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THE S IRKBRI D GE MYSTERY.
CHAPPER IIT. d
hemseivaa and Lama, and onlye e lutor-
osition of a gentleman with whom they hed
ecomo acgualuted ae Mento Carlo, saved
e:. Ls too did nob stand long thlnking t
Maar. He advanced into tho room, close to p
'v"frn ftgarea, Ho had flower seen a pieturo ,
toper, They went too far. They beggared
aterears into artffielei prominence by 0[0x08
wf How placed boated ft ; but he had heard
elf t'aeax, ani he believed this was ono now
faders faint Ar he saw the figures more
'Ultimata he perceived that the woodenness h
--the rfekilty—aheranerising thorn, was due
to taro bob that they were indeed nothing ale
hetn from utter pecuniary disa°tor, He
Ione them money, advising them to =aboveour to retrieve their doaeea by further May,
They allowed tleomaelvsa to be guided by
fa advice, having oomplotoly summand to
the peetion whioh aomobimee in the notorious
uflding at Monte Carlo suddenly overtakes
rid overmasters vietime who before =teethes
were free from ite power, They lost again.
And when the gentleman—an Jtoglisbmen
of the name of Brotherton—aelcod in lieu of
payment of what they owed bim, the hand
of Teresa in marriage, possessing as they did
no other means of repaying him, they eaw
no way out of the difileulty but that his of-
fer should bo =meted, and that Teresa
ahould become Mrs. Brotherton of Tho Tow-
ers, Sarkbridoc,---shire.
When Teresa was informed of thole decis-
ion, the waft overwhelmed with grief, bat,
true to the tnannerof her rearing, she did nob
queeticn the right of her mother to dispose of
nor in merrlage. The family honor was
at stake, and she, proud of her noble blood,
could not willingly allow it to be smirohed.
Ib was her fate that she would marry this
ugly, middle-aged, prosaic Englishman, and
do her beat to terve the handsome Italian,
with his dark eyes glowing with lova'° jfire,
and his e deep voice vibrating with love's
tonderneom, and she moon resign herealf.
Nevertheless, her trouble was great ; and leer
lover, eating hew she Suffered, fele his own
suffering at tho prospect of losing her re-
deubped, refusing to aooept the doctrine of
resignation she preaohod to him.
cone alarming, more formidable, than re.
aweoeettationo on oanvoa, drawn and painted
by a :masterly hand, and at a diatanoa rc-
telerkebly lifo-like, butupon nearer Inspeo•
antes somewhat crude and unfifnehea.
'SAM moa lighb," he ahouted to the
aau moot "You need not be afraid. It is
eneke'ing but a piotura."
:Wary still could not bo persuaded to enter
fbeapartmene, but Mrs. Dciifi.ld brought
the lamp from Mr,Straughneosy'a bed -ahem -
toe, sad handed it To the doctor. By ite
light :ite picture could be plainly seen, even
oh u ' istauoe, to be bub a picture.
EY.eply interested, Dr. Lstctn examined it,
making an important dtsoovery. Beneath
oleo 'agora of the young man wee written,
neigh w'nitepeint, the date of the murder, and
tzlee rlame —An tonio S.roughness). He drew
term Drill lei a attention to tbie boob, asking
beret gheneuld deteoe any resemblance in the
alz,rk bandeome facie to that of old bur,
Stcaul;h.tea4y. She studied boo features at.
oenrvvely,then seta :
"The °yea are something like Mr. Straugh.
tames were, I think, air. .He had very
itmghe eyes ; they urod to look a1m;,st as
though they were on fire, sometimes, and—
greu, share is something like Mr. Straugb-
mhasey'a about it, Bub what does it all mean,
mar a"
"alt means I think, that Mr, Sbrauithnotey
vim air Brntherton's murderer, " rop:iod Dr.
Lefton. "Taongh why too truth ehould be
e °cage& fu thus etrnuge faehon is a riddle
ea0nnb guess."
`Bat Mr. Staughnessy mush have been a
riddbe aged mon vel en the murder teak
plane, and this than here is quite young,"
eta eclradMee. Drhffiald, who was a quick -
warted u woman,
e'b)lesipation, remorse, end the workings
elf a bad 0onoei30oe, sometimes age people
Lea a wonderfully ehorb time, maid the doctor.
'ffeawever, I had forgotten the murder wee
eternmated so recently—about twenty years
ages, waa it not? I wonder,' musingly, ''it ho
load a son who could have been the guilty
0 1 don's know, sir," said the housekeeper.
• "He aever epoke to me of one ; but, au 1 said
'before, ho never talked much about anything
bo hie 0ervante."
"'Law Brotherton'a likeness, so far as I re-
member hire, seems to be an extremely good
sae I wonder how thou was done."
"There's a portrait rf Mr. Bretherton in
-tbeammo, sir,' said Mre. D>tffield, "It's
bong in the blue room aver since be bad it
weltered. Mr, Seraughnessy might have
eappi:ed from that.'
....Lb, Fes, very likely," said Dr, Leton
taming away. "Well, 1 think one thing at
?bast appears clear : if Mr Straughnessy had
aznt intended committing tuloiie, lee would
mot have left the door of this room unlooked.
Bat whether or no he area need when he tock
the fatal dose, it mibht be herd to deter-
mine: '
Wet the irgaiab weld over the hotly of Mr.
'Seraug;tre e,,, lime further Wormed=
waa melted that might have aerved to in -
ft =me o denies eC as whether the deemed
Diad o :nmiaa:i au'eide, or whe'hor his death
ta t:r.n the mania of an seoidontel overt
warm. Neither wee anything more, likely
.•4a combs the q tee,ion :le to whether 9f.r.
hKn w almeesy tilt b.en hit, Beotherton'e
murderer, eliralosea ; .he picture, will its
efgaefioant date and (signature, however,
warming, to the minds of =me, to point un•
aaiatoltaawly to his guilt, The. fall flora el.
+tura seam wove never known in S:frkbridl;e,
Mee britfil, they were a: fe•;lovss
a llen the son
",Sr. Strauvhaams tit ,
Y was [e
ot Italian peasants. Ae a lad no wasroma:•!s•
ably bandeome, and his good looke abruok bhe
enemy of a wealthy Enguamean travelttng to
fi'tolg. He was brought to England by the
llagllshmau, and here sent to eohool. Dar -
erg the progress of hie education he gave
evldenceot artietio talents of such high order
as toinduoo hie patron to ohmage his original
tirteation of taking him anpege or valet, and
part within his =see, instead, the advantages
of an artistic training,
The Englishman did not live, however, to
ate whether his p'ote e would justify the
;lieges ho entertained of his winning a bigh
weettfon in the world of art, and dying
afritdl:eea, left a yearly income to the young
Tlelfen, on condition that he ehould change
Ita:tan patronymic to that of hia pltron
----Strauenneaey----a name the old man
fondly believed the lad would make famoae.
Alfer his patron's death, young Strangle.
axeeey--aa I will henceforth tall him—
proceeded to Rome, where he endied in the
euidio of a celebrated Italian painter. Erre,
at the ago of twenty, he met and loved a
hensetiful girl—a countrywoman of him
own, of the name of Teresa
waxen
a--
wttoeo portrait was being painted by the art
int ander whom he waa studying, and whom
Ise eaw in the :Audio. She returned his af-
dectfon with fervour, but, being the child of
aprotect, though not wealthy, family, the
katow the cafe of a unknown and oompara-
tiveiy poor artist would be rajeoted by her
mother and brother, and her meetings with
him were olandestlne---conduoted with
tine utmost mcreoy.
Upon the oonepletion of the portrait.
Teresa and leer family, consisting of the
mother and brother before mentioned, left
Ramie, on a visit to Monte Carlo. Strangh-
rteeay, loving with all the ardour of hie hot
southern nature, oomplately absorbed and
Married away by hie passion, could think ot
clothing but Teresa, He could not bend bis
mind to hie work, and finding his program;
act a etandetill, and ardently longing for an -
ether sight of his inamorata, he determined
00 follow her. A week after the forming of
this decleion found him at Monte Carlo,
There were several meetnge blbween the
levers, strengthening, if that had boon pee -
011710, their mutual lova, They wore happy,
living in the present, and thrusting from
'them all thought of the fature, whioh, under
etfmumatancea in which they worn
rimed, might have been predicted
as likely to bring trouble and parting
en them. They loved and were beloved,
and their mole ooneern waa how to plan
aerate that ehould be free from the danger
of.di000very. They lived in a blissful dream,
bat like all dreams, It could not lash, and
dhobrs was aeon rudely broken in upon.
aWnile the heart of beautiful Teresa had
boon Shod with the paaaion of lovo, those of
Ater mother and brother had been filled with
rite passion for play. Night alter night
Shay sat late at the orowded gambling.
frsbdee,eagerly watching their look. Artie
artten the teat, they worn nob wise eeeagh
Stti
know when to seep, and after winning
v onaidarabiy they played on In tho hope of
increasing their gain;, their blood burniug
)°faith the wild gambling fever, Fortune turn.
4 ngeblotthent. Their levees grow deeper and
y.ran bio P Aisne, accompanied, by Mr.
Brotherton, left Monte Carlo for Ragland,
Swaughuesay foliotved ihem, and in London
even whale the bridalsobee sacro in prooess
of preparation, found =onion to set and
speak with Toren alone, A ocnpie of
days before thee fixed for the wedding, they
met, and inn wild burst of grief, forgetting
her lesson of resignation, Teresa confessed
how full of loathing was her heart at the
thought of her marriage, how life with Mr.
Brod er on seemed to offer her nothing but
a dull wretchadnees, and how her mind was
torn with grief ab the thought ot parting
with Straughncasy. It was nob a wise ton•
foaaion, though one natural to the impulsive
lovr..siok girl, and dire were the ooneo-
queneeethab ensued.
Straughnaosy had learnb from Teresa the
name and residonoo of Mr. Brotherton, and
with some bub half•formed purpose in view
of seeking an interview with him to beg
and implore him to release Torose,
even at the last moment, front her
engagement, withoub allowing the family
honor to duffer ; of offering, himself,
to pay by degrees, oven if ib should cost hum
all ho poseeseed, she tum for which 'Tereaa'a
relatives were indebted tohim, he proceeded
to Sbirkbrldge. Early on the morning prated.
ing that fixed for the wedding, waadorcng
in Stirkbridge Wood ha aaoounterodhim,
recognising him from a portrait Teresa had
shown him, Be made a passionate appeal
to him imploring him to an Teresa free. As
might have been expected by anyone aa-
quaineed with the owner of The Towers, his
unsophisticated plesclumo mot with a oynl•
cel, half -amused, half contemptuous refund.
Straughnesay'a tamper rose. His entreaties
where ohanged to ouraee, and, in a mad fit
of anger, as his rival turned to leave him,
ho drew a. knife ho was in the habit of
=review, and frilafad the murderous blow. finding them very palatable, resolved to cording to Dr. Wollaston, by looldug along
Immediately afterwards he lab Stork' I bake a elip of dee tree home with him and the 0150 of a red hot poker at an object leu or
bridge, iul t tot= home miles die i I t -t M d H therefore broke
to be e&'eated by the workmen for the
Itgbting up of the pioture, and feared that
with the women in the house he would dud
it a diffieult matter to remove so large a
oanveo without their koowiodge; ono of
1.5001 might leave come upon him in the act,
rooegafeed Air, Brothet•usn's features, and
disoovored, er onspooted, hfa aeorat before
Ito was willing it ehould be dbeolot ori
[Tun set,)
w00 .-..a+-•--.
"In the Sand -Box,"
A long while ago there lived in the ally of
New York a man who doctored heraea, tune
and dries, Lealas then lauded poodles and
Ring Catarina epantels, and the man's euoe
news in coring those pampered pets brauel t
him many embienm and much gain. In
those days large donee of tncrliciue wore
given to man and beast, for aoaraely any
thing wao known of aha remedial power of
nature, This onoceeeinl praotialoner, how-
ever, did nab deed Maobath'a advice to
"throw physio to the dogs•" On the =-
teary he gave tho doge nothing—no modi-
eine, no food, uo water—for hie panacea was
starvation.
"Put bin. in the nand -boa," was bis only
order to his =tool -all work, when a lady,
having loft a stele dog in the dootot'a ono,
had departed. In the nand -box uho dog re-
mained, until 00 eonid eat a cruet of bread,
T.hen ib was not home, a well dog. The
dootor's theory was a simple ane. Aar the
dog had been overfed, dieting would ouzo
+
the disease.
After the dog doctor had departed, hie
seer= became known, and children woe re-
fund to cat what was sob before them were
told, "Ah 1 you ought to be pub into tho
sand -box;' for in those days when tarpota
were costly. every family kept a large box
of white sand to sprinkle on tho doom of
aha living -room and the kitchen,
The dog dcater may have read the old
story which tells how that muah.matrieci and
moat "n osrrio" King Henry VIII. cured the
Abbot of Reading of a weak stomach. One
day the king, while outhunting, loan his way
and found bimetal outside of the Abbot of
Reading'a house. It was dinnertime, a
sirloin was on the table, and the Abbot,
taking the king for ono of the R lyal Guard,
pressed him to dins, The king laid on to
the roast beef with auob vigor, that the
Abbot, who had timely nibbled at it, exelaim-
ed:
"Well fare thy bearb, for hero in a cup
of sank I remember thy master. I would
give a hundred pounds on condition that I
could feed ea luetily on beef as you do.
Alas 1 my weak and aqueaey atomaoh wilt
hardly digest the wing of a email chicken."
The king departed, and aoveral moles
afterward the Abbot was committed to the
Tower and fad on bread and weber, Ab the
climax *HAS emptiness, a sirloin of beef
was ecu before him. The Abbob rivalled the
king's performance, Jest as he was wiping
hie mouth, sub jamped Henry VIII. from a
closet.
" My lord," he exclaimed, "deposit your
hundred pounds, or else no going hence alt
the days of your life. I have been your
physician to cure you of your egneasy
stomach, and I demand my foe,"
The Abbout returned to Reading lighter
in heart and puree.
A Story Abottt Wine.
In the days of old, before the grape vine
was cultivated as it be the preaena time,
a man was ono day walking in the =entry
and found growing wild by the roadside a
large grape vino plentifully covered vetch
SCIENCE .&ND PROGRESS,
VALUABLE. 1<NOWLEDGE PRESENTED
I iN.BRIEFAND POPULAR FORM.
An Explanallon oC Curious optimal 111n -
sloes Observed by Travelers 110 ado Item -
art and nt Nen—The Weirs Like Phe-
nomenon oC the Tata tllorgana.
A " mirage" is vagaoly undervtood by many
people to be an optleal Illusion bv which in-
verted iutagos of :latent objects are seen as
if below the ground or fu the atmosphere;
but perhapsnot a few aro ignorant of the
causes of this remarkable phenomenon. 'Ilia
mirage ocem•s most frequently in hot cli-
mates, where sandy plains bout ofton the
aspect of a tlauquil lake, on wbieh are re-
flected trees and sunrouuding village,
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TEM OPTICAL ILLUSION CALLF,D t nem
Mirage is, as scientists explain 1t, rh phe-
nomenon of refraction, which results from
the unequal density of different layers of air
w•henexpanded by contact with heated soli.
Tho least dense layers are then the lowest,
and a ray of light from an elevated ob-
ject, A (see out), traverses layers which era
gradually less refracting and become morn
and more beat, from ono lay -or to anothet',
until the angle of incidence reaches tho limit
at which internal reflection succeeds to re-
fraction. Tho nay then rises at 0, as seen fn
the figure, and undergoes a write of refrac-
tions in a direction contrary to the first, for
now ft passes tlirongh laymre that
dually store and More dense. The ray then
reaches the eye with the stone direction as if
it came from a point below ground, and pro-
duces an inverted image, just as if it had
been reflected at the point 0 from a tranquil
lake.
Mminersfrequently see images of shores
or of distant vessels. This is due to too same
cause as mirage, though in a contrary direc-
tion, and only occurs whon the tamparatto
of the ail' is above that of chosen, for then
the lower Layers of the atmosphere are
denser, owing to their contact with the sur-
face of the water.
The images of distant objects which aro
visible to us in consequence of an unusual at-
mospheric refraction and reflection in the
air, may, when the density of the various
layers changes irregularly, appear not only
distorted, but even in continual motion. The
best example of this is what ]mown as the
Tata morgans, which are often seen at Na-
ples, Reggio meddle coasts of Sicily. Thera
is suddenly seen in the air at a great distance
ruins, column, palaces, castles, etc., in short
a multitude of objects whose appearance is
continually changing.
This fairy-like phenomenon depends on the
fact that objects become visible which are
not so in the ordinmy condition of the air,
and which appear to bo brokou, distorted and
continually moving, because the unequally
dense layers of air me in a constant state of
motion.
The twinkling of fixed stars is also ex -
lain= by the principle of refraction
fruit. He tested a few of the grapia, and P The effect of [mirage may bo illustrated, ac- '
Told et Jefferson Davi*.
Mr. William Flynn, of dale city, relates
the following in reference to Jefferson Davis
and ex -Senator Junes, of Iowa, They wore
intimate facade from their college cloyed
t
end although afterwards located miles opera
they wort °laeo frieude. 5151, Jones and
hit•, Da1'is wash] always bo footed tegothof .
as =on as one know the other was many. Go
one occasion, In the fifties, Mr. Jones, eo
welling on Air. Davis, after the greeting
bluntly said: "Davis, I want $10,000. i
have bought some land and wish to Make e I
payntont. '
You can have ib," said Mr. Davis, tat'
big a blank oboque from Itis po okotbook and
&ilial it up.
Tins action tools Mr. Jones by surprise,
as ho supposed that Mr. Davis would intone
mond him to some banker, but be at erica
filled up a note in flavor of Mr. Davis, paw
able on demand, whioh he handed to ti.
Davie, and in turn received tho cheque.
Mr. Davis gleamed at it a moment and said.
"Mr. Jones, aonlothing may happen and
this note slake you trouble." Ab the soon(
time Mr, Davis tore the note into small
pieces, and added : "If your venture turns
out moll, you can pay 10; but don't ier it
trouble you. You can pay 11 when you gal
ready, but don't let it trouble you."—Wash
ington Post.
0000007 In Rattlesnake 011,
Thorn are places in South Georgia where
sten extract oil from the rattlesnake and
u0o it to cure rheumatism. Those person
will give a negro $1 to point out a rattle
snake to them, and then they kill it in a
peculiar manner. They place a forked
stork saver the snake's head, then put a cord
around it and strangle the snalco. This ft
done to keep the snake front biting itself
The body of the re filo is then strong up and
the oil extracted from ft. It sells at $':11101
ounce, and this 'wintry is very protitabh
one. The snakes in that section are very
large, averaging five fent in length, and one
rattler gives up a great deal of oil. A littii
negro once saw two rattlers lying °lost
together and wanted to got the money fm
funding them. It was a mile to the nearest
house. He was afraid the snakes would
crawl off while he was gone, enc] so he tool
off his coat and placed it between the
snakes. IIe went off, and camo back and
found them still eyeing the coat. Ile had
them ahartnmd. 5o the snake is cultivated
down there as a profitable industry.—At
lents (G.) Banner.
bade $40,000 from Nilo.
If all the reports be true, ono of the lneki•
est betting mon on the turf during the last
season was Jim Christy, a St. Louis sporting
man who is well known to race -track heti•
twee in this city, he having several years
ago owned Bonanza, a horse the bald face of ,
which was as well known hero as is that of
old Freeland himself. Last spring Jiro
found himself in Chicago at the West -side
meeting with a single twenty-alollar bill. It
was all. he 110(1, and he gave it to a book.
maker. His groat run of luck which began
there, and not mud until the "melon season
ended. Christy won 88,000 in Chicago o6
the $30, then went to Saratoga, where ha
cleaned un ?20,000 on the good things
offered tha public. At Sheepshead Day ha
knocked the bookmakers silly again, and
when the fall meeting at Westchester closoa
Christy had $40,000 in cash. Joe Lucsu
met him in New York about the close of the '
meeting and could soarcely believe in
Chtisty's luck. In speaking on the eubjeel i
reoeutly, Mr. Ludas said: "Ito nom every
cent of $40,000, and all off $20. Lovell and
the other bookmakers in Now York oorro•
borated what I heard about Christy's' big
winnings. '— Meant Tema
0 ll GE
ARC/VIERl) BRIA ,
TWO Tarawa el Rebel lri11 lbelp Adiste1 �
dunk People Oa the Canal,
A short tfmo ago w° deooribed a bridge
to be built on the Isle of Alar, where, on
tacentlnb of the lay of the lams, le wee impos•
siblo to build tho ordinary long Laud grafin•
sally meow ing approach to ono tower. To
event:me the ib11iiulty the tower of Ilehel
idea was adopted.
There fe 0 curfoua adaptation of 111a same
idoa, under different ebr:umstar a s0, proposed
at Amaterdam. lids city flea 1n the form
of a half thole on ono side of the North Sea
Carel. The people have otjeeted to cross-
ing the °anal shore, on a000unt of the do)ayo
in ferry travel, They talked about the
buiidine et a bridge for a time, but the ship•
ping using the canal objected, oapoofally as
the land on =oh aide of the °analb was very
low, N bridge lying low down, would be an
In:olorablo nuisance 0o chipping because it
would hrva bo be swung every timo a tug
tame along, Ib would bo of little benefie to
land trail.) also, because of the delays Mold.
cub to au open draw.
11 was reserved for ale. Gerard W. Subim.
1n1d to devise an uoueptable plan. It inoludos
two oiraular stone and steel towers, with a
roadway abiding abent it until a auffislenb
height, is reached. Tale roadway Mae a dam
walk 8 feet wide, a mugon roa,l 10 'eat 81nah-
ea, and a tramcar roadbed 10 feat 3 inches
wide. The tram oaro run in next to the bower,
and the aidewalk is outoido of a11. Conneob-
ing the two teams is a common steel siring
bridge, teatime on a atone tower. The opening
for beats le 01 feet wide and the ewien bridge
is 48 feet 0 betas above the water. Winding
once about the tower, which is 14:3 bob iu
diameter, given a rias of 13 feet 0 inehea.
The tome are provided with elevators
for those who do not with to walk up. There
is a waiting room in each far pasooagers who
aro delayed. when a big ship comes tn. It fa
proposed aloe to Mttfhn the epee in the
towers for atoras of various kinds,
A l,:ttle School Girl on Oa00150.
" Real 00nru;00' in something whioh few
pos0eoa, and eomotmos people who are ea a
rule termed "courage:ma' are 1113 very ones
a'ho ab a time when this trait oan be
exhibited fall into the background and allow
acme other parson, who has never been
remarkable for any great deed of bravery,
to step into hie place and show to the world
that they are the ones who.really poasoea
wheelie termed "real courage."
Courage does not always mean the per-
formance of some great deed aneh as risking
one's life to save another or dietingutehing
ono', self on the battle field.
To =bees a fault, ro atand up for bho
right often palls forth more courage than
the defoliant one's eel/ or friends from darn
ger. Man who at the moment of peril are
brave enough to defend them:miens or their
Ilit 1, once ere certainly "oourageous men,"
' f n
11I
r ge, wa ng 3 a ow -,pan tin Ma gar em, a oro oro ire a twelve ladies away. At a distance of loss C '
tante and from thence he went by train to l off a healthy young shoot and proceeded on than three-eighths of an inch from the line of
tendon, en route to Paria. Hie relations ,hia journey. & thought struck him that it the pourer an inverted imago will be seen, and
with Teresa had been a secret between the I would a'e a very good elan to keep the slip within and without that an erect (mega
lovers themselves ; he had nob beeu taloa•, molal, and seeing the leg of a bird lying
on
Tally remarked ky anyone in Stirkbridge, I the ground he pieked it op, and Gutting open .s Curious Shower tat South Carolina.
and no suspicion that be was un any way the fleshy parb of tt, plaood the end of the R. J. Bayd, of Rardeevill, S.C., is in the
oenure:ed with the murder was entertained eapling in le and oontinued his journey. Ho city. He says that a most wonderful pile.by o. y cava Toreea herself, and she roveeled had nob gone far when he found the loot of . some
nothing C7nsccluently he escaped without a lien and to keep the sapling still moist he
non was seen at his home last Sunday,
h i d s P l t th 1' d l d'
pursuit, roan a remained n arse, nano es • out a Hobs fool open an placed the tap From noon to sundown, with a gentle wind
ed, for several years., ling, together with the bird's leg, haslet, 1t blowing from the south west and a perfectly
He Kay. lent what he most valued, his and again resumed hiajsurnoy. On hia way clear sky, a sower of shite balls idled the
air fTeresa—for plow could he, a murderer, ever further he found part of the leg of a donkey
and or ooverayd a space y00as'cloffro m ground the oter17ten
again dare to approach her?—and urged on and Likewise matting that open, he p.aood
by various emotions—fears of pursuit, and the sapling, bird's leg and lion a foot ineido miles equate with a gentle allow= of a
capture, and the hangman aro e, alternatingthe donkey's leg, and later on having iv- white, fleecy substance as fine as Wille, and
with =mono for tha im
terrible rope,
and biart
ed safely home, planted the lot jest aa it which is very strong when twisted. Mr.
for its
ter remote for hie separation from Teresa— was, in the ground, and left ft to grow, Iu thera,15and hnsunablene toao weal auythingplike nib
no plueged into a Damao of reckless dissipa- (mune of tins the yonug tree grew into a before.—Savannah
rink ending in a Iong and dangerous illness. large one
and bore fruit in
abundance, from x ewe.
ecovering, he again continued in his which the man made somo wine. Thus ;
vicious occcer, endeavouring to drown his lb is than when a man has taken a email 1
misery in drink and folly, and again was quantity of wine he begins to "oiag like a'
token ill. From the latter Mona he rose a bird, and having drunk mare, becomes
with wrinkled `ace and grey hair, his "aa fierce as a lion," continuing so until by
appemra~soe that of an old man. awellowing 01911 marc he becomes "aa stupid .
lis would have again nought to deaden as an waa'
feeling in diosipatioe, but tor somathing
that happened during his convaleecenca. Cost of the Paris Exposition.
While he slept one night, he had e. curfoua Man strap ora have been speculating on
dream. He thought the detectives were on
they bile can of the Parte Exposition, It amounts
his track, that down a long white road they to $7 000,000; but when to bleb is added the
were pursuing him. He was footsore and carious amounts expended bythe French
weary, and, exert himself as hi might, they p
were gaining, en him. Dcepeready he Ministerial Department from into funds
straggled on, but id vain, they were close plated at [hour ditpoaal for the purpose of
and for o
onterteiuing foreign
upon nim. A few yards further pursuit and peen and other
the would have secured him,
had netlIincidental outlays, and those by foreign
y e
intervention come in the parson of his lost Government and individual cxizibitors, th
love, Teresa, By some mysterious power total, according to a rough estimate of bhe
she canoed his pursuers to aria on, loavin Department of Public Werke, cannot fall fat
P p , gl
nhorb of 830,000,000. The expense of the
him unharmed, and after they had gone she'
talked with him. She urged him to oonfeaa glittering rxhibltion on the Champ do Mats
his crime and die, and something in her
words suggested the idea that ha ehould nee
the high artistic talents he had never
properly developed, in the oonfeaaion—that
it ehould be in the shape of a picture
representing the cemmibtal of the deed.
The idea germinated in his brain. Ile
in money waa imp, and so was its 0001 leu
life and limb. 11 ie =doubted that during
tho menstruation 6 530 men wore treated for
i1 j arses or from illness reaultlog from expna-
ore ; 300 workmen herb their lege, 203
reeeivedoovere iojurie%to their eyes from
projaoting timbers or bars of iron ; 114 wore
waa ae I have amtd, ver au e010. tae• soaldod or severely burned, and filly had'
i y p . their &°gets cut off. The death f,om fall,
he had imbibed from his mother all the are put down at the modest figure of twenty
superstitions current among the Italian four ; but ib is believed that they were far'
pea:entry, and his aubsequenb education had more nutnerouta—Soientlfie Amerman.
not destroyed hie belief in them, and it
seemed to him hie dream Was an omen, a
warning, and that if he disobeyed its What Boit of Repentance.
ir.jenation, it would be his fate to bo Judge Corwin's famous temperance ad•
handed ever to the hands of juatioe to dross recalls an inoitlenb whioh occurred
during ono of Francis Murphy's blue•rlbbon
addresaos. A drunken man oat in the audi•
ono and liebehed with owiiah graviby to the
remarks, Murphy was telling of a fearful
oconrrence alleged to have happened in a The days on the moon are a fortnight
dhtaabannb State—whore =oh things always long. Wonder what hours the labor aglta-
And my frf°ndea' said he, " this poor tors there consider a day's work.
wretch wall no filled and maturated with alto• The increased building power of Cement,
hol, and one night when he tried to blow due to the addition of sugar, fa said to be
out a oandle the fl antes set the alcohol fumes . due more to mechanical than to chemical
afire and the miserable sob was burned alfvo.s, mune. Sugar retards rather than acoelo•
rates the sauna of uho cam,"
suffer the penalty of death by hanging.
His horror at the thought of ending hie life
thus was great, bub he was tree wreathed to
caro to live long could he quietly and
painlessly end his exiobonoe, and the debcrm•
fined that the Length of time he abould tato
to paint the picture should be hie lase on
earth. It seemed a kind o1 poetical juatioe
that hie ambient Elite should be thus brought
into requisition for a purpose whioh, if 11 did
not lead to his leges punishment, would at
best serve to biteken hie name for aver.
How he carried oub hie supernbitious, half,
mad idea -«.living aeoludod in the very hoarse
whioh for aborti periods hie violin bad inhab•
iced, emerging from the grenade only when
vioiting the scone of the murder in order bo
obtain a oorroob reproaontetioa of the spot,
or when leaving for 73arrioheoter, where he
bought hie brushes, mud every quarter net
hie lawyer on buoineoa, hie fnoomo beteg re.
waived quarterly --has boon told. The roar
son why he dismisoad hie aervah0e for a fort, " I eel tardy alhuvoar,' Fiala the inebriate,. younger ones aro apt to develop pulhm allE�
night, was that he wished to remove the tell. " that nov 1r, oho long's I live, will I Ma i oousnmpluta{ third, if iha offspring of vlty
tate picture front its - rooting pane in the will Y over butyletib Anobhor oAnd[o, (Wash« younger horn under eonditlone named oleo ,
on ver oe a uhodisoase, tfioir children d3� ppt i
lir. Coo1r's Phenomenal 'Beard.
The beard of Henry S. Cook, a tailor, of
Norwich, Conn., fa as long as he is Mr.
Cook is a small man, 60 years old, Els
beard is jot black and fine and silky, and
so is hie hair. When he in erect and hie
beard unfurled, he can step o11 six inches of
it. Ho wears a °rdfnatily coiled in a wad
inside his vest, Barnum wanted Mr. Cook
to travel with his circus, but Cook is pros.
perous and does not care to be a Leek.--
Pittsburg
roek.—
Pittsburg Despatch.
inlians `neo Buy Costly Conine.
Mr. C. W. Young, ono of the principal
merchants of Juneau, Alaska, is 1n the city. I
Among other goods, ho has ordered a soon'
or to of coffins, assorted eine, and of the
most expensive description, Ho says till
Indians in that section can have nothing too
rich and elegant in the coffin Pule. The
finest plush for covering and silver handles
and etude dunk bespangled over the coffin
is what they want and will have if they put
uptheir last dollar. Mr. Findley, of the
Csket Company, nays the Oregon Indians
have the seine ideas in regard to coffins,
and some of the most costly he has go to
Klamath and up to the Umatilla reservation.
—Portland Oreaonl>*•
Some wag has called a dinner table a
table of contents, and a gambling table a
table of dla.aailtonts.
If you love others they will love you.
We aro cross-grained enough to bo proof
against pure good will.
A Garman thinks the Americans consume
more tobacco, and blow up more abcamboats
than any other Ilva nations.
Musical Rote—Because a man pursues the
even. tenor of his way docs not always prove
that he is not of the bass kind.
The drunken malt arose to his feet and A, Curious TiheeY;i
bulkily demanded—
" r> The following novol
Ieh diaoeho 1
"It fa moat aaautodly so, air."
"Gob er—hit—gob or book 1"
Yee, right down here In froth."
The horrible example walked uno°rtainly
down in front, The audience was on tiptoes
of explotaney, hero woo another brand
duakea from bho burning
l statements In regard
to pulmonary consumption are attributed to
Dr. P. Ii. Ktetesohnlar, of Brooklyn. First,
if there aro many children in a family, those
born after the sixth or after the seventh aro
apt to develop pulmonary consumption ; sea
end, ff the children in a large family are
born at short intervals, say ono year, the
looked chamber, pending uzrahgelnontoingt Ln thetawassitleita -
PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
Light In the SIr0 Room—health Statistic,
ot'Two Great Cities,
The sick room in private houses is goneral-
ly kept darkened, in spite of Much sanitary
teaching to the contrary. Commenting on
this practc°, Dr. 13. 10'. Richardson says:
Not ono time in ten, do eve enter a able room
in 150 dayllme, t0 find it blessed with the
light et the sou, Almost iuvm'tably, before
are can get a look at the face of the patient we
me obliged to request that the blinds may be
ch•awm up, in order that the prays of a much
greater healer than the most able physician
can over hope to be may be, admitted. Too
often the compliance with this request re-
veals a condition of the room which, in a
state of darkness, is almost inovitably one of
disorder everywhere; foods, medicines, tur-
altm•e, bedding misplaced; dust and stray
leavings it all directions.
In
brief, there is nothing so bad as a dark
sicln'oom; it is as if the attendants were an-
ticipating the death of tilt patient; mad, if
the reason for it be asked, the answer is as
inconsistent as the act. The reason usually
cap eredr%s that the patient cannot bear the
light, as though the light could not be cut off
from the patient by a curtain or screen, and
as though to darken one part of the. room it
were necessary to dasimon the whole of it.
A more injurious practice really could not
be maintained than that of darkness in the
eioln•oom. It is not only that dirt and dis-
order are results of darkness, a great remedy
is lest, Sunlight is the remedy lost, and the
loss islnomontene, Sunlight diffused through
a room, warms and clarifies aha air. Ithas a
direct intluenee on the minute organic poi-
sons, a distinctive influence which la most
precious, and it bas a cheerful erect upon
the mind. The sick should never be gloomy,
and in the presence of the light the shadows
of gloom fly away.
Smell. Points,
A servant once preached a whole sermon
on etiquette for a housekeeper in ono sen-
tence. "flow can Mrs, —expect her ser-
vants to treat her politely," said she, "whon
she is so disrespectful to [ham?" Respect
cannot exist on one side only. It must be
given if 11 is exacted.
It is proper toleave cards at the house dim-
ing the wedding reception if you can do so.
Ii not, send them on the wedding day or 50..
Mediately aftsr•
Parents themselves must observe good table
manners, or they cannot expect them of their
children. And a certain Length of time
i ehould bo devoted to each meal—ab least
twenty minutes be breakfast and lunch or
tea, and thirty to dinner. Tho rapidly eat-
ing child, learning that it cannot leave the
table before the end of the allotted t31ne, will
slow up,
It is -a cold, clammy thing to say, but those
peoplewho treab fiiondship the saute as any
other selfishness get moat out of it.
There aro 10,400 striker* in the mine 11
Charleroi, near Brussels.
Diphtheria and toarlet fever are tarrying
off many victims in South Dakota towns.
If hypoorfsy is the tribute paid by vireo to
virtue, what taxes sono people are *addled
with.
"(ctave Thanes" (Mita French, of Devon,
porst Ia.) wrote ler twenty year* without
epochal reeogn[biou.
and those who have willingly given their
liven for the sake of their country or have
milled their own to nave another ars men
ba be proud of and leen whom we gladly
call 'ahe•oea."
Courage isnot only aeon Inhuman beings,
for aamatfm30 animals hevo ovineed wonder-
ful evidences of Wu trait,
We have all read of dogs whioh have rushed
into burning houses to recess a child tbab
in the hurry and excitement had boon for-
gotten. =staved men from drowning when
the efforts of others have been in vain. e
Surely this may be called "uourago," for
whet other name ciao we give it?
Then again more children have abown
greab oouroge os many eooartens,
Tao chiid who is nub afraid of the dark,
and who bravely asserts that he ie nob afraid
of burglars, or tire, or wild bo. ass, is looked
say 10 and artmirod by his more timid tom.
peniors,buttheso ero;noe the ones of whom we
ep iau, for i7 le generally bheaa "brava boys'
whit ora nowhere bo be found when the
day g coma, and it is often u child, who is
generally Dulled "timid" and "onward,'
who bon the angry bull while the others fly
for their uvea, or who fiehta bravely with
the 6 noes of a bathing building while the
others nand white and trembling looking
on helplessly ab the "timil boy," who atter
all proven that ho is no "coward," bub who
la, as they afterwards proclaim him, "A
Regular Herm" Bene,
The Muzzle a Good Thing.
Tao Loodou law forbidding the doge of
the worin'a metropolfe to walk abroad with-
out n muse's W50 oh) idled to by admirers of
the deg as nem: anly gruel and roproseive,
Violations of the law are every day being
vioitotl wit'[ heavy finds, so the nuzzling
regulation was evidently not nleanb to relax
an noon as the hot weather was over. Bat
while the owners of doge tonsure, and the
animals themselves look unhappy under the
yoke of oppeetsion, the healbh etabisbles ar-
rive toexplain the reasonableneae of the law.
Deaths from hydrophobia in Eogland laeb
year °•ere fewer than in any year elate 1868,
the chief contra of the disease, however,
continuing, as heretofore, to be London. In
twenty years Landon had 121 deaths from
hydrophobia, and the number dropped from
20 in 1887 to 14 in 1888. Now, when some
benefactor dealt= to diminish slooplesanees
and nervous exhaustion lab him propose for
nate at night a remedy oorraoponding bo the
dog mnsale.. r.,o,.a6;ut b,;1."ta:
;The Deadly Cold Bad.
If bruabworthy abati06fos could be had of
the number of persons who die every year,
or become permanently diseased from soap.
ing in clamp cold beds, they would probably
be astonisihing and appalling, or Gond
Houetlaeeping. It le a peril that constantly
besets travelling mon, and if they are wise
they will invariably insist on having their
beds aired and dried, even at the risk of
causing much trouble to their landlords,
But the peril resides in the home, and the
cold "spare room" baa slain its thonnaado
of haplcea gouda, and will go on with the
slaughter till people learn wisdom, Nat only
the guest, but the family often suffer tho
penalty of slcSpiog iu cold looms and chill -
leg their bodies tat a time when they need
all their bodily haat, by getting between
cold abeete. liven in warm Bummer weevher
a cold, damp bed will get in be deadly
work. Ibis a needless petit, and theoegleob
to provide dry rooms rind bods has in 11 the
amnia of murder and enfolds,
Eurthor Perttoularo l!Teeded.
"How about the hip pocket y inquired bho
tailor.
" I want it large enough for a pocket pie.
bol," Said the austomar,
"Yes, sir ; K.enlnoky, sir, or Maine 1"
Oagbt To 13e More awful Of 1foraeif,
Mrn Jawkine (ironloallyj—(hood morning,
Bridget; you see I am up ahead of you and
have the fire made 1
iBridget—Sure, mum, it do bo a groat pity
that yes eon b be to oarefu100 Y urcai[tasOl
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