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LION HUNTING. THRILLING EXPERIENCE OF AN EN GLISH OFFICER—HABITS OF THE LION AND THE PANTHER. The Paris correspondent of the Bos ton Advertiser sends that paper the following letter relating to the expe riences of an old African soldier, who, he says, speaks of nothing he has not himself seen; and who modestly with holds only such episodes as would place himself in a conspicuous position: Dear Friend : You wish me to in troduce you to the true Arab lion hunt, which you must know little resembles the fantastic tales told by certain Eu ropean travelers, and dilated upon by newspaper and novel writers until there is no possibility of separating truth from fiction, or drawing to any satisfactory degree a conclusion re garding the lion and panther, which are in fact our only dangerous African carnivorous animals. Lions are quite numerous in certain parts of the prov ince of Constantine, rare in those of Algiers and Oran. Panthers, on the contrary, are seldom seen in the last two provinces, but are numerous iu Algiers. The habits of these two car nivora differ essentially. As a general rule, neither the one nor the other attacks men, unless molested or threat ened by him. It sometimes happens, however, that a panther surprised while eating springs furiously upon the man whose imprudent foot has troubled the silence of his repast, and in this case there is nothing to hope, as before the bravest man can have got possession of his arms he is a bruised and broken mass. The panther tears and mutil ates the body, even after all life has fled, but does not devour it. In gen eral he kills for the pleasure of killing, and even when attacking a flock or herd he vents his savage fury on many before deciding to eat one. The lion, on the contrary, springs upon his victim and at once devours it, or dragging it to a preferred dining spot, quietly makes his repast, nor thinks of troubling the rest of the flock until renewed appetite leads him to satisfy his hunger in the same way. If, during the repast, he sees a man ap proach, and is not ravenous, he gets up and walks away slowly, one may say solemnly; or sometimes not even deign ing this, he raises his majestic head, looks at the intruder, and by a half friendly growl warns him that he will not stand being troubled when at dinner. A pedestrian finding himself in this position does well to withdraw slowly, for, should he become fright ened and run, the lion is quite capable of feeling a desire to overtake him and in that case will; even in that case, if the man has presence of mind suffi cient to understand the danger, and do the only thing remaining to be done he may still escape sate and sound For the lion seems oftenest actuated by a half-playful, friendly sentiment and so he does not lose his respect for man—seldom troubles him. Often times he joins and passes the pedes trian, and when at a good distance crouches across his path, watching his approach. If the man has the unfor tunate idea of turning to run away, he is lost, but if he comes on quietly, neither faster nor slower than his usual pace, looking his enemy _ steadily in the face, and showing no signs of fear, he has every chance to escape. The some matters to settle with tribes in the environs of la Calk, I left my troops to return to Constantine, and, followed by only two spaliis, turned my steps toward la Calk. Having started just before day, we arrived about 4 o’clock in the afternoon at the ford of the little river de la Mafrag. Our horses, as well as ourselves, were sadly in want of food and drink, and we stopped to refresh ourselves at a little inn kept by a European, and situated on a low mound two or three hundred yards from the ford. While waiting rr\y r»r»r>oof T sword, laid by my pistols, and, stretched out comfortably in the shade, idly watched a band of Arab women wash ing clothes in the river. All at once I was startled by cries proceeding from the opposite side of a sand-heap bor dering the river, and half a dozen women came rushing into the midst of their peaceable companions, dragging them into the shallow water, and be hind them a magnificent lion, his tail proudly in air, and his great brown eyes looking caressingly from one to the other, raying no attention to their retreat mio the river, ho followed them there, rubbing himself up against them, not seeming to mind, in the least, their cries or terrified gesticulations, and turning, majestically walked away into the mountains from whence he had come. This lion was a stranger in that part of the country, and when on the following day I went in search of him, he had disappeared. Educational Statistics. The commissioner of education has completed his fifth annual report He X has in the present volume discarded all special papers, and confined the con tents strictly to a review of educational work. The report proper covers 152 pages. The commissioner calls atten tion to the intimate relation existing between educational work and com mercial prosperity, and points his allusion by citing the depression affect ing business disaster. He claims for the work performed in his office great value to all economists and politicians as well as to the teacher and publicist. The commissioner states that it is grat ifying to observe the increase of the determination of each state to take, an annual census of the school population. There has been an increase of 164,000 children during the year, and thirty- five out of thirty-seven states report the number of teachers. Thirty-seven states and eleven territories report the public school income, which shows an increase of $1,232,000, but only thirty- five states and nine territories can show their school expenditures. There are enrolled in public schools 8,000,000 pupils, and the average daily attend ance is 4,500,000. The estimated pop ulation between six and sixteen years of age is 10,500,000. The total income of public schools in the states and ter ritories in 1874 was 882,000,000. The total expenditures for the states and territories was 874,000,000. The high est salaries for school teachers reported is accredited to the Cherokee Nation— 8225 monthly for male and 8200 monthly for female teachers. The District of Columbia comes next-— 8113 and 875. Massachusetts shows a greater disproportion—893 and 833. •The expenditures in the year, per not know whether they are adequate to their necessities. One thousand and thirty-one insti tutions of secondary instruction, with 408 more teachers, are reported for 1874, as against 944 in 1873. There were 20,391 students. The diminution in attendance is attributed, in a very large degree, to the financial depression of last year. The effect of business depression is particularly noticeable in the preparatory schools for the superior instruction of women. During the year 563 degrees were conferred upon WGiiieii. Tlicic me nun iii eOiiCgi£ and scientific schools 29,000, and in the preparatory schools 25,000. One of the features of the centennial report will be the publication of a work on libraries and museums in the United States. A Suicide’s Story.—Lotta Mont- ford, an actress, committed suicide at Dallas, Texas, soon after receiving the following letter: Hartford, Ct., October, 1875. Mrs. Nichols: ^ . Dear Madam: You™ enclosed we Amnd $20. Have very little to say, only that your little girl is well, only that she is growing blink like your mother. She has spasms worse than ever, and very often speaks of you, and in her sleeps calls for her little mamma. I am actually afraid she will soon pass away. We bought the tomb stone for your little boy’s grave, and fixed it up nicely. It cost 8187. Mrs. drew on your account, because her husband was out at the far”’ Please do not let her know that I to you. I can’t write much. 1,ow > * 3Ut thought I would let you Know some thing about Sady; I Know what a mother’s feelings are. I wont write any more. Good-bye. From your sympathizing frieiKl^^ ^ Renney. ue nas every cimuee w ~ capita of average attendance in the lion will growl, wag his tail in rather j public schools, are as follows: Massa- a terrifying way, but., allowing the man | chusetts, 820; Ohio, 814; Nebraska, J P o . 1- - i oc ol C . lolovtrl SIX" I VinnCCtlCllt. to pass before him, get up, and, as though admitting to himselt that he had honestly lost the game, go quietly back to his lair. A lion rarely attacks women, and I once witnessed a scene which will go further than the longest explanation toward illustrating this. It was a hot, sultry day in July. The sirocco made the atmosphere dense with sand and f lare; the very earth seemed on fire. was returning from a little expedition on the frontiers of Tunis, and as I haa 818; Khode Island, 818; Connecticut, $19; Vermont, 812; New York, 821; Iowa, 814; Michigan, 815; New Jer sey, 818; Indiana, 814; Illinois, 813; Maine, 810; Maryland, 819; Minne sota, 813; Mississippi, 89; Tennessee, 85; Virginia, 88; Florida, 88; Dis trict of Columbia, 826; Montana, 817; Colorado, 822; Utah, 86; Cherokee Nation, 824. Many states cannot tell the number of their school population, and some have not counted their sittings, and do A Suicide in Character.—At Vil liers-sur-Oise the other day an English actress, known as Mme. Beene—atone time popular in London—committed suicide m the rok of Ophelia. She was sixty-five years of age, and had lived in the above-named little village for the past ten years. She was very sad, but always very kind and good to everybody. Nobody thought of rid iculing her odd appearance and ways_ for it was well known that she had carried a dead love in her heart for nearly half a century. She luul left London years before because her af fianced married another woman. The last part she had played on the London stage with him was Ophelia to his Hamlet, and what news had come to her of him no one knew; but she was found floating under the surface oi the river, her gray head decked out with flowers. Photography in Medical Diag nosis.—The useful applications of pho tography are numerous and varied and their number is constantly on the increase. In a paper recently read be fore the Medical Society of Lower Austria, Dr. Ultzman mentioned, on the authority of Dr. Vogel, that an eruption of small-pox had been made evident by photography twenty-four hours before it actually came out. Al though no one could as yet observe anything on the face of the patient, the negative plate showed stains on the face which perfectly resembled the varioius exanthem, and twenty-four hours afterwards the eruption became f clear) v tiviilwii. PARAGRAPHS OF THE PERIOD. Two children were making most of the day In the sand their castles building, \Vhile out in the harbor the sunset gold Was every vessel gilding. But the sea came over the castle* dear; And the charm of sunset faded; Oh, after a labor is lost, may we Go happily home as they did For we ouild>and build in a different way r _ Till our heads arc wise and hoary: But after it ail the sun goes down, And the sea—'tia « connimii storv’. —Atlantic jaonttutf. A Chicago woman cured her hus band of staving out late at night by go ing to the door when lie came borne and whispering through the keyhole: “Is that you, Willie?” Her husband’s name is John, and he stays at home every night now and sleeps with one eye open and a revolver under his pillow. Wedding journeys, like the practice of making wedding presents, according to the latest fashionable intelligence,, are out of style. Happy and favored young men and women of the day! Fashion, then. n-/' 1,ger requires you - enow of yourselves, and you. can get married m peace. No lost time, no fuss, no crowds, no awkward groomsmen, no chalky bridesmaids, ntyi marching up aisles, no execrable tunes, no splitting gkves, no dropping rings, no kissing parsons, no carriages, no re ceptions, no presews, no journeys, no expenses, «o cards. Welcome and en courages cha o«re., Ii lght (lo one deeu , um little deed before I AiS}*» -Or think one noble thought, that sn„ .i (l Hereafter not forgotten lie, I would not murmur, though I must Be lost in death’s unnumbered dust. That flimsy wing that wafts the seed Upon the careless wind to earth, Of it’s short life lias only need To find the germ fit place for birth. For one swift moment of delight It whirls, then withers out of sight. —F. IF. Bounhllm; The Rev. Mr. Snyder, of Pittsburg,, preached against the sinfulness of over dressing. “How many Christians,’ he asked, “ spend an hour every Sun day morning upon their knees in de votions preparatory to service? Not very many, surely. And yet how many there are who spend a much longer time than this every Sunday morning on their feet before the glass in getting ready for church—there is so much to be done with hoops and folds and ribbons and pullbacks.” Mr. Torr, of Aylesbury, England; recently sold eighty fine cattle for 8214,650, being an average of 82,525 a head. The highest priced beast, Bright Empress, brought 810,800; the other cows sold at §8,000, 87,500, $6,- 000, two at 85,000, and heifers at from 84,000 to 86,000. Here is a self-evident .truth from the Baltimore American: “An American citizen ought at all times consider that casting a vote on election day isRot merely a right or privilege which he may exercise or not at his pleasure or convenience, but that it is also a duty of the most imperative nature. ’ Two seas amidst the night, „ „ nght, In the moonshine roll and sparkle,. Now spread in the silver light. Now sadden, and wail, and darkle.. The one has a billowy motion, And from land to land it gleams; The other is sleep’s wide ocean, Anil the glimmering waves are dreams,: . The one, with murmur and roar, Bears fleets round coast and islet; The other, without a shore, Ne’er knew the track of a pilot. A nice boy of nine years was taken t very sick while visiting a schoolmate in St y va.-.-.-.-v A child’s bed should slope a little from the head to the foot, so that the head may be a little higher than the feet; but never bend the neck to get the head on the pillow. This makes the child round-shouldered, cramps the veins and arteries, and interferes with the free circulation of the blood. Even when a child is several years old the pillow should be thin and made of hair, not feathers. >iek wh— 0 p«,,l Minn., ft few daw since. His friend’? mother found that he required an emetic, and prepared one for him. The lad was suffering terribly, but refused to take the dose, saying., that - “his mama would not like it if he did, . as she was a homeopathist and did not allow him to take allopathic medicine. The lady persisted, and told him; .that ■ he might not get well if he did Snot-: take it. Finally the obstinate young man exclaimed: “Well r I’ll;take• the stuff, but I tell you one thingr-I wont, vomit!”