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THE SUPPLY AT ST. AGATHA'S. v i i/.vnmi WWART I-HXI.I-M, ix "THE CBirrrRY." The old clergyman sat witli hii feot upon the base of hi* little cylinder coal-stove. His ihin ankles shrank in the damp stock- ing* which he had uot been able to change ince he came in out of the itorm, because, owing to come personal preference of the lanndreec, he could not f nd any dry onei. Hii worn elipperi Rapped upon bie cold feet when he moved. But he had on hii flowered dressing-gown of ancient pattern without lun. He did not talk ; but hii thcughti were yet alive. He remembered Saint Agatha's, and the lermon which be was to preach to-morrow. He knew that not one of hie people (ignorant of inch mat ter) would understand now to get word to the oity veitry. He tried to give diroo- tioni, but hii voice refuted hi* bidding. He knew that he would be supposed to have failed to meet hi* appointment, per and runic cut; his high arm-chair was hap* to hare been thwarted a rural clergy- cushioned in chmtx and excel nor behind man. old and timorous, baffled ia an in his aching bead ; the green paper shade ! portent professional engagement by a wa* on hii study-lamp ; hi* best beloved | little snow. He was te have token the books (for the old saint was a studsnt) lay | evening train. He was te be the guest within reach upon the table ; piled upon of the vestryman who wrote that pleasant them were hi* manuscript sermon* ; and letter. Hs was to preach in Saint Agatha's he *:ghed with tne content of a man who to-morrow. H* was to feels himself to be, although unworthy, in | Nay, h* w*l not nay. He was to do the loving \rrns of luxury. A rap al th* none of these thing! A lick man, mortal door undeceived him. nil landlady put in her withered face. "Sir," shs said, " ths widder Peek'i a- eying. It'* just like her to take a night lie* this bat she's sent for you. 1 must say I don't call yon fit te go." "A man i* alway* fit to do bis doty," said the old clergyman, riling. "I will go at once. Did the send any convey- anosV ly a sick mm, past power of speech, he lay upon hii carpet lounge, shivering under the pile of thin blankets and cotton com- forters that bad been wrapped around him, and gently faced hii fate. He could no; 1 preach at Saint Agatha's. And hs could not explain to the veitry. Perhap* his heart-sickness about thi* matter inoeided 'a little one like* to think so as hi* disease grew upon him : but there are men "Catch her I" retorted the landlady. ] who will understand me when I say that "Why she hain't had the town water let thi* wa* the greatest disappointment of hi* in yet and she wuth her fifteen thousand humble holy life. dollar* ; nor she won't have no hired girl to j A* Saturday night drew on, and the *lan do for her, not that none of 'em will stay came out, he wa* heard to make such efforts along of her a week, and Dobson's boy'* at to speak articulately, that one of hi* weep- the i'oor, s drippin' and cusiin' to get you, ' ing people (an adeclionate woman of a for he's nigh snowed under. She'* a wuth- , brighter wit than the rest) made out, seihe less old heathen miser, the widder Peek." ; bent lovingly over him, to uDdentaad so "Then there i* every re**on why I should much as this. not neglect her," replied the clergyman in | "Lord," he said, "inU thy hands I com- bis authoritive, clerical voice. "Pray cll mil my s " the lad in from the weather and tell him I j "He commits hi* ipirit to the Lord!" will accompany him at once." [sobbed the landlady. He did look about his itudy sadly while | But the listening parishioner raised her he wa* making ready to leave it. The tire fingers to her lip*. in the base-burner was quits warm, now, "Lord," he said again, and this time the and his wet much darned stockings were dullest ear in the parish could have heard beginning to dry. The room looked ihelt- j the word* "Lord," he prayed, "into thy *re<l and pleasant ; his book* ran to the hands I commit my supply. " ceiling, though his floor wa* covered with | Sunday morning broke upon the city a* straw matting, with old pieces of woolen cold and clear a* the sword of a rebuking carpet for rugs ; bis carpet-covered lounge angel. People on the way to the Weet End was wheeled out of the draft; his lamp with churches exchanged note* on the thermome the green shade made a little circle of light ter, and talked ol the destitution of the and conness; hi* Bible and prayer- book lay poor. It wa* so cold that the ailing and open within it besides the pile of sermons. , the aged for the most part stayed at home. He had meant to devote the evening to the But the young, the ennuye, the imitative, agreeable duty of selecting hi* discourse for and the soul-sick, got themselves into their Saint Agatha*. His mind and his heart fur* and carriage* when the chime* rang, were brimming over with the ercitment of and the audiences were, on the whole, as that first event. He would have liked to comfortable and as devout ai usual, concentrate and consecrate hi* thought* J The vestryman sat nervously in his pew. upon it that evening. As he went, cough- He had not fully recovered from the fact ing, into the sold entry, it occurred to him that his supply had disappointed him. that the spot in hi* lung was more painful Having sent niscoachman in vain to all the than ha had luppoeed ; but he pulled hi* Saturday evening train* to meet hi* country old cap over hi* ear*, and hi* thin overcoat j parson, he bad passed but an uneasy up to meet it, and tramped out cheerfully ' night, into the storm. "I had supposed the old mau had pnnci- "Well, well, my lad !" he said, in his pies about Sunday travel," he said to his warmhearted way to Uobson'i boy ; "I'm wife, "but it seem* he i* coining in the sorry for yon that you have to be oat a morning, after all he might at least have ' night h*e this." ! son t me word." The boy spoke of this afterward, and re- ] "Telegraphing in the country is difficult, memberedii long for a boy. But at the sometimes, I have beard," replied the lady time he did but (tare- He (topped grume- , vaguely. She wa* a handsome, childless line, however, and plunged on into the woman with the haughty under lip of her drift* ahead of thu old rector, kicking a class. "Her husband spoke cheerily, but he path for him to right and left in the wet, was not at ease, and she did not know how packed snow ; for the widow Peek lived at to make him so. least a mile away, and the storm was now j 1 ,-ie. Sunday morning tram came in from the become a virulent thing. country station thirty mile* bauk, but the What passed between the unloved, n- old clergyman wunolamongiu passenger*, glected, dying parishioner and her pastor ( Now thoroughly alarmed, the vestryman was not known to any butthemielves.nori* had started for his hat and coat, when hi* therewitnessnowto testify thereof. Neither ' parlor-maid brought him a message. It does it in any wsf^ concern therecord of thii had been left at the door, she said, by a narrative, except a* the least may concern ' messenger who brooked neither delay nor the largest circumstance in human story, ijueition, but ordered her to tell the master For, in view of what came to pass, it i* of the house that the supply for .Saint impossible not to put the old judicial <]u*s- j Agatha'* wa* in the city, and would meet tion : lid it pay ? was it worth whilst the engagmenl at the proper time and place, when the miser s *oul went out at midnight, j The old clergyman, the messenger, added, on the wings and the rageof that blind, black ' had been suddenly stricken with a danger - storm, did it pas* gently a subdued, forgiven ' ou* illness, and oould not be expected ; out pint, humble to Yearn how to live again his substitute would fill the pulpit for the for Christ'* sake and his who gave himself j day. The vestryman ww requested to feel as hi* Master had before him to comfort no concern in the matter. The preacher and to savs ? Did it pay ? Do such things preferred retirement'unlil the hour of the pay ? (iod knows. But a* long as men do service, and would fulfil his duties at the not know, there will alway* be a few among ' church at the appointed hour. I hem who will elect to disregard the doubt, I But when the vestryman , feeling (lurried to wear the divinity of uncaloulaling sacri- deipile himself, topped at the door of the flee, and to pay its pries. luxurious vestry room, gracefully refur- For the *out of the widow Peek the price t nithed that winter for the rector with the was large, looked at in our mathematical way; eore throat who wa* in the south of France, for when the old clergyman, having shrived he found it looked ; and to his unobtrusive her soul and closed her eye*, started to com* knock no answer came. At this uncomfort- home at one o'clock of the morning ths able moment the sexton tiptoed up to say storm ha<l become a malignant fore*. I that the supply had requested not to be Already wet through and through hi* thin ' disturbed until the service should begin. coats and worn flannels, weak from ths sx posur , the watching, and the seen* of The sexlion supposed that the clergyman needei! extra preparation ; thought that do4th, every breath a (word athwart hi* perhaps the gentleman wa*from ths country and the the man inflamed lungs, with fire in his brain, ice at his heart, he staggsred againit blizurd. Dobeon'i boy had long since sought (heller of hi* own home, and the old was quits unattended. True the neighbor who watched with the dead woman sug- gested that he remain till morning ; but the widow Peek'* house was cold (she was always especially "near" about fuel), and he thought it more prudent to get back to hi* own f tove and his hed. Whether he lest hi* way; whether he crossed and recroesed it, wandering from it In the dark and drift ; whether h* fell and lay in the mow for a time, and roe* again and daggered ou, and fell again, and so pushsd on again, cannot be known. It i* only known that at half past two on Saturday morning hi* landlady put her wrinkled fane out of the window, for the twentieth lime, in search of him (for the had a thought for him in hsr own hard- featured way), and saw him fallen, and feebly trying to orawl on hi* hand* and knees up th* drifted steps. She got him into hi* warm study, past thf chair where the flowered dressing-gown and old slippers awaited him, and a* far a* ths carpet-covered lounge. R-yond this ths carpet-covered lo he coiild not he token. By morning the who > parish rang ths door-bell : ihs hands snd heart* and horses, the punes, the nurses, ths doctors, tin. watchers, ihs tears and the prayers of ths village, were his for he was dearly beloved and oherriihed in thai parish. Bui h* lay on hi* old lounge in hi* study --along his book*, and asked of them nothing at all. The kerosene lamp, behind it* green shade, wenl out; and the Ilihle, with the pile of sermons on the labl, looked large in ths Mowllght of a day when the storm cea.es and, ah unused to the audience. "What i* hi* name* What doe* he look like!' 1 asked ths chairman with knotted brow*. *' I hav* not seen him, sir," replied the sextou, jtith a putxled expression. " Howdil you receive ihs message?" " By a messenger who would not be delayed or questioned." Struck by the repelilion of thi* phrase, the chairman asken again Bui. what did ths messenger look like " The sexton shook his head. " I otnnot tell you, sir. lie wa* a mere messenger. I paid no attention to him. " " Vsry well," said the church omoer, (tuning away discontentedly. "It must !> all right. I have implicit confidence in the man whose uhosen substitute this is." With this he oeassd to try to intrude nimxlf upon the stranger, but went down to hi* pew, and sat beside his wife in uneays silence. Tin- chimes sang and sank, and sang again ; Holy, holy, holy The air was so olsar that the sound rang ice the uiual distance through the snowlit, *unlit air ; and the liok and th* old at home listened to t he bells with mdden stirring at their feeble hearts, and wlslutd again that they could have gone to church. One bed-ridden woman, whose telephone connected her with Saint Agatha's, held the receiver to her sensitive ear, and smiled with ths quick gratitude for trifling pleasure* ol the long-sick, as she rer-ogni/ed the notes of the chime. With a leap and a thrill a* if they oast their metal souls out in the act , ths voice* of the bell* rose and swelled, and ceased and ilept, and whsrs they paused th* anthem look the word* up : Holy, holy and carried 't softly, jusl above the breath, with th* tone which i* neither a sigh, nor a cry. nor a whuper, but that harmony of all which make* of music prayer. H* mult have entered on the wave of this strain ; opinion* diffe.-ed afterwards as, te this ; some said one thing, some another ; but it wa* found that most of the audience bad not observed th* entrance of the preacher at all. The choir ceased, and h* was ; and no more could be said. The church wai well-filed, though not over- crowded, and the decorous rustle of a fash tollable audience in the interval preceding worship stirred through the house. In the natural inattention of the moment, it wa* not remarkable that moet of th* peo- ple failed te notice the *trange preacher till be wa* among them. But te the church officer whose mind was preoccupied with the lupply, there was lomet hing almost startling in the manner of bis approach. The vestryman's uneasy eyes were not conscious of having slipped their guard upon the chancel for a moment; he had but turned hi* head politely, though a bit impatiently, to reply te some trivial remark of his wife's when, behold, the preacher stood before him. Afterwards it was rumour*) that two or three persons in ths audience, had not been taken by surprise in this way, bu', had fully observed the manner of the stringer s en- trance ; yet the** person*, when they were ought, were difficult te find. There wa* on* shabby woman who sat in the gallery among the "poor" seat* ; ihe wa* clad in rusty mourning, and had a pale and palirnt face, quite familiar to the audience, for shs s a faithful church-goer, and had attended Saint Agatha's for many years. It cams te be said through ths sexton'* goeiip or otherwise, that thi* poor woman had seen the preacher'* approach quite clearly, and had been much moved thereat; but when some effort was mads te Snd hsr, and te question her on thi* point, unex- pected obitocl** arose, she was an obscure person, serving in some menial capacity for floating employers ; *he was accustomed te slip in and out of cnurch hurriedly, both I late and early, and nothing of importance was added from thii quarter to th* general interest which attended the eccentricities of the supply. The stranger was a man a trifl* above ihe ordinary height, of majestic mein and car- riage, and with the lofty head which indicate* both fearlessness and purity of nature. A* he glided te his place behind th* lectern, a hmh itntck the frivolous audience, a* if it had been (mitten by an angel's wing ; such power i* there in noble novelty, and in tht authority of a high heart. When bad the similar of thi* preacher led the service in that venerable and Fashionable house of worship? In what past years had his counterpart served lh*m ? Whom did he resemble of th* longlin* of eminent clerical teacher* with whose qual- j ilies thi* elect people wa* familiar? What had been hi* history, hi* ecclesiastical position, his social connections? It was characteristic of ths audience that this last queslion was first in the mind* of a large proportion of 'he worshippers. What was hi* urofessio.nl reputation hi* the- ology ? What were hi* viewi on choir- boy*, confcMionals, and candle* on mission chapel*, and the pauperizing of th* poor ? These inquiries (wept through the inner consciousness of the audience in the first moment of his appsarance. Hut in th) second, neither theee nor any other paltry queries frstted th* smallest soul befor him. The stranger mult have had an impressive countenance ; yet afterward it was found that no two description* of it agreed. Some laid thi* thing, some said that. To this person he appeared a gentle, kindly man with a penuasive manner : to that, h* looked majeitio and commanding. There were some who spoke of an authoritative severity in the eye which he turned upon them ; but thess were not many. There were those who murmured that they had melted beneath the tenderness of his glance, as mow before th* sun ; and such ware more. A* to th* features of hi* face, men differed, a* spectators are apt te do about the lineament* of extraordinary counten- ances. What wa* the color of his eye*, th* contour of hi* lips, th* shape of his brow ? Who could say? Conflicting testimony arrived at no verdict. In two respects alone opinions sgreed about the faos of this man : it commanded, and it shone ; it had authority and light. The shrewdest heresy hunter in the congregation would not have dared question this clsrgyman'i theology, orthe tendencies of his ritualist!.' views. The veriest Pharisee in the audience quailed before the blinding brilliance ol the preacher'* face. It was a moral tire. It ate in ',o the heart. Sin and ihame shriveled befor* it. One might say that all thi* wa* apparent in the preacher before he had spoken a word. When h* had opened his lip* "t hew impr**sion* were intensified. H* began in th* usual way te read the usual prayer*, and te conduct the service as was expected of him. Nothing eccentric was observable in hii treatment of the preliminaries of the occasion. The fashionable choir, accustom ed te dictate the direction of the music, met with no interference from th* clergy- man. He announced the hymn* and an- them* that had been selected quite in ths ordinary manner , and th* critic* of ihe great dailies took th* usual note* of th* musical programme. In fact, up to the time of the sermon nothing out of the common course occurred. But, having laid thi*, one must qualify. Wa* it nothing out of th* common cour*e that the congregation in Saint Agatha'* hould lit as the people sa' that day, bond- lave* before the enunciation of the familiar phrase* in the morning's conies lion. . 'What a voice "' whispered the wife of Ihe vestryman. But her husband answered her not a word. Pale, agitated, with trained eye* uplifted, and r.srvous hand* knotted together, he leaned toward the itrangei. At the first articulate senteno* from th* pulpit, he knew that the success of hii lupply wa* secured. What a voice indeed I It melteii through t ne great house like burning gold The heart ran after it a* flrt> run* through metal. Once or twice in a generation one may hear tlie liturgy read like thai perhap*. In a lifetime no longer to be counted short, the veitry man had heard nothing which re- st in bled it, "Thank llod I" he murmured. He put hi* hat before hi* face. He had not reali/ed before what strsm h* had endure. 1. ('oil drop* Bloo-1 upon his brow. He shook wilh relief. From that moment he felt no-more 8011*11 n about the service than if be had engaged one of the sou* ui God to "*up- ply.' "Are you faint?" asked hi* wife in a tune of annoyance. She offered him her smelling Silt*. (TO BECOSTIWCID.) FACTS AB3UT RUBIES. Cents mi treat Talne ami Beaalv-Tke Cel- leellen efBarsDatfs lilac. The story of the theft and possible recov- ery of King Tneebaw's crown jewels, which ha* been *o thoroughly discuued of lace, is likely to bring rubies into mors common appreciation, suggests an English paper The real value of the loit rubies is not known, be oause Orientals prize their jewels for their weight rather than great perfec- tion, and another consideration i* the fact that red spinels often pass in the Eait for the genuine ruby, with which they have nothing in common except the color, al- though they are found in the same bed wilh rubies and sapphires. The famous Black Prinm ruby in ths royal crown of England is only a spinel. Rubies and sapphire*, are identical in their component part*. The form of crystallization is the same. Their hardnee* and specific gravity are equal, atd they are found in the same bed of clay so closely together that one tide of a stone will be bright blue and the other a* red as blood. In both aluminum is ihe principal ingredient, but the mystery of their real difference ha* never been solved by science. Among tru finest of historical rubies wers three of the French crown jewels, and one of tbees formed part of th* dowry of Catherine d* Medicis on her marriage to Henry II., and it weighed 211 carats. The otier two were reset for Maria Stuart when sUe reigned as Queen of France. It i* laid that th* King* of Bur mail possessed at one time th* finest collection of rubies in the world, and they took great precautions to prevent strangers from reaching their mines. Before the annexation of the country by England all rubies valued at 1,0ml rupee* were claimed by the King, and the finder received no reward except the King'* favor. Ordinary travel wa* forbidden, and mer- > hants had great difficulty in dealing with the chief* of the mining districts. In order to purchase jewel* a man had to first obtain a license, then report himself at Ruby Hall in Mandalay, slating th* exact amount of money and merchandise h* wished to take with him. This information was sent to the officials at th* mioee, and at every (topping place on the way, both going and coming, the merchant and hi* baggage were carefully examined. If h* returned with rubies beyond the valne he declared in starting hs was dealt ilh as being a smuggler Added to the valne and beauty of the ruby were its magical properties, which ths ancients considered powerful enough to guard them from " poison, plague, sadaess, tvil thoughts, and wicked spirits, and to keep them in health and cheered in mind.' Although superstition i* not such a pow- erful influence in these modern day*, the cheering qualities of the ruby are fully ap- preciated by Ihe women who are fortunate enough to possess a gem. A FIEND IN HUMAN FORM. A Naa Threws Vllrlel en eulreal. a Wemasi i Judge Desnoyet* had a vitriol-throwing case briught before hi* attention the other morning. The case is a serious one. Mr*. Mary Newman is ths victim of ths out- rage. W hen ihe appeared before the J udge her face was hidden with bandages which covered the injuries that th* acid had mad*. Her black cloth dress had turned a brilliant yellow, in place* where the vitrol had fall- en upon it. Such wa* the power of the acid thai it had eaten through th* sleeve of her dress and burned into her flesh. Her wound* were dressed at the General Hos- pital. The name of the man who i* charged with thii crime i* (Maries Maxwell He call* himself a merchant, living on Sher- brooke street, but tht directory apparently i* ignorant of hi* existence. Mr Newman told Judpe 1'esnoyers that while *he wa* out *he wa* informed thai Maxwell had been seen Irying to enter her house. In order to protect herself againit him she wen' t) No. ."> police nation and notified the police of Maxwell'* bihavior. An she was going home she met Maxwell on the corner of Anderson and Dorchester street*. Wilh an oath he uncorked a large botll* containing vitriol and tried to throw it into her eye*. Some of it went in her face snd a little on her left eyelid. She screened her eyes with her arm. The vitriol plashed all over her dree*. Constable Hawthorne look her to the hospital. A little boy saw ths prisoner throw th* empty bottle away. He picked it up and took it to No. .'nialioii. The prisoner took the matter oooly nough in court. H* pleaded not guilty. The desperate fellow also savagely bit and beat a prisoner named .1. (iallagher, who happenid lo be in the cell with him on* night. A charge of a*saul t was laid against him by liallagher, to which he also pleaded not guilty. They Fall Up and Get Hurt. The tilh the* liv* at enormous depths are, in consequence of the enormous preeeure, liable to a curious form of accident. If, in chasing their prey or for any other reason, they rue to a oonnderabl* distance above th* floor of *he ocean, the gases of their swimming bladder become considerably ex* panded and their (pacific gravity greatly reduced; up to a certain limit the muscle* of their bodies can counteract th* tendency to float upward and enable the fish to regain it* proper sphere of life at the bottom, out beyond that limit the muscle* are not strong enough to drive the body downward, and the fish Incoming more and more distended as it goes, i* gralually killed on it* long and in voluntary journey to the surface of the tea. Th* deep sea fih, then, are exposed to a danger that no other animal* in the world are subject to namely, that of tumSling upward.* That *uch accidents do occasion ally occur i* evidenced by the fact that ome fish, which are kwown to be true deep sea form*, were discovered dead and floating on the surface of the ocean long IK fore our modern in\ estimations were commenced. BOUND THE WHOLE WORLD WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE .FOUR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. ! 1*1 < *ew W.rld l.veaii mt Interest C'hrentclesl xUlesly lalerrs(ls Uai> prilBK > of Urrrml Bale. The State* telephone exchange* represent 1100,000,000. A lingl* bakery in New York make* 20.- OiK) pies a day. A (ten* saw in as* in Rutland, Vt, does th* work of 100 men. 12,000 bushels of oyster* are eaten evtry day ia New York city. An Englishman ha* invented a detachable heel fur boots and shoes, A crusade againit chattel mortgage sharks was begun in Milwaukee. The Fibre Wcrki, Port Huron, turn* out four carload* of stuff daily. The metropolitan police commissioner of London employs 15,043 men. The United Stole* peniion appropriation lor the year is 1 1 S 1 ,000,000. Minnesota, gUfl,500,OOOfrom gross earn- ings of railroad* in th* Slate. All th* telephones now nperated ia Japan are owned by th* government. The highest mountain in Japan n Fugi- ama, which is 13,000 feet high. John T. Hiller was arrested in Chicago on the charge of having seven wive*. An apple tree recently blew down in Con necticut which was known to be a century and a half old. Three of th* largett Japanese maple* in th* country ar* now (tending in Proepe^t park, Brooklyn. A design for a font of phonetic printing type of 42 character* has been patented by Roberts. Avery. Dr. Hen ha* threatened te publish all the document* in hii possession relating te the Panama scandal Under th* 300 Protestant foreign mis- sionary socitie* there ar* 4,717 men and ;!,7 "> wemen missionaries. In Prussia 1$ and 14 are legal ages a which n -n and women may contract a matrimonial alliance. Ths A telanta.it a., federation of trades have adopted resolutions declaring th* A.I'. A. as inimical te unioniim. A number of interpreters, intended for war service, ar* to be appointed te servs in the German army. The) are especially required te be proficient in Russian and French. Prof***or I leorge Wel'.ner assert* that h* ha* solved th* problem of aerial navigation. His machine i* being tested secretly by the Austrian < overnment. The King of Italy, it is said, display great indifference on the subject of Anarch- ists. When the recent bomb explosion occurred, and the announcement was mad* to him, he merely shrugged his should- ers. Sir Frederick Barton brought a fast cyclist, who was careering through Piccad- illy i 'nous, London, te reason by ths appli- cation of aa umbrella te his back with such force thai the police bad te be called te quell the row. A Russian cavalry colonel has bean ex- ecuted at Odessa for betraying military secret* te a general on the staff of a foreign power. H* hsd received an annual pay- men t of '.24,000 f raac* for two year* as an informer. Nobody would havs prophesied fifteen yean ago that in th* year IS'J* Franc* would consume as much beer a* Bavaria. Vet, there are the figures under Ihs eye of ihe italiitician. In every restaurant and cafe in Parii, where Burgundy and Ihe cectar of the Boidtlaiae were once Ibe only beverage, beer i* now supreme. A new sect in Russia is known as th* Underground People, lately organised ia Saratov. When a person fall* ill, th* elders corns in and baptise him anew. Then they carry him down into an underground laby- rinth where h* is left to wrestle with death alone. After a week the elders come te inspect the sick man, and, if dead, he is duly buried. A curious box was recently found amid the ruins of Pompeii. It wa* mad* of marble, or alabaster, two inches square,and closely sealed. When opened it was fcund te be full of a pomatum of grease, hard, but very fragrant. Th* smell reeembled thst of the *w**t*t rose. It is singular that we, in the nineteenth century, should be able to regale oar nose* with pertunes prepared in the first. In the Kngliih navy a drink record is kept against svery officer not in cocmand, on the same principle a* the " consumption book" of th* sergeants' me** in th* army. Tbs book of naval officers' wins bills is in- spected every week by the captain, and produced at th* admiral 1 * inspection*. If the latter officer considers ths amount in any particular case *xce**iv* hs records his opinion to that effect, and the culprit is warned. There is on* industry in which there seem* to be no serious depression, th* busi- nees of th* "Monte Carlo tumbling Com- pany,' for in 'h is th* frank title of th* great gambling institution of Mont* Carlo. At it* annual meeting recently U wa* an- n.. mice. I that th* receipt* for th* year were $4,400.000. Thii is a decrease of $400,000 compared with the former year s receipts, but it represents an enormous profit and a colossal dividend. The Queen's Name. It is probabl* that most of h*r Majesty's loyal subject* know the Queen only by her royal sty m, Victoria, and that such of the remainder of them as are aware that shs bears another name, and that that i* Alex- nadrina, believe that the latter i* the sec- ond, and, therefore, in some seme Ihe infe- rior name. The well-informed, how*v*r, know that 1) n Queen'* names are Alexan- drina Victoria, and a sentence or two in a Utter of her father, the Duke of Kent, written within a couple of month* of her christening, and mid a few day* line* in 1'aiis, may account for the choice of the second as the principal name. " Her first name," the Duke wrote, " is Alexandriaa ; \ icti n. by which name she i* always call- ed at home, is her last, being that of her dear mother. Th* tint ihe bean after her godfather, ths Kmperor of Kuasi*,'*