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And scribble on at will, Well they will scribble, and we mustlgrowl, And vainly try to please, Till they go back to school and learn To make their a b ds. VION BY AN ENGLISNHAN A LOVE STORY. I walked across the yard to the porter's lodge, where I received a little bouquet of three roses tied together by a blue knot, and pinned to whioh was a blank card, on one side of which was written my address, and on the other these words : " Caeillies par Diene." I harried home and at once sat down to write : " I have jest seen your father, made. meiselte, and have heard from hie own lips that ;he deep devotion I have sworn to you is returned. The knowledge has filled me with such inexpressible joy, that, trueting in you even more than I do in myself, I have given my word of honor not to press nay anis with you any further, relying on the s rength of our pnrpuse, our love, and our f .te to bring your parents to see the nooeeeity of uniting two lives that were rnade for one another, and that reoog- n.iz "d this necessity from the first hour of their meeting. " Though I may not call and may not write, I will be hungry for news of you, and shall try to see your aunt before start. ing, in a few hours, to beg, during my ab- renoe, for the favor of an occasional line from herself to tell me how yon are faring. " °ley Heaven bless you and guide yon, its von have blessed and guided my own path iu life 1" It was a lover's letter, and no mistake ; but I bad obtained permission,to writs it, and I fully trusted the old marquis to give the le ,ter to his daughter. That he nobly fulfilled his promise, how- ever mach it must have coat him, I heard that vary evening when, at the station, a muse ;e from Diane's governess conveyed to me Diane's adieux, her delight at receiv- ing inc letter, her resolve to be staunch to nee, a •d the announcement that, as she had Snob b an allowed to see me in the afternoon, she het refused to see M. de Maupert's Xemite, by the very simple prooese of going to be on the score of a headache. I csled on Madame de Chantalie before etarti" g, and told her of my interview with the u"erquie. She approved of it, and promieed, now that matter° were above - hoard, and bereft of that mystery which made it, she thought, so unpleasant, to let me know all she could about Diane : •• Though," she added, with a laugh, "your promise not to encourage Diane to disobey her p'trente appears to me to be somewhat Jesuitioal; for you reserve to yourself the right of a parting shot in the shape of a love•uote, and you settled to have a regular medium of communication between you through my humble self." " Countess," I said, " the mednim is so bright and clever that I could not do better than leave in your hands the management of my affaire, and I am so much in love that ib would kill me to be without occasional news of Diane, while I am not at all pertain that to be without any news from herself direst is not the greatest martyrdom I have ever heard of. Pray remember what it has cost me to accede to this self•eaorifioe." " I suppose," said the countess, " that, after all, a man in love is not accountable ; but frankly,I wish,on your retnrn,you would teach Raymond the way to be in love, for I never saw so matter-of-fact a man in my lite ; oe, perhaps, yon will teach me, whioh will Dome to the same thing in the end. Good-bye ; bon voyage 1 " An hour later I was in the train bound for Calais, en route for England. CHAPTER V7. The business whioh Bob had insisted that I should lose no time in settling was effectually disposed of in a very few minutes; for .hearing from him on arrival at the—Office the day after the events recorded in the last chapter that a vacancy had suddenly occurred at some plane in China, and that he had considered it a wonderful piece of luck for me, inasmuch as if I had volunteered to go to that out-of- the.way country, it might advance my pro- motion in the service, and at any rate in- sure my going through a disagreeable necessity before I„ was too old to bear ib with equanimity, I thanked him for his friendly ooneidereeion, but stubbornly re- fused to be removed from Petrie, which was to me a paradise, on any consideration— least of all, throoght any effort of .mine. Bob laughed, and exclaimed, "Out with it, old fellow 1 What's the attraction 2 " " Wait and yon will see." " Ie she, then, coming over 2 " " It might be the other way." " If yon mean," said Bob, " that I am going to erose the Channel to see your latest admiration, you are greatly mistaken. I should have something to do wore I to travel to and fro each time you had fallen in love." " Bat it is aerioue tide time," I said, with Put a slight nooent of pain in my voice whioh struck Bob. " You do not mean it 2" he eaid. "I do." " But snrely you marrying :? " n I am.! "A Frenoh girl ? " " A Fronoh'girl-" "Well I never 1 " So it ip •and, Bob, when the day cornea,. you will be my beet man, will you not ? " Beat man" said Bob, " often moans gr safest fool. I am not sure that I caro to he the latter." • "Never mind what you are, or will be, or Wily be," I paid ; " be what I want you to be;and 1 can say this mtioh, no man will heave ever had a ohanoe of seeing hie friend rnerried to no lovely a girl. "1I ever knew French girls were lovely," revoltingly reworked I3ob." are not thinking of " fie my best man, and you will be able to judge for youreelt," I said. " So you give up China," continued Bob, while docketing some silly despatch, and preparin„ it for those----0flioe pigeon. holes, which contain more wisdom and trash combined than any other offioial department in the country, Ido,," " For the purpose of marrying a b'renoh girl ? Yes." "By the way, when is the ,marriage: 'to take place 2 " " That is not fixed." " There is a hitoh, is there 2 " " If you like to call it so." "Well;" said Bob, somewhat sentent- ionely, " a hitch is a hitch in England, whatever it may be in France." I was irritated and annoyed that he should not have jumped at the prospect of being my beat man, thinking all the while of the enormous favor I was confegring on my friend in asking him to stand at my side when the girl I loved pat her hand into mine, and he would have a right to look upon hi.uself as having contributed to our joy, our oappineaa, oar union. Bob either did not see It w this light, or was slow to perceive any particular advan- tage in aooeding to my wishes. He there- fore lit a cigarette, and, having done so, turned the conversation by asking me how long I would remain in town. "Let us do a theatre together," he said, "and dine at the St. James' Club, where just at preeent there is a very decent cook." " My dear Bob," I said, " I want no dinner, I will not go to the play, and I re. quir an answer to my question." " But there ie a hitch," he said ; "time enough when that is arranged to give yon an answer. By -the -was, what is the nature of the hitch 2 " " I cannot tell you." " Say you will not tell." " 1 bad rather not." Does the lady Dare for some one else ? " "No." " Or some one else care for her 2 " "Everybody moat care for her who knows her." This seemed to me the most dexterous manner of avoiding the question. " Is it about settlements 2" "No-" "Then I give it np," said Bob; "and now I am off to Hyde Park for a whiff of air. This place is stuffy to a degree, and I shall die if I remain here another minute." " Bob," I said, " be serious ; promise me what I ask. It will give me a little com- fort, and I need it." The kind-hearted. Bob noted the earnest tone of my request, and while putting on his hat rather snappishly replied, "Of course I will if you wish it"; and asking me whether I was not going his way, with - oat waiting for a reply walked oat." I followed him and having gone to- gether as far as Pall Mall we parted. I felt as if I had done wonders towards the advancement of my marriage with Diane. I had secured myself against pro. motion, and therefore displacement ; and I had a best man ready to give me away to a girl who could not be mine just yet, because of a terrible hitch, as Bob palled it, namely, because she herself was being given away by her father to another man. The idea, horrible as is was, filled me with no concern whatever. I had such faith in Diane's love and loyalty, such implicit con- fidence in the strength of our mutual understanding, that my refusing promo- tion, so as not to be away from where she lived, appeared to me only natural ; while, if there was a little self-sacrifice in it, I was ,the better pleased for being permitted to lay it at shrine of my divinity. On the other hand, I derived immense consolation from Bob's acceptance ; and it seemed to me as it it were a good omen that I should have secured so important an element in the marriage ceremony on my first day away from Paris whioh held all I oared for in life. Nothing of any consequence occurred for some days ; but when, at the end of the week, I was beginning to wonder why Madame de Chantalie had not written, I found three lettere at the club, all in differ- ent hand -writings, easily reoognizable, however, and all three bearing the Paris postmark. The first I opened was the one I looked to to give me most pleasure. It was from Mademoiselle Garoux—" that governess' poet," whioh Diane had once told me might occaeionally be need. "Mot:emmua," wrote the faithful governess, —" I have little to say, for mademoiselle is not aware that I am writing ; but knowing her feelings and yours, I cannot but con- gratulate you on having secured so pinoky, so staunch, and so true an effeotion. " Nothing in her manner towards her parents betrays the least disrespect, the slightest wieh even to disobey their com- mands. Towards M. de Manport she is aa reserved as it is possible to be without wounding les convenances, and it must be allowed that hie own manner towards her is perfect. He attempts no more than marked politeness, and even the cold recep- tion of his attentions never induces a re- proach. What annoyed Diane more than anything at first is the fact that while he must see how distastefal to her is the courtship he has permission to pay her, he never once has asked whether rhe indorses her parents' consent to his bring her fiancee, and that this gave her no opport- unity of appealing to his honor not to persue an engagement eo palpably distaste. 101 to her ; but she seems now to hope that he will continue as he is doing, as she does' not want to owe anything to his generosity, having, as she tells me with her sweet laugh, ' a little plan of mine own.' " iilon Dien 1 bow I wish matters were otherwise than they are 1 Bat that will come right, I am convinced. " I must say a word about your conver- cation with the marquis the day you left Paris. It made a deep impression on the good old man, who never speaks of you otherwise than with kindly expressions of regard ; but la marquise is not on your side. She does not enter into the noble aspirations whioh move you, because she cannot comprehend them ; and as to her daughter, her sole argument le, ' I do not see why she should be treated otherwise than others, and I think it very nnbeoom- ing for girl of her position to affect the waye,and manners of another country than her Mon.' "Diane never answers, and her silence serven the purpose of allowing sad oonver• nations to drop; but after one of these dis- tressing moments Diane comes to my room for omsolation, and then, I on assure you, we dieouas all your faults and meritsde cmur joie,' and we generally end by agreeing that your mutual love moat be conneorated at lathy your mutual enfferin and crowned by your mtitaal reward. " Diane bas authorized me to write to Yon ooeasionally on my own behalf, if I Dare to ; but she has told me never to send you a message from herself, ' He knows all I oan possibly say to him,' she seya,'and one next message must be to one another in the presence of witneseee. "Have faith, monsieur, have hope, And otiaritably forgive the ehortoominge of this letter. "Mennrariata G4Anotrz, " P. S.—Sonic little gossip; Ian been about, that on the day after her engage- ment to M. de Maupert Diane sent you some rosea, How has it Dome to be known 2 re The next wee only a line from Raymond de Chantalie. Xt ran thus; "Having much to tell and nothing to write, it is for you to see whether you oare tofriend, talk to Me, or remain awayRnxuoxn," from your The thirdwas an anonymoue production.. It contained only a verse of Greeset--=- "itt roes elle a Veen eo flue vivent les roses L'espace d'un matin;' Taken altogether the letters had pro dared an uncomfortable and depressing feeling. I began to fear that the silence whish the marquis had enjoined on me, and whioh for Diane's sake I was so anxious to preserve, was about to be broken, end thio distressed me. Then I wondered how this could be. The Chantalises knew nothing except the broad fast that we loved, and were not allowed to love in peace ; but even if Diane had toldthem more than I had, their family ties would have sufficiently insured their discretion. The doant de Maupert had no doubt been told all by both Diane and her father, as these two high-minded natures would Lot have borne for a moment the idea of being disloyal ,to a friend or foe ; but surely the count would not, nor could imn prove his position by showing up the girl he wished to marry. Again the argument was good, and even stronger when applied to Diane's mother. How, then, could this matter of the roses have been talked about ? "I have ill" I exclaimed, all at office. The porters at the Hotel Breteuille must have spread the report. What a tool I was to ask for these flowers, instead of waiting till they were sent me My God 1 what have I done ? " Yes, Raymond is right. I shall return to Paris without delay. The rose shall live more than the space of a morning, I thought, as I commented to myself on this well -expressed but eorrowlal line of poetry. I left for Paris that evening, having re- plied to both letters, and borne with me the anonymous quotation. I got to Paris on Sunday morning—the second Sunday eine Diane had been given to M. de Maupert by her parents, and had given her heart to me. Though resolved to be true to my promise to the marquis, yet I could not resist going to the ohuroh I knew Diane usually frequented, on the chance of catching a glimpse of her ; but instead of her deer graceful little person I saw her mother kneeling near the high altar, with Monsieur de Maupert at her side, and I heard the banns between Diane de Berta. uille proclaimed from the pulpit for the " second time." They have lost no time, I thought, and one more Sunday must bring matters to a crisis ; but my heart sank within me, and I ran out of the ohuroh. Once in the street, it struck me that it was carione Diane should not accompany her mother to the pariah ohnroh; but a moment's reflection made me understand that in these days of trial the poor girl would naturally avoid, if possible, a church. from the pulpit of whioh words were given out to the congregation that por• tended so mnoh to herself and me. Involuntarily, though instinctively, I directed my steps to St. Thomas d'Agnin, near the Rae de Bac, and arrived in time to see an angel rise from her prayers at the high altar where she had heard mase, and asked the Almighty Himself to lay upon tie both his merciful hands, and bring ns out of our trouble, and come and kneel at Our Lady's altar to beg her gentle inter- cession in our behalf. To see this graceful little thing kneel, tb watch her pretty little hands cover her beautiful face, to note the lithesome figure bent in humble devotional attitude before the mother of the Most Holy, and offer a child's simple prayer, that, provided it were the will of her divine Son, she, who never implored in vain, might bring to her relief wonderfully powerful intercession, and obtain from Him the grape of allowing this great misery to pass away ; to behold this inexpressably touching spectacle, and to feel that the obild in her simplicity, the girl in her beauty, and the woman in her calm, steady resolve were mine, and mine alone, produced so great an impression that I had to support myself against the nearest column lest I should faint, so moved was I by the scene before me, so stirred by the inward feeling it produced, and so proud in the knowledge of my triumph even in that hour of helplessness. She moved, and her head being raised, a ray of sun through one of the lattioed windows came down upon her golden hair, as if answer to her prayer. It lit ap that beautiful head with all the glory of its brightness ; and as she made a sign to her governess by her side that it was time to go, I felt that her prayer had been answered, together with a craving to kneel at the spot where she had knelt, and to ask what ate had asked. I hid behind the oolmmn. No power on earth could have made me reveal myself at that moment. It was not so much the promise I had made as the fear of insulting that beautiful trust which the girl was evincing, both in the effioaoy of her appeals to Heaven and in her reliance that I would not do anything her father might have cause to reproach me with. When she had left the church, I went to the chair she had knelt an, and I prayed as I had never prayed before—aa never a man of 25 baa deemed it necessary to pray. When I left St. Thomas d'Agnin, I felt a better, a calmer, and a more contented man than I had for years. Of coarse in the afternoon my first pre- occupation was to see Raymond de Chantalie. I found him at the club ; and aa he was not going to the Chantilly raoes, we determined to have a walk together. After his uenal bantering remarks had been administered, he said that on the Saturday after I left Diane's father had seen biro, and seemed apparently in great dudgeon about some roses whioh bis daughter had sent me. " What about that 2 " had said Raymond. "A great deal," had replied the mar - quiet. " Well," had answered Raymond, "if you cannot allow your daughter to fulfil a promise publicly made to a man you did not refuse to meet at dinner at my house, you cannot expeot her to look at her promise has lightly as you do. The girl has her father's rove of truth and his notions of the obligations of politeness ; and I won. der at the father being so blind as to hie own merits refleoted in his daughter." " Capital 1 " I said ; " what did the old margnia reply? " He replied that the present imperial regime had upset every notion of propriety, decorum, and right in France ; that the old nobility .of France was nota jot better than Imperialists -nay,, rather worse, for they were imitators only, whereas the others were origlnatora of evil mannere and notions ; that all eeemed topsy.tnrvy ; that apparently patents ooaild no longer judge what was beet for their children, bat that children were to adopt s to mode Anglaise, booauae, forsooth, it happened to Tease them that young men went about makinglove to bun ies, turning their silly hads, even befoladre the age at which the idea of Marriage oould take definite shape." "That is somewhat a pool statement," I, aaid,'.considering that before the young lady in question had even known the young man alluded to, the father had broached to her the marriage question," So I thought," said Raymond ; " butit amused nae to let the,old godtleman have his say." "Well, what else did he say 2 " "He paid this ; :that De Maupert was an old college friend, a country neighbor, and a man of irreproaohable conduct ; that he tied known him more or lees intimately all hie life, that he had watched his social ad- vanooment with fraternal pride, and that, given the world to choose from, he could find no one for whom he entertained eo mush regard, so real an esteem, and eo great a consideration ; that under these circumstances he had broached to him the subject of a closer alliance between 'hia house and the count's ; that M. de Maupert had at first objected that he was too old for so young a person ; but on hie being alto- gether pooh-poohed, be had, like you, been struck with the wonderful beauty of Mademoiselle Diane, and being struck, had struck his bargain with Diane's father." I was mnoh interested in these details, for it clearly showed that M. de Mantled at least was not the principal culprit in this affair ; and that, should matters come to a crisis, the result of whioh would be painful to him, as I now felt absolutely certain it would prove, both Diane and myself would find an unexpected ally in the father, whom we both had treated with so much oonfidenoe, and whose tardy remorse at being the originator of our troubles would soften into a ready inatru. men for restoring peace. " Go on," I said to Raymond ; "all this is very interesting." " Of course it is," he answered ; "ibut I was not going to write all this, as yon may imagine. I never waste words on paper, or sentiments either, for the matter of that." "Do go on," I said, impatiently. " There is not mush more to add," he re- plied. " What took place afterwards is better known to yourself than to any one else ; but the idea that yon have blabbed about the roses has powerfully moved the old gentleman ; and though his indigna- tion ie softening a little, yet it was so great that he hurried matters as soon ae you were gone, and caused the banns between hie daughter and his friend to be published at once," "Have you seen Diane ? and does she think me capable of boasting publicly of her kind thought of myself 2 " " Do not pat on that tragic air," he said. "'Lovers are perfectly insufferable," added Raymond. " The most i intelligent men become absolute fools ; either their voice and manner become tragical, or their mirth, in its exaggeration, etepa into the regions of comedy. "No, monsieur Panel," imitating my voice, ""Diane did not think you capable of boasting of her kind thought of you. She never thought of yon at all. She had no doubt that yon were a gentleman, and would aot ae one ; but she was annoyed at her attentions to yon becoming the object of public remark. How do you explain the circumstance 2 " " Easily." And I told him of my getting the rosea from the porter. "That explains everything," he said, " and I will let the marquis know." (To be Continued) Embroidered Window Blinds. Workers who are fairly skilled with the needle and who do not mind taking a good deal of trouble to make their hooses look pretty might like to try their skill upon a linen blind similar to those known in the shops under the varione names of Belgian, Duohesae, or Swine blinds. The embroi- dery should be done in a frame, as it ie then easier to prevent it from becoming puckered. The design is marked very distinct upon the linen and over this is tacked a piece of large -meshed net. The outlines upon the linen should be clearly visible through the net, whioh mast be thoroughly caught down to the material. The oatlinee are then followed carefully with chain -stitch, knot, button -hole, or satin stitch of various Lengths, thus holding down the net firmly to the linen. Button- hole stitch is generally found the most con• venient, as it gives a straight edge, along whioh the net may be afterward out. When the outlines have all been traded ont the work is turned over to the wrong side and the linen ont away from all portions of the design itself, thus leaving this promi- nently upon the linen background. The work ie then turned over again to the right Bide, and the net carefully out away beyond the design. The result will be exactly as if the net were inserted into certain spaces left for it in the linen. The outlines are often followed with a line of fine cord, which is button -holed down upon them. This gives the bolder effect, and so is more suitable for blinds of a large size than for the smaller ones whioh an amotear ie likely to undertake.—London Queen. Needs Watching. Chicago Inter -Ocean: There is a good deal of talk about " Mormonism being dead," but it will be int as well to watch the corpse for a good long spell yet. Acknowledged The Corn. Yorker's Statesman : A corn is something which is pretty hard to get need to, but still it grows on you. Purple and pink are combined this sea- son in a variety of ways, and in certain ehedee it is a very attractive combination. At Union, Iowa, Charlee Rover and Mies Minnie Flagg have just been married. Over the parlor door of the bride's house was hung the words : " A union of hearta, a union of hands, and theFlaggof union for Bever." Boy—Mister, I want to get a—um—I want a pint of—a thunder—I forgot. Drug- giet'a clerk—Little man, have you forgotten what yon came for ? Boy—That's it 1 Clerk—What'e it? Boy -Camphor. If a man has nothing he must do name thing to have anything. But if a man has something he needn't do anything to have nothing in a very short time. For a eeaeon,of twelve performances in Russia Patti is to receive 12,000 guineas, as well as travelling expenses for herself and suite. A epeoiel train will also be placed at her eervioe. She will sing in three concerts and three operas at St. Petersburg and three concerts and three operas at Moeoow. The one hundredth anniversary of Lamartino'a birthday will be celebrated with great pomp at Macon, hie birthplace, on Ootober 18th, 19th and 20th. The company of the Theatre Frannie will go to the Bnrgandian oily for the ocoaeion, and on the evening of the 18th will play "Toussaint L'Onvertnrri." Thep ublio has not yet heard the last of Marion Manola'd earl• ray tights of photographic fame. She has brought dent against the management of " Castles in the Air " to recover the money she ex. pendod on the wardrobe, of whioh the tights formed a portion, and also one week's salary, 0250, 'whioh rhe claitna they owe her. A ',Bum HEAD. The Advantage of Presence of Mind in an Emergency. During thelate strike on the New York, Central Railroad, the militia were ordered to be in readiness in ease of a riot, but they were not oiled out. In an interview, Gov. Hill said the troops were not to be called upon except in ogee of an emergency. The emergency had not arisen, therefore they would not be ordered out, Is remarked that this was the first great strike with which he had had, experi.. enoe, and he did not propose to lose hie head` ; the only point at whish there had then been serious trouble was at Syracuse, and there a deputy -sheriff had lost his head and precipitated an encounter. The strike continued several weeks, and there was riotous action at various points along the road, but the civil authorities were able to cope with it without calling on the militia. The test of a man's real ability Domes when an emergency, arises whioh makes a hasty gall on his good judgment and die- oretion. The man who retaine his presence of mind, maintains his equipoise and exer- cities sound disoretion at such critical junctures, is to be relied on and will be put to the front. Men with level heads have the staying qualities which do not falter in the face of danger. Otis A. Cole, of Kinsman, Q., June 10, 1890, writes : ',In the fall of 1888 I was feeling very ill.. I consulted a doctor and he said I had Bright's disease of the kid. neys and that he would not stand in my shoes for the state of Ohio." Bat he did not lose courage or give up ; he says. " I saw the testimonial of Mr. John Coleman, 100 Gregory St., New Haven, Conn., and I wrote to him. In due time I received an answer, stating that the testimonial that he gave was genuine and not overdrawn in any particular. I took a good many bottles of Warner's Safe Cure ; have not token any for one year." Gov. Hill is accounted a very suooeeefnl man; he is cool and oalcoleting and belongs to the class that do not lose their heeds when emergenoiee arise. The Importance of Accent. "To be a sucoessful lawyer one moat know how to manipulate the English lan- guage," said a lawyer. "There is no other language that Dan be twisted around to mean so many things. The nee of words is various, the accent of the speaker is significant. If a lawyer would be influen- tial before a jury he must be able to master all the intricacies of language. I don't mean that he must,be able to use ail the words with profound meaning; he must be able to take advantage of all the ine'and ' outs' of the common language—the lan- guage we hear on the street and in business every day. " I sometimes nae an illustration before a jury to show how many constructions may be put upon a single sentence of our language. The illustration I use is a aim- ple one. It is this : " Are you going to town to -morrow ? "Are you going to town to -morrow 2 " Are you going to town tomorrow? " Are you going to town to -morrow ? " Are yon going to town to -morrow ? " There, you see, are six words in a sen- tence arranged alike yet aasoeptible of five distinct shades of meaning. In this it is simply a matter of accent. The foot ie, our language can be made to mean almost anything, and the man who has the best command of it, whether he be an orator or not, hes the advantage before a jury any time."—Indianapolis News. Functions of the Tongue. Taste ie not equally distributed over the whole surface of the tongue. There are three distinct regions or tracts, each of whioh hae to perform its own special office or function. The tip of the tongue is oon- oorned mainly with pungent end acid tastes ; the middle portion is sensitive chiefly to sweets or bittern, while the book or lower portion confines itself entirely to the flavors of rich, fatty substances. This subdivision of faculties in the tongue makes each piece of food undergo three separate examinations, whioh must be successively passed before it is admitted into full participation in the human economy. The first examination gets rid of substances which would be actively and immediately destructive to the tissues of the month and body ; the second discrimi- nates between poisonous and chemically harmless food, and the third merely de- cides the minor' question whether the par- ticular food is likely to prove wholesome or indigestible. The sense of taste prooeeds, in fent, upon the principle of gradual selec- tion and elimination; it refuses first what is positively destructive, next what is re. motely deleterious and finally what is only undeeirable or over lusoious.--Hall's Journal of Health. Removing a Cinder From the Eye. Tho proper way to get a cinder out of the eye is to draw the upper lid down over the lower, utilizing the lethal of the lower as a broom, that it may sweep the surface of the former and thus get rid of the intruder. Or, gently draw the lid away from the globe, pass a clean camel's-hair brush, or fold of a soft silk handkerchief, two or three times between them. This procedure will, in nearly all oases, suffioe; when it dopa not, the services of a "physician are necessary. It is a remarkable fact that a very minute body will give rise to intense pain, and even after it has been extracted, the sensation remoina for an hoar or more. Atter the intruder is out, gently bathe the lids every fifteen minutes in ioed-water till the feeling subsides.—Home Journal. Only Forty-nine Jars. " In all my experience," said the old gentleman boarder as he peeled a banana, " I never knew anoh a famine in fruits. You mnat be greatly embarrassed tibont preserves for next winter, Mrs. Cod - hooker." " Oh, not at all, answered the landlady cheerily. " I have just put up forty-nine jars of watermelon rind."—New York Tribune. Don't Want Vs. Chicago Inter.Ocean ; We don't want Canada, and we shall be very careful abort the conditions upon whioh she is allowed to enter, and therefore there ie no neceesity whatever for harping on the subject. The proposition of annexation with Canada ie impracticable and net wholly without danger. It is the wooden horse which we have a right to fear and to saapeot. Steel is worn very generally in England for all aoris of small ornaments, such ase bnttone, buckles, brooches, the settings for hatelaine bags and watches. The Pope has annonneed his intention of conferring the seat in the Shored College rendered vacant by the, death of Cardinal Newman upon Monsignor Edmund Stoner. He is a bon of the late Lord Comore. Three of his siaters are nuns. A New Yorkwoman sells love letters for $1 apiece, whioh ie very cheap, for the Mine -made artlbin has sometimes ods( a Mate as =lob as $60,040, A REPORTER ]FRED. He Took Notes in Church and the Pelee Was Notified. A London gable says : While Rev. Cance Hegarty, pariah priest of Gianniore, county Cork, was preaching yesterday he warmly protested againat the publication of his ser- mon in newspapers. At this point ;a yoaug woman stood up and, approaching the altar, palled attention to the fact that then was a note -taker in the ohapel. Canon Hegarty Outdated, " God bless you, my child," and: turning to the prese represents,.- tive, said : " How dare you come hero taking down whet 1 say behind my baok?" The greatest excitement prevailed. The congregation all role as directed. The re- porter eaid " I am in the moat public part of the ohuroh." Canon Hegarty re- joined : " This is not a publio place. You have no right here. There is an end to ail, confidence between a priest and his congre- gation if newspaper reporters come into a chapel like tine." Then, descending the steps of the altar to the rails, Menem Hegarty demanded the reporter's note- book. The reporter exhibiting no migne of compliance, the canon asked the congrega- tion to snatch the reporter's note -book., A policeman was then galled on, who pat the reporter out, but the latter held hie ground. THE DILLON-O'BItIEN P1tOGItit flit They .Expect to Raise a Fund in America and go Back to Prison. A Paris oable says : Messrs. William'. O'Brien and John Dillon arrived here this morning. Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien will. remain in Paris for eight days, when they will proceed to Havre and take passage for New York. Messrs. „ Dillon and O'Brien expeot ie embark for the United Statee October 25th. They will remain in America four months, and will then return to Ireland( and surrender themselves. Mr. Dillon ex- peon to raise £100,000 in America and ex- pecte a year's imprisonment when he re- turns. Regarding the propriety of his flight, Mr. Dillon acid to -day, " I made special enquiry in regard to the question at keeping good faith, and was satisfied we, were no more under obligation to keep: within bounds than a prisoner ie to remain. in prison. We were watched and dogged everywhere we went, and the pollee had warrants for our arrest three days before- hand." He thought the Britieh Govern- ment would be ashamed to ask for their en - tradition. He regarded his arrest as a sohema to prevent him going to America to lay the case of the Irish people before the. American people. A Fated Torpedo Boat. A Halifax despatch says : The warship• Buzzard, whioh was sent to North Sydney to tow the abandoned torpedo boat tot Halifax, arrived back to -day. She sailed: from North Sydney early Friday morning, and the same evening encountered a terrific' north.northeast gale. The wind blew with hurrioane force, and was accompanied ley a heavy sea. During the height of the storm the torpedo boat tore away and. was totally lost, breaking in two, and it is said sank. Those on the ship eay it was the worst gale they ever experienced, and it was thought at times the Buzzard, would anoonmb. She weathered the storm, however, bat not without damage, her jip- boom being broken off short and also her fore -top mast. The Gloucester schooner Samuel R. Crane, whioh pinked up the; torpedo boat end towed her into North Sydney, has been awarded £500 for her trouble. A Youthful Fiend at Large. A Boston despatch says : Little Frank Valois, only 6 years old, has been com- plained of to the police for torturing his little companions. The child. if whet ia acid is true, is another Jesse I any. He lives with hia grandmotlt Bombay. He has severely injured fear' children by dipping a stick into the glowing coals of a plumber's furnace, and when it beeamei ignited he would thrust it in their face or mouth. His viotims are Rosa Swats, of. No. 54 Chestnut avenue ; Leonard Sohe- veine, of No. 16 Armstrong street, and May and Nettie Giloon, of Obestnnt avenue.. Tho last two are under 6 years of age and are horribly burned, the one in the month: and the other in the eye. In addition to hia a number of thefts have been traded raptly to the bey fiend. Ashore at Bronwerehaven. A London cable says : A telegram from. Middlebury, Netherlands, states that the British ship Dnnrobin is ashore at Bron- werehaven. Five hundred barrels of petro- leum from the Dnnrobin have been washed ashore on the coast of the Ieland of Wan cheron, together with a quantity of wreak - age. Bronwershaven, where the Danrobin ie ashore, ie a small market town on the. northwest of the Island of Sohonen. The Dunrobin left New York for Rotterdam on Sept. 15th, under Capt. Whyte. The men escaped from the stranded vessel with some difficulty, and were cared for by the vil- lagers. They will go to their homes in London, while Capt. Whyte remains to look after his vessel. She registers 1,375 tone; and is almost entirely new. Jo Revenge 'Their Leader's Death. A Birmingham, Ala., despatch says : The Rube Borrows gang of outlaws has not been broken up by the death of their. - leader, it is said, and Jake Burrows, 11. brother of the dead outlaw, is preparing for another raid. A. railway express mesaen-. ger on a line running from Memphis re- ceived last night a warning note signed "One of the Gang," telling him not to go ea hie run as Jake. Burrows and his gang would play mischief with him it he did. It is said the gang have sworn vengeance on Rnbe's captors. Spain's Baby King Tumbles. A (Madrid cable says: The little Sing of Spain left San Sebastian yesterday charge of hie mother and grandmother Some doubts had been entertained of the wisdom of returning to Madrid owing tee the epidemic of smallpox now raging there, bat vioariont safety hue been secured for the young monarch by the revaccination of. every member of the royal honaehold.. Alfonso tumbled out of his little carriage last Tuesday, but was caught unharmed by an officer of the suite, who has arose bean dreaming of field marshal's batons; A Dreadful IBxampie. Cartwheel—What's the matter with you, Thresher ? Thresher—Matter enough 1 All my hogs is dyin', by gum 1 Cartwheel—You don't say 1 Sarah Eliza ought to know that. I've told her time and, again gam would be the death of her, but she always latighed at mo. Now, perhaps she'll believe me. Toronto People Rept Busy. Toronto .Tiegrani: When citizens are not voting for b yythey paying •laws are a in taxes. In this town the Complaint that it, ite a long time between bylaws is not heard.