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THE "JIILIM" TRAGEDY 1 7 w. CI.AKK KVMKU. (CONTINUED.) Nothing in any way memorable happen- ed for a considerable litre. The ship drove through tbe Alanlic, impelled by strong lieam and quartering winds which some- tines blew with the weight of half a gale and veilel her forecastle with glittering lifts o: foam, and heeled her till her lee channels ripped through the seu in flashing* fierce as the whit* water which leaps from the strokes of the thrasher's flail*. The ptasengers bad seltled down to the routine of shipboard life. They played the piano ; they sain: ; they hove the deck quoit ; t'.i-y formed themselves iato wliiil parties. l'...in "aptain Nortec -Savage and bis wife promis- ed to become exceedingly popular with all th* people who lived aft. The lady aaug woetly ; she sang Spanish, Ksglish, and French song*. It was understood that she was a South American of pure Spanish bluod >n one side. Captain Nerton Savage told a good story. He smoked excellent cigars, and was liberal with them. He cam* to m* one day and talked about hi* wife, told me there was consumption in her fam- ily, and asked what I thought of a sea-voy- age for her, and of th* climate of Australia. I ooul.l find nolbing to object to in the man except his stare. There) was something de- fiant in hi* manner of locking at you ; his peech was significant with it, even when nothing more was meant than met the ear, I was misled at first, and sometimes troubl- ed myself to look under hi* words for his mind. Then I found out that it was bi* quelling star* which was responsible for hat his language seemed to carry, and so, with the rest of us, took him a* he offered And still I never felt quite easy with him, 1 1 could" h*r the mellow chime* of the ship's though no man laughed louder at his hum- 1 W " ' * "truck. It wa* a* though orous stories. the land lay close aboard with a church I was going on* morning from my berth ; dock chiming. The hot a'.moephere was to the cuddy, when at the fool of the step, rendered doubly disgusting by tin imell of which conducted to the hatch I met the ' the drug*. Yea, more than drugs, me young man called John Burges*. I had thought, went to the combined flavor ; I n nothing of him for day*. He came out | eemed to sniffbilge- water and the >dor of of hi* cabin holding hi* cap; plenty of light | the cockroach. flowed through the batch ; he was very ple, ' i wa* awakened by a hand upon my and 1 thought seemed ill, and his eye* hvl < shoulder. a wild look. He was handsome, as" 1 have! " K-mse up, for Gxl's sake, doctor said, at least to my way of thinking ; but There's a man stabbed in the caddy !" there was an evil spirit in the delicate etruc- 1 I instantly got my wits, and threw my few and faint ; down in the southwest was a little play of silent lightning ; the noises of the niyht were rare and weak, scarce more than the tlap of some pinion of cloth up in the gloom, or the jerk of a wheel cha n, or the subdued moan of water wash- ing under the co inter. 1 str.oked out my pipe and still lingered ; it was very hot, and I did not love the fancy of my bunk on such a night. The passengers went below, one by one after the cabin lamps war* turned down. Six belle were struck eleven o'clock. I took a few turns with the officer of the watch ; then went on to the quarter-deck, where I foaud ( 'aptain Noriun-Savago amoking and chatting with two or three of the pas- sengers under '.he little olocx against the oujily front. The captain offered me a cigar ; our companions presently with- drew, and we were left alone. I observed a note of eicitement in Cap- tain Savage's ipeesb, and gassed that the heat had coaled him into draining more seltzer and brandy than was good for him. We were together till half past eleven ; his talk was mainly anecdotic, and wholly concerned others. I asked him how hie wife bore the heat. He answered very well, he thought. Did not I think the voyage was doing her good ? I answered I had o beer red her at dinner that day, and thought (be looked very well, spite of her pallor. These were tbe last words I spoke before wishing him good-night. He threw the end of his cigar overboard and went to his cabin, which was situated on the port side, just over the agaiust hatoh down whiob I went to my quarters in the steer- age. All was silent in this part. The hush upon the deep worked in tbe ship like a spirit ; at long intervals only rose the faint sounds of cargo lightly strained in the hold. Much time passed before I could sleep. Through the opeu port-hole over my bank tare and lineaments of the face, good-morning. He answered, I said 'Good- morning" in a low voice, hot with a manner of impatience, as though he wished me to pass en or get oat of his road. " Are you going to Australia for your health ?" said I, for the sake of saying some- thing. " No," he answered. Are you English ?" leg* over the edge of the bunk. " What's this about a man stabbed ?" I exclaimed, pulling on my clethes. The person who had called me was the second mate, Mr. Storey. He told me that he was officer of the watch ; a few minutes since one of the pasaengers, who elept next the berth occupied liy the Savages, was awakened by a shriek ; he ran into the cuddy, and at '.hat moment Mrs. Savsge put Pray who are you ? he exclaimed, with ^ ou , .,, , mid th . t h . r ^^ \ mj a foreign accent. j AtlA with , knife burM in nii hr.rt, 'lh I am Dr. Harris, I answsred. smiling. | ,, MMOger ruihed on deck| ^d Mr. Storey He looked uneasy on my pronouncing the word doctor, stepped back, and grasped the u handle of hi* cabin door, yet paused lo lay, " Are you a passenger, sir T" " I am the ship's doctor," I answered. Without another word he entered hi* cabin and chut th* door upon himself. His behavior was so odd, abrupt, discour- teous, that I suspect*.! hi* brain at fault. f , tch . . rgutiDg tue cap . , , _ , , . , .. , uua IIMU *ut uvu *MV WM**ua i***u|j Indeed I made up my mind, mthe interests th , ht WM .b^a^t. Thecl of Ihe passengers, and for Ihe eeourity ol , me aDd , tleppe<1 , t once u the ship, to keep my eye on him ; that is, by . . - accoet.ng him from time to time, and by I found several people in the cuddy. The shriek of the wife had awakened others be- side* the passenger who had raioed the alarm. Captain Smallport, the commander of the ship, hastily ran out o ,.is cabin as I passed through the steerage ! aich. Some one had turned the cabin lamp nil on, and plain came to the Sav- it. Ttaere was no lamp threw no )>erth and , ht M(1 tl| . illumination into this cabin. I nailed for a box of matches, and light* 1 the bracket lamp, and then there was revealed this pictuin : In the upper bank, clothed in a watching him without seeming to watch whenever w* should happen to be on deck toiretber. And yet 1 wa* not altogether aatiafied by my suspicion of his not being .,, . , * pICblllll . in I IU- UUUOI UHUK, iTlulrllvu 111 right headed, either; I found my purxlem.nl ^ costume of pyjami, and light gomg another way, but in a direct ion that . c| B , th< ri gure ol Ci, .in Norton- I could by no means make clear to myself, j !< avage wjth th ; cro- lhai e , hih of breast over i !ood show ing under it like its shadow, in th* right- > > rMlf - ! Savage, with thi croes -sha, el H w.v.r, not to refine upon this m.lMt. :(1 , tlkndi out , ,, ,, I think it was next day that happening to ," helTt tnd J d ^ rk Ukin cl , ,, come along from the forecastle, where 1 had - under it , |k . iu iha ,, ow _ j n been visiting a sick sailor, I spied the young fellsw standing before the mainmast in a or* of peeping posture ; his sjes were di reeled af I ; he wss watching the people J walking OB the poop. I stopped to look st bun. struck by bis attitude. The great' body of the mast effectually concealed him from all observers alX He turned hi* head and saw me ; his face was ghastly white, ' the expression wonderful for the tragic wra' h of it. On meeting my eyes he color- ' ed up I never could have credited so swift! a transformation of hue ; his blush wa* deep and dark, and hi* eye* ibone like lire. He cowled angrily, stepped rnun.l the mast, and disappeared through the cuddy door. was engraved, "Charles Winthrop Slier- ngham lo I^eonora Dunbar." " I* it th* wife'* doing, de yon think ?" said ths captain, looking at the dagger. "I would not say ye* or no to that ques tion yet," *aid I. " She might have done it In her sleep." " Look at hi. hands," said 1. " H* did lit *tab himself. Will you take charge of this dagger, captain?" All bloody, hk. that I" cried he. recoil ing. I oleanied it, and then he took it. We stood convening awhils. I examin- ed the body again ; which done, the pair of us went out, first extinguishing the lamp, and then locking tbe door. (TO M foXTHUED .) eHeanSteesner. The loading of an ocean steamer at one of the New York or Montreal piera is a sight ell worth seeing. Tbe Isngth of the steamships, some of them being nearly ti'm feet, makes very long piers necessary. These on a sailing day present an animated scene. A long line of trucks, loaded with all sorts of merchandiie, moves slowly down the pier, each truck delivering its pack- ages opponte the particular hatchway down which they are to be lowered. The big ships load at lour different hatchways at the same time. Steam-hoistinz apparatus at each, and separate gangs of men, all, however, under tbe direction of one steve- dore, load and stow the immense cargo in an incredibly short spaoeof time. All prominent lines handle their own freight, but some of the smaller lines give it out by contract to a stevedore, who em- ploys bis own men. About six gangs of twenty live men each and about twelve foremen and dock-clerks are employed. As m*ny men are employed as can work to ad- vantage. Tbe day men are relieved by oth- er gangs ot men who work at night. In- tush times a few men are added to eaoh gang. From 10,0<JO to KIO.OOO paokagts constitute an ocean steamship'scargo. The largest number of packages are carried at ihe season of the year when tbe Hordeanx iru it-canning trade is on, and the proportion of small packages is increased. Some big packages, such as a street-car com- pletely boxed, or a steam launch enclosed in a case, require considerable power and much kill to load. Heavy machinery and enor- mous use si are lifted from tbe dock, swung over the open hatchway, aid lowered to the cavernous depths * quickly and easily as though thy weighed bat a hundred pounds instead of several tons. The itewiag of tbe ((eight requires ex- perience and judgment. The weight must be arranged so that tbe vessel standi upon an even keel, and she must nut be down at the ow, or too low at the stern. Then the cargo must be (towed so that it will not skill. The importance of this is seen when the rolling and plunging of the ship in a heavy sea u considered. The cargo would net only be seriously injured if it tumble! about, but the vessel would be unmanage- able. Advantage* *r Klertrlrllr . Klectric light*, with their clear, clean and odorless illumination, electric bells and annunciators are by no means all tb* nues to which ingenuity has adapted electricity All, THE W*)BL*> SJYEB. Jules Verne'* real name U Olchewitx. Taille** cat* with purple eye* are common in Siam. The first steamer was built in Ireland in 1 820. Th* breaking strain of an inch rope i* 9,000 pounds. A ton of steel will make 10,000 gros* of pens. London has one-eighth of the population of Great Britain. Throughout tbe entire world there are annually about 180,000 suicide*. Madam* Albani began learning music when she wa* only four year* oli. In many German factories corset* are forbidden during working hour*. There are twelve postal deliveries a day in the " K. C." district of London. Th* mean annual temperature of the Arctic region* i* below 30 deg. Fabr. The thread of a silkworm is one-thou- sandth of an inch in diameter. An entomologist estimates that there are 240,000 varieties of insect* in the world. The average supply of fish at B illings- gate Market u 10.OOO tons a month. There are SI ,000 breweries in the world, nearly 26,000 cf them being in Germany. The world's supply of diamonds is twenty times greater than it was thirty years ago. In proportion to its site the hone has a smaller stomach than any other quadruped. There are more deaths annually from hydrophobia in Sweden than in any other country. Statistics show that Russia produce* and consume* a smaller quantity of beer than aay other nation. The Hawaiian alphabet ha* twelveUttera, while the Tartarian is made np of 'JOJ characters. Italy has the greatest proportion ot criminals. They number 5,140 to the mil- lion of population. Kight thousand tens of gold has been mined throughout th* world during the present century. The population of Italy U very dense, there being -TO people to every eqaar* mile of territory. The oldest railway in France runs be- tween Pane and Havre. It wa* built more than half a century ago. A Roumanian Iviy is at her own expense consti acting a railway from one of her es- tate* to the nearest town. A Hungarian inventor claim* to be able to make fro-n woo 1 palp a fabric suitable for durable clothing. Cabdrivers and omaibus conductors last year took to Scotland Yard 20,740 article* found by them in their vehicle*. A highly respectable Philadelnhian dog has been buried in a mahogany coffiu which mas lined with satin and mounted -with silver ornament*. Small farm* are th* rule in Japan, and every foot of land i* pot to uee. The farmer who has more than ten acre* i* considered for th* household. There are houses in ; a monopolist. which svery bedroom, closet, storeroom, i A woman's corsets, worn with only the average degree of tightness, exert a pressure of forty pounds on ths organ* they com- et<\ , i* lighted by a lamp which lights it- self automatically whenever the door i* opened and which (hut* Uself off whenever ' press, the door is closed from th* outside. Lights in a barn can be controlled from a house. There are electric lamps which at will can Incandescent lamp* are ridiculously cheap in Sweden, the price of tho<e with all be operated either at full candle power or at much reduced power. voltages np to lii being about twenty cents. The to look through some oddments exposed for aal* at, a second-hand bookseller'* he pur- chased a miscellaneous lot for a couple of hilling*. He then discovered a 1011 com- plete edition of Shakespeare's Pericles, for which he has since been offered and tefused 50. In the famous cellars of the Hotel de Ville, at Bremen, there are a dozen case* of wine which have been preserved for '250 years. If the eost of maintaining th* cellar, payment of rent, interest upon tbe original value of the wine, and other inci- dental charge* are all considered, a bottle of this choice wine ha* oost 92,000,000, each glassful $27-2,380, and a single drop could not he sold without loes under $200. The Javanese mtuiicaJ instruments are made mostly of bamboo. They also played upon a pipe, or whistle, which was about 3 feet long and 6 inches across. This sound- ed like the hollow roar of a lion. Another was a bnndl* of tube* of different lengths, which covered the small boy who carried it like a big saddle. A log hewn out with two strings stretched across it served as a drum. Anther of six 'een string* and a mandolin of two completed their outdoor band, while inside one could hear other music made by gongs of wonderfully pure and beautiful tone. The Chamber of Commerceof Kouen have erected a clock tower which gives the time on three sides, and th* height of the tide on the fourth, namely, that fronting the harbour. The tide indicator consists es- sentially of a float, which by mean* of a cord and counterweight huag on a drum actuates a lerie* of shafts with bevel wheel gearing, and moves a hand or pointer en a dial like that of a clock, marked with the necessary figures to show the level of the tide. The dials are of opal glaas, and are il- luminated at night. Tne clock has an apparatus for distributing the time to other clocks in Rouen, and also for unifying the time after the method adopted in Paris. A steamer which arrived at Melbourne from London the other day carried two lit- tle boys who had stewed themselves away in the stokehold. One of the firemen while on duty in the stokehold saw a little figure jammed between the floor 'of the ship and the boiler. The thermometer in their hid- ing place stood at 170 deg., and their escape from death seems perfectly marvellous. The boys said they stowed themselves away beneath the boilers when the veaeel was in the London docks, and when they got out the rolling of the ship made them sea-sick, and for two day* they had nothing at all M eat or drink. tdmlral WH lo >** peratlems al Ble Cr...lr d. l Krai 1 1. A New York sspatchsays: The Herald's special from Montevideo says : New* comas from Kio (irande do Sul that the bombard- meat begun by the rebels under Admiral Mello las) Friday was renewed at sunns* yesterday (ten. Saraiva, who is command- ing th* troop* which were landed from the insurgent fleet, had succeeded in gaining possession of one-third of the city by noon, and at 1 o'clock a well-directed shell caused the powder magazine to explode. The loyal garrison, which numbers less than one-half the forces of the besiegers, then commenced a retreat, but at 2 o'clock a reinforcement ot 500 of President 1'eixoto's men from I'orto Alegre arrived, whereupon tne garri- son again assumed the defensive, and th* battle was (till raging fiercely at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The Brazil Minuter to Uruguay received After this I saw no more of him for hand corner beside th* door stood Mrs. Savage in her night-dress ; hsr face was o! the wliiteness of her bed gown ; kei black eye* were tart ing, and looke,: double their usual *ize. 1 noticed blecxi up.. n her night-drees over the right hip. All this was the impreesion ef a iwif t glance, In a step I wa* at Captain Savag*'* side, and found him dead. " Ht-re is murder, captain," aaid I turn- ing to the ttmmander of the ship. He closeif the door to shut out the pry- ing passengers, and exclaimed. " 1* he dead,?" " Yes." Mrs. Savage shrieked. I observed hei tie the youth was keeping his cabin. " NVhai's his name again?" said 1. " John liurgess, sir." " Thai's an Kngl'sh name, but he's not an Englishman," sud I. " \Ve don't trouble ourselves ubont names on board ship, sir," he answered. " There be purser*' names aft as well as forrard." " D'Mss he ever U'k lo yo.i j" " N >, sir, he might be a funeral mule for talk." " I) -r< be como to the table for his meals ?' " N<>, sir ; bis grub's carridl in lo him." " U l.tn did yon see him last 7" " Ad >ut an liiiur ago." i he teem ' UV1 as I am." 1 asked no more i|iiestion. Tber was a i 'illness in '.ho steward's way of iiirin s ' whirh promif siw i.iiiinr in I lie l'l. This was ream;: in.', for i knew h; wm often in and young iiiaii'n hart 1 !, an -I any- thing c tenteio in hii oni luut would utrikti I:, in. Aifnrmr, it was no part of my duty ' . ii.'i!, i- ii].n the pusengers in tlitir .i'y. We took the northeast trade-wind, ma le iinbie prograts down the North Atlantin, lost the commercial gale in H 9 or 10 ' north liit'ir, and then lay "humbug- ." nn the forecastle nyini(is, on plains blue wa'.er, scarcely crisped !>y uYpnw, ami often for hour* at a time *; dressing-gown hanging lieside the door, and , put it on I'er, again nolmiag the blood-stains u|. in her hands and night-dress. She- look- ed horribly frightened, and trembled vio- lently. What can you tell us about thi* !" said ( 'aptain Smallport. Klectnc power is< The i i, or t e , t Kngli.h Parliament was yesterday forenoon this despatch "from! : en. being used for operating elevators in resi- 1 that whiah met Qn ,^, mb . r 3,^ lm nd fucellor. commander of the garrison ; it after one day was dissolve! by Richard was dated 15 minutes to 2 o'clock a.m.: I U. "The rebsl fleet bombarded the city for three hour* yesterday morning, ami their fire was vigorously answered by our land batteries. One of the rebel torpedo boats, the Marcello l>iz, tried to eater the canal leading into the city, but found the mouth blocked bv a sunken pontoon, "lien. Uumercindo Saraiva J-ANDED fPOS Till BEACH of the lagoon at 1 o'clock in the afternoon with 2..VK) men and marched upon ihe. city. They quickly encountered our out post*, and a five-hours' tight follow,),!, m which I estimate that he lest 200 men. When drkne*s cam* on our men withdrew a* far as th* outskirts of th* City and began bell i throwing up entrenchments. "I received from Admiral Mello at 9 o' clock in the evening a formal demand for the surrender or evacuation of the city. To waiters, vcntiUlingfans. ice cream free/ere, etc. The adaptation of electricity to heating is making rapid progress, but at present it can be used more economically than coal ' only when it is generated from water power. Thus far the healing of large spaces by electricity is an expensive luxury. Klectric cookinff is economical, and, of course, much preferred to any other method. All sort* of electric cooking utensils are now in the market. These devices and arrangements are generally kuown, but thus far scarcely any residence* have them all. In a few years except as to electi (cheating apparatus, they will be generally introduced when buildings are constructed. They will make domestic labor lighter and more pleasant, and will do away with, even in isolated and rural quarters, much drudgery that now falls upon the housewife. iKurlnx Ike rnarr. Japanese cooks are the most cruel in the world. They cut every atom of Beth off a living fish piece-meal without first causing death. The Krupp gun works claim to have manufactured a machine which will roll iron so thin that it would take 1,800 sheets to make an inch. A traveller who has been a* far south a* Patagonia, and as far north as Iceland, ay* that mosquitoes an to be met with everywhere. By the use of an electric door mat, just in- vented, a shopkeeper or housekeeper can leave th* door open with safety. When visitor steps upon the mat, an electric nugs. The present House of Commons provide* seal* for only 4.'< I of the 1170 members 306 on Ihe floor and 124 in the galleries Kacb seat is 2d inches wide, and' the width from 11 noo-comUtante to clear out of here by A great deal ha* been said from time to back to back* of the seat is 3 feet 8 inches. ' d Y break, when it is expected Gen. Saraiva will renew his attack, while the warship* which certain nobles carry, particularly the members of the Knglish nobility. Many In h*r foreign accent, strongly defined by , o( these stories are pure t-otion. At any tho passion of terror or grief, site answered but in such broken, tremulous, hysteric sentences as I should be unable to corn-mini- cle in writing that being suddenly awak- ened by a noise as of her cabin door opened or shut, ihe called to CapUin Savage, but received no answer. She called again. Then, not knowing whether he had yet come to bed, and the cabin being in dark- ness, she got out of her bunk, and felt over tbe upper one for him. Her band touched It iseitimited that the t.i'.al production of coffee in the wot Id it about 000,000 to renew the bombardment. 'Our force* are determined to nuke a the Knglish companies will not reveal tho amount carried by their patrons, and so these stories can have no real foundation in fact. In KngUnd, large lines of life insurance figure prominently in the settlement of estates, marriage por- tions, ami similar contract*, ami it i* said thai in thi* way the Knglish t'oinpanie* do th* larger part of their business. * The I'rince of Wales was ery heavily n AS* L L n -, i I wur forces are oesersujivu 10 nuae 85".'00ton,,o which .Bra.,!, on. produce dt t . reii . Unce . (J O v. Ca*tilho tel. KAtwAnn .ill rtfin &nH .1411 II Ml t\n knit I*I*A ~ . the hilt of the dagger she shook him, and j nsur .d i one time, his motive in securing called his name touched ihe dagger again. | ,. insurance being, it was stated, to pro- then uttareil the shriek that had alarmed ; tect tne mon ey lender.Karquhar, with whom the ship. Is it suicide?" said the captain, turning to me. I |okod at the body, at the posture of tbe h-tuds, and nnswere I, emphatically, " No." I found terror rather than grief in Mrs. Savage's manner her eyes at the corpse ing of panic fear in them. The oapti opened tlie cabin donran.l called for the, stewardess. She wa* in waiting outside, an c " nr tjfirs.tfl from his personalpbysician.whioh on may believe. Tho cuddy, indeed, was , t ., r ij|jcate the company refused to accept he was implicated before the Duke of Fife cleared up Ihe Prince's obligations by mar- rying into the royal family. Juat how much insurance the I'rince carried at that lime is not known, but it is certain that he got as inu.ib us tho British companies would give him and then applied toon* of Being a person however, to per- mit the company'* medical examiner to in- spect his royal person, proffering instead a Whenever she dueoted i t |, e companies in this city. ise I noticed tbe strain ! O f high eata'e, he refused, in them. The captain i m ; he cnmntnv'* meilicul .nil of people, and wlulst the door was I braid Ib. 1 Crumbling hum of the < of 'tween-deok p&isengors and seamen air enough to wag th* fly of the vann at the . aflcr a nay 01 Dasiing cairn, 1 ' "** -* -,..--. -. ~._ l,in;crtdon tho poop for some while after . passengers had been murdered, and every my riiMomsry hour of retiring to ro*t for tongue was asking who had dc,ne it. mast-bead. " One very hot ! croWdinej t the cud.ly front. The now* a day of rutting ciilm, I had been spread that on* of the first-class the refreshment of the dew-cooled atmos- phere and the cold breath lifting off the black surface . f the o :ean. Tne awning Tbe Htewardesa took Mrs. .Savage to a spire cabin. When the women were gone, and the door again shut, Captain Small wns ipread over th rnop ; a few shadowy | port still remaining with me, t drew the figures moved slowly under it; b.-r an. 1 , dagger out of tbe breast of the boly, and there A roil star in li ?ated a smoker suckinn : took it to the light. It was moro properly .1 : ill* water alongside wns full oM a dagger-shaped knife than a dagger, the smoky lire r, '11:11, in -Urn cre.nb MS (J |>,,int sharpis a needle, ih edge ra/orlik*. Horn the bendu of the sbi-> ,sH Tlui hMn'le </a of firited ,/ory ; to it was '' ' ' '..-.I... of .ilv.r nl.it. nn.hinh and so the insurance was -{New York Time*. never ejected. No Motive. He "What do you say, my dear ? shall I bave n.y life insured ? " She "You don't feel as though it would shorten your life, do y.ii, dailing?" H*-"l'ooh N T o." Stio-"()h. well I I don't believe I'd go to the expense of it then." between 340, (XX) and 3SO.OOO tons, and Java bO.OOO to OO.r.tK) tons. A millionaireof Vienna ha* left provision i O f that city." graphs me Iruir Porto Alegrethat the rebel* have not made any progress in their siege in his will for the constant illnulination of ' the vault wherein he now lie*. An electric light is to bo kept burning for a year, and even the cotrin is to be kept lighted m the interior by electricity. The C irean does not have the trouble of carrying his umbrella in his hand. It is like an ordinary umbrella in shape, only it is smaller and ha* no handle. It is made of ciled paper, and is worn on the head over the hat. Probably very few persons know that the Lord Mayor is the only person other than the Queen and the Couetable who know* the password to the Tower of Lon- don. This password is Kent to the NUrfsiou House quarterly, signed by her Majesty. It is a survival of an ancient custom. The house in which Lieutenant Peary, the explorer, will live in Greenland i* t5 feet by 16, and is built of wood and tarred paper ; the walls are double, and it will be surrounded by a stone wall two feet thick, protected by a banking of snow. Th* house is lighted from above, and will have electric light* in winter. Some curious facts about domestic aer vice in Brazil are brought out In a consular report from Uio Grande do SuL Servant* will not slep in the house a* a rule, but expect to leave at seven at night, and not return till seven or eight tha next day. A* Ric Janeiro despatches, under date of April i, say President Pelxoto's Cabinet held an all-night session when the news was received there of the bombardment of Kio I Irande do Sul. It was coupled w.th the information that all tho bank* bad sus- pended butine**, and that many mercantile houses had closed their doors, and it caused considerable excitement in the capital. Gold in Alaska. The Upper Yukon liver, in Ala;k* is attracting more California gold-seeker* than ever before. It ia said that the miner who goes up there with a proper outfit, and i* prepared to endure the rigours of the climate, is sure of m*ki"ggood wages nd returning, if be is thrifty, with a considerable sum f money. No prospect of fabulous "strikes" is held out, however. Only la*t week a party of miner* left Sau Kranaisco in a schooner for Cook'* inlet, Alaska. There were 15 men in the party, and two of them were accompanied by their wive*. They took along, beaides an abundant supply of provisions, a cow, a horse and two dog*. None of the miners expect to be back inside of seven months, and come of them not for a year or more. The latter intend to explore the remotest parbsof the Yukon. The majority, however, will etep at Cook'* inleU Last fall much flake gold was found "Hilly Bliven ask ad Mia* Paraelgh how ol I she was," snid on* girl to another. "Dul she get angry '" "No; she was flat- ter. '.1. She though! she must 'look very voung or he'd never have dared." ~ . 1U.CU UIM* 1*11 III (till llfljMVJ VI1 W *>> ll/UU\* a re*ult, tome houses have a pane of glass therlt an ,i ,!,<, nuggets, at the depth of in one of the windows taken out, through ' which the baker and the milkman pa** their goods on their early morning ,-oundi, without troubling a member of the family to g*t up and open tho door. A Birmingham bibliophile some time ago six feet. Some of the miners ;n the placer* reported that the gold averaged four cento a pm, and that as high as (101) and $110 a day had been mad* to the man. The mining was all done by the crude panning process, but those who have just left i had a splendid haul iii London. Chancing Frsncisco will introduce sluice-boxes