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 OSE nilarmacliiiiBi y $25 eadi kmp for. QUI dip, jr three reui kot imJ le will do wiU lon^k •ERATIVI icbineA NAVf RKED RGENUKl 'AL GANAJ)IAI,| ?EBT. ?nd-hand Bloioiai 'cles. Send for List i 3o. stamp for laigNll^ z ever issued iaC Mont Tbe Xigle I Wuher ii tkia •W«shiMM«" â-  Tented Hat •« woman cr^iill years old, witiij the oseoli wu board, can iritli • wash U toIMfi jn one boor. ' \TaiitedaU •wu sda. BtBipl«« mike g(xd ageDta;iKv y afte- trying itj jr" C'tton goofis in SAB s CO.. Patent*!"" aNIO.Caiia4l» ' TOPS •"*!! Market. •'•'J ker. T»keB«r- lUID 6[ n of ttel**ii if h«8f. MJ« "U • to WPPJT â- ^' 1 J onsiie â- d'S^etb?year. w- cptored wWk* „ 1 foot long. 1. a VI ^pnti Bogliah work, by Sophia In • ^^"t D on the cire of infants, jx.Bl«fce» • g3ggJ^,y to inairt. with "'"'^asU np°n the^aleo£"Noal. \;i and no patent medicinea." "'Ari^er in the British MedicalJonmal ^f" if the irfection of cholera ia as T»,*^fJe»d by drinking irat«r aa the "^So's say, the safe way of ayoiding ,t;t'^tkd.:illed water. vpw Hatnpshire woman who d^cd • c.'»e^od property directed by will '•^I' r »ho3ld all be expended in adorning v.nml lot, a::d so a costly marble "nnm n1 and a at .tue brought from Italy tembelli^h a little country graveyard. i sordine to the American NatnraUafc, k hrldhas been fjrmed between the n ?nd the " Darwin" potato, from .T"^nth0-n part of South- America. It f U eved tha^t the new potatc will not Bobject to the rot or other attaoo^s of jiao fungi. "a Busaiin iUuBtrated paper represent I. number of young women seated at a Lwp each examining meat for tnchmie tT la Stated that womea Lmlaed 30,650 carcaaaes. Inieat is a: once destroyed. ACi'ifornia physician make efficient they thus ex- The deseased iTnaiai Medicil Journal that the claims, in the braised ^Wencalyptus leaves, which he had been in the habit of applying to his very bald head for the cure of headache, had brought out a new and abundant crop of hair- Mrs. Ohm, who professes to cast out ievils and perform other feats commonly -egarded aa aaperhuman, resides near luketoD, lad., and is regularly consulted I b» persona who believe themselves under the influence of a malign spirit. She has I been enabled to amass a snug fortune. They are about to rival America in Lon- Idoninthe number and variety of their I drinks. The list for London season in- dodes corpse revivers, flash of lightning, J-a-ba-gaun, flip flap, gin and tansy, black itripe, locomotive, heap of comfort, gin fizz, rattlesnake, ladies' blush, atone fence, I and sherry bluah. A Cincinnati furniture exhibitor at New I Orleans discovered a man from Arkansas whittling a handsome mahogany cabinet' "to see what the wood was like." An otlier, who had fittad up a room with th e finest apecimena cf his arc, was horrified to find an old lady eating her luncheon of fried chicken seated in one of his satin Upholstered chairs. "What's the cheer good for if It ain't to set down Inl" she I remarked. A snake, nine feet long and about seven inches in diameter at the thickest part, vas found on a farm near Starricca Sus quehanna county. Pa., this week helpless I from gorging a young Iamb, and was kill- ed with a fence stake. The reptile ia de- Bcrikad aa having a peculiar fl)t head with I circle of short stiff hair around the neck, brown in color, with bands of red about ita body at intervals of a few inches. A colored clergyman who had been put on trial before a jury In Datien, Ga., for some uffence, waa brought in not guilty, the other day. The defendant said "Read that isjain." "Not guilty," was repeated. With a spring he bounded in- to the air, giving vent to religious ejacu- lations. The colored women, who crowd- ed the court room, set up a hallelujah chorua, in which thepre?cher joined, and the Judge had to sit still and let them have it out. It is eighteen years since Nilsson has been heard on the boards of a- French opera houae. Managers there will not pay the pricea which the ttsra of opera can get in New York and London. They set their faces s gainst the system, and strive more for good average execution than for the glitter and glamor of one part opera. Patti, too, goes elsewhere, and gets in one week half as much as she could earn in the Paris opera In a whole twelve- oonth. A law proposed in Illinois, and favored ny the Trades and Labor Assembly, deals *ith the problem of convict labor. Ita object ia to devise means by which con- ncta can be kept employed without un- aer-gelUng the products of free labor, and '° '^^ucing the wages of the free laborer. ine bUl en*ct8 that the products of prison labor shall not be sold at less than market '•tea that not over ten per cent, of the wnvicta shall be employed on any par- nciriar industry, and that a certain per- centage of the revenue shall be set aaide «tt the support cf the convict's famUy. .v"j' '^ndon Times recently spoke of ^."' houses of the natives on the ?»tch ialanda of Skye and the Western AH) If ""fi'ied, dark, and unhealthy. ion«, 1 t""" in answer writes to that SL.***^«P^8"edhis early years in andu! r^^- P"aitive dwellings or huUi, TanS "I^®"*^^*^^^" al^'Iioaghd'auhty onSbT' "uv ^^^ Inhalation of tha peat K^ ^^'^^ *he atmosphere Is tion ,„,J P'?^°*« ^h« l«ng8 from consump- InpiSfi. • P«a"fcic germ diseases. MoKnf M*'\^^« statement of Dr. linSIi °*."^*°°lie8ter that these High- Pta tl^'^^-S^l^inimaaity f^m to theh;i,!w? ' ^^ ascribed, chiefly, own priaaas nuunifaMitiiiliig Thsrjr havBbeeii made of ;â„¢5 *^,"nk«^doth. wood, iiSrS: w and^goJd-and in fluaat vaiiete of ahape, plain and onamectaL AmonKilM JV^ wera madeof leattw, Dnan •nd wood 8oIdI»i made them oat of ^?^"1*'°'^***^'^**"»»'»»8»- To put off the shoes was anaet of venetation TheAslatioi and Egyptians w^TS^ made out of the bark of the papyros^^ Among the Greeks the shoe gen^^ reaches the mid-leg. like that we no w call boots.' liadies, as a mark of distinction, wore sandalsâ€" a sort of loose shoe some- thing like the modern slipper. The Roman shoes were of two kindsâ€" calceus, which covered the whole foot, and Boela, which covered only the 8(de and was fastened with thongs. Ladles of rank wore white and sometimes red shoes • other women wore black. ' In the ninth and tenth centuries the greatest prince of Europe wore wooden shoes or wooden soles instead fastened wi h leather thongs. In the eleventh centnry the upper pait of the shoe was made of leather and the sole of wood. The Saxons wore shoes, or sooh, with thongs. In the year 1C90, In the reUtn of Wil- liam BufuB, the great dandy Robert was called "the hornet," because he wore shoes with long points, stuffed, tamed ap and twisted like homa. Bhoes of thb kind became fashionable, and the toes continued to increase in length, until in the time of Richard II., in 1390, they had attained such an enor* mous extent ^s to be fastened to the gar- ter by a chain of silver or gold. The clergy declared vehemently against this extravagance but the fasluon continued, even for several centuries. In the year 1463 Parliament passed an act prohibiting shoes with pikesmore than two Inches in length, under penalty to maker and wearer, and those who did not comply were declared excommimicated. Even at a late period shoes were twice the -he length of the foot, or so long as to "prevent them from kneeling in devotion at God's house." Shoes in their present form came into use in the year 1633. Cf TOVGHS -the £ ^v"^^^^*^*" contained there- opiftei wul "â- ^osote' and the tannin, »««««, hui "*°'*» ^oW^6 oiLi and " these .-kf '•"ctous peat beirg rich '"wka thS^"**" ' Morgan farther '*«UTio^i' *°' exemption from attacks •"joy ia '" **•"" Ti;~i.i iâ€" :rfl 18 onl« ^^** *^**® Highlanders him wi ^•*oS hSs *â-  ^^^ '^**' in upw U Mrs. R. Hill, of Lee County, has a chicken which has no feathers on it, being perfectly smooth nearly all over. An Aneola woman set a speckled hen on a dried- apple pie, and in three weeks the hen hatched fourteen nightmares with ribbons on their tails. When a young man nowadays wants to call himself a tough, he simply remarks " I'm a spring chicken." Every one who boardi will readily understand him. Among catfish it is not the mother fish that takes care of the eggs and yoang, but the male or father fish. This only goes to show that even the husband of a catfish may be hen-pecked. Rev. S. C. Leonard has. placed upon our table a curious hen egg. It is about the usual length, with one side flattened the flat part of it is bordered with impres- sions that resemble letters. Lightning struck a hen house in Dli- nols recently, and killed twenty-five set- ting hens. How much money was lost 1 asks an arithmetical exchange. That de- pends upon what spring chickens are worth in Illinois. Mr.R. P. Johnson showed us last Wed- nesday the following articles which were found in a chicken gizzard that waa kill- ed ac the Johnson houae a few day ago Eight brass pins, two half-inch screws and one cartridge cap. The Mother of the Rothschilds. In "Self Help for Women" the follow- ing story is told â€" "A hundred years ago there was a little shop in Frankfort known by the sign of the Red Shield or Eoth-scHildt where a Jew and his wife sold second- hand goods, together with old coins, jew- els, cameos, and pictures, which were eag- erly bought by great people as well as little. The Jew, Meyer Anslem (now celebrated as Meyer Anslem Rothschild), accumu- lated large sums of money in this business and began gradudly investing his earnings by lending to the nobility at high rates of interest. He was appointed foreign banker and financial agent to William Landgrave of Hesse, who, when he was forced to flee from a French ivasion under Napoleon, placed in the Jew's keeping all his treasure, amounting to £260,000. This money Ro'Jisohild in- vested wisely, turning pance into pounds with wonderful quickness, leaving at his death 12,000,000 florins to be divided among his family. For many yeass after his death his widow abode oontentecUy among her people in the Jews' quarter at Frankfort, relieving the distresses of tlie poorest, and sympathising with tlienn in their troubles and struggles, never leaving their miserable surroundings except on the occadons of visiting the gardens of her eldest son, Anselm. Proud: of her husband's repetition, proud of her child- ren's inoreaalngrenoan, the mother ef the Rothschilds is more worthy of remember- anoe than the mother of t he Bonapa rtes. â-  â€" â-  â-  *• Yon ain't a gwine to give ten oenta for that seegar, are you ' "I leUeve I wifl. Sally," he said. *Je8k to bum up I iSd she/ "W«n," said she ;rd loj* rt a dime a long time befwe Id give w i« thirii thing and then born tt riglitstad^ 1^ If I was gwine to be Afool Ta P^ wme ottier waj. A venu m^Wasinwas steel, bnk theiiiyon know, aove^lwl is too highly tempered. :i' lj| " ' It ia asserted wl^in^ Adam h vged Uahed **the pioneer press." This worldls ptetl7 eren. The nbno has spoiled many a good diahwaaher, and «y » good dishwasher has spoiled a piano. *^ M hat relationship does old Sol estab- lish for himself when he beama on a bevy of legal wights He's a sunnin' law, of ooorae. A man in Osceola, Ifieh^, has three oaaghters, all of whom are mutes. He is probably the ehamplon doaab-bell ralaer of the world. Shopkeeper: "Arf pound of tea, mem? Which will you have to-day, mem, black or green?" Female: "Bkck, please: its for a funeral." "Well, my yoimg gentleman, how wruldyou hke your hair cut!" "Oh, like papa's plesse with a little round hole at the top." Snuff-taldng has become fashionable among New York dades, and the average dude is so weak in the legs that when he takes a pinch it brings him to his sneeze. Sheâ€" It is really wonderful to see how well the men keep step. He â€" Bah, that b nothing 1 When I was a aoldierl uaed to keep step better than all the rest put to- gether. The editor who proposed to fill a long- lek want in a new western town accom- plished his purpoae. He filled the first grave in the local cemeteiyi Yes," said Mra. Sprigj^, when ahe read the menu of a recent f aahlonable din- ner, "the man who got ap that there feast must have been an eplcao 1" 'YeB," said Jones, "when my wife gets mad she reminds me of a veaael under way." "How so?" inquired Smith. Because she's got her rancor up. " An old soldier says that although he fought through the war, he never knew what it really meant to "break ranka" until he fell into a basket of bad eggs. "Do you conaider him a man of vera- cii^l" "Heh?" "Iaay,doyoaconsiderhim a man of veracity?" "Well, there's no tellin' what he ndght do if he was mad an' had a gun." The counbryman who traveled a hun- dred miles to see **the invisible girl," re- turned home mad as a hermit because "he got into the room whar she was, and the hanged thing wasn't in sight." The advent of the seventeen-year lo cuat will furnish a new topic for oonversa- this year, but it should be remembered that it is not etiquette to ask a lady how many times ahe remembers the insects. " Well," said an irate WhitehaUer to another, " the only trouble with you ia that you run everything wiUi a big I." 'That'a better than you do," waa the re- ply, " for you run everything with a big owe." 'Bring me quail on toaab, waiter." "Sorry, sir, but we're all out of quaiL" "What " "Yea, air very aorry, air." "That'a atrange." "Yes sir but ainoe the II ar waa made on the Engliah apar- rowa quail naa been very acarce, sir." "1 hope you will be a better boy in the future," aaid his mother. "Yea'm," aob- bed the boy. 'I guesa you will mind your father the next time he apeaka to you?" "Yes'm." "Poor boy," she added, sym- pathetically, "did he tench your heart?" "No'm." The wicked milkman whose lacteal wares deposit their creamy treasures at the bottom of a basin inatead of ab the top may argue that the cream ia too rich and heavy to be borne by the milk, but he shouldn't tell the ate ry too frequent- ly. It is apt to grow as thin as his milk with too much exposure. Two rival country editors while at a political meeting were importuning an old farmer to take their papers. 'Gentle- man, I don't want both," said he. "Well, take mine," rt plied one of the editors. "Mine has twice aa much original matter as his." " That ao Well, P betieve I'U take his. I always want the beat." Jones is very green. He came to the city recently, staying over Sunday. When he returned home he was asked if he went to church wliile he waa away. "No," said he, " I cooldn't find the men's meeting-house. I went into about a dozen diurches, bub as they all appeared to be- women's meetings, of course I wait out immediately. I didn't wish to In- trude upon thek pilvaoy, you know." An Engliih flunkey wibh skin-tight trousers cm, in passing through the street of a village, waa ataredat by a Sootchmao, who seemed to be more thian amused at tjie smallness of his legs. The Eoglish- man, not at all pleased at liim for his pre- sumption, demanded, to know what waa the attraction. "I wis jisb wondetlag' if ye liad ony drawers on f "To be sore I have." "And stooUn's?" "Yes, eer- tidnly." " Whaor's yer legs, thai " A well-known prof easional muLwho hai a Immd new ba^ waa advised fay ficisnds to mb the little one with Ittd and eiuii- phor, as it waa troubled wtUt some eom- pfadnt that treatment was snre to cure. The father went down into ibm kHAmj sot Bcnne lud oat of a pan, and, miztng it widi oamplKV, robbed it all over Hm iMfay'a Ut^hmmnAaa^ ^Next mom- ioK the astkaeleand tiiafe the poor HMe vith ft crail oC eoU f of 41m OsBM ia bablj aeoimd onfy totfiafc of the KOa. We i^ "probably," beeaoae ita oppac •oona and naad-walKBatatt ramain^onex- riorad. WjMB first seen W Staalef aa Loalaba, nmre than ena^Uwosand ftva bandred milea from the aea, it iapnaaed him with ita aspect of a great continental atream. There are affluenta, too, exten- ding on both sides far into the interior, .«nd ^obably capable of at leaat 'partial ^navipition, which aeem, in the peasing glimpses that have been caught of them, aearoely infnior in siaa to the main river.- Untold wealth liea hidden in the prim- eval forests which come down ion either hand of the brink, and in tbe game oonn- triea which in other parts stretch along ita course. It mnstm t, however, be sup- posed that, Uka the MiHOsaippl or the St. Lawrence, it ia open for vesasla from the sea along any considerable portion of its coarse. About one hundred and twenty miles from its mouth are the Yellala Fidis its earliest and greatest rapids. Between these and Stanley Pod, iabove which there ia open water for many hundreds of miles, are numerous rapida, cataracts, or falla, all impeding progreas, moat of them ren- dering it impoBsiUe. In this intervening region, and, inJeed, occasionally else- where, the path of the great river is moat varied. Not onlyis it tortuous, but some- times, it expands for miles, and aeema to be, not a. river, but a vaat islandatrewn lagoor, in which it ia difficult to d ide which shore ia actually the bank oi. the atream itaelf. In other placea it ia nar- row and Impetuoua, aaat Yivi, just below the Yellala Falla, where la aituated Stan- ley'a firat riverine atation. There the current, but five hundred yards wide, is with good reason auppoaed to be ninety fathoms deep, and attaina, during the rainy aeaaon, a apeed of nine milea an hour, â€" a greater depth than the world- famed rapids of Niagara, with an almost equal velocity. It is these physical diffi- cuitiea which conatltute the great hlnder- anoe to a rapid and widespread develop- ment of trade. 'The River Congo," says Stanley, 'has a course of twenty-nine hundred miles, from the Chibals range, south- sonth-east pf Lake Tanganyika, or Banana Point on the south-west coast of Africa. Close to the twelfth parallel of south lat- itude, across eighteen degrees of long- itude, there runa an elevated ridge, of from six thousand to nine thousand feet Ugh, â€" at one part narrowed by a moun- tahi range, at another expanded into a table-land. This ia the dividing line be- tween the Zambeai and Congo baaina. Out of the furrowa, rec^aaes, and f olda of its slopes, issue the s. reams flowing in opposite directions, â€" northward into the Conao, southward into the ZombesL Near the parallel of four degrees north latitude, you must look for the dividing line of the waters of the Bhar el Ghaza and Shari, which flow north, and those which flear southward into the Congo. Draw a line north and aouth about Uie the meridian cf sixteen degreea eaat long- itude, from tour degreea north tj twelve degrees south latitude and a slightly diagonal line from four degreea north to twelve degreea aouth, running from the meridian of ohirty degrees eaat to thirty- two degreea eaat longitude and, within this vaat compact area, you have the ba- sin of the Congo. Ita greateat length is a line drawn from south-east to north-west fourteen hundred miles, by twelve hun- dred, ita greatest breadth. The number of English square milea that this area con- talna ia one million three hundred thou- aand. The Princess of Colonna's OrigiB The atory of the life of Eva Bryanb Mackay, who recently became, by mar- riage with a titled Italian, the Princess of Oolonua, brings to light some atrange things. Tom Jordan, one of those chu- acteriatic '49drs, who, in the days of Miss Mackay'a poverty, mined in Sierra Cjunty, California, and one of the gold- pocket hunters whom Blark Twain ao graphically deacribes, add in a recent in- terviev: "Miaa Hungerford, Miss Maokay's mother, when I firsb knew her, in 1856, waa a very pretty little girl uf only twelve years, who lived at Goiodyear'a Bar with herVidowed father. Major Hunger- ford. He waa a Louiaiana Creole, and spoke French and Spanish fluebtly, as did also the child. Miss Hungerford grew prettier aa ahe became older, and at length became the acknowledged belle of the mining town. Offers of marrii^e from wealthy miners, store- keepers, law- yers, and men of other callinii^ were re- fused, until one day the girl met Dr. Bryant, a daahiog young man of twenty- six, from the neighboring camp of Down- iesville. It was a caae of mutual love at firat sight. In less than a year they were marri^. A year later the doctor diad from blood poiajning, contracted while making an aatopsy in the caae of a young woman said to have been poiaoned. "Meantime Era Bryant was bom. Dr. Bryant, who had followed the West- em way of living, left his yoang wife and child in very stringent dreamstanoes, and a parse rf $700 was aabscribed for tliem, and Mrs. Biyant took up her res- idence St Yirginia City, thenin the hey- day of ita pxoaperi^. Tliere ahe met John W. Mackay, wlio became the wealth- iest of all the bonanza kings. " It'a strange, lan't it, that little Miss Hungerford, who used to trot about bare- footed among the roi^ miners of Good- year'a bar, ia now tiM leadiqg and wealth- iest American lady in Paris, and the iatbariata nod deatttote baby. Era, ia the Pfineaaa of Oolonna And I, a contem- pora^f, -who aaw it dl, andb^dd a thou- aand ptiMci go np on the wfaogs of wedth, am a bua tad mfawr, ddng ont mr Uvdi- hood in tlieai^ brash daNrta of UflHatOIa lea Wkn« fkaa [Omtfe nagKtiiu.M« mitsa TW have beam in the weat that om bard to anbdoe, and ao they have aaed el Btaongmenand woman. A aettler'a wife of thia dam, on tbe vutakirta of dvlla. aUon, overkearlDt herself described m "half human, haif alligator," resented IL end dedared that she bad **fedin'a ;*• Im| ahe was not iKit womanâ€" the atory.tdl« whom the hunter met.' " A New Yorker on a hunting expedftios tn Uie f»r west rode up to a moonf " cabin-and hailed a woman hanging dothes in the front yard. "Good i madam," he odled to her. "What yerlookin' fur? You mast be lost, er sumpin'" she replied. "Thanks, no; I'm a hunter, and I ander* sto there were bear up in this nelghbbv- W *°** ^^^ y°" g*'® ™® "owe pointsr The woman dropped the white garment In her hand, and came down to the feneai. " Hlt^. b'ar yer lookbi'fer, ia lt«" she In. qoued, craning, her thin neck forward fas an eager way. 'Exacbly,^ madam," he answerea straighening up in his atfampa. » i»"Well. atrantrer, yer in the right ndgbboriiood. Thar'a b'ar here in plentT." "Hive you aeen any " "I shed say I hed." '• TeU me where I c»n find a den. I'm looking for a dozan or so. I'm not partlo- nlar as to numbers." "Oh, hain't yer Thet's what my ote man sdd. but he's changed his mln' now, I reckon." "Is he afraid of the brates " "Not now he haint." ' Tell me about it." "WeD yer see one day me an' the ole man seen a b'ar climbin' in the hog-pen, an' he sed he'd put an end to that b'ar with a slub. 1 1 ole him to git a gun, but he aed b'ars wus no great shdces, nc^w. an' he'd eo with %club." "And did he " inquired the hunter, tm the woman atoppe** tdking. 'I reckon he did 1 went in the houae an* dim up to the roof, an' purty aoon 1 heerd a mighty racket out in the pen. After n while itgot powerful atiUoutaide, an'IoUm down tor aee how It come out." "Well inquired the hunter, anxiowlw. "did he get the bear?" "No, he didn't, the b'arwuz dear gone." "And your huaband " "Well the funeral took place next day. Hit'a b'ar yer lookln' fur, is it If stranger, that same b'ar faij 'round hoM yit." Practical Jokinsr. How much patience is needed In dading with the practical joker I Not the one who has more regard for his own rough fun than for the feelings of his neishbcw; ho deserves only contempt, and ia the laat Subject to whom charity ought to be ex* tended. But there ia a klnd'of joker who deserves toleration. If he betray you Into aome ridiculous podtion, itia not done "before folka," and he ia too kind-hearted not to release you from lb apeedily. Isdeed, he is far more likely to hold hlmaelf up to ridicule than to inflict it upon any one elae. There are, then, jokes and jokes, and though practical tricka are never quite In good taste, we may assume that their per petratora are not all ill-bred. Charlea Mathewa was alwaya ranning over with fun. As Sydney Smith said of Macaulay'a learning, "He ran over with it, and stood in tbe slop." Mathews once, in a series of parlor performances, imitated a certain wizard to the life in tricks of conjuring. One evening, the audience found an umbrella suspended in front of the curtain. Mathews directed the special attention of the assembly to this proposed "great trick of the even- ing," and requested each speotetor to keep his eye upon it. -^luirj He drew forth a dish of fish and water from a flat portfolio, and gave many other specimens of his marvellous versatility. After a series of miracles he retired, and the curtain fell. The expectant audience was greatly disappointed. However, the performer puahed aaide the curtein, and a fflu n ap peared "=^ ...^ '**«? "i.. "Ladiea and ^gentlemen,"'aaid he,~"I wiahed you particularly to keep your eye upon thia umbrella. The fact is, I late^ bought it at rather a high figure and as one never knows what may occur, with ae many people about, I thought it best te demand your kind assistance." He then let down the umbrella, Iqr means of a rope and pullev, and oarefully secured it, concluding, "I am redly very much obliged to you. ladies and gentle« men. Gh)od-eveninsi" t- 'M' j^if.t f|{fii;a^ .•iiiefft aiSiij,* A LlTcly Bedroom. One may become accustomed to any thlngl The writer rarely slept aounder than he did when with a numbw of others occupying some bam-Uke buildings, in the roof whereof (to which there was no eefl- ing) snakes disported themselves, and eould be heard and oceadonaUy saeot crawling about tlie beams and rafters. An there waa no ceiling, it waa not a pleasant- thouffht. aa one lay in ted at nighb, that a sndce might fall on one from the to61. Even thia, however, was made a 'joke of by HghtheaHed youngsters, giving rise to nequenit *H)haff ' dnrbig the night aa to wliese bed a snake beacd on tbe roof in%ht be over I In ths darkncwa some one would aajâ€" "1 beers niaket" "YesP another would reply. 'He's just over your bedl" Than prpbaUya practlaal joker wonM tdsl s dij^jptt or otbor Ughb srtlde gsntiyuBtoaogM mie elae, wbe would perinea jasi^mdedMing a snake h I 'rr-ii- *-*tfTiir â- fadiliiii iMkiiM sUght.â€" Ifawr^^r^ *^' -â€" I- I â-  1 y.^y.