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KERSHAM MANOR. CH AFTER XXXVIL A rKIKKU IX NCKD. Th<\i c->uld be no dombt about it, Se- baa.lan wa* ill, deipirately ill. It w not caaa of conventional brain fever, Avhough the brain w-. aifected. He would requir careful nuriing, contiii eai etten lance, anu complete quiet The doctor proposed that '. i should at onoe be removed to the Infirmary. Etlier ilood ulent, her hands tight claaped before her, the lighhof a great re- olre. a eudden inspiration, on her faoe. lie had told her to take care of nil children ; and she would care for them ; but how than by helping to aav* hii life to them and t.he world ? A little pale the turned to the doctor and made htr *ugge*tion. "My landlady ha* room* to leu The home U very quiet. I am an old friend of Mr. Malet'*, and 1 think that he would rather be here than at the Infirmary. We could get a trained nure for hioi, if you think it necetaary " "Decidedly it would b necoaiary. But what would the landlady iay T" "I think (he would content, if the were paid." "And who would bear theexpense ?"aaid the doctor, with a slirewd look. He wai an old man, and bad been a good friend to Either. "You are suggesting a very ex- pensive way of going to work, M in Denison I'm not aaying that it would not be better for him to itay here than to be removed, for the quieter he ii kept the better ; bat do you think " ".Vr. Malet U well off." aaid Either, coloring. "I know hi* family. There need be no question about expense." No, for ahe had two hundred and fifty poundi safe in the tank. She could uee that. She bad lived frugally and aave.l money from ber aalary ; her book had been noneaaf ul and ah* had tnot her on the etocka. She could well afford, ahe thought, to epend the earning! on the .nan ahe loved. She aoaght not the landlady and told her what ahe wanted. The good woman needed penuaaion, but the pronuae of liberal pay- ment aocured her conaenf a* soon aa ahe w*a assured the stranger's illneaa was not like- ly t-> be an infection! one, also that a nurse and, if necessary, another aervant. ahould be engaged without eipenae to heraelf. When the detail* were latiafaotorily ar ranged, Hither turned her thoughts toward the childien of whom .Sebastian had apokeo. Where could they be ? The doctor advisod her to send or go to the chief hotel of the town, or to the railway station. Mr. Malet had perhaps left them there while be came to aeek Kather. He bad born, aa he si.l, convinced that he waa on the verge of an illneea, and had done hia belt to place lua children in careful and tender hand*. Kather felt an infinite aolace in knowing that be had com* to her for help. Certainly be had few other frieuda on wh m to count. 1'riiU kept him from appealing to hia unole ; the La Touche* were in Germany ; Mr*. Drummond, once Phillia Wyalt, waa ecarctly known to him. He had no other relatinna, and hia long abeenoe from Kng- land had diminished the numlier of hi* Kngliah friend*. There waa no one whom he could truat a* ha truated Kather, and ahe was reaolved to prove heraelf worthy ot hia truat. She aenr a me*ens;*r to the Queen'* Hotel, which waa not far from her own re*- nit-nee ; and there, a* '.he doctor had pre- dicted, the children were found. Either Muriel to the bed prepare I for her. Kollo wai to have abared bia father 1 * room, while Muriel occupied an adjoining dressing-room; thua the little brother and aiiter were near each other ; and they had been ao long ac- cuatomed to the diverse experiencea of a wandering life that they did not aeem frightened or *arpri*ed at finding them- adlveaalone in a atrange hotel. Aa Kather explained to Kollo, when ahe had aeeu Muriel fact aaleep in her little white bed, *he waa obliged to go away for the night "to look after father, who wa* ill" but ahe wo_.il come again at breakfait-tim* and take them away with her. Rollo wa* aittmg up in bed a* he heard thin, with hia kneea up to hi* obin, and hi* hand* claaped round them. " You'd better lock the door if you are going away," he aaid. " Father alwaya Tocka na in, when we are at houda, for fear of carpet baggeri." " I think you will be quite aafe," aaid Either. " Ob, and there are not any black wait- en here, are there.!" waa the child'* next question. "Becauae Muriel doeen't like them. There waa one at New York who uaed to grin at htr, and *be waa frightened. She'* only a baby yon eee." ' There are no black men here. You mint take care of her," aaid Kather, (loop- ing to kiaa him. "Of courae. I alwaya do. There'* fatber'a dreening-bag do yon aee it ? He carrier auch a pretty little revolver in it. I can't uae it myelf,and I dun'l believe it'a loaded, "aaid Kollo eorrowlully, "but it yon will put it beaid* ma on the table, I could frighten robber* away with it it they came in." A* ihe hurried homeward, almoat too much abaorbed in thought to notioe the flood of ailvei moonlight on in* river at her left hand for tbii river, on the northern bank of which 'he town waa built, waa a perpetual presence in the scenery, aeldom out of light in all the windiuga of the (treat* ahe was startled by hearing her name poken by a familar voioe. " Ah, Mi** Deniwn ! You are late to- night." It wai Mr. Dryhurgh who addreeeed her. She slackened her pace and allowed him to overtake her. "I'm on my way home," aaid the editor. "Early to-night, you **. There waa not muih going on, ao I got away in good time. Shall I escort you?" "I am glad to have met you," amid Hither. "I want to tell yon what I have been doing, and to aik yon what I ihall do." And then ahe aave him tome account of the Malet*' arrival Mr. Dryburgh's keen, ihrewd faoe show ed surprise a* ahe proceeded with her lory. "Thi* Mr. Malet U an old friend of your* ; I have often heard yon apeak of hia family, " he aaid alowly, aa if weighing the matter, when Rather pauacd. " Yea. My father need to tea.-h him. I waa at eohool with hia wife. Afterward I uaed to teach hia wife'a inters." " But there i* no claim of kinthip. Mr. Malet did rather an odd thing in coming to you, did he not ?" " Certainly not," laid Either, rather in- dignnntly. " We have heen friend* for ao long I wa* very fund of the children I don't know to whom elae he would have taken them ao eaaily. He did not know that he waa going to be taken ill 10 auddenly, of conrae.' Mr. Crybnrgh laughed at her tone. "Nor that you would lake *o much reaponaibility on yourself ? Well, I don't think you have done a veiy wiaa thing, but it ia undoubt- edly a kind on*. A little Quixotic, ian't it!" "The world will prrhapa say ao," replied Either, in rather a choked voioe. Mr Dryhurgh turned and looked at her. ah He wa* (truck DV the repreaaed emotion in nurse installed at Sabaitian's bedside. She fount them Rollo and Muriel in the coffee-room, nearly asleep on a sofa, but steadily refusing to go to bed " until papa cams back." It wa* after nine o'clock when Katlier arrived ; and th* manager*!*, who had evidently been uneaiy, was glad to hear tidings of the children's father, who had left the hotel three hours before. " They must have oome by the train that ... eta In at six o'clock," she remarked to ber face. "Don t you mind one bit what Either ; " and I thought that the gentle- i\ r world aaya," h* rejoinsd kindly. " It man looked very tired and ill, but he would will not say any thing harah, you may lie not take anything himaelf he ordered a aure of tint. You have plenty of frienda meal for the children, but went out almoat here to aland by you. I'll send my wife up immediately, end did not return." to sse yon to-morrow, anil you can bar* a She opened the coffee-room door a* ahe long talk with her." aid thea* worda, and let Ka'.her pa**. In hi* heart, in apite of hi* reaaauring "Rollo Muriel darlinga, don't yon word*, he wa* afraid that Mia* Danuon.had k iow me?" laid Eat her, aa *he oame oloee acted imprudently, and that the world to the aofa on which the children w*re ' would whisper a good many harsh things curled up together. concerning ihe folly of a young unmarried Muriel raised a sleepy head from her | woman who proposed to nurse a man on- broiher's shoulder and held out her amis, connected with her by ties of blojd.through "Aunt Kaaie !" she said it had b*en the a dangei oua sickness. " Friendship i* all children's name tor Ksther. "l'*pa aaid | very we'.l," h* laid to himself; "but ten you would oome I" And in a moment she war in her old friend'a arma. Kollo, a fine little fellow, with dark eye* liko debaalian's, alruirglod down from th* of*, and came ailenily lo put bit srmi also round Esther's neck. The aheenoe ot child- ish joy, th* noiaeleaaneee of th* boy's move- ments, struck Either as unnatural. He looked thin and worn, a* hi* dither had don* : and little Muiiel'* tiny form aeemed nothing but akin and bone. An Indefin- ably lonely and neglected look hung about ihe two the look of motherlessnesa, which Is ao vagus and yet ao un- iniitakabl*. Kelher'e heart yearne I over the children. From the way in which tney to one the girl'a in love with him, and every one will see it. 1 should not have thought she would be so rash." Hut he himself waa a itanuh trim. I. and he 1 ked Either t he bet- ter for her raahneia. He made up hia mind that he would stand up fur her through thick and ilnn. And hia friendship and aupport proved valuable to Either in aftar day*. CHAlTKIt XXXVIII. IN IMTII in a Rno*. It wa* marvelou* to aee how quickly the matter wa* arranged, and how quietly olung to her ahe divined a whole hiitory o'f every one clipped into hii or her allotted desolation and inevitable neglect. J place. Rollo want to viail the Dry burghs ; " Where U father ?" aaid Kollo. Muriel uame to Either'* room*, where " II* t* at the houae in which I live. H* there wa* plenty of apace for her, U not at all well." "I thought he waan't well," laid the little hoy aoberly. " H* wante you to aleep here to-night, I will oome for you in (he morning It wa* not until August that be wa* abl* M quit the room* that h* and hi* attendant lad hitherto occupied. The nun* wa* caving, but b*for**hs went ahe helped her >atient carefully into an apartment which aeemed new to him ; a large, pleasant room, where a bright fire waa burning. Flower* and book* atoxl on the table*, aid a well- cuahioned couch wa* drawn into a snug miition where no draught* from door or window could be felt. Sebattian looked round him curiously. " What room is this ?" he asked. "it a Mis* Denisun's aitting-room, air. She i* out juit now, but ihe left word that he would be home at four o'clock. She thought it would be a change from the other room*." It wa* then half-past three. Sebastian dumiaaed th* woman, and settled himself upon the conch, fneling unaccountably weak and languid after his journey from cue room to another. He lay back, letting hi* eye* d wall contentedly on the flower* on the table at hi* right band, idly delighting in their color and perfume. There wre ;r*pea and wine beside them, and a new Ea.her went on. " Miss (Iregg will be very kind and good to you, and I will stay until you are in b*d and asleep." for her, and where the home waa ao well built tl.at (he oould amuae hrraolf without any fear of dia turbine heraiiik father, colongtiah* krpther nwa ai.le of the houae. Nebailian'a rooma werr oooupied by him*elf and hia nurae ; and Kather went about her dull** much aa uiual writing her hook, repairing at atatnd interval! to tb office, doing her " Mayn't we go to papa ?" aai.l Mnriel, { newspaper work, and returning horn* to prraiing the aoft baby face close to Either'e play wtln Muriel or to relieve tha nurae in cheek. I Sebastian "a lick-room. It wai a hard life " Not to night, darling) he Ii not well [,, r her, and it told upon her strength ; but enough to aee you, and It ia *o late. Aren't she thought very little, just then, of heraelf you very very tired t" 01 her worldly welfare. She wa* sublimely Muriel'* only an*wer wa* a mingled eiyh unconscious of the world without ; the wa* and yawn ; then ahe again nestled softly absorbed in what to her were new and won " You can let na thank yon for all thtt you have already dona." " Ia that all ? I think I will go on read- ing I " Vo, no," he laid, more carneatly atill. ' N >t before I tell you what I have been 'thinking. I have been very itnpid not to aee it before, but I euppoee that my mind wa* dulled by illnea*. 1 muit have itemed very ungrateful." " Yon have nothing to be grateful for," aid Either, her oolor riaing. " I did only what any one of common humanity would have done. Mr*. MacEweo'* rooma wrre vacant at the lime, and I knew that ahe wa* honeet and kind. The beat thing wa* to move yon into thoee room* and aend for a doctor and nurae." " That ia not the only thing that yon did. You might have waibed your hand* of me aft- r that. In*t*ad of which, you have been giving me time and care ana thought in a thousand way*. The nnree did not do for me half what yon have done. And you have taken car* of Muriel too I" " Thai ha* been a pleaaure," aaid Kather eagerly. " Yon do not know what a joy Mok and a magaxine or two. The window j it has been to think that ebe would be here lad been carefully ahaded, and there wa* a | to welcome me when I came back from the dranght-*creen behind the sofa. It aeemed a* if the eye and band that arranged the room had beet guided by a loving heart ; no hired service would have procured auch small material at command. In every de- tail his slightest wish had been toreetalled, and if be wanted further attendance he had only to pull the cord that was fastened 'rom the head of his sol* to the bell-handle, and (the nurse had told him) the landlady or h-r aervant would immediately appear. As he lay there thinking the door opened ami Either oame in. She had little Mnriel y the hand. When her eye* lighted on Sebastian's office every day. Oh, it ha* been no trou- ble to me to take care of Muriel ; I can not tell yon how glad I have been to have ber with me." " And all that yon have done for me " " That ha* bean a pleaaure too. I have not done much acarcely anything, indeed; but if I had an opportunity of rendering yot ny aervioe. 1 wa* glad to do it." She looked at him straight in the faoe with her aerioua, earneat eye*. " 1 wai glad," ahe aid gravely, " for Xina'i aake." Sebaatian experienced a coriou* aenae of relief when ahe mentioned Nina'a name. It wa* aaimpoaaible fur him a* for Enther to aho knew thai ahe bad don* well to aweep the paat iway and give it no tender bnng the child. The father'i inule, the ] backward look. But when he had uttered a few halting. eager geeture of liia nand, told their own atory. He did not even look at Katber ; j difficult aentenoee about her, and abomt the the little daughter waa everything to him, j atorm and terrible ehipwreok on the Ameri- and with her arma round hi* neck, and her | C m ooait. Either a topped him gently but tiaaea on hi* cheek, be forgot all the world decidedly. talk of that to-night," ubtil yon are a Tittle For one moment Kather felt a pang WM t jealouiy ? call it envy rather for which (he reproached heraelf immediately after- ward with bitter ah*me. She eat down, feeling suddenly depreued t>y the ditcovery of auch wickednee* ao ahe phraae.1 it in heraelf ; though aurely that wa* not wickedneat whioh wa* ao i-nlily repreaaed by her proteating aonl '. Meanwbil* Sebaetian wa* talking to hia child. " And where have you been while I wa* ill ?" ' Here !" Muriel answer*! triumphant- ly. " Living with Aunt Kather. An I you never heard me ; I never diitnrbed you one bit, did I, papa ?" " Never, my darling. And where i* Rollo r' " Rollo ! at Mm. Drybnrgh'i ; we have jual been to aee him, and h* aend* hia love.' Sebaetian glanced cujuiringly toward Either. " Mr*. Dry burgh U a great friend of mine the wife of the editor of the Dunron Chronicle," ahe explaine-l, " and ahe aaked Kollo to ipend a little time at her houae ith her children. There ii not much room for him here, and he ii quite happy and aafe." He wanted ao much to cime and aee you," Muriel broke m ; " but the doctor laid ' one at a time,' didn't he, Aunt Kather? And ao he ia to oome to-morrow." " And by that time," aaid Either, " you will have a lilting room of your own a* well ATHHC IT CBI IT iLTlMJ . Experience r The** Wke Have COM > ! Mall**** U A*ceB4etf Mix* Medd- lalda. The reepiratory or breathing menhaniam of man, a* well a* the whole body ,1* adapted to work with ihe air of a certain compoei- tion and at a certain preaauro, though it can adapt iuslf within certain limit* to varia- tion* of thi* eompo*ilion and preeaur*. A tooaudden diminution of preaiure would cau*e aaphyxia and death. If the preaiur* be gradually diminuhed, a* in acoending a mountain, no ertict, even at conaiJerable height*, i* experienced beyond a feeling of diitreu, often accompanied by BLUDIXC/ AT TBB HObB. Thi* i* dne to a derangement of the vaacu- lar ayitem, the wall* being constructed to meet a certain external pressure. If only the reapiratory interchange of gaaea were concerned, the total external preaaure might be reduced from 700 mm. to 300 mm,, correepondmg to an altitude of about 3J mile*, before the combination of oxygen with haemoglobin, at the temperature of the blood, would be aerionily affected. IB varion* part* of the world there are people living at an altitude of 11,000 feet. Whe> the pree*c re i* ctill further reduced, the difficulty of breathing the attenuated air increase* rapidly. Few peraon*, compara- tively .can aacend to agreatcr height than between three and four mile* with any degree of comfort, and in the majority ui " You must not she said. " Wait stronger. It is too much for you. Yon will tell me all about it another day." " Now that Mr*. Grey ha* gone," ah* aid, alluding to the nurae wh> had that day left them, " I consider myself in com- mand of your movement* until yon ar* ! qnit* atrong again. Mr*. Grey left me all manner of orders about you. The chief one wa* that you were to do exactly a* yon I pleanttl, unless yon wanted something dis- tinctly hurtful to yon, and she said that you were ' such a reasonable gentleman' that you would never want that. ' "I'm afraid no man ii very reasonable during illness." "Yon made a very good patient. But yon will find 'getting bettor' a tedious process, and I (hall not b* at all surprised if you are what nurse* mil 'fractious now , and then." She looked at him very kindly aaalieapoke, kindly and softly, although be kept up her lively tone. "The croeeer yon are, the more certain we shall be that you are getting well, you know. And we want you to be quite strong before the win* ter cornea." "Oh. I ahall be well long before winter," aid Sebastian, with the cheerful optimiam of a man who ha* hitherto known nothing of illness in his own person. "We shall see. I f you are careful, I hop* yon will be. Yon will nave two aitting- room* henceforward, your own and thia one, whenever yon like to uae it. Yon will find supper ready for you now or dinner if you aa thia one. Now that the nurse is gone Mrs. MacEjvaa U going to transform the room thaAbe oooupied ; yon will hardly know it again to-morrow morning." " Kather, ' aaid Sebaatian, letting Muriel slip out of hi* embrace, a* ahe turned to almoet i play wilh the great Persian cat something U. eat in this room by-and-by; for like to call it *o in the other room ; and I think it i* lim* that you bad aomethiug." "You mutt oome with me then." "Yea, I will oome an.' carve your chicken and pour out your wine for you, aaid Either, almoet merrily, "but Muriel and I wifl have play that had followed her into th* room, "who arranged all theee matters for me ? I re- member nothing after mv arrival at the hotel. How did I oome here ?" Either colored vividly. She had hardly thought that be would forget so much. " Do yon not remember that you left the children at the hotel and oame her* to thii very room ?" He shook hii head. " I remember leav- ing the hotel with a vague intention of seeking you. Of course that wa* why I cam* to Uunross at all It wa* a preiump- luoua idea but I fancied that I waa going to be ill. and that you would take charge ' valeeoent in hia speech. She laughed a* thia ia wher* we take our meale, you know. " Sebastian seemed dismayed. "Bat you don't mean to condemn me to perpetual lone- lines* now that I am getting better?" he aid. "Am I to dine in one room and you in another? 1* not that rather abaurd?" "You will have the children by-and-by." "And then yon will be alone? But perhap* yon like being a'one best? 1'erhape" jealous- ly "you find as in your way? You can not do your work wilh so many of as to interrupt you? You can not receive your friend* " K st her thought that there waa a little o the predicted "fraotiousness" of the con- On the contrary, 1 am only too glad of your aociety. I am a very aocuble peraon by nature. I don't know what I ahall do when yon take Muriel away." Sebaatian had to restrain an impulse to ay that he never would take Muriel away; but he refrained, an I contented himaelf with begging her to take pity upon him nd not let him dine alone. And Eather acknowledged, aa ahe gave him ber arm acroe* tk* hll to hi* own rooms, that h* wa* not yet fit to be left entirely to hiiraelf. (TO B CONTIM *D. ) balf-deliiionaat the time." 1 I am glad you thought of bringing th* children tome ; I think it a great honor to be truated wilh them," said Esther simply. You oame straight to this room ; and you told mi just what you have told me now that you war* ill, and wished that I would lake car* of th* children. And then you beoame insen- sible, and I lent for lb* doctor,'' aha con- cluded with a mule. "And an, instead of taking oar* of the children, you took oar* of me '" "Oh, but I took care of the children loo," he *aid, purposely misunderstanding him. "I kept Muriel here with m*. anl sent ' - "" "" Kollo lo Mri. Drylmrgh's. They have been Alter a heavy innwatorm during th* very well looked after, I assure you. And night tee citv man come* to hi* place of here oomea our afternoon tea; you *ould busuie.ua and fin. Is that in the principal thor- ike a cup, would you not? Then we will ' ougnfaree nearly all traces of the snow have leave you here in pa*oe and quietness until disappeared. Th* preparation* for the you are tired, and want to go back to your coming winter ar* begun early in the an- ew* mom " tumn. For the extra labor required reli- "I *ould rather you atayed." aaid S*b- <* " be placed in the "unemployed. 1 aatian. a* h* walehed her finger* buay with Work i* found each wint.r for some 2 OOO or 3.VOO men out of employment. Jjnow tint mad* it* apearano* in London late on Tues- day night and it continued to fall until 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning. Some 200 xtra man were token on, and by 10 or II o'clock th* city street* were cleared, the buay maid the cup* and aauoers, which ihe maid had placed fa a u! I al her aide. "I will leave Muriel to take oare of you. I have * little buaineu to do whioh will occupy me for a short time." When Either oame back it waa to take into Kit her'* arm* and lank into an inatant lunihrr. " I'm tired too. We oame all the way from Liverpool to day," aaid Rollo patient Iy. We have heen traveling abnut ever eo long ever eincit the ahlpwreck." HII lip trembled, hii forehead wrinkled, as if he ware goinu to cry. The way in v . -h he (wallowed down a riling aob Im- tolieued heroic but moat uncliildiah anlf- control. Shi would not l< i him try to Wll hr anything m >re ; ahe psrauadd him, with i en in word*, to lei liiniaelf b* guidnl to truly womanly nalurei, anil the lick iiiau his room, and shs herself oarn**l Uttlai waa vaguely soothed by Ik derlul offices of love. Sebaatian betrayed no surprise when he found I hat h* was under Esther's care. Hs grew accustomed to her presence while he waa too weak lo trouble himself about any- thing. She waa the beat muse that he could have ha I. She leaineil ihe details of nursing aa an art very quickly fro.n the professional att ndant ; ahe wa* alwaya patient, unwearying, n I rslm. She had a large ahar* of Ih* pru e 'ive initim-t, ihe Inborn mo.harlinsaa, wn.cli characterises all hardly permitted him to rraap the word* ah* read ; but to read to him now aeemed a different matter. K.lher'a book wa* Th* Earthly Paradt**. He listened ailently for a time to the iniiaii-al line*; but at tail he (t retched out hia hand. She lifted her eye* to Me what he wanted, and put down her book. "Thank yon. I alway* (njoy your read- ing," aaid Shaatian, "but 1 am going to ua* the privilege* of a man who ha* been i<l and aak yon to atop fur a minute or two. There la something I must lay." " Yea?" ahe ii 1 looking at him with a mile. " What i* it? What vou?" ailing and clearing the (treeta for trarli,-, while early on Thursday morning come 300 " unemployed " men were engaged to help in the work of clearance. On Thursday night .nd on Friday between AOO or 600 more men were engaged. The extra men are paid at the rite ot i! I an hour, and al- though aeveral oonaecutive houra' work could often be found for lar;e number* of them, it la found that in many inmancca they deaire to " knock oO" after an hour nr two'a labor. Thia they are allowed to .1... , wiin* < the y "* P*'* 1 "coording to the lime I do for h ' ch they have workwL [London City ' 1'reaa, THE Dirnot I.TT Or BREATIIIVi; at that height compel* thorn at once to descend. The greatest height ever attained by any human being* wa* about (eve* mile* ma balloon accent of Mr. tilauher and Mr. Coxwell in September, IMtt; but it very nearly oo*t them their live*. Mr. Glaiiher became maenaible at a height of an milea, and Mr. O>xwcll found bimaelf faitloaing itrengtha* the balloon continued to aac -nd. H* loa*. power to u*e hi* hand* an I, bad he not succeeded in pulling the valva itring with his teeth, both would have perished. The greatest height attained by a mountain climber wa* the height of 2 t.T'jo feet, which was aocompluhed by a Mr. Craham in the Himalaya*. He (late* that he did not find any difficulty in breath- ing, nor did heexperienoe nausea, bleeding at the noae, Ac. Th* motion of hi* heart waa, however, much aBected, a* it* beat- ing became audible and it* rate wa* decid- edly increased. CM reel S* Paid. A Mobile, Ala., apecial aaya : A corre- ipondent waa preaent the other day at aome experiment* made by three reputable nhyaician* on the peraon of a man named Lartado, a native of Thnidal. Thia man eemingly i* a wonder. He appear* to be utterly obliviou* of the **n*ationi of he*t and cold and in fact experience* no feeling of pain, even when undergoing treatment thst would cause an ordinary man untold agony. He ia 24 year* old, is 5 fell 7 inche* in height, weigh* loo pound*,and i* perfectly sound mentally and physically. His father wa* a Spaniard and hi* mother an Eugliih woman. Your correspondent witnewjed the man run through hia neck down to and grating the trachea a piece of ateel wire one-eighth of an inch in diameter, to which a moat powerful galvanic battery wa* attached and tuifted from one current (o the other with- out any preceptible pain, but with consid- erable acceleration of pulse. He paaeed an- other large eteel wire into hi* mouth and through hi* cheek, in all direction*, and no blood flowed. Another large wire wa* paaa- ed through and through the large mo*- cle* of the calf of the leg and between the bicepa muscle, in liue with th* braolhal artery, and through the arm above the wrut, between the two bone* of th* arm and other like experiment* in different parts of the body, all of which with *eemingly BO pain and no bleeding from any place but a drop from the neck. In fact, each of the opening* mad* by the iniirumen*. oloeed np a* bloodlee* and a* eaaily a* if the man wa* conatructed of India rubber. The phyaician* present declared that it wa* the moat won- derful exhibition of freedom from all pain ihey had ever witdeeaed. The man never flinched during any of the experiment*, while the instrument* were jabbed into him with no more consideration than if h* had been a watermelon. A tOMiH'3 OPI HUM OF MAN lad II I* > d t>rv ruurri.s *>de at hit, Man i* naturally selfuh, domineering and mean. Man'* love i* like the moon'( ph\i ea changing daily. Whin a man vow* h* love* you only, i' maybe that he ha* another woman'* picture in hi* pocket. Men think women are tool* women know men are. Man i* demotion before marriage and :* difference afterward. No man ever tall* hi* wife hrr maid i good-looking. Men are miser* to their wive*. Th* men make marriage a lottery th ere are *o many blank* among them. No man can defin* love. Woman live it. You cannot recognise the lover *ix month* after h* i* married. Man talk* about hia honor there i* little of it in evidence in hi* treatment of wom- an. Marriage i* to man a partnership in which h aiiign* hi* wife the harder work nd t he lea* pay. Th* bcit way to manage a man i* to let him alone. Men always expect more Iron women than they are willing women ahould expect I rom there. A man'* heart i* cheaper than a wom- an's. V " How are you getting along learning to operate your typewriter?" " Kirat rale. 1 can almoat read some of the thing* 1 wilt*. " He " Do you believe in *unh* thing a* love at Bret eight ? " She -" Ceri alnly. A hasty glauoe doea not diacover imperfeo- tic.ni . " To day I bought her a rote*, rf far, And prai*ing H now 1 hear her. Sh* waa dear to me when I fcr\a ner. But, by Jove, as a wife, ifee'i d*ar*r.