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amber written 011 a card. " The fifth
in d. _ f the verde two oor, with a shrug of his shoulders,
and Lina Michel stepped into her cordage
Vatoft e e n owno
Potpie came into... the moonlight,
leaned over the little chain that enetrcled
the small fountain,into whose basin a
"marble Hebe continually emptied her
fitter -brimming cup,
Aa the girl looked down into the water
her fingers trifledwith a lily, and dee re.
'marked that one of the leaven had beau
broken, It is atrange how we notice such
tinsel thinga when we are thinking of
greater ones; yes, and remember them,
too. Ever after Lina Michel remembered
that broken lilyleaf, and fluttering re•
flection in the ater, and the scent of the
Aid -blown roses, and the few drops that
were cast upon her neck from the onp ef
theBebe at the fountain in the old garden
sat Munich, on the sweet midsummer
eight,
The young man atood very near her.
Be had a sweet, grave face, and epee
that were as soft and dark as a gazelle's.
They were not unlike, these two; both
were eptrituelle—both were dark, both
were romantic. The tie of blood was be-
tween, for they were conning, though, as
the Sooteh folk day, "far away oonsins,
and bearing different names. They had
been brought up under one roof, and Irina
Michel's mother had been all the mother
the little orphan Henri, Sieber knew,
When after a little silence, she turned
her eyes toward him, ehe looked into his
without reserve just an a slater might.
It is cruel of grandpa,' she said, It is
very crnelilenri. These old people think
only of' money. Why can they net let us:
have peace, when we could be so happy I
It le enoh an abeurb idea, You and 1 to
.marry each other 7 We are like brother
and aieter. Nothing can change that.
'But we are not brother and slater,' bald
he; and even first mashes marry. I
have been thinking that—
'Oh, don't, don't,' ehe said—`Henri, for
heaven's flake, don't begin to be as bad as
the rest. Be my good brother still. It
would be frightfullfor us to marry. Be-
sides, one should fall in love first—should
not one Think how absurd to marry
without that.'
i like you so much,' said Henri.,
'Dear cousin Lina, let no talk about it.'
'I will not,' said she. ' If you deaire,to
quarrel, you can talk about enoh foolish
fancies , not else. Of course, yon like me;
of comae, Dike you, and that is just why
it can't he. Grandpa aught to be asham-
ed of himself.
She paused a moment, then turned her
Zips toward her cousin.
" Give me a kiss brother Henri," she
Laid, and never, never, never speak of
this abenrdity again. Aa for marrying, I
shall never marry any one. Why should
I, when I detect the thought 7
_Henri gave a little sigh.
and soon, followed by her maid, climbed
the etaira of a dingy dwelling, and rapped
open the door that bore the word, " Atel-
ier " upon ib,
In a moment a man with a lon beard,
in his, hand
who held a palettez opened
the door for her, and stood regarding the
apparition of a closely veiled lady attended
by her maid, wibh some eurpriee,
"1 speak to the painter of the picture
at Monsieur—e,' said the. Praulein Michel.
" The garden and the fountain, _I de-
sire to purobaae it at any price.
'Madame,' replied the artist, I regret
to say that picture is nob to be sold.'
- But I must have it,' said the lady- I
am rioh—anything, any price."
I am poor,' Haid the artist, but it has
no price.
` Listen, sir.' said the lady. 'It ie more
than a picture that I want -It is a remind-
ecence. It to like—a place that I know;
I beg for it. I implore you to sell it to
me.' ' Madame laid the artist, ' I dee
you have a heart. I will epeak plainly.
Long ago, I stood with the only woman
I ever loved, beside that fountaln-a
fountain in an old garden at Munich, I
was a young idiot. I did not even know
my heart; but I know it now. I have
known it for years. One day the memory
of the spot and of the hour returned to
me as if by magic. I painted theplature
in a few hours, Then again ehe stood be-
fore me. I saw the moonlight on her
fioe. I naw herwhibe hand lying in mine.
I`'eaw the whole picture. Never before
could I put ib upon canvas. I know I
never can again. And, Madame, while I
live I must look uponthabploture. When
I die I must cast my lash glance upon it.
I shall never see her again. Long mince
she has become the wife of come one ehe
loves well, no doubt; buil—I shall never
love any other. ' So I must keep her plc
bure; I must.' Yon see that, madame.'
" I shall never marry neither, Cousin
Lina," he said; but yon see we are not
brother and sister. Yon oan't make ;it
so by saying eo."
Then he kissed her and they walked
back into the house, where Grandpapa
Kelber and Granduncle Michel had just
settled the matrimonial.prospects of theee
two young cousins to their own satisfac-
tion.
The result of the youngpeople's rebel-
lion was a quarrel.
Lina escaped very easily. It was only
proper for a girl to be coy; but the young
man was so beset with reproaches that
he finally defied his relatives as much ae
Ajax did the lightning.
In hie case the lightning had the best
of it, and. the end ofall this was that one
fine morning Henri. Kelber found hints
self turned out into the world to seek hi -
fortune; and long ere his cousin's black
eyes were open upon the dawn, had left
Munich and his furious relatives behind
From that day nothing was heard of
him by his friends in Munoth for many
a long year.
The old people were unforgiving.
Grandfather Kelber died and left all his
money to Lina. who hadalready refused'
two excellent matches. Grand uncle
Michel died also, and Lina became yet
richer. At int her beloved mother also
left her. She long remained Lina Michel,
though her beauty and her wealth had
brought many a suitor to her doer. The
love that she had thought necessary, to
marriage—the mysterious wonderful love
—had never come to her; and now she
believed that it never would, for she was
eight -and twenty. But, somehow, ever
since the morning when she awoke and
found that her cousin Henri was gone, her
memories of him had grown more sweet
and tender every year.
Shetravelled two years and heard
nothing of.her cousin Henri, and at Last
found herself in Paris, at the height of
f+tis gay season, and there rested a dove
who had not found her olive branch.
There is no place to dream like a pic-
ture gallery; no place like Paris for plc -
tures.
Lina Michel spent many hours with her
eyee fixed on painted fame that she never
saw, for the living face that haunted her,
but one day she awoke to wendrone inter-
est ina small picture which hung in a
small dealer's gallery in which she found
herself.
It was a simple scene. A moonlit gar-
den, in the distance fading into undefined
shadows, a Hebe emptied her cup, and by
the fountain's brim a youth and a girl,
The moonlight kissed her face. Hie was
not seen. He bent toward her, loverlike.
Hie hand touched hers, and here , rested
on one of the little poets thab held an en-
circling chain about the fountain. These
-were crowned with lilies, and as she look-
ed closer, she saw blast one had a broken
leaf.
It was the garden of her grandfather's
old hoose at Munich. And this was more
than chance. Was there such a thing as
magic, or had some artist watched Henri
and herself on the night when ehe made
that miserable miatake7 For that was
Henri, and surely that blaekhaired girl
was not unlike herself.
f 'Is this picture for sale 7 She aeked
the dealer,
He shrugged his ahouldere,
"I think the artist fe mad," he said.
" This is the first picture anyone 'wanted
to buy, and he refused to sell it. Perhaps
a price sufficient will tempt him; but if I
give his address the lady will remember
any, commission 7"
The lady promised faithfully to do so
And as he spoke Lina Michel knew
Henri Kelber—knewhim despite the flow-
ing beard and all the changes of twelve
long years. And as he ceased she threw
back her veil and held both her bands
toward him. ' Henri,' ehe sigh..
Henri 1 Oh Henri, do you not kn
And then he had her in his arms, And eh''
lay sobbing on his bosom. When they
stood beside the fountain in the old garden
at Munich again they were man and wife.
Deeds, Not Emotions.
There was no worse gambling den in
the city of P—then that deooroue, ebately,
family mansion which stood at the corner
of S --Street, facing a quiet little park
and a fountain. With ibe spotless marble
stern and perpetually bowed shutters, it
might have been the dwelling of some
mourning woman or old, grave scholar.
But the police knew ib as a haunt of the
most dangerous ruffians in the city ; not
the lower order of thieves or burglars, but
the men who dress and look like gentle-
men, and who are, nevertheleee, only
beasts of prey.
Orders were issued one night to raid
this house. A desperate oharaoter, known
in every city of the Union as "Big Bill,"
was to be there. There were several un-
answered charges against him ; the police
resolved to take him, dead or alive.
About midnight they surrounded the
house, forced their way in, and after a
short and desperate fight, succeeded in
arresting the gang inaide. " Big Bill"
AVM shot dead through the heart in the
struggle. He was carried into the hall,
and laid on the floor —a young man, wibh
the figure of a Hercules and a bold,
manly face, marred by dissipation. About
his neck hung a cord, to whfoh was at-
tached a Iittle bag.
" Hello 1 ' cried one of the wen. "Bill
carried a chasm 1"
They el en d it, and found within a
lock of may hair, out from the head of
the dead mother whose heart he had
broken. The incident was published, and
called forth ranch sympathy for the dead
man. It were difficult to believe that he
was a hardened criminal, 'With that gray
lock close to his heart.
Yet it le certain that Bill, with that hair
on his heart, went on his way as thief,
gambler, and murderer.
The most selfish and sinful are capable
of occasional fine tender sentiments. The
eight of a mother's Bible or the sound of
a hymn will bring tears to their eyes.
They can afford ,tears. But can they af-
ford to give up one selfish sinful indul-
gence 7 One fault honestly corrected, one
step backward in the career of vice, is
worth floods of sentimental tears.
"By their deeds" (not by their sighs)
" ye ehall know them."
F.R.
Uortioultpre for the 'ou ag.
A few:earn ag a an I wan drivin aloe
te l d g ri
the streetI no i ed a little lnagged gi , ell
q.ione, es the stepped on the walk to look
through the enclosure of e. beautiful red
levee with its spacious lawne end dower
beds, and I thanked my Heeyegiy Father
that while that little waif couldnot enjoy
the inside grandeur of the palatial man-
cion, He had ordained that the outeido
beauty asset neede have his free air and
sunshine, so that the poor as well as the
doh might enjoy it.
Youngrsons maylearn mach of horti-
culture in their ealier yeare before they
have shown any special fttneea or knolination
for any profeeeicn, and their experience in
the cultivation of plants will render them
all the better prepared phyaloally.and men-
tally for other spheres of neefnlnees. It le
tree that one may learn quickly how te per-
form an operation in horticulture skillfully,
while it b almost Impoeaiblo for another to
ever become proficient, end yet its different
departments afford opportunity ,,for varied
oapaoitiee.
I once employed a young man for the spm
mer, who I think was inclined to be faithful
and Induatrioue as well as anxious to learn,
and yet he never betrayed any apectal apt-
ness fd1' the varioae menipuletione of tho
business until„along in September, when all
at once he exhibited an intermit in herttoul-
ture, whfoh could only be mfasured by eight
or ten pounds or good ripe Concords every
day in the week as long as they lasted,
1 think it is well for a boy or a girl to
have a little patch of ground, and with the
understanding that it shall be well:oared for,
let them grow what they ohooee and have
the prooeeds to be used for a good purpose.
Thin helps them to think and plan for them -
eaves, When ohildren are too young ferthis
let them help arrange the flower bede, make
dominate, and they will love them all the
more.
It be well to learn them to observe the pro-
cesses of development and compare the dif-
ferent forms and colors.
In my boyhood days I chewed a Iady
teacher of a country eobool a little flower,
and she at on exclaimed, ” What a little
e did you get it! It's a per
never caw anything like It
at lad !" It was a buckwheat blossom,
na she had seen aores of it.
The young as well as older persona are
prompted very mnob by the anticipated re-
Ward of their labors, and if euooeesful are
j.mulated to further efforts.
A father I once knew told his 12 -year
old son that if be would plant and care well
for an sore of Dorn he might have the use
ef team, teole, land, seed and the prooeede.
That boy faithfully performed his part ef
the contract and new le the senior partner
and chief manager ef extensive nureeriee in
Weetern New York.
Some years ago a wild boy in Michigan,
who had been furnished with toe liberal a
anpply of pocket money, wanted his father
to buy him a new buggy. Hie father re-
plied, "If yon want a buggy, take the old
team and pat in a piece of wheat, and buy
yea one."
The wide-awake boy went et it, sowed
ferty acres, harvested 1,000 bushels, sold it
for a good price, bought a buggy, pat the
rest of the money in a bank, and from that
time began to weak for a home of hie own,
and to -day he is the proprietor of a goad
farm, and a useful Chrietlan man.
It is a mistake to think that "any tool
is good enough for a bey became he won't
de much any way."
If anything will make a boy sigh fer a
olerkehip.it is an old-fashioned sweepstakes
of a scythe.
If anything will make a bey hate farming
it is dragging in a hot day with a Blew ex
team and a orotoh drag.
A feeling of proprietorship is worth aome-
thing to anyone, old or young.
If "Mary hae a little lamb," and feeds
it, let it be Mary's sheep.
If Sarah has a little calf and cares for it,
let it be Sarah's cow. -
If Willie has a Dolt and cares for it, let
it become Willie's horse. '
It don't sound' just right to say that
"bob's steers have grown to,be father's ox-
en." I am oonfident that whatever we
would do for the young, future wellbeing
and love of home, must begin with good ex-
amples, purity of thought and speech, in-
duetrlons habits and strict integrity of ohar-
acter.
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CALLED BACK.
--
Rescue of a supposed Corpse from Being
Frozen to Death,
A Reading, Mich,, dispatch says : Mrs.
Lucinda •Faste, of Woodbridge township,
while on her way to the Fourth of July
celebration, fell unconscious from her seat
in the carriage, and was to all indications
dead. Medical assistance was called, but
all efforts to restore her proved irntile and
she was given up, although not having every
appearance ef being dead. The body was
laid out and taken back home for burial.
Arriving there, ice was procured in which
to paok the remains, and they were go pack-
ed for mere than 30 minutes, when an old
physician, Dr, Neolich, palled on the be-
reaved family. He was so struck with the
life -like look of the "corpse " that he ex-
pressed doubts of her death, Tho body was
quickly taken from the ice, and the doctor
went to work to establtah the fact of her
living. He opened a vein in Mrs. Fade's
arm next • morningand the blood flowed
freely, In a short time the lunge began to
work, and the funeral preparations were
abandoned; The patient now lies apparent-
ly asleep, Her house is filled with ouriens
neighbors, and the local physicians are
much puzzled over the case, It is said by
the neighbors that Mrs. I' rite's mother once
had a similar experience ; that she lay in
a trance for many days, and when ehe came
to evinced a full knowledge of everything
which had gone on around het.
At a dinner party last Winter the cool
weather had done oenelderable duty in sup-
plying conversation, when a plump happy-
looking
appy
looking married lady made a remark abort
cold feet 7' Amid an awful pause she naive-
ly answered : " Yes, indeed, 1 am very
much trenbled—abut, then, they are not my
own." Her husband bushed scarlet.
�'RE >�reu's_DQMAIN .
Pt TRAVI{LI,eh, ,
T Considering that tine is one of tho hardest
tomes to get news --actual, bottom -fact new -
viper news, not mere gossip—out of that 1
have ever etruok, I take a modicum of pride
in saying 1 have quite a little bagful of it
for this letter, Firat, of all, then, there (e
that revolt in Soletan, Be referring to your
map you will find that Spiritan is a large
distriot, part ot which lies in Central Heat -
ern Persia, part in Southwestern Afghanis-'
tan, and part in Northwestern Belsoohiatan
—e border province in the mast mixed-up
condition of effaire. Weil, in tide stretch
of land, the partisans of Ayoub Khan have
raised the eofors of their chief and quite a
deal' of fighting has already taken plane.
To'giye your readers abetter understanding
of the matter, I will supplement this meagre
piece of bmfermation with some further de-
tails. The preeont rater of Afghanistan (as
far ae the word ruler can be applied to any
native potentate there); ie'Am3er Abdurrah-
men Khan. The unwritten law of snooes
sign 111 Afghanistan being a peculiar one,
viz , the Anieor choosing his successor from
among hie Soma, it has always given rise to
trouble and intrigues, and the present ogee
is ne. exception. There are no lees than five
pretenders, all living here in Teheran as
State prisoners of the Shah, (their imprison-
ment being, however, but nominal, for in
reality they enjoy themeelvea 'pretty well
and live in firm homes or palaces)) but only
one of them, Ayoub Khan, amounts to any-
thing,
THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT
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pays him 300 tomans ($4,50(!) a month,,
and the Shah has given hind a fine palsied to
reside in. Ayoub Khan and lila adherents,
have made several ineffectual attempts here-
tefore to deapoee the actual ruler of
Afghanistan, but for some years hank he
has remained quiet, Ayoub Khan being
friendly to England and hostile to the Rue-
siane, the latter have steadily exerted their
inflaenae against him. Strange to say, it
was the Ruseien Legation here whloh first
learned -of this uprising in Ayoub Khan's
favor in Seletan, It appears that for sever-
al months paet hie partieane have been drib-
bling into that province a more at a time,
coming frem all parts of Afghanistan and
generally making the detour by way of Per-
sia till several thousands of themed,@il well
equipped and thirsting for frayCiwydrieeime
trembled, when they began to declare their
intentions of ousting the neurpere Abdur
rahman Khan, and planting Ayoub Khan in
his place in the broad chair of the Ameers.
The Afghan ruler was quiet, not deeming
the thing worth fighting for, but the Shah
has sent troops, and some skirmishes have
taken plane. The whole matter as yet
would. of itself be of slight importance were
it not for the fact that any new trouble con-
nected with Afghanistan swells at once into
an event. It is believed here by many that
the whole revelt is the result of Russian in-
trigues ; that it is due to the
To Prevent Lamp Accidents.
Both in construotmg a ,amp and in the
care of it, the following rnlee aro worth
knowing, fer ohooeing, in the first place,
and for keeping it in good order :
1. That portion of the wick whfoh is in
the ail reservoir ehould be enclosed in a tube
of thin sheet metal, open at the bottom, er
in a cylinder of fine white gauze, such as is
used in miner's safety lamps (twenty-eight
meshes to one inch).
2. The oil reservoir ehould be ef metal
rather than of,china or glass.
3. The ail reservoir ehould have ne feed-
ing piaoe nor opening other than the open.
ing into which the upper part of the lamp
is screwed.
4. Every lamp should have a proper ex-
tinguishing apparatus.
5. Every lamp should have a bread and
heavy base.
6. Wicks should be soft and not tightly
plaited.
7. Wicks ehould be dipped In vinegar and
dried at the fire before being put into lamps.
8. Wicks ehould be only just long enough
to reaoh the bottom of the oil reservoir.
9, Wioke should be 'se wide that they
quite fill the wink -holder without having to
be squeezed into it. Wicks should be soak-
ed with oil before being lit. The reservoir
should be quite filled with ell every time
before acing the lamp,
10. The lamp should be kept thoroughly
clean, all oil should be carefully wiped off,
and all charred wick and dirt rubbed off
with a twisted lamplighter or other stiff
piece of paper before lighting.
11. When the camp is lit the wink should
be first turned down and then slowly raised,
12, Lampe which have no extb,guiehiog
apparatus should beput out as follows
The wick should be turned down until there
is only a email flickering flame, and a sharp
puff of breath should then be sent norms
the top of the chimney, but not down it.
+NI 1110 err
The Boot was on the Other Leg.
"Is your rector going away this summer,
Mrs, Pew 1"
"Yes, indeed. The vestry has voted him
three months''ieave."
"They realize, then, that he needs a rest,"
"No; on the other hand, they realize
that the congregation needs a rest,
Hobart Pomba died in the arms of hie
wife, a young English lady onlytwentysev-
en years: . eld, One of hie dying regneats
was that ho might be interred in Turkish
soil, -
MACHINATIONS OF RUSSIAN EMISSARIEB
sent out amongthe disaffected Afghans with
money and a glib tongue. re my -knew -
ledge preeeure was brought to bear upon
Ayoub Khan himself to flee from Teheran
and put himself at the head of the revolt,
bathe declined, on the argent advioe of the
English Legation here and 'through those of
the Indian Government. The Retardants, it
will be perceived, if they have stirred up
this row—and there seems to be slight doubt
of it—attain two objects by it. First, they
make it appear that Afghanistan la net a
whit better than it used to be and to
as
trenbleeome and unruly a neighbor to the
Ruestan border provinces of Mery and Tar -
commie generally, and next, that it is the
man whose cause England champions and
who is under her tutelage, so to speak, who
gives the troubled thus serving as a double
pretext to meddle with Afghan affairs once
more. If nothing worse.
Russian influence here rales jest as su-
preme as ever. A few eeeeke ago the Primo
Minister of Persia, Sadr Azem, died, but
his place has not been filled, and will not be
because of Russian ir fluenoe, The deceased
was a rather able man and a foe to the north-
ern ooloesue, though aseoret one, as he could
not afford te be an open one. Instead of ap-
pointing a successor the Shah has intrusted
the principal intim of the late Premier to
the present Minister of Foreign Affaire,
Moushir ed-Dewleh, a creature of Russia,
bought to do l•er bidding at "e many tomans
per month. Even the monthly purchase
price is mentioned here. It fa rather steep.
At present there ie Gen. Sherpeloff in this
oity. He is the chief of staff of Cancaeua,
and undoubtedly one of the very ablest and
meat energetic among the younger Raenlan
Generale, a man who is extremely popular
in the army and at Court alike, and who ie
looked upon by many as the probable sue -
tremor te the late Gen. Skobeleff. He had
gone on a spectra call from Tiflis to St. Pe-
tersburg and had had several long audiences
with the Czar, when he left the capital
hurriedly and sped here without stepping.
The official purpose of his mission is to get
the Shah's active co-operation in preventing
the annually recurring raids of the Turco -
mane residing on Persian soil into the bor-
der districts of the Southeastern Caucasus
and around Sarakha and Merv, Bat It is
believed that his real mission goes futher
and that the preliminary steps are being
taken by him to force by moral suasion the
Shah into an actual treaty to cover the
Rasaian rear in case of
servant wag merely the tool, or at least the
aogompiice, of the Amin•es.Sultea htrneelf,.
The latter, however, being the great friend
of the Sbeh, eseeped seenfree, while the
poor devil of a servant was
CHOKED TO DEA= IN A 110101IBLE MANNE1
on the Coop Omen, (the public eciaare
where the execrations take plate, The
root Of the gens (for there had, of course,
been a gang) escaped. And not even this
much would have happened in the wiry of
appeasing I' outrage:% jastioe" if it bad not
happened that the Cntef of Pelipe jest at
thin time ie on bad terms with the Ar;Iin-es-
Sultan.
A. ourioeity in Ito way was a letter that by
accident got into my bends fora little while,
It w as a letter written by an American (I'11
omit the name and ,place) to the Shah It
was couched intim most offhand and unaffect-
ed terms, bet was othardviee quite a product
tion, Phe, oocraopondeut etertod oat by
saying that be had read with pleasure .the
recent artloles of Mr. Benjamin, the late
Amerieen Minister to Penile, on Iran and
her people and ruler, He thought, however,
several things were needed to make; the
Shah's happiness complete. Ramie, he
might be astonished to learn, had designs 0n
his country, and hie M:,jesty ought to be
better prepared for the onslaught which was
eare'to Dome within a few years. He (the
writer) had heard that the Pentane
were quite skilful in the use of the bow and
arrow, an a000mpllehment which probably
dated from the time of Cyrus ; also,, that
they were egaeetriane. Now, what he pro-
posed to do was thie To hold annual &harp.
sheeting festivals at Teheran, the winners
eo:get big prizes, ranging from $100 to $1000.
te 'invite the nobility. of the land to tender
.their eervioee for nothing ae,officers, and to
form sharpshootingcompanies of 100 men
oaoh, they to be paid in a manner not yet.
decided. At the head of•thle-whole scheme
Cie Shah would need to put an votive, in-
telligent man—and that man would' have to,
be: tee writer, Then followed some bio.
graphical detaile. The oorreepondent, then,.
was a man' of about 40, of good - build and,
address, and of a character and mode of life
againet which tho tongue of slander had
never been raised. He, futhermore, was a
childless widower, and cenid nee; no good
reason why he ehould not sever present con-
nection with his native village and come
over here to '
HELP THE SHAH OUT 01? HIS TROUIILE.
Of. course for a ooneideratlon, which must
not. be lees than $10,000 a year. If the Shah
thought that this was what he wanted a pee
tal oard bearing his name and the address of
the oorner grocery, to be left till called for
would do the business. At last aceonnts
the Shah had not yet made up his mind an
to whether to accept this kind and disinter•
eeted offer or to decline it with a bleeding
heart, Perhaps the oorreepondent, when he
reads this, will be sorry to learn that the
Persian Treeaury just at. this juncture is
rather depleted;by reason of hie Majaaty
having started a new butterine fluttery, ao
that hardly' enough remains to vouohnafe
the writer the generous 'salary he asks and
deserves. But times may change.
FOREIGN EOHOES.
Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt has been
balled by the Parte Jockey club.
Spain will try to sell $60,000,000 worth
of fermate, and build a navy with the money.
Mrs. Allen, ot Liverpool, has presented
Queen Victoria with a parasol ef satin made
by a poor Irish woman.
M. DeLeeseps is going to build a monu-
ment to Leon Bayer, the engineer, who died
at Panama a viotim of fever,
blaok-
Mary Anderson tells a London newspaper
man that ehe will stay in Europe four years,
and that she will net act for some time, as
work recently has preyed a great strain on
her, health. She will spend the' winter 1p
Rome.
Her Name+
ANNA r'. StIuivira u.
'" I'm lost d I Could yon find: rue, please i"
Poor little frightened t"ab l
The wind had tossed her golden fleece,
The atones had soratehed bot dituplee linage
I r,tooped'and lifted her with ease,
„
And Imlay whispered, 'o May be.
o' Tell nae your pence my little maid 1
1; o.an t find you without ft.
"My name 18 * 8hInoy-eyed,"' be said.
"'yea, but your last name 1" She ehook lion
head
„
Up'to any bonne Pei never said
A single word ab9ut It,
"Iiut dear "I said,. "whet is your name 1'
"'Why, didn't you hear me told;you 7
Dust ' Shineyeyes'" A bright thought menet
"Yea,,when you're good ; but when they blame
You. little, one ; is it just toe seine
When mamma hae. to scold you 1"
My mamma never scolds," elle moans,.
A little blush ensuing,
"'Capt when I ve been a -frowning stones,
And then she ears (the culprit owns),
' elehitabie Sapphira Jones,
What has' you boon a -doing l'"
BUMMER SMILES.
Operators in wool—moths.,
A wind instrument—A oleo key.
An early riser—The alarm of k..
Money lenders take mare in crest in busi-
ness than any other olaes of men,
The Labor Qaestion-" Henry, are yen.
going to get up to make the fire 7"
" I aim to tell the truth," " Yes," inter=
rnpted au acquaintance, "but you are a very
bad shot.
" Ah," said Jekokus, taking hie friend's
baby, " he has get his mother eyes—and
my hair," he added, as the infant prodigy
grabbed him by the foretop.
"Ah," ,said Jebokus, taking hie friend's
baby, "he hes get hie mother's eyes -and
my hair," he added, as the youthful prodigy
grabbed him by the foretop,
"How is this, eon -in-law; you went to
the ball Met night andhere it is scarcely
two menthe alnci you lost your wife?""I
acknowledge it, my dear mamma; but then
you know, d dance so sadly 1"
Old Striotam-See here 1 what makes
you ao late this morning Y" Office boy—" I
had to get my hair ant." Stratum— " Well
you could have tent some ,one else te attend
to that. Dant let it Donut again."
. Fond mother (to bachelor nnole) 1' Why,
John, don't let the baby 'play with that gold
toothpick. He'll swallow it." Bachelor
uncle—"Oh, that won't do any harm. I
have a string tied to it so I can't lose it."
A dealer advertises : " .I am eelIing ` fine
corkscrews in men's pants at $5." Unless
there ie a loaded flask in the hippooket the.
inducement of a fine oorksarew in the pants
will not capture many purchasers.
The hopeful 6 •year old son oE, one of
Waterbury's best known lawyers walked
into the District Court room the ether morn-
ing and presenting a black kitten with a
string about its nook said : " Papa will yen
take care of my oat until wheel is out 7''
A wag who is often merry over his
personal plainness tells this story ef himself
" I wont to a ohemiet the other day for a
dose of morphine for siok friend. The as-
elatant objected to give le to 'me without
a prescription,' evidently -tea**` that 1
intended to commit suicide. "Pchaw 1"
said I. " do I. look like a man who would
kill 'himself Y" Gazing steadily at me for o
moment he replied : "I don't know, It ,
eaeme to me if I looked like you I ehould
be greatly tempted to kill myself."
A oopy of "the Whig Bible," which was
printed in Geneva in 1562, is announced ae
for sale in England. The phrase which
gives the book its appellation oconrs in
Matthew v., 9. It reads " Blessed are the
peacemakers," The edition is a rare one ;
it be not often found Ina perfect state,
The late King of Bavaria's` favorite hover -
age was a mixture of white wine and cham-
pagne, prepared in a bowl with a think
layer of fresh, strong -scented violets floating
en the top. The violets gave a delicious
perfumed flavour to the mixture, much to
the King's taste, as Ludwig was no fond of:
create that the air around him was general-
ly redolent of perfume. . This fancy cost
him quite £10 daily,
Recent arrivals from Egypt, " weary,
and worn, and sad," have terrible tales to
tell. Active employment for Europeans,
with the thermometer 120 degrees le the
shade, seems aimed out of the queetien.
Yet tho troops are described as "rotting for
want of work " at the stations up the Nile,
in a country where ne kilns are required by
the members of the ancient trick -making
craft. The sun is there so scorching in its
power, that in twenty-four hours the bricks'
are baked as hard ae our best "home-
made." At one station on the Nile, where
there is barely sufficient work for half a-dez-
en men, upwards of fifty specially trained'
meddlers are maintained In idleness, to sicken
and die. Those who have just returned
from this valley of the shadow of death state
that at Wady Haifa there were ferty-twe
funerals in fourteen days, and indesoonding
the Nile they passed a station where 710
invalids were awaiting transport to convey
them to Cairo.
In Berlin, says the Pall Mall Gazette,
Chore is' an association of theologioal stu-
dents bearing , the name " Wingolfites"
which has for years ebaerved on the Wednee•
day before Ascension Day the curious cus-
tom of divining for the Emperor's destiny.
The way of doing this is unique. The mom-
bers of the association proceed from Berlin
to the village of Plchelawerder on the Havel
and here they celebrate the anniversary cf
the guild at the Wiihelmfhohe Restaurant.
They immediately climb up an oak tree in
the centre:of the garden and seat themselves
on the brauchea, Beer is banded up from
the ground and after the third glass has
been drained the president delivers the
anniversary epseoh, after whfoh a cheer is
given for the Emperor, Then at the word
of command all glasses are hurled to the
ground and the nation is that the Emperor
will live as many years as there, are Woken
glares. This year twelve glasses were
broken, ee that the Emperor should yet be
a centenarian.
Oat of the twenty-six Ruselan peasants
inooulated by M. Pasteur, eight are already
dead of hydrophobia, Five died in Paris
end three succumbed on their return home,
,' Mary Ann," Saye one chambermaid to
another engaged in filling up vacated rooms.
'" are ye there?" " 1 am," says Mary Ann.
" Thin, Mary," says the other, "the gene
Haman out of twinty-diven has left pomaded'
" Willyo take it into the office 7' "Faith,
I'll not ; its me own hair that require: the
same;"
AN ADVANCE ON HERAT.
Several [ndioations which have come to
my knowledge speak for this eupponition.
Gen. Sherpe)eff himself, although moving
about and acting in a perfectly unassuming
manner, was received here with almest roy-
al honors, and a week ago he passed In re-
view that whole portion ofthe Persian army
which is actually in atolerably geed fight-
ing condition, and en that occasion he anted
as if these men were already in his
imperial master's pay.
Another extraordinary ambassador has
Dome on, however, an entirely peaceful
mission. This is Nusreth Pasha, bearing the
Insignia of the highest Ottoman deooratione
only rarely conferred by the Salton, and
then only to crowned heads. Nuareth Pasha
is a harmless old follow, aTark ef the older
and better school, frank, hind -hearted, pat-
riotic,
An occurrence which happened a few
weeks age would have created a gigantic
sensation in Canada;' but it failed to create'
one here, It was the arrest of one of the
upper servants of the Amin -ea Sultan (liter-
ally the Faithful of the King) or Treasurer
In one of hie master's own rooms for counter -
felting the coin of the realm,' The said coin
is a base enough thing In itself, a horrid im
peeition, fer it consists barely of ono -third
diver, the rest (veer, But thte person had
outdone the mint,and used pure and unadul-'
teratod lead, tieing the Identical stamp
whioh imprint the royal insignia on the coin
as it issues from the mint. The counterfeit
WOW good enough to deceive many people
y
and
be extensively circulated, for it at once
resumed the look of genuine coin alter being
used some time. All the eiroumetanoee
seemed to point to the oonolusion that the
imam .//k.._t ,._—I�1� .� ._--�A ►..___l am
The Use of Homing Pigeons.
The use of pigeons by Mr. C. T. Arneue
as meeeage-bearers, In the yacht recite ef
last September, proves conclusively the
value, the birds' might have asmessengers
from off the water. The .ipur e was the
thought off. the het moment, a when al -
meat too late to make the neoeseary prepara-
tions. The arrangements were hasty, and
the material homed at several centrea, some
ef them miles away from the "centre of use.
Still, with all drawbacks, insufficiencies
and mistakes, it was evident to the most
prejudiced that with birds trained for the
work, and with the atmoonherio conditions
at all favorable, the birds would six times
out of seven prove to be of the greatest
value ; and failing the seventh, we would
be only where we are without them. The
messages were each not lees than ten page.
of manifold note, and were parried upon the
middle feathers of the tall, to which they
e ere fastened by fine copper wird, wound
around and preaeed flat te hold the message
close to the feathsr. Tho editor of a news.
paper served by these pigeons said : ' It
gives me a peculiar sensation to receive
oopy from the hand of one I know to be out
of reach upon the water, and te feel that he
may talk to me but I aap't answer back. It
is a wonder to me after this experience that
the officers of any vessel, excursion steamer,
yacht, sail or Ing -boat should be willing to
leave the shore without this means of com-
municating with it.'
Very many of the merchant marine, espe-
cially in European waters, have pigeons en
board for use in communicating with the
vessel from the small boats away from it or
from share. These birds, it to Bald, never
mistake another vessel for their own when
at deck er in the harbor, It has been re-
marked of several flights that the birds in
'exorcising, when far out of sight of land,
will go away for hours at a time, and upon
their return will have dried mud on their
feet and legs, showing them. to have been
upon shore.
Mr. A. P. Baldwin experimented with
pigoone fer sea service twice in 1885, and to
his eatiefaotion, Oce bird liberated by
Officer Croom of the Wciesland at one
o'clock in the afternoon, when three hun-
dred and fifteen miles from Sandy, Hook,
was in the loft at evening, Another go
from the Ciroassia at nine in the mo lug,
g
when two hundred and fifty-five face out,
brought a message before evening."
He Curedthe Horse.
A Conneotiout farmer drove a horse at.
teethed. to a raok-wagon to the wood lot for
a radian . lead of weed. The animal would
not pull a pound. He did net beat him,
but tied him to a tree and let him stand.
He went to the lot at auneot and asked him
to draw, but he would not straighten a tug.
"I made up my mind," maid the farmer,
"when that horse went, to the barn he
would take that lead of wood, I went to
the, barn, got blankets, and covered the
horse warm, and he stood until morning,
Then he refused to draw, At noon I wenib
down, and he was hungry and lonesome,
He drew that load of wood the drat time 1
asked him, I returned and got another load
before 1 fed hire, I have drawn several
loads minoo. Once he refused to draw, but
as soon at he maw me etarb for the hoose he
started after me with the load,"
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