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Miss Hammond bit her lip to re- press a smile, but a moment later, "Parlez vous Francais l” she asked g,ravely. The girl nothing embarrassed that her own vocabulary was comprised of the two words, yes and no, returned naively : "Really, now, if you will believe it Miss Hammond, it's so much English I've been sp’aking for the last two or three years, I'm afraid it's little Frinch I have lift but me acclntl but it/s Frinch I am to the very back bone 90’ me I” Miss Hammond did not in the \least intend to engage the girl's services; she might do all very well as far as her duties went, but to takeagirl who con- _ trary to all reason and sense declared herself to be what she was not ! It was simply out of the question. Yet there was something about hee that made the lady reluctant to dismiss her, and it came about, Miss Hammond could never quite tell how, that at length she found herself arranging for the girl to come " trial. "But on one condition, Marie," she stipulated, "and that is that you make no pretense of being French. but are iatisfied to pass for just what you are, a simple Irish girl," Bat now it was injured innocence hat confronted her. “Indade, Miss Miss Hammond talked with her for several minutes; the girl was apparent- j well qualitied for the position of lady's maid, and her recommendations were all that could be desired, but Miss Hammond felt only too coniident that she had been christened Mary, and not Marie, 50, at length, she said '. "What I especially wanted was a French 'maid."--"Yis'm, Oui. I seen that was what you wanted. That's why I Came.” ---"But you are not Fvetrch."-"Not French 1 me f" exclaimed the girl, her blue eyes wide open in amazement. Then, as evidently her feelings were too intense for words, she relapsed into silence. "No, certainly not," the other went on, "you neither look nor speak like the F er,ch,"-"oh I” returned the girl with a light laugh calculated to produce the belief that she Was more amused than politeness would allow her to show, "the lady does Lot recog- nize me Frinch acnint ! Now l"~“No, I certainly do not. I know something of French myseif."--"Oui Tand Marie looked up the picture of innocence. on the paper for. a huly's maid, and I called to see would I suit you." Any illuswn as to her nationality was dis- pelled by this remark, and Miss Ham. mend, who had been felicitating herself that this might be a perfect gem of a maid, felt her spirits sink, but she asked, "Have you any recommenda- tions 1"-v%uhsde, Y's, mu'rn," with a. smile that displayed a dazzling row of tee h. "And your name 1'--'0Iatie Quinn." And, indeed, the girlish iiguce which arose as she entered the room was a pretty one, and the blue suit in which it was clad, becoming and in good taste. Bright, long-lashed, dark blue eyes, glossy black hair, and a compleVion which, for brilliuncy and beauty, quite surpassed Miss Hammond's own, not. withstanding the powders and cosme- tics. Recovering from her momentary surprise the lady said, "I am Miss Ham- mend , you wished to see me I believe." --"Yes'rn, I seen your advertisement Miss Hammond had for the last few weeks, been wanting to obtain the ser- vice ot simaid, and had quite set her heart upon one who was French, and perhaps considering the many and van ied social duties and pleasures devolu ing upon the head of this lady, it was not to be wondered at that she felt the need of reducing to a minimum the time and thought given to her own per- sonal requirements. So, not finding a maid to meet her urup1alified approval otherwise, she had, a day or two since, caused a "Wanied" to he inserted in the columns of one of the daily papers and now she went down stairs hoping to find there that paragon of French) virtues which her fancy had pictured. i Bat when she crossed the threshold and faced the, prl‘son waiting for her she rausedin admiring surprise, not un- mixed with incredulity. "I fear she is much to pretty I" was her first thought, and her second, “I wonder if she is French I" _ injury. "Uh yes," the other retup//d. "Very well, Pauline, say I'll be down in a few moments " And the girl went Miss Hammond sat in her pretty houdoir looking over the morning mail. There were iroitutiov.s lo two teas and a. reception, but the missive which she held in her hand was of a diliirrent, mp ture from these. "Oh, denr:”she sigllHl as she dropped in at; length on the table with the others, "if there were only eight duys in a week I might join this new literary circle ; hut there is already the Browning trub, the whist Club, the mission circle, and the. Sisters of H..- Needy, and, really, I don't krww In w many more, besides the afterm-un 1n physical culture. Nu, positively I must give this up, my head uclws now at the thought of it, and pupa. snys I'm never at home asit is.--Cume in I" This last word was spoken in response to a light, knock at the door which opened a mow- ont later, and u trim, white-capped girl appeared. "If you please," she began, "ther, 's a----" young person wishing to} see you."--'" young person,"veued Miss Hammond doubtfully. ',YesU. She mighL be a lady’s maid, perhaps." This accompanied by a. glance of slight injury. "Uh yes," the other returned. "Very well, Pauline, say Pil be down MESS Hammond's 11m: erS, "11 were were only a. wpel: I might join this help ; but there is already tyulr, the whist club, the and Hm Sisters of the, . H'Iammond,” she began in S Qiii, "ee,, “I can”; see whv ye objecting to me being Frim I was thet ye wanted. Me I n her pretty o' thet, now!" she added naming mail. spirit, and with a flash and two teas and her eyes which, for the firs Ye which she Miss Hammond to believe t different: no- herself appreciated the at '1” shesighed the situation, firmiy as she Ion the table it. "No doubt I shah like P. were only we I as if you were French, ghb join this Raid, smiling. "So long as he last few aim the ser- ite set her Wench, and - -- “05“.“: '"'vy, sure," the girl resumed musingly f“but to think o' me own third cousin get- ting here before me ! Faith, Pat, an' ye come so airly loike, I was thinking was it somebody ilse, an' not yisilf, aa' I stood looking at you an' not daring to spake till I be sure, ye's rigged up so foine. Cut it's the hurry ye are in, . A few moinents the girl stood there motionless, then she opened the door and walked into the room. "Whist now, Pu, an' is it yesilff" shs asked in a gay whisper. The man turned sad. denly, with a muttered impreerstion and flashed the light over Marie's pink cheeks and laughing blue eyes, as she remarked : "Faith I an'if I hadn't been expecting ye, I'd niver been after know- ing ye at all for me own third cousin, whet wid ye nytlrquerturmg up in such foine style; an' it's the wig ye hiv on ( ye head, sure an' ye hair's niver that color, Pat, me toy Y' The man turned back with something very like a sup-) pressed whistle, while the girl whis-j pered on ' "Bat hoo is it that ye are come a good two hours before I looked fur ye l an' me only jist home from the party, an' 'twas jist an iligant toimel intirely. I wish't ye'd been there, Pat. I None o' thim spoons is plated, she ob. served, as the man looked at a pair of heavy tablespoons. "We don't use plated spoons in our family, an' I mind noo ye ain't looked in the little drawer just above there--the's gold spoons 1n there-souvenirs, ye know, an' sich trash. I seen Pauline when she be putting them away, Here's the key-- there noo !" For the man, obedient to her sugges- tion, opened the drawer with the key _ she gave him, and took out two or three l boxes containing the souvenirs. "With, 1 an' I'd hid thim already for ye if I knew ye'd be coming so soon. Hon are p) getting along y'--"rm doin' fine," the 1 men whispered, without stopping to 5 look at her. "Twas an illigant party, i I mum " u”. ~.'_l u. I . . ing-room and kitchen. She made as little noise as possible, for it was no matter it Maggie and Pauline didn't know just what time she came in. But as she stood a moment in the hall-way, she saw a bar of light suddenly fall up- on the floor. It came from the dining- room, the door of which was ajar, and still noiselessly the girl approached the door and applied one eye to the crack. "Heavenly Betsey !" she murmured under her breath, for there in the room was a man who was certainly no mem- [ her of the household. A dark lantern was in his band and this flashed over the various articles of the room, parti- cularly about the table and sideboard, and caused the light Marie had seen. He wore a mask, and seemed to be selecting and packing up the different articles of silverware in a business like manner, bespeaking long isuniiUrity With such a. proceeding. But this was how it happened : Marie had been having an evening out. She was later than usual about return» ing, but as she had a. key to the side door no one need be the wiser for. her littie dissipation ; so, unlocking the door, she entered the hall between din- Insistence in the tace of every indica- tion to the contrary. she continued to declare herself “Friuch to the back- bone." On more than one occasion her mistress caught the ludicrous twinkle in the blue depths of her eyes, and would think that now, most certainly, she was about to acknowledge the fall- acy of her reiterated assertion ; but no, the girl remained true to her tirstptun- ciples. As a whole, Miss Hammond was so well pleased with her maid that for the first few weeks, as she cone'ded to one of her friends, she lived under the constant dread of discovering some glaring fault ; but that died away, and) time moved uneventfully on six months] and then-- and becoming style while buttons strayed from boots, gloves, or other articles, found themselves back in their places again as if by magic, and with one exception, her word, so far as was known, could always he depended up- on. This one subject; was as to her nationality, for, with the most absurd insistence in the face of every indica- tion to the contrary. she continued to declare herself “Friuch to the back- bone." On more than one occuion her; mistress Ganglia the ludicrous twinkle} in the blue denths nf ' urine “m4 TIM awning Mu: w came to take up hernborlu us a Iv..-m‘)er of the Ham- mend household. At the end of a week Miss lLunmnud had decided to keep her; "t the 1nd of a month she wondered how she had ever lived com- fortably without. her. She seemed to possess an intuitive knowledge of her mistress' tastes und requirements, was always a pleasant object to look at, and responded readily and with the utmost, good nature whcnuver called upon. She dressed Miss Hammond’s hair in new one. "1 can’t, be sayhug but that god-mother may have been of Irish scint; but, surn- Miss HnllllllOrI looking up ar'elessly into the lady's fa "sure you wouldn't he blaming a pt Frmch girl for that!" And if t ule 'rmch girl for that I" And Hulda on“)? again in her eyes :. I I . . '.. V d, that on't know now Ming to conned yd ilyto tf , concede as much W, Mn- let came to take up L number of the Ham- 'ld. At the end of a unlumld had decided to mg th lids as her as!) and twinkl the first time, believe that the the absurdity ; bunch when it Me Irish! tl.ink added with more me as 1 an) V ital thing. an the girl if ' the It was glance a poor" I d l, And as for Marie herself it was real- ly quite a wonder that her head was not completely turned, what with her sudden notoriety and the handsome present from Mr. Hammond. But when. ever the Subject was spoken of in her presence she invariably turned it " with some laughing remark. One oc- casion when alone with her mistress the lady referred to her bravery. The old twinkle came into the girl's eyes‘ for a. moment, then with a little laugh she said depreciatingly: 'Bare Miss But of this she was unconscious, for true to her feminine nature, now that I the danger and need of action was over, .Marie had quietly fainted away. The man proved to be an old offender, and l in the account of his capture which ap- l peered in the papers the following day,, Marie was made out quite a heroine. Indeed, she received so much praise from various sources that Pauline and Maggie who at first felt quite proud of having the affair happen where they were living, came at length to declare that, 'the fuss folks made over that girl was enough to disgust a body ! What she did was no. more'n anybody else could have done if they'd thought of it, and dared to !" T he eaptive's next move was to throw himself against the door. ‘Stop that now,' the girl called out sharply, 'or I'd shoot ye as I would a dog with the re- volver here in me hands.' Whether the man believed her or not, this pro- dueed a momentary silence, while Marie, who would have been terrified at the idea of shooting any kind of a dog, laughed softly to herself. Mr. Hammond and Tom, the coacl1man,, came down a few minutes later, and hearingtheirvoices themanin the closet evidently decided that there was little chance of escape, and nothing more was little chance of escape, and nothing more was heard from him till the ar- _ rival of the two police officers who came in response to Maries call by telepnone. Then the door of his prison was opened and as the man was brought to view one officer exclaimed : 'Ah, my fine fellow, We’ve seen you before i.' The man submitted sullenly as the hand- cuffs were fastened upon him, but with a threatening glance now and then at Marie. Tis rather tough to be out- witted by a woman at last,’ one of the officers remarked after hearing some- thing of how it had been brought about ‘ Und a mighty plucky little one she is,' he added with a glance of admiration 1 toward Marie. _ r: Her braziie increased with her earn» S l estness, and she turned as if to go into :lthe dining room again, but the man de- n mined her and in a conciliatory tone " declared, just nhovea whisper: "ru ( only jokin’l Where's the jewelrrl"-- , "That's, me own third cousin, sure. Ye a can he r’Hching it easy, an’ faith, when lye eye lights on thim things ye'll niver be sayin' it was foolin’ ye I was T' Then ’Jthe mm took a step or two forward . and reached up to the shelf "Wav l back , don't ye be r'achin' it !" the girl said. "Deeper in-l must have hid it lwel], sure." I The next moment the door closed, and just as the man with a start placed his hand on the knob, the key turned and he was a prisoner. A few mom- ents later she stood at the telephone, and leaving that run upstairs to Mr. Hammond’s door, “If you please, sir, their's a burglar downstairs, and I've got him in the closet." This she re peated a second time before it was com- prehended ; than hardly more than half awake the man asked: "Who-what -who is it I"-", dunno who tis," the girl answered, "but I've got him l” Then as the situation was btiefly ex- plained, she added '. “If you’ll please to speak to Tom, sir, I'll go down and see that this man doesn’t pick the lock, l I've sent for the police," she concluded as she hurried away to her prisoner. I "Come quick,” she called up stairs, l "he'll be breaking the door down.d ] Hearing her voice the man spoke. "You t better let let me out of this," he grow" l led; "you'll be sorry if you don't, but t if you will," here the voice ,took on a a persuasive accent. "rll give you som'n 1' more'n youll make in a pretty spell." C -'Ye may as well save ye breath,' the T' girl returned; 'ye'll be needing it at ye I' trial !" I it paused a moment und leshwl the lighl' again into the girl’s {Ma "Sure, au' ye'll blind me fur loife, Pat l" she vx- claimed, laughing. "You ain't foolin' me l" the man exclaimed suddenly, grasping the girl's 'lllrr, "T? ynu are ---'u-"Me, fonlin' Jr", Bull l” she, t'H- turned reproachfully , an' after " MI) I done fur ye at me last place! Oli' wid ye, thin, ye nwlenb be having theptw- clry. I'll lmpe it all mesilf, so I will, an' not be d1viden wid ye at ah. Off wid ye. SU r NI waterleo Com ti as spoken of in her nriably turned it of? g remark. One oc- 3 with her mistress to her bravery. The, II hiv to come -n In In turned tow ment und ilashed , back into ti lit. tr 11 tti Li 1552 books on geometry and tronomy were destroyed in England savoring of magic. In Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, are located a l college and grammar school, which can vie with most any of that kind in the world, from where are graduated all the civil officers 'in the land, no one being adequate to hold any public trust without being well, educated. I Persons that can neither read nor write in Iceland are, by law and cus tom, regarded as mental imbeciles. They are not regarded competent to manage any inheritance left him or her, but must remain wards. They are not allowed to marry, as they would be incapable of educating children,, neither are they regarded as bright enough to understand the meaning of} an oath, and hence are not competent witness in court. This law and custom appear somewhat strict, but they have brought about an excellent result, as the most reliable safeguard against H» literacy. ing upon the same, which adds greatly to the hysterical knowledge of the children. During the evening men and women are indust-riously working at clothmaking, the fair sex spinning,the men ending, and the children piling wool, everyone observing a prolouncl silence while the head of the house, or else some one of the older children, reads aloud history or some other in-, structive work, to which all are atten- tive listeners. And before going to bed a portion from some theological work is read, a hymn sung before and after, and closed by prayer. The twilight of the wintertime being about three hours, and the light hacd- ly ever lit until nightfall, that part of the evening is generally spent in tell. ing some interesting historical facts, singing national and patriotic songs, and letting children rehearse something they have been learning, and commenc- ll .lld v - _ 'J T _ ___"_6. “Ice.a.nd is perhaps the best educate ed community on the facts, of the earth throughout the length and breadth of the land; there is nobody who cannot read and write, and the general know- ledge of some of these obscure fisher, man farmers is sometimes wellnigh ap- palling." _ r - __ B"“"'““J at the age of fifteen. And should there happen to be a child that his parents or guardians cannot bring up to the required educational standard, the min.. Ister must take him and educate him. Hence the training and eclumtion of children in that country is entirely in the hands of the parents and the min- ister of the Gospel, the result being, as an American professor who a short‘ time ago visited that. country wpote:-- Iceland is laid out into several ec- clesiasbical wards, and a competent minister appointed to each one, whose duty, among other things, is to visit every home in his respective ward at least once a year, to look after the edu- cation of the children, from the time they begin to learn their a, b, c's, till they are confirmed, which is generally m,r._b,.___,_t.t.tt. .‘. eie I I During the summer season every- body is busy tending stock and hay- ing, but in the, winter educational pure suits are attended to, and chrldren are given three or four lessons every day, Sunday excepted, by either one of the parents, some one of the hired hands or older children, In every hrmscholrl ' there is a library of not less than fifteen volumes, mostly religious and historical works, as also a few scientific ones. There are no schoolbooks in existence, but the children can select any book they wish to take their lessons from. This privilege makes them all the more anxious to road, and this is the chief cause why the Icelanders are green readers. ft is not uncommon in that) country to see the lady of the house whirling the spinning wheel and her daughter of from eight; to ten years sitting by her side and reading aloud a chapter' from the Bible, from history or some other instructive book, and the mother explaining the subject to the child. entirely. A girl in th cannon take a fleece mi in in a 1vcll-fiuing m man's suis, is regarded murrv. 'of children Shall, Hinder the (Iiroutiun inf the parish minister. teach those in (theh. care to read, write and cipher, and instruct, the u in domrsstie science, general history, and especially in the literature of their own country. Fui, Lhermore, every young man must learn to make all common household articles, to do h.ovsesshoeiug and other necessury every-day mechanical work. The girls are taught the art ot cmding and spin- ning wool, and both sexes learn to knit and weave; bus the dressmaking and tailoring are left to the fair sex entirely. A girl in that country who cannon take a fleece of wool and return it; in a 1Tll-httingr woman's drew, or man's suis, is regarded as hardly fit to THE BEST EDUCATED GO MUNITY IN THE WORLD. H TI: My IWS, that mpu Il M den :ducuti ILI S am I Cl nt and as- th as _ EACH PRIVATE CONCERT IN LONDON she was paid twenty-five gnineas ; and she was engaged by Mr.AJfred Bunn for nineteen nights at onehundred and bwet1ty-five pounds per night, payable in advance, Singing at Drury Lane in English opera in 1833, she received eighty thousand francs (£3200?) for forty representations, with two ene- fits, which produced not less than fifty thousand francs (£2000). Two years' later, at the opera in London, she drew night free of expr/rise',' for. a season of four months. This was, however, not nearly his value in an operatic com- pany. At the King's Theatre in 1825, Malibran made her debut, and was im- mediately engaged for the remaining six weeks of the season at five hundred [pounds In 1830 she was. paid in Paris 1075 frames for each operatic representation, though a year before she had received sixty-six pounds from Laporte in London for each perform, i ance. For HER IIEPUTATHyN AS A SINGER it had been better had she refused. In 1828 Lablache drew sixteen hundred pounds, with Iudging and a benefit 1 l'\' ca - ---_e_eV n... my outcast}, she accepted two hundred thousand francs to sing again at St. Petersburg, though for Nov, 23, 1893 was unusally large was Pasta, th, having sung at the King's Theatre in 1816 with her husband, at a joint sal- ary of four hundred pounds the season, was engaged alone in 1820 at JY2200, an amount which was increased the following year to T2365. In 1840, after: a long retirement, from the stage, an instance of her reckless exbrava- gance, it IS stated that the, cost of beer. for her servants for. a single year amounted to one hundred and three pounds. The next singer, taken in chronological order, whose salary nvnn .‘M.‘,...II,7 , h _ FOR HER SERVICES AT ONE FESTIVAL she was paid two thou nd pounds. Her charities, however, wire innume1, able; and it is estimate8 that she earned at least two million francs at one:concert for such purposes alone. As l ,__ “WWW in 1775 offered one hundred 0pounds a night for two songs at the London Pantheon concerts-an immense salary in those days. About thirty years lat- er, Catalani was receiving three thous- and pounds for the season m Portugal; and in 1806 she came to London for a promise of two thousand pounds for the season fro in September 15th to August 1807, with a further sum of one hundred pounds to defray the cost of her journey to London, and one benefit night free of expense. As a fact, however, she drew from the King's Theatre in Haymarket five thousand pounds, including benefits; and her: total profits in Ib07, With concerts and provincial tours, were £16,700. She once received two hundred guineas for singing "Uod Save the King" and "Rule Brittania;" and THAN THE PAY OF A FIELD MARSHAL "Then let your field marshal sing for you," recorted Gabriel“, as Calfarelli had replied under like circumstances That phenomenal soprano, Agujari,\vas in 1775 offered one lmnrlrprl nmmrlc a er previously been paid to guy singer. In 1768, Gabriel”, one of the most beaut- iful of women and magnificent of so- pranos, demanded five thousand dueats salary from Catharine 11. of Russia. The Empress ()hipr-fpr] H,“ ,r TTrqrtCT T.,...,. xvmanors APPEARANCES AT COURT the Prince of Wales gave him "a fine wrought gold snuff-lidx richly set; with diamonds and rubies, in which was en- closed a pair of diamond knee-buckles, as also n purse of one hundred guineas." later' in life he accepted an engage- ment at the Court of Spam ac a salary of fifty thousand francs (about £1979) per annum. Twoyears after qu'nelli left London, the other great singer of the time, Caffkrelli, ap- peared at the King's Theatre, but: did not fulfil the expectations he had raised, thnugh at Venice he received 2385 and a benefit, of £335 for a seas- on of three monthihigher than had I l years later, the g (luring the three don, though his ti hundred it, sensor thousand pounds of his (VLI‘ly days of the last century, the early days of the Italian 1)] this country, Mrs. Cathcriuu l) first lady interpreter in li claimed high salaries at the thr Li11(:u]n's inn Field's. She (In: sidcmhly over six hundred pun; a season; at, one time she was for twenty guineas---high tr' lf0s. Ar, the same cheater,tive fears later, the great singer, F; during the three years he spent dun, though his salary was but hundred " season, earned at le: the Lem-I): da) this country, first lady claimed high J from cathanr/, ii. of Russia, Empress objected that 1t was larg- th th tl H and (cl th yearly; for at hut one tl ID ttd 2 t luv fo th on! fifteen ash five 3mm in mtysix Il'inelli. After one of these periods Deuce Lias found occasion to ' 10gtsllorl "lraig" in Tenness had a quasi conviction that in his generous gauging of the shortage might be noticed wh, liVered the goods, and the weighed on his mind more Lies Blackburn was in his day one of the most successful and notorious moonshiners of southwestern Virginia. Still, Lies was by no means an unprin- cipled man, His contempt for the revenue laws was complemented by a regard for a code of morals, peculiarly his own, that gave him no little worry, for it particularly iaveighed against un- reasonable inebriety. Lies never was drunk without cause, and "any other) reason why" being no reason for a drink to his logical mind he was often sober: for five consecutive days. tl it Cabarrh is positively cured by Sage's Remedy. w "‘ -., "F. It purifies and enriches the blood, rouses every organ into healthful action, and restores strength and vigor. In building up both flesh and strength of pale, puny, serofulous children, or to invigorate and brace up the system after "grippe," pneumonia, fevers, and other prostrating acute diseases, 110th- ing can equal the "Discovery." It's the only guaranteed remedy for every disease caused by a disordered liver or impure blood. Dyspepsia, biliousness, the most stubborn skin, scalp and scrofulous aEeetions, even consumption (or long~scr0fula) in its earlier stages are all cured by it. n _., _rr. , . ' 7 way of selling it. Where every other medicine of its kind only promises,tliis is guaranleed. If it ever fails to ben- efit or cure, you have your money back. as a medicine, is Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. And, because of that, there's something unusual in the [11 it were curious to mention the remuneration received some years ago by Mademoiselle Zelie, of the Theatre Lyriqne ut Paris, while singing at a concert in the Society Islands, in the course of a tour round the world. She was to sing an air from "Norma" and a few other songs, and bargained for a third of the receipts. She found that her share consisted of three pigs, Mven- three turkeys, forty-four chickens, five thousand cocoanuts, and a considerable quantity of bananas, lemons, and or» anges. ARTISTS OF THE VIENNA OPERA. The flovin is just now worth about one shilling and three pence, and Hen. \Vinklelnaun, a tenor who appeared in ‘London in German opera. some years ago is paid twenty-six thousand fhwias (£1625) for a season of nine months. M. Van Dyke gets about twenty-four thousand florins , but he sings only seven months of the year in Aus- tria. Frau Materna, who is soon to retire to be replaced by Frau Klafsky, gets the same amount for the whole year , and Frau Schluger, the dramatic. soprano, receives twenty thousand tlor, ins per annum. The tenors thus get more than the Sopranos. Before leav- ing the subject of singers' salaries, - "-_', .u... innnuuunl‘l _ Patti and Madame -\ll)nni. It is cur- l rent knowledge that the usual ternmof the former are eight. hundred pounds per concert in London, and four hund. red pounds in the provinces; and it was announced the other day tlr>t for. a prospective tour in the h)tates,duving which she is to give about; fryvty-five performances-, Name at, the Chicago Exhibitioa-she will receive£40,500,or nine hundsed pounds per concert, plus all traveling expenses' Madame Patti lately refused an offer of a tour in Brazil at the remuneration of twelve hundred pounds a night. Fairly hand, some salaries are paid also to leading umphant career. During n, touy oi two yearns through the States, com- menced in 1850, she made twenty thousand pounds, gaining a husband as well. These. pecuniary traditions are adequately preserved by at LEAST Two 1utEs'rlNTsuDsty SINGERS, to whom a hundred or two for n. con- cert is an ordinary sum-Madame stage. Jenny Lil enormous sums in umphant career. sta tive povert and left be fortunes, ev at (h H 11d M Ill Lhirt , flu] Soulelhlng Unusual. Llizin Lersburg rn mm, who both verty, Rubiui t behind him I li cs, " n h ll Undismayetl Ill Me periods of 'absti» )ccasion to smuggle a in Tennessee. Lias 'l12t'rt he other day thnt for r in the States, during give about fryvty-fire mm at, the Chicago will veeeivehu(),500,iw Niacin spite of of the barrel a ed when he de- l the suspicion more than the tl Ill tl Lml pourrcis m F? Mario and d in compara- vd large sunw, of the largest 1 the operatic natumily paid muse of her tri- mgruu,r drama hi, -Madame It is cur- Dr tl' llt Used according to direction, it does awny with all the old-fashioned drudgery of wall day. Try it; you won't be disappointed. t9TmTaamp SOAP has been in use In Windsor Castle tor the past 3 years, and tta manufacturers have been spacial” sunnintnd This world-renowned Soap stands at the psp ot all Laundry and Household Soap. both torquality and extant of stuas, The man who impovetishes his farm steals from his own pocket. I Paris, Nov. 0.-The, sulreommitl of the committee on organization oft \Vorld’s Exposition to be held in thi city in 1000 has unanimously approved the project to hold the exposition on the Champ de Mars, with the addition of the grounds of the Quai d'Orsay, the Esplanade des Inval- ides, the Quai de la Conference, the Cours la Reine and the Palais de l’In- dustrie. This w1ll placetlle exposition on both sides of Seine. The grounds of the Palace of the Trocadero are con- nected with the Champ ole Mars by the Font d'Jena. A large bridge will be, constructed across the Quai d'Orsay in front of the Esplanade des Invali, des, connecting with the Quai de la Conferente, the Cours la Reine and the Palais de la ITndustrie. The various side shows given in connection with the exposition will be at Vincennes, on the outskirts of Paris. "Chaw away old man," said uv',, "rzejust as well prepared fo' you as though you’d given me six months" notice.-Harper's Magazine. _A Around High Knob there is only one thing thicker than huclrlebetwies and moonshiners-it is rattlesnakes. Con, sequently Lias wakeued by n. sharp pain in his right great toe was not at tdlsurprise to see an immense rattler- wriggling away. Lias sat up. A great contented smile spread over his face.. He drew the "kaie/' a little nearer, pub out his left foot and sllook it at the. retreating snake. "kaiy," on his shoulder. When he reached the part of the mountain trail culled High Knob, the greatest eleva. tion thereulmuls, he felt so worn out by worry and fatigue that he decided to rest awhile. The hmuty of the night brought comfort to Ling soul and the. snftrwss: of the turf to Ins hare feet. He threw dcwn tha “kaig,” stretched Mar self On the grass and shut his eyes fen "fo'cy winks." No other smoking tobacco seems to have supplied the universal demand for a cool, mild, sweet smoke like the it OLD CHUM." The name is now a household word and the familiar package has ber. come a memberofthe family. Old gum: " Gold than. soumns mo TBM QUEEN The World's Fair in CUT' Specie-11y appointed I900. l