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A ink eraserâ€"A cal ored jockey. Very “baking” in its wayâ€"smallpox. Poeple who “went South for the winter" this year, have found it. It’é thelitcle things that tellâ€"especially the little brothers and aieters. Money doesn't make the man ; and it isn't every man who maked the money, either. Léve is a passion which frequently comes we know not how, and it quits us just in the same manner. When a man dies in the Society Island, they paint his body, but in this country bls character is the thing that is frescoed. A recent song has the following refrain : “Oh, hug me closer, closer still." Of course there are frequent reacts, to give a. fellow a. chance to comp'y. Dr. Hammond predicts that a. thousand years hence a.“ persons will be bald, and yet some folks think Mormonism is already gasp- ing for bremh. i‘eacher oi Bible-clnssâ€"“In what hock of the Bible is the expression found, ‘All flesh is grass '!' " Studentâ€"“Erâ€"Timobhy." The clergyman having remarked that there would be a fine nave in the church, an old lady whispered that she knew the party to whom he referred. Nurse (to young hunband)â€"“I am glad to announce, air, that; you have a. beautiful, bounclng son.” Young husband (excited)â€" “Erâ€"boy or g~girl l" Sheâ€""So you are writing a novel ‘2" He â€"â€"“Yefl.” Sheâ€"“And what will it contaln '1" Etaâ€"“Four divorced women and a society scandal.” She ~“Won’t that be lovely 1 ' A little girl was seated at the tabla op- posite a gentleman with a waxed moustache. After grwing at him for several moments, she exclaimed : “My kitty has got smellers, too !‘ It don’t matter how much benevolence; & man prt f asses, unleaa he puts ashes on his sidewalk in icy weather. “AH men are born flea and equal,” but the difficulty is t! at some men are born equal to a half a dozen others, A certain actor appeared in a. pantomime upon all all fours, performing the role of a donkey, “For the first time,” said his critic, “Mr. X. has failed to present worth- ily the character of an ass I” “Did you ever think what you would do if you had the Duke of Westminster'a in- come 7” Village Pastorâ€"“No ; but I have sommimes wondered what the Duke would do if he had mine.” Young Lady (in shoe store)â€"“Have you a stunt calf shoe, suitable for a. servant, at a price not to exceed two dollars a pair 3" Clerk (overworked)â€"“0h ! yea, ma’am. Er â€"what size do you wear ‘3” Teacherâ€"“Now, Klaus, if I say the father blessed his six children, is that active or passive ‘2" “That in active.” “Correct ; find what in pauive ‘Z" "The father was bleaaed with six children.” There is something extremely wrong in a. fashion that makes a. lady at s. ball carry a. long. useless trail of a. dress in her hand when she is actually needing something to cover the nakedness of her shoulders. You may say what you will about pictures of astonishment, but you just ought to see a frog try to Jump into a pool of water that is frozen over. He don’t any much, but what he does say can’t be relied upon. The man who thaws himself out with a Tom and Jerry when the thermometer in huggingthw zero notch, Brother Beecheruya, is a. better‘oliJen than the pl ohibitionist who goes to bed cold and Ehoves his wife’s feet out of their warm place. Mrs. Grufly was a guest of Mn. Goodaell. One morning Mrs. Goodaell saw Mrs. Grugy using the wrong toothbrush. “Bless me, Mrs. Gmfl’y, yru are using my toothbrush l” “AmI? W831. now, you’ll excuse me; I thought it wan the chambermaid a." J udge to prisonerâ€"J Your name 1 ’ Prison- erâ€"“chry.” J udgeâ€"“That’a your Chris- tian name. What a your family Fame 2" Prisonerâ€"“My father was 3 Pole. I have never been able to pronounce his name.“ Mr. Fogg (reading from morning paper)â€" “Why, my dear, this in very sudden. Our friend Mn. Smith. baa died.” Mrs. Foggâ€" “Mrs. Smith? You don’t say so I How very glad I am we had her to tea last week i” Lady (to Ipplioant)â€"“What wagel will you expect a: nurse?" Applicantâ€"“How ould la the bnby, mum 1" Led) â€"“Seven months." Applicantâ€"“Widont Inudinnm, mum, two dollars an' a half a wake ; wid landnnum, two dollars." There in a singular incongruity shout the human race. A man will never hire an ano- tlonaer unless he is continually “ knocking- down,” but a clerk that does the same thing is discharged. “Why didn’tyou come when I rang ?" said aI‘exaa lady to her aervant. “ Because I didn’t heah do bell.” Hereafter when' you don‘t hear the hell you must come and tell me no." “ Yea’m." Sewing girla are paid seventy-five cents a dozen for making shirts, and yet a married woman won’t new a button on one until she has been promiseda pair of diamond earrings and a sealskin sacque. " George Washington offered himself. to five women before he was accepted.” Well, no wonder ; it got out that he never told a lie, and the women, of course, thought he wasn’t quite right in the upper story. An exchange says : “ TheChinese have no humor ; thry cannot understand 8. joke.” This explains why the Chinamen get mad when hoodlum: smash their Windows. We have alwavs had it suspicion that John couldn’t understand a. joke. “ I’ll give you». crown, my good follow, If you’ll get me across this perilous place all right," shouted an English pnzaengor to a man who was plying the cars in a. dangerous stream. “All right, guv’ner, no cross no crown,” and he bent harder to the task. N “What nonsense?" exclaimed Bertha, “The idea at telling Mrs. Brown that you ware only twentyâ€"three I” "But didn’t I do right, dear 2" replied Edith. “You know, mamma has always taught us not to exag- gerate. It in better to understate rathe; than overstate, you know.” Miss Gasconâ€"“The funeral was a lovely afl'alr, don’t you think 2 It was the most de- votional occasion I ever witnessed." Mrs. Harlandâ€"“l wasn’t impressed in that way. I saw no tears shed; no emotion wasâ€"” Miss Gascomâ€"“But the flowers. Mrs. Har- land! Why, one of the pyramids was five feet high 1” MERRY MOMENTS. In the series of able ertlclea entitled, “How to Win,” contributed by Mina Frances E. VVillal-d to the Chau’auqua'n, we find the following wise remarks 0-1 the subject of hygiene, with special reference to its relations to women’s success or fail- ure in life, which we most hem-tin com- mand to the earnest conmderhtion cf our fair readers :â€"â€" “ I believe the day is not far off when the symbolism of human features shall be so based on scientific research, that a rogue can by no means palm himselt off as a. saint, and the wolf in sheep's clothing w ill be a physical impossibility. We write our own hieroglyphios on our own faces as plainly as ever etchings are traced by artlsts. Pexfect unity with God’s laws written In our ml m'oers, obedience to the dzcalegun of natural law, and the ritual of this body which was meant to be the temple of the Holy Ghost, would hsve made us all beami- ful to start with ; would have endowed W by inheritance with the fascinating grace of Babe and Apollo, . . . . . . ‘ “ But generations of pinched whists and feet, of the cerebellum overheated by its wad of hair, the vital organs cramped, the free step impeded, and the gracious human form bandaged and dwarfed,-ell these ‘ :xaot from every new-horn child the pen- ‘ alty of law inexorableâ€"law outraged and‘ trampled under not through many gener- ations. WhenI note the minclng gait of fashionable girlhood, the betwisted iinglets, compressed waist, and overlying draperies ; when I contemplate the fact that the edicts of the theater and the demi monde, from which come the ‘ latest etylea,’ have de- prived us of watch pockets, and bumened us with bustles, I am more nearly dieheartâ€" ened about women than anything else can make me. Like an irate physician of New York, ‘ I wish since those wasp waists are so nearly asunder, I had a pair of rclnsore that the work might be compleled.’ A heathen woman in Chin}, on seeing our abominable current fashion pl neg, excleim ed : ‘ You say we do wrong to bind up the foot, but you Christians kill God a life, when you bind up a woman's waist? The grave-yards are tull of victims oi diseases that come of tight-lacing, and the hospitals groan with their degenerate (fldpll. g ; while the puny physique and the dolicete health of American women is a. reproach amorg the nations ; but I have yet to see a single one of our species who will admit that her corset-is ‘ the least bit tlght,’ and no one seems to perceive that this claim proves her to be a downright monetrmity in form, since the ample and amt;er Venus of Milo is an acknowledged atendard. SOLID HYGIENIO THOUGHTS FOB “'OMEN. “ But when women, new old. tell me of the brass stomaohers, and terrific high heels worn by their grandmothers, and that in their own youth they ‘ strung their oorsets‘ by making a fulcrum of the bed~post and pulling With all their might and main, I ‘ breathe freer,’ metaphorically speaking. and think some women, at least, are com ing totheir senses, and keep urging the in- troduction of hygiene as aspeclal study in all branches at the public schools. We need this as women hardly lean than do our brothers ; for I verily believe, and shame- facedly confess. that the corset habit among women is as difficult to break as the alcohol and tobacco habit among men. If the la we of God that leek the health of the body, were obeyed by but a. single generation, the next 'one would he physlo‘tlly beautiful. I am always «vied when one of our ' society girls sag s to us; ‘ Cofleo and tea. hurt my complexlcu, so I have left off drinking them ;’ o; , {Greasy fool coarsene one 3 looks, and I can’t afi‘urd to eat it ;‘ or, ‘Buckwheat cakes and sausage mske my “ face break out.” Though I love thrm dearly l they have b: e \ put ‘aelde.’ 1" r; uvm . -â€" "T’hla nâ€"xativa migh‘: be higher. It shouldbe grounded lna. reverent purpone to know and do thp will 9f God at the table wigs; grace is so often said over This youthful and becoming drmxs is. m- l and the full nkért is finished with a band presented made in pale blue camel’s halt of velvet under which the upper edge of with raby velvet, blue numb and cream- 13.02 ia aflcnrud. The sleeves are finished tinted Russian lace as accessories. The with lace time-i upward, anti pale blue design is adapted to all materials nuimble ribbon is used to tie the bait and finish for growing girls and in is so pmctical the neck of she dress. With the double thab n9 difficulty will be found in making illuatraslon, shown among the ‘aepambe as illustrated. The ruby ve'wet yoke, which is faced on the waist, contrasts prehtily with the full vest of pale blue nut-ah, the outline of a jacket; is given by tie arrsngment of hhe velvet garniture, HEALTH. ROMA DRESS. moat gracelesa food :but untold good will come from the simpler and more wholasomo diet, no matter what: in its procuring cmae.” Beam mtc Fight (01- mi": in a Lighthouse on the Gull 01’ Mexico. A startling story comes fmm Morgan City, La. and i5 told by Third Assisnant Keeper Keeoh cf the Shit) Shoal Sf'ation Lighthouse on the Gulf‘of M:=xico. He says : “ I was third and} Mr. Dunn Was principal keeper of the lighthouse. We had attuned the first food second aseiutonl; keepers up the Atchablyayo Bayou for provisions. They did not come back. and after waiting five days for iheir returnâ€"the diatmoa was only about fifty milesâ€"ave o‘ncluded that something serious had happened to them. The morning of the fifth day, while we were tearing outside, we noticed a boat becaimed to the nouthward. and on examination we came 1:0 the conclusion that it was the mis- sing bout belonging to our station. So I tack the dinghy and pulled out to her. On getting alongside I found in her only one man. and he was a ntranger. I asked him Where he was aoimz with our boat. He said he was going to Pescngouia, and asked in return what light- that was. I told him it was the Ship Shoal, and naked where he had ‘ gotten the boat from. He said he had bought her of three men near Morgan City for $100. I told him our first and econd assistant keepers hnd gone up the her, on in her; that we rradn’t seen them since, and that I pm- i pared to tske him to the station. He made no resistance “ For three days we fed and watched him, hearing nothing from the missing keepers. Tnefourlh night Dunn was in the watch room, and I lay asleep bzlow in my own room. I was a Ivekenod by a terrible pain in my head, and found myself bleeding and the stranger standing over me with a. hatchet, giving it tn me 9.5 feet as he ever could. I yelled ‘ Murder ! murder !’ jumped up, called again to Dunn to come down and help me, and had no 20011015,“ got the words out of my mouth then the stranger out with a revolver and began firing. Three balls struck me and I I fell in a mint. Dunn in the meantime had. { hurried down and a) med himself, but when l he got to the foot of the stairway all was i qmet and dark in my room, and he cmld not hear anything. He crept cautiously into the small room where the smell lamps were kept, past a. skylight that caught the gleam of the big lantern. The stranger was wa’ching for him, and banged away at him through my Window, hitting him in the right shoulder. Dunn fired back into the darkness in the direction of the flash, and the u ranger shot him twice more, again in the right shoulder and in the right side. Dunn fell over, but got up at once, and just then I came to and called him. We neard nothing more of the stranger for some minutes and then discovered that he had gone aloft-into the watchroom. We barri- caded the stairway, covered the skylight, undzthen turned to estimate damagrs. was ready to faint again from loss of blood. Half my face was gone, just as you see. and I had three pistol shot wounds. Poor Dunn was suffering principally from the two bul- let wounds ln his shoulder. Each of us had to use the left hand in binding up as best we could the other's wounds. The next day we took our prisoner to Morgan City, and he is now in jail there. He gives his name as Davy Jones. He is is hideous looking man, all the lower side of his face having been chopped away ia the encounter.” A clergyman who married four coupler: in one hour the other evening remarked to a friend that; it was “pretty fast work.” “Not very,” responded his friend ; "onlv four knots an hour.” Wile, before a lion‘s cage, to husbandâ€"â€" “What would you say If the bars were to suddenly break and the lion to eat me up ‘1 ‘ Husband (drlly) “'I should say he had a. good appetite. ” A TIIRILLIN G EXPERIENC E. 13.02 ia aflcnrud. The sleeves are finished with lace time-i upward, anti pale blue ribbon is used to tie the bait and finish the neck of she dress. With the double illumination, shown among the separate fashions, the arrangement of the back can be seen, and the quantity of material re- quired for medium size is stated. Pat- terns in aiza from eight to twelve years. Price, twenty-five cant: 93011.", It is not a wise plan for the dairynmn to employ every fellow who may come along to help about the care of his stock. We must give the dumb animals credit knowing some- thing ; and among the things soonest learned is the diflorence between a kind keeper and an unkind cnv. There is a wonderful differ- ence in men, we hardly need say. Temper is apt to manifcst itself very soon in the handling of stock, if a man has a. superabun- dance of it-i e., temper. The cows do not stand quietly in the stall when beingl milkedâ€"cause ; a steel is broken owr their backsâ€"effect. And we always feel that a cow when thus treated is excusable if she produces a second effectâ€"a reactionary one â€"and kicks the offender out of the stable. The man is unfit to take care of stock who does not have a. controllable temper, as well as some liking for dumb animals, and an in- stinctive inclination to treat them with kind - ness. Cows will not “ do well” under un- kind treatment, of any kind; but, on the other hand, they are quick to appreciate gentleness and kindness in their keepers. Let this fact be borne in mind in procuring assistants in the dairy, and furthermore, let the “ boss” himself~i e , the proprietor, be ccreiul that he requires not that of another which he does not possess himself. WHEN TO SELL BUTTER Taking all things into account, there is nothing made in keeping but er for high prices. The best time to market it is when i it can be got into the proper condition for 1 market. Butter is a peculiar article, and besides being subject to great fluctuations in price, it depreciases in quality almost from the time of packing. And tl-e advance in ‘ price obtained, it held, must be something wnsiderahle over the interest on its value to 1 ms ke it at all profitable. B (reuse you “ hit it" once by holding for betszr markets, is by ‘ no means n. sign that you wi:1 again; and the loss from shrinkage, use of money invest ed, and general depreciation, must be borne all the time, Butter is never so sweet and d; sirable as when first packed, provided care and common sense have been used in the making ; and, if not, the butter will certainly not improve by the keeping. THAT SICK House It is not inireqvent that a horse is sud- ‘ denly taken sick, breaks out in a sweat, he- ‘ comes stifl in its limbs and perhaps dies. When so afl'ected veterinarians call it am- turia. It is usually the result of overieed- ing of nitrogenous food to horses that have oeen standing idle for a time m the stable, and have then been taken out and over-exercised. A good authority says : It depends on an excess of certdn elements in the blood and system generally, the result of excessive, high feeding and insufficient exercise. To prevent it, reduce the diet and give exercise A good, active purga- tive should be given, and warm fomenta- tions be applied to the loins ;and if the par- alysis continues after the acute symptoms have disappeared, the application of mus- tard blisters to the loins should be made. In the treatment of this, as of all other dis- eases, great careinlness and much common sense must be Used, and in severe cases it is always advisable {to employ a competent veterinarian. ms'rs ON SHEEP FEEDING The first winter month is one that tells on sheep. Unless they have remarkably good shelter and p‘enty of good buy, or clover, they shoufd have some grain, say a pint of oats and corn mixed together. It is often the case that farmers think it the best plan to keep their gv ein altogether for late winter feeding; but they overlooked the fact that a sheep that has passed the first; cold month of winter in good and flourishing condition is better prepared to withstand the late.- in- tense cold, even with less grain. On the same principle a sheep that goes into win- ter quarters in good condition has a much beher show of coming out well in spring. Shelter is, however, quite as important ‘ss food ; it helps keep up animal hest, which, if not done in this way, feed must do. FARM AC oux'rs. ~ It is, of course, a subject worn threadbare in its discussion, but yet there are many farmers, we venture to say, who never lay pencil to paper to figure up the exact gains or losses ot the past year. It is just as im- portant tor the humor to keep a careful re- cord of his doings on the farm as for the merchant in his store ; and beosuse the far- mer does not, he thereby very often has a loss where a. profit is counted. At any rate, let him figure out his receipts and expenses this month, as far as his memory will serve him, and possibly a memorandum here and there, and thus have some, even imperfect, idea of what he is doing ; whether in the long run he is making or losing.. Two Years in the Jungle. When Professor Ward, of Rochester, se- lected Wm. F. Hornaday as a collector of wild animals in India, for his museum, he made a happy choice. Few men are to be found who so well unite the qualifications of hunter, collector, taxidermist and natural- ist, and to collect successfully for a great museum, a man should be all these. Be- sides these, courage. physical strength and endurance, and patient skill in managing Wild men and savages axe all required. As a hunter Mr. Hornaday attacked the tiger in the jungle, the wild elephant and bison in their native forest in India, and this on foot, with his life entirely depending on his ac- curacy of aim, and the certainty of his weapon. Besides these lords of the forest Mr. Hornadcy brought to bag the bear the wild boar, crocodiles, and many Species of deer and monkeys in the forest of Bengal. In Ceylon he collected many of the pecul- iar fishes of that island, with other curious marine forms of life. The jumping fish, which comes ashore and feeds on the rocks ; holothurims; resembling brown sausages six inches long. covered the beach, and much prized in China under the name of beche de mer. Also skates and rays in great numbers and vsurlety, though none were seen as large as lshe great (lele fish (Mama) of our south- ern coast. Specimens, however, of this gi- gantic: ray are not. wanting in these sees, for the writer saw one in the Indian Ocean which would have meémured at leauttwenty' five lent; from tip to tip of t} e bat-lite wings. Our traveler else procured a specimen of the tiger-shark (Stegosloma) six feet long, tawny in color and spotted black. This species grows to an enormous size in tropical seas. Une played about our ship when becalmed in the Indian Ocean, which was longer than our ship's beam (26 feet) and as large round as our long boat, a formidable looking crea- ture, and perhaps the largest of fishesâ€"a- EMPLOYIN G WINTER HELP THE FARM. TIMELY NOTES most people now know that the whale is not a fish. Another rare fish collecbud by Mr. Honmday was a. aharkmy (Ramphobato‘s) sewn feet long. which has a. spin emu: like a sturgeon. Flying foxes, a. large s‘peciaa of by, were so abundant that fol-nylon: were kllled in five shuts, as they hung in cluaéers like p0."an from a tree top In Ceylon the crocodlle la abundant, and unlike their rain- tlves, the gavialu, am often dangerous. The largest: specimen was: twelve feet long, though many lax-gn- onw were heard of. So in Florida. we hear of sixteen-fool; alligators, but may seldom measured more than ten feet when killed. A moat Intereaflng part of the worid in the thud of Barneo. Many hunts and aportamea viait British India and Ceylon, but the interior of the gram island of Borneo is almost: a term incognita. The principal object of Mr. Hornadny's visit Wm to pro» cure specimens of the orang uban (Mmda), an animal little knuwn, but of v. hich strange- talea have been told by romanciug tmveiers. Its home is in Borneo, abaut which, en en in Singapore, 8. meeting piaue of 811 mean of men, thu gram-eat ignorance ptevaiis. an we are told by Mr. Homadav, and as B nneo is 850 miles long, and 625 wide, me; u :4: a. large field for exploration. The orang-utan is arboreal in habits, and rarely comes to the grm nd, where it is weak and slow, but i“; is at home in the loity treetops, where it builds a. sort; of neat of branches. These flI‘ st: are swam py and not easily traversed, either on foot. or In a boat, yet this indefmiga‘ l: Amer ican hunter collected forty-three lprcimenn of both sexes, and of all ages, seven 0‘ which exceeds the maximum size of omrga as given by Wal- lace, the well known English naturalist. Mr. Hornaday's largest specimen measur'd four leet six inches from head to feet, and almost, eight feet in extent. of out stretched 2.“;leb and his weight was eazimated at 185 pounds. It was the largest than She native hunters had ever seen, and they called him the “Rajeh.” ML Horzzaday says he frlt as if he had killed some terrible wood demo», or satyr. It was shot from a boat in a snbmerg» ed forest, and two shots from a Maynard rifle brought. the grmn ope down from his tree. Three baby orange were captured, two of which rofnsed to live in captivity, but the third was a mild and tractable in fant, whrch beenma a tame and affectionate pet, and was Mr. Homaday‘s conslant oom- panion as long as he run lined in Borneo. It had many human traits, on»; of which was that like human infants, is could not swim, but sunk helplessly when put in the water. The full grown 073.11g ie enormously muscular and active, aml would [1' obably easily overpower any vnsrmed man. Knlner Wilhelm and his sons when tra- velling by rail pay for their passage the name an other people. The late Vittorio Umbxiani of Naples was one of the most bmliant literary men of Italy. He was also a soldier under Gari- baldi. His death, the L'ndon. ’l‘imea re- marks, is 15 national bex '9nd men. Mme. Patti's “hell is financially inop- ponune, for ihhe has to keep (lulu for a. monih she will have to forfeit her engage- ment to give three concert! at the Eden Theatre. P‘via, on February 3, 6 and’ 9, for a fee of $2,500 wok. Miss Maud Long, at present the heroine ’at Kansas City, went out in the snow It 1 o’clock in the morning and tramde three hours In search of a. little brother and sister 1 who had been carried off by a crank. In 1 testimony of her heroism her neighbors are 1 getting up for Miss Long a subscription 1 lint. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes in lemporar- fly depressed by the pulling down in Boston of the old house in which he was married and lived happily for many yea", and which with its associations was one of the pleasunteat homes of Holman Mr. Alvin Perry of Cincinnati, 3. diamond importer, has just. completed. im- the wife of an unnameu govunment official at Wash- ington, as diamond necklace mined at $40,- 000 and containing forty-one stones, set, no (:oubt, with Jacksonian simplicity, Prince Jerome Bonaparte is to vxsit Rama soon, partly to assist; Signor Chis. a, the ad!- tor of the iorthcomlng Cavnur correspond- ence, in’ pzeparing the letters that passed between himself and Cavcur for neveral yem. Prof. Huxley, who in only four year: old- er than the oldest xtenm railway, is u- topnded when he re fleets that he lived when he could not travel faster than horses could transpoyt him, and F0 had no advantage over Achilles, but does not reflect that the mean: of individual. locomotion have not improved in 5,000 oeniuriel, excepting pos- Iibly in going~ upon two feet Instead-0t " ali- foun.” Prince Frederick Leopold of Prunia, who 11; ll llkely will marry the eldest daughter and fourth child of the Prince and Princess of Wnlee, is the fourth son of the famous “ Red Prince,” Frederick Karl, and is a grand-nephew of the Emperor William. Eels now in his 22nd )eur, while Vic- toria Alexandra of Wales in in her 20th yegr. Sn- R. N. Fowler, the English banker, writes a beautiful hand for a. banker. Lute- Iy. in a letter, he o‘oaerved : “ I regard the conduct of the Government in thin matter as absolutely inhuman.” Owing to the in- ability of a printer to decipher what was meaumit stated, in type: “I rarely can compass a tale. My grandmother is the beat narrator of amusing incidentn,” “The Claimant" lectured last week In Dublin Hie audience was enormous, and they received him with lusty shouts of " Hurrah, Roger I” " How's Wagga Wag- Ra2’and the like, He is tell, portly. and described as “ solemn as an undertaker" In gen eral bearing. His voice in poor, and his lecture bored. There is on the way from Alaska to Wash- ington a. cane for President Cleveland. It was made by Dick, the native policeman of Sitka. and is of yellow cedar, akilfully carv- ed. The carving represents the history and tradi‘xiona of the bear family, that animal being the “ totem” of the Kahtwaton, the most numeroua of the two Indian families that constitute the population of Sitka village. It is finished with a ferule ef Alas- ka gold. About 4,000 Russians came to this coun- 11‘] last year. This 13 not a very large num- ber, but if their names were tied together the unpronounoesble appellation: would reach around the earth, and be more dan- gerous to run against than barbed-wire fence. PEOPLE.