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1 v.;'-;::': HQ EH DOTS. nrw.a jrcmria II fmrniod bust to answer him. "Mon sieur do Vleuzuo mid ltonuchftmp liuvo full out," I replied, "ami unfortunately Wis difference lius ended In a clmllcnKO, yon uud 1 lx'1 riK nominated an Hcauchnmp's seconds. When yon came In I was trying to point out that, oh you are heir presump tiVD to Beauchamp's estates, you could not kt him risk his lite lu snub a way." "I should have ttonght," remarked Sracknell, coolly, "that a man from whom aue has expectation) would have been the man uf all others whom one would like to see risking his life." "1 doubt," 1 replied, "whether yon would liko It under the circumstances." "Oh, the circumstances, eh f And pray what are they f" "It is necdlws to inwnk of them," cried De Vleuzac, before 1 could answer. "Mr. liaynai'd has convinced me that I have boen in the wrong, and I shall hasten to offer my excuses to Mr. Ueauchainp. I have only to add that If you consider your self iu any way aggrieved by me, my lord, 1 shall hold myself entirely at your dispo sition." "You seem to be Binding for a fight," remarked Bracknell. "1 don't know thai I have any grievance against you; but I'll try my host to indulge you by discovering one." The Frenchman bowed, pirouetted round on his heels, and left the room. "Now, Harry," said llrackncll, "per baps you'U explain yourself. Of course I sun guess what those two idiots quarreled about, but it seems to ine thut 'Infamous wretch' is pretty strong language for a autious fellow like you to use. hetweeu jou and me, what (lid you mean by it r" Perhaps I was hardly JustlUed iu telling him, but at that ntonieut I really did not see for whose sake 1 was bound to lie reti ocnt To my mind there was nothing ex traordinary lu snch a woman as Hilda wishing to got Heauchaiup out of the way and step into his shoes. It has always seemed to me that murderers are only re g tied with greater abhorrence and pun ished more severely than other criminals bocauHe wc all have such a strong dislike to the Idea of lielng murdered, and thut the man who slunders or cheats me is morally Just about as culpable as the man who knocks me un the bead. Therefore, when I hud related the events of the day to iiradkneU, 1 was a good deal astonished t the effect prodnced npon hlra by tny narrative. He strode up and dowu the room, muttering furious imprecations and working himself up into such a state of blind rage thut 1 determined not to let him out of my sight until he should hare be some calmer. If Lady Lrackmll hud nuule her appuarance just theu, 1 don't know what catastrophe might have hap pened. But the storm soon spent Itself. Pres ently he came and sat down beside me, saying quietly, "That Frenchman behaved suthor well, 1 think." "Well, yes," 1 agreed, "I think he did. Ee ts a gentleman, uud he will hold his tongue; but i suspect that you won't see nirti st your house any more." "Hardlyl For the mutter of that, I tliu'u't have a house much longer. I'm Btterly smashed, and I suppose every stick m my possession will he sold up. Her ladyship will be a pleasant sort of com panion to face grludiug poverty with, won't she f i expect she'll go hack to her tather, though. After all that has hap pened, I don't see that I am bound to go u living with her. Well, what are you making grimaces at r You think it's a cose of the pit culling the kottle black, perhaps r I'm black enough, goodness knowsl hut you yourself said just now thai yon didn't believe I had Buuk to her depth of infamy. I allowed her to have her own way with regard to Beauchamp, which, if you like, was not pretty beha vior; hut she represented to me that the young tool was mad about her, that he would never marry Mildred, and that, for poor little Bunulug's sake, It would be a thousand pities to let that huge fortune slip between our fingers. She didn't put It quite so coarsely as that; she can ex press herself lu a very pleasant and con vincing sort of wuy when she chooses, and I dare say I wasn't unwilling to be con vinced." Bracknell paused for a moment and sighed. "You remember what I said to you the day my pour little man died," be went on presently. "I haven't been able to endure the sight of her since theu, aud I haven't cared two straws how she amused herself or what her plots or plans might be. It wiu all one to me. But I never 8uspecUid her uf anything so fiend ish as compassing a friend's death In order to got hold of his money. No, by Jove! I never suspected her of anal. I .shall tell Beauchnmp alsiut It." i. ' "I think you had better not," I said. " "I shall, though, "1 returned; "it's tha least I cau do. If that doesn't euro him, sothlng Willi and I owe It to him to do my beet to cure him. 1 shouldn't ho sur prised If he weut off aud married Mildred, itorall." - .,- "It woidd bo a fitting conclusion to this highly creditable business," I could not help remarking. .. I'biiuu you urge l4iuy Mildred to accept hlra povf" ., s ; "No," answered BnicknoU snorttj,' "! ra not going to urge anybody lo do any thing; they rimy muddlo it out among them. As for me, about the best thing I timid do would lie to put a bullet, into my head. I am sick of all this!" . Thereupon he got up and strode awny, leaving me not altogether diasuttsnod with my evening's work, v "Thene will at least be no duel now," thought 1 to myself. "Hilda's machinations have ended in a oomplcte (lasco; aud. unless I am very mu h mistaken, alio Is about to pass through tne most uncomfortable quarter of on hour of bar ill spent life." Murder, the proverb If Ua lift, wfU out; and although, of cuunfe, we do cot know bow many murders have remained undis covered, appearances seem to lend support to the theory- lu like mannec, J have al ways observed that anything jrc'tbe shape of a scandal In sure to become public nrooertv. however much it may be to the interest of those concerned In it to Ipep their own counsel; and a very comforting thonght this should lie to the numerous porsons who love a choice hit of scandal above everything. That De Vlcuzac and Beauchamp hud bad a mortal quarrel j that they had been within an nco of slit ting one another's weasnnils in the good oldtoBhloued style; that tl.rv had only been piieificd by the joint nations of Lord Bracknell and the roi; cr's humble scrvunt; and that a scene of i .ie most dis tressing anil drnmatio nature hud taken place subsequently between Lady Brack nell and her incensed husband these things were known all over the house be fore I left my bed room the next morning; and when 1 made my appearance 1 found my fellow guests npon the tiptoe of joyous excitement and curiosity. If they gained no further Information from me, it was not for want of asking for it; nor, I imagine, would the appeased rivals have escaiKid cross-examination, hod not those gentlemen wisely sought safety In flight. They must have journeyed up to London by the early express together; and I should much have liked to hear what they conversed about by the way, but had no opportunity of making inquiries as to that until the whole subject had ceused to in terest me. However, that I may not seem to exalt myself unduly by affecting a superiority to tho weaknesses of my neighbors, I will confess that 1 was most anxious to obtain some account of the lecture which Brack nell had doubtless administered to his wife; because 1 thought it likely that this nua oeen exprcssea in nne, xorcioie r,ng- lish, such as one is always glad to listen to in these days of ronndalsrat phrases and involved construction. My hostess, looWug rather hard at me, inlormedmi that the BracknellB leaving that morning; thut I was obliged to bolt mT breakfast in a terrible hurry. For, after I all the trouble that I had taken in the I matter, I ahould have been truly vexed hud I Iwen denied the sutlsfuction of ftee iiig her ladyship's face before ithe de ported. As it fell out, I was privileged not only to see her face but to hear her voice; and I dou't know when I have enjoyed any thing more than the interview of ten minutes or so which Ehe was pleased to accord to me In the conservatory, where I discovered her, A deeply discomfited woman was she that day, and bitter were the reproaches with which she assailed me. "This has been your doing from first to last!" she exclaimed. "AU the misery and disgrace l hat may come of it will lie at your door." And when I replied that I accepted the whole responsibility and gloried in it, she fairly lost her teuier a thing that was not usual with her decluriug that that only showed what an empty headed, con ceited idiot I was. "You think yourself so wise thut you must needs have a finger iu every one's business. I should very much like to know whom you fiat ter your self that you have benefited this timet Not your friend, Jim Leigh, at all events; for, murk my words, Mr. Beauchamp will go straight off and propose to Mildred now. 1 need not tell you that she will accept him. For nil her demure airs, she know a the value of a large income as well as anybody. As for me, you have cer tainly done me an ill turn, if that H any satisfaction to you--which I supjKjse it ia. For the iat five or six years I huv shown yon every possible civility; I 1vuve had yon to dinnwr aain and again when yon Lured me to UmUit .-md I have introduced you into lots uf good houses which yon know very well that you would never have entered but for me. Naturally, therefore, yon hate me. Why you should hut Bracknell 1 don't kuow; but you have very effectually ruined him. Alfred Bean champ's marriage menus bankruptcy to him neither mure nor less thun that." 8he munt have been very angry to use micu cundor. "You admit theu, dear Lady Bracknell," I observed, "that your purpose was to improve the family pros pects by getting Alfred Beauchump killed out of the way," "X admit no such thing," she returned, 'and I defy yon to produce one atom of poof that I wanted him to tight M. de Vieuzac. I will admit that I tlirted with him. if thut shocks you, you are welcome to be shocked. It don't shock Bracknell, who knew quite well what 1 was doing and why 1 did it. That much he couldn't deny last night, lu spite of all hie raving and storming," '"Did he ruve and storm f" I inquired, with interest, ' "Yes, he did. Tie aaid such abominable things to me that I have very great doubts as to whether I will continue to live with him." - "You will wait, I. presume," aald I, "unt il you see whether there is any chance of his having anything to live upon," Why this remark should have exasper ated her I cannot tell; posstbly because' it expressed nothing more than the simple truth. At all events,, she turned upon me quite furiously.: "Yon think It is safe to insult me, do yohr" she cried. "You will find yourself mistaken. I have a very good memory, and am not likely to for get what I owe your vJThje -day will come whim you will be aorry for having med dled with me." 'Tnat.daymaycpme; but it has nut come yet.iiod I am still unrepentant, I believe I am one of the very few people who cau boast of haviug put Lady Bracknell into a pinion. , fclie uud her husband drove down to the station together, but, as I understood, parted there, her ladyship maTcingloj; an other country house, to which she had boen invited, while Bracknell went up to London. Thither I also betook myself on the following duy; and there, shortly after ward, I reueivod a letter from my mother, In which was begged to run down aud see heri v . , v,;, ' ; --''I am feeling ftneasy about our friends at Sfciines Court, "she wrote, "aud should be very glad to have a little talk with you, IHte young man Beauehamp has arrived. I fear, but am not sur;, that he has come lor the purpose of redwing bis most un welcome attention. ' "How this .bad belmvtor of the young man Beauchamp was to to checked by my advent upon the scuio4kl not appear; but of course I hoatenedHo obey my mother's sum mom, uid ou reaching my Journey's end whom should I find waiting for me upon the platform but Jim Leigh. He said he had heard that I was expected by ! that train, and had thought be would eomo down and moot mo, which was highly Haltering. "I've got tho dog cart here," ho added, "so that 1 can drop you at tho house if you like; hut don't you think a walk would do you good, nf Ict being shut up in that utility railway carringof The cart can tako youe traps on for yon." it was nntexocuy pienHinii. weiiMier mr i I,.: l 1 .1 .1 ' wiitKiiiK, uic rmuis uuu iiiuun lAiitiif uuvtji in mud, and a gusty wind having been blowing nil day from tho northwest, with occasional Blwwers of cold rain, which seemed likely to be succeeded by snow; but as it was evident that Jim had a great deal to say to me, I would not balk htm of hit purpose. Tho upshot of what he had to say was that he had been nnable to refrain from avowing his love to Lady Mildred, and that, to his unutterable Joy, he had dis covered that his love was relumed. She had, however, declared most positively that she considered herself bound in honor to carry out her father's wishes, shonld it be in her power to do so, and I gathered that the only thing which had hitherto kept this luckless pair from breaking their hearts was a comfortable conviction that, after all, this wonld not be in her power. Even Lord Staines who, in ac cordance with the intention that he had expressed to me, had remonstrated firmly but kindly with his daughter had ac knowledged that there Is no known method of marrying a man who won't ask you to marry him. "And I really be lieve," added Jim, "that it Beauchamp , , ',. ,, . , , lU,lu U"V,. J TT.T.-ta.Z' j lMll ,t, bnve nad objec- ,n, "!e' , u jw. "ln otJer w"rd,s' Ue f! jw. lie wUl too "J" Put UP with a of that Bum" 1 ob" "JjS's, 1f , 1 , i 001118 V .r: t only a question of ln- the debt that I have told you about, However, Beauchamp has come forward at last, and I confess to you frankly, Harry, that I'm at my wit's end. I don't see my way at all." "Has Beauchamp proposedP" I inquired. "Not yet ; but he may do it any day. In fact, it. is quite certain that he has come here in order to do it. He wrote to Lady Mildred, offering himself for a week, which he would hardly have done unless he had meant business. From what he has let fall, 1 suspect he has had a quarrel with Lady Brncknell, and has decided to cut himself off fnra her. Old Staines is as pleased as Punch; he looks upon the thing as settled. Harry, what the deuce am 1 to do!" "Don't you think," I suggested, "that, under all circumstances, Lady Mildred might be your best adviser!1" But he shook his head despondently. ' 'She has made up her mind, ' ' he answered; "she has no doubt at all as to what her duty is; she is ready to sacrifice herself for the sake of her family. But am I to stand quietly looking on while this sacri fice is carried out? That's the question." 'Obviously," I said at length, "either the family or Lady Mildred must be sacri ficed, und, all things considered, I think the family ought to go the wall" - "But she won't consent to that," an swered Jim ruefully. "Kxacflyso; and therefore I don't see what course is open to you, except to stand and look on. Have ywhought of any alternative plan?" " ' , "None," he replied disconsolately."1'! was In hopes that you, who' are so much 'sharper than i am, might able to sug gest something." 1 was gratified by the complimeut, but conscious of my inability to show myself worthy of it. Certainly I could have de vised several excellent schemes, but in .order to work them it would have been essential to nbtuia Lady Mildred s acqui escence. W lint was to be done, so long as tiie victim obstinately refused to raise her head from the block? However, not to discourage my unfortunate friend more than was necessary, I promised him I would think t4ie dilemma over very care fully; and, either because drowning men will clutch at slruws or because he had really imsplucedoonlidenceiu uiy abilities, this assurance seemed,, to eomf': him great deal ' ' ' At my own gate, where he found his dog cart waiting, he bade me good by. "1 shall look you up to-morrow afternoon, old chap," said lie- "By that time, I'll be bound to say, youU have hit upon some idea." lu which oversangulne an ticipation he drove away. And now it was that my dear mother showed the siii-ited stuff of which she is made. Not a word would she listen to of my Bober representations as to the danger of intermeddling with our neighbors' af fairs, and when I was shabby enough to quote her agtiinst herself, reminding her that these things were ordered for us aud that all was doubtless for the best, though we, with our limited intelligence, might not be able to see it, she became quite angry. "Another time' said she, "1 will show you the folly amVViekedness of such talk. For the present, it is enough to say that I will not have my poor Mildred marked to a man whom she dietests in puyiii&it of auybddy' debts.1 ? " ."I don't think she detesta.' him," I an swered, "but let that pass, ;Iiow are vou gomg to prevent he' from behig hamled Over to him F1.' : Thereupon, to my utter amajment, she Coolly informeft'me t-Un$ shf mended to go up to Staiiies Court and boaroj.the new Agamemnon ia his iton -As sho hud not bet outside tha liimts of our owta garden for a matuy of twenty years, and as tho only cmweyuDcS Ihiit we possess is a two wheeled pony cut it may be jmugined how this proposition took ray breath away. "Lord Staines, " she went on, -with a smile, "Is too feeble to leave, the 'house. The mountain will not come to Moham med, so Mohammed must go to the mouu tain. I shall write and ask him to send a carriage for me, and you must hoist me into it somehow."- ' 0 Bl OOVTBVDVDj -r Tbe Southern States produced boots and shoes and kindered products valued at $30,W2,600 laat year. ; Stent have bten taken In tha New Jar say Benata to regulate tha telephone ehargas. THE VaOCITY OF LIGHT. 0MMid That I Too rat for tlto Avatar Ml ml lo Fully Comprehend. If you could take all tho people In the world t'nd set them out in space a mile apart, like mi In posts aloug a railroad, aud then at the fartluTpiid use all the dogs and cats to extend the line of mile posts, you would run fur short of material to mark the distance nut to the earth's bnither planet, Neptune. Again, if you cot. Id use nil this materUl of men, women, children, dogs and cats, and put them out so that they would bean far from one another as Boston is from San Francisco, your line wouldn't be half long enough to reach to the nearest star. On a clear night tbe average eye will readily see stars as tow as tbe sixth magni tude. Such a shining beauty as Siriiis winks st yon so an-hly that it seems al most impossible that years are consumed in the passage of its rays to the earth, when we remember that light travels more than 180.0UU miles in a second. Yes, if the nearest of the beautiful twinklers should be blotted out at this moment we should still see It without the slightest change in appearance two or three years after Chi cago cleans up the debris of the World's fair. But even a star so far away as that seems nearly within touching distance whea we find that other stars, visible with the tele scope, are so far away that, for all we know, they may have been blotted out bo fore Cain and Abel were born. That is to say, if one of those far distant orbs hod been utterly annihilated, as you would snuff out a candle, when Adam and Eve were enjoying themselves in the Garden of Eden, the rays then starting toward the earth, notwithstanding the awful speed of light, could not get here in time to meet the closing of the Nineteenth century. How do we know that light travels at such wonderful speed? Up to about two hundred and twenty-live years ago it was supposed that rays of lijjht from all the celestial orbs passed instantly to the ob server's eye. The old astronomers, in fact, never took thought of the matter at all They simply saw the sun aud the stars, but they never dreamed that the rays from them had to journey millions, billions and trillions uf miles in getting to mundane eyes. It was the great fortune of a Danish astronomer to make the discovery that light, as well as sound or a railway train, requires a given time to travel a given dis tance, Koemer, the famous Dane alluded to, was led to hie discovery by observations of the ecliphes of Jupiter's moons. He found that there was a difference of several min utes iu these eclipses, that they occurred earlier when the eart h was on tbe side of the sun nearest to Jupiter and later when farthest away. With this data as a start ing point he soon found that the differ ence of apparent time resulted from the time required for light to travel across the diameter of the earth's orbit, about one hundred and eighty-two million miles. This time proved to be about sixteen min utes, and as half that would he the time f n mi the earth to the sun the mystery was solved. The accuracy of this calculation has since been verified by other methods, and all authorities now agree that the velocity of light is not far from IttO.UUO miles a second. It is difficult fur the mind to grasp and comprehend such wpeed. The swiftest ani mated thing is undoubtedly the pigeon, which has been known to travel hundreds of miles at the rate of fifty miles an hour. A little arithmetical exercise will snow that it would take a pigeon more than iJOt years to cover the distance to the sun at fifty miles an hour without a stop, and to go as far as Neptune it would take the bird nearly a thousand years. When we want an illustration of speed we often use the expression "Bwift as a cau u on hall." But if you could fire a can non ball to the suu when you are a college freshman your hair would be sprinkled with gray when the hail stopped, for you would be seventeen years older than when you fired the shot. Philadelphia Times. Clergymen aud Humor. 1 asked a college professor this question, "What are the element that maku Pres ident a great college president?" This blank I filled in with a uamedistingtiished in academic annals. "The first element is his humor," was the reply. "But humor," continued the professor, "is a pretty shad owy thing to constitute a great college president, isn't it? At first view humor is a pretty slight foundation for a great repu tation as a profouud scholar aud efficient executive. But at second view humor is a not unfitting foundation. Humor implies sympathy with men, bigness of heart, ab sence of intellectual and moral hysteria, and a freedom or meaus of escape from many of life's fretting cures and annoying anxieties. If in my own work i should prefer certain qualities to be superior to humor I yet should regret to be devoid of this sense. I wish that each of us minis ters hud a large possession of this gracious faculty. Our pastorates would be larger, more pleasant to the church and to our selves, and our nights would be less in fested with cares and more filled with music." Chicago Advance, j . ' t k A Mew York fctory. At a table crowded with journalistic lights and "literary fellers" I saw a dark eyed man, Ins face ornamented with very black whisker who some one bohind me told some one else wsa Washington Na than, "Vou all remember the famous Na than murder, over which there was bo much -excitement and such a long trial good many yers ago," this somebody ex plaitiediuadiscreetly lowuredtoue. "Well, sir, Washiugton Nathan Hthe sob ojf that rich old man who was killed in his bed. There were ugly insinuations cast about at the time of the trial, but no tiling was proved, aud when the great Twenty-third street family mansion had boen shut up sttificient length of time the heirs tried to rent iu The house wore a placard for a number of years, but even the toughest skinned man or woman hud a crawly feeling when they went into it ami as it lay a dead weight on the owners' hands tiiey put it up for sale. A big express company bought It, tore down the old house and built its up town depot on tbe first floor aud turned the upper stories into business omces. where the ghost of mysteriously murdered aid Nathan dare not penetrate.'" TAMING WILD BIRDS, JPflatlir(l Crattir'n Iro us flnncffptlbi to KIikIiichs un I1, it man linlng-a. When young I raised muny wild birds. and us the time Ik cuning for their matins; -and busy season for building aud rearing their young it may give some young folks pleasure to explain the method by watch I was perfectly, suones-Hful. I watched the nest of such as 1 desired to gut until the young birds were old enough : to feud and not old enough to fly or get scared, 1 then loosened the nest carefully. placed it in a tight cage near the bars, with a ledge outside from which it might be convenient for the parent bird to feed them, The cage shuuld be hung in some convenient place near where the nest had been located, u a tree or hush, out of tbe reach of cats. At first the old birds are shy, and mam- test their disapprobation by rapid darting arouud aud scoluing in loud voices, yet I never found them to desert their offspring, but feeding them regularly. 1 would then begin to feed them, too, with a liltieswee biscuit, berries, seeds and worms or some greenstuff. The old birds attended them for a time, finally leaving them to my cam. There is a current idea alloat that after they find their young prisoners tbe old birds poison them. It is not so, as 1 have tested It thoroughly. After removing tlte cage to the houso, the old birds having ceased their care, I fed them in the usual way, paying the same attention to clean h- . and carefully giving them fresh war ter for frequent bathiug. I once raised a pet yellow bird, a lively little feathered creature, about the size of a canary and almost similar in color. Tbe plumage of the male was of a bright yel low color; wings, tail and crown black. The plumage of the female was more of a brownish yellow. They build their nest in bushes of lichens cemented and filter woven together, and lined inside with some soft substance. They were very thick around the house, as they generally are where mustard seeds are plenty. I learned to have commence in giving them their liberty by accident. One har vest day mother came out to the field ans excitedly told me that my pet bird had es caped from the cage., which 1 bad Bet in tha window of an upper room. I came to the house feeling mux, as a cluld would, and found my bird perched in the topmost branch of a high pear tree, gleefully enjoy ing its freedom. Procuring a biscuit from tbe house I called to It, and received its chirping answer as it turned its head and recognized its once master. ; To my surprise it new down, perohea npon my Bhoulder, fed upon the biscuit, and allowed me to put it in the cage again. After that I gave it liberty. Nothing de lighted it so much as to hop out of the cage on to my finger, fly to my shoulder and manifest its great delight by stooping, ruffling its feathers, spreading its wings in quivering pleasure, and sticking out its little bill to be kissed like a pouting chtta. I had it in the shop one day, hopping around, when it suddenly fell over as in a fit, but recovered only to relapse into another while on my shoulder "and died in . my hands. I buried it lovingly back ef the barn, with a . post for a head tone. Nature's Healm. , Talleyrand Meets Bonapart. I had never seen him. As already meat- tioned, he bad written to meon the oc casion of my appointment as minister of foreign affairs a long, carefully composed letter, in which ho evidently intended f should discover a different man from the one he hail hitherto shown himself on tbe stage of public affairs. On the very even ing of his arrival in fans he sent mean aid-de-camp to inquire at what time be could see me. I replied that I wasrat his disposal; he sent me word that he would call on me at 11 o'clock the next morning. Of this I informed Mine, de Stael, who the following day at 10 o'clock was iu my drawing room. There were also present several other persons brought by curiosity. ' I recollect that Hon gam vine was among them. The general being announced! went to meet him. As we crossed the drawing room I introduced Mnie. de Staei to him. but he hardly paid any attention to ner; he noticed only Hotigainville, to whom he addressed some pleasant words. At first sight he struck measacharnung . figure: the laurels of twenty victories are so becoming to youth, a handsome eye, a pale complexion and a certain tired look. We went to my study. This first conversa tion was, on his side, without reserve. He referred with much courtesy to my ap pointment to the ministry, and laid em phasis on the pleasure he had felt in oar responding in France with a person of a different stamp from the directors, : Then, with scarcely any transition, he said to 'me, "You are a nephew of the archbishop of Reims, who is with Louis XV11I," I noticed that on this occasion he did not say "with the Count of Lille.") "I, too," he added, "have au nncle who is an archdeacon lu Corsica, It is he who brought me up. In Corsica, yon know, being an archdeacon is tbe same as being a bishop in France." -. n, T soon returned to the drawing room, which was' now full, and he said aloud: "Citizens, I feel deeply the greeting you accord me.- I have done my best when carrying on the watvniy best when making peace, it is for the directory to know bow to turn ray efforts to profit for the happi ness and prosperity of the republic" ' 4 ; Whereupon we repaired together to tba directory, Talleyrand Memoirs in Geu ury. . , . ; ? . 5 .. . , '. I' t : Siberia Not a Desert r J It is a mistake to suppose that Btharia ts a desert, or a glacier, or a mountain faai ness, or incapable of being made habitable. The valleys are level plains, and said to be as fertile as the western portion of tha United States, and it is not unlike tha west in the variety of its resources in minerals, timber aud in agricultural fa cilities. It is a marvelous treasure trove of stored up opportunities. Its wealth ts practically unlimited. With the advan tages of .railroad communication and tele graph Hots a vast country is added to tha world of civilization. The cultivation of the land and the introduction of all tha elaborate maehiuery of enlightened Ufa will, as scientists depict, modify the rigors of the climate, although in southern Sibe ria even this obstacle does not exist. i Hartford Clobe.