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An appreciative husband has carved on his wife’s tombstone :~“ She was a. good wife, a. good mother and a good womanâ€" and she knew when to keep her mouth shut." Harry B. Cox, 8. young electrician living near Cincinnati, has, it is said, invented a trumpet to be used for telephoning at sea, with which conversation in an ordinary tone of voice can be carried on between parties four and a. quarter miles apart. The invention is the outgrowth of his discovery of the great distance an echoed or reverber- ated sound will carry, and the discovery that speaking-trumpets, if made to give the same fundamental note, 'would vibrate and produce the phenomenon knownin acoustics as “ sympathy.” ~ ‘For lack of proper knowledge of the na. ture and habits of celery, most .of our farm. are, after repeated attempts, have abandon- ed all efforts toward raising plants or grow- ing it. Almost any farmer who takes pride in supplying his table with season- able vegetables, will tell you he has tried to raise plants and has failed, and has purchas- ed lants and set them, but they “had no luc ,” for they all burned out. Certainly they did, for they demand both coolness and moisture and got neither. Now, had the intending growers, having made their ground both rich and deep, scooped out a trench two or three inches' in depth and set their plants in it six inches apart; given the ground around them a slight mulch; laid slats across the trench upon which to lay a six-inch-wide row of boards, slabs, anything to keep the burning mid- summer sun off the plants from 10 A. M. till 9 1‘. M. (this vertical covering may be removed as soon as the plants commence to grow); meanwhile-keeping the ground con- tinually moist, they would have been gladâ€" dened by the sight of such bunches at the end of the season as are seldom seen off the exhibition table, simply because they had moderated the surrounding elements and given the plants a chance to “make them. selves at home.” _ ___‘_ .._ ruvvwb in the seed. To secure a. good grass crop this should be the only crop expected from the land. Clover and timothy will do well own in the early spring with wheat or rye, gilt most other grasses will not do well with any grain crop. and should be put in as early as possible in the spring as an entire crop. The growth of the finer grasses is slow at first, as they come up with only a tiny shoot and the spread of root and foliage to the full extent really takes two years. The seed is more costly and a greater amount is re- ‘ ‘quired, hence it cannot be done so often but if well done it pays best in the end. Ruskin declares that even plants obtain more of their sustenance from the air of heaven than from the earth. A curious ex- periment has been tried. A tree weighing five hundred pounds was planted in two hundred pounds of dried earth, placed in an earthen vessel. Everything except air and water was excluded by a. perforated metallic cover, and for five years nothing was added but pure water. At the end of five years the tree was taken out and weighed. It had gained 169 pounds, While the soil had lost but two ounces. Nearly the whole growth of the tree was from the air and rain of hea- ven. So, while we must live on the earth, our best growth and life is derived from heavenly food. ‘ There is too much haphazard work con- nected with seeding to-grass. There should be more effort at permanency, more pains- taking in prepiring the soil and in putting :“ ‘1”. ---A A .Afl A man who knows, says : “ In hiring help on the fdrm look to the habits. A smoker is likely to burn your buildings ; a careless man will waste and destroy twice his wages; a passionate man will spoil your horses and cows, and break more than he earns ; an im~ moral man will corrupt the minds of your children, and a man who drinks whiskey is liable to all these ; a careful, high»minded thinking- man will make your labors light, will look after your interests, and will earn his money, whatever you pay him. The statement that all the water in a. plant or tree is due to absorption by the roots, while nearly true, is not strictly so. Duch- artre concluded from some well-devised ex: periments that the leaves are incapable of imbibing water or its vapor, and for twenty years physiologists accepted and taught this doctorine. But a. few years ago his experi- ments were repeated in England, and it was found that he had been led into error, and that leaves can and do absorb vapor when there is more of it without than within them as every one sees who observes the refresh- ing influence of a. shower, or of humid after dry air. M. Hellriegal has ascertained by a series of experiments that rye and winter wheat germinate at 32 degrees nf heat ; barley and oats at 35 degrees ; Indian corn at 48 de- grees, turnips at 3‘2 degrees ; flax at 35 de- grees; the pea and clover at 35 degrees; beets at 38 degrees; asparagus at 35 de- grees ; carrot at 38 and the beam at 40 de- grees. Three bad results follow allowing fruit trees to overhear. The tree is permanently injured by its load ; the quality of the fruit is injured; and the excessive crop lessens the future product more than it increases the present crop. A grape vine that is overlarien will not produce the finest or earliest of fruit. Thin out, saving the best branches. To destroy the curculio on plum trees, smoke the trees with sulphur, or dust them with fresh, dry lime. As time goes on, the horsemen know The oval teeth three nided grow. They longer get, project betare Till twenty when we know more. The deep black spots will plan from View, At six yesrs from the middle two; The second pair, at seven years. At eight the spot. each “corner” clears. From middle “ nippers" upper jaw, At nine. the black spots will withdnw, The second pair at ten are white. Eleven, finds the “camel’s” light. The outside grooves will disappear From middle two in just one year. In two years, lrom the second pnir ; In three, the corners mo are bare. At two the middle “ nippers" drop. At three, the second pair can't stop. When four years hid, the third pair goes, At five, a full new set he shows. To TELL THE AGE or A HORSE. To tell the an or any horse, Inspect the lower jaw, of course. The six front teeth the tale will tell, And every doubt and fear dispel. Two middle "nippera" you behold, Before the colt 13 two weeks old, Before eight weeks. two more will come: Eight months the "camera" cut the gum. :cu lul uenepuonmg at sea, versation in an ordinary .n be carried on between a. quartef millesfipert. The FARM. can be repro'duced by telegrgfih'éaé‘ away from the starting point. Prof. Gray is said to have made a new discovery, described by the term “ autotel- egraphy,” by which fac-similes of messages pan be‘reproduced by telegraph 300 miles ....._ Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke says the Ameri- ian women don't know how to live. If they want health, she writes, let them learn to live in fresh airâ€"open their windows, wear flannel night-gowns, and take a jug of hot water to bed if they are cold, but never to sleep with closed windowsâ€"and air all their clothes and their room daily, eat simple, wholesome food, wear boneless waists and button their skirts on them, and take the heels off their boots. Then, she argues, they .will be rosy, happy, healthy, and a comfort to everybody as Well as themselves. Earnest Hintz, of 770 Helsted street, was there to get a divorce from Augusta because she deserted him. ” W'hy did she leave you 2” " She liked the other fellow better." “ tht other fellow?" " Hens Mueller : she ran off with him. ” ” Why did she like him better?” “ Beosuse he was s brewer.” “ That's all.” Decision deferred. Other csses were those of Elizabeth WI?- ner, who charged that Charles B. Warner had deserted her, and M. Hareman versus Kste Hareman, same charge. The latter cnuse wuss dismissed. ‘ The Patent Article and now to ' Manage It. The public are capricious. What they went is the latest thing, not the best. If you went to make a fortune over patent “tidal. the thing is to be last in the field. e know a fellow who had a. genius for rotation of patents. He would not be cut out. He Was originally a. chemist, and invented a patent medicine. He made a. pile over it in the first week; then some other fellow brought out a. newer medicine. So our friend turned bootmnker, thickened the medicine a bit, turned it into the latest boot-polish, and made another little pile. Then another polish came out. But he didn’t care. He altered his polish a bit, and made a. very wholesome patent infants' load of it ; then turned eminent physician, and gave lectures about it, till a new food came. Still undaunted, he turned hair- dresser, and changed his food to a new hairâ€" dye. And finally sold the patent rights of it. as a new explosive, to our “'ar Office oflicials. After this he received a berth in the department at a. high salary, on the understanding that he was not to sell the secret of his patent to a. foreign power. Al- together, he made a good thing of it.” “ I called out: 'Kate, Kate 1’ No answer. I went into the bedroom, and there she was with e.â€" nsmed Jamieson. He jump- ed out the window, and I asked her why she did so. She didn’t answer me and I went out. I haven’t seen her since. I sold my paint shop and came to Chicago. I have never seen her since.” Judgeâ€"Did you do anything to the man ? “ No, sir.” Judgeâ€"Humph. Mrs. Susan Eliott ,of Cleveland, said she had witnessed the takings-on of J amieson and Mrs Johnson several times throu h the keyhole. She lives in the same flat. aken under advisement. A bloodless young man, Thomas B. Gar- ris was next heard. He lives at 501 West Indiana and married Amelia. in October 1882. They were living in Mariette, Mich., when sheleft him about four months after they were married and Went home. " Did you try to get her to come back 3" “ I did, and she said: ‘ I won’t now.’ There, that's all." The judge will consider. Then came the case of George W. Johnson, who charged adultery against Catharine Johnson. “ I lived in Cleveland, judge, two years ago, and, one day I came home from work and didn't see Kate in the house. It appeared that he had had trouble in his home for several years. They were members of the Baptist church and the'dea- cons had tried to reconcile them. He said hat his daughter’s father-in-Iaw was inter- fering with them, but it. did not appear just what the trouble was. _ The court asked :â€"“ \Vhat was the mat- ter with her '1’ Did 513g q‘uanze‘l wit_h you it", “No, she just wouldn‘t talk and (wild sulk ground.” Taken under advisement. “ It don ttake any experience to tell the trgth," replie_d the jgdgg. _ An old man, white-haired and feeble, took his place in the box. He lived in Ravens- Wood, and wanted a divorce from Mary, to whom he had been married thirty-five years. The charge was desertion. She left him five years ago. The old man was al- most incoherent in his testimony, and would mumble on until sharply checked by the judge- “I’m not much used“ to courts. your honor.” v“ Does this woman live with you 3’" “ Yes, your honor,” blushingly. “ Any arrangements between you and her to get married 2” “ Oh no, no, no I” The judge said he would think about it, and glanced darkly at Neidering and Dora.- as they went laughingly out; of the court room. “Why, yes," said Niederiqé confusedly, ” he sobers up a little and then gets drunk ngaiE” “ What, do ymf mean to say that he gets drgnlijhree orufour times}: (flay Y” “ Yes," said Niedering quickly, “ three or bur timegs a day ?” drunk Frank Smart. of ‘248 Slat street, was ex. amined by the judge. “ Did you ever see Lang drunk ‘3" ” Yes, sir.” “ Did you ever see him sober 3" “ No, sir." “ That will do.” The case was taken under advisement. The next applicant was Dora. Angemeyer. Henry Angemeyer was a. drunkard and had deserted her, she said. Her witness was Henry Niedering, of 447 South Halstead street, at whose house she lived. The judge took a turn at him. » “ You_ say this woman’s husband gets Scenes In aChicago Divorce Court The case of Mary Lang against Henry Lang was the first on Judge Horton's di- vorce docket she other day. Mary is a. ceache in the Hays school and married Henry in Brooklyn in 1879. She said he hadn’t supported her for five years. and was drunk on brandy all the time. She had not seen him for Over a. year. She is a delicate-fea- tured little woman, and as she left; the wit- ness-stand she caught a. sob in her throat, and a. tear dropped from under her hand- kerchief. The bodily vivacity of small men is very much greater than that of large men. The man of small stature is nearly always quick- er and more alert than a man who is tall and stout in proportion. This should be evident, for such a men has less weight to displace when he is moving, jumping, or climbing;- while it has been proved, by many experiments on animals, that the strength does not increase in proportion to the Weight. Two horses, weighing together three-quarters of a. $011,059.11 perform much more work, particularly if it be work involv- ing rapidity, than a single horsc having the same weight. A similar difference exists in the power of one large and stout mail and two small men.j The ratio‘ of muscular energy to the pound of living Weight I is much greater with small or middling/sized men than with very largeionesgp The length of the limbs of the latter necessarily} occa- sions an amplitude in his motions that makes execution slower. -.-Lengthmo£ : limbs also contributes to a waste of strength. \Ve can compare the arm, forinstance with‘ a lever. the fulcrum of which is at the should- er-joint, the paint of action at the hand, and the power‘in the muscles. It is evident that the larger the arm cf this lever is, the more energetic will the muscular- effort have to be. The large man’s power of en- durance is less than that of the middle sized man, because not only of the personal weight that has to be carried, but also on account of the difl'erence in the proportional development of the respiratory system. Variation of Stature. ‘ An article translated from the French for Popular Science Monthly thus compares 18.159 apdAsgnallr mep : For cleaning coat collars and all woolen goods, use the soapvtree bark (duiliaya. sa- ponaria) which can be procured at the drug store. Break a piece about two inches square into small bits, and pour over its. half pint of boiling water, let it stand an hour or two, then sponge the collar well with the liquor; a. second sponging with clean water will clean it nicely. Both washing and rinsing Water should be as warm as for flannel. “ We have, by using this bark, washed black and blue Empress cloths successfully," says a. writer in the Agriculturist, “and cleaned hair-cloth chairs which have been soiled by contact with the head.” During these hot summer days there is no need of boiling or scalding clothes in order to cleanse and whiten them. If wash- ed in warm soapsuds and laid on the grass, the sun will draw out the dirt; wetting them with clean suds occasionally will facil- itate the process. Washing can as well, and much better on many accounts, he car ried on out-of-doors under trees, or near the shady side of the house, than in a hot, steamy kitchen. \Vith an oil-stove, ironing too, can be done in the open air. Old Gretchen’s recipe for washing is as follows: Two ounces of borax dissolved in hslfa. gallon of water, one large bar of soap cut in pieces and dissolved in the above; boil till soft. Rub a little of this mixture on the clothes, and wash them through one water. soap and boil with a little of the same, then rinse. The above, with the ad- dition of a. little soap, should be sufficient for three weeks for a moderate sized family ; and does not injure any clothes. In ironing sheets, pillow-cases, towels, table-cloths,and napkins, fold them twice lengthwise, then twice across. Iron every~ thing until perfectly dry, to give it a. gloss, and to prevent its becoming rough while airing. For pressing small articles, there isa small gas iron, which can be used as well over a. lamp-burner, and is often a. blessing in summer time. The flame burns inside. To keep calico from fading dissolve a tea- spoonful of sugar of lead in a pail of water. and soak the calico in it fifteen to twenty minutes before washing. To wash silk crava‘s and white silk hand- kerchiefs, put one tablespoonful of alcohol to one quart of clear, cold rainwvater. make a. suds with white castile soap ; put in one cravat or handherchief at a time, wash well, rince out in more clean water With alcohol. Before quite dry iron out. with a. thin cloth between the iron and cravat. To take out dry ink stains, use boiling milk, or, dissolve one drachm of oxalic acid in one ounce of water. The fabric should be well rinsed after the stain is removed. “Chinese and other laundrymen are very reticent in reference to the means by which they make shirt bosoms, cuffs, a d collars glossy as well as white, as one ould ex- pect them to be about so important a. part of their business,” said one excellent washer and ironer to whom I spoke upon this sub« ject of polishing. “I puta little bit of soap and butter in the starch which I use warm, and a small quantity of borax in that which I use cold. The use of these articles qivesa handsome gloss to the linen and keeps the flat-iron from sticking.” Said another: “After starching and ironing the bosoms in the usual way, Ilay them on a clean, smooth board covered with a single piece of old muslin, pass a damp cloth lightly over them, and then apply a. polish- ‘ ing iron (which I bought at one of our housefurnishing stores for 75 cents or $1) moderately heated. I rub hard until the shine comes." Every day is a fresh beginning I Listen, my soul. to the glad refrain, And. in spite of old sorrow and older pinning. And puzz es forecasted. and possible pmn, Take heart with the any and begin again. Let them go, since we can not reli-ve them Can not undo and can not atone ; God in his mercy receive, [Orgive them! Only the new days are our own; To-day is ours, and toâ€"day alone. Here are the akle- all burnished brightly, Here is the hpent earth all reborn, Here are the tired limbs springing lightly. To hoe the sun and sh-re wnh the morn In the culsm of dew and the cool of dawn Yesterday now is a part of forever, Bound up in a cheat which God hoide tight. With glad days and and days. med hid days. which never Shall visit us more with their bloom and their blight, Their fullness of sunshine or sorrowful night. All the put things are past and over, The tasks are done and the tears are shedâ€" Yeaterdnv'a errors let yesterday cover; Yesterday's wounds. which smarted and Ned, Are healed with the healing which night has shed Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world nmde new ; Ycu who are weary of sorrow and ginning, Here is a beuJiful hope for youâ€"- A hope {or me and a. hope for you. How To t’omsn SHIRT Bosous. HOIISEIIOLD. EVERY DAY‘ The walks of \Vashington Square early the other morning were crowded with men going to their work. Two big dogs were romping over the wet grass that glistened in the sunlight. Men with pipes in their mouths and dinner kettles in their hands stopped to watch them. They were big dogs and they threw each other in turn over the closely cropped grass and turned somer- saults and jumped over each other’s bancks. Last year, during the heavy rains, when every stream was swollen to its utmost, the writer had occasion to visit one of the swamp plantations lying some miles below Augusta on the Savannah River. Upon this hangs our story. Arriving at a gentle- man’s place whom we knew we told him we were sorry that the high water wouldkeep us from inspecting his fine swamp timber, hav- ing gone there for that purpose. To our surprise he told us that this need not inter- fere in the least, and that he had an old grey mule that knew the swamps better than he or any one else, and that we could ride her, and if trouble came. whether we got lost or water-bound, we must give her the rein and she would bring us home safe ; that she could walk a log as good as a dog ; that he had on several occasions when these freshets came (his cattle being in the swamps and in great danger of being drowned) sent this mule after them, saying, “Jane, go bring the cows home.” The mule, seeming to understand, would at once start for the swamp. This mule has been known to cross a. log when it could not be seen, being two or three feet below the sur- face. Having (lone so, she would proceed to herd and collect all the cows. After that she Would make a loud bray and start for the house. The cattle would follow in single file across this log to their master’s houseâ€"[Augusta ((x'a.) Constitution. After the troops had passed one monkey attached his tail to the lowest of the bridge, another girded him in the same manner, and another until a. dozen more were added to the string. These last were powerful fel- lows, and running up to a. high limb they lifted the bridge into a. position almost hori- zontal. Then ascream from the last mon- key of the new formation warned the tail end that all was ready, and the next mo- ment the whole c'min was swung over and landed safely on the opposite bank. The lowermost links now dropped 03 like s melting candle. while the higher one leaped to the branches and came down by the trunk. The whole troop then scempered off into the chapparal and disappeared. Presently the monkeys appeared upon the opposite bank, headed by an old gray chief- tain, officered like so many soldiers. One, an aide-de-camp, or chief pioneer, perhaps, ran out upon a projecting rock, and after looking across the stream, as if calculating the distance, scampered hack and appeared te communicate with the leader. This pro- duced a movement in the troops. Mean- while several of the monkeys (engineers, no doubt) ran along the bank, examining the trees on both sides of the arrayo. At length they all collected around a tall cotton-wood that grew over the narrowest part of the stream, and twenty or thirty of them scamp- ered up its trunk. On reaching a high point the foremost, a strong fellow, ran out upon a limb, and taking several turns of his tail around it. slipped off and hung head downward. The next on the limb, also a stout one, climbed down the body of the first, and whipped his tail tightly round the neck and forearm of the latter, dropped off in his turn, and hung head down. The third repeated this manceuvre upon the second, and the fourth upon the string rested his forepaws upon the ground. The living chain now commenced swinging backward and forward like the pendulum of a cleck. The motion was slight at first, but gradually increased, the lowermost monkey striking his hand violently on the earth as he passed the tangent of the oscillating curve. Sev- eral others upon the limbs above aided the movement. This continued till the monkey at the end of the chain was thrown a'mong the branches of a tree on the opposite bank. Here, after two or three vibrations, he clutched a limb and held fast. This move- ment was executed adroitly, just at the cul- mination point of the oscillation, in order to save the intermediate links from too sudden a jerk. The chain was now fast at both ends, forming a suspension bridge, over which the whole troop to the number of four or five hundred passed. It was a com- ical sight to witness the quizzical expres- sion of countenance along that living chain. “ Oh, no !" answered the Frenchman. “ Monkeys would rather go through fire than water. If they cannot leap the stream the will bridge it.” “ Bridge it lâ€"and how 2" “ You will see in a moment," my compan- ion repliegl. ' “ H6W, swim it ‘2" I asked. “ It is a tor rent there.” “They are coming toward the bridge; they will most likely cross by the rocks yond_e_r,” obse_rve_d Raoul. The dog carries his gallantry to the same lady to such an extent that when she is via- iting his master’s house of an evening he al- ways accompanies her home, taking her to the very door of the houseâ€"Boston Tran- script. . Whereupon the dog. who is a large St. Bernard. flies over to Mrs. H’s, posts him- self at the door, and if the tramp comes up the walk steps forward and growls pleasant- ly at him. As the dog is a big one and rather forbidding in appearance, though he has never been known to bite any one, the tramp, in ninety-nine cases out of a. hun- dred, remembers that it is getting late and that he hasn't any time to fool away along the road. When he is well out of sight the dog promptly returns home. A GENTLEMANLY Doo. There is a. dog who lives in one of our nearest suburbs who proves 3 eat solace to awidow to whom he does not elong. Dogs are usually given to confining the benefits of their care to their own household, but this one, recognizing the unprotected state of the widow, who lives alone, is willing toex- tend his watchful services to her house. She is a little afraid of the visits of the tramps Who .pass her house on the way to Boston. The farmer who owns the dog, therefore, when he sees a. suspiciouslooking character coming up the road, says to the dog: ‘v‘ Jack, go over to Mrs. H’s and sit on piggy. till the tygmpgets by." STORIES OF ANIMAL LIFE. A MONKEY SUSPENSION BRIDGE AN AFFECTIONATE MASTIFE AN INTELLIGENT MUL 1: the Photographing in Colors. A good deal of talk is heard among pho- tographers over the announcement from London that one J. E. Mayall, “ who has been a well-known photographer for five and forty years,” has taken out a. patent for pro- ducing photographs in permanent colors without the aid of a brush. The statement is misleading in that it gives the impression that colors can be photographed by this new process. Such is not the case, and that interesting discovery has yet to be made. VVnat Mr. Mayall has really done is told in a letter j ust received here from Mr. J. Traill Taylor, editor of the Brztz'sh Journal ofPho- tography of London. It is simply to color the back of photograph proofs. He has an assistant, Whose business it is to take note of the sitter’s eyes, hair, dress. etc., and when the print of the picture is ready, being finished transparent, it is colored on the hack in permanent colors and then mounted. This gives the appearance of the picture be- ing taken with all its original colors. Pho- tographing in colors has been tried again and again, both here and abroad, but is yet only among the possibilities of the art, though lately a great improvement has been made in taking colors with reference to their rela- tive valueâ€"that is, for instance, yellow 8. light shade and blue a. dark shade. There are photographers who claim to have taken in color, but not so that the color would last» ~â€"[New York Mail and Express. But-it [was intimated to him that there- were reasons why it was absolutely essential that the pupil should graduate, while her knowledge might be acquirad afterward. Accordingly she applied for a re-examination and the questions were then something like this :â€"1. Is not the symphony [the high- est form of purely musical expression? 2. Was not Berlioz remarkable for his mastery of ingenious ochestral efl'ects? 3. Is not Bach called the father of modern music? “ And to my astonishment and gratifica- tion,” said the professor gravely, “ to every one of those puzzling questions she answered with great perspicacity, ‘ Yes,’ and passed triumphantlyâ€"average mark in my class 100 per cent."â€"â€"American Musician. Value of the Little Word Yes. A professor in a certain musical college once told me of a pupil, who attended his lecturesâ€"a young woman from some remote place like Seattle or Los Angeles, who at- tracted his attention by her extreme devo- tion to the work, her regularityâ€"in fact, by all that goes to make a pupil solid with the faculty. Moreover, she was beautiful as the day, with large and statuesque beauty, as of strong, full nature, serene, calm and undisturbed. But alas I when examination came and papers were handed in hers was found to be simply impossible. It was evi- dent that behind that Juno-like brow there were no brains In fact, such a paper was never seen before ; even the spelling was ludicrous, while grammar and music were equally injured and outraged in every line. Tears could not move my stern friend, and his report wasâ€"“ not passed." “ That bide _ma.stifi‘ acted like a. human being. I never paw anything in my life sad- der, even if they were dogs." ‘ Several boys attempted to turn the dead dog over, but the mastifl‘ flew at them as a lioness would protect her cubs if they were in danger. The mastifl‘ moaned over his dead friend for hours and during that time would not permit anybody to go near the corpse that he guarded so jealously. A young man finally managed to pat the mea- tiff on the head, and sympathized with him in coaxing tones. The young man was Benjamin K. Loughlin. Loughlin coaxed the mastifl‘ to go with him and took him to the store, part of the crowd following. The mastifi“ looked back at his dead friend when he started away and moaned again. Super- intendent Egley said :â€" WHEN THE SHEPHERD DOG DIED the mastiff got on the sidewalk, with his head and paws in the gutter right over the prostrate body of his dead friend. He fondled the dead dog’s head with his paws and liked his face with his tongue over and over again. Then the flies came and the mastiff snapped at them savagely and drove them away from his dead partner’s face and eyes with his paws and his snout. Now and then the handsome brute would raise his head and look up in the faces of the crowds who came and went, and then he would moan and moan lowly. It was a moan of grief and despair. Hundreds of men stopped to see the extraordinary sight. The big mastifi looked up appealingly and then nestled his head on the face of his dead playfellow. on the ground. His eiféé Béémgfia“}irfii§ limbs quivered. He panted hard to catch his breath. Just as he was about to crawl up on to the pavement out of the way of waggon wheels and horse’s hoofs the throes of death came and he fell over in the gutter. A shiver ran through his frame. His filmy eyes took on the glassy stare of death. His- legs straightened and stiffened. A little white froth oozed from his mouth and nos» trils and then there was another shiver and all was over. 4 The dead dog’s partner in play was by his» side when he died. The mastifi‘ couldn’ understand it all. At first he acted as if he thought the shepherd dog was acting the clown, and he put up his paw to the dying dog‘s head and gave it a. playful poke, but when the shepherd dog set his teeth and looked as if he was appeaaling mutely for help from his friend, the mastifl‘ seemed to realize at once what was coming. It was very hot early in the 5morning. The heat was oppressive and there wasn‘t enough air stirring to move a. single leaf on the trees. The dogs panted hard. \Vhen they stopped their fun for a moment at a. time their big red tongues hung out of their mouths and looked all the redder on ac- count oi their big white teeth. a THE SKYLARKING ENDED IN DEATH. The dogs had been frolicking for an hour. The shepherd dog’s coat was lunger than the mastifl‘s, and he felt the heat more. The blood rushed to his head. He was very full-blooded, another evidence that he lived well. The mastifl‘and his partner scamper- ed off toward \Valnut street and the shep- herd dog was‘seiZed with a fit. He dropped A- cL‘ ~__A They stood on their hind legs and locked paws about one another's necks and playfulâ€" ly hit each other‘s ears. barked, broke away and then scampered off and, after a chase, there was another wrestling match. One was a. shepherd dog, about the size of a. car- riage dog. The other was part mastifl' and part bloodhound. The mastitfwas a. beauti- ful brute and was very large. He could' throw the shepherd dog with ease. He was very gentle with all his apparent rough- ness, when he got the shepherd dog down.