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/ r / ' A Tolce FroM tba Variu. You lay tliatpn life is a rouiilof toil 7 Tliti MUlwtfl lAi mur »aiJ, Th.it 1 ttoarco can wros; from tbe oft-tilled 8olt Bi> pTltauceuf daily broad V Wuli. wtiat you lull uiu in larc is true, I aiu Bolduu Wi idla luaii. But I valuo the Llessiii}^ (if ruat, as you. Who liave uiuoh of it. iiovcrcau. Ad'1 Huroly 1 have nevor worked iu vaiu, Friiiii thuhiiriui: to tiiu i;uldL'U fall ; Tlui harvuHt has ovur bruUj^iitwaviuK yralD, *• Kiioutjh atirl to sparu tor all. AikI wlit-ii in tliu evuiiiuK fruufrotn caro, I Bit at Illy farm houno duur, My wifu and litth* ou»a vraitiug there. Oil. wli&l haf tliu iiiilllouiire uoru '.' My c-iildrnii may iiovt-r liavo iioiirdej wealth ; Tbjir livi'H uiay at liiuu* luruugh ; But if 111 ihL'ir homus t!ioy'vu lovo fttiil liualth, 1 Lioy will flud these riirlieiitiuougb. Thutiuly land they will <n'erowii, It liio land that tho str^ut; right arm And htj iiatieiit loarlds:* Iicurt alone Cau till to a fortllb farui. I ham uothiuK bpyond my eimplo waiiU. .* II t a little fur cloudy days ; But ui grim Kpoutro my thrusUuld hauuta, Sar^i aa ailvor and cold uiixhl raise, Arouu 1 me are eyes that with aiiarkJiug mirth Ur .vith placid coutuutmuntbliiuuâ€" Au.l :iri wealth cloguod lord upon all the earth flu-* J. lot more bieasud than uiiuo. To-murrow, Bind ui> a nroatli and give it me l'K*fore tbia dull day cloi,urt. All J iu thegarl&iida let there be The thgrna as null as roiwa ; W-« e rialeta in and crixiuust bays, VVi-Bvo irillow for my sorrow. Sail floworR for tlio yveierday. White Iilii's for to-ixioriew. White liliw. for they tuU of peace lieyuiid the pateaof even. Where whiaperHof tlio snuTa release hoein inysiif liiuts of Hoaven, And yvsterday. but that has Kuae, And Hij I iifedb iiiiirtt burrow A liiijiuef that uwilt coiuin^^dawxi, The preinihe of to-iiicrrow. I'orevoruiorc !.>'iiiorrowleuda ItriKht vihii'jis of cunipleuuieau ; True Juvem, and the titeadfaat frioQda With faces fii 1 of bwetitUfKH ; l^t backward nil atsc-utii dim aud (fray, And va;;iu*Iy touched with borrow , 1 <:are nni for your y<»s!orday if I may have to-morruiv. The fiast IH puit â€" all! duad imleod, 1 weep niH f >r it j ijoiiifj. I::t idiauioiiiH weird uo more 1 hi'ed 'i'liMi we^t-vviii<U wildly blowing; Prv tH eutwKrd. aye. and upward heart. While I my Kh^nesa burrow. I'^tr hopjand I tiliall uuver part While I ciiu have to-murrow. â€"ICmealilcaaffnei/. UutherK-iii-Liiw ua They Are. was yjaii;;on.'t i.yji IJ-atid I think, like as tiot, 1 1VUH Btiia*'t as thu b4-st of 'cm then t Ikniivvbdiioblniii' much thai I'm ylad I've for- Kot Au--i eau't Mckolloct i: again ! Bat a^ Huiartas I was â€"and I'm certain of thatâ€" 1 v.-ti-iiiuVk^r t,<>hMi:irt that telks aaw Any lirauiH npi'ou 11 n' Uji through the top of my liAt, V/iieii 1 laiiijhwl n', the niother-iu-la-.v ! Th» til >tlior-i;i-Iaw v.'ai a jfifiiiiiâ€" but we l)idl''t rotdl! tint, ii'id Iiultllur do you,â€" One li v\ a yotiii;j d4ii;;ht'r 1 UKt to f^o aeu, Aud play the aer'>;d;oii to ; But th.tt areticold v.oiuau, ualf kIooiji and half klare. That would iieithi^r freeze iiolid. n'er thaw. Enovvi il what alie was djiu', and why alie aut there, And 'ud no', bi- vtj moLher-iu-law ! 81ie vvtjt Hoiiad, like llio moat of 'em iff. aud ahu itteanl Jurtt a havtii' full jeatiue 'er uoae ; And a-t for thi^ ini>ther-iu-law feoliahneifl weut, Silo reiiiuinhere<l fi^r inotbor was one. 1 ruiU'MnhLtr, iiiyhe'f, boiii' atruck that way At a ijatheiiii' oiic't. wtier>* I aaw My \v:t» weepiu' ov.r tliuclodaand the tlay At t he srav.' of hi r luolher lu-law I .(Aurn Whitcomu Uii.kv Uot Kollientatiuna. W • ^11 know llie viiluo of liot applica- tioiiH, Iiut III') iiiudn of makiii;; aiui the Bp|)l>iii;{ dilTcr in nliiiu.st every liouue. An exolia.ixn (jives tlio loilowiti^! : " Wriii^ ac>vcr.'\l thicknuHsini of llaiiiiel (iiit of cold water, H7 it will nut drip; placu between two f.'lclK of paper, and lay it upon n hot reni .tiT or lop of u Htove. tSteim will generate and perineate tlio whole cloth, and thiiH the re<|uirod temperature will lie obtaiiiuil. In thin way there id no ruiinim; lonu (Imtancu, lo a, kitchen, no biirniiiK uf the lianda, no uiicoiiifart&ble moisture in the bed an i no rufllcil temperx. A hot foinci.tatioM is bouilicial in alinost every acute dixctse arooni panted by severe pain, and is oflen of j^rcat oervioe in ciironic inHsnimalinns. It is more effectual and mor" acceehible than any other therapeutic •gnnt. By '|aick, prompt ami thorough nse suvore attacks of illnenB are often pro- ventod."â€" //ithW of Health. A <Mie-arined lluler of <lnri>iiiny. There h a propln'cy which i^ widely lio lie veil in by the (iernun people, who are soniowliHt BuperHtitioiiu. Germany is tn be who has but one arm, and has four ui n<! i 1 to tiucceed an ayed sovereiKii, oa on n (jreat war .^^ticces-ifully, and prove Bii^itlier I'rederick the Ureat. The Ger- maiia sou in this the destiny o( I'rinco William, who wae born 'vith one iirii< partly deformed â€" short and 'btili. And thoy neo ill liia character all the roipiire- mcnts of the prophecy, even down to the four sons, but the power of Ciennany will Wfiiio after this ruler, and iilie will no down and become an insiijnillcant nation. Ko runs the prophecy. â€" Si. Sirphfn'.i Itcvii-w. Not a l*ar.illel <;Aa«, The minister was <linin^ with the family, and ho said to nobby, with nn amused anile ; '• I'm nfrail. Hobby, that you haven't the I'llience of .)ob." "No. sir," reepoiided Bobby, who was huDpfry, " but Job \ta8n't always helped last." ^ AnollierOroat Living (^nrloalty. " What is your specialty, my friend ?' imniirod the visitor of a dime niiisenin freak. " I'h'fnomcnal iiitelli'^Biice." " In what direotion does it lie ?" " I'm the man who always ' shuts the door.' " A yoiiii)) dnrman oflioer, rather now to hia work, was drilliii|{ a squad of raw reoriiits and «ave the word of command, " Ijift the rixht Icfj." One of the soldiers by mistake raiHed hin left le^, so that it ioiued clunely to the ri|jbt leg of his neigh- bor. " What jankanapes has lifted both lejjB?" exclaimed the officer. â€"y''/ic,(;(7irff Iltiitter. The old brick ohiiroh at Rmithfield, V'a,, bnilt in lli.'l'.', is still in use for divine wor- Bhip. It has recently been repaired and gives evidence of lastinjj a century or two .longer. OURRBNT TOPICS. Fnou an examination of 100,000 persons. Prof. Erismann, of St. Petersburg, finds that those entjaged iu textile manufactures, eapeuially Bpuuiera, are inferior to other workingmun iu stature, chest measurtment, bodily weifjht and muscular BtreQ|>th. AiTEu more than a quarter of a century of active and distinguished service, James H. Stoddart, LLi.D., retires from the editor- ship of the Glasgow IL-raid. IIo baa made it the most widely circulated of North British newspapers. Mi.ss l''in.NUKs 10. AViLi,.uu>, the temper- ance orator, recently declared that she has " never known a single physically reason- able day since that sweet May morning" in her ICth year when she was first clothed opon with long petticoats, corsets, high heels, crinolines and the other instruinents of female torture. Hi.sTORV repeats itself. President Grevy lost his position in l-'riuce because he de- fended hia sou-ill- law, and now King Kalaknua's crown is in danger because the iiawaiian monarch is sticking by his brother-in-litw. lie is the wise ruler who places his relations to the people above his relations by marriage. A.S AM)TUEii of the many evidences w#kre now hating of the revival of British ship' building, London cablegrams state that orders have recently been placed for new steamships of an aggregate of eighty thous- and tons. This in Itself is no inconsiderable Heotâ€" say, twenty ships of 4,000 tons each, all of steel. I'll. CiiviiLKM M.kcK\v has in hand a dictionary uf Lowland Scotch, fornii'ng a vocabulary of leading words in the Hcuiiish language, ivitli utymological derivations. It is intended to bo a volume of interest to readers of Bcrns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Uamsay and others. The book will be puLilished by WhittakeriV Co., liondon. A bL:n'i.Nii.>i\> iiiNK of solid silver and enriched with sapphires was recently received by the Kinpress of Russia. It was a present from tlrts Society for Promoting the Use of Itussiaii QIatcrials. XheC'/arina hasataken great interest in this organi/.a- tion. Ilef enthusiasm, however, will not cause her to use the sewing-machine in all probability. L.isr Christmas ex-Oov. .\lger, of Michi- gan, gave a suit of clothes to each of .^OO IJetroit newsboys. This year, he has sup- plied l,50Uboysof Detroit with a similar outfit, and iu addition sent a tou of coal and a barrel of dour to eacii of 1.000 needy families iu the Kiiiia, city. This is charity of a practical hind. Three cheers for Ali;er ! ••» Ai.\.s for the big Nova 'Scotia lumber raft! The U. S. vessel llnteri.'i.'e, which was sent out to cruise for the relict, has returned to New Loudon witii the an- nouuieinent that siie enuouiitured during her brief voyage no end of logs dancing around njioii tlin agitated bo.soni of the wild end v.asteful ocean. This seems to be coiiclu.-iite as tu th'i breaking up of the big raft. A CiiiHiio oiiithiiig inaiiufacturcr says that ho is obliged to pay particular atten- tion to the hip pockets which lie puts in trouseis destmeil for the Western trade. His Kaniinsand Iowa customers demand a pocket callable of iioldini^ a i|tiart tlask, but for the far West trade ilii; pocket is made deep and narrow, with an miusnally strong lining, so that a pistol will Lit snugly in it. Jons lljv.scix, 11 friendless man living at Iiidiaiiapniis, iias uske<l tlie ('oiiiity Com- missioners to nliuw limi tc pass the re- mainder lit \\\A days ill the poorhoiise, proiiii.^ino on liis death to beijueath to the county fS.OOO in 4 (ler cent. Govern- ment bonds. Uu say.i (hat he has lost all contidence in liumaiiity and has concluded that he would be Ka'er in the pix>rhouse than anywiit.u ,.1.-1 . A i !i: ^ says i\ technical p.ip.'i, Uciug about u3 porous as a lump of sugar, aud having six sioes, needs a careful tilling for watertioht work in cess-i>ools, etc., and a thin grout or porr.ilgo of cement is com- monly u-sed. lluatiug the brick and soak- ing beforehand in thick coal-tar has been recoinmeiideil. A man may lay common wall all his life without learning how to inakn briik water-tight. Piioi. BucKiK, the well-Known Scotch- man, has raised an admiring laugh this week by his .-esponse to line of the immer- oiis inquiries now going the rounds for opinions ns to the best books, llo was invited by »n editor to name three of tl the ^â- r;;»tes^lt says, under a young niM^ best worlis for young men, and ho picked out Green's •' History of the Kiiglish People," Nasniyth's" Autobiography," and Blackie's " Self-Culture." He adds a whimsical apology for naming his own book, but declares he honestly knows of no better. TiiK autliorities of Dresden, Germany, will not allow a piano to be played in a private house after lO.oOat night, and they punish with a line any person lound throw- ing an article oi refuse, however insignili- cant, into the street. Flagmen are sta- tioned at the corners of streets intersected by liorKO-car lines to warn persons of the approach of a car. I>rug stores are closed at Hundowii, and when u druggist is called lip in the niglit he appears with all the politeness of a dancing- master to thank the customer for his courtesy in pationi.-.ing his store. PiiOK. Waidi.vn, in his treatise on oaths, sayH ; All forms of oath-taking are imma- terial. The Jew ends with, " Ho help me, Jehovah." The Scotchman says, " I swear by AlmiKhty Ood as I shall answer to God nt the great day of judgment." A Mo- haiiiinedaii is Hworn on the Koran ; a (Chinese wittiess is sworn by kneeling anil breaking a china Haiiccr against the wit- ness bo\ ; tlie Quaker simply says he will tell the truth because he beliaves the com- mand to be truthful is divine. Theessential thing, however, is that the witness acknow- ledge Bomo binding effect derived from his belief in a God or in a future state. C-oL. Gi:oi!fiF. I'. Pr.si;!.!., of Hartford, Conn., spent last siuamer iu Japan. The. most remarkable foatnra of that country, he says, lies in the fact that its language contains no profane or blasphemous words. " I oan readily understand," he remarks, " why the practice of ' hari-kari ' is so boils within liim, if at such time he is the victim of • language which will not let him vent his rage even in ' darn it ' or ' by thunder,' why then I can readily see how suicide might be a soothing relief.' Tu£ chances of war in Europe may alter the plans of Madame Modjeslta and her husband relative to a holiday in their Polish home. " Sliould the war come on," said the actress a few days ago, " the greater part of the fighting would be in our immediate neighborhood â€" where our bomo is, you seeâ€" and that woald not be pleasant. Oar reii leiice is in Craoo'^, and Cracow is situated where the Russiali, Uerm>tn and Ai^trian frontiers meet- Our residence is iu the very midst of the fortilicationa. So, you see, we would be in trouble if we went there." Her country- men like the Austrians much better than the Russians, she thinks, and for cause. A MKMoni-UiOairn has been raised at Al>er- field, Scotland, to the deeds of the gallant " Forty-Twa," or "Black Watch," High- land regiment. The north panel bears the names of the engagements in which the corps has borne part as follows : Fontenoy, Prestonpans, Fort Sandberg, Ticonderoga, Martiniijue.Guadaloupe, Havannah, Busby Run, Brooklyn, Fort Washington, Chsrles- town, Aboukir, Alexandria, EgyptlMOl, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Cindad Rodrigo, Burgos, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Vittoria, Niville, Kive, 'ftjuleuse, Orthez, Waterloo, Alma, Sebastopol, Lucknow, Kgypt, .\shantee, Nile, Tel-el-Kebir, Kir- beckan. Ai LoiiMN.i to one authority one pound of bananas contains more nutriment than three pounds of meal or as many pounds of potatoes, while as a food it is in every sense hupcrior to the wheaten bread. Although it grows spontaneously through- out the tropics, when cultivated its yield is prodigious, for an acre of ground planted with bananas will return as much food material as thirty-three acres of wheat or over one hundred acres of potatoes. It is not generally understood that bananas â€" fried, baked or roasted â€" are very appetiz- ing, anil that sliced and placed in a dish witli alternate slices of orange they make a most delit ious dessert. SvN IU Mo, wher« the German C^rown Prince is staying, about 7 miles east of the frontier dividing Italy firom France, Iti from Mentone, 31 from Nice and H.'i from Genoa, is a town of 10,000 inhabitants. Its bay, protected at the western extremity by (;ape Nero, HOG feet high, and by Cape \ erde, :toO feet high, at the east end, is too ^hallow for a comniercialharbor, but is per- fectly sheltered, except to the south and southeast while behind the town, a com- plete amphitheatre of hills, rising to 4,300 feet in Monte Bignone, and nowhere less than .'I, '.00 feet, shuts out all northerly winds. Tii>' famous Children's Christmas Club, of Washington, of which Miss Nellie A. .\rthur was once President, supplied a ChristmiiS dinner to be given to tlio children of the poor. The members wear badges of white ribbon, v\-ith a diminutive sleigh bell attached to each. The club is one which I'ould well be imitated in other cities for its useful and charitable pur- poses. It might be added, says the Boston â- liiuniiil, that one Christmas club organi/.<9d in a neiuhboring city has grown from its Urst work of preparing a Christmas tree and dinner to a charitable orgaiii/.ation covering the wide liehl of visiting and relieving the {>oor all the year round. El -TON' Rorvni:, in London, England, is lighted by a new light which is believed to possess ipany advantages. Ordinary coal gas, ini.xed in about the prnportion of one to eight of common air, is hupplied under the usual gas-service pressure to burners over which are placed caps of platinum wire gau/e. The mixture, when lighted, burns witliout flame around the cap, which is raised to a brilliant wliite heat by the oombustioii. The light is perfectly steady, there liri!)'.^ no Hame, and is not affected by wind or rain. More tliau twice as iniioh light, it is said, is obtained, with a given I'onsuinptioii of gas, as by the old system. Twenty burners replace fifty of the old kind, and ligiit a platform 'JOO feet in length. Loiin BiiAssKT, who was one of the most prominent members of Mr. Gladstone's last administration, and who baa just returned from a yachting expedition around the African and .Viistralian coasts, is a great admirer of the colored race. In a letter to the London y'liiicit he writes: "The capa- bilities of the colored race are nowhere seen. to greater advantage than at Sierra Leone. They supply the oliiclal staff of the Government. A colore 1 lurrister of marked ability is the leader of the liar and makes a professional income of Slo.OOO a year. The day seems drawing near when it will no longer be necessary to send out Knglishiiieii to administer the Government in a climate ho often fatal toKuropeans." Lkipisii men in the lumber trade have under consideration the necessity of an important reform. It is estimated that the reduction of a log to boards averages the turning of fully one-sixth of the whole into sawdust. For every 1,000 feet of lum- ber that are turned out by the mill 200 feet are now rednceil to powder, which used to have no known value and now is employed only as fuel. This waste was of little con- sei|ueiioe a few years ago, when the forests of pine seemed to bo inexhaustible, but now that a scarcity of the raw material threatens the trade it is asked if a large part of this cannot bo avoided. The econ- omical views of the thinkers at present are turned to the handsaw as tho one which will save at least a quarter of the waste that is inseparable from the forms of saw now in use. ('as a man cough himself to pieces? At an iaquDst recently held on an inmato of the Borough Asylum, considerable interest wa!> attached to the finding of a broken rib in the body of the patient. The doctor who gave evidence endeavored to point out that under some abnormal conditions bones may bo broken during life by muscular efforts, or even by the act of violent cough- ing. The coroner, in commenting upon this, appeared to have ma6l) difticulty in recognizing the existence of such an un- usual occurrence, and naively stated to tho jury that they would doubtless have equal liesitatinn in appreciating the learned fracture of the bones in looomotor ataxy is notunoommon; the imporkano* of this in medico-legal inquiries is worth remembejt- ing, and throws much light upon questions affecting the treatment of the insane. A most wonderful invention is reported from Vienna. .\n Austrian engineer has, it is said, designed a truck to run before every railway train, being maintained always at a fixed but adjustable distance in front by the force of an electric current transmitted along the metals from a dyna- mo on the engine. The current is con- duoted through mercury contained in glass tubes on the pilot truck. If, therefore, the truck comes into collision the tubes are broken and the contact ooiisM|uently destroyed. The interruption of the cur- rent instantly and automatically applies the brakes on the following train. It is claimed by the inventor that two expresses, fitted with this system, might with im- punity be set to run full tilt at each other. The coUision of their pilot trucks would arrest the progress of both trains before they could meet. The element of human fallibility is accordingly entirely eliminated and drivers may dash through a whole series of danger signals without risk, being automatically arrested the moment they reach the spot that is really dangerous. A Wasuinotos correspondent writes : Everybody knows the poem beginning, " 'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the bouse," but very few know anything about its author or nis family- The poem is brought to mind by the fact that Mrs. James H. Young, who died recently in Washington, was the widow of the gentleman who wrote the familiar lines. Mr. Young was born in Laurel, a little town in Maryland, about twenty miles from this city, and was first a doctor and then an artist. Kmally he entered the Episcopal church and became a clergy- man. He died in Washington some years ago. When his widow died recently she left all her husband's manuscripts to Dr. Noble Young, of this city, her brother-in- law, and they are being examined with the view of seeing what can be done with them. There are some unpublished poems ataong the papers, but none of them are likely to be as famous as the story of Santa Clans. Mils. Euiza J. NicuouHON is the only woman in this country, probably the only woman in the world, who is proprietor and editor-in-chief of a daily newai>aper. Mrs. Nicholson was the widow of Col. Ilolbrook, editor and proprietor of the New Orleans Puimmie, who, at the time of his death, left that' paper with a debt of SS5,000. Uis wife had done regular editorial work on the paper during his lifetime, and as she was devoted to journalistic work shedetermined to continue it, contrary to the ailvice of all her friends, who wished her t» take the 9 1,000 allowed her by law and abandon the paper. The business manager, Mr. Nichol- son, alone counselled her to go on,aiid stood by her with tho staff. Within two years her conduct of the paper not only put it on a paying basis liut wilted out the $85,000 debt. She afterward married Mr. Nichol- son, who became a widower shortly after her husband's death. She is a fragile little woman. common in Japan. When a man is abused i theory that it wai possible for a man to or loses his coUar button and is mad all the ''°'?|'.'' linnjelf to pieces! A perusal of the I writings of Dr. Weir Mitchell and Pro- fessor Charcot will show that spontnneoas Latest fruin Hrotlaiid. A girl named Glen residing nt Cotton How, Irvine, drank vitriol in mistake for nudlciiie and died in agony. The attempt to iin|>ort Indian and Cey- lon tea direct to Glasgow has proved very successful. London, up till now, has had the entire mono{K>ly of the tea trade. A man named Grieve died in the poor- house'at Glasgow. His friends agreed with an undertaker to bury him decently for il ll'iH. (id., and i;l was hande(\ over in part payment. The undertaker did not bury Grieve because the rest of the money had not been paid, and declined to return the il on the ground that it v^'as due for the unused coUin and coach. The case was brought up in the Small Debts Court iu Glasgow and the SherilT decided that the il must be returned. One day recently while Samuel Cowan, brakeman, aged Id years, residing in Glas- gow, was working in the Steel Company of Scotlond's Works at lllochairn at a weigh- ing machine, one of the employees in a joke ignited the fuse of a detonating cap and threw it on the ground. Cowan, hearing a cry of "fire," and not knov/ing that the matter was a joke, picked up tho cap, which exploded in bis hand, blowing off a portion of several of the fingers of his right hand and cutting and scorching him about tho eves. A QCEKB AMBITION. A Rich California Girl Who Harried a Cob HUSlptiveto Gain Social Freedoui. The death at the little town of Mayfield, near the Stanford University, of a yotmg and consumptive printer named Frank McKee, completes a curious story of a rich young girl's folly. Seven years ago Abram Brown, of Oakland, died, leaving property to his only daughter, Frankie, valued at §.'>0,0o0. She attained her ma- jority a little over a year ago, and then assumed control of the property, whioh brought in an annual income of aboat d.'i.OOO. She took a trip to Highland Springs, and tlux" a lively widow per- suaded her that she ought to become a widow herself in order to enjoy the social freedom that an unmarried woman can never hope to gain. Full ot the project, Bhe returned to Oakland aud formed the acquaiutanceofCapt.andMrs. K. M. Apgar. To them she confided her longing for social emancipation. She declared shewaa bound to become a widow, and thought if she could marry some man who was on hia death-bed it would be about the right thing. Apgar agreed that if she was determined to marry, and for the puriioae stated, it would be advisable to have the thing settled with as little publicity as possible. He accordingly introduced this peculiar yonng woman to Dr. Dupuy. Ur. Dupuy de- clared that he knew of just the man to soit Miss Brown's wish in the person of a poor printer named Frank McKee, who bad a beautiful case of consumption, and who could not possibly live more than a month. Miss Brown thought that she had found just the man she wanted, and agreed to look at the subject. On the following day she and Apgar went to the office of Dr. Dupuy, where the medical man exhibited his consumptive. Miss Hrowu looked him over" with a critical eye, thumped his chest vigorously, and made him cough several times for the purpose of ascer- taining if the investment was a safe one. She finally concluded that she would take the chances of his living. McKee con- sented to marry the girl for a money con- sideration and the pair were wedded by Justice Wood. They did not depart toge- ther. It had been agreed that the husband should go and die by himself. The wife gave him SlOO before the ceremony took. place, and agreed to pay Dr. Dupuy 914M) with which to defray the expenses of a comfortable death-bed for her husband. McKee failed to keep his promise, however, aud strangely iin-isted on living. In fact, he grew alarmingly healthy. He met his wife a few months after and got soma money from her. Dupiiy received a liberal commission, and it is charged that Apgar got a fee. l-'inally Mrs. .McKee refused to be bled any more and departed for the F^ast. The story leaked out and created a great sensation in Oakland. McKee fol- lowed her to Indiana, but she refused to see him. She then departed this fall for Europe, and is said to be in Carlsbad. Another cur'uus feature of thealfair is that .\pgar died on the same day as McKee. â€" .Sun l-'-aiwiico detpahh loCliicaiio Herald. l''«iie.v aiul RtHklUiu. Little Nellâ€" Mamma,! wish you'd let me read a novel. Mamma â€" Don't mention such a thing. " But novels tell things just as they are in life, don't they'/ " " Yes. Now ask no more questions." " Susie Minx has got such a lovely novel, and " " What ? Did you road any of it ? " "Only the last line. It said : " And so they got married and were happy ever after." "Oh! that isn't a novel, dear; it's a fairy story." tVhy Don't Tou Advertise '.* She was an editor's daughter and he was a young merchant whose business was not alarmingly groat. Said he: " Darling, my heart yearns for you. I dream of you by night, and think of you by day. Will vou be mine, Nellie'.' You know the bible says it is not well for man to live alone." "Then, why don't you advertise?" â€" lAiwuln Journal. It Was the Number He Thoiiftlit Of. Brown (with a sigh)â€" That Robinson is a lucky dog. He has been married eight years and has got twoashaudsomechildreu as I ever saw. Smith â€" You ought not toenvy Robinson, Brown. Your children are as fine as his. Brown (with anothersigh)â€" Ah, yes ; but there are seven of 'em. IlK^ the Air Brake Works. Said a railroad man to me to-day : " I'll bet not one in a hundred of the [leople who travel on railroad trains understand how the pressure of air is used to apply the brakes to a train. When the air brake waa first invented the air was turned into the cylinder under each car when the car was to be stopped, and the pressure was exerted to force the brakes up against the wheels. But at tho present day tho brakes are held against the wheels by springs, and the air is turned into the cylinders to push the brakes away from the wheels as long as the train is in motion. When it is desired to stop the train the air is let out, and then the springs apply the brakes and stop the train. This last method of using air prea sure ha> great advantage over the old way on the score of safety. •' Whenever an accident happens to a train, one of tho first effects it is apt to have is to rupture the air pipes leading from the engine to the cylinders under the cars; and that of itself stops the train in- stantly. It is very inqiortant for everybody to understand this matter, because a child years old can stop a train in thirty seconds from any car in the train, if he simply understands how. You will see, if you look for it, that there is a sort of rope projecting from thetoilet-roomof every car. That connects with the a r pipes under the train. If you catch hold of it, and give it a little jerk, it will stop the train before it has gone '-'00 yards."â€" t'/i/in.;oJ(iU)-K<if. Oue Woman Apprevlated. I Kaunas I'ily 'rinif^;, ) 111 an imfreijuenled spot in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, there are two graves, over one of which is a modest tombstone with tho following inscription upon it : Here rest!, tliat auRel of a woman, : Is.VBKl.l,A(illAlUM CUMIIT, : wife of Thi>inas Hroeks. : Horn In New .lersev in lK:i5; : Died in St. l,ouia iu iHia. \ ou were ahviivs satisHed, ulwavs content • : with what vou luul. I illd not havetiirobiiiyemiiloycrstokeep • ; you in e^ t.'avu>,'anee. : I Huwpleasant it was to meetvouonretum- "• i inc home '. (iod Mess you! Yeiii Hukuand. j lionr Glad. Mr. Smith (v.itli a sigh of relief) holding it aloft -Thank Heaven ! tho long agony is over ! This asking for money every day or two -these whispered consultations- -these mysterious looksâ€" this running down town every dayâ€" this restraint in my presence has come to an end at last. Christmas and Santa (Uaus oro here, and I am the proud recipient of -a pen-wiper 1 way throagh, so mad that hig very soul 1 SuliielhlnK Appropriate, " I'm in search of a tiseful present for a literary gentleman," said a prim young lady entering a book-store. " In what branch of literature is he interested V" ' He's a paper." " In that case," returned the bookseller, " I would suggest an almanac."â€" J^udr^c paragrapher on a religious The I'etaluma (Cal.) (.'ouriVr tolls of a curious tight between an eagle and a coyote. The prize was a large haro, still alive, whioh had just been canght. The eagle would llap his wings and try to rise from the ground with liis prey, but thecoyote, whioh had hold of the other end, would pull him back every time. Then they would have a regular^ tussle and tho feathers and fur would t'.y. There is no telling how the fight would have ended had not a pistol bullet frightened them both off. A little Simday-Bonooi girl, whose lesson had been about the story of the fiery furnace, was telling her mother about it. "And, mamma," she said, " that naughty king heated an oven just as hot as he could get it, put three good men in, and they wouldn't cook a bit I" «., t