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Sienliuel. • • HARLEM (JFX)ROIA PtUIIHIt b KU RY THURSDAY. B*ll«rcl Ob Jh,«l*.iaaa»on. props mo a*. - Twenly-Rve year* ago wt were HO,000.004) people; now »<• are newly •<1.0041000 Then »<■ hurl HI ritie* and town* of over H.ooo inhabitant*, now we have ’.’’’fl of eto h citie» and town*. Then the total population of our eitiea was A,000.000, now it la about 12,000,4X10. In the old days it wa« the duty of English coroner* to hold inquest* not only on death*, but on fires, burglaries arid roblx-ries Inquests on fin* are still , held in .Northuiubr iland, and it is now proposed tore introduce into London the ancient “crowtier's quest law" in the matter of 11 rec Fraiu e has a genuine phenomenon in the person of Profi-ur < hevrr ul, the scientist, Who has pasted his one hun -I red th birthday. Ik doe* not smoke and never tasted spirits in hlalife. He works in hiachemical laboratory everyday and reads without glasses. lie is the oldest working acholw and scientist in the world. Mexico is sai<i to poswss only alsmt 100 factories of all kinds, owing to the pan «ity of water and the high cost of fuel. Thi-si factories employ alsnit 13,000 bands, and those devoted to weaving contain ti'iOo looms and 25<>,0<i<) spindle* The largest cotton mill is nt Queretaro, employs 14 04) hands, and manufactures the unbleachud cloth worn by nil In dlans A recently published Army return shows the total effective force of the British regular army to Is* 201,000. The distributions of this fort-ci* not without it* bearings on the Irish question. Ire land is discontented, and, consequently, there arc nearly 27,000 men, with <lO Held gun", quartered there. Canada ha* i 1,800 and India 03,000 troops. In Egypt thorn arc only 14,000 troops Ijuly Macdonald, wife of tin* premier of Oanula, hu* a private car when shn travel* about the dominion or through Un* United Bt*tc* She was returning from Winnipeg rvt'cntly, her <ar being nttiuhi-d to a ('nniuliitn Pacific train wldrii waa «nowi*d in. Bh<* learned thut tin* regular |»«M*i>g<-r* were suffering from hunger, the regulai dining car l>e ing aid'- truck'tl st Mime -tiition. bbl accordingly ordered her servant* to dis tribute the provision* in h<*r private <*■ among the hungry -ngi r«. anil n lievid their suffering’- until the next elation waa reached, when they provided th<*inM*lv<* with everything that the town afforded A Waahington <orn-*|M>ml<'iit remark* that “pen-oiinl remark* arc usually out ol order, but glancing from 'he re)K>rter»' gallery of the Hom-e over the array of tnrtnlM-r* erowilcil on tin- flaor, one < unuot avoid lieing «uipriM-il by the pre|M>nder ani-e of baldhead* that not only glisten in the sunlight, but impress the cn-ual olmrrver with tin- fai t that baldlieaded ties* must Im 1 one of the inexorable pre requisite* for mi-mIH-i-liip of the |a>pular bram-h Tlii« <l< <nudement of capillary on>um< iitntiou does not seem to be con fined to any one aectioii or degree of lati Hide, but is generally nml uniformly scat tcred throughout the n-prcsentntivi-a fron all part. <>f tin I nion, and without re »pc< t <•( nge. In fact the old nt nu inben <if the Houw . -ill h ns Judf.l- Kellev, I>OII. ill 1814, ex Governor Curtin and General W iiltoixl, bom in 1817, |*’sses* com para lively full heads of hair, while inm l> younger menilrcr* appear to have been sub jected to the smul pa)M-ring process The veterans account (or this by alleging that in olden times they did not stand or their head" no profusely s« ut present. Lieutenant Grei-ly i. jHih ips the only prominent Arvtii trim Iler who now nd Value, tin theory advocated by Maury. Kane, and Hay- that there is an <qs-i polar sea Hi* faith in this gem-rally di»cnrd<*d hypothesis rests rqion the fact that !«■ we flis la-rgson which were large aton<«, establishing their terrestrial origin. From their (wahion he argues that tin y could not have formed n part of tin gla< in! icv cap of Greenland, ami In- Is lu vc* they floated southward from an ie<- covered li.ial near tin pole. He lulvnm -si hrs vii «s on this subji 11 at s ( veral of the public meeting* he recently addr* «eil in Orest Britain, and strange to say, uoneof the great Arctic authorities who wen pn s, nt. ami who him steadily ridiculed th-' action w|, , h l.nutenant Maury pro pounded, attempted to ixnnbat Ijcuten aal tin■ y -th. ■. , , , V p|*in the p 1..- noim-na l>< ftesirilad. Dr John Rai. however, h. - Sim t - i,| that Go, ly’s fliatargs may him l-cen derived fi-irii num* nwniass-e. of sta-w piling up against ssMin high and pr< q ,t. us bit of «*sa»t. wliich gradually Ih-siu- solid icv, and then tsccoaimg deti'-hvj from tln land drifted away aafrvsh wat rfioolx-rga —a pn*-vs* w hich, he says, he has seen in opt-ralijn on t!.» uotheru cxsct of tin* continent. A musical aewing machine is a new de* vice for making life pleasant. A Berlin inventor ha» prodiwvd a machine which turns out the ordinary amount of work, and at the snnie time play* lively melo dies in great variety. One machine might Im* charming in a house, but a iiumla i in a shop might prod nee anything but a harmony of sweet sounds, unleas they were all set to the same tune. In the eherni< al death chamber of un claimed curs at Biithrsca, Ixmdon, the dogs trot into the tempting room, “lie down, coil themselves round and round, fall asleep," and mi go to that bourne whence no four footed traveller returns. This hllial ikaml* r is filled with narcotic v.qsir, produced by passing carbonic oside over u surface of nmi -thetie mix ture conqioscd of < hlorofonn and bisiil phidc of < iirlnm. Giianling Wall Street Wealth. Thousands of peilcsiriaris move to and fro past tb<* *l >< k i v< huiigi- and about th< money cent' r of the city car h day, says tin V> r y„rl. Hz/-/. Solid old finan ciers, who*'* ch<*< k would be taken un questioned lor a million, < rime and go. Dapper clerks, who look like millionaires on stc< n dollars u week . messenger boys by the wore flit hither and thither with hands full of bond* oi other securities making deliveries according to contracts aurl sales arranged on the exchange floor. Bank agents, with small fortune* often in the l upin ions jxirtinonnaic* strapped to their waists, going to the clearing house to make good the daily balances, while every lew moment* cotnea the him liering wagon pushed along the sidewalk conveying the cash from Tncle Sam's r ollectmg counter at th<* custom house to I'ncle Sum'* strong vault Im*low the sub treasury. <>n every side is wealth, yet attempts at robbery an- very rare, ami successful ventures at thievery acarect still. Tin* fin I is that every face passing along Wall street I* *< untied. It is a great place for seeming loafers ami loun gers. Curbstom brokers have the sem bianco of loungers. 4 lerks enjoy a cigar ette on the sidewalk. So a lounger mon or less is not noted. But all who appar ently loaf about with little to do are not loafers. They are sharp-eyed detectives, to whom the face of every crixik in the Country is known, and who are constant ly on the lookout for those faces. When Inspector Byrnes reorganized tin* detective force of the city and made it a real terror t * the criminal classes, he paid piirticulnr attention to Wall street and its neighborhood. He knew it offered gn at temptation* to bold robber* of the Dutch Heinrich tV|n-, who grab the Ihioillc in a banker’* or broker’s office, and then fight th' ir wav out and off. The stock i*x< haflge readily grunted him all the aci'ominodation he wished, and in a very snug room in the exchange build ing overlooking Wall street is the room set apart for tho city detectives. It is in fact, a bureau of the central office or ganization, and it* establishment was one o. tin* first step* taken by Inspector Byrnes on assuming control of the ununi formed men at headquarters, lie lame quietly into tin- street, hired n room :i» No. 17, but the fact of his presence soon Ix'i zune known to tin* -to<k cxchiuigw officers, and President Bratton Ivors at once invitisl tin* inspector ami his men to ix'cupy the room now in their possession. The district geographically extend* from Fulton str< 1 1 down to the Battery, and alsmt a dozen nrn, on an average, cover it, though nt times the force is much in en-ased. A Deton Green-Grocer. The gn en grocer's wn* u roomy shop, deliciously fragrant, redolent of in rl-s und some -pices, mid presided over by a good humored man and his wife, who had a very distinct love of their call ing. Mrs, It cultivating certain vegi - tables in her strip of garden back of the shop, and being the very first net-son in town to display bunches of primroses or have good “sea kale." Likewise to lie obs, rved in Mr B was the difference in his manner when you bought his [situ toes or greens, and when, in his second calling of waiter, lie handed you vour soup or pudding at the small winter din ner parties given in town. In the shop he was affably di-iursive, touching the onions or givens with a can-less hand and fn-e, light hearted manuer. At a dinner table h- was curiously solemn, and occa sionally looked as though he defied any one pn-s, ut to suggest that his name hung our u shop in the High Street. Th-- fact that In- sold you |H>tatoes for twopem-e a pound was never to lie con founded with the other mon' imposing fait that for five shillings an evening, at final in an inepma- liable costume, he waited on M-lwt dinner parties mining the smaller gentry of the place. When the n-al spring Iw-gau to show itself, the little grxvii gr-H-ery bail an inxehaustibh-fascin ation for me. The ganl< n was so s|sinta iicously gay and flourishing, am] it* one bit of warm 'outhi-rn wall so early stood hung with blossoms, and B and his wife, moving about toward sunset among the small garden lied* and modest vines, Wi-rv atch pi. tun -of honest, home ly e-ui , tent, that I waa always inclined to linger after 1 mad. my ;un has. s, o U the < veu~s cd making an inquiry into the con ditiou of asjiaragus and l-.-Uuoe. —Ziiey Lilin, in Hisrper't, Walt fl»r Mo. Baa ward run* tba Uttla atraam Wbara th* wagnoar coob his team, Wbara, between tba banka of moo, Ktarxl the stepping atonaa to Croat O «r them come* a llttla maid. Laughing, not a bit afraid; Mo'har, there upon the shore. CruMud them safely ju*t before. Tbt* the little laaale* plea - Wait for me, wait for met Ah, ao *wift the water* run— One false step twas ail undone; Little heart begin* to beat, Fearing for the little feet, Soon her fear w ill all be lost, When the stepping stones are crossed, Three more yet on which to stand— Two more* one more—then on land! Ti» the little laasie splea— Wait for me, wait for me! Ab, for you, my laughing las*, When the year* have come to paw, Muy One (till tie near to guide, While you (tosh Life’* river w ide, When no helping hand is near, None, if you should call, to hear— Think, however far away, Mother still knows all you say; E'en in heaven faessis your plea— Wait for me, wait for me! --O. C. Hinyhaen, in Washington News* A Treasure Os the War. BV AN EX-CONFEDERATE. When Johnston was falling back before Sherman’* advance through Northern ileorgia, and before the conflicts at Lost and Dine Mountains, I was continually on tho front with a band of scouts. We penetrated the Yankee line* time after time, but always to return to headquarters with the same report. Sherman had one of the grandest armies in the world, and he was in such strength that he could tight Johnston in front and pass his flanks at the same time. Dm* day, when scouting between Mari etta and Etowah River, the Federal cav alry passed and cut off my retreat by the highways, and for six or seven hours I was obliged to secrete tnyself in a thicket. It was in leaving this hiding place that I came across a dog which was doubtless owned in the near vicinity, but had been frightened into the woods by the skir mishing. He took to me kindly,and had dogged my heels for half an hour when he suddenly leaped aside and began paw ing the ground at the foot of a large beech. I halted for a moment and saw that the earth was fresh as if a grave had been dug. It was but natural to con clude that some one' had been shot near by and that his comrades had given him burial. L'jion closely examining the tree 1 found the fresh-cut-lines: “D. S. G.” They were not where one would have looked for them, but within three feet of the ground. I hud no doubt whatever that a dead man rested there, and I picked up a dub and drove the dog away under the impression that he was hungry and determined to get at the body. I succeeded after a couple of days in get ting back into the Confederate lines, and the incident did not recur to me for long years. One summer’s day in 1870, while I was going from Rome to Cartersville, I formed the acquaintance of a stranger who gave | his name as Charles Gains, and who claimed to be a Virginian. He said he was looking for improved land, and had been advised to locate near Marietta. This story was straight enough, except that 1 did not believe he was a Virginian. He hadn't the look nor the dialect, and when I came to quiz him about certain locations around Richmond he soon be came confused. 1 was then a detective in the employ of several railroad lines, and it was only natural for me to ask myself why this man had lied to me. I took pains to let him know that I was willing to answer all his questions, and directly he began asking aliout the section of country between Marietta mid the Etowah. He wanted to know the value of land; if much forest had been cleared since the war; if there had been any finds of treasure around Marietta, and various other things. He worked the answers out of tne without seeming to be mon- than generally inter ested, and w hile I was somehow suspic ious of him. could not exactly determine on what to place my finger. But he had lied. Why? I kept asking myself this question, but could not answer it. He had a ticket to Cartersville, and be foie we rea< hi d that place I had made up my mind to go with him to Marietta. What decided me was this: He sat on the outside of the seat and a passenger going to the water-cooler knocked his hat off It rested for a moment in the aisle, and I plainly road the name -'Bos ton" inside in gilt letters. The name of tho maker was above it, but I could not catch it. No hat sold in Richmond would lu ai the urnue of Boston. Where did he get it? By and by 1 made a care ful examination of his boots. He never bought them south of the Ohio. I de cided the same in regard to his clothing. He was trying to diveive me. What ob ject could he have in view ? When we reached Marietta both of us went to the same hotel. I thought he began to tight shy of me and I took pains to keep out of his way. During the evening he asked several townspeople in , regard to the country north of Marietta, and engaged of a livery man a saddle horse for the nest day. I did a heap of thinking that night over the stranger’s case, but when morning came I was none the wiser for it. Hi* horse was brought aroumi after breakfast and be rode off. I was tempted to get another and follow him, but by what right? What had he done or what was he going to do? I went up to my room on an errand, not yet decided whether to go or stay, and in the hallway my foot struck a memorandum book. I carried it into my room, and the first thing my eye caught was the name inside the cover, “George Paige.” It was a well-worn liook, and nearly full of en tries. Most of them seemed to relate to trips between Boston and Providence, but near the back end I found on-. read ing: “Abput ten miles north of Marietta, Ga.; turn to right where highway bends to left; go into woods alzout ten rods; look for twin beech tree, w*ith initials ‘D. 8. G.’ cut low down.’’ My heart gave a jump. That was the spot where the Yankee cavalry run me into hiding, and these were the initials I had seen on the tree! Had this stranger come down to unearth a skeleton? I was wondering over the matter when I heard the clatter of hoofs and knew that he had returned. He hail discovered the loss of his book. Now, then, I did what you may call a mean trick. I pocketed the book, got down stairs without being seen, and went to the nearest Justice and de manded a warrant for the arrest of George Paige for robbery. Before he had ceased looking for his lost memorandum a con stable made him prisoner. Meanwhile I had engaged a horse and wagon, bor rowed an empty tea-chest and a spade, and, as Paige went to jail, I drove out of town. I wanted to unearth that skeleton myself. It was six years since I had left it, but I had but little difficulty in finding the grave, although the beech tree had been cut down. Indeed, I walked almost straight to it, and, though the initials wore indistinct, they were there as wit nesses. In half an hour I had unearthed the “corpse." He, or it, consisted of a rotten coffee-sack wrapped around a moldy blue blouse, and inside the blouse were three gold watches, $420 in gold, $1,203 in greenbacks, half a dozen gold rings, a fine diamond pin, two gold bracelets, a gold-lined cup, a full set of cameo jewelry, a solid silver back comb, and abont four pounds of silver spoons and forks, the whole find being worth to me nearly SB,OOO. The stuff had been deposited there by two or three or perhaps half a dozen fora gers, and much of it had been stolen from the dead on the battle fields. When the treasure had been secured I drove on to Cartersville, and from thence sent the horse back and telegraphed to Paige my regrets at his situation, as I had discovered my mistake in accusing him. He was held a day or two and discharged. He rode out to the spot, found the treasure gone, and left the State without a word as to what his real errand hail been.—Detroit Free Press. Genius of the Mexican People. The Mexican government, poor as you call it, nevertheless supports 10,000 pub lic schools, where you can see the poor Indian boy with his slate and primer, as well as the young man or young woman, solving problems in mathematics, chem istry, etc., with facilities equal to many colleges in the United States. If you pass through the Academy of ! San Carlos you will see pictures executed by native Mexican artists in the highest style of art, comparing most favorably with any production of the academies of design of Paris, Rome, Munich, or elsewhere. Go with me, if you please, to a narrow lane in the small but picturesque city of Guernavaca. and there in a small room, working with inipliments of his own make, you will observe a native, whom you would perhaps class among the peons, carving a crucifix in wood, so highly ar tistic, with the expression of suffering on our face so realistic that any foreign sculptor of the highest renown would be proud to call it a creation of his own. Again, visit with me the village of Amatlan de los Reyes, near Cordoba, and observe the exquisitely embroidered hui pilla of some native woman, surpassing in many respects the designs of the art needlework societies of New Y’ork or Boston—not to mention the fine filagree work, figures in clay and wax. as exe cutes! by the natives in or near the city of Mexico, the art of pottery of Guada lajara, the gourds, calabashes, anti wooden trays highly embellished by na tive artists whose sense or acceptation of art is not acquired by tedious study at some academy of design, but is inborn and spontaneously expressed in such* creations. Only yesterday, in my walks about town. I entered the National Monte de Piedad, where I heard the sweetest and most melodious -trains from agrand pianc of American make, and beheld, to my i astonishment, that the artist was a na- I live, a cargador, or public porter, clad in cheap sombrero, blouse, white cotton trousers, and sandals, with his brass plat. | and rope across his shoulders, ready to carry this very instrument on his back tc i the residence of some better-favored ■ brother from a foreign land,— Mexican \ Financier. CELESTIAL_ HUMOR. Some Illustrations of Chinese Wit and Fun. Stories With a Familiar Ring, and Others With an Oriental Flavor. The China review publishes a collec tion of Chinese humorous anecdotes, se lected from the “Hsiao Lin Kuang,” or “Book of Laughter," some of which are interesting because they are identical with stories familiar to western civiliza tion, while others have a peculiarly Celes-. tial accent: Two persons standing over a stove on a cold day, warming themselves, were over heard indulging in the following dialogue : No. 1, apathetic, and given to verbiage, addressed No. 2. reputedly hot-tempered and decisive, whose clothes he noticed smoldering, as follows: "My dear friend, there is something I would like to speak to you about; I have seen it for some time, and all along have wanted to tell you, but as people say your temper is fiery, I hesitated; on the other hand, if I do not speak you may be the loser, so I have come to the conclusion at last to ask your jiermission to do so." “Out with it,” said the other. “Well, your clothes are burning,” mildly continued No. 1. “Why the deuce,” cried No. 2 in a pas sion, as he observed considerable damage already done, “could you not speak at once?” “Its true then what people say; what temper he has got,” muttered No. 1, as he lazily moved off. The following is told of an incorrigibly idle offspring of a literary father: A youngster, having a great disinclination to study, was shut up in a closet, w.th strict injunctions to apply himself. Steal ing near, the parent, to his delight, heard the boy droning over his book, and was presently stiM more pleased by hearing the supposed student exclaim: “I un derstand it.” The excited father rushed in, crying out, “I am proud, my son, that you have at last mastered that work.” “Yes,” said the boy, “I always though* books were written, but to-day I have discovered they are printed.” “Come home to dinner,” cried a good housewife to her husband at work in a field. “All right,” he shouted, “as soon as I have hid my hoe.” At dinner his wife remonstrated with him for shouting so loudly about hiding his hoe. “I am certain,” said she, “the neighbors have heard you, and someone has already stol en it.” Struck with the remark, the man returned to the field, and sure enough the hoe was gone. On returning to his house, and impressed with the wisdom of her previous caution, he whispered into his wife’s ear, “The hoe is stolen.” The following impromptu, though con sequent on a fall, can not be looked on as the outcome of deficient understanding. A man stumbled and fell. Trying to rise, he again fell. “Hang it,” he Criedz “if I had known I was to fall again, I would not have tried to get up.” A woman was fanning the corpse of her husband, and being asked by the neigh bors why she fanned a dead man in the middle of winter, she replied : “My hus band’s last words were, ‘Wife wait till I am cold before you marry again.’ ” The feminine propensity for concealing age, and resenting impertinent questions in regard to it, is common to all times and nationalities; but this does not de tract from our admiration of the trick by which the truth was got at in the follow ing instance: A man newly married, thought when his wife unveiled for the first time, that she looked rather old and wrinkled. Telling her so, he asked her i real age, when she replied, “45 or 4G.” “You xvrote in the marriage contract 38 veal's, ' said he, “but you look even more than 45 or 4G.” At last she admitted 54. The husband was still doubtful; so he be thought himself of a stratagem for get ting at the truth. Jumping up he said. “I must cover up the salt before going to bed, or else the rats will eat it all before morning.” “Well,” said his wife, laugh ing, “I have heard of and seen many strange things in the sixty-eight years of my life; but I never saw or heard of rats eating salt before.” A noted liar once told a friend that he had at home three precious things; a bul lock which could run one thousand li a day; a fowl which crowed at the begin ning of each watch, day and night, and a dog that could read books. The friend intimated that he would lose no time in seeing, with his own eyes, these marvels. The man did not expect this, as his house was somewhat distant; so he went home and told his wife that he had got caught at last, and that to-morrow the man would arrive and he would be dis graced. “Never mind,” said his spouse ► --leave that to me; it will be all right’; only you must keep out of sight.” Next morning the visitor arrived, and, bein<- met by the mistress, asked where her husband was. “He has gone to Pekin,” she replied. “When will he be back ?” “In eight or nine days.” “Why, how can hf be so quick?” He has gone off on our fast bullock, and can do it easily.” "I hear you have also a wonderful fowl,” said the visitor, and, behold, as he was speaking, a small cock crew. “That’s it, said the wife, “he crows at the be ginning of each watch, and also when a visitor arrives.” -I would also like sec your learned dog," he said. “Ah « said she, “I am sorry; but you see we ttre very poor; so he keep* a school in t) le city.” A doctor opened a drug store, but for a long time had no customers; at la»t one customer came. When supplying hi* wants, the vender observed that the drug was full of weevils. “What is thiCi said the buyer. “Kiang tsan" (me<iici nal larva-), replied the doctor. “But," said the man, “Kiang tsan are alwuy* dead. ”“Yes,” said the doctor, "but you see they could not remain dead after eat ing my medicine.” A barber shaving a customer’s heafi drew blood, and put one of his fingers on it. Again he made a cut, and put dow n another finger und soon till he had no more fingers free. “Ah,” said he, as he paused in his work, “a barber's is a diffi cult trade, we ought to have a thousand fingers.” How the Shah of Persia Lives. The Shah leads a very simple life, says a Teheran letter to the London He is an early riser, and generally an hour or two after sunrise emerges from the inner apartments, has a walk in the garden, and then receives some Minister* in audience. He is occupied with affairs of State till about noon. He then par takes of his midday meal, eating firugallv and generally of one dish only. takes no wine with his meals, although he has the permission of his medical ad visers to drink it. After the midday meal he retires for an hour or two to tho inner apartments. Very frequently, too he has this meal in the women’s apart ments. He comes out again for three vr four hours in the afternoon and eveninv. Very often he goes out shooting, and then leaves early in the morning and re turns in the evening, having thorougidy tired all his men and animals. In hit leisure hours he likes to read the favorite Persian poets and historical works and books on science and art; he also occa sionally writes poetry, which his own people tell him is superior to that of Hafiz. The unbiased critic can only say that the Shah’s poetry is above mediocri ty. In spite of his having been twice in Europe, where he saw much of the wavs of Kings and Emperors, he has not yet, in Persia, sat down to a meal with any one else, has not yet attended any State dinner, and does not, as a rule, return a salute. His vices are few, his virtues and good qualities ma-ny; although we may say that he is one of the most sensible men in his dominions, and the best ruler Persia has had for over a century. That he has not done as much for the country as it was hoped he would do is not entire ly his own fault, as 1 may show in future letters. An Exile’s Hold on Savages. There is a tale told of a sea captain, who, in a distant corner of the southern seas, visited an undiscovered or unex plored group of beautiful islands. After landing and trading with the gentle na tives, he was astonished by the visit of a white man, evidently a person of mean* and consequence, who, after making himself very agreeable, implored the cap tain to give him a story-book, if he had such a thing in his possession. The cap tain had, and, deeply touched by the pigs and cocoa-nuts which the white ex ile had given him, bestowed on him a copy of the “Arabian Nights’ Entertain ments.” Overcome by the present, tho exile burst into tears, and cried; “You have saved my life, and given me rank and wealth.” On explanation, he said: “I should long ago have been eaten, but while they were fattening me I learned enough of their language to tell a child the story of “Little Red Ridinghood,” The child repeated it, and the whole population were mad with joy. They had never heard a story before. From that day I became great a and honored man. When they had a national festival I sat on top of a hill, and thousands wept (while some elderly relative was being cooked for a feast) at the cruel death ol the grandmother as caused by the wicked wolf. I had with me a volume of 'Fairy Tales,’ and I soon began to set a price oft my performances. ‘Red Ridinghood’ is rather worn; I only get a hundred cocoa nuts for her now; but’ ‘Cinderella’ is still good for four pigs and a turtle, and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ brings six or sev en, according the quality. But with the ‘Arabian Nights’ 1 shall be able to go or accumulating pork to the end of my days.” A Street Car nt Sea. There is a lawyer in Boston who is in the habit at times of addressing individ ual jurymen when inattentive or restless, and sometimes his argumentem ad homi nem is affective. Some time ago he wai trying a case against a street railway company, and there was an old sailor on the jury who seemed to give no heed to what either counsel said. The lawyer made his most eloquent appeals, but all in v.iin. Finally he stopped in front of the su'd r and said: “Mr. Juryman. I will tell y-»u just how it happened. The plantiff was in command of the outward-bound on n car, and stood in her starboard channels. Along came the inward-bound close car and just as their bows met she jumped the track, sheered to port, and knock’d the plaintiff off and ran over him.” The sailor was all attention after this version of the affair, and joined in a $5,000 diet for the injured man.