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VISITS HEB OLD HOME. ia in Pans- Kz-Empreu ees Her Iriesnl. Qaieea Isabella. A Paris despatch says : The Princess siathil le Bonaparte opened once more the hospitable door* of her hotel in the Hue de Bern on the occasion of the passage through Paris of the Kmprea* Eugenie to Captain Martin, her majesty's beautiful new villa on the shores of tbe Mediterranean. At a lancheon t>< which only a select few were invite. i to meet the ex-sovereign, her lady of honor, Mm*, le Breton, and her faithful secretary, Francsscnini Pietri, Empress Eugenie appeared in a new get-up, that it the wot no longer clad in black from head to foot, but had donned a moat striking dree* of the color called Bishop's violet, ami te complete the resemblance with those high dignitaries of the Roman church, it was compose.! of a straight, ample skirt without any trimming and a cape shut at the throat by a tilk cord and a pair of tas- sels. Eugenie's pallid complexion wa* made more conspicuous by this trying ahade, and she looked decidedly aged, her profile l>mg decidedly pinched and sharp ; her hair also, after having goue through variegated unts from the roy .'., fiery gold of her splendid y juth to dark red, then gray when illness and sorrow had put all coquetry m the background, then reddish again has assum- ed now a most uncertain color, retiinding ene of new mown hay. During her short stay in the city tbe ex- empreu paid a vrnit to the Palate dt Cat- tille to see Queen Isabella, who has always kept a lingering love for her once beautiful abject, afterward her imperial hastes*. The two dethroned sovereign* may meet again thia winter at Cap Martin, where the ex-empress hat) invited the ex-queen to spend a few week* with her. However, Isabella finds the Palais de Castilla the most convenient place after all, for her best friends fee! quite at home in it and could not follow her everywhere. While in France Eugenie i* not allowed to receive letters sent through the post addressed to her a* empress. All such missives are re- turned to tha senders by the postal author- ities To insure getting a letter safely into her majesty's hand ii should be sent under cover to Mme. .1' Areas, her companion, and although it stands a chance of being opened and rjad, it is sure to reach its destination by this route. ..ii-i > \ H't 1.' S THE IMPERIALIST HOPE. Prince Louis Napoleon is about to quit the Russian service and take up his resi- dence in Stockholm. Anything connected with this young man ia of intereat to those who have by experience been taught to read the signs of the times. H i* a well- known tact that of the children of Plon- Plon (who was himself by far the most in- telligent member of the second generation of tbe Bonaparte family, and, in fact, one of tbe moat intelligent men of bit day, irre- spective of rank) both the daughter of the Duchess of Aoeta and the second son, Louis, ore more liberally endowed with brains than the eldest lad, Victor. But Louis is even more intelligent than his lever and very beautiful sister-, and, so far aa brains are concerned, it tbe worthy ton of hit sire, of whom Samte Beuvt said : 'It is an everlasting pity that he is not forced to earn bit bread, and then the world would know the stutt he is made ol . A* it is, everyone will be convince.! that he is only a prince." J CST AS SMART AS VICTOR IS DOLL. This great mental superiority of Prince Louis, the younger brother, over his senior, Victor, was very strongly market -ind very widely noticed from the first, and came to great prominence when the two lads were at school together in that dirty Lyce* Charlemagne, in the Faubourg St. Antoiue, and used to live with their tutor round the corner in a shabby house in the Rue de la Cerisaie. Louis mastered his lessons with the greatest ease. Prince Louis i* not only as clever a* Victor i* dull but moreover poaseaaes not a little of th* extraordinary tact for which Napoleon III. wa* famous, and tact is certainly not a Bonapartist virtue as a rule. He has been working and learning in Russia, and mak- ing himself personally beloved by the im- perial family of Russia (no slight recom- mendation in the eyes of the French nation, to-day), while his eldtr brother hat been forgetting the little he ever did know, wasting hit time in dissipation in Brussels a*d getting himself positively loathed by the royal family of Belgium. Under theee circumstances, it is hardly to be wondered at that the Boaauertist party look really to Prince Louia and we are impatiently await- ngthehourwheu I'rinjeVictor will have the good taate to depart to another world and leave the mad to the imperial purple open to bit brother. Prince Louia shows his sense in taking np his residence in Stock- holm, for tbe reigning family of Sweden ewe* it* original existence to his great note. _ TMK a.lWJn.11* 1-1 relher Mariner Eatllchtens the Clnk en Ike Essential* ef S*ere1 llstery. " If Brudder Comealong Jackson an Brndder Standup Johnson am in de hall lo-night I wish 'em to step dis way," sai.i Brother tiardner when the routine busmen ef the last meeting of the Limekiln club had been disposed of. The brothers, nsmmi were present and after considerable hesitation they arose and advanced to th* platform. It waa teen that Uomealong had lately lost three front teeth an.l that Standup had one eye closed and a battered note. " Qem'lon." observed the president as he looked down on them with a vtry serious countenance, "bylaw No. 742 of article 381 plainly reada dat members of dis club shall not mgage in religus or political argy- ments or disoushuns. About ebtry three montha for de last five y'ars I have called speahual a'-tenshun to dat hy-lw. On three different ocooshuns members hev bin expelled fur breakin' dat rule. In spite of all dat has bin said an' dun, howeber, de two member* befo' mo hev bin guilty not nly of treakin' de rule, but of tryin' to break each other t heads. Bru.ldor Jack- ton, what yo' sot to tay tur yo's*lf J "I said da' Kv lift 1 red ha r, aah. "Brudd^r Johnson, what yo'git to say r 1 "I said she dula't !>ev." "An' <l.u p. -ipitated a inorUl combat ? "Yes, son." U !o' de mortal combat, wa< precipitat- ed, howel-r. '.oaf of yo' c'.! 1 pftoh other liars, an hos* thieves, an' robbers? The guilty pair bowed thoir hd* in ac- a- '-I "Brudder Jackson, did yo' eber see Eve?" "No. tab." "Did yo', Hruddtr Johnson?" "No, *th." "Km either one o' yo' point me to any description given de color o' her ha'r ?" They mumblmgly acknowledged their inability to do so. "Now, yo' k'arken to me '." exclaimed the president, as he drew himself up and emphasized his wordl with extended arm. De verdict am dat boaf of yo' be bounced out o dis club fo' with right off wid in a minifc an' dat under no sarcumttances will yo' be restored to membership ' 1 lie ^wine to put a aiup to dis sort o' biznes* ef I hev to bounce ebery member o' de Lime- kiln club an' ran Paradise ball all alone ! De idea of two ole gray-headed niggos i in deir lir-af ober de color of de ha'r of a woman who libed thousands of y'ars og ! Who knowa whether her ha'r wo* r*)! block, white, or pea green ? Who keerd How you gwine to find out if yo' do keer?,' "Please, tab "began Brother Jackson a* h* looked up. "Silence '" thundered the president. 'Nuffin yo' kin sajr will change my dacit- hun ! I want all members of dis club to thoroughly understand de poeishun of affairs befo' we drop dit subjick. Dar was on Adam on' an Eve. Dey resided in de (ia den of Eden. Eve tempted Adam, an' dey had to move, we want to know. Dat'* plenty ; dat's all We doan' keer 2 cents how tall dey war, how much dey weighed, or what was de size of deir feet. Dar was a flood. Noah builtan ark an, floated arovn an' wa* saved. We choke off right dar. We doan' keer whether he was married or tingle white or black- uUl or . short. We dean' keer whether it rained tn9 ( * " ( thelr hou * down tbe b * ck . i of m u:.,i. IN \MA. err Heikeslaer CitlebratlBC 1st staratiah n.i Mas*. New Year in Burmah oejms with a great water feast, and the Burmese girls am' women for this day reign supreme. I wish I could show you a Burmese girt She is as pretty at any of her kind the world over. She it straight, well formed and fine look- ing. Her red lips are lutoioui, her eyes are large, brown and velvety, and her cheek* are the color of the cream of your own Jersey cow, with a f*int tinge of red in the center. She wears but two garment! : one is a white ticque of tint silk or cotton, which covers the arms and bust and falls to tbe waist, and the other is s strip of silk or cotton of the brightest colors, which i* wrapped tightly around her waist, hips and loins and fastened with a twist at the front It fall* to her feet, and when she walks she kicks her bare heels out behind, so that the only exposure of her person is from her foot to the knee. She wears rings in tha lobea of the ears as big around a* a silver quarter, and she amoket cigars at long at a lev! pencil and as thick a* the wrist of a '2-year- old baby. She hat more rights in the way of business and love-making than has her American sister, and on New Year's Day she it more giddy than ever. At toon as the day breaks she gets a squirt gun made of tin or bamboo and with a bucket of water goes oat to saturate her gentlemen friends. No one is safe from her, and boys and girls, tien and women, devote the day to sprinkling and soaking each other. No one has the right to get mad on this day, and a boy hat tha right to pour water over his father, and the girlt drop bncketfult from $ > J.,3.'ft>,min This it apportioned for cigait, K.'l to each inhabitant or 41.1 fnr each male adult : cigarettes, 51 to each man, woman and child, or -.'So to each male adult. All this goes up in smoke each year while peo- ple are hungering for lirea.i. But this does not include the millions of bowls of tobacco that are consumed in pipes. The figures for smoking tobacco cannot be separated from those for chewing tobac- co Combined we contume _'7!l,7-'o,i '.rj poundt of tbe fascinating weed, which coats ut S13,rJo3,l)36. Altogether not taking stock of the money we expend for chant pagne, whose sparkling bubbles burst abou the brimming goblet, and tbe other and imported native wines which drive away carking care, ihe people of the L'mted GOMES TJN TIMES A YEJLH, Ihr I rlifkirul Ill-ram Wllh Wbl.'h I. Fertwlleallv IM! Recently * number 01 wonderful n %n of the recurrence of dreama hav<- l>rou||ht i my notice. It it no >i thing lor a person Unit-earn the same U with orne modifications 'wice, but wheat the vision ii repeated, exactly the same very minute detail, as monv M teu tinea in a year.it become* an interesting problem*. A reiidentofacertoinCanadiaucityavHrB he i> haunted yea, haunted !>y adream whi4 persists in recurring to him aomelitnes) s* often a* twice in one mom h. He says a* never goee to sleep at night without Use terror of baring to pane through ihe hot- a j if * j i_ j i_ tjurror 01 nkvioit to ptuw MIK-HUM 100 Dor* ESStZZZ&SSZjISfcr. "bis expenence. of C v,.iou," Dur.n, t** tbe almost incomprehensible sum of |l,o41, 003,4410. The mind is incapable of grasp- ing the largeness ot this total, but when it is remembered tl<at this is more than the circulating medium of the United States ; day he is unabla to shake oil the tiressn made by it, so that waking or slueping ia* terror is always with him. I lie mere fact in the United States goes each year over the bar of the counter of tome tobacconilt, ome idea of iu magnitude can be obtained!. t M OK !..!< wf 4t. thumping away ercising TioleLtly. He collected hta thou ;ht* and found the cause to be a hnt> ribie dream, whicii he re.nemhered vividly. In hi* 'Iream he thought h* wa walking through a forest of leafless) trees. Tke> chilly air and impressive stillnris peculiar to a heavy overgrown wood were roaeW death like by the absence of hie on all side. fo'ty days or only thirty-Dine an' a half. " Cain killed hie brudder Abel wid a club. It's none o' our bi/.netu to az whether dat club was, of i.ak or hickory whether de killin'took place Sunday mornm' or Wed- nesday evenin'. We doan' kter whether it was outdoahs or in de house. " Dtnl was cast into a den of lions mebbe six. Mebbedem lions was hungry meh be not. l)-v didn't want no Dau'l. ^Vh 1 - ley didn't am none o' onr bizaesa, A. \vo k-er fur am dat Dan'l got out all right. " JonaU was swailered by a whale an' cast op agin. \Vas it a small whale or a big one '.' Wat he block or whit* ? Was he wan in' <lar to swaller Jonah, or did he just happen 'long at <le right mini I? Nona o' our bizneas ! All we keer far is dat he was cast out agin. " Ihs am whar I stand, gem'len, an' whar I shall continer to stand, an' sicb as can't stand w:d me kin take a walk ! Brudders Jackson and Johnson, yo' km make yo'- selves akass ! Git out an' stay out ! Yo' can't come yere no mo' ! If, in gwine down de alley together, one of you declares dat Job bad chilblains 'stead of biles, an' de odder caUMskJm a liar an' gite up a tight, it won't be nuffin' to dis club and nobody will inter- fere. We will now blow out de lamps and prognosticate home wants." their parents, and Europeans at well at Americans are soaked. THEY BATHE TIIBIH URAXDMOTHI R*. The Siamese Xew Year is the 27th of March and the holidays laat. for five days. There is no tax on gambling a: this time and all the gambling houses ol Itan.'kok I are opened. Thousands of theee hall naked I Siamese squat about playing fan-tan, and fuss wid ' one of the funniest customs is that the I children have of bathing their grandmnthert on New Year's. The ugliest looking old women of the world are the Siamese. The maidens are plump and bright-eyed. They j sre short, seldom over five feet iu height. but they are straight and well formed, j They wear nothing but a strip of cotton i cloth a yard wide and abou t three yards long, whioli they wind about their hips and fasten by pulling the ends through be- tween the legs and tacking them into the belt at the back. This ia the dress of the common women, and it is only the better LSI American grleallal ef Opinion Thai Ike rorsswr Is M.MO tears. At a recent meeting of the American So* ! No songs of birds nor chirps of insect* coulai ciety for the Advancement of Science Dr. ' be heard, and the twig* which were scat. D. <!. Briton, president, read a paper on teretl on the brown, dry grass crackled its "The Beginning of Man and the Age of the an unearthly manner as the lone traveler Race." Ia the course of his remarks be 'walked along. My friend said the tar- saiil : ! foundings gave him the impression that Tools distinguish man from other ani- ' something terrible wan going to happeu, mals, and so where tools sre found in geo- but lie could not turn book, seemingly ins- logical strata and debris it is known that palled by some unseen force to pursue hi* man must have been. The earliest tools were flaked stones and cracked bones. All flaked stones and cracked bonct , however, the writer point* out, may not lie tool*. Some of the flaked stones, for example, may thing coming iowuthe slope in the ilistaauev have been produced by action of fire. Man winch seemed to be making its way toward it th* only animal which uaea fire, of course him. As it drew nearer he saw tnal it wa* path. At last lie came to a brook wfe banks were so sloping that tli-y could al> most be called hilli. As he stood there hs gaze was attracted by the hvure of but then fire may exist wuhou' the agency a man. From his first sight of the figure he wa* seized with an a-vf ul terror, which seamed to grow more and morn interne as the man came nearer. On t be ngnro coming closer he could tee the lace el the man in the twilight of the shaded wood, but not distinctly. What a face it was : It had the pallor of death, and too host deposits in which stone tools eyes seemed to lack the fire of life. Still apnns clearly ahaped by man are the man came on, and the watcher's heart Twe rmi tjeesu ! eBe 1ouh. An odd little astronomical fact in con- nection with th- jroar that has just closed, and one which has not been noticed, per- hap, by one penon in each 10,1)00 of the entire population of the country, is this: Two months of the year. January and April, each had twn full moons. July, 1390, was equally well provided for, bat none of the months of I Sill nor 189*2 ex- hihite this lunar peculiarity. The year ljo'1 bad two mon'.nn, January and March. each having two full moons. [St. Louis Republic, A Hartford man dreamed twice, on suc- cessive nights, of a crazy inau. On the third day, he lodged a complaint at the police station, and urged the police to arrest, the crazy man of whom be had Ireamed. An Kiquimaux woman strap* her child on her back to that the infant can look over her shoulder. The American Indian fixes her child so that the infant gazes in a direction opposite to tht of the person carrying it. A lake of boiling mud. two miles in cir, oumference, exists in the Island of Java- near Solo. Masses of soft, hot mud con- tinually arike and fall, ami huge mud bubbles explode like balloons, with reports like guns, at the rate of three a minute. Just after an outburst of blasphemy, it is reported that James Starks, of Shamonin, Pa., was stricken dumb. This occurred eight montha ago. He lately made a pro- tension of religion, and for one day there* after he recovered his speech. Now he is losing his sight. A sparrow's ueet was made in the cornice of the t iirl's High School in Louisville. A fire took place juat over the nest, but was extinguished with trifling damage. It is inferred that the sparrow eonveyed to its neat a match, which became inexplicably ignited. Just as the funeral procession of Mrs. Win. Shell, of Rochester, Pa., arrived at Beaver Cemetery, it was discovered that her step father, Walter Fisl., who had goo in advance to the graveyard, had died in the grave. It is thought that he fell in and broke his spine. An Albany thief, while shivering with the oold, saw a nice overcoat OB a wire dummy before a clothing store. " What does that tbing need with an overcoat T" he mentally sJteried. Quickly unbuttoning the garment, he ran off with it, and was soon out of sight. it holiday times the Prince of Wales' outlay for Christmas gifts depletes his pocket money. All his near relatives e<pect presents ; and what that meant may be in- ferred when it is stated that he has seven- teen brothers-in-law, 10 uncles, .~>7 cousins, and 57 nephews and niece*. A rat in the Cleveland post office has a sweet tooth, and is always on the vatch for mail pa^kacreeof wedding-cake. Ue recently stole an "ntire box of tho delicious com- pound. It was too much for one me.u, and he perhaps uaed a part to msuue In.-, (lum- ber with pleasant dreams, J8 An ''111111. -lit, London phyarll^s), Sir Henja- min Harrison, condemna nioycle riding. Ho thus enumerates some of the evils . "The spine become* almost arched, the cheat bone in ailected by the unnatur.tl pressure, circulation is impaired, and no doubt the lungs are interfered with, too.'' In Paraguay, when a gentleman ia intro- duced to a lady, it is customary for him lo j kiss her. classes who have anything about the shoul- der*, the butt and the neck. In such a costume a plump girl looks well, but a scrawny, wrinkled old woman looks hor- rible. Tbe Siamese women cut their hair short. It grows coarser as they grow older and it itandiup like a shoe brush all over their heads . These grandmothers have bristle* about an inch long. They all chew the betel nut, and long before they have grandchildren their teeth are black and their lips are cracked and stained. They squat around the bouse on their haunches doing little but smoking cigar ettee and chewing betel nut, and they vary the patting out the smoke with the spitting out betel juice. The celebration of JJew Year's Day is sanctioned by the BuddhiaU, and the Siam- ese believe that the souh of those Bud- phists who have gone to purgatory come back to earth on that Jay. The people pour water out on the ground in celebration of this, and they always go to the temples and visit the shrines. Kvory idol in the kingdom is bathed with perfumed water and incense - burned by the cord. They lay flowers upon the idols and they weave garlands and pnt them into Buddha's hand. The children play tricks upon one another much the same as we do on Halloween or April I . They black each other's laces and push each other into the river. They havo a water celebration much the same at in Burroah. and the king has a reception of his officer* much the same as has the U.S. President. Finally, with a light spring, the figure leaped icrosa the brook and stood right liefore my frieod. who then, to his horror, saw his own face -dead, not a aign of life visible : the eyes) glassv and expreesionleas and th color as* the flesh as marble ' Then the horror ol the situation awakened him and he fountl himself in the condition described above. He slept no more that night, and fnr a week after he thought about tbe portent* of the awful vision, but finally the remeea. <!> VAeT*|l VRAKLT. Thr .%! f Llqeiir *<t TeSMrre Cea- asiBaeel 1st Ike I mtr<i Male* Although we are counted a fairly sober people in the burly burly of nation*, the figures of the internal revenue commission for the last fiscal year on the amount of whiskey anil beer we drink and the number of cigar* and cigarettes we smoke, and the quantity of tobacco we cnew are regarded by the Atlanta Constitution at limply amazing. They make the head reel. The preacher who peruses them will hie to the pulpit to tell his congregation that wt are a nation of drunkards, stupefied with drink half of the year and drugged with tobbaoco tbe other half ; that each year we reckless- ly squander upon these invention, of Beel- zebub three times as much money as is re- quired to keep this government in opera- tion, and more than is represented 'iy the circulating medium of the United States. And when the preacher dose this he will be throwing an armful of fact* at his congre- gation. We consumed last year, according to tnia report of Commisuoner Miller ana it tells the story at detailed in hard cash over the counter of the internal revenue office S7.0JO.OOO gallons of whisky, brandy and distilled spirit* ; or, in other wordu we drank 6,000,000,000 glasses of whisky. for which we paid over the bar the enor- mous sum of 9009,000,000, or $50,000,0 i> more than the annual appropriationl of con- gress combined. This represents a consump- tion of KM glasses of whisky each ysar for every man, woman and child between the rock-bound Pacific and the storm-tossed Atlantic, or, counting only maleadulM, 500 glasses for each. Of beer the figures are equally astounding. The consumption was :n,96 > - > ,943 barrels that is, 1 '2, 783, 11)9,200 glasses representing an expenditure for thia mode of Toutonic hilarity of $l7,'i5S,- 4I0, or about $10 for each inhabitant. In the neighborhood of '230 glasses are charged up in this circulation against each of us as our annual allowance. If we do not average our daily bread we may be sure our neigh- bors gel the benefit of oar abitinence. In the matter of cigars, cigarettes, amok- ing tobacco and chewing tooacco we are equally prodigal. The blue 'ncreaae of l.s' 1,802,000 cigara and* cheroots and the curling wreaths of .'l,l7tl,n!>:t.lK)ti cigarettes aid us in oar reverie* and soothe ua in our work. For this luxury we pay : for cigars and cheroots, $,'3,7">".00ll : for cigarettes, of man. Lightning, volcanic action, spon- taneous combustion and burning wells and springs may produce conflagrations and therefore pro-luce flake. 1 Hint slooea. A lame portion of the supposed tools, accord itigly, have to be left out of the diacuaaion fnr want ot absolute proof as to their origin. The earli anil weapon* known to have been found are the gravel Iwat faster and faster, beds in the valleys of the Thames in Kug- laml, the Somme in Prance, the Moi.zares in Spain and in other portions of vestern Kurope. Theee tools and hunting weapons are fouud alongside of tropical fauna, like the lion, elephant, hippopotamus and large ape*. It i* known, therefore, that man lived in Kurope during a period when that country bad a tropical climate. But bince that time Europe has been through an ice age. Vast array* of evidence show that since tbe time brance of that terrible night died when the valley of the Thames hail a climate About a month after he had the same dr like that of the valley of the Nile glaciers without a single detail altered, covered all western Europe. Geological peculiarly, it all seemed new to him, ke deposits on top of the remains of tropical having no recollection while dreaming of animals and man's tools contain the re- ever having seen the viaion before. So mains of arctic animals like the musk ox, during the year ha ha* undergone tbe i-are* reindeer and white fox. Man, therefore, experience ten times, hunted the tropical lion and elephant in * England, Spain and France before he hunt * -*jiu < rn,.i ,.n ... * i , ; i ed the arcti : reindeer and white fox. The A Birmingham, Ala., detpatoii say*: first question, therefore lobe determined N'sar Summerfield, Ala.. tlu three- voaroU ii, bow long Ago wa* the ice a^re ? The child of Henry Smith, an mdustr:u* laraa- saine ice age ' hat visited Kurope prevailed er, was carried off about a w-ek njo by an in the United States. Investigations into eagle. V eater lay lh body wa* found on the age and duration of the glacial move- a took cliff about three mile* from the boy'* nient have therefore been carried on inde- home. Nearly all the fleah had It-en eataaaj prudently on both continent*. The cutting off, and practically nothing remaiued ex- ol post-glacial nvr channel*, like those cept the skeleton. below Uie tails of Si Anthony and Niagara, Smith had twn children, one a lioy of 14 and the filling of glacial lake beds and the years, and the other the dead cht Id. Una piling of post-glacial debris, have served as day last week, while tiie parents were ab- geological chronometers for the guidance of sent from the house, tbe oldest b >> look a. investigators on both continents. Krom gun and went into the woods in unarch of these evidences it has been universally game. Returning in half an hour he saw agreed that from 10,000 to 12,003 years an eagle Hying from the yard with toe have elapsed since the departure of tbe child in its talons. glacial .moss from the now thickly settle.! , After several daya search in adjacent wooJs) portions of Europe and the northern state* : a party went to the mountains about three of this country. The period of formation miles distant. There, on the top of a rook of the g'acial mass and duration of the ice j cliff in the eagle's nest, the remains of tho age is placed by the investigators at from | missing child were found, surrounded by 2ll,0()0 to .1J.OOO years. Allowing additional ; the Irane* of a number of small animal*, time for the primeval man in tht tropical , among which wa* another small human per 10. 1 to develop and spread .ver the area skeleton. This skeleton is believed to bo under consideration, th* total of 80, OK) ' that of a child of David AbercrombiH. who years is arrived at a* the approximate time disappeared from home about a year whhh ha* elapsed since t he earliest authen- tic traces of man on the earth. LIKE THE HI UK OF A OOCOAXfT. Nothing more was done until ISoO, when a new shaft was sunk ten feet from the money pit to a depth of ll>9 feet, and while tunneling to the money pit the water burst in and they fled lor their live*, and in twenty minutes there was forty.five feet of water in the new pit. They used the two horse gins for a week night and day, with the old result. At this time they made the discovery that the water wa. salt and rose and foil with the tides. The idea of an artificial channel suggested itself and they searched the shore, and, building a cofferdam at a suspicious spot, they fonnd the sand and iMach gravel replaced by rocks and on removing them they found five well-constructed drains converging into one main channel. A high tide carried thedamaway and they went in some distance from tbe shore to sink a shaft and strike the channel at they could not afford to rebuild the dare. The first pit missed the channel, but on digging the second one they encountered a large bowlder at a depth of thirty-five feet, which, when pried up, wa* followed by a rush of water which filled the pit to tide level. They tried diiving spiles, but as the appliances at ham! were very crude the effort wa* a failure, shortly after another shaft was sunk on the south side of the money pit to the depth of I IS feet and they tunneled directly under tho money pit, and while at dinner a tremendous crash was heard. Rushing back they found that tho bottom of thetro.iey pit had fallen into the new shaft, and thus another failure wss odrled to the rest. A syndicate of Halifax capitalists combined with the old company and another attempt wax mde and another failure scored. And now a Boston company has secured a louse of the islan<l, nn I they intend to bring in ihe ;.! of scientific ap paratus. A skilled cn^-nrcr has surveyed it, and pronounces the :ank ai easy on*, j It looks as if the bu: ie I tr.'mnre of Cap: Kidd or some other sea robber waa aoon to be brought to light to enrich th*. treasure seekers of this nineteenth century. I and was at the time believed to have I kidnapped by a gang of gypsy fortune lett- ers who were passing through tbe neighbor* hood. The child was then threo year* old. Every man in that section hat armed himself with a gun and is hunting for the winged freebooter. Little children are net allowed to go home alone. Wellofaarpeataia M \nitoba There is a horseshoe-shaped mountain up in Manitoba which literally swarms witb an ikes twice evsry year. In the early fall theseslippery customers gather here from all iireotiona, mostly from the prairie country to the south. In one tide ni the mountain here is a circular hoie, about fifteen fee dnep, and as smooth as if it had been fash oned with a well auger, where tns e* thousands of the reptiles gather to apn*l the oold winter months. Persons who have tried to explore this Immense snake den during the summer, when the regular test- ants were absent, say that doxent of sub- terranean passages lea. I out under the mountains in all directions from thehottot* of the well. Captain Silvera, Royal Knght- eer, estimates tha'. he hasaevn as many it) ,'fix 1 ii 1) ihKken of nil si/.n knotto.l together and pi'ed up in a semi-torpid state in this) "Well of Serpent*," t it is called in the Northwest.{ St. Louis Republic. I nli|ii< Show la tin. An international exhibition of machines^ appliances and apparatus for the cleaning, screening, dreaaing and drying of grain and ut'ier seed will be held at Si, Petersburg from Mr VJ-o 10. I VM. The exluhiiioei ia organized by the Imperial Krve Economic Socifty o' Ku-nm in St. 1'ctorslmrjr for the> purpose oiacqtiainliiu farmers, agri.- i Itural implement maknrs and agents, merchants, ^vith the best and newest machines* ippliano 1 *, etc. , for cleaning, screening, dressing an>! drying gram and other seed. Tho extuoiiion is being organized in eon- tiKjneuce ol the government's ileoiiiion te> enioroe stringent laws with a view to slop the generally low and often fraudulent grading of Russian export grain.