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.^^*^. *- There Might be Two, Tbia one is sick ; bis wayw&rd (ate criei out AgaiuBt the leech, the calomel, the bed. Oh I inconsiderate person , cease to pout â€" You might bo dead ! And this one has the mittou ; he baa woood ; Vainly, alack, his wooint^ has sped. Wellâ€" even in this there's comfort, rightly viewedâ€" He might be wed 1 And hero is one who whines ; his all is swept Away in panic, he baa had to " (all ' He should, I think, be cbeerlnl, that he's kept bafe out of jail. But late I lost a twenty-dollar-billâ€" And did I wring my bauds that I had blun- dered 'I Not I, indeed ! I'm very thankful itill Twas not a hundred. Soctb, should I e'er capsize when walks are bad, And my Kood clavicle involve in wieck, Serenely. I should say â€" How very glad It's nut my neck. Oh! trust moâ€" Iwtter not to make ado At the few miseries of our commun lot. There's millions of emâ€" i( we only knew Iâ€" Wo haven't got. Au Adorable Crew. Lazily, slowl} drifting Down with the quiet stream, It seemed to me in my gladnesE That it all must be a dream. For Mabelâ€" uiy darling .Mal>elâ€" Was trying to steer the canoe, And as I lay there watching 1 fell in lovo with the crew. I thought bow pleasant it would be Toâ€" Thunder ! WOero are we now ? The canoe had gone dowu to the bottom, With a hole a foot long in the bow. MORK SIOTOEU THAN WIFIC Some Unpleasant Phases of Excessive Maternal Love. Tbero are two distinct kinds ol women in the borne â€" the one more wife than uiotber, the other more mother tbaa wife. We all Iluow boaueB where the woman either saori- fioea the haaband to the childrea or the ohildren to the baaband. Sometimes she SAcribces both to herself, and liomettmea the hasbaud joiua hands with her in ber "pbilo- progenitiveuesa" and makes the nursery the Deloa of the bouse and the schoolroom the Mecca uf the life. lu whioh case uu Xorttmately the chances are that the chil- dren are spoiled by beinj; made too much of â€" whereby they become seliisb and self -coa- â- ideriu);â€" while the interests of thepareuts, narrowed down to the dimensions of the home only, cause their inteUeots to suffer from the rust of disuse and the mildew of â- taguation. They become socially dull, and tiresome as companions. They are unable to talk of books or pictures, of politics or music, of science or travelâ€" in short, of things of any general interest. They can talk only of their children ; and the smallest events connected with them lake the dimensions of imperial interests on which bangs the fate of thousands. As infants you hear of their maladies, ur, it may be, while still unable to guide their hands to their mouths, of their sharp- ness and iutelliKence. Grown older and able to talk in that mysterious tongue whioh no one not initiated uuder- â- tauds, you bear of profound remarks prov- ing a depth of philosophy which promises a future Plato, to say the least of it. Growu and played with it afterwards ? And did be not give up his pernicious nicotine for the sake of the more preoioua life ? Bo it goes on, and the husband sinks into iusig- niticanceâ€" going farther and farther_ down in the heaven, where once he had been the vertical aan, till finally be passes out of sight below the horizon, and the wife cares for him no more than for a pair oi bands capable of writing cheques which keep the houae going. As time gees on and the olive branches increase the mother becomes mure and more absorbed in her children, and the wife dies daily more entirely to her husband. She keepa bcr sons at home as long as she can, and coddles them out of all reason and manliness. She dresses them eetliEticaliy, and takes care that their hair shfU be long and curling. When t! t time finally comes for the day school â€" rfhich dreaded time she cannot longer poatponeâ€" sba keepa them at home on the alight»»t pretuiiae and makes the master's life a burden to him by reason of her remonstrances against the length of their tasks and the severity of his impositiona. When they have finally to leave her for a more vigorous state of things she prejudices their standing iu the school by the absurd precautions which she takea for their iaolation from all chances of evil, and the spirit of exclnsive- nesB of superiority, of stand-offishness that she has so diligently fostered in them. If her sons escape the pita she has i^.ug for them and tarn out paaaable men, then are they to be congratulated on a good fortune not granted to all. It ia the same with ber daughters. When grown up and in- troduced, their pleasures connt for more than her hasband'a wiabea, health, happi- ness and very life â€" and she would rather he went bare of necessaries than that they should want superfluities. â€" London (/Men. THE SCIBMCK OF NAMKS. LANGUAGES NBEOIMG NU TONGUK. SAKETV IN HOUSE UKAINAGi:. The Dani;erH Involved In Ignuranve ut Sanitary Principles. In his census reports, Dr. Billings esti- mates that, iu the United States, one hundred thousand deaths occur every year from strictly preventable diseases alone. This is unquestionably a very moderate estimate, and, if there are reckoned also twelve cases of serious illness for every death, we see what a great amount of suffer- ing resnlta from ignorance or sanitary prin- ciples. Bat how is this ignorance mani- fested? Are not our architects competent tu deal with the problem of household sanitation '/ It will be aaid, perhapa, that it is the province of the architect to direct the entire work of house-building, and to arrange every detail of the fittings. But it should bo considered that the science of sanitation is broad and comprehensive. Yuara of atudy and of experience in sanitary work are necessary for a proper under- standing of the aabject. It is perhaps un- fortunate that there is so little in the severe and unpleasant details of this work to com- mend it to those whose tastes have led them to the study of the more attractive principles of artistic construction and the science of iojtbetics. An architect should have the hand of an artist, bat there are few men whose nature ia ao broad ad to combine truly artiatic tastes with a love for the details of difficult mechanical work, for undertaking scientific research. It is the province of the engineer to enga,;u in ai3 occupation ot this kind. His natural inclinations and his rigid training in scientific parsnita fit him especially for the direction of matter* relating to drainage and sewage dispoaal. â€" Popular ScietKi ilonthlij. • older still, their prowess in the cricket field, involving the necessity their successes at school, their superior cotnprebonsive ani scien attainments generally form the statjjs of parental conversation â€" of all the life of the father and mother â€" and when the last of the nestlings' plumage has been shedâ€" the last chip of the egg-shell has fallen offâ€" and the children have become the yoang people uf their generation, that parental iuturcat increases rather than diminishes, and the absorption ia even greater. When the husband docs not join bands with a wife who ia more mother than wife, he has a bad time of it. To the ordinary man children are delightful playthings while they are little â€" leeches to be fed with the blood of gold, when, grown older, they need much and demand more. But for the moat part they occupy a subordinate place in real life, and are included in the mass rather than made the apex of the whole. To such a man as this their advent often proves but a <|uestionable kind of blessing if hia wife is one with whom the children eclipse the husband. He married for personal oompauionahip, for aympatby of tastes and pursuits, for general pleasant- ness of association \ and for the first few months he seemea to have found all that b- desired. Uis wife was sweet and com- plaisant ; ever ready to walk with him, ride with him, read with him, listen to him, talk to himâ€" ever ready to bo the companion he had pictured to himself as the summit ot human happi- ness. The lirst child destroyed tho whole \ scheme and broke up the plan of hia lifeâ€" dispeUing forever the rainbow colored dreams which youth and love bad woven for him. The woman he had married was more mother than wife ; and, from tho moment uf its birth, " baby" became the centro of her existence, and the nursery waif the throne-room of the house. Hence- forward the husband was but aa a dead planet revolving in its place, giving no joy, and of use only as a part of the general order, not as the great radiating sun of the whole system. Nothing now oan be done as heretofore. With the nervousness of a young mother, baby's exiatence seems to her to be daily and hourly threatened, and death is warded off only by incessant care. So far from feeling that nature is strong and the forces of conservation more power- ful than those of destructionâ€" given the moat ordinary wiadoni of managementâ€" the young mother thinka that on her un- al ppirii; vigilance alone hangs the frail thread of lite, and that if she relaxes for a moment thp enemy will be upon her dar- ling and tho groat thief will have atolen her treasure. The dinner has to wait if b»by has not gone to sleepâ€" who knows what direful mischanee may not ensue on this irregularity of the litllo creature's repose '.' Xhera can be no music iu the evening because the piano might awake the babyâ€" who would sleep like a top in tho midst of a battle or in tho heart of a storm. Even voices must not bo raised too high, laughter must not be too loud, doors must not be slauiniad with too brusque a motionâ€" nothing must be (lone void of the one thought- not to awake baby. The husband's whole homo! life is revolutionized. His cigar is taken \ away from himâ€" smoke is bad for baby : j and" to kiss baby with a tobacco-tainted j breath is to puiaou it. Did not a certain I The Mural Use of Wealth. If " an Knglishman's hell is not to be making money" as Carlyle so sivagely asserted, the .Vmerican people, under similar conditions, suffer the same torment. Kvery avenue of buijiness is now overcrowded, and the race for money-get- ting goes on with unparallelled speed. wbile the higher educational, judicial and clerical professions, whioh are comparatively underpaid, are neglected. The fact that a business career ia more easily entered upon than any other, that ita higher pri;-.ea are so great and comparative wealth so easily won, and that social and political preferment are so largely conditioned upon the possession of a large fortune, attracts lu a life of mere-money. making thoasands of young men whose abilities are far moro needed in the higher professions. While the pursuit of wealth is one of the condi- tions of the nation's prosperity, it is liable to the penalty of promoting materialistic views of life, inordinate love of gain among individuals, and a habit of m^^anucss in tho ordinary affairs of life. Avarice, greed of gain, and miserly hoarding or misuse of wealth are the penalties the race pays for its thrift. That these are very oerious penalties, having a disastrous in- tluenp.e upon national as ncll as upon individual character, is suliiciently clear. Nature always avenges herself upon the miser by narrowing his vision of life, dulling his sensibilities, and usually by ro- ducing his family to beggary at the end of three or four generations. In the widor sphere of national life the effect of avarice is seen in slow progress of art, literature and religion, and in what M. Kenan and Matthew Arnold have both lamented aa the condition of the middle claases of Kngland and the United States, " their intellectual mediocrity, their vulgarity of maimers, their superficial spirit, their lack of general intelligence." Such national defects can only be removed by the voluntary onliat- meut of individual wealth in the cause of education and religion. â€" Proviilcma Jour- nal < r.s.) â€" ^ ^ Mrs. Langtry'a new play for next season i3 called " .\ Love Story." Tbe genial autocrat is not appreciated by everybody in his own town. One day an .Vmerican gentleman went into a barber's shop as Dr. Holmes was going out. " Do you know who that was that just went out?" asked the barber. Being ouri'ju? to sen what account of Ur. Holmes the barber would give, the visitor shook his head. " Why," aaid the barber, " that's old Dr. Holmes." ".And who is Dr. Holmes?" " Oh, he's been a doctor here a great many years. 1 believe he ain't pranticui' any more, but he's thought a good deal ot." Kev. John Jasper, tho colored niiniator of Uichmoiid whose views on tho sun have inadj him celebrated, has been pruaching since 1840. Ho was a slave when ho pro- How to Bestow Graceful and Euplionlu Names on Children. Writers apend much time and thou;;ht in selecting a name for a play or novel, lor they know that success ia largely depend- ent on it. Parents, however, are strangely careless and unscientific in giving names to children. In the Harvard and Yale catalogues of last year I found but two or three really good combinations. Usually, when a new. comer arrives, some old family name is taken ; or if tbe parents exercise an original choice, they are too much ex- cited to be guided by any sound euphonic principles. Xhey forget that not only from Che aocial point of view it is very advan- tageous to have one's name remembered, but that from the business point of viow notoriety ia capital, and must be obtained by persistent and ingenious advertisin;'. But if a certain amount of notoriety couid be obtained for John Smith by an expenditure of time, money and ingenuity represented l»y x, and spread over a period of three years, it is safe to Bay that the same amoimt could be obtained for Hans Arrowsmitb by x--l in eighteen months. Nor is the saving of time or money on tbe part of the knocker at the gate of notoriety the only thing to bu con- sidered, for, from the altruistic point of view, the lesseuing of the effort of recollec- tion on the part of the world iu fur mora important. The economy of the public stock of energy wabted in innumerable nnconsoious efforts to remember a name witboat any comers for tho memory to grasp, but persistently thrust before it, would result in an increase of available mental force applicable to settling the ({uestion of future probation, or to raising the ethical standard, or tc reforming tho tariff, or to dispoaing of the surplus. The importance of the subject leads me to snggeat one or two of the chief fundamental principles of the science o^ naming ehUdren. The system ia simple, and any provident parent can easily maater and apply it. 1. Avoid odd, or eccentric, or poetic com- binations, and be guided oy euphonic (juality only. It ia true that nn odd name may be rememlered, but the aEsociationa with it will not be pleasing. The idea of oddity of affectation may attach to tbe shadowy personality built up in the mind of the public. Under this rule, hyphenated names, especially hyphenated Christian names, like Floyd-Jones Kobinson, are to be avoided. Writing the first given name with an initial and tbe second in full ia also evidently o^iposed to correct scientific principles. '2. Tbe beat form of name is a dactyl and a spondee, like " Jeremy Taylor." Every one haa heard of the " Shakspeare of divines," and has a dim ideaot an agree- able personality attached to thename. Had his name been Charles Ta\ lor, it is far within bounds to say that his reputation would be abont one- third of what ii ia now. â- i. If the surname la not one that can be treated according to the above rale, it shoald be fitted with a given name, such aa to bring t)-e combination aa nearly as possi- ble to the above length and cadence, aa Sidney Dobell, Ellery Vane, Htiiry Ward Beecher, Dante Itossetti, Theodore Watts and the like ; or, otherwise, to two long syllablen like Mark Twain o: ilret Harte. 'jL'he Bubdi' 'sions of this branch of tbe sub- ject are too numeroos to be givon, but all rest on principle No. 2. The phonic value of tho surname is, under our system, the controlling element in practically applying the science of names. The great value of names beginning with Mac or O is evident, because thay so readily oonibine with the ordinary Chris- tian names. .Vny one would bo favorably disposed to Arthur O'Connor, for instance. A boy pervades our quiet neighborhood sim- ply because his name is Johnny Mac- Worter. Ue is not in any respect a re- markable boy, but bis name forces bim into prominence by its phonic value. There are some ten or twelve boys who are com- rades, but he and another daotyl-spondee boy, Emory Watson, are tho only ones ever spoken of. No doubt there are others who do as mnoh mischief and make more noise, but these two reap all the fame. â€" Atlantic Monthly, Method .Artlcnlate Whistllni;, the ifVu and Flneer t<peech. At the last meeting of tbe Berlin Anthro- pological Society Lieutenant Quedenfeldt, a German officer who has lived on Gomero Island, one of the Canary group, described a whistling language which is used by the inhabitants. The language does not consist of any arbitrary seriea of signals or aoimds. It is described as ordiuaty speech translated into articulate wh' tliug, each syllable having its own appropriate tone. The Gomero uaea both fingers and lipa when whiatling, and Lieutenant Queden- feldt anaerta that he can carry on a conver aation with a neighbor a mile off, who per- fectly underatanda all he is saying. The practice is confined to Gomero island, and is quite unknown to the other islands of the archipelago. The adoption of tho whist- Uug language is said to be due to the pecu- liar geological construction of Gomero Island. It is travaraed by numerous gullies and deep ravines running out in all direc- tiona from the central plateau. Aa they are not bridged they can only be creased with great difficulty. Hence a man living within a stone's throw of another in a straight line haa often to go many miles when he wishes to see and speak to his neighbor. This, it is conjectured, led to the adoption of whistling as a useful means of communication, which has gradually assumed tho proportions of a true substitute for speech. It is described as being anything but unpleasing to tbe ear. This reminds one, says the Si. Jamrs' Gazette, of the dram language of tbe natives of tbe Cameroona, mentioned in Bucholz'a book on Weat Africa, by meaua of which the most complicated messages can bo con- veyed to villages at a distance when occa- sion neceasitatea it. For tbia purpose a peculiar shaped drum is employed. By dividing the surface into uneven halves that instrument, on being struck, may be made to yield two distinct notes. By these, and shortening and lengthening the interval between each note, a code is established with a regular sequence of taps, strokesand intervals, capable of exprcasing every syllable in the language. All the natives understand this code, and so highly elabo- rated ia it that a chief can, by its means, summon to his presence any villager whom he desires to aee, intimating to the latter at the aame time the purpose for which he ia re<inired. In thia way, too. messages can be sent from village to village over wide stretches of country, the drummer iu one hamlet transmitting to tbe next the signals he hears, and with extraordinary rapidity. Bucholz had proof on one occasion of the utility ot this drum language and its capa- bilities aa a medium of communicatiou. The negro who bad charge of his canoe ob- tained leave one morning to attend some private business of his own, which took him to tbe other aide of the river. Tho man remained away an unreasonable time and BuchoU got angry, as be was waitiug to leave the place. Another negro suggested that they shoald drum for him. The drum- mer was sent for and instructed to inform tbe missing servant that his master was angry with him and that he was to return at onoe. In a few minutes tbe man re- turned with the inevitable apologies for the length he had been away. Ue had per- fectly understood the message drummed out to him, as Bncbolz ascertained by in- quiring of him. Equally carious is tho socallcd sign language or finger speech of Oriental traders, largely employed nn tho east coast of Africa in the direction of Zanzibar. Walking through a market plact in this region of the world the traveller will often witness a strange sight. A couple of grave, long- bearded Arabs will atop aside, each will put his hand np tho other's sleeve, and they will then begin apparently to pinch each other's fingers foi a few minutes. Often the performance will be varied. One will unroll hia long turban cloth, or perhaps lift up bis long mantle and then cover his hand, and concealed beneath this the pinching of the fingers will proceed as be- fore. THE KING UF M'< It Still Holds the Throne Cumpetitora. The steam engine is first, time the king of motors, " throne against all comers should not those who live i it learn something of the nia». No doubt many are deairo^ and the very first step tn knowledgs of steam and stem read*what"othera have disc YounH men, eapeoially, w that the*fiay of squirt-cau . . gone by, aftd the demand - can run enginea underatan some knowledge of the prim^ The demand may be loss i< than in others, but the day when engineers will havi fact, not in name. Mi be tolerated who canu better record than: "Thin John Smith is a sober mn. there are no books which tf pure and simple. There nev and there never will be one w an engineer out of a tramp. • who happens along. Au > product of time, eiperienc that covers him in all lines to get an experience, and >» he most get that of others get bis facts correctly fron. head, and not from gadai threshing machine engine, get facta about steam engim mon philosophy, for the - controlled by laws written in physios. There are no i- therein; there is no part . must turn thia cock or op' nothing in common pbilo-. when a boiler ia going to bu • words; but in the laws of â-  pheric action, in the behn under certain conditions, tin: instruction which he cam < and which enable bim lu cidties which fioor others. â€" U t :.-ulnBt Alk â-  4nd all th» , 1 holds the Now, why 'ttending to I hey serve? ' doing so, ^ d gaining a iigiue" ia to d '. lut it. '. ciii'inbet .;.uet.riu|ihA* •r :i;.:a wh© ,ly, o.- 'with IS involved. ae sections .lot far off bo suub ia Mill no* show a rtifios that etc. Now, ' ngini^ering ' A-as a book n can make . liaiidy man iineer i'l tho iiid study â€" ' I takee time ' I one gets it ia<> ; he mask :ae focntain . H around » . he place to ^ - in a com. tai engine is V ry book on • .'ters on it I icb eaya one 1 that valve; • iiy tells one c so in many >;, of atmoa- r of water L:;,>ineer tiudi ;o without, • » over diffi- iHijEngiiuer. Ckiil<lreB's Lunches. .\ child at play from uiui ..;. until ni^ht, in tho open air, will mak> A Reporter's SUenre, The Duke of Cambridge wa3 through Liverpool lately, and his presence there recalled to an old newspaper man. who was there when the Dukevisited it last, a rather amusing story. Tho Duke of Cambridge, Mr. Cardwell and several other distinguished men were to dine with the Mayor at tbe Town Hall. Their apeeohes wero expected to be of European importance, and great interest attached to the occasion. Owing to tbe great attendance the Mayor could find room for only one reporter. There was much protoat on the part of tho press, but it was of no avail. An expert reporter named Murphy waa aelectod for tho work, and arrangements A-'ire made to supply all England with his report, which ho waa to dictate, when the ban(|uet was over, to a dozen stenographers ; but Mr. Murphy had been treated with the utmost diacourteay by the Town Hall oflicialB. Ho was placed apart from the guests, and waa either supplied with a aeat among the pots and pans of the waitera, or in an orchestra occupied by the fiddlers. However, he took his revenge as well aa his notes. When he returned to his office, where a dozen reporters wore await- ing him with breathless anxiety, be smiled benignantly upon them and told them to go homo. "Go home,' gasped a celebrated editor, " what do you mean ? Have you not got the report ? ' " I have taken down every syllable," said the re- doubtable Murphy, " hero art; my notes," slapping his pockelbook, " and thoro thoy remain. I have been grossly insulted and not a line of tho speeches shall ever ace print." Ho waa as good aa hia word, and so far as England and tho world wero oon- oorned tho great men at tho Town Hall might have uttered their words of wisdom, congratulation and warning in a thunder- storm from the top of Snowdon. â€" //irerpooi Past. •^ American mother writo her experiences in , fi 8.ied Christianity, and his first roligioui this lUrectiou ? Was not her child con- \ labor wos performed amonf! hia fellow tinually poisoned by its father who smoked \ workmen iu a Richmond tobacco factory. A Rirer uf Hot Water. The great Sntro Tunnel, out to relieve tho celebrated Comstock mines at Virginia City, Nevada, of the vast quantitiea of hot water which are encountered in tbem afforda an outlet tu r2,000,000 toua every '21 boura, or about 3,000,000,000 gallons Some of the water, as it finds its way into tbe mines, has atemperatnroof I'.ij degrees, while four miles from the month of the tunnel the temperature rangee from l;iO degrees to 135 degrees. To obviate tho in convenience which wuuld arise from the vapour MUch a vast quantity of water would give off, the flow is conducted through the entire tunnel, four miles, in a light flume of pine. At the point of e\it tho water has lost but seven degrees o^ heat. Sixty feet below the month of tbe tunnel the hot water is used for turning machinery belonging to the company, from whence it is carried off by a tunnel eleven hundred feet in length, which serves as a waterway. Leaving the waateway tunnel, tho water tlowa to tbe Carson Kiver, a mile and a half distant. This hot water is being utilized for many purpoees. Tbe boys have arranged several pools where they indulge in hot baths. The miners and others use it for laundry pur- poses, and arrangements are being made whereby a thousand acres belonging to the company are being irrigated. It is pro- posed to conduct tbe hot water through iron pipes, ben<>,>th tbe surface of the soil near the roots of Ihonaands of fruit trees which are to be planted, and iu a similar manner give the necessary warmth to a number of hot houses to be naed for the propagation of early fruits and vegetables with an \ h- healthier , upon the It will then 1 tbe table 1 oleaaing, as •â- ill heartily istress that meal to be V assuring ohability of >.- ilishus set ij always sieian and e-. children, lis, and tho ' .illowed our ,.is. and they ver allowed .â- -re all good : .liiren bavs I are hold- he profes- client babita, Miticn from Ihe Biinoy- g from the uinerablo ; : 'or rc.ding, . uiigry child not be set aside; the untidiness that nr:si follow tho preparations of even plain br- >! »nd butter for one, two or three childt ii : the extra steps required from eithei -ervant or parent, these alone make >, iiuiig plea against such a habit ; but w n we con- sider tbe violation ot the whoi dietary sys- tem, and all the evils that st„ i waiting to give them a grip of their piio-hment for their indulgence, we cannot hi u crying out against tbe evil and urge a uer under- standing of all lawa of digosli â- < and what is quite as important, uf i luestiuu. â€" Good Uuusekeepiny. incredible amount of food, i for so doing ; but let it ragular hours for taking it enjoy the bleaaing of comim: hungry, for that certainly i i tboae deprived of an appetit teatify. Nor is it any sign • they are clamorous for th served, their keen appetites you that there ia not mncli complaints being made uf before them, provided tij. enough. A prominent i Burgeon once said of bis who were then well- grown s picture of health ; " We m- i ohildren to lunch between m , were all good eaters ; we them tea or coffee, and the> sleepers." All those same since graduated from collet- ing high positions today . > aional world, robuatand uf though inheriting a frail ec a mother who died yonni^ ances and discomforts ari~ habits ot lunching must bt- thu intorrnptions of your tiu:<; sewing or aocial calls by " demanding attention that m i ourts. iiineni'e in 1 1 a Berlin of crooked I'l' aligliteat f inks are i iiio ropy. ' ; brnwn lUek. The oil tod to a (lA^iea con- A Heroine. At Pnn.\atawny, Pa., last week, a littlo lad not 3 years old somehow got in front of tho railway train, and, v/hile Oi-hor onlook- ers held their breath in horror, Mis.q Chanler, young and pretty, ruobed up and at imminent risk caught him from almost beneath tho whccla and fainted amid tho chcera evoked by the hcroio act. Stately Under Difficulties. St. Louis man (witnessing " Julius Cn-'sar ") â€" Do you notice, my dear, with what stately grace Bratua moves about ? Wife â€" Y'es ; and be is in hia nightgown, too. It's wonderful '.â€"Harper's Bazar. That Dreadful Koise. Sunday morningâ€" Littlo Minnieâ€" Oh, mamma, what is that dreadful noise up- stairs ? Mamma â€" Hueh, darling ;i t's papa trying to save the pric^ oi a shave. Tho monument of Sir Bartio Frcro on the Vli'toria i mhinlc-Hnr. London, con 8i>Ui ul a heroic sIzlU statuo on a granite pedestal It feet high. The iiedostal bears the words "India" and "Africa,"' each within a wreath of oak leaves. Pliotoj;raphy In Criminal I Photography ia gaining )' criminal courts. With ita li merobant waa receiitIyconvici< waya in keeping hia accounts, differencea in color and shai" made manifeat iu the pbotoKi . Blue inks appear nearly wi inks, on the contrary, almoai â-  books of the accused were auio photographer, who took otT the cerned and brought into conn ibe most undoubted ocular proofs of th>' illeKitimate after-entry of some of the accounts. A aubseiinent chemical test subxt tioiated this evidence. The photographic in to be pre- ferred to tbe chemical test, because it brings ita proof a into the courts iind aab- mita them to inapcction, at th' ~«i e time leaving the document under 'Xkitriiiation unharmed, while the results ci 4 chemical test must be taken on the evic. ore of tbe chemist alone, and the writint< xtmined ia perhapa deatroyed. In another < >i«c similar to the above the changing of iln' date of a note by an inaignificant crasiir, und ad- dition waa proved by nioaiic uf photo- graphy. ^ Oriental Deutistry. I bad slept littlo, aa I »'^h suffering greatly from a toothache. Tii<- sheik de- clared that there was a skil III I'Mitist in tbe encampment, and as th, pain was almost unbearable I made up in. mind to put myself in bis hands rather tliaii eniure it any longer. He was accordiiii;ly sent for. He waa a tall, muacular Arab. His instru- ments consisted of a short knife or razor and a kind ot iron awl. Hj bade me sit on the ground, and then took my head firmly between his knees. After cuitirg »way the gums he applied the awl to the rotirs of the tooth, and, striking tbe other < n J of it with all his might, expected to see ilie tooth fiy into tbe air. But it waa a doiiiil. one, and not to be removed by such means from the jaw. The awl slipped and iimilr a severe wound in my palate. Ho iimiHted on a second trial, declaring that he eoulil not but succeed. But the only result whm that ho broke off a large piece of the tooth, and I had suffered sufficient agony to decline a third experiment. â€" Karhi .Ulr.nliirrx in I'rrsia, Siisidml and lUibijhtni : s'lr Ihnrtj Layard, ^ Ei'I.son's girl baby is saiil to have tbe privilege of expressing her vi. vs to the phonograph onoo in every thr. u months and tho record is to be kept f^ i her so that when she becomes a woman she will know what kind of a child she was.