Bloomington Courier, Volume 16, Number 7, Bloomington, Monroe County, 30 November 1889 — Page 2

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THE COURIER.

BY H. J, FELTUa

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA

Almost everybody in ftiis world i susceptible to flattery. The easiest way to flatter some people is to ref mark to them how impervious to flattery they are.

If California will give the

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TALMAGE AT ATHENS,

Progress of tii3 Celebrated Brooklyn

Divine on His , Pilgrimage. He Sisconraea to a Group of Friends and Countrymen in Aneieat Athens on "The " Adrians Revelation to Ba" An Eloquent Strmon. Having reached Athens on his pi primage to the , Holy Land, Rev.. T. DoA itt Talmage last Sunday proachod to a group of friends, basing, his. discourse, on the fol-

Hiffhbinder societies a fair field and nrf friends, bas

rK mma. lowing two .passages from th3 Paulino

y epistles :L Corinthians, ii, 0: "Eye hath not itself, just as the feuds among Chris-, scon, nor ear heard,' and I. Corinthians, tiamKentuckians and West Virginians 3 For now we- see through a glass, j ; -Z. j darkly. The sermon was as follows: v .., , 1 a ss J Both these sentences were written by the One of the queer things of this most illustrious merely hum-m boing the strange, world is the employment o Silever, saw n? Jvho walked, these . T& , , " streets, and preached from yonder pilo of KOD ingersouas counsel for tne Koman rooks. Mars Hills. Thoufrh more classic

Uatholio church. rxigenoies some

times necessitate, irreconcilable lations. - ;

. Labotjchere- says that the longer be lives the more reasons he has for being thankful that ne is not a king or kaiser. And the longer he lives the more people there are who are glad about it, too.

"The young German Emperor.' says an exchange, . "shows his hand in his speech to the legislative body. n It is certainly better to show one's hand in one's speech than to exhibit one's foot in one's mouth.

Archduke John of Austria has . announced his intantiou of giving up1 his present occupation and becoming a reporter on an American daily newspaper. And yet they say that princes have no ambition.

Four million two hundred and fortytwo thousand five hundred and forty -two persons ode on Pullman cars in ihia country last year, and not one of them succeeded in outwitting the porter and evading a fee.

. That lawsuit which has been settled

in Warsaw, after running for 400 years.

associations are connectod with this citv

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tuttu wuu otuur . ciitf unuer. mo sun, t .because here Socrates, and- Plato, and

Aristotle, and Demosthenes, and Pericles, and Xenophon, aud Praxiteles wrote or chiseled, or taught or thundered or sung, yet in my mind all those men and their .teachings were ... ellpsed by Paul and. the Gospel he preached in this city and in your near by city of Corinth.. Yesterday, standing oa the old fortress of Corinth, the Aero-Corinthus, out from the ruins at its baso aroso in my imagination the old city, just as Paul saw it I have been told that for splendor tho world beho-.ds no such wonder to-day as that ancient Corinth standing on an isthmus washed by two seas, the one sea bringing the commerce of Europe, the other sea bringing the coauner.'e of Asia. .From her wharves, in the construction of which whole kingdoms had bean absorbed, war galleys with three banks of oars pushed out and confounded tae navy yards of all' tho world. Huge-handed machinery, such as . modern invention cannot espial, lifted ships, from tin soa on one side and transported them on tracks across tho isthmus and set them down in the soa on the other side.,- Tho revenue officers of ,tti3 city went down through the olive groves that lined the beach to collect a tariff from all nations. The mirth of all people sported in her Isthmian games, and the beauty of all lands sat in her theatres, walked her porticos and threw itself on the altar of her stupendous dissipations. Column and statue and tern pie bewildered the baholder. There were white marble fountains into which, from

apertures at tho sides, there rushed waters

law as at first sight appears. The peo

ple who' began it did not have to pay

anything like all-the costs.

iu r, nrioun, HklVl UMUJ iw swvjwtaii?, I - - - . . is not such a warning aningl eoisur to ! !?b8W kaaxm for health giving quali

- P.--" ties. Around these basins, twiste.l into

: wreaths of stone, there were all the beau

ties of sculpture and architect tire while standing, as if to guard the costly display, was a statue, of Hercules'- of burnished

m r-u; iL-i. . .'vwnoHuaa cross, vases oi terra cotta

cemeteries of thoded-vases ly organized m Honda proposes to de- so costly that Julius Caesar was not satisveiop no less than thirteen thousand flea until he had captured them for acres of phosphate lands. This is an Amed offlcciais, the corlnth- . " i J v .t :1L j"' i aru paced up and down to see that industry wiuch has been productive of B0 statue was aofaceaj no pedestal over a 'very large revenue in South Carolina thrown, no bas-relief touched. From for a long term of years. the edge of the city , the hill held it3 mag- . j -a " ; " " s . nificent burdens of columns and towers and Suicide as a- risk to Ufa decreases ItSilA1?!!8 w?!tin at one vlh

the very old take their lives as l arely as the very young. Under ten and

over seventy years - of age suicide is extremely rare 'and takes an insignificant place in the statistical tables.

Gibraltar is a bean of sand compared with

it. Amid all that strength and magnificence Corinth stood and defied the world. Oh! j it was not , to rustics who had never seen

anything grand that Paul uttered one of my texts. They had heard tho best music' that had come from the best instruments in 11 the world; they had heard songs floating from , morning porticos and. molting in

hehas pblainedfrom the makers oflSS-ready-made clothing he concludes that ' ture and architecture and Corinthian the average American man measures ' DraB8 which had been molded and si in ; a ! haped until there was no chariot wheel in

Dr. Atkinson says that from data

the "chest, weighs y from 155 to 160 pounds,, and is -5 feet 6 inches high. ?

and no tower in

which it had not erlittered. and no crate wav

that it had not adorned. Ah, it was a bold thing for Paul to st md there amid all that

It ia stated that a New York woman i tt Ja "All this is nothing. These . ... j sounds that come from the torn n in of Non-

tune are not music compared with the har-

nas oeen supplied witn a new nose

from the bone and cartilage of a live chicken's breast ' This device will never become popular if by pressing the new nose firmly with the index finger one can tell the woman's age.

It has been fully demonstrated that the heating of cars from the locomotive and ia other safe way s Is entirely feasible. The use of such stove for such purposes should be treated, in case pf injury to person or loss of life, by the infliction of exemplary penalties. The Boston Globe thinks that "domestic troubles are best when bottled

monies., or which I speak. These Waters rushing in the basin of Pyrene are '.not - pure. These statues of Han-

j chns and Mercury are not exquisite. Your

cuaaei oi Acro-uormthus is not strong compared with that which I offer to the poorest slave that puts down his burden at that brazen gate. You Corinthians think this is a splendid city; you tbinlc you have heard all sweet sounds and seen all beautiful sights; but I tell you eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." Indeed, both my texts, the one spoken by Paul and the one written by Paul, show. ns that vre havoVerj imperfect eyesight, and that our day of vision is yet to come: For now we seo through a glass

aarKiy, .pnt then face to face. -So Paul

bottle buried about fourteen feet be

neath; the ash heap in the back yard.

np for home use only." It may be all ! takes the responsibility of savins that the

jn matter of taste, but it is best when Hlhte is ..mi indistinct mirror, and that the stopper is securely wired down, I itemIlsio2,alL be .fiQally 3Unde?'

covered with sealing wax, and the (heaven fastened to the throne. Just as now.

in a museum, we nave a lamp exhumed from Hercnlaneum or Nineveh, and we look at it with great interest and say: "How poor a light it must have given, compared with bur modern lamps." So X think that this Bible, which was a lamb to our feet in

this world, may lie near the throne of God.

exciting our interest to all eternity by the

contrast between Us comparatively feeble light and the illumination of heaven. The Bible, now, is the scaffolding to the rising temple, but when the building is done there will; -be no use for the scaffolding. The idea I shall develop to-day is, that In this .world our knowledge is comparatively dim and unsatisfactory, but nevertheless is introductory to grander and

Dowk -in Posey county, Indiana, which has been famous as a region of

Idyllic peace for many years, the rude :

commercial spirit of the age has asserted itself at lasfib A wealthy farmer of Posey paid $5,000 the other day for a gold brick made of twenty -four-carat lead.

Swimming- baths are becoming popular additions to the English schools.

ine school board contends that it is more complete vision. This is eminently

quite as important for a poy to learn to swim as for a girl to learn the art

pf cookery, and claims that the swimming baths adds to the comforte of the scholars and assists in the work of education. v

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Montgomery Seaks, who is one of the richest men in Boston, and lives in an American palace, is the son of a grocer, who lived on half a dollar a day and slept in the store. He made money and saved it, following the wise advice of Franklin, th it a Apenny saved is a penny gained.n That is the sore road to wealth, but it is a hard road to traveL .

true m recrard to our view of c;oi U'o

hear so much about God that we conclndo that we understand him. he is represented as having the tenderness of a f uther, the firmness of a judge, the pomp of a king and the love of a mother. We hear about him, j talk about him, write about him. We lisp j hiB name in infancy, and it trembles on the ' tongue of the dying octogenarian- We . think that we know very much about him. Take the attribute of mercy. Do we understand, it?. The Bible blossoms all over with that word Mercy. , , It speaks again and again of the tender mercies of God; of the sure mercies; of tho great morcies; of the mercy that endureth forever; of the multitudes of his mercies. And yet I know that the views we have of this great being are most indefinite, one sided and incomplete. When, at death, the gates shall fly open, and we shall look directly upon him,

how new and surprising! We

con nrn

trEN. UKIALMONT, OlJJelglum, thinks canvas a picture of the morn in?. We

Americas dynamite guns will never hurt anybody. Every good American hopes they will not If they succeed in impressing people with the idea that it's dangerous to provoke a quarrel with the long lank; lantern-jawed individual that owns them they will have served their purpose. They are designed to be peace-makers, "

study the cloud m the sky. the dew nnon

the grass, and the husbandman on the way to the field. Beautiful picture of the morn ing! But we rise at daybreak, and go upon a hilt to see for ourselves that which was represented to us. While we look, the .mountains .are transfigured. The burnished gates of heaven swing open and shut, to let pass a host of fiery splendora. The clouds are ail abloom, and hang pendant from arbors of alabaster and amethyst. The waters make pathway of inlaid pearl

for, the light to walk upon; and

NnwrhatnrnraumnnrrAmlivMruiATtlA i . . . .'

.., n ' w.iwwywFxw . morning among the mountains, jnow you

are so sew ana mat science nas reo uceti the death rate below any before recorded, while it is even hinted that elixirs, germicides and microbe killers Will yet annihilate disease, what is to pre vent that rapid and unchecked increase of population which led Mai thus to fear that this little earth would soon be too small to give elbow room to its population? Perhaps electric light wires are, indeed, beneficent.

A colonization scheme has been devised for the repopulating of the Kew England farm country depopulated by the removal of the young men who were born there to the more productive west .Forty-seven adandoned. farms in Vermont varying in size from 50 to 250 acres are offered for colonization purposes at from fS to 95 per acre, and it is proposed to bring over colonies of Swedes to take them up. Where the Yankee of to-day or -the descendent of the Yankee of a general tlon ago thinks he can not make a liv

ing these frugal and thrifty people will

probably grow rich. The

Worth

go home, and how tamo your picture of the

morning seems In con trast. I Greater than that shall' be the contrast between this Scriptural view of God and that which we shall have when standing face to face. This is a picture of the morning ; that will be the morning itsel . Again: My texts are true of the Saviour's excellency. By image, and sweet rhythm of expression, and startling antitheses, Christ is set forth his lovo, iiis compassion, his work, his" life, his death, his resurrection. We are challenged to measure it, to compute it, to weigh it In the hour of our broken en thrallment, we mount up into high experience of his love, and shout until the countenance glows, and tho blood bounds, and the whole nature i3 exhilarated, "I have found him!" And yet it is through a glass, darkly We soo not half of that compassionate face. We feel not half the warmth of that loving heart. We wait for death to let us rush into his outspread arms. Then we shall bo face to face. Not shadow then, but substance. Not hope then, but the fullilling of all preflgurement That will be a magnificent unfolding. The rushing out in view of all hidden excellency; the coming aerain of a long absent Jesus to meet us not in rags and in . penury and death, but amidst a light and pomp and ontbursting joy such as none but a glorified intelligence could experience. Oh ! to gaze full unon the brow that was lacerated.

jg upon tho side that was pierced, upon tho ' feet that were nailed: to stand close -up in

the presence of him who prayed for us on

tho mountain, and thought of ns by the sea, and agonized for us in the garden and died for us in horrible crucifixioni to feel of him, to embrace him, td take his hnnd, to ktsii. his feet, to run our fingers aldu the scars of ancient suffering, to say: "This is my Jesus! He gave hirasolf for mo. I shall nover leave his presence. I shall forever behold his plory. I shall etemally hear his voice. Lord Jesus, now I seo th oa 1 I bohoid whoro the blood star tod, whore tho tears coursed, where the face was d istortod, I hove waited for this hour. I sliall never turn my back on thee. No mor looking through imperfect glasses. No rifore studying thee in tho darkness. But as long as this throne stands, and this everlasting river flows, and those garlands bloom, and these arches of v.ctory romain to greot home heaven's conquerors, so long I shall see thee, Jesus, of my choice, Jesus of my song, .feaus of my triumph forever and forever face to face'" ,.- The idea of my texts is just as true when applied to God's providence. Who has not come to somo pass in life thoroughly inexplicable? You say: '-What aoos this moan? What is God going to do with mo now? He tolls me that all things work together for good. This does not look like it.' 9 You continuo to study the dispensation, and after awhilo guoss about what God means. Ho means to teach mo this. I thinlc ho means to teach me that, Porhap3 it is to humble my pride. Perhaps it is to make me fcol more dopondent Perhaps to teach me the uncertainty of life." But, after all, it is only a guessa looking through the

'glass, darkly. Tho Bible assures us

there shall bo a satisfactory unfolding. "What do thou knowest not now, but thou 'shalt know hereafter." You will know why God took to himself that only child. Next door there was a household of seven children. Why not take ono from that group instead of your only one? Vhy single out tho dwelling in which there was only one heart beating responsive to yours? Why did God give you a child at sit, if ho meant to lake it away? by fill the oup of your gladness brimming, if be meant, to dash it down? V hy allow all the tendrils of your heart to wind around that objeot, and then, when every fiber of your own life seoined to bo interlocked with the child's life, with strong hand to t oar you apart, until you fall bleeding and crushed, your dwelling desolate, your hopes blasted, your heart, broken? v Do you suppose that God will explain that? Yoa, He will make it plainer than any mathematical problem as plain as that two and two make four. In the light of the throne you will see that it was right -all right. 'Just and true are all thy ways, thou king of saints." Here is a man who cannot get on in the world. He always seems to buy at the wrong time and sell at the worst disadvantage. He tries

this entei-Drizo, and fails: that business.

and is disappointed. The man next door to him has a lucrative trade, but he lacks customers. A new prospect opens. His income is increased. But that year his family aro sick; and the profits are expended in trying to cure the ailments. He gets a discouraged look. Becomes faithless as to success. Begins to expect disasters. Others waitfdr something to turn up; he

waits for it to turn down. . Others, with

only half as much education and character,

get on twice as well. He Bometime3 guesses as to what it all means. He says: "Perhaps riches would spoil me. Perhaps pov

erty is necessary to keep mo humblo. Perhaps I might, if things vere otherwise, bo

tempted into dissipation" But there is no complete solution of the mystery. He sees

through a glass darkly, and must wait for

a higher unfolding. Will there be any explonaUon? Yes; God Will take that man in the. light of tb 3 throne and say t aChi Id im

mortal, hear the explanation ! You re

member the failing of that great enterprise. This is the explanation." And you will answer: uIt is aU right 1"

I see, every day, profound mysteries of

Providence." There is no question we ask oftenor than Why? There are hundreds of graves that need to be explained. Hospi

tals for the blind and lame, asylums for the

idiotic and insane, almshouses for the destitute and a world of pain and misfortune that demand more than humun solution. Ah! God will clear it all ub.. In the

light that pours from the throne no dark mystery can live. Things now utterly

inscrutable will be illumined ns plainly as

though the answer were written on the

jasper wall or sodnded ifl the temple

anthem. Bartimeus will thank God that

he was blind ; and LazaruB that he was covered with sores; and Joseph that he was cast into the pit: and Daniel that he denned

with lions; and Paul that he was humpbacked; and David .that he was driven from Jerusalem; and the sewing woman that she could get only a few pence for making a garment; and that invalid that for twenty years he could not lift his head from the pillow; and that widow that she had such hard work to earn bread, for her children. You know that in a song different voices carry different parts. The sweet and overwhelming part of the hallelujah of heaven will not be carried by those who rode in high places, and gave -sumptuous enter tainmente; but pauper children will sing it, beggars will sing it redeemed hod carriers will sing it, those who were once the off scouring of the earth will sing it. The hallelujah will be all the grander for earth's weeping eyes, and aching heads, and exhausted hands, and scourged backs, and martyred agonies. . We get very imperfect ideas of the reunions of heaven. . We think of some festal

day on earth, when father and mother were -

yet living, and the chUdren came home. A good timo, that ! . But it ha;d this drawback all were not there. That brother went off to sea, and never was heard from. That sisterdid we not lav her away in the freshness of her young life, never more in this world to look upon her? Ah! there was a skeleton at the feast; and tears mingled with our laughter on that Christmas day. Not so with heaven's reunions. It will be an uninterrupted gladness. Many a Christian parent will look around and find all his children there. "Ah 1" he says, "can it be possible that we are all herelife perils over? the Jordan passed and not one wanting? Why, even the prodigul is here. J almost gave him up. How lone be despised my counsels! but grace hath triumphed. All here 1 all here! Tell the mighty joy through tixe city. Let the bells ring, and the angels , mention it in their song. Wave it from the top of the walls. All here!" .No more breaking of heartstrings, but face to face. The. orphans that were left poor, and in a merciless world, kicked and cuffod of many hardships, shall join their parents over whose graves they so Jong wept, and gaze into their, glorified countenances forever, face to face. We may come up from different parts or the world, ono from the land and another from tho depths of the sea; from lives affluent and prosperous, or from scenes of ragged distress; but we shall all meet in rapture and jubilee, face to face. Many of our friends have entered upon that joy. A few days ago they sat with us studying these Gospel themes; but they only saw dimly now revelation hath come. Your time will also come. God will not leave you floundering in the darkness. You stand wondorstruck and amazed. You fee! as if all the loveliness of life. were dashed out. You stand gazing into the open chasm of the grave. W ait a little. In the presence of your departed and of him who carries them in his bosom, you shall soon stand face to face. Oh! that our last hour may kindle up with this promised joy 1 May we be able to say, like the Christian not long ago, departing: "Though "a pilgrim walking through tho valley, the mountain tops are gloaming from peak to peak!" or, like my dear friend and brother, Alfred Cookman, who took his flight to tho - throne of God, saying in his last moment that which has already gono into Christian classics: "I am sweeping through the pearly gato, washed in the blood of tho lamb!"

A Record of Remarkable Advent, ures and Discoveries,

Ono Piute for Tito. Books of the sixteenth century speak of. the employment of trenchers at the table; They introduced, says Mr. Hazlitt, 'the fashion of placing a lady and gentleman alternately at meals, the couple thus seated eating from one trencher. " Walpolo relates that "so late as the middle of the last century the old duko and duchess of Hani il ton occupied the dais at the head of the room, and preserved the traditional manner by sharing the same plate.'1 As long ago as the tenth, century, and tho habit continued long" .after,

two meals a day wmr the rulo with all

classes. As tho times 'became better, and more JuxuriOu4vvriys werb possible, tho supper wa9 added,' and even in some cases a sub-supper

BY H. RIDER HAGGARD. SYNOPSIS. Allan Quatcrmain, chafing under tho restraints of civilization, and in

tho death of his son Harry being

lonely and disconsolate, without kith or kin, concludes to make another trip into Africa. He had heard vaguely of a distant part of Africa being peopled with a strange white race, and ho proposed to go to lilt. KenU., theneo to Mt. Lekakisera, thonco into the unknown beyond, and, if possible, discover the truth or falsity of the report He broached the subject to his old frieuos and associate adventurers in Kukuanaland Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good, who, themselves wearied of their situation, eagerly joined in tho proposed oxpedition. Thereupon the party embark for their new Hold of adventure. They soon reached Lamu, and with tho aid of the consul soon completed arrangements with a party of Nakafi Askai to transport their goods. This party was loth to make tho trip, but was induced to do so by the demands and threats of Umslopogaas, a deposed; Zulu chief, whom Quatcrmain had known in other adventures. Ten days after leaving Lamu the party found themselves on the Tana river. At Uhara they had a quarrel with tho headsman of the bearers, who wanted to efctort large extra payment. As the result he threatened to set the Massai on them. The arty embarked on the river in candes- At night they concluded it was unsafe to camp on shore, and anchored their canoes in midstream. After several hours, Quatorniain, being aAvake. felt the boat move, and soon a hand was thrust iu the canoe, and one of the Wakwali was stabbed to tho heart. He uttered a frightful yell, and Quatcrmain, grasping Umslopogaas battle-ax, struck a terrific blow at the hand, and severed it from the arm, tho hand falling into the boat. Dark objects were then seen moving toward the shore, and it was known that tho Massai had intended murdering them as they slept. Tho warning was just in time to save the lives of all in the canoes. The party resumed its travels, and, after many hours of arduous labor, they reached Mr. Mackenzie mission station. They were given a royal welcome. The station was located on an eminence overlooking tho river, and surrounded by a high stone wall, with a ditch on the outer side, filled with water. There was a garden and many beautiful cultivated flowers within the inclosure. Tho mission consisted of Mr. Mackenzie, his wife and little daughter Flossie, a french cook, Alphonse, and several natives. Here Quatermain received further information of the unknown white race they were seeking. It is feared the Masai will attack tho travelers at the mission. The reader will bo enabled by this synopsis to peruse the period of tho story in the following chapters,

CHAPTER IV. ALPHOKSE AND HIS ANNETTE. After dinner wo thoroughly inspected all tho outbuildings and grounds of the station, which I consider tho most successful as well as the most beautiful place of the sort that I have seen in Africa. Wo then returned to the veranda, where wo found Umslopogaas taking advantago of this favorable opportunity to thoroughly clean all the rifles. This was tho only work that he ever did or was asked to do, for as a Zulu chief it was beneath his dignity to work with his hands; but such as it was he did it very well. It was a curious sight to see the great Zulu sitting there upon the floor, his battleax resting against the wall behind him, whi st his long aristocratic-looking hands were busily employed, delicately and with the utmost care, cleaning the mechanism, of the breechloaders. He had a name for each gun. One a double four-bore belonging to Sir Henry -was a Thunderer; another, my 500 Expiess, which' had a peculiarly sharp report, was "The little one who spoke like a whip; the Winchester repeaters were Tho women who talked so fast you could not tell one word from another ; the six Martinis were "The common people; and so with them all. It was very curious to hear him addressing estch gun as ho cleaned it, as though it were an individual, and in a vein of tho quaintest humor. He did the same with his battle-ax, which he seemed to look upon as an intimate friend, and to which he would at times talk by the hour, going over all his old adventures with it and dreadful enough some of them wore. By a piece of grim humor, he had named this ax "lukosikaas, which is the Zulu word for chief tainess, For a long while I could not make out why ho gave it such a name, and at last I asked him, when he informed me that the ax was evidently feminine, beeausoof the womanly habit-of prying very deep into things, and that she was clearly a chieftaness, because all men fell down before her, struck dumb at the sight of her beauty and power. In the samo way he would consult "Inkosi kaus," ;f in any dilemma; and when I asked aim why ho did so, he informed me it vas because she must 'needs be wise, having "looked into so many people's orains. I took up tho ax and closely examined this formidable weapou. It was, as I havo said, of tho nature of a poloax. The haft, made out of an onormyus rhinoceros's horn, was three feet three inches long, about an inch tnd a quarter thick, and with a knob tt the end as largo as a Maltese range, left there to prevent the hand from slipping. This horn haft, though so massive, was as flexible as cane, and practically unbronkable; but, to mako assurance doubly sure, it was whipped round at intervals of a few Inches with copper wire all the parts where the hands grip being thus treated. Just above whoro tho haft entered the head were scored a number of little nick?, each nick representing a man killed in battle with tho weapon. The ax itself was made of he most beautiful steel, and apparently of European manufacture, hough Umslopogaas did not know vhere it came from, having taken it from the hand of a chief he had killed in battle many years before. It was not very heavy, the head weighing wo and a half pounds, as nearly as I ;ould judge. The cutting part was ''lightly concave in shape not con vex, is is generally tho case with savage mttlo-axes -and sharp as a razor, ncasuring five and three-quarter Inches across tho widest part. From iiho back of tho ax sprung a stout !piko four inches long, for tho last :o of which it was hollow, and hapod like a leather punch, with an .poning for anything forced into, the follow at the punch end to be pushed iut above in fact, in this respect

it exactly resembled a butchors poloax. It was with this punch end, as we afterward discovered, that Umslopogaas usually struck when fighting, driving a neat hole in his adversary's skull, and only using tho broad cutting edge for a circular sweep, or sometimes in a melee. I think he considered: tho punch a neater and moro sportsmanlike tool, and it was from his habit of pecking at his onomy with it that he got his name of Woodpecker. Certainly in his hands it was a terribly efficient one.. Such was Uinslopogaas's ax, Inkosikaas, tho most remarkable and fatal hand-to-hand weapon that X over saw, and one which he cherished as much as his own life. It scarcely over left his hand except- when ho was eating, and then he always sat with it under his log. Just as I returned his ax to Umslopogaas, Miss Flossie came up and took me olT to see her collection of flowers, African liliums, and blooming shrubs, some of which are very beautiful, many of the varieties being quito unknown to me aud also, I believe, to botanical science. I asked hor if she had ever seen or heard of the "Goya"

lily, which central African explorers

have told me they have oceasionaiiy met with and whoso wonderful loveliness has filled thorn with astonishment.

This lily, which the natives say blooms only once in ten years, flourishes in

tho most arid soil. Compared to the

size of the bloom, tho bulb is small,

generally weighing about four pounds.

As for the flower itself (which I after

ward saw under circumstances likely

to impress its appearance fixedly in

my mind), I know not how to describe its beauty and splendor,

or tho indescribable sweetness of its

perfume. Tho flower for it only has

ono bloom rises from the crown of the bulb on a -thick, fleshy and flat-sided stem, and the specimen that I saw measured fourteen iuehes in diameter.

and is somewhat trumpet-shaped like

the bloom of an ordinary "longulo-

rum ' set vertically, rirsr tnero is the green sheath, which in its early stage is not unlike that of a water-lily,

but which as the bloom opens splits

into four .portions and curls back

gracefully toward the stem, Then comes the bloom itself, a single dazzling arch of white inclosing another cup of richest velvety crimson, from the heart of which rises a golden col

ored stamen. I have never seen anything to equal this bloom iu beauty or fragrance, and as I believe it is but little known, I take tho liberty to describe it at length. Looking at it for the" first time, I well remember that I realized how even in a flower there dwells something of the: majesty of its Maker. To my great delight, Miss Flossie told me that she knew the flower well, and had tried to grow it in her garden, but without success, adding, however, that as it should be in bloom at this time , of year she thought she could procure me a specimen. After that I fell to asking her if she was not lonely up here among all theso savage people and without any companions of her own ago. "Lonely?1 she said. "Oh, indeed, no! I am as happy as the day is -long, and besides I have my own companions. Why, I should, hate to be buried in a crowd of white girls all just like myself so that nobody could tell the difference! Here, sho said, giving her head a little toss, "1 am I; and every native for miles around knows the 'Wateriily for that is what they call me and is ready to do what I want, but in the books that I have read about little girls in England itfis not Hko that. Everybody thinks them a trouble, and they have to do what their school-mistress likes. Oh I it would break my heart to bo put in a cage like that, and not to be free free as the air.' "Would you not like to loam?" I askod. 'So I do learn." Father teaches mo Latin and French aud arithmetic." "And are you never, afraid among all theso wild men?" "Afraid? Oh, no! they never interfere with me. I think they believe that I am Ngai (of the Divinity), "because I am so white and havo fair hair. And look here," and diving her little hand into the bodice of her dress she produced a double-barreled, nickelplated Derringer, "1 always carry that loaded, and if anybody tried to touch me I should shoot him. Onco I shot a leopard that jumped upon my donkey as I was riding along. It frighted me very much, but I shot it in the ear and it fell dead, and I have its skin upon my bed. Look there! she went on in an altered voice, touching me on the arm and pointing to some faraway object, "I said just now that I had companions; there is ono of them." I looked, and for the first time there burst upon my sight the glory of Mount Kama, Hitherto tho mountain had always been hidden in mist, but now its radiant bea.uty wa unveiled for many thousand foot, although the base was still wrapped in vapor so that the lofty peak or pillar, towering nearly twenty thousand feet into the sky, appeared to be a fairy vision, hanging between earth and heaven, and based upon -the clouds. Tho solemn majesty and beauty of this white peak are altogether beyond tho power of my poor pen to describe. There it ro3o straight and sheer a- glittering white glory, its crest piercing the very blue of heaven. As I gazed at it there with that little girl I felt , my whole heart lifted up with an indescribable emotion, an(J for a moment groat and wonderful thoughts seemed to break upon my mind, even as the arrows of the setting sun were breaking on Konias snows. Mr. Mackenzie's natives call the mountain the "Finger of God,"and to ma it did seem eloquent of immortal peace and of tho pure, high calm that surely lies above this fevered world. Somo where I had h eard aline o f poetry : "A thing of beauty is a joy forever," and now it came into my mind, and for the first timo I thoroughly understood what the pcot meant. 13ase, indeed, would be the man who could look upon that mighty, snow-wreathed pile that white old tombstone of tho years, and not feel his own utter insignificance and, by whatsoever name ho eaVis Him, worship God in his heart. Such sights aro like visions of tho Spirit; they throw wide the windows of the chamber of our small selfishness and let in a breath of that air that rushes round tho rolling spheres, and for awhile illumine our darkness with a far-off gleam of the white light which beats upon tho Throne. Yes, such things of beauty aro indeed a joy forever, and I can well understand what littlo Flossie meant when she talked of Kcnia as hor companion . As Umsl opogaas, savage old Zulu as ho was, said when I pointed out.tohimtho peak hanging in tho glittering air: "A man might look thereon for a thousand years and - yet be hungry to see." But he gavo rather another color to his poetical idea when ho added in a sort of chant, and with a touch of that weird imagination for which tho man was remarkable, that

wnen he was dead he should like his spirit to sit upon that . snow-clad peak forover, and to rush down its "steep, white aides in tho breath of the whirlwind, or on tho flash of the lightning, and 'slay, and slay, and slay.' "Slay what, you old blood-hound?" L asked. ' This rather puzzled him, but at length ho answered: 4 -The other shadows. " ; . "So tihou wouldst continue thy murcoring even after death?' I said. 4I murder not," he answered, hotly; I kill in fair fight. Man is born to kill. He who kills not when his blood is hot is a woman, and no man. The people who kill not are slaves.. I say I kill in fair fight; aud when l am 'in tho shadow,1 as you white men say, I hope to go on killing in a fair light. May niy shadow be accursed ar d chilled to tho bono forever if it should fall to murdering like a bushman with his poisoned arro wsf." And he stalked away with much dignity, and left mo laughing. Just then the spies whom our host had sent out in the morning to find out if t.here were any traces of our Masai friends about, returned, and reported that the country had been scoured for fifteen miles around without a single

Eimoran being seen, and that they

belie vod that those gentry had given up the pursuit and returned whence they came. Mr. Mackenzie gave a sigh of relief when he heard this, and so, indoad, did we, for we had had quite enough of the Masai to last us for some time. . Indeed, the general opinion was that, finding we had reached tho mission station in safety, they had, knowing its strengthVgiven up tho pursuit of us as a bad job. How ill-judged that view was the sequel will show. ... A 'tor tho spios had gone, and Mrs. Mackenzie aud Flossie had retired for the night, Alphonso, the little Frenchman, came out, and Sir Henry, who is a very good French soholar, got him to tell us ho w ho came to visit Central Africa, which ho did, in a most extraordinary lingo, which for the most part I shall not attempt to reproduce. "My grandfather," ho began, "was a soldier of the Guard, and served undo? Napoleon. He was in the retreat from Moscow, and- lived for ten days on his own leggings and a pair

ho stole from a comrade. He used to

get drunk he died drunk, and I . remember playing at drums on his coffin. My father Hero we suggested that he might skip his ancestry and come to the point. "13 ion, messieurs!" replied this comical littlo man, with a polite bow.. "I did only wish to demonstrate that the militaix principle is not hereditary. My grandfather was a splendid man, six feet two high, broad in proportion, a swallower of iire and gaiters. Also he was remarkable for his mustacho. To mo there remains the mustache and -nothing more. , "I am, messieurs, a cook, and I was born at Marseilles. In that dear town I spent my happy youth. For year? and years I washed the dishes at tho Hotel Continental. Ah, those were golden days!" and he sighed. "I am a Frenchmanr Need I say, messieurs, that I admire beauty? Nay, I ador the fair. Messieurs, we admire all the roses in a garden but we pluck one. I plucked one, and, alas, messieurs, it pricked my iinger. She was a chambermaid, her name was Annette, her figure ravishing, her face an angers, her heart alas, messieurs, that I should havo to own it! black and slippery as a patent leather boot. I loved her; she was so spirituous and abandoned' that I could not choose but la ve her. I loved to desperation, I adored her to despair. She transported me, in every sense; she inspired me. Never have I cooked as I cooked (for If had been promoted at the hotel) when. Annette, my adored Annette, smiled on me. Never' and here his manly voice broke into a sob "never shall I cook so well again." Here he meltcid into tears. "Come, cheer up!" said Sir Henry, in French, smacking him smartly on the back. 1 'There's no knowing what may happen, . you know. To judge from your dinner to-day, I should say you were in a fair way to recovery." Alphonso stopped weeping, and commenced to rub his back, "Monsieur," he said, "doubtless means means to console, but his hand is heavy. To continue: we loved, and were happy in each other's love. The birds in their little nest could not bo happier than Aiphonse and his Annette. Then came the blow -sapristi! when I think of it. Messieurs will forgiyo if I wipe away a tear. Mine was an evil number; I. was drawn for tho conscription. Fortune would bo avenged on me for having, 'won the heart of Annette. "The evil moment came; I had to. I tried to run away, but I was caught by" brutal soldiers, and they fanged mo with the butt-end of muskets, till my mustaches curled with pain. I had a, cousin, a linen-draper, well-to-do, hut very ugly. He had drawn a good number, and sympathized when they thumped me. "To thee, .my cousin, I said, -to thee in whose veins Hows tho blue blood of our heroic grandparent, to thee I , consign Annette. Watch' over her while I hunt for glory on the bloody field.' 1 Make your mind easy,' said hei "I wall." As the sequel shows, he did! "I went, I lived in barracks on black soup. I am a refined man and a poet by nature, and I suffered tortures from tho coarse horror of my surroundings. There was a drill sergeant, and ho had a cane. Ah, that cane, how it curled! Alas, nover can I forget it. "One morning came the news; my battalion was ordered to Tonquin. The drill sergeant and the other coarse monsters rejoiced. I I made inquiries about Tonquin. They were not satisfactory. In Tonquin aro Chinese who rip you open. My artistic r-taste for I am also . an artist recoiled from the idea of being ripped open. The great man makes up his mind quickly. I made up my mind. I determined not to be ripped open. I deserted. "I reached Marseilles disguised as an old man. I went to the house of my cousin heln whom runs my grandgrandfather's ' heroic blood and sat by Annette. It was the season of cherries. They took a double stalk. At each end was a cherry. My cousin put one into his mouth, Annette put the other in hers. Then they drew the stalks till their lips mot and alas, alas that I havo to say it! they kissed. The gnnio was a pretty one, but it filled mo with, fury. The heroic blood of my grandfather boiled up in me. I rushed into tho kitchen. I struck my cousin with the old man's crutch. How could I tell that his head was like an egg-shell? But his skull was thin. Tho crutch went through it. He died. Annette screamed. The gendarmes canm. I fled. I reached tho harbor. I hid aboard a vessel. The vessel RereThave lapsed into Alphonas original version. Sir Henry suggests thM he waa trying to tianslate "ai pitituiue t abftndonnWt"

put to' sea.. The captain forced! me and boat me. He took an' opportunity. Ho posted a letter from a foreign port to the police. XJe did not put me ashore because I cooked so well. I cooked for him all the way to Zan.zir bar. When I asked for payment ho kicked me. The blood Of my heroic grandfather boiled within; me, and I shook my fist in his face and vowed to have my revenge. He kicked me again. At Zanzibar there was a tele gram. I cursed the man who invented telegraphs. Now I curso him again. I was to be arrested for desertion, for murder, and returned to the guiiiotine. I escaped from prison. I fled. I starved. I met the men of Monsieur lo Cure, i They brought me hero. I am hero full of woe. But I return not to Franco. Better to risk my life in these horrible places than to know the knife of the guiiiotine." He paused, and we neafly choked with laughter, having -rto turn our faces away.. , ,.tr "Ah ! : you weep, messieurs. " ho said. "No wonder it is a sad story. " "Perhaps," said Sir Henry, "the heroic blood of your grandparent will triumph, after all; perhaps, you will be great." Zl .S; ... 4 'Great!" rep lied the Frenchman, sadly. 4 'I am already great. I embody the genius of Franpe. . Yes, I I with my straw hat and my little cane, I am 'la F ranee.' But will my greatness be recognized? That is the question!" , f J , ..: "Wo shall "tee," said Sir Henry. "And now I vote wo go to bed. I am dead tired, and we had not much sleep on that confounded rock last night." - And soMye did, and v.ery strange the tidy rooms " and"' clean " white sheets'' seemed to us after our recent experiences. . J TO BE CONTINUED.

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, ... . . On the Country Road. - , Neat's-foot oil is said to j be better than kerosene ior many of the ills of poultry, as it is not irritating, while it is a sure euro for Boaly leg and large lice on the head. . ; . One writer on the horse claims that when a horse ia brought in from work sweating freely, the harness, especially the saddle and collar, should not be removed un till it dries oft (contrary to the usual practice of taking iihem off at once), and that this will-prevent harness galls and collar sores. : ; In a select list of the finest roses of recent years, Wm. ,Cr,, Barry mames, besides others, the following, in the order given: " Gloire de: Margottln, dazzling brilliant red, . the brightest rose yet raised; Gloire -$e Bpurg la Reine, scarlet red; Gloire Lyonnaise, tinted yellowy becoming whiter Earl of Dufferin, the finest ap ther most distinct dark-colored rose, very rich, with delightful fragrance; Lady- Helen Stewart, greatly resembling1 the last, flowering ail through the season especially fine, late in the Fall: Ulrica Brunner, beautiful cherrv ed, petals endure extreme changes of weather, foliage resists mildew. - Mr. Wm. K. Harris a Philadelphia florist, reccomends for Stiff six best varieties of Winter-blooming azaleas Duche Pearl, double white;. Mad. Van Der Cruyssen, very finely colored; Mad. Gam Van LangdeniiOve, semidouble striped; ., Siegman Ruckner, flesh color: Gorise. singl.e striped. . A farmer's daughter says in Country Gentleman that a small1 quantity of flaxseed meal mixed with the morning meal of fowls during the moulting season gives j"xcellent results, adding gloss to their feathers, making then? combs and ear-lobes bright ;and seeming to put the whole system . in' good worldng order.' . , Probably a good

many farm implements and machines whose period of usefulness Is ' past for the season aro lying around in different places or standing out - exposed , to the sun and rain It will )e an important saving to rlean andV house or protect them at onco. ... .'. " .. .. It may not be generally known, " says ; a Rural New Yorker correspondent, that seed wheat sown aftei it is one year old never produces smut. I . think this is; also true of -rye. ' Who knows? , Th e So i ence of Pop-Corn. St. Nicholas. - ' ',. y In what condition is the starchy interior of the grain just before it "explodes? The common , experience of the kitchen will help us here- la making up. tlie mixture for stiffening clothes, the laundress puts starch into water and boils it, . and; we all know that in tMs; process the starch loses its powdery character and becomes blended with tjie water into a pasty, translucent mass. The effect upon the individual starch granule is a sof tening and considerable increase" of its bulk, and, finally, its rupture and diffusion through the water. While we can not see the inside of the grain at the critical moment when it has all but burst, we may, in view of what we ;know, probably su rmiee the truth. : It is. not very likely that, as the grain gets hotter and hotter, the, moisture present in the cells, or ' in the starchgranules themselves, ; softens them first, and then, when the heat becomes too great to permit its remaining in fluid state, it suddenly turns? to steam, and the now plastic starch expands in every direction, forming the little vesicles shown, in the figure, losing at the same time, of course, the moisture and thus becoming firm and brittle again.' This' is the conclusion to which I have been brought, and I think of the wonderful physics of popped corn with reat satisfaction whenever I shake my popper oyer the glowing cools. . j ; I v About Flnarer NaMs r Medical Classic. , V;. ,.. V:..A white nark on the noil bespeaks misfortune. . Pale or lead-colored nails ? indicate melancholy people. ':.:,'- Broad nails iddicate a gentlei timid and bashful nature. . ' Lovers of knowledge and. liberal sentiment have round hailsV ; ,. ,. . People with narrow nails are ambi tious and quarrelsomel Small nails indicate UHleness of mind, obstinacy, and conceit, ...:,r. ., , ; Choierio martial men, delighting in war, have red and spotted nails. . , Nails growing into the flcsii at the points or sides indicates- luxurious tastes. .. ' People with very pale nails are jnibt

ject to muoa infirmity of tho flesh and persecution by neighbors and friends, All Things Have An Ehd, The tents are struck, the whisky Jugvand flaaks are thrown away, .,- ; . ., And tbe boys aro in the; city, and at work again ... to-day, . '.. . The russet shoes are taken off by .maidens trim ..r . .. and neat,. . . U-:., And they no longer seem to caxe to ahow their pretty feet. -No longer at t he hop the maid doth through the mazy dances whirl i . . The summer jjirl'8 no fairer now than any other ... -..--girl. . . - . This is the course ohumftn life; to change we .... all mnfit bend, , And every thing that! good or f,d In time comes to on end t '

Private Dalzeil is tall, bonyjand red

ed. $ . .,, . : ; v About 300,000 telephones are inusein the United States. 'Ss?: "

New York expends $100,090 a -month In street cleaning? ; '; -;7;f ;.'r .. : ; ;'' I', : . Geonre Bancroft Is the oldest living fim iate of Harvard. ., : The entire village of Powelton, Psl, U

advertised for sale.

. A Japanese has discovered a process of

making artificial tortoise shell: with the

white of eggs. ;

. .. Kansas claims to have the finest collecj tion of North American birds on :exhlbitloaT

in this country.', . r"v:: .4; Vanderbilt .keens an establishment. 1 takes twenty-two sorvanta.to run the house .

and nv' to run the stable. .-. " v

'. The fastest recorded time made by an eleccrio railway is about twenty miles aa hour on a'Stereet car systewi , Secretary Rpask has developed a great fondncBS for chrysanthemums. ..Ho always

wears one in his buttonhole,

Over 3 ,000,000 miles of telegraph wire

In operation in the United States -enough. to encircle the globe ;forty timeaT " '2M$8h. A curly walnut log was aold by a Burcb, f Logan county, W; Va., man for 13,000, Dl Williamson. Indianapolis, , being tho par chaser. ,.. - . -'Z:Prince George of Wales is the only menu . ber of the English royal family who speaks r the language of his, country with a fcrelga " accent: ; ; J:P i Some time ago a large aerolite feU near , ionny Creekj Wayne county, Ohio, part ojt Which contained a very large percentage . of iron! . : . :

: The fish are getting so numerous aroand

tno aocirs.at fori larapa, r ia,, tnat Jiqmwm

Sump out of the water

wharveBf.?

"ftv-... it.- '

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, UK

-Will

and land on tha , : , ..-t. a 'I i - " :

the mysticism of the, east. Perhaps Wa "artof realisnV' will be less prominent whea he returns. - ! . ;c ' ' Prince Louis Napoleon, who was lately an officer in the Italian reserves, has obtained a commission as, major in the ,Rns sian army. . ..; .,v ;;- -y yj ; . : j. I. ... Five hundred volts of. an electrical cnr-J 5 rent is considered dangerous to human life,1 but death depends largely, upon physical

.conditions.. "a -

The most widely separated points betweea);v which It is possible tb.'aend a telegram are 1 I British Columbia and New Zealand, via . , (America and Europe.; f-fc,.!".: ' v-'

... A Presoo, CaL, woman, threw a celluloid cuff into the stove. Her husband will have

to pay $150 to repair damage to tho Jritchea?;

M ile. Rosa Bonheur has given to Kuffalo ; ; 3 :,; j Bill -a fine pair of mustags, which she had yA been unable to break. His.cow-bpys quick- -Z-ly brought them to time. "' ; ''X'-SZ' A Byron, Mich , woman wanted to put yd

1 1 50 where burglars wouldn't find it, so she. put: it into the stove: Not even the ashes , remain to tell the sad story. j -y J v ; The smallest size solitaire diamond ring -was produced in New York. The omamonS could not be passed oyer an ordinary . pencil -and was made for a museum freak j , Prince Bismarck has taken up with that;; "good old gentlemanly yicej'; avarlcalf-. ;He'-' is abnormally anxious to increase hiswealth, which is already enormous. ' ' Wilt HensePs wife, of Pnaxutawne Ja., decorated a favorite cat named Jonathan with a ribbon and a be!L Jonathan , then climbed a tree and hanged himself. " - Congressman Reed of Maine is the big- : gest man physically in the house. He is att (omnivorous, reader and devours French4 novels. . He Is also well up in the claaafea. Inventor Edison's 6-year old daughter l$r i said to be almost marvelously bright. She is described aii a fair musician, a good ;.. draughtsman and - -she . speaks four mages. '.y s; 'yp.P r -;:f':P'r:.P ' The model convicts of the Stillwater Pea itentiary are the Younger brothers; They have bean inmates of the prison for thirteen years, and have heverpst .aday be eause of bad' conduct: v ' : f, .. - ,;.

Adelina Patti wearied of being a brunette: 1;

for many years. She has bleached her Jhaw to a straw color, and now it doesn't match her dark face. To pow4a$, deenttvOMr remedy. She knows it -; . iVi Lady Forester, of ; London, is a practical phiiantnropist. Each week sue send to the, factory girls of London unwarols of twe: thousands bunches of flowers . thered the servants of her estate; ' " J

Time and wedlock wait for no man.

M auch Chunk juryman was': excused that ho might go and, get married, the lawyer

agreeing to conttnne

eleven good men and true.

;.. A Salem county v N. Y. farmer, John Robeson, caught a strange bird recenUy:

It Is said: tb have a face like a monkey, about the size of a grown fowl and has plumage of wonderonsly varied hues ; A Belfast, Me., merchant recently hired -a new clerk, who immediately distinguished himself by trying to get those queer chimneys off the incandescent electarie lamps so as to light them with a match. r There is In the Paris hospital called tht Hotel-Bieu a woman who can see wo dif-1 ferent sets of objects at ono and the. same time. While one eye is gazing at a gives,; point the other remains per rectiy still and ' vice versa.' : . :';i)::r f?:-,vv:-.,.,' . The oldest irnion soldier in- Indiana is William Lee. who reaidfts on Indian Creek, near Columbus. Ind. He1 ia nlnetv-tws years of age and is still hale and fca$ty He was recently granted a pension with

$1,500 back pay.

TP - .JB

their-, caw . beam

Thenew jury law in New York City hat

already netted nearly $100,030 for the tree

9fe L-

ury; : 'inere are no allowances maae nowadays ; if the "jury m an does not present him, self he is fined $360, and it is remorselessly eolleeted-at.pnce .JPP 9 .iJ v ..-" Gov. Fleming, of Florida, superintends an Episcopal Sunday school at Tallahassee In the absence of the rector of St John's he ! also reads the services, morning and evening, and in the afternoon at tlufchapel fori colored peoplev., : ' ii . ?

Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who reef ntly saw ? 4 1 in Norway the shin of the Vikinaa that hat t&V?&

black oak, about seventy-five feet In length.

and m unas Quite

str acted in these days.

A sturgeon fourteen feet long was caught

In the Sacramento river. Instead of killing it tho fisherman fastened a rope to the bod,) and turned It loose in the river to get fat., it

They feed it on the entrails of salmon, and

the captive likes the treatment

. It is not known now that the Hartford Courant in its first issue announced that it had "come to stay," but that seems to ba jthe case. It has passed the anniversary of its 125th birthday A good newspaper MT W ages. It is new Jri every day. The bronze doom for the Cathedral ot Cologne are nearly ready. They represent; the four ages of man the four seasons, an the wise and foolish virgins, with exquisitely designed ornaments, consisting ojt.

coats of arms and groups ct , animals and

plants. 0 .;:.;-.:, ..",,.V.Vo A young lady from Caldwell; O., created a little scene in the ticket office ut Zanesville. She laid a late Improved six-shooter on the counter and proceeded to search for

her tweket, then bought a ticket, to Seatle,

Wash, shoved her gna In . her, pistol pocket l itoipa ":'; .? " ,V The prize offeredV by the New South Wales government for the extermlnatlbn o the rabbit pest has been withdrawn, 6 -

new modes of extermination had been suggested . The rabbits are also a terrible nuU

sance in New Zealand,,but! -are. .ther kept

nnaer oy me nawim.

The San Franelsco News Letter' thinks that one of the causes of the depression in, the California wine trade is to be found Mn the production of too much poorwlne.'t The Jealousy of tae wine growers has led them to indulge in recrimination, which

has brought out the truths

The recent discovery bjr a New England chemist of a cheap plan ol dissolving zino

hv rommmnc it witn nvdroirfln turns tint to

be a very valuable ono. Tho production ia a solution called "zrao water' which has the power of making wood, to which H has

sasn appUsd, abioiuUly flrsprett

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equal, to anyimng:;conT ywmm