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 ^^^e he feif^ cattleman ' «'V3 him ° W;hr, "t no other, " to feed *^'er six »e, ,^1- having t move devoured naj fi o*her r,1,„: 3 %s fylarrable's Elopement. TWO CHArTtKS. â€" CHAPTIPw II. I till- Ui MarraUe, who, when she received " ,t,T was sittiog in her bedroom, jerstrJt'K. lovt that'i first, she thought â- oTmy a^^^ charging hsr with bise- cig"'"^/ y'ritit"" but afwr seme re8ec- j?i! »?" J^'^,cided to let mattt n, for the time °"*fake their cou: se, aud to confound a! I"" of the rash coup'e by means of 'â- ""'sToke at the final moment. She f'^.Jovcr. ftt once to Lacy, in whom. 11 §' • tio W-PVPf. she had crcat ciLfidence, and ;,f[,vv- rooli=n of her,' Earn L icy.^ off as far J "a3 unable â-  ^i3,d to 8nfi e. 11 thia place i udy, e tie dared somethings ab'e conditK^ trshal, and i medicil bedding nt- d under hla â- ^ t xposed i 1 a trip of 2i ^h read, aj al treafmsn for l-im, ^langa, blnoi h Ct:;mina;i d. â- J whtu ti] 3.s=i,"fi worn: ifford streel P 'a 9'i9 hell •â- Â«' tne wini 'y over heii to the wiai 11 instead a th her eye^ :y cjuLl not d the a3tei my aear how fo!isb, and how assented Miss Marrable. "I feel |«"")j„fy'to prevent the carrying out of I'"' "(I pl:ii. nd aho to make Amy suffer â- ^jially- 1 ^^^^" therefore send her this I '" â-  ' zud allow the hair-brained pair to U"" their ;chenr,es. â€" And what, Lncy '"do you ti.ick I propose to do You â- *evergse3S. Listen! Amy aud 1 are "jch tJ° same heigh:. 1 shall personate "v coEcealiugâ€" ahemâ€" my face.and drive r '/«i:h this vile young miu end then, 'i'" v,,.i,c„-.« that be baa ieft me far I !-li!I overwi-.elm him with bbame uicodnsiou." Lacy cou! Bjd really te good fun, aunt," she baid. Vs, senfl the letter to Amy and by all I jjjjlet inalters take their course for the ia Mirrabledid send the letter; and ijyduly received it, unsuspectingly but I j(5 minutes later, Lucy revealed the whole lit to ber, and threw her into the deepest |;!en he believes that be I :,; I -hd] overwh""'" lit;'""' II ..,•,1^1011, aid not help laughing. '-Taat m datioD. mnn, kinj ill I tjraspei 1 filled ailj. •Hr tfap walk to pnt vour i; ctt'a h2, !»•; winciand pan. )uso to gal yea and re^ p )licj had â- -' him thejr rk he madi hat qu-rter ittenipt, to ir.-pan." 3 month Tin i^ill Du^ injuJB I Dr. Carbooll -purilidra. lA the powtr more corn using Pui- •iclessCoiS 'acuon, for reryartic* •3. ana W9 to guard ottered for C. PoUoa ho makes i or bruia- 1 and buy 3(1 pat CD or dingy, e popular 'ru^^^ists. and fiere, however. Lucy's puperi r coolness -me in most usefully. "Yuu need lot de- '-if" faid the elder cousin, "It aunt -uikscf having fun With ycu and Mr, Jel- "^t why not turn the tables, aud have fun iiia'ber You must find some other way janyicg on your correspondence but -,. ume time answer this letter by the medium. Your answer will of course jjjnto aunt's hands. Y"ou must mislead .;r,and then" "'But," objfcted Amy, "how am I to Kke matters turn out properly " L'aten ' said L-icy. "Aunt proposes ;ptrrscnate jou. Very well; put off the â- jBeof your elopement, say, i tr half an houi r; meantime Mr. Jellicoe must find some r; to personate him. My idea is for aunt elope with the billiard-marker, and so •rj ycu time to g3t away. Do you see'" imy could mS at first grasp the sigcifi- juceof t'ris bold proposition but when she cceeded in doing 2o, she was delighted with 'I shall tell Mr. Rhodes," faid Lucy, i;en she had sufficiently explaiDed the plan; vr I know that he will gladly help you; iiiJIr .l-Uicoe can talk it all over with â- jj and have the benefit of his advice." BaJ wtat will aunt say when she dis- jvers how we â€" how you â€" have deceived .e:?' a-ked Amy. "Ah!" faid Lucy, elily, "I must talk isjirtbat too with Mr. Rncdes. But niver ear.' And she went off to rejoin Miss jlaiable, who wa-s still much flurried, bter in the day, Lucy met Robert on the •each, and told him â- what had happened. 'AcdDow," she said in conclusion, "I am join? to make a dreadful proposition to you. We must also elope together " JO Jui;, if a new pains and isure than :,iNE (xac- ;(iinat!sm. ires head- Nerv)l- â- nal pains.- ly be had: it. Large ,i,Il drng- «E I ' home or.^ loJows so that ,HP" folJed biliet-doux wise. It am sure I don't mind," said Mr. Rhodes. "Alter hearing your news, I was going Mprcposeas much myself. It would take yea out of the reach of your aunt's re- "Oiches, when she finds out the trick that :iiHeen p'ayed upon her. "You are a dear old love " cried Lucy r.;h enthuHasm. "I wouldn't fcr the 'jrld have Amy made unhappy and I feel :;atlmu5t help her, although I don't ap- :!jvp of tl'jpvir.tnts. Now go and talk to "r. Jelliccf ami dent forget to have the â- ecaea ready. Perhaps Mr. Jel'icce can irraEge for buth Amy ana me to sleep that -iht with the Jcneees, whoever they may s; crp r. apa, a'ter all, we had better not P there, sitiue aunt knows of that part of 35 sche.Tie. "I ca-esay," said Robert, " that I can jraage for both of you to sleep at the -owns at L'aDvltid. They have a large ;K!e, aiiij, cuncufcly enough, my sister -jra, Khoii! yuu have often met in town, is =iy)Dg there with them so you will have viDfanior. and sympathizer. And now I fiilgoandtaik to Jellicoe." I need to' f;,How in detail the progress of iienew sell' ii.L of double elopement. Suf- -•6 11 to say that the bogus cnrre-^pondence 5-stined to mislead Miss Marrable, was paiiy kept up; that Amy and Vivian •Knd other means of safely communicating ^â- th cne another that the Browns were ^fitten to that the licenses were obtained; ".it three eavDages-and- pairs were engaged, '" to call at tne hotel at nine o'clock p.m., '^i two at half past that coachmen were -isrsJly fted and fiaalJy, that the billiard- f»^tr at the Cos y-Gtdol, a spruce young •[low of some education, was bribed, at con- '^erable ejs:, to persruate Vivian Jellicoe »«1 to run awny with Miss Marrable. •^t length., "VVednesday morning arrived; ^f wuh It eame the last of the billet-doux ^-M Ware f^ij -^^^^ ^^^ spinster's hands. One 'hen had been composed by Vivian and t, and written by the former on pink ran as 1 French -ery styl; roved or I only by r CO. r Co. ime, Fln« FireOUy. cbarKf' in mar WUM* â- Iv 0\v^- Amyâ€" I have satisfactorily ar- «ged everything. The cairiage will be at ;«e aor r of the hotel at nine o'clock, I shall â- ^ «ow myself, fcr your aunt may be about. ^careful therefore to avoid her and enter Cf^^^" as fl'iu kly as possible. In order there may be no mistake, I have told iitck^"7l"° ^°"' '^^-'te choker round his £,. â-  .. "ope that you will be punctual. tJ^, "'g i-'epends upon punctuality. Till ««^ clock, good-bye. Your most devoted Vivian. fc'deT v'"""" ^^^^" reading this note, ra- feachp,i' '^^ "'"^^' and took care"nhat it ;T., "ly- Th. with the consciousness sood J -^^ ^^out to perpetrate a grand and ini ^â- J,'"" '^^ sa^t down in her own room, hit bv H "' -^"ly'a reply to be brought to *hidi~ treacherous maid. The note â- 1 'e,, v^ ^â- "' "â- ^ef cune to Miss Mirrable »roteV' .f'alf an hour. "Deab Viv," "itlortk^' ' '1' ^^ ready, and will look I"itelril'*^°'^°ker--Your loving A." '• the ordeal which was before Slim aij^° °'" spinster was perfectly iia^eav """"i^d. At one o'clock she '»oah„/"^J'^arty luncheon; at half- past *i to th. '^^f nieces for a walk, and talk- "*«ni With extraordinary affability one. complained of Te Z; ^^^1^ peppery, the fish too cold ^Iti! ±,T^ ' TJtfl *t?^ ^^^' »' leart a hundred times during dinner at the olook i,n«„ tv mantel-piecf; and theyLch ... "P°' '^« turned red whenever the noise of Ctfriase- M ss MarrablVwcra^^Tto he^^^^^Tl began to make her pr^arations "^^ «plf ^.T " " "" *=*•" "^^ '^o^is.'ht to her- self, -for poor young Jellicoe When I dis- cover mysel and overwhelm him wUh re- proaches. [en are hnt « „, i^ Perhaps he ^all faSt. Ye« -Vwill t!l«""' aaUn hoUU " « ^es i y*jii take my n^lfol K • wrapped herself in an ulster belongmg to Amy, ar.d having shrouded her face in a thick veil, took a S at her wiadow, which happened to be t^. mediately above t!ie front noor of the hot^ Meantime. Eiward Griffith, the billS' marker was ill at ease. H, knew Ms, Marrable by sight, aud looked forward w.th terror to the prospect of an encounter with her at clo,e q aarters. Neve r heless, he had Viviar, Jrllicoe » five pound note in his pocket awl h' was dettrm-ned to see the affair bravely through. He felt however, that his natural bravery would not be sufficient to support him and he therefore, at about SIX o clock began swallowing a succession of po-.ent doses of whiskey-and-water. with the oDject of laying in a stock of Dutch cour-- age. W hether the whiskey was bad or the water too powerful, I cannot say but at ten minutes to nine, when Vivian Jellicoe arrived to ?ive final directions and counsel to his vbstitute, he found Edward Griffiths decidedly the worse of liquor. Fortunately the young fellow was neither quarrel' ome nor noisy in his cups. His mam ambition seemed to be to go to sleep in peace and no sooner had Viviaa bundled him into one corner of the carriage, which was in waiting in the stable-yard, that Mr. Griffiths incon- tinently slumbered. The carriage was then driven round to the front-door of the hotel. Miss Marrable, from her post of vantage, saw it, and remarking; that the coachmaa wore a white choker, doEcended at once, and listened, as she went, outside Amy's room, to satisfy herself that that young lady had not forestalled her. The porter with alacrity opened the carriage- door. In the dark shadows of the interior. Miss Mairable caught sight of the figura of a man and making sure that all was right, she entered at once. Aa instant later she was being whirled northward along the lonely Harlech Road. Half an hour afterwards, two other car- riages left the hotel, but in the opposite direction. In one of them were Lucy and Mr. Rhodes and in the other. Amy and Mr, Jellicoe. It was near midnight ere they arrived at the Browns' house at L'anyltid; but the Browns were all up and waiting for them, and the two runaway 'louples were warmly welcomed, and hospitably taken care of. Miss Marrable was less fortunate. As soon as the carriage in which she sat had been driven beyond the lights of the town, she threw aside her veil, aud gazed with mag- nificent scorn towards the dim form upon the seat in front of her. The look eliciting no response of any kind. Miss Marrable ven- tured to cough, at first gently, and then with considerable violence but still the figure took no notice. "This is exceedingly strange," thought the spinster lady. "I must adopt mora active measures. " And with great tendemesa, she prodded Mr. Griffiths with the point of her umbrelli. The billiard-marker groaned in his sleep. "Mr. Jellicoe 1" she exclaimed in her deepest aud most threatening tones. She had counted upon this exclamation pro- duc'ng an instintaneous and astonishing effect upon her companion and she was wofuUy disappointed when he merely groan- ed agaip. "Gracious?" she said to herself "he U ill. He would never go on like tha' if he were not H' Tae fright has been too much for him. Oh, how sorry I am These men are such weaK creatures. I must s:ep the carriage ' And, throwing down tne sash ot the window, she pnt out her he*d and cried to the driver to pull up his horses. But the driver, like thi billiard marker, had been very liberally feed and he was determined that nothing would stop him until he reached HarlecD he therefore cracked hs whip, to d own Miss Marrable's voice, and Qro\e down the next hill at a pace which threaten- ed to shake the carriage to pieces. "Stop, stop For goodness' sake stop?" shouted Miss Marrable but finding that her words were not listened to, she drew in htr bead, and strove to revive the wretched man in front of her. She held her salts- bottle to his nose she chafed his hands she fanned his brow and she allowed his feverish head to rest upon her shoulder but she could not awaken him. "If he should die 1" she thought "I in- tended to frighten him but not so much as this. Oh this is terrible " Aud once more she tried to prvail upon the driver to stop bat in vain. The sight of distant lights, however, gave her at length some satisfaction. The carriage entered a long avenue, the gate of which lay ready opened for it and about an hour and a quarter after leaving Abennaw, it drew up before the Joneses^house near Harlech. With a sigh of rtlief, Miss Marrable threw open the door and spraag out, to find her- self in the presence of half a dozen people who wera congregated upon the step i. • Quick I" she cried " don't ask ques- tions 1 He is )ll he is dying. Take bim °\he Joneses, who bad not been prepared for the apparition of a middle-aged spinster, and who were expecting Mr. Jellicoe and Miss Allerton, were somewhat astonisnca. "Who is inmde I" asked Mr. Tom Jones, the son and heir of the family. "Ohl Mr. Jellicoe I Be quick 1 Hex "^.:?:atn%mUtl"'criedTom.nishing to the carriage to aucrour his friend. But M instant l^r he burst into a violent fit of 1 .^kt-o- "Whv its not Jellicoe at all K? "It^Siffil. the billiard-marker from the Co. y-Gedol ;, and he ib hopelessly drunk. Nice companion, Indeed! m" Marrable is. as I have alreadysaid a woman without weaknesses. On be^"»« Skr^ouncament. however, she fainted iSay When, thanks to the kind attention S; female members of the Joneses tX, aSw^ived. she indignantly charged Kb eXiable people with having delib f^w slotted heV dMComforture and she Sr'^^^t once returning to Abennaw; j beLw h°'^°f"*^ "'" """Id nevTl^a r^. '""'°" weaknewes, she passed niahf^ 'iP^' °^ '^^ remainder of?K night in violent hyste ics. She telegraphed next day to Mr. Larkspur and Mr. Allerton^ and most heartless of men J phI-^L?*, ^**^' afterwards, however, the edge of her anger had worn off Lucy and t^LT' "'"'â- "^- " " foolish,' but. perhapg, ,t was not wholly inexcusable and thus reasoning. Miss Marrable, in the goodness of her heart, determined to gradu- ally receive them back into her favour. Bat ^e!t?n' T" ""^^-'y ^^'Siven Licy for sug- geiting the substifution of the billiard- marker for Vivian Jellicoe. "My dear," she sayi.. when she retells the Btory, of her drive to Harlech, "the wretch- ed mau was perfectlysaturated with whiskey and I Tially don't know what he might not have done if 1 hadn't kept my tye steadily on him. But beneath my ga^a he cowered, my dear, po=.itively cowered I I never saw a savage brute so completely tamed." ' And to this day Miss Marrable bdJevoa that but for her Eye. the bilUard-marker mightâ€" horrid thought Iâ€" have run away with her too. THE MERRY CAPITAL OF THE CZAR. A Series oi BrllUant Balls tn St *Peters- borgâ€" Wealtb Beginning to Over- abadow Aristocracy. Everybody is dancing and smgmg in St. Petersburg, from the Czar and the Czarina to the.dvomik and the chambermaid. Re- cently the autocrat gave a brilliant ball in tfae Palace, opening the ball season here. About 3,000 guests in glitte ring uniforms and dresses filled the immense rooms of the gloomy palace, ornamented with costly tropical plants. At 10 p.m. the Emperor and the Empress entered the dancing hall of Nicholas, followed by the members of the imperial family. In the first dance the Cza- led the Czarina in the second he led Lady Thornton, the wife of the English Ambassador, the Czarina dancing with Gen. Schewenitiz, the German Ambassador in the third the aigust host led Mme. Apper, the wife of the French Ambassador, and the hostess had ShaJiir Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador, as her partner. The Czar wore the uniform of the cavalry guards, and the Czarina a white satin dress richly orna- mented with fresh roses and lilie?. Oa her head she had a superb diamond diadem. At midnight supper was served. Military bands played in every room. Massive sil- verware shone brightly on the tables cover- ed with fresh hyacinths and tulips. Tne Czarina had the German Ambassador on her right, and the Turkish Ambassador on her left side. The Czar, as a hospitable host, went from one table to another, exchanging words with all his guests. Following the example of the Czar, every Minister and Ambassador and all the rich and titled St. Petersburgers hurried to give balh. The German, French and Turkish Ambassadors each gave a ball that stirred the aristocratic public and the fashionable dressmakers. Among the novelties of the season electric bouquets and table ice are mucti in favor. The bouquets of the ladies and the necktie pins of the gentlemen are connected with a minute electric battery, secreted by the ladies in their dress, aad by gentlemen in the side pockets. The electric current can be closed or interrupted at any time at the will of the bearer of the battery. These bouquets and pins with their electric flashes Hurpriae and amuse the unscientific public, loe is made to serve both an ornamental and a useful purpose at balls. A huge pieco of ice, srdstically carved, is placed on a bilver tray and lighted from within. In the excavations in the ice they pour either wine or cream, or both, of which the dancers partake. Millionaire Krutikoff, a tea merchant, on the occasion of his marriage with Miss Sine- bruhooff, gave a ball, to which were invited all the leading merchants of both capitals. In the hall ot the Nobles' Assembly there were gathered fully 1,500 guests. Perhaps never before were so many dianionds seen in that hall. Every matron and maiden pparkled like a constellation in miniature. Mrs. Avchinnikoff alone wore diamonds worth a quarter of a million dollars. At this ball the young men appeared in the red, white, and blue tail coats of the French pattern, worn under the Directory. This innovation, however, displeased the Czm" for, as he remarked, "We are not yet under the empire, and not under a directory." So the Russian dudes must pack up their red white, and blue coats, and keep them till a directory shall be proclaimed in Russia. I»; is becoming evident that the golden bourgeois is more and more talking the lead of the titled aristocrat even in the Czar's country. Nowadays many a prince, count, and baron longs for the society of financial kin^s, for they only give excellent dinners, treat to the bejt wines, and present to their daughtera for dowry bushels of diamonds. The old times has gone by when the Rus- sian merchants entreated some uniformed General to boner them with his presence at their balh and dinners. Nowadays the wearers of glittering uniforms and ancient, aristocratic shii-.ds flock around the rich and hospitable merchants like tramps longing for a free lunch. To« Strict. In Germany, tbe police regulations are very strict, and any violation of them is promptly ponUhed. The people have a holy rerror of tne law. Two gentlemen happjntd to meet in Berlin, and the following coaver- saaon took place "Have you heard the dreadful news About MUler r "No, what is it? tt^ ,„„ "He was in a boat in the nver. Ha feU overboard, and was drowned. The water was too deep." "Didn't he know how to swim I "Swim I Don't yon know that all personn are forbidden by the pUca to swim in the river?" INTERESTING ITEMS. A Wonderfol Boyâ€" Sideides in Fnmoeâ€" Don Carlosâ€" The Keirspaper in Bossia, £e., e. Gannod has oraipleted a new wo'-W, ao oratorio, which is entitled "Mors et Vita," and is a sequel to tne • 'Redemption." A tonr-year-3ld boy at Felicity. O is the sensation in that town, aa he can or is alleg- ed to be able to read books and papers at sight, though he was nevsr inatructed. More than a miUon head of cattle wintered in the Territory of Wyoming, and the gen- eral "round up" of this enormous number will begin about the middle of Miy. The oen»ns returns for 1833 give the pop- ulation of Birlin an 1,226.392 of whom 20,- 587 are soldiers. la 1850 the population was only 419,720, of wnom 17.547 were soldiers. A new ladies' club has been started in London, close to *P,ccadilly. Tne Countess of Portsmouth. L*dy E izabeth Cast, Lvdy Mary Harvey, and Lady Kni^htley are on the council. It is calculated that there are now resid- ing in the United States nearly a thousand Japanese, and of this number it in said that not one faai ever been convicted of any crim- inal offence in an American court. In France, according to the statisticians, suiaides are rapidly increasing, not only among adults with real woes or sufferings to account for their rasha^t, but also among juveniles, who make away with themselves for the most trivial causes. Father Anderledy, the proposed new gen- eral of the Jesuits, is now at Rome, lodgja in the palace in Piazz a Margana, which oe- longs to the order. The number of living Roman Catholic Cardinals is fifty- six, so that fourteen hats sra still vacant. It is said that these will also soon be supplied. In London the policemen are not allowed to carry revolvers lest they might be tempt- ed to use them too carelessly. A recent and somewhat protracted discussion of the ques- tion of arming the police has ended in pro- viding for them no more formidable weapoa than a new and improved whistle, It is said that the claimant, Sir Roger, is to adopt the stage as a profession on his re- lease from Portland prison, which will now shortly take place. Tao first character in which he will appear is Sir John FaUtaf. He was to have been installed in a public house, but it was felt he had enough oi trial at bar already. The worshippers at a church at Solaao, Col., went en Sunday night as usual to ser- vice, but found that the bats had taken possession of the house and were so t'aick aud aggressive that the service was necessar- ily postponed. Oa Tuesday the deacons in- augurated a bat hunt, and behind ons of the window casings found and killed 241 of them. M. Chevreui, the eminent scientist, who is nearly 98 years of age, was delivering p lecture on chemistry the other day at the Paris Museum of Natural History. Referr- ing to a certain phenomenon Ik chemical change, he said: "This fact was first men- tioned to me in 1804 by a Lsipsic student named Schamberger, or Sjhomberger, I am not quite sure which. It is curious, but I an beginning to lose my memory for names." Tne death is announced of M. M ss iri. a member of the Italian Parliament, who was the friend of Cavour and biographer of Victor- Emanuel. Daring the period of the forma- tion of Italian unity he was in correspoad- ence with all sorts and conditions of men, from Napoleon III. to Mazzini. and he has left behind him a collection of papsrs con- taining much secret and unwritten history. On account of the compromising characters of these documents, the Government seal has been placed on them, and they may never see the light, Don Carlos is staying at the Htel Grande Brettagua, Naples, undi r the name ot Count de Lacar, attended only by his secretary and two servants. Ho was advised by the phy- sicians to try Naples in order to get rid of an obstinate bronchitis. His ordinarv resi- dence is the Palazzo Loredano ol" Venice. Hs wife, the Duchess of Madrid, Ma ghats';a nt Bourbon, and daughter of the ex -Duke of Parma, resides at her own castle near Viar- ezzio in Tuscany. She spends millions in charity. Their eldest son is at school in England. Tne American marksman, Ira Paine, whose wonderful shooting at the gallery of Gastienne Rsnetti, in the Avenue d'Antm. has recently attracted many Parisians of note, and who draw crowds to his perfor- mances at the Polies bergerss. is now ex- hibiting his skill at the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties in fondon. The London Stan- dard says of him "His frame is admirably suited to the accomplishment of such feats of nerve and steadiness of aim as he nightly undertakes. He has shoulder j of great width and is as firm as a rock, this qualifica- tion, added to his certainty of eye, render- ing him as accurate as a piece of machinery. Nothing less, indeed, is reqaisite for such tasks as hitting a nut placed on tbe head of a young lady." Western doctors say that some of their medical colleges are so greatly in want of students that the so-called preliminary ex- aminations are a mere farce. It seems that last autumn a young man, after paying his advance fees to a medical institution, de- sired to attend another college, and r. quest- ed that his money be returned. This being refused, the youth determined to display great ignorance at the preliminary examina- tions, and, out of the twenty-five questions put to him, answered but three correctly. Cirtain of bis rejection, he called upon the dean next day tor his money. He was in- formed, however, with great aflability, that his examination had been entirely satisfac- tory. The college cashed the claim only after a lawsuit was threatened. They are learning how to advertit e in Paris. A curious scene was witnessed the other day in a fashionable quarter. A fashion- ably dressed young man walked iuto a well known cafe then, having manage i to at- tract s ime atteation, be saunter jd up and down the garden, finaily seating himself at a small table. To him came a person who. from his convereation, proved to be a tailor and who accused him in warm words of be- ing ungrateful, stating he had dressed him oa credit for five years. The young fellow fired up and declared bimssU insulted. A crowd gathered and eager ears listened to the high words, FmaUy, to convince his quondam tailor that another house was cheaper and better, the lata client pulled out the bill for the garments tie wore. Tae name, price, address, 2., were read aloud, and the open monthed crowd drank it in. Tee enterprising tailor who got up thia little drama found his profit. The Rassi n authorities rulicg over the newspiptr press cant nie to uutiognish thematlvee by efiEectiog sue moss ridiculous raaolta When the funeral of the Ute Cant Vladimir Adi^rberg took place re- cently, the Emperor and Emore»s and nearly all the Imperial Grand Dakea aad Duchesses were the most conspioions among the chief mourners, aad the emparor even rode for a short diatance behind the remains in the procession, which is an horn r reserved by the Rassian Czars almost entirely for de- ceauf d members ot their own imp. rial famil- ies. For three days the Official Messenger did not publish a single word about this great pubbc funeral, and ^1 the other jour- nals gave their different accounts without uttering a syllable as to the presenca of the imperial faoiily. They were deterred by the standing crder forbidding all mention of ni.'vements of imperial personages until olfijially chronicled iu the Oovirumtni Gas- el'e. Yet the fact of the imperail presence an the funeral was teleg-aphed the same night to Moscow, and unreservedly pub- lished the next day in M. Katkoffs favorad journal. A Crystal Throne. A work of art has recently been on exhib itiun in the show-room of a firm of manuiac- tbrars in Bjmingham, which may be de- scribed as a ua^nificent example of high art work in glass, aad is probably the finest viork of its kind that hab ever been attempt- ed, and has had bestowed upon it infinite pains, with the most happy resul:». It is a crystal throne, intended for transmission to India, and is in the form of a capacious arm- chair, with piller^ spnnging from the back and arms carryiusj a dome-shaped canopy. a,\ the apex of which is a large star radiating in all directions. The total height is nine feet six inches. Brilliant c-tmi.in velvet has been employed fo- the cashions, and wood and iron £r3 u^ed to a certa'n extent to afford the requisite ttrength to the struc- ture but both these materials are covered with bright plating aud enclosed in glass, so that the r presence is imparceptible. The glass employed is white, cf the purest qual- ity, and every part of the service has been cur, even to the spiral molding of the rear pillars, givirg to the work a dazzling lustre. The front lees are solid crystal, bDldly mod- eled, aud terminate above the arm in pine- shaped finials, each of which is cut into 324 mathematically accurate faiets, causing it to 'mk like a huge diamoni. The canopy is Mooresque in design aud forms half an octagon C.ocketed ribs divide the dome into panels, which are ricbly cut upon their upper surface. Round the n afgm runs a cornice having scallop shaped ornaments prjjsoning upward and a droopiug edge be neath, designed to look like pendant gems. It is said to be impossible to describs with acourajy many ot the subordiuate decorative featuies of this work. Nj fewer t;faau 176 kinds have been fitted together with such remarkable ingenuity as to make them ap- pear as though they were but one. The throne is accompaaied by a footstool, also in crystal, and altogether, the work possesses such a lustrousness aud beauty, associated with imposing dimensions, as to make it worthy of the most magni fioent of Oriental displays. Power of an Avalanche. The Denver (C )1.) News says: One of the g.-andest in )w-8lides that ever occurred in Color ado to"k place a few days ago, just back of the Upper Twin Lakes. Judge Har- lan, an eye witness, says it was the most sublime sight he ever witnessed. Just back of Tivin Lakes are Pomeroy, Gordon and Francis gulches, on each side of which the mountains liie thousands of feet. The sides of these giants of the Rockies ha 1 been cov- ered during the heavy and protracted storms with an enormous depth of snow, until the weigat had becooae such that it csuld be sustained no longer. The Judge says that, as it happened, ha was standing where he could see the avalanche petf i ctly. All at once his ca's were greeted with a low, rumbling sound that seemed like the roar of a distant storm, and almost simultaneously an immense volume of snow began to move down the mountain side iu one of the gulches toward ther^ad. The agitatioa seemed to break loose the snow from its moorings in the other two gulches, aud almost before one hid time to think hundreds of acres of snow wera coming down the mountain with a roar like thunder, an 1 filling the air with spr iy as they tore throng i the trees and carried everything before them. As they descended their velocity increase" until the rapidity with which tha great field of snow and debris came down was something ter- rific. The distance, he says must have been a mile from where the avalanche started to the valley where it stopped. Sa deep was the snow that a grove of quaking asp, whose trees were from 20 to 40 feet high, was completely buried from sight. L?gs a foot and a half in thickness, that lay in the way of the slide, were snapped in two like 8trawt trees that were too tall to be covered up were torn up from their rooted places in the mountain sides aud carried like leaves with the avalanche. The velocity of air pro- .luced by the avalanche blew down trees that were clear outside of the track of the slide. Fortunately no one was in the way and no lives were lost. I p t^mm Many people regret the past,, especially stockholders when dividends are the things that are passed. "What is a lake " asked the teacher. A bright little boy raised his hand. "Well, what is it 1" "Sare, it's a hole in the kit- tle." "How shall we meet the spring?" asks a writer in Harper's. Meet it like a man, ^nth a stiff neck and a cold in the head. A boom is a thing that ought to be copy- righted. The man who gets np a boom for himself ought to be able to enjoy it. It is easier to pnt a pair of cuff- buttons into a new pair of four-ply cuffs with yonr finger-nails cut down below the qaick than to tell when spring has really set in to stay. A fashionable color in spring feminine goods is "chalk-bine." New Yorkers say that the '-pure country milk" sold in that city has been wearing this fashionable color for years. James, who was trying to sew a new but- ton on his coat, mnrmured. "They say there's a new yacth that makes fifteen milea an hour, but this thread makes twenty kiots a minute. I hi M An i. i" F 1 t\r I I- 1 4 â-  I " 1 1 J ' 1 1 'â-  ' u fl. â- ,.f u- MHil