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' 10 . > •* - f-r' t __ .. i > Sse " Wnr .w; RKttt. HMN#Y THAN once «W«|IM4 • MMMM mind sod will, _ I tfcroogh Itfe TTW SENSE* reigned, I nfrwdiarartttleri, cold, ud *em. ' MM.UM ovttKMta ear MID ove "C^F ipuudlanfor it night wid'dajS I AOHM (WW «re none to do or die, r i ^-**A May the ton that on it prey," l$j Where once were laughter, joy, and mirth. And princely guests in bright array ; s ." Abandoned now, fall* to the earth. w?,e • ' The structure that by age was gray,. sit .. noagb years were needed to complete iC>;- " ,<• hook too grand for words to tell; k - Jfcjput* moment »Wfft and fleet r"Sf, '"^Tra® labor of a lifetime fell. i J - W - , Where daring schemes and plans were bym. To make the world submissive bo#, How all is ruined And forlorn, HftV With none to do its bidding now. *i$\- Its watchmen gone, the door stands i", ; , And unopposed ttie foe walks in ; * And through it goee with rapid stride, ijfejft"' His work of ruin to begin. v : Thin citadel that none could shake, ' 'j- - ,% With battlements and towers atom**; >*• '>> yt Now when its sentinels forsake, *;>. Grows weak and totters to the growl. Its walls are crumbling hack to dust, j •4 ^ And even its foundations razed ; TOll in its strength not one will 1 % - •1 * That once in admiration gazed, i'\ - ' HysteriouB cell, that held a soul I . - Ibat none could see, yet all could (ad;, j? »' *>s What is thy guest, none can control, , Nor bind in webs of hardest steel?- 5 O soul immortal! Where wilt roamf ...j. 5 #Or where thv habitation bo? ; " i"t In what far sphere will be thy home^ i ^- When from thy earthly mansion fife? - W. M. Gray. fiEUBEN, THE JEWELER AB¥ 1URTHA DALUIJi, • T' *1 tra a Jew of the Jews who reside in tht city of Algiers; my nniue is Reuben, «ad I am rich. We Jews of Algiers are. fimy of us, very wealthy. We deal in leather, in silk staffs, in tire-arms, nnd in We are respected and well-liked. Then are at least six thousand of us in tfcft city, and we ewn much of the land "I dealt in jewels. From my shop in tfeft ' Old, narrow street I could see the tar- woes of white honses npon the hill. For that reason I preferred it to the larger, Stater streets with nrcades, which the iSrenehh are built, and which remind one of faria. "My customers knew where to find me as veil in the dark, old street, and when I had an idle moment I could look np at the window where I knew that Miriam sat at work, setting tiny, silken stitches side by •ide, -or perhaps playing on her guitar, be­ hind her shadowing blinds. "Miriam was the daughter of Abraham, whose fire-arms were the best in the plaoe. Abraham was rich, bnt he knew that I was not unworthy of his daughter, and Miriam had given her heart to me. We should liave been already married had it not been •or Abijah, the eldest son of old Abraham's «ldest brother. "UtoM is a black sheep in every flock. Abijah was the black sheep in that one. He was a very wicked man, a profligate and a' spendthrift; bnt for this he would, at her coming of age, have token Miriam, his cousin, for his wife. For snch was the custom of the family, that the fortunes ahoald never pass away to strangers. Abraham's brother had died believing this woaki be, bnt as the youth grew older it became plain that he was beyond all reform. He spent his own gold, and was anxious to iaarr> his cousin that he might refill his ©offers. "There are many ceremonies connected with a marriage, bnt the ancient customs of the Jews of Algiers make a marriage wmlid if once the woman has willingly re­ ceived a gift from the young man, tendered ,Vith these words: I consecrate myself tothee with this.' "Often had wild and wicked Abijah erfid Wit to the elders of the family, *lt is my tight to marry my cousin. The promise was given in our infancy to my father; a*d it needs only'the gift and words of oansfe- <etmtk«to make her my wife. I will bijie 5; bat it shall come.' "And the man was bold and the inter-SLate commerce bill by ap­ proving the measure. Sections 11 and 12 take effect Immediately, The rest Of the law takes effect sixty days hence. Section 11 provides for the appointment of the commission of five personss|ociM'ry out the provisiejis ol the act. and section 18 gives each com- mlesloner a s*lary-of- 97.500. This important act applies to "all isomiuon carriers engaged in the tran­ sportation of passengers or property 'ram INSOLA*; --" fu II-- -- they ate uttered. " '1 have offered him money to do this, but nothing save my girl's whole fortune will content him. His extravagance and his necessities may bring him to terms seme day. Meanwhile I never gafd promise to my brother as to the hour in which Abijah should marry her. Better that she should never be a wife than that ahe should be given to such a scouitdrqL Bat thou desirest a wife, Reuben, and the lime may be long and thon mayest grojw Weary; perhaps it will be better for thee «eek some other maiden.' "Bnt I said, 'No; in all the world there is hat one woman for me, and her name Is Miriam, and if 1 must serve for her seven years and still seven more as Jacob did lor Rachel, they shall seem bat a few day$, for the love 1 bear her/ ; • "So it stood thus. If ever Abijah safd: to Miriam, '1 release thee and my claim wpon thee, and set thee free,' she might be •line. 411 went to the house of Abraham almost ilfvery day; I was a son to him. I waited i;ar, and another, and still another, and bijah mocked me in the streets, and as, I •at at the door -of myshop,he cried out, 'Let! mother men's wives alone, Renben the jew aler, or the gray hairs will be many in your $ean1, and still you will be waiting.' 4 "Sometimes i't seemed beet to Mfe thnt' 1 •hoald slay hhia, but 1 restrained* toy handj "I was a man of early .middle age. My jbearti was long jind IJaQk^my stature good,' any shoulders straight; I was Btrong anti'npt |ll to look upon. 1 was rich. , "Abijah bad the • drunkard, *vil eyes of one of impure-heart, a sloqca- fng step, cheeks hollow, andabj^ UUak^d, ; With wrinkles even ftr hilr eftrty yowflj; be- •ause of his evil life. His clbth/isNQsfe '^fagged and stnined with wine. YefjK^qnM f«f an old Superstition, he could ltefep 'me from i»axt.vuig my lo«e ^who^ioMd wue, and whotdetest<?d him. u.s.x •• • " l : t. "My patience, was mop out, at Jast, for th« fellow laughed £>iu all ox$ offers and . threatened loudly.., ( >. *1 knelt to fiht AbraHaSL but "he saild, "My protoise^to my dead brolher is bfelctr lall else.' j. "I went to, the rabbig; they said that Abraham-was right. Then I implored Miriam to fly with nae--to steal away at Mght and ^ed me in some distant land, sould hear her; and though she \ wept in my arms she onlv answered, i'l- cannot disobey my father." I love thee1-- 4hee only; but I will not bring upon my head the curse of dishonoring my parents.' r "Thus matters st<jod the fourth year of ; our Jo*^ ated'"©!!* sortotr, when the birth- i. •day Of Miriftrn's mother drew near, and it • was slso the anniversary of the marriage of ^ sfcer patents. On this day there w^s to be a • fcaet, «nd gifts would be giv^n; tod.ad- ' drewes made, and songs sang, and -there . would be music of all kinds. -Mtrfefe desired to surprise her mother with ajgift- 1 had myself prepared a neck- laoe iejewels of great value. Silver abd >ld ateuld be givep in profufiion. Some- iiiiii 'p»oiher did not possess, «are and strabge was what >arched for, and in vain, for a so that it was the eve of the feast, and still she was not pro- *iied wilh her gift. What happened that «vening, 1 have from others. "Miriam had been in her father's carriage into the city, and had despaired of finding anywhere what she sought. She had just veaolved to send me the note we had agreed «|Mn, if the day's search ended in this way. that I might bring her a beautiful chain I had shown her one day. when the gate of the garden of her father's hoidse opened, and a man entered--a man bowed with the barden of many winters. "His head was covered with a skull cap, from which hung loift locks of SBOW-whitb hair; his white beard fell below his waist, and in bis hand be bore a small box. "As he passed between the banana trees he leant npon his staff, and seemed to move more feebly. Miriam, who tad been taught to respect age, believing that this was some old friend of her parents--per­ haps of her grandparents--arose and opened the door, and as he entered. Set a chair for him, and stood before him waiting for his bidding. "The old patriarch sunk into the chair she placed, and bowed his head wearily npon his staff. " 'The way is long, and the path steep, and my yenrs are many,' he said: 'and I have come in haste lest I should be too late. Thon art Miriam, the daughter of Abraham, the maker of fire-arms, whose great wealth is known in (he land, and whom men respect so greatly.' " '1 am Miriam,' replied the girl; 'and what thon 6ayest of my father all say.* " 'I have been sent to thee by Reuben, the jeweler,' said the old man. *1 have a possession which, for want of gold, I must sell. It is a rare mosaic--such as cannot be found here. I brought it from afar. Now misfortune has befallen me, and 1 must cell it. See--is it not wonder­ ful?' "He opened the box as he spoke, and laid upon Mariam's knee a beautiful box, suitable for jewels, on which was a wonder­ ful picture in mosaic work of the rarest kind--birds, flowers, fruit, hnmnn figures, all so wonderfully done that Miriam ex­ claimed with rapture, *Name your prioe. If it is within my means, I will give it,'*fce said. "The old man bent his head upon his staff. For a moment he was silent. Then he slowly shook his head. 'I cannot expect a fair price,' he said, 'but I will give it you for so mnch.' "He named a very large sum, bat Miriam had ample means. In a moment more she had emptied her purse npon the table and counted out the broad gold pieces. " 'And I thank thee also, good father, for bringing the beautifnl mosaic,' "she said. "The old man gathered up the pieoep. They chinked together in his trembling hands. 'It is well for me that I have made this sale,' he said. 'Well for me; and nowl have a favor to ask. That thoa wilt re­ ceive a small gift from me. I am under,* vow and an obligation to bestow a little gift upon the one to whom I sell this mosaic. It is bnt a little ring of chased gold, but perhaps thou wilt refuse to take it from a poor man like me, fair daughter.' " 'If thou art under a vow and an oblige tion, I must not refuse,' Miriam answered 'And thou wilt take it willingly?' asked the old man. " 'Most willingly,' said Miriam. "Her maid, standing beside her, hearr the words. She saw the old man take fiwa' his fingers a curious old ring. 'May I put it on thy hand, daughter? , he said. " 'You may,* said Miriam. The old man took the white fingers in his own, held the ring above them, and dropped it over the taper tip. " 'I consecrate myself to thee with this?' he cried; 'and thou art my wife, for I am thy cousin Abijah, to whom thou wert be­ trothed in thy infancy.' "So speaking, he flung off his cap, his false hair, the flowing white beard, and all his disguise; and Abijah, of the wicked, leering eves, the cruel mouth, the evil brow, looked in Miriam's faee and l*u$hed at her. "My poor Miriam! My love! My only love! She uttered one long cry, and fell to the ground. She was Abijah's wife by the old law of her people, and we were parted forevem but there is a law stronger than any other. Miriam lingered a week, and It was upon the day when the rabbis declared the marriage between herself and her consin to be valid that she died--my name the last word upon her lips. "Since then I have been alone. I go daily to my shop in the old, crowded streets of Algiers, and look up at the white walls of Abraham's home. The sycamores wave over it, and the banana trees grow green and tall. I can almost dream that Miriam still sits at her window, but I shall never love another, and no woman will ever call me hosband-" j. , Painting the Town Red. Apropos of the slang phrase "to par the town red," a well-known politician related the following episode: ' Mr. B represented a rural con stitnency in CongresB, and he wante( to be Senator. His opportunity cam< one day, and when he found' that hi name had been balloted for in th Legislature, he left his farm and wei t to the State capital to keep his eye op things. When at last it was announce! That the most delicate stomach will bear that he had triumphed in the contest he ruslied to a telegraph office, and ip the mad enthusiasm of the iJt • THE CHURCHES OF MOSCOW.' • . < A Ctty of Spires, Domes, and Minarets Wonders of the Kremlin. 1 [Demas Barae«, in Brooklyn Eagle.] ' I am informed that there are in Moscow about 1,000 Greek churches. They are a composite of Catholic, Mo­ hammedan, and Oriental architecture, and probably the most beautiful churches in the world. When the ornate and wonderful St. Basil Church was completed the architect was asked by his master, Ivan the Terrible, if that effort was his very best; if, under any circumstances or for any consideration with any amount of money, he could construct a more beautiful edifice. The reply was that he could not--to make a more beautiful structure would be impossible. Thereupon the architect's eyes were put out that even he should not copy this sublimely l>eautiful cre­ ation. I think that not one of those thousand churches has less than three minarets and domes. Most of them have five, some have twenty-five--al­ ways an odd number--for a grand cen­ tral effect--and some have in the neigh­ borhood of fifty to one hundred. They are colored white, green, red, 6r blue, or are covered with silver or gold. Most of them have chimes of bells, and I presume that there are in the city of Moscow 8,000 bells. It was but yes­ terday that I stood on the eminence-- about six miles west of the city--where Napoleon stood that eventful day when he first beheld those 5,000 minarets, spires, and domes, and the Kremlin's golden roofs glistening in the sun, and whence he surveyed the treasures which he thought would soon be at ^is disposal. I traversed the mme road which he took when he marched his 500,000 men to an expected victory that proved to be the most melancholy de­ feat recorded on the pages of history. The immense treasures of the museum* in the Kremlin had been removed,, and the sullen Muscovites applied the tovch to their own devoted homes. The sequel is well known. Moscow has been re­ built and its treasures and relics havo* been returned, supplemented by the' Emperor's cannon and flags and numer­ ous trophies taken from the fleeing in­ vaders* i To enunciate the wonders of those Kremlin museums is impossible. To describe any of them is to select one jeweled; crown out of many, one dia­ mond out of millions. Silver and gold, malachite, iapislazuli, jasper, rubies, diamonds, tratd sapphires are not only worked into crowns, thrones, and vest­ ments m almost endless profusion, but they are even formed into furniture and make fireplaces, walls, and ceilings. Just there is the tocsin bell which sonnded the signal for plying the torch to the city.. Here are the red Btairs upon which Uapoleon ascended to the throne of the Romeloff Kings. There is the sword with which the Terrible Ivan beheaded his own sons. Here the furs that onee enveloped the form of Catherine the Noble. And here, again, are' the tools with which Peter the Great worked when he builded shi^s and empires--far It was his knowledge of the wants of his people that gave them the mighty impulse which yet jars two continents- Then we were shown through the great throne-room, the silver rooms, the gold rooms, the pink rooms, the white rooms,, the blue rooms, the jasper rooms, and the crystal rooms, and then we wound up intricate stair-cases to the secret-trial room--still higher, to the dungeon and execution rooms where voices were stifled without remorse and where cries could not be heard by sym­ pathizing friends. This far-famed bell exceeded my school-day expectation as to size, and not to mislead: in speaking of it I tried iny measuring-tape around it. It at first hung--if ever it was hung--on a low wooden frame within the Kremlin walls. The frame was accidentally burned, agwf when the bell fell to the ground a piece seven feet high was broken from its disk. I was not there when the event occurred, but I venture the assertion that that bell, with a downward orifice of twenty-six feet tasanlpre POWERFUL TONICm am i moment sent this message to his family; Elected! Hooray! Paint my old homie red!" He staid at the capital for about week, celebrating his good fortune, and then returned to his rustic seclu­ sion. On alighting from the train he was half dazzled by the scarlet glare that appeared abofve the apple-trees of his orchard. "What's happened to the house?" he asked in amazement. Nothing," replied one of his fella*- townsmen; "only you telegraphed us to paint your old home red, and we've done it. Here's the bilL" : j They had painted the house, and barn, and pens, and henry, and stable-- in fact, there was hardly a stick on the premises that had not been painted a jubilant red.--Harper's Magazine. ' j :-- j Laying Dnst in Bines. ! A well-known mining engineer his brought into notice the successful uie of watering the floors of deep mines allay the dust and thus prevent ex­ plosions. A slight dampness, such as prevails in shallow mines at all time, is in his opinion, sufficient to lay the dust effectively; and the svtematic watering of deep mines has been intro­ duced at the Llwvnfria colliery and it the Standard colliery. The water can either be brought into the galleries by tanks or by pipes from a reservoir above ground. A pressure of fifty pounds to the square inch is considered sufficient at the Standard colliery. The water not only purifies the air, but robs it of the inflammable coal dust which is so dangerous a factor in great explosions. --Boston Budget. z • v w',. p. The Pumpkin Pie/ > * • F ; I don't know that one can find a pleasanter appetizer than coming into a warm kitchen on a biting fall day and encountering a deck-load of pump­ kin pies coming out of the oven and taking flight into the pantry. Life ceases to be a blank. One's faith in a divine Providence strengthens and grows tangible, and the world seems to he a good place to be in and stay in. While we are sure of such good pies in this world one hates to try another on uncertainties.--Elizabeth Cole, in Good Housekeeping. Exception to the Bole. "Is it necessary to have a medioal certificate before you will accept a patient?" asked a lady Of the keeper of an insane asylum. "Yes, ma'am," was the reply, "unless he is an ex-alderman or a superannuated actor." no homelife among the Turks. Laying aside the tie of husband and wife, there remains that almost as dear--patent and child. The residents of the harem, which means a sacred or secret place, are passionately devoted to their child­ ren, upon whom they can shower all the tendernesa of a woman's nfttura^i^^n. Lew Wallace's Lecture. '* Washboards. "Millions of washboards are mode and sold in the United States every year, and at lenst 7,200,000 are sold yearly between the Allegheny mountains and Missouri Riv«jr. There are two facto­ ries in Cleveland which turns out 200 dozen washboards a day, one ia To­ ledo which turns out 300 dozen daily, and two in St. Louis which turn out over a million a year. There are at least twenty different varieties of wash­ boards, and the best washboards are made in the west. The eastern facto­ ries make their washboards of pine. They put them up cheaply and make them out of ppor material" "What constitutes a good washboard ?" I asked. ' It must be* strong and durable, and it must havefia good washing service. rface is usually made of es of wood or rubber, washboards is the >amore. Pine is too .e is too expensive, rds are made with with wire nails grain of the wood, ely finished, as the 1 will sell it. There •Terence in the char- d, and washboards od prices. You can as lew as 80 cents sale, and the better » as $2.15 a dozes, as invented a wasl; The washing zinc, but somi The best wooi cotton-wood soft and wh The best wi dove-tailed driven acroi They must looks of a wi is a great de acter of the are of all gr buy the poor a dozen, at boards cost a: man in New ing board wh trade for i much and wi boards are th on both sides., from $1.60 t washboards c cents apiece. "Does it feoards?" "Of course sowe different poor washboari poor horae or costing 40 cent Kapeleon's Hoae, I went the other day to Malm»iV»n, the old home of Napoleon and Joseph­ ine, and the quiet old-fashioned man­ sion in which Josephine died. I had not been there since 1867, at which time the Imperial Government had organ­ ized a complete Napoleonic museum in the old place. The library,* where Na­ poleon had worked out his campaigns, the boudoirs, the salons, were all fitted with furniture which had done duty in the early days of the first empire, and one would almost imagine, while stroll­ ing from room to room, that the Little Corporal would suddenly appear and in curt tones inquire to what the intrusion was due. The small bed-room in which Napoleon slept on an ordinary camp bedstead was filled with his old clothes and cocked hats; and his favorite books were thrown down as if they had just quitted the impatient imperial hand, which they sometimes did in a great •hurry, as Napoleon would pitch a book even out of a traveling carriage if he happened to find anything which was not in harmony with his own notions. During his Austrian and Bussian cam­ paigns lie had a light carriage fitted up with a compact library, and it is said that one of the duties of the aide-de­ camp who followed this camp was the rescuing from the mud of the war-worn roads of the time the books which Na­ poleon shied into the air when he dis­ liked them. Malmaison was dreadfully cut up dur­ ing the Franco-Prussian war, and to­ day there is but littler of the old-fash- ioned country house. Some of the rooms are so unsafe that viators are requested not to venture on their shaky floors or under their ancient ceilings. The library is especially dilapidated. Not a book J%o irftgaaiTtc-M« •'* n.J--f umii. A whoso disabilities were rated at month. £8 pel i „ • "£e to th? meaning of the section of the bill has oflered to till under consideration there appears to have been: n, but it costs toa?^? a tJ;)lerenc<! °f opinion among its advocates »T1 TlraiKlo TvnijJDni e J!ere®B' TSe Chairman of the Com- W JL/0UD10 WftM mittfiG on PmiHinns in +Via ttamoa nP it have zinc ridge prices of these riri_ r dozen. At reta 35, 40, and 5 bay good was! ,1° vuauuiou ui fciitj ittee on Pensions in the House of Represent*-' VAfl U'hn l*/i Tinrf orl fK<k kill J ..I a a t . a . ^ tives, who reported the bill, declared that !XIT *"*'• SH'"' '• *i.4rv. tLi . .i, ? <'t f,*7.. .i.'w .SsJ-.-tAL.'/i, . IS n te y i?^ifMFt/?<Jf^fong,™ancl ?s"saicl*"to weigh 40 poods, or 1,600 pounds. I did not lift it. The statement is, I think, quite correct. ' " h , | r Women of the Harem* One of the conditions upon which a woman enters the harem is that slje give up all family ties and connections with the outside world. While polyg­ amy is permitted in Turkey, not more than 5 per cent, of his Majesty's Moslem subjects have haremB. Gen. Wallace depicted in a humorous vein the curios­ ity of American women to visit tlie harems. They always have a great de­ sire to see the poor oreatures at home, and devise some means to raise the^i from their degraded condition. After a isit many of these ladies change their minds about the fearful fate of the Turkish women. The Turkish ladies assemble in a common rfi<*^ption-room richly furnished. They are attended by a throng of slaves, white and black, who do their every ' bidding. The mis­ tresses of these harems • wear costumes which the speaker, after apologizing for his deficiency on the subje feminine apparel, undertook to desc1 Their clothing is of the richest ma rial. Of the general intelligence of these women their American sisters who have Been them do not speak in flattering terms. Tl^e conversation be­ tween the Turkish women and their vis­ itors nearly always runs about this way: "Where are you frotft ?" inquire the luxurious wives of the Mohammedans. "From America." . mfhif " W h e r e i s A m e r i c a ® * / - ' % • ' ^ "It's oyer the o0e^tt3c ' ̂ ; "Do you evet q|> 60, there Vithout wearing your veils? Aren't you ashamed before the men t*' t "We don't pay any* attention to the men." It is the general opinion that ladies of the harems are prisoners. This is merely a delusion. Every Turkish wo­ man has her own quarters and her own slaves to wait upon her. She can take a ride whenever she wishes, and she wears what she pleases without any in­ terference. The Turkish headdress is, with due deference to the styles of Paris and New York, the most becoming of any in the world. It makes the home­ liest women handsome and the hand­ some angelic. The Turkish women are, next to our own American women, the most beautiful I have ever seen. Glimpses of them can be caught Fri­ days, the Turkish Sunday, or from their carriages. They do their own shopping. It is theirs to buy as they please and their husbands' to pay for it. It is incorrect to say that there is ilTsL*. ' floes- There ia •itweem a good an< Us between a good am achine. A washboari will ouiwadh and out lastt three boards coating eady 25 cent apieee. "Wbo> made the first! waefoboard?" "I (4owt know. But the first wert made' o€ wood antirely, and our washer women) msed to pound the1 diet out of the olbthev with a sticky by layiirag them on a boazdL TUB first washjboardsyinade of zinc, were put upon the nwsrket about twemty-five years ago,, and the style fivstt invented is found the best to­ day. Xt> i» that of the plain' riidge knowm a» the eagle crimp. Fancy crimps, of saiite have beemmade ©# late years, but tt&ey are no better. Wash­ boards madia* of glass are liable to< bvesJk, and I think the .best washboard iB the old zinc and Wood article. There' is now one made of a solid piece of zinc as a rubbing suaface which is vary good. The demand for washboards* increases right along, and I suppose our trade will continue as long as people put on clean clothes and take off dinty oaaft "'-- Carp, in> Mi# Cleveland Leader. Ameriinrt Catholic Orator* Archbishop- Byan, of Philadelphia,. who is universally conceded to be the' most eloquent speaker in the; American Catholic Church, is known a» "the* golden tongued orator" andi the "Bos- suet of tlio Missouri." He is fully six feet six inches in height, stout ia pro­ portion, has & large head, covered witb very red,, coarse hair, and ai broad r rosy face, whose very lineament is that of & son of the Emerald Isle. Anyone who has heard Archbishop Byan speak will understand why he is called "the golden tongued orator." As he enters the pulpit his commanding figure centers attention at once. He reads the text ma voice low, sweet, and mellow- Then he folds hi» arms and looks earnestly at the congregation for fully a half minute: The exordium of his sermon is delivered in a calm conversational tone, and if a listener departed at this juncture he- would wonder how the Archbishop got a reputation for elo» quence. Just wait, however, until the prelate passes into the argument and the appeal to the feelings and the pero­ ration, and you will hear such eloquenco as seldom proceeds from the pulpit. The voice is something wonderful. It is perfect in intonation all the way up from the mellow tolling of the text to the pasionate ring of peroration. For­ getting all about the substance of his sermons--and that is the point on which Uangs his "Bossuet" reputation--anw one who loves sweet sounds wkild gladly spend an« rely listening to his sound like the lan- LZjon, but all Phila- uonisians will testify e Archbishop gained f*or eloquence even 'ig in the seminary. ; » * Archbishop Ken- f | the pulpit in St. tile young Byan was .'ers--a very unusual Iter ordination the ^§ung priest spread, nade coadjutor. He V years the regular |hurch events.--Bal- DINARY! lake room for ck of Spring P uidreoioniaT mansion on the eastern coast of America. Life and' thought had! gone away. It seemed impossible to believe that in the suite of rooms ad­ joining were once assembled the most brilliant collection of French poets t!ha>t has been known in the last two'ceutnr ries..--Anon. Wedding Castems In WaahJngfea. The traditions as to wedding customs are nowhere more faithfully followed than in Washington, or by ladies who have lived in Washington when married in other places. Showers of old shoes and of rice are sure to be scattered over the bride and groom from many hands as they set off on their wedding jour­ ney, and sometimes they become un~ {>leasant missiles. Before the bride eaves the house she always tosses her bouquet i^to a group composed of her bridesmaids, and the one who catohes it feels certain that it is an augury of good luck to her in soon bringing about her own marriage. More than once this has proved true, but still more fre­ quently the fortunate bridesmaid who has secured the ring in the wedding cake at a wedding collation has been the next one of the attendants to marry. In fact, Washington girls feel they have a right to be superstitious about getting the ring in the bride's cake, so often has its pleasing prediction been ful­ filled among their friends and acquaint­ ances. When, abont two years ago, the daughter of Senator Harrison, of Indiana, (grandson of President Harri­ son), was married to Mr. McKee, of Indianapolis^ at her parents' home in that city, Miss Kate i)avis, daughter of ex-Senator Davis, of West Virginia, was the lucky bridesmaid who found the ring in her slice when she, with the other attendants, cut the cake at this wedding. In a year she was married in Baltimore, to Mr. Brown, of the navy, and had a most brilliant wedding. Two years ago Mr. Thomas, of Eliza­ beth, N. J., was married in Washington at the residence of Mr. Douglass* of Pennsylvania, formerly Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to that gentle­ man's wife's neice, Miss Lyon, and the bridesmaid who secured the ring was Miss Miriam Clarke, of Erie, Pa. She met at that time Mr. Thomas, the groom's elder brother, who was them his "best man," and they were married in Erie, Pa. Nor are the great of our land exempt from the influence of the potent charms these weddings customs are supposed to exercise. Ex-President Hayes always wears a plain gold ring, of which he tells the story that he and Miss Lucy Webb (now his wife) were, many years back, bridesmaid and groomsman together at a wedding *!n Ohio, when he got the ring in liis slice of cake, and of course gave it to his bridesmaid. When subsequently they agreed to marry each other she gave it to him as an engagement ring, and he has worn it ever since, It will be re­ membered that they celebrated their silver wedding (or twenty-fifth anni­ versary of marriage) in the White House, Dec. 31, 1877, the first wjinte mmm. occasional hour voice. This m| guage of exagd delphians and! to its accuracy! a great reputati while he was s| On several oc rick called liii Louis Cathedi only in deacon'l honor, indeed.i reputation of tl] and he was soc has been for ti| orator at all gr timore letter. He Those who writings will r his stories an a' frame and pas: which a specta ing life-like. A similar sto the New York tor, Hiram Pov Kiagsley and His Dogs. It la pleasing to recall the distuu guished Canon Kingsley's attachment to dumb animals among the traits of hii every~<l<ay life. Like Mrs. SomervaJle he believed that some of the created beings inferior to man were destined! to^ share the blessings of a future state of existence. His dog and his horse werot­ itis frienda. As a perfect horseman, possessing the patience and much' of the skill of a Barey, he was a pattern to all who ride, reasoning with the ani­ mal he governed, and talking to it in gentle tooes* mindful that the panic fear both of horses and children is in­ creased! by harsh punishment. A Scotch) terrier named Dandy was the rector's companion in all his parish walks, a diligent attendant at cottage lectures* and school lessons, and a friend of the family daring thirteen years. He was buried near home, under those fir trees on the lawn beneath whose shade his* master himself now lies. Fideli Fideles the inscription on Dandy's grave­ stone. Close by lies Sweep, the re­ triever, and Victor, a Teckel, presented to- her distinguished chaplain by the Queen, rests on the same spot. Even1 in this brief narrative one would not willingly omit to mention the rector's eats, the delight they afforded, and the affection they yielded, nor the "natter jacks" (running toads) of the garden^, the sand-wasps which frequented a cracked window frame, the flycatcher that nested every year beneath the master's bedroom window, and the favorite slow-worm of the churchyard. Kingsley's children were taught to handle gently even toads, frogs, and beetles, these being, as he would tell them, "the works and wonders, like all things He has made, of a living God." That such lessons were effective his< little girl proved one day by requesting "Daddy," before numerous guests, "to look at this delightful worm," a very- long one, which wriggled in her hand- ".Study nature," he says. "Do not study matter for its own sake, but as the countenance of God. Study th* forms and colors of leaves and flowers and the growth and habits of plants-- not to classify them, but to admire them and adore God! Study .the sky! Study the water! Study trees! Study the sounds and scents of nature! Study all these as beautiful in themselves,, in order to recombine the elements of beauty."^--The National Review. We hare one of the choicest stl tc., ia l^tHeitrj. i - ' . O R - O C J the Critic. rw Charles Beade's ; ber that in one of put her face in a ?'t off for a picture, i'iticised as not be- * a told by a writer in ribune, of the sculp rs. He was in Cincin­ nati, working oh a wax bust of Thomas Jefterson. There was a critic in Cm cinnati in those days named Simms.who had incurred the displeasure of Powers and others. He was told one evening that the bust was completed, and was asked to inspect it. It was in the days when the only light was from tallow candles, and, as the room was dark, he was given a candle with which to make a close inspection of the bust. He be­ gan to comment upon its unnatural ap­ pearance, declaring that the color of the llesh was not natural and so on. As he leaned down for closer inspection, the burning candle was brought close to the figure, which suddenly dodged back, winked its eye, and shouted: "Don't burn me." It was Powers. Simms always denied this story, but Powers told it with great gusto. TUG play was at its height in the card-room of a well-known club, and from a distant corner was heard, "We are two to too!"--"By Jove, we are two to two, too 1" responded a player at an adjoining table. No wonder that German there present likened our lan­ guage to a French horn. Badge and Toddy. The following anecdote of "Helen's Babies," says the Buffalo Courier, h&s not heretofore been published r The babies went with their mother to visit her father, D. P. M. Hastings, of Hart­ ford, whose brother, a missionary in India, married a sister of President Cleveland. The Doctor at that time lived in a house with high steps, hav­ ing his office in the basement. There was an inside passageway through the cellar from the office to the living rooms, and during the visit of the little boys to their grandfather the cellar stairs were one day sprinkled with little pieces of paper. When questioned as to their object the children explained that they put the bits of paper there in order to find their way back from the office by their aid. Their mother had evidently been reading Grimm's fairy tales to them. One of the boys is now a well grown youth. The otlter died while still young, and his parents, al­ though they had then two children younger than Budge and Toddy, adopted a little girl of the age of their lost boy. . It Was a Rabbit. "That's a rabbit, I suppose?" queried a young lady of a stall-keeper at the Central Market. "Yes'm, but how on earth did you come to know it?" "Why, I've been studying natural history for the last twelve years." "La me! but what eddication does for people, to be sure! Come down to­ morrow and see if you can tell a squirrel from a fox."--Detroit Free Press. MADNESS will than discretion. have more followers #»«!» »niyhrnri fytuq# the secret, of putting thoughts of matri- mony in his heart, and so bringing atwKi# a wedding in the White House and luaving a married lady preside there, which hope was fulfilled when he mar­ ried Miss FoLwmt, one of the five ladies whose names were on the list which ac­ companied the wedding eake.--Har- p«rT» Bazar, South Sea Cannibalism. New Britain is one of the most beau­ tiful countries in the world. The con­ tours of the lofty mountains are very graceful, and the variety of tints of the rich tropical verdure is as attractive as it is turasval. The dense foliage is in* tesspereed with patches of grass of an emerald hue. At Matupi, in Blanche Bay, there is an active volcano, a curi­ ous, voieasic island and a region of hot springs. I traveled by land once from Nodup to Blanche Bay, and the heat and fatigue were more than compen­ sated by the beauty and varied charac­ ter of the scenery traversed. The New Britain people go entirely naked. They are not a fine race, and want the activity and vigor of the Solomon Islanders. Foreigners have introduced at good many fire-arms among the in­ habitants of Blanche Bay and Kam- beirak, but as a rule the spear, usually adorned with brightly colored feathers, is their weapon. They build good Incuses and make excellent nets and in­ genious fishing baskets. They are the only cannibals I know who are not ashamed of their fondness for human flesh. A German settler told me that overtures were made to him to arrange the purchase of the body of a man who had been accidentally killed by a neigh­ boring tribe with whom the would-be buyers were not friendly. The reason given was a desire to eat what other­ wise might be wasted in a common­ place interment. The curious and little understood ceremonies of the duk-duk are exten­ sively performed in New Britain and the neighboring Duke of York group. One thing about them is certain, and that is that those who are initiated into the mysteries obtain considerable in­ fluence over the rest of their trades­ men. There is another very remark­ able custom about which I was given information by the Bev. Mr. Booney, of the Wesleyan mission, which labors in this part of Melanesia. It may be described as follows: If A injures,B, B burns down C's hut, or makes a hole in his canoe, or sticks a spear in the pathway, so that C is nearly sure to run against it. B lets C know that he has injured him, and the reason of it, when C is expected to settle the ac­ count with A, the first aggresser. Oil the whole, the New Britain people are the least attractive of all Melanesians whom I know. They are very dirty, and do not possess the skill in fashion­ ing pottery or carving wooden bowls of their neighbors in the Solomons and the Admiralty Islands. -- Popular Science Monthly. The Convict and the Warden. A Convict in the Michigan State Prison Simulated Consumption so well that ho was Pardoned out on the Grounds that he -had but a few Days to Live. Soon after Regaining his Liberty he became Rugged and Fat, and the Prison Warden Met him and Upbraided him with: '•The Deceit and Hypocrisy which you practiced mapr oblige a real Con­ sumptive to Die in Prison." "Ah! Chestnuts," retorted the Par­ doned Man. "While there are a Hun­ dred Different Ways of Working out of Prison I Practiced only One of them." Moral:--Lot the next one try a Tun­ nel.--Detroit Free Press. PEOPLE glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors,--. George Eliot. THERE is no road so smooth but it has its stumbling places. THE Indian smokes the pirn of pMoe< the Irishman the piece of pipe. To BE in fashion this season you must eat the old-fashioned yule cakes whether yulelike them or not. TIM <?elery fritter is a new dish in Boston, but it does not effect the popularity of the bean meringue. ONE reason why a tamed alligator at Savannah is let alone is because of a sign reading : "Idiots Will please stir SUBLIME Person---Will you .not come with me to neur the lecture on the Utter? Frivolous and UnaesthoticPer­ son--Depends onwho's the utterer.-- Punch. WILLIAM ROCKEFELLEB, of Standard Oil Company fame, "is said to suffer from insomnia. A man worth millions of money ought to be able to buy some­ thing that would Rockefeller to sleen, --Life. . . ( ; M. F. TUPPSB says: Our ancestors had clocks put on the outside of churches, that they might not be late in getting to service. We put the clocks inside the. churches, lest we be late In getting out. " YOUNG Lady (who has a great idea Of her grandfather's age)--Say, grandpap, Were you in the ftrk? G. P.--Why no, my dear. Y. L.--But, grandpa, you must have been; you would have been drowned else.--Life. EDITH--Seems to me every one of these ancient sculptures is from the nude. "Yes; how wise those old artists were!" "Wise?" "Yes, yes; they had sense enough to know the dresses of the 1 period would go out of fashion, so they omitted them."--Omaha World. "I AM not accuthtomed to dwinking," he said timidly to the bartender, "but I am feeling quite thick, and I would like to athk you if you have any ware old whithky ?" "Bare old whisky?" re­ peated the bartender, indulgently, "I should say so! I can give it to you raw if you want it."--Life. DINKS--Hello, Klinkle, look as if you were going away. KlinUe--I'm off for England--great scheme. "Eh ? What line?" "Peddling articles which ao self-respecting nobleman's family can do without." "Coats-of-arms?" "Naw; cast-iron tips, double thickness, to covet up' keyholes."--Tid-Bits. Miss DUFFY--I hear that you are en­ gaged to young Solder, the plumber. Miss Puffy--It is a fact, Jane. "It al­ ways struck me that he was $ coldy callous creature." "Well, Jane, I con­ fess that he does not do very mucb cooing, bnt on billing he cannot be SUB* passed^--Philadelphia Call. THOSE GOOD OLD DATS. In rt'irys of old, when knights got bowlafL And' barons took their tea, ^ A vmnribr bold, with spurn of gold, 'h ©ot on- an awful spree. This fact may strange appear, bat yet 'tis ie«y clear, That iii those days which people praise Bold warriors took their beer, * And< often they, on the next day, Were fifeefiisig very queer. --Pittsburgh 1 )ispdteh. FAMILY physician--Your case puzzles me exceedingly, Miss Bessie. After a careful diagnosis, I find you have symp­ toms of arsenical poisoning, malaria, a mild form of dyspepsia, slight indica­ tions of softening of the brain, and--1 regret to say it--a suspicion of gout. Miss Bessie--^How horrid! and after the care II have taken of myself. Why, doctor,, dx> you know, I haven't been anywhere for two weeks, excepting to our cooking-club dinner, night befoce last--Suck. ' Women's Names. It is ourious how difficult it is to tell truly what a woman's name is. It is as puzzling as her age, for instance. Re­ cently in England a woman died and left a sum of money to "my cousin, Harriet Cloak." As it happened, how­ ever, she had a cousin who had been Harriet Cloak before marriage, but had married some one with another name; and she hacl also a cousin named Cloak, who had married a girl named Harriet, so that she had become Harriet Cloak. Therefore when it came to deciding who was "my cousin, Harriet Cloak," the first judge who tried the case de­ cided that it was the blood relative, the- nee Harriet Cloak, but the court to which the case was appealed decided the other way--that it was the Harriet Cloak, by marriage, who was the Har­ riet Cloak of the present date. And yet, for all of this decision, it might well be that the cousins had known each other from childhood, and that tise old and familiar name, which had; been changed by marriage, had still- been used by the testatrix to desig­ nate' her earlier friend. The court, however, decided that the woman knew the true names of both and wrote ao covdingly. All this suggests indirectly the subr ject of woman's names. What is a man to do who receives a letter in a manifestly feminine hand signed by a stranger, say, "M. L. Jones?" . Is he to reply to Mr. M. L. Jones or to Miss or to Mrs? Is it to be Dear Sir, or Dear Madam, or what ? Suppose it is Mary L. Jones. He knows then that he mustn't say "Mr.," but that is all he knows. Shall he address her as Mrs. or Miss Mary L. Jones. That he can­ not tell. The chances.are tfoat he will make a wrong guess, and that she, on getting the letter, will laugh at his.ate» pidity.--Hartford Courant. A Roland for an Oliver. "Good morning, Joe," said Smith who had left the Government service under a cloud, his accounts needing a good deal of explanation, to Thompson, whose political convictions were not strong enough to keep him in the herd of "voting cattle" at all times. "Good morning, Sam," returned Thompson; "but why do you address me as Joseph? "Because of your political coat of many colors," chuckled Smith, "and why did you call me Samuel?" "They tell me you have been caught < preying at Uncle'SamueFs crib." "They lie, sir. My accounts were found all right after I explained mat­ ters." "Oh, well, I won't say any more if you are put out on account of it," said Thompson, good naturedlv. "I tell you I wasn't put out at all; I resigned!" shouted the ex-officeholder. --Chicago Ledger. Saving the Particles. Landlady--I hope, Mr. De Blank^rou will lower your curtain when you rbave your room." Mr. De Blank--Certainly, if yon wish it. "Yes, you see the sun shines directly on your bed, and I am afraid it will fade that new coverlid." "Oh! that's it. Well shouldn't like it to lose any coloring matter ! it's thin enough now." OLD age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing frotoa the contempt inspired by vioe, for age whitens only the hair.--«T% Pztit, Senn, 'i 1 . ; . . 'A