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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-4-8, Page 6EGYPTIAN ROIV1AN GE. Rory of Love and Wild Adventure, founded upon Startling Revelation in the Career of Arabia Pasha. By the ',Author ri '4 NINA, Tine Mumma," of THE RED So," " THE RUSSIAN Sr F.To,, ETC, Ere CHAPTER XLIV.— (Coriamesen.) Return we, almoet with the morning. dawn, to .Arabi PAsha'a headquarters et th arsenal, so chosen perhaps incense the nar row nook of land mi that point very nearly converted the peninsula on which the Ras el -Tin palace is built into en iehentl, and SO, in a mannermentde him the Khedive's jeller at the outer gates thereof. But though the war minister is as yet the master of the situation, his wavereign to all intents and purpoees hie prieoner, and all Egypt becking him up and ready to stand by him, we find,him en this especial morn. Ing ill at ease and with lees confidence than usual as to the future, for three of his lead- ing generale have disturbed him thus early, and eitch had been the hewer of unwelcome tidings. Sulieman Zogheib Effendi he brought the news that the populace are eager for another Earopean messacre and that the troope can't be mile& upon for preventing it, Selena Pasha, afterward isnoon as "The Merciful," is beerer of the intelligence that an immense reward has been effsred accret ly by the Khedive for t is head, and that the Sultan of Turkey has veered round again under Britioh preesure and is about to die - patch. thirty thousand troops to Egypt to help retsore the authority of Tewfik. Toulba Pestle, the last arrival and com- mnonly called " Arabl'a Brains," brings the elniormation that the British admiral had sent an exprees to the palace, aiming the :15.12edive to come off to the fleet, so as to escape all dangers hone the bombardment that he intended iromedietely to open upcn the forts. This last intelligence seemed to cheer the war miniater rather than otherwise, for he . exclaimed ei If Taw hk accepts the situation all is mall, for by the law of nations, for a sever - sign ruler to seek refuge from his own Bleb. ijects on foreign eon or aboard a foreign ves- sel le an sot of abdication. The Khedive] 'throne will be empty from the moment that Teiwtek plants foot on the deck of an Eng •'lath ironclad, I could desire nothiog bet - :item" •But at this jancture a fourth high efficial entered the Hall of Councils, and en being eagerly questioned by the war minieter as, to what hwhad to tell, made renewer as fol. I o ws " Your excellency, the Khedive has de. clLed to quit his palace at the British admiral's invitation, saying he will not de - ser his faitbful people merely because he le menaced by a rallitary insurrection, but will rather oast his lot with them." "Let not that speech of hie get abroad," said Arabi, with oantracted browe. "It is meant as a bid for popular favor, nothing more. What other news have you 7" "The Englieh and foreign consular and other authorities are all crowding out of the town, early as is the hour, and making their way in boats to the different war yew eels, all of which seem to be getting their steam up and two or three to be standing in nearer to the shore." "That leeks like business' gentlemen," said Arabi Pasha, with a grimsmile, "If the Ferieghee means acts why should we be bandying mere words 7'' growled Sa- lieman Effendi, with a hand on his sword hilt ; weereat the fierce Toulba Pasha ex- claimed: "If Tewfik won't quietly leave the land of which he has been the scourge and oppressor, why not accord him a grave therein and place his Excellency, the Chos- en of the Nation, in his place ? What one life when thousands are menaced 7" " Silence ! ' eedd Arabi, sternly. " A criene such aspen hint at, Tonlba, never yet advanced the interests of any cause. I put my truet in Allah and the strength of a good and righteous mute. But I do not in. tend to remain idle. My forts are ready, my mins are eieetted, myeartillery men are at their posts and reedy to shed -their blood for Egypt's freedom. Yet would I still maintail peace if possible, for they who, save of neoessity, draw the sword shall per- ish by the sword. Which of you will ven- ture with a verbal message aboard the Brit- ish flag -ship ? ' The three pasha a and the Effendi all held up their hands at once, But the war minister chow) Toulba to be his emiseary. CHAPTER XLV. waerwe's FATHER AND MOTHER SET OUT TO DELIVER HER, Hardly had the war minister finiehed speaking when a captain of artillery enter- ed the hall, and advancing, in obedience to a waved permission, whispered eomething In Arabi Pasha's ear, the only word audible being the name of Trezerr, He found Nellie's father and mother anx- iously awaiting him in a room furnished in a manner that suggested a compromise be- tween official and private life. , When they had made brief mention of the clangers which they had encountered on the way they began to make anxious inquiry re. epecting their daughter. " Wirat I have to tell you concerning her mud; be received in the strictest confidence,' said the war minieter imermeively, "by reason that the life of my interment might be endangered were it otherwise, for harem secrete' are the most dangerous of all secrete to be acquainted witht eirtoe the betrayal of the allIalieSt of them is death, with some times the most terrible tortures euperadd• ed." ' • Mr. and Mrs, Trezarr were MUCh iMpfOES• ed by this• spit*, and whilst its solemnity caused theta to ttemble for their daughter safety, it induced them to promise their host in one breath that they would take hie advice and be eulded by him in all things, It is well," replied Arabi ; " know then that our dear Nellie is a prisoner in the Khedive' eeraglie at the Rae -el -Tin • Pekoe and in the power, moreover, of one who hates her and will sacrifice her to an inane jealousy unless she is prevented." This explanation by no meant; Waded to ellay the anxious parents' fears. "Let me orioe get hold of my dear child and 111 bring the Miele° down with My screams but what 1,11 bring her out,'ex elaimed Mrs, Trezarre and she would have gone on In the same drain ad infinitum had not her htieband °hooked her, Arabi (dapped his hands thrice, and the artillery bitiebaehu appeared. He ogled him on one side and gene his directions, and then, turning mein towercle Mr i and Mae Trezarr, said, with a' smile : "That °Meer is reeponsible for your, safe custeclY, and hi an hour from the preempt I hope to weineme yotir return, with your daughter end My effiencled tints aabompany. Ing you? With these words he waved his hand, ar though depreuatiug reply and in haste that 8 they Should be gone. 0 N eooaer had they pessed out of the room, however, than a sudden thought, or rather suspicion, Eeemed to strike him, and giving utterance to What, SOUnded very like a. muttered Oriental oath, he rushed after them, and catching Mr. Trarr by his sleeve drew him back a few paces, and Bald In a half ()armlet and half jocular tone, but the former predornivating "Mind that you all three do come back to me. Dant be goirg aboard one of the leitish war ships along with the Khedive, for as surely se that your daughter shall be a eovereign princess and the most exalted of all women in Egypt xi you keep your Iword and marry her unto me, 40 SUTOIY wili 03/Z) upon all the wealth in your bank and maneion at Cairo, of which I hold the ktys, and oonflecate all that you possom for the national cause, ahouli you be induced on any pretext to break your word to me," He waited not for an answer, but hurried back into the room whioh he had jest quit- ted, where he seated himself °roes -legged on a divan, and calliug a young Nubian slave to light his chibouque, indulged in the following comforting reflaotionis : "Trezarr will not now aare to play me falee, for his wealth is as dear to him as his very soul, and I oan seize upon it at any moment should he venture to leave the country. Then, as to the Khedive, the very thing that I want is to frighten him off Egyptian soil, for I would teenier that his blood was not en my hands, and yet have I every desire that his throne should be left empty, for until empty how oan another ffil it?" CHAPTER XLVI. ELMARR SEIZES THE AMULET AND NELLIE CATCHES THE WHIP. When we so abruptly left Nellie in the middle of a former chapter, lying half naked amidet the pile of soft and yielding cushions In the almost stifling heat of her prison chamber, we merely said that she slurnoered until morning's dawn. She then awoke to find herself bathed in a gentle perepiration, and the pink splotchee that the ,prinewee clenched fist had raised on her beginning to turn to beeline. • With a shudder she began to reden her apparel. Hardly had she completed her toilet when the door of the room was opened and Elmarr came in, bearing on a tray a cup of coffee and some little cakes. She placed them on the floor, regarded Nellie with an evil leer and was about to withdraw, when our heroine asked her for the necessary requieltes for the performing of her ablutions and dressing her hair, whereupon Elmarr grinned and said: "Her highnese, when she has risen, in- tends to conduct you to the bath and per- sonally to wait up= you there. I am sure that you shouid feel grateful for such an ex- cess of consideration. Nellie atamrneted something or other in way of acknowledgment, but did feel very grateful, for it occurred to her like a convic- tion that in the bath her loveliness willed bring upon her fresh permoutione and suffer- ings, and that the princeee intendnd to wait upon her for no other purpose than to inflict there, and fiercely gloat over her verithings, her pantings and her struggles the while. The buffoon read her thoughts in the wild, frightened look of the great violet oyes. She went out of the room and closed the door behind her, whereupon Nellie, feel- ing faint, drove forth a quaint little silver vinaigrette (a luxury which she always ma- rled about her in that climate of intense heat and numerous evil and unwhelesome smells), and applying it to her delicate nos- trils inhaled the refreshing eseence, hoping that it would do her good. But the bufloon, who had crouched down outside the acme to watch the Feringhee girl through the keyhole, no sooner beheld the pretty and somewhat curiously shaped or- nament in the captive's fingi re and the uee to which it was being applied than it enter- ed into her head that it must be the amulet by means of which ehe had summoned the devil to her assistance the night before. With a yell, thertfore, she suddenly threw open the door again and with glaring eyes and crooked talons ruse ei to the attack, Nellie not at all comprehending the mean Ing oethui Lentile demonstration, springing to her feet and trembling all over like an as pen. When, however, she discovered what the hideous wretch wantel of her, she struggl- e 1 hard to retain peseession of the vinai- grette, fora was dear to her as having been a birleadasi preterit from her mother, that mother whom she thought she might never see again. But the fight that she waged to maintain it convincectElmarr more than ever that it was that which she suepected it to be, so she clutched the wriat and bit at the hand that held l and at last, succeeded in getting it away from Ha owner, when she immediately rushed from the room, miagling poen of //melting laughter with shrill and excited oreciamatitties of triumph. • When the wretch had agaln closed and secured tha door again behind her Nellie began to wonder how the foul hag could feel eo elatel over such a trivial thine, for that the woman imagined it to be an;thIng more than a silver ornament never struck her for an blatant, Feeling slightly hungry and intensely thirsey, for the vvatits of our fallen nature will aseert themzeives in the moat unfortu- nate and the Moat beautiful, Nellie now turne'fl to her cakes and coffee, and after eating a coeple of the former she drank a cup of the latter. No seeder had she swallowed [Hewn, however, than a strange, burning taste came inkher niouthatied she grew conscious that her third had teen increseed instead of lessened) and inereased to a most painful degree in addition. So this was a freeh torture that had been cloaked for her, and as she remembered hav- ing read or been told how that prisoners had been tormented unto madnese by thirst, she ehudderedi for the thought that perhaps they metnt to give her nothing to drink but this drugged °effete and Ito to render her in time a raving maniere To overdo= mu% thoughts, or at all events in otder to try to overcome them, mho went over to the window. arid through the strong bare of her cage genet for hours upon the fair worldotetside. An interretption came in lid Meet burned. taus form, thatieth gay, in the shape of the Pzincese &renal', carryiek' in her hand a Whip and followed Closely- by Elmate the buffmn, baying a closely stoppered glue jet ander eaoh erne. As she placed these cA the floor our love- ly heroine perceived diet ono was half full ef seornionil and the other of centipedes, the twa inoet reveltingi repellent and deed, ly of Egyptian reptile She wopld hew) ehrleked at thri sight, for she felt that thy were intended for her and keeee not that, savo by their dreadful tickling as they crawled over her, and per - halm fought each other upon her, they were Wpm:mons by meson of their Sthiga and poieon Mtge having been drawn from them Bet after Elnearr hod put down the two j Ire oho dleappeatee again and thou a soot ne time returned bearing a bean, a j ug of water, eon towels, perfumed soap tend delicate flesh gloves, whereupon the prin. oass Obeerved with an evil Emile : "The white rose of the Feringhem will have to perform her ablutions in her own room cn this ocoazion, for the beth has been monopolized by my brother'a wives and favorites. I myself, however, will be her attendant, insisted by the good Eltnerr." "Oh, you mean to hurb me," sobbed Nei. lie. "What hae e you get that whip for if It len't to beat mo with? You obeli lath me with my clothes on if you do it at all, and I will struggle to the death before you shall sot thoae terrible reptiles to bite and eting me," Having seld this muolt she easayed to smash the glue of the window, fancying that could ette but succeed Out might be able to make her ehrtake audible to some of the people who were in the boats, but, as though divining her intentione, the buffoon, who was as atrong as any man' sprang upon her, forced her away and senther reeling across the floor "Strip 1" exclaimed ti e princess, fiercely cracking her whip. "Off with everything that you have on—overything, I say. Alt, you have lost your Millman, your amulet, haven't you, you white witch? The devil rian't save you from us now. That is why you tremble so, I suppose.' Nellie could not understmed what she meant, but cried, nevertheless, for mercy. But "Strip ! Strip 1" was all that the princess could utter in reply. But, as though Nellie read her every thought, and her intoxicating aspiration as well, she would not commence to disrobe, so that at an imperione command from the princess the buffoon flew upon her again and began to tear oft her clothing, Nellie at first resisting, but soon discovering how futile it was to do Bo against the 'superior strength that was opposed to her, suffering her arms to fall limply by her aide and re - mining aa passive as though she had been a lay figure in the hands of her ameallant, Off came her dram, then the Print:sea sprang forward, whip in hand, and stash- ed, Washed, slashed, slashed, with all her strength and Wry, at all that warm palpi- tating and snowy lovelinese, the cruel thong licking around back and arms and bosom, and eliciting from the beautiful sufferer shriek after shriek of anguith. Heaven alone knows what she might have been called upon to suffer ere it was over had not Elmarr suddenly exclaimed, in ao- oente of mingled horror and alarm: "Your highness, there is a man coming this way. Maloom, Maloom, I forgot to put your shoes outside the ourtain. oh, what's to be don,? What's to be done ?" CHAPTER XLVII. SHOWS WHAT RESULTED FROM A FORGOTTEN PAIR OF SHOES. There was nothing to be done. imply be - canoe it was too late ta do anything. The heavy footsteps had already reached the centre one of the three rooms, and now a, shrill female voice was heard exclaiming ID not very excellent French : "Those are my child's screams 1 They are torturing her! They are surely killing her 1" %There was a single word in response, and the princess, dropping her whip, exclaimed: "It is my brother, the Khedive ! Oh, I am lost 1 I am lost 1 What shall I say or do 7" Then in an instant her face changed He expression, gni seizing bola of Nellie by one of her enowy shoulders, she hissed in her ear, whilst her brilliant eyes seemed to emit rays of light: Now it is your turn to have vertgeance upon me. My lite is iu oar hancle a el you kuow it. The ;secret of the opal ring end the Mine fiewer will destroy me. Well, be it EO. 1 would sooner enjoy another beffat at you than cringe to you or pity." • She smo'50 her with both eleacheci fists at once and WI hard WI she could strike, and as Nellie staggered backward with is gaap and a half choking sob, she herself tar n sd sharp rount with cialveriug ncetrile, co npreased lips aud fleshing °yeti, looking lit e a auperb Cleopatra defying her ROTIVAL cox-Acura:a, to face Mame that; were coming to disturb her at her inhuman sport, while Elmarr, tho buff ,on, flew to tho other end of, the room, and crtiuchirg down hid herself be- hind a pile cf cushions. The, next instant, or rathet ths.t very in. etent, the door was &abed Opp., and in the aperture Prince Tewfik, the Khedive, came to a full stop, whilst Mrs. Trezarr, rushing in, was met by Nellie half way, who, witha paroxysm of sobbing, threw herself into the maternal arma, which, as .well as the maternal cloak, was thrown around her. " What is the meening of this acme ?" demanded the Khedive, furiously, of hideis- ter. "You had better ask her. Yon don't ex- pect me to criminate myself, and I am far too proud to eit case Or to attempt to exontre myself, even to you," was the disdainful an- swer. The princese knew that did her smarting victim tell the story of the lotus flower and of the opal ring as she had related 11 to her only the preceding day, her doom would be death fer havIng received one wet the male sex 'within the seraglio wallet and how could she hope that shmwould endt tell it after such birbario treatment as she had juet received, at heahandse? • What was her aetonishinent wilen she heard the,Feringleee girl exclaim it "Oh, your highnoaa 1 dcrit With to sew anything. I we'll say anything, I have no malice, I only Want to forgive the princese and to goaway with my mother, that is AIL" Her highness gave a great gasp aa of, re• lief, but said no word of thanks, and the proud, defiant, leekatill remeined on her ()countenance, ' , Indeed' the Khedive looked the moat re- lieved of the two. for he voteld undoubted- ly have executed justice Upon his sister no. cording to strict Megrim law, he yet seemed to feel very glad fhat Nellie hied saved him the neonate, of doing eo. .A quarter of an hour later Nellie quitted the Reset -Tin ' palace between her father and mother and surrounded by the armed gdards of thee war minister, but Primo Tewfilti the Khedive, quitted it notelet de- epiee all the reprehentarlono and revelations that Mr, Tretarr had made to him &Morn. Ing Ma immediate seizure, trial and ocean thin for tretteon to the etate 11 he remelted. on Egyptian solli on Egyptian boil he was del:enabled to remain notwithritandinge Nellie and her reeceers had hardly got outside the palace gates when she inquired with time onrioeity whither they were ebout to take her, and not being satisfied with emit vague antiveere as "To a place of safety, my dear," and so on, she plied the petition again and again until Mr. Trezarr was driven at bet to ()Pidgin " We are goiug to the war minietcreis." "1 would rather die thine marry the war minister. And, besides, I have not Leen a A idoW 1 wenty•four hours,'' saki Nellie. "4 w (dew ? The child has taken leave of her nemies," gasped Mr. Tree trr, "No, I have not. I wish to heaven that I had," wailed out Nellie. "I was married to poor Frank L the Catholic, church here yesterday morning, only a wimple ot houra before he MS killed by the mob whilst we were on our way to the harbor." It will be remembered that Arabi Pasha had told the Trezerre nothing at alt of this, as he had not the alighteat desire that Nal. lie should know that her Chrititian husband still lived, for he trneted that her grief, her deeper end that state of bodily and mental prostration In which the victim can hardly be said to cue what heppens to her would came the lovely girl to obey her parent's wishes in ail things, Those parents, however, were perfectly bothered and bewildered at whet their child had just told them, though it was not long before Mr. Trezarr thought he saw a way out of the serape, Oh, a Popish ceremony Is nothing," add he. "You were brougbt up a Protein - tent, Nell, and a Romaniala marriage le, of course, no more binding on your oonecieace than jumping over a broometiolt would be, Bisides, the—the poor fellow is dead—was killed two hours after you were—were im- posed upon by a lot of noneenee. Of (mime, I'm sorry for him. very; but for all that, you are as much Mies Trez err and as little Mrs. Denelly as ever you were." "1 am so muoh Mrs. Density, papa, that I shall retain the name all my life through, and I, myself, otiose the serviceof the Oath - olio church because I esteemed it the moat holy. solemn, binding and God blessed of all marriage services," replied our heroinefirm- ly. What answer Mr. Trezarr would have made to such a terrible opeech as this, h ad he been able to make any reply at all, it is hard to tell, but KB it was he opened hie mouth to let a stone in instead of wisdom out—a stone that calmed him to swallow Iwo of his teeth and a great deal of blood from a out Hp as well. This missile proved to be the advance guard of many auch, and from that point all the way to the arsenal the orowd etrove its utmost to get at the European whom the soldiery were guarding. At last, however, the amental gates were reached and opened and the Trezerre and their escort gained tho haven of shelter, though followed by a perfect rein of missiles mom behind the hastily recloeed barriers. TO BE CONTINUED.) WHY WE SMILE. A literary cent-or—A penny paper. Oae swallow doesn't make a Summer, but 11 11 le of the right stuff it will make a fa:Stiee is called a grate widow, my eon, be- oaule she is in the heyday of her happiness. If you're searching for more ignorance than you have on, hand always go to an "intelligence effi3e." When Foggs heard the landlady below stairs pounding the beefetake he remarked that Mrs. Brown was tendering a bacquet to her boarders. An Arkansas man who had never seen a pair of snow -Fames, followed the track of a pair a mile rine a half, the other day, to Pee " what kind of a varmint made 'em." Rev. Sam Jones says he doom t want to die for a year after making a horowtrade He wants that length of time for solid prayer. Mr, Jones says he has been there. It would be interesting to hear from the man he ewapped with, Bagdad, with a population of 100,000, is said to have no place of public resort or amusement. The Berm Bali Aasociation should bear this in mind when making up their schedule for next seamen. An exchange remarks that when a man comes home at 3 o'clock in the morning, and after putting kis umbrella to bed, goes and stands behind the door till morning, it is time that man was swearing off. It is easier to raite a hundred dollars for the purchase of is gold weach to ba present- ed. to sornebnly who does not nemi it than it la to collect the same amount for some poor men from the same persona who owe him the money. " Pa," asked a little boy, " when a politioaa goes into office does he have to take an oath ?" "Yes." "Ansi when he goea out of office does he take an oath ?" " Yes •, but there is nothing con -Tabery about it." A young fellow named Lemon, living in ttearne' Texas, was cruelly " shook ' by his beatgtrl on the eve of their wedding. The backsliding girlfleooly observed that she didn't believe she would "take any Lemon in Hearne," • It is a remarkable fact that the queetione asked by the man who signs himself "Con- stant gender " are generally questions that any primary wheel scholar eught to be able to answer. Which goes to ahow that the more conetantly read Dorno papers aro the lees their readers know. " Say, old man, I'll have to recall that invitation I gave you for dinner next Satarday." Certainly ; but, old fellow, I hope there's nothing 'vermin" "Oh, no- thing at all ; Lut we've suddenly taken is notien to °booty° Lent at our house." "In- deed "Yes. You see I droptee a cool $50,000 in stooks, and my wife has die. charged her cook. I'm biginning to take an intereat in religious macre." A New and Valuable Oil There aro now enormous crops of permute grown in our Southern Stater, as well as in Africa and South America, The peanut le relished by many people whoa° digeetion is attic& It makes an ecomemical and fat- tening food for hem8 and cattle,' but its ohief value now le the oil it produthe. Under proper manipulation the nut yielder nearly fifty per cent, of a bland, Mount colorlees fixed oil, not unlike olive oil, and used for similar purpesen. It is a non-drying oil, and remains fluld at several &green below the freezing point of water, Some ot our finest and moat valuable toilet wipe are made from thie e_lelin.oue extract from the peanut, " Can yott tell me," he aelted, as he entered the erne° the other day, "why the railroads should discriminate so heavily against dressed • meat over livestock 7" Certainly, sir; dressed meat is dead, isn't it / ' " Of courim," 'I Well, anything that caret kick is always bulldozed by is rail. road company," 1 YOUNG FOLK S. Jumbo Marching Agaii. lee,The little foiled may be glad to learn pomething about the greet elephaet, You all remember the story of hiS being brought from the zoological garden in London to the Cleated Stetee, end that he was killed last September by the care at Si. Thoma, Ont, Well, Jumbo he been reconstructed, made over, built up, stuffed, net on his feet and Woks almost as good as now, In faot two Jeinbas have bean made out of one. The skin and the skeleton were sent to Rochester to Profemor Ward, the naturalist, who has been four months in getting the restored. Jumbo, and the akeleton Jumbo ready to trail and move. Now this work has been done so well, that you would ahnost think him alive. His akin weighed fifteen hundred pounds. When alive Jumbo weighed rumen tons and stuffed ho weighs three tons, The skeleton will be th many the moro intereating of the two Jumbos. The ekin was badly demolished by the freight train that killed Jumbo, yet the reatormion has been so perfectly done that a critical exam- ination has to be made to discover any in- tiloations of the smash -op. Every buts of the huge mammal has been carefully mot- ened in its proper place and they are all firmly secured ready for traveling, Professor Ward Inc letter to Mr, Barnum says: "Every bone lu its collossal frame- work has not only been made to keep its proper place in tho anatomy but the whole has been made to strong that I Chink it will bear the quite unusual ,strain to which It will be subjected in traveling. It has ape - dal mechanical adjustments for raising and lovverina, applying; and taking off its legs etc. Thin is, I believe, the only mounted skeleton of an adult African ele- phant in this country. It is an interesting and a satisfaotory coincidence that it is a; the same time the largest skeleton of a modern terrestrial mammal in the world." Then an elephant was built up of eolid wood cf Jumbo's exact form and size. 0 eer this was put his bkin and this was nailed and ecrewed into place over the entire sur- face and along the seams. There were EGV onty-four thousand, four hundred and eighty nails used in the work These male were partly driven before the akin thoroughly dried, andwhen it had ahrunk all it would they were driven out of sight. To look at him you would think he was without a bone, and that his " department of the interior" was all wood, iron, olay and hair. I asked a gentleman who was looking at him: "How many little boys could play horse inaide of him If the space was clear," and he said at once, "why from a drzen to fifteen ' Just think of it, one of his toe nails is nearly six inches from one side to the other or as long as an ordinary lead pencil. One of hie teeth was about the same length. Then think too how much candy such an elephant could eat I The glen for his eyes was colored espe- cially for the purpose His bones are fast- ened together with brass bolts, Silver - headed screws fasten his great toes to the base on whioh he etands. Jumbo was born in Central Africa in 1861 and was only twenty four years old when he was killed. A spooled oar for him has been built in Philadelphia. He leaves Rochester this week and goes to Bridgeport, Connecticut, for Barnum, who will probably make more money out of him dead than alive. He will be placed on a wagon twenty-five feet long and nine feet wide, that weighs 6,500 pounds, especially constructed for him and containing machinery by which the bei may be raised or lowered. Oa thie he will be drawn on a ccr fifty feet in length and so ar- ranged that the bottom is within six inches of the road -bed in order to allow its pre - Mous load to remain upright and still pass under railroad bridges and through railroad tunnels. Thio last week Jumbo had a reception. Representatives of Mr. Btrnum and editors from New York and several other °Rya came to look at these two Jumbos before he starts out on hie trip, Prof. Ward prepared cards upon which was pic• hued c, tombstone bearing an inoription to the memory of the deceased elephant, He made an addrees te these representatives and told them of the work and its diffi• cultiee and presented each visitor with a souvenir consisting of a pine of Jumbo's tusk, auitably insceibeci. A great many little children in Rochester have been to see the two elephants made out of one. Ruby -Headed Humming Birds. See what dear little birds we have here. They are so tiny and so beautiful. The plumage of these small creatures is won- derful, so great a contrast in color is seed upon them. Their little heads and nape of their necks is of the brightest ruby color, while the chin, throat and chest are yellow. The tail is reddish, with a black tip, and the under part of the body is a dark olive browu. Poor little beautiful birds, their beauty is the cause of their death too often, for their pretty little bodies are very fre- quently to be seen in cases of stuffed birds. These birds are found in South America and the West Indies, Do you see the funny nest the little birds make for themselves? 11 is very beautiful as well as curious; it is pointed at tho bot- tom; most delicately woven with all sorts of fine threads like spider's web, and it is faetetted to smile long drooping leaf in a most ingenioue manner. F£0731 ite position the nest is safe from many of the dangers which are apt to namil little birds when h eliding: The little hen -bird is nut so pretty ow her mato; her color lug is not nearly no decided, as she hats ecercely any ruby shades ab put the head, or yellow on ber throat. I am mire you must wish that we had some of these dear little birds ia America, They would look like lovely butterflies fly- ing about, only much nicer, becauee they are dear little sensible birder that might get tame and eat out of our halide, But hewn- ming-birde could never live in our country. They require a hot climate, such as they have in the Weat If Silence is golden, what a Yaluteble mkt- fortUne lookj me roust be. The Salvation Army made a democrat on the boulevard lately from their headgear-, lora in Le Villette end occupied the Salle des Conferences.. Mind:Moth's French wee glib enough, • bithelier humorous slips pro - \inked much hilarity, She was, however, naucht applauded- when she denounced war Eis El the most gigantic mookery of our civil- izetion " At is recent execution in Missiesfppi the condemned, who had formerly been a member of is colored brass band, desired mueic at his hanging. The sheriff, a , kind- lyiltteerted man, consented, aud just as the drop was touched and the viotim dangled' in the air'the darhey band struck up "Swing low, sweet chariot, I'm going horns)," LEMS OF TEfOUGUIT, What man is deficient lie menses he umuall ruelsee up in mullahnefis, In novels marriage enda all, The truth is neeolsely the reverter ; it begins all. tilbNu:etthurime iselffrWalthaoluidt wigillvia ltmilahwim"ainhiaAtoof We never do ourselves so much good as when we are, at least, trying to do good to others. Remember this : However small you con.eideryour possessions there is Some one who onvice you there. Self.denial and thought for the heppinese of others are among the imede from whioh shall erring never -lading flowers. There is no luck, but there is auoh a thing as hard work and knowing how to make le anewer for what ethers oall "luck." Like a dream ia the life of mien ; like swift Millis, seen for a moment oneilete horizon's edge and then sailing we kniiVe not whither. In expenses I would be neither pinching nor prodigal; yet, if my means allow it not, rather thought too tapering than a little profile% The whole European and American world is undoubtedly advanoing to a broader and more philosophical coneeption of the true moaning of religion, It is bettor that joy should be spread over the woole of the day than that it should be concentrated Into eostasies, full ot danger and followed by reaction. More gentlenesa, more sympathy, more consideration, more haovvledge of character, more real respect for oue another, are need- ed in all the relations of life. A good conscience is an exoellent thing, and so too is is winsome manner, It should ID °Racially cultivated, When frankness becomes rudeness, it ahould be properly c he oiled. No matter how low down man may got there is not more than one in every 100 of them but veill prove true to is small trust if his pride be strengthened by your Deeming faith in hinn Maoh of the world is prejudiced against facts, because facts stick to the text and don't go out of the way to concoct a palata- ble medium for the world'a own genteel tette and wise opinions. There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and, therefore, men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother. Simply believing the truths of religion doesn't make you religious; you may appra- Mate right and yet not do right; weeping over martyrs is not as heroio as having had your amp suffered at the stake. One breach of faith will alwaye be remem- bered, no matter how loyal your subsequent life may be. People may imagine that they trust you, yet all the time they have an eye to the former break. It dime not disgrace a gentioan to bo - come an errand boy or a day lab -Mier, but it disgraces him much to become a knave or a thief, and knavery is not the less knavery because It involves large interests, nor theft the leas theft because it is countenanced by usage. Melon Jackeon never wrote truer words than these, which were penned abeam one year ago : "It le a piteous thing to aee how, in this life the gentler and finer or- ganized nature Is always the one to suffer most, and come cff vanquished in collisions, and the coarse-grained, brutal one to triumph." The bad men in society areATvisys ready for rebellion. The bad elemeht in politica is always trearionable in ite nature. When treaeon raises its bloody hand, every good man and true is in honor bound to enlist for the war in defense of virtue, integrity and allegiance to the beet interests of man- kind. Only he who puts on the garment of humility finds how worthily it clothes his life. Only he who dediocites himself to the spiritual Denim:, of his brethren, simply be- cause his Master tells him they are worthy of it, comes to know how ride theme natures of his brethren are, how richly they are worth the total giving of himself to them, No man can afford to let go of any intim eace which help to save him from vulgar and commonplace views of life ; from false types of exoellenoe ; from the paltry compe- tition which strives above all thinge after material success ; from ,the deification of ourrent popular opinion ; and the desire to swim with the stream, and spread the mails to the passing breeze. That man has learned a great Jenson who hae learned to accept himself as he is given to himself. We may build a thousand airy castles as to what we would do if we had the genine of a Milton or of a Newton ; but nothing will ever come of each airy castle - building. The real queetion that ehould interest us is, What work can we best do, without the genius of Milton or Newton, but with ourselves as we are. When we answer that question, we stand at the threshhold of the door that leads to the highest sucoess of which we are capable, ei—eweema—w Capturing a Bear. One day lately a Manners Sutton, boar - hunter, went cut in pureuit of his sport, Ho came upon a track near Nutter's some diatence to the south of York Mills, follow - Ing which for about one mile a bear was diecovered In his lair. The oneeteemon the man was provided with wtt as axe with which he struck bruin a bl . The beast got mad at this and showed fight. The hunter thinking discretion the better part of valor retreated as fast aa possible. The bear soon overreached him, however, and got his paw on the anent -oboes. There was a flounder in the mow and a fight at close quaiters. After a while our hero got on hie foot again and made for a tree, vehicle he managed to climb, not much the worse for the encounter. The bear, haw - ever, had gat badly hurt; yot, not con- tent with tearing the man, made efforts to got up, too, but toned himself too weak for the operation. He solaced himself for aboue half an hour by acting the part of a belligerent, then darted to go away. The matt came down and followed there was another encounter at close quarters, when, with a well directed blow of the axe, tho bear was ttretched out to be numbered with the slain. The eremites was found to weigh 315 lbs., sold next day for $20 and has eince been shipped to Beaton. "Tho plaintiff saya, 'recited the Judge, "that you often deserted her ; that you subjected her to shameful treatment ; that Oven you often struck her brutally; you call yourself a man, and strike a woman of 25," The wife, who is in the court -roam weeping, with her fate In her heads, raises it anddenly at this juncture and exclaims ; "1 beg your pardon, Moribleur le Prod, dent; only 4 years, —Wrench Paper.