n

AN AUTUMN SYMPHONY.

A white-stoled spirit speedethThrough the haunted halls of night,

And tho wakened woodland heedethThe course of her hoary flight.

The aureate morning seesA change in the trembling trees,And feels in the air that stirsThe tapering tips of the firsA hint of the frosty breathOf the drear November days,

*V.« mmaoo in flia manrirvnr trora»» UCU liUO iU WUO «UWU«VT» " 1*J M

Grows wan with the touch of death.The eddying swallow leavesTho gabled granary's eavesFor the southland's softer skies;And the wren that chirped at the do<

Now sounds her plaintive criesOn the marshy Georgian shore.

In hollow, on hazy hillside,The torch of the sumach burnsj

In copse, by the reedy rillside,Droops fronds of yellowing ferns,

The lindens upon tho lawnAre garbed in the go d of dawn;The elms are in dappled gowns;The beeches have amber crowns;A new rose flames on the brier,And the vales where the hanging misHas the hue of amethyst

Show the maple's crimson fire.With a ruby glow like wineTheclimbering woodbines shine,The pod of the milkweed op^s.And the feathery flakes of down

Flutter above the orchard slopesAnd the corn-fields, russet-down.

In the spicy glooms of pinelandThe partridge sounds his drum;

There are notes of song from vinelandWhere harvesters go and come.

The ripened pippins flushIn the sweet autumnal hushLike the fruit that bends the tree3Of the calm Hesperides.Fair Plenty smiles on the landFrom the caverned coasts of MaineAnd the billowy Western plain

To the far Floridian atrand.And peace of the lilied brow,Of the dove and the olive bough,Is queen of the broad demesne.In the past's dim corridor

jliuw icbio, IU truiui

The wraith of the days of war.'-Clinton Scollard, in Youth's Compandor

[ THE GARDEN PARTY.The Liddoix girls were poor. As

natural consequence they were proudand perhaps it only complicated matterthat they were so pretty.And when Mrs. Stuart Seymour seu

them an iuvilation to her garden partythey looked at one another in silent longing, mixed with dismay.

''Wouldn't it be nice:" said Liliaswith a little gasp."We should meet everybody!" sai<

Louise, thinking only of one particulaSjrson, a handsome young major of ar

llery, who was visiting at the Seymoumansion just at that time."And we never get a chanco to g<

anywhere!" sighed Lilia*.'\but it's no use! ' declared Louise

"We haven't a thing to wear!""But, Louise, think!" urged Lilian

"There are our two white organdiidresses."

"Horrid, scant, old-fashioned things!'laid Louise. "Besides, the last time iiwas done up, there was a hole ironecthrough the bottom flounce of mine."

"Yes, I know,"said Lilian "Neitheiof ihcin in itself is fit to wear; but I wa:

flunking that we could take the besipart of each and contrive quite a respectable gown out of both."

"Oh, you darling!" cried Louise,ecstatically. "But," with a sudden catching of her breath, "only one dres3? Theronly one of U3 could go. It must b<you, Lily!"

".Xo, not me," said Lilias; "you anthe younger."

"But you are a thousand times th<prettier:" cnea encnusiastic i^ouise."And it was my fault that Aunt Par

kyns s box of cast-off dresses was n?ile<up and sent back," said Li lias; "an<that she was offended by my writimthat dreadful note about not wantin;anything that was onlv tit for the ragbag."

"It was true!'' flashed out Louise" She would have been ashamed to offeithe wretched 9craps to her maid. If shreally wanted to help us, why didn't sh$end a gift of money, or of somethingthat we could use?"

"It was all my pride and haughtiness!'lighed Lilias. "And now I deserve t

^ . do penance for it. We'll fix the wh\t(organdie dress over, dear, ar.d you shalwear it. I saw a beauti ul pattern in thold leaf of a fashion-book that wa

wrapped around the roses that Mrs. Sejmour sent mamma, and I almost knoihow I can arrange it to look nice."

"But," sighed Louise, "the bonnet?"Must you have a bonnet?""For a garden party? Of course," dt

T n lico ''I'.vprvhnrl v w<>arc fhoin '

"Can't we trim the old one? "

"With what.'" said despairing Louise"Oh, Lily, we must give it up, alter all!"No we won't!" said Lilias. "W

can do some thing, I am quite sure cthat Only give me time to think; amin the meanwhile, get your scissors.wmust rip up the old organdie at onceand while we are wo-king, we'll spur uour inventive powers."But no ingenuity on earth can raak

something out of nothing; andthemorLilias and Louise pondered, the les3 salisfactory becarr.o the prospec: of a bornet fit to wear to Mrs. Stuart Seymourgarden-party.

"If I can't go like a lady I won't go f

all," said poor Louise, with tears in hteyes. "I hate being shabby-genteel."But when I ouise was down in tl:

kitchen, washing and ironing sundry bi!of la e which hud been ripped o.f thtwo dresses, which were now being < 01densed into one, a sudden, bright idcblaze.1 into f ilias's brain.

"I almost knew I could do it,"' siaid, speaking out aloud in her carnesness. "The very coarsest rye-straw, witblac k lace st ings, made out of mammaoid thread-barbe, and a cluster of pineverlasting (lowers pinned on the sid<and I saw them < arting a load of sulovelyrye straw into Mr. Darling's baiyesterday. I don't th'nk it would besin forme to takj just a few. At a

events I shall run the r'sk: and I wontell Louise until I know whether it wi

- be a failure or not. I'll braid it in tlfan y pattern I learned at Mrs. Follcttwhen I was at boarding shool, andlushape it over the little earthen\varc-< rot

that we cook oatmeal in."Very early the next morning, whi

the September sky was yet glowing withe golclen tints of dawn, Lil'a3 Lidd<arose and hurriedly dressed herself, r;o/*rA:e rtn rJmv.ofppnnrl meadows ar

woods, and climbcd audaciously into t]windows of Iiufus Darling's great r<

bam."I wouldn't do such a thing exce

for Louise's sake,'' she said to herselwith burning cheeks and eyes glitteriiwith mischief. "But no one will evknow. If it had been a y ear agowould not hare stolen my poor little ry

Ik

3tr3wa by stealth. Rufus Darling woulhave given mc anything on his farm fothe sake of Louise's bright eyes. If onlthe meddling neighbors would have lethem nlone!"And seating herself in the midst o

the pile of burnished, yellow straw, ->hbegan to select the smoothest and mos

pcrfectof the >traws, clipping them wit!her pockct-scissors and depositing themone by one, in a little basket at her sideWhen she had made a beginning, s-h

could not resist the temptation to ru

down to the old well under thu appletrees and draw a tin-cup of water, ir.oistening the straws, and beginning thpretty lace-edge braid with eager fingers

)r "It will t ike more straw than I ha<any idea of," said she. "I must rui

back and get a few more/'Once more she perched herself on he

little throne amid the sweet-scented ryestraw, the brown curls escaping over hefr»!-r.Vin irl fVio oarrnr primsnn rlvpinf* liecheek."*' "

And at that very moment the bijdouble doors were thrown open, admitting a flood of morning sunshine, againswhich stood liufus Darling himself, leaning picturesquely against hi3 horse"

fc shoulder.Lilias jumped to her feet, blushing fc

the very roots of her hair.Mr. Darling dofled his hat."So you arc the burglarf" said he

''Martin Dyer told me that the barn window was open, so I came down here tsee what it meant.''

"It.it isn't for myself," said Liliaslooking guiltily at her crisp, yellowgrain-stalks; "it is for Louise, and I wilpay you for them, Mr. Darling."

'Those rye straws?" said Mr. Darling"Why, I suppose a whole bale of thenwould be worth about three cents. ILouise wants a whole barn-full, they ar

at her service But I wonder what yoare going to do with them? Would ibe treason to ask?"

Lilias looked timidly at him. She ha<fancicd he would be angry, but he wa

not.He spoke with a certain amused ten

dern.ss in his tone; his dark eyes shonunder their long lashes," that curvei

slightly upward at the ends.All the old times of neighborly friend

ship seemed to come back again theriunder the fragrant shadow of the ban

k roof. Perhaps.perhaps if he and Louise were to meet again, all might go 01

as before; for surely I.ouise could neve

resist the pleadings of those soft, magnctic eyes.And Lilias unfolded all her plans, un

a dcr promise of the strictest secrecy, an<

, Rufus Darling listened with deep inters est.

"You are going to the garden-party?'t she asked., "I have been invited.''

"You will see her there," said Lilias"Whoever may be there, I am quite,

, quite sure that no one will be lovelie:than our Louise! Hut I musn't stay an^

1 longer.it must be nearly seven o'clockr and I oui;-e will wonder where I am gone- And I have got to hide away the strawsr so that she sh ill know nothing about th:

bonnet until it is all finished auc> trimmed."

So Lilias ran away through the wood.1. with her apron full of rye-straws, leaving

Kufus Darling standing on the bare. threshold, witn one nana snaumg an

5 eyes, while Max, the horse, munehe I thesweet, white clover that grew almost tc

' the door.t The little bonnet proved an undeniIable success. It was like :i glistening

golden sea-shell, with the cluster of pinir everlastings drooping over its brim, andi the shadowy knots ^of soft, black lacct beneath. And the white organdie dre^s

was almost as beautiful as new, and thetears of^ratiliad pride came into Lilias'seyes as she saw how pretty Louise lookedin her impromptu outfit.

1 "Dearest J.ily, I wish you were going,j tool" said Louise, tenderly kissing th(

sweet, self-saj rifi ing genius who hadc wrought all tins transformation. '*1!

seems so wrong for mc to take all th<2 pleasure.''

"I shall be just a3 happy at home,'- said Lllias, bravely.11 She did not know how true her word:1' were de?tined to come.

j It was nearly 9 o, clock when Louis<y came home in Mrs. i-tuart Seymour's car-"age.

k,Oh, we have had such a deliglitfu!. time!" <ried the girl, radiantly. u]

never, never was so happy in allmv lifee And oh, I.ilias, I don't know how I shall

» * r 1.. t:i 5e tell you: I always iaucieu ue asm uit

j a little, but I didn't know.""Stop, stop!" said Lilias, smoothing

' the fair hair that lay over her shouldero '"this is getting confuscd. "Who is he?'3 "-Va]or Arden," explained Louise[1 "He.h:-says he loves me. And we an

c engaged. And he is coming to see raammis to-morrow."- "Then it was foreordained from th<y very beginning that you should go t<

| Mrs. Seymour's instead of me," sau" Lilias. ''Because--! am engaged, too.1

"You?" cried Loui>e, her blue eyes a

widely openrd as two morning-glories o" a June aunrisc."you Lily?"

"Yes," confessed Lilias. "Rufus Dar5. ling has been here. We have had a lon<" explanation. He says it was me that he loved all the time."»f "Why, who ever thought otherwise?d said f oui^e.e "I did," owned the blushing Lilias.i; "1 h'.n you were the only one," sai<p Louise. "Vou dear little modest viole

of a Lilian, ho.v could any one care foe me when you were by? Of course he never thought twice of me. And I ar

so glad.for Rufm is such a splend:<i- felow! And to think that my littl's g rden-party bonnet brought about th

reconciliation. For it was that, wasn'it it?.that morning in the barn ?":r "Ye-, it was tliat," admitted Lilias.

"Or, in other words," said Louise, "1le was your sweet unselfishness and self sac

ts rficc that has made us both happy toie gether.i-j The next <lav. when he came, Rufu;a Darling laughingly showed Lilias thre

or four yellow rye-straws.ie "You dropped them out of your aprot- that morning when you started to ru

h across the fields,'' said he. "And*s picked them up, be ause they had beek in your hands."j; "Only rye straws !" said Lilias, smiliuli and coloring.n "Not rye-straws to mV said Rufua Darling. "In my eyes they had becom

ill] love's golden links."1't Surely there must have been alchcmill som-where at work; for all the worlie j was changed to Lilias and Louise, thrs radiant September morning..Helen Foi

in rat Gr>tres.

How Cloth is Tinned.le A mixture of finely pulverized metalth lie zinc and albumen, of about the coi

)n sistency of a thin paste, is spread within brush upon iinen or cotton doth, and Lid means of hot steam coagulated. T1lie cloth is now immersed in a bath of star;d nic chloride, well washed, and driec

Running the cloth through a roller pres:Dt the tin film is said to take metallic luste!f, Designs cut in stout paper, letters, nun

jor bers, etc., when laid between cloth an

e° roller, are impressed upon it. It ca

I also be cut in strips, corners, etc..Sce- (7xtijio American.

f TIIE HUMAN HA]y"t AN EXPLANATION OF THE

IN WHICH IT GROWS

et Essential Parts of the Hairhand Shape.Overgrowth ol*

Hair . Misplaced Hair;and Their Removal.

e

At birth, almost the entire surthe body is covered with fine, sofThese fall oil, and are replaced bysmaller and weaker than the firs

^ except over the scalp, the eyebrovthe eyelashes. Later on in life i

3 situations the hairs become greaveloped, especially those of tnc bman, and about the entrances of t

" and ears in advanced life. Th<like the nails, are simply specialr cations of the skin.made up

nsame materials and, like it,

= to many diseases. The si7 made up of cells which

first deeply situated, soft andin structure, but as they are pustoward the surface by the coiformation of new ones, become h£

T > o!f 11 n f !/\ri a fKn t

Jiuiujr. xn uiwdb onuubiuiio tuu v

skin proper become loosened, an

they have served a proper time a<' tectivc to the uuderlying parts tl"

oir and are lost. Those which c<the hair, on the contrary, becomeattached to the next ones abov<

' and push the old ones before then, shape of a continuous, fibrous cTne lower cclls overlap live orthose in advance, and as they h:ir<

^ come practically fused with them^ The essential parts of a hair

root and shaft. The root is imlu dieply below the general surface^ skin in a little sack or pocket, int<

opens a small gland that furnishesj a natural "hair oil," that keeps ig becoming brittle. At the bottom

sack (follicle) is a collection ofcells, freely supplied with blood

gand nerve--. The outer of these c

j pushed up by the growth of nevi:nil thus the hair is started on

towa d the surface. The layer <

'a in which the root is bedded is thatcontains the coloring matter thathe tint to the complexion of the

j ent ra-es of men and to individieach race. Hence the means of c<the hair are supplied with the m;

which make up its primary striThe shaft of each hair is hard and

i externally, but contains within a

J softer, more spongy material, t.which nutritive fluids from the r

, able to find their way, at leastyouth and the younger periods ollife.The color of the hair depends

proper color of the hair-cells, th[ pigment (which is the same coloriij terial as tints the complexion) a

amount of air contained in the' Tho proper color of the hair-ce!

cording to its intensity, produces; blonde, or deep-red color. The 1I ish black coloring matter gives all

of brunette coloration, from palea to ebony black. Combinat'ons olt two give all shades between thJ hibited by the fairest Faxon a

blackest lithopian. Want of iht. oring materials makes the hair gr, transparent, and if there be mi

contained in the outer part of thecombined with deficiency in cc

r matters, then the opa ,ue whiteiold age is produced. Black is

[ most universal color, blondes. found only among the Germans,i Slavs, and Finns, and occas> anong the Armenians and Si5 Red hair is found in individuals[ races.

The shape of the hair varies; iit is round.in these it remains st

\ Those which are oval or fiat curl ii[ directions and degrees. The natt \mer'ca, the Polynesians, and» have the straightest, while the

is found among the bushmen snd i' of Africa. The Indo-Kuropcan i

Aryans, have hair taking a nuuuic,i between thrse extremes. The <li

of the hair depends upon that of i; When it is permitted to grow lo. direction may, of course, be chau

some extent.1 Overgrowth of hair, or its appt[ upon parts of the body from whi<> usually absent, or present only in[ mentary form, is not so very unco

; The so-called ''hairy men"' and bwomen are examples of this deft

t The Russian "dog-man" and hiswell-known specimens; and ai

' Indian family, in which the peciappeared through three gencratioi

; some of these curious monstros:t! teeth were partly absent. Not o

leeth, but the processes of bone irs they should have developed wer

) ing. It has been concluded on t1 lome other grounds, that such ab" overgrowth of hair in reality rep3 \ defect in development like 1f and cleft-palate.

But the unnatural appearance- may r.ot be spread over the entirij but be confined to certain localie in tne co:orea moies upon me s*

' beards'' of elderly ladies, and th«" what stronger growth of the rudin

hairs upon the upper lip, chiicheeks of dark-skinned females

3 race. This unusual developmentt occurs only in advanced life.but ttr well-authenticated instances of fie vo'oped beards in young women

n case, a Swiss woman, aged twenli rented a mustache and goatee fouie 11 len»th, with preservation of ale feminine characteristics.t' The removal of such misplaced

not accomplished by the use of ai

pilatory. The only sure and eft *vay is to destroy the sack or

j- from which ea h hair grows, eiti- el«:<tiiiity, as fir-t directed I

Michcl, of this city, or by exts each individual hair and cauterizie fo!l:cle with some irritating cli

The former mothod is by far thin it requires a large stock of patienn perseverance on the part of both] ind operator. "A sure cure" 1

ii secured in almost every case of mi:hairs if modciate skill be conjoint

g the e prcie ]UTsitcs. The same i

Jurelv removes hairs upon theis whiih persi.st in -'growing in-'e the globe of the eye. If not r<

these "wild hairs" cause continuay lion and eventual loss of .sight.U The opposite condition, non-;

it mec of the hair, or loss of it witlr. growth, is far more common, esj

he la-t named condition, callcd b:iChildren are frequently born bfi;h«y usually develop a hairy covethe end of the second year.

i-1 cases are recorded of persons wlica h::d either hair or teeth, altliougy lived to the average age of men.te of them were always bald, but dell- teeth in usual number. SomctimI. original baldness appears only on

9, tea portion of the skin. Then tr. no chance of the hair "comingt- future years; in fact, somctimid spots of the same sort appear, or In one enlarges to some extent. Bi/- cases are extremely rare compare

those in which the hair falls off

I) sequence of some local or general dI# ease. In all of those in which the sk

is so injured that s ars result there is

W\Y ^°Pe a ncw f°rm:'tion of the hair.St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

W

-Color ^at ^eoPle an<* Fluids.the The question whether water is fatte

9 ing or otherwise has been much dicussed. Formerly it was generally .1sorted that the victims of obesity shoumortify the flesh and reduce the fat I

luce of abstaining as much as possible frot hairs. liquids and remaining in a continuothers, state of thirst. Latterly the opposit ones, has been affirmed, and 1 am told thatirs, and reduction of weight is one of the resuln some claimed by "the hot-water cure," pritly de- vided always that tl>e water is takencard in hot as possible, painfully hot, andhe nose great quantities.; hairs, Experiments have been made in Paimoditi- by I)r. Debove which controvert boof the these doctrines. These experiments i:subject dicatc that, provided the same amoukin is of solid food is taken, large quantitiare at 0f water maice a man neither thinner n

spongy iatt( r. They were carcfully made onbed up friend who took weighed quantitiesitinued food daily, and while the3C remaincird and equal doubling the quantity of wati:ells of had nomeasurableefiect on the weigd after 0f the body. Still, it is quite possib) a pro- that the old theory of thirt cure and tlley fall new theory of hot-water cure may boiompose be correct. Both violate the naturclosely conditions oMiealth. Scalding-hot wate: them, like tea or co!rce or grog of similar teri in the perature, unquestionably injuries tlolumn. teeth, the stomach and other organs cosix of cemcd in the early stages of digestioien be- and it is very probable that deficiency

liquid impedes the latter stages.wherelare the the chyme, by the aid of digestirbedded fuids, becomes converted into chyle aiof the blood.) which a fat man may easily become thinnit with by injuring his health. ''Banting'^it from dange:ous, as many who have fairly tri<of the can prove. The difficult problem isliving reduce the fat without reducing tlvessels strength at the same time. A skillfells are trainer will undertake to bring any miv ones, down to his "fighting weight, '' i. e.its way the best condition for violent exertio>f skin but as soon as the discipline of the trainwhich is relaxed the obesity, when constit

it gives tional, returns; and a long continualaiuer- of nign training is murucrous. rerna

jals in the old prescription, "Keep your mou

oloring shut and your eyes open," when followiaterials with judicious limita'ions, is the besucture. JTat lc3s, sleep less and walk more a

horny safe injunctions, provided they arc obey*core of in moderation.hrough ])r. Detove's conclusions applycot are water only, not to other beverages. T1during fat man who uso malt liquor as a dai[ adult beverage deserves to be buried und

cross roads at midn:ght, accordingon the the ancient modes of degrading the we hair ful perpetrators of fcLo de se.. Geniirig ma- man's Magazine.n'd theshaft. Shaving.lis, ac- earjje3t reference to shr.ving® l;a e» fouad in Genesis xii., 14, where we ref

that Joseph, on being summoned befoso es ! the king, shaved himself. There aD.OA\n gevera[ directions as to shaving in Levil.

®secus, and the practice is alluded to

d the many ot^er parts of .-cripture. Egypt", the only country mentioned in the Bib

sse co -

wjj0re shaving was practiced. In ian. other countries such an act would ha

tcli nir !. . . ..

sh'ift 1)000 Emm ons, nerociotus mcntio:that the Egyptians allowed their bean

>!orin<j . t1

o

less of Krow wt.en m mourning. So partithe al-' u^ar wcre they as to 9^»ving at othbein«* ^l,,es» ^at t0 ^ave neglected it wa*

Celts' su^-cc' °* reproach and ridicule, ai

ionallv w^cncver they intended to convey tlemitcs *c^ea a man ^ow oondition and sloof all en,y habifs, the artists represented hi

with a beard. Unlike the Romans ofn some

^ater a^e' Egyptians did not fonfii,..;.ht prfrf'e*® having to free citi/.ec' 9 ' but obl'ged their slaves to shave bo

j of' ')Car^ aiic* head. The priests also shav*y I the head. Shaving the beard beean

customary among the Pomans abiut 31

ie"Toes ^ccot"ding to Pliny, Scipio Afiace or

canus was the 'irst ^omJin who t.hav<'

- daily. In France the custom of shavii

rection'arose w^cn I-oiiia MIL came to t'ts root throne y°UQg nn(l beardless. The Angl

the ®axons wore their beards until, at tl

tr d to con lucs^' th°y wcre compelled to folic°L the example of the Norman0, who shave

* rom the time of Edward IIL to thatch it is k'harlc; ^ Beards wcre universally wor

In Charles II.'s reign the mustache ai

minon* w'"s^ers 0ll'y wcrti worn, and soon aftq « this the practice of shaving became ge

>rmitv eru* throughout Europe.son are .

~

.

i East1 A Horse Killed by Bees.uliarity Mr. Friedcmann Grenier, of Whitis. In Post, Va., writes to the Bee Journal:ies the "In my experience with bees the kinly the ing of any animal by sting* had not cor

which under my observation. But recentlyd lack-1 witreosi-a a cases wmcn dispensed wi

bis and all my doubt about the possibilitynormal j the thing. J. V. Weir, Esq., left Iresents riding hor^c by the gate of his door yarnair-lip as usual, while he went to dinner. 1

apiary of forty-five colonics was withof hair three rods' of the spot where the hor2 body, wus tied, and the bees in great numbeties, as attacked it in our absence of not ov

:in, the twelve minutes. When we discover2 some- the atate ol affairs the horse's head wlentary almost covered with mad bees ai

a, and swarms of them around it, which wou

of our sting everything and everybody an

usually whece near. I could not induce the ar

lere are mal to move at first, and to protect illlly-de- covered it with blankets; and aft. One awhile, and after procuring more help,ty, pre- succecdcd in getting it out of the reachinches bees and we then applied remedies.

11 other washing with old wxter and soda, thbesmearing with linseed oil; internal

hairs is we gave whisky with laudanum, Lut J

tiy dc- efforts were in vain, and the poor ar

fe. tive mal, after a struggle ol' three hours, diedfollicle ...

her by Wonderful Skill in Juggling.ractiiur ^°^ert Houdin, in his delightf

® autobiography, tells us that when he hi

emical determined to become a conjurer he tbest "an lvnTninS '° iis a Pre^'n

ce and nar^ tra'mn.? ^or hh eye and his hanati 'i t %vas ins^riic^ed in the art by a "pec

nav b> cure" uamed Maous, who taught him"nhced a month to keep four balls in the airat t

'd with *:ime *'me- Then the future master«r»«rr»r» /locirinnr tn thn fiii'Milfv

method ~\yr° v~.. "ir-"*.evelids "0,.t3 tAVO thing at once.a faculty of 1

toward es,uuable value to the modern rongicijinoved .improve;! on his teacher's instructio[ jrrjta.! by training himself to read while ju

gling. '*1 ])laced a book before me,''!ani'car-' rccori'3' -while ir.y .four balls wc

lout re- dancing in the air I accustomed mysi^eciaiiy to read it without hesitation." Tliiriklncss ypar9 later, when he >at down to wriId but ll's mcmo'rs> found that, althoughrin"1 bv ucvcr performed this feat in publ;Several anc* vcr-v rarc*y ^ad repeated it in privalnever *1C was st^' a to rca^ w^''c Juoo^n

h thev kllt t'int could then only keep thrSome ^a^3 *n i"r> an(* not ^our' as *iej o uone.lormcny. mis is auuiuunai e

09 this den:e, wcre iiny needed, that althougha lim- dcxterity ft(,(lu>rcd early in life may <

here is m'n's'1 the advancing yeara andin" in abandonment of constant practice, it

23 new rarc"y *03t ^together..Saturday Iteviethe lirstjt such There is a pear tree in Windsor, N. fd with which produces annually two cropsin con- pears.

WILL LORE.ao

A CHAPTER OP INTERESTMEN'S LAST TESTAMENTS,

Curious and Eccentric Bequesn- Wills ofSome Prominent Peris-sonages.Wills by Word ofl3- Mouth and in Rhyme.Idt>y^ The subject of wills, said a lawyeal the Herald, representative, has a peci

interest for us, particularly where a

a siderable estate is devised. We are

[t3 only curiouB to know how a man wi

0_ his property to go after he is throa3 with it, but it seems like a voice fin the dead declari'.g how it shall go.

is usually written in the most soli.j3 moment of a man's life. At thatth ment one realizes to the full thatn_ brought nothing into this world andnt take nothing out, and that, aftere3 toagu( is hushed and the heart stilor his commands will be spoken and hisn sire? obeyed. Associated as it is a

0f such thoughts as these, it is not strs

!(j that we arc eager to know how Mr. }derbilt, or Mr. Astor, or Mr. Tildcn

ht Mr. Storey disposes of his fortunes.!0 a matter of fact, being strangers totbhe we do not care whether they endotij college or a cat, but if their wills hajaj to be published in the papers, we i

r them first, as the most toothsome itof news.There are many very curious and

n" centiic wills described in the books,n some strange phases of human nature0f illustrated in them. Some men, whijy life would not give a cup of waterjct beggar, by their wills leave enorn

sums to chirity. Those ore the v

tbat usually take a course througher (curts, with handsome pickings for

J, lawyers on the way. All charitablequests are construed with the utt

t0 strictness. About ten years ago Hhg Taylor, of this city, died, leaving a

u\ drawn by himself. After providingin his wife and son, as he thought qt0 libera ly, he devised the residue ofn. estate, about $300,000. to seven trus

to found a charitable institution sue

u_ tbey should deem best. In case 1

ce elected not to do so, the trustees wer

ng turn over the estate to the Home of1'° " !-JI. A -

th r :*lcauiU53. xva u mauci ui tvuioc

J(j will was contested, and, after thorojt legal inquiry, it was found that the c

,.g ifcible clause would not hold wi

;(j A fter considerable litigation the case

compromised, and the Home oft0 Friendless got $200,000 and the 1ae the remainder.lv A man in New Jersey, not long siie"r left his estate to pay off the Nati<t0 debt. The will was contested, of cou

ij_ but the courts have recently helre, vtilid. In the last century Sir Jcj

Jcskyll did the same thing in EnglamSimple a matter as it really is, law

have not always been successful in diiog their own will*. I ord St. Lton

is High Chancelor of England, who,id Edward Sugden, was the most emiiro chancery lawyer in England, andre with a number of law books, one pa;ti- ularly wuh a very elaborate chapteiin drawing wills, drew his own will, ar

i .*. ii!i required an expensive nn^uu nuu

<le d.cision of a court of chanccry toill it proper effect. The will of Lord "Wye bury, another Lord High Chanc<ns drawn by himself, met with the s

Is fate. I could give you many similarc- stances.er There have been devises to animala for their benefit which have beenid valid to cats, dogs, horses, and <

tie parrots. Not infrequently people 1v- undertaken to show their spitem hatred, and sometimes their humoia wills.

a>3 . The will of Lord Pembroke inis, seventeenth century has several item:th that kind.for instance: "Item.I |?d nothing to mj Lord Saye, and I do ix

ao him this legacy willingly, because I kliO that he will faithfully distribute it i

ri- the poor. Item.I give up the ghosid Lord Bacon had no property to leig but he left a regularly executed willho which he bequeathed his name and mo- ory ' to men's charitable speeches,L_ f nnflnna on/1 fVl A TlPltfc 00lie lUIU^U UUbtVUJj uuvi bMW .W..W

iw Shakespeare left an elaborate will,w]d. contains a clause that has puzzledof Shakespearcans not a little: ''I jn. unto my wife my second best bed, i

id the furniture." Why did he onlycr Ann Hathaway his second best, andn- his best bed? Nothing else did she

and the would ha3 sought in vain to kthe reason why.Napoleon in his will left a hands

jje legacy to a wr.tch named Chasillon,had attempted to assassinate Well

U. ton.

QeThe will of Rabelais has this cla

,j "I have no available property; I 01

groat deal; the rest I give to the pcof His last words when dying were: "

to see the great Perhaps." Afar

j French abbs had this pithy clau e in

^ will: "Tomy stoward I leave nott

jn because he has been in my service

se eighteen years."It is not unusual for a man to leav

gphis propeity to his wife, with the pre

C(j that if she marries again she is to

ft3 only what the law allows her. I

1(j drawn a number of such wi'ls. Gonor Morris, the celebrnted Amerstatesman, did not treat his wife so.

?" had married very lato in life Ann ]

t j dolph, a cousin of John, of Roanok

erwoman much younger than himself,

j with whom he lived very happily,bequeathed a very handsome iucort

a3 her, and then provided that in ease

.. married again the income shoulce° doubled.

°

A soldier or a sailor is allowed to r

a nuncuj ative will.that is, a wilword of mouth, by which personal e

may be dispoaed of, but you, beingvilian, must make yours in writing,don't matter much what the writir

ill on. it may be on a slate, or a tablefid or even a wall, though it is advisable»e- it should be on paper or parchment.ii- may write it and sign your name in pid. if you likcr bnt it is better to do ili- ink.in You may make your will in Choche if you happen to understand thatof guagc, or it may, as Hamlet says:of writ in the'choicest Italian;'" youn- write it in shorthand, or in auurcrian

an or in cipher, so long as you leave th<ns behind you. Courts are not martineg- to the spelling, and if your orthogrhe is not perfectly ultra, they will not r

ire it if they can make it out. If you;lf j to drop into poetry, even that isty mittcd, as th? following case of a i

ite I will sho :vs:he I give and benueatli,"ic, When I'm laiil underneath,iq To my two loving sisters most dear,

' The whole of my store,o» Were it twice as much more.ce Which God's goodness has granted toad And that none may preventpi- This my will and intent,t a Or occasion the least of law racket,

With a solemn appeal,I confirm, sign ana seal,

an This, the true act and deed of Will Ja13 You may sign your will by yourlc' tials, and if your hand is unsteady

may get some one to guide it.3., must have at least two witnesses,of though you may not actually see

witnesses sign their names you mtL

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in such a position that you could do so iyou "felt so disposed," as Mrs. Gammight remark. That was Judge Rogerulmcr in the Storev will case, and it igoodlaw.

If you are going to leive anything tme don't ask me to be a witness, for al

its. though I could be a good witness, mlegacy would be void. John Bouviewas an eminent lawyer in Philadelphisome years ngo,and the author of sevenstandard law books. A lady left him

, very handsome bequest in her will, whiclliar himself drew and witnessed. Ther

was-no doubt about the intention of th

no~ lady, but Bouvier failed to get his legshes acy.

, Having signed and sealed your wi° you can revoke it by destroying it, bu

rj. not by simply running the pen throug

your name or through the lines, but jocan revoke it by a subsequent will prop

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erlv executed. Marriage also revokescan Chicago Herald.the 1 *

led, A (Juaint Oriental City.Writing about Canton, China, W. 1

Vlt" Hornaday say3 in the Cosmopolitaninge w"bat a wonderful dd city it is 1 Hoi'an" bewildering, and how interesting at ever> °T step I The city is all on the ground, cAs at the very most it will not average moi

iera> than a story and a half in height. Whervv a the shops are thickest, each square is a

unbroken succession of wide doorwaysreau £or every g^op the whole end next tems the street takes out bodily. From on

street corner to the next, there is onlye(^ succession of open ended rooms and paiand tition walls, with dark, narrow passagea.re thrown in here and there. There is n

5 ln architecture visible, for the houses are sa jammed together that is is impossible t

single out any one in particular withoi"i climbing on the roof to see how mucli:f*e covers.r~e If this is not a street in Wonderland i

" might as well be. It is only about eigba<^ feet wide, and many are less. The eavc" of the houses on each side project a quai( j ter or a third of the way across the stree."r and the remaining third in the middle i

u3. very often loosely covered over witboards placed crosswise. When the su

£ees is shining the streets are light enougltjss but in rainy or cloudy weather they ar

very dark and gloomy, and the peculistwilight effect only adds another elemerof strangeness to the scene, rnanicgooc

. nes*, the streets arc well paved wit,"

__smooth, granite flagstones, one foot b

t" three, and being kept very clean, there i* no mud to plow through, e-.ea when i* rains. Pedestrianism is the order of th

day. There are no carriages, carts, drayibig freight wagons, omniDuses, or stre<cars to run over you, if you fail to g<out of the way; for all the freight is cairied by coolies.

,s.' Now and then, however, your wot

h gathering is disturbed by a stir and lou^P shouting a little way down the stree

versan(* y°" 906 orow(* Parting to rigl

aw-anc* Then }°u know there is

ard" se<^an c^air coming and you take sheltt' behind a sign board, or in a friendl

aent ^00rway' or flatten yourself againstwho wa^ until the peripatetic nuisance he

rtic- ®onc ®ut the streets are so narrow

^ that chairs are not very often used. The

id it move too sl°wly; ^ takes too muc

the 3^ou^ng to clear the way, aod when twmeet in a narrow thoroughfare one hf

? t_ to be side tracked before the other ca

jlor" ?fct ^7- The use °' the chair, thereforiame

confine(* to lazy merchants and officer

jn_ weak women and swell Europeans. Fcmy part, I would not do Canton in

or sedan chair if I could have a whole s<

l.u for nothing.'ven ^ere *3 011 e drawback *° pedcilave

^r'an'sm- y°u P433 along you ai

an(j obliged to be on the alert to keep froi. -Q coming into collision with half nake' coolies, carrying all sorts of loads. A

^ loads are rarried in the same way; ever

3 schoolboy knows it, so I will not stop t

Tjve describe it. No mitter where you gclake y°u caQ certa^a ^at evcry few mir

Q0Wutes one of these coolies will come pu:

lnto fing and shuffling along at a dog-tro^ shouting every few steps to those i

a've front of him to "clear the track," h

jJ load springing up and down, and h

em- bamlJO° lathee creaking rhythmicaHy j

to every step.es."

' 1

tiich Consolation for the Red Headed.the Ex-President Hayes once told me thiJ|ve he noticed that "the men who had sanvith jQ (heir hair and beard" were the mo:

Slve energetic and pushing in life. I was tolnot by an experienced detective the oth<get, day that bunco steerers and that kind <

now nramb'ers known as "sure thing meno ^

never attempt to play any of their triclome on red-headed men. I asked why, an

he said: "As a rule red-headed peopino" are very quick and choleric by natur

Their tempers are so peppery that theuse: fly up like a flash of powder the instaiKe a thuy feel aggrieved or wronged. Th(,or-" are so quick to act that the moment theIg° feel that they have been swindled th<nous cithor fight those who have duped the:bis or cnll in the police on them. To be su

cessful, bunco men and the others I haif°r mentioned must avoid publicity and n

toriety as much as possible. They c

e a^ not want attention called either to the>viso or their methods. Knowing from e:have perieace the dangerous temper of tlhave 'boys with auburn hair,' they avoid a

v®r- unfair dealings with them as far as poican sihle. Whenever you hear of a rei

He headed man being approached by ai

Raa* fellow with a swindling scheme, you ms

:ej a depend on the trickster being new at baQd business." There is some compensateHe iQ carrotty hair and beard after all.leto Philadelphia Xews.

j sheI be

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The Aspinwall Cemetery.aake An Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panam1 by letter to the Pittsburg Diyatch saystate Monkey Hill is the only burying groura ci- about Aspinwall, and it is certainly

It wonderful place. At this time of t]ig is year people, and especially foreignertop, | die by the do7.en of Chagres fever.that is a terrible disease and it snutnes a ic

You low of! quicker, if anything, than yellocncil fever does. Death is such a very cor

it in mon thing there that very little attcnticis paid to the manner of burying,

taw, body is thrown into a hired coffin ar

Ian- carted off t> Monkey Hill and put inl"be the ground,often without even ancxcu

may for religious service.". Then the coffinons, brought back to bo used for auother u:

'key foituuate. I saw one rough-lookirts as casket while I was in Aspinwall that hiiphy done duty on 633 different occasions ac

nind had brought $3 to its owr.cr every timwish

KA TP"r,fcsu«.j «»v\n hoi* li«rhfc..- 11=ie<. .... ,

Tossed back her tangled tresses bright.And cried: "I'm truly tired of play;I'll havo a tea-party to-dav!"She set the table 'neath a tree,With tempting tarts, and toast, and tea.Teu tiuy cups upon the tray,

' Ten plates and spoons in trim array,Ten twinkling tapers thin and tall,And then the feast was ready all.The thrushes trilied and twittered sweet,The turf was tender 'neath her feet,

cket **or t ap witil lac0 was rimme(1»Her tasteful gown was tucked and trimmei

ini- "Now, here am I, and here's tho treat!"you She cried: "but who is there to eat?(V. I'm very thirsty for my tea.* I think I'll be the company,"and And sipping now and tasting then,the She ate and drank for all the ten I

jt ke .Marjaret Johnson, in St. Nichola

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if FACTS FOR THE CUBIOCS.P

j' Jj£«js A New York professor annually tattoos

8,000 persons.o A mathematician estimates that a

[. machine of one horse puwer would keepy 27,000,000 watches running.ir A notion once prevailed in Englanda with some people that the seventh conilsecutive son born had power to cure ceratain diseases. .

' £<b Most of the "Washinsrtons now livinge in this country are defended from0 George Washington's brother Samuel,>* who was married tive times.M A curious specimen in the shape of adnnhlnnnnlft i«? rxliihifced at Huntinfrton.

jj Ind. It has two distinct stems an<ftwou blossoai ends, though it is grown firmlyN together as one apple.g In the time of Charlemagne whoever

injured the widow was thought to haveviolated the "peace of the Bang." Aspecial jurisdiction was constituted inher behalf; justice wa? made easy for

\ her, and her complaints were alwaya; listened to.

'' M

p A Georgia farmer has got a goat thatjoins gleefully with a hound in huntingrabbits. When on the tra:l he imitates

,e the dogs and tuds with his nose to thee ground, but when the quarry is in viewn up go hejd and tail, and he dashes after(. the unfortunate bunny rega:dless of h"»J companions.,e The art of Egypt attained its greatesta elaboration, not indc-d without some> loss of national character, in the time of>s Alexander and the Ptolemies (352 to 30o B. C.), when Helhnic influence brokeo through the sombre massiveness of theo unmembered wal s and applied the brilitliant decoration of colored columns toit the exterior.

According to an old belief, it was sup»it posed that devils could at any momentit assume whatever form they pleased that59 would most conduce to the success ofr- any contemplated onterprise they mightt, have in hand; and hence the charge ofis being a devil, so commonly broughth onrainaf innn^pnf nn.l harmless re SOnS in

"b**4*"'* " "vw.- «. i.

nformer years can easily b? understood.)» Visitors to the yarkisches ma earn, in0 Berlin, are always attracted by a curious

.collection of cxecntioners' swords. In

1 old time j it was customary for these instrumentsof punishment to bear inscriptions,and most of the swords in theJ museum are inscribed. The oldest isi® ninety four centimetres (thirty-seven

inches) long and six centimetres (twee and two-fifths inches) wide, and it bears'» the inscription: "If thou act in the serviceof virtue this sword shall not strikeJt thee." The date is 1324.p. *

John Law, of Edinburgh, Scotland,^ established a bank ia France in 1716,£ which by royal authority in 1719 becamet the receiver of tae revenues of the kingL{.d jra. To it wai attached a "Mississippia Company," which had grants of land in

,r Louisiana, from the proceeds of the' planting and commerce of which immense* profits were expected. The shares oilg the bank soon rose to twenty times theirn par value, but fell suddenly in 1720._ There was no bottom to the matter, andu widespread financial distress and ruin

^ ^ A* a t flia onliomoQ lUUUWCU bUC LHIISllllg VI tuji MUUU1V)

a -which was called "law's Bubble."'c~

a .

5,A Minister Safe.'' There is about to ba erected in the

premises of the National Bank of Scot;tland, St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh,the largest steel strong-room or safe ereimanufactured. Its external dimensions

"

are fifty feet long by twelve feet broadand ten feet high, and a careful compu-'

^ tation shows that within it might b«.. stored about 1,250 tons weight of gold

bullion, equal in valie to $530,000,000.q

It is heavy in j ro, ortion to its size,weighing 100 tons. Its. walls are be[lieved to be th'okcr than those of any

£ other steel room of similar proportion int" use in "the United Kingdom. With the ,

^ view of insuring gr. ater security than

l3 has hitherto been obtained, its walls are

composed of a triple series of plates,. similar to these which the firm have for

many yesrs used in the manufacture ofbankers' safes. These plates are so toughenedand hardened as to be practicallyimpervious alike to tnc force of blows,

it leverage and cutt'ng by drills. Thiad "compounding of the plates," as it isat termed, involved an enormous amount ofd drilling, no fewer than 1,000 holes being>r pierced in each e tion. Admission tojf the interior of this strong room is obl"taincd by mean* of three massive doors,cs each seven inches thick and weighing a

"* *. ~ ^ Km* nn flu* Kor/lonoHl steald tuu uuuauaii, 1/uw VII wuv

le pins on which they a e hung they swinge. with the greatest of ease. Apart from the;y great thickness of compounded hard andit mild steel plates in these doors, the prin:y

cipal feature they present is the patentjy diagonal bolt. Tlnse bolts, of whichjy there ore twenty in each door, shoot cutcq from the edge of the door at opposingc- angles of forty-five degrees, and thusre powerfully dovetail the door into the0- frame at either side. Thus any attemptedlo wedging between the floor and its framem simply tends to bind these bolts tighter[- into their holes.ie

Jests Bv the Juveniles.S1- Little Boy (at table)."Pa, give me

iy some bread."ij Father."3!v son, you rau3t remember.is mato.uei lulu.. u«»

)u Little Boy."I don't want any prefer.ence; I want a biscuit.".Detroit FreePress,

The Major (rocking Nelly on his kneefor Aunt Mary's sake;."I suppose this

a) is what you like, Nelly?"sr "Yes, it's very nice. But I rode on aid real donkey yesterday.I mean one witha four legs, you know."

ae

s, Harry, nged five. had never happenedIt ro see the moon in the daytime. He cameil- down to breakfast the other morningw shrieking with laughter.n- "Why, Harry, what's the matter!" ia>nquired the mother.A "Oh, mamma,''said he, as soon as heid could speak, "I've got such a joke on theto Lord; He's forgot to take His moon in."seis Boy."Mister, what time is it?"a- Man."You littic rascal, you askedifl me that same question only two minutes'3 ago and I told you. What do you ask

again for?" /

e. Hoy."I ain't a-kin for myself. I'maskin' for this other little felbw; hedon't know."

A jar of preserves hail efected a verymysterious disappearance during thenight, and the fact was mentioned at thebreakfast table next morning. Denials~C :u noma frrttn OTrniTr QlVlft bllt it W&3Ul J^Uilb LUiilb UV/IU wt-w.j ,

noticed that one particular youngster wassilent."And what have you to say, Georgie?"

said his aunt, turning toward him. Andthen very houestly and solemnly camo

i the lesponae: "My pa don't allow me totalk at the table.".Pittsburg Dispatch.

There is a veteran Georgian in Americuswho has fifteen children, fifty-onograndchildren and twenty-four greatgrandchildren.,