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JJSrnfind. gWJX-' -Z—- —rr . j HA HI.EM. GEORGIA PVBI.PH El> EVEKY THUKaDAY. Ballard «** Aililuaon. I*llol HILTOK*. Here i» what tl.< Panama Canal Com p.-.uy ha* |Hir<hiM I of machinery: There are, either nt work, en r ute, or in conrae of construction, 20J Izirojxian locomo tive* of 11»,2<M» horn 60 American locomotive* of 4*400 liorw-|x>w<'r, 116 ex cavator*, 28 large tug*, 144 •team pump*, 97 traction engine*, and a vast number of other (team appliances, amounting iu all to 07,400 horse-power. The Philadelphia Press finds rauno for c >ngrat<ilation in the disappearance of another toll-bridge from Pennsylvania. With toll-bridges arc also going In great degree the toll takers of c nntncrcc. Cot ton is now b night and sold by < able be tween Manchester and the interior of Texas on through bills of lulling. And this fact but illustrat' S the completeness with which old frontiers are being broken down by thov wonderful levellers, the locomotive and the t legraph. The dial far es of the huge clock—the second largest in the world -which are to go into the tower of the Public Build ings in Philadelphia, wiil be 26 feet in circumference. The minute hand will be twelve feet in length, and nt the ex piration of every sixty seconds will move over thirteen inches. The hour hand, one foot shorter, will move more than 6 1-2 foot every hour. Chimes of bells will probably Ihj connected with the elaborate mechanism, so that the quarters, halves tnd hours will be musically announced. Aus ralia is a continent of many cli mates, and there are comparatively few products of the soil that can not l*o pro ducer! in one or another part of it. A commission has been sitting at Melbourne to consider what vegetable products can lie advantageously grown in the Austra lian colonics. Mr. Moore, director of tho Sydney botanic gardens, was one of the witnesses, and he recommended the increased growth of the olive, the caper, the poppy, the castor oil tree, medicinal rhubarb, inadder, rape, indigo ami mus tard. A dollar a month will keep a Bengal (India) man alive. Here is certainly the •pot on earth Where contontmcnt, aufli cicney, paradise should lie. A dis tinguished Brahmin recently quoted from official reports the statement that 80.000,000 of the Hindus am always in • state of ra mi-starvation ; that most of the diseases are the result of hunger: that 8,000,000 or 4,000,0<)0 die every eleventh year of acute famine. Over a lar/’i* portion of China a famine is chronic. Only a few years ago 7,000,000 starved to death in one visitation. A San Francisco newspap-r describes • remarkable scene that took place at tho funeral of a young man name I Frank Peachy, in that city, a few days ago. The father of Frank, a man gray-buarded •nd bent w ith age, met tace to face with bis funner wife the mother from whom he had been separate I twenty five yeats. The father resides at lew Angele s and tho mother at Oakland. They had married •gain snd had families Their actions ovei the body of then boy was sad to bchci d. The father tenderly stroked the hail of his son and the- mother kissed tho tipi. Both wept bitterly, but neither recognised the other. At tho grave the old mother knelt down and prayed while the earth was being thrown over her •on's coffin. Not long ago Patagonia wm believed to be one of the most desolate end unin viting parts of the world. Wo have learned w ithin the jtMt three years, how ever, that a great deal of Patagonia is not to be judged by the bleak and ver duroless Atlantic seaboard. Tho Argen tine military cx|>editiona have brought borne some astonishing reports, which •re- uow supplemented by tho discoveries of Col. Fontana. I’hia gentleman, tho Argent hie Governor of tho Chubut province, has put explored the Chubut River from its mouth on the Atlantic coast to its head streams in the C'ordil Icraa, travelling 3,000 miles, and cross ing in various directions a large region extending 250 miles south of 43 degrees South latitude. In a letter which the President of the Argentine R public re ceived from him n few weeks ago, Col. Fantana said that he had discovered manv fertile valleys, well-watered plain*, immense tracts of rich pasturage, a num ber of lak«*. and extensive forests con taining trees of unusual size, "I have found, ’’ he writes, “new lands of a su|m-- rior quality, well adapted for coloniza tion and cattle raising, with a healthful ssUmste, an übuudsnee of woo.l. and useful minerals. This region, 1 believe, is destined to becoino one of the most iMautiful and pnw|<erous parts of tho Argentine possession*.' 1 The country •explored by Cui. Fontana lies jti‘< a lit. tie south of he region* coni-erniag which previous exped.tious tu<kv al. i »t equally jglow ng reports. ' The beautiful late at Clumlrer park, the Duke of Newcastle's place in Notts, lay* the London Truth, was recently drained, and the fish were driven into extensive dam* which adjoin it. The bike has just been refilled and the fish have been restored to their old quarters. AI ton t 12,000 pike were put back, and several thousands of carp and eels. Many of the pike were very large, some of them weighing 40 pounds. There were shoals of tenet an I p-rch, and tho carp were also of immense size. Clumber lake had not been disturbed for two hundred year-, so it is probable that many of the pike and carp hive at tained a patriarchal ago. The biggest fish were carried by the keepers in th ir arms, and those under 30 pounds were conveyed in tank*. A writer for a Hpringfleld, 111., paper asserts that he has recently found in a gravel stratum along the Sangamon river In that State, three rough diamonds of the first water, and at least a dozen to pazes, all found in tho same locality. He also states that he ha* found a large number of pearl* in mussels from tho Sangamon. The gentleman, whoso name is not given, is vouched for as a man of trustworthiness and education, and is understood to have had experience in the diamond mines of Brazil. These stones have already been tested by an ex perience I lapidary and pronounced to be diamond*. Tho topazes arc easily dis" tinguished as such. They arc all largo enough to be cut to fair advantage. While the finder lays no claim to having made anything like an extensive dis covery, he believes occ.xsionnl precious stones will be found wherever this stra tum of gr.vel overliei tho limestone. He is reticent about the exact place of the find, but it is know to be within less than eight miles of Springfield. Expensive Geese. Speaking about Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, a Washington letter to the Cleve land Leader says: Some of his first cases (Senator Mitchell's, in Oregon) were cu rious ones, ami one is spoken of in regard to four geese which were killed by one of the wen thicr citizen* of Portland, and which belonged to a poor German. Mitchell took the case, but, owning to the perjury of the man who killed the geese, he was not able to win it. Ex- Attorney General AVilliams, commonly known at “Latin lelet Williams,” was tho opposing lawyer. After tho case had been concluded Mitchell told his client th.it he thought it likely that the man who killed tho geese and swore ho did not, would boast of how he had out witted them when about the saloons that evening, and that he had better follow him up ami see. He did so, and sure enough, after the defendant had gotten a glass or two of whiskey into him he began to boast of his outwitting the lit tle Pittsburg lawyer, and he said before witncasoi that he had killed the geese, but that they could not prove it against him. Upon this M tchell demanded n new trial, and he got a verdict in his cli ent’s favor. Attorney General Williams carried tho < use to the Supreme Court and in the end, though tho geese were worth only S2O iu the beginning, tho man who killed them had to pay S4OO in costs. Senator Mitchell was in tho United States Senate from 1873 to 1879, and his present term of service will not expire until 18111. B ‘ill Ing the Bound*. The ceremony of beating tho bounds which w.u carried on w ith great display in two or three parishes in England re cently, is very old, says the ZMZI Mall Gazette, and scarcely deserves to be kept jp. Os course any excuse for a holiday is popular with tho boys, and there arc adults who think that every institution that is old is necessarily venerable. The truth is, this practice belongs to a time when average Englishmen could neither read nor write. It was necessary that tho bounds of tho parish should be ascer tained, and the limit kept fresh in tho public mem ry. There wore no civil engineers in Queen Elizabeth s days, and no ordinance survey map in KingMiime’s Both law and custom favored a usage which was necessary for the public weal. Once the procession of boys with their willow wands round a carriage drawn up in a street so as actually to cross the boundary ot the parish. They opened the door of the vehicle, and the beating of the bound* was conducted though the carriage. The owner remonstrated, but the law seemed to be against him. The ceremony i light be less popular w ith boys if the old programme were rigidly carried out. In v ry early times boys were whipped on the parish confine. It was found even before Lhcki's dav that pain was a great aid to memory, and vil lage cronie* or parochial officials had reason to renumber the bounds of theit parishes. The Luckless Friday. It is very probable that not a single sailor lives who docs not belie* i- that Friday s an unlucky day. Captain iltrr.-table, of t. .qas t od, endeavored to disprove th a by laying tho keel of n ship on Friday. 11 ■ launched her en Friday, named her ou Friday and nlwava went to sox on Friday. The war was finally Io ton Friday, and the captain, two luatn* and twclr- seamen were drowned. ; JVey r<««. Rae and Reset. Rm and fom, is it so! Wbsre rose* bloaaom. must rue grow, And shad* tha rr sea as they blow. The row* spread their lovely sheen Ufnn the swelling meadow's grwm, And light the field* with joy eerena Hut in their midst there stands the rue. With saddened mien and ashen hue, And reaches up Into the blue. Rue and rose* must it be! .May not the roses blossom free, Anil joy in sunshine perfectly! Ahl no; for joy i< one with pain; They both must follow in Izrve’s train. And when one comes they l>oth remain So long as love and sorrow m"et, Ho long must rueaud rose* sweet Together bloom, to be complete. —Caroline Hazzard, in Independent THE RUBY NECKLACE. “Come! Come! What the mischief—!” I could say no more, as I slid rapidly down the step* under the impetus of a vigorous shove from the man just coming out of the club. I arose with wrath in my eyes, and then “Harry!” “Fred! Well, this in a surprise— thought you were in Switzerland." “Returned on last steamer. Very sad news. Aunt Jessica died last Wednes day week. You heard of it, I suppose?” “No; I hadn’t. I had been in Florida and just returned. “Very mysterious case altogether, old fellow,” said Fred, after we had ad journed to the smoking-room. “I don’t mean Aunt Jessica's death, although that was very sudden—about her prop erty, I mean. lam her only heir.” “Let me congratulate ” “No, don’t. It isn’t worth while. The fact is, there is no property.” “You surprise me? I thought your aunt was rich?” “So did I,” said Fred, gloomily; “we were not on very good terms and I didn’t know much about her affairs, but I thought she was worth at least sixty thousand. Well, I find a house and some pretty fair furniture, pictures and so forth—say ten thousand all told and no trace of the remainder.” “Hidden in an old stocking,” I sug gested, “or in the family bible or secret panel. I’ve read of such things.” “So have I,” answered Fred, with a sickly smile, “and I’ve nearly torn the house to pieces in tho past three days in my mad search.” “Don’t give it up,” I said encourag ingly. “I won’t,” said Fred. “Help me old fellow, will you?” I said I would, and, of course, I did. Fred and I went over Aunt Jessica’s house, from cellar to garret, turned every blessed thing inside out, explored every nook that could by any possibility contain gold, silver or bank notes, and even ripped up the floor in a dozen places. Nothing! I was iu despair; so was Fred. “Aunt Jessie's fortune is a myth,” I said decidedly. “You had better be lieve it, Fred; it will make it easier to bear. ” Fred thought so likewise, and so we separated; but the very next day he rushed into my office, all ablaze with ex citement. “I am on the trail,” he shouted. “Sit down,” I said, shoving a chair toward him. “Where is it buried!” “Nowhere,” he replied savagely. “It’s spent 1” “Worse and worse!” I cried, in dis may. “Do you mean to say that your i aunt squandered fifty thousand dollars in a year!” “Listen, will you?” roared Fred, “and stop guessing.” You know Miss Car brook? Violet Carbrook? Beautiful girl—very—dashing—sort of companion to Aunt Jessica?” “Yes, well?” “I met her by chance last night, and she cleared up the mystery in ten minutes. It seems that aunt, about six months ago, converted nearly all her property into cash, and realized over forty thousand dollars. Then she bought —you cannot guess what she bought!” “A ship?” “Nonsense —a necklace of rubies!” “What in the name of common sense, did she want with such a thing?” “It is my private opinion,” said Fred earnestly, “that she did it with the in .ention of keeping your humble servant out of her property and she has succeed ed admirably.” “You mean that the rubies have dis appeared?” “Entirely." “Fred'."said I with a gasp, “this is a very re-markable yarn, Who ever saw this necklace?” “Miss Carbrook, said Fred promptly, ‘She describes it as composed of 30 stones of th • finest water, as I can very well imagine from the price forty-five thousand dollars.” “Did your aunt ever wear it?" “Never; she kept it in her dressing ease just like any common trinket.” “Was she the last one who saw it— Miss Carbrook, 1 mean?” “I suppose so, but—see here!” (with great violence) “do you mean to insinu ate that she—” “No, no," I said, hastily, “certainl not; if it has got to that stage I don’t dare to suggest anything. Let us sup- pose that tho earth opsned and swal lowed them!” “It may lie a joke foryou,” said Fred, with a groan, “but it’i a very scriou* matter to me." "I know it,” said I, soothingly, “and I’il go and help you pull down the house any time you say the word. In the meantime let us go down to tho club and take dinner.” We had a nice little din. ner, and Fred'* gloom began to fade under the influence of good fare. Presently he looked up and caught the waiter’s eye. Mr. Spoffard—how do, sah—said the sable attendant with a grin. “Glad t’ s< e you sah! Hope you 'joyed yessup, sah!” “Ah, Henry, you rascal,” said Fred, “I thought you had been hung long ago for your imprudence." “No, sah?” laughed Henry. “Jes the same old Henry, sah—no betta'—no wins. ” “How’s the family, Henry? Wife all well? and tho children—three, Henry?” “Fou’ now, sah, an’ all fust rate, sah, fust rate. The madam's doin' ov nussin’ off an’ on. Wor in 'dendance on yer aunt, sail, in her last illness.” “She was!” cried Fred, with a start, “perhaps—perhaps—pshaw! what’s the use!” “What has hit you now?” I ventured to inquire. “An idea,” replied Fred, “brilliant or otherwise, rem tins to be seen.” “In my present situation I cannot afford to let any clue drop. Wily not seo Mr*. Henry?” “Why not, indeed?" I assented blank ly. “But why?” “About the—you know what," and Fred checked himself as he caught Henry’s inquiring eye. “Would it ba out of place, Henry, if I were to make a call on your wife—say to-day?” “No, sah,” replied Henry; “proud ov do honah, sah. If you’ll wait till six gemtnin, I’ll 'scort you.’’ “Agreed,” said Fred, as he dropped a dollar into Henry’s nimble palm, and we arose from the table and sought the smoking-room. Six fifteen P. M. found us ushered into the neat sitting-room of Henry’s home, confronted with Eliza and four children. We both knew Elizi, so no introduction was necessary’ “Lawd bless you, sah,” she explained in response to the first question, “’deed an’ I wor wid her’ an’ I mus’ say, sah, dat she wor very tryin’—very much tryin’ onter a pusson’s nerves. Sich complaints an' fault-findin’s. Well, sah, I arned my money—’deed I did.” “I don’t doubt it,” said Fred sympa thetically. “But, tell me, did you no tice, anywhere in the room, before or after my aunt’s death a—a necklace of rubies ?” “No, sah,” answered Eliza decidedly; “never seed no sich thing.” “It’s no use,” I whispered to Fred; i “it’s a blind trial.” “So it is,” said Fred despairingly; “let us go.” But we were detained by Henry, who always had an eye to the main chance. “Don’t either of you gentlemen want to buy a dog?” he asked suddenly. The question was so unexpected and so ludicrous, under the circumstances, that we fairly roared. Fred was the first to recover himself, and, wiping his eyes, said: “Yes, I suppose so. Trot him out, Henry.” Henry disappeared into an adjoining room and returned leading a little bull pup, the nastiest creature imaginable. He held it out to Fred, and. to my sur prise, it was eagerly snatched. “How much?” demanded Fred hoarsely. “Fiv Seven dollars,” said Henry, noting his eagerness. In ten seconds Fred had the money in Henry’s hands. Then, with an apparent effort to be calm, and at the same time covering the animal with his top-coat, he asked: “Where did you buy the collar?” “Dat wor mine,” put in Eliza, grin ning. “I foun’ it on de slur ov yer aunt’s room. Purty beads, sah, but they h'int no count. We don’t charge nuffin fur de collar, does we, Henry?” “Not a cent, sah,” said Henry. Once in the open air Fred grasped me by the arm, and, holding up the bull pup to my view, said iu an awe-struck voice: “Look at his collar. It is the ruby necklace!” * * « # » “So you are to be married next month?” “Yes; you will come to the wedding, old chap?" “Os course. Your present to the bride will be, I suppose, a ruby necklace?” “Not exactly; can't afford to carry round so much idle capital, and I’ve con verted the rubies into cash. Violet will wear diamonds. Rubies are unlucky; that is, they nearly proved so to me, old fellow.”—Nine Fbri New*. A Cause for Anxiety. “Mamma, you read the other day that a tiger died of eating sawdust!” “Yes, dear. He swallowed it w : th his food. Sawdust was thrown into his cage to keep it clean.” “Mamma, is there any likelihood of my doll dying? She’s gone and eaten herself chuck full of sawdust."— Ca I , CLIPPIAGS FOR THE CLRIOUL Frogs’ legs from Canadian marshes sell in New York at forty cents a jxjund. Paris to-day has a new pet—not a black tulip, but a green rose. It is a pertcot •pecimen. Against poison,so far as has been hith erto ascertained, the elephant is practi cally proof. The amount of emery stone annually shipped from Smyrna to Great Britain, the United States, France, Germany and Belgium averages 7000 tons, the relative quantity consumed iu each country being 'm the order named. A workshop of the stone age has been discovered near the gates of Paris, and has yielded nearly 900 hand-worked flints, including pieces of polished hatchets, scraper.*, blades, points and ♦.wo or three little polishers. An elaborate table, just completed foi Lloyd's Iley Isler, shows that last year there were built in the nations of the world 692 vessels of over 100 tons each, and 382 of these ships were built in the United Kingdom and 68 in the colonies. Mumps have become epidemic in Mul mer, Canada, and one credulous young man had a halter put around his neck, was led to the creek to drink and was then led seven times around the barn. All this was to prevent an attack of the dreaded disease. It has long been a question of doubt as to how far beneath the surface the roll of the ocean could be felt. A diver at work on the Oregon at a depth of 120 feet found it so heavy that he could not keep his position while making fast to a trunk which was to be hoisted up. In the Ardeune* ten cups of coffee are taken after dinner, each cup having an especial name. The first cup is the Case, which is coffee pure and simple; the sec ond cup, the Gloria, has a small glass of brandy added in place of milk, while the rest have increasing quantities of brandy until the cory de I’etriee or stirrup cup is reached.' Neither photography nor the micro scope was known in the days of Cicero, yet he mentions that the whole of Ho mer’s Iliad had been written on a piece of parchment so small as to be inclosed in a nut shell. A Frenchman, after years of practicing, wrote the four canoni cal prayers of the Roman Church on one of his finger nails. Superslitions About Clocks. Some people are superstitious about clocks. Nor is it any wonder. An old clock comes nearer talking than anything else on earth that is made of wood and metal. How often as boys, or even as men, have we lain awake at night to hear the old clock tick away the minutes and strike the hours. When every one else was asleep we could hear ths old clock untiringly going on with its duty, and wc imagined that it was saying something to us, and then that it was going to stop; and then—well, then we were asleep. But speaking of superstitions, I remember, says F. G. 8., in the Cincinnati Tmes fitar, one night when, with a friend, I was sleeping in an old Pennsylvania town. There was an old clock, such as I have described above, which stood in the hallway. During the night we were awakened by a sudden crash. Then all was still. Nothing was thought of it, but we wondered what time it was, and I looked at my watch. Exactly 3a. m. And yet wo did not hear the clock strike. In the morning we went down and the old timepiece was silent. One of the cords which held the weights had snapped during the night, and that was the crash we heard. The accident had happened at 3 o’clock, as the hands in- | dicated. Nothing was thought of it until my friend received a telegram from home, saying that a brother had died at 3 o’clock that morning. At best it was only a coincidence, and yet who would ; not feel a trifle superstitious over it? Indian Sword Performers. The favorite sword for performing feats in India is the gauntlet-handled pata. The swordsman will first show the keen ness of his weapon, and his command of its weight, by cutting in two a leaf laid flat on the outstretched palm of a friend, or by cutting a cloth hanging loose in the air. He will put one sword on each hand, and, so armed, springing from his feet on the bare ground, will throw somersaults backward and forward, following each movement with a wondrously complicated and simultaneous gyration of both swords around his head and body. He will have i the naked sword, more than 5 feet long, doubled-edired, sharp-pointe.l, and keen as a razor, lashed from the back of his j neck down his back, and will again, from his naked feet, re]>eat the somersaults. Again, with sword and shield in his hands, he will leap headforemost through the stretched-out loop of a rope, held by two men at the height of their heads, as a circus-rider leaps through a paper hoop, and light safely on his feet. Small won der if the gaping crowd of spectators ; applaud vociferously; that the carpet of | the plucky athlete is soon covered with a harvest of small change; and that the | recurring festival*, with these profitable ■ opportunities, prevent the knowledge of the old sword play from dying out. BladcitooJ. CYCLONESAT SE.\. Dreadful Disasters Often Oc casioned by Them. A Hurricane in Whiffi a Fleet was D,. stroyed and 3000 Lives Lost, It is not very remarkable, says the London Telegraph, that ships when norantly or deliberately steered i nto cyclones should lose their masts. p OJ sibly what is most surprising is that ves seis should outlive such tremendous e| e . mental conflicts. A steamer in th- h eart of a cyclone is in no better plight th-n a sailing ship, though it may perlia->, supposed that she w.ll gain a certain mj. vantage from the lightness and slender, ncss of her spars as compared with those of a sailing vessel, even should the latter have her top-gallant masts on deck Tho features which render the cyclone the extremely perilous thing it proves is, first, the veering of the wind, with its enor mous fury at the centre, and, secondly the colossal pyramidal seas which are formed in tie middle of it. There are many cur ou incidents of disaster on record. In the case of the Thalia, for example, very shortly after she had beet* hove to she lost every stitch of canvas, her mizzenmast, boats, wheel, and com pass, had her rudder head split, and sus tained much other damage. Yet her captain, to his credit be it said, found opportunity, amid all the tumult of the hurricane and the fearful cross seas, to note a swing in the wind alternating four or five points, first blow ing northwest and then a little to the southward of west and so on with the regular rhythmic stoke of the beat of a clock. An awful illustration of the power of the cyclonic gale lies in the his toric loss of an Indiaman named the Swift, that was swallowed up in the heart of a revolving gale and vanished as utterly as though her fabric had been formed of vapor. Four.hundred souls were lost in her, but the peculiar interest of her story lies in the circumstance of her having had on board the crew of Her Majesty’s ship Providence that had gone ashore on a coral reef some time before. The vastest calamity, however,for which the cyclone, down to the present time down to even these days of underman ned and ill-found craft of all sort—is responsible, is that of the loss of the prizes taken by Admiral Rodney on April 1, 1782, along with a great num ber of merchantmen and most of the men-of-war convoying the fleet. There were three battle ships of seventy-four guns each, one of 110 guns, prizes of seventy-four and sixty-four guns, amount ing in all, with merchantmen and others, to ninety-two sail. A cyclone burst upon this fleet on September 16, 1781 In those times there was little if any knowledge of the law of storms, and the ships unhappily hove to on the wrong tack. Next day, at 2in the afternoon,a shift of wind of terrific violence took them all aback, and the issue of this memorable storm was that the whole of the men-of-war, with the exception of the Canada, foundered or were abandon ed, while such was the havoc among the mcrchantmen that it is generally accept ed as the greatest naval disaster on rec ord. Three thousand seamen are said to have perished. Our sea captains have plentiful knowledge nowadays of the laws which regulate these terrible storms and the rules laid down for the avoid ance of these inconceivable savage at mospheric outbreaks are so plainly writ ten and so easy of comprehension that disaster befalling a ship from a cyclone may commonly, with little fear of doing injustice, be attributed to bad seaman ship. There are, of course, exceptions, tnd there need be no reason to suppose for one moment that the Huntley Castle was dismasted through stress o:i an ac cumulation of c inditions against which it would be absurd to suppose that the master could have held his own. The ‘Wrayon .K:cket.” The latest scheme for squeezing the Congressmen is what is known as the “crayon racket.” An enterprising but impecunious young artist is accredited with its discovery. There are several others who arc working it with him, and with astonishing success. The crayon racket is played something like this style: The young artist usually finds out something about his intended victim in advance. A vain man is particularly susceptible. After having discovered a Congressman w(th the necessary amount of vanity, and this is by no means a dif ficult matter, he buys one of his photo graphs, which are upon sale in the lobby. Then by means of the solar print process he draws a life-sized crayon. Ten dol lars is a fair price for one of these pictures. After the crayon has been completed he has it framed and takes it to the Capitol. The member is invited to inspect it in his committee room. The artist tells him that his face is such a strong one and shows sc much intelli gence that he drew it from sketches made in the gallery to show what he could do. If the victim desires to pur chase it he wi 1 sell it, frame and all, for SSO. In nine cases out of ten the com bined infl'rence of the flattery and th» crayon gets in its work and the artist makes a very handsome profit upon his investment.— Boston Traveller.