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' vV* . THE LADIES' OOLUMB. The Influence Â¥hioh Dreaa Morals. Has ou tlie LATEST FASHION GOSSIP. (Coosin Kato'B Weekly Coutribation.) The True Wife. Let a woman be sure that she is precioua to her haabandâ€" not asefnl, vilaable, con venient aimply, but lovely and beloved let her be the recipient of his polite and hearty attentions; let her feel that lier love and care are neticed, appreciated and retarued ; let her opinions bo asked, her approval sought and her views respected in matters of which she la cognizant ; in short, let her only be loved, honored and cherished in fullilment of the marriage vow, and she will bo to her husband, and her children and society a well-spring of pleasure. She will bear pain, toil and anxiety, for her husband's love is to her the tower of a fortress. Shielded and aheltered therein, adversity will have lost its sting. She may suffer, but sympathy will dull the edge of her sorrow. A house with love in itâ€" and by love we mean love expressed in words and deeds, for we have not one spark of faith in love that never crops out â€" is to a bouse without love as a person to a machine. The one ia life, the other mechanism. The unlovely woman may have bread just as light, a house just as tidy as the other, but the other has a spring of beauty about her, a joyousness, an aggressive and penetrating and pervad- ing brightness to which tha former is a stranger. She gleams all over with it. It ia airy, and gay, and graceful, and warm and welcoming with her presence. She is full of devices and plots and sweet sur- prises for her husband and family. She has never done with the romance and poetry of life. She is herself a lyric poem, setting herself to all pare and gracious melodiea. Humble household waya and duties have for her a golden signiEcance. The priiie makes the calling hifjher, and the end dignities the means. Ilur home is a paradise, for " love ia heaven, and heaven la love." Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clear vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, har pure and tender heart. Always woman mela man to be her friend. She needs the vigor of his purpose, the ardor of his will, the calmer judgement his braver force of action, his reverence and his devotion. Dress and MorslH, I noticed in Sunday's Coiutitution an article by Henry Labouchero upon the dress of our grandmothers and its relation to morals. The editor "f the London Trutli asserts that our grandmothers, in their stiff stays and powdered hair, didn't have a chance to be indecorous. Hasn't Mr. Labouchere lived long enough to know that the moral or physical stillness of a person's environment tends toward a de. sire to break bounds ? Madame I'ompadour wore the atiffest stays, the highest heeled shoes and the greatest ijuantity of powdered hair of any woman in history, and yet how long will it take humanity to learn that dress and manners aro entirely apart, and that human nature is the same in mother bubbarda or panniera ? There are about an e<iual number of good and bad people in each generation, regardless of fashions or surroundings. The cry agaiast low even, ing gowns rages regularly every winter. We sec it written that our grandmothers never wore frocks as shockingly low as the women oftoday. There's a book, published many years ago, called " The Uepublican Court." It contains copies of the portraits of all the famous and beautiful women in the time of George Washington. The dresses of more than half the women are shockingly lowâ€" the lowest of the lot being that of Mrs. James Madison. The ago makes no differonoa. There are always styles that can be abused and made com- mon if the wearer chooses.â€" J/. U., in At- lantic Comtitution. A Charming Advertisement. Those physical wrecks of men who pace wearily up and down Broadway with placards at their front and backs, and familiarly called sandwich men, are not the only persona who promenade as advertise- ments. Comelier advertisers aro several girls sent out by leading milliner and dress- making establishments. They are models chosen for perfection of face and figure, clothed in the newest and most pronounced costumes of bonnets, and then sent out to walk in Broadway and Fifth avenue. The girls selected for this piwrtioular service are those who have been for several years used in their employer's store as models on which to show off goods to wealthy pur- ohasors, and thus have become known to those customers so well that on being seen in the streets they aro instantly recog- nized. Thus the freshest wares offered for sale in those shops are announced under the most favorable circumstances. â€" New York Sun. Fiublon l<'anciei«. At a grand ball in Paris ViscomtesBO do Conevat wore (lowered silver lampaa made a la llonry Uoux, with slashed sleeves and all, and over it her pearls, the most famous in Europe, beginning in a dog-collar about the breast and spreading row after row till they drooped far below the waist. Chinese, Japanese and Indian decora- tions aro decidedly the fashion for country houBea. A tiny lawn mower is the latest in scarf ping, but it does not signify that the wearer uses it. A fine black straw hat can ba made very Stylish if crushed white roses are veiled with white net and set along the brim. Jet capes are to give place to lace ones as warm weather comes, and this means fewer round shouldoreil girls. , Wonderful are some cf the trimmings on the best evening dresses, such as white or oream crepe lisse, embroidered with pearls, the embroidery in silk of tonder tints. Poate diamonds aro introduced into some of the galloons, intermixed with pearla, ailk from the masculine toilet of a former epoch. An evening gown bad a combination of oolora so exquisitely blended as to deserve comment. The petticoat, of pale pink ooral satin, brocaded with silver and gold, was partially draped with the same sliade of crepe de chine ; the bright chestnut- brown velvet train was lined with eau de Nil satin, and trimmed down one aide, across the back and up to the left shoulder, with the richest raised Spanish point, fastened with bows of the blended colors. With other amalgamated shades the result is etinally artistic and successful. Lines for tht* Ladles. " Jenny " is one of the baptismal names of the new Empreaa of Germany A Berlin merchant who advertised for a wife lately received 277 answers The average yearly p^y of women school teachers in Iowa ia bat i'2l'iAi>. At a Newport wedding the bride carried a bou<iuet of hydrangeas, a novel llower for the purpose. A bright bandana floats from Mrs. Cleve land's tlag-staS at Oak View beneath the stars and stripes. JELUES OF JCLT. Timely Sug^g^estions fur the Industrious Housekeeper. Early in July the good housekeeper begins to think of her jelly and jam. It is a great mistake tp put off making currant jelly till the end of the season, for the best jelly is made of currants not perfectly ripe. Those used for preserves should be fully ripe. To keep a light color in jelly, care should be taken not to cook the sugar long, as this will darken the frnit and cause it to " candy." Some persona are very success- ful in making currant jelly by merely beating the sugar in the oven, and, after the juico has boiled twenty minutes, adding the sugar and leaving it over the tire only until the sngar is thoroughly dissolved. This makes the jelly of a beautiful color and delicate flavor, but it ia not usually so firm as that made by the common method of boiling twenty minutes before, and ten after, the sugar is added. Do not "skimp" your sugar. A pound to a pint is the only aafe rule. The best jeliy-bagismade of new Hannel. Take a square of dannel and fold it to make OIGOIMQ FOR OAPT. KIDU'S GOLU. side ; this leaves a large opening by which America is asked to unite with England I ^ jo„ble three-cornered piece ; sew up one ni raising the funds for tha memorial to „,-^„. ,v,;, i„.„„„ _ i..„. »„<>„,'„,. i,„ ..,t,,'/.v, Dinah Mulock Craik, which is to be placed in Tewkesbury Abbey. The Parisian florists have been detected in imparting to odorless (lowers the most delicious perfumes by the use of essences, a drop of which gives to any plant the desired odor. A writer in the Atlantic, in seeking to assist parents in finding names for their children, uri^'es them to avoid odd or eccen- tric or poetic combinations and be guided by euphonic quality only. The best form is a dactyle and a spondee, but if the sur- name cannot bo treated by the above rule, it shonld be fitted with a name to bring the combination as nearly as possible to the above length and cadence. Helen Campbell, in a letter to the Kan- sas City Journal, says the shop girls of that city are not allowed to sit beoause the fashionable women don't like it. " What is the next pleasure?" is the way the girls ask if anything else ia wanted. The law which does not allow girls under IS to work over twelve hours ia not obeyed. Every girl must have a waist of from 18 to 20 inches. The floor-walkers are cruel fel- lows, often fining girls for spite. Some of the girls make 84 cents a week, and the highest waives are aboat 18 shillinga. The girla club together, huddling in small back rooms, and spending all that can be saved on dress. Uatarally, unless with ex- ceptionally keen consciences, they find what id called " sin " an easier fact than starvation. Vnrrora of a Volcauu. Some idea of the terror of volcanoes may be gatheied from an account of one in one of the Hawaiian Islands recently published. When the crater waa tilled from JOO to 000 feet deep with molten lava, the immense weight of which broke through a subter- ranean passage of twenty-seven miles and reached the sea, forty miles distant, in two days, flowing for three weeks and heating the water twenty miles distant : " Uocks melted like wax in its patli ; forests crackled and blazed before its fer- vent heat : the works of man were to it but as a scroll in the tlamea. Imagine Niagara's stream, above the brink of the Falls, with its dashing, wbirliug, madly- raging waters, hurrying on to their plunge, instantaneously converted into a lire ; a gory-hned river of fused minerals; volumes of hissini; steam arising; smoke curling upward from ten thousand vents, which gave utteranoe to the many deep- toned mutterings and sullen, con lined clamorings ; gases detonating and ahriekin;; as they burst from their hot prison-house; the heavens lurid with tlame ; the atmosphere dark and oppres- sive ; the horizon murky with vapors, and gleaming with the reflected contest. ' " * * Such was the acene as the tlery cata- ract, leaping a precipice of fifty feet, poured its flood upon the ocean. The old line of coast, a mass of compact indurated lava, whitened, cracked and fell. The waters recoiled and sent forth a tempest of spray ; they foamed and dashed around and over the melted rock ; they boiled with the beat, and the roar of the conflicting agencies grew fiercer and loader. The reports of the exploding gasea were distinctly heard twenty-five miles distant, and were likened to a whole broadside of heavy artillery. Streaks of the intenseat light glanced like lightning in all directions ; the outskirts of the burning lava as it fell, cooled by the shock, were shivered into millions of fragments and scattered by the strong wind in sparkling showers far into the country. • • • • gij weeks later at the base of the hills the water continued scalding hot and sent forth steam at every wash of the waves." A BoKgar with a Full Pocket. " I am deaf and damb ; can yon give me work at anything ? I have to support my- self and have no money," was found in type- writing in one pocket of a mute beggar arrested at Third and Kace streets yester- dav by Detective Almcndinger, and in the other pockets was found joCO.US. Paper and pencil were given the mute and he wrote his name as William Darlington, of Toronto, Canada. It waa also learned that ho saved his money for twelve months at a time and then visited Dublin, Ireland, and depoaited it. He waa looked up at the Central Police Station. â€" Philadelphia lUcord. ^ . An Vuruly Animal. Farmer's Wifo (limping into the house) â€"That brindle cow kicked me, John, an' I'm afraid my leg ia broken. li'armerâ€" Gash ding that critter. Is the milk spilled ? ^ .Soared to Death by the Storm. Maggie Hite, t.:e 0-yearold daughter of Thomaa Uito, of Johnstown, Pa., became terribly frightened during a thunder-storm last Thursday. She went into convulsions and died in a few hours. The First Kiddle. Samson's riddle (about 11 11 B.C., Judges xiv. 12) is the earliest on record. The ancient oracles freciuently gave responses and tinsel threads. In spring and summer fashions a host of t':^ Â¥here"arl«oT atd * UoTng i ^.^mitting of perfectly contrary interpreta cravats, both plain and colored; plaited | '^ • ^ Bhirt-fronts, tiny jeweled studs, scarf-pins, „ ^^^.^^, j^^^^ ,gauced " is a sign on a I Gratiot avenue store. This will be good to put in the fruit, and the juice will all run to the point, tho weight of the fruit pressing it out. Do not ariueeze the bag. Very little juice can be gained in that way, and what is will be of an inferior quality. It will not pay for the labor. Currant and apple jellies are the easiest to make, as they are surest to be firm. Apple juice will help to harden jellies that incline to be thin. Much of the jelly in the market is made from apple stock, with flavoring of various kinds to justify the labels attached. It would be well if noth- ing more harmful were ever used. A deliuioua raspberry jelly may be made by using one quart of currants to a pint of raspberries. Pick over the fruit, leaving the currants on the stem, but taking out all leaves. Mash the cnrrantH and put them over the dre to scald, then pour them hot into a bag. Take the juice that runs out at once and pour over the raspberries. Scald this and put it into another bag. Let both hang over night. In the morning measure the juice, putting currant and raspberry together, and weigh a pound of sugar to each pint of juice. Boil tho juice well before putting the sugar in; it must boil twenty minutes at least. Add the sugar and let boil twenty minuti'M longer ; skim carefully, if the juice does not look dear the white of an egg may be added. Crab-applea make a very tirm and pala- table jelly. The Siberian crab-applea are easily abtained and are tine in flavor, but, if one can get them, the wild crab-applea (the aour, green things that grow on thorny trees in the country) give the greatest satisfaction. They have a spicy flavor and a pleasant acid which aro particularly de- lightful to invalids. The juice of the crab- apple, of either kind, may be used for jelly with that of other fruits, such as peach, raspberry or cherry, and will give firmness without injuring the flavor. 'The propor- tion may be left to tho taste of the jelly maker. Quince Jelly is easily made from the parings and odd pieces of fruit left after preserving, but it is not well to leave the seeda in, as they tend to make tho jelly sticky and ropy. Grape jelly should be made before the grapes turn. A good old cook-book says : " In making jelly, do but little at a time to keep it of a light color and crisp and firm. Bright, fair weather improves tho color and tlavor of jelly." It is well to have a varietyâ€" not too much of one kind â€" of both jellies and pre- serves, for the palate soon tires of even a pleasant flavor, and the housekeeper's shelves may present a picture to delight the eye by a careful and artistic arrange- ment of tho various colors and shades. Jellies should stand open a day or two after being pat into glasses, that the mois- ture may evaporate, but they should be protected from doat. If thin, let them stand in the sun's rays. In a day or two cut papers to fit the glasses ; dip these in brandy, alcohol or white of egg, and press them closely on top of the jelly. A very old-faibioued method is to pour melted butter or clean mutton fat on top, and let it harden. All jellies and preserves should be so covered, then if mold appears it can easily be removed without wasting the fruit. Finally put ou the glasses the covers made for that purpose, or cover with paper, pasting the edges down. It is impossible to give more than general rules as to the best place for keeping fruit. Jellies and preserves will bear a warmer place than canned fruit ; but each house- keeper must decide by experience as to the best place in her own house. It should be a dry, dark place, where the fruit can be easily watched. To make raspberry jam, weigh ecjual pro- portions of fruit and sngar, put the fruit in a preserving kettle, with a littlo onrrant juioe, ono pint tosixquartaof berries, mash the berries aa they oook, using a silver or wooden spoon. Let it cook well before adding tho sngar, after which boil ton or fifteen minutea. While raspberries are in season no one should fail to make raspberry shrub, to use for a summer drink. Pick over black rasp- berries ; if they need washing put them in a sieve and let water run through them, the less the better. Let them stand over night in a stone jar, covered with good cider vinegar. Ne.\t morning mash them well and strain them through a bag, not your jelly bag, as tho vinegar will injure it ; measure the juice and add three-quarters of a pound of sngar to each pint ; boil ten minutes and bottle while hot. For use, put a spoonful or two in a fjlass of water. This is ono of the most useful preparations that can bo kept in a house, not only as affording tho most refreshing beverage, but being of singular efficacy in complaints of the chest. Gooseberries which comes in July make very good preserves, bat are bettor spiced according to the following famous recipe : Six quarts of gooseberries, nine pounds of sugar. Cook one hour and a half, then add a pint of vinegar, ono tablespoonful each of cloves, cinnamon and allspice ; boil a littlo longer. When cold they should be solid ; if not, boil thom again. The little green gooseberries are the best. â€" Oood House- keepiwi. Startling Stories of Burled Tieasora Which Worry Fortune Huuters. News comes that a party of men have organized to dig for gold in a small cave near Greenfield, Conn. It is not known there is any gold in the cave. Some years ago a report was started that gold was hidden in the cave â€" probably a part of the mysterious wealth that Capt. Kidd buried â€" and ou several occasions spades and pick, axes have been brought into play, the work generally being done in the night time. A year or so ago a number of men visited this cave night after night, excavating dirt, which they drew up in baskets and threw out of the month of the cave. They finally withdrew, leaving their tools behind them, but whether they carried away any treasure is not known. The members of the party just formed evidently think their predecessors did not take it all. Over in New Jersey there is a rise of ground called Money Hill, on the bank of the Shark Uiver. Money Hill got its name from an early belief that Capt. Kidd made it a bank of deposit. In fact, it is qnite certain that he did. A good many people have dug into Money Hill ; a few years ago two sailors came there, dug a hole and went away again. " It is said " they left a rusty iron box by the side of the hole, and that some ancient coins were found near the water aide, where they re-entered their boat. That was a fever flesh and blood could not resist. The entire neighborhood was aroused, and Money Hill and the whole north bank of the Shark River was prodded with spades. But no more iron boxes filled with ancient coins were found. But did that settle the matter ? Not at all. Last month the disease broke out again, aa viru- lent as ever, and a number of men went to work to unearth treasure from the aides of Money Hill. If they discovered any chests of Spanish dollars they kept the matter secret. A search is now going on for an immense lot of private treasure buried on Tumeffe Cays, off British Honduras. John B. Peck, a former journalist of Washington, is the man who leads in the enterprise. A few weeks ago ho came into possession of infor- mation that pointed to tho sinking of a small pirate vessel, just tilled with gold, on Turnelfe, which is a coral key. I'eck ob- tained a concession to dig for the millions, agreeing to pay the Government 10 per cent, of all the treasure he found. Since then ho has made two expeditions to the spot, on one of which his abip was wrecked, and on the other he broke his tools and re- turned to this country for more. He has succeeded in getting people to put up money for the expenses of these adventures, they to be repaid out of the buried gold - when it ia got. Thia Peck left New York for the trip early last month. Two years ago a resident of Nantucket was digging in his cellar for water, but he missed that, as did Dow (of Dow'a Flat), and struck gold instead, or said that he did. It was an iron chest tilled with Span- ish doubloons. Tho entire island was in a blaze of excitement, and many, if not all, the cellars in the place were dug over, though no more iron jhests were upheaved, nor did any Spanish doubloons clink ou the laborers' steel blades. About tho same time a digger was industriously upheaving the soil on a point of Mount Desert in the belief that Capt. Kidd had strayed tuat far north to hide the vast accumulation of gold and silver that ho had taken from the treasure-ships of ail nations, that is, all nations that had treasure-ships. This bloody old piratical Englishman, who waa linally legally put to death for his Crimea, haa led many men on fools' errands. For lOO years people have been digging at different points between Delaware Bay and Khodo Island in search of buried treasure. The labor expended in this direction would, at "ii. a day, buy all tho gold and silver and goods and ships that Capt. Kidd ever stole. It is a mere superstition that ho evfr buried anything. The 920,000 in gold and silver he carried into Boston was probably aU he could command, for the hangman's noose was already dangling just above his head, and he would naturally do whatever he could to propitiate the Government â€" the English authorities in those days not being adverse to taking money from any source. â€" Ruches/fr i N. Y.) Vnioii. STKAXGK VOICE FBOAl A WKUCK. Singular Story of a WaUrloeised Vessf Discovered lu the Chiua £>«a. The Sulvatlou Army in India. One of the strangest developments of modern religious fervor is tho Salvation army in India. This remarkable organiza. tiou, which may be disliked, but which is not to be despised anywhere, has taken a form in India entirely adapted to the native sentiment and imagination. Its European members dress in Indian costume and walk barefootâ€" a terrible thing to do on tho burning soil. They submit to privations which the native fakir can hardly surpass, and live on an average of about twenty cents a week. They have drawn into their ranks Commissioner Tucker, an English official, who haa resigned a yearly salary of 81,000 to follow them, and who marches dressed in tho wretched attire of a fakir, but under a red canopy carried by four Salvationists. These missionaries address the natives in their own language. At Madras lately they had a great demonstra- tion and preached in their oharaoteristic style to an atteativo audience of natives. Perhaps this is the best way lor Christian- ity to get at the dull and debasea myriads of India after all.â€" iiosfoii Tramcript. You see, messmates," saya the old quartermaster, aa he aeated himself com- fortably again, " in a seafaring life we meet with many rough jobs that are out of all ordinary oalkillation, and what them as haven't been to sea wouldn't hardly believe. Thero was that ship we fell in with in the China Seaâ€" that was an odd thing that was. " It was only just after daylight in tho morning watch as some one sung out, ' Sail ahead.' But it wasn't much of a sail, for there was only one mast â€" the foremast â€"standing, but a big ehip agoing steady afore the wind, with her foretopsail set, but not hauled taut, but all flapping like. Well, wc see as there was no one aboard, or, if so be there waa, they didn't know how to manage her. So whou we'd run down a little ahead of her, we lowered a boat, and I waa one of the boat's crew, as went aboard, and aa we pulled up tu her, we could see nobody on deck, but only heered a dog barking ; and when we went up the side, sure enough there was a half-starved dog a- sitting upon the body of a man ; and when he seea us he seta up a dreadful howl- ing, but still he didn't seem displeased to see us, bat throw hack his ears, though ho looked dreadful melancholy and down in the mouth. But the curious thing was to see tho number of rats that was running about the decks, for tha ship was watcis logged, and the rats were driven from below and obliged to shift for themselves. " Well, there wore three more dead bodies lying about ; and when we came to look at them the rats had ate most of their faces and necks and ripped open their jackets to get at their flesh elsewhere, but the corpse aa the dog was sitting on they hadn't been able to toncn ; for you see the rats they lived upon the dead bodies, and the dog lived upon the rats â€" so we supposed by the carcasses of ono on 'em as was lying near him. And such rats as they were 1 never seeâ€" a'most as big aa half-grown rabbits, and so tame that they didn't make no account of us. You see they'd been so familiar with the bodies aboard that they looked upon na as so many sheep or cattle, or what not, as was come aboard for their live stock. " Well, we tried to get into the oabin, but this was full of water, and so waa every- thing below decks ; and there was no uame upon the stem, or wc couldn't make it out where the ship was from or where bound ; and we searched the captain's pockets, but couldn't find no memorandum nor name, only a love letter sewed up in a piece of oil- skin in his jacket, and signed "Sarah." And when we was thenking what was best to bo done, whether to throw the bodies overboard or what, a voice, as eeeuied close to us, sung out in a curious low tone, more like a female's than a man's, ' Ship ahoy, there ! what ship is that .' ' " WoU, that startled us a'most out of our senses ; for we couldn't see nothing, and the bodies on deck was dead we knew by reason their faces was eat ; and says ono of the men, ' It must be tho dog,' says ba, 'be'vobeen a-thinking over to hisself all ha've heerd, and have been and tanght bis- self to speak ; ' and saya lie to the dog, answering his hail like, ' Tho Zenobia, liOO tons, John Shum, master, of and from London, bound from Singapore, with a general cargo.' But the dog made no auswer to that, and while he was a wonder- ing what it could be, the same kind of a voice sung out again : " Steward, glass of grog !' Well, now we knew as this couldn't bo the dog, becanso they don't take no grcg. Then says another man : ' I'm much deceived if that 'ere voice don't come out of the mainmast ;' so we goes to the mainmaat that ia, tho stump of it â€" and out of the middle of the ropes and halyards that waa hanging about the pine the voice oomea out again and says : ' Oh, sweet Polly I No higher, keep her rap full.' Well, we soon caat off the ropea, and what should we see but a tine gray parrot a setting in a kind of nest she'd made and looking as if there wasn't nothing the matter with her ! Well, we hove over the doad bodies and left the rats to feed upon themselves, but we brought off the parrot and the dog, though he wouldn't leave the body till we'd taken the jacket off and laid it down in tho boat fsr him, and then he oamo willin' enough ; and Capt. bhum took the dog and bird and brought them homo to his old woman, and perhaps they're both alive now." â€" Uoston Commercial liuUetin. and linked buttons for throat and sleeves, | with a close high corsage. A lace frill, ' very closely gathered, ia worn, this copied 1 """'" to theatre-goers.â€" Dcdoit Free Press Food For Rrllectlon, Mr. Fauxpas (to his neighbor at dinner) â€" You must have thought it awfully stupid in mo to have made that remark. Miss Societeâ€" Why, no; I thought it quite natural. A Toronto Dlafcnusls. Young Physician (inspecting citizen on tho floor at tho police station)â€" Thia man's condition is not duo to drink. Ho has been drugged. Officer McGinnisâ€" Your rig'at. I drug him all tho way from the saloon, two blocks down the street. Han's Inhumanity to Man. " I hato that man," exclaimed Mrs. Uppercea. " I'd like to make his life miserable." " Toll you what," said her husband warmly. " I'll send the wretch an invitation to your musioale. We'll tor- ture him." â€" llurdelte. Terrible Work of tho French Rllle. Acoording to the accounts the new " Lobel riffo" is a wondrous weapon, and is destined to do terrible things in tho hands of French soldiers. Tho members of the Academy of Medicine, wishing to diagnose the physical consequences of wounds in- dicted by the bullets of the gun, recently had experiments made on twenty corpses, probably those of paupers whom nobody owned, or those off ill-fated waifs picked up at the morgue. The bodies were placed at the ordinary firing distances, .from 200 yards up to a mile or so. The bullets whizzed through the bonos and pierced them without fracturing them, as is done by the bullets of tho " Gras rillo." The wounds, if they may be called so, which were inflicted, wtre small in their punc- tures, and oonsequontly very dangerous and difficult to heal. Injuries inflicted at short distances wero so considerable that, in the opinion of the surgeons, they would be almost incurable. At the longest range â€" 2,000 meters â€" a poplar tree was hit, but the bullet did not go through tho tree. At 1,200 meters tho tree waa pierced through and through. The discharges of the rifle are unaccompanied by smoke, and tho reports are comparatively feeble. â€" London Telegraph. It ia reported from Detroit that a lad named Frank Bailey, lO years old, has such a mania for thrusting pins and needles into the right sido ol his faca and nock that it has become necessary to send him to tho lunatic anjlnnu At the time of his departure ho had from 30 to 10 pins buried to the head in his cheek, besides an un. known number of needles that were out of sight. Great Self-Sacrifiee. Wifo â€" How late you aro ! I thought you were never coming home. What made you stay away so long ? Husbandâ€" Don't reproach me, woman Bo thankful that I am here co soon. Why, I left the i,'iouik1s at tho end of the twelfth inning with tho score a tie ! Think of that ! There ia now filed with a will in litiga> tion in Monroe County, Ga., a silver dollar that was issued in 177S, and has been in possession of tho aamo family for moro than ono hundred years. It is ono of thir- teen dollars that wero paid to a lievolution- ary soldier when discharged from the Con- tinental army.