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“u-sâ€"q LAT FOREIGN NEWS. a The Krupp works at Essen, Germany, re- cently turned out a gun that can propel a ball fifteen miles. Paths: Cre, a French priest stationed at found a talent of the Jersualcm, recently time of King David in his dooryard. [{Grass'noppers did an immense amount. of damage in Ohio to oats and other growing crops. Whole fields of oats were destroy- ed. During one week this month 313 car loads containing 3,8l6 tons of green fruit Were shipped East from California. So far this season 6,000,000 more pounds of fruit have been shipped than last year. Burt Revrer and Charles Lemont, of Dun- (lee, Minn., were both in love with the same girl and they agreed to settle the matter of rivalry by a fight in the presence of the young woman. She was watching the bar.- tle from a buggy, when the horse took fright and ran, throwing her out and cans- ing fatal injuries. An ingenious Frenchman has invented a contrivance for removing the hair by ma- chinery. It is told that it operates with as great precision as Dr. Guillotine’s, and does lriot remove so much of the man with the air. Photography has determined the cause of the recent glacial avalanche in the Alps. It was hydraulic pressure beneath and be- hind the glacier, produced by masses of ice falling into connecting water above and at a consrderable distance. In view of the impendin cholera plague Dr. Daremberg says to the ’arisians, “ Boil your ice !” Freezing does not kill the germ of contagion, and there is only one practica- ble way of preparing ice so that it may be taken safely into the system. By the new Education Act in South Aus- tralia, women are made eligible as members of the boards of advice. These have some- what the same functions as British school boards, but with less authority. The authorities in Russia have ordered that a person who dies from cholera shall not be buried for twenty-four hours in order to prove groundless the popular belief that many are buried alive. A Vienna glass manufacturer claims to have produced a substitute for glass which contains all the transparent, odorless and acid-resisting pro erties of glass, while it has the greater a vantage of being pliable and to a great degree unbreakable. The city of Paris makes much of its shade trces. The transplanting of large trees is done there with perhaps greater success than anywhere else. It is now proposed to make an ofiicial inspection of all the trees in the city, with the view of remov- l I .Do Not manna Bible. “Oh, don’t do that, please i” said Mabel Coy to her chum Rose King, as they were arranging their room at the Oak Knoll Seminary at the beginning of the school ear. . y “ Don't do what, pray 2" asked Rose, opening her large black eyes very wide. “ Excuse me, please. I must seem very abrupt, but I thought you were about to put your Bible at the bottom of that pile of ooks.” “ And what if I do? it is my own Bible.” “ I did not think of that ; it was simply that I have been brought up to never put anything on the top of a Bible.” “ You look too sensible to indulge in such superstitious.” “ It is not superstition ; it is reverence.” “ The Bible is only a book.” ‘f The Bible is God’s only book. It should never be hidden or put on a high shelf or wedged into a case. It should be in plain view, unobstructed, ready to be opened by any person at any time.” “ 1 never heard of any such thing. Where did you get such ideas ‘3” “ It is one of our most cherished family traditions. Papa is a minister and an editor. His study table may be piled high with papers, but the Bible will be free, on its own particular corner. The habit was taught him in his childhood. He says that early love and reverence f. r God’s book made him anxious to read it, and resulted in making a minister of him.” “ And I fancy it has helped to make a preacher or a lecturer out of you.” said Rose, laughing. “ Am I lecturing you? I beg your pardon. I was only attempting to excuse my seeming rudeness and to defend my position. Please allow me to any further that this thought. fulness about the Bible has awakened a reverence and a. love for it that have stimu- lated me to read it, and I love God and His Son our Saviour better on'account of know- ing Him better than I should had I not a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.” ' Mabel spoke with such serious sweetness that Ross could not forget her words. Then, too, the sight of Mabel’s Bible on a dainty little tripod stand in a corner was a constant reminder. Hanging on onepside of the stand was a small portfolioshaped basket containing a Sabbath-school quarterly and a Christian Endeavor topic curd. “ So that I may know just where to find them,”said Mabel. “ So much valuable time may be wasted in hunting for things.” Rose’s Bible was on her study table with her other books, and was not open in re- quisition, for she usually read a story or wrote letters during the time Mabel spent daily over her Bible. Presently, one evening there came to Rose by express a tiny old-fashioned claw- footed candle-stand, and as she finished reading the note that accompanied it, she exclaimed ;â€" A Romance cheal Life- Lord Sherbrooke, whose death occurred recently, made a good deal of money during his nine years at the Australian Bar, but there is only one forensic speech of his at the Antipodes that is worthy of comparison with his oratorical triumphs in England. The occasion (says a writer in the Sunday SltIL), was a sensational trial indeedâ€"the appalling finale of a lurid life. One of the oldest and most respected of English families â€"â€"whose head sits in the House of Lords, and whose name is by no means unfamiliar in the Commonsâ€"had the misfortune, in the early years of the century, to be cursed with a sea who developed extraordinary criminal instincts in his very boyhood. He went to sea, and had risen to the position of a commander in the Royal Navy when he committed a robbery, was tried at the Old Bailey, and transported to Australia under a sentence of fourteen years. On landing in Sydney " Smith,” as we shall call him, was promptly liberated on ticket-of-lcave, and then he gave full play to his criminal instincts, committing nearly every crime in the calendar short of murder. At length the colonial authorities resolved to send him to that lonely speck in the Pacificâ€" Norfolk Islandâ€"which was then reserved for the waist and most incorrigible prisoners. He was accordingly placed on board a Gov- ernment brig in company with some forty other irreclaimable criminals. One night the brig was caught in a terrific storm and “Smith” notwithstanding that he was heav- ily ironed, contrived to get on deck, seize a quantity of arsenic, and throw the poison into the ship’s cooking utensils. Next day every soul on board, save “ Smith ” and nine other desperadoes whom he had taken into his confidence, was seized with violent pains and became absolutely helpless. l‘hereupon “ Smith ” and his confederates took possession of the brig and ruthlessly threw overboard alike the dying and the dead, not even sparing their fellow-convicts, who in their irons were brought up one by one and cast into the sea. " Smith ” then assumed the command of the brig and sail~ ed away for America. \Vhat a situation for Mr. R. L. Stevenson ! Unfortunately for himself, “ Smith " touched at New Zea- land port, where the brig was recognized and recaptured. Brought back to .Sydeny,’ “ Smith ” turned informer. alleging that his part in the piratical seizure was played under compulsion. So he saved his neck, while his nine confederates were hanged. On the urgent solicitation of very influen- tial people, “ Smith ” was given one more chance, and permitted to remain in Sydeuy as a laborer in the Government dockyard. But one morning a poor widow was found lying in her house barbarously murdered with a tomahawk. One finger had been severed and taken away, the murderer in his haste being unable to pull the gold ring off. The ring was soon pawned for a small “ Smith ” was promptly identified and ar- the guide of my life, and not only to but live also as it would have me. strange it is that your exclamation begging whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved,” “Can everything he anew. red out of the Bible, Mabel!” "I do not think there can be any doubt about it." “ Well, from this time on I am resolved to be not ashamed, but to make the Bible ray, ow me not to cover up my Bible should have led me to this decisidn 2” " Nothing in .the rovidence of God is strange,” replied Ma 1. TERRIBLE TALE OP SUFFERING. Living on Human Flesh for Nine Days. Despatches received at Queenstowu from Manzanilla, Mexico, state that two man, one a Russian Finn named Joliansen, the other a native of the Gilbert Islands, who have arrived at that place, declare they are the sole survivors of close on four hundred persons who were lost in the Pacific by the capsizing of a brig named the Tahitte, while on a voyage from the Gilbert Islands to Benito, Mexico, and they were cast ashore on the coast of Mexico, two hundred miles above Manzanilla, after having spent sixteen days of terrible sufi‘erin in a small- boat, being kept alive for nine oays by eat- ing the flesh of another passenger who had died of hunger and exposure after the fourth day. The brig according to the narrative of the two men, was conveying about four hundred Gilbert Islanders, consisting of men, women, and children, who were en- ged by a New York lawyer named a {cavitt to labour on the coffee plantations on the west coast of Mexico, and when the vessel got to within 200 miles of the Mexi‘ can coast she was struck by a cyclone and capsxzed. claimed to have made his escape was on the top of the deckhouse, and floated ofi‘ when the brig capsized. Four other men and a woman, all Gilbert Islanders, climbed in with him. They had neither food nor water and only two cars. light came the brig On the fourth day the woman died, and the men were forced to eat body to keep them alive. days after leaving the brig it blew a gale, and the men had all they could do to pre- vent the boat from being swamped. Several heavy showers fell but did them little good, as what fell in the boat or was caught in their clothing was mixed with the salt spray that constantly flew over them. Then the sun came out, and beat down on the unfor. tunatc castaways with tropical force, and they suffered terrible tortures from thirst. One of the islanders drank salt water, went mad on the tenth day, and finally plunged into the sea. ' lander died, and the two survivors threw him overboard. That night it rained hard, and the suffering men caught enough water The boat in which Johansen v When day- was out of sight. portions of her For the first few Four days later another is- W‘WW.*:: YOUNG FOLKS.- The Grass Spirit- Jessie had run awayâ€"actually run away, because mamma wished her to take some jelly to a poor sick girl at the cottage down the road ; but the sun was hot, and she felt lazy and thou ht perhaps if she ran away mamma woul get some one else to do it. She had come to the water’s edge, and lay on the bank in the cool, sweet grass, listening to the rushes as they swayed to and fro in the breeze, and watching the tall cat-tails nod their heads. All at once there was a commotion amongst the rushes, something was coming up out of the water. \\'as its toad 2 Jessie raised herself up and looked hard, for if there was one thing in the world she hated it was toads. But this was not a toad it was the stran - est thing she had ever seen. She knew fia sometimes jumped up out of the water, but this was not a fish. First a little green head was poked up, with a tuft of fine grass sticking straight upon the top of it, instead of hair. It looked like a boy’s face, and presently with a spring, a funny little figure came out of the water and stood upon the bank. There was ass hanging from its neck to its knees, an its long legs were bare and green like its hands and head, The hands she noticed first, because they were so shri- velled up and small. The little creature sat there for awhile shakin the water ed the blades of grass which formed its dress,inuch as a dog would shake itself after it had jumped out of the water. Then it turned around and saw Jessie. “ Holloa l” he said, in a week little voice, “ and who are you 9” J essie was too much frightened to answer, so, without waiting, the funny little crea- ture went on. - “ I suppose,” he said, “ that if I don’t tell you who I am first, you won’t tell me who you are. Don’t look so scared, I never hurt any one. I am a Grass Spirit.” “ I never saw you before," said J essie,-in such a hoarse, frightened voice, she hardly knew it for her own. " Maybe not,” replied the creature, “ but I have often seen you. Whenever you throw yourself down on the 0001, green grass, and think hownice it is to feel so happy and comfortable, I am there close, though you don’t see me. Then I am often in other places, too. When the babies run about on the grass and like to feel it beneath their bare little toes, I am there beside them, and when the good people in e cities bring sick children into the coun 'y for a picnic under the trees, I hide bch nd one of the trunks and listen to them laugh, and help them on- joy themselves, though they do not know it. Then when the cows or goats are nibbling at the long (grass in the fields, I am making it taste goo .” “ O, Mabel, I shall have to tell you how I happened to receive this pretty gift. I do not in the least deserve it. You see I wrote home all about your reverence for, the Bible "â€"Mabel noticed with pleasure that she did not say superstitionâ€"“ and grandma writes in reply that the idea. is such a beautiful one she is sure it cannot help being a benefit toany person who will follow it out in practice, and so she sends me this little old stand that came from England, and has been in our family for generations and she hopes it ‘ will help to remind me how much the Bible meant to “ You must be very kind,” said Jessie, getting over her fright a little now. The Grass Spirit smiled. “ You wouldn’t have thouglft so once,” he said, "but I have had a lesson. I used to be a little boy, but I was not always kind, for I kept re- fusing to do anything that would make any one else feel happy, till one day I fell asleep beside a bank, something like this, only there were no trees on it, just tall grass here and there, and I slipped off into the water in my sleep and something happened, I don’t know what; but I was changed in- to a ‘Grass Spirit,’ and rose out of the to quench their thirst, and the next day what was left of the body of the woman was thrown overboard. On the morning of October 26thâ€"â€"sixteen days after leaving the ilLfated brigâ€"the boat was cast ashore, and more dead than alive, the two men crawled out of her and lay down on the beach. They were subsequently carried to the huts of some fishermen near by. Their limbs being all swollen in a terrible man- ner, it. was the end of June before they were able to walk. rested as the murderer. Robert Lowe was retained for his defence, and the facts of the prisoner’s guilt being conclusive he re- lied solely on the plea of “instinctive criminality,”supportin it in a speech of marvellous power and psychological in- lsight. But it was all of no avail.” “ Smith ” AA decree has just been announced in Ser- via that all peasants who are in arrears with their taxes will be permitted to pay them in the form of hay and straw, to be delivered to the Army. j , l A new species of hear was shot by Captain ing those that are not healthy and substitut- sum’ and from the Pa'wnbroker,s description ing trees that are. Bower during his late travels in lhibet. The animal was chocolate colored, with a. white collar, and is quite unknown to nat- uralists. An electric railway is being built at Kobe, Japan, to give readier access to the moun- tain resorts and direct communication with was convicted and executed. An acrolite of immense size fell the othe; day into the Caspian sea near the coast or the peninsula. of Apsheron, on which Baku, the Russian oil city, is located. It is lying in water of a deptliof nearly thirty feet and stands seven feet above the water. As it The Acute Senses of the Blind the a esult .«werrwwm-A , . .. ' :Vm: A a... “I. . ,.~.â€"‘w¢. .. . .34 .22 the W akasa Gulf on the west coast, sixty- five miles distant. A branch line will be added to Uriina, the chief summer resort in that part of the country. A photographer in the Tyrol made a neg- ative. of ten tourists against a back ground of pine woods. When he developed the plate a faithful presentment of it large bear in the act of making for the denser timber appeared in the edge of the forest. Neither the man with the camera nor any of those in the group had known that the brute was near. Dr: Grana, a country physician in Spain, has, it is stated, discovered a cure for diph- theria, which he claims never fails. The queen regent of Spain is greatly interested in the discovery and received Dr. Grana at court a few weeks ago. The physician has been invited to explain his remedy to the Madrid Academy of Medicine. During his recent tour in the south of France, resident Carnot, personally pinned the decoration of the order of agricultural merit upon the breast of a fat farmer, who betrayed si us of unusual emotion. It was afterward iscovcred that M. Carnot had stuck the pin about a half inch deep into the poor farmer’s breast. The Pope is to have a yacht presented to him by subscription on the part of wealthy Roman Catholics in England, Spain, and Italy. Pope Pie N mm, the predecessor of his present holiness, had a yacht given to him by the Empress Eu safe, but it was sold by direction of Leo .’III. as “unsuit- a‘ole " being an armed, barque-rigged, screw corvette. A Capt. Blondell at Oxford, Ala. offered $25 to any one who would get into a boat and allow it to be blown up with dynamite, so that lilondcll might show his life-saving methods. A young man named Neely ac- cepted the offer, and was blown about forty feet into the air unliurt, but on his return to the water's surface he ali hted on the fragments of the ivreck an received a fractured leg and other injuries. Apropos of the clownish deportment in the {cure of Commons of Keir Hardie, the representative of a workingnien’s constit- uency, the English papers relate the ex- rience of the first labor member of the reach Chamber of Deputies. No atteufi tiou was paid in the Chamber to his breach- es of conventionalities : but in the evening, when he started out to see some of the sights and tried to enter a dive called the klontagues Russes, lie was stopped at the door on the ground that he was notsuitably dressed. M.Tetard, a countryman. in Paris fora few days recently, stood in :hc Rue de Richelieu in a pouriu rain protected only by his, umbrella. e inquired of hi. Bezuchel the way to the Chateau d‘Esu. That gen~ tlemeu, who had no umbrella, thereupon volunteered to guide the countryman part way to his destination, but instead of tak- in him in the right direction he led him a mi 0 in a directly opposite course, sharing his umbrella, an then hold him to retrace his steps and hes right on until in reach- ed the Chateau ‘Eau. Then bl. Tetard slapped the Parisian's face. He was ar- rested for assault, but was a uitted, and the Wily Parisian bad to pay mots. able shape. You will see, scattered here our Puritan ancestors, and that I shall not lose sight of the fact that this government, founded on scriptural precepts, can only be sustained by a Bible-reading and Bible- loving people.” Now, isn’t that quite a preachment for one’s sweet little old grand- ma '2 and wasn’t it lovely in her to rob her room of its greatest treasure for poor little unworthy inc 2” “ Indeed it was,” replied Mabel, assisting to remove the wrappings from the little stand. -“ \I’hat a. beauty it is! Now, in appreciation, you must make yourself her greatest treasure. You can do it by making yourself a Bible-reader and a Bible‘lovcr.” “ Put I don’t know how to do that.” “ Read the Bible with me a half-hour regularly every day. Try to read it prayer- fully and understandingly.” V “But, Mabel dear, I am not a praying irl.” g " You ought to be. It is entirely our own fault that you are not, and it is a ault very easily overcome.” Just then the eveniii mail was brought to the door, and several etters fell to Rose’s share. After looking them ever she said : “ I think, Mabel, my conscience will not be quite clear until I have confessed that in every letter I have written this term I have indulged in some merriment about you and your Bible, and it has been the means of my finding out that my friends consider me a frivolous young person indeed. They all say how beautiful your spirit of reverence is, and that Bibles are so common in this day and generation that people fall into a habit of treating them with disrespect. They are all rejoicing that I have a. room- mate who is a Christian, and trust that my bad habit of turning all serious subjects into ridicule will not prevent you from in- fluencing me for good. Now, is not that a fine record for a young woman of my age and advantages?” “ Is it true 2 ” asked Mabel, softly. “ Oh, es, you know it is, although you have ma e vs y few attempts to approach me on serious subjects. But, Mabel dear," she went on with some hesitation, “ I was very much affected by hearing your prayer for me last night. You thought me sleeping and your voice was very low ; but my hearing is acute, and I understood ex ery word. Now I want to know if you believe that God was listen- iii to your prayer. " The young girl looked astonished at the quer , but she rep'ied quickly :â€" “ e that comethto God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that seek after Him. ” “ Is that in the Bible? ” “ Certainly. It is in that beautiful trust have sunk into the soft ground to the depth of some feet, the stone cannot measure less than forty feet in length. It made a terrible noise when coming down, and kept the water boiling to a great distance for a long time. Quite o. craze has come over the French gardeners. They have suddenly begun to bend all their energies to the creation of new flowers and the aeclimatisation of such as have never before been cultivated in France. Among the latter is a flower from Central America (as yet unnamed in France) which changes its color three times a day. It is white in the morning, gets pink at noon andturns a lovely blue when the sun is setting. THE AMBER APPEALS TO INDIA lle Asks llpr to Prevent Russian Aggres- sion in the results. The Ameer of Afghanistan has address- eds. formal request to the Government of India asking the Government to assist him in preventing Russian aggression in the Pauiir region. part of which is claimed to be Afghan territory. Col. Yauoff, the Russian commander, continues to occupy the advanced position to which he recent- ly advanced. What is said to principally alarm the Amecr is the fact, previously called attention to by Prof. Vamberyf that at I’enjdch, in the neighborhood as the Djemshidis, a tribe of tributary vassals of the Amecr of Afghanistan, the Russians have established a military post whence they actively spread reports of the bless- ings accruing to those placing themselves under the rule of the Czar Prof. Vambery characterized the rising of the Hazaras against the Ameer as serious, and added that, as the troops of the latter have already received a severe check, the result of the insurrection is difficult to for- tell. He ascribed the cause of the rebellion to Russian machinations, and even mention- ed the probability of the insurgents having been secretly furnished with Russian wea- pons. He predicted that, should the sit- uation assume a really dangerous aspect, no other course would remain open to Ad- durrahman Khan than to seek assistance from the English, and it would then remain to be seen in what li ht Russia would re- ard England’s inter erence. The British authorities are hi hly grati- fied with this action on theparto Abdurrah- man as removing all doubt of the attitude of the Auieer as between England and Russia. â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€"-.â€"-â€"-â€"-â€"â€" A collection of butterflies long owned by Baron von Fielder, of Vienna, was recently sold to Lord Rothschild, of London, for £5,000. The Falkland Islands produce no trees, but they do produce wood in a very remark- about faith, you know. ” “ I do not know anything in particular about the Bible I never cared to know be. fore. Do you think, Mabel, that God would listen to me were I to pray to Him, askin to be one of His followers 2 " his 1 turned to her little stand, opened her Bible, turned to the passage she wanted and read aloud :â€" “ With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confer sion is made unto salvation. Whosoever believeth on Him shall not beashamed, For and there. singular blocks of what look like weather~beaten, mossy, grey stones, of various size. But if you attempt to roll over one of these rounded boulders, you will find yourself unable to accomplish it. In fact, the stone is tied down to the groundâ€"tied down by the roots, or in other words, it is not; stone, but a block of liv- ing wood. eleventh chapter of Hebrews. It is all of Cultivation. People in general have a comfortable im- pression that, while blindness is a great misfortune, those afflicted with it have the rest of their senses so acute from birth that the loss is almost made up to them. This isa mistake, for not more than five per cent. are born blind, and even that percent- age is probably too large, as there are sev- eral diseases of the eye which may destroy the sight within the first month. It is true, however, that the other senses develop highly with practice. When all is dark around us it is usually also uiet, and our perceptions are slackened; at if anyone will tie a thick bandage over his eyes dur- ing the day, when life and movement are going on about him, he will soon be consci- ous of listening with painful intentness, and the other senses, when called upon, Will quicken in their turn. Many children with sound eyes shut them when study- ing intently, and the fact that a blind boy, for instance, is quicker at arith- metic than:one who can see, does not, in most cases, mean that he is more gifted, but that he has less to distract his attention. The first time that an outsider sees a large class of blind children together he will perhaps be struck by certain pecul- iarities of expression. It is not only that the sightless eyes or closed lids give the face a blank look, like a house with the shades drawn down, but there may be a dro ping of the jaw, or a wrinkling of the row, which does not mean anylac of intelligence, but only that a. human being is forever de- prived of the friendly mirror and monition of other eyes. Good teachers are always on the alert to correct these involuntary facial tricks. The studies and exercises are care- fully adapted to the needs of the pupils. Gymnastics have an important place, be- cause physical health and equable 'inuscular development are especially necessary to the blind, whose affliction, when not caused by accident, is often due to inherited disease or constitutional weaknesaâ€"[Mra Frederick R. Jones, in Scribner. Murders by Australian Natives. The perils of camping out in the interior of Western Australia are strikin ly shown in despatches just received from narrow escape of a third man. The victims of the outra s were two brothers named Robert and Thomas Henry, and a comrade named Allen. The men were encamped near the Richenda when they were attack- ed by a perfect horde of natives. A. des er- ste fight ensued. Thomas Henry was ki led bya spear, and Allen received such wounds that he died in fearful agony in about three hours. It isaasumed that the spears were isoued, as poor Allen sufi'ered dreadfully fore his death. Robert Henry was also badly wounded, bathe nevertheless manag- ed to eta horse and ride off to another camp or assistance. The survivor subse- quently was taken to town and plamd in the Derby Hospital, where he remained, at latest accounts, in a serious state. Some troops in uit of the natives the da after the despatch left, but it was said t 6 country wasso rough that itwas doubtful if the murderers would be brought to justice. erth, which P report the murders of two whites and the rs, with assistants, were to start off water all reen,with long grass han iugfrom my shoul ers, and my hands all s rivelled up worse than you see them, because they are cttiug bigger now all the time. “ could not bear to look at them at first, and I was so angry I would tear handfuls of the grass off my shoulders. You see it was because I never used my hands to do any- thing kind, that they became shrivelled u . p“ When I got out of the water I found, after awhile, that my heart was changed too, and had become so soft that I kept flying about trying to make some one also happy. One day I met another ‘ Grass' Spirit,’ and he told me that if I kept on as I was, being kind‘to people. for the same number of years that I had not been kind to them, that I would get changed back again into a buy. But look ! The sun is setting, and I ener- ally travel at night, so I must be off.’ And while Jessie watched in astonish- ment, the Grass Spirit soared away and was soon out of sight. She was wouderin what would happen next, when she felt erself gradually slip- ping, slipping down the bank. In her terror she clung to the grass. She was close to the water now, and in another minute would be chau ed into a Grass Spirit. Was it possible she_ ad been dreaming, and that this was her mother’s hand holding hers ‘3 She was safe enough with her head on her mother’s lap, and her hand in hers. “ Why, Jessie,” said the well-known voice, " what is the matter. my dear, you are shivering as if you had been frightened in your sleep '1" ” Oh, momma, it was a dream then," said Jessie, looking about her in a bewil- dered way. “ I am so glad, and I will never run away again when you want me to take something to a sick person.” CURRENT EVENTS. A tree-climbing kangaroo, new to science, has been found in Northern Queensland. Automatic bootblacks in Nuremberg, Germany, are run on the nickel-in-the-slot plan. Buttons are being made from potatoes, hardened by acids and subjected to great ressure. A hotel made of pa er boards has been erected in Hamburg, ermany, and is said to be fireproof. A Dutch journal has celebrated its 236th anniversary. A fee timile of the first num- ber was given to each subscriber. An insurance company for youn women in Denmark will pay astipulats weekly allowance to those who remain unmarried at the age of forty. Massachusetts will erect astatue to John Eliot. It will regresenttbe missionary as holdin an open ible in one hand, while the ot er is extended toward heaven. A heavy projectile from one of the new ten-inch army rifles, struck a schooner four miles away and soak her so soon that the captain and crew escaped with difiiculty. Hon. Charles E. Smith. U. S. Minister to Russia, thinks that the cat mass of the Russiaupeople are satisfi with the pres- ent form of government and. believe that it is the best for them.