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OF RAIB. wi, witfcr tbe «olt trttw W» houe sod the hills I bullded a rfbr aptte; •Wte thereof I set in the atoncnrorii . fregftte, 'A MkMrvtagotlmtta&d ipu, and i called it Tltoamoof Hate. • , ... • •. j <Aai tike front was olive with muki and raoli&e *Md despair, Horned demon* that Jeered in a tana,and women wltft.Berpeiit t|< " fThtt whenever his „ once woald rest 6A the so|t hilli far and blue, « nraat full on mine evil work, and my hatred should pierce him through. And I said. "I will dwell herein, for beholding tiqr heart's desire On my foe," and 1 knelt, and fain had brightened theBoirtl „th with Are; Bat the brands they would hiss and die, as with curses a strangled man, , ia< the hearth was oold from the boor th*t thl House of Hato began. And I called with a roice of power, "Make ys niorry, all friends of mine, ta the hall of my House of Hate, where is plen­ tiful store and wine: We will drink unhealth together untohtm X have foiled and fooled!" And they stared and they passed me by; bat I soornedjQp be thereby schooled. And I ordered my board for feast, and I drank in the topmost seat "Choice grape from a curious cup; and the first it was wondor-sweet; . Cat the second was bitter Indeed, and the third was bitter and Mack, And the gloom of t bo grave came on me &*d I oast the cup tju wrack. Alone, I was s each a fear, v And thinly I laug! Uoae, and the shadows were , "but .once, for the echoes were strange to hen And the wind ou the Htairway howled, M a green-eyed wolf might cry; And I heard mv heart; I must look oi< the face of a man or di^ I Col crept to myicirrored faoe, and I looked, and 1 saw it grown J <By the light in my shaking hand) to the like •} of the musics of stone; And with horror 1 shrieked aloud as I flung my torch and fled; And a Are snake wreathed where it fell, and at midnight the sky was red. And at mora, when the House of Hate was a rdin, I fell at mine enemy's feet and besought him to slay my shame, But he looked in mine eyes and smiled, and his eyes were calm and great; , Tou rave or have dreamed," he slid)'t'tlewnot j'our House of Hate t" "•--Lippincott's. ' *4 it A FINKEKTOX DETECTIVE. »T A. H. MODRICKKK. Tri the fall and winter of '80' and 81, tvliile acting on the Pinkerton force de- ; tailed in New Orleans, I met with one a;5 11 of the most interesting cases that ever ^i>eame in my way during a long and 5*arduous career as a detective. I had f y been in the Gulf City some three weeks, ' especially employed in tracking some Jorgers who were supposed to have harbored there after a successful season I* in the East, when one morn­ ing the papers announced that J i » terrible murder had been ' • 'Committed in the suburbs. Two young ?roen, on their way to work, just alter /sunrise discovered the body of a young "woman,notwithstanding the bruised and 'distorted condition of her features, a •strikingly beautiful girl in life. The lifeless body lay upon its back 'with not a particle of attire disturbed. .The papers went on to state that the *canae of death was not apparent to one 'casting a hasty glance, but upon closer inspection the handle of a dagger •was visible, the deadly weapon having •been thrust in near the back on the left side. Within the right hand was ••clutched a small piece of kid as ^though torn in the struggle of death 'from the assailant's hand. Within a hundred yards from where 'the body lay was a rustic bridge sur- |,-jVl founded on all sides by shrubs and Pushes of considerable growth. From ^the condition of the soil beneath this |h ^bridge it was apparent that the struggle 4 ' mad begun there, and its final termina- . ttionhad taken place where the body £'* ' 'was found. Further than thia nothing - ' 'was known. Of course I was interested, '•>, ' «and I determined to do the best I could towards unraveling the mystery. Visit- '% 5ing the scene of the crime, the only %hing of note I discovered, in addi- "lion to those already stated, was the i ^finding of a brass heel-plate stained | - "With blood, such as are worn ?? l>y women who affect high-heeled shoes, wear this heal protection to pre- * Vent the running over of the heels. This liad been unnoticed, but I placed the faille in my pocket, at least for safe-; j&v keeping. By further inquiry I elicited c'Abe fact that no heel-plate was missing ftrom the dead woman's shoe; also that & fthe young woman was a stranger in the, ' ^neighborhood, at least so far as her V v Jname and abode were concerned. Sev- M Persons h»d, however, seen her in Sf* ^company on one or two occasions with a young woman- While I was investigat­ ed at 8Cene of the murder, Station ;.v >" • Root came forward with the tV "^statement that on the previous evening,1 (p'\ , #tl}e of the murder, at half past , s " *nine, a young man had nervously 1 * asked concerning the earliest trains that \. 'left his station for Manchoc. As this "tform of questioning was customary it Avould not have excited his attention, ; uet alone his curiosity, had not the * ^youngman cautiously hidden his face by wearing the collar of his coat turned and his slouch hat pulled down well soverhis brow. Further than this the I'I'V. Recovering mvBolf ftom the surprlM occaaioncd by the young woman's word(L I demanded that she come forth rail tell upon what Bhe based her accusation. Complying with my request she said: "My name is Jeanne Leftirve, and' £ knew this poor, girl Bertha whom this base seducer cruelly murdered." When I told her to l>e more explicit and tell all she knew about the case she began: "I had an appointment with an old schoolmate, through whom I was tA secure work at embroidery, near the rustic bridge at the scene of the crime, at half past eight, on the evening of the murder. While I walked up and down to keep warm, as the night was a triflq chilly, I saw the prisoner here with Bertha approach and disappear under the bridge. They had been out of n»y sight but a few minutes, I, in the mean­ time, being unable to move or speak at the horrible thought that Bertha would yield herself up to such a villain, when the poor dead girl rushed forth and en­ deavored to escape the prisoner, who followed hotly. Shortly after they had disappeared in the dark­ ness, I heard Bertha scream, and thinking that her pursiier had ac­ complished his purpose, anathat I could be of no avail, but also fall a victim to his lust, I not daring to wait longer, made my way to the city and home. Fearing this morning that Bertha might have met with a greater mishap, if death is greater, I came here only to find .that she had been cruelly murdered." As the young woman had nottung further to impart for the time beini she was excused, nevertheless, howevek I was not favorably impressed with lfer story. Eugene Yerder I now calle Upon to answer the terrible chargei made by the Voluntary witness. He ac­ knowledged having gone to the rustit bridge with the dead girl, having mei her bv appointment there, but with vi­ gor he denied any knowledge of lief death or the causes that led' thereto. Suddenly I hit upon an idea, and the next moment pronounced the words: "A rat, rat!" in a shrill voice. In a sec­ ond Jeanne Lafavre was standing upon the chair upon which but a moment be­ fore she had. sat. A smile of satisfac­ tion passed over my face. I now stepped forward and began to question her and I noticed that she became a trifle nerv­ al see, madam," I began, "you have new gloves. Ilike the shade. Where did you buy them, modnxn ?'• '"In the city, this morning. Ileft my others at home in my haste." "Were they the color of this?" I asked, producing the small piece of kid I had found. The young woman slightly flushed but maintained her coldness, and before she could answer I looked at her small foot as it peeped from beneath her skirt, and said: "I see madam wears boots with high heels, and as madam stepped upon the chair just now I saw that one of the brass protectors was missing. Will you be king enough to permit me to e*am­ ine the heel of your left shoe?" At this the young woman broke down completely, and as I produced the blood-stained piece of brass it was not long before a complete confession was wrested from the unfortu­ nate woman. Briefly told it was as follows: Jeanne Lefavre and Berth Kelsey had been friends, but Bertha, tiring of the jealous care, almost masculine attention of her com­ panion, and longing for one of the oppo­ site sex, had met Eugene Verder and fallen in love with him, to the disgust and horror of Jeanne Lefavre. On the night of the murder Bertha had made an appointment with Eugene Verder at the rustic bridge, where Jeanne La­ favre had followed. When the latter saw that Bertha had yielded to the passionate appeal of Eu1- gene she became as one demented, and, after the lovers had parted, followed Bertha and with the dagger with which she had come prepared, she plunged it into the back of her victim, and, as the stricken one lay prostrate, with her brass-shod heel kicked the face of the dying woman. Her vengeance was not yet complete, for, as she left the bleed­ ing body of her victim, she determined upon a double sacrifice. Eugene Yer­ der should die for loving the woman for whom she had a strange and fatal infat­ uation. As I was about to place her under arrest she made a swift move­ ment with her hand, and drew a tiny , vial of prussic acid which she had se­ creted about her and placed it to her lips before I could prevent, and «*nlr a corpse at my feet. It is«. needless to say that Eugene * Verder's innocence was entirely estab lished. AWAi FROM Street Scutes in Chicago Oar­ ing the National Repub­ lican Convention. ; V cir correspondent in the Observant and Watchfuly with Pen and Pencil.; was damp with perspiration from es­ pousing the claims of Harrison, Jjpade a wild rush for the street, the ^vards coming back over, his shoulder, "GoJ d'rned 't that feller don't get killed," When his friends had got him al,l picked up and baqk in the hotel, he faintly; remarked, "D'rned 'f I didn't think that horse was runnin' 'way." The evening sessions were too much for the Californians, who have a love for pleasure and a great aversion fox the Indian as well as Chinaman. Delegates Preparing for the Opening-- Convincing the Donbtfal--Aft#r 1 the Night Session. > The Delegate Be turns Home and Asftumei Bis Normal Condition. After "Tlik* ing" In the Sights. 't • 1 One of the most notable gatherings that this country has ever witnessed was the National Convention of the Republican party in Chicago, and while matters of grave import were considered by learned statesmen, there were many Itidicrous happenings and incidents that met the ear^ and eye of the reporter. The opening day wit nessed a vast throng hurrying to and in and about the Auditorium Building. The crowd was a homogeneous one,; comprised of both sexes and all colors. The statesman^ the banker, and the woman suffragist jostled each other in Hi THE WOMAN S-RIOHTS WOMAN. the mad rush to the convention build­ ing, where, at least, it was possible to breathe the same air as did the great political lights of the nation. The delegate, secure in the pos­ session of an admission ticket, was more methodical and dignified than when at home, and heavy brogans for the first time received ai? exquisite pol­ ish, as the wearer steadied himself CALIFORNIA AFTER AN EVENING BE88ION. " 8' you been to the (hie) evenin' session ?" remarked a Coaster to a prominent lamp-post on Clark street, as he gave ijL a friendly embrace, and then, in a confidential tone, looking over his shoulder towards an Indian tobacco sign, whispered, "Z-hat feller's no good. See (hie) him las' night fuller'n a goose." Seven dollars and costs of California gold were found in the court treasury box next morning. The friends of delegates, with a vast amount of knowledge, swarmed hotels and streets, and their eloquence . alone excelled their loquacious urbanity. They reasoned from cause to effect-- from past statistics to future results-- and disseminated pointers in relation to free trade, the tariff and the outcome FRESCOING A DELEGATE, 0, *4' £ V *agent knew nothing, save that h«T was ••sable to give a very accurate description ./* -of the young man. Of course, I made 5 "careful notes of the description of the if -.young person. The foregoing, together with the re "•suit of the physician's examination •namely, that the young woman had been •outraged previous to her death--were *the only important facts laid bare by ^the investigation. That same day I de- rtermined on the "following up of the ,, y°.llDK man 80 cleverly described by the gig railway agent.: I found him to be one Eugene Yer- *der, a rather reckless son of very re­ spectable parents, living in the eastern part of the city. When I arrested him on suspicion he disclaimed all knowl­ edge of the murder. Confronted by the agent, the latter immediately recognized bun as "the nervous stranger" of the 'Slight of the murder. When questioned further Eugene verder said that he»had gone to Man- •<choc on the night of the murder on a toaatter of business, - but just what that business was he declined to say. I now decided on a bold move. Conducting- " the prisoner to where the body of the dead girl had been conveyed/ and the '•^undertaker having quickly exposed the face of the unfortunate victim, Ettgene Yerder surprised myself and the occu­ pants of the room by starting back in norror and exclaiming: "My God that is Bertha Kelsey! For God's sake tell > me how did she die, Mr. Flash?*" ' * She was murdered," I answered, and -I watched to see the effect of my words '°n the ypung man. Yerder seemed • stricken with grief as the full meaning * ? ; ~ n«"°* m-^ wort^ dawned on his apparently ' dazed mind. Then looking me in the ; face, with qttivering lips he stammered: Do jjrou--you do not think I murdered Tbe Home of the "Grand Old Man.'* Mr. Gladstone's London house is near to Buckingham gate. It is the old-- not the new-fangled -- Queen Anne style, and the drawing-room windows overlook the parade grounds of the Wellington Barracks. Mr. Gladstone likes spending a few moments now and then in watching the soldiers go through their djill. The entrance hall is square and roomy, paneled, as is the staircase, with fine Chippendale carving, and lighted by a stained glass window. In it are a few reproductions of the Auto- type gallery and a large picture of the entrance to Alexandria, whieh must re­ call to the ex-Premier each time he en­ ters the house one of the most unpleas- ing reminiscences of his official life. Above it is the drawing-roorb, which is a long, charming room. In the corner is a portrait of Mr. Gladstone painted by Watts, and in the middle window is placed Mrs. Gladstone's writing table. It is shut in by a screen on which hang portraits of her husband and younger son. The room in which Mr. Glad­ stone works is at the back of the house, and as a consequence free from all noise. Not even the sound of a passing cab-wheel can break in on his London World. 'her? ' ,-Th* , - 4. IMP officer interrupted • may .net* but I <H >ung woman ^whoxhad The Suction of Toads. In one of the "Letters of Junius" speaking of the then Princess of Wales* who was dying of cancer--that writer says "nothing keeps her alive but the horrible suction of toads." Prof. New-1 ton of Cambridge explains that during a certain period of last century live toads were applied as a supposed cure or as a relief to cancerous breasts. In the third volume of Pennant's " Zoology" is a letter in which the process is de scribed to Dr. Lvttleton, the then Bishop of Carlisle, by Mr. Patfield, medical eye-witness. The toad was put into a linen bag, all but its head, and that was held to the sore, which the animal sucked greedily. A woman sup posed to have been cured in this way was said to have had toads on her day and night for five weeks without inter­ mission. • • EDWIN GOULD, the second son of Jay Gould, has bought a seat in the New I York Stock Exchange,. The priee is »f Jhe p*oeeedingB. | Mid to have been *20,000. against a corner-railing, and, with an Arab at either foot, received his first shine. With a smile as broad as Lake Michigan, and as bright as the sun just showing over its murky waters, the delegate joined the crowd, and with important mien hastened to his seat in the Auditorium, prepared to meet the public eye and receive personal plaudits. The most numerous man in the city was the big little fellow whose brow $ PREDICTING THE OUTCOME. of the contention with a reckless aban-' don tlmt was, at least, entertaining if not convincing. One of them, the Kan­ sas delegate whose- picture is given, grew so enthusiastic as to lose his bear­ ings. He was stopping at the Grand Pacific. The many streets, alleys and "smiles" muddled his brain, and, halt­ ing a cabman, he braced himself against the vehicle, remarking, "S- stranger, 's you tell me wh-(hic)er's that big hotel opposite yer town (hie) clock." The delegate was taken to his hotel. The Chicago police will go down to their graves shrouded in anathemas of* numerous aspiring orators, who sought COLLARED BY THE POLICE. ALL ABOUT IT. was lit with keen discernment and shadowed with knowledge. He was also conspicuous in hotel corridors, edi­ fying a waiting, anxious public by sage utterances, electrifying them with en­ thusiasm, and predicting results that never resulted. Statesmen are not all familiar with the plodding, every-day life of the city, at least a delegate from the vine-clad hills of the Hoosier State was not, and this led him into an embarrassing and dangerous situation. A party of politicians and their friends were standing on the walk in HE WAS FROM INJIANA. front of the Grand Pacific Hotel, when a fire alarm was sounded. . Almost santly the Fire Marshal came tear- down the street, his horse at full The delegate, whose brbw to sow seeds of wisdom, but were called off the high pedestal of their ambition by the blue-coats. This one, an orator from the Lone Star State, was distrib­ uting political tracts and eloquence, but the police gathered him in. "What," asked a rounder of a prom­ inent New York politician when he returned home, "struck you as the most remarkable feature of IT DIDN'T GIVE OUT. the Chicago Convention?" "The most remarkable feature," soliloquized the Empire ' gtat&stiian, •imbbing his head, "was that the liquor supply did not give out." . In tho mad hurly-burly" of political strife there is one thing always pleas­ ing to the rural delegate--home, and homo comforts and pleasures; and though,' perhaps, more humble, the Dakotian loves his herds and dogs, and assumes Ins normal condition with a relish that' blizzards cannot disturb nor national conventions allay. Remembering the Sabbath. * Old gentleman (getting his boots blacked Sunday morning)--Boy, do you know what the good bo>k says, "Re­ member the Sabbath day ?" Bootblack--Yessir, I allers remem­ bers it, Old Gentleman--.Then yon go to Sunday school, do you?" . Bootblack--*No, sir; I <|ontjgo to Chicago is becomingly modest. Ver- hape the inhabitants may still be able to conceal their modesty, but neverthe­ less they feel it. The explanation is simple. The city has grown not only beyond the most sanguine expectations of those who indulged in tiie most in­ flated hope of its future, but it has grown beyond what they expected. This gives the citizens pause--as it might an eagle that laid a roc's egg. The fact is, Chicago has become an independent organism, growing by a combination of forces and opportunities beyond the contrivance of any combina­ tion of men to help or hinder, beyond the need of flaming circulars andiJre- ports of boards of trade, and process pictures. It has passed the danger or the fear of rivalry, and reached the point where the growth of any other portion of the great Northwest, or of any city in it (whatever rivalry that city may show in industries or in commerce,) is in some way a contribution to the power and wealth of Chicago. To them that have shall be given. Cities, under favoring conditions for local expansion, which reach a certain amount of popu­ lation and wealth, grow by a kind of natural increment, the law of attraction, very well known in human nature, which draws a person to an active city of two hundred thousand rather than to a stagnant city of one hundred thou­ sand. And it is a fortunate tiling for civilization that this attraction is almost as strong to men of letters as it is to men of affairs. Chicago has, it seems to me, only recently turned this point of assured expansion, and, as I inti­ mated, the inhabitants have bardly yet become accustomed to this idea; but I believe that the time is near when they will be as indifferent to what strangers think of Chicago as the New-Yorker# are to what stranger^ think of New York. New York is to-day the only American city free from this anxious note of provincialism--though in Bos­ ton it rather takes the form of pity, for the unenlightened man who doubts its superiority; but the impartial student of Chicago to-day can see plenty of signs of the sure growth of this metropolitan indifference. And yet there is still here enough of the old Chicago stamp to make the place interesting. It is everything in getting a point of view. Last summer a lady of New Or­ leans who had never before been out of her native French city, and who would look upon the whole North with the im­ partial eye of a foreigner--and more than that, with continental eyes--vis­ ited Chicago, and afterward New York. "Which city did you like best?" I asked, without taking myself seriously in the question. To my surprise, she hesitated. This hesitation was fatal to all my preconceived notions. It mat­ tered not thereafter which she preferred; she had hesitated. She was actually comparing Chicago to New York in her mind, as one might compare Paris and London. The audacity of the compari­ son I saw was excused by its innocence. I confess that it had never occurred to me to think of Chicago in that Conti­ nental light. "Well," she said, not seeing at all the humor of my remark, "Chicago seems to me to have finer buildings and residences, to be the more beautiful city; but of course there is more in New York, it is a greater city; and I should prefer to live there for what I want." This native observation set me thinking, and I wondered if there was a point of view, say that of divine omniscience and fairness, in which Chicago would appear as one of the great cities of the world, in faet a metrop­ olis, by-and-by to rival in population and wealth any city of the seaboard. It has certainly better commercial advan­ tages, so far as water communication and railways go, than Paris or Pekin or Berlin, and a territory to supply and receive from infinitely vaster, richer,and more promising than" either. This ter­ ritory will have many big cities, but in the nature of things only one of surpass­ ing importance. And taking into ac­ count its geographical position--a thou­ sand miles from the Atlantic seaboard on the one side, and from the mountains on the other, with the acknowledged tendency of people and of money to it as a continental center--it seems to me that Chicago is to be that one.--- Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper's Magazine. • A Discourager of Hesitancy. Xenophon, son of Heraclitas, of the Island of Cos, mentioned by Tacitus, and Pliny, and in a series of inscrip­ tions found in his native place, was body-physician to the Emperor Cladius, and in this capacity acquired such in­ fluence, that with his medical duties he combined those of imperial cabinet sec­ retary for Greek correspondence. He obtained for his brother and his uncle the Roman franchise and posts as offi­ cers of equestrian rank, and for himself, besides the horse of a knight and the rank of officer, the decoration of the golden cliaplet and the spear on the oc­ casion of the Emperor's triumph over Britain. He also secured for-his native place exemption from taxation. His tomb stands on the island, and his com­ patriots, in their gratitude, erected stat­ ues to him and his family, and struck in memory of him a series of coins with his likeness. He it is who is said to have brought about the death of Claud­ ius, when deadly sick, by further poi­ soning, and therefore, as having proved of equal service to the lingering Em­ peror and to his successor, he is styled on monuments not merely, as usual, friend of the Emperor, but especially friend of Cladius and of Nero. Memory Bags. "Save those flowers," said a society lady to her maid, as the latter removed a faded bouquet. They were not roses, and therefore could not have been designed for the potpourri. The curious visitor inquired of the fair hostess as to their destina­ tion. "O, those flowers were sent to me by Mrs. Gen. Logan when she was here a few weeks ago. I prize them much and intend to preserve them in a mem­ ory bag." "May I ask what a memory bag is?" "Your head- is resting against one now. As you see, they are made of silk or any other material you choose, with the name of the donor of the flowers on them, and a sentiment, if you approve." "Who originated the fashion?" "I think the floral memory bag owes its being to the Grant family. The year after the General's death, when the family were at Long Branch, Mrs. Grant placed a daily offering of flowers before the picture of her 'silent soldier. These flowers were afterward dried and made into memory bags for distribution among the many friends of the family." --Detroit Free Press. BALTIMORE proposes boxes on street cars, forget to pot to put letter Husbands will ifere. -- Boanoke Island was in sight as justice had been done to the baked shad and other delicacies, and the captain was re­ minded that he still had to tell the story of Virginia Dare. "That't where the first white child was born in America," saidCapt. South- gate, pointing to the crescent-shaped, low-lying island the Manteo was ap­ proaching. "What was her name, captain?" in­ quired the, curious passenger, who bod recovered from the shock administered to him earlier in the day. "Virginia Dare," was the captain's re­ ply. There were loud calls for the story, and, as there wa3 time, the cap­ tain spun it. Regarding the exact date of Virginia Dare's birth the captain ad­ mitted he was in doubt, but it happened so long ago that it was a matter of minor importance. She was born on Roanoke Island, and sh,e grew into a very lovely and blooming maiden. White men and red men from far and near heard of the beauty of Virginia Dare and came to lay themselves and their possessions at her feet. To all of them she turned a deaf ear. Suddenly she disappeared. Search was made all over Roanoke Is­ land and the adjoining mainland, but to no purpose; not a trace of Virginia Dare could be discovered. There were many deer on Roanoke Island, and hunters noticed about the time that Virginia Dare disappeared that one of the largest herds -wa3 always led by a beautiful, snow-white doe. Many at­ tempts were made to shoot this white doe, but with so little success that its wonderful sagacity and its fleetness of foot were soon heralded for miles around. Noted hunters visited the is­ land for the sole purpose of killing the white doe, but went away disappointed. One day an old Indian wandered into the white men's settlement. He had lived all his life on the island and knew every foot or it. Had he ever seen the snow-white doe? A single grunt de­ noted that he had. Under the influence of frequent and heavy potations the an­ cient man became in his silent way loquacious. The white doe could only be killed in one way, and as he did not want to see it killed he refused to fur­ ther explain himself. More firewater brought his secret to the surface. The white doe could only be killed by a most skillful shot and with a silver bullet. This information was dispatched to Jamestown, and the most noted hunter in Virginia came to Roanoke Island in response. A grand hunting party was formed. The great hunter loaded his smooth bore with a silver bullet and took his station at a point where the herd of deer would pass in its flight from the rest of the party. In good time the hunter heard the flying deei approaching. He got ready and as the white doe shot past him, a hundred yards in advance of the herd, he fired. The white doe simply increased her pace, and when the rest of the hunting party reached the spot where the great hunter stood he was compelled to ack­ nowledge his failure. He returned to his home, but promised to return and try again. He was as good as his word. Again he loaded his gun with a silver bullet and took his station, while the other hunters scattered to discover and drive the game in the prpper direction. For the second time the great liuntex took careful aim as the white doe ap­ peared leading the herd. As the sound of the shot rang through the woods the white doe took a tremendous bound and •then pillowed its head on the moss- covered roots of a giant pine. The sil­ ver bullet had struck it in the heart. The great hunter waited for his com­ panions. He Was possessed of a strange foreboding. In a body the hunting party approached the spot where the owner of the silver bullet had seen the white doe fall. In its place they found the body of Virginia Dare.--New York Times. • The Nebular Hypothesis. The nebular hypothesis was first sug­ gested by Sir William Herschel, and was adopted and developed by Laplace. Jt is generally accepted by scientists ae explaining, as far as possible by human conception, the genesis of the heavenly bodies. The nebular hypothesis as­ sumes that the solar system was once an enormous mass of gaseous substance. Rapid rotation being set up in this gaseous mass it took the form of a disc, and at last, centrifugal force overcom­ ing cohesion, whole ring:3 and frag­ ments flew off from this disc, and by centripetal force contracted into spheroid masses. As in the original mass, the velocity in the outer circle of each body thrown off is greater than the. innei circle, and this causes each spheriod tc revolve on its own . axis. This process goes on, and the central mass continues to cool and shrink, until we have at last a central body with a number of smaller spheroidal bodies revolving around it in orbits the smaller the nearer they are to the central orb. Certain points are assumed in this hypothesis to ex­ plain the distribution of matter in oui solar system. It is assumed that in the •throwing off of great masses from the central disk, immense quantities of min­ ute particles were also thrown, which continued to revolve, in the same plane with the large mass around the center body. By slow degrees these minute atoms, by the law of gravitation, were aggravated into the mass nearest to them. The subordinate aggregations would form with most difficulty nearest •the large central mass, because of the superior attractive force of the latter, wherefore the interior planets--Mer­ cury, Venus, the earth, Mars, aresmallei 'than the two great orbs in the zone be* ;yond them. These two enormous 'planets, Jupiter and Saturn, occupy the space where conditions are most favor­ able to subordinate aggregations, but beyond them, the gravity of aggregat­ ing material becomes reduced, and so the planets found in the outer zone, Uranus and Neptune, are smaller than the planets of the middle zone.--Inter Ocean. PITH ATfD PODfT. :,? St.-?. A Technicality. "Yo* honor," said a plaintiff in a Ken­ tucky court, "this man (pointing to the defendant) called me a liar." "No cause for action," replied the judge, "for I know that you are." "Yes, yo' honor, but he called me a bare-faced liar, when you can all see that I wear a full beard." "Ah!" exclaimed the judge. "Then, sii®, we will put him through a course of sprouts. We will teach him what it is to slander a man.--Arkansaw Trav­ eler. AMONG curious vegetable products are a kind of butter from a tree of West Africa and milk from a tree of Vene­ zuela. Both are nutritious food. CARLYLE once said that one advan­ tage of having a machine instead of a hu­ man being for a servant was that the machine could not talk back. GLASS spoons for pickles are a new 4#hing Sarope. A FLEASANT phiz--The soda: HEARTILY ashamed--A sensitive glut­ ton. j WATERED silk--A $10 umbrella in the rain. A GRAVE mistake--Burying a miQ alive. A STAID ^personage--A gentleman i»». corset. A BALTIMORE paper is talking about the "credit due to women." Up thk way they always want the cash.--Phila­ delphia Inquirer. A MAN may have an abiding faith in the honesty and virtue of his fellow* man, but he doesn't show it when ha plays poker.--Philadelphia Call. THE "white man who turned black" turns out to be one who, after being thrown in a wrestle with a negro, turned him, that's all.--Texas SI flings. THE boom for a new-born town is like the music of locust wings. One looks at the little thing and wonders where all the big noise comes from,--New (Or­ leans Picayune. ^: WASHINGTON HOSTESS (giving iott evening party)--James, are the ambit- lances at the door? James--Yes, ma'am, W ashington Hostess--Then you may announce supper.--Life. MRS. LILLIE DEVEREAUX BLAKE thinks women would make good soldiers, They might until somebody was seem going to the rear with an exceptionally attractive bonnet.--Burlington Free Press. r QUEEN VICTORIA was born on A Fri­ day, and the Prince of Wales, who Is somewhat short-sighted, thinks Friday an unlucky day for him. He thinks u his mother hadn't been born he would be King.--Life. _ THE days are now longer than the nights, but they are still much too short for a man who has to explain to his wife how it happens that he calls her "Lulu" in his dreams while her nama is "Jane.* --Fall River Advance. ^ DTJMLEY--Brown wants to bet me $l0O that in ten years more New York will have a population of over two millions. Robinson (excitedly)--Take him up, Dumley, take him up, and let me houl the money.--Harpers Bazar. MR. EQUALRIGHTS--I suppose, my love, that you picked up a good deal of interesting knowledge at the Women's Congress. Mrs. E.--Dear me, yea! It isn't often that one has a chance to inspect 3,000 bonnets at once.--Life. " MAMIE--Mamma, can't I go over to Kitty's house and play awhile ? (hesitatingly)--I don't know, dear. I-- yes, you can go just a little while. Mamie (demurely) -- Thank you, mamma, I've been.---Draktfs Maga­ zine. , "MY dear," said a lady to her hus­ band, as she was looking over the news­ paper, "what are preferred creditors?* "They are the--the--the creditors who never send in their bills. Leastways, that's the kind I prefer."--London Echo. A MARRIED man in Wisconsin when put upon the witness-stand did not know his wife's given name. It was perhaps not his fault.. It frequently occurs that men lack the nerve to apply for informar tion they really need. -- Lincofa Journal. "V GUEST (in reading-room of hotel, to stranger)--Excuse me, sir, but will you kindly tell me how to spell embarrass­ ment? Stranger (a Chicago drummer) H-m--embarrassment? I don't know the word, sir. French, isn't it ?--Neuf York Sun. AN Ohio man lived on one meal per day until he could pay the merchant the $78 he owed him. People were just talking about a medal for him when he beat a bank out of $150. The too-honest man is more to be dreaded that m: thief. --Detroit Free Press. "DID I understand you to say, Mrs. Kendricks," inquired Dumley, who was trying to carve the duck, "that this is" a canvas-back?" "Yes," returned tAe.' landlady. "Why?" "I was only go­ ing to remark that there is nothing of the shoddy about the material."--New York Sun. DISSATISFIED COLONEL--I expected, Captain, that the General would send me men of experience for this expe­ dition. I wanted an officer to lead men who have seen service--I dare say you never led anything? Captain- -I led the german last summer at Newport.--• Life. I THINK an egg would make thai coffee settle Mrs. Scadgers," said the impecunious boarder, heedlessly. "U the recipe is a sure one, pray let me offer you, an egg, Mr. Sloapa," respondedl . the landlady severely, and then the con­ versation ^languished. -- Boston Com­ mercial Bulletin. MAGISTRATE--You've been up before me a good many times, Uncle Rastus> It's the same as usual--thirty days or . $10. Uncle Rastus--I has ben up be- fo'yo'agood many time, yo' Honah; Ise ben a good customer, an' ef yuse got any wholesale rates I specs I oughte* Uab 'em.--Neiv York Sun. SHE LOVES MB. That girl ia very dear to mo, And proud of her am I; ^ Last night she said she loved to aea My form aa I go by. I drees to please the pretty bird, On cJotheK my money's spent, Since she has many times averred She liked tbe way I went. When absent, all my joy is fled, * And dull the day moves on,; "Why should I murmur? She has She loves me when rm gone. Drake's Magazine. A Noble Chicago Woman. Twas a terrible moment: The man was evidently drowning, while the crowd on shor^ stood helpless and hor­ rified. At this juncture some one yelled : " Oh for a boat!" But there was no bo# within ten miles. The suspense became awful, and the sun sank into the misty bosom of the west like a bloated pump­ kin. All at once a female voice was heard above the roar of the breakers: "Never mind the boat; take one of my shoes." It was the voice of a heroic Chicago woman, and the applause that greeted it was heard three hundred miles at sea.--Neiv York Mercury. She Couldn't Evaile Him, < A sheriff was searching a house. - where it was supposed that a thief had concealed a valuable harness. As he peered into a dark closet the wife of the thief remarked: "That closet, sir, contains absolutely nothing except my own wearing ap­ parel !" "Then, what's this?" exolaimed the sheriff, clutching at the stolen property. "My wife don't wear any such tremen-. dous lookin'riggin' as this!"--Detroit Free Press. t THE true use of speech is not so much, to express our wants as to conceal them.' * --Goldsmith. CONFIDENCE is a plant of slow growth a an aged bosom.--Barl of Chatham.