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 bat wouJd arovem othe«. ~M l^ian that dares traduce biw..„ safety to himself is not aSSj* tter to be despised for too bnsions than ruined bv tnn Hty.â€" Burke. ^* Iference is the most complicat*^ 1 lect and the most elegant of " p. â€" Shenstone. good word isoa easy obligation, l eak ill requires only our .iJeni,* us nothiiic.- T-iY/o^jj. *^ ' aceit is to nature what paint u 18 not only needless, but im, uld improve.â€" /»o^. J smile at the jest which plant.! Jother 8 breast, is to become a le mischief.â€" .5Aerw/a„^ :st him little who praise- all i isures all, and him least who II about all.â€" Za raff r. mentation is .the only musicia-l ^3, like a screech-owl, alioh?" fe the roof of an angry le covetous person lives as if th J ir.aae altogether for him and iC |i to take in ovcrything and na/ Ihink the first virtue is to restrai ^e he approaches nearest thT cnows how to be silent, event^ the right.â€" Co to. Iwer and liberty arc like Iieat and i I where they arc well mixed, even Ier8 where they are single, thi hictivc.â€" ^a"///e. ' Uloyment, wljJch Gaku calls [s physician, ' is so essential to hi Imess that iudolcnce is justly consij e mother of misery.â€" ii^urton. in not into debt, either for ware jioney boiTowed be content to p tliat are not of absolute nec« iv than to run up the score. IsvcaUhgivc happiness? Look round] It Kay distress what aplcndid mLsP» Itever fortune lavishly can Y^ur Im.ud annihilatea. and calls for more. private conversation between in^ ^(l.s, tlie wisodt men very often talk! [weakest for indeed the talkini? wiJ Id 13 notiiing else but think in? ak ' be ordinary employment of artifice u f of a petty mind, and it almost all pens that he who uses it to cover bin f e place, uncovers himself in anothc Vnchrfoiuaulil. b with antiquity as with ancestry! f are proud of the oce, and indiviT \e otlv.r but if they are nothing in t that which is their pridt ought •humiliation.- CoUon. 110 not mean to expose my ideaa i; "ous ridicule by maintainihg that ev happens to every man for the beatj 111 contend that he a1io makes the r ^;;"Hill3 the pai-t of a Mise and; WJ i How Fashions xu-o Started. lie Austrian Empre^o, while on aai jitry excursion with hjr usual retii potl at au inn for refreshments P ed she took off her bonnet and hum he bacrv of a chair, where a playful do! c sucn mischief with it bsforeanybc htion was attracted as to render it nd urther wear. Of course, every ladTi inr.y oLcred her own hat in theplaci ne t.iat was damaged, but the Emr " the w iM„ to rinish the excursion i tny t»thLT.lieud covering than that by nature. IJcing observed in -» by some ladies of tlie stylish wc are eager to imitate anything xii ty does, the practice of appea'rinfll without liat or bonnet came into a po-ae. ihe morning promenades I marked by the presence of numera tlv arranged heads of hair devoid u-.'lT^n """'l"" «""day the same M as followed m church. To such ^^as this becoming the r.ge, says " Ji:rh,rfr, that milliners gre ed, and clamored at court about i eupon an explanation of the cause |.;npre33siiatle3s excursion was issi ^olheia sources, and published to tl 1 ^vorid. This put an end to the ne ^n hatrnakers were liappy once mo a*hionab;e circles were again at erect Youag Laly «a hsr Trai tay I opentiie window for you. Mid ly nniuired a gentleman of a yot gent she I nev ;;/^'«:^«'-t'^^â„¢ I'acitic road, as e tnirg,ng at a sash that had not [edirom the preceding winter, glared at him a momeut. and gave lut consent. ° 'oiks can't bo too careful who t to or aecept UTors from. " slie rem ter a long pause. iliafsvery true," replied the uietly. â- re you a Boston drumaier " *^.' â- ^^,""0*'" he answered, hotel olork T K not a hotel clerk " am glad r,t that," siid she, 'in. ;!rummer or a hotel clerk sneak to "o you re an actor " 'o, nor an actor.' hat's Mrst-class." sheex laimed sho' vr dimples and leo.min. more conhdential. "If .,„ °/ toiroT-i r :{i..'i" actor sho ..tome Id die. A\ hat is your.b om Jt "" ""^^ gentlemen, and .d7uS. "" " '" Ask that b«J ie hotel c'erk miTsthave haveorit e^expressioa •• There ia^I^ya" The GMW •* p,-om the Cineinmati Enquirer, ««. haDpy. I h*v« 'ound content. 1. y° ,ffik o?^»»i â- Â»- «*«*t hare kmt ' °?* love and presence to my life. ?^ •"'"». JSt for tt»it,-rtie i« yoor wife. 'â„¢!m iKvcr now, so wild and swect- "^^t^t a dear, dellclou. ch^t. '*8 ?* im It by and see her lo*, â- ^ «V'^f Say. steS sljly from her book. ^e t^J^jPti 5^p devotion on your face. ' ;Th cold indifference, can trace l' ^Jeness in her child, and even take K^'-^fn^uD and kiss him for her sake. R*' ^thmeisdead. No vain regret P^' Tn ma^e me wish 1 oould forget. H"" ^,^h if 8â„¢e has told you all. feme thiJk 'iwi in the'early falL tv " oman-wise. she deems it best, "^^' „J;A me to let the matter rest, ""VpltSgSld and russet, and the skies tin^pfaTthe wftened Ught in eyes [el^fovMdscuurt. We wandered down ». J^t iidTi-she then was Fiorence Vane- Jh^re a stile abruptly stops the way ^had been there before that very day. JSK)d and looked upon the scene and I i^^th her. Field, and woods, and sky f^ ^jl j^gjow the clouds burned crunson c/,»StS winds woke love-impawioned lyres hh^n^heCTOves meanwhile the drowsy herd telowlf home, yet spoke we nota word. I weary robin, with his bleeding breast, t by to nestle in his downy nest ;, E alf the landscape faded to the sight, Xvine the creek a windmg streak of light Fh Smering through the pallid mists afar, lenf and^BPlendid rose the evenmg star. iPthine-oerhaps the spirit of the hour- Bde me a little bold, and gave me power husual over language then I took fe hwid you hold, and sought her downcast Lnld^nc t tell if most she frowned or blushed. at when she spoke all other sounds were â-  hushed. -^ m \hv tell her answer Let it now sufBce Viearn the sequel in her married eyes. tu have my queen That comes of careless T idle^thought of that autumnal day. ^n evil wind"-I prove the proverb true- riosing her I've fairly mated you..^ le Kame is mine. 1 he game of Life as wel fcvouldnot change my lot now smce the spell Lt held me fast is broKen. You may see Ibliss in wedlock all unknown to me. ad yet that well-remembered smile makes Via boasted coldness, and recalls my pain. f,ia ouaoi^^ ^^ j^^ SHEPHERD. "" VWWi " low THE SULTAN'S SERAGLIO*. the Great Eatabllsbment on the Bosphoronsis Conducted. The Sultan's Seraglio, whose buildings tretch to the length of a mile and a half, tithin a mile from Therapia, contains more 3,000 inmates, and is a city in itself, lerethe Government of the empire is carried in chiefly by women and children. The [izieres and ministers are but the servants If these secluded creatures, and although at imes a statesman, supported by a strong Lalace clique, may wield real power, he sel- [om does so for long, nor i3 his power very [reat. From the moment when he enters Itiice he is secretly assailed by a host of [nemies whom he does not see, and whom -aunot disarm or propitiate. A Turkish is advised to begin reforms all that an ambassador de- le C2 As every one who murrk» from the Seraclio takes with h«r her otothea, jewels, fanttore, MrvmntB, fMTifn and luip sum. in mooeT, w^ich oltisn Mnoonts to thooaands of ddhut% it may he imagined how the civil list is malctod when ^ere are many aspirant farmtes. After the Sultan's faTwitet preeedeney is given to the kadiiMsâ€"o/enaM, mothw at aome prince or princess then to the Sultanas, unmarried princesses of the blood, and finally, to the foster sisters of the saltans, or prinoet) and princesses ol the blood. Foster parents and their children are always regarded as permanent membos of a Tnric'a household, and dunng several years Nahir Hanoan, Abdul Medjid's foiter dster, held a paramount influence in his household. Coming now to the male members of the Seraglio, we find in addition to the neces- sary staff of chamberlains, sscretaries, eunuchs, scullions and cooks, a corps of 200 pages and musicians, and a very army of barbers shampooners, tasters of the Sul- tan's food, athletes, buffoons, ram fighters, astrologers and grooms. The ram ^hters were appointed to amuse Abdul Aziz, but they have been maintained by the present Sultan because it is almost impossible to dismiss any one who has once held cffice in any palace without giving him a pension. The same may be said of the astrologers, whose functions have become a sinecure, though they are occasionally summoned into the haremlik to entertain the ladies by fortune telling. As for the buffoons and dwarfs, they mive always been numerous, for ladies living in seclusion must be made to laugh when time hangs heavy on their hands and when the music and iiggiuG: of the dancing girls begin to pall. These dancing girls form a corps 300 strong, and as they are splendidly dressed and richly fed, they cost more to keep than a cavalry regiment. I need not enumerate the staff of servants and officials required for the stables (which contain 500 horses), for the kitchen the baths and gardens, nor yet the staff of court priests, but enough has been said, perhaps, to warrant the inference that the Su Itaa's court is at once the cost- liest and laziest in the world. â€" Brooklyn Eagle. dinister who lay promise laiiils, but he well knows tliat an^ mnova- iion he atttempted would disurb vested Interests which might happen to be defend- d by some Circassian favorite of the Sul- an's or by some insolent baltadji, the [onfidential servant* for the time being of :he Sultana Valide. As for the Sultan, rule he is as much at their mercy as us Ministers. A puppet m the hands of women, he never knows exactly M'ho rules Ihim, but is obliged, for peace's sake, to do as his mother, sister, kadines or favoritej^ order, ftlore than one Sultan, weary 1^ death of Seraglio intrigues, would have ' been f;lad to make a clean sweep of his female court, but any step in this direction would have led to conspiracy and deposition. Tlie loyalty of the people, which is great toward the otfice of the Padishah, is almost null as regards the individual who holds the otlice, so that, provided that there be a Sultan, the people care little who he is, nor would they be disposed to take up arms for any Padishah who had been deposed by a palace plot. The Seragliosâ€" for there are two, the new one, where the court of the reigning Sultan resides, and the old one to which the favor- ites of departed Sultans are relegated â€" iiarbour between them some 4,000 persons, and are a source of ruinous expense to the treasury. Not only are the allowances of the suitans, kadines, ikbals (favorites), and guieuzdes (aspirant favorites) large, bus the M ays of the palace are extravagant. Kach of the imperial ladies has her diara, or retinue of companions, male and female servants and all these people scatter gold about without counting Avhenever they have a whim to satisfy. Sultans do not contract regular marriages, and the reigning lady at the Seraglio is never the Sultan's wife, but his mother. She bears the title of Sultana Valide, and all the inmates ot the Seraglio owe her servile obedience. Her household consists of about 'JOO servants and guards. Next to her in rank comes the hasuadar ousta, or mistress of the treasury, who is generally a shrewd old women, promoted from the ranks of domesticity tor her talents in gossip .and housekeepin£{. If the Sultana Valide dies the hasnader succeeds her as queen of the Seraglio and this arrangement sometimes lead to strange consequences. Under Abdul Medjid the palace was ruled for years by a harsnader who had been a washerwoman, and whose chief adviser wa!^ a churlish baltadji (hewer of wood) who could not read, but who had the power of dimissing viziers. It was, in fact, the baltadji who ruled Turkey. After the hasnader comes the Snltan's semidawful wives and favorites in the following order First, the four kadines, who rank as spouses, until his Majesty divorces them and gives them in marriage to some pasha, which he does pretty often then the ikbals or favorites, to the number of live or six, and then the aspirant favor- ites, whose number is unlimited. A girl in the Seraglio, even if she be a simple cavedji or coffee bearer, becomes a guieuzdes or aspirant^vorite mm the mere tact of the Sultan's milking a complimentary remark on her. The word is derived from guieuz, eye, and it means a girl who has attracted the master's glance. If, for in- stance, his Majes^, while visiting one of bis relatives, remarks carelestiy, " What a pretty girl that is who brought in the coffee," the damsel is at once and without further parley promoted to the rank ot guieuzdi. which gives her a suite of apart- ments, a daira and a claim on the imperial exche^uer the remainder of her Me, or until such tune as the Sultan finds her a husband. â-  •' â-  » » a careful summary of a great many agncal* tnral ALL SOKTS. The path of glory in Ecypt at the present time seems to be the tow-path. The best time to go fishing is when there is a mackerel sky. Steamships have rolling stock when they carry live cattle. Many people think Ananias was an ama- teur fisherman. Large ears indicate patience and agility. Witness tbe donkey and jack-rabbit. A 2- year old calls a rainbow "Jumbo." Barnum did it, with his little " add." Lightening struck a brewery the other night, and made everything hop. The Speaker of the House is generally known as the chair, so called because he is sat down on so often. The life of a locomotive is only thirty years. This is another warning io inveter- ate smokers. Two styles cf consolation A man's â€" " Just what I expected." A woman's â€" " I told you how it would be." Boarding house logic Whom the gods love die young. The gods do not love spring chicken. The average hotel waiter is a perfect pro- digy at cards â€" he takes everything with bis tray. It is a mistake to think that the bubble reputation is always fooling around the mouth ot a cannon. No man that ever lived can clinch an ar- gument « ithout riveting his opponent's at- tention. "I say, Charley, lend me a match ' Can't do it, old boy; I'm very short; but if five dollars will do you any good â€" " Nay, naj' my son Arabi Bey was not a driver of O-e of the Es^ptian canals when he a was bo\ but he is now a boss lock- tender. So they have got a corner on tanbark, have they Web, well that accounts for the different flavor of boarding housj coffee of late. M. Lherie, another French tenor, hai turned out to be a baritone. He has been obliged to cancel a few tenor engagements. The number of cards in a pack being fif- ty-two suggests that " seven-up " is the pro- per game to play once a week for a year. Miss Lilliphace s^ys she uses powder merely to take the shine off her face, but Fogg thinks she uses it to take the shine of other women's faces. " How to Travel," is the title of a little book just out. How to get the money to travel with is the most serious question of the flitting season. There are forty Chinese watchmakers in San Francisco. Watches must be made to " go," whatever may happen to the Chinese. Timid persons, afraid of steamboats, will be pleased to know that George Decker, who made the first trip on Fulton's craft, is still alive and hearty. The man that is bom to be hanged will never be drowned, but it is best never to venture too far beyond your depth, young man, ior all that. 'â- * No, Peter, the aphorism "Silence is gold- en," is based on error. There is many a professor in a deaf mute asylum who earns a good salary vrithout ever saying a word. No, Arabella, the captains and lieuten- ants in the army are not aU minors, though it is true that a soldier never reaches his majority till he becomes a field officer. London is complaining of homeless cats left to wander about the streets, while their owners are out of the city. Shades of Dick Whittington, caa inch things be At a recent sale of relies in London a me- dal struck off in 1565 brought £840. Our readers mined a bonanza by not havmg a few medals struck off that year. A poor philosopher ^nt blacking on that portion of his stockmgs woich showed through the hole in his boot, and then said " Itja d*^ of a very great part of man- j^frrifft^ i^aoe^ Hk^. imi^im from^ Ihe If tbope i« no rain^frar awhile soai0 f)Ops win be rained, and if there is rain cr pa are bound to be radled. This is gatbored from ViO^^'.M^A .i :;M A weak woman may look a hardened Til lain in the qre and weak up his porpeee. If a niooae oomes near her she trill jump «p on a chair and yell murder. It is the un- expected that gets away with oourage. A woman h generally happy when theis worryi^ abootaome trivial matter. II you wish to see this paradox exemplified just kq to a family picnic in the woods when the ants are playing aide and seek in nie grub bas- ket. Bamum's next ia to be a white elephant. He has applied to the King of Siam for tne loan of one. If he 'ails to get one he will probably whitewash Jumbo, and the adrer- tising will go on jast the same as if the Kins; were neighborly and accomodating. A Wisconsin court has convicted a man for stealing a manuscript poem, and sen- tnced him to the penitential^ for one year. Unless he threatened to publish it, the sen- tence seems rather severe. If he had stolen a prose article no doubt he would have got ten vears. HOW AMBUCAKS XAT. An Englialuaan Crttlolsea the Way They Sat in the Far West. San Francisco Letter in the New 1 orh World. It was in the Ogden refreshment-room, waiting for the train for San Francisco, that I saw a performance which filled me with astonishment and dismay. It was a man eating his dinner. And let me here remark, with all possible courtesy, that the American is the most reprehensible eater I h.kve ever seen. In the hrst place, the kniv^ are pur- posely made blunt-^the back and the front of the blade being often of the same "sharp- ness " â€" to enable him to eat gravy with it. The result is that the fork (which otight to be used simply to hold the meat steady on the plate while being cut with the knife) has to be used with great force to wrench off fragments of food. The object of the two in- struments is thus materially abused, for he holds the meat down with the knife and tears it to pieces with his fork 1 Now, reader, don't say no. For I have been carefully studying Americans at their food (all over the West at any rate), and what I say is strictly correct. This abuse of knife and fork, then, necessitates an extraordinary amount of elbo\Y^ room, for in forcing apart a tough slice of beef the elbows have to stick out as square as possible, and the conse- quence is^ as the proprietor of a hotel told me, only four Americans can eat in a space in which six Englishmen will dine comfort- ably. The latter vvhen feeding keep their elbows to tleir sides the former square them out on the line of the shoulders and at riijht angles to their sides. The American orders a dozen "portions" of as many eat- ables, and the whole of his meal, after the filthy fash-on of the "eating-houses" at which travellers are fed, is put before him at once. To eat the dozen or so different things he has ordered he has only one knife and fork and one teaspoon. Bending over the table he sticks his fork into a pickled gherkin, and while munching this casts one rapid, hawk-like glance over the spread viands, and then proceeds to eat. Mehercule what a sight it is He dabs his knife into the gravy of the steak and picks up with his fork a piece of bacon. While the one is going up to his mouth che other is reaching out for something else. He never apparently chews his food, but dabs and pecks at the dishes one after the other with a rapidity which merely as a juggling trick might be performed in London to crowded houses every day, and an impartiality that, con- sidered as dining, is as savage as any meal of Red Indians or of Basutos. Dab-bab, peck-peck, grunt, growl, and snort The spoon strikes in every now and then, and a quick, sucking-up noise announces the dis- appearance of a mouthful of huckleberries on the top of a piece of bacon, or a spoonful of custard pie on the heels of a radish. It is perfectly prodigious. It defies coherent des- cription. But how on earih does he stoallow it Every now and then he shuts his eyes and strains his throat. This I suppose is when he swallows, for I have seen children getting rid of cake with the same sort of spasm. Yet the rapidity with which he shovels in his food is a wonder to me, seeing that he has got no "pouch" like the monkey or the pelican. Does he keep his miscellane- ous food in a "crop" like a pigeon, or a preliminary stomach 1 ke a cow, and "chew the cud " afterwards at his leisure I con- fess I am beaten by it. The mixture of his food, if it pleases him, does not annoy me, for if a man likes to eat mouthsful of huckle- berries, bason, apple pie, pickled mackerel, peas, mutton, gherkins, oysters, radishes, tomatoes, custard and poached eggs {this is a bona fide meal, copied from my note-book on the spot) in indiscriminate confusion, it has nothing to do with me. The Aicliest Tin Mine la the World. iTVoOT ihe London Field. To the westward of the Surrey Hills, in Tasmania, in the county of Russell, and at the distance of a hundred miles from Laan- ceston, lies Mount Bischoff, ^and here a few adventurers found tin in 1S72. A company was formed and workings were commeneed. An eminent minerologist reported that the mountain was almost a mass of tin, the ore yielding from 70 to 80 per cent, of pure metaL Large smelting works were erected at Launeeston, knd in the year 1S76 a thou- sand tons of tin were raised. Twenty-five shillings «ly have been paid up on each share, but the present market price is from £60 to £69, the companv during the last four years having paid a dividend every two months of 10 sMQings per share. A fortunate gentieman in Hobart, who expended £875 in the purchase of 700 shares in 1873, now re- joices in the receipt of £2,100 a year as the income of his investment. Some scientific journals propose that men of science should be called "scientiates," and not "scientists." and that instead of using the phrase "scientific Studies" we should rather employ " sciential studies." No doubt these changes would harmonise oar expressions very closely with the Italian sejeaciofi •aitdenAUi, but it is eaioeedingly questimable whether the adoption M these new words' itoold add much to preofaion of â- tatetteot, ^iHmu the words nbw in use hafe rmtj dafiatte meanings attaohad to tlK9l 'i^ .Ui^-' 6^tMMMiS^tf%heflaaiMi aaitiiislnsB tif tiie BMUshneathatara stiU tebe faand in iMiisSi vait««f Gemaair few instances that wen not vague have been made pablic. but Dr. Brandos, of Gottingen, has r«ie«grtly found a particular district where diitiaet remains of these Saaraas ww ejott. The district is near the old Prussian fortress of Miaden He. found in use there a curious lot of Bn g l is h words, among which was •• Yea " instead of " Ja ' ©r "Jo." Health statistics of the fiaglish {garrisons in Cyprus are said to show a great immov*- ment, especially in the case of the Royal Engiiieers whe form the only part of the garris^ that has been stationed on the island, without interruption for two years. Last year the death-rate for the entire force, numbering an average of 443 men, was about 2^ per 1.000, as compared with nearly 19 per 1,000 in the previous year. How accurate and fair these fiimres aie it would be hard to say, but unless there has been a very remarkable and rcMJ change in the healthfulnees of the Island â€" one, in fact, that is almost incredible â€" ^there must be something wrong about them, for they go on to say that for the same period Uie mortality among British troops m Canada wasalitUe over 6^, in Bermuda a little over 9i, and in the West Indies a little over 8i per 1,000. From Victoria has been forwarded, by the Irishmen there resident, 'to the Lord Mayor of Dublin an address expressing strong and characteristic sympathy with the movement for home rule. The Irish- men of Ireland are described as sufferina: " under the hoof of a foreign despotism," and their condition is compwed to that of the Israelites in their degrading servitude to the Egyptians. There are nine signa- ttfres to the address, and five of them are those of members of the Legislative As- sembly. Attention was csdled to the address in the Assembly, and the Premier was asked if he intended to take any action. He replied that he proposed to take none. One of the signers then rose in his place and declared that if he had been guilty of treason or sedition he ought to be sent be- fore a jury of his countrymen, and he was ready to go there. He merely desired for Ireland the same legislative independence that is possessed by victoria. Col. John C. Gawler, who died in Eng- land a few weeks ago, has been for a num- ber of years the keeper of the Crown jewels, or, as he was known ofli cially, the Keeper of the Rega ia at the Tower of London. He was the son of that Col. Gawler who was at one time the Governor of South Australia, and he had seen long and notable service in the British army. His first military experience was had at an early age. The year 1851 found him with the Seventy-third Regiment in the Kafir war. He sur\'ed in that campaign until 1863, and came out of it with a medal and the brevet of Major. Five years latter he was gazetted a Laeutenans-Colonel in the army, and for services in the Indian mutiny he was awarded another medal. Still later he commanded as Brigadier a considerable force in the Himalayas against the Rajah of Sakkim, taking the Rajah's residence and forcing him to submit to the British terms of surrender. He subsequently penetrated to the Thibet frontier and " served in China and Ceylon." DurLug the past two or three months sad reports have been received in England from Iceland concerning the state of the food supply, and official reports more recently made to the Ministry at Copenhagen now confirm them. It appears from these that the winter of 1880-81 was one of unex- ampled severity, and that it was followed by a cold summer, so that the hay crop of 1881 was less than half an average crop, and in consequence, a much larger portion than usual of the sheep, and even many of the cows, had to be slaughtered in the autumn. People thus were too poor to buy the com and maize imported for fodder, and their communications with the trading-stations had been cut off by the bad weather. Thousands of live stock died, the lambing failed, the milk both of ewes and cows has been lacking, and the usual aut umn trade in sheep, tallow, and wool, on which the people depend for money wherewith to buy imported necessities, is likely to fail them now. The measles, which has not been in Iceland for 36 years, has attacked Reykjavik, and is spreading over the island. In London a fund has been started at various points to aid these suffe rers. i .Am Among ohiftrciix1Mtfaslirong^iiBl%- „ two huve'Aitaonatssaatnlas,. both of whioh were fun grpirii..^ Ofte was of the brown, and the other of the black variety. The brown fellow was caged in a common e%ar box, and the black one in a glass jar. As they oould not Im exhibited to aavantaga- in contrivances of tiiis kind, and as thsj were net very pleasant company to have rnnning about loose, a box almost two feet sqoare. with a glass loip, was procured, on the bottom of which a layer of sand was roread to make the animabi feel at home. Theoover was then drawn, and the two spiders pitched into it from their separate oams. No sooner did the one discover the other's prt sence than they rushed at each other as viciously as two panthers, and immediately dosed in deadly embrace. They cane to Kther with a bound, and then twining their ig, hairy l^s about each other rolled over and over in the sand, biting each other sav- agely, and then tagging with all their might, as if endeavoring to crush each other by sheer muscular power. Incredible as it may seem, this sort of wu^are was kept up for six hours, during most of which time it could not be seen that either was gaining the slightest advantage, as neither showed any sign of disposition to end the fight ex- cept by the death oi his adversary. At last the black one succumbed and rolled over dead on the sand, while the victor immedi- ately proceeded to reap the spoUs of his lone batUe. --i- *- 6 Seizing his vanquished enemy in his stout horns or pincers, or whatever contrivance he has for that purpose, he rapidlv tore him limb from limb and cooPy proceeded in can- nibalistic style, to mi^e a meal of him. In a very short time nothing was left except a little pile of legs and pieces of shell to mark the spot where one tarantula had fallen and another had dined. â€" Denver Tribune. drla aa it Waa. Cliaap Food. At the present high price of meat food it is a satisfaction to know that the less meat one eats in hot weather the better off one will be. And it is no less satisfactory to know that a substitute as nutritious may be found among the cheapest articles of diet. Eggs at average prices are a cheaper food than meat. According to Dr. Edward Smith, in his treatise on "Food," an egg weighing an ounce and three-quarters con- tains 120 grains of carbon and 17 3-4 grains of nitrogen, or 15.25 per cent, of carbon and 2 per cent, of nitrogen. The value of one pound of ef^ as food for snstainiog the active forces of the body to, is te the value of one pound of leui beef as 1584 to 900. As a nesh producer one pound of eggt is about equal to one pound of beef. A writer in the Boston Journal of Chemigtry estimates that a hen may be calculated to constime one busLel ot com yearly, and to lay ten dozen, or fifteen pound*, of eggs. This is equivalent to saying that three and one- tenth pounds of com will produoe. when fed to a hen, five-sixths of a pound ot eggs; but five-sixths of a pound of pork requires about five pounds ot corn for its production. Tdking into account the nutriment in each, and the comparative prices of the two on an average, the pork is about three times as costly as egg, while it is certainly less health- The largest sailing vessel afloat was Utuiched at Belfast, Ireland, recently. She was bnUt by Harland, Wolff Co., andwasm«ied the Walter H. 'Wilson. Her meascuresMnt is 300 feet by 42| feet by 25 feet. She will be classed 100 A 1 sit Lloyd's. She is built of iron, has foar maatst three of which an stuaire rignd. and is capable of canryiin, ^000 tone dead '^«**** • •-; .7/ iU i.^| Ale We very quickly found our way to the bazaars, "to mingle with the strange and turbaned crowd," those marvelous throngs of picturesque life new forms, animate and inanimate new sounds, new human beings, new animals, mmgled beauty and dirt, of which no description can convey the slight- est idea â€" nothing but actual sight. The fruit market, full of things as yet unknown and untasted-^the market for such game as is brought from Lake Mareotis, and treasures of every description brought here from every corner of the eastern world bv those long strinsrs of tvatient, heavy-laden camels crockery, saodlery, gold and silver embroid- ery, the scarlet fez, the yellow slippers, (with turn-up toes, for the exclusive use of the faithful,) nre-arms, glittering swords and daggers, gorgeous raiment of needle- work, from the coarsest stuff to the rarest brooches, of material and color alike rich and harmonious jeweled pipes, spices, carved wood and ivory, sweetmeats, rich stuffs woven by patient hands, playthings â€" many stalls toeether dealing in the same article. For just as in London you expect to find bankers in Lombard-street, silk- weavers in Spitalfields, coach-builders in Long Acre, watch-makers in Clerkenwell, c. so in the East each trade has its own bazaar â€" the silk- weavers, the copper-smiths, the saddlers, letter-writers, the dealers in Moorish, Turkish, Persian, or Algerian stuffs, each cluster together in their ow n corner. But the chief eharm of these bazaars lies in the throng of human beinsjs of all sorts and kinds the almost bewilder- ing medley of voices talkirg "every man his own tongue wherein he was bom " tbe perpetual motion, the intensity of colors, the vivid sunlight, the cool, deep shadows. It is curious to Stan i beside the dealer in fire-arms and watch the simple process of manufacture. The workman, sittmg on his counter, holds a lone wire between his toes, and, slowly winding it around the tin bar- rel produces a lethal weapon which would astonish Purdie or Lancaster. It is a fowl- ing, piece which a British sportsman would rejfard with awe if required to fire it never- theless, it proves fatal to a vast number of snipe and quil, and rarely lead^ to any accident. Those yellow sii pers, too, ave worthy of ntice. The orthodox bright yellow dye witi which the leather is stained is obtained from the rinds of pomegracatcs. Every blue-robed woman whom you meet Erobably carries on her bead a great flat asket of fmits and vegetables, her little marketing for the day; or else on the shoulder sits a quaint l^tem baby, and a group of bigger children clustered round her â€" little creatures whose large, calm eyes would be so btfkutiful were it not for mes and filth but, alas as some one smtgested, " What is beauty wiUiout soap?" (and, in- deed, soap seems a thing unknown in Egypt, or at least wonderiully precious, judging from the prices charged for washing !) As to those poor dark-eved little ones, their mothers keep them filthy on purpose, lest any one passing should admire them, and so excite the envy of evil spirits. More- ove-, they believe it strengthens the sight to paint the eyelids of ev«»n the youngest baby with khol, a mixture of soot and an- timony, which is carefully applied with a silver bodidn. This certainly makes the eye look immensely large, but painfully un- natuntl. Then, the amount of ophthalmia is sMuething frightful. It is due chiefly to the intense dryness of the atmosphere and the subtle, impalpable dust which forever floats in the air above the crowded city. Ex- ceeding dirt also does its psrt, while the swarms of flies which clnst^ on the sores, and thd'C revel undisturbed, are a sight to fill you with disgust Of course, they carry infection to the next 6ye on which they settle, and so the loathsome disease spreads, ami that with such frightful rapidity that sometimes the whole eye is reduced to a mere opaque pulp within 24 hours, even when the sufferer is otherwise in periect health. The consequent amount of blind* ness is startling, and I believe the oomputa* tion is that one npau iu six has lost the sight of cither one or both eyes. â€" GeiUleman't Mcigazine. Always fashionable The toothpick boot is goilig out of fttfbion, 'tis said. But the broad, easy-swingmg boot worn by rigoroos m«n of about £f^, with marriafsaUe daughters, will iMrsr go out of fashion, young n)^ mirex. Keep out of its reach. "U*. Aa *.i. -c:; ^ti* â- â-