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 5 PIE FHILOSOFHT. if»r pnUtable Pulxy- |i »•* '"^tf a Noted Flo Bliop. TbtOrlsia it Breakfast ...;. snblunary extotence it is not good I»??,mDlytolive, to pull tbrongh life \0tSbaie pullB a loacl np-hill. liifo U l^'iSthing we've got, and it befaoovea u 1 1" kl the best of it in the few years that I » â- Â»![ jted to us. How are we to go about ad- I 'humanity those tender qoaUtie 1**1. in demand, becauM so soaroe. T l^'nru^, thatpie means indigestion. "V jjjiaj "Eit pie" is the_ quiet I 'timi that comes back to us like an eoho '*°^!rme far beyond, and in|thoae two ' I may fii^d all that is needed to pro* " " ""tiesM) Thsy â- fuy thatpie means indigestion. Who l5"Tbeyr' A dyspeptic does not enjoy IfJtnMiT great extent, and where u the 1^ b£ who likes pie 7 Mirthfol is the ad. l^etbat should qualify our existence, ta the jolly compound of fat men and '.hterdo we find the sunniest side of l^jg^y choose to call a hard and omel Uld. I MIRTHFCL MAN LOVM PM, N«ir of pie loves mirth, and the mirtiif al *^.l tbroueh life to set all the sood ,go«8 through ,x- It of it he can. Life is not a senoos thwg^ If, ffe should hang our beads and mope, ST ire not to blame for existing. We did pnt ourselves here, and we need not iJa our brains about getting away. nTt will he all attended to at the proper Sft All that is expected of us is that we ^k the Lord for giving us the chance to jj^ him in her happiness, But what IJh this to do with pie? Pie is the sub- iMtam of oar average sweetness of disposi- to, and if you were as great a philanthro- gttas you should be, if you really had the !^of the nation at heart, it would be self -instituted task to establish pie fac- lioriea in every city in the land, and you Ifould sell pies by retail at wholesale prices It) men, women and babies in fact you IfooM give them away â€" that is if people ildn't buy them anyway, they should J eat pie. Who knotrs of a city that loves. Im better than New York, unless it is Bos- |igD? There we are to)d they have pie for liittkfast, pie for dinner, pie for supper, and SIT UP NIGHI3 TO BAT PIB. iBotii are good cities, in their way. Tnere Iggiome chronic pessimists in each, but in- heitigation proves that they do not eat pie, I pie eater can be truly wicked in dis- iition. Show us a city that eats piee and lie will show you a city with a happy Away down on the eastern end of Long llilaod forty years at;o, a boy was dropping potatoes for his uncle. He got tired of topping {potatoes, and one morning he loimd himself at. Catharine Street Ferry liith one cent in his pocket. The ferry liiaster took the one cent and trusted the Ikoy for the rest of his fare across the East He found a job with a baker for his lloirdand clothes before night, and that Ibof has been baking ever since. He is to- Ijiy the president ol: a New York Pie Ba- ling Compt ny and claims the distinction of ttviog baked and SOLD MOBE PIES. I any man in America. He hsa educat* |edthe people up to their present fondness lior pies, and therein he has built for him- IkU a monument. He sr.lj pies to Mr. and IMk. Niblo, when the ' Girden" was a va- loiit lot surrounded by a high board fence, ludtheEimple couple stood day after day lii their caps and white aprons and resold Ithem at a bit; profit. 1 P. T. Bamum was his own ticket laller and doorkeeper at his museum, then litnated where the Herald building now lituds, his dinner every day was one of on's pies and a piece of cheese. This sell now 20,000 pies ever day. Iffidits business is rapidly increasing with jtbe appetite of the community. It uses 300 Iburels of flour a week, and every day works liito pie 25 barrf h of apples, other fruits in Ipniportion, 6,000 pounds of sugar, 840 dozen ItSgB, 2 640 pounds of lard, 1,400 quarti of |iii:k, and 100 bushels of bernes. The loss â- in pie plates alone is $5,000 a year. The Ibg^eaais established on a straight cash I Mil, and under no circumstances are its Ipiiiiciples departed from. I In the face of such facts as these, who I|ue8 to say that it is not good to eat pie IWhen a mm reaches that point where he pmjuphis nose at sweet things, he is petty far gons.â€"^er/? Tori Confectioner. faUowof 7 ssiiiasateKi^^ GEBMAN SOLDIERS. to System that iTeaehes Self-respeot Bank and rue Alike. The proudest soldiers in Europe are in â„¢Dany. Whipping the French has made M«m vain and self-suffisitnt. L'ka their ""Mter, Bismarck, they really have a pity p contempt for France. ' 'Every man in wrmany must serve from one to three years »the army," said the Msyor of Dresden in 'Mnversation I had with him. Dcn't you think it hurts Germany to **P 500 000 youDg men in the army in time "peace?" I asked? "No. You do not understand the German """y. It is a school. The stupidest dunce ""^^ in the army is transformed into a Ban," â- ' J^Has a Prussian offiaej: a right to make a â- ^nt of a private, as he has in America?" I «iii ^^^" "" taking a menial of a soldier *r u " ^y 'â- '"y- -^ Prussian officer who »™ld compel a soldier to do the work of a ^t would be cashiered. Why, some of J«noh German private soldiers keep s«. ^» of their own. A soldier do servant's 7,^1 Your question astonishes me." ont the officer cf a cavalry regiment, if *»«e riding on the Unter den Lind^ !?" nave a private behind him, would he "• laaked. I /*o. air. If he had a servant he would JJ«"«d Uke a grcom. Ko soldier would .?» an officer's horse. Why, many of oar «* privates keep a groom themselves" 'wonghtof themany times I had seen *fflencan officers using soldiers for ser- ".and how different it is hen, where a (r»w will not even tie or hold an officer's Jjl^; in fact, where he will do no menial teftl; J • ""^eed this morning, when offioen 'noing in the park, that thqr took thsir »ldi!! *•• dressed like grooms, but no 'C^^juformwas thus degraded. It is tb, k °t • â„¢8 tliat makes the Prosrian army ^a SK ^°.}"® ^°^^^' It WM this OM thing V.t a'i^*" thought that made the Tic- "itti^'" Gen. Sheridan, stop ttonie l^h«.I?-' " servants, and our amiy I '^adiferentarmy. jouung the house la a the Mmth.east comer of HM^r.»i beUi streets. The Uabar has aflas^^ Jluch on Sunday. i.TSrttitirp2£ of the neighboring housa, bdng^MffiTio! oewbk by liadderoS^^SS Sunday momiair, »boa» 9 o'olook. Johfaay Shi'SS^' *y*^ • kiWTthTSS iL„ i.??5^' ^Bagmmna at one end of the l«Dgbmldmg he ran wi his kite tha eo! toslengtit Mortof theway £v«baS ^. Puillag the kiteafter Am, SoajSoS- M was he that he ran too far, and atrikias Juahjelsonthelow giuttd that bomid. Sf lISL?ti?i^2r"***'*^?» theElizaieth ashe fS, *°™^ '*^" *°* 0T« in the air LaokUy for Johnny the telegraph wires at toe boy after jWiing abont ten feet, by a good fortune that was hardly lass than a nuraole, caught one of the lower wires in hM hands and hung there, about fifty feet •Dove the ground. There was no other wire withm his reach. A few persons had seen the Uttle fellow fall, and m a moment a orowd had gathered. Unable toreador the slightest help the people stood paralyzed with horrw, gazing^ at the boy dangling between Heaven and euth. Not a cry escaped the lad's lips, "flold on tigbt and I'U save youl" cried Jfrank Neumann, a youth of 18 years, who Mves in the same house with Johnny. He had been lying on the top of the house, and, at tracted by the noise, he ran to the edge of the roof. Young Neilinann took in the sit- uation at a glance, nothig that Johnny hung nearly opposite the fire escape. But the fire escape extended only to the fifth story, and not to the roof. Without losing a mo- ment, Neumann clambered over the edge of the roof, and. supporting himself by his fin- gers on the nuTow line of brick outside the guard, hung durectly over the fire escape. "Oh, Frank," cried the lad,"dQ hurry up if you're going to clo anything. I can't stand this any more. I'm going to drop." "Hold on tight a minute longer and 111 be there 1" shouted Neumann. Swinging his body backward and forward like a pendulum he cleared the widl and let go his hold. Like an arrow he shot down ihroiwh the trap in the fire-escape at tiie fifth floor, and caught with his hands the iron ronnds of the ladder between the fourth and fifth stories. A loud cheer went up from the crowd in the street. It was a fearful leap, but a suc- cessful one. "You'll have to move lively, Frank," said the boy. "I must let go." "Just one moment yet," said the young man. He got a precarious hold on the lad- der with his feet and one arm, and leaned far out so that he could just grasp the boy's wriit. Then he drew him ,in amid the cheers of the crowd. Taking the boy in his arms they descended the ladder until they reached the third floor, when his strength failed him and he let go his hold, dropping with the boy to the ground. Neither was hnrt. Tnen the crowd shouted itself hoarse. The little fellow's face was white. "Frank I wouldn't try that again, if I was you," was all he said. Then he ran a tray and hid himself in a cellar, where he remained two hours, fearing the paternal wrath. A Domestie Scene. "Therel" exclaimed Mrs. Prittie. "you eft the ink-stand on the table and I have turned it over and rained the carpet." "Well," replied the husband, "why didn't you leave the ink-stand on the tidile and not turn it over?" "None of your foul puns, William. I'll crack your head with this duster. I'd just as leave do it as not. Here I have to sorub, scrub, scrub, all the time and we never have anything fit to Icok at." " When you have completed your tirade I'd like to sayâ€" "Tiradel" she snapped. "It|s enough to make anybody swear. I do think that you are the moat careless and good-for-nothing man I ever saw," "I'd like to say, in case a convenient sea- son should roll around, that I have been un- justly assailod. "Unjustly asauledl" she howled. "I ought to drive you off the place. Just look at that carpet. Ruined all on account of your fool- ishness." "If you are ready, madame, I will make a casual observation. This morning, yon ask- ed for my ink. I told you that it was on my desk. You put it on the table and wrote the note which you have just sent down town. So you see, I had nothing to do with the performance." "Well, I don't care," exclaimed the poor woman, bursting into tears, "it was just like you tj leave it there. You are always leaving things where they don't belong. I have a great mind^to declare thatlwon't live with jrou another day." "What have I done?" "What is it you haven't done?" Unable longer to bear her burden of grief, she went into the adjoining room and sob- bed. An hour later while her husband sat reading bit paper, soft arms stole around his need, tender lips pressed his forehead, and a sweet voice said: .. "Amisoverybad?"â€" .4rian«o« Travel- ler. THE WORLD^S FOOD SUPPLY, X Taar af Snperataadaaook The Department of Afprioultare at Wash- ington reports thecondition of ootton on the fiStof September lower than on An««t the first, by reaK)n of the d»n|!hfc TIm gHiscal average is 82J.ag»inat 87 m Angnat. W product ot winter wheat IS above the averMM. and generaUy of good qnahty. The rate of yield fi not far from an •â-¼Â«Â«â€¢ of 13 bnahala to the aore. The rasolts of the harvest of spring wheat are not yet oom Dleta. It is ptobaMe from the reported oon- Stion of the crop already 'aj'-tof «* thrashed that the aggrMate wiU vary little toma hundred miliSSi hoMb^JM. The geni- al average condition when haryeated IS 98. Ii»bstffllasty«K. The com ««P"i,!; b^ oonditio* than m any ^ptfnber SK188O; the general •â-¼Â«'«*J««^ .uramiaes to prodaoe aa *nnp yidd^ 26 ^EmhSTfor tihe entire bread^ or not le- ' S£d^hi«h«.dred«illioBbnd«i.. » ^mSu tbe la(g«t aggregate ol quMiti^ ««r naortod in the history of the orop. In gjirigi M oora, MM nans Mi 07 ttwin avango .iboillKnmali. B**' »M4eMnl'lPMiiMafiir rvar ja 96; far iNMMea* •* j iH^riipdiMkss a medinm acopoi abont 18 hnshsia per aqre. The eonditioii of potatoaa •vmmh 91; it wffl be an abnadaiit onm bat not aoUrge aa last year. The amditun tf tobaoeo ishi(^er than in September of any year ainoe 1877 it averagea 94. XHB OBOFS Iir SUBOPB, The London agent of the department oablai to-day aa tiie reaalt (rf astatioal in- veat^cation that the year will be one of sn- pe ia h nnd an e e that Bat^ean wheats al- though above the average in prodnct will be less than the aggregate of 1882. European impwtinff conntrlea need two hnndredand six^ miluon bushela above the production. European oonntries exporting oan supply ^ht milUcln bnahels, leaving one hundred and eighty million bubels to be obtained from other oontinenta. Stooka are not ex- oesdve. There is an inorsaaed oonsumption of wheat, and it is the general opnion that the lowest prices have bem .reaohed. Po- tatoes and rye are less abundant than last year. The average yield of northem and central Italy is abundant, but it is short in the south, inoluding Sicily and Sardinia, Oom is looking unaraally well, and prom- ises an abundant yield. The same is true of rice. As for fruit, the excessively hot, dry weather in Italy ia said to have damaged it, A FEW SMILES. A shallow-brained fop rem irked, with the air of an instructor, "People should never laugh at their own jokes. I never think of laugbingat -mine." "Does anyone else " (ilyly asked a young lady. Because a Chicago girl leaves her shoes outside of the door ot her room in a hotel to be polished, it does not excuse the pcrcer for knocking, and asking if she wants "those valises taken down to ttfe office to be check- ed." "I hear that you are to many a wealthy American girl," said one British nobleman to another, "Ya'as." repUed his lordship. "Are there any encumbrances on the pro- perty " "Ya'as, the lady." AT^ealthy bank officer being applied to for aid by a needy Irishman, answerM patu- lantly, "No, no I can't help you. I have 50 such appUcamts as you every day." "Sore and ye might have a hundred without costing you much," was the response, A full bearded grandfather recently had his beard shaved off, showing a clean face for the first time in a number of years. At the dinner-table his three year old frand- daughter noticed it, gazed along with won- dering eyes, and finally she ejaculated: "Grandfather, whose head you got on " "Inquirer." No, an intelligence office is not a place to look for in^elOgence. The name is entirely irrelevant But if you want a green house-girl, whom you will have to teach all she ^1 ever know, that is the place where they have them on draught. Titles do not signify anything in America. "And what's the big fellow with the red face doing now " asked an unsophisticated country visitor at the opera. "Great good* nesB, man, shut up," wnisperad the other.; "that's Picklehomy, the celebrated tenor, and he's trilling." "Oh, I thought he was gargling his throat. It sounds like it." A young negro bootblack observed a neighbour .poring wisely over a news- paper, whereupon he addressed thus: "Julius, what are you looking at that paper for? Yon can't read,' "Go away,^' re- torted the other indignantly; "guess I oan read Is big enuff for that." "Big enuff 1" retorted the other soomfully; "dat ain't nnffin. A cow's big enuff' to catch mice but sh e can't. " _. Orerrated Bomet Rome, proud mistress of the world, who sat in grandeur on her seven hills, was un- doubtedly a much overrated institution; only great in comparison with the littleness with which she was surrounded, only strong because she had the opportunity to measure her strength with weaknejs and only civil- z ed in contrast With barbarism. Her hills, the famous seven, the Aventine, Capitoline, Coltan, Eiquiline, Palatine, Qunnal and Viminal, an only abont 150 feet in height, and not at all comparable to our seven hills of San Franciscoâ€" Telegraph, CUy street, Russian, Pacific heights, Kincona, Straw- berry and Leone mountain. The famcius ^ppian way is a narrow and unserviceable road of unshapely bowlders. The wall which Romulua built, Remus jumped over, and there has never been a wall around Rome since which would for a moment resist a modem siege. The Tiber is a muddy rivu- let the campagaa an unhealthy morass the Oastle St. Ahirela is an exaggerated cheese- box dt. Peter's, her famous basilica, is but the monument of a fading superstition which succeeded the pantheon and coliseum ruins of a defunct paganism. A cardinal, with his purple mantle, is a burletque pan- tomime of the Roman senator in his tc^ The "states of the churoh," under the civil dominion of the Pope, was in extent of coon- try a cabbage garden, in point of government a sort of cross between an Irish wake and a Methodutcamp meeting. The city of Rome under the government of Italy, and as Italy's capitid. is under^roing transformation is being improved and modernized; is well governed and u prospering. The malignant shadow of the aoss orawU slowly in as_ the sun of the new day rises above tiie horizon. Oldd superstitions disappear, giving to new Italy a new and better Bome^ with liberty and religiona freedooo. The Fimiiy Funiisliliig of a Gotfaenbarg Bedroom* The hotel we ohooae in Gothenburg was the Oota-Kdlare, I had to study Swedish oustoms at once, for my bed had no pillows, ff»A an enormous lump, like a «aaiel's, in the oentre, I remonatrated gently but firmly witii tiie maid, and told her that to deep on suoh a hemifpben would bring on onrvaturs of thenine. She uncovered the lump and showea me the pillows arohitsoturally dis- posed in the centre, c^That night I found all these irillows and more at the head o( the bed, tbaohambemiaid having evidently tak- «i the notion tiiat I desired to sleep stand- ing, or T*ry nearly ao. My room was not oheerfoL It had a tall r ea arv o i r of a vnter plotaio near mf head, iriiieh looked like a tombstone, and a vast tHe stove sonie ten feet high iriiidi resembled a monosBent. So I natotally dreamed of sleeping in a Swedish osmetsry and rsad, 'SMCsd to the ofels.ra^tiMtOoatovii. ^^L AVELKKBIC SEL SIX FEET LOE(k •^vsrlHardofFttii or of London; to theiu itlB«faaeentrebfaliaatiagiiBn^«id it is tiM ca^tal of everytbing. The abandon- m«at tt Khartoum wonlC in ttieir eetimat* ion, be the disr uuU ou of a eentnd power, which would impy impotenoe. The slave hunters have been suppressed by the author- ity from Khartoum, and the force required fair that suppression has emanated from tiiat omtre of strength and government if thera- f we, Khartoum should be abandoiied, the protection that .was the su ppo rt of royal tribes of the interior wonid have been with- drawn, the supporting power would have been overthrown, and tiie alave hunters, would aoain bs in the asoendant. The re- sult woud be immediate those tribes which had been fiuthful to the Government would become the first victim to those wlu had been against the Government a gen«al an« arahy would ensue, and the lOTal would be saerifioed to the slave gaagi^ wtiioh had been kept in subjection by the imperial fdroes. The slave tnde would be renewed with ten- fold vigor, as no power wool remain to ourb the atrodtiea of the traders. This deplor- able situation would render impossible all futue attempts at government, as the nat- ives would have loet all confidence of support; they would have seen that the loyal had been sacrificed by the abandonment of the Government, upon which they have depend- ed for protection, while thoee who had openly defied the laws had triumphed by robellion. All the good results of the last five-and- twenty years of exploration and energetic action againt the slave trade would have been entirely dissipated, and the end of the long struggle would have yielded victory to the wrongdoers. The work of 64 years since the conquest of the Soudan by Mehemet Ali Pdiba would have been uttwly destroyed, aad the Ssudan would ralapse into the friiKhtfnl barbarism describsd by Bruce a hundred years ago. It is ridiculous to sup- pose that any Soudan races are ckpable of self-government. If we refuse this to Ire- land, how can we expect a better result from i^nirant barbarians, who would .extinguish all progress by a ohronio inter-tribal strife? Ai lo^ autonomy would be impossible should Khartoum be evacuated by theEgypt- ian forces, the Soudan, deprived of its cap- ital, would resolve into a political chaos, nntU some superior force should take advan- tage of the general disruption and restore order by militia conquest. Abyssinia is dan- gerously situated as a hostile neighbor. From the frontier at Gellabat the march would be a direct descent upon Khartoum by the River Rahad and Blue Nile, through a fertile country teeming with supplies, if Khartoum should be abandoned by the im- perative orders of the British Government. Ejjypt will have abdicted her right, and the country will become an easy prey to the first adventurer. If I were a Frenchman I should not neglect the opportunity, French officers might assist the Kingof Abysuniain the organization of his army for the conquest of Khartoum and the fertile Provinces of Senaar, Kadarif, and Taka. Kartouin and the richest portions of Africa would be an- nexed to Abyniniiu French influence would procnro concessions of land to various offioers in roward for their militiary services. By degrees, the embryo of a French, settlement would be established, and in less time than many people would believe, we should dis- cover a rival colony firmly rooted at Khar- toum. Life in High Altitudes. The highest spot on the globe inhabited by human beings is the Buddhist cloister 01 Hanle, Thibet, where twenty-one priests live at an altitude of 16,000 feet. The monks of St Bernard, whose monastery is 8,177 feet high, an obUgd to jiesoend frequently to the valley below in mder to obtain relief from the asthma induoed by the rarity of the atmosphen about their moun- tain eyrie. At the aid of ten years' service at the monastery they sro compelled to change their leveL When the brothers Sohl^nswell explored the glaciers of the Ibi Gamin, in Thibet, they once encamped at 91,000 feet the highest altitude at which a Earopsan ever passed the night. On Mont Blanc, 15,781 feet above the level of the sea Professor Tyndidl spent a night, and with less discomfort than his guide, who found it vary unpleasant. In July, 1872, Mr. Glai- sher and Mr. Cozwell ascended in a bdoon to the enormous height of 38,000. feet, Bs- fora starting Mr, GUdsher's pulse beat 76 strokes per minute, and Mr. Coxwell's 74. At 28,000 feet Mr. Glaisher's pulse had m- craased to 84 and Mr. CoxwvlPs to 100 At 19 000 feet the hands and lips of the aeron- auts turned quite blue. At 26,000 feat Mr. Glaishea could hear his heart beat and his breathing beoame oppressed. At 29,000 he lost all feeling, notwithstanding which he still ascended another 9,000 feet, when his hands wero paralyzed, and he bad to open the valve of the ImUoou with his teeth. The Locomotion of Shells, The great conch or strombns, has a verita- ble sword that it thrusts out, sticks into the ground, and by a muscular effort jerks itself along, making a decided leap. Toe squids, that an the brightest forms of mnllusiu, leap entiroly clear of the water, otten several feet. They are the ink- bearers, and from their ink-bags comes the sepia used by artists, while their bone is the outtie-fish bone of Oommerce, Many of the cockles have a method of flying through the water that is quite novel. They are general- ly beautifully colored, and have long, streaming tentady^ and suddenly, without warning, they dvt up from the bottom, and by a violent openmg and abutting of their valvee rush away with their long, reddish hair streuning aftw them, presenting avery curious appearance. The shell known aa the Lima l^iaaa is partioalary nmarkable for theee flights, and all the sesUons are jumpers and Isapers, When plaoed in a boat they have bMn known to leap oat, vnd the ordinary scallop has been known to jump out of a pot whan plaoed upon a atove, A deeorqition of the different methods by which ahella move would fill a volume. The number of eross-tiei in a mOe of rail- way track varies largely in diffisrent roads. Every first class line has at least 2,640, or one to every two feet, and some exceed 3 200 per mile. Then, again, thne is a difbrenoe- on diflEecent pwts rf the same road. A tie, or grada^ must ^eaent a olear snrfiMe of eight and a thickness of six in- ohes. Sometimes ties below grode are need and the difEtrenoe lialanoed by ' ' namberv. A vary intsrestii^( addition baa recently bean made to the gjoologinal fliidms in tha sh^;;of an ekettip eelâ€" mmaeliM e b e f riei M It is aaid to be nearly six feet inloigth, and must therefon be one of the largeat ipeoi* mc!u of its kind. Those who remsmber tha palmy dava of the old Polytsohnio may r« oolleot a dimnnltive eleotrio eel friuoh nsel to deal oat very dadded diooks to yidtora who had the temerity to touoh it, andwliidi naadtokai, or at any rate to atnn, tiie liva fidi whieh were pat mto its tank for food. The newoomer is altogether a more f ormid* able fellow, and wbmi he has had time tore omit after a Ions voyage from Soath Amer ioa, daring which he was rather omdly ooil* ed in a veasd in whioh he oould not mova without chafing himself raw in many plaoea, it will be aaytmng but wise to ventun on any liberties vrtth him. V Humboldt, when in the native home of this fish in and abont the Bio Colorado, measured some that wero five feet five in* ohes in length, but though the Indians said then wen larger he himself saw none, Tha captive in Regent's Park is no doubt there- fon a very big specimen, and there can be little doubt of its power, Humboldt, thoueht that the Indians of the locality re ferreid to had exaggerated ideas on this sub- ject, but they no oonbt had had practical experience, while tiie illustrious travdler seems lo have prudentiy retained from test- ing the matter except in the case of an eel in a somewhat exhausted condition. He admits that it would be temerity to expose one's self to first shocks of a large and strong- ly irritated gymnotua,and though he does not mention any case within his biowledge of any human life beins lost by a shock from the fish, the mode m^ catching them adopted by the Indians seems to render it by no means incredible that, as some have assertedi this' fish is capable of killing a man. The Indians, it seems, areacoustomed when they want to catch gymnoti, to scour the country round for wud horses and mules, which they drive into the ponds where the fish are known to be, and so violent are the discharges of the pent-up lightning to which these animals are exposed that, though they are not killed 'by electricity, they are so stunned and disabled that usually several of them are drowned. Humboldt once impm dently put both his feet on an electric eel just taken out of the water and, though he does not speak of it as a large one, he says he never experienced from a large Leyden jar a more dreadful discharge than he felt on that occasion. He was affected all day with a violent pa^n in every joint of his body. It seems to be generally agreed that the electric foroe of this fish is dasely depend- ent on its general vitality, and as the new arrival is as yet only in a comparatively poor condition^ perhaps no great lurm would re- sult from bodily contact with it. A Shakespearian Discoverj. Rev. W. D. Macray has recently discovor- ed in the Bodleian Library au old letter from a certain Willian HaU, a Queen's col« lege man, who took his B. A. degree in Oc- tober, 1694,to Edward Thwaites, of Queen's College, a well known Anglo-Saxon scholar, x Themterestof the letter is in the light it throws upon the verses out upon Sukes- peare's tombstone. The portion of the let- tar that refers to Shakeapeare is as followst "Daar Neddy. â€" I verjr greedily embrace this occanon of acquunting you with some- thing which I f oun 1 at Stratf ord-up(m- Avon. That fdaoe I came unto on Thursday nigh^ and the next day went to visit the ashee of the great Shakespeare whioh lye interred in that churoh. The verses which in his Ufe« time, he ordered to be cut upon his tomb«' stone^ for his monument have othen, an these whioh follow: Reaper, for Jesus sake forbear To dig the dust endosed hero; ' Blessed be he that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my boaea. The littie learning these verses contain would be a very strong argument of the want of it in the author, did they not oar^ something in them which stands inneediof a comment There is in this churoh a place which they call the bone house, a repodtory for all bones they dig up, whioh an so numy that they would load a great many waggons. The Poet, beins willmg to preserve his bones unmoved, lja a curse upon him that moves them, and having to do with clarks aud sextonSi for the most part a very igno- rant sor^ of people^ he descends to the mean est of their capacitys, aid disrobes himsdf of that art which none of bis contemporaries wore in greater perfection. Nor has the de« flfgn mist of its effect, for, lest they should not only draw this curse upon themselves but also entail it upon their posterity, they have laid bun full seventeen foot deep, deep enough to secure him. n- J A Hatless Poet. Undue conviviality is said to have com- pelled Swinburne the poet, to retire from the London Arts Club. His laiit freak then was the trying on in succassion of aU the hats, that hung in the hallway. On finding that one would not fit he would throw it down and trample it under foot, exclaiming "No, that isn't minel" until the headgear of (dl the nnsnspidous members indde stnwedthe passage. "If you please, sir," sud the always respectful footman, " what an you looking for?" "My hat 1 my hat!" sud Swinburne, nnsteadi ly. Then came the information "if yon please, sir, I noticed that when you came in you hadn't one on." Never tUk about a child's peouliaritiea be- fon it The greatest eharm of ohildhood ia its forgetfnlntfs of itself, its ntter ignoranoe of the stUe m its own attin and its own mind, its capability of forgetting whether it iaiUorwdlclad. Do not tell it that it is studious, or playful, or pnmd, lest yon make it afftoted and do not let'ithear itaboaaty or its nglineas alladed to, i A wise Qnakereai nsed to say in her mons that there wen tiiree follies of men whioh alwi^ amused bar. The first was thdr dimbmg trees to ahake fmit down, when, if they only waited a littie, it wow[ fall of its own accord the seemid .was, that they dioidd goto war to kill eaeh ottuor, when If they oat waited they would a die naturally, wd the third was that they should ran after woaoien, wUoh, if ttey wmU nofe dok tha wvoMn woold ran after tbsm.