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 DUELLING ES THE BARK. Famous MldnlKbt Meetings on tbo neld of Honorâ€" Tbe AttAir of tbe One de Rlcnelien and Prince De Uxen â€"Jackson's Iisst Snel. Night combats have been frequent in Europe, ard also in the United States. In 1821, in London, Eogland, a l^rister, named Christie, and the editor of The Lon- don Magazine, Mr. Scott, fought a duel, so- called, at Chalk farm, and the latter was killed. The origiEal trouble occurred be. ween Mr. Scott and Mr. Lockhart, the lat- ter-named gentleman at that time editor of Blackwood's Magazine and, it seems, Scott who had been challenged by Lockhart, and who had declined to accept, was called upon by Cnristie, acd the two quarreled, and subsequently agreed to meet the same even- ing to adjust their difiBculties iccording to thi " code of honor." The fight took i.Iace at 10 o'clock, during the full cf the moon, and Scott fell mortally wounded at the first fire. Christie was arrested a ad charg- ed with willful murder by a coroner's jury, but at the trial a short time afterward he was acquitted. In 1721, Capt, Chickley and Lieut. Stan- ley, while disputing in a mess-room in a town near Dublin (Ireland), agreed 1o fight with small swords in a dark room the follow- ing evening. Stanley was an adroit swords- man, but was run through the body by his antagonist in a fe" minutes after ihe com- mencement of the fight. M3j. Campbell and Capt. Boyd, officers of the 2l3t foot (British army), fought a ouel, without seconds, in the parlor of an Irish inn at Xewry. a short time before midnight, iu January, 1S07. During the dispute Camplell challenged his brother officer to fight at once, but Boyd prefered that the meeting should take place next day. Camp- bell then taunted his comrade, and insinuated that he was displaying the white feather. The result was that they left the garrison where they were quarterd, unaccompanied by friends, and tought as stated, Capt. Boyd receiving a mortal wound, from whicn he died in a day or two. Campbell was con- victed ofmurder en the 13th of August fol- lowincr, and executed on Oct. 2. His wite, who belonged to a family of high standing, made a desperate effort to secure royal clem- ency buo, as is known, without success. Boyd's 'a^t words were; "Campbell, you are a bad man vou hurried me in a most wanton way, and have mortally wounded me in a fight of your own making and not according tc established rules. I wanted to wait and have the matter put into the hands of friends, and you wou'.d not let me." This terrible arraignment by the icg man was as effective as the de^th-war- rant itself, and carried convict on before in- dictment. In a letter which Campbell left for publication he said " I suffer a violent and ignominious death for the benefit of niy countrymen, who, by my unhappy exit, shall learn to abi.or the too prevalent and too fashionable crime of duelling." The wijter once met a gentleman who was present at the execution of Campbell, who said he (Cimpbeil) was one of the hand- somest and bravest officers of the 2l3t British foot. V.'nile of an excitable nature when angered, it is said ot him that he was generally far more amiable and much less disam-eeable than Bojd, although they had long been on terms of mutual dislike of each other. The night before the execution Mrs. Campbell had managed to perfect methods of efccape, as it was pretty generally under- staod that, although no royal mercy could be extended, no particular means of vigil- ance had been adopted. His noble wife, who had planned the escape, reminded him of his heroic conduct in Egypt, of bis family name, and of the unheeded recommendation of mercy by the jury which pronounced tho fatal words. But he only replied: "The gieatest struggle of all is to leave you, my darling but 1 am still a soldier, and shall meet my fate like a man." And so he re- fused to further dishonor himself, although the guard was asleep, the doors of the jail were unlocked, and horses and confederates were close at hand. He passed the follow- ing morning in prayer, and at the proper time atcended the stairs of the execution- room with firm step and without escort. There stood btfore him nineteen thousand sympathising men with heads uncovered, and among them the fusileers, with whom he had intrepidly charged the enemy upun the burning sands cf E^ypt. The hum of a single bee might have be«n heard in that re- spectful crowd, as Cimpbtll addressed it, " Pray for me," was all the poor soldier said and, while the diapason of an impres- sive " amen " went up unbroken by a single other vociferation, or even â- i\hi;iper, the un- f jTtaaate man let fall his owa cambric hand- kerchief aj a signal that he "was ready," End simultaneously he dropped through the dreadtul trap, and went ctf on that uncer- tdn pilgrimage to the legendary beyond. The notorious Due de Kichelitu, of France, who fought so many successful duels, and who seemed to wield a magi- cian's sword, met the Prince de Lixen â€" whott! he had purposely insulted on account of the hatred entertained for the latter by Mme. dn Rosiere â€" near the trenches of Philipsburg, in 1879, at midnight, doring a storm, by the light of torches held by brother otft;ers. As the story goes, Ds Lixen, who was a general in the French army (and a very tall mar.), had had a horse shot from under him during an engagement aad see- ing a pony near, jumped upon him and rode into the presence of De Richelieu (who was also a general at the time), who burst into a loud laugh and exclaimed " No wonder we lost the day when we have mountebanks for generals. Behold the horsemanship of the great Prince de Lixin, who keeps his feet close to the ground for fear of falling from his saddle." The Prince heard De Richel- ieus's voice and laugh, and too well knew what it meant, and the source of its inspira- tion. "I'll insnlt the villain in no uncer- tain way upon the first opportnnitv," mnr- mured De Lixen. Tne next day Richelieu whose command had been the last to re- treat from Philipsbourg, came into the pres- ence of Pi'iace de Conti, the commanding officer, with disheveled hair, piwder stain- ed face, and deranged toilet. His rival took this occasion to carry oat his quiet threat of the day preceding, and said sarcastically: " It is a matter oi much surprise that the Dae de Richeliea should come into the pres- eice of gentlemen-with the air and dress of a masqaerader." " I did not retreat so hurriedly froin the field as some of these officers who appev here in toileta more elaborately prepared, your h fg h p eas," -wfr, claimed Da Richelieu, and then turning to De Lixen, he contmned "1 shall go uow and pnrify myself, prince, md in an hour yon shall hear from me." And so he did, in the shape of a challenge, which was accept- ed af cer which arran((ements were made and agreed upon that the two gentlemen should meet each other in tbe trenches at midnight. They met and crossed swords at exactly 12, and in ten minutes the magical weapcn ot De Richelieu had flashed through the heart of his twentieth victim, and the survivor, steppint; over the dead princa, tard: "Let us carefully bear his noble body with all honor to camp. It is the fortune of war, gentlemen, and may be our turn next." In a short time afterward De Richeliea went to Paris to acquaint his inam- orata with the intelligence tnat he had re- moved one of her troubles from the world forever. But what was his astonishment to discover that tbe frail and faithless Mme. du Risiere had fled with an English noble- man to London. Quien sabe Some few years ago Maj. Ben. Perley Boore, then Washington correspondent to The Beston Journal, sent that paper the fol- lowing ac3ount of a midnight ouel foughf upon an inland in the Savannah river Among the many bloody duels on record as having been fought by congressmen was one in which James Jajkson, of Georgia, who had been and who was afterward a United States Senator, was the challenged party. He was an Englishman by birth, but he went to Savannah when a lad, studied law, was a leading Freemason, and fought gallantly in the Revolutionary war. Ho kdled Lieut.Gov. Wells, of Georgia, in 1S70 in a duel, and was engaged in several other "affairs of honor," until he finally deter- mined to accept a challenge on such terms as would make it his last dutil. So, upon his next challenge, which was from Col. R. Watkins, also of Georgia, he prescribed as the terms, that each party, armed with a double-baireled gun loaded with buckshot, and with a hunting-knife, should row him- self in a skiff to designated points on oppo- site sides of the Savannah river. When the city clock struck 12 each should row his skiff to a small island in the middle of thj river, which was wooded and covered with underbrush. On arriving at the island each was to moor his skiff, stand by it for ten minutes, and then go a'oout on the island till the meeting took place. The seconds wait- ed on the main land until 1 o'clock, when they heard three gunshots and loud and angry cries. Then all was still. At day- light, as had been agreed upon, the seconds went to the island and found Jackson lying on the ground, insensible from the loss or blood, and his antagonist lying across him, dead. .Uckson recovered, but would never relate his experience on that night, nor was ho ever challenged again. He died in Wash- ington city while serving his second term as United States senator, March ID, 1S06 In 1728 a young gentleman named Brn- jamin Woodbridiie was killed in a duel with swords, late at night, on Boston common by Harry Phillips, after a short combat. Phil- lips, who waa not hurt, made his escape from the city next day, and lattr turned up "i Franre, where he died in 1729. Eugens Bonnemere, in nis "â- flistoire des Paysaiis," tells the story of how a peasant by the name of Lebre, who lived in tie south ot France, got more than even withaser-. geant of the royal guard, which waa quar- tered near Lebre's cabin. It was towards the end of the seventeenth century, and the sergeant, presuming upon his gallantry and manly beauty, and knowing tne proverbial weakness of some women for even non com- missioned ctficers of his profession, took oc- casion to rSky marked attention to Lebre's young and pretty wife which, while being strictly agieeable to pretty Mrs. Lâ€" was highly unsatisfactory to the incensed ^hus band, who, at last, gave Mr. Segt. Duprez a piece cf proper advice, and was promptly knocked down for his p'eins. Lsbre at once 1 Uenged his antagonist, who declined to .ooognize a common peasant as his equal, and shutting Lebre out of his own cottage, took immediate possession of it and its pretty matron. In a ' ay or two the sergeant quit the place for good, and Lsbre returned, sold all his effects, packed the erring madame off to her tather'tf, enlisted in the aimy, and was seen no more in that neighborhood for more than eight years. He fought through two campaigns bravely, bat without a scratch, and by gradual promotion reached the raiik of sergeant. "Aha!" cried Labre jovfulb. at the end of six years service, "Seryt" Daprcz, Sargt. Lebre is your eqaal! I shall seek you out, you villain, and punish you for the wrcngs which I suffered at your hands six years ago." Lebre was two years in fiudinLT his man. And when he did find him they were at the point of titling down at th'j same dinner table with a dczsn other cffijers Lit cibout uniform rank. As soon as the repast -wa? over, Lebre arose, and ad- dressing Daprcz irc^uired: "Suppose, sir, a man slj ould give you a blow, what would you do " "I would return it, and challenge him to fight," responded Duprez. "Take that, then!" exclaimed Lsbre, dealing his old enemy a tremendous blow, which stag- gered him considerably; and then addressing himself to his other comrades, he recapitu- lated the story of how Duprez had knocked him down for defending his wife, and there- after refusing to fight him on the ground that he was not Duprez' equal. " Now, Sergt. Daprez," t jjcalated that fellow's as- sailant, turning around and facing his enemy, "you and I are equal. I have returned the blow ycu gave mt, eight years ago, and now challenge you to fight for your life." And as quick as lightning the two sergeants drew their weapons, and Daprez was killed in three minutes, the duel taking place by candlelight. Ie 1719, in London, England, Capt. Wil- liam Aid worth, of the army, and Owen Buckingham, member of parliament, met and dined, and quarreled, and fought, all in one evening. Ic was so dark they could not see esuih other, and they were so thoroughly well intoxicated that it did not make much difference whether they did or not see each other but all the same, there was one less member of parliament the following morning for Buckingham was found by some friend^ shortly after the fight, pierced to the heart with his antagonist's rapier, and Aldworth near by, very drunk, and covered with wounds. University place, New York,N. Y. ,wa8 the scene of a fatal duel, one cold, snowy night in the winter of 1804, the parties to the cpmb«t being William Coleman, editor of The New York Evening Post (an organ of th»fed«raliatB), and Cipt. Thompson, har- bor master of the port of New York. Thomson, who had made quite an effort to provoke Coleman, remarked freely that he had no hght in him, and that if slapped well on one side of his face he would only be too happy to present the other side for similar treatment. Coleman, after making sure that Thompson had used the language at- tributed to him, challenged the offender, designated pistols as weapons, and named 11 o clock as time of meeticg, and at or near University place the scene of battle. Each party had surgeons and seconds, and agreed, as it was snowing at tho time, to fire at twelve yards. Both fired the third time, when Thompson was heard to exclaim "My God 1 I have got itl" and, reeling sideways, fell mortally wounded into the SDOW, and died a short time after haviug been conveyed to his resideucs. The dying man made a statement in the presence of a number of friends to the effect that the duel and his death were the constquence of his own quarrelsome character and rashness, and his last words were forgiveness to Cjle- man, whom he believed had no intent to kill â€" Alta California. A Famous Bout. i Although the beginnings of New York gastronomy were substantial, they could scarcely be called artistic. If we turn to the pages of Brillat Sivarin, whose "Phy- siologic du Gjut" has been recently so ably translated into English by Mr. Henry Van Liun, we shall find a full, true, and particu- lar account of a dinner partaken of toward the end of the last century or the beginning of the present one, at what was then a cele- brated "coffee tavern," kept by a Mr. Little and whither B-illat Savarin, who had been driven into exile by the revolution, was wont to repair to erjoy abasin of turtle soup in the forenoon, and in the evening to enter- tain himself and frienas with Welsh rabbits, ale, and cider. There he met Mr. Wilkin- son, a Jamaiciplauter, who invited him and two of nis French friends, the Vicomte de la MasEue and M. Jean Rociolphe Fehr, an ex- broker from Marseilles, to dinner. Mr. ^X'ilkinson brought an English friend to dine with him, and the party thus consisted of tive. The object of the two Britons was to outdrink the three Frenchmen; and. prior to sitting down to table, the cautious Brillat Savarin advised his felloT countrymen to eat very slowly and methodically, to drink with even greater discretion, and, while he was engaging the attention of their antago- nists, to throw iway as much liquor as they coulci. Then they shared between them a plate of bitter almonds, which Siivarin had heard praised for their quality of modera- ting the effects of the fumes of wine. The banquet consisted of "an enormous piece of roast beef, a turkey cooked in its own gravy, vegetables, a salad, and a jam tart, washed down with plenty of claret." After the Claret came port, and then Madeira. Brillat's two friends contrived, without being observ- ed to empty several of their glasses into "a beerpot which stood atthe end of the table;' but Brillat, who had an excellent stamina, and what the Scotchman admiringly called •'a vast capaacity for leecj^uor,' held his own unflinchingly. Spirits were then proposed but Brillat Sevarin called for a large bjwl of punch, and the end of it was that the three Frenchmen, or rather their leader, drank the two Englishmen fairly under the table, Mr. AVilkinson having previously and ignominiously failed in an attempt to sing '•Rale B-ittania." â€" London Telegraph. Official Stupidity. A most extraordinary miscarriage of jus- tice appears to have taken place in the case of Morris Nicholson, who was sentenced in 1881 to seven years' penal servitude for man- slaughter. Another man has confessed to thecime, and is actually anxious togive him- self up, but the police â€" or, at all events the inspector at Hoxton police station â€" refused to take the charge 1 An application was made last week by a solicitor to Mr. Hannay to order the man who had made the confess- ion to be arrested and brought to the court; but the magistrate said he did not like to interfere. Tne solicitor said he had applied in vain to the home office, and Mr. Hannay; somewhat facetiously I fear, recommended him to apply to the public frosecutor. This is certainly one of the most singular com- binations I ever heard of. A man is in pen- al servitude for a crime of which another man declares he is guilty, but no amount of prayers and entreaties can prevail upon the authorities to take No. 2 iuto custody and investigat-e the truth of his statement. â€" Lcndon Truth. The Eccentric Queen. I hear that the queen has decided to close the rootns at Wmnsor castle which were oc- cupied by John Brown during the last few years of his life, and they are to be kept permanently shut up as a sort of tribute ts the memory of "the Highlander." It is in- tended t3 place a large brass plate in his sit- ting room, which will bear an inscription re cording his virtues and deploring his loss. About two years ago the queen erected a very pretty S sfiss chalet in B Jlochbuie for- est, near Balmoral. It has never yet been occupied by her majesty, and she has only visited it once Or twice in order to drink tea fiere. The queen has sent orders to her head forester at Balmoral to have the chalet taken to pieces, as she propases to show it at the international forestry exhibition, which is to be held in Edinburgh. Her majesty will also exhibit a number of speci- mens of Scotch firwood from Balmoral "poli- cies" and from Balloohbuie forest. â€" London Truth. A glass of beer costs the consumer five cants, 640 glasses to the barrel, thir.y-two dollars per barrel. No wonder the brewers and saloonist get rich and wax fat. Save your money, men, and let the spigot- turners go to work. Outlaw the traffic. " My son," asked a school-teacher, "what do you know of the proverb regarding peo- ple who reside in glass houses " " I don't know nothin'" wai the reponse, "about the proverb, but 1 know that people who live m glass houses ortent to lay abed in the mormn' unless they pull down the olinds." A leap year society, for the protection of young men, ia about to be orgam'zad. Many a young man whose mother would not board himself and a wife will this year be lassoed by some ardent young woman and dragged down to matrimony. The society cannot get to work a moment too soon. F0BEI6(N NOTES. â-  Tfie Kobe Shinpo. of Japan, says that some swindling foreimiers in Yokohama are importing low-class Chinese tea and repack- ing it for export to Awerica. They then palm off thia rubbish as the product of Uji, §higaraki, and other places celebrated tor growing the finest teas. The government are making irquiry, with the object of ex- posing the abominable fraud. So mild is the weather in North Waif s that primroses, honeysuckle, snowdrops, and roses are to be found bloomine; in the val- leys and on the hillsides. Vegetation in low-lying districts is also fast springing in- to life, and in the vale of Llan golden fruit- trees are in bloom. On Jan, 14 roses were in full bloom, and the ripe blackberries were gathered from the hedges on the road- iiles. Complaints have been rife for many years with regard to the enticing cf English girls to Belgium for immoral purposes. Hither- to the police have decided as the application of the communal regulations relative to prostitution. In the ministry of the interi- or a bill 13 now being framed by which an appeal to the public tribunals will be permitted against the decisions of the po- lice. Cremation is to be tried in France, per- mission having been given by the perfect of police, on the recommendation of Dr. Brou- ardel, to burn the remains of hospital sub- jects, provided a satisfactory apparatus be constructed in one of the Paris cemeteries. A society for the propagation of cremation iij in existence in Paris, the president beinp M. Koechlin Schwartz, the mayor of one of the urrondissements. It is a little startling to the foreigner landing at Yokohama to discover a race of half-clad men. But the Yokohama coolie is overdressed as compared with his brethren in the interior. if when he is running the country coolie, in addition to a loin cloth of narrowest limits, wears a blouse coming down to his waist, he has sacrificed much on the altar of decency. It is quite as com- mon to meet one with nothing on but a pair of sandals and a pocket-handkerchief girt about his loins. The Empress of Austria has appointed seven new ladies of the falace â€" a title of honor giving precedence, but only entailing attendance upon great occasions. Among those selected are the Countess Bylandt- Rheydt, wife of the Minister of War the Cauntess Coronini, wife of the leader of the middle party in the lower house of the Reichsrath, and Mme. de Kallay, wife of the common Minister of Finance. All those appointed must have sixteen degrees of no- bility on both sides. The photograph of Hugo Schenk, the murderer of servant girls, hai been placed in the Vienna pol ce album. In spite of his brutally criminal life he looks quiet and al- most good-natured. In connection with this case it may be mentioned that Schenk's wife, whom he married in 1879, has for the last two years lived as g-overness in the house ot a hop- dealer in Bohemia. She has been separated trom her husband for the last two years, but is quite broken down by the ex posure cf his crimes. The Eaatern Morning Ntivs has received from a Berne correspondent the following statement During last summer an inhabi- tant of Hull, while staying at a Frankftrt hotel, fell downstairs and broke his arm. He was carefully attended to by a Frankfort surgeon. Dr. W., to whom he promised a handsome present if he wss able to use his arm again and play cricket. A day or two ago the doctor, who had ciuite forgotten the affair, received from Hull a letter inclos- ing £2 000, and containing an invitation to visit his ex-patient at the latter's villa, near Hull. The Teheran correspondent for the Lon- don Standard states that the shah has or- dered in Prussia three river steamers for the Karum. two to ply below and one above the Ahwaz rapids, thus connecting Shuster with Mohammerah by steam navi. gation. From Shuster a carriage-road is to be made by a Persian company through Khorremabad and Burujird to Koom, whence a road has already been nearly com- pleted in Tdheran. If the project is effici- ently executed it will, it is stated, greatly help Britisb trade to compete from the south with the Russian from the narth. There is in the Glasgow Western infir- mary a Highland woman from th3 island of Skye who has slept healthfully for eighteen mouths without once waking up. She is 35 years of age, and the mother of three chil- dren. She.lies on her back, and never moves a muscle save those which are exer- cised in the act of breathing. Her pulse is SO, her breathing fair, atd she gets food three times a day by means of the stoma?h- pump appaia':us. It is believed that she will recover, and the worst results of her long sleep will be those arising from her unavoidable neglect of her household duties. People, observes a Jayan contemporary, who have visited Japan will remember the pleasant retreat of Mianoshta, about forty miles distant from Yokohama, where the tourist had all the advantages of commodi- ous hotels well kept and furnished, baths filled from the thermal springs, and all the comforts of home. At 10 p..m. on the 11th inst, fire broke out in one of the village houses. It spread rapidly, and in less than an hour the large hotels known as Fujiya's and Naraya's, and, in fact, the entire vil- lage were destroyed. West-end London is expecting every day a conclusion or an exposure of what is now becoming known as the gamble-house szan- dal. In the psrallelogram of Londouiformed by St. James street. Pall Mall, W^aterloo place and part of Oxford street, there are now houses and clubs which are known to be the scene of gaming of an extravagant and t^dangerous character. It is no secret, says the Manchester Guardian, that the at- tention of the home office has been of late a good deal directed to the possibility of a more stringent enforcement of the law with reference to gambling-houses and clubs, but the matter is from easy to deal with. Some excitement has been caused at Ramsgate, England, by a singalar elope- ment. The Rav. Thomas E. Coflhing, Com- gregational minister, of Sandwich, who has a wife and two children, suddenly dis- appeared with Misa Bradley, daaghteroia deceased Mayor of Sandwich, who had been an influential member of the Congregational body. They first came to Rimfirat*. *i. -.«-♦ ♦« 1U0...04... Thev worn ' â-  'lea T_7.-'^^'^^,*ga'" seen went to Margate. in Ramsgate at the London, Chatham Dover railway station. They pmn, London and then went on to and Dover railway station. They prnceeceif London and then went on to Livern where they embarked for America m^l symyathy is felt with the wife I a children, who have been left unprovid w f9r, Mr. Gushing having taken all the avail able money. "" CHIT-CHAT. "I have a ridiculous weigh about me" says the fat woman of the show. ' Charlieâ€" "How did you get married -^ second time?" Elâ€" '»ame as the first minister, ring, SIO. Speaking of the matter of close obac.-v.. tion, did it ever occur to you that womfn were clothes observers When a man declares his love in deeniv drawn breathing, young lady, putitdowaL" only a sighed show. A New Jersey widow has just been award ed $9,000 as a balm fcr a broken heart" This patches up the soars until it is ai-no^^t as good as new. A woman doesn't consistently use po fane language, but t:ie way she 'avs "(Traciousl" when she slips down, is full rf subtle meaning and inherent force. "0, professor 1" exclaimed sentimental old Mxa. Fishwhacker, during a private or. gan recital in her new music-room, " dj pull out that sweet nux vcmica stop once more, Onemmth of leap year has nearly .rone and as the girls do not propose very freely it is shrewdly suspected that they are wait- ing to have their honeymoors come in th" season for spring bonnets, "Where is the girl of long ago?^' siu^s Joaquin Miller. We saw her theothei day, Joaq. But she isn't a girl any more. .She had gray hair and a wart on her nose, had no teeth, and wore specks. "D.Kitor, my darling seems to be getting' blind,^ and she is just getting rea'^iy tor he^ wedding. Whatever will she do?" 'â- jV^ her go on by all means. If anything cln" open her eyes marriage can." "A farmer's wife" wants to know if we can recommend anvthing to destroy the "common grub." Vv'e guess the uext tramp comes aloug could oblige you, if the family can't stand your cooking. Tee ladies should always have consi.lera- tion paid them on account of their sex, and it is no more than proper that leap year should have one extra day to give the girls all the time they need to propose in. "Madam, you have destroyed $0 worth o: merchandise," angrily remarked a dude to a lady, as she seated herself in a chair la which he had deposited a new Derby hat, "Serves you right,' she replied, ^owly ris- ing from the ruin "you had no busine'ss to buy a $5 hat for a 50 cent head." Cruel- Etfie (to Mrs, Bellweather, ^[.0 has just been speaking to Mr. B.): "W hy, Mrs. Bellweather, I thought you hadn't aiiy husband!" Mrs. B. "Why, of course i have, Effie. Do you mean to say that voa don't know Mr. Belweather ' Eihe "Yes, but I didn't suppoEe he was you hus- band. I thought you hadn't any. Papa said you married for money and that was all you got." "Do you l^ow," said an infatuated youta to a young lady who preferred his room zi his company- "do you know that the co- met of 1S12, now visible, is travelling away from us at the rate of many millions of mile's a day " "Ko, I dfdn't know it but I wish a certain young man would imitate the comet and travel off at the same rate.' He travelledâ€" but not quite so rapidly as the comet. A well-known Detroit lady who is a tlirifty provender, saw a load of pork, and conclud ed to purchase a couple of fine porkers, for which she settled with the dealer on the spot, She forgot, however, to give him her address, and an hour later as she stood con- versing with some of her aristocrat friends. the man of pork approached, and nudged her mysteriously with the butt end of his whip The lady turned in amaz3ment. ".sh/iy, shzay " he asked in a loud voice, "vos yJ.- de voman dot belongs to dem hogs " The Use of T(»baceo. My debut as a smoker was like eve.--.- body's. My first pipe made me very ill a-iu It was only by degrees that I manage 1 to be- come a. third-rate smoker- that is I d-- pos3d of eight or ten pipes a day without -n- convenience. But whenever I excee.'c" that average I sufi'ired from violent l^k headaches, ushered in by the indistiuctu^fs of vision, and numbness of one side of I'rf fa^e, the t jngue and one arm, most often ou theleit side. Tiese preliminary sytni-toni' lasted about ten miautes, after which the headache came on in mil fore?. The irost refractory organ, however, was my stomach. After having smoked too much, I used to ex- perience the symptoni known as pyrosis or heartburn to a very trying extent, though as any alkaline water speedily caused tbe'se phenomena to vanish I did not care to give up my tobacco. About a year ago, having smoked for some months more than usual, I suddenly found myself affected by a peculiar and terrilic pain over the region of the heart; in short, 1 had a violent attack of angina pectoris. U put a stop to my smoking, as, though I have tried once or twice, I have al trays found my cigar or pipe detestable, and, ta suni up am radically converted. I do not wish to^ discuss scientifically the nicotinic origin of my sufferings, but am sure that they all sprang from the same causeâ€" exces- sive use of tobacco. Degeneration ot tlie cardaic muscle is often caused by tobacco. So long as the rest of his organism remains in good woikmg order the smoker only ex- periences mtermittent palpitation, and the grave injury done the heart remains unper- ceived until some trifling cause ;brings into relief the irremediable disorders caused by the prolonged use of tobacco. 1^?^ RiPHKST OF All.â€" "Pa," said Rollo' looking up from "Roughing It. " " What is goW-^ng quartz?" " Well, my son, " sud RoUo'a father, who was glancing in a troubled manner at the milkman's bill for October, "when a man sells diluted water for ten cents a quart,. I think he has struck better TOld-bearing quartz than ever Mr. Mark Twain dreamed of." I