Pittston Gazette

              E.1T % HLI»IIK» lit*, rot. ii,i. ia. n. inlesi\ ews»auel Hi tin wvitn:i!iiD'V.il)t-v PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, DECMBER 20, 1889. A UeeKly Local and 1 am ih Joun ai ) M ;.0 I'tK «A.ll 91 t in AdTKiue "It is down there—the diamond! You jmist wait—months—almost till June." Then growing suddenly she looked wistfully at me, as if to see if 1 were angry with her. treat lum as a possible scounurei, now that the Iii aces admit having taken the diamond?' We turned back, overtoojr Van Hoeck, and told him what had hapjp"H"d. Tlio iDoor wretch was overcome with emotion, not because of the possible recovery of the lost diamond (of which he entertains strong doubt), but in being once more treated as an honest man." NYE SEES THE BALLET. i the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." I use this oouplet In i order to bring up once more the celebrated controversy over it's authorship. I enjoy a controversy very muoh, pro vided J am out of reach with a base-bal mask over my Websterian brow. Sleep woiL sw.-et knave of cap and bells, Tlio Fool'i r.jliUph, DR. TALMAGE IN GREECE. much by the exercise of iliut simple precaution as he could wiuioi.t regarding it. And he certainly do«s stand the most trying wear and teal* better than most men do the ordinary routine of a quiet and uneventful life.^k Our journey from Rome to Naples was of about six hours' duration, and undertaken after only five hours' sleep. I must say that my most sanguine impressions of Italy and matters Italian do not reconcile me to the discomforts and annoyances of railroad .travel in that sunny land. Virtue was rewarded, however, and patient continuance in the train did at length bring us to the city guilty of the proud boast: "See Naples and die." While I cheerfully recognize the beauty of the modern streets of that populous town, I feel obliged to say that these streets resemble those of the same class everywhere else so much, that, beyond mentioning them, nothing need to be said about them. It is in old Naples that one sees monumentally tall, quaintly built houses, lava pavements, antique churches, and shady, inconvenient narrowness of way; this is tolerable, but oht the omnipresent dirt and the indescribable, all pervading stench. What a gay and motley population, and no city could have more varied and discordant noises! The costumes worn by the people, I need not say particularly by the women, are bright and striking and wonderfully diverse. I cannot describe the combination of sounds—laughter, song, stringed music, clinking hoofs of asses and mules, gay converse, chaffering and screaming by sellers of multifarious wares. Naples is a delightful reminiscence to me, at a safe distance from its sights of filth and squalor, its odious odors and—well, one element in its teeming population is the most hated of all forms of life by the good housewife. Louis Klopsch. Sanders. *ttD Ut.un oi' the burning of your church, but it will prove to ypu a blessing in disguise. The sound of your voice is not confined by walls. As somebody said of John Wesley, so I say of you. 'The world is your pulpit and heaven your sounding board.'" C Our brother of the braver heart. Who dared to tDecm the thing In was And scorn the ljypocritic part. After Inspocting- an Ait Gallery He Who capered 'nenth his fardel's weight, And gayly clashed fate's fetter links. And snapped his lingers at life's frown. And bandied humor with the Sphinx. Paya " Nadjy " a Vioit. His Journey by Land and Sea from Naples to Athens. Naturally they were astonished when they heard I had been in the state a couple of months. When I told them I had come there to seek nty fortune, and was farming in the south, where I hoped they would come and stay with me during the winter, Brace sift: CHAPTER XVII, A Mingled Vision of Titian, Kapliael, Giotto, Rubens and Bumni Itallet Girls —A Musical Phenomenon—Fast T-ifo on Klght Uollars a Week. Now did Van Hoepk deserve to be treated as an honest man? That was the question. 1 will give here Brace's account of what occurred in the woods, and as near as I can in his own words: INCIDENTS OF THE TRIP. I ment ioned before that 1 in the morntag was the hour or our emoaricauori from Brindisi The voyage to Patraa lasted twenty-eight hours. One long legged divine did not enjoy it, that part of it, at least, which was-spent in bed. This is what-tie said to me after emerging from his nocturnal quarters: "I long for a bed that will give me enough room to sling my legs around about ten feet, and a blanket big enough to wrap around a house. Those coffins," continued he, "which they rail berths, but little comfort." He had recovered his cordial spirits by the time we were bowling along on a Grecian railroad, making our way from Patras to Corinth. We traveled at the rate of only fifteen miles an hour, it is true, but one does not feel like wanting to hurry when in Greece. Inspired by the prospect of delightful experiences in the Attic city. Dr. Talmage's spirits were exuberant, and the author of the "Life of Christ" wanted to jump off the train and run alongside of it a mile or two for exercise. We cowards cloak our motley garb, Beneath convention's ample fold, And greet our brother's ant!#gi in With alien looks, austere and cold. "Well, I hear there's a livin' to be made ranchin'. but it's a plaguy long row, they do say. Howsoever, it won't be none too long for me to hoe along of you, and so be you're agreeable to bavin' our company, it ain't likely I'll hold off." Lola's eyes dilated with eager delight. I fancy her imagination pictured a retarn of the Transvaal timiD3., tlie happiest she had known, when rnde necessity knit us together in close companionship. I did not think it necessary to undeceive them then, and the next day I took them with me to San Diego. The sun was shining when we got there, and the air was soft and warm; it was like an early day of English summer. The effect on Lola was miraculous; she seemed inspired with new life. I had never seen her so animated and gay. "When we parted company in the wood," he said. "I hunted around for Israel, as was my intention,"you will remember. I found him crawlin' like a varmint of a reptile through the ferns. I fetched him into a convenient spot, and 6ays I, 'Israel,' I ses, 'you air goin' to prophesy what lias gone of the Great Hesner. It's not a hard iob. if you trive ver mind to it. "Tain t nollim' near so bard as prophesying what's goin' to be.' "I had hold on him by the arm. All of a suddent, he flings himself round, grapples on to me, and 'fore I'm aware of anything, I'm on my back, and his two thumbs is inter my wind-pipe. I never thought he'd goi it inter him—such strength and agility—and I'll allow he would have strangled mo ef the Kid hadn't come up in the nick and frightened liim by singing out for you. I did not lose any time, and when 1 had shown I was as strong as him, with a little bit to spare, I got him to prophesy. He wanted a plaguy lot of perswadin', and he'got it; but when he couldn't stand no more on it, he let on that it was inside of a rotten wilier alongside a pond in the holler. I did't know no pond, but I ketched sight of the Kid sneakin' off, end I jest $neaked after her, takin' Israel along case he mighter made a mistake in his jography. There was no walking fast with Israel over the brambles, end I lost sight of the Kid; but it stood to reason tlio holler was down hill, so down I went the way the Kid had gone, nearas I could reckon, and there was the pond and the rotten wilier as he had prophfesied, and there at the foot of the wilier was the empty case, but nairy diamond. I cockea my eye around, and Once more I ketched sigfit of the Kid sneakin' off. I went for her nat'rally, but I might jest as well have went for a tom-tit. She got clean outer sight about the same time's I got outer wind. But Israel wouldn't give up, and we hunted about for the Kid till we couldn't neither of us hunt any more; then we sat down in committe, and, arter pretty warm discussion, we came to the unanimous conclusion that, for the sake of everyone concerned, we had better git rid of the leather case and say notliin' about it. I laid it down that the Kid had not took th'e diamond for mere mischief. She knew, in her own greaser way, that the thing had a power in it to bring happiness to the owner—like a charm. She see that it clothed us decent end lodged us comfortable, and that while it separated you and her, it brought you and squire's daughter together. And we laid it down mutual that the Kid had too much gumtion to pitch the thing away, but would hide it somewhere where she could fetch it bimeby. Now, ef we'd done otherways what would have happened? Van Hoeck ud have declared it was all a lie, and wild horses wouldn'ter dragged the secret outer the Kid. The onlvhope of gettin' back the Hesper was ter let her play her game and watch her close." • Rochester is not only a good, prosperous specimen of a live American city, but she can boast of a notable art gallery worth a journey of some length to visit. Mr. D. W. Powers is the owner and collector. I spent half a day not long since yi6iting this fine aggregation of beautiful pictures and fortunately found Mr. Powers present himself gloating over his treasures. - We talked at some length about art and when it came time for mo to go I could see that Mr. Powers gave me up reluctantly. [Copyright, 1SS9, by Edgar W. Nye.] NOTES ON NATIONALITIES. Discomfort* of Travel lu Italy—A Great Our pale, wan lips would fain deny Folly the heritage of eaclt. Although It peep I'rom many a rent. And jingle in our foolish spcech. Future for the Couutry—Fiue Appenr- "CocoANtrr-DAY" is celebrated In most parts of India during the full moon in August. On that day numbers of nuts are thrown 5hto the sea as an offering to the Hindoo gods. ance of tlie Military—Tlie Secret of Per- fect Health — Food anil Sleep Brother, we lack but thy stout heart To scorn the oontumelius glance. To flaunt our motley, shake our bells. And join earth's hurly-burly dance. [Copyright, 1889, by American Press Association.] Athens, Nov. 19.—Since leaving Rome our time, with the exception of two days spent in Naples, has been almost fully occupied in traveL I miss American comforts in this my pilgrimage, but I am more than glad I undertook it, all the same, because I am receiving impressions which will be of permanent value to me. Of the imperial city I perhaps said enough in a former letter. I left it with reluctance, for although I worked like a beaver while there, I accomplished but little in the way of doing anything like justice to the notable things, ancient, mediaeval and modern,, with which I found myself surrounded. The religious associations of the city greatly impressed me, as appeared' in the last effusion you received from my pen. Travel makes the liberal man. WORKIXO SLIPPERS FOB THE PASTOR. . The Chinese are accustomed to eat pumpkin seeds between the courses at dinner, and they are probably taken as an appetizer and digester. seeds are rich in nitrogen and oil and are very nutritious. In open guise or uncontested. No whit more wise, not half as orave. Until, like thee, we, too, And rest. —Arthur Mark Cummings. in Lite Sleep well, sweet fool: like thee, we lira orist and his perspective met with & hearty encouragement from one and all. , He died in the midst of his career as a result of tho regular Italian pestilence which generally kills off the best people of Italy just as they begin to show signs of real genuine worth. The sanitary arrangements of Italy have been noted for many centuries. A keen love for art and a bitter hatred for sanitary plumbing and soap has been the fatal watchword of Italy for many generations. ) Raphael Santi, howevfr, was the most popular, personally, I prfesume, of any of these artists. Ho was rather better looking than Sarony and his pictures were first-rato also. He died young and left a number of very expensive works of art. Raphael was buried in the Pantheon at Rome, twenty-eight years after the discovery of America. THE GREAT HESPER. For a young man 1 have been something of a collector myself, beginning some ten years since by the acquisition of noted companion pictures known as "Wido Awake" and "Fast Asleep." They are only copies, of course, but by connoisseurs they are regarded as yery faithful copies indeed. A traveler in Terra del Fuego was puzzled to distinguish the sexes, until he discovered this infallable rule: The native who carries a bow is a man; the native who is loaded down with heavy burdens is a woman. BT FRANK BARRETT. Her countenance fell as we passed through the beantiful plantations and entered the riohly furnished house. It was an unhapoy disillusion for her. Brace, who never let anything in the world surprise him, stroked his chin reflectively as he looked round him, and said: CHAPTER XVI. I was told at the Sacramento depot that the Golden State Hotel was on the third block up the Rrade. In ascending the hill, I caught sight of Brace and Lola walking in advance a hundred yards or so, yet sb changed that it took me some minutes to identify them. Swinging along at a good four miles an hour, and dragging the Kid along by the wrist, or letting her trot on behind, I should have recognized the Judge immediately at a quarter of a mile off. But walking at an old man's pace, with his daughter leaning on his arm, he was not easily recognizable. But in Lola the change was still greater. She was no longer a barefooted, ragged little savage, but a young lady with some pretension of elegance in her dress; and thus altered, she looked a woman rather than a child. The proudest boast among Cuban women is the dainty smallness of their feet. Thev require nothing larger in the way of footgear than the No. 1 size for American women. This peculiar endowment Is perfeotly natural; no pinching or pressure of any kind is used. At a sheriff's sale on Staten Island not long since the property of an e ld picture virtuoso included a study entitled "The Horse Fair," by Kosa ilonheur. It is executed with a pen and looks like the original pioture It is very spirited indeed. The horses aro also in good oondition, having been fed on ground feed, I judge, all winter. They aro of the Norman variety, with great breadth of beam, and their tails aro dono up in Psyche knots. I like tho picture very much, as also docs every one who seos It." I got it at a great bargain, which also included tho frame and a wire with which to hang it up. It is in my studio as I write these lines, while near it, with sad, reproachful eyes and tender mien, is a life-size portrait of Lydia E, Pinkham engaged in inventing a Vegetable Compound which will bring joy to the world. There is ojae observation I desire to make in drawing tliis letter to a close. It lias been very gratifying to my national pride that wherever we have gone in our travels, at any Tate since we have had leisure for exact observation, the inferior appearance of the average people as compared with Americans is strikingly real. 1 believe that there is no country on earth where people have eo much to eat and wear, such good clothes, as in my. own beloved land. In France, in Switzerland and in Italy one sees comparatively few of the poor folks who look as if they ever enjoyed a square meal.. 1 feel that we hate good reason to congratulate ourselves on having taken this time of the year for our trip. We have no consuming heat to melt us, no stinging insects to try .our patience and tempt us to rash expressions, no throng of visitors anywhere to compete with us for such accommodations as ore the traveler. The lookout from . the car window lias given us a panorama , of wonderful variety and much beauty. In no other season of the year could we-" hive seen to such good advantage the vineyards of France, Switzerland and Italy, the hills clothed with nature's bounty, and the rich valleys still green and teeming with abundance. "This is your lot, is it, Gentleman Thome?" - The natives of the Arctic regions have a barbarous but effective way of dealing with the wolves, which are a pest there. Sharp blades are stuck in tho ice and baited. Tho meat freezes, and in thawing it out with his tongue the blade- cuts the tongue, ultimately preventing the beast from licking the snow, and finally kills the animal. □Among the Hindoos there are some I feel impelled to say something of the political condition of Italy, as it struck me after observations, circumscribed by narrow limits, I know, but honestly made, and, I believe, without prejudice. Rome, the capital, the center of the national life, appeared to my view, as indeed it is and is likely so to be seen by other eyes than mine, as the most remarkable combination of the ancient, the mediaeval and the modern that can be conceived. As I walked its dirty streets-—these are not as nasty as they used to be, I am informed, but surely they are bad enough yet, even worse than my beloved New York—I was impressed stropgly with this threefold character of the city which will ever be imperial. Perhaps I was not fanciful in thinking that I read in t,he dignified carriage of its best citizens their consciousness of a great future for the kingdom of which Rome is the capital. The Italians please as well as interest me beyond expression. They are a sturdy and hardy looking people, and I attach great importance to this fact. The soldiers of the young nation compare favorably in their manly appearance with any military I have seen. As I looked at them I saw much to remind me erf an old print dear to my boyhood days, in which Roman legions were represented advancing to the fight In solidity of figure, as in countenance, the soldiers of modern Italy resembled strikingly, as I saw them, the legion as a great artist had depicted it, with due regard unquestionably to ancient authorities. Italian soldiers, in short, look like thoroughbred Romans. Nor was I less favorably impressed with the inhabitants as a whole, "barrin" some disadvantages and objectionable qualities with which an old New Yorker cannot fail to be acquainted. Its educated class, I feel convinced, will lead the Italian nation into a great future. A people capable of superior physical exploit, possessing the orderly and practical genius of old Rome, and this associated by long familiarity and cultivation with religkus art and devotion, fired by grand historic traditions, and feeling the inspiration of renewed nationality—this, I think, describes the leading citizens of modern Italy. Time will remove apparent incongruities and put an end to conflicts which, in my judgment, are more apparent than real. The pope has lo6t his temporal power it is true, but the Italian people are still greatly influenced, perhaps not less on this account, by religious faith, which has no real conflict with the progressive spirit of modern civilization. Looking at the ruins of the splendid civilization of ancient Rome, and photographing on my memory, I hope with ineffaceable impression, ita miracles of sacred art, I still welcome the sight of miles of new streets of the modernest of modern houses, nor fear that Nineteenth century progress will impair the value of an ennobling pride in a great history, and the softening and gracious influences of religious art and devotion. Our stay in Rome was all too short and busy. Dr. Talmage was indefatigable while there, as everywhere indeed, and that curiosity trunk of his, as weighted with Roman specimens, is a miracle of ponderosity and a godsend to exacting officials. "I shall be better able to call it mine when I have paid up the capital invested in it. As you know, I had no money of my own. I have borrowed heavily, and until the loan is paid " I shrugged my shoulders. Mr. Powers has conferred a great boon upon not only his own city, but tho State and the country. To go to Rochester without visiting the Powers Gallery is to make a very grave mistake, I think. "Until it's i»aid," said Brace, continuing mv sentence. "You've got to go to bed late, and get up airly, and be thankful fDf yoti kin sleep sound in betwixt. I reckon it'll take you a pretty considerable lone time afore you feel you don't know what to do with yourself." "A kDnj£ while!" 1 said. gravely. "How long?" asked Lola, quickly, under her breath. Coming from paintings by the old masters to tho more modern works, let mo touch upon a brief glimpse of the opera from behind the scenes. The other evening I had tho pleasure of shaking hands with Nadjy & Co., and conversV.ig with them regarding the business. castes near Abmedabad in which widow marriages are allov.-ed, and a girl can be given in second marriage without the ruinous expenso considered necessary on the occasion of a first alliance. The parents, therefore, marry a girl to a bunch of flowers) which is afterwards thrown down a well. The husband is then said to be dead, and the gfrl, as a widow, can be married at moderate cost. ATHENS, Nov. 20.— The two full days we spent at Naples afforded a remarkable contrast to our experiences in London and Rome. Dr. Talmage was spared calls and recognitions absolutely. *So far as I know, not a soul in the hotel or out of it knew that the Brooklyn preacher was in town. A simple - device prevented this—the writer figuring as thg, head of the party and registering as such. In common with some quack medicines of which I have heard, our plan "worked like a charm." « Her bead was bent, she leaned for support on her father's arm. She walked slowly, and with an air of fatigue; and, remembering the buoyant elasticity of her gait, the rebellious independence of her spirit, I asked myself with doubt if this could indeed be Lola. "Oh. many, many replied. She did not attempt to conceal her satisfaction.rears, perliaps," I My collection is also enriched by several rare bijouteries from the Old World. One is a picture of Napoleon on the Island of St. Helena. I bought it of an American who was in Paris last summer, fie offered it to me for twenty francs without the frame. • • • • • • I would not make a success of opera, I 'fear. I would not look well in a ballet; .especially since my leg1 was broken, as , the fracture still shows, especially when t the footlights are turned on. Nadjy had just received an invoice of new tights costing about §480, I believe. Sixty people have to wear them and they require two pairs each. These at $4 or $4.50 per pair last some time and take off tho profits. The costumes in this opera are quite rich and warm. They do not impede the movements of the owners very much, though. Some of the girls wear large cavalry boots whioh keep off a good dealof the cold, I think. I followed them into the hotel; from the vestibule I saw them enter a room upon the first floor. I ran up and stopped at the open door, Lola had seated herself on a couch, her face rested oil the pillow, her eyes were closed. It was the pretty little face I knew so well, but oh, so changed! Her cheek was no longer round; the russet bloom had gone from her complexion; there was a purple tint about her closed lids, and the vermibon of her lips was unnaturally bright. I was struck by the delicate beauty of her face, but it was a beauty that filled one's heart with sorrow, like the ifcdine away of a divine inelodv. 1 entered the room noiselessly, ana seated myself in a chair by her side. I heard Brace moving about in the adjoining room. She was unconscious of my presence, and as I sat with my eyes dwelling upon her beautiful face, my thoughts wandered back to the old days at the Cape, when 1 left my work from time to time to Bee how "the little 'un" was getting on, as she lay exhausted with sickness. The gleam of the white teeth between the parted lips, the curl of the loag lashes that swept her cheek, the crisp little lock above her ear—these were all the same, yet with tlio undefinable trait of- womanhood, so different. The bud had opened—only to die? I had asked myself before if she would live. It was doubtful then, but the hope was fainter now. I gave the girl a wiry little horse; she sat it for tlie first time with the grace and mastery of a trained horsewoman. Every morning I rode round the plantation; sometimes business took me to the city—she never failed to be by my side on these occasions. But when I had work to do, it was another thing. She hated work, and dreaded tranquillitv; she found an escape from both in a wild gallop among the foot-hills. She became coquettish with regard to her appearance. When she could coax a dollar out of her father, she would gallop off to San Diego to buy some trifle for the adornment of her pretty little person. II by my manner she fancied Iapproved the new addition, she wore it till she Could replace it with something else; but if I failed to notice It, or she thought it was not to my taste, she would fling it away before it was a day old. She abandoned herself to the enjoyment of the new life that came to her, and for some time. she seemed neither to remember the past nor to think of the future. A gentleman who has traveled considerably, in speak ing of the beauty of foreign women, says he believes ths Swedish peasant women to be the most beautiful in all the world. The young matrons are like madonnas, and the girls are ideals of pure and exquisite maidenhood. Their quaint peasant dress and head covering add to their charm, and he has brought home photographs of these women that would each one make an ideal head for 9 painter. Probably of the fivo hundred paintings in the Powers Gallery "tho wife of Rubens" is one of tho most beautiful, and also chaste, the catalogue goes on to state. Rubens loved to paint his wife rather than have her paint hepelf. Ho was quito proud%of her, and nothing pleased him better than to giro her a sitting whenever sho got a new dress. Rubens, Titian and Falk aro my favorite artists. Another very striking picture is called "Le Mois d'Octobre (La Reootte Des pommes de terre"). This is by August Hagborg, a Swedleli artist, and if I hadn't read tho French titlo to it I would have said that it looked like a potato patch in the fall. An old gentleman of tho t)enman Thompson caste of countonanco is engaged in pouring » Our trip from Naples to Brindisi was made by rail and lasted sixteen hours. 1 have before spoken of the discomforts of continental traveling, which, as a subject, is naturally pressing to me. Italy has no sleepfng cars, but supplies a miserably poor substitute for them in reclining chairs, for the use of which a charge of $4 a night per head is. exacted. Even at this price the occupier is not left to the quiet enjoyment of his rest. Twice a night he is visited by an officer whose duty it is to change the pans of warm water which are used in heating the compartment. Three times in the night, moreover, the passenger is required to exhibit the ticket which entitles him to a seat in the aforesaid reclining chair. The train stops about every twenty minutes, when the conductor passes along its entire length, on the outside, publishing in a nasal tone in front of each compartment the name of the station. That nobody on the train expects to leave it for hours makes no difference to this industrious official Our experiences with him and his train began at half-past 7 in tbe evening, and lasted sixteen hours. We were bored, we were cold, we were wretched. Hot water is but a poor substitute for the much abused American* car stove, of which I will never speak disrespectfully again. Locis Klopsch. A Best Girl Indeed. "I've got onto a great scheme," announced a ypung and irrepressible man who affords mo some amusement by his antics at times. "You see," he continued, "my girl and I go out a good deal in the evenings, and it nearly always happens that we strike a crowded car. She's a real sensible girl, and falls into my way of looking at things with the easiest grace in the world. Well, when we get on the crowded car, of course some polite fellow gets up and gives her his seat. I stand there for a block or two, and then she slyly gets up and I take her seat myself. She then slides up near the door, where there are a lot of people who haven't seen the exchange, and in a very few minutes she has another seat, without asking for it either. Site's a pretty girl, you know, and almost any fellow would be glad to accommodate her. In this way we can ride the three miles down town to the theatre without jarring our young frames. It's a great way to save shoe leather and knee grease. Try it yourself some time."—Chicago Journal. Egyptians arC» said to bear surgical operations with extraordinary fortitude and success. Clot Bey, the founder of modern medicine in Egypt, says: "It requires as much surgery to kill one Egyptian as seven Europeans. In the, native hospitals the man whose thigh has been amputated at two o'elock is sitting up and lively at six o'olock." Shock is almost entirely unknown, and dread of an impending operation quite an exception. The explanation given for this abnormal physical excellence is the resignation inculcated by the religion of the people; the very small proportion of meat in, and tho total absence from alcohol from, their diet, and, in general, the regular, abstemious, outlife.I called on Miss Wadsworth, who keeps tho costumes in repair. She looked quite careworn. "One opera costume may look like a very small matter tc you/" she said, sadly,' 'but when you come to Bixty or eightyof them, It Is a big job to koep them in shape." A copv of this statement I sent to Sir Edmund, and I added: It is quite homeliko and oheerfulat tho wings between times, when the ballot is dfT. Here is a tall blonde girl wearing a neglige costumo which leaves her limbs perfectly free to move about in almost any given direction. She is crocheting. Ilero, too, is another hippytyhop artist sitting with her short skirts io arranged that she can not muss them as she sits and slumbers with her cherry lips a little bit ajar. Another one is engagod in tatting. I have always thought that any one who has the Under these conditions, all trace of illness disappeared, and with health returned something of her old mutinous independence; paternal authority once more sunk into insignificance. "Either VanHoeck is possessed of supernatural clairvoyance, or he must liave been in complicity with the man who took the diamond from me. * Brace quickly found occupation, and after a time rendered me invaluable assistance in the management of the business. One day, as we were returning from the packing-sheds, he said: "Can that man have been the Furnival' who obtained the address of Braoe and myself from you?'' By the return mail Sir Edmund wrote: "I felt it right to read that part of your letter referring to the robbery to Van Hoeck, who for the last few weeks ha* been an accepted visitor here, and I may add the object of Edith's sympathetic commiseration. He declared upon his oath that there had been no struggle between himself and Brace, and that no statement had been extorted from him by the violent means indicated; that when you left he felt his way to the road, and waited there. Brace came and undertook to lead him home. He remembera stopping on the way while Brace asked him if he thought you had really been robbed of the diamond. He knew nothing of the leather case, which Brace might well have concealed in the manner you describe without his perception. After this explanation, he said that he must once more relinquish our friendship until all doubt is cleared -up. 'But,' he added emphatically, as he was about to leave us, 'if only a part of this story is true—if the girl got possession of the diamond, hid it, and should restore it to Brace and Thorne, they will make away with it, and you will never see anyone of them again.'" "If Van Hoeck is not the very old *nn hiBself," said the Judge, when I showed him this letter, "he's hand in hand with him." She opened her eyes, and, seeing me, sprung up with a cry of joy, and threw her arms round my neck and kissed me, for she was, indeed, still a child at heai-t. "I've looked round this consarn p retty careful, and I see, sir, that you're goin' to do a great big thing here. You've found out jest where the real grit o' this country lays, and you're goin' to work it up into an almighty pile. That's what you're goin' to do, and I'm everlastin' glad of it, for more reasons than one. And one reason is this—I'm gettin' more duberous every day whether we shall ever get the Great Hesper. For, fustly, when the frost breaks up, the great hole where the gel hes hid the stone, may be swept out as clean as a gun-baril by the torrent of melted snow, or it may be blocked up for everlastin' by the mast of rock that comes roll in' down from the mountain sides every spring; and, secondly, the Kid may change her mind. She may back out of the promise she gave up when she was sick. Reclect her mothei was a greaser, and consequently it's nat'- ral to her to tell lies when they'll serve her purpose; and bear in mind it would serve her purpose to make out the diamond ain t no longer where she put it. Bear in mind also, sir, as she warn't herself when she made the promise, and lliat she's beengetun' more herself since. Her obs'nacy and deviltry's comin' back more and more every day, and she's now almost the obs'nate, contrary little cuss she was. Keep on bearin' in mind that she stole the diamond purposely to separate you from Mi*; Lascelles, and to bring fou down to aor'nury workin'ruan again. ghfDr p-imo thed iv we lo*t the diamond; I see it clearer 'an ever when we got up to Petersville—she wus that angry when I told her there was no good to be done minin' in the or'nary way—so eager for me to write and tell you there was a going for the stuff down the big hole. Now, fortune to be made soon as I hit on the idea of what's she to git by givin' up the diamond—a little wuss than nothin'. Which is why I rejice in the prospect of your makin' a big thing of this ere orange growin'. Still, sir, we ain't goin' to lose that diamond, if wo can help it, and we're got two things to do. We're got to keep our eye on the enow, and get down the great hole afore the worst of the slush and rock comes tumblin' down, and we're got to make the Kid believe as things down here is so jolly flourishin' as we don't kere two straws whether we find the thing or not. You'll leave that to me. I'll pitch it in strong to her!" And he kept his word, Every day he exhausted his stock of adjectives in glorifying the estate and dilating upon the marvellous results to be obtained from fruit culture, and occasionally he referred to the Great Hesper with such contempt that one would have thought it was hardly worth stretching out one's hand to take. PRESS PLUNDER. A paper says: "Notwithstanding the heavy rain on Friday there was ». short supply of milk on Saturday morning." "Oh, it is true!" she cried, between her kisses; "I was asleep, and i saw you come to me, and—" she stopped abruptly, and drawing back, said in wonder, as she looked in my face, "Why, you are crying!"'Hearing her voice, Brace came in from the next room. Ax editor, puffing air-tight oofflns, said: "No person having once tried one of these coffins will ever use any other." Brindisi is a good place to get out of. It consists for the greater part of hovels, and is the dirtiest town I ever saw. I am sure I should love the Italians more if they were cleaner. St. Paul, I am informed, landed at Brindisi after being shipwrecked, which made the place specially interesting to Dr. Talmage, who spent some time making mental photographs of this ancient and interesting (and dirty) town. We were not there long, leaving at 1 the next morning after our arrival, but finding time to seek for the place which is said to have been the birthplace of Virgil. Doctors differ on this subject, as the learned reader knows already, but the Brooklyn preacher and I spent two hours in the streets of Brindisi to find where the Latin poet was born. Two houses, about as widely sundered ns could be, were pointed out as Virgil's birthplace. We paid a franc for each one for the information. The hotel keeper declined to commit himself to an opinion for either house. He had reached the safe conclusion that nobody is able to say exactly where the Mantuan poet first saw the light of this world. A beggar held out his Land. "I haven't a cent," said the gentleman. "I didn't specify the coin," responded the mendicant. TVoanded, Buffalo. The artillery man who, though mortally wounded, pulls himself together, points his piece at the charging foe, fires it and falls dead, is eulogized as a hero. Why not pronounce a similar eulogy on the wounded buffalo, of which the African explorer, Joseph Thomson, writes in Scribner's Magazine? i "Say, now, what did I tell you?" he exclaimed. "The Kid's took it into her silly little head as she wouldn't see you no more, sir." GIOTTO AT HIS MASTEJU'IECE. half bushel of Early Rose pommes de terre into a bag, held open by his solemn little daughter. It is really a very strong and beautiful picture. The pommes do terre aro real good, too. "Tby our surpassing coffeo «rith pure, rich cream!" echoed the L angry wayfarer as he read the restaurant sign. "Why, all 'em adjoetivej just fills a feller clean up to der neck. Datbloke's advertisin' is enough to drive away oustom!""She will see a good deal of me, if I have my way," I said, holding out my hand to Brace. His countenance changed, he draggiJd his chin tuft thoughtfully for a minute, then turning to his daughter, he satd: Mr. Powers told me about several of the best-known painters, and said that if in my collection at home I had any of their works he would buy them of me. Leonardo da Vinci, he said, did most of his painting in the fifteenth century. He was the natural eon of Pictro da Vinci, of Florence. We often hear of unnatural parents and unnatural husbands and sons, but here was a son who was thoroughly natural and so was his 'work. He Baid ho didn't ask anybody to take his word for it, but he let his work show for itself. "If you do not like my painting or if it scales ofF or blisters, or the varnish docs not stand ithe climate," ho used to say, "bring it back and I will replace it." Mr. Thomson had brought down a buffalo, and, thinking it helpless, walked toward it to make sure of hia spoiL He had almost reached the animal before it 6eemed to be aware of his presence. Then, with a grunt of vengeance, it rose to its feet. "Lola, my gel, we mast have it out now, straight off. Here's Gentleman Thome hoidin' out his hand to me. and I ain't no right to take it till yon let on what's come of the big diamond." "Not now—not now," she said, beseechingly; "a little while—a week—no more." "No, my gel; 'tain't to be put' off like it was a dose of physic. See here—see here. When we parted. Gentleman Thome refused to give me his hand—fpr why, he knew we wasn't playin' square;" and, turning to me. he said, "You knew we'd got the stone, didn't you, sir?"' "I saw you hide the case," I replied. "Consequently you knew we'd got the thing among t» somewheres. Come, mv gel, think how Gentleman Thome nusseil you out there in the hot 6un; 'member now he stood by you and pulled you through. Don't let the best friend you ever had think you ain't got nothin' but greaser blood in yer; don't let him  you ain't got no kinder gratitude or faction in yer." "Oh, you shall not think that," she cried, starting to her feet. "HI take you there—not to-day, it is too far; but to-morrow f| show you where it is, and you shall take it to her, and never see me again." "I will take you with me if I go, Lola," I said. Ax old maid in Connecticut adopted a boy and called him "Aioses David Absalom Daniel Mark White." The othez day when he became of Age he sued her for 925,000 damages far 'hitching all these names in front of him, and it is hoped that the jury will give him every cent of it. The hunter fled, presenting his rear to the beast's onslaught. In a few seconds the buffalo's horn caught him on the hip, penetrated several inches, just grazing the femoral artery, and sent him whirling over his pursuer's head. We asked Lola if she had recognized the man who dropped from the oriel window.IT I WERE BALLET GIRL. A New Bedford clergyman who has been in service a long time advertises seven hundred sermons for sale, covering all subjects and applioable to any locality. He only wants one dollar apiece for the lot, A taken in a lump, "which is one-half off regular price and a decided bargain for the money." patience to teach school and make tat ting ought to bo ablo to look Job in the faco some day and make the' boll industry hide its head in shame. r * "No," she replied; "the night was too thick; but he was about the size of the mall I saw the night before going from one window to the other in the left-hand side of the house." His fall broke two ribs and stunned him, though he knew that the buffalo had approached near enough to finish him off. A number of seconds passed; he revived, opened his eyes, saw the beast lying dead beside him, and then fainted away from loss of blood. •} We of the audience are too apt to imagine the ballet as engaged in reading notes from the dry-goods clerks who are trying to bo roues on eight dollar)! a week. We have been taught to regard tho ballet girl as thus employed a good deal of the time. Possibly there are such eases, but to go behind the scenes and'dlscover these lithe-limbed gazelle* In tights, with their feet on the stove, engaged in embroidering slippers for the pastor, was a new picture for me. All is demure, and gentle industry holds tho fort. Dr. Talmage's use of his time while in Rome was a miracle of energy. But his ■trenuousness is never long Continued, and this is why, I think, it is so effective and original in its results. I may take advantage of almost constant intimacy with him in this trip to let the public into the probable secret of his great health and still promising vigor. The man who has undertaken to write the "Life of Christ" additional to exacting pulpit and editorial duty is a great eater and a great sleeper. He always eats the best food he can get, but insiBts on its being prepared in a plain, wholesome The doctor eats no gravies, no pastry, no rich dishes, no fish. He prefers steals, chops, plain roast beef, potatoes, bread and butter to anything else. When sounded on the subject, he attributed his wonderful state of preservation and capacity for work to two things, viz., therobservance of unvarying regularity in taking his meals and an abund-" ance of sleep. The custom in Italy is to take coffee and rolls at 8, luncheon at 12 and dinner at 7. This custom ia not observed by my clerical friend, who prefers to make his own choice of viands and to eat just when he pleases. He is severely a non-conformist in these respects, and I feel sure that when he is in America his choice of a hotel is always of one kept on the European plan. This is the order of his dietary: He takes steak and coffee at 8, a substantial dinner at half-past 12, and a light suppec.at 6, thus giving the oooks and waiters at houses where we stop considerable annoyance, as they dislike to fill orders at odd times. I said he was a great sleeper. Every noon, immediately after dinner, he retires to rest and sleeps a whole hour. He believes tliat we owe to nature a certain amount of rest, and has carefull/ascer- C tained how much he himself requires for flip maintenance of (rood health and necessary strengtn. This ne .-tafces whenever it can be done. H his 1 engagements are such as to render it absolutely impossible for him to enjoy his requisite amount of sleep he makes a memorandum of how i much he has lost, and as soon as he gets an opportunity, he pays this debt to nature. "Sometimes," he said the other night while explaining the secret of his excellent health, "I find I owe myself S whole week's sleep and then I shut myself up and take it. I have preached for thirty years, and unless I have been away from the city, I have never once been absent from my church, except the week we laid away my oldest boy, De- Witt; and now, after more than three decades of the hardest kind of work, I feel that my best years are yet to come." One morning Brace said to me: "I've had my suspicions on it for some time; but now I'm sure on it. We're being watched." 1 asked liiin what reason he had for this belief. He was not only a groat painter but also a poet, musician, mathematician, mechanic and sculptor. He could also .play tennis and break steers. Da Vinci painted a fresco called the Last Supper which has been severely criticised. It is peeling off now owing to the fact that ho was experimenting with some new paints which ho got of ithe great paint and oil works at Milan. The table-cloth, among o her things, in this great masterpiece, if ironed accordling to the way it seems to havo been folded, would have mado a square wad of linen two feet high, and those who have taken in washing for years, as I have, will agree with me that you can not fold and iron a package two feet ihigh. One of Da Vinci's apostles also wears spectacles and I think there is a (telephone in one corner of the room. Possibly it was intended for something else, but it looks like a telephone. A competitive examination was lately held for the purpose of appointing fit persons to some of the Government offices in Canada. One of tho candidates inadvertently spelled the word Venice with two n's, thus: Vennlce. The examiner, a clever man, but not always a correct speaker, sternly inquired: "Do you know, sir, that there is but one hen In Venice?" "Then eggs must be very scarce there," was the reply. The candidate passed. We were awfully tired and hungry when we sat down to dine at the hospitable board of the landlord, who was willing to be ignorant, even in Jus relations with tourists, which is an uncommon characteristic of the foreign Boniface. After the meal Dr. Talmage expressed his happiness in the seclusion which the plan, worked,so perfectly at Naples, and followed ii£ Brindisi, had ' brought. He had hardly ceased speaking of it, when a priestly looking gentleman, slapping him on the shoulder, said: "Why, this is Dr. Talmage." There was no denying the charge, and Canon Wilberforce, of philanthropic eminence, and wearing ancestral honors, sat down to a good tflik. He was delighted to meet with an old friend, but had sad news to telL Broken down in health he was on his way to India, accompanied by his daughter, in the hope that a period of absolute rest from duty and total change of scene would bring about his recovery from a spinal disease which threatened his life. His concern at the burning of the Brooklyn Tabernacle was mixed with congratulatory anticipation relating to the new edifice. "My reason is this," he replied. "The ong-legged nigger as comes here for scraps give one of the house-helps half-a-dollar this morning. It looked like he'd been buying up your silver spoons, so I jest had the rascal searched; but there warn't nairy thing on him but varmin. Lay your life, sir, that nigger didn't giv half-a-dollar for nothin'. We've got to keep our eves open!" "You think he is a spy, paying the help for information with respect to our movements," I said. In the Italian "Bierde" there is a tale that i3 amusing. In this case the suitor puts the riddle, and the queen's daughter cannot guess it. The yputh has a dog named Bierde who gets poisoned, and from that accident follows a train of accidents, which are summed up in this riddle: An Italian Riddle. All at once there is a loud and  strain on the clarionet! The gentleman in the tin-shop who tends bar all day' ■and plays on four kinds of drums, a triangle, a string of sleigh bells, a xylophone, a pair of brass knucks, a tomtom, a Waterbury watch, a koodoo, a joint of stove-pipe, a sot of cymbals, a coarso comb, a mouth organ, a pair of clappers, a bird call, a hotel gong, a bagJ pipe and a length of gas pipe in the evening, gives a wild thump to the kettle-drum and all is life and activity. "Places all!" shouts the stage manager with his wig in his hand. Tall girls fall over short girls. Tho tatting goes this way and the crocheting the other. The comedian with a wild bound yells; "Let me out; can't you get out of the way!" The girls put on a smile commensurate with their salaries and away they go like a beautiful bodlam let loose! NEW INVENTIONS. "Bierde dead has killed three. "And three have killed sevpn. "I threw where I saw, and reached where I did not expect to. She shook her head, and oovered her face with her hands. "No. no, you will never see me again," she said, and then a violent fit of coughing attacked her, and she left th» room, closing the door after her. Brace looked at me significantly, and, in a low voice that faltered a little, said: "It ain't nat'ral for her to give in like that; it ain't like the Kid, not a bit. Her contrariness and obstinacy used to make me wild, but it didn't make my heart ache like thiri?" A West Virginia man has patented an invention for making houses without the use of nails. "Why?" "Why?" echoed Brace, drawing a long breath, "because it's jest three weeks since Van Hoeck learned that we are goin' to get back the Great Hesper, and ho found an excuse for quittin' the locality of Monken Abbey." "I do—jest that." "I have eaten that which was bom and that which was not born. A Wheeling inventor is at work upon a watch which is expected to run a month without winding. "It was cooked with words. An incandescent lamp arrangement for showing the interior of boilers while undor steam has been made by a German inventor. "Two do not enter if there are not three, but tho hard passes over the soft." —Marcus Lane in Chicago Globe. CHAPTER YIT. Giotto was earlier on the ground than Da Vinci and did his flourishing in the thirteenth century. His parents were married before he met them, which is why he had the laugh on Da Vinci, as Mr. Browning would say. Giotto was a 'shepherd to start with, but Boon attracted attention hy sketching a sheep occasionally on a stone and doing it bo graphically that a great many people 'agreed with him that it looked like a sheep. He next began the study of sacred subjects, putting more expression into the faces than any artist had According to a Madrid correspondent, a boy, only 12 years old, found iu the streats of Madrid a 100 peseta bank note, and changed, it at a money changer's, dividing the spoils with another boy, 11 years of age. He then bought a pistol and bullets, and began a quarrel with his playmate about a little girl o£ 13 years of age, the daughter of a well-todo grocfct, whom he called his sweetheart, and whom hs accused showing a preference for his companion. As they were discussing the matter "they happened to meet the girl with her female servant, and the older boy deliberately aimed at her and shot her dead. Both boys wore sent to jail; but despite his comrade's and the maid servant1* testimony, the accused says the pistol went oft accidentally.—London Globe. A Precorlous Lover. As the spring advanced, Brace turned his eyes daily io the mountain tops. On the first of May he said he would have a day or two off, and "jest have a look round at things." On the seventh he returned. A curious watch has been brought out in France. The dial is transparent, but there are no works behind it and the hands appear to move by magi a. Lola came back in a little while, weak and exhausted, but with a smile upon her poor face. She sat close to me slipping her hand under my arm, and resting her cheek against my shoulder. Her love was too innocent, or she was too ignorant of social usages, to know restraint. "I don't want to talk; it hurts me," she said. "I just want to ait here quiet," and -she closed her eyes, nestling still closer This had the effect that Brace desired. She listened in moody silence, and after I had turned the subject, slio would sit with her chin in her hands, her elbows on her knees, and her great sad eyes fixed upon some distant object, wrapped in dreamy meditation. But Brace was not content with this. P. S. Bates, of York, Pa., has invented an Ingenious electric motor which entirely eclipses any thing of the kind yet invented. It is entirely automatic and when once started will perform its work for 100,000 hours without attention. A latk invention by Mr. E. T. Lin ooln, of Topeka, Kfcn. (who it is said within the last two years has taken out more patents than any other man in thf country), is a toboggan brake. This de 'ice enables a toboggan to stop in tb aiddle of the steepest incline instantl; "The time's come," he said; "the snow is goin' away sharp, and the rocks is already squittering down, but glory be, the hole a open. All we're got to pray for now is that the Kid '11 listen to the voice of reason. Leave her to me!" After dinner we rambled along the main street until we came to a Greek orthodox church, which we entered, and sat down to rest awhile. While thus seated we noticed an old man enter, carrying a large bundle, which he quietly deposited in a corner. He then advanced towards the altar, and kneeling down reverentially he offered up a prayer. Rising he pressed his lips to the glass that covered a painting of the 8aviour of the world, which adorns one of the walls of the sacred structure, folded his hands and devoutly looked upwards, mumbling something at the time that we could not catch. After this devout performance, which did not consume more than two minutes, he burdened himself anew with his bundle and started off, it was plain to see, spiritually benefited and quickened. "What a blessing religion Is to mankind," said Dr. Talmage when he had gone. "The religious comfort that poor man enjoys, and the hope of a home beyond, lightens the burden and brightens the gloom of his toilsome life. All the learning and civilization of ancient Rome and Athens could not accomplish that." Leaving the church we continued bur walk, with no expectation of being disturbed, however pleasantly, in our conversation. But in this expectation we were agreeably disappointed, for who should meet us but the Rev. Dr. Henry M. Sanders, a well known Baptist minister of New York. The greeting of the two clergymen was of a very cordial •haraoter. "I was very sorry," said Dr. One day I overheard him speaking to Lola when they were alone. "I reckon we shall have to show off our {rood pints, my gel, before the squire and his daughter come here, or we shall look pretty mean by comparison, and Gentleman Thome will sorter feel sick, seein' us hangin' round. He'll say to hisself, nat'ral like, well, here's this squire and his daughter, as I've never done nothin' in particklar for, lias set me up in business as is goin' to make me the most eternal all-fired millionaire that ever lived; and, on the other hand, here's this derned old Judee, as skercely earns his salt, and the KiCl, as I've nussed and saved twice from dying right out, and all they've ever done for me is to rob me of all I hed, and do their level best to clean me out and ruin me.") It is fan to see them Bkip the light pedantic toe and followed by applause gently return to their knitting. It ia a bnsiness, just the same as selling goods or splitting rails. The baritone said he was tired for he had sung in churoh in| tho morning and at the matinee and, evening performance also. No wonder he looked at the clock with some anxiety. The prima d«nna, Miss Lamont, did not complain, but said it waa work all the time,Jos it is surely in these operas. "You've come to a ruined and an onnallowed country, sir," said the Judge; "durned if I skercely knew it again— nothing but machinery and Chinese—not a decent white placer in all Nevada— valler varmint ain't left anything worth lookin' for, not in the or'nary way. It's got to be looked for in onor'nary places, and fetched out in onor'nary ways, as I've said more'n once before to you; and my mean in' is that I could do the same if I had the means, and if so be the Kid keeps her promise—as I do believe she will." Lola nodded, without taking her head from my shoulder, or opening her eyes, ind a little sigh fluttered up from her heart. "As I know she will—I'll do it; not for the sake of the gold, 'cause hat won't be needed when we've got the liamond, but just to prove the prenceple Df the thing. It's down an almighty lole up the Sierra, nearly up to the snowine, and I've been there prospectin' it lay after day, and Btudyin' the thing Dut, an' I didn't leave it till the snow 'orced us to cor 9 down, an' now thC lole's Mocked for " Suddenly ff father As we were sitting at the table he said, in a casual way: "I was up to my old lot in Petersville for a bit of a refresher during my little holiday, sir; and you're no idea how nice the old place do look. Now, supposin'— as we ain't got nairy blessed thing to do for the next week, we kinder take a look around arter that stone we used ter think such a lot of—jest for curiosity like— hey? The Kid used ter make a fine to-do about bein' good when she was sick; do you feel like it now, my gel?'' Lola turned deadly pale, apd wu silent for a moment, then lifting her eyes to mine, she stretclied her hand out, and, as I took it, said: everdono before. Up to that time sain id were detocted In n painting only by the large and top-heavy halo placed on them, and the historian says that prior to Giotto's time the crucifixion had been handled so awkwardly that it was neoessary to label the thieves so that they oouia oe reaany aistincuiRnoa. it xs also said that all three of the figures had an expression on their faces botokening the keenest enjoyment. The Power of Mirambo. In a letter to the present writer in May, 1875, Stanley says: MANY MISNOMERS. Tit-mouse is a bird. Baffin's Bay is not a bay. Shrew-mouse is no mouse. SeD ino-wax contains no wax. Slave means noble or illustrious. Irish stew is a dish unknown in Ir» land. "Mirambo has become a bugbear to all this land. Mothers still their infants' cries with hisdread name; young lads emulate his great deeds, and fan their courage with singing at night of his wars, and work themselves to a delirious frenzy, while the elders sit under the trees in the village square, and converse in whispers respecting the latest reports heard of him. Indeed, I shall be glad when I have put some broad countries between my camp and his. We will then be able to travel in greater peace, for, wherever we go, we are taken for Mirambo, until long and tedious explanations have dispelled the alarm of the natives."—F. G. de Fontaine. I thought when I went behind thq scenes that there would be a good deal that was funny. The funny part is onj 'the Btago. Behind the scenes, everywhere, are the earnestness and the 'anxiety and the jealousy of life. Do not go behind the scenes to Bee anything funny. There you will find the struggle* and the serious work of living. There 'you will find the torn costumes and the [paint and powder which we do not see: so plainly on tfie stage. Giotto changed all this and easily became the father of painting and tho mosaic art. "I am ready." He might have continued, being of a persevering sort, but that Lola ran away to her room, the door, and burst into a fit of crying, that could be heard vohere I sat on the terrace. We made our preparations that afternoon, and took the night train from San Diego to Canyon River, where we put up for the night. In the morning we took the stage to Great Canyon City—a deserted mining town at the foot of the Sierra. After lunching at the only hotel, we tried mulea, and, leaving the valley, ascended the mountain path. Water streamed freely down the mountain path upon the lower slopes; but our difficulties only commenced when we reached the line where the half-melted snow made the rocks treacherous even to the feet of the sure mules. W6 had four hours of terribly rough and dangerous traveling before we reached Petersville —the most wretched collection of rotten shanties I ever saw. Michael Angelo was a most singular man. He lived to be almost ninety years of age and never married. He was sixty before he had a tender thought toward any of the fair sex. He was a great painter, but what a long, bleak life he must have led after all. Michaol was also a very good sculptor, getting all hecouiddoat this in winter when the weather was too inclement for painting. The last twenty years of his life, however, he had the job of decorating tSt. Peter's inside, and though ho did cot live to see itcompleted, his skill Is visible every whero In the beautiful odiflce. Turkish baths are unknown to the Turks. Dutch clocks are of German manu faoture. Rice-paper is not made of rice or the rice plant. CHAPTER XVIIL I had written a few hurried lines from Sacramento, tellin Sir Edmund that There you will see the sham lovemaking which from the orchestra looks so sweet and romantic turned to prao-i tioal hatred and the unmusical discord of actual existence. The oomedian is serious even under his red wig and fiery donegals. The simple rustic beauty boxes the ears of the oall boy, and the tenor takes a chew of tobaooo | from the pocket of his soar let velvet tunio. ► come monthB." raising her bead, and turning with eager eyes, Lola ex- Cleopatra's needles should be named after Thotmes III. A Good Looking Face. T*""T~ — be*. ,  _ -l0'a had taken the Great Hesper, ant to her nteudod to restore it as soon as the snow claimed: , * melted and allowed us to reach tho "Blocked!" cavern in which it waa concealed. In "Ah, blocked for full three n»nth» by ?! wrote: the kkjw and for anbtffer TSy the swelled I j t reading your good news, Edith fall; it'll ie pretty well June afore I w a Btroil through the park, get down it*' where we encountered poor Van Hbeck, Lola burst into a fit of hysterical laueh- whose woe", .appearance appealed iSr. Kid gloves aro not made of kid, but of lamb skin or sheep akin. We like to see. Yet erysipelas disfigures the features and the dis?a*e is as dangerous as it is repulfi'-e. It is sometimes caded "Su Anthony's Fire," and ofen er,ds it; flu- deudn»th. There are no leaves in ValTombrosa, Milton to the oontrary notwithstanding. Turkey rhubarb should be called Russian rhubarb, as it is a Russian monopoly.S. B. Cirpei.ter, Graraville, N%Y., had Dt in both legs, and »as curi-d by -Dr Da*id Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, cf Rondout, N. Y. This mediciue excels atl others for the blood. However nnmeroua and pressing his engagements, Dr. Talmage rests at least thirty minutes after every meal, when be feels ready for any amount of work. atsa to can accomplish twice at Titian was nioro of a portrait painter and used to do a good deal of enlarging from photographs. Ho was a good col- German silver is not silver at all, ttor of German origin, but has bean used in China foi centuries. Life is, Indeed, a stage, and we are, alas! but bams thexeosu "Luucb PSEtftSSS B*E8 80S in Dnw» (to bs comiKuro.)