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The Buaalan IiiiluruiA. In llussla wbers thera'i dynamite iu every UeeUi lh> OMW, Whnre eToryticnljr Lai a name that almoM tireaki your jaw, VThirethey double up Ibu alphabet and ruuslr brMk It on, And half the i.ame* yoo cuauoetomoct resemble WbuO|>lllku|;*l. Ti UIITO tliey ruceutly arraoizud some iutluea- ilalfad That I'Turybody Rot U bare, and got to have it bad, Already It ban 1 -und iU way to laudi byood the MM. IU iu Obtcauo-thero ! Krrchoa-! I knew I'd ban to sueeie. A UMM U such a itubboru tbiog iff bound to ham iu way. The more you itrivs to limb It |> the mure it hat to say. It hke to catch you unawares, at church, or oine such p'ace, And when yuu'd look your sweeteit bow it wrinkles up your face! And e'en tbu awaia on benled kneel all ready to propose. May quite forget hit i>icc tbo vhllehs wlpei bil aoMiiog Done. Aod do your bolt, 'tis all iu Taiu to try to look at ease. When on* U coining thrc ! Kercbsw ! Oreat heavens, what a aneete! Anil to thil plague U coming, It 'tu not already hurt-. And while there'* naught about it that the people need to fear. It Un'l kind iu foreigner! to on our people pria, Whoa* time U ao uiucb occupied. lhi batty Huibiu' thing. Tin- people oil UI>|>OM it, and there'! learooly any donU That blow on blow they'll met-t it till at last (bey wlpu it out. It interfere* with everything, and mm llnef like Are dull when interrupted- there! Kerchew Another aoeece. THE DOSTERS : ARomance of Georgian Life CHAPIER I. Th* Joyneri, besides titty negroes, owned a thousand acre* of O^eeobe* bottom Ian. i, extending southward to the May*, who, wilh e>a many slaves, paid taxai on over thirteen hundred acres. The maunon of the former, equare, two skirled, with attic, wai lituate a fewrodi from the public thoroughfare lead- ing from Auguata on the Savannah, through Oateston, the county *eat, to Milledgeville, then the capital of tbe itate. In a limilar bouse, with a somewhat more tasteful piay./a, a mile bolow, a little removed from a neighborhood road extending down the river bank to the Hboaln, dwelt the Maya. Equidistant, near tb* Ualeston road, were he Dosteri, in their story. aud-a-half boose, who, with a .iu/ 'n slaves and about three hundred acres of laud, rolling and much thinner than their neighbor*', were doing t leant a* well a* oould have been expected. The Joyner* and May* had been intimately friendly al way*, and no neighbor had ever believed himself ao dull a prophet a* not to bave foreseen, long brfjre William and Harriet May and Hiram and Ellen Joyner were old enough to bo thinking about sweet- haarta, that those two families, like their fine plantations, wero deiliued in time to be united, and by a double bond. Tbe heads of both tbess familits had de- oea*d. Bo bad that of tbe Djai.ru, the la*t, betide* bla widow, leaving Tbomaa, lately grown to manhood, and two younger children. At the period ia which occurred what Ihia itory is meant to tell, Iliram and William were about twenty -two, and Ellen *>nd Harriet nineteen and fifteen. Bui for the demise of Mr. Doater, Thomaa would bave had a better ednoation. Tbia event made ni caanary his leaving the tate collegt at the end of the junior year, in order to oonduct th* family bntine**. To the necessity that called him away he yielded with more reluctance because he was In leave behind H very dear cousin, witb whom the expectation had been to atudy and enter inio a partnership for the practioe of law. Yet in thii while he had learned quite aa mnoh of books as either ot the young men his more favored neighbors, who aftor leaving the amdemy had been two years at th University of Virginia, where they had spent money to inch figure* that their mother! readily assented to their Sropoaal to return home without academic sgra* For three year* pait they had been managing in acini sort the goodly estates left by their fathera ; bat some laid that but for their negro foreman thn plant tiona would deteriorate faiter. Much of their time had been ipent in foxhunting, bird-hunting, anil other tinld aporU, in horseback journeyingi to Mflledgeville and Auguita, and in other way* wtmh they re- carded their forlnnn* ample enough I' allow Kern, however, ha' I reaionably good moral character, and wa* frank enough to admit to hi* mother sometime* that, compared with that of tb* Uoiters, thcjr place wa* not kept op luflieiently, and that, npon around well known to be le*a productive, the Doater orops were better. Yet all along it had bee*n hoped that after a while, partic- ularly when they had married and settled down to steady busineu, Hiram and William would makn good energetic, proa peroua citizens like their father*. The May* were tall, (lender, and fair ; thn Joyneri of middle height, dark hair and complexion ; Ellen tomewhat petite, her brother stout and itrongly set. The tfirla were oonaidsred quite pretty after their separate itylei, and their brothers would have been alow to believe that Tom l>osti-r, midway between thm a* to figure and complexion, wa* considered by moHt people rather better looking than either. The adiioation of the fir I* wai i xeellnnt for thoae lime*. 11 wa* only about a year back whim they had come out of the female ansileiiiy at Uateiton, wherein they had pent all their year* eincj very young girl- hood. Thi* academy, founded and kept by Rev. Mr. Wyman, a Baptiat uler^ymen, native of Vermont, hail, and most de- ervedly, a very high reputation, that had extended thronxhout the Hate and into everal adjoining. All brannhfi taught In New England ssmineries, including mnaic, drawing, and painting, were in the oonrse which both the girl* had made, not only with aatisfaotion, bat hi|(h honors. Ellen 6'ayed on the piano nnoommonly well, and arrirt, lea* ikillfal there, was a iweeter inger. The young men were quite proud Of theie aooompliihment* of tlisir sisters, bat for whioh il was thought that they might have nnrted themselve* more for heir own development. As it was, they held to their fox hunting and other amuan inents, each aatlinad apparently with the thought thai when the time should onm for ahlraptlng from tb* other'* family he ould give in i \ :ban^8 a vnlne cagareded to that which he would receive. Xhecnaa Uoater bad made itVppeer rery aoon after leaving college that thia move- ment meant buiine**. The vigor and econ- omy with which he had managed tb* farm were suoh that in three year* enoaph had been laid op to purchase two hundred more acre* and a family of negroe. For *ome considerable unit- pjople had been laying what a fide y< uug man Tom Dosler win. The Doatera, beloaging to the wnncharcb, vi*itd with the other two familie*, but rui nearly 10 of ton a* tho*e with each other The young men, particularly William May, who wa* of heartier temperament than Hiram, rather likod Toin, and in their own families might go ao far aa to admit that hi) example, if inch a thing were neoeaiary, might be worth imitating. If they felt like patrouiziiig him, they oould not do aa to much extant, eumsthiug in hi* manner, ex oept when in presence of the girl*, patting such diportment in restraint. Every week- day he was to be seen, in hi* plain, home made, well-titling clothes, where either the ploagh hauda or the hoe hands were at work, and the ptsuing by of old or young, male or female, seemed to affect in no i*e Hi - feeling of manhood aa. thai h uely clad, he kept at hi* work. Kight of icu, a* the girl* with their brother*, or on with him of the other, were rijmg pan, he would take off hi* broad brimmed hat, return their salutation, and, if happening to be near the fence, come forward at cutioe of disposition to linger for a brief chat. Un Sunday* when there was meeting at Horeb, a mile or to inland from the Jcynera', he put on hi* beat, and looked the equal of anybody there. Occasionally, whan one of the girl* bad ridden there on bortebick, accompanied by her brother, he proposed to escort her home, and but nol often accepted the invitation to dinner which it wsa ooHtomary in all country neighborhoada tofcxtend on loch occasion*. Turn'* a itirrmg fellow," Mid Will May to Harriet one day, when, after some conversation with him aa he sat upon hi* fonop, they were palling on. Yes," she answered ; " I think Tom 1 'ostiT i* a very promising young man ; hundiome too, even iu hi* homespun clothe*. 1 suspect that he would have made a good lawyer." " Best as it it ; indeed lucky, in my opin- ion. There's no gnjd in a fellow trying to rise too far abovo his raising. I I'M well for Tom Duster that he coal 1 not go to the bar. He * proud enough, hard a* he ha* to work, and he cannot, if he ever trie*, conceal his aspirin'; nature. I like Tom very well my- self aa a neighbor ; but Iliram, especially of late, doexu't. Hiram say* that Tom i* a* proud ai if In owned both our plantat- ion* and hia little patch of ground beside*." ' I don't sir why be might not feel aa pro M i ai other people, brother Will. He'* young, handsome, intelligent, indmtriotu, and of ai good family ai any, if they do have lesa property, i should not call pride the feeling that keepo him from looking op to those who are in more favored condition*. I ihould rather name it a sense of freedom, which every man who feel* him*elf to bo a gentleman i* bound to have." " V.-* , and that'ijuit the way, a* Hiram aa>H, that Ellen talk*, and both of yon are rather imprudent in the way yon treat Tom I>osier; and I tell you now, Harriet, that Iliram especially doesn't like him." Ono ! lie doesn't I nor do you, I *ec. Well, Ellen and I must amend our speech, anil br more ciroumipcct in our behavior, even If we cinnot help our taite* and manner*." Then she looked back with mock regret toward Tom, who wai working away a* if lie had forgotten having seen and talked with them." " Conic, llarnei, you needn't put on airs " " Of OOUMM not, before my brother Will, and especially before Hiram, of whose dis- pleasure he warns mo. But," in* added, to tease her brother, " they do say that Tom's cousin has grown to be handsomer even than him. I'll havn to *ee for mystlf before I can believe it " Wain' t thai a pretty come off ? He and In were to b* two great lawyer*, you know ; and their grand scheme has wound up by Tom being, an his father before him was, a common, hard-working farmer, and his cousin a Methodist preacher." It wa* rather strange. A* for poor Tom, the disappointment wai unavoidable, and, like a true man always will in duah oe*es, he has bornn it nut only patiently, but cheerfully. His oootin Henry, I doubt not, is following what he believe* to be the line of his duty, and if *o, that shows him to b a true man aln >." " Everybody to hi* notion. Let us gat on." They urged their hor*e* to a brisker paoe, that *Oon brought them to the Joyo- r*'. where they tarried awhile before re- turning home. Henry Uoster wai ion of Tom'a uncle, who dwelt leveral mile* buyond Uatoiton, and whole eitate wasioniewhat larger than that of his deounsod brother. Everybody, his parents, even himself, had been oxpeot- ing, ever since he fl rat entered college, and until jui! before ha was to leave, that he was to boooiiie a lawyer. But about a couple of month* before graduation, at the head of hi* clnin, during a revival meeting of the Motliodiit ohnrch in Athena, the seat of the state university, he, who alayi had been piously inolineil, Leoame con- vinced that hi- had a call to the *aored min- istry. His parents, not church member*, but rather ifnliating with the Baptist*, felt a double disappointment. Yet tUuy loved and respected him too well to com- plain. He was as ttentle as he was hand- some and gifisd. While la college he had the ,400.1 fortune to be popular both with faculty and students, beaan** he deported himself just ai he ought before all. Of olive complexion, brown eyei and hair, hlx faoe on occasion would light into redness as decided as over painted the fairest cheek. When he wai in animated declamation hi* form of nve fuel ten iwayed with a grace more engaging because unstudied, even nn- oonioioni, and hia voloe, at all time* iweet, rang nonoron* and true a* a clarion'*. Hi* a mate* had prupheaied for him an eminent career at the bar, and many f -It regret more than surprise at th* coarse huh, indilrnly, as it sne tni>d, he had re- solved to panne. At Commencement he made hi* modest valedictory with mm h tclat, imiliagly bade adieu to all hi* aa- aooiatei and aoquaintanoea ; then returned to hia home, and went to preparing himaelf for the solemn work that be waa to under- take. CHAPTER II. Th* two leading r illgiini denominations a* now, w*r* thsn nearly equally divided i* middle Georgia, th* assendency held by th* M-ih'.dint j in the towns and villages beios, balanord by that of th* Bsptlit* in thn rural district* Not very many of the clergy of cither had received a college edu- cation, yet inatryTlf them were very efficient preachara, and aomo tixjuenl to a high drgn- . Hi i Methodist* wore well pleated at inn ':ct?Miion of a young mn in whom wa* *urh goidly promise. Brief prelimia- arien were ruquirad for the pulpit, and only a faw monthi after thatimi when II n r y Uoster had counted npon applying for admission to the bar he wa* preaahiux the gospel Bo yonag, and raodett as young, it waa tboaght well tint for the nrst year he should work under the guid- ance of one of the older and more pro- nounoed preachers. Fortunate to both it teemed that the Kn-. Alien 8iagr, a a native of the county, was holding his headquarters in Gateaton, and to him, as assistant in hia circuit, Henry was aa- ligoed. This gentleman, very tall and mua- calar, had been in hi* youth a noted tighter, having won hia wife, 10 the tradition went, by his ooa.jueit of a formidable rival, and he had not left behind all of hia native oombativenuas when h* advanced upon a higher field. He wa* fogd ot wielding what he styled hi* sledge hammer, not only against sinuen in general, but pronounced opponents of hii own faith, of the entire certitude of which be never bad felt u doubt since th a day on which he embraaed it first. Yet he was, or he nvini to be, at pioua ai be wai aggressive, and be cordially believed that hU interest in th* welfare of louls, outsider* and nominal insider*, wai as good ai the beet. Many and many a time, with emphaii*, would he talk about thai : ' If Allen Swinger know anything at all about hisself, hi* own self, and if he don't, the question arise who do, bat if so be, I am not aginst none of their souls' salvations, if they would only gil their consents to giva up their mean way*, and then gil right straight up and come aright itraight along where everybody that ain't a aatail u blinded with predijioe u obleegsd to lee, plain a* open and abet, is the way they got to toller so they mayn't git coaawined not only to tire but brimstone prinkled on top of that, which every aoenoe I ben converted myself, like a bran' Hatched from the burnin', I ben astoniahed that anybody could ever be inch a big too! ui to think he oould stand ary one, let alone both. Now aifor Ilenry Uawster, if he watn't quite 10 thin skin, and if he could get fail consents to pitob in four-an'-a half (Mr. Hwinger by Ihia phraie meant fore and aft) afloat u-orldlyaoa, and be more vigioni on them Bsbtisse*, whioh if they ain't headed thy goin' to lake thil whole country, lame like the tnudof Kgyp', him and me together coulJ git up rewivu'i a'most a constant. Bat I can't yit gil him to make charges on 'em. That what I call oomin' down out the pulpit and marohin' right on 1 1 'em, right and left. Yil he's a good religious boy, aami ai a good Meth'dis' woman that don't know how to be anything else, and I lovs him a'mon a like h* were my own child, and, in tim, and speshual, when he git hi**elf a wife, I iha'.l count on hii rr-flii:' hiattlf awordin' to hi* talon*, whioh, jast betwix mi aad you, to t> "'> fnrder, he's got a plenty, more than aay ona man's iheer, when we have theexpennoe to go along with 'em." Unlike *i were thcsa two, a friendship amounting to affection united them. The abesno* of everything like envy in Mr. Swinger, iusttad the bounding pride ha felt in Ilinry'i superior gifti, and bit eugerneea to help in inch employment nine believed oulil develop and exhibit them to belt advantage ; on the other tide, the yuaag iimu's rmly performance ot every service asiigned, his confidence in the iln^li) minded integrity with whioh Mr. Swinger deported himself toward him, bound them, in not og time, closely and fondly. In ipite of iHgnrivral tlernneia of mannerandapeeoh, Mr. H winger bad much softness of spirit and considerable humor. The submission of a (inner or any other kind of enemy would melt hii ire to tenderness instantly. Ho oould till a joke wilh excellent effect, and he would do ao even when himself wai tin 1 butt of it* ridioala, and hii delight at mob rebearaal wai equal to hii hearers' in tba laughter thna provoked. He believed, and he so asiored tbo young preacher often, that he oonld never make important con- tinued lieu Iway in hi* profession ai long ai he remained lingle. His talki upon the nbjeat diloovered *ome romance in his being. (To b* Continued I. Young Lawyer* Cu-hln( On. A yoang lawyer who comes to a big oily to make hit fortune mnat first make him- self known. Without acquaintance* he might as well try to manage a oomio opera company on a desert island as to get oatis of a desirable kind. The pieoa of advioa that i* first given the young lawyer by the older heada when he come* to Hi. Loui* is, Make yourself known I" There are dif- ferent ways of doing this. Borne yoang fellows, if they have money, plunge into sooiety the very first thing. That's a good thing in iis way, but I do not believe that il pays in the long ran. Other* join secret orders, attend meeting* regularly, and in a faw wuek* kuow several hundred people by lii and name. That i* one of th* beat plana, and a very popnlar one. It MIU are familiar with the secret orga.ni/.atioa* of the oily, ja*t think how many of their ottiiiars are lawyer*. Another plan whiuli i* employed with gooi reauktj by many is to take board in down town hotel, and apend a great part of the time, out of oflioe hours, iu the rotunda, in-run ; stranger* and talking. One keep* himaelf in touch wilh Dil the newa tli.a way, and make, valuable acquaintance! The yoang lawyer who is fortunate enough to get a desk in tli> olli ,< of somo establishnd attorney, whose friend* and client* he meets, is in the bett position of them all, and will ptobably b'uia making money sooner than any of them. If, with this advantage, he will also pat into execution one of i in i .- other plans, ha will go ahead rapidly. One of Tin* in St. Loui* Qlnbe- MONEY IN STAMPS. Nona* rmu Oellretloa* sls>4e by Knlh 11 aliastlc CuuDolsscor*. Six years ago a baaiaeaa man in this city, who had plenty of money, determined to collect a magnificent assortment of foreign postsge alampa. For six yeara he ha* done little blse than pursue thil oonapatioo. He became connected with ali th* leading dealers in the worli, and left with them orders to tecare rare varieties at any prioe. He has already expended |25 000, and had LOW a collection of about 1-t 000 stampi. This may include all the " Ddboii^aa," ai there are about 8 000 of lham in existence. Ojoaaionally yoo read, aad so do I, of post- age stamp collections coilainini milliocs of different stamps. Bach things are myths, unless they coniiit of in- numerable duplicates. Perhaps deal- trj and advanced oolleotora poniid^r the collection of M. Ferrari, ion of the Uuobea* of Gtlatea, the fine*! collection of postage stamps in the world. Il U said to outrank even the famous Rothaohild collection. " The Ferrari collection ii worth {250,000, and it* happy owner employs a well-educated secretary who doe* nothiag whatever bat attend to it. Thil secretary clauine* and pasts* the atampa, and cor responds with all the leading dealers of the world, endeavoring to obtain what c il lectori call " unobtainable!." The stamp dealers frequently obtain specimens of rare stamp* in queer wayi. Not IOIM ago a bookkeeper employed by a Philadelphia merchant entered the office of the firm of which Mr. Bane* il a member, and throw- ing a stamp on the counter asked whether it a* worth anything. Thia wa* one of the tint stamps isined by the oily of Balti- more many yean ago, and the bookkeeper laid he htd found it on a letter of an old correspondent of the firm for whioh he worked Apparently th* man did not thiak the itaap would bring more than 50 oent* or a dollar. You can judge ot hi* amazement, therefore, when be waa offered a sum very far beyond this, and which seemed to him fabulous. He parted with the stamp gladly, ani timed out of the office as if ha were afraid the money would be asked back. Several day* later this stamp wai *old for 9200. One of the most famoo* colleotori of lha world ii Mr. Tapling, an English member of Parliament. Ho lives at Dalwioh, not far from London. Hi* collection, which u valued at 1400,000, ii moantcd oa cardboard and includes a long list of what connoisseurs oall the " unobtainable!) " Dozen* and dozens of Mr. Tapling'* itnmps are worth from 9100 to 1150 apiece. Several week* ago a very small boy who has been selling iiampi at intervals to a 1 >ral dealer called upon him wilh a United rjtatea itamp I think it wa* one uf the old " 80 cant* " and asked bow much it was worth. This was a stamp wbioh sell* readily for $10. But th* lad had never reoiivei more than 5 or 6 oenti apieoe for hi* stamps before, and the dealer wai afraid of frightening him at fint by mentioning a high value, *o he told the boy " II wa* a mighty good stamp." Than oflaring K for it, he asked the lad whether he would **ll it at that flgare. The boy became soared, picked up the stamp, ran away and ha* nevsr returned. He proba- bly has an idea that it worth ii a fabuloui am. Philadelphia Netet. Public M. a In WMhlnctan Wbu Were Horn Under the llrUlsh rUf. 1 1 'rod Psrrv Powers iu Chicago America ' There are four native* of England in Congresi, and they are exactly divided between the two house* and the two partie*. Benator JontH. of Nevada, Uepoblican, and Henaior 1'asoo, of Florida, Democrat ; Keprtnjnlalive Crisp, of Georgia, Demo- oral, and Representative UreenhaUje, ot Massachusetts. Republican, were born in England, bat Mr. Crisp'* parents were only viaiiiug in Sheffield when he was born there ; he doca not tell us, however, whether they were Amerioani, or from some other town in England. They brought the young itateaman hare when he was under a year old. Benator Pasoo wa* brought to Maaaaohaseti* when quite youog, and wai educated at Harvard. Senator Jane* was brought to thii country by his parent* when he wa* leu than a year old, and Mr. Ureenhalge wa* brought here early in childhood. Scotland ha* furnished ui more member! ot thii Congress than any other foreign country. (Senator Beck, ot Kentucky, and Represent- atives Henderson and K-rr, of Iowa, and Karqnhar and Laidlaw. of New York, were born in the land of Born* an.i oatmeal. Benator Book and Mr. Farqnhar received academic education* before coming to thii country. Col. Henderson name to this country at the age of six, and Mr. Korr name hers ona year later. Mr. Laidlaw wa* a dozen yeari old when his parenti brought him to the Uuited States- It >land. fruitful mother of politician!, sendi only foar of her offspring to this Congresi. Mr. MoAdoo, of Naw Jersey, is one of the youngest mi uiber* ot the House. Ho is only thirty six -\d 1* serving bis fourth tarm iu C mgreis. Messrs. Claooey, Wiley and Quinn are new members. Mr. Wiley was only four yearn old when hia parents brought him, *>nd Mr. Clanoey waa brought here in childhood, bat Mr. (jainn was twenty-five or more when ho oauie, and *o far a* tli j biographies in the Congressional Directory inform tit he is the only man in this Cougre** who required naturalisation. Mr. Clnnie, of California, was born iu Newfoundland of Matiacliuaetts parents temporarily residing there. Mr. Uront, of Vermont, wa* bom in the Provinoa, of (jnebao, of parent* temporarily residing mere. Mr. Connell, of Nebraska, waa boru in Canada; Henaior McMillan, of Mtrhi- gan, in Ontario ; Mr. Blephanion, of Win- conain, in New Brunswick, and Mr. Caine, the Mormon delegate, wat born In the Isle of Man and came to this country at the age ot seventeen. Thn deiarlption ' a mining man whioh waa sent to the Culumbn* ((>) police headquarters contained the statement that ha wa* 05 year* old and small for hi* age. -The monae in hi* bole I* cafe beyond a purr-adventure. 11 What I* tweeter than to have a friend you oan trait ? " saked Bawkina. " To have i a friend who will trust you," replied Uaw- j _ BJghi , nd lMri wlu Mm pay Mfw klM - of doty. The iiu.t of Travel. If yon have been travelling any distance on the oars don't waah your faoe iu cold water the moment jon reach a waahstaud. If yon want to remove all trace ot dust and irooke rub yonr faoe well with vaseline or oold "u am, and wipe il off on a dry towel. Th* towel after the wiping will show you where the dirt ha* gone. Then you may wash yonr faoe In hot water if you will. There is nothing like hot, really hot, water for the complexion. It keepi not only o'ean, but clear. Button Travtlur TH*J HI-MAN j;HC. Some InrMffit. whleh Go to Hhow Its Wonderful ladiuae* Over Mu. It ia laid by those who are competent to judge that an Englishman's voice indicate* almost infallibly the social stsuimg of it* possessor. Shakespeare call* a " soft, gentle and low " voi< an " excellent thing in woman," aad another observer, with a happy knack at phrasing, says : A woman should never rai*e her voioe above the singing of a kettle"; while another exclaim*, Lei no one sty it is a mailer ot indifference what song is auug by a child'* cradle. It sounds through the whole life." i'nere was a gre it thrill ia a story that went the roauds of the pspirs soone year* ago because of its truthfulness to nature. A. brave New York fireman wai climbing a ladder uuon a blazing houv, striving to reaohacbild who atroi in the window of the fourth story. Toe smoke beoamt to blinding aad the heat io unendurable thai the intrepid man wavered aad paased. A shudder ran through tbs crowd, till an iuipired voioe called cut, " Caeer him!" Instantly the heavens were reel with a elioul of pauionate enlhuiiaam that bora the linking fireman upward on its breath, and the fainting child was soon in it* mother's arm*. We recall ano'.her instance : On tbe night of the ever to be deplored 15ih of July, 1-J.i. lire broke out in the venerated batilica of Bt. Paul, in Rome. The terrified and lamenting populace gathered from all quarter* around the (eared edifice, which had been filled from very early times with the most venerated religions relics, as wall a* M ith the richest treasures of art. Paralyzed with fear and grief, the people stood io helpless awe, when a clarion vuioa rang out. " nave the arch, the gift cf the fifth to the nineteenth century !" The cry acted like au inipi ration npon the crowd; every arm felt tbe ihrill, aad tbe arch wa* aved. A slill familiar instance of the power of the voice over a crowd i* perhap* that which occurred at the raiting of an obelisk in Rome, many years ago. For a long time no one could b-> found willing to attempt tbe work, but al luixth an architect, Do- manioo Fontana, devised machinery by which to accomplish it. I he risk wa* great. If the enterprise bhoald miicarry, and tbe obelisk, partly raised, should fall to the earth, it might cause the death of hundreds, beside the destruction of th* uiu luaieut. A huge orowd assembled to watch th* operation. To prevent confuaion, an edict had been issued forbidding any one, on pain of death; to spsak, or even make any noise. The signal* to work and rest were to be given by the soucd of trumpet*. The silence of death reigned over th* vait concourse as the first signal aonnded. and the machines began t j work, and the levers to creak and beiid under the great pressure. Tbe obelisk rose steadily, surely. At first easily , thsn with greater and greater dittL-uliy, until it wa* within a few line* ot the perpen- dicular. Men and beaat* exerted themselve* to the utmost, but the cables refused to work farther. It was a moment uf despair. All seemed lost, when a brave sailor boy, perched aloft, risked his life and all by calling out in the dead silenoe, " Wet the rop:s !'' Ihe word wa* an inspiration. Tb* architect and master workmen saw it at once. As if the voioe of the lailor boy had electrified them, they wrt the ropes, which contracted, an i the obelisk was raised to the upright position il ha* held ever since. Il U needless to add that the prayer* of th* people prooored tbe pardou ot the sailor. r>'uiY Companion. Stimulant* Between Steal*. Although all person! who indulge io alco- holic stimulants well within the margin of actual drunkenness xpeak of themaelve* aa moderate drinkers, there are two special classes of them which bear no resemblance to each other ex jepi in the solitary oiroans- Itance that they never, at any time, take aurt'uienl to intoxicate themselves. The one olaaa is that which only uarlake* of stimulants while eating ; th* other ia- dalge* in them between meal time*. To the latter habit i* applied, in this country, the title of nipping, while in the eait it i* spoken of a* " pegging." And this is th* most pernicious of all form* ot drinking, from the fact that stimulants taken without at the *ame time partaking ot food, though only imbibed in small quantitiea at a time, have moit deleterioui e fleet* on the inter- nal organi. A man who habitually in dnlgei in a lingle glaa* cf sherry in th* forenoon, a brandy and soda in the after- noon, and a K!< of whiskey-and-water ia toe course of the evening doe* far more injury to his.oonstilation than one who par- take* of a larger quantity ot alcoholie aiunulaiit i at meal time*. I'upular Sctenes Monthly. M aaurvmraU of Ui-t Lakes. The greatest length of Ltka Superior i* S3S miles ; it* greatest breadth ia 160 mile* ; mean depih, 688 feet ; elevation, H27 feet . area. N-' 000 square mile*. The greateit langth of Lake Michigan U 300 mile* ; its greatest breadth, 108 mile* ; mean depth, C>'.K) feet ; elevation, 506 feet ; area, 23.000 square milea. The groata** length of Lake Huron ia 300 mils* ; it* :r,'at**t breadth, (>0 mile* ; mean depth, 600 fact , elevation, 374 feet ; area, 30,000 square in. la* The greateal length of Lake Eria i i '250 mile* ; its greatest breadth, 80 mile* ; mean depth, 84 feet , elevation, Ml feet ; area, 6,000 square mile*. The greatest length of Lake O.itirio i* ISO mile* ; it* grt>ate*t bro%dth ia 65 milai , ia m -au depth i* 500 feet ; elevation, 361 feat ; area. f> 000 square miles. St. Lonii St. public. Hoth suii..i rnim Uely. " My business ia suffering from delayed mails," remarked Uauam. ' Delayed male* are very annoying," as- sented hia wife, aeverely. " I waited for one last uight till about 1 o'clock." tll; Beat. " Here's something interesting," said the exchange editor to the paragraphic srf. " Tli y hung a newspaper man out Wait for something he wrote." " Well." said the P. 8., war ly.V'hehad the latiifaotion ot getting the noose ex- clusive." Buffalo Bill recently climbed Mount \ esuvius. He was pleased with th* crater.