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The Brussels Post, 1902-7-17, Page 7.... feetiteetEtefeleMtleteeteMeetelEMSleeetteefeee Pe .oelmessexteeesipe 0 1 M....tiOnLettoaMaZ Or Gentility Vs. Nobility of ,Soul. Ir****--nmort.*gq ON THE FARM. or***-0-4^,t*Ititft-00* 111 eme tem , • •• Are• pow • CONFUSION• OF CASTE. VTIAPTER XXL Mrs, Nareourt was a sheeted wa- llow], •cone as she watehed hoe son during tile next few clays, ebe knew well etiough that his mind was not et ease, No Was silent and out of spirits ; ho seemed indifferent to the things about him, and became quiek and uncertain in bis temper ; 110 grew unsociable, too, inking Icing, solitary Make; and betraying an unreasonable irritation if bis move - /Meath were noticed or conamented. 011, . . Perhaps she mispected Min of go- ing to see Dorcas. M any rate this Was what he thought, and his senei- CY° anger at' her suspicion was otely made the sharper by the foci that golog to see 'Berens was the very thing be was not doing ; for, to be itst to him, be wes struggling pretty hood, during those days to got Dorcas out of his head, and to ac- cept the fact that it would be folly In him to persist lit thinking of bee, And so, being in this heroic mood, for a week he forced himself to keep away -from her, and he took these molitary wzolks meanwhile, hoping by means of them to strengthen himself in his Se1f-d01118.1-1.110141t in point of fact I am not sure that they strengthened him in anything except in Ms ill -temper. 000 clay Dorcas had been sitting all day with her fathev in his stu.cly. Ile hod sonic writing for her to (lb, and she did it patiently. In the afternoon he called her to read a, batch of proofs with him, and they had just began this occupation when the hottsc-bell rang. "I hope that is 110 0110 to intor- rupt us," Mr. Trelawney said, im- patiently, at the sound, and they both listened for a few moments— Dorcas with her lips white. "It is Frank," poor Dorcas said to hereolf, and I think for it few sec- onds she hardly heard her father's voice ; her eyee had a mist before them as they tried to folio* the words he read. Five minutes passed, and then Elizabeth opened the study door. "Mrs. Trelawney says 1 am to tell you, Miss Dorcas, that Er. Harcourt is in the drawing -room," she said, in an indifferent way. -• "Let Mr. Harcourt stay in the drawing room, then," Mr. Teel:in-- my exclaimed quickly, looking up for it moment from his work. "Is your mistress with him, Elizabeth 7" "She's going to him, sir." "Very well, then ; that will do. Ine may leave him to your mother, think—may wo not, Dorcas ?" he said : and, without even waiting for. an answer, he wont on reading, un- I conselous of the cry in Berens' heart. She could do nothing. For it few me mento iL eeemed to her as thougb, come what might, she must go to • Frank ; and then she knew that she I could not go—that she could do 110-1 Oleg but sit still. So she sat still, and they did their work. She heart the drawing -room door open at last, rind ner heart gave a great) leap, and then for a few mo- ments, while she listened, seemed to stop beating. She thought he was going then ; but, instead of that, it was her mother come at host to call her. Letty opened the study doori with r they a doubtfoil face "Is Dorcas busy 7" she Said. And Coen, as she saw what was going 011 —"Uh, you c'oo't spare her, dear, I suppose ?" she asked. "Do you want her 7 Sloe can come in a few minutes," Mr. Tre- lawney said. As she closed the door of the study behind her, she found her mother standing in an irresolute Way midway in the ball. "Oh, any dear, 7 am glad you have memo," she excleimed at sight of her, "for Frank seems so restless ; can't tell Whetber he wants to go or stay. 7 have Just come out again. But it will be all right 1101v if you'll go and talk to him g little, I think, she's tired of having so much ol 111e." With a coutented face she letDor- cas rase her, and the girl went on into tho room. She mond Frank sit- ting turning over the books on the table, but he strong up as he saw her. "Well—at last I" he said. "I was on the point of concluding that you did not Mean to corne." "I could not come," she answered, "Mamma told yeti, did she not 7" 'IA, yes—she told me you were besy, But I was almost going away. thought that being busy meant that you did not want to see "I am sure you did not think that." "1 did, most certainly. I thought you were angry :still because of yos- torday, Y011 know you were angry when rti said good -by to MO last OightS "No, that is not true." '"liow calmly you eay---91'llat is not true.' Dorcas, What a quiet, onto- tionlee$ girl you .lre 1 It 1 heti not seen•you in a fury One Or 'La/lee-118 YOU wereyesterthoy, for instance—I should get to believe that your veins were filled with ice. 3 110Ver know anyone like you for uttering little crisp, IS ozen sentences." "Ts that what you think 3, do 9" the girl need, in a low voice. She gave it little jarring laugh. Dicl Ite understand her so ill, or WaS he only speaking in jest 7 "Yoe, they seem frozeo to me. Not that I want them to be different, though," "That is tortunete perbaps." "Because' you wouldn't alter them for me, you meteri 7 No. I den't suppose you would, don't sup- pose yotl would do any thing for me. Would you, Dorcas "1 don't know." The short reply done quietly one coldly. The next moment (they hail not Sa i down yet) she turned away from him, and wont rather quickly an11 opened one of the windows, and leaned out. "Dermas I 110.1,0 come to say some: thing, anti, however oott taloa it, I ani going to get it said, 7 have been here, you onow, for eighteen days." "Well ?" faltering a little. ''And they seem to me, ns far as you aro concerned, as if they had been eighteen inonths. I mean, I feel as if IVO bad known each other all that Dine, or rather, as if we had never left off knowing one another— as if there had been no break be- tween these days and the old ones, Idles we were playfellows and friends, and—something more than friends, even then. And now I run going away in seven days more, and before I go I am goiug to speak to you. 011, yes, I unaerstancl"--for she made a sudden involuntary move- ment, as if to silence him, and tried to utter tome hurried words that died away upon her lipe--"yes, I knoll/ you want to prevent Inc from doing it, but I made up my mind after 1 left you yesterday, and there is no time to lose. You see, I QM going away in seven days. Tell mo only this—do you think, before these seven days enti—do you think it pos- sible that you could care enough for Inc to—let us become engaged ?" ''Fran'k I" In her agitation, and almost ter- ror, the girl started back from him, the blood flushing. up hot to her face, "Do some mean that you can't do It 7" "I mean that yoit have no right to ask one such a thing. You have no right to talk that way—in jest." "flood heavens, Dorcas 1—as if it was / °Belisle I could say such it ; thing iit joot 1'' "You know that there could not be any thing of the $ort between us. You know that. There could 0.00," she exclaimed nervously, "even if we knew 0110 another weil—tuid wo haven t seen each other half it dozen tlmes." "Yes, we have—halt a. dozen times exactly ; besides three'thnes that I hate seen you without speaking. So that makes nine. But I don't care whether it is nine, or ninety, or what it is. That all goes for no- thing. I have been in love with you, I only know, from the first moment I looked Into youx [ace." "011, don't speak so 1" "But how are you to know about it if I don't tell yam 7 And I want you 1.0 know about it." "liut it is no utie for me to know" —a little faintly. "What makes you say it Is uo use? There is only one doing that can make it be of no use—it you have made up your mind that you can't like me." A sudden pause. "Dorcas, have you made up your mind to that 7" "Oh, what is the good of speaking about it 7"--ttlmost piteously. "1 Is not a, question of likingl can't be anything to you, whether 1 tile you or not." "Yon mean that you are too proud to be anything to me 7" "Yes, we might like olio another ; seemso-somehoti—as if we could not help doing that ; but nothiog can come of it—nothing, you know. We must go 0110 separate ways—no- thing else is possible, We tore being foolish just for this one thne, but after this—" "Well, after this we sholl be me• gaged to eme another," he said, "Oh, no no 1" "Why do you ens, 'No' 7 You won't Marry nie Without my moth- er'e eonsent ; 1 can uncierstend that, But why ebOuld We not be engaged, and wait 9" "Because it wcpald be no Item 13e.. enottueresigItruld no,t bet You bilhl y "glut you can't Prevent me fifont binding Myself. I'll bind myself by et Moseyed °Stile*" "Frank, you must not." "If you will look 010 in the teem end tell me that you don't care about ono, 3. will go away from you thje inmate/0 " And then he paueed—quito long enough to allow her to speak if she had wisj,od/ but, somehow, she bung her bead, and did not speak. "But if you have eo mud* 0.8 one grain of love fer 1,110-1)01'0a8 1 Will never give you up roe long as I live. "But I can't loarry you." "You could Inarey oni to -morrow., if you would. I am nay own master, and if sont are willing to be any wife cee onee—" "But I am not, willing." "Voey well, then ; 'we am yotimg, end we will wait till 1 1110111 bronght, my mother round. t (111 see, these are only two possible things for 115 to do—either to 10210171 at once, or to wait;" "No—there is 'another thing—to I art." "Is that what you want, us to do 7" "Not what I want us to do, bet" rather faintly—"what wo old be right." "To give one `another up 7" "You know thee that would be wisest. Why, even you yourself— you said just now that you would be content—" "To have us gire'one another up ? I never said so 1" "No—but to have 110-11110 We— enie for to -day." "If I ever said that, it was the most unmitigated lie I ever uttered I But I never said or imagined It. If I thought that such a thing WaS possible, I should go home and blow out my brains." "Frank, don't please talk so—as if you were mad." "But 1 am mad. HOW can a man be any thing else who has got what he wants most in the world ?" "You have got—what perhaps you will repent having asked for to -mor- row." "Do you say that because you Judge ine by yourself ? Do you mean that you intend to repent when I am iOne 9" "ilh.. a181 almost ropentieg now"— qu"You say that in words-, but— your eyes don't say it," "Oh, Frank, we nave both been so unwise—so raslt cold reckless—like children.. You have been so very rash, you know," "Yele—thank Cod, I have." "You should not thank God for such a thing as that. We aro just like children. We are snatching a moment's happiness—and it will end in nothing but, pain." And then She tears came to Dor- cas' eyes. Why would he persist in being so hopeful and so joyful, when she knew that elle should never be his wife 7 . But though she was full of fear, she could not make hint afraid. He stayed with her for nearly another home and throughout all that time she could not awalten one doebt of the future in his mind. "What have we got to do but to wait ?" he only said. He laughed at her when she told him that he would grow tired of waiting, "I have an obstinate way," he de- clared, "of never giving up what I want. And I am o. wooderfully lucky foamy too ; I have seldom wanted anything—so far—that I have not got. 11 I thought 'I were to want—this, and not have pluck en- ough to get it—I think I anight as well go and hang myself, for 1 should paver be good for anything more in the world." , Tie would have gone, before be left the house, and spoken to Mr. Trelawney, but Dorcas would not let him. "lt will all come to Ito - thing," she said. "Why should he have the pain of knowing 7" She would neither let him tell her father nor Letty. There was almost no -- thing be could gain frem her except one proonse before they parted— that she would meet him outside the village on the _following day. She consented to do this, but she would' censent to nothing else ; and so with this concession Ile bad at last to leave her. (To TM email-med.) Piles 713 pro -r. to es thee rap. Chnrs's Ointmotti is a oertsia sod ^Imolai* ours for *ads and or err forst of 1te11io3V, 81f bloadlos owl protruding pike, the stant‘f,^otroorn bora pauvroatood it. 800,1.'taion1alt ;Atha dolly prom a+.1, Peso bort what duly think art*. Tsu au, too 11 and, rot sour mime* book if not dup./. Seo bse, se .11 emelerx es la mA Zaw.nr,RA St Co,,Terstit0. Dr:Chase's hirinorit "But what can you see in him ? Ile isn't in the least attractive." "011, yes, dear ; he line a very Pre-' posseeeing bank account." is Little Girl GLrod of hum gl The Burrning,, Stinging Sensations Taken Away a,risi the liativ Flesh Healed by Or. Ohase"s Ointment. 31. is not at itil unusbal for children to auffer greatly frooi eczema, a form of itching eiklIt disonso, bott it le•equently happens tbet relief is very hard to obtates and neglect Is likely to leave the subject a life-long victim of this elthi trouble. Dr. Chrose's Olotinetot hae proven itself it quick relief and permanent cure for this ailment. Take, for example, tho following lase (-- Mr. 0. Wiley, who is employed as cooper by the Kesmody & Davis Milling Company, Lindsay, Onto etatee : "I used Dr. Citase'e Ointment for eczema on toy little gio some few years ago, mid coot brought( about a thorough and permanent cuve. She had suffered for considerable time, aad though we tried a, great Matey rentediee, Dr. Chase's Ointment WaS the only preparation to prove effeetive, "I comet speak too highly of ler. Chase's Ointment, as it cortaitily °fleeted it peenept mod perm:utast tore in this costs 30r, Ohnee's Ointment is rentarkably 'Abetted ae a treetment for tore kot, mod every forst of etch% letiber Lion, o gra. Brueton, Allendale, Ont„ states 1—"I eon racoon:10W rh.. chases Ointment Mt it Imre coot for gore feet. I stand a greet deal on soly feet, mid have beeet troubled foe imeee time with amass and blietera, asy tops wort eftee raw and very painful. "1 Sad tricot nearly everything oeceremended lot vote feet, but Pr. tibaso'S Ointmont it§ the only rens that did sne ahy real good. It soothed the birthing and !stinging, and timeoughly keeled toed Mired tee germs,' Dr/ Oltase's Ointment 15, WO believe, the meet effaotive and %nest Obroughly rAttlistatktry tteatratint tif4 teas ever used for C120,1111t, malt Await ttud ftching Man ditteageff and eruotions. 60 afasta a ben, at an dealers, or Ecinotosen, pates) & Co,, TOrontoe STABLE DISINESOTION, The aleinfectioa of stables after a peeled of eonetent use should be a part of routioe practlee. Dairy sta- bles in particular (Mould be disin- fected Owlee a year, and oftener if Otto oonclitions dexaand it. It is not possible to givo many stables the thormigh disinfection that is posel- ble in houses, beeauee their con- struction will not permit of it; but it is possible to do very 3110011 and at liltit P • The ideal memos of disinfection 1$ 111)yavionThlr eateaerg T.80, pert/01'14.1 alsat ras\;?eui el -de where. Tbe effectiveness of tide me- thod depends Imola securing a Inoge volume of gas, and maintaining it for 801110 time. Unless the Stable can be made tigh(3 a gas will be of little use. S•or all practical pur- poses the gus produced by burning sulphin• over a pot of eoule is the best if used in connection with stenos. 'The dry sulphur fumes have little germ -killing 11018e1', but when combined with the steam in the air 0 forms a compound that is deadly. The boiling of wtoter and burning of sulphur should go together. 1 orm- toldeltotle gas is not so efficient for the disinfectiou of a stable as molly would hate 138 believe. A very practical means of disinfeetion that may be used under almost every sta- ble condi t i on is by will tewa eh ing. This is not expensive for material, and is very easily applied by means of en inexpensive oprey pump. The 11100 should be thoroughly strained through a cloth, end made just tbin enough to work well through the nozzle, One man can apply two coats of whitewash with • ptimp tvol reach all parts of SideS 0.11C1 ceiling of a 100111 111 1.1.1)011t 000 - fourth the time required with the brush. Whitewash will kill or hotel the gernis with which it comes in contact. 11 has the effect, too, of making the been lighter aud clean- er. After the first spraying ono 1P - plication will usually he swill:gent if given repllarly. AS 0110 11 USilleSS or supplying- 1111110 to cities and crown - cries as oi large prof:m.0one, and depends upon eleneliness, this pre- caut iOn .of disinfection should be vegularly followed. mug BLENDED BUTTERS According to a report published in • 100.130 issue of the Live Stock 0111-11a , of la on, ada and the other colonies shipping butter to Great Britain, are haying their goods tampeeed with by Old Country hatter dealers to their seri- ous detriment. it is encouraging, however, to learn that the inatter is being, taken in hand as is pointed mit by the Live Stock Journal, which snys: "Mr. Hanbursr, President of the British Board or Agriculture, has reveived a deputation who advocat- ed legislation prehibiting the man- ufacture and. Fate of milk -Wm -Med butter, and said he thought that speedy legislation on the subject was needed. lit lois :million the colonie$ in the first instance suf- fered most, and it was hard that when their had done their best to build up a trade they should have their butter mixed up so as to con- ceal its identity and its origin. Be did not think it, ought to be the pol- icy of the Board of Agriculture to encourage the manufacture, of an in- ferior article. It was said that this milk-blen.ding was perfectly fair He did not think so. competition. He tosked• them to leatm the matter In lois hands. No not only agreed with them that legislation was re- quired, but he would go 'further and say that he agreed with some of Oa Speakers that they required speedy legislation. They desired to keep up the standard of agricultuval produets, and they wnnted to pro- tect the public by ine,king it cer- tain that the buyer of butter sbould be quite moo of getting what Ile asked for. He would place the mat- ter before his colleagues, anel he thanked them for the strong deputa- tion, which did so much to support a Minister of the Department." CATTLE SHOWS. it is a good and well touoded max- im to follow, that "What Is worth doing at all is worth doing well." Probably the reason that our Eng- lish cousies haVO such greet exhib- its of cattle al, them local fairs im because, invariably the Eagiish herdsman and brooder bold cloeely to the old saying, the,t "any one can exhibit cattle in poor shape told rose, but 'tis only a good man who brings them out in good shape anti W1110." But with little time and expense wo cam now select om• best animals and begin to care for them in such a, manner that they will be n. credit to us and their breed, this fall at whatever fair they may be shouno At this time of the year olien the heed and flies are ea severe, the ani- mal should be kept in to cool, dark- ened stall to graze and exercise on good pasture at night. A. small amount of fish ell or other foul smelling mixture, which will not in- jure the hair nor roughen the hide, will oleo be or benefit if spielyed over the animal every mnnting, A good bed is half the fitting, and he who takes rt. little thole to haul Straw front the old strew **Lack will be repaid for his labor when he Rees the animals strelciled out in the cool stall, on a soft bed, snoring, for then he knows they aro putting 011W 1'tnet, or three weeks before the kir a few minutes it day cab be well alid profitably :Mont on each a.ni- rani . grooming them, and teething theitt to attend quietly, for nothing la more anneyiug end disgustiug to the obeervere oe as much discredi1 to tort exhibitor, than a ragged coated and wild anitnel 13, the sheW ring. AlWa,ye tretot the Animas kindly, Da not try tO fit MOMS that you 00.13 fit Well, for a few good onee • •Well fitted will matte co better Show than laegee number poorly Sifted. With a small amount of :molt good care and handling yeu will not only 18110 more ribbosts, but you will reel - lee larger prices tool 11101.0 profit from your surplus stock, and be a benefactor in Introducing good Cattle in the community where yoe FEEDING PICIS. More Pigs 1000 loot III 0101 011iunier season from improper feeding than from any other cause. They aro compelled to consume foods that are not conducive to thrift, and which leads to :Mimeo 151 tbe. herds. Nome feedere keep dolt In the bar- rels, which fermente until (mute hav- ing a , ory disa• greeable odor, the pima being fed largely upon Dm slop. This kind of food is more injurious in, amulet. than in whiter, as it in- duces bowel disease. The best slop is milk and brim, freshly omits with grass, vegetables and plenty of pure water, which will induce .growth ond keep the pigs in good condition. PECULIAR. PAVEMENTS. Glass, Marble, Copper, Silver, and Human Skulls Used. • Streets paved with glass are not by any means unknown, The 1 =n- oes Rue de la Republique tot Lyons is a notable example. Here the (pat•ement is laid in glass blocks, 8 I111011(113 equare, which are so symmet- rically fitted together as to pre- vent the possibility of tenter passing I between the Interstices. Compressed !grass bas been used in the construe- ! tion of a Philadelphian street with, i it is said, admirable result; and not I long since a scheme for employing compressed paper for a like purpose was mooted 111 RUSSla, An 'Italian nobleman has lately had the courtyard of his palace paved with dabs of marble, granite, and other stone, every ellie of which has been brought from a different land. Europe, AS1a, Africa, America, and Australia have all simplied materials for this curious mosaic, whieh is composed of over 500 pieoes, each 1 engraved with the name of the country or State from which. it 0 la, (ene. 1 l ot, tl rone of Bavaria, Maximilian lb. t le occasion of his accession to Emanuel had one of the roads lead- ing to his Palace paved with plates of burnished copper, which, gleam- , nig in the sunshine, had all the i elects of tt more precious metal, ;gold. Down this road it was his I Intention to proceed 111 Royal !Pomp, but his purpose was tunne- 1 tuna -left, frustietterl by a gang of j robbers, who one night overpower- ! 011 the guards and carried off much I of I 'mit: VALUABLE PAVING, I Louio XIV. had one of the courts I of his palace at Versailles paved ! with squares of silvete each of which I recorded 901110 triumph to the French i arms. These eurrounded a large Itablet of gold, In the centre of which , the sun—the neoilarcles favorite em - I blem—was represented by a dazzling Iblaze of costly gems. Another court of this most sumptuous dwelling was paved with shobs of jasper, agate, and other raro stones. Passing. from the gorgeous to the fantastic we may mention the strange fancy of a rich Berlin trades- man, who had the walks of the gar -- den that WaS attached to his WWI- trv villa laid down with a number of coffin lids, which he had been at considerable time and expense to collect. 'They were of all ages and conditions, from the wooden cover- ing for the peasant to the raost droborate metal work designed foe noble or Prince. On his deaf h some years back Ills son replaced them with ordinary gravel, and subse- quently presented the most valuable to a local =sewn. Even more gruesoine, however, is tlita pavement at clwandu, Africa, in the making of which over 3.2,000 human skulle are said to have been employed. The town, which is oval in shape, is girded by a ring of lof- ty poles, on the moonlit of every one of which is placed a skull, while each of the SiN gales is led up to by a pavement of skulls, which from constaat friction gleams like a way of relished ivoro. --0--- -- rEcummt u.A.T.N sTwars. There is at least one piece in the United Stites where a man may be out in 11 heavy rain end not get wet, even though he has neither nittekintosh nor umbrella, ln 'the Colorado desert they hey° rain- storms during which not a drop of water touches the earth. The rain can be seen falling from the clouds high above the deoort, but. when the water roaches the strattt of Itot, dry air beneath the clouds it is entirely absorbed before falling halt the distance to the ground. It, is a sin - 501(0' sight to svitness a heavy downpour of rain not a drop of which touches the ground. These otrange rain storms occur in regions where the shade tempernture often ranges as 114h asI28 degrees Fahr. — TELLING- A mitsn's AGE. "The popular idea that the age of a horse can always be toki by look- ing nt his teeth," said a vtiterinarst surgeon, ''is not entirely correct. After the eigloth year the horse has no more new teeth, so that the tooth method is useless for telling the toge of it liorse which is more than eight' years old. As soon tis the set of teeth is complete, how- ever, a wrinkle begins to appear on the upper edge of the lower eyelid, and it nett' Wrinkle iS added each year, so that to get at the age of a horse move than eight years old you must figure the teeth plus the wrinkles." TeRSO NAL 0 NAlliTels TS . The latest crave in Peels in the wearing of a lighted lantern toe a perm:font ornaneent. The faellion or- iginated with a epeadateve manlike- torer, whose, "petites latiternee" Were bought, by LOOS 01 thousands at the fair ol Neuilly, The lenient is very email rood neat, mad made 131 a Gothic forM attee an Medea Models MST TEARVELLOUS CLOCK TOOX A OgluvrAN grazTNBAT YEATS TO 13UXi.,1), —7^ Tito Task /Wined 7in10ncially —.Unable to 7incl 0. PurehaSer Por Ego eloolr, Life just oow bas ,few attractio»s • 1 or a, certain German watchmaker, for 110 litts Just eompleted a eolossal task which has occupied every Mo- ment sef his time, excepting thote spent in eating and sleeping, duping Otto past nineteen yeare, and nOW that work is oneed it 18 of little monetto•y 1.111110 1.0 hIne, for he hi unable to find a purchaser for the ,result of his yearia of toil. The Walt he set himself Wila Ma of construet- ing the most notrvelloom clock in the world, an idea which stiggested it- self to hint as he was one day 52115' Ing upon the world-famoos time- piece at Straeburg Cathedral, Being U. watchmaker by trade, Ile enew what an attempt to eurpass that marvel of )us ext meant, but, no- thing elatinted, lie set to worle with to will, When Ile couunenced be was in fair- ly good demon:glances, buts US the years paesed by Lula no further sup- plies came in, one by 0110 his world- ly possessions left him. ibis wife pleaded and tereateoed, but in vain. she summoned bin1 before ta, magistrate, who declared him bowie, and he was placed in a lunatic asy- lum. After a thlie, however, he re- gained his liberty, and immediately recommenced work on los self -in - posed task. But his 1101110 WAS made So Uncomfortable for him that he transported hi/weft, his tools, aml his clock to Collimate, Baden, Here Ito interested some loctol officials 111 his work, and he was given FREE BOARD AND LODCENCI. But it only lasted for eighteeo months, and lie WrtS forced to move. This time he went to his son iu Switzerland, nod there obtaiumi help from many of the benevolentenftuded, mooing his gifts being one from the Corinne Emperor, who had beard of his wonderful clock. And now, after twentes-four yenre, five of which he spent in corelnement, the herculean task is completed, and is, indeed, what its maker claime it to be—the most marvellous timepiece' ever con- structed. To begin with, it is enclosed in glass, snaking every movement, of the works visible, and every part—of which there are 110 1e1301' than 2,200 —15 the waeclooaker's awn bandi- work. Tho clock indicates the sec- onds, minutes, hours, days of the week, date of the month, the seasons of the s•ear, the signs of the Zodiac, the rising and settiug of the sun, the changes of the moon, and the positions of the celestial bodies. It ekes shows the eclipses of the sun and the moon. Besides all this, the clock is beautifully decorated with all kinds of allegorical figures, evinch naive at their own appointed times. At each quarter, excepting the full hour, two tongds navance, strike a boll, and retire into a recess At the full hour two other angels appear, the one holding an bour-glass and the other sounding a trumpet. At another part of this wonderful piece ot work stands a cock, which at 1lVe minutes to twelve midday flaps its wings, stretches its neck, and CROWS THREE Timms. There are also ngures constantly appearing, i•epresenting the four ages of roam while en the right hand side of the dial io a beautifully carved statuette representing the angel of Death, who points with his Scythe to the face of the dodo Every time the clock strikes twelve, Christ, with bonded head, and His twelve apostlee advance from a hidden cor- ner, while below n monk appears and rings hie "Ave." As each season of the year comes round a typical picture is exhibited - 18 spring, a spring scene, in which a cuckoo is seen in a tree, and is heard to utter its curious cry seven times ; in summer, a, fresh scene, with a quail, which likewise cane seven times ; in the autumn a bull, lying at tbe feet of St. Leen, bel- lows ; and itt winter it lion, which lies near St: Mark, roars. Lastly, after the strileirg of each hour, a chime of bells makes melody for some live or six minutes, each tilne lasting about a Minute, and it is defined that the clock will last practically for ever, keepin5 the minutest accuramo—Tit-Bits, • BALLOONS DRAWN BY EAGLISS, Professor Kaiser, a Smith German mechanical genius, mos p.uhlished a pamphlet cm "How to Steer tin Air- ship with Eagles." Professor Kaiser soys an eagle has sufficient strength to draw a balloon, and by wimps of numerous diagrams and'elaborate calculations he shows how engles Can be harnessed told t'ne weights they Cau throngla tee air. In optic of tho ridicule with whic,h the pamphlet has been received amoug technical aeronauts, Professor :Kaiser is training a tenni of engles for balloon which he has in readiness. A GRADUATE, GRANDMOTTf ER. A remarkable Story ,,r it "sweet girl graduate- is told 'by a St. Louis paper. She has just graduat- ed otter a four Sears' course in. his - tore', astronomy, literature, 1101101- ('311 0(01100171, geometey, arts, sci- ences, end languages. The remark- able fact is that this "schoolgirl" has raised to family and is a grand- mother. In her youth she was denied educational adtentegee, and was not toblo tb counnetlee system- atic study ootil she was' sixty-eight years old, -- "No, sir," she replied, haughtily, "1 wonld not marry the best man on earth." "I know yo11 wouldn't," re- torted the rejected one ; "but If you live to be an old maid 0 will be gratifying to think that ;you MAC had 3301 opportunity." Old Gentlontui—"So you think my dnughtfer loves you, sir ; and vei. 'wish to marry het 7" Budeleigtr-- "That's what I called to see you about. Is there any insanity in your family 7"0101 Gentleintai--"No sir ; and there's Iieitt going to be any.' LOVER'S STRA1W1 FEATS WFIAT =SVC= SSVITIo SUM, 013.5 nAirr Dom% 4 Young Seoteltrnan's D'itertnina- tion Won a Wife — A gord. A repiTy1>11.110tAinr rnglaptlitheto tile all- important proposal does not 110000 - sexily have the olleet of causing a lover to abandon his suit. On the) cootie:Ley, there seem tO he zoo limit to the extremities . to which porno men will go in order to briug a3)014 atItatiefettfilttnilns/roto reciprocation Of their A few years ago a yoong SCOtell. Alan of considerable wealth fell vio- lently in love with the daughter of to Manchester cotton merchant, but his favor, and stoutly declined his attentions. Unfortunately, he made the irretrievable mistake of holding out his wealth as an inducement to her to become his wife, whieh re- sulted in his being forbidden to ever speak to hex again. Nothing daunt- , ed, however, he adopted anothee eourse in order to be near her, Throwing tip his position he shaved off all Meseta adornments, donned a wig, and assumed other means to hide his identity, and in due time Wormed his way into her father's house in the capacity of a butler. For three years he discharged his duties faithfully, until 01 stroy re- mark aroused the girl's sue/Adams and before long she had iaid bare Itis deceptaon. Explanations lollow-' I ed, which resulted hi her rowercling Ids fidelity by the bestowal of 11E11 IlEART AND IIAND. One of the most difficult tasks tbat ever fell to the lot of to lover was completed two years ago by Mr. Mc:Marry of Sall Francisco. His 13111t was repeatedly rejected by the lady of his Choice, until ono day, thinking to put an end to his rotten - 'GODS thereby, she told hien that if he would go round the world with- out a cent in his pocket he would marry 11110, kleStearry courag•eensly tool: her at her wore, and setting out actually accomplished tho feat in a certain period named, a task which received its Just reward. An English girl who doubted her adorer's courage informed him that she would only meow him it he crossed from La Rochelle, on the French coast, to Portsmouth in a canoe, a test which slie believed he would shirk. I3ut in this she was mistaken, for in a small craft whleh two men could easily carry her ad- mirer started, having first stored the necessary provisions in the lockers and donned a life -belt. Fortunate- ly the weather in the Bay of Biscay WaS 311 hiS favor, and after a peril- ous Journey he reached these shores, to receive the' prize for which he yearned. A young Frenchman named Pierre Barnard accomplished the remarka- ble feat of waSking from Paris to Berlin on stilts two summers ago at the behest of a Breton maiden who had spurned his addresses. but wish- ed to test hie devotion. Ho was not allowed to dismount even at night, hut compelled to rest against wells or anything that would support his weight; an impartial judge having accompanied him on a bicycle to see that the conditions were properly fulfilled. The feat accomplished, Barnard again renewed his suit, THIS TIME WITH SUCCESS. A short time ago a young London solicitor, in order to win the girl of his choice, carried out a task 'which all but those of unusual courage would have shirked. The lady re- jected his attentions on the m•ounds that she would only marry the man who undertook to find her brother, who had left home some years pre- viously, and restore him to her mo- ther. As the runaway had been last heard of in a South Aseerierin cop- per mine, the solicitor had no im- portant clues to aid Male in his work. - Nevertheless, pocketing a photograph he gave up his business and set out, only to return to Eng- land in despair when tee° years were over and he had come to the end of his resources without success. But jtist as he was leaving a London terminus a noon passed him in the street who bore it small resemblance to the photograph, and he inquired his name. Judge of his astonish- ment when the stranger replied that he tens the individual in question, and the re -union of the family was followed shortly afterwards by the admittance of the solicitor a,s a ful- ly qualified member. she was by 110 11100,104 prepossessed in. INSECTS AS FOOD, A French entomologist, M. Dagen, has tried several hundred species of insects as food, both raw mod cook- ed in verb:els ways, and has further made himself an authority by col- lecting travellers' experiences. Spiel- ers, which he has oaten, lie does not recommend. Cockroaches, however, make .most delicious soup ; cater- pillars are light and easily digested, and ere relished not only by African and American natives, but by Frentenneti ; and locusts, need or made into flour and boiled in milk, aye pseud by the Bedouins, WASTED ENERGY. "Mad I" tie exelaimed, "Of course I'm mad, 1 tell you what we need in this world is some good System of general thought transference Or Mind reading. You know how hard I worked to get: 16:argatet 7" "Just gave all my waking thoughts to the subject, neglected iny business and all that, and made a fool of my- self generally.". "But you suceeeded," "Olioyes ; we're engaged. And now that we have exchenged con- fidences X find that she 11118 working ljust as hard to get me, and it • Makes us boa. Mad to think of the Waste of effort." The Bride (on the honeymoon)— "Why, you only bought one ticket, doer i" The Orconts-e''No• Jotea 00703' thought of myself..