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f \ y » ' * y y ".? \: ^wSi a»l ^'YYR I tMM» C#M an* PeblMnr. !• said the tourist season brings ,000 yearly into Switzerland. of the public school at ill, Fla., is A. B. Hendry, a lad of fc Mediterranean is/comparatively . A drying up of660 feet would throe different seas, and Africa be joined with Italy. NRW YORK business man says that .75 to 80 per cent, of the capital in- in that city represents the earn- fegsof men who began lite poor. TSHE Belmont family, fearing an at- tftanpt to steal the body of the late Jbsgust Belmont, buried at Newport, 1m established a nightly guard at the (iwwe.- .. ' ' . ' 1...-..' ; IH OKK single day lest summer 105 is visited Barns' birthplace. > pilgri|ns during the year numbered 00 to the oottage and £0,000 toihe #Hmument • • A*O*tjfb man has discovered a Cheap JMiuess of making aluminium. In the .. omrae of time, no doubt, one of these Ikoorories will prove to be of parac Jpt^valne. •< - - OKS, BOOTH, ft is reported, should scheme for the betterment of the *ira»tchedly poor of Great Britain be --ocBsafal, will endeavor to repeat its in this country. ' THB American colleges begin to themselves felt. The fifty Yale graduates in Tokio, Japan, are the as- tsmafiment of the natives for their boat •owing aiul prodigious kioking powers. A OOtrpLE were married at Atlanta, 8l, who were first betrothed thirty- ffoe years ago. That engagement was fcwkea off, and since then the man has loried two wives and the woman one ***** * Iris the opinion of Edwin Arnold ttat the Old Testament is not more in­ terwoven with the Jewish race, nor the Sew Testament with the civilization of Christendom, than is the Koran with file records and destinies of Islam. ?** A MOST curious indication of the Ihgwring of superstition is an agency Which has been inaugurated in Paris for the sapply of the "fourteenth guest." Dinner parties of thirteen may be in- ' «eeaaed at short notice. Ttev. DE. CHARLES F. HOFFMAN and is brother, Bev. Dr. E. A. Hoffman, of the General Theological Semi- •HJ, both of York, are said to be clergymen In the United The wealth of each of them is 4,000,000. * HVMBEBT, of Italy, is 42 years iiace, like Parnell's, has a fixed •4Kqp*es«nonx>I melancholy. He is brave, «wurteoua, and devoted to his only child, a boy of 14. The King speaks JFrench as well as he does Italian, and Is said to be a charming man to meek . PHILLIP EL HOLMES, an ARTISTE Gar- •4&Ber, Ma, has just found in the corri- «hre( the Girard House, in Philadel- |MSi a canvas, 20x15 feet, which was ; Mas the time of the Centennial Expo­ sition. It is a view of the Adirondack* land is valued at $3,000. Miss FLORA. GRACE, of Iowa, has in- a cooking thermometer, which, of registering "summer heat," heat" and "freezing point," the boiling point, the gently altitude, and the varying baking poinU for meats, bread, eake ^sadpfes. - A max in Jackson County, Oregon, |p' Sbss been plowing with a steam engine, f. esd has found that it works quite suc- * eesufully. He pulls eight plows with lis engine, and turns over the soil at ' the rate of sixteen acres per day. The CMt of running the outfit is not over $5 t>, tarda*. - - ACCORDDTO to the latest issue of the '•newspaper Directory" there were no i than 3,481,610,000 copies of maga- papers and periodicals issued in country, or a number more than eoffisiant to afford every man, woman <and child in the United States one jpaper per week for a year. WHISTIER'S increasing years call to ; •«aind the fact that New England's other peeta, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver |#endell Holmes, are well on ia life, if Holmes being 81, and Lowell just ten ; years his junior. Each is as clear men- ftBlly m ever, and they are both as busy .-with literary work as if life were all i&efore instead of behind them. G, THE next work of Robert Louis Stev r«nson will be called "The South Seas Becord of Three Cruises," and will with adventures, economics, canni criticism, ghosts, dancing, and language, manners, morals, and ens ll$jii«t the dusky peoples whom the >r has visited, and aipong whom IMS elected te Jive. Ordina«y troa?ers axe en abomination, a nightmare. They represent the die* tressing delirium of dress; are ungainly, awkward, uncomfortable and altogether atroeions.* THK new novel on which ThornM A. Edison and George Parsons Lathrop have been working conjointly will prob­ ably be ready for the press in January. Mr. Ediscfa has taken the keenest inter­ est in the work, and in drawing on his imagination has hit upon a number of olever electrical devices whioh he has oonsidered it worth while to patent THE Philadelphia Record gives fig­ ures showing how the dark continent has been carved up by the territory' grabbing powers. France oomes first with 2,300,000 square miles; Great Britain next with 1,909,000 miles, the* Germany with 1,030,000 miles, and lastly Portgugal, which gained only 775,000 miles by the division. Not even a professional statistican can fig­ ure out where the natives of Africa come in. . , •, . • .v ARTIST ALBERT BIERSTADT has re­ cently been visiting his old haunts in the Rocky Mountains. He first crossed the plains from the East in 1859, and it was then that he made the first sketches for the paintings of Western scenes which gave him fame. On his latest work, "The Last of the Buffalo," he spent thirty years' time, and made several hundred sketches. The picture was in his mind when he followed the trail to Pike's Peak thirty-one years ago. . * • • AFTER all the discussion over Gen. Booth'* scheme of social regeneration set forth in the book entitled "In Dark­ est England," it now appears that the credit of originating the plan and of writing the book was due to Commis­ sioner Smith, of the Salvation Army, who has resigned his position. Mr. Smith's idea that the social working scheme should be kept distinct from the religious work of the army showed much practical wisdom; but the accept­ ance of that proposition would have in­ volved a division of the funds, and that is something which Gen. Booth appears to object to. THE food of humming birds consists mainly of insects, mostly gathered from the flowers they visit. An acute obser­ ver writes that even among the com­ mon flower-frequenting species he has found the alimentary canal entirely filled with insects and very rarely a trace of honey. It is tnis fact doubtless that has hindered almost all attempts at keeping them in confinement for I any length of time--nearly every one mak­ ing the experiment having fed his cap­ tives only with syrup, which is wholly insufficient as sustenanee, and seeing therefore the wretehed creatures grad­ ually sink into inanition and die of hunger. PARHKLL is one of the thousands of men and the soores of men eminent in history who have been wrecked by women. There is no inflnenee in the world so powerful for good as that of the woman who is what we all know our mothers and sisters to be, and there is nothing more demoralizing than the impulse given to a man by a bad woman. It is strange, too, that some of the victims of such enticements have been thoje who would resist any other ordinary temptation. The more sensi­ tively constituted the person, the more likely he is to play his career against a smile and his reputation for a kiss. It is only fair to say, however, that Mr. Parnell has never in his public manifested the least sensitiveness. m LORD WOLSELET has A very poor opinion of the white trader in Africa. He says it is useless to appeal to his humanity and feelings. The average trader, he says, does not care 'whether the vile alcohol he sells claims more viotims than war or pestilence, or whether the arms he barters for oil and ivory cause large districts to be laid waste by the slave dealer. If he only grows rich he cares nothing for all the suffering he may inflict, though Lord Wolseley adds that the mouth of the same trader is often filled with moral platitudes when he speaks in Europe on African topics. Lord Wolseley thinks African questions should be settled by the European powers, without any re­ gard for the wishes or opinions of Afri­ can traders. Ubf Jffew; Jersey, in a little over a year, prisoners, some of them the worst *Mnd of «criminals, in their respective and'wholly undeserving of any­ thing but full terms of sentence, have ; %een turned loose on society. Over­ crowded prisons is given as the excuse. WILLIAM'S personal finan- Hit is reported in Berlin, have been involved by his own reckless liture, and he has had to borrow ',0011 marks from the banker, Herr Bleichroder, on his note of hand. THE New York Herald is "agin" the doubly eylindered panta- It .says: ""The best way to begin ii* yith knee breeches, knick something of the sort LETTERS OLDBR THAN SOLO* MON. 0 400 Years Beleew Bta CktlMt'i Bnrth. The Smithsonian institution has just received information, not yet printed or made public in this country, of there- cent disoovery, at Tell-el-Amaria, in upper Egypt, of a number of tablets ro lating to the history of Jerusalem and dating back 600 years earlier than any records hitherto known. When it is understood that these tablets of stone are letters passed between the king of Jerusalem and the Pharaoh of Egypt 400 years before the birth of David, who was the father of Solomon, some notion will be formed of their extreme inter­ est These letters were written, so Dr. Cyrus Adler told a writer for the Star, about the year 1500 B. C., and cast a great light upon the relations of Egypt at that ancient epoch. This, of course, was long before Jerusalem was cap­ tured by the Jews. At that time, s*ys the Washington Star, Palestine was a federation of in­ dependent cities, each of whioh, like Jerusalem, was governed by a "prefect," the title meaning, literally, "king of a city." Nevertheless, these towns paid a tribnte to the Pharaoh, and it was in relation to this tribute that several of the letters found were addressed to the ruler of Egypt by the king of Jerusa­ lem, Abdi-Taba. In them lie tries to explain, with due I respect, that he oc­ cupies a more independent position, than the other prefeots, and ought to be treated accordingly. For example, in one missive he says: "Behold, this city of Jerusalem neither my father nor my mother has given unto me, but the call of a mighty king." This refers to the aneient custom in Palestine by which rulers were some­ times chosen in consequence of a sup­ posed divine call and without any ref­ erence to hereditary law. Having been summoned to his throne by • the Deity, Abdi-Taba argued that he should be treated more leniently with regard to tribute^ In another of' the letters he says: "Behold, neither my father nor mother has appointed me in this place, but the call of the mighty King has made me enter into the house of my fathers." That the "mighty King" spoken of was the Deity is proved by the fact that to him as authority is referred on oracle inscribed upon another tablet, which says that: "As long as a ship sails upon the sea, so long will Mesopotamia and Babylonia conquer." The chief aim of the three other let­ ters written by Abdi-Taba is to ask the Pharaoh for military aid against foreign conquerors invading Palestine, and es­ pecially the district ef Jerusalem. These warlike strangers he calls people of Habiri--in other words, they were He- brows. It seems hardly probable that the Hebrews as a nation should have in­ vaded Palestine at so early a date, and so it is likely that these were some ad­ vanced tribes of Israel which settled down west of the Jordan and xpade in- cursions.from time to time. Id one of the letters on this subject Abdi-Taba says: "The Habiri people are conquering the cities of the king5"--i e., tlie cities tributary to the Pharaoh--"therefore, the king may turn his face to his sub­ jects and, send troops. If the troops ar­ rive this year the countries of the king, my lord, may be saved, but if no troops arrive the countries of the king, my lord, will exist no longer." This tremendous "find" at Tell-el- Amaria includes 200 tablets, largely of Babylonian cuneiform script, which is thus discovered for the first time to have been in use at so early a period in Egypt and Palestine. Many of the other tablets are dispatches of about the same date from prefects of other cities of Palestine to the Pharaoh. Some of the inscriptions are in an unknown They were ItoSbt .Wo laws of health. For nothing boin- terfete iKth the wpilar|ty of sleeping an4 eatwg hoiS ̂ A' ̂ the mid­ night hoa* was ohonK for retiring, be­ cause it allowed* them evenings at the theater and an hour or so at even the most fashionable receptions. Wheu alone in their home they never indulged in an earlier hour, because then it un­ fitted them for entertainment of which they were very fond.--Chicago Herald. Be Fought for Show. *Soe here, you stepped on my foot!" • "Beg pardon," replied the stranger addressed, "I don't think I did." "Yes you did, or else you jabbed me with your elbow." "I don't believe ycfe know what you are talking about Xd&hHithink thai I touched you at all." \ ( "Yes you did, and we've gptW settle it right here." H-J3 "Settle it? How?" "Fight You've insulted iBM, and you've got to fight" ' "But I don't want to fight I've got nothing to fight about." "Well, I have. Come, git in shape," and before the surprised stranger could get out of the way he caught it "biff" under the eye. The fighting man danced around him and yelled, "Pub up S put up I" The stranger made a weak attempt to defend himself, but the fighter planted a whack on his jaw that brought him to the dirt "Git up how, neighbor; my honor is satisfied," he exclaimed as he assisted the fallen man to his feet MI never al­ low an insult to pus unsatisfied." The Dtranger walfeed .off rubbing his bead, and the fighter explained to a by­ stander : "I eome to town this morning with my gal, and I asked her if we should get bitched, geein's we was in town and had a chance. She said she didn't know about that, as all her folks was fighters from way back, and she'd never heerd o' me lickin' anybody; so she sed if I could lick some feller she'd have me, and I have licked him right under her very eyes, for there she stands across the street'and seen it all." The bystander looked and saw a frowzy-headed mountain girl across the etreet leaning against an ash barrel. "An' say, Mister," continued the fighter, mebby you let me have a few whacks at you; the other feller jest now warn't very big, and possibly she don't think I've done enough. We'll jest scuffle around an' I'll yell and paste you two or three, jist light, but she won't be able to tell but what we're fighting fer fair. We'll jest fight fer show." The other man agreed and they squared oft. The fighter let otffc two r»r three times, when his opponent let drive and caught him a terrific undercut on the chin. "Look here," panted the fighter as he spat out a tooth, "this ain't fair." ' "Ain't fait, Ley? How's that for fair, then ?" and the man plumped him in the eye so hard that it raised a lump on the back of his head. Biff! whack 1 "You kin fight a sick man for glory, but I can lick ye worse than you licked my brother." And he slammed him until the would-be fighter yelled murder. His girl came across the street and pulled him away, and as she led him away, ad­ ministering sundry shakes, she re­ marked : "Sim,-IH marry ye, not be­ cause you're anything of a fighter, but because you're the biggest' gol-durned fool in the hull State- ̂ --aTeaMW ing«. . Having Solid Comtort. "Why is it," said an observer to a De­ troit Free Press man, "why is it that a man always has a tendency, when he is after solid comfort, of getting hia feet higher than his head ?" "Give it up." "It's a fact, nevertheless," went on the speaker, "as all men can testify. No man thinks he is having real solid comfort if he has to sit in a room where language, which no one has so far been "everything is in apple-pie order. It A Sad Bomance. A pathetic story comes from City, Kan. Twenty-five years ago, two waifs, mere babes, brother and sister, were abandoned by German immigrants in Castle Garden. They were legally adopted, one by Asa Barr, the other by a Mrs. Evans. The latter, soon after ward, moved to Philadelphia and took her adopted daughter with her. The girl was given a good education and en joyed all the comforts of a pleasant home. Twenty years later the boy, grown to manhood and having taken his adopted father's name, moved also to Philadelphia. Chance drew the brother and sister together. Barr was captivated with the girl, and wooed, won, and married her. Soon afterwaad they moved to Kansas City. Not long ago Mrs. Evans died and shortly after a wealthy relative, living in Canada, also died, leaving her a neat fortune which, as she was dead, rightfully went to the adopted daughter. The case was in the courts last week and during an investi­ gation the true relationship of Mr. and Mrs. Barr was discovered. The terrible knowledge prostrated Mrs. Barr and the husband is grief-stricken. Steps will be taken for a legal separation. Welcome M Visitor, But Not M Qacen. The Spaniards did not eare to live under the rule of Isabella, in those days a more than plump and exceed- iQgly good-natured ex-queen; but they seem to have become very fond of her now that she is only a visitor. She went to Madrid last January, intending rto stay a week; instead of that, she staid four months. When the Queen travels about she has always witli her in the railway carriage a box filled with the keepsakes and family relics whioh she has received during the thirty years of her reign, and wherever she resides the relics are placed about heTrooiT able to translate. It is funny to think that Solomon would have looked upon tlieae tablets as remote antiquities. ., Slut Made » Cruel Mistake. .• ; A maiden lady much given to enter­ taining poets, tenors, and the celebrities of the day, is no longer young, but still full of sentiment, and not above falling violently in love with a man who can strike high C. or write Swinbnrnian verses, i^st season she had an Italian vocalist here. He was jealously guarded by an old wife. One Sunday evening he and she gorged themselves with the dainty viands. After the dinner was over, and as the guests were about pass- ing into the drawing-room, Mi-- F. said to ner colored butler: "That was the aignor's plate, wasn't it?" The dusky factotum nodded his head. "Well, gather up those cherry pits and save them for me." Again the dark-skinned Ethiope smiied and bowed. The next day Miss F. took the cherry pita to her jeweler and gave directions to have them made into a bracelet A few days ago the singer returned to New York. Miss F. made haste to call upon his wife taking good care to choose an hour when the husband would most likely beat home. She had the good fortune to find him in the bosom of his family, and, (in spite of the cigarette smoke and odor 6t garlic, Miss F. poured oat her soul to the gifted artist, while his wife was engaged in conversa­ tion with other guests. "Look, signor," she whispered, as she displayed her unique bracelet; "do you remember the litt le dinner at my house ? Well, that bracelet is made of the stones of the cherries eaten by you that even­ ing." "Cherries? Eaten by me?" exolaimed the Italian. "A thousand pardons, madame. I abominate the fruit Oh, I detest cherries, but my wife adores them, and she always leaves, a big pile of these little bullets. It ii wonderful how many she can eat especially when they are brandied-cherries." Miss F. hasn't worn that unique bracelet since she received this piece of information. "Beauty Sleep.'* It is all nonsense about sleep" coming in the hours before mid- niffht. and that the rosy cheeks on the country lass is the reward of retiring at the time when the proverbial pale-faced city girl's evening commences. The late hours of fashionable life would not necessarily scatter the roses from the cheeks if the late hour for retiring could be the same every night without variation. It is irregular hours and meals that cause pale and haggard faces. The handsomest couple I ever saw retired regularly at 11.30, and al­ ways indulged in a light lunch just be­ fore retiring. They were both pictures of heal tli. The lady did not look over 25, though she never hesitated to say that she was 38 years old, and the hus­ band looked at least ten years younger m%y be because men are naturally care' less, or it may be that they never know what to do with their feet and hands. Men, as a rule, hate ceremony from the bottom of their hearts. At a wedding it is the bride who is sweet and smiling, the groom who is frightened and un­ comfortable. At & bail the fair bud makes the circle of the room easy and graceful, smiling and bowing to her friends, while the gentleman at her side, no matter what may be his outward de­ meanor, is inwardly, let him but con­ fess it, ill at ease and always foreboding lest his collar is slipping under his ears, his shoes are dusty, his gloves are cracking up the back, or heaven knows what else. No, sir, man is seldom at ease in the midst of order and nice ar­ rangement, whether in the bosom of his family or elsewhere.. He wants to get his feet higher than his head, smoke and read the paper. He wants to wade around knee-deep in old magazines and pamphlets; he wants to lliok cigar ashes, without molestation, on the carpet, on window sills or on the piano. You have met with such a customer before --you have one, perhaps, right at home? Well, if you have, don't enter an em­ bargo on his freedom, for of such is hu­ manity, married life and likewise, let us hope, the kingdom of heaven." Jewolry In Amencib It is a false notion that everything precious in the line of jewe'ry is only found in the Old World. Rock crystal, which admits of such a high polish and which is much used in jewelry now, is found in large quai ities in North Caro­ lina, Virginia, Georgia, and Arkansas. In Maine there is a mountain called Mount Mica, but of whioh tourmalines to the value of $100,000 a year are taken. Moonstone is found in Vir- gnia, and the soil of New Mexico is enriched with sapphires, rubies, and garnets. The future may see the cities o( this continent surpassing in beauty the Jerusalem of Solomon. HOW TO GET A 25S SUGGESTION 8 TOWARD OB- I TAINING THE MEAN?. Kv«ry KM Receiving XTalr Wages Can Owe m Home--Don't Kxpect • Stroke of Good Luck to Build It--It's the Dollar# 84ved that Gaunt--Flees CMta|* tr E. ikr. ghoppell* ' \ ^ [Copyright.j ' , Those who have means are direotly benefitted by the publication of plans, but those who have no means may be almost equally benefitted if it awakens ih them an ambition to save and acquire money with whioh to build. The man of no means must take a broad and sensible view of the mattter. He must not expect that some stroke of good luck will enable him to build a cottage within a few weeks or a few months. He must carefully figure out the probable time in which he can save the sum required. If it be two years, or three years, or five years, very well. Remember, that the most successful men are those who work in the present to accomplish well defined purposes in the future. Nearly every man receiving fair wages can save something if he fully deter­ mines to do so. Do not use tobacco nor drink beer. Do not imitate the rich, neither in dress nor table.. Do not Bay yes to thriftless fellows who ask for loans when the reply ought to be no. Pay cash for everything and see that the dealer gives full weight and Si* PERSPECTIVE* good quality. Do not keep a big dog and a lot of pets who consume as much food as half the family. Do not send money to strangers for "novelties;" meritorious goods generally find their way into legitimate channels of trade, where they can be examined before pur­ chasing. Do not place a high estimate on being called a "good fellow." The most respeeSed men of every community are the "close" men, those who live well within their incomes, who pay as they go and whose words ate usually as good as their bonds. To become a man of means not only requires the saving of part of the pres­ ent income, but, if possible, the increase of the present income. If health does not require it, do not take so many holidays. Accept the agenoy for some good book or newspaper and call upon the neighbors during evening hours for subscriptions. Work up au insurance -and real estate business. Seoure the management of looal property Qwned by non-residents. Take care of a ohurch. Try literary work. Cultivate [tost a Medicine. A physician, writing of rest.as a med­ icine, recommendfs a short nap in the middle of the day, for those who oan take it, as a beneficial addition to the night's sleep. It divides the working time, gives the nervous system a fresh hold on life, and enables one to do more than make up for the time so occupied. A caution is given against the indulg­ ence of too long a sleep at such a time, under a penalty of disagreeable relaxa­ tion. There has been much discussion regarding the after-dinner nap, many believing it to be injurious, but it is, nevertheless, natural and wholesome. ntUsburgh Dispatch, „ A lucky Girt. Maud--Clara Highily is just the luck­ iest girl. Edith--She has many lovers? Maud ever so many, and she has only one little brother, and he was brought up in Paris, and doesn't know a word of English.--Neio York Weekly. BETTER to scrimp the body than starv«4he soal. Porch Kitchen. 9 9 x 10 Li'virfJIK^ Bed R.^ 3'9xl0' Porch. FIBST FLOOB. a garden and raise pigs and poultry. Keep everything moving with the ob­ ject constantly in view of making and saving money. If these brief suggestions cause the moneyless man to put on his "thinking cap" to devise ways aud means of bet­ tering his conditoin, he has fairly taken the first step on the road to fortune. He may become so well-to-do that the pottage illustrating this article will be too modest for him. However that may b ,̂ a brief description of the cottage is as follows; GENERAL DIMENSIONS.--Width 31' ft; Bed R. 3 9Vll' Bed R 9'9"x l l' "cio. SECOND FLOOR. depth, including front perch, 26 ft Heights of stories--First story, 8 ft 6 in.; second story, 8 ft EXTERIOR MATKHIALS. -- Foundation, posts or piers; first story and gables, shingles; roofs, shingles and tin. INTERIOR FINISH.--Hard white plas­ ter. Soft wood flooring, trim and stairs. Interior wood-work finished with hard oil. * COLORS.--Side gable and roof shingles left natural color. Tr|m, ivory white. Sashes, ivory white. Blinds, colonial yellow. Porch ceiling and floor, oiled. i ACCOMMODATIONS.--The principal rooms and their sizes closets, etc, are shown by the floor plans. Glazed front door. COST.--$675. The estimate is based on New York prices for materials and labor. FEASIBLE MODIFICATIONS,--Heights of stories, general dimensions, materials and colors may be changed. Porch may be extended. Sloping roof in place of flat roof may be built over kitchen and bedroom, giving one or two additional rooms in the second story. Clapboards may be substituted for shingles. Open fireplace may be planned in living room. Living room may be divided into two rooms. First story bedroom may be used as a sitting-room or parlor. Cellar may be placed under part or whole of house. THE watchmaker is doomed to per­ petual apprenticeship. Even when he pretends to be in business for himself he is ratflj "serving his time." The oversew • " * " the lM&defeartns«nt " "MI much , the new been assigned to his department "She is healthy, neat, and quiok in her movements," he said to an assistant "She has the face of an intelligent, hon­ est and ambitious girl. I have put her at the towel counter, but if she does well, as I think she will, it will not be long before she will be promoted to the lace counter." "You are inclined to favor her," was the comment. "Only because I think she is an ex­ ceptionally good girl, and will deserve it," was the reply. "I know that she is poor and needs steady work badly." Miss Scott, the girl in question, soon impressed all the other saleswomen with the conviction of her cleverness. She talked well and much upon every subject but-- linen. She had thought more than any of her comrades upon the question of suitable occupations for women, and startled them by her fluency. "Why should not women, educated in the law, sit in the judge's seat?? she said to her companions. "Are they not quite as likely to be honest as men? Did you read that decision in the case to-day ? Anything more unjust " "Have you huckaback towels?" asked a customer. She turned apparently irritated at the interruption, flung down the pack­ age, and wen ton whispering; "HI had been the judge in that case, or the prosecuting attorney " j "These are not huckaback." "Then we have none." The customer turned away. "A more atrocious injustice " continued Miss Scott. The overseer happened to be near and overheard what had been said. "We have a large line of huckabaoks!" he exclaimed, sharply* "Show them !" The next day she was explaining what she would do if she were an artist. "I have no patiefice with women who are content to paint menus and china plates. If the time ever comes when I can devote myself to art,--noble figures " "Double damask fringed^" said a busy matron, memorandum in hand. Miss Scott placed some goods before her. "No, these are Scotch. I want Irish." Miss Soott looked hopelessly along the shelves. The overseer, who had grown (anxious with regard to her, stood near, and motioned to another woman to take customer. "Why do you not learn the shelves when you are not waiting on customers?" he asked. He caught sight of a pamphlet hid under the counter, "Higher Employments for Women," and understood the cause. One day, two or three weeks later, her mind was so full of the opportunities for women to hold political salons in this country, as she had heard they do in France, that she made a mistake as to the price of Bussiau crash, and sold it at half its value. "I really have not learned the mean­ ing of all the tags on the goods," she said, scornfully, to the overseer. "Then you must go elsewhere to find other work," he said. "You are dis­ charged. But remember, the woman who is not faithful in selling a yard of towelling will be no more trustworthy in dealing with the affairs of nations.* - Youth's Companion. Life on the Houaetop. We have all heard of the roofs of Jerusalem, much the finest feature of the town, no doubt--yet the whole of Jerusalem is a trifle compared to the life on the roofs of New York. In a place where land is valued as it is on this island, there is a great city underground and a great fraction of the life of the place is spent on the roofs. In the sum­ mer the tenement roofs are the pleasure resorts of the poor. Beginning at Bax­ ter street and continuing north to Har­ lem, on the east side, the demand for sleeping places on the cool and breezy roofs is so great that only first comers find places--the tardy ones find no sleeping room left Then, too, the tenement roofs are greatly in use as ball rooms on early summer evenings. There the boys and girls dance to the music of mouth-organs and accordions. They are great places for lovers to woo in.- The parks and the roofs are the courting grounds of the poor, for there is no privacy ia the tiny crowded homes. The roofs of hundreds of the clieapei* apart­ ment houses are the clothes-drying grounds, and the tenants are obliged to take their turns at this use of the space, the first-floor tenants having the roof on Mondays, the seoond-floor tenants on Tuesday, and so on. Leaving these crowded hives we turn to what the English call the "self-contained," or separate dwellings, and here again the roofs are utilized. Some are quite elaborately fitted up in summer with awnings and swinging hammocks--even with cots at night. We know of one which supports a glass-inclosed apart­ ment with a bath tank for use all the year around. Business of various kinds are also carried on above the garrets, the business of solar printing, of pelt and fur drying, of preparing rushes, wicker stuff for chairs and many other callings. A California Op or* Chorus In 1SS8. General Vallejo's readiness of apt anecdote was always remarkable. Patti once dined with him, and asked the old soldier if he enjoyed the first opera he ever heard. "Why, no," said Vallejo; "and yet I confess I shall never forget it" This reply aroused Patti's curiosity, and she demanded wheu and where the event took place. t "In 1828, on the site of the Palace Hotel. San Francisco." "Indeed! And who was the prima donna so long ago as that? "Well, I can't say," was the smiling answer; "but there were at least five hundred coyotes in the chorus.*--Cen­ tury. Mo Escape. Waddle--Why are you so cross ? Foddle--Confound the luck, I had some satisfaction thinking I had got out of the ice man's clutohes when he quit delivering. Waddle--Didn't you. Foddle--No. Ha went right into the coal business.--Detroit Free Press. The Walls In the Moon. Professor Holden, of Lick Observa­ tory, reports that in pictures of the moon lately taken there are plainly vis­ ible parallel walls, the tops of which are only about two hundred yards wide and not more than twelve hundred yards apart. He offers no oonjecture of their meaning. "I BAT, Bobby," whispered Featherly, "did yoii* sister say that she hoped my trip would do me good?" "Yes, she told me last night that if Mr. Featherly went West she hoped he would go for food." COL.D-BM Grant end Mepolnon on the Ylelfli «f' --Marat's Bravery. The -j great Genes*! afaeoM 9, make ° pcemfrt and well^mSi cisions he should be oalm and inea£» able of excitement in great and auddeit emergencies. But in order to his sobers and keep tfaeiu .^ioa Mg! moral pitch he should be capable of en» Ciiasm and high spirits. It is need- to say that the two qualities ac| not often perfectly united, and whein thev are found so joined the result ist military genius. Gen. Grant was one of the coolest' men in the world; bnt his splendid 00m fidence and cheerfulness often partook of the nature of enthusiasm and ill- • , spired his soldiers, as well as ia years his civilian fellow-citiaens, witli • ardent admiration and sympathy. • ' > 1 ^ It is a somewhat strange thing, re­ marks the Youth's Companion, that France, the nation of hot Mood, should have produced a long line of Genendt"- who showed the oompletost sa&g-froi$ on the field of battle, Napoleon some":--; times assumed a certain ardor, but nothing could exicte him if he did n<it " choose to be excited. Murat, Napo­ leon's chief of cavalry, whose splendid • enthusiasm won many desperate charges, would be as cool as his mastcjfc: upon occasion.. At the taking of Moscow, while th|«5 troops sat in their saddles under a mxxpA derous fire, Murat received a dispatcMi to which an answer was requireqp- Though his mettlesome horse wdi* trembling, Murat laid the reins upott the horn of the saddle, took his notn book in one hand and a pencil in thlt's W"'i f . -" 'Vd s*, 1 , if, 1 if" »4 t; fM •f-3 ' -iK »; ,v; " s i ' • J X r ' other, and fcpgan to write a response. >, >" x Suddenly a shell fell and exploded o* ' the ground close by. The horse leape# v. «," into the air, and swung wildly around^' Murat simply transferred the pencil t|>,, ' the hand that held the note-bool$^: :v calmed the horse with the other handi> and went on writing his dispatch as it :' nothing had happened. A shout of admiration went up along the line. Mnrat saw that the enthusfi?^ ' asm aroused by his trifling act had crcji : ated a favorable moment for a charge^ He gave the order, and his men swepit;; clear through the enemy's line. ! - It is said that Gen. Reynier ono# saved the French army, in Ca!abrii^i% 1806, from a oomplete route simply bjptjvK the manner in'which he smoked a ctaativj?^; The English infantry had comp^le^ the French to retreat Reynier, fear*g*; ing a panic, remained to the last an4.-«, - brought up the rear. Though the English fire was murderous, he ha< lighted a cigar, and his retreating ine) noticed that the puffs of smoke wen*: -~< up, as his horse went slowly on, wi absolute regularity. Puff! Await! Puff! Anotherwait^X Puff The enemy were pouring OB^|I, firing vigorously as they Rdvanced, bu^ nothing cottld accelerate Reynier^ J; smoking. His soldiers rallied undeR , the inspiration of the queer speotaolij^ and got off in good order. Perhaps the most cold-blooded com­ mander who ever lived was the French General, Saint-Cyr. He was a grea|/ tactician, but totally neglected the mo* rals of his men. He was never sera on horseback, and never showed himself before the lines. Oft one oecasinC". when he was simply a general of divis* '/'•'V 4 ion, the impetuous Marshal Oudinofa-* y puzzled to know what to do in an emei&j*' J gency, asked' Saint-Cyr's -advice frankly telling him that hie was Mnonj#|$ plused." 4 "You monseigneur," said Saint-Qvr|w 1 "are a Marshal of the Empire, ana tV ;: am a General of Division. I shall r faithfully carry out your orders, bu||^ it would not bo becoming for me to adf;^/; vise you." ' Later on Saint-Cyr succeeded to th4^';! command of the army, and the#'/." adopted a peculiar method of ge»> 1. eralship. He formed his plan d ' battle clearly, precisely and with ad*;.-': mirable foresight. Then he sent Me orders to his subordinates, aM shut" himself up in his quarters, absolutely^,, forblding entrance to a single soul.,, ', Then he took out his violin and wen| .?.> '. to studying a hard piece of musio a* , . f , tranquilly as if he had been in (fie midst of profound peace. The battle whioh won Saint-Cyr hit baton as a Marshal of the Empire waiV- fought while he was fiddling in hit' tent. He had apparently foresee#. ; -. everything, and the carrying out of ;• plams completely crushed the enemy* • -Vt The Country Doctor*A Busy Day, Sunday is a busy day for the dooto*^ A good many people put off being eielr'>- •: till Sunday, especially in haying timet. _ ? and the calls began to come in earlyw^/|*';^^;:||'-::^ So the narrow buggy went down tbli y road and did not return till late. Sun* 7 - ; ; day school was in session and the chil* ^ "1 drensang: • . _ . .. ^ KiC'J* ' rt 1 -• W*V 11 .* "Day of all the week the best, Emblem of eternal rest." A group of young women in wh»i ^ ' ' .'V * * - came out of the little burying ground and through my open window I coul4< hear gossip and laughter as they picke£ their way among the white headstones; Then a party of ladies dressed in deep ^ j mourning appeared. Standing apam . ^ * was a young couple chatting in a sheep* \ ( ^ ish way. A small girl, with curiosity-),- abnormally developed, pretended to [l read the inscription on a tombstonfi ; near by, while she absorbed the convete- sation. The cabinet organ was again and the children, with the olc~ people in the churoh, sang: "He carry you through." The voice of j Dominie Thompson rolled out in ring tones as he sought Divine guidance and blessing for the beloved chikhw#. of his flock.--November Scribner. --.--•11-1 .i ••• ' •-- The Bow Unbent* -V^.- ;vif , "Yes," said the young man as threw himself at the feet of the pretty , ' > V$ -.1 school-teacher, "I love you and woul4¥.: go to the world's end for yon. luHjjy would not go to the end of the world fofya> me, James. Tho world, or the earthp; as it is called, is round like a ballL " > slightly flattened at the poles. One of the first lessons in the elemeatary ge*. ^ ography is devoted to the shape of the . globe. You must have studied it whetj' » v you were a boy." "Of oourse I did/ ^ ' but--" "And it is no longer a theory^' *,, ^ Circumnavigators have established the • faat." " I know, but what I meant wa^ V ^ t that I would do anything to please Ah! Minerva, if you knew the aching"' < 't't-ifc . void--" "There is no such tiling as A '- ^ . . . . . . . '<-• .i ' * A 's ki.jl h&Cu. Av k '•'1 vpid, James. Nature abhors avacuumj.'.y;?^" but admitting that there could be such . V \ ? a thing, how could the void you spealt , j, v , • of be a void, if there was an ache in it?*. "Well, at all events," exclaimed the,, youth, "I've got a pretty fair balance in "'t ̂ the savings bank, and I want you to bt ' iV T; my wife. There!" "Well, James, - iv J since you put it in that light, X--'Cy. \ „ v*; Arkansaw Traveller. * ETHEL--How do you manage iodise, * tinguished the men who wish" to marry * K<- *3! for money from those who really love * ^ yem? Maud--Those who really me make such awful fools of themselves ̂ lis