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l'I'wes only a. week ago to-night, You said “good-bye " at the garden gate. The wind breathed a. laugh to tho poplar leaves, And a nightingale sang of love to its mate. The fireflies gloamod through the meadow dark, Where the river run go.in to meet the see, And every word was a. sweet caress, Ere you said “good night: " at the gate to me. You spoke of life “ as a problem dread," And breathed a. sigh for your lonely lot; Then begged a. pansy from my hair, And a. sprig of blue forgetâ€"111911012. You said, ’twus so bad to live unlovedâ€"â€" That love was love, forever and eye I And implied, you never could love but one ; Your heart would break if I said you nay. You spoke so long of men and books, That mine eyes grew dim, and brain did reel As you quoted of Tennyson many [1, page, And asked "if I didn‘t: doto on ‘Lucille ‘2' " P Esterâ€"No. sir. Bank notes are a neces- lity with me. Oommitteemanâ€"Before engaging you for our pastorate we should like to know if you 035 prguoh Xvithput notes. R. A. GUNN, M.D., Dean and Professor of Surgery, of the United States Medical Col- lege ; Editor of ” Medical Tribune,” Author of "Gunn‘s New and Improved Hand-book of Hygiene and Domestic Medicine," refer- ring to Warner’s Safe Cure, said : “I find that in Bright‘s disease it seems to not as a solvent of albumen ; to soothe and heal the inflamed membranes, and wash out epithel- ial debris which blocks up the tubuli urini- feri (urine bearing tubes) ; and to prevent the destructive meamorpeosis of _tissue. .1. * * * I am willing to-aoknowledgeflfia commend thus frankly the value of Warner’s Safe Cure. ’Twas only a. week, and yet to-night I sit; alone in the shadows drear, As the moon creeps over the poplar trees, And list for a. step which I seldom hear. But soon a. voice-and two shaégws page; A Novel Method of Identifying Criminals. Two men of science in two different countriesâ€"Francis Galton in England and M. Bertillon in Franceâ€"have lately re- commended a means of identification which policemen and detectives, with all their ingenuity, seem never to have em- ployed. These gentlemen have observed that the human thumb dipped in ink, in blood, in black lead or in any other loose, adhering substance, and pressed upon a sheet of paper. leaves a mark which is fiat-teeny characteristic of the individual. r. Galton has remarked that no two persons’ thumbs make the same mark ; the lines and depressions in the skin, which make a series of wave lines when pressed upon paper, are never the same in two different individuals. It is urged that this fact would be of very great value in the administration of justice, because a oriminal’s thumb mark would be a sure means of identifying him, no matter what disguise he might assume. If a busi- ness man wishes to make use of a signature which is quite impossible to forge or coun- terfeit, he has only to dip his thumb in his ink bottle and make a mark with it in con- nection with his written name. No other thumb will make the same mark, and it would be practically impossible for anyone to imitate this new kind of “autograph” with_a pen or_ other mechanical means. The town is as compact today as it was when David thrummed upon his harp and the tribes not only of Palestine but of all the world came here to worship. There are magnificent monasteries scattered throughout the city, and on the very top of the Mount of Olives a great Russian church lifts its bulbous domes toward heaven. In the Garden of Gethsemane, where Christ spent the night before he was crucified, there is a resting place for pilgrims, and the Roman Catholics have 1,500 brothers and sisters in their monasteries and con- vents, while the old Armenian Church has a big monastery near the gate of Zion which contains 180 monks and which can accommodate 2,000 pilgrims. There are Greek Christians here by the thousands and there are Syrians and Copts by the hundreds. There are Abyssinian priests with faces as black as your hat, and you may see every costume and hear every language in the worshippers who gather around the holy sepulchre. The Jerusalem of to-day is the Mecca of millions of souls. It is to hundreds of millions the holiest spot on the face of the earth. And among the others whom I have met in Palestine is the party of American Roman Catholics, the first pilgrimage which has ever been made to the holy city by a band from the United States. It is, above all, a religious city, and, stranger than all, it is again becominga city of the Jews. The Jews are fast coming back into Palestine, and the Jews of Jerusalem, who now make up a large part of the city, are far different from their brothers in any other part of the world. Their movement toward the holy land is strange, and their life here is so interesting that I have made it the subject of investigation.â€"F. G. Carpenter’s Jerusalem Letter in the Post-Dispatch. “Winfifliléiiw'éncEudiH {£56m fef}ain'â€" He is quoting "Lucille" and “Lockslay Hall,‘ To my pretty neighbor down in the lane. “ In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and thumb,” the new form of subscription may some time in the future, run, the seal having by that time perhaps completely gone out of use, as it has now except on official documents and with fashionable letter writers. The ex- periment with the thumb mark may be made by any one who will take a knife blade, hold it over a lamp until it is black with smoke, allow it to cool, apply the thumb to the black surface, and then press it lightly upon a slightly sticky bit of paper, such as the back of a postage stamp. Exafined with a magnifying glass, the differences in the thumb marks of different individuals come out very strongly. Ac- cording to Mr. Galton, thumbs run in family groups, dividing themselves, as it were, into seven or eight distinct types or grand divisions ; but within these divisions the differences are so marked as to leave no chance for confusion.â€"New York Press. How the Modest Blossom Became Bis Favorite Flower. ° Lord Beaconsfield’s fondness for the primrose originated when he was living in Highbury, London. Here he was much attached to a young lady residing in the same locality, who was the daughter of a gentleman of good property. At a ball given at that gentleman‘s house the young lady in question were a wreath of prim- roses. A discussion arose between Mr. Disraeli and another gentleman as to whether the primroses were real or not. A bet of a pair of gloves was made, and on the young lady being consulted, and the prim- roses being examined, the bet was won by Mr. Disraeli. The primroses were real primroses and the young lady gave two of them to the future Prime Minister, which he put in his buttonhole and kept and used to show long afterward. Some have thought that because the Queen sent a wreath of primroses to Lord Beaconsfield’s funeral the flower became his badge in that way. This is a mere invention. The Queen did not know at the time that the primrose was Lord Beaconsfield’s favorite flower, and she did not, consequently, send a wreath of primroses to his funeral at all. Others have entertained the opinion that the noble lord appreciated the flower be- cause he says in one of his novels that the primrose makes an excellent salad. This is incorrect again. and the true history of the way the primrose became the noble lord’s favorite flower is recorded above.â€" Washington Press. BEACONSFIELD'S PRIMROSE. The City of David To-day. THUMB AUTOGRAI’HS. A Real Necessity. Modem Love. And don't be misled by promises to turn you out a skilled shorthand reporter in three months. That is pure deception. You can no more be turned out a re- porter in that time than you could be turned out a chemist, a physician or a lawyer. True, you can learn the principles of the art, but the acquisition of speed, the thousand and one things necessary to qualify you as an expert all- round, or even special, reporter must be a matter of much patient study and culti- vation. You may set it down asa basic principle that you can only report what you know. Perhaps you have read some of the tall stories with which waggish fellows stuff the oredulous, such as that Whopper about the stenographer taking a verbatim report Shorthand as a Profession Very Much Overorowded. FEW RBMUNERATIVE POSITIONS. Some Well Paid \Vritersâ€"The Various Systems â€"Lady Stenographersâ€"Somo Advice to Students. In this age of hurry and rush it is but natural that shorthand should receive con- siderable attention. The saving in time which it effects for those whose time is very valuable, to say nothing of the facili- ties it affords for securing the words of public speakers or the evidence of wit- nesses, justifies placing it high up in the educational curriculum. But just now, I fancy, it is being rather run into the ground. When men are found who actually advertise over their own signatures for “ competent stenographers ” at a salary of nine dollars a week, there is required no further evidence of a glut in the steno- grapher market than the fact that such positions are regarded as “ snaps.” Not, of course, by “ competent " stenographers, in the correct sense; but as they go they fill the places and out down the figures paid really expert men (who are not plentiful) and drive them out of the business. What system should you learn? Well, that is a question upon which there is. naturally, much divergence of opinion, and I do not feel oalled_upon to become arbiter. I have had some experience, and while I feel quite convinced that I write (indiffer- ently,of course) the best system I must admit I have met writers of other systems who did good work. In general, practical reporters in Canada write either Pitman's system or Graham’s, which is known as Standard Phonography and which is based on the same general princi- ples as Pitman’s. In Washington I found the great majority of thee who occupied official positions wrote the Standard, while not one. during my term there, wrote other than Pitman’s or Graham’s. With either great speed is attainable. On August 22nd of last year a great speed test took place at Lake George, N. 31., before a committee of judges and under stringent rules. Three of the parties entering for the $500 in prizes wrote the Graham system and one the Munson system. The test was a five-minute “ take” of strange matter, read by a copy-holder to each con- testant, after a synopsis of the matter had been previously read to him. 'Each had three tests. The most favorablein each was then copied, counted, errors dew ducted and the prizes awarded. The committee awarded Mr. I. S. Dement, Chicago, 1st, (1,252 words) and Mr. Fred. Ireland, Detroit, 2nd, (1,202 words). Both gentlemen are official stenographers in constant practice, and both write the Graham system. Mr. Nicholes, who wrote the Munson system, failed to decipher his notes. I understand Mr. Ireland has since beaten his perform- ance. This is, however, not ordinary work; it is phenomonal. Few write over 150 words per minute, and a speed of 120 is more common, even among fair short- handers. The amount of matter taken down in a few hours at that speed would astonish the uninitiated. Perhaps you are thinking of studying some system of shorthand, and if so I would not discourage you. There are very few people now-a-daya to whom a know- ledge of shorthandâ€"even if not very thoroughâ€"would not prove useful, if prac- tice be maintained. But if you purpose depending on the use of the knowledge of shorthand you expect to gain to make a living a few friendly hints to enable you to take stock of the prospect, uninfiuenced by some school prospectus, may be much to your advantage. _ The “ fat ” situations for shorthand writers are confined chiefly to the official reporters of the Houses of Parliament, the courts, afew leading railway offices, and fewer of the larger newspaper offices. In- side of this charmed circle the remunera- tion is good. Murphy, chief of staff at the United States Capitol, is the best paid United States officer below the President, and receives the somewhat princely salary of {$25,000 a year and perquisites. On his shoulders rests the entire responsibility of the work of the Congressional Record and the Senatorial Debates. He has under him a staff of 20 to 25 of the best reporters he can find; and he can size up a pencil pusher very quickly. He is a phenomenal man and an expert writer of the Graham modification of Pitman’s system, known as Standard Phonography. Some very large sized stories are told of his work and, as all stenographers of experience know, many of them will stand being very heavily dis- counted. At Ottawa the Hansard reporters receive $1,500 a year; and there are some of our reporters of the High Court of Justice who receive as much and augment that figure considerably by transcripts. They receive either a stated salary per annum or a per diem allowance for attend- ance, with ten cents per folio of 100 words for copies of the evidence when required. When they get a long case where two to four copies are required, and can be mani~ folded on the typewriter, they have a soft snap. Two of our best known and most competent court reporters in Ontario are Mr. Nelson Butcher and Mr. A. J. Hender- son, Toronto, to either of whom an all-day take offers no terrors. But there are many ways in which the accomplishment will prove beneficial to you indirectly, that is, other than as a main reliance. If you enter the ministry it will bless you daily ; if you study law it will be your junior counsel always and aid you in a hundred ways; if you follow medicine it will save you much valuable time and be the means of preserving full and interesting notes which would, did you lack it, never be taken. If you are a news- paperman it will prove daily useful. It you are in business at all it will save you time, and time is money. But what I am trying to impress upon you is that as a means of livelihoodâ€"as a professionâ€"it is a bruised reed. Outside of the positions above re- ferred to. and which require not only rapidity on the part of the writer but also a broad education and general acquaintance with the particular line of work entered upon, there are other openings for the aspirant to stenography, chiefly as amanuenses. The salaries are not usually large, and the rapid influx of women into the field has tended to still lower rates, until to-day she is practically master, or rather mistress, of the situation. It is an occupation for which women are well adapted, and when with fair education and moderate speed she combines the use of the typewriter. such a situation affords a young woman a clean, dignified and pleasant means of livelihood. The field of amanuensis work promises to become, as a rule, more and more a woman’s preserve. If you are going to study with the view to entering that field you must expect her to fix your salary. THE FACILE PENCIL. â€"-“ What is the matter with your eye? exclaimed Brown, as Fogg made his ap- pearance with his optic in mourning. “Only a mare clausum," replied Fogg with assumed indifference. “ A mare clausum 7" “ Yes; a closed see, you know." of a. speech in a. foreign tongue, of which 9 know not a word ; about Murphy reportin ambidexterously and taking two, or evex three, speakers at a. time. That is all vet picturesque fiction. But to report you must comprehend. It is related of a mem- ber of the English Commons that he almost had a. fit when he read his speech as taken by a. rapid (but not export) reporter, in which his -â€"â€"“ Where are we going now ?" said the prisoner, as the guard loaded him into the Black Maria. “ You‘re going to the Police Court,” was the reply. “ Ah, I see ; we are merely out for a. trial trip.” The battle against desecration of Sun’ day continues to rage furiously in Eng- land. The Sunday observance societies have attacked the cheap excursion sys- tems of the Brighton Railways, which allows the poorer classes to spend Bun- day at the seaside. They have even got a large number of the shareholders of the road to sign a petition against the system. 1n heaven she crept and froze her knee. The merely mechanical reporter will never become expert. To be a success the re- porter must be an omniverous reader, a close student of men and things, a man of good reasoning powers and above all of instant and unerring decision. Possessed of these qualifications, with a special apt- ness for the particular branch in which his services are engaged, unremitting study and devotion to his work should win for him the not too munificent remuneration good positions in this overcrowded profes- sion yield. MASQUETTE. Mentally active children of high strung nervous system occasionally suffer from what are termed “ night terrors.” These paroxysms come on suddenly during sleep, the victim starting up, crying or screaming, and exhibiting other signs of great terror. Such attacks are often quite obstinate, and it generally takes some time to fully awaken the sufferer and bring him to the realization of where he is, and that he is in no danger. The paroxysms in some cases come every few nights for quite along time, and naturally occasion the parents much annoyance, if not intense disgust, after they know their character. They treat the un- fortunate with consideration at first, but are extremely likely before long to show a good deal of temper and impatience if, as they term them, the “ crazy spells ” are of frequent occurrence. The victim of such attacks is in no wise to blame, and to use harsh measures would be simply inhuman, and add to his terror. Kind and reasoning words are what is needed at such times. If several attacks have occurred it is safe to assume that medical treatment is neces- sary, and a physician should be consulted. â€"Ea:. How the Average Woman Efl‘ects Her Evenings on the Veranda. The average woman over 40 is never so con. tent as when hugging herself in a shawl on a hotel piazza, says a correspondent of the Boston Gazette. Hug without question. Ghuddas of brown or grey, Blue, white or cafe an leit ; And each old girl will say Hers is the best one. On the slightest pretext a woman will give a. little shudder, seize her shawl, and, en- veloping herself from waist to ears in it, will settle down like a cat in a feather bed. The white chudda. seems to be the most popular. and after dusk it is a. wise man that knows his own wife, though it is im- material for the moment which is which, for Women in shawls are all alike; they shiver and hug their elbows, and answer in monosyllables; and if their shawl for a moment slips from their shoulders they are like clipped poodles or wet hensâ€"dis- gruntled and whining. In heaven yclept Enphrosyno was rendered : The precedent set by the marriage of the Princess Louise to the Marquis of Lorne scarcely stirred the same feelings, for it was not so important. The illustrious lady at the time of her wedding, if our memory does not mislead us, stood only twenty- sixth in the order of succession. But the death of the venerable Queen and the acces- sion of the Prince of Wales to the throne elevate the Duchess of Fife to a distinct civic status in the eyes of the law as Princess Royal of England. At this very moment, indeed, she stands third after the heir-apparent in the succession to the throne. That she has, in such circum- stances, been permitted to wed out of the royal caste, and to select a husband, not from a minor Teutonic “dukery,” if we may venture to appropriate a favorite phrase of Lord Beaconsfield’s, but from the ranks of the English nobility, is to the English people a fact of no ordinary signi- ficance. It isa sign that in the highest quarters there is some desire to break the tradition perpetuated since the time of George 11., that it is mnwenry to keep the Royal Family of England, or rather those of them who are near the succession, ex- clusively German. The outburst of popular congratulation with which Her Royal Highness’ marriage was hailed on Saturday all over the Empire may be taken as show- ing that Englishmen are well pleased to find that this tradition is no longer to be held as sacrosanct. Perhaps it may be even taken as confirming the view of the shrewd historian, who held that English- men always in their heart of hearts hated the Royal Marriage Act as a thing ofiensive to their insular pride and prejudices, and that they only tolerated it when it was passed because they did not want to see Mrs. Fitzherbert Queen of England.â€" London Daily Chronicle. It appears from the last statistical re- turns that there are about 1,000,000 more women than men in England, and many of these are widows. This is a very surprising discovery. It may be explained, however. In England, as in all old settled countries, women predominate numerically over men, partly in consequence of the superior vitality of girl babies over boy babies ; partly because of the large number of young men who go abroad. In England, widows are addicted to the practice of marrying again. How, then, does it come that the number of widows so largely pre- dominates over that of widowers ? The explanation is that there are more old men who marry young women than there are young men who marry old women. A large class of men postpone matrimony until late in life. They enjoy the desolate freedom of the bachelor; they are afraid of marrying on scanty means; they dread the loss of their freedom ; they have never met the right girl. Thus they only resort to matrimony when they find they abso- lutely need female companionship. Such middle-aged men usually marry women of 25, or, at any rate,vwomen under 30. It is obvious that, all other things being equal, the chances are that a woman of 25 will outlive a man of 45. The average life of men in easy circumstances is not over 60 years. If the husband dies at 60, the wife, if she is married at 25, will be 40 at the time of his death, and she will have a lair prospect of twenty years' more life. Hence the surplus of widows. Desecration of Sunday in England. Night Terrors in Children. Shawls to the right of us, bhawls to the left of us, Shawls all around the house A Surplus of \Vidows. The People Like It. SHAWSL. The Greatest Bridge in the Worldâ€"A Can- tilever Triumph. The bridge across the Firth of Forth at ueen’s Ferry, Scotland, now approaching womplction, is a. work of such magnitude ud presents so many points of novelty tot it has attracted the attention of the W015 engineering world. In 1804 a. sur- VO‘pr published designs for a. bridge across theForth at the same spot, and with spans of he like magnitude. That, however, was 1‘0 bée suspension bridge, with chains like the cable of a fifty-ton yacht, and the total weight of iron was estimated at 200 tons, as contrasted with 50,000 tons of steel in the present structure. While a bridge of 1,700 feet in span was thus conceived of nearly a. cenznry ago, it may also be said that the csntiiovvr principle of construction can be found in Egyptian and Indian temples built before the introduction of the arch. Au eminent engineer says that the canti- lever wss in all probability invented by some intellgent savage, who, wanting to get across a. stream too deep to ford and too wide tc jump, utilized the projecting branches of two opposite trees as canti- levers or brackets, and connected them by a short independent piece of timber, and so formed a. cantilever and central girder structure. To give stoves a good lustre add either sugar or alum to the lend. ALL competent authorities, prominent among them being F. F. Roberts. M. D., Professor of Chemical Medicine at Uni- versity College Hospital, London, Eng., say “ Bright's disease has no marked symptoms of its own, but takes the symptoms of other (so-called) diseases." It you have headache, fickle appetite, failure of eyesight, tube casts in urine, gradual loss of flesh and dropsioal swelling, extreme wakefulness, distressing nervousness, do not neglect such symptoms, or you Will eventually have Bright’s disease, or some other effect of neglected kidney disease. Take Warner’s Safe Cure, the only recognized specific for this disease. The true principle of construction and the nature of the stresses may be illus- trated in a simple way. Two men who sit on chairs extend their arms, which they support by grasping sticks butting against the chairs. This represents the two double cantilevers. The central girder is repre- sented by a short stick slung from the arm of each man, and the anchorage by ropes extending from the other arms to two piles of bricks. When stresses arebrought on this system by a load on the central girder the arms of the men and the anchorage ropes come into tension, and the sticks and chair legs into compression. In the Forth bridge we must imagine the 1 chairs to be placed a third of a mile apart, j the men‘s heads to be 360 feet above the ‘ ground, the pull on the arms 10,000 tons, and the pressure on the legs of the chairs on the ground 100,000 tons. As regards size and weight no existing bridge at all approaches the Forth bridge. There are two spans, each 1,700 feet long ; the width of the bridge at the piers is 120 feet; there is a clear headway for navigation at high water of 150 feet ; the deepest foundation below high water is 89 feet ; the highest part of the bridge above high water is 360 feet, and the depth of water in the centre of the channel is 210 feet. With this depth the bridge could never have been built had it not been for an island in the middle of the Forth. The train weight that will be put upon the bridge will be small compared with the wind pressure needed to be overcome, and to resist wind the lofty columns over the piers are 120 feet apart at the base and 33 feet at the top. As furnishing an idei’ of the enor- mous force which the oantilevers are capa- ble of resisting it may be said that a pull of 45,000 tons .would be needed to tear asunder the top ties. The greatest pull from passing trains can be only 2,000 tons. The bridge is looked upon as a railway necessity. Indeed, it will furnish the missing link in a great chain of communica- tion throughout the United Kingdom. When we read of such structures,and know that trains reach a speed of sixty miles an hour, we cannot but smile at what the staid old “ Quarterly Review ” said in 1825 : " We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which is as as great as can be ventured on with safety.” At an election in Poland the other day a smart young candidate tried a manoeuvre which almost deserved to succeed for its ingenuity. Nearly all the peasants were against him, and the problem was how to prevent them from voting. The interval is very short between the time when they leave off work and the closing of the polls, so that at the last half hour a great crowd was waiting. Suddenly there was a cry of “Fire” and a rattling of engines. But the ruse did not succeed, the stolid coun- trymen first waiting to record their vote, andthen hurrying off to discuss the con- flagration.â€"London Globe. A young gentleman, describing a young girl to some of his friends, said that she was beautiful. [they naturally expected to see some radiant creature with whom they would be instantly charmed. This, how- ever, was not the case. for they found the girl extremely plain, and a laugh was in- dulged in at the young man’s expense. But in a very short time his friends fouhd that they had laughed too soon. The young lady was one of a large pleasure party which went off on a week’s outing; and when the party returned, there was not one among them who did not think her beauti- ful. It was she who had responded most quickly to the requests of her elders, rendering sweet service in a charming way which can be better understood by the de- lighted reoipient than by any pen-picture, however vivid. It was she who had run with gentle helpfulness to the rescue of every troubled child, she who had given up her seat to an older and a more wearied person, with a tact not always shown even by kindly disposed persons. In fact, she had unostentatiously done the countless loving little acts which stamp the doer as a. follower of the “ One altogether lovely.” â€"Prcsbytericm. No such institution as our English work- house exists in France, the only shelter offered those unfortunate members of the human family who find themselves house- less and penniless being the night asylums, which, though admirable institutions in their way, are kept up by private charity, and can receive but a very limited number of the applicants who crowd round the doors both winter and summer. That the absence of workhouses in France does not, howaver, imply much greater prosperity or thrift than in England is proved by a statement recently made in the Chamber of Deputies by the member for Indra-st. Loire, who informed ‘the Minister of the Interior that in one commune of his de- partment reckoning 6,000 inhabitants, no fewer than 1,400 vagrants had been known to present themselves for alms in a single day. This instance was adduced as an ex- ample of the great increase in the number of vagabonds, due presumably, as M. Con- stans observed, to the hard times ex- perienced by many of the working classes during the past few years. It may be added that to put down vagabondage in France is not easy, ofienders of this class only being liable to prosecution in the event of their having neither domicile, nor profession, nor recognized tradeâ€"three con- ditions that are rarely met with together. -â€"London Standard. A Polish Election Dodge. SCOTLAND’S PnIDE. The Homeless In France. What is Beauty ? A Young Student’s Cheap Trip to England Two hundred dollars is a large sum to a poor man and a small sum to a rich man, says the Youth’s Companion. But in the matter of money everything depends on the way it is used. Some men will get a vast amount of amusement, recreation and re- finement out of a few dollars. Other men will spend large sums, and be unhappy or unblessed by the spending. Having occa- sion to put the matter to a practical test, a young student who lately went to Europe with just $200 is ready to tell what he got for it for the benefit of any who may be blessed with so moderate a sum, and still hesitates to go abroad for fear of not getting enough for the money. This philosophical traveller says : “ I went over, intermediate cabin passage, for $.35 from Boston to Liverpool, by one of the finest Cunard steamers. The inter- mediate passage was not equal to first cabin it its table fare, but I had more fun in other ways. When I reached Liverpool I went to a plain hotel, where I could dine a la carte, or go to the sideboard and help myself, and generally did, and spent three days in the city at very moderate expense. I then went on to London, stopping one day at the Duke of Devonshire’s estate, Chats- worth. Once in London I determined on one of the several ways of spending what money I had left. I procured lodging and breakfast and dinner at a cheap boarding- house in Bloomsbury, about ten minutes' walk from the British Museum. I had a Beedeker’s guide book, and with its help I mapped out a number of famous places where I could go sight-seeing at very little expense. While on my tramps in the city I would go for a lunch into some restaurant where meals were served from some joint, or into the nearest coffee stand. where I often obtained all I wanted for eightpence and sometimes for sixpence. When I had to use the railways I always want third class. This was not so comfortable as second or first class, but more interesting in many ways on account of the people I met, and that is half the good of travelling at all. When I had occasion to ride I always took a ’bus if I could. This was a never- failing source of amusement to me. I saw more to remember from the top of an Eng- lish ’bus than from any other place during my whole visit in London, and it was a very cheap source of instruction. The han- som cab was an expensive vehicle, costing a shilling, while the ’bus fares were usually very reasonable, and on some lines, at certain hours of the day, ab- surdly cheap for the distance. ‘ By selecting the right day and hour for visiting many places of interest I suc- ceeded in seeing them for half price or for nothing. There are many places of inter- est in and about London where. on certain days of the week, admission'is free. On certain other days it is sixpence or a shil- ling. By consulting my ‘Baedeker,’ and planning a little ahead, I saved many small items in this way. I was also con- tent to do a large amount of walking; and, indeed, in this way I not only saved riding fares, but often saw curious and even rare sights which I should have missed if I had been in the habit ol riding to and from points of interest. I spent seven weeks in London, and visited nearly all the large places of note. St. Paul’s, Westminster Abbey, Parliament buildings, National Gallery, the Tower, the museum. where I went almost daily, the bank, where I did not go so often, nearly all the suburbs on the west side, the parks and art galleries, the Thames and Chelsea, Lord's cricket grounds and the Zoological Gardens. In many of these places I spent much time in special study, and went fre- quently, especially to the museums and churches, on the principle that as I had confined my trip abroad to one city I would know as much about it as possible. Get- ting back to Liverpool I still had money enough for first~class cabin fare to New York, and paid £10, or $50, for my return passage. In the time I was abroad I saw and enjoyed $5200 worth at least. My board cost me about $55. My travelling, counting going and coming, was $115. The remaining $30 went for sundries, clothing, amusements, washing and keepsakes of the trip. But it any one can get more out of $200 abroad I wish they would write me and let me know how that I may try it again." Preparations are already being made in several German university towns to celebrate next year the 300th university of the in- vention of the microscope. Zacharias J ana- aen, of Middlebnrg put together the first microscope in 1590. A process has been invented by means of which photographs can be printed almost as fast as a newspaper, and without dependence on sun or light. They are said to, be of the first quality. That, of course, would make photographs much cheaper. And a. voice in smothered accents Reworked with humor vicious ; “ My daughter is in the kitchen Washing the supper dishes." Professor James Thomson has resigned the chair of Civil Engineering and Mecha- nics in the University of Glasgow. -â€"The wages of sin may be death, but pay day frequently comes so late the good effect is lost. â€"In character, in manner, in style, in all things the supreme excellenoy is in sim- plioity. â€"-â€"Printera’ types are not quarrelsome, as a general thing, but we have seen a quad- tangle. Irish Industries Successful. Irishmen in the United States will be glad to learn the association started by Micheal Davitt a couple of years ago to en- courage the industries of their native land, has been a great success, and that the shares of the company are now held at a premium in Dublin. Several good dividends have been declared and there are excellent prospects for the future. It is a patriotic and philanthropic enterprise, and not a money-making scheme. Mr. Davitt has long been convinced that a larger demand for Irish homespun woollens would arise if they were properly introduced in the United States and England, and the result of the experiment has justified this opinion. The difliculty at the outset was to meet the long credits given by English manufacturers, the Irish cottage weavers needing cash for their goods as soon as they were finished. This was paid by the Dublin company, which gave the credit required by the trade, and the weavers were thus enabled to go on with their work. The demand is now said to be larger than they can supply, and the goods are wanted as much in England as in the United States, where the Irish home- spuns were at first taken for patriotic rea~ sons. which led to the discovery of their sirterling worthâ€"Correspondence New York 011d. Doctor Talmage, while engaged in de- livering a discourse on a very warm day in his Tabernacle recently. was closely watched by a little girl. A fly seemed to bother him very much. He brushed it away several times. It finally lit upon a bald spot on his head. He kept on with his sermon, gestioulating in his peculiar angular way with one hand while he raised the other devoutly over the fly and finally came down on it slowly drawing his hand down and looking at it. The little girl suddenly called out: “Did ’00 till it?” It is unnecessary to say that the audience smiled audiny while the doctor answered, “ Yes, I killed it.” There was music in the parlor. Sweet airs were softly played, And a lurking lover whispered, “ It is my own dear maid.” Then he stealthin approached her, With one arm around her waist, A kiss of long drawn sweetness} Upon her llps he placed. TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS. Be Killed It. HIE MISTAKE. The Mistake the Two Spinstcr Bog-gs Made An elderly lady once remarked to apretty girl that it was a very serious matter for a young woman to have a sweetheart. The girl answered that it was a far more serious matter not to have one. Certainly the two Misses Boggs, who have committed suicide at Point Pleasant, W. Va., agreed with the young lady. The two sisters were well-to- do. There was no reason why they should die by their own hand, or die at all, appar- ently. But they killed themselves, leaving a pathetic note, signed by both their names, saying there was “nothing in life for old maids.” It is a melancholy story, but the suicide was founded on a gigantic misapprehen- sion of life. There is just as much here below for an old maid as for anybody else. Suppose they were without husbands ? Husbands are not always what the old or young maiden fancy paints them. No more are wives always satisfac- tory. Socrates is credited with saying that whether one marries or does not marry, he regrets it. It the Misses Boggs had mar- ried, they might have got husbands whom they would have had to commit suicide to get rid of. Women have done the like, more than once. But the gravest possible mistake one can make is to take for granted that his personal love, personal comfort and happiness play a. very large figure in the plan of this universe. Whoever pursues these aims alone finds they invariably elude him at last, like Will 0’ the Wisp. If the Misses Boggs wanted children, there was a world full of forlorn, homeless babies, many of them quite as sweet and pretty as any possible Boggs’ babies would have been. How much they could have added to human happiness by adopt- ing four or five little waifs and giv- ing them home and education 1 Then there was the whole world of ideas before themâ€"study, travel, science, art and music. Humanity stumbles blindly and painfully on, seeking always the better way in every- thing, thankful always to people who show it the better way. All of us owe it to the race to give some part of our time to aiding the rest. In philanthropy, in helping man- kind to prosperity, to better. Wiser, sweeter ways of livmg, there is work enough for a million single women, heaven knows l A volume of the poems of Frederic Ten- nyson, eldest brother of the poet laureate. is among the reprints in contemplation in London. They have become difficult «to procure. Recent statistie'show the stock of horses in Russia to be 21,000,000, exclusive of the Caucasus, Finland, and the Asiatic terri- my. There are six government studs, be- side/a large number of private ones. The sum of 100,000 roubles is devoted annually by the Russian government to the pur- chase of stallions. Much has been done in Russia. of late years to improve the breed- ing of horses. Races, trotting matches and “ shows" have been multiplied all over the county. It is sometimes necessary to pass through a sea of troubles to find at last that the only genuine happiness is found in giving happiness to others. Exactly in propor- tion as men lose sight of the “ miserable aims that end in self,” by a. mysterious law friends, happines and hope will drift their way. It is indeed : A miserable, petty. 10w~roofed life, That knows the mighty orbits of the skies Through naught save light or dark in its own cu. in. ' Editor (after reading it) 431;; is ngtj a jolge.‘ _ ' DeRyterâ€"But I say it is. I made it, and I ought to know. There is a market inside the Jaffa gate and I can see it just under me as I write. Great piles of oranges and lemons lie upon the flag sidewalkyand there are scores of women with baskets of vegetables before them. Many of these arejro'm Bethlehem, and the Bethlehem girls are the prettiest you see in Jerusalem. They have straight, well-rounded forms, which they clothe in a long linen dress of white, beautifully em- broidered in silk, so that a single gown re- quires many months of work. This dress is much like an American woman’s night gown without the frills and laces. It falls from the neck to the feet and is open at the front of the neck in a narrow slit as far down as a modest decollete fashionable dress. Over this they have sleeveless cloaks of dark red stripes and their heads are cov- ered with long shawls of linen beautifully embroidered. Just above her forehead each girl carries her dowry in the shape of a wreath~like strip of silver coins which stand on end fastened to a string, and crown the forehead with money. Some of the girls have several rows of these coins and some have crowns of gold. Not a few have coins of silver and gold the size of our $520 gold pieces hung to strings about their necks. and none of the women hide their pretty faces, as do those Mohammedan girls near by, who, in shapeless white gowns with flowery white and red veils covering the whole of their faces, look like girls playing ghosts in white sheets. Be- side these are Russian girls in the peasant costumes of modern Europe and Jewish maidens in gowns and flowered shawls. There are Greek priests with high black caps, and monks of all kinds, such as you see under the black oowls of Europe. The Syrian, the Turk, the Bedouin, the African, the Armenian and the Greek are all in that crowd below me, and among them all is the form of the obiquitous American traveller, who, in pith helmet hat and green sun umbrella, has conquered the east as well as the westâ€"F. G. Carpenter‘s Jerusalem Let- er in the Post-Dispatch. DeRyterâ€"Here is a joke I have brought 5'02"“ She (tenderly)â€"Did the dog bite you, darling ‘3 Heâ€"Yes. he did. She (reassuringly)â€"Well, it was papa’a dog, darling, and we know he isn't mad. Heâ€"Yes ; but I am. “ You shall be queen of the May,” re- sponded Dr. Brown~Sequard, as he pro- ceeded to his laboratory and slaughtered afresh guinea pigâ€"After the New York World. -“ I was once a footlight favorite, and men showered me with pearls and dis.- monds. Oh, can I be young again," she exclaimed with all the fervor of a. maiden of 62 summers. . Faded Footlight Flowers Bloom Again. “ And, doctor, can you make this bloom again ‘2" asked Father Time, pointing to a. specimen of the vintggq_9f_1_849. N asr-ed-Deen,like many other potentates, is fond of money, and is supposed to possess a colossal fortune. He pays small salaries to his servants and dignitaries if the money comes out of his own pocketâ€"that is, out of the legitimate revenues of the countryâ€"but he pays at least promtly and fairly what he agrees to pay. After deducting what he deems right for army, administration and household purposes he puts the balance away every year into his private treasury. Once the moneyawhioh must always be coinâ€"has been dumped into his vaults no power on earth can induce the Shah to give the slightest portion of it back again or to touch it for any purpose whatsoever. When he is compelled to borrow money from the Armenians he pays usurious interest sooner than go to his strong box and take from its illimitable treasures the smallest sum.â€" Cosmopolitan. “NOTHING FOR OLD MAIDS.” How the Shah Keeps Accounts. The Dog Had no Cause To Be. The Belles of Bethlehem. Be Should it Be Didn’t. Horses In Russia. â€"Elmim Advertiser. How the Efi‘ects of Electric Magnets Have Been Neutralized by a Bright Idea. Electricity is now applied to a majority of the watches now made in this country. It used to be that a valuable watch would suddenly lose all self-respect and run like a race-horse on one day and a tortoise on the next. No one could tell what it was. Big prices were paid to the jewellers by unhappy watch-owners who hoped that the wizard of the balance wheel and main- spring could repair their timepieces. A! electricity became more popular the irregu- larities of watches became more marked. But before the watch trade grew desperate a bright mind solved the mystery. He made an experiment, applying the battery to a fine watch, and then tried the effect of the dynamo upon the electrified movement. As one poison counteracts another’s effect, so one battery equalized the other’s effect. The magnet and the watch movement were made friends, and now a timepiece can mingle with the battery in a familiar way and feel no evil effects tram the asso- ciation. According to Dr. Leuf, when water is taken into the full or partly Iull stomach, it does not mingle with the food. as we at taught, but passes along quickly between the food and lesser curvative toward the pylorus, through which it passes into the intestines. The secretion of mucus by the lining membrane is constant, and during the night a considerable amount accumu- lates in the stomach; some of its liquid portion is absorbed, and that which remains is thick and tenacious. If food is taken into the stomach when in this condition it becomes coated with muons, and the secre- tion of the gastric juice and its action are delayed. These facts show the value of a goblet of water before breakfast. This washes .out the tenacious mucus, and stimulates the gastric glands to secretion. In old and feeble persons water should not be taken cold, but it may be with great advantage taken warm or hot. This re- moval of the accumulated mucus from the stomach is probably one of the reasons why taking soup at the beginning of a meal has been found so beneficial. £1. with us. 59nd 200. for terms. Acolored rug pattern and 50 colored designs. W. (2F BUSH, St. Thomas, 0111:. â€"“There’s a flood in Richmond, IVE-p remarked the telegraph editor. “Gwen heaveni” exclaimed the dude reporter, ‘ will it spoil the thiggawettee ‘2” She wore a munuish little coat With knowing little pockets; She cast aside her necklaces. Her bangles and her lockets Her diokey, collar and oravut Exactly match her brother‘s; Her round straw hat is so like his You can’t tell one from ’tother’s, She ventures on a. little slang That sounds quite brueque and mannish But show her once a. mouse or worm And see the disguise vanishl â€"“ See here, Mr. Grocer,” said a Hart- ford housewife, ” it you are going to bring me any more goods I want them to be the very best.” “ We keep none but the best." “ I presume so ; you sell the worst in order to keep the best.” ‘ Dr. Chauncey Biggs, of Bellevue Hos- pital, has a case of much interest to the medical fraternity. On the 8th inst. H. W. Benedict rode from Fifty-seventh street to Forty-seventh street on a Third avenue surface car. At Forty-seventh street he jumped off. He jumped on the wrong side, and was knocked down and run over by an uptown car. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where it was discovered that his spinal cord was fractured. As a rule, the patient does not survive long under these circumstances, but Mr. Benedict is getting along so well that Dr. Biggs hopes the column will knit, and that the patient will recover.â€"Ncw York Star. 0! Virginia, is one enormous quagmire of decayed vegetation, a region of gloom and desolation; but not more so than the human system when blocked up by decayed animal matter, which poisons the blood and brings gloom to an otherwise happy household. Dr. Pieroe‘s Pleasant Purgetive Pellets re- move ell waste matter, and give Nature a chance to build up. Carefully repeated experiments made by an experienced English navigator at San- tander, on the north coast of Spain, showed the crest of the sea waves in a prolonged and heavy gale of wind to be 42 feet high. and allowing the same for the depth be; tween the waves would make a height of 84 feet from crest to base. The length from crest to crest was found to be 386 feet. Other estimates of the waves in the South Atlantic during great storms give a height of 50 feet for the crests and 400 feet for length. In the North Sea the height of crest seldom exceeds 10 feet and the length 150 feet. A bachelor who lives in Newark, N. 3.. and who has always had a. fear that his little wife might rule him, says now that a. new idea has struck him. He is going to marry a. typewriter girl, because he can dictate to her. “ Death has _so many doors to let out,uf0.'0 sang an old time poet. In those days they had not discovered remedies that shut iheae doors. How different is Dr. I‘ierce’a Golden Medical Discovery, from the old time doses. Consumpbion or lung scrotula, is one wide door that it shuts, if taken in time. Don't waste a momen£,then lest life slip throughlthat open door. It is guaranteed to cure in all cases of diseases for which it is recom- mended, o': money paid for it will be re- funded. There’s a. blessing in the bottle on whose label we can read Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, for the woman who has need 02 ekremedy for troubles none but women over new. "Tis her best and truest friend, and happy thaws: ends cell it so, As they think of years of sul‘f'ring that were theirs before it came, Bringing them the balm of healing, and they bless the very name of this wonderfully, and deservedly, popular remedy for the various ills woman is heir to. “ Favorite Prescription " is the only medicine for women; sold by druggists', under a positive guarantee; from the menu; facturers,thstit will give satisfaction in every case, or money will be refunded. This guarantee has been printed on the bottle- wrapper. and faithfully carried out fer many years. " He pays no attention to what I say. He listens only to the advice of fools." Then, with a sudden thought, “ I wish you would speak to him!” " You should speak to him with firmness and remind him of his duties,” said the other. Agentleman was once lamenting t9 g friend the conduct of his son. THECDDK’S BEST FRIENB EBRATIO WATCHES CURBED. GENTS MAKE $100 A MONTH Bow and when to Drink Water. 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