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Wamuvovok. Wot. tl.--Gneral W. M. Bum, Chief Usual oeVer, baa UnsaaauV Ml to the Hsstrtary of War his aaamei lv port, ahewinftbe oporatiottaof his bureau HM M fUKSel MMMTr TM report a statute of the value of , afforded at Fort Tr, M y of the inl eon uhedu I HUM' commuumI during the OmItMetMMWMMWMtM necessity ef wwiueu ehjneleMMt is expressed attheaetioaot i i faille V movM for a eoatiaof Fort ICrer m a port of instruettea. On this subject uenaral Haeon T t That rwwt pbui nut laaritaklybrieg M th MTTiM maST U not it fOT It, eeuWsfa cause be learned until mack Md HMMMJ- M and th MTTkM iMthe work f th norolofienl divisioa th. report saye: "Mwy very kaat lews have kMR meenuy aetheoretically aad oo firmed kyobatkMnsaad tmrinmila. Holer aad hmeatihU radiation, the condiiioa aetaraktaf temperature; the relations behweea th aiaount of solar beat received tar Hert paria of the earth's aarfaea aad th corresponding resulting- tesnpsratare; the effeet of the ueflcUnr forces of th earth' rotation oa the waeaaatos of ataeaaaaera, aad the theory of the (eeeeral Motion of th atMoapbere, and of cyclones, terantdoee, ate., ara subject which have raceatir received much attention. - "It i stated that the plan of seeuriar sbearvsr yoanr men qualified ay eduoattaa tor Mm pursuit of seieatifte studies, aad the rafcuar the standard of the enlistad fares of Vh sicwal corps, h aowbeen ia aperuUoa ire years, and af the S!i eufetmmte aad durinr that time ntaetysereat ware eolleaw graduates; aad It has proven of benefit to the service." WKATHXR rOXKCA.OTS. Touchtaa; the weather forecasts aad special warnings iaaaed during the year, it aM that the increasing demand for w forecasts may he taken as evidence af their value. The oBcers are unable to cssaplywitfc the umero reajtests reeatvad freaa ekJes, towns aad corporations far the special waraiiipt, owinfr to the limited aapeopriatioaa for tkis branch of the Oaaeral Haaea nays that the proeTCMi nad ia iadicetiaa: the approach of cokl waves haa heea kighiy satisfactory aad ha ia ceariaced that property to the vxlue af aaaar asillioas of dollars has been ssred taronirh the agency af this service- The foM ware stirnal is aow displayed hy or aars f rasa the central Mce at aw C.ties aad towns ia the United State, and from aeiata distributed br telephone and railways to about 30,000 statioaa. An aayrapriathm of HS.6M. is recommended for the extension of the sendee and the eniaiaa is expressed that no appropriation wanldhe asore acoaptable tohe people. Of the jm ealdwaTe rnals displayed aariMC the year, Sll, or 8S.5 per eaat. were fcMtiaed. Tke aamber of aiffnsl station in eperaMan Jane M, 1. in the United States was m. Tbeae iaelade the tetef rapk sUtions. ia play, apeeial rrrer, cotton revioa aad twaire repair stations, la addition, reperts are received from twenty-f on r Canadian stations hy tke co-operation of tke Canadian nteteotockal service. -The oiftce has ceatiaaed to co-operate with foreign aheerrsra in eoliecttaff wmuHaneou a taovaiafieal reports, aad in this work report have heea received from 2W foreian steAleasaadCMaavataad aierekaat marhMvassala. ststex or wA.nxxa. BeJnr daairoas of ascertainiaf tke opinion at the public as to the mine of the systeaa af waraiair and iadientioBS by the dissteyof lacs.the chief siimal oMcersays ha nddreaaed a circular letter to those ia charge of the display of those signals at variens points rcqnestiaa; that they report te what nxtoat they jrire satisfaction. Mara than 999 replies were received centtaandiafin the kigbest terms this new fentnr af the sifmal sarrice whick (rires ta many etties sod towns the advantage af a sianal service station without expense lo tke Sorernment. An appropriatioa of Wftta is recomatended to enable the bursa te fnmiett flairs and transmit telefrnnts to these volunteer stations. Of the utility of the flood warnings fur atoned by the Sianal Sarrice, the report say a careful estimate shows that proparty rained at 9196,000 was saved at a !riak station (XashviUa, Tenn.). hythe faed warnings af tke Signal Service ia the Cnaahartaad river duriwc March and April af the current year. .Tke expense to the Onvernmeat in communicating tke above framings te all stations af that system, inaindiag nay of river ehaarrers. was OT.80. Tkis single example illnstratas what is being done ia the whole system. Tke system af seeeoaat telegraph lines is said to be of great ralae, aad its exUneion aloerthe aaUre AUanttc coast is Of the State weather services. General Haaea says: "The plan of oraanWng State weather services, co-operating with tke Sfstael Sarriee. has met with encouragemaat dnrfag the year, and tke evident mine af sack organizations In affording Mens for the rapid aad economical distrikutlon of the weather forecasts and fraat and cold wave warnings of this serv ice has led iMtearraae for establishment af similar service ia State where they are not new ia operation. Tke shief simal ecer hopes that Con grass at Ha next session will recognise the smecessfnl work performed by Lieutenant areetrandhis party m provMtag promoHans of tke survivors and support for the families of those who lost their lives white Mnrir with this expedtttos The report closes with recommendations taekiar to the establishment of additional cautionary stations o tke lakes and tke nutrefcaee. at a coat of-JlftWMe. of a new WiMiforUHaxuaaaaWtkuof thebu The 9ffiMffilffiWarra. JrxM!XA.MMK?t On acconnt nf the preval ii aFMPris, sll dances and mtblic wuthJMVmru b,en prohibited m this city. The eebeols h.re been closed. and ae services were held la the churches, her order of the Board of Health, jester day. mean far tke New Xatfeaal LHtrery. msNrxatew, Kev. . It ia thought by the mtnday Capkef that there Is a fair that one of the iiew KagHMtd ; will obtain tke contract for tke i for the new National library build hag. Tke value of the stone when dsttv erai will be more than half a million of .Aottrj. The Library Commisatoa kave net yet determined what sort of atone they will ase, hut they are reported to be MChmed ia favor of the lightest colored (pUnaid1 Seeeai en) eeflKul fcrffi Jfcu iff MMfafeMrtto uuMMCtSM QOTM'HaH!1 VvdNfflM ! uunamhan. VJunham uhsadB Snumm af ska lahJnuuHMmuV. snMuHUesnat mm""Fm v man mmj vara WaV mmanj sJTBHpmTh tWJaniPaJ 1 tfamaanrmHaa1 MHyi aasuaaaa uumuh yWfe tAkm un uunjj VMurmulvVja TtTPI Ha"Xai MPV VffiValuT Rpy amppm aamumaj mama aamajnpnn f

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Thn W4 Watntagton aasoial FbatmuamMSeaarnl Vifamt fajanllan km poaeh a4 Madlaon: HX h tnm," anaaek at My honae m Madison. Tka report sent out to tka praaa that I had wholly falaa aad withont tka Want porthjn aamblaaus of tratk. I did not raaok Madiaoa until Snnday night nrtrkHU to tka election. On Monday 1 spent an hour and a half of tk foranoon eoavorMaf with friends I happened to Meet on tke sidewalk and eaUed at tk ZkmooriU offlce for ftfteen minutaa. It was natural I should call upon mt old friends. After I had indulred In brief call I retained to mr rasioenee and there remained until renins;. I was naked to addreet tke people in ooaaeotion witk other rentlemen, some of them prominent and wall known throughout the State. "By their courtesy more time was aoaorded me than either of tke other gentleman occupied. It has been the entom, I think, for the last twenty years, ia the erty of Madison, to close the campaign witk a political meeting either on Saturday or Monday eveninr preceding: the election on Tuesday. I do not eunoose there hae been a halfoamh of theae maatinra when I was abeent aud'did not hare something to say to my friends and neighbor upon nerhbors upon i. 1 had gone willing to travel he privilege and the political situation home to rote, and was 5.000 miles to eaiov the nrinlett nifaMt mr juncsritr to an honest and fair ndminrntratioa of public affair. In the course of my remarks I spoke eommentlatorily and specifically upon the resident's order issued to Federal offiee-holders regarding participation in political conventions. 1 pointed out the evils which had grown up during the lifetime of the Republican party when party nominations were controlled by the office-holding element I unqualisedlr declared my cordial approval of the President's course and nolicr ia respect to the official dictation and intermeddling of office-holders in directtag nominations ana mauipuiauag nominations and conventions, and the declaration re ceived an outburst of applause indica tive of the most hearty approval of the wise and judicious poliey of the President. "I was amour my friends, comrades and neighbors, and I looked upon it as a duty to addraes them when they had been kind enough to extend to me an Invitation. There, is a wide difference between addressing an audience at home in a singie speech and abandoning the duties of an office for a long period of campaigning: there mast be a distinction allowed between officers eharsred with different duties in con nection with the service of the Gov ernment There was nothing ia the business requiring; my attention bat the false reports transmitted for partisan ends." m MR. BLAINE'S SOUR GRAPES. URusVaam nS(& Plunsed Kataht (rHa tke Xudcaenuat Xmtmn Wfc taa. Xat Bettevs la It was recently announced thrown I tae Asw 1 era papers ibu xjiriob was in the city to effect a reeoneuiation between himself and tke Mugwump Tmits, tne naugnty ionKiing and ex-PreeMent Arthur, lbat the reconciliation failed may be inferred from the prompt denial fay,tbe ubquitens intimate friend ' on Sunday that it was contemplated. But tke observant public is used te de nials of the reported purposes of the Maine aspirant to the Presi dency. These reports are seat out like so many antennas to feel the public TbatMr. Bl sine and his little privy ooun oil have considered the foasiuiuty of re covering theanti-BIaine Keimblicans of 1884 does not admit of question. In reply to tke question, will Mr. Blaine be a eanuMiaie in iBr Vongraseaaaa William Walter Phelps, who is one of Mr. Blaine's closest confidant, just be fore the latter started on his tour through the States, said: "1 don't know, ana 1 uon t suppose ne uoes. It's two years yet, you see. You may be sure he won't be unless the minority of the party those who opposed his nomination last time ask lor it in 1806. They will have to bring him into the field." This utterance indicated which way Mr. Blaine was looking for a pretext to eome before the Republican National convention in 1838. If he could show that the disaffected elements of 1881 the Mugwumps, the stalwarts and the Arthurites were greedily clamoring for him, his old "first, last and all the time" partisans would hare an excuse to nominate him with a whoop. Unfortunately for Mr. Blaine, the Mugwump element hi an intangible thing. It has no representative leader or organization with whom he can negotiate. It is constituted of indeendent voters who seceded from the Republican party in 1854 because they indiTklually did not believe Mr. Blaine was a fit man to be President of the United States. They thought that nift nomination marked a distinct decadence in the moral tone and purpose of the Republican party. They voted far Cleveland to rebuke what they considered a downward step in the conduct of political affairs. They acted from principle, and the only way tke Republkjan party can recover them is br recognhdng their conMsieutkHM objection to Mr. Blaine. To talk of their reconciliation to him is silly. It is possible for him to estabHek friendlr relations with Roseoe Conkling and nx-Freeldent Arthur, although there are many Mom in the path, Bt Mr. Blaine mm never be anv more acceptable lj tke Mug wumps tbaa he was m 1084. CWcaye The doubling up of tke Demoera tie dunegatkHi in Congress from Masse skwsttne m a grant event in tke netttknl MsfcHT ef tnM TsfhkCeumenweahh. It skews that even there tme werW mrrea. XMrs Fm frm.

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Was ntoeeuurpsef the vaaia ia with sekemei of the eoat cotabiaattoas la has auMe nature Ms wrsaaV MmomuHi raaaarlvaam nmjT'not aWMMt"attl"re eWlw l"uWNlMt fci e MfMAlMaNMi HMm jetky of aemsthtacnneM rNM aad m Dmnutrvttit Ouernc ( i4p Smm uU md." It may not have been asoessary for Mr. Blaine to hara made a triumphal march through Pennsylvania in the interest of the coal combinations, whiek n Democratic Governor had greatly inoeneensed, but the oombtnarioaa re ferred to were very much afraid that it was. The Democratic Governor who will now step down and out put the issue against the ooutbiaations so forcibly and so plainly that K was feared the people of tke State oould not fail to see it, and seeing it could not fall to indorse the issue as a Democratic movement that promised them relief. So Blaine, with his ningnetMin, was called to aid and assist the combinations iu the choice of a political Governor who will permit the move ment inaugurated by a Democratic Coventor to go hythe board go tke way that all reforms go which are mauipulaW by the Republican. Tbevgnt oi me coat com i nations m ennsrlvttnia was not really a local Penmv one. It wae one of National imnortanoe and National interest It will be hard to find a Republican newspaper. hard to Hnd a KenuWioan newspaper, or a member of the Republican party, outside of the Stale of Pennsylvania that will indorse the "coal com bin atiott" that a Democratic Governor ia lighting, and it will be equally hard to find one that did not indorse the action of the combination ia lighting the Democratic ticket in that State. PennsylvRnia Democrats were defeated while lighting in a good cause a cause that the Republican party can not take issue with. If the incense of the combiaations combinations which have been decried by men and newspapers of all faith and political complexion, last and West has been so rreat that a Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania must give way to a Republican, we fail to see wherein James G. Blaine ami his followers can take pride in the forty thousand majority the combinations have secured against the Democrats. And yet the combinations that spent thousands of dollars to beat the Democratic ticket are quite willing to accord the honor of the victory to Blaine and his followers. And Blaine and his followers are quite willing to accept the honor thus conferred now that the battle has been fought and won. B3 Mwm Lmde-r. The Electoral Vote. On the morning after the late election there appeared in the Cincinnati Commercial, editorially, and also repeated in glaring head-lines over the election news, the following legend: The Next President Will Be the Nominee of the Republican National Convention." Well, let us see. In 1864 the Republicans had ,189 Electoral votes, and the Democrats had xiz. This year the Republicans have carried the following States to which the firI .i tm,. .... .1 ..nx. """StZuuC 22; Indiana, 15; Iowa, 13; Kansas, 9; Maine, 6; Massachusetts, 14; Michigan, IS; Minnesota, 7; Nebraska. 5: Nevada, 8; New Hampshire. 4; Ohio, 28; Pennsylvania, 90; Rhode Island, 4; Vermont, 4, and Wisconsin, 11 total, 189. The Democrats hare carried Ala. bama. 10; Arkansas, 7; California, 8; Colorado; 8; Delaware, 8; Florida, 4; Georgia. 12: Kentucky. IS; Louisiana, 8; Maryland. 8; Mississippi, 9; Missouri. 16: New Jersey, 9: New York, 36; North Carolina, 11: Oregon, 8: South Carolina. 9; lennessee. iz; lexas, ia; - virginia,iz; n est Virginia w wiai, -1-. This seems to show a Democratic majority of 38. To this ought really to be added Indiana, whick dipped away from us by a mere scratch. That would make our electoral majority .18, or one more than we had in 1881. Minnesota and Connecticut ought really to be added also, but it would be unkind to make the subject too painful to our Republican friends. CitmrntsUl Enquirer. A Flight of Fancy. Field Marshal Murat Halstead, editor of tke Cincinnati Commercial Gateile, has a rery fertile imagination. Some of the most startling works of fiction of the wikl West before the war were from his pen. Latterly he has turned the fruits of his imagination into the line of politics, and the last flight of HM iancv appears in in uouiri nnuii that the result of the late election presages the defeat of the Democratic party in 1888. This is the latest and one of the wildest of his imaginings. The rule haying been, witk one or two exceptions, under remarkable circumstances, that the mid-term elections have resulted in a House of Representatives politically opposed to the President, we have in these recent elections an exception to the rule, under circumstances not at all remarkable, showing that, contrary to the usual course, the Administration has strengthened its party in the first half of its exercise of power. We have simply a reduced majority in place of the complete overturn which occurred in the middle of the term for which President Garfiekl was elected, and which has generally occurred in mid-term elections In this country. Unless Mr. Halstead sees more than we do in the late elections, his fancy has run away with him. Moitm lit' 4I To the Democracy of the coun try the .ir offers its hearty eongratu 1 aliens that the citadel ef their strength has not been wrested from them eithe r by their ancient enemy or by this sudden nnd fierce attack in tke rear. New York City is solid for Democracy, and tke Joufint eyes that Mr. Blaine has turned upon the ety will find noth ing in the returns ef tne eisewon te at firJ 1 m LiH n 11 uMt mfirl If It

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Tke fortnne ef tke lata Mey er RotkaekiR ei Frankfort. is eatimated at 76,000,000. Mrs. Frank Leslie says ske Urea tke Ilia of a man without man's enjoyment N. T. Mm. Prof. Huxley, at tke age of sixtytwo years, retires witk pensions amounting to 7,500 a year. Mr. Ann S. Stephens, tke proliJw producer of sentimental novels, left a fortune of something more than 100,000. JV. r. Trie. Mrs. Betay Amelia Hart, who recently died at Troy, H. left an estate valued at $7,000,000 to be divided among numerous children and jrandehildreu. "Stonewall" Jackson never fasted a letter without calculating whether it would have to travel on Sunday, and would often hold his letters over to Monday. CAieao Journal. Spurgcon. the famous Kngliek preacher, addressing a oouple he had just married, said: Yes, Mr. Husband, vou be the head; but, wife, you be the'neok. which alone can move or turn the head." Mrs. Anderson, widow of General Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, lias taken the house on Rhode Island avenue formerly occupied by Senator Beck, and with her two daughters will reside permanently in Washington. HrtthingtoH W. Miss Millie Seyferf. of Rending, Pa., and Mrs. William Waldorf Astor, of New York-, met recently at the Me-Carter-Peterson wedding at George W. Child1 country residence, and were so mucn ai: xnai ineir nrcm wi. onlv distinguish one from the other by their dress. JfepAa Pre. George L. Parkins, of Norwich, Conn., is iindonotwlly the oldest railroad man in active service in the oountrr. He bean iiis ninety-ninth year in" August, and is the active financial head of the Norwich A Worcester railroad, work'ms- a resrularlv now he did twenty-five years ago. llartford William T. Adams (Oliver Optic) will make Minneapolis. Minn., his permanent home after this winter. It is said that he will enter into busness in that city with his son-in-law, Mr. Sol Smith Russell, the actor, who, with this winters engagements, w 11 close his professional career. Chicago Jonrmil. The finest special library in the country is said to be ex-President Andrew D. White's historical library, to which he has been adding lately' bylarge purchases in Europe. It now numbers over thirty thousand volumes besides many valuable manuscripts, and is intended as material for a history of Germany. It will lie left entire as a bequest to Cornell. iAo (.V. T.) Journal HUMOROUS. A watch and clock company having failed, one of the creditors remarked that "they would nave an awful time winding up their business. "Whv w a small boy like a woman? ' saiu a ew naruora man mj his troublesome wife. No resiioHee. wn n ' n': ' ' "liecause he will make a man jcrow akl the connndrumSst. Harijorit Tulbila tells the story of con ductor on a slow railroad who told one passenger that he had been oa the road for nine years. " Then," snid the passenger, "this mutt be your second trip." Husband (going tmhingj tuaiibye, wifey; I won't come until ltjnless I catch something. A ife If you don't come until late, hubby, yOi will be sure to catch some thing, you hear me! Chicago Tribunt. Fogg I heard a pretty compliment for yon the other day. Mrs. Passay Indeed! May I k what it was? Fogg I heard some one say how nretty you used to be. Mrs. Pasay Used to be! j no vou can mat a com pliment? I call it an obituary notice. A: Y. Ihnli. Oh, my friend?, there are some spectacles that a person never forgets!1' said an orator recently, after jiving graphic description of a terriile accident he had witnessed. "I'd like to know whar dev sells 'em," remarked an old colored man on the outskirts of the crowd. Tid-lHl. Treated with Scorn. There was aroun aly named Vauirhea, Who trented her lover with scaughaa. And be rve up his suit Wnen her father's bhr ttult 8ot htm hastily forth on the taaaaa. Lift. Mr. Isaacstcin Ah, sir, yon rentcrwl mine poy a good service, sir. in pulling him outofde vater, und I shall nefcr fersrut, sir, nefer." Life Sgvt.r0h, well, that's nothing." Mr. Isaacstein "Nothing, mine freht? Did you know my ioy had on vnn of mine twventv-fife dollar suits?" A'. Y. Mail Law Professor "What constitute burglary?" Student "There must be a breakinr." Professor "ihen u a man enters a door and takes a five dollar gold piece from your vest pocket in the hall, would that be burglary?" Student "Yes, sir; because that would break me," Sininkins "Wliv, Tompkins, old fellow, what is the matter with yon?" Tompkins "Ah! breaking up, I'm afraid. Simp. Too much brain work. Doctor says that I must atop reading and writiusr, and avoiu intellectual conversation, and a " Simpkins Very good advice. Come and spend your evenings with us." uurirs Iktmr. Ldisott says that no experiment which he has tileu at night ever tailed. Now what we want to know is, did Mr. Etlison ever try at meht to find the matches in his lmre feet without disturbing anv of the furniture or stub bing his big toe against seventeen dif ferent obstructions? jscw 21mm New. "You look so happy that I suppose you have keen to the dentist and had thai aching tooth pulled," said a matt to a friend witk a swollen iaw. "It n't that that makes me look happy. The tooth aches worse'than ever, but I Wt feel it" "Hew is that?" "Well, I feel so jolly because I have just keen te tke nentist, and he was out." if. i 'ThnBaHraHHHHuV. an urur uWTrw

LJKK8 LKILY OR JOLLY. There's an uar OM Man ia Ma ssatm mad he faewes tM he Meksea ase I know" war " WT U'sliisMseThave bssa so iiaughtg ta day. rvsbreke my erwa, aad put haeiweathe WenTsewn Mm kteek aad lest my aew I fakpreMr maan whaa my ma ashed K Aad a iet taste tMags, I'M aet taU I did nMitndsenaaghfy tabs, hut the mtaehtef was alt in my head, yen Te-Hwrsw I'M try te da semethlaff AadlS'Maa m the Mean aaa bat amae at alcht. There's a Jelly Old 3f aa In the Keen toa last WMk n merrfaee and a smWe so brhthtj M looka 4wr ea me M a HMkHil wyPoh'C yea think be kaows ha I've been "iSfrJ.! D. to, t Our MHe Oim. A BABY CORMORANT. Mr Teh tTbal Mm Kipeet te 1X la the Wny nt frtahtna- A Orent Cetouyef Mm Kind hh the Dnnune Klver. Here I ait in, my nest of sen-weed, waiting for my dinner. You may call we Tom All-alone, if you like; but in another fortnight you won't see me on this rnnlr. for then 1 shall be able to fly off and provide for myself. You want to know my real nnnw? Well, I'm a cormorant, nnd I am given to understand thai that word means a sea-cow. I daresay that is quite right, though loannot be sakl to bear any resemblance to your okl friend Jim. I am fond of eating. People say that cormorants are great and greedy caters, and they are not far wrong. We kill a trenieudoiB quantity of ftehaa. and for that reason re not nomilar in many lo calitiesinland nlaoes especially. That is why, mm a rule, we prefer to live by the ocjan, where our finny prey are plentiful, and tliere is no one to complain of our Ukine iust as many of them as we please; but a case is recorded of of some of our folk settling in the mid dle of a town, and choosing the churon tower for their headquarters. I think that the cormorants may be proud of the way in which they sustain the good name of the bird for intel ligence. Thousrli vou would not exiMtct. us to be skilfuiat fishin? for others see ns that we are so fond of eating all that we catch, I understand that our Chinese brothers are regularly tamed and trained to fish for man. This train insr begins from their infancy. They have hardlv left the shell before they are taken to the water and taught to do what their master tells them, and to bring to him the iishes which they cant ure. The Chinaman goes out on the water en a bamboo raft, which he drives about with a paddle, and each raft carries three or four oormoranb?. The onlv intimation that the bird gets when it i wanted to angle is a rough push off the raft. Should it be unwilling or too la?.v to rih. the man strikes llie water with his peddle, or else gives the conni rant a tap with it, whereupon it dives I escape the blows. As soon as it secure corinoto scape ne wows, ah soon as 11 securou a nan it rises to me suriace, ami, naturally enough, tries to swallow its victim. But, of course, John Chinaman has no intention to allow it to enjoy the fruits of its labor. How does lie prevent this? Wise as we are. man is wirer; ml en tlut ntinn!nr raftsman ties n tr'mSt or fastens a raetnl ring, round tbe wjcn prevents it from swallowing any but the smallest tidies. The cormorant either tarings it prey to the raft, or else the raft is swiftly paddled towards It lest the fish escape, for the bird has often a tough fttrurele before it catches a lame fish. A net is cleverly thrown over the b'rd. and it m hauled on the raft Ihe nsh is then forced from its erasti and pitched into a big basket, while the cormorant is rewarded with a mouthful of food, of which it is enable to partake by the ring beinff ra, sd. Sometimes a bird will make an at tempt to escape. In this case the China man pantiles alter 11 anu soon overtaxes it. But in oriler to crush these eBorts after freedom, it is often tlieciutom to chain the cormorant to the raft I have heard that two of the l)'rU will quar rel for tlte fish that one of them has oaueht and that the unsnccossfnl aneler will at fines chae the more fortunate brd and try to deprive it of it victim. Ihis proves they are capable of rivalry, ami even of jealousy. The fishing exploit generally attract crowds of human ?wctators, who imout out loudly at the smart pieces of angling. 1 ... " .T.!- - ! I lt. 1 nave no ailiumun iu uu n iinuieu nsn r fnr. after all. it is slnvurv as com pared with the life of the wild eormorants, who can mil in me sea tne wnoie day if thev choose, and only for them selves anu their children. I have heard there are colonies of cor morantn on some of the islands of the Danube river. A tmrty of smHtsmen ence viaited there, and were received with shouts of laughter by the older uiruis aim wmi miicuiu iiuinn uy un froanger. llietr nerves were, upset, towevcr, by n shot, which made them dart from their nests with the ppoed of arrows. The observers having hidden themselves amoni; lite bushes, theb!rd cautiously returned, first Hying round awl round at a great rnazht spy ing whether the enemy had gone, and then Hying to their nests with tho same wnhlen rapidity. Despite all their care, a nunihar of them were shot The wounded defended themselves with nnrkS conra, sending a dog off howling with pain, Wting one mnn through his trousers, and nearly blinding another by striking him between his eye. Unities, stubbornly contorted, often take place between comorants and keroM, when the former try to drive the latter from their heronries. This somes of their leaving the sea ami seeking to take up their dwellings inland. Rookeries, too, are attacked; hut tke rooks are no match for their powerful invaders. Feurpmrs keroa of their nests in a kbrh ketM tree m Dntsenburg. In the MttMnm of tke safwa year their numbsr had grown It thirtj. Mast spring, mm far

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hack m increasing erowiU, till, H was aaU. amioted tke dishiot Fiftr nests were counted in one tree. The mob con. stan try I3 lag to and from the sea darkened tke air, nnd their noise ws deafenlag. It cost tke natives several years of hard labor to get rid of tke pest, the birds being ultimately either killed or driven away. We are snlemfM swimmers, no inn I ex celling us in this respect A boat, man nod bv tke stoutest rowers of a man. of -war, would not overtake us. When hunting our prey beneath the surface our bodies are stretched out miite straight, and we fores ourselves along witk vigorous strokes of our feet We ara capital divers also, some of our ad. venturous friends having been raptured in crab-pots at a. depth of one Hundred and twenty feet. These are gifts thnt I am not yet fortunate enougn to poafemi, hut I am assured by my parents that I shall lie able to do all these fine things before long. With such a bright future in store for me, I am mlte content to hide mr time witli patience, satisfied that I shall not be allowed at present to want for fishes. If I am not happy xsa king, at least, I am quite as happy na most people pernaps more w.huiic Foil. - FIREI FIREI FIRE! Where la It? Why. It M In the Water! In't That Funny? But you see it isn't a real fire, but only a fire-ftsh. Sweet creature, isn't he? Suppose you were a little, innocent mermaid, swimming alone for tlw first time; how would you feel if yon were to meet this fellow darting toward you with his great red mouth open? Why, you would scream with fright, and swim to your mother as fast as you could, and catch hold of her tail for protection. At least that is what I should do if I went a mermaid. Hut Mrs. Mermaid would tell you that the fire-fish will not hurt you'unless you hurt him first, in which case he will prlok you dreadfully with his long, sharp spines. Nobody know. why th's fish has such enormous, wing-like fins. Wise men used to think that lie could raise himself out of tlte water with them, like the flying-fish; but it i now proved that he can not, and there seems to be no reason why a set of plain, small fins would not servo him just as well for swimming. He prefers warm water to cold; so he lives in tho tropical seas, swimming about the coast of India, Africa and Australia. The natives of Ceylon call him Ginimaha, and thev think lie is very good to eat They take great care in catching him, for they are very much afraid of him, thinking that h's sharp spines are poisoned, and oan inflict a deadly wound. But in this they arc too hard upon the fellow. 1I can prick them deeply and painfully, and lie will if thev'meddle with him; but he is a per fectly rospectalla fish, and would not think of such a oowardly thing as pois oning anybody. Laura . MitkartU, in Our jjiuie Ufie. An Elephant's Good Memory. An English paper just at hand tolls of an amusing incident that happened at Hythe. lhjtween three and four o'clock in the morning one of the ele phant's belengiug to a traveling menagerie broke out of the tent and disappeared. He marclied straight down Market street to a iirue oorner aoop, where such things as potatoes, apples, cakes and candies are sold. He. found that the shop was closed, but nothing daunted, lie lifted tke door from its hinges, thrust his trunk into the room, ami helped himself to applet pota toes, ana even to tne camues in jars on tlie shelves. Vhat mm a .... & burglar! lhe snop-Keeper was not aroused, so silently did the huge creature go about his work of robbery; but upon the elephant's return toward the tent, the keeper came up to him. In the morning it got all over town that tkere hnd been a robbery, but later it was learned that the robber was a fontfooted creature big enough to have carried off the whole shop, if lie had wished. As for the shop-keeper, he recalled tlte fact that twelve years jh-b-vioiis he had given a passing elephant good meal of apples and potatoes. Possibly it was the same elephant lit went to tint tent, and there recognhe4 his acquaintance of twelve years before! QakUn Dans'. NOVEL SCRAP-BOOK. Am Kmy ami rieiHt Wjr of Knterti inInk Vhhhk CnllHrrn. How to amuse the children is ofte.i perplexing question. They Ure oi the costliest toys, and plead for stories, when mother and aunties arc up to their oars in work. A maiden aunt, with a troop of little nephews and iiieeec', devised a scrap-book that proved an unlimited so urce of amusement ami pleasure. She procured a blank book, ami in it wrote short account of tlie various adventures the children had met with while spending a month in the country tlie summer before. Thee simple stories were illustrated by appropriate pictures cut from nowspajierj and magarine. The children's own name were given, and simple language, of eour-o, was used One need not le epec'ally "literary" in order I compile such a book, anil the time spent In ifc lu-ftttBrsttinn will lm hvnome ins thrown away. Write a large, plain hand. aid before you know it the children will lw reading the stories themselves. Mich simple things amuse caiiurtm it is ju.1l as well to lieg'm with a sketch of Mamie'N white kitten, or Johnny's bird, or Willie's new sled. fsHch booK need not cost but a few cents, ami nwy lie made n means of instruction and infinite plen.'u re.ChruttMH Union. - - - m A darning-needle was recently removed from tlie person of Mrs. Henry Bennett, of Westmoreland, N. i. which it is mippeeed shenwallewotl over sixteen years ago, whrn temporarily out of her head, owiti to the loss of bar child. For a long time shn had trouble with her stumaek. but for ever twelve year ue has suffered from pain in her able. Two year g khans formed there, and the other day h narning-nesdle appeared and Wnt Wmewtn. JWWt srsf.