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f'Saered name of a dog 1" he growled.
and out flashed hie great sabre. Olieniieb'
sprang forward ab him with tie knife, and
then, thinking better of it, be darted book
and stabbed frantically at my heart, For
ray own part, I had hurled myself off the
hod on the aide opposite to him, and the
blade grazed my aide before ripping its way
6 through blanket and sheet. An instant
later I heard the thud of a heavy fall, and
then almost simultaneopsly a mood object
struck the fiaor—something lighter but
herder, width rolled under tate bed. I will
not horrify you with details, my friends.
Suffice it that Papilette was one of the
strongest ewordsneenin the regiment, mod
net advance an iaah to meet them, se that
all the eagerness might seem to be upon
their aide, I allowed my trampeter, how-
ever, to wave a handkerchief in reply, upon
Width the three envoy° Dame running to.
wards lie. The IKlarehal, still pinioned,and
with the rope round hie nook, eat tie horde
with a half smile, us one who is alightly
bored and yob strives out of courtesy not to
allow it. 11 I were in such a situation I
could not wish to carry myself better, and
surely I can say no more than that.
They were a singular trio, theee ambos,
aadore, The one Wee a Portuguese oaaadore
in hie dark uniform, the eeoond a French
claimer in the lightest green, and the
third a big English artilleryman in blue
and gold, They saluted, all three,and the
Frenahmandid the talking.'
"We have thirtyseven English dragoone
in our hands," said he. "We give you our
that his sabre was heavy and sharp. It meet solemn oath that they shall all hang.
left a red blotch upon my wrists and my 1 from the Abbey wall within five minutes of
ub the thou a whioh bound t the death of our Marshal:"
ankles, as it o g "Thirty-seven . I cried, You have
one.
When I had thrown off my gag, the first
use whioh I made of my lips was to kiss
the sergeant's sacred 'cheeks. The next
woe to ask him if all was well with the
command. 'Yes, they had had no alarms,
Oudin bad just relieved him, and he had
come to report. Bad he Been the Abbot?
No, he had eeen nothing of him. Then we
must form a cordon and prevent his escape.
Ives hurrying out to give the orders,when
I heard a Blow and measured step enter the
door below, and name creaking up the
stairs.
Papilette understood it ail in an instant.
"You are not to kill him," I whispered,
and thrust him into the shadow an one side
of the door ; I crouched on the. other, Up
he came, up and up, and every footfall
seemed to be upon my heart. The brown
skirt of hie gown was not over the thres-
hold before we were both on him, like two
wolves on a bunk. Down we crashed, the
three of ue, he fighting like a tiger, and
with such amazing strength that he might
have broken away from .the two of us.
Thrice he got to his feet and thrice we had
him over again, until Papilette mode him
feel there was a point to his sabre. He had
sense enough then to know that the game
was np, and to lie still while I lashed him
with the very cords whioh had been round
any own limbo.
"There has been a fresh deal, my fine
fellow," said I, "and you will find that 1
have roma of the trumps in my hand this
time,"
"Luck always comes to the aid of a fool,"
he answered. " Perhaps it is as well,
otherwise the world would fall too coin.
pletely into the power of the astute. So,
you have killed Choler, I see. He was an
insubordinate dog, and always emelt abom-
inably of garlic. Might l trouble you to
lay me upon the bed The (leer of these
Portuguese taboos ie hardly a fitting
couch for anyone who has prejudices in
favour of cleanliness.'
I could not but admire the coolness of
the man, and the way in whioh be preserv-
ed the same insolent air of condescension
in spite of this Budden turning of the table.
I dispatched Papilette to summon a guard,
whilst I stood over our prisoner with my
drawn sword, never taking my eyes off
him for an instant, for I must confess that.
I had conceived a great respect for hie
audacity and resource.
"I trust," said he, " that your men will
treat me in a becoming manner."
" You will get your deserts—yon may
depend upon that."
I ask nothing more. You may not be
aware of my exalted birth, but 1 am Bo
placed that I cannot name my father with-
out treaeofi, nor my mother without a scan.
dal. I cannot claim Royal honoure,but these
things are eo much more graceful when
they are conceded without a claim, The
thongs are cutting my akin. Might I beg
you to loosen them ?'
"You do not give me credit for much
intelligence," I remarked, repeating hie
own words.
"-Touche," he oried, like a pinked fenc-
er. "But here come your men, so it matters
little whether you loosen them or nob."
I ordered the gown to be stripped from
him and placed him under a strong guard.
Then, as morning was already breaking, I
iiad to consider what my next step was to
be. The poor Bart,and his Englishmen
had fallen victims to the deep scheme
which might, had we adopted all the crafty
suggestions of our adviser, have ended in
the capture of the whole instead of the
half of our force. I must extricate them
if it were still possible. Then there was
the old lady, the Countess of La Ronda, to
be thought of. As to the Abbey, since
its garrison was on the alert it was hopeless
to think of capturing that. All turned
now upon the value whioh they planed
upon their leader. The game depended
upon my playing that one pard. I will tell
you how boldly and how skilfully I played
it.
It was hardly light before my bugler
blew the assembly, and out we trotted on
to the plain. My prisoner was placed on
horseback in the very centre of the troops.
, It chanced that there was a large tree just.
out of mueket-shot from the main gate of
the Abbey, and under this we halted.
Fiad they opened the great doors in order
to attack ue,'I should have charged home
upon them ; but, as 1 had expected, they
stood upon the defensive, lining the long
wall and pouring down a torrent of hoot-
inge and taunts and derisive laughter upon
as. A few fired their musket, but finding
that we were out of reach they soon ceased
to waste their powder. It was the strang-
est eight to see that mixture of uniforms,
French, English, and Portugueee,cavalry,
infantry and artillery, all wagging their
beads and shaking their fists at u9,
My word, their hubbub soon died away
when we opened our ranks, and showed
whom we bad got in midst of ut 1 There
Woe silence fora few seconds, and then =oh
a howl of rage and grief 1 1 could see some
of them dancing like madmen upon, the
wall. He must have been a singular person,
this prisoner of ours, to have gained the
affection of such a gang.
I had brought a repo from the inn, and
we slung it over the lowerbough of . the
tree.
"You willp ermit me, monbfeur,to undo
year collar," said Papilette, with mock
po"toneoo, hands are perfectly steam°
If your p Y ,
anawerocl our prisoner, and Set the whole
half -squadron laughing.
Theta waennother yell from the Wall,
followed by a profound hush aa the noose'
fifty.one." •
"Fourteen were out down before they
oould be secured."
"And the officer?"
"He would not surrender hie sword save
with his life. It was not our fault. We
would have saved him if we could."
Alas for my poor Bart. 1 I had met him
but twieeand yet he was a man very much
after my heart. I have always had a regard
for the English for the Bake of that one
friend. A braver man and a worse swords-
man I have never met.
1 did not, ae you may think, take these
rascals! word for anything. Paplletto was
dispatched with one of them, and returned
to ray that it was too true. 1 had now to
think ofthe living.
"You will release the thirty.sevon dre.
goons if I free your leader ?"
"We will give you ten of them."
"Up with him !" I oried.
"Twenty," shouted the ahaaaeur,
"No more words," acid I. "Pull on the
rope 1"
"All of them," cried the envoy, ae the
cord tightened round the Marshal's neck.
"With horses and arms ?"
They could see that I was not a man to
jest with.
"All complete," said the chaeseur, sulk-
ily.
ulk-
il "And the Cheaters of La Ronda ae
well?" said I.
But here I met with firmer opposition.
No threats of mine could induce them to
give up the Countess. We tightened the
cord. We moved the horse. We did all
but leave the Marshal aurpended. If once
I broke his neck the dragoons were dead
men. It was as precious to me as to
them.
"Allow me to remark,"said the Marshal,
blandly, "that you are exposing me to a
risk of a guinea.. Do you not think, since
there is a difference of opinion upon this
point, that it would be an excellent idea
to consult the lady herself ? We would
neither of ue, I am sure, wish to override
her own inotinattone."
Nothing oould be moresatisfaatory. You
on imagine bow quickly I grasped at so
simple a solution. In ten minutes she was
before ue, a.most stately dame, with her
grey curls peeping out from under her
mantilla, Her face was as yellow as though
itrefleoted the countless doubloons of her
treasury.
"This gentleman," said the Marshal, "is
exceedingly anxious to oonvey yon to a
place where you will never see us, more.
It is for you to decide whether you would
wish to go with him, or whether you pre-
fer to remain with me."
She was at his horse's eidean an instant,
"My own Alexia," she oried "nothing can
ever part us."
He looked at me with a ;sneer upon bis
handsome face.
"By the way, you made a email slip of
the tongue, my dear Colonel," paid he.
"Except by courtesy,no suoh person exists
as the Dowager Countess of La Ronda. The
lady whom I nave the honour to present to
you is my very dear wife, Mrs. Alexia
Morgan—or shall I say Madame la Mare -
thole Milleflenre?"
It was at this moment thatI came to the
conclusion that'I was dealing with the
cleverest, and also the moat uneorupuloue,
man whom I had ever met. As I looked
upon this unfortunate old woman my soul
woe filled with wonder and disgust. As for
her, her eyes were raised to his face with
such a look as a young recruit might give
to the Emperor.
"So be it," said I, at last; "give me the
dragoons and let me go."
They were brought out with their horses
and weapons, and the rope was taken from
the Marshal's neck.
"Good-bye, my dear Colonel," said he.
"I am afraid that you will haverather a
lame account to give of your tuioeion, when
you find your way back to Maseena,though,
from all I hear, he will probably be too buoy
to think of you. I am' free to confess that
you have extricated yourself from your
difficulties with greater ability than I. bad
given you credit for. I presume that there
is nothing -which ,I can do for you before
you go ?"
"There is one thing."
"And that is i"
"To give fittinburial' to this young
officer and hie' men."
"I pledge my word, to it."
"And there is ono other."
"Name ib,"
"To give me flue minutes in the open with
a sword in your bend a horoe between
your legs."
"Tut,tut !" said he. "I should either.
have to out short your promising career,,
or else to bid adieu to my own bonny bride.
Ibis unreasonable to ask such a request of
a man in the fad 'joyo of matrimony."
I gathered my horsementogether and
wheeled them into column.
"Au revoir," I oried, shaking my sword
at hien. , "The next time you may not
escape so easily."
"An revoir,"he answered. "When you
are weary of the Emperor, you will always
find a oommiesion waiting for you in the
service of the Marshal Millefleure."
TEE
FORGOTTEN FORTUNES
ief11UOr♦s Loa Itaoslood for he aoere Bari
H I* Minna,
To say that there must be et least $2,.
250,000 lying in I,00don banks whioh has
1
been forged= Or is.Owaibing claims from
reletivos, fig pe exaggeration at all. If an
inveetigetion oould;be mmde, it would most
likely he found that Ode unolaluied sum
was Poem 86,000,000 than $`i,500,000,
A curious ogee was that of a wealthy
merchant in Leadenhall street, whose for.,
getfulnces was a byword, Ten years ago
he platted 8850,000 in hie back to bis private
n000nnt, and immediately forgot all about
it; having neglected to fill up the counter -
foil fo his deposit book. A few months
ago, whilo,tearing up some old papers, he
tame &arose n penOiiled note bearing the
words, " Bank, 550,000," and b date he
was unable to decipher. He made enquiries
into the matter, and found he was wealthi,
er than he thought by 550,000 with inter.
eat. How he overlooked the amount it ie
difficult to ray. He ie still noted for the
haphazard way in whioh he keeps hie
private amounts,
The ofd lady who forgot the oxlotenee of
a legacy of 51,000 a year from her master
was another instance of careleasneea. Here
the old lady, a onetime housekeeper,could
hardly read or write. When she received
a letter from her late master's eolioitore to
the effect that the legacy would be paid
quarterly on application at a oity bauk,the
luoky woman for a fortnight was none the
wirer.
Tan nth:WANT L00Ii
of the seal oa the envelope, and the fine
note paper, caused her to make enquiries,
and a friendly neighbour,after much effort,
spelt through the letter. The old lady,who
was in poor oiroumetances,0ould not believe
the good news, and so, without going to
the bank, she decided that the letter was
a hoax,
son—a, ecldier-returned from India. One
Five years parsed away, when her only
day he accidentally came aoroee the letter,
read it, and asked his mother the 'partite.
tears. But her mind was a complete
blank on the subjeot. However, the eon
madeeoquiries, and the result was that his
mother and lie found 55,000 awaiting them
at the bank and the promise of 51,000 a
year during the forgetful old lady's lite
time.
Oid mieere, who have amassed small for.
tunes, have more than once destroyed their
bank books and all evidence showing at
they were possessed of money, and ithat
n this
way
well-known obenefited
the extent $40,000. None of
tothe
relatives of the old man knew of his for.
tune, and soh things are never the concern
of the bank. The money was kept in the
depositor's name five years, when it passed
into the bank's own account. No doubt,
if a claimant came forward,the bank would
give up the money,but they wouldprobablX
fiercely fight the oaee if the evidence on the
other side showed any weak loop holes.
At present there is money in'differen
banks in London whioh never will U
claimed, for naturally,a bank ie not inulin
ed to go to great trouble in finding rightfu
owners if they fail to come forward o
their own accord.
PERSONAL POINTERS.
Tti
The Farm Dairy.
4 low years' oxperienoe in dairying ae a
farm epeoialty bee coeVinoed inc that few
1
souraea-of Menne from the farm' yield au
geziorous roterns for the investment and
labor es the well•managed farm dairy, I
am aware that a majority will disagree
With me. Very Tony farmers aaeerb that
keeping owe more than to eepply the
family Heade, does not pay. I attribute this
oouvictionlargely to the uneertain, slip
shod manner in whioh the dairy le oon
doted. Those who keep but four or five
cows generally make the product up at
home, and sell the . eurplue at the village
stores. Those who• keep more than that
number generally sell the cream to a
neighboring creamery. In the first Male
the farmer seldom knows evhat the surplus
is. The latter receiving monthly payments
knows something more on that point, but
generally wiBbeo he did not, The returne
hi either ease are notgenerally satisfactory.
But dairying for profit requires knowledge
of the Unsmese, facilities and oonditione
for conducting it, and care is its manage.
Tont—the simple conditions of emcees in
any bueinese.
The first and moot important faotor is
the profit.producing herd. lhie secured,
success fa easy ; without it, success ie im-
poseible. It 10 a fact that many cows do
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tents of Interest About Some of the Great
Folks of the World.
not, and cannot be made to pay for their
keeping. Outside of localities where dairy=
ing 10 extensively engaged in, very few
farmers have given attention' in breeding
to produce the dairy strain, and compara-
tively few have adopted dairy breeds, The
ideal cow with many of our best farmersie
a large, well -formed One, disposed to take
on flesh and looks eleek,that will raise a calf
and give a good flow of milk—the "general
purpose" cow. Perhaps for general purposes
=oh a cow is the proper thing, bub for profit
in the dairy herd she is generally a failure.
Wherever dairying is followed as a specialty
the general purpose cow is discarded, and
the dairy breeds, in whioh the profit oow is
the rule and not the exception, are adopted.
Shorthorns are left for breeders of steers on
the plains, and Holsteins to supply pity
milk wagons and condensing factories. For
the dairy, the greeteseproduction of butter
fat at the least cost of food is the test qual.
ity required in the oow. A herd of native
cows is oarefully selected by this teat and
frequently make a profitable dairy, but the
result is more likely to turn out eatisfaotory
if Jerseys or Guernseys are made the base
of the dairy herd.
The number of gowe that may be profit-
ably kept on an eighty -acre farm, for in-
stance, depends upon tae -extent to whioh
one wishes to make the dairy business a
specialty. The number was only limited
to m cow to the sore where the business
was crowded, but I would not deem it
advisable for a beginner to start in with
more than fifteen or twenty cows. This
number will warrant a person in the neo.
ceeeary expenditure of means in preparing
stables and dairy and necessary appliances
for butter making. A silo is regarded by
many as one of the first neoeseitiee, and 1
have no doubt that the alio fa an economic
method of prepo ring food, although I have
had no experience with one. I pat a
power and feed cutter' on my barn floor,
and a feed mill in en adjoining building
and fed' all food dry. The daily rations
consisted of fine.ont stalks for bulk food,
and a mixture of ground food, oorn and
oats, with bran end oil meal. The result
was very eatisfaotory. Pure water slight.
ly warmed in winter was always on tap
and regarded as a atria necessity. With
the number of cows mentioned, a separator
may be profitably employed and reduce
the labor of the caro of the milk to a mini.
mum.. '' A warm, clean, well.ventilated
stable, and a commodious hoe house, a; cool,
airy milk -churning room, with plenty of
cold, pure water, are indispensable to the
making of !fret -class butter.
The care of the cows and the making and
marketing of the butter are matters about
which the beginner may get valuable points
from a good dairy paper, but the aid of an,
experienced dairyman is neoeatery to start
themn,oresuocessfully. Twentyeoweshould
not consume the surplus of aneightaore
farm by any means, but with a good herd
and the dairy properly managed, they will
bring a revenue in milk products, calve°,
and their contribution to the pork and
poultry account of from $1200 to 51,500 a
year. Such reoults are 'inviting; but the
beet way` to their attainment appear to
many as barred by ineurmounbbale ob-
stacles. The expense an starting and lack
of knowledge of the business are the
greatest. These maybe largely overoome
by beginning on a small dale. A herd of
five, or rix good Jersey cows, bred with
Dare and dieoretion, will bring you a good
herd of cows by the time you have got the
necessary experience and conveniences for
managing them euccetefully. My earliest
ebipmente of butter did nob exceed 100
pounds' a' month, so that while I was
oatohing on to the way of making butter
that would bring best creamery prices and
how to sell it to the beet advantage, I
was not risking a margin on large quanti.
ties.
The old theory that fat hale' will !tad lay
well Will hardly held good, Stint them
not in a suitable varioty,avoiding too Much
porn. There are a eoere of things whioh
enter into the eaeret of procuring proklt,and
it will be your fault, mod not that of the
Imo, if proper tediumare not forthcoming,
Alafowl whlo i will' uzen e
w }e
Afteon N
x Werth lit a season ie egneldered �� Well worth
keeping, Although a Pekin dunk Will do
this, moat farmers fprget that nigh a thing
as a dunk oxide, They rear a great many
young in a season, and there mature in
eleven weeks, sure to market at a good
price,
A record addedmatoh was played at
Thornton Heath, Eng., on August 20.
One of the contending elevens was com-
posed of a certain Mr. Bacon,and his ton
tone.
The old reotory at Grasmere, in which
Wordsworth lived from 1811 to 1813 while,
engaged on "The Exouraion," has been
torn down. It was built in 1687.
The Duke of Sutherland has added to
his love for yaohting a taste. for engine.
driving. He is actually having.a private
train built for himself. He ie an expert
engineer, and delights 111 locomotives. On
the first trip of the new train the young
Duchess is to be permitted to drive the
engine.
Admiral Count Louis Haydn, who is
now 96, is the only person.livmg possessing
the portraits, set in diamonds, of the three
Russian Em$erore, Nioholae f., Alexander
IL, and Alexander III., which are granted
to high Russian offioiale on the occasion of
the Czar's coronation. He. hopes by living
until' next April to add to them that of a
fourth Czar, Nioholae II.
Henry Howe, a member' of Sir Henry
Irving's company, is the oldeetactor in dies
world., He is eighty.four years of age,
and has been an actor since he abandoned
his creed as a Quaker, fifty -rix years ago.
He played at the Haymarket, London, for
over forty years Queen Victoria asked
for his autograph in 1892. He ie in fine
health and ie very' young in spirit. Be
has played with Irving for thirteen years,
A singular case ie reported from Durham!
England. A woman named Elizabeth Bal.
pleaded guilty =the charge of manslaught•
er, she having killed one of her daughters
She was in the kitchen of her house with
her two daughters, and told one of them to
do something. The girl made an impertin-
ent reply, and the mother in a rage threw
a poker at her. ,The girl dodged, and it
etruck her sister, with fatal results. The
woman's lawyer pleaded for her discharge
on the ground that the killing was sooid-
ental, and that his client had not intended
to hurt the dead girl. She was disoharg.
Of Many Parts.
MoSwilligen-Mr. Manchester is a man
of parte.
Squildig—Indeed ?
MoSwilligen—Ves. He hae 8 cork leg,
alsectoeth,an artificial eye and a wig.
The Y. M. 0. A. of Cambridge, Masa,,
raised 630,000 for the erection of a new
building ab a banquet one evening last
Week,
Grass and Grain for Hops.'
The hog should find a place 10 the
eoonomioal re negomeet .of every farm ;
given an opportolty he will, turn to good
account many things that would otherwise
go to waste. The nails and slop 00.n ueually
be fed to the growing pig to better advan-
age than to almost any other claw of stook,
But to maintain good health and thrift he
should not have all of the neglects heaped
upon him because he ie a hog. Ho needs
good treatment to snake the most of him,
and the more fully this is given the better.
It ie rather poor management that concludes
that a hog can thrive upon almost any kind
of feed, provided he has aeuffioient amount
of it. Good wholesome, nutritious food 10
as essential to good growth and thrift with
hogs as with any other class of stock.
Of the seven to nine months needed to
grow a hog for market, five,at least, can be
spent to good, advantage in the pasture
fields. While, perhaps, a better grain in
proportion to the amount of food sufficient
can be received by feeding in a closed pen,
the additional risk of disease will,in nearly
all oaten, overbalance this. The upper.
tunity of exercise, the securing of better
air, and of a variety of food, all tend to
promote thrift, and these are of sufficient
importance to overbalance the small amount
of gain received by keeping closelyoonfin•
ed. And in many oases it is of no dis-
advantage to keep hoge in a pasture unci
ready for market, rather than to confine.
The meat will be of a better quality with a
fairer proportion of fat and lean than
when confined, and eopeoially when oorn
the principal dependenoe for feeding.
If Napoleon Had Won Waterloo.
It la extremely unlikely that a victory
by Napoleon ab Waterloo would bave long
delayed hie downfall. The four great
Powers, England, Prussia, Rueeia and
Auotria, besides the four smaller stats
who had joined in the poem of Paris, had
pledged themeelvoe to use their utmost
diode against the French. They agreed to
raise a million of eoldiero, and England
promised to maintain them. While Eng.
land and Prussia were operating against
Napoleon in Belgium, the Russians and
Austriane were advancing from the east.
Defeat would not have meant ruin against
such commanders as Wellington and Blu.
oher. They would almoot certainly have
kept Napoleon busy until the masses of
Austrians and Malone bad oome up, and
ch
the Frenwould have been overwhelmed
by numbers Meanwhile England ' would
have transmitted teinforcemonte, and the
fine troops with whioh Wellington had
conquered in the Peninsula would have
been sent for from Amorioa. It must also
beremembeeed that France had boon so
exhausted by war that it would have boon
impooeible for Napoleon to raise great
armies, us lie had done in previous emu -
poles, Above all, the great Frenchman
now found himeeif confronted for the firot
pivotal by a notal ae able as Himself. ,
ITEMS QV INTEREST ABOUT TIM
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tern o1efowe and Mlfr{If aathor6A
boll ma Dally Amon,
An newspaper called the Empty Bottle
ban now been founded in Houston, Texas,
The Texas Live Steak Journal thinha
the6
8 Oro 1,600,000 fewer cattle in that
state than there ware nb this time two
yoarO age
Wm, Froderioke, a desperado, who oho
and killed Cashier Horrio, of the San
Fcmnoieco Savings Union Bauk, was hsoged
there Friday.
The bill prohibiting adulterations iu
butter and thecae has been signed by the
Governor of Mieoouri, and is therefore a
law of that State,
The late John Thome!' Talbot, an old
and wealthy citizen of Cleveland, was the.
owner of a pooled knife which Gen. Wadi.
ington gave his father.
There are two email Jewish agricultural.
colonies in California, the first in Orange.,
Vale, opposite Folsom, and the other in.
Porteroyille near Fresno, •
A eohoolmarni in Maoillion, 0., who has
been teaching the rising generation ever
since the year 1845, was eeuently given as
pension of $350 per year.
Miss Coleman, of Mason, 0,, protests,
against the published report that she made
a sensation by wearing red bloomers in
ohuroh. They were blue.
C. B. Bradfeed a banker of Augusta„
Win., bas oonbraoted blood poisoning from
the habit of wetting his fingers on 11ie,
bene unt
bbills,
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The doors of thiee Californankia 'penitentiary
have olooed upon D_eaaon Oldham, the -
prominent and pious Baptist whc held up.
a stage and robbed a passenger of 51,000.
1 The Rev. Dr. John Hally, pastor of the
Fifth avenue Presbyterian ,church, has.
been bequeathed an annuity of $3,000 by
the late Mrs. John H. Ford, of New York.
A snake fourteen feet long has, according
to report, been .stealing ducks, eggs,.
ehiokene, pea000ke, and other delicacies
fronaa farm at Cold Springs Harbour, L. L
Edible snails to the amount of 230,000
The earliest military head covering is pounds are annually shipped to the United
believed to have been a rawhide cap, next .litotes from France. At the plaoe of ex -
a cap of iron. portetion they are worth about $4.5Q a
About 10,000 Americans are now in thousand.:
Europe clamoring for accommodatione,who ' The late G. H, P. Burnham,. the Boston
cannot get passage. bookseller, who conducted his bueinese for '
uth
For swearing in members in the house of ohuroheare nlefa early $400,000 the basement of the
to varOld ious
commons the revised version of the Bible ce..mo ' l
is used for prooeatente,' the Douai version It fs estimated that/ the New York city
for Cathalica and a Dopy in Hebrew for elections this year will coat 6450,000.
Jews. There are 1,380 electoral districts in the
It is a significant Yorkfad the testimony oit and the service of 11,040 oihoers will
hospitals in New add their testimony be re aired.
as to the benefit of Sunday °losing. Sunday, , q
instead of being the busiest day,is now the Mre. Henry. Moore, of Akron, 0., 36
quietest.' years old, has just given birth to her rix -
Should a great misfortune overtmke a teenth child in 18 years. They were all
Maori, ouch ae the death of his favorite single births, and fourteen of the children
ohild,hie relative° are allowed to dipoeeeos are living and healthy.
him of all his goods, and if needs be of the It ie odd that in the past ten years the
very roof whioh shelters him. He must pay city of Nashville lost 510,000,000 in various
for the honor conferred on him by being boomeohemesandwildepeoulationventures,
specially looked down upon by the gods. and of this vast 80111 no ten per oent. was
Jeweharpe are made ohiefly in B0000rio, spent at home.
the seat of the industry since the sixteenth J. Pierpont Morgan, the chief of the
century. A good woikman can make seven syndicate whioh supplied the United States
dozen in a day, and, simple as the little with gold in exchange for bonds, began life
instruments are, no lees than 20 tools are as a. clerk with the New York banking firm
employed in their manufacture, including of Duncan, Sherman Sr Co.
anvil, hammer, tongs, and so on. There The new fish hatchery, built on one of
are, moreover, 24 distinct opermtione. the islands in the Sault rapids, in Michigan.
Cyrus Teed, the Chicago man who will be the finest in the world when mon-
teaches that the world le fiat, proposes to plated. It will have a opacity of 45,000, -
build a new pity, where hie ideas shall 000 whitefish and 5,000,000 trout.
prevail, in Louisiana, and oall it New Mira Ella Ewing, of Price, Mo,, ie said to
Jerusalem. The streets are to be 400 feet be eight feet and two Mabee in height and
wide and the city is to be built in tiers, one weighs 290 pounds. Sha Laker up the
above the other,one for pedeetriane,one for collection every Sunday in one of the
bioyolea one for horses and wagons and churches of Price, and attracts more
one for railroads. attention than the minister.
The beggars of Paris are up to business. Ex -Mayor O'Brien, of Boston, who died •
For instance, theyhave regular Oireo. the other day was the only citizen of for -
of Benefactors"—in two editions—a small ez
Farm poultry.
For a ready cash bueinese you cannot
discount the oow and the hen. One variety
of fowls le not sufficient for the farm, and
do your beet to keep that breed pure. In
any event, when a first class cockerel can
be bought for 53 or lees it is an easy mat
ter to grade up the poultry.
It is a question whether more poultry
and eggs are not raised shout our cities and
villages than upon the farms. The farmer
•
SOMEWHAT CURIOUS. '.
one at three and a large one for six ign birth who ever occupied the highest.
municipal office in the gift of Boston eitf.
francs.' These give the namee of persona zeas. With two axneptiona beheld the office
known to be benevolent, oleo their religion longer tt I any other Meyer since the .
and political faith ; also the hour at which ineoe oration of the of
they may be found at home, &o. The p t9
"religious racket" is very remunerative it , A San Francieoo'photographer claims to
aeons. An at (May lately have completed a device by whioh every
An old ragpioker
odnfeeaed' that last winter' her ohild was railroad ticket may be made to boar the
baptized ` twelve times in Protestant photograph_ of the original purchaser, as a
churches and ten' times in Catholic ones ; preventive of scalping. The whole pr000ea
each time the mother received one franc of taking the picture, developing the
and a new dress. When epidemics are negative, and printing the portrait on a
raging the beggar asks for contributions on portion of the ticket can be done, he says;
the plea that his or her offspring is down while the purchaser is paying for hiaticket,
with diphtheria, croup, do., and, many ori 0110 minute at the longest,
people quickly respond in order to get rid JehnC. Hancock, of Hancock,'lad,,who
of what they believe to be a dangerous has only his left arm to shoot with, the
pereon. right having been lost in a carriage aoei-
' dent, has killed thio oeaecn with his shot.
RESTRICTION ON TOBACCO. Fun 209 squirrels, 125 rabbits, 217 port-
__ ridges, 62 phaseouts, 28 wild turkeys and
In Some German Towns the Weed to Pro 35 woodcock. Of wild duoke he hoe shot.
Wilted on the Streets. 23. mallards and 7 redheads.
The consumption of toba000 of all kind John Fiske, thewho read eohin while yyolar and historian
inafores and
n France, according to recently compiled 'Greek before the had left off ket in nickerbockers
okerbookera
tontines, is nearly 125,000,000 pounds per has aninfantilt rival in Richmond Benn,of
year. An analysis of the figures shows Wichita, Kane., who is not yet five years
that the people of Northern France use
old. Richard reads elementary French
nearly four times as muoh per capita as and Latin with erre, and has a familiarity
those in the southern provinoea. Almost with mathematics that would do credit to.
every other country of Europe, however, 0 boy of 14.
°sesames more smoking tobacco in propor. A queer trade is followed by half a dozen
tion to its population titan does France. sidewalk merchants outside the Philadel
This is eopeoially the case with Germany. phia House of Correction. Every .person
In many small German towno smoking in 'discharged from the institution receiver on
the !treats ie forbidden. Lose than fifty leaving a new pair of shoes. ;Traders Ile in
years ago if a, man ventured on the streets wait for the discharged prisoners and oder
of Berlin with a cigar in his. mouth he them a pair of old and oomfortable shoes
would be liable to arrest. The lame pro- and twenty-five or fiftyoents for their new
vision existed until 1848 in Vienna, though pair, In a great majority of 00000 the
the law was not observed by the populace, trade is made. The House of Correction
The town of Broeok, in Holland, whioh is shoes aro well made and strong, and the/
traders get a good, price for them hem
workingmen.,
said to be the cleanest city In the world,
hag one fiook upon his large farm, while has long forbidden the people within its
the village lots hold a, hundred. Some walls to smoke after ounoet fin the eatreete
breads are gusted to the one and some to anter° with a' covered pilo, in
n order that
the other condition. Some are not satisfied the Mindere may not be blown about."
Smoking with an uncovered pipe in Gorman
nor greatly productive in confinement. or Austrian foreete'lo an odenoe that is
Farm chickens whioh have the run of the rigorouety punished, and as a result of this
fields are the healthiest and the most prore•' eouelationforest fire° 0r0 race in ththemntrio0.
fitable bombs°they get such a variety of
feed and iossete. A Seene In Church.
One reasonwhy a hen which steals Away
from her next mlways hatcher out well is A church in Lodi, New Jersey, was
that she is not too fat, and because every recently painted and varnished, and by
egg has the some vitality, When eggs are Sunday the Beate were, to all appearanoee,
Selected and put under a hen they era us. perfectly dry, But when the congregation
uaily of all sorts, and Vary Somewhat in had been seated a short time the warmth
vitality. 1 from their bodies softened the varnish.
Prepare good, clean noeta fnproper places Then each member realized what it was to
for your hone, and you will not be troubled stick closer than a brother.' The harm
by the hens dealing away to ley; let thein done to the oaring Sunday'go-to•meeting
be low and bo.ona level, In their roosting outfits WOO OshOlderablb, and the oongrega.
coop let 100 oubie'feet spate to ten hens, tion are trying to see whero the fanny part
letting everything tend tc their health and of the whole affair, whioh outsiders appear
oomfort. 0 t toappreclate, acme°
The street oars of Sacramento City in
California are now run by electricity gen-
erated by the falls of the American river
at Folsom, 24 miles away, The river has
been dammed, creating a reservoir three
miles long, with a flow of 85,000 pubic feet
mminute. After turning the turbine wheels
ab the darn the water is not allowed to
esoape further nerviest, bub is used for
irrigation. Sacramento City expect° soon
to be warmed and lighted by the river.
Great pots of molten metal go daily
skimming along the Erie Railroad from the
Cleveland Rolling Mills Oornpany'a central
blast furnace to the Newburg mills ae
sedately an if this traffio was of long stand-
ing, says a Cleveland letter, The plan is a
perfect success, It takes just 15 minutes
for the metal after it is poured into the
big ladle care to resell the mixer in the
mills, some five miles away. About 600
tons of the hot metal are tkuo carried
every day ever Nolo long railroad Couto,'