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LAUGHLBTS. A ut's pawâ€"A Thomas cat. A waist of time -An old maid's. The lover sows his wild no'a. Every artist lovrs his steet'art. Naughty but niceâ€"$11300“). The druggist is known by his phizz. U.n a man who writes a poem on his hat be described as vets-suite. A “broth of a boy" must be a superior article. A sign of good breedingâ€"Getting the prize in a dog show. Tire latest thing in psntaloonsâ€"Tne man who gets up last. A buiiue. that is run into the ground â€"Artesian well boring. Simplicity sndgripes srestrikiugcharsc- tori-ma in green apples. “Soled again," remarked the cobbler, as be repaired an old of boots. Small fruits are so called from the size of .the boxes they come in. A false profit isabomination to the law, as far as oleomargaiiue is concemed. After all, the bean pole is more use to this country than the North Pole. If a dog knows a good thing when he sees it, will he seize it when he nose itl “I do business on a large scale,” said the public Weigher, “but 1 don't give it a weigh." The man who called another a dog, apologich by saying he did not do it purpâ€"ously. It is the careful proof-reader, proud of his punctuation, who ” points with pride. " Mexican policemen go barefoot. You can't aWaken a Mexican officer by tickling hii feet. A sensible shoemaker will never offend his rnilkman by presenting him with a pair of pumps. Bicyclers prefer their iron horse to the living steed. Theyjake them for WIILUI or woe. The frieze the carpenters are putting on new houses just now don't seem to cool the weather airy. Contempt of courtâ€"The small boy who hangs around the parlor and makes faces at his big sister's beau. It were a consummation devoutly to be wished that the girl of the period would come to a full stop. But she won't ; she's inclined to comma gain. A man whose knowledge is based on actual experience says that, when calling on their sweethearts, young men shouldi carry affection in their hearts, perfection I in their manners and confection in their pockets. “Ah, don't come a-Wooing with yourl long, long face, and your longer purse behind l" sings a poctess in Harper's Alrigozine. That's itâ€"â€"thc girls want the purse to occupy the front seat every time. A heir's e rg measuring six and one-half by eight an one-halfinches has been laid on the table of a Georgie editor. He pro- poses to keep it and let it ripen for the next dramatic company that comes down that way. I . " Spurgcon tells an amusing story of the “"01? mlegml’h If old lady who started up when her grand- ion was about to take her umbrella, ex- claiming, “No, now, you don’t. I've; had that umbrella twenty~thrce years,; and its never been wet yet, and you ain't going to begin." I “No, indeed; I wasn't afraid of the bug," said Mrs. Fussanfcather, after she had rccm'urod from her fainting spell at the church pic-inc the other day. "But I know such a horrible shade of green wouldn't harmonize With my new pink dress." A well? two lg». in Philadelphia,‘ Mary A. Quiz and Williiui Sinner werei joined in wedlock. Happy combination. Boo-in this race for happiness i liic lru b ml is the w now; I For he. as “situl gets a a. lot, While Marv acts a sinner . .â€"â€"...â€"..__â€" Shipping in Live Baby by Freight. Passengers who arrived here, says the Portland Oregonian, from San Francisco by the last stearner brought and circulat- ed a most singular story about a live baby having been shipped in a box by f ruight from Victoria to San Francisco, by the steamer “Mexico,” and arriving at its destination without injury. The story, acloldby the Victoria Times, is as fullom't‘ It seems, so the story goes, that s limhngvsooisty belle of San Francisco, who'is an enthusiast in the matter of col- licting curiosities, wrote to a young man here to send her an lndian curio â€"sonie- thing so unique as to excite the envy of all her friends. The young man purchas- ed a papoose from the mother, but for some time was at. a loss how to forward it. He finally put the papoose and a five gallon can of milk in a box just largo eifiu‘glittoâ€" proth the youngster from being tulublul around by those ion of the vessel, and fitted the box up with padding andbcddiug. To the can he attached a tube,‘fmtr'i which the baby can help him- self to milk whenever so inclined. sir-holes of the box were numerous, and, as it is particularly under the charge of the purwr. the infant will probably reach its di'ssinstion a bright baby. “further or not the young lady will o-risent to re- ceim'hlht when he arrives is what is now , agitating the permit and the freight clerk. , o-- . Schools.Cer-tres of Epidemics theols are the canine of children's epidemics. \Ve pmpossd that in London they should ~be regularly visited and ex- amnied'll'ylh'lcalth shiver, charged with the duty of removing any child on whom he detected premonitory symptom of in- fectious disease, of go ng with it to its: tn‘stnicnt i home, of providing for Ill there, and, when he found the conditions of the place such as to produce t. ease, to take steps for having it twat elsewhere. Th=s uould often have led to the condcmns'ion of placesss unfit for ‘m‘ d 't n thavecarri‘d 10‘: hsbi ion. as I ms '- ;compliment to the family he lief far and wide. ln Brussels preven~ tire action against disease from school is carried w h encouraging summ- &fin‘vrgkfw kfin the lempouln) Re- mar. â€"-.â€"~ A l’lscky Brother. About six weeks ago little lk-lle Fergu- a- l l .in the morning, which uufortunatel 'l‘he’ ho dig. , its neighbourhood had taken edfa sulutaniial red-brick house, where a lfuruier butler in Mr. Rutledge's service . ' standing on the high SiDNEilsiroLLY CHAPTER VllI.â€"Cosrist‘sb. She ran out into the hall and the next i queen-like and "may. minute she came back into the dining- room with her little hands full of letters and newspapers. “:1 heavy mail this morning," she said gaily. “There must be at least one letter for you among all these, Sidney." She turned over the letters, hurriedly separating them from the newspapers, and g'ancrng rapidly at the addresses as she did so. “Nothing for you, Sidney," she saidi lightly’ but with some dhaplwlggeilirz forbidding that its present sternness was ’ i hardly greater than that usually visible in f his cold gray eyes and steroly-compressed her pretty voice, “Very sorry this insatiable father of mine takes all the correspondence. There are the papers: however, and we will console ourselves by | a meal of the description of the Hunt Ball. Which will you have; the Ashfurd Chronicle or the Strand Herod?" said Sidney, laughing. "No doubt it will contain the best account of the en- tertainment. I dare say they will have all the dresses wrong ; they always do.” I “Then, if any sound dubious, I will, come to you for correction," remarked. Bell, opening the newspaper and looking ' eagerly for the column devoted to fashi- onable society; while Sidney took thei wrapper rather languidly off the Strand Herald and glanced down its columns. Bell, devouring the description of the ball with all the eager curiosity of a' country-girl debarred from such gaieties, ' was immersed in a glowing account of the entertainment and delightedly picturing' to herself how exquisite Dolly Daunt's. dress must have been, and how superb Mrs. Rutlidg .s, when a faint, startled gasping cry made her look up suddenly. i Sidney was half leaning forward on the , table, her eyes dilated with fear and hor- : ror, her lips utterly colourless, the news- paper crushed in her hand. ‘ “Sidney, what is it, dear ’3" Bell cried, I hurrying to her and putting her arms round the slender drooping figure. “Are ' you ill '3 What is it ‘l" “No, no i" Sidniy answered, rising :feeny and gently putting aside Bell’s tender arms, the look of horror and fear deepening on her face. “No, not ill ; but I must go homeâ€"I must go home. Don't try to keep me, Bell ; I must goâ€" I must go i" “You shall go, dear," Bell said gently, , trying to soothe her. “What has happen~ ed 7 Is Doctor Arnold ill 7 They would “It is not thit," Sidney answered piteously, swaying to and fro in her weak- nessâ€"“not thatâ€"butâ€"wâ€"Mr. Davis, will you read it? Ido not know whether I understood it rightly. Perhapsâ€"per- haps " Her voice failed her as she sank down upon her knees by the table, looking at the two startled faces with feverish lustrous eyes, and pointing with her little trembling hand to a paragraph in the newspaper headed in large capitals. Mr. Bovis tonk the newspaper, his hands a little unsteady as he hastily adjusted his spectacles, and read as followsâ€" i “The town of Ashford was thrown into a state of great excitement, alarm and consternation by a report circulated early later in the day proved to be only too true. Squire Rutledge of Rutledge Hall, I a gentleman well known and. greatly re-‘ spected in the county, was found in his library, by one of his servants, lying across his writing-table quite unconscious. Assistance was immediately procured ;‘ but Doctor Arnold found, on arrival at Rutledge Hall, that the unfortunate gentleman was quite dead, and had been so for some hours, death having resulted * from his having been shot through the heart. This dimmssirig event has caused the greatest consternation in every circle, and every enquiry is being made to dis- cover the murderer, for the doctors agree in declaring that the wound could not. have been self-inflicted. Indeed such a supposition would be a very wild one,’ since Squire Rutledge had everything to' make life pleasant, and had lately added considerably to his happiness by marry-' ing a young and beautiful young lady; who has won general admiration. Squire i Ru ledge was a keen huntsnian and en-: joyed excellent health. He was in liis‘ for'y ninth yearâ€"" And underneath was another paragraph i headed "Latest particulars"-â€"- “We understand that the m stcry of the terrible event at Rutledge ll} a[ace. Mrs. Rutledge, the beautiful wife of the unfortunate gentleman, has disappeared. Rumours of the disappear- ance also if s gentlemen well known in Ashford, whose name was mentioned in connection with Mrs. Rutledge before her marriage, are also afloat ; but nothing is yet known for certain. Our readers may count upon having the fullest and. earliest particulars in to~morrow's issue." CHAPTER 11.. Abouts mile from the tall iron tea I lesdir g into the extensive and well- ept grounds surrounding the fine old mansion where the terrible tragedy which had mused such excitement. in Ashford and place, stood started in business as an innkeeper, Rutlcd s Arms, In served. It was a prosperous place enough, -rosd in a conspicu- ous solitude, but sufficiently near Ashford to besrvndexvous of those of Mr. Dsunt's men who frequented such places ; and to walk (at to the Rutledge Arms was a had calling his house the l favourite amusement for the spare hours iand holiday afternoons of the cloth- crkcrs. this side after the bounds, and had re-i was the laughing-stock of all his acquain-t ; confirmed his guilt in the minds of those ; sion of interest and almost pity. He was i “You had b‘ “er keep the chronicle," heart which had long been tutored to feel. 'scrupulously just, upright, and honest; ' fellow-townsmeu, and saw on one and all . Biderable distance from the library 7" ' but he was sure that, ere the dusk of the E ing the Hunt ball. that he had found the .which he held dearest on earth, hisi y name they both bore the shameful epithet 7 been born and brought up in their midst, 1 Mr. Rutledge's household were called ' Who was en 86d W 3 girl Whom the? “u "11° 5PM” to h‘Wing Pasmd 0“ the "3y "‘ . a corpse, not to adorn a bride.” I spoke,answering the questions put to him, ' was in shooting grab, and carried his gun, I All 8"0‘" nothing. I FENELON FALLS, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1884 NO 24. turned home to the Hall to dinner, and ances, that the state of things should exâ€" most disposed to think him innocent. had perhaps envred the Squire the beauti- ' ist no longer, and he insisted that my ful young wife who sat at the head of his mistress should alter her conduct. He table in shining rairnent, looking so spoke ofâ€"ofâ€"some young gentleman, sirl whom he called an impudent young idiot, and blamed my mistress for allow- ing his attentions." “He mentioned no name i"â€"â€"“No dent devotion he evinced for Mrs. Rutledge, of the encouragement she had given him, of the mad jealousy of the deceased, of hisflwife's‘ disregard of his wishes, of Mrs. Rutledge’s departure from the hall, of Frank Greville's And now that beautiful young wife- where was she’i Standing by the painted mantlepiece (-f the room in which the enquiry was 1181116.. air-n _ simultaneous disappearance,andagsme- proceeding. was I fall gray-haired. man “131% M“- Ruuedge menm’“ any keeper in the service of the deceased upon whom the eyes of most present name'l swore positively to having met Frank "No sir ; she only laughed.” "Have you airy idea who was meant f" The man hesitated a little, glancing at the stern face at the end of the room be- ! fore he answered. Grevillo running like a madman down the avenue late that night or rather earlier in the morning, while lieâ€"the gamekeeper â€"-was going homewards, after a midnight watch for poachers. N or were there wanting witnesses who could speak of Frank Greville’s wild wor- ship of Sibyl Rutledge while she was Sibyl Neil, of passionate threats he had been overheard to utter when her en- gagement to Mr. Rutledge had been made publicâ€"of one scene in particular in the grounds of Lanibswold, which had only been interrupted by the appearance of Mr. Stephen Daunt and his sister, but which had been partly witnessed by a gardener working near, and which had so violently agitated Miss Neil that medical assistance had been required. All through the dusky winter afternoon, with falling snow without and lamps burning dimly in the wide bare room. the testimony was given, adding stone upon stone to the pile of evidence against Lawyer Greville’s son and Sidney Arnold’s fiance ,' and, as he stood at the window looking out into the wintery dusk, Doctor Arnold won- dered how Sidney would bear this terrible blow. (TO BE coxrmuso.) were constantly turned with an expres- a man of good appearance, tall and spare in form, with handsome regular features, gray hair, and an expression so stern and _ “1 think he alluded to Mr. Frank Greville, sir.“ “What followed i" “My master came into the dressing- rooui, air, and saw me." ‘ Did he speak to you 3" “Yes ; he said, ‘Uh, are you there, B irker ’1 Well, I don't mind you â€"you’re an old servant, and. will not chatter ; but if this state of things lasts much longer, Ashford will have something to talk lips. Few indeed could have guessed from his external composure what intense emotion and anxiety were raging in a neither pain, nor compassion, nor sym- pathy. For years Mr. Francis Greville, or Lawyer Greville, as he was more b a cut." generally called in Ashford, had been , . 4 :“Was that all l”â€"“That was all, sir." know as a cold stern man. first rate in his . _ , " profession and devoted to it to the ex- “When did 5°“ 399 Your master 383ml clusion of all other interests. He was, “NM kill the evening. 351‘, When 1 MP respected by everyone at; Aahfm-d, 33 his swered his bell, and he desired me to see father and grandfather had been before that the household retired and that all him, as a man of the nicest honour, W83 Bile for tbs! nighti- I Peggedl’um to allow me to wait up to adnnt my mistress; but even those who respected him mostgbUlI 11° rerBed,_ saying that Elle WOUId did not like him. To win affection one' not be 1191119 1mm 13to and thift he had must, gin, proof of being able to return , some business to attend to which would it ; and no one in Ashford had ever seen j make the limo 138-85 pleasantly.” Lawyer Greville's face change and grow “And you went to bed i" kindly and sympathetic or heard his deep, The Witness glanced _reproachfully at sonorous, alnioxt musical voice soften into i “19 spellkel'i one Of the 11117111811 Who had tendernessâ€"no oneâ€"not even the hiint1-'inl'«el'1’°lied With th? Question, and there some young man who called him father, , was a suspicion _of Injured dignity in his or the pretty golden-haired girl who , V0108 as he repliedâ€" looked .at him with eyes so like the youngl “Certainly.” . . mother's who had died in giving her' “W88 that the last tlme you saw your birth. muster alive 'l"â€"“Yes, air." And nOW, as he stood, tall and amend .“You were not disturbed during the in the bare whitewashed room, looking night by any unusual Baunds 7" down upon the eager awe-stricken coun~i “N0, 511‘." tenances of the jurynien and other of his 9 “Are the aervant's rooms at any Gambler’s Luck. A friend of mine once landed himself, as he would have said, in comparative aflluence by noticing that Signor Tamber- lik had a diabolical dcrcine at Spa. It was a wet morning, as mornings are some- times wet at Spa. The mists went up and the rain came down. There was no- thing to do but go into the rooms and see Meyerbeer playâ€"pretty badlyâ€"at chess. As this pleasure pulled upon my friend, he went into the other room and saw Tamberlik sit down to play. The Briton had the lucky inspiration to play la tclc duponte, but al’ encore. Tamber- lik, who was at that time at the height of his reputation, had a dreadful day of it, and my friend won pockotfuls of louis and notes of Banque de France. His method was simple. He waited till Tamberlik staked and invariably staked contrariwise. This system appears to have the extra. ordinary merit of not involving any men- tal strain. No calculation is required. The other man does all that. Lu tetc (lit polite was even then not new. Balzac in- troduces it in his “Peau dc Chagrin." When the young man about to commit suicide throws his last: louis on the gam- ing table, the great gambler who is look- ing on stakes an enormous mass of gold and notes on the opposite side, feeling sure, as Balzac puts it, that “Is chance aurait raison do ce pauvrc diablc." This certainly would not apply to Signor Tam- berlik, who was making a large income at the time. M. Belot’s idea is that of backing the punter. But as I have pre- viously observed, all systems win at cer- tain times, and I may add that there is no end to the superstition of gamblers. A very heavy player, who was with me at the wedding of the late Duke of Al- bany, declared “that no good would come of it” because the bride or the bridcs‘ con- “They are in another wing of the the agitation they could not conceal, his! house." stern handsome face showed no change, . . except that its usual pallor was intensifi- i “That W111 do”. ' ed to ghastliness ; and Doctor Arnold’s} Barker SW0d nude. With 8 1001‘ 0f 1‘6' keen, sorrowful eyes saw how nightly the V lief upon his face ; and the next witness strong hand was clenched as it; hung by called was Doctor Arnold, who was sitting his side. near the Coroner, his grave face full of And yet no one present know so well as pain. did the lawyer himself what the result of l He testified to having been summoned the enquiry would be. They all feared, , t0 Rutledge Hall on the mornlug follow- winter afternoon had crept in at the wide: Squire lying on a fur rug in the library, uncurtained windows, the heaviest blow nppmntlyinthe position in which he he could receive would have fallen upwide fallen. He was quite dead, shot himâ€"a blow which would strike that throngh the heart. “How long had he boughdead 2’1â€" hitherto spotless name; a name respected “some hoursâ€"four or five." 37" during three generations, a name on “W118 death immedlulgf‘ 7’ -"Yes, in- which no spot of shame or dishononr had Sta-Illaneoum" l ' ever fallen, but which, from that day! _“Could the woug.,_,,, been self-in- fortli, would be on every lip in terms of fllcted 3" 01, 5,, opprobrium and contempt, dragged in the “It is possible, but moan ‘mrilikelyf mire, coupled with a. base and dastardly I “What is your own opi'rfion 1" crime. And through whom? Through. “That it was not self-inflicted." the one human being in all the worldi “Were you on intimate terms with the whom Lawyer Grevillo had ever loved. I deceasedl" and who now had covered himself and: “I was not. I knew him tolerany all belonging to him with oblo uy, who , W611 85 hm mOdifmlfil-tendfinb ; bl“? I W38 had given people the right to mild to the . not on terms of intimacy with him." “Would your professional knowledge oCnrurdererâ€"his only son l of him draw you to the conclusion that; . For, as theiiuquest proceeded, the he wasamau likely. in the face of do- vague suspicion which had at first. been ’ mastic tIOUblo, to commit suicide 1" only whispored grew into a certainty. “Certainly notâ€"far frcmit.” The rumour that syoung man who bad And then one by one the members of a man whose good looks and attractiveiâ€"the coschman, who had driven Mrs. 1 ts. “U h l"' “ ' manner had made him ageueral favourite, Rutledge home from the Hunt ball, and e g be ahUddemd’ "elem are the flowers of death, used to decorate A charming young lady told me the other day that she loved Opals, but felt sure gentleman without a hat, whom he thought he recognized as Mr. Frank G’Miuet Song in the direction or the that all her misfortunes not man were H.8'u‘ tesmy‘ “150mm the Squm’ had(due to tho maleficent influenccsybf that 1“qu 0?“n the (100’ l°,M”'R“tledget stone. So it is not only gamblers who bOthOf‘hem 'W‘emon“ bemg homeout "y are superstitious, but few carry suspicion ithe “dd'd tf’GhmODy 0f the “0‘11"” "‘1 to such preposterous lengths. The man d“! that night i Others Of the hou’mhom who backs ‘25 at roulette because it is his . who had overheard noisy discussions be- _ ' . _ tween the Squire and his beautiful wife, , twenty fifth birthday ' the Other Who “1 in “him Funk (ll-“Vino,” name had been leave it at the door and thus get a num- ‘h'mly “timid; tile “In”, Wk" hfid her; he who counts the stairs up to his ushered him into his mistress s presence bedroom, and that other (mo who counts : 0n the 3W3qu 0‘ the day Of the Hunt the chair»: on the wall» )3 or are all e ual- ball, and who had opened the hall door 1y maniacal, and all Dwin at tgnea. for Irim when he lef: the Hall two hours Whether one is - . . paying a person a com- . late" And 9f ch“ mfm “3°, Jury asked l mission of 1 per cent. to bet on an even . several questions, which elicited the fol- I chance, or is trying to pick out numbers lowing informationâ€"lb“ Mr' Grevme at roulette, the madness 1.8 perhaps in the same degree. knew and Ii ellâ€"that Frank Grevillo was guilty of the awful crime which had so shaken themâ€"had been received by the inhabitants of Ashford with incredulous horror. But soon the incredulity was to die away, and only the horror would remain. ' One by one, with grave faces and un- steady voices, the witnesses gave their evidence; and the Coroner's face grew graver as he heard. Most of them were servants in the household of the deceas- ed ; and thou h none of them had very important evi ence to give, it all tended to the same and. His valet, an elderly man who had lived with Squire Rutledge for many years, was the first witness heard. The man's face was very pale and his voice low and subdued as be suggesting that Mrs. Rutledge had received him in the library, that he, the witness, had carried tea into her boudoir, and that they had left the library and adjourned thither, that it was quite two hours later when Mr. Grevillo left, that his mistress volunteerin, no evidence, c A Curlous Custom. It is well known that in the olden times many holiday diversions and even occasional fairs were held within the pre- o.â€"â€"â€"oâ€" “You have been many years in the ser- vice of the deceased l" “Twenty‘four years, air." “You were his personal attendant 'i" “I was, sir." had not rung for him to open the door, cincts of our parish churches. For in-v “Wasit part of your duty to atteudfbut that he had been standing in the stance, in the registers of Winchester him on his retiring to rest 3" ball when Mr. Grevillo came dowrrstairs there is to be seen a copy of a mandate “Yes, sir." â€"â€"was not sure whether he had his gun from William of Wykcham, which forbids with him when he left, but was quite sure he had it when he came. “Could you identify the gun l"â€"â€"“I could not be sure, sir. " i “Is this it?"â€"“I believe so." “Will you swear that it is l"â€"“1\'o, “How did it happen that you did not- doso on the night of the twenty-sec- ond 1" "My master did not require my ser- vices. Hc rang. and desired that the household should not wait up; he would sit up for my mistress himself. sir." “Who answered his bell l"â€"I did sir i" “This is the “What timewssthatl"â€""It was eleven in the library jugglingdho performance of loose dances, ba lad singing. the exhibition of profane shows and spectacles, and the celebration of other games, in the church and even in the churchyard of Kingston-on-Thames. on pain of excommunication. It would appear, however, that even this strong measure did not prevent the origin, or at gun that was found at Rutledge Hall, lying o'clock." 'near the deceased 7" custom, of which little or nothing is “Your master was in the library ’l"â€"- “Yes, sir." known except that it is thought to have “Yes, sir.” “Can anyone present identify the been peculiar to Kingston, but which was "Did you notice anything unusual invgun "I" carried on inthe church itself,even during his manner." There was a moment’s dead silence; the time of divine service, down to the “He seemed rather put out; butâ€"" then a slow, heavy footfall crossed the end of the last century, if not to the be- uWeill" tless floor, traversing the short dis. ginning of this. The congregation, strange as it may sound, used to crack nuts dur- “But I knew that he was not pleased.tsnce between the mantlepiece and the ing the service on the Sunday next before that my mistress had gone to the ball ' table. alone." “Will you allow me to examine it. 3" “How did you know that l" , said the (aim well-known voice of Law~ “I had overheard some words between 7 yer Greville, without a tremor in his firm them earlier in the evening." ' tones. "How was that l" “Certainly.” “I was in my master’s dressing-room, Notices firm thanthevoicewss the hand sir, putting out his things for dinner. He which lifted the gun, and the keen eyes Sunday was called “Crack-Nut Sunday." the noise caused by the cracking was of- i in this city, have been repeatedly search- msid’s costume was looped up with vlo- l ways brings an umbrella that he mayl all events the practice, of another ancient the eve of St. Michael's day. Hence that The custom was not restrained or con- fined to theyounger branches of the con. SULKOYSRY'S HILLIONS. Witness after witness spoke of the evi- Snail Boston Be Sold to Satisfy "to Claim l g f e! a Polish Patriot's Batu? More than half a century ago, in Rus- sian Poland, there was living a Polish patroitâ€"Peter Sulim-Sulkovskyâ€"who, while serving in the czar's army, had won a eneral's equalettea. “'hen, in 1830, the Polish patroits mustered themselves in order to free their unhappy father-laud, Gen. Snlkovsky became one of their lead- ers. The huge army of the Czar Nichol- as, however, quickly crushed the revolu- tionary patriots. All the Poles who cs- caped with their lives from Russian bayo- nets and Cossack lances fled abroad. Among the fugitives was Gen. Sulkov- sky, who managed to carry away his large ortune. The expatristcd general came to the United States. The story goes that he invested his money in some very profit- able American enterprises and soon be- came a millionaire. It: 1837, so the star runs, the general had deposited in a bank at Boston money. stocks, and shares amounting to $45,000,00. Two later he died, leaving a will. years It is not clear why his heirs did not claim the money bequeathed to them immediately after the testator's death. In 1853 some of the relatives of the general tried to find and get possession of his fortune, but they did not succeed. Again, in 1856, many Poles who claimed to be near or re- mote relativcs of the deceased gaueral tried their utmost to find the will. They claimed to have learned that the general ordered in his will that his money, with all the interest. should be undisturbed for fifty years from the date of the will, and that those millions. with interest for half a century, were to be then distributed, in 1887, among his heirs. There are hundredsof Poles who believe this story of Gen. Sulkovsky's millions. For the last three years the imperial gov- ernment of St. Potersburg, the Russian legatiun at Washington, the Russian con- sul general in this city, the Russian vice consul at Boston, and the Boston author- ities have been pesterod with petitions'of nuniberlcss Sulkovsky's and others who claim relationship to the Sulkovsky fam- ily. The death records and the records of the probate court, both at Boston and 1 ed. No traces of Gen. Sulkovsky and of his millions have been found anywhere, and the czar’s government has been ad- vised accordingly; but the hosts of claim. nuts are not satisfied. The nearer 1887 carries the more excited are the Sulkov- skys. There are about a dozen attorn- eys in the employ of the heirs. Some of them are said to be already here, some are on the way, and others are about to start from Poland. , About two years ago the Russian con- sul in this city published in The Sun air l advertisement asking the American public ’ for any information about Gen. Sulkov vsky. No definite information was ob- tained. Many an astrologist offered to tell all about the matter, and sorno volun- l tcer detectives beganworking on the case. Polish mathematicians began computing the compound interest on $15,000,000. and they came to the conclusion that pro- bably the whole city of have to be sold to satisfy the surviving I Sulkovskys and other heirs. The heirs ofa military turn are discussing means for compelling the United States authorities to pay their claims. Some of the more ldetermincd descendants of the general ' even hint that perhaps it may be neces- sary to muster a~mgiment of Sulkovskys and to cross the Atlanticâ€"N. Y. Sim. â€"â€"â€"-‘M¢.'>Nâ€"â€"â€"_ Microphones. It is through the help of the microph- one that telephony has become tactic- ! able and so extensively adopigdxi The ,Blakc transmitter, the Adcr, and many I3 others by which music and speeches are I now conveyed so many miles, are all vari- eties of the carbon microphone. In some ; churchvs, microphone transmitters are 1 now applied to the pulpit, so that the t sermon can be transmitted by teleponc to i invalid members who can not leave home f ‘it the electrical exhibitions of Paris, ‘ Vienna and the Crystal palace, the music ,of an entire opera was transmitted from i the stage by wire to other buildings where lgrcst numbers of persons sat and listened ‘ to it. The transport of music and other ' sounds in no way directly connected with ; the wire is from cntly effected by what is ternud inductfi’m, or leading in. Over and over again persons listened at tclc- phones for the purpose of hearing whats friend is saying have heard the strains of this musicâ€"aside, communicated by in- duction from sonic neighboring line to . theirs. 1 Chicago was listening in a telephone 1 early one moming, and to his surprise “heard the croaking of fro s and the ‘whistling of birds. The exp nation of the phenomenon is, that a loose joint in the telephone wire, where it passed lthrough a wood, acted as a’ microphone, and transmitted the woodlawn chorus to his ears. Messages in process of trans- mission sre sometimes drowned by the rumbling noise of street traffic inducted by the wire. â€".â€"â€"â€".M<-h«~â€"â€"â€"â€"- The Guards. The uniform of the guards has under- , gone many changes since the Restoration, ,at which it was of a very neat snd ‘picturesque character. It consisted of a frock coat rounded oil at the hips and open in front, showing beneath a puff- colored waistcoat with gilt buttons, tight leathern knee-breccees, with jack boots, and a nest, three-cornered cavalier's cocked hat. This continued to be the costume for a long period, for the scarlet duccd by the Duke of Well' have just discovered that they have been 3' subjected to a systematic swindle by dock Boston would 1 Not long ago a telegraph clerk in ' I , , tunic and bearskin headdress of the MUG“. bl" “ "”_ “Fenced ‘1‘“ by I present day are a comparatively modern young-Ind old ; and "- u on record “I” invention, the latter having been intro- n after ODD FACTS AND FANCIE. A white eel has been caught in the Sus- quehanna River, near Oreuta. A newly surveyed town site in Green Co , Tex., has been given the name of “Damsight.” ‘ A man in DodgeCity, Esqwhois cred- ited with killing thirt two persons, is called “a sociable, fellow, when he isn't crossed." A oung chinipanuee on tern ' ex- hibition in the how York ,dens weeps, laughs and makes some very lcreditable efforts at the articulation of lspeech. i The Boston refuge for homeless cats has a statue of Mercury in the front hall. The only explanation ofi‘erod of Menu in such position isthat Mercury is the of thieves. A man was tried in Dublin for poly- _ He was the possessor of five wives. The verdict returned was “insane With regard to his matrimonial engage- pients," and he was consigned to an asy- uni. There are now in the employ of the US. government 800 persons sufficiently ad- \‘anced in the science of meteorological observation to beable to tell what to- morrow will bring forth in the way of weather. ' In a neighborhood quarrel between two MW York women, one pulled the other’s false bangs and the other responded by pulling down the wall motto, “God bless our Home" and jumping with both feet upon it. They were both pulled by the police. New York commission fruit dealers loungcrs who stole the empty fruit crates and worked a“rcpestlng"game by getting over and over again the 81 deposit that the retailers receive when they return an empty crate. FORESTS FOR IRELAND. Mr. Howitz' Plan for Furnishing the list. cram Isle with Timber. At the suggestion of Dr Lyon mom- bcr of Parliament for Dublin. Mr. D. Howitz. Forest Conservator for Denmark, has made an examination of the resources and the need of Ireland for forest culti~ vation, and his observations and conclu- sions, which have been embodied in a Parliamentary report, forcibly illustrate the evils consequent upon the reckless denudation of the land of its forests. He has found that “swamps slid morasscs are created in Ireland from the want of trees to drink up the superfluous mois- ture. Irish rivers innudate the districts they traverse because there are no forests on the mountain tops to arrest and re- tain the autumn and spring rains. In summer there is a dearth of water, he- cause the trees are gone which would have served, each as a reservoir. Irish agriculture, by its system of straight drains, which Mr. Howitz entirely disap- provcs, has acted as if water ivoro poison instead of nutrimcnt.~ In the past by felling the mountain woods, and in the present by planting no successors, it has done worse by tapping the supply at ',its source. Irish fruitfulncss is gradually being drained and washed away into the lakes and sees, and no preparation has been made to repleniin it." Fortunately, however, the island pro- scnts the especial conditions for murder- ing forestry easy and beneficial. Five million of its 20,000,000 acres are waste, and might be planted with a reasonable certainty of profit ; and these lands would grow valuable timber, instead of com- moner and cheaper kinds. The list of available trees includes thirty-six conifers, thirty-eight deciduous and hard wood [species, and eight sorts of bushes. Mr. Howitz has drawn up from personal in- spection a scheme for planting a hundred thousand acres every year for the next , thirty years. By the end of that time a ;plantation, he estimates, will come to ‘full productive capacity, besides having already iven incidental returns from brushwooilsand saplings. TlicCcstporacrc 'at the end of thirty years will have been, ’at the highest, £20, or 8100, while the ‘lowcst annual profits are computed at present prices at £1, or $5 per acre ; and ' as the demand for timber is all the time i rising, and the area of supply narrowing, €tlrcy arolikcly to be higher. The sug- gestions contained in Mr. Ilowitz's rc- l port are timely for those who are striving 1to arrest and remedy the evils resulting :from the deprcdation of the timber 'growth in many sections of our own lcountry. ‘5‘. An Author's Work-Room. 1 Charles Reade despised literary fop’ pcry. He had a weakness for marquct- ry, indeed, and was fond of pictures, but his workshopâ€"or his literary storcroom, rather. for he did but little actual writ- ing here â€"â€"is bare enough for an anchor- itc. One side of the room is taken up with shelves of all sizes, vs in from that of the Times to the ld’uoficolino. Here are stored those wonderful guard- books, scrap-books and folios, to keep up which used to be one of the pleasures and labors of his life. They have never been disturbed since he took his last look at them. How many romantic stories do they contain, how many tales of cruelty, of oppression ! What notes of fiery in- dignation are to be found at their side i What innumerable pages of curious phrascology, figures of s occh, what volumes of incidents! \ hat Augean istsblcs to be cleaned out b that Vigor- unit and untiring hand, w t pages of jokes, of forgotten scandals, of police rc- portsl A tortuous maze, of which for the present the key is gone. True Story. Handsome Young Millionaircâ€"“ So you would like a position ascompanlon to . my sister?" Pretty Girl-â€"“ Yes, please ; I would do my very best to give satisfaction." “ Can ou sing f" “ No, Ism sorry to say." “ You lay the piano, I suppose 'l" i . “ No ; never studied music." “ Ah l Probably, their, you paint 0r_fl crockery . “lt is needlsss to continue the list, - sir ; l have no accomplishments." i ” Indeed? Why, how have you passed I your time since you left school ’l" “ At home helping mother. “l’atdon me for interrupting. You You see son, the daughter of the night watchman ; w . at the Columbus and Rome station, had a But, numerous as its trrquenters were, . be“! (earthly invented in the turn- " it neverhsd been so full seen the snowy tabloftre skits being sofsr separated that afternoon of the second day after the ' tans. Dru Jordon sud 'l‘ieknor,4 Hunt hall, for the enquiry into the sud- Wfsfly is would be impossible to den and terrible death of the Squire was ass efid‘piru hon! “ult‘. [I’m-Ah hits of taking there,s.nd in a largfiroom skin were pulled on the ugly wounds. on the brat floor the Cortch and hxsjury As soon as this was known to Belle's ten so loud and w powerful as w_ oblige the battle of Waterloo, in imitation of the minister-to break off for a time his ‘ thou worn Napoleon's Imperial: my master say that he did not choose to “It is my son's gun. reading or his sermon until silence was rc- Guards. The present tunicst waistbelt go, and that shc,â€"-my mistress-should “You are sure, Mr. Grevillo T stored. The above custom was thought i were “opted in lieu of a“, "momunedg not goaioue." “I am quite sure. It was a present by one or two antiquaries to have Mnlmtee .nd chm, cm belt. .0 mm)” The man spike with some reluctance. - from me, sad his initials are engraved 00!)!!ch In 90,100 Wt 01’ other I'll-h “Wise 1855. Un state occasions the officers He had an almost exaggerated respectfor upon it." ' lclwoflng 0‘ bill!!!" In all?” mambo" 0‘ {of the guards wore handsome gold sword- It was even so ; on a little silver plate the corporate body on Michaelmas day, 5 bclu “d goidembmidcmd m, with . were assembled. the family that he had served, and it‘: . . They had been to the stately old man- seemed to him humiliati thatthe difi'er ' upon the gun were the three letters “F. and with the_ usual 'fcast'which attended i broad gold strips down the legs of the Al- um mommaâ€"CM: Heater IM- trousers, Ind the Drum Majors of is. ‘siou where the dead man had reigned. ences between Spuirean Mrs. Rutledge E. G "â€"I-‘rsmis Edward Grevillo. y and had seen him lying there in his last should be spoken of in public, although most a groan broke from Doctor Arnold. ; don. “n.1, audio“, '5. m tidmmmewm. aloe with a frown still lingering on hitthay had been the subject of conversation Great as his fears were, he had allowed‘ M‘. d iordinsry to the Queen," wear gorgeous forehead andhis lips set and stern. and! for many weeks in the servants' hall. :himsslf to hope; but he felt now thsti ‘ :, éhgl‘”r;s,b" ,3 “an, Em” gold embroidered dresses that sect £42 they had returned to the Rutledge Arms. “Did Mrs. Rutledge make any reply 1" his hope was groundless. For Sidncy’s ‘ 23°:vhmh “a: é‘ma"; 1:3,,“ e”: {or m]; “it, looking palsandgruve, for mussel than â€"“She laughed." leaks he would have given all he was may. "And M ,8 PM“, ,) a, “d had known the Squire the "Willyoutcllussllyoucsnremember‘worth to prove Frank Greville's inno- dfln ,n "Y" “hwy... "And My” Coroner sitting at one 6nd of what passed l" 200308: but link link “30 My Chitin s gutt fight 3" “No. no, thus was no fizlw deal tableharlbeen a personal friend of; “My master seemed greatly annoyed, of evidence was casing mund the un- ‘ "Ah," ti sad the veteran, “there; his, and three days before had ridden by and spoke angrily, sir. He said and my mistress were in the adjoining bent upon it showed no signs of falter room The door was Open, and I heard ing. have said enough andâ€" H “011, do not say I will not do. neuauary i can pick up some accomle- ments in a reasonable time, lam sure.” “ You will not do as hired companion, because you are entirel too good for the iposition, but if you in i take half of my fortune and me with it, I shall consider myself the luckiest man in the world." She didâ€"Philadelphia Call. _â€"â€"-â€".~<-.-> When the frantic leader of an open air orchestra is fighting mouiuitoss with his baton, the trifling public thinks that is . . . his way of beating tune. Asa rule the eye is no more a criterion of character than a single hair is of the Maui Amom lulu to die beam be strength of the butter in which it it will then hm to so over to thomi'ority- lound. [He would always rather be a “remnants vs thumcutthe neassary ; rug.“ thathe formtcyoungmand his flight had sresouicauo is growing dulyâ€"tum (Utio) Kw- goiter. y..n