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THE LIME h'other Gardner said he had l‘ceeivod several letters of late inquiring what initia- tion fee is charged, and how much dues were expected during the year. No initia- tion fee is required, but nienihers who de‘ sire certificates of election are charged twenty-five cents tor the same. These u, ‘ tifieates are printed on pink paper from new type. new ink, and discount any chrome of- fered for $5. Over 2,000 of them have been is- sued up to date,andit is a fact beyond dispute that lightning seems to avoid the house where one of them is hanging. They ward ofi'rhenmatism, foretell the weather for :1 week ahead, and keep the house clear of rats, snakes, wolves, bears and all disagree- zi‘ble Visitors. The (hm; are $2 per year, payable quarterly in :uzmnee. Any meni- her who has \thydown llehe's receipts for r a . a year’s duos; m Ins pocket IS excused from serving on the jury and is entitled to a free l'uih'nml paw \W “\‘01' he run get Among the thirty odd opplhxmts i'oi' incin- borship wure two of the most famous colorâ€" ed men in Ainci'iuzimflen. Napoleon Dodo, oi 'loronto, who first applied soni- milk and mashed potatoes for the cure of oliilblziins, r id Judge Slipliauli Cmsowmy, of Virginia, who invented three, different attitudes for nafcly milking 2L kicking 120w. Both of them llELVC stood in the shadow of the Pyramids, floated on the Nile, climbed the mountains of Switzerland and hemiswindlml :Lt Niagara Falls. They are now ready to join the Linio~kiln Chili, lmy a L'lievl-Lei'~ board and :1 cornâ€"vol) pipe and swttlc do“ n for a life of domestic peace. Sir Isaac \Vulpole wzw picke‘l up for (lead at 8 O’clock in the morning, having come down stairs, in u new spring" fashion, but yet he handled the l)eau»hox with such celerity and dispatch that nine. minutes sufficed for the election of all candidates favorably rcâ€" pm'tcd on, via: Uncle Dave Smith. \ViL liam White, Overcome Smith, Col. {axnho Jones, Elder Jackson, John Quincy Adams and Bcrryvillc Scott. I"NADULTILRA'l‘l‘IlI 1301 'lle“. ‘ The Secretary then read the following : Svnrimmtnu, ’,l‘1«:x., March III, 1882. DEAR. Bim’l‘nui: GARDNER »--1 herewith in- close you circular announcomont of installa- tion of ofiicers of our lodge, and extend to you an invitation to attend the same. and I herewith authorize you to draw on our 'I‘I'cusurcr for a. sufficient amount to purchnm you a first-class round trip ticket and dc» {ray all expenses in a. style befitting your position. (.3b1R"JU]I.\‘SlN(-‘, Treasurer Job’s Coffin Lodge, No. 21 and Queen Esther‘s Tabernacle, N . ‘22. The programme revealed the fact that over fifty honorary members of the Lime- l‘Liln Club were down to participate in the festivitivs. The followup,r paragraph in se- lected fromithc programle of exurciscs : 7. The following subjects will be debated upon by different gents and ladies : First subject: 'Who has the most light to the United States, the African 01‘ the Indian? Second: “'hich has been the greatest dc- struction to thoworld, fire 01' water? Third: W’hich will take a. person through the world firthest, Illoncy or manners? Fourth : \Vhich exists the most in tho. world, love or jealousy”! Fifth : ‘Which is the most service to man, a dog or a gun ‘3 Brother Gardner desired to return his heartfelt thanks for the invitation, but, 0w- ing to the near approach of the sonson for repairing the front gate, mending biokon windows and surveying oli‘ onion herls, he would he unable to accept. IT DOES NOT. After lowering the contents of the Wm; er pail an inch and a halt, aml raising two windows to admit more oxygen. the, Secretary announced the following“r int quiry : DEA}: BROTHERGARDNER ~Thcx'c is :1 sup- orstition among the negrocs of the South that all lawych go to the bad place. Docs such an idea prevail among the mem- bers of the Limo/Kiln Club? By answer- ingihis question you will oblige greatly, Your distant friend “ l nohhcr hoard (lat (lis club enturtuinud any sioh Superstition.” said Brother Gaul- ner in reply. “So fur as do average Inw- yer goes, (ha club has no particnlzi ' “spout for him. he average lawyer isn't a hit hut» 1301' (121.11 (ha average criminal he keeps out of jail. Dc thin breaks: the law to get money. De htwym defends «le thief for the sums purpose, :m’ it most ullus happens (lélt rle thiuf an) tlnn (1102111041 out whcu the lawyer am freawwhl him. But the g1 cutest urnnin- zils an" dc meanesat men am ginerlely gihm: time to repent. Artur the, lawyer he in.» to grow old, un’ 4h: rhoumatismn cofchcs ungrn‘ his wife «lies, un' his house burns up widont insurance, he am forced to reflect ()11 his past life, :m' (hit rollccluxhnn probably l.>rings rcpcntnncc. l dean" ’spose llenhcn um crowded wid lawyers, hut i reckon (lat ’null' of ’em squeeze in to lu‘cp things pretty live» lv tnr sich angels as disturb (lo ])(}1,\t'f‘ m- oh- Strnct do sidewalks. The (lonnnittcc on Unsolved M (’I'H‘a'. in) whom was referred the query : ‘ \tht lPC’ comes of all the men who blfll't fur the North with washes to remove the tan from colored lecm, (liltl with preparations wan-- mntml to straighten hair?“ reported that they were unable to arrive at a. unanimous conclusion. ()ne invinle of the committee thought they fell into rivers and annals: another was convinced that they got lost in the woods: while the third was of the opin- ion that shot-guns had something to do with their disappearance. It was a mystery still. They leave Richmond, Atlanta, Louisville and New Orleans for the North, are heard of in Ohio and Michigan, and all at once turn up missinm Friends write about them Arrrsem‘ch is InmleAi‘owanls ofl'ereil, but not; cr: is obtained. An old hat ‘ouncl in i1,1ix1:0.~' TEXAS, March H, 18:1“ Yours truly. TON K A \YA Y SN IPES, Dutn (,IO'I‘J'UN SEE I) W J 1 1 TE PE'I‘JTH) V (‘.\X 'l‘ TELL. FICTION. l'u-e I'r KILN CLUB. Cor. Secretary a swampâ€"~15 bottle of hairâ€"oil in a pasture, but the body is searulml lor in vain. The committee were instructed to take the mat- to)‘ under investigation for another month, and Pickle Smith was requested to serve with it, A min storm havng set in and twenty-eight of the members being unable to retain their seats on account of the leaks in the roof, the meeting adjourned, leavqur Elder Toots in his usule state of sweet H:- pose. Interesting Notes from All Over to Entir- taln Anybody. A llrssmx traveller says that [mo-thfi of Asia and a considerahlu part of 16111011: still remain unexplored, ’l‘ulcnnportutxon of eggs Into (hunt Brit- ain last year was 750,000,000 01" about, two dozen for eat-11mm), woman, and child in the country. 'J‘hvix‘ mommy value was over $10,000,000. IN the my north of Europe spring has been unusually uxfly this your. Prnuulas and roscbuds were gathered in Danish gar- dens in January. and the stufliug, the first harbinger of spring, had arrived from the south in flocks. llama, on trial for his life at Bullel'on- tuiue, Ohio, was a llflllilEOll'lC fellow, and “'0- mcu of the place made much of him. crowd- ing round him in the court-room, piling his mhlc with flowers, and some of them though only slight acquaintances, lefsing him when :1 verdict of acquittal was rendered. A ll]-‘(‘l‘1\"l‘ tx'catifie on plate shows how curious j slow people were in taking to f . Thus the Duchesse of 'l‘ourraine po- sscxl in 1389 nine dozen SllVCl' Spoons,lmt only one fork. Thomas Coryut tried on his return to England from Italy in 1608, to in- tl'odnce general use of l‘fll‘l{1u,-Slltl got the Boln'iquct of [lava/212'. AX eagle, whom) wings measured seven i001"; from tip to tip, attempted to stcal {L goose on a farm in Jutland, Denmark, not long ago. The cries of the goose awoke Farmer Jensen, who caught the eagle, and, with the aid (if his scr'mit girl, cut its throat before it could extricate its taions from the goose}; back. 'l‘Iu; large estates in the prcvince of POS‘ on are passing from the hands of their 1’0‘ lish owners into those of Germans. Last year twenty-nine estates with 89,590 acres of land had thus changed hands, and many large estates are now in the market. Thu Polish press lifts its varning voice in ruin against these transfers of property. A NEW Emimxl) court has decided that a man has a right to snore in the pew which he pays for in church. But a. Chicago church is trying one of its members for sitting in a pcv and making such faces at the clergy- man as to prevent his going on with the serâ€" vice. According to the B’lussachusetts de- cision, however, :0 has :1 right to disturb the service if he does it in his own pew. TnR Sheriff of Dallas County, Ion'auvcars shabby clothes, and is insignificant in up‘ peamnco. I'll: had occasion to take 2L portly well-dressed prisoner to the penitentiary. The convict, when they came into the \Vardcn’s ollicc, coolly remarked, “ Here’s a man for you." and handed over the Sheriff to be locked up. The trick was not success- ful; yet the Sheriff liml to submit to detox)» tion until his identity could be established. MANY regiments in the British army have pets, and the lnniskilling Fusiliers brought from India in 1876 an antelope, which made {L host of friends. at Colchester, Portsmouth, and Preston, where the regiment had been quartered. But as soon as the regiment reached Ennisliillen, Ireland (whence it has its name), their pet was shot. A eircuxm stance of this sort gives rise to unspeakable bitterness, and is quite likely tn lead to trouble. Two acrt'sot' land near Vs ill;eshai'reJ’enir slyvunia, caved in the other day, the coal mine beneath having give away. Luckin there were no buildings on the ground, but there are tenement houses on the edge of it, and the inhabitants are busy moving. Loads of immense timbers are brought and throvui into the coal hole in the hope: of putting a» stop to its caving in. but as yet it has had no cfi'oo‘. Um: man‘s farm has entirely disâ€" a ppezu'ed. A TROY ductur was recently awakened by the Voice of one of his patients living in an adjoining viilagc, apparently at the fmnt door. Thedoccoz‘ hastencd to dress. \thn he opened the, door 110 one was to be Seen. His patient died at 01' very near the hour that the doctor heard the voice calling him. This, we suppose, is :1 new version of the old story: “I guess; they've given up all hope of 0M i’odgci's." “Why so?" “ \Voi], I heard ihis morn. ' they hzni c ‘iwl lh‘. A Mu in Callqu is took 1L rcx'ulwr from his poulu‘t to shmv his si’tm' how u i‘x‘iund \\'n:~‘hillwi with “didn‘t 11aur-it-wxm-quul- , '” piaiul. “ I “DIM be [00h h (though in Philltit tu:ln_\'§m<‘1y," humid. and 11mm! around. uml the, bullet \ “ML into hist Fiw‘i 1'. Ho 4/ nut protoml that he didn't, lgxmw it was; 10 11ml. llw Nin “he hadn‘t uovkwd if, and didn‘t Much the h'i'wu', ‘ 11 those ~ ~11< shoutim pissz WNIH :1 t shout any} My (-lrru. 11;: populatim: M flu' l'nilm‘. Hams \k‘uuhl he ial‘u‘mt "O M." IT is (‘siinmtwl that in mi :ilunn cun- HHH‘JS 1300,00” pound» (Al irm'y :1 year. 'l‘his entails the death of 30,000 <~li~phzmtm and it is thought that not lmwr ‘ihnn lil0,' diu annually. They hrle slowly in the jungle and um at all when in ‘ uniizimm-nt, even in their own country. The )1 viii ('zmt's of birth hem :m‘ cxtmoxmliiizu‘y (mu-prions to an established rule. The Lomiun .‘xpw'lwfur L‘Olltclll)’llzltl‘H that Jmnhi)‘ if he zilliHll Inll 11207 some 1.30 years may he the hut ui‘ hi~s peoir :lmt it running to n;- suun \"hvilmi’, as tlw hii‘ths in “Zoos " lHIVl‘ begun, Han-1n.â€" imaxls may nut inurmiso and multiply. 'MooifitaD-b 0"." Rwsgla, Unpreparcd for VFa-r. A St. Pctorsburg desputch Lu 12131111: ‘13's that the general <‘t:1fi'hu\'c 11111.1(: :1 1'11: 1 v rc- cognizingthe11111105511111in of "‘11 1:1 waging an oil‘ensivc war, and 1'01:1);111nc111€in;: that the \Varsaw and “Vestal-11 101111“ was 110 strengthened aguinst a possible im‘u 11111. irwuwow «QMâ€"- 1. Guittoun has sold 7,001) of his autographs and 1,000 of his phonogmphs, and 8.000 peo- ple are thus muiously awaiting his execu- tion. He now SW5 v. hcn- he mm‘v a great mistake. FACTS AND INCIDENTSL "do. 4<®+ 45W ‘ 11 those :u-IL shout anybody l'nilm‘. Hams A Condemned Murderer Uncxpectediy Reprieved Isaac Turner was not hanged 10-day, but he had a close call. ’Jhe scaffold, a huge, immensely strong thing, was erected in the jail yard, and while the public gazed upon a, structure so novel for this part of the country Turner was in the hands of his valet. The doomed man bore up manlully lle submitted quietly to he dressed and shaved, and had his hair clipped. In his nice new black cloth suit, and white shirt and elegant black necktie, he looked very respectable. He was surrounded by some colored ministers, who shaved his lips moved in prayer, and now and then, in an audible whisper, were uttered the words. “Lord, have mercy.” The hanging was announced to take place at half past 11 Oblock, but it was determined by the sherifl‘ not to stretch the eulprit’s neck until 12 o’clock, in order to allow time for intelligence to reach him of the last attempt made by Turner’s attorney to either Seoul‘e a reprieve or obtain a stay of execution. At 11}- the ministers having prayed with the doomed men, he was permitted by the jailer to see and shake hands with such of the prisoners as he desired. He shook hands with Neal and Craft, the Ashland murderers, both of uhom bade him farewell, Neal’s eyes filling with tears as he said farewell, and answer- ing kindly Turner’s expression of a hope that they would meet in heaven. Some doomed man in the same cell also spoke farewell and added : “ I’m on the same road.” He bade his brother good-by, and also some old friends, and left word for his photograph to be sent to his old mother in the country. He was then reconfined in his cell with the ministers, Arthur Johnson, Elder Daniel Jones, G. \V. Hatton, and A. A. Price, with whom he began to pray loud and fervently. Everybody else had with- drawn. The scaffold and rope was examin- ed for the last time. The crowd in the jail yard were put out, except the holders of tickets. From the cell of the doomed man came a hymn in which prisoner and preach- ers joined. It fell on the ears of those out- side like a wail of anguish, and expressions of sorrow for the prisoner were loudly made. ’ ‘he clock now indicated 11:11. In three minutes more the prisoner, who had express- ed himself ready to die, would have been brought upon the scaffold. and, after prayer, launched into eternity. A housetop over- looking the jail yard was crowded with spectators, and everybody stood in moment- :rry expectation of the tragedy. At 11:31 there was a bustle at the door near the oiliee, and instantly a telegraph messenger came with the following message to the sheriff : Appeal granted. Execution stayed. lleauchamp and Sharp will be there with supel‘sedeas by 4 o’clock 1’. hi. Answer quick. T1105. 0. JONES, Ilerk of the Court of Appmlkz. The news was instantly communicated to those in the cell by the examinations of the crowd in the yard and the sudden appear. ance of the jailer at the door, and the wail of misery was changed to a. hymn of thanks giving. To (#1131. Nicholas, SheriffFNZ/ctlu County A more deligth negro was never seen than Ike Turner when the sherill‘reud the despateh to him, and he exclaimed. “ led bless Gov. Blackburn I” The colored min- isters were rejoiced, one of them declaring he hardly knew which had been reprieved, himself or Turner. But the poor fellows were mistaken as to the source of their re- lief. During the trial the attorneys for Turner saved no exceptions upon which to make an appeal, not even upon the motion fore new trial, relying, it is thought, upon the Governor’s clemency, but he resolutely refused to interfere. 'l‘here was absolutely no attempt made to pray an appeal during term time of the Circuit Court as required by the code, and the record showed nothing whatever upon which to ask and appeal. Nevertheless, the attorneys prepared a bill of exceptions and took them F 'unkfort. The Clerk of the Court of Appeals refused to issue a certificate of appeal or to (locket- the case. The Court of Appeals being in session, application was made to the Court fern mandamus to compel the Clerk to docket the case. The Court held that it was a ministerial not on the part of the clerk, and that he had no right to scrutinize the leeord to ascertain if the power steps had been taken in the lower court. Tl‘hereupon the Clerk issued the certificate of appeal. which is a supersedoas, and teleg *aphcd to stay the execution. The attorneys, being too late for thetrnin, eaune up in a buggy, being bound to present the neocssury pop 1 before sundown, which is about (1 o’clock, though in the face of the desipeteh. if no papers should nrri\e in time, the Sheril" would hardly have proceed Ll with his nint- tinee. There appear to he no grounds to ' a ie’verszil, hut the case wii now, perhaps, hang; tire for some time in the. (‘ourt of App ails. When that Court passes upon it theHovernor \ 'll lie requested toiix the time for the execution. Till then 1:? no Tur- ner, colored. charged nndeondemned for the murder of another negro. named Abe Bay, has a. lease oi lite, and after ti :2 higher court shall let the hanging' go on, llge’.‘ soul will occupy his body as the Governor’s tenant at will. An appeal granted. under the eireninstmurzs here detailed is the only instance known in the history of the. [juris- prudenee of the State.~ r( Von/mum lint/Minn {\VHIHL‘ thirty years ago Mr, Hremz, :m :uniahle Englishman, swii :1, ruthershuh- by old man looking jor it so ‘1, at in ehmei opened his pew door, beckoned to him, and plaeed him in a conilortalfle corner, with prayer and hymn books, The old gentle- man, \\‘.10 em‘ei'nlly noted the name in these latter, Cxprcssed his thanks warmly at the close of the services. Time had cii'ueed the incident from Mr. Green‘s recollection,when he one day received an intimation that by the death of a gentleman named \Vi‘lkinson he had become entitled to $35,000 a year. Mr. Wilkinson was a solitary old man, without relatives. Green's act preposscssed him in his favor; he inquired about hini,and found that he bore the highest character. There '11s a marvellously courteous hospi- tality in the matter of pews for some time after that bequest, but nobody else has yet 't $30,000 a year for a seat. FRANKFURT, K32, Nov. 26, 1881. ALMOST HANG ED. nan-I: >9 «w» it A $35,090 Seat. THE Ruminn Prince JCristofi', who was sentenced a few months: ago in Berlin to two years’ imprisonment for defrauding a jewel- ler, has just been pardoned by the German Emperor, on condition of his at Once leaving Prussia and never returning. T1111: Empress of Austria (lid not lmutene day lately, because the weather looked threatening, but walked ten miles instead. ‘VIlENIâ€"ZVER a member of the British royal family receives an English order, the cost of the “insignia.” and the fees are paid by the nation. The Duke of Cambridge has been made a Knight of the Thistle. Noone would grudge him his thistle, but when it comes to the country to have to pay about £500 for this weed being confm roll Upon him it is a, very different matter. LORD GEORGE MUNI'AGUE, an attache of the British logation, who lately died at \Vashington, was son of the late Duke of Manchester, by a second \ufc, and, conse- quently, half uncle of Lonl Mnndevillo. His mother married secondly Mr. S‘tevcnson Huckwoml, a connection of Lordlmfibrin. He leaves one sister, now Countess of Kim tore. Lord George was a promising young man. He died of «liplltllcrm. Tm) Duke of Edinburgh is not popular among the English people. He is thought to be hzmghty and ultra conservative, and his connection with Russia excites suspicion of his tendency to administrative severity. It is certain that in the present case Charles 11’s. observation to his brother, when the latter declared that he would one day he he- headed like his father for his weakness in governing an unruly people‘ might be re- peated with great zlptness to the Prince of \Vales: “Nay, nay. I am safe, for they would never hehead me to make you kind.” Bismarek‘s trick in taxing American hams wrapped in canvas as “cotton ” goods calls to mind the expedient of Alexander von Humboldt, when, in 1805, he was engaged. with Gay-Lussac, in experiments with at- mospheric pressure in Paris. A great many glass tubes were needed in the experiments, and, those being costly in France and sub- ject to a high duty, Humboldt had them imported, sealed at both ends, and describ- ed in the bill of lading as “German air.” Air being:r nonvdutiable, they were allowed to pass in consideration of the use. to which they were to he put. Loni) SALISBURY is the descendant of the second son of the famous Lord Treasurer lurghley. Queen Elizabeth made but seven Peers in her fifty years’ reign. Burghley was one. Jellies 1. raised Burghley’s two sons to carldoms on the same day, but he made the younger an earl in the morning, and the elder in the afternoon, so Unit the younger had the precedence. Subsequently the younger gottt marquismn in 17w, while the elder did not getone until 1801, and now it is on the cards that the younger will still further keep the. lead by a dukedom some day. Towed by a Shark. Heading across the bay to St. Simon’s light the man in charge of the Wheel hailed Mr. Tift and directed his attention to some- thing ahead of us. The object turned out to be a shark’s fin, so large as to be a matter of wonder to the sailors aboard. The boat happened to he provided with n. slum-h line ma. nmnilla curd about, it halfâ€"inch thick, with a large hook tied to u trace-chain. A small piece of beef was quickly put on the hook, a float put on the line and then cast out, and then the line made fast to the cap- stzm. AS we neared the lish the tin dis- appeared and all eagerly watched the float. Suddenly the line tightened, the float (lis- appeared, and the headway of the eupstnn yelled out: “ He hooked 1” I have been fishing, butI never saw the like of that. The fellow rose to the surface of the wave and looked at us. He had about seventyâ€" tive yards of line out by this time, and act- ually in a second he made a. run and jumped clear over the bow of the steamer. The ladies then got under shelter and all hands helped to hold that line. The fellow when he failed to eat us up, made for the ocean and fairly made the waters foam. After about a. inile’s run he hogan to tire, and the boat was headed for the beach on Jeke Island. Gradually we pulled in the lin until. the heat touched the beach, and theme one of the hands waded ashore, taking: the end of the line with him, which he made fast to n. stump, and ezune hack for help. Fourof us got on shore and we commenced to pull Mr. Shark :whm‘e. It took all we could do, and two riile hulls to boot, to land him. “When I tell you that he measur- ed seventeen feet ten and a halt inches from tip to tip you will know what a job we had. We determined to prove that we euught this shark, so we gave two ncgrocs $4 to w um open and get his 1103 al of? so that xxx: ASHle get his jaw over home. llis teeth are won- derful, being uhout three and a. (in ni'ter inches longund so ntrong thth he actually flattened out the his; iron hook. The negroes made quite :L prize. In his stomach they found eleven .‘ilvm‘ Mexican dollars and one Spanish doubloon, gold and a, v. hole lot of ln'usts buttons. (itr1'l‘f"‘All!r/H{1'i’4'"I’ A/lnmy (Hi 1,] .‘i'wu‘fl. EMINEN'I' PEOPLE. “m9. {‘0'} C‘UJ The German Army o¢ 4.0.; 90 Dainty Women as Seen at the Supper- Table. I used to know a husband, says Clara Belle, who said that he always fell more or less out of lore with his wife on Sunday, but tumbled slap in ' 1 till when he saw her arrayed for church. She was at such times so neatly dressed, so smiling, so sweetly different from her everyday aspect, that she made a regular weekly conquest of his heart. Oh, there are few women who can’t be charming if they earnestly set about itâ€"d even while eating, i mention this test of feminine grace because it is a. severe one. The process of filling the stomach ordained hynatnreis vulgar in itself, and a great deal of daintness is required in the woman who would eat unrepellantly. Fried oysteis are a sore trial to the ethereal girl who sits down to them with her admirer after a. late theatrical performance. It has been five or six hours since dinner, and she is as him. gry as a bear that has lived on its paws all winter. She knows that bed-time is close ahead, and she will not have to endure her corset long, if she does tighten it from the inside. But a his appetite is desenchanting in a maiden, and fried oysters are greasy. The problem before her is how to put the seven oysters into he elf without convinc- ing the young man that her stomach is about like his own in its periodical call for food. There is a. risk in the matter that no skill can wholly ehminate. The host rule is to put on an CXPI‘L on of very mild disdain at each mouthful, as though _\ it took it in under protest. Don’t overuo this and look as though sickened, but just cic- vate the browse trifle smile faintly, and try to give the impresswn that you tolerate a fried oyster, but do not, banker after it. I watched aslender, graceful, angeLfaced creature iua fashionable oysterdiouse the other night, and saw that by neglecting her deportment she was shocking the fellow across the table. Perhaps she didn’t care whether he adored her or not. Anyhow, she was putting the oysters into her mouth by halves, chewing them with undisguised gusto, swallowing plenty of bread and cut cabbage along with them, and taking no pains whatever to disguise the fast that she was enjoying them mightily. At the next table sat a thicker and older woman, who practiced the art of oysterrcating as I have indicated it. Her facial expression was clever. She slipped in the food in big pieces when her companion wasn't looking and nihhed when he was looking. She got away with a hearty meal without appearing to have taken anything to speak of, and it was only the empty plates that revealed the fact. She was not 1 ’ss skillful in drinking her hah' of a quart of champagne. The glass was lifted to her lips like the hand of the queen to kiss; her mouth shut over harer an inch of the hrim ; there was no slopping or gurgling; the wine trickled neatly down her throat, but with quite sufficient ceierity. When starting to go out, with considerable of the fluid effervescâ€" ing in her brain, she failed for a dreamy in- stant to recognize her reflection in a- fullâ€" length mirror, and tried to turn out to let herself pass hy herself. The hlunder was seen by nobody but me. She recovcied her equanimity instantly, and departed 4.), smoothly as a fairy, The, sultanns aw taken chiefly by film 001m» tries of put'ldingz’vz, Jinghuhl and (1 wmauv : thrixx-fom'ths of the In! 2 ml fruit gm Ito 'i‘l'icstc, (1011113113: and Jiolhmri; {UNIV the: black ii'uits \x'n‘u um: lately :ilnmst, v-‘hollv for C(flhfil‘iltiuupii‘. Hubuicr‘. and the Pumi- bizm pi'l'n'iiw'ea 'ihzv" Linc gl‘ma'ing limizufaic,» Lure of 1 ' u uiiw in France brings an in» m‘casii g (1 (if); of raisins to the ‘r'i‘cnuh poms. Thu 1(‘))1:3i11<i('3‘:11‘0110‘3 :1“ eatunn’usl quantitim are taken 1)} distille ' 111 M1 En- l'opoun x,(JUi1tl'iCS. The :cuL-nt terrible earthqlmlu: in (itwa Him), rcth again the fact that We are now witnessing one of f‘n‘c most mnun-lml'ic lac» l'iods of tm'rcs‘uia} ( hir‘onlum that 11:13 ever been rem ed. There :1 Liu'zo principal kinds of "town tn mm‘chnmrs the small mxlh; ‘ J1)ch the 11mm ‘eram the large M The fact that wc hear of somany IliillOI' c:u‘tl)(i_ual;u:=, mew ti'enibliugs and shakiugs which 9mm: more or lws alarm Without: du- iug much ilunwgo, may he owmg to the sys* tum of obsw'V' Lion that has recently been adopted. The sh l',’ m earthquake pheno- mena as a special l; ‘ll of science. is comâ€" paratively new, and the men who have es- tablished what may in: lusui'ilicd as earth- quake obscrvutui-ies, UI' Hillier observing stations, at various lininis (ii the globe do not allow any truimr ml the ground, how-"v- vr slight, to go unnotiucxl. \Vl'nppcd in mysteryâ€"a bone in the com- minutcu‘. food. Bu? besides the. mam; 3L bhnuks that have been felt in ahnwb awry cmmh'y.thu:w have been, within it ymr 01' two, son 1 dcâ€" sti'uctivc earthquakes, the like of which the world, fortunutuly, docs not frequentiy SCL‘. In Novembm‘, 1880, occurred ,thc great carthquakfl shock at Agrmn. About :1 year ago, in th , sumo mo; ‘11, (Tuxnuicciclz; was destroyed. A month lu’u‘y followed the will more 1011‘in disaster :41: Chias Nhudm o 11x5 intensify were felt m’. fink ' hot]; Ay- 1mm and Clnm «luring the \x‘hn‘ ' L151: 3; and the th:tnx'?>;1nco has m": u 3% wand altotvothcr. .; V" . ‘ .. JL Lyme of .3“ ticks-41:92:. HOW WOMEN EAT. b. «ubwoo». 0 mm» “minâ€"- ‘904‘0rom