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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-7-11, Page 2CHAPTER III. Mr. Heath, examining his correspondence et morning or two later, wee abruptly aroused, from Wet fasoinetine study by the arrival of Colonel Setedhurta, The gallant +caner egipeared to be greatly disturbed, even AO far to. to have iorgotton his gloves, a. Sign with him of settee intone° inerillati Owe, Thesolicit' 3r who had already 'ventured a pretty shrewd guese as to the priutary cause of this perturbation, suavely aseleed for an expleamtton, "Now, what do you think of this? ' the injured one replietl. "Tb you know --is going to prevent my punches- dng Fernleigh" "Very pleased to her it," Heath an. centered unfeeliogly ; " only, I should like to know how ehe is goitig to manage it ? ' " Why, this way. You see she heppens to be the plaintiff in this hermit you were -talking about, and has got the idea into her bead that the assignment you people see up is really in existence. She Is actually going to abandon ber claim to all this' money, and allow Mee Chealeaworth to take possession, There is no need to ask if your olient will exempt such an offer." don't think she will, though, even for the sake of Fernleigb. All the same, this is very neble on Mies Morton's part. if the offer is rejected, it will be no Wilt of mime. Bet so convinaed em I that it will be refus- ed, that I have already commenced drawing the conveyance. termer looked in the direction of the sound. "You really thinle so?' asked the Colette', "Will you please oome a little nearer ?'' with a jubiletion he was at some pains to said he. "I did nob know there was any conceal. "You seem to have a quixotic lot one here. And tell Ins who you are." of clients." "My name is Colonel Sandhurst," the interloper responded. gravely. "You are a soldierV' "Well, yes ; or.I used to be, at least." Vivian felt his way in the direction of the voice, and stood with his hand resting on the Colonel's knee quite fearlessly. The fine old soldier and the pretty growl& lad made e. charming picture as they posted thus. "1 never met a soldier before, though my brother Maurice was one, I don't think my mother will oare to ese you here, because it will remind her of Maurice. If I were you, I wouldn't say I was a soldier." "I am afraid Mrs. Charlesworth knows that elretecly,t the Colonel replied with muth humility; "and I don't suppose we shall talk much about myself, you see.—Won't "1 beg your pardon, Heath," returned you play something more ? ' Sandhurst humbly; "bit everything se_ems "No, not now. I want you to tell me to have gone wrong lately. First, there was something about battles. Were you ever in my scheme about Ethel and Frank; well, a real fight, Colonel Sandhurst ? ' that's all knocked on the head. Imagine my "Many, my child. .I was all through the surprise this morning to find Cresswell—you Crimea, and atter that in the Indian Mutiny. know him—in my sittingroom, telking to my Since then, I have always leen at horned ward as if the the place belonged to him ! ib "1 don't see how that oan be," replied appears he came down last inght ; and, on Vivian, shaking his head. "1 don't meanJ my word as an officer and a gentleman, they about the battles, but about home, because had met and settled the whole thing before Gladys says you haven't oneV' breakfast. ' "And where did Gladys derive that Mr. Heath gave a glance at the Colonel's priceless informetion?" doleful face and laughedalond. It struck him "If you have a home of your own, then as exgaisitely absurd that an individual why do you want ours? That% what Gladys so singularly blessed both in body and estate says, and she is always right." should rail at fortune with the petulance cf But some people like to have more than child crying for the moon. one horse." "Nonsense, man. You can't have every- "Then it can't be horae," said Vivian thing your own way; and, besides, the conclusively, "1 have never lived anywhere young people are not like a lot of soldiers, but here, and some day it will be my own. to be ordered about on parade. Anyway If I was not blind, I should like to go away you can set your mind at rest anent and see the world ; but that is not possible. Fernleigh. I have a note from the lady I oan see this house, and know where all this morning saying she will be pleased to tbe trees and flowers grow, and where to see you any afternoon. As I am going there find the first violets. I'm not helpless, you after lunch, you had better call about three. know; I can do everything for myself, and I have some buainess in the neighborhood field my way everywhere. But if we were to and will meet you there at that time." leave Fernleigb it wonld be very bad for "I suppose it must be done," Sandhurst ,t" replied relate:wetly. "1 don't half like the he Colonel maae no reply nye a dea, all the same. faint smile; he could not have answered 4' 01 course you don't. What man would, the simple pathos uf the last words who has in him a spark of kindness or for the supreme command of the British gentlemanly feeling? All the same. It army and a field-marahal's baton to boot. seems only right and proper towards the For the first time in his roving life he began lady that you should go.' to understand the full signifitance of the 'Very well, I will time myself to arrive word 'home' and the deep meaning it held there about three, and I only hope you will for some. 01 hie beautiful house in Sussex not keep me waiting. 1 am beginning to he was jastly proud; but this platonic affac understand the feeling of a man in posses- tion for bricks and mortar, the idealisation sion." of stone walls, he had no oonception. Sit - Better feel them than the emotion ting there, with that child -grasp upon his of Those driven out of poosession," the knee, a new feeling, the consciousness of a lawyer returned grimly. I don't profess new and better world, was budding in his to have any sympathy with yen in the soak matter.—And now, as my time is limited. " Dent' you find ib cruelly hard at times V I must turn you out. Three o'clock sharp, he asked abruptly. remember." "Well, I never notice ib," said the lad With military punctuality, Colonel Send with the sem° touohing simplicity; "only burst walked throughFernleigh gates as the the winter is rather long and dreary. Bat stable clock struck the hour. Hot and then, there is the wind : I like to listen to dusty as it was outside the sudden change that. No one can see that; and when it to the cool green lawn with its shady ash blows, I know as much about it as other peen trees and dark leaf copper beeches was grate- ple. It is very nice for a blind boy to know fed and refreshing. The house, partly in where to find everything he wants. If you shadow, with climbing rose and starry will come with me now, I can show you jessamine growing round the open windows some dog -roses; tile vete/first of the Eamon, and up to the oarved oaken gables, present. and I found them myself, too." ed a pleasing pieture to eyes wearied with Still the Colonel did not answer. He the contemplation of glaring roads and sun- caught a glimpse of himself in a mirror my meadows. Over all these seemed to hang opposite, and actually blushed ab his own the spirit of silence, broke nonly by an oc- reflection. He had had, so he was telling .casional bird -note, and the low moan ot himself, some pretty keen thrusts in his doves resting in the branches cf a yew -tree, time, but never anything half so terrible as sombre against a belt of living green. this innocent childish prattle. Every word Inside, there appeared to be the same seemed to find some joinia in his armour of .graceful harmony, the same sweet sense of self-esteem, and to pierce selfishness like a 'refinement, a humanising fnfinence borrowed knife. from dee presenee, ot womanly love and "You would not care to leave Fernleigh delicacy—a fragrance of flowers in dragon altogether?" he asked. -vases and china brackets, with long spinal "It would be very terrible," said the lad sprays of foliage hanging far down the dark solemnly. "Not so bad, perhaps, if I was polished walls. An open piano filled a like other boys. But mother would feel it corner; in an alcove gay with summer most." flowers stood an organ piled up with music. "Von think she would find it very try ,And into this pleasing picture there came Ing ' presently a more beautiful vision still, a "I think it would break her heart, She slight fair figure in deep mourning, relieved has not had a very happy life—at least, so by white lace ruffles at the wrists and Gladys says. Only, I know how she loves throat; the sight of which caused the Col Fernleigh. onel to rise from his seat and render homage There was something more than pity in at the shrine of beauty. the Colonel's eyes as he looked down at the "You are Colonel Sandhurst, I presume ?" pale flashed face at hie knee. Mrs. Charles she said in a clear sweet voice, looking at worth, entering the room at this moment the same time into his face with her beauti. paased to contemplate this picture as she lul violet eyes. "I am Gladys; Charles. overheard her child's words, with a mute worth." hope that some simple sentence might have The Colonel bowed again, and murmured gone home to the heart of her enemy. Borne platitude in which the words "honour "1 hope Vivian has not been troubling and pleasure" wete alone audible. Old you ?" s'ae said with a fond smile. "1 must soldier and man of the world as he was, he apologise, Colonel Sandhurst —" felt a strange sense of awkwardness and The Colonel stood up with a very red face and confusion in the presence of this simple though the lady's features had suddenly English girl. become white and agitated. For a few "hiet another will see you in a few rao. moments they regarded eaoh other in ton extents," she) continued; "meetawhile, 1 trust ished silence. you will find no inconvenience in waiting "Margaret," said Sundhurst, " if—if alone. You will °noun me when I menhaat known it weer you "— lion that I am &Impelled to hurry away in " You wonld not have sought this painfu consquenoe of the illness of one of our poor interview," Mrs. Charlesworth conoluclecl village people." with chilling dignity. "It is bad enough "You find there is meth saffering without this.' amongst the poor t" the Colonel asked, oon. Vivian, perceiving he was not wanted1 scions of the blueness of Muth a question. had stolen away through the open windows/, "Where Weald be lesle if the rieh took a His mother followed htm with her eyes till greater intermit in those around them, If he was out of earshot. the Bartontharn estate belonged to tee, the "Von will undeastand," she continued, labourerscottageri would tot be in the die- "that in Colonel SiaidEturat 1 have not etc- .greceful condition they are at present.— petted to meet my old friend, Captain But X an afraid to say all I should like on Merkharn." thot quettion, hope yen will not find any "Nor I in Mra Charlesworth my old Jove, inconvenience hi beingdtept waiting, Clenel Margaret Hay. Probably if ney uncle, Carats ; S andhuriet." Saudhunite ,had died three yeara sooner, the 11:017.S. " muttered the dieconifiebd eel, dier, coneoinue of the becotning blush adorn, ing itie bronzed cheek, and Malan pleased to Ana bimetal elone, "1 laeveadt had suoh a tomb since I was" a subaltern, 1 wonder if niy oottages are in such a state as she trays? She did it in such e 000l hely like way, too. ;ad, I don't wonder at Frank f eeliug genie. what "-- But at this moment the whole, current of then rill mama was changed by the en. trance of another pleasing object, and the Colonel itrunediately experienced that ming led feeling of awe and pity all kind-hearted paople do in the presenoe of the blind. The boy advanced elowly into the room, touching a familiar object here and there with his long delicete fingers, To the in- terested spectator, bub for that mute piteous groping of the hands, the blue eyes seemed to be filled with the divine gift of eight, though they were cent upwards, seeking for the light that never comes. To this brorz 3d service.worn soldier the sight of tbe child clad in his Vin Dyke velvet suit and broad collar was more moving than all the panoply of war, as he watohed him in a dazed fee. °linden moving slowly to the aloove where the organ stood. Then he began to play, Forgetful of everything but the deep in bunt aroused by this unaccustomed sone the Colonel changed his place so as to obtaiet a °letter view of the musician, As he did so, the movement entailed a slight noise; whereupon the multi° ceased, and the per "Perhaps so; but you will see I am right all the same. Even if Mrs Charlesworth is inclined to listen, her daughter Gladys will note" The Colonel's face darkened at the mention of this young lady's name. He had heard the romance on the previous night, with a feeling that Frank's interest in the girl was likely to end in a way contrary to all his louden hopes. "That is the hospital nurse, I presume? I hope Frank isn't going to make a fool of himself in that quarter." "Frank might do 'a great deal worse," the awyer answered curtly. "And, I will thank you to speak with a little more respect of Wise Charlesworth, who is not an hogpital tanree, as you know as well as I do." Penniltet Oeltbain Markham woold have proved a more formidable rival to 11i8 eucceesor," 'i You blame me, eon dare te blenee me, when you-- B11.4 ell that is long since forgotten. Let Me be ae teat and generous as 1 oata I have to thabk you fer your kind offer , • but I cauuot accept it. Legally speak- ing, Fernleigh is you/g; therefore, I cannot swept from you a Punt of money which I Oen Only regard as a present," "Von give me very little credit], it: seems," staid the Celonel bitterly. "1 am only mak. ung up to you the value of the property. You retiree to bake what you call a preeent from me. I absolutelyerefuse to rob you of what I know is your just due, C distinctly decline to avail myself of go iniquitous a law as this foreolosure." "It is hard for me to appreciate this sen timent," Mrs. Charlesworth replied as bit- terly, "when I am 10910g what is to me a part: of my very being. 1 OAIII1Ob bleme you, for I know that in all probability Fernleigh must go. Mr. Heath tells me" -- "Let him answer for himself in person," cried the lewyer coming forward.—"Ah, see you are still discussing Fernleigh. 1 preseume, you have thanked Colonel Sand - burst for his magnificent offer ?" "I have thankecl hitn, and deolined it.— Of oeurse, it is impossible for a stranger to comprehend the affeetion we have for the old plan. Call it sentiment, if you like; but the idea of selling Fernleigh"— on my honour as a soldier and a gentleman," the Colonel oried impulsively, if cm do anything in my power to retain your home to you I will. Leb things re - as they are for the present, and we will see what time will do," Mrs, Onarlesworth bowed deeply, She was surprieed and not a little touched a this outspoken generosity. Mr. Heath, the only one unmoved, looked from one to the other with a deep gleam of triumph in his eyes. "You have done well, -Jolene'," he said dryly, "so well, that you will be pleased to hear my news. I have a great surprise in store for you. "I know 1' oried Mrs. Charlesworth with a glowing face. "You have found the assignment ?" "1 have heard worse guesses," replied the lawyer with the game dry manner, taking a parchment from his pooket and handling it tenderly. "That is precisely what I have done." (TO BE CONTINUED ) J ohn !ADM,. Illeidenta, Now a stage has arrived when no women are allowed to see any of the dead recovered daily from the debris, and but few men Ef men related to the dead ones are preaent when they are found or when they arrive at the morgue they are allowed to see the body otherwise the boxes are rot permitted to be opeped. It is generally admitted that there are in all probability more dead in the debris so far untoucfied than have been re- covered. In most oases identity from now on will be diffieult and will depend in a great one sure upon the perfectly organized depart. ment of recovered valuablee. This, in charge of John Pandry, Jr and C G. C Amp - bell, as the continuation ot the very vain. able work started by the RBV. Mr. Munden, of Braddock, in the morgues. There has been some delay in getting all the artioles and valuables from all the attendants of the morgues, but the collections from all sources now ma,ke up a very large sum of money, with wills. checks, drafts, watches, rings, and other jewelry and things!. Reps, or- dinary papers and letters are not kept. As muele as $2:500 has been found on a single body, that of an iron foundryrnan, who had it strapped about] his waist. Where money is 'found on a father or rillifOre arid either survive, or there fire childeen, it is not given tu any of them, but will be held subject) to the court. There are several instances where surviv- ing relatives could get awayor bridge over the present chastn of despair if they could have some of the recovered wealth that others were saving for them, but the gentle- men invested with this trust cannot underteke to distribute any suoh recovered money, the heiresses in tattered frocks and toelees shoes have to go to the commissary headq uarters with their kettles to beg meals, I was witness to an incident that broughe out not only the pathetic and intensely dramatic interest with which this depart- ment is invested, but also a fleshing glimpse of the lightning play of emotion that is en- countered through all this valley of the shadow of death. A young woman of about 18 or 20, with a bright intelligent face andlooking unusually refined, came in. With her was a pale.faced youth of 17, looking like a etudent ond wearine glasses, He looked almost corpse- like, dd not speak and sank exhusted into a chair. The appearance of the girl (they were evidently brother and sister) wee at variance with the place. Her face slightly sunburnt from exposure with the searchers in the debris, was hoileful almost smiling. None looking at her could tenably have aupposed that the twofold effort of MB. taining her brother and guarding her own woratfears and sorrow could be so sustained. "Ws have been looking for mother," she said in a low voice, "and cannot find her. Perhaps we can learn something here. She had a ring—her wedding ring—with letters in it—her own, F. M.; my father's, L K. Can you tell me anything?" Her voice had been very firm. It was a wonderful displey of fortitude. "Over in the wing there," one attendant was saying to another as he opened a trunk full of °ter boxes full of them; "wedding ring ; imnals--that anything like it, Miss ?" and he handed it to her with that callous emelenness that seems to invariably so - company familiarity with the dead and the belongings of the grave. Attached to the ring was a little tag with the memor- andum, "woman about 55, hair partly gray, dress blaok." That was all. With a glance of the ring and ite touch the girl trembled from head to foot, and with a convuleiveand heartrending cry, ae if her long pent-up grief and anxiety found escape in a wail that must reach to heaven, she threw up her hands holding the ring and fell upon her knees. The (emotes collection of portraits of Cromwell, sonie 200 in number, has just beet' Bold by the Rev, Mr Williems, of Loin don, . who ealleeted in to a Birmingherri manufacturer. Napoleon L was a greab admirer of Mdle. Georges, but , by . no Means eplendid in his liberality. One day after ollitcling in terries of satisfaction to her perfontance on the preceding weaning, he signified hie intention of bestowing on her a Mark o lis approval, aad athed het what she WoUld like t� have, "Sire," the replied', "my great ambition is to lioness a portrait) of your Majesty:" "Year Wish Is 'easily gratified, staid the Haperor with i emile. Putting his fiend in his pocket he preteented her with the dented effigy in the iihstpe as the probably enpeated, a ininiatnre, ettrithed With din - Mends, but—a tiveefrane pine. BttITtkill IdWS. Prion for greet violin e have remelted the higheit merk et thetthietory. A Stradiyariee is advertised for the uohearcl-of sum of £5 000, The record for crosaieg from Daver to, Calais now belong e to the newest boat on the route, the. Calaie•Douvre, w filth has mend in 53 minutes. A Spanish pianist named Albeniz, pianiat to thi Q teen Regent of Spain, has created a reaeoneole sensation in L 'olden. He is repre seated as being a really admirable &ran of great finish, delicacy, execution, and understandiog. For a long time advertisemente have ap- peared arming to prooure presentation at court. A woman who carried on this treffio, described as a "person of 1:tonor" and is mem- ber of the old nobility, leas been disoovered and perpetually banithed from court. The old rule that no divorced woman could be presented at the Radish aourt has been reaciuded. Any divorced woman with whom no fault rested is admitted by apeoiedper- minion from the Q aeon, after her Majesty has setisfied herself that the applicant was free from blame. 11, went experiments at the Ear IEcapital in London iodinate thab stammering is not a nervone defect only. In operations for deaf- ness in several oases the patieets were cured of stammering also, and the result is the opinion that stammering comes from semi defect in tate hearing. John Aitken of Felkirk claims to have suoneded in counting the dust motet in the air. He says that he has detected 30,000 much particles in the thoueandth of a cubic) inch of the air of a room, In the outside atmosphere in dry weather the same measure- tnent ytelded 2,119 ; after a heavy rainfall the number was only 521. Lord Caltleorpe caused a good deal of discussion by naming a horse at Epsom Marohesi. Some asserted that this was a mis- take for "Marchese," while others declared it must, of course, MAU "IVIarethese." 'The Duke of Beaufort:, who is said to be elm prisingly stored with information, gave the true explanation, which was that the horse was called after an Italian poet of the time of Petrarch. What Mattters It? What rhettets it, my curious friend, where hes Our heavenly harbor and our land of rest? Whether it be beyond the azure thin 0; in some lower world. Grid knoweth beat. It offers safety from our caves, ond so What matters whether it be high or low, It offers rest; what more should mortals know? Rest from tne weerinese oE burdened days, Ot bitter longings and of evil hours Of duties leading us through darkened And into efforts far beyond our powers, Of dark temptations into aecret sin. 0! constant labor, earth's poor gauile to win, Of spirits deafened by the strife and din. It matters nothing as to when or where We find the hewn and the welcome home; Let ourious doubt give piece to trusting prayer, And no weak soul through speculation roam. We seek for sealed -up secrets hidden things; Enough for us if on eternal wings We reach the country of those better things. Vex not thy spirit, oh, aspiring man 1 But live thy days as earnest workers must; Nor try to pieroe through God's mysterious IrWhilc3liaaenbligetee thee to ii, life of trust. Some day, somewhere, while countless ages roll, Thy hungry heart shall comprehend the whole, The veil be parted for thy thankful soul. Re Joined the Salvation Army. Mra. 8tubbins--" What's the matter, neighbour? You look as though was in a peck o' trouble.' Mr. Jobbles--" It's that boy o' mine, Mrs. &tabbing. His gein's on is downright awful." Mrs. Stubbins--" Ah well. boys will be boys, as the sayin is. Was he done now ?" Mr. Jobbleti--" Bin and jined the Salva- tion Army." M. rs S'abbins— " Ot, the 'ardened young willain." A Tb.ousand Pounds Pipe Light. It is an old saying that truth is erang. er than fiction. If any fiction writer made one of his characters light his pipe with a bank note for £1,000 he would be laughed at. R,soently the heirs of esae Gillett, a working brioklayer. brought an action against the Bank of England for £1,000 un- der the following ciroumstanoes. It is the practice of the bank, if a man loses a bank note, say by fire or shipwreolt, and the fact can be clearly proved, and he procures two good sureties to recoup the bank in case the note should by any unforeseen chance turn up, to pay the loser its value in gold. Gillett inherited £3,000 from an un- cle, got into the way of drinking to excess, and, probably from a spirit of foolish boasting, was in the habit of car- rying about in bis trouser's pocket two bank notes, one for £1,000 and the other for £200. 01 Jan, 3, 1880, after drinking all day he finished up at a public -house, where the £1,000 note was Fuaid to have been lost. It was stopped at the bank, but has never been presented for payment. Stolen benk notes are usually gent to the Continent and come back through innocent holderia when the bank is obliged to pay. As he did not lose the £200 note, it does not look like a can of robbery: It has been suggested that when far gone in drunkenness he lit his pipe with the missing note. His grief about his loss and his drunken habits brought him to a lunette asylum 1111885. Rio heits sued for the 21,000, but the judge nonsuited them. in this case there was no positive proof that the note was destroyed. Gillett, tat stopping Ito payment, evidently at the time thought thet it had been atolen. There have been =rim oases of beak notes turning up after long intervals, in one instance a gentleman was showing to a friend a bank note for a very large sum, when by some accident a sudden dratight carried it up the chimimer—a wide olddashioned one. Altheugn etrkt %anti was rnade no trace could be found oi it. Many goon afterwards the chimney was pulled down, when it Was found that the note had been carried by the draught sem way up, and than it had lodged between two bricks where the mortar had partially come out. It was tithe distingulahable, The Bank of England note paper is very thin and very drone', being made from new linen emitting% Vahdyke cellars, With long points folliog ever the thouldere, are dOitilig In Vogue. SUGGLERS IN INDI 80 Let me give you a pioture of an Indian juggler. Oue stands outaide my hotel win - dew act I write. He ie performing his tricks In the dusty road without a table, cabinet, patent boxer, or any of the ecoompanimente of the American enz trcl. His sole posses 'dont oonsiet of three small bankets, ranging in 9iZ) from a half -peck bo a bushel, a couple of cloths, and a tripod made of three eticks, each two feet long and held together by a string at le.selop. Three little wooden dolls with red clothe tied around theit. necks and emit not over a foot long, are the gods which enable him to do wonderful things. He has is fi ute in his mouth and is little drum in his hand. He is black -faced and black. bearded, and hie shirtsleeves are pulled up above his elbows. His only assistant is a little turbaned boy, who sits beside him, whom he will shortly pat into is basket not more than two feet square, and with hitn will perform the noted baeltet trick of 'ladle. This triakis one of the wonderful juggling tricks of the world. The boy's hands are tied and he is put into a tut, which is tied over his heed and which encloses his whole body so that he appan ently can not move. He is now orowded into this basket. The lid is put down aid tight straps are buckled over it. The juggler now takes a sword and with a few passes of these little Ilindoo doll babies over it and the muttering of incantations as a preliminary, thrusts the sword again and again into the basket, There is a crying as though some one was in terrible pain, It is the voice of a child and the aword comes out bloody. You hold your breath, and did you not knew it to be is trick you would feel like pounoing upon the man. After a moment the basiket becomes still, the juggler makes a fe,w more penes, unbuekles the drape and shows you there is nothing within it. He calls, " Baba ! baba 1" and in the distance you hear the child's voice. 11 nv the boy got out of the basket or escaped being killed by the sword and where the blood came from I deo not know. I only know it was a sleight of hand perfin mean and wonderfully well done. The mango trick is performed with the three Woks in the shape of a tripod. The juggler takes a pob of water and pours it over a little pot of earth. He then beide up a mango linlb,about the size of a walnut, and putting this Into the earth he -throws a oloth over, the tripod. He now blows upon his horn, making mysterious posses, and, after a few moments, raises the Cloth and eon see the mango tree sprouting forth from the soil. More pisses and more music Folio w and the cloth is pulled down again. After a few moments, during whieth the ahowing of minor tricks goes en, he palls out the pot and the plant has grown about a foot above it. There is more watering and incantation, and his final triumph comes in showing you a bush nearly a yard high, containing gent leaves. This he will pull up by the root and show you the seed at the bottom. It is a wonderful triak and how the man is able to manipulate the different plants with nothing else but a thin cotton cloth to help him, vehloh, by the way, he allows you to cx imine, is hard to conceive. He has a dczen other sleight-of-hand per foramnoes equally wonderful. He puts a little shell into his mouth and appears to 'choke' 08 119 draws out coin after coin and balls of stone almost as big around as your fist. He Spits fire, as does the Amerman w'z trd ; pulls miles of string from his stomach, sticks pins through his tongue without hurting himself and ends the per- formance with a snake trick, which is to me the most wonderful of all. In doing this snake trick he asks for a piece of paper and mks you to hold out your hand. Yea do snneend he places the paper upon it. He then begins to play upon his pipe and to dart: out his eyes as though he saw something near your hand. His whule frame become tranafortned and he dances around you like a wiz wd, play- ing all the time and keeping his eyes ma your hand. Now he starts back and /nide at it.. V ou look and see nothing and be be- gins to play louder and dance wilder than ever. Remember his arms are bare to the elbow and both of his hands are upon his p'pe. Suddenly he drops the pipe and con tinu.es his dance with incantations. He points to the paper again, and while you look and see nothing de olaps his hand down upon it and pulls up three great cobras, which raise their hooded heads and dart tint . their fangs in different directions and uqiirm and wriggle as he holds them up before you. You jump back, for the bite of the cobra is deadly: and I am told that the snakes used have in some oases not had their fangs drawn. A juggler was killed a week ago in Benares by the bite of a cobra which he was using in this way, and they are the most ter- rible snakes I have seen. At another per torments of the same kind I was present with a party of four, and we all decided to ascertain if we could how this trick was done. I stood upon a chair and overlooked the man as he snatched up the anakes, but I could not see where they came from, and I only know that be had them, and that they were so big that he crowded them with diffi culty into a little round basket the sizs Of peach measure. These jugglers are wonderful snake - charmers. They make the snakes do as thbeypolsetase, and the snakes they use are of the m deadly kind. I was told by an En. glisbman at &mares of an incident which happered there a short time ago. A jaggler, was performing with snakes and a Hiadoo standing by said that the fangs of the snakes had been drawn, and that any man could do the tricks that he was doing. The juggler replied that they were not. The aindoo protested, and, in spite of the warnings of the juggler, seized one of the snakes. It was a cobra, and it sunk its fangs into his arm. A moment later the meat dropped to the ground, saying he wee poisoned, and in two homes he was dead 1 I am told tint the cobra will not bite unless he is angry, and that it is only when he is in this condition that his mouth fills with venom. The jugglere rely on this fad, and by netting the cobtas make them so docile that they can work with them Withcu'" great danger. e tihicago Timet, C ook (next day after her arrival)—"I am often a little hasty, madam and then I am to be saucy, bat you needn't Mind — you melte Me a little preaent and I get pier again," :Ade bas a oronze etatue to a famous m • .Etienne Dole; executed for helping free the people froth tyranny. Ile stands nide his arms bound in front Of him On the front of the pedestal Parisi the City is represented in high relief; loosening Free Thought frotn het thane. Two has -reliefs give the ariet and executfon ef Delete A punning inscription in Lean reads: Nos dole ipe Do1et, Bac t pia bob& dole& It is tiotable tleet et about the same tithe Fade was unveiling a statue to this; victim, Rome was honoring Giordano Bruno, Who WM burnt At D.. 1600, MISCELLANEOUS, Jean de Henke, the tenor, has been suffer- ing from blood poisoning for some time, in onsequence of a bite :rem is favorite cat. In Ilii Cabin° t, --Mediu na—"W hat epirit would you like to commune with ?" Old toper—"Let me an, I guess you may give me whiskey." Mr, ad tare. Lein of Kentucky, have seven sons. Mr. Leir is aix feet two inohee tell and Mrs. Lek is six feet three incheu. The largest son is six feet eight inohee ; the smallest is ain feet five inches. Of the others two are six feet six wed one half inches ; two are six feat six and throe guilder inches, and one six feet faxen inches. It le said that young English women have revived the "nun's cap." tt is a bonnet that t,.. is so email and clings to the head so tightly that it has to be seen from behind o be seen at all. In front nothing is vial)" but a halo iof Huffy hair, and pm° wide Alsatian bows, nclining downwards, that appear as O kind of bandeau behind the front hair. Apemant found in the earth at Szilagy- Semite°, Hungary, ahiddentreasure contain. Ing twenty .aine objects in gold whioh are said to be fourth -century work. There are three drinking cups of solid gold decorated with enamels, a,gold bracelet such as men wore, and golden br000hes carried by wo- men on their shoulders, The whole treasure, worth about 25,000 flo ins, is Eihon at Buda. Penh in the Nation)," Mu team, Hearing that Mr. It ty Lenottsber was working on "the limb play of centipedes," a friend tient htm the fallowing lines ; — A centipede wai happy— quite, TJntil a toad in fun Said, 'Pray Vihieh leg moves after whieh 'i" This raised her doubt 4 to such a pitch, She fell exhaust d is a ditoh, Not knowing how to ram. The ordinary method of scraping or burn- ing °Hold paint is hardly expeditious enough for general purposes and is also laborious. Soda and quick lirne are far more thorough. The solution of half of each is thus made; — Dlesolve the Bode in water and then add the lime and apply with a brush to the old paint, which can thus be removed in a few Iniahlietes Tpian for a postal tube between Engt' land and France ia to suspend two tubes of about three feet in diameter each by means of steel cables across the Channel, forty yards above the level of the sea. They will be fixed to pillars; at distances Of 800 yards, and in each tube a little ralwiter aiU run, with cars capable of carrying 450 pounds in weight. The cost is estimated at $5,000,000. Those living in a locality in which nv quitoes are troublesome may'make a trial of the following receipt for expelling then pests from the house n—Take is piece of gum °anaphor, in size about the third of a hen's egg, and slowly evaporate ilbee `holdiege it in a shovel or tin vessel over o lamp taking care that it doee not ignite. The sm'oke will soon fill the room and expel the mos - gotten, and it is said they will nob return even though the windows should be left open all night. A lady travelling in Brazil lately brought as a souvenir to her friend a pin, the curious design of which struck her fame.. It is the profile of a half breed Indian done in oxit dized silver. The hair is represented by cutting the tilver in innumerable feents that shine like jewels. Directly in the crown of the head is eret the polished claw of a wildcat, the curve of whioh turns back- ward. The whole is barbaric in its beauty, but the workmanship is faultless. Electroplating of glass and poicelais has been accomplished by M. Hanson of France. The chief diffioulty heretofore hes been to obtain a conducting suefaoe to which the metal would adhere. The patentee uses chloride of gold or platinum dissolved in sulphuric ether, to which sulphur dissolved in some heavy oil is added. When warm this compound is laid on with a brush. The object is then heated until the sulphur and chlorine is completely volatized, the gold or platinum adhering closely to the surface; The Department of the Beaches du Rhone has hitherto been the, ohief landing place for swallows coming from Africa. Of late engines for killing them, formed of wires connected with powerful electric batteries, haye been placed by the hundred along the coast. When fatigued by their long sea ftight the birds perch on the wires and are struck dead. The bodies are then prepared for the milliner and sent to Paris in crates containing thousands. It has been noticed this spring that these birds have avoided this district aud gone in large numbers fur- ther emit to other parts of Europe. Just before the lingering death of Father Damien, the heroic priest of the Molokai leper colony, a visit was paid him anclehis fellow -worker, Father Conradi, by a writer in the Nineteenth Century, who records tome sentences with him as to his aPProachinge,nd; "After living at Molokai for about ten years, Father DAMiedi began to suspect that he was a leper. The doctors assured him that this was not the case • bub anteithesia, began in his foot and other fatal signs apppeared. One day he asked Dr. Arning to give hiin thorough examination. 'I cannoe bear to tell you, said Dr. Arning, 'butwhatyousay is true. It is no shook to me,' odd joseph, 'for I have long felt sure of it. And he worked on with the same cheerful, sturdy fortitude, accepting the wilt of God with gladness. He said to : '1 would not be cured if the price of my cure was that 1 must leave the island and give up my work.' A lady wrote to him: 'You have given up all earthly things to serve God, to help others, and I believe that you must have now that joy that noth- ing can take from you, and a great reward smile, 'that it is true ; db have that joy rhoerwe.a,fttferd 'Tell her,' he said, with a quiet . At a gale of works of art belonging to Mr. Ernest 0 iiot last April a Londoner earned off for $3,100 a brotze statuette which is without 'wallet in its historical interest. 11 shows a Woman le complete armor on homer back, seated on a melee Saddle, leaning for- ward and to the lett, and holding a pennon in the right hand. The work is fifteenth century and French, Oa the stand, in lettere belonging to that century, s " la Poodle Dorliene." This little brorze is the only example of numerous Ocoee Of the kind which has survived. It appear% from the text of the aocuntion linden which the Maid ofOrleans was judicially murdered that one count aeainst her was the fact that people set her effigy in chapels beside aeon of saints. The piece tun told was in the (tumid con leotion in 1855, when a student of the aubject affirmed that it presented the only example Of a like:nese of the Maid of Orleans made in her own. times. Fortunately the better re- cop:deed the extretne Importance 10 8. Wrench deflection of this historical document. Baron Alphonse de 'Ream:laid, to whom the one Wael presented, at once bought it and gave It bo the Chitty Museum. The English buyer, Mr, Donaldson, be it said to hie honor, de - dined to take advantage of the situation, and &Silted no advance on fin price. • ‘a.