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I. AS GOOD AS GOLD. CHAPTER XXVIII. Tlw next morning floprhjtrd wi'iit t(j tlw Town HaSl opposite I^io'""'" li>'"«". to attend Petty Sossioti, lx'lnt{ utill a tnogiiiliute for thre y*ftr by vijtuo ot his -sate positian as Mayor. In passing ho 'Doked up at her wiimiowa, Imt no- thing of tier was to Iw seen. Hoiifhard. as a Justice of the Peace, may at timt eeem to l>e an even great- er incongruity than Shallow and Sil- emce thomBelves. But his rough und ready perceptions. hU sledge-hammer directaea*, had often served bim let- ter tMn nice legal knowledge in de- spatrhiing' such simple business as fell to hiH hands in this Court. I'o-day, Dr. Chaikfield. the Mayor for the year, being atnent, the corn-merchant took thu big chair, his eye-s still alMtracted- ly Htretcihing out ot the window to Iho window to the ashlar front ot High Street HaJ.1. There was one case only, and the of- fender stood before him. She waa an old woman of mottled countenance, at- tired in a (ihawil of that nameless ter« tiary hue which comes, but cannot l)e madeâ€" a hue neither tav\-ny, russet, hazel, nor ash ; a sticky black Iwnnet that neeoied to have lieen worn in the country of the Psailmist where th« clouds drop fatness ; and an apron that bad lieeo wh^te in times so comparative- ly recent as still to contrast visilily with the rest of ber clothes. The steeped aspect of the woman as a whole showed her to be no native ot tba country-side, or even of a country town. Shu looked ciLTsorily at Hencbard and the second magistrate, and Henchard looked at her, with a niouitoitary pause, as if albe reminded him indistinct- ly of somebody or soniethiaig which passed from bis mind as quickly as it had come. "Well, and what has she been doing t" he said, looking down at the charge-sheet. "She is aharged, sir, with the offenca of disorderly female and vagaliund," whitqtered Stubberd. < "Where did Mhe do that?" said the other magistrate. "Ily thK cOiiujxh. sir. of all the wrong P'laoee in the world for ahouts and roll- ing. I cauifbt her in the act, yuur svorahip." "Stand (>ack then." said Henchard, "and let's hear what you've got to say." Stubberd was sworn, the magistrate's olerk di)jped hbt pen, Htmuhard l)eing no notelaker himself, and the con- st atilc began : I "llcaring an illegal noiae 1 wenb | down the street at twenty-five minutes past eleven p. m.. uu the nLghl oi iho fifth Lostinct, Uanuab D.jminy. When I had " "Don't go on 80 fast, Stubberd, said the clerk. The constable waited, witjh his eyes on the derk's pen, till the latter stop- ped scratching, and said "yoa." Stub* herd continued: "Wti«n I had proceed- ed to the spot, I saw defendant at an- other si)Ot, nameiiy. Uie gutter." Ue paused, watrh.ng the point ot the olerk's pen again. "Gutter, yos, Stubberd." "Spot mvasaring twelvu feet nine in- ches or thernalKJUts, from where 1 " StiJl careful not, to outrun the clerk's peuman-ship. Stuoljcrd puUcd up again j for having got his evld<>u<xj l/y heart, iti was imiiisteriaj lo him w'Uerealwuts he bri»ke oil. "1 otiject to that," apoke up the old woman, " 'spot meosurjiitf twelve feel> r. n<! or therualM>uu from wh.iro I,' is not good evidence." Ttu: mugisti-ate cousalted, and the sec- ond one said Uiat the Uunch was of opinjuD that twelve feet nine iuchiM from a man on his oath w.ls aduiissili'.e evidence. Stuhlwrd, with a suppress- ed gaze of vicloiiuua rectitudu at the oU\ woimon, continued: "Wasslaud- ioit myself. She was wambling about qui.te dtungoruus lo the tlioiougli- fare, aaid wh»ri I uj>pro:io.h<!(l tu draw n<-ar. sin i^nsulted me." " 'insuilted me' . . . Yes, what did she say >" "She aaid, 'Put away bhat doo lan- tern" aays she." â- Y.*." ".Says she, 'Host hear, old turmit- head* Put away tbiit dee liinlern. 1 have floored fellows a dec sifflvt fiuc.r- looking than tUipKe, doe me it 1 liaint,' â- hi' says," "I "bjeat to that conversation I" in-" terprnod the old woman. "I was not' oa|)al>le «nioug-h to lujar wluit 1 sai(l,> and what's suJd ouiL of my Iwiariiig is not Hvidence." There was another stoppage for con-- •ultatioD, a Imok was referred to, andr finally Stubberd was allcjwed lo gu on aeain. The truth waa that Ihd old' woman bad appe,\red in ctJurl .so many more times than the nia^i.-ttrates them-' selves, that thtty were oi)liff<'(l to kwif a sharp look out upou Ihr-lr proi-odure.- However, when Stuiilwrd had ranililcd- on a li,ttle fart-hor, Htviichard broke out imitatittntly, "Comeâ€" we don't want lo hear any more ot them cust d's I Say- the. word out like a man. and don't l)o •o modest, Stui)lienl ; or eilse leave ib aluue I" Tu,rT»i,ng to I he woman, "Now then, have you any quest imns to ask him, or anytihiug lu sav }" "Ves," she replied with a twinkle in her eye; and the olerk dipped his pen. "Twenty yeaxs ago I was 8<^lling of Curmity in a tent ai Weydon li'air '^ "'Twenty yeu-rs agr,'â€" woll, (hat's !«-> fiinning at tturt l««inning â€" suppose you go iMUsk to the Creation ?" .said the clerk,' not without satire. Hut Henchsnl stared, and quite for- got wliat was evidence and what was not. "A man and a woman wiilh a little ohii/d (Mine into ray tent," t,he woman contlnund. "Tihey sat down and had ui basin afiieaB. Ah, Lonl'.s my Ufn I I was of a mure respaclAlilu .station in life tOioa bbon I aim now, imiiig a land â- mugglar in * Ivgn way of business ; and I used to season my fliraiity witfii ruju for th»'in who (isked for'i. I did lit for the fu.in; and thou lie had' more and more, tl<l at lust Iw quarrelled uiih hin wife,' acid offui'ed tu sell ber to the. biglie.'tt Ijidder. X sailor came in jsnd Wi five guineas, and paid the money, and led her away. And the man who sold his wife in that faisbixm is the iiiun sitting there in tJie gn-at big chair turd heir The sjieaker concliudeu by nodding her arms, head at EPenilhard, .-ui<f folding her Kverylmdy looked at Henchard. His faoe seemed »trang«, and in tint as it iit bad been powdered over with ashes. "Wo don't want to hean" your life and adventures," said Ibi! second magistrate .sharply, filling the pauac which follow- ed. "You've lieen asked if you've any- thing lo say liearing on tiw case." ' "That tiears on the ca.3e. It proves that Ik»'s no Iwtter than 1, and has no right to sit there in judgment up- on me." " "I'is a concocted Btory," said the olerk. "So bold your tongue." "Noâ€" 'tis true." The words came motion ot bis head flung altou^ like a flail. (Y'ih4'y looked round for some shelter or bidiiii^-pluev, and tliought. of the barn â-  â-  liy. As long as they had kept eyes on the uu'A he had shown some defen-nce iin hU niAntler of ap- proadi ; but no sooner did they turn theiir backs to seek the Itarn I ban ho tasvd his head, and decided to thur- oughiy tt^rrify them. This oaused Iho two helpless girls to run wildly, where- upon tlu^ bull advanced in a delil>e,rate charge. 'I'lu; l>arn .stood behiud a green -siimy pond, â-  an<l it was closed with the ex- ception of one of the usuail pair of doors ta*;ing tbem, w.hich had Jwen ni-opped u|H'n by a Imrdle-stake. and for thii* ojwning they made. The interior had been cleared by a recent bout of thresh- ing, except at one end, where there was a stack of dry olover. Klizahei h-.J;inc took in the situation. "We must climb uu liere." she said. But liefore thsy had even approached it they hear the biill tiacmpering through the pond without, and in a second he de.shx^d into the l>arn, knocking down the hurdle-stake in pa'jsing; the heavy door slammed Ijehino him: and all three were impri-soned in the barn to- , n V. 1 ,, .,«• gether. The mistaken creature saw Irom Hanohard. ri> as true as the: them, and stalked towards th« end of light, to said slowly. "And upon my;, he i,aru into which they had fled. The soul It does prove l.hj.t I'm no letter igiris doulded, so adroiUy, that their tnan sbel And to keep out of any 'pursuer waa against, the wall when the temptation to treat htir hard for her Jugitives were already half-way to the revenge 111 have b.>r to you." â-  jollier end. Hy the time that this lh.| sensation in the. Court was m-jiengih would allow him U. turn and descnbabJy great. Henchard left thc!foiio„. i hem thither they had crossed cJiair, and cam.i out, passing through ; over; thus tlie pursuit went on, the hot a group of people on the st^ps an<l out- Uir from his nostrils blowing over them side ibat wsm much larger than usual ; ntp a sirocco, and not a moment being lor It seemed that the old furmity deal- ! obtainable by Elizalieth or Luoetta in er had mysteriously hinted to the deni- ! which to open the door. Wh3,t might Zens of the lane in which .she had tteenljiave happened had their situation con- lodging since her arrival, that shejlinued cannot be said; but in a few Knew a queer thing or two alxiut their moments a rattling of the door dislract- great local man Ml-. Henchard, if ahe j ed their adversary's attention, and a chose to tell it. This had brought man appeared. Ue ran forward tow- wiora hither. ards the leading-staff, seized it, and " ny aj* there 80 many idlers round wrenched the animal's head as if he the Town Uxi.U to-day ?" said Lucetta would snap it off., The wrench was in to b»T servant whim the case waa over, reality so violent that the thick neck one hud risen late, and bad just look- ; seemed to hive lost its stiffness and â-  •r^*' , *'^^ wiindow. I to become half-|)aralysed, whilst the ifi ma'am, 'tis l.lus larry nose dropped blood. The premeditated altout Mr. Uvncliard. A woman has human contrivance of the nose-ring was proved that tjefore ha liecame a gen- noo cunning for Impulsive brute force, tJeman he sold hi« wife for five guineas! and the creature flinched, in a liooUi at a fair." \ The man was seen in the partial In all the accounts which Henchard gloom to be large-framed, and unhi^sit- had givftn lier of the aeparatlon from ating. ' He led tJie bull to the door, and his wife Susan for so many years, of the light revealed Henchard.) He made his Ijslief ill ber death, and so on, be the bull fast without, and re-entered had never c.lea.rly explained thw actual to the succour of Lucetta; for he had and immediate cau.~« of that separa- not perceived KlizaUith, who had climb- tion. 'Hie story she now heard for the ed on lo the clover-heap. Lu':etta was first time. ! hysterical, and Henchard took her in A gradual misery overspread Lu- ' his arms and carried her to the door, cetta's face as she dwertt upon the pram- | "Youâ€" have saved me I" she cried, as 'a? "'^â- *">«' from her tihe night before, goon as she could speak. At bottom, then, H«nc:bard was this, l "i have reiui-ued your kindness," he How terrHle a i-ominguncy for a wo- 1 responded tenderly. "You once saved man who tshould coiumic herself to bis me." "^f?- . ; "How â€" comes it to be youâ€" you?" she imring the day eihe went out to the asked, not heeding his reply. Buig, and to other places, not coming "l came out liens to look for you. I un till nearly dusk. Ab soon as slie have lieen wanting to tell you some- saw i,bzal)eth-Jane after her return thing these two or three days; but you ^.Iv'^r'f''^- *"'** H tli^t she had re-, hare l«en away, and I could not. Per- C tpl^l.rM f '''""**^'^^ ^""""'^ '^'i "Oh-no. Where is KlizaUuh?" I'fiL.J^P "''^\*' ?'«"â„¢y-, , , "Here am 1 I" cried the missing one P,,;i Hr^^H ^"','»?'" ''"â- ;"'^ depart for. ohperfuUy; and without waiting for the Streei^f^n^;;?;"!,' '""f ''^''^"^ ^'gh ladder to be placed she sli.i .town the or H,r.« " her n.turn. After Iwofn^ „f ,.,,„ cuUr-.^tack to the floor, raiii tWh^^i" .''MJi"'^,*'.'^" i'"**"^.?!' Henchard supporting Luc«;lta on one £te ni.lT^^ i f!^^ V- «Ji« house H«.gijg ^^j Flizal.elh-J.ine on the other, al~ ^^ "'*'*k" ^oar of Locettas they went slowly along the rising road, oLTwar,! ?A'.iVf'""'^'' Â¥ "'"'''''? ^'^''iThay had reached the top and were de- b^ndfint 1 '."'1'"",<"'H',' '"^ «;<?''* aw»y I sc^ndlng again when Lucetta. now much Thin?,^^'*"'.'^!;''"''^''^' nettled mien, recovered, recollected that she had left cali^Z^V ^l lie cj^llod again. Is she her muff in the l«rn. come now ? he asked. .-f don't mind it at all, as I am not r..,?;I1i- ^*f returned this nioming, Hr^d as you are."' She thereupon hast- ,^d iT,1li^''^%^T'*'*''- r""' "'"'i'^ •*"«'' ''"^^n a«'"n to the barn, the olh- noi indoors. STw ins gone for a walk ers miraiiin^T n,..;.. ,.,«„ alongkhe turnpike-road to Port-Breedy.,'"P."""'"«"'*"^7'^y- , „ . She Willi 1x1 home by du.sk." blizalieih soon found the muff.sucb A /, .„ <• , . â-  , , 'an article Ixjing by no means small at l^Z * 'f ''' "^"['^ '^^"'^ "P'y '^'"l'^ 'â- â-  I'll' lime. She turned to ha.steu oii- „.„.., ,.,„ „.-,.,....„ „u,,at,once he ward after her contemplation, when hand w ithin his ami', though she would fain have withdrawn it. "Itear Lucet- ta, I have lieen very anxious t^ see you these two or thrtw ilay.'i," hnafid; "ever sin^e-'T'saw you last. 1 liafe'thought ov«r ihc way 1 got y'>ur |ironiis<5 tfial nl^t. You saitt to me, ''li 1 were a Tiitti 1 sliouJd nof iimist." Th'-'t cut 1110 dcfcp., 1 fell, tbul there waa tome, truth in it.i 1 d<m't want. to inadce'you wretfbed, and to jyarr^' me just now would do that as not lung else couldâ€" it is but t(K) plain. 'I'liereforo I agree to an indefinite engagement â€" lo put off all thought of marriage for a year or two." "liulâ€" Ijutâ€" can I do nothing of a diffeitint kind? " said Lucetta. "I am full of gratitude to youâ€" you bave sav- ed my lite. And your care of me is like coals of fire on my head. 1 am richj Surely 1 can do something in re- lurn for your goodnessâ€" something pra6tica.l ?" Henchard remained in thought. He had evidently not expected this. "There is one thing you might dt>, Lucetta," he said. "liul not exactly of that kind." "Tlien of what kind is it I" she asked, with renewed misgiving. "1 musL tell you a secret to ask itâ€". You may have heard that I have lieen unlucky this year. 1 did what I have never done before â€" speculated rashly; and I lost. That's just put me in a straitj"' "And you would wish me to advance some money 1" "No, no!" said Henchard, almost in anger. "I'm not the man to sponge on a woman, even though she may ije so nearly my own aa you. No, Lucetta; what you can do is this; and it would save me. My gnsat creditor is Grower, and it is at hs hands 1 shall suffer if at anybody's; while a fortnight's for- bearance on his part would be enough to allow me lo pull through. This may be got out of him in one way â€" that you would let it Ije known to him that you are my intended â€" that we are to lie quietly married in the next fortnight-. No wstop, you haven't beard alll- Let him have this story, without of course any prejudice to the fact that the actual engagement l;etween us is to be a long one.. INobody else need know; you could go with me to Mr. Urower, and just let me speak to ye l.)efore him as if we were on such terms. We'll ask him to keep it secret. He will willing- ly wait then.' At the fortnight's end 1 .shall be able to face bim; and 1 can coolly tell him all is postponed between us for a year or two. Not a soul in the town need know liow you've help- ed me. Since you wish lo l» of use, there's your way." (To be continued.) to reveal his riwtless left the houae again CIIAPrEH XXIX. At this hour l.uoetta was lioundlng she saw a green-and-blaok gig approach- ing fnim tlie contrary direction, the vehicle being driven by Karfruo His presence lu're "seemed lo explain Lucotta'a walk tl«it way. IXmald saw along tlu! road tu I'ort-Breedy just as ! ''cr, drew up, and was liastily made ac- lilizalieth .bad aimouiuvd. That she :2,'f.'>i'"-<'<l with what had occurred. At had chosen for her afternoon walk the ' rdizaljelh-Jano menlioiiiiig how great- road along wh, lUshe had returned to 'y^pucetta had been jeopardised he ex- Casterbriilge thive hours earlier in a hduted an agitation different m kind carri.ig,- was curiousâ€" if anything .should '"" '<'•'« *liin in intensity from any she l»e called curioas in concatenations of nid seen in him Imfore. He liccame so pbunomena wlbor<(in each is known to "'"^rbed in the. circunistaiices that he Wve its ancouin ting cause. It was the ^'•'"'ce'y bad sufficient knowledge of tlay of the chief fuarketâ€" Siturdayâ€" I J*h*t lie was doing to think of helping and Karfrae for oivio liad liocn missed aer up beside him. from his ourn^tand in live dealers' r<«>m. Neveribeiess it was known that hi! woUild lie home that nightâ€" "for Sun- day," as Casterl)ridge expressed it . Lueetta, in continuing bar walk, hud at length reudhed llie end of the ranked trees whidh Ixirderi'd the highway In this and otibur (Iiro:!tiion3 out of the town. TbiH end markoil a mile ; and h)i!ro she stopped. The .spot wa« a vale l>etween two gen- tle acciivitles, and the road, still ad- hering to its Iloman foundation, stretch- "She has gone on with Mr. lleiiohard, you say?" he inquired at last. "Yes. Ho is taking lier home. They are almost there by this limu." "Ana are you sure slve can home ?" l','lizal'Ct)i,-Jaiio was quite sure. "Your slepfather saved her?" "Kntirely." t'arfrao cliccked his horse's pace; g'ue.s.sed why.i Ho was thinking that it would lie liest not to intrude on I he other two just now., Henchard had get she ed onward straight as a surveyor's line saved Lucetta, and to provoke a nossil'le till lost to sigbi on the most distant exhiliition of her diyiiwr affection for ridg'. There was neiLhor hedge nor himself was as ungoiiorous as it was tn^o in tbo prospect now, the road unwise. clinging to Line .stuliby exivjinso of corn- I ti,,, immediate .subiw.t ot their talk land like a strijie to lui undulating i being exhausled, she "feilt more emliar- gannenl. Newr her wtvs a hamâ€" the raased at sitting tlms lieside her past .'iingiii building of luiy kind within her lover; but »o<m ihe two figures of th»( horizon. others wore visisble at the entrance to Slie strained hnr eyes m) the lessening the town. The taw of the wmuan was road, but ncilhuig a.pp.-ared thereonâ€" | freq'uontly turned ba«5k, but l''artrae did not .so iuu;-.li as a speck. Slio sighed noi whip on the horse. When lht^se one wordâ€" "Doimldl" and turned her j reacluad the town walls Henchard and face til t he town tor ret real. | his companion had disappeared down ll.>re l.lu'. case was ili.fferent. A sin- , the stre»>t; Karfrae set down Klizal«th- g.e figure was approaching h«irâ€" Eliza- Jane, on her exprcjising a particular btfth-Jane's, , wish to alight there, and drovv round Luivtta, lai siiito of liwr Umuliness, to the stajjies at the baok of his Imlg- seemeil a little vexed. Klizalioth came incs. im, Iwr face, as soon as sihe recognized | On this account he entered the house her friend, sihaping itsi>i£ into affection- throuigh his garden, aaid going up to ate lines, while yet lieyond sjieaking his apai-tments found them in a par- distnnoe. "1 suddorely thought I would , ticalarly diaturlied slate, his Ihjxos l)e- conio and meet yxiu,' alwi said smiling, ing hauled out uikiu the landing, and Lucetta's rejily was taken from her his IxHikcaso standing in three pieces, lips by an unexpected divensiun. A by- , These phenomoiia, however, st-emod to rrwd on hier nglhl hand descended from cause him not the least surprise. "Whern the fields into lim highway at the point will everything lie sent up?" he said wliere alio stood, aiKl down thu track a to tJie luistnMs of the house, who waa bull wus rumbling uiiceailninly towards sujierintonding. her and Blizabei.h, who, faoing the other j "I am fJraivl not. liefore eigiht, sir," way, did not olnserve him. jsaid she. "You see we wasn't aware Luoetta and KUzabeth regarded the till nliia morning that you were going animal in doubt, he meanwUiilu (Irawirvg 'o move, or we could have been for- vaguely towards thorn. It was a large warder." specimen ot the lined, in colour ricJa ' "Aâ€" well, never mind, never mind I" dun, thougb disfigured at present by said Parfrae clioerily. "Eiglht o'olook 8rilotahi«s of mud aliout kis seamy sides. ' will do well enougth if it be not later. His horns were think and tijipod with, Now, don't ye be standliur there talk- broas; hia two noslj-lllH like the Thaones ing, or it will be twelve I doubt." I'bus TiMinol, aa ne»»n in tJn' perspective toys 'siieak ing he went out by the front of yore. Between thnm, through the door and up the street. gristle of his nose, was a stout copper I During Ibis interval Henchard and ring, welded on, and irremovable as Lucetta liad h<id experiences of a dif- Ourth'g collar of brans. To the rimg feront kind. After lClizaV«th's depart- was attaolied ain asb staff about ure for the lunff, the corn-merchant a yanl long, wbidlil the bull with tb« opaned himself ftumkly, holding her ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Few Parasrspb* *vui<'li .Hay be roand Wurtta Uratllng. Laplanders often .skate in one day a distance o||! 150 miles. The Huddbist nuns in Burmah have their beads colut>letely shaved. Kid gloves wilb hand-painted flowers on the back, are the latest fad in Pans. Over OHc-half of the arable land of Japan Is devoted to the cultivation of rue. Among the supplies sent to foreign miasionaries, the bicysle takes a pro- minent place. The f;esh of the alligator is eaten by this luhabitanls of India. Uoiled, it tusies like veal. The first man to apply steam to houM> warming was James Watt, the Scottish inveniur in 1781. Th'U new magazine "rifle adopted by the Hritlsh Army throws a ball to a distance ot four thousand yards. l.,ouis A. I'etticr, of Allen County, Iml.. bus been an uiidenaker for slxiy years. He has buried over 19,000 hu- man l«iugs. The policemen of liridgeport. Conn., are U-coming so rotund that they are requtred to exercise in gymna.siums to rotiuct". their weight. The second wiie of a iua« in liangor, Maine, paid a bill for the burial of her Iirodeco-ssor by washiung clothes for the undertaker's family. Macaulay'a miemory was so retentive thai, utter reading a book once, he could give all thj salient points of it, and reuite many long pttss;i.ges of it verliatim. txniuetblng siiueezeil the ankle of a woman ui C'offeyville, Kan., as she was .sli;ik.2ig a mat on the piazza of her residence. She disixjvered that the squeezer was a snake. liefore drinking beer it Is a wise lialtit to eat a siuaU piece of bread, ijo .says Profe.s.sor Gaffky. of Germany, who has followed this habit from youth and Is the t>eraonificaLiun of heaMh. In the deserts of Arizona there is â-  a si;e<-;es of woodpecker which pecks the | te!egraph poles to pieces. The birds '- hears (he humming sound and imagines tli.it insects are Ueneath the surface, Mrs. Hush, of Ciayton. N.Y., saw her .sons. Kred and John, agnd resii«otlve:y n'lie and ten years old, fall through the ice while skating, ^he plunged in alcer thtnu, hut they .sank liefore she could rescue them. In London the mail deliveries from ten in tlu' morning until ton at night are hourly. It Is not unusual for th.) writer of a letter in tktt oily to get an answer from a resident within thiwi or four hours. When a sus|>ciciou.s-looking person ap- proiu'lues one oi the tellers in the Ihink ol' b rj'.nce a jirivav signal is gLveu to a concealed photographer, and in a lew .seconds i iie su,s,iei^ed indivi- dual is sei^retly pbuiographed. To prevent the hair from failliiig out, .soak foio pine sbaving.s in a pint of alcohol for two weeks, stra'u. add forty ttrops of glyceriine, and moisten the hair with this liquid morning and night, rubbing it w«:l into t.b» .'tcalp. A New Haven i>aper lately contain- ed two adverti,seanonts, side by side, one exhibiting a prei>u,ration for re- moving supertluous hair and I iw. other rMxnnittendlng a fluid thai is certain to produce a growth of hajj on bald Ilea (Is. Nettie Hinkle, aiged thirteen, of Quakake VaJloy. Pennsylvania, was at- taick«d by a huge eagle, which threw her to the earth and was endeavoring to curry her off, when a companion, Jennie McDowell, drove a batpui through the eagle's heart and lulled it. A teacher at Ypsilanti, Mich., under exajiniination for appointment to a school, waa asked lo explain the purpose of the Klcctoral College. Ho promptly descriiied it aa "an in.slitution having for its object the farthering of the study ot Blecti'icity." A VERY NAPOW ESCiPE HOW THE. LATE ADMIRAL MILNE MIGHT RAVB BEEN DROWNED. Me Nearly Vlrat Dnmu nilh H. N. H. tttv laln-Omerlplloa of One of tireM Brl(- aln'4 Warat Kaval Ulnaiitcni. The relent death of the late Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Alexander Milne, K, C. B., recalls to the memory of many people a, time when Great Britain had nearly lieen prematurely deprived ot the services ot that distinguished command- er through a tragedy similar to that by which the lives of Vice- Admiral Sir Harry Tryon and the officers and men of U.M.S. "Victoria" were lost a few years ago. It will be twenty-seven years by Septemljer next, since England waa shocked to hear of the sudden loss of H.M.S. "Captain" on tlie night of Sept. 6. She foundered off the coast of Spain together with almost all her comple- ment of officers and men, to the num- ber of close upon five hundred. Tha first despatch announced that all hands had i>erished, but later intelligence was received to the effect that Master-gun- ner IVlay and seventeen seamen had es- caped the disaster and had landed at Corcubicon in Spain, Not even the stirring events that were at that time transpiring' in Franca (for the downfall of the Emperor Nap- oleon 111., at Sedan, had occurred but four days previous to the foundering of the "Captain,") caused more excite- ment or painful interest among all classes ot the British public than did the loss of the noble ship, for noble she assuredly was, if only in respect to the valuable freight in lives that she carried, albeit she was really nothing more than a terribly DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT, the end of which was fraught with tot- al disaster to those immediately con- cerned. It was not until the first feel- ings of surprise and dismay had passed off that it was seen how narrowly Ad- miral Sir Alexander Milne and bis staff had escaped being involved in the cat- astrophe. The following are the facts of the cose. Oa the fUtemoon of Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1870, the combined Channel and Mediterranean squadrons, under the su- preme command of Admiral Milne, were cruising off the coast of Spain. The flagship of the fleet was the "Lord Warden," but the Admiral, with his staff, had that afternoixi gone on l;oard the "Captain" to witness a sailing match in which she was to take part with the "Monarch" the "Inconstant" and the "Bristol." The weatb-r had been fine throughout ihe day, Imt the wind blew in spiteful gusts towards the evening, and at sunset the clouds in the westward looked as though some nasty weather was coming on. The sailing trial took some time, and a heavy sea was running when the Admiral left the "Captain" tor th3 flagship about seven o'clouk in the evening. So rough waa the sea that the admiral's galley waa ALL BUT SWAMPED in coming alongside, and it was with some ditficutly that the transhipment was effected. Seeing <be threatening stale of thro weather Capl. Hugh Bur- goyne, (a son of Kield-Marsbal Sir John Biirgoyne, then CoustaUe of the Tower of London) who commanded the "Cap- tain" pressed th'e admiral and his staff to stay to dinner.reuiain the night and return to their own ship the nexi morn- ing. Happily for himself and for his staff, AcfmiraJ Milne declined, and, on reaching the "Lord Warden ' one oi the officers of his staff was heard to ex- claim "Tlkank God, I'm on- Ixiard my own ship again." Fears of tha stability ot the "Captain" had for a long time tieen openly enter- tained.esiiecially by those who preferred the buibf of the "Slomrch." These fears were now to lie realized at their worst. The gale which had threatened from the south-west, blew strongly up to 1,30 a. m.; the flet^t was at that hour in open order, the "Captain" Udiig immediately liehind the "Lord Warden" but the wind shifting a moment later, a ter- rific white siiuall cjuiie up with thiok and heavy rain, and the ill-fated vessel was no longer visilile fruiu the deck of the flagship. At daybreak on the morn- ing of Sept. 7, the "Captain" was NOT IN SIGHT and search lieing made, various debris was a<x)n disiiovered, which had form- ed part of ber Interior fittings.also the bodies of scuue drowned seamen, signa which told only too plainly what had occurred. And so the "Captain" was lost, and with ber the inventor of her class of vessela.Caijtain Cowper Coles, U.N., who had faith m the realization of his ideas, which i deas he had persistenUy toroeii on the Admiralty officials for ten years. W^itb a freelioard of 1ml four feel, a heavy sjiar iU*ik, and high masts with heavy yards and sails, it is strange that the "Captain" had not found it hartl work, to keepafloal at all when any- thing like a sea was en, and it was plain that all this toii-hauiper acted merely as a lever tor tlie wind lo force the ship down with shimld a gale prove strong enough, and such proved-eventu- ally to lie the case. The Parliamentary enquiry revealed that "a grave depart- ure from her original design" hail lieen made by the constructors and that the convenient "uoliody" was to tilame. Per- haps th ©constructors who were not all in accord with the views of Capt. Coles had made alterations to satisfy their consciences. However, one good result oame out ot the enquiry, namely, that since that dale no nuux- vessels of the same type have Ihkiu built tor the British navy,. It may lie mentioned that the "Monareh" a turret v -ssel like Ihe "Captain," but built on different lines, was, in i-espeul to Iker stability, sixl(x»n to one as compared with the lost man- of-war. EARLY USE OF ARTIKICIAR LIMBS. Attificia.1 8xm.s and legs were used in Egyivt ?.s early as 700 B. C. They wer-j made by the prissls, who wera the physjcians at those timea.