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ABT or Hnrp. onttt ;.'f•./ Wt»«»a atavenk^otar aa altam •11 on the faoet of tb« frieada that ha '*n, ieleaVea ot faoe* till in iWktvy IfetainalUng fettarM of an ol^l awfeetheart i Bowles for its purchase. i%«w heard to say rh*t lowed. by Unkm*€ tbe beautiful' home had been mprt to obtain the ram needed to rv good*, milliner's, and dressmaker's bills, and still the end was not jet. aaatna to glimmer with « flicker :*k»wh» mtmrotth* tatH 'ilajr . lany ptpa te silence, save a sigh that pnMiCto yoke i Sake with say tokaooo, ul to witib in the •Mk*. _ at mtexMpeatioa--lor thelevta* i start j are lihn perfumes from tbe M6«aoma «f t*e heart; «M^to4bra*mth»oI4dreams ow la aluxury Wfceu aay tmani fancy waadan with «bai o.d . (Wtilieart ot miae. T _ 11 hear, beneath my study, like a fldtter-tmgat winga, • jBfca «f my children, and the mother m she KSM mo twinge of conscience to deny me mar ftfaemo VftM««re has east h«r aaofeor in the harbor of a dream. «fc SaaVta apsafc h» aanwat, 1 believe it a#daa ^"xgtea gaofl a trifle with a little dust of I •«< aai extra flavor in memory's mallow Tkst«t]ns DM drink the deeper to that old awoethaart of mine. A toes « K*s«Ui • lUrbeai i eatof my TRACE; *aiMMB beneath the glances of a pair of ••nsm JtaglewfMg as the rammer and as tender na the •S-,' and a fo*tny or airy RTace, aa the genie from the aaa me the pink s an bonnet and the little checkered dresa • wore when first I kissed her and she an* aware* the caress A the written declaration that *aa sorely aa the vine aw "roaad the stump, ahe loved me"--that old ewaathaart of aiina, >• % * «ha presanre of her slender lit- w-- * « tie hand r y* , i Mm we uaed to talk together of the future we had V1- * planned-- „ ^'Whan lehoeld he a poet, and with nothing e^ 'v rl Bat write the tander ranea that ahe aet the , « MBSiC to. - "k •" $ *• abonld lira to«ethar in a ooay Uttle neat of roeea. with a fairjr garden , J2 WFfeare the vines wen ever fruitful and the ' 'weather ewr fine . -|* Aad the birds were ever aingiag for that old -"iof mine. tea I «4baald be her lover forever and a •ay. 1 ahe myfeithfol sweetheart till the golden fca* was gray; rtwe should be aa happy that when either'a tip a were dumb mf would not smile in Heaven till the other's feaaa bad come. %®«Sfc ah 1 my dream la tamtam by a step apeta the :r • 4ta*2l*^oocJl* opened, and--my wife to (Aaadlng there! ;; Sat with eagerness and rapture all my visions I >^*»«tthelivingpreeeneeof that old sweet- ; of mine. M •Hi "i. MARRIED FOR POSITION. m in you to come. *Madftm Monsette, Madam Mon- can jou spare me just a little 'P:Mmb7n called my neighbor, Mrs. t:* Bowies, who, with her pretty bloude was frantically signaling a town car. "Can yon accom- Celeste and myself "down town a shopping occasion, madam? r® «hall likely spend the entire morn- in looking over the things onr ^ mns' hare. Don't answer litis a bridal tronsseau that we «fee benefit of your ezoellent taste fe •eleeting." Celeste blnshed rosy red as her •••ad and happy mother enveigled me WKto tite car, her tongue nimbly run- on in the desire to enlighten me .̂ yi.flaato the nature ot the shopping we vere to do. "Tam so thankful, Madam Monsette, *e have yon accompany ns. So very So % „ « ---- Celeste's fiancee ft common yonng man; Adelbert tirea<iy a government appointment, . everybody thinks he will, in time, " ° eminence. It has been a great pg^|j^rwwy to me to know how we are to f »JV 'passvide her a suitable trousseau. Our A". are so limited. Mr. Bowles t>/"* prosper as I could wish in his i , wnaufsti We rely upon yon, madam, tell us what is most needed. Yon :*4w» spent several winters at the cap­ ital and know how the ladies in official . dresa* said good-natured, fusey, life- ; : £•< - »fle Mrs. Bowles, gathering up carefully ^ ^Sme skirt of her well-worn cashmere, Oii ^re?*rafcory stePPinK out upon the A" ; , jy^'% crossing before the crowded, fcehionable, and highest-priced store in ( oed&y. M*f*haling the way to the laoe and ?>, P™ counters where beautiful and Ar« Roods were soon piled around ij' i *•» Mrs. Bowles confided to me that 'C' f*be "thought the wedding dress, i diflFerent laces, flowers, ribbons, "A gloves, and other paraphernalia ••: - iSi?*!" *nswer ^or * reception dress, v® dress ought not to be worn tsasre than twice." . . ̂ *liothe r," ventured Celeste, te oderly, i^-2?*.,Jwhi8perinK lest the salesman . y0*"! guess her sweet secret, "fa- tw that he oould not *' |MS*d an elaborate trousseau. I do not 1"»fc Adelbert will mind if I dress - lPi«*uly, and I don't care much for so- I don't think I care for white °r 8i?^* a handsome plum or Adelbert ma over from Washington during the wedding preparations, and the young lover, man like, was en­ raptured with all that pertained to his adored Celeste. Only Celeste and Papa Bowles seemed ill at ease during the days which should have been filled with hap­ piness for the bonny little bride-elect, who tenderly loved the gray-haired father, grown old in toilsome service that of book-keeper in a down-town firm, noted for exacting the monfcy's worth from every employe. Three days before the wedding, tak ing a neighbors's privilege, I went un­ ceremoniously into the Bowles home, with my "present," unwittingly, sur­ prising the little bride-elect, as she sat in her own apartment surrounded by wedding finery and the bills. "Poor father! I have cost him so much, when he had so little money to spend upon me. I cannot make mamma understand that I would be happy with no society exoept Adelbert The bills do come in so horrid fast," sobbed Celeste, as a new one was handed in by the maid. The wedding morning fonnd all in readiness; the breakfast for the two hundred guests was perfect, the floral decorations were more elaborate than we plain work-a-day folks were wont to see, but it wasn't every mamma's daughter that had the good fortunp to marry a government appointee. "The groom is well-enough looking, quite a catch, stands in with the Presi­ dent and Cabinet" "How queer it is that plain little Ce­ leste should have attracted a govern­ ment official from Washington." "I suppose Celeste will be giving ele­ gant entertainments in the capital, were specimens of the comments which swelled with pride the already full and proud heart of Mamma Bowles, whp right royally presided at the wedding feast After the yonng couple had been set tied in Washington the tell-tale lines of many cares were deepening upon even the fair face of good, easy-going, fat, and comfortable Mamma Bowles, while Papa Bowles' smiles were like angel's visits, and rumors were Irife that the "Bowles were heavily in debt A «OOD COLLECTOR. m fik. ^•There, there, Celeste; I mean to yon provided with a trousseau "fWitable for the position you will oc- I trust that my daughter has s •*». reare<i a manner to reflect upon her husband. A wife has v Witt her power to elevate her husband. m0a have climbed high in the -fV through the grace, wit, and ' > > US*"! ^ Ir Xfives* Adelbert and ^Jalcste are both youn^f and caa make • J1* proud of them," gushed the fond •t ̂ » ,g--t**r.a^1bly, not heeding the plead- i took in Celeste's blue eyes, who ^ -"R4® sarcastic light in the dark ones jst Ifce salesman, who so quickly "took > Satfcesituation." •What do you think, madam ?" asked * Bowles, as she held out before me _ ^ 1 o* cheap cream satin. "Will this quality of satin make up wee enough for evening wear? You ; reflect that gas light softens and utiles. After all it is the color, trimming, and cut, that is wanted -I tli&n to hare the material rich D® you not think so, ftAam ? think with Celeste, that a very • '**r well-made costumes, with a JSbeeal supply of tasteful lingerie, the for the trousseau. Perhaps , *me wfll net want to go out much in the * except to lectures, concerts tai church," was the reply. ' ^ J*Oh, she will need evening costumes. 'Jiialbert is a government appointee " mplwd Mrs. Bowles, firmly, and proceeding to select light silks •linn, laces, and lingerie acoording to £§rm ; disgusted with Celeste's ^ f :• •oliuns and say advice. fchm getting together and making of tiousseau progressed rapidly; every ' ^isjr aometliing showy, though not serv- rr. - .1--Ms, was added to it, until its eost v Id Him times ovemat the sum al- 4. w» for the money spent upon the wedding of Celeste, and somebody while visit­ ing in Washington had learned that Adelbert was only a clerk in a depart­ ment, and Celeste was not in society atalL" But I was none the wiser uQtil, one sunshiny winter's day. Mamma Bowles came into my parlor with1 an open letter in her hand. ^ > "Madam," said the poor lady,' ex­ citedly, "a fool and his money are Soon rted, and he is known according to i folly. Of course you know, as our little world knows, that I, with my lav­ ish expenditures when Celeste was married, have encumbered our little home with a mortgage, hoping that my daughter would be able to take a place in the best and most exclusive capital society. Listen to what Ce­ leste has written: DEAREST MAMMA--I am so ill, lonely, and tired oot. May I come to you for a time,* until Adelbert can economize safficieutlv to pay, at least a part of our accumulated bills'? It does cost so much to live here, even in the shabby style that we are living in, and Adelbert a salary is so very email tnat we aie not able to meet the expenses for the necessities of life. I am a poor economizer and Adeltart is no better, consftqnently affairs do not go well with us. I have little use for the many pretty things you pnrchased for me when I was married, as I have learned that poor, Govern­ ment clerks are not "in society"here. » Dear mother, I never thought that I was too food of money, or that I should ever be un- happy for the lack of it, but tho bnrden of my thoughts now are onr debts and poverty. Adelbert owed tailors and wine bilfa when we were m wried, and somehow we have never baea able to catch up and start in the world free from debt Oai you take me in, mother, until Dellv IUM satisfied his more pressing creditors? and per­ haps I may be able to dispose of some of my useless treasures. Deily and I have made the firm resolution to find our rightful place and honestly fill it. No more borrowed plumes for me, or reach­ ing out for the impossible. "What will the neighbors Say? There were those who envied Celeste her ap­ parent good fortnne in marrying * "A government official. They will only learn that 'all is not gold that glitters,'" was my reply, as I mentally rejoiced that, in spite of false training, youth, and inexperience, Adelbert and Celeste were coming to the front wear­ ing true colors. Foretelling the Weather. The atmosphere has weight, just as water or any other fluid, although it seems to be perfectly bodiless. We must comprehend that the transparent, invisible air is pressing inward toward the center of the earth. This pressure varies according to the state of the weather, and all changes are indicated by an instrument called the barometer. Generally speaking, the falling of the mercury in the tube of the barometer indicates rain, and its rise indicates clear weather. Sometimes the rise is followed by cold winds, frost, and ice. What these changes really indicate, however, can be determined only by comparing the barometric changes, at certain hours, in a number of places very far apart. This is done by the Signal Service. Observations are made at about one hundred and forty stations, in different portions of the country, at given hours, and the results are telegraphed at once to Washington, where tbe faithful "weather clerk" re­ ceives them, reasoning out from them the "probabilities" which he publishes three times in every twenty-four hours. But the atmosphere varies not only in weight, but also in temperature. The thermometer tells us of such changes. Besides this, the air contains a great amount of moisture, and it shows as much variation in this charac­ teristic as in the others For the pur­ pose of making known the changes in the moisture of the atmosphere, an in­ strument has been invented called a "wet-bulb" thermometer. We are thus enabled to ascertain the weight or pressure, the temperature, and the wetness of the air, and now it only remains for us to measure the force. and point out the direction of the wind. This is done by the familiar weather-vane and the anemometer. The vane shows the direction, and the anemometer is an instrument which indicates the velocity of the wind. It is by a right understanding of all these instruments that the Signal Serv­ ice officer is enabled to tell what the weather says of itself, for they are the pens with which the weather writes out the facto from which the officer makes up his reports for the benefit of all concerned. Thus however wildly and blindly the storm may seem to come, it sends messengers telling us just where it arose, what course it will take, and how far it will extend. But it tells its se- tontLn! ^ 0nl7 who W •teiot »*- Ifiitin M. SDMUneon Made a VlnnWfciofc Had "MM!" femte to Itnw •40.00* MMte4n«u. [8t Louis Bepablieao.} A Western Congressman tells the followingaboutMr. DonM Dickinson, the new Postmaster General: "Yes, I know Diokinson, ofJVIiohigan, very well. I have been in some tail< roau cases with him. He is chain< lightning. Dickinson has made the bulk of his fortune in the practice of one legal specialty. He is the best colleotor of bad debts on the face of the earth. Oh, no; I don't mean small debts. This is the way of it: In the first place there used to be a good many people with a bad habit of failing every few years. They always owed large sums of money to Eastern mer­ chants and capitalists, and did not mean to pay a cent if they could help it To this class Dickinson was and is a mortal terror. There is no devioe that Dickin­ son can not see through, and he is as sharp on the trail as the best Parisian detective.' The mifn who can pay and won't is the fellow Diokinson likes to get hold ofL About ten years ago--to illustrate what 1 moan--there were three big failures in Detroit One firm had the sympathy of everybody, bdt the others were uncertain customers. The two doubtful concerns each owed over $250,000 to New York and Boston people. Among the other creditors was a New England shoe manufacturer for a large sum. This firm quietly retained Dickinson as their counsel, and the largest other creditor did the same thing. 'Don't let them knoy I am in b of a vast Iiip-afi1* ** M low These companies .trading poets throughout •Ml northwest, and sent put • of men to gether furs, and _ them from other trappers ̂Itomthe Indians. The "peltry," Jf Jndre«sed skins are called, were mwmi dispatched eastward in lairge gaantitfeM to Europe, principally to the great center of the world's fur trade. . The life of the trappers is a hard pne indeed. Singly, or in small narties. their arduous and venturesome . °"» moving abont from one camp­ ing ground to another during the heat of summer, or finding shelter in a dug- out or a rude log-hut through the arctic in* oats train mmM suoceed in smile, cry, or look W-f^8r" Tl?ey 8eek out the loneliest and wildest districts, where for a whole season or longer they may never see the face of man--except perhaps that of a dreaded Indian foe. And yet there ron**noe and a fascination about this phase of existence that makes it dear to tho sons of the forest ahd prairie. tne case,' said he, as he left his clients. He went homa The agent of the New England firm came out to see the broken merchant I am talking about He was a German Jew--generally good responsible people, but when they are tricky, look out! The usual tales were told of customers who coulcU not come to time, and all that It really looked like a bad case, and the Boston shoe concern was about to accept a settle­ ment at 20 oents on the dollar. 'Don't do it for a day or two,' said Dickin­ son. "Just how he was going to get the money out of his customer he did not know, but he was sure there had been some swindling. It happened that in his household there had been an ex­ tremely pretty Irish girl living as a domestic for many years. She was faithful, neat, and unusually intelligent, and the household was very much at­ tached to her. Abont a year before this she had married a very industrious young countryman of her own, who was a thrifty young boss drayman. That evening after dinner Dickinson learned that Maggie's husband had broken his leg a week or two before. He went around to see the man. 'How did it happen, Pete?' he asked. 'Well, ye see, sir, I was on a bit of a job that-- but, sir, the man told me, sir, that I must not telL' " 'Nonsense; you can tell me, can't you?' Baid Dickinson, and, 'Why not tell Mr. Dickinson, Peter?' said the Irishman's pretty wife. So it came about that, two weeks before, late at night, Peter had been draying goods from the rear end of a store. A heavy box had slipped and broke his leg. •But why did you say you must not tell ? said the lawyer. 'I'm sure I don't know, sir; that's what Mr. Katzenyam- mer told me, sir,' answered the man. " 'Katzenyammer; so you are working : him, eh?' asked Dickinson. He soon got of the Irishman all he knew. 'I see it now,' said he to himself as he went home. The next morning Mr. K. was rather surprised to receive a call from the great lawyer. He had not sent for him, and Avas somewhat a little uneasy. 'I am the attorney for Messrs. blank, of Boston,' he began very politely; 'they have a claim against you of ^ $47,977.80. What do you intend doing about it, Mr. Katzenyammer?' "Yy, I haf failt, you'know, Mr. Dickinson; I don't know how muoh I can pay on de dollar.' "You must pay this in full or I will send you to the penitentiary in less than a month,' said Dickinson, sternly. 'You have been running your goods out of your store at nights and sending them to Chicago auction houses to be sold for whatever they would bring in cash, and you have filled up your books with false entries.' ' 'Fader Abraham!' screamed the other, as white as he oould beoome; •how tit you flnt all dis oud?' 1 'It doesn't matter how I know it all, and if you don't settle now, to-day,I will have you arrested before to-morrow night You are watched, you can't get away, so don't try it,' and with that Dickinson left It happened that he had dropped on to what the man had been doing. How he guessed it he does not know himself. Abont 2 c/tjfcck the man came around to see what forms he could make. 'None, sir, except one hundred cents on the dollar,' was the only reply. In three days the claim was paid in full." Couldn't Hush. One of the most annoying fault* of the hired "colored lady" is her per­ sistent disposition to talk about the af­ fairs ot her own family. Sometimes, despite every attempt at discourage­ ment, she will begin a story, of which her brother is the hero, and keep it up until patience is gray-haired with age. Marinda Napoleon, a likely colored woman, applied to Col. Wetherall for a position of trust in his family. She began to tell him of her honesty. "That makes no difference," said the Colonel. "I don't care whether you are honest or not, and you may be reasonably negligent in the discharge of your duties, but there is one thing that I wish to impress upon your mind." "What's dat, Colonel? 'case I kin do anything." "I do not wish you to take me into your confidence and tell me about your family. I don't want to hear a word about your mother and father." "I un'erstands, sah." "I will pay you extra to keep your mouth shut Speak when you are spoken to, and then merely answer questions." "Why, sah, dis is de place dat Pse been lookin' to' all dese years. I 'spices folks dat is alius wantin' er pusson ter 'tain dem wid conversation, 'case er body gits tired. Now, dar's my sister Jane, she's de udder way, an' " "But you are not to speak of your family." "Dat's de pint, sah, dat's de pint. I worked last year for Mises Simson, an' de folks kep' me er talkin' all de time, an' mudder she tell me not ter pay any 'tention ter de folks. " "Never mind all that I don't wish to hear anything of your mother. I don't want you to mention your family while you are in this house." "'Cose yer doesn't, sah; an' I doesnt blame yer talL De las' word my brudder Henry said ter me 'fore I lef' dis mawnin' wuz gibben me 'vice how ter please der white folks. Henry he's er faverite all down in our neighbor­ hood. Worked for old man Desmukes three years, an' wouldn't er quit den 'cept de ole man died an' ernuder pus- son tuck de place. .Henry's de fines' han' wid horses yer eber seed. Dat clay bank hoss o' Mr. Anderson's, whut wouldn't let nobodv g« in de stable " "Say, Marinda, you ^ "It's jes' like I tell yer. Dar Wan't a blessed soul on de place dat could do nuthin wid dat hoss, an' Henry -" "Listen to me, I tell you!" "Yes, sah. Whut was yer 'bout to obsarve ?" "I told yer that I wanted to hear nothing about your family. I see, though, that you are like all the others. Goon " "Yas, but Henry he tok • blin' bridle " "Stop!" "Didn't yer tell me ter go on?" Yes. I tell you to go away from here. I don't want you." "Whut yer 'gree ter hire me fur, den? Ain't my s'ciety pleasin' ter yer?" "You oan't keep your mouth Shut, and I don't want you. Now go." "Why yer's de curiest pusson I nebber seed. Doan' kere ter stay heah, 'case •yer's sorter common folks, nohow. Pse glad I refused yer offer ter hire me. Good mawnin', sah."--Opie Read, in Texa* Sifting#. f ing as the paront appear in the photograph. The Trapper of the Northwest. The trappers of the far west and northwest were among the earliest pioneers of civilization on the American Continent, The gathering of furs to supply the markets of the world - was one of the first industries to become established among the colonists of the New World; and at the time when only a narrow strip of land along the At­ lantic coast had been settled and civil­ ized, brave hunters were pushing their way far into the interior through for­ ests, mountains* and prairie, and brav­ ing all the perils of the unknown land and its savage inhabitants. It was these trappers who first revealed the exist­ ence of the great western country now covered with wealthy and prosperous States. They were the scouts who showed the way to the advancing hosts of immigrants. They were the first to cross the Allegheny Mountains into the "dark and bloody ground" of Kentucky; to traverse the wide prairies west of the Mississippi, and to reach the lofty mountain range beyond them, and the forests and rivers of the Paoiflo coast beyond that again. The oldest and most famous of the companies established to engage in the American fur trade is the Hudson Bay Company, which received a charter from Charles IL of England, in 1670, and still existe. though it is now shorn of the territorial rights which it orig­ inally possessed. TJiis charter placed a vast empire under the company's con­ trol, The whole continent between Hudson Bay and the Pacific Ocean was formally granted, and its operations extended over the whole of that region. Its prosperity caused a rival organiza­ tion, the Northwest Company, to ap­ pear in the field, but in 1821 the Hud­ son Bay absorbed its competitor. Meanwhile there has been m cele­ brated fur company in the United States, controlled by the brothers '• Chouteau, and having its headquarters at St Louis. John Jacob Asl | embarked in the business on sonle, tya made a specialty of snpp, •iriably l*«*h, aooOrd child to _ . It fa #ell known that neither the photographer nor his assistants can often aooomplish these results with infants. The trotted cats are more learned in this particu­ lar than the human being. Puss en­ joys a course of training whioh fits her for her occupation, just as the college trains the youth for his. The un­ trained cat, and an animal which does not reason cannot be trained, cannot do this work any more than the untrained man can practice law. In Central Park there is a zebra which has been trained to be loving; gentle, and human in many ways; yet it has ever been as­ serted that the zebra is an utterly un­ tamable animal. It tracing the historv of all domestic animals we find that no species was domesticated by nature. The life history of the domestic oat and dog is of immense duration and extent. No two naturalists arrive at identical conclusions in regard to their origin. I, says the writer of the North American Review, examined all the books and data back to the time of Hero­ dotus with interest, yet with despair. The animals soon get lost in obscurity, but students generally agree j that the ancestors were once wild, like man. As to the domestic cat, I found but one dominant instinct of the wild Felidse that survives, and that is a love for fish, unless we include, incidentally, the peculiar o lor exuded by all of this family, not, however, an instinct Bead­ ing in the London Nature an account that a British investigator had, by per­ sistent effort, discovered that the taper­ ing tail of the domestic cat was orig­ inally prehensile, I put the two facts together. Was there a wild species with a prehensile tail that suspended it­ self from trees and caught fish from a stream. Such a cat is found in Bengal and Hindoostan, known as the fishing cat, Felix viverrina. This animal then, probably was the ancestor of the domestic cat Its domestication, ex­ tending through 3,000 years, has only advanced its mentality beyond the pre­ hensile use of its'tail, its training and association as has been stated above. As regards the dog, I found several wild ancestors clearly proven by na­ turalists. The American Indian dog I had photographed side by side with the coyote, or prairie wolf. As no one can detect a particle of physical difference, it is easy to assume . that the Indians domesticated their dog from the coyote, as did the Esquimaux theirs from a wild animal. Professor Edward D. Cope has recently shown, after the most ex­ tensive examination of skeletons, par­ ticularly craniums, that the ancestor of dogs belonged to the genus Galecygnus in the lower miocene times, and in the upper miocene times to Canis. Strangely enough, .between these two periods one section of the dog family degenerated and became the bear; that is, the dog genus Amphicyon changed during the middle miocene period to the bear genus Hysenarctus. The mentality of the dog has therefore ad­ vanced under difficulties of a natural type; it has been delayed by his vast association with the savage in all climes, and civilized man has never eradicated his most serious instincts, although he has secured some wonder­ ful results from training. It is not known that although the talk of a par­ rot is somewhat artificial, yet ifiany birds learn to understand the meaning of the words they use, and their use of them then becomes apropoa Train­ ing has done marvels for the mentality of the parrot and other birds. The crow particularly, in special instances, has been trained somewhat to the standard of an apt human intelligence. --North American Review. *fora" orfemale ftlfiit ilia ftiwi of the f» mm relatively, at birth then that of the vale, for which fact there'is a good reason, based on sex. The form of the chest is that of a truncated cone, with the larger oapao- ity at the base. This natural forma­ tion. somewhere between the afes of twelve end twenty years, in fashionable life, is changed, and the smaller part of the truncation being downward. There is a manifest difference in the forms of the twin brother and sister whioh is unnatural, the sister's chest being deformed. I well know that the aot of "lading" is denied, and I know as well that there is no effect without a cause. The appropriate means are early used, when the bones are not real bones, but cartilaginous, easily yield­ ing to slight pressure, even that of a tight apron siring or the tightness of an under garment It is a gradual work, at first very slight, the corsets finishing the deformity. The fashion­ ables, those who have given more thought to dress than sensible informa­ tion, know but little of the unfavorable effects of such deformity--such com­ pression of tbe chest and lungs. Snch do not appreciate the real use of th lungs or their wonderful structure. By estimato there are six hundred mil- ions of air cells, to which the air is sent in breathing, there to purify the blood, these cells being covered by arteries, veins, and their connecting capillaries. The oxygen of the air is attracted through the walls of these cells, uniting with the carbonaceous waste of the system in the blood, by actual combustion, producing the heat of the body. The ashes, so to speak, and the carbonic acid gas are also at­ tracted through the Bame, returning to the cells, thrown off in the expired breath, thus doing more for the reno- vetion of the system, the purification of the blood, thau all of the sarsapa* rilla and "blood. purifiers" in the market While there is no useless space in the human body, "fearfully and wonderfully made," what a sin to deform it in this way! Just to the ex­ tent that the lungs are compressed, bringing the walls of these minute cells together, often adhering, will they becomo useless, to the same ex­ tent reducing their number, with a cor­ responding failure to purify the blood effectively. The greater part of the pressure is over the lower portion of the lungs, crowding upon the stomach and liver, materially impairing diges­ tion, to that extent preventing the formation of fresh,new, and good blood. This compression interferes with the rotating movement of the stomach, by Avhich the food is prevented, so crip­ pling the stomach that it is unable to perform its functions in the best man* ner, preparing the way for dyspepsia. These are a few of the/evils of deform­ ing the chest by order of Dame Fashion. --Dress. Precocity of Hen of Science. The Popular Science Monthly gives The •iky.Way. The milky way forms the grandest feature of the firmament It completely encircles the whole fabric of the skies, and sends its light down upon us, ac­ cording to the best observations, from no less than 18,000,000 of suns. These are planted at various distances, too re­ mote to be more than little understood; but their light, the medium of measure­ ment, requires for its transit to our earth periods ranging from ten to 1,000 years. Such is the sum of the great truths revealed to us by the two Her- schels, who, with a zeal which no ob­ stacle could daunt, have explored every part of the prodigious circle. Sir Will­ iam Herschel, after accomplishing his famous section, believed that he had gauged the milky way to its lower- depths, affirming that he could follow a cluster of stars with his telescope, constructed expressly for the investiga­ tions as far baok as would require 330,- 000 years for the transit of light But, presumptuous as it may seem, we must be permitted to doubt this assertion, as the same telescope in the same masters hand was not sufficiently powerful to resolve even the nebulae in Orion. Not must we forget that light, our only clew to those unsearahable regions, expands and decomposes in its progress, and, coming from a point so remote, its radiant waves could be dispersed in apaoe. Thus the reflection is forced upon us that new clusters and systems, whose beaming light will never reach our earth, still throng beyond, and that, though it is permitted to jman to be­ hold the immensity he shallTnever see the bounds of creation. \ A Tfcrene Chair of Ik C. 1«0Q* That most ancient and interesting historical relic, the jthrone chair of Queen Hatasu (XVIlt Egyptian Dv- nasty, B. C. 1600, has been presented to the British Museum by the owner, Mr. Jessie Haworth, of Bowden, Che­ shire. This throne chair is the only ex­ tant specimen of ancient royal Egyptian furniture, and is the most venerable piece of dated cabinet-makers' work in the world. The national collection is much enriched by this addition to its treasures, and the nation has reason to be grateful to the munifioent donor. London Times. - A GEORGIA man claims to have found * diamond weighing thirteen pounds. This means more strife between the hotel clerks.--Rochester Express. * Filling Holes in Woodwork. X correspondent of a mechanical pa- p# who has evidently had experience in a cabinet-making shop, recommends sawdust or raspings of hard and soft wood for filling the cracks and worm holes in old furniture. I learned their value, he says, in my young days, from the oriental carpenters. You should sift them through wire gauze. Put each separately in a box with a label and you are always ready for a sudden job. I have another box for bit^-"^ every kind of wood. For a crac worn-eaten hole, or a deep flaw, pare the proper dust, by the admix of brickdust in flour (also kept rea or whiting or ocher, or any reqt tint Then take well cooked glue, on a house plnte stir it in slowly \ hot, with sufficient powder for work. Dab the hole or crack with glue brush, then with a putty stir about the mixture on the p taking care yon have the right o When sure on this point, take son the cement on the end of the knife insert it in the desired place. *1 use as much pressure as you pose can wilh the blade, and keep smoo ing at it When thoroughly dry, sand­ paper the surface with an old used piece, so as to not abrade the joint You can then varnish the mending. Where weevil and wood worms have devoured the furniture, cautiously cut out the part till a sound place is reached. Poison the wood with a so­ lution of sulphate of copper injected into the hollow. Let it dry. Cut an angular piece of same wood from your board, and with a sharp chisel make a suitable aperture for its receptiou. Fix it with glue. When thoroughly dry, work with oarving tools or rasp and glass, scraping till the l^r bit of work exaotlv matches the old. ' Consumption of Raisin!^- The United States is the largest consuming country of raisins in the world, and reliable authorities estimate the consumption at about 2,000,000 boxes of about twenty pounds each, which, at an average or $2 per box, shows an expenditure of $4,000,000 per annum for one article in the dried fruit line. The amount referred to repre­ sents 8ay 1,000,000 boxes Valencia, 750,000 boxes California, 200,000 boxes Malaga, and 100,000 boxes Smyrna. The crop of the world for the present season is estimated in round numbers at 6,500,000 boxes, about as follows: Valencia, 3,000,000 boxes; Malaga, 600,000; California, 750,000; and Smyrna, 200,000. The shipments of Valencia raisins to the United States to date are 600,000 boxes.--B*ooMyn Eagle. Woman on the Sleeper, "What will we do with eternity?" asked Miss Rosebud, looking out of the car window one morning, "when even time- often hangs heavily on our hands?" 4 "We will wait," replied the parson's wife, "for that freckled woman with false teeth to come out of the dressing- room and let some real woman have a chanoe to wash her face, and-we won't have a minute to spare, either."--Bob Burdettc. - - -• ***• r • •; 4*.'-. p. i* i if.* h'Jj, 1* 5730 numerous instances of great discoverers having obtained juvenile distinction: Galileo showed remarkable aptitude from earliest childhood. His favorite pastime was the construction of toy machines. A passion for music did not seduce him from his supreme devotion to mathematics, and by nineteen he was making important discoveries. Tycho Brahe illustrates the same early bent in a slightly different way. His devo­ tion to astronomy had to contend, not with his own, but with other's inclina­ tions. Sent to read law at sixteen, he managed, after the day's studies, to pursue his astronomical observations, passing whole nights in his favorite occupation. Newton, like Galileo, oc­ cupied his playhours at school with con­ structing model machines, a water clock, windmill, etc. By the age of twenty-three or twenty-four he had conceived roughly his chief epoch-mak- ing discoveries. Another English in­ vestigator, Thomas Young, was a strik­ ing example of precocity. He read with fluency at two. He showed extraor­ dinary avidity of mind in very differ­ ent directions, now busy mastering the difficulties of oriental languages, now set on constructing a microscope for himself. HiB mind, unburdened with its weight of learning, was humbly tracking out new truths in optics by the age of twenty-nine. Among natnr- alistsj too, examples of well-marked, if imet de- ugh had ,ved ioh se- ty- and and his r's dis- ien- . ̂ George <V» was aired . Tp HftiMW-j^^kritral ideas of his system are set forth. Hum­ boldt, again, showed his speoial scien­ tific bent as a child. From his love of collecting and labeling plants, shells, and insects, he was known as "the little apothecary," and at twenty he published a work giving the results of a scientific journey up the Rhine. A Pathetic War Story. One day in 1862 Sidney Shivers, of Webster, Ga,, then 18 years of ago, en­ tered his father's house, and, divesting himself of his hat and clothes, dressed himself in the uniform of a Confederate soldier, in order to enter tbe Southern army, in the meantime hanging the hat and clothes that he once wore upon a peg in his room. From that day to this the hat and clothes have hung in that same place, not a hand having been allowed to touch them in all that time, for they have been held sacred to the memory of the young Confederate soldier who placed them there. The life of Sidney Shivers went out soon after he entered the army, but these mute memorials of the boy who once wore the gray still hang where they were plaoed by him twenty-six years ago--untouched in all that time.--Chi­ cago Herald. The Professor's Blissful Igasraace. A Buffalo professor the other day was enlightening his class on the sub­ ject of geology, when one of the pupils came forward, handed apiece of rock candy to the professor, and asked what it was. The professor suggested that it was probably a quantity of crystal­ line quartz, whereupon the boy won­ dered at its being so crumbly. The soientist then ventured the opinion that the substance was carbonate of lime. Some of the boys could not refrain from giggling outright, but the pro­ fessor remained in blissful ignorance of the joke.--Chicago News. DRUGGIST--Now, what do want? Boy--Three oents* worth of Pare­ goric. "What do you mean, waking me up for three cents?" "Why, I had ter git up for nuiBn'." band?**0 °* desinmidoM it * preying DISPENSERS of oharî sie '̂permitted to carry alms. THAT would be a weak enterprise which could not stand a THE spook of the "Haunted Tavorn" must have been an inn speoter. MOST organ grinders have a woe be- gone look. This probably is due to the fact that they hear so much ol their own music.--Boston Courier, GEN. SHEUMAN doesn't believe & coloring the hair. In other words, "Let me like a soldier dye" isn't a favorite melody with Tecump.--Sirt- ings. THE smartest detective in America is now in this city. He arrested a man's attention the other day, and is to be promoted in consequence.--Texas Sitt­ ings. * LADIES speak of short dresses as just clearing the floor," but really the dress that just clears the floor is the dress with four yards ol tram.--Bur* l ing ton Free Press. «TA ^,nio"ts, ok LABOB paper save: Jay Orould deserves the penitentiary." Yes, and he would get it, too, if it were left where he could put his hand on it. --Arkatisaiv Traveler. LITTLE Bov^W'en I dit big nuff to wear papa's big overcoat III be a man. Little Girl--And w'en I dit big nuff to wear mamma's bustle 111 be a 'ooman. an' den won't I be sweet?--Areola Record. * "I WAS completely carried away with your sermon this morning; Brother Hightone," said a leading somnam­ bulist to his pastor. "Ah, yes," replied the shepherd; "so I observed. Into dreamland, too, wasn't it?"--Detroit Free Press. PAHSON FITZBOY is nothing if not ele- gant in his pulpit diction; but he rather surprised his parishioners on Sunday, when he arose to the extreme fecility of referring to "Lot's lady, who was transformed into a monolith of chloride of sodium." POLICE JUSTICE -- William Snyde- heeler, you are accused of being a vagrant. What do you say about it? Prisioner--It is a libel. "How do you make that out?" "My wife does the largest washing business in town." "Sixty days."--Lincoln Journal. • IT has been decided in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania that a person may fry onions regardless of the incon­ venience the odor of the cooking gives to^ the neighbors. It is deoisions like this that make Anarchists out of hitherto inoffensive burgh Chronicle. TRUE HAPPINESS. "When does a man find happiaem Kntlrely without alloy?" V When he thinks he has eaten a toadstool And finds 'twas a mushroom, nay boy,* •~-Boaton Courier. > ' THERE He tha remains of poor Christopher Type. The rest of him couldn't be found; He sat on a powder cask smoking his plpat - - While tbe wind blew the ashes oronnd. --Sifting*. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX truly sings : "We build our own ladders to climb to the sky." Certainly we do. And we'd get there, too, if we only built enough ladders and made them long enough. The trouble with us is, that after splicing the ladders until we get some­ where about the fifth story, we decide to sit down and economize breath by waiting for the elevator. And then, half the time a fellow steps into the elevator when it is on the down trip.-- Robert J. Burdette. A YOUTHFUL Roman soldier, being captured by the enemy, wfrs threatened with torture if he refused to betray the Roman army; and, to show that he did not fear any torture that oould be inflicted upon him, he held his right arm over the flames until it was burned off--never flinching, never faltering, and showing no indications of the more than mortal agony he indured. It is extremely doubtful, however, if he had the courage and fortitude of an Ohio young man, who had the nerve recently to elope with his mother in-law t-- cola Record. - Rallying (he Enemy. Battles are not always conducted with that extreme precision which ia generally supposed to characterize - military maneuvers. Confusion some­ times reigns, eBpeoially when the fight­ ing is carried on in thick brush, or con­ tinued after dusk. Here, for instance, is an extract from the history of a Now York regiment: Maj. Livingston's horaq had been shot, and the Major's hip injured by the falL He was very anxious to change the retreat into an advanoe, and thus on foot, swinging his sword, he ordered everybody to "Right about iaoe !* But his orders were unheeded. At last, coming up to a regiment marching in tolerable order in the same direction with the general current, and concluding that they were sufficiently strong at least to cover tbe retreat of the wounded and exhausted, he ordered them to halt and face to the front, giv­ ing emphasis to the command by earn­ est gesticulations with his sword and insisting that it was a shame to see a whole regiment running away. At thfr juncture an officer demanded: "Who are you, sir ?" "Maj. Livingston of the 76th." "Seventy-sixth what?" asked the stranger. "Seventy-sixth New York." replied the Major. "Well, then, you are my prisoner, for you are attempting to rally the 2d Mississippi " The Major was taken to headquarters, but, fortunately, made his escape the next day.--Youth's Companion. Influenoe of Yalleys en Health. Mr. Alfred Haviland lately informed the London Social Science Association that many diseases were induced by the common tendency to plaoe houses in valleys instead of on hillsides. He says that valleys do not get a full share of fresh air. The wind blows over, not through them, and the atmosphere within their boundaries is compare* tively stagnant His observations are therefore opposed to the oommon be­ lief that valleys are especial channel* for atmospheric movements; but his opinions are sustained by Dr. B. W. Richardson, who is good authority. The latter gentleman enumerated twenty-five or thirty diseases which he thought might be attributed te the pro­ pensity for valley homes. Among them are croup, influenza, scrofula, rheuma­ tism, fistula, calculus, and possibly some malformations. The list is form­ idable, and to put it mildly, it is almost incredible that diseases of this char- i acter can be caused by living in the broad and shallow valleys of England. Mr. Haviland's remarks were illustrated by tmaps and models showing the geo­ logical structure of the earth.--Tha Galaxy. . ^ MAN is caught by Us tongusu an OK m * horns.