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' Ml *' ** • * $-> --m--;• *f * - PLAINDEALER. Among the employes in the service of Queen Victoria is the "Queen's rat­ catcher," who receives the modest oV ^remuneration of £75 a year ipr 4 'keeping the palace free of rermin. THE Duke of Northumberland, per- _?V * kaps the greatest land-owner in Eng- f- land, haa just entered his eighty-first year. He owns more than 200,000 acres, i ' with a rent-roll of $875,000 a year. fvc Po8tma8teb Sperby, of New Haven, Conn., is the originator of a plan to be • v . introduced at all free delivery offices ' throughout the country. It consists of having filled ont at every house, as a guide to letter carriers, a card giving % 'f.. the names in full of all persons residing t there, including servants and guests. ItS. • .7 ------------ ^ G. V. Boys, an English scientist, has £7 *oived the problem of measuring the "4' inoon's heat. By means of a thermopile Composed of quartz filaments, which - Dan render sensible the heat of a candle , -Hp to a mile and three-quarters, he has been able to demonstrate tnat the 9 warmth from the moon's reflected light , is equal to that given out by a candle k y.; twenty-one feet distant. A BAND of Indiana White Caps got , together and decided that William Ifiller needed regulating. It was a Walk of seven miles to his house, but .they paced the distance with a feeling * that it was for William's good. When . they reached his house he was up and •wake, and after killing one and wound­ ing two, his visitors hauled off and con­ cluded that they had got hold of the %rong end of the lever. ^ I CHABX.ES BORNB, a tramp who was ar- tested in Pickens County, Ga., has been indicted by the grand jury of the Fed- r eral Court at Atlanta for counterfeiting. •The case I is a peculiar one. Burns ' neither manufactured nor raised money, but reduced genuine $10 and $20 gold "Jiieces to the value of silver by applying i. ® chemical. Since there seems to have T^tpeen anything but an intention to de­ fraud the government the chances are *£'[ that the case will not hold. \ IN South America is found a- pale v ,.f gray or particularly disagreeable-look­ ing moth, which may be called a living • lantern. Kept inclosed in a box for twenty-four hours, it will be found when > \ the box is opened that the body of the ttoth is giving forth sufficient light to ' enable one to read plainly any ordinary . - type. A number of glass-fronted boxes containing the moths, when placed ^ Wound the room, afford41 early a0*&moh ^|t;, flight as so many wax candles. ' " ' \ ^ ' 1^' The accounting officers of the" treas- 1 ' mry have finished an examination into yvl the business relations existing between General John C. Fremont and the Gov­ ernment. The books were opened at the Generic's own request. It was al­ leged that he owed the Government $1,700, incurred during his career in the army previous to the acquisition of Cali­ fornia. The examination shows that Uncle Sam has been owing the General $1,900 for forty years. That, with com- • pound Interest, will help the great ex- \|ftorer*out, 5,/ -• It is related of the Czar that' when J1 in was Btaying at Gatcliina a man work- {r ing in the grounds of the castle, every time he saw the Emperor approaching, ran away and hid himself; this occurred v so often that the man was taken to task ; . and asked the reason why he did this. He replied: "I am so afraid that the Czar, if he sees me, will take a great dislike to me, when perhaps 'I should ; be sent off to Siberia; so I hide myself "to keep out of danger." This ingenious answer shews how the Great Father, as \ he is sometimes styled, is regarded by ( 1, his subjects. y An interesting story comes from En- gland anent Prinoe Albert Victor, f:Y- second son of the Prince of Wales. sT \ When he was a lad at school he was, " as are most boys, nearly always short of '& 'money. He would on particular des- p derate occasions, write to his august t'; ' - grandmother to help him out of his di- • .'lemma. The Queen always answered lis appeals for aid with a very kind \i letter of advice, but no money. On fl*- such occasions Albert Victor would go out into the campus and sell the Queen's autograph letter to the highest bidder. v" A large number of English families are / > said to have such letters in their pos- :V session. ; _ W A BERLIN correspondent writes: "A * Workman sold his lawfully-wedded wife 1/ to a small tradesman, or rather lent her „ • lor two years, at the moderate price of mark. The tradesman, well satisfied with his bargain, lived happily with the ifoman. At the end of fifteen months the husband demanded an additional 15 marks, asserting that in handing over >$lK his wife he had overlooked the fact that she had an excellent set of teeth. The \ tradesman, however, would not budge a single pfenning beyond the original ' mark until the husband went into court. '('I ' The wife was then ordered to return to her lord t and master, who evidently f " 'Values her as an Arab values %n .ele- > - phant--for her ivory." The Ulustrated London Xeics, in its picture of Stanley landing at Dover, • -< - las a group of ladies with well-dressed . i, gentlemen in the background, eagerly ^ shaking Stanley the explorer by the * land and showering smiles and flowers *$,- Upon him. The staff artist of the II- ?J , luutrated American, on the other hand, las depicted Stanley taken from the S ?. ,-. steamer to the train by two stalwart po- Icemen, who run him through the ^ crowd without a moment's delav, just as if he might be a dangerous criminal whose rescue was imminent. In this ja instance the English artist either drew i 1 ture in deference to the sympathies of ; English readers, while Gribayedoff, the i American, thought it more interesting | to depict facts. It is not generally known that by fol­ lowing up rivefs and creeks that the two oceans are connected in the United States, for part of the year, yet such is the fact. Following the South Platte, the Big Grizzly, the Little Grizzly, and Chedsey Creek, we find that it starts from a lake on top of the Rocky Moun­ tains, running down into North Park, and from the same lake--called Summit Lake--there flows down on the other side a stream called Fish Creek. Fish Creek flows into the Bear River, near Steamboat Springs, and the Bear flows into the Grand, and the Grand and Green form the Colorado River which flows through the Grand Canon into the Gulf of California, which is con­ nected with the Pacific. On the other side, after going through Chedsey, Little Grizzly and Big Grizzly Creeks, it flows into the Platte, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. A sculptor, who believed that the character could be read from the hand, once declined'an important commission for a statue solely because he did not trust the hand of the man who gave the order. At the time the artist was con­ sidered little less than a crank. But the hand-judgment turned out to be correct after all, for another sculptor, having*undertaken the statue, had to carry his case into the courts in order to get payment. Another of these hand- readers fell in love with a young and beautiful girl. He became betrothed to her, although there were some pecu­ liar characteristics in the shape and touch of her fingers which he disliked. The matter weighed on his mind. He was a queer sort of fellow and plain- spoken. "My dear," he said to her one day, "you are a very lovely, estimable girl, and I hold you in the highest af­ fection. But the more I study your hand the less I like it. I am afraid we cannot be ^happy together. Let us break the "engagement." They did. She married another man and eloped with a third in less than four yean. The six-inch breech-loading rifle cartridges are composed of jsowder whose grains look like iron nuts, and are made up by piling the grains one on top of tbe other, so that the hole in the center will be in the same line all the way through, in order to allow the flame to go from the ignited grains at the base all the way through the charge and start the ignition at all points of the car­ tridge at the same time. The grains are built up on forms--a wire running through the grains keeping them in place. A bag is then drawn over the grains and the wires removed. The bag is strengthened by means of 'Her­ cules braid]* if it was not the weight would burst the cloth. This bag is en­ veloped in a copper cylinder and her­ metically sealed. The cylinder has a lid on each end and a ball to carry it by. When the cylinder comes on deck from the magazine the lidlof the tie-end of the bag is removed and the case in­ serted in the gun; the other end is then pulled off and a rammer shoves the charge borne and out of the" cylinder. The weight of the cartridge is 50 pounds and consists of about 600 grains of powder. The grains are of an octagonal form 1± inches in length and 1 inch in diameter. %y~*> A Snail's Mouth. Snails are such unpleasant creatures to handle that the amateur naturalist usually passes them by in disgusted si­ lence, but they are interesting as well as harmless, and will repay close observa­ tion. In one particular alone the snail is a wonderful animal, and that is his mouth. It is fortunate for mankind that no large wild animal is similarly constructed. Tbe mouth of the snail is armed with a very formidable instrument in the shape of a remarkable saw-like tongue. Probably you have, at some time or another, noticed how cleanlv-cut are the edges of a leaf upon which a snail has been regailing himself. It is difficult to imagine how such a soft and flabby- looking animal can have made such clean incisions. But with an examina­ tion of the cutting instrument concealed in .his mouth, wonder on this score vanishes. It resembles a long, narrow ribbon, coiled in such a manner that only a small portion of it is called into use at once. Thickly distributed over the en­ tire surface of this ribbon are an im­ mense number of excessively sharp lit­ tle teeth, designated in a manner which admirably adapts them to the purpose for whicli thev are intended. The quantity of these teeth is incred­ ible--one species, for instance, has been indisputably proved to possess as many as ' 30,000 of them. The reason for their disposition on a coiled, ribbon­ like surface lies in the fact that by use they become worn away. As this happens, the ribbon is un­ coiled, and the teeth, which before were .wrapped up in it, at the back of the snail's mouth, come forward to take the place of those which have served their turn. The upper part of the mouth consists of a horny surface against which the sharp-toothed tongue works. A leaf which is to be operated upon is caught between the two, and sub­ jected to a regular file-like rasping on the part of the tongue. So effective an instrument does this form that the tough leaves of the lily may often be found to be entirely rasped off by it. The Wrong House. "Here, you!" called a patrolman to a hard looking fellow who turned into Woodward Avenue from Montcalm Street, "wnat are you running for?" "I was in a hurry," replied the man as be came to a halt. "Yes, it looks that way. < Anybody afteryou?" <• ?• "Sot as I knows of." * ? < » "Then what's the rush?" "Why, sir, I simply struckHft© wl'tfng house. I pulled' a bell back there and asked for a bite to eat, and declared my willingness to saw wood in return." "Well?" "Well, hang me if they didn't take me at my word, and I had to skip to get out of it! Had two cords of wood in the back yard and a saw waiting foi meV̂ -Detroit Fret Press. nr A GAUDS* •. c. 0000a. mad* my garden, oh, I was a hasy m&n; I nti the K«*ed store cat&logneB. and loylully would plan How lots of toacioaa vegetables I easily could raise: And figured up tbe profits that they say a garden pays. Of patent fertlMxers, fancy gardes tools and .seeds I bought about as many as a Western farmer needs; I hired men that wouldn't work, and rising with the lark, * I dog till tima for business and finished in the dar*. ! ITter 1 mads my ganfcn, it was a voful man; The chicken e semi ched my pretty bods, the dogs across them ran; The cute fought battles on them, the cows ate all the corn, And a bog that tried to bite me always looted there at morn. Theifecame a draught that burned to dust my garden; then n flood And a pfltin*r hail and hurricane tnrntd every­ thing to niml, Then, like the plagues of Egypt, swarmed upon me iiieB and bugs, Inch worms, moles, cut worms, locusts, cater­ pillars, crows, and slugs. Ail suminpv long I wrestled, while my persplra- tion drops I think would fill the battels I had ready for my crops; And though I wasn't able to supply one dinner's needs, I took rho prize of champion tar raising famous weeds. Before 1 made my garden, oh ! I was a happv man; But afterward my troubles and experiences be­ gun. • Now, if some city greenhorn like myself would care to reap Tbe profits of a garden, I will sell out very chea ip. --Detroit Free Press. BEARING-BURDENS. BV HELEN A. STKlNHAUKIt. A soore of years ago the writer left a luxurious Northern home to assist iu running an Academy in a far distant Southern State. Gen. Blank and his estimable wife were the only other teachers. The General, as Principal, took charge of the Latin and Greek classes, the higher mathematics and lifeavy et ceteras. I taught belle lettres; also French and German--for which, however, tliere was not much demand--while Mrs. Blank filled in with whatever else might be required; hers being by far the hardest post. The school, though not strictly speak­ ing select, was not overgrown, and there was a liberal supply of tine material for making good scholars and the best of citizens. Our pupils were for the most part grown-up boys and girls; though there was a sprinkling of little folks of whom Mrs. Blank took sole charge. The school-house was built in the form of a T, and contained one long, spacious apartment in which the pupils sat and studied, flanked by two small recitation rooms at the front end. The General presided in the former and I occupied one. of the small rooms with my music and language -classes, while his wife was to have had the other for her use; but the chimney smoked badly in windy weather, and she found it more comfortable to gather her little ones around her before the huge, yawn­ ing fire-place in the great assembly room, where she sat facing her hus­ band. As I had made considerable sacrifice in coming thither General Blank allowed me to have things pretty much my own way, and to make whatever changes I thought expedient. One of my first acts therefore was to abolish the system of monitorship, substituting uierefore the conscieuce of the indivi­ dual. I drew tip a short but compre­ hensive "code of laws" which I desired the pupils, big and little, to commit to memory.. These "ten commandments," as tbe scholars playfully termed them, I hung over a larsre black-board. I then put the school on its honor, and charged whoever transgressed any of these rules promptly to go to the board, cOpy it, and sign his or name beneath, thus: : , "Broken by -- This to remain till the next time a rule was broken, I reminded them that although their teachers would not be able to decide whether or not they were faithful to their trust, God would know; and probably their companions as well. It worked like a charm, and effectu­ ally broke down the antagonism which too frequently exists between teachers and pupils -- law - makers and law­ breakers -- conviction and puishment being alike in tbeir own hands; and the dread of their companion's reprobation proved an incentive to honesty when higher motives failed. There were, however, a few occasions when something more was needed. One of these occurred when General Blank was taken ill, and his wife and I had the care of the entire schopl upon our shoulders. We got along quite well, all things considered,--though I could see that it was wearing upon Mis. Blank; for she had the thought of her sick husband to pull her down, in addition to the extra work of "the school-room. One day when recess was over she failed to ring the bell for school to "take in," and from my music-room I could hear her voice pitched in a very high key, and noticed that (she teemed to be.much excited. I also heard smothered laugh­ ter and frequent interruptions, in what sounded to me like a rather disrespect­ ful tone. Quietly opening my door I stood for a moment at the edge of the crowd of boys and girls, in the center of which she stood, very pale, but with flashing, angry eyes. Seeing that she was talking quite incoherently and amusing, instead of subduing, the noisy group, I made my way among them, and on reaching her side, threw my arm protecting I y around her and ex­ claimed, peremutority; "Silence! Take your seats!" They fell back instantly. 1 then remarked gravely but affection^lly: "My dear Mrs. Blank, you are all tired out and hardly know what you are about. * Come . to my room and rest awhile." "I will not!" she exclaimed excitedly. "These miserable scholars--" "Come," I said, with quiet decision v and with gentle lorce drew her with me, closing tbe door behind us- as we entered my music-room. "How dare you treat me so!" she ex­ claimed, passionately. "You have in­ sulted me before the whole school! I think it is you who do not know what you are about." And then she burst into tears, like a worn-out child. I made her sit down beside me, and drawing , her throbbing head down on my shoulder, let her have her cry out there,--soothing her just indignation meantime as best I could. "It was too bad, darling; scold me for it. But, indeed, it was better than letting you stay there. I will attend to the children (as we called them,) and make all straight and pleasant for you while you lie down here and rest. And, quickly improvis­ ing • bed for her fiut of sfcawla and s t v- irasqe h cote •S i. e n tin h B- fld ies wraps, I laid h«r down, willy-nilly 1 spent with the violence of her i txons. Then after bathing the eyes, I kissed them shut and left h< On re-entering the school roo [ found the scholars breathlessly av* ing my i eturn, " Charles Pollock,* I said, addree^ our eldest pupil, a young man of veracity and sterling sense, but modest and retiring, "will you now me what this all is about ?" Very quietly he informed me "Wolf," a merce but exceedingly able dog. .belraging to an ii neighbor of otfrs had been found near the Academy grounds. Of suspicion fell on the scholors, and owner at once strode over to Blank, angrily charging them with deed. This she indignantly denie their behalf, sure that none of would hare commited an outrage. But on ond thought, fearing she aAt have been too certain, she took th f>- posite course, inquiring which of 1 m had done it and why. Hence the a<e. On thorough investigation I them all innocent, so I had Ch write the old gentleman a respcul note in the name of the school, i ing him that none of their number been in any way implicated. This done a solemn silence rei ed (the pupils feeling instinctively tho he end was not yet,) which I brokepy saying, slowly, and impressively: "Young ladies and young men, justice has now been you, and your reputation cl<jed from all blame as far as the liangi Mr. Quick's dog is concerned. I that you were as blameless in an<ii more important matter! I have you 'young ladies and vonng ge men,' and 1 am proud to say that narily you merit the name; wilder you do to day, or not, I will #Ieav with you to decide. "Your principal, as you all know, tossing in tho delirium of a sick- After weary, sleepless nights, spenlin watching at his side, his wife, impeed by a strong eense of duty to you as'til as to him, comes here day after <[y, taking extra care upon herself in oijer that yea may not be the loser bv [is absence. I am not sure that we oulit not to protest against her coming Ire at all. I am very certain that should do all in our power to in light her labors. But no! because Wh burdened heart, overtaxed mind, ad quivering nerves she fiuds herself able to be calm and just, as is her writ, you must needs goad her to the utSr- most by disrespectful and insolent je meano?, and when she breaks di physically and loses self-control, in incoherent speech you fiud food for seemlj laughter. Truly, I am ashan^d of you!" Here t paused. There a sea of bowed heads before me. 2t>t one up-lifted or defiant face.* "Now," I continued, "what is to done? Had you killed the dog, monly and a suitable ajwlogy would have goiL far towards nuking amends. But sti redress is out <Jf the question here. Yo , cannot even asV pardon, as that would be calling attention to the weakness into which voir treatment betrayed her, . and whim common politeness requires you to ignore. You have got yourselves\ into a singular position for \oung ladies and young gentlemeA! There is but one course open too yon--and it will not atone for the Wst!--vfcL : to treat your victim of toVUy with the most delicate, thoughtful ind respectful enn sideratiou henceforth. As 6he is both generous'and forgiving, it may be that perseveranoe in to is line of conduct will ultimately cause her to forget the oc­ currences of trrday,--as I, also, shall strive to do. Should any one of you, however, fail <0 do tlis, 'let not that pupil hope ever to obtain favor from me!" Mrs. Blank never knew just what had transpired in the assembly-room, as no one yearned to tell her. When I returned to my little room I fouud her just awaking from a refreshing sleep. " What ever did you do, Miss Helen ? You certainly bewitched then?," she said to me one day after the General had been back in tbe school-room for a week or two. "I think she must have," echoed her husband, "for I know 1 have been cross as a bear since my illness, but you would never guess it from their be­ havior towards me." Not many months later I broke down in health, and was compelled to leave before the close of the term. Mrs. Blank kindly assisted me to pack, and alas! I in my turn was "cross as a bear" to the sweet little woman who was dear to me as sister could have been. "O dear, what shall I do? I just can't lieip it!" I cried, after a petulant outburst, thoroughly ashamed of my­ self. "Never mind, darling;-! know you don't mean it," she eaid kindly, kissing me tenderly on the cheek. "I never can be grateful enough to you for shielding and helping me--you know wheu." That broke the spell, as loving words and deeds rarely fail to do. And this was how we learned to "bear one an­ other's burdens." A ACMAli CYCLOHB. liEPER ISLAND. PACTS ABOUT THE AFFLICTED OF KOLQKAI. They Dwell in a Pretty Village Where Perpetual Summer Reigns --Origin and Symptoms of the Disease. ^ Such an astonishingly inaccurate im­ pression has been spread abroad regard­ ing the condition of Ac lepers pn the island of Molokai," said a gentleman yesterday who has spent fourteen years of official life in the Hawaiian group to a Washington Star reporter, "that it is high time popular misinformation concerning them was corrected. The civilized world garment, and while it is growing he Is I known as a "comer." In a day or two, ] when this under skin is completed, he is _ sheddcr," and then he is best fitted for bait, because his hard shell can then be stripped off, leaving the leathery in­ tegument entire. In a single day the "shedder" parts his shell and becomes a "buster," and in a few hours he will throw off his shell, crawl out Of it entirely and commence to swell ivud stretch out his elastic covering. Then he is a soft crab par-exccllerwe. On the night of the dav the crab divests himself of his misfit shell he is in the best condition for frying. Ia another day, if be is not taken from the water, hfc new coveriug becomes like parchment, and in twelve hours more the parchment hardens so that it just yields to pressure. Then he is known as a "buckler," and is of at large seems to entertain a notion that j ]j^|c use except as a broiler. this afflicted colony, lodged upon a bleak j f]le fishing business is put dowfi and solitary rock in the midst of j at h;*lf a iniliiun dollars jkt year by the South Sea, is stretching out its hands j pjs|1 commission, and probably the esti- with a despairing appeal to the chanty : js no means complete. of other lands for help in its lonely aud | ^j1{, CI^ are caUght in summer by uncared-fo1, misery. W ithin the last few i haitinu," set lines with tripe or fish and the M months advertisement has been made nil over two continents of the intention of m English nun called Sister Hose-Ger­ trude to go out and devote her life to these hapless outcasts of the far Pacific. She did go. but is employed at the re­ ceiving station for lepers on Hawaii. She has not been sent to Molokai, and in all j probability will never go there, simply for the reason that there whatev catch per man will average sixty dozen a day. AH the soft crabs taken during the summer are sent to market and in May and early June the only soft crab* to be found in New York come from Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. In the; latter part of June softcrabs begin to be caught in Jersey waters, and the price, then" declines. Taking a crab out reason that there is no necessity j w^ter arrests the process of develop- ,-er for her doing so, inasmuch as men(. and p;u.ke(j jtl ^ weed in a cool there are already at the leper settlement k^iee t|je shedder or soft crsib will re- six bisters of the ̂ Order of^ St. I1 rancis, : alive for several weeks without un- any change.--[New York Mail from Syracuse. N. who have been taking care of the people for half a dozeu years past. How do the lepers live?" They dwell in one of the most beauti­ ful and fertile valleys of the world, where the entire year is oue perpetual summer, the temperature varying not perceptibly from one season to the other. Their vil­ lage is of pretty houses built expressly for them by the government, and the meanest pauper leper Is provided there with a comfortable home, good food, medicines, medical attendance and all ucccssaries dergoinj. and Express. THE BOOF OF THE WOB&Dl Experiences of French Prisoners in Central Asia. At a recent meeting of the Paris Geo­ graphical Society, Dr. AVilliam Capus, who has been the fellow-traveler of MM. Bonvalot and Pepin in their Central Asian ...... i tours, cave au interesting account of the Resident m the colony,are j pamh.^r roof of the world." In the course of the lecture he described an Tba fcrila orc«o«r<Bj a Party •* Lunatics. It isn't the pleasantest thing in the world to travel with a convict. It is still less agreeable to have as your com- pagnon du voyage a lunatic who is liable to break out and be violent at any moment. But I think the worst of all is to have a collection of convict "luneys" under your charge even for a short journey, for, mad as they are, most of them know that they are pris­ oners and enemies of society, and they couple with this knowledge all the reck­ lessness which insanity brings. They are apt to be both dangerous and ugly. We were transferring six prisoners ol tliis variety from Utica to Auburn. There were eleven in the party, four keepers besides the doctor, a slender young fellow and something of a dude in appearance, with his fine clothes acd gold-rimmed eyeglasses, which he pro­ nounced "glawses," but a gocd man for all that, brave as a lion, and with muscle like steel springs on his athletic arms. It was hard to say who was the most nervous of the party--the mad-men, excited by their change of base, the keepers, knowing well the perils of the enterprise, or the young doctor, keen alert, on whose shoulders rested the j > responsibility for safely delivering his charge within the walls of the .insane 4 ' 4 pavilion at Auburn. On the station platform at Utica, one ; ^ of the men, the most dangerous char- actcr of all, broke loose and started to runaway. Instantly all four of the keepers jumped npon him, and after^ a most tremendous straggle, threw him down and overpowered him, while the ^ doctor, after sweeping the others with , * ^ lightning-like glance and bidding them in a low tone of authority to stand - perfectly still, whipped out a pocket- Jyl^ case iflith a tiny syringe in it and -• r| squirted a pacifying measure into the \»VJ * arm of the furious and foaniing mad- a physician, a member of the Hawaiian bonrd of health, and a su^rintendcnt to j which occttrred to the French see that the settlement w. ; .n rhitr;ll ,le . care ot as any hospital. Few of the After the Afsfhans at Sarhad had en lepers - are without relatives and friends | (U>{mm,a jn v.lin to (letain lls partlv bv mttside, who send ^ ^rsuasion and partly by force, we crossed hke best, and vessels aie constantly Hintloo Koosh bv thc Baroghii Pass, making trips to Molokai with whole car- 10.800 feet high. Without goes of all sorts of dehcacjes and luxu- ^ k;horscs. aml without nes The village of the stuckm w on « ^ refU,hwl thetFo'ft of Mastuj, the shore of the sea, encircled at tin. back th chitralis opposed our goina by a cliff *000 feet in height and ^P^ljSr iMhe dircctioiiof India. While rent with the eoun the „f ,„*!« almost Co™, j >£• pare the place to the happy valley of lias- ^ „mde us prison- sobs. out of winch there was no ^capc i f wrymmavnt centered his town, by one hid.lenj.jth rcse e (ml ^ t,1;(in0(l h;K ftctiou; 4 you Imlac to discover : wear Russian boots, Russian money, you away from Molokai, thc sea hemming. , c„,.Vant aud vou C*\ Photographer's Audacity. "the audacity of science is proverbial, but there has Seldom been a more strik­ ing instance of it than has recently occurred at Constantinople. It is well known that the Koran--out of regard, perhaps, for the fat and shapeless figures of the pashas and other affluent persons in authority--has strictly for­ bidden the representation of the human form divine; and yet a German photo­ grapher lias ventured to set up shop---- or at all events bis camera- in the city of the Sultan. Emboldened by success, or desperate from failure in finding objects of beauty, he actually attempted to tako a photograph of His Majesty himself as he rode by on horseback to the mosque. It was an "iustantaneous" one, of course; but not so quick as the action of the guards, who made a "nega­ tive" of it in no time, and were very nearly doing so of the artist himself. Thanks to his Ambassador, he only got •imprisonment instead of "the stake; but it is unlikely that he will resnme his trade in the Turkish dominions. The incident suggests the inquiry, where do all the portraits of the Father of the Faithful come from with which we are so familiar, and which we are always informed "are taken from life?" Since the penalty of this proceeding, it seems, is death, one must conclude that' they are the last works of the artists who have also been "taken from life," which shonld invest these likenesses with additional interest. EX-PREMIER GLADSTONE says that the marriages in George Eliot's novels are outrages on sentiment. Judging them by the skeletons dangled almost daily in the divorce courts the cele­ brated novelist drew pictures true to them iu on ' Ru^ian Wory . • . \i t Vi <> »l« litmn be Russiiin spies.' And he caused us tc nmT'XnviSi than lias been ' ^ watched, popped^ our;Corres the material i pondencc and sent for instructions tc is very represented, in so far as ; ^ 1)ulTerin for the English make use comforts ( ( j 0f this chief as a sentinel in the direction civilized world at larijc need not be con- 1,1 . med in their behalf; they have all the °*t,ic il!lUK very 'During the long days of our incarcer ation, when we could only walk on thc arass in front of our tent under the-*yet care that is necessary or useful. " Do thc lepers suffer pain greatly ? »«.„•,nninir of of our guard, we saw the king pass daily 11aidly at all. A „ 8 . ; to takc piUt in thc much-loved game ol himself, as we do a cane. 1 he king li:i suffer not at all. In many eases this phvsical insensibilitv is the first symptom j n.n.se.., as »<- p »• if \he complaint that shows itself. One j ' wiv es and s .vty children lie i instance 1 remember of a Honolulu bov s>*tv-hye years old I acquired agiea ., i_. i v.:.. medical reputation by extracting a wasi eat who discovered one Jay, to W» j medical rej.u.Mion to that he could approach his wrist so close from ;l st car. aftd the king sent U lame of i 'candle that his flesh was | ^Xfw.S vet without feeling the ! bad broken her leg but the king vvoukl ' Curious to know the I lrt m,; sec lf> asserting that to the tl scorched, and heat a partirlc. v%. man. In a moment or two he had be- : . * \Sr„ come more tranquil. Now, get up," said the doctor, "and' do not make us any more trouble." The keepers relaxed their hold and the "luney" sullenly obeyed. It was wonderful what effect the cool manner and the strong will of the littlo doctor had upon these misshapen minds. It was like oil on troubled waters. There was no further trouble until we reached Syracuse. The dangerous patient had been very quiet since his first outbreak, suspiciously so thev doctor thought, who asked him several; times ho»v he felt, if he felt all right,and;• so forth. In the cars he was between^: his keeper and the window, and really had no chance for mischief. But asi they were getting off the cars at Syra­ cuse his ooportunitv came, and he took 4 it like a Hash. With a quick biow he 4 'I*' v,w knocked the keeper off the car platform ^ and down on the station, then he was the reason he kept on with the experiment j aud1 vet S t̂̂ no ̂ sS""Hta i vf'Jfvc him some ,lu ^ . I «iiinini> !in<l mciciirinl ointment.** mother took him to a doctor, who at once perceived that leprosy was indi­ cated, and the boy was soon after sent to Molokai, where he now is. The sickness exhibits itself first ordinarily iu a swell­ ing of the face, the lines of which be- couie drawn and hard; the expression becomes fixed aud the eyes watery, the cvelashes and eyebrows dropping out. quinine and mercurial ointment.' Range of Modern Rifled Guns, The distance that modern rilled guns can cover is approximately one mile foi each inch of calibre. It is generally as suineel, owing to the navy mounts uot | beinu1 arranged so as to attain the extreme ven ton uot be above ter - . .c ti,,; ,iiCMCo fi,„ i miles, anei tnat tne ningei oi smaller guns ! wookl proportionately recced. >. i, <h", ~ «' erne. This i. tul«ircularle|.-j»» 'lrot on.'>'.,Iwt tl,,° •'"* "and not to be confounded with the | sl"i» carrying: guns of wiHncli .•«Iilm uuu ui , ul>wanj woui<i not stand the strau ' ••**• k' tad!' ?• v./ ^ , p > V • 4^ 1 rosy, leprosy of the Scriptures. "How/lid it originate on thc islands?" "As to that there is much dispute, j The natives say that it was imported with the Chinese, but it seems quite certain that before the coolies were brought to the Hawaiian group for laborers iu 1851 leprosy had been known, there for some time as the 'chiefs1 disease,' because many of the great men were afflicted with it. Good authorities are of the opinion that it Wiks actually introduced by Cap­ tain Cook's crew, when that distinguished explorer visited the island in irt)3. The primitive conditions uneler which the natives lived were singularly favorable to the propagation of disease. Living anel sleeping together in one room for a fam­ ily, eating their food with their fingers out of common dishes, anel passing, around the same pipe from hand tohancl, contagion had the best possible chance to operate. In 1703 Captain Cook found 200,000 people on the islands; when the missionaries went there in 1820 there were 120.000. Now there are only 4.">,000 native's left, including half-castes. The balance of the 85,000 population is com­ posed of Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Americans aud Europeans. No white man need be afraid to go to the Hawaiian Islands on account of the leprosy; there have not been as many as a dozen white lepers there in the history of the country. fit*®#* Grabs of Chesapeake Bay. Crisfield, Md.,' furnishes most of the crabs all the year around for the markets of the leading cities of this country. The crabs are caught iu Chesapeake Bay, anel are packeel in crates or barrels for ship­ ment. Over half the inhabitants of the town make their living out of crabbing. There is a secret about the success of Crisfield crabbing. The crabber here never ships a femaie crab. When one of the female sex is scooped up iu the crab­ ber's net it is alwai s thrown back into the bay. Crabs a.e caught during every month in the year and iu all stages of de­ velopment. The crabs are dormant from fall until spring, even in the Gulf of Mexico, where they are more .abundant than any­ where else on this country's coast. In the spring, when they come out of the mud and masses of seaweed, they go right into the business of shedding. Really, it seems as if the crab had little else to do in summer but shed his shell and get a new one of larger caliber. The bard crab first puts on a leathery under- of filing at extreme elevations, but alse that the guns could not be normally- ele vatevl more than fifteen decrees, while at least thirty degrees would be necessary for the farthest effect. Conuuandei Folger shows that neither of these objee tions is well taken. The sixty-seven tor gun throws a shell weighing 1,250 pounds and e-ontainiirg a bursting charge of fifty pounds of powelcr, enough to destroj two-thirels of the largest building iu the city if explodeel therein. Few people realizo what such a missile is. It it about as large as the largest hot watei boiler usually attached to the range in t private house. It is more than a foot it diameter, and when standing on eud il would come up as high as the average man's chin. Tljie powder l'or this class oi guns comes in blocks. The cartridge is not dissimilar in shajie to a bed boistei anel is about as large.--[New York Herald. The World's Favorite Food. off upon the other side and running likei- a deer along the railroad track. The. , .;^ Chicago limited was coming down tho ; track at a fast pace, and I expected that the locomotive would forever settle thai} ' troublesome patient, for it caught him r in a narrow place where he could noft \gt) ̂ turn neither to the right nor left, but, ;' y with all a madman's cunning, he lay - ^ s down close to the rails just in the nick , " /• of time and was passed by unharmed. » , But what was that upon his heels--a'"v2 streak of lightning? No, it was the young doctor, and running like th# ;f> hound that overtakes the deer. He - escapeel the limiteel by throwing him- . self iiat against the fence, and then her. $ fore the other had time to scramble up ' »^ 4 and be off again he was on him with ; ' furious energy. He caught the fellow . ,. - by the scuff of the neck, gave him a . twist and sent him spinning like a peg* •* ^ top crash against the fence. Then h* - : w hael him elown, and was jnmping on th# v , postrate body till the fellow howled for mercy. Cruel? Brutal? Well, per- • haps it was, but I, who had seen ,th<t . • ^ whole business, and knew how quickly the madman would stick a knife in hint," if he got the chance, I could not blame*:. him for harsh measures. _ , '> 4 A moment latter the fellow was agai* :̂;j|||'; ip the hands of a keeper. The mor». '4 ;'j phiae was applied once more and 1 th*> doctor was serenely asking how l.» felt. It was not until the men were safely lodged in their new asylum a exmple of hours afterward that the de>ctor broke dowu, and then, trembling and with fluttering voice, he went to the hotel and asked for a long horn of brandy. * £ "That is the most terrible task of any that I have to do," he said. "In trans- • - ferring 'luneys' I am always possessed by the expectation that one of them wi^ break loose and kill somebody. It not for myself that I fear, but for som^ ? harmless and unsuspecting passenger. I would rather carry a load of dynamit* on the cars than half a dozen u£- Utuai . fellows."--New l'ork Herald. ~ Bice lb, no demht, the most extensivelj used artkle of food the world over. Hundrcns of millions of people subsist on it, and its consumption is increasing. It is the principal diet of at least one- third of the human race, forming the chief food of the native population o; India, China, Japan, Madagascar, many- parts of Africa, and, in fact, of almosl all Eastern nations: The Burmese an«, Siamese are the greatest consumers of it>. A Malay laborer gets through fifty-sis pounds a month: a Burmese anel Siamese lorty-six pounds in the same period. The Eastern nations chiefly obtain their beverages from rice, whicli is the prin­ cipal grain elistiUed in Siam, Japan anel China. Saki, or riee beer, is prudueec' in Japan to the extent of 150.000.00( gallons annually. Although rie*e is such a universal article of food, it is not as nourishing as wheat and some othei grains. More than nine-tenths of its substance consists of stareh anel water. Conscquantly it forms more fat than muscle.--[New York Dispatch. #1 T il ' ' i - * • » -v- Lieutenant John P. Finley of the Sig­ nal Service has compiled* a statement ol the number of tornadoes in this country for the last 17 years. While in 187C there were only nine, the number has in­ creased annually, the year 1886 having been ereelited with 280. But since that time there has been a gradual decrease in the number, only having been lecenfed, in 1869. V.. •• " " v I * 4 tiii. ,;,rt 2^.1 M;': Howard Seely. \ ^ He>ward Seely, the writer and novej|/[jr.#4 ist, is a familiar figure in metropolitan - life. He was born iu New York about thirty years ago, but during the greater part of his life has residee1 in Brooklyn, which city he ha-t grown to regard aa * h i s h o m e . M r . S e e l y w a s g r a d u a t e d a t ' - ; . Yale College iu 1878, an I subsequently prepared lor the bar at Columbia Law ».'» School, but his tastes were rather -: ^ I literary than legal, and he has praa- . ticed but little. He went to Texas ^ early in the eighties, where he saw > much of the hardships as well as the ficturesque features of the frontiers'%'• 'pon his return North he published a. series of sketches illustrative ol raucl^>A i ing life, entitled "A Lewe Star Bo-peejs * f f, and Other Tales." This volume, bo- • ^3 cause of its fresh, breezy unconventional. Mf •• stvie, was received with favor, anel was later brought out in larger form by Dodel, Mead & Co., as "A Ranchman a Stories." In 1888 "A Nymph of the '/ fn West" was published by the Appletona ' 'J . :--a Texan novel which became widely known and was deservetlly populanv • < y During the last five years Mr. See'jr . has contributed a score of adelitional I' sketches and stories to such periodical^ r as Harper's Weekly, Lipi'incotCs an£ Fetersoiix Magazines, Texa.t Sifting^ * 'vf Pittsburgh Bulletin, aud various newSHy|f|| paper syndicates throughout the conn* try. His poems and "dialect verses,* also, have been widely copieel. What especially fascinates in this author is a • V" rare poetic touch, a very definite gra-p of character, anu a capacity for strong1 ' anel effective writing in the handling c* * his chosen theme. The faithfulness of his Western pictures is generally reeog* nizeel throughout the West, and ha# attracted atteution even in England. His later writings of Eastern Keenest i have the same individual literary charm* In person Howard Seely is a tall matt of medium build and wears a blond* beard of the Vandyke fashion; he ia oordially regarded by his many friends. -- Yankee Blade, PEHFFA T valor consists in doing with* out witnesses all we should be capable