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The superintendent thumped his le;,,
"I've hemi sespiehme of that temp ell
through," said he, Freeman, :all Junes and
Woodward, and take the boat tt nud Let the
num. The Mimi '11 not Le At its height. yet,
rind the man Iii cwt i1 he as prettily nailed
as though we had him in the lockup."
I heard hint jn'onennee these lvords, then
a Mood -red blaze of tire seemed to tush
from my brain cut through my eyes. I fell,
and remember no more.
When I recovered my consciousness I
was in bed ill my own lodgings. All neces-
sary information about me had been found
in uty pocket, in the shape of letters and
cards. My sister had been telegraphed for,
and was as illy bedside when I awoke, after
three days of titter insensibility, When 1
was strong enough to listen and converse, I
was told that the polioabout had palled
down to the little bay, fonud the men, and
brought him to the town, where he was
lying, locked up, charged with the attempt
to murder ate. Confirmatory proofs of hos
guilt, outride the story 1 had related to the
superintendent, were found upon his por•
sun ; for the demon, probably forgetting in
his time of peril that ho had pocketed toy
watchand chain,my ring mutely money, had
omitted to conceal them or thing them away
when Lhe policeboat showed herself round
the corner.
But this was not all ; two Ashore had lost
their lives within a year. Tho body of ono
only was recovered, and this was the poor
fellow whose renains I had stumbled upon
during my lonely moonlight walk along the
sands. I+t was believed that both these men
had perished whilst bathing from a boat,
and ties coroner, during the inquest held
upon the body that had been discovered,
ham commented somewhat significantly upon
the eitctunstmice of both these disasters hav-
ing occured from the sante boat, in charge
of the sante man.
Aud now, whilst I had lair) unconscious,
the police had searched the little house, or
room, occupied by the boatman named
Gypsy Rill, and there they had discovered a
gold pencil -case and a pair of gold pince-nez
glasses and a watch chain, of which articles
the former two were claimed as belonging to
the man who had been deowued in the pre-
vious year, whilst the watch chain was
sworn to by the widow of the gentleman
whose body I had discovered, the poor lady
happening to be in town whilst I lay un•
001301018. The upshot of it was that Gypsy
13111 was sentenced to penal servitude for
life. That he was guilty of two murders
was certain, and therefore to ought to have
been hanged. Nevertheless the circum-
stantial evidence did not seem sufficiently
strong to admit of the death penalty, for it
could not certainly be proved that the fiend
when his victims had plunged overboard,
had quietly continued to row, leaving the
unhappy met co sink with exhaustion 10 his
wake. It could not certainly be proved
that the poor fellows had tont been seized
with cramp and suddenly sunk ; but, all
the same, no one who heard the story ever
doubted that this demon of a gypsy boatman
had left them to perish, or, as he had • at-
tempted in my case, had hasteusd their end
by a blow with his oar.
.IJ
SWIM,
A l�El�ORA
BY 11. ('LARK RUaSLLle
heediu^ ht•t' for 0 citrvanreie the laud that
Those thoughts swept with the spend of to might Imes pltssed for a ininialtire hay. The
elm f bitter
es head 1 cried a� end ung men remained :a )dank, Dove for these dun
nowo of d roes val acutely realizing and distant a ails upon the' It'ize5. '19te
now the murderous spentts - ell hour
s intention : latter washed to the tout of 31 e o ,amt ; but
though I had spent an heir iu digesting it • 1n the little bey Mr which tI a llniu was
For Ueda we do tont leave me aaiming 1 could pefeel0e, as the boat rose on
drown. takea what you want; taloa allll' that the slight sell that was now running, the
Agleam of sand, Nothing stirred on the
heights: we were now within:a quarter of a
mile, but mot a moving object was visible.
Ile continued to row until he boat was in
the embrace of the bay, The dark dill's
soared like a colossal rampart to high ON or -
head, and at either extremity of the curve
of the bay, at the point at either horn of it,
there was a little play of surf. The mat
drew in his oars and stool) up.
"Give me that watch and chain of
yourn 1 " he shouted.
I rose to my feet.
"Give me that watch and chain," he
roared again, and thrusting his great dant
Maud into his breeches pocket, he whipped
I have. have mercy upon one. Let me ram
your boat and feat 1"
He continued to row, with his rhea avert-
ed from me, and ! was near enough to frim
to easily observe the viilarous, dlabslival
expression that now sat npun his dark ecuu-
teuanoe as he stared do sile1100 toward the
land, I turned upon my Uncle to met myself,
and all the while toy feverishly heating heart
seemed to ne saying : " What is to be done?
Must you dhewn? You are not two miles
from the shore. Cannot you swim that dis-
tance? Rest awhile on your back, and then
strike out like a roan. Yon have no other
Chance for your life. That demon yonder
intends that you shall drown. He will se-
crete the booty 1e amens to take out of
your pockets, and will row ashore and pub !z,'
out n hi , Llasp•knifo, which he opened, ' 4\'0
on. a face of consternation, and report t tat trouble,• he exclatnned, " or 1'11 out your
when you were overboad you were seized tln'oat."
I placed the watch and chain down upas
a thwart, and he pocketed them.
" Now pull out all the money you lave.',
This I did and he took the coins and put
them in his pocket.
" pull ell' that ring, '
This I also did. He eyed me all over,
still grasping the knife. Then looking t0.
ward the beach, he said. " That's where
with cramp, and sank on 0 sudden like a
stone."
Whilst I thus lay upon my back, besieged
by the most dreadful thoughts, half mad
with wrath and with despair, the boatman
Sculled bank to me, and puttingthe blade
of his left oar upon my breast, thrus t wit
-i1, with the idea of submer;pr i one. l I
grasped the oar„ and held it with t 1e I'm ow to laud ye.l'ai'rs a and etrun-
tenacity of a dying neat. He could not g 4 g
shake me off, His 0 g.it oar slipped from me'. Jomp overboard."
his hand and went overboard ; the boat " If you land me there," said I, " 1 shall
swayed dangerously. Aly desire, indeed, be drowned. The water s rising, and those
was to eat size it, because I should have the rocks are out to be climbed."
ruffian at an advantage if I could get him "Jump overboard!" said he, with a men -
into the water, heavily clad as he was, even acini flourish of his knife.
though he should 1,e as expert a wit-eateras" It is a bit of a swim as yet," said !. "I
I; and thou these would be the boat to hold am sink and without strength. For God's
to, because, being light and without ballast, sake put me a little closer to the leach that
oven if she willed she would not sink. Fur- I may Imre a uhanee 1"
thermore, there was the certainty of our Be hesitated a moment then stooped to
situation being witnessed from the coast, pick up un oar. In that instant I bounded
and of help being despatched forthwith, upon 1in1. Impelled by the inoonmunicable
It might have been that ha feared the agony of mind I was in, by What I may truly
boat wo ld caps'ze, and it might have been 0111 that terrific impulse of the despair that
that he guessed we should be presently ob- was upon ins, 1 leapt the thwart with the
served through some telescope levelled at us velocity of a wolf at full any and ere he
frcried could lift his eyes I had put my shoulder to
withon the pie crs,entre. leo suddenly, ge! Ills side and Hove him into the water. Then,
a furious corse, "(het in, O e i .' and shi iii g an oar, I pulled the boat's head
letting go his oar, he dragged me into the Pl b
boat,flinging me from him so that I fell round, shipped the ether. oar betwixt the
overan aftorthwart, and lay for a few mon- thole -pins, and pulled out of the bay with
• all my might.
Before the poiut of eliffs had shut out the
bay, I caught sight of his head. The fellow
was swimming, and swinhmingetrongly, tow -
the curve of the sand at the font of the
cliff. I now understood the sort of fats lie
had intended for me. Having gained the
sand, I should have been imprisoned by the
water ; bot the tide was making fast, and
when the flood was at its full, the sea -line
stood some feet above the level of the sand.
There was not as accessible piece of jutting
rock -nettling for the hand to grasp, nor for
the foot to support itself by, upon the face
of the perpendicular steep. Thereforelmust
inevitaldy have been drowned. And what
story should the ruffian hevcinvented to ac -
emit for my disappearance? I conceived
this : that he would have leisurely rowed
back to the harbor, moored his boat, and
lounged upon the pier, as his custom was,
without uttering a syllable about nue, unless,
indeed, he lad teen observed to row me out
in his boat in the morning, and should be
asked what had become of me, Supposing
thtsque-tion put, he would answer that at
my request he had set me ashore seine two or
throe miles Helen the coast, as I desired to
Ab last I said to the man, " Where are walk home by way of the cliff's. Who could
you going?" have disproved this ? It must have been
" That's my business," le answered, readily credited. It was a thing that was
" Where are you taking me to?" I ex- . again and again hapi.eniog. And now ima-
claimed, gee my body found upon the smuts of the
lie fastened his staring, gleaming eyes little bay where he had compelled me to
swim ashore I There would have been an
human. ; it weal , be aseerta!ned that I was
the gentlemen whom the gypsy boatman hap
set ashore. What nun's probable, then,
than tint I should have changed my tied,
have attempted to make my way home in
my ignorance of the neighborhood, by way
of the beach, instead of by way of the cliffs,
and so perished ?
eats breathless and almost uneoisalons lu
the bottom of the boat. He then threw Itis
oar over and manunvred the wherry so as
to recover the other oar, which done, he
adjusted himself on his seat and fell to
rowing in a course parallel with the coast.
I rose, trembling in every limb. The shock
had been terrible, my rescue a miracle. I
seemed to feel the hand of death colt) upon
my heart even as I staggered on to 1113, feet;
and still I was in dire peril -alone with a
powerful, muscular ruffian, who, having al-
ready attempted my life, might again in
self-defence, to silence my testimony against
him, renew his murderous allot t in another
direction. With at exhausted hand I pass.
ed a towel over my body, and then clothed
myself. Meanwhile not a word wasuttered.
The man eyed me with ferocity, and his
under -lip moved as though he were rehears-
ing some thoughts to himself in ail impish
jargon. We etill continued to be the only
boat upon the water. The great steamer had
long since passed out of sight, and upon the
horizon hung the few sails, scarcely impelled
by the languid breath of the air that was
slowly weakening as the sun gained in pew.
upon me and answered, " I'm going to put
ye ashore,"
"But you are not rowing the boat in the
direction of the town."
" I know I'm not,"
- "3 want you to set me ashore at the place
Where mo started from."
"Ye may want," he replied, pausing upon
his oars to advance his head toward me as
he spoke, as though, in another moment, lie
wools" leap upon me.
" Do you fear I will charge you with the
crime you have attempted?" said I. " If
you will set ape ashore in safety I swear not
to say a word upon what has happened,"
" I'm going to set ye ashore," he ex.
claimed.
" But where ?"
He flung his vilh,nooe head backward
toward the sea over the bows of his boat
and said, " You'll be finding out afore
long."
' Ah," thought I, "if I had but a knife,
if I had but any sort of weapon that 1
could furtively draw forth and instantly
employ !"
The line of coast ran away down on the
lefthancl wile. The nearest town in the
direction the boatman was tatting would be
some males distant from the place in. which
I was staying. The cliffs gradually rose to
an altitude of hard upon a hundred feet,
with many indents sod little coves ; but
the face of them me we advanced grew more
and yet more precipitous, and in places the
rocks stood abrupt and Olean as the side of
a wall. When the harbor we had quitted
was out of eight:, and the final group of
houses on our side hidden by the bend of
the alias, the boatman took a swift look
over his shoulder, then slightly ohanged the
course of his boat, making her heart in for
the const to a sort of bight of it, as it seen -
ed, formed by an angular projection of the
huge, iron faced seate'raoe, so that it look•
ed as if the land ended where that point of
coast stood, for the horizon went to it, and
we were not far enough out to see thoswoop
of land beyond.
That the boatman deal nod some tliabol-
These thoughts occupied my mind as I
rowed tho wherry in the tlireetiou of the
harbor. I pulled at the oars with fury ; I
was sensible of a horrid dist-action of fear,
as though it were in the power of the ruffian
to pursue roe, to arrest the 1,00.1, to enter
her and ant any throat with the knife he had
flourished. I entered the harbor, sculled to
a landing -stage, secured the painter of the
boat to it, end stepped ashore. There were
many peopie about ; the air resounded with
theories of boatmen inviting the passers-by
to go out for a row or a sail. None of these
men took any notice of me. Probably none
of them know thatI had started in company
with the gypsy boatman, and they would
probably imagine that 1 had returned from
a solitary pull out to sea. I walked entitle
way, and presently observed aharborpolice-
man. I approached him, and said,
"I Want to inform against a region who
has just attempted my life."
He looked me hard In the face, alid was
clearly impressed by my agitation and ap
p500000o.
What's wrong ?" said lie..
"A boatman whom I went out with this
morning has attempted to drown Inc,' said
"Step this way, sir," said the man ; and
with that he conducted me to a briek•built
house adjoining a row of warehouses, anti is
the window of this brisk-leillt house was a
liege wire blind, on which were wrought, in
golden letters, the words, "Harbor Pollee
Office." The policeman lifted the latch of
the door, and entered, and I followed him,
An immense man, with large red whiskers,
wearing a sort of naval nap, with letters in•
terwroaLhodover the peal[ of it, and a lroolk-
coat, the breast of whioh was braided, sat
The Elder's Sermon,
Our older told tie yesterday w'o had not learned
to live
Until we learned how bie+sed'Lis to pardon and
Meet vii
The dear, sweet, preelou words he seek,' like
heavenly inunm fell;
The r rib'• i,rnrn 11,03It 1,dhr"ug'.L our heaheart,: nu
110008 werd,la l.
"Love hringe !ulllenial pence," he Bald t and
tit:o '1' lipsweredtt!nb,
I still kept shout) g in illy 0nul, "Amen, and
it :natal'.
" Whoa men forgive all other men, the year 01
lu )1100
hill 11nwu upo't ibe world," be sold : and I
r' So let it ba." .
"So, luno von' netghho' rte ynaaoll',' Ito then
begun s1i,,,dn.
But Silas Fits:, n':n,00 the aisle, he shouted
out '' Amen I"
What right hod he to yu11 Amen, the 1054000d.
measly hound
Who took nhy cow, my note mil0h oow and
locked her in the pound.
The low•dowi, rawboned, homely crank, a
lunkhead mid a lout,
Whose love and grace and heart end 0oulhave
all been rusted out,
To sit there int the sanctuary and holler out
Amur!
11 I oould choke the rascal once he'd never
shout again;
One: day his dog ole by lny house, I called 11113
brute inside,
leave hlni a chunk of 1011 to cat, and ho
crawled elf and died,
HeJust crawled ot30 1 lied right then: Says
1, "1'll let him see,
Nolong-•logged alnlpletoobike him can got the
bust o1 ate."
But. ol:, ilial sermon 1 I would love to hear 1
preached again. and lova of fallow
About forgiveness, charity,
men.
Ishould have roll. as if I basked in Heaven s es
pee111 smile
If that blamed villain, Silas Fitz, hadn't sab
ae'oss oho aisle, S. W. Foes.
After -Thoughts.
And thou art dead! Thou, too, hast pasted
away
Tido the night t)tat borders on our dayy I
The noisy world that shall ho still at hast,
Has loft thee silent in the silent past.
How ran I grieve?, Po little thou and I
Saw of each other in the time gone by,
I scarcely miss thee ; yet 1 wish, somehow.
ThnaI loved thee then, and Missed thee now
I know I never loved thee MS I ought :
I Isar 1 wronged tlloo missy Liman lu lhougltt
If T enough had loved thea 1..0 cor fest
Those thoughts to thee, 1 might linen wronged
thee loss.
Two oceans oceans roll het wean us now, the sea
Known tend unknown; the last ?un set for thee
There In New England; Time for thee, was
dorso
And a world ended, and a w•orii begun,
Hero -horn at home was ewe, ;l:w death; but
there,
Over the sons. lit': smiled with promise fah',
And. fleeing from oho Shallows that mon rotor.
Thou didst but meet there what thou fled'et
from here.
Theel, at the hast, no heart that loved then dl
With anguish, no familiar accents thrid od
With thought of home thy spirit's dark eclipse;
No kiss of loving lips was on toy lips,
Strange voices spoke to thee, and eyes as
strange
Watched thy wan features change -till the last
change
F1x0d them in ono long look of qv tot blest;
And strange hands bore thee to thy lonely rest
Our Produoa in England.
The Canadian Gazette, published in Lon
don 1(, g., vnyo:-" We have all been think
ing and talking so much here during Ole
recent month of the exciting political events
which have followed each other in quick
succession in the Dominion, that compar-
atively little has been said concaving the
really reinarl"Lhle efforts which Canadian
Government and the Canadian people have
been malting to help on their own develop-
ment. Canada bas learnt to bless the day
ween, tweuty-five years ago, in a fit of
anger with English diplomacy, the United
States shut the door against real pence' trade.
That act hastened the Confederation of the
Canadian Provinces; and there are evi-
dences that the McKinley Act,with its anti -
Canadian clauses, may prove another bless-
ing in disguise to the Dominion. itcertain-
ly will prove so if the aotivities of Mr.
Carling, the Dominion Minister of Agri-
culture, and his assistants in the depart-
ment of Agriculture at Ottawa, and the
Canadian Clem -eminent seevic0 in this
country, meet with anything lilte their
due reward. We know what judicious state
encouragement is doing in the development
of an Anglo -Canadian trade in eggs, barley,
poultry and euoh-like produce. Actual fig•
ares are not yet available, but it is safe to
say that English end Scottish markets have
this Christmas been furnished to an extent
unknown before with the growth of Canadian
farms, and there is every encouragement tc
believe with equal aare end enterprise in the
future the British demand for these Canadian
agricultural exports may be increased to au
almost indefinite extent. And this develop-
ment of Anglo -Canadian trade is, be it noted
going on while there is still a respectable
trade in progress with tho-United States.
lggs, barley and poultry still find their way
into tle States from Canada, despite all that
Mr. McKinley cau do to keep them out, and
the United States oonsumer• will have to pay
the penalty for some time to cooler
eau-caeee,—.
ioal not I did not doubt, lent T ootid untie- upon a tall tlree•logged stool reading a
a mo what form it was to take, Iee meant jfntspapor. He looked at mo ovorhisspoc-
g taoles as I entered.
to set hoc ashore, he said. Did he intend to
land and then mm'dor me ; to land me in "Here s a gent says that rine of the boat-
men's been a -trying to drown him," said the
policeman. And, addressing mo, he added,
"This is two superintendent,"
The superintendent put down his paper,
and took off his glasses, and asked mo to
tell hirn my business. I forthwith related
my experiences to him. Ho listened atten-
tively, occasionally glancing attic coneta1,10,
who stood by listening, with his mouth
slightly open.
r " De50ri10 the man, sir," said the super.
tondent.
I dill so
rr TVs (lyspyBill," said the oonstablle, -
'" Yes, it's (,yspy 13111, said the euporit-
tei,dcnt. " The ammo man as took mg the
party that was drowned last month,"
And the 5180 man," anitirlod the eon.
stable, "as took out the party that was
drowned a year ago oome next month,"
some lonely bight or nave, and there fall
upon me and slay me? No, I did not believe
that. 11 he intended to make away with
me for the sake of money and jewelry, it
'would be his business to provide that I
Should appear to have boon drowned by
accident otherwise how would he account
for my disappearance? Or if my bony
should be discovered, marks of a devilish
ontrage were visible upon it, what answer
would he be able to make to the ohargeo£
having misdate, me?
13nt what, then, did he mean to do? To
sot me ashore? In that °a03 L should+bo
able to walk home and report' what had
happened. Did h0 mean b0 return to the
town that he belonged to? That could nob
signify, for let hit make for any port that
he chose, ids capture was ultimatly curtain.
FIc swept the boat in rapidly to alto coast,
Oat through the night, across the pathless
deep
Itity spirit passes to thy plea° of sloop.
And sad with thought of things that may not
be,
Yearns fora voice that might awaken thee.
O vain desire 1-I never loved then, Tot
To -night gmy heart is shadowed with regret ;
My grief is only thatIdidnoclosed
lo etheo1 thee,
A. St. J. An0001{.
Japanese Myths.
No people in the world, civilized or savage
believe in tlto existeilee of so many mythical
half- supernatural creatures as do the Jap.
ansae. For instance, they think there is a
wondrous tiger of more than helf,-hnman
intelligence that lives to be 1,000 years old
and turns as white as tL polar hear, They
also believe in a species of ox which, if it
lives to be 10 year- old without having been
chased by a clog, transforms himself into a
beautiful woman. This same fox, if he lives
to the age of 100 years, gains some new
powers, enemywhio'h is that of becoming a
wonderful wizard. When he reaches tho
age of 1,000 years he hocolnes a celestial fox
with Write golden-oolorei tails and has the
power of going to heaven whenever he
chooses. Thep also believe in a multitude
of animals distinguished mainly by their
monstrous size or by the mnitiplioatons of
their members. Among these are serpents
S00 feet long and big onuttgh to swallow an
elephant; foxes with eight logs, monkeys
with four °are ; fishes with ten heads attach-
ed to ono body, the flesh of which is a core
for boils. They also believe in the existence
of a crane which after it has mulled the ago
of 000 years has no nand of any sustenance
except water, Their mythical dragon has
the head of 1L camel, the horns of a .leer, the
oyes of a demon, the ears of an ox, the body
of a sorpetht, the scales of a fish, tient the
claws and wings of an eagle,
The Land of Fancy.
BY Wm. 010110.
Nor human lvtah nor passion
1s over broa bed abroad
In the happy Land where Fancy
Extends herr gal rod,
For the dreams of the airy soul
Are gentle as Zephyr's oyes
When ho steals in his cloak of azure
To hearken a lover's sighs.
All, could I live with Fancy
For ever and far aye,
In the golden Land of Beauty,
Ilow should I w'eovu tholay!
Not a dream of the dusky world.
Should over annoy my sight,
And the sound or a song supernal
Would banish the shades of night.
PERSONAL,
General Sir Henry P,,seos ty, theOtieen's
private nuer+•tary and keeper of hens Majes•
y0 privy purse, finch his position no sine.
cul'u, Wherever the Qn,on goes, ho must
aecolnpany her, and 05 she is en hilefatig-
ahle worker, he hos very few hours he can
ehtl! Itis nwi,. 1.Jp ,l bion devolves the re.
apunsibilily of twinning into the genniee-
ness of the many appeals made to the Queen
f. r clrity, and IIic, tot, is the duty of lea
0l owing her be'fatelone, It to rumored that
he is also frequently celled upon to adjust
misumdoratstmliigs hetiveen the dilthrent
tntmhors at 1110 royal family. icor tell this
he receives the munificent recompense of a
house and d10,01141par aunuuh.
Alexandoe III. of Russia is passiouatcly
feud of the chase, and makes a puiut of
apenlllllg severed weeks every year at Spain,
Itis i tigitheentemittingestate in the south-
ern portion of Russian Poland. As noon its
he arrives there, the Emperor changes not
only iia habits, but even his very eletraftel',
Ile lays aside the cares of state, becomes
gay,light-hearted, all genial, and manifests
a disposition to play practtcal jokes, to tease
and to argue. Hie entire clay is spent in the
vast forests, hundreds of miles in extent,
that surround the chateau on every side,
and abound with stags, wild -boars, wolves,
bears, and every conceivable hind of game.
Somewhat lazy and indolent, the Czar does
most of his shooting by means of battues, or
"t'eihjagdsl"
Jules Verne writes hie extraordinary stor•
las in a study perched at the top of the tower
of his Amiens lions:. The room is crowded
with charts, electrical apparatus, and the
various seicntttic inshuneotswith which the
;author tee amide himself when he is elabor-
ating the imaginary adventures of his heroes
for even in his most daring flights of fanny
he keeps as near as he can to the line of
scientific) possibility. Verne is most ale
stenions for an author, and a French author
at that, diinkilig cider in profou5000 towine
and shunning tobacco. Ile is a very pains-
taking composer, and rewrites his manes.
oript several tittles before sending it to the
Bprinter. He says that his boyish lilting for
aron efunchhansen's marvellous tales start-
ed him to explore the field of authorship in
which he has been so snooessful.
One of Bismark's amueemeuts is pistol brirntning cup.
practice, of which Inc is very fond, and at The number of landowners in the United
Where the Day Begins.
Whore dons the clay begin t whore may it bo i
Not on the mountain lops, not on the seal
Somewhere beyond them, eoinewhore before
them,
Shiites the sweet light, ero the morning breaks
o'er then.
Peak that is highest, island that lied
Farthest away in the purple -rimmed sen,
Whore does the defy begin t whore may it bet
Out of the bosom. of God comes the day,
Flood of his tenderness, nothing can stay 1
Love that, out -springing, sets the world sing•
tog,
Steeples ablaze, and the silver belle ringing!
Infinite motion of infinite ocean -
Light but the symbol that broadens for ayo,
Out of the bosom of (Sod comes the day.
-3Youtit's Ooulpanlon.
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L0v0.' •
It is love that builds the earthly home; it
is love that builds tho heavenly home, And
the highest conception wo can form of
]leaven is not glorified teeth/eel pomp, nor
glorified intellectual triumph, iput glorified
alieotion. The eympathios and •alfootioms
aro the primal and the most iudestrnetibll
elements of our nature, that whish we have
oeat•est God anti nicest 'God, God is love
and love is lova forevermore,
Double.broastrtd jacket with large 'pearl
buttons aro anhongtltefavored Styles,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
It Is said that four-lifthe of all the hail
storms occur In the cloy -lime
Consumption is morepreva'rnt1 Ireland
than in 01 t her England or .Walen,
'rhe thinnest tissue payer moeseros 1.1200
of an huh in thlukness,
'19to previews contain twenty-one pro.
perlygealiffed lady doctors,
The British horses were famous when
Julius Meer invaded this country, and some
of then wore cal tiled by hint as trophies to
Reuc.
Monday is the day of the wok upon
which most lettere aro delivered in London.
The amain for this is because there is no
Sunday delivery in .London.
The average antnun t of can't life insurauoe
polfey m the United Kingdom 3100,
Nearly forty thousand men desert from
the Getman army every twelve months.
Japan halt now two thousand newspapers,
where twonty•five years ago not a single
journal existed.
Edward 1„ who was the father of seven
sons and eleven daughters, had more ohil-
dren than any other of our eoversigns.
Collectorsof postage stamps will be glad
to learn that orders have been issued
throughout Prussia for the prosecution of
all who aro found manufacturing forged
st0 ups,
The prettiest royal girl in pastern Europe
is said to be the Princess Helene of Montene-
gro, who, His reported, is the chosen bride
of the Heir Apparent to the Russian throne
Meteors of various -sizes reach the earth
in many places. A recent calculation shows
that the increase of two earth's weight an-
nually (rem meteoric sources is about 90,000
to
An autograph letter from the Queen,
written to the lite Prince Louis Lucien
Bonaparte, nn the occasion of her jubilee,
was, 01 accordance with the Prince's wish,
pieced in the breast pocket of hie coat before
his interment,
The Czar is one of the few living banquet -
ens, it is said, who can "clrink a toast"
according to the old style, wallowing the
toasted apple, ligacr and all, from the
which in his youth he was expert, The
range at Friedriclh:limb is a00os5 a
small lake, perhaps 0 hundred yards
in diameter, mud the Iran Chancel or's
Multi is etill steady enough for him to bark
a squirrel occasionally. A recent v1011e' to
hriodrieheruh says that the fallen Minister,
contrary to popular belief, is a man of great
; e'sonal magnetism, He fascinates his guests
and when they depart, it is as if they wore
ander the spell of a magician. The Prince's
home life is delightful, and when his son,
Count Herbert, and his dauehter, the Coun•
tess Ran titan, are present, the fanily gather-
ing is Most genial.
King Oscar of Sweden's favorite form of
sport is elk or moose hunting. These hunts
mostly take place in the months of Septem-
ber and October, in the great forests which
cover the highlands of the Swedish province
of J°mtland. The ells found there is some-
what smaller then the American moose, and
its horns aro narrower. Beare, too, tore
found in these forests in large numbers, and
almost equalling in size the grizzly -bear of
the Rocky Mountains. King Oscar is an
enthusiastic sholtaree of big genie, especially
of the two species, just mentioned, and many
are the elk and bear hunts which he has
organized in his Jenttland forests for the en-
tertainmentof English and French princes,
Ansta'ian archdukes, Russian grand dukes,
anti German potty sovereigns.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, whose
power in England, even in temporal matters,
is inferior only to that of royalty, is a very
0nthesiasLic horseman. He rides to avoid
the increase of corpulence, and rides well,
though his attire when on horseback seems
rather incongruous, for with ktteo•hoots he
wears his shovel hat and apron. He,may
be seen galloping about London, and fee -
queenly in thotlnms of 1'itestminister, where
he goes to administer charity to the poor.
His father was a poor country clergyman,
and his rise in the Ghureh has been a matter
of phenomenal good fortune.
Survivors of two charge of the Light Bri•
gado are few enough to make the fact note•
worthy that Sergeant John Lovioh., of In-
dianapolis, is one of the gallant Six TIun•
Bred who withstood the murderous filo of
the Hessian guns, He wears one of the
silver medals with four clasps, representing
Alma, Balaklava, Inkeunan, ao'i Sebas;o-
pol, which the Queen gave those who re-
turned from the Crimea. Sergeant L0vic1
says that the only other participant in the
fantods attack w1n carte to the United
States was Michael Lohan, who died in
Pittsburg a few years ago. The claim is
made, however, that Thomas Day, a:armor,
living now near Vevey, Indiana, was one of
the historic battalion,
A Gentle Reminder.
'The chairman at a meeting recently was
somewhat surprised to fled that there were
nine speakers down on the programtne. He
was at a loss how to arrange so that they all
In'ghtspeak during the evening. At last he
resolved to allow each speaker ten minutes
only, One after another delivered their
speeches, when it came to the turn of
gentleman who was puzzled to know chow he
oould guage his speech so as not to last more
that the appoiutod time. At hast he hit
upon an idea, 'Pairing apin from the oorner
of his waistcoat, he handed it to the chair-
man with the request that he should emind
him when his time was up. The olmirnlan
promised to do so.
The gentleman wont on speaking for fif-
teen minutes before the chairman became
aware that the speaker had exceeded his
limit. According to promiee, he gently ap-
plied the pin 10 the speaker's leg.
No notice was taken, however, and the
speaker went on for another twenty minut-
tes. Thereupon the pin was pushed in a hit
further, Still the cp1oalcer wont on, Thee
tho chairman stroolc the pin in right up to
the head, but, strange to say, it tools no
silent.
The ohairnhan, getting vexed, nut his
arms rotund the quaker and palled hien
down.
" Why didn't you remind rno?" asked the
speaker,
" .I clid," replied the chairman, " and the
grin is in your legs now right up to the
head,"
r' What 1 Whore 1 Which leg?" exclaim.
the speaker, in an oxioted tone.
" Why that ono 1" said the ahalrmal,
pointing to the log into which he hatl push,
04 the pin.
" 011," said Lhe speaker, " I forgot to toll
you that that was a :ctrl: oto I"
The following play upon w0rrla is said to
he the ubtorano of an eminent judger
" Marriage le alt inatitiltlon intended to
keep wonon out of mischief and get them
into trouble."
Kingdom is estimate 1 by Sir lames Caird,
our Chief Land Commissional, at 1SQ(10(1
persons, who possess between them the
whole of the agricultural land from ten acres
upwards.
The .Eiffel Tower 18 evidently a financial
success. Over .00,000 has been paid for
admission to it by visitors since March 22
lust, when this year's season oommencod,
During August, when Paris is always crowd-
ed with tourists, the receipts exceeded 1:4,•
000.
A Leipsic scientist has demonstrated by
feats and figures, what most people have
always believed, that colds are oftener
caught by those who wrap themselves up
and avoid the severity of weather than by
those who dare to bravo the elements,
40(1 heirs of average thickness would cover
an inch of 5:01005 The blonde belle • has
about 140,000 filaments to comb and brush,
while the red-haired beauty has to bo satis-
fied with 88,000 ; the brown -haired damsel
may have 109,000 ; the black -haired but
102,000.
It is well known that horses hear deep
sonnds which we cannot. For daye pre-
vious to the earthquake in the Riviera, the
horses there showed every symptom of ab-
ject fear, which continued without any
change of character till the fury of the eon-
onlsiott broke forth. But not till a fes seconds
before the earth began to quake did human
beings hear any snnilts, while it is extreme-
ly probable that the horses heard the sub-
terranean noises for two or three days pre•
viouely.
Itis generally admitted that women are
better letter writers than men, Writinga
letter is thought to cost them very little
trouble; they are supposed to drop into a
chair before a desk: clip 0 pen in the ink-
stand, and s';rihble offany number of bright,
chatty pages almost as readily as they oould
relate the same news by word of mouth.
An impecunious Benedict in Scotland
gave a sealed envelope to the clergyman who
had just married him. When the happy
couple had departed, the clergyman was
envious to ascortaln the ailment of Ifs fee,
and be found in the envelope, instead of the
expected hank -note, an apology from the
groom, regretting the writer's inability to
reward the divine, but promising to remem-
ber him when fortune smiled upon him.
Gladstone has never used tobacco, Be
drinks vary little -so little, indeed, for a
British statesman, as to 01000111 abnost to
fobstinel.ce. A glass of bitter beer at
luncheon, and a glass of claret or port at
dinner, form the limit of his indulgence in
stimulants. What ati anchorite they wo old
have thought )tint in the days of Pitt and
Fox and the thieo'bottle prime minister I
A Relio of Ancient Ganadlt,
The Museum of the Canadian Institute,
ab Toronto, is enquiring one of the most
important collections of aboriginal Indian
objects in America, and its specimens are
made generally available for purposes of
study through being carefully illustrated
in its annuadreports. Its collection of cop•
per implemosts is a large one, and embraces
some renha'kablo speounots. One of the
latter is a blade about thirteen inches in
length, having au undulating or toothed
edge. This was found in an ossuary, now
within ole limits of Midland City Driving
Park, s 100511ty formerly occupied by the.
Hurons, and now the site of one of.
the most flourishing young towns in the
Dominion, The blade is a little over three
inches across at, his widest part, 1t is no-
where 11101 a than one -Digi t1 of an iuch ttiak,
and alto time is only about throe -sixteenths,
The teeth are fifteen in tin ubor, aid appear
to have been made with a bonnier, of some
sort, and wore apparently shade to imitate
the natural serrations of the flaked stenos,
Which we'e possibly often used as files and
saws. 4 his blade was deposited with the
bonds of an Indian, and was originally
Wrapped in beaver Skin, a portion of which
still adheres to It. As no European olljcets
worn discovered in the burial place, it was
oonehidotl the implement 18 atleast 200 years
old,
There is no 511011 hats as 1041011s hate,
and It) such love as Christine lova.
A girl in Norway, it fs said, must 1,o
able to - bake bread before she rem have a
beau, She le therefore careful to attain
the art at an early ago.
Not So Deaf Atter Al
When the September term of the Dist, :et
Court opened yesterday, says the Omaha
lf'oricl-Aoi•old, there was one among the
jurors who wanted to be excused. John
Doe is not his name, but it goes here.
" What is your name?" asked Judge
Davis.
" John Doo," was the reply.
" Do you want to be excused from duty ?'
inquired the judge.
"Hey. ? You'll have to talk a little
louder, judge. I'm a little hard of bear-
ing," said Mr. Doe,
Judge Davis repeated the question, and
kir. Doe replied
No, sir ; I dont want to serve."
" What excuse have you 1"
" Well, judge, 3 m hard 0' hearing, and
I'm afraid it would be useless for ire to try
to serve."
' Can you hoer an ordinary conversation-
al tone?' asked the judge.
" Hey?" remarked Doo, placing his hand
behind his ear.
"'1 say, Dat you hear an ordinary conver-
sational. tone of voice ?" asked tie judge,
patching his vela) a little higher.
" Well, it bothers me sono," said Doe.
o Well," said Judge Davis in a low tone
of voice, '' I guess wo will have to exouso
yon if you can't hear well."
Low as the toile was, Deo beard it, and
be started away with a pleasant smile -
Wink ling about his face.
" Wait, Mt', Uoo,"said Judge Davis, "I
guess if you can hear that you 000 hear well
enough to servo as a juror. Wo cannot ex.
cruse " 1
Ancl John Doe collapsed and fell into the
nearest ahelr.
What He Put Her Ln MindOt
" Your daughter is engaged, 1 believe,"
said a gentleman to a oolm'ocl lady in te
neighboring town a few days ago.
" She an, re sorry to say," was the re.
ply' Don't you approve of her choice?"
"No, he dont amount to 110111n, Ho
Bputs mein mind of the food that John the
aptiste ate in the wilderness."
" How that ?"
"Low 0us0 and wild, honey."
The output of the flouring Mills of Min0
noapolis is 17,000 barrels a day.