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â- msmmr- TORTURE m mmm, PREPARATION OF PATE DE GRAS AND PEPSIN. FOIS !i\ong the isles bftween the rows of pens you are much edified by lookioK at the eiprejisiona in the eyes and mouths of the rows of pigs. Every pig is squeal- ing with agony. The din is frightful, and, unle.s3 your nervea are well train- ed you have the same sensations you »oul<l havp it seeing a man amuse him- self hy jabbing pins into a child. But the last scene is the most delight- ful and artistic. Whi^n the pigs have suffered all they possibly can and their torturers see that they are about to sink into a numb state, then art supple- ments nature. In troughs arranged so that e.aoh pig can get his nose just over the edge of the trough, l>ut no further, they put steaming hot potatoes, heated exactly to the point where they will give off the most powerful odor. which not even .Straslourg can equ.al The wretche<l animals, dying of hunger and thirst, strain at the bars, yell and srreech in agony, drawing in the while the maddening odor of the food which they cannot reach. It is to be regret- ted that this cunnot last longer. They can get only a few hours of this exquis- ite suffering out of the animals at most. When the tantalization liepns the gastric juice begins to flow into the stomach. It flows almost in a stream so terrible is the excitement of appetit«. \yhen the flow is at its greatest the pig is killed and ripped open and the gastric juice is taken away to he pre- pared as pepsin for the market. The carcass of the pig is al-so sold. So there are two profits besides the torture TWr An !'rMi'>.4a of E.\4al»ile rraeHjr- 4ir«>e Have Tkrlr S.yTr. :*nt Ant aail Their teet bailed tu Ibr Floorâ€" .stnffrd Wftli Coramenl i'p lo Ihr Bill-Te Ok- tuiu Prpkln rizM .4rr Fed Ureal QaaaUlleo of OaUnral Tbra Alluwed to Starve. It is doubtful if in any other two instances the true glories and humani- ties of our modern civilization show to such advantage as in the preparation of pate de fois gras and pepsin. One of the radiant triumphs of modern times is vivisection. But the teautifui exper- iments, such as sticking red-hot needles into the liared nerves of living animals, are tame and liarbarous as compared with the making of pate and pepsin. The pates for the most part come to OS from Straslourg. The pepsin for the most part is made in Chicago. And in l)Oth places at this very moment, as you are reading this story, the things about to be described are going on. A pate de fois gras lieing as the name says, a compound of fat livers, is a product obtained from geese. The genuine pate is always made from goose livers, and the finest pates are made from the livers of geese that have never laid an egg. So in all the country round alxiut Strasljourg geese are raised by the tens of thousands. Every farmer has many geese.and some have many hundreds. To make a good pate you must have a diseased goose liv- er. The normal liver contains a Utile less than 4 per cent, of fat. The liver artificially prepared by steadily diseas- ing it conuina over SO per cent, of fat. Late in the fall of every year a pe*- ant gets toiretber all his geese that he can spare for the liver market. If he has plenty of room and a dark cellar he puts these geese In little cajes in the cellar. If not. he puts out their eyes and nails their feet to the floor of the living room of his cottage. The peese are usually nailed in a long row in front of the open fire, so near that TIIEY SUFFER INTENSELY from the heat. For six lung months these geese stand or squat in the same place lie- fore this fire. They are blind. They cannot move al«ut. But this is noth- ing compared to what fellows. Three times a day their mouths are forced open and large lialls of cornmeal are , , . . , stuffed and rammed down their throats '"'^ work imposed by their sui>eriors. I until each goose ia full clear up to the lielieve they were begging, or at least '"''• ,, , , , . one was. That is, as i understood it, thf .iftle" «";\\'?r;\^S.s''d'urrnrtSe^i -â- â€¢â€¢ "'" ''""'^'''^<* "'^'^ ' "^^ °' '"'""' six mouths your ears are as.sailed liy and addresses of people from whom »ul>- an incessant clamor of suffering. The wretched geese. uaile<l and idind and sick and burning with thirst, vent cries of anguish until their strength is ex- hausted, and they It-giu again as s(x>n as they ret-over voice. As every house in every village has a numlier of geese enduring these agonies the noise never ceases. The peas:ints do not mind it in the least. They have heard these sounds all their lives and have become thor- oughly hardened. If you go into one HOUSEHOLD. HOW TO USE EGGS. Eggs are invaluable food ; they fam- ish the basis for many a good meal. In thLs coltl climate eggs are scarce and expensive in cold weather, and it is wise to pack plenty of fresh sggs for winter's use. They should always be kept in a cool, dry place, where it ".il| not freeze. From time immemorial housewives have packed eggs in .salt. Put a layer of salt in a larga stone jar or firkin, then a layer of eggs. Some pack with the small end down; we prefer the small en<l. Do not let the When this is done there is a scene eggs touch each other, but put salt lie- tween them. Bran and oats are Ixjth good for packing eggs. A farmer's wife says she prefers oata to salt and has used them for years. Poached Eggs.â€" Fill a spider over half full of hot water", add a tablespoon- ful off salt, oreak some fresh eggs in a aaui er, keeping the yolks whole ; when ihe water liegins to bubble, slide the eggs into the sjjiiler, and let cook slowly, until the white is done, remove with a skimmer U> a hot platter, Ijeing careful to have no water, put a piece of butler on each egg and serve. Baked Eggs.â€" Buttir a soup plate, break carefully so as to keep the yolks whole, as many eggs as you wij^h, sprinkle a dust of sail over them and put a small piece of butter on top of each egg. then pour over them .sweet cream, allowing one tablespooiiful for each egg. set in a mtxlerate oven about five minutes, or until the whites are set ; serve from the same dish they are baked in. Eggs Served with Hash.â€" Prepare your hash for the table, put it on a plat- ter and sQiooth nicely, then with the bowl of a spoon make indentations in the top, have some eggs either fried or poached, and place one in each cav- ity. In serving, help oiu:b one to some ha.sh and one egg. Kgg Salad.â€" Boil six eggs ten minutes, then put them in culd water until thor- oughly cold, peel and slice. Have ready a cream dressing, two eggs beat- en well, a tablespoonful of sugar, one- fourth teaspoonful of salt, twu table- spoonfuls sweet cream, a pinch of mustaril. two spoonfuls of vinegar ; put in a double boiler, and stir until it thickens, set away until cold, then pour over the eggs. It is best to nl.^ke t he dressing first, so it will be cooling Scrambled Eggs.â€" Put two tablesptou- fuls of butter in a .spider, beat six eggs. scriptions were to lie solicited, each list representing a day's work of the VERY HARDEST SOHT. It was said that if they did not do a satisafctory day's work they got only bread and water for supper. â- "rhe man was found to Iw dangerous- ill of pneumonia. The house doctor said that one of the chief causes of his ill- ness was insufficient clothiug. The man had on only a thin cotton sliirt of the - - . flimsiest material underneath his Sal- of the hous.'3 you will in all proliability vation Ariuv jersey. The doctor said find the children tormenting the geese, that to go out with such c! .thing in The children are taught to stuff the such weather was siinplv sui. idal, and geese. They think it great fun and | that the pi-ople who imposed such tasks enjoy from the geese by torture. No educa- tional process was ever devised for the susi-eptible mind of youth that com- pares with this torturing of geese. To learn how to torture a goose for six months so as to keep it constantly in agony and yet never quite kill it is a rare anddiffi-ult accoiupllshiuent. The children who are learning this art are allowed every latitude, provided only that they do not strangle the geese to death. So they make a study of tor- ture and elevate it from mere vulgar infliction of pain without guiding intel- ligence to the lofty art of getting the most |)Ossible suffering, the most (xis- sible expression of suffering without quite taking the life of the victim. SALVATION ARMY DISCIPLINE. .4 Siory tlmal lira. Butilh IVoiu a Fornirr Krsldrnt of l^aj'i. Hoitpllal, Laadun. The present trouble in the Salvation Army in the United States has recall- ed some incidents showing the inflex- ible, not to say cruel, discipline in the rank and file of the Army, and the ex- treme hardships undergone es[Jecially by the newer meml)ers. Not many of these stories get into print, for the new con- verts are silent. A bright woman who has lived several years in New York, but ia of English birth and training, told the other day of an incident of twelve or thirteen years ago, which oc- curred while she was a resident of Guy's Hospital of London. She was there as an indoor medical student attending clinics, and also for treatment for spin- al trouble, her brother being one of ihe resident doctors of the hospital. "During a severe siiell of cold weath- er," she said, "three of the patients brought to the hospital were members • ""Id three spoonfuls of sweet milk, half of the Salvation Army in uniformâ€" two ! » teaspoonful of salt, pour In when but- women and a man. All three had col- 'fT " ""^ ^JUll ,T t"Z"\^'''l ^'^^.'"AiYJt" , J side to the middle, from one to two mm- lapsed from weakness and exposure , utes. pour out in a warm dish ajid while out in the bitter cold performing â-  serve. Plain Omelet. â€" Allow four eggs, one tablespconful of flour, two tablespoon- fuls of milk, a little salt, beat all the yolks and t>vo whites together, add the flour and milk, beat U'ltil smooth, then beat the other whites with egg Ijeater. and add. Put two spoonfuls of butler in a spider, when hot pour in the mix- ture, set over the fire and brown on the U>tiom, remove, loosen and set in the oven to cook the top, watch care- fully, remove to a hot platter and serve. Steame«l Eggs.â€" Butter a pie plate, break carefully six or eight eggs on the plate, if the yolk of one breaks re- move it. set the plate in a steamer over a ketlle of U'iliqg water and cover, co.'k until the whites are well done, wipe the plate and remove to the table. Ham an<l Eggs.â€" After the ham ia fried, cut it intu pieces ready fur serv- ing, put it on a large platter, have a our conversation at meals. "fhe man. good supply of fat hot, break three or sjiid that these were all the clolhee he i four eggs into a dish, slip carefully into the tai. then do not leave them to fry themselves, but con.staiitlv throw hot fat over them until the while is done, have the plailer near, put one egg on each piece of ham, and lor some of the largi-r slices allow two eggs, serve im- mediately. teiidants in the ward were indignant, and it was almost the sole subject of had, and he had no means of getting more. They had a trifling allowance. 1 lielieve he said, of three or four shill- ings a week, and they had to account literally for every halfpt-nny of it. If they spent what was considered an un- necessary |)eniiy. it was deducted from the next week's allowance. "I don't know so much alwut the wo- men [latients, but we understood they were also very low. They, too, had the scantiest clothing. It is a rule in Guy's as in i>i h.>r hospitals, that patients who can afford to |>ay for treatment ought All who have visited the liver manu- : to do so. After a while in this case the factories of Str.-usliourg agree that the | hospital authorities sent a bill to Gen. children w^ho feed and play with the! Booth for the treatment of these three geese are far superior in skill to any of (latients. The General answered, de- the A SPONGE HOTRED. The other day when 1 dropjied into a neighlior's kitchen, and what a cheery kitcbeu it was, I noticed a row of bright cake tins in the sunny winilow. but insieiul of a batcii of gingerbread cooling off. they held what .seemed to FAMOUS TORTURERS dining to pay; he s;iid neilber he nor ' me to lie green tUftigs growing, writes th» '^""T 'i^l'-M ^^f^f '^ â- â€¢'â- '<I'V"«'^''« (7 : Kate Kramer. Tliey weren't in earth «» .k „' 1 11 » J .1. ,. .• I the medical bills of its iiiemtiers. lie . . , , ,â- ..,, of the middle ages. And the next time ai^o s„i,< ^nj t^is wa.s the oulrag.-ous I 'â- 'I'xr. f"r wli«'n ' >""ked cli«er the you eat pate de fois gras you must not fail to think of these blind and tortur- ed geese and these playful, artistic iieas- part of it, that when a soldier CE.VSEO TO WOHK c»nt children. .\si<le from the pleasure!. of six months of torturing the peasants ' j*'' get a substantial money return. The!'"' livers, swollen with disease, sell for six p'" , - - , or eight francs each, and the carcass.>8 1^"^ ''"""." 8 unreasonable duties imixis- for five or six francs more. It is not '''' ^ '^^.^,â- ^â- â- ">y• "*« •^''"'V °"Klit tt tender little sprouts htid their feet fast in a bed of moist s|M>nge. "What are theyC I a;.keil curiously. "Paiisies," said Eiueliiie. as slie rol- inir the i>Hi«ints ' "'â-  ceased to lielong to the Army. The , , , ^ . • . i i I . .1 ^ '^ I.'L ihnstiil). 1 liunlilo u'rr>>.> ii,r.>in nn.t i..«i.il I*''' OUl a great pleCC of blsCUlt (lOUgU. get a subs ant. al money return. > ho M',V as Xse i^oVb^ cL^^^^^ "«"« »f "'-V "«" Id seen livers, swollen with disease, sell for six l^o^SD^t »» 'nese people in-iame HI while | ^^^^^^^ ^j^^.,, yj,^^,; ^ ,^,, ^,f ^yimer gr:iss by filling lliem with canary seed, .so 1 thought 1 .1 try it tor my luinsios. You remember what a lovely paii.sy lied 1 h.id last year and hnw early they btooiiieil .' \Vell, they were :il raisetl to often that a family can sell the chil- ! I^J' "'^' '''""• v.i-en's plavlhings at such a gix);l price I "' """'• rememlier how tbai comro- after the children have used them tor ! y*'"*^ ende i-prol«bly I never heard- six months. but i know the hospital mfici.il.s were Out in Chicago they get the pepsin ""tfy enough to make trouble for the in an equally interesiing and agreeable rT""""" """ ''"' "*"' '"'*': ^""' '"""• way. Thev want pure pepsin in large "^f '"•" ^'^^y eventually got in the {.apers quantities.' Thev have found iiy ex- »"'' " Hadical Ueekly-l think it was in s(miiges. 1 got a lol of cheat) sjit'iiges as long and plump as I c<iuld titid. and I iwcked a deep cake tin full of them Then I soaked i hem well and sowed t he i;;Hmentlhat-WanimarnmgiVe ,ucl, | K;;^ "old's Sunday Xews-took it u^k , f jj^,^^ - ^;;|^;;^<;^^»» {^^ l^:^.,^^^ a flow of iK'psin as a young pig. So| 'h's W'^Z hunted up the vjeople th.it imiiwirebv itself I sot! iheiii in a >ou will find in the ,K.psitT m.nnufu- G'-n. Bfx.lh dealt with or h'M'n>Plies. ! ^^;,', . ^^Jf^j^;^. "n.i,, a week or two tories long rows of pip stalls, each «tall •;•">) Pu'';-h-f '-•>>« arlicles sho^^ ing that to '?ou Mse; il.ese leuerlkUe shoots with a single young pig in it. All these h«' r<"VelM in the choicest luxuries in i„ki„gu„ ^teir heads. The sponges pigs must iH- perfectly sound when they '»<; ""arket and lived like a regular ^^.^ », ^l ^ -^^ ,„„i.,, o.ilv v..., are put into the stalls. So they .select nabob. Ihey said he bought, strawber- „,^^f j^, careful to i-.ur the water in only the liest pigs, thtwe with enormous 1 7^» '" "'"•". the l*sl in Covent Cy- ^ ^ ; ,^ , , \^ ^^ ^ aptH-tites that would lead them to eat .'<<""• "» h'>;lf » guinea a Nix, and that he [„ ^^.^^^ j,^ ii„vsi-ed out of iLir l«>d9. great quantities of food. ; l'"",^''* *'!'' uif'?i'-''P«""-"vc wines, and j ^ ^ ,^,.,„ „„. -^.^i ^.tr^ngand he.ilthy The iiigs have the desire to eat, and ' had a cixik at i'4.'i a .vear. which is very for a lime the desire is gratified. For l«it •^lary over there for a cook. Sev- j^,,^^,. ,,^ „„ ,^ ,^ u^wigei oi »p., several weeks each pig is ted great T" "f r" ,f'T7^ criticised the Gen- , ,, ,„,^i ,,j,. ^tealher i.s fairly wai Kit meal and is allowed eral and ra led for some accounting of J,,^,, , ^, ^^^.j^ ;„ ,, ,^j ,^,|jip|, quantities of reil to drink great quantities ot water. Thus each pig is presently perfectly clean and has a stomach that is in per- fect working order. Its a^ipetite.grow- ing with niiicli feeding, is enormous and the gl.inds which contain the gas- tric juice a'e large an<l secrete gastric juice to their utmost caviacity. AVhen this condition is reached Ihe I grow real strong and he.ilthy iH'fore planting them out. 1 wail till there is no longer a danger of spring rin, is finally spaded and mixed with some the tluuisands and tens of thoiisantls of pounds that h.ad Iven raised ft.r the [^^ ; p„-„sies will more than reward Army, and which the General had put v„u f„r ..verv bit of lender care you give in his own private iiocket for all the t|jp,,j •• " .- n public knew to the contrary. ItuI the General never noticed tlie«< attacks." It has already been noted that the General has alwavs kept the control of the .\rniy, which included the sole pig is starved. They give it nothing to I jw'"l''pK .of the funds, among the raeiu- eat. nothing to drink. II stands squral- | wrs of his own family, ing wilh agony and straining its nose i through the spaces t>et»een the Uirs • that make the front of its (len. II almost MAD WITH THE PAIN )f hunger and thirst. This is very in- '(treat Scott, woman!" exclaimed Mr. SOME HINTS. .\ clothespin l>ag tor the laundry is a most nece8.sary article not always found there. A thin coaling ot three parts lard melted with one pitrt rosin applied to •resting and refined. As you "walk I»'!iil pencill" Wickwiiv, to whom his wife was trying stoves and grates will prevent their to explain something. "You couldn't rusting in the suiuiiier. do worse at trying to make your point Q^^^^.^ ,,^4^^ yu^r ^j.^, ^,, i^jg ^wav if ymi were attemptmg to sharpen a .> ,> o , from borne to have a ahut-up parlor Carpets and furniture are of small ac- count Ije.siie their future. An ingenious woman has taken a rolling pin and split in half, covering it as one would an ironing l)oard. It presses tile se.iuis to perfection, as it supplies a curving, shouth surface, am! yei one which r-mains firm beneath the weiglit of Ihe iron. Don't throw away large feathers of ducks, chickens and turkeys, but trim the plumes from the stalks, inclose them in a bright )mg. ruii or knead the maaa as if washing it, and you will get a perfectly uniform and light down, nice for quilting coverlets and for other purposes. MERRY MOi£ENTS. Agent W"Sir, do you need any type- writer supplies?" Merchantâ€" "Yes; send me about four pounds of candy." The Masterâ€" "Is it raining very hard, Thomas?" The Servant â€" "No, sir; only hailstones, sir." "How married life does change one." "From what I have ol»erved I should say it changes two." Teacher â€" "Suppose you were a king. Tommy, what would you dol" rommy ASmil&EJPSOULIAEITY. A MAN BORN WITH WONDZaFULLT MARKED EYES. Alpkabrtlr iljn. KaMiItliia Iraai .%a(e* .^atal â- â- darurn.-Wkra a i-kUd Me Wa» Brtirted i« Br a rrodlay. A man with the alphabet in his eyes â€"that ia the rare human phenomenon to be seen in Atlanta, Ga., at the pres- ent time. Every letter of the twenty-«ix ia dis- tinctly marked in his two great blue organs of vision. They are as plain aa print and lis around the edge of tha iris like the figures on the face of » watch, lieing slightly in relief and ap- pearing aa if enamelled on a blue back- ground. How accourt for bia almost m'vrvcl- lous peculiarity f It ia beyond doaht the result of th« well-known law of birthmark. Bat ocQ- nected with this extraordinary and un- precedented case there ia an abaortains â€" "I'd never wash my face any more." [ tale of a motlier s devotion to her chil- The burglar climbed over tie' office dren. of her resolute determinatUNi to instruct them properly and to learn for herself the great truths of the Bit>le. About 1855 there lived in a rural dia- trict of Northeastern Georgia a bum- he stands it all right, but it's pretty [ ble family of very meagre means. The partition. "It is w.-ii to ba on ..ha safe sidt>, " he said. Then he began work on "he vault. How does Jilisun stand prosi>erity since he came into hia fortonef" "Oh. rougii on his friends." "Which would you rather do, Jarley, kiss a girl on her lips or on her eyevf" "Her eyes, of course. You have to do it twice to cover the ground." jiamuia â€" "Willie, where are those ap- ples gone that were in the sioreroonir" Willieâ€" "rhey ore with the ginger- bread that was in the cuplxjord." Enfant terribleâ€" "And did they go in- to the ark two by two?" Maminn â€" "Yes, dearest." Enfant terrible â€" "Well, who went with' auntie?" "Popper," the little boy asked, "what kind oi a hors<- is it tliat ihey call a plugf' "A lialky one, my son. They call him that because he is a stopper." father, an illiterate man, tilled the soil for a living. The mother, also illiterate, attended to the household duties. In spite, however, of her poverty and ig- norance of the worhl, she was filled wilh ambition and iiad an incense deaira for an education. She could not at th« time dLstinguish one letter of the alpha- bet from another, but she continued to cherish the idea of being ABLE TO RE.VD. and at last one day the first step towards the realization of her life idea was taken at a camp-meeting ihat ah* had attended. Ihe eloquent words ot Heâ€" "So they were tiiarried at borne eh/ What did you think of the ser- j the preacher ma4le her a convert, and vice?" .She â€" "Not much, it was mark- ed 'sterling.' but I'm sure it was plate." â- fom â€" "That man over there has been quite successful, 1 believe." Bol) â€" Iirbaps he takes a great deal of in- terest lu his Busiuesd. i'omâ€" "Yes, he IS a pawhoroker." "What's that long piece of writing, pap.if Is that poeiryf" (Hasiily re- she resolved to learn lo read the Bible. Sei'uring a l.'ltle spelling-liook. she s<jlved. after the most intense applica- tion, the mysteries of the .ilphabet. At this period she was in that deU- i-ate condition foreshadowing materar ity. A few days after a son bad been born to iier the eyes of the infant l>eg:a» to attract ait>-niiun. and b«"fore many placing it in bia empty pockellxxiki â€" weeks bad passed the letters could be "Y-yes, <lear; it is an owed to your moth- •'••â- -•*'-- •- ' ' •'•- â- -'â- â- â-  -' er'b milliner." dustinctly traced around the iris ot eiu-h eye. The intense mental strain of ilie mother, who had lo' ked at tb* book until the letters ui^ule ber eyea ache, bad left its intpress on the eyes of toe child. What a sensation the iliscovery made , , . .,,, in that remote Georgia region! Men Aa-hitecl-- Have you any suggestions and women flocked to see the little one "Her ii.ince is a pronounced l^runette. is he not/" said one young woman. "No," replied the olher; "he is a Rus- sian. Ue can be spelled, but nut pro- nounced."* for the study. Mr. Veryrichf" Very richâ€" "Uuly that it must lie brown. Grv-ai thinkers, I understand, are gvn- erally found in a brown study." Uiiruld was told to M'rite a sentence comimiug the word "copse." Ue caiue from tile city, and the word bad a fa- that bail been burn among them. High destiny was predicted for him. "Why." remarke<l the sagi- of the set- tlement, ""he jisl iMoks the letters out of his eyes." In the minds of nuinv divine origin was ;u«-ritje<i to the proligv, and the miliar sound. His sentence read: "The simple cinuitry men and woiuen speca boy dodged the copse."' 1 gave my love a little dog. My hourly passion to recall; Aloii! wbuLever love she hod. The dog has won it all! "Clarence." she sighed romanticatly, "do something true, someihing bra.e, something heroic to prove your love for me." "Well." ho faltered, but calmly, ""l have offered to marry you."' Alweut-miiided party â€" ""Why, how do you do, Itarkei'l llow"8 your wife/'" liirkerâ€" "My wife* Why, my - dear doctor, 1 never married." Alwent- lulnded parlyâ€" "Keally! Congratulate ber for me." Aunt Mariaâ€" "Did he ever say any- thing which would lead one lo think that he wished lo make you his wile*' late<l in their homely way as to bow it come :Ux>ut. "Yes," they s;iiil, "his mother had got religion, and the Iwy was a goilsend to ber from heaven." Conversions were numerous thereaf- ter, and the local circuit preacher con- gratulated hiuisi-if in bringing tb« Weary wauilerers back into the fold. Al'PE.VKANCE OF lUE LETTERS. In each eye the entire alphabet ia phuuly marked in capital letters, but not, however, in regular order. Tha "W" ia at the lower part of the iris and "X" at the lop. Ihey appear to be made of white fibre or nerve cord, being connected at the top by a white eord seemingly linke<i to ilw "upinr ex- tremity of eai'h letter. The eye itself I fc.^Uâ€" ""Yes, indeed. Why oniy 10- is very blue, with white lines radiating du.\ be said thai nolhing was su be- coming to me as calico." Mrs. Money liagsâ€" "Your son's extra- vagance is increasing. Ue wants a new plaything, ihis time it is a stable ol race horse.s." Mr. Mone,\ . .tgs â€" "Tbat's all right. I was afraid be wanted to Stan a newspaper." "I've lieen told Rivers' name is in old Kocksworihj's will." ""Yes, his name is in it; be signed it as a witness. 'l'hai"sall. andâ€" giioil gracious! What's the ui:uierf " ".Nothui^. only I've lent him 36UU on the sti-engih of it." < ""Tbis is leap-year,'" remarke^l the ' maiden, timidly-, "and 1 am disjio.sed to ' avail m\sM-lf ul my se.x's privilege. >Ir. , Tilliughast, 1 love vou. Will you 1* i from the centre almo.st U\ the leltera tneinseives, but these letters do not slojie exactly in the directiou that the riulials exteml (mm the pupil. Begin- ning M. the bottom with "\v " and fol- lowing the letters like the h.aiids of a clix'k. they can be more re<iiiily dis- liuguLshed. rhen. too, the irregularity ut a striking feature, showing liow the mother learned her letters in tiroken patches, as a child le.irns when begin- ning to read. "A" and "B"" are in a group together, they being the easiest letters ou ac- ojuni of e.ise of pronunciation. The letters were photographed in the â- .»ye of the child in the order in which "they hiul lieeii learned by the mmher. .\fter leaving A U she s»'ems to have mine/" "But can you support a bus- skipped to li. then tiack lo J, over liuml." asked Mr. Tilliughast, anxious- I »«'"" to S and buck to M. She prob- ably on another o*-casion Ijegiui at W, then went luick lo the more simple letters, such :is N O and V. thence skipping over to R, receding to L, then 1, aad fiiully U. thereby master- ing all but itie difficult letters and inipre^ng them upon ; he mind. It ia strikingly notireal>le : iiii ihe difficult letters follow in a groupâ€" li. F, ti, H, C, Y. X. 'L, U, Ij, "r â€" which complete the series. l.ce"s o.irty life was spent in the ly. "This is leap year. I know, said the maid; ""but 1 do not think t could so far forget uiy maidenly moilesty as to propose to a man. Yet- " '"Yet what/"' asked ihe youth, .seeing she hesitaled. '"1 might jump at on offer if it were made to me."' Exploding an Old Myth â€" "'Are you su- pi'rstiiiou.si "No; I 'got out of th.at at a very early age." "How did ii hap- pen/" '1 was Wun on f riday. April 13. lat I â-  lied. old a rich uucl< 000 by will and the Friday that .1 l^ame ^^.^s tt^^^ '^^ '^^^^^^^. leaving me »o,- j ^, f^^.^^^ i.Ui,,uenco like babblinif waUrs I from the hillside, and he was iiiii>elled lUrmioneâ€" "Isn't Jack good* He n, do likewise. H- soon Iwcame weary has engaged himself to me, you know; of liis trade as a carpenter ami entered but he says he will not bind tue to him. the ministrv. where, in his own uonls. If lean get soiueliotly else, he says ' tu' "was a "power unto Ihe converted he shan't interfere." Blanch tsweot- niid a thorn in the flesh of the sinner." ly)â€" ""Mt is evident that he feels (lerfect- ly sure of you." AN ANCIENT FAMILY. The Mikado is the religious head of the J.ipanise as well as their ruler. His place is hereditary, and it has l*en fill- ed by meiut>ers ot his family for more than 2,5(ll» years. Uis is incotnpara'.dy the most ami.nl Une<ige known. "I'he Mikado is the l;!'jd of the line. "I'he founder of it, who,se hope of posterity in his wildeiet dreiuiis could not hare equaled the result, was conli'm|iorary wilh Nebuchadnezzar. tJ»)0 U.C, TUISY ALL DO IT. lliiigo (.•inxiously)â€" You haven't got, an opening in your busim^.-ss for my Iwy. have you .' Kiiiglev â€" Why I thought he wius in voiir office. Hitigo â€" He was, but I had to discharge him. A LARGE TUNNEL. The largest tunnel ever builtâ€" the underwater section of tbe Ulackwall tunnel, under tbe Thames, at London â€" has just been finished, tt is twenty- seven feet in diameter and one mile ill length, and i-ounects Poplar on the ijortli side of the river with Greenwich on the south. Nearly -I.OUd feet of ibis tunnel bad <o K- liriveu by i-ompres-sed air I'he ncctirai'y of the curvey ;ii>d the danger of the wcrk m.iy Iw iii>.igi!!- ed from the siateiueut of the oiigui- I eers that while driving u-vier the river l>eii, there were, at on>> iimo, Imt five feel two incl'.es of earth U'tweeii the top of the tuiinid aiil thi> water. So (treat was t h" i!ang<T of Mie witor bursting thiougb that large qunnii- ties of clav wei- duiiipod into the r.vor over the thinnest s(»ts.