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rilE DEATH or THE rAITHriJfc IHH- JACK. BT BET. OLITFR OBih'K, . . 7 biu seated in my study, Brain is thick and thoutfUt is muddy,. Every nerve i* on the rack; Fain would I write glib and gladly* But we all arc fooling badly, We are mourning aore and nadly, Mourning over faithful Jack. Jack la dead I the good old fellow, Grizzled, red and white and yellow. Foe to foe* and friend to friends; True, he had a trick of snooping, Nosing round, and sometimes swooping Down araoug the bens, then stooping, Grouching meek to make amends. Jt was .Sunday he v. • taken. All day loug he looked fors&keu, Bcarcdy uttering a sound; Vet ail right we l-ard him barking. Though It teemed n'>t worth remarking, Foaalb j aomedog huh larking- • Marking sly or jrowliug round. But the dog was Hiclt and dying. W next morning found h m lying, Brenthuig quick un<l heavily; B >me sod he wa- mad and shunned him, r. that one had struck and htunnod him. Hut there 'ay dog and sunned him-- Sunned huu, but in agony. Wliad I rpolie he er med to know me, L-o: e l uud ti led ho ha:d to show me That ho recognized me still, Thu? I could not he p but pity, Y-11 knew, in all the city, Not a person, wise or witty, Court arviat w ith drug or pill. Quivered he an aspen quiver*, Or as boy half-lro/en Hliivera. With the fleet full in his face: Ilf was p ioned, none could rtoufot it;. None who f-aw him writhe would aeont U, lint I did not want to flout it. For what man could be so bao7 But the dog was growing weaker, With a piteous, kinder, inenkor J,ook which cauuot l>e forgot; Yet. as now he last w up falling, And aa hope wa unavailing, lliough it csus<ml n hoc ret quailing, I, reluctant, had him shot. So he died, and consequently - - For We could not keep him gently lie was buried with regret; Done and **d the coachman wheeled mm, For unwheeled so man could wield him, And where waving oaV trees shield him There was buiied Jack, tbs pet. Do you wonder we are. lonely? Whore be kenneled now Is only Hileuce. imdlsturb'tl and deep; Me was alwMye glud b* gr'et ufi, Always waiting round b> meet us. And, when racing, sure to best iui— Boat us and ahead would keep. But no more will Jack attend uk, Watchfully no m-.ro defend us, Day smt night iroin tr.;nip and thief; Done is now the barn and stable - Always tlu'.re when he wa* able, \ i MHU'd from hia maatei s table lie is gone and vve in grief. Farewell Jack, who uw attendoti, Farewell now, thy days arc ended. Now with ul! tin- w.u Id at imace; There no pest will ti er infect time, ’fhere no 100 will e'er molest thee, There In'peaceful eluuibor rest thee. Till eternal gca ■ ! Doubtful Acquaintances. “It is very remarkable,” said my uncle, as Mr. Gregory left the room. “It is very mysterious," said Lily, with strong emphasis on the ndverl). “To me,” observed an elderly lady boarder, “it appears to be something worse than mysterious; and, without fnaking any assertions, 1 would at least 6aution you, my dear, against any closer intimacy with one who seems so often to be possessed of information in a manner of which there is no conceivable natural explanation.” “It reminds me most,” said the Rev. Mr. Briggs, “of certain eases, un doubtodly well authenticated, in which the existence of the so-called ‘ second sight' lias been demonstrated in a very singular manner.’ “And,” added iny uncle, “although many of the professors of Spiritualism have been proved impostors, it by no means follows that all ” “Yes, yes,” broke in our Indy friend, “but we all know that people once lmu dealings with familiar spirits, and I novgr could find any proof that tins kind of thing lev- ever ceil tod, aim therefore, as I haul before, 1 very strongly caution you - “ Hush !” cried several voices, 11 Hero ho comes.” My uncle, my Cousin Lily and I wore staying at a hoarding-house at the sea ride, and among a somewhat numerous coiunauy was a certain Mr. Gregory, We had made his acquaintance oil the night of our arrival m a rather conical manner. He was passing our room just as Lily was calling to me in a tone of woful despair that site had broken the key in the lock and could not get out. Tlirough the key-hole hehad voluuteored his services as an amateur lock-picker, and released us from our imprisonment. This introduction had served quite as well as a much more formal one would have done to inaugurate what promised to boa pleasant seaside acquaintance. Now on first sight he certainly present ed very little appearance of being a sus picion- or dangerous character. Ho was a young man of some 25 years of age, with a bright, frank expression and a gleam of mischief in his eyes. Ho was exceedingly intelligent and well in formed, and, though rather retiring in tile mixed company ot our establish ment, could, we discovered, sing well, rend well and talk well. Without in truding himself iqmu ns, he had made hituself very agreeable to us two girls ; and wo had surmised that no was a young professional man suffering from over-work, who had come down to re cruit his health. But wo are often warned against judging from appear ances, and he had during the past few days manifested a very remarkable l<ower of clairvoyance or second sight, u ‘ -whatever else you like to coll it, which had ceootod , sensation among ns. On tho previous day, for instance, my rncle ha-1 met a gentleman at the sta tion and had brought him home to din ner. We saw them walking slowly up the garden together in conversation, and Lily had exclaimed: " Who on earth is this?” Mr. Gregory looked and said ? “ His name is Smith, and lie is return ing to town by the midnight train.” “ You know himf’ “ Never saw him in nay life before,” was the answer. Sure enough his name proved to l>e Smith, and he returned to town that night after a long private interview w itli my uncle ; nor had he, he told us in answer to our inquiries, ever soon or heard of Mr. Gregory before. On Saturday morning, als<\ the Rev. Mr. taking a walk on Uiv lsvieh, meditating on his Sunday text, had en countered Mr. Gregory, who volunteered information as to the said text, with chapter and verse all correct, t-s tle petrifaction of the reverend gentlemen. On another occasion, when our elder ly lady friend mentioned tii.it she had been out making a small purchase, Mr. Gregory informed us foMo c** that a bottle of hairwash constituted the pur chase in question. Thi- ♦"lupumioation was very unfortunately overhea'xL Its correctness ws> not at tin- time definite- S established, but it war shortly hi h r ia that she first propounded her own {'articular theory on the subject, which the put forward with renewed confidence in the conversation given above, after a fresh display of the unholy phenomenon is she called it This whs the occasion thereof. Mr. Briggs had lieoa seen coming up the walk in great glee witty a parcel under his arm. “ What has ho got there ?” said sc me one. “All the works of Josephus for Jlen peuce,” replied Mr. Gregory. i Immediately afterward Mi. Brij'gs 1] entered the room and said to the cc m pany: “ What do you think I have -just bought?” to which the general response / was: “ All Josephus for tenpence.” . It turned out that he had just fer- J reted it out from a second-hand book- 11 stall. When questioned about his mysterion* ! ; powers, Mr. Gregory always became very serious, and gave no information, lad changed the subject as soon m pos- Bible. *’l In consequence of all this, interest, . curiosity, uneasiness, and even alarm, j were iu varying degree* excited in thm i breasts of the several metrel>ors of our t company. .Most of the ladies declared that they were daily expecting some thing serious to happen. That those •xpeetatious were not altogether unftil- . tilled will now lie made plain. There were two new arrivals on thrv t .lay on which our story opens. Our company hud hitherto been pleasant and select, but the lady and gentleman who- ' now came among us, and who wore, named Mr. and Mrs. Grice, wore excep tions to this. Hhowily dressed, anil loud. ' in their conversation, they made great efforts to mix with ease in our company and for some inscrutable reason seemed . to make special endeavors to become intimate with our own party; Mr. Grice y attacking my uncle, arid las wife devot- : ing herself to ns. We were at, no pains to conceal our'! aversion to their ill-mannered and offen sive intrusion, but they accused deter mined to accept uf) rebuff. Lily said that we had met here the most pleasant and. tiu; most unpleasant jiersons whom we. had evt.l seen in our travels. The former class, I presnuae, mainly embraced Mr. Gregory. Ever since Mr. Hmith's visit on the* previous day, my uncle had seemed to> lie on usually worried and anxious.. Bomething had happened at the office, it appeared, widen caused him very groat uneasiness, and he kept a constant watch for the post. Lily and I wero troubled about it, but wero hardly pre pared for his sudden aiinounoonient at luncli next day, upon receiving a letter from towii, that we must pack p t at once and return by the first morning train. Wo hud no obfeotion to escape firom ♦be Grices, but, innpite of Mr. Gregory’* ill-repute for his mysterious arts, tore were very sorry to leave him, to iiay nothing of the abrupt and unexpected termination of our holiday. The Grices were sitting next to us.. when my Uncle made this announce ment, and 1 saw a peculiar look of Big- • nifinance pass between them. Mr. ; Gregory was sitting at the other end of u long dining-talde, and quite out of ear-shot, but ho came up immediately after we rose from the table, and said: “Avery sad thing, this sudden depart ure of yours ! ” “Mr. Gregory,” I replied, “you are perhaps aware tiiat you are under gruvo suspicions of being in league with the powers of darkness, and thin is another proof. How could you jiossildy know?” “ Oh, ill news travel# fast,” he said* laughing. “But it is a very hot after noon, what do you say to a little rend- I ing?” Lily here squeezed my arm vigorously, but 1 answered, “ 1 fear my uucle wilt not lei ns go out of bis sight. Ho feels ' it bis duty to keep special guard over us wliilo we are in such dangerous com pany." “ Never mind,” he said, “ I will road to him as well.” We were now in (he corner of the drawing-room, uear a window looking out on to a covered balcony which over looked the garden. My unde ciuuo npuud returned Mr. Gregory’s courteous greet ing in a maimer which was, 1 fear, not very gracious. “ May I tremble you for the paper after you, sir? ” lie said, “Certainly,” was the answer. “Hut may we not enjoy it all together? With your permission 1 will road aloud to the company.” My uncle looked considerably aston ished at this unusual proposal. Lily looked up with opou eyes and curious expression, this living not exactly the kind of rending she had intended. But the offer was seriously made and re pented, and my uncle, who doorly liked being read to, gave a dubious consent. Miss Lily, with filial affection, made him particularly comfortable in an arm chair, and Mr. Gregory commenced reading a long, prosy article on French politics. He read with anything but his usual spirit, and in a soft, low, monoto nous voice. The consequence was—as hail possibly been not wholly unforeseen -that my uncle wo# soon enjoying his accustomed afternoon siesta, The read ing, having become gradually slower and softer, now ceased, ami the reader, look ing up, suggested by a slight gesture an adjournment to the garden. Lily and T tried to smother our laugh ter and look shocked, but we adopted tin' suggestion. A book of poetry was quickly produced, and I found that there is a difference between hearing French politics read iu a stuffy drawing room to a middle-aged gentleman, and hearing “ Enoch Anton ’read in a cool, shady alcove, to a pretty, dark-eyed, lovable maiden, with tender bosom lieav >n in sympathy with poor Enoch's sor rows, especially wneu tm ,odot in a handsome young bachelor, with an ex quisitely-modulated voice, able to do lull justice to the harmonious numbers of the Laureate. At the end of half an hour I was startled by au exclamation from Lily. Looking up, I saw iu the garden below, •itting on a scat under the trees with their faces toward us, oar dear friend*, Mr. and Mrs. Grice. The gentleman woe keeping up, ap parently, a desultory conversation with his wife. They waved their hands on witching ear eye, and beckoned to us to come and join them, which we did not do. Mr. Gregory, instead of going on with Uis reading, continued to regard them intently, and asked us whether we knew them. We said, “No," "But they seem to know yon," he .aid. We explained how ;hey had favored ns with their attention* To our disap pointment, he oould not be induced to goon with his reading, but he cot iqmad to star,' at the tijd fori' ’.til* ; and whim at last'thef strolled offinauTi rent directions, he said tliat he must apolo gize for hurts# nu ppnjg4ttepit, tndtt) .it vs rihriiptly. ""A s’tenge y-iif)g man, indeed! ’’ we thought, and wo w,nv :Ft! tnoro surprised when in about an hour he ri-turued, and asked my uncle ■ hi allowed a short private oou\ ensa w.tk him. My unde s<*cinid • ‘..rt'ed a: this request (and so, by the ! mu 1 , did Jiily) but after a short pause he u and the way into an a'joining ajtart -1 ue conversation which ensued, as we j subsequently learned, was as follow* ; “Ism about, sir,” said Mr. Gregory, ‘ * to refer to your private affairs to an ex tent which will surprise you, but 1 hop* (to bo aide to render you a service which will be an ample excuse for my intrusion. You are. I believe, returning to town to morrow?" “Yes.” “ Tho cause of your return is, I be lieve, connected with the forgery of a certain check in your name. ” “ Sir, how can you i*>ssibly know that?” “ That check was brought to you for i your Inspection three days ago by ouo | of the clerk# from ttie bank, a Mr. Huntli, and it is now in your riossession.” My uncle was speeclik-s#. “ Hear me further. The accuracy ot : my statements hitherto may claim cre dence for what I nm ateiut to atlinu. | Unless I am greatly mistaken, there are now in this establishment two persons who have been employed to regain pos i session, at ail c >sts, of that forged paper. They suspect that you have it, and al ready your room and your daughter and niece’s room have been searched, and it only remains to seurehyour person.” My uncle turned pale. “It is known that you are leaving to morrow morning, anil the attempt will be made between now and then. Will you allow me to offer you my advice ?” I will not attempt to describe my re spected uncle’s condition of body and mind at this part of the interview. Suf fice it to say that the proffered advice was ultimately adopted. On that evening my uncle declined to accompany us when, an hour after din ner, the house emptied on to the prom enade. Mr. Gregory also was missing, and had not. appeared at dinner. The ltov. Mr. Briggs took us under his care. My unde was already nodding in his clmir as we went out. Twenty minutes afterward two of the company softly re entered the room. This 1 hod from an eye-witness. Their names were Mr. and Mrs. Grice, Mrs. Grice stood at the door ami her husband advance*! gently across the floor to where my uncle lay back in his chair, snoring audibly, his handkerchief over his head, liis coat thrown opou, and a pocket-book just showing in his breast-pocket. Mr. Grice crept up to him, abstracted tho book with a practiced hand, put it into his own pocket, and turned to go. Now, as he re-crossed the room, he had to lyiss before a large lounge, with long bangings in front, and ho was, per- Iraris, somewhat surmised to find his ■ankles seized in the firm grip of a pair of hands thrust out suddenly from un der tho lounge. As he full, his amiable partner turned round—into the arms ol a detectivo officer. At the same mo ment, Mr. Gregory entered through the window from the balcony. “This is your pooket-liook, sir," said one of the detective*. “Thank you,” said my uncle. “It has nothing iu it, but I um glad to have it buck again.” Mr. and Mrs. Grice were removed at once to another public establishment In tho neighborhood, where the company was very select, tho hour# very regular, and manitonunoe very cheap —a style of •stablisnniont which it wa* subsequent ly proved they had frequented in more than one part of tlie country. Auiid considerable excitement we promenaded late that night. My unole said “ You have rendered me a service, sir, which lays me under the deepest obliga tion to you. I have no doubt tbatf'the original delinquents, of whom these creatures are only the tools, will be brought to justice. Finding that we are on their track, they have made this effort to destroy their guilt, and provont us from submitting it to experts. Tlmuks to you, they have failed. I cun only say how welcome will be any op portunity of making any return to you, however alight.” “ I shall certainly take you at your word, sir,” was the answer. “And now, Mr. Gregory,” continued my unole, “will yon nardou our curiosity if wo teg you ti) toll us the menus by which you were able to divine the in tentions of onr departed friends ?’’ “Oh, Mr. Gregory," cried Lily, “you must toll us. We arc ou thorns to know, and will do anything in the world you like to mention if you will toll us." “Ou those terms I consent,” said he, with a curious look at Lily, which made her suddeuly blush very much, as I could see oven in the moonlight. “You may have noticed,” begau Mr. Gregory, “that I am somowhat deaf, and I have teen much more so. In couauqnenco of this I have acquired the art, which I believe almost auy oue can aequiro, of reading the movements of tho lips iu the same way that the deaf and dumb are taught to do,, so that I can always understand what people say if only tliey are within seeing distance; and my soeiug is very acute. I need hardly say that 1 avoid over-seeing con versation, if you w ill allow the expres sion, as much as I would over-hearing it ; but I frequently see people fqieak a few words on accidentally glnuoing at them. I think that what has puzzled you will uow be plain. Perhaps 1 ought "to contest that I have yielded a little to tlio temptation of mystifying ttie com pany during the last week, especially in tho case ol Mr. Briggs, who has, like many people who have lived a good deal alone, a habit of talking to himself as he goes along, w liieli he is scarcely aw are of. This afternoon, however, V watched ttie Urlvu in good earnest. I was very much astonished at wUat f smv. Your sudden departure lmd disarranged their plans, mid they had a full discussion of past and future operations. It was not at all a bad idea to hold their delitera tious before your very eyes, so as to keep up their watch ou your movements aud disarm suspicion, blit they hail taken no precautions against being overseeu. The rest you know.” •'Du- how about the purchase of the hair-wash, that sad proof of occult art?” 1 said. “Oh, that had nothing to do with it. I was in the shop, licing shaved, and I saw the transaction in a looking-glass.” Later still, when m.v uncle had gone in, I heard him quietly say; “So you will do whatever I like to mention?” But those wools were not addressed to me, and I judged it best to fall into the rear, anil, having no gifts of clairvoy ance myself, I cannot tell you the rest of the conversation. I eau only add that our re turn was postponed, and that shortly after these events NTr. Gregory* 7t gain requested a private conversation with my uncle; that he had again souis revelations to make concerning a oon spiru _y of two, male ;.ad to mule, in tins case also; and that shortly after tho first tour of conspirators had lieou “ sent need for life ’ by one of her Majesty’s Judges, a similar sentence was pronounced upm the other pour by the Rev. Mr. Bi gg<, Tun Philadelphia .Y< believes that death lurks iu boiled cabbage. Bake ’em U you want to be sate. GLASS ROUSES. rW Britt]* BfilMUw.es> R*tl*r iter Manil las Pnrram lluta *■. [Pitukarg Diipfiich.) Perliajis not on builder or contractor in ten, if told that the common grade# of glass mode at the glass factories in this city have a crushing strength nearly four times as great a* that credited by experienced engineer* to the strongest quality of granite, would accept the statement as true. Yet it is a fact, and being so, tho query as to why glass has not received more attention from archi tects a* a structural material naturally suggest* itself. A rejiortor had a talk with several prominent glass manufac turers on the subject, and in answer to an interrogatory as to whether blocks of glass could lie made in suitable lengths and sizes and so annealed as to be util ized in the construction of a building in place of stone, they raid it could be done. Said oue of these gentlemen : “ This question has been consider-d by myself a number of times, and, although l do not want to advocate the absolute rI lolition of brick and stone, yet iu the erection of art galleries, memorial build ings, etc., a structure composed of blocks of glass in prismatic colors would be a unique, beautiful and lasting structure. With the numerous inven tions which have come into use of late years in connection with the production of glass, the cost has teen gradually going down, while tho quality of the fabric ia steadily becoming better. “ One objection which would be raised to the durability of a glass house, in the literal sense of the word*, might be that the blocks would not take a bind, or ad here together with common mortar. This objection can be readily set aside by the use of a good cement, aud when completed the structure wiil stand for ages, barring extraordinary accidents. As to the cost of a gluss house, it eon he kept down to a small percentage above the price of our cut granite. In build ing with stone you have to pay the stone masons, and when it cornea to elaborate examples of carving in Corinthian pil lars, collars, capitals, etc., why the work is rather costly as compared with glass, when the latter can be molded into any •shape or form, and the work accom plished in much less time. I am con vinced that the time will come when we will eeo such a building erectod. Scarcely a day passe* but what the sphere of glass as an article of use becomes widened. In parts of Germany and on one lino in England glass ties are being used ou railroads, and thus far have given satis faction, combining all of the requisites of wooden ties with the virtue of being susceptible to usage at least twenty-five per cent, longer than wood. Then by tho Hastra process glass articles are now being made for common use which can he thrown on the floor and will rebound like a rubber ball. Progress is also being made towards rendering glass, which has ever been characterized as the brittle fabric, ductile, and to-day threads of glass can be made that can be tied in knots and woven into cloth. Were one disposed to give play to fancy and fuse it into fact, a house entirely composed of glass could be built with walls and roof and floors fashioned from melted sand. Carpets of glass could cover the floors. The most ultra esthete, sit! ing ou glass chairs or reclining on glass couches, arrayed in glass garments, eat ing and drinking from glass dishes, such a oue could realize that the age of glass hod come. Yet nearly all of this fifty yearn ago would have been classed with the then impossible telephone aud elec tric light, aud this statement would have likely found its in the ‘Catalogue Expnrgatoros.’ ” riIEAP LIVING IN GERMANY. Uft- U llurri. but There Are <oiu(tion>. (rll Mail Oftz4tt.J I woe spending some months in an ani mated, prosperous, and learned little town where I could with difficulty uuder dand the general com{ilaiuts as to the increased cost of liviug Riuee the war. Many things were fabulously cheap. The difference in the market value of labor, whether manual or intellectual, between Germany, France and England, is enormous. Here we come to the gist jf the matter, the real grievance of Ger man life, the pinching of the sliov from one end of the Vaterhuid to the other. Lessons, not only in music, but in lan guages, arts, and science, cost in the town I mention Is. fid. or 2s. an hour, and yet the teachers are proressors of credit and respectable position in society; in foot, their position is an acknowledged one, which can hardly he said of certifi cated teachers of botli sexes in England receiving three times as much. The pro fessorial fee in Germany is so low for the simple reason that nobody can afford to •pay a higher one; but no one dreams of looking down on the professor in Gotise queneo. Again, take the newspaper de livered at your door daily for 6d. a month, a respectable litile paper too, containing the most important telegrams from all parts of the world, a good deal of local information, and a really excel lent literary supplement on Sundays. Where is the profit in such a transac tion? How can priming, papier, and manual, not to speak of editorial, labor, bo remunerated at such a rate? I will here cite an incident I can vouch for which would seem to show that authors in Germany must have n bad time of it. An English writer of established reputa tion had undertaken to write a pajior on George Eliot for one of the most popu lar and best conducted German periodi cals. At the eleventh hour, however, tin* arrangement fell through, the pro prietors informing the English corres pondent that, in spite of a circulation of upward of 100,000 copies, the profits were too small to pay tlieir authors—at least, all ! When you come to manual labor we find the scale of payment ex traordinary low. The cost of day labor w two shillings, whereas in French agri cultural districts it is four, with tbe ad dition of wine. Call in a carpenter to do repairs, send your trunk to be mended, yonr boots to be soled, you will find the scale of charge* in each ease about half whi :it is with us. Of course it is easy to understand crfcv an economi cal style of liviug should Vie obligatory on all classes throughout Germany, and why so many workers in all fields seek their fortunes elsewhere. Work, ill re munerated as it is, ciin often not be had; large families abound, and the excessive taxation presses on the poorest. Even the 1-eggar who pays for a weekly lodg-* ing, and has a certain whereabouts, con tributes his rnife to the dreaded “Stoner, ” or tax, no more to be escaped than the even more dreaded military pro bstion. Ye*, life is hard in Germany— hard alike to learned and simple, to those who labor in the fields or pent up in office; but there aie consolations. All who live among German folks must be struck Tit the manly dignity and resigna tion with which these daily problems are met. Wk take lessons in art literature—a thousand tilings; but that high sense of honor, man’s obligation to man, is for gotten. GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. A ttakt Tale. Rh ffu waiting at the tattle*, Wber* tho tnowy-plpme<i clematla Translated *cr her gratis What the breeze* sung and sighed; Arid the dainty tenderneaeee Of the sunbeam* on her traasi * I.eft her traced in the care**e* Of the golden morning tida. The linnet* were a-oooing, And the and rap per bee* a- Wooing, And the dew* wera intenrtawlnf All tha flower covered t^a; While lightly from the dingle The zephyr, lone and single, Game up to intermingle m the leaf-entangled maze. Bhe wait* another coming, Ifer heart it* riches tumming, Till suddenly a drumming From the gravel walk arose. A hope triumphant filled her, And clear the word* that thrilled her; *• Look here, you Jane Matilder— Come and knuckle them ar olothee l ” Women Who If allow Ue Honnd*. Many French ladies are exceedingly fond of the hunt. The Duchess d’Uzes keeps a pack of hound* and follows them fearlessly. The Com teas l'Agle is an intrepid horsewoman, and has not missed, save on rare occasions, being iu at tho death of the stag, and Madame Benoit Champy one day, in the absence of her husband from their chateau, mounted on horseback and conducted the pack of boar hounds to the meet. She gave the huntsman orders to lay the hounds on, and followed the hunt from the start to the finish, being present when the wild boar was brought to bay and killed by a bullet by the head keep er. Women us Auudlord*. It in well that no occasion should be lost of testing the commonplace that men are harder than women. Irish tenants are said to have found that the reverse of this is nearer the truth. Speaking of the cases settled at Ballina, the Times correspondent says that they were ex treme cases, and the fact that the land bus been in the possession of a lady did did not diminish the risk of rack-rent ing. On the contrary, it may be said, without any disparagement of the gen tler sex, that, in many instances, they have been found the most severe and exacting of all proprietors, who enforce their claims with uncompromising strict ness. A Hcaulil'ul Hnnil, A beautiful band is au excellent tiling in wornaD; it is a charm that never fails, it is a means of fascination that never disappears. Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave when a beautiful face has long since vanished or ceased to enchant. The expression of the hand, too, is inexhaustible; and when the eyes we may have worshiped no longer flush or sparkle, the ringlet* With which we have played are covered with a cap, or, worse, a turban, and the symmt trical presence which, in our son nets, lias reminded us so often of ante lopes and wild gazelles, have all, all vanished, tho hand, the immortal hand, defying alike time and care, still van quishes aud still triumphs; and small,soft and fair, by au airy attitude, a gentle pressure, or a uow ring, renews with untiring grace the spell tiiat bound our enamored and adoring youth.— Disraeli. Wmlern Women, Perhaps the most striking character istic of the women of the West is the even undue importance they place on the intellectual life. It is a natural re sult of the early deprivations of the parents who, in going to anew country, relinquished the educational privileges of the East, and to whoso receding visions the opportunities of schools, libraries, art galleries and social culture were blessings that brightened as they took their flight. As an almost invari able sequence, thoir children were reared to consider these the very essen tials of life. The mother might neces sarily be confined to a life limited in its realizations but infinite iu its aspira tions, and out of this grew the feeling that the daughter should enjoy thoso privileges denied to herself. Thus tire present generations of the women of the West are the ones who recruit the intel lectual ranks. —Boston 'lVavetter. Woman's Sclf-Macritice. “Oh, no, he never beats me,” said Julia Connors, trying to look the Judge straight in the face. “ Martin gets fussy and noisy sometimes, and perhaps he pushes me around a little, but never any assault, sir.” “The officer says he saw your hus band strike you on the shoulder, and then you struck him in the face with your fist." The woman dropped her eyes, lingered her shawl nervously for a moment and then looked up, fixed her black eves calmly upou the court and said : “The officer is mistaken. Martin put his hand upon my arm and spoke to me a little cross about something, and then I pushed him away. I might have struck him, but lie did not strike me. He never strikes me. I plead guilty, but he has not done anything. He is only a bit fussy once in a while, but I don't charge him with assault,” This was the wife’s story. She pleaded guiltv io save her husband, while he pleaded not guilty and 1 t her take upon herself all the blame without saying a word for her. The woman is ever ready to sacrifice herself to save the mau, and the more she is abused the closer she clingit to him. The mau stands before the Judge aud says as plainly by his si lence as Adam did by his words : “ The woman is the guilty one, she tempted me," and the woman shares his punish ment. The court found Julia and Martin Connors guilty of mutual assault, and fined the woman $1 without costs and the man $lO with costa. The woman paid her fine, spoke an encouraging word to the man, and went out from the court roam. She went home, drew forth the little store she had put by for coal bills for tho winter, took (ierhp.ps nearly all her earnings, and came back quickly to pay his fine and take him out of the dock. It is the way of women, and men will let them have their way .—Boston Globe. The I.ady traitress. A correspondent who has been to Mount Washington discourses as follows of the lady waitress: A scornful young person thrust the hill of fare before ns, and stood in a protest ing self-conscious way to receive our orders. She was a “lady waitrets.” a school-teacher from Bangor. Fortia in eonie way, being native to this sort of thing, made her answer questions ; but she did so always in the same high and mighty manner. “ Are there many lady waitresses here?” asked Portia. “Yea; there are ton school-teachers in the dining-room, twenty student chambermaids, and the head laundress and under-housekeeper are Boston doc tresses.” Think of having one’s disgust at slop py coffee or an overdone steak observed critically bv the light of German philos ophy and (Week culture ! Think of ask ing a creature who may be a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly to bring yon the toothpick*! I couldn't do it. The scornful young person, who leisurely carried in our breakfast by such easy loads that no two viands were eatable at the same moment, received no command from my lips. The coffee went down without milk or sugar ; the butter went down in a pellet, all by itself; the su perior one had forgotten to bring the bread, and as for flshballs instead of stoak, why I swallowed them without a murmur. After a while an Englishman saun tered in, took a seat near mine, and called out to our Hebe: “ Heah! Ah, I say, waiter.” You should have seen the Scornful. She sniffed the air, she bounced, she flounced and flushed and bit her lips; the angry tears were in her eyes, aud she banged down a bill of fare before the offensive stranger as if it were a barrel of lead. The astonished man Sirtly and sharply gave his order, and ebe sauntered down the room, and was evidently agitating her wrongs with the rest of the culture that posed about the pantry door. “ I’m afraid you have offended that young person, sir,” said our professor to the Englishman. “ Offended the servant ? How ?” the dull creature asked. “ Why, by oalling her ‘waiter.’” “Oh! beg pardon; should it be ‘waitress?’” “ Neither, sir.” “ Well, and what should she be called, then?” Even the professor couldn’t answer tiiat. The funny man suggested “high toned youthful individual ” as a name that might go trippingly on the tongue. But how the lady wait ress is really to be addressed remains for Congress, or pos terity, or some other great but irrespon sible power to determine. SOMEBODY’S MOTHER-IN-LAW. A Trageti.r in the Kirei of Pari*. nu<t ■low il AffcrtfU a Uumorou* fluokiunn. A Paris cabman was brought before the oorrectional tribunal charged with assault and battery. • His account of the affair, given in all seriousness, is worth reproducing. “You see, this is liow it came about. I had had an old lady in my carnage, driving her about for some four hours, and said Ito myself, ‘ I’m in for a good tip,’ for she wore jewelry aud diamonds and all that. Well, and so at the corner of rue Aboukir the old lady was getting out when—vlan ! up comes au omnibus, knocks her down aud kills my fare dead as a herring. I tell you, it’ll make you laugh.” The Court—“lt is rather ludicrous, perhaps.” Jarvey— “ Not yet, but it will be bv and-by. Well, and so I jumped down ; a crowd gathered and I gathered with it, and says Ito myself, ‘ J his is all very well, but who’s going to pay me for four hours?’ At that minute a gentleman comes running up (it’ll make you laugh) aud looks at the corpse and cries : ‘ Great heavens, it’s my mother in-law !’ and says I to myself, ‘That makes my four hours all safe,’ aud so I told the gentleman that it was I who had been driving the old lady. All right; we put her into the carriage and took her home, and I helped him to carry her upstairs, and then I hung round the room, for says Ito myself, ‘ The son-in law’ll settle with mo, and as he com< s in for the property he won’t bo apt to beat me down.’ Well, and so be began to say, ‘ How on earth am I going to break this to my wife when she comes in ?’ and thon 1. withdrew into the ante-room, not wishing to intrude the subject of the faro on him at that moment. Just then iu comes the servant-girl scream ing, ‘ She’s coming !’—(it’ll make you laugh)—and said I to myself, ‘This is all very well, but if they’d pay me I’d just as soon go.’ Still I thought the time I waited would be charged for. And so then she comes iu, his wife does, and when she sees the long faces she screams out, ‘ What's the mutter ? What’s the matter V Oh, it’s ma ! Where is she?’ Her husband says, ‘She’s on the sofa ia tho sitting-room!’ and she runs in, and he follows her, anil I follow him, and she —it’ll unite you laugh !—she flops right down along side of the dead woman, and shrieks, ‘ Why, it isn’t ma at all!’ If you had only seen her husband’s face—he didn’t come into the property—and mine—l was out my four hours. Naturally, because, as it wasn’t hi* mother-in-law, lie didn’t owe me any tiling.” The Court —“Well, if he didn’t owe you anything, why did you insist that lie should pay you ?” Jarvey—“Well, you see, I wanted him to pay rue for the time after he put his fake mother-in-law in my carriage, and for the time I had been waiting at his house. Thereupon he gets mad and asks me who had told me to wait? Thereupon I tell him that 1 had been unwilling to ask him for my fare iu his hour of bereavement. Thereupon he abuses me, and offers mo thirty sous. Thereupon I ask him what he is giving me—besides, we charge more for a corpse than for a living passenger. Thereupon he says, ‘ What do T want of that body here ? Take it to the police station and I’ll give yon forty sous.’ Thereupon I wouldn’t and so—” The Court instructed the prisoner that he should have cited the complainant before th ojuge dt: paix, aud not to have struck him, aud sent him fojnil for three day*. Covering Boilers with Stlk. It is well known that silk is an excel lent non-conductor of heat, and some recent experiments in Germany would seem to indicate that it might pay to incase boilers in this costly material. Iu one trial three boilers of the same size and make were ranged in order, one covered with the ordinary felt, another with a coaling of silk only five-eighths of the thiekuess of the felt, while the third was left altogether uncovered. They were all filled with water having a temperature of 100 degrees Centigrade, and examined at intervals. After the lapse of three hours it was found that the unprotected boiler had lo3t twelve degrees of heat, and the other two each two degrees. After a further lapse of thirty-three hours, the felt-covered boiler had lost thirteen and a halt degrees, and that covered with silk only fourteen, so that there was no appreciable difference between the protective powers of the silk and those of a casing of felt nearly twice its thickness. With regard to the cost of the material, it is said that in all siik man ufactorit s there are waste scraps which it would be difficult or impossible to utilize in the trade. These can, it is asserted, be made up into bands and rolls, costing comparatively little, and sold at a profit to the makers and users of boilers. As to the lasting and wear ing powers of silk as compared with felt, nothing is said, aDd there has not, per haps, been time to apply an adequate test; but it is, at the least, possible that in this respect the finer substance may possess great advantages Over the coarser and cheaper. Poer Bays Who Have Become Pies ♦ - - ' L' ! idents. Tho second President of tho United States, John Adams, wa# tho son of * farmer of moderate means, who was compelled to work constantly lor the support of his family. When at the age of twenty-one, the son graduated at Harvard College, his education \vus his own capital for his start in life. Andrew Jackson was born in a log hut in extreme poverty. He grew up iu the woods of North Carolina, living in the home of a relative, where his mother worked to support herself and her three children. James K. Polk, the eleventh President, spent his early years on anew farm in the wilderness of North Carolina. His father placed him in a store, with the intention that lie should enter mer cantile life : hut his dislike for busings was so great that, at the age of eighteen, he was sent to the Murfreesborough Academy to fit for college. Millard Fillmore was the son of a New York farmer, and his home was an hum ble one. When he was fourteen years old he was sent away from home to learn the business of a clothier. But live years latter lie entered a law oflice, and at the ago of twenty-three he was admit ted to the larr. James Buchanan was horn in a small town of the Alleghany Mountains. His father was poor, and by Iris own ax built his home in the wilderness. When James was eight years old ho was placed at school, and six years latter, entered Dickinson College where he graduated with the highest honors. It is well known that Abraham Lin coln was the son of parents who were the poorest of the poor. Till he wsts more than twenty-one his home was a log cabin. His attendance at school was limited to a few months. From early life he was compelled to depend; on himself not only for his living, but also for his success in his business and his profession. At the ago of ten Andrew Johnson was apprenticed to a tailor. Previously his mother lrad supported him by her own labor. He was never able, it is said, 10 attend school. His education he gained by his own efforts at night, after working all day at his trade, and bv the ' Help of his wife. The early home of General Grant, also on the banks of the Ohio, more than fifty years ago, was without many of the comforts of civilized life. Till lie was seventeen, when he was sent to West Point, he lived the life of a common boy in a common home. James A. Garfield, like so many of his predecessors, was born in a log hut. When he had hardly entered his teens he was doing a man’s work in the har vest field. He learned the carpenter’s trade. He worked on the Ohio Canal. He was determined, however, to have an education, and, leaving his plane and scythe, he worked his way through the preparatory school, and, with some help from friends, was able to graduate at Williams College. The lives of many of tho Presidents prove that no boy is so poor but that he may hope to attain the highest honors which the American nc nlocan give. A Dare-Devil of the (leorgin Mountains. Tliero are few moil in Georgia, proba bly, who have given the oliicers more trouble than Jack Pugh, and we doubt if any one lias been more successful in eluding them. Catch him aud surround him as they would, li" always managed to slide out from under .their thumbs. Long, lank, lean, and wiry, and possess ed of unusual activity for one of his build, he has kept up liis dare-devil career with the fearlessness of a border ruffian. Pngh will fight a circular saw, and has never been afraid to meet ttie best armed officers, always buitig ready and on the alert. Hi# wife, too, is a. tough customer when on her muscle. Some time ago ono Bawls said eorac tliiug t her about Jack at the lions ■, when she took up a board and with true Amazonian courage cleaned him com pletely up, making him bite the dust, in u jiffy Pugh says he hasn't slept inside of a "house in three years. If all his exploits in evading the law and swindling the government were dished up in dime novel style, it would make the hair of the average boy stand wildly on end. Being au illicit,"distiller of the ardent is not hia only reputation. He is said to he a clever counterfeiter.— Griffin ( Ga.( News. a ear-signteUßOss. Education may create discomforts as well as secure great advantages. The German nation is threatened with a pe culiar trouble of the eyes, as a penalty for reading badly printed books and for unwise methods of study. A careful in vestigation of the schools by competent physicians has revealed the unpleasant fact that near-sightedness is growing common, and may tecouie universal. In children of five years and under, it was rarely found ; the vision was quite perfect. In the lower schools, from fif teen to twenty per cent, of the scholars were effected ; iu the higher schools, from forty to fifty per cent. In the theological depart ment of the University, seventy per cent, of the students were troubled ; and in the medical department the misfortune was almost universal, only five per cent, not being thus afflicted. The physicians ascribe the difficulty to the practice of holding the 1 rooks too near the eyes, and the practice is due in a large measure to the poor print of cheap books. The trouble is increasing in our own country, and it might be wise to have a similar examination of our own schools by skillful physicians, iu order to caU public retention to the evil.—Morgan town Press. An exchange has these trutliful word, to boys : “ The boy who spends an hour of each evening lounging idly on the stredt comers is wasting, in the cours* of the year, 365 preseious hours, which, if applied to study,'would familiariz; him with the rudiments of almost an; of the familiar sciences, If, ia addition to spending an hour each evening, In wastes ten cents for a cigar, whioh i? usually tne ca3o. this worse than wasted money would pay for ten of the leading periodicals of the country. The grab fication afforded by the lounge on th; corner and the cigar is nut only temper ary but positively hurtful. You cannot indulge in them without hurting your selves. You acquire idle and waste! habits which cling to you writh eact succeeding year.” Titty organized a debating society in D. atwool. The feet that the Pr -ident was i* d.cJ shot, and sat with two re volver-. iu hand, kept the society iu coffi paia’.ivo quiet while the qut--.ti jiu : “Oui.T a flush royal to beu‘ four aees ? ’and “Is it wicked to lyu- Mex icans on Sunday ? ” were aebttid. but when t-ie.v tackled the question ; “Qught you to fire when a mau reaches for l;js nil .wicker, or are you bound to wait fill you -et whether it’s a revolver or whisk? ttie's drawing?” the President c- uld'i’t control them, and five funeral* was the result