DRAUGHTS.

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White.

Veiite to play and win.

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CHALLENGE.

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Draught Items.

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STRANDED AT KOROBAREKA.

Experiences of a Stowaway.

Showing away, in order to travel from one port to another, is generally considered by people of anything like decent social status bo be infra dig. There are times, however, whe,n a fellow can't help himself. ,

It is bad enough to be forced to travel on a steamer withoiib the wherewithal to jus tify one's presence on board ; bub ib is still worse to be pub ashore some 3,000 miles from one's destination. Stowing away does not necessarily imply biding or deception. In many cases it simply means getting on board, waiting until the purser collects the tickets, and then ' calmly considering whether the sentence of the " Goorb " will be seven days or three months. There is another con tingency to be reckoned upon, and that is the possibility of being removed from the ship and placed upon some part of the mainland where work is scare and where one dogs not know a single soul. Such was my unfortunate predicament a short time ago. I had engaged to work my passage from Auckland to New York, but bhe captain backed oub of his agreemenb ab bhe lasb moment. What reason he had for breaking his word I don't know, unless ib was bhab having resented rather strongly some impertinent quesbions put to me by the mate the latter revenged himself by mis representing me bo the captain. I went on board on the morning, and remained until neat five o'clock. The captain, a German, when making his arrangement with me, told me to go on board, and he would get me to si_-n the log when he came. When he arrived in a "trim built wherry" he said, "Aren't you going to work?" I replied, "Nobody asked me to go to work.' He went to the mate and said " Is this the man you mean ?" The mate nodded, and I was ordered ashore. Whether the captain acted upon the ex parte evidence of the mate, or' whether he had obtained a more suitable hand, I did nob stop to consider. He broke his word, bhat was quite enough for me. I felt disgusted, bub I merely re marked it was rather strange- After reach ing the wharf I felt perplexed—my last half-crown had been stolen from me in a cheap lodging-house, upon the previous night.

My difficulty was resolved pro tern, by the whistle, of one of the U.S.S. Company's boats bound for Sydney. I went on board, mingled with the passengers, and too things calmly. I was about "to light my pipe, bub I could npb scrape a fill from the bottom of my bobacco pocket. Next day we reached Russell.landed some passengers, and went to. the coaling-place—Opua, some six miles distant. In the afternoon, after leaving Opua, I thought I was safe for a. passage, as I was told the steamer would not call again at Russell, and I fancied the tickets would not be collected until we were clear of the land. But to my sorrow, my penniless and ticketless condition was discovered immediately after leaving Opua, and the purser said, '* We? ll have to put you ashore at Russell." As we near.cd Russell the s.s. Ida. took me off and I was soon on teiTa Jirma — lone and stranded in Port Russell. While smoking on the wharf the purser of the Ida acc_qsted me saying, "I want a fare from you, please." _ bold him I had nob a cent, and that the Union Company should have paid my fare. My mind was bowed down with a weight of woe, but having made inquiries for work I got a bed ab bhe Pacific Hotel after narrating my " sea of troubles." During bhe evening I made the acquainbanee of a son of AJister with a ''wee drop in his cc," and he advanced me a small sum which enabled me to tide pver another 24 hours. The Pacific seemed a welbconducted hostelry, but nob having received pny tip from the prpprietor I cannob give its a glowjng certi ficate. f Although I informed the prpprietor that I was a qucuti newspaper man,'_e did not operi a bobble pf Roederer, go I canncb puff him a la Sola', but he seems a deceit fellew, and bhe servant girls were, prebably owing to my unattractive appearance, unobtrusively attentive. They knew of course bhat there was no backsheesh to be expected. Russell was formerly better known by the Maori appellation of Korororeka, add it has historical associations. Hereib was bhabHeke, or •''-• Johnny Heke," as the blue jackets used to call him, cut down the British flag spme 4_ years age. It is the place where much o{ the interesting portion pf the early his tpry of New Zealand was made. Waitangi, where the r.e.nai* k^ble treaty pf that name was signed, is sibuabed at the other side of the harbour. Russeil is a quiet-going place. Iti is pleasantly enough sibuated, being backed and sFelbered by a small range of hills, while' a firm sandy beach forms the seaward boundary of the jpaih thoroughfare. Peach' brees iii full blossom and numbers of pines conbrasted favourably with the clean white appearance of the wooden houses. Russell is Arcadian in some respects. The conversation of bhe citizens is rem,aykably free from backbiting, bankruptcy is almost un known, society ljms npb progressed far enough tp generate a divorce suit, everybody knows everybody else in the town, and although the higher grades ef society do nob adppb a " hail fellow well met" sbyle of familiariby with the labouring classes, still the local bank manager may occasionally be observed, hat en deshabille, enjoying a modesb Ken tucky quencher, and conyersingmosb affably with the other habitues of bhe hosbelry.

Haying been informed that work was to be obtained rpore readily in Kawakawa, I crossed over the ferry to Opua, and from thence I walked to Opua, a distance of seven miles. It is a nice walk. Patches of ti-tree in blossom made the biHg appear ag if fieeked with snow. For the first few miles there appears tp be no overland way pf get ting to Kawakawa except by the railway line. *

This lino is very cuj-yy, consequently there are a very large numper of notice boards warning tresspassers pf their liability tp prosecution. Why they should have the general manager's name printed on them I cannot divine.' Supposing he gets sacked, the nam6 W?U have to be obliterated or else the notices will appear tp be given by a person without authority. As thebpards will last for many years, ib may- be'asshmeci that Mr J. P. Maxwell looks upon his hillet as a life oiie. While musing upon the offi cious delight seme men take'in blaziyg ptteir nances and authority upon the highway, J was warned by a ganger that I had no right to walk the line. I a.sked him if there W£S any other road, and fpund that there was sqme distance off. I gave this pfficial my njiroe and address, find went ahead. I got no work at-Kawakawa, sp I re*b'urnecT bo Opua, arid receiving a passage gratis from the qwner pf the Ida,' I crossed over te Russell. My mind became qujte, pacific upon qbtaining sufficient garden digging to enable me to keep bhe wolf" from bhe door. I delved away contentedly, waiting for a chance of working my passage to some other part of the planetA I have not got away yet. ' People in Russell take things very coolly. The even tepqr of the itusselfite^ was not disturbed by the grriy&l of ap extteniely illiterate candidate for ParliaEpent, at tended by a luminary Of the fourth estate and a'Chairmaii. I formed one of an audience of about 15 who listened to the proceed ings, and thg jv^sj the raojb pairifnl exhibition pf ignorance and spite lulness bhab I ever listened to. He stated that he was not a narrqvy-niirid^d teetotaller, bhat he wohjd nQt< Oh-ly give a man'a dririljj but a V slithersf ul" of jb t-'forgetting thab ibis a doubtful virtue in any'man, a bad recommendation for parliamentary life, to fill a duly qualified voter with liquov- It js te be regretted thgt' persons of this sorb sometimes succeed in obtaining tjie Houise of' Representatives, Because they become the worst class Of todies! They softs |gap and bounce their way into tbe-gpdd pf^ceslg}1 the electors ebine fcountpy &£

trict. In a populous city a person who spoke jn the same way that; this political Darwinian type did ab Hussell would be hooted off bhe platform. If, as is frequently stated, a government is a reflex of bhe people, then by parity of reasoning an M.H.R. is or should be a reflex of the better portion of the con stituency he represents, and surely tho Bay of Islands people cannot conscientiously Ypte for this person. I heard the other candidate speaking ab the nomination. He spoke well, and im pressed me much, more favourably. Vich Alpine Dhu.

A HORRIBLE DISCOVERY.

The Bodies of Two Women Who Bled

Themselves to Death.

A New York despatch of Augusb2obh says : A disgusting stench has filled the tenement, 31 Charles-street, for the past few days, and yesterday ib grew so bad bhab Mrs Franklin, the housekeeper, notified the police. She believed the smell came from a decayed pail of garbage in the rooms on bhe second floor, occupied by Mrs Melvhia Payne and her daughter Anna. On Monday last the women had been seen closing up the shutters and it was bhoughb they had gone into the country. The reporb to bhe police brought no response, and this forenoon the stench had grown so vile that Mr Hamman, the owner of bhe hou?e, decided to investigate. He got oub on the fire escape and peered bhrough theshubters inbo the women's room, where he saw both women lying dead on the bed, which was bespattered wibh blood. Horror-stricken, herushed for tbe police, and a locksmith was procured, who bursb open bhe door. Disinfectants were spread about, and then an inspection was made. The women had been lying dead since Monday. A razor and an empty laudanum bottle were on the chair beside the bed. Half stupified by the poison, probably, and insensible to pain, the women had cub the arteries at bheir elbows and ankles and bled to deabh, locked in each obher's arms. Death had loosened bheir grip, and bhey lay side by side, facing each other, when found. Letters • found on the table showed that they had carefully considered bhe plan of suicide and decided to die together. The envelope containing them was so soaked with blood the address was almosb illegible. The police made it to be Miss H. A. Weed, 12,' Wesb Twelfth-street. Miss Weed is the daughter of the late Thurlow Weed, and the Paynes were known to be old friends of tlie Weed family. One letter said:— Miss H. A. Weed.—Dear Friend : If any thing happens that we are both found dead, -tviil you sec that w« be biiirVd in Albany Rural Cemetery in oaken caskets? James A. Burns, of the cemetery, knows where our lot is My mother has 181dols. in the Bleeckcr-street Savings Bank. I have money in the above bank, also in the Bowery Savings and the Dry Dpck on Third Avenue. These amounts will priy all the funeral expens.es. We have pinched and 3aved this money for a little homestead, but that is all hopeless now. We are both help less as to our minds. Wo are not able to care for ourselves. The contents of our house are to be given to the poor. The other letter said : We arq, both of us, my mother and I, in°ano, and dread tjie madhouse. We want to be with "our family. Tell our relatives where we lie. Our relatives ,are Henry Martin, 34' Seely Xvemie, Cleveland. O.: SAM: Talbot, Wl loughtry, Lake county, p.; Julia A. Mansfield, Chateaugay, Franklin county, N.Y. The Payne family had lived in the house upward of three years. They were quiet gentle women. Mrs Payne was a widow of aboub 60 years. Her daughter, aboub 35 years old, was a teacher in an East Side public school. It is not known by the neighbours that bhere was anything unusual about tbe women.

AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS.

Strange Meeting of Professor nnd Student in Siberia.

Our Odessa correspondent reports a Siberian incident narrated by a civil ongi_ peer, jU..t reburned from Central i^sia^ where he has spent the last six years. The monotony of his residence in those remote provinces was broken by an occasional hunting expedition into Siberia. Qn one of these trapping expeditions, which included a younger member of one Qf the Grand DuCal families, thft party were one evening be^ lated in 9, pine ferest and at seme distance from the day's biveuac ; They were utterly astray- A sb_nboi;iau yiew-haljOo reyer berating through the silent recesses of the forest depths Drought to the assistance and guidance cf the party a woodcutter— an oM man of some threescore years, with tangled locks, coarse kaftan, and bark swathed feet. Under the old man's guidance the party found a ru.de/ hut, a bharpoal fire, and some simple cooking utensils. The engineer noticed that the old woodcutter, when unobserved, scanned his face rather attentively. He took a quiet opportunity of asking the old man if he ob served in him any resemblance to some one he had previously known- ■' A very strong resemblance,'' was the reply. ?< Were you hot,' spme fifteen years ago, a student pf thg Ricbeleyski Gymuase in Odessa?" The engineer answered affirmatively. "S And do you remember Prof.-——?'' " Cer tainly j he was a man beloved by every stu dent in his class. I shall always remember kindly theaniiable and learned Professor who disappeared sq suddenly and ipysteriously from Odessa. Rub what dp yqu knqw of him ?" The old woodcutter for the first time smfled; Pho heavy lnoustache and beard haij hidden the lines of the'moiith Ifi .6: pose. The young engineer had nob for gotten the peculiarly sad sweetness of his old Prb'fesSor's smile. The ragged anjl picturesque woodcutter and the former learned Professor of Sanscrit and compara tive philology were the same. "The rencontre,-- continues, our cortegpond- Cpb, under tbe circumstances, natty-ally ab once both pleasing and painful" to 'my friend, "to whose im mediate and anxious inquiries the old man replied sadly :'All God's will, my boy. As to the suddenness and mystery of niy disappearance fj-pm Odessa" the ggeret pelice might have explained. Nothing be yond an unfounded suspicion of disaffection tp Pur Ljbtle Fabher and prepppbejroup charge of "disseminating a revolutionary dpebrina have senb me bo this lifelong banishment But I do not' repine.' I haye, 9Ufi3cient philosophy left tc. apply myself td the felling' 'Of 'pirie'trees'Nyi'bh the same zest as that with which I formerly delighted to pursue a knotty philological' problem, Am 1 nqti wise in my geheratjp,h and old age? lam de prived of the sight and companionship of old frjehds, but God gives me health and a portion "Of eonteptmenti My masters pay me with but few unkind, wqrds and p\vq rubles per mensem. My eld Odessa pupils 'pai^ mp six'rubljßs ah hour. But what pf that* 'Thaye' sufficient. "Some times old memories draw tightly round the heart and give me infinite pain. Then I swing n,y heavy a^?,e "writh, greatgr force &n 4 epde&voh. tp. 'fp.ggt. It is to me a joy to look upon the still youthful face of my old pupil,-' bub do nob probe my „'e_rb.' child. I ask you got tjO Speak to mg at parting. Yqu were s|l>f ays obedient,"arid you'hear inel Ged keep you ! Qood-bye! The old wan. would not allow my frfend to convey any .messages tc relatives or acquaintances, who, he fsid, had probably Ipng since, forgotten his existence, arid he would not disturb dead piemqfies. How many °therfh are there like' bhe old Professor—riien also" of bi^th, bygedirig and brilliant "intellectual parts—languishing oub their, lives in' the dreary wilds of Siberia lei1' a baseless pua picjqn? 'The"'reflection is. 'saclderiirig. l*^ Wm ■'MMi''-.'. " ...1

COMMON ENEMIES.

Conscienceless Employers ana Con-

scienceless Agitators.

Working men are nob the only ones who are earnestly asking what can be done to improve the condition of the men and women who work long days for just enough to sustain life. A majoriby of their em ployers are sincerely inberested in the well being of their employees, and would gladly help them in any way possible. But the obstacles are enough to dis courage all but the mosb sanguine, cour ageous and persistent. The benevolent employer is between two fires. On the one hand he must meet the competition of the employer who is not benevolent and has no scruples abomt taking any advantage of the working men that will turn an extra dime into his till. It is one of the unpleasant facts about competition that one disre putable competitor can nullify the efforts of ninety-nine high-minded ones to maintain their business on an honourable basis. His price makes the market price, and the ninety-nine must meet it. On the other hand the benevolent employer must con tend against the. prejudices §nd false notions creabgd in the minds of his employe.es by the professional mischief maker wnose sole oc cupation is persuading hard-working tnen thab he can do them a good turn by making things hot fo.r the employer, fpr which valu able, service they may hand over their contributions. The labours pf these mouth-workers in the last few year? have produced most lamentable results. They have, created a feeling among working men that employers as a class regard wage, workers as merely instruments for creating wealth. They have spread the pernicious delusion that employers as a class are. growing enormously rich by the ill-requited labour of their employees. JTow the plain trubh of the matter is that the great body of employers and the great body of employees have a common enemy in the conscienceless employer and the conscienceless agitator. It is a competi tion that does not stop ab justice or honour, and heartless, misrepresentation of facts is destroying profits and wages together. Employers who are work ing with g°od intentions, according to their light, should get together, give each ot-her their confidence, aud make a united resistance to the influences, that are injuring them. Whether such confidence sha,U exist, in spite of all the influences tending to destroy it, depends on the em ployer's good judgment quite as much as on bis gqoa intentions. Employees estimate an employer by hi.s acts, not by his words, and are more imi reused by qualities of business sense and strong leadership than bsr an easy-going kindness. Extended observation lias confirmed the opinion that those employers are most respected by their workmen who, with few pro fessions of benevolence, do in fact pay thq "best wages bheir business can afford, who make bargains with employees and frame shop regulations after a frank and free discussion of all points, in which the employees are encouraged to appear either iudividua'ly or by committee as they themselves prefer, and who maintain a discipline that is at once strict and fair. In the Jast two words lies most ot tbo secret of harmonious relations between em ployer and employed. The man who is both strict and fair is the successful man in all the relations.

CHINAS POSSIBILITIES.

Ap American Book on the Subjoct.

General James H. Wilson, of bho United States, has written a book on China, whioh hp calls "A Study of Its Civilisation and Possibilities." The making of books upon China from the standpoints of the scientist the antiquary, a.nd the geographer has been without e?id, bqb M ajpr-General Wilson has written one from the point of view of a civil and military engineer. His visi^ tp China wag to collect actual facts that would be pf service to those who had some npticm of investing money in railroads pr manufactories iii that ccu'ntry. His idea was bliab sponer pr later China mugt ccn selidate her immense forces by iron ways if ib were only to prepare for a struggle wibh Russia, and thab the United States ought bo have a share in equipping her, Hence be resolved to pee for himself whether the Chinese were ready for rail roads; " whether, if built^ railroads jyauld prpbably pay, and also whether the con structicn and management ef them Gpulq* be secured fcr Americans under such terms and cenditipns as promised fair re turns fpr the skill and capital empleyed and the risk invelved."

Provided wibh tho necessary credentials, he accordingly visited Northern China leaving the southern tier of provinces to French aspirations — made journeys to Taku, Kaiping, Peking, the Great Wall and the Yellow River. He climbed Taishau, the second mountain of China, estimated the Grand Canal, took a trip along the Yang tse-Kiang, kept his eyes and "ears open, covered an aggregate distance of 30,000 miles, and returned to America charged to the prim. with facts and figures. His con clusions may he put into bis Own words. He is convinced, he says, that the Chinese are going to open' mines, erect furnaces and rolling-mills and build railroadg, but t-hey are waiting till it can be done with Chinese money, materials and skilled labour.

"They will net," he gees en, "fpr the present borrow money on' the credit of their Government or a pledge of its revenues for the purpose of paying for such works, nor will they grant concessions or subsidies to fp-eigners. &a far as I can see, they jyjjjl not even take money from any Power Or syndicate and agree to secure the repayment of the same by a mortgage upon the works to 'be created thereby. Their leading statesmen want railroads, and have an in telligent understanding of how they are to be utilised for the benefit of bhe country ; ljut they (ire not willing to have them on any terhis which will increase European influence in China, or give European Powers the slightest pretext for intermeddling with the internal affairs pf the country or its Goyernrijeht."' ' This is not very encouraging for the American investor, bub General Wilson draws ftomfprt from the conclusion that while the Chinese will probably lay out and construct the fflJSraJ wes, using capital subscribed j>yChinese pubjeots, and mater ials bought wherever they can geb them cheapest, they will most probably employ 4.mg"rican everts and gdopt the American system of construction, for the reason that bbey more practical, economical and efficiepb, arid bebter adapted to the requjrer ments of the case in hand. Besides.he says, the Ameripans are their nearest neighbours, and baying no desire to establish colonies oi" to acquire foreign possessions, are less liable tp quarrel with China, or te interfere under any pretext with her internal affairs. General Wttjffg} believes thoroughly in gre'lt "possibilities for the Chinese in the near future. Their civilisation, while old, he says, presents no iridipatiqns of senility. The race is strpng and vigorous, prolific, frugal and'industrious—physical virtues which betoken youth rather than declining mainhbod: The Chinaman be finds full of the "conceit and'prejudice engendered by ignorance, but he is no fool and has nevei been rchai-ged wibh being one. He is sjirewd an 3 bright ab whatever he turns His mind, and whenever relived froni the incubus pf pld customs and allo®gd to sh.qw his natural tendency and aptitutlSs, neither asks" npr'heeds favour at the hands of his competitor, "no patter -wjio the igtlgr _9>y

BOGUS POLICE AND JUDGE.

Scheme of Bold Scoundrels.

A gang of ruffians, whose headquarters aro ab bhe bridge over the Morris canal at Henderson-street, Jersey City, demised a novel scheme by which to obtain heer mi oney- They organised themselves into, a police forcel Andrew Kelly, leader of the gang, was made patrolman, Thomas Mc- Dowell was made Judge, arid" John D'Bfi.en was given' the position' of Clerk of _ the Court. An pld shanty pn the brink of the canal was fixed up for a police station and courtroom. Patrolman Kelly stationed himself ab bhe bridge every' nighb ab dark, aud any stranger who passed liim "was arrested. The force had been in. existence two weeks, and in that time a dozen arresbs were made. The prisoners, all of- whom were charged by Kelly wibh disorderly conduct, were fined from $1 tp $5. In every case the fine was paid. Late, on Tuesday night the police made a raid upon the bogus station-house, and three members of the gang were arrested.

Dangerous Breathing.

Professor Beyer, one of the mosb dis tinguished physiologists of Germany, and specially noted for his experiments on the process of respiration, remarks in a recent article on hygiene : —*' It is one of the many inconsistencies of civilised men and women that whereas neglect of cleanliness in clothing or food is considered unpardon able, they do not hesitate to breathe air which reeks with filth pf the worst description." What is the source of these atmospheric. Impuri ties ? There are several sources. One is the devitalised air, charged with carbonic acid gas, that is constantly exhaled from every pair of lungs. Professer Huxley says that "tp be supplied with resph-atery air in a fair state of purity, every man ought to have at least 800 cubic feet of space to himself; and thab space ought to be freely accessible, by direct or indirect channels,bo tho atmosphere." Now, if we consider that ?! a cubical room 9 feet high, wide, and long, contains only 729 cubic feet of air," we understand how shamefully most human beings are oxygen-starved in their small, crowded, unventilated rooms. But the most pbjectionable impurities in the air we breathe in our room aro the millions of par ticles of dust which flcat about in it. Those people who breathe through the mouth draw dust constantly into their lungs, where it remains permanently; for" Professor Tyndall has shown that the exhaled air is absolutely free from dust particles. Pro fessor Reclam asserts that city people at the age of thirty usually have in their lungs a whole gramme of calcareous dust, which they can never again get rid of, and which may engender dangerous disease. Few people* know thab their skins as well as their lungs need a constant supply of oxygen. The skin, as well as the lungs, breathes and purifies fchebloo'd, as is shown by lhe fact that the arterial blood which goes to the skin doe's not turn venous and dark as elsewhere.but remains red and pure. -"Epoch" (U.S.)

An Unheard-of Tragedy.

A drama has eccurred in a place named Valebte, near Tculin, which deserves re cord, as it is a rare instance in the chronicles of crime. A grocer named Anicet lost his youne wife aboub four monbhs ago. Lat terly ho became violently enamoured of his widowed mother-in-law, a Mme. Freboise, aged 48 years, in whose house he was living. The widow thought at first bhat her son-in law was niakirtg game '6t her, bub as he re newed his extraordinary pretestatiens pf ageefcien with vehemem_e she kept him at a distance. One Tuesday the man went out te a cafe, and returned home after having in dulged in deep potations. He went into his mother-in-law's room and made proposals of marriage to her. As she refused, he toek a revolver out of his pocket anji following her from the room from which she fled in terror, he fired bhree times at her. The woman fell dead at the bottom of the stairs of the house, having been hit mortally in the head. The murderer then turned his weapon on himself, and inflicted two wounds in his chest and ribs, a third shpt having missed. After that he pulled him self up to an adjacent window" and threw himself oub. He' was picked up bleeding and inanimate, but hot dead,' and was con veyed to the hospital, where he lies hover ing between life and death.

Slips of the Tongue.

ft Ministers of the Gospel sometimes say things that they would give anything not to have said," said a city'clergyman one Sunday. "I remember well bearing a brother minister put his foot in it badly aba funeral sermon years ago. The widow of the man Avho was being buried had lost three husbands before, arid the minister, in the few last words spoken over the coffin, referring rather un wisely to this fact, said : ' 0 Lord, comfort and support this afflicbed woman, who has been bereaved sb often before, and who'— fiere the divine paused, but did not collect thoughts sufficiently to avoid concluding his remarks with — 'may be so bereaved again.'" ," ii I know a worse blunder than that being made by & layman," said a grey-haired deacon, ii This time it was at a wedding ill a fashionable suburb pf this city. The groom had been married twice before, but managed to make" an -awful mess of matters when it came to putting the ring on the bride's hand, ag the Episcopal Ghurch service requires to be done. He dropped the ring and lost his nerve at th'esarrie time.' At the bride's house after words some of the groom^s friends chaffed him about his awkwardness, and within hearing of his newly-made wife, he replied . 'Oh, you have the laugh on me now, but I proriiise yon. I'll do better the next time.' '-

They Sat Down on Her.

A Cleveland girl who had a great liking for lying around on the heaeh thought it great fun to have herself buried In the sand the ot|ier morning by her companions. She was made comfortable and fast, and her straw- hat y?as thrown oyer" her face to kepp the sun ' oub of her eyes. She erijOyed it so much that &he fell asleep.' She' won't say how long she lay there, * butT she was awakened by an awful pressure. She was held so fast with bhe" sand "and bhe sbrange additional \yeighb that she couldn't budge, but she con trived tb let out an awful shriek from under her straw hat The pressurewasinstantlyre mpved, her hat was knocked off herfaeeanda yquhg man'and his sweetheart were gazing down upon her with an expression of amaze ment and horror. She was gotten oub of her sandy bed in a jiffy and hurried Off to her bath-house! Her companions had gone away and quite forgotten hei<. The stranger and his pretty sweetheart, stroll ing along the beach, had mistaken her for a sandy mound and sat down on her to say their sweet little sayings, but they had hardly begun when the. yell of fright under- them kneolced all the life out of sentiment The story got but, of course, arid bhe Cleveland girl is so embar rassed that they say she is going to leave to-morrow. They say, by the way, that tfiere is a great want' of quiet little nooks ab bhe Cape bhis year, where two beings who find their world in each other may be free frqm disturbances by other wandering Indies. However, trust tp sentiment, It ■vyill" find'an eyrie always,' somewh&re far fpm tiriwelcome eyes. '^ '*

LITTLE FOLK'S COLUMN.

A STORY FOR LITTLE FOLK. Here's a tale for little folk! The mouse was in the trap; The cook was in the pantry. And heard the trapdoor snap. The cat was in the kitchen,"' And said; "How veryi^ioe, For there is nothing in the world I like so much as mice." Here's a tale for little folk! The monkey watched the mouse, And said, " How do you like to be Shut up in that small housed. The mouse looked up. "Oh', not at all- Do let me out, do, please; I shouldn't have been here, but I Was tempted by the cheese," Here's a tale for little folk 1 The monkey i aised the door, Th* mouse then darted but and gained, Hor hole beneath the floor. The angry COOK said, " Master Pug, Now why did you do that ?' The monkey slipped away, and said, " Because I hate the cat."

Why a.re troijbles like babies.? Because j they geb bigger by nursing. Tpttie (aged five) : *■' My mamma's got a new silk dress, and your m^mp-ia, ain't. "-- Harry (aged four): * %fX don't care,; my mamma can take her teeth put, and your mamma can't." It was somewhab embarrassing for Aunb, Jane when Jphnny, a few evenings, since, ab a gathering pf friends at his, mother's hcuse, asked, " Didn't you know the' rea| $oan, Aunb Jane ?" " If I was a hoi*se now," mused a bigb°!s!"> yesterday, " I'd be stabled" rubbed dpwii, and be fed ; bub I'm abpy, and I've geb tp gp Jipine, bring in wood, (\raw watsr, and rpek bhe old" baby fpr an hour or bwp,."

NOT "SMART."

Of all forms of bad breeding, tfie pert, Stuart manner affected by boys and girls of a certain age is the mosb offensive and impertinent. One of these so-called s,mart boys was once employed in the office of the treasurer of a local railway company. He was usually lefb alone in tbe office bebween the hours of eight and nine in the morning, and it was his djtty to answer the questions of all callers as clearly and polibely as possible. One morning a plainly-dressed old genble man walked quiebly in, and asked for tbe cashier. " He's out," said tbe boy without lopkjng up from the paper he was reading. " Do you know where ha is ?" " No.'? " When will be be in ?" " 'Bout nine o'clock." " It's nearly bhat now, isn'b ib? I haven't bhe correct time." " There'sthe clock," said the boy smartly, pointing to a clock on the wall. " Oh yes ; thank you," said the gentle man. " Ten minutes until nine- Can I wait here for him ?" " I s'pose so, bhough this isn't a public hotel." The boy thought this smart, and he chuckled aloud over ifc. He did nob offer bhe genbleman a chair, or lay down the paper he held. 'All! would like to write a note while I wait," said the caller, ii Will you please geb me a piece of paper and an envelope ?" The boy did so, and as he handed them bo the old gentleman he coolly said-r ---" Anything else?" *' Yes," was the reply. I' I would like bo know the name pf such a smart buy as you are."

The boy felb flabbered by the word '? smart," and wishing to show the full extent ef his smartness, replied— "I'm ene of John Thomson's kids. William by name, and I answer to the call of ' Billy.' But here comes the boss." ' The " bess" came in, and seeing' the stranger, cried cub— M Why, Mr Smith, buw do you do? I'm delighted to see you. We—r-" Bub John Thomson's '-kid'? heard no more. He was looking around for his hat. Mr Smith was president pf the capapah-y, and Billy beard from him later, to his sorrow. Anyono needing a boy of Master Billy's peculiar smartness might secure him, as he is still oub of employment.

A BIRD'S APPETITE.

The appebibe of the bird is wonderful -- thrush will eat at a meal the tergesb snail thab England produces. ' Jf a man could aab as much in proportion he would consume a whole round of beef for his dinner. The redbreast, again, is a most voracious bird. It has been calculated that to keep a redbreast up to his, normal weight an amount of animal food is required daily equal to an earthworm fourteen feet ih length. Taking a man of average weight, and measuring bulk for bulk wibh the red breast, I tried to calculate how much food he would consume in bwenty-fpur hpurs if he ate as much in prepprtipn as^ bhe_ bird. Assuming a sausage nine inches p circum fprence bo be a fair equivalenb of the earth worm, I find that bhe man would have to eat sixty-seven 'feet of such sausage in gyery twenty-four hours. I mention this in order to illustrate the amount of work which is done by insect-eating birds.

THE TRUE ZEBRA.

An interesting addition to the collection of the Zoological Society is a specitnen of bhe true zebra. This curious" and now exceedingly rare animal, the equusunmtanm, is purely a moip tain-dweller, and is nob to he confounded, as' ib frequently "is, with its partially striped congener, Burchell's zebra (equus Burchellii), which only occurs npon the plains beyond the Orange River. -The true zebra was formerly to be found upon every mountain of the Cape Colony; but at the present day its habitat is restricted to the remotest and wildest of the colonial ranges, where it prolongs its existence upon the most inaccessible spots. ' It is stated that a specimen of the Burchell's zebra now in the possession of Lady Meux, at Theobald's, lias bred with a pony, and that a beautifully-striped hybrid has been the result; bub though, the hardy constitu tion and clean wiry limbs of this animal vfOuld be a desirable addition to our breed of horses, any considerable intermingling of the blood is, of course, out of the ques tion. In old days the young of the true zebra was captured by the Dutch settlers and exported to the Mauritius, where they were actually driven in harness by fashion able Mauritians. Such spectacles are now things pf the past, and naturalists may con gratulate themselves upen the rare pleasure ef seeing the true zebra, the fabled hip potigris of the ancients, in England.

The Pain from a Pugilist's Blow.

It has been said bhat hurts suffered in pugilism are particularly severe, and that bub few pains equal the pain resulting from a blow of the fi,t squarely and forcibly de livered upon the'nose. An incident which goes bo support bhis allegation comes from Paris. A lion-tamer in one of the Boule vard shows was seb upon- by a powerful arid irritable lion, whose cage he- bad entered according to habit in the course of an enter tainment. The beast made an attack with out warning or particular cause, and in an instant the man was upon his back bebweeri bhe lion _ paws. The specbators screamed, thinking it was an end of tbe lion-tamer, but, like a flash, he was upon bis feet, and, striking' out with his right in accurate pugilistic style, landed bis fist upon the lion's nose with a spat that was heard all over the place. The lion wheezed and sneezed and backed away, shaking his head and shutting his eyes as if dazed, while bhe man stepped quickly bub wibh digniby oub of bhe Cage. The blow was a good one, and if ib had. fallen upon a man "would haveuridoubtedly "knocked-imput." Evidently it pade the lion tingle from the spot where ifc was delivered to the tip of his jb&il. -

POETRY.

THE OLD BOOKS.

Deep in the past I peer and see A child upon the nursery floor, Holding a book upon his knee, Who asks, like Oliver, for" more. The number of his years is four, 1 And yet in letters hath he skill. How deep he dived in fairy lore I i The books I loved, I love them still. One gitt the fairies gave me-three They commonly bestowed of yore— ; The love of books, the golden key That" opens the enchanted door; Behind it Bluebeard lurks, and e'er And o'er doth Jack his giants kill, • And there is all Aladdin's store; The books I loved, I love them §tfll. ' Take all but leave my books to me; Those heavy creels of old we boi'e We fill hot no***, nor wander free Nor wear the heart that once w.e wore. Not now each river seems to pour His waters from the Muse's hill; Though something's gone from stream , and shore, The book^ I loved, I love them still. j, -^Andrew- Lang's. "Ballades and VCTsesVaine.*?

BALLADE OF THE BOURNE.

" What goal remains for pilgrim feet, No w all our gods are banished V Afar, when sea and sunrise meet, Tall portals bathed in gold and red; From either door a carven head Smiles down on men full drowsili.e 'Mid mystic forms of wings outepread 'Between the gates of ivorie. " Now if beyond lie town or street I know not, nor hath any said, Though tongues' wag fast and winds are fleet; Some say that there men meet the dead,'' :" Or fllray phantoms in their stead, And some. " it leads to Arcadie.'' In sooth I know not, yet would tread ' . Between' the gates of Ivorie. .Fox surely there sounds music sweet While fair delights and perfumes shed, And all things broken made complete,' ' And found again things forfeited; ' All this for him who scorning dread Shall r.ead tho wreathen fantasie, And pass, where ho base soul had sped. Between the gates of ivorie. ENVOY. Ah, princess! grasp the golden thread, Rise up and follow fearlessly, By high desire and longing led Between the gates of ivorie. Graham R. Thompson, in {?Harper's" for jjLUgUSt.

Wealth and Poverty in New York.

The Siamese Princes have been driven round New York, which bhey admit is fully up to anything at home. While they were, thus elegantly entertained, a scion pf the British nobility, cut off by his relatives . died in extreme poverty and is buried by charity. We have more than a million poor people here, many of whom are in great destitution, and frequently death by starva tion occurs. How encouraging to this class is the fact that John Jacob Astor is worth. §100,000,000, while Jay'Gould is not far behind him. Cornelius Vanderbilb is rated at $50,000,000, Russell Sage at §10,000,000, Cyrus W. Field at §6,000,000, James Gordon Bennett $5,000,000, Erastus Winman $2,000,000, and John H. Starin the same. Wash Connor, who was so long in Gould's service, is also among the millionaires. Many other names could be added bo bhis display of wealbh, bub, taking a serious view of the case, this contrasb is cerbainly painful. Old Jake Sharp remains in Ludlow-sbreeb Gapl, and he is almosb bhe only millionaire bhab spends bhe heb seasen in tpwn ; but he will soon go to Sing Sing—an outing which he dees net care bo take. Elliot E. Shep hard is passing bhe season in Alaska. Only twenty years have elapsed since our Go ' yernmenb bought this" distant tei-Htbry. arid' now it is a summer resort. Shephard is one of William H. Yanderbjlt's eons-in-law, and hence can indulge in' so costly an outing, On the other hand, the poverty of bhis ciby is so greab bhab so-called ''meals " atone eerit* each have been gladly devOuted by famished crowds. St, Andrew's Society has been en gaged in the p_ilauthropic work and has sold 60,000 meals. Ab bheir stands you can o-eb for one cent a bowl pf coffee with milk and sugar and a slice ef bread an inch thick, or a bowl of chowder, or a bowl of soup, or, a plate of fish. Of course, the price is nob equal to bhe cost, but it is a work of charity such as this ciby' has long needed, -r-" Her? rpit-" of New York.

Royal Brother-in-Law.

The Prince of Wales was thoroughly sorry to lose his cherry brother-in-law, the KJn|? of Greece, at the termination of the King's? jubilee visit. Though they have met for a day or two occasionally during the twenty four years of their relationship the two men had never had an opportunity of seeing what sort of stuff tbe other was made of till now, and it is satisfactory to know that the King's visit to Marlborough House has SPwn the seeds ef a clese friendship. The King ef Greece was brought up in the same hard school of poverty as his sisber, and is proud of ib. Indeed, he carries his homeliness bo bhe verge of affectation, for nqt only does he dispense with tfie services of a valet, but be does a great many things for himself that other men who don't keep a valet would neyer dream of doing. The King always brought his workbaskeb into the smoking-room before retiring for the night, so that he might use the half hour devoted tp the nocturnal "nightcap" in replacing missing shirt bubtons. But the monarch wasn't allowed to have it all his own way, for Prince George of Wales, like mosb sailors, is prebty handy with tbe needle. He ran his uncle very close in some of bhe wagers bhey had together as to who could sew a button on quickest The i King is said to be equally proficient in the art pf darning socks, though of course he throws them away when they need that now.

Before They Had Policemen.

Some curious documents just found in the archives of the Prefecture of Police throw an interesting and instructive light on the manner in which the streets of Paris were guarded during the night in the sixteenth century. To begin with, there were strin gent rules to the effect that each house should have only one door and should be regularly inhabited. This being the case, it was a comparatively easy bask to order that the dwellers in the different houses should in turn keep an eye on whab was going on in their respective streebs. They were nob compelled to tramp up and down the pave ment Uke the modem policeman ; the authorities were satisfied if they looked thrpugh bheir windows and watched all bhat was going on below. If the slightest cry were raised they opened their win dows and rang their bells until then? neighbours followed suit The alarm spread from streeb to street, and soon all the bells in Paris were ringing, the windows were lit up, and the inhabitants, armed to the teeth, sallied forth, bar ring the road to the malefactors, who were almosb always arresbed. I need hardly explain that the Paris of those days was Lilliputian in comparison with what it is now ; but what an uncomfortable way they bad of keeping the peace iQ thY sixteenth century ! The remedy was posi tively worse than the disease, for it was hard that the inhabitants of one streeb should be awakened" out of their first sleep because the dwellers in a remote avenue imagined that something wrong was going qri. ] One would fancy that in some quarter or anobher some noise ab least musb have been made every night The slumbers ofj the Parisians generally musb often hay© been wofully cur bailed, nob bo speak of bhe volunteer watchmen, for whom "all-night sittings " were a 'et^ftt reality.

fm AtjGELAKD _^__NIKS STAR, SATtJBBAY, OCtO^ER 1, 1387.

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