The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

.. ........-« ,.a;\.uâ€";YHIM~PMM-â€"â€"AuMp . . an ”mi: runner NEWS. SOME RUSSIAN 8038 BS. “ The Dying Prophetâ€"Sleuths in Pontiac. “ The Dying Prophet ” is just now the A smnkelegg fuel filled it Massute" is be sensation of Russia. Certainly he is a most in“ used on steam rollers in Vienna. The extraordinary being. If hebe what 13 claim- fuel is composed of the liquid residuum ed: H» 1mm: Wonderful personage does not petroleum refineries. extst. If he he an imposter, then be is the _ . , , , , ‘ , most marvellous imposter of the age. The _ Military disc’Phhe "1 Germany ‘33 becom- audacity of his pretensions, the skill with lag more and more severe under the influence which they are maintained, and, above ‘11, 0f the Emperor. The ”'90?“ 0f the garrison the profound efi'ect produced upon all who of Thorn have been prohibited from visiting come in contact with him, have no mud dance balls at night. Johan Miller, pushed in modern history. So strong, in sod, is ‘0 desperation by in use, deserted “'0‘“ h“ the impression created by his doings that regimentat Bimbaum. The patrol pursued the Procumtor of the Holy Synod and other and fir ed M him when hc "3de ‘0 surrcu- high ecclesiastical officers of the Empire dare dcr. Reaching the banks of the \Yarthe, not interfere. A peels have been made to and fihdmg himself hedged "1 by h“ Ph‘" them to stop by orce of law the vast pil- suers, the man Jumped into the "V“ and griniages that are constantly being made to was drowned. the “ Prophet’s” home, since they are in There is a great outcry over the cruelty defiance of the Orthodox Church. But these with which political prisonersare treated in stem defenders of the faith, who do not Saxe-Coburgâ€"Gotha. An instance is iven hesitate to persecute the Stundists and in the case of Herr Borhart, editor 0% the Jews, tremble at the name of the “ Dying Gotliacr Tageblatt, imprisoned for eight Prophet,” and let him work his miracles months at Ichtershausen. Although in unmolestcd. delicate health, he was obliged to sleep can This strange person is named Tagarelli, plank bed witha thin covering, and live on and is of French or- Italian extraction. He the ordinary fare of the prison. He was was, however, b-rn at Tiflis, in the Caucasus, ermitted to write only 0i ce a month to where he now lives. He is yet a young man, his wife, and to receive only one visit from of humble rank in life, and of only ordinary her during the same time. education. Since childhood he has been bed- Thc ship canal from Paris to Rouen is to ridden “Pd utterly helpless.- FO“ years he be about 114 miles in length and twenty- lay in his humble cottage, in the outskirts thrcc feetin depth and the estimated cost ofTiflis,with nothing todistinguish him from is 330330.000. ’ any common invalid. But a few months ago ‘ _ _ . a curious change was observed. In brief,he The Chilian Government has advertised died, to all appearance. His friends believed for tenders {01‘ raising the ironclad 3181190 him dead. The doctors declared him dead. E110 dado, WhiCh “'33 sunk by torpedoes “1 ‘ According to all ordinary tests, he was the late civil “'3"- Exports who have can] certainly dead. That was on Saturday. They aniiued the vessel say that the guns are the prepared his body {05 burial, and the corpse most valuable part of the wreck, and that 511)? in its coffin until Monday, when the these 08-“ 03:5“! be "“30"“ ed by the use 0i ' funeral was to take place. At the very hour prOper appliances. set for the obsequics, however, the young The latest financial repm t3 show that the man Suddenly returned to life. Ever since, Russian Government has, besides the 285,- the some event has occurer every week. 000,000 roubles in gold, which is put by as with the exception, of course of the prepar- 3 guarantee for the nil-culatiiig currency, a. sham; for burial, which are now omitted. reserve fund of 125,000,000 to guarantee the On Saturday he dies. On Monday he re- payment of foreign debts in specie. The aim turns to life. _ nual rate of such payments amount to 100,- « \Vhat 0f the time between ‘2 He declares 000,000 roubles. that he really does die, and that his spirit, The Agricultul‘c Society of Voronezh departing from his body, passes into the . other world. “’hat manner of world it is sends the horses of poor peasants to the Cau~ he will not divulge Nor will he tell casiau territories to board for the winter. ' W . anything of his doings ' there save one. The bpcrety of the Red Cross “5515‘s the 50‘ That is, that he has access to tlle book kept Cicty in the payment of board for the horses _ , b the Recordiu Anccl, iii which are set and has petitioned the Governmelnt to make dgwn all the sins3 of lihinanity. On its fatal the transportation 0f such animus free. pages he finds names of all his acquaintanc- The German Emperor enjoys excellent es, and reads against them, the catalogue of health at present and is more active than their misdeeds, even of their evil thoughts. ever in mind and movement. He drives 1 The catalogue is a, long one, Men are Ynore frequently from Potsdam and Berlin, and wicked than their fellows suppose. So the has repeated conferences with the Chancellor “ Prophet” comes back to life much sadder and the heads of departments. Although by‘the knowledge he has gained. Indeed he delights to be in Berlin, it is becoming he would like to look no more upon that daily more noticeable that the liberal and dreadful book {buts greater power than radical Berliners like him less and less. his own compels him to do so. Nor is his Their greetings lack lieartincss and be is information confined to the records of his regarded by the public rather with an air own acquaintances. The book of the whole of cold curiosity. The Kaiser is always icy world is open to him, and he can ascertain in his demeanor out of doors and tends to ’ exactly what charges are set down against ready to start with his horse to look for work, and leave his family to live on such substitutes as they could procure, together with milk, and an occasional calf or sheep to sell or kill. But now all the beasts .were dead, and his only hope was in God and the Our ;when his last crust was gone he would start 03‘ to beg. Being reminded that for a radius of 300 versts he would find no one better off than himself to brgmfxrom, he sim~ ply replied. “ God and the will not let us starve." WITH LIGHTNING SPEED. Some Recent Railroad Travelling Which Surpasses Previous Records in America. In this age of travel, when so many ex- cellent routes are offered to the tourist or traveler, it is not so much the picturesque scenery along the line of the railroad, or the comfort of passengers to which special at- tention is given, for in these respects there is really very little difference, particularly between Chicago and New York, the great commercial‘centcrs of America. There are several roads from which to select a route and all furnish delightful accommodations to their patrons. What the general trav- eling man desires is a' line of road at once safe and making quick connections, and in this respect the unbiased customer for transportation Would be fain to regard the DEADLY OOOUPATIONS. GOLD-MINING III BRITISH 001.019 --- BIA. llcn Who Perform Work Which list Eventually Resulitn neu- Death. 503° 0‘ “It ”first Brooms u- no “'oriri. There are many trades which mean, soon- er or later, sure death to the workman. In some cases death comes early; in others where the man is working among cumulative poisons it is lingering and painful in the ex- tremc. But of all others, the salt-take, bleaching'powder, and limehouss men have death most surely staring them in the face. It may almost be said that the history of ld-mining there is the history of British lumbia. Victoria, the, capital was a Hudson Bay post established in 1843. and Vancouver, Queen Charlotte's and the other islands, as well as the mainland, were of interest to only a few white men as rts of The acid gm given of from the saltpake a great fur~trading field with aamal Indian furnaces is very trying, and flannel protec- ovulation. The first nugget of gold was tion over the mouth is used to ward this off ound at who Is now «the Gold Harbor. but in spite of it teeth and gums fall a vic- on the west cm". of the Queen Charlotte tim to the acid. Very frequently bits get 1818116 by an Indian woman. in 1851. A nibbled by the action of the acid out > of part of it, weighing four or five ounces in: men’s hands and arms. Some of the hands taken by the Indians to Fort Simpson ~ and have a corrugated look in consequence. SOld- The 311115911 Bay Company,_ which Lime is the principal ingredient out of has done 8 llttle_m every line of busmess in which bleaching-powder is made. Before it 133 day sent a brigantine to the _3 t. and goes to the chlorine chambers, where itisto found i} (1118?“ V831! “IMHO 618 ty feet, absorb the , it is carefully treated and re- and yielding a high percentage of Vld. duced to a fine powder. It is sifted, and Blasting was begun. and the vaselwas oad- beaten about, and slakcd’ and the [men “rho 6d Wild) ore : but 811.8 was lost on the return have to do this work have a job which no voyage. An American _veasel, ashore at one need envy. Imagine working all day or Esquimauit, near Victoria, was purchased all night, as the case ma be, ina fine mist renamed the RCFDW'l/g and sent W “Old of limeâ€"lime particles ying about like a Harbor Vlth thh‘e)‘ miners, who worked the cloud of mosquitoes, with a far sharper bite, vein‘until the "88881 was loaded and sent too. To protect themeelves the men resort ‘70 bnghnd- News Of the mine travelled, to a muzzle or to a piece of rag or flannel and in another year a small fleet of vessels ,g-gwuxum freeze his popularity. The standing army of the Argentine Re- public numbers 6,000 men, and there are over fifty Generals on the active list. This gives a General to about every hundred other warriors of all lowei; grades. At this ratio, when the officers are all accounted for, the poor private must be a dreadfully lonesome creature. They manage these things still better in some republics, where every man in the army is an officer of some sort. In Basel the Faculty of Jurisprudence , behalf. any member of the human race. Of all his pretensions, of course, on] one is susceptible of proof, and that is the correctness of his information. People who visit him know perfectly well whether he tells them the truth about their misdeeds. It is raid that he has never madea mistake ; at any rate, no one has ever charged him with doing so. There is scarcely a person in Tiflis who has not visited him. They all plead guilty to the charges he reports against them, and tcarfully beseech him to iiitcrccde with the powers of the other world in their Thousands of people from" all parts received the application of Mrs. Emily Kein- of the Empire daily throng about his cot- P‘h to become atutor 0f Roman, LhShSh: * tags, seeking to know from him the. story American, and international law, but the University Senate voted to deny it by 19 to 10. The Senate declined to consider the ' legality of appointing female instructors, on the ground of inexpediency. The whole family of the brilliant writer, Tolstoi, are working hard to relieve the famishing population. The Count himself, with his two daughters are at work among the peasants in the government of Rasan : Mine. Tolstoi is in Moscow making collec- tions, and two of his sons have enlisted themselves in the services of the Society of the Red Cross, which was officially appoint- cd by the Government to work at the dis‘ tribution of charity among the hungry. , The suspicions of disloyalty directed against tho Guelph party in Hanover con finuc, and have com crted the investigation into their proceedings into a regular in- qiiisition. 'l‘lio police. are searching houses of the suspected without restraint. Many arbitrary arrests have been made, and there are long and loud complaints that such a state of affairs should exist in Ger- many in a time of peace. The municipal authorities of Kiev, Russia are closing all the liquor shops which belong to J ews. One hundred and fifty shops have been closed. A liberal Moscow paper asks: “If this measure is taken to prevent drunk- enncss, why should the Jewish and not all the other liquor shops be closed? The Jew who has a license to sell liquor must neces- sarily have a right to live in the city. Why, then. should his rights be so shamefully cur- toiled?” As regards the docility of the people of Cameroon, especially in iiiilifn'y matters Limit. von Steffen says in a private letter : “At present we have a company of 100 Togo men, another company of Dahoma men, and a third of Accra men. They are Willing, and not ditlicult to drill. The fellows have a good sense of order, and are pretty clean. On Oci. 0 we did our firs. target shooting. The mark was 175 fret 011', and they hit it twenty times out of sixty. They are for the most part as quick, it not quicker, than our German recruits.” A young lady of good family of St. Pct- ersbur‘i; was driven to insanity by Tolstoi’s “ Kreutzcr Sonata." Having read the book she threw her windows open, and crying, " Dissipation, dishonor everywhere l” she attempted to jump out. Her inaid-in-wait- ing prevented her She then shut herself up and refused to take food for three davs. At last the was persuaded to take food by a trick. A physician resembling Count Tol stoi in appearance was introduced to her as the Count, and, humoring her whims and speaking to her in the manner Tolstoi him- self would speak, he advised her to eat what was alnolutcly necessary to maintain life. The illusion is still kept up by means of letters addressed to her in the name of Tolsioi. But the doctors are afraid that who may get worse if she discoveis the dc colt, and they advise her parents to submit her to the treatment of hypnotiam. l f of their own ill-deeds. Many of them go in idle curiostty, or in sceptical spirit, but all who are admitted to his presence come away convinced/of his supernatural knowledge. Among some who went from Moscow to see him, recently, was a shrewd newspaper cor- respondent, whose avowed purpose was to expose what he believed to be a fraud. He came from Tagarclli’s room with bristling hair, blanched face and trembling limbs. “ Take me away !”he cried to his friends} “ I have lived an hour in the Day of Judg- ment 1” _ - Some curious traits of peasant-nature in Russia have been brought prominently for- ward by the famine. The average moujik is a person little understood by the outer world. _ He is so essentially Asiatic in mind that a European can Searccly understand him or appreciate him. His ignorance of course, is proverbial. Education is forbid. den him, “ by order of the Czar.” But his laziness and his utter lack of moral sense are not so well known. The “ V icdomosti,” of Moscow, gives an extraordinary illustra- tion of the former quality. Inr'. the coun- try traversed by the Kurok-Voronesli rail- road there is much distress. At one point people are actually dying of hunger. The railroad company, however, is making large improvements on its line, and offers em- ployment sufficient to supply a livelihood during the entire winter season to the whole of tlic localpeasantry. The company offers to a single laborer twenty-three rubles a month, and for a. man and horse thirty-five rubles. It also offers to provide all ncc‘ ccssary tools free. Now, these wages may seem small to an American. But they are really pretty good, according to the Euro- , pean standard. At any rate, they would enable the men who received them to pur- chase food and maintain their families in comfort. A few have accepted the ochr ; the great mass of the starving and idle pop- ulation utterly refuse it. "boy prefer to starve, or rather, as they ho )e, to be sup- ported by the bounty of the “ lsittlc Father,” 'ow and then the railroad people, by dint of persuasion and rcproaches, induce some of them to go to work. But in a few hours, or days at most. they throw (10W!) theirtools and return to idleness and beggary. Others, says the some paper, are willing to see their wives do the work which they refuse to do, and then spend the bulk of the women’s earnings for vodki, and in their drunkenness bewail the failure of the harvest 1 It is also related in the “ Moscow Gaz~ cite,” that in many places easants who harvested fairly good cro s solld their grain secretly, and are now proc aiming themselves destitute and seeking the bounty of the charitable. Others have hidden their grain away, and make the same pretence. At the some time. drunkenness isincreasing so ter- ribl - that the distilleries are unable, though wor ing double forces night and day, to supply the demand for vodki. Even the honest and sober peasants do little better. They are hopeless and apathetic. One pea~ sani, for example, at Efremoff, is reported as saying that he was some time ago quite New York Central 8.: Hudson River rail- held tightly between the teeth. The ex» came “P from Shh Francisco; but the 3119' road as a line furnishing all that could be posed desired in speed, This company advertises to run the fastest train in the world, and improvised in addition to the caps which the broad statement is substantiated by at- the men 'wear. In spite of every- tention being called to the “ Empire State thing, however, the lime gets in some. express,” which train is composed of one where and inflicts its bite. All the time combination buffet smoking-car, two elegant . the work 'is carried on breathing is a terrible coaches, undo. Wagner bufl’ett drawing-roam ' effort. To breathe through the nose would car, and the line is a, daily (except Sunday) have the direst consequences. A single in- connection between New York and N iagara halation and the lime particles would lodge Falls. The train is vestibuled, heated by there. So the air has to be inhaled through steam, and lighted by gas, and weighs 481- L the muzzle and given out through the nose. 800 pounds ; leaves New York at 9 a. m. Naturally, nose-bleeding is a frequent com- and arrives at Niagara Falls at 7.20 p. m, plaint in the works. ’lwenty minutes at a â€"440 miles in 504 minutes. spell is as much as a man can stand ; after The New York Central & Hudson River that he goes out to recover himself and lay road also has four other limited trains that ; in a. little air for his inside and some grease make good running time and they are the for his outside lining. These lime men, of New York and Chicago limited, which ' course, are not able to wash ; they shun makes connection between the two cities in i water as other people shun fire. The only twenty-four hours; the Southwestern lim- .wash they get, sometimes for months to- itedâ€"twenty-four hours between New York . gether, is in grease. To insist upon these and Cincinnati; the \Vorld’s Fair special, {poor chaps repeating their attack on the between Chicago and New York, and theilinle overa period as long as eight hours North Shore limited, all making corre- seems cruel. It is for, far too long, but it spending speed. ' would be a step in the right direction. As In order to test the ability of the elegant to the medical evidence, it does not require engines used on this road Third-Vice-Pres- , much skill to see how work like this must ident Webb with a, party of gentlemen made ; tell on the respiratory organs. ”- trial trip quite recently from the Grand The duties of the limehouse men are how. Central depot in New York to ElishBhfihloi ! ever, child’s play compared whith whdt the a distance 0f 4236-1? “11.105, and the time was packer has to endure. \Vheu the limelnan 439% minutes, 111911"th three steps, .while has finished his part of the job and the lime the actual running time was 420 minutes is sprinkled to a depth of two inches over and 44 seconds. The train was composed the floor of the chlorine and raked lightly 0f .an_engine and three cars, the engine over so that the gas shall have access to. as weighing 200,000 pounds and the 091's 260'» large a. surface area as possible, the doors are 000 pounds, the total weight ,helhg 2'30 shut, the cracks stopped up with clay, and tons, 01‘ equal to that Of an ordinary train on opening is made to admit the chlorine. of‘five cars. The run-from New York to It streams in, and through the glass which AlthYv 143 “11193. thh was made Wlhh' is let into the door you can see the invasion rts of the skin are carefully greas- ply W35 'seenlt-o be very limited, and after ed, an a sort of paper mask is frequently ’ $20,000 in all had been taken out, the fiel fl was abandoned. In 1855 gold was found by a Hudson Bay Company’s employs at Fort Colville, now in \Vashington State, near the boundary. Some Thompson River (B.C. ) Indians who went to Walla Walla spread a report there that gold, like that discovered at Colville, was to be found in the valley of the Thompson. A party of Canadians and half-breeds went to the region referred to and found placcrs nine miles above the mouth of the river. By'lSSS the news had the authentication of it stirred the miners of,Galifornia, and an astonishing invasion of the virgin province began. It is said that in the sprin of 1858 more than 20,000 persons reached ictoria from San Francisco by sea, disteuding the little fur-trading post of a few hundred iii- habitants into what would even now be called a considerable city ; a city of canvas, however. Simultaneously a third as many miners ' made their way to the new province on land. But the land was covered with mountains and dense forests, the only route to its interior for them was theviolent, almostboiling, Fraser River, and there was nothing on which the lives of this horde of men could be sustained. lly the end of the year out of nearly 30,000 ad- venturers only a tenth part remained. Those who did stay worked the river bars of the lower Fraser until in five months they had shipped from Victoria more than half a million dollars’ worth of gold. From a historical point of view it is a peculiar co- incidence that in 1850, when the attention of the world was thus first attracted to this new country, the charter of the Hudson Bay Company expired, and the territory passed from its control to become like any other out a. stop, occupied 140 minutes: the dist- y mice from Albany to Syracuse, 148 miles, was covered in 146 minutes, and that from Syracuse to East Buffalo, 146 miles, in 147 minutes and 34' seconds. The change of engines at Albany required 3 minutes and 28 seconds, and a hot journal at Fairport occasioned a delay of 7 minutes and 50 sec- ends. The record of seven hours travel at more than a mile a minute, a- made on this occa- sion, is unequaled by any other railroad in the world, and it is said by those who were fortunate enough to be in the party that the journey was pleasant and delightful, thus proving that not only the company has the engines to make the speed, but the road- bcd, that must of necessity be the very some of perfection. The fastest previous long-distance run on record was that of the Scotch express on the London 8: Northwestern railway of Eng- land, which in August, 1888, was run from London to Edinburgh, 400 miles, at an aver- age speed of 55.4 miles per hour, with a train weighing ninoty tons exclusive of the locomotive. Other long runs have been made in this country, and some of them have been over the New York & Hudson River road, but in no instance has such re- markable time been made as that above stated. The Old Man's Joke. A young gentleman who was very fond of displaying his watch and guard, and who had, moreover, a passion for attending theatres and other places of amusement, was once thus admonished by his father: “John, my son, let me give you a bit of ad- vicc. As you are so fond of attending the theatres, let me request you not to display your watch and guard so conspicuously, or you will assuredly have are long to mourn tlie'loss of them.” , Now John, who thought himself too sharp for that, replied, “No fear, father, I am much too wide awake for that.” A few evenings after this, the father wish- cd to accompany his son to the theatre, much to J olin’s delight. Having got safely inside and taken their seats, the father said, “Are your watch and chain all right J 01in?” ~ “Of course,” replied John, laughing; At the same time he felt in his pocket; but. im- mediately his expression changed, and look- ing sheepishly at his father he stammered out, “It‘s gone!” “Why,” said his father, laughing in turn, “I thought you were much too wide awake for that; but I shall surprise you when I tell you that I took it, to prove to you how easyif is for a man to rob you of it in a crowd. ” “You, father?" “Yes, John; I brought these scissors, commonly used for such a purpose, and (still laughing) transferred the watch from your pocket to mine; and see, here it is.” With this he put his hand into his pocket. He suddenly, however, ceased laughing, and, looking as sheepish as John had done before, stammercd, “John, whâ€"whâ€"why, John, yours and miâ€"mine are both gone. Someone has evidently been more wide awake than both of us. ' Judgeâ€"“How did you come to rob this man in broad daylight on a frequented thoroughfare 1’" llighwaymanâ€"“ I couldn’t help that; I had an engagement for every night in that week. " Philosophers have noticed that when a man makes up his mind that he hasto rac- ticc economy, be generally tries to gin with his wife’s expenses. of the green gas. A long period has to elapse ‘ before the lime has drunk its 'fill and be- come bleaching poivder of the requisite strength ; but at length, after the necessary ,tests,.aud perhaps a rearrangement of the . surface and another dose of chlorine, things , are ready for packing. The duties of the powder-packer consist of filling caski. with the bleaching powder. To do this he has to enter the chamber, which, for several days . past, has been charged with the chlorine gas. Though the worst of the gas has been allow- ed to pass out of the chamber before the packer enters it the atmosphere is stillcliarg- ed with the deadly fumes. The beat is something tremendous, especially as the poor . wretch who has to endure it is swathed about the head in a. way that would protect him from the arctic cold. THE BRAVE J AOK TAR. crown colony. . In 1860 the gold-miners, seeking the source of the “flour" gold they found’ln such abundance in the bed of the river, pursued their search into the heart and almost the centre of that forbidding and un- broken territory. Tthuesnel River be- came the seat of their operations. Two years later came another extraordinary im- migration. This was not surprising for 1500 miners bad in one year (1861) taken out; 2,000,000 in gold dust from certain creeks in what is called the Cariboo District, and one can imagine (if one does not remember) what fabulous tales were based upon this fact. The second stampede was of persons from all over the world, but chiefly from England, Canada, Australia, and N ow Zea- land. After that there were new “ finds ” almost every year, and the miners worked ,graidually quatlipiard imtil.’ about 1874, they . . ha travele t ran 1 t c rovincc, in at Risking Ills Lire :LIHII‘y the Corpse of an one end and out 3% the Dawn and were m'y' k" the tributaries of the Yukon River After the re ulse of one of the furious as- war mg A p . . ‘ . G d W l in the north, beyond the 60th parallel. Mr. lsault-s at cm’ saysawritei m 0° 01" 5’ Dawson estimates that the total yield of “9 dead may °f 8‘ French Phice” W“ 1"“ gold between 1858and 1888 wus$54,108,80=l; lying in a prominent position between the the average number of miners employed walls and the besieger’s trenches. The _ 0 ,. ‘ . body lay there for a day or two and attract- ;::13;?1p‘:::glo"vzgg égg;:€¥§:nfzillggg? ed much attention. It was spoken about on ada’s El Dorado,” in .. Harper’s Magazine.” board the Tigre, which lay off Acre, and the matter made an impression difficult to (10- B tll rs count for on the simple superstitious mind 1‘0 6 ‘ of Kelly. Only the very smartest men had beensent ashore to assistin the defense, and related by a reverend gentleman at the Kelly was not among these. But one day West-end about a month ago, the authentic- lic begged for and obtained leave to go on ity of which he is said to have vouched for, shore. As soon as he entered the town be A pjarson in Yorkshire was greatly trou- procured a shovel, n. pickax, and a coil of bled y the number of trumps who called at rope, walked straight to the ramparts, and, his house for help. . declining all offers of assistance, lowered Not liking to refuse them, but still not himself from an embrassure. The firing at willing to give much away, he thought of a he moment was fast and furious. As Kelly plan which would politely turn them from set foot upon the ground and, shouldcring his door. To every tramp he promised a his tools, walked deliberately toward the meal providing they would first of all let dead body a dozen French muskets were him pray with them. . pointed at hifn. Ouc‘ of the enemy’s This naturally answered well until one commanders, however, divining the sail- day atrmnp called, got the usual reply, but, or’s intentions, ordered his men to slioul- to the surprise of thcparson, consented. der arms. In an instant both sides, as if by , The parson, not to he done, asked. him (some common impulse, ceased firing, and into his room, and placing before him a. Kelly, the object of breathless attention \picce of bread a few days Ol( , said : from friend and foe, stopped beside the “Now, my dear fellow, before you eat Frenchman‘s corpse. He then coolly and this good and nourishing bread, you have calmly dug a grave, put the ollicer into it, promised to let me pray, so Will you please covcrcd him up, and taking from his pocket kneel down ?:’ . a small piece of board and a bit of chalk “ Yes,’ said the tramp, kneeling down. wrote on the board “Here you lie, old "Then you will repeat after me, Our Crop,” and put at the head of the grave Father,” said the person. thisrough-und-rcadymemorial. “Old Crop” But the tramp did not answer. After was no doubt honest Kelly’s rendering of “Crapaud,” the French for a frog, and a . . nickname with the sailors for all “ moun. “ \Vhy are you not repeating? ’ secrs.” This pious duty done, he shouldered ! “ I can’t make this out,” said the tramp. his implements 'ngain, walked back as de- “ Our Father '1” . liberately as he had come, and disappeared “ch,” said the parson ; “didn't you within the ‘cmbrasure. The firing recom- know that. our Father was in heaven ’1” menced and men tliirstcd once more for one “ What, my father 2” said the tramp. anothcr’s blood. Sir Sidney Smith, the very " Yes,” said the purson. man to delight in such an adventure, sent . ” And your Father '1” said the ta‘ump. for Kelley and questioned him about it. The “ Yes.” simple-hearted tar could only wonder that asking the second time, and receiving no answer, the person said : “ \Vell, this beats all,” said the tramp, others could find anything to wonder at in " if He is your Father and my Father, then his exploit. “You wcrealoue were you not?” we are brothers,” and shaking the parson's said Sir Sidney. “No, I was not alone," hand, said: ‘Fancy meeting like I. iis, and answered Kelley. “ I was told you were,” you offering your own brother that pic-cc of protested the commodore. “No, I wasn’t dry bread ! ’ alone,” was the reply; “God was with The parson gave the tramp a dinner, and me.” gave up praying with tramps. It Went Thmugh‘ If you would lift me you must be on high- Bulfinch~" Say, Wooden, howaboutthat or ground. If you would literate me you great scheme you had? Did you ever put must be free. If you would csrrcct my it through 2” false view of facts hold u (a me the same Woodent-“No, I didn’t need to." facts in the true order 0 thoughts, and I Bulfinchâ€"“ How is that 1' ” can not go back from the new conviction-m Woodcnâ€"-“ It fell through.” (Emerson. The following very amusing story was . mans go's» a»; a: M. ,.., ‘ .Mfwflvtmnw. m ’3