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It tons Rtmcnuw < f lato h ivecha«ge>--• A 1 •* t we saw no « aut, < ^ Some littl - funny scrubs of f MltS S Id pictu es and w re m rry; ' " Th mm vr re fall of yarns an i Jokes,,: ' Th ; w. men baref ot, ve y. . ,j; ' Old Scotland? Tea, all in onr po>*ttr/ We old there to be thorough: • •<•.*•• We 8 oppo In Glawfow one whole JKW, T^en#trright to "EtM'ihuronoh. *" ; • , At Abbowford we made a stay > pf half an hour precisely > , y , ^, srnlns all alone the wajP.f. few ruined very xiioe)^)i» t»4S«v r We did two mountains in •; And left, the othe s undone. J;-. •••.,; Then to k the " » hinu Scotchman" wMn, . And carao by nigUt. to London. . X4BK tunnel* « nowhere on the »ta<ie s <und and darkness de pnt..-r ^ • No: Knalish seenerv i« not fine; , /'V- ' llevyod from a Pullman sieeper. _.((?•* ry Oh;'1>at1«! Paris! Pariirrtfc • • •»« No wonder, dear, that yon^O : fl . far int-o the ecstasies < •, :c;:v->:'• jAhout hat Victor Hwro! • He Paints the city, high and low, 1.' ; • ' ' With faithful pen and ready ' ^ ' (I think, my dear. I ouaht to kno#-*»> "We drove there two hours steady}. Throueh Switzerland bv train. Y^' J ; BiUoyedlt.'fn a measure; t But- adll the monutains are too hign To see with any pleasure. „ Their toi>^-- they made my neck quite stiff Just stretch 'ngr up to view them; And folks are \ery foolish if Tbey clamber clear up to them I ptw 9ify.: i: i f Bome, Venice. Naple*. and tho lihlM? j We did them-^do not doubt it; This (tuide-book here is very fine-- . Twill toll you all about it. *** We've saved np A«ia till next yew, If busine-« tret* unravelled. fj What! (rninicV Come again; and, OWT, I will not seem *o traveled. •-Harper's Magazine. t ^ f----»«=• 1 ^ • GHASTLY MVSTERT. Several years ago it fell to my lot to on the march with a subaltern of my iment iu Ireland. I was taking a let <chment into a remote part of the % ' %onntint, where I believe some distiwb- 'k-\Ijknoes were apwehended. and we liad r ^fceen started off at pretty short noQ^. . have even now a lively recollection of |£ long railway journey, the dingy sta- .^Itionfi we passed, the tedious stoppages, f*|>ceision*l gashes of rain against the .^ffVindows, and our linal exit fropi the t^^braiB in a dark, draughty shed with a Jsioppj platform. From here tve had a ^t>od lonp march to our halting-place, *N|plrf»iipfh a Pad-colored waste, past hill- tides of black Iwg, hardly a fence worth ^Jsalling one to be seen, now and tlien a i(Jtotnble-dom» hovel by the roadside, and taff and on the rain ]>elting down in the ; Jort of searching cold show ers one get» *fn blea'< po-rta of Ireland in the autumn ; *^aine. The towft where we were to stay lie night was no exception to the gen­ eral dinginessl Alter setting the men lown into their billets, we "prospected" •r=7,.«^phe princxral inn in the place, got a V ^gijonple of very middling bedrooms, and ~ . t^knade up our minds to make the b st of t»!«> situation. We had divested our- "^'ibelveB of onr wet uniforms, enteral our sitting-room with' its welcome jpeat piled fire, examined some hideous «' ^mered prints hnng round the walls-- „ i 'tftmong them I remember one, of St. Ye- ; ?^)nica diaplayinsr a large handkerchief %rith the Savior's face ujipn it--and were ^j&Jwsy planning what to associate with •'"^rhiskr and the jacketed potato, when a J*: ^oie was brought in aftd handed to me, r'/filtfi&h a message that soiue one was wait- 4 * ing for an answer. ^Was addressed to officer <?ominanding detachment, . Regiment ;" but one saw at a glance |t was not an official communication-- ,̂.||ihe envelope being a dainty white one, ^fAnd the handwriting almost unmistaka- > » l»ly that of a lady. It turned out to be " very courteous invitation from a Mr. and Mrs. M., of Innishderry Hall (we it), who, having heard that "0Otne tror>pK were passing through ' Jioynetown to-day, hoped for the pleaa- -'mire of the officers' company at dinner j, that evening. This was really a timely *' jje well as p hospitable offer, so A., my ^•libaltern, and T <ftt once agreed to ao-. 3sj|sept it. i' • ..." Fortonately, when evening came :^§tmnd, and the ricketf-looking car that Was to jolt us to our entertainers clat- ° ̂ terwl up to the inn door, the weather ** *liad cleared a little. Well do I remem- Jjer tlie drive; the cold, keen air; a "Ibale half-m&tm lighting up the somber , ^Iftiidsc^jMs <lark islands of bog alter- * tlr.ting with pools ol shimmering water; '..^liili-slopes near, but mysterious. As "nr as I can rflpicnber, We entered the ^ouuds of Iinishderry Hall about a and a half from the town. Al- v the country had begun to wear a tier asrect; patches of wool ap- red; and, after passing Che lodge- 6, we began tp de^ccml a valley-- oken, rocky ground, with clumps' of ipruco and larch on either side--till, ddenly emerging from this, the drive Jgwept roand a corner, and we were in view of the<pea. A few minutes more, • and we were looking down over a charm­ ing little bay shut in by cliffs, with a boat Irgh and dry upon the beach; and, 'from this point till we sighted the lights • of the house, oopse, park and heather r intermit)gi<*L one with the other to our left, while on the right great white lines ' of surf qnivered and broke in the moon­ light. It was a beautiful scene a^ it present- •'•M,. ed itself to ns in the obscurity of the <1 t', night-time. Possibly by day some of its enchantment might have been miss- , but we did not see it in diylight. Such as it was, it probably impressed me and stamped itself in my memory . * inore on account of the subsequent in­ cidents which ensued than aavthing else. ^ - The lionse, as 'we drew up to it, •••! a large and handsome one. It had a great many windows, a steep- ' , pitched roof and was partly ivy-clad. ^•wo l°n8 ranges of out-bnildings wero attached to it, one at either end; and The fine entrance-hall--I can recall it now--warmed by an ample stove and well lighted up, with a few dressed skins lyiiig about, aud a huge e'»on cabinet over against the door, made a Cheery contrast to the outside car and 'Surroundings we had just left. Round the walls were grouped a splendid pair !of stag's horns, a fox's head and brudi, a stuffed seal and other trophies of a ^porting life; and a black buffalo's ma-sive frontlet. Burmounting a sheaf of assegais, suggested at once, what we afterward learned to b<» the case, that our host had l>eeu in South Africa, "I wonder what sort of people they are, Major r" were A.'s words to me, sotto voce, as he gave his sleeves a final jerk and gUn<vd down critically at his boo s. while we followed the butler to the drawing-room. A moment more And we were face to face with our new acquaintances. .1 do not recollect "anything very noteworthy about our host. He was a ty!l and rather handsome man, but of somewhat faded aspect--quiet and gen­ ial in his manner. "I Am an old sol­ dier myself," was his greeting to us, *and I never like any one in the service to pass our place on duty without our finding him out." But our hostess! As I shook hands with her she at once en­ grossed my attention. I am at a loss Dow, as I was then, to define the nature or cause of the peculiar interest she seemed at once to excite in me. Cer­ tainly she was a remarkably handsome woman, but my observation of her at the moment of introduction was quickly ..diverted by the strange demeanor of A. I had turned round, and was in the act of presenting him, when he suddenly started, stopped, and, without attempting a salutation or advance of ftnv kind, stared at her. For the in­ stant the situation was embarrassing. Was the man going to faint, or was he pff his head,_or what? There he stood, stock-still, facing „Mrs. fM., till in a severe tone I said, "A., this is our •hostess. Mrs. M., allow me to in- trodnce Mr. A.." This appeared to rouse him a little, for he made a sort of backward movement which might do duty for a bow, though a very poor apology for it, and siul, "I--I--I beg your pardon," retiring immediately into the background. If this was basftful- ness, it was a curious form of it, I thought, and certainly new in my knowledge of A. This little inci­ dent over, I had leisure to look round the room. There appeared to be about a dozen people in all. Mr. M. in­ troduced me to a relation of his, a Baro­ net whose name I forgot; to. a parson, who assured me in Hibernian accents that troops had'been down there "re­ peal wily;" and to a niece, whom I was to take in to dinner. I caught a mo­ mentary glimpse of A., and saw to my surprise that he was (furtively but intently watching the lady of the house from an obscure corner. I was quietly slipping up to Ibim to ask what it all meant, when dinner was announced. At the dinner-table I found myself on the left of onr hostess, the Baronet opposite me. A. was placed some distance down on th® other side, so that TvCould keep an eye on him, which I soon began to think I must do. I had now an opportunity of noting more particularly jjlrs. M.'s personal ap­ pearance. Her age I should judge to have been somewhere about 28 or 30-- considerablv under her husband's. Her figure was faultless; neck and arms of that nameless tint one has so often seen imperfectly described in novels as "creamy white;" a corona of hair of that deep auburn-red which so sets off a fair woman; and a face of singular beauty, of which you forgot everything bnt the eyes the moment you looked into them. 'Such eyes they were! Their particular size, shape, this or that col­ or. would never occur to one; it was their strange, almbst weird, effect when turned on you, that one felt. It was as though they divined what you were thinking of, and could answei your thoughts. Yet it was not a satisfactory or a restful face. I can recall certain half-disagreeable sensations I experi­ enced as her eyes occasionally rested on mine while we talked, and once or twice a flash as of something almost malevolent seemed to pass out of them. One incident I recollect. We were discussing pictures, and Mrs. M., point­ ing to some fine family portraits hung round the dining room, said: "My hus­ band «nd I are distant'cousins, Maj. P., so that you see we are mutually repre-, sen ted here; and yonder is a lady of by­ gone days, supposed to have been very wicked, und to be like me." I looked up, and snre enough there gazed down on me from the canvas a woman's face strikingly like the speak­ er's--so like that, except for the quaint costume, the portrait might have been taken for her own. It was a finer spec­ imen than usual of the formal yet fas­ cinating style in which our gi eat-great- grandmothers have been depicte i for a stately attitude, regular l«ut im- mobile features, and exultant charms sumptuously if somewhat scantily draped. , The lady's figure, as it chanced, was turned toward our end of the table: she hel'l a fan in her liand ; the lips had a disdainful, almost derisive, smile, and the eyes, which in such pictures usually appear to be contemplating the specta­ tor and to follow him about, seemed di­ rected full on our hostes«. " There i« certainly a likeness," I said, "but the lady on the wall is entitled, J feel sure, to an entire monopoly of the wickedness." Mrs. M. laughed and winged a glance at me, and the smile and the eyes were those of the portrait. Another circumstance I rememl>er discovering in looking round the table, which, had I been superstitious, might not liave added to my comfort. We were sitting thirteen. Mrs. M.,.I rath­ er think, mnst have noticed me count- in? the number, for she made some ie- liiark as if in replv to my thoug'it: "So sorry we were disappointed of one of our dinner party at the very last mo­ ment." ' Meanwhile A. wafc again attracting my attention by his extraordinary be­ havior. H.s partner, a pretty-looking, lively girl, was evidently doing her best to make herself agreealfle, and he was answering her in an intermittent fash­ ion; but J could see he was eating very little, Mid ciumbl ng his bread in a nervous, preoccupied manner, while oveiv now and then his eves wandered from that nearest us as wo approached ' *° ^rs- wi*h a curious, fixed stare ran out an old wall matted with ivy- sterns and forming an inclosuro screened by thorn-trees, behind which one could just make out the ruined gable end of a small building. Our driver, who had been most uncommuni­ cative all the way out as to our host and hostess, condescended to te'll us this was a very ancient chapel, which aouto ancestor of the family had pulled dow* and dismantled, "bad luck to Jilm!" that was positively ill-mannered and altogether unaccountable. Instinctively I turned to the same quarter to see what could be the object of this per­ sistent scrutiny, but in vain. There, indeed, wai a beautiful woman, dressed to perfection, and with those wonderful eyes; but what right had he to gape at her like that ? I began to wonder if the or any other of the guests would observe A.'s rudeness. I tried to catch his eye, but without success. In a lit­ tle while I lapsed into comparative si­ lence, and set myself to watch A.'s movements more narrowly, as well as I could, across the table. After a time it seemed to me that the direction of A.'s praze must be at Mrs. M.'s head, or a little above it; but there was nothing I could see to account for this. To l>e sure, she wore, fastened into the thick top coil of her hair, a jeweled orna­ ment of some kind that seemed to sparkle at times with intense brilliancy; but, still, why this repeatod and offens­ ive contemplation at her own table ol a married woman, on whom, so far as I knew, neither A. nor I hf\d ever set eyes before? Could these two "have been known to each other in some by­ gone love affair, or was the man gonp out of his wits, or had he taken too much drink ? How this memorable dinner struggled on to a conc/Stision, I hardly remember. The more fidgoty I got, the more irre­ sistibly was I drawn to watch A. His face wore a pale, scared aspect quite foreign to him, for he was ordinarily a cheery, common-sense fellow, not easi­ ly disturbed. At length it seemed that our hostess became aware of the intent observation she was being subjected to; and, before the ladies rose from the dinner-table, her handsome features had grown very white, there was a visi­ ble trembl ng movement in her hands, and her eves took an uneasy expression not previously thdre. As soon as we men were left alone, and almost before we could reseat our selves, A. turned to our host, and in an odd, muffled voice announced that he felt unwell, and bogged permission to take his departure. Mr. M. glanced at me with a puzzled air. "He was so very sorry. Could he do anything ? And, of course, the carriage was entirely at Mr. A.'8 service." By this time it was evident that something ,was realty amiss with A.; so I made some sort of excuse that I feared he had had a hard day's march and got Soaked, sent our sincere apologies to Mrs. M., and, rejecting the kind offer of the carriage, we found ourselves 'out again in the moonlight. The moon was well up, and, as we passed the old ruinous chapel, you could see, through a little pointed window in the gable, the wall beyond, half lit up, and dappled over with long shadows from the thorn-tree alongs do. We walked for a little while in silence--I deliberating what to say, whether to be stern or sympathetic, but decidedly in­ clining to the former. Indeed, whether he were well or ill^ the extraordinary gestures and demeaner of A. that even­ ing were unbecoming in the extreme, and, taking place as they did in th® presence of his senior officer, could not be passed over. "Mr. A." at length I began in an offi­ cial tone, "I must ask what is the mean­ ing " He had been hurrying on with his face averted from me; but now, as I spoke, he suddenly stopped, turned round, and, grasping .my arm, broke in with--"So help me God, Major, the devil stood behind her!" "The devil stood behind her!" I said, in utter amaze­ ment; "whaton earth do you mean?" "I mean what I say; the devil was standing behind her all the time." His voice fell almost to a whisper and he looked back toward the house, which was still in sight. I could have no doubt who he meant by her; but I was so taken aback that what to go on say­ ing to the man I knew not. It was ob­ vious he was under some strange men­ tal delusion. We walked on . Presently he spoke again, as if to himself. "Be­ hind her by the mantelpiece--behind her chair--that fearful thing's face-- those fiendish eyes, my God!" As I saidnbefore, I am not supersti­ tious, but it wWs neither quite comfort­ able nor canny hearing those queer ex­ clamations under the peculiar circum­ stances; in a niopnlight walk; dark, um­ brageous thickets on one side of us; on the other, black cavernous cliffs, and the melancholy, murmuring sea. As far as my memory serves, we were still a little from way the lodge-gate,when A. stopped aorain an instant, and said. "Listen! What's that?" I could hear nothing;'but in a few seconds came the distant clatter of a galloping horse along -(he drive. "Something has happened to her," whispered A., laying a chill hand on mine. " Anything the matter ?" I shouted to the groom who passed us on the horse. The man called out something, which we were unable to catch, and galloped on. We could see him pull up at the gate, and a woman came out tb open it; but, by the time we reached her, horse and. rider were out of sight. - She was standing staring down the road after them, and I asked her if anything wa? wrong. "Jesus save ns, sur!" she exclaimed, crossing her­ self, "the man says meelady is dead-- she has taken her life!" "D^ad! taken her life!" was my ejaculation. "Why, we've only just left the house." Here was indeed a climax to my bewilder­ ment ! But what an announcement! I wis utterly unable to realize it--it seemed too monstrous. My first im­ pulse was to run back at once to the Hall and see if we could be of anv use J but on second thought it seemed tatter not. Then, as we hurried out of the park through the tall massive gateway, I heard my companion mutter, evident­ ly still possessed with his hallucination, "Did she see it, too?" About half-way to Moynetown we met our car coming out to fetch us, and mounted it. "I seen M.'s man ridin' by jist now like smoke," was the remark of our whilom taciturn jarvie; "there's sometliin' np, I belave. They tells quare talet of that house, an' the ould chapel, an* the lights seen about it o' nights\ an' the sthrange noises people hears thereabout. Ocli, thin, shure an' there's lmd luck in that house, sur!" I was too stupefied to stop the fellow's gabble till his words were out, and they have often recurred to my mind since. When we got back to our inn, the ill news was already in the air. I sent for the landlord, inquired for the principal medical man in the town, and dis­ patched an urgent message to him in­ timating what we "had heard and beg­ ging him to go out to the Hall immedi­ ately. Word was brought back that I the doctor had already been sent for, j and gone. This done, I felt I hardly j dared ask further questions of any one j just then. Yet the whole thing seemed j like a horrid dream, hardly credible, j We'two sat up late into the night in the ! little inn-parlor, I absorbed in the oe- j currence of this eventful ovening, and I in painful anticipation of hearing more; ; A. speaking not a word, but glowering I into the fire. | Next morning we were take an „eariy I start. Before the fall-in bugle sounded^ ! the little bustling landlady had com- i municated to us all sorts of rumors con­ cerning the terrible event thsit had I taken place the night before. Clearly j the tragic story was all over the town j hv this time; but the only coherent up- i shot of the matter we could extract was, that tho poor lady down at the Hall had goae up to her bedroom immediately , and then find there took poison--that they found her stretched on the floor quite dead, the faoe turned to one side, as if averted from some­ thing, and with an awfully-fearsome lcok upon it. It may be imagined I was anything but sorry when I and my men mounted the steep hill overlooking Moynetown, on the road to our next billets, with our backs turned upon the scene of this ghastly and mysterious business. I never h«»ard of the M. family again nor,did I ever revisit Movntetown. I l*»lieve there was ah inquest, and a verdict of temporary insanity. A few months afterward I chanced to see seme- thing iu a local newspaper about Innish­ derry Hall l>eing to let; and that "dreadful affair down in County^-----" was talked of for a while in Dublin in a certain circle of society. As for A, he too pawed out of my observation soon after, as he applied for leave, and got an exchange. He never told mo mbre than what I have told the reader, and never again spoke to me on tho subject. I suppose some would main­ tain that A. was gifted with what in Scotland called "second sight." Be that as it may, the mystery of how or why "the devil stood behind" that Sin­ gularly beautiful and fascinating wom­ an--an acquaintance of an evening only --will, I suspect, never be cleared up. --Blackwoop's Magviine. Queer Trades In •, One ant. merchant whom the author knew was a young woman named Blanche. She isH described as present­ ing a terrible appearance. Her faoe and hands are tanned as though they had been prepared by some skillful tanner. She is clothed in buffalo qkin, and in spite of this armor she is de­ voured by her stock in trade. But her skin has become so hardened an insen­ sible from long practice that she can keep surrounded by sacks full of mer­ chandise undisturbed by their stinging. Mademoiselle Blanche has negotiants in the departments whepe there are exten­ sive forests; she pays her employes two francs a day. Her business extends even as far as Germany. She never re­ ceives loss than ton sacks (miller's sacks) of ants daily. The ants lay eggs, and those are sold for feeding pheasants. At the present moment Mademoiselle Blanche is on the road to fortune. Another trade somewhat similar to this is that of the maggot merchant. These supply the fisherman with their bait, and number from eight to ten, do­ ing serious business* They are well known to the fishing corporation, and three are mentioned as being celebri­ ties in their profession. One in partic­ ular--Le Pere Ver de Ferre--reckons that he sells from thirty to forty million maggots every summer. This gentle­ man can never part with one of his loads of maggots, whom he calls his children, without emotion. A lucrative business is the cooking of artichokes. There are but-three or four important retailers of cooked artichokes in Paris. The information M. Grison gives on the subject he obtained from Madame Pauline G., one of the exten­ sive dealers in that article at La Halle, the largest market-place in the city. "To gain anything in thi£ business," says or# informant, "It must be con­ ducted on a large scale, for though the cooking of artichokes appears a very simple affair, it nevertheless demands considerable outlay In proportion to the price of setfiingr Mefore being put into the copper the artichokes must be washed. Women employed for this work earn three francs a day. Others cut off the stalks. This done, the arti­ chokes pass into the cooks' hands, who earn from four to five francs per diem. They first assort them, alid then pile them in heaps according to their size in the coppers. The layers are separ­ ated by cloths. This work, of course, takes sometime ; but it would not do to throw the artichokes all in together, as some people imagine to be the case. The largest traders in this line employ generally two cutters and sorters, three cleaners and five or six cooks. The boiling is done by night and entire­ ly finished by 7 o®6'lock in the morning. At 5 a. m. the frititers and street-ven- dors take their stock for the day. The price varies from a penny to three­ pence per artichoke. The chief part of the artichokes one sees at the fruit shops, kept warm in large baskets by means of hot water, come from La Halle." Madame Pauline earns on an average of £1,000 a year at this: busi­ ness, and the season only lasts four months. But the trades mentioned are the three rich ones out of the petite metiers. Among the less remunerative ohes are the rat-eatcliers, egg-dyers for Lent and Easter days, soup and , coffee itinerant merchants, the scale-cleaners, and lastly, in connection witlS Les fialles, the caller, whose business it is to wake up the porters, and all who have to begin to work before daylight. The callers form a large company, and anyone walking f& the vicinit y of the market-place after midnight hears a va­ riety of strange cries and peculiar •sounding notes proceeding from whistles. Each caller has his peculiar note, known to his client, who opens his window in reply. One of these men, well-known in the market, is Peter, surnamed the "Blackbird," oh account of the remarkable manner in which he modulates his ories.--London Standard. An Amusing Court Scene. A young Austin lawyer was appointed to defend a negro who was too poor to hire counsel of his own. After the jury was in the box the young lawyer chal­ lenged several jurymen whom his* client ' said had a prejudice against him. "Are there any more jurymen who have a prejudice against you?" whis­ pered the young lawyer. "No, boss, d« jury am all right; but now I wants you to challenge de jedge. I has been convicted under him selieral times already, and maybe he is beginin' to liab prejudice agin me." The young lawyer, this being his first case, took the advice of his client, and, addressing the court, told the judge he could step aside.--Texan Sifting«. Modern nnd Ancient Doctrines. "Well, what next, I wonder?" ex­ claimed Mrs. Goodington, looking up from her evening paper. ." What witn boy poachers and Sancho and Moody derangelists and salivation armies, things is /oming to a pretty pass. Dan­ iel and I sat under Pardon Jones for nigh ^uito thirty years, and we never thought of asking for anything better. Tlifc Parson used to give us the fcme doctoring without any ifs or ands, and be made as many convicts as any of these new-fangled folks ever did or evn^ will, I'm thinking." And the old lady glared at the paper with a look of se­ verity on her dear old honest counte­ nance that ill becaine it.--Boston Transcript. CURIOUS THE Scientific American says that ih this country more boilers explode in establishments that use light fuel than of manufactories. in any other To DETECT fusel-oil in alcohol Dr. A. Jorissen adds to 10 c. c. of the Bample 10 drops of colorless aniline oil and 2 to 3 drops of officinal hydrochloric acid. If fusel is present, a red colof soon ap­ pears. A *FW building material, known an fossil coral, has been discovered at Suva, on one of the Fiji Islands. When cut from the mass it is soft, but on ex­ posure to the air it becomes hard, and is very much like brick. Orders have already been received for quantities of it to be used in building. ONE of the most celebrated Austrian surgeons, Professor Billroth, lips lately supplied a wounded soldier in Vienna with an artificial nose, the operation be­ ing so successful that the nose can not be distinguished from a natural one. To PRODUCE light and dark shades of gold loaf the metal ia alloyed with silver and copper. Tito addition of th/hoser metals lessens the malleability* and As the leaf is sold by superficial measure, and not by weight, adulteration is kepi at the .minimum. SKWEB gas is disinfected in tfca Hos­ pital de la Pitie, at Paris, by nitrons oxide. The gas passes into an earthen cylinder four feet high, filled with char­ coal and sprinkled with hitro-sulphtmo acid, the moisture in the gas condenser setting free the nitrous oxide contained in the acid, whioh destroys the sulphur* etted hydrogen and all harmful matter. At< ingenious mechanic who lives at t Jamestown, N. Y., has constructed a perfect locomotive, which is (Aid to be the smallest in the world. The engine is only 8} inches long, with a tender 10 inches. The pumps throw one drop of water per stroke. Ae much as 585 screws were required to put the parts together. The engine itself weighs pounds, and the tender 2 pounds and 24 ounces. The mechanic was at work upon the locomotive for eight, years, though odd intervals of time only were given to the labor. MILK when heated in closed vessels to a temperature of 75 degress centi­ grade, remains sweet for 90 horns. Ii the vessel is opened sourness occurs after 48 hours. If the milk is heated in the open air it remains sweet only 24 hours. A temperature of between 50 degrees and 60 degrees does not alter the taste of milk, and if it be curdled at this temperature the curd is hocoulent. ALL know that air has weight, but one is apt to have rather vague ideas as to the weight of comparatively limited quantities of it. A cubic foot of air weighs 538.1 grainy, or something over one ounce; 13.06 cubic feet weigh one pound. About 05 cubic feet pf air fur­ nish one pound of oxygen. An apart­ ment 8 feet high, 12 feet wide and 13 feet long contains about 100 pounds oi air; and a room 40 feot square and IS feet high oontains about a ton. THE limit of steam pressure has not yet been reached. In the time of Wat the ordinary limit was seven pounds. Ten times this pressure is usual now, while ninety pounds is not uncommon. The rise within the past ten years has been twenty-five pounds, and with the constant study of boiler structure and boiler capacity for work and strain, we may «yf j y son of njj rZSS during the coming fl$n years. Pressure* of 100 pounds and over are ocoasional now, but are yet far from being the rule. . The increasing- use of steel in boiler construction must lead to devel­ opments that will help the solvcxutmt oi the problem. tomatically worjtea only the industry has assumed great propor­ tions. Salt from these works can be delivered throughout the South at less than the price either of foreign impor­ tations or the product, of Northern works; and Mobile, which is the chief distributing point, founts upon soon becoming the great salt market of the Mississippi valley. Burial of a Greek Patriarch. We found the deceased patriarch clothed in the robes of his offioe, silk gold richly embroidered, seated upon a throne facing the altar in the Constan- tiue church of the Greek Convent. Al­ though he was only 65 years of •age, he looked very venerable with his long flowing gray beard. He had a golden crowA upon his head, with ena­ meled settings on four; sides, repre­ senting the Virgin, the nativity, the., insurrection, and ascension, and sur­ mounted by an elegant diamond cross. His breast was covered with golden crosses and precious stones. He had a crozier or eceptre of gold and silver leaning agninst the throne, while in his right hand was a Testament, and in his left a picture of the Virgin and child. Behind the throne was standing a priest reading continuously, in Greek, appro­ priate passages for the dead. And from early morning till 5 o'clock in the eve­ ning a perfect stream of people were passing back and fourth, who would kneel, kiss the patriarch's hand, then the Testament which he held in it, and afterward cross themselves and pass out. The patriarch was buried the same day he died. Just before the fu-£. neral a motley crowd of Turks, Arabs, Bedouins, Nubians, Jews, and repre­ sentatives of almost every nation, in almost every imaginable cbstume, gath­ ered on Mount Zion. First in the pro­ cession came a band of clarionets, then a band of . brass instruments, playing what I would consider a lively air, and not the least novel, was an enormous brass.drum. Following the band were quite a number of students, with very long hair, preparing for the priesthood; then came the ordained priests, then the bishops, dressed in elegant cloaks. All, except the soldiers who followed, carried candles draped with black crape. After* the soldiers dame the Janissaries of all the consuls, and of the different convents, in what seemed to be very wild costumes, something like our American Indians. Then came bishops bearing a kind of lanterns, and crosses oi silver and gold. .An old man, in a very gorgeous dress, who, as I was informed, was next to the patriarch himself, was • beariug the deceased patriarch's silver and gold sceptre. Then came the body, in full dress as I had seen it in the morning, with the crown on his head, and seated on his throne; as if ho were alive. The, pro­ cession made a strasige impression upon my mind, as I watched it slowly move toward tho Zion gate, and I listened to fehe weird chanting of the priests; Ho was buried in a sitting posture, along with about two bushels of incense and mjrrh, _____ Salt In the S*uth. Among the stores of mineral ̂ wealth which the South is continually discov­ ering, none are more remarkable than the great salt mines of Louisiana, a few miles south of New Iberia. The salt is found in a solid rock mass, which assays 99 per cent, of pure material, and the dei osit covers 140 acres, which appear inexhaustible. The mines are situated directly upon the Bayou Teclie and con-. T .nient to the terminus of great railroad, lines, and, although they have been sys- " The tfees sought for to plant and tint are being propagated by eomo of the nurserymen are, first, hardy catalpa in the largest quantity, black walnut, black cherry, white ash, soft maple, and the farmers get plenty of green willow cut­ tings without buying of nurserymen. This green willow, often called white from the color of the wood, was widely spread through this country some twen­ ty years ago by tree-peddlers for hedge- fence; but not feeing suitable for that, it is being planted for line fence posts, for wind-breaks and for timber. Black cherry' is growing in favor; it is, I think, a better wood for cabinet work and inside finish of houses than black walnut; it is as easily propagated and transplanted, and will grow quite as fast and somewhat taller. But, Mr. Edi­ tor, your readers know less of the catal­ pa than of the other trees named. But the tree-planters of the northw est know of it and the evidence of its great value for more general uses on the farm and especially for fence-posts. The million of farmers who want to plant trees have not the experimental knowledge of the superior value of the catapla, but when the evidence is from such author­ ity aS they are willing to accept, they are willing to risk something for the prospect of jgreater. gain than the pos­ sible loss, the cost being only from 1 to 5 cents a tree, accordig to the size, when received ready for' setting out. My own experience with the hardy catalpa for more than twenty years is more favor­ able every year. I have used but little of it for posts and stakes, but what I have used is some evidence that those who have stated that as a post it will last from forty to seventy-five years have stated the truth. Its ease of trans­ planting and certainty of living, its rapidity of growth, are tome additional evidences of its value. I cut a tree last winter which I set on my place twenty- two years ago, and after that it had been once transplanted and stood in the grass where it was neglected. It was one fi?ot in diameter four fee' from the ground. -I had a piece of log sawed for cabinet lumber, of which I had a writ­ ing desk made. It is a very beautiful piece of cabinet work and wood. Our pineries are being exhausted and the price of lumber is advancing. At Mus­ catine, la., the price has advanced the past year from $15 to $17 for common. We have four saw-mills at this place, working 300,000 feet of pine daily, be­ sides a quantity sawed in the pineries and rafted here, all of which is annual­ ly consumed in supplying this prairie country west of the Mississippi river, and there is at least six times as much more sent out from all the other towns on the river in Iowa. The saw-mills are in operation over 200 days in the year, which, when tho lumber is multiplied np by those figures, will show the amount of consumption or exhaustion of supply. Caution.--Tho eastern or common catalpa of the East (Bignoin- ides), is tender and winter kills in this latitude; besides, it is inferior in growth and beauty as an ornamental tree. The qeeds are much more plenty and the trees cheaper; therefore, the tree ped­ dlers will take advantage of the farm­ ers who have soft spots in their heads and like to let traveling strangers swindle them with trees and plants, patents, and all sorts of humbugs.-- Germantown Telegraph. Physiological Magnetism. M. Zeigler, of Geneva, has discover­ ed that two magnetized bars pf metal, joined together in a certain manner, produce, certain definite effects "upon animals submitted to experimentation, which differ according to the angle of intersection. One of these. bars can be replaced by terrestrial magnetism; and it is concluded that the latter radiates in the same way as light or heat, and that its rays are refracted in passing through oertain bodies, such as crystals and iron. M. Zeigler says that tlie physiological effects of magnetism ean be shown by concentrating its rays through a lens of soft iron on the heart df a rabbit, when circulatory disturb­ ances will occur. Violent peristaltic movements are provoked by focusing in the same way the magnetic rays on the intestines. The effects thus produced on tlie bowels have been" noticod by other rnodical observers, and the dis- covcry will, it is believed, lead to im­ portant results in physics, physiology and medicine. * A Study of Hamlet. The more we study Hamlet the more convinced we become that he was in­ sane. He hated the idea of having a stepfather, as most children do, and brooded over it until his brain lost its balance. Some children accuse their stepfather of stealing the affections of their mother, but Hamlet went a step farther and declared that he had put his fatlK'r out.of the way. And all be­ cause he had partaken too heartily of the funeral-baked meats that he had warmed over into hash for the mar­ riage supper. This gave him the night­ mare, in which ^e thought he saw his father's ghost, though it was probably nothing more than a portion of the family washing flapping in the moon­ light. Hamlet had l>een a gay youth up to that time, as Ophelia could testi­ fy, but after that he dressed entirelv in black, covering himself with an "inky cloak" to enhance the prevailing gloom of his appearance.--Cincinnati Satur­ day Night. A GAVE B his note to take up another note, which B promised to do, but in­ stead, used it for himself. He was indicted for obtaining money under false pretenses, and was convicted, but the court arrested the judgmont. Itt this case, Commonwealth vs. Moore, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in February, affirmed the arrest of the judgment, and the defendant was dis­ charged. Judge Paxson, in the opin­ ion, said; A false pretense, to be Aith- in the statute, must be the assertion of an existing fact, not a promise to per­ forin some act in the future. The man who asserts that he is the owner of a , house states a fact, and one that is cal­ culated to give hinj5 a credit. But a mere failure to keep a promise is an­ other and very different affair. That ^occurs whenever a man fails to pay his note. It is true Chief Justice Gibson doubted, in Commonwealth vs Bur- , dick, 2 Barr, 103, wjiet'her every naked lie by which a credit lias been fnined is not a false pretense within the Stat­ ute. This doubt has run its course, and has long since ceased to distiirb •the criminal laws of this Stato.fe PITH AUD P0L1T. THB first polite-Titian WM A ir#y urteous and renowned painter. SOME men, otherwise steady-headed, can never keed their balance in a bank. Two things that np man oan rely on: proving an alibi and the 'of a note. is al- FCNJTY: spell it backwards or forewards, ways midday. THE Sultan of Morocco has 364 wives- What a nice time he must have when his mother-in-law comes to see him. "So MB. TANGLETEXT is a great di- vine?" said Fogg, "well, that's because nol>ody can divine his meaning, I sup­ pose." "THIS is a rare Opportunity l" said the restaurant cook, as he snatched the "medium done" beefsteak before it had fairly begun to sizzle. "DOES your mother play cards?" in­ quired Billy of his^chum. "I dont , know," responded Jimmy, "but she oft- f en plays a lone hand on me." THB father of a St. Louis bride pre­ sented his son-in-law with 80,000 head of cattle. "Papa dear!" exclaimed his daughter, when she heard ol it, "that was so kind of yon; Charlie'? awful fond of ox-tail soup!" MRS. A.--"We had a beautiful gel- : mbn this morning, didn't we?" MrS. B.--"Beautiful, and did you no­ tice Mrs. Smithson's bonnet ?" Mrs. A.--"Notice it? Well, I should say I did. I couldn't keep my mind off ' it the whole service." v v; •:?; Mrs. B.--"Nor I, noither."--J5o«ton Transcript. ^ : v "ABE you not alarmed at your ehil- : dren playing on that cistern with the tray door open ? Are you not afraid they will drop in some day and get drowned when you are not looking on ?" said one Austino lady to another whom she was visiting. "No," was the com­ placent reply "we get our drinking water from another cistern they- can't fall into."--Texas Siftings. "MUST you go so early?" "Yes, gen-/ ' tlemen, I would like to stay with you a' .little logger, but it is out of .the ques­ tion," "O, you might as well stay. We will take you to your house on Austin avenue all safe." * "Yes, but who will guarantee my asfety after I once get inside of the house?" "Is your wife sitting up for you?" "She is not only sitting up for me, but she is laving for me, too, at. the same time. 'Good night."--Texas Siftings. SCKNK--Passenger depot. Charac­ ters--Atlanta negro and country darky. Coliloquv opened by the Atlanta negro: "Wher'you goin', bubbv ?" "Dnz you own dis shed?" "No." "Ner none er dese kvars?" "No." "Nor none of deze ye"r railroads?" "No." "Ner no tavern?" "No." "Well, den, yer don't . wanter come bubbyiu' me, an' yor don't waut no informashun. De kinder infer- mashun w'at you git out'n me'd be mighty ap' fer ter sour on you,"--At­ lanta "Constitution. LITTLE GEORGIE had been sick, and was consequently placed upon a close diet. Feeling some better he° • begged for just one piece of cake. "Does your haad ache?" asked his mother. "No, mamma," Georgie re­ plied eagerly; "not one mite." "Do you feel bad at your stoma oh?" "No, 1 feels first rate." "Well, then," said his motlien "I guess you had better i not have any." Fancy Georgie's feel- '-ii ings, and wonfterwhat' would liav«» been the maternal veroict had his head ach­ ed and his stomach felt bad. "THAT Silo Difendafer won't be very apt to take his kid to church very soon again," observed Spugglefoot. "Why, what seems to be the defugel- ty?" inquired a gentleman. ^ "You see, he thought he'd hanfg around while the communion services were . in progress, and gav6 his boy a dime to put in the ^contribution box. When one of the deacons passed the bread the kid grabbed a handful of it, and holding out his money, said: "I've ' got bread enough; bring me a cup of coffee, and take your change out of that. --Chicago Cheek. • DB. DOSEM, an Austin physician was called on to attend old Unole Mose, who drives a dray. "You have been . gorging yourself with green watermel­ ons for dinner/ said the physician, feeling his pulse. "How de debbl did you fijid dat out--by feelin' my pulses- es?" "No, but by seeing the watermel­ on rinds under the bed." Said the old man, raising himself up in bed, "You am de knowinist man in Austin. Heah, old'omen, take dat ole harness from under lie bed, or dis heah medicinal . gemman am gwine to treat me for eat- in' a mule for desert to settle my stom- ach. I ain't teclied a watermillion in foah weeks.--Texas Sif ting 8. WHAT will this country bo noted for henoe) Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents. . What are men striving for hot and Intense? Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents. What makes our politics reek with offense? Dollars and cents. Dollars and conts. WJlat makes Mr. Gould, ^though a small mm, ^immense? ' Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents. * - What makes our cashiers jump o'er the MI0K fence? Dollars and cente. Dollars and cents. What canncH crime on tho slightest pretense? Dollars and ix;nt8. Dollars and cents. Why is it, stern justice so often repents? Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents. What more than all .shadows tell coming events? Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents. What in kes you polite to a man of no sense? His dollars and centB. Dollars and cents. ^ AVliy don't editors' vacations ever commence? No dollars, no cents, not even cents. --lirooklyn Union. No Deluge in the Cyclopedia. Many years ago a new encyclopedia was to be published in England. "The Deluge" was one of the topics to be de­ scribed as a specialty, and it was as­ signed to an eminent scientific man. He treated the theme with all the freedom of modern scienfce, and the revisers found his article so far out of tho ortho­ dox range of opinion that they feared to use it. Announcement was therefore made that a description of the deluge would be found tinder the' heading "No­ ah," to be issued later on. The subject was then assigned to another writer. But he, too, was of scientific leanings, and his remarks on Noah and the del­ uge were too bold and free for the Com­ mittee on lie vision, and were quietlv discarded. A second announcement was made that the long expected essays on the deluge and Noah would be em­ braced under a later heading, and mea­ sures were taken that the subject should be treated this time inn dull, orthodox and untrue, but eminently safe manner. But the third essay was no more satis­ factory that its predecessors; for., the writer, despite all the instruction and caution he had received from the llevi- sion Committee, insisted upon being original and new. Fonr attempts in all were tlins niado to have the theme writ- ^en, llP from the committee's standpoint but without^success. Finally the mcy- clopedia came out without "one ̂ Avord, from itsvfirst page to its last, abdnt the deluge.--liev. libbert Colly er.