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Then nodding atul smiling with vast enpproval, Milly Ryan tripped down to lae sea, whence a successful fisherman IUHIjust extracted a bream of very do- cent size, by dint of balancing himself <ever the edge of a huge rock, with a primitive fishing-rod in his hand for $ours. V Milly Was delighted, and as she talked up and down on the firm sand •of the little cove, she looked as happy and oontented as if materials for the •daily dinner were always ready to hand, instead of "having to be gathered Jrom the four corners of the earth," as die sometimes expressed it. Milly has her troubles, and to her they are neither few nor light; but to­ day the burden of them is lifted, and, vith perfect health, good looks, and a dear conscience, she is, as she appears £o be, a girl to be enviel. Has she not jttst seen on its road to the pot a fish which will fill out excellently the oth- -«rwise scanty menu? And is not Nor- bert Leigh oome down to h.»r for three whole unexpected days? What more «an the heart of girl desire, and the weather perfect this September, too? Itaiyis tall, and carries her lovely luead in stately fashion; her gray eyes *re dear and bright, her brilliant, if somewhat brown, complevioa shows off the whiteness of her pearly teeth, as every now and then she lauglis in the gladness of her heart. She walks with the easy graoe of a girl who has spent 1fae greater part of her days in the open w, and to whom it is all one whether 1he road she travels is up or down a «harphill or straight al< ng the level. Ever and anon she glances at the Jtocky path down which she came a few %Binntes ago, and presently I erexpeota- tion is fulfilled, and she sees Norbert Xieigh descending. A handsome young fallow, fitting match in looks for Milly; hto has dark hair cut closely round his Well-shaped head, a pair of dark brown «yea, a merry smile, and he stands six . wet two in his stockings. "Well, Norbert, you won't starve to- flUyl" says Milly merrily. "Jack has Jpanght a sweet fish." :/ "That's well, Milly," ha returns; "we Won't have hunger on our minds ihis . ifiune, anyhow!" # "Where's father?" was her qaery, "*Oh! he has just thought of a splen­ did setting for tha 8ten3 of the meet- bg of Brian Born and the O'Flynn, and tie went oft to the stuly to write it down at once," was his reply. H "Dear, dear! Was it very bad, Nor­ bert?" said the girL ""About the same aa usual,"answered |MS; "it began-- bolt* from heaven strike altrrld flan)*' .JHom cue Milloroaa cavern'd depths of ihniin J don't remember any mora " "No need! it is all alike. Oh, Nor- fert! it reminds me so of The sun's 'perpendicular height illumined the •depths of the seaT I wish, I do wish, -I could think father was a poet," she continued, "or elte that he didn't think Se was; you don't, do yOtti dear?'* she Mded wistfully. . He laughed oat a merry rippling langh, with no malice in it, and she Joined him. "Faith, no," he said; "I can't con- fler he's touched with the fire of gen-i, dear, but what does it matter ? He happy enough with his rhymes." "Indeed, that's true." said Milly; &*: fey i it is all no good, and it seems such ?# waste of time and energy, and I should be so glad if he would not re­ bate so much. When the Vicar was 4bere last week ha had to listen to the whole of that dreadful piece begin- •ina-- «" * "Where the Ibsmisg torrent daattes. . , . Where the rnthing water apUilML • O'er the glantrSeks- y Where the lightning madly flashes, 0 While the etorm-wuid wildly crashes, ' * f * Burling stones and stocks--'" yes!" said Norbert. "I know; , V reminds me of 'How the waters come down at Lodore.' Never mind--here's the boat. Hold on, Milly--off we go!" in three minutes the happy pair ere on the snnlit sea, and away into blissful country of young, loving, 'ting hearts, where hope paints the Jfotore in colors of rose and azure, and v*arhere the world's people are all true Iwomen and brave men. ['£ Brancepeth Ryan, Milly's father, was y>pd-natHred, inpractical, egotistical ihman. The youngest son of a man _. h a large family and a small rent- Woll, he had, unfortunately, become f, ;' Jwssaooed of the idea that he was a born ipoet, and the time that he should have ^ , ^devoted to discovering for himself a '•% , Pne*aB°f livelihood, he wasted in string- png together rhymes, which he would aroll forth in a rieh voice, and with a ^decide 1 Irish accent, for the benefit of ^any unwary listener, and then commit ^fco paper, and forward to any and every ^ ta*|iei: wk°se name and address he ! had kept off so wonderfully, was pour- 1#° fi?' ^thing daunted by the ing in torrents; her father had been fact that they enjoyed a large circula-! looking more than usually untidv, and -tion in manuscript," and nothing more, when she took his dressing-goVn to married a lady whose possessions mend it, a sheaf of unpaid bills fell ware a little cottage in Cornwall and from one of its pockets. Norlx»rt would A ffcRfefol oli iaiiraat, lived with BHMMiMMitti ever ainoa Uk mar­ riage, la thai only othar toattt ot the little cottage, and the two women de­ vote their energies to the aeouring of comfort for, and the keeping in a toler­ ably straight road of, their oommon charge, Brancepeth Ryan. If Milly had received their little income intact, it would have seemed a fortune to her and Bridget, end they would have worked wonders with it; but, alas I the finger? (he Blaster let very few coins slip through them for the expenses of his household, and when the money came it was often found that the greater part of it must go in paying for books ordered, or a publisher's bill of an urgent nature, as the poet could not always resist the temptation of seeing himself in print, even though his were the only eyes that should scan the pages. # Norbert Leigh was ir distant cousin of Milly's mother, and, being an orphan, had spent his holidays ever since he could remember with the Ryan family, either in Ireland or Cornwall; and his boyish affection for Milly has ripened into deep love for the brave, beautiful, patient girl, who enjoys so few of girl­ hood's pleasures, and devotes herself so uncomplainingly to the oares of father and household. He is an artist painstaking one, who does not expect to scale the heights of success at a couple of bounds; and although he and Milly have been engaged for two years, their marriage is a vision for the dim future, and they have to content them­ selves with the present, and encourage each other to fight the battle of life, with hope and trust for safe allies. The lovely September day wanes, and at 6 o'clock the pair return to the cottage, where, thanks to Bridget's ex­ ertions, a presentable meal awaits them. A figure in a shabby dressing-gown, and with a short pipe in his mouth, stands on the threshold, and it needs all Milly's coaxing to persuade her father to doff the garment and put on his coat "Sure and Norbert doesn't mind, you spalpeen! Why do you plague me with your fancies?" is his remonstrance. However, he does ap­ pear in better raiment, and with laughter and jest the dinner- hour passes. They adjourn to the lit­ tle platform in front of the house for a smoke, and in the soft twilight the young people are touched into silence by the beauty of the scene. The "Eyrie" is placed in a small hollow in the cliff at the right-hand side of the little cove of Tremawtha, and in front of them spreads the Atlantic, swelling in long waves, and dashing in foam on the fantastic rocks right and left of them, while the departed sun leaves a radiance of red purple on cloud and sea, and the great rocks and cliffs stand out sharply against the delicate blue and green and gray of the eastern sky. A night for an' artist! And Nor­ bert, fresh from the atmosphere of his London studio, enjoys it to the full. Brancepeth cannot miss the opportu­ nity, and in sonorous tones begins one of his smaller "pomes," which he de­ clares Norbert has not heard, and the cadences of his "crash" and "dash" and "smart" and "part," ai^d "wild" and "child," make an accompaniment to the dreams of the youth and the maiden, who have heard the same thing so often, and who know that little reply or comment is needed. Presently Milly says she has work to finish, and goes in-doors, followed of course by Norbert. "Why, how quaint!" he exclaims, as ho takes up a large piece of olive-col­ ored cloth, on which are outlined gro­ tesque figures. There is a boy bal­ anced on a pole placed across two forms, and with a large tub of water beneath him; he is trying to light a taper at the end of the pole, from a lighted one he carries in his hand. The whole is done with great spirit. "What is it for, Milly?" "It is one of a set of panels I am working for Lady Cynthia March's morning-room--a series of old English sports and customs," replied Milly; "it is such amusing work, and it is ao good of her to give me the order." "It is very clever," said Norbert; "bqt how did you get the copy?" "I drew it from this," answered Milly. "I have done several," and she handed him a book in a heavy binding of dark green leather, with furious sil­ ver clasps and corners. It was called "Ye Boke of Sports," and was dated 1490. It was in perfect condition, not a shred of its black-letter pages de­ stroyed, ancf none of it damaged, ex­ cept by the discoloration of the paper incidental to its age. "Why, Milly, I *m sure this is very valuable; and how funny the pictures are!" said Norbert "I should so much like to copy some of them; this-one of the game of 'Pale Maille' would be such a help to me. I want figures like that for my painting of 'Not always Victor;' they would come in so beauti­ fully in the Pleasaunce. Can you lend it to me?" "Certainly," waa Milly's answer; "there are some more books up-stairs," she added. "More! Are they yours?" he asked. "Yes," she replied; "my godfather, Piers Hylton, left me a quantity of books--chiefly about sports and pas­ time*; but there are also a few illumin­ ated service-books, which I think lovely. Father has never cared to look at them, he was so disappointed that Mr. Hylton did not leave us money; he always promised me a dowry." .«> Norbert scarcely heard her speech, so engrossed was he with the book. "It is lovely! wonderful!" he kept exclaim­ ing. And Milly was delighted at find­ ing herself the possessor of anything he liked so much. Two happy days fled past, and Nor­ bert returned to London. The weather had been perfect, and he and Milly had been walking or boating from morning till night, Bracepetli's rhymes filling up the moments when they Bat, tired out with their rambles, on the little ter­ race looking seawards. Left alone, Milly suffered from the reaction which inevitably sets in after such bright hours as she had been passing, and three days after Norbert's departure she felt as nearly despoudent as it was in her nature to be. The rain, which HOflMl II IfcaJjout three thousand pounds in the J Funds, and after her death, and that of phi* lather, he left County Galway, " •Where his precarious existence hi«d been *•" " by an occasional helping hand not come again for three months, which made the immediate future dreary, and for the present there were the troubles of an empty larder and a scanty ward- , . r--^ robe, with small prospect of replenish- . ffareot» aad settled down in ment for either. Milly set Norbert's ifttae nouse oy the seashore, prom-' photograph in front of her, and remem* for him- uered how hard he worked, and de­ termined that Bucce. s must oome to him soon; and turning her back on the window, wit'i its outlook of seething volae of tin. the* BHdawl appeared, letter* MiUly pMted out _ tuaaitlately, and opening his envelope, read: D»OMT to»a*Y. white X waa oopytng figona froayoar 'Boles of Sports,' SrnngtoDoame In. Ite kiwwa allMeof miy. thing, and dheetty ht sptod it he earrisd on m his n usual isahion, doenring it waa 'most disk tlnctly pwecioua,' sod worth anything to Cook lector, Ac. fta, and h« insisted oo talSur SM to Trellis and Black, in Bond street, toaak their opinion. I saw Mr. Blade himself, who was extremely kind, and mndh interested in my story; ho told me that it was probabbr ens of a small, bat valuable, collection of XB& and blaok-letter books of sports and of servioe> books (what a oombinauon!) which belonged to a Mr. Hylton, and which had been expected to oomo info the market Hylton wss the name of your godfather, was it not? So it you would like to realise your dowry, the books will sell easily; and I propose to oome down at onoe with sn expert, who will tell ns all about them. If yon don't want us. telegraph to "Your loving "Nobbbm." ' Milly waa enchanted, and ran to tell her father, but he steadily refused to believe that the books were "worth the trouble and fuss." "If they were *pomea,'now," he kept repeating, till his daughter conducted him to the study, lighted his pipe, and shut the door upon him, while she made prepar­ ations for the reception of the two gentlemen, who arrived in the evening of the day following the reoeipt of the letter. A slim, elegant young man, with ft budget of the latest London gossip on his tongue, and a fund of anecdote in his conversation, was the "expert" who had come to examine "Milly's dowry"-- quite a different being from the one she had expected, and a disappointment to the girl, who hoped for a grizzled, spectacled book-worm, whose opinion would be taken without question. "What can this popinjay know about books?" she thought. Dinner passed off pleasantly, and Milly's heart beat fast ns Norbert pro­ posed afterward that they should go and look at the books. Up-stairs to the top of the house they were lei by Bridget, who carried a lamp with great solemnity, and opened for them the door of a large low attic, containing the miscellaneous rubbish which is accum­ ulated even by a small family. The old chest in which the books were stored had been pulled from their cor­ ners, and Milly was amused at the change which came over Mr. Styles, the expert, as he opened them and stooped to examine their contents. The "society" look went from his face, and was replaced by the shrewd gaze of a man of business, as one after an­ other he lifted the volumes, examined bindings, dates, title-pages, and tail­ pieces, finally exolaiming, "I congratu­ late you, Miss Ryan! We have been expecting the appearance of these books in the auction-rooms. It is the most complete collection of old works on sports and pastimes known, and is enriched besides by a curious addition of books containing psalms, short prayers, and meditations--all exquisite fourteenth-century manuscripts. One or two are specially valuable--this, for instance," he said, taking up a little brown book with painted edges, "is illuminated with marginal grotesques and small pictures, and was given by its author, a monk of Tours, to Isabella of Bavaria, Queen of Charles the Sixth of France. It is remarkable that you should not have guessed their worth," he added, looking at Milly with aston­ ishment, "They came here with no letter or explanation," answered Milly, "except a note from my godfather, with just the words, 'Milly's Dowry, with Piers Hylton'a love,' in it; and my father was disappointed that the boxes contained neither plate nor jewelry. We have not connected the idea of books and money hitherto," she added comically, "so they were put up here, and it is only lately that I have looked into them; and it was quite an accident that Mr. Leigh saw one." "A very happy accident," said Mr. Styles, as they descended to the ait- ting-room. The sequel is soon told. Mr. Styles and Norbet went through the books again, and compared them with a catalogue they found in one of the chests, then they conveyed them to London, where, as soon as the book- hunting world could be made aware of their discovery, and curiosity suffi­ ciently awakened by the his­ tory of their temporary seclusion, the collection was brought to the hammer, and realized a sum sufficient to prove a real dowry for the happy Milly, who speedily became the wife of Norbert Leigh. She kept the book that had first attracted the artist's attention, and made ornaments for the pretty hall of their house in Chelsea ont of the old dower-chests which contained the legacy. Brancepeth Ryan's fame is still a thing of the future, and he con­ tinues to walk up and down the little domain of the "Eyrie," while the rest­ less waves beat an accompaniment to the soulless rhymes he flings on the air. Musical Mexican Bells. In the large tower hangs the monster bell, which is rarely sounded, but there are many others of moderate size which are continually chiming. All these bells, and indeed nearly all the bells in the republic, are remarkable for sweet­ ness and softness of tone. It is very rarely that one hears a harsh bell. They are exceedingly melodious and pleasing. It is sometimes explained that this is due to the mixture of silver in the bell-metal, and that the new bells are cast from old metal. I be­ lieve that the chief reason why the Mexican bells are so much more musi­ cal than ours is that the Mexican bells are artistically made, shaped with reference to tone, thin at the edge, each one a work of art intelligently manipulated, not mechanically cast without reference to the sound it shall produce^ The great bells are struck with a clapper, and not swung. There would be much less objection to the use of church bells in the United States-- the harsh and barbarous jangle which shocks the Sunday stillness--if ou* bells had any of the musical quality ot the Mexican.--'Charles Dudley Weft* ner, in Harper's Magazine. Scientific Prizes. _ The Prussian Society for the Promo tion of Industry has offered two prizes, the competition for one to close with 1887, and for the other with 1888. The first prize is alxmt $750 for the most exhaustive critical coin paruion of all kinds of existing bronze, tombac, and brass alloys, used or recommended for machinery; the second ,ia $1,260 for the best work on light and heat radiation of burning gases. and MiRy by the efforts of his it the time our little tale commences , 1** at TremawCha for six ] ocean and drenched hillside, she set <u»d there Milly has blossomed . herself to darn and patch her father's child into ma tmm THKY are not the best jrtudents w^0 are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only maierial; a man must build his house for hUuMAt.--George McDonald. GIVE every man th'na ear, but few thy voiqp. Take each man's censure flMae Ctwknia- OfcstinraHfs is Mmmm m«|to «f gtoato Growth. [lumber World.] K W. If urn* ftfttt oftii« United Statee Forestry Department, who haa given nmch attention to the age of tree aa indicated by rings, as well as to the period at which trees of different apeoiea atop growing t and that at which the wood ia at its best, has reached some ooneloaions of general interest He says: "Concentric or annual rings, which ttere once accepted as good legal evi> dence, fail, except where climate, soil, temperature, humidity, and all other surroundings are regular and well-bal anoed. Otherwise they are mere guess work. The only region within my knowledge where either rings or meas­ urements were reliable indications are in the secluded even and regularly tempered valleys of the Southern Pacific coast" Annual measurements of white elm, catalpa, soft maple, sycamore, pig hickory, cotton wood, chestnut, box elder, honey locust, coffee tree, burr and white oak, black walnut, osage orange, white pine, red cedar, mul­ berry, and yellow willow, (nineteen species), made in Southeastern Ne braaka, shows that "annual growth is very irregular, sometimes scarcely per oeptible and again quite large," and this he attributes to the difference in seasons. As trees increase in age inner rings decrease in size, sometimes al­ most disappearing. Dimished rate in growth after a certain ago is a rule. Of four great beeches mentioned in Lon­ don, there were three, each abont seventeen feet in girtb, whose ages were respectively 60, 102, and 200 years. Mr. Furras found twelve rings in a black locost 6 years old, twenty-one rings in a shell-bark hickory of 12 years, ten rings in a pig hickory of 6 years, eleven rings in a wild crabapple of 5 years, and only twenty rings in a chestnut oak of 24 years. An American chestnut of only 4 years had nine rings, while a peach of 8 years had only five rings. Dr. A. M. Childs, a resident of Nebraska from 1854 to 1882, a careful observer for the Smithsonian Institu­ tion, who counted rings on some soft maples 11 years 2 months old, found on one side of the heart of one of them forty rings and not less than thirty-five anywhere, which were quite distinct when the wood was green, but after it had been seasoned only twenty-four rings could be distinguished. Another expert says that all our northern hard woods make many rings a year, some­ times as many as twelve, but as the last set of cells in a year's growth are very small and the first very large, the annual growth can always be deter­ mined, except when from local oauses there is in any particular year a little or no cell growth. This may give a large number on one side. Upon the Pacific coast of North America trees do not reach the point where they stop grow­ ing nearly as early as those of the At­ lantic coast Two hundred years is nearly the greatest age attained on the eastern side of the continent by trees that retain their vigor, while 500 years is the case of several species on the western coast, and one writer is confident that a sequoia which was measured was not less than 2,376 years old. At Wrangel, latitude 36 de­ grees, 60 minutes, a Western hemlock, six feet in diameter at the stump, was four feet in diameter 132 feet further up the trunk, and its rings showed 432 years. But in the Old Bartram Garden, near Philadelphia, not more than 150 years old, almost all the trees are on the down grade. The Quercue Robar, England's pride, which at home is said to live 1,000 years, has grown to full size and died in this garden, and the foreign spruces are following suit Silver firs planted in 1800 *re decaying. The great difference in the longevity of tirees upon the western and eabtern coasts of the continents in the Northern Hemisphere seems to be due to the warm, moist air carried by strong and permanent ocean currents from the tropics northeasterly, in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, which make the climate both moist and equable in high latitudes. In Sitka, latitude 57 de­ grees, aa much as 100 inches of rain have fallen in a year, and the harbor is rarely frozen enough to hinder the passage of boats. In some, ipfy^rs scarcely any ice is seen. People of the Stage. One of the most prominent of the physicians of London who has a wide practice among the theatrical profes­ sion, says that the members of that profession are physically different from people in ordinary professions of life. Their temperaments are also different. The physician said: "I have to give very much different advice to an actor or an actress than I would the members of almost any other profession. All successful actors or actresses have ex­ cessively nervous temperaments. They are nearly always morbidly sensitive. Medicines act with different degrees of effect upon them, and at the same time you have to prescribe for them much different regimen. The actor may appear to be at death's door one moment, so far as his physical condition can testify, and in an incredible space of time you will find him at normal again. I have just come thiB evening from witnessing the performance of Mrs. Beerbohn Tree in'As in a Looking-glass." She is a great actress, and the line of work she does is very fine in that play. When she came off the stage this evening at the close of the last act I examined her pulse and the condition of her heart." "So you have been examining Mrs. Tree's heart, have you? What a de­ lightful occupation! "This is no joking matter, I assure you," said the doctor, gravely. "I am talking seriously. I found her pulse and heart to indicate most tremendously abnormal conditions. Such a condition of her pulse and heart with a member of any other profession would have been most positive evidence of dangerous physical derangement and disease. This condition with her continued for some time, and then she regained her normal condition withont apparently being any the worse for the extraordi­ nary oondition which she had just passed."--London leVer. The Chinese Empress, Pastime. The Empress Regent of China is one of the most remarkable women of the age. Not content with directiug the intricate policy of the most populous empire in the world with wonderful cleverness and sagacity, she has now entered the ranks of competitors for the light-weight championship of the Celestial Empire. Attired in a sort of a bloomer costume, she takes daily lessons in boxing from an old eunuch. Her appearance at the age of 50, in short skirt, hitting out at her venerable preceptor and occasionally receiving punishment herself, must be comical to the last degree, and the reports oq UM patter fona the pmbjoot ef a moat iflk Of SflMMKtVMP ie death die was Ut M co-Hegent with the Empress doting the minority of her aon, tile late Emperor Tung ©hi. When the latter died, a few months after his marriage, one of those curious intrigues whioh make the history of oriental courta took place. His young bride, who was tmciente at the time of the young monarch's death, died mys­ teriously before the birth of the child, and the old Dowager Empress and co- Regent took her departure^ for another world rather suddenly a few days after­ ward, leaving the present Empress in nndiaputed possession of power.. With unusual ability she haa guided the policy of the empire through the troublous times which have resulted from the opening up of the country to foreign trade, and has so conducted affairs as to have brought the nation to an indefinitely higher degree of pros­ perity and tranquility than it enjoyed when she took up the reins.--Hong Kong Timet, ^ 51 • . . • . j /..til* Charlemagne* ^hat a marvelous man Char! was! I think nothing so impresses the mind with the idea of his greatness as his canal to connect the Pegnitz and the Altmuhl. We are told that he con­ ducted fifty-three campaigns in the forty-five years of his reign; but what of that? Any fool can fight Plato says that the perfect man is foursquare, but I think he is the all-round man, and never was there such an all-round m»n as the great Karl. He was not only a great warrior, he was a political organizer, a legislator. He codified the laws, he was a lover of learning, and so free from pedantry that he in­ sisted upon collecting the national songs and epic heroic poems of the Frank race, whioh his stupid and pious son Lonis burnt, because they were not in Latin hexameters ai>d were the records of barbarians. He drew up sermon books which he sent round to ignorant oonntry parsons, and bade them read these wholesome discourses, instead of talking twaddle or nonsense in their pulpits. But that which strikes me as the greatest token of his genius was his canal. To appreciate this one must know something of the map. Charlemage wanted to make a waterway between the Blaok Sea and the German Ocean through the heart of Germany, by uniting the Rhine and the Danube. This was only practical in one way, which we can see with maps before us; but how did he dis­ cover it when the country was clothed in vast forests and was quite unmapped? A huge horseshoe of limestone moun­ tains encloses the Swabian and Fran- conian basins, and of the streams that rise from this range all but one slide away northward to the heel of the horseshoe and empty themselves into the Rhine by the Neckar and the Maine. One only river takes a perverse course and cuts its way through the horseshoe in a southerly direction and flows into the Danube. This ia the Altmuhl. This, then, was the only way by which the ' projected water communication could be made, and Charles the Great began to cut a canal to unite the Altmuhl with the Pegnitz that flows into the Maine and thus decants its waters through the Rhine into the Ger­ man Ocean. Charlemagne did not live long enough to finish his canal, and that stupid, blundering son of his, Louis the Pious, gave up the undertaking. He saw no more good in it than in the collection of old heroic songs.--C'om- hUl Magazine. Are Corsets Beneficiftl } More men die of consumption than women, and it has been attempted to explain this by supposing that corseta help to maintain a healthful condition of the lungs because they restrain ab­ dominal breathing and compel chest or rib breathing, causing a better ventila­ tion of the upper portion of the lungs, or those two apices of the lungs which might be called attics where dust ac­ cumulates and decay begins, but if corsets do have any beneficial effect in this way it is probably more than connter-balanoed by the evil effects of their compression of the vital parts be­ low the diaphragm. The stomach, liver, and spleen are organs no less im­ portant than the lungs, and to crowd them out of place or impair their func­ tions by tight corsets will inevitably produce diseases as serious aa consump­ tion. As there is often a spirit of good in things evil, corsets may not be an unmitigated nuisance, and indeed much depends upon the style and how they are adjusted, but the more they are so adjusted as to compel chest breathing, the more certain they will be to pro­ duce disaster somewhere below the chest The best way to induce chest breathing and ventilate every portion of the lungs is by rapid exeroise or by enforced deep respiration practioed once or twice daily.--Dr. Footed Health Monthly. Knew All About Peter. It was at a Sunday-school exhibi­ tion, and the superintendent was show­ ing off the results of his labors. Dur­ ing the exercise he asked the children who could tell him anything about Peter. No one answered. The ques­ tion was repeated several times, till finally a little girl held up her hand. "Well, my dear," said the superin­ tendent, "that's right. I am glad to see there is one little girl who will put these larger boys and girls to shame." The little girl came forward, to the platform and was told to tell the audi- enoe what she knew of Peter. She put her finger in her mouth, and, looking very smiling, said: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Bad a wife and couldn't keep her; Put her in a pumpkin shell, And there he kept her very well." Amid the roar that followed she hur­ ried gayly to her seat--Our Damb Animals. k levy Remarkable Photograph. In Amsterdam, N. Y., there ia a re­ markable photograph, according to a newspaper there. It is a group of the heads of four young ladies. "But if the picture is placed across the room and looked at with half-closed eyes for a few moments, a striking likeness of the late Senator John A. Logan can be seen. Two of th young ladies form his long black hair; the shadows make a high forehead and prominent nose; the heavy bangs of another of the group furnish the prominent mustache, and the ncck of the fourth his eyes. The phenomenon was discovered by a near­ sighted gentleman when without his glasses.--New York Sun. 1 I 1 1 1 1 • •• t • MIEN love to hear of their pow#r, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.--Burke. Ton affection of parents is best shown to their children by teaching them what is good and it**, The rn^age f̂ tfce fend-whirl* of the >atreeia aBd 6the* detect til tee* to thetornndoea wtuk aa rnvagethe e* »tral «tft of this country appear* at firat sight to be gradual; yet, as «e shall see, thottgh both depend upon the up- rash of the warm air through the colde* overlying mass, the conditions which produce the warmth, and thereby give rise to the.current, are not exactly the same. The smaller dust-whirls occur everywhere in the world; tornadoes are limited to particular regions, and those of disastrous violence occur onlv in cer­ tain limited parts of the earth's^surface. One of their sefts of most energutio development is in the central and west­ ern parts of the Mississippi Valley. The way in which these tornado- whirls are formed differs in certain es­ sential particulars frcm the way in which whirlwinds are created, as has been well shown by Prof. FerreL The most important points of difference are as follows: The dnat-whirls are due to the heating of a thin layer of air next the ground. The small mass of tliis layer prevents its upward whirling, fiom bringing abont any powerful movements of the atmosphere. In the tornado the heat of the lower air has a different origin. When a cyclone passes over the surface of a country, certain peculiar movements of the atmosphere which it produces bring large vdlumes of the warm and moistened air' to the earth'B surface and overlay them by a cool stratum. It is not necessary for us to describe the exact process by which this condition is brought about; it depends upon rather complicated re­ actions which take place witnin the cy­ clone whirL It is sufficient for our pur- I>ose to note that in this manner a deep ayer of warm air is placed next the surface of the earth, and that it does not owe its temperature in any imme­ diate way to the heat which radiates from the earth's surface. This layer of warm, moist air tends to rise up for the same reason that the thin layer of dry air which forms the dust-while is im­ pelled upward, but on account of , its great mass the intensity of the upward urgence is far greater. In the sand-whirl the upward motion begins close to the earth's surface, for the reason that the stratum which is impelled upward is very thin, but in the tornado the stratum of heated air is usually about a thousand feet thick; therefore its whirling aotion naturally originates at the upper surface of the hot layer, for it is at that point the up­ ward motion begins. Starting in this upper region, the whirl extends pro­ gressively downward, just as in the bath-tub the whirl extends pro­ gressively upward from the point at which the motion originated, until the whirl may touch the surface of the earth. ^ When these whirls begin they only involve a small part of the air about the point of origin, and so the acquired velocity of the particle, when they come to the center is not great; but gradually they suck air from farther and farther away. As the field of sup­ ply becomes larger, and the particles move from a greater distance, they ap­ proach that center with greater and greater speed, and the spiral widens and turns with accelerated velooity. The longer the journey of the particle, the swifter its whirling motion becolhes. We may secure a familiar and fairly good illustration of this motion by whirl­ ing a weight on a string, and at the same time allowing the string to coil around the finger, thus oonstantly shortening the length of the circuit the weight traverses. We thus observe that the speed of the motion sensibly increases as the line shortens.--N. 8. Shaler, in Scribner's Magazine. Luxury Ran Wild. I was in an up-town haberdasher's shop, says a correspondent of the Bos­ ton Advertiser, and in the course of a half hour's conversation I learned con­ siderable about the personal decora­ tions of the dude. A modest request to look at some robes de nuit was what startled the shopkeeper. He took a glance at my golden locks and pro­ duced a box, remarking: "Here is something which will attii your complexion." It suited my complexion better than it did my pocket-book. It was made oi a fawn-colored Chinese silk, very soft, and elaborately embroidered in light blue. A delicate tracery of blue vines and flowers ran around the collar, down the cuffs, and it waa made to but­ ton with gold studs. "This is a very simple pattern," re­ marked the gentle haberdasher, "and costs only $6. Here is a more elaborate style for $12," and he brought out a garment of rather finer material, sim­ ply covered with embroidery. I mildly insinuated that I wanted something for about $1.50. He looked unhappy for a moment, but recovered when he be­ gan to show me some silk underwear for $15 a set, and purple silk hose for $5 a pair. From underwear we get to shirts, pajamas, and "blazers." The styles were unique and glaring. "Do men really wear those things?" I inquired innooently. He gazed at me pityingly. "Do you know what it costs to dresa a fashionable young man?" he asked. I mean simply for underclothing," he added. "To begin at the bottom, he needs, sa0 a dozen pairs of socks, at from $4 to $6 per pair. His half-dozen set3 of silk underwear will cost him about $15 a set. His shirts will cost him $25 a dozen, and his collars and cuffs, of which he needs a good many, pith his neck-ties, will cost as much /more. Tennis shirts, long stockings, blazers, etc., etc., will run up, in a summer season, to a couple of hundred dollars. Yes," he added, meditatively, "a young man needs about $500 to get his summer outfit, not counting his tailor's and shoemaker's and hatter's bills, which will amount to as much more. Of course his fall and winter outfits are more expensive." "How much a year does it coat to dress properly ?" I asked. "I have customers who spend $5,000 a year on their clothes, and they are by no means extravagant," waa the prompt reply. Destruction of Food Fish. The Philadelphia Times severely de­ nounces the "menhaden pirates," as it terms them, for the destruction which they cause to focd fish, especially along the Jersey coast The menhaden fisher­ men frequent the numerous bays and inlets where the food Jish swarm, and they are, it says, destroying sheeps- head, weak fish, king fish, blue fish, mackerel, and all the fine food fish with alarming rapidity, and they threaten not only to ruin the livelihood of tho market fisherman, but the sport of many thousands of sea-side visitora who axe likely to try the hook and line. *e»-#|SS5^i|end. A createre~-^*mfll Aiwt 1 :l PABTY tisee-rawa'AF * J AHAMGMAHwho wiah«d to conceal 1 hia vocation said he waa traveling for a - suspender company.--Texas Sifting*. J IT is perfectly safe to go into a dent- I 1st . C»U him »to hia I teeth, if the dentiat isn't iu^--TeseM M Sifiings. 1 "Oti» Tubal Cain was a mm of «•<<*» ' ? e• i -jbJSSM£££SJS?"-ta"»to°̂ , !"r* ,*'<i Diblx. "w« ; should always look upon long-haired' - men with respect It is a aurety that they have not been in prison for awhile." , | THE daya of the book agent are num- bered. A German firm haa invented a ; I steel-dad bullet that will penetrate four inches of brass.--Newman Independ- % ent. THE witty man of the Middle Temple 1 students said at a city chop-house: "I, "1 won't pay for steaks as tcugh as these; no law can compel me; they're not ':1 legal tender." $ RKSTAURANT-KKEPEB (to guest)--la ?! your seat quite oomfortable, sir? Are J you too near the window? Guest-- No, the window ia all right; but I wouldn't mind sitting a little farther from the butter. MRS. WELLS (about to hire a new servant)--Now, in regard to going oat visiting, I-- Servant (interrupting-- "Och, go out whiniver yez loikea; you'll not find Bridget Murphy harrud, mum, or dictatorial loike. BROWN--I say, Robinson, are youatill sWeet on Miss Tittleback ? - Robinson-- I'm afraid she didn't appreciate my visits. " Why do you think ao ? " "Well, the last time I called she had an alarm clock in the parlor, and had it set for 10 o'elock. I've given up calling there." --New York Sun. "YOUNG man," he said, earnestly, "do you ever jtat the present aside, and Raze thoughtfully into the future?" "You bet I do," was the emphatic re­ sponse. "I've got a six-months' buyer's option on 10,000 barrels of crude oil, and just now I'm spelling future with a big, big F."--New York Sun. ONCE there was lying by the side of the ditch a pig. On the other side lay a man. The pig was sober, the man was drunk. The pig had a ring in his nose, and man had a ring on his finger. Some one passing exclaimed, so the pig heard it, "One ia judged from the company he keeps." Instantly the pig rose and went away. A LADY who had been abroad was de­ scribing some of the sights of her trip to a party of friends. "But what pleased me as much as anything," she said, "was the wonderful clock at Stras- burg." "Oh, how I would love to see it!" gushed a pretty young woman in pink. "I am so much interested in such thing. And did you see the cele­ brated watch on the Rhine, too?" OH, I know I can't," sobbed the wo­ man, after she returned from her hus­ band's funeral, "I just know I can't ever think of anything else with poor John in the--the--to-o-o-mb!" and she broke down again. "There was a very large attendance at the funeral," said a lady friend, trying to get the poor woman's mind into some other channel. "Mrs. ' Gen. Parade was present" "Was Mrs. Gen. Parade there?" "Yes." "What- wh-what did she have on?" and the poor widow burst into tears ane*.-- Dakota Bell. MRS. SHODDY--What haa become Of your beau, Belle? Miss S.--He has gone to the beach for his health. Mrs. S.--He's rich, and I can't see why you shilly-shally with him so long. Why don't you marry him? Mias S.--I do not care to marry him. He is a vale­ tudinarian. Mrs. S.--What's that got to do with it? We're no sticklers about religion. It ain't like as if either of you were Catholics and needed a dis­ pensation. You ought to be glad of the chance. If I waa in your place I'd marry him if he waa a vegetarian.-- Boston Courier. ' Their Weakness. j,", ,ft, 3&SNG8 A WOMAN CAN'T DO. .» Shooi straight V , ,i% See any beauty in a rival. ' ' " ' ' Keep track of a base-ball game. ^ Sit down withoutmashingner bustle. Endure the smell of a stranger's oi- giu*. Cut an old admirer withont looking back. Hold up her dress without ahowing her hose. See the extravagance of anything die wants. Tell her child's right age to the ear conductor. Take an interest in the vital questions of the day. Lose a fiver on the races without get­ ting a headache. Remain in an auction room without losing her head. THINGS A MAN CAN*T SNK Smile through his tears. " 1 Make a crying baby smile*; /. Put in a pin that will hola. ^@*5 W i t h e r a r i v a l w i t h a g l a n c e . • • Talk with his mouth full of pinajf Garry hie car fere in his month. Make love to two girls in the same room. Get a number six foot into a number ; three shoe. Remain self-possessed when there is a pin sticking in him. JEtead a book at the window and scru­ tinize everybody that passes. Spend the whole day shopping when he doesn't want to buy anything.--The Judge. Shameful Inactivity* "Father," said Rollo, lifting his eyes from the mendacious columns of a lying newspaper, "this journal says 'the Sul­ tan persists in his refusal to sign.' What does that mean?" "It meaus," broke in Rollo's Uncle George, with great wrath (pronounced rawth), that President Day just sits around and lets those fellows fool with him all they please. I'd like to be in his place five minutes; the duffer would either sign or go on the black list mighty quick. Every man that ever pitched in a cor­ ner-lot game acts as though he was the inventor of base-ball. And Uncle George sat down and wrote a letter to the Clipper about it, in which he said that he knew just why the Sultan ; wouldn't sign, and that he would venti­ late that young man's record and show up a thing or two that some people kept mighty shady if he didn't come to taw pretty quick. Ever since Rollo' Unole George went into politics hia great forte has been the diaoovery of mys­ teriously secret reasons for things.-- Burdelle. ̂THERE is evidently a great deal to be learned about women," says a Phila­ delphia editor. There ia, indeed, and THE une of traveling is to regulate , imagination by reality, and instead of j the best way to learn it is to aak some thinking how things may be, to see ) other woman about it.---80tn^rville as they a*e.-*VoAn*®«, mm1**™* * 3, , • £ < 1 •At. ' •"•H:, J