intel lectual energy. Alpine guides aro in demand in tin' II uinlavas. in tho C.iuensus, and among the N iw Zialanl Alps; and a British mountaineer recant ly asserted that our own Mount St. Ellns would never bo nsoondod without tho aid of a fow professional Swiss climbers. Electric ligli s have beon put In tho Paris morgue, willi an idea of in creasing tho 11' -ct producod upon mur derers upon being confronted willi tholr victims. Under the ollbct of the light tho "confrontations" aro ox peclod to bo much moro efiuoliw. M. Bapst, a Purls jeweler, in a rc cont lecturo alleged that the snorodly gunided seopter of Ciiarlomagno is nothing more than a musician's ba'oti, anil that underneath tho rod vo vet surrounding tho handle aro engraved tho words: "This baton Is my prop erty , singer in Notre Dame, 1280." Tho Czar of Russia Is said to do much more work than any of his min isters, and can bo found at his desk at almost any hour of tho day. Ho rises boforo any of his household, attends mass every morning, and Is scrupu lously exact in tho performance of all his religious dtitios. j Sehneckonbtirgor. tho author of, 'Dio Wacht am Hholn, " is to have a; monument at Tuttliugeu, Girinnuy, j expressing tho sentiiuout of his song. , A fund of $7 COO has beon raised for ! the purpose, and tho Grand Duke of Snxo-Weimnr is pnsldent of the mon umental committee. German-Amor- , leans havo contributed liberally to tho fund. I A most admlrablo charitv is that , of the Salvation Army In London, I which has o ened a restaurant, where , a nioiil ma' be bought for a farthing, i Tho small coin pavs for a bowl of soup or a half loaf of bread, and two far- ( things secures a cup of coffee or cocoa i and a si ce of bread and j int. Thus i for nbo.it two eonis a wholesome meal can bo boitgli'. Tiireoponco brings meat and potatoes and a halfpenny u dish of rice. JAPANESE HAND-STOVES. it Device Tlmt Ought In 11 u Adopted in Thl Country. A great institution that one learns to appreciate now Is the kairo, or J ipaueso haiul-sti vo. a little tin or copper box covero 1 with gaj'-pattern-od cotton cloth, mid about tho size of an ordinary purse. It. is an innocent looking thing b :tlows with a steady boat that does not waver, and stops just short of burning or scorching. '1 lie hidden lire is supplied by menus of a slick of line charcoal Incased in paper, that when lighted at one end burns with a steady glow for four or five hours, leaving behind a soft white ash. It l.s said that this pul veriz )il charcoal is made from bam boo and pi rsimmou leaves, but if so it is probable that thoy aro charred inore for economy's sake than for any special qualities they possess. Tim kairo Is cent uries old In Japan, but a groat im provement upon rubber bags and hot water bottlo.T ef Western people. With a kairo lit I ho pocket or in the hand one sail brave the coldest, ride, mid for ailinoiils tliero is nothing like It. Foreign physicians use tho kairo with ail hot applications, keeping poultices steaming for hours at a time, binding knifes o i the head and neck of iiou ralgie patients, and on the chests of tlni'O nfilloted with colds. In traveling tho kairo Is the comfort of life, a n atch boing all that Is re quired to start tho troploal glow for uno's lingers; and when wrapped up in a rug with kalros properly, dis tributed about, ono can remain on deck in the coldest weather. When the deathly agony and mis .try of sea sickness assails one, the kairo is better than all the bromidos and powders compounded, tho Utile firebox re maining at Its post when nothing else can be kept on the stomach. In damp and mildewy sea sons and places thu shrewd house ivlvos scatter kalros In the beds, the trunks and the linen closets, as with one stick of carbon tho littlo stove keeps up its gentle heat for more than four hours, and by pulling In two pieces ii burns for six and eight hours. Thu littlo box of peiforated tin or copper, with lb calico covering and sliding top, cosu from three cents to ton cents, and thu carbons, that come in a paper like firecrackers, aro only ono cent for leu. The Japanese entry a kairo in tholr long sleeves', where the) can hold It In their hands or slip It In their broad girdles, where thu warmth will spread and generally cheer thoiu thu most. Why the exporters havo never taken up the kairo with enthusiasm is u inyslery. NVxt after, ton thu kairo la the greatest blelug Japan can give to tho w. rid. Cur,, at. Louis tU:obi Democrat. ..." MARKETING BUTTER. BIMInkca That Aro Frequently Commit toil by Dairy Farmer. Tubs or packagos should bo noaf, of proper size, with covors fitting cloo and suitably fastened Tho gross weight and tub weight or tare should bo marked on plainly in pencil or otherwise. Tho address of tho party to .whom it is sent should bo neatly put on olthor by stencil, tag or brush; tho formor is most dosirablo. They nro usually furnishod by all commis sion men, oach stencil having its special numbor, which is registered to that particular shipper; for instance. No. 1 is registered to Smith, No. 2 to Drown and so on. All goods recoived withN'. 1 stencil mark aro credited to Mr. SinUli. whllo all with No. 2 stoncll brand on, nro credited to Mr. Brown, etc Thoroforo no mistakes can well occur. It shoul I bj r.) mo mb crcd that it is a drawback to tho prico of butter to liavo churn lugs of different colors in one tub. If you can not lill a largo tub at a churning, or guago tho color bolter use a size suitable to your make. Many think if they only got a nice churning on lop tho poor or light c 1 orcd one in tho bottom won't be seen, but the "trior," which is used most in variably to examine and soil by, tolls the tale and shows it. plainly from top to bottom, even to tiio salt between the ohurtiiugs or on the bottom. It also shows any surplus brine that may be stored away in the looso packing of tho butter. When tho butter shows stroakod or mottled on the trier wo know tho salt or brlno never struck those light spots, consequently the butter was not properly worked. If t tho butler comas out sticking to the back of tho trior, tough and soft on j tho front of it. wo know tho butter was over-wot kod. Should the butlor come out crisp and short, breaking i p roughly in places because of tho fric'ion in drawing tho trier, wo know it had boeii only worked onco, and a surplus of brlno loft In the composition. Whllo such butter will show In this style In win ter, in summor it can scarcely bo got hard; at least noPsolid. Some who salt tho butter by saturat ed brine often make the mistake of packing' when the granules aro so hard that they do not adhere to each other, and as the spaces are all filled willi llio brine, the trier drags them out in tho same form t!ioy caeio from tho churn, v Idle the buyer wonders if there is not corn-meal amongst, it. There is another trouble in salting by saturated brlno alone, becau-o of siiniij lacking conditions tho butter does not take the salt as usual; there foro, your butter hns much loss salt than you think; It has remained in tho I) fine. If butter sniolls choosy, we know the eream has reached too high temper ature, ami expect such butter to get rancid quickly. Smoky rain water, when use 1 1-v the cows, or in washinir the butler, is delected by smelling the f irier of butter, so Is the use of onions from tho early pasturos. Parched co lie e within reach of the cream or butter imparls a docidodly bad flavor to i . In fact, any thing that emits a decided smell and is allowed to remain near the butter or crenm, is liable to show up on trying the butter and ef fect Its sale and va'u . If there Is a peculiar bitter smell and tasto to cor respond, we know tie milk was sul) j e oJ to a tompoi'iiluro under lift v do srroos at most. W. X. 'J'ivi, m Jlitrul Word. THE CURIO CRAZE. Jiiiuiiitao llrhi-it.llritn Mm In In Modern Anixrluitii Vuntiirlo. 1 have known tho time when a bronz j catch for a JapaiiOMi coolie's tobacco pouch was worth a grealdoal, and any man who had a piece of Japanese lacquer or a vns", was a man above thu common. Now thoy make Sat suina ware in America, and export Chinese bronz" josses for popular wor ship Irom U.rinlnghnm to China. Curios? What's tho use of paying big prices for curios, when you can Ho i about t hem just as easy. Ikuowalady j who has a beautiful set of china, which j is tho admiration of her friends. She says it came from J ipan. and is eight hundred years old. 1 know she bought j it in Oiklnnd, and it never saw Japan. Alio. her has an old lamp that was supposed to have burnt 1 1 the Temple of Diana, goodness knows how many centuries ago. Shu fished It up in a docoud-hand store on Third street, and j the proprietor of tho store bought It ' with the efiVots of an Irish woman who made a fortune in a mine and ; sold out of the old truck she brought ; from Ireland. ' 1 have myself seen the Japaneso , curio merchants pay one dollar j apieeo for brass imitation Japanese hair-plus, made in Birmingham, and sold by NajrasakI; and I've soon tho wily foreitrnor pay them 11 vo dollars J for thu sum pin and send It home as i a great curio, Every tiling seems to grow plentiful, oven tho oldest kind of relics. San J-'runoisco Chronicle. A Consldorato Husband, Husband I never rebuko my wife except In two cases.. Friend What aro thoy? "In the first place, 1 am rudu to her when sho reproaches me." "And under what other clroutn. st nuu s are you rude to her?" "Well, when sho don't reproaoli ino." umiubus. J Mine. Solliuie, a beautiful nmlnttSJ woman and thu wife of a French j professor, lias pus-sod liar examination and Is mi acknowledged douior of thu l.rls fncu'.ty, , i AN ALBANIAN ROMANCE. The Sad Story of a Girl Captlrated br Iliindsoine Markaman. During a visit to Albania, ono of tho small indopondont Balkan states, I saw somo rontarkablo deeds of marksmanship and hoard a straugo story rogarding tho skill of tho Alba nians. Tliero was a young man of somo twonty-four or twonty-fivo who was not only romarkably handsome among ail these iinudsomo mon, but was ono of tho most expert mnrksmon thoy had. Ho finally was porsuadod to visit somo cities to show his skill, and with him iio had a young man who usod to assist him by holding different objecls for tiio other to shoot at. Thoy finally reached this placo after a very successful tour, and as ho was about to give an exhibition at his own birth placo of his powors, his helper was found lnlplossly intoxicated. I Among 1 ho disappointed audionoo was a slender and protty 3'oitng girl of only slxteou who hnd loved tills young man In secret over sinco sho could roniombcr. Ho ofTored five hun dred drachmas for a volunteer, mniior woman, who would taKo Ids man's plnco, and tiiis young girl stopped out and up to the platform. Ho accopte.d hor and sho stood without moving or lliuching wliilo tho balls almost grazed hordolicato llosh on their way where lie sent them. j Hcrcourago captivatod him and thoy woro married, anil together they visit ed many countries and in Franco made a great furor. Thoy had boon married two years, and iio had perhaps grown , weary of such utter devotion, or ho was dazzled by a woman of rank in France, and ho neglected his poor lit tlo wife, and every night tho temptress sat in a box and watched tho hand some Albanian who looked up to hor for approval after oach feat. These Albanian women havo littlo mind and no education, and thoy live only in their love, and when that is wrecked thoy havo nothing to fall back on and they die. That was all that sho could do, and lifo was not worth tho living without J his lovo. So sho wrote a poor littlo i misspelled lettor,, tolling him that sho J was brokon-hoartcd and was going to die, so that ho could bo happy with j that beautiful woman who loved him i and whom he loved, that sho did not i blamo him In tho least, she was only ' sorry, and that sho was but young and could not dio unloss she died by vio lence, and so, not to have tho sin of j suicide on hor soul, sho was going to 1 let him kill hor that night. She would ( wolcomo death from his hand. And that ovening at the perform- ance, as she hold a roso by a short, stom, she wai c I until too into for him j to savo hor, and throw horsolf forward , receiving tho ball in her brain and smiling at him as she died. They fouiul the poor littlo note, and he took tho dead body of his wife homo to her native hills, and sho lies in the sun- shine on tho slope near tho lako she loved In vouth. His career was closed. He is now quito gray, and shuns all gay company, and has never touched a gun since that night in Paris. Olive llurpcr, in Philadelphia 1'ress. TWO RICH MUSICIANS. Mllllmiutreq Who l'lithualiintlnitlly I.ovo i .Mil nlo unit It Kxiionunt. Andrew Carnegie, tho millionaire j manufacturer and author, adds an on- thusiastio love f muslo to his othor accomplishments. lie is a connoissotir iu tho matter of voice, and has a lino tasto as to tho Involvod compositions of modern musical writers. Before his marriago thoro was no moro ardent patron of amateur talent than Mr. Carnegie. Ho never lost an oppor tunity of being j resent whon invited to frcquont the somowliat h arrowing musicales which prevail in society. Many an ambitious singer and pianist of these exclusive circles havo glowed with pleasure when praised in the energetic way of tho author of "Tri umphant 1) nnocrnoy." Oao of thu country's woaltjiy men who may bo said to havo tho musical , craze is Alfred Corning Clark, only surviving sou and hoir of tho Into Ed-1 ward Clark of Singer Sowing Machine Company fame. Tho older Clark died , somo eight years sinco, leaving an es tate, tho present value of which is at loast $50,000,030. His sou, tho virtual master of all this great wealth, Is a most modest and unostentatious man. Ho lives quietly, gives no exponsive on tertalnmeuts, and his philanthropies nro rarely published. Tliero is, how evor, scarcely another wealthy man in tho city who does more good with his money than Alfred Corning Clark. Ono of his favorite schemes of charity is the helping along of struggling musical geniuses who lack the where withal to pursue a course of European study, A young man of this city, now studying at Leipzig, whoso com. positions havo already forced attention in thu musical world, a young man who Is spoken of as one of tho fow coming masters of tho organ, was several years ago about to abandon thu struj'j'lo tu oduoate himself and return to America because of lack of liionuy. Thu case was mentioned to Mr. Clark by a common friend, himself n musician of oul lure and experience. Before an hour had passed the Atlantic cable was weighted witli a thousand dollars j for tho young man's immediate needs, I and also assurances of more to come. : Thjs is merely n single Instance. Mr. ! OJltiriv Is lilinsoir a musieia i oi no ltuin'goi' attainments. Every Wednes.; ffiTiv nvimlmr dnrlmr thu winter he " 7 -- o conducts a double quartet composed of pome of thu bust male vocalists in the city, who are as fearful of ills ad verse criticism as so many boys at, school j.V. y. Sun. j ; ARTISTIC CONTORTIONS. Dow I.lttlo Iloy mid OlrI Aro Trained for the I'rofomloti. Tho oilier day I called on a bonder, a lady, not a gontlomaii, who is well known as a most scrpontluo contor l o list, i wished to ask Mile. Vonare a few questions about her art, witli a vlow of throwing somo light on tho training of littlo boys and girls for thu profession. The lady was sitting Uo foru tho firo with her slstor. who has abandoned bonding herself, and ex hibits a troupe of highly-educated poodles. A htigo wicker basket con tained her dress and other stage hab ils. From its dopths sho produced a bundle of photographs of herself, tied and knitted into ail manner of curious folds. That is tho business of a bonder. Tho body is thrown into a score of un natural postures, which appear to the audience to bo achioved by dislocating every joint in tho human frame, and to bo elloctcd at great risk to limb and life. Artists are generally enthusiastic about their callings, and I must say hat Miss Von aro declared sho would rather bo a bender than a q'toen, or domoihiiig to that cfTo t. She bogan at four years; at five years and eight mouths she was before I Iio public, and remains n bender still. "My father saw a con tortionist ono night on tho stago. and lie asked liimseH why he should not teach me, aged four. I was put into training at one, and enjoyed the fun, as a child will enjov any thing new. Was I uoatcn? Was I starred? N . I seemed to take to it like a littlo duck takes to water. You see. wo were a family of athletes, an I beside s. I win a daughter and not an .lppi-ulici'. It tho father is tho trainf? ho may not spare lliu rod, but ho is cruol only to bo kind. My experienco is that 1 ss rod and moro kindness is tho best plan. Father used to bribo us into doing tho difficult tricks. To be sue ci ssful moans years of hard work, practice and performance. I am nineteen now, and my performnnco keops inc in capital training." In tho business of contortion the first, lesson is tho backward bond, first with tho arms, and then without. You stand on a lonir mattress, so that there is no danger, and at first your toucher controls your movements with a bel'. It is much the samo with othor forms of acrobatic work, and tho cruelty flou takes the form ( f taking away the mattress, which croates a sort of panic in the pupil's mind. If he has really tried his best and failed, he is so terrified that he is al most certain to fall unless he has a gr -at deal of pluck, if ho has only been sulUiii". ii may bring him to his bearing-'. ().' course children are often siubboru, and uy the patience of the teaehir :o its lit nost limit. "'Ih art of contortion," continued Miss Vonare, "is learned by degrees. F rst the backward bend, then i lie 'dislocation.' then tho split,' and so on. What wo call 'closeness' di--tliiS'iiishes the best bending. To the audience bending seems most difficult; bin I experitmc! no discomfort orj in coiivuu'.oncu. 1 was a pii'iy child. You see mo now." Tho lady bender was certainly most healthful and cheerful, stout i i body and ruddy in complex ion, a 'd she strongly maintains that all women would be greatly htmotittod if they took to bending. "It is quito a mistake to think that wo put our limbs out of joint, or that wosufi'-r from the curious nature of our per formance Of course, after one or more d.tlieiiit positions, ono may suf fer a little pain, but it goes in no time. In some attitudes I n ay romaiu for twenty seconds, as the breathing bo come difficult; but these are tr lling inco veniences. I practice a few min utes every day lokiop myself loose, here in my room, and that is about all 1 hoed do." ldl Matt Gazette. Source of Napoleon's Genius. Napoleon, as all the world knows, ato very plain food and little of it, though always with hunger and rapid ly. A little clar-i was all he drank; a single glass of Midolra would Hush his whole countenance. He was neither an oaior nor a judge of eating, wrote C:irenio, but ho was gratofut (was he?) to M. do Talleyrand for tho stylo in which ho lived. II j difiered widely from that poor Stanislas of Poland, w ho fondly sti. died onion soup in the inn kitchen at Chalons. Na poleon had a strango theory about his bile. 'I'll ere Is no personal dofect that a man can not get himself to be vain of for one reason or another. "Don't you know." said lie to tho Comto de fc'ogur, ".hat every man that's worth any thing is bilious? 'Tis the hidden fire. B, the help of its excitement I see clear in difficult j Pictures. It wins mo my battles!" Careme himself a'o sparingly and drank nothing a sort of Moses of the Promised Laud by choice. Saturday llcvicu: Tho Most Courageous Wins. If a man does a tiling bravely and well, oven though it bo directly at variance with our habits of thought and action, it is impossible to with hold fro'ii him a certain sort of re spect. Ho has courage to assert him self! and, say what wo will, wo all secretly llku that quality, oven wl.on It tells against us. A person who goes creeplngly and self-dopreciatingly through the world, like a shy dog In a strange placo. moiiie itarlly expecting a pursuing stick or Mono, will goner ally get It. but lot him -show light," and hu may choose ids road, free from cowardly Inteiriip lon. Thu most cour ageous wins. Our moral is that this cout'ugtt should havo iliu light diruc tlon cur.y. X. 1', ledgtr. CHICAGO FASHIONS. Bummer Costumes for the Economical mid Kxtravucnnt. For overy-dny wonr may bo seon 1U tlo fine-chocked gingham, nnd a mR tcrial called Oxford shirting, which nro made In almost as severe a stylo as tho tailor-mado cloth garmonts. It is even predicted that they will take tho lnco of tho latter for travel! ig ci.stuine. It can bo easily seen that these materials will make a very good substitnt! for cloth, which has always been considered tho proper thing for that purpose, as tho dirt can bo so readilv removed, and tho efF.ict is really about tho same. Thoso come in all tho shades of . tan b irrcd off with ! white, red or blue, and tliero aro somo j claret colors witli lines of bltto and I white which aro very attractive look ing. The challics brought out this soa- sou are superior in quality and color to any seen before, and somo of thorn are not more uiau iw umy-nvo coins u yard, and aro to bo found in dark bluo and medium shades of browns, b it h sotvicenblo colors for or- j dinary use. These aro usually made quito simply nnd have for a finish velvet collars and enfis . or sometimes tho addition of a little velvet in the skirt or a waist girdle. 1 There are, of coiirst', hotter q utilities j of challics which aro very soft and durable, and besides these tliero have been some old-fashioned materials re vived for summer dresses, such as Bengaline and brilliantine. The former is a light-weight Irish poplin, and the latter is shindy a very lino quality of delaine. Tho Bongalines come both in plain and fiowcrod and aro frequently used for combination costumes, witli a petticoat of the llow ered and the plain above. Thoso trim themsolves and requiro very littlo else, but gowns niado ( f I he plain color havo to bo more elaborately made. Ono of the newest things is to dye lace exact ly the same shade as tho goods and insert it In lcngthwiso bauds on both skirt and waist. Ribbon is also used in quantities on dresses of this kind, but only as a fiat trimming and not in bows or loops. S miotimes thoro aro from three to five rows of ribbon used on the bottom of a skirl, put on plain and afterward plaited in with tho goods, and this samo is usod on the drapery. The waist may have a yoke formed en tirely of ribbon, or it may start from I ho waist lino in trout ( vt tho shoul ders to the same in the back. Theso ribbons aro noarly all fancy ones, either with light or dark colors in slripo. fiowcrod, or worked in gold thread. These last aro very protty, b it are rather gay and only suitablo for homo toilets. There is evidently to bo a total change in black col limes for Ibis sum mer. Worth, the dictator of tho fem inine world, has announced that lace gown, both of French orChantilly. are decidedly passe, and that he will no lonirer make tlioin up. Of course tl is will undoubtedly settle their fate, and other materials will havo to bo substituted in llioir place. Bruges net makes very pretty costumes, a d it is said that tho lime-honored iron- frame trreiiadine aro once moro coining back into favor, and will bo par ex celenco the dross for luncheons, teas, and receptions. Of course limy aro to bo olaborately trimmed either with watered ribbon or jet, and somo seen latelv have bad velvet used on both skirl and waist. Chicago News. YOUNG MEN, READ THIS. Iitiu't .Mon-iuro Your W irk Ity Your I.y! Alwuy. Do Y.xir Ilust. It is very common for young mon, I think, to dotoriniue tho quality of their work Tiy tho price which thoy are paid for it. I only got. says such a one, live dollars a week, and I am Riiro that I am giving live dollars' worth of survice; if my oiuployor wants more, let him pay more; if ho wants better lot him give batter wago. This is spacious reasoning, but it is f.dso; and it is destructive to tho bot work, an I th -reforo to tho best manhood. N man can alTorl to do any thing less woll than his host. II) who always strives to do his best work, in tho very process of s riving will grow bettor and bettor. Not only will lm grow more skillful in that particular workman ship, but ho will be better equipped for other 'workmanship. This is an absolutely universal law. It is the absolutely universal road to promo tion. The man who is careful to g'v i iiothni'r more than ho gets raroly gets more than ho gives. The man who works for his own sake, who puts tho best part of himself into overy blow that he s rikes, who mixes all ills work with brain and conscience, w ho studios to reader the largest possible service regardless of the compensation which it brings, sooner or later will fi nd his way on and up. The world learns Ids worth, and calls him to higher si rvice. Nor is this all. Bestirring bin self up to do always thu bust he can, he grows into a power to do b t tcr and over better. Chuutauquan. Didn't Show It a Bit. Kansas Tramp What town's this, pi' ahoa I? K insas Farmer Odcaloosn. i 'j ramp Where they've oloctod a lot o'm onion to thu offices? Farmer Tho samo. Tramp (lioulderiiig his hundlo nnd preparing to tsko tho baok track) That's all I want to know. I won't have nothin' to do with nosuohdurnud town. I was raised in a country whore mn was oapublu of ruiinin' thlifs tllfliiidlve. Farmer (ruhtivo of member of Citv CUiiior') -Gol! you don't show it "a bit!- tyiiayo Tribttm PLEASANT PEOPLE. rhouch They 3Iiy Not lie Lovable, They Are Always Likable. What a bo6n to all his friends and ac quaintance a pleasant person is! It may bo hard to define pleasantness, but wo find no difficulty in recognizing it when we meet with it. Pleasant peo ple are not always by any means tho most admirable of mankind, nor tho most interesting; for it often hnppens that tho qualities in a man which aro ti.ir.at nf esteem arc. for lack of other modifying elements, the very ones which make against ids agreeabieness as a companion; and a person who does not impress us as particularly pleasant may nevertheless interest us very much by "the display of unusual mental or moral characteristics, or from a com plexity of nature which scorns to offer itself as an enigma wo aro curious to I solve. Pleasant people may not even be the most truly lovable, but thoy aro likable; wo perhaps have no desire to make friends of them, in tiic deeper sense of friendship, but wc are glad J when wu meet them, and enjoy our selves while in their society. The tie thus formed, though slight, is a reai , one, and I beliove that we should all do well to remember, in the interest of our closer friendships, the attractive and cohesive force of mere pleasantness. , The highest virtues and ollicosof friend i ship we are not called on to exerciso everyday, and in familiar intercourse , wo have not less, but rather the more, I need of making ourselves pleasant, be ( cause of the times when our friends will have to answer our dralts on their patience and sympathy. If we question wha it is that goes to constitute a man or woman pleasant, it appears to bo a result of both tem perament and charaetet. It is hardly necessary to say that those are not tho same thing, and yet limy are not dis tinguished in common thought and speech as clearly as they might be. Without attempting any close analysis, wo may perhaps say that temperament is a certain combination of elements given us at birth, while character is an other set of powers and dispositions, slowly acquired and .''rown in us; for tho first, nature is responsible, our pa rents and ourselves for tho second. It seems easiest to describe a pleasant person by negatives, although assuredly Ids pleasantness all'iets us as u most positive quality. To begin with, such a person must not bo to much "shut up in his own individuality," to use tho phrase of an English writer. That is. ho must not be very reserved and con centrated in his emotions and affections, but have a certain expansiveness of na ture anil openness of manner. Ho must not be too fastidious, but able to take people for what they are, and what they are worth to him for the passing mo ment and the needs of tho social hour. He must not be of too intense a nature, nor so preoccupied with the serious as pects and duties of lifo that he is una ble to put them aside temporarily, and lend himself to lighter thoughts and lighter p ople. One of tho plunsantot men I ever met was ono of tho most hardworking, devoted to a dozen good causes and public interests beside his personal and professional ones. None of these were made a bore to others, and his equable and kindly disposition, his readiness to enter into other pur sons' ideas, his interest in literature and art as well as weightier matters of polities and science, made him able to please and bo pleased by men nnd women of the most diverse sorts. It has sometimes struck me forcibly with respect to such a man, how pleasant ho must bo to himself how comfortable to livo with ever day! Atlantic. m . EASTERN JUGGLERS. Some Queer Trick Vhoe Srcrot No One Could Miikti Out. Without paraphernalia of any de scription, devoid of dress except a cloth around his loins, ho performed tricks of legerdemain tho recital of which would bring a shrug of unbelief from tho reader, and will, therefore, not bo attempted, and yet one example must be relatod just to give the imagination a chance. A common wash bowl was placed in the center of the room. Four lien eggs procured in lite hotel were de posited in tho bowl. The littlo assist ant of the juggler, in the presonce of spectators who could plainly seo thu eggs on the bottom, slowly filled the vessel with clean water. Tho Hindoo placed his bare hand on the rim of tho bowl and tho eggs disappeared from view, returning when his hand was re moved. This was repeated several times, but he kept the explanation of the trick to himself. A female contortionist about twenty years of age, splendidly formed, but of rather small stature, was our next vis I or. She went through a series of ex ercises lying herself into so many pe culiar knots that wo doubted if nature had provided her with a backbone, liar, were convinced when she commenced her eyelid performance. A dagger, about a foot long, and as sharp as a razor, was fastened to tho floor, point upward. The performer laid a small cambric needle horizontally across tho lino point ot the weapon, and standing before it bent backward until she moved the noodle from its position with iter eyelids, without touching the floor with any thing but hor feet, unfolding a wrinkle ol female eye capacity wo had never dreamed of. Before wo understood tho design a proof of her dexterity was given which chilled tho circulating medium in our veins. A littlo babu of about ten months (j"dging by Auiorio.ni .stand ard), was laid upon a cushion, and a sin ill orange placed upon the naked baby in the vicinity of its commissary department. Tho woman thou took a sbsrp sword, shaped something like a oinioter.itnd with aswiftdownward blow cut tho orange without harming tho ulilUI. No one onviul tho ohild's posi tion, or voluiiterud to tako its plnoa in a tinular experiment. Bombay Letter.