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15 1 LUNATIC'S FOWEU flew a lawyer Saved H! life With a Fwwy Stoiy John F. Bonis presence of mind fmsbed death to the wall and saved the ife of himself, of Dr. H&dden, and of Mrs. Heniy Weibold on Friday night. They were all in the power of a niadtnan one with that most dangerous mission, the offering of his fellow-man on the sacrificial altar. Mr. Bums was attorney for Mrs. Weibold in her suit for divorce against h$r husband. Cruelty and insanity were the allegations. The lawyer, accompanied by Dr. Hadden, went to Agnews Station, the residence of his client, whore he was destined to spend a night of such terror as few men would hare lived through. When the visitors reached the house they were iniormed by Mrs. Weibold that her husband was in one of his dangerous moods and that her life was in danger. The insane man had a revolver, with which he had threatened to shoot her ii she left his presence. Even as the women spoke the lunatic entered the room and in his hand was the weapon his wife feared so much. He appeared surprised to see two gentlemen there, but recovered himself and spoke in a oniet manner, asking, them how they were. Mr. Burns answered him. saying he hoped they would not disturb him by their presence. No, you don't," said Wetted; "I expected you. I have to kill'' you, and you came to be killed. As he spoke he advanced toward the lawyer, with the pistol aimed at his head. He seemed terribly in earnest, and the story his wife had told and his presence in the room so unnerved Dr. Hadden that he sank to the floor in a faint. Mr. Burris knew there was' no time or room for expostulation. In the matter of strength the madman towered over him like a Hercules. Unarmed the lawyer could not cope with Weibold, and' even had he had a weapon there was no time to draw it. Better hear this story before you kill nie," said Mr. Burris, as if getting killed were a matter of such ordinary, everyday occurrence that five or ten minutes would not make much difference to the parties to the tragedy. What is it?" asked Weibold, watching his intended victim. closely. Burris had no room for a story in his mind when he blnrted out the remark. His thoughts were filled with consideration of the desperate position he was in. But the man's question aroused him, and with what calmness he could command he began the recital of a funny tale. The conditions were not favorable to the happy telling of a humorous story. A man is not given to hilarity on the edge of the grave. The hearer, when ones audience is a madman, may fail to see the point, or he may have heard the story lefore, and the flash of the pistol in his Jiand may light the entertainer through the dark valley. As Mr. Burris continued Weibold retreated to a chair and sat down, but his eyes followed every movement of the attorney and hia revolver neyer lost the point-blank aim at Burris' head. Embellish the story as he might, tell it with what skill for killing time he could, it had to come to an end at last. But it was received with commendation. "Good," said the lunatic; "fine. I have heard worse, and now I have to kiU you." He again advanced on Burris, who saw his arm tend with the tension of his forefinger on the trigger. Let me tell you of one of my adventures in the jungle after an elephant,9 remarked Mr, Burris, quietly. "I had it printed, but it may be new to you." Weibold said he would listen, and again took his st There was a scene for a painter. The lawyer, apparently as cool as if in his office talking over the trivial matters ot the day, talking to such purpose and for such an object as had never before called out his power of eloquence. It was a plea for life ; rather a demurer against the taking of it, and it argued for hours. The madman sat with his eyes fixed n the speaker, quiet, impassive, earnest, beguiled for the moment from the accomplishment of his work, but never losing sight of it; his cocked revolver firmly grasped in the hand that pointed it at his victim's head. On the floor lay Dr. Hadden, unconscious of the scene. Mrs. Weibold had fled. So hour lifter hour passed, and Burris passed with the time from place to place, now hunting "rogue" elephants in the jungle of Africa, now spearing the walrus in the frozen North, harpooning the whale as he slept on the valleys of tlie waters, chasing the bull buflalo across the plains, or encountering the grizsly bear on the mountain side. The nighn passed away; the madman's comments were short: "Good; go on; another. The morning light shore through the trees now, although it was only H o'clock in the evening when this queer duel of wit against pistol began. Story after story was told, and Burris was almost exhausted. He began on a tale he had told before; it flowed naturally, and had its effect. Weibold began to nod; his eyes closed, but opened instantly, and were fixed on Burris along the line of the revolver. But again he nodded; his head sunk down; gradually the pistol urn weakened, the fingers relaxed their hold, and with m bound the lawyer jumped to Ids side and the weapon was secured. Weibold did not stir, and Hadden, who had recovered consciousness but dared not cause a sound, arose -to his feet and helped his friend to the open air, who, now that the agony was over, seemed on the point of fainting. They walk! to the insane asylum, only a short distance away, and reported Weibold's mdition to the authorities.

who secured the madman. San Fran-

cisco Chronicle.

Dead Letter Money. There is in the United States treasury vault a brown wooden box, eighteen inches lon a foot wide, aad eightinches deep, which contains paper money of tie nominal value of several hundred tiiouaand dollars. It is not worth k dollar. The queer thing about it is nhe manner in which it was

collected. Every bit of it came frim the dead letter office of the post of dee department. Some portion of it is counterfeit, lut the most of it was genuine money many years ago. The banks which issue1 it, and the officers who signed i, are gone and forgotten. It was all ser t over to the treasury department sev jral years ago, an Assistant Treasurer W iolpley undertook to truce up the varior s banks and get as much as possible ot it redeemed. Occasionally he found descendants of some of these old lank officials, themselves bankers, whe were willing to redeem some of the r otes for the sake of the signatures of their fathers, and in this way he succeeded in getting several hundred dollars' worth of it redeemed. A little of it is Confederate money, but most of it is of banks. State and private, that went ou. of existence many years ago. The oldest notes are dated back as far as 1812 . Gets No Credit. The Mayoi of Louisville, upon meeting an old nugro, drew him aside, and, in a voice by no means gentle, thus addressed him: "Kandsom. I am going to have you arrested." "How com dat?" "Why, for: having obtained money under false pretenses." "I ain't done nothin' like dat;sa:j;I 'clar'ter goodness I ain't." "Didn't yoi come to me yesterday and get a dollar?" Yas. sali." "And didn t you say it was to pay tho funeral expenses of your son?" "Yas, sah. "Well, but you trifling scoundrel, 1 saw vour son on the street just now." "Hah?" "You know what I said." Yas, sah ; yas, but I didn' tell you da boy wuz dead, did I?" Didn't tell me he was dead! You infernal old idiot, did you suppose I thought you were going to bury him alive"" "Xo, sah." "Then whet do you mean by saving that vou didn't tell me he was dead ?" Now, jest hoi' on, sah; jest war; er minit. Dat boy ain't been in good healf fur er laung time, an' knowin' daft I'd hatter bury l im sooner er later, w'y I 'lowed dat I better raise de money dunn do bnsv season when de folks want hard pressed, l's-3 mighty kine hearted dis way, sah; menstus kine hearted, but ei man doan git no credit in dis yere worl' o' sin fur bei:ig kine hearted. An', ergin, I'se er n an dat doan blebe in puttin' off er thi ig dat he knows is gotter be done. Knows dat 111 hatter bury dat chile putty soon, and yere you come an' wanter punish me for takin' up de ercasion in t me." "You old rascal, that boy is in excellent health." "Who, dat chile? You doan know dat chile lil-e I does, sah. Dat boy suffers wid de genstion, but it's jest ez I says, er hones' an' kine hearted man doan git no credit in dis yere sin-cussed worl'." Arlansaw Traveler. The Monroe Doctrine There appearing & disposition on the the p urt of great powers oj Europe to assist Spain in efforts to regain her American colonial possessions, the independence of which the United States had formerly recognized, President Monroe called special attertion to the matter in his message of 1823, in which he said: "We owe it 10 candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those European powers to declare that we should consider any at empt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere xs dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European powers we have not interfered and shall not interfer ; but with the governments who have declared their Independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great considerations and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view an interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any other manner their destiny by any European power, in any other light than as a manifestation of an us friepdly disposition towards the United states." This was an assurance that moral support would be given by the United States to the other American republics in preventing any further colonization on the shores of the two American continents by European powers. This is called the "Monroe Doctrine," and has ever since been recognized is a settled policy of the Bepublic. When Napoleon III. attempted to plant a monarchy in Mexico, and actually placed Maximilian on a throne then , the United States recognized in tha; a case where the Monroe Doctrine should come in play, and warned France that if she did not remove her troops they would be expelled by force. The French troops then withdrew, leaving poor Maximilian to his fate. Inter Ocean. How Toothpicks Are Made. The Manufacturer and Builder gives somo interesting inform ation about the manufacture of toothpick s in a Michigan factory. The wool of the canoe birch is used exclusively. The logs are siwed into pieces twentyeight inches long, which are thoroughly steamed and then cut into veneer. The veneer is cut into long ribbons three inches in width, and these ribbons, eight cr ten of them at a time, are run through the toothpick machinery, coming out at the other end, the perfect pieces falling into one basket, the broken pieces and the refuse falling into another. The picks are picked into boxes, 1,500 in a box, by girls, mostly comely-looking young squaws, and are then packed into cases and finally into big boxes, ready for shipxx;fflt to all parts of the world. About seven and a half million toothpicks are turned out et&h working day by this establishment. lie Wanted a Show. You must stop this smoking during business hours' said the head clerk "What's the matter?" inquired one ol the boys. "The boss says he can't appreciate U 5-eenfc ctjpc when you clerks are puffing your iSenry Clays. "Epoch

Makh I; Things Tidy, A tidy, neat man in a neighborhood is a perfect godsend to the community in which he lives. Example does an immense deal ol good or evil, as the ase may be, in this world, mid there are a great many things besides tho measles that are catching. When the tidy man begins to clean np his grounds, at.d dispose oi tho rubbiah in his door-yard, all the neighbors watch him and note how he do:s it, and before long all the people on that street will be picking up and putting; on their best out-door looks. It is curious to note how the example of one man will uffeofc so many others, and how Mr. bniitli, and Mr. Jones, and Mr. Brown will clean up their premises, simply because Mr. Robinson has put his place in order. Paint one house on a street yellow, and in the course of a year two-thirds of the houses in that vicinity will come out in yellow attire. Different shades, and a variety of trimmings, perhaps, but still plainly showing that the first yellow house influenced the complexion of all the other houses. The man who is cleaning up generally likes to have his wife out with him to offer suggestions, aud to tell him how nice it looks. He will ask her to step out to the shod and hand him the garden rake, just as if his life depended on the haste he made gathering up the dead leaves, and old boots, and the bones tho dog had brought up to gnaw at his leisure; aud by the time she brings the rake he wants the hoe, and soon after the trowel, and so the wife makes herself generally useful. And the next morning her husband will tell his next neighbor that he cleaned that door-yard all up himself in less than two hours. You cannot clean up your grounds without a good many tools. You want a rake, and a hoe, and a shovel, and a broom, and a wheelbarrow, and a basket, aad some old gloves, and a bunch of matches, and all the kindlings you can spare, for, of course, the thing cannot be properly done without a tire to consume the rubbish. And all creation will smell of burnt leather, and old rubbers, and bones, and your hair aud clothing will be full oi smoke, and your arms will ache, and your back will feel as if it had been caken apart and put together by a man who had never learned his trade; and your linger nails will be torn clown, and the skin will be off your knuckles, and the toes of your boots will bo stubbed out, and the whole town will go past while you are about it ; and your wife will run behind the wood-shed so that her acquaintances cannot see the old dress she has on ; and if the minister does not come while you are about it you may consider yourself fortunate. It is a dirty job to clea:a up the premises in the spring; but every right minded person enjoys doing it. There is something exhilerating in slinging the old tomato cans, and the battered sardine boxes, into the ash barrel ; and there is a sweet and soothing sense of victory in seeing the flames consume the old oil-cloth that has tripped you so many times in the back hall; and the worn out kiudling basket, out of which every morning all winter the shavings have sifted onto the carpet, and the temper of the housekeeper has risen to fever heat in consequence. And when the rubbish in cleaned away the fresh green grass shows itself new and courageous after its long rest under the snow, and the dandelions suggest greens, aud the tiger lilies in the sunny corner of the fence send up their pointed spikes, and the family cat purs ecstatically around the fragrant catnip root; and the hens, led by the dignified rooster, come to investigate the ground for worms, aud turn up to the air and sun the $3 a dozen tulip bulbs you planted last fall. Your wife discovers a pansy in them; and you are gratified to find that the wisteria by the porch is snuggling back into the world ; a .socially inclined and adventerous musquito buzzes musically around your nose, and amiably tells you he is ready for business when you are. And by and by the night falls, and you sleep sweetly in the consciousness of duty done. Kate Thorn in New York Weekly. Birth-place of a Hymn. The birth-place of a hymn the melody of which has encircled the globe passed into ruins during the fire in this city last Saturday night, says a letter from Savannah, Ga. It was in the Independent Presbyterian Church, the most picturesque structure in Savannah, that Bishop Heber's song, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains," was first heard. Sixtyfive years ago there was a meeting projected in aid of foreign missions. In the course of the services an unfamiliar song was reached. Lowell Mason was at the organ. As his fingers pressed the keyes the congregation, that filled the church from eud to end and surged along the aisles, was filled with the strange melody. It seemed an inspiration suited not for the hour alone but for all such occasions, in all places and through all time. Such it has proved to be. The words, They caU ub to deliver Their land from error's chains. that those SavannahianB so long ago sent in loud-swelling volume upon the broad streets of their forest town, have since resounded throughout man's domains and many a consecrated missionary, leaving frie ids and home behind, has borne with him to foreign climes the echoes of this music that the organist of the Savannah church composed and set to the grand words that the bishop of Calcutta had written especially for that occasion. There were manv other interesting facts connected with the burned church. When it was dedicated on Sunday, May 9, 1819, James Monroe, President of the United States, his Cabinet officers, Generals, and Admirals, and other officers of high and low degree, were present, together with distinguished men from surroundiug States. It was an audience the like of which Savannah had never before seen. Lafayette, in 1825, stood within and expressed his admiration, and since then many men distinguished ha State and National annals have done likewisa In it, in 1832, the centennial anniversary of the

birth of George Washington was celebrated. It is stated that Mrs. C. F. Mills, whose charities have made her one of Savannah's greatest benefactresses, has offered $100,000 toward restoring the edifice on the original plan, which was a copy of St. Martin-in-theField: England, the architect of which vaa the great Sir Christopher Wren, Cremation. From a paper read before the San Diego Society of Natural History, by G. W. Barnes, M. D., and published in the West American Scientist, we make a few extracts : First, lloasons based on sanitary grounds are most potent. Tb earth is the most convenient depository for putting out of sight whatever is offensive pr deleterious or cannot be tolerated above its surface. The soil is not, however, always destructive, but often preservative of the products of animal and vegetable decomposition. It is more than a probability that pestilential disease are by earth-bmial transmitted from one generation to another, and thus erpetuated indefinitely. If the seeds of plants can be preserved for centuries, and J:en under favoring conditions b? niad? to germinate and reproduce their kind, so the germs of contagious diseases after having been entombed for ages may be warmed into life under suitable environment, and spread contagion among the living. To this fcource may often be attributed the sudden outbreak of epidemics and the occurrence of forms of disease not previously known in the locality. Evidence is not wanting that bodies which had perished from infectious disease on being exhumed or the products of their decomposition dis turbea many years after interment have communicated the same disease to the living. Cemeteries are a growing evil end a danger. They encroach upon the do main of living men and their uses. Thoj pollute the air and the water. One generation of men revels out its little life upon the earth, passes away and gives place to a succeeding one. But cemeteries seem designed to endure forever. Fifty millions of people in our own land walk the earth to-day. Where shall they be laid, and where the millions of the next succeeding generations? The moving tides of living humanity will be turned from their channels to give way to the advancing armies of the dead. Says Sir Henry Thompson : "No dead body is ever placed in the soil without polluting the earth, the air, and the water above and about it.'" The experiments o,! Pasteur and others have shown that earth-worms bring to thfe surface myriads of bacteria from the bodies of decomposing dead. No successful means of counteracting these destructive agencies have beeu discovered. All known disinfectants are under some circumstances im perfect and unreliable, or of difficult or impossible application. Those upon 'which the greatest reliance has been placed are too otten only deodorants. The only true disinfectant is fire. Correct principles of cleanliness require that filth likely to become dangerous which cannot be otherwise perfectly destroyed, should be burned. This value of this principle in the sanitation of cities, is so well recognized that methods are being introduced of destroying by fire garbage and all animal and all vegetable substances liable to decav. Doctors9 Bills in China, We have hardly begun to realize how much we have yet to learn from the Chiuese in science and general economy. Chinese economy, even to the figures written on a laundry package, often works back-handed, on the theorv that the converse of every great truth must itself be true. But the inverted method is often the soundest. We Occidentals only pay our dootors when we are sick, and sometimes not

even then. The Celestial method, as shown by the example of tha Emperor of China, is to pay the doctor only when one is well. Aj3 soon as the Emperor is sick it is a notification to the physicians that their salary is cut off till he is perfectly well again. The passionate zeal with w hich the regulars go to work to get Hia Majesty back where their salaries will begin again is said to be something ass tounding. The result is that the Emperor is about the healthiest man standing on this planet, and his physician -seldom lose a day's salary. With us, unfortunately, our interests and those of our physicians are diametrically opposed. Were the latter to act on purely business principles, and adopt the well-worn motto that " business is business," we should none of us see a well day from January to December. The Chinese method is worth studying. It is too late to take up the matmatter in the Legislature this year, but next year, if no other medical bill is forthcoming, we recommend a statute providing that all regular physicians shall be compelled to practice on the Chinese plan, which has worked such marvellous results in the land of Wun Lung. Boston Globe. Lock Before You Drink. The shocking mistake made by a Beading woman who swallowed crystalized white vitriol under the impression that it was a dose of epsom salts has many parallels. Hardly a week passes that the newspapers do not chronicle some blunder of the kind, and yet people continue to do the very thing they know by the experience of others to be fatally dangerous. To take medicine without looking at the label on the bottle, or to drink from a bottle or a glass in a dark room, is like trilling with death, and while some are fortunate to avoid a fatal error many be come victims of their own heedlessness. Unfortunately the sufferers fail to serve as a warning to their careless fellowcreatures. Like the woman who continues to kindle her fire with kerosene because nothing has yet happened to her, the people who swallow supposed medicines will blindly not be frightened by accidents to others because they have never had anything happen them, and have an idea that escape from the perils of the past furnishes immunity from the dangers of the present I'M adelphia North American.

HIS HALO DIDN'T FIT.

A Good Story on Sunset Cox, the Brilliant $nC Witty Nw York CongreHtimuii. "I don't see whv Sam Cox should attack me as he has done in the Times of Miis morning," said Hoi W, D. Kelley, 4he father of the House, jmt after the passage of his famous tariff bill. "All others have boon congratula ting me, and Cox is fchs last man I'd have expected to publicly criticise me." "Why, you ought to understand that," remarked Congressman Thomas, of Illinois. "Ham is in the condition of the man in Heaven who was not satisfied A friend of his came to Heaven one day, met him and asked how he liked the Eternal Home," "I'm not altogether pleased," he replied. "I caught cold coming over the river, the damp clouds gave me rheumatism, a id, as I came through the gate, one of my wings struck it and broke. It hasn't healed up yet; and besides, mv halo don't tit me." "That is what is the matter with Co:c His halo don't fit him. Just as he finished the story and a little coterie in the hotel corridor commenced to laugh a newspaper man glided quietly away, writing notes as he went. The next morning the World had the halo story, and the laugh was on Sunset Cox for a long time. A few months later, while crossing the Desbrosses street ferry to New York, Capt. Thomas met Mr. Cox, who took him by the arm and led him back to be introduced to Mrs. Cox. Immediately after the introduction that bright little woman said: Is this the man who told that halo story on you, Ham?" Her distinguished husband laughed bis assent, and she said: "Sit right down here beside me, Capt. Thomas, and tell that story. I know you can tell it better than the newspaper man can write it. Sam's halo don't always fit him, and I want to hear the story." Mr. Cox good-naturedly said: "Go ahead and tell her, Thomas; but I'm going out in front of the boat to smoke, for I don't want to hear it on myself." These public men usually like to hear good stories, even if they are about themselves; but Sunset Cox didn't want to have that story told to his wife in his presence., or, rather, he pretended that he didn' t.

A PROFOUND lOLXiSTER.

Ne Objections to Children. Pond Mother (accompanied by small son) I see you make children at this hotel ? Summer Hotel Proprietor (glancing genially at many little boarders) Oh, yes, madam, of course. How do you do, my little man? Small Cherub None o your business. Fond Mother Oh, baby, you ;should not speak so to the gentleman. Cherub I will. Fond Mother Bless his 'ittle heart, don't ee know ee shouldn't speak so to mamma? Say, Tm very well to tho nice gentleman. Cherub I won't. Fond Mother Mercy! Don't throw your ball that way. "You'll break a window. Children are so innocent and jorful that Propri etor I beg your pardon,

madam; I said we took children, and ire do ; but it is my duty to warn you that we have measles, and hooping-cough,

and chicken pox, and scarlet fever, and small-pox in the hotel, and five children have something that looks like Asiatic

cholera Thank fate, she's gone.

New lork Meekly.

Anecdote with a Moral. Asa woman was walking, a man looked at her and followed her. "Why do you follow me?" asked the woman. "Because I have fallen in love with you !" was the reply. "Why are you in love with me?" said the woman. "My sister is much handsomer, she is coming after me ; go and make love to her." The man turned back aud saw a wo

man with an ugly face; being greatly displeased, he turned to the first woman and said: "Why did you tell me a falsehood?" "Neither did you speak the truth," replied the woman, "for if you were really in love with me, why did you leave me to look upon my sister." "Was Wast Sie HatenS" The latest of the "sells" that result in the "sold" buying the drinks for the crowd i& perhaps the cleverest The man with the sell has a confederate in the crowd with which the victim is talking. Ho says to the confederate, "I was right about that thing we were talking about." The confederate, as if renewing an old discussion, contradicts this, and the victim is asked to decide. TheQ the schemer says: "What ws were talking about was this: What is the exact meaning of the German sentence, Was wast sie haben?" The victim, proud of Ids limited knowledge of German, says: "Wha,t will you have?" Then the crowd orders the drinks on him. Washington Critic. He Couldn't Pull the Wwl Over Her Eyes. "Charlotte, my dear, how is it I find you weeping ? Have you had news from your husband ?" "Oh 1 worse than that My Arthur writes me from Karlsbad that he would die with ardent longing for me wero it not that ho could gaze affectionately at my picture and cover it with a thousand kisses every day." "That is peally very nice of him, and pray, is it that you are crying for? 1 would gfive anything to have such a poetic and tenderly loving husband els you have!" "Ah, yes, my Arthur is ve:ry poetical ; but let me tell you that, just to try him, I slipped my mother's photo into his traveling bag instead of my own just before he started." A Gekmak medical journal reports the case of an infant, of healthy parentige, that developed symptoms of tuberculosis by drawing its nourishment from a wet nurse who was suffering from consumption of the lungs. This, though tho first carefully recorded case of the

kind is probably but one of thousands that have occurred. Human beings have become tuberculous from drinkingmilk of diseased cows, and the analagous method of infection by wet nursing should be guarded against X JFceAeXealth Monthly.

Ha Enlightens the Assowiled Theologians by his Discovery in JProfano History. There was a convention of Sunday school teachers in session at Crystal Lake nnd all the teachers of the thro counties represented were there. Tha amount of Bibical and theological knowl" dge they bad was something astounding. On the last day of the convention the high chief ranger of the affair announced to the 400 delegates that h would be pleased to have 'he knowing ones think up some hard .questions on subjects pertaining to their work, writ them on slips of paper, and submit then) to him, and that evening at the last session, which was to be attort of enter -tainment, he would answer them. A lot of people wrote their questions &nl gave them to the great professor, an when evening came he had about fifty good old gnarly problems in his bunch of paper slips. The evening's exercise began with reading and answering the questions, and though some of them, were froxi away back and very obtuse, the good raaruivho hud put himself up there as t mark coped with them successfully; and ia- pressed the great gatheaing witii hia vast knowledge. Finally he ran against a question that made him knit his brows. He scowled at it a moment and t-hen laid it asid. When he answered all the rest he picket up thin side-tracked query, and said: Here is a question which I confess I am inable to answer. I submit it to the audience, and if any one is able Q give the answer I will be glad to hear what it is." Then -he read his query : Wlio was the boy and what was his name who held the basket containing the five loaves and two fishes whio'5 fed tho multitude?" NobDdy made any effort to answer i and the professor said: "It seems that nobody knows any more about it than I do. I will have to call on the person who submitted the question to come forward and answer in. Will you please do so?" To the great surprise of the 400 people, and of his mother as well, Frank Jones, a 13-year-old schoolboy, got up and modestly walked up the aislo Everyliody looked at him . amazec'L The professor said: Did vou submit this question ?n lYe$.,sir.w "Can you answer it?" Yea, sir." "Well, I am sure everybody will te glad to hear it.w. The boy," said Frank quietly but steadily, "wasBenEzva, son of Mirianu who was a sister of Philip one of tie twelve disciples. 99 A murmur of astonishment ran over tho audience. Here was something tco deep for even the professad theologians in convention assembled. The Professor turned to the boy : Did yon find that in the Bible ?" "No, air." u Where, then, did vou get it! "In Greek history ?w That was the cap sheaf. A lad of 1.3 bowling do wn 400 declared teachers in the Christian cause, and telling them in an unassuming way that W flagfce jjt formation out of Greek history, I think it will be well to give -'this boy room to spread himself when lie becomes a man. Chicago Mail.

A Horse Dies of Grlet, The emotional life of a horse is rani avk able. There are iitances on res ord where the death of a horse has beta traced directly to crief. One instance is called to mind which occurred more than twenty years ago. A circus had been performing in the little town i Union ville, Pa., when one of the trained horses sprained one of his legs so that he could not travel. He wtia taken to the hotel and put in a box stalk The leg was bandaged and to was made as comfortable as possible He ate his food and was apparently contented until about midnight, when the circus began moving out of towru Then he became restless and tramped and whined.. As the caravan moved past the hofcl be seemed to realize he was being deserted, and his anxiety and distress became pitiful. He would stand with kit ears pricked in an attitude of intemte listening, and then as his ears caught the sound of the retiring wagons he would rush, as best he could with his injured leg, from one side of the stall to the other, pushing at the door with his nose and making every effort to escape. The stableman, who was a stranger to him, tried to soothe him, but to no purpose. He would not te comforted Long after all sounds 4 of the circus had ceased agitation coi tinued. The sweat poured from him ill streams, and he quivered in every part of his body. Finally the stableman went to tht house, woke up the proprietor and to! A him he believed the horse would die ii some of the circus horses were net brought hack to keep him company. At about daylight the proprietor mounted ahorse and rode sifter the circus. He overtook it ten or twelve mtlei away, and the groom who had charge ct the injured horse returned with ninu When they reached the stable th horse was dead. The stableman sail that he remained for nearly an hour perfectly still, and with every sense ap parently strained to the utmost tension, and then, without making a sign, fell and died with scarcely a struggle. Wear and Tear ef a Railroader Rail read men improve in health dux' ing the Arst four years, but at the enel of ten years they are tired, out, in fifteen they are actual sufferers, and verj' few can remain in the fierviee after twenty. Dr. Lichtenbag, of Buds. Pesth, says that out of 250 railroad em ployes ninety-two, or more than a third suffered from ear disease. Engine drivers are especially liable to rheumatism and pneumonia, and after soma years service a certain proportion of them beoome dull of eight and hearing. Others; suffer fro n a mild form Qf spinal

concussion, muscular leebleness, and oontinuous pains in the limbs. They are also apt to develop a peculiar menial state a sort of cerebral irritation with excessive nervousness and morbid uensation of fear.