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{he roadged but thus to order an as given, ‘ He knew he condition, lies was tak- had lots of thjmpgaed to Mexico to Great North- mum: of 1873 '6 was in a. m who' had > 88143 : It to be b1ck it couldn’t n3 manner. aware that L “ He’s} m another lhe ens. lecial was the rate of ride to be um side to I now and the track. those who expecting ainute. lg the mile a. He was .bnt, as he rther day : betore I the chance :0 be made Jay Gould that. night :e. He 32.: light, and of the win- It. that the y. Finally one of the remarked Lane: was and that he car horse, itoginiug. when he ll', i371“! 311'. re clerk, 50 to get [stomen I“- ‘3 ‘l nd flushed 1 open her sch there st of the railroad, do about. I assisted intellio In‘t Want to ant. thing 3” n1 the thing. ” the L]. the tired the 16 man and pet in pioneers in ins: train lay Gould :te he had engineer, 0t pull her e man, t is good ‘manded. “Cabli- id Gould. moment 'e have see what "Got hicular- Rush skin, “I the There are few portions of household training that are more neglected than the eiucei‘ion of «xxfldren in the habits of eat- ing. In the family it is the easiest thing in the world to grow careless or indulge in Ahdfious practice: not permissable in polite _ acciety, but. all the same, these habits are formed, and the ehxgdren, as a natural Ieon.- seqneu w n in such ways. t is “1 (gaff; that when they find it necessary to go out into the world they are obliged to have a thorough course of train- in g to unleam the habits of early life. The only excuse for this is when the parenf-S are themselves totally ignorant of 1h» pugprzcties of life. It is apoor com-J Muty. Such a woman in any home is a glimpse of chf’s sunshine. Beauty and genius are the gifts of Providence, but a. good heart all can cultivate. ' Ab, girls! The snowiest skin will some day be sallow ; the flush of youth will dis- appear: the bright eye grow dim, and the nervy limb be uncertain and feeble. But this inward loveliness, this beauty of spirit, is born of Heaven, and knows no death. The tender ministries of Miss B will creep ixlto any true heart sooner than Miss A’s But how can a girl best gain the love and respect. of others? This is an all-important query, and it is best answered by aconcrete illustration drawn from real life. Miss A is beautiful. Her statuesque form and mag- nificent face are always the same, with a cold, distantaspect which even her undoubt- ed beauty does not. redeem from reproach. Miss B is neither so talented. nor lovely, but she meets one heart to heart, and her continued pleasantness ham a. charm which draws around her a devoted circle of appreciative firms. She is her father’s confidante, her mothef‘séhthe recipient. of her brother J ack’s love-trouble and sister Nellie’s strug- gles‘ with _Freilch. l And the natural tribute men pay to woman’s attractive qualities is admiration. If a. woman is incapable of appreciating the homage of man, and treats man’s highest gift. as though it- were vanity, she makes a. Ierious mistake. Every woman has an inherent longing to be attractive, and if she has not, she should have. For what. would this chaos, doubt and strife of our daily warfare be- come, were it not that sweet woman inter- fuses into it her calming, cheering influ- ences '2’ At 9 o’clock I waked up, ignd hearing compan y domtairs cried for some company myself. Mammal. came up to me. ‘A cut to 3163p: , D‘idn’t wake up any more that night after I went to sleep the last time until the next. morningâ€"[Harper’s Young People. At. half past 5 I had the Jarst meal of the day. a new bottle having been procured. I don’t know the name of this meal, but it doesen’r, make any difference, for it was the same as breakfast, lunch, dinner and sup- per. I w_ent- to bed at 6 o’clock. Had supper at. aim o’clock (same a breakfast, lunch and dinner). Got mad and dropped the bottle, and cried because I couldn’t have any more supper as the bottle was broken. I have discovered that bottles break. Hooray .' Tried to tell nurse about my discovery, and nurse said, “ Poor ’ittle sing.” I wasn’t 9. “ sing, ” I’m not “ ’ittle,” because there’s no such word, and I’ll never be “ poor,” so I cried. From 4 until 5 I made a. new record. I generally cry at half past 4 every day, but to-day I didn’t. I was asleep. ‘A 1,,73 . Got so tired screaming that I went to sleep. At l2o'clock waked and had dinner (same as breakfast and lunch). Momma played on the piano and sang to me. When I tried to sing she laughed, and as I don’t like to be laughed at, I cried. Nurse said I was a cryobaby, and I cried all the time at everything, but I don’t agree with her. I never cry now at meal-times, because I tried it once and found I couldn’t eat and cry at the same time, no gave it up. I have all night to cry in if I want to, and 1 can’t eat then. Had lots of fun. Pulled nurse’s hair, then pulled mamma’s hair. It wasn’t so much fun when I tried to pull brother’s hair, for he slapped my hands. I didn’t like that, so I cried. Then brother laughed, and I cried harder, and then brother was sent away. I cried harder than ever at this. for I wanted to play with brother. 1" Q , , .. w- --â€"uJ av; vuvul, J. Act; “61661). M y breakfast was served at 8 o’clock. I don’t think the cook can be much good, for I never had anything but milk for breakfast, dinner or any other meal srnce I can remem- ber. After breakfast I saw my big brother playing with a jumping-jack. As I wanted it myself, I cried until nurse made brother give it u . Then brother began to cry, and because was sorry for him I cried too. Had lunch at 10 o’clock (same as break- fast). Went out riding afterwards in my carriage, and cried all the way home because nurse wouldn’t let me have a. nice big black doggie to carry. He was a lovely doggie, and when I screamed he barked, so I screamed real hard lots of times. It was great fun. Was aroused once more at 6 o’clock by a. fly dancing on my face. I tried to hit him, an d oniy succeeded in slapping myself so hard that: I had to scream. I screamed until every body decided to dress, and when they were readyfifor breakfast halfan hourbefore break- fast was ready for them, I fell asleep._ \I_ 1.--,1, Baby’s Diary forfine Deg. ,. Waked up as usual at 3 o’clock in the morning, and cried until everybody else in the house was awakened. Then I went t2 ale-31:) again. ' __ V- .. v“ uvu you“: but". Svecds,iin7Snn and rain! Broken measures find completeness In the perfect whole : Li fe is but a day in fleetnessâ€" bachel- in all strength and sweetness I". Grows the striving soul. Life is full of broken measures, objects unguained : Sorrows intertwined with pleasures, Losses of our costliest treasures, Ere the heights be gak w]. Every soul has aspirations Still unsatisfied, Memories thWake vibrations , 0f the heart 11: quick pulsations, At the gifts denied. “'9 are better for the longing, Stronger for the pain: Souk; at ease are nature wrongingâ€" The Charm of Pleasantness. Manners For Children- HOUSEHOLD. ”YOkGD Measures. In March next the Imperial British East ,Africa Company will march out of Uganda. English sentiment was so strong against abandoning the country that the Govern- ment lost no time in taking steps to assure its control over Uganda. There is every prospect that the railrbad to the lake, the surveys for which are now completed, will he built at an early day, and the prospects for Uganda are looking decidedly brighter. Good taste is frequently nothing more than an apeth for flattery. It is to [lave s :ldlers and Poraers Supplied by the Sultan of Zanzibar. The British expedition which is about to start for Uganda. under command of G. H. Portal is able to surmount the difficulty presented by the scarcity of porters in a way that is not open to private travellers. The numerous expeditions that have recent- ly disappeared into the interior have drain- ed the east coast of its supply of porters, but Portal has secured all the carriers he needs, and an adeqaute escort of soldiers from the Sultan of Zanzibar. He will be able to march rapidly to Victoria Nyanza, where he will study the situation and advise the British Government as to the best means to estab- lish order and prornote progress_in Uganda. But for table-linen, even this much of a. suggestion of perfume should be avoided. In delicate cookery a. savory dish may be ruin- ed by too great a. preponderance of any one flavor ; and to a. sensitive taste a. dinner may be spoiled by an incongruous perfume, though it be one that under other circum- stances would please the most fastidious. Hence, whatever part of the closet be re- served for table-linen. it should be apart from the rest, and free from any odor. BUNCHES OF LAVENDER flowers tied up in little bags of Swiss or tarlatan. Bunches of sweet clover, or the leaves of the lemon verbena may also be used in this way ; but no heavy perfumes or sachet pawders should be substituted, as the object 18 to give only a. sweet, grassy fragrance, suggestive of cleanliness and sunlight and pure air. However fine the linen or dainty the stitching, much of the joy in a. well-filled linen-closet is dependent upon the laundress. Though there he never a ruffle nor a. bit of embroidery among them, no proper house- wife can look upon her piles of snowy, shin- ing linen, without a. thrill of satisfaction at their beauty, and the thriftiness implied by them. Starch should never be used in bed- linen. If it is ironed while quite damp and with a very hot iron, it will have a. hand- somer gloss than any starch can give it, and enough stiffness to make it lie smoothly, which is all that is desirable. Do not mar its beauty by many folds. ()nce crease down the centre of a pillow-case is sufficient. If possible, one closet or set of drawers should be set apart exclusively for bud-linen and towels; and when this can be done it may be made deliciously fragrant by scat- tering among the linen 7“ -â€"-. vuu onuufi. The open end hangs beyond the fiillow about eight inches, and all the trimming is around this end. Even for square pillows the case is made with the long overhanging end, thus giving an oblong effect. The best style is no make the cases of fine linen, with simply a. hem-stitched hem ; but it is quite admis- sible to use drawn-work, embroidery, or even ruflies, across the end. THE FIT or A PILLOW-SHAH is greatly improved by putting a. triangular piece on the under side of each comer. The cornew of the pillows are thrust into these, causing the sham to fit down closely over the pillow, and more nearly resemble a. real pillow-case, than when it is simply laid over the pillow, or held by some of the patent devices. Oblong pillows are now more used than square ones, and pillow-canes are made with- out the old-fashioned tuck‘ along the sides. um..- -_-_ “/11” ' agé. “’hen they are used they are made somewhat more elaborate than pillowâ€"cases, though they most frequently consist. of a. square of linen, hemstitched, and with as much drawnâ€"work as the time and taste of the user will permit. The present styles in bed-linen are especi- ally favorable to fine material and dainty stitches, for the ruffles and laces and em- broideries which bedecked our beds a. few years ago have been to a. great extent superseded by delicate hemstitching, with sometimes a dainty bit of embroidery above it. Shams are not so much used as they have boon, but they are so convenient that it is not easy to discard them altogether; and there is a. noticeable disposition to re- gard them more favorably within the last few months than was Ihown when they first began to fall out of favour more than a. year “7L _,, Social etiquette classes for the mothers of families might. be a departure, but they certainly would be a. lasting benefit; to the rising generation. It is natural enough to feel a. certain de- gree of resentment toward those who are the cause of serious unhappiness or social disgrace, or whether it is the parent or some one else seems to make no difference ; indeed, the responsibility which attaches to that relationship but increases the dis- comfiture. as negiect on the phrt of children comes from the feeling that they have been al- IOWed to grow up in ignorance of many things which they should have known, and have experienced so much annoyance and. discomfort on this account that they feel sensitive and sore of spirit in conse- quence. IL is Ufurquestionably the fact that a gqod deal of what is complainqd 9t: _by parents It must he a. very unhappy reflection to father and mother when they come to com- prehend the fact that, their children are in disgrace because of lack of correct teaching. But. this is often the case, and, though chil- dren rarely accuse the parents 01 being the cause of such unpleasant consequences, there are many instances where young people feel it keenly. ment on bad manners when the young person in response to reproof says : “ We always did so at home ” And no parent should permit it to be possible for the child to cast any such reflection on the guardian of its tender years. It is comparatively easy, once the habit of discipline is established, to compel the observance of the rules that govern good society. If parents do not know them, they should realize the neces- sity of learning them before they attempt the training of little children. THE UGANDA BXPBDITION. House Linen. _ RivErsâ€"“H’mph! Call yourself an art- iu and can’t draw your pay !” Riversâ€"“ Haven’t you finished that free- coing job at old Spotcash’s house yet? ” Watersâ€"“ Yes, long ago , but. I can’t get my money_.” “ You have guessed it, Mine. Spangler,” he; sajd, rising to go. " It stands for Dene “ My narho !” he exclaimed. “ Surely, I have signed it often enough in my notes and lette}; to_ you P: “You Have always signed it; Harry D. Shackelford. That is not; your full name. What, does the D. stand for T” “ Can’t you answer me now, Mifiiar’ie ‘2” he pleaded. ‘ “ Mr. Shackelford.” she replied, after a. pause, “ do you think you ought to ask a young woman to be your wife who doesn’t even know your name ?” In the brilliantly lighted parlor they sat: He and She. Alone. She reclined at ease in an elegant satin- covered sofa. chair, while he sat nervously on the extreme edge of a chair of severer pattern and listened to the convulsive thump, thump with which his agitated heart: seemed to be jumping up and down on his ear drums. ‘ Thorghstten, the famous Norwegian mountain, has a. hole extending entirely through it from one side to the other. Ac- cording to a. Norwegian legend this same Mount Thorghatten was once a. hat, and belonged to one Thorg, and hence the name Thorghatten. It seems that in the mythi- cal ages ngiant and giantess fell violently in love with each othe' . They were forced to part for a time, but vowed that they would marry in the near future. Soon after, ‘ however, the fickle woman pledged her troth lto another. This angered her giant lover l to a degree unknown to modern men of ‘ smaller stature. He was seventy miles from her when the elfs brought the news, but, selecting a good arrow, he shot it in her direction. how it happened that her brether, Thorg. was standing in direct line of the arrow’s flight. It went through his hat and skull, killing him instantly, and fell harmless at the feet of ti e faithless giant- ess. She had the power of turning all ob- jects into stone, and forthwith willed that her brother’s hat become a. stone monument to the tragedy. The cruel lover was turned to stone where he set astride his horse at l Hestmando, and the giantess herself petri- l fied at Lecko. The two latter objests have disappeared, but Thorg’s hat (Thorghatten) is still the object of many curious pilgri- magcs. But it is not necessary to go down to the glacier. You may have heard of these perils. So you decide to view it from afar. You sit in the little pavilion with the superb panorama before, above, and beneath you, with the long, striated back of the serpent- like glacier and the stream gushing from its icy jaws as the central point of your land- scape. You order something to eat and a bottle of wine, and life seems to be an ex- traordinarily good thing. For all around you is summer, hot. intense, luxuriant, while above you and down in the valley there is winter, eternal winter of snow and ice. But as you sit enjoying, revelling even, blissfully unconscious of danger. You be- gin to feel an icy chill. gentle and pleasing at first, but gradually increasing until you look about for furs, and then take to flight with a bad cold, pushing surfaceward With- in you as a memento of the glaciers. Ofi‘ that huge river of ice blows a wind that is always wintry, that is felt in its full inten- sity a mile away through the heat of the hottest summer day. You may escape the wiles of the score of curio vendors urging iayou to take away a carving or something of ‘ that kind as a memento of Grindelwald’s glaciers. But the chances are that you will not escape that unpleasant or perhaps danâ€" gerous little memento in the shape of a. cold which the glacier will force upon you. You must have walked down to it, be- cause there is no other way, and you are therefore heated. You stand near the glaci- er and instantly you are cool. Perhaps you go into the ice cavern, for the wonderful colors of the hewn ice are tempting. Ice water is dripping upon you and your feet are soon soaked from the wet boards under- neath. You go out and start away, and before you have again reached the little gate near the inn you find that you have the worst cold you ever had in your life. If you are over susceptible, you will have chills and fever. The glacier is an hour’s walk or horse- back ride up a. steep and winding mountain road, narrowly shut in because of the en- croaching mountain farms on either side. If you have gone horseback they set you down at a mountain inn with a little pavil- ion overlooking the valley of the glacier, with its vistas of perfect Swiss scenery. Then one goes through a. gate and walks down a. winding road, arched with trees, crosses a stony valley, through the midst of which rushes a. clear, pure, ice cold stream, fresh from the base of the glacier which the summer sun is melting. The glacier is before you, chilling the air which was of summer heat a few yardseway. -.__.-“v-â€"w.u, u-vuvuéu Av", 114‘ deed, do not regret having gone, because the difficulties and dangers are but slightly re- paid by the rather disappointing scenic effects. And nearly all who go carry away with them a. cold which may pass away, and again, may make them lingez in bed at later laken to curse the day they ventured to Grindelwald. -__v-__ ‘_-â€"v v~-v “‘AUV-‘lv‘ no u‘lUU- But: there is one place which is responsible for more sickness than any score of large buildings. The glaciers at; Grindelwald, es- pecially the large upper glacier, is this dan- gerladen spot. Nearly every one who goes to Switzerland, and that means nearly every one who travels in Europe, goes to see the glaciers at Grindelwald, although few, in- .1__J 1 A Feature of the Glaciers at Grindelwald that the Guide Books Olmt. Europe is full of all sorts of devices for endangering and undermining the health of travellers. The big buildings, churches, palaces, and the like where the huge enclos- ure keeps the temperature of the air at the same cool level all the year round have caus- ed sickness and death without number. For travellers coming into them from the heat of the summer day without do not think that this agreeable coolness means a. sudden and unhealthful reduction of the temperature of the hody until a chill or a succession of sneezes tells them that the mischief is done. p: PINB SGBNBRY AND BAD GOLDS- Norway’s Pierced Mountains- Finishing Touch Needed- I‘oiled Again- Skyteâ€" “‘After the holidays, old boy. After the holidays. ” Blatherâ€"“ Engaged to a. widow with six children, tre you, dear fellow? I congrat â€"ghen are you to be marrigd? ” The scanty flora. of St. Paul consists of about forty varieties of mosses and lichens, and fifteen herbaceous plants. Trees plant- ed by fishermen and botanists have not succeeded. Potatoes, carrots, and other vegetables raised in St. Paul are sorry speci- mens. Cabbage, however, seems to thrive in an astonishing way. A few butterflies are found,but terrestrial shells are entire] lack- ing. Amsterdam on the other hen has a. very considerable flora and faunar‘ The French expedition of 1874 found fifty difi'ery ent herbawous plants on the island, of 1 which twenty-five species were peculiar to it. The phylz'ca arborea, a. tree which had not previously been seen except upon the volcanic island of Tristan da. Cunha, in the ‘ Atlantic, is also found on Amsterdam. 1 the passage of Venus, and profited by their sojourn to study the geological structure of the two volcanic masses. All the craters on Amsterdam are extinct. St. Paul is only about one-fifth the size of Amsterdam, and has a notable peculiarity. The waves gradu- ally broke away the rock on one side of its great crater, and finally the sea was ad- mitted through the large opening thus made. The sea entering the crater formed a tran- quil lake, with a depth of about 300 feet. The entrance from the sea is barred by two peninsulas of debris, which are constantly changing their form under the action of the waves. The highest part of the crater wall surrounding the lake is about 500 feet. This wall is pierced with holes through which steam and smoke issue. Little depressions in the wall are filled with hot water flowing through cracks in the rock and constantly kept at boiling heat, so that fishermen angle in the crater lake and cook their dinner within a few feet of the place where they catch their fish. So, while the craters on, Amsterdam are dead, those of St. Paul still ; exhibit considerable activity, though accord- 1 ing to the reports of the earliest visitors, ‘ its volcanic energy has considerably di- minished. l For a century past the islands have occas- ion-ally been visited by shipwrecked sailors and since 1841 fishermen have established themselves for weeks at a. time on the island of St. Paul. Scientific expeditions have also visited them, notably that of 1874, when French savants went to St. Paul to observe These volcanic islands are among the most remarkable in the ocean. The ernptivc rocks that form them were lifted from profound ocean depths. Five miles from St, Paul the sea. is about a mile in depth. Neither fossils animals, nor plants testify to an ancient con- nection between the islands and the lavas of the Mascarenes or Madagascar. Though only fifty miles separate the islands, they difier greatly in the companion of their rocks, and probably they were never united. The Volcanic Rocks in the Indian Ocean that France has Just Annexed. The French have just hoisted their flag over the little islands of St. Paul and Am- sterdam, in the southern part of the Indian Ocean, about mid way between Australia. and the Cape of Good Hope. N 0 one knows what the French expect to do with these uninhabited specks in mid-ocean. Amster- dam is densely covered with vegetation, but St. Paul, fifty miles to the south, is almost bare, and neither island has any inhabitants. It was on St. Paul that the British steam- ship Megers, bound for Australia, with 400 people on board, was beached in June, 1871, after springing a leak. The cast-aways erected huts and lived on the island for eleven weeks, when a steamer came Within sight of their signal and took them off. Wolves can run as fast against the wind as with it ; so can the deer, but they had a. heavy sled,five people and a. foot deep of frozen, crusted snow tocontend with. We had now run about half a. mile, a. wolf drop- ping once in a. while ; but on theycame in in- creased numbers on our flank. You wonder, perhaps, how I did not shoot. Well, I will tell you. A running wolf, while the shooter is in a. sled behind a. trotting deer, is diffi- 3 cult to hit. I had only 100 cartridges and 3 knew it would be madness to waste them. If the driver would only stop ; but that was impossible, as he and the deer were frantic with fright. At this moment one of the wolves jumped upon the deer’s flank and was promptly killed, but this kind of game could not last long, so Iprepared to dismount some of our pursuers. Straddling the dash- board, every time a. wolf jumped for the deer j I shot at it, and hit hard or killed about; seven. Just at this moment, as we were‘ making progress in our defence, our deer, who had hurt his hip by his fall, came to a. stop and the rear sled dashed into us. The collision was frightful, tumbling and spill- ing as all out, and the confusion was great as we were instantly surrounded by the maddened, beautifully-flirted wolves. Deer, driver, wolves and we travellers were seen in a. terrible melee for life. Just as I had begun to despair, all at once the wolvesâ€" that is, those that were aliveâ€"ran away as fast as they had come. We had lost two guides, one driver and three deer. I have hunted coyotes on the western plains, and Wolves in Canada and the North- West, and I have always thought that a conflict with Siberian bloodhounds would be as terrific as any, but for real work there is nothing like a pack of starving Norway wolves,says a writer in Sportsman’s Review, It is something beyond the imaginative abil- ity of an American hunter. Although we were told we might possibly meet an attack, we braved the ride, however, all being well armed in case of need. We proceeded about twenty miles without any serious incident, when, just as we were crossing a little frozen creek, some twenty yards wide, a strange sensation seemed to take hold of our deerâ€" they shivered, trembled, and the hairs on their backs stood on end. “ Vi olves !” yelled my driver, and he began to lash the deer, one of which promptly slipped on the 1 ice, fell down and tangled himself up in the i harness, thus seriously impeding our covet- ed pro ress. “ Boys,” said I, “ send every bullet ome.” Just at this moment six fierce, hungry wolves came galloping towards us, about twenty yards away. The deer regain- ed his feet and away we dashed. 1‘7 ‘ ‘IWO REMARKABLB ISLANDS- Don’t sing a. song of Sixpence, It wouldn’t; last an hour 51) ay the awful Christmas bills at now beside us tower. Prudential Considerations- Norwegian Wolves. “ N-no, I shppoae not. Did you dream lart night you were doing so wicked a. thing as flaming E” “ Yep ! An’ it would ’a’ done you good tr: see how I licked that yeller-haired, freckle- taced, good-for-nothin’ Bob Staplefoui till he couldn’t stand up, dog-on him 5" There 18 room enough for all. I! fact, space itself is full of mm ' “No, but if you have bee}; 3. 00d 1, yog grgnof- llkely to hay? such drgeasasf’Py ' “Still they ain’t wicked, are they, if you _c_an’t 1181p it ?” A Question of Moral Responsibility. \Villie (at; breakfast)â€"“ You can’t. help what you dream, can you, mamma. ?” His Motherâ€"“ No, Willie.” “ Then if vou dream you’re havin’ a. fight you _a_in’t_to blame {gr it, are you 2'” Oppenstraqssfâ€"“ My frent. dob ring is such a bargam It would pay you to haf your name changed.” Oppenstraussâ€"“ My frent, dot ring is wort five hunziret tollars and I let you baf it for aixty-fivg.” .. 1 Professor Jacques proposes to equip each , vessel with an insulated wire running from bow to stem, dipping into the ocean at cach end. In connection with this wire. one vessel is provided with means for producing strong and rapidly alternating currents of electricity, and the second vessel has its wire connected to an ordinary telephone. Electrical undulations will be radiated from the first vessel through the water in all di- rections, until, reaching the vessel many miles away, they will be heard in the tele- phone. With the telephone can be connect- ed an alarm bell, so that any sound received will automatically call the notice of the attendant. By thus equipping each vessel with means for sending out electrical un- dulations and for listening for any that might be received, each vessel would be made aware of the approach of the other, and the danger of collismn would be avoid- ed. This principle is not by any means new, and experiments in ship signaling have al- ready demonstrated its feasibility. Jonesâ€"“‘But it has the initial letter “ W ” on it.” }A New Method of Signaling Between Yes- sels. Professor W. W. Jacques, who is san guine of the early adoption of electrical signaling between vessels, has showu how simply such a system can be carried out, says the Pittsburz Dispatch. He pictures two ocean greyhounds approaching each other with a combined velocity of forty miles an hour through a heavy fog. The lights are useless, even on a dark night, for in foggy weather even an electric searchlight will not be visi- ble 3. mile away. The steamer’s whistle is useless, for the fog soon absorbs the sound. Yet although the vessels may be approach- ing each other with a force that, in case they meet, shall mean total annihilation, there is no danger if the ships are already fitted with electrical signaling apparatus. Thus provided, the ships will signal to each other when miles apart. In view of his American marriage, some of the Hon. Terence’s friends are recalling his gay larks at Oxford, where he was ever the despair of his tutors and the darling of every woman who knew him. Being a Merton man, and therefore the natural foe of Magdalen, as between the two colleges 3 ' deadly rivalry reigns, he never lost an op- portunity for annoying the opposition. ‘ One night after making a careful collection of the caps wom by Merton’s faculty, he climbed to perilous heights and hooded every gargoyle adorning Magdalen’s stately structure with a doctor’s hat. The heads of the saints be tied up in nightcaps, and every 'bonnet was set at a. rakish angle. Next morning when Oxford opened its eyes they were promptly stretched wide in horror at such daring desecration. The offence was as absurd as serious, for the learned pro- fessors and the masters used violent lan- guage, and Magdalen’s President demar- ed that nothing short of expelling the cul- prit could appease their wrath or condone for the insult oii'ered his beloved alma mater. Fortunately Blackwood's secret was well kept, and he laughed in his sleeve at the enemy’s discomfiture. Possibly his best remembered prank was on the occasion of a splendid garden party tendered by Merton to some of Oxford’s distinguished visitors. Now, as every tourist remembers Magdalen possesses a beautiful park full of valuable deer, and to the heart of the Merton man it is a constant reproach that no antlered herd nips the grass of his col- lege enclosure. F or once Blackwood de- termined to make good this deficiency. The day before the function, therefore, he went through the country, gathered togeth- er as many donkeys as he‘could find, and then proceeded to beg, borrow, and buy every pair of deer horns he could lay his hands upon. The consequence was that the afternoon of the tea a drove of braying asses was turned loose on the lawn, an upon the wretched brow of each noisy jack and jenny tossed a pair of ill-fitting ant- lers. The sight was inexpressibly funny. The joke was a. great success and Terence the hero of the hour. Those who know the young aristocrat best assert that Miss Davis is in luck, so long as she desiresa title, to be able to find so clever and attrac- tive a man to accompany it. an American “£11655. For personal charm, the Hon. Terence Blackwood, the fiance of Miss Flora Davis, is far and away the most agreeable English man ever captured by an American beauty. He is his father’s own son, though nnluckily ”not his heir, and, as every one knows, the r Marquise of Dufl'erin is quite irresistibly at- tractive. A gay, warm-hearted, brilliant Irishman. Dufl'erin’s manner and talk have won him even more honors than his shrewd diplomatic intellect. It is his practice when setting out to wheedle a Cabinet Min- ister or entangle a. foreign antagonist to tip his witty tongue with a touch of blame; and brogue that has never yet failed to bring down the game. He is tremendously popular both at home and abroad, and his every step in life has been upward. Black- wood is a. duplicate of the delightful Mar- quis, and as different as possible from his elder brother, the titular Earl of Ava, who, thoroughly respectable and hopelessly dull, will in course of time time succeed to the title. About Lord Dulerln’s Sou. Who is to Wed A Bargain Beyond Doubt- M383 DAVIS’S BBTBOTHEDJ TBLEPBONBS AT SEA- ”Jan Kt. 7'}