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Intereitiusf Stories About Sir Andrew Clark. lls.l.lo.r . . A.n.lrnr. In HI. Urdlr .. I t.l *l*rr - >!r lii.lri x I irl, HI. III. .,..!. rlill Hklll ill I" William Hallantync writes in the Scottish American : How the famous London doctor, Sir Andrew Clark, became physician to hu still more famous countryman, Mr. W. K (iladstone, was this. During a cholera time some year* ago Dr. Clark practiced in the l/ondoii Hospital, and waa a* attentive to the pooreat of th- poor patients a* he wa* to those who were well to-do. This came under the notice of Mrs. Cladslone, who was a frequent visitor at the hospital. She entered into conversation with him ; found him intelligent, skilful, and |K>ssessing, in an eminent degree, a kindly sympathetic heart, she resolved that at sunn' time or other she would have him a* her family doctor. How that resolve was carried out all the world knows. Here are two ex- ample* of the confidence Mr. and Mrs. O lads tone have in Dr. Clark. Atone time, whea Mr. Gladstone wa* Premier, the two had houses near each other. One cold day as Dr. Clark wa* pawing Mr. Cladstones door he saw him coming out with his great coat buttoned close up to his chin, aud Mrs. (iladitone by hi* side a* usual. "Oh, doctor : I am so glad to see you," said she. " Mr. Claditone is not st all well, but he will persist in goi' g out this cold day." mint go; an important Cabinet Council meet* to-day." "Conic thi* way till I look over you, said the doctor. He examined him and said, " You MIMT OO To HIM IMHMll \TM.V o' I will not be responsible for the conse- quence*. I will give Mr*, (iladstone direc- tion* what to do with you." Mr. Claditone kept hi* bed till he got the doctor'* permis- sion to rise. Th* other occasion was in Scotland, where Sir Andrew rusticated in the autumn. He hail ranted a house near Peith that season ; so when Mr. (iladstone was on his way south from viiiling his brother, Sir John (iladstone, of Casque, he topped at Perth and tarried a few day* with hi* doctor, who invited some friend* and neighbors to meet him, Lord Kinnaird and Mr. (tray, of Kinfauns Castle, among the number. After dinner, when all wi-ir enjoying themselves in the drawing-room, Mr. (iladstone a* merry a* any, a little after ten o clock Mrs. Gladstone whiapered a word to the doctor. He nodded in reply, and m a few minutes said to Mr. Clad stone " You have had a very busy day, and likely to be as busy in-morrow : would it not be well to rest? You must need it. Mr (iladstone smiled and said, " Ladies anil gentlemen, I have got my marching orders, *o I bid you ail good-night,' and retired. During the day the other gueits did not see much of the C. O. M., but he ever neglected to walk out in the open air, and wa* driven by Sir Andrew around, visiting neighbors and seeing the eight* around Perth. Sir Andrew Clark was born in I vj; in or nrar Aberdeen. Hu chum at school was a Imy, a few years older than himself, named Andrew Henderson. Side by side they sAT IIII.I'IM: EACH nrillK with their lesson*. Kut school day* come to an end. Mr. Clark in due time got his diploma to pracii. e me.n. inc. and Andrew Henderson, his rlium, was licensed to pre.i -h. 'I In- latter got a call to Coldingham, on I he Holders, and next a call to Abbey Close U. P. Church, Paisley, where he still is. His alma mater conferred on him the degree of 1. 1.. D , and last year he was the Moder- ator of the U. P. Synod. Twenty years pawed without the two school chums seeing or hearing of each other, though both had by then risen tn eminence in then res|>ci live professions Often Mr. Henderson wonder- ed if the famous London doctor, Clark, was his old schoolmate. The opportunity cme to tind this out. Mr. Thomas Coats, of .1. A P. Coat*, thread manufacturers, Paiiley, was a peisonal friend, and "aid to Mi. Henderson one day, "I have not fell well for some time what think you of me con- sulting Dr. A. link, of London, Clad- stone's doctor* "I wish you would," Mid Mr. Henderson, "and if you get the proper chance ask him if he lud Andrew Henderson for a companion at school. Mr. Coats on his return fioin I. union, called at Dr. Henderson's ami the liril words he sp. k" were, "Tell him I'm tbe map." Tins finding out was the renewal of their old acquaintance, and every season when Dr. Clark coiive* to Scotland to reside for the autumn his old friend it always iuwted to spcn. I A WKCk UK TWO \\ ITII HID. I*el me give an example or two of how I)r Clark treats those who consult him for their health. Mr. Coals said of him:"l never got sudi a iniestioning in all my life. I was obliged to tell li.in all that I ate and drank, and all about myself. 1 nevrr ml such a man He inld me 1 was not to eat this nor that not taste tins kind of wine nor the other. I asked him it I was not to be al- lowed to eat enough to keep body and soul tii^-i (her ." "Yes, yes, ''*aid Dr. Clark "you still II.IM- enough t., live on, but I must let you .now if you go on eating rich food, and drinking generous wines, you will be- fore two year* are out have gout that no doctor on eat ill can cure. Try my plan for one month, and then report to me now \-.u feel." Mi Coats followed his advice, and at th* end of Ihe month admitted be felt lieiter than he had done for years Iwfuie. 'I in' ICe\. Dr. Druinnioiid, of lilasgow, was in poor In-lit h. His wife was alarmed, and nr).'eil him to consult Dr. Clark. Hu di<! MI, mid like Mr. Coat* admitted Hut he never got such a i|iicslnining in all but life. No Jesuit m the roiife.ssioiial could ha\ c dr.iw n out all he wanted to know better. After he was satisfied he wrote out i,, unite instruc- tions ai to conditions and time in taking the prescribed, and gave the paper to Mrs. ]>i iimniond, stnrtly charging her to see tin in all faithfully carried out, and report in a month. In two weeks Dr. Hi inmiioml felt a change for the better. I am not imito sum aliout mentioning the next case, yet I hi.pi it is 1. 1 1 giea' bleach of eli. | m lie. Due day a prominent l.oinlou plivi< lan brought alady pattern for Dr. Clark's opinion, a* her case lad balllcd himself. l>r. Clark asked her a few questions, left the room and beckoned her phy>ic:i>ii to follow him, When i bey were alone Dr. Clurk laid : I he woman drinks ; 'hem is nothing else wrong with her." "You greatly surprise me, aid the phys.ciau : so ii.uc' 1 so that I can !.. i'i>> I. lievr It ; ih IS 4 I.AI>T OF RANK WITH A TITLE." " No matter, said Clark ; I am sur* ahs drinks. Did you ever ask her?" " Oh ! dear no ; I never dreamt of such a thing, and would not insult her by asking sin-h a question." " Well, I will," said Dr. Clark ; 'come in anil hear," " Madam, you aay you have strange* sinking sensation* at tu.ies ; will you pleasa tell me if you take ything to relieve you!" "Y*s, my maul gives m* a spoonful of brandy." "And how may be, perhaps, quire t" " Ye*, it is large is the spoon ; is it a teaspoon or a dessert spoon -or it tableKpoonful, you require a tablespoon. " " And how often do these inking (pells com* on!" No answer. "Do they come on in the morning, or at noon, or in the evening, or during the night!" " Yes, they come on at any hour." " Now how often did you say they came! Will they come every two or three hours!" " Yes, that ii about the time. " "And your mvd Rives you a spoonful of brandy every inn '" No answer. "Well now madam, as you have consulted me I must give you the be*t advice I can and it is this : when you fesl these sinking spells come on request your maid to give a spoonful of cold water fA- i'u>/ '/ and yon will soon be well. That n all I i n do for you." She left along with her physician. 1 r. Cltrk's mat skill and success lies in his correct diagnosis of a At the lime President (lat field was dying a friend of mine wai staying with lr Clark at Abbottsford House, which he had rented for that season. He was asked his opinion of Carfteld'scase. He answered It is almost impossible to give an opin- ion when you do not see In* subject; but from what I hear of the sufferer's symptoms ( would suppose pus was forming on the liv*r." " What would you do under such circumstances?" "Cut into it," was his im- mediate reply. At the pol mt>rtnn thi* wan shown to be a correct opinion. TCI i li!. i> i .1 n IHUI C4Hr. A ThrllllBK >*rrallv*. It is no exaggeration to aay that by far the most authentic contribution that has yet been made to the history of the Soudan revolt and the massacre of (iene.ral Uordon and his associates U to be found in the ex- tremely interesting volume. " Ten Years' Captivity in the Mah.li's Camp. " The au- thor is Major K. K. Wingate, K. A., Direc- tor ol Military Intelligence of the Kayptian Army, who abouta year ago published a book on a similar subject. The preeen*. work has been written by him from original IIMIIII- sinptof Father Uhrwalder, late priest of the Austrian mission station at Deleu, in Kordofan, who was a captive in the Mahdi's camp from 1H8-J to I sift!, and the book con- Bi<l for the most part of a personal narra- tive furnished by Father Ohrwalder. Interesting details are given as to the religious pretensions of the Mahdi, the severity ot his law, and his military or- ganisation, his attack on Kl Obeid, the cap- ture of (he mission slatio.1, the appearance of his camp, and his treatment of the missionaries, whose clothes were taken from them, whichjnecessitated Father Uhrwalder's apppearing l>efore the Mahdi in a shirt and drawers only. The author's account ol the siege of Kl Obeid include* a vivid descrip tion of the fearful privations endured by the bneiged who were glad to eat dogs, mice, crickets, and eveu cockroaches, " which were considered quite tit-bit.*." When Kl Olieid was entered, the missionaries aud the sisters were treated with fearful cruelty, and some of the Christian girls were selected by the Mahdi as concubine*. Space torbids to tell in full of the harrow- ing details which are afterwards given as to the torture which the missionaries and the sisters who were with them were subjected on the march of the Mahdi's army from the scene of this battle ; how the sinters were walk barefoot over thorns compelled to and I! rH MM. SAM*. undergoing the agonies of thirst and hunger ; how they were beaten and insulted, threaten- ed with violation, and one of them, because he would not change her faith, was sus- pended from a tree, and beaten on the soles of the feet until they became swollen and black, and soon afterwards ped off. the nails drop i 1 v - NEW .1:1111.'- II.. Kin ih. aesilll i lank Tkreatk Wklrh Lava Wa* Heapm I p la III- During the recent eruption of Mount Ktna several scientific men watched the phenomena, which greatly resembled those ul 1HH3 and IMH6. On July M last the central crater of Rtna oegan to discharge a dense column of vapor. The neitday there was a aerie* of severe earthquakes, and the southern Hank of Ktna, as in IMS:! .ml IHHo, was rent open snd new crater* formed. The explosive force of tbe eruptions this year was much les* than in IHHl, when fragmentary material was shot up to a height of *t,ul a mile, while thu year it was seldom forced to a greater height than '.'.UUO feet; but this year the new fissure wa* of much larger BUS and afforded a free escape for the energy of the volcano, which gave forth a much larger ijuantily of lava and was Dot compelled to eject it with such violence. ID les* than three day* the lava travelled two miles and a half, as far a* Monte Nero. Having reached this point, tbe lava divided into two princiii.il streams and H'.wnl down toward the plain below. Its pi-ogress now was very slow, and four days after the eruption began the lava streams were advancing only about seven feet an hour, but where increasing iu hrradlh and I hick ness. One of the minor slreams, however, was mill advancing over steeper The streams _ covered by scoria. In one place a stream completely lilled a little valley with lavs over I tn feel thick. On July 10 two observers approached within :i,OUO feet of the rift along which the new craters had formed. Crater No. I was It was because they looked on Cordon asan o, ground al>out '.111) fret an (jeur The were of a bright red color; slightly In the midst of all thi* suffering came new* of Central Cordon'* mission : and here we come to one of the more interesting featuies of th* book, in which Father Ohrwalder expresses his opinion upon the attitude whicnliordon assumed. "What," he asks, "could Cordon do alone against the m.w universally worehipped Mahdi ? Th* nature of the revolt was not political. The Soudanese had no intention of estab- lishing an Kmpire under the Mahdi'* rule, and even had this been the cas i it is very improliable that Cordons mediation would ha.e been of ary avail. Tbe movement was a religious movement, and was not limited to the Soudan alone. The Mahdi's intention waa to subdue the world Had Cordon only known beforehand how bound less was the wild fanaticism, and how com- pletely the Mahdi's followers were intoxi- cated by it, he would never have accepted tbe mission. As it appeared to us in the Kordofan, and to the Mahdi Cordon'* under- taking wa* very strange. It waa just as if a man were attempting to put out an enormous lire with a drop of water. Cor- don's name alone could not - i I i I I-- TIIK KKVUI.T i and it was not on account of his name that the Khartoum people rejoiced at hi* arrival, An Austrian had hi* throat oo from ear to ear in the pre**noe of hi* horror-struck wile and children. Hi* son was riERcrn WITH I.ANCBJ, and stretched at hi* mother r foet a corpse, the son-in-law of Dr. Ceorge* Bey, who was killed in the Hick* expedition, was roused from his sleep. He rushed to the window, and a bullet struck him dead at the feet of hii young wife. The Dervishes broke into the room and clove open the head of his lit- tle son with an axe, scattering his brains on his mother, who sal beside him. These are only a few instances taken at random of the atrocities described. Summing up the chancel of the success of a relief expedition, the narrator says that had twenty redcoat* artived at Khartoum it would have been saved, a* their presence would have given fresh courage to the in- habitants. He adds "The unaccountable delay of the English was the cause of the fall of Khartoum, the death of Cordon, and the fate of tbe Soudan. The Mahdi only made up his mind to attack when he heard that they had been delayed at Qubat. He did not begin to cross over his troops till the '.Mill January, and it was not till Sunday night that the crossing was completed. He could not have attacked earlier than he did. When the news of the first defeat at Abu Klea reached him he wished to raise the siege and retire to Kordofan. K the r'.ng- lish had appeared at any time HKH'IU. TIIK ATTACK he would have retired. Indeed it was al- ways hi* intention to revisit Kl Obeid before hi made hi* attack. " According to Father Ohrwalder the mem- ory of Cordon is (till held in respectful remembrance in the Soudan. Hu bravery, generosity, and voluntary self-sacrifice have THIICH 4*a> THRU WAfft. Murder la -rlrd as !* aail Mr. ma.. HL ul "Murder ha* ceased only recently to be a recogm/eH profession in India," said an oriental traieler. " A few years ago those who practiced the business were divijred into three classes, most important of which was that of the thugs. They originated about two hundred years ago, and were ex- tremely numerous at the time when the British first gained a foothold in that coun- try. Some notion may be got of the seal*) on which they worked from the fa. -I that one of them, captured a few years ago, con- fessed to having taken part in !.'<! deliberate killing* of human beings. They traveled in gangs, and inasmuch a* the native gov- ernment* took no pain* to put them down, their vocation prospered. Kach minor or- gani/ation in their association contained often 100 men, abstained from the practice of it* industry in it* own immediate neigh- borhood, which was none the less ex posed to occasional viiit* from other band*, so that the slaughter went on continually everywhere. One official of the Kast India company, who wa* for three year* in charge ol a ilistricl on the Nebbudda river, testified in his reports that during that period UK) people were murdered within lees than a quarter of a mile of his own residence. " It would be incorrect to imagine that the thugs were mere brutal criminal* with an appetite for blood. On the contrary, many of them belonged to the nu>*t intelli- gent and respectable classe*. They loved their profession, regarded the killing of people as legitimate sport, and even con- sidered themselves emissaries of a divinity, so that they were never troubled with pang* of conscience on account of their deeds. w in the admiration of hi* bitterest enem- They were organized as a regular army, ies. " Looking back," says the narrator, , rising through various grades according giving out large dust and scoria. and continual bursts of The exploaions were ac fuiupaiiii-d by roaring like the sea in a tern pest. Crater No. reguUr in form, was man) fiery red projectors. The third crater wa* ejecting incandescent lava fragments Knglish representative, and that he was only the precursor of an Knglish expedition sent to take possession of the Soudan for '.', at that time more Kngland Had they not been certain that ejecting dust with 1 an Knglish expedition waacotning, not a soul would have remained in Khartoum : and I have nn hesitation in saying that, had the Kg> p! tan Ooverument not sent Cordon then, undoubtedly the evacuation originally order- ed could have been carried out without dilriculty. K isrloum Those who escaped massacre in have often told me that they with a con'inual noise leM-niblm^ the dis charge of musketry. I urlher down Ktna's slope incandescent projectiles gradually fn lined a crater that Is marked N I On later days the c> plosions were far loud- , e, and the concussion was noteworthy. The were perfect y ready to leave and It was observers fell the blows of the air on their , only Cordons arrival that kept them back j bodi**, and (specially on their chests and in their earn. At the Caaa tie) Boscolh* walls trembled, and further away, at Catania, nindowk and door* were violently shaken. 'Ilia greatest violence wa* during the lt- tei part of July, when thick showers of lava fragment* were projeded from the four crater* to considerable heights, spreading over an area of almut -'..'< HI feel in radius. Thu< the eruption continued during the (ant week in July with much energy, but with gradual diminution in intensity, inter- rupted by some strong ipaumi The lava continued to advance, but diminished in velocity while it extended in luuadth and depth. AfiiM having destroyed much for tile ground the past slid west blanches of the lava How ceased to advance. In the last week of July crater No. '.' as- sumed a newpliit* . It* explosions had he but Cordon'* arrival without troop* had rather dmappoiuted them. Had he If. n accompanied by five hundred Britmb !*yon- eta, hi* reputation in the Soudan might have been maintained, and probably the Mahdi would never have left Kordofan. Tin- ;in' imr goes on to describe the Mahdi's advance up >n Khartoum, and the way in which the place was invested, how Colonel Stewart was sent out by Cordon to Itongola to endeavour to communicate with the Cov- eminent, and how through treachery he fell into Hie hands of the enemy. Tin- nteamer Abbas struck on a rock near the village of II rli'-i h. Colonel Stewart <l|semb.ii ked on an island. He sent messenger* to Sheikh Sulie- man \\inl Naaman with promises of (intern- ment reward if he would supply camels to enabln the shipwrecked party to ci.ntinue 1 on the events which occurred during the siege of Khartoum, I cannot refrain from saying that I consider Cordon carried his humanitarian view, too far, and that this excessive forbearance on his part both in- jured the cause and considerably added to bis ilitliculties. It was Cordon s first aud paramount duty to rescue the Kuropeana, Christian*, and Kgyptians from tbe fanatic- al fury of the Mahdi. Unfortunately he allowed hi* kindness of heart to be made use of to his enemy's advantage. After this calamity, we are told, " the Mahdi gave himself up to a life of ease and luxury, in which the unfortunate women captured in Khatoum played a prominent part. The courtyard of hi* htrem was full of women from little Turkish girls of eight yean old to the pitch black dinka negreu, or copper- colored Abyssinian." No space i* left in which to deal with other interesting part* of this entertain- ing volume. I n. I n . . rl .u .ill. - -r l.lr.u.n,. The sun ha* just suffered the shock of an eclipse and the savants think that Jupiter has a fifth mooo. If there be anything that civilized man has been inclined heretofore to term an ex- ai-t science it is astronomy. The mathematical prediction of eclipses, of the transits of Mercury and Venus, the occupations, conjunctions and other pheno- mena connected with the relations of the planets and fixed stars, and the periods of comets, have certainly seemed to give the lay student the right to assert this of astron- omy. There have always been two parties with regard to the truth of the nebular hypoth- esis : it is also true that no two astrono- mers agree exactly on the elements of the |. Line's. Kut these differences have been condoned, aa it were, in view of the grand general admission by all the leading astrono- mers as to certain accepted fact*. Pre- eminent among these fact* waa the number of moons, or satellites, attributed to Jupi- ter ; and when Professor K. K. 11 irnard. ol the Lick Observatory, alleges that he has discoveredanewitifth) moon circling around Jupiter, and is. moreover, backed up iu the assertion by Assistant Professor Taylor Keed, of Princeton, there come* to u* a tarlling sense of the uncertainly of even this royal science, sustained, though il ii always supposed to U-, by the most unerring and exact observation and mathematical demonstration. The satellites of Jupiter were the first dis- covery made by Cameo with his telescope in 1 1 '.1 1 1. From that time down to the pres- ent, a period lacking only eighteen year* of being three centuries, the completeness aa well a* the accuracy of C ' -o's discovery has never been i|uestioned. Vet countless observations of Jupiter have been made in all part* of the'world by innumerable astron- omers, professional and amateur, and with the aid of all the greatest existing telescope*. I* it not, then, a moat startling assertion that at this late date an addition to the sat- ellite family of Jupiter should have been discovered, and thi*, too, with no iulx.-r.lln merit. The lowest rank was comosed to of their journey to Dongola. The Sheikh re ..ml lUmetl a new milu. ltd UKUIVHIUM* ..> ifw- * - , t ome prolong,:,! and the violence of the eruo- I ' v '' thein well, professed loyally, turn wa* so great that the crater lo*t it* promised assistance, but regular 1 1 unrated rone foim and berime irregular and broken down. Karly in August craters 1 nd '.' gradually ceased to eject atones. The enclosed lava was slowly cooling and the vents were be- coming blocked. Iu fact, on the com .< mem of a period of renewed energy the ex- plosive force could no longer find an -H Kl.n \ ,. IV K nUI'l li- lo the people around to pre|iare for a fight. Me uiMlcii Stewart and tbe Consuls Power by I he existing craters, and a new crater was opened highertipthemountain. Thenanother violent eiuptiM- npam on Aug. Hand 9 fail- ing to clear away the material that obstruct* nl Hie existing rr.ile.rs opened another niw vent near the northern base ol crater Nn. '.' and from this new enter fur a short time eminniins masse* of material were ejected. Hul ibis vent and all the others soon ufler I. .iinu comparatively inactive, e\< .-pt Nn. I .in I the eralor formed above No. I. Tim latent phases of activity have com* from those two crater*. Thu new range of .raters, whi<:h mc.v forms hills on the side of the great moun- tain, ha* been named by t h ' men who ob- served the eruption* the Monii--Mlve.it n, in honor of the well known viilcvtnoWist, the late Prof. Orar.io Silvestri, who studied Ml. Ktna and its outbreaks with so much f< run and registered all its paroxysms so faithful- ly that his loss i* deeply felt by hi* breth- ami lleil. m to his house, but *tipul>i 1 first that they should put away their arms and ammunition. This they did, but re- i lined their revolvers. The narmtor con- tinues" The traitor had dates brought t ' scouts,' the second of ' sexton*,' tne third of men whose duty it was to hold ths hands of the victims while the latter were choked te death by the slranglen, who formed the fourth and highest rank. They worshipped the pickax, which was symbolical of their profession, and an oath sworn on it was never broken. In the district of dude slone, which is 170 miles long by 100 miles broad, there were 'J7 regular stations main- tained for committing murders. "Fifty years igo the Caages river between Benares and Calcutta wa* infested during five month* of every year by no less than 250 boats, which made a pretence of trans- porting religious pilgrims. When passen- gers had been taken aboard at a given signal the crew rushed upon them, strangled them or broke their backs and threw them into the stream, where floating corpse* are too numerous at all times of the year to excite any remark, such being to this day the or- dinary method of disposing of the dead adopted by pool people who cannot afford to bury them. Other plans practiced were to inveigle travelers to the murder stations or capture them in the darkness on the road*, the night time being commonly chosen in India lor making journeys on account of the heat of the day. Owing to the extraordin- ary notion* of fate heist by the natives of th* orient, this wholesale destruction of human life occasioned very little remark. If a person died it ws* the will of the Deity and so there could be no uso in stirring up an investigation of the matter. "The motive of the thugs in their busi- nets of slaughter was two-fold. It was a highly stimulating sport to them, with a certain amouct of religious sentiment in it, and it was productive of gain in the shape of plunder. In one instance on record the killing of six persons yielded $40,000. He- cause the thugs confined their attention te) the native people, who mad* no complaint, a long time passed sway before the British authorities look any active measures for putting down the eril; but when the work of suppressing was once begun it waa carried on with such activity and erleetiveoess that the gangs were soon wiped out. Of one society of 600 assassins all save seventy were captured in ten years. Between Iv'ii and K'C>, I ,."<>- thugs w re arrested, of whom ,'ii'J were hanged and 909 were transported. A part of thj code of Thuggee was never to practice unnecessary cruelty, nor iu any case to rob a victim before killing him. In- fants were always spared and were trained to the professi.m. The murder of women wss not countenanced, thoughi'crlain gangs adopted the practice. Moat commonly a thug would engage an unwary traveler in conversation, when the superior strangler would throw hi* own linen girdle around the unfortunate'* neck and choke him to death by pressing the knuckle* against his ipine. " Besides the thugs there were in India the 'poisoners' aud the ' robber*.' Th* former all belonged to one caste of dealer* m toddy. They went singly or in gangs, haunting the stopping- places of traveler* where they would lake s,d<autage of any ate proposition that the object is a new- creation or emanation from the parent orb? It appears, then, that all the astronomers, from Culile" down to lUrnard and Reed, have been mistaken in supposing that Ju- piter has only four moons ; and all the tele- scopes that have heretofore been directed a countless I planet (inc opportunity to drop a small quantity of pounded 'datura 'seeds into the wayfar- er's food. Then they would leave him to take his chance of recovering from the dangerous effect* of the narcotic. The 'robbers' likewise went about in gangs stealing wherever and whatever they could, j and improving such chances of inccndiariMii number of times against that M ft . u m t||(111 T . w , rc tor j Klna ;| y hiding the Princeton tleKop<>> a iniigh claw Rajpoots, who, on being con- _ *.. i ..I ,. .!;_.., .*.* * l. u tilth i ren in science. On one occasion a friend of Lord Alvsir ley's iMine for his advice under the follow m< circumsUnces: "Mr. M thmitn - i., k' k me whenever he lee* mo in s. U I, .it ..i.i 1 1. 1 In it lie r into tl.r i. hit dwii, replied Lord Alvanlcy. them, and so as not to offend him they took some. The Suliemaii stood up and lifted his leather bottle, which waa the pn-.ui.inge.l signal for the Aralw to rush out of then 1. 1. ling places ami Attack the guesu. In a N. ., ml the house was full of armed men, h . called t.pi n them to throw down then revolvers and submit : but liefore they h.nl i.\cn time to do this the Arabs rushed upon them with their swords. Consul Herbin, who was standing near the door, was thu first to fall. His head was chopped oil' with at. axe. Consul I'ower and Colouvl Stewart were toon cut to pieces. " A graphic account of tbe attack upon Khartoum and tbe death of Cordon follows, th > detail* agreeing with those ot which ac- count* havo already been published. The narrator says that "On Cordon's head be- ing brought to the Mali li he appeared to : ecu much displeased at his death, not hccaiiMi he felt pity for him, but because he IN hrvrd that Cordon might join hi* .11 my. Had he not done so he would have imprison- c I mm and reduced him to slavery. Cordon'* head wa* hung on a tree in Omdurman, and wild mult i ludc rejoi.ed iu heaping curst* on it and intuiting it. Th description of the scenes of massacre thai followca the capture of the tcwn show \ i\ illy the hurrildu brutality ol tlitt victors. lavs: Intliertii failed to discover th* tiflh satellite. Wi.h tbe due respect to Messrs. Halliard and Keed, this is a very remark- ublu situation of affair* il true. And yet, the announcement ot tint discovery has been generally .'. cplcd without the slightest .pu^'.i m, or even an expression of wonder- ment on the part of anjone, as to what previous astionomers nnd telescopes have iweii about Hint Jupiter's fifth satellite, lias eluded ilic.ni for nearly three hundred )C.US. female Curiosity- \\ ife 1 think I shall advertise for my missing purse. jiiered by the Mohammedan*, vcwed to re- venge themselves upon mankind. ' i.-, P. -i ...il 11 1 ue IB the World. Th* deepest coal mine on the globe is located at St. Andre du Punier. T'rance. The mino is worked on the " double-shaft ' pl.in. OIK- of these openings being '.".I.Vi and the other .'iilv 1 ! tool deep. The latter i* now being deepened, and >>y the end ol lst \\ ill havu reached the 4(K>0 foot levl. \ < markable feature of thi* deep mine ix thu remarkable low temperature in its lower level*, eldom rising above 75 degrees Kali. g purse. _ Husband -As it was probably stolen you The tjold and silver mines try. will not get it back unless you say that no questions will be asked. m Wife What! Not ask any questions? Why, what do you take me for ? Do you think I in a dummy? Bo Could Never Love Another- He fell at his heart a drcadlul pain, And with tears his eyes were dim, And he sii.1 tb \\ he never could love again On the night she jilted him. Kul although with a sigh and bis brain in a whirl That night he bemonnel bis fate, He was madly in love with another girl Just a fortnight frcm that date. the deepen of which are less than half the depth of this deep French coal mine, sre pervaded with almost inlote.aole heat, some of the corridor* of the Comstock showing an average of 120 degrees Fab. He" I am ratber iu favor of thel^nglult thau the America^ mode of pelliaj'." She "Yes?" He --"Yes, indeed' Take p.ir lour.' ftr instance. Having 'u' iu it makes all the difference in the world." "i tell you," exclaimed Mr. Blossom, of St. l.nuis, delating with a Chicago "'^ "1 tell you that St. Loin* is the uai *ITr town!" "Yes," admitted Mr. Uvcwayte, of Chicago, "1 understand it <* a l!:>g U-