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‘ v... smirk.» -. . s .v .- YOUNG FOLKS. The Early Owl. An owl once lived in n hollow tree. And he was on Wise as Wise could be. The branch of learning: he didn‘t know C mid scarce on the tree of knowledge grow. 'n'e know the tree from bmnch to root. And an owl like that czn ntl'ord to boot. And he bowel-until. alas! one day He chanced to hear. in o. (usual way. And insignia". int little bird Make me of n. term he had never henrd. He was living to bed in the dawning light When he heard her singing With all her might. " Hurray ! hurray for the enriy worm l” "Deanne !" said the owl, what u Singular term I would look it up if it weren‘tsolntc ; ‘I most rise at dusk to investigutc. burly to bed and early to rise. linkes up owl heslthy nnd stealthy and wxsc . ' So he slept like an hotie:t owl all day, And ro-e in theenrly twilight my. And went to work in tbcdusky ight To look for the curly \vorin all night. He searched the country for miles around. But the early worm was not. t!) he found. So he went to bed in the (lowing: liglil. And Ilqokcd for the “ worm" nguin next n not. And again and again. nnd ngnin and again. He sought and he sought. but all in vain. Till he must. have looked fox-.1 your and nduy For the curly worm in the twilight'grzty. At last in dc<p:tir he gave up the search. I And \vnghoard to rciunrk, as he sat on his NX‘C By tlib side of his nest in the hollow tree, “ The thing is its pinin itsnizht to RIGâ€"â€" Nothing ctn shake my co :viction firm. ' There‘s no such thin: as the early worm. ’ â€"â€"â€"|Olivcr Hertord, in St. Nicholas. The Smiling Muscles. The story of Nanny Fulconer's experi. ences, as told by Mrs. Clara. Doty Bates in Wide Awake, is an instructive lesson not only to young people, but to many of the little girl's elders, who have fallen into her bud habit of frowning. Though she had the advantage of beginning early to train the right muscles, much can be done in later years, by continuiil and consoientious effort, to remove those traces of worry and irritability which so disfigure the face. ’ Here is the bitter hnlf of the story :â€" Her mother took N unny’s hand and led her to the mirror. “ Look in there, my child. \Vhst do you see ‘5" “ I see your lovely face," sobbed Nsuny. “ First, dry your eyes. Now look at yourself. That is not an ugly face, even when it is wet with tears. Those lines are full of sweet temper. The laughing mus- cles are strong and flexibleâ€"you see they make dimples," us Nanny linlf- smiled. “ They like smiling best of anything. The shadow of crossuess is all a. bad habit. It is qufto a. new one, too, Nanny, not settled and hopeless. .. . Hereg” pointing be- tween the brows, “ is the trouble. You use these muscles too much. You will soon have n mark there that will stay, I’m afraid.” “ Yes, Don says it will surely freeze the first cold morning.” “ Don’t listen to the boys. Listen to me. , \Vc can make our faces, like our manners, largely what. we like; as we can be rude and abrupt, or gentle and considerate, so we can be dark and forbidding in countenance, or open, fair and sweet. licep the right face muscles in training, and the mood will be pretty certain to follow their action.” Nun lnughed merrily. “ What do I know about muscles, momma. '3 You are so scien- tific.” ' “ What you do not know you can learn. A docile spirit need .ncvcr show a. sour face.” “ Please tell me how. Often when Don and Rick call me cross, I don‘t feel so. I may be only thinking.” “ Sit down. It has seemed to me that if you would think to a. little better purpose, you might avoid being found so much fault withâ€"us you call it.” “ But, isn't thinking of one’s self vau- ity ‘2" “ Not if you think with the hope of mak- ing yourself more loveuble to those about ytou.n To study to be pleasing is not van- 1 . )‘v‘ But when I haven't thought of feeling hateful. why do I look so ‘2" "Because you are not on your guard. I have myself often got an unconscious look at myself in the gloss and have seen looks of woriy when l wasn’t ill. Ah, these muscles you know so little about, Nannyâ€"they are very ready title-tellers.” “They urc story-tellers, you menu. They nell what isn't so.” "They getiuto bad ways. And if you do not. want them to make mistakes, you must educate them.” “But 1 might study physiology 8. whole year and yet look cross oil the time.” “So you might if you didn’t tnke the Mouble to rule your face from within.” Nunny (liScerued her meaning. “1 should be like nu idiot if I ulways lsnuhed." she said. “Don‘t be perverse, dsu liter. You know very well what I menu. l‘ry this rule for a. week, and see what the result wlll be. “'hcnever you feel irritable, even in a. slight degreng to the glass and straighten every drown line into repose. You need not laugh, nor smile, but relax the tension of the worry nud see to it that there is not one visible truce of it left. By that time your fret will have vanished." Nnnny tried the rule, with vuryingsuccess, but with general result of good. While she did it she never had reason to complain that people called her cross. In later years Nanny Fulconerhnd a. famous face. " You never have any trouhls,"somc one said to her, even when she was passing thqugli bitter waters, “ you always look glut ." An old negro describing her called her, “ The lady with the glory-to-God face." And everywhere she went the sunshine of happy looks was shed broadcast about her. She herself told me this story, of how she came to realize that a pleasant countenance is largely a mutter of will, and that worried looks, and cross and and looks, are things of habit which can be educated sway. Ha Dated fill the Truth; A boy went to live with o mun who was oceouutcdn hml mater. He never kept his boys-«hey ran uwuy or gave notice they meant to quit ; so he was hdf his time without or in search of a boy. The work wus not very herd, openiisg And sweeping out the shop, chopping w . going errands, i had a. spark of goodness in him,” growled the new master. ' It is always had to begin with a man that has no confidence in you, because, do your best, you are likely to have little credit for it. However, Sum thought he would try. The wages were good and his mother went- ed him to go. Sam had been there but three days before, in sawing o. cross-grained stick of wood, he broke the saw. He was a little frightened. I{-: knew he was care l ful, and he knew he was it pretty good Sawyer, too, for a. boy of his age ; ucverthe- , less, the saw broke in his hands. “ Mr. Jones will thrash you for it,” said , allnother boy who was in the woodhouse with I um. “ Why, of course, I didn't mean it, and ] accidents will happen to the best of folks,” said Sam, looking with a. 'very sorrowful l air on the broken saw. “ Mr. Jones never makes allowances,’ said the other boy. “ I never saw anything . like him. That Hill might have stayed, I only he jumped into it licn’s nest and broke ; her eggs. He darcn’t tell of it; but Mr. l Jones kept suspe :ting and suspecting, and .‘ laid everything out. of the way to Bill, whether llill was to blame or not, till Bill : couldn’t stand it, and wouldn't.” l “ Did he tell Mr. Jones about. the eggs?” I asked Sam. “ No," said the boy. “ he was afraid, Mr. Jones has got such a. temper." “I think he’d have better owned up at: once.” said Sam. “ I suspect you'll find it better to preach than to practice,” said the boy. “ I’d run away before I’d tell him.” And he soon turned on his heel and left poor Sam alone , with his broken saw. I The boy did not feel very comfortable or linppy. He shut up the workhouse, walked out in the garden, and went to his little chamber under the eaves. He wished he , could tell Mrs. Jones, but she wasn’t soci- able, 3 When Mr. Jones came into the house the ' boy heard him. He got. up, crept down- I stairs, and met Mr. Jones in the kitchen. 5 “Sir,” said Sam, “I brgke your saw, and I thought I’d come and tell you before you .3 saw it in the morning.” i “ What did you get up to tell me for '3” I asked Mr. Jones. “I should think morn- 5 ing would be time enough to tell of your- ' carelessness.” “ Because,” said Szuu, “ I was afraid if I put it olfI might. be tempted to lie about. ; it. I am sorry I broke it but I tried to be i careful. ” i Mr. Jones looked at the boy from head to I foot, then, stretching out liishand, he siiid 1 heartin : “ Sum, give me your hand ; shake hands. ’ i EXPERIENCES IN RUSSIA. â€"â€" you even show him the picture; which a wise traveller here Always carries with him, he is fr neatly too stupid to understand. A‘l'rnveller Gives Ills Impresslon of lien I told “ oots" one night. to wakes me at and Things In. the Car‘s Domains. The Rev. Dr. Dowliug, an American travelling in Russia, in a. letter to a New York paper says :â€" Wben I first entered St. Petersburg I Was scared. I was in the land of the knout, and the Czar and Siberian exile. Mr. Big- low_, a contributor to Harper‘s Magazine, he’l been given twenty-four hours to get out of the country, beceuse he had chanced to remark of a certain Russian official that “ he was on old wooden head. Mr. Pennell, representing the Illustrated London News, having been discovered taking pictures on the frontier, had been given no time at all, but summarily ejected. what awful things might happen before I‘ should again see home ? True, I was under l the protection of the American flag. But Russian time dates exac:ly twelve days he- hind thnt of the rest of Europe. \Vhen it is the lst of August licre,~-it is the l3ih across the border. So at any moment, by I sending me out of the country they had it in their power to knock me into the middle of next. week. And as yet. I was hardly prepared to go. ' It is not much of an exaggeration to say that when I first walked the streets of then great city of stucco and plaster, the capital of all the Russias, Peter the Grant’s “ win- l (low by which he might see into Europe,”I it. was With head erect, eyes front, the 3 middle finger of each lmndegeinst the seam l in the trouser’s leg, and my whole counteu- I once swuthcd in o. meek and smiling expres- l siou of amiable iinbecility (auiiubility na- l t-ural, izubccility assumed). Like Laurence 3 Slerne’s donkey, I seemed to soy: “ Don’t ' kick me ; butif you will, you may. It’s perfectly safe.” The first. stage, however, has passed away, and I have reached the second, in which I seem to correspond with the majority of} Russian faces about me. I am ugly. If I Johnston “ like] a. go d hater,” I am sure ' he would fraternize with me at the present moment. The general type of countenance among the common people here is by no means one of blank stupidity, but u stupidity suspic- ions and vicious, a. kind of cross betWeen Tillie Slowboy and Bill Sykes. I It is true the better class of Russians I i have not seen, for in summer they invari- | a.ny speed them out of town. Ilsm told that. 5 they are exceptionally intelligent and so~ ciully charming, especially the Czar. No nation can be judged, however, byI the condition of its aristocracy, but by that i of its bourgeoisie and its poor. As Beckyl \Vho could tell] . . ~ Stop hammering every sight the next morning. He obeyed prompt~ ly at the appointed hour. I answered ; but as the night had been wekeful, I concluded to sleep. Fifteen minutes later, just as I had fallen into a. daze, I was awakened again by some one pounding at my door. “ Boots" had spied my guitars outside of my room, and thereby discovered thatI had not arisen when he had first called me. I . had told him that. stnted to rise at eight, f and, concluding that I wu it man of my ward, be determined not to leave his duty undone. Four times that fellow cams to my room and pounded at my door. Four times I said “ Yes! Yes!" With increasing emphasis, and turned over and went. to sleep. The fifth time I could stand it. no Ion er. Flying to the door, I flung it open an glared at him. There he was, bowianr like J sck-in-u- box, with his graceless 1.- ...s hanging down likes. couple of shoestrings. For the first and only time I wanted to speak Russian ; I yearned to tell him in a language which he could understand, that he was a. bloom- ing idiot. This piece of information, how- ever, with my limited linguistic resources, it was impossible to convey. So I bowled at him with all my might : “ Get out 0’ that! fifteen minutes at my door 1” He smiled and thought I was calling him pet names. It occurred to me that some American colloquialisms might sound Russian, so I shouted : “ Mosey! Scoot ! Get out l” and emphatically closed the door. At last, when I was dressed and on my way down to breakfast, I met him in the hallway. There he stood, still bowing, evi- dently filled with u ssuse of satisfaction at. having done his duty, and looking forward with happy anticipation to the date of my departure, when I should enable him to “ put in his thumb, and pull out s. plum, and say ‘ W hat. a. good boy em I l’ " No ; the Russians will~not be ready for a. republic for five hundred years. Princess Louise as a. Salmon Angler. “ FEW COULD HANDLE A msu WITH mm 1" The Fishing Gazette publishes the follow- ! ing letter frpm Mr. John Mownt, u. Scotch- msn in his seventy-second year, who for fifty-five years has been familiar with the Canadian salmon rivers, ‘nnd for about a score of years afisliin officer of the Domin- ion. It describes how 1Princess Louise killed sullmon on the Restigoucbe river in Can- e. a:â€" Upou'reading in Shooting and Fishing of fillhtbl'usaoyggb ’l‘hitxb’s .rnght. Huff’s gnarl, my, , .. Anybody can [,6 hopes, 9,, I the 28th July of the capture of n. salmon in [lid 'the s'lw bmk’e . YE h everlh 0““ “I 'P E ten thousand ayesr.” The chief difference . the famous Princess L911!“ P001 1“, the ign on éo to bed ,, 1 s ows - e me e s I bemveen the aristocracy of one country and Restigouche, was reminded of. the night, yr .Joues “as fair] ' won Never w r Immyher is simply'in the way they put on I or rather evemugatlist I named it. On the helm; friends after thth than; S I i o I the". clog-ms: “11th the common People, I occasionbf the‘Visib of the Royal party to Sam thinks _Mtice huh t b mg anc Me. {however’ lb ,5 IIIfi‘erent_ . I I Ithe fislun: grounds, the lessees, blessis. Jones I} $6.80 5 lnpot epud lone I. r.I Mr. Stead is doubtlesg fight m saymgFlemmgd: Brydges, gave up tic river for est] z'md “ abovcy bm‘rh "rim e dial h‘fm' I that the worst thing which could happen I the sea”?- ltl was 10 800d mm: fine water, bee: a God mm to 1‘ 1' . if ‘Ivo'lu [twp ; to Russia. would be that it- should become a. ; 55h Plentlfub and 31° “‘13 “110‘V3d- I was g I _ . ( ca Wit . t n :18 t em I l.epubIIc- You miam as we” put a, three- _ ordered to escort the party to and from the conduct. which soured and made him sus- Iyenpold baby “trifle Buceplmlus and tellIIlldlan House Pool, and fitted up Mr. picious. Ido not know how that is. I: - - r ' :Br d es’ famous bar e “Great Caesar’s only know that Sam Fisher finds in Mr. lhlm to mde' rwo hundred yearmsnouong y g g ’ .is now only in embryo the number and the l . . ; n I y ‘ .' v . . . . enou h to brin a nation out of bni'barism G110“. “ he“ 0“ 0111‘ way down the “V01: Jones a. kind master and a. faithful friend. g g Her Royal Highness said to me :â€"-“I om not yet tired of fishing, please stop the boot. where you think we can have some sport.” I did so at the mouth of Chain Rock Brook, half a. mile or so below the pool. Lord Lorne, the Duke of Argyle, and his daughters and. sides left us there, going down in their bark canoes, leaving the Princess, Lady Moc- Nsmnra, Carpenter (detective), two Indians, myself, and boat’s crew. The Princess cell- Will They Bridge the See. It is now understood that the scheme to . tunnel the Straits of Dover hes‘beeu indefâ€" l initer abandoned. As soon as this nil-l nouiiceiuent was made, M. Herdque, the‘. French engineer, and \Villiam H. North-i cote, the great Engliin bridge builder, put - their heads together for the purpose of de- l “ULWithsmnding “11 our imputed mil?" vising “ ways and means ” for throwing a} bridge across the channel almost exactly: over the line the tunnel would have follow- ed, viz : From Folkestone, on the English i side, to Cape Grisucz, France, vio. Verne; and Colbert, the two reefs so much drced- 3 ed by navigators. The bridge, when finish- i ed, will be about twenty-one and one-half ; miles in length. The Vnrne, the largest and most important of the two reefs above mentioned, will he used for the center pier. The waters between the Verne and F olk- stoue eight miles away, average about I twenty-seven Isthmus in depth. The Vgtrne ‘ is six miles in length, which puts one end I of it within eight miles of the English shore, and the other within eight and a. half milts 5 of the French side, the waters between the; east end of the reef and the French shore averaging less than thirteen fothoms in depth. As the idea. of bridging the straits size of the piers to be used in the deep1 water work between the Verne and the inniulonds of both England and France huve not been decided upon. One thing is settled, however, the main , port of them will consist of immense stone 5 foundations, too large and strong to be dis- placed by the ebb and flow of the tides, which is the only disturbing elements up to , within a. few fathoms of the surface. North- cote is confident that the bridge can be com- pleted and ready for travel within two years from the time when actual work is begun. The estimated cost is $60,000,000. ,..___. _..._-_____. Tapping the Ground to Purpose- . I. . . v I London industrial enterprises are likely I “eat. in the near future to devote more and more attention to the nrtesiau wall. The two most famous borings within the metropoli- tan area are that which supplies the foun- tuins of Trafalgar Square and that which lies in the back yard of Mcux’s Brewery. The dilliculty to be overcome has been the comparatively high cost in consequence of the grant width of rock to be traversed before the deep lying water is reached. A few years ago a gentleman forsook the un- certain paths of journalism in order to im~ prove the world in another way by keeping its linen clean. He established A steam laundry in the “"est-h‘nd of London, im- ported special machinery from the United States, sunk his own well, and now washes for more members of the aristocratic world than anyone else in town. His speciality is pure water,nnd the whiteness of his lines is certainly unique in this smoke-ridden niplm, while his water rote is nothing at u . The “Petit Journal," in Paris, according to the latest report has reached the enormous circulation of 1,250,000. It is printed on wood pulp paper, the row malarialâ€"the finâ€"being brought from Nor- way sud Austris. The little journol con- sumes in n twelvemonth 120,000 fir trees, each lining on estimated height of 66 feet, sud helping round. At but Sum Fisher equal to the annual clearing of n forest I _ went» to ve with him. “Sun‘s u boy," said his mother. hnving an ore: of 25,000 acres. "Tit Bits " is the only En lish journal which approach- ".i should .kin to sees boynovrsdnyo that a the "Petit ournnl "in sale. lling in absolute darkness 1 into a. capability of self-government ; and it I is less than that -since Peter the Great I “ knouted Russia. into civilization.” We’I cannot expect Russia to do in two centuries a what the rest. of us have been doing in ten. l Out of sixty millions of its inhabitants, forty-eight millions can neither read not write. Think of it l Eighty per cent. dwel- In America, eracy, the ignorant classes represent only fifteen per cent. of the population, and in Germany, which I believe to be movingI rapidly toward a. republic, only five percent. Everywhere in these Russian cities the signs I are painted with picturesu-the baker is ’ kneading breed. the butcher killing beefâ€"- because these are the only symbols which the great mass can understand. With this dense ignorance, therefore, I do I not believe that any cntuclyism in our day will deliver Russia. It will require cen- turies, and will come, not by revolution, but by evolution. At least, If it shall seem I to come by the former, it will not. be 9. rev- I olution, but simply a. revelation of secret ' processes previously unrecognized. What- ever moy be the remedy. however, the fact remains that the people here are in an awful I condition, night twenty-five men dropped dead in the streets of this city of Moscow, twenty-one of them from drunkenness. This vice is n11- prevailing, and seems to be their only ref- uge. The opportunity for tyranny is boundless,becsuse, while in all other nomin- ally civilized countries, whatever is not prohibited lS permitted,here,whatever is not permit-ted is prohibited. The most intelli- gent lmvyer cannot carry all the legal enact- ments in his head. What possible hope can there be, then, for these ignorant ex-serfs ? Soon after my arrival I picked up, in the reading room of my hotel, scopy of theI and terribly oppressed. Lsst'sun IOWOI‘e I ed me and said she would be ready to go when I thought it time. The day was warm, with south wind, and, towards afternoon, clouds began to rise. About four o’clock I Called the Indians, and the Princess was ready. I took the sternpf the boat, turn- ing out one of the men, rather against. her will, as she requested me to sit down. I told her I wanted to manage the canoe my‘ self. \Ve soon got up to the ground, about. 250 yards above the fall of the Hero Rnpid. After anchoring, the Princess handed me the fly-book, saying", “ You know best what. fly is most likely to kill.” Not. finding a Fairy, I put on one of my own, a middling- sized Brown. First fish broke hold before anchor was raised ; second fish the some be- fore it'came to the gaff, and this seemed to disappoint her very much. I sold as the d the fish would take hold better, and just then we bed a. slight shower with some wind and cooler. It was then about six o‘clock, and the Princess struck a. fish which held, and was landed in eleven and a. half minutes, and weighed ‘24- lb. in weight. Next fish was foul hooked behind the gill-cover, and took twenty-two min- utes. W hilst playing her fish she said to me: “ Don’t be afraid to tell me if I do not. handle them properly. I should have killed the last one quicker ; he was only 221b, sudI feared he would go through the rnpid.” I said, “ You hold very hard : your cast. could bear no more.” Our next. fish wase 26-poundcr. and the fourth and London Times, and eagerly turned to the I In“ & 27-pounder, which I gafl-ed out of the report of the condition of cholera. in Russia. The very lives of those who were with me, whom I loved, might depend upon that re. port, by What was my chagrin to discover its leading me to go on or to re-l canoe when within fifteen yards of the rapid, at eight o’clock. We could have killed another but the midges were pretty plenty, and concluded to quit. On our way to the barge the Princess said that by the Government Ccnsors that veryI to me :___.. If you had been with me an the column had been blotted out ! I went into on English bookstore and found a volume with four leaves in the middle torn away, and another transformed into one great black dsub of printer's ink. “ Who does this '3" I asked. “ Tue Censors do it.” “ Do you get any remuneration f” “ Not a penny. stand the loss.” time I would have made a. much larger score (about thirty), and if ever I come again you must promise to go with me. ” I then told her that the pool had no name, and asked her permission to call it the Princess Louise Pool, and so it was named. I must say that few anglers could handle a. fish with Her Highness. She used a. heavy we always have t"’[English lS-footrod, and her strong right arm (after the fish had got his second run 0‘ “urge I bought the b°°k 0“ tb° am" over) would lift his head clear of the water; It will be an interesting souvenir for me to show to my American audiences, for the benefit. of such of my fellow citizens as, yearning for " pctcrnalism” in government, are “ looking backwsri " Robbed of its fiction, this kind of thing is what thstlesds to. But. while an American is startled at such it “ eternal” supervision of what he shall rem , this form of tyranny affects. of course, but nliuiited class. There are others which are more fur-reaching. Last week, at. Nijni- Novgorod, two men were overheard criti- cising the sanitary measures of the Govern- ment in its attempts to sup rose the cholera. They were at once fastens to a post, and each of them received one hundred lashes on his bare buck. Surely it is no wonder thst the people are cowed, suspicious, ugly and stu id. This letter characteristic is something _.__._._â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"I Suicide at the Side ofe Princess. The Fremdenblau of Vienna learns from Nice of the following tragic incident :â€" Prince Albert. and his wife returned on board the yacht Alice from a. voyage to England and France. They were received with great enthusissm by the inhabitants and a. great number of visitors, while can- nons boomed from the castle. ' In the midst of this festive scene 9. young man who was standing close to the Princess fired a. revol- ver at his head, and fell dead st. her feet. His pockets contained no money, no clue to his identity, and only an entrance ticket for the Cnino. The Prince and Princess were so shocked by this incident that they left Monaco and sailed south the very next day. If you have built castles in the air, your marvelous. If you show u drosky driver work need not be lost; that is where they the nuns of your hotel, of course he cannot i should be: read it. That is never expected. But when in ON themâ€"(Thoreau. put foundation under Norwegian Aspmtions. There is soother " Home Rule" crisis in Europe beside the Irish; end that is in the " Land of the Midnight Sun." In other words Norway, which has been connected with Sweden by somewhat slender ties for seventy-eight years, desires to sever those ties and to become a completely indepen- dent nation. For many years the situation in Sweden and Norway has attracted no little atten- tion out-side their own limits no that in any European nationality. By their geograph- ical sition they are, to a large degree, iso- late from the jeslousies and rivalries of the greater powers, Russia. has long since ceased to cast a. covetous eye upon the long Western coasts of Norway : and the Dominions of the poet King Oscar have not been threatened by any foreign aggression. Norway was attached to Sweden not only by the decree of the great powers, but also, in 181-1, by military force. The same king has since reigned over both countries; but otherwise each has had its separate govern. ment. Norway as well 33 Sweden has had and has, its own executive ministry, its own Parliament, its own civil service. its own fiscal system, and its own system of public defence. The only ties which still remain between the two kingdoms are that the some king rules over both, and that the foreign reln~ tions and business of both are conducted by the Swedish foreign office. Norway has by no means always enjoyed those realities of self-government. which she has to-dny. It is only after a series of ob- stinate struggles With the royal power, some of which have reached the ver 8 of physical revolt, that she has been ane to retain them. For many years after her union with Swadeu, Norway was treated rather as a. province of that country than as n co-equsl kingdom. The king, French by birth or, descent, was Swedish of: heart. He chose to dwell amid the gaieties of Stockholm, the Swedish capitol, rather than within the dull simplicity of Christisnic, the smaller capi- tal of N orwny. From the first he wielded his ower over Norway with a. high hand. 6 used his veto without stint to prevent the measures which the Norwegians wished from becom- ing law. He made appointments without re ard to the advice of ministers. y the persistent efforts of courageous re- formers, of whom the chief was J ohsn Sverdrup, many changes for the better wore effected in Norway. Trial by jury was secured: the suffrage was extended; cab- inet ministers were admitted to seats in the Parliament, and the royal veto was restrict- ed. Thc reactionary ministry of Selmer was impeached nine years ago for restrict- ing the popular demands, and was ejected from office, and the reformer, Sverdrup, be-- come Prime Minister. The most recent conflict between the Nor- Wegisns and their king has been over the question of separating the forei u relations of Norway from those of Swe en. Early in 1891 a. Storthing (Parliament) was elect- ed, favorable to this change. The Tory ministry of Stung, which had opposed it, was dismissed from office; and Steen, and the leader of the Liberal reformers, and a. statesman long obnoxious to King Oscar, become Prime Minister. This Parliament passed a. measure trans- ferring her foreign relations to N orwuy’s sole control. This measure was vetoed by the king, and thereupon Steen and hisuolleogues resigned office. This of course, does not end the matter. By the present N orwegiau law, the king’s veto may be overcome by the votes of three successive Storthings ; and this is the course which will now probably be pursued. M enuwhilo, a. formidable movement is on foot in Norway to set aside king and throne altogether, and to establish a. Republic; and this may be the outcome of Norway’s perplexities. Showers of bust at '08.. About. the latitude of the Cape Verde Islands on the Atlantic it is frequently the experience of navigators to observe showers of red dust and other paradoxical matter. The material of these dust showers has often been examined microscopically, first by Ehrenberg. who gave it as his opinion that small particles carried aloft from all coun- tries collect into a sort of s dust zone, high over the locality named and that atmos- phereic changes causes it to full in the so- cslled “ showers.” The phenomenon has lately been the subject of much study. Hellman examined the books of 1196 ships that passed through the region in question during the years befwoen 1854 and ‘ 71 and Professor Henkle, the banks of 3000 ships that have passed through the “ dust belt ” since the lust of the observations taken by Hellman. From data. thus obtained the following facts have beei elicited. Most of the dust falls occur in the zone of the Atlantic lying between 9 degrees and 10 de- grees North. South of 6 degrees north they are extremal rare and the farthest south noted wns2 egress 56 minutes north, ‘26 degrees west. ’lhe two farthest falls to the west. were both in 38 degrees 5 minutes ; about 300 miles from Cape Verde. Dustfalls often occur simultaneously at very different points of the “ Dunkle Mecr ” or “ Dark Sea,” ns Ehrenberg calls it. In one case simultaneous dust showers were only 150 miles apart. Sometimes they continue for several days, as was the case in A ril, 1859, when dust fell constantly for ten syn and nights. chkle says that them are 100,000 square miles of the Eastern Atlsntic which may receive dense dust showers at any time. Music-Lorine Spider. Mr. \V. J. D. Leavitt, writing of his ex poi-fences in pla ing the great organ form erly in Music all, Boston. tells a pretty story of his most regular listenerâ€"s spider which had taken up its abode in the organ 'case over the rforuier's head. It remnim ed there for a utn year, Mr. Lesvitt says. It was a musical little fellow, and when I began to play it would spin down slmost'to ~ n level with my left shoulder and ently swing to and fro and listen. When had finished a. piece it would draw itself ii to its nest and when I I began another own it would come a in Ind resume its position as an interested tenor. It 1nd six legs. Two it put out in the air can balance pole, two it bundled the web with, and the third pair it used in pull' ing itself up hand over hand, as uilerl climb 3 rope. I came st but to watch for the fellow, sad it was nlways faithful, so that I w_u sure of at least one uttentive end approve» this bearer.