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What Is the Legal Fence I The Indianapolis Journal lias taken pains to gather information ns to the law* regarding the fencing of railroads in sister Stales. In Massachusetts the legal fence is four feet high. A “ sulli cient barrier” only is demanded, whether the equivalents be furnished by streams, ditchos, live growths, or const motions in wood, stone or other materiel, Ver mont and Connecticut legal fence is five and a half feet high, with provisions es sentially as aljovo. In Maine and Now Hampshir the legal fonoo in four feet high ; Rhode Island, stone or wood fences must be four and a half fcw-t high ; hedges and ditches are elaborately de scribed. New York—-The town meetings pre scribe what shall be doomed a log 1 fenoo in each town. Assessors and Commissioners of Highways perform the duties of fence viewers. Four and a half feet is the usual height pre scribed. Pennsylvania—Towwsand counties se cure special legislation for fencing rail way linos, and to prevent running of the stock at large. New Jersey—fences aro to he four feet, two inches high, of wood, brick or stone, and four and a half feet if of other materials, Delaware—Four feet, with a ditch within two feet, is a lawful fence. Wood or stone fence, or Lodge, four and a half feet high. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee—Legal fences live feet high. West Virginia.—Legal fences four and a half foot high. Bouth Carolina—Fences must he si\ feet high, of wood or hedge, or ditcln • equivalent as harriers. Missouri—Hedge tiro feet, fenee four mid ono-half feet. Kentucky—" All sound or strong fences five feet high, so close that stock cannot croep through,” is the definition df (ho legal fence. Ohio—"A fenee, of whatever mate rial, constructed in all respects such as good hushuudmou ought to keep.” Statute of 18115. Illinois—" Fences four ami one-half feet high, of whatever material the fence viewers shall deem sufficient.” Michigan—" Fences four and one half feet high of rails, timber, boards, stouo, or otiipr things deemed equiva lent thereto in the judgment of fence viewers." Wisconsin—" Fences four anil one half feet high,” etc. By act of April, 1878, barbed-wire fenoo is defined as a legal foeoj. tfMurnesota—" Fences four and one mlf feet high,” eta Barb fence defined by tho act of 1877. Town—■“ Four and one-half fee! high, or fifty-four inehu Barbed-wiro fence dekenbed as legal feueo, 1870. Texas— VFiya foot high.” Barbed wire defined na legal fence. Kansas —" Worm tended four and ono half feet ; tuif four feet with ditches: wire fenoo. posts twelve feet apart.” Nebnuitja—Tho legal fenoe is do scribed as “ such fence as good hits l*i)(linen generally keep. ” ■‘OWoni'Ya—Tho legal fence is de scribed with groat particularity. Wire, post and rail, brush, picket; ditch and polo and hedge wire feuees, not less than three sepnrutc strands, the that eighteen inches from tho ground, tho others two and one foot apart, Cdldrndo, Arizona, Mon hum and Utah —Four ami ouo-hnlf feet high. 'New Mexico, Idaho and Washington —Four foot high. In Washington Territory burhod-wiro fence must carry a top rail of wood. Indiana—Any structure in the nature of a fence, such uu good husbandmen generally koep. Tile Gazc-at-tlie-birls Young Mail. Aition/? till 1 cutiosiliob of every largo city, is the gaze iit-tho-girls young man. Thai lie finds bin pursuit agreeable is evident from the way in which ho Htioks to his business ana the rapidity with which ho multiples. Thorn is no trou ble in identifying him. Ho is his own identification. From shortly before noon until dusk the gate-at-the-giinl* young man jnay be seen on the loadiug thor oughfare*. livery pretty face that comes along chums his attention and ho at *nco proceeds to investigate its cuarins. Ho dotn not do this quietly and tmohtru sively; not ho. Tho gazo-at-the-gills young imm’s chief stock in trade is tho power of gazing long and impudently. Then tho gaze does not go alone. With every gaze goes a smile, a peculiar smile, a sort of a cross betwei u the lop sided smirk of a Quiteau and tho ios thetio simper of a Buntliorne, Ttiis combinat ion is bestowed lavishly. Tho modest blush is brought to tho cheek of virtue by tho insolent- glare of the young man. He brushes against tho girls and fairly forces his gaze into their faces. The gaze-ftt-tiiogirls young nuui will stoop and look under a hut in order to discover what kind of u face iH hidden beneath it. He has no hesitation in doing all sorts of uncivil things in order to satisfy his girl-gazing, and that is why he is noted for impudence, impo liteness and stupidity. The gaze-at-tho-girls young man is ordered to bo arrested iu Now York whenever he is caught adding some in sulting words to his gaze, which is unite often. It would ho well if the same or der were issued in •thor cities. A fow weeks behind the bars would do the giute-at-tho-giils young muu good. He would be careful where and how he gazed thereafter. —Philadelphia 'limes. The Crater of I’opocatapctl. In a letter to the Philadelphia Jiecord, Mr. Nathan E. Perkins describes nt great length the ascent, of tho Mexican volcano Popooatapetl, having reached the crater after a toilsome clin b, and de scended ns for as he could without a rope. From tin's position a good view was obtained of tho crater-walls. Tie bottom was hidden by ascending smoke and steam. The lower walls were linug with large masses of sulphur interspersed with icicles hundreds of feet long. 44 The crater is about one mile across, mid has the appearance of a large funnel whoso sides are but iittlo inclined, and tlie bottom is not visible. There seem to be three distinct rings, which divide it into four zones the largest, lining that nearest the mouth. From the summit the City of Mexico, although ever Bk) miles away, was plainly visible, and, surrounded by hikes us it is, seemed like a magnificent gem set arounil with pearl*. Tho whole great valley of Mex ico ean bo seen ut a glance. At our fact lay Ameca, over thirty miles distant, with itr luxurious growth of tropical plants, orange groves and banana plan tations, and on the right Ptiehlo and the old cities of Chilulo and Tascalla, with their 365 churches and spires. ’ The dis tant mountain of Orizaba, nearly 20ff miles aw ay, the snowy jH-nks of Melen clia, the White Lily and several others iu the distauce, stood arrayed before me. I felt tullv repaid for my toil in having climbed the highest mountain iu Nurtti America, whose summit is about 18,000 feet above the sea-level. ** A POLICE INISOVATION. om.-er oh (hr Drarrr Fores Coneorning Denver’s naturalized Chi ; none policeman, Louis Johnson, alias | Kan Yun Yu, the fact that Johnson is ! the find Mongolian who ever wore the 1 star of a policcmmau in America, was curly developed in tho conversation, and is worthy of note. Johnson is married, and more important, his wife is an American, a lady in all semes of the term. "I married her,’ 1 raid Johnson, "in Louisville, Ky., in 1873. Hhe was a M ..> Burt, ami lived on Twouty-first street. Ago and family. Oh, yes. First class. She is of German descent, and ’ was a working girl, hut I assure you in I every way an excellent woman—oh, ! ■ “ Keep* you pretty straight, doesn't alio?” “You bet. Hhe objects to my going among tho Chinese, and makes me do I just as Americans do-just tho same.” “ How do you like that ?" “Oh, I don't object. lon see I con sider mysoh civilized, and my country meu are not. Many of them are bad people. They are envious and under handed. When they see that a China man I,as a good thing, they try to get it away from him by under bidding him.” "Are they immoral?’’ " Most of thorn are had. Ho my wife doesn’t want me to associate with my countrynn n here.” “What do Chinamfcn pay for tho Chi nese women 1” “They aro bought first in China. Young girls aro preferred. They are stolen on tho streets in Chinese cities and sold to slave dealers there, wtio again sell them to men who ship them to America. They are bought there for from sllsO to $-300 by wholesale, and re tailed in Hun Francisco for from f.'lOO to sßoo—young girls bring the best prices. They then belong to the men who buy them, who keep them til! they get old arid then sell them to Chinamen, with whom they live as their wives. Their owners collect all the money the women receive, except what they steal, and feed and clothe the women." " Now many Chinese women uro there in this country V” " Well, 1 should say there are about 10,000. I’liey aye scattered pretty thick ly over the Pacific const.” "Why do no more decent China women come to America?,’ "In China everything is different from America. The women are kept very close. Hence tho women don’t get out much, and they don’t ixinio to this country.” "Do all the Chinese suioko opium ?” “ Most of thorn.” " Do you ?” “ Oh,*l hit the pipe occasionally When I have a headache.” “ Docs your wife?” " Not much.” "1 tow many Chinese are there in Den ver?” "About 500.” Johnson nays it if) his determination to live the life of a respectable American citizen, lie is a member <>f the Meth odist Church, while liia wife belongs to the Christian denomination. Helms do voted most of his life to the tea Vms inrss. lie was naturalized in Evans ville. Spi aking of his court, hip, he says he met ids wife through her brother, who wei a friend of his. Ib> courted her for about a year, and whi n they decided that, they each loved the other more than tlii'V loved any ono else they were mar ried by a Christian minister. —Denver Xltl'H. A Hattie between Birds. A gentleman from Htono (V unity gives the particulars of a remarkable incident which ho witnessed while crossing White Kivor on tho ferry just above the mouth f Sycamore Creek. When nearly half way across the stream im enormous eitglo swooped down on ntlookof geese, winch were swimming in tho river some eighty rode below the boat. The fowls, upon observing the eagle approaching, in stinctively dived under the water just ns tho bird struck the wave. Baffled in tho lirst. assault the eagle ilow slowly up ward, and when the geese came to the sur face. darted downward again, and bury ing its talons in one of them, attempted to bear it sway. The goose struggled violently, while its companions swam around uttering shrill cries and the per sons on the ferry boat watched tho at range scene with koeu interest. Once the eagle lifted its prey clear out of tho "al r and seemed on the point of convey ing it to the mountain cliff that rose grandly in the air on the other side of tho striven, but t lie struggles of the goose f iriwd the captor downward. When water watt again reached tho goose made a supreme effort and plunged below the surface, dragging the eagle after it and causing the latter to loosen its hold and rise upward with a tierce stream. The eagle next attacked another goose, but with the same result, being eom p lad to relinipiish its hold’when its in tended victim plunged beneath tho waves. This strange contest lasted fully thirty minutes, at the end of which time the eagle gave up the fight, and, rising, soared away to the mountains westward, while the Hook of goose swam further down the stream. None of the tlock were killed, but the water in tho vicinity was dyed with blood, and the surface of the stream w as covered with feathers for a conmdoruble dmtamo. —Lillie Bock Hotter to Atlanta Constitution. f’oln and Jewelry in the Malls. On an avenge $200,000 in gold coin, bullion or jewelry is sent, every day as third-class mail matter through the San Francisco postolfioe. IPalf of this is shipped by the Government j the rest ie private remittances. There is no armed guard or other precaution against roh bory, ami private shipments arc simply inclosed in ordinary wooden 1 nixes. Be fore Secretary Sherman originated the present system of exchanges through the postoffice, gold was charged letter rates, or $3.00 per SI,OOO, and its trans portation was profitable; but now the postage and registration amount to only 70 cents, aud gold shipments are a loss to the postal department, beside offering temptations to criminal enterprises.— Van Francises '"'Ai-onie/e. restin'* Slumps. Tho number of different kinds of post age stamps which liavo been hitherto is sued all over the world is estimated, iu round nunIHTH, at 8,000. Among them are to I* found the effigies of five Em pc tors, eighteen Kings, three Queens, one Grand Dnkq, six Pnnces and a large number of Presidents, etc. Some of the stamps bear coats of arms and other emblems, as crowns, the papal keys, aud tiara, anchors, eagles, lions, horses, stars, serpents, railway trams, horsemen, im-ssi ugers, eh', Tlie eolleo ‘ion preserved in the museum of tho Berlin postoffioo included, on July 1, 18T9, 4,498 specimens of different post age stain]*. Of these 2.462 were from, Europe, 441 from Asia, 251 from Africa, 1,143 from America and 201 from Au stralia. Oar Government, Tho following figures have been com piled showing the money paid to officials in governmental affairs : The President £50,000 Vico President 10,000 460,000 Expenses of tho White House : To fnirlv estimate tho exponses of tho White House requires a earefni scru tiny of the appropriation bills, as the items are not classed under thia Load, but are scattered under other headings, nor are they the same in any on# year; but taking them at an average, and setting aside extraor dinary disbursements it may be eat en iated that a fair annual estimate will be about 20,000 Secretary of Htate, Treasury, Interior, War, Navy, Postmaster and At torney-General, 48,000 each 56,000 Total 4136,000 It is not bo easy a matter to get at the precise cost of the Hon ate and the House of Representatives, ns tho expenses are more elaborate from conditions which have nothing to do with the difference between a monarchy and a republic. The office of a Henator and a member of the House of Representatives carries with it a salary, while tho membership of the House of Lords and Commons carries none. It must also he remem bered that the due fulfillment of his duties, by either Henator or Representa tive, involves long journeys, separation from business circles and peculiar ex penses which do not occur in the other cases. RENATS. Appropriation for the Senators 4380,000 Compensation for mileage 33,000 Salaries for officer* 100,000 HOUSE OF BZPRESENTATIVXS. Appropriation for members 1,530,000 Salaries -Messengers, Clerks, Secreta ries 200,000 Total 42,348,000 Bringing our totals together we find thut the cost of representative institu tions in the United States, with a popu lation of 50,000,000, is $2,348,000, or a lapitation of five cents per head. It eems then that tho proportionate cost t monarchical as against Republican iu titutions is us 21 is to 1. As wo have not included the cost of the diplomatic service in tho foregoing figures we will now proceed shortly to con trast tho expenses of England and Amer ica so far as those items are concerned, for tho purpose of showing how much more costly tho representatives of a royal court aro than tho delegates of a republic. The total cost of the diplo matio service of Great Britain is $2,400,- OOfi, while the total cost of the samo service of the United States is only $900,000. With view of enabling the reader to judgo for himself wo will contrast in columns side by side tho expense of England and Amorioa to different coun tries. United Htatos. Groat Britain. Salary of Salary of Roproxontativo. Ambassador. Franoo 417,000 450,000 Germany V, OOO 42.000 Russia 17,000 46,000 Spain 12,000 28,000 Austria 12.000 40,000 Italy 12,000 86,000 Ih sail 12,000 23,000 Japan 12,000 20,000 China 12,000 80,000 Tho samo principle runs through the whole expenditure of both countries. Under the monarchy the tondenoy is to divido up large sums among a favored fow, while tno principle in republican government seems to be to pay only moderate salaries and to divide the dutios over a large number. THE MAN WIIO WON. Opinion* of Tilings iKnjrlSftli l> uii Amori vtut. A rich American who is reported to have won largo sums by betting on horse races in England gives his opinion ns fol lows : “T he English arc a very slow people. You can't get a barber to shave you there on a Sunday or a holiday, nor after 7 o’clock in tho evening, and none of the stores arc open till 9 o’clock in the morning. You might suppose, from their long connection with the turf, that they would be very alert on a good horse; but L s iw Huron Rothschild's marc Nedie win a raoo, arid no! one cent had been wagered <>n her. I saw tho horse some time before the race, ami was struck w ith her perfect form, and 1 put $52,01)j) on her, ami won it with case. Hhe just had a walk-away from the r fc st, After it was over they all saw what they had missed. Foxlmll is the great st. horse in the world to day. Tho English must have known that there was something in Foxhall, vet they won next to nothing on his per formances, and let tho Americans take away their money. “England is a finished country. It is like a park in every part, with tho ex ception of Ireland, whose hugs and dis order arc rather repelling. You see no nsh barrels standing around the towns of England, no old newspapers and rubbish. Coming home, the unfinished character of America is very notioable—the slov enly condition of the streets, the naked railroads miming without fuuvs across tlm landscape. England is completed. We seem to he only about one-third fin ished. You compare an English railroad station to one in America, for instance. Hero they are more wooden shells, with one man, perhaps, doing all the work— selling tickets, checking baggage, every thing. There you sec a little army of railroad guards, and the larger stations are massive hotels and crystal guard houses. 1 think that Germany and Eng land are the superior countries in Europe, and they stand pretty close to each other in achievements and ability. The Development of Taste. In tho natural growth of tho world, tasto has been rapidly developed, ami tho people of all nations are now produc ing eaoh its own peculiar and wonderful treasures. Who can remember or de scribe them ? Who can tell the extent of the riches or the beauty of the golden, jowelod ornaments now admired and worn by a thousand million people ? What pen can describe all that is seen in cultivated gardens and parks adorned with trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers ? Where can we loam, iu books or else where, tho names of all that is beautiful that blossoms from the whole earth ; all that is beautiful that the brush prodne >s on canvas ; all that the weaver's shuttle and loom prodnoe; all that tha skilled hands of tho carver on wood, stone, and marble produce ; all that the combined colors of the rainbow have produced, ns shown in fabrics, of silk and satin, and cotton and wool; all that is beautiful in architecture, and in the adornments of tlie world’s most renowned cathedrals, and beautiful in all its famous kingly palaces ? But life is too short to search out and sec all that is beautiful. We can only get a glimpse, now and then, at some of the world's greatest treasures. The most favored season for such sight seeing is Christmas.— The Independent. Scene at a stable : Funny Freshman (to hostler, who is rubbing down his horse) — 44 l’at, I’m afraid you’re currying favor with that horse. ” Hostler— -44 Faith, no! I’m merely scrapin’ an acquaintance. ” — Harvard ( Yimson. A FASHIONABLE BRIDE. now Flan Hello Ka.vi Rk dels Ready f the Altar. The time appointed for the marriage ceremony in church was three o’clock in tho afternoon. Borealis Brown, the bridegroom, and Aurora White, the bride were in a close carriage ten blocks away, at six minute# before three : "We shall get there right on time,” said lie, looking at bis watch. Now, it is dreadfully unfashionable to get to the church promptly, and Aurora would have felt jnst like dropping through the floor don’t yon know, if she had walked up the aisle on time. “ Don’t you think, my dear, it would bo better to be ten minutes late ?” said she, leaning against him in a kind of ■ harmless hug. "No; I pride myself on punctuality.” "Five minutes, then?” “ Now, my darling, don’t coax.” "Just os you say.’ Hho put her hand carelossly on his shoulder, and then let it drop slowly along down over his coat to a small pocket set in t the waist seam, whero it lingered for a few seconds. “You have the ring whero yon can find it readily,” she remarked, laying placidly back in her seat. "There is nothing so awkward as to fumble for the ring at the altar, you know.” “ Oh, I’vo made sure on that point, os I told you,” ho #aid confidently, “I slipped the ring right into this handy little pocket where, I—good lord in hoavon !” “ What Borealis—what?” “Thoring is lost.” He thrnsted his fingers Into the pocket’madly, again and again, but the ring surely was not there. He made wild conjectures, felt in all his other pickets, and concluded ho must have left it at Aurora’s residence. He ordered the coachman to turn about. When they had gone baok almost to the house, a public clock struok three. "What is that?” said Aurora, point ing to the bottom of the carriage. The ring lay glittering in a corner. “ I must have dropped it," said Bore alis, picking it up, “ but I swear I looked in that very spot two minute# ago.” Ho had looked there, as a matter of fact, just before Aurora threw the ring down. “Well,” he remarked, looking at hi# watch again, “you will have your wav after all. Wo can’t get to the church beforo ten minutes late anyhow.” “To be sure.” Acute presence of mind is character istic oI brides. They may blush but they know exactly what they are about. Their eyes may be dim with tears, but they can seo a misplaced thread in their dress. Two blocks from the churoh Aurora ex pressed a fear that she was as pale as a ghost. “Bay as fair as alabaster,” Handsome suggested. “ Now, my dear,” she rotorted, "this is no time for compliments. Is tliero tho least bit of color in my face ?” "Well, no, butt-” " 1 must look ghastly.” " Would you like to blush as you go in?” “Yes.” Be threw his arms around her, drew her to his broast, with the grip of a wrestier, and kissed her loud ana long. He wis through with it just as the car riage door was opened by an usher, and she walked into churoh with a satisfac tory amount of pink on her cheeks. Mothers and Manners. Coming home, in tho Fifth-avenue om nilms, I met with a specimen of mother ami manners that will amuse you, and perhaps it will point a moral if it (loos not adorn a tale. The stage was full—six on each side. A woman—observe, I do not say a lady —entered with two children, a tou-yenr old boy and a young girl. As she could not finil a seat, I gave her mine, and the two children stood at her knee. Pres ently two persons left, and the boy sat down opposite tho mother. Now two ladies entered, and tho mother instanly bent toward and said to her son : “ Keep your seat; 1 paid for you.” This was a lesson in politeness that would probably determine the manners of tho Is>y for life. Tho mother had just before accepted my seat, compelling me, a man, twice as old as herself, to stand up in an omnibus; but themo mei t when her little son had an oppor tunity to lie kind to ladies, she interposed and hade him keep his scat. It offends the vanity of our people when one says that this want of good manners is a national vice, and I hold that it is not American. It is Auglo- Haxen as distinct from tho Latin races. That softness, gentleness, ease of man ners which portaius to France and Italy is nit in Germany, Britain, or America. Tiie mauners of French children are beautiful They ore so well taught in early childhood, that politeness seems an instinct. No one can toll when the child did not behave properly. Mr. Naabv has written a letter to the Toledo Blade on this subject, which seems to have arrested Ins attention while traveling in France. And his ex perience like mine, was in a public con veyance. ITo writes : “I was in a compartment (of a rail oar) with a little French boy of twelve years, the precise ago at which American children, as a rule, deserve killing for their rudeness and general disagreeablo ncss. Ho was dressed faultlessly, but his clothes were not the chief charm. I sat between him and the open window, aud ho was eating pears. Now, an American hoy of that ago would either have dropped tho cores on the floor or tossed them out of the window without regard to anybody. But this small gen tleman every time, with a ‘Permit mo, monsieur,’ said in the mostjpleasant way, rose and came to the w indow and drop ped them out, and then ‘ Mcrci, mon sieur’ (thank you, sir), as ho quietly took his scat. “It was a delight. I am sorry to say that such small hoys do not travel on American railroads to any alarming ex tent. Would they wore more frequent. And this boy was no exception. He was not a show hoy out posing before the great American Republic, or such of it as happened to be in Frauoe at that time; but he was a sample, a type of the regulation of a French child.” No, Mr. Nasby would never meet with a boy of that pattern in England or New Knginud, in Britain or America. They arc not raised iu any of these kingdoms or republics. Tho fathers and mothers were brought up as they bring up thoir sous and daughters. Children arc what they arc taught to be. Just as the twig, etc. — X'w York Observer. Daughter (home from school) “Now, papa, are yon satisfied? Just look at my testimonial— 4 Political econ omy, satisfactory; fine arts and music, very good ; logic, excellent.’ ” Father —‘‘Very much so, my dear—especially as regards your future. If your husband should understand anything of house keeping, cooking, menciing and the usa of the sewing-machine, perhaps your married life will indeed be happy.” Fallen Grandeur. It is amazing how smart tho poorest lady in Italy, who has any pretension# to being such, will turn out on occasions however dilapidated her home attire. Two young ladies belonging to an old, but utterly ruined family, whose parents were too poor to keep a servant, would dress themselves for their evening walk, in the most fashionable of hats and cos tumes, with their fans, smelling bottles, lace handkerchiefs, and gloves, all com plete. In order to obtain these dresses tho young ladies had to condescend so far as to work for the peasants, who paid them for the manufacture of the smart stays and chemisettes they wear on feast days. The attempts to being highly fashionable, combined with an entire ig norance of the ways of the fashionable world, produeo sometimes the strangest incongruities. The lace veil is now almost confined to the class called "ar tists”—that is, shopkeepers and skilled workpeople; but a lew of the old-fash ioned ladies still keep to it. Curious specimens of decayed nobility, are to be found in these remote villages—peoplo bearing grand names, and retaining con siderable pride in their ancient lineage, whom generations of idleness and uu tliriftiness have reduced to extreme pov erty. They are not educated for ahy pro fession, and when starvation stares them in the face, they have no resource but to earn their bread by mutual labor. One noble count of my noquaintanoe i# a carpenter; another a bricklayer. I have seen the grand-daughters of a countesg working in the fields. With their for tunes their manners deteriorate, until nothing but a remnant of pride remains to distinguish them from the peasants between whose class and theirs, so great a gnlf Wfts once fixed. I remember nothing mpre melancholy, than the as semblage of these poverty-stricken no bles I once met, at the house of the rich man of a village. We were at supper; nnd as one ragged nnd dirty old man after another came shambling in, each in turn was, to my great surprise, introduced a# the descendant of an ancient and noble family, but fallen—“oadnto,” added my host, with a gesture of compassion. Th# old man would then bow his head in mel ancholy acquiescence, and, casting a rue-' fill glunce at hi# shabby oloak with the faded green lining, would sink into • chair, at the far end of the table. On# of these fallen nobles, who had taken to house-painting, wo thought it only ohnritable to employ for the decora tion of our ceiling. I was pre pared w to feel quite n romantio in terest in this unfortunate nobleman, und to t>e enchanted with his artistio genius, but he was *o uncommonly dirty, nud his manners wore so little removed from those of a peasant, that my illusion* were dispelled at once. Neither did hi# style of decoration exactly come up to my ideal, although it wa# ambitious enough. A basket of flowers soon adorned each corner of our ceiling, and in the center, from amid clouds and wreaths of roses, a rather shapeless Cupid began to be de lineated. In tho middle of the work, the artist, whoso tempor was short, and whoso feelings were sensitive, took offense—a i wo suppose—at some unin tontioned slight on our part. Without tho slightest explanation, he departed ono day, leaving the Cupid minus one leg and one arm, and returned no more. Poor Cupid ! Being in suoh a sadly mu tilated condition, we thought best to do away with him altogether, and my hus band, mounting a ladder, swept aooatof whitewash over Cupid, clouds, baskets of flowers and all. This operation was repented several times, but tRe Cupid would koep reappearing in a ghastly manner. —From Comhill Magaeine. A Southern Type. In tho South one soon meet* the young man, a lawyer, or dditor, or physician, who will talk for hours, to any one who will listen, of the superiority of the South; Its people and its civilization, over the North and everything Northern. He always talk* well, and ie usually a very good fellow, but he proceeds entirely upon the a priori method, and his con clusions have little relation to the facte of lifo. He knows little of hi* own region of the oountry, and nothing whatever of *ny other. Young men of this type alwayi dwell with proud aud endless iteration on “ the superior purity of Southern wo men. ” Their persistence always bring* the more fact of ohastity more nakedly and definitely before the seem* wholesome or desirable to persons who have seen more of life and of the world. These youthful eulogists appear to think that it is a virtue which is almost unknown except in tho Southern States. They do not recognize the fact, which is of great importance in any real discussion of thi* , feature of our civilization, that the wo men of another race, formerly helpless and now degraded, have always formed a pro tecting barrier between the licention* passion* of Southern white men and the women of their own race. I do not sup pose the best women of the South have any superiors on earth, but their im munity from temptation and wrong ha* cost other women dear. What young men of this class most need is a wider observation and large? knowledge of the world, or, especially, of their own country. They would thus, iu time, understand how much better it is for our young men to be penetrated aud inspired by the idea of being Ameri cans than to be always dwelling upon the fact that they nr* natives of Virginia, or Massachusetts, or Arkansas or New Jersey. There is reallv no harm in these young rentlemen, although their vehe ment utteraDoes regarding subjects with which they have but slight acquaintance have sometimes furnished convenientma to rial for Che use of •'Northern politician* who were hostile to the South. — Atlantic Monthly. Modern Courtship. This is a modern courtship in a nut shell The lights were so bright that they seemed garish, and the parlor of the Mo Wishes was radiant in upholstery of tho past decade. Eulalie, the pride of the family, just making preparations for oelebrating her nineteenth birthday. Old Bullion making an evening call. 44 Mv dear Miss McWish. There is in deed disparity in our ages. You havs ronth and beauty. I, years and wealth. 3ut I trust there can be some reciproo tv between us?” “Indeed, my dear fir. Bullion, wealth is not to be despised, feither is old age—and delicate health." 'he last clause in an undertone. A kiss hat was like the rattliug of an old parchment against a satin cushion dosed that bargain. We’ll bet 'the old man outlives her.—New Haven Register. A story is told of a Jew of Tewks bury, in 1820, who fell into a well on Saturday—the Jewish Sabbath. Out of reverence for the day he would not suf fer himself to lie drawn out. Tho Earl of Glaston, on whose land the well wap, would not allow him to be taken out the next day out of respect for Sunday, and before Monday came he died. Unbecoming forwardness oftener pro ■ oeeds from ignorance than impudence. Paul Morphy’s Memory. Brentano's Chets Monthly recalls this instance of the remarkable memory of the greatest chees-plaVer the world lias over known: Of Morphy’s gigantic mem ory I had iadubfh&lc proof from my own otiservation at tne time ho was playing his oelebrated match with Lowenthal. Both opponents had agreed to regard the games played as their intellectual private property, not to be published, I was at the time editing tne chess ool rmlll kof the Sunday Times , and anxious to reproduce them there. In order to obtain the requisite information, I had to t pply to one of the contesting parties. I first went to Morphy, who received me cordially, and declared his entire will ingness to dictate for me the last partie, played the day before. I begged nim to repeat the game on the board, as I would in this manner lie better able to follow tlio progress of the contest. Morphy con sented, and at the tenth move of black (Lowenthal) I asked him to stop a mo ment, sinoo it seemed to me that at this particular point a bettor move might have been made. “Oh, you probably mean the move which you yourself made in one of your contests with Dufresne ?” answered Morphy in his simple, artless way of speaking. I was startled. The partie mentioned hod been played in Berlin in 1861, seven years before, and I had totally forgotten all its details. On observing this, Morphy called for a sec ond board, and began, without the least heeitntion, to repeat that game from the first to the last move without a single mistake. I was speechless from surprise. Here was a man, whose attention was constantly distracted by oountleae de mands on his memory, and yet be had perfectly retained for sevon years all the details of a game insignificant in itself, and, moreover, printed in a language entirely unknown to him. The Pot-Luck Club. At a meeting of the Pot-Luok Club each male member, according to promise, contributed a specimen of the handiwork in the onlinary art, and the result was quite novel. “ Here,” said the artist, sketching the twentieth letter of the alphabet, “is a drawing of “ T.” His contribution was highly esteamed. “And here,” said the printer, produc ing a handful of type, “is some *pi’ of my own making. ” lie said this in a crusty tone. “And I’ve brought a hot goose,” said the tailor, dropping his iron on the table. He was greeted with hisses. “And I,” said the poet, with a Milesian accent, proffering a manuscript “have here some tender-loins.” His offering was voted very boefiting. “And I hope,” said a sad and timid looking member, presenting his wife, “yon will relish this ‘rib.’” And then lie added in a stage of whisper: “ I can spare her, therefore she is a spare rib.” The carpenter now stepped forward and said he had prepared “a little piano board,” —placing the board on the table as he spoke. The shoemaker said he thought some of the members needed a little brain food, therefore he had brought a “ sole,” also a “tongue.” Tha former was pretty “ scaly, “And here,” said a smart yonng man, with a goneness in his voice, introducing bis best girl, “is a little drunk.” He was pronounoed “too fresh,” and his girl gave him the cold shoulder all tho rest of the evening. Then a newspaper humorist cast his eyes over the assemblage, called it a “rare meet," poured somed gritty sub stance out of a cone-shaped piece of paper, and made Joe Miller turn over in his grave bv remarking : “ The best I can do in the culinary line is the sand— which is here.” The club immediately adjourned out of respect for his gray-haired pun, say ing that they didn’t want any “taffy” in their dessert. —The Judge. Take the Cake. Mr. Jones i* very fond of oake, and when hi* wife has oompany to tea sh< usually instructs him beforehand not t eat mors than one pieoe himself. On* evening, however, company dropped in to tea unexpectedly and Mrs. Sonet had no time to oosoh Jones. They sat down to the table and the first thing Jones did when tho tea w served wm to dip into ths <*ke basket and possess kimself of a large slice of citron cake, which he buttered profusely and quickly disposed of. Then, as he went on talk ing with the gentlemen of the party, and remarking that he had no aympathy with demagogues, he reached over and secured a generous piece of fruit cake. “Jepthal’’ said his wife wamingly. The wretched man knew something was amiss, and, as usual, hit on the wrong thing. “I don’t mean anything personal; Mr. Brown understands me, Maria. I am tlying to reconcile the difference of parties;’" and he tackled the cake basket a third time, saying, as he drew a section of pink and gold layer cake, that ho felt persuaded the oountry was going to ruin. “Pass the cake, Mr. Jones,” said his wife in awful tone. “I pass,” answered Jones abstractedly, and with a full hand of coooannt jumbles he went on reconstructing the country. In the excitement of forming anew administration he helped himself to a square of hickory-nnt oake, wtfiob he buttered on both sides. Then Mrs. Jones rose to her full altitude and said, in her home - brewed - bottled - for -use - domestic voice : 4 4 Mr. Jones 1 will yon pass that oako basket around while there is a single piece of oake left? If you had the government pie you talk about there wouldn’t be even a chance at the plate left for anybody else. ” "He takes the cake!” murmnYed Mr. Brown in his oompany voice, while Mrs. Jones mentally resolved to hereafter leave the coke on the sideboard until it was time to pass it around. Don’t Use Big Words. In promulgating yonr esoteric cogita tions, or articulating superficial senti mentalities and philosophical or psycho logical observations, bowaie of platitudi nous ponderosity. Let your conversation possess a clarified conciseness, compacted eompreliensibleness, coalescent consist ency and a concatenated cogency. Es chew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine nffi-ctations. Let yonr extemporaneous deeeantings and unpremeditated expa tiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rbodomontade or thra sonical bombast. Sedulously avoid an polysyllabic profundity, pompous pro lixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloqnial verbosity and vaniloqr.ent vapidity. Shun double entendres, prurient jocosity and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent. In other words, talk plainly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully, purely. And don’t use biz words. The universe is but one greak city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to eaoh other. Sorrow is a scourge but there is heal ing iu its stripes. PITH AND POINT. You can tell dog-wood by it# barb. Possesses great healing power—the cobbler. Thb latest definition: A naturalist— one who catches gnats. Thb mean temperature is what dig. gusts a man with every climate. Ship Captains ought to bejgood dano ors, because they are good skippers. Whbn a tenant wishes to hold his dwelling for another year he re-leases it, The phrenologist is a man who can not do "his work well unless he feels right. M crdeb on the high C is a common occurrence among a certain class of so prano singers. Thb Empress of Austria wears a train thirty feet long. There are probably no train-robbers in Austria. A fashionable young lady, like an inexperienced printer, makes a great bustle in correcting her form. Websthb was an esthetic, because he euthnsiastisaliy says in his dictionary that the verb "speak” is too utter. A haj; can get into good society in Leadville if he hasn’t bad the jim-jams, but he’ll have to stand being regarded a# rather fresh. Cassaonao, the French editor, has fought 110 duels. He ha# therefore run ns much risk a# a man who ho# played three games at base-ball. " Do not marry a widower,” said the old lady. “A ready-made family la like a plate of cold potatoes.” “Oh, IH soon warm them over,” replied the dam sel ; and she did. Miss Swisshelm Bays: “If men wore boots at all the boot# should reach to the w aist and be fastened to a belt.” Think of a man with such boots having the jim-jams. Great snakes I “ No," said Mrs. Goodington, casting her eyes over specs to the silhouette of her lamented Daniel. "I oan’t say as 1 like to see a man too stont, but just a little inclined to potuloncy, you know," Xir a garb that was gaUOaas of oolors She stood, with a doll, hstlftse sir— ▲ creature of dump* and of dolors. But most nndeiuAbiy fir; The folds of liar gfermeuU fell round her , Revealing tho curve of eeoh limb; Well-proportioned And graceful I found her Although (jolto alarmingly thin. —Elia Whtder. “Mbs. Jones has sent to borrow my bonnet, and I don’t want to loan it to her. Wluit message shall I return?" said a lady to her husband. The reply was clear and prompt : 44 Tell her she has your good will, but cannot have your fixtures.” 44 I’m not very preud of yonr progress in school,” remarked a New Haven mother to her son, who was struggling along in grade five. “ There’s Charley Smart is way ahead of you, and he isn’t ns old.” “I know it. Teacher said he’d teamed all there was to learn in my room, and that left me without anything to learn. ” In a primary school, not very long ago, the teacher undertook to convey to her pupils an idea of the use of the hy phen. She wrote on tho blackboard “Bird’s-nest,” and, pointing to the hy phen, asked the school: "What is that for ? ” After a short pause, a young son of the Emerald Isle piped out: 44 Plaze, ma’am, for tho bird to roosht on.” A gentleman called to consult a phy sician with regard to a rheumatism which caused him much pain. Tho doctor immediately sat down and wroto him a prescription. As the patient was going away the doctor called him bock. “By the way, sir, should my prescrip tion happen’ to afford you any relief, please let me know, as lum myself suf fering from a similar affection.’ 1 HISTORICAL. Mme. Pompadour was the originator of h-igh heels. The Egyptian physicians of old were paid by the state. Pli-ny says that four-wheeled carriage* were invented by the Phyrgiang. The main facts of blood circulation have only been known 260 years. Embalming was in use among tb Egyptians at least 3000 ago. fjiv Hundred lions wero killed at on* show, given by the Roman Pompey. The Assyrians and Greeks had tri monthly festivals, besides annual revels, Queen Elizabeth granted the first royal patent conoeded to players in 1676. Wren, the architect of St. Paul’s, de signed more than forty public buildings iu London. Gibbon began to write his “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” in Lon don, in 1772. Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, used to say she was born before.nerves came into fashion. The four passions of John of Franos were said to be novel-reading, music, chess and backgammon. The carriage of magazines aud otbei books by mail was introduced at ths same time as postage stamps, by £k Rowland Hill. TriF, first foundling hospital estab lished by Royal Charter in London, don, 1739, was instituted through th exertions of Capt. Coram, whoseportrait was painted for the hospital by Hogarth- Extravagance was at one time so notorious in the matter of monuments, among the Greeks, that I .eon forbade tbs eroction of anv mausoleum which ooukl not be erected by ten men in three days. The first successful attempt at pre serving meat, by packing in air-tight jars, was made by M. Appart, in France, in 1811. For his discovery the emperoi rewarded him with a gift of 12,000 francs. The Hebrews wore sandals made and linen and wood, though those of the sol diery were made of brass and iron. The Spartans went barefoot, and Homer de scribes them as going into battle unshod. When Bichard went to the Holy Land one of the laws he made for his troop* was that if any one shonld be convicted of theft, boiling pitch should be poured over his head and a pillow full of feath ers shaken over it. On Eabtbr Monday, 1208, the wbol* of England was laid under an interdict bv the Pope. All the churches we closed and no services allowed, save con fession, absolution, baptism and admin istration of the riaticum at the point o> death. No marriages were to he cele brated, bodies were buried with? 01 honor. The king retaliated by seiring property and lands of the church. TM Interdict remained for six years. Mb. Marrowy at had been compl* lll 'l ing of nervousness, and declared tn 1 of late he felt so bed that any rt- 3 citcment was distressing to him. G® f day he asked the family physician wb* 1 - he should take for It. 44 Is it noise tn*| 1 chiefly troubles you ? ” 44 1 think it &<. ,j said Sir. Marrowfat. 44 Very well, them gj resumed the astute and sympathizing Galen, 44 put a spoonful of paregoric - ten r wife’s coffee every morning * breakfast,”' ~