- V / When SUveiiaoQ'3 peutered Prince of Bohemia tossed ibe Kajuh's dtamoad in- to the Seine, and the geza, describing I'D aj:c oC li^ittt in its fii|fbt, vuni^ibed forever from the bight o£ men, his bio- Er&pber leila uh that "bia spirits ruse in eiulutivn wicb the thought that be had closed the long catalogue oi Lragedies, crimes, intrigues and in- (Siimes uhiuh fur untold agea had con- â- ticuted tue history of the stone, io IKisaeas that glittering locjp of crys- tAi, to call it iheix own, to display it to the world, even to take it by stealth kt rare intervals Iroin its hiding place uid gloat over >ts beauty, men. had for ;eni.ur> after century, soitl their bon- »r, betrayed friends and country und not scrupled at the conimia-siog of the luotit fearful crimes in tne never eod- i inK struggle for its possession blood huA been shea and myTiads ol Uves sac- rificed, it had glittered in the crowns I of tyrants, decited the beauty of She fairest wucnen, served as the chief ad- ormuent u£ monstrous idols, been ivrested from owner after owner as the ;hiefest prize of conquest, and as • !t passed from band to hand its Xnorse had been marked by scenes 1 }i striking cruelty of sh&meless i â- rime. '' i JStevenson's Prince never dwelt out- 1 tide of Bohemia, but the sinister and i ^eot role asaig'ned to his vanished liaanond has been eiucted by most of j the great historic gems of which we | auve knowledge, for almost every one if the prJcelesB diouuonds and rubies sow the pride of royal treasuries, or of . rare collections in Kurupe, has a bis- • lory full of strife, contest, riviUry and war The eimpire of Ka^ioleon was made ' md unmade by the Hegeut, long the ^ride of the crown Jewels of Prance, ; ind until within very recent years the finest large diamond known. Ibis itone wan purchased, m 1717, from its Einglish owner, for the Preoch re- laiia by the Duke of Orleans, then Re- lent of Prance, whence its Uiuue, and warS first made publicly conspicuous at Ihe coronation of X^uis XV'., in lT£i, »'b»u it was flastted as the UMjAt mag- nificent jewel in the crown. Hadf a wntuxy later it was again the center »f ft crown, that which, in 1775, weigh- ed so heavily upon the head of young Louis .XVX., that he cried out luJ dis- •omlort. "It hurts me." Tiien came the revolution and the crown jewels, now the property of the people, were il«p«.isited (or safe keeping in the tiao-de Mruble On the morning of September 17, 1792, P&ris was startled by the diacov- try that the liarde Meuble bad been lobbed of its treasures, including the Regent During the preceding uight robbers had scaled the colonnade from Ibe aide of Che Place iLuuiS XV., and, through a window ma<l« then way Into the Uardc Meuble, r»\aping undis- covered with their precious bo<>ty J>ev- eral persons were arreiiied on suspicion, but discharged for want of evidence. Finally, an unsigned letter reached the comuiissiooers of the commune, stating that sitme of the missing jewels would be found in a ditch in the Allie del Avenues, Champs Plysces, Officers hastened to tbe siKit, and unearthed, among other treasures, the missiug diauiouds, their great v^lue having evi- dent >> made it impossible for the thieves to dis(>oae ot them with safety Thirteen years later the story of the riilibery cauie oui. lu ItfOo a iorgery was onuiiui l ted on the U«uk of France vUuoug those ar- Ivsied was a veteran soldier, called by his comrades Baba, who betrayed bis accomplices. This is not tbe lirst tuue, ' be said to the cuuit. " that my Confessions have beru useful to society; and if you coudeiuiu uie, I sbiUl lui- lUue tbe clemency ol the Kuipeior. 'V itUout me >ai>oieou would not be on the throne, for it ie to me< alone inv success of the battle of UareuKo <s due i was one oi the robbers of the ti.irde AleubU-, and tielped to bury lu ihe ditcb the tiegcut and the cither uo- jects. which, being easily recognised, wx>uld have led lo detection. 1 reveal- ed ibis hidiug place ihe Kegeut was found, and you are not ignorant of the fact tliat it was plained lu tbe bauds of tlie Dutch. by the bast Consul lo pto- oui-e the funds which were mo much needed after the iblb Uiuiuaire." Fol- lowing this confessu^u, baba's ac- c<uuii>lices were couvici.ed and sentenced to tiie galleys, but liaba bimselC was iaiprisou««l at Uicetre, where he was fa- miliarly kuuwu until he died as the mau who stole the Hegeut" Kecent investigations into the bis- Uviy of the Kegeut ihiow doubt upon tlx trulhtulness of Uaba's stoiy, but the vital p.iil which the diaiiioud play- etl in iiuilding the foriuues ol Napoleon admits of no denial, lu iTUr, six years after its recovery, it was pawneti lo Vanderbeig, a banker of Amsterdam, mud il was the funds Ihus se<-ured that alone made potssiiile Nupoleou s Italian csimpaigu uud tiie battle of Marengo, ttw winning of which launched the Corsican uiK>n bis long career of cou- quest Mai>olrou redeemed tbe Kegeut in 1M)2, a.nd two ytvirs afterward had it placed on the poiumel of the sword of state. It remaiucd theie until 1814, when Marie iLouisc carrieil it off to Austria, whence iht- Kiii|ieior Prancis returned it to Prauo. . ,iu.l it was reset foi' the coivuation ol . hirliw X. Dur- ing the reign ot N.i:i' â- I'U 111. it was mounted several tiiu<-.-i. ami in 187(1 w is deposited in the Baii^i i>i Franco. It is uoH iu t'le (.laleria li \iK>ll(>n i^f the Louvre with tke two Mazarin diamond* not sold at the Freiiih . â- i , Nvel sale a few years ngo. Its tii.k;.u.l weight «a* i26 coraU, ^at this was re- duced in cutting to 128 carats. It was cut by Harris, wtio lievoled tvro years to tbe task, bis fee toeing 9M,- ouo. X have said that the empire of Na- poleon was made and unmade by the Kegeni. Before it came to France it was known as tbe Pitt diamond, and this name gives the clew to its part in the Emperor's undoing Tradition has It that tbe stone was discovered by a slave at Parteal, south of Gol- coada, that be escaped tne rigid in- spection to whioh all the miners were suojected by the native prince by con- cealing the gem in a wound in the calf of his leg; that he made his way to tbe seacoasc :ind offered it to an Ol disofpeared from view. lin l«-2&, icwever, O. was agaim iin Che possession ol the ticdoy fajiuiy. poor years aiter- w-ara it was sold to Pruua> Llemidotf, and reiOiaiiied in taie Demidoff family until about l«ti5. when it was worn ijy toe young prince Paul Demi- doif. wtio appeared at a masked ball at toe luilerieo la the cOBtume oi an In- liuin raja'bL ttrange to say. ;i was an Orieutai miliioaaire w^ao bought the ;iancy for 55().UIW lraau» wihea Prijice DeautioO. axc«.r uie ojssith ut has wa'e, sold all his diamonds and determined to l>ei»ms a oiufUt. and it remamed for im>re Lhan twenty years in India. In 1889 it was exhii/ited at the L aiv-«rsal Kxposition at Paris, and in Isiii, return English skipper, but that in lieu of pay- ) yropefLv of a group of Freiit-h tAinii- ment he was murdered and thrown i "*<» 'lefaiiteiy to Euxupe, it became the overboard; and thai the skipper, after]***- selling the great gem to the diamond] tu the inventory of 179;i the value of merchant, Jaurchund, for i^lOOO, per- JJi* Regent wras estianated at l;iOWi.OOO lines. In ttie saoue Inventory the saucy was estimated at 1.2UO.l)00 francs, but fur those who i-alue the origiin and history oi a<n object tne iancy is per- haps the most unteresting ot all the Frenct crown jewels. tVrioua also, is M* story of the Koh^i-noor the costli- est jewel in the possession of the Brit- itui crown. This, the moat fami/us of all iiiamouds. and its companion, the Orloff, are supposed to be ttbie fragments of a stUl mig^itiex crystal of 7!« carats, of Whkib. the tradition has been pre- served by Tavermer. wiho viisited the East Jin HS70 and there saw and deacrija- ed many mc«.t reuiarkaUe jewels tie- longjng to the famous Aurungjebe.then on the throne of the Mug-ai LAinpire at DeiJii. The legeinds relaLJOig to these twim stands are numerous and conflLct- ung. One account has it that they <sh«oe fckr ages as the eyes of a moo- stroos irioJ in a Braihauin "temple in Gol- conda When the Mogul emperor fell oot with the King of Uolconda the Prime Minister of tbe latter forsook hid master, contributed t .. ia»s overthrow, and by tlba bribe of ti.e Koiv-i-noor ob-^ tained from the cviuiuering llogul the vacant ttirone. Anotiker caprice of fortune landed tiae Orloff alao in tie tuuuls of the conqueror Thus the pirns passed from Golconda to I>?lhi. Sornvtimes worn on the persons of the Moguiis. sccietimee shining side by aide ob the famouB peacak throne, they were safely preeerve.l a: Delhi un- til the empire was overthrone by the Pejsian Nadir :»hah. With the assaa- sinstiofi of N'adir s'hah. in 1749, tbeir Btories divide. The Orloff. then known as the Iterya-i-noor or Sea of Light. , , u â€" â€" ~ â€" â€" '' ^^^l P'l^ed to a teuiple ;n Pondicberrv. loand by a Swiss soldier, who sold where it was stoiea by a French de- y'.^.L^F'^'"''^ to spriest, from whose; aerter. wbo_ had pretended conversion - - - j^ pr>- 1 his t;:! e â€" ^ â€" ^.^ , . . - , him. Hf proved improt-able bv M. Uermaui ; d.^poeed of his booty to a Greek mer- chant BO(n«>Mrhere on ' Mediterranean, and in the year I77i it pBcecd :(itt> the hsLnds of Ptriioce Orloff. who piresHnted Lt to Catherine II.. Princ» Orloff paid for it nearly 9o00.000 in cash, besides a patent of n«>- bility and an annuity of fwenty thiL>u»- *nd dollars for life. I'hie Orloff is now set in the top of the Ku»>Lan crown. Its form, in technic;il language, is a high crowned roer. It weighs 1963-4 car-ats, and is about half the size of a pigeon's egg. I nfortujuiiely. ;t isi not of first wateir. l«M«ig siightly tinged with yel- low, like thie orange .Uajuood. Ami what of the Koh-i-uoorâ€" what of the Moueraon uf Light f Ihat. too. bos had Aa auvantures sjice it parted ^company vnxh its twin. It was carried off l.y Ainu**! trihah au<l under haps from the effects of rum and an evil Conscience, hanged himself. Be this as it may, Jaurchund. in 1703, soM the stone to Thomas Pitt, Governor of Fort George. The price asked was 200.- ODO pagodas, but Ktt, after long hag- gling, beat the vender down to 48,000 pagodas, about 996,000. Pitt staked his w-hole fortune on the diamond, but the venture proved a lucky one. and in 1717 he sold it to tbe Duke of Orleans for 2.0OO.0O0 livree. •667 OCO. And with the moT>ey received from this sale was lait a firm founda- tion for the house of Pitt, from which sprang in time William Pitt the elder, the great Earl of Chatham, and Wil- liam Pitt, the younger, a greater than the great earl himself. W nen the vul- canic fury of the FrenoXi revolution blaaed out. in 17feB, the second .WU- liam Fitt titen at the height of his unparalleled career, was uuildvng up trie peaceful prosperit.. of tjigiaud. lu th«; first years of the great upueaval ne was blind to its flame and deaf to lis fury, but wlten in 17s3, ite was torc- ed uit«j w-ar. his neutrality gave place to a policy of s^jgression, aud Qis un- r&nutting hostility to the Corsican ended only wim the latter's overthrow. tor uhut reason it is not too much to say that the Kegeut caused the lali *»'*»'' M the nae of Napoieon. Ihe famous 6anj:y diamond has play ed a not less fateful and grandiose part in histcry. Whence this diamond j came is a matter cf conjecture. Le- gend has It tiiat It belonged to Charles ' the iiUii. Duke of Bergundy. who lost ] it *n 147ti at Ln«j battle of Granson or the battle of Morat and that h 1 '^ w**!* to a priest, from whose ; aerter. who had pretended con hands it passed thruugh others until • so succeeBfuLIy thnt he was mu<!< It was bought for aj.UOJ ducats by Pope â- "^ tl* temple, and there bide.i t Jul. us D Ail Ui.s iicwever. has been! o«it-l opportunity favored hiu proved improt-able bv M. Germaui : deposed of his booty to a Gre« Hapst. and of the diamonds hmtorv I t^nt BO(n«>where on thus shores of the noLhiag uj known up to tbe tune when i We find It in tl»e possession of Nicolas , / u*' '^•^ '^ucy .n the closing years '( cl the Sixteenth centurv. This sancv. i chief of Lhe jj-wias Guards of Henry IV. I ct i ranee, was a clever diplomat and I tinaoicur wholly devoted to his king. ' cii whose behalf he contracted mauv loans, often giving jewels of his own as security. Qnce he sent the iancv to a Jew broker to be pawned Ihe serraiit never returned The bri'ker d«*lared he had never seen him. But Svuiy's confidence m his servitor was un^aieji. He maiie searciies, and at last the bodv- of the servant was found vn a deep ditcji near the city â- wahs. fcvidemtly an attempt at rvbberv had been made and when the bodv v>as c after sovereign won the gem whose or- igin is hidden in the mists of antiquity, and the British Que^n. as the latest vic- tor now holds the prize, safety slow- ed away at Windsor Castle, tbe fam- ous jewiel probably does not give its present owner so mneh soiicitnde as in tbe <lays when only one man knew in which ovie oifadozen iAixesitwas kept, or on which of a hundred camels it was carried on the march. Another historic diamond is the ?fa»- sak, 7S i-Z carats, a triangular stone* with triangular facets. It was among the spoils taken by th«t Maruuis of Has- tings iaa the conquest of the Decern, and in 17^ was sent by the Nizam to ELog George 111, w^bi«e favor Hast- ings was at that time aniioos to se- cure. He was on trial for having en- dowed Like nation with an Eastern em- fire. Coaimiaiioned to deliver the jew- el to the King, this ctri'um>tance brought himself and the royal family into jzre4it trouble, giving rise to num- erous acurriloos writings and carica- tures, which were publicly hawked about the streets of London and ei- hitxted iu the shop windows, .\fterwird the Naasak passed by sale through var- ous hands to its pr»-sent owner, the Uuke of Westminster, wiw paid 136.- 000 for It at auction. Rubies, wheu fine, are often more valuable than diamonds, and not a few have had iung and eventful histories A very large and remarkably perfor- ated rubv of antique workmanship now in tlie pceeession of a noble lady of Ireland, has sharply engraved np- on It in Arabic characiers. the names of four successive rulers of great note in East Indian history, namely. Akbar. his son Jahangir. his son Shah Jehan and his son AuruagzeLe covering .•- getber about tbe first two-thirds ot the seventeenth century. This was bought some years ego isi Teheran, and is doubtless one of the jewels carried from India to Persia in 1739 by Nadir 5hah. and SL-auered and loet after ius death. Another ruby, larger than this one. of which a model and impressions still e.x taji was on his deathtvd he was urged --- lou :?aacy pawned to leu ve the jewel in tne temple of J ug- Ui» great stuoe for wnat was in thoee , geinaut. jjiu sc> break Lhie sviell of in-e- ttays the uumeiise sum .>f 33 44N) j turtune tiuit was supported to accom- crowne and redeemed u a year alter- | piuiy A. Out be relmswd to do this, waru, Ihere are records im Hiltt and I l'h» Mjoutxtaiti of Light continued to "' '" " --^ • ahane m the treojaury of Lahore until 1849. wheoj the siiih dynasty fell l'*- fore the amuj. of iiigland. aiid its last ropreteotative, Uiileep i>uighk lost his tdiroue and his famout) diamond. He was then a ui*-re tw, Lmi be uever for- got (hut h«v had onine iwe«u the owner oif th» Koh-i-u«n)r. BUrought over to liwjiaud tjo b© edta-abed at publx ex- peuise. "1 sfcouid like. " he said oue day. "to place ih»« jewel ui the tj»je«u'» hand. now tJmt I am a m.iiu. 1 w,is only » chidd whevu I Rurreudered it U> her t-y the treaty. t.ul now 1 am old enough to uikleirsuvnd." Uis wish was cou- lb04 of aiteaiipts to sell the stone to ti-. Duke of M.intua. Marie de iledici w.is eager to possess it. but the price was a little too high even for the King, omd in i(jU4 it was sent to CVnstantiu- ople IB the hope of finiling a purchaser in the person of the Sultan This failed and in the same year the gem wa^ aedd by t^vncys brother the French Ambassador at London, to James 1 for W.UCO crowns. the term being that the King should pa.v one-third on the spot, one-third in sia months, and the balance at the end of a year Thet^ancv became in due course the property o'f \J tho ^«n>y which passed into thehands of the Due dKperuon. in p.irt pay- ment of the principal This was in 1657. ind in the >>ame vear the J^aucy became the proi'erty of Cardinal Maz- arin wbv at hij> death. l>equeathed it to the French crown as a portion of the famous collei-tion of diamonds known SH the 'Eighteyn .Mazarins " Itis thus desiirit«ed in .m invenft.rv dazzLuug tjeauty. l>ui tiad tdKuu the g.*^f>^ I of muth ol Its. hibtoiical and scn>utiiic anterest. Then the descendant of b^teru kixigs huudied back the rich priise uf many cvnquieets. and formally remarked tiiiit it gave h>m great pieas- uue to place tjne jewel un the bond of hj» soveivign. some of l>uiieep s old , friKvuds in Iudi.1 would have said it was good riddance. Wh«au the ludian ?Boi " t "'"'"'^ diwrnonds drawn up yi custodian of the gem handed the spleu 11 J ii *"-^ liirge and deep diauM«nd di»l bauilde oveu- U» ti» Pinglish, in the K* .u 1 t^ancy.' gi^ein U' the crown puJace of tAie Utile Mauarajah. he by tbe late Cardinal Mazariin. i-oit in heaved a knig Mgh of i-elief and said Lt^"*'? "^ ^'"^ sides in pendujit fonu. of the Koh-i-noor ikid beeoi the cause of so Obe fiaieet water, white and brilliant, manv deatlus un his familv that he uev- perfect in all points, weighing 53 S-4 eo- expected to esiape hnnLstttf. Wheu carats, which havijjg no equal, us of iu- be had occasii.«i to exhil>it the jewel estiauable value, and whici. for the formal purposes of nhis inventory, is I declared to W worth tiOaoOO ILvreii" I Louis XV. wore at hjs coronation a orowu surmounted by the i^amy, and Iwihcti the Queem entered I'aris on (.Vt- ober 4. 17;;8. sane wore the great diam- ;ond 101 her hair. In Van Loosi i portrait of Queon .Marie Lecaiu- j ska. now m tie Ia.iuv re. the Sancv form- I ed the peniLuit id" her ueukiace. On I mauv occasicms Marie .\utoiuette wore I Obe S-aocy, and when the crown jewels were seat to .\uu»terdam to l>e reiut tihe 5*tincy alone wa.si permitted lo retain the pendant form and primitive outtiug, which is unchanged to the present day Wheu robhers duri,ng the revolu- tion looted the Ciarde Meiuble and. as already descri)l>e<.L carried off iihecrow^a .tewiels. the Sanicy was stolen, but was s^ioa afterward recovered and played a p-art seitwid cvnly to the Regent" in sfiis taming fhe arm^ies of the newi-born rej*ul>li>.- vVitJi tether crow'ii jewels it was pleilged wittfh tbe Marquis "d'lrauda, .ts sei-urity for siuaus advuiuceil to supply in.>rsej. for the repiiidin-aii wiv.virv anil uriillery Itie kH«ju was repani, Uit the Maruuis, or h*» heirs, tailed to re- turn U^ diuiuinAt and sold it to G(>d- oy. I'r.'Qce ol tJie Peace, froai whose hands it i«ssevl -.^i IH<9 to Jot<e(.ith Boni- IMirtr. Then for nearly twenty yeaiw ut was always attaohed lo his waist by ^ stout cord of twisted ribbon. Dr. Login, thie first British ouBliMi.iu of the gem, folio^ved thei old native keei)- er's e.\ampil« until, much' lo h^s rvnef. the tie^isore was transferred to Pug- Land. As Duleep held and looke^l upon his heuioom ol h.s faauiiy it migiii well have conjured up in bis mind, a train of assiviatiouC' that are a v^urt oi many stirring ei'oobs, of Asiatic history, for no gem htw* ever t!gure>d so long and eo conspicuously Lu history .is the Koh- i-uoor. The p>rii'ele«s jewel lu the crown of the early l^irkish invaders of India, of the McuuiS from tbeuorth and the I'ersians from the West, it paasevl froui v*i>i«le to people as the riohest euiblem of conquest. " My son Humayotto," said Baber. " has won a iewel from the Hajah which is valutnl at half the eipeuK's of the whole world." It glistened in the headgear of Ul^ber's hapleew* desi-endant wheu tbe IV rsiau conqueror jocosely remarked to his fallen foe. " Let us change turhan.i." anil v\alked off with the prize. Duleep's gi-c.itosi ancestor brougnt it buck bo Inil.i. the prij-e ef viotory, and th»» third clausie of the treaty iroui wh' '' iLite Ihe dowofiUl of the Sikh ity""^'^ and British supreauacv in the â„¢Ujat> m devoted to tbe Koh-Vooor. jJ-vereign YOUB EYEBROWS. Tke7 riaioly ««»eal ike trmlu In Bse'e Ikararler. The whole nature of a person, accord- ing to a faceologist. is indl -atHi in th« eyebrows. Eyebrows thnt are grace- fully arched and elevated show ma- gination and ideality ; and. when mu^-h elevated, credulity ; those that are de- pressed over tCie nose and almost fetraig-ht show penetrating powers of ot»ervata>n. It is alao said that one perpenilimiiar wrinkle over the nose and l«tween the brows shows ca.'eftri- neee m small matters, while twD or tha-ee wriiikle.i show. ..-onsi-ientioufiness. Rough eyebrows show fontness for mufeic, especially if tlack and lowering while the art lover i>f ether sex has evebrows that are tons: and taper.ng. One other sign wh^h is sometimes found Ol a man's fa-e. though oftener iu a woman's, is thB dimple. Every one loves a dimpled cheek, and the fact seems to I* thut dimples, whether a u-lieek or chin, mellow- and sweeten the .Lspoeitk>n. Tbey show a strong de- su-e to be loved and appreciated, aa well as a wish to be a^^reeable. An«i they also show a keen appreciation o* beauty n the opposite sex. MA.rCH-MAKlNG MOTHERS. The worldly mother has a valiant de- fender in tbe Countess of Desart. Match making is not so wicked after ail. ac- cordiikg to an article by tJie titled lady, poblifibed in the " Nationai Review ." Tt>e Countess begins her defense with: " Tbe question of the future of their daughters is one which mothers ponder over deepiy ; and for an answer to it that shall be ali-oonvincing and ail-em^ bracing they search daily They can not assert that they have yet found li. and St. had the same four name-s entrraved j they perforce stiil lean, as their grand- upon it. but the stone has been recnt- i ,,^^rs- grandmothers before them leaned, on tbe marriage market. " rbe marriage market is not a mod- a piece of historical vandalism that is unpardonable. Its present wherealouts is anoertain. Still another ruby en- graved with the name of .â- ^urnngzeb* Is said to have been auiong the jewels of his son, and a diamond that has been cut since also had tbe engraved names of Jahantfir and Sbab Jehan. AT SEA IN A COFFIN. A C'esTteO 4|arrr Attraiitl la t:>.ra^ â€" thtartm br '•hark.t, Mr P.iil<ilr'> Ms !M'palrliral ('as«e. t^onie cuj-'XHis details of tbe life of the French convicts at Cayenne. Gujane, and the iS^fety Islands are g^ven by M. Paui. Mlmande in a volume which he has ju*rt puUisht«d in Paris, entitled "FoTcats et Pniecrits." After descn'"- ing all the must fatuous criminals at ] p,,^^!^ eoncerned and their actual sel present in tbe penal cvdonies. the auth- | tjave to be learned anew after the hon- or (leahs with mar%e I i<j«is e«.-ap«?B and ] eviuoon. In face of ihi« ibe writer attempts to e«'ape. I contends that there is nothing gained Perhnp*, the most remarkalJe ot them [,,- ^ ,tm^ engagement, in which the all IB tbu.t of the assiissin Ltipi. who I [overs are supposed to study each oth- went to sea in a coffin. He managed ^j, t>m dur-ug which the true nature* to get Bu«ue nails, tar. and cotton, and , jje generally oidden under the ved oC one dark night be got into a coffin i,j^ intense affection. em invention and historical research weuis to prove that not only in Baby- lon but aiso in Chaldea and Assyri* d^d the custom bold. Tbe marriagee of Leah and Rachel looked suspicu^usly like sales, and tiie matrimonial alUanca of David and Miriam appears in some- what the same light. Ihe Ctountess oC Deoart puts forward as one of her most £orinidabie defenses of actually bar- g-aining away a daugaier the fact that the lovers never really know each oth- er before marriage, no matter hew mucu they may see of eai.'h other I'ba glamor of lo^^ and sentiment always hides the real characters of the young shed. Hie selected a fine, stanch, and seaworthy i-offm. fasteneil the lid, in ; rbe Countess of Desart laments tha modern tendency of giris to look ui^ order to turn it into a ilei-k, leaving a ^,^ each man as a possit»ie uusband and ctvkpit Bulficient to enable him to to weigh for ihemsolves the question ol crawl in. Be calked all the joints as '» mans worth, instead of .etting an well as ht'. could, and when ths work ouder and a w iser head settle such >iue»- tiotts. Mothers want their daughter* was fiui:shed he made a puir of paddles : to be thoughtless ot liie future, so that (.Kit of l-wo pilanks. Then he brought ' when it oouass lo them, it may p^cescM ou* his crait with great pret-autuoi. ; '^ charm ol nove.iy. it is for the ,,.. . ,. , «• r. V u 1 »i. mother to go up and uown tbe mar- Without mmh diffwulty he reached the ^^.^ seeking the man to whom sue la water's edge. There he launched bis j willing to intrust her daughter? ftt- burk and crawletl on bourd. Assisted , ture. The writer insists that sbe is t V t(u» ti.l«> tw naJiUed hi.« sepulchral "*>* speaking ot the giris who have been ty the tide, he podOled n.s sepuicnrai , j^n^^^.^ ^^ g^^ ^^ ,^ jj ,^^^,1 untrained. craft. SLiently ana siow ly he proceed - ^ t^^^ of the girls w bi> have been trained ed, in thw hope of reiachmg either > en- jo be cauiious and to reaiiae the en- ezuela or British Guiana. I ormous significauoe of marrieil life. Of Now. 150 nautical mile« in a coffin I c^j^g ti,„ woman considered in tbia did not constitute a very tempting en- , ^.a^e [3 oM thut uew and abrupt cre- terpriae. but 1,upl was iull vl coufi- ^i^,,^^ the woman wno denounces mai^ dence. At the i*niteutiary It wasscvn rt^ge, in all its foruis, but of the vt'un« discovered that he was missing. No ^g^^y jjj society, wbotie future mu.-it i-ep- bout had l>een taken away. Ihe boats tainlv be s^ent at the head oi »m» are alwaof** well gu-'-ited. and noUxiy ; prominent mans household. The Couo- ever .Ireaaiied for a iiiomeut that any ,pgj, ^.^jj^ ^^ instance of a voung artist niuu would go to Sea ui a coffin. It was gipugguug to support his w ife and child thought that he bad either committed ^„ |3^ ^ ye^r. which be earns bv sell- suicide or couceaieil himself somewhere ^^ ^-^j^y pictures to oluiuce visitors. Will ihe be.iuty-lovlnn si'Ul ot the ar- tist always enjoy tbe sight of his lit- tle wife struggling with L>rooiiis and dust, ruining tier comi^eiion by cock- --- - . . imr over a hot fire and siMiliug her object tbkit lookwll.ke a piece ol wreck- | (^^js and eves with darmng rents and age around vhich a tloi-k of seagulls , p|^,^j_^jj boots." If sickness or deatb were circliug and screaming, -^atur- ^.^^^ where will the youthful couple .illy thttt excvted biis attenticHi. He ; j^ , ^^^^ ,ij^ skeptical Countess Tbe »te*re.l th«i Ixxit a. the direition of the „^[ ^^^ :^ ^^ed to l}«ing h«>r own and object. A» he came close to .1 his cur- j^^ huslHinds servant mav ilo al! these i«iuty was increased. Ihe thing which j y_;y drudgeries willingly, but bv«v long th»l he to»>k to '.>e a pie^-e ot wreckage n-^asiie remiwin loving and h»."py when turned out to be a coffin, and in ad- â- jjj^ tj^^ ;„ j^ these things ii. the hvuaa dition to its noisy winged esiort U was „j ^lei husband, what a i«aid did for accompanied by twi> guanls that tra- jj^^jj, ^ ^^^ home of her titherf Hiere yelle.1 on either side of u like mounted : ^j j^ ^â- ^^^^ ^v^, thought'd: mother comes escorts at the duor of an official car- ^^ ^^^ siands ilka !• wi^H Ijetween her riage. These twi. gunrds were euor- bei^yed ciUd. aud the fasctuatiug. but iiioue sh«.rks. whose great dorsal ''ns ypj.jy.g^j.icken stranger. fro«u time> to time seamed to toia-h the ! j^jj^ "jj^j^ j^ of coursi-, deny tbe sides ot the lx>x. The Capiain c>f the | j^^gfjt^p ,jj^ jentjueutai but speud- Al)eiille stopped the veseel and ordered ^ thrilt voutb and give her nothing in a Ixnit to l)e launched aud manued. j,j.jjjj^-. gj,^, Luunediately selects apro- When the bent approached the coffin p^j. in,iiiv»nd for the waiting girl and the I'irils continued tc» hover alout. but jj^^jj jjj^ iLu,.i; satisfaction of seeing her the sharks went do»-n. The men in ] ,^,^ «ndLng iu the calm, sate settle- near by Fortunutely, or unfortunately, for Li4>i. tiuf steamer Aieille. returning fro«u the ,\n lilies, off l*»ramaril>o. came l<«e to him. The t.>i plain notii-ed an the Knit looked into the lox, and what ; m^c k>f her daughter m a life of ease. was their astonishiiieut to find a man '-d ^;ood position. The girl who is rais- iiu It hiUC drowned aud alim«i in a!,<i u, the lap of luiurv. keji; bright fainting c-ondiliou. I'hey hauiVeil hini a^d beautiful by carefufi raining, read- into the bout !uid took b:m on ' oar- I itjg. travel, and other aiils of luxury, the vessel, and a few hours later ">* I i«ses her chiirm w ben the toils w a was in iri»us in his cell. ^^ household have dragged her into the called cixffins, but Lupu is perba^ "^ ' depths of weariness aud dullness. Kead- mly miui whb ever went fo^^.fi\,'^ 1 ing has to give way to bed-uiakiug. and I'liswi worthy K<ats are ^'Uietimes geuiiine coffin. FORPi?r OF WfWllLl.:?. Auistenlam. the t^P'**' i>f tlie »H>- erlands, its situat-d at the confluence of the Rvver il^^'*' with the arm of the Zuyder-iV' ^••»"*^ i-'** ^' t>n«ncHUic- e<l eye I' * '' ''â- ""**'• "-'^ lofty w ind- uiills in - '^*'' '^"" ^*^ to^ver8. steeples, ivy rim"'*- truiiu-ateii i-ones aud aerial ^Ifi'us. waviug their enormous arms. the wife who pleased as a sweetheart IS uniuterestiug as a cook. Men lUw.iys love beauty lu a wiwnaa. and Ikvw is she to ketv it vvheu illness and work have taken all the auimatinkn out of her f Mntruuony. :icc«rding to the LVuutess. is the g«xtl of a woui.iu's life and she must be i'it>pared for it and her future| :is carefully selected for it as is the I'UsLuess life of a man. Girlt should be chiitieromHl, not because they ma.y not be truste^l. nor because their friends may not he trusted, but beciuss they should be kept " unep«.>tted fr»'iu ,p,i wharlmg alvve the roofs like a | the world." 10 thiuk that all men are j.iHul of motiWer birds Iwatiug their | gooil husbands and that all women are viug* woi' tbt» city. It is i-ompuled good women. .A.nd if they are married that theiv lue iw fewer than 12.000 windmiili* in Holland, cbiefly empK\v- ed in piuuping and draining. Alauy Hi-e 0/ vast diiiteasions. each sail some- times exc«e>.ling SO fee c In length. safely to a true man he takes u;> the lesson where the nuviher left off and tbe wife never learns how dreadful a world it is to these p«.K)r girts w ho have never enjoyed tbe protection due Ihem.