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>^ -«i. *.1*â€" â-  III ^*' â- awMhkwxM «â-  LORD KILLEEN'S REVENGE. \f *â-  *â-  CHAPTEK XXXVL. j Varl«y, whan he had left her pres- ence, bftd passed hurriedly through tha hall, and Iwliig in a m(X>d that desired j •ulitude above all other g'wd, u>»de for a room little frequentod and but dim- | ly lighted, whc^ro he telt sura he might find bimieU alone. Ue flung open the door, closed it as vehemently, and , throwing hiniBtlf into a chair gave him- self up to tUought. A smile, bright, glad, vlotoriuuu, liroke over his face. There wa« triumph. ind£«d, in every feature. He threw out his arms as U to a foe vanquished, and in hia eiclto- mi'nt, bis feverish exultation, the hope within him caught suuud, and he spoke aloud. "Time, time alone," ho cried. In a clear, vibrating tone, "and opportuni- ty are all I want. And thenâ€" riddance <k this cursjd stagnation, and life â€" with herl" Something seemed to riae out of the dark corner Uifore him to confront him as he spoke; a tall, indistinct shape, that after a while resolved itself into ©•Grady. He looked leaner, darker, more bronzttd than ever in the uncertain light a« he stood up and looked silent- ly at Varley. The Utter sprunir to hia feet with an oath. "Where the deuce have you come from!" he said, then. There was inso- lence in hia tone. Had the fellow heard â€" understooUl Ua watched bim with a lowering brow, aad nervous^ shifting "Where the deuce have you come (romt would be more to the pur- pose," aaid O'Cirady, in bis slow, meth- odical way. There was. however, a ring in his voice that spoke of anger, contempt, and a sup[)ressud rage thut bordered on disgust. "What do you mean?" aaid Varley, drawinfr a step nearer. Uia blood was â- urging in his veins, and be was in that buuxor when a man would go as quickly to seek a quarrel as a kiss from the belorvod. "Do you compel me to answer? la an answer neceaaaryf"' In bis return O'Grady bad moved a little; be was now much nearer to the man addreawd. His eyea were glowing; he waited for Var> ley's next word. "Speak." said Varley, premptorily. "Vou do compel me, thenl" said the Other, coldly. "Well, hear mel For many days It has Lteun upon my mind to tell yuu what I think of you; to give you my ti uu and unvarnished opin- \oa of yuur conduct. To-nigbt you gea- eroualy" (with a sneer^ "offer me an opportunity. 1 accept it. 1â€"" "Youl Who are you, airt" broke in Varley. fien-ely. "vVhat the devil do you mean by bringing uie to taakt what do you kuuw <il uicf" ' Very little, sir, 1 acknowledge; which is to my credit, I fani'-y. llut that little is liad. In my oi>inion," said O'Grady, with the utmost calmness, "you are a must consummate scuun- drei.1" "WhatJ" said Varley. in a low tone. Ho Hocmcd paralyzed. He placed a tremliliug baud un the back of the chair near him as if to suppurt himself, and, his facM grew livid. Ilis rage was su great thai it mastered bim, and de- prived him of energy for the moment. "Haven't you tfra-ijird il»" .said O'Grady, with a curl of the lip. "Must I ex|)lainf" Then all at onc« his manner obangi'd, and hia studied calm deHcrt- ed him. I'aasiou, fierce and stnmg, con- quered prudfnc*, and came to the front. • You!" ho said. "Are you a devil or a man, that you treat ihat creature â- >? An angel given yuu from heaven I There are some who would think it their highest good lo be able to minis- ter to her hapiiinejjrt; whilst youâ€" youl cast the sacred gift from yuu, and •'orn, iu.iult. and Ijetray her for one unfit to U- named in her presence. Great UeavenI thut such things should liel And what is to Iw the end of itt Do you think the world is blind? iio yuu think your a»>igimtion with i hat womui to-uight was unknown?â€" that no one •aw ihe delivery of her note to yuul? Does it aver dawn upon you that that little tain will be carried home to her to plant aiiulhcr dagger in her gentle breast? Has nbe nol .suffered enough al- ready at your hanilM Is thoru nu â€" " Varley put up bis arm. 'I'he g-ature waa so imperious that O'Grady paused, antl regarded him with e.\pectan<'y. The puuao was lengthened. V'arley's (a<'.e warn us white as death, and his nostrils were tliilended. At last he ^K>ke: "Your wonderful solicitude tor I.ady Varley de.serve.i my warmest grati- tude." he said, with un evil laugh. "1 thank youâ€" in her name. Your manner, though no duubt one of ynur strrtiigtvit points is, I confess, a little mystifying lo 8i> dull a murlal oa I am. It lead.s mn to imagine tliat you Iwlieve I no longer have an interest In Lady Var- Uy. It even leads me to believe that you"â€" be looked straigbt at his adver- sary, and again that evil laugh l>roko forthâ€" "want her." The deadly insult to his wife had hardly passed his lips when O'Gnidy had bim by the throat. The lall, tliin, puw- •rful tnun swung him to and fro in his paroxysm of rage and di.ngu.st as light- ly as though Varhiy (who was a well- gTown man) was but a child within his Casp. The latter did his l)est to i-e- liate, hut, infuriated thouigh he was, hlfl effortjji were in vain. U" i-oubl not ^ake off O'Grady's hand, long and ain- «MrT aa it woa, and firm as iron, though delicate enough to look at. The two men glared at each other savagely, •peei'hloss, but maililened with a hat- red that would never know al>ate- nent. Then buddenly Varley's face ehanged. I'hi veins swelled ominous- ly upon his fcrehead. His breath grew latnred and oame at last in lillle ^1/18(1 pants. Flis hold on (vOrady re- xM. Som« passionately angry tbniight within Ihe latter had perhaps imluc^d Utn unoonwdously to tighten hli grasp on bis enemy's throat. A dry, painful sob burst from Vsr- \»f't lips, whirh already were growing dlaoolorea. O'Orady, hearing it. wa« If you have ever â- uddenly driARed )«ck to remembrance of all he still owed to life, and life to him. Uis fingom instinctively opened without entirely losing their holif. and his eyes shut fire as they looked Into Varley's. "See!" he said, with a touch of rather devilish satisfaction In the thought, "I shake you as I would a rat. Sol sol Now go!" Ho hurled hira buck against the wall. "And repent if it be in youl" He put a chair out of bis way in a light, strong fashion, and with a steady step left the room. CHAPTER XXXVII. Constantia's feeling toward Fe^ather- ston bad undergone a considerable change since that ni^ht of Mrs. Dun- das's masked Ijall. A change, cruel Indeed, liecause it Is always terrible to the young when the first doubt, the first distrust of the one thing Iwloved dawns upon the mind. She had lie- lie ved so entirely in Feathprston; had so rouiited on his love for her, wordless though it had lieen. He had not spok- en, indeed, but there had been glances, fond insinuations, lover-like pressures of the hand, dt-licate gifts of flowers that had convinced her as surely as any spoken testimony of his truth. And nowâ€" That she still believed in him aa a man superior to hi.s fellows only added poignancy to her regret. He might have fallen so low aa to make ardent love to anutber man's wife, but still, surely th» germs of goodness were in him. With what wonderful ardor be bad con- ducted the crusade againat drunkenness I in the village, and, indeed, in the coun- try round! Ue was the foremost lead- I er of the Blue llibbon movement. How few men of his age would care to asso- ciate themselves with an affair of the I kind! Old iA>rd KiUeeus was loud in ' bis praise of bim. Yes; there was good I in bim. This she conceded gladly, I whilst yet her trust in him (so far as j she personally was concerned) died I resolutely. Slie was not the girl to hanker Ijotwixt beiiet and unbelief. She I bad gone into it thoroughly, and knew. 1 To again regard bim as a lover would ' be impousiblo to her. To place faith I in bis pretty subtleties, to let her heart I grow warm beneath his glances; oh, i never againi She could not trust him; ; yet a strange pitv for him filled her I breast at time.s. 'I'his pity grew with thinking, Liut it was never akin to love. 'ihat, beyond all doubt, was at an end 1 But she still trembled between her old friendship for bim and the vague knowledge that be was undeserving even of that, it wanted, indeed, but a light touch to complete his overthrow, and change the pitying friendship to contempt. it was a bright, an almost oppressive- ly bright afternoon, and on tree, and field, and druopiug flowers the sun shone vigorously, 'rhe slated roof of the Cottage looked burning but, and even m the erstwhile cool recesses of the garden, where shade might reaaon- ! ably be sought, uomfort from the noou- 1 tide heat there was none. This Con- ' stantia, swinging lazily in her ham- 1 mock, acknowledged to herself. I The sound of steps upuu the garden ! path roused her from her idle dream- I uig: and it was with a start and a vivid blushâ€" wild and sweet asahedge- 1 rose- that .she saw Barry and Mr. I Stronge lieariug down upon her. She was full of life and activity at all limes, I and now she sprung gracefully to the . ground, and confronted them, still I with warm, flushed cheeks. Her eyes [ looked misty and a little dreamy from her waking slumber and her musings I amongst the hot blown roses. 'To Stronge she looked the very eml»<li- ' ment of flowery youth, and a little pang made sore his heart aa he hast- ened forward to greet her. She plac- , ed her hand coldly enough in his, and answered hia greeting with her eyes I averted. She had teen a little shy with I him ever since that night of the mask- I ed IniII that had wrought so many difficultie.s all round; and to Stronge 1 now, her reluctant welcome seemed j strangidy like aversion. It was, indeed, I with an unmistakable air of relief that j she turne<l to the more deixmair Uarry, j and told him she wa« glad to see him. ! "Aunt Bridget is within," she said, I hurriedly, "(^ine in; you shall see her." This noble prcuiiae failed to raise [ joy in th.^ breast that bivird. However, perforc4i they luriieil, and acoomiKinied Constant ia into the dreaded presence. Miss MacUillicuddy was, as usual, sunk in the depths of gloom. At the weekly Dorcas meetings she had just lieen insulted by the wife of a ne!«h- l>oring clergyman, a liu.sy, pretentious little person who gave to her parish a liaby every twelve mouths, and rather more of her opinions than they wired for. There was, however, justification for her in her akirmi.sh with MLss Mao- Gillicuddy, as she might rea.sonalily be suppoHed to know more of the shaiio and size of a shirt for a new-l»rn l>al)« than a "iH'iiightod spinster," as Mrs. llatkin somewhat irreverently termed the old lady, . Miss MaiCiilli-uddy, however, stood to her guns. .Sli„ hail her theory. She would not Udieve that a garment of a cut and size so ulinorinally short could 1)0 of use to any human thing. A kitten, she declared, would over-till it. Mrs. llatkin did not care tor thenrievi. She clung persistently to faots. and do- miinded triimiphiiutly of Miss Madtilli- cuclilv whether she wore or were not a reliable authority aa to what a liaby could or could not wear. Miss MaitJillii'udtly, ignoring the nu- merous Katkiii Uibies with a (llabollciil persixteney, aa it Heeined to tlie aiigrv mother, declared Inir unswerving In-Tiof thai the shirt lying there on the table liefore them, professing to lie a pro- per pattern, was notliiiig but a swindle, and entirely iist>loss. Any infant 8ul>- Jerted to such clothing would die of cold within a time so short, that Ml»a MacOilliciiildy shrunk from naming it. "You think, then, vou know more aliout it than I <lo?" demanded Mrs. natkin, rising up in virtuoiw wrath, and surveying her adversary with such angry eyes that the other IneiiUHM's of the meeting fell their pulses thro!) hope- fully. A row was imminent. "Certainly I do. if yon say that Ihat (loll's garment there is meant for a liii- inaii chlldl" cried Misis Maetiillicuildy. fiercely. "You set your opinion almve minef" Mrs. Ratkin was leaning h.ilt over the table by this time, a Uible that had evi- dently lieen placed by Proviilenoe lie- tween them. "In such a matterâ€" In most matters â€" • yes!" declared the apinater, uiidaunt* edly. "Ahl" saiil f^r». tlntkin. I'here was a world of venom In the simple ejal^u> latloo. "May I had a baby?" 'I'his was the insult. Mlas MaoGilli- cuddy retired, smarting under it, though, to do her Justice, with colors flying, and with » backward glance that reduced Mrs. Ratkin (who was frightened at what she had said) to tears. It was quite a relief to the itill indignant spinster when she Ijcheld Harry enter the drawing-r<x)m. Here was a target on which to loose her shafts. She rone to receive the little erroup of three with an aspect stormy, anil suggestive of dangers ahead. "Youl" she said, with a .snort, fix- ing the luckless Barry with a stony stare. When she had sufficiently gor- gonized him, she want on to the others. "How d'ye do?" she said to .Stronge, of whom she was a little afraid, giving him a lony hand. Then her eyes fell on Constantia. "It is quite a relief to see you at loat, Constantia," she said. â- 'I began to think evil bad befallen you. ^Vhat have you lieen doing with your- self all the afternoon? Philanderinak as usual, I suppose. Would it lie indiscreet to inquire where these gentlemen mat yiou?" She fixed a glittering eye on Barry, who was already so frii^htened that he hardly knew what he was doini. "It was only this moment, I assure you, that we â€" I â€" " ho bMan, aimlessly, "No doubt," said Miss MacGillicuddy, sarcaatically. "What I jsk is, where you found her ?" "In bed," said Mr. Barry, withcharm- ing simplicity. Then the enormity of his answer struck bim, and he grew purple. "What, sir?" shrieked Miss MacGU- licuddy, wildly. "Is this a deliberate insult ? Is thus air full of them to-day? youâ€"" "Oh, I beg pardon, I'm sure." stam- mered Barry, miseroiblv. His forehead grew damp and red ; bis eyes became tearful. 'Ut â€" it wae a hammock I meant ; but, re^ly, you are so hard on a fellow. 'You jump upon a fellow so suddenly, thatâ€" -*' "Sir," interrupted Miss MacGillicud- dy, with awful dignity. "A momenti I beg you to understand that never, even in the severest crisis of my life, did I jump upon a fellow-creature. You for- get yourself, young man I" She drew a long breath. It became plain to the others that this was only a mild preliminaxy canter, and that now she was almut to launch out into a volley of vituperative abuse that would lay the â- wretche<l Barry's head low in the dust. But relief was neax. Andrew Stronge, leaning a liltle forward, caught the irate lady's eye, and by meant of a perfectly calm smile and a gentle movement of the right hand, magnetized her so far that lie delayed the words already trembling on her lips. "I know you will be glad to hear," he said, genially, "that Laily Varley is looking ever so much better than she did when laot I saw her." "Oh, yes I Tou have noticed that, too," broke in Constantia, forgetting her shyness of bim in her anxiety to back him up and prevent the cascade about to lie let loose on Barry. "I am glad to bear it," said Miss Mac- Gillicuddy. "I trust she is getting in- to a better frajne of mind. To fight against the Divine deore<vs seems to me to betoken a certain amcunt of moral depravity." She almost fcrgot Barry in her eagerness to level al-use on some one el.se. Omsiantia flushed warmly, and rose to her feet. "You are tired. Aunt Bridget," she said, quietly, "We only distress you. I have promised Norah to take her for a walk this evening, and so, if you wUl excuse â€" " "Take me, too." whispered Barry, in an imploring tone. Stronge heard it, and broiurht himself leisurely to his feet. "Yes, dear Miss MacGillicuddy; I fear we called in an unlucky hour," be .said. "We must only hope we have not done you any ha^rm. ^ow pray"â€" go- ing on rapidly, as he saw her open her lipa as if to speak, "I entreat jou to take my advice. A cup of tea for a l>ad headache, and to lie down. No, not a word; indeed, you must not try to per- suade us to slay. A cup of tea, remeiii- bor," squeezing her hand in farewell, "and an hour's rest ; that is all that is required. Good-bye, ^ood-bye I Now. do try my remedies." He covered Constantia's and Barry's retreat, and presently found themselves om*.e more in the open air, their num- l>ers au,rmented by one. Norah bad joined them. CnAl»TER XXX vin. "I tried to catch you," cried thoohild, running panting up to them, "to stop your going in. She is in an awful tem- I)er. Some one vexed her at her pre- cious meeting, and she has l)een pranc- ing round the house ever since. She and Mulcahy had such a set-to just nowâ€" all aliout that little last wee thim- bleful. Y'ou remenilier it, Connie? I'm sure it was such a little one that we never noticed anything about it, until we aaw she had her l>cst dress on with the back to the front, llut what did that signify, pmir old creature ? It look- e<l just as well that way on her. And if she preferred it soâ€" 1 a».suro you, Mr. Stronrfc, It was nothing ; nothing at all. Hut (hen, what could escape Aunt Brid- get's eye?" "Wo have, for the moment," salil Stronge, taking the little slender baud that was fluuj; out in a tragical dis- gust, and tucking it under his arm. He knew the child liked him, and by this time she had grown dear to bim. "1 expected lo finil yiHi all in tatters," went on Norah, with un explosive littls lau,4:h, "a limb hero and a limb there, quite a shower of arms and logs and niwtw ; but 1 see she has spared you, or fise â€" " She stopvicd short, and her laughter grew shriller, and so heart- felt that they all joined in. "Did vou kill her?" she cried. " Did you rend ner in piecca? If so, exiMot uo loars from me. Oh, what a life she has led nte thU day I" "I rtvgret to l)e obliged to inform you that she still livos to work her wicked will on unoffending people," said Barry, g!iK>niilv. "We iieglei'ted our duty stmniefully, I h1U>w, when we left her awliilu since with the breath still In her IhmI V. llinvever, there is a morrow I" "No!" said Noiab, shaking her shag- gy head; "not a bit of it. "An oppor- tunity once lost is never regjiineil'â€" that's what (\iunic wrote in my mpy- luMik vivstenlay. You've lost your chance!" She shrugged her shoulders as though in conloiiipt of him, and made a little moue at Constantia, who was pretending to lie angry with her. "l,et Aunt Briilget alone," she said. "Her bark i.s worse that her liite ; and even if it wasn't so, you shouldn't talk like ^^MlL I lun sorry alMiut [HKir Mul- cahy. though ; did she suffer very much at her ha,nil.s?" '"Twiwa regular shindy," said Norob; "but it grew ever jo much worse when Aunt Bridget ailvLsed Mulcahy to take Mr. Keatherjlon ai her mode.l. He was a high priest of tha blessed Blue Hil>- bon League, she told her, a shining light, a thing apart, and all that sort of stuffâ€" you know, Connie. Mulcahy was very angry alifiut that, and aaid all sorts of things about Mr. k'eather- ston that enraged Aunt Bridget ; but it wasn't until MuicaJiy called him a 'say-«arpinl' that the end came. Sheâ€"" "A wnat ?" demanded Constantia and Stronge in a breath. "A 'say-sarpint'â€" that's just what she said. What is it?" asked riorah, inqm- sitivjjy. "Is there a serpent in tho sea, Mr. Stronge? At all events. Aunt Bridget won't forgive that in a hurry.' 'They had entere<l the wood by this time, and the cool and leafy Roughs archmg above their beads filled them with a certain sense of rest and peace. Through the trees little paUibes of mossy award, sun-smitten, lay like tufts of gold ; but for the most part, ttie hot rays of the dying monarch were ex- cluded, and a light that was almost twilight pervadeil evsrytbing. It waa delicious after the intolerable glare of the more open ground, and they wan- dered on aimlessly, but full of enjoy- ment, for some time. The woo<l was FeAtherston's, and, aa I have said, it adjoined the fields that encircled The Cottage ; to step from them into the dark shadows of the trees was but t he work of a moment. The charm of the golden midsummer wea- ther was full upon them, and it was not until a slight glimpse of the house reachwl her through an avenue ot limes that Constantia remembered how far she had come. She started guiltily, and stopped short upon the little path that would, a few yards further on, lead to the principle drive. "How far we have come !" she said, in a quick, dismayed tone â€" a tone al- most frightened, that exercised Stronge's mind not a littls ; "too far. See there is the house." "Let us go on to the gardens. It ia quite early; there is plenty of time," urged Barry, who believed her reluc- tance to go further lay in the thought that she bad already overstayed her hour, and that she would, in bis j)ar- lanoe, "catch it" from Miss MacGilli- cuddy if not home in time. But Stronge kne wbetter, and waa more puzzled by her manner than be would confess to himself. "Oh, no I" said Constantia. stepping liack upon the path. "See, bow strange it would look to Mr. Featberston 10 see us taking possession of his place in this sort of way I If he were at home, be might think â€" " • "But he isn't at home," said Barry, "He's in Fermanag'h. Didn't yoo, know f" "No," said Constantia, thoughtfully. And again Stronge felt surprise fill his breast. If Featberston were more to her than any other man, and as Feath- ston loved her (he was tuo good a lover himself not to be sure of this latter fac^, bow did it happen that bis move- ments were entirely unknown to her? And they such near neighlxirs too I It was inexplicable. A lover's quarrel, no doubt, he told kimself with a suppressed sigh. (To Be Continued.) THE SIBERIAN RAILWAY. Tke Baulan* Have Takes a L«af ••! • <'aDafla'« BiHtk. Siberia ia a Russian Canada, larger and more populous, and, like Canada, it has a great future before it, says the Fortninhtlj Review. It is very rich in gold, while tbere are whole hills of graphite (black lead) and lapis lazuli; coal can be picked up on the very road near Nerchinsk, there is silver in the same district, and there are rich mines of iron near Nikolaefsk. Siberia, like Canada, is rich in fish. On tho Amur River 1 was told that :iUO,(X)U puds of the kita fUh have been caughb within a few weeks in August, when the fish ascend the rivers ; the pud (pood) be- ing 41)0 pounds, that means H,U0O,000 liounds of fish. In the Khabarofka Mus- eum is a stuffed kaluga fish weighing 30 puds, or 1,200 (Hiunda, caught in the .iVmur. The Russians have Ix'en struck by the fact that " the proeperity of Canada and its productive activity have giMwn, and continue to grow, with a rapi<lity which appears to us (Russians) miraculous, and by us inimitable, just from the date uf the completion ot the Canadian i'acifio Railway from the Pa- cific to the Atlantic CXx>an." In l(Jb9 they deputed two engineers to otiserve the Canadian line and its conditions and gresults. Attention in Hu.ssia was drawn to the facts that Canada, a i-ountry then of 4,000,000 peo- ple, had, by its own reeouroea, withr out any pecuniary help /rom uutside, i-onnocted Ihe two (Hvjins by an iron road i,\*)0 versts i3,000 mt!««), long, over very difficult and expensive ground for building, in the short time of four years; that the energetic po)>ulntion of Canada, 3,000.000, in Ml. and only in- crea.sed to 4.300,000 in 1881, rt^ached 5,- 000,000 a year or two after the fir^t through train luisstxl Winnip<>g in 188ti; that the ouantity uf grain carried in CanaiLk haii increased from 3tl3,o71 tons in 1K8C to MXI.UOO tons in I8t* ; that in places without population there had afi.siu seven new towns, such as Van- couver, founiled only in lb8ti, and hoUl- ing 9,tl0l) inhabitants in Irt'l. It was made known to Russia thut " the cost of the SilNvrian Railway should not be even Co per i-eut of the c«i8t of the Can- adian I'acifio. IMPEROR-EDITCB. The Baler ot Iklaa'i MUUsas PaklU^t • Newtpapcr. It is not generally known that tba Emperor of Cbhia U a newspaper edi- tor, but he is, nevertheless. Mors than that, hut journal has the proud dlatlno- tion of being the oldest in tbs world. having appeared regularly every day for the last 800 years. The only draw- back, if considered from a peounlaiy standpoint, is Its limited oireulation. Only one copy Is printed each day. The name of this unique journal ia tha P»- kin Gazette. It is tba organ of the Chinese imperial court, and each day the single copy Is taxskad up on a big board outslds the Purple City, wbera the Emperor lives. It averages 19 pages. Ihe sheets are about seven m<-]hes long and three wide, and the reader begins at the lower right-hand comer and runs his eye up and down the ver- tical columns from right to left, which is the Chinese way. The paper con- tains nothing but strictly exclusive news, but not a line id there of gossvo about the Son of Heaven or sensational details about bis corrupt court. Th«TO is no advertising, and there never has been an adverlLsement in its pegea.^ Moat of the art i.- lea are dictated by tbe Emperor himself, and they gener- ally con-sist ot official acts and report^ The Emperor's assistant in his editorial duties is bis mother. All news relat- ing to the condition ot the kingdom, or anything else that the Emperor wiohes to keep from hia subjects, is. of course, rigorously excluded, and no Chinese journalist dares to draw any dedm> lions or make . :\y comments on what appears in this ruyal pui)la;iiion. After the paper is printed the Emi>eror some- times makes marginal notes on it wito a red pencil. SOMETHING LIKE A HOT BATH. What we call a hot bath would ap- pear to a Japanese merely tepid. Tbs Japanese take their morning tub at a temperature of KM degrees Fahrenheit, and immediately afterward douche themselves with perfectly cold water. Herr Nippold. who was for many years FrofefiBor of Law at the Tokio Uni- versity, declares in his book on Japan that after a bath at this beat, and the subsequent cold douche, be used to feel warm all day in tbe coldevst winter weather, while in summer ths bath had the exactly contrary effect, and was moat cooling and refreshing. A SCRUBBING MACHINE. An ingenious machine for scrut>bing floors has been invented, which is some- thing like a lawn mower. It runs upon four wheels, and above tbe two front wheels is a tank which contains clear water, which may. of course, be heated if detured. Tbe water ia supplied to rotery brushes at the Iwttom of the machine, and these, rotating in an oppoc<ite direction to the motion ot the mai'bine itself, scrub the floor. At the buck of these brushes and over tha two bark wheels is another tank in which the dirt and water is carried. The wiping apparatus consists of an endless band of absurlient material made eepe»'ially for tbe purpose. This txiud is pressed upon the fUior by rotary bru-sbes. so thai tne cloth accommodat«8 itself to the inequalities of the floor. Tbe cloth is riiiaed out mechanically a« it leaves the floor and pas.ses through the lank at the back. It is not uece»- sary to sweep tbe floor before scrub- bing, i EUROPES ELECTRIC RAILWAYS. Electric lines in Europe increased in number from 70 to 111 during i8-5, their length from 700 to 902 kilometres (5ti0 miled). and the power from 18.150 to ;2.'>,0U5 kilowatts. liermany leads with 4110 kilomelrvo, followed by France with 13:; and England with 107, and Switzer- land fourth with 47. Tne only coun- tries still free from electric traction are Bulgaria, Greece and Denmark. DOKSN'T PAY FOR CORONATION. The iinpreaeion that the expeudituxe in connection with tbe coronation at Moscow was paid by the Czar out of his own piHiket was erroneous. Every rouble in tbe Imperial Treasury is sup- posed to he at the alwuluio disiiosal of the C^xar and he draws u|kiu the Trea- sury at discretion. In addition, he ia tho owner of large estates in different parts of Uusaio, and is well able to |>ay all tho bills incurred during the corona- tion c4)reiuouie»â€" if be fell so iuolined. BADLY BROKEJf UP. Awful accident at Jones's yesterday. So? I didn't hear of it. Jone.1 hit hia thumb with the hammer and iniinediately e.vplode<l with rage, while his wife borst into tears. A BIRO'S INTELLIGENCE. As •rtsie'* Terrible AkmimII !>•â-  a «'kl»i* â- uank. A lady who waa one day watchinff a pair of red^tarLs as they worked ia a tree was startled by a violent conb- luotiou that arose in the shrubbery hard by. Catbirds screamed, wrens scolded, and thti robins sboute<l "Quickl" with all their might. A chipmunk was dragging a baby catbird by the leg from its nest and all tbe birds round about had come to help make a row about it. including a Ualtimore oriole. The soreiiiuing and the swish of wings aa tbe birihi darted about made tbe squirrel aban<lon it.s prey, and then the commotion suleided as qiuckly as it had risen. All the birds but the oriole went about their business elsewhere. The oriole had not said a word so far and, beyond the countenancing the hub- bub, by his pivseuce, had nad no part in it. The squirrel, having dropiied the baby catbird, i-ocked il.selt upon a limb au<l began to chatter in a defiant way. while tne oriole sat not far away look- ing but douig nothing else. But in a few muiueuUs the squirrel left itd seat and ran out on tbe limb it had been sitting on until it had to use more care to keep its hold and then tbe ori- ole's opportunity for a terrible eiasault had come. Flashing across the space ho struck the cliipiuunk in one eye with bis sharp-ptiiuted lieak, and then turning instantly, struck the other eye in like manner. Quivering with paiu. the «iuirr»>l let go the limb and drop- pwl to the ground, where it rolled and struggle<l about apparently iu tha throes of death. I'he oriole flew away to its favorite ehu, where be sung in tbe most brilliant fashion. The lady put tbe squirrel out of its misery, and then saw that tbe oriole had destroyed both e\y«e. SrONK SOLES FOR SHOES. A German inventor has hit upon"* method of putting stone soles on boots and shoes. He mixes a n nti ipi tjfifii|j|na w ith a suitable quantity of dean^uarkj saiiil and spreads it over th»vh|jlttbw sole ust<d as a foundation. \M*^Vtttyrti etiUvi are saiil to Iv quito n5*'^o- a^d •ractically indeHtructilile ; they giveOm uh>1 a firm bold on tbe must iUtfiSff •urfacss .««¥ â-  -i ^ «: ...^^^â- v« • <^S« ^M