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Coo v r :tor of 18110 I. was of 0xo"pthnal
emote; v.w f -b iu alit: Moon. It touud ono
acoopy.n; t`zc pooittoc of ourgoou to u luno•
boring o•rapony, and I WAS ebattonoct at) a 1
Small seri. i •"t 1,dto J3urun rnldwey int-
twoen:t , .,- w mad Tinnier 13310, Oa ono
ar silo of 113107 hamlet there won no tot1le•
meut morrow thou thirty miles away, white
at iia too ,t a primftivo foresb of pine, intuit
anti not 3 ,rt: kook:hod wentward nearly to
Laths Mwnigan
A s"tg3o t,ighway following bheainuosltirs
of the mat eunocted our aabtlemenb with
the meow world, but this road was praotioally
lmpaoeabla in winter, In rho soma of
whioh I write navigation olosed the aeooed
weok in November, a month earlier than
common. Phcuomoual snow -dorms follow•
ed, and by Ottrisbmao.timo the ground wao
hidden nyrnow neorly four feet deop.
The region woo hoalbhlul-loggers are
noboriourly hardy and robust mon-and my
dutico emu tioontly wore nob anorono or
oxaooing, but, t had not anticipated so severe ,
a uottoun, and at) had nob trade adequato
provioion for the anu00menb of my 3430 ;
moments, Deprived of books, shooting;
rendered imposoibfe by the depth of the;
snow had by the inroads of wolves that drove ,
the game to the fasbnooesa of the interior i
forest?, time soon hung heavily with me and
my sSeooaut'ca, and any tnoidonb that prom -
deed to tailors tho monotony of our Iif0 was
woloomod,
Ono morning about two months after our
"shutting in' a ffahormou, familiarly known
as "'rho C+nnmodore," entered the com-
pany's mvamng•room, and offered for sale
a magnli out upeoimon of the Maoklnao cal•
mon, or Great Amothyetiue trout-tho No.
no-go nos of the Ott:hipwea, whonco eoien•
tisk derive the epeoiflo title of namayoush,
Balmo namaycuob,
How lint, nuhte fish mould .lave been obtain-
ed woe sontetbing of a puzzle to me, oiaae
Lake Huron w.ts art z rp from uhora to photo,
and this groat trout brought in by the fi&her-
man could only have oomo from the deep
waters of mid !aka.
Inquiry rovealod the fad that the fish had
been .'snatched," or caught through the los
with a "onatoh," A "nnatoh" ie -wail,
dmaghie sixty or soveaty fathoms of aorto,
"alotheo-Itn,e" of nearly the dlamoror of
one's little finger toggled to tho ringed end
of a huge hook of home manulaotura, the
hook's ohank ombraced by a opindfe ohoped
load of three or four pounds' welghb. 13,hoid
"snatch 1'
The four resident reprosontativoo of the
company, its '•laniter," "superintendent."
"store-keeperhad "doctor,' ono and all,
were ardent ftshermon. The upahob of the
Commodore's vioib waa that we engaged biro
to initiate uv into the myeterios of "match-
ing," The oonpany a were}touss and the skill
of the local blacksmith supplied the nose.
nary fi ling guar.
berthing through the dao, whether by
"anatabdng" or in other ways, is far from
being a genial or ontranoing pastime though
ib Ie enperior to "ennui." When it oomee bo
one's spending hour after hour in the midst
of a frozen plain, when the thermometer
perslabently bugs the wrong aide of zsro,
exposed to winds thab chill the fi:hermaa to
the very marrow ; when the least contain.
ante means "frostbite' to face, haude, or feet,
the eitnation i0 onying hat a "soft" ono.
Trout became so plentiful at our table that
they oeasecl to awaken appetite in no ; but
this oirounat.auae in no way modified our en.
joyment in fishing for thorn, and the "notate
es" were in pretty oon0tanb use throughoub
the winter. Tho (fah thab wt) caught In ex
oe0u of our immediate wants war, given to
the Commodore, who pickled then to eels.
Four or live &elf was tho average reward
of a day's fishing. Tno Commodore was our
indiopeneoble companion, owing to his super•
lor knowledge and experience. He alone
could looato, in all thio east frczon wilder.
nous, the bugo reef nine miles from shore
near which large trout wore worn to oongre-
gate-a reef that reared its j egged walls six.
ty fathoms oboes the lake nod, yet did nob
Dome within a hundred fob of the carioca.
ilea may be Supposed, our fishing expedi-
tion were not unattended with advonturoe.
Once, when out of sight of land, we were
oaughb in to blinding enow•starm, and wan-
derod about until nightfall, when, happily,
we made South Paint, where there was the
shanby of a "lone fiebermaa," who attuned
the part of the Good Samaritan, drying uo,
feeding us, and Rending us on our way re.
joining.
Oooe, on turning a line of ioe•hummooke
about aevon mine from shore, we wore met
face to faae by five gaunt, gray wolves, eve
dnnbly int over from Her Majority's domin-
ion. At the eight of un away they scurried,
going down lake, wibh bodice fairly hugging
bhe ion in mad anxiety to annihilate apace.
They were followod by a chorus of yells
from us, thab served the donbla purp000 of
atimuiatiog them to groater tfforto and of
recalling the forgotten courage that, some-
how, had gone into retirement is the viola -
illy of our boots ; bat the had little to foa,r
from the animado, far bhe Amerioan wolf is
.a sneaking and despicable brute ab beat, and
anything but the ferocious creature dopioted
In &atiou and in the popular worko of nobler•
al history.
Our final expedition was made on the
twenty aixbh of March. For some days the
mother had been balmy and mild, with
bright skies anti 000asioaal warm showers,
Who bluff.aides book of the sebllemont wore
death ; the swamps were overflowod ; the
woatds and ridges enclosed ponds and minis-
turc lakelota ; our own highway woo a
wator0ourso half a yard deep, Though tho
son had dieuppoared from the lake, the ice,
to all appoaranee0, WAS AS solid and firm no
in mid-January, and we ventured upon it in
all confidence of its murky,
As WAS our custom, we drovo to the scene
of operations in a pung drawn by a pot roan
mare of mine, somewhat remarkable for
speod and intelligence. She waa especially
einem for this duty because of the dooility
and affaotion that induced her to remain in
the immediate vicinity of her master,
Whitt day overythlog oeembd to go wrong
with no from the outset, The sleigh broke
down when we were half a .file out, neral.
oibating a return tor repairs. " Jeannie''
manifested a deolded inclination to disobey
her driver, and oevoral filmes attempted bo
fade book, shied, once or twice all but balk•
e&, and generally bilhaved in a most nem.
the afrsiblo manner. became moist The
ho ivy, add a stiff
braise, a000mpanied by a drizzle, sprang up
iu our teeth,
Arrived at our destination, the ouatomary
blue of the waters of the lake was observed
bo 110 replaced by a dingy greenlsh.yellow
hue in which the enatohea wero imeedlatoly
lost to sight, though ordinarily they oould
bo bound in their downward ooureo for a
dozen fathoms, After a laps0 of nix hours
we had only two groat blue•cabo to show for
our trouble -hideous monntere, for which
no ono had any nee ulnae theoe nth oro Whol.
ly unsuited to civilized daimon'.
Old and weather wino inhumed aro wont
boprognostioabe a rapidly approaching storm
When thoso'ornatutea, whoeo proper home le
along tiro bottom, aro obaorved near the
4urflaoe, echo oommodore was babuod wiblf
knowing the 1ldionla that he would inane of water, eavarttl fact mow, gapod Auddun• 1'arhapo tee took rumookalafo Oaaa of '
by an doing„ Finally the wind w'uuptlay ly bt her pant, hu' chi: teak It with loom 1 isomer's, Ar031io:ving ma record it thou of
shafted out os Dot north -own to wcob•nu[ • that) lundad herr lu nafoty nn the oppotito John Carmelo's% . an Pookrteto o.rltor, ",raps
wast, and blow a not ,oching gate, brink
Moolevi le nothing would satiofy the
impor'nnihy of the roan, which stomp.
ed Sad fluting whinnied. Pobting,birnkoltog,
food, alike wore of no •wail; she oven rojeot
ed the tlontmodore'a proiferod toba000, an
uaherr.1 of bio of half-dopial, us oho woe
inordlnatoly food of the wood. Atlaab, when
for the second time the had seized my other
lu laor teeth an if to draw me away, I
imeplaed tab she was 111, and de,naa,ed
that wo cab lonob, and bhon lmmorliotely
depart for home.
Ao we sat along the pun -rail. diaconaing
sandwiches and "lll•luek," "Junior," who
chanced for tee moment to antrum the um
right position within bhe vehiolo, suddenly
dropped book with pallid fano and working
lips, and gasped, "Heaven help use fellows 1
We are all adrift 1"
"1 knowed hib 1 I knowed ail the time
them catfish wa nib snoopin' round far
uobhin' 1' oboutod the Commodore, looping
to hie fed, kaeeli ng the mare by the bridlo,
and deftly whirling hor between the thine,
Al the same instant 1 sprang to tho *Daigle
di,or, altogether incredulous of the trubh of
oho olarm. That wt) could bo afloat did not
sesta within the bounds of possibility, But,
Mk I it was too pearly true 1
Tho numerous Avera and knouts of the
kook, motion by rano and melting 0nowe,
had for days been pouring constantly fn•
creasing volumes of warmer water into the
lake, increasing its temperature and die -
integrating and honeyoombing the ion from
baneatb, until a goie was the one footer
required to ensure the disruption of the
rotten mane,
I quickly realized our peril, for to the
north and east ail was open water, which
had approaohod to within o hundred rodo of
our position. its advance had bean ,nob•
servod, owing to our preucoup0tion, rho
noiso of the storm, and a line of hummocks
rehab obatruotod aur vision. Two miles away
thore had also mooned between us and the
Mere abroolIone of orator, rxnnddag to-
ward the Booth, terminating no Obre could
tell how or where.
There was oat• a moment to loss, Once
adrift in the lake hops mush bo abandoned..
Apparently the gold on wreath we were woo
yet etationsry,hut the broad ohannol moving
southward was rapidly outbing us away from
the inshore loo. 'ihoro was a bora possibility
of esoaps bo too south, if we could reach
Sturgeon Poinb, nine mina away. Tido
paints is a spit that juts nub into the faire
for 0 nape or more, and below the our.
fade is prolonged as far again aa a barely
euhmerged reef.
Upon this point la a governmenb light-
house cad station of the (,iia Saving Sarvioe,
and we had a faint hope that from there we
might receive some old, bhough we know
both the light and the station wore aban-
doned, save for two oare-t0kera, Even the
lifeboat was array for repairs.
Ao we tumbled into the sleigh, "Jeannie''
sprang away without waiting the word of
command, going; down the lake at the top
of bar epsed, as it animoted by bhe thoughts
and fears of the men behind her.
Oa we aped, a pals and ailant group.
The tall, white bower of the light roan bus
slowly to our vision, and still more laggard-
ly Wood its bulk spinet the gray of the
southern horizon; and to our exalted
imaginations minutes wore traneformod into
hours, and a brief half-hour became an ago.
The tortaree of that tide defy desorip•
bion. The events of a lifetime forced them
salves for review before our mental vision•
Tightly compressed lips, blanohed ohooka.
and staring eye'•, told of the doubts and
fears each would fain have oonnealed from
hie own oonscioneneoe; and a form of poral•
gala supervened-bhe peculiar numbness that
in dire and prolonged oxbromity inductee
outward halm without iu bbe least mitigat-
Ing the agony of the soul.
Every thalami) we expeoted that the ice.
Bald would open and engulf ua or bar our
progress. Already the libble mare had
dragged us over numerous oracke and rents
that a momenb later would have proved our
destruction. Liars probernatually sharponed
by fear, fn spite of the roaring of the gala
took note of the crashing and grinding that
waa going on behind ua.
A bauitward glance revealed a scene to
appal the eboubeob heart as the angry waves
drove bhe loose ice fluioualy forward, toes.
ing and piling ug, only to disappear instant.
by, carrying with knew maaeas, broken iron
the field. The work of disintegration and
destruction was advanoing with a opeo'ld
that rivalled our own; and beneath our run -
note w0 could Seel the heaving, swaying, and
throbbing of the imprisoned waters.
A3 the lin of bummooke that marked bbe
reef prolongation of the Poinb came in view,
WO disooverod that the long, narrow floe
upon which we were -the vanishing ice -
sheer, washed on the ono hand by the break•
fog waves of a vast oxpanae of lake, and on
the obhor by the watare of bbe crevasse that
all along hod ant u0 off from shore -was aon-
tiououe, with los immovably anchored among
the outlying rooks of the shallows, Only a
few rods more, and our safety was assured.
The wiud, which was blowing in &ergo
and 311,1 gusts, now veered more to the
north, and, oouoontrabing ire eoergiee, swept
down In a equ 1t of unusual violence, shroud-
ing us in a dash of rain that obscured all
about), oabahing the oleigh and whirling ib
round, thereby nearly throwing the mare
from hor feab and bringing hor bo a full shop.
At the same instant a loud report rent bho
mit ; the toe beneath shook and trembled ;
a Hook of gulls, appearing from soma un•
known quartar, swept overhead is noisy and
di000rdanb flight that seemed ominous ; and
au the thick 010ar0d away, it was seen that
the floe had parted near the hand of the
°revaeae, and was already Several yards out
in the lake,
Hearts that a little before hod boon beat-
ing high with hope, now sank utterly, Tho
Commodore threw off bio coati at if to mato
a plunge and swim for it, bub bho hopeless -
nos and folly of such u procedure aattoed
him to roplooe it, Our foto owned aoaiod
exoepb ab aid could be had from the Point.
But jusb then a grinding sensation bold that
the Roe had met a temporary oheok, and its
direob movement changed to a circular
motion as it pivoted upon Ito lower extrem-
ity, naught probably by some groab rook.
Anothor gush of the squall atilt further
reflood the area of our iho-raft, leaving us
upon a por.lon scarce haltan aore in extent;
but ib alto net in motion vast quanbibieo of
loose cokes, sanding them dancing and
searing down the ermine. Jinn opposite
ua, whets the Taus was narrowest, they jam-
med and piled up, mamentarily bridging the
einem. Hero offered a ohanoo-o bare
ohanoe -thab we mighe tempo by abandon-
ing the pang, and rfaltfng our lives on foot,
Bub before auoh thought could be noted
upon, "Jeobblo" darted forward with thole
abruptnoos that the pung woo pearly over.,
turned, and the next inobanb was in the
midst of the heaving, ewaying moon, over
Width wt) 10000 dragged With keno: barge
and jolts, Not once did oho mics hor foot.
ing 1 bit with unababed spend, leaping from
One unstable foandetlplf to another, oft py o
No, so fortunate WAS the pung, howover,
'J),wn it went with a grout oplaah,
half turned ov.,r, than riehtod as i1 rote to
the loo again with a terrible crosh, and wort
to pica*, after the manner of the 'Wondur.
log Dao Roo Shay.•,
"011 at once, and eotbing arab,
Just as bootie, do when troy onset."
L!t010 ramalas to be told, The laet leap
G,ok ua into the midst of rooks and bowldere
where the loo woe in a mono ore aeauro from
the offeots of rho yo'o, Throo minotso'
walk Wanglers us to bhe line of humcnooko
that marlhed the strand, over which we
asrambbod, P0n0 the worse fur the oxperienoo
exoapt for a good weltiog, sumo brulaoa,
shaky knees sad irregularly 000elorated
heart -beats.
Wo stormed the ototion bo bhe unbounded
amazement of itr guardian, who klodlad a
rousing fire in toe berth room for our bene-
fit, supplied ua with hob coffee, and pro-
vided no wish a change of garmenta until
our own proper apparel could be dried.
"Jeannie,' in the meantime, found snug
quartoro in the boat -room below.
Throe houre later we set out for home,
wading half.leg deep in slush and melted
snow. Though the noar was close on to mid-
night when wo arrived, the tett:ernant Was
yet awake, purl our arrival wan the oaten of
grout rejoicing mad jubilation, for we were
anppooed to bo dead or dying somowbere in
mld.lake,
011. G. AROIIIA STOORW6LL0
The Survival of the ritteat.
Some ysaro ago Mr. Darwin elaborated his
oolobratol dootrioo of bbe "survival of the
S&ueet," Ha tvenb on to show that in nature
the ebrong animale maetored the weak and
sickly, and hence became the propagat0re of
the race, and that in thio way the been inter -
oak of bbe rano were oabaorved. We hear
much, of the same doctrine in jaobifiiabion of
the truabe and ooutbinos ; that tone are mere-
ly landmarks in the advanced m0vemont of
civilization ; that oompotitio-a is ]toartlees
and brutal, and nob in harmony with the
spirit of the ago ; that the way of financial
and eoonomlo salvation is through combioa•
bion, and that in lbs &otos strafe babwoen the
ebrong and the weak, the tithed, that is, the
etrongssb, will survive ; all of whittle:inmate
the following story from an Elston% ex-
change :
A great hurricane rural la the South
Paoifiu ocean. A noble Delp Was wracked
on a coral reef, and the only one saved from
the vessel was an Oxford profess 0, a good,
pious and holy man. Dathod upon the
sandy share of a little fantod, he managed to
craa'I from the reach of the wavos, and,
kneeling, °frayed up thanks for his mope.
In the acme storm, the frail oanoe of a wild
NewZealander was driven far from its
course and wreoltod on the came island.
The savage landed on bbe opposite aide of
the islet from the professor, and an impaa•
able barrior of rook separated them, The
savage', portion of the islet woe swampy
and covered with vegetation, The silo on
whish the profeosor had landed was rooky
and barren. He could see numbers of dab
in bho clear water, bub had no means of
catching them. Had the ednoabod man
been on the other side of the island, he
could have r000gnfzad planta that were
wholesome and eubaisted on them, Had the
savago changed planes with the profossor,
he could have epoarod or oaughb tho fish.
The moo of learning boaame very weak, and
ono day fell off a rook, white trying to catch
a fish, and was drowned, The brutal 00vago
ate berriee and worms, and so lived.
Tan provee that bhe wild Naw Zealander
was "fibber" than the Engllolamao, and so
survlved, The abort' then goes on r0 show
that the satrap encountered a serpent, and
in the oonteat was bitten and died ; whfoh
thus oonoluofvely proves that the oerponb was
"fitter" than the New Zealander, and so sur-
vived. Finally, the serpent wan attacked
by malaria and died, whish proves that the
malaria was the "admit" and reigned su-
preme.
Soddy mecca ohorb work of this kind of
ourvivsI of the fittest when it uodyretande ito
true bearings. When a band of horae•bhi,veo
'is detected iu ito work, aooiety adjadges
rightful ownership of more value than bhe
liberty of the robbers, and there is lieble
comment if a rifle goes off accidentally and
no prisoners aro taken. Robbery is robbery,
disguise ib as we may, and neibhor bhe mag -
'Abode of the oporation nor the respoobabll-
lby of the men engaged in it affect in the
slighted degree ire moral turpitude. Ib is
nob the finest tine robbery should survive,
A
Subdued.
A writer in "Our 11'our-Foobed Friends'
abates that a farmer had a bull e0 fierce
chub he WAS kept oonsbonbly chained by a
ring in bis nose. He seemed to have a par -
bicolor antipathy against the farmer's
brother, who had possibly irritated biro on
soma 0000ofon, and never saw hint approach
his abed withoub beginning to bellow andpaw
the ground.
O aa day bhero occurred a terrible thunder.
storm, Ib hailed violently, and the thunder
and lightning were almost Inooesanb, The
bull meanwhile waa exposed in an opo, shed,
from which he ooudd be beard bellowing with
terror. Trio farmer proposed that one of the
laborers should go and remove him into the
shelter of the barn, bub no one of them was
willing to fad the atone, and finally the
farmer a brother volunbeered bo undertake
oho task, fatting ab encs the double danger
of bho lightning and bho bull,
He pup on his great-ooab and ventured in-
to the yard. The bull was trembling with
fear, the gristle of hie nooe nearly torn
through by hie etruggle bo geb free, but as
the man approached he boom quiet. Fear
had disarmed him of his ferocity, and he
suffered himself bo bo untied and led into
the barn,
The next morning, as the mon woo cross•
ing the yard, he retnorked thub the buil no
longer saluted him with his accustomed bed -
low. Ib struck him bhatpossibly the animal
might remember ilio kiodnaes of the night
before. He acecrdingly ventured bo approach
bit, and found flab now, so far from show-
ing any dislike, the animal evidently enjoy.
od his preoenoe, banding bis head forward
with the utmost gonbienosa while the man
rubbod his oars.
From that day the bull oontinuod as gen-
tle as a lamb, suffering his former enemy to
play all manner of Woke with him, bricks
which no ono oleo on the farm would have
dared to attempt, and seeming alwayo bo
take pleasure in lila oompany,
Not Altogether Uaeleae,
Doddlo : " I say, Coddle, old boy 3 lVhttt's
Deo idea of having a howid big flop on a
faltah's ear ? Codldn'o wo have hoard pwebty
nearly a0 well without lb?"
Coddle; "Pwobably, Doddlo, hat lb
dwawo tiro Dollar lino, don't yor know; ib
eawter keeps the ooltar from wurenieg ftp
and kopekk4es our hate off,',
of tone o theory havo ham 1 "•goal .?u vee u
moth, :' rot) u.lo- Is the yolk 17:10 (looming -of
teen '43y0are1101woes j,er4rgfauv7ltag+
014 the roam of i tion,',rr.u.re 1113 ship Ind
put loth pier, Ho rn'l..there of tiro crew
,ttendtsl a snw,ll theater at wvtioh a pro
fustic oat j rooter was aotrtei,blug tbo spoon,
tors by p: ,tending to swallow utaop.f.nivee.
Tho rxhtbiti'rn male a deep improosion on
L'umvting,, Bdaiidoe being croluloo3 h.t was
boaaeful and also fond of the "cap blot
inebriates," 'Phar evening on sblpboard he
bol.ily sunounood to his compaoloss that 110
could swallow knives as well as the Fronvh.
man, 13e was j aeb drank onough 00 be reek.
Ione and promptly acaopted a ehallengo to
preform Unlock. Heplaoad hid own kuife in
his mouth --not wiihoub some misgiving,, as
he afterward aoknn.v1.d:rod-and, grostly to
the surplus of hitt • t ..l the a auvs' nor
Blipped down his throw., ,.telly. The wibar:so-
es of the feat were nob satisfi.d, and;aekod
him if he could swallow another, "Ail the
knaves on board the ship,' ho uoaworad, in a
apirib of bravado, More ltntvas were pro-
duood, throe of which were bolbed like so
many pill.. And bhue the company was. ere
tarbd ped for bba night, as Commit g i linnet(
said, " by the bold attempt of a drunken
man," Hio stomach was rsadily rolievsd of
die u nnaual burden, and the affair waspaesod
over mor•ly as an episode which had served
to enliven a few weary hours.
Cummings gave no more attention to
knife swallowing for six yearn. In March,
1808, while in Button, he related his
exploit to a party of sailors with whom he
w,ta having a oaroueal. No one bollevei
him and beim again drunk and reokleso,
ha swallowed six knivss in the ammo of the
evening. The story of his performouoe was
gateklyeprewd about, and the next day in
the presence of arowdeofwondering vieitoro,
he swallowed oigbb more, malting fourteen.
in all. This exploit nearly killed him, Hs
Wae taken bo a hospital and for a month
snffared grotto torture, He woo finally ro9lev
ed and started on another voyage for IF'ranco.
The course ot Ida wanderings at le,3th took
him to Ragland), where, bring again under
the iufluruoa of liquor, be boasted of his
former foots. 01 oonrse no one bolievad him,
h"ud, "diedainicg to be work than his word,"
o acaopted a challenge to ropoab them.
This waa in Dncamber, 15)18, and is the
course of two days bo swallowed nine ota,p-
knives of various e+z,s, A few other feats
of the Woe brought his :word up to a bola(
of thirty-five kutwoo swallowed of difforenb
times. Now, however, Cummings reaped
the natural !ruin of his folly. Ho was
taken violently sink, abd despite the effort
of pbysloiaoa the greater parb of rho knives
stayed by him," lie suffered rxeruciating
pains and passed mod of his time in Guy'a
Hospital, Laotian, After leoding a miserable
exiatonoo for nearly four years he died in
blaroh, 1830, literally and emphatically a
"total wreak."
Buying Good Music by the Yafd.
Doe of bbe moot interesting inventions at
the great Paris Exposition was a "mel•
ebropo," consisting of throe parte, About it a
oatreopondenb writes :-•!•I improvised on a
piano to whioh the first manillas was oleo-
trfcadly attached, and as I touched the keys
a series of dots and clothes, representing the
notes that I had played, were registered on
a continuous ebrip of paper about six inobes
in width. After I had finished playing the
strip woe run through the aeoond machine
which out outs the dots aha dashes, giving to
the strip bho appearance of the perforated
paper uood on mechanical organa. The strip
was then passed into the third meahine,
„hioh waa attached bo the keyboard of the
piano. 13y merely turning a orauk the
strip WAS oarried through itee machine and
reproduced the original exactly as it had
been played. Ib is simply wonderful, and
boars the tame rolatioa to instrumental
moon bhab the phonograph bears to the
voice. If o celebrated performer should play
for you, by oonneoting the machine bo the
piano yon would be able, after your visitor
had left, to reproduce faithfully every note
blab own struck. I understand that the
threteenoachinert can be purahasod for 5250
for the set, Musio by all the celebrated
oomponers can bepurchsned for the maobinee
at about five Dente afoot." -(inventive Age,
Too Mnoh Stnok Up.
Miss Upparten (daughter of a rich mann•
faooror) -"Pardon me, mite, bit lhave not
bhe honor of your acquaintance."
Miss Lawerhon (who does not intend bo be
pub down in that style) --"I blink you bad,
at one time ; but never mind. Perhaps if
my father owned a big mucilage factory
like your father s, I d. be etuuk up, too,"
Too Coarse,
Country temple amuse the 000kneys and
cockneys amuse the country people ; and so
the amount is kept even. A man from the
rural districts -from the fatnous town of
Wayback, perhapa-had gone with a friend
into a pity resbaurant.
Presently a young fellow Dame in, having
a Bennis racquet.
Tho countryman looked at the novel ,tam
Di for a few ntinutee, then he Monti to his
friend, and said, an a tone of deolelon
"Jahn, I drink no milk in bhae town,"
" Why nob l'
" Why not? Why, jaob look at bbe
strainers they uas. You could above a kb
bird through'em."-Arkansety Tranelb.
No Hope.
Family Deabor-"Nothing more oan be
done for you, eir, I have exhausted my
resources and I advise you 00 make your
wi16"
Pabient-"Bub I havo been toll that Dr,
Blank soya he can cure me,"
Family Doctor "Huh 1 I'd just like to see
him try it. I'd have him ejoubed from the
eooleby for brooch of etiquette."
Why Mamie Quit,
" Ara you kill baking p doting intone,
Mamie ?'
" No ; I quit yosberday. I don't lute
my blather,"
" Why nob?"
"He bat sash a dboagreaablo way of talk.
n Ho bold me that if I kept on for 00m0
tuna longer I mighb bo able bo whitowabh a
fenoo."
The Beata and the Mote.
" "Alice --What an awfully rude girl Minnie
Thompson la/
Maude --Indeed? I never nobiood 16,
,Alioo--Just think -after she had p0SOod
me on the street' this afternoon, I aotoally
coo ghb her looking bank at me four times )
Maude -Oh, my, how awful 1
110 -"Do you love foo or Holl" Bob1On
011i-'-'Tko former,"
With and u leads oldie nou:eds Wean, of
Edible Riede.
11 1010 .Ito p000,! a • tils4 a0anib, says
41tho . •nl:'.0 (i too ) f 1°l, la baa berm j
rw r•. t*c a , , , .01 eel, e•eity 03 many
500,01,0 0 , ar tv. , u 1 b„ idle,'
and meat to 0, nor'atts hied (`3i:ova-
co.k, pr;yiun' one r• ;. t• ) , r" lg.arg m leo
avoraga•v.„poet tela ,k Ioesu 100(t
psttr,.xc of f,,1 0, tun p, aw31 (1,b&.1 of
bhe, vac+ 11144'1V rtrt':ta 01 1i,54.1.145 114 liven
at rite prlca 0i 11 i'1i4+o3s per pound *1110 RUM
repreeested wird morals to 410%000, ,a:ioh,
large as it 15, is far uab,w the amount r f
money an11nairy ixttoreatt to shooting. reale
and 10 e,rh144/4/1/er144/4/1/ bay the tunanto of the
moors, of whom ft hay boon said that ovary
braes of groom tatty kit moats thtm S
sov0re ;rn,
Eltl:noo a of the number of partridges
kdlkd are o:sn'rwhat d 311 11 to form, ae the
land whish provides the birds la not, like
the gr:u4e moors, septrately hold and theta
ed, In Groot Britian, takln,3 the avoragoof
roo•ont shooting as 4 guide, It may be intone
ed tint 400 000 partreigoo will bs shot, and
counting them overhead at fin molest price
of 1 belling sank th0 moony value represent•
el will touch 480,03.0, A otua to the phos.
05000s0a0popf ythteo faecs fldail Coite b11
0rdoblataionx, teoon
sivoly brad un what pray becalled "aril&nal
linea. ' In pthsr .purls, tons of thousondo of
141010.131101 ars ha(c'ied ovary you by bars.
door fowls, tho egzo boiog purchas-
ed from porsate who make It their
badness to Artpp'y them in forge gaautdtiss,
having aviarioa for the porpoos. Oa ammo
eetatos there to also a very greats number
of wild hires, which, being carfully watched
during the broodingseasco, yield a consider•
able crop of chicks, Poking it for granted,
therefore,thab 610.000 of these birds are
aunuaily oonoumtd :,t a wok of half a crown
00,.11. tint burnt tum expeu,iol will amount to
402 505• and it to tot coo much to nay that
thoos who aupp:y the birds will soli ahem to
the wlralosale dealers at considorably leso
than they coat.
To rear oath pbeas&nt that comes to the
gun, ib has been oalculatod,lovolvos an ex.
penditure In food and woos of a little lona
than 3 shilling?,
Summing up these figures we have 500,•
000 grou0s and black game of about tho
avorago woiohb of two pounds each ; also
400.000 partridges weighing each aloes on
one pound. Booty one of the 500,000 phoas.
ante well weigh nob loss overhead than two
pounds. S, these birds supply no with 2,-
400,000 pounds of wholesome food every eea-
son,0he breeding and purveying of whioh give
employment to large tonna of the people ab
foir wage. Whoa the millions of rabbits
and hares annually cootumed are added,
the totals of bobb weight and value bacoma,
of oourys, moon inoreaood. Theao animas
havn, happily, this esaoon baoa killed in
larger numbers than ,sial.
3
nokui nekener eenottiosk uluutmtoorteran'
SOME; FAMO•UJ ,DRUNKARDS.
(»Jeal :greinlred. 08e, gybe 1CCue rt rrondrrarta
fon 030 itoltre,
Grog; m:u t ve th..:r woaknesaes the same
n "t. In'a, 13t,1 th. uurnb:ar of intellectual
fete evhn 1.'ave. data•.",1 tho moral dorms
sod o°aa,imt 40 c•-utrol Choir appatisoo lor
tr -blot foram oral of tea er4"104stoniah,
x .,; p"r:.)••u„ f 'alo,5•ayrhlc ti i7ia:ory. 34elag
way hack we and la A: r410In;4 a m,tuunai
eeak:ail, H0r50a warming Ida system fro.
gaoutly by menta of aleonolie obimulanbs;
voila A'-iotuphaoeo, hluripidov, Aiewas, and
r3"orateo wore all given to imbi.,iog wino.
freely. Tho austere old Cato WAS of tea the
poasossor of a jag that paled the best efferbit
of tin h ibscual tuahere. Taeoo would violate
tiro orders of his mantel irritability by pot0.
tinea, and Goethe: used to maks It abaslnese
to drink three bottles of wine doily, When
Goethe attendod the theatre its rose hover
guilty of outlaying the audience by gringo=
between the anti for a drink, but with
commendable oonebderstian hadhis glamour
of pooch mood to sin at hie oast. SJhiller,
with 411 moat of his work at night, wrobe
ragalarly ander the iofluenos of I?.raatah,
strung ooffsa and' bampavne, wlbh which he
world look himself up in the ovening and
stimulate his j ailed brain through the holm
of the night. Ben Jonson pad a reoord for
boiog oanoantly pickled, and thio habit au-
titio him to etund among the first of Ida
olasa.
Payne was more moderato, and daring
waking hotrod took a pat of ale every three
hours. The poet S tvaro noel to get on some
11,11 old times and would opined hie week's
earrings in un evening's revelry. Churchill.
dr. nk poruer to cxcuse, atedAddioon bound -
al his walk at palinal Hoaoe by a bottle of
part at each end, and thee:tines lingered 00
rang ,.v,r the bottle that he was compelled
to cplof'z, for hie illsgtble writing made so
by bin shaky hand. Demeaticncploosanbnees
3114 a csld beneporamob0 oro'Addison'a txcros-
es for hie irtemper:.noa. P3t0 drank wino bo
'xo,so, but his hand woe ea strong that
own her bis apoeotlea oar pub?to loudness often
suffered from hie iodu`gsnce. Far was also
given to 'tweuting hie whistle" ooaaoionally
•u drive dull one away. Blooksbono wrote
his "Commenbariea' under the in&uanos of
suooeeoive bottles of that wine (part) which,
Bentley kid, 'tiara would bs if ie 001113, Tao
trigid, oautioua author of the "Pleasures .f
Hopei was, according to Barry Cornwall.,
"vivaclonu, not to nay obtain, id -hie cups."
Evora, after gong to so I his statue, aboorv-
orJ: "lo i, the fink time I have neon hint
stand straight for many years." Plaasanb
compliment, Wasn'b it ?
Poreor, she giant of olaeaio lore. "bete
grsatesbpndlos0paor of the age,' as Macon. -
toy oiler him, Was often tippy with drink,.
Byron, who saw hint at Cambridge, oars,
"I can never recalled him exoapt as drunk
or brutal and generally both, He noted to
mate, or rather vomit, pages of all long.
aagea, and hia000gh Greek like a Helot t
and certainly Sparta never shocked her
children with a grantor cxhibi0ion than this
m0n'o intcxecaeloo." Porton had a way of
sneaking back to the dining -room after
the company had withdrawn and pouring
into a tumbler the wine drops that bbe
guests had left in the bottom of the glasses,
which he world drink. Fielding, Steele
and Sterne also bowled up freely. Keats,
stung by the ridionle of the envious, flaw ba
iios:pation for relief, and for six months he
woo hardly ever sober. Heydon, the pointer,
soya of Kates : " To show you what) a .tan
of genius does when his pasotone are aroused
Hoots once ooverod hie throat and tongan
with Cayenne as far as he could none, in
order to0nj1y,aehe said, 'the deliolons
ooalnesa of oho claret In alt its glory.' The
last bimex saw him wee at Hampstead
Eying on hie back in a n hits bed, helpless;
irritable, and heati0. He muttered ea I
stood by him that he would out his thumb
if he did not recover. Poor, door Kean:'
Moral: Be good.
Pomona Gazing 01 Ant'gnity.
By the biota of Alexander, the Parente love
for gardens and potion, with many other
forma of luxury, had obtained a stroog foot.
hold among the Greeks, espeoia&ty in their
wealthy colonise, and wherever the con-
queror's footstep, are followed we road of
admiration for tho works of the Persians
and of a desire to !toilette them iu now eon
s.ruotione. When rearpalua waa left Gov
error of the provino of Babylon he was
doeiroue, nye Plutarch, " to adorn the
palace gardens and mike with Greaiao
planta, and succeeded in raising all bub the
ivy, which the earth would not bear,
but aonobautly kIIled," Wheu the city of
Alexandria WAS laid out "la the from of a
pdothrum or military olook" its vast palaces
and public buildings were surrounded with
cgoaree and gardens bo each an extent
that, buildings and grounds together, a
third of toe epooa within the walla was
absorbed. Dmooratee (or Dinoohares) was the
arobibeot to tvbom bba work was conaded,
and it waa he who oonceived the idea o'
carving Mount Athos item a statue of
Alexander'! with a city in the right hand
and a reservoir of mountain atriums in the
left." Is mole a 'Mama entitled to ba
ranked among landeoaps gardening &taigas ?
And if nob, where shall we find it? for it
atm hardly be called ongineoring, since
beauty, not utility, was the main oiled in
view. Ab ail events, it remains the moat
ambitious idea that was ever ooneeived with
regard to bhe adornment of the surface of
h 0 earth. Lualan tells that at Cnidoo there
was a great pleasure ground dedicated to
Vanua, where even • distinguished oitl-
zena" enjoyed themselves on the verdant
meadows, and where the oommon people
Dame in orowde to holidays ; and he mon-
Dona ite oypreaees, planes, and myrtles. In
Sicily, where luxury wont hand fn hand
wibh tyranny, gardening noemo to have
bean praobioed In an especially sumptuous
way. Dlouyaluo of Syrauuoe had famous
garden, whore bis feasts were hold ; one
of the Hieros bulk a war galley in which the
poop deck was coveted with earth and
beautifully planted ; and oomo modern
writers have thought that the famous
quarry pits tear Syracuse, whore the
Athenians perished in agony, wore after-
ward planted as pleasure gardens. About
800 years bafore Ohrist, Hobos, King of
Thrace, " took his pleasure by a pool
stream" in a forest through which he had
bailb " level roads." A hundred years
labor, boar Athena iho tlf, Hemline Attain!'
pokeweed a villa surrounded by largo
foredo, whioh is spoken of by Aulut
Genius, in his " Akio Nickel," and when
Xsnophon rehired from his native oonukry
to Sarllue, near Olympia, he erooted an
exoob copy on a smaller scale of the temple
of Diana at Epitome, surrounded it with 0
similar "grove of cultivated trees, booting
whatever fruit are eatable al the different
seasons," and had apaoious hunting grounds
ib ito vicinity.
Cost of the London Mayoralty.
Tho Lord Mayor reooivos from the city of
London funds for his year of df&ae 410.000,
Mod on an average opende 4S 000 00 410,000
in exam of bleat allowance. He hao no other
provftion only the 000 of the Mansion bouse
and Ito furaature, Niue stands as one of the
chief items of expenditure, In bho batsman
of the Manion bone thorn are, woken the
London correspondent of the Manohoober
Guardian, quite as many osllare as there are
Aldermen who have nob passed the chair,
and it has boon the praotloo for Aldermen to
lay in o stook of win long betorn that
bfayotalby. Thin was done to a much grtator
moot some years ago, whop ib wart more the
taehion to drink port win, When on Aldor•
mon would ptaae in the oellar allotted to
himself piper of ports oomatimee ynare 'Wore
ib would ba pub oa bho tabloe of the Egypb
fan hall. The wino nob oonscfined is usually
Bold or removed by bho oubgofng.Lord Mayor,
There le no reason to doubt that Mr. White -
head's mayoralty has coot 420,000,-(N. Y.
Tines,
A Susceptible Man.
L,• -.Look ab that beautiful lady, The
very alght of her i"toxicab0s me, boo a bannago of 85.775, an inoroaao of
M, --`Vali, if that a a0, you eau Wild about 18.000. Hull has 20,000 tore, Loibh 17,776»,
00 Iittle as any man I over saw, lad the other Stotolt ports about 40,000,,
Jlmotio's Opinions.
Interested fathers and mothers are ofbon
anxious to eco thsir ohildren'seohool reports,
but possibly tiny might gain a deepsr know-
ledge of the obildiah weak they also perused
1'ommy'o or Diuky'e examination papers,
Ono ohild bronghb two of hat papers home
for inspection, because, as he indignantly
declared, he "saw the taaoher laugh whoa.
oho woo correcting '002.'' "I knew they were.
min," he protested, "becanoe both Boren
one looked at me, and aid '0 Jimmie,,
Jimmie, ovine shall we do with you ?' Now,
you look ab 'ern, ma, and tell me what'a
ciao mother,"
"Ma" looked, and made 6wo choice ex-
tracts, over which she herself could nate
forbear smiling,
"Mountains have a great effeob on the
rainfall. They are very useful ab snob time,
neonate, when it rains, people can bake te.
the mountains for shelter.'
"Too reaoon you cau'b boil eggs at a high.
altitude io because there ie not enough prea-
sure of the atmosphere to harden the yolko"
"Did you understand exaobly what you
etoonb by these oneWere ?" &eked his mobher,.
mildly
Flaps not," son Jimmie, with an air
of lndlffersuce, "but tlat'a what the book,
ooid, anyway 1"
Prince Omani Gallantry.
Prince (Moor Bernadohto, the aeoond son
of the king of Sweden, who a oonple of, years
ago thwacked the rook and privilegoo of
his royal birth to marry Mies Gbba Munck,
performed an ant of gallantry laeb week
which will go far to hurt -oak his popularity
throughout hie father's dominions. A omall
boat with three men had aapsizod near
the head of the pier at Karlskrona, where
he resid0s. Without hesitating a moment,
the young giant -hie stabnro is 6 feet a
inohoo-jumpod, folly dressed, into bhe sea
and euoceedod In rasouing two of the drown.
ing men. The third disappeared beneath
the wove0 and his body WAS found in the
surf a couple of days later, Prinoe Oaoar
is about to reoeive a reward for his courage.
in Deo shape of the little modal "for saving
life," the same whioh Prince Bloomed;
prftes ahove ail his other ordere and deoor-
ationo,-(Ex,
Greatest on 5. cord.
As was expected, the revival of trade has.
mode 1580 the grootoab shipbuilding year
on record in Great Britain, The last ship.
building boom was In 1783, when the tobol:
output WAS 1,200 000 tone, Last year it
Woo nearly 1,272,000. Tho Clyde heads bho
liob with a total tonnage of 388,201, being an
tnoreose of nearly 65,000 thus over 1888.'
STexb comae bhe'lyro with 281,710 bons, or
an inorouue of 08,000 bans. The Wear is
third on the list with 21(1,383 tone, on, in -
mak of 74,000, Thou the ',Coes with
110,436 tont, an increase of 60,000, and the
liarliepoole with 81,100 tout, an taore:to of
10,000. The ehipbuildfag yards in Belfast
have launched tonnage to the amount of
80,000, an Inoroeso of 45 000, Tho Mersey.
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