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An Old; Organistâ€"Submarine Miners- In a Bear Pitâ€"Public Libraries in Europeâ€"Russian Ceme- tery at Sebastopol, 820., &c . Some months ago a. champagne house at Epernay offered prizes for the five best poems on champagne. No fewer than 1,000 poems were sent in. For seventy-four years the present organ- ist of St. Michael's Church, Covcntry, Eng. land. has held that positionâ€"longer, per- haps, than any person has evu‘ held a. aimflar position before. It has recently been proposed to prevtnt petroleum fires by placing a. bottle of am- monia. in each ban‘el of ihe oil ; on ignition, by accident or otherwise, the bottle would break. and the eflect of the ammriniacal vapors would be to extingiish the fires. The late Empress Maria. Anna of Austria bequeathed arare and valuable legacy to the treasury of the Dom of Prague, comisting of a. magnificent bouquet of thirteen golden roses in a. golden vase of old Ruman work- manship. The vase stands on a square pe- destal, likewise of pure gold. A corps of submarine miners is in the course of formation at the School of Engin- eering. Chathsm, England. Tne special uuty of this new body of men w ill be the laying of mines under water for purposes of coast defence. Recruits for this new branch of the service are drawn mainly from the fishing districts. No less than three vessels are undergoing alterations to fit them for the work. The Ci‘y of Brussels proposes to try the experiment of using electricity to drive its street cars. One lineâ€"that of the Rue de la Loiâ€"is to be equipped with motors, and separate accounts are to be kept, in order to ascertain definitely the cost of the running, as compared with the use of horses. The test is to last for one year. and then, should the result warrant it, electricity will be em- ployed exclusively on the street railways of Brussels. The French Senatorial Committee on Pe- titions has unanimously decided on recom- mending the Government to take steps for the suppression of the Monte Carlo scandal, as urged by an influential Riviers memorial. The movement against the gaming tables has had the effect of holding in abeyance a scheme for converting the concern into a company, with a capital of $12,000,000, which sum was to be extracted mainly from French investors. A workman fell over the wall of one of the bear~pits in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, and lay msensible with a bleeding wound in his head. The visitors at once tr ed to divert the attention of the bears by throwing pieces of bread among thrm. but one of the beasts walked leisurely to the wounded man and began to lick up hid blood. Amid in- tense excigemeht the keepers arrived. threw a rope into the pit, and tried to drive the bear off by punching him with sticks. Hap- pily the injured man meanwhile had regain- ed his senses, and presently clutched the rope and was drawn alo‘t, much to the ir- ritation of the beast, which made no eflort to conceal his disappointment. There died recently in a miserable lodging in Strasburg, Germany, an old man who had valuables to the extent of $600,000 wrapped up in his pocket, yet Was unable to spend any of it for his comfort. It was the dia- mond belonging to Qmen Victoria, and valued at that sum, Which was stolen from a jewellir's shop in London in 1866, and the jewel was so well known that he dared not ofier it for sale. He (onfessed himself the thief. This is a rare exception which marks the rule that a man must steal large amounts if he would escape the tel rors of the law. The skirmishing drill of the Third D‘a- goons and Fifteenth Hussars in the recmt. Lonc‘ on tournament is regarded as an idea which may have important developments. Both regiments have practised, though in different ways, the principles of Rarey, and applied them to an object never dreamt of before. The troopers have trained their horses to lie down and remain in that posi- tion, even when volleys are fired over them. At a signal they rise, man and horse to- gether, ready to gallop ofi' Without a. mo- ment’s pause. A szen men and horses may thus lie hidden behind a bank, er in ambush, until the unsuspecting enemy comes within fifty yards. In a recent speech Cardinal Manning re- marked that he was looking with much anxiety at the changes that were going on in his country. There was a time when the master and the man lived on the estate, anddifâ€" ferently to what they did now. There was a time when patriarchal care, feeling of hu- man sympathy, of human happiness and of human service prevailed. There had, nowa- days, grown up a new worldâ€"a world of money, of commerce, of manufacture, and a relationship between master and man that, unlike that of the time past. was not one of sympathy, or benevolence, or patriarchal care, but a relationship of so many shillings per week, paid on the Friday or Saturday. It would be Well if this relationship, own in a degree of confidence, affection, and service, could be restored. A scheme to make up the deficiency in the French budget is that of a decrease in civrl service salaries. In this event the minor officials would be well nigh pauperized, un- less possessed of private means. In the ministries, and at the Hatel de Ville, a. bachelor of arts, on whose education his family have spent about $2,000, begins at sixty cents a day. If he manages to pass the examination and has a little influence besides, he often reaches to $300 per annum, from which is to be deducted a. small sum for a. provident fund. A Post Office clerk, when not on duty in answering imbecile questions from the most ignorant public in the world in all that relates to practical matters. has to sort and to stamp something like 1,500 or 2,000 letttrs per day. In Paris be has the magnificent salary of between $450 and $600. There are over 1.000 public libraries in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, twenty of which contain more than 100,000 volumes. In Great B itain there ‘are only nine that; contain 100‘ 000 volumes, and in France six. Spain las. all told, 30 public libraries, cm- taining 700,000 volumes, of which 220.000 are in the library at Madrid, The library at Washington contains 513,000 volumes and 170,000 pamphlets, and there are but five larger libraries in the world : The French National library, with 2,300,000 volumes ; the British Museum, with 1,500,000; the BEADABLE ITEMS. Royal library at St. Petersburg. with 1 000,- 000 ; that. at Munich, with 900,000, and. that st Barlin with 750,000 books. Mr. Edgar Vincent, the brother of How- l ard Vincent, the recently retired chief of the London Detective Department, is regard- ed as the handsomest man in Eagland. He is six feet three inches in height and of splendid proportions. He is also of remark- able ability, having carried ever) thing be- fore him in his university career, and been sent when on] 24 to fill the difficult post of Director of inaucs in Egypt. Gladys, Lady Lnnsdale, the celebrated beauty, to whom he is to be wedded in August, is equally tall as a woman, measuring six feet. The father of the Vincents, Sir Frederick, is a clergyman of the Church of England. Mr. Vrignot, a smart young Parisian thief, finding himself discovered when in- tent on lead stealing, promptly entered a house by a skylight and requested a young work woman at her sewing machine to save him. “ I’ll sit here and peel these potatoas, and when the police come they will conclude that I am your lover.” At this inten sting juncture the police came. and one collared him on “spec,” exc‘aiming, “Got you at last, my boy." “You hear, my pet,” slid Vrignot; “these gentlemen mistake me for some other fellow.” Miss Melalne, however, who was not fascinated with her impromptu adorer, maintained an ominous silenca, and the would-be lover was led off to jail. The Russian cemetery at Sebastopol would be considered a handsome necropolis any- where. The men are laid away in batches in great graves, but the officers lie in separ- ate ones. The timbs in many instances are veritable monuments. Among them are a column and bust over the remains of Prince Gr rtchakofl', Commander-in Chief of the Russian forces in the Crimes, who died in Warsaw in 1861, but who " desired to be buried amid those defenders of their country who did not permitthe enemy to enter their fatherland further than where their graves stand." But the most conspicuous object in the cemetery is a magnificent memorial chapel of granite, marble, and bronze, in the form of a pyramid, over 100 feet high, the walls of which, inside and out, are covered with the name»: of all who took part in the defence of Sebastopol and for whom prayers are daily offered up. The disposition of so many young men to leave the farm and come to the city is not creditable to their intelligence. Every city in the country is overcrowded with this class of helpless young men. They grow up on the farms with no idea of the trials and temptations that beset their class in the large cities. They think they can live in the cities without the trial and drudgery they say isapart of farm life. There are many ways of living in a city, but there is but one honorable way. and that is sur- mounted with as many trials and hardships as earning one's living tn the farm, and that is, to earn it honestly. A young man Withouta trade will find he has to work harder to make both ends meet in the city than on a. farm. The young man who thinks the world owes him a. living and that the obliga- tion will be cancelled in the cities, makes a mistake that is often learnedtoo late. There is no more room for idlers in the city than ou the farm. The criminal clasa receives some of its most vicious recruits from young men who thought they Were too smart to be farmers, coma to the city, found they had made a. mistake, dropped into bad company, and will end their lives on the scaffold or in the penitentiary. . .- Nu, young man, you are not too smart for the fjl‘m. The smartest man that ever lived hadn’t sense enough to reach perfee tion in farming. Be independent. While them is always something to do on a well- regulated farm, if you have aleisui‘e mo- ment, use it in study or selling the many kinds of goods you will find mat are es- pecially made for your benefit. You can always find something to do if you want to mork. If you don’t, we have no time to reason with you. We went to breakfast with Princess Man ‘ seur,the Khedive's sister. The meal was of a mostelaborate description,consisting of many coursLs‘ and partaking more of the charac- ter of a dinner than a breakfast, or rather dejeuner. The dining-room was luxuriously furnished. In the centre was a large circu- lar velvet carpet, embroidered with gold, on which stood an octangular table, covered with an embroidered velvet cloth, on which the breakfast service, including napkins worked with gold thread, was arranged in the European fashion, a vacant place being lrft in the midule for the silver plateaux containing the successive courses. As af- fording some idea oflthe resources of Cnirene culinary art, it may perhaps be mentioned that we were offered in the following order soup, rcast turkey, calves' head stuffed with forcemeat, pillau of rice and raisins, macar- oni cheese, kabobs of mutton on skewers, asparagus a la’lmile, pancakes, cream rice tirt, pastry and jam, milk of almonds in a bowl, with pistachio nuts, eaten With tor- toise-shell spoons, and cheese, iolluwsd by dessert, with ices and little nukes, and end- ing with cofi'ee, which was served in another rgom. 0n the (able itself were several varieties of hers d'wuv‘re, such as anchovies, olu es, potted meats, a sort of bitter white sauce, and clotted cream. C mmprgnc and ether wines \th re handed round. The party consisted rf tight p rsrn, and the entire meal was served within 40 minutesâ€" remaxkably quick work, considering the length of the mmu Ezch guest was pro- vided with a beautllully embroidered Turk- ish tOWel, and water was brought to us in large silver basins after dinner to wash our hands in. If woman's dress does not sensibly ap- proximate to man's, in spite of reformers’ efforts, the names of its component parts do. What with “la.dies’ " “coats,” “vests,” and “pants,” the most sensitive modesty cannot be offended. It is a pity dry-goods stores will not extend this regard for women’s feel- ings far enough to pul female clerks on thelr counters of “la.dies’ ” underclothing. \Vc- men resent deeply the having to inquire about the fit and condition of such articles from male clerks ; and yet many stores which employ girls in other departments pick out young men for there, and Women trade there because they must. It would pay the ones which have girls at these to advertise the fact freely. An Egyptian Breakfast. Stay on the Farm. <o.->-»| The King of Cambodia and his People. M. Delaporte, a Lieutenant on board a French war vessel, gives an account of a re- cent visit to King Norodom of Cambodia. “ The royal residences," he says, “is a town in itself. Several thousand people are lodg- ed in the enclosure, all of whom are attach- ed to the service of the King. At the end of the first courtyard, surrounded by difler- out kinds of buildings, stands the European palace, which is quite similar to the dwell- ings of the rich merchants of Saigon. B2- hind that, in another enclosure, is the native habitation, gardens, and huts. This is the division set apart for the harem, and is clos- ed to the profane. The mandarins are the most energetic purveyors of the harem. They hope to obtain favor by pivirg their best-looking daughters to the King. The women are allowed to go out, and, by one of those strange carprices common emugh among the monarchs of the Eist, who are by turns cruel and paternal. they are allow- ed to marry, the King giving up all his claims at the request of the lovers. But, on the other hand. any attempt to enter the sacred harem surreptitiously is punished with the utmost severity. The first time I visited Camhoui l, a young booze, in high fever at the court, was discovered fl'rting with one of the prettiest wives of Norodom. The latter, according to the usual custom, ordered the two lovers to be buried alive. The accused, however, escaped the punish~ ment through the interVention of the old queen mother, who is a zealous Buddhist devotee. Since. that time it appears that the fair sex have not become wiser. but their punishment has been changed. On return- ing from our expedition, the King, who had come to visit the chief of the French pro- tectorate, asked for some details as to the European method of executing, or rather shooting, criminals. M. Maura, without attaching much imp ,rtance to the question, gratified his Mlj15ty’fl curioaity. But what was 0111 astonishment when t.vo hours alter- terward we learned that four young women 0 the bar 111 had been shot in the European military style, and their heads taken oifand hung up for the encouragement of the other ladies of the household. “The King received no cordially, and promised to facilitate to the utmost of his ability our arcbze )logiml rcsen‘ches. After- ward he asked for one of our doctors. He was lamed by a recent fall, and-i1. is an article of faith in Cambodia. that an infirm or lame king is unfit to govern. He told us in confidence that he was obliged, in confor- mity with the superstitious customs of his subjects, to consult innumerable quacka, astrologers, and divinera. None or them Wm able to cure him, and all agreed in im- puting to evil spirits the persistence of his trouble. Our doctor immeiiately placed himielf at the dispoaitiOJ of his Majesty. Ceremony required that the august invalid could only be examined through the inter- mediary of one of his wives, but the doctor convinced him of the insufficiency of this method, and a. close examination of the hurt was made and the remedies applied. “ On going out of the palace we found at the doors group of honzes on their knees, praying for the rccwery of the King. Others were going through the streets chant ing and singing psalms. Public prsyer had been ordeiel thloughout the kirgdom. Around the pagodas and in front ot every house tall bamboo canes were placed and dressed with ribbons of various colors. B: side the statues of Buddha. at the cross roads and in the interior of the Chinese dwellings, odoriferous torches were kept burning. Trade was suspended. The people appeared outdoors in their holiday costumes. In the evening and late at night the streets were filled with people carrying torches or Ian- terns. The eounds of the g'ng and of the tam-tam were mixed with the constant de- tonations of fire crackers, and the sky was continually streaked with rockets, whose explosions and brilliancy were intended to drive away the bad spirits that were bent on tormenting the sovereign. “ The next day we met a sort of cortege, composed of about twenty natives, who were marching in file, and before whom the crowd of people opened a. passage with great re- spect. This was the escort of the little son of Norodom, who was out lor an airing. The child was seated upon the shoulder of a. little dignitary of the court. A servant walked behind and shaded him with a. para.- sol. This royal baby was dressed in a silk gown of a. brilliant color. He wore a. neck- lace and bracelets, and on his ankles were rings of gold. His hair was shaved, with the exception of a little topkuot carefully rolled up on the summit of his skul‘, and tuna was surmounted by one of them white jasmine flowers whose sweet perfume the women here prize highly, and they Vladly make of- ferings of it on the altars of addha.” The Remains 0! Ancient Races In Arl- zona. Arizona has a. history which has never been written, says a. letter to the San Francisco Chronicle. It is only told by the empty ir- rigating canals, the ruins of populous towns, vacant clifi‘ dwellings, inscribed rocks, and broken pottery found in many parts. of the territory. Before the European saw this continent two races had lived and died in Axizona. The earliest people built their houses in valleys that are now deep ravines, and the clifl' dwellings that are Seen h-day raetiug in the sides 0t deep arroyos two hun- dred feet above the bottom of the gorge once stood upon solid ground, and yet so many years have elapsed sine a then that now the houses are high and dry and accessible only to hardy climber} Tvme has dug away the foundations as Well as scarred am] chip- ped the habitation, Between the age of the cliff dwellers and tau of the white man come the race who built the canals and farm- ed the valleys. Dry and parched and barren as a. great part of Arizona is today, there was a. time, of which abundant proof exists, when the valleys were rich and fertile and when great cities were populated by an active. capable. and energetic peo le. Who were these industrious beirgs '! 0 one can tell. Toltec or Aztec, black or white, from Egypt or from Peru, none can say. Time has nearly destroyed evidences of their existence. In the lapaeof ages their history has grown almost a. mythology. What a. race they were, though! No farming for them, if you please, on any small scale. Tney had ditches to bring water to their crops lhat would astonish the soil-tillers of to-day, and their houses were castles. to-day, and their Perhaps the m now are at a. plan the Gila. river val now are -at a. p!a.ced called Ca: the Gila. river valley. six miles ence and five miles south of the first discovered by the Spani: CLIFF DWELLERS. xtensive rive astles )t the‘} eir ru an in 1540 e. m Flor- the largest building of the group was four stories high and had walls six feel: in hick- ness. A hundred years sen (na house at ll remained which was 420x260 Ieet Today there is but a suggesriOu lefu of the former magnificence of the houses, but one may still see that the walls were male of mud and gravel, held together by a hard cement, and the rooms are still coated with cement Near Case Grands are the remains of an ir rigsting canrl which has been \rsced for forty miles, and which must have watered thousands of sures which ta-day are dry, negleclel wasLes. Miles of these wide canals cru be seen sentiered over the territory. E-urywhere are the evidences of a. prehis- Lorie occupatiOn of the land. in building the city of P escott, workmen unearthed not only household and farming implements, but discove ed old foundamons as well, and as Arizma lB settled and explored there may yer. be tound more traces ol the people who liVed and died here, leaving no suggestion as to who they were, when they came from' whither they went. VVhet one we for Pom- peli? We have a vaster, richer field 1n which to search for treasures hid for untold ages. A red-headed New York society girl rides a. sorrel horse to match her hair. Don't buy a coach in order to please your wife. It is much cheaper to make her a little Bulky. While it is better to be born lucky than rich, it is better to marry a poor girl with a. sweet temper than a rich girl with a red- headed one. “ Frog limbs " is the modest. sign diapl Ly- ed in a New York restaurant controlled by a WOman. At marriage the bride always meets her bcthrothed at the altar with gloves on, but alter her marriage she generally handles her huscand thhout gloves. “ I hope your uncle won‘t give me away,” remarked young Augur to Miss Gimlet. “ Don’t you worry abOut that. He never gives anything awav. He’s a pawnbroker." A Vermont girl, who has married a. young man by the name of William. says that she intends no treason in affirming that herev after she will follow the dictates of her own sweet will. Maude has come into the garden (of jour- nalism ) at lastâ€"Miss Maude C. Major, at Norfolk, Neb. Dm't know the name of her prer, but “Only a. Pansy Blossom " would have been appropriate, or say the Norfolk Narcissus." A Stock Yards girl was asked this morn- ing. if she had ever been married. " No,” she replied with alacrity; "but I’ve sued seven gentlemen for break-h of promise, and feel as though I Were just good and ready enough to tackle another.” Mendors. Hoffman muried the Marquis De Mores, who has large landed interests in the North West. In St. Paul she is the most richly and tancefully dressed woman you will see. On the Elaine she rides and shoots faultlessly. alloping over the prairie, an eagle plume in her hat and a. rifle slung from her saddle, she is the picture of wild brauty. The geyscrs of New Zealand are found on the North Island, scattered through the area which extends in om Tongariro (a semi- active volcanic cone), in about the centre of the island, to the Bay of Plenty. They have long been known to the natives, who have no traditions as to their age, but from time immemorial have used the quiet hot springs to warm their huts and to cook their food. Every but has its boiler close to the door ; bread is baked on large sla‘as of stone placed over the hottest portions of the ground; and on others, not quite so hot, the lazy recline, wrapped in blankets, en- joying Vulcan's heat. In these respects the Maoris have the advantage over our North American Indians, who have always avoided the Yellowstone region on account of their superstitious fears. N 17 v The springs of Savu~Savu on Vanu Levu, in the Feejee Islands, are pseudo-geysers The latter were owued by an old woman who was captured by a chief in 1863, and cooked in her own springs. Miss C. F. Gordon Cumming. referring to this, says: " She was past 70, and must have been very tough and smoke-dried, but as in her young- er days she had been a regular Joan of Arc, leading her tribe to battle, and herself fighting hand to hand with a hatchet, he determined to eat her. So he had her cooked with the sixteen men, and made a great feast, and then to spite the people, be- torelezving the district, he attempted to choke up all of the springs, in which ami- able efi'ort he partia 1y succeeded. These Springs were also a favorite place for de- positing all superfluous babes, especially girls, who never got much of a welcome. They were popped in a‘ive, like so many lobsters, and treated ‘with quite as little ceremony.”â€"â€"Popular Science Month’y. She cm say “ No,” and siiok to it for all time. She can also say “No” in such a. low, soft voice that it means “ Yes." She can sharpen a lead-penal if you give her plenty 0t time and plenty of pencils. S'ie can dance all night in a pair of shoes t-vo sizes too small for her, and enjoy every minute of the time. She cam pass a. display window of u. draper‘s store without stopping â€"if she is running to catch the train, She can walk half the day with anoisy baby in her arms Without once expressing the desire to murder the infant. She can appreciate a kiss from her husband seventy-five years after the marriage cere- mony has taken place. She can sufler abuse and neglect for years, which one touch of kindness or consideration will drive from her recollection. She can go to church, and afterwards tell vou what every woman in the congregation had on, ani in some rare instances give a faint idea of What the text was. She can look her husband square in the eyes when he tells her some cock-and-bull story about being “detained at the oflice,” Without betraying in the least that she knows him to bencolossal liar (.3311 man can In an hour, and do 1: better. one can make the alleged lords of oreation bow down to her own sweat will, and they will nevex know it. Yea, a. woman can do every- thing, with but one exception; she cannon clxmb a. tree. She How Savages use Hot Springs. a canâ€"but what’s the use ? o anything or everything, She can do more in a m What a Woman Can Do. W0! MAN’S MOOD e use? A woman ything, and do it in a minute than 3 i0 it better. She Is of mention how Origin of the Names or the Days of th. Week. In the museum at Burlin, in ihe ha‘l de- voted to Northern authn'ies, they have representations of the Ldtli from which the names of the days of the Week are de- rived. From the inol of the Sun came Sun- day. This idol is represented With his face like the sun, holding a burning Wheel, with both hands on his breast, signifying his ap- parent course around the world. The idol of the M ion, from which cones Monday, is habited in a. short coat, like a. man. but holding the moon in his hands. I‘uisco, from which 0 mas Tueslay. was one of the in )Et ancient and popular gods of the Ger. mans, and rcpresented in uis garments of skin, according to their peculiar manner of clothing ; the third day of the we- k was de- dicated to his worship. VVoden, from which comes Wednesday, was a. valiant prince among the Sixona. Hie image Wrs prayed to for victory. Th(r, from whence comes Thursday, is saated in a bed, with twelve stars above his head, holding 3. Empire in his hand. Friga, lrom whence we hsve Friday, is represented with as drawn sword in his right hand 3111 a. bow in his left. Seater, from which is Saturday, has the ap- pearance of perfect wretchedness. He is ‘ thin-visaged, long-haired, with a. long beard. He carries a pail of water in his right hand wherein are fruits and HOWers. An Escaped Comet. During the laat four )eirs some comets have paul visits to the ruler of the solar sys- tem and displayed their dazzling trains to the admiration of his attendant worlds. Every one of these comets has been remark~ able for some unusual or unaccountable con- duct. The big comet of 1881 suddenly flirt- ed its streaming tail into the northren hem- isphere unannounced and unexpected. and surprised the astronomers at their teles- copes as much as it did the milkmen on their rarly morning visits to the pumps. The comet of 1882 amazed the world by sudden- ly appearing at broad noon close to the sun, where it soared like a fiery bird with broad wings extended, and as it retreated from the solar system it appeared to be chased by a bevy of little comets to which it had apparently given birth during the terrors of its plunge through the flaming banners of the sun. In 1883 the comet of 1813 reappeared. But the most extraordinary comet of all is the one which was discovered at the Vienna observatory about a month ago. It seems to have been clearly seen, for the observers carefully measured its position among the stars, and it was believed from its place and motions that it was one of the comets of 1858 returning. But after thus showing itself the comet disappeared, and, although a battery of telesc3pes has been brought to bear upon the spot where it appeared, from nearly every observatory in Europe, not a glimpse of the mysterious visitor from the realms of outer space has been caught. An English clergyman obtained an excel] lent position for having refused preferment odered to him’under circumstances deroga- tory to his dignity. He was a fair singer, and a vulgar plutocrat, who had invited him to dinner, promised to give him a living if he would sing a comic song at dessert. The quiet rebuke which the young clergyman ad- ministered made the plutocrat ashamed of himself, so that the next day he proffered the living with a letter of apology; but the liv- ing was refused, the clergyman stating that it would be impossible tor him to forget the Circumstances under which it was first ten- dered. This was the more honorable, as the clergyman was vcr badly 011'. Another patron, hearing of at. he had done, ap- pointed him to a benefice as a testimony of his admiration. \Ve may conclude with the story of a man who was suddenly made rich because of his great stupidity. He was the only dull man in a bright witied family, and goin to dine with a. ve‘y wealthy relative who ad a horror of fools, he made so many silly remarks that the old man cried out in exasperation: “I must do something for you, for you’ll never do anything for your- self. If I don‘t make a rich man of you, you'll become a laughing stock to the world and a disgraie to your family.” A maid servant was discharged, but was to remain until the end of her month. She invented a retaliation which has proved the moat ingenious and effective of any that ever the Utica Observer heard 06, excepting these involving the perpetrator in danger of punishment. The house had a commanding overlcouk of a park in which suicides had been committed. The mistress was abnor- mally affected by anything weird and tragic. So the maid to d her of the suicides, point- ed out from the window the spot where this poor fellow had hanged himself, where that one had died by drowing, and Where the other had blown his brains away. She added, with a shrug and shudder, that she fancied she could see them 0' nights; the ghosts of the self-slain hunting the places of their crimes. The old woman was horified. S‘ie could not look at the park, which had previeisly been a. solace to her eyes, with- out descrying the points which the girl had invested with gruesome interest. She has gme to Newpost for the summer. and Will ne\er return to her home alougside the park. A Disinfectant. In cases of diphtheria. or other contagious diseases, a. Harman physician recommends a mixture of equal parts, say 40 drops of tur- Dentiue and carbolic acid put into a. small kettle of water, and allowed to simmer slow- ly over the fire in the same room with the patient. Tue atmosphere of the sick room must he kept constantly impregnated with the odor of the substances. In several cases of diphtheria there was no attempt at isolation of the patient, and the mnher cared for sick and well without spread of the disease. Taming ;White. We saw on our streets last Saturday eve- ning an old negro woman about 70 years of age. who was at one time n. dark ginger cake color. but now has turned white, with the exception of a few liver-colored spots on her face and arms. “Aunt Kitty" says that the remaining spots are disappearing Very fast, a )d if sue is spared to live a few years longer it will be one instance to be re- corded on the pages of history where nrnegro zuma, £57 561:1), 513012 End bUriedehftel 301‘ Unexpected Prizes. A Novel Revenge. m->”{ wmm Mont