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 i â- â€¢'^;^^^fr^f:Jj^' ' 1 '-^*r; 7 â- ' 'yrz .- â-  mes tile uOlj,! n the mind that Df. aUetfl,' (the osMp cuntinae to^I-^ 1 caaea of kick v^' atipition, induMt^ ;he he»d, ©old ex*.' leata ariaing fna^ hoduj' foQctioBc.' ;h yet gentle, moi iiititely vegetable, i in p unity mto th« All draggiats. anced as the latest of tie way abaat robably. J Stricti'res y and permanently iu methods. Pun. torma, two three- Disp^'Hsary MedU aiu titreet, Buffitlo, -A 'man's wedding Ise fails, Dr. Sage'a 9. tin prefer a wood ie it pops " uul3t Of it? vcura or more the d, aad fumodahnut 3 lio positive relief â€" lSS cure until Dr. the world bis great bi ru is suflfering now i.sne^o, tor the reme- 'rrN A.Ms Co UN Bx- jjainlfeos and prompt. " N, (J. L'olaon gat.-u. 1:3 make no bones of )il3. fiiatijr.y Remedy. 09t d acjvcred pain hnl!f!.g.i the world (i'd aa speedily and laii.tury action. The :oper:ie3 of Nervil- ing in all cases of I, rrfc'iip i, pains in '.eadacho, lumbago, knd aLimiilatiiig and r ie 3nd at once 1 y sccton. Ormand Poerboro' write: '"t-U of Nerviiine." ;.l ar. the small sum n hny a sample bot- drutrs'oi'e. Large I'ry No.vilJnt, tbe v^erijul pain cure. .:.d .; un cry dealers, jok'jil a game may .3 wrintaa straight S. J ' ' s, Goneral â-  Ills' Cvj of North i-.-r. tiiat the late blifer I ka, P. Q., iiiai:^t;;t a -me days )r §10, Old iu thiit .a that the ruling oiriiiriid i,o him to II' e aci,;;mi dates I" the pco|!f'r- tavor- t!il !;ei-p,~ iJif'.easing • cf eiiii-'tnTic's who .• it ths fM.lence is I; ijcnuine i|iuilities tiu'v have once made. t'.iti;|) t) their full ci!in IS iif it. It is lie rea.-;(nablf!ies3 of ii;i;te. thiir marked til. V will adhere te if that he â- )u- VJV .-an a foot race and i 'nd won. He it vhas pshind â- K "1 Tti^v. M uiihall, Mioh. .; 'â-  d EleCTTO- K'Vtjtnc Appliances :•â-  nifa (ioarg or •- 'eb: i: loss of "^. i:,.ubl.s. Also i„ 'jiarr.lyiii. and C riipl: 'csior- iu -.. aij; C'l:.; fenaraB- e a-- Ihiitv days' i.' t.je:n a,t oAue tor ho i~ar.ty tliis evea- I gUH-ss nou I'm xikih girl will be •-0 wun't -nha said Wily not .^" "Be- vsuuld re there." iToatrac-iii.. â-  i.ruT su^oesathat ^n srlt^no? baa been 'â- - '1 of c::uirrh. -.TJ -Jiaing tr^a past â- ir it- .:- iif.TO been -s.lv- VJQis in noae .3^ â- â€¢aiecaJi'ered ihi P'ii snis pi-eeentiog :• ' rii-'itionor are •'â- "' dicv.-.ea and c " .rord a cure at "-t.iio ML,n that • ie preaoncc Oi li^-ff'9, Mr. DiX" .ivii J their • bci tlie oatarrh j-?r'iif.t;e"acj is nn- .; t lii.-nfonr years '^isf) has ever at- -â-  v.anjier, andno ;.'.i catarrh. Tb» I ?; ^plc aad,can M e.v; it seasan at to* ' jr a speedy ano -rl.y of cases beixtf t^uixei-erj should ect- Ci.aada, andendoej csstarrh.â€" JU»i»**" just be kind en* re and stand • u could kick W* larmer to yoaof ny deah girL â€"to â€" kick hii* n't be nece«MOfy lira, he'll thi«kb» won't wait tobf Wl^e. Mallj •^nxwed tliafe' JR-t^ •M m greater wiet* of i^cdpMBta"^iif the deep tban tli« nro tt iitt«« sluA AM knowntoMismetee; mi ' abondatkt'in all sess, ao r aa ^cj JiaT« been e:^loied. Itianct, howcrer, oar intenti n to enter intntheDatimlbisiOTT of these cetaceans farther Oian msy be nceeseary to nndentand tlicir oubmereial value, l^or do we inttnd to dwell en tbe dacgers which are incidental to* die pnr- sn t of tbe vbalp, cf vbicb it woold be difficult to compile » melancholy catalogue. Terrible sbipwxtcks, veaeels croncbed by the power of tbe ice without a moment's wainicg, others inn into and destroyed by the Si nimal itself pitiful boat -voyages, se prolonged as to cause deaths from ban- ger and thiret ships engulfed amid tbe roar of the tempect, and crews never heard of since the day they sailed these are among tbe incidents which bave from its beginning marked tbe progrees of tbe wbale-fichery tbe mortality connected with m hich has often attracted attention, not only in the icy regions of the Arctic seae, but also in those of the Pacific Ocean, in which, all tbe year round, men parsqe the sperm-whale with unceasing activity, at a risk to life and limb only faintly realized by landsmen. The fortunes of whaling are exceglyedin var ed one ship may capture ten or twelve fish, some veaeels occasionally e^me home clean, while others may e»ch secure 1 rem two to half a dozen. We bave before us seveial records of the financial results of whale- fishing, in which xika profile and losses among Pacific whalers exhibit some strikirg differences. One ^hip, for instance, places at her cre- dit daring her v(ya^e one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars but to the owners of the fleet of whalers fishing from Kew Bedford, United States, in 1858, there accrued a loss of more than a mil- lion dollars. Again, a Scottith whale- ship from Pettihead, in Aberdeenshire, WIS one season fortunate enough to cap- ture ftrty-f our whales, the largt at number ever fishtd by ne vessel. The value of the cargo in oil and bone considerably ex- ceeded ten thousand pounds Stirling. Oae of the largest carg^^s ever landed was brought heme by the steamer "Arc- tic," of Dundee, commanded by Captain Adams, one of the ablest Arcticuavigators. It cous'sted cf the produce of thirty- seven whalei, which, beside oil, included almoEt eighteen tons of whalebone. The only whales cf commerce were at one time the great sperm-whale of south- ern latitudes, and the right or Greenland whnle, both of which are animals of giean- tic size and great power, the latter being -undoubtedly the larger. No British ves- sels tiike part in the sperm-fishery, their operations being confined to the Aroti i regions. Dundee is now the chief whal- ing port, sending out annually sixteen ahijio to Greenland. The Greenland whale, which our British whalemen en- dare such dangers to procure, seldom ex- ceet'is sixty feec in length, and is about half that number ia circumference. An average-size specimen will weigh some seventy tons or more, and forms a mass of matter equal to about two hundred fat oxen. One individual caught by a Scotch whaler was seventy -two feet in length, ;he total weight being reckoned at upward of, one hundred tins. The chief product of the sperm and the r-ght whale, their oil, is cf course comi^on to both animals, and ia obtained by boiling their fat, or b' udder as ths substance is technically called. It is somewhat curious that in both of LceEB whales the head is the portion, size beint^ considered, which is the most val- uable. In the sperm-whale the case, iitua-ed in the head, is filled with a sub- stance which is known as spermaceti, and orings a high price. One of these giants ot the deep will sometimes yield a ton of this valuable substance, which Is found, y^hen the whale is killed, as an oily fluid, that when prepared, gradually concretes into a granulated mass. In the Green- land whale the great prize is the bone with which its head ia furnished, and 'nhich at the present time is quoted as being of the enormous value of two t^ous-ind two hundred and fifty pounds per ton. The price in America ia even higher, the last sales in that country bringing two thousand five hundred poundj. It is only the Greenland fish which yields this valuable commodity. The whale of the Pacific is furnished with teeth but the right whale has in lieu thereof a aeries of plates, or laminae, on the upper jaw, which ate in reality the whalebone of commerce. The uses to which bone is applied vary according to che demands of fashion, so that within the Ust hundred years tbe price has fluctuated exceedingly, and has been quoted from almost a nominal price per ton up to tie sum mentioned. At one period, we are told in an American ac- eount if the fishery, the rates for whale- bone were so low that few whalemen would bring any of it home, their space being of much greater value when packed with oil. Threepence a pound weight was at one time all that' could be ob- tained for it now tbe price of bone is twenty shillings per pound-weight. It maybe explained that tbe yield of bone is as eight or ten pounds to each barrel of oil. A vessel which brings borne one hundred tons of oil will, in all probability, have on board six tons of whalebone. Formerly it was tbe oil which rendered the whaling voyages remnneratiTe, and made or marred the fortune of tbe Ven- tura, but the case is now altered, owing to the enormous prices realized for bone. The head of the aperm-whaie is equal to about a third of its whole aize, and e ease yields spermaceti, wfaich commands a high price but in the case of the Greenlaad wfaide, aa we have shown, only a compan^frdy amall waightof whitehone is contained in the mootlvB of each of th»m butunall as tt b^.l^e qiwntUy nutiaUj iMid by a ahaii of thaoil WhaJMs ««m Oeir wi«ea hard^. not to^aak of the eniRd, is ahR^s caitied on a* a IdJili presanre rate. Madia anythbag bat agree- able. The pnsaoit and c^tore of the whale are aaaalfy very ezettiDg, aooie of these snlmala bdng ^fficnlt to kill, even when tbe boats, after a long chase, oome within sneb a distance of them as admitB of striking with the harpoon. Many are tbe adventurea whidi take place on the occasion of wbale-kflling though meet of the aninutla attacked finally suocnnb. Then begin* tne labor of securing the prize, and converting the products whidh it yicJds into matter beating a commercial value. The dead wbde must be broi^bt either dose to the ship, or the slup must be brought dose to tbe whale, which» in the icy waters of the high Arctic latitudes, involves a great deal of fatigue, tiie animal being sometimes killed at a con- siderable distance from tbe ship. On some occasions a day will elapse before it can be known that the whale will without doubt become tbe prey of those who have found it, and several boats may require to take part in tbe process of kilUng. As many as four boats may at one time be fast as it is called to the same animal, in other words, chey have all aucceeded in planting their harpoons in tbe whale. But toe harpoon, even when shot from a gun into the fish, does not kill it tbe patting of tbe animal to death is accom- plished by means of what are called lanes, instruments which are used after tbe animal baa been harpooned. After that process has been successfully achieved, the labor of capture, which may bave taken from two to ten hours to accomplish, is over- Instances are known where boats bave been fast for upwards of fifty hours before the whale was finally des- patched. The whale is usually dragged to the ship by the boats engaged in its capture. Holes are cut in its tail, and gropes being then attached, the laborious process of towing the gigantic carcass oonunences. Once alongside of tbe ship, the work cf flensing, or cutting-up of the whale ia speedily in operation, all engaged being in a state of ferment, and eager for further work of the same sort The crew may be likened some animals which, having tasted blood, loTjg for more. Tbe operation of removing the bone from the head of the whalpi is first entered upon this is auper- intecded by sn ofiicer known as the spectioneer, and who is responsible for this part of the process. After the bone has been dealt with, the blubber is cut off the body in long strips, which are hauled on boai d by means of a block-and -tackle. It is first cut into large squares, in which condition it Is allowed to remain till the salt water drains out of it, a few hours, or even a day or' two being allowed, ac- cording to the work on hand. The skin is then peeled off, and the mass ot fatty matter ia further dealt with by being chopped into little pieces, which are stowed away in barrels or tanks, to be brought home to the boileries, in order to be, as we may say, distilled into a com- mercial product. When the fish hts yielded up its valuable products the flensed ca^caRs iacnt adrift. Sometimes the pondrous jaw bones are preserved when that is the case they are cut out of the head and lifted on board. The strips of blubber vary in thickness from ten to sixteen inches, or even more, according to the size and fatness of the fish. In general, it averages twelve inches all over the body, the thickest portion being at the neck, where twenty-four inches of blubber are sometimes found. The yield of oil is of course in proportion to the size and condition of the animal, and will run from five to twenty tons. A whale caught many years ago by tbe crew of the "Princess Charlotte, ' of Dundee, yielded thirty-two tons of oil. An examination of some old records of tbe fishery shows fifteen hundred tons of oil to ^e one hundred and thirty-five fish of the Abe ' deen fleet of eleven vessels twelve hundred and forty- three tons to the Peterhead fleet of eleven ships (three vessels had been lost), which captured eighty-eight whales and three thoussuad seals. The ships which go whale-fishing from Scotland to the Arctic regions make an annual voyage, which lasts from five to nine months but sperm-whalers often remain at sea for a period of three years. They boil out their oil as. they cruise about in search-of their prey or when blubber has so accumulated as to warrant the action, tbe ship will put in at some convenient island, where the process of melting the fat can be conveniently car- ried on No recent statistics of sn authentic kind of the seal-fishery have been issued other than those contained in tbe newspapers but from figures before us relating to a period from 1849 to 1859, we find that over one million seals were killed within that time by Scottish sealers alone and the success of individual crews in the kill- ing of these animals, it may be said, comes occasionally within the realms of the marvellous. The oil obbained from the seals is as valuable as that got from the Arctic whales, whilst their skins are also of some commercial importance. It was a happy circuoutance that just aa whale- fishing besan to fall off, gas as an illaminant became common, and although train aani. sperm oils are still used in vuioas inann- factorles, and esiecially in jnte-mflls, e mineral oils whidi have been fottnd in iinch quantity bave donbtleas iNorved many of the pmrposes for ^i^iidi whale-ofl once in ocoatant demand. Dr. Wemng. the Pmdteit of Colont- bta^niveKdtyinWaahiiqj^bin^httdBddte4l to adaai wioMn te- the ment of the inatttettoB. WMW WWI. IS, 18% of B^ nor Saretti'a retort eonfimiingthe tewa ct the BMsaaere of the espeditka led by SgnorBiaDchi: **FnnnMavaja Btanchi and Ills eoaspa^ODa continued their jour- ney into the eoontcy of MohaauDed d'Au- fard'Aoasa. Daring the fixat stage tMj: were soROVBded by Danaktb, bat ftightened them away with a few shots and fireworks. The next meaning seven Danakila appcoacbed, and the travellers told their sude, Mandaita, to aak what they wanted After a long eon vernation the goide tetnmed, saying that the Dsna- kils wanted to make peace and be friends, and deobtred that they were ready to show the travdlers where water was to be found, and to conduct them~ s far as Aseab. Bianchi accepted this offer, and allowed the Danakils go stay in the tent and eat and drink with tdern and bu eompaniona. Bianchi said to them if you are our friends^ I beg you to tell me whether yon know where our friends Oiuletti and his party died." One of the Danakils answered: *We know tbe pbce. It is not far fr^i here and tbe place where we shall c*mp 'to-night.' The patty then left the golema far behind to the right, and, passing tbe volcano, ad- vanced t tbe northwest and camped in tbe evening. Bianchi, Monarl, and Diani, with tbe seven friendly Danakils and the guide, then went to tbe spot where Oiu- letti and bis companions were killed to search for their remains. They found acd took with them a few bones, return- ing to the camp, where they passed a quiet night. In the morning they raisea the camp, and at that moment a quarrel arose between Mandaitnandthe natives, whom Bianchi and bis companions, with tbe help of a servant, managed to separate, and tbe journey was continued. They arrived at evening at a place called Bob- cock, which is still in the region of Mava- ja. There, on tbe summit of an elevation, near a small lake, they camped. Bianchi and his companions ascended to the top- most point, and exclaimed, here is As- sab we are very near I ' and joyfully re turned to the camp. ' 'The Danakils had taken with them a fine white c )W as a present, and this was killed for supper. Afterward the whole party began to talk and laugh, but the travellers were on their guard, and had placed some slaves and an Abyssinian servant outside to watch, while Bianchi'a own faithful ser- vant went to and fro. Towards 2 o'dock in the morning some noise was heard outside the camp. The travellers were taken by surprise. Bianchi bad only time to call his faithful servant, *â-  Ciufa Ciufa V who on entering the tent was the first to be killed. Diana wounded a sav- age in the leg before he himself fell. The guide Mandaitu was only slightly wound- ed with a lance, and on his calling out, ' I am Mandaitu I am Mandaitu ' the chief of the Danakils told his followers to let the man live, as he was one of them. The servants outside the tent shot a na- tive, buc in their torn were all massacred. This occurred about the 7th or 8th of October. In the morning, when the Danakils found that Mandaitu was wounded, they gave him twenty cows and thirty sheep, and carried him into his own country, also called Mandaitu, and only two days' journey from Siket. This," continues Signor Luccardi, "is tbe sad stoiy related by Naretti. It seems to me that Mandaitu, who misled Bianchi and his companions, is the chief traitor. I therefore wrote yesterday to King John, begging him if he wished to please the king of Italy, to try and take 'Mandaitu, ss he was so near Siket, and send him^ Italy at the disposition of the Italian govemmenb." His Big Friend. A crowd gathered on a wharf in San Francisco had an opportunity to see a dog rescue another dog from drowning, and go about his work as intelligently as if had been the trained officer of a hu- mane society. The Alia siftys A small terrier dog fell from the string* er of the wharf into the bay. He swam around for some time in a circle, and many plans were suggested for his rescue, but none of them proved practical. The little creature seemed doomed to a watery grave, for he was fast becoming exhaustMsd The female portion of the audience was much exercised, and gave many expressions of pity. Just at the momen that all hopes of saving the terrier were given up, the bark ef a dcg in the crowd attracted attention, and there appeared upon the stringer in front of the wharf, a large Newfound- land. He saw the little fellow In the water, and with a low wail he ran to and fro along the wharf for a moment or two, and then, to tbe surprise of every one present, he sprang into the water and at ence swam to the terrier. Seizing him by the neck with his teeth, and after swimming about fdr some time, he sighted tbe new sea-wall extension, about a hundred yards distant, for which beheaded. Upon landing his burden on terra Anna, the Newfoundland gave two or liiree sharp barks, and seemed to be proud of what he had done. It was some time before tfab terrier was able to gain ifarength tawailk away. One of the -witnesses of the strange «%hk, gktting 'the Newioandland dog, said, ** This do^ ja mine, and I wrndd not take one tBoapand doUaa for him at thia â- ummnk" Sdaiatheion ofaa aUffittlof and aMaoe fiaona Bng- Bb ia 'fif^-atz yean oM^ ,S^l,.iii: ttfidea net efa^^iuMi IB eqoal to 100 faoahelaof wheat in Simaaa ^43 oipnta pot .Imhail. FiHk ^Ma diffef- eiice It would cost aa maeh to raise and harveat the wlieat aa it, weidd, bring, while the proeeeda of tfie turkey were gain. A two-and-a-half ^ear-old duld wander- ed away from its home -at Moooasin Springs, Utah, a few days ago, iad arter travelling aeveral miles through a deep snow and aleeping uie night in the mud, it was found, forty-siz hours after start* ing, badly friMthitten, bnt in such a con- dition that by good treatment and nonr- iabment it soon recovered. The London Echo says " While our navy is reported to be gone to tbe dogs, and the national industries are supposed to be following the navy, it must fill every wiell-conditioned Briton's heart with de- light and pride to learn from the papers that the repairing and refitting of the royal yacht are just complete. The bill is only £50,000 sterling. A charitable clergyman of Chicago bad a large bundle of half-used clotbiog made np for disposition by a ladies' missionary society, but when the agents of the latter called at the clergyman's house they were given by mistake a bundle prepared for laundryman, and by the time the error was discovered tbe family wash was on Its way many miles toward tbe North- west. A peculiar article produced by the negroes of Georgia is called by them per- simmon bread. Five potinds of it, it is said, will make nearly a barrel of agree- able and non-intoxicating beer. The persimmons are gathered when thorough- ly ripe, the mass is kneaded till it is of the consistency of bread doUeh, made into a cake, and then put into an oven and baked. It will keep all winter, and can be used until late in the spring. Churchill's Medical Directory pats the ntmber of doctors in Great Britain at the end of 1884 at 21,381, as against 19.947 in 18S2. In London tbe increase has been 12 per cent., so that the metropolis now has a doctor to every 880 iohabitants. Bat England turns out very many more doctors than it retains. In 1882 over 1,600 registered practitioners resided abroad, and in 1884 they num- bered over 1,900, an increase of 26 J per cent, in two year Altogether there are now over 25,000 doctors holding Bfitish certificate; There are in existence rather more than forty Egyptian obelisks. Of these Eng- land possesses 7 America, 1 Germany, I 1 France, 2 Italy (including H .mn. which has 12), 17, and Constantinople, 2. The remainder, many of which are fallea or broken, are still in Egypt. The small- est is the Lepsins obeluk in the Koyal Museum at Berlin, which ia two feet one and a half inches high, and weighs 200 pounds the largest, unfinished, of Assouan, still in quarries at Syene, the estimated weight of which is more than 1,600,000 pounds. In the twenty eight large towns of England â€" containing an aggregate of 9,()00 000 of population â€" the death rate for 1884 was 19.3 per 1,000, being 1.4 below the mean rate in the ten years end- ing in 1833. The rates for 1881-2-3 were 18.9, 19.6, and 19 5. The decline has been, according to the Lancet, coincident wijhthe Public Health acts -f 1872, and 1875. From 1840 to 1870 the rate was practically stationary at 22 4 from 1871 to 1875 it declined to 22, and in 1876-80 fell to 20.08-. In the first four years of tbe current decade it ^fell to 19.3, and the death rate in each year was lower than in any of the forty-three previous years. The effect of these reductions is to add cwo years to the life of every male and three and a half to the life of ever 7 female bom in England. The saltpetre beds of Nevada are better situated for the development of their deposits than the nitre region of South America, which is a desert entirely de- void of water and all vegetable life, and where tbe developments can be accom- plished only by surmounting many dicffiuclties the provisions of the miners have to bo transported from long dis- tances the water supply for all purposes is condensed from the ocean water and carried to tbe nitre fields, while fuel has te be procured from the mountains in the Bonth of Chili. In Nevada, we toe told, tbe saltpetre deposits are in the vicinity of a rich farming country, with an abund- ant supply of water and wood close at band, and the nitre can be furnished at prices considerably cheaper than that for which tbe South American article can be obtained. Edmnnd Tates fares less agreeably than did Leigh Hunt, when the latter was imprisoned in 1812-14 for calling the Prince of Wales "An Adonis of 60.^' By bis own taste and the attentions of his friends Hunt's prison cell was trans- form«d into an elegant apartment, adorned with bookeaaes, busts, and flowers luxuries of many kinds were showered upon him, and he was cheered by visits from ainh men aa Byron, Shel- ley, Keats, Mo(«e, Lamb, and ^zlitt. Poor Tates, on the other hand, is to be piit on an allowance of half a pint of wine, or one pint of malt liquor per day visita from fnends must be arranged by the vidting magistratea, and he can reeeive onty one ncwraaper daily' His letters are to be legoUtM by Ihe Govemor'a ctdieu. He is tolahe eiw^ by him- MJU in the firat filaBi adadameanant's gtwmd, to fist I Sopnaoi HaiKhy.aaifi^ IkktHMot .z^Q.s: I'i .// *t- The^Naent ananai nalal la about £130,' OOCjihieh ia*t IcmI SD par cent, leaa ^ian tiiaxTCtMlB "tif Wk yean ago. The "Bake alae eoaaea into the Booghton •"^tef*. »» WoFthanti^ near K«|ttoing, and hd geti a e p i aty In Warwidksbire, near Bogby, -the two b«ng now wocth about £28.000 a year. The Dvke'apiera at Grauton being inXlO.000 a year, hia min rals and qouxica a re worth neatly aa mach^ aiid he owns valaaUe urban properties in Midlothian. The Duke will receive about £600,000 from bisfaither's personal eatate. His income, therefota, win be about £270,000. on which pittance even a Dake can live handaomely. â-  !â-  I â-  I â-  Narrow Escape* Portions ia the service of railroads at certain points in tbe extreme west and southwest, are sometimes filled at the not infrequent peril of the lives of those who have their duties to discharge. A man who recently occupied such a posi- tion tells a thrilling story of one of Ids experiences. He bad never been really in danger but once, and that was at Gra- nada on tbe Santa Fe road, when it was first opened. He says, " I was in the ofiice in the evening, getting ready to close up, when four or five rough, hard- looking men came in. They didn't say much, but seemed to be looking the ground over. We were always on the lookout for such dangerous looking fel- lows, and as tbe machine connected with tbe telegraph was ticking, I pretended that somebody was asking me a question. " I laughed a little, and seizedftherkey I called for the agent at the station where the express stopped for water and ticked off the words " ' Don't stop the express at Granada to-night, whether signidled here or not. Bobbers here.' " The men eyed me sharply, but said nothing. The sounder kept up a merry click, and I leaned back in the chair. They remained at the station for half an hour and then one of them asked me what time the train was due, "♦ Eleven five,' I said. " ' Well, we want it,' one of them re- plied. I told him that I would signal it. " About 10. 30 I got out the red lantern and bghted it. Just as I got it fixed two of the men jumped at ine with revolvers in their hands and said they would, save me the trouble. While one of them cov- ered me with a pistol, the others tied me flat on my back to a settee. 1 couldn't move head or foot. " After they had tied me there I began to think what sort of a scrape I bad got myself in. The train would come present- ly and would go flying by, and than those cut throats would muider me in revenge. I bad hardly thought this over when I heard a ' sharp whistle and a roar. 'Themen lan ou*- to the platform with maikB on and revolvers in hand. One of them had the lantern, which he swung vigorously. In going out on the platform they left the door open, so that I eonld see them distinctly. " I began to hope that the train would atop, for I knew that is contaiued men enough to overpower the robbers, if not taken too much by turprise. " The roar came nearer and nearer, until at last I knew by the sound that the train was not going to stop. With the whistle blowing at full blast and the dust flying in clouds, it swept by like a streak of liarhtning. " My time had fome, I thought. The robbers dropped the lantern and began to swear. Then I could hear them talking, and pretty soon I made up my mind that the train had stopped down the load, and that the robbers were watching it. ** Before long they took to their heels, mounted their horses and Wtsre gone, and when some men came up from the train to the depot, armed with Winchesters, I was tbe only occupant. " They released me, and I told them what had happened. Two of them stay- ed with me, and the train went on. If any express ever came any nearer being robbed than that one, I'd like to know it." ., _^ An Oeean Waif. Every day something turns up to call forth the remark that truth ia stranger than fiction. The London papers are ad- vertising for the coming forward of the pairents or relatives of a child whose nurse was washed off the deck of an English steamer and drowned, leaving scarcely a clue to the identification of her charge. But this ia not so strange a fact as that associated with an adopted daughter of the Hon. F. G. Hay, recently deceased. During a Iif e of strange experiences, Mr. Hay was once a common sailor in the English navy, and at the time of his death was an officer of the British- India Steam Navigation Company. One of the company's steamers was a few miles off Aden. Mr. Hay was in command of the watch about four a. m., when he fancied he noticed a boat adrift and that he heard a faint scream. He at once stopped tbe vessel, lowered a boat and proceeded to search for the castaway. He was rewarded by discovering tbe dead body of a lady and a living child tied together in a boat, which was half full of water. The child he adopted, and she is now in the charge of bis family. Oddly enough, he was never able to discover her birth or parentage, or even the name of tbe vessel on wlddi she had been a pas- senger. ^Riis sounds like a diapter from aarawtional romanee, bat it ia trae, not- withatandiog. Ooont jPahlen, a Boaalan nobleman well known bu Irawliah «M^Bty,whohaa jostled at the age cijm^M^opM irofriihahdzed ^xmmatmsm ting beitt •Prinde'/olHi IdflMinjaaln.; M