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s Me wished to see their character Well formed withou: s bict, * Wut his ees was expert shot. => pak half a mile from home, ted one day, Sua’ in it saw a staring owl, made quick haste away, ee he had seen e shi And that, W i rife ¢ with ball, The they would strike dead. Obedient to their sire’: = command, On to the barn they went, And with unerring ‘aim a ball Into the owl's brain sent. Exultant, with the pis of night their sire In hand, to bless One looking back in terror cried, ¢ barn is all afire!” | Back to the aecoeneh pret Mnelptont fat flame ; Their efforts we: 1, barn to ash The Sally we ote ee es eer ried mae gun my fri got r’s pride had bought. The father looked as thay drew near; aU, m his brow a sco ear those boys de re ‘mount to much, “For they ain't got the And ere inquiry he could make, tino x a in a nga dire Cried out, “Don't whip us, papa, dear, We sot the barn afire!” ig paral Why how you talk; ell, that is — Bat that you m dhe owl to me's A matter re sad.” Nay, father, as the fellow sat ee eee I took dead i ey down he came, Shot through and through the head.” “Well done, my Ln = father crid, As joy beamed in his ™ The barn is burnt, but. “ You hit the owl, don’ é nat is nought— tory.” LAW OF SUNSTROKE. 4 Mamsas Court Holds That itisa Disease, Net Accident. A sunstroke is not an accident, but a yesterday by the United States Circuit Court at Kansas City in suit on an accident policy. The decision may have been perfectly correct from a legal point of view, says the New York Sun, but it suggests the mmscientific character o e wor acci- dent.” In its general use the word almost always implies a notion of spontaneous chance, or at least of the operation of some own cause; but in the world, as we now know it, of unvarying sequence ‘of cause and effect, “« accident, * in this sense, will soon be recognized as synonymous with “miracle” and with the advance of knowledze will disappear. There remains, however, the very com- mon and practical use of the word as desig- mating any event that 7 appens * without the design of the agent,” uote the words of the dictiona: But surely a sunstroke is an accident according to this definition. At some seasons in some tropical countries a sunstroke may follow exposure to the sun as certainly asa wetting ge exposure to the rain. Such is hardly the case in an spart of the'United States, for here in the severest summer heat only an infinitesi number of amillions equ are and equally uncon- scious of ¢ : of the brain may be the matinie cause of death, as is ‘the rupture of a blood vessel when a man is killed ty a brick from a roof falling on his head ; but in each case the efficient cause is a peculiar combination of external eondi- 8. The word ‘‘sunstroke”’ itself shows that from the practical point of the victim or the bystanders the man might as well be struck down by a falling brick ora nage ini And yet again, if everything that happe to a man without his design is an acci »ple are sunstruck out of iL ually 0 ‘RURAL URUGUAY. | a Country of Cattle-Raisers and ita Primi | whan tive w th y; some finely situated cintichen ore $ to be seen Be Belicyes tive bowt ook » N. case of Benjamin Gilbert is! exci great recently, , from a brook at night. Gilbert is about 35 parts of the territory, which present a simi- combination of water, wood, and ro! =. But, after all, one soon wearies king at the same kind of view hour after hour, a after league, and province after { provin The fences of posts and wire are varied gotten by fences of aloes and cactus ; the eucalyptus, the poplar, and thes trees are also planted to form fences as in Chili; the roads, where one sees long teams of oxen toilin, _ with huge waggons, are as terrible ose 0 the Argentine ; the prairies are dotted with innumerable herda somes and horses ; oc- casionally you see two or three wearing brown ponchos diling ani dvivi driving animals before them ; at long intervals you gee one or two ranchos, or huts, where the peasants live. In the Argentine the ranchos appeared miserable enough, but in Uruguay I saw many even more primitive, mere of black mud, with a roof of maize straw, a floor 0! ten earth, a but not always a window. cabins | of the Irish peasantry give some idea of ruguayan rancho, It is a comfortless, than that of the ny apie and more care- the most ordinary bird’s m ‘*The Republic of gan Saeed Child, in Harper's Magazine rs May. FREAKS OF FAMOUS MEN. Steries of Cardinal Richelieu, the Great Conde, and Prince Conti. Cardinal Richelieu, the famous French statesman, often gave way to irrepressible proxysms of laughter after returnmg from the secret sessions of the council. qeen ae clever in outwitting an wink he round and round the billiard table, siclghed like a horse, pranced, and ae out right and left like a charger carac The ane Conde, while listening to a long-winded address of welcome from a vil- lage magistrate, amazed that worthy official by taking advantage of a low bow to leap overhim. The magistrate, on recovering from his surprise, faced round = con- tinued his speech, taking give the famous marshal a ehanes for a second spring by making too low a rever- ence ; but his caution was in vain. grasped him by both shoulders and took another jump. kat eee had the odd trick of barking exactly like a little pin, dog, and not infrequently parker at z tad i ¥ of answering her. Once he was sewed with a desire to perform this strange antic while in the throne-room of Louis XIV., but knowing how furiously le grand monarque would have resented such an infringement of his royal dignity, Conti hurried to an open window and, leaning out, pressed his handkerckinl over his mouth and barked softly to his heart's content. The Spring Bride at the Market. In a close-fitting tailor-made dress and a light-colored cape of Persian lamb, she appeared —— the stall keepers at a noted arlem mark She carried ao Russian leather note- took with a gold pencil, and the most artistic little willow basket ble. imaginab “Oh, the dear little pigyies,” she ex- claimed, walking up to where a number of ‘pigs were incarcerated. ‘* How much are they a pair ? ‘* Forty shillings, mum,” said the butcher} “Isn't. that prett dear?” she asked timidly. ‘I guess rh take some oysters, instead,” she said, walking over to where the men were busy opening the ee of silence. ‘‘I want some oysters sent all diseases not inherited nor rashly aot voluntarily risked would be accidents, and | the word would lose all definite significance. . The meaning of '‘ accident,” like the mean- ings of most English words, varies indefi- | nitely and illogically with the circumstance of its use, but summer tourists may do well to remember that in law it does not apply to a sunstroke. | FIGHT WITH PIRATES. Twelve of Them Fire on Bussian Soldiers With Deadly Eftect. A St. Petersburg cable says: At Bato last night a boat containing five Russian soldiers met a strange boat manned b twelve pirates. The officer in command of the soldiers ordered the pirates to stop ae eee the soldiers’ boat to run alongside of 2 pirates answered by firing a’ waliey from their rifles at the soldiers, kill- ing four of them. The pirates then escaped, | and the surviving soldier pulled ashore and gave the alarm. xoat manned by four soldiers then went in pursuit of the pirates and overhauled them. Again the pirates fired, killing two, and wounding the two re-° maining troopers. The wounded Russians managed to pull ashore and report their ex- perience. A third boat better manned was sent after the pirates,but the latter escaped. A Russian gunboat has gone in pursuit of the pirate craft. THE SENAPUTTY TO HANG. The Leadcr of the Murdcrous Manipuri to be Executed. A Calcutta cable says: The Senaputty, second brother of the of the Maharajah and ag Hem in-chief of the Manipnri forces, has been convicted of pes oom the Empress of India and of tting the massacre of Chief Commissioner Quinton, other been . This sentence is, subject to confirmation by the Viceroy of India. The attempted reformation of an ideal is az hopeless a task as an attempt at rearrang- ing the rainbow colors of a soap-bubble. Jose tamous Hungarian #enor, red atl at oe Pesth recently at the age of 7] years. Ole Ball's son is soon to make his debut has all of his father’s escalloped oysters,” she said, ‘‘ with pliity of raisins in them * Oh ! those lovely pure pumpkins,” she said, walking over toa sland where a lot of Wollongong zy cheese was displayed. ‘Pll take four of these. I know it’s —— but Reginald does like pumpkin ‘* Are all hams yellow like these *” she asked, pointing to a counter full. s No, miss, anes only the cover,” the man in ch a se love ‘iatchs. my eine dozen ? ‘* Seventeen and six o hundred,” said the huckster. ‘“« Send me up two hundred weight,” ‘mid, said * pink onions will juss ow do you sell them a she The Valur of ** May” and “‘Should.” -, Terre Haute, Ind., despatch says: The of the w vord “shou d” instead of my” ives a conv: icted murderer a chance or freedom. y Trogdon was found guilty of the marie of Hays Sanders and given a three-years’ sentence. In his in- struction tothe jury the judge said : ‘* You should corsider also the statements Bs makes, whether they are reasonable or The defence held that the reasonable,” etc. Supreme wer} had decid the word ‘““ma used instead of ‘‘ should,” and the fetrastion was in error, The judge granted anew trial on that ground, Smash-up on the Big Four. A Litthfield, IL, despatch says: A nge! train on the Big Four road was run into yesterday mo by a freight rer at Right Angles, wrecking the baggage car and me coach. About twenty passen- ‘gers wert in the coach, all of whom were more or less hurt. Thomas Clegg, of Mattoon, Ills., was fatally injured. Con- ductor Don and Brakesman Miller were severely ijjured. If your dogs and cats disturb the neigh- |, bors by hiwling in the night, it is your fault, nottheirs. You have no more right to let then Tamaag neighbors by howling in the nightthan you pa to out in your back yard and how] y aretven | and if by n ofyour neglect po are poisoned or il ult. —Our reaso’ othe: killed, it is your Dumb The t quietly entertaining are thos¢ who speak/a variety of - out integling it and are fantastically witty hi unhealthy, rheumatic dwelling, less civilized oA not to} a n-{ were Italians and were competi ears of e is a in employed on a new“house now erected in 0 mountains by Mr. Wm. Osborn, son ° of that saw Gilbert to-night at 1 11 o'clock at his home. He boards in a little brown house three miles east of this place ig..the heart of the mountains at the home of Mrs. —— Robinson. Gilbert the adven ferred to last Monday night, while arm rit home from a lar a some convivial f lows. He put his head out of an up window to-night after I had rapped on the door. He re down stairs and be iaterclawed, saying that peasants | he was too ill from the gn of the reptile he he had swallowed to do Gilbert is naturally a heavily-built man but during the last few days he said he has lost a great deal of flesh. e informed me he was on a mountain road hon he had the unpleasant experience of swallo what he thought was a reptile. He added that, as he took a long draught of water, he felt jsomething smooth glide down his throat. He He ceased 5 Shing at — ut his fingers “he — tht nut It went on is stomach. e claims to have, experienced no inconvenience from it until the next afternoon. Then he{sh began to feel a sensation at the pit i stomach. + oe spool his sah his stomach and could plainly feel some- thing wriggling around there. .On the day following, and on Thursda also, Gilbert says he felt so ill that he apne not work, but still he declined to have a e had } doctor, hoping to get vee from his trouble without medical assis On Friday and eloniny he was at work, however, pad on the latter day spoke for the first time yon trouble. e said that all to-day had been troubled with nausea and severe headache. e says _ can still feel the reptile in his stomach, and is now thoroughly alarmed concerning his condition. He informed me that if he liv red until to-morrow morn he would have a physician and get what help he could. He Iso declared that his recent loas of flesh was due to the feat ad the snake in his stomach. Gilbert remarked that he was sure he had swallowed a young black snake, which was probably about a foot long. He is one of three ruggedly built brothers, all of whom live here in the mountains. RIOTOUS LONDON LAUNDRESSES, They Bald Laundries, Maltreat ** Black« legs,” and Bedraggie Lincn. A Lonilon cable says: At an early hour this morning there was a meeting of Jaund- resses in North London, and, after speech- making and some gling, 300 of the women announced their — of strik- ing, and they did. The laundresses demand the eight-hour day and 42 pence for a day’s labor. The demands are considered exces- isve by the employers. The markers, en- raged at the fact that all the launc North London did not join in the str rike, where the ‘‘ blacklegs ” were employed, rad ter smashing the windows of such es lishments, the striking laundresses invaded the laundries, and, with many taunts and jeers, dragged the “ blacklegs” away from their work, upset or emptied the washtubs, overturned the ironin, =, knocked over the clothes horses, an ed havoc gener- ally with the mass of pets linen. The Po ice were utterly powerless to prevent the emonstration. CONCUSSION OF THE BRAIN. A Farm Hand Dies from the Effects of a Fall from His Waggen. A London despatch says: Henry Forsyth, living in the gore of London, fell off a of manure while at work on the any of W. H. K. Talbot, market gardener, ~~ even- ing, and died at midnight. eceased was a laborer, and worked for sebesal farm- ers hear his home. e was manure with Mr. Talbot’s son at the time of the accident, and when going overa rough spot he was jolted off and struck the ground e gained consciousness shortly afterward, but of a — in the head, and a doc- tor was called and found him suffering from concussion of the The unfortunate man a; soon lost consciousness and died He leaves no family. Signer Corte As Munchauscn. A Rome cable gays : bg ein states that Signor Corte, late New Orleans, at the an oar Preuien eae has prepared a report on the New Orl affair. Corte aftirms that the victims belonged to no particular society, but were murdered simply because they in the labor market against natives ; that oe ately after the murder of the Ita risoners his American servants ran away, and that he himself and his secretary barri- caded the consulate and armed themselves } with revolvers, lynchers having threatened to attack the consulate,, and be- ing prevented only by influential citizens intervening. Scientific Whipping. Mak Gazette: The ‘“ anti-baby-| ” society is, we understand, in favor4 of the juvenile whipping bill, but urgesupon cia 2) that a the strokes for’ subsequent additional te lg age, and (e) finally, that the birching cnght not to be inflicted at a prison or police station, but at the offender’s house. “* Look at the crowd around the corner What’s the matter ?” nothing, d, ont for each y pring oe who 2 might be supposed to know their marched in a body to the establishments | hadowed but < in & bed off, msul at} 8° The Chock of a Woman Whose Pocm Was Declined. came to a man who has been a ith the obstinacy of ad “«T have decided, ” she sai I must earn my living b senta poem to the Blank Magazine and they returned it with a printed slip. Now, I want you to write to the editor and tell him that he made a mistake. seemed to the author that h certainly tt it Was not his business to in- the decisions of editors of maga- own busin > tl insisted, however, and at the end he was forced to decline point blank to do what she asked. Thereupon she turned upon him, and declared that he was one of ose who endeavored to kee p others out in ede that they may have the field fo them- selves, and who are mainly jealous of who are if they are but” heard. all a cs ” she declared with ve- ae | _ been told so before, and I am f it. I can’t make you, do justice ri me, but I can show you Her method of ‘‘showing him up” has papers, one of which fell into my hands. “ course oon would print ian, but veres, an ager eae to this she meade es the trckloes auiboe, whose crime is that he did not make the editor print the rhymes of an unknown woman, a letter once a week, Of course he burns them unopened, and it is not easy to see what satisfaction it can be to the woman to keep on with this sort pits thing ; but the fact remains that she ‘he s tory is not of profound import- aoe. but it throws a ¢curious bit of side light w upon the life of the successful author to-day. WHAT CAUSED THE EXPLOSION? Brooklyn end Yard Aut Authorities Puzzled by Occurrence. A Brocklyn despatch says: This afte noon a loud explosion startled the men nt work in the Navy Yard, and smoke was seen arising from the new cruiser, Philadel- va lying at the dock at the foot of Main ‘here was no powder on the shi ove sins it was that exploded could not be learned this afternoon. The explosion o- curred in the magazine forward y ine berth deck, and Joseph James, cap<ain of the hold, was knocked insensible and severely burned. He was. taken to the hos pital. The fire was put out without much damage to the Philadelphia. A rigorous investigation is to be prosecuted as to the cause of the explosion. A wild rumor was ofa alent that one of the crew attempted to low the ship up, but Captain Rogers, of the Philadelphia, and Captain of the Yard ane, scouted the idea. Lincoln's Prediction. Abraham Lincoln was a patriotic seer, and withal the tortuous turmoil of his public life discerned coming events which were fore- imly in his time. Often to intimate friends he spoke of the unsettling of values and the spendthrift use of vast sums of money during the war, giving rise to various wild and unscrupulous forms of speculation by ween money was diverted from the pockets ne masses to those of millionaires. Foreeting the results of this tendency, he only a few days before is death, ‘the following prediction : I see in the near future a ,crisis arising} ¥ which unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Asa result of the war corporations have been enthroned, and an area of “he posny in high places will follow, and the mo wer of the safety of my country — ever ‘betore, even od grant that my fears are In these latter days we have the utter- ance of Jerry Simpson, one of the new ‘‘ off” school of politicians, to the effect y never made a millionaire, while ‘‘ the system which grew out of the war e a thousand mil ionaires in the single city of New Yor! r. Lincoln was a plain, hard, matter of fact man. Every plan he formulated proved of greater or less practical intrinsic value. He was not saad to vagaries. He fre- uently, in confidence, expressed to friends, his omnitions that the enemy of popular vernment was the concentration of wank in the hands of a few, and the substitution of the influence of the moneyed class for that of the people’s voice at the polls. Does not the present situation more or less verify Lincoln’s prediction and warning. — Rochester Herald. Where Coateals Come From. Philadelphia Public Ledger : Social con ditions ptt mvironments undoubtedly have much to do with shaping the lives of the young for good or for evil. The child born into a home of intemperance, ignorance, sloth, vice or crime, and environed daily and hourly during the formative period of the mind, is much more likely than not to form his character in accordance with his surroundings, and to make his life of a kind with the lives of those with whom he is aa in intimate communication. Idleness at a time when youthful blood flows warmly and eagerly, when the sions are developing, becomes a strong and persistent incentive to crime. “e a Miss peg — young Dr. ’s.” ‘O, I can,” replied Any, sweetly, “there were no doctors in those days.” ** Who held the pass of the. Thermopylz | against the Persian host?” demanded the teacher. And the editor’s boy at the foot of the class said: ‘‘ Father, reckon ; he /—-—“‘T ME JUGCCERNAUT J6G8 ON. writing poems. I b a humorist or a — soy been to send letters of bitter invective to] character. 2,000 Mem Drag it and 58,000 See it Roll. ier principally of iron, and _— about ort e es in which it is withdrawal of this veil is the signa) for —s B ieowed motion. 4 oe away by means of t about 2,000. men, to a spot some yards off, where it is left for « qfeight days, and then retaken to its former N resting place. It is estimated that 50,000 Hindooa.com from Aa aa parts of India to pec araere the f Sd Observations. No man is accountable for the mistakes of his friends. Don't calla spade a spade when it is a shovel. No man ever yet minded his own business who didn’t get into trouble. However great some men’s = are, their liabilities are always grea‘ A man is frequently known by the com- pany he keeps out of. Honesty is the best policy, because it is the only policy which insures against loss of Don’t lose sight of an honorable enemy ; he’ll make a good friend. The soaring hawk has no ear for music, and rates the cry of the partridge above the song of the nightingale. After a while the king will do no some because he will never have a chan The man who believes in ghosts — bea better citizen than the one who does not believe in his fellow-creatures. ne a decency should be always on good terr English Mourning. Here are some of the latest rs * a PAnglaise: Mourning for a parent is for twelve months, six months with sin six months black without crape, then slight mourning, such as gray or black and white, is worn for a few months longer. The same _ tg to parents’ mourning for chil- or quite an infant mourning is not wv a more than three months. For brothers aid sisters mourning is usually worn for the same period as for a parent, though some rsons consider six months a sufficient igs of | time. In eac the exclusion from society is for two months, though o course on this, as on many other points, one must be guided by pe tion an circumstances. For a grandparent, from six to nine months is the time mourning is enerally worn, half the period with cra the latter half without. The time of sec an sion from society is frem three weeks to a month. For an uncle, aunt or cousin, nieces, mourning is worn for three months, generally without crape, an few persons go into society for a month. For more distant relatives mourning is only worn fora month, and seclusion from society is not necessary. A Haunted Berth-Deck Removed. A newspaper which generally furnishes ! authentic and reliable marine news, the Shicago Times, is _Tesponsible for this: It is stated as an ‘actual fact that the berth deck of the United States man-o’ Monongahela has just been reconstructed on account of the ghost of old — Keiser. Whole crews who ha n in the ship tified that ‘* No. 3, port side,” was Haunted, Men who slept in ‘that room - alone would wake up and find the cold corpse of Keiser in bed with them, his one eye set in a fishy’ stare, the red beard matted with seaw Not more than one person ever saw the ghost at the same time, but the berth was always found literally soaked with icy salt water. You won't make any mistake if you drink in| ptenty of lemonade this season of the year at all or one es but for the en — of the teeth, which are mot improved acids of any sort, oan should be provided In their absence u n, 80 as to swallow the refreshing liquid withoat rotting it touch the dentine. - That the United States is is a beer-drinking nation is evidenced BY the fact that for the _ “preg 3 April 30, 1891, they consum 30,000,000 barrels of the amber fluid. A Scotch gentleman of fortune on_ his deathbed asked the minister whether, if he left a large sum to the » his salvation would be secured. The cautious minister responded : ‘‘ I would not like to be posi- tive, but it’s weel worth trying.” The Queen gf Roumania has undertaken to write on tli subject of Bucharest for a great illustrated work orf the capitals of the world, which is now being prepared in Paris, Vienna will be treated by Mme. Adam and Tokiowby Judith Gautler. The Cod That Helps toCure The Cold. The disagreeable : taste of t my CoD LIVER Oil is dissipated in Of Pure Cod Liver Oil with HYPOPHOSPHITES LIMB AND sODA«A. i patient suffering from ONSUMPTION,. BRoNCuITIB. Os COLD, OR takes pemeny. as ho would take milk. A per- a wonderful Take ne other. ‘Alt Druggiste, » £00, om holds a pass on every ara in the country only a policeman killed by an accidental daveaces of duty. that runs a ii non SCOTT & NOWNE, Belicsille,