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Habits rrmed at. an he train of wictims of :ompanions. by many to Laion to the tigated evil, area: are in ystem is es- . and a do- I especially 5 state has a year 3nd “3:. prison», 31's, when it mes watches ring a sour we disposi- hat reflect, I. also upon mate enough acts imply Lreat their r, entailed ates, they effects of a. in silence; how we are >w soon we and all the :xpected to on wearing 'efrain from with the (1 save the rs, wreck a. nmed of on e best way rill be along r it. calcommit- Lh which a and the chil Ite board 3e child that 'erage $1.25 Id clothing, Its selected >83 that the earning, of hire put in ,t. the latter ith a. little [I both be ion of the health is a. st there is .y, but thé vicious, so . The fact ace to the and a. bane of mental {es of Phila- without an mch worse a human is .1 creation. a society to :t. the overâ€" to indflge n to drink lit, honest. sch, in its final, but 110 drinks 'umiéation The walls whatever »y be en- 3 physical the atten- :ow'er they pk out for 1 child will ’3 to school :er. of health Ohfldreno materials by crime, lat uipg over Thopg}: the The men now stopI their work to hear Symm‘onds talking. The eyes show a whit- ish gleam when he recalls the “ web. ” Dates and places have gone, but he saw the bul- lets flying, and he laughs to think what. a time he had then when, young and well fed, he had no snore serious care than the ehizizxg 0: General Sherman? 219033, N The white showsftendcr and soft as the skin of a little child. The islands are mere specks ; the continent on the forearm is be- ing siited, silted away. The black first be- comes brown ; the brown is not certain of its status ;;it shrinks and recedes before the conquering white. And so with the feet and hands and breast. The Caucasian is dogmating the Ethiopiap. _ . _ . “ Oh, no,” says Mr. McMillan, the super- intendent, “ there is no deception here. Shgw us your gun Symngondsf -. .1 Symmondu turned a look of silent rebuke from those chocolate eyes, upon the man with the full flavored accent. 3’ “ Arrah, sor, don‘t believe him, 333’8 Symmon‘a’s right hand neighbor, “ Shure it’s schamin’ he is. He’s painted that’s what’s the matter wid him.” The frost came and made iron of the soft. streets, and Symmonds was g‘aad to wend his way to the House of Refuge, where he may be seen, in the midsb of a large com- pany, making those bundles of kindling wood which the housekeeper buys from the grocer at the rate of one cent a. bundle. Al A...___L , __ J-_)L L_I:-_A Inc-M ” :3an This is always the way. Compel the great. to jostle with the ordinary, and there is no man to lift. the hat of reverence. Let the abnormal be seen and felt at close quarters, and who 13 so verdant as to admit the miraculous ? Symmonds was next seen on the street wielding the shovel and pickaxe for the consideration of ninaty cents a. day. It was a painful descent. Familiarity soon took the edge off the phenomenon. The men who would have gazed upon him awe- struck on the platform, called him the “ Missing Link” with easy frankness, and exchanged salutations with bun with the utmost ncnchalance. He has been in New Yerk, Chicago, Bos- ton, and all the great centres, and the pub- lic flocked to see him. The integrity of human nature made him happy; he had every luxury that a black and white man could desire on $25 a week. In an evil hour he came to Montreal, under the management of a. wretch, who, finding the dimes rather hard to collect, left him on the street without a cent. Symmonds married, became the father of three children: his wife died ; the chil' dren grew up; then the circus man came along, and Symmonds became a pubhc character. But the white spots began to appear, and pushed the black skin away ;and the white Spread, and the black shrank back abashed. The white made traceries here and there; and broke up the black into islands and continents, until at last it overwhelmed the neck and chin, and lapped up (so to my). against the edge of the wide nostril. The nose was a prominence not easily con- quered. the dominance of the abnormal. Symmonds thinks he will be a white manl yet. He knows now that nature will not hurry about it. It took nature eight years to reach the nose. But he sees himself in ultimate vision a Caucasian. He is resign- ed to the metamorphosis. “ Doctaw,” he says, “I done lost de pigâ€" wha’s ’is nameâ€"pigment out on de color, an’ dat I am agwine to be all white.” Sixty years have whitened the hair of Richard Symmondsf’ but the kink is there still. It is thick, white and wooly, and it crowns a face which, white below and black above, made its owner a comfortable living till villainy entered in, when charity had to be appealed to. I Symmonds was born a slave away down in Louisville- Kentuckv. “Than the war It stands out as the strenuous _ sentinel oi the upper face, guarding it from ] {Spaniards and line]: Trouble Homing snowmen can nun. tum mat was the only endorsation of a name which nature was the first to give him. And when the snow is gone, and the robins whistle in the newly budding trees Symmonds will face the world again, smil- ing at the trick of nature, which delights, now and then, to bewilder the ethnologists. â€"â€"wâ€"-â€"â€"Iâ€" MOROCCO AND GIBRALTAR. Their Own in Northern Africa. The Spaniards have had much trouble in holding their own in Morocco, =says the New York Herald, and it is said that the government at Madrid would not be un- willing to exchange Melilla for Gibraltar. The possession of Gibraltar again is the dream of the Spaniard. All sorts of plans and compromises have been projected to bring about a realization of this dream, but so far Without avail. W'hen in 1887 Gibraltar was talked about once more, the Moscow Gazette, in October of that year, demanded a neutrality agreement. That paper said it believed that if all the pow- ers interested should insist on such an agreement England would yield. The slaves were freed, the war ended; Symmonds returned to his master’s estate, content to be called slave again. The mes- ter was gone, the slaves had dispersed; where there had been prosgerity, there was now desolation. He marched with Sherman to the sea; blacked his boots reguiarly, and he had many a. word and smile from the great. com- mander. “Dunno names 0’ places, but. saw de bul- lets fly all de time. See, dere is a. woun’ in 1_ny right._ha_nd.r”_ He blacked the boots of General Sherman, think of that ; he rode, if not. by his side, for five hundred mounted men came between them, at least behind him : be polished his sabre, and he saw the fighting for five years. “012,1 ’member dé'wah. I wager young fool den. Had good massa,but land sakes was silly den, and done run away. J ined Gen- eral Shermanâ€"you hear 0’ Shermanâ€"an”e tuck me fo’ his servan’.” Sixty years “have whitened the hair of Richard Symmondsf but the kink is there still. It is thick, white and wooly, and it crowns a. face which, white below and black above, made its owner a. comfortable living till villainy entered in. when charity had to_be appealed to. I _-.__-, â€"__, -~V.J, .uv -I'Ivv Symmonds is not. surprise'd now: He is P831: that. But at first. he was a. frxglgbened man. For Symmonds started out mph 1);- ing perfectly blackâ€"a. color to whlch e had every natural right, his parents being full-blooded Africans. V... â€"..qâ€" Gui-Irv” v. vuv Ila-v - Nature is always in earnest. Slle has 3 subtle sense of humor. Sometlmes the humor is lambent; more often it is edged with a. biting satire. But when the humor is merely playful, she makes the black man white. She is making Richard SyntmwndSI white at her leisure. N o hurry at all ; the hands first, then the feet and less. the breast, and2 lastly, the face._ 11. L. A Very Strange Freak of Nature. Curious Case at a Mantra! Institution. Can the leopard change his spots or the Ethiopian, his skin? Nature 10?“ .the She is Wider esoteric in all her processes. _ than the circumference of the Lick pela- scope. She is more minute than the micro- BOOpe. She never burns to utter her secrets. :I’he average man with a secret swells “7,1311 importance. It Oppresses him till the telling covers him with the cheap glory thh 13 his first custodian. “ Find me,” nature says quietly. And that is her language to {Darwin or a Lyell, as it. is to the Peter Simple who, ulhng wild flowers In the woods, little greams than if he knew the" meaning he would know all the secret of 1 the universe. , 7 j Nature evolves a rudimentary "gan’ and leaves it. there for the Willem”. of the morphologist. Indifferent to crmcxsm, She makes a long neck to accommoqate the palate at the end of the ' neck whlcb loves the_high leaves of the tree. my, 1.... _ FROM BLEUK T0 WHITE ,and f the 1, she “A colored Baptist, preacher at Lincoln; _Neb., married at the age of 99. o His Beascm- . Clara. (fishing for a compliment) : “ This as your fourth dance with me. Why don’t you dance wgflisgme of the other girls ‘2” “L-_I:_ , . . '--- v. “v ‘- ' ' Charlie : “ WEE, 'the 'fact Islâ€"Idfrrc; '80 badly I hate to ask them.” l l ‘ 011 the other “hand, it is now becoming .a 'question in England whether Gibraltar :3 1 after all so useful to it. Arnold Forster does not believe that it is of any further use to Great Britain. George Rendel, an em:- nent naval expert, who, about ten years ago, was a. civil lord of the admiralty, was em- phatic that Gibraltar was useless. He said it offered little or no security for a disabled or defeated fleet, and he pointed out that the British ships could be deatroyed at their exposed anchorage by a long-range fire, which could be with difficulty combated by the guns of the fortress. Mr. Rendel added that no arsenal or navy yard would be reckoned secure that was not well out of range of the modern naval ordnance, and he contrasted Malta, Gibraltar, and Plymouth m that respect with Bizerta and Spezzia, very llttle to the advantage of the former ports And when the snow is gone, and the robins whistle in the newly budding trees Symmonds will face the world again, smil- ing at the trick of nature, which delights, now and then, to bewilder the ethnologiste. Symmonds is a freak. That is what the showmen call him. And that. was the only endorsation of a. name which nature was the firs_t t9 giye him. ‘ no... way, mugus gummy, and. says, “ .Uun- no, but ’spect dat dat pig-pig-pigment has done gone out’r my natural color.” He is not vexed at all. No ; but he thinks nature is very deep. He ccnfesses his inability to fathom her. She does not mean him ill, he thinks, but to break him up into islands, and continents, and to find those islands slowly receding and disappearing, while he is sleeping, while he is working,â€"this is a. puzzle which he frankly admits is beyond him. There is no doubt that nature is laughing. She has her tongue in her cheek. For,when you recover from the first shock of the face, there is a grotesque humor in the present- ment. “Many years have passed since the Span iards openly expressed their intention about the Rock of Gibraltar and Morocco The idea was to get the English out of Gib- raltar, and then, possessing a. hold on both sides of the straits, to accomplish the con- quest and colonization of Morocco. Span- iards of all classes are indifferent to Euro- pean olitics, and their old hate of France and apoleon has_slowly flied out, but if one pronounce beiore them the words “Gibraltar” and “Morocco” one will at once notice the eager and ambitious desire to plant the flag of Castile on the Penon and in the territory of their old foes, the Moors of Africa. Thirteen years ago there was a. great burst of enthusiasm in Spain over this subject. At that time there were out- rages on the part of the natives against foreigners. There was a diplomatic confer- ence in Madrid to settle many vexed ques. tions afiecting all nations. That conference proved that Senor Canovas, the Spanish prime minister, intended to act in concert with Great Britain and not with France and Italy, and as a. result the opposition to his government aimed at nothing less than the taking possession by any means of Gibraltar. not only offensive to Spanish yride, bnt materially affects Spanish interests. G11}- ralmr is a free port, and the consequence 18 that smugglers and dealers in contrnband 850021 have used is as 3 kinds of funnel through which to pour into Spain tobacco and other heavily taxed articles without Paymezlt of duty. II_ A. .. Natfi're is having her little joke. Sym- monds himself suspects that she is playing with him. He looks at his arm in a. whim- sical way, laughs quietly, and says, “ Dun- ‘L *I - ' - ' ‘ .. ._L LANA “Write? Dunno nuflin ’bout writing or reading. Mas’r never ’low de slaves to read or write. Know nothin’ ’bont chil’ren‘.” Symmonds sits with great patience while the artist draws his features. The miracle in his face must be seen at first-hand. The two colors hava’so possessed themselves of the whole territory, that the efl'ect, marked for the first time, is startling in the ex- :treme. The white neck, chin and mouth, ‘the black nose, cheeks and forehead, sug- gest an entity on the!“ border-land of two kingdoms. To meet that face suddenly, detached by darkness from the human body, would be an immense shock. One would vainly ask, “ In what order of eVOlution am I to place this phenomenon?” For Symmond’s full face is an organism that gives aptness to the rough christening of the menâ€"“The missing link,” Gen. Campos, who recently had a narrow escape from the bomb of an anarchist, was among the strongest supporters of the rean- nexation policy. England strengthened the fortifications of Gibraltar. Spaniards declared that Spain must make the straits a very Dardanelles, bristling with Spanish fortifications. It was demand ed that both shores of the straits of Gibraltar and the entrance of the Mediterranean should be In future placed under the guard of Spain, so that only those who were her friends could have access to the great Mediterran- ean route toward the east. It is no new thing for the Spaniards to talk of ofl'ering to England some colony on the coast of Morocco in exchange for Gib- raltar. In November, 1881, Senator Guelly Ran“, a representative of the Havana uni- versity, made such a. proposition. to his government. Gibraltar is really a. part of “he Spainis‘n dominions. Its occupaitiozi is Did he ever hear from, did he ever so, his children 2 write The occupations of the female prisoners in Strangeways Gaol include oaknm-picking and making surplices for prison chaplains. Male prisoners are put on the treadmill to grind flour for making the prison bread. It is to be hoped they enjoy the truth of the old adage that bread that is earned is sweeter than beef that is stolen. The cheetah, or hunting leopard, 3-3; feet high, is in India. considered invaluable in the chase. Hooded as hawks were of old, it is taken out to deer hunts. When a. deer or other animal is in sight, the hood is re- moved, and attention is directed to the victim. The cheetah dodges through the jungle, springs upon his quarry, and throttles him to death. Of 1,000 men married in 1891 in England and \Vales (according to the report of the Registrar-General), 886 were bachelors and 114 were widowera ; while of 1,000 women who marl-led, 919 were spinsters and 81 were widows. The proportions of bachelors and spinsters' were the big thee recorded. The proportions of widowera and widows have been declining for many yearn. Show an average cockney some phonetic- ally rendered cockneyisms on paper, and he will tell you that; no one speaks like that, but the exact form of disclaimer will probably be: “Nowbody down’t speak hhk that.” For preserving wire ropes carried under the earth’s surface, a. mixture of thirty-five parts of slaked lime and from fifty to sixty parts of tar 15 recommended. The compound is boifed and applied to the article hob. A dogs’ tailor flourishes in lfaris. The tailor is a. woman, and in her reception rooms Prince Bow-wow has rugs, water bowls, and biscuit jars to refresh him dur- ing the trying-on process. Here are the daintiest water-coior pattern books to choose from, and anything from scalskin to chamois is provided. Enthusiastic Russians are to give the Parisians a. “ Bell of Peace” in acknowledg- ment of the welcome accorded their sca- men. It is to be a monster, but there is no tower in Paris strong enough to support a bell of the weight proposed. Granite is the lowest rock in the earth’s crust; ; it; is the bed rock of the world. It shows no evidence of animal or vegetable life. It is from two to ten times as thick as the united thickness of all other rocks. It is the parent rock from which all other rocks have been directly or indirectly de- rived. It is a. very great mistake to mend gloves with silk, as the silk will cut out the kid much sooner than cotton of equal fineness. Kid gloves are always sewn at the manu- factory with cottcn thread. Queen Christina. of Spain rises every morning at half-past five and goes out- for a. wal k. The German Emperor gets up at six, Francis J oecph of Austria. before five and the Czarâ€"who probably sleeps badly-â€" generally as early as three mm. Neuralgic pains may often be relieved instantly by the following simple method. Heat a. flat-iron, put a. double fold of flannel on the painful part, then move the iron to and fro on the flannel. The pain will cease almost immediately. Some of the native women of Australia. have a. queer idea. of beauty. They cut themselves with shells, keep the wounds open for a. long time, and when they heal huge scars are the result. These scars are deemed highly ornamental. Cats are being extensively used in New Zealand for the destruction of rabbits. The owners of one estate are so pleased with the efl‘ieacy of the new “ cure,” that they have just given an order for 500 cats. An Amsterdam lapidary has a machine which can pierce a. hole as small as one one-thousandth of an inch in diameter. The holes are made in diamonds, sapphires, and rubies. The island where Robinson Crusoe was monarch of all be surveyed is now inhabit- ed by about sixty people, who attend the herds of cattle that graze there. Sewing machines driven by electric motors have been fitted up in a. large cos- tume establishments in Paris. The cur- rent is obtained from the streec mains. Formerly the Lord Mayor rode in his State procession from the Guildhall on horseback. The practice was discontinued in the reign of Queen Am: e. The diamond, though hard, is one of the most brittle stones. A fallon a. wooden floor will sometimes crack and ruin a. fine specimen. A powerful telescope may reveal as many as 43,000,000 stars, of a. number of which the light takes 2,700 years to traverse the intervening space. A novel insurance £30 p started in France, with the object of sup- plying girls with dowries when they marry. The remains of a race of Liliputians, be. lieved to be the ancestors of the Mexican. Aztecs, were unearthed in east Tennes- see. Paris has an insurance company that re- fuses to issue policles on the lives of any who use hair dyes. Electrie ambulances are to be used in St. Louis. They Will run when possible, on the line of the street railways. Ahen one: farm at C has, her owner claims, lai: of two days. unluuuug uenns are recoverable by 195w in France, Spain, Venezuela, and some- tlmes m Germany. ' Several Shanghai chic‘ a toes are the boast of Gem Perrydalc. On. In Norway persons who have vaccinated are not allowed to vo election. In the far west a girl who w railroad restaurant is known as a shooter.” India has 131,600 lepers. A French surgeon has devised an unifi- cial larynx. Very full cheeks in powers. The black di nou’ be pafiahe Learning the Hawaiian cial fed in Washington. A woman of Spring Hill, Mo., has baked a. loaf of bread from yeast, thirty years old. dicate great digestive amend is so hard that it can language is a. 80- Gambling debts are FACTS IN Langnal chic’wns with fifteen boast of Gem-ge H. Ball, of FEW WORDS. at. (figmwell, Conn. , to vote at any glrl who works in a. Wht} have not Been ' - v“: 11 cu, UVuu- , d five eggs inside “ biscuit Their Difi‘erencas King Oscar‘s Dilemma. A London special says :â€"-'1‘he Times to- day contains one of its series of articles on the situation in Sweden and Norway. the last of which appeared on Nov. 14: It says that ii'the coming elections in Norway re- sult in a large and militant Radical major- ity,the Conservative ministry will be bound to retire. The king will find himself face to face with the necessity of accepting the Radical interpretation of the Act of Union, thereby surrendering the unity of foreign policy, upon Which the alliance of the two kingdoms consists, or of enforcing the Swedish reading of the act, against the manifest determination of the Norwegian people. Good shorthand writers are scarce in France. The post of shorthand writer in the Chamber of Deputies is vacant.. The work is exceedingly laborious, and within the past few years four stenographers have become insane, two have lost their eyesight and many were knocked up through over- work or “writer’s cramp.” Some of the speakers in the Chamber are so rapid in their utterances as to he the despair of the shorthand writers. A dozen stenographers succeed one another every two minutes at the foot of the orators’ tribune. Sweden, it appears, is prepared to use force. The Swedes, who were at first apa- thetic, have been roused to such a pitch of exasperation that it will take little to goad them to action. The king is confident of the support of the Swedes, and he will not surrender the Norwegian crown nor sacri- fice the union, which he believes to be in- dis ensable to the safety of both Sweden an Norway. .The first shot fired by Swed« en will rally the Norwegian Radicals and Conservatives shoulder to shoulder in de- fence of their common nationality. De- spite the superiority of her military re- sources, Sweden would find it a hard task to reduce N erway to subjection, and harder still to keep her in subjection. To hear eockney we must go to the streets or mix with the careless pleasure- bent masses on a bank holiday. 'And we must listen heedfully, for peculiarities in people with Whom one is more or less con- stantly in contact are apt to remain un- noticed. When “ Erry J owns” talks of his unmarried sister‘as Jemima Wren one may be forgiven if it dawn but slowly that the lady’s name is Jemima Jones and that Wren stands for Ann. A country cousin will return from a. ramble in London streets full of astonishment and bubbling over with choice specimens of cockney vernacular, whereflom he derives innocent and lasting amusement. The Sultan of Turkey is the most extrav- agant housekeeper in the world. Accord- ing to a. recent estimate his domestic bud- get runs thus :-â€"Repairs, new furniture, mats, beds, etc., £500,000; toilet requis- ites, including rouge and enamel tor the ladies of the harem, and jewelry, £2,000,- 030; extra extravagances, £2,600,000; clothes and furniture for the Sultan per- sonally, £400,000; douceurs and wages, £800,0J0; gold and silver plate, £500,000; maintenance of five carriages and horses, £100,003â€"a. total of £7,000,000. If the sentiment of the Swedes compels the king to unsheath the sword, the Euro- pean powers, who are the sponsors of the union, ought to intervene, armed with a European mandate, as in 1314. Sweden might act within limits. leading to an ar- rangement for the avoidance of a war crisis. Opinion in Norway is, in the meantime, raised on only two issues-«union and monarchy or separation and a repub- lic. But among the contingencies acute observers detect a third courseâ€"the cre- ation of a. throne in Norway, with Prince Waldemar, youngest son of the King of Denmark, as king. A novel means of collecting subscriptions for charities has been introduced in Mel- bourne. During the performance at The Mountebanks at the Princess’s Theatre, a topical verse waivintroduced into the song, “Put a. Penny in the Slot,” asking the aud- ience for pence towards the funds of the Woman’s Hospital. The appeal met with a. most satisfactory response, the audience showering coins on the stage,a.nd altogether £27 135. 5d. was collected by this means during the week’s run of The Mount-chanks. One of the sights of China. is the antique bridge of Suen-tchen-fow, 2,500 feet long, and 20 feet wide. It has on each side 52 piers, upon which huge stones are laid,some of thenr20 feet long. Many thousand tons of stone must have been used in the erection of this wonderful bridge, which is regarded by engineers who have séen it as indicating constructive talent as wonderful as that which raised the Egyptian Pyramids. The German and Austrian Alpine Society has ereCted 419 taverns on the mountains, where students can board at reduced rates. A loaf made frqm2 lb. of limit will weigh 2 lb. 8%; oz. when taken from the oven. I a little alum or salt or rice meal be added to the flour the loaf will weigh a couple of ounces or so more. The Orientals have a simple method of cooling Water. They fill a. porous earthen- ware jar, and by, the continual evaporation on the surface the water is soon cooled. Sometimes a. heavy cloth is wrapped round the jar and kept continually wet. On the hottest day water may be cooled in this way in a few hours’ time without the use of ice. Somehow sitting up close to people you , . don t 11kg very well never makes you any warmer. ‘ With the cockneyest such a word as “much” becomes “ metch”â€""’0w match is it?” Here-is a. sentence noted at the time in a. crush of people coming away from ‘a show where the Sports had been signaled by gun firing. Mother : “ \Vozh yer frahtened even ’e fahd the gen '2” Child ': “ Now, ah lahked it.” Since November 1, 1,746 carloads of ex hibits have been shipped from the Fair. It is estimated than 800 carloads have been hauledfrom the grounds in wagons to Engle- wood and adjacent points for shipment. Originally, 7,897 est-loads were received, leaving a_ balance of 5,351 car-loads. The average 18 50 earloads a. day, and thee months more will be required to clear the buildings of all the exhibits. The shipment figure? show that 10 per cent). of the foreign exhibits have been taken away. N 0W.“ END SWEDEN. Approaching 9. Crisis- Again, when he was treating a. matter of public anxiety with his usual inditierenco and jollity,the Duke of Newcastle expressed some astonishment at his calmness. At one time, when Lord North we! speaking in the House, he was interrupt- ed by the barking of a. dog, which had crept in unobserved. ‘i Mr. Speaker,” said he, archly, “I am interrupted by a. new member 1” “ Faith, my lord duke,” was the answer. “ if fretting would make me thin, I would be as sorry as your grace ; but since it will not have that etfect, I bear it as well as I can. Two clergymen totally difl'erent in char- acter were yet firm friends. One was prim and precise, especially careful of his linen, quiet. in speech and manner ; the other careless as to dress, and a. regular John Bull in ways and words. The latter had formed the habit of taking snuff, much to the digsust of his friend, who abhorred all such practices. One day at; a. ministers’ meeting, Mr. Blank pulled out his snuff-box, tapped it in the orthodox fashion, and took a hearty pinch. Mr. Arnold, thinking to rebuke him, said, in his mildest tones : The premier often indulged in real or seeming slumber, and one day an opponent stopped in the midst of an invective to ex- claim, “Even now, in the midst of these perile, the noble lord is asleep Pf _ “Irwish I were l” rejoinea the sleeper. fervently. “ He took the news as he Would have taken a. cannon ball in his breast,” said the Secretary of State. “ He opened his arms, exclaiming wildly as he paced up and down the room, ‘0 God, it is all over!’ The 6 words he repeated many tunes in the great- est agitation and distress.” “ D'on’b khow,” was the reply; “per. haps about as much as it: does you for starch.” While the Revolution was in progress Lord North, at a city banquet, referred to a recent victory over “the rebels,” where- upon Fox and Barre, who were present, took him to task for applying suokzlanguae'e to “our fellow-subjects in America.” "Well, then, to please you,” paid North. with his inimitable air of raillery, “I will call them ‘the gentlemen in opposition on the other side of the water.’ ” “ Barre will -give us our naval history from the beginning, not. forgetting Sir Francis Drake and the Armada. Let me sleep on, and wake me when we come to our own time.” me_z_a. ceptury too soon!‘ That he V533 not always coo], however, is indicated by his manner of receiving the intel_l_igence 9f t_he capitulatipn at Y9§k§own An illiterate yOung man once got a friend to write a letter for him to his sweetheart. The letter was rather prosaic for a. love- letter, and he felt that an apology was due to his sweetheart for its lack of tender nothings. It was a_.s follofzs. - “ PlEase excuse the mildness of this here letter, as the chap won’s ’rinin’ it is 3. mar- ried man, and he says he carn’a ’bide any soft, soapinge ; it Mine gives him the spa:- zums.” Ab anbther time he said to a friend at the begiig‘uinlg of grquech on the BritighA {lavy : At length the friend roused him, and North exclaimed: “ Where are we now?” “At the battle of La Rogue, my lord.” “ Oh, my dear frieqd, you have waked “Mr. Blahk, how much do you think it costsfiyox} a: year for snufi: 2” Lord North, who was premier of England at the time of the-American revolutionnns a man of unfailing good-humor and a droll turn of expression. In “piping times of peace,” says one, in writing of 15m, ”50 would have made an ideal minister, but in such a crisis as the American War he had not. the courage to withstand ,the wrong- hesdedness of George III.” When attack- ed, he was usually a model of calmness ;but if he did reply to his antagonist, it was with unfailing good humor. One day 3. mm- ber of Parliament spoke of him as “that thin_g_ica.lled a. minister.” “Well, to be sure,” said Lord North afterward, patting his ample sides, “I am an unwieldy thing, and therefore the hon- orable member. in calling me ‘a. thinc,’ said what was true, and I cannot be angry with him. But when he added ‘that thing called a. minister,’ he referred to the thing which he himself most Wished to be, and therefore I tgok the remark as a compliment." ‘ - - ___r..__. _â€" v- 80 amiable was the premier in private life that one servanb, a drunken, stupid groom, was always distinguished b5; the children as “ the man that put; papa in a passion.” He was apparently the cnly pefspn who had succeeded in doing so. Wellington and the Inventor. The invention of a bullet-proof uniform by a. W estphalian tailor recallsan anecdote 01' the great; DukeT of “W qllipgton. A stanger gained admitâ€"Lance to the War Office one busy morning and urged the Duke to introduce into the army 8 bullet-proof jacket which he had invented. He produced a. specimen. (1 0.3”-.. ......u-;” Md}! 44".. T‘nbn T73-.. Whe; the Duke looked up from his writing presently, the inventor had dis- appeared. .Physician (to dying editor) : “ My poor frlend, I cannot conceal the truth from you any longer. You have only half-an-hon: to live. ” Editor (feebly) : “ Doctor, will you please tell the foreman, when I am gone, to place my obituary on the front page, top of column, next to pure reading matter? I wonder if I am extravagant in indulging myself in that luxury for once in my life 2 ” “ Bullet» -proot. ' said the Duke. Very gogg. Put int on, will you ‘i ” 1x1, A, °,_ , The man did 50. The Duke rang the bell: an officer appeared. V “ Tell Captain 30- and- So to send two or his men here; and let them load with ball- cairflge." _ u . u u c In Spain, Greece, Hungary,Portugal,and' Switzerland 3 girl is considered of mar. riageable as soon as she has celebrated her twelfth birthday. In two years 1891-93 the paper and in phe public departments of the Government amounted to 758,680 reams, with a gun; weight of 7,870 wns. He’d Had Enough of Them- Evenly Matched . LORD NORTH. A Dying Request-