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 '^S?^=-~---s^"??5^pigs?^?l?ww^pByp|p^j|PPP« fmmmm PP^USP 5*0 the e be most r- '• aft h J this |of ttia» tai open terelv " fa jjf A NUTSHELL f isn. Domestic and War 4i1 "' „p Pithy, and Pointed. (*" DOMESTIC. I Mr Ei«"arJ Mackay, cf Mon- IJ'Vs 000 to charities, r' 'men of Woodstock are prepar- lLl.'a"«^"jenionstration on Julj' 12th, r^'Z manufacturer, of Kingston, Kashas skipped out, owins: about • in the French churches at ^;:'goance the opera bouflfe per'or- ,,- Stewart, of Hamilton, Las â- ^^â- 'professorship of McMaster 'â-  i3 doing a great deal of damage "'f nn atiple trees in the vicinity of liiids on night] y°i to heahi,| f d~"en.""" always throj 'or wi dow. HEAT Healtli fiesta iv.ijes anu i,,,! iSIHTV. u ilenoteadcficil L-onatituents of iTe.i,'ularpropor1 li.excesa. Dibml \a inciuenttoaf limbs are apt u â- Die andcaniiotl ation isirregula iitation of tne "â-  V'iolent pina the most tuiiiuitd apple ,jrried off twenty Ciughnawaga '^sm Montreal vicinity for his war aiiiel Kirby attempted suicide ^v[\i by banging while under the in- â-  drink' Iv B Government offer §200 for the ' -ion of Eiisha S. Steeves, who shot ^j Constable Dryden at Elgin. .Isof four hundred members of the !*.=ociation have expressed their in- " attemling the meeting at Mon- .|^,i\\y.se, a rising young Qutbeo uasi'OLicto Boston to lultill an sent as kadiug soprano of the Signor Jpera L'J. nrerest in reported Fenian designs wiiich was abating somewhat, ,„rcvii-tu by the conspicuous move- [Jin unknown steamer. ,-3ir man named Joiin Allan, of Lon- "^en^afeJ in chopping wood, when !-tr dew up and struck him in the eye, iigthe eyesight. rae Bergeron, a Montreal trader, in the door of his house with an i-ir.ariUr his wife, who escaped out of entrance. Ife was arrested. Xiodstock a lad named Daniel Mc- ;ni his leg split from the toe nearly up -,:p by a bolt-saw in Clark's factory, lea a lifteeu minutes. Detroit girl named Malvina who was brought to Montreal I rmni |23:piace and seduced some time ago, |:osi by l^cr brother in an infamous 3 are langiiidlv] ent,'th is diminijl rsliijbt exercise.! hen at rest, becoL agitated under! ending heights, nt^rcatlydisorda, ?eli:.;of faintneJ 1 CDstinatBEeura nl lireast, or oj fre(|uent attend scretions are so lies the mensesl cncird or very IS .-canty, and I'acuations'rom to of the cioma iptoms. ITV tlRED. N'oxcjnbcr i'), li} )n: uie in testifying ;. For years pa^ from chronic he rem whichlobti itil I was iadud the Vegetine.| ha\e been for od better, am mi n my old cnemyj â-  testimony may] remedy. lam JOHNSTON. )U Lippincolt strl e in endorsins I â- riftit to my va _cd the use of f rXSTON' )ttheC. -UCha AlIMgj ,ng-hou33 ii ne| )ducia?strawb tioice. I'ous, debilitati tied for work| enjoy af.i" mind. BurdJ ite your mis^ d if you will 1 w weeks. (-1| man try to wa lo look whiteJ -at morning,a| ,nd reddens ichters ai-.. s" r.\"rrED .-^tate.-;. l. vallos.s of life by the Grappler fire Varr-Dvc. |( vcube:;vilie, 0., Presbytery has ::ii Kci-. W. \V. MoLane for heresy. t;;eMe.Mcau (leaorals who neglected to ;:;a;e m tlie national holiday have been Itii mder arrest. ;vcrnor of New York has signed the |:i:CJoura(?e the planting of shade trees Bfub.ic highways. ymi'lo of terrible violence has passed cLansing, Mich., district, commit- Ipx. damage to property, opatients in the St. Louis City Hospi- :d;eil from the effects of a dose of riijivenby a physician in mistake. Bashville, 111., Rev. S. A. Cecil, a :oi the .^Iethodist church, has been h;:ed of misappropriating the funds of |::urch. riiaa! MtCl(j-key 's door-bell was rung 'j/» recently, and the servant found tin:;mt abuut two months old lying fe=:tp. ioiband di. liars worth of gambling p?tu3 was burned in a public square at '"..'x the otiier day by order of the ;:ae PeEniylvaiiia .Senate Mr. Nel- |i".Uckeil I'resiiloiit Arthur for counten- "•::e ilriiikiiiL' of li'juors in the White fcjteamcr I'lu-aeciaii, which arrived at rou.'ht ^-,'1 evicted tenants from f;-'«" t'aiHiiv, Hlacksop, and London- J j itatel tliat a member of the last ptareof l)i;kotawa.s offered ten thous- plars if he would vote for the -bill to F« the capital. i'-Iy all th.-) opium dens in New York J-.-osed recently inconsequence of the l*uij waged on tiiem. Two girls aged T'l^ and a L'hi'iaman caught smoking fttested. h' ^0. 7 exploiled with a terrific re- [,-^ng the New .lerseyoil work fire. The "^cerand a number of men within ten ^;'i the tank were saved almost by a ia;NEI'AL. r^'^et of Slow have fallen in portions "north of eMala ^airland. laga.sy envoys are greatly pleased «eir reeeption at lierlin. •"tin Farrar has been appointed to the pconry of Westminster. N de St. \-al:ore has been designated p Ambassador to Austria. i«nvention relative to the Austro-Turk- |W* has been signed. 'merman Koichstag has ordered an en- ' "to the cause of the Hhine floods. IpIaI^I ^^^ autonomist, has been elect- ,_'««Went of the Municipal Coancil of ^;'«s from Hayti lead to the belief fcijj^ insurgents are not gaining rapid 'vort/iGVjv/i,,,) Gu'Hte, alluding to the V'^-^ of Republicanism. k Thedr°j iter uaing'" work as ^^ Irst dosf, » Livsr teme- ,W3 U3 to " the Keichstag, accuses the Pro- iv^^^^l â- ^^â- '11 speak at Dublin during itsuntide leccsa against the emigra- f^"^yofthe(;overn^ent. Pf-otr"°° ^^ '^° influential British p..,,' has appointed a committee to " the schune for the construction 'coad canal across the Isthmus of Wiwcett, father of the British Post- ^fneral, and the accidental author haf ac^r^y'^^M. P.. thelmh Secretary burgh uSm.^'L5fflf'*^ "' .^"-eS: him that the "^iS^Tv^r ^«^^ does not abandon 3f K ^^^\ « ^e present. ^^^^ work for the cow°e^Jt*o^rth*e'^G "' ' ^- be allowed to Se^ ISt ^°T«nxnient wiU on horseback dS ^l "" ^^^ "d« cession. *^ '^^ coronation pro- A Mortgage Paying clock. r4«Ktlt^rTL*° '"" ^«- York of Jeremiah Curti%-J,i? T"' " *^« «i«atb acquamtrce S tK J^""^\T« °f PJ««ant story of Tclolfe « 1^!°*^^'"*°' ^nd the house t^enfyyekrra'/o"' ^^ ^^ ^^ '« called my atteS .^ ' ",°" ' ^^«8- He the enteLce ;« th. '^•°°" ^^^-^din,. at head of trfirstfl*g^o?rifrT ' '"^^ old-faah.oned affair^ wich it« .i.. I\^as an -e Six feet high. -rStLTsry^af vf g'LrrsL'e^^/g Ss^^r whTeth^dr pte'dTto^L^^' '^^^t strangers. ThftC th^*" wenrr/'"° "' ofia*'^, '^i"^^ she dLc:::;ed^h",tTh°e old family clock was standing in its place al she had known it in her childhood day^ She expressed a wish that we might purchase It, If the owners could be inducid to sell A proposition was therefore made for the nuf chase of the old clock, which wa finall/ac cepted, and the price of ^50 was paid The titn T Pf^' "" «^°* *° Brooklyn, and taken to a shop for con.plete renovation and The clock man reported the clock a valu- able one, saying that it was of German manu- loO years. Then Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss con- sultea together, questioning among them- pelves If they had not paid too small a sum tor the ciock, considering its reported value In order to quiet their consciences in the matter they resolved to send the people of whom they had purchased the clock another sum ef money, and accordingly $150 was sent. By return mail a letter came from the mother of the family, acknowledging the receipt of the money, and thanking Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss most heartily, saying " That money came straight from Heaven for a demand had just been made for a pay- ment on the mortgage on our place, and we had not the money to meet it, and we had given up in despair that our home must go. Just then your money came, which has en- abled us to make a payment, and our home is saved." Touched by the pathetic story above re- lated they wrote to ascertain how much the mortgage was upon the place. In reply it appeared that the original mortgage was for §1,000, which was now reduced by the §150 just paid. Another consultation followed, in which the value of the clock was consider- ed and the satisfaction it was affording them, and the result of the conference was that the old farm in Maine should be cleared of its mortgage, and thereupon a sum was remitted for the purpose. Shakespeare's "Macbeth' the Bible. Taken from You will find the principal characters of " Macbeth " in the Book of Kings. Jezebel iuthe Bible is " Lady Macbeth" in the play. She it was that stirred up her husband to do all the deviltry he did. Then take Hazael, a servant to the King. Under the influence of his wife, Jezebel, he plots to kill his master, and become King of Syria in his stead. This plot is successful, and Hazael is crowned King. This character exactly suits that of "Macbeth." The minor characters can also be found in the Bible. Of course, Shakespeare has altered the words, but the plot and characters are to be found there. Dr. Halsey, in his lectures on Shakespeare at Princeton College, stated that Shakespeare's regular practice was to study the Bible seven hours a day. There were not so many Bibles in his time as there are now, but although very costly, ha had one, and made a daily practice cf studying it. Where Dr. Halsey got his in- formation I do not know, but presume he is correct. Though Sliakespeare was uudoubtedly a great man, I think he is considerably over- rated, so far as his originality in concerned. I think he was not endowed with the genius of originality, but rather with the genius of arranging the writings of those gons before, and re-writing them in an attractive style. â€"Bev. Richard Lee, D. D. A Tornado's Force. A vivid impression of the sudden fury of the Southern cyclone is conveyed by this brief statement of Mr. B. F. Joces, of Beauregard, Miss., who, the moment he saw the danger coming, called his wife and little boy into the yard and made them lie flat on the ground and grasp some little shrubs which stood within reach: "I put jny arm about my wife," says Mr. Jones, "while with the other I clasped a small tree, and made my son lie close up to me, and then I said to them, 'Hold on, hold on, for God s sake! It IS for life!' and then the wind came. There was a whirl and roar. 1 was shaken, and heard the crU of my falling house. An instant and It was over. 1 still held my wife in n.y arms, but she was insen- sible, and my boy was still nestling close to me, but bruised and bleeding. All three eackned without serious injury, thanks to Sr Ccs presence of mild and the prompt obedience of his wife and child. Prepare yourselves for the world as the Grecian athletes used to do for their cxercTses oil your mind and your man- ners to give them the necessary supple- ness Ind^flexibiUty. Strength alone will not do. .. „ He who makes a baseless msmuation a Jnst a neighbor's integrity or honor is gnty of an inlustice which i« ff .^jjfj ^^^^ ^„=+rnns in comparison with tue petiy ^^^pdatTon of the^ despicable thier who Sf into his house fnd surreptitiously carries away his goods. Wie cwaaw COmw miMr York City. CWnatowB ia ohm mentkned in tiie New OkIm.?"' "^yono â-¼Â»Â» knows when '^thara Sqnare », could fiid Chinatown quite easily. There isn't much of it, thonsh. •toert, Mott by name. Some of the house are tenements, with dark halls, rickety •^ and wuidows and a perpetual b«i ^fu l- V*ber« were once private hoases. ^h high stoops and a modfrately good ap- ^Mance, but now almost as shabby as the tenements. Nearly every house haa a sii^ m Umiese characters, and aU the dingy stores have stripes of yellow or red paper In the windows inscribed in the same way. ^any of the door posts bear similar cm- pemshments, each and every one of which w the most utterly incomprehensible Greek to aU white barbarians. Go into Chinatown any tune you please, and you wiU find ^lestials on guard at almost every door- way. They seem to 6e merely lounging about, and to have no particular interest iu anything, but they are watohing sharply all the time. The gambling places, opium dena and lottery shops are never without pickets, who eye all passers very keenly and answer questions without any waste of words. "No s«be,"i8the invariable reply to barbarians straying around with conundrums. "As ticht as aclam" and "dumb asan oyster," are old phrases for retictnce,but "as close as a China- man" would fit quite as well. A Chinaman can tell a reporter by instinct, and is closer than ever when a member of that worthy brotherhood drifts around after notes. He needs to be an especially energetic reporter who p. netrates the picket lines of a Chinese gambling den or lottery shop. The barbar- ians can get into an opium " joint" without much trouble, but the other places are for Celestiils alone. No (ine else could under- stand the games that are played, or what the queer combinations mean. It is said that both the games and the lotteries are all square, but onfy the Chinese themselves know whether they are or not. They are carried on in dark foul places, as far from the street as possible, and only those who know just how to proceed can get in at all. The stores in Chinatown do not invite the barbarian's trade. No goods are kept but those which Chinamen buy. Very few lux- uries are found in any but the Celestial is not a luxurious animal. Opium doesn't cost much, and the indulgence in it is the height of his extravagance. The idea of luxury does not exactly harmonize with the hard fact of existence on fifteen cents a day. As to THE NUMBER OF CHINESE In New YoiK, it is not easy to get at the actual figures. Those in Chinatown could probably be counted, or a lair guess made, anyway but they don't all live in China- town, by any means. That place is merely their headquarters. The number scattered through otner parts of the city, chiefly with a view to laundry profits, is larger, 1 think, than could be counted in Chinatown itself. All the way from the Battery to Harlem, the whole eight and a half miles of Gotham's length, these unassimilating Mongolians are to be found. A few years ago, when there was an outcry about a Chinese invasion, it was said the number in New York was not less than 3,000. When the census men of 1S80 came around, however, they figured^up less than 1,000. They probably trot as near the mark as the guessers, anyway. But there has been a considerable increase since 1880, and I suppose the present number might be pat at 2,000 for New York City. Counting in those in Brooklyn and the Jersey suburbs, the total may not be far from 3,000. All are workers at one thing or another. There are no loafers among them, and no dead- beats, so far as heard from. The Chinaman's cardinal principle is to earn his living, which shows a vast abysm of difference between him and some proud Caucasians. But then, if he can live on fifteen cents a day, the earning should not be very hard. There are very lew, however, who don't pick up at least two dollars a day one way or another, and some contrive to make from three to five dollars. There is a notion, I believe, that a great many Chinese in New York are em- ployed as servants. I have read picturesque accounts of Fifth avenue ladies invading Chinatown in their handsome family car- riages in search of likely young Chinamen for the domestic staff. But the number of Chi- nese employed in this way is really quite smallâ€" not more, I am pretty sure, than a couple of score all told. I do not know a single family that employs a Chinese servant. Where such servants are employed, the pay is about the same that good white servants receive. The stories about Chinese getting twice the wages of white servants are all nonsense. As a rule, where males are em- ployed for household work, colored men are preferred. These are paid from §18 to §25 a month, with board. I do not think that any Chinamen get more, and I hear that a good many female servants in private families get as much. It certainly is not as servants that the Chinese interfere with the white labour in New York, and for that matter their interference with it is very little any way, WAR IN CHINATOWN' At present there is much excitement in New York Chinatown over a sort of " boss" question. The Sun's Chinese reporter, Ah Wong, has made an ambitious attempt to write It up in English, with an amusing re- sult as to grammar. But this English gram- mer of ours can trip up lots ot folks besides the heathen. The Tom Lee already men- tioned has carried things with a h^gh hand in many ways. Though no longer a deputy sheriff, he still assumes airs of authority. He has played boss so long that the thought of gi^'ing it up now goes very much apamst the grain with him, Besides playing deputy sheriff, he has exercised the functions of "head man" in the Mott street colony for some years. Now a large faction down there wants to depose him, and another fac- tion objects. Ah Wong says "there is danger that the unpleasantness will not only be the means of the eventual breaking up of several leading Chinese business houses, and a whole serious of expensive law-suits but even the shedding of heathen blood is hinted at " The two factions arcilocally known as the Sin Ning and Sung Chong men on one side and the Ha Sin Ning men on the other, Tom Lee is a Ha Sm Ning man, and the othe- heathen wants him to step down and out They have been holding meetings in Oong Wah's grocery, with a view tobouncmp Tom, and it certainly looks very much as if Tom would soon find things made pretty waam for him. But it is to be hoped that the row will be settled without any shed- ^eithen blood byheamen V hoodlum '«ui,^ •9(mgt^ ff â-  ;* ' ^..'iiiK^i The Chineae 'paipvc tiiat was started a couple of montha hf/fi is doing pretty well. It tpd • strike in the office the other day, but the editor, Wong Chin Foo, managed to overcome it. ffis staff, consisting of a â- iit^e Celestial skilled in the art of printing Chineae characters on paper in such a way that plates for printing could be prepared from them, struck for an advance uf wages from $12 to $15 a week. Wong Chin Foo refused and the staff retired, with a view to starting a laundry. Wong Chin Foo hunted around for another staflf and finally found one willing to set up tea-chest and fire-cracker literature for the $12 a week despised by his predecessor. So the Chi- nese- Amtrican sails in smooth water again. It does not promise to make Wong Chin Foo a millionaire, but it gives him a living any- way, and it may do better by and by. The newsboys sometimes offer it for sale as a curibsity, but I ha ve not yet' seen any bar- barian invest in it. Ktiqoette of the Gallowa. Anecdotes of scaflbld etiquette aie quaint fragments of lore wort h repeating. It seems that there was a regular code for settlement of all questions of precedence, or for the regular conduct of the "business" when a question arose. Thus when different de- grees of nobility met a common fate beneath the executioner's axe, a duke was first decapitated, then an earl, and after him a baron. As an instance of this, when the Earl of Kilmarnock offered the priority i f death to hisfellow- sufferer. Baron Balmerino, the Sheriff interfered and would not permit the Earl to be executed in any other than his proper order. The right of pre'°erence was something claimed by the c jndemned themselves, as when once a sweep and a highwayman were being conveyed to Tyburn Tree in the same cart. As they went up Holbom Hill, the highwayman haughtily exclaimed to the chimney sweep, "Standoff, fellow!" to which the knight of the brush rephed "Standoff yourself, Mr. Highwayman; I have as good a right to be here as you havei" There a.e not wanting other rules and forms to be observed. When Capel was about to address the spectators of his death with his hat on, the executioner commanded him to take it off before he addressed the people. â€" Gihltt Lore, by William Andrews, F.R H S. A Crown for Sale. London is the mart of the world. Yen may buy anything here, from a wife or a white slave, to a castle, a palace, or a pedi- gree. It is not often, however, that a crown is in the market. Such is the case, in all sober seriousness, to-day. There is au island so Q e where to the east of Sardinia, to be bought, all except the port, which is the property of King Humbert. The rest is en vente, the price being £30,000, and the purchaser will be permitted, if it suits his caprice, to assume the name, style, and title of King, such being the designation of the vendor, who prefers hard case to barren acres and barren honor, like a wise old Roman. Here is a fine chance for Mr. Shoddy, Mr. Brum- magem, and those numerous plutocrats who will back any political party that will cov- enant to give them a Baronetcy in return for hard cash and their votes. A King is surely a cut above a Baronet, and, among other advantages, he could make all his progeny Princes and Princesses, and he might recoup himself by selling titles ad libitum. â€" From the London Truth. A Canine Witness. At Bow Street Police Court, London, a fine Newfoundland dog appeared lately in the witness box, his fore paws resting on the witness box edge, while he gazed intelligently around. His evidence was interpreted to the Court by his master, a Mr. Lyford. It was to the effect that the dog had run down the steps of the Thames embankment to en- joy a splash when he observed a woman struggling in the water. His first impulse was to plunge in after her, but a moment s reflection told him that there would be great difficulty in landing her with out assistance. He thersf3re hurried back to his master, looked up into his face, gave two short barks, and ran down the steps again. When he saw his master following he jumped into the river, and dragged the woman to the em- bankment. Meanwhile Mr. Lyford had walked into the Water up to his knees, and was able to reach the woman with his cane, and to assist in pulling her to the shore. A Man who Never Drinks Water. A gentleman of this town having recently made a trip through Webster county, Ken- tucky, tells us of a man he met who has never taken a drink of water, though now 35 years of age. His name is Thomas Lawton, and he is a kinsman of W. C. Carnahan, of this place and Mr. Carnahan vouches for the truth of the statement that he never drank water, Mr. Lawton says that he has no desire what- ever for the purest beverage known to cre- ation neither has he any inclination to par- take of it in any of the adulterated forms. He has had raging fevers and shaking chills, but nothing in his composition calls for a drink. He drinks milk for its nourishing virtues and coffee as a preventive for paint- er's cholic, for he is a painter by trade. He once drank some mineral water, taking it as a tonic, but the .fluid was so repugnant to his taste that he did not remain long ct the springs, â€" Crittenden (Ky.)Fress. The Microphone. Mr. Stroh, during a discussion at the last meeting of the Society of Telegraph Engin- eers, described a highly ingenious experi- ment with the microphone, from which he deduced that "during the time when the carbons are really in what is called micro- phonic contact, ^ey are not in contact at all, or, at all events, tbat there is a repellant action at the point of contact. In the ex- perimental apparatus one small rod of carbon was attached at one end of an almost fric- tionless oscillating rod, having on its oppo- site side an extremely light concave reflect- or. The other end of this carbon rod fell across another carbon rod, which was fixed. The displacement of a sjjot of light reflected by the mirror showed that the upper carbon was repelled through the two thousandth part of a millimeter. â€" Scientific American, [:«»«« Jujj|B:4h»yi»^ enatad the flKtsqiito, the fle^and aH the vile orders of uie'entozoa and the epizoa, paused for a moment in per- "Now, what in thunder shall I make for them to prey upon T" he asked himself mus- mgly. Suddenly a bright thought struck him. He made man. ••And so," says the narrator, closing bis story, "they took him up to the cemetery in a gold-mounted heaase, with four black horses and all the bands in the garrison nlav- ing the 'Dead March V" " Very grand, I dessay," remarks the listener, " but I don't care for style. Go- ing to the cemetery on foot is good enough for me " Guibollard has read in a journal scientific that we were coming to construct at the Estranger a telescope reapproaching the moon at thirty two leagues or our globe "The imprudents!" he cries himself with terror "they will so much do that they will make her fall upon we 1" why did you kill your " Prisoner, wife?" "^cause life with her had become un- ••You should have separated from her " "I had promised that 1 would never "de- sert her while she lived." Dialogue between a young clerk and his employer '• Did you wish to spaak to me, young man jo "Yes, sir. if you please, sir. You see, sir, at present I am doing precisely the same work that X. does, and I get thirty francs a month less pay. I feel sure that when you come to consider this you willâ€"" "Quite right, my young friend, and I thank you for calling my attention to the irregularity. It shall be readjusted. I will dock X. thirty franss I" A young woman calls upon her shoemaker the most tashicnable artist in the city, and complains that her new boots burst on the very first day that she wore them. "It cannot be, madame," says the artist firmly but respectfully. " It is simplv im- possible that â€" " ' "Bur, look here " says the customer, producing a package contaming the boot. The artist examines it carefully and with perplexity. At last his face lights up. "I see how it was " he cries, triunvh- antly; "you have been out walkini with them on "â€" New York World. Barnnm's Elephants Bathing. When Barnum's elephants were bathing in the Missouri River at Omaha twoyeirs age Pilot--the ugly one just killedâ€" and Albeit refused to come out of the water with the others. They were in fact, heading for the opposite shore when a keeper named Artiag. stall plunged in and swam out to them carrying his "prod" in his mouth. One blow from Pilot's trunk or foot would have sent him into eternity. He swam to the further side with one hand and with the other prodded away.at Pilot. Recognizing his voice and catching sight of the fork, tliey turned toward the shore. Finding that he could not keep up with them, Aitingstall made a spsrt, and seizing Pilot's tail, mounted him, pretty nearly wcru out! Pilot's sides A-ere wet and smooth as glass" With one foot on his back, the other on his head, he reached shore, followed by Albert, amongst the shouts and oheers of circus men and spectators. The herd, which had been waiting for them, stamped- ed and rushed up the bluff where the com. pany were sitting. The most daring riders, intrepid trapezists, acrobat?, side-show talk- ers, and canvas men tumbled ti the sands twenty-five feet below. Then the herd, satisfied with the sensation they had pro- duced, trotted quietly to the tent. S:xty Hours in the atcr. A remarkable instance of sustained mus- cular effort i.i given in the Medical Press as haying occurred in au Australian mine. The drift from one shaft having unexpectedly broken into another, a rapid inundation took place, so that in a few minutes the lower levels were flooded and the water stood thirty feet in the shaft. Twenty-seven men in one part of the workings were unable to ascend the shaft, being caught in a drilt where the water soon rose so high that only by clinging to the timbers could they keep their chini above it. One by one during the terrible sixty hours that elapsed before help came did the men drop off exhausted but five of them succeeded in holding c luring the whole of that time, and were .rought out alive. The bodiiss of the other twenty, two were found scattered about on the floor of the drift. Great indeed are the strength and tenacity inspired by desperation, when they could enable five men to hang on by their hands with their bodies immersed in water for sixty hours. IiBAVSN OF HDMOB. The original dude was Goliah. He is the first man on record who had a bang on his forehead. When a certain bachelor was married, members of the Bachelor Club broke him up by sending him, as a wedding present, a copy of "Paradise Lost," " No, father isn't a drone, either," said a bright lad "he's a philanthropist, and col- lects money for the heathen in Africa to pay for our house and^ihings." An old colored preacher in Atalanta, Ga., was lecturing a youth of his fold about the sin of dancing, when the latter protested that the Bible plainly said: "There is a time to dance." " Yes, dar am a time to dance," said the dark divine, "an' it's when a boy gits a whippin' for goin' to a ball," Proverbial philosophy Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. All swell that ends swell â€" as regards shoes. One swallow does not make a bummer. Distance lends en- chantment to a few. Lst me make the bal- lets of an opera, and I care not who writes its scores. Woman is not so fair as she's painted. Catch your hair before you shave 'Mln m i'l â- â- â€¢ i