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I g d i m r j i g l a i n d r a l c i I fAH C.YKE, Editor and PuWii»«t* •IcHSNRY, II«LTHOI^ EVENING. j H*tot o'er nil the draining 4bo4« J Athwart the ilislanr western sky arc gleams Ot gold and amber ; pearl v rose-edged clouds, Looking BO passing fair, one almost dreams. tt»© opening gate of Paradise hath lent Some tinge of Rlory to the dying day; , . And earth-bound souls, with longing, lm|raij gue, Would fain rise op and move along that way. A stillness sweet and solemn all around ; The song of birds is bushed; there fall* no quiver Of rustling leaf, or shaken trembling reed. Upon the fair faint brightness of th® river. Vbe crescent moon gleams coldly, dimly, forth; And the deep'uinu'blue of heaven, tfar, A tender wntcher o'er the troubled world, Shine th one solitary glitt'ring star. tht shadows deepen on the distant hills; The highest peaks but touched with UngTlng light; And down their purpling sides, soft misty clouds Wra;' all the valleys in a dusky night. And far awav the murmur of the sea, And moonlit waves breaking in foamy line. 60 Night--Gods Angel, Night--with silvery wings, „ . . Fill all the earth with loveliness dlvin*. --Chambers' JournuL left hand on the arm, his right busy f#fth the key. His eyes were rivited km the table before him. For a min ute he was busy with his message, arid then silence. And what a silence! >Tot a muscle moved, not a sound could be heard. Even the agent's breathing had stopped. He watched his machine with the gaze of a lynx. I stood behind him, niy heart throb­ bing with anxiet y and Tear. At last, after a silence which seemed ages, the machine began to click. I watched him while the message came forth THE STATION MASTER. i had been traveling all the after­ noon. Reclining amid the soft cush­ ions of the vestibule car, I was lazily dreaming of once more seeing my home and friends. And therefore, it was with a feeling of disgust that I was obliged to alight at the little station of D---, where I had to wait five dreary hours, before the' arrival ©f the regular train which would take me to the city. Grumbling about the inconvenience of "stop-overs," I got off. Hardly had I overcome my drowsiness when the train started; and I was alone on the platform. It was quite dark. Around me I could see the dim forms of bold and craggy mountains, rising straight up into the misty darkness. A single light shone from the window of the little station, barely illumin­ ating the gloom without As I stood for a moment or two, looking about me, I heard the ever decreasing rum­ ble of the departing train, and finally the sound ceased, as it went rolling away among the ravines and hills. I turned and went inside. Sot a soul was there, except the station- master. He came out of his little office and greeted me cordially. Go­ ing to the stove in the middle of the waiting-room, he poked the tire, slammed the door, and turning to me, said-- "Dark, ain't it?" . "Yes, quite so," I replied. ••Groin' far?" * "Quite a ways--to Boston." "Well, well! You've got quite a stay here--Ave hours--I'm 'fraid you'll And It somewhat tiresome waitin'. Its mighty inconvenient, but we'll make the best of it. Come into my room here, arid have a bite of somethin' to eat--I'm just bavin' supper." s This conversation made us friends for the time being, and I entered with him into the little apartment which was set aside for his duties as station- master. My new acquaintance,--and 1 can assure you that under the circum­ stances he was a most agreeable one, --was a man of about 30 vearsof age, of good size, rather slim, and with a long, narrow face. His movements were impulsive, and he was rather of a nervous disposition. It struck me at first that this was not the man for a station-master, a position which often demands a person of steady nerves, and quick yet deliberate ac­ tion. But as the evening wore on, and our talk became more familiar, my opinion of him changed. Although his actions were decidedly impulsive, yet his brain was very clear, and characteristic of one who could meet a crisis in proper condition. As we partook of the luncheon which he had spread before me, I learned much of his duties and life in the midst of that lonelv valley. He from the wires. It was. evidently, satisfactory reply, for he did not ap­ pear more agitated. The machine soon stopped. He rose from his chair tnd came towards me. It needed lib words to tell me that he had suffered curing those live minutes. Great drops of sweat rolled down his cheeks. His hands shook through anxiety. Placing them both on my shoulders, he addressed me thus, in a hurried and impassioned voice: "1 don't wonder that you're sur­ prised,--Heaven knows that J was awfully frightened!--but listen: 1 got orders this afternoon to stop the freight train which ju>twent by here, ^>n our turnout. I was to detain it Until the Boston 'express should arrive, and then allow it to go oh. But somehow or other. I forgot the order, -- as you know--and didn't think about it 'till a few minutes aga "Soon after it went, I heard from B----, two stations above here, sayin' that the express had just left there for this station. You see it doesn't stop at A----* the one between here and B-^--. That message reminded me of my mistake, and the express and freight have both been running towards the same station. If the ex­ press had arrived there first, and left before the freight got there, or they had not received my message, then-- then--" he paused in his rapid talk, and said in an awful voice: "Then there'd have been a collision, and I'd be to blame. But God knows that I didn't mean to forget to obey that order!" said he impulsively.- "There was only one thing to be done,-- telegraph to A , telling them to hold over the train that arrived there first. That I did. For five minutes, as you saw, I waited in mortal agony for the answer to that message. It came just now. Said that neither train had arrived, and that they'd hold over the one that got there first So, thank God, I was not too late, and that everything is all right" He sank into a chair and folded his arms on his breast. Hardly had he done tnis when the ticker began again. He read the message and then, as the clicking stopped, he bowed his head on his hands and sobbed aloud. The message was, "Have stopped express hece; will hold over as directed." » * * * # # The Boston train reached D half an hour late, by reason of the stop-over at A . Bidding my friend good-night, who was now com­ pletely calmed down, I boarded the sleeper, and soon went rolling towards life and civilization. Two weeks later I came across a country paper from* the vicinity in which my adventure with che ticket agent took place, and I noticed this article: "Much to the surprise of his friends, Mr. John Huss, the popular and trusted station master of D , last week resigned his position, and has now, we learn, removed to New York. We wish him much success in his new quarters."--Amherst Literary Monthly. The Drying dp of the Globe. Another essential cause of increase of dry land that might be added is the decrease of the ocean itself in consequence of infiltrations of water through the crust of the earth, which is a kind of a porous mass, into which the liquid element percolates by in­ numerable fissures, taking possession of the depths and directing itself slowly toward the centre, as the in­ ternal fire diminishes and the crusts crack open in consequence. It is un­ derstood that the activity of vol- C p U B U G G O F K A N S A S ^ . . _ •JKWtfc Too told me many of his experiences as a ! eart^qua 18 railway official, and for two hours or ! ^ ^'s inevitable penetra- wore he closely held my attention to Jiis stories. As the evening wore on, I occupied tnyself in examining the railway maps, and in finishing a novel which I purchased that afternoon on the train. At about 11 o'clock I heard the dull and laborious puff of afreight engine approaching in the distance. Louder and louder the noise became, until suddenly, with a glare from the headlight, the great locomotive thun­ dered by the little window, and in a tion of the water, tfhich internal heat transforms into vapor under pressure. Some geologists think that the primitive ocean has already di­ minished in this way one fiftieth of its volume. The water is all destined to disap­ pear from the surface of the globe by being absorbed by the subterranean rocks, with which it will form chem­ ical combinations. the Heavenly spheres exhibit sufficiently striking examples of such an evolution. The moment the heavy train rolled away j Ma" 8fows what wil1 become -- - - which j haJ ! ot the earth in in the direction from come a few hours before. Silence again fell upon us. We,con­ tinued our talk, interspersed now and then with moments of quietness, brokeh only by the frequent clicking of the telegraph instrument on tile table under the window. At last I finished my novel, and once more sat idly tossing about uiy watch charm. The station master was sitting oppo­ site me, with his feet on the edge of the telegraph table, while ̂ hfe Care­ lessly ran over the columns of a news­ paper. 1 was on the point of making somd remark, when suddenly there came a sharp clickinsr of the instru­ ment. My companion spranvr to the table and answered the call. In­ stantly I saw that something unusual had happened. As the little brass key cl icked off the message. 1 saw the station-master's face grow white, then livid. He rose quickly from the chair placed his hands over his eyes, and almost shouted, "My God! My God! What have I done!" 1 sprang to his side, asking him what was the trouble. He rudely pushed me awav, and with a look which I shall never forget, fairly some thousands of centuries. Its seas are only shallow Mediterraneans of less surface than the continents, and these do not ap­ pear to be very high; and in the ap­ pearance of the mi on all cracked and dried up, ^e have a view of the final surface of the earth--for the absorp­ tion of the water by the solid nucleus will b^ followed by that of theatmos* phere. --Popular Science Monthly. In Pay Him In His Own Coin. jburneying from country to country the chancres in the value of coins is apt to be confusing, writes T. UeWitt Taimage in "Across a Crys­ tal Path" in the Ladies' home jour­ nal. But guineas, and florins, and kreutzcr. and double ducats have ceased to be a perplexity to me. I ask the price of a thing, look wise as if I knew all about it, and then hold out my band and let the vender take his pick. As riches take wings and fly away, I am determined to lose nothing in that manner. Fifty years from now a Turkish piaster will be worth to me as mur-h as a Holland guilder; and It worries me not when I am cheated, for the man who cheats yelled, "Don't speak to me' don't iIuu must' in the emJ. suffer more than speak to me!" Then he sank into !11 so. tha? m>','ha«rin is lost in com- the chair with his hands convulsively passion for his misfortune. grasping the arms. But it was only j for a moment. Quickly gathering himself, he drew up to the table, and then followed some of the most ex­ citing moments that I ever exper­ ienced. Wondering what it all meant, yet realizing that something must have occurred in which he was an import­ ant actor, I closely fixed my eyes upon him. No sound save the spasmodic ^r ,hinteand the hAa,vy There are not many men so-good without ** The Chinese. The Chinese settlers on the Island of Sumatra have a strange and ludicrous form of salutation. When they meet each other, say after an absence of a month or longer, they do not shake each other's hand; they smile broadly, and each grasps his own hand, shaking it vigorously for a few moments. OMnflalns «T « X4Uto Brevity. "The nest thing and some light- hearted American will be ••Quoting Shakespeare, as saying: ^Brevity is the S. O- W.'" The speaker, says the Inter-Ocean, was Col. Solomon Bugg,. late of Kap- sas, and editor of the El Dorado Spleen. The Colonel was seated at a lunch counter with his heels hung on a high round and his bent legs man­ ufacturing two large bags in the knees of his trousers, a function for which lunch counter stools are justly famous. He took off his, broad- rimmed hat and surveying it casually continued: "Where is this country going to, gentlemen? What is going to become of us! I ask this in all sincerity. Has the American Nation respected the sanctity of anything? Do the Ameri­ can people hold anything inviolable? Is there any pride in the preserva­ tion of any art in the National con­ glomerate called 'Uncle Sam?' Show an American a beautiful pastoral paint­ ing and he will ask the artist how much wheat to the acre the field over tc the right of the picture is intended to produce. Take him to a classical concert and he will pick the biggest horn for the best mufeic every time. And look at our language -Just think how It has been juggled and jumbled. There is no respect for purity, for form or precedence. Take the present craze for abbreviations. It is abominable, scurriously abomin­ able, sir. How many citizens of Chi­ cago speak English to-dav? Just now I asked the waiter tp bring me a cup of coffee right away and he said, "Cert., P. D. Q." Could Dick Steele or Addison or old Dr. Johnson under­ stand such English as that? CUTTING IT SHORT. Sometimes when I get to thinking about Columbia being the gem of the ocean, I conclude that she has degen­ erated into a second-class Rhine- stone, and I feel like packipg up, ab­ squatulating, and emigrating to a land where the Byasticutus*rvsticiit,es. the snaggle-toothed tigledewug swims in the swish, and the sozzlingswirl of the slubberly slime and the whangdoole mourneth his first-born. I went into a railroad office the other day and asked over what roads I could reach St Louis. Did the man behind the counter answer me in English? No, sir. He shot the English alphabet at me as if it had been fired from a blunderbuss. "St. Louis," he said. "Over the C., R & Q.; C., R. L & P.; A. T. & S. F.; C. & A.; I. CL; J. & S. W.?" I looked at him in astonishment "Do you want a ticket?" he asked coming back to English. I didn't, as I spoke English, and was not versed in American. But as I walked out, he turned to another clerk and said' "D. H., I suppose." 1 rambled over to take an elevated train to the base-ball grounds. "Is this the elevated?" 1 asked of the man at the gate. "It is the 'L,'" he said, correcting me. • "More American abbreviation," thought I. "Mind, your Fs and Q's," he shouted, grabbing me by the arm, and pulling me on the train. "Do you like this better than the cables," I asked, drawing the guard into conversation. Cable, N. G." he answered to my misery. Did you leave, the cable company voluntarily?" "No, IfcottheG. B." Abbreviation everywhere, nothing but the alphabet with a disordered stomach. I dropped over to the base-ball parae. I have always heard that it is the American National game. I guess that is true. It is impossible, at least, to understand it with the English language I opened the score book. This is what greeted my eyes: A.; E.; P. O,: H. B.; P. B.; S. B.; IB.: A.; B.; R. B. on b.; H. bv P.; lb on E. THEY ALL DO IT. And this in a country that claims to speak the English language! I might as well have been in the vil­ lage of Hooperignio in Southern Af­ rica watching the native tribe of Big- eonoperas playing a game called Ob- secutiaticus. I fled for the race track, only to find a worse conglomeration of p, p.; ch. g.; b. c.: br. g.; b. g.; ch. f.; c. g.; ch. m. And I had paid my hard silvfer for this! This abbreviation craze Is spread­ ing everywhere. You will find it on the stage where the actors talk of the O. P. side and the L. L. and the first L. E. and the secgnd L. El and the L. O. M. Look at the American societies. Can anybody name them? No, not by the English language. They are tlie I. O. O. F., the G. A. R., the W. C. T. U., K. of L., and the G. O. P., K. of P.. and F. M. B. A. and a thousand others. Go into a saloon and you will hear somebody order an A1 S. and B. Lend a manadollar and he will give you his I. O. U. Next montteSullivan and Corbett will en­ ter the P. R. at New Orleans, and fight Q. R. The printer talks intel­ ligently about np. ff. 1. c. The sartie day I went to the base­ ball game I dropped Into a big estab­ lishment bh State street. A woman was trying on a bonnet. "Doe^it fit? she asked. "To a T." came the answer. "I)o I look well ip 1^,?" ' "Away up in G-* "How much will it cost£**v "A V.B "I'll take it; send it up' 'to house C. O. D." "Certainly." "That arrangement is satUfadtory to you then?" "Yes; all O. K." 1 'I grasped the nearest pillar and panted for breath. 'That night as 1 was going home a patrol wagon carricd a man away as I passed.' "Who is it®" I asked of a police­ man who is a friend of mine. "Oh, it's R , a prominent M. M. He's got the D. T. Remem- ,«Oh,w said ray poHcenian, smiling, 3®¥riiir as sftflpie as A B,; the ber this is on the Q. T. "Great heavens, man!" I cried, "bow do you manage to talk so?" "How--talk so!" ' "Whv, Q. T.'s." with- your IX T.T» and v 8»ve«l by His Hors«. , Th# battle of Eylau, fought < be- tween the French under Napoleon, and the allied Russians ahd Prussi­ ans, was one of the most terrible bat tl^s of the century. Marshal Auger- eaii took into the action 15,000 men; he came out with only 3,0u0. The Marshal was wounded; all his generals and colonels Were killed or wodnded. One of his aids Jifarbot, was severely wounded, and owed ;his escape from death to the swiftness of his mare Lisette, an animal of great speed and fierce temper. She bit like a bull-dog, and threw herself with fury on per­ sons who displeased her. She could -only be saddled by the aid of five per- sons; but her driver once oa her back, she was peerless. The story of her doings in this battle Is told in Mar- bot's memoirs." The 14th Regiment remained alone oh a hill, which the Emperor had or­ dered it not to quit, surrounded by the enemy. The Emperor resolved to save it, if possibly and ordered Marshal Augereau to send an aide-de­ camp to it with certain instructions. It was almost impossible to carry out the order, as a cloud of Cossacks sep­ arated us from the regiment. Two officers in turn were sent Neither of them reached his destination. They were never heard of again. It was my turn. I dashed off on the errand. I rode as if racing, leaving my sword in its scabbard. Li- sette flew, leaping over the heaps of dead men and horses and gun-car­ riages. Thousands of Cossacks were scattered over the plain. None of them tried to stop me, partly be­ cause of the speed of my mare, and partly because each one thought that I could not escape those beyond him. Thus I escaped all and reached the regiment I found it formed in a square. It was surrounded by a circle of dead horses and Russian dragoons whom they had repulsed. I had diffi- culty in pass'ng over this bloody em­ bankment When I gave to the officer in com­ mand the order to retire, he said the handful of men remaining would be exterminated if it descended to the plain. "I see no means of safety," he said. "Return to the Emperor, and bid him farewell on behalf of the 14th Regi­ ment, which has faithfully executed his orders. Convey to him the eagle which he gave us, and which we can defend no longer. It would be too painful to us in dying to see it fall into the hands of the enemy." The Captain then handed me the eagle, which the soldiers saluted for the last time, with' cries of yive 1* Empereau! At the moment when 1 was leaning forward to rgceive the feXgle, a "<5ihon-bafl passed through the peak of my hat close to my head. I was all but annihilated by the blow, but did not fall from toy horse. Blood flowed from ray noise, my ears, and feven from my eyes. Still I saw, heard, and preserved my intellectual faculties, though mv limbs were so paralyzed that 1 could not move a finger, A column of Russian infantry charged the hill, and threw them­ selves on the feeble remnant. I re* ceived a bayonet wound in the arm. A Russian bayonet struck the hind quarters of Lisette. Mad With pain, the mare rushed on the Russian, seized him by the face, and with her teeth mangled him horribly. Then rushing into the midst of the com: batants, she threw herself against every one she met. f A Russian officer laid hold of her bridle;,she seized him, lifted him, and carried him to the foot of the Jiill. where she trampled on his body, left him dying on the snow, and gal­ loped at full speed for the French lines. Thanks to the hussar saddle 1 maintained my seat. When near our lines, I found my­ self in front of a battalion of the Old Guard Unable to see on account of the falling snow, they took me for an enemy leading a charge. The battal­ ion fired on me. My cloak and saddle were riddled, but I was not wounded, nor was my mare, which charged the battallion and passed through the ranks. Healing Spells. Many healmg spells are still prac­ ticed in various districts in Great Britain, which are considered certain remedies. The Northumbrian cure for warts is to take a large snail, rub the wart well with it, and then Im­ pale the snail on a thorn hedge As the creature wastes away, the wart will surely disappear. In Sunder­ land, the crown of the head is shaved and the hair hung upon a bush or tree, with the full faith that as the birds carry away the hair, so will the cough vanish. In Lincolnshire, a girl suffering from the ague cuts a lock of aer hair and binds it around an aspen tree, praying the latter to shake in her stead. At least one holy well in Ireland--that of Tubbef Queen--requires an offering of hair from all Christian pilgrims who come here on the last three Sundays in June to worship St. Quan. As a charm against toothache, it is neces­ sary to go thrice around a neighbor­ ing tree on the bare knees and then cut off a lock of hair ahd tie it to a branch. The tree thus fringed with human hair of all colors is a curious sight'and an object of deep venera­ tion. 1 Indian Klephants. All the elephants used in the Indian Army as draught animals in the artil­ lery or commissariat or as baggage an­ imals in the transport department are very carefully.attended to, and in every way treated with the greatest consideration. Their keep is rather expensive, being about 30 rupees, or $17 a day, including.ofeourse, the wages of their mahout and grass cut­ ter. Thev are fed principally upon unhusked rice and grass. Of the former they get about 250 pounds and of the latter about 400 pounds, per diem. The very large female eats, after the first day or two, about 750 pdunds of green fodder in 18 hours. Tbiss is exceeded often by large tusk- er$, so that about 800 pounds is about thie right amount to be placed before a fullgrown elephant, with a margin to allow for waste. As a good load for an elephant is about 800 pounds, it will be seen that the amount he will eat per day will be as much as he can carry, and this will also be the right yroportion for the smaller ones. 4 It Was Maternal Lot* V1'X.' huah had fallen upon the assent* bly. A medium-sized woman with a slight growth of whiskers was speak­ ing earnestly and persuasively. She was addressing the wives and moth­ ers, and her words of ad vie J related to the management of a home. "Be satisfied," she urged, "with the substance of power. Let it be enough that you rule your.househoj without an ostentatious display of authority." • She,paused. ; *• "Ma, mp." "•« * * ! An excited b^:*Vft'fi^:"OT^^%o room and stood breathless with heav­ ing breast and flushed cheeks, jtist "within the door. ' "Ma, ma," he screeched. The medium-sized woman With a slight growth of whiskers displayed evidences of great emotion. There was a noticeable pallor ih her lace. "In my own house----" . v:,. She endeavored to be calm. "Ma. Come home." ' * - The excited boy had proceeded to­ ward the front and it was plain that he was addressing the medium-sized woman. Her voica trembled but she continued bravely---- "1 am content to govern--- "Ma, ma, baby's crying ahd pa's mad." The tremor in the voice of the lady with the slight growth of whiskers grew more pronounced. "And never insist----" ...>.\'l ' "Ma, ma. Pa says if you don?t come home in fifteen minutes he'll break your back." The boy, hot and gasping, stood be­ fore her. "Why. Willie." Her expression of countenance was suggestive of terror. Her attempt to appear surprised was a conspicuous failure. "Ma, baby's crying and pa " "Hush." She turned to the audience. "Maternal love," she remarked, with a great extort at self-repression, "is the strongest impulse known to humanity. You must excuse me. I go to my child." When they saw how very Anxious she was to get home they could not doubt what she had said about the love that dwelleth in a mother's heart. --Detroi t Free Press. Fplted Stntes Corn in Germany, Following is an extract fro® a let­ ter written in Berlin, Germany, to a New York journal, "Thinking the progress of the Indian corn propa­ ganda in Europe would interest your readers, I would say that, since be­ ginning the crusade in Germany, thjrte$p. mi]jsj}ave.b°en put in oper? ation for grinding corn, aqJ some of them have been working night and day and have been uhable to fill their orders. Several other mills in various parts of Germany will soon be erected, the demand for corn is so great. In Dresden, where two corn-mills are in operation, more than half the bakers are selling maize-rye bread, composed of one part of maize and two parts ?1 rye, in which 'the taste bf maize is not perceived. Even the two mills in the, latter city, one of them T. Biehert's. the largest rye mill in Ger­ many, are baking and selling large quantities of this bread, and the old Government Garrison bakery is turn­ ing out thousands of loaves daily. The red show-bills I mail you will show the savin / effected by the people in using this bread, and these can be seen in many of the baker's windows in Berlin. You will notice the great increase in importation of our corn from the letter of the U. S. Consul at Rotterdam; the other letters and circulars will speak for themselves. Considerable opposition has come from the German Millers' Association, and many false charges have been made against it as human food, all of which have been successfully refuted. My firm opinion is that, when the German people know the full value of Indian corn as human food, they will consume as much as Americans do in proportion to the number of inhabi­ tants. The Government is now put­ ting in acorn-milling plant in their large mill at Madgeburg, and the Government report on the value ot corn as food will soon, be published, which is the result of a thorough in­ vestigation and practical testing of bread-making at the Garrison bakery in this city, and which, 1 am in­ formed by the commission, will be highly favorable." A Real Woman. A natural woman is the greatest power in the world to-day. By her very nature she conquers, whether she be the wife of a humble clerk or a ten-time millionaire. "She is al­ ways so lovable because she is so natural," was the graceful tribute I heard a group of women a few eve­ nings ago pay to a young woman who had just left them. "Men are so fond of her," said another woman in the group, "and yet no one would call her pretty." Let artifice, sham or pretension enter into the nature of such a woman and she would become at once an unwelcome guest where now she is bidden and eagerly sought for. Some one may say: "Yes, the one you speak of is probably a rich woman, and she can afford to be lov­ able." Not at all, my friend. She is the daughter of a man whose salary is too meager for him to give his wife a servant, and his daughter helps the mother in her housework. She is the very sunshine of that hoihe, simply because she is her own self and never tries to appear what she is not Origin of Envelopes. A Brighton stationer, we are to!<?, took ^ fancy for dressing his show- window with piles of writing-paper, rising gradually from the largest to the smallest sizes in use, and, to fin­ ish his pyramids off nicely, he cut cards to bring them to a point Tak­ ing these cards for diminutive note- paper, lady-customers were continu­ ally wanting some of "that lovely little paper," and the stationer found it advantageous to cut paper to the desired pattern. As there was no space for addressing the notelets after tney were folded, he, after much thought, invented the envelope, which he cut by the aid of metal plates made for the purpose. The sale in­ creased so rapidly that he was unable to produce the envelopes fast enough; so he commissioned a dozen houses to make them for him, and thus set go­ ing an important branch of the man­ ufacturing stationery trade. • Orer-Eattn^ It Is perhaps true that most Amen icans eat too much. The^ersop who eats much, yet is hungryand grows thin, is not suffering from lack of food, but from lack of power to digest the food taken intb the stom­ ach, or from an abnormally rapid tis­ sue waste, and should consult bis physician. „ Every one .puts into his "stomach more food than is digested by it, but in many cases a great deal of the ma­ terial really digested does not do its full share of vitalizing wprk. We live by the oxidation of food. Food, whatever its chemical nature-- if it is food in the true sense--Is ca­ pable of being changed into a more oxidized material. This chemical change must go on in a more pr less active way, or death ensues, since the oxidizing of food is necessary for the life of the individual cells, whose ag­ gregation constitutes the whole of our complicated structures. Now if more material is supplied to the system than It can use. or, in other words, more than it can com­ bine with oxygen, much, of the sup­ ply must pass out of the body in a state not fully exhausted of its vital­ izing power; and it is highly probable that these unoxidized products are the causes, direct or indirect, of many troubles of a somewhat obscure nature, to which we have applied the names of rheumatism, gout, lith&mia and the like. Such partially oxidized materials circulate in the blood and are carried to all parts of the body, aud are known to be more or less irritating to its delicate structure's, organs and tissues. In the case of the habitual over- eater, the presence in the blood of such materials, which are constantly acting as irritants to the organs, may easily produce changes in the tissues so irritated. As time goes on these changes become greater and greater, and finally result in permanent con­ ditions of disease, or in an apprecia­ bly hastened death. Exercise, by promoting oxidation, lessens the dangers of over-eating. The habit of rapid eating, especially when habitual over-eating is in­ dulged in, results in an inability to digest the amount of food necessary to keep in active condition the various functions of the body.-t Youth'8 Corapaii&Q; * They Let Her In. Many years ago, before the time of railways, the Oxford coach was full of undergraduates returning to their respective colleges. The day was cold, wet, and miserable, when a yeH-appoj_nt£d carryige drove up to the "White Iforse Cellar," Piccadilly. "Have you room for one inside to Oxford?" asked as pretty a girl as one would wish to see on a summer day. "What a beauty!" exclaimed one. "Quite lovely!'" said another. "Per­ fect!" lisped a third. "Quite full, miss," replied the coachman, "inside ant-out." "Surely you could make room for one,' persevered the fair applicant. "Quite impossible, miss, without the gentleman's consent." "Lots of room!" cried the insides. "We are not very large; we can man­ age to take one more." "If the young gentlemen consent," said the driver, wao was one of the best tempered fellows on earth, apd as honest as Aristides, "I have no ob­ jection." "We agree," said the insiders. "All right," responded the driver. The fare was paid, and the guard proceeded to open the door and let down the steps. "Now, miss, if you please^--we are behind our time." "Come along, grandfather," cried the damsel, addressing a most re­ spectable-looking. portly elderly g( n- tleman; "the money is paid--get in, and be sure you thank the young gen­ tlemen," at the same time suiting the action to the word, and with a wicked smile assisting her respected grand­ father into the coach.^ • "Here's some mistake; you'll squeeze us to death!" cried the as­ tonished undergraduates. But at that moment "All right," "Sit fast," was heard, and away rattled the coach at its best pace, drowning the voices of the crest-fallen Oxonians. Speed of Shooting Stars. The shooting stars are sinall bodies, weighing at most a few pounds and consisting mainly of iron and carbon. They traverse space ih swarms and also revolve around the sun in long, elliptical courses like the comets. When these little bodies enter the earthrs orbit they are deflected toward the earth and Public Opinion says great numbers are seen in a single night. Tneir brightness is due to the heat engendered by the energy of their motion. Their speed is enor­ mous--namely, forty-two and a half kilometers a secend, while the speed of the earth on its orbit is only twenty-five kilometers a second, for­ ward. Consequently when a shower of them approaches the earth in the direction opposite to its course, the initial speed is seventy-tw(» kilometers a second; when they follow on its course they gain sixteen and a half kilometers a second on it, their mean rate of approach being thirty to forty kilometers a second. The friction engenders a temperature of 3,000 de­ grees Celsius, subject to which they burst into flame. If under these con­ ditions their substance is not vapor­ ized they pass through and beyond the upper strata of our atmosphere and pursue their proper course around the sun, but as a rule they are vapor­ ized, in which case the vapor mingles with the atmosphere, to fall later as meteoric dust. In this manner we come in contact annually with one hundred and forty-six millions of shooting stars, which add considerably to the earth's substance. Indian* and Pork. The anti-pork people say that the eating of pork is tt>e fruitful cause of scrofulous diseases, not to speak of the deadly trichina. But an eminent physician declares that of all the races In the world,the North American In­ dians are the most afflicted with scrofula, though they eat very little pork. . WHEN a man tells a woman she is handsome, although she knows she Isn't, she should feel insulted at being tr&»ted like a fool. But the trouble is so few women don't know they are not bandvome. ttLQPED WITH INDIANS. \\ two of Vice president Johnson's OangktM Have Aboriginal Lovers. \ The discission resulting fr6m the finding of some did vaults at tbe corner of Bro&d and High streets, Cincinnati, where workmen were dig- ping for the foundation of a new building, has revived some romantic history of the ante-emancipation days, says the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The story is that of the elopment of two daughters of Qbl. R. M. Johnsotj, Vice President of the United States under Van Buretk Johnson bad established near nis home in Kentucky a school for Indians, and as Cupid's darts were quite as erratic in their flight then as now, the two girls became enam­ ored of two young Indians who ,wfere attending the school and planned an elopment They escaped, to Cincin­ nati and from there they made the(r way to Columbus by a rapid coach. ; John Kerr, an old resident, remeli* bers the details distinctly. . He says that when the party arrived in Cin­ cinnati they stopped at, th$ did National Hotel, standing where the Nei| House- is now located, and that the proprietors were in some doubt as to whether to admit one of the girls to his hostelry because she was so ;dafk that he suspected she had negro blood in her veins. After a short stop here the eloping party con­ tinued their .journey east They had not been gone more than two hours, however, before some of Col. Johnson's mfen came riding fast from!' Cinsihnaii in pursuit of them, Se­ curing fresh horses here the pursuers pressed on* and overtook the eloping party near St Claifsville, where the Indians escaped, but the men succeeded in bringing the Johnson girls back. On their return they stopped over the first night in Cincinnati, and the girls were locked up in a rear room on the second floor of the old National Hotel. During the night they managed to escape from a win­ dow to the kitchen roof and thence to the ground. One of the girls, Parthena Johnson, was finally re­ captured iu a thicket northeast of the tqwn, and placed for temporary safe-keeping in the Gay street jail. She was finally taken back to Ken- ttjcKy. Cassie was never captured. Mr. Kerr, who tells the story, says that he saw her a year or more after­ ward employed as a waitress in a hotel at Lower Sandiiskyj now Fre-: Ehonl. jQt)l. Johnson was a historic character. He is supposed to have killed the Indian Chjsjf JFecumseh, and is gratefully rememKen­ tucky as the author of the law abol­ ishing imprisonment for debt ^ , Pointed Rebuke. Functionaries in public offleef in great cities, who do not always have work enough to keep them out of mischief, sometimes conspire to piay a joke upon some person from the country who comes in on business^ and it is cheerful to learn that oc­ casionally they get more than they bargain for, as the common saying 1«, from these same "simple-minded" country people. During the recent excitement over dynamite explosiotls in Paris, when Anarchists were caus­ ing disasters under the very noses ol the police and many were escaping detection, a policeman one day found upon the street a pocket-book con­ taining 30,000 francs. He took it to the central police office and gave it to his chief, who ex> aminedand made a note of its con­ tents. v;; A few minutes later a rich farmer from Normandy arrived at the office, and declared that he had lost a pock­ et-book containing 30,000 francs. He described the contents of the pocket- book with so much detail that thie superintendent of the office was'satis- fled that the pocket-book already in the office belonged to the fqrpief.i This was indeed the case. The superintendent, noting the countryfied air of the applicant, re­ solved to amuse iiimself at his ex­ pense. Calling a clerk, who bad over­ heard the conversation,.' be isaid 'W- him. impressively: , "I give you just five minutes to go out upon the streets and find this man's pocket-book. . If you. do not come back with it in that tjiiue 1 shall discharge you.", / The clerk saw through the ^joke,'. a n d p r e t e n d e d t o b e ? t e r r i f i e d , H e pleaded for mercy with clasped titindsy and put on such and air Of dismay that the farmer interceded for him, and begged the chief not to require an impossibility of the man. But the chief was .inexorable. He sent the clerk out, whining apd trembling. At the end of three minutes the clerk rushed in, apparently otit Of. breath, and threw down the popkeip book, which he bad simply picked up in the next room. For a moment the farmer wa9 stupefied. Then he put the pbeket- book in bis pocket, and remarked, as he went out: "Well, well! If you fellows could find dynamiters half as easily as you can pocket-books, it would be a great benefit to the public!" Russian Discipline. An autocrat's ideal of government is the unreasoning obedience of his subjects. The author of "Russian Characteristics" quotes from a loyal Russian journal the following fact, as an illustration of the abject slavish- ness to which the government of Rus­ sia would reduce the people: During the review of the army re­ cruits in Yilna, the general in com­ mand, turning to one of the new sol- . diers, asked him, "What is military.. discipline?" > "It is that a soldier has got to do just what he's told by his superior of­ ficer, only nothing against the czaiv*V . was the answer. • _ "All right, thcn;you take yourcaR bid your comrades good-by, and go and drown yourself in that lake there. Look sharp!* ~Vr Tears glistened in the soldier's eyis; he gazed earnestly and prayerfully ^ his commander, turned suddenly about, and rushed off to the lake.! Ho was on the very blink before he was overtaken anu stopped by the sei* f geant sent to prevent the involuntary suicide.--^Youth's Companion. 1 ! : >. '*• '• IF the angels in Heaven ace any* thing like those on earth, the silver lining to the clouds was long ago made Into souvenir spoons.