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MISCELLANEOUS. fJPlSSI THE CHEAT -rsfltf SCHOOL AM) CHURCH. There are 200 Protestant schools with 12,000 pupils in Syria. Burmah has 350 Cnristian churches and nine-tenths of the work of conversion is done by native pastors and teachers. Mrs.

Valeria Stone, of Maiden, has offered to give Ripon College (Ilipon, Wis.) $20, 000 as soon as an endowment fund of can be collected. The Catholic Church authorities at Montreal have abandoned the idea of completing the mammoth St. Peter's Cathedral, which has been in process of erection for ten years, and will raze the wall and build a church of moderate dimensions. Mr. Howard Miller, a Tunker, has been appointed by the Government at Washington to take acensus of the ''non-combatant and-non-litigant churches of the United States," in which class the Tunkers, the Friends, the Amish and other bodies are included.

Mrs. Mary Livermore wisely says: 14 Compulsory bodily education should be the law of every school in the land, as compulsory education in reading, writing and arithmetic is. For you can never undertake to bring about the training of any people, bojs or girls, without early thinking of the matter of health." Since the Hampton (Va.) Normal and Agricultural Institute opened, in lbG8, with but fifteen pupils and one teacher and a matron, 1,429 students have been in regular attendance. Ninety per cent, of those graduating have devoted themselves to the cause of educating the colored people, and their efforts have met with encouraging success. The Presbyterian Synod of the Atlantic, which belongs to the Northern Presbyterian Church and is composed of presbyteries of colored churches, at its recent session in Greensboro, N.

resolved to establish a mission in Africa, under its own control, with the approval of the Board of Foreign Missions in New York. A plan for raising funds was adopted, by which every minister is to pledge himself to give one dollar, and each presbytery is to raise at least five cents per member. Bewail JOiana, or hall ol audience, this is only used on state occasions. The ordinary dubars are held in the private quarters of the Maharaja's palace. A rich flowered carpet covers the floor; to the extreme right of the room is placed a magnificent throne, whilst ranged round about are handsome European chairs with gilt legs and deep red velvet cushions.

A life-size portrait of Uie Queen of England adorns one of the embrasures. This hall is perfectly open on the sides, being closed only by heavy curtains. The roof is supported by thirteen fluted pillars, and the room is illuminated by ten chandeliers, giving a grand blaze of light. Leading from this, strange to say, is the palace treasury. Another sleepy, ill-kempt guard watches the brass door where are stored the court valuables, the jewelry and, if report speaks the truth, immense sums of money with bars of solid silver and gold.

A belief is current that underneath the palace is another treasury, the right passage to which is even unknown to the Maharaja. This secret is in safe keeping of the priests. People say that only on condition of the Maharaja going blindfolded would his spirtual advisers take him to the vaults. Another grand entrance is then passed, which leads to the sirdars, or noblemen's audience chamber. This is smaller and not so well fitted up as the princely audience hall.

Passing through this court I noticed the royal hunting birds; there were about lift- of them, hawks, kites, etc. In the same courtyard is the Katchemj, or law Courts, and various other otlices connected with the palace. Here all the expenses of the royal household are entered and paid. The royal stables, the kitchens, the gardens and even the various sums' disbursed by the King in his private pleasure are faithfully entered and severely commented upon. It is a scene of continual wrangling, and, according to European ideas, disgraceful in the extreme.

Hard by are numbers of bicycles of all shapes and sizes. Curious to know if the Maharaja took an interest in them I asked my guide, and he gave me the following laconic story: "Yes, the Maharaja did like bicycles. An Englishman is Bicj cle-master to the State. He came here very drunk and tried to rile and his frequent falls convulsed with laughter the King and court, and so, for having caused them food for laughter, he is given 8100 a month, horses, food and house free." From this court I passed into the gardens. Like all Oriental pleasure-gardens, fountains, statues, marble walks and ponds were found where one least expected.

At the bottom of this garden is a splendid pavilion, overlooking an artificial lake. It is here that the Maharaja entertains his European guests, as if an Eu Glass Ejes. The ancient Egyptian who, when he lost Jus eye. in. a street fight, wore a painted bandage over the empty socket the rest of his life, would open his re-nidftiing optic in wide wonder if he could see the perfection to which the modern glass eve has been brought.

Scores of people go through life wearing one crystalline orb, so exact in its imitation of the color, size, structure and expression of the other, that its artificiality is never suspected. Since the eye-stump, the muscular remnant which is always left, has been utilized as a motor, the glass eye moves naturally in the socket and has lost the fixed dead stare which formerly betrayed it. Glass eyes seem to have been first made at the beginning of the present century, and the first specimens were solid, the pupil and iris being painted on the rear surface with oil colors. The ee, as now made, consists of two distinct shells, the exterior, which is what we see, and the interior, or lining, one which is fitted to the eye-stump. The tools of the workman are his breath and his hands.

He works at a table on which is a lamp, to whose thirae the blast of a bellows worked with the foot, gives a pointed jet of the varying strength required. The end of a hollow tube of crystal is heated and blown into a ball, which is colored to imitate the white of the eye with enamels applied while the glass is still in a vitreous paste. The imitation is exact The workman is not hampered by high ideals, and he makes this part of the eye clear, white, bilious or bloodshot in exact accordance with the other. A round hole is then made in the center to receive the globe of the eye. In washing this globe the iris is first formed out of several amalgamated enamels.

In the center the pupil is fixed in black enamel, and finished with the delicate tracery of those tine libers found in the natural eye. The eye globe is "then into the exterior shell, and the optic is finished. Franco no longer monopolizes this delicate branch of manufacture. A New York firm makes largo quantities of the most perfect specimens and besides supplying in a large measure the home market, tills extensive orders from South ami Central America. Wearers of this article generally keep two or three on hand, which increases the demand.

The composition of the limpid enamels used is always a trade secret, jealously guarded; and beside human eyes, glass eyes are frequently made for and worn by animals, while the manufacture of doll's eyes is a distinct and lucrative business. Thanks, then to the trained skill of modern handiwork, the man who has lost an eye may fill the ghastly void with a substitute which will defy ordinary inspection. The painted orb is capable of good deal of expression; it cannot, to be sure, cry very much, or Hash with anger, and it is not probable that any amount of emotion would dilate the black ensmel pupil. But a wink is not impossible of achievement, and, if the proprietor will judiciously cultivate the heavy droop of the e3elid which characterized the first Napoleon, the glass eye will look out from under its lashes with a glance of sincerity which will deceive every one except the man who made it. Washington Post.

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In the window of a fashionable fruit and vegetable shop in Paris was recently exhibited a bunch of asparagus valued at sixty dollars. A Hartford company has paid to George Capewell of Cheshire for the patent right of a machine for making horse-shoe nails. A young man fell down and died while running a foot race at Louisville. The exercise caused violent action of the heart and then rupture. The winters of Southern California are not severe enough to make snakes dormant.

The other day a farmer plowed up a rattlesnake and the reptile instantly struck at him twice. Douglas Jerrold says 4 'that respectability is all very well for folks who can have it for ready money; but to be obliged to run into debt for it, is enough to break the heart of an angel." There is a Moqui Indian living in one of the seven villages of those peo- pie in Arizona who is said to be worth at least 825,000. He trades in silver ornaments and is also an extensive raiser of sheep. It is estimated that it will take five hundred years to exhaust the coal in Wise County, at the rate of 2,000 tons a day. A company of Western Pennsylvanians has bought acres of these coal lands.

The Winona (Minn.) Herald says that W. B. Mitchell, editor of the St. Cloud Journal-Press, is the largest individual taxpayer in St. Cloud, and offers to bet 44 another such an instance don't exist in thirty-nine States where an ed-tor of a newspaper is the largest taxpayer in his bailiwick." Now here's a chance for sporting men.

Mrs. Long, of Baltimore, was until lately a retiring, sedate woman, the widow of a wealthy merchant, and devoted wholly to domestic affairs. Now she is preaching on the street corners a religion which she says she has been commissioned by God to make known to the world. Though insane on that subject she is rational in other respects. Professor Swing says the Alliance: 44 At the risk of a trial for heresy I will affirm that the Sunday dinner should be a great advance upon the wash-day repast, or upon the picked-up affair of Saturday.

On Sunday the laborer, in body or in mind, does not eat out of a bucket or a basket, but at his home table. In honor of such an event the meal should surpass the common standard and be a reason for loving the institutes of The prediction that the year's immigration would exceed all former records has turned out to be true. The prodigious aggregate of 320,808 arrivals at Castle Garden surpasses anything before known there, and no doubt the same is true regarding the arrivals during 18S0 at the other seaports of this country. The new year, nevertheless, bids fair to outdo in this respect even the unprecedented one just ended. The edict of Joseph Emanuel, King of Portugal, published in 17G9, is not without its interest at this time.

By this instrument widows of more than fifty years of age were forbidden to marry, 44 because," the preamble recited, "experience has shown that women of that age commonly marry young men of no property, who dissipate the fortunes such marriages put them in possession of, to the prejudice of children and other relations." Spinsters were not apparently considered so liable to be beguiled. The Mozzi Palace, 'opposite the bridge of Le Grazie, at Florence, one of the oldest and most historically important edifices of the city, will shortly be sold at auction. The Mozzi family built it in the year 1200 and for nearly seven centuries gathered there untold treasures of art and history, while exercising the most splendid" hospitality. Kings, popes, cardinals, ambassadors, generals and statesmen were welcome guests. They were wealthy and powerful merchants, and for centuries the bankers of the lfoly see.

Now they are one of the poorest families in Florence and are compelled to part with their ancestral palace. Frederick von Rodenstedt, the German poet, has been lecturing in the Cursaal in Wiesbaden about his visit to America. The American, he said, loves his country, but his patriotism is not local, his home-feeling does not cleave to the soil. That is why his ho -e and its adornments do not express individual taste and why a certain uniformity prevails in his living and his 'activity and his labor. The advance of American population may be likened in general to a victorious army moving forward at a quick step and straining all its powers and faculties.

And America may be certain, when the time arrives, of doing something great in art. The four Vanderbilt houses now building at New York are to be the finest of anything in the country, and it will be two years before any of them are ready to occupy. Although the architect has had six draughtsmen working for a year upon the plans of W. K. Vanderbilt's house, the details of the inside have not yet been considered.

The sculptors and art all brought from Europe, and interruptions constantly occur for want of some workman who cannot be found in the city. In W. H. Vanderbilt's house the tiling of the ground floor and the halls had to be made by the poet decorator, Moms, in England, at an expense of 30,000, and Mprris takes his time. A Test of Innocence.

A poor, pale seamstress was arraigned for theft in Paris. She appeared. at the bar with her baby of eleven months on her arm. She went to get some work one day and stole three gold coins of ten francs each. The money was missed soon after she left her employer, and a servant was sent to her room to claim it.

The servant found her about to quit the room with the three gold coins in her hand. She said to the servunt, 44I am going to carry them back to you." Nevertheless she was carried to the Commissioner of Police, and he ordered her to be sent to the Police Court for trial. She was too. poor to engage a lawyer, and when asked by the Judge wiiat she had to say for herself, she replied: 44 The day I went to my employer's I carried my child with me. It was in my arms, as it is now.

I wasn't paing attention to it. There were several gold coins on the mantelpiece, and, unknown to me, it stretched out its little hand and seized three pieces, which I did not observe until I got home. I at once put on my bonnet and was going back to my employer to return them when I was arrested. This is the solemn truth, as I hope for Heaven's mercy." The court could not believe this story. They upbraided the mother for her impudence in endeavoring to palm oti such a manifest lie for the truth.

They besought her, for her own sake to retract so absurd a tale, for it could have no effect but to oblige the court to sentence her to a much severer punishment than they were disposed to intlict upon one so young and evidently so deep in poverty. These appeals had no effect, except to strengthen the poor mother's pertinacious adherence to her original story. As this firmness was sustained by that look of innocence which the most adroit criminal can never counterfeit, the court was at some loss to discover what decision justice demanded. To relieve their embarrassment one of the judges proposed to' renew the scene described by the mother. Three gold coins were placed on the clerk's table.

The mother was requested to assume the position in which she stood at her employer's house. There was then a breathless pause in court. The baby soon discovered the bright coins, eyed them for a moment, smiled, aud then stretched forth its tiiry hand and clutched them in its fingers with a miser's eagerness. The mother was at once acquitted. A Gentleman.

There is, probably, no word in the English language more universally misapplied among Americans than the word gentleman. A mistaken sense of politeness employs it to designate any human animal "of the masculine gender, and the error is seldom if ever corrected or even discovered by the person of whose character it is a'glaring travesty, and of whose manners it is in reality but a satire. The true gentleman is never rude or boisterous; nevgr coarse or vulgar; he never indulges in boastful arrogance or egotistical self-conceit; his language and manner-are. never patronizingly condescending toward an inferior, nor does he effect undue humility in the presence of those whose station in life is higher than his own. Above all, his deportment is marked by a tender regard for the feelings and reputation of others; never does he (however great the temptation) wound the former, or lend even a momentary sanction to besmirching the other.

ll I I I I i 'j ropean dinner would pollute trie palace. Looking through the richly painted windows the word painted on a big rock, greets the eye. The Maharaja delighted in billiards and any one who coulu play a fairly good game was sure to attract his attention and eventually rise high in hi3 esteem. Cor. San i rancisco Chronicle.

Skating For Life. That skating has been in certain circumstances something more than a mere elegant accomplishment is well illustrated by two anecdotes, told by the author of some entertaining 44 Reminiscences of Quebec. of two settlers in the far west, who saved their lives by the aid of their skates. In one case the backwoodsman had been captured by Indians, who intended soon after to torture him to death. Among his bag-gage there happened to be a pair of skates, and the Indians1 curiosity was so excited that their captive was told to explain their use.

He led his captors to the edge of a wide lake, where the smooth ice stretched away as far as the eye could see, and put on the skates. Exciting the laughter of the Indians by tumbling about iii a clumsy manner, he gradu increased his distance from the shore, till he at length contrived to get a hundred yards from them without arousing their suspicion, when he skated away as fast as he could, and finally escaped. The other settler is said to have been skating alone one moonlight night, and while contemplating the reflection of the firmament in the clear ice and the vast mass of dark forest surrounding the lake ami stretching away in the background, he suddenly discovered to his horror, that the adjacent bank was lined with a pack of wolves. He at once "made tracks" for home, followed bv these animals; but the skater kept ahead and one by one the "pack tailed off; two or three of the foremost, however, kept up the chase, but when they attempted to close with the skater, by adroitly turning aside he allowed them to pass him, and after a few unsuccessful and vicious attempts on the part of the wolves he succeeded in reaching his log hut in safety. Bel-, gravia.

Corsica is the only French department in which the decrees for the expulsion of the secular orders have not yet been executed. There are sixteen convents on the island belonging to the Oblate Fathers, the Capuchins, the Re-demptorists and the Dominicans, but almost all of them are occupied by Monks of Italian nationality, supporjetl by subvention from their own Government. The fear of international complications has protected them up to the present from the enforcement of the decrees, The Detroit Free Presx "says that all the stories about the mind of Paul Morphy, the chess player, being affected are mere moonshine, and that Mr. Morphy often takes a hand in the game at New Orleans, his residence, giving a knight successfullv to the strongest players of the Chess Club of that city. A Visit to the Maharaja of Jaipur.

I arrived at Jaipur early in the morning, and as I entered the city a fearful din assailed my ears. It was the reveille, and the household troops were turning out of the barracks. I managed to gain admission the hotel, as, though the train had arrived, the hotel people, being servants of the Government, did not think it necessary to attend to the wants of travelers. Each native State has a Political Agent. He is a servant of the Indian Government, and is jrenerallv an officer of standing and reputation.

He is the dc Jacto ruler of these so-called independent States. lie advises the Maharaja on all important questions, and his word is law. Each State has to support its Political Agent. The Maharaja is-ever willing to open his palace to visitors, but the understrappers, anxious to show their importance, sometimes make matters unpleasant if one be unprovided with the Agent's passport. The entrance to the palace is circuitous.

A grand archway has to be lirst passed, on each side of which are rooms, forming the. quarters of the palace guard. An ill-dro-sed, untidv sol-dier inarches up and down the entrance, his musket being carried in any way, sometimes across his shoulders, but oft-cuer is thrown oti the ground till the sentry has a pull at the huxuh. For the sake of formality he challenges, but if smoking he does" not trouble himself to present As Jhe rirst gateway is passed a huge square court-yard is reached, with a building in the center. This serves as a kind of domicile for the hangers-on of the court.

In this court-yard are gathered people and vehicles" of all descriptions. Europeans with their barouches and buggies, native courtiers their cu rious ekkas, naked beggars, fat Brahmin priests, gaudilv-dressed dan cing-girls, soldiers, and huckstered all help to make the most varied scene imaginable. Ever aud anon out dash from low, dark portals richly dressed servants, carrying in their hands long sticks of pure silver. fThese are tha silversticks-in-waiting. Andt their business is to announce visitors.

This they do in the most obsequious manner. Following these are men with big punkas made from peacocks' tails, who fan and keep off the tlies from the bodies of distinguished personages. These are great men, as they wield influence with the crowd, and many is the rupee slipped into their hands before an audience can be gained. The first room of note is the ii i in 1 1 1 an ii ii For th- Cur- of Coiigh-t. i'H irH A-iti BronrhltU.

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