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•â- 0-r A EEMABKABLE OOLONY. Orime That Besolted in the Evolution of a New People. Motlny on it British Man of War I.ea<l« to the Development ut a Ne-w llaceâ€" AdvautogtfB of Civillxatlon Wtthont It* Attendant Vices. The ship Bounty, December 23rd, 1787, â- ailed from ISpithead, England, boand for the Boatb Bea. The ahip waa nnder a com- mission from the British Admiralty to visit the Society and other islands and collect a namb«r of the bread frait plants, which were to be taken to certain of the British West Indies for the purpose of stocking those islands. The vessel started on her homeward voyage with Lieut. Bligh in oomnaand. lie was of an unusnally over- bearinf! and insnlting dispositiou. He ao- cased Fletcher Christian, the mate, with having stolen some cocoanuts which he had bought at Otaheite, one of the islands they had visited. Christian determined to ;;et away from the ship and was informed by the boatswain that the crew were ready to mutiny. He surprised the captain in bis berth, made a prisoner of him and took possession of the ship. The captain and eighteen of bis officers and men were then act adrift in an open boat. Christian, with the twenty-four others who had remained in the ship, steered for the Society Island, and sixteen of thecn Uoally decided to remain at (Kaheite, while Christian and the rest, takiug with them twelve Otahei- taan women and seven men, set sail in the ship for any place that chance might take them. Nothing was beard of Christian and those who had gone on the Bounty for twenty years. At the end of that time an American ship happening to tooch at Pitcairn's luland, found there an Knglish- man called Alexander Smith (his name was afterwards changed to John Adams). who said he was the sole survivor of thouu who bad sailed on the Bounty. Christian, thinking the island a place where there wonld be little chance of their being dis- oovered, had lauded there and barned the â- hip. Things went smoothly for two years, when one of the men. having lost his wife, insisted on taking one of the Uta- heitean men's. The Utabeiteans rebelled and killed three of the whites. The rest of the whites, with the aid of the women, then lulled all the Utabeitean men. Only four men were now left on the island. One of these succeeded in making an intoxicating liquor and drank himself to death -, another one was executed by his companions, and a third died of consuoiption. Adams, now an old man, became at last impressed with the responsibility resting upon him of teaching the descendants of himself and his companions the trntbs of the Bible. The result was a model community. In 18:iU the inhabitants moved to Norfolk Island, but in 1H5U a part of them returned to Pitcairn. This oolony has si nee been remarkable for the pnrity in which it has retained the principles inculcated by the patriarchal Adams. Between the years 1H60 and 1H80 a number of â- hips called at the island. In 1HH3 the American ship Harry MiUsvisited the plaoe, and one of the inhabitants, named McCoy, acoompauied the ship to Liverpool. In the same year another American ship, the Wandering Jew, stopped at the island and on leaving Cspt. TalpeVi the commander, took with him another one of the inhabit- ants. This was Ernest HeywoodChristian, the great grandson of Fletcher Christian. Until his arrival at Uull.lEugland, Ernest Christian had never seen a houuu, a horse, or any quadruped. His delight and as- tonishment when he first saw a steam engine and train were unbounded. On bis arrival Christian was treated with the greatest kiuduese, and whtii he left Eng- land he took with him many valuable presents for tbe islanders. Christian spent three years on the ship, visiting San Fran- cisco, and going oouiplotely around the world before he returned to his island home. On her second visit to Pitcairn Mrs. Talpey had with her a young English girl, 17 years old. She was the yoaiigest person who had ever visited the island, and great was the admiration and interest she excited among the girls of her own ago. One in particular, Mias Emily McCoy, kept close to her all the time, asking her all manner of questions about the outside world. " You are the first girl of my own age, outside of this island, that I have ever seen," she said. "Toll me all you can. What do horse cars look like ? And tbe churches â€" do you have people enough to flU them ?" Among the island women who visited the ship un this occasion was Miss Ilosalind Young, one of the most attractive and enterprising on the island. She was at this lime about 23 years old, had never had a shoe on her foot, swam like a Usb, played the organ in the little island church, assisted her father in teaching the "vil- lage school " and was the leader in every- tSng among the women on the island. She has written an account of the island lor the Centurij, and she told Mrs. Talpey that she never had an idle moment. Another curious vein of modern civiliza- tion that has cropped out on the island is the desire for some pUco where one can get a rest and change from the ordinary routine ol life. On the isolated island, only a few miles in ciroumforenoe, in mid-ocean and containing only one village of less than 100 inhabitants, " summer rosidencos " would seem to bo hardly practicable or desirable. Yet these people have already begun to build, a little way from the main settle- ment, a small " summer oolony," where the older ones may go away for a little while every year and be more retired than they oan m the village. They have named their retreat " Happy Valley." The condition of the islanders has lately been considerably improved by the uumer- oas visits of English and American ships. The populatiou is inoreasiog slowly. In 18711 it was ".14. In December, 1H82, it was 108, of which number 2 were shipwrecked Biltors who had settled there. '>'he colony oonaists of about 20 families, who livo in single story cottages formed of bamboo, with thatched roots. The islanders are still noted for their strict religions condnot, grace being said before and after each meal, and swearing or anything of a similar character boing absolutely unknown. When any dispute arisoB among them the settle- ment of it is laid over till the next arrival of a man of war, when it is referred to the captain, and his decision is final. â€" Hew York Prtu. -S 8I.KJBPI.B88NB88. Oescrlfied by One Who Has Kvldently Kzperieneed Iti Misery. To say that sleeplessness is largely on the increase in this country is but to re- iterate what our best medical authorities say on the subject. There are, undoubtedly, varioas causes which produce this disease, of which indigestion is the most prevalent. Only those who have anSered from this hopeless disease know of its debilitating effects upon the system. When it reaches the chronic state there is scarcely any alleviation : sedatives and opiates, as ad- ministered in other diseases for their quiet- ing e&eots on the system, in this disease frequently have a contrary effect. When one retires for tbe night it is impossible to know with any degree of certainty whether they have lain down to re- cuperate their wasted energies by sleep, or to toss to and fro in utter wretchedness during the greater part of the night. Bympathetio members of your family say to you, " Now lie perfectly quiet and atop thinking and you will soon drop off to sleep." Stop thinking, indeed I One might as well try to stop old Boreas in a gale as to stop thinking on cue of these restless nights. More ideas race tiirougb your mind in one hour than you have thought of in the past year. Like a pano- rama, ideas and scenes come and go until dissolved into other thoughts and acenea e<{oally as difficult to dismiss. As the hour of midnight approaobes, you mentally ex- claim, " Oh, if I could only stop thinking I should go to sleep '." This recalls to your mind what yon have read about the great Napoleon Bonaparte who, in the midat of battle, could lie down beside a cannon and by mere will power go to sleep. But alas ! yon liud you have no will power left. If yon are a housekeeper yon per- haps resolve not to worry about the disas- ters connected with the household machin- ery, but find that the cares of tbe honus are so closely woven into your very life that you cannot dismiss them from your mind. Directly, bang goes something that sounds like the outside cellar door, and you al- most know thai^ John has forgotten to fasten it, and perhaps some one may be riding the cellar. But as the noise is not repeated you at length give up that idea. Then as your circle of thought begins to narrow you concentrate it upon the bed. You discover that there are lamps in the luattrass, and that the pillows are bard, for both ears ache from lying on them, and you mentally feel that our modern beds mnst have been made for discipline rather than oomfort. Soon after, another fact asserts itselfâ€" your arms and lower limbs have a peculiar sensation and you are obliged to change their position to keep them from becoming cramped ; while your hand is almost pressed to baratiog, your heartbeats as if trying to break down the very walls of its prison bouse,and every- thing appears to yon as if the world was upside down. Thoughts and scenes are so blended together that you cannot separate them, and within yon there is a conacions- nesa that yon are going to sleep. You fool uncomfortably warm, and yon soon begin to perspire, suggestive that the fever in your system has spent itself ; and soon the circulation becomes normal, and you drop off onoonsoioasly into an unrafresbing sloep, which may continue for sc-vcrnl boars if yon are not disturbed. U'hero slueplesa- ncBS is caused by indigestion the mn8t|x>si- tive relief that I know of is to bo careful of the diet, of over-exertiiig and ovurtax- ing the nervous system ; or in other words carefully avoid doing whatever has a ten dency to produce it. â€" Country OentUman. STRANGE KDIBI.IC8. Fried Toad- Fish, Boiled Sbark aoit Stewed Oevil-Flsh aa Palatable Dialies. " Little you know of European delights," said a bon vivant to a Galveston Newi reporter, " if you have never taated the Heah of a shark or reveled in dovU-lish stew." " All fish," continued the speaker, " are edible, but some'sre, by popular prejudice, adjudged to be unfit for the table. Who would ever dream of eating a toad-fish ? The appearance of the creature, with its hideous bead and brown spotted aides, is snfiicient to take away any man's appetite ; yet tbe llesh is tender and palatable. When fried it tastes very much like llounder. Sharks are also excellent eating. They are plentiful in these waters, and, if people could be made to believe that there fiesh is wholesome and agreeable to the palate, an excellent tisb would be sold in the market at a remarkably low price. " Shark flesh is firm, and in taatc hardly distinguishable from redfish. A delicious soup can be made from the tins. The meat is best when boiled or fried in oil. Tbe devil-fish, or giant squid, some times seen on this coast, is tbe same oreatureof which Victor Hugo wrote in his novel, " The Toilers of the Sea." It is known to scien- tists as the octopsa. In appearance it is a horrible monster, with a huge bead and body furnished with snake-like feelers, which acme times grow to be thirty feet in length, and are as powerful in their grasp as tbe grip of a Si.\th ward politician on election boodle." " You do not mean tc tell me," queried the reporter, " that the flesh of such a oreatnre is edible '.'" " It is simply delicious when properly prepared. It should be cut into small pieces and stewed with herbs. It becomes then a jelly-like subatanceof delicate flavor that melts in the mouth. I regard the tlesh of a ilevil-fish as a delicacy. There is an- other species of devil-fish which resembles a skate or ray fish. The largest of them weigh from 100 tc loO pounds. It is excel- lent eating." The reporter intimated that hisinformant might possibly be tilling him with stories originally intended for the marines, which the bon vivant bitterly resented, and the two parted, the laat words coming from tbe latter, who continued to assert : " Sharks is good eatin', and it yon don't believe me go and try for yourself. The bay is full of 'em." The reporter having seen the varied con- tents of more than one shark's atomach, was compelled to confess a prejudice, and thought the flesh, while too rich for re- portorial blood, might be utilized on the comity poor farm. The Music of NISKar». In an article on "Niagara Kails," an evening paper observeH, anest the mighty roar of its waters: " One can never forget the eiTect oflistening to this mighty voicefor the first time, nor is it an unpleasant sound which assails the ear. The roar is positively musical, they say, and a few years ago a distinguished American organist spent a long time in studying it, and trying toloarn the measure and compass of its tones. He finally came to the conclusion that the deepest tone by the falling cataract was that which would be produced by an organ pipe about li!0 feet in Iengtb$ and of pro portionate dimensions as organ pipes are made. Now, KiO feet, which is about the height of the falls (this varies from IIJO to nearly 180 feet), is much longer than any organ pipe is made, and the sound emitted by such a pipe would not be sonsiblo to us as a musical sound. Therefore our ears could not apprehend the music of the deepest tones ; and as our ears are at fault, wo give this deep toned music such dis- cordant epithets as noise and roar." This story, according to one account, seems incorrectly atateid. The organist in question suggested a sound not nearly three octaves below thirty-two feet C, bat about F aharp below that note. The present writer tried to define the vast harmonic hum of the great waterfalls, and came to the con- clusion that the task was all but hopeloas, although a steady kind of a tone seems to be maintained ; and oertaintly the imag- ination might readily seize upon such a note as the authority in ((ucstion named, but whether the indefinite sound could be described as of a foundation or upper partial tones character it wonld be im- possible to say.â€" I-ondon Mutical World. Profound HyMorie*. Jones- â€" The Hatch murder or suicide is very mysterious. Smith â€" Yes, it is somewhat mysterious, but to my mind it is not half as mysterious as the fact that it is always the fool who upsets the boat on a pleasure excursion who is saved and the people who keepiiuiet who are drowned.â€" Xcxun Siftitigs. A Philistine. Wifeâ€" The truth is, woman is a great fact in the world of to-day. Husband-Yesl yes! facts are stabborn things. â€" Jlarper'i liazar. Tbe beautiful young Heasian I'rincoas who has just been married to Prince Henry of Prussia is known here and in England as Princess Irene, but in Germany she is always called Prinoess Ella. She is the most popular member of a rather unpopular family, but her personal charms and worth would make hai an idol anywhere. Matthew W. Sedam, an ecentrio old man who died at 'I'erre Haute, Ind., laat week, was buried in a cofiin which for 25 yearahe had kept in his bedroom. The monument over his grave was erected according to hia orders fully 30 years ago. HOW TO MAKK A TENT. Some lurornuttioii for Boys Who Arc Going to Cauip Out This Suinmer. Boys always begin to think about camp- Oot-out etiuipnients as soon as spring fairly sets in. Tbe most important thing to provide for such an expedition is a tent, and as it costs a good deal of money to have one made to order, perhaps the boys who intend to spend a few days in the woods this summer wonld like to know how to make one themselves and at a trifiing cost. Buy nine yards of good stout yard-wide cotton cloth and out into three strips of thtee yards each. Sew these strips together securely by overlapping, and you will then have u. piece three yards square. Make a solution of twelve ounces of lime and five ounces of alum in three gallons of water, and soak the cotton in it for a day. Rinse it in warm rain water and stretch in the sun to dry. It will then be waterproof. Having reached your camping-out plaoe, out two poles eight feet long, each with a fork at one end. Sink the other ends in the ground about a foot and beat the earth well to keep them firmly in place. These poles Hhonld be about eight feet apart. Now cut another pole about nine feet long and put it on top of the other two, resting in the forks. Cut two more poles ten feet long for the aides of yoar frame, resting one end of each polu on the cross pole and the other end on the ground. Stretch tbe canvas over the frame and tack it to the poles. You can make the sides of your tent weather-proof with the boughs of cedar and other trees. This is the aim} plest and least expensive tent you can have, and it will answer your purposes fully. The interior of the tent, however, would be a little more roomy and comfortable if you would put up a second frame in the roar similar to that in front, say two feet high, and stretch the canvas over that and thence to the ground. Select sloping ground to put your tent on, so that if it rains the water will readily run off ; and also dig a little ditch around the tent with an nntlet leaiiing down the incline. As the front of the tent will be open â€" un- leas you choose to provide enongh canvas to close it â€" you had better place it with tbe front towards the north or northwest, for atorms, if you have any, will probably come from tbe south or the southwest. The rude hiit described â€" for it is little elseâ€" will no doubt seem a tlinisy shelter to those who have never occupied one, but for perfect rest and the soundest of sound sleeping yon will find it superior to the best room in your city hoase. â€" Chicaiio Tribuitf. MaklDeSarataira Chips. Saratoga chips, as all know who have ever seen or tasted tbe article, are made from potatoes, says the Pittsburg IHtpatch. The process of manufacture is a very simple one, the only machinery used, if such simple tools can be called machinery, consists of a parer and a sheer. The former is composed of a round piece of tin, one end of which serves as a handle, while the other contains a knife so set that it will cut only a thin paring. The latter consists of a knife, set in a wbael-ehaped contriv- ance, which, on being turned by a crank, cuts the potato into slices of the requisite thickness. Only the best of potatoes can be used, and even then there is great waste, as all "specks" and other imperfections must be carefolly cut out. After the pota- toes are sliced they are placed in water and allowed to remain several hours, being stirred occasionally. This is for the pur pose of removing the starch, which, if allowed to remain, would cause the chips to become sour. The shoes are then ready for boiling. A large kettle, set in a brick arch, in which a natural gaa fire is burning, is kept nearly full of hot lard. Enough uf the slices are placed in the kettle to cover the surface, when they are boiled until they become crisp and brown. They are then ladled out, sprinkled with salt, ami placed in a sieve to dry. After cooling tbe chips are ready for packing. They are put in stout paper boxes, one-half pound in each box, and retailed for fifteen cents per package. Names that Deceive. Catgut is made from the entrails of sheep. Whalebone is not bone and is said not to possess a single property of bone. I'ompey'a pillar had no historical connec- tion with Pompey in any way. Black lead is not load at all, but a com- pound of carbon and a small quantity of iron. Cleopatra's needle was not erected by the Egyptian queen, nor in her honor. 'The tuberose is no rose, but a species of olyanth. German silver was not invented in Ger- many, and does not contain a particle of silver. Turkish baths did not originate in Tur- key, and are not hatha, only heated oham- bers. Cuttle bone is not bone, but a kind of chalk once inclosed in the fossil remains of extinct epecimenu of outtletisb. Sealing-wax does not contain a particle of wax, but is oomposed of Venice turpen- tine, shcUao and cinnabar. Burgundy pitch is not pitch and does not come from Burgundy ; the greater part of it is resin and palm oil. Brazilian grass never grew in Brazil, and is not grass ; it is nothing bat strips of palm-leaf. . ♦^ A Good Combination. Mrs. Marrywell-Ah, Jennie, I under- stand you are going to marry a second hus- band. Miss .Tennie, who haa cboson a widowerâ€" Yes, but I'm a ready maid, you know, and the combination won't be so bad. Mrs. Marrywellâ€" Ah, I see, a kind of a miss-flt establishment. â€" IVaihinyton Critic. _ Free Medical Advice. " Now, doctor," he aaid, as he joined the medical gentleman in the street, " in the case of a man who oan't sleep at night what wonld yon advise?" "I wonld ad- vise him to sleep in the day-time." " What Shall I Write About 7" Graduate college department of journal- ism â€" " I've come to join your staff. What shall I write about ?" Editor " Bight about face 1" â€" Journaliim. PKN PIOTUBIC OF TIBKBIAS. ,,-t One of the " Holy Cities " of the Jewsâ€" An Old SynsKOKoeâ€" Belles. Hebron, Jerusalem, Baled and Tiberias became the " holy cities " of the Jews after the itoman persecution had ceased somo- what. The Sanhedrim was at Tiberias fot a number of years. Thirteen synagog les were here at one time, each one having a school connected with it as certainly as '.bo present charcbeshave their Sunday schools. A Jewish school of languages became tbo centre of the Jewish faith. To learn Hebrew from a rabbi of Tiberias is even yet considered a great privilege. The ol(i synagogue carries one back 1,000 years. Its roof is supported by atone arcliea and columns. In the centre is a great cage-like inclosure, constructed ot wood which is dried and twisted by centuries of exposare, but yet as sound R.S when hewed from the log. This is tho reading place. Ascending the steps which lead to the interior, the rabbi opens tha scroll and begins to teach the intone. Tbo assembled congregation walk around tha cage, muttering and gesturing, some chim- ing in a high key or imitating the blasts of a trombone through the hands. Soir:a weep as they frantically throw up their arms ; others kiss their phylacteries »3 they fold and unfold tliem about the left arm and the head ; others march arourri snd beat time with their hands and feet. Any reference to the coming of tha Messiah excites them to frenzy. Littlo else remains in Tiberias to interest tha student. Kelics of the past arc fountl intermingled with the necessities of tho present. Disks cut from t!:a syenite columns of the old temple serve ns millstones to grind barley for the sens of Mohammed ; fine old porphyry uolumr.A are thrown upon the ground and hollowed out for public horse troughs ; tiireshi;:^ floors are paved with bits of frieze cbiseleii after Crecian designs paid for by Herod Antipas. The cattle are slaughtered in tha public thoroughfares; the streets are hope- lessly filthy ', the bazaars are unattractive; the people are depressed ; and, as the drago- man tolls us, "tbe king of tho fleas" ro- sides here. Yet here come tho pilgrim Jews to die, in order that their bones may rest close fo the tombs of their' wise men who have gone before ; some declare tha6 here the Messiah will appear. â€" Edirard h. WiUun in the Century. Oeiuetery Decomni. Mr. J. C. Olmsted, in <iitrileu und Forest, takes strong exception to the monumental monstrosities to be found in some modem cemeteries. He prefers the simple graves, such as are often to be seen near farm houses, bordered by wild fiowers, lying peacefully and unobtrusive, to the miracles in atone and iron fencing, often standing in inharmonious proximity in suburban burying grounds. How niuoh more ap- propriate modeat grave atones than the big, staringly white Egyptian obelisks, broken topped Greek oolnmns, Koinan urns, weep- ing Italian angels, Kenaissanee canopies, Gothic spires and all the other kinds of showy monuments, and whore all restful- iieas and sccluaion are annihilated by rows upon rows and scattering swarms of fac- tory-made, white marble grave stones, all set up on edge so as to be as conspicuous as possible, and looking as though thoy would bo heaved out of plumb by every frost. And as if all these white monun^onts and grave stones were not enough to frighten Nature into submission, innumerable fences are added, mostly of a sort which may he described as tbe " thia-ia-thu-most-show- you-can-get-for-your-money " cast iron fence. And, as iron mats into a color which is somewhat harmonious with nature, such a catastrophe is generally avoided by painting all iron work a gloomy black, or vivid white, or by gilding it, like a cresting over a ohromo tea store. The writer thinks that tbe managers of country cemeteries should establish a rule limiting fences to those that are necessary, and requiring these to be in comformity with some gen- eral scheme devised with duo regard to harmony with ami strict subordination to nature. There shall be a like subordina- tion to nature in all other artificial con- structions, such as retaining walls, bridges, roads, walks, gutters, steps, guide posts, vault fronts and so on. They should avoid formality and artificiality in all things and at all times, for they should romember that tboy have set out to make a rural cemetery and not an architectural one. The Population of Mexico. Possibly there are 1,500,000 whito men, properly so called, in Mexico, and, as I have shown, they nrie differentiated among themselves by climate. Then 'hero are mixed bloods to the number of about 2,500,000 approximately, and these, scat- tered over the republic, ditTerin many ways through climatic causes. Then comeabout 0,000,000 Indians, some very much civi- lized, some semi-civili/od and others bar- barous. Of tho barbarous Indians some are peaceful enough, and others, like the Chan Santa Cruz Indians of the Yucantan peninsula, are tierce and warlike. Tbe Yaqnis of Sonora may be taken as e.\ainples of semi-civilized Indians. These Indian races apeak dillerent languages, though many tribes use Spanish to a greater or less extent, according to tho measure of their contact with white men. Potatoes and Clgarx. The funniest thing in town, says the Lewiston, Me., .Journal, is the mishap of a gentleman whoso wifo runs tho store bill. He has been in the habit of having his cigar bill charged up as potatoes, and the other day bis wife took her pencil and be- gan to reckon. Sho finally found that they had eaten over ten carloads of potatoes tho past year and she just didn't believe that the account was right. The grocer and tho smoker are now between tho upper and nether mill stones, and it is hard to tell who will be palveri/.ed the finest at the close. For Cramps in the Leg. Many {wraons of both sexes arc greatly troubled with cramps in one or both theic legs. It comea on suddenly, and is very severe. Moat people jump oat of bed (it nearly always oomes on either just aftei: going to bod or while undressing) and ack some one to rub the leg. I have known it to last for hours, till in despair they wo.i! 1 send for the family physician, and even then it would be hours before the spasi:! would let up. There is nothing easier than to make thg spasm let go its hold, and it can he accomplished without sending for a doctor, who may be tired and in need of % good night's rest. When I have a patient who is subject to cramp I always advisa him to provide himself with a good strong cord. A long garter will do if oothin/} else is handy. When the crairip comes o.i take the cord, wind it around the leg over tho place that is cramped, und take an end in each hand and give it a sharp pull, one that will hurt a little. Instantly tha crump will let up, and the sLlfurer can go to bed assured it will not come on again t^at ujght. Fur tho permanent cure, giva about BIX or eight cells of galvanic battery, with tho negative polo applied over tbe spct that cramps, and the positive polo over t!.a thigh. Give it for ten minutes, and repeab overy wuok for a month. I have saved myself many a good night's rest simply by posting my patients subject to spasm of tho legs how to use tho cord as above. I havo never known it to fail, and I have tried it after they had worked half the night, and the patient was in the most intense agony. Even in such oases, at the first jerk of tha cord all pain left.â€"/?. H'. N(. Clair, M.D., in Medical Aje. TeachlDK a Wife Sense. Wife (counting over her change after making a purchase)â€" I guess lie's given mo the wrong change. Husband (savagely) â€" ( thought sCi I thought -o ; that's the way my hard-earned money goes. Trust a woman to got fooled. Go back to tho counter and get it made right at ones. Wife returns to the counter and hands tho clerk a â- ^2 bill. Husbandâ€" Why, what havo you boon doing ? Wifeâ€" Making tbe ohani;8 right. Hegave me &2 teo much. Husband (more savagely than ever) â€" Well, by jingo, you are an idiot. â€" Boston Courier. I'leasaiit. for the Doctor. .V medical missionary nearly lost hia lifo through an outburst of fanaticism at Foo- chow, China. It seems that the doctor, who was attending a patient with hemorr- hage, iinmediatoly procooded to check tho latter, in disregard of a native anporstition, according to which delay should have been made until tho patient's friends had finished consulting the gods in the joss- houBo. The patient died, and the Chincja would have boiled the doctor in oil but fot the courage of some of tho converts. The Lancet. Col. A. L. Rives, tho father of the young Virginia authoress, is a leading southern engineer, and up to about a year ago he was oonneoted with the Richmond and Danville Railroad. He thon accepted an important post on the Panama Ship Canal and soon after went to X'anama. The Sinallness of tlie Smnli. " I would like to start in some basiness with email- means," says a young man. Then, son, do you atart a daily paper. Your means will be too powerful small to heft after the fourth pay-day, and ao you mighft just as well have them as small as they can be strained to begin with. Bad Got Used to It. She wanted to take some lessons iit archery, but she was very, very verdant. " Have yon a bow and quiver ?" asked tha teacher. " Ye - ye â€" yes," sho hesitated, " I have a beau, but I haven't a quiver any more. He's boen coming for ibout two months now, and I'm used to it." Mrs. Oleveland sent a piece of her wed« dkag dress to her friend, Miss Lnoy CofBa, who married Charles DeKay in New Yorlc Monday. It was ia a oaso with two saltk cellars, in tho shapo of tiny shoes, made ot platinum and gold. Tim Williams, an old hermit of Lebanon, Conn., had a Wvo of been whiob swarmed on a huge apple tree. Fearing that they wonld escape he climbed tbe troe after them, but fell and broke his leg, stirring up tho bees in his descent. They followed him down and stung him to death.