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 jjjCUSP AND RUSSIA* Tie Sattet tffeUtilBSB. â- eeote a _jnlv ende»vored to '^JlO.OOO.OOOin Lo ^The io»t tempting offers i*'f- -- le of the laiga diaeonnb these did not bring oat ' Alio wme of the laige duce •"tJi1v^th«« did not bring •"'""'"^of-war Howeluui been ""^!p"Sbroke,WaleiL Tluanew »n the British navy cunefl ton "'"'/-illh»ve»crewof445men. The •^^iTSn-sJrew, steel armor-plated '"' " hip 01 9, 700 tona burden and 7, ,r-„ Kim»«ff, the commander in Af- ' t^TBu^aian governor-general of "Sca-pi*" provmcea, and by all '^i.T very remarkable man. On ""*! Jr. J Bubieata he is an authority. ' J« reepectingB"" topica, or indeed Srtlie range of hia experience 1 1 AUkhancff, the governor of Mery. " „f the moat active agents of a»Te no diuon bff." ftLitfU daring their recent opera- nt in central Asia, if not a Mohamined- '" Tjth U at least deacended of moa- ^ntB Hia name orijjinally vaa AU but he haa Kaaaiauized it by the of the Maacovite termination ge is a scheming, intriguing, idoloneer of the class that have apread emDire of Russia in central AaU. .etved under Skobeleff at the taking Geok Tape, and possessed the confi- ice of that officer. __ nch as everything that la to ap- itiutheRaaflian newspapers Is care- It icrutinized by agents of the czar It imewhat signitiaant that the Navoe y», of St. Petersburg, says editor- that m the event of war " Bassla settle matters with England, not ineln Afghaoiatan bat in India as well." J presumably authorized remark seems :srrant the oEten-expresaed belief of English papera that Bassla 's purpose obtaining poBaeaaion of the gate to ia ultimately to try to obtain poea- ,on of India itself. It ii the opinion of Me. Gecrge William jtis that, in the event of war between iglandand Busaia, American sympathy, tfithstanding the unfriendly attitade Jie British government during our civ iw, would largely incline to the side of Iglsnd. Of the truth of this there can â- no qaestlon. The civiliz-ition of Busaia lothiDg but the reluctant honiage of an lade barbariam to modern ideas and riess. The genioa of ita government Inndamentally repugnant, to the Anglo- ton conception of politicil justice and hrty. Ita ascendancy wotild doom man- Id tcadarkne?sdee}!er than the midnight Jtie middle agea. The forces for whio liuads in coiiflict with those of English Tilizitioa, would exalt the will of a dea- hbo7e the rights of a race, and substi- thelaw of abjoladaoi for trial by jury, |th9protec:;ioaof the habeas corpus. It it ia not written in the b3ok of fate It tliis world should ever be governed I the cuccessors of Tamerlane. A Famons Fortress. the renowned Cistle of Chiliion atands pan isolated rock c'.oae to the road by |aideof the lake, surroundtd by deep ir, crossed by a covered wooden bridge 03t picturesque appearance. It was Jtml238byAmadeus IV. of Savoy, is an admirable specimen of the ly-towered mediaeval atructures. It 1 used as a state prison, unpleasantly ITO to many of the early reformers I tb famous Bonnivard, Prior of St. »r, m Geneva, who waa immured in I C»stle from 1530 1536, is generally fiTed as Byron's "Prisoner of Chiliion. " Ippearsthat when Byron wrote that louapoem he waa describing an imagin- IWimand waa not acquainted with w»l story of Bonnivard, though he wards counected hia name with it in â- joet- la thoae days the Pays de ' belonged to Savoy, and Bonnivard, ig made himself obnoxious to that ping duke waa ahuS up by him in a «Ma_of Chfllion. It waa only in 1536 Sm .r*"" the country from I Pl«e to yield, but besieged by a Ber- }^J on the land aide, and attasked IWese galleya, from the lake alLff'^^° surrender. Bonni- »« delivered, and returned to Gen- S. u^r^" hiaadherance to ^mTT "" iis38uaded ita aupport- ^«in^oduc!ng it: rashly. Durk^his ^Ifc ^f become aProttSant kisin, .â„¢y- lae caade ISnimi ' •'^="»e a'moat a place "«si,Z„^*^ connected paopledidwiienha WM great tunei, boja, great times. We didn't nor no keeroMM^'iK tions, and we dcm o^mmtUami^ tallerdipj butiafc^C^SL«, firjght, Fl«,l|ght i. wamdi'XyViS ft^ckem jMt enoogh to na^M » OA^Sm shine and the peach blooMm glwia^ cheeks lt mighty aoffea»4 party, toow •nd kinder reache* out and aiBte SS heaifa together in a way none of yon psllghts Inow. anything about. sSie- ^Lmm thefiM ihiaed up aitfle too p^. ful in places, aiidthe yoong manwoS a shovelf ol of ashes on it. Then he would cuddle up to the girl in the shadow* aud she would cuddle some too, and it reaUv didn't seem like there waa anythini else in the whole big round Mv^^Dbe wished for. Party aoon the fire would «it obstreperous again, and thellttle flames would twinkle in and out, as if they want- ed to see what was goin' on, or had seen and was Uughin' and winkin' about it and havin' some fun too, and the young fellow would reach far the ihoyel and the ashes and cover the bright blazes all up. And sometimesâ€" rem«mber, now, only some- timesâ€"the gi " would get up and put ashes on, and thenâ€" well, boys, when the bluebirds come in the Spring, and the fishia' worms crawled out of the gronnd,and the boys set on the green banks of the little creek waitin' for a bite, and the johnny-jump-ups nestled in the sunny places, there was a weddin' in an old house, and the pnrty bride wore apple blossoms in her hair, and the awkward young fellow blushed in his store clothes and tight boots and when Uie Winter cam© again they set by tUelr own fire, and the shovel and the ashes was out of a job." English Soldiers and matrimony. An English soldier 6an not lawfully A Btatisti^urliM tmsms^TflM eonrt â- up »T«mgeB thiae tou ol oo«l aMli. Woman was made ^tw ttan, but the !»â-¼â€¢ ^jmt f^T^^ «renea: ever ^hi Man #iio IoOb tMto ottfaft^gifaders ^2 W,"^*4,.^l«n«« .^ P-Wc bene. rTC' 'Wt early nan a MTtge 1" asked m magazine writer. Yes, until after bceak- AtaiMSBt BMatiiig oftteStalfatlfld Sodatgr, in London, Stt B. Templa read a tlia atataBMUta as to the population of (%lna, and 297.000,000. .. .„ ThelksmiFking of Alabama is Br^g B. Oooser of Barbour eoun^. He ralaed 2.260bal«i otooMon laA yaar, bealdas a Iwse amount of oom. He baa fioom 8.000 lo 10,000 sflMa ia bplteir ud oom this yoKB, a^ aa^ crop ^fot^a^ were nerar bettear. XkL AWklMncI^ wfro Jifiaad so eonsptfr- uously in the Penjac^^'alEair, is a native of oaifanl Asia. Bis iuune was Hfi Khan, IS now ary stores, and go wioh the „„ J *^ to judge by ^.SS^B'^^^;«BJ,gas Shown _,«igW8, Bonnivard ought to very lucky lelbw '•^wSf u y«»r: captivity or limb. For here *en thn ^i '"""• r or n »hichZr-""b'a^k with age, 'Jt^ 500 f tt "^f? ^«re cast into t'^^K iiJi^/^P^ here i« a tor- ^P^*=^ti'f '"'^^ oubliette a " -^^fapdoor which shut out '""•itheaa 5?P^n.larie knives. t^^ 80 Qu:^!*,V Precipitated to amall spiral abairoase "8 the prisoner found "*^Ji'^t?9i^*'8« kaives:~But "'«»«aad was twice mar, in:' get married until he has completed six years' service and ia also the possessor of a good conduct badge. Having seived the allotted period, leave has been obtain- ed from the commanding officer of the roglment but as a rule permission is granted readily enough. When married the soldier's, position is much improved. He has his separate room in the bturacks, with coal, gas, and wood, free and if his wife is a good laundress she can add to his income by doing washing. By the practice of strict economy a soldier's wife, can, under such conditions, enjoy a more Comfortable existence than if ahe had mated an agricultural laborer or mechanic. But even unaer the most favorable conditions it is hard to lay by fora rainy day. The proportion cf married men for whom acoommodation is provided by the government Is about 15 per cent, of ,the strength of the regiment, and when that limit is passed the soldier must marry, if at all, without leave, which is done by large numbers, but he has to sup- port his wife and self on his regimental pay and rations. But he is allowed the privilege of "living out of mess:" that is to say, instead of taking his meals in common, he Is permitted to draw his rations and do his best to make three- quarter pounds of meat per diem and one pound of bread fill two mouths instead of one. A Tragedy in Royal Life. A royal recluse has just met a strange death. Princesi Augusta Montlear, famed for her benevolence, and who has lett her vast wealth to chuity, being ex- cited the other day, so the story goea,fired at her man-servant. She missed him, but the man, feigning to be shot, fell on the floor. The Princess, terrified at what she had done, blowout hex own biains. An- other ' report, which is generally bdieved in Vienna, dedares that the Princess was murdered by a domestic. Deceased was the daughter of die Connteaa de Carignan, who was saved from the flames by Dooior Montlear, at the famous ball at the Aus- trian Embassy in 1812, the counteas after- wards marrying her preserver. The late Princess was intimately related to aerand reignin? and princely houses, although ahe held no intercourse with any of them, but led a solitary uid eccentric life. She never married, and when yet a girl retired to h0r estates in Galida. Her own life more resembled that of a beg^^ than a lady oi exalted rank, and idthough in mat- ters relating to herseif and her houseiiold she waa exceedingly penuriona, yec ahe managed to spend all her large income in works of charity, being espedally bounti- ful to the humble poor and to needy sti:- dents. -I^ hab^yte^ ^OaM^ mit neider ven de udder fair SJi^mftn r^wtrt^." Thatr*a^%irtf'JiH^Prtta« puts It The old-fashioned two-fora- quarter kisa baa come in again, with the revived style of wearing the mouth large and open. '^^ If • ^)mig man like a kernel of com? asked a young lady. 'Because," â- Md another, ♦'he tnma white when he POPit' 'What seoret society la it to which Mr. J. belongs ' "WeU, I reaUy don't know, but from the number of homa he takes I should say the Blks." "Johnny, whwe have you been?" "Fishin"*^ Did you catch anything " •Not yet, but I'm gonter, though, cos I ve muddied my trousers." The hoopnmake, which takes ita taQ in ita mouth, and so trundles over the ground, seems to be a fashionable crit- ter. His walking suit consists of a swal- low-tail. It Is difficult to say what race existed at the beginning of the histo^ of man- kind, but it is piobabl^ that the people who will be on hand a£ the end are the Finnish. Brother Talmage says "Women like to go to the society plays to see how the actresses dress, and the men go to l^e variety plays to see how they don't dress." What is the difference between the young fellow who is osculating a girl and another who only sees the periormance One is kissing a miss and the other is missing a kiss. It is a feariul thing to have a secret which you are compell^ to keep from your wife, but it is Hades with the lid oS to suspect that your mother-in-law knows the secret and is holding it over you. •'Plague take a woman, anjhow; she can't never do anything a body wants done. A man can do anything." "No he can't. I'll tell you what a man can't do." "What's that " "He can't mind his own busmess." At some point in the career of every human soul yawns a chasm that seems impassible. One of these ditches con- fronts the young wife when she first opens her eyes to the facii that she can't cook like somebody's mother. A Baptiist minister was onre aeked how it was that he consented to the marriage of his daughter to a Presbytsrian. "Weil, my dear friend," he replied, "as far as I have been able to discover, Cupid never studied theology." Mr. Sampleaon is a very iraaeiUe man, and IS in the habit of puniaUng his boys very severely. Not long rince he scolded the youngest boy for wearing out his clothes so fast. "Pa, no panbaoan last any time the way yon hlta," replied the son, reproachfully. 'A nice husband you are i" said ma- dam, in a passion. "Toq care less about me than about thoae pet animals of yours. Look what you did when your poodle, Azor, died." Husband (quietly) "Well, I had him stuffed." Wife (exasperated) "Yen wouldn't have gone to that expenss former-not yon, indeed/' A Woman's Wit A woman's advice is generally worth having so, if yon are in any trouble, tell your mother or your wife or your slater all about it. Be assured 1^« Bght will flash upon your darkaeaa. Womaa are too commonly jadgad â-¼flsdant in all tmt purely Romanian tSabi^. No phUoaephi- cal students of i^e sex thn^ judge than. Their intfuitiona or ini^s^aire most aabtU, and if thet eiimot mo a oat in .the meal there is nO «jat tb*rtt I •*'^,» "»^ keep none of Wa aSSdta Ifrom Ui wiw. Many a home h-a been aaved, and many a fortiun^/ retidev^ by a .i!W'« «»»fi4«i«» in hia wife. Woman ia tax more a aeer and a prophet than K man, if ahe be given a fair ance. As a ga«i«**«nle tfio wivea confide tJ» ainuteat of tfM» 4^^ thoughta to tibair kiabattda. Why i to*. redpiooate, H but ler *i»»^f "â- â- â- ' f-* meeting ee^denaa ^» uv^Uitmm I wm- mtJS^ suom*dbea»«Utej«**lw?«f ♦» make o^ifiiantes (tl thjdi^ ^*} iisi tf*iM ;• Prisoners at Hassowaii. I have jost coma to Massowah from Suakin where five milea from that city I visited the recent battle ground. I came from Suakin to Massowah in the Egyptian ship Ifolulla, in oompaay with many rebala, prisoners taken in the late battles. Lowied witb irons, but not subdued, they were proud of having fought in the huly cause. Some of them in their f ory, and nniibla to'do anything e^se, bit the railing of l^edecik, otherr spit on thdr diaim. At their head was an old sheik idBose -iihlts beard contrasted atmagely, wlkh«-. his bUck face. Daring ik?^ day he ataifed jJoomUy At the sea, and in the evening when the son ini, lid called aU his fellow- priaonera to prayer. I was extremely sorpnaed ' wfadi' an Arab offisiai, one Ibraim ESandi Imfti, v^id waa on boMd, told me tiiat all «basa priaonera v«ee deatined foR Mmaowk^ and ihe neighborfapfid,' nkI not only; they, but 600 others, w^ would be, forwarded In a few days. All w:ffe to bd 6onfldad to th^ «Uitody 6f tito ItaOan WaHlett. ' The Bgyptiaa officer saembd ^laetfiaorpriacid attUa.' Why aendlio MimawA*'Whmn atsanr 'tiiM the: f«r aeMjrara might be waatediio anppMarm â€"why send .^hjire aiwhi^W^piMfbflFlrf: but when he joined the Rniaaian army he j^Afed "off." Russia has been grmtly aMied in her advances toward Incua by Central Asiatics. lluirteen must be a lucky number. Joha Bennett of Weat Fairfield, Pa., died of consumption at the age of 60, leaving a family of thirteen diildren. All are alive and well to-day, die oldest being 87 and the youngest 60. Slckneaa haa never troubled the famUy. Among the prewnt English Ministers there is only one ezoournaUat, Sir Wil- liam Haroourt. Mr. Courtney who only reoently retired, was a leading writer on the London Timea. Nearly every mem- ber of the French Ministry, on the otiier hand, has been a journalist. Une of the moat aplendld coUeotiona of iMnnor ia that of Mr. Stittert, an English- man, at Florence. It is mounted with great taste in a vast hall. He estimates that for twinty-aeven yean he haa spent at the rate of £3,000 a year on it. He means to leave It to the dty, of Florence. The Indian Medical Gasetto records the deaths of aeven ahepherda in the Belgaum district from being atrack by hailstones of the size of cocoannts. A large number of anhnals were killed by the storm, which, from the accounts, pro- duced missiles quite as dangerous as the Russian cannon balls. The Earl of Selkirk, whose title has be- come extinct by his death lately at St. Mary's Isle, Scotland, was son of the founder of the Selkirk Settlement in Can- ada. Paul Jones once dropped down on St. Muy's Isle and carried off the family plate whUe the Earl was away. Ic was recovered, and the family have it to- day The average strength ot the European troops in India in 1883 was 56.625, among whom the death rate was 10.88 per 1,000. The native army showed an aveiage strength of 114 830, with a death rate of 14 31. The mOsc fatal diseases for the Indian troops were those f the respiratory organs. The present Duke of Bedford, head of the house of Russell, who Is held up in a rather unpleasant form juat now by the London press, is a confirmed cynic. There is no member of London society who says so many good things, who Is the author of so many bitting moU, or who impresses one with a deeper notion of his disbelief in human nature generally. At the reoeajf sale of the cellars of the late Earl of Wihon, at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, and Grosvenor square, London, the prices realized may seem rather startling to*Amerioan eyes. Some ChM«n Laffittes brought from $41 to $44 a d(fl^ bottles, and the Perrier Jouet cham^ignes of ilie vantage of 1874 sold up to 410 ahllliags. Thia is equivalent to $102 a dozen, or $8.60 per bottle. A London paper points out that the strength of the British army lies largely in voluntary enlistment, which ^ves fighting men for fighting and leaves the rest for peaceful pursuits. In England it has always be found that a mmor of war brings any .number of reoiuits needed^ whereas the tJnlted States are full of men who have left their country to avoid the army, many of whom are suited for nothlngbut the army. The old notion of **combatIng" with medicines such diseases as lung inflam- mation has^ven place to more enlighten- ed views. The system of the late Dr. Hughes B«nnet^la described as *|treat- ment-by restorafiifM dlri^cted to further thenathril progress of t£e^ disease ind supporting the vltalstrength." T^ ihn- cet states that the Doctor had 105 (eases of uncomplicated inflammation of the lungs which he treated on this principle, with out a slbgle death. The versatile Ellen Teny, the actress, first manisd Mr. Watts, the urtist. That gentleman, having, obtained a divurca, was succeeded by Mr. WaidelL Not aatisfied with Jipi^f^nd; cho)69. Misa Terry divorced him' i^d, aieftiiof^ hei af- f ectfona upon Chivies Kelly, booamie hia wife. Itfpompsdl^ity aoon a^nilrated them, and now defeth, by the removal of Mr. Kelly, haa sevend all entKOfi^ing alKancoi. The London papen are say- ii^ that Mr. Irving wP^^many MiasTjurry now that aha b free again. iCexlcan Itiitorian makea a new at-, tbmpt to ahow that AmwicA was disoofver- ed In mtih 6antaxj,'x.iL, by ^iwrty of B^ddyb-^i^falfiom Ai^hantstaii;^ of whom oiK^H^al'Shai^ setnmedtoAsia ahact aeooanit of 'thalaadvhid): i» viaitad anpfsaad to b» V«l«)Oi fn^ Jpfliided in t^e jcJMal^bilU^ (^JQUi^ Tfte^Dels p]XK thatj H^*i ,, Sb»n ,»9taM»0jr, ^^ aeine unknoimlSiatQm teoto the cif aitlval of mbukaJ tat^lW amoqs ohOS^^^tihMighl lip oh 4Mmm^ la M^tHol^r Uagif^^GtAMf JirfaidlrTt-'fiâ€" *~*'|1' """ '*«"•** irT*"'-t; \iim mM'^^^^^V^^" PiS4 iLiO*i «C wbaQy cr in partw ' withaoUd of que Biota aitt^ eaao of 1 Eoglaadbthelaifeatimpocterofwood in Eorppe, requiring 290.000.000 feet per eimnn more iftiatt alto prodncea. Inaa- amflrttiiaitlivr OiifstfK nor tin United Statea can much loiter, spare large quan tltiea^abd ainoe' no European oountry oan now produce much more than ia re- qnined for hoase oooamnption, whfle al- moat aU of thmn are importers. Great Britian moat em kng d^; «n her own reaources. There are exteusive tracta of land in Ireland and Scotland that might be profitaUy devoted to forest culture. M. Brann, tlm photographer, is now engaged in reproducing the important collection of pictures in Buckingham Pal- aw. The most valaable masterpieces are t lose by Jan Staen, Tenieca, and A. Van Ostade. aa delineators of plebdan charact- er andUfe 1^9rbnrg, Netscher. and E. Van der Near, as palntera of elegant social Uf e: G. Dow, G. Metzi, and F. Mebis,aa die moat refined portray era of common life and domestic incident De Hooghe and Van der Heyden, as imitaton of nat- ural effects of parspective and light, and Hobbema Baysdael, and Cnyp, as land- scape painters. The Hindu "(Secret MaiL" It would seem that in the far Easfr among those peoples whose dviliaation belongs to the pastâ€" to antiquity rather than to the preaant, there txiats a culture of the mental perception that Is capable of strange achievements. The pheno- mena of what is known in India as the " secret mail " have puzzled Enropsana for many years and elnded »I1 efforts on the part of Government officials to dls* cover their source. An editorial in the New York Tribune briefly alludes to it as follows " Anglo-Indians and all who have lived in Asiatic countries are awaro that the natives have means of -conveying news which at important junctures enables them to forestall the Government. TLua, throughout :he Indian mutiny, the in- telligence of all the important eve.itsâ€" such as battles, captures of cities, massa- cres, and uveatmentsâ€" waa in poaeesaion of the bazaars nsnally hours and frequent- ly days before it reached the authorities, and thia notwithstanding the fact that the latter had often taken special measures to insure the qaickast transmisaion possi- ble. And it is also well known that this " secret mail' is so trustworthy that the natives invariably act upon it with im- plicit confidence â€" speculating, for ex- ample, to the full extent of their foriunes. How the news ia sent, however, has never been discovered, or at least no explana- tion compreheiuible or credible by the average We.tera mind has been reached. " The London i:'pectator of a recent date discusses this qaeston at much length, and suggests the employment by the Asi- atics of carefully laid "dawks" or stages. This no donb:i has the appearance of a common-sense explanation, but the diffi- cult/ about It is th4t no European during the whcle time H:ndu8:;an has beea oc- cupied has evier seen t uoh a etsge in operation or come across any of its ma- chinery. "Now, it may be admit ed that it ia it is possible for Asiadcs to arrange such stages or lin£s of communication over hundreds or thonaanda of miles without being discovered but it is certainly ex- tremely Improbable that they should have been able to io this on the considerable scale ib must have been done u|on to ac- count for the facts, without ever being discovered. " Again, the circumstance that on one oooasion.when the Government had made spedal f^RMtgements for the swift dis patoh of news from a distant point, the ' secret mail " beat the Government cour- iers twelve'liourB, appears to warruit the. conclusion tluit some mjacs of communi- cation moref rapid than horses or rnnners mtistbe at the disposal of the natives. The i^7eet(iifa» thlnka it posaiUe that they transxnic neirs by signal but while this may 1m J1^ case where comparatively short distanoas are concerned, it ia not applicable to routes covering several hun- dreds (t?ibftBa.-- Anglo-Indians as a rule refuse to accept the nati/e explanation of tlfe •s'^cret mail,' which involves belief in w^aii is j oat now being oallad "tele- pa! \. ' Tba natives, when they are wILi ig to talk of the matter at all, which is very seldom to western men, say that neitih)r horses nor men are employed, and tiiat no *dawk^ is Idd for the carrying of newsj but that it reaultai from a system of thou^t-transmission whidi Is as familiar to them as the elecyric tele- jgiraph is to us." The Uto de\ elopments, through apedal inquiries bythe London Society for Psy- chical Rssearph and through a similar line of investigation undei^ken by the New York Academy of Anthropology, have w^-nigh aatisfied'ua that the daim of tbelM^Ba nativea b true, and that liiey are in pcaseasion (If. aayaton of tfaonslittiaiBaferenoe or mental telepathy HoA haa advalieed bayond the rtf^e of mere erpepftientaa «ri 1i tu^; 'The'"aizth tuiaia,^ if tlui readtt .f% oi; the *- sevuiih," ap Ic Wiiu Xj^aQson tjhinks, iahere brought Into actiire. exeroteek ,iiJo^tii Can you give me a definition of nodi-^ ing ' ioq itted "idiool teacher, "rea* mum,: J|w i' la tang.^hple without a barrel arouLd iti 1 ' shouted jittle T«d. Saunders, lading to^lHkFngrekMik^^ ^^ ^^ "A^fiedbaby l4i^?#|Bntlr dboov- ^^^ Ib T««a." ^0iildskli» teed may b^veith^' batevthoasT «iii|r!lHve'«abn a bdi»y4B«||otioiii knoBilS iajMepur atiilloi^ j|Bn«^j^j^*«t»iffto? mo'^ahq i.4?m .5sb .ixOfeJuuiiHafiEJ Ma'i »^?u« â-  lU ji. ..,! v: 'I pii F\m .ifrpiii in t ',K:, *i m