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jtoming gtmccrat the whole day a turning to self destruc detective followed me right to Working with ruin, and demanding an immediate A Kiss. Automaton Eemiuisences. A large proportion of our readers have Burmese" Courtship. The Burmese are Buddhists, and Budd For the Old Lore's Sake. And have you forgotten me quite, dear, Or sav, do you sometimes dream Vliat life might have been if we wandered still Together by wood and stream l)o you think of days when my love was all The world could give or take, And eay, with a sign, they were happy days," Just for the old love's sake? Do you ever sit in tho twilight, dear, And thirk of that wintry day When we met and parted and journeyed forth Each on our separate way? 1 turned, and stood tor a moment, dear, And looked in your face, to take Its memory far on my way through life, Junt for the old love's sake Just for the old love's sake, Sweetheart, Just for the old love's sake.

Do you ever think they were bitter words 1 Their memory haunts me yet. Do you wonder how yon could say them all, And wonder if I forget l'es, dear, mv heart has forgiven them long, Though I thought at first 'twould break And whenever I think, it is kindly still, Just for the old love's sake: Jnst for the old love's sake, Sweetheart, Just for the old love's sake. A Iteform Needed. It' is through the unequaled management of the French women of all classes that France now, despite its enormous losses in the recent war, is showing resources which amaze all Europe, and seem to rank her as the richest country or at least the country of best distributed wealth under modern civilization. Every family has been trained to save, and, in the middle class, to make a tasteful appearance on small means.

This isj of course, only done through careful management and judicious self-control. A rentier in Paris who sees an expensive play, dines that day on a bowl of bouillon, will, on the next day have a stylish dinner in both cases keeping within the exact average expense apportioned tojeacb day. The German woman succeeds in the same department, but with much severer labor. She ttusta more to work than to management. She saves by doing with her hands a great deal which an American woman gets done.

She is contented, too, with less show for herself and her main extravagancies are in dinners and out-door pleasures. The German matron has, moreover, an immense advantage over the American, in escaping two of our heavy expenses carriage hire and cost of education. Whatever else is dear in Germany, these two are always cheap. The market supply of teachers whether in music, art, or science is always beyond the demand, and thus the teaching of children costs little. For some inscrutable reasons, also, hacks and tion as a means of escape from all the deg radation of Inc.

I would accept the omen. I carried with me, a practice I had acquired the a small American revolver which fitted in my waistcoat pocket. It would kill at twenty paces, and would give me my mittimus easily enough. 1 drew it out and placed it against my forehead then it 6truck me that the ball, after passing through my head, might pass also through the partition dividing the com partments and strike some one the next carriage. I turned, therefore, my back to the window, and again placed the muzzle of the pistol to my forehead.

Again I withdrew it. There was no hurry. The train did not stop till it reached Woking. I could not possibly be disturbed. I wanted- signal the whistle of the engine, as the driver sighted the red lamps at Woking, should be the signal for my departure from the world.

"Yes," I said, aloud, turning upon my self, as it were, in a sort of frenzy" yes the moment the whistle sounds, imam Heatbcote, you shall die." J. have said that the rising moon was shining brightly into the carriage, full upon the coffin, and upon the mysterious in scription. I don't think I really believed that this comn had any tangible existence. It might be but the production of my own fevered brain, but none the less, on that account, was it a veritable warning of my doom. Looking up, however, to see if it had indeed disapoeared, I saw no longer the coffin-lid, but a white shrouded figure, pallid, corpse-like face, the eyes of which, in the mooubcams, shone upone me with sepulchral gleam.

For a moment, I thought that I had in deed passed into the land of shadows that was a disembodied spirit, looking upon my own mortal remains and' the thought that 1 had ceased to be an individuality, and bad become the mere shadow of a thought, struck such a chill terror and horror to my soul, that every other impulse of it was lest in an eager effort to resume my individual existence. I came to myself with a deep gasp, dig ging my finger-nails into my palms. Ah, the joy of that moment, after the torture of the stiuggle back to life Life ragged, miserable, it might be, but still dear life ow precious it seemed bow untathomably deep, below the utmost wretchedness of being, was the dread abyss of non-existence! Shadows I defied them. Come forth, old mole I shouted to my double in the coffin. lie came forth.

As I live, he stepped out of the coffin, seat ed himself opposite to me, and laid a finger on my arm laid a linger on my arm, and leaned forward to speak in my ear. Mercy, mercy," shrieked the figure, in a voice that pierced the roar of the train, then thundsring over a bridge. bee cried the figures, slipping a paper in my hands keep it keep it only don't be- trav me." Whew-w went the whistle of the engine, shrieking, as it seemed, close into my ears I turned my head for a moment: the moon had just passed into a cloud the figure had vanished the comn still stood in the comer, dark and grim. The train slacken ed, stopped. Jem," said a voice that ot the guard's there's a bedy in that middle first-class coach there's some parties coming to meet it with an 'earse.

"All right, Jack," said another voice: "they've come to fetch him. Bear a hand here, will you Oh, Lord shouted the saw me sitting in the corner. "Oh, I beg yonr pardon, sir. I hope you arent been annoyed, sir? Jack, what did you mean by putting the gent into thi3 compartment?" 1 didn't," growled Jack "he must 'a got by hisselt." Ail right," 1 said, getting out and stretching myself on the platform. I'll get into the next carriage.

Ho bodies there, are there 7" D'ye call me nobody said Fat Keil- ly, looking out ot the window. "Jump in, Billy, me baoy! ve cleared out the rest of the company ye'll introduce a lit tle fresh capital into the concern." What a contrast to the scene I had quit ted was the cheerful, lighted carriage. with its occupants, all brother-officers ol mine, Btnoking, chaffing, and playing loo on a rug stretched over their knees! Sure ly the whole of the previous scene bad been a dream, or could it have been an incipient attack of D. not brought on by drink, indeed, lor 1 was not given to that, but by irregular habits and stress of mind. It wasn't till 1 had reached my own hut at Aldershott, that I thought of the paper which the ghost had given me, and which in my delirium, I had imagined had thrust into my waistcoat pocket.

Here was a test, at all events if there was real paper, bearing signs of its ghostly or igin, then I was still sane, and the appar- ation I had witnessed was not a delusion the brain. In the corner of my waistcoat pocket was a crumpled piece of tlimsy paper I unfolded it, and found it a Bank of England note tor one hundred pounds. From that time 1 was an altered man I paid my gambling debts confessed all my embarrassments to my friends, who lifted me out of the mire never touched a card or a die; studied for the Staff Col lege passed a good examination went to Sandhurst, came out with higa having a little interest at headquarters, got an appointment as commissioner, to watch the operations of the American War of Secession, on General staff. It was at the close of a bloody but des perate battle, or series of battles, which resulted in the retieat of the army of the South, that I visaed the field-hospit als at the rear of the army, in search of a friend who had been wounded during the day. J.

be doctors ana attendants were too busy to pay any attention to my wants, and I walked down the long rows ol hastily improvised couches, trying to recsgnise ray friend. Scraps of paper, on which the names of the patients had been hastily scrawled, were pinned to the coverings, and I started as I read Heatbcote" my own name, lhe man appeared to be sinking from exhaustion, but he brightened up when he heard the tones of a friendly voice. I knelt down beside him, and asked if I could do anything for him. He nodded his beau. "You re English he whispered.

Yes, I am." "So am I. If you should be in the neighborhood of Bedford, and should be able to bear of an old man named Heath cote, a retired draper, will you tell him his son died in a creditable way 7 I was disgrace to him, sir, when I was alive; but when 1 am dead, perhaps he'll think kind ly of me aain. I'll tell yon my story, sir. I was a rogue I was an undertaker, but I was a collector of taxes too and I entered into a conspiracy to defraud the govern ment. It came out; but I had warning in time.

1 shammed dead, and got away in one of my coffins with all the swag. Tbey wasn't very keen after me I don't know why but just at the last moment 1 thought they'd have me. but I squared him with a hundred pound note, and got clear away to America by the Southampton packet, ft never prospered me, that money and I got lower and lower, till I listed as a soldier, and here I am! I'm getting tired sir. Don't forget Bedford Heatbcote, retired draper." 1 passel on wonder and astonish ment and, if I must confess, a little disa ppointed and disenchanted. I was- no special care, then, of any overruling Provi dence, as 1 had iondly deemed myself.

My wonderful warning and deliverance was a mere affair of chance and accident. As I pased the man's couch again, he lay on it stiff and stark and dead. On my return to England, I made in quiry of the officials of the revenue department, and found there really had been fraud of the kind lr question, that the collector implicated in it had died suddenly by suicide, it was thought. As to the defalcations, the defaulter's surieties had paid a part one of them, his father, avmg been sold up in consequence and the rest bad been paid over again by the parishioners he had delrauded. bo I lnund out the old man at Bedford.

He was living with a daughter, in abject poverty, and I paid to him the hundred pounds with compound inlerest. To him seemed a celestial visitant. The Cold-meat Train is now a thing of the past, I believe. A luggage train carries belated officers back to camp; but, to tins day, I confess that I always prefer to pas Wokirg in broad daylight, and that 1 carefully look inside the carriage before I enter it, I desire no more Loans from the Dead. Cnltinsr and Polishing Diamonds.

The art of cutting and polishing dia monds is supposed to have originated in Asia at a very early period, but was first introduced into by Louis Jer- quen, of Bruges, about the middle of the ntteenth century. He accidentally dis covered that rubbing two diamonds to gether caused an abrasion ot their sur- taces, and from this soon deduced the art as it is now practised. The process of polishing and cutting, as I observed in Amsterdam, is very slow and tedious, nearly every part of it, from the delicacy and exactness required, needing to be done by hand. The preparation of a sin gle demands two months of continuous labor and the famous Pitt or Regent diamond nnderwent two years of con stant manipulation before it was complete. In the mills one diamond is em ployed upon another, each being cement ed into the ends of a handle, and model of lead being taken of the gem to bo cut, which determines the faces.

The stones are then rubbed together with a strong pressure, and held over a metal box with a double bottom, the upper bottom being perforated with small holes, through which the diamond dust falls. The dust is of such value that it is vcy carefully collected, and, after mixture with vegetable oil, is used for polishing the gem upon a steel or cast-iron plate, which is made to revolve rapidly, sometimes by steam, as I have said, but generally by means of a tredle. The dia mond powder is also used for cutting, It is placed upon a steel wire or saw, and this, drawn swiftly backward and for ward, makes the required incision. When a large piece of the stone is to be removed, it is occasionally done with a fine chisel and hammer but this so increases the danger of breaking or destroying the gem, that it is ra-ely resorted to. No k'nd of work can be nicer or mere diffi cult, for the workman must thoroughly understand the character and peculianty of diamonds, and must have an absolute knowledge of the cleavage planes before he can be trusted with their manipula tion.

How to Make Scrapple. In New York a discussion exists as to the cost of living. A lady housekeeper sends the following Get a young pig's head (fresh) weigh ing five or six pounds, which can be bought for twenty-five or thirty cents one from the country preferred. Clean it well, cutting off the ears to en able you to clean them well inside. (tjet the butcher to take out the eyes and teeth when you bay it.) Put the head in two gallons and a half of cold water.

Let it boil until the bones can be easily separated from the meat. Chop the meat very tine, put it back into the liquor it has been boiled in, and season with pepper, salt, thyme, sage and sweet marjoram. (Don't put too much of the herbs.) Taen take equal parts of buck wheat and corn-meal, and stir, in until the compound is about the consistency of mush lifting it off the fire while thickening, to prevent it Retting Jumpv. Then let it boil for about fifteen or twen ty minutes, stirring it to prevent burn ing. Turn it into pans to cool.

Cut into thin slices, and fry brown as you want to use it. The cost will be about filty cents. For that sum my family of five grown persons have plenty for breakfast every day for a week. As mv husband is, as he calls himself, some what of an epicure, and decidedly ob jeets to an uninterrupted course of beefsteaks and chops, which mainly comprise the range of Bridget's bill of fair for breakfast, I have several domes tic dishes, the result of along experience in houskeeping, which I will be happy to furnish at some future time, a3 I am afraid I have already trespassed too much on your valuable space. fEANUTS.

ine peanut, which is bo popular a commodity, has one peculiari ty of growm which distinguishes it from all other known plants, lhe flowers and leaves are produced as they are in other plants of the pea or bean tribe but when the flower has withered, the stem which supported it grows rapidly in a curved manner, bending toward the ground, in to which it penetrates several inches. In this position the fruit becomes ripened and from this singular operation the pea nut has derived the name ot earth-nut in Europe. This nut is a valuable article of food in many tropical countries, and is extensively cultivated. Formerly it was largely imported now we depend chiefly on the crops lrom Virginia and the Oarolinas. It contains a large per centage ol clear yellow oil, which is large ly esteemed for domestic purposes, an is frequently used to adulterate olive oil.

In Cochin China and in India peanut oil is usea lamps. The Western New York Ponltrv Asso ciation opened their second annual ex hibition under the most flatterinsr au spices. The collection of domestic fowls and other birds was admitted to be the finest exhibition in the section of the country. Over $2,500 in prizes wer ouerea, ana me attendance was large. All the New York City Notaries whos terms expire March HO, 1B72, have bees renominated by the Governor, and wew confirmed by the Senate.

remedy. Kecovenng his presence of mind, he pushed the automaton quickly behind the s-ereen, and then proceeded to reassure the audience, who, by this lime, seeing and smelling no smoke, had begun to think it a false alarm, but whose attention heretofore had so luckily been occupied with themselves and their means of escape that thev had not mind ed the antics of the machine. The ruse of his rival, thus promptlv met, did no harm, and the field of battle was lett in quiet possession of the greater light, but Maelzel often said he could afford to pay that man handsomely, for be showed him the only defect in his machine. The Town of Silka, in Alaska. The village contains fortv or fiftv houses.

The population consists of one thousand Indians and two thousand dogs. Of the dogs, all but one are of the same sharp-eared, wolfish type seen among the Indians of the plains. The exception was a bandy-legged, lop-eared cur of civilized breed, the only one among the two thousand that showed a lack of civility by barking at our heels. The houses much more resemble the semi-subterranean abodes of the Laplanders and Esquimaux than the wie- wams of American Indians. Like the oak described by the American poet, they extend as far into the earth as above it.

Some of them are from twenty to thirty leet square, and built of very wide cedur planks, many of them more than four feet across, worked out bv these rude people. We entered several. Creeping through apertures, both square and round not more than three feet in diameter, we de scended flights of steps into the large single room. In the centre of each a fire was built on the ground, and in the centre of each roof a hole, out of which passed a small portion of the smoke, the most of it remaining for the beneht of the salmon hanging over our heads, and to make sore eyes lor the inmates. The whole inside is floored, except the fire place in the middle.

On both sides are the sleeping-places, covered with skins and blankets, and in some instances separated by low partitions. In the rear, and on shelves below the dormitories. were stored potatoes and dried salmon in small bales, covered with matting. Their largest potatoes are the size of a hulled walnut. The ladies beautify their complexions with soot and red paint, and still further enhance their charms by wearing a bone.

through the upper hp, the size of which is increased from year to year until, in some of lhe old ones, it attains a width of two inches. An Indian lady thus adorned, with her coarse, black uncomb ed locks hanging in matted profusion around her beautiful pig eyes and lop ears, is only resistible to those whose affections are thoroughly preoccupied. The delights of courtship must be doubled- by the pleasant aroma of salmon which prevades the premises and, I have heard, their persons. Among them the crow ond the raven are held sacred, and ny around their abodes undisturbed. They live mainly on fish, and have a monopoly of the trapping.

There is but one white trap per in the country, and he is at Cook's Inlet, six hundred miles west northwest. He came down to Sitka once to go to Lodiak. Learning that no vessel wonld sail for a month, and growing Vred of the place, he said he would take a little walk. He started with his rme and a pocket full of salt, aud traversed alone that mountain wilderness for three weeks. He had no covering at night but the skins of freshly slaughtered animals, He returned in good condition, and in answer to questioni, boasted that he had lived better than his questioners.

The Extent of England. vHon. James Brooks, in a letter from Calcutta, speaks as follows England, once more, one everlasting England That little sea-girt island has not only girdled the great isles of the world, and put its stamp upon them, but, here am in the portals of a great British East ltdia Empire, the very magnitude of which is astounding. Think of it, over 200,000,000 of people, native and British in the Indian Government proper, under the British flag 1 Satiated with the very vastness of dominion here, the British Crown declines more land, and all the population it wants nay, more, too, and refuses, actually, to be bothered with yet more I Think of the revenues and ex penditures of this British Indian Empire, ijiou.uuu.uuu ot our money, incoming aud outgoing, each year. Think of its immense army, 320,000 in all, of whom u.uuu are European soldiers, the others, Indians, under British officers, all! Think of a Christian Government over 110,000,000 of Hindoos, 25,000,000 of Mussulmans, 12,000,000 of Aboriginal Nothingarians, 3,000,000 of Buddhists, 1 What a medlev of humamtv to rule 1 What a mixture of laws, a well as of creeds, and of tongues, and lan guages 1 ihere are sixteen, or more.

languages that a British ruler ought to learn. 1 What a vast trade, some 000,000 of imports, and over 000 of exports The little England at home, which governs all this vast tern tory, and these millions of people, dwindles, herself, into insignificance when contrasted with this, her mighty empire oi tne n.ast. A Hint. If a youth is wooingly disposed towards any damsel, as he values his happiness, let him call on that lady when she least expects him, and take note of the appearance of all that is under her control. Observe if the shoes fit neatly, and the hair is well dressed.

And we would forgive a man for breaking off an engagement, if he discovered a greasy novel hid away under the cushion of a sofa, or a hole in the garniture of the prettiest foot in the world. Slovenliness in a woman will ever be avoided by a well regulated mind. A woman cannot always be what is called dressed;" but she may be always neat. And as certainly as a virtuous woman is a crown of glory to her husband, so surely is a slovenly one a crown of thorns. An Insane Woman.

A young woman whose father's palatial residence in situated in one of the principal streets of Missouri's capital, recently in the space of a single twenty-four hours managed without discovery to get herself tied in the matrimonial knot of eight different men, and told them all to come at the same time the next day to obtain her father's blessing on their union. They all did so and the scene that ensued can be better imagined than desoribed. The lady meantime had left the State disguised as a Jew peddler. Two miners were Helena, Montana. frozen to dft-ith, at Jnst one kiss two faces met.

But the brows were knit and the cnecM wmn wet Just one kiss then np an But its mark will last lor many a aay. Just one kiss and just one word, Softly spoken and hardly beard Jut ono word that was said through tears, And told the story of all the years. Just one look from the deep dark eyes Just one prasp at a glorious prize Just one kies then up and away But ah I such a heavy dent to pay i Facts and Fancies. If yon court a young woman and yon are won and she is wod, you will both be one. A sarcatic young lady says that the most unpleasant things in nature are lovers and pigs.

The latest style of trimming the over-skirts of dresses is with chenille fringe and velvet or chenille trimming. During the last five centuries more than $250,000,000 worth of land has been washed away from the eastern coast of England by the encroachments of the sea. Holland has lost 8500,000,000. Titusville bridegrooms step upon hy-menial platform, adjust the fatal noose, and swing off into that silent bourne from whence they can never return save by the Indianapolis or connecting lines. The last subject discussed by a debating society was, If you had to have a boil, where would you prefer to have it?" The unanimous decision of the members was, "On some other fellow." Decalur, HL, boasts of a dog that never barks, but crows like a cock instead.

He has been brought up and educated among the fowls of the farm-yard, and has learned their language and forgotten his own. At Kansas City, tho drill whioh is boring a shaft for a coal mine went through a cave 44 feet deep before reaching the rock underneath. The bottom of th cave is nearly 800 feet below the surface of the earth. A gentleman riding in a Paris fiacrt indignantly abused the coachman for drivin so slow. The latter disdainfully replied Do you think that simply to please you I am going to spoil a pair of horses worth thirty-five francs." The Chinese have a custom at their weddings which we protest is no improvement upon our own practice, on those blissful occasions.

Instead of kissing the bride the bridegroom and guests slap her gently on the mouth with their sandals. It is a noticeable fact that im elite so-oiety flirting is not carried on in as great a degree as was formerly the case. It is indeed cause for sincere congratulation, as in most instances what was life and pleasure to one party was intense misery to the other. A Califarnia Judge recently had a gro-' cer brought before him for selling matches without stamps. He decided that the grocer had not violated the law which forbids expostag for sale" unstamped packages, because the matches in question were sold from under the counter.

Two citizens of Grundy County, Nevada, settled an old grudge lately by. a resort to the code. One of the duelists was armed with a revolver, and the other with a musket, which, either by accident or trickery, was not loaded. The result was that the man with the unloaded' weapon was killed. I weeded my friends," said an eccen-trio old man, by hanging a piece of stuir-carpet out of my first floor irons window with a constable announce ment affixed.

It had the desired effect. 1 soon saw who were my frieuds. It was like firing a gun at a pigeon-house. They forsook the building at the report. A man storming at a hotel in Bich- mond, lately caused no little trouble bv the repreheusive habit of walking about at all hours of the night.

Having established the reputation of a first-class somnambulist, he walked off to an early train with his carpet-bag as naturally as though he had been awake, and lelt his bill unpaid. Mr. Jones," said a clergyman at a pastoral visit, I neyer see yoa at church on Sunday evenings!" "No." replied parishioner to tell you the truth, I cannot very well get out on Sunday night, for I am obliged to take care of the children." "Why, how is tuai; have you no servants Off, yes I said poor paterfamilies we keep two, but they don't allow us many privileges." The Offended Dandy. I had quite laugh in the park the other day. Not far from where 1 was lounging' a gentleman was promenading, accompanied by a magnificlent grey hound, while just in advance oi mm walked a well-known dandy.

The gentleman called, "Bruno, Bruno!" The dandy stopped and looked around, but not kuowmg the gentlemen, quicaiy resumed his walk. Again the gentlemen called "Here Bruno come here 1" Upon this the dandy turned, thus angrily demanded, What is your pleasure, sir With you nothiHg." "Then how dare yon, not knowing me, thus address me ou a puuuu pium- enade Pray, sir if I may ask what is your name "How, sir Do you wish to insult me "But will you please give me your name quietly pleaded the owner of the greyhound. There is my card, sir And the dandy handed forth a slip of pasteboard. Why," said the gentleman, reading aloud.the letters upon the card, this is B-r-u-n-o-w. You need borrow no further trouble, sir.

My dog spells his name without the Stokes. Mr. Sonthack the father-in-law of Edward S. Stokes has been prostrated with two or three attacks of apoplexy since the tragic occurence. Pre-vus to the murder Stokes correspond-edregularly with his wife, who lias been in Europe some months educating her little daughter.

Since the tragedy he has reoeived no letters from her, and as at last accounts she was in Paris, the shock to her nervous Bystem in consequence of her husband killing a fellow-man, had probably prostrated her to a bed of sickness. A stage employee near Newtown, Kansas, fired at one Taylor, with whom he had quarreled, and killed a man named Merrill, friend of Taylor's whereupon Taylor hot and killed the itage-man. probably seen or heard of the automa ton chess-player which was exhibited throughout the United States some years ago. To such, ana to otners, the subjoined reminiscences, which we hnd in a late translation from the French, will be found interesting Maelzel and Mouret as partners, were exhibiting at Amsterdam before the king and court. The king had announced his intention of having a game of chess with the automaton.

The day arrived. Maelzel occupied himself with the decorations, to give the greatest eclat possible to the coming contest between the king and the machine "a mere machine, gentlemen The exhibition was ordered for 12:30 and as 12 o'clock sounded, his accomplice not being in the dressing-room, as was always his custom-, Maelzel stepped across the street to the hotel to hurry him tip. lmagiue his surprise to find poor Mouret in bed, covered to the nose with the blankets. Goodness gracious What do I see What is the matter cries Maelzel. 1 Oh, I've got a fever 1" coolly replies Mouret.

A frver How so You were all right at breakfast 1" Yes; but this has come on since like a clap of thunder." Well, but Why, the king is coming, man alive greatly excited. Oh, he will have to go back 1 cool as a cucumber. "But what can I tell him Tell him the automaton has got a fever. Oh, quit your joking, and get up 1" mperatively. Ah 1 but decidedly.

Why, we have never received more money for one exhibition." "1 know but you can give it back, The devil you say I'll run for a doctor." "No that useless." Why What can 1 ao is there no way to break the fever Oh I now you talk, ies there is a way one way. Tell me the way. "Pay me thUi Uiou owest Oh, well is that all Yes so will, when the soiree is over." No sir I must have it here. Now "Before we begin. I want the 2,000 francs that was paid you this All it Just that and no more and no less, Then I will play and not till then.

Maelzel looked the little man in the eye, but determination was written there. This was evidently no time for excuses. He had tho money, and his partner knew it, and, besides, was only asking what was his due. He looked at kis watch it marked 12:15, and His Majesty, who was known as a model of punctuality, would be there at He took out his pocket-book from his breast pocket, and counted out the four notes of 500 francs, ach, with groan. The cure was marvelous to behold for, as soon as Mouret's hand closed on the money, he jumped out of dressed, boots and alll The artful dodger had been watching for maeizel from the window, and when he saw him cross the street had just time to pop into bed.

lhe soiree came oil as appointed, and never had the automaton seemed to play with deeper inspiration. The king did not move the pieces himself he simply counseled his Minister of War, who played for him, but the coalition was completely routed in two games, The defeat, however, was put wholly on the shoulders of the Minister. "Had they won, it would have proba bly been the king who was the victor In this same city, a few days after wards, ended the travels of the machine in Europe. The partners separated, the best of mends, and Maelzel began his preparations for a tour in the New World, the details of which were ably recited in the Chess Journal, formeily edited by Paul Morphy and published in New York. Schlumberger, a German, and a very strong chess player, directed the movements of the machine, and the se cret was undiscovered, except by some boys in Baltimore, who, not having the cash to pay for an admission, climbed upon some sheds overlooking the rooms in the, rear and were so startled upon tne conclusion ol tho exhibition to see a little man in shirt-sleeves hop out of the machine, that they nearly broke their necks in their enorts to eret away, and upon reaching home, repeated what thev had seen.

These facts were published by a Balti more newspaper, but Maelzel had the good sense to buy its further silence. Bufr their fate was more especially set tled by some of the leading New lork and Boston papers, who took them up of their own free will, and combated them as the most preposterous ideas ever put lorth, and worthy of the childish minds they came from," and the machine con tinned to be considered the greatest mechanical triumph the world ever saw 1 Oh most learned pundits There was one thing among the numer ous instructions which Mons. Maelzel invariably gave his accomplice that de serves to be remarked. If any one, at any exhibition, should cry "said he, don't you be in the least bit alarmed. Depend upon me.

will get you out safe, if I die in the at tempt. Upon this pointhe was always extreme ly urgent and his reassn for it was this In the course of his travels he bad arrived one day at a little town in Germany. where a celebrated prestidigitateur, the Professor Anderson of that day, was giv ing his exhibitions. The automaton soon ecliped the lesser humbug, and he, in pique, jealous of the superior power of his rival, who caused his audiences to become small by de grees and beautifully less," closed his doors one fine afternoon, and went to see the wonder, determined, if possible. to discover its secret.

Fifteen minutes in its company, and this skillful manipulator of humbugs saw through the veil and knew there was a man in that box. Where he was concealed he eouldn say, but he knew he must be th-ere, and seconded by a friend, he raised the terri ble cry "Fire I'ue I I'ne 1" One can judge of the terror spread in the audience, and of the immediate rush for the door, but strange to relate, the automaton, too, partook of the panic apparently, for the most frightful noises came from its bowels, and a perfect suc cession of thumping and kicks, as though is was trying to DreaK loose lrom it6elf, while Maelzel Btood aghast static sp ecbless. His surprise, however, was only mentary, and was caused by the fact of catastrophe he had never prepared for staring mm in ine wee, menacing him hism has nothing to do with marriage. In other words, marriage is contrary to the principles of the Buddhist religion. So says a correspondent of the Palt Matt Uazelte, writing from Eangoon and he adds A Burmese damsel is demure, laughter- loving aud self-reliant.

Her manner is graceful and pleasing. She wears a bright silk petticoat, a white jacket, a gold necklace, and has glossy black hair decked with flowers. She often smokes green cheroot. Of course she has ad mirers, and sue gives them all a fair chance. Every evening she receives a visit from all these young gentlemen and such is the waywardness of human nature that the same swam will often pay similar visits on the same evening to other young ladies of the same village or township.

This courtship is always going on, and courting time has been an acknowledged institution from time im memorial. Here some explanation is necessnry. The Burmese evening is divided into three watches, viz. children's bedtime, old folks' bed time, and young folks' bed time, Children's bed time is sunset, or shortly afterwards. Courtiag time be gins soon alter children bed time, and it continues long after old folks' bed time, which is about nine o'clock.

Young folks' bed time depends a great deal upon the will aud pleasure of the young people in question; we will say about eleven o'clock. When the hour of courting approaches the young lady trims her little lamp, so that it gleams through the window, and takes her seat upon a mat on the floor, Meantime the young gentlemen have been putting on their best bright silk putzoes. a nondescript garment, some thing between a pair of trousers and a petticoat, have donned their clean white jackets, have tied colored silk handker chiefs on their heads in the most approved styles, and have turned out alto gether in the height of Burmese fashion. They enter, they seat themselves on the mats round the fair one, and then the 'chaffing" begins. If a gallant has been unsuccessful in a boat race, or has tumbled into the water, or has paid too much attention tu another damsel, or has been deserted by another damsel, or has made himself ridiculous any other way, the chances are that his feelings will be hurt before the evening is over.

How the lady receives each lover, especially in the presence of other lovers, is more than we can describe. She herself requires considerable, attention, and the old people never interfere. Indeed, why should the old folks interfere? The young folks can take care of themselves, tma are only doing what they themselves did in the days when they, too, were young. State pay and mile age of the United States State Legislatures is as follows Rhode Island $1 per diem, mileage 4 cents Maine $2 per diem, mileage 10 cents one way New Hampshire SJ.50 per diem, no mileage New Jersey S3 for forty days, after that $1.59, mileage 10 cents: Delaware 3 per diem, mileage 4 cents Minnesota S'3 per diem, mileage cents West Virginia, Michigan, and Nebraska, each Sj2 per diem, mileage 10 cents Oregon and New York $3 per diem, mileage 20 cents Tennessee $4 per diem, mileage 10 cents Missouri and Ken tucky each t5 per diem, mileage 10 cents Iowa $5 per diem, mileage 25 cents; North Carolina, Arkansas and Alabama each 6 per diem, mileage 10 cents Virginia, South Carolina and California each 6 per diem, mileage 20 cents Georgia and Mississippi $6 per diem, mileage 20 cents Louisiana 88 per. ditm, mileage 10 cents Texas So per diem, mileage 20 cents Nevada SIO per diem, no mileage Wisconsin pays $350 per annum, mileage 10 cents Pennsylvania $1,000 per annum Maryland 5 per diem, nnd cents per mile.

In Illinois and Florida the rate of compensation is fixed each session. A Singular Stoex. A strange story of swindling and malpractice comes from Detroit. A couple of doctors sporting the name of "The Twin Doctors" have been performing surgical operations and prescribing medicine solely for the pur pose of obtaining money. Among others they visited a farmer who had a boy about nine years old who has been a ripple for three years past, the cord of the right leg being drawn up.

The doc tors no sooner saw the boy then they said they could cure him for and so they strapped the boy's crooked leg to a straight board, but as the pain was terrible, and they found they could not bend the leg to any extent without the poor little fellow fainting away, they said they would cut the cords at the back of the knee, and then, they asserted, they could straighten the limb at once. The father fortuuately was aware that such an operation would ruin his child, paid the men the $25, and in his own words told them to "clear out. These brutes deserve State prison, and we are glad to hear the authorities are after them. FaelijE and Silk. The palest tints of silk are most stylish.

At the begin ning of the season only fine failles, worth or R6 a yard, were produced in the faint shadowy tints, bnt now cheaper silks marked $2.50 or 5w, are shown in a pale rose, sky blue, light green, and the delicate ecru and cuir shades, that com bine so prettily with rose and violet.and may be trimmed with either black or white lace. Thesa cheaper silks, when lined, are quite handsome, and are so covered with tulle, grenadine, and mus lin over dresses that their quality is not apparent. How they po rr. A printing office in Chicago is selling to anxious whiskey bummers the following blank lorm "Permit, Permission is hereby granted by me, the lawful wife of and I declare and witness by my own signature that my husband ha the perfect right and liberty to drink, and as often a he chooses to drink, and I hereby relinquish all the claims arising therefrom. IU B.J Fabmtno Lands in New Your.

The eash value of farms in New York has doubled during the last ten years, while the value of implements has ineieased from twenty-five to forty-five millions of dollars in value. We believe this is a fair index of the general advanoe in prop erty throughout the country during the lost decade. Once pob all." Mistress By the way Anna Hannah I'm not sure. Is your name 'Anna or 'Hannah'? New Cook (tartly) "Which my name is Anna, mum Haieh, Ha, Hen, Hen. Ha.

Haioh, 'Anna'" Mistress (giving it up in despair; Ah! Thank yon," AND FROM SUCH A SOURCE. A good many years ago the regiment to which I then belonged was quartered at Aldershott. After a long absence from England, spent on a parching reck in the middle of the Red Sea, bleak and dreary Aldershott seenied.a very paradise. It was delightfully near London, too; leave was easily to be obtained and a great part of my spare time, and more than all my spare money, was spent by me in the metropolis spent, I am ashamed to confess, in riotous living and much disorder. Still, had it only been that, I should, possibly, like many of my brother officers, at the cost of much subsequent pain, and weariDess, and pinching, have passed through my cycle of dissipation, and settled down at last; but, in addition to my youthful aberrations, I Lad a fatal predilection for games of skill and chance.

I was the best whist-player in tue regiment, and could hold my own with' the crack players of the clubs; and Lad I stuck to whist, which, in my belief, never ruined any man who had a head on his shoulders, I could have made a decent income out of my skill but my moderate winnings at whist were swallowed up, and much more lost besides, at unlimited loo, blind hookey, hazard, and other kin dred games. To crown all, I took to back ing norses, and lost at that, 1 need hardly say. A long run of evil luck beset me I had lost all my available funds, had mortgaged my commission to the utmost penny 1 could raise upon it. and found my- self, at the end of the Epsom week, fevered and parched in body, in soul wretched and despairing. 1 had come to the end of my tether I was regularly done up life had nothing but evil in store for me.

On the following week I should be posted as a de faulter on the turt 1 should leave the army in riiscrace, and such tidings would kill my Old widowed mother. Tt. was Sunday night I had been in London, trying to raise money, but uselessly; the Jews closed their fists to me. I only wanted a hundred pounds to pay my Der by losses; tins achieved, I could sell out, aud retiie without open disprace but 1 couldn't raise it. One man oflered me filty pounds lor my bill ot two hundred and titty pounds at three months, but I wasn't quite so mad as to take that I might as well smash lor a hundred as titty.

My last sovereign was changed in payini my hotel bill on that Sunday night. had a return ticket to Aldershott in my pocket, and a few shillings besides nothing else in the world in the way of available assets. I think if I had been possessed of a five pound note I should have cone down to Liverpool and taken a steerage passage to America. It was the limited extent ol my means which mado me resolve to go back to my quarters at Aldershott, and appear on parade the next cay. The clock in the coffee-room where I was sitting showed half-past eleven as the hour of night the waiter only was in the room, arranging his spoons and napkins in the buffet, yawning surreptitiously every now ana men, quite indillerent to the pro blems winch were agitating me.

Waterloo Bridge or Aldershott 1 must make up my mmd quickly another five minutes, and it would be too late for the one the Qiner was always open. Waiter, a ansom I shouted all of a sudden in a tone which made the man jump. At that time there was a train which lett not Waterloo, but some station a little distance down the line it might have been Vauxhall, or possibly Nine Elms, I scarce ly remember which lett the station at midnight. It was popularly known among us as the Cold-meat Train. Its passengers were dead bodies for the Woking Cemetery.

The railroad company, ever solicitous to accommodate the public and turn an honest penny, had, for the convenience of tne camp, amxed to this train -one first- class carriage. After leaving the dead bo dies at Woking, the carriage was run on to Farnborough, whence you could walk to camp, it you had not been prudent enough to order a fly to meet vcu. The hotel servant who ushered me to the cab got a hanasunie gratuity for his pains ic was my leave-taKing ol the world pleasure, and I was too insolvent to be careful about little matters. The cab sped me quieKiy to the station; but the clock at the hotel had been slow as we passed under the railway arch, a nremonitorv shriek from the engine overhead warned me that the train was on the pjint of starting. I stopped the cab at the bridge, and ran quickly up a narrow flight of step which led directly on to the end of the platform known only to the initiated the train was moving on, but 1 had just time, despite warning shouts of guard and porters, to open the door of the last carriage and jump in.

ne other compartments of the car rige I noticed were lighted, but this one was dart that didn't aflect me, 1 didn' want to read. I took out a box of wa matches ana proceeded to light a cigar, As the glow ol the match lit up the inte rior ot the carnage, I saw in the corner long dark object, quite black, and yet with some little metallic gleam about it it was a coffin, reared up at the farther side of the carriage, a. board being plsced behind it. against which it leaned. As 1 looked stead fastly at the coffin, it appeared suddenly to giow witn a iaint radiance.

Every nail and every plate upon it began to gleam w.th strange mysterious light. Bah it was the moon. We had just left the clonds of London behind us, and the great round moon, rising out of mer-mists, east her glorious beams right athwart us. But tuf ik! away from her in disgust. What wasahe beauty of the night to me a ruined spendthrift -the scorn and laughingstock of the world The black coffin on the other side was a more congenial companion to me.

I lit another match, and wad the. inscription on the iate "William Heath cote, died 25th May, 18, aged twenty live years." j. ne nair on my ceaa rose amass i i. my avai neiiri ceasea to oear. My own name, my own age, and the very date of the dav that was now lust born It chimed in, too, did this Inscription, si mysteriously with that impulse I had felt carriages are remarkably low-priced in Uerman.

cities. Kent, too, in rench and German cities is less thn in onrs, but then you get much less with it. The same comforts in New York and Berlin would not now cost so very differently. Still this does form a marked advantage with the Continental housekeeper in making both ends meet on a small income. The grand reason, however, of the su periority in this matter of the foreign we are convinced, lies in the fact that she looks closely after her kitcb- en.

tihe sees waste at once sue detects thieving or giving she can direct the application of each odd and ed she knows immediately if grocer and butch er and tradesman are putting down wrong items, or are overcharging. The mere fact of her overlooking the kitchen checks a great deal of petty jobbery. The kitchen being on the same floor with the drawing and bed-rooms, puts the Continental housekeeper at once on a vantage ground. Probably our basement kitchenB sink a good deal of our incomes. We doubt if most, American houseKeep-ers make a study of house management, The immense gain in the winter season of wholesale purchase of meats the lay- iag in of wholesale groceries, and careful watohing of them the using ol provisions, and checking of waste, are not much known in practice to our American matrons.

It is true that, owing to the democratic spirit of equality, the middle class here aim often at a style far beyond their incomes. And in the matter of dress and furniture, all classes are extrav agant. This general style canaot easily be varied from. Yet with all this, and under all our disadvantages, and with a taxation eating out our means, skillful financiering ought to enable our families to lay up one-fifth of an income of flye i mi i 1 Li. tnousana.

xne reiorm musi uegiu wnu our women, who, in American society, are absolute. They must be trained, as girls, more to accounts and house-man agement, and not be kept in such charm ing ignorance. And they must set the fashion of more moderate display in dress and house furniture, and show that high est business faculty of the cultivated lady, the power of producing effects of beauty in the homes by small expenditure of money. A Trinity Tombstone. Tender interest clings round an unpre tentious and almost undiscovered tomb, in Trinity Church yard, which is seen by but few it lies so close to that it may almost be touched from the sidewalk.

All old New Yorkers at least will recall the melancholy story of young and most beautiful girl, who, nigh upon a hundred years ago, was taken from a boarding-school by a British of ficer of high rank and by him- betrayed and deserted. Discarded bv her fneBds, she with her child were found by her father in wretched quarters, both at the point of death. The heart-broken parent wa? just in time to receive her last sigh and to close her eyes for ever. The pitiful story was written out in book- form, and was dramatized and played in every theatre then in the country, thus becoming familiar as household words to thousands who had no personal knowledge of any of the parties. Years thereafter the officer made such tardy reparation as he could, by placing stone table with an ex tensive silver head-plate over the remains of his dead victims.

This silver plate has been wrenched off and stolen by Bacrilegious thieves and now all that remains to mark the last resting place of these unhappy ones, is a plain brown stone slab, lying level with the paved walks in Trinity Church yard, and bearing but these two words Chaklotte Temple. Greatness of London. The population of London, according to the last census, is lhis vast multitude is more than the combin ed population of New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Boston, New Or leans, San Francisco, Buffalo, and AJle gheny Citv, Penn. To lodge these people, 777,000 dwellings are required, and the people confime annually about 4,480,000 barrels of flour, 420,000 bull ocks, 2,975,000 sheep, 49,000 calves, 61,250 hogs, and one market alone sup plies annually 7,043,750 head of game, This, together with 5,200,000 salmon irrespective of other fish and flesh, is washed down by 75,600,000 gallons of ale and porter, gallons of spirits.

and 113,750 pipes of wine. To fill its milk and cream jugs 22,750 cows are kept. To light its streets at night 630, 000 gaslights are required, consuming every 24 hours 22,270,000 cubic feet of gas. Its water system supplies the enormous quantity of 77.670,824 gallons per day, while it sewer system carries off 16,629,770 cubic feet of refuse. Japanese Fashion.

In Japan the ferrymen are held responsible for the safety of their passengers, and if one of these is drowned the ferryman is in duty bound to either drown with him or commit harikari on the instant. If he does neither the government very considera-tively relieves him of his head. The adoption of this principle with respect to railway passenger traffic in this country would probably have the effect of oonsid erably lessening the number of aecidsnts. Th Missouri Legislature has appoint ed a committse to receive the Grand Duke at the State capital..