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Mne* Cue*? Baas the Flat. ota brand-new jtultor.and Catsy It his name, Ike way lie rani UcNally's flat I think an awful shame ; B* walkt around just Ilk* a lord, you'd think b owned tbe place, Beliu a frightful raiplng voice, and " seupa It*- truundhls faoe. AlHignMRo out at eight o'clock, your friend must leave at nine, Aid If you don't obey tbe ra let, be makes you pay a floe ; Hi elet.i the ball* up with a hose, and icrub them with a mat, Tbe place looks like a public bath since Catoy rune the flat. You cn' i chew tolti fruttl. you oan'! suixze In tbe hall, Yon M- K 't to have a (lermit If you want to make a call ; XOUCMJ t hart song* or dtucitt;, you can't have i * ii UK ' >r oat. You don i know If you're living tlace Casey run* tbe flat. Bethinki much a funny joke to go and riug your bell, Wbto he eoue* In at three a.m. and atkiifall I* well ; In* hall* are full ol glaring sifiui : " No kisiing OD the stairs," JbtadesHMM mtlioat a chain," " I'lvasu inn. 1 yunr own atfalrt." f Tak u >tice. thit U no hotel," "We don't give bjturd with rent," C Ib* tax to ruth tb< gruwler i*, for every put a cent," f.Nucounii* allowed around the boutv, and in the hallt no chat, ' Tntrt only two mure tenana* lot I since Cawy ram the flat. Ur.raAi.N. Bo >""t all through the house each mouth - He ready with the rent. And hv<- it down by twoo ctock, or hire another lent ," Be gave ui all a note to-day, " 1'leate change your abide* to ifreen, Thi* flat 1* strictly Irish now. I want* it* colors Men." LtVit iiwlii at twelve h* yelled out " nre !" be only cared to tee How l**t the tenant* could gut out In case a Ore should be ; I've ukiMi all 1 care to take. 1 won't put up wltb that, Tbe bout* It far from being aafe smco Casey rn as to* flat.-' WON BI AN ENGLISHMAN : A LOVE STORY. " Then you allow it was inditcreet." " I thoagbt it wai 10 very on-l-'rench- like." " I am so glad you tay BO. A r'renchman would never have allowed I did wrong." " Oh, bat pleaie remember, I loved yoa for (oinj what yoa did." Do not love, bat pity rue (of being com- pelled to do a wrong thing." " Mademoiselle Diane," I pataiocately exclaimed, "yoa maet ezoaie my English blui. . way a. I did not think anything yoa did wroug ; I only wl *o garpmed to find mynelf the (ortanate reoipieat ot ) much oonfidenje." Then, jail a* a fleeting cloud darken! without ezliogaithing the light of theian on bright bat windy day, a ihade of rneltm holy pissed over the eye* of Diane de Hreteuille, and ihe laid, "I do to want a friend in whom I oan ooolide. Young a* I am, and inexperienced, I know fall well that luoh a friend U oat of the 'jueotion within my own family, within my circle of girl friend* ; and yat, Uod know* I want help, itrength and moral courage to <1o what ii right, and yet avoid giving pain." " Oxid heaven* ! " I exclaimed, guesting at the meaning of theee word*, " you are nmly not already engaged to be married ?" ' No, bat the hatband il selected." Vnd u he her* ? " There he ii," pointing to a handaome but nomewhat lallea man of two and forty wlu wai opposite, and who constantly thr glances in our direction, which either for-ooaed evil to my eel f, or maybe whi ID wai ten time* worse to the little jewel I now conceived to be under my pecial protection. Uo yoa know him ? " I met him at Hie. Clothilda yeiterday morning ai I oame oul of mail. lie stopped to ipeak to my parent*, wai insrodncled to me, and I wai afterward! atked bow I found him." " What did yoa ley ? " What ooold I lay, except that he wai amiable and good looking ? " " What did your parent! reply ? " "That he wai a ' parfait gentilhomme,' that he had ' loixant mille livre* de rente, 1 and ' que Ton pourriit f aire pire quo de 1'epoueer.' " I wai betide myiolf. " What I " cried I, "are you to be lold for lixty thooiand Irano* a year ? ' ' "It ii not BO bad ai thai," the replied, with that < sptivatiog imilu which had lod me already on to the borders of inianit v, " for you molt remember that 1 m not a slave ; bat though there i* an advantage in that, there ii lometbing worn in giving pain to one'i parent!, especially when they are M good ai mine, and 10 evidently bent on thi* union." " You until not marry any one against year with I " I vehemently exclaimed ; " and do look apon me ai your guardian for life." " 1'ai ii vite I " quickly replied Diane. " I hope 1 will not require a gnirdlin all my life." " Protector," I hastened to-inggeit. " Do you think I shall want one T " " Who knows?" Her* we were interrupted by a polite request from the leader of the ootillon to get up and perform the figure he hid then Woo. On our return Dine laid : "The Count de Manpert the friend of my parents, yoa know contrived to dance with me daring this figure of the ootillon, and told mo he wished he were you." " What did yoa answer ? " "That I thought, on the contrary, it might be yon who wished you were hi." Thil was a most artful liltle bit of fun, lor it pat me in a dinioulty. Had I re- proached her she would have had every reason to think I did not wiih to sland in the relation to her whioh her parent! wanted this man to be placed in ; while if I approved her reply ihe could with equal justice have laughed at me for wishing I wen not sitting by her aide. I therefore gave no answer ; then, with bright twinkle in her eyes, ibe looked at mi and laid, " You see yoa cannot answer." II Then you do not regret too rauoh being 00 long with me ? " " I would willingly tit by yonr lide for a lifetime, and I know I would never weary," 1 oried, with a voioe fall of passionate expression, whioh made my little partner ten. " How nice it must bo,' ihe Mid, " to be an English girl I " At that moment I thought nothing could be more charming than to be t French one. " Why ? " I asked. 11 Because the freedom whioh ii allowed their thoughts embellithei their livei." " YM, it doei ; and nothing heightens beauty 10 muob ai the free diipliy of thoie thonnhti on Ihe face of a pretty girl." " I mean," she went on, as if not noticing my last remark, "that being given, of court*, the same society, and the same rulei of polite society as guides throughout the world, it ii a great and wonderful id- vantage to any girl to be able to enjoy her thought!, her sentiments, her wishes, her dream*, even at the outlet of exiitenoe, without bringing them to the yoke ol a pirential will, going o! necessity against all theae from motives of policy, and thai creating at the outsat a conflict between nature and filial duty." Out, mademoiselle," I asked, fearful lest theee wordi might indicate that hor objection to the Count de Maopert was on kooount of an attachment already formed For to .! one, "yon surtly have not experi- enced -uuh a conflict ? " (' liiuly not," ii 1 Diane; "hot I know , is coming. I ee it looming will. Fearful i .tinctness ia the near future, ii.ci do not feel the ttrongth to light against it by myself." Poor little thing 1 " I laid, half aloud. Von see how right I wai," she exclaimed, "to lay that you ought rather to pity than ta love me for having done so un- Krench like a thing as to aik you to help me in my hour ot weakness ! " I will help you," I said, "with all my power." I aiked you rather than ony one else, became your are inch a friend of my aunt phantalis that yoa may perhapi hive influence in that quarter ; and from tbit quarter alone some hope may come Ibtl this marriage will be postponed." But," laid I, " do yoa mean to aay that no one else may dare to aspire for your hand ? " i fancy my parents have settled matter! with the count, and ire in honor bound not to entertain any other offer." "Then it is settled?" "Not exactly settled; bat to-morrow he s to soe my father, and I know what that means ; it will be followed by a call to me 10 receive his formal proposal." " What shall you do then ? " "What do yoa advise?" "Do you like him ?" " I only saw him once." j "But there is such a thing as love at fir*i sight." "Not in this case." Do you think you will like him ? " " I dare say, in time." " Bat enough to give him, on the itrength if this expectation, the love of a life at your Irst interview ? " No." Then tell him h .neitly that yoa will ry to like him, ai your parents at present wish that you ihoald ; bat let him uuder- land that in your mind love begets love, nd workx for love, and that yoa intend not o marry unless you do lovt him and he ovei you, and relying on his honor not to orce yon ; and meanwhile I shall do all I oan for you; for, Mademoiselle Diane," I dded, " if the C jmte de M anpert like* yoa, know one man who adorei you " Bhi bung her lovely bead, and a deep rimon blush spread ovjr her pretty heeks ; then suddenly looking up with a mile in her eyei which I never tire to re- all, she pinned to my coat i little bine Ivor whioh had been given to her for dit- ribution, ai the rule in cotillons, and in a ery low whispar she laid, "Wear it for our poor little friend's lake." " Favour ineeperee," I eaid. " Bleu d'allianoe," she replied. " Osge d'amour," I added. "Bi Te bleu reite Herein," she remarked. And at that moment her mother made r a lign that iho had bad enough, and ras anxioas to depart, when, matching a ouquet from the basket of ibwers thil as going round I give it to her before ie Oomte de Maupert had the chance of resenting hit ; and leaving him to escort 111 mother to her carriage, I followed with Jiane, who told mo she had never enjoyed cjoyed herself more, and fell strong against iily Maupeiti, and sixty times sixty then- and " livres." When she left I left , the attraction wai one, what me to remain ? OUAl'TEH III. Just ai the day previous to the ball my Ime had been entirely spent in expeota- ion of the evening's entertiinment which was to bring me in contact with Dime, nd hear from her sweet lips the secret ihe was BO anxionn to oontide, so the day ollowing the ball was lived thraagh appir- ntly with no other object than the dinner at Countess de Cbantalia', whore 1 had wen promised the preenoe of the girl that now filled all my thoughts, to the absolute xoluiion of everything else. It was monstrous,! relleoted, that a lystem f policy such ai ihe had so simply, ind et so adequately, described should provoke uuh natural conflicts between Ihe instincts f nature, which we cannot command, and he commandments of the Almighty, whiob re cannot with impunity aet aside. I oared not to reaion as totheadvanltges corning for life from an alliance based on worldly considerations of birth, wealth, and It "trunk mil that jolt ta the >irds of the air mite with those of their wn choice, 10 might we poor mortal! ndulge in the heyday of our lives in that olitary blessing whioh is common to all, the selection of her or of him with whom we wiih to ipend oar lives. It ooald not be for yoatb a duty to weigh the lounds, ihillingi, and pence tbit went to mike a 10 called happy marriage. Bach eokonings in the young oan only be proofa f a aelliah nature, anxioni for increased meani to satiify perional cravings, ind what then could I think of a system wbioh edooed matrimony to a barter of ulnsh ndulgenoes ? A bone for a dress, a cellar or a carriage, power to gamble for liberty if lotion, the meins to swagger for the privilege of notoriety what else could it mem ? Hixty thousand franoi a ytir in ranoe ii a Urge sum, hot the onion between thit sum and its fellow produces a princely income in that thrifty land. To obtain this end a girl of aixteen wai to be mated to a man ot|forty two, so that his irougham might torn into a tour-in hind, with liberty to hli wife of dressing at tfi'.rriere's ; his rin ordinairt into Ihe wife of iporting the finest liveries in 1'aris his nve-Iranci wbiit into unlimited state at baccarat or ecartt, with permission to his wife to flirt pour patter It tempt whioh her huibtnd had to devote to play at hii oknb ; lastly, the boast of being the patron of the demi-<K'iii<le, while his wife, intuited, dis gasted, and joaloui withal in her remainder of loyalty, would be allowed to throw to the winds all semblance ot modesty anc honor, to squander the remainder ot their joint fortunes in imitation of her husband's recklessness, and thai earn the privilege ol bringing about the climax prepared from the first day of their marriage by her " selected " husband. This, the miserable history of many a made-up match, was all I could think of and the horror it inipired me with made me wholly unconscious that happily every one is not made of the lime material ; thai many men nay, most of those I hac known, or knew, or heard ot were totally incapable of any the wrong-doings 1 have attributed to them; that, for all 1 knew, M. de Maupert wai a paragon ol virtue, disinterestedness, and goodneEs combined ; that I might be doing him in tboaght the greateit possible wrong ; and worsl of all, that, sacrilegious ai the notion would have struck me had I realized it at the time, I wis limply condemning to a life of fashionable misdemeanors by her marriage to M. de Maupert the girl whom I considered to be the best, the deareit, the most spirited I had over known. Bat such is anger. It would probably not be anger if it were not oojnit and unreason ing; and, it must be allowed, the idea ol Dune marrying any one at all was at that moment so painful, so irritating, and so supremely anger-exciting, that I cared not to picture the world to myself in any but the worst colors. Bal then came the question, What part am I taking in this affair ? What part have I a right to take m a bosineii which, after all, concerned other parties, and in wbioh 1 had only been secretly introduced by, maybe, the impulsive moral fear of a confiding girl ? 'Mm in my willingness to share her secret and act as her friend I bad suddenly discovered that siiter soul whioh, acording to Lamartine, exists only for one of us Toale ame est suunr d'une smo" and was unlikely to lose her if I oould help it, was a fact too patent to me to admit of a moment's reflection ; but had such a dis- covery revealed the fact that I wai more likely to luoceed with Diane de Bretenille than my other ? That wai the point I wai inrij to clear up, not only because of the gratib'oalion it would afford to my all-ab- sorbing love for her, hot became the pon- dering over the matter would allow me to recall all her words, her looks, and those nexprtised ways, gestures, and tone! ol voioe whioh tell more than language oan convey. Her joy at iseing me ; her mirth in the matter of uinoeding that the ootillon which she had herself asked me to dance with her ; her apparent delight in being with the man she had ivleoted is her oonndanl, and the nervous enjoyment of hiving for thi lirsl time a man-adviier not many year* older than herself , outside of family or connec- tions; her honest acknowledgment that she oared for nobody else when I had simply but markedly asked the question ; her pretty coquetry in trying my feeling* to see whether the position whioh M. de Man- perl had been chosen by her parents to bold in relation to her woald be agreeable to me ; her appeal to me to delay at least Ihe fate whiob hang ovtr her ; and lastly, her blush in giving me the only token it was in her power to bestow, and her acquiescence in my statement that it wai a love-token, provided its a/.are odor preserved its serene tint ill seemed to me to answer with a load yea the question I asked more loudly does she return the love I have sworn to her ? It was no ute heeding the admonitions of prudence and wisdom when the mind wai o full ot one subject ; and thin wai so rnuoh proof that the mental oouolutioni I had arrived at were in logioal harmony with Ihe cravings of my heart, that I itifled all doubt whenever it ilrove to come upper- most. I looked at the little favor, and embraced it with the fervor of a knight about to rilk his neck for the lady of his love. At that moment the servant brought me a note, addressed in a beautiful hand to " Monsieur Qenry Verve, Esq." It is very odd that the French oannot learn how to address English people pro- perly, and will insist upon thrusting in their monsienrs at all timee and in every corner. I remember being annoyed at this little miitake, though why ii more than I oan explain. I opened the note, however, whioh gave forth that delicious violet loent I associated so mo oh with Diane, and was about to imprest my lipi on the writing, in my conviction that it oame from her, when I taw the servant waiting, apparently for a reply. " Why do you wait .'"I aiked. " Because, sir, the person who brought this note is anxioui to know whether yon oan see her." " Very well, then, wail outside and I will call yoa." (To be Uontlnued) 1 he NentMt Bart of tiling. " Are there any minerali on thil land in Ari/. >na you are trying to sell ? " aiked the prospective purchaser. " Minerali 1 " replied the agent " why, a brBn mine has been opened, showing a four- foot vein of lolld metal." How llenutlful Ii Nature. Bhe What a wondtrtul thing ii nature I low grand I How comprehensive I He Yaas ; even thiimalleit plant or Ihe smtlleai iniect has got i Latin name. With thil ooitume lioioeil Bordeaus, with the privilege to hii ' won a tailor hat and thin tulle veil. The Princess of Wales wai the cynosure ol ill feminine eyei during the meeting of the Royal Yaohl Bquadroon at Oowei. She is slid to hive looked remarkably well. One of the dresses ihe wore wai a neat blue and while striped llannel gown whioh luited ber to perfection. It wai made with a perfectly plain skirt, tilting like a habit in front, with flat, itriight plaits in the back, a pale blue silk shirt with an em- broidered collar, and in open coat of the llinnel, fastening with one button. The bottom of the skirl wis finished by a very deep him and several rows of stitching. Her Royal Highness A OLEVI GATOH. Bb7 Boiled from Hoof and a Ball Catcher Saved Her. A baby carriage whioh had seen better iliya is kept on tne roof of the tenement at 203 South Fifth avenue, and the children of the house, when acting is nurses, take turni in wheeling the babies of their respec- tive families abant in it, sayi the New York Nun. Yesterday the oocopant of the car- riage at ibont 1 p.m. wai Amelia fc'chnabel, two and one half yeara old, whose father, a painter, lives directly above the rag ihop of Luke Heilly, on the ground floor. Little Amelia's nurse wai her elder brother, who, not being more than three times her age, thought it woald be great fun to let the carriage roll down the steep incline with whioh tne roof elopee toward the street. The carriage acquired inch momentum in its descent that it ihot over the low parapet and also cleared Ihe skele ton of a nre escape in process of construe tion immediately beneath. Down went the baby, carriage and all, until they alighted on a heap of rigs in front of Luke Keilly'i ihop. Tbe carriage struck with such force thit it rebounded a yard or more, shooting out the baby. George Mosely, who is catcher of the Young BaffaloH, a base ball club of South Fifth avenue, as well as a newsboy, passed by with his arm full of Ki-ning 6'uiu.jaat as little Amelia came down, and, letting fall his bundle of papers, he caught ber on the ny. Although tne baby carriage wai smashed, the child proved not to be hurt at at all, and when her mother, who had tumbled down main after her, -like Jill a.'ttr Jack, grabbed her, she laid with a chuckle, in ber usual mixture of Engliah and German, " 1 oh falle down." Mr. Bohnable proceeded to thrash liltle Amelia's careletu nnrse, while the cather ot the young BntTtloi, who lived with hii father, i mulatto porter, at 200 Boalh Fifth avenue, directly opposite the soece of the adventan, picked up his papers and pro- ceeded to business. Sl< kue iu Trachor. AH the circumstance! of life are in tome sort educative. Health and happineu have their lesson of active duty to teaoh as if we will receive it, an.l so, likewise, have pain, disease and misfortune, ai lately staled by Mr. Bpurgeon, a purpose of correction, a chastening and mellowing influence within them. With some natures and moods per- hapi it is otherwise. The sharpnees ot lh stroke touches no mental spring bat that ot elf concern, bat here again it ii the wine who learns. For him these evils, for suck they still remain, are also the seeds of sympathy with other! in like trouble. It be be, through any fault of hii own, account- able for them, they are in true science ai in loriptnre the natural recompense of evil, a proleil on behalf of needful self-control, whioh be will do well to observe. There is more, therefore, than an apparent ten- dency to asoetioiim in this doctrine of disciplinary suffering. Of course, it does not follow that the proi- peroni and the healthy must at some time undergo this training by reverse*. Tbe sime lessons of patience, fellow feeling and self restraint can be learned in other ways, and it ii qaite certain that the daily round and task abound in opportunities for laoh wholesome instruction. We are alike justi- ieii, therefore, in admitting for ton pur- xne the frequent utility of pain, and in seeking, to the best of our ability, to limit and to destroy by suitable remedies Ihe in luenoe ol thtp .,m <rwiae harih and hurtful nitrnolor. Health ot mind and body and well being of etlate are alone consistent with perfect life as ordered by nature's plan and the divine will, and evsry purpose of training is compatible with their full poi- session and their proper nie. Lancet. What U to Tl.lillj Wink "T What u to " tiddly wink "? We do not mow ; but whatever il ii, at any rate the Supreme Court of Victoria has decided that it is not libelous. A colonial news- >aper charged a shire councillor with hav- ng " tiddly winked the shire funds." Litigation ensued, and the matter wai carried on appeal to the highest tribunal n the colony, with the aforesaid result*. Some fifty English diotionariei were >rought into court to enable the jndgei to ascertain what wai the real meaning of Ihe word, but " tiddly winking " wai not dii- ooverable in any of them. 80 they accepted he definition of Iho witness that the phrase conveyed to his mind the idea ot " using title dodges to obtain one's own ends." An imputation ol that sort the court de- cided was not neoesiarily libeloni. PaU Vail Oatette. Electricity OB Board Vessel*. A new danger menace* ocean travel. In heir endeavor to surround passengers on steamshipa with every comfort, the man- agers of several lines are using electric ghti upon their vessels. On the last westwird trip of the Ktruria, whioh ii thai supplied, firei wen discovered on two sepa- rate occasions whioh had originated from Ihe imperfect insulation of the electric ight wirei ; and, although they were fortu- nately extingniehed in time, the lesson they teaoh should be remembered and heeded. About the first thing that strikes the man who rani away is the soaroit y of placet to run to. TBIHK will do well to keep out of Iowa. That riiaiu ban just panned a law wbiub, i> destined to drive them out of iti territory. The law defines trampi to be : " Any male person 16 yeara of age or over who is physically able to pirform minaal labor and ii a vagrant, who is wandering about practising common begging, or ii wander- ing about having no visible calling or busi- ness to maintain himself and unable to show reasonable efforts and in good fiith to sooo r a employment shall be deemed a tramp." Personsans wurlug thil deioriptio n when arrested and convicted, are to be sent to jail and placed at hard labor. It they refuse to work they will be put into solitary confinement and fed on bread and water. The oldest Bister of Mercy in America is Mother Beton, of the New York Convent of Mercy, who is over UO. Her father died n 1800. Her mother, a convert, founded ihe order of thi Kisters of Oharity at *nmitibarg. InoandMoenl lampi placed near the ceiling will cause it to blacken, contrary to jeneral belief. The blackening ii not due 10 unooninmed carbon, but to a current of hoi air whioh deposits black particles on contact with a cold surface. LIONS IK HAKMKW. rin, Long Training Needed by the Pi.it Kins; Before He'll Slav*. The very spirited illustration of three lions driven abreast by a man standing ert-ot in a Roman chariot is familiar to the most residents in London, says the London Field. Il portrays, without the usual absurd exaggeration of mural art, an enter- tainment which.il given daily at the French exhibition at Karl's court. In the centre of the large circular spaoa whioh has been used during Ihe last few years for the display of the Indians of the wild west, the sports of the Roman amphi- theatre, etc., is erected a smaller circle securely surrounded with iron bars, having at Ihe bask an inclosed building containing deni. The " open sesame " of my host pasted us into the private reoesees of Ibis prison house, in which I found four yoing lions, the oldest being about 3 years of age. These constituted the trained troupe, and there wai also one younger scholar, who had just been added to the collection. Tbe education of this one wai jost commencing, and he still retained the feline character- istics to such an extent that any approach to familiarity wai met by a snarl, which displayed the unshed milk-teeth of the owner, looking as sharp and needle-like M those of a puppy. The training of these young lions rarely occupies less spaoe ot time than twelve months, and ia chiedy accomplished by kindness. Mr. Darling, their trainer, in- formed me that he regarded force a* not being desirable, as il excited Ihe animals to rebellion, and was not conducive to obedi- ence ; whereas, trained under the system adopted, each sntmal knows it* name and answeri to it. So luuoeiifnl are the methods employed by Mr. Darling, that he has never been bitten by the animal* daring the time be has had them in hand. In addition to Ihe lions, the collection in- cluies two huga Bavarian bjarhounds, which take a very prominent part in the performance. After this introduction to the performers I look my seat with the anJienoe to wit- ness the exhibilion. Mr. Darling and hii assistant entered the arena with the lions and one of the dog*; the former al the word of oommini leaped up upon pedei- tal* and arranged themselves in pyramidal (roaps. While ia this position Mr. Dar- m.; placed the ends of two scarfs in the ni jiiths of thi lions, forming fesloous, over and under whioh one of the dog leaped ; iwo of the lioos then stepped upon a plank forming a leasaw, the dog leaping on to ihe centre, and swaying it from side to lide. One of the lions then mounted a trioycle, working the pedals, moving the front wheel with its fore feel, while the boarhonnd WM pinning behind. The chariot waa then iroughl forward ; one lion entered rea-lily etween Ihe shafti, and two other* took their places at either side, one proving rather refraotory, but, after sundry growls, ie submitted to the slroager will of the trainer, who mounted ihe chariot and drove he trio around Ihe circle. Tbe performance is vary distinct from that of lion-tamers in general, who role heir charges with rods of iron, and prod hem with points, worse than the stings ot scorpions, olili/.ing the fear and terror of he animals al Ihe superior power of man. ilr. Darling, on the other hand, ii very "aimliar with Ihe members of his troupe. The manner in wbioh he took hold of ibe 'ore legs of one of the largest and pulled lim down from hi* pedestal, when he wai not sufficiently quick in descending, was tmasing. The lion* are of Afrioan descent, but, ike the majority of the specie* now io menageries, hive all been born in captivity, an.l familiarized with man from their birth. Whether they will retain their docility ai they advance toward their full i/.i remains to be icen ; but, at present, bry offer the most complete specimen! of rained lioni that il has ever baen Ibe wriler'i fortune to witness. K . illtiK M nliiluc*. of II.,' r . A new religion hai been invented in iussia, tbe cardinal doctrine of wbioh ii he sinfalncss ot hair. The members of he new sect shave their headi ai well ai heir faces. Hitherto baldness hai been egarded as a misfortune, but the torn ot >ald headed men has come at last. They an now embrace the new religion and parade their piety as they lit in the front eats of the theatres. WITII all our boaited civilization, labor- aving machinery and general enlighten- nuit, the workinginan does not seem to be making the prog rem be oogbt to. In fact ieorge E. Ditwiler in an article aeemi to Link he is goiug backward. Us lays : M\ hundred yean ago the worklugmen of jtirinauy laonrw] oight bourn a day fur live dan ach week, him, lay wai devoted to rellgloua iiiii-s and Monday to recreative pleasure*. bvw ouucettiou* were obtained from the .lantern by tbe craft Kulldt which are the ante- > IH-II of the uioiiiirii tradu unions. It wa* In an ra denominated by tbe historians a* tbe " J.-uk get," or ro be technically oorreot it wai tha awn of what is called our present era of civilt- auon. Half a century ago muclianloi and worklngmun of every clan had work tor twelve uioiitbi In the year Instead of for debt >r nine, a* at present. In spring and ummer they worked out door*. When t became too cold to do that they went to their uopn and prepared tholr material of all kind*, or tbe following spring and summer It wai rery leldom tbit an Idle man wat noen on tint mots or the liighroads, idle because he could jot K et work. Fffty years ago. In our country, tt wai a mro casu to ao* women and children -.unwed m older than Uoiuuttio oalliiigii.wlin the ixceptlon of fw who worked m ruttou mills. riiowomieu attondod totbclrdomettiedutietand be children went to ut-hool, or if there were tohool faeUlUHgiew up strong. hoalthy ojonaad w.iuiou. Tu-day women and children are Jriviu* neu out of tuauy luduttri'al occupations. ud iu- tevl of thu strong, healthy generation of mon and women that it panting away tin, Inlted ittttoBitin dunRer of seeing a OOUIIUK uoueia- lon of Intellectual and physical dwarfs " Dr. Oeorge F. Pentecost, of Waterbnry, ^onncciiout, a brother of Hugh O. Pente- ooit, the agnostio, will sail on Saturday for Eu K Und, and on the 10th of Uatober be goes from then to India for the purpose ot reaching Christianity to high oaite linitus. William Askor, ot New York, enioyi an ooome of 123,695 a day ; John D. Rooke- eller'i amount! to 118,715 ; Ooroelioe Vanderbilt's to 15,000; and Jay Oould'i 17,460. It isn't the belt educated men who each the top of the ladder soonest; witness he hod carrier as an example. " Well." said the baseball cptian. our oako is all dough." " How do yoa icoount for it ?" " Wi haven't a good batter." \