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 A DAY IN- CEYLON. Among Scenes of Orieiital: Magnificence and Splendor Bafllliiar Description. Dancing of Um KmKoH Olrls-*T6» Sar ered Drama •fBariseluu|4ii». There is no twilight in Ceylon. When the Bon Beta darkness falls saddenly upon the earth, and the stars shine out as if some hand had turned on the starlighl And it IB thick darkness, too so that an anthropo- losical speculation is bom in my mind, that the dark complexions of these people are due to the primitive snrvival of the night- like. A Sbinghalese man is invisible against the night, and the tread of his bare'fbot is inandiWe. Toe lighter, more TisiBIe varie- ties of thfcir race would have been killed off by invaders and wild beasts, and thoce.who mimicked the night would be passed by. In addition to this the predatory class would be successful in the proportion that, as it is said in the book of Job, they were marked by the night. The Colombo coachman will not drive a step after 6 o'clock unless his lamps are lit, lest he slionld run over a sleep- ing cative. This darkness lends a special beauty to the bungalows of the rich, which appear illuminit^, the rays from their lamps shining through the foliage in ft' toys- tical way, eBpecially if they be cocoanut-oil lamps, which give a soft, spiritual light. The most palatial bungalow in (Dolumhia, I should say, is that of MutnCamara Swamy, whose hospitality and that of his brothers was extended to me in consideration of my friendship for their uncle, the late Sir Cum- ara Swamy. As I drove up through the large park of palms, radians with fire- flies, the bungalow looked like r^ A lAIRY FALAM IN THE WSTAKOS f but when 1 arrived and entered, it wai a fairy palace. I feel sadly in need Of some new similitudes. I am trying to write with- out referrint; to the "Arabian Nights," but it is not easy when I recall the verandahs, porticos, rooros of such a mansion and the entertainment of last evening. The tropi- cal heat Tas made pleasant by the gentle wind blowing from the neighboring sea through the open doors. It waa difficult.as one passed amid the flowering trees and flo- ral festoons, to say just where the garden ended and the verandah began, cr even the drawing-room, which had flower-laden trees in each corner, flowers and wreaths every- where. In front of the chair of honor to which I was conducted, stood a high table, and thereon a silver salver covered with stemleas flowers, arranged with artistic sKill. From the centre of the salver, which was nearly a yard long, rose several slowly-burn- ing stems, whose incense filled the air with a sweet and subtle perfume. The odors, mingled with the soft light of the cocoa lamps, shed their influence upon seers and scene with a sensuous effect quite iudescrib- able. When our beautiful hostess entered, with her rich Oriental robe, and the tur- baned Tamil took his place behind her with large peacock fan, I said â€" "No doubt, that is Maya, goddess of illusion, who has waved her wand and begun her air- woven mask." But when presently a blonde young lady entered, in unmistakable English evening dress, realism came with her humorous clear eyes. There were but four or five foreign- ers present, and we had an opportunity of satisfying our curiosity in several thii^s â€" for instance, chewing a little betel and mak- ing our teeth red with it. On the walls were sacred pictures, one of the infant Krishna and his mother, the new-born babe's bead haloed with light. One side of the drawing-room was pitly open, and from the room beyond we presently heard a slight jingling cf silver ornaments, next caught flashes from jewelled hair, and after this the flash of dark eyes glancing into the room. Five Nautch girls entered with five men, singers and musicians. The girls sat in a row on the floor facing us, and the men behind them, the plain snow-white of the latter making a background for the RICH COSTUMES OF THE DAHCEBS, These Nautch costumes, though glowing with color and laden with jewels, were not gaudy, nor even gorgeous they were some- what barbaric, but had a certain antiquar- ian character about them that was very pleasing. In old conventional pictures of goddesses and heroines â€" Draupadi, Dam- yanti, Sitaâ€" one may see dresses resembling these, with the exception of the silken trousers. These probably are the addition of a more prudish age. The Singhalese Nautch girls are dressed with scrupulous re- gard to decorum. These are all small of stature, several of them pretty, and the pearls and gold they wear, always excepting the Eose-gems, and the silver anklets above their bare feet, well become their dusky beauty. Soon after they had seated them- selves on tne floor all, men and women, be- gan to sing. It sounded as a chant with grace-notes at the end cf each bar, and my host, who sat beside me, told me it waa a hymn to Siva. I did not Uke it much it impressed my ear as nasal, not to say whin- ing, and decidedly monotonous. Then fol- lowed a love-song, and for a few moments it sounded like the same hymn over again but as I listened mere closely â€" as I tried to detach the accompaniment of tom-tom, pipe, and viol â€" I perceived that there was more variety and more science in this music than my ear could easily take in. For the first time it occurred to me that part of the fault I found in Oriental music might lie in my ear being not sufficiently cosmopolitan. But at the same time I felt sure tnat this music was not a product of art in the Euro- pean sense of art it was not a thing that aimed at beauty alone it had ulterior pur- poses, to move the compassion of a god or a lover, and was a cry wrung one of the strug- gle for existence. It is a remarkable fact that all the ancient love-songs of India are uttered by women to men. My host, whose studies of such subjects have been careful and extensive, told me that, judg- ing by the ancient lovr-songs, the love- making nsed to be entirely on the part of women. These Nautch girls belonged to the Hindu temple, and they sing and dance only these very ancifnt themes, transmitting them to their children with extreme literal- ness, FBKCISBLT AS THEY KSCEIVXD )!BSK. f ' The gmt piece of the evemng 1i^ a Icmg dramatic love -song of extreme antfqnity, sung by all the performers, male and fe- male, accompanied by full inatramentation, and danced by the leading Natttoh girl, who alom did no# «g. Her ge atiu w rere vwy expressive, and i was at times reminded of the French H^g "What eaa't b«iaid can be rang, and what can't be mug can be danced." The feet had little more to do with Uie dance than to bear ferward and backward the nraying, or rather ondnlat* ing, form, while the acmi were e^«_^^ move, and the'fiagere twisied themewree into a thousand yanations. None of tibeee land moreroenta were the same, and each toeaot something. Tne first scene panto- timed, ao to lay, was the first glimpse of e beloved, told in embarrassment, medita- ftln, and then the flinging up of the arms in peal to the god ot love. Then followed the fir»c ooqaettiah attempt to fascinate himâ€" juow by eoynees,next by a dimlay of oharms. Then follows dismayâ€" the beloved makea no sign of requital. The maiden becomes mel- sncholy, weepe then she becomes p*s«ion- ate, and coofeases to him her love. He is still cold, and she is jealoiss. Finding he loves no other, she asks if he is a man who is thus unmoved by woman's love. He then proposes illicit love that she refuses with an mdignation that turns to sorrow. Then she becomes angry â€" and when her anger melts the heart of her beloved also rfelts. Then her finale of joy is danced. Much in this dance was touching, much was e'nting, and it was all of absorbing intor- ee when the girl sat down, breathless, it for the .firrt time occurred to me that she had been dancing fifteen minutes without an instant's pause and yet the last thing I should have asoribed to it is -beauty. It waa all too serious for that. It is a strange thing to reflect en the sublime secu- larism of the fact that such a chant and dance as that just described at times make part of the Hmda temple-service. When David danced before the ark could it have been â€" but I mnsn't get too profound. There were other dances, one of the most striking being a danoe to the words, " MOTHER, A SCORFION HAS STUNG MK 1 " These words were endlessly repeated in the chant, though in varying tones, while the dancer goes through ail the drama of pain, illnees, parting, faintnes, diath. This was skillful, and so were all the dances. Those in which all the Nautch girls danced â€" es- pecially one in which they fenced with each otuer â€" were more beautiful but it was the more ancient dances, representing love and death, which I found most interesting. After the dances were ove^ I had an unexpeoi- ed delight in hearing the singing of the ciueiog acts ol the great sacred drama of "Harisoh- andra," I first made the acquaintance of this wonderful play, which may fairly be desjiited as the "Passion Play" of India, through a trantlation by the late Sir Cum- ara Swamy. It is of epical dignity and pa- thetic beauty. Harishandra is "The Mar- tyr of Truth." The prologue is in the court 01 the supreme deity, Indra, where the truthfulntsa of the great king is afiirmed by one and denied by another. The result is a wager. Harischandra is subjected to the most terrible ordeals in order to induce him to tell a lie. He stands by his word at cost of his kingdom, his wife, his child â€" these and himself becoming slaves. In the end all their pr. secutors throw off their disguise and are stiown to ba gods, and everything is rsistortd. The poem is much the same a^ that of Job in the Hindu Paurans, where the test is not of Hanshandra's veracity.but of his fidelity to his promise of gold for a sacrifice to the gods wuen he no longer has the gold (his property being destroyed, as Job's was. Thia gold he obtains by SELLING HIMSELF AJTD FAMILY into slavery. Tne popular form has hu- manised, but not exactly raised, the motive. My friend who sat by me translated for me in a low voice every sentence as it wassupg, and then I began te appreciate something ot the meaning of Hindu music. The singer was a man over 30, with a fine voice â€" very flexible â€" and though a slight inclination of the head occasionally was his only gesture, the persons of the drama seemed to live in hia tones. There is one pars of the drama where the wife of Huriscnandra, Tamavati, finds her only sen dead, bitten by a serpent. She says to him "Why do you not tpeak to me What have I done that yon do not reply or look on me " One could hardly retrain from ttsars when the man sang these words. And again when Harischandra, or- dered to be the executioner of his wife (charged with child murder), says "Tama- vati, my wife, lay thy head on the block, thy sweet face turned to the east 1" The voice was here most plaintive, and suddenly rang out triumphally when the sword of ex- ecution becomes a necklace of pearls on her neck, and the gods pay homage to the in- flexible "Martyr of Truth," it is notable that while so many charge these Orieutah with being liars, this should be their na- tional drama. It looks as if the Hindu Job were combined with the hero O'aye. whose memorial has been translated by Mr, Al- ger Otaye, from his earliest youth, Waa consecrated unco truth, And if the universe must die Unless Otaye toid a lie. He would defy the fate's last crash, And let all sink in one pale ash. Or e'er by any means was wrung One drop of poison from his ton^ae. As I left my friend's house it occurred to .me whether it might not be possible for ua to import from the Orient something in the way of an occasional evening eutertainment quite as dsiinty as their now fairly Angelic- ized curry â€" some seathetic dish such as that for which I was indebted to the thoughtful kindness of Mutu Cumara Swamy, â€" M. D. Contoay in Glasgow Herald. " WeU Met" " There," she said, as she raised a window in a Pullman oar the other day " no^ I can breathe. The air in thiEi car is stifling. Why don't they have better ventilation if I couldn't sit next to an open window I believe I should die," Presently a slender female sitting directly back leaned over and asked her if she would- n't just as lieve close that window now, as the draught was more than she could stand. "No, madam, I shall not close this window. I could not live with it down. I was just thinking how delightful it was with it open, now you want it shut, but I shall not bhut it: BO there." ' Then yon are a selfish thing, and I shall have to change my seat." Just then a gentleman sitting close by reached over and said "lAdies, tluit window being raised makes no di£ference, as this car has double windows, and not a breath of air can possibly get through the one that is still down." Tfaea the one that had rtdsed the window turned to the other, and, with a crashed look on her ^toe^aiid ' Madun» I beg your pardon, but 1 uimk two fools have met at Ust." 0£ the 27,672.048 infaaMtaiMs ttf France. 1.101.09Q are foreigners^ of whom 432,266 are from Betginm, ^240.733 frdm Italy, 81,- 988 from Qermalay, 73,781 from "Spain, 66,- 281 from SwitwJnidi and oidy i47,066 from **" iRrttHL ^*" Tha a«mber.«£aataial!e« ed pSnaQnalmt 77,046. ifm W JOUB K. W*rttBSILU What time is it T Lorrd 1 well haare half an bonrto wait, and I do bate sitting roand in a hotel with nothing to do. ' Ain't New Orleans an awfolly fnAny place? It can't bold a candle to Chica^ Some one told ns to visit the French quarter; bat, my goodness Iâ€" its awfully snabby just awfully shabby and as for the French Market, yon get op at an unearthly early hoar in the morning, and the oofifee they have's fit to poison you. I think it s your duty to see eiverything that's to be seen so I said to the chamber-maid, the other day, " Where are yoar handsome dwelling- hoasea T" 'Ah 1 out Prytsnia and St. Charles, mam, there's ilegant fine faiansicnw, ' she said. So we went, and â€" ^woold yoa beiiere it â€" they're all made of wood I Did yon ever I Yes this is a dreadfully queer place. I tised to have sort of romantiu notions about the Southâ€" thought it must be just per-r- fect. I thought, don't you know, you wwe white dxesies all winter, and sat on piazus in hammocks, and that the Southern ,men were all dark, and ta'l, and very fiery and the dflfkies were so funny, and sang, and played on banjos but, graoiona they behave just like every one eue and as for white dresses, I've never come so near freez- ing to death in all my life. Fred would say that's because I never read anything, nor listen to what any one's saying. But that ain't it at all. You'd just die if yon knew Fred. He's the funniest boy. Awfully nioe, don't you know, only he will prose so about literature and culture. Oh I he's too funny. Why, when he likes one book by an author, he must msh right off and read all the rest of 'em. He r«»d David Cop'fitld â€" did you ever read David Cop' field Well, I did, and I declare I thought I'd be eld and gray before I got through but I'd promised Fred I'd read it. Well, then he read all of Dickuns, Same way about Thack'ray. He began Vanity Fair, and just went crazy about Thack'ray. Ever read Vanity Fair Ain't it simply awful I told Fred I just wouldn't read it, if he never spoke to me again. Then that Becky Sharp, too. A girl at our school wrote a composition about Becky Sharp. What dici she say about her? Lor-r-d 1 I didn't listen to it. All I know is, it was about Becky Sharp, Fred ain't a bit like me. Now when I like one book by an author, I never read another, because I think I'd be sure not to like it half so well, and then I'd get to hate the whole lot like poison. But you mustn't think Fred ain't nioe. He's real handsome and fascinating has big brown eyes and the cutess moustache only he viUl be superior, and it's so fatiguing. Now what's the use being superior Why can't you just be happy and sensible? I've known Fred for per-r-fect ages. Why, he used to walk to school with me, and carry my books. But that was last year, for I've been out ever so long. We used to quanel like cats. One day he »aid to me, "Marie Cassidy, do you ever intend to be anything but a frivolous butter- 4y?" "Frivolous fiddlestick's end 1" said I, and I spoke very severely, too. "If you want superiority, just visit mommer seven evenings a week," Mommer's superior enough, gracious knows. The way she goes in for general in- formation is simply awful. "Well," said he, "if you are content to remain â€" " "Fred Delbert," I said, "am I a griffin or a Cyclops " "Why, of course not," he said opening them big eyes of his. "Wel^ then I ain't a Cyclops, that's settled, and popper has lots of money â€" jast dead loads of it â€" so what do I want with superiority? I'm sorry you find me so un- attractive. There's De Lanoy Witherington, he says my eyes are like bit4 of heaven on earth, and â€" " Fred got so mad he regularly stamped, "Don't quote to me the inane remarks of an idiot," he shouted. "Anyhow," I said, "he likes me just as I am, and he isn't always treading on my poor little pug." "I hate puga," said Fred. "They alwaws look as if they're making faces." Well, somehow or other we made up again, and I made him kiss Gibi, because he'd said such horrid things about the poor little pet. Gibi's just killing you ought to see him, Fred and I were sort of engaged. Not quite, though, because popper said Fred was young, and I was young, and he didn't want to give up his little girl just yet awhile. That made me cry, and feel real badly, because I've never been anything but the bother of his life. Bat Fred and I had a serious row once. You see, there was a girl staying with Mrs. Calvin, in our bloc^ Pamela Stone- henge WM her name, and she came from somewhere East. Some people said she was so elegant and charming, and talked about her "classic outline," but. Lor-r-d 1 she was so tall and thin, and her nose was miles too long. I don't care what anybody says, it rcaa long. She was dreadfully profound and high- toned,' and Fred began to fly around her a little. I didn't let on I cared a bit, because I wasn't going to set him up, but I just flirted awfully with De Lancy. It was at Mrs. Jenifer's ball, and De Lancy and I were sitting on the stairs, when I saw Fred and the classic Pamelaskipping off to the conservatory. Ain't men too heartlbss I waa sure he must have something impor- tant to say to her, so I told De Luioy I wanted to stroll atwut and look at the flowers and of course he agreed, for he was mashed â€" regularly mashed. I passed as close to Fred and Pamela as I could. They were talking in a I6w, earnest tone, and I heard somecning about "a scheme of cosmic philosophy." Now did you ev«r 1 The idea of dragg- ing a gui off into a oonstfvatOry to whisper such jtkw-breaking things in her ear I t«lt sort of relieved, for it's a comfort, after all to have a lover who's too big a goose to flirt with other girls, Bnt when I thought it over that idght, while I was taking oat my hair-pini I begaii to think ther* ought be move, in it thanmet the eye. I don't know but it was the inteU leetnal way of Staking love. ' I was te*t «rt*VMM=when he Inom^t me ofaoooIataenaiiB. f told bim Itjb^^ Well, then, in the midrt of this, ha had to go to St Lonfai onbasinesi and while he wae away I repented, and began to feel sort of Mft abont him. Ho had written he was ptrtty sure to be home Tuesday evening. I was sitting by the window, and the gas was turned low, and somehow I felt blue. I could see Mrs. Calvin's house, where that horrid Pamela Stonehenge was staying and as I was look- ing two men went up Mrs. Calvin's steps. It waa ft hateful showery night j but they were laughing and talking, and when they put down their umbrellas I saw something that made me jump. Fred has an umbrella with the funniest head, an ebony skull with Rhine-stone eyen that flash in the most life-like way, and there that thing was winking at me in the gas light across the street. I was so mad I just cried â€" regularly howled. To think that Fred would go to tea her first of Well, who should walk in brwht and early the next morning but Fred himself 1 He looked paleâ€" with remorse, I thought. Bat ioebeigs and polar bears were nothing to me in the way of coldness. He begw, "I wanted to see you the first thing Mane â€" " "Indeed " I interruptel. *1 feel quite honored." He turned very red, and stared at me. Then he said " What do you mean What are yoa talking about " "Oh I of course you haven't an idea," I said and so it went on froaa bad to worse, until be just got up and remarked, with the- most drMdfui dignity. "You seem to be accusing me of soine, thing but as you will not do me the justioe to explain yourself, I will bid you good- morning and good-by, Miss Cassidy." Of course I never meant him to get on his dignity, and when I saw him going I had half a mind to run after him, only I was too proud. Two or three days pasBed, but still no sign nor sympton of Fred. Mommer was getting ready to go to Chautauqua, and the house was turned upside down, and I was fairly distracted. At last I just wrote him a few lines, telling him I wished to explain something, I waited all that day, and all the next, but no answer came. Then I got desperate. I just decided life wasn't worth living, and I'd be superior, and go in for sociology and demonology, and all that sort of thing. So I told mommer I was going to Chautau- qua with her, and she said she was glad I had awakened at length to a sense of my own deficiencies and we started oB, It isn't any fun to travel with mommer. Siie always declares she's suffocating in the Pullman, and she thinks the train is running off the track every few mmutes, and drives the conductors half crazy asking questions. Then she's always dropping her eyeglasses and hand-bag and handkerchief â€" particularly her handkerchief. I tell her ira like the French exercises, "Ou eU le mouchoirde ma mere ' But that makes her hopping mad. Chautauqua's an awful bore, don t you know â€" a lot of old drones and mummies going about, and preteading they en^y it so much. I believe they really hate it, only they think it looks nice to be profound. 7 And then Palestine Park I Oh, my 1 how those Eastern people can make such guys of themselves, and dress in bags that havn't any hang, or fit, or anything, I caa't im- agine. Momrrer would drag me about every- where, to improve my mind, she siid. She has a mania i r measurements and calcula- tions, and one day cbc was calculating the dimensions of the Great Pyramid, and I said, "Lor-r-d, mommer 1 you must have been evolved from a measuring- worm." Sho didn't liV e it one bit, but I think she ought to have been glad I knew how to apply my knowledge. I was 80 broken-hearted I took up Hebrew, and it 'most blinded me. How people could ever have talked in such a language I Well, one day I waa in the steamboat on the lake, and I waa looking over my account book. Popper always makes such a point of my keeping accounts, because he says it teaches me the value of money, but no one ever knew the value of money better than I do, I had Gibi with me, and its awfully expensive boarding with a dog and then the servants are always so grasping 1 I declare they're just like those horrid daugh- ters of the horse-leech that said, "Give! give " though why the daughters were a bit worse than the sons I never could see, only people are always slandering women, iiomehow or other I never can get my accounts to come exactly right. There were four dollars I couldn't acjount for, so I just put them down to " charity," because "sundries" has such an unbusinesslike look, though, to tell the truth, I'd only given ten cents to an organ-grinder, I was so hard at work that I never noticed that I'd been taken ever, so far past where I ought to have got out, so I just stepped at the next stopping-place, and waited for another boat to take me back. It was quite a pretty spot, with trees and things, and a sort ot cave not far off and I sat and gazed at the beauties of nature till I was 'most starved. All at once I heard a noise be- hind me, and I looked around and there waa Fred coming out of the cave I I thought idt a moment maybe remorse had driven him to retire from the world and be a harmit. Wouldn't that have been ro- mantic I glanced at him very haughtily, but he began right away: "Miss Casaidy â€" oh, Mariel don't let ns make ourselves miserable by keeping this up 1" "Who's miserable " I enquired. "Speak for yourself. Fredâ€" I maan Mr. Delbert." A horrid, unfeeling twinkle came into his eye, and he said, 'Do you remember Miss Stonehenge?" "Oh yes," said I. io-ly. "She has such a long nose 1" "Sbe has it stillâ€"" "Don't j-st on such a subject, if vou please," I said. "Well." said Frel, " I admit that it is a senous one. The point is that she was married last week to a Professor of Sans- krit." "I suppose she's refuted you," I said and you ve come to me to be coneoled " ' Then he said a lot of absurd tliiilgB- 1 won't repeat and I told him how I thought he'd gone to see Pamela that evening. It turned out that the poor boy had oome back slok with malarial fever, and -wata't ableto leftte the houe and Ned Pukineon had dmbped m and borrowed his nmbrellai T^ "B^ that dbeshT exSain jmir" n^ aoawering my hote,"T »id.' *Tr*iii f?f"j " Yott 80^ whawlt tema I iraa' ^%{d? atmy,n)oin«.|»«dth«»waB»t »aoolT«t4« anything for me but an old man with « Wigâ€"" " Wall, did hia wig prevent yoa from s: m writing to me?" I asked: or saroastic when I feel like it. •*» " Of course not but I was tf„ toUMamyfaead As soon as iT? "*« I rushed around to see you • h«/^*l gdWJ^IfellieJoBe. told meT*L i*9to;Cl»utauqaa; so I fr,,! J^1 ib^rtlam," "â-  ^^"»«d, '*W.ll," I said, very sternly '.Tn,, ywtWrtome, Fied butyouVa *Z:\ very badly And. Fred, .he aL!^*«1» noseâ€" hasn't she " ^mx^ "Sbookiogly," be said. So^ we were married, and came Sinv a wedding journey andâ€" Oa there' t" It's time to start. Ain't he a daiu' tell meâ€" u my bang all ri^^t? ' ever so much 1 By- by. -.11 â€" I ., ,^ MISGELLANEOUS lTEMs,| Chinese Lepersâ€" A Great BelUH,J In Swlteerlandâ€" Hard Times in Cubaâ€" C. e From 1876 82 the population of Kn creased 104,000, """ The Norwegians, twenty or twent».« years ago, had plenty of oysterj, but i! they have scarcely any. The Anstriau Parliament has lately r^,. I ed a measure assuring compensation ^\!j| sons who have been wrongly convicted. -I It is reported that the French GoTal ment is about w lay a further leogthof4y miles of underground telegraph witet ^1 cost of whioh will be about SU.OOO.OOo' I There are nineteen Chinese lepers in a y Francisco hospital awaiting retam to tiuil native land. The return is delayed beciiil of the .difficulty the steamship compaikl find in landing such cases at Hong " Cholera is increasing at Calcutta, two h\ dred and fifty -seven deaths having oocurn;! there from the scourge last week, A steant.! ship which has arrived at Suez had t«t| deaths on her voyage from Bassein, bay. A despatch from Matamoras, Mexico, sanLâ€" ,. â-  iu ♦„,r^^r,^ the condition of affairs of the GovernmettlTemble fires m the turpent is deplorable, charges financial rjttenne8i,Borth Carolina raged lo^r^ sex and intimates a revolution if a greatly bet-*"â„¢"' hundreds ter state of thingi is not speedily broaglit about. iTalnn CsroliBa .^^Vldlowa f*^^^ib»d maple srgir ^•SJSiof »Q exceptional "f^S^produotive Eeason. ^rlj^ui^vnTS manafaot '"'l^v^a' justed their f«* ^Sa to l^ut up the p *co"JS!nceiinthelast, '** V^„ canitaliBts are bus] C£S^^"t«" Te ' JKfUTnorth disappear, â- '^lyare being sought, f^nplementary arrangeme "^Fii between this countr -^^^IttieXnovalofnatr between America and Ijjoies. :,.j,dioiary CoBumttee o "'SeofKepresentativ. Xsgainst proposing ei National Constitution g ritbt of suffrage. ,tbe burning of a great " KnriT Kv.. a few dajs 8| "^Sw^ich were kept. ^d which could not g he uroportions of the exoa toSo^nited States are fl From one parish ir „%tt week 325 persons 1 never intend to return to i date of the national Mention at Chicago has jMay7toMayl9, in oi le«t£8 »ay be present and Soceedings of the natio ^^^^^ch will be held :ay2l TovinK nunurcuD «^ thovis some of the largest turpe Several houses liT?-' Tbe kthe At the temples of Kroto, Japan, is tai| great bell cast in 1633 It is IS feet hi^ 9 feet in diameter, and 9^ inches thick, itil weight is nearly 74 tons. About l,m pounds of gold are said to have been incor-' porated in the composition. Its tone iil magnificent. When struck with the open hand ita sound cau be heard at a distance o! a hundred yards. In regard to the state of affairs in Eg7ptl the following dispatch from Cairo teils t sad tale: â€" Tnere are 138 men, women, and' children of all ages in the inflrmary at Tos- rah, living like wild beasts in Indescribblel filth and neglect. Amsng the inmates are several raving madmen who are sometima unchained, Tnere are other inmates in ever; stage of the most loathsome diseases. Two black men walk about entirely naked. In New South Wales all labour is paid b;| the day of eight hours. Carpenters, lOs. to' 12i, (city), ISs. (auburbd); stonemasons, lis, to 123 stonemasons' labourers. Si. to IDs.; plasterers, lis. to 14«,; plasterers' labonreri, 8i. to 10s biicklayers, 12s. to LSs.; brick- layers' labourers, Ss. to lOa. painters, 9s. to lis.; joiners, 10a. to 12^,; plumbers, lis, to 1 2a. gasfitters, 9a, to lis.; sawmill hands, 9d. to Is. por hour. At Coeur d'Alene, says a traveller who n- cently arrived at Denver, everything is very dear. It costs twenty-five cents to get a paper by mail, and fifty cents for a letter, Nothing is considered less than a quarter. Shaving is a quarter, hair cutting fifty cents, any kind of a meal coats $1, and eggs fifty cents extra. You can't get a pi ^e to el^p for less than 1, even though you bonk on the floor. Some bad dividends have been lately an- nounced by steam shipping companies, but the Canard Company has, according to the PaU Mall Gazette, made an exceptionilk wretched report. No dividend whatever has been earned for the past jear. while 4 per cent, was paid in May last, 3 p^^r cent, in May, 1832, and 6 per cent, in May, ISSl. Tne times are explained to have been gener- ally bad for steam shipping during the past year, as to which there is no sor: of doubt, and the lines of shipping running to America have not been the last to feel the want of remunerative freight. In a recent scientific feuilleton in the Piris Debats, M. Henri P*rville quotes a reference to the singular action of oil on wa.'e3 by Theophy 1 lotes, the Byzantine historian ol the sixth century. Tae passage occurrj in a dialogue on "various naturaJ questions.' The question propounded is, why oil mika the sea calm and the answer given is to the effect tnat as the wind is "a subtle and deli- cate thing," and oil is "adhesive, unctuous, and smoothe," the wind glides over the sjr- fase of the water on which oil his been spread, and cannot raise waves. Tbe wind, in fact, slips over the water without being able to obtain a grip, so to speak. A Parisian correspondent says Jthat tbe arcbseological researches on the site of an- cient Cirthage, conducted by Messrs. Solo- mon Reinach and Ernest Bibelon, have brought to light a number of objects of his- torical and artistic importance. C mforma- bly to the instructions of the i^'rench insti- tute, this scientific mission has been cbieflf occupied in determining the relative leveli of the Roman and the Punic soil on the sits of Carthage. The great accumulation of rubbish and stones which forms the upper layer of the Carthaginian soil randers {(is wcrk of excavation long and difiionlt. Five metras deep a series of wells, cisterns, and cellos of the Pome eoo:h has been disaov- ered. Cuba is at present passing through a peri- od 6f extreme commercial depression, Oi' result of thia is to increase the dissatisfaction with Spanish rule. Even the wealthy pl*" MS who formerly were 'fierce Spiniah parti- sansi aad aided m suppressing that bn^' continued maorreotioa which ended only » few years ago, are now somewhat dialoyw themselvei, and inelinbd to favor indepen- danoa.w anpeagHnw to the United State* â- Ibay do not want.Quba; and as that is pret^ well understdod, indwendenca is mostly dlMbaiba. This oouutry Is ripe for any re- volt that may be started. Aguero'a attempt* ' ' ' ' I M inaignifioant »• State, jmd a number of families ideas. liie American Grocer finds nOO 000 cases of tomatoes v United States, each conta itiM. The etact figures Their value at wholesa 5,000,000. Maryland puts ' of the product, and Ne^s Among the bills pending ii Legislature is one to pic .jtnre of dynamite and c terials, cr any dynamite n )rtation thereof intend Ivftil wounding of anybody of from SI. 000 to $5.00 lonment ot from thirty dt They are having trouble ii who has just received t\ 50 years' inprisonment an hanged. They want to 1 ttheman "laims he ougl le first, as that sentence v ior to the one of hanging, as his opinion that " as th dead sure loser, he'd bette lebwk and swbg to wun Tbe Lake Superior ore tr. be in a worse condition tl twelve or fifteen years, ery twelve mint s in the i id those which are runnii IS largest and wealthiest c rtstricting the output, ilf of the ore is of the bes Uing at Cleveland for six hich is lower thsin for mac lis price there is only a pr ton. A bill has been introduce tites Senate to provide for silk culture bureau which le of the bureaus of the lent and shall embraci n five silk culture s tat ior 88 follows: One to bt ite of Pennsylvania, one Alabama, one in Iowa a' The bill provides for $150,000 for carrying on |lnl881 a Fargo (Dikots ;le stool of wheat in h of twenty-two st I contained 860 grair « pian*ed in 1882, yielc beL Lwt Spring this M carefully cultivated, fventeen bushels, an ii I fold, and a yield of I thirty-two pounds to 'tbtuhiBls from a single ~i la a good growth. Elephants for Fa am pulling along *gQd to secure severa .ooffee more than I ha ' u always pleasant. •« 13,000. Never of working with *y otir crop with the ' intrude myself tc ***»« You f»ee I dl J*y«nor of an intima 'wd them with great '^^ohthe same as K**^' I can't get *f^ttmiki» TheM !eleriisrtilm,aBrtain len the day'i ilr2S^,5*"d «o they L^V**^ and t. '"'vers, toaeingthe] Ngarks, ]|ut the l;^ aaH lead th« to graae i ^•aoattle i knchofftal .]|h^ 'purpose.-^ 2hiohai few days hasadcaadjTJikttitrtth arnh .^ thatit ia i^lt OKteuahly formidable, thara i o telling what may be its on oome. tlte Spanish offiji*" encouragemant m*.