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“ And now. Elsie," Huvh cried, with such virilo cheerfulness u a man can assume who stands shivering in wet clothes before a keen cuss wind, ‘ perhaps we'd better make our way a: once up to Whitestrand without further delay to change our guru enta.â€"Misa Meyaey, I’m afraid your hot'a apoiled.â€"Put her about now, Ralf. Let's run up quick. Idon't ming how soon I get to \\'hiteau_‘an(_i."’ Elsie miied a more sober smile of matur- er appreciazion. “ Hugh's always so," she answered. with proprietary pride in her mainly and handgome and cluvalrous cousin. etical pretensions. It was a coat that a sureate might have envied and dreamt shout. The man who could carry such a cost as that could surely have written the whole of the Divine Comtdin before break- fast, and tossed off a. book or two of Paradise Lost in a brief innerval of morning leisure. Warren Ralf heeded the yawl round with the-wind. and they ran merrily before the stiff breeze up stream onwards the village. " O Ezsie." cried Winifred. “ it was so "O Ezsie," cried Winifred, “it wig so gund! Wasn’t it just megnifiwnt of him to jump in like that after my poor old straw? I never saw anything so lovely in my life. Exactly like the sort of things one reeds about in novels !” The man made their way up strexm to Whitman-and, and landed at last, with an easy run. beside the little hithe. At the village inn~the Fisherman's Rest, by \V. Stunnawayâ€"Hugh Musinger, in spite of his disreputable dampness, soon obtained qomfortabla board and lodgings, on Warren 7 Yet; as soon as he stood once more on the ylwl'a deck, dripping and unpiot'u‘esque in his_cl§ng_ing qlothea, but_ wid} h9n_o_ur. safe, me than“ has now clasped tight in his triumphent right hand, it began to occur to him thet, sitar 31‘, the little adventure had turned out in its my quite as romentic, not to sey effective, s could have been reason- sbly expected. do forgave himself his wet enp unbecoming attire, as he hended the hat, with a: graceful n how as circumstances er- mitted,from the yawl's aidebo Winifred ey- sey, who stretched out her hands, ell blushes um thanks and apologetic regrets, from the roots of the poplar by the edge, to receive “ Awfniiy pretty girl, that," he said es he entered, end drummed on the table with imp etient fox-«tin or for the expected steak: “ the little one. % mean. of courseâ€"not my cousin. Fair, too. In some ways I prefer them fur. Thong h dark girls heve more go in them, after ail, 81 fancy; for dark and true and tend_er is_the North, acgording to Ten “ Oh, Elsie‘s well enough in her own way, no doubt," Hugh went on with a emile of expansive admiration. “ I like them all in their own way. I'm nothing, indeed, if not catholic and eclectic. On the whole, o.-:e girl‘s much the same as another, if only she gives you the true poetic thrill. But the otherâ€"Miss ltlcyeey, nowâ€"who’s she, I wonder ?-â€"Good name, oleysey. It eounds like money. and it euggests daisy. There was a Mcysey a banker in the strand, you knowâ€"not very daisy-like, that, is it 3â€"and another who did something big in the legal wayâ€"a judge, I fancy. He doubtless sat on the royal bench of British Themis with immense applouee (which was instantly suppressed), and left his family a pot of money. Meyseyâ€"lazyâ€"crnzyâ€"hezy. None of them‘ll do, you see, for a sonnet but daisy.â€"How many more Miss Meyseys are there, if any! I wonder. And if not, has she got a brother? So pretty a girl deserves to have tin. If I were a childless, rich old man, I think I'd incontinently establish and endow her, just to improve the beauty and the future of the race, on the strictest evolu- tionary and Darwinian principles.” " “fir fnfhar’n {kn \‘nni-A In“... " \"----.. THE THREAD OF LIFE; For 3 minute the two girle stood in breeth~ leu uswuse : then Warren Reli, outtin in behind with the ynwl, flung out n ooi o! rope in a ring towude Hugh with true neutering dexterity so that it struck the water “night in front of hie face iiit like n quoit. enabling him to grasp it and hen! himeelf in without the slightest diflienlt). The help come in the nick of time, yet meet inopportunely. Hu h would have given meI juet then to he able to dieregard his 1) cfle red a 6, end to swim ashore by the tree m lurdly ineependence without extreneoue mietnnoe. It in grotesque to throw your- eeli wildly in, like n hero or n Leander. end then inure to De tamely pulled out egein by mother fellow. . But he recognised the fact thnt the struggle was .11 in vein, and that the mtereetg of English literature and of a well known insurance office in which he held n smell life policy, imperntively demanded nequieeoenoe on his part in the friendly roe one. He grasped the rope with a very bad gnoe indeed, and permitted Relf to haul him, hand over hund, to the eide of the Mud- In ten minutes he emerged again, as he had predicted, in the front room, another manâ€" nn avatnr of gloryâ€"resplendent. in a. light. brown vo veteen coat and Rembrandt cap, that served still more 0 viously than ever to emphaeise the full nature and extent of his 11 non. But fair or dark, North at South, lime flqgnimun'q tegs, they‘re f'qll gpoq dike," if you take thém u'auorted. 1nd 3119’s ghu‘miugly fresh and youthful and comfortable board and lodgings, on Warren Relf’s recommendation. Relf was in the habit of comitg m \Vhitestrand frequently, and was “ well lie-known," as the landlord remarked, to the entire village, children included. so that any of his friends were im- mediately welcome at the quaint old public- houseuhy -l he water's _edge. ..;.. s “She’s pretty, certainly,” Warren Rolf replied with a certain amount of unusual atifl'neu apparent in his manner ; “ but not mything [Ike so pretty, to my mind, or so grncoful either, as your cousin, Miss Chal- loner." “ I’llfchange my duties in a jiffy," the poet said to his friend as he leaps ashore. “ ant! be back with you at once, a new crew “ Her father’s the Squire here,” Warren Rolf replied, with n somewhatunoaay glance at Hugh, shot sideways. “ He lord: the manor and a great deal of the parish. Wv- ville Meyeey’n his full name. He‘s rich. ““1 “y tolerebly rioh still ; though a big slice 0t *- e estate south of the river bee been awdlowod up by the m, or buried in the “‘0 “B“. or otherwise dilpreed of. But north of the river they say he's all right. That 8 hi! lime. the house in the fieide, jmt up beyond “I. poplnr. I deren you didn't notice it 50 V" need, for We nut lowâ€" Ellubethnn. h ~hldden In the trees. All CHAPTER lV.- Bummx's ASS SUNSHINE AND SHADE. OR, the big house: dong the Eat Coast are elweye planned tether oqunt and flat, to escape the wind, Which run: riot here in the winter. The old gentle- man's connected with the bankers in the Strandâ€"some sort of n cousin or other, more or)”: distantly {empvedfl I_fenoy." “ The eons? There are none. They had one once, I believeâ€"a (lagoon or lunarâ€"â€" but he was shot, out eoldiering in Zululand or somewhere; and his daughter-'5 now the eflefliving representative of the entire fun- I y.’ “Oh, one naturally like: to know where one standsâ€"before committing one'e self to anything foolish," Hugh murmured placidly. “ And in this wicked world of ours. where heireeaee are scarceâ€"and actions for breach of promise painfully commonâ€"one never known beforehand where a single false etep may happen to land one. I’ve made mie- eakee before now in my life; I don't mean to make another one through insufficient knowledge, if I can Lelp it.'_' dentvggugrégi, trucking m; subject to its solid kernel. “ Yo~eo. In her wt) â€"uo doubt, an heir. eonâ€"Not 3 very bi one I an pone, but still what. one might fair y call on aims. She‘ll hove whotever's left to inheritâ€"You seem very_o_nxioun to know! o!!_|bout per.” “ It‘s'not the girl‘s atfections I play fast loose with,” Maesinger retorted lazily. “ I deeply regret to say it’s very much more my own I trifle with. I'm not a fool ; but my one weak point is a too susceptible dis- position. I can't helo falling in loveâ€"really in loveâ€"not merely flirtingâ€"with any nice girl I happen to be thrown in with. I write her a great many pretty verses ; I send her a great many charming notes ; I say a great many foolish things to her ; and at the time I really mean them all. My heart- is just at that precise moment the theatre ofa most agreeable and unaffected flutter. I think to myself, “ This time, it’s serious." I look at the moon,, and feel sentimental. I apo~ strophise the fountains, meadows, valleys, hills, and groves to forebode not any severing of our loves. And then I go away and It flect calmly, in the solitude of my own chamber, what a precious fool I‘ve beenâ€"for, of course, the girl's always a nniless oneâ€"-I’ve never had the luck or t e art yet to captivate an heiress: and when it comes to breaking it all 011', I assure you it costs me a severe wrench, a wrench that I wish I was sensible enough to foresee or adequately to guard against, on the prevention-better-thamcure principlefli “ The girl," Musinger replied, putting a finishing stroke or two to the queer formlese sketch he had scrawled upon the enVelope, and fixing it up in the frame of a cheap litho- graph that hung from o nail upon the well opposite: “ well, the girl probably regrets it also, though not, I sincerely trust, so profoundly u I do. In this case, however, it's a comfort to think Elsie’s only a cousin. Between cousins there can be no harm, you will readily admit, in a little innocent flirts- tion." “It’s more than a flirtation to her, I’m sure,” Relf answered, with a dubious shake of his head. “She takes it all an grand serieux.â€"I hope you don't mean to give her one of these horrid wrenches you talk so lightly about 3â€"Why, Mosainger, whet on earth is this? Iâ€"I didn't know you could do this; sort of thing ! “ So 3110': an heiress 2" Hugh inquired. got- ting warmer st. last, 3: children say at Hide Hugh went on fiddling with the pen and ink and the envelope nervously. “ You think so 3" he asked, with some eagerness in his voice, after another short pause. “ You think she really likes me ?" “ I don't merely think so." Rolf answered with confidence; “I’m absolutely eel-min of it â€"as sure as I ever was of anything. Remem- ber, I'm a painter, and I have aqui :1; eye. She wns deeply moved when she saw you come. It meant a great deal to henâ€"I should be sorry to think you would pay fast and loose with_any girlie affeetions.” . “ And the girl ?" Ralf asked, with n grow- ing sense of profound discomfort, for Elnie'n incognd tnnnney‘hmil inatantiy tguchedAhim. He took up a pen that lay before him upon the table of the little sit- tin -room and began drawing idly witgh it some curious cheracters on the the back of an envelope he lled from his pocket. Relf sat and watch him in silence. Presently. Musinger began again. “ You're very much shocked at my senti- ments, I cansee," he said quietly, as he glanced with approval at his careless higroglyphice._ _ Relf‘drew his hand over his beard twice. “ N 0t so much shocked as grieved, I think," he replied after a moment’s pause. “ Why grieved 2" “ Well, became, Mauinger, it wen im- possible for any one who saw her this morn- ing to doubt thet Mien Chelloner is really in love with you." He had walked'across carelessly, as he paced the room, to the lithograph in whose frame the poet had slipped the back of his envelope, and he was regarding the little ad~ dition now with eyes of profound astonish- ment and wonder. The picture was a coarsely executed portrait of a distingushcd statesman, reduced to his shirt-sleeves, and caught in the very act of felling a tree ; and on the scrap of envelope, in exact imitation of the right honourable gentleman’s own familiar signatnre, Hugh had written in bold free letters the striking inscription, “ W. E. Gladstone." . Ralf gazed over his shoulder in some surprise, not wholly unmingled with a faint touch of alarm. " I'm an artistflllnsainger." he said slowly, as be scanned it close ; “but I couldn't do that, no, not if you were to ny me {or it, in heaven above, or earth neuth, or the wntere that are under the oath; but I couldn’t meke a decent lac. eimlle of mother men'l nutograph.â€"â€"And do you know, on the whole I’m ewfnlly glad thtt I could “awe-{My leern to do It." Musings: mil 3 lmguld Imlle. "In The at laughed. “ Yea,it's notaobad," he twig? regarding it from one side with parental fondness. “I can imitate any body's hand at nightâ€"Look here, for ex- ample; here's your own.” And taking an- other scrap of pIpEl‘ from a bundle in his pocket, he wrote, with rapid and practised mastery, “ Warren H. Ralf " on a corner of the aheet in the precise likeness of the printgr‘a own_ large anflfiovying bandwriting. ore or Inn distantly removsd. I fancy." “ And the tonal" Hggh 98:de with 0y}; the usual or In. loomu," no um. wore-I- has big Ion! to the boot-tut which Ind at In: uflvod. “I. doubt Inch ab lulu are linblo to serious than.” They who tekeoptimistio views of the Euro pean situation. may perhaps find some oomtorc in who ossertion of on snon moue writer that l’riuoe Biamurck recenty es- sured Mr Carl Schulz than the peace of lurope would not be disturbed by Russia. But even if we oould assume that the Chen- cellor has chosen such n medium for a proo- lsmstion urbie ct orbis, he has never, we should recollect. pretended to be a prophet. but hes, on the contrary, acknowledge that the war of I870 was it surprise to him. To our minds the alleged revelations oi cun- tiding s'utesmen are leu trustworthy ndi- cations of what this summer has in store than the sotuul incidents taking place in Russiu end southmtern Euroge. the hand. at the foolioh." ho nld, uddlfou The Czar’s armies are new in a state of far greater readiness than they were eleven 3 ears ago. and a week at the outside would sutlice to transport an army from Bessara- bia across the Danube. All the information obtainable coufims the belief that three- fonrthe of his active forces have since the beginning of the year been concentrated in the south-eastern corner of his empire. It seems an unreasonable hypothesis that so tremendous a display of strength is intended merely to supersede Prince Ferdinand of Coburg by another ruler on the insignificant throne of Bulgaria. Is it not more probable that Slavophils, who remember how at San Stefano the prize lay at their feet, are con vinced that the hour has come to lay aside all subterfuge and make shift and to strike bold- ly at Constantinople ? If they did not suppose the hour ripe for putting off the mask, why should such men as Ignatielf Tchernaitfl' and Bogdeuovich al at once emerge from their retirement and re- repeat, point by point, the demonstrations and manmuvres which preceded the last Turkish war? Here is the Slav Association, of which we used to hear so much eleven 3 e rsago, allat once resu scitated witthher naicfl' at its head ; here is the co-operative agency, the Slav Committee of Charity, starting into fresh activity under the Pre- sidency of lgna'iefl'; here is Gen. Bogdanov vich, an avwved believer in Boulangcr, ab- ruptly reinstated in the :ervice, and at the same time permitted, or privately ordered, to visit France. Finally, that nothing might be wanting to perfect the parallel between the present situation and that presented in the spring of 1877, here is an opportune ris~ ing in Macedonia and a Ministerial crisis at Belgrade and Bucharest directed against the anLLRussian party: Vienna can only be conjectured ; but what we know is that in afew weeks after he obtained the Emperor’s full confidence, Alexander II, ordered his troops to invade Prussia, and on June 21,1877, the Russians crossed the Danube. The Slavophile are superstitious ; they may this year be waiting for the same date of departure, in order that the next- expedition, like the last, may be pushed for- ;rtu'd within sight of the towers of St. Sop- 1a. To insist that the huge outlay made by Russia on mobilization during the last four months has noglarger purpose than a change of princelinrrs‘at Sophia seems to us the acmc of absurdity. If Alexander III. were cap- able of so great a waste of his country’s re- sources for an end so trivial, he would richly merit the exeoration of his subjects. If he ac- cepts, on the other hand, the programme of the Slavophils, there is no sacrifice that Rus- sians will not cheerfully endure. Nor is it likely to be forgotten by one who has so long been the target of assassination, that no Rus- sian hand Would ever be raised against the Czar who should rear the standard of Peter the Great above Constantinople. Even the Russian revolutionist is, first of all, a pat- riot; and it is probable that Alexander II. would be alive to-day had his armiesin the last war ventured to pluck the fruits of vic- t r 1 instead of succumbing to the bravado of Lord Bencotsfitld.â€"N. Y. Sun. In order to gauge the :ignifioence of the uceudunoy suddenly re elned by Slevo~ phlle in Moeoow. end 0 the commotione which have simuluneouely broken out. in the Dmubieu States, it in well to reoell theevente curiously analogous which preceded the lost war between Russia and Turkey. It is well known that the lute Czar, Alexander 11., was extremely reluctant, to engage in that content end that for two years, notwithstanding the ”tenure of the pet- riotio party, he could not be reveiled upon to take eny'decisiveetep. he Herzegov- ina insurrection of 1875 and Servie'e nggressive movement against the Sul- tan in the following year were, no doubt instiuuted by Slavophil committees ; but the Russian Government long refused to lift u hand to suve its supposed proteges from Ottoman reprisels. As late as February, 1877, the Queen’s speech expressed the con- viction now imputed to Bismarck thet_ the peace of Europe was assured. Within a fortnight afterward Slavophil Generals and etatemen had_becon1e dominant in the coun- ing of St. Petersburg, and in the beginning oi March Gen. I gnatietf was allowed to undertake aprivate mission to central and western Europe, professedly for the parpoee of consulting an oculiet. By an odd coin. cidence, on March 3 the (‘2 If ordered the mobilization of eight army corps. What fincialiete Ignatieff consulted in Berlin and The English locomotives are built in one solid frulnfi. and run over trucks compara- tively level and straight. Some of the Eng- lish trains, such as those between Glasgow or Edinburgh and London, make very fast time. The locomotive driving-wheels are usually seven or eight feet in diameter, sometimes, as in this case cited from an English paper, more than that: There is no proof that any locomotive has exceeded eighty miles r hour. This speed was actually reached y one of Mr. Pear- son‘s broad guage tank engines. with nine feet drivin -wheels, on the Bristol and Exoter Rra lway. When running at this rate the engine has to overcome a resistance of air c ual to the force exerted by a hurri- cane. (in fact, the storm that destroyed the Toy Bridge was blowing at less than sixty miles an hour. The great obstacle to a higher speed than eighty miles is the get- ting rid of the steam. Lately an engine has been constructed for a French company in- tended to run regularl at one mile and a third per minute. This is a higher velocity than any regular engine performance in this country. although more than a mile per minntejs performed over certain distances regularly. ls Russia About to Strike? (m an cosrxuum) A Lively Pace. The Inbjoot or fiance In nanny A dry. though otwn an instruutlvopne. Someumol. however, are“ fiunolnl opeutionl no nude which are alum: rommtic in :heit interest. Two Inch operation- havo Noont‘ ly taken place In the mungemont of the Englinh nulonul flannel. The first of these operations was whet was celled “the conversion ol the notions! debt". the purpose of which is simply to reduoo the Interest paid on the huge debt which weighs upon the English Government. 0! eourse. in order successfully to reduce the inmost on a national debt, the credit of the govern ment must he very high, end o generol con- fidence must be felt in the continued pros- perity and power of the notion, and in the ability and honesty of its ststemsushig. _ . _ It appears by than, that the revenue of the United Kingdom the past year has bean about four hundred and fifty million dollars; this sum is over eight million dollars more than, at the beginning of the financial year, it Was estimsted that it would be. 011 she other hand.the government has spent, during the past year, about (our hun- dred and thirty seven million dollars. The excess of what the government has received, over that which it has paid out, in not far from twelve million dollars. This surplus, moreover, has been obtained in spite of the reduction of l penny on the pound in the income tax. the reduction of the tax on to- bacco and the cessation of certain interest hitherto paid on local loans: The maiin increase of receipts has been that from the customs du'iea, stamps, the post- cfl‘ice excise and the income tax ; all of which indicate a general and marked prosperity thrgughout tile general community. Wh‘Bu the 5,;an s, moreover, which reveal to us the solid wealth and firmly based sol- vency of Great Britain are compared with those of the budgets of the great continental powers. the British: money power presents itself in a striking aspect. For either of the continental powers which succeeds in barely balancing its reueipts and expenditures, re- gards such a result as a piece of uncommon good fortune. Rattler mom thou two-thirds of the British pnb'io (101 t consists of three ohm of se~ onritiea, on each of which an interest of three per cent. ho- hinherto been paid. The totnl value of these securities is five hundred And Eloy-eight. million pounds. or, in our money two billion seven hundred and ninety million dollars. The other financial operation made by the Chancellor of the Exouequer was the re~ sentation by him of the annual "budget! of treasury receipts and expenditures. This budget, with the annual revenue returns which promptly followed it, shows a very sound condition of the English finances. So much for a country which is sound, rich, and has faith in itself. The achieve- ment is, to he sure, not tobe comp ered with that of the United States in the rel-)duction of its debt and refunding the rest at lower rates; but the difficulties to be encountered at the outset of the undertaking were far grgter in the case of England. The chief difficulty arose from the fact that the English “Console,” as the three per cents, are called, have no definite time for the payment of the principal. They are never due, and the government can deal with them only with the consent of the holders. Rattlesnake 0i]. Rsttlesnakes are among the few things that seem to thrive among the rocky hills of Pike county, Pa” and they are just about as plentiful there now as they were when the country was opened. Recently they have become an article of merchandise, ow- ing to the efforts of Anton Hinder-man, a little middle-aged German, who leaves his wife and family in Elizibeth, N. J . every year and goes up to Bike county to live in a but and hunt rattlesnakes. The rattlesnake industry is monopolized by Anton. Others ocaasionally kill a rattler and lie about its length. but the little German hunts for them persistently and methodically, and catches or kills five or ten on every fine day in summer. He sells them alive to showman and guests at the Pike county hotels oc- casionally. but his chief income is derived from rattlesnake oil, which he tries out and sells for one or two dollars an ounce, accord~ ing_to the fluctuations of the market. By this reduction of intereaE iho govern. men: will make an immediate amine of six million dollars a year, and after fourteen years will make an annual saving of four- teen million dollars. The Chancellor of the Excheq not proposed to reduce the interest on this debt from three per cent, first to two and three-quer- tere and ultimately to two aid a hull per cent. Alter fifteen years all the debt will pay interest at the rate oi two and a half per ceht. a year. Without going into further partieulm as to this gigantic operation, it any be said that nearly the whole number 0! the holders of the government stock heve assented to the reduction, on the promise that after the lapse of fifteen years, when the interest on ell the securities shell hue become two end a half per cent, no further reduction of in- tegeet ehell be nude (9:: twenty years. He does not use fire In extracting the oil. because he believes that it will spoil it. He says the snakes must be hung in the sun and allowed to dry out slowly in its fierce rays, while the oil drips from their tails into wide- mouthcd bottles which are suspended to them. A let 0 snake yields several ounces of oil. and it s a very small snake that will not fill an ounce visl with the greenish oil which is reputed to be a sovereign cure for rheumatism and kindred complaints. he catches the rattlers basking on the rocky lodges, and after pinning them down with a. forked stick ties strings around their necks and binds them securely in the crutches of the sticks and carries them to his hut, where he puts them in a perforated packing case to await death or sale He has never been bitten, but he professes to have a. botanic cure for snake bites. and says he is not afraid of the biggest rattlesnake in the State. Charlollelown Herald : One night during the session of the Legislature, while the House was in Committee of Supply, Mr. Bell was repeating his speech for the hundredth time, when he stopped and beckoned the messenger tobring him a glass of water. Thereupon Mr. Shaw rose to a point of order. Being Mixed by the ohnirmnn to onto his point, he said he did not think I windmill ah id be propelled by water. This ally ca ed greet emneement to ell present ex- 00 Mr. Bell. A Joke on a Liberal orator. English Finances There is e rumor thet Cerdluul Mannilv in to be mele 9 life peer. Glad-tone do: Parnell for the ‘nt time only “No week: no. There is not one person in one hundred of the millions who travel on railways in the course of a year who has any idea of the speed of a train. Alerge per cent. of even the re - ulsr traiumen of the country cannot tell wit any degree of accuracy how fast a train is running. Frequently engineers are despatch- ed on a trip over a line of railroad with in- structions to run at a speedoi a certain num- ber of miles an hour. The engineers do not carry an indicator, but have learned by ver- ioue methods to gauge their engines so as to make only the slightest variation from their orders. Sir Morel! Mackenzie never accept. n fee from a professional linger. Cherlee Dickene'e'nuret-‘Jllery Weller Gib- son, was buried on April 28. She was gen- erally regerded as the prototype of Mary, the pretty house maid, in the Pickwick pn- pere. She dwaye upheld the theory thnt Micewber was really Dickene'e father. Thirty years ago there was a tremendous contest, which was felt over almost all of Europe, over the Jewish child Mortars, whom the Archbishop of Bologna claimed as the property of the Roman Catholic Church on the ground that he had been baptized bya serving maid. The Church prevailed and took the boy from his parents. He has now reappeared in the person of an ascetic monk of extraordinary eloquence, learning, and fervor, and has been preach- ing to great audiences near Madrid. The Queen and court have subscribed to help the convent chapel he has built on the Bas- que Highlands. He is called Father Mor- tars. He is a Canon of the Order of Saint Augustin, and among otheraccomplishments speaks twenty-two languages. A lady’s reticule is among the relics pre- strved at Alnwick Cent-1e. It is said that on the night proceeding the battle of \Vater- loo, when the Duke of Wellifigton wee at~ tending the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brusse'e, Maj 2r Percy became deeply enn- morod of a lady when he met there for the first time, and at the parting, when “ mid- night brought the trumpet sound of strife," begging from her some souvenir. he received this reticule. A‘ter the battle Major Percy was selected to convey to Lord Bathurst the Duke’s famous despatch dated ‘Vaterloo, June 19, ISIS, in which he gave an account (if the content. and the rcticule was utilized as a case for the document. becoming, there- by, the bearer of the first of the good tidings to the English Government. [to history ended there, however, for although the Major searched loyally, he was never able to find the owner of the reticule again. Prince Alexander othsttoBberg'a privam physician, Profeuor ngenbuohur. is now in ntgendanco on Emperor Frederick. Queen Viet- ria travelled through Europtf win: I) much luggege that. it took an hour to transfer is from the train to the hon n Fluehing. Michel Nay, duo d'Pliohingen, the de- scendant and inhoritor of the tisleu of Na- poleon's mmhui, is an expert electrician. He is about to intent an improvement on the telephone. which will make the more“ whisper audible. Melicel Otlicer Russell of Glasgow any: that during the last ten years over 1,000,000 articles of clothing from persons effected with every kind of contagion known in this country have ceased through the Glasgow laundry, and that in that time he has never known a case of Intel-changed disease, el~ though the women engaged in the laundry have occasionally eufl‘ered from handling the linen before it was boiled. The majority of en ineers use their driving wheel as a gauge. lghey know its circumfer- ence. and by counting its revolutions within a certain time can tell very accurately the speed at which they are running. Another method is to time the run between mile oats, and still another method is to make ca enla- tions from the number of telegra h poles passed in a certain time. These po es, in a level country and where four or five wires are used are spaced so that they are thirty to the mile. If only a single wire is used they are spaced from twenty-five to twenty-eight to the mile. The most accurate method, and the one most in use by experienced railroad men, is to count the number of reil joints the train passes over in twenty seconds. The rails in nearlv all cases are thirty feet in length, and the number passed over in twenty seconds is the spced per hour a train is running. For instance, if a passenger sitting in a sleeper can count thirty clicks of the wheels on a rail joint in twenty seconds the train is run- ning at the speed of thirty Imles an hour. Count Tantra. president of the Austrian Council of Ministers, in on Irish Viscount. Ho ha recently sent. a large sum of money 60 the clergy of Dublin for distribution among the poor. It is said that the primrose was not Lord Beaconafielda’ favorite flower at all, and that the awry that it was arose from the fact that the Queen sent to race his milk: a wreath of those flowers wit a card bearing the inscription, in her own hand- writing. "His favorite flower,” But she m« nt'the favorite of her own husband, Prince Albert, not; of Beaeounfield. [low to Guess the Speed 0! Trains The Iowa Legislature has taken the bull by the horns in its anti-trusts legislation. It has passed a bill prohibiting any cor- poration, co-perlnership or individual from entering into any combination or confeder- ation to fix the price of any commodit , or the amount or quality of it to be pro need or sold in the State. The bill also provides further that on any trial of an indictment for violation of this law all officers or agents are made competent witnesses, and msy be com lied to produce books and spars, and shal not be excused from testi ving, even on the plea that their testimony ms orimin~ ate themselves. A proviso is, owever added that no such testimony shall be used against the non testifying in any suit in which he 36 a party. This is certainly heroic legislation. and the working of the law will be watched with interest. Rube] von Enu says that to fool the pro. sent. to occupy and: self fully with it, In the talent 0! living. Death to Trusts. reason“!