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AN UNSHBIVED GHOST. /'ri.ir I ..rrn/0 , Mld*l B kt tdveaUHre IB rh. lie .1 !,,. i,, n the city of Mexico, toward the close of ehe year 1731, Friar Lorenzo, ot the Mon- wtery of Log .Smj.iioa de Jesus, wa* mak- ing his way homeward to that establish- ment in the chilly hour* of very early morn- ing. He had been keeping a vigil, impoied by the regulation! of the order, thit had taken him to a chapel in the Parish of Xues- tra Senora de la SoMad, away out beyond the Zocalo, that lay about equi-distant be- tween hii two terminal*. A very old man was Friar Loren/o, and his pace wis far from rapid, so that he had been long on the way. By tins time he wa* to fatigued that his limb* almost refuted longer to uphold the spare weight of his trembling aged body. Vet he nerved himself to renewed effort a* he heard the second hour boomed out from the big timepiece of the cathedral, at the very moment that he reached the entrance to the Calle de Olmedo; for the great fatigue he felt was yet exceeded and neutralized by a more potent impulse the .-purring thrilla of terror. Perhaps it were unfair to say that Friar Lorenzo was a coward; the kinder view were to consider that the sequestered conventual life had developed abnormally an extreme constitutional timidity. No priest in the monastery nay, nune in all the great City of Mexico was better, kinder, or led a more godly life than that of Friar Lorenzo. So meek was he, no holy in his life, that his superior ofttimes found it needful to rebuke him for excess of fasting and penance, and to exercise vigilance in the way of seeing that Friar Lorenzo took Lorenzo, marked there WM a knocker of peculiar design, quite distinct from the con- ventional clinched hand or lion's head for Ihis was a battle-axe, falling pon a buckler and the two glimmered quite strangely clear in the gloom. The tunnel like arch of lh /aguan was all in densest darkness, save where a dim ray of light filtered out from ihe crack of a door on the left hand, whith- er the way was led by the man who had captured the fmr. This was the apart but hero it seemed ment usually assigned lodge, in treat houses, ..... ,,. of dimensions more spacious than was com mon. The dark walla seemed to abaorb,- nther than reflect, the pale rays of the caudle, yet enough of brilliance fell to flash gleams of keen color from the jewels of one who lay on a rough cot in a corner, glinting back the candle-light from the golden threads of its embroideries. hare lived across there, and my mother, who was portress before me, has often said that never in hr lime had the house a ten int. " " llut open ! o pn !" Friar Lorenzo shout- ed. Then the officer, impressed in spite of himeelf by this strange excitement and in- sistence, bade his men take up a massive vigp., or roof-beam of cedar, that lay where mine workmen had been repairing an azote*, and poising it among I hum, the patrolmen again and again dashed the heavy Umber, .is a doorporter's | in the guise of a battering-rum against the 1 door-leave* whose heavy planks crashed loudly at the impact : then the !>olt* sprung open, and into the zaguan poured the gath- ered gazers. No sight or sound of life greet- ed the incursion. Once inside the zaguan, it was no hard matter to shatter the heavy antuiuated padlock that held tho door giving to the Hide room ; that clumsy defense was indeed, half-eaten away with rust and ver- Th e stern inau pointed to the outstretch i digris, and down from tl-e corners of the Do thou confess her quickly." door-head swung veritable curtains of vener- able cobweb*, thick and velvety, likeancieut tapestry. The door fell inward with a crash of rotten honey-combed wood, and every ailment enough to nourish his frail body, instead of setting apart his portion for bestowal upon the swarm of mendicants that daily haunted the steps f the mouns- **T But in the active functions of his office in anght that led him without the convent walla, to intercourse with his kind and en- counter with the issue* of worldly existence ed _ ^ The friar drew back with a start and a shiver when be had bent over the woman ; for she was fast bound to the rude bed, node moveless b Beautiful naked arms outstretched by her side*, aud lashed her feet, too, closely. An observer of more worldly knowledge than friar Lorenzo would have guessed that she lad l>een Iwrue hither from some scene of [ala and rejoicing for her delicate wrists, and 011 her exquisite neck, and in the soft of her dark hair, blazed iplendid ewel* ; and the zone ot her corsage showing ibove the coverlet roughly wrapped around ier, showed that the stuff of her garb was of exceeding richness. " vVouldsi . hou confess, my daughter?" tammered Friar Loren/.o, drawn back to e moveless by harsh cords that held her I il there but one retreated a step or two In m the unknownness before them. Only Kriar [xirenzo pushed forward, with an eager noss that vanquished his decrepitude, and then from the further corner, came his voice : " S^id I not so? And will ye doubt me longer, unlwlievers? This wa* the place indeed ! 1 hey have taken away the hapluss lady ; ye must seek her, but the proof of tre place I show ye ! Here it is, among a pile of rubbish, mine own dear rosary, made of olive-stoue* from Ccthsemane," and he came forth, as thechiuf of the patrol caught a cresset from the hand of a huckster, and TOBY or I HKBBEvT KIILE, Wealthy In Kamla u Tear l. Mow Llvln, In rovrri) lit *>w 1'ork I'lljr. Samuel Szatzkin.who last year was a prom- inent cloth importer in Moscow, Russia, do- ing a business which netted him a profit of from $100,000 U. 3I.">O,000 per annum, is now living on the top tloor of tho tenement No. 4 IS Kast 114th street, New York. Though he is poor he is happy. " It is hard for a man of my years to start anew in life," he said the other .lav, yet I bless the hour I stepped on t.ie shores of this country, for here I know that my life is safe and that my wile anil my j r<n K.LII i . in . t v~ Furl, lot iirnrrallr KBOWSJ < .,ur<-rul>it Ihe -!" n ..r lli,i I l.r.-al I iii|ilrr. It is true that the inhabitants of IVkin, Canton, Shanghai, Futwa, and Amoy spak Chinese, liut as to other parts of thn country, it is also true that a citizen ot thu placet named cannot understand to* inhab- ilauu any more easily than can a Berliner an Englishman, or a Parisian a Dulchman. Thus the position oftheChina- inan in his own country, where various so- called dialects are spoken, i* rather pecul- iar. The Chinese dialects hare nothing in oiiinion with the patois, or conversational children are considered human beings. In | forma of language. They are used by the her, despite his fear, less by his sense of Mew into a pungent bla/e its slumliering bit ,1..*.. tl _ _ ^i . . _* _ -i t* . ... duty than by the appual m her eyes, full of a great despair and a mighty terror. He turned, when she made a sign of assent to- ward his captor, in intimation of the privacy due to a confession, but that sombre figure only laughed, albeit most harshly, and drew Mimewliat aside, toward the doorway. Then Friar Lorenzo, bending low above the woman, shaken between his fears and his to all such effort and contact the holy man i P' l y> listened to her confession. But she most reluctant, being ready topurch exemption from such movement at any cost of penance. 'J he superior of the order had struggled long against this infirmity, and ths mission on which he had to-night sent Friar Lorenzo ivour to cor- 1 to-night the f ocoll (Mexican pitch-pine or light- wood), and went forward to rake curiously, with his short sword, among the shapeless heap thin the friar had abandoned. "This rubbish why ! lads! albricias* H?re is a wristlet, rings, a great breadth of brocade iucrusted with gold and gems a collect of major diamonds aye ! we have found bonanza ! and what is this? He _ clapped his hand upon a long mass black as not vet finished, when the grim watcher [jt in the red light, and with one swift as his head, him. Then Russia where I was wealthy, they were not considered worth as much as dog*. "To tell you what we suffered there would take yean*. I csn only mention in- stance*. I lived in the holy city of Moscow eighteen years. 1 paid my taxes and built ip a goed business, when suddenly the Czar Mcanie convinced that the holy city was Ming desecrated by the Hebrews' presence. Wo were all ordered to leave the city wilh- n one year. As soon a* the ukase had been issued tho customers of all Hebrew mer- chants slopped paying their debt*. "It was declared by the authorities that every Hebrew found in the city after Jan- uary 14, 1S1IJ, would be considered an out- csst and a vagrant, and while a policeman would receive thrw rubles for eveiy thief highest and lowest classes, the savants and uneducated, the officials ami the cooliesj. The dialect is a language by itself. The various dialect forms, it is true, are related to one another in somewhat the same man- ner as the Arabic to the Hebrew, .Syrian, and other Semitic tongues, or German to Kiiglish, Dutch, I'amsh, .Swedish, Ac. If it is desirable to classify the numerous; dialects they may be divided into the Can- ton, Hakka, Amoy, Swatxxr, Shanghai, Mingho, the Hainanese, and the Mandarin. The youngest of these dialects is the Man- darin. Mandarin, contrary to the general impression, is not the universal language of China. The Canton tongue resembles the ancient Chinese spoken rt.UUO yean ago more closely than the Mandarin. The Hakka strode forward, caught ths friar by Ins lean ! wep held it a'oft, as high trembling arms, and cried, " Have done : whence it fell to the knees of iou art making pretexts ! Too long tins wa in the direct way of ende rect the weakness. But alas . m suffering of the friar was greater than ever so great, indeed, as to be almost unbear- able. The hour, the silence and doom of the deserted street*, with their houses that appeared sealed and lifeless, and other like th wretched woman has lived already :" against her wild entreaties, friar's protests, he dragged the and the minister the street. away, and thrust him forth into The friar, half-stnnned yet half-desper- ate with tbe thoughts awakened by hii forebodings, and the tale heard from the , , woman, called, prayed, and knocked, beat- forces, bad wrought him up to a very panic j '"8 '" tr '' bauds on the heavy bronze-boss- of abject nervous dread a fear of some- j "^ portal in a very frenzy. But the thing, he knew not what. It was not Ion/ masaiv* wood gars back only the sound of since all Mexico had been stirred to horrcr "' " low . and lliat but dully. At last, de- an d dismay by the disappearance of the P'i r ' n ({, he hastened from the spot with so noble priest, Juan .In Nava, whose fate was hurried and uncertain a step that the few he dropped it with a gasping cry of terror : " 'Tis hair ' a woman's hair ! And gracious Uod! See that! the hair of a dead wo- man." For, as he stirred that dense black veil from the coils and crouchings whore it he caught he would receive tive for every shows also traces of great antiquity. It is Hebrew he found. I paid 1,000 rubles to ] mucu older than the Mandarin ; almost the government official* to prolong my time, j (nailing in point of age the Canton tongue but every policeman who saw me considered ' me a good cow to milk, and I hail to pay them anything he asked to avoid being ar- rested and driven out of the city before I iould raise enough money to emigrate. " I will never forget January 14 last. The live thousand families ordered to be out of the city by the evening waited to the , ----- ..... last minute. It was the coldest I ever ex- olner quasi-dialects, spoket had lain for unknown years skull, long kept in position a smallish by its once pern-need. The government had given or- ders to the rabdrivers to koep their horses well blanketed and not to stand them in the street longer than five minutes to pre- vent them from free/jug to detth. Now listen to what was done tor human Ixings. Kor the fifteen thousand exile*, however, who hail been driven to the railroad nUtion there was no shelter, and the one train on which they were to depart was nut to leave until midnight. Members of the nobility, wrapped in their costly furs, were driven past the station, and calmly looked on while women and 1 children by the dozen were I stances by thousands of people. crown of glory, rolled forward and touched | frozen to death. They heard the wailing nd the crying, but did not as much a* give a prying look. " When ihe Irain arrived there were only five cur* am) into them thu fifteen thousand people tried to crowd. That scene beggars description. People were crushed and trampled to death. Ten per cent of the crowd managed to get iulo ihe train. Tbe ^ __ __ F ___ olhers were forced to remain and at least and many grisly rumors 'werestill rife con- tret shrunk aside from him with more of ' we. have a holy man among us ! Father, er j nve hundred froze to death thai night. 14 v cerning this matter. At that period, rob- awe than reverence, and murmured : Oh' el n ombre de Joius, Marie, y Jose,'' lin th* I Pyiag outrageous sums to the policemen the others were allowed to slay uutil next his russet boot. And from the dread cnnnbl ing relics now arose a dire odor of mortali- ty, whose warning of dissolution and decay sent the stout soldiers and their co nm.u,.i.-r rushing with one accord, away from the bones and the diamonds, hustling th-; pevp- ing mob Wore them. "Aye, Padre Knar Lorenzo!" called the not made clear till many long yers after, | "ayfarers who now began to appear in the ' alcalde ; " now, what a blessed thing it is street shrunk aside 'rom him with more of e have a holy man among us ! Father, er r - __- aw* than reverence, and murmured : Oh' el n ombre de Joius, Marie, y Jos*,'' (in th* - bers abounded in Mexico, audacious an. 1 un- the poor padre' his many penances have name of Jesus, Mary and Joseph), "purge the othe punished robbers who would murder ' made him ni.ul.' and purify us of this vile contact !" And ha day, when two train* arrived and took man for tho garment* he wore. Stories, 1 Friar Lorenzo was half distracted, most ! would have knell Iwfore Friar L>renzo. But or Cantonese. Tbe same thing may be said ot the Swatow, Amoy, and Shani(hai dia- lect*. In general we may say that the lan- guage* spoken in southeastern China allow traces of the ancient Chinese tongue, while the Mandarin tongue is modern. " In addition to these main divisions," continues the article. " there are many some in . . But the same word forms, or diilects, are not used by all persons iu a single district, although the diatiicta civic divisions aa a rule are much smaller than thof e in the countries of western Europe. People distant from one another only a few mile* often use totally different dialect forms. In some of the larger cities, sach a* Canton, with more than 1,(NK>,UOU inhabitants, one often finds several dialect forms in use. The variations in the Chinese tongue are so great, indeed, that it is not too much to say that there are too, were related of men who killed for the "'" a " wlth doubts as to his divided duty, ghastly .lulight of killing whose crimes 1> " 1 "'" priestly vows aa to the inviolability were inexplicable and seemingly causeless, like those murders committed in the dreary confession exact silence as to what had happened ' l)id tho duties of humanity street of Don Juan Manuel, the stern motive *"' justice demand lhat he give up to invei of which transpired only lonn thereafter. I l ii<tion and punishment the doer or would- Moreover, tbe ready superstitious credences oe-doerof what, he was convinced, was a foul of the day gave willing heed to the legends j cr ' n> *^ And so seeking to temporize for and traditions of the conquered Mexicans, ! guidance, he would fain tell his beads to and found in these supernatural causes for temporize and calm his giddied senses. But even vulgar crimes. his rosary swung nut at his side ! and ___________ _ Therefore it was no marvel that poor old 'l** n ' thought reminded him that be hail Friar Lorenzo was full of terrors in his night-walk. At the mouth of the Calle de Olmedo he halted ;For its intensity ol' gloom and silence a sturdy artisan, who had just sent bis grout red copper kettle rolling across the dankly mossed (tones of the court, aa he dropped it in the effort to catch the sinking figure this grimy Christian called out: "Stand back! give him the ^o-ul (iod'sair, ye doughty sol- diers. Ah, no, it helps not ! his eye m iixuil, his facets ashen his body grows a dead weight, j\ye, senores, see you not thai this sainted Friar Lorenzo is dying, for never yet lived through the day a priest who con- fessed one already dead and how many away three thousand. I Sth for all to get out of thirteen thousand loft th* sand had died. as many dialect forms in the Flowery King- dom as days in the year. The moat widely spread language ia the Mandarin. It is used m one form or an- other in fourteen or fifteen of the nineteen province* composing China. There are also Northern and Southern Mandarin tongue*. The best Northern Mandarin dialoc t is apoken in Pekin, while tho best .Southern Mandarin is spoken in Nankin. A third market! form of the same tongue is used m weal China, especially iu Tiim Kiung. People who speak the various Mandarian dialects, however, can understand one on- ,. other readily. It we estimate the popu- It took until the I* 1 '"" >' ( ''na at :mo.()00,<JO<) of people, at ' least :K),cXI,(i(NimM, Hie Mandarin tongue. the city. Only city; two thou- " I -oul.I recount many other instances of the inhumanity to the Hebrews, but not now. " it upon tho couch beside the doomed years think ye have lain yonder, whither," y fmm those in this country as one : heard. woman. That decided him. No fragnunt j " 'J u, the mortal parts of tlie poor lady I c imagine,^ <y -1 recent lei ter. More J Kuaugsi j of the divine, thrice-sanctified true cross ' y criad out that ye had found there?" must he left to the unhallowed handaof that were even more terrible then the way b* '8 r ' 8 'y. *comng monster. Tie Rare llrr had just _ traversed. But this rout, meant | -Thus Friar Lorenzo set off with eager In 10 far a* a creature endowed with life tne saving of many block* of circuit, and t i '" >u 8 h trembling speed for the Palace of can ow . ita exigence to human hands, the after, brief hesitation, crossing b,:n,e!t ' tice, that stoo! then, as it stands | now, racehorse may bs said to be man-made, and kissmg hi, crucifix which he firmly fronting on the great souare /ocalo. or | Horses were an important factor in early believed contained a splinter of th, tr:ie ," P'. "J * "g't angles to Hi. I nomadic life and wore cherished by their cross, the old man entered th .^cathedral and sagrario. On the bridge owners, and the P rogre3s of civilization, so thoroughfare murm.inng as he went, his j P*um'iK the canaf before the palacio. he f ar fronl breaking this bond, lisa apparent prayers. He hau scarcely turned the corner, ''' a patrol just setting out on the last |y strengthened ,t. The animal i. not now when he started so violently as to stagger and "' O ' ind ""ore *unrisc. The fnar haltsd , enMntial to human ...If.r .) ,.,- almost lone hi* footing, for his gnwn brusr- [ b*'re them, and, with knotted rxmgue aud ed and caused to rattle slightly the sword P-u^lied stammering lipi, gasped forth his of a man atanding ailent and motionless in , " tor y- The officer of the patrol sped back the embrasure of a doorway. Friar Lorenzo ! * tne K"a"J room to summon the alcalde All persons, from whatever part of i lima, who desire to enter political or official Ufa loam thia tongue. "The other Chines* languages are spoken | by comparatively small numliers of people. About JO.iKJO.UOO. for instance, speak uiese in one form or another. It is used j in the greater part of the province of (Juang- Tong. About one-third of the people of this ' province use the Hakka tongue. In it* northeastern part the Swatow dialect is alto Cantonese is also spoken in the _ _ province. There are not so many outward manifestations of respect are paid dialectic forms of the Hakka tongue as of to the dead in Paris than in any other city tho Cantonese. Passing up th* coast, w* that ha* come under my observation. \Viit-u lind about .'I, (300,000 people speaking a funeral procession passe* through the j Swatow. In all probability streets of Paris every man takes oif his I'l MCH t I.H O* THE <-0>TI>E>T. In r*rl Evrr.v peelalor Tnh.- oir Ills am Ike forlrge Pnr<>. Funerals in Continental Europe differ shuddered ashefelt theeyesof Uie unknown al| d a moment later the aquad was rattling bent piercingly upon him, and he i|un-kjncd '" il * "winging pace, the friar, whose his steps to hurry onward. He had i ravers- exhamtti jn was evident, homo on the clasp- ed half the block and was beginning to ''' ' >nn< ' "' two stout soldiers. Following breathe more freely when he heard heh:nd '" directimia.they paused at laat before the him tho dull fall of footsteps following utter i wille '-aguan of a houso iu the Calle de net in haate, but with the assured delili- i Olmcdo. "It was here," the priest said erate measure that told of tho pursuer's conviction that he could overtake this ob- ject of bis pursuit without undue exertion. And, in truth, it was but a momcii', before the echo of that firm, determined tread shivering. The olticer raised the brazen battle-axe of the knocker and dashed it against its buckler : but no challenging voice nor sound of shuttling, sandled tread came back Hounded close beside the shnfMing, uncer- ' ' * >u * w(r - Again he knocked, more loud- tain feet of the friar, who (!,,, ,);,],,,( ),(,. j ly. anJuo sound arose within but hollow self to the infinite mercy of (..id. ashe felt ; onoci - Then the alcalde rsppod with his the presence of his pursuer. !',! some stepa i w " r< li *"d summoned : "Open in the the two w.ilki-d side by side in unbroken name of the king 'n justi th I nan my eiibr, think no poor, by side in unbroken silence, and the monk was cona^ioui of the a delong, scrutini/ing look of the other. Presently, " Delay thee, holy friar," spoke the object of his terror ; " I have need of thy ministrations." ISuV I'ra Lorenzo answered, trembling: " Spare me, I pry, your worship. I am old and feeble ; since noon- ot yesterday I have kept vigil, and flesh and >pirit alike are fainting. Yottr worship knows that to call it tho wicket of any of the aUunding monasteries will bring you suecor, temporal or spiritual aid far better than m weak service. I pray you, senor. tj. harm, bill I beg to decline the ollicc. The man at his side laughed shortly a nisi), crude laugh, tbiitrma.lu the monk feel an if ho were shrivolingiip us he heard it. " God's de.itli ! these friars arc presump- tuous ! The minister* of Cod the servants of heaven so their creeds profeis, yet they give themselves the airs of statesmen, and " beg to decline' the offices of their profes- sion. Have you forgotten your vows, sirrah ? Have you forgotten to what service you ate consecrated ? Nay , then, I will tell you you and nouc other. See that you move on beforsmo." H made, as if to impel iho monk by grasping bis arm : but the touch of that hard hand so affected Friar Lorenzo that, he reeled and would have fallen had not the man released him. " What what would your worship have ol" m-}?" he stammered faintly. "You to shrive a sinner,'' and, -with that answer his guide halted before a lofty mansion whose overhanging balconies shadowed the street. The aombcr cavalier locr, without knocking, although, as lu-ior { justice '" and still no key rallied in the luck, no clink of bar or chain gave promise of ingr.js. I'.y this time a crowd had gathered about the place -for the most part Indian huck- sters, driving their heavy-laden donkeys into the cilj market, or household servants thus early out of doors for thu daily sweep- ing of thu streets. One of ihese drew near from a house across ihe way a woman of more than middle age, bearing the bundles of long, pointless straws, tied up with a string that make the short h-tudlclesa brooms of Mexico. " Scnors, your worships summon in vain,' she -<-ud with somewhat of wonder break- ing through ihe composure of her bearing ; " this house has long been vacant." Kri.ir Loreiiozo turned in a sort of rage upon her, his meekness overborne, by his distress of body and his soul's solicitude. " W'oiild'st pay 1 lie, impious one? Shall a priest not know where ho has heard con- fession ? Optn ! open! nor tarry for her p-ating, lest the crime be done within our very hearing." The woman's dark face flushed. She seemed a decent body, and her countenance WAS full of intelligence beyond the common, aa she replied with protest aa positive as ren| c.-tfiil : " Nay, his reverence, she were, indeed, a bolii and irreverent woman who would il inputs the word of Friar Lorcn/o aye ! I kuow his fame for holiness, as who does not among the humble onei of Mexico ' But his reverence is less vnng than he was, ,ind t hc.-e daybreak lights are uncertain, so thaK t.> mistake one house for another ia easy. now so essential to human welfare and conven- ience; science has furnished other means of transportation and is in a fair way to take all ihe heavy loads from his back, but in the dcgue that he ceased to be a mere beast of burden he is transformed into a source of hat aud bows his head until the rear of the cor- tege geta past him. Tho women stop and and express their conventional soriow by ouurtesying. In Germany the hearses are peculiar. A .-.minion style, such as 1 liavo ni U ixpital slinsse in Leipmc, is jomlnnalion hearse and hark. A place in the forward part is constructed to contain the casket, while iu the tear are stats for the near relatives. Another style which I have een there cousis'.s of a low, long wagon, with squatty little wheels, and , the body of tint contrivance is like a flat car, entertainment and pleasure. From a rough I wil h covering. There is no rush or hurry l-dy creature, subsisting on such rv i abo tit getting to the cemetery and I have might seen largo procession* blockade all business for hours, so slowly did thev move. "The biggest corteges I iiiwo ever seen were at St. Petersburg. There a funeral ia tions M chance and convenience provide and suffering the hardships and bi'/,arcl of toil and adventure. Me gradually evolved into a combination of dow beci. opened iu the .50 year that I nerves, intelligence and trained muscle that has but a family likeness to his early pro- genitors. It differs from thorn in the suine measure that the Canadian Beauty or the La France rose differs from th little five-petal- ed pink Dower that blooms by the roadside. Like those Moral triumphs lie is a product of scientific culture. It is not chance that has given him that peculiar build, that slender- ness and ligluness that to tho expert means speed. Hi* mailers have wanted these de- velopments, aud they have studied sire and dam and Ihe pedigree of each until they could name in alvance the qualities of the offspring. And having secured a horse that has wilhin him the possibilities of outdoing his ancestor, they treat him as a precious belonging, as, indeed, he is. A groom is always in attendance ; he is brushed and combed until his coat is like satin ; he is fed and housed aud exercised with asmiieh care for his comfoit aa for a child's ; royalty itself i* not looked after with more solici- tude. The attention that ancient < reeks used to give to their own bodily training is given by modern men to the racehorse, and, as a result, he is a marvel of physical perfection. And after all thia ? Why, i when he has been tested and his paces tried I , "lightc. hear thnt the Grand Old Man baa declared 'J.OOO.OOO ( 'hi- ness use the Amoy dialect, which resembles Swatow about a* closely as Portuguese re- sembles Spanish. .Still further up the coast we find the I'utira dialect. It is used in a district about l.V) miles long and 3INJ miles broad, containing a population of .~>,OOO,000. This -011111 ry is for the most part mountain- ous. The dialects of Ninghoand Shanghai, although only afew miles apart differ great- ly. The Ilainsneac is spoken by the people of Hainan. It ia related to the Amoy and Swatow dialects slightly rcseirbling the Japanese and is spoken by about. :|,000,OUO people. The inhabitants of about Lutsha, between Japan and Formosa, alto speak HaJBMMM " The introduction of a uniform language in China is only a dream. Two hundred years ago :he Kmperor K. ing In founded schools in various parts ol the empire in tho quite a jolly affair, and the city ia full of i hope of accomplishing that ond, but th* professional mourners The richer the I result was disappointing. It may be ac- mantlie bigger the funeral, because the more ' coiiiplili-il in the future when railroads ia mourner* bin tMmly can hire. The employ- various parts of ths country bring the ment of these professionals is a rrcognued people closer together. Centuries will pass custom, and many men and women at the y before that time, however The Czar's gay capital niakii a good living out ol their curious tusiness. The stipend of a St. Petersburg mourner varies according to the length of time their services are re- quired and tho character of costumes they are required to wear. They are also expected toiuake tbe church hideous wit'ii their moans and wails and at the grave they engage to scream and yell as if in wild paroxyoms of grief. If they discharge their duties with proper unction they are treated to a ban- quet after the funeral." A dandy is a clothes- wearing man a man whose trade, otticc, and existence con- sist in the wearing of clothes. Kvory faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroic- ally consecrated to thia one object the wearing of clothes wisely and well ; so that at others dress to live, lie lives to dress [Carlyle. be is put upon tho racetrack, where his Iwauly and grace and swiftness please the sight and thrill the pulses of tho watching thousands a* no other spectacle devised for public pleasure could over do. The perspiring condition of the country may Iw due to the large increase in the cir- culation of silver dollars. Professor Houston, in his recent Brooklyn addrc&s, made five Interesting prophecies on the future of electricity, namely. That electricity would be produced direct- ly from coal ; that the steam engine wotild be entirely replaced by the electric motor ; that aerial navigation would be effected by electricity ; that electric light would be produced without heat, and that electricity would be applied to the curing of disease* and tho prolongation of life. himself unreservedly in favor of bicycling. He is credited wilh these sentiments : " I have noticed with real and unfeigned pleas- ure the rapid growth of cycling in thia country, for not only does it afford to many to whom it would otherwise be unobtainable a healthy and pleasurable form of exercise, but it also enables them to derive all those advantages of travel which, previous to the advent of cycling, were out of their reach. It-is far more profitable than the luxurious railway journey from the city to some de- tinue point along an unalterable route, over which the traveller i* whirled with uo time for observation and no opportunity of , amining the district through which he carried. I can only emphasize the fact that I consider that physically, morally, and sociably the bonclit that cycling confer* on the mon of the present day are almost unbounded." Mandarin tongue, if any, will become the universal one in China. IKIKUIIII K t ll>t:>l. A Nan'* Let i in uu >< .1 nnwlac Wnrlilnn .iii.l II. Will III, A Had Axe, Mich., despatch lays : An accident which will probably result in the death of Isaac Woolnor occurred yesterday on his farm in ^heridan township, nine miles from this place. Mr. Woollier was engaged in cutting hay, when hi* horses look ti i K ht at a man passing and ran away, tearing through a fence and throwing the unfor- tunate man upon the machine. Before tho horses could be stopped Mr. \\ .miner's right leg was torn off at the knee and he was otherwise seriously injured. Drs. Deady. Corcoran ami McDonnell were sent for and amputated tho leg near the hip. Little hope is expree. t for his recovery. He is 40 years old and a widower. Far from showing any signs of diminution chnloru appears, from th* latost St. Peters- burg dispatches, to be on the increase in Russia, and to be extending tbe sphere of its terrible activity throughout the length and breadth of the European portion of the Kinpiro. The dread disease i* but the natural and inevitable result of the great famine, which devastated so many of the Czar's fairest provinces last year. Experience in India, Egypt and other Oriental oountrie* has shown that great famine* are always followed, first, by typhus, Ixith among th* IB people and the cattle, and thereupon by ct.olera. U,:ia is no except ion to t he rule 1 . Tho danger of pestilence spreading beyond the western borders of the Empire to th* neighboring countries ia enormously in- creased by tho travel on tho numerous line* of railroad which connect the Czar 'a domin- ion* with the -einaiudsr of Bursp*.