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OHAPTERL--MB DueneeONISPU&zr0D. "It's the heart," replied Mrs, Lamebed
MO. Moutonue Dottireon, Raab India witt a deep sie , whish did not seem qulto
merchant of Calcutta and London, was writ. geMo. ottleeon had Haver thougib of hie
dug ;lucre in the library of his private reel. mother•fn law's fad neva in oonneftion
Hence in B:akowocd Square, Kensington, with hie daughter. He was mottle/ -
coming
was Sunoay afternoon, and the rain was 1y a grasping, mercenary man, and the
coming down with steady pereist.n0y, as fear always before hie eyea waa, that
though it had made up he mind to keep Mrs. Lamahed mlghb alter her will and
Londoners indoors for the rest of the day,
Mr. Dottleeon, 2010 waa a methodical man
In everything, made a regular practice of
going fer a long walk every Sunday after
Munch ; and when the weather presumed to
ttnterfere with this arrangement the effect
upon his temper was infelicitous. Accord,
angly, it is our misfortune to present Sim to
the reader at a moment when he is decided.
ly enoppieh and surly.
" Very aggravating," said he, throwing
down his pcn and going to the window ;
" no chat oe of its clearing up either. How
I
defeat a wet Sunday 1"
He picked up is bock, and made himself
comfortable 132 511 atmchalr; bu, he had
hardly read a page when the door opened
and his daughter Kate appeared. She was
a fair, pretty girl of twenty, whose gentle.
mesa and teat saved her from coming in col.
lieion with her irascible parent at timea
when other members of the household
shrank frcm the contegneneeacf intruding
upon his privacy.
" Well, what's the matter?'' asked Mr.
Dottleeon curtly.
" Grandmawma len t feeling very well
this afternoon, rape."
Hate had not completed her errand, bet
btqueath her property to this dootor, lie
has beard of ladtos who had cub off
their rightful heirs in favour of their
medical attendants, end Mrs, Lamahed wee
eaoentrio enough for anything. If any One
bad told him that Kate wee the attraction,
be would have laughed at the idea. She
had nothing, and would have nothing but
whab he ohoso to give her ; and ib was not
likely that a man who had to push his way
in the world would encumber himself with a
wife. Dr Lakeworth wee dancing attend•
ante on the old lady In the hope of getting
her money, and really she eeemod so fond of
him that the danger was making him very
uneasy.
He got up and opened the door slightly,
that be might hear the doctor's arrival, and
also aeoertain whether Kate stayed in the
room during Mrs Lemehed'e interview with
the young man. Dr Lakeworth went
straight upstairs when he Dame, and re
mained with the two ladies for fully an hour
and a quarter, whilst Mr. Dottleeon sat fum-
Ing and fidgeting in the library below.
" Much value the fellow's time must be,"
he angered, looking at bis watch, when bite
door upabairo opened, and Mrs. Lemehed's
%naw from her father a mannerthat the had shrill °racked voice arose, cautioning the
•Dome in at a time when it was beat to say as doctor not to forgeb that he had promised to
little as possible ; when be was in this oome and sea her on Tuesday.
bumcur, be was certain to jump at any op "I'll waylay him as he goes out, and find
gmrtunity for grumbling, and would finish out, once fcr all, whether there's any actual
her message for her. neoeeaity for these incessant visite."
She wants that dcotor, I suppose?" "Good•afternoon, Mr. ' akeworth," he
marled Mr, Dottleeon. said, meeting the dootor in the hall. 'Just
Perhspe we had better tend for Sim.' come thle way for a moment, if you please."
Mr. Dottleeon threw down his book and He led the way into the library, motioning
frowned eavegely. "Isn't it a very singular the young man to follow him wibb the perm
-thing, Kate, that your maternal grand. pate air whioh had gained him the sobri-
ntother should select tbia impecunious met of "Majestic Monty " among hiemany
young prig Lakeworth to be her medioel friends.
-attendant, when there are half a -dozen ex
.periencedpraotitioneraliving withinaetone'e-
throw of the tgnare? Isn't it very curious
-that Mra. Lamahed never knew what illneae
was or asked to are a doctor until she met
this Dr. Lakeworth at Scarborough last
anmmer 1 Her confidence in him is positive.
ly touching, and passes my comprehension
altoget her."
It was evidently a mystery to Kate also,
for she shook hor head slowly and looked
one of the window. It was a tad of her
.grancmotlter'e to have Dr. Lakeworth ; and
when a patient hes reached the eighties, per-
haps One physician can do little more than
another. •
I don't know why she likes him, papa."
" I suppose on muab sand for him ; bub
I don't imagine he will thank Mrs. Lamahed
for bringing Sim through a mile of bank
"streets on a day like this, that to tell her
that her heart is much the same as it was dootor quietly.
',the day before yesterday." "Then there's no actual nee:maity for
Kate left the room without making any your rather frequent professional visite?"
reply. and her father walked over to the " I oan do nothing for Mre Lamabed but
'•hearthrug and proceeded to address the fig • allay fears about herself. They are ground-
ure be raw reflected in the mirror above leas ; but a lady of her years to naturally
the mantel piece. Many people have a hat- prone to make much of any little feeling
at of "talking to themselves," and Mr. of indisposition."
I wlahed to ask you whether there to any
cause for anxiety regarding Mrs, Lamsi'ed's
health," he said when Charles Lakeworth
was seated.
"•Mre. Lambed is under the impression
that the is suffering from roma internal me,
lady ; but I am unable to detect anything
amiss, Of oouree any organic complaint
would be serious to ono of her advanced age ;
but I have no reason to suppose there is the
least cause for anxiety."
Perhaps the confident tone of Dr. Lake -
worth', reply irritated hie questioner; for
Mr. Dotteleon put on his moat majestic air,
and fixing hie pincenez on his somewhat i
rubicund nose, he elevated that feature until
he could bring his dull fish -like eyes to
bear upon hie companion. " Ie that your
opinion ?' he asked with light etreee on the
posseeaive pronoun.
"That's my opinion," responded the
ramatk about the puaaiblltty of enaktug n
eodloil bad gone home, for he knew tb had
not been epcken idly, Tbo a ill ae it stood
wee in his own favour. Mra, lambed hail
bluntly observed when she made 10, that
Kate wee only six yearn old, and there wan
no knowing wast she might grow )ileo ; 00
her money ehoald be left to ono who would
nb least take Dare of it—namely, Montague
Dottleeon, She bad a higher opinion of her
son-in-law at that time than she had new;
but he had always been kind and ubbentive
einoe she went to live with him, and oho
had seen no reason, so far, to alter her de-
signs,
' What eon the man bo after, if ib isn't
the money ?" queried Mr. f>ottleson on the
hearthrug of Mr. Dottleeon in the mirror,
"He 050'0 be eo much attraoted by Kate,
She's a pretty girl and a good girl;
bub she's got nothing. Then again,
her grandmother was always of a saving
turn of mind, and ehe wouldn't encourage
him to pay expensive vieito if she had no
object in view. It'o absurd to suppose thab
she pay° him to oome here for nothing. If he
admired Kate, he'd oomo without being rent
for, and her grandmother can't fail to know
that,"
Hie mental vision had been so dimmed by
the atmosphere of money In whioh his life
had bean passed, that he did not understand
the possibility of man or woman being guided
by any other motive. Love waa is misty
unreality outside the pale of hie reasoning
powers, and therefore did not enter into the
apeoulatione at all. ilia affection for Kate
took the oharaoteristio ehapo of finding a
wealthy buaband for her; she might choose
for beraelf, as she had a right to ; but measur•
ing her heart by the size of his own, ib never
struck him that her choice might fall upon a
man whom he would rejeob as ineligible.
(TO DE CONTINUED.)
What a Woman Can Do.
A student of the sex exalts woman and',
covers man with contempt thus :—
She oan come to a conclusion withoub the
slightest trouble of reasoning on it, and no
Dane man can do that.
Six of them can talk at once and get along
first rate, and no two men can do that.
She oan safely stiok fifty plea in her dress'
while he is getting one under his thumb
nail.
She is cool as a ououmber in half a dozen
tighb dresses and skirts, while a mac will
sweat and fume and growl in one loose,
shirt.
She San balk as sweet as peaches and
cream to the woman she hates, while two
men would be panelling each otter's head
before they had exchanged ten words.
She oan throw a atone with a curve that
would be a fortune bo a baseball pitcher.
She can say " no" in such a low voice that
t means " yes."
She can sharpen a lead pencil if you give
her plenty cf time and plenty of pencils.
She can dance all night in a pair of shoes
two sizes two email for her and enjoy every
minute of the time.
She oan appreciate a kiss from her hue.
band 75 years after the marriage ceremony
is performed.
She can go to oharoh and afterward tell
you what every woman in the congregation
had on, and, in some rare instances, oan give
you some faint idea of what the bexewae,
She can walk half the night with a colicky
baby in her arms without once expreoeing
the desire of murdering the infant.
She oan—but what's the use? A woman
oan do anybhing or everythfng, and do it
well.
She oan do more in a minute than a man
can do in an hour, and do 113 better.
She oan drive a man crazy for 24 houre,
and then bring him to paradise in two
eeoonds by simply tickling him under the
ohin, and there does not live thee mortal son
of Adam's mieery who oan do it.
Dottleeen cultivated it to a remarkable ex-
tent ; it was hie peculiarity, though, that he
could net take kimeelf properly into oonfi.
dente uuleae he eaw himeelf in the glass.
3Ele stood with his left hand thrust into his
'waistcoat pocket, emphasising the remarks
die made half aloud with his rigbt forefinger.
" Now, will yon have the goodness to tell
any what my mother in-law wants wlth,this
young medico ? Hs'e goe no practice to speak
oaf ; he's got nothing any one can gee to
recommend him, and he lives most incon'
veniently far away. Ever since she
met him laet year, ehe has required
medical aerie° and no advice but hie
will do. When. she thinks ehe'a seedy,
dte'e called in to earn a fee ; and when she's
well, he's called in to receive? it, He's never
mut of the house. I wonder be doesn't take
lodgings next dcor, to be obese to the gold
'mine.—I tell you candidly,' continued Mr,
!Dottleecn, suddenly withdrawirgbis hand
frcm hie pocket end tapping the palm im.
,preesively with his finger. tie s—" I tell you
candidly that if I didn't know the old lady
would alter her will without compunotion,
I'd forbid Dr Charles Lakeworth the houre,
—Why, blase my heart 1 if Mrs Lamohed
lives ten years longer, 'he'll spend every
shilling of her twenty thonaana in physio
an'd fees."
This final prediction, although made by
himeelf, Eo worked upon Mr Dottleeon the::
eta swung round rpon his heel and stamped
on the floor.
Mts. Lamahed, who was the mother of his
departed wife, was eighty-one ytars of age,
and in spite of her frequent calls for the
dootor, gave every promise cf maintaining
her interest in mundane affaire for ten or
oven twenty years longer. " I'm an old
woman," she was wont to say ; "bubl was
an old woman wben I was forty, and I
haven't grown a day older since—not a
Jay."
And indeed Mre Lemshed seemed almost
as active and sprightly now as oho had been
half a•century agog Fourteen years before,
the middle aged, duet dried lawyer who
looked efcer her concerns had oome to urge
the desirability of making her will.
"Make my will; cried she. "I'll make ib, if
'you're afraid y =won' blive to do ib, Smuggles;
but I hadn't begun to thing eboub it yet 1
Why should I?" However, the solicitor's
arguments prevailed, and the thing woe
done, "to oblige her old friend, who had al -
Imp taken good care of her affairs, and
was in a burry to finish them." And though
the fact hes no' bearing upon thio story, we
,nay mention that the engrossing of Mre.
Lamehed'e will was the loot bit of ptofea-
eionel work the careworn Smuggles ever did
'for his client. He was twenty pare her
junior ; but he passed from Linooln'e Inn
to another place long before she began to
else spectacles. The spring of vitality wee
strong in Mre, Lamahed.
Mr. Dottleeon turned away from the mita
icor to whioh he had been oonfiding hie
woe&, and went up•stalrs to see his mother.
dn•lew, whom he found in the drawing -
'room with Kate.
arm sorry to bear you're not well," he
,raid, going to her side.
The old lady looked up and smiled. " I'm
'getting very feeble, Montague, though I
don't look it. T am not quite up to the mark,
:and tioughb I'd like to see Lakeworth,
" They eent for him half an hour ago. But
'don't you think, now, that e. more expert•
caged man ehould be°ailed in?"
"Lakeworth will do nicely, Montagne,• he
,understands my oonotltution,"
When an old lady is eonvinoed that one
!particular man "underetande hor oonstitu-
eon," to reasoning will move her. Mr. Dot.
ileson knew thie, and did net preen the
expediency of making a change.
' What do you think le wrong, this time„ l" 1
Me Haid, flitting down neer her.
Mr. Dobbleson lay back in his °hair con-
aidering what he had better ray next. If he
made any attempt to discourage Dr. Lake -
worth's calls, it would infallibly acme to his
motber-in-law's ears, and her resentment
might produce results very detrimental to
himeelf. It would not do to attack the posi-
tion from this side, when he had only his sus
pioiona to work upon ; it would be less rieky
to go to the root of the matter with Mra-
Lemehed, He rose and extended his hand,
" 1'11 say good -evening, then, Mr. Lake.
worth : you have relieved my mind very
muoh regarding your patient."
(Merles Lakeworth belt the house, and
Mr Dobtleeon went in search of his mother-
in•law. He meant to lose no time in put•
ting her on her guard against thio insidious
enemy ; but he knew that he would have to
approach the subjeob very carefully,
" I ant very pleased to learn from Dr.
Lakeworth that your fears abonb yourself
are unfounded,' he said cheerfully.
"Oh yes ; he think& I'm all right,' replied
Mre. Lamshed. "I've great confidence in
Lakeworth,"
"I'm afraid he takes advantage of it to
drain your purse pretty heavily in fees."
"He wants 'em," replied the old lady dry-
ly, "Poor fellow 1 he finds it herd to make
both ends meet. But he'll make his way ;
I'm going to help him,"
It was bad enough no hear that this hang
er-on was Bent for more to benefit himself
than the patient; but Mrs. Lamehed's last
words made Mr. Dobtlesoa turn red with
anger. "Help," in his vocabulary, was sy-
nonymous with money, and here was Ilia
mother-in-law coolly telling him, her heir,
that she was going to give help to an utter
stranger who had no claim upon her what.
ever. It was quite time that he did speak'
to her, 00 he cleared his throat and began
without more ado : "You know that of late
it has often occurred to me that Dr. Lake -
worth', attention to you is nob so disinter.
ested as it should be. I may be wrong, but
I cannot geb over the idea that be has Some
ulterior design upon ue."
Mrs, Lamahed put on her speotaoleo and
etared ab her son•in-law. "Do you suppose
I'm a fool, 01ontegueDobtleoot?"
"My dear madame you misapprehend my
meaning," said Mr, Dottleeon with anxious
suavity ; "bub really I have known euoh fre-
quent 05000 in whioh kind-hearted ladies
have been led away by their gratitude to-
ward& scheming phyeioiane. I never for an
instant imagined that Dr, Lakeworth or
any one else would be able to bond
your sturdy sense of what le right and just
so se to serve his own interests ; but he
comes so frequently, be stays 'o long, and
he.--"
"And you think Lakeworth expecte my
money when I've done with it, and comae
hero to keep my friendehip for him alive 7"
"lam bound to confess that this had
oroeeed my mind,"
The old lady leaned over, and tapped her
son-inlaw gently on the knuckles with her
epeoteole ogee as ehe replied ; " You are
the fool, Montague Duttleaon, You're a'
blind ea a mole. If you hadn'b betrayed
these unworthy suspicions about an
honourable than, I might have opened
your oyes for you; but sine you have
such an uodeeervedly bad opinion
of him, I shell leave you to grope
your own way to daylighb, l'v" made
my will, Montague, and you know what it
ears ; but there's plenty of time to add a
codicil to t6, you know—plenty of time."
Mr. Dottleeon eaw that he had madea grave
miutake in mentioning his dietruab ; but he
could not repair it now, and beat a hasty
retreat, Mrs Lamahed had hinted broadly
that there was immobility going on whioh ho
was too blind to see, and whioh she wee_ going
to lot him find out for bimaelt, What-
ever It might be, he would bo very
Salaries for Wives.
It is the opinion of the Supreme Oourb of
Iowa that any contract a man makes with
hie wife can bo broken by him with impunity.
Mr. Miller and his wife entered into a formal
contract to thie effect; "That Mre Miller
shall keep her home and family in a nom•
fortable and reasonably good condition,
and Mr, Miller shall provide for the
necessary expenses of the family, and
shall in addition thereto pay Mra. Miller for
her 'individual use $200 par year, payable
816 66d per month ao long as Mre. Miller
shall faithfully obeerve the terme and con-
dition± of bhie agreement." Miller failed to
keep hie port of the compact. Mra. Miller
kept her home and family in a comfortable
and reasonably good condition, but the
$16,66e a month was nob forthcoming. Mil -
ter eimlily rofueed to give hor any pin money,
Mro Miller invoked the law to hold him to
his contract The court has decided against
Mrs, Miller. Ib holds that the agreement
cannot be enforoed for the reason that it is
against public policy, and therefore void ;
that it wes her business ae a wife to do what
she agreed to do without any oompensationj;
that re atrikeo at the very foundation of
domestic life and happine00 when the courts
recognize a contract of this character bebween
husband and wife, In short, that a woman
must make home comfortable and happy
and beoatiafied with whauevor the husband
choose to give hor. This may seem pretty
hard on wives, but for the most part wives
manage to get a fair share of the income
without any onntraot or trouble.
A Preferenoa for British Jngtioe,
One of the great virtues of English prac-
tice le that executions follow hard upon
trial and conviction. In this country years
sometimes elapse before a murderer pay° the
penalty of the oxime, and in the meantime
he is given every possible opportunity to
escape by legal means. Today there are
four condemned murderere In Inoyamenetng
prison, whose dates of execution have nob
been fixed. All of their mimeo were corm
witted bong before that of Mra. Maybriok ;
one of them hae bean in prison nearly two
yeare. The English practice is mush super.
Mr to out own in the matter of prompbpun-
iehntenb, and ib does nob appear ;that pro.
viding for dolaye and appeals will improve
it,—[Philadelphia Ledger.
Why He Became a Bachelor,
A young lawyer, who bad been inotruoted
that when a witness deolared that he was
this or that, it was os'eabla] that he should
be made to toll when and for what Mamie he
became eo, thue utilized his instruction when
trying hie first moo with a wiener* that he
bad under orose-examination :
"Ate you a married man P" ho coked,
"No, sir," 0 am a bachelor," was the
auewer,
"Thea, air," said the young lawyer, dna
stern tone, "will you ploaoe toll this Court
how long you have been a bachelor and what
wore tho olroumetano0e that induced you to
become one?"
Things always Room fairer when we look
bath at them. -)'Lowell.
A New Railway iltat Is Cheap, Past and
Scrawl Compnrieen,
A pros view took place recently, says a
1''aris latter, of oho so galled " Chemin de ,
For (elle sant," or "Slide Railway," oq oke
Esplenadedealnvalides, wlthintheexhiblbion
The new invention lo a singularly original
oontrivanoe for enabling bralne to run, by
means of water power, ab a speed hitherto
undreamed of. Arriving there without any
Intimation as to what a sliding railway
might bo, Iab Brat mistook 10 for an over-
grown ewitahbaek with the humps smoothed
away.
The brain mutilated of four carriages, af.
fording roam for about 100 paseeugero, The
carriages had no wheels, being supported ab
the corners by blooke of iron of a size some•
what larger than a briok, whioh rested upon
a double line of iron eirdere. In the middle
of the lino at regular Intervals jutted oub ir.
regularly shaped pillars, the tree of which
was nob yet apparent. Having taken our
seats and the signal being given we glided
along very gently for a epeoe of a few yards,
when
SUDDENLY WE GdTIIERED SPEED,
Two or three tugs were fele and we wore fly-
ing on the pace of an ordinary train, but an
smoothly es a boat on a river. There was a
clicking noise 032 the rails, but this, I was
assured, was due to a defect in the construe.
tion of the elides and would be remedied,
The absence of any vibration, shaking, or
"tail motion" was wonderful. A slight
jerk there was at regular intorvale, bub then,
again, I was told thab it was due merely to
the ehortneos of the course and the inability
to gob up a proper pace. In a hydraulic
train traveling at full spend, thab ie to say,
ab the rate of 140 to 200 kilometers or 87 to
124 miles an hour, there would be almoeb no
oonooiousne0s of motion, The journey down
the esplanade only °coupled a few emends.
Upon our safe return Mr. Filter, chairman
of the oompany whioh owna the invention,
gave a full account of it. Tho sliding rail-
way wee invented in 1868 by an engineer
named Girard, who was killed in the Franco-
German war, and it hes been improved to
its present ,tato by one of his aesietanb
engineers, M. Barre.
As hae already boon mentioned, the hy.
draulio oarriagee have no wheels, those
being replaced by hollow slides fitting upon
a flat and wide rail,and grooved on the inner
outface. When it is desired to• set the
carriage in motion water is torted into the
elide or skate of the carriage froma re-
servoir by oompreeeed air and seeking to
eeoape, it spreads over the under surface of
the elide, whioh it raises for aboub a
nail's thickness above the rail. The elides
thus rooting, nob on the rails, bub on a film
of water, are in a perfectly mobile °on-
dition, in faot, the pressure of the forefinger
is eulioienb to displace a carriage thus
supported, rhe propelling force is supplied
by the pillars whioh stand ab regular In.
term* on the line between the rails.
Running underneath every carriage is an
iron rack, about six inches wide, fitted with
paddles.
Now as the foremost carriage passes in
front of the pidar a tap on the latter is opened
automatically and a stream of water at high
pressure is direoted on the paddles. Thab
drives the train on and by the time the last
oarriaoe has gone past the tap (whioh then
closet) the foremost one is in front of the
next tap, the water's action thus being con-
tinuous. The force developed le almost
incredible. There is some splashing on the
rails at the stare, bub this dlminiahea as the
train goes. To stop the train the smell
stream of water that feeds the elides to burned
off, and the latter coming in contact with the
rails, the resulting Motion stops the carriage
almost instantaneously.
A Look Ahead.
Mother—" Laura, you ought to make
that young man of yours go home earlier.
Mine Laura—"But we are engaged,
mamma and I don't see Why —"
Mother—" You will get him into habits
of staying out late that yon will be sorry
for tb some day, after the honeymoon is
over."
What He Was Crying For.
"Hans," said one German to another in
tbo streets of Frankfort, "whab are you
crying about ?" •'I am orying because the
great Rothschild is dead," was the reply.
And why should you cry about that ?'
was the further query. " Ho was no rela-
tion of yours, was he?' " No, was the an.
ewer, half smothered in sobs, "no relation
at all, and that'ejuot what I am crying for."
A Needful Statement.
Since that Bridgeport girl ruined her jam
with chewing gum the manufacturers of the
"society quid' have been forced to pub oub
the following statement: "Our gum does
not paralyze."
The value of the three amps of wheat
maize, and oats in tho United States in
1887 was $1,155,000,000.
It is oaloulated that for the Bummer trade
alone in England from 40,000,000 to 50,000.
C00 of oyators aro imported every year.
All men who have 'case and feeling aro
being continually helped ; they are taught
by every person they meet, and enriched by
everything that fella in their way. She
greatest le he who has been of *nest aided.
t.riginality to the 'observing eye; -[Ruskin.
Five hundred veterinary surgeons in
Great Britain have signed a paper condemn-
ing overhead check reins as painful to horses
and productive of disease, They say it
diotorte the windpipe, and le liable to cause
paralysis of the musalee of the face, apo.
plexy, coma and inflammation of the brain,
all these resulting in shortening the life of
the horse,
Our American °oueiut are very hard to
please, Criticise their institutions, and you
are a bigoted foreigner and an effete mon.
arohist. Conform to their customs, and ton
bo one they will make fun of you in the poi
lite manner. The New York "Tribune" is
aggrieved because an Englishman from In-
dia was preemie during tho 'Mooting of Judge
Terry In California, and evinced no surprise
ab the tragedy that was enacted before hie
very eyes. In fact the Englishman nab eat,
ing his breakfast at the table near, and
oalmlyfinished it without flinching. The
complaint made is that he 'Mould have lin
agined he was witnessing one of the oustomt
of the oou0try, and declined to proolalm
greenhorn b raiciu anyfu
himeelf a gra y g as,
The visitor deme nob really deserve any
abuse, for the deed, though an appalling one,
it no worse than scores to be read of daily in
American papers, whioh take plane in pre-
sumably organised diettiob', and porprebra-
to.0 aro never brought to justice. Nb
wonder the Engllohman oat i4 one. No
wonder our, solf.00neoloue Mende are 'die•
pl es d that he did,—Nx,
Ike tirecetoet Ifridge in the '1!'orld at the
Yrlth at Forth,
The bridge moron tho lerith of Forth at
Quoon'e Ferry, Scotland, now approaching
completion, is a work of such magnitude
and presents eo many polnte of novelty that
it hae attracted the atteutien of the whole
engineering world.
In 1804 a eurvoyor published designs for
a bridge aoroee the Porch all the same epob,
and with spans of the like magnitude,
That, however, was to be a auepenalon
bridge, with chains like the oable of a fifty.
ton yaohb, and the total weight of iron was
estimated at200 tons, as contrasted with
50,000 tons of oteel in the present ebruoburo.
While a bridge 1,700 feet in span wag
thus conceived of nearly a century ago, it
may oleo be said that the cantilever prin.
eiplo of *instruction oan be found in Egyp.
tian and Indian templee built before the in.
troduction of the arch. An eminent engln-
eor says that the cantilever was in all prob.
ability invented by some intelligent savage,
who, wanting to gab across a stream too
deep to ford and too wide to jump, utilized
the projeotiag branches of two opposite***
as cantilevers or brackets, and connected
them by a shore independent piece of timber,
and 00 formed a cantilever and central
girder structure.
The true principle of oonetruotion and the
nature of the sbreasoe may be illustrated in
a simple way. Two men who sit on ohaire
extend their arms, whioh they support by
grasping sticks butting against the ohaire.
This ropreeente the two double cantilevers,
The central girder is represented by a short
stiok slung from the arm of each man, and
the anchorage by ropes extending from the
other arms to two pike of bricks. When
stresses are brought on this system by a
load on the central girder the arms of the
men and the anchorage ropes come into
tension, and the nbioke and chair dogs into
°impression. In the Forbh bridge we mutt
imagine the chairs to be placed a third of 5
mile apart, the meet's heads to bo 360 feet
above the ground, the pull on the arm
10,000 tons, and the pressure on the lege of
the chairs on the ground 100,000 tons.
Ae regards aim and weight, no existing
bridge at all approaches the Forth bridge.
There are two ,pane, each 1,700 feet long ;
the width of the bridge at the piers is 120
feet; there is a clear headway for naviga•
tion ab high water of 150 feet ; the deepest
foundation below high water is 80 feet; the
highest part of the bridge above high water
is 760 feet, and the depth of water in the
°entre of the channel is 210 feet. With this
depth the bridge could never have been
built had it not been for an loland in the
middle of the Porth
Tho tram weight that will be pub upon
the bridge will be small compared with the
wind preooure needed to be overcome, and
to resist wind the lofty columna over the
piers are 120 feet apert at the base and 37
feet ab the top. As furnishing an idea of the
enormus force whioh the cantilevers are
capable of resisting it may be said that a
pull of 45,000 tone would be needed to tear
asunder the top bier. The greatest) pull
front passing trains can be only 2,000 tons.
The bridge is looked upon as a railway
neooeesity. Indeed, it will furnish the miss-
ing link in a great chain of communication
throughout the United Kingdom.
When we read of such retrnobures, and
know that trains reach a speed of sixty
mike an hoar, we oan nob but smile at
what the staid old "Quarterly Review"
Bald in 1825 : `' We trust that Parliament
will, in all railways ib may sanction, limit
the speed to eight or nine milee an hour,
which is as great as oan be ventured on
with oafety."
Notes for Women,
The Princess of Wales bas been very stern
end partioular in the education of her daugh-
ters. She has had good material to work
upon, as her girls were clever by nature.
The Princess hae taken great pride in their
a000mpliehtnents and feele tint her disci-
pline hae been extremely benefit:late The
Priam of Wales has sometimes pleadedwith
her to vain to give her daughters a holiday.
She has often answered that, as they were to
hold'high social positions, they had no time
to wa&0e while acquiring social graces.
An American lady was keeping house in
Japan. Every month the highly accomplish
ed Japanese butler brought in the bills made
out in Eaglieh and Japanese for audit and
payment. One day our countrywoman wee
startled by this charge: "To forty-four
yards black entrails." It was imposeible,
oho declared, not to bo thought of out of a
sausage factory. Bub the smiling butler re-
turned triumphant, the open dictionary in
hie hands, his deft forefinger pointing to the
(translation, "Enbraile, lining." Then she
remembered hor new blank ailk.
Queen Victoria wrote as follows of the
present Emperor of Germany in 1560, when
he was twenty months old :—" He is such a
little love. He Dame walking in with hie
nurse in a little white dress, with black
bows, ani was eo good. He is a fine fat
ahllr', with a beautiful whits, soft skin, very
fine shoulders and limbs, and a very dear
fano—like Vicky and Fritz an Louise of
Baden. He has Fritz's oyes and Vicky'a
mouth, and very fair curly hair, We felt
so happy to see him at last." All of whioh
proves that the Kaiser was a nice baby and
the Queen a good deal of a gusher.
In Iowa a married woman has every legal
right that hor husband has. She can make'
°entracte with him or any other person ;
eue or be eued; sue her husband; tranaao'
business in her own name and tight; receive
and recover oompeneation for her own sem
vices rendered outside of the family; hold
any public office bo which she may bo elect.
ed ; in fact, do all things hor husband may
awfully do, except vote. She has one
advantage of her husband. He is liable for
Tall her torte ; while ho may bo never es
ra0oally, she le nob liable, therefore, in
person or property.
Where nothing but a alight probootiou for
the shoulders le required are provided ltbtlo
Carrick canoe whioh have a handsomely
trimmed Dollar, with long bows and ends of
ribbon beneath, The collar is burned over
on moot opoolmens, bub the high Medial col-
ler appears on °there, and these aro °labor,
ately braided. Afawn•oolored oloth nape,
braided at the nook with gold, is lined with
Roman rod, with ribbon strings to match,
Summer Moth is much uood, and the edgoe
are not pinked er otherwiee ornamented,
POI very hob clays aro oapeo of embroidered
muslin, with long scarf ends of the oamo,
which are tied in a full how ander the chin,
These do nob have the treble oapes, bub a
single one, with an embroidered collar,
I had rather dwell in the dim fog of
onperatf:ion than in air rarifiod to nothing
by the air pump of unbelief.--[ttlohter,
Women who are the lease bashful are not
unfrequently the most modelle; and we are
never more deceived that when wo would
infer any laxity of principle from that free,
done of demeanor whioh often arises from
total ignorance.—[Colton,
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
Prince Albert Victor Going to India, --The
May briok Bxoitemont Subsiding.—The
Great Strike.
Prince Albert Vidor le going bo India on
a tiger -hunting expedition, As ib is hiefireb
cubing alone ho is acid to be vary enthuaiae-
tie and eager. fie le aloo very keen to try
hie hand on blg game and be emulate the ex-
ample of hie father, who proved himself a
nervy hunter and good shot in India years
ago, Thus far in his young career Alberti
Vie hor has never had an opportunity to bring
down anything larger than is stag. Prepar-
ations aro already being made to secure a
sufficient supply of big game, and the boob
bigot preserves aro to be left unmolested
until the arrival of the royal hunter.
Already a rather amusing circumstance
has arleen oub of Albert Motor's pr^poeod
expedition, Lady Rosy, wife cf the Govern.
or of one of the mo0timportonelndianprovin.
ceo, being la London, and hearing of his
youthful highness's prospootive visit to her
home, took time by the forelock and order.
ed a lob of cards at is fashionable stationer's,
engraved " to have the honor of meeting B.,
R. H. Prince Albert Victor," The stabioner
was °arolons enough, or foolish enough, to
pub one of these cards in his window. The
newspapers published the oircumetanee, and
now everybody is laughing at the Lady
Reay, and wondozing what she will do with
the garde if the Prince should give up his
visit or decline her invitatione.
The Maybriok excitement has subsided
entirely. The unhappy woman has been
removed from jail at Liverpool and talc.
en to Woking prison, where she was at
once admitted to the hospital. Her phy-
sicians say she cannot live long, and hor
friends believe that her invalid oondtbion
willsoon insure her linden.
The resources of British Columbia are
eoon to be made manifest to London oepital-
leto. Frederick Villiers, the war artist
of the Graphic, will join the Governor-
General of Canada on hie tour through the
British poesoselons in America.
The situation in regard to the strike has
become very serious, all bradoe are paralyzed
and prices of all necessaries from coal to
ooiiee have been foroedup, Covent Garden
and other largo markets aro almost empty,
Steamers Shed with fruit, flour and vege.
tables blook the Themoe. All the produce
is rotting In the holds. The supply in the
shops le very small and many reetauronts
find 10 impoaaiblo to feed their patrons. The
river from London to Graveeecd is orowded
with craft whioh cannot:be unloaded.
Sores of vessels have sailed away to other
ports in the nope of being able to upload
there, bub the at/Akers say that if the dook
companies hold out much longer the strike
will be extended to all the prinninsl eeaperte
in Great Britain.
Eyelids That Have Strange Power.
I saw two women jugglers at Jeppore
They wore bright, intelligent -looking girls,
one of whom appeared almost old enough to
be the mother of the other, says awell known
writer in the Now York Mail and Express,
They did many wonderful things, one of
which was mixing up sand in water, and
then putting the hand into the discoloured
fluid they brought a handful of sand whioh
they filtered through their fingers ae dry as
before it went in. The youngest of these girle
was perhaps 15. She had braoelete on arum
and on fort, and her eyes were as beautiful
as those of a gazelle. One of her tricks was
the lifting of a heavy their by the eyelids,
the thought of which almost makes my eyes
sore. The chair was a heavy mahogany one
whioh belonged to the room in which I was
staying. Sho tied two strong strings to the
top of this, and affixed the ends of these
strings to her eyes by 116610 round metal naps
each about the size of a nickle. These fitted
over the eyeballs and under the lido, and
she benb over while they wore so fastened.
Raiaing herself she pulled the ohair with
those etringo with the muscles of her eyeblde,
and carried 10 from one side of the room to
the other. Ib wee a horrible sight, andas she
took the metal oupe from her eyes they filled
with water, and she almost sank to the floor.
I told hor the trick was disgusting, and
that she ought never to try it again. Still,
for this and the rest of the show, theca girls
were well satisfied with two rupees, or
about 70 cants.
Trying to Scare The Smashers.
Hotel porters and baggage smashers on
railways and steamboats, will do well to
beware of trunks wibh loaded rovolvore in
them. As it is nob always poeeible to tell
whether the deadly revolver lurks in the
comparatively harmleea trunk or valise, the
handlers of baggage in future will find it
profitable to deal gently with passengers
dhotis, oleo they may share the fate of Bill
Kelly, the rough and ready porter of the
Hotel Lafyetto, Lake Minnetonka. With
hla usual activity, the other day he gave a
guest's trunk the grand piton. If came down
heavily, of course, bub alae for 13111, aloaded
revolver inside exploded, and the bullet
landed him dead In the hallway. A new
terror is now added to the energetic life of
the porter,—[Quebec Chronicle.
A New Industry,
The following is copied from the London
Poet of August 4:
" To Parente—Unruly girls and boys of
any age visited and punished at their homes
by a thorough disciplinarian, accustomed to
administer corporal punishment; all bad
habits cured by one or two attendances ; fee
5s. for two visite, Address' Birch,' Box 253,
Willing's Advertising Offices, 125 Strand,
W. 0.'
0 Logical Illustration,
A layman in I'rovidenoo who 000aeionally
exhorted at evening meetings thus recently
expressed his belief in the existence of Deity:
"Brethren, I em just as confident that there
la a Supreme Being as I am that there is flour
in New York, and that I know for oortain,
an I yesterday received from there a lot of
throe hundred barreiefroeb, superfine, which
I will sell ae low en any other person in
town."
Ho /fad Some Grounds.
Wibble—' Of all the nervy men I think
young Wagwoll takes the oak°,"
Wibble—"What's the matter with Wag-
well I"
Wibblo—" He proposed to a deaf and
dumb girl oome time ago, and now he is ening
for broaoh of promise on the ground that
'Aimee givesoonsonb."
The Binghamton Republican advlseo he
readers to so live that their tombstone won't
have to stand guard ever' their remain' with
a Ile on its face,