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T M p T- »• ^ ., WfllPPfiD THEM AGAIN. I, .^y w fill Nil uit '..'if i-.v, )"1H| \ Digna Defeated by " Black Men" and Egyptians, m THE LOSS ANU TUE PRISONERS. A liOudoD cable asya : A despatcli from Boftkiui aaya s featuru of the li|{htiii|{ >eb- terday was the determiDed rash upon the trenches by tb(< blaoka aud Ej^yptiaus. The Dervishes fought with the atmoHt bravery, a gr.-at many of them dyiu^ in the treuchea. The cliar(<o of the liausara ia •lau eit|>ecially ineutioued. When the Der- vish cavalry eaw them coming they dia- inoanted from their horses and planted their apoara in the ground, but these proved no obdtruction to the Ilasgars, who swept down upon toe Dervish horaumen like an avalanche, cut throutjh their ranks and left half of them dead upon the ground. The IIuBBara then re-formed and charged the remainiuK Dervishea, who Had. A lart<e portion of the rebel force waa not en^af^ed in to day'a fighting, being abaeut aamping at Uaudoub and the wells be- yond that place. It ia believed the rebels will bo rt:inforced and make an attempt aoon to retake their lost position. .\ despatch to the Timet from Buakim says : The prisoners say they believe that all the mounted gunners were killed. All tell the aaine story of privation and craelty at the hands of the Mahdi aud Osmau Di^ua. None of them wished to tight, bat were forced to do ao or persuaded to light by promises of loot at Kuakim and other re- wards. The trenches were bare. They found no food, clothing or money, but only Suider riflea and cartridges. The priaoner's know nothing of the reported capture of Kmin, or of the fall of the E(iQatorial I'ro viaoea. The natives assert that Uandoub would fall at the first approach of our troopa. Tiio Government ought not to loan thia chance. The taak is an easy one, as there ia not the slighteat uign of any gathering of the lo'.:al tribaa. An ollicial despatch from Gen. Orcnfell, dated Huakicn, 11. '.'5 a.m., says : The eoemy's loss wag 400. The Ilnssars are â- till piirHuing the Arabs ; the trcmhea are nearly ruled and two temporary rodoubiu are bein,; built. The juint forces art en trenchfU. They will bivouac on the field to-night, tiio naval detachment with the machine g'.ins remaining in the trenches. 1 have sent the inaucif-war K'.arling and all the available steamers to anchor off Han "loub in order to prevent a force from Ilan- doub coming upon ua. During the action the Dervidbes were ao badly punished that â- me expect to have a ijaiet night. Afternoon -The lliii^aars who followed the fleeing Arabs have returned. They ohased the enemy to within four miles of liandonb. They were s'.ill ruunijg. Three /.trebau iind a stockade were built over lillul trencbij and inaniied by four Hoadani n» l.nltaliuns and liritieh soldiers. The apacj l«twecn them and llio water forts was ox-upled by a battalion of horeo artillery. The Emir of Triukitat ia a prisoner. He is wounded. Osman Digna's nephew and twelve Dervishes have been captured. All were wounded. Serious com. plaints are made concerning the ijuality of the sabre* and revolvers furnished to the troo|n Stivural cavalrymen returned v/itli broken nabres, aii'l in many instances their revolvers bei-anie i logged and wore rendered nselt'ii.^ Loiil Kalisbntv, in his Koarborongh â- pt'ccli, Kniii the Ministry had no intention of oni»rit:lit)g the loimtry in a new Soudan cxpciliii in, lint til, yriiiikl not abandon Sua. kim. Thi; lOnglitili, Egyptian and Turkish Ministries were unanimously of opinion that Siiakini must not he abandoned. Eord 8ali»i)iiry i:untinueil : " As long as the Klie. dive iie«irea it we shall maintain the Ked Koa portH. Wo are bound under the pro- mise made by Mr. (iladatone's (iovernment to do so. A British statesman's tlrst duty IS to prevent fort igners from thinking that every change of (iovernment must necos- aarily nn an the changing of our foreign policy. It would be inadneau t(i surrender Kuakim when we are on the eve of euppreaa. ing slavery, because the tinul struggle with the slave dealers must be fought u^n the ll-'l Sea. I!y the Treaty of I'aris we are L<r>iii.t to n|iliold the integrity of the Bui- tan'f, Empire." Ilurr Diltliy, the director of the German I'liiKt Africa Company, has returned from Ztn/.ibar. He denied that the company ia rexponaiblo for the rising in Kaat Africa, whi>:li he attributes to the slave dealers. lie regards the assumption of Imperial â- ovsrejgnty in East Africa as an imperative neoeaaity. IVIiir(li!r«>il 111 tlie Streets of Ijonilciii. A liondoii cable says: The body of a woman, whose name is unknown, waa found yesterday morning in the atreeta of Poplar, in the euburbs of JiOndon. An empty phial lay alongside the body, and the impreaaion lirst formed was that the woman had committed suicide. At the coroner's imjiiesl today, however, the phy- lioana who t xamined the body testitled that there were no tigns of poison in the â- tomacli, and declared their belief that the woman had been murdered by strangula- tion. They said the condition of the tiidy jnslitled this belief, and in addition to that there was a mark on the woman's nech, which showed that a small cord had been tied tightly around it. The woman waa of low character. When the body was found it waa still warm. It was lying in an open thoronghfare, and thi re is no possibility that the woman could have taken her own life. Homo persons believe her murderer IB identical with the Whiteolinpel liend, who, they think, liaa adopted a new method o( dispobing of his viutims. BOB WINTOM'S FOETUNE, The VanilerblU Htyle. Family Man What is the rent of this hooeo ? Uenting Agent â€" What salary are you getting a month 7 Family Manâ€"One hundred and ten dol- lar*. Renting Agent â€" Well, that will be tho rent. â€" St. Paul Piniietr. Didn't Want to See Her. Bobbyâ€"" Come and play with me Johnny. Jobiiny-" I can't." Hobby â€" " Oo and ask yonr mother." Johnny â€" " No, I won't ; she's been look- ing for me all morning." .â€" ♦ • Women diatrnat men too maoh in general and not enooyh in particular.â€" Oommerion. Eomantic Story of the Scapegrace Son of a Eiob Sootoh Lord UK UKOVE A OAK IN JEKSBV OITT. A New York deapatch says : A Jersey City street car conductor has blossomed oat as a fulMledged heir apparent to an English earldom. Something more than a year ago a young man of about 20 years appeared in fashionable circles in Brook, lyu. Ho waa known as Bob Wintou. He was remarkably handsome and seemed to have aufUcient meana to live in good style. He immediately became a favorite amon(; marriageable girls and their mammas, and it id said that some lacerated hearts Btill amart froic the efl'ecta of the wounda he inflicted. Rumor had it that tho youn(4 man belonged to an honorable English family and that hia coming to America waa the result of a family unpleasantneas. Tho handsome Briton attended tho horae races and won considerable aums. Then he became addicted to cards. At firat he was lucky, then fortune frowned, he ran short of money and began to dissipate. One ni^lit he visited New York with some companions. In an uptown resort he became involved in a dispute with some rough fellows, was assaulted aud badly need up. Hia companions escaped from the place and the Englishman was not seen in Brooklyn agaiu. It appears that he was removed from the gambling house where the row occurred, to a hospital, from which ho emerged a week later with, out a cent in his purae and his pulse still weak. Feeling keenly his position, and ashamed, in his battered and dilapidated state, to return to his former quarters, he concluded to seek new fielda. Accordingly, he croaaed over to Jeraey city and secured a pouitioa as conductor on the Montgomery street railroad. Ue assumed the name of Bob Hunter. Ueaeemed much aobered by his experiences, and btuck manfully to his work. Ho was eociable, and became a favorite among the employees. A while ago •' Bob Hunter " again dis- appeared, but in his room at a cheap board- ing house have been found letters which explain his identity aud the cause of bis eccentric movements. It appears that " Bob Winton " is none other than the eldest son and heir of Archi. bald William Montgomery, tho Earl of Egluiton and Winton, whose elegant country seat, Eglinton (Castle, ia situated at Irvine, in .Vyrshire. Tho young Baron, although a scion of one of the oldest and noblest English families, was a scapegrace himself, and although heir to all the vast estates of the united faniiliea of thi' Egliu tona and Wintons, was the black sheep of the tlock. Hia follius K d to exile and hi^i appearance in New York. His return to lOngland was due to the receipt of a letter of forgtveneaa from his father. ^ • WHO <»WNH THK TIMKS ? All Iin|iorlaiit Qiimliua In tlie TIiikh I'Mriiell Neut«-li Ciue. A London cable aaya : In tho caseof Mr. I'arnell againat the London iimei, the court yesterday considered the proofs of tho validity of the arrestments which had been made by the plaintifl. Two IMinburgh advertibing agents leatilied that the plain- tilT had arrested small sums which they owed the limit. Neither witness knew who tho proprietors of tho Timfi were. Their remittances were made to Mr. Wright, ime of tho proprietors. Mr. Hay man, represent, ing the registrar of newapapera at Someraet House, proved that Mr. Walter was now tho registered proprietor of tho Tiiiii'!< in behalf of himself and others, the TiiinH' aolicitora having written that there would ba great ililliculty in registering tho names of all whom the Act might construe aa pro- prietors, because some of tho proprietors were minors, some were married women, and some resided abroad. They also said that in many oases the interoat held waa very small. Mr. Walter testillod that he had given no authority to reiciater him aa the proprietor, but ho had expressed willingnoaa to act aa regiatcrod proprietor. Ho did not have a lint of the proprietors. His own interest in the TimfH was one-aixteenth and a half of the otlicea. The printing busineas waa his, Mr. Soames, tho 7'imci' solicitor, said there were a hundred proprietors of the Timet. Tho court adjourned to enable the solici- tor to produce a list of the proprietors. ^ HE IH URIVINQ MULES. FroKHir H«i|Ui:l la One of the Most Ko- iiiaiitle of Keeeut Kl(ipeiU4MitH. A few weeks ago the Chicago papers con tained accounts of the elopement of Mids Roach, the 1',1-year old daughter of a mil lionairo capitalist of that city, with a young clerk named Cunningham. The young lady, it seeiiia, was a society belle, and the marriage created the uiinal nine-day gobuip in a large circle of friends and acijuaint aiices. Alter the marriage the young couple came to Kansas City, and for a few days boarded at a leading hotel. Their inonoy ruiiiiing out and no remit taiices coming from the wealthy but irate father, Cunningham was forced to seek work. All the work ho could lind to do waa as a street. car driver, and he is now swing- ing tho whip over a pair of metropolitan mules, and his little wife is keeping huuuH in a humble home on Charlotte street.â€" KdHsiu City con. Chicago Tribune. The liorr.irs iiT War. An old oHicor tells of a gruesome e.\ perienie on the held of (!hampigny alter the battle. Seeing oiio of the graved iggers pushing a body into a trench, vvhiiih he proceeded to lill up, he called to him that life did not aeem extinct. " Nonsense," waa the reply, " you evidently are nut accustomed to this acrt of thing. If we were to listen to them, there never would he a single one buried."â€" Ciiurisr det Etatt HitiH. .lust Like Him. He You don't mean to say another new hat I Where's bought you last week '.' She (much surprised) â€"Why Mrs. Parkins has one just like ii, I He (staggered) Oh, ah t ((s loft trying to understand ) you've got the one I my dear, In mediievftl timea it was the public crirr who went abrosd enumerating the goods that a certain merchant had for sale. WHOLESALE U ALPKAbTICE. Tbe Noclal Sore Which a Chicago Reporter Uaa Laid Uare. A Chicago despatch says : Tbe Timea has created an immense sensatiou by its exposure of the length to which malpractice is carried on by doctors and midwives. A reporter of that paper engaged a young woman to go with him to many doctors and midwivea. Lie* repreaeuted himself as brother of tbe girl and anxioua to aave the family from exposure of tbe oonseiiaencoa of her misconduct. A great number of the persona called upon consented to perform a criminal operation, stating there waa no danger in it, that they had performed hundreds such operations, that tiiey would provide a place for the girl to atay at and would entirely avoid publicity. The re- porter ao arranged it that both he and tho girl heard from every person called upon aome part of the answer suthcient to proceed upon. Tho Timet ia now publish- ing the names and addresses of the doctors and midwives called npon, with an exact report of their answers. In somo cases the physicians refused to have anything to do with the case. In others they refused, but sent the girl to other doctors, who, they said, would take the caae. So far the Timet has published the names and addr'.'Bsea of twenty-two doctors and midwives who agreed to undertake the job, and of five who would not. From statements alleged to have been made by two of the doctors a maternity hospital on Calumet avenne near Thirtieth street, and described as an institution in which clergymen and physiciaua are interested, is a place where malpractice is systemati- cally carried on. Tdo Chicago Medico- Legal Association ao<l the Chicago Medical Society have written to the Timf« com- mending its course, and aignifying their intention of bringing all the guilty persona tojudtico. Tho Timet promises still fur- ther discloaures. ^ A CANAIMAN OUCTOIC Bly«t«rluU'*ly MiiritereU la OetruU uu TiicH- 4lay Kvttuluir. A last (Wednesday) night's Djtroit despatch aays : Ur. Alfred E. Eoroyd came to Detroit from Mount Forest, Out., with his wife and throe childreu, in iHi^K, and located at 2tS'2 I bird Street. Last evening he was found dead in front of hia hoa«e, stretched out on the sidewalk. Neighbori discovered tho bodv, alarmed the ho'.ise. hold, notilied Coroner Lansing, and sent for Dr. J. H. Kennedy. Arriving at the house, Dr. Kennedy and the coroner care, fully examined the body and found fresh cunlusioiis on tho back part of the head, partially concealed by his hair. These wounds or hruii^es are such as may have been made by a bandbag or some kind of a blunt instrument, but not bucli as would result from a fall. About a month ago tho doctor was sandbagged and robbed of a gold watch and $10 in money, but last ui^^ht when found nutliing on his person apparently hal been disturbed or taken. A careful iuveitit{ation of the iniiiiediato surroundings disclo.-iod the fact that the doctor's footsteps could be traced in the snow leading towards hid house, while larger ones wero found coming from a pas- sageway and linally mingling with the doctor's. Dr. Dcroyd was a graduate of tliB Uoval College of Physicians and Sur- geons, London. Ho belonged to an old and uristooratiu family, and is said to have brothers in Montreal and Loudon who oc- cupy high stations in life. There is a inya- tery connected with hi^ sudden demise, which it is hoped and believed will soon be unravelled. MAKKVINU A CUILU. A (llrlitf liilrlanli 4'H,|i*li.il llltfi MltrrlUKe Wltli a Man uf Twenty- Four. A Lyons (N. V.) telegram says : A few days ago intense surprise was inanifeated when it was learned that Anna Davenport, 11 years of age, was married to Mr. Mc- Carthy, 21 years old. It is to day charged that Mrs. McCarthy, the mother of the bridegroom, exerted undue influence over the child to bring about the marriage. She has boon ariested. Uev. A. H. Htcarns, who performed the ceromony, is 70 years old and in very poor health. Ho makes the following Btateinent : "I was sent for to come imiqediately to Mr. Shears'. Upon arriving there I at first declined to marry them, as I thought the girl too young; but Mrs. McCarthy assured me that Anna was Hi years oldand that they must bo married, that it was necessary they ahould bo, that Miss Davenport's family demanded it, and BO 1 married them, although it seemed very i|ueer to me that her parents should not be present." It is hinted that wheu the ijues- tion of Mrs. McCarthy's undue inlluenco comes to be investigated a sensational story will bo evolved. ON THE NATUEE OF SLANG. A l>li,(;ri«c^4) ti> HiiniHliUy. A I'.oatoii despatch says: Tho most soandaldus episode in tho long history of Harvard University ia the terrible disgrace that yeaterday fell npon Prof. Henry Preble, assiHtant professcr of Greek and Latin, who was discovered in the act of e.oiiiinitting a nameless crime upon a young hoy. Devilopmeiits proved that such prac- tic(^^ had lung been the habit of tho dis- tinguished and heretofore highly-honored scholar. Details are impossible. The din- covery, resulting from the depraved man's own oareleasness, waa a tremendous ahock, not only to the faculty, but the entire city of ('ambridgo, where the news spread rapidly. There was no time for explana- tion given the disgraoed man. Ue was not ven allowed to resign, for Prof. Eliot aacertaining the trnthfiilncba of tho report, L'avo him only two hours to leave tho University grounds. I'rof. Preble haa taken refuge with his family, who ara doin^ their utmost to hush the disgraceful alfsir up. He Waa Fund of Hobh. An English lady travelling in a Parii railroad cur carried a pet dog in her lap. A French dandy b'wide her began to caress tho dog. " Well, air," said she snap, pidhly, " 1 must say that yon do ppear to he very fond of dogs !" " Madame," said ho, " I learned to love them during the eiege, and since that time I Bcaroely over eat anything elae I" Mr. W. (!. MoLood, of Woodstock, put iilTi in hia bank book and atarted down to the bank to depoaito it. Whenhereached the hank ho found only 915 and ia now pn/./,led to know what become of the other '9300. Where Some of the Coiumoneat Ex- lirBsaloDa UriKloated aud Huw They Have liven Freservcd. What IS alang ? The first answer to this would be : " Something vulgar," aome- tbiog to be avoided, sometbing of tbe vocabulary of the prize-riug, the bar-room and the stable. But that is not all of slang. It may be the " giving of nick- uameato thinga " and ideas, bat it is after alia genuine aud an intluential branch of speech. Some one defines it as one of tbe " feeders of what may be called a standard language," which, with little acruple, adopts and adapts the words it happens to want, but whether from technical terms or from a love of fun, it ia entitled to be treated with respect, like any other work- ing dialect. Slang ia a condenaation, the jelly of apeech, aaya the Mail and Exfrcts, and it developa itself, curioasly enough, along with the general laws of langaage. Thus it is of great use to the student. Our common language, our mother tonguo, ia a great bond, bat not so great aa is that familiar misuse to which we some- times put it when we freight it with our epithets and smiles. Ihe pablio ia no bad judge of any humor, yet it sometimes adopta a aenaeleaa bit of chaff, or a poor contemporary of the " meatier " alang, auch catch worda aa "walker," " Whoa, Emma," and the iniintiely ailly cheatoat being examples, Cbeatnui, as an e()aiva. lent for a stale joke, haa become very atale itaolf â€" in fact, moldy. There are the failurea, the abuses of the noble art of slang. It used to be a habit of etymolo- giata, when a word became troublesome, to altar it a little, ao aa to put sense into it. Perhaps thd beat exponent of asefal alang waa the adoption of the word contra- band aa expreaaiug a fugi tive negro. Uen. Butler ia to be accredited with the dis- covery that " contraband of war " applied to a runaway negro ; therefore he gave a new word to the langaage. The necessity of tbe occasion produced the word, and a contraband is a synonym for a colored mail at Washington to this day. Many of the English worda of the last century came from the gypsies. Thus kid- na[> comes from the napping or etealiug of a Kid, gypsy for child. Wheu we talk, therefore, of kidnapping an old gentleman for his motey, wo mistake the etymology of the work, unless he is in his second childhood. One sometimes travels far to lind out the meaning of a word. No one thinks he is speaking Italian when he says he " baa made a hasco." Yet it is the Italian fur tlask. Wny does it mean failure thuu ? Because the glass blowers of Mur- ranu, trying to make a piece of window or mirror-glass, and failing in the attempt, merely liluw or made a common Uask, or Qasco," with tuu bit of glass. So with fresco, which simply moans freab. The paint must be put ou for a fresco when the lime ia fresh. Fresco painting is fresh painting. Tho common slang word "mash" is fr^>m a beautiful gypsy word, "mafado," whi.jh meana "tj charm by tho eyes." These vagabonds by the wayside are re- aponaible for much beauty aa well aa dirt. Tlio word " loafer " comes from the Ger- man "land laufer " â€" a vagabond, an anaet. tied roamer over the country. Why should a man be called a spoon ? Why spoony wheu ho ia making love .' Simply because he ia a " loeilel," which also meana spoon. Tbe idiom ia also Swiss - German, " Liubu macht loeffel hob. aus manolisn jungeu Kuabcn Btolis"- " Love turns mauy u proud lad into wood to make a spoon of him." Ttio word boss comes from the low Dutch. Tho word boas means master. " .\ rum chap " ia simply a gypsy lad ; it has no relation to tho product of the still. A far-famed beverage, which inebriates more frei|ueutly that it cheers, has not to answer fur tho phrase ' he's a rum nn to look at.' It siuiply means heia a mauly man. Certainly, it is uot by literary dignity that we have to measure language in these days, and yet it iacurious how many slang terms are from the moat classic sources. To " nigg at whist" means to reni^, that ii Saxon tor deny. Pal ia a brother, and "conk " for nose comes from the sprouting fountain, the concha of the Romans. "I'owwow" comes from the Indians. It ia ouriona we Amorioana have no more of this hereditary • language of the red Indian tribes. A few years ago a wit declared that his antagonist was not " worth a tinker's exo oration," which waa thought very funny, until aomo other wit exclaimed : " What is a tinker's dam ? It has nothing to do with swearing. It is merely the daip or stop page, made of tlonr and water, with which the tinker stops tho gap he is nionding nntil tbe tin ur the pewter has cooled." When tbia bread pill is thrown away it iaa very worthlesj piece of dough. Hence its name and fame. It haa passed into a pro verb for worthlessnesa. It is much harder to trace the origin of a proverb, or to find out a ijuotation, than to follow up a word, liecause both are fre(|ueutly ijuoted wrong For instance, the "goose hangs high" is entirely wrong. It ahould bo : " For everything is lovely when the goose whangs high," meaning that if tho geese flying south utter their peculiar " whang," thou the weather is sure to be Que. Aa for i]uotations, many people sought lately for the familiar " Praise from Sir Hubert," and could not find it. The true phrase is " Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praije indeed," the line coming from " A Cure for tho Heartache," tho well-known old play. The time of Spain's glory as a sea-taring and all-comjaering nation is brought back to ua in words redolent of the Gold Coast and of the Spaniah main. " Boxing the compass " ooiuea from tho Spaniah " boxar," " boxuar," to aail round, to call at all points. Calaboose, a prison ; pica- roon, a pirate palaver, to talk, are all Spauish. The latter comes from the noble Spanish " palabra," meaning a word. The good dictionary word " vamp " was at fli.it, on tho contrary, a alang word, being rubbing up of old hata and shoea. Now, from being a cobbler's word, it has become a claasio, and we talk of revamping the language. It would aeem a natural way of aocount- ing for a slang word that it came through tho intorchangii of money. Thus, " I do not care a tap," or a stiver, recalls two old Dutch ooina. The word " dollar " ia hard to account for. No one seems to know whence it oame. It is probably Spaniah . The French argot is probably the rioh- est, most p«ealiar and perfect language of slang knovrn to civilized men. Those who have read Victor Hugo's novels have felt the need of Franciaque. Michel's " Ktadea de Philologie comparree aar 1' Argot" to understand half o{ that wonderful book. Demijohn comes from the Arabic dama- ghan ; itself taken from the I'ersian glaas- making town of Demagban. How it got twiated into its present shape tnmt bo re- ferred to that well known elementary pro- cess of langaage, or that Engti^^h habit of calling words aa they are not spelled, which seems a part of the lanuaage. Blang asaally increases its store of words by formation at home, by the necessity of the caae, by the happy inspiration of aome humorist, who haa found the fitting phraae, or by adoption from abroad. There are, however, words which come at night, apring oat of the groaud, aa it were, which cannot be traced. Thus "dude," meaning a dandy, haa no appreciable derivation. Like Topsy, it tjrowed. Blang, Uke other dialects, comes from the common people. A alang dictionary ia not very pretty reading. It ia primitive, to say the least, but alang ia etfective when it takes ready-made worda and adapts them skilfully to new ideas. It is eape- cially witty in the month of a retined per- son who naea the language of factories and stables and kitchens aud sbopa, of priise Qghtera and artisans, philologically, with a sense, nut only of its primitive meaning, but of its possibly funny application. Ame- rican humor as aeveloped by Mark Twain, Bill Nye, Bret Harte, and a thousand newspaper writers, is rich in this rollick- ing awag^^cr of strauge worda, reminding one of old Stefano aud Trincnlo, in " The Tempest," " witty in their cups." OFTEN SO. The Han >rho Waiita to Growl will not be LoDK W^lthoat an Kxetue. Uo was a large, elderly man, with an expression of discontent in his face, and when the porter bad deposited his travel- ling bag in a section of the altcping car tbe elderly man looked around at tbe venti- lators, then critically at bis neighbor across the aisle, and then he said to the porter : '• Whtra do we stop for aupper ?" " Dining. car on the train, sir," was the answer. " Is hey ; what time ia supper ready ?" " It is being served now, eir." " Is hey â€" h-m ; what time do we get to Albany ?" " Nine-Sfty." " Connect there with tbe train from Boston ?" " Yes, air." " Wail long .'" " No, sir ; only teu minutes." " U-m ; what timedo w« get to Buflslo 7" " Six. fifteen tomorrow niurniag." " What time doea the next train laave Buffalo for Cleveland after wo get there ?" " Bixforty, sir." Tbe elderly man looked over hia speota- clea at the porter for a momoat aud then said : " Want my ticket?" " No, air ; the couductor will take it by and by." " Il'm -doea that Cleveland train pass through Dunkirk '/" " Yea, sir." "What time?" " Six forty. three." " How big a town is Dunkirk ?" " About 10,000 inbabitatiti, sir." Tbe elderly man seemed to be annoy about aoruething, aud aa tho dialogue con- tinned he became more so. Ue eyed the porter again and asked : " What time does the train reach Krie?" " Three miuates past S, sir." " How maoh bigger ts Erie than Dun- kirk?" " About four timea, sir-" This concladed tbe interview. Tbe por- ter walked away aud the elderly gentleman aat down, bat he didn't seem to feel easy. He glared at the paasengera across the aislea, then he took otf hia overcoat, aat down and commenced reading the evening paper, but threw it aside almost ituinudi. ately, and rising again walked gloomily to the back end of the car and looked out of the window. Then he went back to his seat and aat there sullenly uutil the porter oame that way again, when he said : " See here, young man, if I take that H.40 train from Buffalo to morrow morning what oonneotion can I make at Chioago for a northwestern train that stops at Keuoaha, Wis.?" " I don't know, air." The elderly man eyed the porter fiercely for a moment through his apeotacles, then over them, and then he said aarcasti- oally : " You don't know !" " No, sir. You see " " I see, yes 1 see, you don't know I When a passenger asks yon a civil ((uestion- you dou't know. Great acott 1 Why don't the railroad companies hire wooden dum- miea and save e.vpense ? Sav, do you know beans wheu you sea 'em ? Do you know when it's night ? Why don't you travel around with your eyes open ? Say, why don't you juat one day ? I would if I waa yoa 1" .Vnd as the porter went quietly about bis business the elderly man took up his newspaper again. Ue seemed to feel more contented after that. â€" Detroit trie I'ress. # ClrcuinstaueeH Were Agalniit It. Proprietor of Cafeâ€" Come, James, let'a close up and go home. Jamesâ€" 'Fraid we can't, eir. Proprietor of Cafe â€" Why ? Jameaâ€" That party in room t haa just begun to siog " We Won't Oo Home Un- til Morning."â€" Jcwis/i Aleuemjer. Why Tamblera Were .So Called. They were originally round bowls about the aiza of a large orange. When one of theao bowls was empty, if placed upon the table, month downwards, so cunningly was it lialanced, it flew back into ita proper position, aa if aaking to be tilled again.| Ion. ioh|ba erf»tl Kashlons ou Rotten Kow, London. The aovere and perfect style whiol always charaoteri^^ed the dreas ol mi women riding in the Row ia paasini For women tho tall hat and pe: ntting dark habit and plain linen oollar and ouffa have been suoceedod by conioal and soft Tyrolesa hata, sometimes even deco rated with ribbons and feathers, and also gray tweod oapa and other styles. A woU dressed man on horseback is rare. .. ♦