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AN AMERIGAN GIRL. CHAPTER III. L’ARGENTVILLE. Miss Belinda sat looking at her neice, with a sense of being at once stunned and fascinated. To see a. creature so young, so pretty, so luxuriously splendid, and at the same time so simply and completely at ease with herself and her surroundings, was a revelation quite beyond her comprehension. The best-bred and nicest girls Slowbridge could produce were apt to look a trifle con- scious and timid when they found them- selves attired in the white muslin and floral decorations; but this slender creature sat in her gorgeous attire, her train flowing over the modest carpet. her rings flushing, her ear-pendants twinkling, apparently entirely oblivious of, or indifferent to, the fact that all her belongings were sufficiently out of place to be startling beyond measure. .. . . . L ,,,,,,, , ,u AL__:_L:‘ r Her chief characteristic, however, seemed to be her excessive frankness. She did not hesitate at all to make the most remarkable statements concerning her own and her father’s past career. She made them, too. as if there were nothing unusual about them. Twice, in her childhood a Iuokless speculation had left her father psnniless; and once he had taken her to a California gold-diggers’ camp, where she had been the only female member of the somewhat reckless community. “ But they were pretty good-natured, and made a pet of me," she said. “ And we did not stay very long. Father had a. stroke of luck, and we went away. I was sorry when we had to go, and so were the men. They made me a. present of a. set of jewelry made out of the gold they had got them- selves. There is a breastpin like a breat- plete, and a. necklace like a. dog-collar; the bracelets tire my arms, and the ear-rings pull my ears; but I wear them sometimesâ€" gold girdle and all.” 1 «Mn , nus“); L:.__:A1._ Octavia glanced down, also. " Oh, no," she replied; “ it will do well enough. I will throw a scarf over my head, though ; not because I need it,” unbluahingly, “ but because I have a. lace one that is very begoming.” OV'“ I)""" "i" “Did I,” inquired Miss Belinda, timidly â€"â€"-“ Did I understand you to say, my dear, that your father’s business was in some way connected with silver-mining ?" ‘ “ Certzinly, my dear,” assented Miss Belinda. “ But perhaps,” with a delicately dubious glance at her attire, “you would like to make acme little alteration in your dressâ€"to put something a littleâ€"dark over it." “Owns!” said Miss Belinda, much fluttered. “ Owns some silver mines ‘1 He must be a very rich manâ€"a very rich man! I declare, it quite takes my breath nwayz" " "V ' ’ . . v “ It 18 ailver-mmmg,” was the response. “ He owns someimiings, you known” Having st last risen from the tea-table, she wandered to the window, and stood there, looking out at Miss Belinda’s flower- garden. It was quite a pretty flower- gnrden, and a good-sized one, considering the dimensions of the house. There was an oval grass-plot, divers gravel paths, heert and and diamond sheped beds, aglow with brilliant annuals, a great many rose- bushee, several laburnums and lilacs, and a. trim hedge of holly surrounding it. “ I think I should liketo go out and walk around there,” remarked Octavia. smother- in a. litttle yawn behind her hand. “ Sup- pose we goâ€"if you don’t care." “0h. he is rich," said Octavia. “Aw- fully richâ€"sometimes. And then again he isn’t. Shares go up, you know, and they go down, and you don’t seem to have any- thing; but father generally comes outright, because he is lucky and knows how to manage.” .. . - u- _,_,_A: 1.1:-.. “ Butâ€"but how uncertain I" gasped Miss Belinda. “ I should be perfectly miserable. Poor, dear Marâ€"" " Oh, no, you wouldn't,” said Octavia. You‘d get used to it, and wouldn‘t mind muchâ€"particularly if you were lucky as father is. There is everything in being lucky and knowing how to manage. When we first went to Bloody_Guloh‘_â€"'1' “ No, thank you," answered Octavia, and it must he confessed that she looked a little bored an she leaned back in her chnir, and glanced down at the train of her dress. It seemed to her that her simplest statement or remark created a sensation. ~‘7-Igia'riglfi1iifiigifiher matter ?” aheinquired; P199911». n ,, I, e,,,: n12_‘ ‘l‘l_l.'_J_ W“WWon’t you take another muffin, my love ‘2” she said, with a sigh. “Do take another muffin.” “ My dearl” cried Miss Belinda, aghast. " I-I bag of youâ€"" Octavia. stopped short. She gazed at Miss Belinda, in bewilderment, as she had done several times before. """"_J ‘ “ My dear love," explained Miss Belinda, innocently, determined at least to do her duty, “ it is not customary lnâ€"in Slow- bridgeâ€"in fact, I think I may say in Eng. landâ€"to use suohfiauch exceedinglyâ€"I don’t want to wound your feelings, my deanâ€"but such exceedingly strong expres- sions. I refer, my dear, to the one which began with a B. It is really considered profane, as well as dreadful beyond mea- sure.’ “I trust you never lived there,” said Miss Belinda. “I beg your pardon for being so horrified, but I really could not refrain from starting When you spoke; and I cannot help hoping you never lived there." “I live there now, when I em at home,” Octavia. replied. ” The mines are there, and father has built a house, and had the furnituga bionghton from .Nevg Yogk." _ WMiss Belind; tried not to shudder, but nlmoat tailed. " ‘ The one which began with a B," ‘ re- peated Octavia, still staring at her. “ That is the name of a. place ; but I didn‘t name it, you know. It was called that, in the first place, because a. party of men were surprisefl and murdered there, while they were asleep in their camp at night. It isn’t a very nice neme, of 0011156, but I’m not responsible for it ; and besides, now the plsoe is growing, they are going to call it Athens or Magnolia Vale. They tried L'Ar- gentville for a while ; but people_would call it Lodginville, and nobody lihed it.” -1 Once, in the Morning Glory. 1 had an odd conceit ', Sweet Winiam was a bridegroom, The bride of Marguerite, And Violet was the bridesmaid, She combed the Maideu‘s Hair With a. dainty bit of Cockscomb, Found in the garden fair. The priestgood Johnny Jump-up, A fitting Monk’s Hood wore, And said the rite in silence. As ne‘er was said before. 'JNow, may you Liveâ€"for-cver,” The guests united said ; Fair Lily, m1] and stately, Just bowed her queeuly head But Rose went up with blushes, And kissed the Winsome bride ; Here, too. was Bachelor Button, With Daisy by his side. When Blue~bell rang: for breakfast, They went in two by two ; Bow Borncing Betty hurried, She has so much to do. She wgnt up to her room for the article They ate the ButterAand»the-Eggs, Yl‘ua Honeysucklcs, too, And then, 11mm golden Buttercupm They sipped the morning dew. They fanned with Princes‘ Feathers, And all were may, I Ween ; “ No room is here for Bleeding Hearts,” Quoth Ladyâ€"in-the-Green. And some wore Lady Slippers, And danced to music fine, 0! Lily-bells a-awinging. A11 in the glad sunshine. So. from the Morning Glory Tim Four O'Clock they stayed ; Dem flowers of the upland, Sweet blossoms of the glade. -â€"Vick‘s Magazinefor August Among the Flowerl. in question, and in three minutes was down again. When she first caught sight of her, Miss Belinda found herself obliged to clear her throat quite suddenly. What Slowbridge would think of seeing such a toilette in her front garden, upon an ordinary occasion, she could not imagine. The scarf truly was becoming. It was a long affair of rich white lace, and was thrown over the girl’s head, wound around her throat, and the ends tossed over her shoulders, with the most picturesque air of carelessness in the world. “You look quite like a bride, my dear Octavia,” said Miss Belinda. “We are scarcely used to such things in Slow- bridge.” But Octavia only laughed a little. “ I am going to get some pink roses, and fasten the ends with them, when we get into the garden," she said. u rum; She stopped for this purpose at the first rose-bush they reached. She gathered halt a. dozen slender-stemmed, heavyâ€"headed buds, and having fastened the lace with some, was carelessly placing the rest at her waist, when Miss Belinda matte violently. CHAPTER IV. LADY TIIICODALI). 0h deari” she exclaimed nervously, “ there igLaQy _'l:h§eoba_1d.’_’ n Lady Theobald, having been making calls of state, was returning home rather later than ususl, when, in driving up High street, her eye fell upon Miss Bassett’s garden. She put up her eyeglasses,and gazed through them, severely; then she issued a mandate to her ooachman. H‘Tfiolfion,” she said, “drive more sloyyly." .. ,. u u --| ,1LA,‘ She could not believe the evidence of her eyeglasses. In Miss Bassett's garden she saw a tall girl " dressed,” as she put it, “like an actress,” her delicate dress trail- ing upon the grass, a white lace scarf about her head and shoulders, roses in that scarf, roses at her waist. “ Good heavens !” she exclaimed; “ is Belinda. Bassett giving a party, without so much as mentioning it to me 7” Then she issued another mandate. “Dobeon,” she said, “drive faster, and drive me to Miss Bassett‘s." Miss Belinda. came out to the gate to meet her, quaking inwardly. Octavia simply turned slightly where she stood, and looked at her ladyship, without any pretence of concealing her curiosity. d Lady Theobald bent forward in her lan- an. “Belinda,” she said, “ how do you do? I did not know you intended to introduce garden-parties into Slowbridge ” 1 ‘1 nu,,,.,,, 113.- Shé preceded them, without seeming at all conscious that she was taking the lead. ‘fYou had better pick up your dress, 0Vv‘i‘VVIVDea‘r Lady Theobald ' " began Miss Belinda. “Who is that young person 7” demanded her lgdthip. -. -- .. . '1 “Ah I” interposed Octavia. “ I only thgpght it W135 popler.” "She is poor dear Martin’s daughter,” answered Mme Belinda. “She arrived to- day from Nevada, wherewwhere it appears Martin has been very fortunate, and owns a great many silver mines ” n. - 1 “ A ‘grest many’ silver mines l” cried Lady Theobald. “ Are you mad, Belinda. Bsssett? I am ashamed of you. At your time of lifel too 1" Miss Belinda almost shed tears. “ She said ‘ some silver mines, 1 am sure,” she faltered; “for I remember how astonished and bewildered I was. The fact is that she is such 9. very singular girl, and has told me so many wonderful things, in the strangest, cool way, that I am quite uncertain of myself. Murderers, and gold- diggers, and silver mines, and camps full of man without women, making presents of gold girdles and dog-collars, and ear-rings that drag your ears down. It is enough to upset anyoue.”_ _ H I- 11‘ ‘1 “My dear,” answered Miss Belinda. “ Lady Theobald-" She was really quite shocked. “He is very sea-sick now," was the smiling answer,â€"“dendly sea-sick. He has just been out 24 hours.” Out ? What does that mean 7” “Out on the Atlantic. He was called back suddenly, and obliged to leave me. That is why I came here alone.” She felt that this matter must be in. quired into at once, and not allowed to go too far. She had ruled Slowbridge too long to allow such innovations to remain unin- vestigated. She would not be likely to be “ upset,” at least. She descended from her landau, with her most rigorous air. Her stout, rich, black moire antique gown ruetled Beverly, the yellow ostrich feather in her bonnet waved majestically. (Being a. bum- ette, and Lady Theobald, she wore yellow). As she tramped up the gravel walk, she held up her dress with both hands, as an example to vulgar and reckless young people who wore trains and left them to take care of themselves. “Pray d6 come into the parlor and sit down, desr Lady Theobald," ventured Miss Belinda. “Octaviaâ€"” “ Don’t you think it is nicer out here ‘2” said Octavia. a“; I sho‘uld think so," responded her lady- ship. “ Open the carriage door, Belinda, anflrlet pa gefi qu§._”_ v “ Forâ€"for a great many reisons it would be fatiguing to explain," she answered, couggeopsly. ” How i_a_your fafiher? “ I have not had any occasion to inquire where it is situated, so far,” she responded, firmly. It is not so necessary for English people to know America as it is for Ameri- cans to know England." “ Isn’t it ‘1” said Octavia, without any greaj shovy of interest. "Why not ?” The words themselves sounded to Lady Theobald like the most outrageous impu- dence, but when she looked at the pretty, love-lock-shaded face, she was staggeredâ€" the look it wore was such a very innocent and undisturbed one. At the moment, the only solution to be reached seemed to be that this was the style of young people in Nevada, and that it was ignorance and not insolence she had to do battlewithâ€"which, indeed, was partially true. Octavia. was arranging afresh the bunch of long-stemmed, swaying buds at her waist, and she was giving all her attention to her task when her visitor first addressed her. “ You Ere from Nevada. ?" asked Lady Theobald. 44 Yes.” " It is not long since you left there ‘2” Octavia smiled faintly. “ Do I look like that ‘1” she inquired. “ Like What ‘2” said my lady. “ As if I had not long lived in a. civilized place. I dare say I do, because it is true I haven't.” “ How do you do ?" remarked her lady- ahip, in a fine, deep voice. Miss Belinda. followed her meekly. “ Octavio,” she explained, “ this is Lady Theobald, whom you will be very glad to know. She knew ~your foth‘er." “Yes,” returnea my lady, “years ago. He has had time to improve since then. qu do_y9u_gio ?’_‘_ â€"Cbt3§li3‘s limpid eyes rested serenely up- on her. “ I suppose I ought to be sorry for that," she observed. “ I dare say I shall be in timeâ€"when I have been longer away from Nevada.” “I must confess,” admitted her ladyship, and evidently without the least regret or embarrassment, “ I must canfess that I don’t knowwhere Nevnda is.” “It isn’t in Europe,” re lied Octavia, with a soft, light laugh. “ on know that, don_’>t you ?’_’ V “ How do you do '1’“ she said, rather in- difiggently. “You don’t look like an English girl," rerparkqd her__la§yship. Octavia smiled again. She looked at the yellow feather ana stout moire antique dress, but quite as if by accident, and without any mental deduction; then she glanced at the rose-buds in her hand. "’ began Miss Miss Octavia," said Lady Theobald, rather wig}?- Vnu. . ThJe girl glanced over her shoulder at the length of train sweeping the path, but she made no movement towggd piol‘sing i3; up.‘ “ It is too much trouble, 3nd one has to duck down so," she said. “ It is bad enough to have to keep doing it when one is on the street. Besides, they wouid never wear out if one took too much one of themz” When they went into the parlor and sat down, Lady Theobald made excellent use of her time, and managed to hear again all that tried and bewildered Miss Belinda. She had no hesitation in asking questions boldly; she considered it her privilege to do so; she had catechised Slowbridge for forty years, and meant to maintain her rights until time played her the knnve’s trick of disabling her. 1. 1 ‘,Al‘,A In half an hour she had heard about the silver mines, the gold-diggers, and L’Ar- gentville; she knew that Martin Bassett was a. millionaire, if the news he had heard had not left him penniless; that he would return to England, and visit Slowbridge, as soon as his affairs were settled. The pre- carious condition of his finances did not seem to cause Octavia. much concern. She had asked no questions when he Went away, and seemed quite at ease regarding the future. “People will always lend him money, [ma then he is lucky with it," she said. She bore the catechising very well. Her replies were frequently rather trying to her interlocutor, bub she never seemed troubled, or ashamed of anything she had to say; and she Wore, from first to last, that inscrut- ably innocent andindifferent: liftle air. She had notiveivén shown confusion when Lady Theobald. on going away, made her farewell comment : “ You are a very fortunate girl to own such jewels,” she said, glancing critically at the diamonds in her ears; “ but, if you take my advice, my dear, you will put them away, and save them until you are a married woman. It is not customary on this side of the water, for young girls to wear such thingsâ€"particularly on ordinary occasions. People will think you are odd.” .. wvr-u ... __,h, _, ” It is not exactly customary in America,” replied Octavia, with her undisturbed smile. “ There are not many girls who have such things. Perhaps they would wear them if they had them. I don’t care a very great deal about them, but I mean to wear them.” Lady Theobald went away in a dud- geon. “ You will have to exercise your authority, Belinda, and make her put them away,” she said to Miss Bassett. “It is absurdâ€" besidee being atrocious." “Make her i” faltered Miss Bassett. “Yes, ‘make her’â€"though I see you will have your hands full. I never heard such romancing stories in my life. It is just What one might expect from your brother Martin." When Miss Bassett returned, Octavia was standing before the window, watching the carriage drive away, and playing absently with one of her earâ€"rings as she did so. Draining the United States. A San Francisco newspaper thinks that $12,000,000 is yearly " drained” by the Chinese through various channels from a city of 300,000 inhabitants. It figures this way: There are 40.000 Chinese in San Francisco. These persons earn at least 01 aday each over and above their board. That is $40,000:; day, $1,040,000 5 month of 26 days and $12,000,000 a year. Most of this money it thinks goes directly or in- directly to China never to :fiturn. Mr. Julian Hawthorne, correspondent to the American workingmen’s expedition to England, is reported to have said: “ Our party has been immensely impressed with the solidity and substance of England ; it has been quite a revelation to them. The skill of the English workingman, too, acquired in each trade by hereditary trans- mission from generation to generation, has struck them very much. We were particu- larly interested at Sheffield to notice how little of. the excellence of English cutlery was due to any secret process, and how much to manual skill.” In reply to fur- ther questions, Mr. Hawthorne stated that “the American workingmen had found the dwellings of our (British) workingmen very comfortable, and had also been much struck by the sobriety of the people.” “ What an old fright she ial” was her first guileleas remark. Miss Belinda quite bridled. “ My dear,” she said, with dignity, “no one in Slowbridge would think of applying such a. phrase to Lady Theobald.” : IA_IAA:I _L Octagia tut-Had afound, and looked at her. T‘IBut don't you think she is one ?’ ahe exclaimed. “Perlnpa I oughtn’t to have said it; but you know we hnvgn’t anything as bad as that, even out in Nevada.â€" really!” “My dear,” said Miss Belinda, “different countries contain differth people. and in Slowbridge we have our atandards,"â€"her best cap trembling a. little with her Iepreaged excitement. I I 1 But Ootafiia did" not appear overwhelmed by the existence of the standards in ques- tion. She turned to the WinQow ngihfl “ Well, any way," she said, “I think it was pretty cool in her to order me to take off my diamonds, and save them until I was married. How does she know whether I mean to be married or not? I don’t know that I care about it.” LUCIA. In this manner Slowbridge received the shock which shook it to its foundations, and it was a shock from which it did not re- cover for some time. Before ten o'clock the next morning, everybody knew of the arrival of Martin Baasett’s_daughter. The very boarding-school (Miss Pilcher’s select seminary for young ladies, “ combin- ing the comforts of a home," as the circular said, “with all the advantages of genteel education”) was on fire with it, highly colored versions of the stories told being circulated from the " first-class" down- ward, even taking the form of an Indian princess. tattooed blue, and with difficulty restrained from indulging in war-whoops, ~which last feature so alarmed little Miss Bigbee, aged seven, that she retired in fear and trembling, and shed tears under the bedcloths; her terror and anguish being much increased by the stirring recitals oi scalping stories by pretty Miss Phipps, of the first classâ€"a young personwho possessed a vivid imagination, and delighted in ro- mances of a tragic turn. For a moment Miss Phipps appeared to be meditating. Perhaps she was a trifle discomfited, but she recovered herself after a brief pause, and returned to the charge. “Well,” she remarked, “perhaps it is a Wigwam. Who caresif it is? And at any rate, whatever,“ is, I haven’t the aligtest doubt that she lives in one.” (To be Continued). “He doesn't know much about it if he calls a Wigwam a wampum," interposed Miss Smith, with still greater pertnees. “ I have a brother who knows better than that, if I am only in the thirj glass." “ I hsve not the slightest doubt,” said Miss Phipps, “ that when she is at home she lives in a. wampum.” “ What is a wampum?” inquired one of her admiring audience. “ A tent,” replied Miss Phipps, with some impatience. “ I should think any goose would know that. It is a kind of tent hung with scalps andâ€"andâ€"mooossins, andâ€" lsriatsâ€"and things ‘of that sort.” “ Ah 1" commented Miss Phipps, “that was Miss Smith who spoke, of course. We may always expect information from Miss Smith. I trust that I may be allowed to say that I think I have a. brotherâ€"” 7 “I don’t believE that is the right name for it," put in Miss Smith, who was a pert member of the third class. Sheffield Workmen. CHAPTER V. The Bertillon System of Identifying Prison one as Practiced in the Armory. Once a criminal is measured by the Ber- tillon system he is sure of being identified the next time he is caught. The Bertillon system was imported to this country from France not a great many years ago, and is as yet in use in but few prisions and peni- tentiaries. Several of the eastern state prisons use it, and the Illinois State Prison Board was the first to adopt it. The sys- tem is followed at the Harrison and Armory stations in this city. Capt. Lloyd said yesterday that it had been the means of identifying more criminals since it had been adopted here than any other of the numerous schemes devised. On the second floor of ill-J Armory, where none but offi- cers is allowed, is a room where all prison- ers of any prominence are measured, ac- cording to the Bertillon system, and where their photographs are taken. The measure- ments are as iollows: First the full length is taken, then the distance from the middle finger of one hand to the middle finger of the other, with the arms held out straight from the side; the length of the lingers, the length of the joints of the middle finger from the elbow to the end of the middle finger, the size of the wrist, arm, and shoulder, the measure- ment of the neck, size of mouth, the size of head, distance around the head from the ‘ top of each car, distance from the root of the nose to the crown of the head, length of ear, the length and breadth of forehead, bumps or marks on the same, length of foot, the distance from the ball of the same to the knee joint, length of toes, distance from first joint of big toe to heel, and the exact breadth of foot from the last joint of big toe to the little toe. Those are the measurements of the body. Then the color of the eyes, hair and every scar, india-ink mark and blemish on the skin, no matter how trivial, are noted. If the prisoner be a man grown, and is caught twenty years later, his identity can be established be- yond the peradventure of a doubt. “ The system succeeds where a photograph will fail," said Capt. Lloyd, “because a prisoner can squirm around and screw his features into such shapes that the identity is lost in a photograph, but by the Bertillon system, no matter what a man does he cannot pre- vent us holding him and taking his measurements. A large number of the criminals we have measured, upon going back to their old life, when released, were again caught and identified by this system, where otherwise we would have failed. There are not two persons on the face of the earth alike, and the measurement of one man cannot tally with that of another. The only tools required are a little measure made to fit about the head and a rule.â€" Chicago News. ‘Members of beneficiary societies should see that assessments are punctually paid. By a lapse of ten days a recent certificate became void, thus depriving the heirs of the expected benefit of $2.000. In the city court this morning in the case of Charles Freeman against Charles Goldman for the recovery of $25, the orthodox Hebrew oath was administered by the Jewish rabbi. To take the oath the witness has to wash his hands and put on a Talith, or prayer cloak, and while swearing to take and hold in his hand a tora, or the five books of Moses, written on parchment, for the use of the house of worship. The party must swear by the name of Jehovah, and, looking at the word, he shall swear : “ I swear by Adonai," and concludes his oath , “ So help me God to future happi- ness." A small casket contains the ten commandments and is held in the lejt hand, a strap attached being bound about the arms, and another such casket is strapped on the temple. The rabbi ad- ministered the oath to several witnesses before oonrt adjourned for dinner.â€"Utz’ca Observer. [he Third Earl of Zetland who has Suc- ceeded the Marquis of Londonderry. The Right Hon. Sir Lawrence Duudas, Bart, third Earl of Zeilgnd, Baron Dun- daa of Aake, near Richmond, in the county of York, who has succeeded the Marquis of Londonderry as Lord-Lieutenant of Ira- land, was both at Stirling on Aug. 16th, 1844, son of Mr. John Charles Dundas, of Woodhull, Wetherby, Yorkshire, MP. for Richmond, who was fourth son of Law- rence, the second Baron Dundas and first Earl of Zatland, says the New York Morin- ing Journal. The bnrony was created in 1794 and the earldom in 1838. There are four branches of the ancient Scottish family of Dnndas, some members of which have held high public offices in Scotland and in the United Kingdom. The branch distinguished as Dundaa of Fingask had an hereditary connection with the Orkney and Shetland (or Zetland) Isles, usually holding the offices of Lord-Lieuten- ant and Vice-Admiral in those islands. Their estates in Yorkshire accrued from the marriage of Sir Thomas Dundas, in 1764, to a daughter of the third Earl Fitz- william, and this gentleman was raised to the peerage 30 years afterward. The British Consul-General at Con- stantinople, in his last report, refers to the declining commercial import- ance of that city. Its trade has suf- fered considerably since 1878, and more particularly during the past two years. Large wholesale houses which formerly did business with Persia and Central Asia, and acted as middlemen between European manufacturers and the merchants of these parts, have in recent years lost their cus- tomers, and are gradually disappearing from the city. This is owing, in a measure, to new and more direct routes having been thrown open to markets that were formerly supplied from Constanti- nople, and also to the fact that produce which used to go to the Turkish capital for shipment to Europe is now despatched direct from the outports. Persia, which previously drew a considerable part of her imports from Constantinople, has latterly commenced to make use of Bushire, and the entire import trade of Lower Persia is at present centred in that place. The export trade of the city has suffered in a similar way; the produce of Turkish Kurdistan, estimated to amount to an an- nual value of £320,000, which two years ago went through the capital, is now shipped from Bagdadâ€"‘a route which is considered to be less expensive and safer. As regards Persian trade especially, Mr. Fawoett observes that during the years 1887-88 it was not satisfactory. Dealers in Manchester goods suffered considerably, owing partly to Russian competition, and also to the high rate of exchange prevailing at Odessa. Mr. J. G. Dundee, father of the present Earl of Zetland, married, in 1843, a daugh- ter of Mr. James Talbot, of Wexford, so the new Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland is the son of an Irish lady. In 1873, on the death of his uncle Thomas, second Earl of Zet- land, the well~known Grand Master of the Freemasons of England, and renowned as a sportsman, the present Earl succeeded, two other uncles having @ied young. Lord Zetland, who held a. commission in the Royal Horse Guards Blue, had mar. tied, in 1871, Lady Lilian Lumley, third daughter of the late Earl of Scarborough, and he has several children. Her Lady- ahip’e sisters are married to the heirs of the Duke of Westminster, the Earl of Bradlord, and of Lord Bolton. Lord Zet- land has been a Lorain-Waiting to the Queen. He resides at Aake Hall, Rich- mond, and at Kerae House, near Falkirk, in Scotland. LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND. THEY’RE MARKED FOR. LIFE. ’l‘hc Decline of Constantinople. The Hebrew Oath. One of the Great Engineering Feats ofthe Present Age. The objective point of this (Saturday) morning was the famous ship canal nowin course of construction between Liverpool and Manchester, says Julian Hawthorne in a letter to the Detroit News. These two great towns, each containing at least 500,000 inhabitants, have long been jealous rivals, after the fashion of our own St. Paul and Minneapolis or St. Louis and Chicago. By making this canal Manches- ter will immensely improve her position, for it will render her a seaport in every way as convenient and accessible as Liver- pool herself. The canal has long been in contemplation, but has been delayed by many causes, among which the opposition of the railway corporations are not the most formidable. But all the obstacles were at length overcome. The route of the canal was surveyed with extraordinary care and judgement. The contract was given to one man, the renowned Mr. Walker, whose succsssful management of an enterprise at Buenos Ayres, involvingacost of £5,000,000, and of the Severn tunnel have given him an unsur- passed reputation. No part of the contract has been sublet; he conducts it all him- self, and so careful were his calculations that he will clear a handsome profit from the transaction. He began work eighteen months ago and will complete the job in 1891, or in about four and a half years. The total cost will come within £10,000,- 000â€"050,000,000. He employs an army of 12,000 workmen, and dredging and other machinery that save the labor of ten times as many men. The men work ten hours a day, beginning at G a.m. and ending at 5 30 p.m., with intermissions for breakfast and dinner. I was informed by the overâ€" seer of the ninth section (whose depart- ment we were visiting) that no workman had been discharged since operations began. The wages are from fourpence to Sixpence per hour. The contractor has built at in- tervals of five miles along the route of the canal cottages, chapels and gymnasiums for the use of the workmen, and I believe schools for their children, all free. This has never been done before, and the results have been very gratifying. We visited one of the chapels, a fine, airy, clean edifice of wood, perfectly simple but entirely adequate. The men themselves, so far as we saw any- thing of them (Saturday wasaholiday), were fine, healthy, quiet fellows, not per- haps so intelligent as the corresponding class would be in America,but undoubtedly well up to their work. In fact, English operatives are, as a rule, at least as expert as ours, because they have been at work all i their lives, and not only that, but their‘ fathers and grandfathers before them. Their skill is, so to speak, congenital. The operations are being pushed forward all along the route of the canal, from Liver- pool through the valley of the Mersey. The lines are as straight as practicable, the river winding along beside it. The entrance is at Eartham, a place on the Cheshire bank of the Mersey,a few miles above Birkenhead,whieh is opposite Liverpool. The out has a uniform depth of 30 feet, with a breadth of 120 feet (as against 72 feet in the Suez), and the water is 26 feet deep. It is lined throughout with solid conâ€" crete, the walls sloping slightly outward, and is faced at the top with huge blucks of Cornish granite riveted together. There are four locks in the total length of 35 miles, each giving a lift of 15 feet. The largest steamships afloat can come up this canal direct from the ocean, and unload their cargoes in the vast basins that are building here, and in a few years the singular spectacle will be presented of these leviathans of the Atlantic steaming slowly through the verdant English valleys. The time occupied on the trip from Liver- pool will be about seven hours, including all steps. The canal widens out at the looks so that there are three locks abreast at each point. As we were about to depart an engine came steaming along the track, carrying the week’s wages of the workmen, who were gathered together in their best clothesâ€"corduroys and yarn stockings. They were very orderly and clean-looking. A greater contrast in every respect than this great work and all those concerned in it offers to the New York aqueduct job could hardly be imagined, and the contrast is nowhere in favor of the latter. Every- thing is done here as it was planned to be done; it costs only what it was promised to cost; it is being completed within the time it was contracted to complete it in ; the work in every detail is the best and soundest of its kind, and there is no politics in it. There is food for reflection for Americans in the Manchester ship canal. .._m_____aa~ WARNEB'S Safe Cure cures nervousness. insomnia, hysteria and neuralgia. Why? Because these are symptoms of an impure condition of the blood,caused by unhealthy kidney action. The poisonous urea and uric acid being retained in the blood cause the symptoms 01 kidney disease first noted. “ I don’t want yet ter let nobody have old Boze, ’cause thar ain’t match: a dozen men in this county knows how to treat a good coon dog.” “ Susan," said an Arkaneaw man who was very sick, ” at I shoulfl die I reckon yet I] have a hard time makin’ a livin’ an' I reckon yer’ll have tar get the children homes whar they kin am their vittels an’ clothes, but thar’s one thing I don’t want yer ter do.” _ ' “What’s that, Jerry?" said the wholes}; Bobbing by the be_d. The improvement of the fall fair that it may keep up with the times is necessary. But he would be a bold man who would suggest the addition to the prize lists of the following offers : Handsomest baby of any age, 35 ; handsomest girl baby, not less than 2 nor more than 3 years old, 35 ; handsomest boy baby, not less than 2 nor more than 3 years old, 35 ; handsomest girl baby, not less than 1 nor more than 2 years old, 34; handsomest boy baby, not less than 1 not more than 2 years old, $4 ; handsemest girl baby under 1 year old, $3; handsomest boy baby under 1 year old, 353 ; handsomest colored baby, any age, 33 ; fattest baby, any age. $3 ; handsomest pair of twins, $5 ; handsomest triplets, $5. On Sept. 4th, 1870, before dawn Comte de Palikas announced to the French Chamber the surrender of the Emperor’s army at Sedan. Jules Favre at once declared for defending France to the last gasp, denounced the Imperial Dynasty, and proposed the concentration of power in the hands of Gen. Troohu. This was at 3.35 a. m. At 3 p. m. at the suggestion of Thiers the Chamber appointed a commie. sion of government and national defense, ordered the election of a constituent assembly, and adjourned. On the sitting being resumed an hour later, the hall was invaded by a mob demanding the establishment of the republic. Most of the members left the chamber, while Gambetta and the other Liberals proclaimed the deposition of Napoleon III. and the for- mation of a republic. Simultaneously the Imperial Senate held its last meeting and declared its adhesion to the Emperor. The government of national defense was then prooliamed. On the meeting of the Legis- lative Assembly, Thiers presided, when Favre announced the formation of the government. A protest was made, but Thiers counseled moderation, Such was the beginning of the third French Republic nineteen years ago. On the same evening, Sept. 4th, the Empress Eugenie and Comte de Palikas secretly left Paris and entered Belgium. MANCHESTER’S CANAL. A Bit of French History. Baby Shows at Fairs. A Dying Request. wife, The Ordinary Duties of the Day Classified and Time Accounted For. A man whose head is bulging with mathematical problems has figured out the disposition of every hour of the daily life of an average man, and tells just how many hours a man of 50 years has devoted to his toilet, meals or newspaper. “ Let us assume," said he, “that the sleeping hours of an average man will number eight daily. That is one-third of his time, so that in fifty years your man will have slept, all told, sixteen years and eight months. The man who is shaved daily at fifty years probably had his face scraped not oftener than three limes a week at twenty-five years, while during his first eighteen years a razor never touched his face. Say that the semi-centenarian has averaged two shaves a week for fifty years, that will give 5,700 scrapes in the half century. At an average of fifteen minutes per shave, the time devoted to this one small element of life will run up to fifty-nine days and nine hours. If a man should not shave in fifty years, and then attempt to make up his proportion all at once, he would have to shave night and day for nearly two months. The average than who is not limited to twenty minutes for dressing, breakfast and catching his train. consumes about thirty minutes in getting inside his clothing in the morning. Half an hour per day for fifty years would amount to one year, fifteen days and five hours, so that if a man should dross himself at the start in life for the whole fifty years he would pass two weeks beyond his birthday anniversary, and this means working twenty'four hours per day. A bath should precede dressing, however, and twenty minutes a day for that purpose would put a man in the tub for eight months, thirteen days and eleven hours out of the fifty years. For other demands of the morning toilet allow ten minutes per day, or four months, five days and twenty hours in half a century. Why, just a single minute spent in hunting for a oollor button means twelve days and fourteen hours in the course of fifty years. Half an hour for breakfast, forty minutes for lunch and an hour for dinner amounts to five months, five days and nine hours of eating in fifty years of life. The man who lives away up in the twenty-eighth ward and spends an hour each day jogging to and from business in a horse car may not realize it, but it is nevertheless true, that in thirty years, one year, three months, one day and six hours of his time will go that way. When a man reckons his time at fifty cents an hour it seems rather rough to think that it takes 3183 50 worth every year to get to business and back home again every day. God pity the heart untouched by tears God pity the eyes that are never wen By the sight of anothex’s woes or fears, By the scent of a. rose or mignonetteâ€" Tender and faint as a song that smote The gates of Heav’n from a, thrush’s throat Yet; strong enough to bear and float A heavy soul o‘er the vanished years To some dear memory above it set The inlmortclles of a vain regretâ€" To some small grove, by which we know The sad, sweet peace of death and woe. God pity the life that is withered and dry From a trozen heart and a desert eye. “ I see that a. soda. water trust is talked of," remarked a. Pittsburger to his best girl, as they gugffed the‘sweetqnd qtm_oaphere._ “ Ali/(she replied. n Then if the§ would only trust us for ice cream, too, how nice it would be.” It is only when a minister preaches out of his own heart that he reaches the hearts of others. A purely intellectual sermon stops with the intellect; a doctrinal ser- mon is nothing more than a spiritual opiate. But let a man utter what he has felt and known, let him touch the harp- string that has vibrated in his own soul, and there comes that hush and spell over an audience, that chained attention, that lifting of faces which seems like a white tablet for God’s finger to write on. Who has not felt the irresistible power of a hidden experience interpreted by another soul ? This is the secret of all oratory, of all sympathetic power of man over man. The greatest preachers are not those who may lay claim to the highest scholarship, who are profound philosophical thinkers or doctrinal giants, but whose large hearts have throbbed with the deepest spiritual experience. “ Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." These are men who can lay hold on vast audiences and sway them as the wind sways a forest. Their language may be plain, their style unpoliehed, their manner awkward, but they knew the steps and keys of the human heart as the organist knows his instrument, and all the solemn and sweet music of life answers to their touch.~â€" Zion's Herald. Chief (to industrious clerk in Governa ment ofiice)~Why didn’t you dot the “ i " injhg lust worg_of_your_report last night? Industrious ClerEâ€"I beé your para’on'; but you see the clock struck 4 just at that point, and I didn’t care to work overtime. “ But he thinks he oughtn’t to, you know, because he's a minister.” “I suppose it is because he may have a. son, and you know what a minister’s son usually is.” “And why shouldn’t a. minister marry if he wants to? " “Your brother ought to marry. He is too good}; mrarnrtorbe wagted.” One of the laziest men in the country is John Curtis, who is serving a three years’ sentence in the State Prison at Salem, Oregon. Curtis worked in the foundry, and about three months ago took off his boots on the plea that they hurt him and then burnt his foot so severely that he was laid up. When the burn was healing he put vinegar on it and aggravated it to pre- vent its getting well, The prison physician threatened him and managed to cure the wound. Curtis was set at work again. He worked four days and then with a hatchet out off his left hand. It took two blows. One out through the fleshy part of the hand, the other clean through the wrist joint. He confessed that he did it to avoid workâ€"Pittsburg Dispatch. Umbrellas should be pleoedhsndle down- ward to dry. The moisture falls from the edges of the frame and the fabric dries uniformly. If stood handle upward, as is commonly the ease, the top of the umbrella. holds the moisture, owing to the lining underneath the ring, and it takes a long time to dry, thereby injuring the silk or other fabric with which it is covered. This is the main cause of the umbrella wearing out so soon at the top. Umbrella cases are responsible for the wear of the silk. The constant friction causes tiny holes to ap- pear so provokineg early. When not in use the umbrella. should be left loose and when wet left loose to dry. SURG. GEN. WOODWARD, U. S. Army, says of the results of chronic malarial poison- ing : “ Disorder of the kidneys frequently complicates the condition under considera- tion. Scsnty, more or less albuminous urine is often observed, and those cases not infrequently termitate in chronic Bright‘s Disease, with confirmed sibuminuria, oedema or general anneal-ca,” What at first is recognized as malaria. is subse- quently found to be Bright's Disease, which Warner’s Safe Cure cures. Didn't Come to Work Overtime. WHERE TIME GOES. How to Dry Umbrellas. How to be Eloquont. Life Worth Living. Dealing in Futures. THE DE BERT LIFE He Was Lazy. ABrlef Explanation of the Causes of the Bed and Golden Glory of Autumn. “ Probably not one person in a thousand knows Why leaves change their color in the fall,” remarked an eminent botanist the other day. " The common and old- fashioned idea is that all this red and golden glory we see now is caused byfrosts. A true and scientific explanation of the causes of the coloring of leaves would necessitate a long and intricate discussion. Stated briefly and in proper language, those causes are these : The green matter in the tissue of a leaf is composed of two colors. red and blue. When the sap ceases to flow in the fall, and the natural growth of the tree ceases, oxidation of the tissue takes place. Under certain conditions, the green of the leaf changes to red ; under different conditions it takes on a yellow or ‘ brown tint. The difference in color is due to the difference in combination of the ori~ ginal constituents of the green tissue and to the varying conditions of climate, expo- sure and soil. A dry. cold climate produce! more brilliant foliage than one that is damp and warm. 'lhis is the reason that our American autumns are so much more gorgeous than those of England. There are several things about leaves that even science cannot explain. For instance, why one of two trees growing side by side, of the same age and having the same expo- sure, should take on a brilliant red in the fall and the other should turn yellow; or why one branch of a tree should be highly colored and the rest of the tree have only a yellow tint, are questions that are as im- possible to answer as Why one member of a family should be perfectly healthy and another sickly. Maples and oaks have the brightest colors."â€"Field and Forest. is a dangerous disease. From its tendency to extend to the throat, bronchial tubes, and finally to involve the lungs in consump‘ tive disease, it should be promptly cured, that these grave dangers may be averted. Bo confident are the manufatnrers of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy of their ability to cope successfully with this very prevalent disease, that they have for years offered, in good faith,$500 reward for a case of catarrh, no matter how bad or of how many years standing, which they cannot cure. Remedy only 50 cents, by druggists. [1. with us. Send 200. for terms. Acolored rug pattern and 50 colored designs. W. (215‘ BUSH, St. Thomas, Ont. How Her nah- is Dressed. It ha] been observed by the all-seeing eye of the London reporter that the Prin- cess of Wales has changed the style of dressing her hair. The curly front piece has altered in shape; it is worn further off the forehead, and the back hair has con- sequently lowered on the neck. Of course the London reporter says the Princess looks much better (if that were possible I) for the change, and it is safe to predict every feminine head in the kingdom is aching to adopt the new ooiflure. Be it remembered, however. that the adorable Alexandra wears a. wig. MB. GLADSTONE‘S library at Howarden ll one of the finest private libraries in Engn land. It has more than 20,000 volumes. Mrs Gladstone loans his books out to any one in the neighborhood who wants to read them. Formerly people could keep them as long as they liked, but a. few years ago the rule was made that a book could be kept for one month only. It is the regular free library of the district. Mi. Bluffer (breathing a. balmy odor of gin and bitters)â€"I have been abroad, you know. Miss Trustâ€"«How delightful! And. of course, you visited Cologne? I knew I smelled some perfume when you came in Will the coming man write? Not at all. There will be no more need of his learning to write than learning to spin. Writing will have become one of the lost arts, and a wholly unnecessary art, by the time the coming man appears. His writing will be done by the phonograph, which will be placed on his desk as pens and ink are now, and Whenever he has a story, a poem, an essay or a private letter to indict he will simply talk into the phonograph and sand on the plate which has recorded his words. The teaching of penmanship will be unknown in the school of the future, and writing. in the present fashion, will be re- garded as much among barbaric methods as we now hold the rude hieroglyphios c! the ancients to belâ€"Atlama Constitution. Tell the good news to the sufferingâ€" At last is a. remedy found, . Which might have saved, had they known 1t, Many who‘re under the ground. Tell or the “ Favorite Prescription," Bid hopelels women be gladâ€" Bear the good news to poor creatures, Heart~eick, discouraged and sad. “Female diseases,” so terrible in their effects, and so prevalent among all classes, can be cured by the use of Dr. Pieroe'l Favorite Prescription. Fond Motherâ€"Tommy, darling, this in yogr birthday. What would yoq likg best? _ Tommy (after a. moment’s-reflection)â€"I think I should enjoy seeing the baby spanked. THEODOK’S BEST FRIEND “Mrs. Litewaite,” said that lady’s hus- band, in a tone of solemn warning, " do you know that the newspapers speak of cases where women have been tried as common soolds ?” “And do you know,” said she, with deliberate emphasis, “that there is a growing popular impression to the eflegt that a fqol-killeris preparing for effective work ‘2" ' Miss Trustâ€"Why, Mr. Bluffer, where have you been all this time? Ihaven’t 83913 yo_u_ fqy twp mqnfihs! Foremanâ€"You might as well look tor angtlgegjob, Jer_r_y. V “Your trowelful of mortar struck the owner of the building down on the first floor." “ Let him keep out of the way. It the ball strikes 12 when I‘ve got atrowel o! mortar I don’t cure where it drops." " The tetter-bosrd of life goes up The Matter-board of life goes down"’ Up and down, up and downâ€"one day a millionaire, next day “ dead broke "â€"011. day buoyant in spirits, next day gloomy as a fogâ€"one day in seeming perfect health, next day “ laid out " with a. bilious attack or your stomach “ on a strike." This in the way the world wags now-a-dnys. I! you are bilious, melancholic, dizzy headed. dyspeptic, want appetite or have torpld action of liver. kidneys or bowels, take D: Pierce‘s Pleasant Pellets ~purely vegetable perfectly harmless; one a dose. Bricklhyérawâ€"hat for? What have I done. WHY THE LEAVES TURN. GENTS MAKE $100 A MONTH Quits Work for a Time. Writing as a Lost Art‘ Connnbial Asporlties. A Young Barbarian. An Imported Smell. DUEL 3989‘ Nasal Catarrlx