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itV : ... * s l ptndilowi SSHjf? active, mm ► was Otoed andgar j £ thee otd bttsfi, and lame sad aged g fid, hardened tinsm along! tha Ills that Wa# thee, kplnstuaefe strife; fir, «sme and glory. of ? oft adorn; ! raff time the month 1 its in want sad oare j seen to beer ia kflenee read grim dwpair! rfate’a sEu lashes. horse! The blind mffi horse! fife’s dusty course. r isatin dsspsir, h to end hi* oare. te y e»4*r-t:rj -* j h a rt % Hums. ■1 w i 1 1 ■ '■■■■ LUCK • PENNY. : j J rt » v « i | i « an Australian The bar gold of field. the “JoUyDiggers” *■ Kellarey has Si I -and broken as he -always ^ Wtaa odre to have We little boots re \ ■*e*h*fe d * crowd •oon collects. *-■' O* this particu ' STTfe iipy «Fr*S rtruggie-evsn .old so. . mattwr% Ja oort SS, Oh flare, the crowd lamps •ttd the expresses l in language taa>vQr Jack” tires aftef the tbd and his trinade |fe awtomsr minus onc eye •‘BUT* ScUaray epanta PMHMi Ti on# suddenly ed state «f his rat ■5,. or <: y •#* leather m r -S2 JP, A*' .i r rjss ‘■-4 l *4 -s . 'old Pegged oat an’ sent ’14 kl< The crowd is so tickled with the idea Sgl'he that it ventures upon H a gai, laugh. laugh d eqw p and step eastr^ artufs one answers. ¥ tion. The Little Arrival of the pre¬ vious night plays about the tent door. The* TJihte” fearing haem to her; from his crow -owd of visitors, careftilly defines hisbouadary^ urv, and and threatens dir a pen allies on it ih^ head of any man who Dromon & ' • News, news l—great and glorious news I News which runs like wildfire through the Field, which flies from tent to tent—from the police cells on the Hill to Dutch Joe’s across the xfcTW"|f°P Fist past the Eureka, down to the 7 “*Dog’ Kellarey's .-proverbial bad luck has turned at last—he has bot¬ tomed on the Lead, the new claim has turned up trumps with a vengeance." It is full of gold—specks, specimens and nuggets. : Not nuggets as small as peas, but large as tesenpa. Not here and there, but in a big deep lead, a fortune at every drive of the piek. The Luck-penny, who has been sleeping in the shadow of the tent watehee, and ohnoklee at a piece of glittering mica. In his excitement the “Dog” sings ’er out: ’as done it; there’s “BoysI ’tis the lass that brought me lnok I” w.JSr the JHQFvdAjlSXfa and fortune to its country, a fl a der. Picks snd shovels are thrown down, the roar ef cradles and slnioe-boxM aatii&Rftne i".’<ssr On their arrival “Dog”Kellary says gjf____[* the second time he 0 m t>o4aU out his boundary. He pi^oes hli revolver on the cradle, ^dy to hie hand, and, bless you I ths c^wd understands what he means by that. Xh 8 Luok-penny sucks her thumb 5 When the laat visitor has departed h “ * “ d «<Kinohin I It’s yon as brought the yen, itdoeal” *•“* “• . bla#n#s*of the dashing sky beyond, A happy ^ring breese ronnd corners, v« r y> D18Q kiefwith .Uk hats snd daiatyctorta mkirtling oa * A morning on whioh to fsol thankful (or Qxistenoo. _ItJ. .Mil. m U..1 * wartbjji rr % laali miopro . of luxurious Mary’s Sydney. Church door I find At Si a rge crowd assembled, representing f ety, and, for the first obj the dim idea of the I to witness. In order e doubly sure I question an lady with whose charitable dress suggests institu- oon neotion some tion. 5 ^ t J fX ! At first she inolined to treat my thirst for information with con¬ tempt, hot finally a desire and for gossip overcomes her retioenoe, she oon be Athelwood; not hot that Kel- ’er , ain’t Athelwood. but ~ m’dow’d the - il doin’ ’is last a nut as a babe unborn ■’ bain* that bad, ah P? i*5 ' MS a 1 . - v Mfceer'Wgrecag Mi 6 , ", •* i’s not mind j _______ 'em. _ Hsi» bat I can’t say which on de-Camp to the Governor they do say he is.,J Bat look! loohJ ’ere they rs^^m**** » ijga *sk old swagman was so overcome with astonishment that he kept his eyes staring at the door long after she had passed through it and we . had rushed into the church to see the ceremony, My whole attention was devoted to watching the bride. 1 could not drive her romance out of my head. 8 he went up the aisle a nameless girl, the product of a gold field* and returned, to the tune of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March, a countess and a member of one of the oldest families in Europe, After all the carriages bad rolled away and I was turning to go the old swagman blister! touched my arm, saying: I’m a-goin’ to get yer to do me a favor!” Asking him what it was, be replied: “Let’s go somewhere out of this, yhere we’re alone, aa’I’ll tell yer 1” When he had adjourned to a more fitting place my companion spoke. “1 guess you’d call me a liar if I told you that I was the man as brought up that girl as ws’ve just see married? 'Bnt I am—I’m”Dog’ Kellarey, Lawyer Bure enough, ’im as give *er into Atbelwood’s ’anas twenty year ago, with ’er share of the mine that panned out to rioh.” “Why don’t you go to her then? I hear she’s been hunting high and low for you I” “That’s just it; I know she has. But d’yer think I’m a-gom’ into the company o’the likes o’’er friends? Not me i I’d be makin ! a fool o’ the girl, and she'd be ashamed o’ ’erself. No! dded I’ve tramped close on fourhun miles to see her married, and now I’m a-going back into the Bosk to night for good. I want you to writs this ’ore In a letter for me—it ain’t muoh. Say, ‘Prom “Deg” Weddin’-day,’ Kellarey to ’is Luok-penny in the on ’er ‘I ain’t forgot and pat oorner, yer, mind!’ ” I wrote m he directed, and irolosed —what do you think? A baby’s little woolen shoe 1 The old man had kept this telio as his most sacred treasure for nearly' twenty yearn—Pall Mall * t,»j Forestry In Prance, There is * country* in' tiie world no that pays so muoh attention to the ■cienee of forestry as Fr#noe, and. a non &Q 6 in this par Auglo-IndlaB tioular has long been paid to whioh it byth# kas Government, to r of . its crown cCMege of forestry st Nsney. The French Ministry has for ' ^qI oo s* to gp through pond the there moisest wQl ground> End at every be a tower reservoir with fire engines tiSbEAAa&sRMs longhead The once bare heath, w^h t ili&tid dauM forest bv tiki of Stotn* pine and Another cork by the Government is the proelsms tion that a' preaaitnn' of ton centimes ftmoh damage to the tree*. NoMeseto this offset 1 ; 1 ---- Minted aid and poatod in e nmune village thr ut The humor of annou < in the feat ?&&&$& S: that ZSSSSSr the average number o? Z of Government cockchafers ’V whitih have p worth dkooQts rived at . Whr % ~ tm -r ■ 3 i mpto nr 1 ■ *. A-* -.v/. £ n ;? 5)3 wr-'W officers of h£ressed §0 army and tfcethoijlt- navy c»nM foil tofce with fulness dflfjHayed by those who «*ve ^naed the regulations which govern these servants of the public. SELECT SHTOttS. Spiders are never idle. China raises almost all the world s “ 514 The world’s tunnels stretch miles. * ■* The first Welsh Bible was published in 1588. The Chinese have a god for accident. every disease and a god for every in Horseshoes have been found tombs that date back to the sixth cen¬ tury. * . placed . the Electric lights were on Thames embankment, London, in 1879. '* The first known sculpture and paintings were made in Egypt 2100 years B. C. The French have introduced coffee culture in Tonquin with good pros pects of success. An elephant is fifty to sixty years in attaining maturity, and will live a century and a half. Several of the South Sea Islands have a spgoies of mulberry tree from which eroth is mado.. It is estimated that one of the lar¬ gest stones in the Pyramids weighs folly eighty-eight tons. British In 1879 a committee of the Parliament reported ^unfavorably on electric light for towns. British coach and. carriage builders import from America their choicest spokes, hubs and riba for wheel manu¬ facture. ; A fish caught and thrown on iue bank will rarely fail, when endeavor¬ ing to escape, to jump in the direction of the water. The existence of only two copies of the first edition of the “Pilgrim’s Progress,” which was issued in 1678, are known. Both are in England. A body of Sahara troops is to be raised by France for service in her arid African possessions, wheie the heat isiatal to French soldiers. The Anglo-Saxon word boc signifies a beech tree. Before paper came into general use the wood of this tree, be¬ ing olose-tgrained, was used to write upon, and from this fact comes the word book. Nearly all the Belgian block* used for paving in cities in the United States come from Stone Mountain, Georgia, a solid mass of gtanite which still contain* billion* of cubic feet of stone and is practioally inex¬ haustible. There is now living in Detroit, well Mich., a retired burglar who was known to the police of two continent* twenty years ago. He has been an .honest man for that length of time. His fortune, gained entirely by steal¬ ing, ia estimated to be $ 100 , 000 ; At a cost of $12,500,000 Manches¬ ter, England, is just completing whioh Thier- s sys¬ tem of water supply English by lakes ia mere, one of the Cumberland County, ninety-five miles .away, has been dammed and water supplied to the city of the best quali¬ pr^b* ty in quantities sufficient for all able needs. • Character la the Face. “Have you ever notioed how certain. callings in fife seem to impress them¬ selves on'the faces as well as the g*it* of those .who follow them?” aeked John H. Smalley,-of Providence, B. I. “We can understand how the sailor cannot discard hia Soiling walk when on shore, and a peculiarity of gait ia noticeable in the jockey, the oowboy and the trainman for the same reason. But how can the facial characteristics observable in some craftsmen be so counted lor? The tailor has a dis¬ tinctive type of face. I think it is due to the fact that ha Works his Jaws in time witk his shears. Watch one cut¬ ting a piece of olotk, and yon trill see that the Jaws and shears keep exact time. Nearly all jockeys and grooms have a. peouliar sat of the mpi\th and chin, whioh gives to the physiogno¬ oafy, mist an uhfaiHng index to their ing. The dull ««rg»to>t shows com¬ mand in the mouth and eye; the horseman shows it ia the eye 'Ovs brakeman has a visage of hit own; so pro-emotul piU, htt » Mb. fnoe. The crook ean be told by his facial oharacteristios on tight * skilled, thief-taken d e t e ean cti ve, oome and nearly some ti e J m /X - 1 .oeam t - Zen *7* . SHOPS. : - JPBXB Mtolbnr* FOB amt AH© JTAVT OFJrxOBBS. na&s&BL 8©£S* ^PEaufelgfo which do not depend upon the Washington public for patronage or profit. There are no signs above {heir doors, their windows do not con tain the regulation glass vessels filled with colored fluids, and soda-water fountains .do not tempt persons with nickels and cast-iron stomachs to enter. " ’ Uncle Sam is the proprietor of these queer shops. It may not be generally has known that this famous character been in the drug business a great many years. He set up his Washington shops long before the present the genera- city, tion took up its residence in and from present indications he will be doing business “at the old stand,” or equally uninviting ones, when the n£xt generation comes upon the scene, The officers of the army and navy stationed in Washington and the members of their families are thq sole patrons of these dispensaries, By virtue of liberal regulations officers of the army and navy are re lieved of that burden of doctors’ bills which sometimes makes the life 0 f the private citizen one of vexation, When a member of an officer’s family ‘is taken ill, a telephone message will summon an army or navy surgeon, a prescription, which does not require a monetary accompaniment, is made on t and sent to the army or navy dis pensary, and the procesa of killing or curing goes on without any worriment on the part of the officer or hjs wife concerning the financial aspect of the ca8e . go long as medical care is re¬ qnired, the paid medical servant of Unde Bun sees that it is not lacking, Medicines for the naval establish ment are purchased at the United states naval laboratory at New York, under the direction of the Bureau of Medicine 'and Surgery. When the director of the laboratory desires a supply of medicines, he oalls the at tension of the burean to his needs, and tbe bureau invites proposals from firat-claaa dealers. The expenses of the naval establishment for medicines alone will not exceed $6000 or $3000. There who are about 1000 ijr Washing¬ ton oome under the provisions of 1 the army medical regulations. This large number is due to the fact that this is the principal ■ sta¬ tion in the oonntry, requiring the ser¬ vices W many- officers, and that a large proportion of the officers have families. It should be stated here that the practioeof furnishing medical attendance to the families of officers grew out of the conditions surround-, ing army life at frontier posts, where civilian physicians are unknown. The method of supplying and there medicines is simple, yet effective, does not appear to be muoh opportunity for any offioex to aoeumulete a stock of medicines' '“for household uses” at Unde Sam’s expense. When one of the physicians writes a prescription it is taksn to the dispensary, where the attending with all the pharmaoist whioh oomponnds should attend it oare ■urih an operation.-. Thestook of medi oinea on hand is considered to be am pig. The apartment in whioh the medicines are stored is not unlike an ordinary drug atom The pharmacist hear* department in the rear, while the steward presides at the oounter *“d keeps Isrfeasible aoarefol eye on the stock, for bs for It. condition and must make requisitions when it depletion, w *»W7 pwacnptwn is numbered, and «Wed the oonfuU of a name idle e* si to it, end then amide a memoraedum happens be to tike physician If who to preaent. the latter deeldee thafthe preeaription may be WaarWfd, the bottle is reflllec tor any reipon the physician demure, ex¬ planations follow. It dill be seen that as be stock of drugs; at * ild coon be depleted. of nature to of toe army are e laid aside this mtijem |Via i;4 m _ is ' . .r,.m ’ 3 0 n. Massachusetts has 107$» wjdew*. Black toilets are. very fashionable, Antelope skin is the newest novelty for Cbieal po lioo^ matrons, witfc^a bend matron oyer alL Women gardeners are in great de¬ mand in England and fcteirmaiy. - There are 43,000 more women than male inhabitants in New York State. Small fruits appear among the hat and bonnet garnitures of. the season. Mi»w Lorane Mattioe ha a been elect¬ ed a Trustee of the JLowa Industrial Home for the Blind. More women are employed England in Gov¬ ernment positions in than anywhere else in the world. The present season is a popular one for ostrich feather*, the number worn on stylish hats being very great. Mai watohin, in Mongolia, is the only city in the world where no. woman lives. It is a Chinese traders’ city. Mrs. Yance is busily engaged on a biography of her husband, the late Senator Vance, of North Carolina. Mrs. Carolina Haskill has given $ 20,000 to found a chair of compara¬ tive religion in the Chicago University. In Morocco the face of a bride is painted white and red, and her hands and feet are dyed yelloyr with henna. Black plumes are arranged among colored trimmings of every sort on fashionable hats, whatever the shape maybe, It has come to light through statis¬ tical investigation that more than fifty per cent of the Vassar graduates nevei marry.'- .! « ; Mrs. E. Lynn Lynton’s new novel left it dedicated “to the sweet girls still among ns who have no part in the new revolt” New Zealand women, having Been accorded the right to vote, now de¬ mand the privilege of serving in Par¬ liament. There is said to be 0 revival in fa¬ vor of the old-fashioned names for grrls, spoh as Sarah, Ann, M a rth a, Jane, etc. The Princess of Wales and Midi An¬ nie Paterson, of Dublin, are the only honorary musical doctors in the United Kingdom. Nine ladies were snooessfal in ing the recent examination of ths London Sanitary Institute foe inspec¬ tors of noisanoes. In Europe middle during the early yearn al¬ of the ages no woman was lowed to appear in church unless her face was oovered withayeU,: 1 ; Mrs. Hoke Smith, .wife of. the Sec¬ retary of tljo Interior, caller. is said to be an indefatigable She reoOntiy made 1000 oalls in two weeks.' laaTbnArtffs Amoi^. washable wool fabrics for ivory or oream white and a color. A ftew Norwegian law-makes girla ineligible fox matrimony goiUms they ioj i;V' Mo., Mias hmrtecnootnmissiooediannfary Margaret McBride, of to Among summer tints ‘fear evening pale rose color ahd honeysnokle ydllow vie with eaeh other, and often appeal together,in shot fabrics or teimmmgs. Shepherd’s-cheok fabrics in silk ttiiite* sp^ pear not only brown, in black and oream and eta., btet i in• every vanpty of eoloronlight-huOdgronads. ri The Bail way Oemmiesioners of, Yim tor U e pWaJ mVihg of fully ■ $56,M0 by women ia charge of raliwey ststlowA, ic< Dz. Maud J. Frye, of Buffalo, N. Y.* iafa-^pr^attoadAntS fdr WtoVahaotmto and One of the remarkable msiiifqsie aaan of fashion, . and the Mae duck ______ costa with white, blaek, or red, thi-fqrvran,.weah« 1 female jENemeChBob ’ J - £1 lawyer to app * * SSS& .•he,. •,-to fw It *