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YOUNG POLKP. Baby's First Prayer. n meekly V muck i UK imtient mamma ; til 'ma lookH up to her ''ather . l'tarmiji(ly Imping " Tah, tali. Tin. ii the whole <>( her worship : Yet Ho who promised to bear Wee little liuiih* on 111* IXMOIII L -tcnM to baby '-I tint prayer fiw.'ot little picture of heaven ! Vail did the ().! Mai.<-r nay. "Thry m nut be like little children v :.<> won id my Father obey." Ba iy kno w noUi inst of dou Mine. [lark unbelief ana despair; All these *ho leavee to grown people. llaby known only her prayer. Sc let il b<-. frarioiiH Father. All through her life's blamed day : When clours and il&rkneiw opprai* her. Teach nor, great Teacher, to pray. T>nder:y lead and protert iier Draw her with fatherly lore. 5: aie her both perfect ami holy. Pit for the mansion** above. TEE MOOH FAIRY BY PAYK1K. One beautiful afternoon in May the two children of the old sexton wandered out into the forest in kearcli of rote* and violeU which were blooming in such profusion. The child- ren Walked hand in hand among the flower* and grasses, and not until the sun had sunk behind the hill did they think of returning home. Lorle, who WM two years older than her brother, Walter, now urged that they seek the path, and hasten to their father, who would be watching for them ; but the darkness came so rapidly that the children oon found themselves overtaken by night and had no light to guide them to the path. Kur several hour* Lorle, holding f *st to her brother's hand, ran hither and thither in the dark forest, always hoping to nee the lights in the village. But, although they called ronticually, they received no answer, except the hooting of the owls. Finally, Walter declared that he was too tired to take another step, and begged his sister to rest for a few moments. The children sat down under an old pine tree, and almost immedi- ately were fast asleep. When Lorle awoke the full moon was shining in her face, and, springing up, she cried: "Come, Walter, the moon is so bright that we can easily find oar way home." The sleepy boy slowly opened his eyes, and then said : "(), sister, look, there are teiM coming down from the moon. " Thinking that her brother was not folly awake, Lorle paid little heed to his words ; but the boy continued : " Look, Lorle, quick, there comes a fairy, I am sure." Lorle looked in the direction her brother pointed, and there, leading up to the moon, was a stairway made of moonbeams, and down the steps came the figure of a beauti- ful fair)', dressed in a silvery white ilreM, anil wearing upon her head a tiny crown set with jewel*. The fairy glided down the airy stairway, walkexl several steps inio the forest, gathered a few flowers, and then re- turned as she had come. " Let us follow her," whispered Walter, and already he had his foot on the tirsl step ; but at that moment the sexton's voice wa* heard calling, " Lorle ' Walter '" and IB a short time the children were safe at home The next evening, when the moon hone down upon the little cottage where the old sexton lived, Walter whispered to hi* sister . " Lorle, I am going into the forest to find the fairy. " " Oh, \Vallir, do not do that," said hi* nl. r " ti HIM would not allow it, and the Fairy may be wickeclaud cruel, and might apt let you relu.il to us.' The boy made no i eply to those word* ; but silently <letrmml thU he would seek the silver stairway, lead! Jig to the moon. That night I . >rl did cot fill asleep as read- ily as usual. She felt ai xioui about her brother, and several times crept to >is bed ide to see if he were sleeping. But the tay lay so still that the kind sister sjoon forgot her fears, and slept quietly until morning. When she awakened the first sound she heard was her father calling for Walter, and when no answer was made to the call Lorle felt sure that her brother had gone in search of the Fairy, who lived in the moon. And this indeed was the case. Little Walter was nowhere to be found ; and those, who at tint laughed about Lorle i story of the stairs leading to the moon, were now forced to think that the sexton's son had sought the home of the Fairy, and either forgotten hi* friends, or was unable to return to them. The seiton and hi* daughter were sorely grieved over the lose of little Walter, and foi dayn continued their March for htm ; but Hn.i'iiv thinking that he was lo*t, they gave p all hope of seeing him again. Mie night, when the sexton went an usua tu tlii- stank to nii^ 'he bell, Lorle, beinf afraid tu stay alone in the house, stole after her father, intending to wait for him in thi churchyard. An the little girl sat in the hadow of the great building she saw small, white figure g'idc before her ant hasten toward the forest. "That i* the moon Fairy," thought Lorle ; " I must overtake her and learn where Walter is." The little girl quickly followed the white figure, and just as the Fairy was entering the forest Lorle seized her dress* and cried : ' I'lt-ase, good Fairy, tell me where my brother i* P The Fairy turned around but there was no kindly *mile on her beautiful face, and her fair brow was drawn by an angry frown. "How do I know where your brother is* ' she asked. He went in search of your silver stair- way,' replied Lorle, " and be never came ln k. 1 am sufe that you know where he V* In your brother that great awkward boy who ran up my steps and broke them nearly nil :" asked the Fairy. " Then he deserves to be where he is ; but if you want to take him home you have niy permission to do so. First, you must help me gather some dowers. " ' Havo you no dowers in the moou *" Mked Lorle. " No," w* the reply ; " nor trees, nor grass, and it is cold, very cold there." When a large bunch | (lowers had been gathered the fairy said : Since your brother broke my stop*, II sve to rii shuiue. " Then she cried: " Come, Condo, 1 am wait- ing for you. " And immediately a large bird with red feathers and green eyea cams flying through the .i't "Mow, Condo, "said the fairy, "after you have tajken me home, I want yew to tatura fer tlste litUs girl " The bird grumbled, and declared that wa* too much work for one night ; but did not dare to disobey the Fairy, and in a short time Lorle, holding fast to (Jondo's red feather*, was speeding through the air. Up above the forest she went, and before she hsxi reached the end of her journey she bad seen many wonderful sights. At the head of the stairway, along which Lorle had seen the many steps broken by Walter's swift tread, the Fairy wa* waiting to conduct the little girl to her brother. K very where was snow and ice, anil Lorle in her thin summer dress shivered with cold. But the many faine* who were dancing about in the snow seemed to delight in the icy wind.-., and their merry laugh rang out sweet and clear. On one of the white marble steps, leading to the fairy palace, sat Walter, wrapped in a i navy fur coat. At the sight of his sister, sprang up, crying : " Lorle, Lorle, how glad I am that yon hare come. I wanted to ;o home ; but did not know the way. It is o cold here, and all the fairies laugh at and mock me, because I broke the moonbeam steps." " Never mind, little brother " said Lorle, ' I have come for yon, aud you shall go at once to father, who will be greatly rejoiced to see you again. " But," interrupted the Fairy, " how are 'o vi to get away from here ' That rude boy iroke the step*, and my bird does not answer to everyone's call." And now Lorle was incited distressed ; for she knew how her father would miss both us children. Day alter day passed, and till the brother and sister found no way to eava the fairy palace, which, with all its Muuity, was not so dar to them as that ittle home in the sliadow of the great church. One evening a* Lorle and Walter were walking in front of the palace, and talking sadly of their home, a fairy came to them, and laid : " I am sorry that you are so unhappy here. If you will send me a bunch of flower* every night by Condo, I shall tell rou how you may get homo. " The children glad y promised to send the Sowers, and theu the fairy said : " Here i* tiny silver bell. If you ring this, Condo will oome and take you down the broken stairway into the forest." Lorle took the bell and rang it. Immedi- ately the large bird appeared, and first it carried Walter down to the forest and then return^ for Lorle. The children quickly ran home, where the father received them with tears of joy, and all '.us grief was for- rotten. The children r jmembered their promise to he little fairy, who had been so kind to .hem. And every day they gathered large bunches of the sweetest flowers, and in the evening carried them to the forest, where they rang the uilver bell, and Condo, who answered the <rall, flew away laden with lies, roees and violets, and carried them to the cold.oold moon where only ice and snow are to be found. A GHASTLY OEBEMOHT. Nur> In* s aVsel lilac ef Fruee Thai I Istsirr ts steady. The service performed at Paris in the Jhapelle Kspiatorie in memory of the death on the scaffold of King Louis XVI. and Queen Mary Antoinette a service attended by all the leaders of the royalist party in France recall* to mind the queer ceremo- which used to be customary at the death of a French King. It certainly ha* something ghastly about it, strongly savor- ing of the Middle Age* and tliuir grewsome ways. The embalmed corpse of the de- ceased sovereign remained lying in state at the church of the Abbey of Si. Dennis for 40 days, and it was only on the 41st day that it was carried to the vault. During that entire time the court ceremonies were carried on within the abbey M though the monarch were still alive. The royal table was set night and morning in the refectory, and the grand m.wter of the ceremonies, when dinner was brought up, would pro- ceed, dressed ill full uniform, to the hall where the corp*e lay rigid and cold on the parade bed, aud with a low obeisance would say : " Sire, the dinner is served according to your majesty's orders." A chamber!, un standing Iwmdu the corps* would then answer with great dignity " His Majesty ha* been graciously pleased (o 'line already and desires to remain un- disturbed." Whereupon the grand mauler would back out aud order dinner to be removed from the refectory. Why an Elephant's Heck is Short The reason of the shortness of the ele* phant's neck is, that the hoad of the animal i.s so heavy that were it placed at the end of a neck of a length proportionate to the di- mensions of that organ in other animals, an almost incalculable amount of muscular force would be in linns r]' to elevate and sustain it. The almost total absence of a neck obviate* the difficulty, and the trunk serves as a substitute. The uses and advantages of a long neck, peculiarly exemplified in the jirsffe, which contains only the same number of vertebral articulations as in the elephant, ale in the latter supplied by the trunk or proboscis, by which he is enabled to carry Food to his mouth and to drink by suction. This curious organ contains a vast number il small muscles variously interlaced, is extremely flexible, endowed with the most exquisite sensibility, and the utmost diver- sity of motion, and compvnaale* amply for the absence of a long neck. A Royal Commission of which Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, M. P., i* chairman, has been appointed to enquire into the effcot of coal- dust in colliery explosions. The emigration returns for January show a total of 11,014, as against 10,38.'< in the same month of the previous year. Of these 3H4o were Kuglish, 917 Scots, and 1059 Irish. A curious white frog was exhibited in London recently. It was a full-grown apoci- iii MI of the ordinary kind, but unique a* to color, while ite brilliant ruby eye* v rimmeil with gold. \ ', :n u i.,il>le fatality wa* reported to the liUkUi'u 01 oner on Saturday. The in tan i su. i vi. .lohn Nicholson, of Hauling den. n iy m,; '" its cradle, when bin little brother, aged two and a half years, heated a piece of wire m the fire and burned the baby on the left arm with it. The scar ws* not particularly noticed for some tune after- wards, but erysipelas set in and the baby died HOW HENRY WAS CAPTURED. Details of the Arrest of the Defaul- ting Chatiiamite. r ef ike 4'lrvrrrsl Fivers mt strlMilve Werk KB*WH ! n..n> tmr* u>.uo Havnd for Ikr sUab Hew Hiiprrtiuru- <"' k.-liTi lrackr.1 Ikr I nuRillnn rat-Hive Perhaps one of the cleverest piece* of modern detective wurk is that w ioh Sujer- intendant Kellert of thePinkerion Ueteclive Agency has just placed to Ins credit in con- nection with the recently celebrated Dailies N Henry defalcation from Chatham, Out. Mr. Kellerl has just arrived in Montreal from the City of Mexico, where he effected the arrest of Henry. In December last the whole of Canada was startled by the news that James N. Henry, for many years one of the leading and most highly respected produce merchants of Chatham, Out., h*d skipped from the country after securing about $30,000 from the Chatham branch of the Bank of Montreal. The Bank communi- cated with the Matt Pinkertou Detective Agency of Chicago. Detective Kellert at once left for Chatham. Upon arriving he succeeded in getting a hold of some en- velope* which bore the post mark of the City of Mexico, and which he recognised to be in the handwriting of Henry. They visit ed the Hotel Jardin, the most luxurious hotel in Mexico, and there fouud that Henry had been stopping at this place some two weeks previous, out here the clue ended. Their next turn was in the direction of the Bank of London. Here they obtained a clue which cleverly worked, made known Henry 'a hiding place aud hi* ultimate arrest. The man left his name as W. H. Orr and gave hi* address. It was then arranged to notify Orr that his money wa* ready for him. Orr came, presented himself at the bank, with a face beaming with smiles, but little did he know that behind the counter with the paying teller stood Detective Kellert, who was so soon to have him and his confederates in the clutches of the law. The bank authorities told Orr that Henry's receipt would be necessary before they could hand over the money. Orr replied that thi* would be impossible as Henry had left tin; city for parts unknown. But the bank insisted on getting the receipt and Orr left very much chagrined. Hi* movements were shadowed aud he wa* followed to a quaint old building, run a* a soap manufactory, where he was joined by two other men who afterwards turned out to IM hi* brothers. They engaged in an animated discussion for a few minutes, when Orr hastened back to the bank and said he could not find Henry and that it was impossible to get a clue to his whereabout*. From hi* manner the officers knew he wa* lying and at once placed him under arrest. He wa* taken to the balem or prison, and thrown into a cell, where he wa* told he would have to remain till he divulged the whereabout* of Henry. Orr theu sal down and wrote the following note to hi* two brol her* : Dear Brother -Show ib offlcerx where Henry bt.'oa I am In the balem and can't get out till he in produced. (Hlgned) WILLIAM. The note was entrusted to an officer who conveyed it to',the brothers, who treated it with silent contempt. They were then arrest- ed and treated as their brother was, but still they refused to give Henry away. Baffled here, Detective Kellert resolved to go to th* factory, and accompanied by the officer* he visited the place. The janitor wa* in at tendance and threatening him with the same faU) that had met hi* employer*, tf hi THE IBI8H WIDOW. rs. Maa-eeflB Is tlnltrd by a li. ii,,i :, r Whe tats Urr TklnklKf. " Is that yurself, Mrs. Mcljlaugerty!" "PaixViUnowaneUe, Mrs. Magoogin." " Tlnu id'* glad Oi am to s*e ye, me frmd. " Me, too, Mrs. Magoogin." Do ye know f whut Oi ve been doin' fur the laaht three days, Mrs, Mctilaggrrty r" Throtrt V id i.ike a bether man nor me to make that guess. Mm. Magoo^in. Make no iuurri-1 av id. Tell iz now I what have ye been doin', Mrs. Magoogin '" " O've been thinkiu' said the widow, as- suming a cogitative attitude, " an', be hiv ins, Oi'm thiukiu' still, and <>od knows but mebbe Oi'll keep an thinkin' fur a long tonne to come, Mr*. MiHiloggerty. Fwhish- prr, ,ii;rah, au' Oi'll tell ye bow id i*. Lasht Winoday noiglit, jishtaftrr Oi'd suit my b'y Tammy out fur a pint av beer, fwhat hap pins but a knock comes to the dure an' in walks a shlick lukin' young man wid a cane undherhisoxthuriui'anoighcaroliiigh'tloike my Dinny -nst his sowl 1 usheu to wear uvry St. Pathrick's Day in th' year an' oh, my ! but a foine lukin' shtrip av a man he was in the same hoighhat an' his long-tailed Sunda' coat hangup down to the calves av his legs. Well, com in' back to our buttons, as they *cz in the shtory bukes, in pranced this young jood, Oi tuk him to be at fusht glance, an' takin' atf hi* hingh hat, bowed as low an' byootiful to mcsel' as atf Oi war the woife av Paddy Divver ur Tim Campbell. "Mrs. Magoogin, Oi shuypoee ?' sez he. " Ye've guessed id the fusht tonne, me bucko, 1 ser Oi. ' Oi'm glad that ye're glad, for Oi'm soort av glad meself, me ahprig av arishtocrsy' sex Oi. ' Well,' ser., 'Oikuni to ax a kushtion,' sez he. 'Fire away wid id,' se/. Oi. ' Thank ye, aez' he. ' Oh don't mention id, avourneen, </ Oi' 'Well Mrs. Magoogin,' sez he, saitin' himsel' on thi' ind *v the supper table, ' Oi repriiint th' Hard Times noo* paper, an' id sint me, ' *ez he, ' to ax ye quoitely an' ai*ily an' widout burtin' yer feelin's,' sez he, 'how ye'd shpind tin t liiniian' dollars a year aff ye'd had id ?' sez he. ' But Oi haven't id, me frmd, sez Oi. ' But aff ye did have id ?' sez he. ' Oi'd not shpind id at all," sez Oi ; ' not at all or,' sez Oi. ' Thank ye, an gud day ma'am,' sez he. " An' is that all ?' sez Oi. " That's all, ma'am," sez he, an' wid that he up an' wmt out th' dure. Divil a wan av me known fwhat the repoorter mint, be fwat he -.cd, an' upon me wurnid, belave me fwhether ur no, Mrs. McUlaggerty, id's kept me thinkin' uver since. How do Oi know but fwhat some wan has gonu an' left me a forchin toahpind, an' Oi wa* that bally GIVING EEA308 TO AH IDIOT. a i mi.r. *ksUl ie Lrl ib* Brala avr t ....,, t sVcpaad. Two weeks ago there camr to the Cincin- nati hospital a |ioor woman, i ho told a story pitiful indeed. She was -he mot her ol two children, both girls. One of tliene, she aai 1, was 16 yean old ami '.he other n little child of 4 years. The elder daughter hud IH-HI a hopeless idiot since chilitnood, and now the terrified mother wan convinced her baby, too, had fallen under a cursr. The little one had never acted like other children, had never pluyud or prattled in her infancy, aud now, though t years old, she could not speak a wordT The mother came to beg the help and interest of the hospital authorities ami her pathetic appeal wan not made :u vain. Though it <s not the custom of the hospital to receive cuses of idiocy, yet the peculiar circumstances of tins poor woman's sorrow, and the suspicion that the case might furnish a remarkable disclosure in brain affection* induced the oftieers to promise admittance for the child. Next day the mother return- ed with a hopeful heart. By her side wa* her little girl, just toddling out of in- fancy. Her features were regular, almost pretty, and her little figure strong and well formed. But the sail story of her life was written plainly in her face. No intelligence was there ; no light in the eyes ; none of the bright joy of loving, learning childhood. The little patient was taken to the surgical ward, and for the next ten days she was the subject of the most careful study by the res- ident and visiting physicians. It was dis- covered that the cause of her mental im- pairment was the premature ousiticatiou of the several bones of the skull, thus confining the brain in too small a space and preventing it* development. Then the operation hinted at wa* determined upon, the, the purpose being simply to remove a strip of bone from the skull, thus allowing expansion, just a* one would alit a tight sFioe with hi* knife to relieve a tender foot. Yesterday was the day set for the opera- tion ; at 10 o'clock the room was filled with watching physicians. The child knew not the agony of fear. She was as unconscious of the meaning of the strange face* about her and the sharp insturmeuts of the surgeon a* the young lamb led to the slaughter. Even idiocy has its condensations. A long, narrow table wa* placed in con- venient light and the child carefully laid upon it. After the mother had iriveu her parting kiss chloroform was administered, and it was not long until all consciousness of pain had vanished. Then the curious doctor* gathered 'round to view *.he bold pro- cedure. The scalp was carefully shaven and thoroughly cleansed viili alcohol and wauney that Oi didn't have th' gumption to , f ax th' noice vourn* man sometW more bichlondc ol mercury solution. I he newly ax th' noice young man somethm' more about the kushtion. Oi wish to gudnii* Oi knew th' gintleman's name an' Oi d sind me daughther Too/.y to talk wid him an' foind out all about id. But, as Oi *>d, me frmd Oi've been thinkiu' an' th' only thing Oi kin think about i* this : Let thim gimme th' in thousand a year an' aff Oi don't paryloize h' Aahtors an give th' Vandherbilks th' imjams, ur else Oi'll ait hay an' go out an ie down wid th' goats fur th' resht av me nacheril loifo, Mrs. Mclllaggerty '" permuted in refusing tu tell what he knew a to Henry's whereabout*, he fell on his knees and imploring mercy pointed to door leading to a little room or closet in an unoccupied portion of the building. The officer* went to the door and knocked, get- ting no answer they forced it open, when !<>' before their very eyes crouched under a little cot in the room , on hi* face written the terrible agonies which he suffered, and hi* whole frame trembling like a leaf, was the once respected and princely merchant now a felon hunted to hi* lair He broke completely down and sobbed like a child. " Don't kill me, gentlemen," he exclaimed, when he found words to speak, "I surrender Take me and cart me into prison, I deserve to suffer for what I have done. Don't liand- cuff me, I will go peaceably. " He was taken from the room and thus within '24 hours of hi* arrival in the City of Mexico Detective Kellert had Henry in the prison cells. But the hardest and cleverest piece of work was yet to bo done. No money was found on Henry's person when he was arreated and there was 9.10,000 to account for. In the room was n large cake of soap alraut two feet square. Mr. Kellert peeled off his coat, for the temperature was very high, and set to work with a wire to cut up the cake of sotp. Kellert took from the inside of the cake an envelope containing $1(100 in greenbacks, sent to J. N. Henry by his son in Detroit, to defray preliminary expensea. There re maiued but one thing more and that wa* the waste paper luuket and to this Detective Kellert turned his attention, and after three hours he succeeded from the torn mite* of which he gathered, in piecing up letters from Mrs. Henry, his wire in Detroit, and a telegram which was dated Jan. 9, upon which was the full explanation of where the money could be obtained. The telegram stated that on that date, Jan. 9, fWWO of the money had bce>n nent by the Wells Fargo Express Company from Detroit to the City of Mexico. The parcel arrived the clay fol- lowing this discovery and wa* obtained In Supermtendant Kellert. The let ter showeti that f 10,000 more was in the Banco des National of the city in certificate* left there for collection. Kellert had his man in pnsoi and every dollar of the bank's money re covered. ' The next move was to n before the (iovernor and have Henry committed for extradition, and as nothing more could be donn until the arrival of the extradition pa| i s from Ottawa and being made sure o Henry's safe-keeping until his return to 'In city of Mexico, Mr. Kellert left for Chicago and is now on his way to Ottawa for the necessary papers. The Botanical Hardens at liallarat hav been attacked by the locust plague which has ravished the wheat crops of Victoria causing a loss of I.S.000,000 bushels, ten millions of which were for exportation. Lord Aberdeen, giving evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Com mons on colonisation, said he found the Killainey settlement of Highland crofters in Manitoba wa* a success and might be aal'ely repeated to a larger extent. A Nurse's Experience. I had rather a painful uxperience this morning, winch haunted me aU day. I went to call on k poor consumptive pttient and found she had died suddenly in the night. The scene might have come out of one of Dickens 's novel*. I heard eager voices from the open door n* I climbed the steep stairs, sharpened scalpel was theu applied, and au incision was made clear down to the bone, extending from uear the root of the nose directly backward over the top of the head for a distance of five inches. The edges of the wound were gently held back by re- tractor* so as to expose a large area of the skull. Nuw the trephine, au instru- ment resembling a gimlet, was put to work in one end of this incision aud a cir- cular piece of bone the size of a dime wa* removed, exposing the transparent covering of thu pulsating braui. Now . pair of cut- tiug pliers wete inserted in thin opening and i lie bontt chipped off piece by pieue until an urea live inches long and halt an inch wide had been removed. Thi* part of the operation wan done with the utmost care, for the delicate an-1 important struct tires ill so close proximity might have been wounded by the slightest slip of the instru- ment. After the wound hod Wen thorough- and, stepping in, found the family and some I ly bothedin a a stream of clear, warm water three or four female neighlmrs assembled, and in the midst the poor woman laid out on the bed, dead and stiff and motionless. She was so emaciated that you could hanl- ly discern the body beneath the sheet ; there seemed to be only a head, with the face all altered from the day before, thin and stern and placid. An elderly female, a sort of Mrs. (lamp, volunteered a garrulous account if the death. "She's a beautiful corpse," sha remarked, gloatingly pulling down the sheet for me to .See how nicely she's laid out, nurse. I've had practice at laying out." Then she consulted me in a professional sort of way. Should the corpse remain where it wa*, or did I think the ironing board would be a better place ? "The board is rather short, yoa see,' she added, " and it wouldn't do for her head or her legs to hang over the end, would it now, nurse *" I said, " No, it wouldn't, " and tried to kke appropriate response*, but the stuffy room, the couipiaupiit neighlwrs, an I the the dues were brought neatly loeetherby fine silk stitches and the whole well covered and protected by cotton ami bandage. The child was theu carried Wk to the ward and in the course of an hour rallied from the effect* of the chloroform and displayed no untoward symptom*. It will be several days twfore definite can be ascertained as to the or failure ot this case. At present thing points to a favorable is nythiug succes* every- On a Buffalo's Back, Lester V. (.Jridley, a North Platto, Neb., stockman, related recently the story of a ride he once took on thi back of a buffalo, near Kort Wallace,' Neb. Returning from a hunt alone with the hindquarters of a couplu of young bulls he had killed over his should- er he accident ly ran into the herd again aud was surrounded before he rcali/ml his situa- tion. My dodging in and out almost caused a silent, rigid corpse lying before me, together , la 'j, he continued. " I knew if a panic ' took place among the beasts I would IM trampled to death. I suddenly determined on a uold stroke, and edging up close to a il no " with the utter absence of any sense of the solemnity of death, tilled me with a sicken- ing feeling of disgupt. It was simply hor- rible. All I could do was to impress on them to have the funeral soon (they are certain to keep the corpse a week) and beg the Mrs. Gamp to use her influence with the daughter (who wa* out) on that point. "Certainly, nurse, I am quite of your mind, " answered the (lamp, drawing her- self up and putting herself on a pleasing equality of manner with me, whom she mil- took for a professional mine. A sense ofjtht! grim humor of it all burst over me, uui I "baggy young bull, grabbed hold of the lo hair on his foreshoufders and swung on to his back. The Iwl'.ow that came from the fellow mad" me wish I had not decided on such a risky push for liberty. The bellow- ing was takeu up by the rest of the herd, aud ioon we were flying alc*g at a ten-ilia rate over gulches and uphill and down. I was blinded by the s*ud thrown by the hoofs of the l>easts, but with my eye* closed hung an like grim death. For half an hour the hurried away, feeling that 1 should begin to hel ,| k( , pt ., torntic pace, and during that ' laugh nervously if I remained. But, as 1 have said, the scene has haunted me til day. T'.mpie liar. Talmage says ven by steam. " We camioi go to hea- Husbands who are con time my legs were almost crushed utit of my boots by the crowding animals. " I began to think my time had come. I was so weak 1 could scarcely keep my neat, wos.iboutto let myself fall from the and back of my buffalo when I succeeded in sssssui nusiMuius wno aw i;on- . , , in ho, wator ' will please lake the P -K -''-< \^*, 1 "'TL, 1 . stantly hint. Tom " Come what may, I shall never marry a woman who isn't my superior in tellectually." Jack " I wisli I could get a wife us easy as you can. " i;. Labadie-Lagrave writes in the 1'aria Figaro of recent date as follows "Mr. Kdi.son has arrived at that solid degree of glory where a man's leant utterance* are discovered then that we were running par- allel with the railroad track, and as the bank was high and steep the animals had not ventured to climb the incline. The beast I was riding was the closest to the track, mil I knew if I reached the top of the em- bankment I would IHI safe. I dragged my- self together the best 1 could aud prepared for a spring. 1 got my feet on hu back and jumped for the embankment. I leaped at gathered up appreciatively by stenographer*. I | )e right tune, for the movement of th* The illustrious ii.vontor would have had no young bull's Uxly sent me flying half way need to create thu phonograph in order to uptho l>ank, mid tlicre. 1 was.safem thosamf. secure for hi words a prolonged reverber- ation iu history. There is much to be glean- ed from the conversations of which a con- tributor to Harper's Maga/.ine ha* nmde note. Mr. Edison's table-talk is much more interesting than tho table-talk of Monsieur Von Bismarck. Reading the dull farrago of gossip compiled by Mr. Moril/. Bunch, one would be tempted to doubt the genius of the Chancellor, whereas Mr. George Paraons Lathrop's article justifies the universal ad- miration which the most fertile inventor of the century excite* among his fellow-citi- For live weeks afterwards I wa* confined to my livil. " Mrs. Brown" I don't halt like Uialfriend ol yours that fellow Smith." Mr. Brown -" Do you think yon are n very god judge of men, my dear ?" Mrs. Browu (with expression) " 1 Jo not think 1 was," Many such. Ah, maiden uoy and debonair. With visage like the sainted. 1 fear you're not .se-taJf so fair A* I have seen y>w ]> nm*d.