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From a. dispatch from New York it would appear that the Democrats of America. are generally in favor of the tarifl question being opened. Summary of Foreign. Domestic, and War Itemsâ€"Pubs]. Concise and Pointed. It is reparted that eight thousand Afghan- istan troops have been defeated by the Ghil- zais. VThe Hungarian Prime Minister has pro- posed a plan for the settlement of the escut- cheon question in Croatia. The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs denies that a treaty has been entered into by Spain with Germany. The British Consul at Scutari, Alabama, was fired at while hunting recently. He was not hurt. The intended assassin escap- ed. A large Nihilist depot containing arms, dynamite, and other explosive materials has bevn discovered at Charkoff in connectizn with the numerous arrests of Russian ofiicera. ' A public meeting has been held at Neuf- abate], to demand the kxpulsion of the Salvation Army. Fifteon hundred dollars has been received by O’Donnell from a. New York committee appointed to raise funds for his defence. It is reported that the man who bought the hcmestead of the noted Bender family cf murderers has found $30,000 buried on the premises. Riotir‘g is reporter] to have again broken out at Canton, the natives considering the punishment inflicted on the tide-waiter not sufficiently severe. A report comes from Ottawa. that Col. Williams has made a formal complaint against Major General Luard. and that the matter is before the Privy Council. The matter of the exhumation of Shake- speare’s remains has been settled. The city council of Stratford-upon-Avon has passed a reaqution condemning any disturbance of the grave. Owing to repeated anti-Jewish disorders in Ekaterinoslav and other districts of South Russia, martial law has been proclaimed therein. An order has been issued regulating the traffic on the OF R. which prohibits the taking of any kind of a. parcel into the pas- senger coaches, even a lunch basket being tabv oed. There is no injunction restraininga the size of the pockets. Secretary Folger has decided that green plums are free of duty under the new tariff law. There is considerable trade in this fruit between Canada and the United States. The German Government is stated to have addressed a diplomatic note to Frnnce. pro- testing energetically against the hostile re- ception of King Alfonso. The Bishop of Clonfert, at a. meeting re- cently, asserted that millions of Catholics had been lost to the faith in America, and denounced State aided emigration. Um'fed Ireland, a League organ, states that an diirial intimately connected with the detection of crime in Dublin has been sus- pended. The cause of his suspension is like- iy to create a sensation. A Church congress at Reading has discusst‘ ed the proposed alterations in the marriage laws. Rev. Dr. Coleman, of Ohio, on behalf of the American Church, appealed to the Church of England to maintain the existing marriage laws. All is quiet at Canton. Haiphong advices state that 550 French troops under Colonels Bichot and Baden: started on the 295k ult. via Tonquin River for Bacnimp. It is believ- ed that an expedition left Hanoi at the same time for Bacnimp. Advice from Madagascar states that Mako- be, commander of the Hovas, has offered re» wards for the slaughter of the captain of any French man-of-war which shall wreck or burn any vessel. It is reported that the French garrison: at Tamatave and Majunga are virtually blockaded. It is stated that the informers in the Phoenix park murder trials, who were not permitted to land at Melbourne, will go to India, where Carey decided to 90 until he was dissuaded by his wife. It is reported that Carey was oifered a clerkship in the new barracks at Kurraehee. It is stated that the Chamber of Deputies will have to judge between MM. Grevy and Ferry. If the Ministry carry the day Presi- dent Grevy will issue a message and retire into private life. Some of the papers des- cribe Deputy Antoine’s arrest as an answer to the recent antiâ€"German cries. The steamer Melbourne arrived at Mar- seilles from New Caledonia with Joseph Smith, an informer in the Phoenix park mur- der trials, who was not permitted to land at Melbourne. Smith was recognized at Mar- seilles, when he suddenly left; the vessel, it: is believed taking passage for China. Five hundred letters were deposited in the New York post-office recently for despatch to foreign countries, each being prepaid by a. two-cent stamp, indicating that the public are under the impressxon that the inreign as well as the domestic rate of postage has been reduced. This is not the case, the foreign rate still being five cents. The London Times has a report from an Uppernavik correspondent of a Copenhagen jaurnal that Greely, of the American Arctic expedition, was murdered by a mutinous crew. The report comes from Home Hen- de, an Esquimaux with Dr. Nathorst. Hendrik states that he got the news from the Esquimaux at Cafe York. The Times considers the report improbable, as Dr. Nathorst never mentioned it. Alarming reports prevail that the Spanish Cabinet Wlll demand of the French Govern- ment a public apology for the insults to the King, and that the German Government will make adiplomatic remonstrance at the in- dignities to which the King has been sub- jected. The Radicals violently attack Grevy and Ferry for the course they have pursued. The Cabinet is divided as to its inolicy. Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever produces It at the expense often thousand desires, makes a. wise and happy purchasc.â€"â€"Balguy. FIVE MINUTES SELECT READING. NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. 1M4- “ ‘Arrah, will you get out of my way, and lave me alone,’ cried Jack. ‘It's my stick I’m looking forâ€"my stick, for my Wife, bad luck to her! when she comes home. And if I don’t give her such a lauibastin’ as never mortal woman got tetore, my name isn’t Jack Burke, that's all !â€"-â€"Look here I” he ex- claimed, plucking at his shirtâ€"which had seen better dayswwhile he panted with rage and weakness. ' Six brand-new shirts, whole and sound as the day they left the weaverâ€"without rent or tear, patch or darn â€"-I left behind me; and look at the rags she dresses up my poor carcase in ! making a. fool of me in the coffin when I’m dead and gone, and bringing me to shame before the neighbors and the country. Ah ! the stingy one i to grudge the decent linen to the boy that owned her 1 Only let me catch a hold of her, and see if I don’t make her four bones smart for it 1’ A Galway gentleman was wont to tell the fallowing humorous story of unexpected resuscitation : “ That many people are- bur- ied alive, is beyond a. doubt. I know an in- stance that I will relate to you, which I may say happened in my own establishment, for our huntsman, Jack Burke, was the sub- ject of it. Jack had a dangerous illnessâ€"a fever, I think it wasâ€"and, to all appear- ance died. He was duly cofiiued, and as duly waked; and such a wake and funeral was never remembered in Galway ; for Jack was a universal favorite, a character and a. was. and crowds came from far and near to the burying. The bewailing cries were so loud as the procession moved along the road, that they could be heard a mile off; and by the time they reached the churchyard, all were hoarse with crying. It is the custom in these parts to carry the coffin three times around the church, after which it is laid by the side of the open grave. All present sink upon their knees in prayer, the men rever- ently uncovering. The immediate relatives of the deceased close round the remains, and for some minutes time is total silence. The contrast between Wis death likt- hush and the loud cry of the in" eral wail is striking, and the appearanv . oi the motionless kneel- ng crowd very impn ssive. “ Whether or not consciousness was jolted into Jack by this 'hop,’ is uncertain; but certain it is that the dead silence on Atoma‘ry after laying down the coffin was broken. not by the usual smothered sohs, but by vehem- ent thumpings at the lid ! It was quickly opened, and Jack sat up. After staring around with an air of comical bewilderment on his astonished friends, a great-coat was thrown over his graveclothes, and he was helped up on a. jaunting-car, and in this plight driven home. “ A I'thng leap we had to take, surely, when we came to Tom Grady’s tomb-tone,” said one of the bearers afterwards. ‘Euough to wake the dead, it was. \Ve couldn't put our feet upon the new clean grave, and the dacent man not; a. week inside ; so there was nothing else out to hop it.’ “The old woman who had been left be- hind to keep the house when all went to the funeral, and who was telling her beads over the kitchen fire, was nearly frightened out of her senses at the apparition. There was some difficulty in persuding her that it was Jack himself, and not his ghost, she saw. “ On the present occasion, the path ruund the church was rough and story. and the ground uneven with graves; no that poor Jack. while being carried his three rounds, was badly jolted in his coffin. “ ‘ Is it wanting anything ye are, my poor fellow ?' said his friends. ' Lie down now, and compose yerself. A drop of spirits, with a. bit; of nourishment and a stretch on the bed, will do ye good, after the start ye got. finding yourselfâ€"God save us ! â€"in the coflin. There now, be aisy, do !’ “But Jack would not ‘ be aisy.’ He kepf. glaring about him and searching for something ; staggering here and there, look- ing behind doors and shutters, and peering into cupboards. “ ' The saints be good to us 3‘ whimpered the old Woman; ‘ his mind is goneâ€"gone with the fright. Masther, darlint, what ails ye? Is it the hunger, the long fast that’s putting ye stray ‘2 Sit down, for the love of the blessed Vargin, and I’ll fry you a shave of bacon, and mix a tumbler of punch in a second, to rise your poor heart and put lite into you. Do now, avic '3’ “Meantime, Jack had Hrainéd a bowl of milk that was on the dresser, and now 1001;» ed wildly about: “ With much difficulty, poor J ack's wrath was calmed, and he was got to bed by his friends, Mrs. Jack in the meantime wisely keeping out of the way. He never forgave her the ragged shirtâ€"to him, the feature in the afl‘air. “ To ‘ make an appearance ’ at their buri- al is the ambitibn of the lowest orders of Irish. They will undergo privation, sooner than pawn or wear the sacred under-gar ment laid up to ‘ dress the corpse in.’ Thus it was that the indignity to his remains was so 1 aramount in Jack’s mind, that ever alter, it completely set in the background his nar- row escapu lrom the dreadful fate of belng buried alive.”â€"C’hambers’ Journal. The other day a woman shipped her hus- band’s remains and a dog over the Central. At Albany she appeared at the door of the baggage car to see how they were getting along. “'How does he seem to be doing 2” she asked with a sniff. " Who, the corpse ?” inquired the baggage master, kindly. “No, the dog.” “0h. he’s comfortable,” replied the bag. gage mm. “ Anybody been sitting down on him ‘2" “ Who, the dog ‘3" “ N0, the corpse.” “ Certainly not,” answered the baggage “ Des it seem cool enough in here for him?" man. any :‘ Jflect who, the dog ?" “ 10, the corpse.” M, “ don’t believe it does.” “Tou’ll keep an eye on him, won't you '3” she #ked, wipmg a tear away. . “In who, the corpse?” “fio, the dog.” Ad having secured the baggage man’s pronse, she went back to her coach, ap- parotly contentedâ€"0m. Sat. Night. Double Dmy icr Ute Baggage Man. Er who, the corpse?" 1‘0, the dog.” Ithink so,” grinned the baggage master. Ioes the jolting appear to affect him The Resuscitated {Irishman Upwards of twenty years ago a husband- man, a native of Cumberland, married a. girl belonging to the county. The newly married couple went to reside with the bride’s friends. The bridegroom, however, could not agree with them, and in the course of a few months he left his wife and went away, no one knew whither. The woman had reason to believe that her husband, after leaving her, took his passage in the ill-fated steamer London, which in the year 1866 foundered on her voyage to Australia. See- ing in the list of thee who perished a name similar to that of her husband, the woman concluded he was dead. Shortly after her husband’s departure she gave birth to a. daughter, and the two lived together for a long time without any particular incident occurring to change the current of their daily life. After waiting for many years the woman married a miner residing in a village near Maryport, and the pair have since lived happily together. The daughter of the first husband is now married, and has gone to Newcastle to reside. A few days ago the first husband made his appearance at the residence of a sister in ‘VVigton, and to her he had stated that he had been for some time living in Newcastle. He then made enquiries respecting the wife he had left, and was surprised to hear that he had a married daughter living,r in New- castleâ€"the very town that he had himself been residing inâ€"and that the wife he had deserted was married again. His sister was unable, however, to give him the ad- dress of his daughter; and after waiting upon some of his relatives at Maryportâ€"to whom he had announced his intention of searching for the daughter he had never seenâ€"he proceeded to the residence of his wife, not far from the town, in order to ob- tain his daughter’s address. The second husband was not at home when the war -'erer made his visit, and the woman was LI the house alone. lie knocked at the loan When the woman opened it she failed To re- cognize him and asked him what he wanted. The man asked if she had a danghter alive, and if so, where she was living. The woman wished to know his reason for asking such a question, and inquired if he was any relative of her daughter’s husband. “No,” he re- plied, “ I am a nearer relative than that.“ The woman then invited him into the house, and gave him the address, which he put into his pocket and prepared to leave the house. As he was crossing the thres- hold he turned. and, looking her full in the face, said, “ Well, Eliza, you have got married again, and I hope you will do well by your husband and live comfortably. I am your daughter’s father.” The poor woman knew him then, and, almost fainting, cried in a. thrillmg tone, “ Oh, Jim I” but before she could recover her composure he had walked away. He has since left; the country.‘Marg/po/rt Adver- tiser. One day a. young recruit was standing guard before the door of the entrance to Peter the Grants private chambers in the palace of St. Petersbnrg. He had received orders to admit no one. As he was passing slowly up and down before the door Prince Mentchikofl', the favorite minister of the Czar, approached, attempting to enter. He was stopped by the recruit. The prince, Who had We fullest liberty of calling on his master at any time, sought to push theguard and pass him, yet the young man would not move1 but ordered his highnesa to step back. “ You fool,” shouted the prince, “don’t you know me ‘3" The recruit smiled and said,â€" " Very well,your highness; but: orders are peggmptory to let nobody pass.” _ Peter, in the room, hearing the noise out- side, opened the door and enquired what it meant, and the prince told hlm. The Czar was amused, but said nothing at the time. In the evening however, he sent for the prince and the soldier. As they came to- gether, Peter gave his own came to the soldier, saying,â€" “ I make him a, colonel‘of my Life Guards and an officer of the household,” said Peter. ” My rank, your majesty knows, is that of general,” protested Mentchikofl'. _ Tho-price. exasperat'eci at the fellow’s impudence, struck him a blow in the face Wiphfihiiriding whip. “Strike awhy, ybur highness.‘ soliiier, “‘but_: I cannot? let you in. “That mam struck you in the morning ; now you must return the blow to that fellow with my stick.” The prince was amazed. “ Your majaaty,” he said, “ this common soldier is to strike me ?” “ I make him a captain,” said Peter. “ But l’m an officer of your majesty’s household,” objected the prince._ “Then I xfiake him a general, so that the beating you may get may co; 8 from a man of lour rank.” The prince got a. sound thrashing in the presence of the czar, the recruits was next day commissioned a. general, with the titls of Count. Ominoff, and was the founder of a. powerful faxmly, whose dercendants are still high in the imperial service of Russia. All censure of others is oblique praise of self. It is uttered in order to show how much the speaker can bear. 1:: has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the re- proach of falsehoodâ€"Addison. A story is toll of a Tole lo, Ohio, preach- er on a brother minister that will bzar re- peating. Recently a circus was in the city, and the ministerial curiosity was so awak- ened that an outside view of the stretch of canvas would not suffice. The minister had eompunctious of conscience against the gratifications of What he fancied might be a. questionable desire. However, his liberality of belief would permit of the chiliren going and of their seeing all there was to be seen, provided they had somegood-mzed masculine protector with them. But, unfortunately for him, he had no children, and was, there- foreâ€"to use an unorthodox expression-“in a h.1e.” Finally he hit upon a plan. He Wedt to his brother preacher and tried to borrow his 5-year old boy as a companion to the circus. But it woulJn’t work, the preacher remarking: “ I’ve waited a long time for my boy to get big enough to go tola ,circus, and now I want to use him my. se f. ’ Another English Enoch Arden. A Chen: Lawn: Preacher. Thrashing a. Prince. 9040.0” 90 4-.vb 00‘ ” said the The Monarch in In; Rich and Luxurious Home. The ruler of the 250,000,000 of which the Chinese nation probably consists is now within five years of his majority, and is an occupant, while yet a minor, of the sime apartments in which lived the Emperor who preceded him on the Dragon Throne. There, says the North Carolina Herald, he eats with gold-tipped chopsticks of ivory. There he sleeps on a large Ningo bedstead, richly carved and ornamentedwith ivory and gold, the same on which the noble-minded Em- perors Ang Hsi and Chien Lung used to re- cline after the day’s fatigue last century and the century before. Like one of three living Buddhas who may be seen in a lamasery on the Mongolian plateau, he is knelt to by all his attendants and honored as a god. There is this difference, that the respect felt for him is more pro‘ound than for them. The seclusion in which he iakept also is far more complete. The building in which the Em- peror resides is called Yang Hsin Tien. and is a little to the west of the Ch’ien Ch’ing Meu in the middle of the palace. At the back of the central gate, on the south side, is the great reception hall. \Vhen ministers of State and others enter for an audience, at four,five or six, in the morning. according to custom, they have to go on foot to the cen- tre of the palace over half a mile if they enter by the east or west gate, and when they get on in years they can appreciate the Emperor’s favor, which then by a decree al- lows them to be borne in a chair instead of walking. 3r.sz MAGNIFICENT COMPARTMEN'I‘S. The rooms of the Emperor consist of seven compartments. They are provided with the divan cr k'ang, the peculiar institution of North China. The k’anp‘s are covered with red felt of native manufacture, and the floor with European carpets. The cushions have all embroidered on them the dragon and the phoenix. Pretty things scattered through the rooms are endless in variety, and are changed in accordance with any wish ex- pressed by the Emperor. The rooms are all thirty yards long by from eight to nine yards deep, and are separated into three different apartments, the throne room being the middle one. Folding doors ten feet in height open into each of these apartments to ‘the north and south in the centre of each. The upper part of these doors is in open work, in which various auspicxous characters and flowers are carved. At the back. paper is pasted to admit light to the rooms. The front is ornamented with gild- ing, sculpture and varnish of various colors. These doors remain open even in winter, because during that season a thick em- broidered curtain of damask is hung in the doorway, which by its Weight keeps its place close to the door posts and prevents cold air from entering. In summer this is replaced by a curtain admitting the breeze on account of its being made of very thin stripes of bamboo. The silk threads used in sewing the stripes of bamboo together are of various colors, and passing through the whole texture of the curtain from the top to the bottom are very agreeable to the eye. These summer and winter curtains are rolled up to give air to the rooms when re- quired. Exit and entrance are effected on each side of these curtains by side doors. Along the whole front of thirty yards there is a covered flight of steps fifteen feet Wide. The roofâ€"over this rests on two rows of pil- lars. The pillars shine with fresh ver- milion, both within the rooms and on the steps outside. and are decorated with sculptured work. partly gilt and partly varnished. The Hoppo who lately returned from Canton gave the Emperor apresent valued at $8,000. It consisted of chandeliers holding 500 wax cmdles each. HlB Majesty has also some electrical machines and num- berless foreign curiosities. HIS MOTHER AND His STUDIES. The Emperor was vaccinated when an in- fant before his high dignity was thought of ; otherwise it would have been difficult to vaccinate him, for his person being sacred when Emperor, nolancet can touch him. His mother,the Princess of Ch’un, who is a sister of the Empress of the West, will be raised to the rank of Empress Dowager when he is sixteen, and his father will also be made T‘ai Shane; Huang. At least this is to be expected by precedent, so that after three years we shall again have two empresses dowager, but in this case they will he sisters. The Princess, his mother goes in to' see him once a month, and kneels when she first speaks to him, but rises afterward. Hi father does so too. The Emperor studies Chinese daily for an hour and a half, and Manchu also for an heur and ahalf. He spends two hours in archery and riding, and in winter amuses himself with sledging, He has a little brother of five, whom it may be hoped the mother takes with her when she goes to the palace. The teachers who in- struct him kneel to him on entering, but afterward sit. The Emperor has eight eunuchs who constantly attend him, besides an indefinite number for special occasions. He has his meals alone, and the eight eunuchs wait round him, restraining him if he takes too much of any one thing. His schoolroom is at the back of the Yang Hsin Tien already described, and the hall for con- ference each morning with Ministers is a little to the east. They are reckoning up the other stage stars who are to follow the example of Miss Fortescue, who is to marry Eirl Cairn’s son, and get married. Miss Vaughan, for instance, is to be married toa Col. VVolseley. Miss Violet Cameron, having rejected an Earl, has the refusal of a French Marquis. Miss Carr can have a. director of the Bank of England if she chooses. Miss Chapman is engaged to a Major. Miss Hatheley has accepted a distinguished clergyman. These solid conquests are independent of the hom- age paid, not only to tragedy queens and stars of comedy, but fairies of burlesque and ladies of the ballet. A concentrated solution of bichromate of potash and glue makes, it is said, a. cement for repairing articles of broken glass which will resist boiling water. The cement is first carefully applied to the surface, and after the fractured parts are brought together the whole is exposed to the action of the sun. THE EMPEROR OF CHINA. Snctcllness of the Young Man's Person. Shut up for a seasonâ€"The pepper box. we «0» m An American Hamburg : Cincinnati. The worse of wareâ€"a careless servant. A regular kidnapper~soothing syrup. Funeral music should always be rehearsed. The Rev. Mr. Benn is a minister Georgia. Probably a lay preacher. When a. poor widow finds a. load of wooi left gratuitously at her door, she can con- clude that she has strmk a. tender chord somewhere. , The Biddulph outrage seems des'ined net to be solitary. This time it is Grimsby, and the intended victim is a. man of the name of Armstrong. Why any person should be punished with such malignant hatred and outrage is not easily accounted for. But the ways which are dark are many, and the human heart is often a queer afiair. If those young fellows who nave been taken up on suspicion are found to Ie the guilty parties, scrum-1y any pun- ishment would be too severe for them. The total'fsporting capital of Scotland i3 estimated at about £12,000,000 stirl'ng. The sporting rental of the shire of Inverness alone is estlmuted at £50,000 a. year. Fanny Davenport commenced her season Monday last at the Standard Theatre New York City, in Sardou‘s play of “Fe iota.” She is supported by a carefully selecbei company, and the stage setting; and ap- pointments are entirely new. DRINK IN S\l‘ITZERLAND.â€"â€"The London Times of a recent date says :â€"“If Swuzer- land is to escape the scandal of grave finan- cial dilemmas in various quarters, its com. munes, and perhaps its cantons also, must so far renounce their liberty of mortgaging their credit as to submit to ask first a Federal licence. The Confederacy in turn, it the Swiss people is to be emancipated from the terrible incubus of drink which is press- ing it down, must agree to give back to the cantons a control of which by mere legal inadvertenee can they have been deprived. These, however, are but two difficulties arising out of the necessary incongruities of Federal and State powers which the accxdenl of circumstances has brought conspicuously to the surface. Switzerland may expect to encounter in the future other perplexities 35 a similar sort. Swiss citizans will be Well advised to consider in time, and before they are directly upon them, how much sovereign- ty they can resign themselves to yield to the Union, and how much independence they are resolved to reserve for the cantons and the communes.” TOILET DRUNKENNESS.â€" Dr. Groussiu, Paris, has a letter on the curious form of drunkenness which he mildly describes as toilet drunkenness. Those who by birth or fortune, or by a combination of both, belong to What we call the upper classes, are sub- ject, like other mortals, to all the faults and vices inherent in our nature; but their re- spectable position, ani the money at their disposal, enable them to throw over their bad habits a veil which the world in general cannot see through, and which even the doctor can hardly raise. A lady whom Dr. Groussin lately attended four times com- plained of giddiness, headache, dilficulty in walking, and a, want of accuracy in manual movements. Fearing apoplexy, he turned all his attention in that direction, and pre- scribed purgatives, mustard foot baths, and bicarbonate of soda to dilute the blood. He found by accident that this lady, otherwise excellent and kind to the poor, got drunk regularly four times a week on eau de B )tot. She drank this water instead of using it to wash her mouth, and no one discovered it Had she drunk wine, chartreuse, or cognac, her breath would have betrayed her to the least knowing person. Eau de Cologne and other toilet tinctures are used in the same Way.â€"~London Medical Record. What can We say about that story from St. Thomas wherein was finely illus- trated the dangers, troubles and enjoyments of eating with one’s hat on? Merely this, that if it is not true it ought to be, and to all appearances 15s It is too absurd to have been imagined by the not over bright folks of the West. How the man in such circum- stances could think that he had a case against the landlord is more than any or- dinary person could divine. Anyone that will persist against all the usages of society in eating his dinner With his hat on, es- peciallv when ladies are present, deserves not only to have his chapeau kicked ig- nominiously down stairs, but be made to follow his head-gear in the same uncere- monious order. 'l‘uts, man! What is the use of making yourself quite a donkey? To be sure it may be said in extenuation that he could not help it, on account of nature having been before him in the manu- facture aforesaid. That Mlcroscopic Wonder, the B 11) y Oyster. Prof. H. Rice, employed to attend to ex- periments in fish-hatching, said, addressing a reporter :-“ I will show you the proboscis of an oyster, something rarely seen except by scientists experimenting like myself. You see in this little bowl of water some- thing that looks like a. piece of thin scale, with a fragment of submance to it, all the size of a. lady’s finger-nail ; well, that’s an infant oyster, about a month old. 1 will now placeit under the microscope, and you will then discover the proboscis.” In a. moment the professor had adjusted the lens, and the reporter looked. He at once drew back in horror and grasped for the table. The professor smiled. Through the tubes of the microscope the reporter gazed again, into a wide sea. wherein lay a hideous monster, and from its indescribxble body there rose a great serpentine coil which swayed hither and thither as if search ing for a victim. "‘ We are not certain of the functions of the proboscis yet, but think that, like an elephant’s trunk, it is made use of to catch and pass the food to the mouth. \Vheu the oyster is 5 months old it loges its proboscis; that is, it is absorbed and becomes part or the lips.” “ I 'have coun’ted the pulsations of the heart,” said the professor, “and it mm from thirty-five to fifty a minute; that of a. full- grown oyster does not beat so fast. I will now show you its tentaqlgs.” Again the lens was adjusted and the mon- ster examined, and from its sides stretcned away out into the sea “are a number of long arms, but without Inn. is or fingers, and the monster kept; stretching them out; and pulling them in.â€"New York Journal ALL SORTB.