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A HARKED HAN, A Farmer'i Remarkable 8*rli of Mir fortooet. ' thu point, wlun blimlmg Hash of fttraek wr LlihiBlHc. srrtea- I P i.> a > rloe IkHor.l I* Hit- I'olHl of Itrulb by rralrle Vlrr <! .rfi> ! ir<-j by L. mMe - l III! All** MI| ! ....! II. Miih Klitha Hollo way, a farmer living on Stony Hill, ( 'OHM., Im.l au experience lut KruUy afternoon that but very few pertons pass through and live. Thuuder storms at this time of the year are rare in thu locality, but there wai a rattling good one Friday, late in the afternoon. Mr. Holloway law the cloudi riling over the hill, aud (antici- pating a ilonn, b #ni out 13 the barn- yaid to uilk, if poisible, before the raiu htcin to fall. The itorm oaine up rapidly and reached the barnyard t>efor Holloway had finished milking. A little water didn't care him, and he kept at hia work. There wai a good deal of vivid lightning and con* '.dera'ile thunder; both of these Hidloway wai uied to, and he kept on milking. He had about timihe<l when a flaahol lightning hot from the clouds, and striking the cow that Holloway sat betide, killed her at dead an a door nauL 1'he man wai knocked a distance of 15 feet and driven under a fmd trough that wai built under an adja- cent abed, boot* for emost. When Holloway recovered hii MBM* he found that he couldn't eitrioate himielf from beneath the feed box and he lagan yelling for help. The thunder drowned hii voice and it wai aomo time before he made himself heard. Finally a farm hand came to his assistance and managed to get him out from under the box. Both hia leg) were paralyzed, but he bat eince recovered the n*e of thim. The wooden milking pail that Hollnway had be- tween hi) knees when the lightning landed wa knocked into iplinten and the hoops and bale were warped and twisted like a cork-screw. Further than being P ! ')' severely shaken up the man was not injured. Holloway, judging by his record, ii a marke-1 man, for he ha beeu itruck by lightning twice, earned about aqnarter of a mile through the air by a cyclone, tossed '2>> feet into a itone quarry by a loco.noti ve and chated to thefooint of death by a prairie tire. Barring a few broken booee, the man is none the worae for his varied and exciting ex- perience with the element*. Holloway'i flrt encounter with the elec- tric fluid occurred when he wai about Is yean old. It happened one Sunday even- ing in July. Klisha had l*en to church and after the service wai walking home with a young woman of his acquaintance. Dur- ing the evening a thunder term bad come up, and Holluway and the girl were tauii- tenng alone leUurely under in umbrella. The path along which they were walking skirted a mill pond for a ihort diatance. The couple had reached B olio way say* he aaw a light, felt a tennation in hi* legs and armi ai if they wire rubber, had been pulled out everal feel and allowed to map back. Then he wan conscious ol striking the water. He had been knocked into the pond. He wan pretty badly acared, and yelled at the top ot hi* voice for help while he itrugqled to get ashore. The girl wai uninjured, and she promptly Itarted out to get her ecoort ashore.. She scrambled down the bank to ihe water, and aided by the flaihes of lightning got a piece of a rail, that lay un the edge of the pond, out to him and hauled him ashore. The umbrella wai completely destroyed, and j the eaoape of the two pereoni under it wi miracle. Neither were so much a> scratched, but Holloway said that he had a reaped for thunder itortni for fire yean after that that prompted him to *eek the nearest cellar whenever then wai a lign of one in the sky. When Holloway was about 25 year* old he contracted the Western fever, and tak- ing hi* laving* in his pocket, he itarted for the farming district* of Iowa. Ho didn't find what he wanted there, and gradually drifted down into Kansas, where he got employ mem on a farm. He must have got right into the heart of the cyclone belt, for he had been working for hii new employer but three day* when he got mixed up with a regular fin-eating tornado. He wai running a lulky plow at the time about a mile from the houue. It had been cloudy and showery all the forenoon, but hadn't 'ained enough to prevent working. Hruyihewas riding along, watching the turning furrowt in an abstracted sort of a wiy, when his attention wai attracted to a low rumbling. He looked over hii ihonldor just in time to aee a barn about a half a mile away jump up in the air, turn a double somersault and fall in a hundred pieces. Thoroughly frightened Holloway suspend ed the plowiharei and started the hones on a run for the river a little more than a quarter of a mile away. The wind wai faster than the horses, and before half the distance l<> the rivei was covered the flee- ing outlit was picked up and hurled through the air with terrific speed. After beiug lifted into the air lie hail no recollection of what happened until he came to himself some time in the nlgtu. He had probably been roused hy the noise made hy a searching party sent out for him. He heard the men U Iking, and law their lanterns twinkling, through the darkness below him. He called out and in a few imnutri hi recognized that hi had been blown into t '' top of a tall cotton wood tree that stood on the bank of the river fully a quarter of a mile from the point where he last remembered holding the reins. He managed to get down to the ground, but a broken collar-bone and a dislocated hip compelled him to keep to hii bed for several weeks, at the end of which time he came up s-niling and ready for an- other " icrap," Hi didn't have to wait 'ong. In the middle of the summer he had an opportnily to buy a quarter section claim at a bargain aud he availed himself of the opportunity. It took all the money that he had to pay for the farm and stock it, but it was in crop, ami he counted on getting some ready cub when hii wheat wai ready for the market. The prospect looked very bright up to the harvest time, when one af'ernoon a prairis tire came marching down on him from the northwest. He saw the flames coming, and putting a bridle on his horse, which was old and slow, he itarted for the rivsr, ten miles away. The An was a good deal swifter t haii thi horio, and before the animal had covered eight mill! th<> tin was si ll heels. The horse ha>l done its) best, but was play- ed out, ..nd filially full dead in its tracks. Wl< kKO HILL THK WIALB. MI. arecr .u.i Aslenlthlwg lest ltpi.it -A Tkrii Mm tea-Yarn. We were running down between the Azore* and Madeira when I got my fint tight of the whale which had been known to the whaling fleet for five yean M Wicked Bill. A whale known at \focha Uick had a oarver of ten or twelve yean. Another known as Dom Pedro destroyed eight boat* nd killed fifteen men and passed out of sight after seven or eight year*. The whale known as Wicked Bill make hii debut, to to (peak, ciT the Falkland ialandi. Cape Horn, where he slaved two boats and car- ried oif two harpoons belonging to the ship Yankee Laud of Nantucket. He was eili- maled to be lixty feet long, and taome lime he had injured his head in such a manner M to leave a V-shaped tear plainly visible good distance away. Off the mouth of there hii money gave out. He got a brake, the La Plata, the aame teason he staved a man on a freight train to let him ride to boat and carried off a harpoon belonging to Chicago in a box car. The train had bftca the bark Chieftain of Aberdeen. It WM running but a few hour* when the engine thu custom among whalen to "pass along" jumped the track, and the box containing Vloll., Holloway was oornered. The fire was almost upon him, and be was half suffocated with smoks ; but he was equal to the -mergeucy, anil with his pocket-knife he ripped open thu bslly of the dead liarse, disemboweling the carcass, an j crawled into the cavity". It was the only avenue that offered escape for the man any it is preserved hit life, though, for a time, f tesli air was hard to get, and Holloway wasn't sore but that be would suffocate- afterall. When the danger was past Holloway crawled oat of his retreat and went back to his claim. All the building! and the gram had been burned. All that was left wai the ground and the well. Holloway had had all that he wanted of growing up with the coun- try. He walked across the country twenty mi lee to the nearest town and found a man who paid him $i~> for hii claim. Holloway bought a raihoad ticket and started East. He got at far as Omaha, and way and some baled hky went rolling down an embankment aud lauded on its rojf among a lot of rocks. Again WM Uollaway miraculous'y preserved. One leg was pretty badly jammed by a bale of hay falling against it and crushing it againit the ide of the car. The man crawled out through a hole that had been broken through the tide of the ear, and ilarted to walk to Chicago. K? continue.! to work aud wUk in the direction of the east until he reached home, coneidenly deunonlized, bat ttill right tide up. Holloway enjoyed a few yeart of un- eventful existence, but fate finally overtook him. He had been down to the ihore clam- ming and WM returning home. A part of the way he WM obliged to walk on the track of the Shore Line road. Had to cross trestle, and when nearly ever a train came around a curve in ihe road. It WM too late to stop ihe Irkin and Holloway couldn'l reach the end of the trestle. He gol oul on one of Ibe cross-beams. He WM anxious to aav* hi* basket of clams, and in bis anxiety he forgot his own danger, and when Ihe Irain reached tht (pot where he tood the tteam-chett on ihe locomotive a whale which had escaped after creating any havoc, or which had displayed an un- usually ugly temper when attacked, and after a couple of seasons Wicked Bill was pretty well known to all whalemen. Dur- ing the first five yean of his career this fish was credited with the destruction of more than a dozen whaleboats, entailing a loss of almost ai many live*. During that time he was harpooned nine or ten time*.. A Rosiiap merchant brig, named the Orel, espied him in the nortk Atlantic one after- noon with a harpoon sticking out of hii back and so many coili of line around his body that hii activity was greatly inter- fered with. He was rolling about on the surface when night came on, and the brig left him astern, but at'9 o'clock, without any one aboard having caught light of him or inspecting hii presence, he CAMI HI SHIM; DOWN f rom the windward, struck the craft amid- ihips, and fifteen minutes later rhe was on her way to the bottom. The crew got tway in the yawl without water or provisions, and the whale was eircling round the spot at the time. The boat was fortunately picked up ne. t day, and the whaling fleet r'O) a whale suddenly breached right astern of us and not more than 900 feetawty. I was at the wheel at the time, and we were going off before a four-knot bretce from the south- east. I heard the whale as he broke water, nd the light of him ilabding on hii tail caused me TO sin, i 1 AS ALARM. Half dozen of the cnw law him MI he fell back on the wi*r, and it teemed to all of ui as if he was going to itrikt the hip. His fall railed three or four waves, which pitched the ship about at if we wen to in a gale, and though the monster seit'ed away out of aight at once we had identified him at Wicked Bill. It may seem queer to you to read that every man aboard, from captain to apprentice, wai badly fright- ened as soon as it was known that out old enemy had hunted us down, as it were. We had left 'um almost four months before at point 2,000 miles awiy, and yet he had over- hauled ut, ai if he had been a steamer sent in search and informed as to our cruiting ground. His breaching so near us wat taken at evidence of his evil intentions, and some argued that be had meant to trlke the ship. All work ws at once impended, and the men were ordered to move around the deck) on tiptoe. We hoped the leviathan had not ten ui, and that hit breaching to close board was quite accidental, and after half an hour had paased away, without further tight of him everybody began to feel easier. A man had just itarted alott with a glass to can the tea when the whale rose to the sur- face about a stone's throw to windward. In most cases a whale comes to ths surface head on and thrusts at leait half hi* length ont of water. In sounding he generally goei down head first, and nil fluke* whip the water as they disappear. But a whale can in which he laid the whale res as Umid a bare, and could not be goaded iaro u the offensive against its Host enemy PBABU or T*l >ll. Bad ten-per it its own scourge. Few thing* an more bitter than to foel bitter. The world's need is not brilliancy, but The richest men don't always know bow to be rich. Adversity is a grindstone that pats an edge on us. Sustained emotion wears up the nervou* system. "I wasted time, and now doth tim waste me." Character is what we are when we thinl we are not watched. No one can ever become rich by nevet giving anything away. Contact with other* will make us ao quainted with ourselves. The truest sign of a broad man is i cheerful toleration of barrow men. There is no majesty so great as th majesty ef earnestness in a good cause. Some say they have much to do, and ye* Hpend life s brightest boun wondering where to begin. Fancy and humouc, early and constantly indulged, may expect an old age overrar with follies, [Watts. The really disastrous stage of laziness i* reached when a man feels that it is low much trouble to avoid trouble. Like wi!l-o'-th'-wiip in the bogs, a faiie rise to the surface in a horizontal position light leading on to destruction, so is many c. quietly ai scarcely to cause a ripple, and an earthly pleasure lure to ruin. he can settle a.av as rapidly as ,f he had | T th ^ { . h 1Bftllll , lw Umiof rock julhng him down Wiekwd. Bill \ A MformmtioBi ,,f rt Dmre h4 i. a the worU caught him on the shoulder aud knocked him 'JO feet into an abandoned atone qnar- ry. He wai picked up for dead, hot after lying unconscious five dayi he came to his senses and wanted to know where his c'aint were. Hi* shoulder was smashed and bis skull slightly fractured, but the railroad peoplt kept him in the hospital a few weekt and he came out at good at new, to be itruck by lightning last Friday. Hol- loway takes a very good-natured view of i . , , hi. experience, and* wonden from what ? dor - ^ W ' yi "'" nt by whmlet - He quarter the next attack will come. was notified ai fast as possible of \\ icked Hill's latest move. The whaling ship James Crosby of Salem, had a singular adventun with this whale the next leaion. On the morning of the 13th of April, when ihe was about 100 mile* to the east of Cape Su Roqiie. with the with tke ship, and now we all felt that mil- chief was brewing. Not a stroke of work was done aboard, and the men conversed in wnuperi and kept out of light as much as possible. Our sfeed, as I stated, was about out of tome Uethtemkne. A distinct and noble aim in life, ai the tan of heaven, tvtr shines steadily above the cloud wrack, and hy it* very fixity four knot* an hour. With the glass levelled ; erT ~ * aid . i" and true. on the rail we could bring the whale right j Framed in a cavernous fire place tits a boy, alongside, but even then we could uot detec- ! Watching the emben 'rom his grand - the slightest movement of flukes or fins to tin's knee ; give him progress. At 2 o'clock p.m., as "ne lees red castles rise and laugh i with joy he still kept his place, the yaras were quiet- The other marks them crumble, silently. ly braced a bit, and the ship fell of three D,^ b. on the lookout to find where or four poinU. He iniUntly altered his peopl, an wrong : try to find out where After half r- 10 her conn i u-j, ... . v >uu<7-i at the same moment. length to windward, and to quietly that the From noon ull 5 o . clock we wer , much fint sign of his pretence was ths peculiar | d . preiMd M if wa fo d had a ,-0,.,^ abo|krd . It as 5:05, I believe, when the whale dii- . JBVMUVU ine aim: way as me snip, ana lor two boon he kept her company. His iden- lily was established al the finl glance, and . to " k Mp ni . dilUnce . wind very light and theiea without a white ; hourihe WM brought cap, the fish roee to the surface a cable) ^ ^ , n . | a ffed at rrrtae and Mveree According to the New HieC. i, York Medical Times statistics show that in the United State* marriages are on the decrease and divorces on the increase, the latter ranking next to Japan in all countries when statis- tics an kept. In Japan the population has increased during the oast twenty yean from 33,000,000 to 40 000,000, notwith- standing the birth rate is lees than any other nation in ihe world except France. The increase of population it accounted for by the fact that notwithstanding the birth rate it exceptionally low, to alto is the in there wai no thought of attempting hit capture. On the contrary orders wen given for the crew to move about as quietly and the course of the craft wai changed from south to southwest. The whale shifted his course to keep her com- pany. She wa) then headed due west, but he dill kept her company. When she wai brought back to her original course Wicked Bill wa> still a cable's lingth to windward. After a few week* a harpoon driven into a whale rusts off cloee to what may be called the ikin, and while that portion of the iron remaining in his blubber may cause him no pain it creates a swelling, which assumes appeared, out for an hour after that we con- tinued to IPKAK IX WI1ISIBKM to they are right. They are not right if they neer, or if they are violent. Nor are w*>, either. The healthy body i* good, bat the soul ID right health it is the tiling beyond all othen to be prayed for ; the biettedeei thing thii earth receive* of heaven. -[Car lyle. The village paths, a* they go meanderin* across tht fields, show us how the tendency of man is net to walk *traight The plow ere h* begias to plow and tiptoed about. I am satisfied lhat not one Captain in hundred would have done what oun did that evening. No living man could charge him with cowardice or super- stition, but when supper was over he called I , s * * ln P> ' <> *" hit mates and boat steeren into the cabin i I*"* 1 th mountain top, but by toe time and laid : " r *hes the bottom it may be an ava- " While I hope we have *een the last of ; lnche, laying waste great tracts of land the whale, I think it my doty to prepare j 0li bnr/.ng villages in it* tall. fanl mortality. It is very easy to obtain a i whltiil , ^ fpta , nncf . Thr V, * uc h .pots w.r~ divorce in Jpen, as may be imagined when , ^ ^ . , he , )i( , e , tne wna V..eet in one year the marriages were 326,000 and ; ,. ihi He , tlnuined hi . ^ Mon lrom the divorce, l.OjS._ or more than one in I : , , 9 *:,.,,.. am , ^ JU<lden ^ and tli . Bt . three. I'ossibly if divorce* were as easily , ^ nk from i ht- Twep ,/ eifht day , obtained in this country, they might be al- | lat , ri anj - x m 7 lei ,., , he S^ tn . mott as numerous. The papers an full of infanticide, wife-poisoning, and abductions, and the records of financial prosperity and crime bring ui face to face with the Hart- ling fact that we are increasing in a greater ratio in the latter than in the former. In IS.10 then wal one criminal in :i,500 of the American population, but in I8SK) there was one in 7Hl>.. r >, a terrible increase in forty yean. The Republic is ' oned b Crosby lowend for a ihale just after din ner. The mal*'s boo got fast, and the fish towed her lix mnei to windward before he could be lanced. He waiin his death throes and circling about him when a whale, which every man recognized as Wicked Rill, breached close beeide him, shot upward until he seemed to stand on hii tail, and then fell right aoross thi other and carried young. Reckoned by the age of nation* it | ^'prevent the'boat has hardly yet caat aaiie its swaddling- nei ,her whale was for trouble. You *ill, therefore, see" the boat* overhauled and provisioned, ready for hoisting out." Before 10 o'clock every boat WM ready. The wind hid freshened a bit as the sun went down, auu .he night wai clear and starlight. The watch WM changed at 10, and everything ran imoothiy until an hour after midnight. Then the odor of a whale suddenly saluted the nostrils of the men, nd they looked to windward to catch sight of a great black bnlk on the water. It WM Wicked Bill again. A whale cannot remain under water above fifty minutes at the ex- treme limit, and when thii monster bad put in the eight houn we could not guest. If be bad run to windward when he settled \way at 5 o'clock, he had travelled such a diatance before coming up again that we | had failed to detect hi* (pout. We had ler, and clothe., aiid yet in energy, in prosperity, m "~M7~nTgFimpsTof Ticked Bill occur- health and strength, H -tan.lt at ancient ,, thre . year , after tnefir , t aDd j ^ on . Rome stood, a giant among the Powers of | o , th , nv / or iix men ltin Uvi who , a the world. 1 here must be some way, says j Il-t TJew of him i , one o , th , or , w , the Times, toitay thii mad rush of crime; , lh . Plymouth whaler War.derer ...d we some remedy for this hacUria which it : ljghud the ft.h about iOO miles to -he well poiioning th. fountain* of moral and p>iy. , ot tne ulani , , St . H .| ena H . WM ui , leal health. . . . The groal working ' on to ut ^ ma k iDg ,i ow | y to windward interest* the nation must be .r,i /v ,,,r( when dicovare( j by Ihe lookout, and we with each other, each contributing its quota to the general work. Foremost in thii work mtiFi stand a cultured and tcientific medical profession, searching in heredity, in brain and physical organisation, in cli- mate, in surroundings, the camtj of crime, of poverty, and mental degradation. And the remedy muit be enforced by the action ol the philanthropist with hi) wealth, the Church with all its power, woman with her high spiritual intuition, and broad- minded, far-seeing statesmen to puih for- ward the work with the concentrated pow- er of the Slate. therefore had no chow to indentify him. I was aloft with a glass when our three boats >TKI l-K TIH ATKR and have always felt sore the whale of him, and yet he had somehow picked ui up again. Word waa passed around, and all hands turned up, and from 1 to 3 we were in a *tat* of suspense. At about .'! the whale began Uuhiiig the water with hi) flukes. We had done nothing to arouse bun, but he probably thought it was lime to begin business. At soon as he began "fluking" we pnpand ourselves for a calam- ity , and it WM not long delayed. W hen he had churned an acn or more of surface ' to foam, he slewed around and headed ! straight for us, bat miscalculated our speed and pawed astern, though clearing the rud- der by not more than five feet. At he ""' rihed away to leeward, twinging hit head Some imagine life is a sensible, and that the most i* to be got by then who rush in and cal?h what they can. It i* net ao ; life i* a science, and whatever may be the results gained, they ate the outcome of defi- nite causes. Thoi art not the more holy ior being praised, nor the more worthless for being depraiied. What thou art, that thmi art; neither by word* cantt thou be made great- er than what thou art in the light ofliod. [Thomai A. Kempis. Aristotle said : These things we learn t > do by doing them : " Pnyer, by pray- ing ; love, by loving : forgiveness, by tor- giving ; God, by goodness, which St. Paul calls knowledge according to (or in proper UOD t )) godliness. 1 ' [Farindon. I fijd the great thing in this world is not 10 much wiisre we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of Heaven we must aail sometime* against it ; but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor. [Oliver Wendell Holmetv Hnsall Ku.in. -. Itii possible that the I'nited States col- lector of cutomi at Sitka ha* overlooked the fact that there i* a new King at Waih. iiigion, that the more lihrral-minded Cleve- land reigns when the short sighted despotic 1 1 m ii" m a few month) ago presided over the destinies of a nation. Kither that or the United States Treasury department ha* acted without a knowledge of the facts in issuing certain orden to the aaid collector. It nppeam that a certain iteamboat called the Islander has beeu in the habit of run- ning between Victoria, B.C., and Alaska in friendly rivalry to a lino of boats tailing from Tnooina or .Seattle and owned hy a United State* company. The (alter remels have been in the habit of taking the iim.li- route, that ii between the mainland and Vauouver liland, and of stopping at varioui Canadian points in order to show tourists all that ii ol interest. In return for thii coasting privilege the Iilander olaimad the right to call at Sitka and the right was not disputed until thii year. Now the United States collector has inuod an order forbidding the Iilander to make Sitka port of call. Representations have been made to Mr. Mackan/.ic Howell, who has placed himself in correspondence with the authorities at Washington. If the col- lector at Sitka is justified in hi) action there will be but one course for Canada to pursue, namely, to withdraw from United Slates rnsseli the privilege of the inshore roots and compel them to take to the open SIM. But what miserable pHtineas tins kind of tiling ii I milant warning. He Hopped almost at i and ,|, rMn iiig the water, we'lutfed sharp once and began * wimmmg in circle. \\ hen un unli , W4re nwkdjng J Q . ,, Me%n hit big lead swnng around. I r Uinly w while ! wai watc hingthe whale through the the big \ -ihaped .car. and called out to the nj , laM _ j Uliuk h , ran a ful , mlle i,.. Captain that he might stop the l.u They | , , urnjng . Whether he looted us by hvl got away however, an<l as he did not i i , ^ , { nd no n)an can but M ', yut much faith in the many tougii yams he put had heard ahonl this fish lie decided to let them have a try at him. It proved to he the worst thing he could have done. The mate'* boat had the load and got within inking disunce fint. A* toou at the har- poon entered, the whale settled away like a rook and went down .'(.V) feet. Then he turned and rushed for the surface like k wild locomotive, hreachinu his full length ont of water and filling and iWiimping the mate's boot with the waves kicked up by his fall. He restd a moment and then alewed around and started for the boat. He caught it with a swing of his jaw and made splinttra oi it and killed three men at the same time. For five minutes the mate, who WM supporting himself by an oar, WM alongside the fith and ruhhing against hii body, b-it he finally pushed himtelf clear and reach*.) one of the other boat*. The monster had the three boati at his mercy, but for inme reanon WM satisfied with the destruction of the first. Ferhapt it WM beckuie tht others remained perfectly quiet while he iremed to be aearcning for them. Fifteen minutes after destroying the boat he moved tlowly way, and thoee who Im.l escaped hit fury returned to the ship. We wen at thin time over half full of mi. One hundred kn I fourteen dayi later, when 400 milei weit of the iiland of Tristan .1 Wiinha, in the south Atlantic, wr cut in our IMI whale, cleared the deck) of the try- work), and set our cunrte for Plymouth. We were full to the hatchet, and thut far had made one of the best seasons on record. In about three flays we had the ship cleaned ui' and most of the titoke and grease wash- ed off our bodiee, and we wer almut to be- gin pointing when, ' noon on the fourth or tilth day after turning en our heel for home, Mewed around I taw lhat he would come he v.i on for our alern. At he started on his mal rush the ship's head WM brought due norlh again in hnpet to avoid him, but he changed hit course M well and came down our port quarter. I believe that every man in the ship had hit eyes on the furious leviathan M he came bearing down upon us. Hit head WM carried to high that it teemed if big rock wat pushing along the sur- face, and he left behind him great wake of foam and a tea which would have iwampcd a yawl. " II V x'.. CN '. POR YOl'K LIVES," shouted the Captain M he >aw what wai coming, itnd fifteen seconds later there WM ahock m heavy as if we had itruck a rock while running befon a hurricane. Kvery soul aboard knew the ihip WM doomed. She WM heeled to the (larboard until almoit on her beam ends, and ihe in- ttani the settled beck Ibere WM a rnsh for the boats. No one gave the whale farther attention, but every efforl was put forth to get the boatt into the water, M the ihip WM luffed into the wind. Her deck* wera WMh M the last one got away, and that WM about fourteen minntet after ahe WM truck. When we came to look around for Wicked Rill, he had disappeared from light, and no whaler ever reported seeing him after tht. It ha* always beeu gener- ally believed that he received injuries that canned hit death. Wt were picked up three dayi later by Scotch whaler none th* worse in health for our adventure, but the mall fortune which that rich cargo would have given every man if safely landed had gone to the bottom of the Atlantic. It wasit funny coincidence that at about that date an Kngiish naturalist published a work A i i *n ni <.i in 'Jitrdrr r a l-i.li J B* efHtr -."mil, BelcM* ef the nl prii A London d.tpatch says : Mrs. Whittle, a resident of Creeford, Denbighshire, \\ .lies, had in her ervn'e a groom named Sheliard. The groom took a holiday yesterday, and after hit return last evening he followed his mums* int her bed chamber. A par- lor maid named Taylor wai downitain at the time, but does not appear to have apprehended anything unusual until she heard a (hot, evidently from pistol, in the bed chamber. The parlor maul ran to the room when her mistress wai, and found. her in a dying condition from Ihe ef- fect* of pistol shot. Shellard, the groom, held a nvolver. He rushed upon the maid and pressed the nvolver to her head, at the tame time he threatened to kill the girL For tome reason Shellard did not kill her but concluded to kill himself. While (he stood paralyzed with fear Shellard turned away and knetlmg down, offered up a praver. Then he turned the revolver upon himself and fired. The girl ran out to sum- mon help. When she returned with assist- ance it wa* found that Shellard had cut the throat of hii dying mUtren and lifted her body on the bed. He had then lain dowa betide her acd both were dead. ra. It appears that the murder of M lie Whittle and the uicide cf Shellard wai t U result ofaliamon between the murderer an e hi* victim. Tht hutband of Mrs. Whittl ii a town councillor residing kt Charleston, suburb of Manchester. Sbellard had beets in hei>erviceof the parents of Mrs, Whittle, *ml it was then an attachment began be- tween the pair which ended in the tragedy. At the request of his wife Mr. Whittle took Shellard into hi* service at groom, but on account of the evidently improper re- lationt detween the wife ami groom Mr. Whittle tent lui wife to Cretfortk Shel- lard was 4O yean of age and his victim 28. In ths neighborhood of ths Burmudas the tea is extremely transparent, so that the fiaheimtn can nadily see the horns of lobtten protruding from their hiding placet in the rocks at considerable depth*. To entice the crustaceans from these cran- nii's they tie a lot of mails in a ball and dangls them in front of tht CAUtious lob- ster. Wl.en be grabs tht ball they him on.