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young folks five ahd ohb one day some sad news came to mamma in letter from over the sea it came ore morning when the children vers at break fast in the nursery and mamma was sitting with them as she nearly always did except when there was company she opened the letter and herfac grew very white oh i she gave a little cry and covered her eyes with her hand for a minute then she said and her voice was low and trembl ed a good deal children your uncle george is dead the children all felt sorry and their bright faces grew sober and they forgot to eat for a moment but i think perhaps it was somewhat on aooount of mammas pale grieved face because uncle george had gone to germany when he was not much more than a boy and had lived there ever slnoe and none of the children had ever aeos him 80 he seemed quite like a stranger to them and not at all like uccle joe whom they saw every day of their liver and loved very dearly bub they all felt sorry for mamma and baby may who could see that something was wrong but was not 14 enough to un derstand all about it left her saucer of oat meal and cream and climbed up in mammas lap and patted her oheeks and kissed them until she coaxed oat a little smile that was like a gleam of sunshine for them all pretty soon mamma read the rest of tho letter and then there was more news for the children your cousin carl is coming to ns said mamma you know his mother died wh n he was only a baby and now he is all alone poor little fellow and so he is coming to live with us oh goody 1 goody orled all the children wont that be nice v mamma smiled you must be very kind to bim she said of course we will 1 said georgie wed be mean if we didnt when will he come mamma i before a great while mamma answer- v but it was not until more than a month had gone by that little carl rupert omo to his new home and in the meanwhile the children thought a great deal about him and wondered what he was like of course hell have blue eyer said georgie whose own were blaok as ooals and yellow hair all thoie germany fel lows do you know and i apose its like ly hell be real fat and big and strong maybe like that hans bergman but if he goes to- gewgle doubled up his fist without know ing it hans bjrgmari was always teasing boys smaller thaa himself and he was the only germany fallow georgie had ver seen but when he oame to see his cousin carl dear me i why he isnt near so big as i ami thought master georgie i could hold him with one hand kiok all hes a mind to and his hairs as black as mine and bis eyes too alnt he weeny though i and he looks like mimmi only soared half to deatt and us if htl been oryinj a week poor little chapl that is about what georgie thought and his heart went out to too little stranger on the tpot so did jocks and metasard baby mays for that matter and it wasnt long befere carl felt quite at home among them all almost as if he had known them al his life hes real obippai now said georgie to uncle joe in confidence and i like him tiptop but he doe tell the greatest yarns you ever saw uncle joe how 1 that asked unolu joe begin ning to look interested what about georgie ob everything most georgie answered bout the way folks do over where he used to live over there he says old st nicholas comas round on a white horse long enough befere christmas and finds out whoa been gooe and what they want and all and then gives it to em when christmas comes and they all fill their shoes with stuff for thq white horse to eat and put em out doerr and sometimes tbny find their shoes filled full of oandy dont you bllevo uncle jot he says hes seta st nioholaa time v again carl does so he knows itj so now aint that a whopper 4 oh i dont know said uuole joe gravely i dont know as tis georgia boy youve seen anta qiaus havend your ife-ob- admitted georgto his own mind wasnt quite dear even yet about tho queer littledumpllng of a man covered eats to toes with fur whom he had caught in tho very aot of filling tho stockings list year he hadnt more than half believed there was any real true santa clans yen nee and had kept awake behind the sitting- room sofa to find out tor himself i thick i must tell you all about it sometime i havent room here well why should i thero bo a st nlcholar then asked unole joo like the one carl tells about v i donc know answered georgie but he didnt believe there wa all the same yon oould tell by the way his lips curled at the corners they curled in exactly the same wy a litthj while afterward when the ohildron were all cuddled aronnd the ooiey nurseryfire we- going to do tho waycirl says said dean poob and nonsense v said georgie we arc rfeolared met stoutly and putout our shoes with oats in sm with oats for the white horse and pat them out on the steps and then they came and sat down around the fire to wait its so funny 1 gurgled meta isnt it mammal very fuaoy smiled mamma i hope heil eome said carl soberly bat im afraid he wont its so far to here then georgias lip began to curl bnt before he could speak there was a olash of bells outside ana a thundering rap on tho deor which opened itself and in walked st nicholas i he was very very tall with long white hair and a beard that covered most of his face and he wore a blaok gown that trailed on the floor and carried a big book under one arm the children clung around mamma in delighted terror hardly daring to breathe even carl was a little fright ened my dear madam said st nlcholar in a very low deep voioe have these children all been good 1 mamma jsat glanced at georgie st nicholas was looking at bim too georgia felt bis chocks grow red they havo done pretty well answered mania i think they have all tried to bo good then si nicholas opened his book acd scribbled away at a great rate for a minute looking first at one child and then at another but of tenest at georgie then he asked two or three more questions of mamma and shook carls little trembling hand and hoped he was well and then of a sudden nobody knew just how it happened the lamp went out and when it was lighted again st nicholas had gone well if that alnt tho greatest 1 said georgio as soon as ho could hnd his tongue he did oome 1 he did oome 1 cried carl oh im very glad i now lets look at our shoos said jack would you believe it the oats were gone and the shoos were full ef nuts and oandy oh i oh i oh 1 oriedmeta now dont you wish youd put yours out georgie holmes gsorj j tt vny maybe i dont said he look hare wa forgot to tell him what we wanted after au so wo did i it just as well here georgio la a share ot mine he knows yon see he mast have known beoause christmas brought to them all just what they moat wanted but gaorgle hasnt got ovet being puzzled yet its the funniest thing he aaya i dont know hardly what to think mamma you know he was awful tall and uuole joe hes awful tall toe but ill put out my shoe next eve of st nicholas true as you live a great stjbgioal fet a delicate ul difficult operation sucetss- falijr lerf ortutd baxrucobb md deo 10 the surgeons at the city hospital have performed an oper ation which is said to be one of the most remarkable in the annals of surgery the patient is a german john f bersenbruoh and he is 14 years of age his disease is dne to tho ova of a peculiar kind of worm which inhabits the dog and other animals the ova finds its way into the stomach of man in drinking water thenos it is carried to the liver by tho bloodvessels the egg is about 160th of an inch in diameter and the parts whioh develop it are found in the water on the ground and stiok to the sur face of vegetables and thus it is possible in eating vegetables unoooked to tako these ova into the body the animal from these ova however is not developed in man the eggs onoe la the stomach of man increase at ah enormous rate from the stomach they aro absorbed by the blood ves sels leading to the liver here the ova form cysts or little bags aronnd them selves ilka the caterpillar in its ooooon when this cyst is taken into the stomach of tho dog it develops into the fullgrown hy datid whioh is on quarter of an inch in length with a head onesixteenth of an inoh furnished with numerous little hooks and suokerb bersenbruch was a laborer at the jesuit college at woodstock and had core- plained of a dull but severe pain iu his right eido sinoo last spring he had wasted away and lost nearly forty pounds of flesh fro incision lathe wall of the right stdoof the abdomen just below tho ribs and about a gallon and a half of pus was taken from the mans liver the method of removing tho hydatid cyats is by means of draining the liver which operation is very modern sur gical art the pain of the patient before the operation was intense the tumor in hi right side having distended his liver nearly fifteen inohes the great pain seemed to leave him shortly alter the operation and bo now appeals to be recovering from his terrible disease 8pieltrjod8 statistics production or iru la various countries our consumption i distilled spirits the chief cf the government bureau of statistics in his recent report to the secre tary of the treasury on the production con sumption etc of spirituous and malt liquors and wines extended his investiga tions through a series of twenty years in order to compare the relation borne by the liquor industries in the united states to thou of great britain franc germany denmark sweden and canada tee following are some of the leading character istics exhibited so far as relates to tho countries mentioned first the rapid in crease of the consumption of malt liquors in the united states second in the consump tion of beer per capita great britain stands first germany second the united states third and canada fourth third france is the largest consumer of wine per bapita fourth decmark appears to be the largest consumer of spirituous liquors per capita from a report by thj united states consul at marseilles dated feb 27 1680 tha pro duction of wins in the principal winegrow ing countries of the world vintsga of 18s3 is given in gallons as follows australia 1 992 024 austria 92459500 algeria 72 072 788 caps olony 4 490890 france 795204534 greece 46493 920 hungary 184 919000 italy798242 4s9 portugal 132 0s5 000 roumanla 18 418900 ruuia 92459500 servl 52834000 spain 607- 591000 switzerland 29058700 turkey and cyprus 686s4200 united ssatoa 32- 000000 it may interest prohibitionists to bevan who diagnosed the oaso mado an i knew in dotatl that during the year ending i isabella the vagabond queen j it is difficult to understand why the span- said carl bus hell bring j irdli a pud sensitive people should have submitted so iotuj to a ruler whom they juno 30 18s8 there wero oonsumed in the united states distilled spirits as follows tho figures representing proof gallons domestic fromfrult888 107 other bourbon whisky 12190013 rye whisky 5148244 alcohol 10487938 rum 1114544 glu 803 288 hiirhwinos 1044686 pure neutral eta 28- 289687 mlsoellauoous 14174979 total domestic 74201336 imported alcohol 153143 brandy 437519 oordiajs etc 143780 other from groin 646107 from other material 236 408 total impot ted 1643966 total spirits 75845952 4 to ask for the best sled in this townald jaok j t0 6t eaia gcorgis curling taw lip moro and more svws l t now wpu jat ommo cari says 4 oaj foot r interrupted georgio youro a goosey gum p i and carls storyteller there lsu 0 any buo a thing tho little qrmau const blaok eyea filled with toors there was a st nicholas whero i used to live that wont ronad tho way 1 told yoo he eaid bat maybe there isnt hern anyhow wtll try it said meta x wonldns ta so hateful giorgio holmes i those tears touoheh gcrglea hoart h did riot moan to b enkfcid well i wo said ho 11j nlay something now try lti you wue to so they would and so they did whon the night of the 6h of d ramber cam they all exoephag goorgta fi ltd their ahes lather chriutmas it is a question if the children who believe in santa cans are happier than those who kajw that lovincr human hands fill up their christmas atookings at all events among little people whose hearts arc in the right place it is never the value of the gifts trought by tho holy timo but tho tender ness prompting them which enauroa their grattul welcome sys tho celebrated author gaorge sand of her christmas festi val i have not forgotten the absolute belief i had iu the descent down the ohimney of old father christmas a good old man with a snowy beard who during the night as the clock struck twelve was to come and place in my little shoe a present whioh i should find upon awaking twelve oolook at night i that mysterious hour unknown to ohildron and whioh la represented to them as the impossible limit to which thoy oan keep awake what incredible efforts did i not make to resist my teudnnoy to sleep before the apperance of the little man i i felt aaxiaus yet afraid to sea him but i could never keep awake long enough and the following morning my first anxiety was to go and examine my shoe in the fireplaoe what emotion did i not feel at sight of the white paper parcel i for father christ mas was exceedingly clean in his ways and uever failed to wrap his offering carefully i used to jump out of bed and run bare footed to seize my treasure it was never a vary magnifioent affair for we were not wealthy it usod to bo a little cake an orange or simply a nioe rosy apple but nevertheless it seemed so precious to mo hat i scarcely dared cat it soientsfio silk thread sayb sanitary news is soaked in acetate of lead to inorcase its weight and persons who pass it through tho mouth in threading needles and then bite it off with the teeth have suffered from load poisoning in france if a patient who la under chloro form shows acy signs of heart failure those la attendance hold him head downward till ho is restored this method is said never to fail and so convinced aro some surgeons of ita efficacy that they have operating tables made in such a fashion that ono end can be elevated at a moments notice and the pa- tiont be practically made to stand on his hoad for an instant or two the testimony of prof octon the state geologist of ohio givon in a natural gas cose at toledo is not calculated to pull natural gas very for out of tho slump in which it is natural gas he said is now a fixed quantity its manufaotate having ceas ed long ago heuce the more that is taken out of tho earth tho less that remains to be taken out with care and economy the northwestern ohio field with the present draft upon it will last for from fivo to eight years iut not for ton ho thinks three years ho gives as tho average life of a gas well an xtntspeoted calamity fond husband my dear you know i promised you a diamond nockuce this year 1 helpful wife i know you didbnt lot it o tho water pipes burst last nigut could not respeot her goodhearted happy goluoky nature seemed to oaau a charm over them htr total lock of reticence appealed to thsm they oould follow so easily all the workings of her mind whether with child ish potulanoy she was reproaching her min isters with betraying her or confessing with remorse she had wronged them if her sins were open so was her repentance y ear by year when holy week oame round this woman who for the other 61 weeks had been outraging every law human and divine knoeled in ohuroh for the hour together aud with loud sobs and groans proclaimed her sorrow for the past her resolution to make atonement in the future her sub jects bteing her sorrow sorrowed too and when easter day arrived were as oonvinsed as she was that a new era in her life was at hand tho maundy thursday ceremony never failed to win for her hearty adherents sho washed the feet of the beggars with suoh manifest zeal spoke to them suoh kindly loving words served them with food as if she thought it a privilege to do so and at the close of the feast cleared the table with a doxtority that showed her heart was in her work her splendid robes she always wore full court dress upon these oooasions seemed to enhance tho touching humility of her attitude tnd although the freethink ing part of tho oommnnity sooffsd at what they called the popish mummery of the whole affair that was not the feeling with which the bulk ot the population regarded it one year whilo she was serving at tablf a diamond fell from her headdress on to the plate of one of the beggars a dezsn hands wero stretohed out to restore the jewel but tho qaeen motioned to the man to keep it remarking simply it has fallen to him by lot her generosity was unbounded it is not her nature to say no to a beggar while the one point upon which she made a firm stand against her miniaters was insist ing upon her right to exeroise meroy and the hardest straggle she ever had with them was apropos of a pardon granted at the re quest of bistorl a queen has many chances of doing little gracious aots and isabella never failed to aciz each ono as it oame in her way not however for he sake of van ning popularity but simply to follow the bent of her own nature which as she show ed tho other day is etill unohanged for she of au paris was the first to remember that fradod viotim needed help and comfort gentlemens magrzne the csnse of fler grief sho wept and she wept and she wop as she sat with hor head in a wimple why this grief 1 iexolamed as i stept to her jim arid her anawerwaa slmplo they said i could mlfbr sfdb m r in my cheek a most beautlfuul dimple if i cut out a piece and i tried and it ists a dim- its a plmple 1 house work in buenos ayres servants are unmanageable in buenos ayros general houseworkers are unknown for the smallest family one needs a cook a housemaid and instead of a maidof -all- work a boy of any agj from ten years and i have seen even younger on duty in natlvo households besides these no washing oan be dona at home there was i am told at one time even a law against the drying of olothes in ones own patio or on the roof at any rata a laundress is an almost im possible person to getand clothes aro givon ont to the lavandaras who support them selves by the pursuit tf that profession alone they wash in the river which is very wldeand vory shallow en its southern shora and rising only when galcb are blow ing from the sea leavos on its retiring grout pools of water in the hollows of the beach theso pools ore the wash tabs for the wholo city and flat stones ore usod as boards the clothes being rubbed between two suoh so it is not to bo wondered at that all kinds of wash goods wont frequent replaoiutr tho samo women who wtua do not iron they are themselves employed by tho person en gaged by onos self who usually is tho ironer and who receives tho pay for the wholo i found this arrangoment vory unsatisfactory for the ce was no ono person who seemed to be responsible for the return of the things and for the manner in whioh thoy were dene good housekeeping a question of habit pat you must to an early riser always find the morning a family tbrait jyoar father is an early riser too ehl mo rayther is it fair an he rolsea that early that of hd go to bed a little later hsd mate himself getun np la tho mormv you muse to aa carjy riser x iod you at work tho first thing io una tndadruoim sor iis- srait 01 do be shinkln then a good boy it was a bright morning in early spring the sun was shining brightly and the brlds were singing in the trea tops io a small old house facing an alley in the large ity of now york lived a poor widow and three ohildren john who was the eldest of tho boys sold papers while jamas and nad stayed at home with their mothr john was not always successful in selling kia papers ahdthi8 made him very sad at last the time oame when this poor family had no more food to eat and they oame near starving one merning when john was walking along the street selling papers he saw something drop from a ladys pookat who was walking ahead of him johnron and picked it up it was a purse with a largo sum of money in it now john was a good boy and knew it would not be right to keep the purse al though they were poor and in need at home so he ran up to the lady and asked her if the paras belonged to her yoa she said i just lost it thank you my boy oma with me and i will find you soma work sj do that will be better than belling papsrs yon were kind to find my purse and not have kspt it as most bays would have done johnny walked along with the lady until they rescued a large building they went in john told the lady his sad story and eho said ahe would give him work so that he might support himself and those at home the lady then took bim to a room in the large building hers a man was sitting the lady told jehn he was her father he looked to bo a vory pleasant and geed nan and so he was tho lady then told htr father the story and he said with a smile on his face i will give you work hex my boy if you will coma to mo early in the merning and i will pay you a good sum of money each month that night jehn raa home very happy and told his mother the good now how surprised sho was ana hew glad that johnny bad work i the next morning john want to work bright and early and did his maisy errands for the gentleman johnny earned enough in this way so they were a muoh more happy family it was all through johnnys hands burdettess adviee excellent advice does bab burdette te genial humerist give in one of his iast mogaeine a rtloles speaking of tho lower ing pettiness of spite he say every time yon are tempted to say an ungentle wood or write an unkind line or say a mean ungracious thing about anybody just stop loak ahead twontyfive years and think how it may oome back to yoo thou lot me tell yon bow i write mean letters and bitter editorials my boy sometimes when a man has pitohsd into me and cut me up re ugh and i wont to pulvorle him i write a letter or editorial that is to do the business i wrlto something that will drive aloep from his syos and peace from his soul for six- weeks then x dont mail the letter and i dont print the editorial i put the manu script away in a drawer next day i look at it the ink is cold i read it over and say i dont know about this theres a good deal sf bludgeon and bowie- knlfo joarballim in that ill hold it over a day longer eho naxt day i read it again i laugh arid say pshaw i i havent hurt anybody and tho world goes right along making twautyfeur hars a day as usual and i am all the happier try it my bor put ob your bittor remarks until tsmorrow then whoa yon try to say them deliberate ly youll fiad that you hav9 forgotten them and sou years law ah 1 how glad yen will bo that yoa did 1 lis goodnatured my boy bs loving and gentle with tho world- aud youll be amazed to see how dearly and tan- dorly tho worried- tired vexed harassed old world loves you good advice from a humorist or anyone else wobkdohb by m0dntabbb8 calculation ot be force expended by a man who climbs a klll the physical energy or force sometimes exerted by the human body under certain conditions b known to bo astounding bat no one has ever taken the trouble to put be fore as that force in figures dr j bach- heister has now mode a mest interesting calculation on the work done by mount- alnters in ascending heights which will serve as an illustration supposing a mount aineer weighing 168 pounds is making tho ascent of a summit 7000 feet high from tho psint of starting bo has to expend an amount of physical force found by multiply ing bis weight by the height to bs aioeudsj- in the oaas assumed a weight of 168 pounds a height of 7000 foot 1176000 foot pound or ta other words 1176000 pounds have to bo lilted 1 foot this is work performed merely by the muscles of tho legs lut besides this tho contractions of the mujcb of the heart havo to bo taken into account its function con- hia as is well known in propelling the blood collecting in the heart oa the ono hand into the arterta and on ths other into tho lungs this is effected at an initial volcclty of 1 j feet per second whinh repro- eents in tho case of an aduls a work of 4 tootpounds for each contraction of the heart tho pulsations of an admit are on tho average 72 per minute but in asoending heightp owing to the additional exertion their number is increased to an extraordary extent assuming for the sake of simplicity in calculation only 100 boats of the pulse per mlnuto this would give 460 foot pouudb per mloute 24000 foot pounds per bourj and 120000 foot pounds for the five hours sup posed to bo required in ascending a height of 7000 feet tho work performed by tho muscles in breathing by tho expansion and contraction of the obeet may also be esti mated at 4 footponnds assuming further that the number of breathings per minute is on the average only twentyfive althongb as a matter of fact it will be found to be higher in a mountain ascent lasting five horns we have to add further work of 30- 000 footpounds the total work performed during fivo hours by a mountaineer consequently amounts to 1326000 footpounds in this estimate are not included the physical iorce spent in over coming the friotion on the ground tho exer tions to bs made in keeping the body erect at dizzy heights and in dragging heavy boots and footirons nor tho loss of muiela power in cutting steps in the ice not to reokon the work performed in carrying an ice axe or the physical force exerted in crossing fresh loose snow dr buohheister arrives at tho t conclusion that tho werk done in an ascent sjsv of 7c0d feet lasting five hours cannot be placed at ioaa than 1380000 footpounds woman and tobaooo woman how many of those cigars for a dollar i dealer twelve maam shall i do thorn up 1 woman no i guess theyra not the kind charley smokes lean got twenty- five for tho same money on tho next oorncr and charley tells sno ho la very economical in his smoking the last enerliah military duel duelling received ita death blow in eng land by a fatal encounter whioh took place on the 1st of july 1843 two officers col fawcett and lieut mnnro who wero brothersinlaw had a quarrel ool faw- oett was elderly had boen in india was out of health and exceedingly irritable in tem per it came out afterward that he had given his relation the greatest provoaation still lieut macro hung bsok from what op to that timo had beon regarded as tho sole resource of a gentleman especially a military man ha showed great roluotauce to ohallenge cm fancetc and it was only after the impression mistaken or otherwise was given to the insulted man that his regiment expected him to take the old courit and that if he did not do so he must be disgraoed throughout ths servior that he- called out his brother inlaw the ohallenge was acoepted the meeting took place col fawcett was shot dead and tho horrible anomaly presented itself of two sisters the ono renderod a widow by tho hand of her brotherinlaw and a family of ohildren clad in mourning for their unole whom their father had slain apart from the bloodshed lieut munro was rained by tho miserable step on whioh ho had boen thrust fablio feeling was rousod to protest against tho barbarous practice by which a bully had it in his power to risk the life ef a man immeasurably his superior against whom he happened to have a dislike prlnoe albert interested himself deeply in the question especially as it ooncerned the army various expedients wero suggested eventually an amendment was inserted into the artloles of war whioh was founded on the more reason able humane and christian conclusion that to offer an apology or even to make repara tion when wrong had been committed waa more becoming the obaraoter of an offioer and gentleman than to furnish the alternant tivo of standing up to kill or to be killed for a hasty word or a rash aot a womans absent mindedness ono of the worst cases of absentminded ness i over hoard of that was of oco of my lady passengers 1 what wore the circumstances captain sho was a paducah woman about forty fivo years old and sho had a horseshoe with her which she had found on the way to the boat weill sho brought it along she said beoatua finding a borseahoo while on a joujuoy was thaaurest sign of good lack but what do yoa suppose she did next morning give it up searched under her pillow got her faleo teeth packed thorn in her valise anp put the horseshoe in her mouth aud mind you ahe never disooveredhor mistake either until she went to tho breafast table and thore sho oalkod hor jaw with tho too of the shoo whilo trying to get away with a beef steak- cincinnati enquirer j sufficient ciedentias careful parent before i can give con sent to your proposed marriage to my daagh- tor imut know something about ycr character saitor certainly sir oertainly he is my bank book careful parent after a glance tako her my son and bo happy stumped frst little boy my pops a methodist what yoursl- second llttlo boy mine is a thooio- pblet theosophht whats that i daia know why donc yon ask your pop 1 i did but ircm the way ho looked i g nest ho doesbc know either