MYSTERY.

No, 1 am not at all given to eaves dropping s but if people will come and sit down right in front o£ me, and, apparently assuming that you are stone deaf, converse with peifeet freedom in your hearing, what are you to do? (let up and go away? What, when you have just settled yourself in tuc most comfortable chair in the room, with your paper in your hand and your cofi'co beside you t Certainly not !

They wore rather an altercation pair; to this moment I liavo not been able to make up my mind whether they were husband and wife. If co, they had not been married long. There whs a sort of subtly caressing inilictiou in their voices, whie.i one does not usually dotoet in the tone,s of people legally appropriated to each other. Still 1 did not see any one else who appeared to belong U> her, uud she had a wedding-ring on her linger. I should think she might be thirty; she h.d velvety brown oyes, small features ; she was pule and rather fragile, essentially an interesting-looking woman, and beautifully dressed in black. He was perhaps eight years older, tall, distingue, slightly bald from the forehead. He placed a large wicker chiiir for her, and she sunk into it. llusbauds, 1 have remarked, do not as a rule place (.■hairs for their wives ; the wife generally conies in first (we are in an hotel) finds herself a seat, and tlie husbaud Ilium's himself down at such a distance (hat she cannot address him with out raising her voice, upon which he says "What? »r looks as it' it was very bad form to speak at all in public. 1 have been given to observing the manners and cus toms of this cias« of persons ; it is to that I owe my own freedom, Nothing, for instance, striken me more than to see a couple " whom (iod has joined together " cross a road in each other's company. The husband ttalks over lirst, without looking to the right ot the left; if the wife of hih bosom is \) (1t knocked down and run over, it will certainly not |be owing to any assis tance or attention rendered her by him. Is it shyness ? It always .seems to me as if a man' wanted to be thought an micitx with every other woman, anil air /tire, if there is such an expression, with his wife. This, however, is not my story.

After t'lis interesting couple had seated themselves, 1 could not resist glancing furtively at them from behind my paper. They did not sneak for ti moment or two ; his eyes seemed to bo roving in search of something. Presently they found it, add lie rose, crossed the room, and returned with n footstool, which ho put in a quiet unostentatious way under her feet. They were tiny little feet, beautifully »h d. Certainly he is nut her husband, I decided; out then she smiled and mur mured "Thanks, darling," which made me waver again. If he were not her husband, surely she would not use this term of eu dcarmcut to him. No woman ever called me ihvlinr, though I have often placod footstools for them, not entirely from dis interested motives.

They were not in a talking mood, this pair ut nil events, not nt first. She nestled in lier chair, he looked at her a good deal, Mid tlie expression of his eyes he tokened that she wu an extremely agree able object of regard—as, indeed, I also thought. " tlow silent you are 1" she murmured presently. '"Tell me something; I want to Iks aniU'cd."

Tims abjured, he pulled himself to gether, and b *gau to look about him. "I think I have told you everything I ever heard," he replied, after a mome it's pause; and ho leaned back, closed his oyes, and appeared to bo racking his brain for the means of obeying her behest. She, meantime, was absorbed in regarding the points of her lutle shoes, and an inch of lace stocking visible bencatli the hem of her robe.

Two other people here entered the room; this time unmistakably husband and wife.

'• Ala bonne hcurel exclaimed the pos sible husband (so I must call him, being in a state of uncertainly about the relation ship of my pair); "you wantastory. Here is tlie material."

" T/wm people !" returned the possible wife, with a slight elevation o£ her eye brows, "I should not have thought they had a story. They do not look like it. 1' " No," ho assented. " You would not guess that woman's present husband shot her tirst husband for love of her leaur, yeux, and that she married him as a reward!,

"is it possible!'" exclaimed Mmdame. And she at once raised herself in her chair ; unconsciously, and to my sincere regret, retired her little feet from observation, and fixed her velvet orbs upon her interlocutor. I looked at the couple who possessed this strange history, and was fain to agree that there was no evidence in the face of cither to indicate their being the hero and heroine of such a tragedy. But that docs not fol low. Great criminals are often common place-looking people enough. " She was rather a pretty girl," pursued their historian. "What shall I say?— tweuty years ago." "All that?" put in Madame, drily. " And sho married a fellow who behaved Jike a brute to her."

"Naturally," interrupted Madame again, I looked to s«c her compauion wince, but lie did not.

" He was a very determined chap, with a nasty temper, and rather clever. So was the other fellow."

"T/iat man!" echoed Madame, looking across at the hero, who was overhauling the papers on the table, and had just given Pwich to his lady.

" Fes; tluri man. He did his best to console the unhappy wife."

"Ah!" murmured Madame; and I saw something like a tear' in her brown eyes. Her companion whispered very tenderly in her ear; and, uivpcrceiyed, except by me, she slipped her white lingers into his for a moment, and withdrew them again. I suppose he was telling her that he would never behave like a brute and her little gesture meant to say, " I know it." "In the end they went off togother. Ho intended to marry her as soon as he had the chance, after having, ot course, submitted to making a target of himself for the injured husband. He was not a little sur prised to get a letter something like this— ' I am more obliged to you than I can ex press for ridding me of the curse of my existence. Have no fear; your life is sacred in my eyes. Be happy, or rather be miserable! for with that woman you must bci When you've done with her, pass her on. I shall not try for a divorce, because if I got it I might be tempted to make a fool of myself again; whereas lam now as free as air. Unco more, many thanks.' When our friend over there got this pleasant little missive," pursued the narra tor, "he was like a madman."

The possible wife and I simultaneously glance across at the gentleman, who is complacently reading his Times. Now if he had only been tall and lean and pale, one could have realised his thrilling his tory so much better. " Well ?" and the dark-eyed lady turned

again to her companion with a rather dis appointed look, but her tone betokened keen interest. "To which," ho continued, "our friend replied that if he, the husband, did not sue for a divorce he would make his life unbearable and shoot him into the bar gain. He did not write this, because he might have been bound over by the near est magistrate to keep the peace, but he sent the message by a trusted friend. The husband only laughed. Months went, on and ho begun to be aware that people were regarding him with some colducss. Men who had beon his best frienda seemed to have sudden appointments when he ottered to ioin them ; he wan seldom asked out ; in his club men did not care to say very much to him. At lirst he thought it was on account of his refusing to divorce his wife; the world perhaps sym pathised with her. But revenge was too sweet to him to him to be foregone. It is odd, too. The world does not often take up the cudgels so hotly, especially on be half of a a woman. Rather disgusted, he went abroad, wishing to let 'matters blow over. When he returned they were worse than ever ; men who had been coel to him before, cut him now. Then here membercd hi* rival's threat of making his life miserable. lie could trace nothing to him ; he gould not even discover why peo ple persistently avoided him. So at last, in v stnto of fury and despair, he wrote to the rival —' I am ready to shoot you whenever you please ; the sooner the better. The response came at once, and the two men met. Our friend over there shot his man, married the widow, and, ok you see, lived happy ever after."

The face of the lady with the beautiful brown eyes is a study ; theie is so much tragic horror expressed in it. : "Gracious heavens, is it possible[ PI she murmurs. She but echoes my sentiments; the .story has roused my interest to such v pitch that 1 have dropped my paper, and am looking no doubt very expressively from one to the other of the pair in front of me. He turns, gives me a surprised ami rather supercilious look, which awakens me to a horrified sense of the enormity I have been committing in listening to a con versation not meant for me, Like a shot I hide myself behind my paper, thoroughly confused and ashamed. After a minute [ hear the pair rise and walkaway. I date not look up, for fear of catching hh eye again When they havo left the loom 1 take a long survey of the couple who look so common place and have yet played parts in so terrible a drama, Punfh has dropped from tho lady's fingers ; her eyes are closod; she is nodding slightly. Has she forgotten, I wonder, or docs the past sometimes visit her in dreams ? The dark-eyed, fragile woman who was here just now might have been the heroine of the niost tragic story might have the world's weight of sorrow and suffering on her slim shoulders; but this portly matron ! And tho man too ! he ;is reading the money article; could one conceive him ever to have played Don Juan's jiart ? Life is a problem indeed. At this moment a man I know well strolls into tho room. He does uot nee me at first, but makes straight for tho couple who are engrossing my thoughts ; shakes I the husband cordially by the hand, and, as I tho wife wakes up with a Kui'tJ start, I greets her in the same fashion. I wonder whether he knows that terrible history. Presently he catches sight of me, and, coming over, takes the chair in which the dark-eyed lady sat just, now. He tolls me ' about his travels, and I tell him about mine The portly couple retire together.

" What an extraordinary story about those people!" I say as the door cl< m* behind him.

"Extraordinary! How? What have they been doing ! " "0, I don't mc'in now," I said, "I mean the story of their early lives." "Really I" exclaims my irieiid incre dulously, "I never heard it."

" I've just been told it," I say not quite liking to confess how it came to my know ledge. ''You must know it, of course. She was some other fellow's wife, and this one ran off with her and shot li'm.

My friend stares at me for a moment in speechless amazement; then he hides his. face in his hands and laugbs until his chair shakes again. "My dear old chap I ho cries at last, " have- you been dining or dreaming, or has some one been hoaxing you ? " I feel half nettled ; wholly perplexed. " Who are they then ?" 1 aslc shortly.

" They are two excellent people—Mr and Mrs Cox by name. He is ' something in tho city,' anil she was the daughter of our old vicar, whom I have known all my life. They are the most virtuous souls ; they have 12 children, and would rather die than make a crack in one of the 10 com mandments.'*

This litUe incident happonod the day before yeetenday, and it has vexed and fretted me ever since. Why should lie (ho is the possible husband) have told her such an outragous falsehood ? such a ridiculously improbable one too. I wonder now how it took cither her or mo in. Was it only to amuse her because sho was dull ? or did he mistake the peo. plo ? Will he confess to her that it was an invention, or will he lot her go on be lieving it ? Who are they, and what is he to her 1 They are not staying in the hotel and I have not set my eyes on them since that evening. As for tho'other couple I do nothing but ruu up against them, which makes mo feel foolish, and conse quently annoyed. And Jack Smith is al ways chaffing me about them, and asking who told me their story. Confound those people ! If ever auy one comes and sits near me again, I shall cough violently, and if that's not hint enough, upset my coffee over the woman's gown.—" World."

The enormous amount of business done in postal money orders is indicated by the fact that the New York office holds a mil lion and three-quarters dollars unpajd on such orders, and presumably unclaimed. These, however; must represent but a very small per cent on the orders issued. It is proposed to cover this into the trea sury, but should not the purchasers of these orders have something to say about tbat ?—"Philadelphia Ledger."

• One of the rare Russian colonies in the East is a settlement called Inossa, on a small island near Nagasaki, which was leased several years ago from a Japanese named Sigui, whose son has been sent to St. Petersburg and has been naturalised a Russian. The Russians began by forming a small dock for the repair of ships, but the village has now increased very much in size, and the natives speak Russian.

The most important colony of Russia in the West is that of Mount Athos, where there arc upwards of 3000 Russian monks, ICOO of whom lire on plots of land belong ing to them, while GOO others form the monastic corporation of St. Pantelermou, and the rest belong to the lesser monasteries of St. Andrew and the Prophet Klias.

The Earth and the Moon in Past Ages.

IN a recent lecture, re-published in Nature. Professor Ball shows that in the remote past, when the earth gave birth to the moon, they must for ages have revolved round each other, almost touching. Gra dually the moon receded, and the period of her revolution on her axis lengthened uutil it attained it present distance and time. Long, however, after the earth cooled, the moon was much nearer to her mother than now. Professor Ball takes, as an example, the time when the earliest i-tratilied rocks were being laid down, and shows that the moon may then have been only 40,000 miles away from the earth, or six times nearer than it is now. Its action on the waters of the earth must have been greater in proporti'm ; it was, in fact, a geological engine of transcendant power. " Ou the primitive oceans the moon raised tides as it docs at present, but the 40,000 ---thousand mile moon was a far more effi cient tide producer ihan our 240,000-mile moon. The nearer the moon the greater the tide. To express the relation accu rately, we fay tuat the- efficiency of the moviii in producing tides varies inversely as the cube of its distance. Here, theu, we have the means of calculating the tidal efficiency for any moon distance. The 40,000-mile moon being at a distance of only one-sixth of our present moon's distance, its tidal efficiency would be increased G by 6by 0 fold. In other words, when our 'soon was only 40,000 miles away, it was 216 times as good a tide-producer sis it is at present." Profes sor Ball shows that this means that the tides of that ancient time must have risen to a height of (JiSft., the average tide of the present day being, say, 3ft., and that twice a day. " Thee mighty tides are the gift which astronomers have now made to the working machinery of the geologist. We give them an engine of territic power to aid in the great work of geology. 1 allude, of course, to the work of grinding down thfl primitive rocks into sand and mud, which is then deposited at tbe bot tom of the sea to form the stratified rocks. What would the puny efforts of water in other ways accomplish when compared with these magnetic tides ami the great currents they produce? In the great primeval tides will probably be found the explanation of what has long been a re proach to geology. The early palaeozoic rocks form a stupendous mass of ocean made beds, which, according to Professor Williamson, are 20 miles thick up to the top of the Silurian beds. It has long been a difficulty to conceive how such a gigantic quantity of material could have been ground up and depusi'ed at the bottom of the sea. The geologists said, ' The rivers and other ageuts of the present day will do it if you give them time enough.' But, unfortunately, the mathematicians and the natural philosophers would not give them time enough, ami they ordered the geolo gists to 'hurry up their phenomena,1 The mathematicians had other reasons for believing that the earth could not have been so old as the geologists demanded. Now, however, the mathematicians have discovered the new and stupendous tidal grinding engine. With this poweiful aid the geologists can get through their work. The colossal pokcozoic strata can now lx: accounted for in a reasonable period of time, and the geologists and the mathe maticians may be reconciled." Space does not admit of our giving any further details of Professor Ball's el'"|ueat papers. We may say, however, that they bring no consolation to orthodox chronologists.

A Fight Justified.

THE other evening a man beckoned to his twenty-year-old son to follow him to the yard When they had arrrived he began ; " Now, young man, youjhavebeen lighting again. How many times ,have I told you it was disgraceful to fight?'1 " Oh, father, this wasn't about marbles <-r any thing of the kind," replied the boy. "I can't help it. it's my duty to correct you. Take off you coat." " But, father, the boy I was lighting with called me names." "Can't help it; calling names don't hurt anyone. Off with that coat." "He said I was the sou of a wire-puller.'1 " What—what's that?" "Andlie said that you were an office hunter." " What, what loafer dared to make that assertion»" "It made me awfully mad, but I didn't siy anything. Then he called you a hireling." "Called me hireling! Why, I'd like to get my hands on him," puffed the old cent " Yes and he said you were a political lickspittle!" "Wouldn't I like to nave the training of that boy for about fivejminutes !" wheezed the old man as he hopped around. " I put up with that," continued the boy, " and then he said you laid your pipes for office, aud got left by a large majority. I couldn't stand that, father, and so I sailed over the fence and licked him bald-headed in less'n two minutes. Thrash me if you must, father, but I couldn't stand it to hear you abused by one of the malignant opposition." "My son," said the father, as he felt for half a dollar with one hand and wiped his eyes with the other, "you may go out and buy yourself two pounds of candy. It is wrong to fight, but allowance must be made for political campaigns aud the vile slanders of the other party.— American jxipci'.

Tom Thumb and Lablache.

MANY years ago Lablache and General Tom Thumb happened to be in Paris at one and the same time—the former en gaged with Grisi, Rubini, and Tamburini, at the opera; the latter exhibiting _ his diminutive person at one of the minor theatres in a piece d'o:casion. By an odd coincidence, the biggest of bassi and the tiniest of dwarfs living at that time were both lodged in the same hotel. One day an English tourist, desiring to make the General's acquaintance in private, resolved to call upon him at his rooms, but mistook the door to which he had been directed by the hotel porter, and opened that of Lablache's sitting-room. Catching a glimpse of the great singer's mighty form, and overwhelmed with con fusion at his blunder, ha exclaimed, apologetically— "A thousand pardons, sir; I was looking for little Tom Thumb." "I am he!" thundered out Lablache, in his deepest tones. " You!" gnsped the amazed Briton, staving with all his might at the vast proportions of his interlocutor. " Why, I saw you yesterday at the Vaudeville, and you then seemed to me scarcely bigger than a baby. "Just so," rejoined Lablacbc. "That is how I am obliged to appear on the stage ; but, as you see, when I am home I make myself comfortable by letting my self out to my natural dimensions."

Bavarian journals express themselves greatly disgusted at the sentence of a private in the army tojtliree days" imprison ment because he applied the epithet of " you villainous beast" to the balky horse of one of the officers. The charge against him was " unbecoming behaviour toward an officers'shoree."

Words of Wisdom.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore and fore sees a hurricane stands out to sea, and en counters a storm to avoid shipwreck.

It is one of the precious myseries of sorrow that it linds solace in unselfish thought. If every person would be half as good as he expects his neighbour to be, what a heaven this world would be.

Te do good to the bad is a danger just as great as to do bad to the good. _ If thou doest good to the bad, the benefit is lost.

One never knows a man till he has re fused him something, and studied the ef fects of the refusal. One never knows himself till he has denied himself.

The exasperating thing about revenge is that it never satisues, but leaves one at the end as angry as at the beginning. After all, one might just as well forgive at once.

Our lives should be, like the days, more beautiful in the evening; or, like the spring, aglow with promise, and, like the autumn, rich with golden sheaves, where good works and deeds have ripened on the

We gain more esteem by what we hear than by what we say. Perhaps the highest art in conversation is to make others talk. The man who hears you may be heard ; the man who talks to you never is. He may be dissatisfied with your views; he is sure to be satisfied with his own.

No one can be successful wbo forfeits honesty for the sake of making a point. Exaggeration in statement, or resolutely ignoring one side to show off the other, is the surest way to ignominious defeat. It is pulling the pendulum violentlyfto one side only to see it rebound as impetuously to the other.

The essence of all fine breeding is in the gift of conciliation. A man who possesses every other title to our respect except that of courtesy is in danger of forfeiting them all. A rude manner renders its owner liable to affront. He is never without dignity who avoids wounding the dignity of others.

If life be a battle, bow mad must he be who fails to arm himself for the contest! If life be a storm, how infatuated is he who sleeps while his bark is driven amid un known waters! If life be a pilgrimage, how unwise is he whe strays from the tight road, nor seeks to return till the twilight shadows gather around his pathway !

Wit and Humour.

It is said there are only four hundred of the cedars of Lebanon left. Some one should l>e setting out a new crop.

A little boy remarked : " I like grandpa because be is such a gentlemanly man; he always tells me to help myself to sugar."

" Ask no woman her age." says a recent writer on social ethics. Of course not. Ask her next best lady friend. She will never fail to give tbe information.

If a two-whoeled vehicle is a bicycle, and a three-wheeled a tricycle, it does not follow that the one-wheeled is an icicle. It Ls a wheelbarrow.

When a Connecticut newspaper announ ces that " the barn and contents o£ Mr Giles Porter were burned on Thursday night," one is naturally concerned to know what Mr Potter had been eating or drink ing to make him so inflammable.

" Hindoo girls," suya an English journal, " aro taught to think of marriage almost aa goon as they can talK." Hindoo is still behind the colonies in this respect Here girls think of marriage almost as soon as they can talk, without any teaching. It appears to come sort 'o natural to 'em.

A clergyman in Scotland preached a few days ago from the text: "If ye do not. repent, ye shall likewise perish," The wife of a farmer, who was present, went home and told her husband that the text was: "If you do not pay rent, you shall leave the parish."

" Under the mist and the moonlight I wander alone," sighs a long-haired poet, and we don't wonder at it. If he would only visit a barber's shop, cut his finger nails close and black his boots, we presume ho could get some one to wander " under the mist aud moonlight" with him. It is a settled fact that you have got. to look sort of finicky before you can get a girl to walk out with you.

Drill sergeant (to recruit); " Throw out your chest and keep in your stomach ! A soldier should always have a full chest and an empty stomach !!"

Multum in Parvo.

A VETERAN watchmaker at Vouvry, Swit zerland, claims to Lave invented a process by which watches will run for years with out winding-up. A sealed box containing two watches entrusted to the municipal authorities on ths 19th of January, 1579, has just been opened, and the watches were found going.

Mohammed Tewfik, Khedive of Hgypt, is only 29", but he look* older, and is rather portly for his age. He has regular features, and is far from ill-looking. Hia bearing is dignified, but he is shy", especially with strangers.

The Boston branch of the Land League have resolved that the members should not purchase for their personal use goods of English manufacture, and should iuiluence their friends to act iv a similar manner.

No fewer than 2SOO unwholesome houses have been pulled down in Edinburgh since 1867, and over half-a-million has been spent since that year in city improvements. In 1563 the death rate was 26 per thousand per annum, now it is 20 per thousand.

Reply-paid post-cards have proved a great success in Switzerland, where the idea originated. The English Postmaster- General is thinking of introducing them in England.

Prince Albert Victor and Prince George, it is stated, will not return to England before next spring, meanwhile visiting Singapore, China, Japan, and Ceylon, among other places. Nothing lias been decided as to what they will do hereafter.

The Philadelphia Medical Society, at a crowded meeting, decided to admit women asjnembers. A year ago the proposition was voted down by a large majority.

Two thousand sailors belonging to the Turkish navy were recently dismissed, and several of the ironclads are to Le dis mantled.

During the next session of the Gorman Reichstag it is aunoimced that the Im perial Government will bring forward a project for establishing, with the aid of subventions, two new important steamship lines to Japan and the south Sea Mauds. It is stated the Ministry will take into their consideration the question of tho trans-Atlantic traffic of Germany.

A family of German immigrants passed west tbe other day, consisting of father, mother, and nine children, 40 grand chilnren, and great-grandchildren. Enough of them were married to make the entire party number 96. They were bound for Northern lowa,—Chicago Times. •

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