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I pushed back his chair and tried to but. he staggered and sat down again. he room seemed to be spinning round Madeline rose to go to her husband’s lance. but his valet, who had been seat Iith mademe‘s maid ina. smaller room h opened into the large one, was at his er'a side before her. As curious eyes being turned from all direcsions upon his wife addressed one of the waiters had come up to see what was the )id you hear what those men were any- instuve '3" she asked, with unusual in- in her voice. .raised his head and tried to answer but not even a. spoilt woman could 0 see that; he was very ill, ~and Madame lancry asked, “ Whitt is the matter, awe ‘3" with a little natural impatience. Nothing, Madeline. If you will allow [ will go outside on to the platform and Le a cigarette before we start; I sup- the passage must have upset me a lit- [lave you a room to which this gentle- can be tsken to 2 “’0 ,will have to 1 the night here.” ,0 general was too ill to protest as he led out of the room and upstairs to a :r sparely decorated apartment over- ng the quay, with two big wooden bed- ls placed back to back against one of Falls. He refused to let her stay with saying simply: “ My dear child, it is enough to have to put up with an Old - 'ou shall not be troubled with an old ' ” But when after a little rest be r, he sent Joseph to ask if madame indly come to him. mo came at once ; she was very kind, a meant to be very surest as she up to the bedside and took his hand , and, looking into the fine face which ill handsome in s ite of his sixty asked him gently i he vyos better. "v 'v .-v u..' axons in lqreeiug to conceal from owing the common property of every- y else in the room. But a: it was, yone or two people sitting at a small 10 near to the excited upeakers paid much nt’on to them. .' be room was filled with people who had come from Dover by boat. Most of were absorbed in swallowing, in as minutes as pooslble, as much food as the oyage had left them appetite for. The two exceptions were a lady and gentle- who had excited much comment on the ey, the former by her beauty, the lat- y his unmistakable devotion to her, e eea~sickuess had demped their ardor. dozen British tourists had used their ring zeal in finding out the name of the y who had been so tortuuate as to meet their approval, and whether she the wife or the daughter of the erect ontleman who accompanied her. And iscovered with a little peeping end a prying that the lady's name was Ma~ de Laucry, and that .‘ll. 18 General de , my denrrl am much better, thank t is very good of you to care so much. how annoying it must be to you to our journey interrupted in this way, wanted to suggest that you should go Rome with your maid and I will fol- a few days. You see you will be all when you are once in Rome, since the ease your friend is already't‘hero ; ahd afraid that if you mitt-for me on may he carnival. For ih myimpa once to Rome I can see now that I got up too and I don’t think I can continue the y for several days. general had been suffering from an onnd and rheumatism together, and fa felt contrite as she listened. as not until they had moved away, d to a sense of their own indiscretion ding the eyes of the unknown lady n fascinated interest upon them, that scovered, on glancing ot her husband, looking very ill. For some minutes sat with his elbow on the table and end on his hand, in an attitude of essness which he had affected in order meal from his wife the indisposition who had been too much occupied to 'onted the herdly as I can. You shall stay ith me until I am well enough to tre- «in, and we shall see whether my eel- ss really is the best plan, or whether ill be bored to death." h, no, there is no fear of that,” said uickly. “ I am on the track of a moat tful mystery which Would kee me ed for a. whole week, I feel sure. \\ hen were sitting at the table down-stairs, men were talking of a robbery which rred near here last week, and I heard h in .the world to be heartily tired of he was not hungry, and after trying to take autficient interest in the wing icken, which her husband had core- choeen for her, to eat it, she gave up ttempt ; and without noticing that he as eating nothing. she {was attracted t by the noise, and afterward by the nee of the conversation ofithe men at Hot, until her whole attention was ab- in trying to catch every word they ‘1 have tried to decide the point by ‘ iog round her as she came out of her ‘abin on arrival at Calais to listen to ords she might utter. had not a rough ge b that time taken the curl out of min le vivacity. ‘ a no de liznciy now set with her hue- nt a table near the bullet, looking tly unruilled by the seeâ€"journe y, which ot affected the delicate tints of her xion. nor disordered the simple tru- dresa, which set off to prefection her assive, but still youthful figure. She ung; men would have said “quite ” and women “still young," but it have been difficult to tell her exact There were tiny little thread-like n her fair skin about the mouth and she had the manner of a women who een for too long used to excite general ation to notice if it is given or even ; withheld, while the ex reesion of her :old plainly that _she. ad_been long t was I who was impatient, not you, ve, and you came away so soon to me. Why will you 5 oil me like If you ware to be a litt 0 less indul- ou have no idea what a much better should be. But you still treat me as were in our honeymoon, instead of aving been a slave to my caprices for hole years.” feeling she showed brou ht a little to his face, and he raise« her hand ully to his lips. will tahe yom: mlvice,_t_hen, angl treat 33 who ti-Svelled "wrichV - 1131'; EELS; 11:1. And then they made bets as to 18!; she yvgs‘FA-engh _qr English. upd IQOI’OI: they we_ro ‘un- Building Sites and Choosing llouses. ' A writer in a recent number of Chambers Journal makes the following good sugges- tions to persons about to build or purchase a house. In selecting a house, or a site for anew one, remember that where the sun will shine on the house for some hours a day, one element of good is secured, especially if the sunshine enters at the windows of the living rooms or rooms most used during the day time. After the aspect has been found to be suitable, and that a plentiful supply of sun and air is insured, attention should be given to the general position and construc- tion of the house, If the ground is at all porous, a layer of concrete not less than six inches thick, and composed of cement or lime and broken bricks or gravel, should be spread over the whole of the ground cover- ed by the building. This will prevent the passage of ground air up through the floors. Air will travel through the ground for some distance, and, as it invariably becomes con- taminatedby taking up carbonic acid gas in its passage, is not suitable for inhaling. The house acts as a sucker on the ground, and if, unfortunately, the site is one on “ made” groundâ€"that is, composed of all the refuse of a townâ€"the ground air bc~ comes the medium of disease. No houses should be built without a well-ventilated air space between the earth and the ground floor, especially if the layer of concrete on the surface be omitted. The walls should be built of good hard-burnt bricks or non- porous stone set in lime or cement mortar. Common underburnt bricks or porous stones hold moisture, which evaporates with a rise in the temperature, ,and so chills the air in the house. If the bricks or stones of the walls are suspected of holding moisture, the whole of the external surfaces should be covered with cement, or tiled or slated above. The foundations of the walls should rest on thick beds of concrete bedded in the earth ; and to prevent the ground damp rising up the walls, a dam proof course of slates in cement or a fad of asphalt should be laid in the full'th ckness or width of the wall just above the ground line. Dryness in this climate is so essential to health that any building which in its floors, walls, or roof sins by admittin moisture should be rejected as a place 0 residence by those who value their health. In tro ical climates buildings are construct- ed to map out the heat ; but here, We build to retain the heat and keep out the cold. “ I seem to know his face. May I ask you his name '3" “Gerald Staunton." Out; of the mists of the past a face rose before Madeline de Lencry, and a voice called to her. For one instant; long-for- gotten memories blinded. stunned her ; the next she was thanking M. Fournier for his courtesy, and inventing excuses to hurry away from the building. - “One of my clerEa, a young English- man, introduced tothe firm by my English parpger, Mr. Beresfqrgl.’: “ Is that one of your sons, Monsieur 2" she asked, glancing back to where the yoqqg man spood. “No. madame; I have only one-son, whom I hope to have an opportunity of presenting to you, if you will allow him that honor." “ I shall be delighted, monsieur, to know yogrfiaon. And that gentleman is-â€":’_’ I They passed from room to room. Madame do Lancry scarcely able to conceal that her strong interest in revolving sheets of twisted threads had grown singularly half hearted and unintelligent, until they came to a cor- ridor, at the end of which a young man was standing. Feeling sure that this must be the hero whom she was so anxious to see, Madame de Lancry looked straight into his face as she passed him. He was neither short nor tall, neither very broad nor very slight, dark-haired and dark-skinned, with a face in which there was nothing to attract particular attention, except the gentle ex- pression of his brown e es. He glanced shyly at the handsome lat y, the expression of whose face suddenly changed from. our- iosity to horror as she looked at him. Only the young fellow himself noticed the look, which greatly confused and astonished him. Madame de Lancry walked on, and smiled mechanically in answer to some remarks made to her by the two middle aged gen- tlemen, but for a few minutes she did not speak. \Vhen she had recovered her self- command, she turned to M.‘F0urnier. She was full of cunning crinkles, little tricks and wil wrinkles to catch crabs and eriwin lea in the waters of the hay. She new all the leading joblere in fish She knew all the leadin joblera in fish tackle, reels and bob rs, and she al- ways caught the robbers that would steal her bait away. She could see without her glasses how to catch her trout and basses, and she gathered in by masses .viotims of her wily skill. ' Only one thing was the matterâ€"she could fish but couldn't flatter; and that made the youn men scatterâ€"she could never _ till the hi I. They spent the night at the hotel, ond‘on the following afternoon the British Consul himself accompanied Madame de Lancry, to M. Fournier'e factory at St. Pierre. where. to her great disappointment. old M. Fournier himself showed her over the building, hav- ing come there, on receipt of a. note from the consul, on purpose to do honor to the beautiful lady. " Yes," said her husband, who felt too jealous of her curiosity to see the “ hand- somest man in Calais " to share her interosb in tho atory. them mention the name 0! the man they suspected. Just now I salted the chamber- nuid some questions. and found out that all through the winter most mysterious rob- beries have been going on about this part of the country ; but‘she said thst no one knew who committed 'thtm. Then I asked her who M. Victor Fournier wee, without tell- ing her thnt he was the men I had heard was suspected. And she told me he is the hundsomess mun in Cdaie. a gentleman only two or three and twenty. the son ofa lace manufacturer, who is said to be very rich and very moen. And, of course I am dying to see this supposed Claude Dnvni, and I am going to Cull upon the consul and ask him to get me permiseion to go over M. Fourn- ier'e factory on the chance of seeing his son 3 [ shall go as early as possible to-morrow. Isn’t itquite an exciting adventure 2” The Fishing Maiden. (T0 In: coxnxuno.) Bus 811% has learued wisdom, which '3“ has utilized in the education of her children. Each of them, " knows one (hing well,” and both have good prospects of success because of this. The special farmer must of necessity passess all the erudition of his specialty, and he succeeds because he does. A man became rich on the Hudson by raising one variety of apgles, the Newton pippin which brought the cat. priCe in Europe an India. There are farmers in Virginia. who gain a large revenue by the raising of peannts. She hEs barely lived, she and her child- ren, while seeing chance after chance glide by which she could not improve because she hail not the gpecial skill or speci‘fl ‘ By concentrating- his attention upon a single prodqu or class of products, and that product; favored by nature, the farmer aur- pdSses competetimrs in other places. There is a world of secrets involved in the raising of a line field of cabbages. Try one row of fifty plants, and you will wonder that any man ever succeeded in winning the victory over the acute, numerous and unslnmbering rivals who dispute with you the possession of_oyery leaf. ‘ IE it not precisely the some in all the two- catious of mortals? An English lady, who has been struggling for life in New York and Boston for six years as a writer, failed because (-110 did not know how to do any one thing wgll enough. _ The'ro‘is ogeghy, onl , whiolt'will 9 en " the door” the [mad-w liner, and all“! 6} ~ is thorough knowledge of and training for the work selected, whether it be makin a button-hole or writing a treatise on hi on- ophy. The days of amateur work any department are over. 1mg“ leggqreqqired: It has been remarked that the farmers who best succeed are those who devote their chief attention to some one product which is favored by their special soil an_d climate. “ Horses can get some rest standing,’ said an old trainer, " provided the position be rcasonabl erg , but no full reel: except recumbent. {t is uown 0! some horses that they never lie dowu in the stall, thou h if kept in pasture they take their rest be im- ally in a recumbent position. It is well to connider whether the habit has not been forced upon the horse by some circumstance connected with the stall he was made to occupy, in that it had a da up earth floor, or one made of dilapidated lank, uncomfort- able to the horse that had Jen accustomed to select his own bed in the pasture. “ I" ‘hn Lanna a... knows that mud-J's..- A! Dmvmo A SPIKE U NDER WATERâ€"In mill work, especially when making repairs. it is often necessary to drive large spikes in water to the depth of two, three, and even four feet. The Mamdacturers' Gazelle says one of the neatest and also the best ways of effecting the desired object is to get a piece of steam pipe of suilicieut size to permit the spike to drop easily through it. Place one end of this pipe upon the spot where the spike is to be driven, drop the spike into the pipe, point first, and then follow it with an iron rod just large enough to slide easily in the pipe. By using the iron rod as n battering mm, or like a. churn drill, the spike can be easily and quickly driven home wit'iout sputtering the person with mud and water. “ If the horse can have the privilege of selecting his own position {or restin on his feel: he can sleep standing; but wgile his muscles may be to a. certain degree relaxed, and get rest in that position, what can be said of the hearings at the joints? Without relief through the recumbent position the joint surfaces are forced continuously to hear a. weight of from 1,000 to 1,800 pounds. This must act unfevorebly, especially upon the complicated structures within the hoofs, which nature intended should have periods of rest esoh dsy." FORMATION or MOUNTAIN Craneâ€"M. Faye, the well-known French astronomer, has drawn attention at a recent meeting of the French Academy of Sciences to the ap- parent geological law that the cooling of the terrestrial crust goes on more rapidly under the sea than with a land surface. Hence he argues that the crust must thicken under oceans at a more rapid rate, and so give rise to a swelling up and distortion of the thin. new portions of the crust, in other words, to the formation of mountain chains. anus'romc Mixesâ€"An account of some interesting ancient flint mines discovered near Mur-de~Barrez, France, has been given by M. Marcelin Boule. The flints formed a bed underlying some twenty feet of chalk, in which narrow shafts and galleries, still bearing the marks of the rude deer-horn picks, were excavated. The roofs of the galleries were supported by pillars and props a! in modern mining, but the results of cave-ins are still to be seen in tools crushed between fallen rocks. Near the shafts are the remains of ancient workshops, where the flint was worked into various articles used in the age of polished stone. llArln COMMUXICA'rlox.â€"\Yhen the first electric telegraph was established, aeeordin to the British postmaster-general, the spear? of transmission was from four to five words a minute on the five-needle instruments. In 1849 the average rate for a number of newspaper messages was seventeen words a minute. The present pace of the electric telegraph between London and Dublin, where the Whentstoue automatic instru- meutis em loyed, reaches 462 words a min- ute; and t me what was regarded as mir- aculous sixty years ago has multiplied a hundredfold in one half century. 11mm GROWTH IN ISl-‘ANC\'.â€"â€"A striking fact deduced from observations reoorded by the late Dr. l’srrott i: the rapid brain growth in the first half year oi life as com. pared with the increase in height and the growth of other organs. Taking the total growth between birth and six years of age as 100, the wei ht of the heart increases 11.43 in girls an 11.83 in boys during their first six months of life; the height increases 20.8 in girls and 11.4 in boys; while the weight of brain increases 27.41 in g‘rls and ‘23 51 in boys. A Cums: lawmanâ€"Rev. B. 0. Henry stated: that. tho (so palm of China grown only inutho 8m Ui district. some twenty mile. lon by ten Inne- wine. Them“ d'o not yield envee suitable for {one until six years old. Some trees are said to be over 100 years old, but the telleet measure only about twelve feet. From A Hi! to November the leevee are cut month y, from one to three being taken from each plant. From 10,000 to 20,0(0 people are employed. Know One Thing We“. flow llorscs Rest. SCIENTIFIC.