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» • ; ; ** " -{ P L A IN D E A LE R. Thu# bi"' ft " »JS«- P-lr closer to him uNpCt hi in btittt, Haw havo fast of Iient?1 He (milled. Awl m a raanly ami "Arojiud her waist he threw, He said, "I've done no ueightK PMy, tell 1110 how have yoitf" re," sh» said, olf; ; -1. . afced and bent her tiiad) myself." "Who is your .neighbor?" queationedflfcai ; ; Aa to ma breast he drew ' $«:+, The gentle maid, and, blushing she , With one wort! answered--"You!* 'fj.V'J f T" •f I ^ _|W, '-V M «Oe TV- *. f: ' )• iy"slfel /; i\f -r . :0-t V j " ihy?" 1 *»*»•>.* I' i •*s% ffiobert Thornton's Ingratitude • %-- V,v\' ; s BIT m IX. a ATKINSON. " i; B was the height of an unusually | brisk and successful theatrical season, j Managers were happy and financially •flash," and the members of their sun- drj and various companies were travel- ; log on express trains and boarding at ' respectable hotels. One of the strong­ est drawing cards was Robert Thornton ---the young star who had loomed up in (be dramatic privament and who had in two seasons managed to eclipse the brightness of a hundred older lights. Hiii fame and prosperity were more than assured aud his manager divided with him, week by week, enormous sums of money--the receipts from crowded and enthusiastic horses. One morning the theater-goiug pub- lie and members of the profession were astounded to read in their morning vipers an Associated Press dispatch, as follows; "Mr. Robert Thornton, the eminent young comedian, has notified his manager that he : Will sever his connection with the- stage at tile end of the present season. Mr, Thorn­ ton insists tiiat this statement is not made . for effect or for advertising purposes. He says that his decision is positive and final, and that he would cease playing with the • Close of the present week, were it not for fife contract and dates already advertised," Mr. Robert Thornton did indeed keep Ms word, and so many years havo , elapsed since his butterfly period of public life, that he is already well-high forgotten. Bo far, only one person is aware of the true reason, of his sudden retirement--it remains for us to disclose the secret to whoever will read this nar- ' rative. Robert Thornton was (lie is yet, for Wight I know, as no news of his death has reached me) a genius, a man with » big head and brain, a man "with enormous and invincible will­ power, and a born artist. But h© was selfish, cold-blooded and calcu­ lating to a degree; his mighty intellect was set off by a hardened heart and a much-dwarfed soul. When Robert Thornton conceived the idea of adopting the stage for a profes­ sion he was a young man of twenty --the "only son of his mother and she was a widow," that was not all. Robert was the son of his mother's" old age. for when •the boy was twenty his mother was some years more than sixty, and the old • lady fairly idolized her "boy." Instead of hoarding and carefully investing the small amount of money left by a hard­ working husband, Mm. Thornton spent it lavishly upon young Robert--rearing bin* amid every comfort and finally educating him so that he might graduate from a college and enter one of the f|Barned professions." But before Robert could rater a col­ lege the money "gave oat," and the widow and her son-were thrown upon tke world with Robert for breadwinner. To his credit, be it said, Robert obtained " employment and from a salary of fifty dollars a month turned over forty to his mother. The other ten he "invested" systematically for his own benefit. One dollar each week he paid for a lesson in elocution from an old actor who had in generations past won thunders of ap­ plause from pit and gallery. Every cent of the balance went for tickets to the theaters and 'for--cheap - editions of printed plays. The young man was a natural actor, and knew it. At the end of three years he was an educated and polished comedian, and knew that too. So did a wealthy and far-sighted mana­ ger upon whom Thornton called de­ manding consideration. Upon his twenty-fourth birthday Bobert Thornton signed a two years contract; with the wealthy and popular manager, and both the old man and the young beginner felt that their fortunes were than and there assured. "Thornton had never displayed much ievo for his mother who had done so much for him. She was not only old; she was old-fashioned and she was sadly illiterate. The good woman in her entriety paired upon Robert's oold and unsympathetic nature. He could not appreciate the blind and an­ swering devotion which was prompted by her motherly instinct any more than 1 she could understand the humor and subtle points of the leading part which i to be Goodsbye, -- --- stabbed heart _ _ "Yam* the city by etxrrm. "Young Mr. TtaRttoa* and his-play were an unfQal$&«i{t- aaeeess, and "Young Mr. Thowrt^s* ifflifm at the Ownd Pacific, on fke morning after: his debut, was a perfect floral {tower, by raanou of exquisite flowers from lid many admirers, while the table was piled up with congratulatory letters and notes. Robert Thornton was as happy aa Rob­ ert Thornton could be, for not onee did hepaoaetaithink of a lonely mother,who, with all her pain, and through all her scalding tears, still loved the boy whose success (which she had witnessed from a balcony soat) had filled her aching heart with pride. Nearly two years passed away--two years of continued successes in every city of the country, and once again Rob­ ert Thornton was in his native place, the city of Chicago. The city was, as it had been once before, filled with ad­ vertisements announcing the coaiing of the " phenominal success, Young Mr. Thornton," and the box office at the Levity Theater was thronged'daily with men and women anxious to purchase tickets. Robert Thornton, on his ar­ rival, took up his quarters at the hotel. He intended to go and see his old mother whom he had not once visited in the two years of his popularity. But his callers were numerous and his tim* limited, and when the opening night ar­ rived he had not seen liis mother. Dur­ ing his absence he had regularly sent, week after week, the ten dollars which he had promised--never more and never less. Now and then the money was ac­ companied by two or three hurried lines, but never by a letter--he was tco busy, socially and professionally to write let­ ters. He did find time to send his mother a ticket for the show, and when the curtain went up and the play began there was a little white-haired lady in the front row of the brilliant balcony. Robert Thornton's quick eye detected her, but he gave not the slightest token of recognition. That night thel}favorite actor excelled himself and the magnifi­ cent audience gave him a perfect ovation. Somehow, in making her way through the immense crowd old Mrs. Thornton stumbled and fell in the entrance-way at the foot of the grand stair-case. She was jostled and trampled upon, and when she was at last rescued from her perlious posi­ tion, there was very little life left in the good soul. "Policeman," said the yonnger of two ladies who were about to enter a richly appointed carriage, "that poor woman appears tc ibe" alone: pftt her in my carriage." The officer did so, and then the lady, who was very young and very beautiful, said to 'the coachman-- "James, drive ihto a quiet street; and then wait for orders." With much difficulty the kind-hearted girl secured from Mrs. Thornton her address and took her home. Just what she learned from the old lady, I do not know; but I do know that the next day Rbbert Thornton received a note from that same young lady who took his mother home, and this is how the note read: Mb. Thornton : I had the good fortune, last evening, of being able to render a slight service to your mother. At the same time, quite unsought, I learned your true character. As, in my opinion, a, heartless son would make a heartless husband, and as I cannot love where I do not respect, I take a wo­ man's privilege and unhesitatingly break our Engagement. Your letters and ring I will return as speedily as possible. Let m i add that this is final and conclu­ sive. and I must refuse to see you on any consideration, Lucile Ei>wood." It was on the following morning that the Associated Press dispatch announc­ ing Mr. Robert Thornton's retirement from the American stage, found its way into .all the daily papers. Foreign Titles. N& fdfrei^n, though more fill no French*5title holds a more esteemed place than that of *'marquis," which, in­ deed, socially may be said to rank above that of duke for the very simple reason that while the first Napoleon created a large number of dukes and princes he patented no marquises, who, unless the sons of imperialist dukes, are therefore known to be of creation belonging to the days of the monarchy, says a writer in Chamber's Journal. Such points are of course difficult to determine with­ out ready sources of reference, but in foreign society such distinctions are as familiar as are with us those which re­ gulate the relative social position of the members of our aristocracy. It is a .distinction not always thor­ oughly understood, that which exists between political or peerage .nobility and nobility of blood. A gentleman of blood being already noble, cannot be further ennobled by being raised to the peerage, though his rank and privileges are thereby augmented. This is a point which, if it is not always clear to the English mind it is difficult to explain to the foreigner. He, However, perhaps better than the Briton, can grasp the meaning of the amusing anecdote of the Spanish grandee s who, signing their DEVICES OF SOUTH IT tbx FIELDS. _ consent to the accession to their throne he was to plav in a great comedy to be of the French Philip V., wrote each pranced for the first ' ' ! - i ' Ar~- >> . Lb --. time when be abonld make his debut. V The city of Chicago wu literally plas­ tered from center to circumference, with vposters, show bills, and dodgers of every possible color and design advertising the new actor, "Young Mr. Thornton, nnder the management of T. M. Brill." The newspapers were full of Thorntou. His name was seen on the cars, in the store windows, and upon the backs of "sandwich men." It was about six o'clock in the even­ ing. At 8 the curtain of the Levity Theater would ring up on the first scene in the American comedy "Collars and Cuffs," with Robert Thornton as the star. At 6 o'clock Thornton walked into the modest tenement flat, which was his mother's home, and found his mother busy fixing up her Sunday dress. The little old woman, with iler ben ten 1 shoulders and gray hair bespeaking her advancing years, looked proudly at her boy, through her spectacles. But there was no answering sinile of affection in. the young man's countenauce. * "Mother," he said, coldly--almost in- djfferently--"here is a ticket fair the show this evening. Of course I cannot take you; perhaps you had bette* wait for the matinee on Saturday and go in the daylight; please yourself. Here are $10; and I shall send you $10 every week: I cannot live here any longer; I go on the road in two weeks, and I may aa well say good-bye now. And listen, mother. You can write to me at the Grand Pacific it you want anything^ after I leave the city I will give yon my cjmeitodseem*;I against his name, "noble as the king;" one, however, adding, "and a little more, for," he said, "Philip V. jsa Frenchman while I, I am a Castiliau." Though it is a colloquial fiction that every Spaniard is of noble birth, it must be remembered that it is only the heads of the Spanish noble families who bear the title, the eldest son of a duke being known dur­ ing his father's lifetime simply as "Don Alfonso di ." It is perhaps not familiarly known that a Spanish title is by no means an inexpensive luxury. The rank of grandee costs about £1,000; and while with us a ducal title entails an outlay of £1,309, it must be remem­ bered that it is only the original recip­ ient who pays this sum, which in Spain is renewable on every fresh assumption of the title. This is but poorly recom­ pensed by the right enjoyed by all Spanish grandees of remaining covered in the presence of royalty, a privilege confined in this country to the family of Lord Forester and Lord Kingsale. An Interesting Phenomenon. Tha study of the luminous night- clouds which, since 1885, have been vis­ ible in Europe in the months of June and July, is urged by Hei r O. Jess ol the Berlin Astronomical Observatory. Their periodic movement and great height suggest that they manifest the activity of eosmical forces, and that they may throw light on the question of a resisting medium in space and on that of the forces which operated in the early development 6f the planets. A sleeping-cae trust--Confidenoe in tlieparttr, v : ;c • . -. •' f.C Making a Dog Swallow a Oom Diamonds Secreted Under the •kin of Live Fowla aad in Sheila of a Shotgun. Iif the old days t'ie diamond fields of Kiml>erly, South /f iat, pre^nted a cntigaa pco'ure, a conglomeration of na- tifltiaHtjy, of lie mre and order, of law Ural lawlessness, that has prol >nbly ueyer been gathered together in one phvc? since the world begu'j. Natives, Germans, Jews, Frorioh, Gree!i, Eng isb,% Dutch, Boers, Africa iders (a dote tib'.e raw, half Dutc!i, half native), Chinese, Rus­ sian, and a fe .v Americans. This mot ley throng josl4ed each other daily u on the main stree;, or around the mine, all bisily enr loyed in the race for wealth, the search for t'10 sma l glitter­ ing stones that the e:uvh was forced to yield up to the'r en^er eyes and ut rlng hand. When the fields were first opened, "miiiais* law" prevailed; a mai paid $2.50 for his claim, aud, at iking it out, want ti work, or enipl iyed natives to dig for Win; if it was an'old c'aim that he had b ;U'jhtr the s.mie license was re­ quire! to w:>rk it; he then s;>ld his dia­ monds for what he liked, and where he could at wished. The natives in those days, newly in- teimixed with the whiles, were the hon­ est me\iof t~e community, aud rendered up every stone they found, with very few exceptions, writes W. F. Pond in the Pittsbu g f>i»p<'t h. So largely did this uprightness (.b ain among them that a native servaut employed in the house finding a diamond or money in the sleeping room of a n an would seek the individual at the csnteen or the mine, and holding out the find would say: "Here, Bsas!" re.-oiviug as a re­ ward 60 cents for a diamond and 25 cents for a gold piece or a bill. With the growth of the industry the rivnliy in the search for diamonds bseame more and more intense, and the first shoots of dishonesty that sapped the up.-ight nature of this golden age of the natives may be traced to the advent of unscru­ pulous brokers, who did not hesitate to waylay and importune the native work­ ers to steal the diamonds, and sell the precious stones to the broker at a nomi­ nal minimum price. For a long time this went on unsus­ pected by the majority of the claim owners, and when found out by chance a lively time ensued. Evory native was subjected to a most rigorons scrutiny on leaving the mine, and as they mostly worked nude, or nearly so, the chance for hiding the gems were limited, and the ears, mouth, nose and wool completed the hiding places possible, as a glance at the feet displayed the curled up t-es which in­ dicated the fact of something held be­ tween them. Addel to this, the most strict surve:llftiice was exercised over the doings of the natives l>oth in and out of the ni'iie; when in the mine each gang worked under tho inspection of a trust ed native, or of a white man who had gone "busted" in his own claim, or had sought the fields to try and work his way from the bottom upward. These inspectors watched every movement of the diggers, making the picking up of a stone without detwtion almost an im­ possibility, and these inspectors were, in turn, watched by other men, and un­ der this double supervision the anxious minds of the claim owners were in a measure satisfied and at rest. Under this system innumerable dodges were tried by the natives, proving suc­ cessful for a time, bat in the long run discovered and exposed; the one great fact which opened the claim owners eyes, being the constant disappearance every day or so of some native, and the news gleaned some weeks later from newly arrived natives tl at the missing men had reached their kraal (village) up country, and were "buving cows," or, in other words, accumulating to them­ selves the currency of the tribes, which runs: eight cows make one woman (wife), just as 100 cents make one dol­ lar. Watching his work, the native would see a fairly large stone fall from a stroke of the pickax, or see one stuck upon the broken face of a piece of tufare ms lime­ stone as it was thrown into the bucket that running, on the cables, conveyed it to the surface. Getting an opportunity he would manipulate it near his foot, pick it up with lr's toes, and work away for an hour until he saw a chance of getting it into his hand, and transferring it thence to his mouth or nose. Making an excuse to get in the bucket and Teach the surface, he would mingle with the men and hide it some way, thrusting it into a dog's throat, and then watch the dog until he had a chance to kill it. Falling in this he would thrust it into a goat 's hair, or even at a pinch swallow it himself. Onee started upon the course of de­ ception, and giving himself up wholly to the corrosive effects of civilized habits, the native speedily passed his teachers, and became a past master in the artrof duplicity. Water pails had small holes bored in their staves, mak­ ing a kind a pocket, into which a small diamond could lie slipped by a native pretending to drink; a slur from his earthy haud effectually covering up the hole. When the pail reaches the sur­ face, the diamonds wore extracted by the water-carrier, who were in collusion with the workers, and were sold to some of the unscrupulous brokers. Another smart trick was found out by accident. A native who was suspected of secreting diamonds was watched, but without success; they could never catch him, until one day a sharp-eyed inspec­ tor saw through his method. H went into the mine naked, like the others, and coming out with his pickaxe on his shoulder, submitted to be overhauled without a murmur. He had taken his pickaxe, and where the handle passed through the head he had very artistical­ ly hollowed out the wood centre, and filled the shallow orifice with moist clay; he would work along steadily until he saw what he fancied was a diamond on the falling earth, and then the head of the tool would suddenly get loose and have to be dumped upon the .ground to tight­ en it, taking care to do so in su li a man­ ner as to bring the clay over the dia­ mond and pick it' up. He would pass the searcher without fear ol detection, as every dump would but increase the security of the sto et At last it was found that nothing would stop the peculation of the natives; the eat-o'nine-tails at the triangle rather served to scare the new native help away than to correct those who were working; prison was no '•punishment, and the claim owners, in despair, turned their attention to the channel they should have struck at first. The governing body passed a law that every dealer in diamonds, whether a buyer or a seller, should take out a li- oense costing $500, or, in default, if dealing iu any way, should be . subjected to a heavy nne and imprison- .. > mess fortwo years/which sentenoe oar- si ' licensed loss] pinion . §iwds'lwi|pb« bott<| I <*&t, and that the snpj ""lid not Ukt foreat > provided that no di the eaRig^iitli an wj i, except |»¥itoecial pel "igtl»e«eTlingkstom diggers or traders at tt WITH ONE JDEA. STICKING TO A SINGLE ra BROUGHT WEALTH. down with sledge ham­ mer foi*fe»;||feon the nnlicensel whites,'* who, f-taigettiiig stones from the natftes, { could not* sell the n to the licensed bro­ kers (as the seller feare l l»eing handed o.er to the authorities and the buyer- was afraid of a trap), neither could tliev b >ldly board the stage or bul'cck wagon without sul mitting to a regular customs house inspection. Still, however, the illicit trade went on, and so great were the attractions of excitement and gain that it he'd out, lhat uu oIkvs of we'l-bml men, belong­ ing to families of high repute in Europe, were d awn into its emlnace,caught and suffered the.'r terms of imprisonment without their friends at home ever hear­ ing of it. ' •4 With the ccm'ng into force of ihis law was tfe«f formation of a "preventive J force, to which I, in common with a i goodly number of others, was appoint- I ed? aad this gave me an insight into a ; great many queer tricks that wore trie! with va -yirjg s uecess. One man «ad a hujge shaggy dog that he set great st »re by, and making about three journeys to the cot;Hi every year, ie in Clothoa Fina and Xil- in Other Queer Things--Med- ten and Engineers With Prof- Specialties. [this is the age of specialists, ly nma who can do one thing fan any other person, or even lan mcs®; persons; reaps the i proven in a thousand Avays, in sens as well as in those under- *t leave their impress upon an SeptTis an old fellow down on Nas- sait street who has grown richer than ha|f the big merchants around his hum- bli store, and all that he sells is insect same race as the inhabitants of South- raoe. Moata speech waf * ago from Ajhqfrf- They are i in religion; if they go to their own Arab schools, cr.l'ed mwyas, they are taught, little except to recite verses from the Koran. They ara for the most part bright and merry, much like other boys among themselves, but inclined to be Cye and suspicions in the presence of signers. * Girls are seldom admitted to the Arab schools, and they do not go, except rarely, to the French schools. They are usually married at an age when Ameri­ can girls are still play ing with dolls. A good proportion of the Arab boys attend the French schools, aud in some of the towns all tnc Arab children speak and write French. There is, however, a race of people in Arabia who are much more eager to learn than the Arabs. Thev are the Kabyles, who, although Mussulmans iu religion, some scientists, believe to belong to the pokvder. So great did the -fame of the j em Europe. They are mostly farmers vermin destroyer become that a dozen and mountaineers, and are very indus- imitators sprang up in various parts of trious; they are eager to learn, and send the city, yet without injuring the pros- all their girls and boys to school wher- perity of the original. ever schools are founded. Among them Good-year was a one-idea man, and! are some strange colonies descended he haunted capitalists with his gum from the ancient'Romans, and still call- shoes until they begrtn to call him a crank, but he carved out for himself fame and fortune enough to fit out a dozen average men. Governor Ames, of Massachusetts, acknowledges that the colossal fortune of his family was founded upon shovels. His firm made shovels and shovels, and ^Veh\^to^Amesh^erieh th® W°rtd> ! ^ST^fh T in™ mid W P^to. Ames was rich. - > ( wMch, at the beginning of the present . une cl ap made a fortune out erf century, was almost entirely Mussul- clothes-pins that r.lmt up with a spring, but the funny point iu his success is that the people never found out that his pins were intended for the securitv of one of our men, playing with tho dog one day, discovered that he was covered with a number of recently healed scars, which the owner said were the result of san.1- sores. We, however, were | rather rather too conversant with those t ]>ests not to recognize their marks at ! sight. On his next trip the owner was ! overhauled, and no less than thirty fair- ! ly sized stones were found hid in a num- j l>er of incisions in the dog's skin, the J edges of which have been allowed to i heal over the stones. These were all I placed in the portions of the body most ! .difficult for the animal to scratch. I When this scheme was exposed the I authorities at the coast seized upon the j idea, and by close inspection found that j diamonds were being conveyed to Eu­ rope skillfully sewn under the skin of living fowls, birds and animals gener­ ally, which were transported as zoolog­ ical specimens or gifts to the various collections. One man left the fields, and upon be­ ing followed and overtaken, pretended he was out hunting, and aa we came up with him oooly put his gun to his shout der and shot a bird sailing overhead, remarking as we came up: "I don't suppose thai bird has any diamonds under his skin, has he? We went ! through him, and, finding nothing, let j him go. Some time afterward we learn­ ed that the two shells he slipped into his I gun after firing it were loaded with dia- i inomls instead of powder and shot, and, ; although the butt had been tested and j the auijiiuuitioii iu his belt inspected, | no one thought of looking at the two ; cartridges in 4he barrels. Soon after { this the same man was caught at the j coast with two shotguns among his bag- i gage for Europe, both of them being loaded to the muzzle with diamonds, held in their place by a wad inserted as though to keep out the dust. The greatest haul we ever made was with a book agent. He came into the ! fields with a team of oxen, and sold i books to even- one, staying there quite a while; when he left we found seventeen j of his books and a cunning receptacle I in the cover made by hollowing it out, filling it with diamonds and plugging the end with paper pulp. One of our men picked up a volume to look at it, and hearingsomething rattle, discovered the trick. There were over #100,000 in his possession. A Dutch Boer, who came to the fields to sell ostrich feathers, filled the quills of his surplus stock with the stoues, and tied the ends over so naturally that no one could have dreamed that they had everbeen opened, and the quills/ being black in their natural state, preserved the deception. These were only small stones, and, although there were a num­ ber of them, they d .d not amount to any large sum, comparatively speaking. J Another clever trick was tried by a | m#n who had been a shoemaker, and who still preserved his tools. He fixed I some hollow boot heels to a number of j shoes, filled them with diamonds and I passing inspection, boarded the stage j and drove off. Six hours after he was 1 gone, a woman whom he had been | drinking with gave the thing away be- i cause he refused to take her along. We j had a long aud weary chase, and a dan­ gerous one, as the stage had relays of horses wailiug and we had not, and to get foundered on the veldt (prairie) meant considerable hardship, if not death. We caught up with them at last, and made him stare by asking him to get down, while we went for hia boots. the weekly wash, but misappropriated them for paper clips aud made a run on him. A Yankee began the manufacture of padlocks * to fasten dog-collars. * He made no other padlocks, but got rich all the same. Another man, who hit out the idea of the return ball, and stuck to that and nothing else, amassed a com­ petence. But, perhaps, the most singular single idea worked in the mercantile line was that of the fly-trap man, who had a place of business on William street. He sold nothing but fly traps, and l ad them of all varielies aud various styles of arclii tecture each one better than the other. He had crowds of customers, and got rich just in time, for the poor fellow to whom he sold out was ruined by the combined efforts of the single idea fly­ paper man, and the equally solitary-idea window-screen man. Both these worth­ ies declared a revolution against the century, was man, aud practically uncivilized. Now, although the: e are not quite half a mil­ lion Europeans iu the country, more than a million people speak the French language. Algeria, moreover, is but a part of the French domain in Africa. There are French colonies here and there around the whole northern half of the conti­ nent, and nearly all Northwestern Afri­ ca, including Tunis, Algeria, Senegal and a great part af the Western Soudan, promises to become French eventually. The French flag has been carried as far into the interior of Africa as Tim buetoo, which, not many years ago, was a synonym for all that was strange, far ftvajr aud inaccessible. •W Stanley'* Disooveriaa. Whatever may be the outcome of Mr. Stanley's effort to bring away the Wa- delai garrison, the cause of geographical science will, at all events, be greatly benefited. In his interesting letter to the Royal Geographical Society, he imnsil gives a mass of important information nZTllZT.™*™1*' ftml r°tlrea about the uuknowVi , - - -upon ample fortunes. There is a famous down town drug store, whose proprietor is a convert to the one idea, and that one idea soda water. He doles out oceans of the regions through which he lately passed. The country is, it appears, most prolific of vegetable life; wherever the Arabs had not created a wilderness, plenty and prosperity were found on every hand. Even the li , . A' - j uuious wees -grow, ouier ana re S 4 "ie^1/'/ing profitable crops might be cultivated. Ami-inn » for the hostility of the natives, it has to among the commercial branches of human industry. The neurologist, who studies the nervous diseases, and who would consider himself insulted if af-ketl people have been accustomed to find mthless ene nies in every armed coun­ try moving through their territory. It is not given to them to differentiate be- -i , nsmted it asked tween one party aud another; for all \ a <Ulhe of men?°s; 1 they could tell to the contrary, Mr. , " 1U1 °futl'a^°aS Stanley might have been another and T8 f J«°lT T ! ™>rst sort of man-hunter. That they . , .4 P , a id -who chiefly looks nre does not miiitate against their character. The Maoris and the wise and talks mysteriously; the aurist, and half a score of other medical and Surgical specialists, reap the big rewards of their profession, and get most of tho glory. The dream of the newly-fledged medico is to blossom out into a consult­ ing specialist, sit in his office and take fat fees, and refuse to go out of his office save to see old Money-Bags, -who is willing to pay handsomely to cheat the gentleman who is bound to got him sooner or later. Among onginesrs specialties pay enormously. One engineer puts all his Fijians were similarly addicted at one time, but with civilization came a dis­ taste for "long pig." Perhaps the most important of Mr. Stanley's discoveries is that the Albert Nyanzais rapidly dry­ ing up. Even since Einin Pasha first went to Wadelai a great change has taken place; what were islands seven or eight years ago lmve beoome headlands on which villages how stand. It is con­ jectured that this is due to the wearing of the reefs across the Nile near Big Basin of Fork Fickle, Morris H. Frost, who was collector of customs at Port Townsend, Washington Territory, in 1859, used to tell this an­ ecdote about himself: He was raised in the northern pa.it of New York State and came, to Oregon across the plains. He knew What table salt was and coarse salt for pickling beef and pork. He also knew about cpgom sal's and glauber salts, such as &re given to sailors on long voyages, but had never seen the bosom of the briny deep; ho had never seen the ocean. After residing a while in Oregon he came over to the sound and was riding on horseback from the Cowlitz landing to Fort S teilacoom. The weather was warm, the rood dusty and his hors e very thirsty. At last through the dense forest he discovered the glim­ mer of water, and, thinking it a lake, he drove his horse in to drink. The animal, in his raging thirst, plunged his' head in up to his eyes, then drew it up suddenly, snorting and blowing. The^ Colonel got off, and, taking fome of the water in his hand, t isted it, and ex> claimed: "Pork pfckle, by thunder I " A man coming along the bail at the. time explained that it was the salt water of Puget Sound, apd showed the Colonel a bYook near by where the horse quenched his thirst. The Colonel, when relating this to a reports of the Port Townsend Argm, said that he was not as green as a friend of his from Pike County, Missouri, who went to Olvmpia for a few days. He noticed the tides, but did not know what to make of them. He told Colonel Fiwt that this was the strangest country he ever saw, for there were two freshets every twenty-four hours and nary drop of rain. "The fact was," said the Coknel, "he and I had our hair full of hay seed, but I have got the hayseed out of my hair by wrap­ ping some kelp leaves round my head, and now I am as salt as any one. away ,. , ; Wadelai. But why should the erosion time into studying railroad bridges, and , iiave taken place all of a sudden, as railroad corporations have been known | 8eems to have been the case ? Were the to pay lnm $25,(MX) for supervising and i lake t:) contimie to fall afc the same rate passing «pon plans. One celebrated , a g,.eftt change would come over all the enomeer-ce-ebratad among raUroad; 8^,^* While losing, builders bat lnucUy known outside of j per]ltlpS} some of their present fertility, vas asked-by they wou'd become much more healthy, that branch of industry the constructors of a Western road what he would charge for building a bridge of considerable length,, and presenting some specially intricate engineering problems. "Twenty-five thousand dollars down, all my expenses, and carte blanche authority to employ any engineers, if I find any, who know more about certain portions of bridge-building than I do,", was the answer, and although the rail-! road people t >ok time to consider /he- proposition, they accee.led to his terms. "I have been all my life trying to leam how to build a bridge," said he, "but I am only a generalizer as yet, and have to avail myself of the services of men who have confined themselves to certain specialties of the art." This from the greatest bridge builder in the country. It is curious to note what odd special­ ties will make men famous. Bradiaugli, the English Radical, may be a great man, but his single idea, which lie de­ veloped into a perennial kick against the Parliamentary oath, made him famous, very much as Boquet Johnnie's eccen­ tricity makes that harmles lunatic a notable. Berry Wall, the quandam monarch of the dudes, is now a success­ ful man in a commercial line, owing solely to his tingle ide.i in the line of dress, which made him famous. Henry Labouchere, the World'* London special correspondent, achieved his world-wide celebrity as much through the use- of the first personal pronoun in the editor­ ial columns of Truth, which idea he pursued until I«s popularized it wherever the English language is read, as through the matter they contained, for, of all the writing in that journal credited tj the great politician and journalist, but a small percentage ema- na<j$g&a$n his pen.--N, T. n lr\ ̂ Children in Algieg*,: . S ^ The city at Algiers, the capital of the great French province of Algeria,' in Northern Africa, has so mild a climate that snow is almost unknown. The average temperature in January is fifty- four, degrees; palm trees grow freely in the gardens and suburbs, and the coun­ try has a trophieal aspect. No little ex­ citement was produced, therefore, when one day last winter there fell snow enough to cover the ground. The last such suow-fall h&d taken place in 1861, so that none of the younger people of the country had ever seen anything of the kind. The sensation was so great, indeed, that all the schools were closed, and the pupils, rushing out, were heard to make such remariis as these: "Look! It is raining cotton!" ' "Let's get some, and take it home and save it!" and so present a more promising open­ ing to European enterprise. That con­ summation may seem a long way off, but when once the Arab slave dealers are suppressed, even the dw arf tribes--"ven-. omous, cowardly, and thievish"--ol Ituri land may be won over to peace and industry.--London Globe. ' T~ S CZAR'S.FJ Ee vXenu>ries of the Btder*s Winter Home. nnder ' the tribute of but two weeks! -iHii ing themselves Romans, or "Rumi. The Algerian Jews, too, who are de­ scended from the Jews whom the Span­ iards banished from their country, pay much attention to the instruction of their children. Under the influence of education great changes are taking place in the B>emarkable Bog Statistica. Some rather startling computations have been made on the subject of hog- breeding. It has been found that, it permitted, hogs will live from fifteen to twenty years of age, that they com­ mence breeding when they are from nine to twelve months old, and that from one pair only in ten years, allowing only Bix to a litter, male and female, upward of 6,434,838 pigs would be ob­ tained; that is to say that if, instead of tlirea acres and a cow, a countryman started with some acres and a pair of pigs, lie might in the course of ten years count their progeny by millions. This is not reckoning on any out-of-the-way basis, for it has been shown that one sow actually produced 355 pigs in twen­ ty litters; while at an exhibition of the Agricultural Society a boar was shown which, although only twenty months eld, was already the father of 1,466 hogs. Here then is wealth for the million.-- JLive tiloek Journal. Saleratua Baths. Tlw King of Greece buys his clothesio Lon M r T ? ' i Wlitn a patient is suffering from a fe­ ver and the skin is hot and dry, a sale- ratus bath is often found to give at least temporary relief. This bath can be given to the patient in the bed without removing the bedclothes or his own clothing. Have the water as hot as it can be borne, with saleratus dissolved in it in the proportion of perhaps half a cup­ ful to a quart of M ater. Wet a sponge in this and then squeeze it so dry that there will be no danger of dripping. Bathe the face and hands first, then dry them instantly with a soft towel. Then, putting your own hand and arm beneath ilie bed-clothes, hold them up bridge­ like to keep the clothes from the sponge, and, at the same time, push back the night dress or under-shirt of the patient, so that with the other hand you can pass the warm, damp sponge over his body. Take a limited surface each time and dry it quickly before attempting the next. All this is done beneath the bed­ clothes so that no air can get in to chill the body. Push up the sleeves so as to bathe the arms, in the same way. It is slow and careful work, but not , difficult, and the relief and comfort af- The boys gathered masses of the I forded, even if not permanent, will r%- fleecy snow to keep for a curiosity. I pay the effort. * They were astonished to see it turn into These baths may ba given once a day, water in their hands. or in some cases at 'meaning and at 1* i (frmpmim % £v- ^ There can no longer be at sjayety in this Winter Palace, is it must be by one of those j souvenirs which impose dwellings a lugubrious Ilk entering this palace i (ttUm, on the days when illlnnijiipMftr" is holding court, the servfl father cannot forget the last of Alexander II., which were by so many tragedies. One in iar We can see before our eyes were yesterday. On March 2, If celebrated the twenty-fifth am of the accession to the flu Emancipator, who at tfaft date was to receive tb tude from his people, had been arranged bn the anniversary day, t&B X rudry; the explosion at tho ace occurred, rained all this and spread mourning and tendi^ the sovereign. A repetition at > tempt was announced for 5 Ms»rch, and in the capita" unreasonable panic, the the police caused people to beBaill it was a day of not rather than i tivitv. When we entered tuous hal's, where the ima uothing but mines and . alarm was betrayed on many "&>< Alexander II. appeared; his Ti'nffjj'j tigue and emotion scarcely allowed ! to address a few words to hia Prince Gortchakoff, who had h sent from Russia for several years, IMS was seen there for the last time. > The old companions of the Emperor, witnesses twenty-five years previous^ of the prodigal hopes that had greeted his accession to the throne, looked *rilfar out courage through the veil of pwwut sadness upon their master, grown old, smitten physically and morally by ao many blows, a prisoner in this palace which threatened to fall in rains over his head. The illustrious OhfUioelkjr,in the decline of age and success, I by his strength as well as by hi leaned painfully on a eonsoW salon of Peter the Great, in the that court where absence had a for so long a time a stranger. sentiment of inevitable misfotton£~ pressed all hearts and hovered otf- this august pomp and circumatanoe^ One year after, March 13,1881, was a fresh meeting in this p presence of the bleeding body1 been brought in from a nei^ street. The unforgettable afternoon is still present in of the youngest of the dancerij^lpi:V ball calls them to the palace. once more the terror and des these vast rooms; the conrtiers for the doctors to give them neWfS agony; the immense square alt with people; the stttpoc of th« < waiting with eyes fixed on the f standard; finally the sign erf which passed over ail thess . ages when the standard fell <lfK(>|,4be nag staff, announcing that tlift .-#Mi»a was over. The habitual guestB 4^1" palace who passed there ti months of 1881, and heard on sions the dull explosion of retain in their ears that anguish, and more than one selves listening for it between two of a waltz.--Harper's Magazine. The Order of the B In Rome there is a known as that of the "Sepotie Vivo." The visitor must i it through five successive iron doors. If he talks with his nearest rulative iu the world it must be through the wooden barrel," and then he hears only the muffled sound of a voice that seems miles away. The speaker remains in­ visible, The barrel has been turned and turned until a narrow slit, covered at the farther end by a thin piece of wood, is reached. Behind this the sister stands. Not a ray of light, however, be* trays her whereabouts. She is knowijf by nothing but her voice. She lives a buried life, subsists on charity, and5, keeps two Lents a year, one frtmi No- " vember to Christmas, the other being the Lent of .Christendom. Whatever you give her to cat she gladly acoQpts. But she must be without food fortwQKty- four hours before she can ask it ol ; world. When threatened with atagfn- . tion a bell-is rung, which meant help! we are fanishing." Ifsa«rtfShs. itor carries money instead of " puts it in the barrel that turns round, then back again, and tiny bits of neatly folded paper are fc*QML These contain a powder, which, if S$pl- ^owed, will cure a mortal Once a year, as a Roman tradttSoi^jiis it, each sister has her day. Sftfe then goes to the on vent wall and tlliows over it a flower, a sign to all that hne her that she is still alive. When nortae comes the world of watchers is dead, but when or how stiff 4&ldr\ whether she has been buried a y$at£ otA now lies ready for sepulture, ^et,-.fQa€ . r; beyond the gates is told. Building a House in The negotiations between ahd wily carpenter and the Hamoan house-owner would hardly meet the approval ofj uess man of to-day. Under ating influences of kava, the presen's are protiu jed to construction of a house. once, without any terms and the work advances until ter thinks more presents lie ceases work. Additiojptl: made, the carpenter couti"" struction nutil he deems is demand another teontriba<i|j§| again stops work. If th4*Ji " is not forthcoming, lal»or i on the incompleted hous«§| uudeHaken for comp'.etij * of the craft; and forever remains unfinished and proach to the good name nate owner, who, at the ginning, not kuowi^g wl ideas of the carpeiitedaa its construction, must er the community for aid, w ally freely extended, or miiiation of this unfinished --The Uentury. Saddle Sky Bocketa. Mr, Edselle, of Callao, Peru, i a caveat covering an inveatian, |T " of great power with pariwhuhki ment which folds over the apex.̂ tnbea oonneoted with the contain explosives. The: dymoaaoenimite: it is said i tunatiug. It is alleged tha tion will throw a man 15,09(1 ̂ tha air, and that the* r " wil), land about startiikg-~firiî mth« seUe cauma an apptk obiiM equal to that cf war fulfilling all deeired eye observation. An.