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SDNSTRUCK. BT i.aXHUlK VANXIIJ.B flXN. CHAPTKH I. .Hullo ! had you thai time you blood tucking wretch." " I'uig lug-ing nm-am-nm I" " Mi*-d lurii, by Ueorge ! Oh dear ! how 1st it to!" Then silence in the Mark dsrknes* of the AoM- ' cabin of Hi* Maieaty kiux tieorg* 111.'* tloop of war, The jueea, sailing (low- ly among tlie paradise like uUiidfl of the Wmt Indies. Then, pmq-ing-ing again, tbe thrill hum of a mot|uiu>, followed by the tiny trumpet* ol two more of the virulent insects, one m a liigher, the other in a lower pitch than the first heard. " Hang >m ! I believe a cloud of the little demon* came on board thii afternxin from that confounded mangrove awanip. -Jack!" No answer. " Jauk !" Still 10 reply. " Jack ! Why don't you (peak ! " I'll peak to aoine purpose directly," ai<l another voice. " Why can't you let a man deep?" " I'll let you Mleep, if they'll let me deep; but I don't tee any fun in tailing about here all night while you are muring. " Well, what do you want ! " "To talk." " And 1 want to ileep. Cood night." " 1 aay, don't be selfish, .lack. 1* it near morning ?" " No ; we haven't been down an hour." 'I aay though, do you smell rooking!" "Kh! No Why!" " Beeauae 1 feel ai if I were being tewed." " llother ! liood-night." " Pretty sort of a messmate you are. I with to goodness the mosnuitoes worried you ai they do me.- -I aay, jack." No answer. " Lieutenant John Man ton !" " l.ieiiti-nnnt William liurni.the heat down here is terrific. I am utterly wearied out, and eo sleepy 1 can hardly move ; but if you aay another word to me, I'll get up and doiiae you.' ' Will you! I to do thtre't \ gooil fel- low I (Jet one of the men to dip a freih l>u< ket of water for you. Oh, joyful newt '" (Jraun -H ' A dull heavy ihock which made tho slw.p Mirer, and a long low grindini; uoise that had but one meaning in ihoM sea*, and made tin two young othcern leap (rum their ooU and begin hurrying ou a few clolhei, u over a bus* uf excited cr.es. ordera, and the nonw nf hurrying feet, came the roll of tho drum, hea'.mg to quarter* : while whn the young men reached the deck, it WM to pan the drummer making the parchment throb ' 'Morning, Nep. <Jood dog then,' cried Ren re. There wai a short answering hark, Uie rattle of the chain again, and a canine tilence a tho girl gazed over the veranda OJ> the wealth of tropic foliage and rlowoi in the great garden which surrounded the bouse and whote blossom* were still drenched with the heavy night dew. As she stood there, her little white band* were buy putting the numbing touches to her long fair hair ; while her bright gray eye* sparkled, and a pleasant look of amm* tion came into tier iweet Kngllsh face an she listened to a iweetjy muiical voice in the plant.it ion, a hundred yardiaway, singtn g a weirdly strange ditty, which wan repeated oftlv, line )>y line, lu chorus by a (core or o of voice*. So peculiar and catching was the melody the girl'a li| parted, and quite to herself she to sang the sung, wlioee rather childish Kiiglish word* had been weddvil to the w ild strain that had in all probability been brought over in slave (hip from the writ cout of Africa. "A u'Junolub her rubber when a moon -bine clear.' sang Renee. the air and words having heen familiar to her ear >ioce abe was a liny child, taken by her black uuraedown among the slaves toiling in the cane rows or in the coffee plantation*. Then, after a little busy manipulation of her fair hair : you oactit to feel," (aid i full lips u the girt aid we tried to papa nave " Yea : I suppose it U ; but you cannot tell what I feel/' " 1 kaow what . Kenee, kiaiing the 'rip* t< clung to m-r " Yon kno' were to be like inters, and I be ao dear, always. " " Yea, always : but I cannot help it. I don't know how it U, but I am kick of every- thing." " In a home like thi*, detr !" laid Kenee, reproachtully. " Yen, even in a home like thii," aaid the girl, with the aombre look once moro cloud- ing her handnome face. " I am weary of the flowers ; their acent sickens me. I hate the fruit ; it all teem* to cloy. I hat " Don't fay you hate ua, Joaee, deareit," cried Kenee, laying her peachy cheek againit her companion's nf aoft olive. " H.ite you !" cried the girl with a pa* ionate sob. you PEAKL8 Of TRUTH. The blackest Hold need as aa agent to ealighien tits world. Cariosity becomes a vice when U is only aii itching to learn what IK amis* respecting others. A wi*e man thinks before he speaks ; but a fool speaks and then thinks of what be has been saying. Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, hut to do what lies clearly at hand. The vrb " to be happy" has neither pre- sent, past nor future, it should be conju- gated in the con-litional. There is nothing which thii age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually and morally, " Nothing could make me hate than thorough ventilation. *The world deali good naturally with good Nothing!" | naturen people, and I never " Nothing, Renee, dear : 1 hate myself." ( misanthrope who quarreled with it " Oh Jonee." whispered Kenee, " how can was he, not it, that was wrong, you talk ao ?" " Because I am half one of a despised h j relllraal-Laae Was Tksjs Ma Petticoat-lane or as it** now named. Mid' dleacx- street was in former years call Hog- lane. Stowe ipeaki of it < a country road, with hedges, bushes, trees, and green field* on either side, where the old Londoner* used to go for a walk " to recreate ans) re fresh their dull spirits in the swoet and wholesome air. " It grew to be a fashionable, aristocratic neighborhood, where magnifi- cent buildings were erected, and swell peo pie resided fora great number of years ; but it gradually declined and was metamor phoeed, like various other parts of the town, into theilateof wretchedness, poverty, dirt and degradation as it u known to-day. Dealers in old clothes, And vagrant bone merchants took possession, and claimed it as their <5wn ; and from the number of female garments of all the colors of the rainbow, in all shapes and forms, and at all prices under a shilling that were hung outside the door* and windows and hawked from stand* in the knew a sulky [street, doubtless arose the appellation of but race. " It ii not true," said Kenee with spirit. " You cannot even aay that of your dead mother. Papa has often told me that she was a beautiful quadroon lady, whom his friend loved ; while you" - I am one who envies the poor black laves." are my dearest sister, and you shall cot apeak like this. But, Josee, ' criej Renee suddenly, " why do you go and talk *> much to old Aunt Miramis a* you do '" The girl started as if she had been stung, but recovering herself, she cried with forced gaiety : " Because the has always been "Josee, dear do get up. " . She looked toward an inner door of her j women who are your father's dainty room a* (he (poke ; but there wa* . You do not, for y m a no reply. " Oh .losee, you tiretome girl, how can you lie sleeping ou such a lovely morning, Joaee, it's nearly breakfast-time. Papa won't like it it you are not down." 'When .1 moon hine clear. ' he sang in her sweet young thrilling voice. " Now for a flower for my hair, and one for dear old Dad." She went to the window again, and retch ed out to where a passion flower trailed up over the broad veranda aud climbed up the jalousies of her own room, spreading a pro- fusion of its blossoms, sll brilliant scarlet, with purpli- markings in the centre : and she was in the act of picking a partly opened bloom, when her lips parted, and she utter- ed a half-suppressed 'Oh !' and stood lean- ing out, gazing at where, on the glassy sea over which faint wreath* of mist still float- ed, lay His Majesty's ship, mot'onleas.with her sails now fmli-l. " Here, quick. Joaee,' he cried. "Come and tee." Almost at the tame moment there was a xtep in the wide passage liiyund the door- anil a bluff cheery voice shouted : " Hi ! girU ! Wake up ' Here't a msn-o'-war close in. Kenee, have you hail the glaai! I had it last in my room to watch the men. See the ship!' ' Yes: I've been looking ac il.'taid Renee, opening her door. "Come and look again, then," aaid the The yuung officer's manner changed, and bluff looking, deeply bronxed man, whore i he sainted the speaker, hurried off, and re crisp fair hair was cut closely to his well- turned to ask their viaitor to come on the wrong Hut calamity is, unhappily, the urual season of reflection, and the pride of men will not often suffer reason to have any cope until it can be no longer of service. A man can no more be a Christian with- out facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier withe ut going to battle, facing the cannon's uiouth, and encountering the enemy in tbe field. Kconomy U the parer.'.of integrity, liber- ty and ease, and the sitter of temperance, cheerfulness and health. Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon that generally in volves her followers in dependence and debt. Self is a wonder, a mystery as deep, may t I'etticoat-lane, which probably at first wa* used in derision as an appropriate nick- name ; and appropriate it (till continue*, notwithstanding tbe rechristeuing of it as Middlesex-street. The tale* and huckster- ing on Sunday morninrt in thi* locality are one of the sights of the queer part of Lon- don lif* and character, and tb<! language heard in every direction it that known a* V id dish. kind to me, 1 suppose." "She ha not, dear;ihe hasalways sneer- ed at you, I know. ' "Oh, then, because they say she is a witch, I suppose. I want to know what is tn come to paa% Rene*. I want my future told." CHAPTRR III. The boat soon reached the side of the sloop, and, after a challenge, its owner was allowed to climb oudrck. whore he wai met by Man ton. " You with to see the captain?" said the latter, in answer to the visitor's demand. " Better send a message, air. He is hardly likely to attend to you now." I want no attention, air," aaid the visi- j tor .tiilhonui vrlv " I am an old sailor. I I saw from my wiudowi the condition your Walklac i iir.nih the Hewers .r Leaden. It U quite possible to walk through the main sewers of London, and the walk can extend over a great number of miles. The wwert of the Metropolis are a* carefully mapped out a* the streeU themselves, and the authorities can find their way about in fet) MOM. Thou shall love thy neighbor i them quite emuly. Curiously enough there a* thyself" i* all that i* required. Selfish- u little that is unpleasant in a descent to ness u the counterfeit, aelf-love is the true coin. Many a fool thinks be love* himself when all wise men see that he is acting as if he hated luirselt. Friendship is one of the greatest boon* that life can have. Aa Bacon says, " it re doublet h joys and cutteth grief in halves." Rut where brotherhood i* united with it it attains a still richer result; for then it has a world of memories and early associations in common the mutual love of the same hon- ored parents, the recollections nf the same beloved home and of past scenes vividly im pressed on tbe mind* of both, in which no however dear can possibly underground London. The fiisssges are egg shaped, and built of glazed white brick, and quite elean. The iwarnis of rats are diminishing, and the "toshers," who made a living by scavenging mile after mile of tbe hidden highway*, are no more. The old aewen,built of toll brickwork, were ter- ribly ineffectual. To-day our sewer men re a healthy-looking body, and rarely suf- fer from the effect! of their strange jour- neys. The Fleet sewer, which at one time was) one of London's natural streams, has, under Kamngo-on street a diameter of I -ft. When it reaches Helborn Viaduct it divide* into two branches, the dimensions of each of which is lift, by 6ft. Tries* branche* rejoin at Lndgale hill, funning one other friend share. There is only one real remedy for the weak and wavering mind that finds it so difficult large sewer which discharges into one of ths to meet the ever recurring question* of lif* . intercepting drains or tewer*. Other mm promptly and decisively, and that is con larly large sewer* exist. There are six of - .. '"""" "~" "-"." "- i tinual praclice. He who is conscious of this the Isrge intercepting sewers - three OB the ship is in. Tell your commandiug ofhoer I infirml f , pllrpo<l<( may do much to cu re it north and three on the south side of the nils .R. N., has come to , ln< ? t J, discipline Havin. that ( 'aptam Oreville, offer hi* assistance to lichten the vessel. It i* your only chance. Tell him he can have fifty or a hundred men. ing weighed river. Their object ii to intercept the efflux the arguments on each aide, or compared thei from other sewer* and to convey it to the just as he hail leaped out from hi* hammock ami clothed now in thi> broad pipe-claved , crisp fair hair was cut closely to his well slniK, his drum, ami nothing else. rhivped head, in direct opposition to the Sea perfectly calm, thr land invisible, ai.d fashion of the period with its peruke* and th>- hip motionless, the long gentle heavy queue*. "You don't tre a king i shipevery well over which she had been riding, now day, my girl, and it'i a treat after all. breaking gently against t he larboard hows. Otrrhead, the great soft mellow atari burn- ing ; bslow aud all aroiiud, apparently ly- ing on the ocean, a alight mint. In a very short time every man was in bi place, the proper officer* had descended to sound the well, the various crews stood by ready to man the boats, and pending order-, and the report which might mean life or death, the laving of a gallant ship or her sinking liencath tlmr feet, the caplam poke hurriedly to hi otbcen, who h ..rnr.l that the first lieutenant who was in charge had only left the deck to make his r*port. the lead bad b**en call to tin. I no soundings, sml i he sloop wa* just forging slowly ahead in the lightest bree/es when site strmk. " Not your fault, Morrison, 'aaid the cap t.iin quickly. " 'I here's no rnck laid down in the chart anywhere here, and we mint be enles from land." " I'm afraid not, air. We've got into Some swift current, and' " Hah !" exclaimed the captain, ai the eartienler came np. " Well V Kvery head wai oraued forward, every !. (trained to catch the report, and a thrill of encitemsnt ran along the deck as the man aaid in Ins hoaree, sawdusty voice : " Well 'bout dry, sir. She'i not making a Imp." Against discipline, but aliind cheer more like a yell of delight rose from the excited crew ; and as silence on. e more reigned, fresh order* eie given, and all knew that they must wait for morning, men forming the biggest watch ever known upon that de. k '.lust a* all seemed so i aim and peaceful, Will." said Lieutenant Manton, a* the two yuung men stood trying to penetrate the mi t which lay thickly off the starboard \ es . a queer life, ours, said Burns. " Hunk we are mar the lanl! " " Yes, I fancy so : much nearer linn we i.pposed." 1 Think we (hall save thr ship ' " " Huh '" ejarulate.il Minimi, "I hope so : but we must lie on sharp coral, and Mornnon (ay( we went on nearly at high water. We shall see. " Morning seemed as if it would never eunie ; but when the sun rose at last, and I* gaii to diasipale the mini, they caught mglit Nrsl nf the top of a mountain a gracefully curved and beautiful fully wooded rone, cut off slopingly at the |.i|i: and by degrees, a* the mint pawed away from Its (ides, there, in a blue hii/.e hot with green and gold, lay precipice, gnlly, and patch of wondrou* verdure, all v. ined by silvery falls till there lny clear in the morning inn the brilliantly coloured bores nf a lovely tropic island sparsely dmied with houses, and hers and there ons whi. h seemed lobe the centre of sums plan 1 iii .n " Not a bail place to settle down in, .U. k, if we lose the ship." " Hang U, man !" cried hi* brother otlicer, Hushing ; " don talk ao coolly of luting your thip. Any one would think you wished her |.i K i to the bottom.' ' I dun't, lad, "aaid ths yoiina man, gar. ing loiiKinidv at the lovely island so near at hand; "but I ihouldn't mind having un month ashore." U! A I' 1KB II. It wan a boa *rws same hour that K. nee Ursvllle threw hack her casement to admit the soft i .-l l.ree/r from off the sea, and as the ialouiiss crrakeil there was the sharj rattle of a chain somewhere near, and a I. i |. tooetl bay, such a i mild only haw rod a bioodbuuftd throat Coirs, Jonophine." There wss no answer, but a scuttling noise suggested that the bearer of the nan e was dressing hurriedly. Then the door closed behind Renee, who was standing directly after at a broad window with her father, who was using the glass. "What have they come here for I won- der!" he aaid, aa he held it to his eye. : "Want water and fresh vegetables, I sup pae, and Why, Renee, my girl." he continued excitedly, "they've run ou the> Cray Corals, and Rue's fast." Run on the rooks, papa' -Not wrecked!" "Not yet, my dear; but if they don't get her oft before the first breeze rises, sh-'ll never sail another knot, -Here, ahoy, there '" be roared, with his hand* to hi* t itl, " Negus Priam -where are you all!" A tall muscular negro came harrying round from the garden and looked. "(iet three men and the gig dirwtly " 'S mivstah,' cried the black, and he went off at a trot. "lioingoutlo the ship, papa!" said the girl. Yes, child ; to Me whether I've forgot ten all my old training. " I'll see to your breakfast,' cried Renee. No ; I'm going now ;" and kissing the lirl hastily, he descended tn the cool open i.ill, caught up a straw hat, and hurried out. Ten minutes later, as llonee stood st the window, joined now by a very dark, creamy- comphxioned girl, whoae eye* and wavy liair told plainly of the blood inU'rininglejd in hsr vsins, they could see th* water flanh- ing as the light gig in which Renee's father ted sued over the glassy sea, propel led by the imismilar arms of foul stout iiU. k rowers, who pulled with a regular inan-o'-wai stroke. "Oh Josee," cried Renee, with the tear* in her eyes ; " isn't it dreadful !" Dreadful !" s kid ths dark girl die ami I Yes : that beautiful ship fast on rocks. Papa think* it Mill lie a wreck." " Well, they must build another," said the girl, (lowly and languidly. Josee !" What doe* it matter * No one is drown- ed, and it is something to think aLu.it. It uso dull and miserable here. Why Jose, dear," cried Rene*, thro* her arm* al>oul the girl'* neck and kisaing her. " You are its bad now aa yon used to be when it child always cross till you have had your breakfast," I am not uross," said the girl, knitting her dark brows , and a curiously stern look coming over her handsome face ; "only sick of it all." Josee " I am, I tell you -aiek el it. You de- spise me ; your falher only tolerat.'i me out of charity ; I'm so oontemplible that the very slaves look down upon me. I am not while ; I'm not even black. I wish I were dead 1 ish I were" - She (topped short as hs saw the tears falling fat down Reneu's cheeks, and in an instant the look of languid iodillerence and bitterness gave place to a wild f xcitement, " Renee, Hener,"ihi< aobbrd, as she threw herself on her knees aud embrace her, " don't don't ory, dear. You do 1 know you do --love me ; it Is like killing me to sue Hi cry. W hat a wretch what an ungrate- quarter-deck, where Captain Lance was standing with the tint lieutenant. uperiB- tending the change of position of tbe guns so a* to careon the thip. " <lad to see you. Ca|itain dreville," he aid, holding out his hand. " Very good of you tn come and help ; but I think we shall rw off soon willt the loss of a little false keel. There i* no leak." "You are counting on the tide," aaid Captain dreville shsrply. " It i* a vaiu hops, sir. We only have a rite here of a couple of feel, and you must have taken the ground at high water There i* a terrific current out yonder, and it brought you in." Captain Laucr gave an impatient stamp. " Nothing else for il, sir. I should lower every boat at OBI'S and land niy guns and shot first." " And not wait to see what the neil tide will do!" " I have been here twenty yean," said ( 'aptam < .reville. " as a planter, and I know the weather at this lime of year. The sea is like a lake now. In an hour it may be so that no boat can live. The rocks upon I advantages of different course* for a reason 1 able time, let him oompel himself to choose one and refuse the alher without longer de Uy. If he does this regularly and constant- ! ly in small things ss well as in great, it will gradually become more and more practic- able, and what once appeared to be a her- culean task may at length hecnme natural and easy. Tbe Wild i i.r riatfsu In an Athenian paper a tale comes from Theasaly of the wild boy on Mount Pindus : I " Uemetriade* Worthy of-honor. the war- outputs at Barking Creek and Crossn***. Thr art nupUre.t . Dr. J. M. L>a Costa of Philadelplia, say* in hit " Medical Diagnosis " that changes in the situation of ths heart produced by dis- ease are manifold. It is tilted upward* and outwards by th* left lobe of an enlarged liver. It is displaced by divers affections of the lungs and ribs. It is forced up by a pericardia! effusion ; in other word*, by Said entering and accumulating in the membran- ous covering, in which the heart is enclos ed aad to which it i* attached, a* the result of ilnipsy, local or general But there are and not uncommon ones, in which the which you have run your ship are like | but ran very fast sometimes on his i den of King'* forest on Mount Pindus, wa ___^ out shooting on the mountain Being tired, heart* ii fonYd^aUn'gon The" righT "*id ol he left the chase of the deer and tnmed up J the tUlnum or breasl-bone. though the per I a palh which M through a steep gl-?n to , WM ,, w)th |h . he(krt on , n . utt ^j, some shepherds hut*, win-re he hoped to On e recent caae wai that of a boy aboot drink a cup of the milk of Pindus. milk j twelfe YMkrt of ^, in R^,,, bo.p.ui, WDO which u famed to be the best of any. W hill w ntferiiig from a slight inflammation of he was walking quietly up the path he beard th<> wu ,d p ,p,. On being examined it was a rustling in the underwood and stayed to f ound that his heart wai not in the left but listen. Through the branches he saw an in ^ rjght ild<lo , nU c hest, a fact of which unknown animal moving very qa.ckiy in the bis parents had been in entire ignorance, the same direction a< him**lf, and made Thi* deforaiity did not, however, interfere with the boy's ordinary well bring in any way. Another case was t at of a young mail whose heart wa* found by the phyai ian<ai Springfield, Ohio, lobe ou tbe right ide. When h wa* a little boy he had been thrown from a farm wauron, the two wheels ready to tire at it, bul was stopped by shout* of the shepherd* on the hillside above who called to him not to shoot. He then follow ed this strange creature, which had the form indeed of a man and was wholly naked ly na feet, but more often all fours, and reachod the sheep cote before him. There be found it eagerly knives. Take my word for it, then 11 not "'omenl to loe " t _ , WM . ,, w ..... 1 do take your word for It. sir, SA,.! dr.nk.ngth. buttermilk from a trough into , b. llevkl th . t the nMkrt WM Captain Lance. " \\ s will lighten her at . which it had run while the cheeses from the tn() w h M l s . once." I morning milking were being pressed. When And I will get together four boaU and j it saw him near, it ran into the wood, dred mn to help. " ily the about a bun " But they an not used to heavy tore*. ' " Well, sir, " said Captain (ireville, sum ing, " we consider our sugar cask* and r ve. puncheons pretty heavy articles to mo he . At any mle they can relieve ynur ladi of tot oann 11 I wi rowing. 1 have hardly a man who low lice one of a long Imat's crew. go track t once, and 1 need hardly .lay that my house is at your disposal. I am only a planter now, lull am rejoiced to serve under the old colour* once more. I 'or the pneenl good -day." " I say, Jack," whispered Lieutenant Burns to his liien.l, "always our luck. His house at our disposal, and we inuii work like niggers here. " Ann with nigre-ra then," said Mauton. "Come, lad. We have got to save tl.e (TO nimsTiM'rD.) and the chief of the shepherds told handling him its story. " H* i* a boy," he said, mil |>. a Wallachian. the son of a Wallachian. who lived at Castima, on Mount Pindus The man went luk to Wallachia tu seek work, ami there he married. He lived then tome time, but afterward come back to I'uidiis. Six years he was absent, and h* brought liack four or :ive children. Then he died and left hi* five children to the "five roads ' ii.- , to fortune i The woman saw no way of keeping her children in " she distribiilod them among her neigh born and went back to her own country. But one of them ran away from the person with whom he has left aud lias lived in this part of the forest for four years. yo ful wretvh I am I" llunh. hiiih, Josse, darling. 1 ' whispered Ronee, (inking down l>y her to embrace and kia* her fondly . their light and dark ban inUirmiiiulingaa the lean fell fait. " There ; I will 111. i IN : but it does hurt me to hear >uu talk ItM' tliab And it u sx> UUjUSU " The Japanrse hare no swoar ord in then language!, I ill as they have no itove- pipes to put up ami no carpels to lack down they do not need any A Colorado man has devised an ilentric machine that successfully operate* in placer deposit* of gold that could not be nntitalily worked by the sluice anethoiU. 'I'lirmethnd employed I >r saving the gold I* that of col le -I ..> it by mean* of the electric current, so that it form* an amalgam from which the procioal ifltaal may be easily separated. The Webitcr method of purify ing waste water by menus nf electricity hai been Irated by Dr. r'erisi iu ths Hygieni Insti- tute at Munich, liinnany Ouring the course of the xperiinenls it wa* found that the water became purlHd in about fifteen nun nte-., the organic substancei being reduord by about one-half, and the su*|K>iuled nub stall. liemg precipitated to the Irottom. The smell of t he water wa* precept inly im proved. While the results of the tetti ihow that electricity does not at tho present time realue the ideal of water purification, it hhi two great advantage* ; lint, that very little iron ii precipitated and it* removal i* not so difficult as in the case of purification by chemical means, and, second, the dissolved organic inbstance*, which are not precipit- atud by any of t In known chemical met bod* heretofore employe I, are at least partially removed by the electric current. of which had passed obliquely across his best. He wa* ill for torn* tune, and it >y the wheels. * WklttllBC I *.!.(' It seems that there is really a whistling language. A French traveller, M. Lajard, has writ ten a work on the (ubject which has just been occupying Ihealtention of the Paris Academy of Sciences. It U in th* Canary IslamU that people whistle instead of ipeaking when they hold convene with each other. Nor i* the whi*tling language a mere language of conventional sound*. It n composed of words, a* it were, like any Castania so I ^ ner l(> n K u% 8 e *'"' 'he inhabitant* of thr er neighbors t -'* n ' r > IsTsnds attain great proficiency in it. so that they can converse on all sort* of iub ject*. The whistling noi e i* produced by placing two fingvn inside the month. M. Lajard declare* that th* languags ha* a ' Helive*,evena*you*awhiir.. without great aflimty with Spann.1,, being in fact a clothes. In dimmer hs!ive( well, and drink( I *t of whistling Spanish. He ha. X,t*d our Imtterinilk duly In winter be lies in ths caves, and lives on roots and nuts. He has IfMi ii"il no form of speech, neither ha* he a name. Tl.e fore*t warden determined not to leave him to endure another winter on the mountain, so he hade the shepherds to catch ami bind the boy, and fastened a rope t" him and took him back toTrikal i , where he clothed him, and ha* done what he can to civilixo him. He always keeps him with himself, or under the care of some one who can talk, because he seem* unable to learu to speak any word, though he inn tales the voicesof many wild creature*. Nor dora ho learn to nutlet-stand the names of thing*. But animal aoumU he mimics well, and ho has learned to ride. Ai hii real name i not know n his guardian ban called him Sclron.'" iiin iiinx i ri.ni Bverj rer+. Prom the Indmrmpoln Sentinel. U VH\MI, Feb. I H. Physicians have been watching the peculiar cass of Alexander 1 le. man a well known and prosixrroui far- mer near Waliash, for over a week, and they are Dowerlea* to help him. Mr Freeman'* trouble ii a constant and profuse flow of blood through the pore* of the km on all parti of bis body. The blood accumulate* under ths skin until the *km is a dark purple and then oo/.es out in great drops. Mr. Freeman is constantly growing weak r from lots nf blood, and unless the How i* stopped npeedily he cannot live. Ill* case tallies the skill of th* best pbyiicians. some of it down in a sort of musical notation, and it i* found that any sentence has exact- ly one syllable more than the equivalent sentence in Spanish, the extra sound being accounted for by the tact that the first syllable serve* as a mere explanation design ed tn attract the attention of the person ad dressed, M. Lajard learned enough of the language to converse to a certain extent with the native*. Tke Be, i i K Kir, i rtlle. I. Ike Wsrlst. Paris, according to Mr. Alfred Shaw is now the hsst lighted city in the world, and it mndl for all elites that are bent on mtm diii ing electric lighting on a grand scale. It is the great installation under the vait ceo- till markets of Pan* that has enabled the municipality to command ths situation, and to carry out a tcheme which ban been settled not hastily, but after a patient, scientific and systematic study. Ths second best lighten city is Berlin, which i* now fully provided with the electric light. Through- out all its streets and suburbs, lights of twenty i-andl* power ate placed I'JOft. apart and at crossing* and places nf public impor- tance and reports, lights of fifty candle power are used. The famous and fathionabl* street known aa " Unter den Linden," i**aiJ to be the belt illuminated it reel in the world ; it ha* Ihie.' line* ot clt ctric arc lamp*, which are separated by two rowi of lime tree* The mstal in a ." cent nickel piece is worth about half -a cent, and l."> cent* wIV purchase copper snoutlh U niske fi wails' of cints.