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BOLUCILU Argoaaak irorporal Gtaea the Orderly erlsa. 'rv; waa Lha answer, load and el par. rrom the lips of the soldier who stood sear; id -Here!" was tha word the next replied. -rtTo Drewf than sHeooe fell Ybis time no answer followed the call; Aly bis rear man bad e-n Dim fall. jjjled or wounded, lie oould not tell.

w. fhev stood In the faumr He-tat. men of battle, with Brave, dark look. am plain to oe reaa as open poou, Bile slowly catbered tbe shades of nUitrt. me fern on the hillsides was plashed with hlood.

i ADd down In the corn where the popples grew. Were redder stains than tbe popples knew; far the foe had crossed from the other side That day In the face of a murderous fire. That swept tbem down In Its terrible Ire, sd their life blood, went to eolor tne tide. Herbert Kline!" At tne call there came Two stalwart soldiers Into tbe line. Hearing between them this Herbert Kline, founded and bleeding, to answer his name, Frra Kerr!" end a Tolce answered, "Here!" Hlram Kerr!" bnt do man replied.

bey were brothers, these two; the sad wind sighed. a shudder crept through the eorn-fleld near. rnhralm Deane!" then a soldier spoke: Ueane carried oar regiment's colors," he said: where onr ensign was shot I left htm dead. Just after the enemy wavered and broke. cioM to tbe roadside his body lies; 1 paused a moment and gave him drink: He murmured his mother's name.

I think, And death came with It, and closed his eyes." ktu a'vletory, yes, bat it cost as dear For that company's roll, when called at night, Of a hundred men who Went into the fight, numbered but twenty that answered "Here!" KELT SHOWS HIS MOTOR. Ant sMMtietaetexY Exkihitisa Glvea Yeeterday Tba laveatar meet Hta PaUI-adelpbia Warbabaa Teats er Preasare Shooting Off a Cannon nasi Kstasilag an Engine A Lack af Explanation. tSew York Tlroes.1 With several odd experiments, with a collation of sandwiches, oysters and champagne, and with a discursive talk, tbe most of which was unintelligible jargon, did Kr. John Karnst Worrell Keely entertain small party at his workshop. No.

1422 'orth Twentv-eeoond street, Philadelphia, jeterdav. There were about twenty-five persons "present. Of this number some blf a dozen or so were stock-brokers and bers pecuniarily interested in the Keely netor. The remainder were reporters from nrious Mew York papers. According to tie terms of tbe invitation Bent by Mr.

F. i -ruon fhaTMaanrnrnf thn Keelv Motor Company, the inventor proposed, "at the request of the metropolitan press," to give in exhibition of bis progress. No evidences were offered yesterday to show that there bad been any such request, but lUti tAUluitluu ib bjvou ail bun oatiuv. The workshop which was tbe scene of tbe exhibition is tbe property of tbe Company. It is a small two-story brick building resembling a private stable.

On tbe ground floor is a small ante-chamber, and behind it is a large apartmenTwhich was kept carefully locked and bolted yesterday. Visitors, as they came in response to the invitation, were at onoe shown upstairs. The room into which tbe narrow and steep staircase leads is a counterpart of the one immediately beneath. It was taken up yesterday with the preparations for luncheon, which were superintended by a local caterer lio seemed to understand the complications of Mr- Keely's apparatus and con-varaation quite as well as tbe inventor himself. Adjoining this room was a compartment of about the same size, and next to this another.

In tbe middle room of tbe three was the motor about which so much has been claimed by tbe inventor and tbe select circle of stockholders who Lave been, so to speak, revolving about las orbit for several years. Tbe motor proper is an apparatus about six feet long. It was raised from tbe floor on a stand. Tbe apparatus consists of three upright portions or cylinders, joined together by a complication of very strung copper tubes. Two of the-cvlin-drical vessels are counterparts.

Tbe third, lying in between, is very much heavier, and is nearly glpbuuvr in form. Its mas-si veneas attracts attention at once. Behind, and a little above it, was a graduated glass tube, in which was poured tbe small smount of water necessary, in enabling the apparatus to develop its extraordinary power. In front of tbe apparatus-was a siren of common pattern to measure interferences with an air current blown oat. It.

is circumstance trivial in i itself, but still worth noting here, that, although lr. Kee.lv in bis experiments seemed to rely on the screech of the siren for telling him tbe force evolved, be knew nothing whatever ol its make. At the rignt or the motor proper was a device for measuring pressure. It consisted of an iron bar, one end of which was attached to a "plunger," akind of piston-rod, one-third of an inch in diameter, working into a small chamber, to which tbe pressure of tbe force evolved was conveyed. Tbe other end of tbe bar was borne down with heavy iron weights.

The bar was supported by a fixed stanchion, close to tbe end of which the piunsrer was affixed. Before beginning his experiments, Mr. Keely was introduced to the strangers present, and they had an opportunity of observing carefully the personal characteristics of the man who has been able to obtain so much financial backing to carry out bis long-delayed and exceedingly slow plans. He is fifty-three years old, but looks much younger. He is above the medium height, and has a powerful and well-built frame.

Tbe fringe of hair which circles bis bead is very dark, as are also bis close-trimmed mustache and side-whiskers. His eyes are dark brown and deep let. In manner Mr. Keely Is deliberate rather than nervous, although he is very quick in his movements, especially when working aronnd bis apparatus. He impresses one favorably as regards his earnestness, although he'seems destitute of the ability to make himself understood or to explain the nature of his claims in intelligible speech.

in beginning, Mx. Keely told those present that tbe motor was all apart, and he proceeded, by putting a few bolts here and there, to put it in order. This done, the experiments began. He took about a gill of water and poured it into the glass tube already one. Th, ha nlainml.

did bot nroduM the fori. It passed into tbe motor first to the "introductory impulse," which was the globular compartment of the machine, then it flowed to the two side cylinders, ailed "side shells," or fifth compound. The water next impinged on tbe valve connected with the "molecular lead," which is under tbe globular affair. By (Qoving the two levers, which he did, Mr, Keely claimed that he brought out the ttuiic energy which is his force. At hrst, be said, be disturbed the equilibrium; then he "multiplied tbe atomic ether, or etherie impulse." This impulse, be went on to say, was manifested in the tube designed for tbo manifestation of the liberated interatomic impulse.

The tube meanwhile rotated, and the force passed to tbe "register of force," or producing propulsion. There is also a "negative vibrator," to be used whenever a vacuum is desired, and by its aid Mr. Keely claims to have surpassed tbe latest improvements of tbe Sprengel air-pump. lie showed, however, demonstration of this kind yesterday. From his conversation, as it progressed, he onlv intelligible portion seemed to be this: He claims that he is obtaining and utilizing the force of cohesion, or the force residing in the interatomic ether which physicist have put down as existing in til substances; liis descriptions of his apparatus and how tbe force- is produced were not always the same, bnt that given could be under the circumstances, and is lightly lees- unintelligible than most of 'hose which were propounded.

While giving his information as he best could, Mr. Keely all along kept an eye And generally a hand or two on the machine. All at once he opened the valve connecting with the siren, and there was a thrill screech. Upon hearing this and looking at tbe dial of tbe siren on which tbe number of interferences-with the air current were noted, Mr. Keely announced that there was a pressure of 20,000 pounds to the square inch.

Mr. Green interrupted, saying that the pressure waa an elastic pressure, as distinguished from hydraulic pressure. The calculation by mesas of Whutli tVilai vai i I explained by Mr. in re-ponse to the Times reporter's Inquiries. The weights at the end of tbe lever above described were put down by him as being JJ pounds.

Thla was multiplied by 43, us latter figure being composed of tbe Product of allowed for the fulcrum multiplied by because" tbe plunger was one-third of an inch in Two thousand pounds were added to tbe sum JJKalfor the lever, and 500 for friction. Jnese various amounts make an aggregate 20,500 pounds not of 22,000. asMr. fc-eely claimed. When the discrepancy was called to his attention he gave no continued to apeak of the W0 pounds, a looseness of speech with "Iw to cgures which characterized all 1 a.

his utterances. To show that the pressure was an elastic one, Mr. Keely threw his weight on tbe weighted end of the lever ua snowed tne "give" there was to It. The next experiments were with a small out very strongly constructed cannon. At first there waa plugged into it a packer of stoat rubber doth about one-quarter of an inch thick.

-As soon as it was secured the gun was connected with the motor by uieaus vi a copper in do about tnree-six-teenthsof an inch outside diameter, and with a bore of one-sixteenth of an inch. The inventor then walked to the machine, gave a twist to a wheel -like one of those in use on steam-pipes, and there was a toua report. i ne cannon was taken apart, and it was found that a chunk had been taken out of the rubber cloth and distributed in very fine pieces at the opposite side of the" room. The force evolved, said Keely, was equal to gunpowder. Then he took leaden ballet, about one inch in diameter, and put it into.

the cannon. There was again a loud report, and the bullet was fired about fifteen feet and through a plank three and one-quarter inches thick. Other bullets were shot against an iron plate and flattened. In these experiments the inventor, before exhibiting tbe force, rubbed a fiddle-bow against one of tbe copper tubes of the apparatus, producing a musical tone, er else rubbed tbe bow against a large tuning-fork. He said the motor was adjusted to a particular pitch and note, and that be had to sound one a little below; it in order to produce the.

proper vibrations in the apparatus which evolved the force. The- vapor which rushed through the siren and into the air whenever a tube was opened was blown out in little gusts, and opportunity was given to all to observe that it was without odor, save a little trace of machine oil, and that it was not inflammable. This being one of the fine bore copper tubes was connected with a peculiar engine in the room behind that where the motor was situated. 'The 'engine was called a vibratory one. Its weight, tbe inventor explained, was one and three-quarter tons.

It was also, like tbe motor, on a stand, although a cylinder belonging to it was below. There was no explanation of the mechanism. Those present saw a wheel revolve with a force aaid to be equal to thirty-horse power. There was, however, no test of the power beyond what was afforded in an effort by Mr. Keely, assisted by something like a crowbar, to stop the wheel.

He showed that he could easily regulate the apparatus and bring it to a stand-still almost instantly. The last experiment was on the stand on which the motor proper stood. A copper globe surrounded try a band of the same metal, like a meridian on an astronomical globe, was put down, and the encircling metal band was connected with tbe motor by a steel rod. Above the point of connection between the rod ana the motor was placed a box like a soap-box, and on this the tuning-fork was set. Tbe inventor gave tbe fork a scrape with bis fiddle-bow, and tbe globe began to rotate.

He said he bad to restrain tbe force or the copper globe would fly into fragments. The experiment was repeated with an attenf pt at insulating tbe globe so as to show that the force was not electrical, but tbe conditions were not of a kind to make tbe experiment conclusive. What the tuning-fork, on which so much store was set, had to do with tbe experiments, is a question. Tbe Times reporter examined it carefully. From tbe fork there led two long -tapes of iron or steel, like a long unwound clock-spring.

They led and were connected, however, with nothing, and the tuning-fork Itself waa not fastened to anv thing. It was difficult to see how the fork could have anv effect whatever, and no explanation of Mr. Keely's was sufficient to show its pertinency or use. A desultory conversation followed the performing of the experiments. Mr.

Keely' said his claim was that he had discovered not a new force, but a newly recognized one. lie bad not yet, he added, taken out any patents on his inventions or apparatus, and did not intend to before tbe mechanism had been perfected. This would take about six months. He had been already working at the apparatus for six years. 'He denied that the effects which the visitors bad noticed were produced by the use of electricity or pneif-inatic power, although there was nothing iu his explanations which seemed incompatible with the use of compressed air or compressed vapor of some kind.

Indeed, the great strength of all. portions of tbe apparatus seemed to render it particularly suitable for such work. In looking about the building the Times reporter had his attention directed to the locked and bolted room on tho ground floor, which is referred to above. The room is directly underneath tbe one in which tbe motor was placed, and in case any deception was intended it would not be ffr iPft use of the flower rooinTor the purpose. It would, in fact, serve the purpose only too well.

Power elsewhere developed might be brought to the lower apartment, and there so disposed as to admit of its easy introduction where needed above. Bearing these things in mind, the reporter spoke to Mr. Keely, saying faMr.Keely,new8papermen are naturally suspicious, and you must pardon me for asking you what I do. But you have requested our presence here, and have desired us to make what Inquires we choose. Now, we see a great deal of power is here, and we can not understand how It Is produced.

And we think that there may be something in the room below which produces this power. Can't you let us look into the room below, which is locked up?" Mr. Keely was taken greatly aback at this. He waited an instant before replying. Then he said that he would certainly not show what was in the room down stairs.

There was, he said, an apparatus which he was constructing for a California party designed for the lifting of heavy weights. The apparatus was one he could not show. Tbe next matter broached related to the continuance of the force or energy evolved. The experiments bad been begun at about half-past twelve, and they were very few. They called for the exercise now and then of a'coniparatively great deal of force, but not a great quantity.

At a quarter past four Mr. Keely, when asked about it, said the motor force was exhausted, or that it was in tbe motor "latent." He made no reply when asked why he did not exercise the motor continuously for a week or so at a time to show what it really could do. Thnre are a number of circumstances which must be taken into account in judging of tbe results of these experiments, and they were discussed at length by soine of the visitors after leaving tbe workshop. AH went to the question of the good faith or tbe conclusiveness of the tests. The surrounding circumstances, it was admitted by all, were not good.

The tests were made in the inventor's own work-shop, and no opportunity was afforded those present for examining the premises with tbe care that a proper investigation demanded. The explanations made were in general unintelligible. And it is a singular circumstance that, although tho inventor has been at work for six years on his apparatus, he has not even given a name to any part 6f it by means of which it can be clearly identified. When asked, too, to explain the principles on which it was based, be declined, saving: "It would takes week." Again, the exposition of the motor given yesterday waa after due deliberation, and the inventor asked for a publicity presumably because he felt' that his work was in a condition to stand scrutiny and criticism. It was to be expected, also, under tbe circumstances, that he would make the best showinc he could.

As it was, there was nothing done, in the way of appreciable results, in the tests of ester-da which persona are not able to do with the forces now in common use, and the methods euch as the- taning-fork apparatus and some of the jargon of apparent explanation brought to mind the subtle and ingenious devices wherewith professed alchemists were wont to beguile confiding persona of wealth two hundred years or more ago. On tbe other hand, however, there was nothing positive shown which would necessarily lead to the inference of fraud or deceit. The tests were simply inconclusive, without practical value, and left the matter where it was before. Cora rapaed ay the Baa's Heat. lEufaula (Ala.) Bulletin.

We all have au idea that be. weather was pretty hot last summer, bot we have from Elbert -Phippa, Randolph County, Gs, an ear of pop-corn that satisfies us tbe weather was just a little warmer than we thought it Keltrly every grain on this ear of corn was popped open under tbe intense heat of tbe sun, just as it the ear had been laid on a hearth close to a hot fire. In -popping open some of tbe grains flew off the cobb, but not many, and those that stuck are nearly wide open. TH First Horsae-a Xarrtaa-s. (Sam Francisco Chronicle.

The "first "celestial marriage" occurred by stealth, on tbe banks of the Mississippi Elver, near Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith "sealed" to James Noble a second wife, oblo's first wife soon died of a broken heart, and the second wife went insane and also died. When Smith married Noble tbe latter also married Smith to a second wife. Tbe first Mrs. Smith dung to the prophet until a mob killed him, and then married a Gentile, and at last accounts was sUll liTing at Nauvoo.

FRENCH eMr la. Fi The Ke- paaU at Faalt. Blackwood's Magazine. The best, the truest, the noblest of French women the women who are no longer yonng bnt know how to be old without regret- tbe women who re member and compare, whose knowledge of life enables them to gauge events, and whose position, character and authority place their attestations above denial these women are almost unanimous in declaring that, during tbe last five years, they and tneir sisters nave psupaoiy lost grouna.Dom in public action and in personal capacity. Ana mis is not tne querulous com plaint of worn-out eldership of persons whose views have changed with years, and who think the past superior to the pres ent Decause tneir own associations are connected with the past.

No; it is tbe thoughtful, unbiased verdict of nnwillinc judges, whose sentence gains still further wcignt oecanise it is in painful contradic tion to tneir wishes and affections. And it is not iu the more ancient ranks alono that these reluctant deponents are to be ioun u. juany oi tne younger women, too, are testifying against themselves each day, and are impartially nroclainiins; that society is fading, and that tbey themselves are arooping ana withering with it. -fc-ven the men are beginning to take some small part in tbe outcry which is swellimr no against the damage inflicted by democracy on society ana women. Next come tbe declarations of foreigners, of aliens who live, in France.

Their evidence can not be suspected, for they love France so earnestly, indeed, that they cherish not only her merits, but even her faults. Well, these strangers, of varied nationalities, possessing (many of tbem at least) old and intimate acquaintance with French society, and the accumulated world-wide experience necessary. to view that society broadly and measure it fairly these strangers assert, almost with one consent, that the French woman is passing away. Tbey say that her lumin-ousness, her instinct, her fancy and her sentiment have all diminished that she manifestly takes less trouble to please and to play her part in life: that her aptitudes are no longer exercised or applied as they were in former that her type of nlind is ceasing to be peculiar to nerseii, and that, as a consequence of these changes, ber charm has sensibly diminished. They observe that all this has haooened since 1871.

and on behalf of Kurope they raise their voices in protestation, xney entreat tne Republic to take note that the French woman is being stifled, and tbey appeal for her preservation aa one of the glories of France and one of the necessities of Europe. The world can not spare ber. Otber women than she bad realized the curious mixture of transient attributes, of artificial capacities, of acquired graces, of faculties and faults, of brilliancies and vanities, the accumulation of which makes up that strangely composite and profoundly conventional product, the modern lady; but no other women had achieved these ends as she had done, with such plentitude. such finish, and such ease, with such dexterity and. such adaptability to tbe ever-varying modifications called for by tbe unceasing evolution of usages and manners.

The success of French women all this has been so thorough they had gone so resolutely ahead of the men of their race they had so fully seized the front place in their land, that the rest of tbe world looked on with admiration, and came by degrees to regard them aa a generic but uncopyable pattern, as a sort of collective property of the earth, which every otber nation had an equal right to respect from afar, to extol, and to acclaim. The Frenchwoman in tho eyes of tbe world, of travel, of experience and of critical comparison, was one of the special outgrowths of our time. It is a glaring verity that; during tbe last years, French society lias lost a large part of its gayety and vivacity, of its dem-onstrativeiiess and naturalness. The wish for joy is manifestly growing weaker. Tbe French, who were once so resolute in their hostility to sadness, appear to be.

beginning to accept it tacitly, like the Kn-glisb. as a natural element of life. And more than all incredible as it may soundthey are, most certainly, becoming They used to be the most intelligent people upon earth they overflowed with vitality and animation tbey chattered and rejoiced all but they are often dull and silent. And as they talk less and laugh less, so, also, do tbey seem' to feel less tbe rapid impressibility, the comprehensive emotionality, Which were so eminently theirs, have apparently been blunted. And all this is particularly and especially true of the women; for th3 were rn farmer days fnfl eomplelest models of French capacities, so are they naturally the first to suffer when those capacities begin to wane.

It is they who have lost the most in this national decline, for it was tbey who had the most to lose. Tbey who were once so full of confidence and self-reliance, who were so buoyant, so enthusiastic, so optimist, and even so Utopian tbey, to whom life was a theater in which they were the applauded act rentes they, who had no doubts and no hesitations about either their talent or their performance, seem now to have become timid, diffident, suspicions and half-paralyzed by despondency. Festivities of all kinds are few many well known houses have closed their doors and receive no more; and in the homes which are still open to visitors there is a sort of chillness. Some of the highest placed and most intelligent women of the foreign colony in Paris are positively beginning to confess that tbey no longer care to know many French people, because most of them have become so dull. Social leadership is passing away into exotic hands.

There are still a few great ladies who retain their former chieftainship; but tbey can be counted on tbe fingers, and the reality now is that tbe French have drawn back from their old active contact with each other, and have left the care of hospitality to strangers and to Jews. In the Provinces the condition is worse still, for outside tho Capital there are no Spaniards, no Americans and no Israelites to re-placetneabsentnativea. And, furthermore, as the spirit of clanship ana of etty hostility to the Government is much' more activojn tbe country, as the good people there seem to consider it a duty to be lugubrious under tbe Republic, there is reallv almost an end of any social intercourse at all beyond the limits of the Department of the Seine. Taking the situation all round, it may be said with truth that there is no "more society in Franco in the old great meaniug of tho word, and that even in the'restricted sense of mere parties and dinners and dances, there is an enormous falling otr. And as it is with society, so it is also with women.

No more of them are being produced. The unceasing procession of fresh trl-umphers and of now potentates, which was so remarkable a symptom-of the healthy period of French society, has stopped altogether. Scarcely any. or the young beginners of the last ten years hsve made a name or taken a place. The conductors of amusement in its present reduced form are still a remaining few of the same ladies who directed it under the Kmpiro.

And all this is the work of the Republic Claeabne Brawn the Defensive. Belgravia-J Fifty years ago art in Kngland was practically all but unknown. People generally understood that it had something to do with the National Gallery and the Royal Academy, and tbat it was very expensive, and tbat in order to know any thing about it you must be born to tbe inheritance of an ancestral picture gallery, and must travel abroad to Rome and Florence. As to the possibility of its having any connection, then or ever, with their own every-day lives, they would as soon hsve speculated on the possibility of every English child taking classical Latin, and every agricultural laborer spending his spare cash on the purchase of Elzevirs or Bodonis. 'Art meant pictures and statues, and pictures and statues were sprriatitea for tbe same class which could afford to keep French cooks and thoroughbred race-horses and domestic chaplains and a score of game-keepers: For-themselves, thev" were perfectly centent to live iu ukIV houses, with-ugly carpets, ugly wall-papers and ugly furniture while the Interests of literature, science and art were sufficiently considered in three moldy-looking illustrated books on tbe drawing-room table, few coarse lithographs bnng upon the wall, and a squeaky piano In the corner, with an arsenic-green satin lining behind the: cheap veneered fretwork which dVerhung the key-board cover.

It was in these hopeless and hideous davs that I na mT" fellow-workers Krew up. As young men we began to feel tbat this was not all quite right. We were not born to the inheritance of picture sralleries, nor were we Dukes or Manchester manufacturers, that we should buy old masters, and give commissions to sculptors for preserving our own amiable features in marble tuists. Most of us were decidedly far from rich we belonged to the professional middle classes, almost without exception. I myself, as you doubtless know, began life as a (iovernment clerk, on a salary of 120 a year.

Prlgsby was a Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford Macmurdo, the author ot those charming lys on the early Flemish painters. was art critic: for the Hebdomadal Investigator Partingtotv who oust aa i last to aesigning was a student at the andam! and mv dear friend Mawkins is, a solicitor in an eery lane. Weeouldn'sandulge in collecting pictures; we eouldo even in those days (when- we were vet young and straggling) go to Rome" or Ffctrenos; but we bad an idea; that something might be done to make English home life a little more-beautif ul, little more cultivated and a little more refined than it nsed to be. We didn't see why tbe Dukes and the coun try- gentlemen -should claim to hare a monopoly of taste and culture.

We deter mined to set to work ourselves and to make our own homes at least as pretty and as renned as we Home people say we were selfish In our aims, mere culti vated voluptuaries who elevated oar own personal pleasures into our one standard of action. That, I think, is a mistake. To oe sore, we began onr refornts (at noire but, then, we began them at bono in the bops that our example might induce the rest of the world to follow us. We were silent preachers for years, and at last "onr unspokeu sermons began to produce their enect upon ocner people. A WILD RIDE.

A Xaaia villa Baetar axyerieset With essee-rUla Dsurias Usa War-Twe JUlee mm a Mole. Louisville Post. Although sixteen years bav elapsed since the late unpleasantness the events which occurred during that time are yet ireuu iu fcuo ujeojurT oi luufw woo participated in them. Although these stories have a trace of age about them they have 1 A. I iusb ilium vi tuuii auu are still very Interesting.

Yesterday afternoon a reporter was in conversation with a well- know physician of this city, when this sub ject was Drought up. "An interesttnir event occurred to me in my lifetime," remarked the Doctor.whieh might do to write up. In the year 1864, when the mierrillas- were nr nnmnrons in Kentucky, I was living with ray father in one ot tne mountain counties in the northern part of the State. One morning I started to go from my father farm to tbat of a neighbor, about four miles dis tant. I was dressed in a grayish-blue suit, with a close-fitting blue cap, and bad much tbe appearance of being a Federal soldier.

To make the picture complete, I was mounted upon a lanre. Taw-boned srrav was one of the strongest and wild est an una is in mat part oi tne country, trotted along the road at a brisk" gait, and in a short time had reached the Bummit of a hill about two miles romr home. The country around was very rongh and broken, and directly below me was a large ravine, at the end of which was a broad valley, in which there was a farm-bouse. I was sitting on my mule looking down into tbe valley when I saw three men step ont of the farm house below me. A glance sufficed to show tbat they were guerrillas.

They saw me about the same time I did tbem, and, taking me for a Federal soldier, started to get their horses. I knew I was in for it, and determined to try them for a two-mile race. The ravine runs so tbat tbey could ride up through it without me seeing them and come out on tbe road directly behind I determined to dodge them, and, turning my mule short around, I laid on whip and spur and started him down the road, and if ever a mule did its duty that one did. I had got about three hundred yards away when I heard a yell behind me and knew tbat tbe guerrillas were in hot pursuit. The race continued this way for about half a mile, the mule going at a break-neck rate of speed over rocks and stumps, and mv pursuers following close in tbe rear.

About fifty yards in front of me the road made a short turn, and by striking across tbo country I could cut off about half a mile to my father's bouse, but to do this I would have to jump a high fence. I -resolved to try the experiment, and running toward the fence struck the mule with the whip. He made a terrific bound, and in going over caught his hind foot on tbe fence, throwing bim violently on tbe ground on tbe other side, while was sent over his head about twenty feet. I on the broad of my back in' the mud, and was not hurt in the falL I gathered myself up, and, looking around, saw the mule walking away. I instantly went to him and jumping on him agaiii galloped off.

By this time, however, my pursuers were close on me, and when they saw me ride away a second time, opened fire. One bullet struck me on the shoulder and another glanced along the mule's back; making a slight wound. Tbe pain made the animal perfectly wild, and be struck striking a direct line I aP I ifTTouie. Just ahead of us was a farm- bouse, on the other side of which two roads forked, one leading in a roundabout way to my father's house, and the otber and broader one leading across the country. The mule made straight for the house, and clearing the fence at a leap, dashed through tbe yard and out on the road.

He turned down the narrow road and we were soon out of sight of pursuit in a strip of woods. The guerrillas also came through the farm-yard, but took the wrone road. The frightened mule still continued to run and I was powerless to stop him. In a few. moments he halted me in my father's yard.

The next day I made inquiries about the matter, andfonndont who the gentlemen were. All of them turned out to bo men living close around. I did not venture out for week afterward, and when I did I took care not to dress as a Federal soldier. Since I bavebeen practicing medicine here I have met a couple of guerrillas who chased me, and I am now treating one of them. We ofteu got together and laugh over the matter, but it was no laughing matter for me that day.

As for the mule, I kept htm until he died, which occurred a few weeks ago," Kspreekt4 a Lawyer's Clerau A Parisian criminal who, having taken for his "Onward and Upward," seems not unlikely to ascend to the scaf fold, has Just beeu found guilty of- murder the Tours Assizes, and sentenced to denth. Morisset. as this individual is called, was employed as clerk to tbe Notary at Toura. When he entered upon this career he bad already written several pieces iu poetry and prot-e, and attempted to commit sufcide because' tbey 'did not come up to his own standard of the Whiln with the notary be wrote au essay upon the well-known text, "Property is ana proceeaca to exemplify his nicaulng by conveying to his own use a sum of j00 roui his employer's cash-box. Tbe tbeft was discovered, and Morisset Ought to have been grateful to his employer for not banding him over to tbe police, but instead of that he deter mined to murder him at the first opportunity.

One evening in June he thought that tbe time bad come but while on his way to his late employer's residence with a loaded revolver he met several persons singing a song, the chorus of was, "Ah I ah I behold 'this ne took as a per. sonal insult, and fired his six barrels into the crowd, wounding one. of them in the thigh and another in tbe calf of the lee. He then reloaded' bis revolver, and made for the Notary's bouse, but he met' on the way an 'unfortunate railroad clerk, and without any provocation shot him through the stomach. He was captnrea Derore ne couia ao any further mischief, and when in prison declined to defend though be de clared himself fully responsible for' his actions, and would not hear of his counsel leading lunacy as an excuse.

The jury id not give him the benefit of extenuating circumstances, but the President of the Republic iaao averse, to signing tbe death warrant that be may after all escape the guillotine. Basttas; Carta. Kingston (3J.T.) Freeman.) There are two cats in tho upper part of the citv, who when they get vexed at each other stand on their hind legs and box like a couple of pugilists. Whether this trait is a natural one or- whether tbey have acquired it by seeing boxing-matches Is not known Dy tne owner, nev, nowever, have had several scientific blows, which they deliver with precision; and usually with intense effect, the claret often flowing, and a tremendons growl at the same time. One of their favorite blows is that which in pugilistic parlance is-called the delivered directly on tbe nose from above, vt nen mis mow taites effect the fur flies, for the animal's nose is so small tbat tbe fist oi ua cat also takes in a portion ot tbe face.

1 Tat Oldest Uytas; Twrsta. IReldsville Times: Probably tbe 61dest twins "existence in all 'this country are Oeorgs and Edmund Oravelv, who, in good health, are tin livinir within five miles of each other. and within three miles of where they were born, at Leatberwood in Henry County, Virginia. They will be ninety-three years old tbe 1st of December, 1881. Their mother lived to be over one hundred, and their father died at the ago of ninety.

Ieatherwood is tbe same place in Henry County where, in 1881, ninety-six Qravelys voted the Whig tlokat. -r A II sanae af JUIe at taw CMsftael A writer in a recent number of the Con tinental Times, of Geneva, gives a lively description of the famous Spa of Carlsbad in Bohemia, from which the following ex tracts are taken i Tho royal free town of Carlsbad, at pres ent crowded to excess by a cosmopolitan gathering of real or imaginary valetudinarians, is situated on one of the most malodorous little rivers in Christendom the Tepl and, when approached by road from Marienbad, may be said properly to commence at a auspeosionDridge. spanning that offensiva stream between two -prettily laid-out promenades, dedicated to the recreation and rest of those whom congested liver, goat, rheumatism and other painful human ailments have condemned: to absorb a certain quantitv of Dame Nature's vilest brews in tbe hemian bead-quarters of medicinal waters. Carlsbad, as a town, is not particularly picturesque a long, atrairgling collection of green and white houses, built terrace- wise on steepish hillsides flanking the dirty Tepl. On the right, bank of the river is situate tbe renowned hot-epring, commonly known bv tho name of SnrudcL and said to be unique of its kind.

Nearly opposite the massive oaken basin through which tbe Sprudel spouts, gushes and steams incessantly, day and night, frowns from the opposite side of the nver the enormous rock to which, if the pet legend of Carlsbad be founded upon fact, the famous spring in some degreer owes the original discovery of its healing virtues. About tbe middle of the twelfth century Kaiser Karl who was passionately addicted to field sports, happened one day to be "a chasing of the wild deer and following of tbe roe" in tbe highlands' adjacent to the Valley of the Tepl. His hounds. goodly pack, ran a stag of ten to such desperate straits that the hard-beset monarch of the glen leaped from a projecting point of the mountain ridge overhanging tbe river down a precipice into the stream it self, some four hundred feet below. He must either have lumped very tar out or have found strength to drag his broken limbs some distance from the spot upon which he fell, for the Imperial dogs.

which scrambled down the bill-side after him, found his body half boiled in a seething spring, ana Burnt tneir noses areaaiuuy ui spin tea out futile attempts to tackle tne carcass. Attracted by their piteous howl- In in. His A Dos to Lie Majesty hurned down to the already cooked deer, -and when he saw what had happened to his game very naturally flew into a terrible passion, for venison boiled, especially in strong min eral water, is venison spoiled. As soon, however, as he had surmounted Dis hrst pangs of disappointment and anger, being a Monarch who always had a keen eye icr tne main cuance, ne Degan to renect that the plentiful up-springing of hot fluid from the earth's bowels was a phenomenon of rare occurrence, possibly to be, turned to some eood and profitable account. So he ordered his body-surgeon, one Father Bayer, to investigate and report to him upon tbe nature and attributes of tbe steaming source.

That reverend leech analyzed the water according to its lisrhts. and pronounced it to be possessed of ex traordinary hygienic properties. Kaiser Karl happening just then to suf fer acutely from au affection of the right hip-joint, very pluckily (considering the rejuaices ana Bupersiiiious ox tne age ue vea ini usea tne rspruaei i reel v. at nis doctor's derived such wonderful benefit from it tbat be ordered a commemorative castle to be built on. aud a small town at the foot of, "the rock from which tbe despairing: atacr had taken a header in the extremity of its fear and anguish.

Tbe rock is still called "The Deer's leap" (Hirschensprung); but tbe castle, erected A. D. 1364, has long since crumpled into dust and utterly vanished. Carlsbad, however, remains, and is pros perous. iMot unmindful oi its an tiered founder, it has set up the figure of a stair on a natural rock-pillar near the summit of the Hirschensprung, from which one may take in tbe hole of tbe town and Tepl Valley at a Bingle view.

Peter the Oreat climbed to this lofty point and his visit is commemorated by a squsre stone block, upon which is engraved a Latin in scription, in letters of gold. most curious 'and interesting sight in Carlsbad is unquestionably the Sprudel. Its water, of a pale yellowish color, literally boils as it issues from the ground. When a short distance off, you can not dis tinguish tbe jet itself for the dense cloud of steam gathered around and above it. It will cook any thing for you tur place, rom an to an elenhant.

The heieht to which the jet usually rises varies be-tween two and four feet, but you will do wisely not to stand too near it, for every now and anon, asthopgh subject to intermittent spasms of fury, it bursts up, in a thick column of seething liquid, to twice its customary altitude, scattering boiling splashes far over the orinic oi its oaken oasin. it tastes like weak chicken broth into which a bundle of old-fashioned, lucifer matches has been accidentally dropped and left to Among otber startling properties it pos-xases that of petrifaction. Any object im mersed in it for a short time will be com pletely covered by a thin, hard coating of a greenish tingo, very pretty to look at, but unpleasant to think of in connection with your mucous membrane. Its capacities in thia particular line of business are so pow erful that if vou chance to fall asleep after lillinz up" with Sprudel. and before vou have digested it, it will turn your inside into stone with a promptitude worthy of a hotter cause.

Consequently, it behooves persons of somniferous proclivities to be somewhat particular about keeping their eyes oen while they are going through a treatment of Sprudel, seeing that a casual snooze may result in imparting to tbem a statuesque character that is wholly incoiu- patiDle with too attainmont of extreme old age, though not so, from a memorial poiut of view.with immortality. Toawaken from a refreshing nap and find one's self converted into a monument is not altogether an agreeable surprise. Haw ta Eat Bread. Nineteenth Ceutury.J I have before me the picture of a magnified section of the wheat grain. I see that all the central and by far the larger part of this section is composed of the cells from which alone white flour is made.

Analysis tells us that these cells contain a very large proportion of starch, and a small percentage of tbe nourishing substance known as Surrounding this white portion of each grain of wheat are five layers of other cells and outside all is the hard skin or "cortex" a wody, fibrous and even flinty covering, whicfi contains nothing valuable as human food. But the layers of cells lying between this- bard skin and the central white portion are rich in materials which go to support life. The inmost laver that next to the starchy center' is composed of large cells, chiefly formed of gluten. The remaining' layers are full of usefnl mineral matters. Prop erly to sustain human bfe and health, it is needful that a due proportion of all the materials which exist in each of these parts of tbe grain respectively should be taken in food.

There are but few articles of diet which. contain them all, and in the right propor tions; among tnose are milk, and eggs, and bread made from the whole of the wheaten The office of each of tbe constituents of the wheat is definitely known in regard to the support of life. The starch is valuable as a heat producer. The gluten goes to form flesh. Tbe phos-phatic salts and other mineral matters go to tbe formation of bone and teeth, and to the nourishment of brain and nerves.

And bread reformers tell us that the cheapest. the most convenient and most universally way of getting the required proportions of these various necessaries of life into the system, is to take them in tbe shape of properly made wheaten bread. The objection to white bread may now be readily guessed. It contains but a part of the needful nutriment nd that part in too large a proportion. And tbe whiter it fa.

the worse it is in these two respects. Any oue who had to' live upon it. and upon nothing else, would starve his bones and bis brains, and would speedily lapse into Too large a proportion of starch is retained in tbe preparing of white floor; a large proportion of muscle and tissue formers, and almost all tbe material for formation of boBe hnd nourishment of nerves and brain, being rejected, and put to other purposes. For some reason or otber we have been for generations wasting a great deal ot precious human food. What is brown bread as commonly made? Generally nothing more nor leas than white' flour, with some of tbe outer husst the hard, in-nutritious coatings of the grain coarsely ground and mixed with tbe flour, it is, as an article of diet, even worse than the pure white bread, for tt adds to the negative disadvantages of the-" latter its own positive disadvantage.

TJiis disadvantage consists in its irritating property, which is owing to the presence of the rongh, hard, indigestible husk. It behavior when eaten, is, by its mechanical action, to irritate tha alimentary canal, so that the'food does not actually remain long enough in tbe body for wbat nourishment it contains to be duly 'absorbed and asslmiiauxf Such bread is thuanot only wasteful in it own material, but also of tha human Ufa waAfraaj With tW IXBOKESLL. The objection to whole-meal bread is 1 than to either of the former kinds. Nothing aaid against white bread applies to it at all. We have it in the precious pbos- phatic salts In sumclency, ana also gluten and albumen in tbe full proportion.

But the drawback of the brown oread remain. The whole-meal bread contains the flinty cortex, or skin, and, as commonly ground between stones, the harder parts xf the grain (including tbe hardest of all) are left in coarse. angular bits. This bread is, though intrinsically richer in nourishing matters, ao leas irritating than common brown bread; And the nu triment is, therefore, not luliy extracted from it by tbe eater, beeausa its irritating property shortens tha time of its diges tion, and does not allow the system time enough properly to assimilate iC This objection to brown bread whether of the ordinary innutritions kind, or the more modern whole-meal bread is felt strongly oy tne wonting classes, wno, witnout reasoning on tbe matter, find their way to the right practical conclusion in regard to it. Such persons, never having had the chance ox geiumg a brown oread which is not irra- uuuig, auu aauuaLiug una drawback with the brovnnest of the bread, con tinue to prefer and buy white bread.

And the whiter it is, the more they believe in its excellence as an article of food. The wheatrtumeal bread that we desire to see substituted for the only serai-nutritious ar ticle sow in vogue among the poor is stated to be of such efficiency as food that a shilling's worth of it will provide an ample meal for nine grown-up persona. Aotnmgiscuscaraea in preparation oi the wheat-meal except tbe innutritious outmost skin of the grain. The five layers of cells containing the valuable mineral matters before named are all retained. The superior digestibility of wheat-meal bread over other whole-meal bread depends upon two characteristics special to itself: First, its freedom from the bard, objectionable and useless outer akin sec ond, tbe tineness to which the meat com posing it is ground.

These two character i sties distinguish it from all other brown breads made in England and insure its complete wholesomeness. In ordinary orown oread, as in whole-meal oread, there exist "split chaff, awns and other bristly processes, besides, in some cases, debris ot various kinds ana pran-nakes. These matters are wbat cause the unsuita-bility of such bread for the ordinary diet of the majority. Wheat-meal bread is made from meal freed from these irritants. tbe grain having been subjected to a process of scraping, called decortication, before being ground.

The other result tbe fineness of the ground meal is obtained by the use of suitable steel mills. Only in a steel mill is tbe fine grinding of the harder parts oi the grain posaiuie witnout damage to tue quality ox tne, grain. Ground in the ordinary way between stones, the branny portions of the grain are necessarily delivered in those large. angular flakes which are tbe cause of tbe irritating and indigestible properties alike oi common and oi wnoie-meai Drown bread. By the use of a well-adapted steel mill the grain is cut or chopped iuto mi nute fragments of a granular form.

Be sides avoiding the evil just noted, this process has a further advantage tbe nutri tive properties so treated undergo none oi tbe deterioration which always 1 accom panies tbe fine crushing of meal between stones. Such fine crushing develops much beat; which beat, in technical phrase, "kills the quality" of tbe meal, so that it is impossible to make really light bread from Besides thia fine, steel mill grinding, it is especially important that tbe meal be passed through an eigh teen-mesh sieve, as further security against the retention of any large or angular particles. Wbat will not pass tha first time should then be This simple but perfect process completely remedies tbe irritating quality of the G1MBETTA FAMILY. Tka Belattaas 1 tttm Onat Fi scat Ora- tor a ad Hta Paris Letter in New York Tribune. Gambetta has not many relations, and he was brought up, it should be remembered, among the kindred of his mother, wno is a native oi Montanban, in France.

Her estimable sister, M'lle Massabie, kept house for bim in tbe most glorious part of bis career, which was from 1871 to 1876. In --that period he fought a good fic-ht against the 'Reactionists at Versailles, and was the great organ through which demo cratic enthusiasm uttered what it felt. Poor M'lle Massabie was an honest and warm-hearted old woman. All her senti ments were deep aud strong, and she was entirely without false pride or pretension of any sort. On one of the happiest days of her, life she was felled by paralysis.

It was at the second wedding of ber niece, Gambetta's only sister. Her nephew, a few weeks previously, had shared with Thiers the honors of Grand Elector of France. The first Chamber un der the existing Constitution had been elected. It was the one which MacMahon dissolved in 1877. From her I understand tbat Joseph Gambetta was a selfish, mean-spirited tradesman.

He never spoke about his own relations to bis wife until lie went toXiee, where hefell in again with a brother in iainy prosperous circumstauces. uam-betta incidentally once mentioned ta nm a first cousin of his, of his name, who was a lawyer at Genoa and was almost a fanatical disciple-of MazzinL The great orator has obtained for his hrother-in-law a place tbe receipt rI customs in Paris, which brings him a salary of a year, and ight and fire wood in the wing of the liouvre set apart lor tne Minister of i nances and his staff. With these hand some emoluments there is the hope of epecdy promotion. A Iteep Ofeea Ejtke. Jacksonville Record.

Several of our citizens returned last week from the Great Sunken Lake, situated in tbe Cascade Mountains, about seventy-five 1 V. i 1 1 mi mut-a hoi Ln-rwwsw injiu ackiiuuruiB. tuis lake rivals the famous Valley of Sindbad the Sailor. It is thought to average- two housand feet down to water all around. The depth of the water is unknown, and its surface is smooth and unruffled, as it is so far below tbe surface of tbe mount ains that air currents do not affect it.

Its length is estimated at twelve or fifteen miles, and its width ten or twelve. There is a mountain in tbe center having trees upon it. It lies still, silent and mysterious in tbe bosom of the everlasting hills, like a huge weu scooped out by tbe hands of tbe giant genii of the mountains in the un known ages gone by. and around it tbe primeval forests watch and ward are keep- ng. in vismng party nred a rine into he water several times at an angle of fort v- five degrees, and were able to note several seconds of time from the report of tbe gun until tne pan struck the water, tsucb seems incredible, but it is vouched for by our most reliable citizens.

The lake is certainly a most, remarkable curiosity. A Key tm Claac Philadelphia Times, The Examiner's report in the divorce suit of Mrs. Kadcliffe against Kdward 11. Radcliffe. filed yesterday, is another ex emplification of tbe fact that "the best laid schemes Of mice and men gang aft aglee." Kadcline, having developed a tender regard for Annie Ford, of Bucka County, invented a secret alphabet for purposes of correspondence.

Kverv thing went smoothly until Radclift'e gave the key to his brother-in-law. me latter promptly informed Mrs. Radcliffe, who got possession of a number of letters to her husband written in hieroglyphics, which, when Sroperly revealed fathomless eptbs of passion aud sentiment. AaOM lUaae. Her Seattle hatt vs wondrous wyde.

All furry, too, on every syde, Hoeoutshe trlppetta dalotylle To let ye youth fall well to see Bow 'ay re ye mayde ys for ye brydsw A lyttle puffed, may be, by pryde, 8he yett soe lovely ys that I'd A shyllynge gyve to tye, perdie, Ber Seattle halt, Ye eoales ynto ye scuttle slyde. Bojrn her hatt wolde asd hyde, Tostelesome kyases two or tbree; Hot ayoee she never aaketh bm, Te scornful ey ale doth deryde i iter scuttle batl F. D. Sherman. In October Bertbner.

Last month there were stationed in England and the Channel Islands eleven regiments of cavalry, forty-one battalions ol infantry. eleven batteries of Royal Horse sixty-eight batteries of field and garrison artillery, and twenty- two companies of Royal Engineers. In Scotland tbe total establishment is represented by only one regiment of cavalry, two battalions of infantry, as many batter ies ot artuierv, and a company ot ltoyai Engineers; while it is still deemed necessary to main tarn In Ireland six regiments of cavalry, twenty-five battalions of infan try, three battalions oi rtoyal itorse Artillery, eight batteries of field and garrison artillery, and the companies ot Royal Engineers, or about thirty thousand men. Tmt latest invention reported by a Jap anese journal is that of Otsnka Minakichl, who, after extensive ex perimenta, is aaid to have succeeded in making rifles ot silk. Tbev are described "as rigid as iron guns.

while tbey are easy of carriage and have a arv lAma, tuffa.ff HAWKEYE SHOTS. A nm. is always down in the mouth. A cxDKB-PMss is sappiest when It is at work. GrrrzAU is feeling quite UL but he.

is afraid to call in a physician, fearing tha authorities may send Dr. Bliss. i "Does it pay to keep chickens asks a correspondent in Yellow Spring. Of course not, you lunatic it pays to sell 'em, A max out in Kansas has, two baarta. What a man in Kansas really needs is two livers.

Then he will have last about enough dyspepsia to go around. Soaw of tha new styles of ladles hats are so extensive in diameter they hava- to be worn on the shoulder-bladen. And tha largest hats are worn by the smallest women. A cioar factory in New Tork waa de stroyed by fire one night last -week, and four million cigars were burned. And tbey didnt make any body sick, either.

except tbe owner of the factory. The New Tork -yachts irnwar to ba no lit on the Cornell model. They dont seem to sail very fast, but their staying qualities are Immense; in fact they are tasters come in last every time they sail. Thb otber day a thief nicked tha Docket of 9 Congressman. Now.

no man can aav that that thief handled honest money. (And, brethren, we'd just like to see any nody hang a libel suit on that little remark.) So HAHT Colleges hava tin mart In tha United States this fall, it is feared that our Doating interests msy suffer seriously next year. True, Cornell still stands. But that's tbe gaul of it; what we want is a boat crew that can go. Go To." the man said when tha mat helped -him over tbe fence: but he really thought there must be half a doaen at least.

(To tell the honest trutb, he didnt say tbat at all; but we cant print what he really did- say, and we have to print something'.) Atx, about thb wxathkb. Pretty warm." tbe man with tbe thin clothes said to the man in the corner seat. as tbe South Hill car was coming down tha Division-street steps. "What's pretty warm?" growled tha man in the corner. Why, the weather." "What weather?" more gruffly than everr Why." the, man with the thin clothes said, looking as though he wished ha hadnt begun It, "this weather." "eu," said tne man in the corner, how's this weather different from any other?" The man with the thin clothes looked nervously at tbe dun mule and said.

"It was warmer." "How do yon know it is?" asked the man in the corner. The otber man began to wish ha waa well out of it, and said he supposed it was ne naont neara now tne "Isn't tbe weather the same every where?" savagely demanded the man in the corner. Why. no." the man with the thin clother replied, wishing to goodness he bad a newspaper to hide behind, "no; its warmer some places, andV some places its colder." "What makes it warmer in some places than its colder in others?" remorselessly pursued the man in the corner. Why the man with thin clothes said piteously, "the sun the effect of the sun's "Makes it colder in some places than it's warmer in others roared tbe man in tbe corner indignantly.

"Never heard ot such a thing." with thin clothes hast ened to explain. "I didnt mean that. The sun makes it warmer." "Then what makes it colder?" pursued tbe remorseless man in the corner. Tbe man in thin clothes wined tha beaded Perspiration from hia rravl 1 i 1 hmw and said slowly be guessed "it was tha ice." "What ice?" demanded the inquisitor. "Why," the victim said, with everr symptom of approaching dissolution apparent in his tremulous voice.

"The los that was frozen frozen by the frost." uia you ever see any toe tbat wasni frozen bowled tbe man in the comer, in a fine burst of derision. Tbe man in thin clothes huskily whis pered that he wished be was dead, and said. "No; tbat is. he believed he didnt." "Then." thundered tbe man in tha cor ner, "what are you talking about me man in thin clothes made an effort to brace up, and spicily replied that ha was trying to 'talk about the weather." "And what do you know about it?" trW umpbantly roared the man in the corner. What do you know about tbe weather?" The man in thin clothes lost his grin sgain, and feebly said tbat "he didnt know very mucn aoout it, that was a iact." And then he tried to be cheerful and.

work In a little joke about nobody being able to know much about the weather, but tha man in the corner sat down on him with a tremendous outburst "No, sir! I should say yon didnt. Toa come into this car and force yourself on the attention of -a stranger, and begin to -talk to me about tbe weather, just aa) though you owned it, and I find you dont know a solitary thing about the matter yourself selected for your topic of conversation you don't know one thing about meteorological conditions, principles oar phenomena you cant tell me why it is wsrm in August and cold in December you don't know why icicles form faster in the sunlight than they do in the shade you don't know why the earth grows colder as it comes nearer the sun 1 you cant tell why a man can be sun-struck in the shade you cant tell me bow a cyclone is formed nor how the trade winds blow you couldnt find the calm center of a storm if your life depended on it vou don't know what a sirocco is nor where tbe south-west monsoon blows you dont know the average rain fall in the United States for the past and current year; you dont understand the formation of fog, and you cant explain why the dew falls at night and dries up in tba day; you dont know why a wind dries tbe ground more quickly than a bot sun: you dont know one solitary thing about the weather, and you are just like a thousand and one other people, who always begin talking about tba WMthar hAeavflMA thnv r4nnfc kniw akn-v thing else, when by the caves of Boreau, sir, tbey know less about tbe weather than tbey do about any thing else in tba world And the man in the corner glared up and down at tbe timid passenger in the South nm car, dui no man durst answer mm. And as for the man with tbin clothes, ha didnt know for tbe life of him whether ha had a sun-stroke or an ague chiU. Ua only knew tbat it seemed about twenty- seven miles to the Jenerson street ing. Art la tha Baadalr.

Pt James' Gazette. October Mh.1 Tbe following advertisement culled fr a trench newspaper contains a sen ten ea which shows wbat accomplishments are expected of a good lady's maid in these times: Kxoellente Fein me de Chambre. Ang-lal bonne Catholiqae, parlant franca la, aaaaaat falre les robes, coiner et stoater les gitatr com- leur: Desire se placer. "Handling tbe four colors" means paint ing a lady's face according to tbe principles of high art. Tbe four colors are arpsa, or black, used to darken the eyebrows and elongate the corners of the eyes so sa to give them tbe almond shape so much appreciated Marie de prrie and tarsus, used separately or together to impart a delicate rose-bloom or a nice creamy tint to the cheeks, and bleu de vrinrs, which is required for the delicate tracing of little veins on the side of the forehead.

Tba "good Catholic Englishwoman" who can ply her four colors is rather modest in describing herself plainly aa a "femme de chambre," for it seems some of the ladies of her profession have begun to advertise themselves by tbe prettier title of artitea-eriere, ba Cava Artker Uta aUstasu Troy Times. 1 Our lively Little Falls correspondent writes "A lady once moving in tbe beat society in New Tork now real dee at Little Falls, snd knows tbe meaning of 'might have When President Arthur was a poor young man and fifteen years younger than this lady he proposed and was rejected. The lady is well-known here, and does not refrain from mentioning ber 'lost opportunity- as mist rasa of the White House." "Cah I sea the lady of the house Inquired the peddler. "Well, yea, you can if vou sunt blind snapped tba woman who had answered tha bell. "Oh.

bag pardon, madame I yoq are the lady of tbe bouse, then." "Yea, I am What d'yer take ma for? Did yer think I was tha gentleman of tbo house, or the next door neighbor, or one of the farm bands, or tha eat, or tba ice-chest?" "I didnt know, madama, but vou might be the youngest daughter." "Oh, did yer? Well, that was nat'rsL too," replied the of the h. "What d'ye Then tha peddler: displayed tba wares, and when ha left that doorstep half an hour later hia faca waa full of pleasure siid his pockets were full of Ha understood human nature and had made a food sals Boston Transcript..