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mm t. VAN StVKC, Mtor art PIMMMT ILLINOFFLL WAUINCi y c . . rHE BROOK:. -At your age, my bonny Alloc-- Orandma a eyes hail a dreamy look-- la all sorts of summer weather loci and X would go together JL Wading Iti tho brook. Tfe Urlglit and oarly in tbe morning, - • ,-i Stealing off bv book or crook, Hearth as light as any feather. > XAughing lips wouid oome together Wading in the brook. • "When the noonday pun was hot testy "We the haying field forsook. |> And with bare feet touch as leathery Merrily splfished and dashed togattt#^ Wading in the brook. After chores, and after Bupptr, After reading of "the book." ttboatly moonlight on the hei.tib.ar Kade us closer cling together. Wading in the brook. ' Tom is deRd now--don't cry. darling! ffVuin work chafed him; off he shook At fifteen, the old home tether? Wading in the brook. In this stuffy, r,tiffing city, J Fancy frames a shady nook. " In ail sorts of summer weather, aa.i 1 still go together, Wading in the brook. tarthand Halt . I some woman being stabbed, and one be­ ing in St. Pancras parish, a meeting of tbe inhabitants was called at the Percy Coffee House, and an association was formed "to nightly patrol the street)) of the #outh division of St. Paucras, front half an hour before sunset, till 11 at night for thepublic safety,and especially to guard that "which a Muusteiy or Monsters, in opposition to tbe dictates of nature and humanity^ have dared to assault and wound with wanton and savage cruelty." kiij THE RIPPEK IX 1790. •MONSTER" OF ONE HON­ ORED YEARS AGO. hwlm4mt Wu Tcrrtfled by u Kceen- •rte Gentlrmau with a Knife--Tbe Car- Ist'n Commenta and the Final Cap­ 's of the Miscreant. of friends at the prison, the same class of people who now pets oondemned murderers taking delight in flattering the morbid sramp. The Monster was described as a charming dancer. His adroitness was certainly well attested in his previous pursuits. None of the nine Judges who finally sat iu Sergeant's Inn Huii Upon Will iams' case (just one hundred years ago this month) decided that the offenses he had committed, notwithstanding the finding of the jury, wore not within the statute, and that the finding was bad in law. This reduced the m< sters crime to a misdemeanor, and he was again brought to trial for assault with intent to kill and for two common assaults. After a trial of thirteen hours ..Williams was found guilty and was i -finally sent to Newgate for two years jin each case, not a very serious sen­ tence in view of the public excitement. What finally became of Williams is not known. The recollection of the Monster did not quickly fade away, for we read in the Times. December^ 20, 1799: "Another new Monster on Wed' tiesdav made his appearance in town, His passion is for biting the ladies' toes and finger ends. They say bis name is Frost." THE ARIZONA KICKER. FEW KICKS i#ORtHY OP A KICKER- MONSTKB.' T was just a century ago that London had in custody the most distinguished prede­ cessor of "Jack the Ripper." Ashton's "Old Times" contains But Nemesis was'at hand. One of his victims, the Miss Porter who was stabbed aft^the drawing-room, on the Queen's birthday, was walking with Mr. John Colemau in St- James Park on Sunday, June 13, when the Monster passed her. The woman exclaimed. "There is the wretch who wounded me." Coleman's conduct, though not seem­ ingly recognized as feeble at the time, a curious account of j seems very tame in the reading. Ac- the episode in clip- j cording to the eccouut, Coleman left l ings and comments Ifiran the newspapers of the day and in dm wings from the cartoons of the period. In the early spring of 1790 murmurs %eg*A to be heard of ladies being at- ' lacked and stabbed by "a monster in • %nwtn form." The murmurs were low * aft first and "monster" was printed with *• small "m;" but very shortly they p*ew into a roar, and no capitals were Jbcnd too large for THE MONSTER. iXndeed, before that, as far back as Y*y, 1788. a Mrs. Smith had been stabbed in the upper part of her thigh hj a. man in Fleet stiett and was even #oilt«red bVUipi to a house in Johnson's Ootxrt, to whicn^Jihe was going, and watched by him until she was let in. Other women were stabbed and had Sfceir dresses cut, and much pnblic ex­ citement and indignation was engen­ dered. The miscreant was a com­ bination of "Jack the Ripper" aud '"Jack the Inkalinger" of these days. A young Jady named Porter was seriously •stabbed while returning in gay raiment *1Beat a drawing-room at St. James'. > "MONSTER CUTTING A LAST. -From a Cartoon of 1790. •Mr. John Julius Angerstein, whose ! "••tot will be associated with the be- j ginning of the National Gallery, was ' wy active and opened a subscription : mt Lloyd's --to which the guineas flowed ! saerriiv--for the capture and conviction «€*The Monster." The police began to j bestir themselves, aud they, too, issued •placard*. One will serve as a type Mrf all* PUBLIC Orric:E. BOW Street, > J THUBSDAY. April 29. 1790. f ' -GSE HUN DEED POUNDS EEWAED, ^Several ladies having, of late, been in- ftamanly cut and maimed l>y a person an- • aw firing t lie following description, whoever wlU ap5>r<ihen<l him. or trive Wiel) informa- ! t»oii V,'ttir Sampson Wright, at the above •afflffie, as may be the means of his being apprehended, shall immediately upon his committal to prison, receive flftv pounds from Mr. Augerrit-ein, of tall Mall, and farther sum of lilty pounds upon his e®n- *letao7i. 31. B.--He appears to be about thirty vears -of age, of middle size, rather thin make, a little pock-marked, of a pale complexion, t iange nose, light brown hair, tied in a queue, • «a>short and frizzled low at the sides, is aoinefimes dressed in blaek and sometimes >ia a shabby blue coat, sometimes wears -•Craw-colored breeches, with half boots, -sometimes laced up before, sometimes wears a cocked hat, and at other times a round hat with a very high top. and gen­ erally carries a Wangee cane in his hand, "All servants are recommended to take -aotwe if any man has stayed at home, with- j -oat apparent cause, within these few days Miss Porter in charge of her friend! "and followed the man, who walked very fast, eveidently he bad been noticed, and endeavored to dodge about from Spring Gardens to Admiralty Passage, back again to Spring Gt.rdens, and up Cockspur street to Pall Mall; thence to St. James street and Bolton street, where he knocked at the door of a house and was let ID. He stayed there about five minutes and then went to Piccadilly, and St. James street; and finally to Oxford road, where he knocked at the door of an empty honse. Then Mr. Coleman spoke to him and asked him what was the use of knocking so violently at a house palpably empty; and he replied that he knew the people of the house, named Pierce, and knocked again for three or four minutes. He then crossed to South Molton street, knocked at a house and was admitted. Mr. Coleman asked the master of the house, Mr. Smith, for information as to the man, but he refused to give any, un­ less some reason was assigned. Mr. Coleman replied that the other had in­ sulted some ladies under his protection and that he demanded satisfaction. The Monster offered to meet him at any coffee house and gave his address as 52 Jermvn street. Mr. Coleman then let him go, but upon second thoughts hur­ ried back, and again met him in St. James street, and looking at him told him he did not think he was what he described himself, and asked him to come with him to Mr. Porter's house, which was not far off. He consented, and on seeing him two of the Miss Por­ ters immediately fainted, but upon re­ covery unhesitatingly declared him to be 'the wretch.' He turned to Mr. Coleman and asked, '£)o the ladies sus­ pect me to be the person advertised? Am I suspected?' " He was given into * custody, and on June 13 the newspapers gave full ac­ counts of his capture and examination. He proved to he a native of Wales, named Reuwick Williams, aged about twenty-three, who had been sent when a bov as apprentice to Sir John Gallini with a view to his becoming a dancer on the stage. A misunderstanding as to the disappearance of a watch severed this connection, and he then led a verv loose life. For a short time he was a lawyer's clerk. Then, after being much reduced, he met and became en­ gaged with a maker of artificial flow­ ers. When arrested he was dressed very respectably in a blue coat, lined and edged with buff, buff waistcoat and satin breeches. His face was considered handsome. DEFENSE AGAINST THE "MoNSTEB. From a cartoon of 1790. Numerous women identified him, and there was much difficulty in protecting te,; :• 4urtog the daylight. All washerwomen and i him from the furv of"A."mob* InK- V,« servants should lake notice of anv blood on ! " " ̂ Hie luiy of a mob. In July he *nuin s hankerchief or lineu, as the wretch 1 trled at ™e ^d Bailey, charged generally fetches blood when he strikes. ! ^h making an assault upon Ann servants should examine if any man Frost, spinster, and wickedlv. will- •SEVt? lET.irer '̂l;:,,,S;.Srlv i ?U"-T »"d tearing ** .pon *ucks;.and maidservants are to be told that : lD® garments, "•-- •a.hick is generally at the head of a stick, I petticoats and shift ' Wmch wines out by a sudden jerk. All cut- I against the statute %ux are desired to wateh if any man an- ewcring to the sbove descriptions is de- pro- •airous -a&arp. All bakers' men were asked to ^ of having his weapon attack verj^ give in that case vided." Other similar indictments were found against him, and he pleaded not guilty, engaging counsel. His master and *4v • • St- •KJtxce at every house they called aC of i others tried to prove an alibi and the file above reward, and Mr. Angerstein j JU(^Ke'8 charge was ratLer favorable to ^promised twenty pounds to any man by „ e Ijr}so_ner. hut the jury convicted. *^rhese instrumentality the Monster was •discovered. The theaters had songs Caying on the name Monster. One iy was fortunate enough to escape be- j • leg wounded by having an apple in her ! >f»eket, an incident wtich gave rise to aome poetic effusion: 1 Eve, for ail apple lost immortal life. ' ;ftom you out* njiple turned ihe Monster's knife! yOui greater proof, since Eve, l>e given Of diabolical strife. Or iiut-rpohiiig heaven? "TBbe apple was, in days of yore, Anagcnr to tho devil. Whim Eve was tempted to explore .^H»b wii*© of (rood <1 lid evil; • But pro.-ent chronicles can give •'4* iiiotiiuee qui: e uncommon, Hkiw that which mined Mother Eve Satb bavod a modem woman. ./ The Monster kept steadily at his work, îlmost every day brought its tale of The Judge, however, was uncertain how to act under so novel a charge and i decided to lay the matter over . until' the December sessions. j There were many accounts of the trial, and numerous portraits of Wil­ liams were published. The young man was slender and pale and wore powdered hair, "en quene." The car­ toonists taking the matter up gave as much tone as possible to the situation, recommending seriously that women should wear copper petticoats. One of the cartoons shows a coppersmith at work riviting upon a woman a metal skirt. Another shows the Monster about to devour a pretty girl. It is called "The Monster Going to Take His Afternoon Luncheon." Meanwhile Love of Lite, Phrenologists have assignod to a pro­ tuberance under the ear the faoulty of " vitativeness," or love of life, and some of them assume that in proportion to the size of the bump is the strength of the vital element in the individual. HoWever this may be, that the love of life is intense in some minds, and scarcely exists in others, nobody, of course, will deny; and it is no less true that persons who earnestly desire to live can keep a mortal disease at bay much longer than those who are com­ paratively indifferent to their fate. The tenacity with which some men cling to life is marvelous. We had an instance of this in the case of a noted pugilist, several years ago, who was shot in the breast during a bar-room scuffle, and his condition was pro­ nounced hopeless by the surgeons. But he scoffed at their opinions, and actually lived several days with a ball in his heart; keeping his hold upon life--so it seemed--by sheer force of will. A resolute determination not to suc­ cumb is, as every army surgeon knows, the salvation of many a wounded soldier, who without it would assuredly die. In the Crimean war the mortality among the wounded "Turks was much greater than among the wounded French and English. The latter wrestled stoutly with deatti and often baffled^ him when their doom seemed inevit­ able; but the predestinarian Mussul­ man, when dangerously injured, said gloomily, "It is my kismet" (fate), turned his face toward Mecca, and gave up the ghost. There can be no doubt that love of life *ud vigor of will have been the means of restoring to health thousands of patients who, but for these mental characteristic**, must have perished.-- New York Ledger. The Rooks of the l'ast Year. > Facts and figures are sometimes dry and uninteresting; but those which give the statistics of the publications for the past year in this country and in Eng­ land are of uncommon significance. It appears that there were 4,559 books published in and imported into the United States in 1890, as against 4,014 in 1889, 4,631 in 1888, 4,437 in 1887 and 4.675 in 1886. Of these 4,559 books 3,180 were new works manufactured in this country, the rest being new edi­ tions and importations. The greatest activity was shown, as usual, in fiction, of which there were no fewer than 935 new books published-- three for every week day in the year. There were also 105 new editions of novels printed, and seventy-eight were imported; making a total of 1,118 works of fiction in all. In 1889 the total num­ ber published was 842, and iu 1888, 874. Iu England, on the other hand, the flood of fiction is growing less in volume. Last year there were only 381 fljpj novels published, against 1,040 in 1889 and 929 in l88§. The last three years have seen a steady falling off in the total number of books published in England. Last yetir there were 5,735. including new books and new editions; in 1889, 6,067; and in 1888, 6.591. A year ago the London Academy accounted for this decrease on the theory that the newspapers, reviews and magazines were supplying the wants of the public and were taking the place of books. The English figures for 1890 go to confirm this view; but the extra­ ordinary productivity of American authors has turned the tide upward in this country. The figures for 1890 are not much below the maximum for 1886, when the extraordinary number of 4.676 books was published. In this country famous writers, espe­ cially novelists, are turning more and more to the newspapers for a first market for their works, and the in­ fluence upon the book trade of the newspaper and of the half dozen great magazines is a matter that may become of as great importance in this country as it now seems to be in England. The Poitsible Solution of the Flying Prob­ lem. Mr. O. Chanute, in an address on aTonauties. delivered at Cornell Uni­ versity, gives it as his opinion that we are nearing a distinct stage in the prog­ ress towards a practical system of serial navigation. Mr. Chanute thinkf: that success with seroplones, if it comes at all, is likely to be promoted by the navigable balloon. It now seems not improbable that the course of develop­ ment will consist first in improvements of the balloon, so as to enable it to stem the winds most usually prevailing and then in using it to obtain the in­ itial velocity required to float aero­ planes. Once the stability of the latter to-wit, the gown, is well demonstrated, perhaps the gas of the said Ann i bag can be diapensed aitli altogether, and self-starting, self-landing machines substituted, which shall sail faster than any balloon ever can. If we are to judge of the future by the past, such improvements are likely to be won by successive stages, each fresh in venter adding something to what has been ac­ complished before; but still, when once a partial success is obtained, it is likely to attract s6 much attention that it is not impossible that improvements will follow each other so rapidly that some of the present generation will yet see men safely traveling through and on the air at a speed of fifty or sixty miles per hour. tlow the Deadlock In the Council W»» Hrnlroj*--A Wsrfc oT CaSi4®» SMJtl SoiS3& Timely Advice to the Mityor'ami City Marshal--Pointers as to How an A risen a Bank Should be Conducted. 'HE Detroit Free Fress has extract­ ed from the last issue of the Ari­ zona Kicker some of the very im­ pertinent editorial paragraphs ap­ pearing therein. Among the most important are the following: A WIS. M:V- The deadlock iu the Common Coun­ cil was broken by the absence of CoL Taylor. The Colonel couldn't help be­ ing absent. Some of the boys bad him out in the suburbs, under a tree, with a rope around his neck. It was either hang or break the combination, and the Colonel decided to help break it. We want to say right here and now that if there is any more "fussing" in the council we will move to impeach the whole gang, and if we can't get 'em impeached we'll head a body of out­ raged citizens and olean 'em out to a man. They were elected to do public business, and the public is in no humor to put up with their personal quarrels. Col. Taylor exhibited wisdom in com­ ing down off his high horse, and we trust the lesson he received will not soota be forgotten. T £ HIS HONOR AND THE CITY MARSHAL A Healthy Location. City Man (looking for.a home in the suburbs)--I like this place very much, but I am told it isn't liealthy. Agent--Ain't healthy ? D'ye see that mule ovor in that field ? That mule hez lived here all his life, an' it ain't a week since he kicked a locomotive off th* track.--New York Weekly. . - -- WE bear of a young lady in this city the Monster gave luncheons to parties j who is an Anna-kissed. A WOBD TO THE MAYOR.--The Mayor of this town hasn't the decency of a wolf nor the dignity of a monkey. He has been drunk at least three times a week for the last month and he would as soon pull hair with a half-breed as to argue with a gentleman. We've got tired of his capers, and we now give him due notice that unless he comes to a right­ about-face we'll give him dead away and rid the community of bis presence. Aji individual about his size is wanted in one of the Eastern States for cow steal­ ing, and while we don't want to be pfeen mean, we owe a duty to this com­ munity. We haTe got our eye on the Mayor. STAND UP, TOM HARTWELL.--Tom Hartwell, City Marshal, you were ap­ pointed as a guardian of the peace. How have you fulfilled your mission ? On numerous occasions within the last three months you have been drunk, and you can be found in a saloon ofteuer than on the street. You have set a bad example all around, and the idea that you are a guardian over anything ex­ cept a whisky jug makes us laugh. The Kicker has given you a fair show, but you would not improve it Open your eyes now, Thomas! If you don't resign or brace up the boys will call on you within the next fortnight, and when they do so it will be too late for any ex­ cuses. You'll be taken outtind made a pendulum of, and the grave will be shallow and the obsequies mighty brief. If you want to cull the wild * cactus when the springtime comes again, Thomas, we have pointed out the way. If you don't, then the boys will cull you. COME OUT, JIM!--While Jim Kaniff was not elected Mayor of this place on a temperance platform, the public ex­ pected him to be decent about getting drunk and whooping up and down the streets. It is with sorrow that we an­ nounce the fact that Jim is a complete failure except as an old soak. He hasn't drawn a sober breath in six months, and his official career has been enough to shame a wolf out of the country. We have kept quiet on'this matter, hop­ ing Jim would brace up, but the time has come for a little plain talk. We say to him in the most friendly spirit, that he must come out of that and brace up. The boys are muttering and growling, and if His Honor continues his present career something will hap­ pen within a fortnight. He'll be waited upon by a committee, mounted on a mule, and the mule will be headed to­ wards the hills and told to travel,, His Honor will keep going and never re­ turn, or if he should be foolish enough to refuse, the boys will plant him and proceed to sign a call for a special election. No RED TAPE.--We learn that a gentleman named Scott is coming here from Ohio to establish a bank. It is good news, but we feel it our duty to utter a few words of friendly advice to the new-comer. Remain sober during business hours. Don't bo too anxious to pick a quarrel in order to show off. Have a back room where the boys can sit down and discuss financial questions. If any of our people want $50 for sixty days don't demand that the whole town shall indorse. Make your rate of in­ terest a reasonable one. Treat every faro bank alike, and show up iu one saloon as often as in another. By pay­ ing attention to the customs and char­ acteristics of our people you will do a rushing business here and be elected to the Legislature. The other road leads to certain* failure an parture. Getting Kid «>l a Drunkxn Soldier. At an open-air meeting in London tbe following incident lately took place: A street preacher was holding forth in the East End when a drunken soldier came up aud loudly ridiculed the whole ser­ vice. Finding that it was useless to ig­ nore the man the preacher quickly de­ cided on his course of action. "Ah. my friend, you're 110 soldier: you've only borrowed those gay red ciotlies. No servant of the Queen would get drunk and interrupt a peaceful service." Of course the man warmly protested that he was a soldier, and invited tho preacher to test him. •'Very well," was the repW. "I wilL Now, then, stand at ease." This the soldier did as well as his drunken condition allowed. "Right about face !n This was also accom­ plished with some trouble. "Now, quick march 1" And off he went,march.- ing down the Mile End road at a des­ perate speed, unable, apparently, to see through the opeu-air preacl^frHijff,rpg- ful maneuver. _ . ' ; Raiila. yV A series of notable events which li&ve been taking place in the Russian Em­ pire have drawn the attention of the world in an unusual degree to that country. The rule of the Czar, always des­ potic and severe, seems to have been increasing in stringency, and as a con­ sequence, the condition of tbe Empire is undoubtedly restive and agitated. Foremost among the recent acts of the Czar has been the revival of the old re­ strictive laws against the Jews, and the addition of new restrictions on that por­ tion of the Russian population. A certain part of Russia is set apart where the Jews are compelled to live, and all Jews who have resided in any t»vn or village for less than eight years are forced, under the new regulations, to remove into this designated district No Jew tfan become an officer, either of the army or of the civil service. He is not admitted to the universities. He is confined to certain mercantile occu­ pations, and by the new law is forbid­ den to hold or own real estate, or to have it mortgaged to him. It is stated that the new restrictibns, added to the old ones, will deprive two Siillions of the four millions of Russian ews of the means of earning their liv­ ing These startling facts have aroused in­ dignation throughout the civilized world, and in some instances great pub­ lic meetings have been held to protest agaiust the persecution by law of such ah immense number of human beings. Another act of the Russian Govern­ ment has been to curtail the ancient liberties of Findland,. which is under the rule of the Czar as a conguered na­ tion. The Finns are a sturdy, honest race, and have hitherto enjoyed a large de­ gree of political freedom. But tbe Czar and his counselors have, of late, shown a disposition to reduce them also to the same iron rale which holds the rest of the Russian dominions as in a vise. The condition of the Russian peas­ antry is described by Stepnaik, a Rus­ sian exile now on a visit to this coun­ try, and a writer of note upon Russian subjects, as beiDg deplorable. He states that the mortality of the peasantry in some Russian provinces reaches the annnal rate of sixty-two in a thousand, which is three times the rate of some American cities; and that the cause of this large death-rate is the want of food. The persantry, according to this au­ thority, have to pay one-lialf of their ibcomes in satisfying the demands of the Government. As a result they have had to mortgage their little plots of laud in order barely to exist. There seems, in view of the^e facts, to be no reason for astonishment that the state of the Empire is one of unrest and discontent, or that we continue to hear of plots and violent attempts of revolutionists against the Czar's life and authority. The murder of a prom­ inent Russian General in Paris, former­ ly connected with the police, and the killing in Moscow of a lady of rank, who is supposed to have betrayed the secrets of the Nihilists, are evidences of the continued existence of a formidable conspiracy against the Government. In December five Nihilists, several of them young women, were tried at St. Petersburg for engaging in a plot against the Czar, and all but one were sentenced to death. Meanwhile the Czar has to surround himself constantly with every precaution, to defend him from the deadly assault of assassins. It is well for us not jo accept im­ plicitly all the statements that are made concerning the tyranny amj^cruelty of Russia. Yet we cannot i£hn£N)ur eyes to the fact that they are gtiilty^of fhany acts of oppression which revoltr the civ­ ilized world, and the natural result is to create, in Russia itself, widespread discontent and resistance.--Youth'? Companion. Napoleon Accused of Cheating. Tho Emperor had long felt hart by the opinion I had expressed as to his Spanish enterprise; besides, he had considered that the arrangements I had made at the time when the princes ar­ rived at Yalencay had too much regard for their safety. Aud so, from the first tiiqe we met again at Nantas, our con­ versations--our discussions, I might (Sail them--were of an irritating nature. On one occasion among others, assum­ ing an air of banter, rubbing bis hands, and pacing up and down the room, he said to me with a sneering look: "Well, you see how your predictions have turned out about the difficulties I should meet in settling the affairs of Spain according to my own views. I have got the better of those people, after all; they were all caught in the nets I spread for them, and I am mas­ ter of the situation in Spain, as in the rest of Europe!" Driven out of patience by this boast, --which in mj mind was so little jus­ tified - and above all by the shameful means he had employed to reach his aim, I replied to him, though calmly, that I do not see things from the same point of view as he did, and fhat I be­ lieved he had lost more than he had gained by the Bayonne events. "What do you meau by that?" he inquired. "Well," I answered, "the thing is very plain, and I will show it to you by an example. Let a mui of the world be­ have foolishly, let aim be a faithless husband, let him even commit grevious faults against his friends, he will be blamed, "no doubt; but if he be wealthy, powerful, clever, society may be somewhnt indulgent to him. Let that same man cheat at the gaming table, he is forthwith banished from good society and will never be for­ given. The Emperior grew pale and em- barasted, and said not another word to me that day. I date from this particu­ lar conversation our more or less evi­ dent rupture.-- The Century. and a midnight de- Wlint It Titkei to Scare a Car I'orter. A Pullman Car Conductor--The aver­ age car porter is always on the lookout for the man who wears any sort of badge. I suppose it arises from the instinct of the colored man to fear or respect authority. A few nights since a gentlemen got on my car in Chicago. When he was retiring a badge on his^ waistcoat flashed before the porter's eyes. After the passenger was in bed the porter "advised me that the said passenger had a badge. I paid no more attention to it. But the next morning the porter came to me with the waist­ coat, and with eyes bulging, said: " Here it is; I made an excuse to brush it so as to let you see what the badge says." I saw that the gentleman was a deputy sheriff, and told the porter so. I do not think my porter felt entirely safe until he Baw that man get off the car. Irritability. Some people are naturally calm, send not easily disturbed. Others are quick to feel, and strong in the expression of their feelings. The difference is con­ stitutional. But every one. whatever his natural temperament, is liable to become irri­ table as a result (if olivsicai disturbance. Marked irritability is often the first symptom of undue brain work. A man who may have been remarkable for his self-control, is surprised to find himself disturbed by trifles. Annoyances such as he once hardly noticed now fairly unnerve him. He is impatient, and ex­ presses himself in tones, if net in words, of which he is soon ashamed. Overwork of the brain is not con­ fined to professional men. Merchants, the uncertainties of whose business often involves the keenest anxiety, are at least equally liable to it, and in this case the trouble is often aggravated by a luxunousness o* social and personal habits. Nor are wives and mothers free fiotn the same danger. Woman's work is never done. For ' her, care seldom ceases while she is awake, and too often it pursues her even in her sleep. Fash­ ion and social life sornetime3 make large demands upon her, while the pet­ ty annoyances of home fall to her lot almost exclusively. At length un­ wonted impatience, fretfulness, and se­ verity with her children give warning of nervous prostration, and her husband may perhaps precipitate the crisis by his unjust reproaches. • Irritability may have its source in the stomach. The dyspeptic is notoriously fretful and low-spirited. What a dif­ ference between him and the well-fed man, who, knows only from books that be has any digestive apparatus! In softening of the brain, one of the first indications of something wrong is increasing irritability; which, however, is seldom referred to the true cause. If the patient is a mother, she finds fault with her children on tho slightest prov­ ocation, and punishes them with un­ wonted severity. Irritability and general feebleness of the nervous centers are frequently due to a lack of suitable nerve food, just as the muscles may be enfeebled through lack of the food essential to their proper nourishment Friends of the morbidly irritable should guard against increasing the evil by their own conduct,» and gener­ ally should take counsel with a physi­ cian.-- Youth's Companion. Wult Affection. M. Frederic Cuvier relates a story of a wolf which was brought up as a young dog, became familiar with the persons he was iu the habit fii seeing, and in particular followed his master everywhere, evincing chagrin at his absence, obeying his voice, and showing a degree of submission scarcely differ­ ing in any respect from that of a thor­ oughly domesticated dog. I His master, being obliged to he ab­ sent for a time, presented his pet to tho Menagerie du Roi, where he was con­ fined in a den. Here he became dis­ consolate, pined, and would scarcely take food; l^pt at length he was recon­ ciled to his new situation and recovered his health. He became attatched to his keepers, and appeared to have forgotten "Auid, Lang Syne," when, after the lapse of eighteen months, his old master re­ turned. At the first sound of his voice, the wolf, who had not perceived him among the crowd, exhibited the live­ liest joy, and being set at liberty, lav­ ished upon him the most affectionate caresses. With some difficulty he was enticed back to his den, and this second separa- tioa was followed by demonstrations of sorrow, which, as^ before, lasted for a considerable time. Tfcree years passed* away, and the wolf was living happily with a dog which had been placed with him, wl«m his master again appeared, and again the long lost but well-remembered voice was instantly replied to by the most impatient cries, ledoubled as soon as the poor fellow was at liberty. Rush­ ing to his master, he placed his fore­ feet on his shoulders, licking his face with every mark of the most lively joy, and menacing the keepers who offered to remove him. A third separation followed, and proved to be too much for the poor creature's temper; he became gloomy, refused his " food, and for a while it was feared ha would die. Time, however, which blunts the grief of wolves as well as of men, brought comfort to his wounded heart, and his health gradually re­ turned; but henceforth he permitted the caresses of none but his keepers, manifesting to all strangers the natural savageness and moroseness of his kind. Tibetan Women. ^ The women are as tall as the men, much more fully developed, and fre­ quently quite good-looking. But the iron rule of fashion forces them to hide their rosy cheeks under a thick coating of teu-ja, a black, sticky paste made of catechu. This is to preserve their com­ plexion from the cutting wind--so eay those who are matter-of-fact, but others tell a different tale. More than a hun­ dred years ago there lived at Lh'asa a great saint named Demo Rinpocli'e, who did much to restore the purity of monastic.life, which had greatly suffered under the licentious rule of the sixth pontiff of Lh'asa, Ts'angyang jyats'o. Canon law says that when a monk goes abroad he must keep his eyes fixed on the ground some little distance ahead of him, looking neither to the right nor to the left; but the rosy cheeks and bright eyes of the women" caused the lamas to forget this law, and great dis­ orders ensued. Demo Rinpoch'e then commanded' that no woman should go abroad unless her face was well be­ smeared with black, and soon this be­ came a fashion throughout the whole country. Time and again I tried to induce girls in the houses where I was stopping to wash their faces clean, promising them beads and ornaments; but in vain. They said they washed only when the feasts came around, some four or five times a year.--Century. A Close Match at Cards. A remarkable thing in card-playing has just occurred in Lewiston. Two gentlemen had started out to play 100 games of seven-Up. The closing games were played Monday evening. When ninety-six games were played each had won forty-eight. Then one won two running, making him fifty to his oppo­ nent's forty-eight. But the other fellow made a big rally, won two games, mak­ ing the series a tie, and then captured the odd one, which it was necessary to play to decide the question of suprem­ acy. The ffniah was very exciting.-- Bangor (Me.) Commercial BANK failures in the Mississippi val­ ley may always be counted on when there is a great flood in the river. A LITTLE MISS OP EtOHTEBVi.' Bh< h Ml eh and Weigh* 845 JPounds, ? wan' *° iQtrodnce yea to a little girl up-stairs, the dearest little creature you ever saw," Loub Epnsteau said to a Tribune reporter at the St. •*.ia*.o.as *0 a wow on the sec- ond fcoor the little girl sat, in company of heir father and mother. To the lat­ ter the reporter was presented first. She was Mrs. Anne Ewi»g, of Scotland County, Mo., 5 feet 6 inches hign, 44 years old. 145 avoirdupois-- only in ordinary Missouri woman. Her husband was Benjamin Ewing, same conntv and State, farmer, 6 feet 1 inch high, 48 years old, 165 pounds avoirdu­ pois--only an ordinary Missouri man. The little girl arose as the reporter's name was announced, and as the toggle joints in her lithe and lis­ som body began to straighten his amaze­ ment began to expand. Up, up she went, higher and still higher, till it seemed as if her head were going through the ceiling. Yard after yard of black silk unfolded and followed her from floor and chair. The room grew smaller as she went up. The bureau, the beds, the chairs, all became doll's toys when she was fully extended. Her waist was as high as the reporter's neck, and her shoulder was out of his reach, her head was up among the rafters. She stretched out her arms and both father ana mother walked beneath them, without touching their heads, and her father is 6 feet 1 inch! She was only a little girl, just out of the country school, 18 years old and 8 feet high, inches higher than Chang, th© Chinese giant, or any other giant or giantess ever seen since pre-historic man roamed through the forests and sat in the caves of his day and generation. She was bashful. The reporter oould not persuade her to say how small the great, world teemed from away up in the air. At one moment, when her home was mentioned, the dear little thing began to cry. She doesn't like being large. She refused to show her foot--not that she was asked--but Mr. Stean said it was exactly 18 inches long. He discovered the little girl by her foot away down in Missouri, Her shoe*, each of which required a whole calf- skin, got to pinching her footsy-toot- sies, so papa took them to town to have them stretched. A St. Louis merchant happened to he in the cobbler's shop when the pair arrived, and his curiosity was mightily excited when he learned that the wearer was a little school girl out in the country. Stean got the story from him, and, leaving 1m Chicago mu­ seum, hastened to tbe farm to capture the prize. There were but three in the family, papa, mamma, and little girl, and he was six months in persuad­ ing them to enter into a five-years' con­ tract to exhibit themcelves in the cities of the old world and the metropolis of the new. Last fall, after he took them to Chicago, they got homesick and begged off, just for a day or two, they said, as they had to get back to the farm to kill hogs. It took them three weeks to kill three hogs, and might have taken them three months if Stean had not held them to the contract. They are now on their way to Liverpool, but would much rather be at home. They are very plain people and never saw anything of .the great world. The little girl, whose name is Ella, weighs 245 pounds, without being stout. She is exceedingly pretty, her bei&ty being distributed over a wide expanse of countenance. Her hand is as big as the hand of Providence, but it is wry shapely. Her waist is rather short. Miss Ella can sit in an ordinary chair, but no door is tall enough for her to en­ ter without stooping. When traveling East she had to sleep doubled up on two seats in a passenger car, being un­ able to get into a berth in the sleeper. At home she sleeps in a ten-foot bed, but at the St. Nicholas her bed is of or- djgary size, and she curls herself up in. it quite comfortably. She was a small baby, weighing only 71 pounds, her mother said, and gave no evidence of remarkable growth till her ninth year, when she shot up like an asparagus stalk on a warm spring morn­ ing. Safe Experts. -rOS# In Cincinnati there is a man by the name of John Henry Williams, and this secluded individual sports the reputa­ tion of being the "best safe expert in the country." If one should see him as he gracefully balances a billiard cue preparatory to making a hard shot, sur­ rounded by the elite of social lions with eagle eyes, he would little think that this white knuckled gentleman is a man who handled iron and steel for a livelihood. But it is so, fcnd there is perhaps no other man in the world who can judge of the workmanship of a cracksman bet­ ter than he. Almost instantly after viewing a "cracked" safe he can tell by whom the work has been dope. He has been engaged in this busiuess many years, and quite successfully. "Yes the man who knows the inside and outside of a safe," said he to a re­ porter, "has about as much as he can do following up successful and unsuccess­ ful attempts to 'crack' them by profes­ sional burglars, for no occurrence of this kind takes place without the police sending for experts to make an examin­ ation. Indeed, I the statements which appear in the newspapers," he contin­ ued, "after an attack on a vault or safe are always given out by our men. The police get the credit for such discov­ eries, but we are content with our re­ muneration." And 80 Green Left. "Is the editor in ?" _ asked * half- frightened looking individual, as he slid noiselessly into a newspaper office at a late hour one cold night. "Yes, sir. What can I do for yon?" was the response. "My name is Green--Samuel Y. Green. I am a lawyer by profession, but at present, from necessity, a clerk. My native town is in a Western State. At the same place before the war lived a man named Smith--Joshua C. Smith --rand his wife. Smith went away to the war and was killed. I married the Widow Smith. We have lived happily together ever since. But last night, long after my wife and I had retired, there came a loud knock at the door. I got up, dressed, and went to see who' it was. And--and, Mr. Editor, it--it was Smith. Now, if you are going to write this up for your paper I wish you would say, please, that--that I--that I left. Be sure to say that Green left." It afterwards transpired that the weights of the two men were about as follows: Green, 110 pounds; Smith, 240 pounds. And Green's desire to be represented as having left was no longer a mystery. ^ THE prosperity of the tailor opens % large field for theorizing on the sur­ vival of the misfittist THE mane part oC a horse la the hade of its neek. r-