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TBLBGKAPHIO SUMMARY. . t -i v.. **., •4 A Ban FnncisQo'deBpatch telU of an In- dian, known aa Old Gabriel, who ia 150 years old. The strike of dock laborers in London ia flpreidiog, and the Socialiata arn asanming control of the movement. It is again ramored in Kingston that smelting farnacea will be eatabliahed by the Bathban Co., Dcaeronto. Cobonrg opened its tonmament very sncoessfuUy yesterday with a band compe- tition and a namber of gamea. Oabawa, Bowmaoville, Port Hope, Mill- brook, Colborne, Brighton and Trenton liold their civic holidays to-day. Hiss Kittie Cronyn, danghter of Mr. V Cronyn, of London, was married yesterday to Mr. Geo. W. Brown, of that city. The Governor General and Lady Stanley of Preston have iesaed cards for a fall drees ball at Qaebeoon Monday, the 2(jth inst. The coDventioQ of the North American United Caledonian Booietiea meets to-day in the coancil chamber of City Hall, Toronto. Foar handred and fifty persona who have completed the Cbaataaqaa reading' coarse yesterday received their certificates from Chancellor Vincent at Cbaataaqaa. Another day was spent yesterday on the Welland Canal investigation, which was more prolific than osaal in dispatts be- tween Senator McCallnm and Mr. Rykert. Mrs. Robert Xafts Hangerford, Kings- ton, has had an information laid against G. W. Ditlton, a merchant of Tweed, on a oharge of indecent assaalt. Both are pro- noinent persons. Rev. Mr. McKenzie, a Presbyterian mis- sionary in Labrador, writes that there ia great destitation there, and arges that a movement be made to transport the iii- fakbitants to the Northwest. News was received at Ottawa yesterday of the death by drowning at KocklifFe, in the Ottawa Hiver, of Jamea Shea, of Sonth March, Carleton coanty. Shea was em- ployed by the Upper Ottawa Drive Com- pwiy. The death ia annoaoced ia Montreal of frank Goalette, probably the oldest rail- way employee in the Dominion, he having oommenoed railway work as a switchman in 1S3U on the Cbauiplaia road, the first in Canada. Mrs. Webster, whoso hasband was killed at the Teiiiflti building elevator in Mon- treal some time ago, has taken an action for $11,000 iliimages against the Methodist Church of Canada and the trastet.>s of the Bt. James street congregation, who are the owners of the bailding. In the case of yoang Twitchell, of Kings- tor, charged with bari^lary. Dr. Wm. A. Hammond, of Washiagtoa, the weil known authority on nervous diseases, gives it as his opinion that Twitchell was suffering icom epile()uy when be ocuimitted the act, knd that he was entirely irresponsible. Brown and Uall, tli<j two St. Thomas tramps who " held up ' John Bird near Cantield, compelled him to hand over bis money at the point of a revolver, and then Btole his horse, were yesterday morning found guilty by the Cayuga County Judge of highway robbery and assaalt with intent to kill, and sentenced to nine years in the Penitentiary. Kmanuel Brooks, Shawneetown, III., â- hot and fatally wounded bis wife this morning, and then shut himself twice in the head, but the wounds not killing him, ha ran one hundred yards and jumped into the river and was drowned. Farmers in New York State report that the potato crop is unusually large this year, though the quality is very poor, owing to rot causea by heavy rain. The crop of corn is light. Hay and oats are in abundance, but damaged by wet weather. A telegram from Trois Pistoles reports that the body of a newly -born infant has been found there which had been born Alive and subje<iaeutly suffouated. An inqaeat was held to-day, and a verdict of murder against some anknown party was zeturned. A terrific explosion occurred in Scragga & Whaley'd tloar mills, Gainesville, Tex., yeaterday. All the men had gone home to dinner except Engineer Boosley. The east end of the buildiug and the roof were blown away. Boosley was not aerioasly hart. Mrs. KMridge, wife of Mr. T. R. B. Eldridge, of the Eiiaitable Life Aasarance Society, Toronto, jumped into the lake from the Cibola when that vessel waa leaving Niagara yesterday morning. She was rescued and conveyed to her home. It is said that she is suffering from melan- cholia. William Sargent, the thief who stole the horse from J. W. Firby's pasture field, near Corinth, Klgin coanty, about ten days •go, and was afterward caught in Linwood, waa brought before Deputy -Judge McLean, Bt. Thomas, Thursday afternoon, and pleaded guilty to the charge. Ue was aentenoed to three years in Kingston peni- tentiary. The wife of Adam McKean, a highly reapeoted farmer of Rogers' Hill, near Pictou, N.S., committed suicide by drown- ing last night while suffering from a tem- porary attack of insanity. She retired as nsnal in the evening, and her husband, wearied with a hard day's harvest, slept nndistarbed until he discovered her absence in the morning. Immediate search waa made, and the nnfortunate woman's re- mains were found in an adjacent mill pond. * Wauneii's Safe Cure removes defective viaion or sight. Why ? Beoanae it gets rid of the poijonona kindey acid circulating in the blood. Impaired vision ia oansed by ad- vanced kidney disease, another name for Brtght's disease, which " has no aymptoma of its own." Warner's Safe Cure removes the oaase, when normal vision retarns. A Very Bare UUt. Mr. Bald Al, old boy, what can I give my wife for bar birthday ? Something very rare. iUâ€" Give her a look of your hair. â-  • ' Mra. Camso â€" Wouldn't it bo grand if Di. Brown- Sequard has really discovered the elixir of life ? Cumso â€" Yea, indeed ; bnt don't tell yoar mother anything aboat PIOKON FI,YINO. H etbo4g of Sending the Bird* by Uail-Aa Important Tralllc, Pigeon flying is one of the delights of the Black country, and a Birmingham (Eng.) paper gives a cnrions account of it. It is a passion with the workiugmen, and it takes some of them completely away from thfir work. With the majority, however, it is no more than the ordered pastimes of the first day of the week. It has developed ijaite a new branch of railway trafiia in the dis- trict. It ia the practice of flyers to send their birds in baskets, addressed to the station master at a particular station, with the rei^ueat that he will release them, mark on the label the time they were released and retarn the basket. What is most singular ia that this is regularly done. An important traffic has grown up in this way, with a tariff for pigeon baskets and re- tnrned empties. Railway companies at first set their faces against it, bat finally took a more enlightened view of their own interests and of the wants of their custom- ers. They were probably inflaenced by the consideration that the officials rather liked the work. In cloudy weather porters have been known to feed birds three days before setting them free. The only inconvenience is that, where a bird fails to reach its des- tination, the obliging official ia sometimes accased of being " got at " by a rival flyer. This suggests a certain demoralizing tend- ency in the pastime, and the saggestion may be confirmed by the revival of a well worn anecdote. An aged penitent, who had loved pigeon flying not wisely but too well, was assured by bis ghostly comforter on his deathbed that they would both meet in a better place with wings to their backa. The dying man suddenly forgot his anxie ties in the ribald offer to " fly ""the parson for a sovereign when they arrived. A Clever EnKllsh Bascal. The cleverness of an English rascal has excited the envy of all the rascals in Paris who, with typical Parisian egotism, have long claimed to be the cleverest rascals in the world. The English rascal in question was a professional London pickpocket. Shortly before the French exposition opened he bongbt a small hotel in Paris on the instalment plan. The parohase price of the hotel was <J0,000 franca, and the first and only instalment which the Englishman paid was 2,000 francs. The Englishman bought a few pieces of cheap English furniture fur his new bouse, e<]aipped an English bar, and then adver- tised far and wide for English boarders daring the exposition. His prices were so low that he soon filled his house. Every one of his lodgers was warned by a placard over bis bed that the landlord would not be responsible for the loss of any vala ables which had not been deposited in the hotel safe. Uf course the safe deposits increased with the popularity of the hotel, and both reached high water mark two days before the second instalment of 2,000 francs on the purchase price of the hotel fell duo. There was then 3.j,000 franca' worth of British jewellery and bank notes in the safe. The pickpocket landlord stole every son of it. Ho concealed his plunder in his quarters in another part of Pans, dyed bis hair, shaved his beard, put on a French suit of clothes and began picking pockets at the exposition. He was caught by the police with his hand in the pocket of an English member of Parliament, and waa locked np. A police investigation led to a revelation of his history and the re oovery of the jewellery and money which had been given to him for safe keeping. â€" New Yiirk Sun. KestauruutH lu Sweden. A traveller gives the following interesting description of a railroad restaurant service in Sweden : " We entered a little dining- room, aroond which were arranged little tables covered with snowy linen ; in the centre stood a large table, one end spread with the naaal diversified collection of the ' smargasbord'; at the other were piles of plates, knives, forks and napkins. The soup is brought in and placed on the cen- tral table ; each one helps himself, and, taking it to one of the small tables, eats at his lei.sure. Ihe soup finished, you serve yourself with fish, roast meats, chicken and vegetablea in quantity and variety as you choose, and return to your table. The servants replenish the supplies on the large table, remove soiled plates, and bring tea, coffee, beer or wine, as ordered, to the occupants of the small tables, but each one must serve himaelf from the various oooraes, ending with padding and nats and raisins. There was none of the harry, bustle and crowding usually encountered in a railway restaurant, but plenty of time was given for a quiet, oomfortable meal, with no necessity for bolting your food. For this abundant and well cooked dinner the charge was 40 cents â€" tea, coffee, beer and wine being extra. Your word was taken without any questioning regarding the extras as you paid for them and your dinner at the table from which the coffee was dispensed." â€" Excluinye. â- ngllsh a« She Is Spoke. Julian Hawthorne's tastes run to the romance about girl's names. He has five daughters, whom he has named respec- tively Hildegarde, Uwendolin, Gladys, Beatrice and Imogen. The English way of pronouncing these names is uniijuo and not quite ao pretty as the spelling way. They are " HUker," " Gunnell," "Glads," " Beeritch ' and " Moken." Queer language, that English, as the English speak it. â€" Waahinytun Qazelte. Ho I He I Rosie â€" Jnst hear that Miss Scrawnie titter. All she praya for in this world is to oatch a hasband. Josie-â€" Yea, even when she langha she can't help saying " He ! he I he!" The second oharge against Thomas Dia- mond at Belleville, of being accessory to the mysterious fluid-throwing, has been enlarged for two weeha. The Virginia Repablioan Convention has nominated, by acclamation. General William Mahone for Governor and Colonel Oampbell O. Slemp tot Liaut.-Governor. â€" A gentleman, with hia card oaae in hand, rings the bell. *' Are Mr. and Mrs. B. at home?" " Yea, sir." " Very well ; then I'll call again." â€" Mr. Qaizitiveâ€" Catching anything? AU-day fisherman â€" Yep. Mr. Quizitive-- What ? AU-day fishermanâ€" Darn-fool qneitions, right in th' neck. BDMOBS or THE TABirF. It Cost Uncle Sam About tlS to Collect Three Crntil. After two days' work by the olerks of three or foor departments of the New York Cnstom House and some incidental labor on the part of the Depnty Collector having charge of dutiable goods coming into the country through the mails, Henry Zim- mern, of No. 37 Maiden Lane, New York, was enabled, upon payment of three cents duty and a penalty of like amount, to re. cover an article of personal adornment that was sent him by a friend in Germany and arrived in New York on Aug. l^th. That article was a brass ring valued at 12 cents, dutiable under the customs laws for three cents. Why Mr. Zimmern wanted a ring of this material, or whether it was a gage of his early love, or possibly an heirloom in his family, Acting Collector McClelland does not know. The only fact he takes ofiicial cognizance of ia that the ring came inclosed in a letter, that it owed a duty of three cents to the Government, and that, no matter what might be the resnlt, that amount must be collected. The amount of red tape through which this innocent brass ring passsed before it reached its owner is hard to specify. When the deputy collector at the post- office discovered it in an envelope he and bis staff of clerks had to fill out seizure papers in quadruplicate reporting the fact to the Collector. One of the clerks of the latter had to acknowledge the receipt of the docamenta, send copies to the Surveyor and naval officer for their in- formation, and indorse upon the third an order to the Appraiser to make an exam- ination of the seized article. The fourth copy waa carefully filed in the Collector's office for future reference. This was the work of the Collector's office, bat there was more to be done be- fore the Government could get its three cents. The official in the seizure room bad to be instructed in writing to turn the ring over to the Appraiser ; the Appraiser had to report the result or his examination to the Collector, and the latter had to acknowledge the receipt of the report, and so finally when the owner called for his property and planked down his three cents there had been expended, according to the opinion of experts in the Custom Honse, at least 'ili in clerk hire, stationery, mes- iengers' salary, eto.^Bufdu Cuurier. " lh« ChrUtiao Itnddliii," The I'nited States Department of State has received from the legation >it Pekiln China, an account of the death and extra- ordinary life work of the Rev. J. (. rossett, an independent American miasioiiary in China. He died on the steamer "E. Dorado," en raute from Shanghai to Tien- Tsin, on June 21st last. In speaking of Mr. Crossett Minister Denby couples bis name with that of Father Uamien, the Belijian missionary who died on the island of Molokal, and says : " Mr. Crossett's lite was devoted to doing good to the poorest classes of Chinese. Ue would go out on the streets the coldest nights and pick up destitute beggars and convey them tu refuge, where he provided them food. He also buried the dead at I lis own expense. Ue was known to the Chinese as the Christian Buddha. He was attached to no organization of men. He was a missionary pure and simple, devoted rather to charity than proselytism. He completely sacrificed himself for the good of the poorest of the poor. Let this American, then, be enshrined along with the devoted Belgian in the annals of men who loved their fellowmeu." AbHeiice uf SI itid. " Never was so put out in all my life as I was yesterday," remarked Jones at bis club the other day. " Just fancy ! I returned borne at the usoal hour, lit the gas, and was about retiring for the night when I took a notion to smoke a cigarette. Hunted bigh and low, but not the sign of a match could I find. In a rage I put out the light and went to bed. ' " But why didn't you light your cigarette by the gas ? " asked someone. " Great heavens I " cried Jones, in com. ical deapair. "if I'd only thought of it." How to Clean m Baby's Nails. Every mother knowa bow difficult it ia to clean the baby's finger-nails, says a writer in Medical CUittics. I3y folding some tissue paper into a aharp point, and, when using it, calling the attention nf the baby to Bomething else, this simple task can be easily performed. The paper is soaoft that it does not hurt the tender flesh, yet it is sufficiently firm to remove every particle of dirt. ^ The Correct Namber. Jones â€" I tell yon what, Robinson, I have got one wife in a million. Robinsonâ€" That's all right, Jones. If you had more than one we'd run you out of town for a Mormon. Had Sawed Enoagb. Lady of the Houseâ€" Now. don't you think you could saw a little wood for me ! Tramp (who had jnat dined) â€" No, mum ; sawing that there steak you jast gave me is all the sawing I want to do for one day. Arthur tiets Credited for Once. " Yon didn't squeeze my hand when you left US last night, Arthur." "How could I? Tbe whole step was covered with girls." " Well, you got credit for it, anyhow, by shaking hands with the crowd." Every scrap of iron, wood, and paint work within reach of the hand upon the Eiffel Tower is already completely covered with pencil names and dates. The interiora of the elevators are similarly inscribed, and thongh the Tower has been opened com- plete but for a few weeks, there is not a pane of glass that ia not acratohed all over with the names of visitors. In the Montreal General Eoapital on Wednesday, a doae of ether waa adminis- tered to a patient npon whom a minor sargical operation was performed, and death resulted. â€" Little I>iakâ€" I can do aomethlDg yonr papa oan t do. Tbe Little Theapian twina â€"What ia it Little Dick â€" Draw a house. My mamma said he never drew one last season. A severe hailstorm passed over parts of Austin yeaterdav. Many pereunv were kUled. â- OYPTIAM OHIGKBNS. How They Are Hatched by lUllUons la Rude Incubators. The Egyptian chickens are smaller than the American variety and the eggs are only about half as large aa those laid by the speckled hens on Uncle Sam's farm. The Egyptians are, however, far in advance of us in the science of raising chickens, saya Frank G. Carpenter, and the incubating es- tablishments of the country hatch out eggs by the millions every year. At a hatching establishment near the pyramids tbe farmers trade fresh eggs for yonng chicks, and the rate is two eggs per chick. Another artificial egg hatchery tarns oat 500,001) little chickens every season, and the oven crop of chickens in Egypt amounts, accord- to figures furnished me by the Consul- Oeneral, to moro than 20,000,000 of chickens a year. We have about $200,000,- 000 worth of money invested in the fowl in- dustry in the United States, an amount ao large that all the money of Jay Gould could not equal it, and still wo have to impart more than 16,000,000 dozens of eggs every year. If America would adopt tbe Egyp- tian hatching system we could sell eggs in- stead of buying them, and our farmers miijht buy fittle chickens to raise at a price of 20 cents a dozen. More than 20,000,000 of little chickens are sold each year in this way in Egypt, and there is a regular bnei- nesa in chickens just about old enough to walk. The incubators are rude, one-story build- ings, made of undried bricks, so arranged that the eggs are laid upon cut straw in racks in rooms, around the ovens, which are kept fired in during the batching sea- son. The outside wails are very thick and are built bo they retain the beat, and the only thermometer used is the blood of the boy or man who attends the fires. By long practice these men learn just how hot the ovens ought to be kept, and they replenish the fires as the weather demands. A small amount of fuel is needed, and the tempera- ture of the oven is about that of ',Im det,reea above zero. The tire is built up for eight or ten days before tbe eggs are put in, to thoroughly warm the hut, and after this time it does not go out daring the season, which is from March until May The eggs are turned four times a day while batching. The whole outfit of an establishment which hatches over 200,000 chickens a year does not. I am told, cost more than 'i'i.'i, and one man runs tbe whole machine, keeping the fires, baying and turning tbe egi/s, and sell- inu the chickens. There are, in this in- cubator, twelve compartments, each 70 feet lonK, 'iO feet wide and I<i feet high, and each of these compartments will hold 7,500 eggs at a time, or '.10,000 eggs in all. It produced last year more tban 2:!0,OUU chickens and did the work of moiu than •20,000 hens. By Ball to Jerusaleiii. The British consular agent at Ja:fa in his last report on the trade of bis district states that a concession for a railway from Jaffa to Jerusalem has been ({ranted by tbe Sultan to Mr. Joseph Navon, an Ottoman subject, for seventy-one years. It is stated thai a company has been formed in Eng- land ami France to carry out the scheme, and that the engineers are soon expected to undertake the work. The carrisgo road between Jaffa and Jerusalem has been greatly improved. The government sold lust year tbe income from the toll of the road for j;2,0b5, as compared with t; 1,812 the year before last, which shows an in- crease in tbe traffic. The Jewish colonies in Palestine are greatly improving , one of them, which is called Kicbon lo /.ion, has planted about 2,000.000 vines, all promising well. The colonists are tjreat laborers ; nearly all their land ia cultivated. Tbe â- greater part of them are Turkish subjects, and all subject to the laws of the country. â€" Liintion Times. Miitbiue Like Uetting L'aed to It. A few years ago the colored brethren established a church near tbe residence of our good old friend Robert Wolters. At first tbe noise disturbed the old gentleman much, and thinking the best way out of tbe trouble would be to buy them out be made a proposition ; they hooted at the offer. Time went ou and they began to figure up the price olfered by Mr. Woltera for the bnilding against tbe cost of a new edifice elsewhere in town. It waa developed that the price offered would build tsvo houses like it. A committee was appointed to wait upon Mr. Wolters and tbe chairman said : " Mr. Wolters, we have come to accept the offer yoa made us last year for the church." '• Church ? Nonsense 1 I've got used to the fuss now and couldn't sleep a wink withoat it. No, no, I don't want it. Go on with tbe meet- ing." â€" Schidenbcnj . Texas, Meatenijer. What We Must Wear. Another threatened innovation is in frock ooats. Nobody wears frock coats nowadays but elderly gentlemen and country brethren from way back. But it is not the I'ecent frock coat with which we are threatened â€" the genteel garment, whose skirts come down well below the middle thigh â€" but a substitute for it closely resembling the bobby coat whicli Thomas and James wear when they go out with the coaoh and the horsea. This frock coat is now worn to a oensiderable extent in England, and that it will at least be offeied in New York is a foregone oonclasion. Its distingai-shing feature, of coarse, is its short skirts, which reach nearly to mid-thigh, and present an appearance quite devoid of tbe dignity we are wont to associate with full- skirted gar- monta. â€" New York Mail and Express, the Bond to Wealth. " Mr. Jones 1" said the old millionaire. " Yes, sir," answered tbe private secre- tary. " Here are fifty begging letters. Answer them all with a refusal." " Yes, sir." " And you will observe that every one has a two-cent stamp inclosed for reply." " Yes, air." " Well, anawer tbam on a postal." Bow to " Make Coil'ee." Dr. W. Junker, the African traveller, saya: "Any European who believed that the decoction of coffee-beana which had been tasted at home deserved the name at 'coffee' ia soon convinced of his error aftes sojourning for a while in Turkey, Egypt or Arabia. Ue will, indeed, at first ba somewhat surprised always to find sonia sediment in his cup, which he is apt to overlook until he has swallowed some. But he will soon learn to sip the aromatic liqiiicl carefully from off the sediment. Tha proper way to prepare coffee is as foUowa : The beans, which should, of course, iit possible, be of the very best quality (genu- ine Mokkaj, are carefully examineil, and all damaged ones picked out, conjtituting then what ia known aa elbunn ts-.ju/j. Immediately before use the recjuisite ijnan- tity is freshly roasted and powdered, which latter ia preferably done in a woodon mortar. The powder should be quite line !ika flour. Water having been brought to a lioil in a suitable kettle or vessel, a 'pertain quantity of the powderâ€" a small spoonful for every small cupful of coffee to be drawn from the vessel -is added, the whola stirred, and the vessel replaoed on the Ura until the Uqmd boils and foama up. It i^ then removed and the coffee served." The New West, Usher (at reception in Chioago, pomp onaly, aa Mr. Foot and daughtera enter)â€" Mr. Foot and the Misses Feet ! And yet they say Chicago baa no culture. Jinks â€" Been to the circus, eh ? See anything new ? Blinksâ€" Yes, the ohildren , iWho laogheil at tbe clowns were new. { Natmeg-. The natmeg ia the innermost iiernel ol the fruit ot a small tree that grow.' abor.t thirty feet high. It is a native of the East Indie?, but it is cultivated in other tropical lands. It baa a small yellow flower. Tha fruit is small and peacblike, but with » smooth surface, and turns yellcw w):;on ripe. The exterior, a thick, fltbhy husk, dries up and cracks, disclosing the nnt. The outer oovsring of this uat is what v/a know as mace. It is red at first, but tTZ'na to a light brown when dried. Next comes a bard, shining shell, and inside that is tha nutmeg. The tree bears about the oigluh or ninth year from tbe seed. The mace ia taken off and dried in the aun for one lay, and for eight days in the shade, then dampened with sea water and pressed in bags. The remainder of the nut is very thoroughly dried, when the shell in broken and tbe nutmegs assorted, the .cBt onen being exported. They are first pijklod in lime-water, then left to sweat, and finally packed for shipment. The Penang nut- megs, the beal, are abont an inch Ioiik, pala brown, corrugated on tbe surface, with reil streaks in the gray interior. â€" L ..dint StandaTd. Wiitch ScrewK, It is asserted that tiie smallest s.rew , in the world are those used in the produuticn of watche-i. Thue, 'he lounh jewel wheel ssrew is the next thing to bo invisible, and to the naked eye it looks like dust with a glass, however, it is .iten to be a small screw, witii 200 threads to the inch, and with a very fine glass tbe threads may bo seen quite clearly. These minute scre'^a ar â-  11 000th oi an inch in diameier, and tbe beads are double . it is also estimated that an urdinary lady s thimble would hold 100,000 ol these sore vs. No attempt is over made to count them, the method iiursued in determining the number being to place 100 ot them on a very delicate balance, and tbe number of tbe whole amouui is deter mined by llie weight of these. Afar bei).;» cut the screws are hardened and put in frames, about lOU to tbe frame, neads up, tuis being done very rapidly by iense ol touch instead of by sight, anil the 'uadsaro then polished in an automaiic macl:ir:a 10,000 at a time. The plate on wbich tho polishing is performed is covered with oil and a grinding compound, and on :bis :ho machine iiiovei them rapidly by .-eversinij motion. â€" New York Star. The Hebrew Oath. In the city court this morning in tha case of Clmrlea Freeman against Charles Goldman for the recovery of 020, tha orthodox Uebrew oath waa administered by the Jewish rabbi. To take the oath tha witness has to wash his bands and put er. % Tnlitli, or prayer cloak, and while swearing to take and hold in bis band a tora, or tha five books of Aloses, written on parchment, for the use of tbe house uf worship. Xba party must swear by the name of Jehovah, and, looking at tbe word, he shall swear : " I swear by Adonai," and concludes hia oath , "So help me God to future happi- ness." A small casket contains the ten commandmenta and ia held in the loft hand, a atrap attached being bound abont the arms, and another such casket :'a strapped on the temple. The rabbi ad- ministered the oath to several witnesses before oonrt adjourned for dinner. -I'i.c.i Observer. ^ She Split on Her Ilait. We had long since voted her the pret- tiest girl in tbe Doat. This would ba . a been an offset for poor luok at fisbiug il she had only known it, but we wereu t say- ing a word for fear of spoiling her, when by and by she looked up to the gri.iidy old captain and asked: "Captain, shouli.n't 1 spit on my bait to bring luok ?" ' Guesa you should," he replied. " Lemme put on a fresh shrimp ami then yon oan spit." " Real hard ?" " Yea." " All the spit I can?" "Yes." She held the hook within three inches of her nose, twisted ber tougna three or four times and then gave % "huohool" We saw something fly over- board, heard a scream ot despair and next moment the prettiest girl tell in a heap in tbe bottom of the boat. She had thrown both plates ot false teeth out of ber head into '20 feet of water.â€" .V>iu York Sun. It is said that Sir Charles Husaell's fees in the Maybrick case amonntod tq 1,139 guineas ; 200 gaineaa waa the foe marked on his brief, and hu received :i00 guiaeit~i as a "special retainer, and a ilaily " refreshec" of 100 guineas. If you marry a Rirl who is loinl ot ilreBO, Yuu'U iiave a bard row to boo; I'm a9LUijle man, but I know it's true, For iny mutlier told tue so. Tksis made in London have shown thit the value of coal wasted in smoke from tha domestic fireplaces in that city amounts to 911,282,500 annually, while the aggregate waste of unconsumed carbon is 913,000,- 000 a year, and the damage to property oansed by the smoky atmosphere is put down at ^10,000,000. The effect npon human life and health of an enormona volume of hydro-carbon and oarbonio-o.xida gases pouring into the atmosphere daily in fearful to contemplate, and science could do nothing more practical than to bend ita energies to tbe solution of such a groat ecouomio problem. 4.:-