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SUNG. UrtfUng northwant thr rain < loud* p*» leaving ’»"• K r "" 000 l and damp. Than at Ux- «uu tb> r”I'P ,, '‘ k,ndl * Harb it* lamp Guv*, rrnxarilwr not ckfltd n'>r rain, Kmlle again M) baart Ima Waiting, with all It* Bow<w» uni. idled. For your eym —i.'. <X *tn/ord, . i ifrrrlaiul. WIPED Ol’T. I hod btmi rfnplovwl by the Greet I; proveiwnt and it* •<-bum company, of M<> tilr, to riplof*- end map certain land* in Klorida lying well down on th' <*lg<* of the ffrcat Cypres* Swamp The com tiany had purrbaMvl nearly 1,000,000 a/r«« of wild land in the location I have mentioned, and it waa neceaaary for aom<- <»e io visit it and walk over mwt of th* t round before it could lie put into mar rt in the manner contemplated. I had been on the ground three weeks, having two men with me. when the adventur*- happroed w hich I am alx/ut to relate. One morning the three of ua left our camp beside one of the lake* on the up per St. John’s for a tramp intending to return by evening While I made note* and kept the to|mgraphy the men noted the varieties of wcnnJs, nature of the moB, ami other details of interest On three different oceftwion* we had encountered white men in the den** and lonely forest, and knew from tin ir looks and surround ings that they were renegades from civil iration Tw we hud stumbled upon rude camps or* upied by negroes and refugees. We Itad traveled a distance of perhaps three miles when I was stung on the bark of the right hand by an insert resembling a hornet, although much larger In tis tern minutes the pain brought me to a halt, ami my hand was swollen like a puff ball. After a consultation, it was de< Ided that I should return to camp,and ' the men would push on by compass and cover a certain area, and come in toward night Before I had covered the dis tance to < amp I wa mar screaming out with the pain, and my arm was pulling up with the poison There was a remedy in the medicine chest, but it was a full hour before the pain was relieved Then I began to feel sleepy, ami I bunked down ami was soon fast asleep. At about noon, after a nap of two hours, I was awakened by the sou ml of a human voice. “Hay, you!” I opened my ryes to find a white rene gade stand over im , holding one of my revolvers in hi* hand “Git up!” I *at up All our goods in ramp lia*. been packed up and taken away. Th’ man who confronted me was thr wi< kedest looking fellow we had yet met in the swamp* Hi* hait and whiskers wtn m> long and unkempt that little of hi* face eiccpt hi* ugly black eyes ami yellow Iwth could Is- seen Hi* clothing was |airt doth and part skins, and it was plain that he had avoided civilisation for year* “Git up and conic,” hr grow led. “Who an and wlot do you want?” I demanded,a* I rem hed my feet. • Walk!" he commanded, pointing to th« west At that moment a third n< tor appeared. It wu« a woman tall, gaunt, tens ions, ami drostal in thr *ame nondescript cos turn** a* the man She dime out <d thr jungle to thr went, and a* soon as near enough to make her word* understood •Im* Mddt “If hr won’t move down him and tic hi* hand* and feet We <an tote two sich a* him. She hud the other i< vohei in her hand, and 1 noticed that Isitli had hunting knivr* I was unarmed, still weak from thr «llrcts ol the poisonous sting, ami en tirely in tin it |w»wri I'hr woman struck into thr jungli I followiii and thr mall brought up th h u After a walk ol als>ut a quarter of a mile wr midiol the hank of the lake. Tied to atn by a rawhide rope wa*n floating cabin Hm foundation was a rough made scow, and the upper works, a* thrx max be tvr.md. <<»ii*i*ted of a long. nnrroxx in i Mouth made hut of log*. rhrrx wa a chimi ry of mud and *ti< k*. (nun which sinokv i**urd, nml tw<« persona weir on tin* bank to rvcchc u* One was a U»x of twrhr or thirteen, ami tl other a girl txvooi three year* ohlri I’hey look. .J ni<>h like w ihl aui mah than human Iwing*, and talktai in a longUHgi so strange that 1 rouhl not uu drrMand a word ’Go ahead,'* said thr man, ns I halted on th< Iwink . and I followed thr woman nltoard of the m-oxv »m‘ into the t abin. It was a h* u*r in wh’. li then* wax but <mc room, with the hide* of cattle thrown over the wild 'southern im»** foi l»rds. Then w .;* no stove, but a sort of fire plat t■ inadv of stone*, with two or three Iron kt tth - nti the hearth as kitt hrn fur niture Al! ourcainpispiipAg. had lw*rn rvmovetl to tin < abiii, and my Wun ht *t< r ride Mtssl in thr < ornri thi* wax then a • »cw arm I did tml Iwliext they knew how t • u*e it. Imt my revolver* were ('oil's ol pattern ami loaded with |M»wdvr and Um*, pen'i.ssitmcaps. S»t that. *iid the woman, as *he p inted to a corner. I went oxer ami *at down on the Ixtl It w«« not the (onirr in which m\ rific ►t >d, but the weapon was not more than t* .hi t away she woman then said * thing to the children in her own u dia!K t. and both of them *at d xxit fat ing nir ami only three or four I* t sway Then man ami wife cast off th< i*»pv. sci/cd longpolv*. and prvMUitly Uh boat slowly moved down the lak« tu Uh north I'hr lak« appcwivd to be aland Uuvr mile* with- by fixe long, and was •hut in by tlu Iviim fon>t Thr view * | had thrxxugh the open door •nd thr chinks I»r<wren the log* showed im tlu*i tin cruft xx xs kt pt near the shore U hih Uh propi - vmrd in no .o d hurry to get down th. lake, they kept the ow moving at a fair pace until wr wen a I-’Hit three mile* from the plate were we ir. end talked V tiding xva* thru I’..- . i« iu the imuih of a crtxML and the a, w wm* rut ire<\ hidden from <’\{ht of t. you on the lake ac..f tour ami vVtMi '■mall pleasure sU-tnuer* caim up from th. main rixrra* far this 1; wr.' mid »f:eimx n when thr Nxat wa* made frM The >«in and swelling luml now entirely departed fr >rn my hand •nd arm ami thr h<*l ph - filing which hud < >mr uvrr tm when first captured ha/l given way to a determination Uihclp mVM !f out of th* sr-raje- If I could get j hold of my rifle I would be a maU h for i thr whole four of them I < ounteri them four Ix-cftUM- thr lx>y and girl had ! hunting knivrs, and would surely take I part in any M-rimmagr brought on. I hrir ' L»ok* an<f im tiona proved thia. They J line*! their plm «•* directly in front of inc, and their rv< * never left me for a aerond They held their knives as if they eipected an attemj/t to eacapr, and meant to thrust and cut if I tried it While thr boat wan moving there wm noahow forme A wore of alligators, >me of moh*trous size, follow <•<! ua in j *< <-hsion, and I had but to look out uixm th»- lake to realize that it wan alive with these fierce reptile One who jumjHMl or fell overlxjard would be >w'izr<j aa noon as h<- struck the water. Not a word wan addressed to me until th*- lx>at had liecti tied up. Then the man * amc in, took a single barreled rific from under the other b*-«l. and. after a few hurried wor<ia with the woman outride, junqw**| aahore and disappeared. Wh* fi he ha<l gone the woman entered, lighted a pip*', and, sending th*- lx»y out side to watch, she sat down in his place with the cocked n-volver on her lap She had a far e which l>etrayed the mind of a Iwast. “Wi 11, what are you going to do with met" I n-ik' il after a while. “Feed you to the alligators,” the re plied. “Where has your husband gone!” “To kill the other two men.” “What do you want to murder us for? We have in no way injured you." “We was whipped and dniv out of the settlements, and we want revenge,” she growled. “But we had nothing to do with it,” I protested, in a firm tone. “Can’t help that. You come poaching on our claim, ’ she answered. “But we’ll go away." “I guess you won’t. We never let any one git away to tell on us!” I said nothing further, but I by no moans looked upon myself as a dead man. If worst < ame to worst I would give them a tight. I could not move then, with knife and bullet ready for me, and deemed it wiser to settle back and bide my time. The man had been gone alsiut half an hour when the faint report of a rifle came to us through the trees. The woman had been listening for it, and as it came she gave a start and cried out: “There goes one of ’em.” “Who?" I asked. “One of your partners. Dan has dropped him for sure.” There was such a fiendish, blood thirstv look on her face that I was ap palled, and the same expression, to a certain degree, rested on the faces of the children. Likt jlogs, they licked their chops in anticipation of a bloody feast. In-nlsiiit half an hour the man appeared. He had a bundle of clothing in one hand ami two rilles and a revolver in the other. “(Jit one?" the woman asked, as he came aboard the ungainly craft. “Yes.” “Didn’t git the Isith!" “No. The other got away. I’ll git him to morrer,” he replied “Git much?” “Lots.” He had in his hand the suit of clothes, rille, and revolver belonging to one of mv men George Sheen, of Mobile. There were blood stains on the clothing, and as he unrolled the bundle 1 saw a bullet hole through the vest. He had killed the man and then stripped him stark naked. Yes, he had ls>oks. socks, hat. collar, everything. The other man was Kols rt .Jackson, of Chicago, who had worked with me for years. He hid not “got” him. Why! Jackson was well armed and a brave man If he had been present at the shooting of Sheen, he would not have runaway Sheen had an old-fashioned rifle, Jackson had a Winchester. He would ili turn have killed the outlaw. The two men must have been separated, and the outlaw must have ambushed Sheen Leaving the children to watch me, the man mid woman now cast the scow loose and jaded her out about 300 feet from shore. The sun was getting well down, mid our side of the lake was in a deeji shadow When the scow had been an chored by a stone, the jatir inspectisl the personal jimperty mid counted the money taken from the victim. The outlaw then washed the blood from his hands. When they entered thei abin, or house, the woman prodi . cd soiAe cold meat and hoe< ike and threw hunks to each one, including myself. It was only after the provisions had disappeared, I eating mine with the rest, that the man addressed me “Sec yere. stranger,” he said, “what brought you up yere?” “laaiking over lauds,” I replied. “I ni' Who lie you?" I told him. “Didn't count on soon' Black Dan, I reckon(" he sma nd No." “Which is imfortmiit fur you. I've killed every land hunter who ever sot fut on my claim, mid 1 11 keep killin’, sure." “We didn't i oim hen to disturb or annoy you." I said “It’s jist the same thing I'm down on the hull human race fur the way I’ve bin used, and I'll kill whenever I kin git the chance. I've drvpjaal one o’ you're fellers. To morrer I'll droji the other, and then take keer of you Git over thar and lay down.” “Over thar" was the far corner, and entirely out of reach of niy Wimiiester. When I bunked down in my owner the gun was removed entirely, and the family lay down in such away as to hem me in. j For the first three or four hours they were liki .at', starting upat the slightest move, but towanl midnight I was satisfied that all were asleeji. I could not reach the th-arms without stepping oier the bod ies ,nd they knew that any effort on my |ant to loosi n a low would amikse them Ibout midnight after a long and cau tious effort. 1 sat up It was a starlight night, and. as there was no door to the cabin. I could see out. I was fully de tetminid to make au effort to r scajw, but when 1 came to canvass the chances, 1 had to abandiir. the idea. The alligators were esmstantly about us, often rearing up to j»aw at the logs, arid unless 1 could get hold of the tiivanus and begin the ! fight, I should l>e wrja-d out in any effort I made. I think I "lept for an hour or two, and what aroused me I cannot tell. I win still sitting, and, as I looked out ujron the night I saw a human figure draw itself up on the l>ow« of the boat. 1 at Unit suppoaed it was one of the fam ily. but a moment's observation convinced me to the contrary This figure moved ' cautiously, a» if dewiring its presence un known, and was a long time in reaching the door. It then leaned against the I logs and marie a long survey of the inte rior. and finally sank out of sight. My : heart was beating like a trip-hammer, and I could not fathom the mystery Wu it an Indian or another outlaw? Moving so cautiously, what object had he in view ? Had I once thought of Jackson, I should not have dared to hoi»e he had come to my reacue through that water; and, too, I could not have believed he knew of my whereabouts. From the time I first caught sight of the figure to daylight was probably an hour and a half, but it seemed to me as if I liverl five years. I had no hopes that the man was a friend, and yet I could not hack for a new enemy. Perhiips, after ’ all, it was only one of the refugee negroes, |of whom scores were hiding in the swamps, who had marie his way to the scow in hopes to lay hands on provisions or clothing I kept my eyes on the sjx>t where I hud last seen him, and, as he did not reappear, begun to feel that he had slipped buck into the water and returned to the shore. Did you ever watch the coming of day light when you felt that with it might come some life or death transaction? The first signs came from the birds. Then, afar up the lake, came the cries of water fowl. A fox or some other animal stood on the shore near where we had tied up the night before and barked in an angry voice. The stars paled and drifted out of sight, and the interior of the cabin began to light up until I could distinguish the forms of the sleepers. Where was the strange man —friend or Lenemy? As if in response to my query ; he suddenly rose up, stepped noislessly inside the door, and next instant a re volver began to crack and a voice shouted at me: “Keep down, Colonel; hug the floor!” I rolled over on my face and I heard yells, screams and groans. It was idl over in thirty seconds, and some one ' called: “All right, Colonel; I’ve wiped the varmints outl” “I sprang up to find Jackson standing in the centre of the cabin, and on the floor lay outlaw, wife and children, all i dead. It was as I had argued the day ' previous. The two men had separated in the woods- Sheen to return directly to ' camp and Jackson to hunt for game for supper. The outlaw had ambushed Sheen and killed him, and Jackson had heard the rejsirt of the gun and become suspicious. He hurried to camp to find rne gone and everything taken, and had traced us to the lak He found indica tions to prove that a boat had been used, and hud followed the shore of the lake down until he found the scow nt anchor. Not one man in n thousand would have shown his nerve. He knew of the alli gators, could see a dozen of them moving about, mid yet lie disrobed, tied his weapons across his head, and swam stpiight for the scow and reached it un molested. He saw that the only way was to wipe out all the gang, and as soon as daylight would guide him he began his work. When we hud buried our comrade we made a close search of the floating cabin, and we found indisputable proqf of the murder of five or six jiersons. In an old wooden bucket were two gold and three silver watches, several pocket knives, half a dozen rings, and $825 in gold, sil ver mid greenbacks. As none of these articles could be traced back to their owners, mid as vengeance had overtaken the murderers, we felt no hesitation in taking possession of everything for the benefit of Sheen’s widow. The lust act was to set fire to the scow ami push it out into the lake. It was as merciful to consign the bodies to the flames ns to see the alligators tight over them. Such human wolves did not de serve burial. The Sea's Natural Powers. The sea occupies three fifths of the surface of thy earth. At the dejith of about 3,500 feet waves are not felt. The temperature is the same, varying only a trifle from the ice of the pole to the burn ing sun of the equator. A mile down the water has a pn--sure of over a ton to the Mjuare inch. If a box six feet deep were filled with sea water mid allowed to evaporate under the sun there would be two inches of salt left on the bottom. Taking tin- average depth of the ocean to be three miles, there would be a layer of pure salt 230 feet thi< k on the bed of the Atlantic. The water iscolderat the bot tom than lit the surface. In the many liavs on the coast of Norway the water often freezes at the bottom before it does ! above. Waves are ven deceptive. To look at them in a storm one would think the water traveled. The water stays in the same place, but the motion goes on. Sometimes in storms these waves art forty feet high, and travel titty miles an hour mon- than twice as fast as the swiftest steamer. Tin- distance from valley to valley it is said is generally fifteen times the height; heuee a wave five feethigh will extend over seventy-five feet of water The force of the sea dashing on Bell Ko< k i' said to be seventeen tons for eat h square yard. Evaporation is a wonderful power in drawing the water from the sea Every year a layer of the entire sea. fourteen feet tliiek, is taken up into the cloud' The w inds bear their burden to tin land, and the water comes down in rain upon the fields, to flow bm kat last through rivers The depth of the sea presents uninteresting problem. If the Atlantic were lowensl ti,5M feet the distance from shore to shore would be half as great, or 1,500 miles, say 19,080 feet, there would lie a road of dry land from Newfoundland to Inland. This is tin plan on which the irrvat Atlantic cablt ' were laid The Mediterranean is comparatively shallow. A drying up of t>t>o feet would leave three diffen nt seas, and Africa would lw joined with Italy. The British channel is more lik< a jwind, which accounts for its choppy waves.— Itulff/rndent. The Belle Meade stock fann m ar Nash ville. t'enn.. ha' a deer jxark of -125 acres, containing 200 deer. | NEWS AND NOTES FOB WOMEN. New fringes are tijipr-d with fur com*. Fashionable boot* have low squaro 1 heels. The London < raze for pincushions con tinues. The dull red jackets are inerenaing in nuni!»er. ( Jeweled ornaments arc much worn in I the hair. Woolen fabrics are certainly in the ascendent. Little chased gold balls are a favorite for earrings. New weavings of lace are marvels of beauty and ingenuity. The handsomest woman in Italy is said to be nearly seven feet high. The largest butt-ins are not used by those who use the best taste in dressing. Violets are the favorite flower, al though any arrangement of roses is proper. Muffs are as small as possible, scarcely large enough to hold more than one hand I at a time. Neither otter nor sable are liable to go out of fashion unless perchance the sup ply gives out. The wife of the Japanese minister is said to lie the most exjK-rt needlewoman I in Washington. Exquisite fabrics are in larger variety i than ever before,and every shade iinagin * able is to be seen. Indoor dresses are now made somewhat ■in the style of a monk’s dress. They are I very becoming all the same. American women are charged in Eng i land with tilting their hats over the fore head whether worn low or not. A useful undergarment, especially for ' wearing under walking dresses, is an ' elastic ribbed silk jack with long sleeves. A school for girls is to be soon estab lished in Saltillo, Mexico, under the pro tectorate of the government of Coluihuila. Men are scasce in Dakota. Mrs. Jack I son, of Bismarck, was compelled to clean 1 out her own well, and it caved in and killed her. Delicate linen cambric handkerchiefs, with fine hemstitched blocks and border ed with Valenciennes lace, range in price from $2.75 to |25 apiece. A bonnet of of silver gray plush has a coronet brim and plain crown. It is trimmed with bows of picot edged silver gray faille ribbon and a gray aigrette. Now the ladies have adopted the coach hat, and it will be more difficult than ever to recognize the ultra-fashion able woman from a man at a distance. Miss Jane Bancroft, Ph. D.. has re signed a professorship in the Woman’s College of Evanston, 111., to accept the chair of history in Bryn Mawr college. Some of the medical papers say that a great deal of quiet tippling, especially among women, is carried on by means of the quasi-medicament called “beef, iron I and wine.” Some of the great milliners of Europe are instituting 5 o’clock teas for their customers, at which they can consult with the milliner concerning their choice of headgear. “English women are to retain their distinctive dress,regardless of the French fashion.” They always did, but they might have improved by adopting French suggestions. A very stylish dress is in brown velvet; the front is of salmon color, embroidered in pearls, a plastron of the same, which is carried as high as the chest, forming the square-cut bodice. At Oakland, Cal., lives Mrs. C. A. Bryant, now aged, once a belle, whom George IV. once kissed and to whom Napoleon 111. is said to have offered his heart, hand and empire. Rush bonnets must be the rage for next season, since anything in rushes is high in favor now in England. The bonnets made their appearance just as the summer season closed. One New York house has adopted the plan of the executive modistes of Paris, and furnishes complete outfits, from the bonnet to the boot, each suit having every garment match in some particular. Fancy ornaments, such as leaves un known to botanists or florists, feathers that no ornithologist would recognize, and other marvels of the millinery art, are gold and silver dusted, and colored metallic powilers are used witli a free hand. At the recent silver wedding of Major M. G. Gushing and wife, of Valley City, D T., among the presents was a model of a ship about a foot long, with masts, sails, etc., all made of silver and sailing ' upon a silver sea. The ship was loaded with silver dollars, one of which was of the coinage of 1798. Although a stanch friend and pleasant companion to those whom he liked, the late Duke of Somerset was to the world at large one of the haughtiest and most reserved of peers, a tit successor to that former Somerset who deducted SIOO,OOO from his daughter’s jiortion because she sat down in his presence without his per mission. Some of tlie new stockings have nov elty. if nothing else to recommend them. One pair shown them have had a lozenge shaped piece of black lace let in on the i instep, others have rows of lace insertion. Some of the new hose have embroidered spots all over them. The new slijipers are calculated to display these stockings to good advantage. "Snickersnee." The allusion to his “snickersnee"made I in Ko-Ko’s song in the “Mikado.” when he tells how artistically he performed an execution, puzzles many people. The majority, no doubt, think the word is merely a fanciful one introduced by the author to designate a Japanese sword, but this is not the ease. In AVashington Irving s "KniekerlxH ker History of New York" it is related how . when stout Peter Stuyvesant assembled the train bands, they came in motley array, bringing with them all sorts of firearms, and bearing also “swords, hatchets. snickersnees and crowbars.” The dictionary says that “snick" means a cut, and that “snee" is a contraction of a Dutch won! meaning practically the sime thing. ■ Snick and sms’" i' defined a> a combat with knives. A snickersnee" is really a kiud of sword. C’.hxuy.. Tribunt. WORDS OF WISDOM. To fiave what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power. Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least. Os all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is by far the most dangerous. Slippery places may fling up the heels of great giants, and little temptations may overthrow well-grown Christians. There is a selfishness even in gratitude, when it is too profuse; to be overthank ful for one favor is in effect to lay out for another. Most men pursue the pleasures, as they j call them, of their natures, which begin in sin. are carried on with danger, and I end in bitterness. The man who is suspicious lives in a j constant state of unhappiness. It would be letter for his peace of mind to be too trustful than too guarded. There were despondent moments when j Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and ( Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the efficacy of their happiest efforts. Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that’destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume. Egotism is more like an offense than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself provided nothing is advanced in ffivor, but I cannot help suspecting that ' those who abuse themselves are, in reality angling for approbation. A man conscious of enthusiasm for ; worthv aims is sustained under petty hos- i tilities" by the memory of great workers who have had to fight their way, not with out wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping. Lapland Customs. About 6 p. m. (on New Year’s Eve), a large dish or bucket is filled with cold i water and placed by the fire. Then the master of the house takes a piece of lead or tin, which is cut into pieces and placed in a little iron pot to melt. Some of the men are then chosen to watch the metal, and when it is melted the master of the ceremony pours it suddenly into the water while he mentions the master’s name. The metal is then carefully taken out of the water and placed on a table or bench. The forms and marks of the metal are then supposed to foretell the fortune or misfortune that awaits the master in the new year. Dark spots mean sorrow and bright spots joy. Then then mistress’ fate is foretold, and so on through the whole household, and, as is to be expected, the last melts are the darkest; and so the last one has, to say the least of it, a poor chance of much good luck coming out of the pot. Some times the last melting is for the house as a whole, aud the metal is often kept by the mistress until next New Year’s Eve, when it is mixed with the new metal in the first melting. This being over, supper, something the same as that on Christmas Eve, is laid: and that being over the old folks retire, but the young ones have plenty to do. Every girl now wants to see what sort of a lover she is to have, and in order to do so sets off to a neighbor’s wood store, (or, if that it too far, it will do to go to the wood stack near the house, only it is not so good,) and when she gets there she must stand with her back to the w ood and take a piece over her left shoulder, which she must not look at till she gets into the house. If the piece of wood is a seemly log, why then her lover will be a handsome fellow, and vice versa. Some times the lads try to read their future in like manner. During these solemn mys teries there must be no talking or laugh ing; nay, not even a smile. There is another way, but it does not appear to be much practiced, as it is regarded as wicked. It is as follows: In a vacant room, such as the bath house, a table is placed in the middle of the floor, and on it are placed two glasses, one containing water, and the other corn brandy. The girl who wishes to know her fate takes a broom and sweeps the room carefully three times againtt the sun. and before she has finished her third round her lover's apparition will appear, and accord ing to the glass he drinks out of, so will he be a sober or drunken man. Before going to bed some folks pull of their shoes and throw them over the left shoulder toward the door. If the shoes point to the door then the thrower will either die or remove during the new year, and vice versa. Noten «n<Z Queries. One Shelf Left. “Your note on the magnificent and ro mantic mise en scene of the late Spanish king’s obsequies call to my recollection,” remarks a correspondent, “a visit which I paid to the escurial in 1863, when Isa bella was on the throne, and the little ‘prince of the Asturias’ a puny child of six. The ‘Panteon’ under the high altar has been described by Macaulay in his account of the last days of the idiot king, Charles 11. There, each on a shelf in the octagonal grotto, stand ranged the black marble chests containing the embalmed bodies of the kings. My companions and I pointed out to the attendant verger that there was only one shelf left. ‘Yes, said the man, ‘and we have a.tradition 1 that when that is filled the kingdom will end.’ The tradition is not likely to be forgotton, and it will be curious if it does not turn out one of those prophecies which \ aid their own fulfillment.”— PnJl Mall i Gazette. The Last Straw. All ill known to physic, from toothache to phthisic. He suffered with torture ihtense, A cancerous hummock invaried his stomach. His rheumatic pains were immense: He was sick with miasma and choked with the asthma. An al»ws had eaten his lung. ; And there was a rumor, a gigantic tumor Had grown on the roots of his tongue: I The keen meningitis, the choking bronchitis. Both torturerl him nearly insane. And a cross-looking bunion, as large as on onion. Made hnn howl for whole hours in pain. He had ■healers." physicians and loud quack magicians. And nostrums and pills by the ton. And medicine mixers, with' all their eliXi®. Be-doctored the fellow like fun. They would drug him ami swill him, vet nothing could kill him. Their efforts combine. 1 he defied. Till a famous soprano, with a rattling piano Moved into his house—then he dicxE —Philadelphia Item. Abphalte Laks.—ln about the centei of the Island of Trinidad, a dot in the Caribbean Sea, just off the coa*t of Ven •zuela, there is an asphalte lake. It i e ■aid to cover about one hundred acres, and is apparently inexhaustible. It is » black, sandy substance, and is believed io be crude rotten petroleum. A singu lar feature of the substance is that al though about fifty thousand tons are taken out annually it continually fiffj up, so that there is no lessening of the supply. This singular lake of paving i ( leased to a company in Washington, D. C. Prof. C. A. Donaldson, of Louisville, Ky., the well-known pioneer, in eighteen years spent SIO,OOO in trying to get rid of bis rheumatism and failed. At last he used St. Jacobs Oil, was cured and sold his crutches. Dakota is crying aloud for spinstere, aid the editor of the Fargo Argus saye “We can accommodate ten thousand girls with husbands in Dakota on ninety lays’ notice, we have published two thousand letters from as many young women, and made as many matches The late State Chemist of Delaware, Prof. Chas, P. Williams, says that Red Star Cough Cure is safe and valuable and contains neither morphia,.opium nor any other narcotic poison. The price is only 25 cents. ■SB Electric Twigs.—A South Amerioat plant possessess electrical properties. 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