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Itia hegiaehlonablzequariemi the city, and ten years ago its occupants were three maiden sisters named Trowbridge Eliza- beth, aged 43 ; Anne, aged 40, and Nora, a half-witted woman of 25. They lived modestly, dressed well and had some pro- perty. On the evening of July 21st, 187$), a policeman was summoned to the house. He turned the slide in his lantern and led the way to the second floor, where, hang- ing in the archway of the folding- doors, they saw the bodies of the oldest sisters, each suspended from a hook that had been screwed into the wood- work. Within a week a sign “ For Rent” was put up on the house, but renters passed by on the opposite side of the street and pointed out where the tragedy took place. Soon strange stories began to circulate about the neighborhood. Servant girls going to early mass asserted that they saw the ghosts of the “ old maids” moving through the deserted rooms. while some insisted that they heard shrieks and means. People of intelligence laughed at the idea of spooks, yet, in spite of the fact that the house had been put in thorough repair, it remained without a tenant for several years. Finally a family from the East who had heard none of these stories moved in. Within a week they were occupying another house, and the sign “ For Rent” was again put up. Their domestic said that every morning the furniture would be arranged diflerently from the way it was the night before, while after midnight the sound of feet was plainly heard pattering around in the hallway and on the stairs. Since then several tenants have lived there, but only for a short time. They all laughed in a half-hearted way at the idea of the house being haunted, but never- theless they could not be induced to stay. Weird Tales of Ghosts Have Frightened Tenants for lVIany Years. A Chicago despatoh says : A curious example of how the popular superstition that a house is haunted ruins the name of the property is shown by the destruction of the handsome two-story brick house at No. 126 Langley avenue. This residence is in perfect repair, and were it not for the fact that it is known as a. haunted house the workmen would have no reason for disturb- ing it. But the weird tales of What the spooks do there in the midnight hours have frightened all tenants away, and the house has been an unprofitable property ever since the ghosts moved in. The double suicide of years ago and the stories of the revels of the spooks have cost the owner many thousand dollars. He is now tearing the house down and will have it; rebuilt from the very foundation. He Tackles a Burglar and Gets the Best of Him. A Minneapolis telegram says : Early Thursday morning a Minneapolis preacher had the physical courage to tackle and the strength to conquer a would~be burglar. Wednesday night the Rev. W. '1‘. Chase, of 1,413 HarmOn place, retired at peace and harmony with all the world. About 4 30 Thursday morning he was aroused by a premonition of danger. He opened his eyes and was startled by seeing a strange man leaning over him. His first thought was that of a burglar after something. and he determined to prevent him. Springing up he grasped the fellow with both hands, and then began a rough-aud-tumble fight. It was first preacher, then burglar on top. At last Dr. Chase got the fellow to the top of the stairs, and then, using all his strength, he hurled him head first down the steps. The fellow landed in a heap at the bottom, but gathered himself up before Mr. Chase could reach him and ran to a side window, rolled out, and started on a run for the park. Mrs. Chase heard the noise and rushed out from her room just in time to see the wrestling match. “Let him go, father I Let him go I” said she ; but her husband hung on and proved that he could handle a terrestrial devil as well as a spiritual one. Hei‘bertâ€"You’re right, ’cause I know I had to argue with him a whole week before he fitopged signing. _ Charlieâ€"Did you ever see such a fellow to argue as Brown? I argued with him a. yhole hour yesterday, but he wouldn't give m. The assault took plaza when the wind was blowing very hard and just as a heavy thunder shower was coming on from the northwest. The vivid flashes of lightning revealed the man’s features and dress. Miss Clapp thinks he was between 25 and 30 years of age, of medium height and of a powerful frame. His eyes looked like those of a madman as she caught glimpses of them by the lightning flashes. He wore dark clothes and a. derby hat. Every effort has been made to-day by the police to find some trace of him, but all efforts have thus far failed. Chairfieâ€"Wulnat E fool a. fellow is to argue so much. Herbertâ€"Yesâ€"a. perfect idiot. Miss Clapp now shouted “ Stop thief l” and he returned to her and choked her till she came near fainting. Her situation was now very delperate, and she struggled hard with the villain, who had succeeded. in throwing her upon the ground. The struggle lasted for some time. The man continued to curse, and as no one approached he grew bolder. Miss Clapp found that she would soon become exhausted, and she summoned all her strength, and as be relaxed his hand from her throat she shcuted as loud as she could and the villain ran away. 5Miss Clapp feared he would again attack her, and she ran as fast as her weak condition would allow her, and reached Lawyer E. M. Wood’s residence, about twenty rods away on Gold avenue, in a, very exhausted state. There were wicked marks on her throat, tut no other serious injury had I een done er. - Poor Rule That Didn’t Work Both Ways A Young Lady's Fearful Struggle and Narrow Escape. A Pittsfield, Mass, despatch says: Miss Gertrude Clapp, a young and wealthy so- ciety lady who lives in this city, was bru- tally assaulted and robbed by some unknown man on Gold avenue last night at about half-past 9 o’clock. She was walkng alone from Mrs. Allen’s, on Pomeroy ave- nue, to Mrs. Hubbard’s, on Gold avenue, a _ distance of perhaps a quarter of a mile. When she reached a dark place where the electric light is almost shut out by the thick foliage of shade trees a man leaped over the hedge directly in front of her and in a hoarse voice demanded her money. Miss Clapp is a very muscular young lady and not easily frightened. She refused to give him her pocketbook, but he stepped up to her and took her roughly by the arms and told her he must have her money. She gave him a blow over the head with her umbrella. which he snatched away from her and grasped her by the hair. She then struck him a vigorous blow in the face with a large glass smelling bottle. This made the scoundrel very angry, and with a terrible oath he told her to give up her money or he would murder her on the Ipot. He had pulled much of her hair out by this time and struck a blow in her face. She called for help and the man caught her by the throat and threw her to the ground, holding on to her throat tightly and demanding her money. In her des- peration she handed him her pocket-book, which contained about $20 in bills and some gold pieces, in all about $30. The desperado now relinquished his hold of her throat, and having possession of her pocket- book started away a few steps. CHICAGO’S HAUNTED HOUSE. BATTLING WITH A HIGHWAYMAN. A PLUCKY PREACH ER. Scotch 1'esi(lents of London are said_ to contemplate the establishment of a. club in that; cityâ€"1.0 be called the “ Thistle.” The agricultural area. of Ayrshire is 317,000 acres. It occupies third place in Scotland, Aberdeen having 013,000 and Perth 348,000. The total acreage in Scot- land is 4,861,000. The death is announcefl of Mr. James Anderson, Q.C., London, in his 85th year. Mr. Anderson unsuccessfully contested Falkirk in the Liberal interest in 1852 and Ayr Burghs in 18138. Mr. J. W. Malcolm, jun., of Poltalloch. Ml’. for Argyllshire, is at present suffering from illâ€"health, and has been ordered by his medical advisers to take the baths an Marienbad, in Bohemia. Rev. James Overend,rector of St. James’ Episcopal School, Edinburgh, died sud- denly recently from the bursting of a blood vessel while engaged in the work of the school. Dr. James Murray McCulloch, Dumfries, whofor a long period was recognized as the leading physician in the south of Scotland, died on June 25th within a. fortnight of the completionot' his 84th year. The deceased gentlemun belonged to Creetown, in the abewarbry of Kirkcudbright. A beautiful windowhas just been erected over the altar in St. Nininn’s Church, in memory of Captain J. S. Crawfurd Stir- ling Stuart, of Castlemilk and Milton, by his children. The negotiations between the Edinburgh and Leith Corporations and LheEdinburgh A: Leinh Gas Uompany, with reference to the acquisition of the ,l‘ldinburgh and Leith gas concern, have now been amicably com- ple‘uud. The gas shareholders are to get an annuity of 9% per cent. and £11,000 in cash â€"-the iormer being qual to a payment of £14,000 a year. Mr. Colin M. Langmuir, General Man- ager of the City of Melbourne Bank, has been elected President of the Victorian In- stitute of Bankers. Mr. Langmuir, who' is a. native of Aberdeen, received his early training as a banker in the Union Bank of Scotland. He joined the City of Melbourne Bank as accountant in 1876,:md was ap- pointed General Manager in 1880. A young man from Edinburgh had been addressing a. prayer-meeting somewhere in the North, and after the address was over he said he would give out a. hymn. “ Na," said an old elder, “ we maxim hue n. psalm." “ No,” replied the young man, “ I‘ll give out a hymn ; I can’t get a psalm to meet my case.” “ What’s he speakin’ aboot ‘2" said an old Wife who was sitting near. “ 011 l” answered the elder, ” this lad says he canxm got a psalm to meet his arise.” ” VVeel, weel,” said she, “I doot the lad hasna a case at a.’ if he canna find it in the psalms.” The Greenock folks are actively exerting themselves at present to erect. a. worthy monument to James \Vatt on the site of the house in which he was born. 'Iwo splendid albums have been pre- sented to the Prince and Princess of Wales as souvenirs of their recent visit to Glas- gow. One is bound in green leather, and contains a series of photographs, on satin, of the Exhibition and of the principal buildings of the city; the other is bound in blue plush, and in it are thirty water-color sketches by members of the Glasgow Art Club. On the covers are electro-plste reproductions of old Indian plates in the British Museum, and the hinges and Clasps are also of chaste electro-plate, with the Royal arms. Up to June 29th the Glasgow Interna- tional Exhibition had been visited by 1,456,149 people. Annie S. Swan, the popular uuthoress, is married to one of the assistants to the professors in Edinburgh University. A despatch from Minneapolis, Minn., says: Ariel (J. Harris, one of the best known newspaper men in the northwest, has eloped to South America with Mrs. E. J. Frederick, a. woman who has for the past two years filled a position as type- writer for theMinnesota Abstract Company. Harris leaves a wife and two children. Crossnd in Love a. Young Girl DIarric-s in Pique and Dies in a Poor-house. A Middletown, N. 17., despatch says: The death of an inmate of the Chenangc county almshcuse brings to a close a very strange and interesting life story. The name of the deceased was Amanda Townsend, and she was born and reared in New York city, where her nearest of kin, the Townsends and Colgates, are people of wealth and high standing. While she was yet in her teens her hand was sought in marriage by a young man whom she favored but who failed to be acceptable to her parents. She was sent to Richiield Springs to spend the summer, and probably also to separate her from her lover, and while there was informed that he" on whom she had fixed her affections had proved faithless and renounced her. She laid the blame of her disappointment in love on her parents and friends, and in a fit of anger and spite she eloped with and married an ignorant and uncouth young fellow named Harvey Deyo, who had been doing menial jobs around her boarding- house at the Springs, and with whom she had struck up a chance acquain- tance. The clopemcnt made a stirring sensation at the time. The ill-matched pair went to the vicinity of the husband’s ‘ native place in Chenango county, and in a lonely spot on the side of the mountain between Oxford and Coventry they built a small rude cabin which they occupied for nearly a score of years thereafter asa home. At first the young wife’s relatives used every possible inducement and entreaty to persuade her to forsake her spouse and coarse and uncongenial sur- .roundings and return to a home of refine- ment and ease, but all efforts in this direction were unavailing and were ulti- mately abandoned. Whatever may have inspired her course, whether conjugal affection or pride or resentmentat supposed wrongs, the educated and refined woman accepted isolation and poverty and stuck by the side of the uncouth rustic she had chosen for a husband to the last. The final separation came in the county alms- house, to which the pair had been removed in a sick and helpless condition from their cabin on the mountain side. Her kindred in the city, shocked to hear that she had been a charge upon public charity, visited her and renewed their offers of a home with them, but she still declined to be parted from her husband. She died one day last week in the aims-house, and an undertaker commissioned by her relatives gave her remains respectable and'fitting burial in the rural cemetery at West Coventry. What Ails the Newspaper Men ? VOL XXXI Latest from Scotland. BORIANCE OF A LIFE. olting Treatlnont ofa Boy by a \Voman. A New York despatch says: Mrs. Emma Carleton, a determined-looking woman of 40 years, was convicted before Recorder Smith in General Sessions yes- terday of whipping Albert Bowker,&ged 14 years, with a shawl strap on June 17th. She tied his legs together and whipped him with the strap until the boy was covered with red Welts an inch broad. In some places the skin was broken. The boy de- clared that the defendant beat him for fifteen minutes Without ceasing. The jury found her guilty of assault in the third degree, the punishment for which is not more than $500 fine and a yean’s imprison- ment. Governor Hill heard the plea patiently, though his thoughts were plainly on the big bunch of letters which had accumulated in his absence. He said he was familiar with the case, and that the newspapers had prevented a life sentencevby charging the prisoner’s counsel, Mr. Howe, with aban- doning his client. Be consulted a few mo- ments with the Pardon Clerk, and then eourteously assured Miss Eytinge that he would consider the case very carefully. It is believed that the eomInutation of sentence, for which the Governor’s fair visitor pleaded so earnestly, may possibly be granted. A Small Boy’s Long Journey. Little Willie Leonard, a 6-year-old boy, started off from Pittshurg last Week on a 4,000 mile journey all alone. His ticket was bought for him through to Anthracite, a small mining Village on the Canadian Pacific Railroad in British Columbia. The boy’s father left Allegheny about one year ago and went to the west, and since that time Willie has been living with an aunt in Allegheny. Last week his father sent for him, and Thursday the child was placed in charge of the Ft. Wayne conductor, with orders to be passed along until he reached his destinationâ€"Detroit News. Pearl Eytinge‘s Eloquent Appeal on Be- half of Chiara Cignarale. An Albany, N. Y., despatch says : Pearl Eytinge pleaded with Governor lIillyes- terday afternoon for the life of the mur- deress Chiara Cignarale. She presented an introductory letter from Senator Cantor, and made her plea in a most dramatic manner. In a trembling voice she thus addressed the Executive 2 “Mercy for poor Chiara Cignarale! Oh, sir, we pray thee give one kindly thought to that poor dying creature, driven to despair by the cruelty of one who had broken his altar VOWR, forgotten his faith in God, disâ€" honored the name of man by striking to earth the pale, weak, hopeless mother of his children. We implore Your Excellency to consider that dread disease has already fastened upon her poor, frail form. We have seen her upon her prison couch with great, sad, yearning eyes, from out whose dark depths sorrow and re- pentance are shadowed forth; we have watched her wan lips moaning in ceaseless supplication ; and we beg you to grant her the blessing of Executive clemency. Ex- ercise that grand official power and with one stroke of thy mighty pen spare poor Chiari’s life, and send her that blessed re- prieve wherein to save her soul and make her peace with God.” A Buffalo despatch says : The report of . the Committee on Organization for the / next Conference of Charities and Correcâ€" tions was adopted to-day. Bishop Gillespie, of Grand Rapids, Mic-11., was elected as . President; Dr. O’Reilly, of Toronto, and four other Vice-Presidents were named. The next conference Will be held in San Diego, California. One of the most in- teresting topics of the conference was dis- cussed to-day by Rev. Oscar C. McCulloch, of Indianapolis. He presented as his con- tribution, “ The Children of Ishmael, a Study in Social Degradation.” Mr. Mc- Culloch had upon the stage with him an. immense diagram showing the social condi- tion of thirty families through five generations, embracing 1,602 persons. The paper read upon the subject was one of the most interesting of the whole conference. Thehistory of all these had been people followed up, covering a period of. fifty years back. That history was one of the most ‘ startling nature, and covered 7,000 pages in the records of the charity organization at 3 Indianapolis. There had been 121 prosti- ‘ tutes in the lot, and the illegitimate childâ€" ren were very numerous. The name Ishmael was chosen, as that family was the most central. One man had a family of eleven illegitimate children. There had been several murderers in the group, and thieves without number. They did not work, but they lived by begging and petty thieving. They are generally diseased. The children die young. Licentiousness characterizes all the men and women, and from this results mental' weakness and general incapacity to work, and this is all met by the benevolent public with un- limited public and private aid, encouragâ€" ing them in an idle and wandering life, and in the propagation of similarly disposed children. These and other grim facts were presented and deductions drawn from them. General unchastity characterizes them, and their instincts are as low as brutes go. The speaker believed that public relief was in a large de- gree chargeable with the perpetuation of this stock, and what public relief fails to accomplish private benevolence suppleâ€" ments. The so-called charitable people who give to begging women and children have a large sin to answer for. “It is from them,” said Mr. McCulloch, “that this pauper element gets its consent to exist. Charity, so‘called, covers a multitude of sins, and sends the pauper out with the benediction, be bountiful and multiply. Such charity has made this element ; has brought children to the birth, and ensured them a life of misery, cold, hunger and sickness. So-called charity joins public relief in producing still-born children, raising prostitutes, and educating crim- inals.” Out of all these 1,692 persons, Mr. McCulloch said he knew of but one who haul risen from them and had become an honorable mam. The force of inherited parentism or pauperism drives them on with irresistible force. “What can we do ?” said the speaker in conclusion. “First, we must close up official outdoor relief; second, we must check private indiscriminate benevolence or charity, falsely so-called ; third we must get hold of the children.” The old man Zenug, sent up by Judge Rose at Brantford in 1884 for counterfeitâ€" ing, has been released. MISAPPLIED BENBVOLENCE CONDEMNED The Remarkable Record of Thirty Families. MERCY FOR A MURDERESS. HBREDITARY CRIME. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, J ULY 26, 1888. She replied, “No,” looking surprised, and said, “ Why do you ask ‘2” “ Oh, just for fun,” I replied. Going upstairs at once to change my clothes, as I came down the front stairs and entered the shop by a side door, who should come to the front door simultane- ously but granfifather! Now, no one of all the relatives knewof his coming, and all were greatly surprised at the occurrence and how I should know what no one else knew in the cityâ€"14'. IV. Diehl in Religio- Philosophical Journal. Judgeâ€"So you were beating your wife we’reryou '2 “ You callit a little fun to knock her down, pull half her hair out and kick her through the window, do you ?” “ I was only in fun, yer honor.” “ Well, you are willing to pay $550 for fun, I hope.”_ l’riéonerâ€"I was just having a. little fun WithJ1er, yer honor. “ No, yer honor, I ain’t. Make it $325, jedge. She hit me a swipe over the head witha cheer, and I didn’t have half as much fun as_I thought I would." When I was a boy about 1'7, in 1874, I went to college during the day and after school hours I worked for my board at my stepfather’s. One afternoon, returning from college, and about five blocks from home, I suddenly made an involuntary jump, such as boys are wont to do when something pleases them, and said aloud: “ Grandfather is here I” He lived nearly fifty miles distant in the country, and oi whose coming none of the family were aware, as he seldom visited the city. 1 thought it was strange to act as I did, and when I reached home I asked my mother : " Is grandfather here ’3" The judge" made‘it $550 351â€"17 30 days.â€"~ Washington Critic. How Russell Sage Paid a Boy who Relh turned Lost. lVImley. Several days ago Russell Sage visited the Broadway (N.Y.) clothing establishment of Messrs. A. H. King 8; Co. for the purpose of rehabilitating his outer self in fashion- able and seasonable apparel. After much discussion with the salesman as to the parâ€" ticular shade and fabric and an unsuccess- ful effort to effect a reduction in the price of a suit, Mr. Sage effected a deal by which his summer wardrobe was replenished by several suits of clothes at about the price that Berry Wall would expend for a fancy waistcoat. Shortly after the millionaire’s departure from the realm of “ bargains ’7 in clothing a diminutive cash boy picked up from the floor of the store a small roll of bank notes containing 326, which, with commendable honesty, he carried to the cashier’s desk, where it was placed in an envelope to await the probable call of the loser. Yesterday morning bright and early, Mr. Sage,attired in his newlyâ€"purchased garments. presented a worried countenance at the cashier’s win- dow in Messrs. King 65 Co.’s store. He had lost 326. His identification of the bills found on the floor was correct in every particular, and the money was immediately handed over to him, to his evident satisâ€" faction. Mr. King beckoned to the little fellow whose integrity had rescued the railroad man from pecuniary loss, and. said: “ Mr. Sage, here is the boy who found. your money.” “ He has done his duty,” said the man of millions, ‘- and will find his reward in the future,” and rollingup his wealth and carefully depositing it in his waistcoat pocket he took a. dignified departure. “I am awfully hard up anfl can get no more drink on trust, so I will give you the idea for a glass of beer.” “ Done 1" said the other. The American at once saw that there was probably millions in this and he con» ceived the notion that the matter oozing from the sores on horses’ necks would cor- rode the pad and produce sulphate of zinc “thus the disease would provide its own remedy. He also saw that zinc, being a. non-conductor of heat, would keep the parts cool. The more he thought of it the more he liked it, and although his business should have kept him in Bombay some months longer, he in a few days took the first steamship for Liverpool and then for Boston. Arriving at Boston he threw up his appointment with the house and started the manufacture of zinc pads, after obtain- ing a patent for; the idea, and is now worth $200,000. These zme pads are used in every country on earth and are the great- est blessings the farmer enjoys. This “ vet ” in his younger days had studied chemistry, and he found that sul- phate of zinc was the best and almost the only cure for horses’ “ sore neck,” but the difficulty in applying this preparation lay in the fact that the horse had to rest during the times of the application, otherwise the collar would rub it off and there was no chance of the horse’s recovery. A thought struck him that to make a Zinc pad and put it under the collar would at any rate prove an ameliorative, and may be a cure. The man, though ingenious in his way, was much given to drink, and was looked upon by the oflicers of the army as a “ ne’er do weel” with bright ideas. While this idea was simmering in his mind and before he had put it into an actual test he happened to be in a drinking bar. His finances were at this time at the lowest ebb, for his future pay was mortgaged for all it was worth and the publican refused to trust him with any more drinks. An American drummer hap- pened to be representing a large leather house and knew a good deal of the difficulty with which the American farmers of the southwest had to contend. The two men got into conversation, and as l a natural result the veterinary spoke of the idea that was uppermost in his mind and said that he thought he knew of a remedy of that most troublesome of complaints of which all horses in hot countries suffered. ‘ The American was perfectly convinced ‘ that he was talking to a man of good ideas, though bad principles, and asked what he would take for the idea. For a- Glass of Beer a Drummer Gets Two Hundred Thousand Dollars. This may seem a large sum for a. small article, but it was virtually paid by a. man of great resources who had an ingenious expedient for saving the horeeflesh of the world. About ten years ago a. veterinary surgeon who was with the army in Bombay found that the excessive heat of that coun- try caused the tops of the horses’ necks to sweat freely and thereby produce sores under the leather collars. All the expe- dients that he could suggest were of no avail to remedy this state of things. One- fourth of the horses used for draught pur- poses were laid up by what is called “ sore neck.” YIRTUE IN ITS OWN RE‘VARD. Not Half the Fun he Expected What; Would You Call This ? A PROFI’I‘ABLE BABGAI A Live Earthworm Found Inoascd in the Cold Crystal. A large block of ice was taken to the South Carolina Railway station this morn- ing to supply the “coolers” on the out- going trains~and thereby hangs a tale. Agent Wells and his corps of assistants, when they proceeded to crack the ice“ which melts so soon these hot days that it is not what it’s “ cracked up to be "â€"made a discovery which would have set the New York papers, fresh in their attacks on the bacteria in the Hudson river, agog with excitement and indignation. It was not a homeless little bacterium, in- visible to the naked eye and demandâ€" ing a microscopic investigation to tell what it was. It was a live, wi igly, squirmy earthworm, four inches in length, in full possession of his powers of wriggling, and in fact seeming not a little refreshed by his residence in his crystal citadel. It was a cool retreat and showed a discriminating taste in the worm, if, indeed, he got into such a. crystal palace by his own volition. It was probably thrust upon him, a “ cold wave” sweeping down the Hudson and em- bedding him, like a preâ€"Adamite shell or fossil, in a glacier, and the icsmen, glean- ing the frozen fields, brought him to the warm South. ‘Vhen the block was split open there lay the worm in his icy atmos- phere as snug as a bug in a rug and as full of life as 8. Savannah mosquito or a St. Augustine sandfly. He squirmed and he struggled like Nanki-Poo when he was re leased, to the amusement and wonder of a cluster of spectators. Mr. Wells still has the worm in his possession. Wouldn’t it have been sad to have drunk such a thing? Ugh! An exasperated public may be ex- cused for drawing the line at earthworms as bacteria..~ Charlrrslon (8.0.) Sun. The hot spell in Orillia (by the way,isn’t Orillia a summer resort to which the resi~ dents of less favored regions flee to escape from the heat ‘2) has set the Packet man to moralizing, with this result : You remem- ber how sweltering hot it was the other morning. I proposed to go down to town without acollar. Mrs. P. at once objected with “ what will Mrs. Grundy say ‘1’” I came off second best in the argument which ensued, and started offâ€"a little late in consequence~keeping my neck (for all the world just as if I had a. boil on it) as nearly as possible in the centre of tho starched abomination. It has been duly impiresSed upon me that it is vulgar to per- spire, and so the more I tried not to do it the hotter I became. Half a mile from home the starch began to melt, and at Slavenls corner I might as well ha we had a wet cloth round my thorax. Fortunately this was not the day where there was no water in the fountains, but all the agony might have been avoided if the fellow’s wife hadn’t been a virtual slave to Mrs. Grundy. If. the Mayor of Orillia were to frame a by-laW to the effect that during the (log»da.ys coat, waistcoat and collar be deemed unnecessary to a complete toilet, his year of office would ever be remembered with gratitude. The young ladies would leave off painting plaques and bannerets, and take to the embroidering of braces and Waistbelts. Art would receive an impetus; we would all look forward to the “ latest novelty in shirtings ” and a zest would he added to our daily life. It must beenacted hoWever, that only the quietest patterns be worn in church, as the display of gorgeous apparel is quite sufficient as at present. The Hong Kong Dmle Press gives in most Eloleful account of the ruin and misery wrought by terrible weather, in the East River district especially. Such mine have not been known for more than 100 years, Unquestionably the rainfall has been of a most unprecedented chmmcter. The town of Shekhung, the chief sugar mart of the Province, has several times been flooded and many persons have been arowned, while from all parts of the province comes tales of ruin and disaster in some form or other. At Wolf Island, Lake Ontario, the shore is covered with deatl potato bugs, which have been washed up by the wswes to the depth of two or three inchem A Sadly Interesting Experience of a Woman Seeking Work. Once I advertised myself as seeking the place of governess to children or companion toa lady. There was no possible invita- tion to intrigue in the form of my adver- tisement, although I never dreamed of avoiding such appearance, never cVen re- membered that a great city is full of he rpies snuffing for corruption and scouting it everywhere. Among the perfectly honor- able and business-like answers to my adâ€" vertisement, one or two came that made my hair stand on end. One invited me, in covertly insulting language, to come and care for his children while his wife was in Europeâ€"if I was under 21! A second was so appalling that I never read it through, and shudder to this day that I ever read so much. None of my business-like answers ever came to anything save one. A gentlemanly person called upon me on Murray Hill.l He was very talkative and agreeable, chat- ted of theatres, churches, popular preach- ers, Greenwood cemetery, ocean steamers, summer resorts and new novels. There was nothing to startle me in the visit, although I wondered continually why he did not approach the real object of the interview. Just as I had made up my mind that he probably was waiting for me to introduce it, he looked at his watch, sud. denly started up as if in consternation, saying, “ I beg ten thousand pardons, but I had quite forgotten my train. You will allow me to write you upon the subject of your advertisement?" and was gone. A few days after I received a letter from ‘ him, far away in Illinois. He wrote that he had intended to have “ some fun ” during his late visit to New York, and had answered “heaps” of advertise» ments in pursuit of that intention. “ The minuteI saw you, however, I saw that ‘iun ’ was not in your line ; but I found you so brilliant and charming that I could not get away, although I sat upon pins and needles every instant of my call. I am a widower, 37, with two children, an income of â€"â€"â€"” and thus the letter ran on till it came to the proposal of a correspondence, with a View to marriage. Of course I never replied to this letter. I afterwards found out from friends in his own city that the man had given me his real name and a truthful account of his circumstancesâ€" with one important exception. Instead of being a widower, he was the divorced hus- band of two wives,and had narrowly missed State Prison as a bigamist.-â€"Lipp£ncott’s Magazine. I ADVERTISING FOR A POSITION. SUMMER IN A BLOCK 0F ICE° A New Direction for Art. An Eastern Calamity. WHOLE NO 1,563 N0. 4. A most daring robbery took place on Saturday evening at 6 o’clock about 26 miles above Soda Creek. The Cariboo four- horse stage. Mr. J. R. Tait, driver, was on a bridge when two masked men confronted him with a. rifle and pistol. and ordered him to stop his horses. They then com- pelled him to leave the stage, and took the sack out of the waggon which contained $53,500 in gold dust. He was then ordered to get into his place and drive on. One of the highway men were a dark calico mask; the other had a flour sack over his head. One man stood on each side of the stage when they ordered the driver to stop, and the largest man kept Tait covered with the rifle until he drove away. There were no passengers on the waggon, and as the driver had the reins in his hands he had no chance to use weapons. The Government agents are scouring the country with a number of special constables, and all .the Alexandria Indians are hunting for the robbers. A reward of 99500 has been offered for their capture. It will be avery difficult thing for them to leave that portion of the coun- try, and news of their arrest is expected in a short time. Mr. F. S. Barnard states that he believes the same men robbed the stage four years ago, and succeeded in getting clear with $4,000. Mr. Tait’s brother was driving the stage at that time, and the robbery took place about 100 miles below the scene of the robbery on Saturday last. â€"â€"B. 0. Daily Times, July 8rd. The pulpit will be able to obtain some local color for sermons taken from the Book of Esther in the newly opened Per- sian museum at the Louvre. All the objects there were within the last four years dug up under the direction of M.and Mme. Deulafoy (but especially of madame) at Shushan, which ancient city is in a mound condition, like Ninevah or Babylon. The wall-facings, in tiles, baked, painted and forming figures of men and animals in hasâ€"relief, are similar to those in stone at Persepolis, the summer capital of Darius the Great. Among the animals is a lion, life-size, which Barye might have been proud to own as his work. The human figures are less good, and are placed in pro- file one after the other. Gen. Sir Robert Smith, who was at the opening of the museum, knew Mme. Deulafoy in Persia, witnessed many of her innumerable diffi- culties, and tells me she was the soul of the enterprise in which her husband was engaged. Both suffered greatly from fever. But her spirits and courage were irrepres- sible, and she never let depression take hold of her. She is one of the most charm- ing women that I ever met, and not at all brazen in her masculine habili- merits, which she first donned seventeen years ago to get the more conveniently through ambulance work. In Persia she must have broken down under the drag ‘ and impediments. of a feminine wardrobe, ‘ to the slavery of which she could not now submit. She was newly married in 1870. Her husband, who is about 40wa singularly inice fellow, and by profession a civil engineerâ€"treats her as a comrade and adores her. No wonder. Though so jaunty. so spruce, so “ dear,” and looking so like a little masher, she is not intentionally coquettish, but is absorbed in her work, and equal to it. Her conversation is exhil- arating, and that without boisterousness, and she has a splendidly ready wit of a feminine savor. The voice, the smile and the gracious manner are of a piece with the wit, which reminds one of some of Shaks- peare‘s heroines. It was so funny to see her, hat in hand, doing the honors to Madame Carnot at the opening of the Per- sian museum. The hair is out as close as the scissors could go and squared at the temples. Madame Deulafoy has exquisite hands, but wears no rings. All the elegance of her attire is in the masher-like shirt collar and figured silk cravat. This remark- able French lady rather shuns than courts publicity. “ Not at home ” orders are per- petual at her house, unless when the con- cierge recognizes an intimate friend, and she won’t let herself be interviewed.â€" London Truth. Masked Men Stop the Stageâ€"$3,500 in Gold Hust Secured. BRITISH COLUMBIA EX PRESS ROBBED The late Rev. Dr. E7<â€",of Glasgow, was met in Argyle street one day by every diminutive (in stature) brother of the same denomination, who hailed from the Highâ€" lands, and who was about to enter the matrimonial state. Accosting the doctor,he said: “ I’m going to be married, Dr. Eâ€"â€"-, and I would like you to come down to Oâ€"â€" and preach me in,” (meaning kirk him). “ Ye’re gaun to be married 1” said the doctor. “ Who is the happy woman ‘2” “ Ohl Miss Gracie Pâ€"â€"â€",” replied the embryo benedict. “ All right, then; I’ll preach ye in,” said Dr. Eâ€"~â€". So all arrangements were made. When the time arrived the Glasgow divine found his way to the manse of 0”, where he met with a very hearty reception, the young couple having just arrived from spending their honeymoon. The following morning (Sun- day), when in the vestry, the newly-made benedict thus addressed the doctor: “ Now, doctor, I hope you’ll make no allusion to my marriage in your sermon, I think Mrs. R. would feel it." “ Never fear that, my little man,” said the doctor, “ ye’re that wee ye’re hardly worth While takiu' notice 0’." Thus assured they partedâ€"the one to his pew, the other to the pulpit. All went well till the time for the sermon came, when, to the amazement of the min- ister and the amusement of the large eon- gregation, the doctor gave out for his text these words: “ Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this Grace given.” A good story is related at the expense of a hotel proprietor at Tacoma, W. T. A stranger, who had been stopping at the house for a few weeks, asked the proprietor how far it was to Mount Ranier, which appeared to be only a couple of miles dis- tant, although in fact it was nearly 100. The proprietor winked at the bystanders, and said that perhaps it was a mile away. The boarder said that he believed he would walk out to it for exercise. The landlord encouraged the “tenderfoot,” who, after borrowing the proprietor’s fine field-glass, immediately started. The joke was too rich for the hotel man to keep, and he treated all hands. But the pedestrian did not return. The landlord at last became suspicious, and found that the valise which the “tenderioot” had left was filled with brick-bats, and that he had carried off 17 towels, and everything else} that he could get into his pockets. Besides this he owed two weeks' board bill. He is probably still walkingâ€"Cleveland Leader. Mme. Deulafoy, the Plucky Explorer, and Her Odd Dress. A CHARMING LADY IN TROUSERS. Improvenlent on an Old Sell. Choosing a. Text. The Doctor's Prescription. Ethel (to the family physician)â€"â€"Why, doctor I you really don’t think that powder hurts the complexion? Dr. GruEâ€"Well, no; some kinda don’t. Ethelâ€"Oh, please tell me which Kind is the best, and I pro- mise I will use no other. Dr. Gruffâ€"Baking- powderâ€"take internally. The Peculiar Method by Which a. Kentucky Girl Was Kept Alive for Some Months. Miss Annie Cole, a young woman living on Clay street near Jefferson, died this morning after a protracted illness, having been nourished for several months preced. ing her death through the pores of her skin. The case is an unusual one, and has elicited considerable attention. Some time ago, when it was found impossible to administer nourishment to the invalid through the usual channel, every device was resorted to that her life might be saved from} a death of starvation. The stomach rejected all food, and even the liquid gruels and other substances whichwere introduced did not remain in the stomach long enough to impart nourishment. Miss Cole was emaciated and on the point of death when the attending physician noticed that the action of the pores of the skin was normally healthy. As half of the digestible matter is emitted through the pores of the skin an effort was made to introduce nourishment in that way. A mixture of oil and grease was composed and applied externally. The heated skin rapidly absorbed the nutriment and the patient showed signs of renewed vigor. After each of these applications the skin was carefully c1eaned,and in this way Miss Cole lived until to-day, when she died. The case has rarely been duplicated in the history of medical scienceâ€"Louisville Special. Why the Romans Went to Bed Early. History tells us that ancient Rome, even in times of festival, was always as quiet as the grave after the closing in of the nightâ€" a fact which De Quincy thus accounts for: “ They went to bed early in those ages sim- ply because their mother earth could not afford them candles. She, good old lady, or young lady (for geologists know not whether she is In that state of her progress which corresponds to gray hairs. or to in- fancy, or to ‘ a certain ago’) she, good lady, would have shuddered to hear any of her nations inquiring for candles. ‘ Candles, indeed 1’ she would say, who ever heard of such a thing ? and with so much excellent daylight running to waste as I have pro- vided gratis ‘2 What will the wretches want next?’ The Romans, therefore, who saw no joke in sitting around a table in the dark, went off to bed as the darkness be- ’gan. Everybody did so. Old Numa Pompilious himself was obliged to trundle off into the dark. Tarquinius may have been a very 'superb fellow, but I doubt whether he ever saw a farthing rushlight. And though it may be thought that plots and conspiracies would flourish in such a city of darkness, it is to be considered that the conspirators themselves had no more candles than honest men; both parties were in the dark.” Its Generating Power and the Work it is Capable of Performing. ‘ The most satisfactory way of arriving at an idea of the enormous energy of the sun is by measuring the amount of ,heat which his rays are capable of generating; and, further, by our knowledge of the relation which exists between heat and mechanical work we are able at once to estimate the amount of work which the sun is capable of doing, and also the quantity of energy he must be losing year by year. By suitable arrangements we can cause a certain quan- tity of his radiation to be absorbed by water or other substance, and note the rise of temperature which results, and as we know the mechanical equivalent of each degree of temperature in water, for in- stance, it is only a matter of calculation to arrive at a knowledge of the sun’s total energy. Like everything else connected with this wonderful body, figures give us no adequate conception of his energy, and various illustrations have been used by different investigators. Thus, Herschel considered it in relation to the quantity of ice which it would melt in a given time, and states that the amount of heat which the earth receives when the sun is overhead would melt an inch thickness of ice in two hours and thirteen minutes. From this it can be calculated that if the body of the sun were entirely surrounded by a sheet of ice on its surface of more than a mile in thickness, the s‘un’s heat would entirely melt this coating of ice in the same timeâ€"namely, two hours and thirteen minutes. Prof. Young uses an even more striking illustration. He says : “ If we could build up a solid column of ice from the earth to the sun, two miles and a quarter in diameter, spanning the incon- ceivable abyss of ninety~three million miles, and if the sun should concentrate his power upon it, it would dissolve and melt, not in an hour, not in a minute, but in a single second ; one swing of the pendulum and it would be water, seven more and it would be dissipated in vapor.” Of course, of this enormous quantity of heat the earth receives but a very small fraction. The remainder, except, of course, what the other planets receive, passes away into space, and is lost forever, so far as can be ascertained, to the solar system. If we estimate in mechanical power what we do receive, we find this to be on each square foot of surface equivalent, on an average, to about forty tons raised a mile high yearly, or to one-horse power continuously acting, to every thirty square feet of the earth‘s surface. It is by this enormous supply of energy that the whole world is kep » alive and active. It keeps us warm, and drives our steam engines and water-wheels ; it circulates our atmosphere, and brings us rain and snow in due season ; it grows and nourishes our plants and animals, and, in a word, is the source of almost every earthly blessing. Times are tough on the poor of Russia They have but little to sell. They are heavily taxed, and the London News says they are actually starving to death in great numbers. FED THROUGH PORES OF HER. SKIN. _-_ -â€".- __..___r_.-. b-....,.. host Of ‘leag‘ring foesâ€"the messenger whose feet Upon the dark heights of our sorrows haste With lovely promise. What if thorns of pain )rowu our llfe’s holiest effort ? What if waste Wait our snul's Wealth, and sacrifice be vain ‘2 Lost '1 Never date we deem that loVe is lost! Through loss and woes uncounted. unatoned Love lives and givesâ€"and knows his heavy cpst Most; blest unthanked, best guerdoned when ’unowned. u , “77.. _._u‘,-_. path And snow éome faltering foot the way to God. Lost love ? Least yet of all can love be lost,‘ Love, the eternalâ€"Jove, the porn-ass sweet Of Heaven’s strait doorâ€"our rampart 'gainst a, u__,‘ shroudâ€" But doubt we regions where no shadows are P What if no answer to our cry comes back ? Our trust shall be its own supreme reward. Knoweth the meteor of its shining track ‘1’ 0r sentinels the treasures that: they guard ? Not to ourselves alone shall be our faith , But, as a lamp upon a darkened road G uides least the bearer, light life's rugged “in” Lostfalith ?? Ah, never 1 What though dark the c end We know beyond it lies the polar star. l’allid ~ the_ lips and hands and close the Lost labor ? N my, not so. The planted seed, Unheeded and forgotten, yet shall grow In fruitful silence, and to traveller’s need shall grateful shade and sustenance bestow. No not of good or ill, :10 task of hand 01' brain. no faithful striving of the 5011]. But loaves a. foot-print on life’s level sand 01', graves a. letter on th’ eternal scroll. N0 toil is wasted : though we may not see The harvest of the strife, the work, the rhyme. The Master saith “ What is that to thee ? Use tthou the meansâ€"leave thou the end to mm.” THE SUN'S ENERGY. Amn'e Rothw'ell, K ingstom LOST ?