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HE COMETH NOT. 'riu' average numljer o( porsons an- nually run over and killeil in the streets within ihu Looilou police area U rather more than one hundred and twenty- seven, the total number for the eleven years ending with 1888 Ix^ing 1,399. (Report of Cominiiisiuner o£ I'olice of Metropolis for 1888.) She waji very pale, but most deli- cately beautiful. .She stood leaning b«ck against the gate, dangling her broad-brimmed atraw hjit by the rib- bon. Just as be biul asked her to stand, tb&t evening n-hen he left her, so that b« mi^ht see her graceful figure out- lined a^aiuat the wheat as he turned to wavo another good-bye from the bend of the road. She was gazing along it now, and beyond it into a dlbtauce that no hed{;e could bound, her dark grey eyes round- ed and wide open, and the little brows above them strained upward as if In Burprisu to keep the tears from brim- ming over. Uer mouth was set firmly, ltd pretty curves all drawn into hard â- Iraight lines ; but the corners of it were quivering with ihe effort, while every now and again the white apple roue and trembled in her throat as â- he strove to gulp down the sobs that would not be stifled in spite of all she oouJd do. Hi'r fingers were twitching nerrouely at the riblx)n, siuoothing out the little roll they had been making of the end of it, smoothing it out and rolling it upâ€" only to smooth it out and roll it up again. Behind her waved the wheat in the aouth-wcst wind, yellower for the fort- night which had taken all the color from her face, and below and beyond lay the a«a calm and untroubled in the summer evening, with Lundy curtained in its violet shadows waiting like a floating cradle for the sun. But her back wa« towards it all. What part had she in the evening's >eaoe 1 6o far from bringing her com- lort it but made her trouble the greater tky contrast and her isolation the more complete ; nature's broad quiet smile se«med to imply an mdifference to her suffering very like contempt. The bre«ze lifted a stray tress of her black- brown hair as if to ruffle it in reproach, and laid it down again tenderly, to fan the gnats from off her face before it passed ; but she never heeded, nor beard its sijib of pity as it died away «long the road. Waiting, waitingâ€" although she knew the hopelessness of waiting any longer. Had stu- not heard ibe old <<ipper bugle proclaim the arrival of the one coacb that passed through the little village in the day ?â€" As she had heard it every evening for the last week, liut that was ajj hour ago now. 'I'o-morrow would l>e Sunday. There was no coach at all on Sundays. Yet she could almost regard that with re- lief ; there wouM lie nothing to expect and no fresh disappointment thereuire; it would 1)6 something to lie free from this weary strain of wailing at least Tor a day. She would go to ihe church In the morning and pray, or try to pray. The day, the place, and the temporary relief from the conflict of her hopes and fHttrs all would comliino to help her frame her pmyer more humbly and devoutly ; while here it seemed as if she could never pray for meekness and strength to endure, but only for that drt'ivry "if it be iKissiblc" contin- ually. Then the aficinoon she would 8pt;nd here again and think it all over quietly to herwelf ; and- he must surely come on Monday. lie bad promised not to lie away for more tlian four days or five at the most; yet nearly a fortnight hud pa.ss- ed, and he had never even written. He had business in L,on<lon, so he .said, to see a puriha.'ior for his last pictures, that pretty set of water-color drawings of the Devonshire coa.si, which she hiul Bfj much admiredâ€" she had sat and watched him at work upon some of themâ€" to see a purchaser, and pay .some money into a bank. 'Ihat was all he hod to do, and then ho was coming back â€" so lie said. The si-cne from where she stixxl hail formed the sul)- Ject of tlie last, lu the foreground stood the gate she was leaning ui)ou, dividing the sliiidows of the lane from the light timt played over the wheat md sparkled from the sea, with the â- liffa towards Uartlund gradually melt- ng into the soft folds uC the sumincr haze ljey(m.l, and the cloudless glory of the summer sky alx»ve nil. liuauti- ful enough inileeil! It seemed to her, however, that slio hud never truly real- ized their lieauty until he hiiil pointed out what a wondrou-s picture of iicace and promise they made, nor loved them rightly until ^fie hail learnt to love them for his sake. for s'le h.ad given him all her heart, from that first meeting a few weeks ago, when, tut she was busy one morn- ing I) .-kin^ flower.s in tlic ftarden that •tcHxi Ix'tween her mot lier'a cottage iind th* road, she had lie*ird his voice, and l<K>king up had seen him at the gate, hat in baud, with the suniiglit lurninK to flaiiie ui>on lii.s bare head, and a look ufK)!! Iii.s face that, in snitu of all the, dust of his long ride from llideford, sent her fancy flying back to Ciala- had of her day-dreams, and held her «pell-lx>und until bo hud twice reiH'aled his modest rei|iiesi for .some milk, .'^he had sped i)ai'k to the collage without a word, only to find that lliero wa« no milk to Im! had, and that all she could offer him was a gla.ss of water. Itul when she returned with the nretticst jug in the kilclien filled to llie brim snil a titnid apology that she Imil noth- ing U-tlor to givM, he. hail murmured something almut its being mine I lie lews welcome, with such a giver, ami she liud dropfied her eyes Wfore Ihe S lanes thai rested wilh a grave won- cr upon licr Ijeauty, and read her secret lieforo she was even conscious of it hiTsnlf. Then, after refreshing himself and thanking her scilately, lie had nnused to admire the <'ollu,go, with its burden of creepers hanging from the porch, ?|»d t)ie view that it coiiiiiuuided over be cliffs to tho sea, and io oypres.s a quiet regret that he hi.d lieen a Btrnn/'T to I lie west country until then. He was an arlist, he explained, •nd had come to llideford flay in â- carnb of coast scenery, upon some studies of which be was engaged. He ' had already made one or twoâ€" would she think him impertinent if be asked for a native's oriticiara upon them f Artists were always vain, he said, smil- ing. Perhaps, too, she could tell him of a few places in the neighlKirhood especially suitable for his purpose. - After all, it was very natural that she should have come upou him a day or two afterwards sketching from one of the points she had suggested and given him directions how to find ; that she should have lieen pleaued at the compliment to her judgment â€" yes, her Judgmentâ€" his presence there implied; that she should have stopped to look at some of the drawings in the jwrt- folio, and thought them more beautiful than she bad ever seen liefore. Her life had Ixjen very lonely away here in the west, wilh no one to care for or to care for her, except a mother ' rendered'peevLsh and irritable with age and rheumatism and the trouble of a small Irish rent-roll that had dwindled . to a mere pittance and ever grew smaller yeajr by year; with nothing to look forward to but the life of a com- ' panion or nursery governess when that i mother died. They had buried them- 1 selves here some years a^o, .soon after j her father's death, to be as near to the west and Ireland as might be, con- ' sidering their straightened means. Liv- ! ing was cheap, and the plimate suited i her mother liesides. Ilut they were too l poor, or perhaps too proucl, and the I invalid was t<X) alliagi to care atout j making many new friends even in that kindly, open-hearted country. And she j had ueen very lonely. | So that when he came, with his art and his words, his handscime eyes and gentle, coasiderate interest in herself, i e had made an easy conquest, whether he would or no, and she had beefi toa inexperienced and sinjple-niinded to think him capable of abusing the oon- ' fidence his (leferenoe and courteous- I nes3 had inspired. If he had no real j regard for herself, she thought, he | would hardly have asked, a^s be bad \ done more than once, to !« aJ lowed to call on her mother, or have seemed so conoerned when she failed to take advantage of his request. For she bad always put him off. She was afraid of her mother, whose tongue could out so terribly sliarp when anything arose to interfere with the paramount con- sideration of her own present comfort and future necessities. She was afraid that her mother would look upon such a call and the troublesome possibilities it would suggest as but a Ireah proof of the fancieil neglect and indifference towards herself that were the causes of such constant complaint ; and so bad pleaded the invalid's illness and weak- ness to him in excuse as .the thanked him all the same. There was no reason for troubling her mother so soon, or for taking pre- cautions which the mere fact of his ask- ing had rendered ujinec«esary. There was no advantage to be gained by im- mediate confession, aid a ^reat deal to be lost. She mig*;. very possibly be forbidden to see bim again. She had thought so then, but now she could not rid herself of the idea that, after all, she had but blinded herself to her own blindness, and by acting in a way her conscience had con<iemued, bad forfeited the respect which was all that bound blm in honor towards her. Not that ahe bad ever intended to ooDoeal the story of her attachment from her mother altogether, but she had put off the time fur confeosion, hoping that redoubled care and unre- mitting attention might soften the harsbaesa and querulous ingratitude that were tho burdens of her daily life, and perhaps some day soon em- liolden her to crave some consideration for herself in return. She had quieted her conscience by this means, and steadily set herself to do everything in her power to alleviate the iuvalid'a afflictions. Morning and evening she devoted herself to the double duties of nurae and housekeeiier with an en- ergy incapable of rebuff; but in the afternoon, when the invalid had dozed off, anil there was nothing that de- manded her attention for an hour or two, she would take up her bat and wander out through the fields and along the cliffs, her modesty half con- demning her, though love guided her footsteps the while, until she found him sitting paintingâ€" where she had found him the day liefore. And then tho feel- ing of helpless happiness which thrill- ed her heart to hear his worda of greet- ing would disiM-1, as if by iua«ic, all recollection ot her daily round of thank- less self-sacrifice; and no ingratitude, no neglect, no reproach would seem too heavy for her to Itear. SoMU'timea she would but linger a few minutes to note the advance in his pii'ture, and exchange a few words wilh him; but oftencr she would cast aside the reserve which .she felt was after all mere hypoi'risy. and would sit <l<nvri to watch him and lustcn with parto<l lips and eyes gnnving largo with wonder, while he siH>ke of the life ot the fields an<l the sea in language 8h(v c<mld only half comprehend, and pruiseil "the fatboniless universe" as only an artist can, pausing in lis work every now ami again to turn and smile at her licauty and admira- tion, until slm could scarcely tell whether to smile t<H) for pleasure an<l sympathy, or flush with shame for she hardly knew what. Sonietiinea, too, he would speak of London and tim fogs and the smoke, and compare them with the light and glory ot the scenes around them, or talk to her of books and nion and the doings and discover- ies of science, or try to draw forth her ideas aUmt life and religion, or liring out a iKMjk for her to read, and ex- |ilain or comment on the pawniges that pU'asK'il him. And sonielimes, tliough rarely, he would soeAk of hia iimbition; and that pleased tier liest of all. Ilut he. never spoke of love, and .she loved him the Udter for his silence as to that. She was lonely, ami he knew it, and gave her what plea.siiru lii.s com- lianioiiship e<iiilil bring. What mi'd to lireak the h)ii11 by paying her compli- menta or making advancoM which would nccesisitatn her acceptance or rejection, and ill any case foroo her to letray herself openlyl He wius content to see lier happy, and to know that he was the cause. Vet ho was not more self- irth or more regardless of the future than oilier men. Definition would come with lime; there was no need for hurry. So a month had possH'd, tho happiest uiontli of her life, tlie only hapny one, now that sIh' came to look ImcK upon it; and sbe felt that slin had gained more from his teaching in that short tliiie than shy would ever gather from all Ihe iHHiks in the world. But it had sudilenly come to an end. lie had lieen called Ixick to town on businivss, and left her to learn, by tho bitter experi- ence that admits of no misealciilation, hmv much she loved him. llusinessl now she loathed the word and all that it implied. She had tried, however, to make light of his leaving her. and hide her grief at losing him i-ven for a few days; and hidden it very badly after all. They hud imrted nere by the gate, the gate which had been the silent wit- ness of so much that had made her life sweet lefore, and which had grown strangely dear by mournful association with Tier daily deepening sorrow ever since. For though she listlessly wan- dered away from it sometimes to revisit the places where they had sat together, her feet always led her liack to it at the close of tlie afternoon to listen for the horn that made her heart beat so fast for half an hour, till dis- apiK)intraent came again and hope de- parted till the morrow. Hut even at parting he had breathed not a word of love, so her lips, too, were sealed. But she could not bide her tell-tale face or keep the hand she ^ave him from trembling as be held it; and then, suddenly, liefore she could withdraw it. before her lips could stammer out the little white lie that rose in explanation, be bad kissed her, then held her at arm's length for a moment, then kissed her and kissed her again. "Stand just so," he cried, "that I may have the loveliest picture of all to keep before my eyes when I am gone; ami wave me good-bye when I reach the corner." Last Wednesday- yes, it was last Wednesday- it bad first come upon her. What if she were to lose him, not for a few days, but forever! She could not even yet wholly realize what that could mean. It was too horrible to lie possible; yet even as she tried to thrust the thought of it from her it bad grown po!!»iible in the thinking. She bad prayed that it should not 1« possible, but to pray was to admit what it was treason against her faith in his honor an<l goodness even to think of; and even while she doubted whether she ou^bt to pray or not, the possible Brew more probable everj time the coach came and paseied with- out him, and her prayer the wilder and more desperate every day; and ahe bad admitted it all. And now, to-morrow, she must add that other prayer. that prayer for strength and patience, the promise ot which seemed to bring her no conso- lation at all. For toe promise that whatsoever she asked, believing, she should receive, had not been fulfilled; and though she never doubted that its non-fulfilment could be accounted tor by reason ot her own unl)elief or un- worthineas of such like, what certainty had she that the fulfilment of any oth- er might be independent of her own de- serving? Besides, she wag not certain that sue cared to lie enabled to suffer and endure. Nay. rather let her sor- row kill her as it had killed Elaine, and a thousand others. Was it wick- edness to be true to her love and re- fivK to pray fur Ibis? She knew that it was, and that the conflict be- tween her will and her conscience add lie Cometh Not. threatened to raise a l>arrier between God and herself. And yet, if God was merciful perhaps be would grant her that patience and bumilltv for which she could not bring herself to pray, even though he would not heed her first pitiful supplication, which she still felt was the only one she could honestly ulten "O God, give bim bock to me!" And ever as it rose to her lips came the question os unanswerable as her very prayer seemed to lie. What wrb this one man that she had given him po\ver to torture her so, or this love that she could have sacrificed even the little pleasure her life had given her to gainitr Mysterious, yet agonizingly real. And the profit! The knowleilge that she could suffer; how she could suffcrl Oh, if he could not come lack why did he not writef And if ha would not why did he not write like- wise? Was he after all a liar, or ca- pable of the common brutality and then the common cowardice she luid reail of in stories of his kind? And it ho was could she over grow to' hate him? Or did he trust her faith too little or too mm^h to tell her what iletained him? nut even if he did trust her h«" had not right to put her to such a test or give her cause tor iloubtind bim even for a moment; and it he did not, he must know that his silemw was many times harder to explain than his exciLsoa to lielicve. And yet, if he did trust her so much as to think excuse unnecessary, how had she treated his faith in her? Had she proved herself worthy ot it. or had she on tho very first trial but shown how suspicious, how exacting, how im- patient, how weak ftnd cowardly she coulil be? He had left her no address; and she had askel for none; .she had never im- agined I here would lie any need for that; he was to ctmie Iwu-k so smm. Yet if ho had never intended to come back he would also have left her none, and porhaixs hive laughed in his sleeve at her .simplicily for not asking. Ite that as it mi^rht, «he could Iw Khul now that she had given him that .small proof of her confidonce; and the reiiiem- iiranco of it and of the love that could \w so oa-sily oiil willed from Its very blin(lne.sB would sting him till his dying day, unlo>« h- wu-s utterly heartless; and that she would never lielieve. Ytvsterday evening she hail gone down wilh the courage of ile,si>air to the cot- tnge when* he bad Imlged to ask the woman there if he had left any mea- sngo or oven anv of his lieUmifings liehind. Hut sho hud n-on met with a sour, .suspicious glance and no news whatever; he had taken what few Ihing.s lielongod to him away with him and gone; no, he had said noth- ing to her almut coming back; with an accent on Ihe "her" .so significant that the poor girl could have cur.sed her for il.s cruelty. Ilut for that too there was explana- tion; she n'meml)ered him saying that ho ili'l not like the woman or I lie lodgiiig.s and meant to try the inn or some other place when be reluiniiil. So she hnil gained nothing but I lie. knowleilge tluil .she had ii|ienly shown her want of faith, and lietrayetl her secret to nnolhor. What could she do but wait, come here and wait each miserable afler- iMxin? And it was no use wailing any longer now. .She must go back and Bcn' after her mother's supper and hide her fjrief lus lie.st she mlgl-t, lest the invalid should notice it again as she had not iced it oni"* already and iielu- lantly asked for explanation. II was doubly hard to go through with her manifold and ill-appreciatod dulics now, and she knew thai she could not hope to concojvl the roa.son for very much longer. .Sho would lie brouftht to bay, anil her mot tier's unmerciful re^iroaches would divide her from tho one being on earth she had to live for and overwhelm her altogether. And as she thought on the dreary outlook before her aoid her own utter loneliness and helplessness, she could keep back the tears no longer.i She turneil and clasped the bars of the gate and bowejl her head u pon them, to ga«p her misery out in long, deep- drawn, heart-shaking sobs, monotonous in their rise and fall as the ceaseless murmur of the swell gently breakmg upon the pebbles below; and through them, like the wail ot the gulls out seaward, come the fitful cry of o pray- er grown abject by repetition- "O bod, give him liack to me !" But if she had known th=<t in her home, concealed amongst the pile of papers which she carefully folded every day and |>acke<l away into a corner of the silting-room, lay the an.swer to all her doubts and questionings she would have been spared the tormeni and sus- pense of the last week, and at lenst have had the consolation of knowmg DAU&EES TO JAVISATION. A GREAT MANY ICEBERGS NOW IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC. A C'lone Watch Uuh (o Be Kept on All testeUâ€" Tbonnnuilit of Iccbenn Kcpert* ed Vtintelnâ€" One a HUe Long EaeonB- leretl. Many of the tranaatlantb steam- ships are now crossing Nen- foundland waters with five in- stead of one lookout man. on ac- count of the unprecedented number of dangers to navigation. They have watchers oo tbe starboard and port bows, on the starboard and port ends of the bridge, and in the "crow's neet," at the foremast. Three years ago the White Star that her distrust of the man she loved • , ,» t • i u j WM wholly groundless; even though ateamer Naronic left Liverpool bound the certainty of her loss and the sharp- 'â€" »'- - "^'â€" '- '"- -â-  "- "^ ness of the shock might have been yet harder perhaps to bear. If she had read the paper which her mother look in regularly, though she could ill offord it, for the poor satisfactioi of watch- ing the grailual ruin of others in the some position as herself she might have noticed the following short paragraph which it had contained the Saturday before :â€" . "Yesterday Dr. â€" , the coroner for â€" , held an inquest at the boepital. King's Road, Chelsea, ui>on the body of Arnold Braithewaite, an artist, who was run over and killed on Wednesday last in George Street, by a van lielong- ing to Messrs. Crauley 4 Co., of Pim- lico, furniture dealers. Tbe evidence went to show that the van was pro- lo for New York. She is supposed to have collided with an iceberg and stuik in midocean with all on board. The other day a bottle was received at the London offices of the White Star line containing a brief message to the effect that the boat had struck an iceberg and was rap- idly sinking. During July the fqg area of the At- lantic Ocean becomes dense and perma- nent and reaches from the coast 1.3(X> miles out to sea. and is 300 miles in width. Scattered through this impene- trable vapor are hundreds of icebergs, decidedly more niuuerous than at anr tune lor years. Envelopea in tbe fog are also hundreds of New England and vessels, in seven fleets. ceeiUng at a moderate pace ^'^n? , „jc .lau uum^icu George Street when the deceased sud- | .... , . denly walked out of the jeweller's shop i Canadian fishmg at the corner of the Surrey Road, an 1 j which begin the season's operations in e«s«ayed to cross over the street. It j,iiy_ appeared that he was so intent upon | .j.^ ^ ^ passenger liners ar« examining a ring which he ha<l just i . . . ,, u i v. j » imrchaaed, that he ilisregarded ihe ^ straight through or along the edge of driver's warning shouts, and was i this danger-studded stretch of sea. knocked down liefore the latter could pull up bis horses. Both wheels pass- ed over his lx)dy, killing him instantly. The jury returned a verdict of acci- dental death, and alisolved tbe driver from all blame in the matter." But she never read the papers. How wajB she to koow 1 G. H. L. A DRJESS TRL'NK. Probably the most complete luxurious dr««s trunk ever and manu- 2.oH ICEBERGS REPORTED. Official figures gathered show that 'Z,o-i icebergs were seen of Newfound- land during May and June, drifting southward. Of course many of the bergs were reported more than once, as four and five steamers liound for Am- erica pass the big island daily. In addition to this enormous number there were tifty-uine reports of vessels [lassing "several," "a group," "many" or "hundreds" of t^ergs without specify- ing numl«rs. Before the July fog bank came down factured has Just been completed, un- j ^jui ihe fishing fleet set out, tbe Nor- der the personal supervision of a south- 1 wegian Ijark \ alborg struck an iceberg em bride whose bonevmoon will be i and was abandoned 150 miles from New- » â-  'c. Ti,;'. .„,«b. u „ I found land. Ihe steamer Turret Crown spent m Europe. Ihis trunk is * j jj^^ t^ree liow plates stove in while magnificent piece of mechanism caught in the ice, and the American tihroughout and, in ^ite of tbe un- j berk Alice M. Claridge. from London, usual elaboration ot deUU. is very f^uck an icelierg. stove a hole in her . J • 1 . „ 'jow and went down, light in weightâ€" a great desideratum. | ^j,^ British sidiooner Emrys struck a when every pound of txiggage carried berg in the night and carried away on continenUl railways is worth good. | bowsprit, cutwater, part of keel, bul- warks and rigging. She reached port in a sinking condition. The British steamer Ala-ska was caught in tbe ice at sea off St. John's and was carried IM miles north out of her course to St. Michaels. Labrador. A change ot wiiiiV carried her to Crois Island, where she escaped from the ice. and put into St. John's with plates and frames broken. ICKBERGS EVERYWHERE. Not a steamer passed out Belle Isls strait, the narrow waters on the north of Ncwfoimdland, lietween Nov. ;1U and June H. A lighthouse keeper in the _ ,. strait reported, during March 3U0 liergs iions, veils, and other feminine fripjier- j in sight, forty-nine ot which were ieo, while the top rack is arranged to | aground. During .\pril he aiw 500 bergs, hold a modt compact, allndt complete, ; 60 of which went aground. In May toilet apiiaratus of cut-gliis-s. silver j 30 to 50 l«rgs were in sight every and tortoise-shell (which. Tor conveni- i clear day. Thi first steamer which ejjce. can l)e lifted out of the trunk passed out of tho .rrait in June went and placed on the dressing table), a past 300 bergs. writing case, work nuiterials and a| (In the Atlantic side of Newfound- miniature tea equiiKige. each of t hese I land the whole co.ist was blwked for fitting snugly into ita own individual days and steamships lay off and on the compartment, and so firmly fixed tbat|harl)or ot St. John's waiting two and even the most fiendish ot railway [lor- | three days to get in, and not a few bud bone«t money. The framework is of aluminum, and the outside covering of alligator skin, the front pnnel ingen- iously arranged to slide back, show- ing a tier of long drawers, each lux- uriously lined with fluted white satin. One of the«e drawers is destined to bold underlinen. another ia for tailor- made and promenade gowns, while a third ia guaranteed to carry the most elaborate of ball frocks without a sin- gle cru«h. AtK>vo iheae drawers ai'e racks con- taining b;vt and shix' lioxes. and var- ioua other contrivan^-os for gloves, ril- to give It up and go to Halifax, fur- ther down the coast. During May over 100 iceliergs were daily in sight from Ferryland llead-ligbt" Station. The m\me numlier was visible from â-  Cape Race. Twenty-five were seen daily froiu Denier. CaUit and Puffin Islands, which were surrounded. The coast w;is dotted with liergs tera will Ik- powerless to effect any damjigtv Hidden away Uhind the drawers, where a train or hotel robber would have much difficulty in loivating it is a jewel drawer, lined with royal blue velvet, and a tiny silver money safe, with a .set of fairy account bcwka. liound in blue morocco, while the lid of this veritable American ark (which close inshore to the numlier ot several after all is not so large as majiy of hundred, and many were aground. The the niammolh trunks we meet when steamer Turret I'a'pe was a week gct- travollingl. holds a large detachable ti„g through the ice oft the coast, and mirror, and sundry straps tor railway | the steamer Durango, towing the dis- rug.s, umbrellas, waten'rfofs. and other aided Coquet, gave it up after three iini>odimonta. The pro.Apective bride days' effort and put into Halifax. On .suvs her trunk will contain everything I site'ht of land the steamer Bengroe she will reiiuire during a year of trav- \ Head pas«eil a tweiily-five-mile fielil of el; and her feminine fiiemls. who aiv ; puck ice; the Marian, after paa*ing prociato ilie luseful nature of all the ; eighty in-rgs. was caught iu pack ice, contrivan-es, and the easy "getatable- ^ which reached as tar as the i,ye could no.ss" of everything in the trunk, are . 3,'e. a like blockade forced the steamer envying the fair \H>s»e.ssor of we^ilth, whii'h can so quickly convert an in- genious iilija into practical reality. A TKN YEAR INCREASE. Twenty -five notuen architects against one. Flpven thousand women writers against 159. Two hurdio' and forty lawyers Guy Colin into port for shelter; tbe steamers Assyrian and Scotchman passed fields twenty miles long and five miles wide, p.acked solidly together; the steamer Nuffield was cliise to a fifty- mile field of ice. studded wilh large W'rgs. and the steamer Pomeranian got amidst a group of lergs during a fog at midnight. The I org the furthest east from Newfoundland was 227 miles out at sea. Bergs were .seen as far south as the parallel of New York by the steaniei-s against five Three luiiidrod and thirty-seven wo- ! J'"'».^'«'> I-a Bretagne and -Augusta Vic- meii dentists, against 24. Kiglit hundred and eitrlity-five wom- en iournali ts against 3'). Three thousand nine hundred and forty-nine actresses against ()i)2. ."sixty-four thousand and forty-eight secretaries and clerks, against (^,011!. One. thousand two hundred and thir- ty-five women preachers, against 07. In I8i>0 there were in the United States 4,155 women doctors against 527 in 1870. One hundred and eighty women land surveyors nnd engineers, against none at all in 1870. Twenty-seven thousand seven hun- dred and sevonty-seven women biiok- keeiters agaiivst none in 1870. AN IJNAPPRKCIATKO HINT. How <lid you come to leave the stage ? Bald his friend to Rosciiis Hamphatt. I h.id a hint that I was not suited for it. Did the little hirila tpll you? Thoy might have tven birds if they were allowed to hatch, he answered, with a sigh. toria, not to mention a halt dozen oth- ers which do not carry passengers. All these frozen monsters travel south, and averaged 200 by 200 feet in size. 0.\R BERG A MILE I.O.VG. The largest tieig seen was a mile in length, as l^e.^sured by a .sextant, and ItUI feet high. The largest numl>er »f liergs seen by one vessel numliered 301. i.as«ed by the steamer .Assyrian. A h.ilf dozen steamers passed one hundred to two hundred K-rgs. T\vo of the white monsters were seen to capsize, caused by the swash froir passing vps.sels. One l>erg resembled ft cathedral with two spires, and another looked like a h.ilt-sunken ship, having a sharp bow, rounded stern and sunk- en .imidship .section. One measuring 100 by too feet was a.s square as a loaf ot sugar, and another had a tunnel through it. While crossing the ice area the offi- cers ot the steamer Maryland saw a fimr-masted steamship inverted in a mirage aWive a similar vessel steam- ing along the horizon. The skipper of another vessel saw a mirage in which five iceliergs and a village appeared in the sky. I