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HIS AMPUTATED HEAD. What a Man Think i After he hu Bee UeoaptUted. n>o""' I \i" nn. in orwirrli. Ike It. Ian Painter. I ml- r III l.inll.illn- I Order in \... i i. .in Mow II I .u lo II. II. -1.1. il \flll -. l,.:,l,..n- ..I III Muni When II eallrrt II. .ill I- I ... - i ..mi. . i. il iih Hi. I ...Ii The double execution by drcapitatini which took place recently, at <... -lit/, in- many, of the two murderers. Knoll an llevdn. h, cani .1 m riu din- unmon of tli anachronism of iullu*tin^ death by l-ehe.n n. K Tln brniL-if to intiid that only one < 1 Mas left to IK- ad.b-d t" the giorii of hypn 'lis-n. It had never been i '" tiansmil a SIIL.-L; -st i--n t an mdm.iua about to no lichea !i 1 and tlr-n t-> accurati ly olHM-rvc the sensations felt at the ni.mien lure. The celebrated Re1gia.ii painter \\ tnt/ whoae works are cotletitM in the. Mime \\'iert/, I'.rnxi ll'-s, might be cousidered pr. .-ninor of such a test. Weim was not an udept in o< eult * ein-es. His investigation waa impelled I- --roaity of aeutim.-iit lather that thr-nic vain curiosity What o-'. ipir.t Ins nun was the legitimate qiieatn/n of the d- it I- i illy, and be was ceaselessly haunt- d I. the di-aire to (Minetrate into the mystcrie of death through the torture of thegmlln Is it true this anguish endures but a sec ond ? WhM does the . nlprit think'' What floes he feel at the fatal ni.iment when tin deadly kin'e falls heavily upon his neck ? All such question* harassed the mind o thr art i*t. Wirrt/ was a close acquiintan.i ol M. M , the physician in attendaii.' at the prison in liruxrllea, and was likewise an intimale ft ieutl of Dr. D , a scicntis who had tor more than thirty years devott i himnrlf 1 1 the study of hypnotism. 1 b. latter had oftrn hypnotui-.l ib painter who had already proved to lie a wonder fully susceptible sub K VTfRr. or TIIK EXI'ERIMKNT. Wicrt/, favored with the pern.ission o! M. M , the prison ollicml, and '.he con '.t i.f Dr. l> , determined ii)ion tin. following expunmi lit He would plaei himself under the guillotine, where the severed head of the condemned rolls into biakct, and there \n allowed U> be put t- sleep through hypnotism and . iden-d to |>enetrate the mental and liodily sensation* of the executed. Preparatory lo this test a few days before a decapitation occurre I he submitted to be put lo sleep by 1 'r I > -.who inrineucod him to indentify himself with dillerent people in order to read their thoughts lo penetrate tin n Very souls and oooscisiioss) so as lo experi- ence all the aontnnenta which agiuated in.-ni . WI.TI/ pr iv. 1 a in .-.I lilting person for so delicate a mission. About leu minutes previous to the arri val of tke condemned the day of exe<-i:li..n VV'ierU, accompanied by his friend. Dr. D -.and two witnesses, proceeded to the guillotine and there, placing themselves close to the fatal bo*kel l in-atb th- sc*f fol I. but uninspected by the public, Win I/ waa h\ | u/.ed by Uie OOOtar, While in tins . lion Dr. U obliged him lo identify hini'-li with the victim, lo follow minutely all hi* thntigbts, and to lee! and express aloud the i'ii* ilion* atl-c'.iug tbi> criminal just at the moment when the knife entered ins neck. He orders 1 him finally, just as thr head fell into the lntsk-1, to make an effort to enter that brain and analyze the laat thoughts there expressed. Tlie three friends who accompanied the punter stood there in breathless Bil-i.-.- anxiously awaiting d. vel.ipmenti. The tn-ad of feet overhead warn* them that the condemned is being led by the execution- r to ih-t death dealing machin. The culprit ascends the scaffold ; an- th. r instant and the guillotine will have accom- plished in bloody work. I 'in- doctor wale he* WierU and notices that he Is extremely perturbed. Ilr nippli calei pitoously to bu awakened. I le an guisli oppreiHiiiK him is mt'derahle. lint It is too late the knife has fallen ! " What do you feel ? What do you sec ?" questions the d o--t-.i. . riuNM OK A i \ ri.n- HEAD. The paiuler, struggling with convulsions, answers, moaning: "A lightning! I in thunderbolt has fallen I" Oh, Innini ! Tlie head thinks, the head sees I " It miner* horribly ' It hears, it feels, it thinks, but cannot comprehend what has liappened. " It looks for its body. It seems as if the I-,. h must i-nmr and join it. It expects the final blow. It awaits death, but death will not ' ' While Wicrt/. was giving utterance to these shocking sentences the other witness- es, who haa noticed th head falling tbi-.iu'h the bag U) the bottom of lhe has k-i, r-iwn downward mnl bleeding neck upward, observed that ll it was I inking at Hi- in with mouth widely distended and teeth tightly clinched. The arteries still pulsated palpably, where tho knife had severed tin-in and the warm bb.o.l .qmrlid out, S|iatlsring tin- eyes, the face, tin- bin rile pimmr . .11,111,1;. , I hi* woful lament* tiona. " Ah ! wha' hand is that strangling me? An enormous merciless naud. Oh: tins pressure crushes me. Nothing but a large red cloud do I see. Shall 1 ever liberate myself from this accursed hand ' \#\ loose, you monster ! Vainly do I struggle with both my rands. What it this I lerl ? An - p. n wound and my bio nl flowing. I'm i,. thing hut a head rent from the body I" I 1 was only after long aulTtrinu thilmtist have seemed endless in Us eiuluranee that the decapitated head roali/ed its) separation from the body. ins i inn i. i i i Wn-rt/. had again Mibuded into smnno lcnc, and 1'r. D. continued his inter- rogat-.r .- " \\hatdoyoiiseenow* Where are you ?" II... painter answered "Illy into open space like a wheel hurled through a (ire. I am I 'bid? Is all over with me ? Oh! if they would only join my liody with my i again ! Oh! men lime nn r. \ . i- M- '. n my I "dy t - and 1 -hall live again. I still flunk. I still see. I yet remember everything. There % re my judges clad in dark robes.- They utter my %-ntcu.. ! llfi! my poor lreavd wUu : My^wreicfn foil' I..'- 'bill' You I'-l. me no !.-' tin- luil i nilirft-'e you once av, r; iin. C.i*n' my little clii'.d. No! You nhu.l.ler will fear. Oh ! unfortunate, yon are lUine. with my b|..ml. When will this ghaatl\ tacking end? la not the criminal dootne to eternal punishment?" While the sleeping artiat deacrihed them frightful innaationi the byitandcii note. 1 ' that the orbs in the severed head wn.- nn mensely dilated and cxpn-aied u look <>f in deacri liable agony and intense pleading I'hi) liewiviliug continued : " No, no ; i>ii. Ii torture cannot laxt for ever ! <jod is innrciful ! Now all belonging to earth fades fn ...... > riv;ht. I aee afar in the remote distance a Btar gliatrnmg ami iiitillating. i>li, how reitlul it miiat IN tli. TO ! How relieved I feel. My entin IMJIOJ; is ioothe-1 by thn gentle Uiliu of peur. in.i CAlinnvss. What a tran.|tiil slumlier 1 hall have. Oh, what ocatjuy !" '1'hfne were the laat words utli-ied by the liV|inotic subject. Allbnngh mill in thi- slei-p, he failed to answer any further i|ii<- tioniiii!. Dr. l> --- *t tliis point ev.um ..... i the In-. id in tin- bisLit, touching itt fore- head, its ten, pies, its teeth ; all was icy. 1 he b. .id dead. Tins grewsome experience of the |ioini.-i \\ n-rl/ has liven reporteil in all the n-icnti- lie centers of (JiTiinny. Mr. I.:in -le -, Wiert/' biographer, givea hin version of it therein, and a rollaUirator of a Si. Peters- burg |M|H-I ..,'.. I Nuvoati j ul. lulled an ac ll u.iy of it. \\ ill evti iiy.iin an emotional subject so pifiliaily endowed as XViert/. be found t ^ i.-h un >-\prriiiient ! It 14 not at all likely that there will U- imitators, a< it la more painful to aulTer with the subject of the ^iiillotin.- tlian to look at MIIIIK-.-III .1.. I'ariv win n In- Hrparates a head from the Ixxly with the greatest akill. Tonn i- 1 M. t i- . i -i Thr < in- in iii. ! .I...I.I- .mi- 1:> >. i la. The people of ILilmmcy, who are again at war with the K. i-nrh, i.rc lerlain'y i.ni.|iii. eunuch in tlmr t.i.iMTnTB and cus- toms to warrant the pio'.uin.l interest of the aiithro|iolot(i"t, but the chief mti ret the . mli/. ,1 i>rid takes in them now is online. I tn the |I.I|M- that they will not he allowcfl inn. h longer to practise the awful noi unties for which they have been fain oils. The Dahomcyans simply revel in cruelty. To kill or to torture i t(. them the keen- est of pleasures. Tin- ollice of executioner s a poat of honour t" which only the ri. -li- es t and most p .weiful in the land dare aapirc, and, aa a matter of i-ours-, the ealthier the t-xe.-iitioner the better the ippoi tunny for aatufying hu brutal in tin. -la. There is no doubt whatever that France will crush ton kingdom of I>ahoin.\, nh -tbi-r it lie now or lu tli- early future, nit there is alno m> doubt that Kraiice will lave no easy t.uik in d.'iiij! it. With all their brutuh instincts the lUho n. V tiegr.i is above tin- ordinary intelli- gence ot the African black. He will liglii ill be falla, and no will hia sistera, for the .;i.,i/.iii or wo-n.-ii wuii'irn of lUboniey are world -famed. II -si-let being natural war- lora they arc thu licit dinripliiie I of the African native tribes, and as the king in ista on succees in battle or death to the urvivora, the liahumey warriors never '. hi. -is defeat, but light while they have a >reatli left in them. On one o. vaaion within the past two ear* aevcral r'n-iuh civilians were raptur- til U >:l( 1'OKMT. lluullNsaml ailllUca Wild .l ml In Ihr Mean or Hi liarh m im-m In the spring of tho y.-ur IS)iS, sai-l a pro feasional sprin lion hunter with whom I wan hailing not long since, I was at (juilimane, 'M the eaal coaat of Africa, acting as agent lor the i;r.-nt animal house at Hamburg. A letter from my employer recorded the fact that an epidemic, had broken but among cap- tive lions all over the world. It was a HOI t .I dntcinper, arid no ono knw how to treat i'. It be^an in the zoological gardens at : .inl.,iy, niul wi i Inn thirty days had ext<-nd d to America. I want you to take special notice of this fact. N'oi lung of the sort h.-id ever occurred before or has occurred since. Male In. us were a'.tacked first in every in- itance. The first symptoms were ooni(hing ar.d ^nee/ing, followed by loss of uppe.tite. and In Ineis. The logs swelled, somothnii; bko lockjaw set in, und wit inn a week after >>ein altai-ked the heasc waa dead. A few si-aped atta-'k, as is the case in every epi- ! nn , but so many mi.-, uml- 1 that the price of lions jumped to the highest figure ever known, llnmhay, Calcutta, Paris, ll-ilin, and other Kiiropean cil'es lost near ly every lion in their gardens, and hardly a in nny country nad an animal ..f this >|iecies onexlnlution. The diwoae was con- tine I to lions alone, and it spread ulmoet as fast u the tl.^lil of ;i bullet. Well, aa you have inferred, along with the letter was au order for me to rush the Hun market A- 1 \<T A* rii-WIBI.lt. I wssaloneallVuiln:iane, and had heen ship- ping about one lion a month. The beast* were trapped by thu i.alivos up country engaged in the work. He must l>e anativo, of course, and he must also lie a wild man. After holding a council with three or four of my best men we started out in parties of ten to hunt down the wild man. I'Uch of my men had a cheap Kntflish musket and knew how to use it, and the order was to fire at tho man at light. To brace up the c Mirage of the natives I offered a reward of $10 to whoever should lira the lu :ky shot. The four parties took different directions. The one I headed went to the mrth, where theie was a long stretch of almost impene- trable thicket, with varioni piths traversinS it in different direction!. One of these paths had been followed by tho lion which KKI.I. IVTO TIIK riT. Proceeding in single file and moving as quietly ua possible, we advanced nbout lour miles and then came to an open fores'. Here the path ended. The underbrush had all been burned out, and one could see a long way in every direction. The natives were for keeping on, but I argued tb.it the wild man must know of our camp and would, therefore, bo found near- er it. We had turned back and the last man had just fallen into line, when I heard a hnt ami a cry of alarm. The three na- tii'es next behind me dodged under my arm .M.I m idi- off down the pith, while the others were so upset that it took me three or four minutes lo ascertain what had hap- pened. The wild man had been oence&led behind a big tree near the path. He leaped out and atruck the last man a blow with a club wlrch killed him nu the spot, and he was swinging his weapon to hit the second mn when i hi; third fired at him. Thewild man waa not twenty feet away, but he was not hit. and in a aecoud or two was out of sight. Three men had seen him, and all and as I wa* the only buyer in the market ttgrec dtht he was a native, but the biggest I made my own prices. K..r a full grown male lion, noltooold. I pud the mun of #a"> n .-.wli, for a lioness *IS, and f.,r a half- ,,, tney had ever , wn Hc nake(I , I1(J arn ,,, (1 ,, n | y witn a c i ul( . We picked tho dead man up and bore urown mule or lem.il.- $1.1. If IbM figures mm to cttmpi all j M lhe , )ther ,.,,,, <., on and heard the story their courage look lluht. They would help me capture lions, but they wanted no more of man hunting. If I wanted to pursue the hunt aloue they would -T\M> r.y Tin i-illi 1 ; but the opinion was unanimous that we should go thirty or forty miles further up seem ridiculous you must rcmctnlwr that s native African can bo hired by the month is a hunter or porter for about $-'. Kvery capture made was in pit*, and I furnished a ai t and ' i.'c for transportation. As soon as I received the order I put to- gether fire or six more carts, which were -i.,wed in the warehouse: built a cage for a. -I i and then started up the country with brty native hunters, (,'niliinane is situated : thu country. I firmly declined to move, at the north mouth of the /amhesi Kiver, ] We were in a good neighborhood, had our and It was on the north branch which comes preparation* complete, and I didn't pro l-.wu from Lake Nyassa, and al-out eighty miles west of the port that we got into the i'.ii e.-unlry. We were then in the tern- ory of a chief named Weola who agreed la upply u* with provisions for eighteen cents' things. He hail killed a man, but at the worth of powder a day. Thai was s pretly aame time the report of a musket had ur figure for forty-two nen, but the in- erior of Africa is a cheap place to live in. iVe had no sooner reached the hunting to be run out by any aort of a nun. I didn't Ixdicvc this wild man was such i ter- -. : i::i Ml I \I-IUH lll\ Tke lii.lriill.ni - -ll.ll l:\pe,|l||,,n IS t* Hi Filled Out. According to I'et.-nnann's Mitteilungen, after yeaia of agitation, all the difficultiea in the way of the Australian-Swedish expe- dition to the Antarctic Ocean have been re- moved. Three months ago it see mod prob- able that the entire undertaking had been defeated through the failure of some of the Australian colonies to contribute f 10,000 each, which waa one of the conditions on which the fitting out of the expedition de- pended. That difficulty has been overcome and all the money required has been pro- ud. -d, so that, with the addition of the S,V,.IHKJ which that great friend of Polar exploration, Mr. Oskar Dickson, hu con- tributed, the cv [MM lit ion can be atarted in good ihape. To Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, the Nestor of (ierman scholars in Australia, is due the raising of the money required. It is not the first time that he has been influential in starting out ex- peditions that have been fruitful in geo- graphical results. It n expected that the expedition will be only preliminary to another one organi/cil on a larger scale, but the first party, it is believed, will accumulate a good deal of freih information as to tho topographic conditions of the Antarctic regions, and, what is still more important, they will carry out a thorough teries of meteorological ob- servations, with which data, collected in the south Polar waters, meteorologists are scant- ily supplied. Meanwhile Capt. David (iniy will start early in August for his first whaling expe- dition in the Antartu: Ocean with several other whaling captains who hare long plied their vocation in Arctic waters. His lit le whalers of 400 to 5UH tons burden are driven by engines of seventy to eighty hone power. Of course, the progress with these sm.ill engines will be slow, and <iray does not ex- pect to begin his summer's whaling until November. Capt. Gray will confine hia operations to the big area between the longitude of Greenwich and 90 west longi- tude. In his opinion the four months frcni November to the end of February will be the best time to hunt whales. The season will close about the first of March and the ships will probably be back in Knglaud early in May next year, which will jji vo them ample time to relit for another cruise, and sUrt again in August, IS'.U. If this under- taking be the success which ('apt. Cray believes it will he, the waters of the Antarctia nble fellow. Natives always exaggerate 50 Ocean will be entirely destitute of human per cent, even about the moat ordinary | enterprise* no longer, for most of the vessels engaged in tlcAr.u.- hulcne.i will seek the new fields. For several years post whaling in tl.e Arctic Ocean has been corn- frightened him away. \\ hen I let it lie known that I was going out in the afternoon to look for the Terror, grounds than Weola's men told ui a queer the whole crowd indulged in lament ili.ms tory. They had not iu-nt down any raptivea for JL long time, and the reason of it was that a and predictions of disaster. There was a single prediction le exceptio n. He was a young man of twenty, and the bravest of tl-e lot. It was paratively a failure owing to the scarcity of the auinnla. Ill Mil 111 I ili; K r d by the Mill Mile). Ill", and, curiously with u letter to trangu and unknown animal had intrrl'.-red ''is shot whic'i had frightened the wild man with them. They had captured Iwo lions y. pits, but this unknown beast had killed 'I see very clearly master," he said to hem iHith before liny could be 'aged. The m-. "th it if do nnt kill tins thing he | istives differed in their descriptions. S- ' !1 kill "U """ ons and many of us. had seen a tremeuiiouly tall man walk inn move away he will probably follow. It al. ml with a great club in hu grasp, while is our business to kill him st once. lam others had seen an object "'y young man, but I will go with you MsVnUMAWWBsU. and do my best. ' The beast was not an inhabitant of district, but one had b- en nee then in thr dense thickets of the valleys. In both iiiitan.-rs the lions h.nl been kilie. laler- I accepted his offer, and gave to him a nil of that musket and apoundof p.iwder. The others n n.,w and re f IU ed to go. We left can imp about '-' n'. lock m the afternoon, hc.i.bn , lo the east. Just beyond where we captured the We hlra- in-iitfh, liberated Attain wiin a letter lo i I "" " "" v "* j""" " ->*.-!..... King'Caniotof Frln.-e, written by ,,,J with sharp |M,,nted st,ck, and in the fresh ,, thrce , cro9M a e*ch other, .ahoinry sovereign, who ... in a 'good ! f?^ .^T ! _ th '_.?!? T^.^! 1 ' : j took onerunnmgto Ih. northeast. H hu innoiir f.-r a won. I r. From the p.-i, ,.t no of these Frenchmen we have the b.-si .le ription nf tho r.'inai k l-le IXihoineyan rmy na it ap|>ears today. This is no in cresting thai we quote frmii it the follow uu |o\. me no longer. S l,.iii bin me. Iftinly0<ll would unite me with n > Inidy 1 nil ml. I be willfynu again. \ mi ..i . > Li my . tea. Hul I J"vc youi-lill; i.'iy pool d.n lings. ' I'b. -re could be no questioning the fact lat tb.;, weir tine I- ll-.w*. ml.uat and full f muscle, their while. Mowing robes bring- their ebony figures into strong relief. ih nl ourselves and a prey to deep eniotioi we tr.ivcistd their serried riiiiku, .ind after quarter of an bour's man h reached the '.ond line, - on*istu-g i.f 4,(XIU amt/'-ns I, MMI black virgins of Dahomey, who .nn tin' lioilyguard of the king, armed ith i ille and knife, and ready to attack at le slightest signal of their master. Old or ,1111^.1. kin or hand'iii,e,tbey are all alike larvelloun to see. As full ofinum less ths .le warriors, their attitude is aa well i< -iplimil and oiirreet, and tl.e leailors at ,e brad of uaeh - olunill HI -t easily i. I by their rich uttiro and their resolute r. So, h are tbe *ina/.iiis under ariim, ll. tin g very nun h frnm the savage horde Inch fancy ban painted them." Aa the population nfD.ib.nney ixotimat lat more 1MB 900,000, any or all of win. h can be turned int-i mililury by the king, it can readily he uiidentooifth.il tlie French will n-it have such a small allair on their hands iui most person* imagine. AW*V. l-ii,... MlrharfH Ttire -.1.1 i.. II , , . (. . ,, to Hi. HrrHm -.1 II. i I hi:. II,.... , I A llrtroit despatch says : Mrs. Mills, I'rime Michael's wife having be.. .me ,in.l of i In- notoriety whieh she gained in the now celebrated cases, has picked np her l*Kgaf(e and softly and nib-nth ntole away. She ban gone to Tilhury, the home nf her childhood, where she and Michael went to school together and made Inve, and the question is, will shr ever come hack ? 1 1 now transpires that h |,r did not gel $1 ,IMMt after all, but she got u note, and luuistanl prose- cutor Springer und other* say they don't be- ll. M- tlie n., le IS U.-llll till- pilliel it IS Writ ten on. It is a note from Joe Daley, is with- out consideration, und as .loe owns no property in Detroit, Mrs. Mills may get loft mi the $l,<Nm. Dilryowns a blue house in Noriliv ille, hut she could not re- on that. " I don't rare whether Mis Mills ei.meH l*ok or not," said Prose cutor Springer thn iimniing. "True, she is the cninplainHiit in ono case, but that would not m-ceHHiiiily i cqnire her presence, and she could not be a witneas in the otliei rasca without tier Inisband's consent ; but we don't need her evidence, ...ntinued Mr. S|, linger, "we will send Miko higher lli.in a kite without. I've got some new ui.d startling evidence in the Iti-ehel case, which comes up ou the 14th, and 1 can tell you that my owning will !- a corker." An jni' v U-ili b ins admits that Mis Mills ant a note for (I, (mil signed by .l.ni Daley, Mil nays she re. n. and I h .1 there is pind .. in it) for therm, allllonfh In will uotsay who tlie inity is. He says thill Mrs. M: 1; will ....no I ill, k 111 D and L. inesj for Wers*lf antftlikl lln .^ aill I* j. . :. d, blmgthoeof a native. In addition to the versed more open ground than the others. loss of the two lions, a third one had beeu -flic hahila of wild animals wore familiar to found ile.-i.l, with every evidence of having luhhrd to death, while two or three viere mysteriously missing, The African is easily ex.-ited and fnl! superstition, and I swallrweil theslnry with been me, bu' I never h-inte I a wild mail before. I eouldn'l teli whe'hrr ho wotilj lie ' perched up in a tree or hidden away ill a ' thi.-Uet. If he piowled by night he ought to sleep by day, yet we had met bun at 10 many grains of allowance. The only ineth.nl ,,', 1... k that inoiinni;. l>n this iwlb we had by which a li'-n can I* captured without ' lhrca pit , aO))llt , |nllc apart As 1 did not ni|iiry to hiirself is lo halt a pit In fore.t klll)W ,|,,. u . , UCHU()II ,,. yolln) , ,,, ,,, ,, k and llnckei all the laruer game move about jthe lea<1 Incase we met the wild man by beaten paths. In the open they arc lre , face ^ f aco ho WM to firc Kni \ , (l , n .[rop to to take any course. A frightened elephant j , ne e rtn ,,,i K , vc nie lk ,| 1I)W A |,o Ut will leave the path and go rushing rough t \ trf , f ml | e . from eanlu ftlul thc pan, M . cende.l a ri.L-r, my companion halted, pointing at a brood tree ou the left, and tho thorn thickets, but a lion under the same circumstances will stick to the path. In tlie course of a week we had looked the ground over and dug ten different pits ou paths leading to water. They were dug t.- measure, being six feel long, three wide, and twelve deep. If the ground was soft we dug two or three feet deeper. When the natives were through with a pit the nlnii|H'*t-Kighte,l animal could not tell that the uround had Imrn distutlH'd. Tlie hard- est work was watching these pits. The same paths were used by lions, w..l\.-. hyenas deer, and an occasional rhinoceros or buffalo. Men wrre detailed to watch dm ing the day and frighten back thesr ninmals. whispered " Master do you see that his house it there among th' branches .4 f .-:ii,i.ui> Mas lhe MoDU|lnll ..I rtnx lhe roar Pn l.ln lic.nl In every great city the poor livo by the) worldly vanities of the n b. In I". ins, they die ill the same way. It is the manufactur- I erof iinnimer.ible nuperi1uilie which makes 1 up the bulk of the industry of the working classes. The r'ren, -h capital has developed an ingenious system by which tho poor are furnnhe.1 with a lire b-u i.il at the expensn of the "pride, pnmp, and circunmun---- " wln.-h Dues considers his lue on thu road to the tomb. One of the largest, best-managed and m.'-' profitable in .In - > i. s m Paris is that of the ('.unpeg Funebres, the KiK'antic monop- oly winch alone haa the privilege of Iran i- {Hirtin^' the dead through the .-Irc.-ts of '.iris in funeral slyl . It poasesaes under- s material to the value of over ),IKX),- (NKIof franc*, doe* some ii.lKMI.INtn a vr it of biisimtiu, and turns over nearly 'J,">00,(XX> of this clear (until to its accredited owners, the churcn establishment of the city, after gratuitously and decently burying somu three out of every five if the dead as indig- ent subjects. Ivich country and each age have their own fashion of disposing of their .lead, from the Patagonian, who makes "lion meat", of his spouse, back to the ancient Kciinan with his ancestral uriiH. Take all in all, per- haps there is no more reasonable arrange- ment than that of the thrifty I'.u isi.in wh > manages to have each disposal of the dead I could make out a platform of sticks and 'rrn-d nut decently and in order throng, branchrs, and I now took the advance. My wen|Kins were u rillc and a revolver. We . i. I't cautiously forward until right under the platform, and after a few secniuU tx>lh of us madit out a black font and leg hang ing down between the poles. TIIK WILD MAM was (it home. I had more fear of his get The lion sitldoiii move, about by day, and .'"* tt y lh " ' '""' " f ' hurting us. I our object was to keep him up to sundown. We had killed a kid just at sundown and I its body on tho covering of thn pit. The men remained near by until they heard a lion roar ulioul halt a mile away, and n was doubtlms that fellow who got into tumble. The pit was only half a mile from our camp, Hint half an hour after lhe men ..Jin. in we knew by the Ho All OK TIIK I. ION that he waa a captive. We could do nothing at night, but nil turned in happy over the knowledge that wo had made a capture. At niidniulit 1 wax amused by my head man entering the tent and evclaiining : " Listen, master ! Don't you hear the lion uttering erica of riigr and painr That strange monster is probably trying to kill him ! " It was true that the captive beast was very noisy, but after listening awhile I oon bided that tho presence of his mate was exciting the lion. Two of tho uutn were ordered to go forward and tire their mns kats to create a scare, and after this had been done all was quiet. When daylight .am.' mid we went to the pit wo mmle a din livery which was far from pleasant. We had captured a magnificent male lion, but he was dead. The tracks of the strange monster were to IT seen all , noun. I (he pit, and lying on Ihr ground \\eie t of hia wcaj mis. Tin " M. ic ples about as large as a man's wrist and eighteen or n.cniy feet long. Tho ends" bad be. n -di n |.rii.-.l and then hardened by liie. and the rrmtni. had stood iih.ii,- the pit anil pro. I. led the lion until ha killed him. When wiililti.l the b.. ly .ml Me found lh pits clear for n'''lv postrd myself to tho west, believing he would make for a thicket in that direc- tion as soon as disturbed, and at a signal the young nmii tired at 'he nest. The re- port of his i;un was followed by a most nn earthly yell, and it was yet ringing in my earn when I K.IW a dark object druppiu^ oil tho platform to the earth. It was the wild m .n The young man stood where he hail tired, and 1-ef.ne he could reali/.e what was ii ippcning the monster was upon him. He more than A score nf wounds. A y.uilla .an handle, a club, but I was satisfied that no n Inii . m in "iild make useof am h a pole. nf the poles Dei nghirdenml * jii--.il M.'.I. n-ni th*l a nuiu w * wan picked up and Hung almn.it at my feet, and as he landed he called to me : " I am not much hurt, master ! lie sure that you kill him for he is a terribly strong fellow !" The man didn't -.-. k safety in flight. On tho contrary, he pi.-ked up a limb, broke off a part of it for a elub, ami slowly advanced upon 11.1, his ryes Mashing, his teeth grittinc. and hit face exprraiiing fury. I hail my rinc to my face, ami I let him come within ten teet lit fore I tired, lie was shot between the eyes, and he foil hack HO dead <hat ho never moved a linger. When we came to examine him wo got frightened. His height was seven ted by the tape line, and he seem .I to be all muscle. I haven't the least doubt that a slap from his big right hand would have killed any nf us slniiti dead. He hail trtinitm.loua shoul- ders, n b jiniM-l-.-. bunched up in a wnudcr fill way, while Inn tinkers were Inn- am! the nails ou them almost like claws. II in. In-. Is of natives came to look at tin b.i.lv. but none could rrmembei of having semi the man before. Freed from bis into feri'in e with .mi .-me! |.i MC, u-' Ii. ul un more tiouMe, and dm MIL; the next m\iy dav we onughtand despatched u- tho coast . a- lian l-oiiie H.uis in over roared with in .li s -ii.!i'.n ut being -ofgod up fur tho p.ildi. .ipon. \Voincu 'uf every rank go bareneadfld in, Moxiuv. t bee \ploitittion of a love of lavish dUpla_ in it minor portion of the community. One sees nothing of the ghastly side of the undertaker's work in visiting the viuit premises winch have been recently devoted to the use of the Pompcs Kunebres, away out in the extreme n. .rtliwc.st ot Paris, iu I. a \ illette. There we found "the trap- pings and the suits of woe," the materials for the funeral decoration* and the funeral .-I te^e. Take it altogether, a ramble over the etiahli-dniiciil is ono of the most inter- esting sights of the city. li..l- r i n.. > in. n e in iril. There is abundant evideneo that Asiatic choler* is moving westward from lujia, the home of this plague, where the mortal- ity has been unusually great thin Spring. Il has l-e, ome i pidennc in Afghanistan ami along lhe eastern fronlier of Persia. Tho history of the epidemics of the laat three years in.li.-atei that the disease will be car- ried througli Persia into Asia Minor. By another route the Mediterranean port* are threatened, for there has aln-.i Iv been great mortality in Arabia and K">,UOO per- sons have recently died of chulcrea.it is said, ou the coast of Africa, near tho outlet of the Red Sea. Thus far the presence of tho disease at Mecca ha.i not been reported, but it will be necessary for the authorities) in F.gypt to exeroiao great vigilance in or dcr that the plague may be prevented from passing ft.. in the Red Sea to Mediterranean ports. Last year there was great mortality at Mecca and at other neighboring pomu on tho Arabian coast not, iar frnm th Sno/. Canal, but good i|iiaiintine work; Hived Cairo ai d eouilned thu disease to the laces) to which the pilgrims had hruiii<ht it. In all probability an epideinuj at the port where pilnnls foiMeec* are landed will noon be repurle.l, but the sanitary authori- ties of Kgypt, a.tin^ under tho direction and with the, as:st.iiiee nf Kuropean (iovei n incuts should Ut able ko bar thr way again. s.mie of the Now York hotels provide Ml-cions bu female guestH uiiaci|uiiintciV wi:!i the city. ^ shopping loin, nndor the ..I lan.e .-t "!.- "f them, HOnll I I'llljl u l,e.l tranger 0yllh the cily.' Many ladipuliml .-r-upi;ioH ]de\s.inl ail. I leniunentiM', Tho chuigo fnrllieir service is f2. j