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IN THE STALLS..

I watched her elf ar-cut euuo fut A.gaia*t the crimson oartait's (old The gaslight glimmer* oo the gold Of trets-s twined with classic Knot,..,

The season's beauty, do yon esyf'S Indeed, 1 see stu» hold* a court Whmx emiles end jests and qoick retort Keep her from listening to tht pla}.

Why should i-I.e heed the twice-told tale Of faithful love upon the stagaf She knows full well, in this our age, Wealth and ambition torn the scale.

If—Oh, 1 loved her once—long sines— A y*"*r, a century ago— B«fore 1 went abroad, yon know Bat I was neither peer nor prince.

And no we parted. H»re to-night Br ohanc* I a a her, and xgoln With throb and thrill of sudilen pain, I feel my heart stir at the sight.

The drama ends. Ah, fair o.iqnettel .l td furs she quits her place. 1' I eho Id meet ir faon to face. Will fchs remember or forget?

London World.

THE CKwSS OF FIKE.

A CHRISTMAS STORY.

There is an old poem, Bright Broadway," which has the rythm of song, Alice EUndo'phsang

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melody, as her earring*! rolled down the Ij»y reel, forgetting 'he last verse, w.iere, ir. the gioom of miHui^ht, sinid snow and sleet, an outcast died on Blight Broadway. Ju then the street wan 61 lei wi'h sttnehine and fragrance from the piny wood#"—the Ireath of Christmas, A ice said, recalling the iiilie Cour. try durch, where, auuid Chrism as greens, sbe stood a ar before in bridal attire, looking out upon the holiday of life undismayed by the tllsmnl prophecies of lior k,uar. iin, quaint Aunt Sophy, whose experience had induced a poor opii ion of men.

The old life and the new were still in vivid contrast that evening, when in he' lovely Brooklyn home Alice expressed her enthiiHtastic gratitude to the man whose ljve bad wrought tbe trinsfoiroation. "I wonder, Arthur, how, I ever endured my colorless existence iu the prosy town of Brantford. Oae lives more in a single day here than io a year where, as Auerhach says, 'nothing ever hapueos' Day after day the same people a^^ti the same places at a given hour—a WWiderftil contrast, to Broadway with its ever varying combination, Then the is the broad river flowing past the .^o great cities, bearing ships from every sea. I sit at the wiudow watching them as they come a ml go, some of thein from arcic regtoos, some from tropic lands and then there are -ilways thips tailing away into the unknown sea, sbips that reach no earthly port So over tl bro ids the perpetual charm of mystery

Toe chirm of mystery enveloped Alice's life After a year of marr'H«her husband's occupation was Btiil Unknown to her She bad felt a curious delicacy about asking queHtions, and he had voluuteered no iulortnalion. Aunt Sophy h-d instituted no investigation, because she considered New Yorkeis "all of a pi-en anywiv," so inquiries were supeifluons. Her permission to the marriage wsb granted in characteristic fas^i ^n. "Y'S, you can have her, as you both seem determined, and I don't know as you'll make her any miserabler than Some other man woul 1."

Since Alice's marriage she bad often urged Aunt 8 iphy to visit her, and this had been the buid-n of the answers: "I ne'er see no goou come of trapfin' round thtt world. I hain't never been hut. twenty mis from home in all my life, and can't see but I'm as well off athough I'd beeu toChtny and Australy."

Tne approich of the Christmas hilida\s, aoi the prospect of sharing iu 'be glorious festival as celebrated in N*w Y«rk churrhes, beguiled 4tint Sjohy into undertaking the dreaded journey, though she prudently made her will he fore Mart ing. Sne arrived in the City the day before Cnri-imas, comparatively calm and h-ppv, though hauuted by the fear that something unchurcbly might creep into the gr.uiid pine decoiatiooe of the Brantfoid chapel without the guard

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of h-r vigilant eye. "Them young folk^ is so flighty." Her first expressed wish regarding her entertainment was to vUit"'them tombf where they shut up live folks

Alice went reluctaut'y, as fhe w»« an* iouslv looking for herhuabind,

who had

beeo absem tne previous niatht. Coii.t'8. to her guei, however, dem«ndd th» Racr'fice, and they

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friixl to the smal prison. Aunt Sophy insisted upon exp'o ink ever* curridoi of the structure, greatly to AIii^'h

is'ree, A'ho fell as uiucll heaita-

li .ti in intruding upon tne prisoners as tnoiuh they had been in their own homes

When the distasteful exploration waf nearly co' eluded, qui'a by chance A lie caught a glitmie ol a priHuoer in oue ol the cells, 'id r. canned her husband the u^ieii fascitnied t.iee was no ml" taking Ills identity. As I nj as the seeianvhin^ in this .rid she will see thv»t drexry cell, its in uite siitiug in an altitll.le of detp dejeittioo, while far above his he-d—so hijt thai he could not b) an pissilitlity cat a glitupse of the bright world witliout— streamed the few rays of light that showed only more c'e^rly the horrible desolation ot tbe place.

Fortunately Aunt Sophy did not share Alice's discovery, and so she brought to her service that sublime power of humm seif-control that hides so many agouising i-ecretK, and she asked quite calmly of the attendant policeman the ofleuse of the prisoners on that tier, and learue that "they were all pulled in a gauit 1 n' hell last night."

Gambling! This was the mysterious occupation that she had idealis-d a» some work of art or literature Strangely enough Aunt Sjphy, who had alway.» had her suspicions, was the deux ex machina of the betrayal. Somehow Alice endured tbe drive home, presided at. luncheon, and then excused herself to her guest.

Alone at last, face to face with the borror which hid suddenly darkened her life, she reg rded with bitter 1 ath ing her luxious surroundings. They were the wa^es of sin! Tbe perfume of r*r- fl wers fl s.tel arnuod her the December sun-hine flooded tbe room the birds *an» baih-ly,careless that theii mi^tiess' hi art was breaking.

At this time the criminal in bis cell Alice no longer identified with her husband, the oue who nad made year of life sd bright that she had often won dered if heaven could be bette.. He was suddenly lost, and with him ail faith. She fe.'t as those must who have for years anchored tneir hope on the old-i.-shijned religion and then had it Euddeniy sw-pt away by some apostle of the new light) who "has nothing to offer for thef&ld firm foundation. "A gambler's

wife

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erated the phrase, till a hundred c* ing voice* echoed: '"A gambler's wife 1" How low she had fallen. There was a crtiuiual in his prison cell who mighi escape and come back to cltim her. He would be at liberty to take hei hand, to kiss her, tn force upon her the cootaminfliing influence of b!« nreseije. The only refuge l»y in flight. Then the ^ueqtife(i »io*e: "Woe** wiJ I gat"

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There is one refuge denied to none, how ever poor, or sinful, or wretched—.ail may nee to death. The de.-p iug river offers giavca to all in the great ci'.y whoee burdens piss endurance.

She must yield to the impnhe to fly from tbe honee. Without she couid think more calmly bat she could not go witbont a farewell. Every room ha^d its history, every picture and ornament its story. But she must not linger, or she might be weak enough to stav and share a life of guilt. She would fly— away froai j*lf if ss»ble How she came tbTe, or how long tbe jou.ney had beeu she could never t»l!, but she found herself with tbe multitude, thronging bright Bro»d#sy—but ow the tborougi fare waa changed! She had not noticed the shadows in the picture, tbe gaunt flu res shivering in the winter's blast like spectres from an ther world, gssing loi giugly at the beautiiul things in which tuey had no share. Christmas w»s not for them. It only fioed more sharply tbe great gulf fixed between the rich and the poor.

Night was falling. The time wascom ing to make ber way to the dark river. Tbe inrney took her thr. ugb unfamiliar streets a revelation to her guarded and innocent ltf.*. Revolting sigh's, exponents of crime and destitution were plait 1 revealed even in the dim light On either hand were the hoboes of drunkards, thieves and murdereis Homes Whuee ~hriatmas guests are only want and ears.

Tbe wretched denizens resented the sight of respectability, and greeted Al.ce with insulting epithets but she wtnlO". untouched by fear or indignation. Wli»t was tnis to oue who had alredy passed be hitlertoBt t.f death? Th'S path through purgatory was ouly apart of the horn ttiat had suddenly surrouudeil her. Gamblers ere lying their lijn in the low suloons, some of their victims lured to the play by women v11 as themselves. If she lived she might sink lower and lower till ahe came -uch degredxtion. This prosprct only urged *~.er to tie river, where crime and misery find oblivion.

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pier I A horrible refuge from the terrors and darkne of night, and of a desolate ,iff-

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Alice paused to gain rourage, recalling a French proverb: ''When one die* it is for along time." But she could nut live. In a few hours she bad measured her own capacity fur sufleritig as efi^iujlly as by years of agony. Oazing at the pitiless stars, she murmured: ''You will still be shining »hen I have been dead a thousand years."

She p4U*ed, but without faltering in herd ad p'ui pose, andguced at the sky Far above the hor son gleamed a lumir*)us point, larger than any star, whict. dstautly flashed out—a cross of fire, vivid and glorious as that which dsszleii the Emperor Constat tine, and glow* forever in ths page of bistoiy.

As she gfcSrid at this vision, supfr naturally impiessed, the freusy which had goaded ber to destruction was dispelled—the iutenre seifihness of ber intention clearly revealed. Her life, tustead of being recklessly flung away, tnuBt be devoted t) her husband's re dempiion. "What nobler work," she asked, "than that could be given to any woman?" as the natural human love asserted itae f.

Upborne by this in piration, she hastened toward home, now and a ain catching a glimpse of the wonderful c. ss, stiil glowing against, tbe dark b.iCkgrouuo of tne sky, and sbe wondered if the vision bad been vouchsafe*! to others on thiChrist nas Eve to save them from despair and desti.

A larger ou 1 tok of life had suddenlv dawned. For a night she had been home less a friendless. Could she «ver for get those who are always so desolate?

Alice approached her home with min gl emt tions of comfort and terror, to eincouuter ner husband rushing frantical ly out to seek her. '-0 my dailing, my darling, I thought 1 had lost you!"

She ot.1? angered with tbe sentence that the eking voices had k^pt ring it in her ear. '•A gambler's wife, a gambler's wife I

And the story was told. Theie wai no

denial,

no reiutatiou. The criminal

had faced the terrors of the law and all t: inseqiience* of his calling with rtckless bravery, t* be completely broken dowi. by thin despairing accla mation.

This wss retribution! Atthesupre»i crisis of lif^ words are few, tbe must in tense em -tion is sil-^t. 8 une hours pas-d before that nijiht'. hiitory was told, and Arthur Rmdolpi knew how near be hai been to |.sing in great treasure of bis life. Only the sight of St. Augu-tine's illuminated cross had saved her Hi was not likely ti tiicii like peril Again. A so emo vow *'as registered of the kind that is kept

The hour of midnight struck. gether, baud in hand they s'ood listen tng to the faint Bound of Trinity's chim iog bells:

Hark the Herald Angels sing!

The sound fl titled over the two grea cities, hut there was no pause iu thmidnight revel. Day and night the tine ol life sweeps oo. Ther? is pease in piy home-. Tuere is human 1 jve tt»o noble a pira ion forever waging war again*! suffering at.d evil. The victor\ is sure, only it is long iu coming in His tghi with whom a thousand yeais ar hut as yesterday.

The Christmas chimes meant hope ar.rl salvation to the two whose lives were re learned—one fom sin and one from elfi'hness. Over alt the ChrNtiuas pence rested in benediction, while tbe uel.'s chim- i:

Joy to the world!

The cross still gleamed with dauHn^ravs of hope i-mid the darkeness of the night Those who sat in darkness saw a great light.—[Francis A. Connant. in Current.

ANXIOUS TO BE WHITE.

WASHINGTON

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F'\ THE GR£EK PLAY.-

Its Burno pM.sl jn an4 Tit'iat Mm* Uncaltarc^l Gothsmits^. Moihville American.

To tt Critic we are indebted for some interesting information concerning the recent reproduction of a Greek play in the academy of music. The actors were amateurs, and were boys at that. Moreover, being strangers to the city, they lacked the personsl interest and sympa thy on which amateur theuricals largely depend for countenance. Then the: play itself, ut.like "Tne Birds," "The: ou le, or "The Fr"gs," was of some what obscure fame. The college element in New York, as in Nashville, is couspiciouaiy Urge, or influential in ciety H-trvatd has almost' made ton. Columbia is almost unknown New York. The committee of the Archse ilogical InHi'ute, who had the thing in charge, choge not to sell the lick publicly, but by letter and vate correspondence. Finally night proved to be an opera nighf, contrary to expectation Nevertheless, the Acidemy w^s fi 1-d to oveifl mi with such au audience as in quality has never had anything to com p-re to it. Most notable among the nc pa tils of the opera box«s, wss Mr.

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Preparation wito Disastrous Remit.. New York Star. Itr Washington Jackson, a resident of the Orange untains, is as black as a starless atght. For some time he has heen pay iog a lover's attention to Miss Mary «s, a Jersey City lady of 8enegambia "lood, though of modified color. Mr. Jacks-in, with a suitor's iealous eye, saw (bat ss BjSs favored lightness of complexion and, inspired with the dsire please her fancy, he cast about for mean* of tanning his hide to a softer tone.

Ooe day a peddler appeared with jnsi the article required—a mixture that was guatantted to make the daikeetskio a lily while. Jackson paid $1 60 for a botle of the magic preparation, applied hat night, and the following morning awakened to Aid hims lf patched ani spotted like a leper. The scid had io places removed the skin, and within a few bons Jarkson was covered with scarred bl itches.

Needful of sympathy he weutoown to Jertey City to r»l tie his hopes and woes to his intended bride, only to chared iway from ber door as a fright. Finding all his explanations and entrea ties vain, Jarksoo lid his tronbles be fore Justice Weed Upon learning that he had no cause for a bietch of promise action Jackson west back into the mono* Cains to hunt thuwdillw.

line of A'bena.

PittsboiC Dispatch.

England's position in Esypt & declared by the British cabinet to be tnat of a trustee holding th* Qont lry for the European power* There have bees cases before, we believe, where the trns tee g-t•boat all then was worth stttiag Ml ol lbs tsUlst

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Loweil, who had come on from «ton with a irtv composed chi- flv ladies ihe ar'j lioinsf box is Mi«s EHei Mason, al of Boston, who has dooe such excellent missionary work with her cheap translations of Plato. Dr P.iillips Brooks sat in the dress circle down stairs. G--o. William Curtis, Dr. -J'.ward Crosby, John Jav and Joseph Choate occufited seat* in the same row of boxes with Mr. Lowell. Hi) '*'6 iward Fu ness was there from Pni'adflphia, hd the profeesi insl world of New irk, had many representatives, wMi President Baruard, of C..lu uhia, at their head.

Besides the tch 1 iis, there was tre mendous array of fashionables, and it was instruc i-e observe with what pi lite serenity they listened to the dia-logu-s, solil quies and choruses wbith were

Greek to ihem in bmh enses of the word. Tney looked as solemn at the humorous speeches of Oikaiopolis as the very grave young gentleman who played that p-irt could h-ve wished them to Such Wf 8 their pditeness and amiabil t«y, that nothing but the impos-ibility o_ a response prevented their calling upon the author for a speech whe the curtain fell. The ct is, that though in nine points out of ten any preferab re produenn of a Greek play mast utterly uulifee so that it may with perfect truth, if not with perfect justice, be celled a travesty of the original. Still the one point that is saved outweighs ail the rest Such is the indefeasible vitality of Greek work, that no accidents of rendering c«n obscure its quaiiiy. Make it as modern as you please, it is still more (ireek than anything else, and delightful beyond measure. Greece is Btiil, or she always has ben, the light of the world, and whatever brings her nearer to Us, in any guise, is of real service to onr civilicnion.

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SUGARING THE CAR TRACKS.

The Sir-tiige T*lk of a Drive to »n (nuove F.ont platform Rider. New Yuik San.

On last Sunday night, after the big snowstorm, it was observed by a passenger on tbe front platform of a Brooklyn iorse Cir that tie raiiroad tracks on half a dcz lines were channels for running water, while tbe snow elsewhere was crisp and dry. It was evident thai had been used by the companies to melt the snow The use of salt in this way is forbidden by law. "They've been using salt on nearly all the tracks over here, I see, said tbe passenger. "Sili!" the driver repeated "what is that?" He paused a moment, and then udded, thoughtful'y: "Is salt a sort of whitish powder I seen tern heaving something white along the tracks. I un ders:ood it Was sugar. I heaid ha company had a contract with one of the eaft^rn district refiueries for a lot of sugar ng-tinst the cjming of snow this winter?" "it's agin the city orders to u«e salt, you hno*-," he said, a block or so further ilong "There area good many cranki «ho wear stiofs and drive horses thai inject to salt. Sure, I think myself tha probably in a ci like Brooklyn one ^riod dosing of salt, such ss ymi say you totic.t to-night, will probiilv drive

ma«y thousands of ll.irs out ol he pocUets of the po that have to be ut walking and into tbe pockets of the shoemakers it rot shoe leather?" "Would walkitg on hot coals rot shoe father? Well, salt and hat coals er. bout ike same when you walk on then vitti shoes, but, man, what have ot ngaintt shoemakers? Sure, the) oust live-and neither you nor I have w. 1* io the salt "D es it hurt the hows' hoof*?'' "No, it does not Nobody ever claimed ihtt tt hurt the horses' hoofs. Do you •"ipp'tse that a horse car mpany w. uld lehbera'ely go for to injure its hors-8? VVhy, the car companies live on tt eir horses. They »e uch more careful of iheir horses than they are of the laws ol the land oi of the tneu they employ."

Tnere wa« silence that continued while the c^r rod" two blocks or mote. "Why, of course, it don't hurt the horses," the driver broke out "and for a lamed pood reason Tbe horses'feet are thoioughly washed in nice warm »ater, and every bit of tlie salt is rinsed 8 of them and out cf them. And salt •toes not hurt their feet anyhow. Oaly it makeB their legs brepk out in fright ful, bleeding sores above their hoofs, or it would if they wern't whippid into the stable and thoroughly washed the wav they are. Sure tbe only one's that's kicking are the truck drivers, snd who cares for them? Let tbeui catry hot water and wash their horses' feet now aad^tgsin and stop their blabbing

Hysteria and Mesoaeriam Paris Letter. In these days when mesmeric, hysteric aud other pathological or psychological phenomena are made to play so large a part in fiction, it must be consoling to the practical tvtnd to find them for once connected with fat The chief French surgeons and medical orofessors have for some time been cartfully studying the ef fects of mesmerism on the female patients the Salpetriere hospittl, and M. Ba •uasfei, a clinical surgeon of that establishment, has just effected a series of experiments, tbe results of which woe eem to open up anew fnture for medical science. Mr. Btbioski tried to prove that certaiu hysterisal symp'oms could he tranierred by the aid of the magne from one patient to another. He took two subjects, one a dumb woman afflicted with hysteria, acd the other a female who was in a state of hypnotic trance. A screen was I-teed between the two, and the hysterical woman was then put under the influence ef a strong magnet. After a fen moments she was rendered iumb, while speech was suddenly re»tnrcd to the other. M. Babniski also effected temporary cares of paralysis in the same manner. Luckily for hie healthier patients, however, 'heir borrowed pains and symptoms did not last long.

Change* tn tbe Oaast Uas," The Provineetown people say that the coast-line of Cape God is continually undergoing changes, and the shore* are gradually battening oat and washing •v^y. Pawet hector, at Traro,

OT! EXfKJSS8, TERSE HAUTE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1886.

in olden times was busy place, accommodating a large fleet of fishing vessels, has so filed up that it is almost impossible to enter the harbor with a five-ton fishing-smack. Provineetown harbor is also steadily filling up. The shores of the cspe are constantly changing rendering them dangerous to mariners. While the sands are being washed sea* ward, the wind is alse sweeping them landward in large quantities, covering the bushes and trees. It is estimated that the sand bills have moved townward three-quarters of it mile in the past dozen years.

THE PICTORIAL ART.

Its A»tonibtn( Do»elopm» nt Growth. Ilia tratsa Newspaper*. Missouri Republican.

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The death of James A. Wales, the cartoonist, calh to mind how sudden hss been the development of the branch of art be represented, and bow great the prosperity

of

those concerned in it in

this country. I had a fri»nd who nn«» put every dollar of his considerable fortune in a factory making hair

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for women. A month later the Emprees Eugenie decided to do up her hair with pi b. and my friend conlda't get rid of his 'actory as a gift. Ei"C'ly the contrary va- thec-ise of M.. Gribayedoff, who came to this town an accomplished etcher and with a taste for drawing. He cou'd not have drawn for tbe newspapers then.if he had wanted to do it 'or th ing War maps and portraits of despei ate criminrla were the oily forms of pictorial art then known in the press.

Suddc ly—oi ly tbe other day, as it seems—pictorial press associations were formed for supplying the papers of the coun'r.v with portrai and sketches of notable persons and things Tne most iterpristng of the city "dailies elaborated the idea embrace tbe widest range of illustrations. Gribayedoff fi und him8ef so much in demand that be could scarcely get time for sleep. W. A MrDjugall and his spt associate, Mr. Folsom, were drafted from the art world, nd even such men as C. J. Taylor, of Puck, who has won honors at the acad emy, was pulled at times into this newspaper work.

Almost as rapid has been the demand for comic aBd cartoon work. Tne American cartoon practically had its birth iu Tweed's time at the hands of a man who could hardly have been called an artist, so rudelv did he draw. But he had the faculty for seising public attention with vigorous cartoons upon the follies and abuses of tbe hour, and these were more telling than speech writing. Then came Joseph Kepple* with his humor, his artistic sense and training, £nd his bold grasp of timely subjects. After that Life and now the revivified Judge, to say DOthing of Snaps and Chic and other hssty consumptives that al ways figure in the field. The demand for artists for these weeklies far exceeds the supply, and possibly half of those who now illustrate these pipers are little beitsr qualified, so far as artistic schooling is coiuceroed, than tbe pro. genitor of their craft in this country Such an one was Wales, who knew^what to draw than how to draw, and in his time was as prosperous as the res', though be could not stand good luck as well as they.

But good or bad, trained or crude, these men are alt doing vastly well. The newspaper artists I have mentioued make from $5,000 to$8,000 apiece,6r more than twice ibe pav of any reporters whose stories they illustrate, except one. Thomas N st gets $10,000 a year, Keppler is worth $2? 0,000, aud the comic artiste are either partners in or very ably salaried dependants upon very prosperous concerns-

HE TOOK A BATH.

Chicago

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Lafayette Courier. A Chicago gentleman, whose college education also included thorough fa miliarity with mix dVinks, anchored in our city on Tnaakgiviog tnoruiog, The next day be mtde uitnself numer ous and found a location wherein to 'list'lay an tl-'gant collection of fine ?n ^raviugs, etching! and paintings i-. water colors. BusiuesB was not as brisk at* it might have been, so he used most ol nis time having a good time and making it pleasant and entertaining for some young fellows he was iuiimate with when ne resided here six years ago. Eocour agement such as wuisky puuch, cock'ai tndotherS'Xhilariktiin beverages soake his hide so thoroughly that when be de cid'd to return to Chicago he tho. ght it Dest to get some of the whisky out of his system and go sober. Acting upon tie advice ol a companion, who has sailed it I he same at, he went to tbe artesian oaih bouse with a determination to sweat ir. out with a hot bath. The ba'h bad the desired efleet, but, as the stimulating efltcts of the mixed drinks began to wear 'ff. outraged iiature ars-r ed itself aud nedropped arleep. He dreamed sweety a Star City grass widow be once met io Chicago As be dreamed he beg*u to slip gradually down towards ibe loot of the tub until his head was clear under water. How long he remained in that predica tuent is not known but, foitunnt^ly for him an st endent happened into the room and seeing his dangerous position puled him out of tne tub more dead than alive. It was a'very nairow escape and but for the fortunate appearence of the attendant tbe Courier would have the sad death of a promising young Chi eago picture dealer to record.

IMPROBAB1LI TIES.

Some Callosities Tt.at Were Found In Ih €|0 Mai ket. The funniest things seven

South Water

street men ever Baw were: Bed and yellow bananas growing upon the same stalk.

A lake perch with a double tail. The batching of six white Leghorn eggs in a crate standiosr in the sunlight. ~A blood lemon. ,v"

A cross-eyed hen. •. Thirty six sound ripe peaches in the first consignment of the trnit from Tennessee.

An oyster that built his shell aronnd a lamp-burner.

Uw tn Brief.

A note dated on 8unday is void. Ignorance of law excuses no one. 5: A written agreement proves itself. Signatures in lead pencil are good in law.

A contract made with a minor is voidable. A contract made with a lunatic is void.

An agreement without consideration is void. A reoeipt for money is not legally con elusive.

An oral agreement must be proved by evidence. Contracts made oa Sunday cannot be enforced.

The law prefers written to oral evidence, because of ita precision. If a note be loat or stolen, it doss not release tbe make. he must pay it

Checks or draf'S uiuat be presented for payment without unreasonable delay. Each individual in partnership is responsible for the whole amount of the deb's of the firm, except in casas of^pecial partnership.

Written -instiwneBti are to be constructed and interpreted by the lav ee exdiegto tha siapl* custoaary and

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INTIMACY

The Osusl ietiMtDtaiM Freqwaaitlr a Daagarons Character.

A writer in a London paper discourses about the danger of easy "intimacies": that is, of giving the confidence to people of whom one knows nothing except that they are pleasant companions when they are met socially. "The danger lies," he says, in the facility with which com paniooship if this kind is mistaken for true intimacy, though it does not really imply anything approaching to it." A woman '*wi 1 trust her life to the keeping of a man of whose aims, of whoee standard of right and wrong, of whose, power and habit of living up to t^at standard sbe knows just as much and just as lntle ss she does of tbe actors whom she has seen on the stage, though she is deceived ioto thinking she knows more, ony because she happens in this case to ha.e been ne if the actors and nor merely a passive spectator." There is more truth than poetry in this thought, for in nine cases out of ten the two personB who come together in marrage have no more conceptii each of the other's true character and real dis position than of those ot a doz ethers in their ci'de of acquaintance They are simply pleasant, social companions, and that is a 1.

There are qut'e as many mistakes male in friendship through these "ea^y intimacies,'' though the msequedce* are not as far-reaching. Women, especislly, are apt to give their confidenc- to those with »h"m they have beeo familnr^y a«8.cited when they never proved their trustworthiness. 11"is one thing to have pleasant little familiar conversations abut everyday matters it i« another to imp rt what peih»ps touches the inne. life, and »hi- delight of, or misrepresented, woul I place one in an uncomfortable position, or possibly even worse, injure the reputation or put it in the gijssips' hands to do with it as they p'ease. A real friend, a true friend, one who can be trusted to enrer the holy of holies of your heart without desecrating it, is among t: best gifts that life can offer, but tbey are fonnd in small numbers, and are ouly proved by trial A certain amount of tes^rve, even with familiar companions, is a good thing to employ, for it gives not only a sense of safety, but of security.

A BUDDHIST SHRINE.

A 6pot as &aer*d to Buddtatrts as Jem•hlem i* to Curifctinn*. Mr. Edwin Arnold, C. S. I author of ''The Light of Asia," has addressed a letter to Sir Arthur Gordon, governor of the island of Ceylon, in favor of the restoration of the great shrine at Buddha-Gya to the Buddhists. Tbe writer believes that such an act would reflect enduring honor upon Sir Arthur Gordrn's administration, and he proceeds as follows: "The temple and inclosure at Buddha-Gya are the most sacred spots for Buddhists in the whole world. To them this locality represents what Jerusalem is to Christain?, Mecca to

Moslems and Benares to the Hindoos But Buddha-Gya is obcupied ly a college of Shivatte priests who worship Mahadey there, and deface the shrine with emblems and rituals foreign to its nature. That shrine and the ground surrounding it remain, however, government^ property, and there would be littlj difficulty, after proper and friendly negotiations, in procuring tbe departure of the mahant' and his priests, and the tranefer of the temple and its grounds to the guardianship of Buddhist monks from Ceylon. It is to carry out this project that I earnestly wish to win your excellencys good will. I have considered it respectful and becoming to addres you alone in tbe first instance, but I have consulted high authorities, and among them General Cunningham, who thoroughly sympathises with the idea, and declares it en tirely feasible I need' not point out that if it could be accomplished, as I believe, without the least vexation to the preset tenants, not only would all youi island revere the governor who had given fuck to Buddhism its geographical center, but that the Buddh'sts of Siam, of our new province! of Burma!), of Tnisha ol Japan, and of China would become more ittached to British civil ztion by this single act than by any other which could he devised. I »m sending a copy of this letter to Lord Oufierin and to tbeothet two chief priests in Colombo and Ciudy, Sri Weligama and Sri Sumangsl 1."

MORTALITY UF PRES1DNTS.

Ten Died Prnmtns jt. Men no Have Within Sixteen Mouths. New York Oomineroial Advertiser.

It is interesting to record, in coane«* tiin with the funeral of ex-President Arthur, that no fewr than ten meu who have been eith«r president or vice president of the United States, or who have been candidate* for the honors of eithe' office, have died within the las' sixteei. months. Their names are as ft llows:

General Ul'sses S. Grant, twice president of the Uu ted Si at es, from 1869 to 1877, died at Mount McGregor, neat Saratoga, cf cancer, on July 28, 1885.

General George McClel'an, nomi nated for president by the Democratic party in 1864, and afterward governor of New Jersey io 1878 to 1881, died suddenly at his home in Orange, New Jersey, early on the morning of Octobei 29, 1885.

Thomas A. Hendrick", candidate for vine president in 1879, and elected to that officio 1884, died at Indianapolis, Ind., on November 26,1885.

B. Grats Brown, candidate for vice president in 1872, on the cket with Horace Gree'y, died in St. Louis, Mo., on December 13, 1885.

General Winfield Scott Hancock, Democratic candidate for president in 1880, died at Governor's Island, in New York harbor on February 9, 1886.

Horatio Seymour, ex-governor of New York, Demnciatic candidate for presl dent in 1868, died at tbe home of his sister, Mrs. Boscoe Conk ling, in Utica,, N. on February 12,1886.

David Davis, elected president of the United States senate on October 13, to sncceed Vice President Aithur, died at Bloomingtoo, III., on Jane 26,1886,

Jamuel J. Tilden. nominated for president of the United States in 1876 died at his residence, "Greystone," near Yonkers, N. Y., on August 3,1886.

Chester A. Arthur, piesdent of the United 8tates from September 22, 1881, tn March 4,1885, died at his home, No, 123 Lexington avenue, New York city, cerebral appoplexy, on November 18, 1885.

Charles Francis Adams, grandson of the second president of the Uoited States, and son of the sixth president and candidate for vice president on the icket with Martin Van Snren, in'•l848, died at his home on Mount Vernon street, B*tin, on Nov. 21,1886.

•aaea From Unman Bonee. CMeago Journal. Ex- Representative I. Hart Brewer, tha famous New Jersey potter, mskea a novel suggeatioa to the cremationist. Ha says it is a well-known fart in art that tbe finest pottery is made from nes, and that the excellence of tbe vara increases as the onder of the animal pndociot tbe bones rises. Consequent y, the very neat jsd most bean til nl vasts wou'd be produced front bnsBan'hosea. In view this fact, ba Msgeata that tha promsa of incineration be easpeod-d at the proper point to ssaae the bo«*a sail aWoist tfcepwiM* end that tko itai

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be converted into elegant urns or vasee in which the ashes of tbe flesh might be placed iu a pi ope mausoleum for preservation for ages—far beyond the endurance of any monument that could be created.

FOOLED ON A HORSE TRADE.

•ow an Oakland County Granger Spent aiSO to Ltstii How to Hark a Colt. "Half a dosen farmers were yesterday talking shop" at a hotel not far from the market. Among other subjects of rural interest that of horse-thieves was introduced. Said one of them *'I learned a good scheme by mighty dear experience, which I think cvas irorlh the price. About six months ago a young fe 1 drove up to my gate with ?s likely a bay

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a month, hitched to a light spring wagon. He got out, and, walking over to me, asked the way to the nearest blacksmith shop. I told bim it was five milts, and by the time he got there ttie shop would be closed. You'll see, as I go on, how nicely I bit Weil, he said he was a barbed wire-fence man, and he'd bought a colt which he was afraid was too youny to stand the 1 drives be had to take Anyway, she'd cast a shoe an' he'd got 10 matte Pontiac that night, so he'd trade for my watch-eyed chestnut that Was in tbe b.irn yard and $35 too boot, qcsigbt an' unseen. "My hoes ras a good looker, an' hissking such a

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fooled me completely.

We s'o there dickeriu' for half an hour an' he finally come dowc t» $15 boot an' I took him up. We made the swap an' he drjve away. "I kept the colt for ten days, just lickin' my chops over the bargain I'o made, when oue day updrive* two men, with a big biy team. They got out an' came iu, an' one of 'em said: 'Mv name's I live up in Li peer county. This man is the sheriff We've comedown lookin' for a bay cf.l 4 ears past, fifteen au' an inch, white star in forehead, cleau gaited and hi^h heaJled stolen from my farm tbree wee Us ago. I understand you're brought Buch a colt.' "With that he gave me a dodger, describing the colt to hair. "'Well, gentlemen,' says 1,1 'have bought a colt that fits that, an' if you can convince me she's your'n, you can have her, for I'm a square man.' "Then the man that done the talkin before spoke up and says: '"If that colt ain't' got a three cent piece in her neck, she ain't mine.'

Done,' says I. "We all waiked out to the barn together he kind o' felt a'otjg the colt's n^ck, took out a penknife, cut through the skin like a flash, aud then showed me in his hand a silver three cent oiece all over blood. 'I always mark my colts that way,' says be. "I liked that colt so well that I just went down in my pocket an' bought her over again f_.r $150 "That's a thunderin' good way to mark a hoss," said a bystander. "Did you ever ca'ch the

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you traded wnhY"

"Yes," was the answer ''about a week later he drew up to my door with the chestnut and made an awful kics because the critter had the staggers. I jumped on him for trading me a stolen hoss and inside two hours he took me to a bank in town and proved to me who he vas and that he owned tbe colt fair and square. I've always thought since that the 3-cent piece came out o' tbe man's pocket."

A CHRISTMAS WEDDING.

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Brooklyn Magasine. There is a pretty superstition much in vogue among the young, that those who plight their troth to each other on Christmas day will be happy in their children thereafter. As Christ was sit l-ss, so their sons will be gond and their daughters pure. For the same reason, many marriages take pi ce on that day

The Cnristmas bridegroom is in some parts expeited to pretend 10 steal his bride, less rudely, however, than the Tartars of the Asiatic Steppes. At tb appointed hour family of ttie gol de pan for the meeting house, leaving hei ti rayed in all her wedding fiueiy ant) alone. Then the grootu ride turiouily up to t^e house ot horseback wiiri some of hit wn friends, and with ashoW of viilence his tr tnd feigned reluctance on hers, drags oeroutof thectbin, places her befor. iim ou his owo horse, aud starts for the .-hu ch. tie i- armed with a long "hickory" which be fl urishes over her head, thus evincit to tbe world his future matrimonial authority over her.

After the ceremony every man, woman *nd child kisses the bride, shakes haudwitb the groom, who, remounting tbe same horse,with his wife ridesofl ti their future home followed oy every one who chooses to go. On their arr val a boun titul dinner is set forth and partaken of hy all. Tnen dancing and other amuse ments follow.

W rasslin" of various kinds, such as the 'Iujun bug," tbe "black snake lock," tbe "back bolt," and so on, is popultr and the man v.ho can "jrst ride the but passel oa'em" is deserve'lv admiied b? every female present Jumping, shoot ing at a nlark with the inevitable long rifle, with an occasional foot race, usually occupy much of the time.

A heavy jocularity pervades the nt mosphere. There is a rough splintering of wit, and a slow yet pithy play .f bovine humor, accompanied by spasmodic bursts of ponderous laughter, that pass like ripples over still water, leaving no tra behind upon the grave, vacant faces of the mountaineers.

The luck that happens to one during the week between Christmas and the first day of the coming year, is considered a favorable or ominous prevision of one's fortunes during that year.

A HISTORICAL LETTER.

Written to Bnfns Cbapman by John Brown, From Harper's Ferry. The daughter of the Hon. Bufus Chapman, of Springfield, Mass., has in her possession the letter written to her father by John Biown, when the latter was captured at Harper's Ferry. The Springfield.. Bepublican prints it for the first time. It runs as follows: "I am here a "prisoner with several sabre cuts in my head and bayonet stabs in my body. My object in writing you is to obtain able and faithful counsel for myself and fellow prisoners, five in all, as we have tbe faith of Virginia pledged through her governor and numerous other prominent citizens to tive us a fair trial. Without we can obtain such counsel from without the slave states, naiiber the facts in our case can come before the woill, nor can we have the benefit of such facts as might be considered mitigating in the view of others upon our trial. I have money in band berw to the amount of $250, and personal propeity sufficient to piiy a most liberal fee to yourself or to any suitable man who will undertake eur defence if I can have the benefit of said property. Can yon or some other good man. come immediately on for tbe sake of tbe young men prisoners at least? My wounds sre doing well- D-? not send an ultra abolitionist." This letter, adds the Republican, was dictated, bnt is signed hy Brown with a firm, plain hud, Mr.

Ubaptuan was about starting on court business and could not go to Virginia, Mt hs gava his imprisoned frisod what adviaa few aoald by lattar.

IN THE CROWD.

In the crowd, there she stands With a reee in her hainds] Strong and straight, like tae rose, Lifts her head no one knows Oft Je thorn that deth prick Her heart to the quiok.

Mo one gaeseee white red The rose lifts its head. And its odorous breath Fills the air, tha' death With pain-poisoned dart May be eating its breath.

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No one guesses or kno *s Where a proud heart bestows Its passion and pain, Its loss and its gain, No one guesses or knows What is death to the lose. —[Nora Perry.

A REMARKAELE DISCOVERY

Tbe Bone* of Enormous Bepst* Exhumed in Spok .ne ooutj, W. r. Tacoma Ledger.

W. M. Lee, the well known fruitgrower Tacoma, gives the particulars of a wonderful discovery of bones of extinct animals in Washington territory, which will attract the attention of the students of natural his ory and arch0 o^y all over the world. In a letter to the Ledger from Spokane Fal b, just received, he says: The face of the waole territory showunmistakable evidence of great volcanic upheavals Oa my trip through Spokane county I tipped at Latah, and in conversation with Mr. Coplen of that p'ace, regarding the volcanic formation of that section, he informed me that he had examined some large bones of great inPq'iity. Accompanied by Mr Copleo 1 WcyH to the spring where the relics wore dug out. It is located oo a low -trip of springy prairie. The excavation around the spring is twelve Or fifteen fe-1 deep, and thirty or forty feet across

The boaes weie covered by several dis tinot lavers. The first layer was ancient peat, then gravel, then volcanic ashes, then a laver of coarse peat. From this spring were iaken no lass than nine mammoths or elephants of different sizes, the remains of a ca/e bear and hyenaB, extinct birds, ind a sea turtle. Mr. Coplen kindly presented me with some specimens of these relics. The dimensions of some of the nes of the larger mamn.oths were wonderful to look at. Tbe horns were a sort of tusk and protruded fr tbe head ju-t below the eyes, extending downward below thq tws, then upward over the head. By dropping the head in the act of feeding the circle of the horns that extended below the tws, partially rested on the ground, giving sup port to the head, which is estimated to have weighed a ton.

The horns were worn away several inches deep at the bottom of the turn or half circle, indicating constant use by rubbing on the ground or rocks Ooe of these horns was ten feet and one inch long and twenty-four inches in circumference. It weighed 145 pounds. One of the tusks measured twelve feet and nine inches in length and twentyseven inches round. It weighed 295 pounds. The molar teeth weighed 18 pounds each. Some of the ribs were 8 feet long. The pelvic arch was 6 feet across, snd an ordinary man could walk erect thr Usjh this opening. Ti.is huge and antiq.ie monster was 18} feet high, and was estimated to weigh 20 tons.

TRAMPS MUST BE DROWNED.

IVestchnster County sni* vtsnra Have Passed a Law to bat Effect. New York Star.

The resolution offered by Mi. Joseph S'.e in the board of supervisors of vVestchester county, which provides for he drowning of tramps if they fail to nail water, is no longer looked upon as a joke. All .be humor

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uuiy will very soon become one of the most dist-gieable summer or winter re sons for traoups on the face of this continent, because under the terms of this resolution the tramp must work or die As idleoess and life are very dear to the vVestcnester tramp the resolution wil strike terror to bis heart, and compel itim to shun the county as a future base if operations.

The resolution provides for the erertiou of a bniidin. on the county farm

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constructed with apartments so as to be tlooded with water to the dep.h of 6ix feet. When a tramp is caught the ji^ .icrj or magistrate is required to sentence mm to this tiamp pit. He is to be placed in one of th se compartments, and tb •vater is to be turned on. To save his life lie must bi il the water out as ftsr as it •tomes io, or, in tbe language of the res oiu ion, "be submerged thereby."

By the teruiB «f the resoltiiion the unty treasurer, at the demand of the miui tee on superintendents of the po -r, shall borrow upon the credit oi the county the a im of $10 000. The ado( tion of the resolution created a good deal of comment yesteiday in White Piains, because what appeared to be a joke has been turn.d ii to stern retl ity. When Mr. See called bis resolution from the tab^e and moved its adoption there could be seen a good many broad smiles on the faces of the members and tbe visitois, but when the resolution was adopted the smiles changed to a look of astonishment.

It seems that, the legislature will have to pass an act permitting this mode of punishment before a court can inflict it but the place of punishment can be built without the aid of tbe legislature, Another resolution was, therefore, adopted rt questing the senator and as semblymen of the county to secure passage ot the necessary special tramp act, as provided in the resolution. The com mittee on superintendents of tbe poor will erect the building.

AMERICAN DENTISTS.

The Demand for Tti«m and Thtir8acMi la knglnodi Tbe American dentist has become almost as fixed an institution in Englind as tbe French hairdresser or the German waiter. There are probably two score io London alone, commanding a patronage which wonld open the eyes of their pro fessional brethren at home. An American who recently visited a wealthy gen tleman in one of the principal provincial cities says: Among tbe callers at his house was the principil dentist of the town, a Massachusetts man. After he had gone, my host, also an A merican, eulogized him as one of the most ferve patriots he knew. "He's only living here until he can save enongh money to return to the slates and live there without practicing Doesn't he hate the English, though I Why, do you know he bunts through the papers her. f^r all the cases of wife bearing and be*B ly things generally he can find, anr makes notes of thv-m Then just as soot as he gets an E gltsh man or man into his chair, with his iostrnmtnts in he patient's month, he begins abon1 British crime, and goes through his whole list to prove the inferiority of this conntry to America." "I said. "Oh, ..o, they've to come to bim, and he kno*s it. He's the only man in the ounty who knows a tooth from a xtib hege peg."

Receiving Legacy In Fonrpenny toll*. A curious story comes from L-mdoa. Not many days since a man appeared at tank pnybfaw ud«r tk« waighft «l

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heavy bag which he threw upon the counter and asked to have changed for gold. Tne bag contained exactly JC100 worth of fourpenny bits of the year 1838—all of ttie 6,000 as bright and unworn as when freshly issued trom the mint. The owner explained that the coins were a legacy from his grandmother, who had iust died, and who, having, a pafsion for fourpenny pieces, had procuml the hatful at the hank half a century ago and hoarded them carefully until the day of her death. Tha legatee «o* the" £100 in gold and departed. xt morning he reappeared in a ve-y excited state of mind and asked for his fourpenny b:ts bai-k, "for," said he, "1 am told that the' jewelers will give a shilling apiece for them He was politely lnloruied that the coins had been "diatrib.ited."

A LETTER FROM TURGENEFF

Extracts Glvlpg Some Interesting PerfuuhU Tlie I*, ejudtces of Victor Hueo. N*w York 3tar. "You ask me if I am much ef a theatergoer. This year I have been but three or four times al most, and this is about the usual average I ctrefully avoid the newspaper offices. I find that the majority of Freuch journalists are bo filled wi an idea of the importance of their position as public sentinels that they become to me uniuterestiug companions. (\rrogance of all sorts I detest. Still I have many much loved f'iends among the literary world here. There are three or four whom

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I constantly meet with. Eiu le la, Victor ago, "nd Alphonse D-iudet are my particul fnen'is. I h*ve a strong affection for Flaubert uevertheleBS, this parti ltty was addressed rather to the m-n himself than *o his writings, of which I am not a warm admirer. E nile ila, wtid'e worKs are so eagerly sought .-f er in Ru^eia, is undoubtedly a man of talen', hu', to speak fraukly, he neither knowa, nor desire., to know, sught se save what he on find in the literature of his own country. "Vic'or Hugo is the personification of French geuius. I ca only compare him to the mighty oak, one bough alone of which will ensure long against the opp sition of winds and storms than many a whole tree in tbe forest close at hand. Hugo, like, la, shows a notable ignorance of foreign literature. With an amusing instance of this delect I will conclude my note. One day wtien we were discussing the met its of Goethe at Victor Hugo's house, he informed me that be never had been able to see anything extraordinary in ethe's writings. Wallen'tein," that tedious piece, especially displeases me,' he remarked. Whereupon I natural'y at once pointed out to him that WallenBtein was not written by Goethe, but by Schiller. 'What dees that mattei?' he replied. 'Goethe and Schiller are very similar in sty le, character and matter. I assure you, though I have never re*d any of their books, I know pretty weil what is written in them.'

ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE.

Reputed Americanism# Fonnd to be Obsolete English Words. A contributor to the Pali Mall Gaiette takes occasion to explain to his fellowcountrymen that many of the terms which thev call Americanisms are nothing lees than good old English words which have become obsolete, or neaily so, at home. In some cases we bave not only preserved the words from obliteration, but after retaining exclusive use of them awhile bave restored them to ti.e Engiihh vernacu'ar. "Freshet" is one of ihese, and "bluff'' is mother. "Guess." the u-ie of which betrays an American at once in England, was in Vogue when the Puritans came over, snd has 8im( ly been pieserved here and fallen into dim-e there. "Fall," which we often subtiitu'e fo.- "autumn," has the beet of authority iu Dryden. The word "sick" is not often heard in England, but 200 years go it wis as common there as

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now with us. Mitlon made use of "homely," which we cling to, wh lelbe dern Englishman expresses the same idea by "plain.' lii-k" and "wl" ittle" are both good old English words, now mai ily confined to this side of the water When we use "cute" in tbe same sense of lever" we have good precedents, but when in the sense of "pretty" no authority at ail. In tne latter case it an entir- departure from the original meaning and is esseutialli an Americanism. "How d'ye" appears in P-.p", who was extremely particular in his de of expression, and Dukens, who made so much fun of us in his "Ame ican Notes" for the constant use of ''sir," had only to go hack a century to fiod colhquial Euglish peppered with it.

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Ambition.

Leaveowertii (Kan.) Times. Stmuel S. Cox, New York, will undonbtedlv make a strong fight for tbe speakership of the house in the Fiftieth congress.

Nearly twenty years ago Mr. Cox, who was then traveling in Europe, ote a letter to Daniel W. Voorheei, then member from from the Terre Haute district, io which he stated that his highest ambition was to be speaker of the house. He was io very had health at tbe lime, and was in doubt whe her be would live to see tbe Uoited States again.

The Democrats were in a hopeless minority in the house. He asked Mr. Voorhees. as a friend of many years, to use his influence with the mocrats to make him their caucus nominee for the speakership The vote, be said, wou'd be purely con piimen'ary, but he would at the same time ap-ieciate it as a very high honor to be made the choice of his political friends for the position of speaker.

A Story of a Manuscript.

London Telegraph. Apropos of matters theatrical, it appears that the preface of a handsome illustrated edition of "La Dame aux Camelias," just published ny the Maison Quantin, that the original manuscript of the celebrated novel was thrown into the sea neat the Cape of Good Hope. M. Alaxmdre Dumas tells us that tbe idea of writing ibe book first came into nis head at St. Germains, where be had known the real heroine, rie Duplessis. Dumas and a friend had missed the last train for Paris, and they slept at a little inn, "Le Cheval Blanc," where his room cost bim 1 franc anight Here he stayed several weeks, working hard, and bis friend, getting interested in the novel, offered to copy it out as it was written on condition that he was to bave the original .nii'Cript. He afterward took it with him on a voyage to I .di-, and in a violent storm the box containing it was thrown overboard The first edition of th« book was sold by the young anth fo £40.

Tbe Cheapest »sjr io Marry. Brooklyn Magasine. There are seven separate and distinct wavs in which the nnp al knot may he ied, the ait ling expenses of tt different modes varying from $1 to $1,000. The least expensive and tbe one seldom adopted, except in cai-e of elopement, is, that afl rded by tbe justice's office. There a couple can be firmly nnit-d ia the space of a minnte for a small sum.' It Is customary for a groom to dress as he ple»se when the marriage is to be performed by a justice, and a dress suit fe woul he sadly out of place in the mn«ty law office. Tbe one great advaitange of he juatioa shop marriaga Is its aheap*