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 ISIttfl Skip nrcaka. .^ i»*r nf the iMt trip of the ship •»• â- *°'^^ th«JeUted by Mi^e Griffii bine tb»t veesel :â€" .1 .hipped j»n^ ^^^ "Inotlo«l the ** Sabine " from pool, I was pacing the It was blowing a west and tiie Sh day out, and about half way ' ,8 the Atlantic. ,k in the mid watch. „lv breeze from the nor 1 was braced sharp np on the star- tack making a good course under /topgallant sails. Of a sudden the Btain came booming up the companion- ff and, grasping my arm, exclaimed in Coarse whisper 'Mr. Griffia, do you believe in ., II "l was so startled that I did not know J answer to make, but the captain Btmued abruptly k, 4 J jiave j ust received a communication L my brother George, who has been id for ten years â€" lost at sea. He has Htten to me that this ship will be lost, th all on board, unless I heed his wam- Written to you ' I exclaimed. 'How 'On my sl'te on the cabin table,' he klied. Come and see.' ' Amazed at the behavior and talk of skipper, I followed him below. Throw- open the state, he said abruptly Bad that 1 ' On the slate were half a bn lines, written in a bold hand. A as I can recollect, they were about tollows :â€" Brothbk You are in great kger. Without warning by the fall of ' glass or any of the usual signa your jel win be struck by a cyclone at 4 lock this morning, and unless prepared Itime you will be wrecked and lost. time is to be lost. Take the canvass the ship at once, and get your light IS and yards on deck. Do not n^lect fwarning of your brother €1£0Rgb. I looked up. The captain was stand- I with one hand on the taUe, and his B, blazing with excitement, were fixed on mine. 'Mr. Griffin,' he said, kmly, 'this is a warning from the world, and must not be disregarded. I on deck at once. Take in the top ant sails, fore and mizzen-top sails I courses, and put a close reef in the ^â- top Bidl. Yon will need all hands. ten that is down, send down the royal is and strike the top-gallant masts.' fl went at once on deck and began to I in sail. When all was snug, and the el, under easy jiail, was tumbling over bken sea, I went down the companion- [into the cabin to look at the glass. ^nd the captain pacing the floor of the 1 with short, hasty steps. He turned bnteted the eabin, and said nVell, Mr. Griffin, is everything made replied that all his orders had been ed and that nothing remained to be I bat to wait for the cyclone. I then on deck till 8 bells, when the second came up with a look of astonishment lis face as he glanced aloft and to rard. I soon put him in possession occurrences of the night, and his luestion was [vV'here is the captain ' )elowud fast asleep,' I replied. received his orders to keep the ^? abe was for half an hour and then lie captain. I went below and threw |f into my bank to wait further de- aeats. At 1 bell the second officer the captain, and in a few moments kd hia footstep as he went through ^bm and passed on deck. He had taken three steps when, with a like ;i wild beast, he yelled to the shed second officer pood heavens, sir What are you [with this ship 1 Are you crazy or Who ordered you to put the this trim V bounded f re m my bunk and on in time to hear the second officer l^e'.ly ia reply |)he ship ia juat as she was at eight (hen I came on deck, and sail was by your own orders given to the fou are a liar 1 ' yelled the Captain, pringing upon the second officer, ^p:d him by the throat and struck ieral heavy blows in the face before ^ble to drag him away, with the as- of the man at the wheel. The I on deck, alarmed by the noise, annm? aft and the captain, shak- naelf free, pulled a brace of revol- tm his iacket pockets and began- right and left, at the same time latiny, by God!' I about ten seconds not a man was pen about the deck. Fortunately Oii been injured. The second I sprang hito one of the quarter |aile I took refuge In the other. ^ors dropped out of sight behind W water-casks. The man at the Ff,^fj«d his post and covered his [â„¢d the mizzen mast. The cap- ited for a moment, listening In- ith lus shooting irons ready, and my surprise turned on his heel pt below. The secoud mate joined men began to crawl out of Is tile oaplain in hja "Tea,iir;ad«epaiid toooper.' "My mind â- eoM^mate and .i 1 !ike iV^- I^aUadtlM them ay plaa went \dow, followed^ tneae offioen. We c^Moed the door i tbe eaptain'a room and entend. He lay on (he oataide of hii awinging cot, with htf ebthes on, and hla heavy bceathins lndi«ted that no light ndae Would awaken him. Rapidly and with aa Uttie notte aa poadble I sewdied hia dothea and the room, removing his revolvera and knife and even hia razor. PoMeiiied of theae weapons, we had little to fear from our insane captain if we watched him. This was soon arranged, the steward and carpenter agreeing to peiform that duty. "The captain did not appear at the table at breakfast or dinner. In taoL all his meala, untU we arrived at the break- water, were taken to hia room by the steward. He took no noon obaervaticma, gave no orders, and did not appear on deck again until the pflot came over the side.^ He then assumed charge of the vesse' but neither by word or act showed any .emembrance of his crazy freak and his subsequent queer conduct. Upon tne arrival of the " Sabine " at Girard point, physicians were sent for from the city, and upon their recommend* ation the captain was tiJcen to Norria* town." Sadden Wliite Hair. When the Emperor Leopold was about to make his grand entry into Vienna, the old sexton of Sk. Joseph's Cathedral was much troubled in hia mind. Upon such occasions it had been his custom to take hia stand on the pinnacle of the tower and wave a flag as the imperial pageant passed by; bat he felt that age had so weakened his nerve that he dared not again attempt the perilous performance. After think- ing the matter over, he came to the con- clusion that he must find a substitute and knowing his pretty daughter had plenty of stalwart suitors, the old fellow publicly announced that the man who could take his place successfully should be his son-in-law. To his intense disgust, the offer was at once accepted by Gabriel Petersheim, his special aversion, and the special favorite of the girl, who saw not with her father's eyes. On the appointed day, Vienna opened its gates to the new- made Emperor but it was evening, or near upon evening, when the young flag- bearer welcomed the procession from St. Joseph's tower. His task performed, Gabriel would have descended from the airy height, but found hid way barred. Two wretched had done the treacherous sexton's bidding, and closed the trap-door of the upper stairway, leaving thn brave youth to choose between precipitating himeslf on the pavement below, or cling- ing the cold night through to the slender spire, with but ten inches of foothold. In the morning, the young girl for whom this awful sacrifice had been made, rushed frantically about the city until rescue could be afforded, and the poor youth was taken from his perilous position ;but when he did descend, his senses were daz- led, his eyes were sunken and d^Wihii cheeks were yellow and wrinkled, his cur- ly locks as white as snow. Gabriel Peter- sheim had won his bride at a fearful cost but marry him she would, and did, and report says he entirely recovered idl but the color of his snow- white hair. KIUICLVm JhUb enjnjMMil arnfovtaoopw in HMMe whtr the f arious hidin^-places about the captain is mad," bc^an the we, whose face was swollen and p. trom the effect of the captain's f «««eHted to his proposition, lb« r "^^'"iltod as to the best loe done the men waited patiently lieoMon. I ordered the second S^k"i^" the ship and I and thmk it out. I then sat itHr^^ »nd tried to puzzle "of this serioua difficult/. At A Characteristic Episode. When Gordon Pasha was taken prisoner by the Abyssinians he completely check- mated King John. The King received Ids prisoner sitting on his throne or whatever piece of furniture did duty for that exalted seat, a chair baing placed for the prisoner considerably lower than the seat on which the King sat. The first thing the Pasha did was to seiza this chair, place it along- side of his Majesty, and sit down on it the next to inform him that he met him as an equal and would only treat him as such. This somewhat disconcerted his sable Majesty, but on recevering himself he said, " Do you know, Gordon Pasha, that I could kill you on the spot if I liked V ' I am perfectly well aware of it, your Majesty," said the Pasha. "Do so at once if it is your Bo} al pleasure. I am ready." This disconcerted the King still more, and he exclaimed, "Wiiatl rei^y to b -killed 1 "• Certainly, 'rep i d bi •P^sha; *I am al trays ready to die, and so for from fearing your putting ma to .death, you would confer a favour on me by so doing, for you would be doing for me that whldi I am precluded by my religions scruples from doing for myself â€" ^you would relieve me from idl the troubles and misfortunes vhich the future may have in store for me. ' Tiiis completely staggered King John, who gasped out in despair, " Then my power has no terrors foryout" " None whatever," was the Pasha's laconic reply. His Majesty, it is needless toadd, inatant- ly collapsed. AA Honest Critic. A work of art may be imperfect and yet so life-like as to compel admiration. A specialist will point out its errors in details, but the poople pause to gaze atit. A French sculptor, who had erected an equestrian statue to Peter the Great at St. Petersburg, waa once lecturing to a class of students. In criticUdng works of art, he called attention to the celebrated equestrian statue of Marcna Aureliua at Rome. He pointed out a great number of an- atomical faults in the figure of the horse, all of which, aa he called the dass to note, were avdded in the hone which he had modeUed. Hia honealif as an artiat forced him, howevair, to ex- daimâ€" ' "Notwlthatanding, this poor baaik is alive, while mine la dead I" It, inthmr driMrrenoe of evemhing per- ^faung tothagarlie tribe. Tliamiano ^ibt thattUa latte^b a moM valuable tuod In a hot oliasat^ «ap«iaUy when eaten raw. I reme^twr reading ia-% book oaUed "Angola and the BivarOon- go," that the aathor never travelled without a anpply of gacUe, whoae beoia- fiaal effscta on the atomach and i^tem were moat marked. "When v«ty much fatigued, ' he saya," I have found nothing to equal a few pieoea of raw garUc, eaten wit^ » ciuat of bread or biaoiit, for pro dneingt a lew minutes after, a delightful aenaaaon of repose, and that Cedimg of the stomach'being ready to receive food generally absent when excesaire empti- neca or exhanation la the case." Very odd contradistiona In regard to this vege- table ariaea for example, Henry of Na- varre had his lips rubbed the moment he was bom with a dove of garlic, a time- honored custom in hia native place. On the other hand, garlic was forbidden by statue of Alonz) the Eleventh to lus Knights of IiaBanda, and Don Quixote cautioned Sancho Panza to beware of the garlic which the King of France had rubbed upon his infant's guma en his en- trance into this world. To the Canadian taste the pronounced flavor of garlic ia unsuppoctable, and the odor of it, while it has been called the "violet of vegetablea," ia anything but a ddectable perfume. Still people have mourned for it; for example, the Hebrews in their wanderings to the promised luid, complaine i to Moses of the want of the leak and the garlic which they Informed him they remembered or, as the poet says, "The Hebrews gave Moses to under- stand that the scent of the onion hung round them still." Nleeties of the English Lancnafle. Without grammar, our language would not be avaiUible at idl. We recently met with thia sentence " If fresh milk does not agree with achild, boil it." Whichf The milk or the child To prevent a stupid, matter of -fact nunc making a mistake and committing murder, we must be tau tological, and write, "If fresh milk doea not i^ree with a child, boil the milk. " Carrying out orders too literally is some- times unpleasant, as a friend of outs once disopvered, when, having told her footman, who waa a modd of ob^ience,. that when Mrs. Brown and her daughter, a grown-up young lady, called, he was to carry them up into the drawing-room. Mrs. Brown's dismay may be im^^ed when upon ask- ing for her hostess, she was caught up by the stalwart attendant and, despite her remonstrances and kicking, carried safdy up stairs and deposited i^f ore his aston- idied mistress. The historian does not relate how the other lady got up. Dav- Idge tells a story of a aomewhat obtuse actor who performed the character of a dumb boy. The stage directions are: ' Enter Hugo, who advances to the king, shakes his head and kneels." To the hor- ror of the stage-manager, and the amuse- ment of the audience, the actor advanced, to the king,caught hbn by his ears shook the king's head vigoroudy, and then sank on his knees before assaulted majesty. Which anecdote, by the way, does not say much for the system of conducting rehear- sals at that particular theater. Tribunal Distinctions Dressing. in Hair- Among the most striking characteristics of the Soudan Artbs is the distinctive fashion of dressing the hair peculiar to each of the great local tribt s, the signifi- cance of wMcb is as important as the ar- rangement of the " head feather" once was among the American Indians. The Ababdeh Arabs, who hold the short cut a- eross the Nubian desert from Abu-Hamed northward to Korosko, twist their hair in- to long spiral curls no thicker than a quill, which, being intertwined with slender skewers of ivory, make the whole head look very much like a monstrous porcupine. The Bishareen, again, wh9 lie a little to the southeast of the Ababdehs, in the de- sert between Abu-Hamed and Suakim, comb the hair of the crown straight up in- to the air to a height of severd inches, while letting the rest hang down on dther nde. The great Kabbabishtribe stretch- ing westward through Kordofan into Dar- fonr vary thia arrangement by gathering the crown hair into an enormous knot, while the dde locks U31 down upon tJie neok to right and left. Their neighbors, the Bag^^arras, actually shave the head d- together and walk bareheaded under the burning sun, confident in the impenetra- ble skulls given tham 1^ nature. A sim- ilar custom prevails among the Yemen Arabe in southwestern Arabia, who shave the fore part of the head while dlowing the Und hair to atand out in one great bush nearly half a foot in hoight. A prominent clergyman ealla the face " the playground of the aoul." Then a book agent's cheek must be a prairie. " Charming girl, that Miss Lucy, Jack. " ** Think ao 1 I never oould bear her. She dwaya treata me aa if I waa an ass, yon know." "Indeed, I didn't know she knew you." Sdetatna mixed np with a little, thick cMaoLia ezedlent for bmns. Kake into a nioe wrft pooltloe, apcaad It 19011 a dotii, and bind It i^oB tiw aeald or bom, and. renew aa oftmiaatt gate dsj. Thia vHI leiiaiye • bom, aaMsl bt^kukHtf, It ahonld b« kapl oa valil «h« CnIs ^•r Gardaar aa the eohuel iiithe triangk died awaj ** It am a petiahvn axin*^ ehib to fafw da leatorahan, of capital panlahmeBtin dia State. Itamevldens dat de dgnaca liadn't read up on our pod- ann. If dar' am one thing we favor above anoder it am hangin' fur murder. ' I has attended exeoushuna, an' I haa aot in dinreh an' heard denymen .utter eiriegiea on mvrderara. â-  when I cum away from de gdlowa I fdt dat the law had been fully vindicated. I felt dat law was a powerful tidng,. an' dat inatice had an arm atroi^r "niiff^to defend de righta of alL I waa awed an' humbled, an' my reverence fur de law war' neber so deep. On de odder lian' I cum away from church feelin' dat a red-handed murderer was sunthin' of a hero. !)â- * preecher fumiahed a dozen excuses fur de murder â€" a doa^n excuses fur sendin' de murderer to prison to wdt fur pardon or escape â€" a doaen reasons why de fiend who chops up a hull famly wld ah ax should have his precious body kept fat at de expense of de State an' his predous soul kept fur a prison chaplain to practice on. llelt de church fedin' dat murder wasn't much of a crime after all, an' had I met de man who frew a dead cat in my well bekase I wouldn't lend him f2 I should have broken his skuff wid a club an' depended on de preacher to cry ober me. "Oar thieves getde same aiverage sen- tences â€" when they happen to get sen- tenced at dlâ€" ras our dnmks an' disor- derlies. Our burglars git about what am due de thieves. Our murderers some- times git de full sentence of a burglar, but when dey do de hull people wonder ober it. Find me de dirtiest trampâ€" de meanest thief-^e toughest burglar, or de fflos' pitiless murderer, an' I will find you a lawyer to take de case for 926 an' do his lebel best to d'ar de crimnal. I will find you men an* women to smile ober dat crimnd's wrongs. I will find you clergymen to stan' up in de pulpit an' inveigh agin' his just punishment. "When ,the pulpit backs de lawyer you kin bet yer last dollar on a verdict of "not guilty.' "I tdl you dat In dis single Stdt of Michigan human life haa become so cheap dat de' record of murden am appallin We hev mo' murders dan either England, France or Germany, wid from twenty to thirty times de populashun. Men teU you dat hangin' doan' Jesa'n de number of murders. Whyl Bekase de pulpit makes a martyr of ebery murderer swung off He am prayed wid an' sung wid an' made Je recipient of soft words and costly bo- qnets. He am made to believe dat Hea- ben's gates yawn to receive him. He am cautioned to die bravely. He am parad- ed on de soaff jld as a man who am gwine to saerifide his life fur some noble cause. "Gin' us lawyers who wUI plead de law »n' de facks â€" ^juries who will decide ao- cordin' to de evidence â€" execushuns pro- perly conducted, an' arter three or hangin's de Stdt of Michigan won't a case of murder once in five years." didn't show up. The Secretary announced that the Hon. James K^ey, porter in the Kda- mazoo House, in the city by that name in this State, had expected to be present and deliver an address, entitled " Does Wealth Increase Happiness V He started in time to walk the distance by easy stages in thirteen days, but had been ar- rested while en route as a suspicious character, and now languished in a county j«l. Givcadam Jones moved that Gov. Alger be patitioned for the gentleman's pardon, but Brother Grardner replied that the Kt. Hon. could probably dig out before the p«rdon reached him, and the matter was laid on the table. WHY NOT? Sometime since Shindig Watkins pre- sented the following resolution **Besolvedf Dat de Committee on Fi- nance be instructed to investigate and re- port on de number of cnlle'd pnssons in dis kentry who am engaged in de bankln' bizness, wid the amount of capital invest- ed in de same " The President so instructed the com- mittee, and at the present meeting the Chairman announced hie readiness to re- port. The committee had pdd out ninety-seven cents for postage, consulted numerous authorities, and had failed to find one single colored man In the bud- ness mentioned. The committee had not been asked to report why this was thus, but being in a liberd mood would ven- ture the information that the reason was due more to lack of finance than any diffi- culty about renting a building and wear- ing a plug hat. NOT UNDXB THAT NAUB Secretaiy Slowtrack, under the cffioid Bed of t^e lodge he repreaented, forward- ed a communication from the " Natuid and Torpedo Chicken Discriminators," of Charleston, W. Va., asking to be in- corporated aa a branch Club. The Rev Penatock at once objected in such a vigorous manner that he broke his vest-strap tirice in two. Chicken 1 chick- en 1 Why was the name of diicl#n d- waya being rung In on the colored popu-. latlonl Suppose that a person could dis- eriminate between an innocent pullet on her roost and a torpedo chicken lurking in ambudi to destroy human life t Did tiiat oonrtitnte atateamanahip f Waa that a certificate of character? Chicken! chiekoi! Slie Fkeddent replied that Ida own per^ attitude on the poulixy qneation well known, and that the lodge oould not be mmim a baaaaii nnder ai^ sneh 9BOOK 'mi vr. *Ha«n'kn."MidthaPk«ident,aathaeMli boxvainboattobepaMd, •*! wmk to a faftuobaarvashuaa. tonabody baiifkipi MQik fla •â- Bohaa Iut6 de oy£Sbwanavax. Da ,..^,„ ,Vv lafan steadily da- far de psat three mdatha. I am gwina tar toiler dat bpx wid bsaf my eyea to-nightk an"de fa^ button drappod interit will be de aignd fur dia flxHr to aettle tliree inches. I doan't as you to rob yourselves, but I want it distinctly underatood dat at least a dozen of us kin detect de diff^^ence between de chink of a hiskd and a quarter." The box was then pasaed in a dow and impresdve manner by Sir Isaac Wdnde and the recdpts counted np over 913~ bdog a dear gain of $7 over the previouB meeting. English Fairs. Th9 provindd fair of England is a sur- vival of an andent religious custom, bt early times, when Englishmen observed sdnta' days, a crowd of worshippera and pilgrims used to assemble within the pre- cincts of a 'Church or abbey during the feativd of a popular sunt. To supj^y the want" of the throng, tents were pitch- ed and stalls for proviuons set up in tlM churchyard. Pedlers and traders found many customers a^mong the worshippers, and In course of time these pious assem- blies became marts of trade and were known as " fairs." Many odd customs aasodated with Eng- lish fairs illustrate the sodd life of Bug- luhmen, cantmies ago. The opraing of the fair in several English towns waa announced by hoisting a large glove in a conspicuous place. When there waa a law that no fair could be held without royd permission, the kmg used to send hia glove to a towii as a token of hia con- sent. In Liverpool, a hand was exhibited in front of the town hall,ten daya befoie and after each fair-day, to signify that no person coming to or going from the fair might be arrested for debt, within tiie town' s precincts. At Pdgnton Fair, Exeter, an immense plum-pudding was drawn through tdu town, by four yoke of oxen, and after- wards distributed to the crowd. Its hi- gredients were four hundred pounds of flour, one hundred and seventy pounds of beef-suet, one hundred and forty pounda of raisins, and two hundred and forty eggs. It was boiled in a brewer' s coppeTj three days and nighta. Milk Diet. MHk' should enter largely into the diet of children. It contains caselne, or flesh- forming matorid, cream and sugar, which are heat produoeia; mineral sdts, for the bony structure, and water as a solvent foe all the other materials necessary in nutri- tion. It should be used with discretion, however, not dn^nk immoderately, but taken dowly as food after the pattern given by nature. Milk as taken is a fluid, but aa soon as it meets th^ acid (^ the four I S*"tric juice, it is changed to a soft, ^Qy curdy, cheese-like substance and then must be digested, and the stomach is over- tasked if too much be taken at once. A large glass of milk swallowed suddenly wfll form In the stomich a lump of dense, cheesy curd, which may even prove fatd to a weak stomach. Under the action of the stomach this cheesy mass will turn aover and oyer like a heavy weight, and ss the gastric juice can only attack its surface, it digests very slowly. But this same milk, taken dowly, or with dry toast, light rolls, or soft, dry porridge, forms a porous lump through which the gastric juice can easily pass, and which breaks up every time the stomich turns it over. Milk should be slightly salted, and'eaten with breadstuffa sipped by the spoonful. Cow's milk produces less heat than the human milk a child would grow thin upon it unless a little sugar were added. Wheat flour has such an excess of heat-producing material as would fat- ton a chUd utdtdy, and should haveoow'a milk added to it to reduce its fattening power. A Tail Bird. The tdlest bird known to ethnologiste was found by Professor Herbert in the lower eocene deposits near Paris, France. It was over twelve feet in height, and could have bitten a man's head off as eiw- ily as a woodpecker can nip a cherry. We cannot be too thankful that this bird has gone out of fashion and experience. Ladies would have wanted to wear it on their hats, and men who sat behind such bon- nets or omamente in the theatres would be unable to see whether a ballet or a prayer meeting were in progress on the ' stage. The Mahdl a Scholar and Theolo* gian. In the last number of Abou Naddara, the Arab newspaper printed in Paris, M. Sanua stetes that he saw the Mahdi in 186 i. The latter was then on his way '^t t^hA fjimAilfi I to Mecca, and attracted universd atten- tion as a' Mussulman devotee. In con- versation he proved himself an aco3m- pilshed Arab scholar and theologian. M. Hanua denies that the Mahdi was ever a slave deder. He is of the ordiikary Arab type, and has not the flat nose of the Soudtmese. A capitd crime â€" well, kissing is about aa good aa any of them, if we admit that kissing ia a crime. An exchange wante to know " What are our young men coming to " Coming to aee our girla, of course. When von think the world cannot get dmg wiuont you, pull a hair from your head and see if it makea yon tddheaded, ** Doea your wife keep a pet " asked BIgilv of Popinjay. ** Well, I goeia she doea, waa the reply. ** She's never out of* pat." Rt.