. mif Itotnanoe.
i wwwfcl mk tree's ha
,i,it(n'i- nioilirr wtt one ilw,v
. ! ni.sl in Hid Ixocnile,
'iit lover. kniiitit tliey snv,
" 1 - -mttr hlUstite with e.iishlir 'o
, use a llon o'er ll-l-l tout tii,
.ml III liltH-cllrit HlHt Boll-lm-lli OKIt,
j niux-t out lii-i-sser ho muni have len.
r thick T rocMltsv rmii'li'iHilm so,
,. wtvtiihm vluim-n m' '' hoenrt RT
A:! I MhIuhw 1,iu '. It lie ctmttt know,
W oiilit miilli- in ilisilHtll t IllT ttioiep to-ttaV.
fv liisKI., o'rrthenintrwa.v her plet ure liana.
A ilnlnty Imly, mi proud ami prim,
Tlist wort, limn hull my way want Motxl
it i very $inm unisl have come t'lxnn dim.
Here !s nit-Hem tsmturr oM;
For ! run kntuhily sentiment very well,
AfA a dashlmr huml. hut II nuxt tt tolil
3 hat wj charming trnimlcmm eouM not
noil :
"HmttI tnalam ami deer, thmurti mine ere
ixrtn
Mil nut ilw-1t on 1hv form ami faro (to futr.
Btlb the promine ot hopts to my inxvr liimrt It
Ion,
And at dawning of eve Issplrcto hethere.
I rttouh tike to know If at ev he rome
W hy, of course l dirt, for am I not hrret
Pmmllv Iwhhii hi ancient tinme
With a wicked initsli at ht svi-H of "dear."
A nil ifon that eoOt they ml an n.lcr
1-uUy two toot, as wns proper ami right
lVw iil tn evtr raanaim to givr her. 1 wonder.
Half auch a kisa as I bad last nttfhtir
Ah, T.ocr, thoxiirh minuet ami sptnrt.
And courtiy manner In mnivl array.
Tell on. old morv. tlro tmmethtnir In It
That rwtebt the heart Jiisi the same to-day,
Anil 1 tmmlir when mv little datr Is over.
Ami my irraniichihifen tilt iicalh this old
trw'a ahatle.
If they'll aay : "phe had Just such a noble
low,
And as true and tender a wife she mailo.
ImllanaiHiIln Journal.
MISUXDEUSTOOI).'.''
At the break fast-table that morning
Frank Hatfield's wife, one of the dear-
.eit and mot winning of women in the
f" rd, had'sahlto him:
"Have vow heard from brother Wal-
civet?""
5 "No. Maliel; not time yet, Yon.
auow he only left the day before j es
U't!ay. We w ill get a feller to-morrow,
maybe."
. 4"lo vou know, Frank, I am almost
vild iih curiosity to see his wife?
Such an dd notion of their, to put off
heir wedding-trip for three months
tfier they were married!"
i "Wanted to make it in ideas&nt
Veather, I suppose," said Frank
- "Any how.. they'll be herein ten dars;
& oon ai hi business is arrnnjred."
and Malxl Hatfield's almost pirlish
face loamed with delight at the thought
; for she almost idoliel her "brvuher
Walter."
Such had Wen in part, the talk of
the bifakfast-table, and there had not
been in all the city a sunnier face than
.that with which" Frank Hatfield had
said good-bye to his dear little wife
and rosy-faced baby boy; but now,
. half an hour later, he sat in his down
i town office scowling at a bit of crttni
pled pajier on the table , In-fore him
ith an expression of countenance
"hich might fairly be thought to in-
"J 1 . i . ' i - r I. :
cUule dcubts of his own sanity.
"Oak Street House!" he exclaimed.
"What, in Well. I might aa J
.well go there." f
I And so he did, with barely enough j
Viresence of mind to put his hat on Iks-
Horn he started. A brief parley with j
- ihe officials in blue, and Frank Hatfield ;
I was admitted to a dingy and dimly- j
jigmea ceu.
Frank "
"Good Heavens!
Yon here."
"Hush! rot a word, l gave my
word. I gave
wit".." " iiArctr j avior, ana it s gone i
Thto iffe KrjUht w sr."
"But how did it happen?"
I can't tell, Frank. I onlv know
they found the pocket-Wok in my ;
pocket, and I was so dumbfounded I j
could not say a won!." ;
"The pocket-book!" j
"Yes, it was at the railway-station.1
I had just checked my trunks when
they Wgan to make an outcry, and
t'a about all 1 know altout it uutil I
.. .1 . I J o
i., -BlTot-t-nti !;!ti-itt.-l.
" iUit Florence?" iid Frank. i
"I wrote to her that I was detained j
in town on iniortant business. Then :
1 gave your name as my counsel, and j
sent for von."
'I didn't get ronr note till this morn
ing." "Some mistake or other. But here
I am, trapped, and what to do I do
not know."
"Oh, I can get you off easy enough;
it's an old game of the pickpockets.
All I have got to do is to prove who
, 3 011 are," said Frank. t
t "But I don't want to prove who I
am; it would half kill Mabel, and just
about murder Florence. You don't
know how sensitive she is. No; I must
oe got on ana acqniueu as itarry lay-
lor or I'll never sret over it. " Now,
Jrvik, old fellow, promise not to let
vuy name out to anybody, least of all
i to'MabeL Florence's letters w ill come
in your care as usual; and I can semi a
- letter to Mabel dated from home, you
- know, as if it were enclosed to yon."
": 'You must take the responsibility of
all this deception then." said Frank;
and after a great deal of hesitation the
" young lawyer allowed himself to be
overpoweretl into giving the required
promise, but left the station-house and
. returned to his office a troubled and
3 anxious-hearted man.
And so it was when Frank Hatfield
. .went home that evening and silently
janded Mabel an unpotM missive,
orer"wEh?tr4?feiUe eyes glintened and
which made her kiss the baby twice,
. he did so with a flush on his cheek and
.. ; a cloud on bis brow which never left
i him the whole evening.
Of course Frank kept his promise of
secrecy, but at the expense of a red
lace and a flustered mannet.
not half sure that his conscience had
not canght him in several pretty equiv
ocations or well-defined fibs'. More
-,han that, Mabel was quite well aware
.hat she had not penetrated, her hus
. -d's secret, and she was not only a
ye daughter of Eve as to curiosity,
-Jt as self-willed and imperious a little
ootiy as she was loving, with a good
deal of that peculiar element of char-
- icteroutof which jealousy is manu
actured under favorable circumstances;
,.sd so. though at first she tried not
show it, Mabel was more than a
- j offended, and Frank, poor fellow!
Wd not help seeing and feeling it.
And thus the next day passed and
. the next, and affairs down town looked
.jorse and worse, and affairs at home
Tew cloudier at a rate Frank Hatfield
rould hardly have thought possible.
much for keeping a secret from his
fi, r irritated mood, Mabel's
ongtiii naturally turned to her broth
V and so one day she sat down antl
"ote to him a letter in which she said
Teat many things that were only in
. .dedforhi8 own eyes. Perhaps no
- to would have come from it if Ma
had not posted the letter with her
hands without saying a word to
husband, and tha more by acci
than anything else, it was opened
read by "a young married lady in
"-sirge towns on the following
le cell mat t ran k
Ked into before, and it
i k later. The prisoner
.' however, and with all
- iJie was hardly as pale
" cooking visitor.
, Harry. Florence is
How do you know?"
' elegTamT Got to meet
nthis aft-ernoon."
my boy, what is to be
.' i
now."
Ami Frank Hatfield looked more
Hk A bailed wild animal than ever a
he flung himself out ot the cell.
trunk did not go home to dinner
that day. of he might have discovered
that nurse had been left alone willi the
baby, and bis wife had "gone out," no
one knew whither. So, I it uncomfortable
ignorance of the dangers that beset
him, he went to the railway-station
that afternoon and waited for a lady
who should resemble as nearly as pos
sible the miniature likeness wliich bad
been shown him, and he found hervery
readily. There was no chance of mis
taking the striking, nervous-looking
beauty, and, in fact, a he advanced to
meet "her the trembling lips parted
slightly, just enough to sav:
Frank Hat Held?"
"And vou are Florence?"
Oh, frank, where is my husband?
Why is he not here?"
lie is safe ami well, I assure yon,
and yon shall soon see him."
Hut I don't understand. Why Is
all this mysterv and deception?"
"I can't explain here, said Frank,
"but if yon will get into a carriage I
will tell you as we go."
And Frank was determined to keep
his word, though he had almost as soon
have been convicted of burglary.
He was not aware of all his t rouble,
however. He had not noticed the
Veiled form that had followed him into
the station, nor hail his excited and
confused faculties takeu any note of
the fact that the same form sprang
lightly into a cab which drove oil' rap
idly after the carriage which contained
hiiii and Florence, When the latter
was polled up in front of an hotel the
cab also stopped at a little distance,
but the veiled lady did not pt out. She
leaned forward lo the window, mutter
ing:
"I knew there was something of the
sort. Oh, Frank, Frank I How could
you?"
And then the driver of the cab re
ceived fresh orders, and drove rapidly
away.
Florence had only gone into the ho
tel to gather her somewhat scattered
senses after listeuing to the news im
parted by Frank, and on the whole she
had sustained the shock much better
than he had exiected. In a few mo
ments for, with all her nervousness,
she was a brave and devoted wife
Florence declared herself ready.
"I must stop at my ollice for a mrv
ment," said Frank.
"Oh, but 1 am in such a hurry!" said
Florence.
"But it is only to leave a law paper
with my partner. He has Won at court
all day and I have not seen him."
Frank's office M as in a very busy
part of the city, and both he and Flor
ence had their heads too full of excit
ing thoughts to notice any particular
member of the hurrving throngs upon
i the pavement. Still, as the carriage
j pulled up at the curlv Frank remarked
. . i . i . . :
tiood! I won't have to go upstairs;
there's my partner now. ltrown! Eh,
Brown!"
Tho ETtttloman thus addressed had
been standing on the edge of the pave
ment as if waiting for someone, and
now came forward "with a remarkable
beaming expression of countenance.
Frank, mv bov, it's all right."
What's all rigltt?"
"Why, that Harry Taylor cae."
Frank Hatfield had to catch his
breath for a moment, but stammered:
II h how?"
"Why, there was a whole batch sent
nt this morninsr. and one of them
i confessed to putting the pocket-book
in Harry's jocket."
"Well, what did vou do?"
"Oh, the magistrate let him right out
at once, and Fve got him upstairs in
the ollice."
A gloved hand was on Frank's shoul-
j der, and a trembling voice was trying
to ask him
"Frank. Frank, isn't that Walter."
"Yes, it's Walter," said Frank Hat
field; but he was sorry enough the
next minute as he sat in the corner of
the carriage trying to recall the color
to the w hite ami beautiful face of Flor
ence, for she had fainted.
As for Brown, he had comprehended
the situation well enough to dash it
stairs, antl bv the time Florence had
recovered her senses she was in more j
tender hand than those of half-fright
ened Frank Hatfield.
And now the
carriage was Wing
whirled away tip town, for Frank was
urged bv something even stronger than
hospitality in his eagerness to reach
his clouded home. He could have no
patience with either horse or driver,
especially as Florence aud Walter
looked so provokingly loving and hap-
Home was reached at last, however,
and the somewhat irate driver reined
in his smoking horse in front of the
house. Frank sprang to the ground,
and never dreamed of aiding Walter;
but Florence by thistime was well able
to help herself."
It was not very late when they en
tered the house, antl Frank's latchkey
dispensed with bell-ringing and serv
ants. "Wait a moment in the parlor," said
Frank, "while I call Mattel."
And so saying, but with a big weight
upon his heart. Frank pushed onward
toward the sitting-room. As he threw
ojen the door Itefore him. however, he
was suddenly confronted by a lady in
full traveling costume, and a glance
beyond showed him a marvelous dis
array of trunks ami traveling-bags.
"Slabel. my dear "
A gloved hand held out to him a
small white envelope, while a husky
antl trembling voice said:
"Oood-bvc, Frank.'
"Malel "
"Isn't that Walter's
Walter, are vou here?"
"Yes, Mabel; here I
voice? Oh,
am safe and
sou ml."
"Oh, Walter take me away take me
home to mother's.'"
"But Mabel, what is the matter?
Frank has leen just the best old fel
low "
"Walter, there she is; I saw her at
the railway-station the very same wo
man; and now he's brought her here!
Walter, what does it mean?"'
"Mean! Why, Mattel come, Flor
ence Mabel, this is my wife, your sis
; ter, Florence. I've ls-en in trouble,
; and Frank has helped me through, like
a trump that he is; ami you are mad,
when you have got the best fellow in
. the world for a htis "
Mabel gave one look at her brother,
another into the wistful face of her
new sister; but she caught a glance of
the keen suffering in the trembling lips
of her husband, and with. "Oh. Frank,
; forgive me; I have been so foolish!"
Frank Hattield's worry was over.
How It Oocnrretl.
Black (an exjtert stenographer)
"Say, Green, the loy Trom the Journal
office is here after the transcript of that
temierance lecture. Is it most fin
ished?'' Green (a novice) "All but a siort
sentence in about the middle of it,
and I'll be hanged if I can make out
from my notes what it is."
Black "Just insert 'great applause,'
and let it go."
Green acts npon the suggestion, and
the lectnre is sent to the Journal office
for publication with the doctored part
reading: "Friends, I will detain you
but a few moments longer." (Great
appl ause. ) Life,
An Austrian railway official has in
vented a portable telephone for speak-"-.
'-nin a railway train at any point
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810
A LITTLE CITV WAIF.
i Frnnt a Tonglt She U"a Reclaimed, tint It
V Too Much for Her onutltntlon.
One day, as I crossed Uosn street, a
little girfnbont ten years old was en-g.-igetFin
a rough-and-tumble fight with
a boy two or three years older. Wliiln
she was doing nobly, it wasn't a fair
light, anil I Interfered to protect her.
"What U It to you?" she holly de
manded, ns she turned on me with
Hashing eyes.
"But vou are a gill." I replied.
"Butt kin lick him if he'll light
fair!"
I drove him off, ami sat down on a
doorstep with her.
"tJirls shouldn't fight," I ssiid as the
raggetl ami unkempt child at iny side
grew cooler.
"Not if they are picked on?"'
"No."
"Then they'll call me a coward."
'But suppose they did? Yoti come
ot a cowardly sex. Women are not
brawlers antl' lighters. They are ten
tier and gentle, ami given to soft words.
and peaceful ways. v Here tlo you i
live?"
"Down a piece and up stairs." j
"Father and mother living?" j
"No; but dad ami mam Is. Had is I
over to the island; mam washes and j
scrubs." !
"Ami what do yon do?" j
'Mind the rooms mostly." j
Ever go to school?" I
Naur
"Can't vou read?" j
Naw!'' - ;
"Kver been nut in the country?"
"Naw!" W here is it, and w hat is it;
like?" j
Ami so I descriWd something of farm ;
life to her, telling her of the fields of!
grain, the green meadows, the barns j
and orchards ami farm-y aiils. Her vies :
opened wider and wider as I went on. j
but toward the end she grew suspicious ;
and said. j
"Say. what sort of a dove tlo you take (
me fur?" j
"But this is all true-upon my word i
it K" I
"Ion't believe it ? If it was, mam ;
would have, let on. Saj ! What d'je !
want, anyhow ?" j
I want to talk with you a little;
longer. Kver go down to'the Batterv"
"Naw!" " i
Or to Central Park?"
Naw!" ',
"Kver see a cow or an ox?" ;
I've heard of 'cm, I guess." ;
"You have heart! of Little ltcd Biding I
Hood, haven't mi?" j
"Can't remember."
"Never heard of OhI Mother Hub j
hard, who went to the cupboard to get
her xir tlog a Ihjiic?" j
"Naw!" j
I "How alnint the house that Jack
What Jack? Was it the house in
Hose street?"
j "You have heard of the Bible?" I
! continued, seeing that she was now in-
i terestctl.
I "Yes."
j "What is it?"
I "I dunno!"
-j Where is heaven?"'
i v "Somewhere. I guess."
j "Didn't any one ricr tell you that
you must lc giHMl in order to go lo
j heaven when von die?"
j "Xaw! Mam say I must 1k good or
she II break evcrv btne in mv iiift-rual
IkhIv!"
Did you ever
i "Xoitii."
prav
' "Did von ever hear the Lord's
Braver?'' "
j "N'oap. Ditl vou?"
I repeated it for her, ami when I
through she said:
-Sa! I'll learn that some tlav
as
if
you'll try me!
Was it tpieer that I met her again
I and again at the same spot, ami that
i she was always on the lookout for me,
i ami that after the lirst meeting she be-
1 i gan to grow intore?-ted. She also
j grew- astiametl 01 her garments, ami 1
, noticed that she had tried to patch and
j mhnd. At the third or fourth meeting
! she had a clean face ami ht-r hair hail
i Ijeeu conils tl. I think the neighltors
! looked npon it as a great mystery, but
i if they quizzed the child she did not let
; me know it. We used to talk of the
i country, other cities and people, the
1 mountains ami plains, the ten thousand
; things she had never heard of. I
i watched her closely, antl I could see
jthat knowledge brightened her eves
' ami made her face more gentle. Little
! by little she dropped off her slang, ami
; little by little her mauner changed to
; the cov ness of her sex.
I reached the spot one afternoon to
; discover that she had failed me for the
; first time. In her hlace was a broad
! shouldered, red -faced woman, who
walked up to me and demanded:
"Are you the rapsctillion who has
; done all this?"
"All of what, ma'am?"
"Been preaching to mv Nanny until
' . l. . . r . 1 1 .1 . I ..... 1 . :..
1 ii.ti u jail tiun 11 PL;tti!t sum pin iiei lit
; her colli n!"
j "Nanny dead!"
"Ami buried, sir. antl she went on
i about the Lord's Prayer ami heaven
? and green Holds until she almost made
i me crazy. Oh, you villain, to come
. about destroying a poor mother's hap
j pjness in that way. Begone, or I'll
i have the police after ye." A. 1". Sun.
Under The Chin.
J You may have heard travelers scoff
at the practical Frenchman w ho stuffs
j one corner of his napkin inside his
i shirt-collar and spreads it fully over
I the front of his person from lus chin
I down to his knees, writes Theodore
! Child in llircr's Bazar. This is the
practice of the French jwople of the
i middle antl lower classcs.who are thrif
' tv and prudent, ami who wish to cat at
' their ease and not spot their clothes.
There is nothing ridiculous in this
; practice. There is a reason, and an
' excellent reason, for so spreading the
; napkin, and if I were dining at home,
j or alone at a restaurant or club, and
j had on my spotless shirt and open
j waistcoat and clawhammer coat, all
; ready to go to the opera, I should cer
; tainly spread my napkin over my man
; ly and snowy bosom.just asthe Ireuclv
. man does, ami so I should dine at my
ease, serenely and without care, know
i ing that I hail thus insured the imma
; culateness of my linen. However, let
! it be remembered that company man
i ners in all countries require you simply
1 to spread your napkin loosely over
j your knees, and to eat cleanly and de
i ceutly.
j Mary's Utile Top.
j Mary had a little brute, as fat as it
j could waddle, and everywhere that
i Mary'd scoot this little pup would tod
dle. It tagged her down the street one
day, close up behind her btiggj-; oh,
how it loved to run away, this naughty
little puppy. 'Twas always doing
something wrong when Mary turned
her back; and-all the time he seemed
to long to walk the railroad track. Ono
dav. w hen Mary was at church, this
frisky little scamp thought he would'
leave her in the lurch and go and play
the tramp.' So down upon the ties he
trod, the one the poor tramps use, till
worn out on the track he squats and
drops into a snooze. He, fast asleep,
did not observe ah, sad indeed the
story the fast express come around
the curve; that pup went up to glory.
There came along a butcher man who
once had loved that pup, and with a
brush and big dust-pan he swept that
poor dog up. Next Wednestlay Mary
got him back; he did not look the
sanV; he would not come when she
called "Jack!"-
Bologna was his name..
ison Olobe.
GEXHRA Niks.
Iowa's Immense Corn Crop. Elec
tric Ufrjits in (Juateinala.
T1IK MEDICAL SCHOOLS UK JAPAN.
The ItmvcrleH oMJrcut H i llan. HM
a Front Tenth.
for
Florida Is making preparations
for
another sub-tropical exhibition.
No attempt w ill be made in Wash
ington to build a state house for live
years.
Mr. ami Mrs. Tibhcl, of Cincinnati,
have a baby that was born with two
molar teeth in its upper jaw.
Jeff Havis' death leaves JamesCamp
Wll of l'hitailf Iphia Ilie sole survivor of
the Cabinet of President Pierce.
A large Inict of tea land in the neigh
borhood of Canton this year yielded
per acre $ I .out) in lea leaves of the lin
est tpiality.
Sophia Bennington, of Xcnia, Ohio,
has given birth to her twenty-lift h
child. Her husband claims this' bent
all known records.
Frank Crone, a rich merchant of
Erie County, Ohio, was married the
other day to his sister's granddaughter.
The groom Is sixty-live, and the bride
twenty-four.
Iow a's corn crop of .Wd.noo.OiiO bush
els is worth $75,000,000, and would till
a train of cars 5io miles in length. It
would give live bushels lo every man,
woman and child in tho Fuited States.
Electric lights have Wen adopted to
such an extent in the cities and towns
of (tuatemula that the iimrtatlnn of
mineral oils has largely fallen off. At
the capital the use of oil has diminished
one-half.
The latest figures set down the impu
tation of Berlin ill LIT.'!.:,:), ami of
Vienna at 1.1 10.701, a steady advance
Wing maile by both capitals tliroiijib
additions from small tow us throughout
the two empires.
The bastinado is still in ue in Hun
irary to make refractory peasants testi
fy aUtut accomplices or as to their own
misdeeds, ami the Hungarian press Ims
recently engaged in a campaign against ' Hie.
this relic of barbarism. "Iiok here!'1
The discussion of the advisability of! l'l"'1'-v...-.......t
-...I v.. 11,"..,..! I mul remark.
, '. ... ....... a ..... j' !
shire with Scandinavian immigrants j
has directed attention to the fact that!
Maine made a surces-dol ventureof this
kind twenty tears ago.
A Letterkennv, l'a., fanner who lives
near the mountain, says he can always
tell w hen a hard storm is coming, us
the crows then fly to the lietter pro
tected nttoks for shelter, sometimes a
day la-fore the storm reaches here.
Wilkie Collins' will directed that he
should le buried at a cost not exceed
ing 125, and that a plain stone cross
over his grave should ls-ar only the
simply inscription that he had prepared
lor the puriHe.
Chief Justice Fuller has ..resented.
through the Hon. W. L. But nam. a tine
portrait of himself to the Cumlx-rland
t,Me.) bar. It will Ih given a place in
the attorney's ollice at the City Build-
1
1 lug at Portland.
j lhomas A. Edison is discussing with
I capitalists a project of utilizing the
water power of. Niagara Lalls. Mr.
I fv thougld out piin whiw
that vast Mwer iossihle to utilize.
A somewhat new departure in build- I
ing practice lias been successfully made ;
in "Germany. This is the wholesale!
manufacture of mortar of the l-st ':
tpiality to Ite sold to small builders and !
private individuals. Some 2.lMN).tni0 j
barrels were thus sold in Berlin last'
; year. !
! From 1HO lo 2H) tmt tic-nosed whales;
! were driven ashore la-low Barnstanker- i
I ness, Scotland, the other evening. ;
' About twenty boats took part in the!
! exciting chase, and Ilie finish was wit-'
j nessetl by a large numlter of people, j
I Nome of the whales were unusually i
j large. j
1 An exchange sav s: Pour one table-;
' spoonful of clear solution of tannin (a i
i heaped lcasKouful of tannin to a gill j
j of rainwater) into a tumbler full of j
j the sijsiectot water. If no turbidity j
1 occurs within live hours the water is ;
I gojd; if turbidity occur within oue j
i hour the water is decidedly unwhole-j
j some. j
! In Japan there are thirty-one schools i
j of medicine, one of dentistry and two !
of veterinary surgery. The University j
of Tokio (the imiH-nal university), has j
j over twelve hundred students, ami an j
1 average of IOO medical students grailu
! ate yearly. In Tokio alone there are !
j numerous active medical societies aud j
! over twenty hospitals. j
The new official report of the comli- j
S lion of the English lieer-hrewing intliis- j
try shows that tireat Britain's l:l.t."8
breweries produced 28.614.000 barrels j
of beer in tin- last fiscal year. Eight j
breweries produced between KROOO 1
ami 250.000 barrels, seven Itetwoen
200.000 and ftoO.UMi barrels, three be
tween 600.OO0 ami 1.000.000 barrels,
aud one more than 1,000,000 barrels.
The Philatelisten Club of Vienna is
arranging for an international ostage
stamp exposition there next year. The
year 18'.t0 was chosen because it will
then be just lifly years since postage
stamps were introduced, forty years
since they came into use in Austria. and
ten years since the club was founded.
The'exhibition will take place in tho
Austrian Industrial Museum. A com
mittee of live is organizing it.
The French professor of chemistry,
De Milleflenrs, recently exhibited be
fore a meeting of Parisian scientists
several bricks of petrohsim, w hich he
has discovered how to solidify by an
original process. Tho petroleum
bricks were hard enough te b handletl
without invonvenience, yet soft enough
to Iks cut w ith a stout knife. They
burned slowly when touched with a
lighted match. Millctleurs savs they
are non-explosive ami inexpensive.
This account of a Mississippi ball ap
pears in a M ' - - njr: "The ball
given by the young men of Benoit was
universally scored a success by all in
attendance. The heavenly spheres
shone forth in their transcendent beau
ty on this Thursday night, seeming in
perfect harmony with the brilliancy of
the eve. f. and through mud and mire
from Greenville to Koscdale tho creine
tie la creme of the Mississippi Delta
came to participate iu the terpsichorean
fete."
A Washington dentist recently ad
vertised that ho would give $100 for a
perfect front tooth of a healthy young
white man. The doctor stated that
the advertisement was no catch, but
thnt. he would pay 100 for a front
tooth that would answer Ins purpose,
and thai is to replace one which le
wishes to extract. This is frequently
done, the doctor says, but is a very
difficult operation. Sometimes as many
as 200 applicants who wish to dispose
of a tooth will be examined before the
exact kind will bo found, and when tho
right one is selected it is extracted and
planted in the jaw of the other party at
the same operation.
Prince Oscar Bernadotte, the second
son of the King of Sweden, who a
couple of years ago renounced the rank
and privileges of his royal birth to
marry Miss Ebba Munck, performed-ntf
act of gallantry last week which will
go far to Incitvtsft -popularity
throughout his father's dominions, A
small bnnt with three men had capsized
near the head of the pier at Karlskrona,
where ho resides. Without hesitating
a moment the young giant his stature
is Rix feet Ihree Inches -Jumped, fully
dressed, into t In sea and succeeded irj
rescuing two of the drowning men.
Mine. Christine Nilssoo's hojadess III
health, about which so imich has lieeti
m:i i 1 of late, is denied on the authority
of her nephew, Mr. Bjorktten who d.
rlares that her health Is excellent, A
correspondent of the tStttr of Joulon
tesiilies to the same effect. He saw her
traveling in Sw il.erl.iud, a curious
company attending her. There was a
liny toy terrier, then there were two
old' ladies that might have been Jot),
were evidently sisters, and Msility
were old servants. Finally there was
a tall, dark girl with deep, dark eves.
This was the daughter of Mnie. Nils
sou's hiinhatid and her inseparable companion.
One Tiint'h of I In 1111111 Nature.
There were a dozen passengers on a
Broadway ear the other rainy day who
noticed a large tihowily tlresseil nmn
get aboard at I he corner of Seventeenth.
He had a gold-he aded silk umbrella,
and he leaned it against the front door
and sat down. When the car got down
to Wall rtreet the large man suddenly
rose up ami hurried out of the car.
never thinking of his umbrella. Then
human nature began to show itself. A
young man with a loud suit of clothes
changed his scat from rear lo front to
gel nearer the prize. A solid woman
w ith a bandbox pu-hed a boy along to
bring herself nearer. A man on the
other side, who had Iecii busy with his
paper now folded It up antl fixed his
eve on the umbrella. A shop girl,
w ho reemed to !h out on an errand,
cast covetous eyes antl thought of the
swell she would cut over the other
gil ls, if she had that particular piece of
personal property. An old man with
a prominent nose finally observed in
MiIhIiumI tones.
I live next door to.Tohnson, and I'll
return him Ids umbrella."
"Johnton!" exclaimed the young
man in the loud suit. "Why, that's our
siiHrintetiteiit. and as I am going
right to the otlice, I'll carry it to him."
Seems to me he's my groeer, but I
won't be sure of it," remarked the
I solid woman.
However. I'm an
; honest woman.
did it will le safe with
exclaimed the man
You're a nice crowd.
I was just laving low
f?11'
"J .
The g'-nt is my brother, and
to see some tif vou try to walk
off with his umbrella!''
This settled all but the shop girl.
! She turned white and red and moved
: alxml uneasily, and finally decided it
i was now or never. She suddenly rose
up. walked to the end 01 me car, picket!
up the umbrella, ami tiptoed her way
to the rc:w tloor and passed out.
"Thank you. miss!"'
It w as the large. "how Hy dressed man.
who was standing on the platform with
his hand extended.
Don't mention il!" snapjwd the girl
; In reply, as she turned over the
; proM-n v and dropctl off.
! And then evert ImhIv chuckled and
slapH-d himself 011 the back to think
j that he had I teen wise enough to let the
umbrella alone. .V. J'. S'e.
The First Taste of IMimmI.
; A , , c , ,
f llmw.n tilne , or Africa
,,.,,. allinl!,ls for menagerie.
i Dark Continent he enjoyed the exciting
but highly dangerous sport of hunting
the king of Itcasts. Upon his return to
Bremen he brought with him a small j
lion cult a pet which he hail captured j
when but a few days old. At first it!
was sickly and looked as though it
would not live long. but by careful nurs-S
ing it outgrew its infantile weakness!
and Ix-gan to build up a strong consti- j
tution. J he name 01 the cult was lSelle,
and she slept In-side her master's ltl at
night. In daytime she followed him
altotit, Itt-iug as playful as a kitten.
Conrad one tiighl lay down for a nap
011 a lounge, ami was soon asleep. He
w as aw akened by a sharit pain in his
left hand. He attempted to move it.
w hen lie heard a vicious growl. On
investigation he found that Belle had
bis hand Is-twcen her teeth, bail bitteu
the memlM-r through, and was eagerly
lapping the blood that flowed from the
wonml. The cub's eves were ablae
with a fierce light, antl it then dawned
mi him that Beilo was no longer a ict
she hail Iw-en transformed from a
domestic animal into a dangerous
brute.
Recognizing his desperate situation,
Conrad moved softly, so as not to dis
turb the animal, and. drawing a revolv
er, shot ht-r through the brain. Wilh
11 blood-curdling scream she jumMtl in
t he air and fell dead on the floor. It
aplH-ars that w hile Conrad was sleeping
the cub began to lick his ham!, and the
brute's sharp.file-like tongue had grad
ually torn the flesh until blood came.
The lirst taste of human blood had
evidently dispelled the nature of t he
jH-t. ami" Belle had become a viciou?
brute, thirsting for more.
The Masher Check-Mated.
He was a dude and a lady-killer of
the most pronounced type. II is record
of "mashes" and broken hearts was
one that swelled his sixtcen-inch chest
with himself tiff lo advantage, aud
w hen lit! saw a stout old woman in a
green gingham dress and pink sun
bonnet, vainly trying to manipulate
the faucet at a reservoir of drinking
water iu the park, he gracefully ex
cused himself to the six young ladies
following iu his train, sprang forward,
filled the cup. and. with the prettiest
of Imws and the most graceful tip ol
his hat. offered the cup lo the old lady.
His blood ran co and he stood rooted
to the spot when she, with a ware ol
her hand tb dined the cup, aud .said in
the presence of the giggling young
ladies:
"No. young man; you've got holt ol
the wrong woman this time; they ain't
the least bit of flirt "bout me; I'm a
stiihly. respectable married woman;
an' my old man's watchin us from be
hind van tree. He's the jealottscst man
on earth; you'll better take to your
heels, or. if ho sees you bow in an'
smirkin an makiu' signs to me, he'd
fairly bile over wilh jealousy, even
though he'd no call to do so. I have
to be mighty kecrful cv'ry move I
make. If you git sight of a spry old
man 'Isutt tjl old with a drab stove
pipe hat an" a linen duster you'd better
lay mighty low, '.speshly if he seen you
tryin' to flirt with me. "an" you'd bet
ter git now for he's cumin in' this waj"!"
Drake's Magazine.
There are 32.000 benefit and burial
clubs registered in England ami W'ales,
with funds which amount to i"ll,000,
000. Lightning Vehicles.
The latest development of the electrio
light is likly to prove of great use for
vehicular trafiie. A small incandescent
globe and reflector are placed on the
forehead of a horse, and insulated wires
are carried along its body to a small
battery stowed iu the trailing vehicle.
The current is turned on at pleasure,
and an unmistakable blaze of light ill
umines the murkv surroundings.
Domestic Use of a Phonograph.
.A San Francisco family used a phon
ograph to cheer their mother's illness,
"irt-d also to preserve the tones of her
voice alter death.
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PEDRO'S PRIVATE LITE.
Thr Kflueatlon ml HitMts or ttm F.I Tm.
pt-ror, antl IIw He I' ! His Ttm.
Much has been said recently altotit
the jmlitical and historical side of the
life of Etuperor Don Pedro If. of
Brazil, now nu exile. But his private
life is iess known to Americans, whom
tie v isited. however, in l7fi. At that
time, when he was not scrutinizing
w irh deep interest the. marvels exhil
ltetl at the Centennial Exhibition. 01
w hen he was not traveling through the
United States, which he admired antl
lauded so warmly ami frankly he liked to
stay in New York, where he lived atthe
Buckingham Hotel. Here as in Paris,
where lie often rode on the top of omni
buses, Dom Pedro was fond of entering
a horse car anil having a chat with his
neighbors in the public vehicle, which
was an easy thing for hiui, as he spoke
!erfeet English.
The know ledge of many languages
was but a small part of the scholarly
acquirements of the Brazilian monarch,
who was as much ot a savant as of an ;
EtniHTor, antl who has been received,
not on account 01 nis iiue, out as a re
w ard for his numerous scientific works,
as a nienitter of the famous Institute of
Fi ance anil of most of the European
academies. His education was begun
by the venerable Bishon of Chryso
Mlis and by the famous Lilteral leader.
Andrada Sylva, who had leen recalled
from cxHe.'w here he was sent by hi
ungrateful party. Dom Pedro, when 1
year old. lost his mother. Ieopoldine,
an Austrian Archduchess and a sister
of Marie Louisp, the second wife of Na
jioleon I. He was only 6 years old
when, in 1H:$!, his father, Dom .Pedro
L. abdicated in his favor and left
Brazil. The poor loy was thus left
quite alone in the world, and he felt
himself still more isolated when at 10
years of age. he heard of his father's
death in Portugal.
1 So wonder then that his character
I was redisjosctl to a serious and even
i a sad view of life; that he was a medi
tative and grave young man. His in
telligence liecame precocious; he was
anxious to work ami to study; so much
bo that he got up at night sometimes
antl relighted Ilie lamp wtncli loot oeen
carefully put out bv the worthy Bishop.
his immediate tutor. The qualities and
strength of mind he acq 11 i red caused the j
regents, I i ret I of exercising jKiwerj
amidst the dilliculties of the lime in
Brazil, to advance the eich of his
niajoritv. ami to liroHaitu
loni I euro j
.. Emperor three years Itcfure the age
ttv...t liv hw fur iliH-lnrmtr tlt:.t nini.ir.
-. 1 - 1 m i -.-
ilr Ims et.sitl for llr;a-sili:Di rlli7iin.
He was only 14 wheu his reign began
practically for him.
Dom Petlro is tall, robust and of
splendid bearing; his hair and beard
have grown while premaiurly. His
blue eves have a deep look; his face,
frank and oeu. inspires a great sym
pathy at the first glance. He seaks
easily, ami listens with ixuite interest.
His residence at Uio Janeiro, which is
his own proitertv, as is his castle of
Petropolis, js called San Christovo.
The lmierial palace, former residence
of the Portuguese Viceroys, was in a
dilapidated condition, ami the Parlia
ment iuteuded to rebuild it for the use
of Do ill Pedro, who declined saying:
"How ca we think of building a
palace, when we have not enough
schools aud useful establishments."
During the Summer, which in the
Southern hemisphere corresponds to
Northern Winter, the Court resided at
the castle of Petropolis situated north
ward of Kio Jeneiro a half day's
journey. This is a charming place, !
which remiuds me of Saratoga, or Ems i
iu Europe. It is built on the side of a '
mountain, and surrounded with a real j
village, composed of villas Itelonging j
to tho high society of Kio Janeiro, to!
the mem Iters of the diplomatic Corps i
ami of the aristocracy of the Brazilian j
proviuces. j
Dom Pedro liked Tetropolis so much
that he used to leave it only on Satur
days to go to Kio to preside at the Miu- j
islcrs Councils, which were held at j
H p. in. on account of the heat in that
tropical climate,
The Emperor got uu
at 5 o'clock, thongh he retired very late
at nigliL His lirst occupation iu the
morning consisted in reading news-
papers. At 9 he
'Y ankee fashion," as
breakfasted in j
he used to say ;
after his sojourn here. He ate so
rapidly that his guests, anxious to tn- j
swer the innumerable questions he con- .
stantly propounded to them often left
the table hungry. Once he was to open J
a railroad, and he had taken along w ith j
him the Ambassador of a great ;
European power. The latter invited to
breakfast with the Emperor at the,
buffet of the station, saw Dom Pedro
getting up after a few minutes, during i
which the diplomat had kept answer- j
ing the questions asked by His Majesty. J
The Ambassador had to follow His Im- .
perial host with an empty stomach, and ;
with a long journey vet to accomplish, i
But before leaving the table and fol- j
lowing the Emperor, who had already !
turned his back, and was moving iu J
the direction of the train, the famished !
guest rapidly seized upon cakes spreatl ;
on the table, forced them iuto his ;
pocket and managed to eat them, with- j
out being seen, during the remainder j
of the trip. j
Every morning the Emperor used to ,
hold audiences and listen to everybody
who chose to present him a request.
Asitle from these audiences daily given
to savants, artists, merchants, etc,
Dom Pedro received once a week in the
j palace yard t he low er classes, or rather
the oor and those in want, to whom
he distributed money from big bags
held by two chamberlains. After the
audience he entered his carriage and
paid visits to schools, hospitals, naval
ships, barracks, etc. In the evenings
the Emperor worked in his library or
went to some theater, always with
some member of his family. "His life
has been a patriarchal one and he has
won universal esteem for his public and
private charities. X. Y. Tribune.
.
Thoughts Between Puffs.
Warnings against juvenile cigarette
smoking are best sounded w ith a
shingle.
Gladstone couldn't learn to smokt
when he was voung, vet during his
career he hiis caused many mighty men j
to tlo SO. j
It may have lteen the devil that .
"sowed the seed," but religionists of all ;
denominations reap the harvest of the .
weed with careful laltor. j
If you sell or give a minor a cigarette i
or pajer ami tobacco out of which tc j
make one in Georgia you become a law-!
breaker j
Porter There's a man in the smoket ;
who says he won't go into an uppei
berth 'cause his life ain't insured. j
Conductor If he's got $0 to f 00' ,
away for his life put him in the di-'
rectors' car. j
An old maiiL who has read altout the f
recent iyVehtion of smokeless powder. 1
thinks That some one ought to invent s
smokeless tobacco. A", i". Herald.
MARRIAGE.
Wbt It Is beelanul Kmllore hf Men aad
Wortirn.
Marriage is a failure, the
men
say,
rcla-
when a wife thinks more of
her
lives than of her husband.
When a wife believes that her
hus-
band must love her whether she
de-
serves It or .tot;
When a wife stoops to her husband's
level and tries to equal him in 1eiug
mean;
When a woman marries for conven
ience and preteuds that she marries for
lore;
When a wife pays too much atten
tion to her husband's old trows and not
enough to the nature of the man . she
has actually married;
When a wife insists that her husband
hall be as good as her mother, instead
of as good as her father;
When a wife savs that if her bus
band earns f,1 a fay he ought to put
2.60 of it in her lap every night as
"her share;"
When a wife who is not expected to
do any such work savs in the presence
of the neighbors tfiat she wa not
raised" that way, and will not saw
the wood;
When a wife blames all the trouble
on the husband instead of accepting
her share;
When a woman imagines that all the
women in the world are in love with
her plug of a husband;
When a wife expects the fact that she
is a mother to compensate fur all her
failures.
Marriage is a failure, the women say,
when a man says he can not control
his lenier when with his wife and
children, although they know he con
trols it when provoketf by a large, mus
cular man enemy ;
When a man is a liar and his . wife
knows it;
When a man is liberal, and fair, antl
cheerful wilh every one exeet his
wife;
When a man is fool enough to ex
pect that an angel would marry him;
When a man is patient antl cringing
with men who do not care if they dis
please, him, and impatient with hissick
children;
When a man exjwets that his wife
ought to bny as much with $1 as he
himself can btiy w ith $2;
When a man frets l'catise his w ife
did not love him In-fore she knew him;
, f h, h , 'h ,ea.Iw hn he
i . . .
When a man extwets the fosinlain
expects a netler boine tlian he pro-
; . 1
Titles;
When a man
blames
his w ife Le
family of chil-
cause there is
a targe
dren;
When a man smacks his lis in re
collection of his mother's cooking, an. I
forgets that he had a better appetite as
bov than he has as a man;
Wlien a man believes that a wife
should give all her time to their home,
and then wonders that she never has
any tuouey of her own. Alchimjn
Olobe.
A Moral Liesson In It,
It was agreed by every body in the
car that she was the homeliest woman
thev ever saw. ami the man in the seat
with her probably noticed the sly
glances and heard some of the whis-
!ered exclamations. He became rest
ess antl uneasy, antl by antl by got up
and walked back to where a couple of
orummers sat, ami said.
"Bovs, she's mv wife."
"Yes!" one rescinded. .
"I allow that she's homely nuff to
scare a hungry bear out of a" hog pen,
but it's all my fault."
"Indeed!"
And I'll tell you the story, because
there is a great moral lesson in it. We
was engaged to be married. I took her
into Sarycnse to a Fourth of July.
There she met Bill Prime, an old beau
of hers. and. to make me jealous, as
some gals will you know, she agreed to
ride home w ith him. It hit me hard,
as you may believe, and so I went out
: into the stable and drove tacks into
i Bill's harness. When they came to
j start out the horse ran away. Bill
! jumiied out and didn't get a scratch.
but Mary staved till the bnrrv struck
a bridge aud was all smashed up. She
lost twelve teeth, had her nose broken,
her mouth torn out at toe corner, an
eye cocked up, her toes turned in, her
tongue bit half in two, and the coior of
her hair changed to the brindle you
now see before yon.
"I see the moral lesson."
"Not yit, you don't! That came in
when I tried to give her the shake and
crawl out of the marriage. Her old dad
put on the screws, and I had to come
to time or lose my farm, and so I
walked chalk. The great moral lesson
is: Never get mad at your best girl.
If you do get mad, don't make a fule
of "yourself. That's all, boys, and I
hoie the warning will sink deep into
yer hearts."
Hannted Moorish Wells.
Stories of haunted wells are common
everywhere in Portugal, says the
FortniglUhf Review. In the castle of
Torre-ne-l)ona-Chama. in the wild
mountains of Traz 03 Monies, is an en
chanted well. Here the Moorish
maiden hasapeared more than once.
! She is seen in the likeness of a womaa
to the waist; thence her form ends in a
! serpent's coils. So appearinir once to
j a young peasant of the neighborhood.
t ne onereti unioiu weauri 11 he would
! disenchant her.
j To do so he most conseut to let her
j put off all likeness to a woman's shape
j and come to him as a serpent, and
j clasp him and coil herself ronnd his
body. He agreed, but when she began
to w ind her cold scaly folds round him
and a serpent's head came near his
i face, a horror came upon him aud he
' struck the seeming reptile with a club
j in his hand. Then the creature fell
j down and glided away, a serpent still.
; but speaking with a woman's voice,
! and she cried out that the spell upon
j her was now made doubly strouf.
: Thereupon she disapjieared forever.
(
"Why Daniel Escaped.
Grandma had taught our two-year-old
to answer a great many Bible ques
tions, and was fond of "showing him
off." On one of these occasions she
asked him:
"Who was put in the lion's den?"
"Daniel," was the prompt answer.
"Did the lions eat Daniel?"
vNo,"
"Why?" The answer should have
been: "Because"' God shut their
mouths," but the little fellow reflected
a minute and then said:
'I dess Daniel wasn't dood to eat."
Detroit Tribune.
Ship-buildig on the Clyde.
Ship-building is so active on the
Civile that in many of tlin v.-irds
is t-arriiMl 011 at m-vhl
I ftlectric lifb'n.
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