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f \ .Â¥ THE DASI CONTINENT. k ! - 11. .X â- r 'i 9t*»lu]r'a Travel! uiid Litborn In tlie Cuuko lieviewedâ€" The Mlimluimry and Ills Workâ€" What the Whole AiiioiinU to. A Paris cable givea the following letter from Richard I'. ISartoii : I do not despair ol Btanley, even if the mysterioaa white pasha of the Ualir-elGha/.el bIsuuIiI turn out to be Emin, which is probable. Stanley is an artiat in the Burpriaee. c&tastrophes and properties of a arama, as well as in its denouement. He ia, in fact, a sort of a geographical Bardou laid when the world pulls oat its cambric handkerchief he will probablj come up smiliiin and ask, 'â-  What th>deucois the matter?" I am a great admirer of Stanley. lie ia simply the princL' of African cxplorera of this day or of nnyda;. . But aa an admiiuHtrator 1 rank liini a.) below par, and the b' at proof ol luis id that of all tliu new stiitinns he hai founded on the Codko, at a err, 1 espensf and wusto of life and labor, S3 well aa of gold, there is hardly cm; tliat Ims uol been abandoned and left to fill i:i ruin. On the present occasion hit> ivowed objeit was the rescue of lilniin raaha, wliu ba^ distinctly and de. terminjily declined to bo rescued, but Btanidv u real object was to divert the ivory trade fr mi the long and expensive Z»n/.ibar «iut to the clicap and safe waterway of the tlonjjo. The idea ia excellent. By this meana lieltjiuni recoups the millions wasted upon expeditions and stations. Zanzibar, also, uuderthe unprejudiced annexationists, our co::sins-German, can have the sole pro'ji ol the slave e.\portation ; nor would K Teuton of them all raiBo a hand against v.hat brings yrist to their milla. Stanley hai thi.H, by one touch of his ma^'o wand, f oiivfj-tud till ('lingo l''reu Ktate, the happy huatin..! grounciot Tippoo Tib and his merry Ha'.valuli men â€" absurdly naini 1 Arabs â€" »ntoa('o:igo Slave State par eicellonce. The (;reat blate mines are now transferred from the I'ajamwe/i country, the old Mountains of tli9 Moon, to the I'pper Congo. ThcHii froeli di;.i<;ings remain to be exploited. Ti]>poo Tib id made Governor (Clod save th" mark!) of thodo new slave reserve sat a halary uf iJ.'lOO a year, where he can easily make l.iO.OOO a year, and where his fol- lowers are pretty sure to shoot him if he taU.j any nonsenae about the abolition of Hiavery. Vou must not expect to hear any truthiof this kind in Kngland, where the impcri'KiEiand tyra:mical opinion of society HubduEJS oven the boldest spirit. A welb kiioni. administrator was sent to the Oongo, and after a careful inipiiry fcjiind ftlohami u'daiiism a grand and saving fact, and set ilown the CiiriBtiaii raiaaiunary hh an litter bambug in all excipt Iwing a doughty explorer, a laborious and useful linguist ana an ablecoUtutorof oth- r men's money. The adiniaistrator goen home folly resolve 1 to ntate th' facts nnr)n;|>romisingIy bffore thn public of Great Britain . but, altlioii:;!: the Hdmiiiiatri'.tor is an honett man, the inflac'iue and aiaociation of "Id ideas troopiic back into his braio, so act upon him iba: so far from itatioK the facta he ntatea dean to the contrary. IIo stands Dp and declarcN thatnnuionaries are the croam of cruation and that the gospels are over- Hpreai'.ing the land, while, if he mentiims Islam, it is in a patronizing tone, as if Mo- iiamniid were a mere courier totlio founder of Cbriatlanity. All tins is utterly unfair. It allowh the nnfortunatH public no chance of learning the truth. Thu narrator may lio honest am! hon(lrabll^ but ho da-'^o not Ktate thu factK nor have tlio courage of his own opinions- If hn clid society would turn upon bira with the usual " Oil, no. wi never mention him ! ' and his name never would be beard iinli'sx accompanied by a iinait or sneer. The fact ia. Kngland's throuii difoase is religiosity in the few and hypocrisy in the many. (.Signed) IJrciHiin K. lUnioN. Ootcl Maurric, Paris, July iHlh, leSH. llfi*ltf|-Hlf Atteill|lt 111. Sillellll*. A Montreal despatch Haya : A singular case of attempted suicide occurred on the ljOngue«iil ferry wharf yi'sterday morning. A wcU-dressud, middle aged man was avcn coming on the wharf and violently striking Ilia head against one of the mooring posts on the wharf three or four times. The poo- plo who were slaniling uta distance hurried 10 I be «|i)t, wluie tiny found the man lying on th'' ground, with a largo t;iish in liiH lioad and apparently dying; but what was their toirprisu when they tried to raise him from the ({r'lund to sno him jamp up and with a boniitl thmw liitDHolf into the river. When he oame up for the first time hp made th't viKn nf the orow and' raiae<l Ills eyih I < lienv.ii : hut when he saw that one of III*) men on the wbarl was jumping lifter liiiii. Ill' dn''l;eil hiti head under water und ljili'i)leB line rapidly. Simpson Huoccede I ill holding the wouIiVbo snlcidn when the Utter roae a second time. " For (loii's hake, let mo go down," almost inaudibly nttnrcd the half dead man. His rcrcoer, however, would not liateii iyt\i brought liini to shore, where lleuaiid, (or iiu ;h wni his name, asked the bystanders, " I'loasp, bit me drown, ar kill mo one of you." 'J li") would he Hiiiaidd was aiionr- taincd to bo Albert Honaud, a well to-do fiTooiT. IIo ia holievcd to have been sulTor iag with dtJinuHi (rdrii;i.i. A Hot for Hard 1lrlii1<«rii, A Husiian physitian nanied l'ortu|{aliilT dccl&reH that iilryohnine is an infallible cure for driinkonness, ndniinistornd in siib- i^iitaiieoua inji-otions. Tho effect of the Btrychiiiii'' solution is to change tho crav- ing (or drink into poiiitivo aversion, and this ohange ii. efleclnd in a diy. Aft«T a treatment of figlil or ten days the patient may bo dist^haiged. The Htryohnino in Bdminii.terrd by ili«Bi.lviii>; one grain in two himdrrd drops of wator, and injecting live drops of tho solution every twenty (our lioiiri.. . â€" â€" .^ Why Ihev lililn't .Spriili. IIo -Why, there's .lohnaoii and his wife walking acrmi- liie idreot and they havim't HIKikon a word to each other in four months. Hhe (ivith ureal interoal) â€"You doa't aay «o. 'Jell ino nil about it. Why did they i|iiarrel ' |i J|e They ilidn't (piarrol. Hh'j (dUanpoinludly) â€" They didn't ? Why didn't they iipnak for (our months, then'/ . , , ll« - DncattHe thoy conldii t. iju was nway in I in rope lor that time. BhPâ€" O I yon brnte, A SUICIDE'S LIFE Mlcht Have Been 8uve<l liyThrtoa Men, Bat Th«jr Were Afruid to Cut D«r Uowu. A New York despatch saya : Miss Annie Stillwell, a boarder at the bouse of Charles Johnson, on Carpenter street, in Camden, committed suicide yesterday, but she might have lived to die a natural death if throe men had done as they ought and not have had silly scruples. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Johoaon saw Miss Stillwell come in and go up-stairs early in the day. As this was an unusual thing for her boarder to do she mentioned the fact soon afterward to her husband and got him to go to Miss Siillwell's room to see if she was sick. Mr. Johnson ia an invalid him- kelf, and it was only with great effort he climbed the stairs. Ue knocked and knocked but received no resporae, and as he was too weak himself to break in the door called over to Joseph Butcher, who was at work on the next house, to come in and helxj him. Mr. Batcher came and burst in the door, and the two mjn were horrified to see Miaa Stillwell hauling by a rope around her neck, apparently dead. Neither of the men would touch her, so they called in Isaac Lovett and asked him to cut her down, but he wouldn't because, like the other men, he believed no one had a right to touch a suicide, but the coroner. They sent for Dr. Beale, who cat tho rope and found the woman juat djing. lie endsavored to re- vive her, but she died soon, and then the three men were sorry they had oot cut her down when they discovered her, as her lite could have been saved. Miss Stillwell was in her nightdreas, and near her was found a note saying : ' Dear I' , I have no home. May Ciod have mercy on my soul t Dokrooasin, forgive n.e, for .lesus' sake! Mother, brother and sisters fort;ivo '. Oh ! I aek all to forgive me that I have ever wronged, (iood-bye." Miss Stillwell had not been in perfect health lately, an i was inclined at times to be erratic and did many queer thisgs. She was well known in (.'atudea. ,1-. V. The Florida orange orop 2,000,000 boxes. is ostiinated Teinperaure Notea, The various temperance bodies of Tas- mania have resolved on poaitive action against the liquor traffic. Encouraged by the Huccess of local option in Victoria, Tas- mania has decided to come to the front. Tho opening ol the Prohibition I'ark on Stiitun Island was one of the featares of the celebration of tho '• glorious Fourth " in tho tnetropolit m distriut. Kx Gov. St. John, Dr. I'uuk and other notable teni- peranco adv icatea were among the apeakera of thu day. Miss U'lilarj'a suggestion that the white rose bo adopted a< the emblem of the Pro- hibition party to offset the red rose of the demoi;racy ia being received with en- tbasiasm. If tbi Itapablicans would don the yellow r hi', the campaign of IMNH might very properly bs calhil the war of the roses- The Young Woaen's (Christian Tem- perance I ' man of Poagbkeepaie, N.Y., has place.l wall- pockets in the boildinga occupied by the volunteer tire companies of that city and expects soon to have them also in other places. These [Kiokets are kept lillod with religious papers and other good literature. Directors of the London and North- western Kailway have shown tlicir appre- ciation of the movement by establishing temporan. 13 huiiaea at many atalions along their lino for tlio acconimo<lalion u( their employee,. These taverns have been siio- cessfiil fr im a li:iancial ai well as a social and moral point of view. A iiromioent li luor dealer in I'arkera- burg, \V. \ a., applied to the court for tho renewal of hia iiceiiso- Tho court after listening to potitions and pruttvitri and the argument of the uouiwel granted thejioenio. Immediately the daughter of the liquor dealer, a beailiful young woman, a deputy clerk of the ounty. riiahed into tho court room and demanded to be heard. Tho ooiirt granted a hearing- For twenty niiniitus ^lie held th« judge and amlienuo spell bouid by lierelo.|uent pleading ngainat granting her lather a liconae to sell drink, 'i'ho judge reverse. 1 the decision and re fuaed the licen.i«. Mrs. II. It. Kella, one of the moat accoinpliabud women in the south, haa come out into thu prohibition party move mont in Miaaiaaippi, and is to edit a W. (',. T. II. pajier which haa juat been startedfor that State. Mrs. Kells has long been dc votedly altaohml to tho white ribl>on move. meat, and atthoagh shu has done ezoulhuit serviro, haa not until now made it her ea- cupation to help in tin a work. Hho is an aoqiilsition of which any sooioty in any State or city iiiiglit be proud. Sirs. Kella •xpectH to attend the national convention in Now ^ urk city. 'i'htt National Temperanco Sooioty will hold it-i aunual tempurance camp-iiiuuting at Oi;oaii Grove, bugiiining Woilnosday, Aug. Ist, and iroiitiniiiug live days. Ad- dresses will he delivered iiy George \V. Uain, Kdward ('/srawell, Mrs. Kraily L. MuLaiighlln, Ptsliop .1. I'. Newman, Mils Julia (ulniaii, Kollu Kirk llryaii, Gon. C. P. Flak, Kov. Dr. T. L. I'oiilaon, Uov- W. ('. Steele and clhers. Thu Park Hiaturs, of Itoaton, an'. Mrs. .Mies J- Osborne, soprano of Tremnnt Tompls, Itosion, will furnish inUHic- The meeting will ho under the inanagoinont of .1. N. HtoarnH, ('orro- sponding Secretary of the aiitiety. TUK UNUUBIKD DEAD. Som« who Wa|k^ Aliout Two Thousand Vears Ago, The dead of ancient Egypt are exhibiting in the Egyptian Hall, says the London Ni-tcs, and it is a cnrioas, moarnfol specta- cle. Mr. Flinders Petrie has been digging at Hawarii in the Fayoum, and has brought hia mortuary apoiln to England. The moat remarkable thing in the gallery ia an assortment of Egyptian portraits, painted in wax. At a late period, afterthe Koinan annexation of I'^gypt, it became usual to fix the portrait of the dead on the outside of the mammy case. Some twenty or more of these otligiea are here, and visitors will be snririaed by the vivid coloring, the life-like, modern air. Here are beautiful women »'itb large, dark eyes ; here are men in the prime of life, with the characteristic hard liomau face. Uere, above tiny mummies, are touching por- traits of little girls, dead in their sixth winter, like the child Erotion, whom Martial so tonderly laments. One portrait of Artemidorus represents a handsome yoang man with a gilded laurel crown â€" be may have been a poet, and may have contributed to the " An- thology." The whole array of vivid cha- racterietio heads, unburied after 1000 years, and in some instances still attached to their lac^uerod mummy cases, must impress every observer with a sense. of the tleeting of time. They might have been painted yesterday. Bat Artemidorus, within that red case and under these gilded tigares of the dog-beaded god of the graves, has been dead nearly 9,000 years. We cannot say be has been dust. The head of a lady, with tho long hair pins yet in her hair, with tho silken lashes on h*^. Sll^aks, is exbibited apart. This has a ghastly look ; ghastly, too, is tbe malicious look of life on the gilt face and beaded eyes of an older mummy case. These faces, in high relief, are stitT and unnatural, not like the portraits, but certainly they were portraits, too, in their way. 'The slippers, the combs, tbe toyf, the glassware of the dead, are gathered here, and here is the sham copper money which was buried with them long after Chris- tianity came in, that they might pay their way in Amenti or Hades, liroken false coin was good enough for tbe dead, and the mammies of Hawara carried with them no silver or gold ; nay, even their poor copper money they never spent in the kingdom of Oitris. Mr. Flinders I'etrio haa discovered many other things curious and less melancholy. Among them ia a terra cotta, representing a Roman lady iu a sedan chair, with twuuhairmen. one of whom is lookin)! back over bis shoulder. The chair had windows and folding doors to close in front when tlie weather waacold or wet. Mr. Flinders Petrie haa also broaght a papyrus of tho second book of the Iliad, which he haa not yet nnrollad. The writing is extremely beautiful, a4 easy to read aa print, and iu this very dilTurent (loiii oar other Homeric papyri. These were manilestls frsgnientsofcheapeditions, and their readings are worthless. Mr. Petrie's papyrus appears to contain an ex- cellent text, though doubtless later than the revision of .\ristarchua (llJO B. C.) Niiw Slyln of l'rl<le. Two little misses bolonging to ditTerent households luitlt\iiig inthusamn neiglibor liiiod, on till) east nido, have leasinl to speak as they pass by. Demth laHy robbed one of tlioin of a baby brother. Tho other evening ihe wont by the house of a neigh- bor while I'.or former companion was sitting on tho doorstop with a young lady. Iliith with a toiia oi the lienil and a Hwing n( Ihuir skirts exprnasod tlinir mutual uon- tcsiipt- " Why !" said tho young lady to tho one or tho doorstop. " don't you speak to Maggie auy more'.'" "No, I don't," was tbe reapuuss ; " she thinks she's awful smart just because their baby diod." â€" Htllf.l'o L'oliri'r, KoMi- friondaof Vaeiilt Dudley, tho young l^ngliahwoman who shot O'Donovan Kosaa, am making an elTort to secKro h«r roUiaao (rum tho asylum for insane oriiiiinals at Aiilmrn. There i.a iiome question as to tho legality nf tUo detention of a persttn who ia nota oriniiiial in tho nyes of thn law in an institution maiiitaiiiMl by the State for tho uatn and custody of tboso aontonoed to im- pnsonmont ou uouviotion ol a crime. Th« Krvlval. A gentleman writes to ask if we believe tho John atreet r<ivivat is a healthy kind of excitement and likely to accomplish any permanent good. Well, Irom oar secular standpoint wo can look at it in a eold, calm and critical fashion. It is an interesting movement â€" a popular outburst, indicative of an appe- tite un the part of thousands for some- thing they have not bad as a regular diet. It duals in none o( your conservative incthoda, packed in ioe, and so eminently rospectablo that it ia considered indecorous to exhibit any emotion ; but in one of the old fashioned affairs, like a contlagralion, or a lire in a dry pine forest where tho crackling and roaring of the llames are both snperb and awful. It holds sinners over tho pit, ihrowa them into the brim- alone lake and tliuu h-hIis ihoiii how lliey like it, and if they want to come ashore. There is an element of tnrror in it, bat a predomiiianou of earnest and elo<|uent per- SoaHion and pleading. Yes, we like to see a man, like this young Harrison, and liiH fellow workers, who are in dead earnest. If they go a little toofar, why, thu rest of the world don't go far enoagh. If he makes the devil devilish aud warns his bearers that thoy are going to have a warm iqiell by and by unless thuy hold op- wull, «b rather tbiuk ho won't do any harm. Moat moii are pachy- dcrmatuua,and it takes a nloilge hauimur to make an impression. .Vs a rule you needn't bn afraid of any body's golting too mnoh religion. Besides, this is a free country, and no one need go to hoar the preaching unless he wants to. IIo IH nut taken by tbe scriitT ol tho neck and liiggod into church, but dooa aa he pleases. The orowds that attend the mnot- ingn seem to bo iiatialled. and therefore tho htst thing for yon to do is to give them your good wishes, and then stay away it you don't like them.â€" AVw i'ork lUralJ. FAILVKE or TUBRET fOBTS. The Frofeaaora uf FortitlcaMan Must In veot Soiuethlns Hew. The Times publishfid, upward of a nlbnth ago, an accoant of the exptsriments in firing with the steel cupola tur/ets maaufactared at tbe works in St. Ctiamond, Chatillon and €ommentry. It was explained that the discovery of the new explosives had in- duced the military eogineera to construct forts composed of *n enormoaa block of concrete, within wkich the space was ob- tained necessary u> receive a small garri- son, stores, and the tarret, or two turrets, armed with csnnou, sometimes simply rotary like thnae of St. Chamond, some- times rotary, descending and ascending, like those of Chatillon and Commentry. Tbe tiring with the turrets had given e.\- celleut results. The second portion of the experiments, not less important and interesting, has just been conducted in the presence of M. de Freycinet. The question was whether the torretc, after their great saccesa in firing on tbe enemy, could themselves stand lire. Had this been the case, France, by means of a series of forts, could have sup- phed the gap on her frontiers and stopped she invader long enough to mobilise be- hind the protection of these works. I'nfortunately, the experiment does not seem to have been satisfactory. The tur- rets were shattered by the tirst shot, and became terrible projectiles, for the frag- ments of steel struck with the violence of a cannon ball. The tiring, it is true, was at 14U metres, w-hereas in a real siege the dis- tance would be :i,000 or 4,000 metres. There is, however, nothing to show that tho accuracy and force of the explosives would be lessened by diatance, so that the result IS very signiticant, for the possibility of an effective armament of frontiers, if what is said be correct, ia placed in doubt. Tbe coating of concrete, indeed, has resisted, but this is an illusory resistance for a fort, and ia no obstacle to an enemy's march. The newspapers to-day argue that the fortress must k>e coated with con- crete, but this is a haxardoua inference. If the fort resists, while its guns are speedily silenced, it stands for a little, whether of concrete or not. Some way mast be found of arming the forts for aggressive purposes; then only can they supply a substitute for a strong frontier and stop the march of the enemy. It would bo better to have cannon without walls than walls without cannon, and after the experiment of Chaloua it is apparent that the struggle will continue between the engineers who construct and tbe artillerymen who destroy. One conclusion, however, which was not looked for at Chalons resulted clearly from the last experiments, namely, that an iron plate, whatever its thickness, does not otTer sallioient resistance to the new explosives, ana that iron-olad ships are already practi- cally useless, and are condemned without ever kaving had a chance o( showing what they could do. How many millions have been spent iu vain' What labor has been throivn away, withoatone experiment being made which coald be tnmed to aceoant !â€" l.otulon L'ivui. A Domestic Dlalofus. " llow do you like my new dross ?" in- guired Mrs. De .laiaon of hor husband. •â-  Isn't it a little " Now, AUred, I think It's tbe new oolor. CAUGHT IN A TIGHT PLACE. He FumUbed the Rope r<u-;a RaTii^ Maniac Who Desired to Commit Snlcld*. A number of detectives in -the Centra Bureau were talking of the peculiar freaka of insane prisoners whom they had had in charge in times past, when Detective Frank Blakely said : " When I was a turnkey at the jail soma years ago, an insane woman was brought there who was constantly harping on suicide. One coaldu't talk with her two minutes but she would make the assertioa that she woald kill herself the first chance she got, and once upon that theme she would talk about nothing else. I got so tired of her at last, that to vary the monotony and try to get her mind in a dif- ferent channel, I said I would help her carry out her purpose. She seemed pleased at the idea and I asked her how she wanted to go, by poisor., hanging or the pistol. She chose banging, and I provided her with a nice new rope. I went to the corridor where she could see me, made tbe nocae, gave her full instructions how to tie it, throw the rope over the top of the cell door, get up on a chair, adjust the nooA and then kick tbe chair away- I watched her carefully all the while I was talking, bat she did not weaken. Then I bade her good-bye, saying : " I'll l)e back in half an hour, cut yoa down and pat your tongue back in your mouth. You know, when people hang, their tongue rans out about a foot.' " • Well, it never [ttiased her. It was the most horrible thing X could think of, bat she never said a word- Then I went out. Just as I descended the stairs two prisoners in one of the lower wards were fighting, and one was likely to kill tbe other- After twenty minates' hard work I got the tightera separated and locked in their cells. Then I went into the jail othce and sat lown. In about five minutes I remembered the crazy woman and the rope, and my hair fairly stood on end ! I had intended when X left her to go only to the foot of the stairs, remove my boots, and tip-toe back in my stocking feet and watch her. Vs it was, fully half au hour had elapsed! ' My God : ' I thought. â-  If that woman haa hanged herself I am her murderer!' I mounted the stairs and, with a sickening sensation at tbe heart, entered the corridor. There lay the rope on the lloor, untouched and just where I left it, and tbe woman was seated in one corner of her cell, with her hands over her eyes. Well, boys. I am not a praying man, but I don't believe any mortal ever thanked God with more genuine gratitude than I did at that time. It broke the woman of her insane desire for suicide, and you can bet it broke me of ever trying anything so foolish again."â€" £>rtrot< tr^e I'rtn. I was only going to " No, it isn't, you're just horrid, emerald green." " Vea, dear, bat aay " â-  Ub, I know ! That it isn't the oolor I ought to wear. If it was that horrid Miss you would think it lovely." •' Bat I didn't mean " " Yes, you did, too. You're mean enough (or auything. And you've never noticed my new chip hat, either." " Why, my love, I thought " " Vou thought 1 Of course yoa didâ€" that it makes me look frightful. I-I â€" declare it's to-O'O b a-d I" ' If you'd only let m<- speak " â-  Siwak ! Why, what else have yon done for the last half hoarâ€" jast to Und fault too, with every thing I had on. What's that 7 A diamond for my birth- day present 7 Oh, you dear, precious old sweet ! Why didn't yoa say so, and not tease me so .' I could not imagine what yoa wanted' to aay." â€" Dttmit Kru iV.H. 4ioliiK liltM I'Mrlletilara. superintendent ot schools KlelllslvKiKMia of "8o<'letjr," The nainlier of people who have roal merit and talent for society who are kept ont by the exolnaivenen o( self-constituted tyrants of society iiunt he very largo ; but if they have tact and learn to wait they will find their way. Tho most certain way to ploaso is to show a modest inditfortMicn to tho smiles of tho groat. ( I'lioy call it patronage iu F.ngland. Wo havo no huoIi ugly word here, nor havo we any roally "groat people" sooially.) 1'hey ahnuld not "nush." T'liore ia, how- ever, always an idoalexdusivouoss, a society which ahould only admit tho oultivatod, tho wise, and tho good. Every boHteaa ahould iu(|iiiro into thu geaoral charaatcriatios o( her gnoata, their moral, social and political standing. Wo line tho word politioal in its largest aonao. In spito of all wo can tin, objoctiunablo men and women do got into the most oaref uUy guarded sooiety ; and wu havo as yot no snuh inviolable insight that we can rate Dives and l.a/arus bo- foro their deatlis iiu thiiy are said to ho rated afterwarda- Mn.M.K. M'. Slurwoint. Ohnr|r« for l*nper. Prummor (iiuiignant at boing oharged with writing paper at a Toronto hotel) â€" How did 1 uorao to be charged with writing papor ? I never had any. â- VVaiter (desiring to mollify him) May bo not, aar. Hit's do paper de bill was made oat on. Tho superintendent ot schools in Plymoatb county town, wo will call him Mr. .\ , one day visited a school taught by iUisi li., and in tho course of the morning said : " .Now, children, I wish you to take notice what 1 do and then write an account of it." Then he stepped to the blackboard and wrote a SiUteiico upon it. All tho children e.\cept one wrotn iu ef- foei that M r, A. came into tho school and wrote on tho blackboard, "1 love a good school." Ono little fellow, however, follonsd in- structions more literally, and completed the story by adding, " and then ho went to tlio platform, eat down, pliiyod with his watch chain, twirled his mostaolie aud winked at Miss II."â€" (^)/d Culonjf Mciutriat. Tliliigti to he Avoided. An argument in " company." Fault finding, though gentle criticism ia in good taste. Avoid beginning a conversation by aa allasion to the weather. Avoid talking to any one jseraon in the praoence of others in a langoage not ander- stood save by the two persons using it un- less addressing a foreigner in his own tongae, and then others should be made aware of the topics of conversation. Avoi4 usiug the word "she" or •' he," ao- companied by a nod of the bead or a jerk of the thumb iu the direction of the person spoken of ,bat speak the name o( the lady or gentleman. Avoid all remarks intended to ha\'e a double meaning. Do not betray egotism. Do not be satirical save in defence of yourself against impertinence. Never show that you notice any error in language, either of punctuation or grammar, on tho part of those with whom you are conversing. Do not whistle, loll about, scratch yoar head or fidget with any {lortiou of your apparel while in conversation. Be alert to avoid absence of mind. Do not ask to have a sentence re[>eat«d unless you actually failed to hear it. Many persons have contracted tho careless habit of saying •' What ?" " Eh ? " and the like. Never intsrrupt tho person who ia tpeak- ing. ^ Marking Oooda at Odil Prlrr*. It haa become a frequent ooatom among dealers to mark thoir goods at some odS prices, such as '-M, 17 or '.>S cents. Said a Broadway dealer the other day ; " You'd bo surprised to see how much of an induoe- ment these markings are to purchasers. Tho return of two or three cents iu change aooins a small matter, but long observation has taught ni» that many a person will buy an article (or 2i cents, for example, which he would not buy if it were marked 'iS oeuts." The principlu also extendsto com- paratively high-priceei gixxls, which are often marked a certain number of doUara and an odd number of cents. The odd price IS almost iuvai-iably ao flxsd aa to be slightly leas than the valna of aoino ooin in oommon oae, the idea briag to tempt the puroliaaor by the ri-torn o( the small amount o( chai)^.-- .Ycir Vert .Sun. " lntoiniterHlt»T«»mi>erane«,** Mrs. .\da II. Keploy is editing a tem- perance pitinr in Kfiingham county. III., and bur aggressivonoas has gotten her into tronble. ller paper is called tho Irirmli'/ Uomf. She has published each month a list u( thosu seen drunk ou the streets of Kinngham between tho date of each issue. One man whose name appears in the black list in tlio last issue claims ho was not drunk and had tho editor arroated. Mrs- Ivopley appeared befero tho Justice of tho Peace iu her own defence, but a tine of S.> was imposed upon hor. She appealed the ease, and tho trial proniisoa to bo more exciting in the higher courts than it was boforo the Jaatioe uf the Peaoe. Osmi Martin is the name of a ICi-year-old girl forger, who has been astonishing com- meroial and detective ciroloa in Detroit. Her forgeries were of small cheques, which she had oaahcd at various places. Hhe was a typewriter for an advertising agency. A.J. Drake, o( Palatka, I'la., has a vest of homespun that was worn by his graiid- fathor during the Revolutiouary war. It is iu an excellent state of presorvation, and Mr. Drake frequently wears it on state oooasiona. The Tranip'a KxpmlUnts. IIK TKIH' nissIMlHTIOS. Trampâ€" Say, boas, won't yer givea feller a (ew ceiita to buy a loaf of bread ? Stout partyâ€" book here, yeunginan, yoa don't want that money to buy bread ; yoa want it for rum. Now if you had told me the truth I nn'eht have given yon a quarter. Tramp resolves to play the truth racket in tho future. HE lUIKS THK TRCTll. Tramp Say, Cap'n, won't you giro a poor feller aulhin .' I want to get a glass of gin. Solemn party .Vh, poor fellow ! So de- graded and yot so Iwiieat. It does my very soul giKid. Here, my friend, is a tract, and a word of welcome to our msotings (or reformed drunkards. A Pleaoant Sur|irlse, A tHJopla of lovers came together lOr tho tlrat time in a long while: Sheâ€" Why, George, you havo grown a moustaoho since I saw you last. Ho Yea, my darling! 1 have lot it grow in order to give you a pleasant surprise on your birthday. Henry V. I'orrine, a woalthy and eccen- tric merchant who died at Dayton, O., re- cently, had navor drawn a check in his life although engaged in many daily businoaa transactions. He paid all of his bills iu oaah. f y ^ W