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 fj ID 3 â- f #1 I" i-"!:i i m n li'S YOUNG FOLKS. PIVE AND OHB. Ooa dy wme nd newa came to mamma in ft leMer from over the aea. It cam* ore moninff wbea the ohlldrcB were at break- faah ia the nnraery, and mamma waa sitting wiA them, aa the nearly alwaya did ezcapt whea there waa company. She opened the letter, aad lierfaoe grew v«ry white. "Oh I" She gave a little oiy, aad oovered her eyae with her hand for a minnte. Then lAe aM, and her Teioe waa low, and tarembl- ed a good daa "ChlldieD, year Unole George ia dead." The ohDdien all fait sorry, aad their Mght faoes grew aebcr, and they forgot to eat for a moment, bnt X tldak periiapo it waa aomewliat on acoooitt of nuunma'a pale, griared f aoe beoatiae Unole George had CQoe to Germany ^en he waa not mnch more than a bey, and had lived there ever riaoe, and aene of the children had ever aeea him. So he aeemed quite like a atraager to tiiem, and not at all tike Uncle Joe, whom ikvy law every day of their lives, and loved very dearly. Bat they all felt serry for mamma, and Baby May, who conid see that aomelhing waa wrong, but waa not old enongb to un- derstand all about it, left her saucer of oat- meal and cream, and climbed up in mamma's lap, and patted her cheeks and kissed them antil she coaxed out a little smile, that was like a gleam of sunshine for them all. Pretty soon mamma read the rest of fhe letter, and then there waa more aewa for the children. "Your Cousin Carl u coming to us," said mamnu. "Yon know his mother died whc n he was only a laby, and now he is all alone, poor little fellow, and so he ia coming to live with U8." "Oh goody goody 1" cried all the children. "Won't that be nicer Mamma smiled. 'Yon must be very kind to him," she said. "Of course we wfll 1" said Geori^e. "We'd be mean if we didn't. When will he come, mamma V '^Before a great while," mamma answer- ed. Bui it was not until more than a month had gone by that little Carl Kopert came to his new home, and in the meaawhile the ohildrea thensht a great deal about him, aad wondered what he was like. "Of course he'll have bine eyee." said Georgia, whose own were black as coals, ••and yellow hair. All those Germaay fel- lows do, yon know. And I a'poee it's like- ly he'll be real fat and big and stronff, maybe luce that Hans Bergman, But if he goes Georgie doubled up hia fiat without kaow] lag it. Hans Bergman was alwajrs teasing boys smaller than himself, and he was the only ' Germany fallow" Georgie had ever seen. But when he came to see hia Consia Carl •â€"dear mel "Why, he isn't near so big as I ami" thought Master Georgie. ' 'I could hold him with one hand, kick all he's a mind to. And his hair's as black as mine, and his eyes, too, aint he weeny though I And he looks like mamma, only soared half to deatfi, and as if ht'l ieen crying a week, poor little ofaapl' That is about what Greorgle thought, and hia heart went out to tne little Rtianger on the Fpob. So did Jack's asd Meta's andBaby May 'd for that matter, and it wasn't leng befere Carl felt quite at home among them al' almost as if he had known them all his Ufe. "He's real chippai now," said Georgie to Uncle Joe, in oonfldence, "amd I like him tiptop but he doe* tall the greatest yams yon ever saw, Dnole Joa." "How s that r ' asked Undo Joe, begin- ning to leek interested. "What about, Georgie?" "Ob, every thbg 'most," Georgie anawersd. " 'Bout the way folks do over where he used to live. Over there he says, old St. Nicholas comes round on a white aorse long enough before Christmas, aad finds oat who's been geed, and what they want, and all, aad then gives it to 'am when Christmaa oomea. And thay all fill their shoes with staff for the white horse to eat, and put 'em out doers, and sometimaa they find their shoes filled full of oandy. Dan't you b'lieve. Uncle Jee, he says he's seen Sl Nioholaa time 'n' again, Carl does, so he knows it's 10. Now ain'o that a whopper V -0h, I don't know," said Uncle Joe, gravely. "I don't know as 'tis, G^rgie, boy. You've seen Sinta Clans, haven'c yon "Ye-es," admitted Georgie. His owa mind wasn't quite clear even yet abon!; the queer little dumpling of a man^ covered ears to toes with fur, whom he had caught in the very act of filling the stookinga lut year. He hadn't more than half b^eved there was any real, true Santa Clans, you see, and had kept awake behind the sitting- room sofa to find out tor himself. I think I most tell you all about it sometime; I haven't room here, "WdJ, why shonW'b there be a St. Kicholar, then," asked Uncle Joe, "like the one Carl tells about " "I don't know," answered Georgie. But he didn't believe tuere wan, all the same. You could toll by the way hia lips curled at the corners. They curled in exactly the same way a little while afterward when the children were all cuddled around the coiiey nnraery fire. " We're going to do the way C«l says," said Dean. " Pooh and nonsense I" said Gteorgie. •• We an " declared Mets, stoutly 'and put out our shoes withoacs in '«m. so 1" " And I'm going to ask for the best sled in this town,' aftid JaoS. " Yon'.l be likely to get i'" said Georgif, curling his lip more an4 more. "Weil, I will, now," rapUeJ Jack, "'oauso Carl say.-" " Cav'j foot r i3tormpt.d Georgie. " i'on're a gooaey.gump I And Cirl's story-teller. Tnare ian'd auy snoh a thing. " The little German oonsiu'd black eves fi.led with t*ar8. " There was a St. Nicbolaa where I used to lir:, that went; round the way 1 told yon," he said. " Bat maybe there isn't here." " Anyhow wa'il try it," said Meta. "I wonldn'a be ao hatefnl, Georgie Holmes " Tnose tears tooelied Gjorgie'a heact. He did not mean to b« unkind. "WaD, I wok'i." said he, "LVt'j inilay something, noif. Try it if yon wane to 'S3 they wouTd and so they did. When the nfght of the 6 h of D j-s^mbsr came they all, eyeeptisg Giorgie, fil)d their sfaes with oats for the white horse and put them out on the steps, and then they, came and sat down around the fira to wait. "It's so funny 1" gurgled Meta isn't it mamma V "Very fnnnv," smiled mamma. "I hope he'il eome," said Carl, soberly. "But I'm afraid he woa't; it's so far to here." ^^ Then Georgia's lip began to oarl, but before ha ooold weak, there was a olMh of bella eataido, and a thundering rap en the deor. whfdi epeaed itself, and la walkedâ€" St. Kiohelas I He waa very, very toll, with long, white hair, and a beard that covered most of his faoe, and he wore a black gown tliat trailed on the floor, and oarrled a big book under one arm. The children oung around mamma, in delighted terror, hardly dariag to breathe. Even Carl was a little fright- caed. " My dear madam," said St. Nicholas, ia a very low, deeo voice, "have these chiUrea aUbeeagoodt" Mamma just slanced at Georgie. St. Nicholas was looking at him, too. Georgie felt his cheeks grow red, " They have done pretty well," answered mamma. "I think they have all tried to be good." Then St. Nichobui opened hia book aid scribbled away at a great rate for a minute, looking first at one child and then at another, but of tenest at Georgie. Then be asked two or three more queations of mamma, and shook Carl's little, trembling hand and hoped he was well. And then of a sadden, nobody knew just how it happened, the lamp went out, and when is waa lighted again St. Nicholas had gone. " Well, if that aint the greatest 1" said Georgie, as soon as he could find Itis tongue. " He did come I he did come " cried Carl. •? Ob, I'm very glad 1" " Now, lef s look at our shoes," said Jack. Would you believe it? The oats were gone, and the shoes were full of nuts and oaady. "Oh I Oh I Oh I" cried Meta. "Now, don't you wish you'd puti yours out, Georgio Holmes?" Georgie made a wry face. "Maybe I don't." said he. " Lsok here, we forgot to tell him what we wanted, after aU." "So we did 1" said Carl, "but he'll bring it just as well. Here, Georgie, is a share ot mine. He knows, yon see." He mast have known, because Cliristmas brought to them all jast what they most wanted. Bat Georgie hasn't got over being pozzied yet. "it's the funniest thing." he says. "I don't know Iiardly what to think, mamma. Yoa know he waa awlul tall, and Uncle Joe â€" he's awful tall, too. But i'il pue out my shoe next Eve of St. Nicholas, tree as you live." Father dmstmas. It is a question if the children who believe in Santa Clans are happier than those who kniw that lovinc human hands .fill up their Christmas stockings. At all evento, among little people whose hearta are in the right place, it ia n«vw the value of the gifts brought by the holy time, but the tender- ness prompting them which ensures their grat«ial we'come. Stys the celebrated author, George Sand, of her Ciiristmas festi- val I have not forgotten the absolute belief I had in the descent down the chimney of Old Father Christmas, a good old ^an with a snowy beard, who, daring the night, aa the clock struck twelve, was to come and place in my little shoe a present, which I should find upon awaking. Twelve o'clock at night I that mysterious hour unknown to children, and which ia represented to them as the impossible limit to which they can keep awake. What incredible efforta did I not make to resist my tendency to sleep before the apperance of the little man I I felt aazieua yet afn4d to see iiim bat I ooold never keep awake long enough, aad the tollowtag moraing my first aaxiety waa to go aad examiae my shoe ia the fireplace. What emotiea dtdlaot feel at sight of the white paper paroel I for Father Christ- mas waa exceedingly oleaa in his ways, aad never failed to wrap his offerian oaref ally. I used to jump out of bed, aad run fasure- footed to seize my treasure. It was aever a very magnificent afiC*ir, for we were not weiJthy. It used to be a little cake, an orange, or simply a nice rosy apple but nevertheless it seemed so precious to me that I scarcely dared eat it. ' A GEEAT StiEGIOAL PE£T. A Delicateand Dlfflcnlt Cpxat!on Success- folly Performed. Baltimobb, Md., Dae. 10â€" The surgeons at the city hospital have performed an oper- ation which is said to be one of the most remarkable in the annals of surgery. The patient is a German, John F. Bersenbmoh, and he b 14 years of age. His disease is due to the ova of a psonliar kind of wonn which iahabite the dog aad other aaimals. The ova finds its way into the stomach of man in drinking water, thence it ia carried to the liver by the blood veeaels. The egg ia about 160th of an inch ia dlametor, and the parte which develop it are found La the water on tiie ground, aad atlok to the sur- face of vegetables, aad thus it ia possible in eating vegetables uncooked to take these ova into the bod/. The animal from these ova, however, is not developed in man. The eggs oaoe ia the stomach of maa increase at an eaermous rate. From the atomach they are absorbed by the blood ves- sels leading to the liver. Here the ova form cyste, or little bags, around them- selves, like the caterpillar ia ite cocoon. When this cyst is taken into the stomach of the dog It develops into the full-grown hy- datid, which ia on* quarter of an inch in length, with a head oue-sixteenth of an inch furnished with numerous little hooks and suckers. Bersenbrcch was a laborer at the Jesuit college at Woodstock, and liad com- plained of a dull but severe pain ia his right side since last spring. He had wasted away and lost nearly forty pounds of flesh. Pro. Bevan, who diagnosed the case, made an incision in the wall of the right side of the abdomen, jast below the ribs, and about a gallon aad a balf of pus was taken from the man's liver. The method of removing the hydatid cysts is by means of draining the liver, which operation is very modern scr- gical art. The pain of the patient before the operation was intense, the tumor i.i hia right'side bavin;; distended hie liver nearly fifteen inches. The great p»in seemed to leave him shortly alter the operation, and he now appears to be recovering from his terrible disease. Boientifio. Silk thread, says Sanitary News, k soaked in acetate of lead to increase ita weight, and persons who pass it through the mouth in threading needles and tiien bite it off with the teeth have suiSered from lead poisoning. In France if a patient who is under ohlero- form shows any signs of heart failure, those in attendance bold him head downward Idll he is restored. This method is said aever to fail and so oonviaoed are some surgeons of its tffioaoy that they liave operating teblea made in such a fashion that one end can be elevated at a moment's notice, and the pa- tient be practically made to stand oa his hmd for an instant or two. The testimony of Prof. Often, the state geologist of Ohio, given in a nataral gas case at Toledo, is not oaloalated to pall aatural gas very far out of the slump in which it is. Natural gas, he said, ia now a fixed quantity, its mannf aotuie iiaving ceaa ed long ago. Hence the more that is taken out of the earth the less that remains to be taken out. With care and economy the northwestern Oaio field, with the present draft upon it, will last for from five to eight years, i u!) not for ten, he thinks. Three years he gives as the average life of a gas welL An Unexpected Calamity. Fond Hosbandâ€" "My dear, yea know I promised yon a diamond aeoklaoe tliis year Helpful Wifeâ€" ' 'I know yon did,bnt let it ^(oâ€" the water pipea trarst last nignt." TheCanseoffleTGiiet =»* â-  She wept aa^tlte wept and lli* vmI^ As shrsa«4Hlib her head fh a #i£pfe. '^^ *I^JI^-^' lemtamed aal si^pt LL^SSfFw *^^mjaiuimet 1RM simple " rhey said I oeuld make either ride _, V* "y °^««k a most beaatifnul dimple If I out out « piece; and I tried, And It lan'j a dim -Il'j a pimâ€" pie r Isabella, the Vagabond Qneen. It is diffioalt to onderstand why the Span- iards, a proud, sensitive people, should have subniitted so long to a ruler whom they could not respect her good-hearted, hsppy- go- lucky natore seemed to oast a ch^rui over them. Her total lack of reticence appealed to them they could follow so easily all the workings of her mind, whether, with child- ish petulancy, she was reproaching her min- isters with betraying her, or confessing with remorse she had wronged tliem. If her sins wera open so was her repeatanoe. Y ear by year, whea Holy Week came round, this woman, who for the other 51 weeks had been outraging every law, human and divine, kneeled in church for the hour together, and, with loud sobs and groans, proclaimed her sorrow for the past, her resolution to make atonement in the future. Her sub- jecte, seeing her sorrow, sorrowed too, and, when Easter Day arrived, were as oonviaoed as she was that a new era in her life was at hand. The Maundy Thursday ceremony never failed to win for her hearty adherenta. She washed the feet of the beggars with such manifest zeal spoke to them such kindly, loving Words served them with food as if she thought it a privilege to do so, and, at the close of the feast, cleared the table with a dexterity that showed her heart waa in her work. Her splendid robes â€" she slways wore full court dress upon these occasions â€" seemed to enliance the touching humility of her attitude, uid, although the free-think- ing part of the community scoffed at wliat they called the popish mummery of the whole affair, that was hot the feeling with whioh the bulk of the population regarded It. One year, while she was serving at tablr, a diamoad fell from her head-dress on to tlie plato of one of the beggars. A docoa haada were stretohed out to restore the jewel, bnt the Qaeea motloaed to the maa to keep It, remarkiag simply "It has fallen to him by lot." Her generosity was aaboaaded It Is aot her aatore to say "ao" to a beggar; while the oae poiat apoa wliioh she lude a firm itaad agaiaat her Mlaiatora waa laaist- lag apoa her right to exercise mercy, aad the hardest straggle she ever had with them was apropos of a pi^oB graated at the re- quest of Rietori. A queea has maay ohaaoes of dolag little gracious acta, and Isabella never failed to seise each' one as it oame in her way not, however, for the sake of wn- aiag popularity, but simply to follow the bent of her own natore, which, as she show- ed the other day, is stiU unchanged, for she of all Paris was the first to remember that Prado s victim needed help and comfort.â€" [Greatlemen's Magtzlne, Eonse Work in Buenos Ayres. Servtote are unmanageable in Buenos Ayres. General houseworkers are unknown For the smaUest famUy one needs a oook. a hoosemald, aad. Instead of a mald-of-all- work, a boy of any age from ten years, aad I have soMievmi younger on duty La native households. Besides these no waahing can be done at home. There was, I amtofd. at oae time even a law against the dryiagef clothes In one's own paUo or oa the 7«)f. At My ratea hwndross ia an almost Im- possible person to get.aad clothes are given out to the lavandsras, who support Aem- selves by the pursuit of that profSi alone. They wash in the river, whiTb l' "^^^Jl very shallow oa Ite southeia tenâ„¢ Ji."^?'^^ ""«' Ealesareblo^ lag from the sea. leaves on its retiring grei^t pooU of water in the hoUowe of th"*bSSh ^JStrJ**' "" *°»- for^e^oi city, and flat stones are used as board, th- itis not to be wondered at that aU klnhi «? waah goods want fwqaent replaoin«r. The same women who waaa do not^^boaf iJS «P«ed by one self, who nauaUy U thTironor and who reoeivea the pay for the WiloU oaad thb arrangeme^^i^ SLoSLW A^QliBtion oj^labit, ym must be an earlv riur r •Pat. fiSSi^ls^It'" fLT^' ' W^. ehf'^.'ii: -to hfrnt^-^^ti. ^,: ^j^r -*•«» SfiaiTUOUS STAIISTIC3. Prodnctlenor fflae in Tarleas Connlrlosâ€" Ow Ceasamptloa of DUtlUed Spirits. The chief of the government bureau td statistics, in his reoeot report to the secre- tary of the treasury on the production, con- sumption, ete., of spiritaous aad malt liquors and wines, extended his Investiga- tions through a series of twenty years in order to compare the relatloa borne by the liquor laduatriea la she United States to those of Great Britain, Fraaoe, Germany, Denmark, S•*edet^ aad Canada. The following are seme of the laedlag character- istics exbltrfted, so far as relatee to the countries mentioned First, the rapid in- crease of the oeniamptien of malt liquors in the United States second, in the censnmp- tiaa of beer per ca^ta Great Britain stands first, GUrinaaiy seosnd, the United States third, aad Caaada fourth third, Fraaoe is the larmat ooasnmer ef wiae per oapita fourth, Denmark appears to be the largest oonsumer ef spiritoens liquors per oai^ta. From a report by tks United States consul at Marseilles, dated Feb. 27. 1S80, the pro- duotlon of wiae In the priacipal wla^grew- iag oonntries of the world, vinti^e of 1883, is civeo la gallons as fallows Anstraiia, 1 902 024 Austria. 92.459.600 Algeria, 72„ 072 788 Cape Caleay, 4 490.890 France, 793,204.534 jOreece, 46.493.990; Hungary, 184 919,000; Itaiy,798.'i42 489 Portugal, 132 035 000 BoumanU, 18,418.900 Russia, 92.459 500 Sarvla, 52,834.000 Spate. 607.- 591,000; Switowland. 29,058,700; Tnrkey and Cypres, 68,684.200; United Ssates, .32.- OOO.CKK) It may interest prohibitionists to know In detail that dnriog the ^ear ending June 30, 18S8., there were consumed in the United States distillod spirlte as follows, the figures repres^tlng proof gallons Domestic, from fruit, 888 107. Otherâ€" Bourbon whisky, 12 190 013 rye whuky, 5.148 244 alcohol, 10.487,938; mm, 1.114.544; gin, 803 288; hiffhwineo, 1,044,686 pure aentral, eto.. 28,- 289.S7; mtsoellanMus, 14,174.979. Total domestic, 74.201.386 Importedâ€" Alcohol, 153,143; brandy, 437.519; oordiain, etc., 143.780. Otherâ€" From grain, 646,107 from other matoriai, 236 408 Total impoited, 1,643,966. Total spbrita, 75,845.952. ••WOBK DOSE Calenlatloa •'t«icrorcetx ^l ^•»««hnb,,X*^W The physical energy or » I exerted by the humti L.'*«9«si.l conditions is known to bT "*^^! no one has ever taken tU t» SC? forens that force bfi^tl^'gi^ made :Jt heister has now calculation on the "work ^.S^ aineers in aecendbg helAw ^1 physical force frar„Sl?Nri log hi- weight by the h^lJK?'»5{ In the case aeiumed a walalr:"*!^! a height of 7.000 f^il'S pounds or, ta other words. 1 i-,'S**Wl nave to be lifted 1 foot. ' "M»Opjl This is work performed a».i I muscles of the legs bnt, \i^\^ ^| contractions of the muscle of tt?L*^ to be taken into account. It, •*" « late, as is well known, fa^"^," blood collecting in the hSrt^*8 hand. Into the arterie., Z ' "Ju' into the lungs. This b effi't^""' «l vel^ityoflJfeetperseconrwSV senteinthe case of an adi^; » l loot-paunda for easii oontra-j« "i heart. The pubatioog of w S," the average 72 "" KWt... heightP, owing to the addiaonj" their number 18 'ncreascd to m ei^ extent. Aesaming for Cne oalealation, only 100 beats of Zni minute, this would gWo 460 foot roVT «»iou-*, 24,000 foot poni^ds pIrC" 20.000 foos-pcand, for the five fcT' ' pcBsd to be required in asceDdin. k]^ of 7=000 feet. The work --"""a A Good Bo7 It was a bright morning ia early spriag. The iun was shining brightly, and the brids were singing ia the tree tops. In a small old house facing aa alley ia (the large Mty of New York, lived a peer widow and three children. John, 'who was the eldest of the boys, sold papers, while James aad Ned stayed at home with their meth*r. Jeha was net always tnooessfal In selling tia papers, and^thia made lilm very sad. At lut, the time oame when this poor family had no mere feed to eat, and they oame near starving. One meraing whea John was walking along the street selling papers, he saw somsthing drop from a lakdy's pooiket whe was walking ahead ef him. Johnoran and picked It up. It was a purse with a larse sum ;of money in It. Now Jobm was a good bey and knew It would aot Im right to keep the purse al though they were peer aaa in need at home so he ran up to the lady aad asked her if the purse belonged to her. '•Ye« " she said, "I just lost it. Thank yon, my bey. Geme with me, aad I will find you some work twde that will be better than selling papers. Yon were kind te find my pufse tmd net have kept It, as most boys would have dene." Jehnay walked along with the lady until theyreaoheda large building. They went In. John teld the lady his sad story, and she said she weald give him work so that he might tappwt himself aad those at home. The lady then teek him to a roem in the large building. Usee a man was sitting. The lady told Jeha he was her father. He looked to be a very pleasant aod good aiaa, aad aa he waa. The lady thsa told her father the story, aad he said, with a smile ea his faoe,"I wUl give yea week here, my bey, if you wiU oome to me early bt the memusg, taA I will pay yoa a seed soas of meney eaoh month." Thatalsbt Jeha ran heme, very happy, aad told Us mether the oeed aewa. How sorpriaod she was, and hew glad that Jehoay had work 1 The aaxt meralag John veat to work bright aad early aad «" I his many errands for ttw geatlemaa. Johnny earaad eooagh in this way, so they were a maoh more W^famUy. It was aU through Johnay's WiU peace Then, don't BnidettM'B Adylee. EroeUaa* advice dee. "Bob" Burdette, the genial hamerist, (rive la oae of his last magariae a rtiolea. Speaking ef the lower- tog pestiaess ef apito he sayac-" Every time yon are tomptod to say aa angeatle wood, or write aa oakiad line, or say a mean, nngraoioua thing abeat aaybedy, just stop; leek ah«^ twentyflve ye*i'ind SS-STn* ""y"â„¢ ^^^ youthen, and bitter editorials, my bey. Sometimes, «»?«'"*°.'" I^i^^^ »»•• "• ««» 'o-t menprenga.'andl waqtto pulv«laehim I writo a letter or editorial that U to do the 5Sr^ '^^ •e-ething that drive aleep from hb eyes aad from his ^K,ul for six weeks. idont maM the letter, and I print the editorial. I put tiie â- oript away In a drawer. Next day I look at it. ffhe ink i« oeld I read it over and say. 'I den't knew abouttWt' There a good deal ef bladgeen and bowto- kntfejeura^inthat. iSTheWlt ^„ a day l«nger Che aaxt day I read it a«Yin Mybody, aad the world gee. right alon« in^ twentyfeur b.or. iTday iS mmal ?SL J.."" """'••n«lM«Ul tomorrow W ^n^ll SJtH V^^^ »*'•« daUberato. V ^t_ '"â- rs laser, oh i \i^^ pU^ van will you 11 be ama»-d to aee how dearly w. old world leves y«n." GW arfViL^^^ humorist or anySw else. "" Woman and Tobaooc* adTuSr "^•"™«y«' these cigar, for We«aa. "No, I Ktad Charley am.okM. Sball^ gaew they're not the flveforS;'Sn^"^o^i'2» «•* *»«nty- «d Ch«ley^â„¢ X "• "" «»"« J to hi. ttSJ'r "»••»•»• '"7 eoonomioal muEcles in breathing, by theeipaj" cottraotien of the chest, may £» Z matedat4foo-pocnd!. AMumbe ft!*. that the number of breathing! m'l^^ on the average ocly twenty.five lEj as a matter of fact, it will be Im^ higher m a mountain ascent liitimii hours, we have to add further workStJ OOOfoot-pcunds. "°" The total work performed dnriBga»eh( by a mountaLseer constquently smom,! 1.326.0C0 foot-pounds, m thb MtlnukJ not included the physical force ipmtiiB coming the friction on the ground, thea tions to be mode in keeping the body g at dizzy heighte and in drauloghnTyh and f ootirons, nor the loss of nrnicla pn, in cutting steps in the ice, not to tMbi work performed in carrying an ioe m, J the physical force exerted ia croNii; M loose snow. Dr. Buohheitter srriTMitil conclusion that the wetk dene in u l_ of 7,000 feet, lasting five houn, etiiiul placed at less than 1,380 000 foot-poudtl m Tiie Last Ecarlish Hilitai; M Duelling received its death Uov hi land by a fatal encounter wbich took p on the 1st of Jaly, 1843 Two »ioe!i,[ Fawcett and Lieut. Munro, who brothers-in-law, had a quarrel Gtllii| cett was elderly, had been In India, vui of health, and oxceedingly Irritablt bti per. It ceme oat afterward thit he I given his relation the greatest proTi S bill, Lieut. Munro hung back from up to that time, had been regarded uli sole resource of a gentleman, MpsUyj military man. Hs showed giul r ' to challenge Col. Fjiwcetc, sod in only after the impreeslonâ€" miikks^ otherwiseâ€" was given to ths tnnlttda that his regiment expected him to tibit old connc, and that if he didDstdi sij must be aisgraced throngbont thi i that he called out hia brocher-in-la«. ehallenge was accepted the mNtisi I place Col. Fawcett was shot dad, â-  the horrible anomaly presented itwifolti sisters â€" the one rendered a wider bfl hand of her brother-in-lawâ€" and a fisilj^ children clad in mourmng fer thoir i whom their father had slals. Apartj the bloodshed, Lieut Monro wai nWlj the miserable step on which ht bu r thrnst. Public teelhur was ronisa lop against the barbarous practice, br wl buUy had it in his power to risk tbeiii| maa immeasurably his SBperior^aiw* he happened to have a dlsiike. Fnnooi interested himself deeply hi th« Q^ especially as it concerned the army. ' expedients were sugjgested; f"'"^! amendment was inserted into the â- Â»â„¢'*1 War which was founded on the i»" "^^ able, humane, and Christian wm'"**" to offer an apology, or even to "»»•?' tion when wrong had been comniltw.. more becoming the character of u « and gentleman than to ^â„¢*\7f-aJi tive of standing up to killer to bo nw" a hasty word or a rash act A Woman's Absent "One of the worst cases ofabtest ness I ever heard of that was of one lady passengers " " What were the circumstanaef, "She waa a Padncah womw, abM»^J| five years oW, and she hod a hor«"" g her which she had found on the w»y " boat." "Well!" ,n "She brought it along, ahe «»w. finding a horseshoe whilu on a j^, the surest sign of yood lack. 1|« yon snppose she did next morBUK- "Give it up." ...^ -rtH "Searched under hsr W"Z.i false teetb, packed them to ber put the horseshoe in her '^^\^M you, she never discovered her mu ' ^\ nntU she went to the hre»f*« t^^f* there she calked her j *w with Wf ^\ shoe, 'while tryinjr to »?et oway "" steak." [Cincinnati Enquirer. â-  Buffioient Cwdeatia'si Careful Parent '.Bifsre I J^J*^! sent to your proposed roarri«« ,, ft tor, Imuiit knsw EomethwK â-  character." u^. »'l Salter- "Oert»«nly, bit, »^^' i. my bank book " i.ntf)'"' Careful Parent (*fter »,«'»^' her, my son, and be h»p°y Stumped ^^i Frst Little Boy-'My pop" what'd years!" .,. ;â-  is'^l Seoond Little Boy-" J*" " "Theosophist What' th»i • "I don'o know." ,^f Jl " Why don't yon ask vonjn, lo"** "Idid, bnt, from th* *•;« g aea. he doesn't know, oltnw-