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II WIFE'S CONSCIENCE, Early on* doll October day a girl earns quickly along th* lane* toward Marldon. Than had boon much rain and little frost that autumn, so that ths country bad not quit* lost it* summer tinge of green, bat wiodi had blown incessantly ani given th* foliage a tat tared, disconnected look. t?ome- tbing of the same look, scared and uneasy, was repeated in th* girl'* face. Erery now and then she glanced behind her, with a swift, involuntary turn of the bead, a* if she expected to hoar footstep* or a call. Noth- ing cam* . The population in tail country district was scanty, and she only passed a cart, driven by a man, and two or three children, truant* from school, who wer* climbing the hedge* in search of th* few re- maining blackberries. As she saw them in th* distance the uneasy look in her eye* became more marked, and she scurried by them on the opposite lid* af th* narrow, muddy lane without a question, although the was tur* they could bar* told her what she wanted to know. Presently ah* cam* upon an outlying whitewashed cottage, with a garden lull full of chrysanthemums and geranium*, and moke flying lightly out of a chimney. She paued, then closed her rather tremnloo* mouth determinedly. "No," the said. " 1 won't. I'll find the house somehow." \tlsat, seeiug a man working in a field, she called to him over the gat* ! " You needn't com* no nearer, bat I with you'd tell roe when the minuter lives." " I ain't coming no nearer," said the man. surprised. So* that little whit* house by th* big ellem ? Anybody'll tbow you." Sh* went away in the direction he point- ed out. A* she cam* near th* heard the cry of a child on the other side of the wall sad slackened her pace. " He's children, toe,* the said to herself. " Well, if* his also*, he's got to coma, aad I was told to fetch 'm." Sh* rang the bell aad asked for th* minuter. " I don't know at yo can see Mr. Wood." said the girl who appeared in answer, ' but if you like to ttep in, yoa can leave a message with the missis.'' Si.* hesitated. " I'll stop here," she said. In a minute or two the h*ard a light foot- fall and Mrs. \\' xxl came into th* passage. " Yoa asked for my husband V .he said kindly. " I don't know your face ; I think you must be a stranger ? ' " XV* haven't been here long. We'tn over to Allington." " And do you wish to speak to him T" " He'* wanted to oar nous*," the girl answered in a dull tone, as if ths wer* re- peating a lesson. " Johnny ani Tora'i both dead, and mother's dying. Father 't down, too," th* added. Th* curate'* wif* turned whit* and step- ptdback. What is it " sb* said faintly. "Pipthsoty. Everybody 't that scared of 01 they won't com* nigh th* boo**. Th* baker put* th* bread inaid* th* garden gala." She spoke stolidly, a* if already th* cutting off from huaan fvllowihip had be- come a matter of court*, and she did not ' look at the shrinking figan of th* wif* and mother, who stood staring ; but as no an- j swer came, she added. " Fhe minister'* wanted." Then was a ptatt, and suddenly the wife sprang outside and palled the door be- hind her. Her face, still whit*, had grown hard and reeolute, and th* nervous twitch was painfnlty apparent. A shout rose from tno otiildrea in the garden. " XV hy did yoa ooa>* hen ? Allington is not in this parish." " Then'* no at* going to Mr. .Ism**." " Yoa mast try. Go back and *ay my husband can't com*." Tb* girl glanced at her with dreary ac- ceptance before the made a final attempt. "Mother's awful bad. Th* doctor say* her can't last th* night." Th* other stood stilfly, bracing hone'.f to her words. "It's terrible, sir. Wood would be very sorry if h* knew, but bo can't com*. He's away," she added. And taking out a pune a* meager looking at herself, th* dropped a few shillings into th* girl's hand. "Then, go," th* mid hurriedly, "and mind you don't speak to any one in th* village." "I ain't going to speak to no one," re- turned th* girl, with a tou.-h of indignation in her voice. She held th* money in her limp hand without looking at it or thank- ing the giver : her eye* meditatively fixed upon the door, the handle of which th* minister'* wife was grasping as though fear- ful that she might force an entrance. Once more she vagaely repealed, "Her won't last the man t." "You'd better go back at once." They hoard a child, *t that moment, call, "Mother, mother!" The girl lifted her heavy eyos aad looked full in th* wife'* face. "Yes I'll go," she said briefly. Turning away, she wont along th* road by which sh* had com*, and Mrs. Wood stood rigidly watching her, still holding th* ban ii* of th* door. As the last flutter ot the faded lilac print was lost round a corner th* tention failed, and thi leaned against the door with ail her limbs tnrabling. ' XV hat h*v* I don*? XT hat have I don*?" she murmurs- i. "If John knew he'd never forgin m*. What business had they to sen 1 for John, when th-y're none of hit T" She paused, her tens* of justic* refuting to tak* shelter behind thi* thought. Allington was a tiny hamlet, lying strictly within the border* of another parish. whr* th* vioat was very old and innrm, bat th* curst* of Marldon had never shrunk from responding to any call which cam* from th* two o/ three families inhabiting th* poor, low-lying, damp, out-of-the-way cottages. Least of all wo'ild h i hare refuted nsw ; and, as th* felt in her own conscience what his oonacicno* would suffer for th* act, sh* started upright acd turned to run and tell him. But she had on* of those strong wiU* which, from their very power over their possessors, an often unsuspected, and it rot* up now like iron. " No '* she said, "h* shall not go. Hit throat it weak and h* it *o careless of infection that he would let th* children play about h>ra at they always do. If he ha i known that h* was wanted I would not have tried to stop him ; I wouldn't lay th* tin of a nfusal upon his shoulders ; but if I take it myself, Ood cannot be angry with him. I will take it I do U'.s it. Sh* lifted her gray face to thtgray tkie*. "Uood Lord," the said toUmnly, " rememSer I The sin is mine." Then she opened the door and walked de- tenelnedly into th* little room wher* her husband was trrr " Who was that r h* asked. "Only a girl," aba replied, bar heart baa ting. Xo on* wanting WM? W*1L that'* a mercy, for i'vt stack at this ssrtxoa long enough." She had gone behind him, and now stood looking over his shoulder. " How you slave, day after day !" ah* xeUimed at last, with aa impatience which surprised him. " If then'* nothing' elm, there's alwayt a sermon to be written, and they tak* so long ? Other men don't spend so much time over theirs." " I never was quick at that tort of thing.' he admitted readily, " aad I'm not lure 1 4* much good by it. However, it has to be dons." "I wish you'd go away and tsjtc a holi day !" aba exclaimed abruptly. " Take a holiday '. ' he repeated in amazed tat. " My dear, ar* you mad ? Fray what would the vicar say, and who wool do th* duty ? ' "Oh, I'd find some one, I'm quite eottaig I could find tome one ; and you are lookmn to tired that you are very likely to break down on lea* youget change. If it wen only to Donnington, John." ah* harried on, pot- ting ap her hand te check his interruption, "it would be better than nothing, and yon know that Mary ha* boon worse, and it would b* th* greatest comfort to them '." "My dear Louisa ! " Sh* pcshed his hand aside breathlessly. Come, my yes, my yet, just to pleats Let m* go and pack your bag, and then yoa can start by th* 3 trvii." H* began te laugh, "What an yon talking about ? This is October, and we will discuss a holiday when August cotre* round, and the vicar has had hi*. I can't imagine how such an unreason- able idea got into your bead ! Pray take it sway with you aad toav* m* te my ser- mon." As she did not reply Jo* looked roan 1 and taw tear* in bar eye*. "My dear love," be said in a changed voice, " I lhall begin to think it is yon who ar* overdone aad want th* holiday ! If you ar* really speaking seriously, recollect how much illness then it about ; yoa know I should not liks to b* absent eren for oa* night whea it might b* a tick soul was in tore need of help. " " Everything falls oo you !" tier ton* was sharp and reeeatfuL. for already sh* was fighting with reman* and a gnat fear. " Well, well," h* mid. smiling. " w* needn't grumble ; hard work agree* with me, and, God knows, I'e mi r* blessings than mo*t men. Hadn't you hotter see what those children ar* after ?" Dinner time came, and ah* helped th* children mstbadicalty, although ska was more silent than anal ; aad if bar husband had been an observant man b* must bar* noticed it, His own thoughts, however, were busy with th* possibilities of a village reading-room h* wa* starting, aad witn setting a Latin exercise for his boy ; he had ao aiBBiatitn of tbe remtrtt with which hit wife brought op to foil duty th* high- est obligation of Ufa was battling. It struck him at last, however, that she look- ed even paler than usual, aad, remembering with some uaoatinem th* little scene in his ttudy; be said kindly. "I am afraid, my dear, that the children hav* tind you." " Xo," sb* said ; " no." Tbsa quite sud- denly, suddenly even to herself, for it did not seem to her that the thought had flashed into her mind until toat moment, she add* d : " But If you won't go to Pnimlantaa I believe I shall." " Ton !" h* exclaimed in utter bewilder- ment, for hit wife'* reluctance to leave bom* had pssssd into a proverb la her family. 14 Yes. Why not ? Anni* can manage for you and th* children for a f*w days, or perhaps your sister would cone." " Mary it not really worse, is sha T" " Xo. Bat she feels seeing so littls of as. If you don't mind, I think I will go this afternoon. As sh* said them words, the flan; him a frightened look, but tba asaaseasent af her first announcement had swallowed ap that af th* second. " Of count I don't mind," h* said slow ly. " I dare tar you're right. I'm afraid F r* been selfish in keeping you away from poor Mary. Won't you tak* an* of the childrea ? " Ob, ao, no, ao !" th* crwd. with a qaick shudder. John Wood wa* a man of easy adapta- tion*, and by th* end of dinner th* first I ttra igeness of her proposal had worn away. Sh* was relieved from any fear of hu wish- ing to *ee her off by hi* telling bar that b* wa* obliged te go immediately to a dutant part of th* parish, aad would tak* th* elder children part of th* way with him. And when he offered to leave her bag at th* station th* said sh* would prefer te carry it herself. "How long shall you stay ?' "Ob, perhaps a few days. It will de- pend upon what I find when I got then. Yon won't expect totters, will you. John? I'm going te have a real holiday. * "So it it IBIS," b* said, milling. "Bat do just what you like, and by all means enjoy your holiday. I mutt be off. Good- by." And h* kneed her. She would hare liked to hare warned him against taking the children into any bouse whan infection might lurk, but da. ed not. Sh* fell as if th* very won! would betray h*r. Scarcely knowing what sb* was doing, th* moved like a person in a dream, packed her clothes, took the pad- ding in a basket, saying the wanted it for a tide woman, kiesed the younger children. aad went out of the houm. At the passed the- turning when th* road branched to the station, her thought* began again to follow, step by ttep, th* girl who bad walked along the green lanes that morning, unsatisfied. She nad a qaick imagination, and ah* pictur- ed her dragging drearily back to the death haunted house with no better mesmg* of comfort than that tbe minister was absent. Srppoo* the spoke to any one oa bar way horn* it was only aat'iral for a girl te talk and learn the truth ? Soppooe as she half fancied the girl henelf suspected th* falsehood ? Th* neighbor* would ria* aad cry *ham upon her husband her husband, who would readily hav* .aid down hit life for hi* Ood and hi* people, aad she would have brought it oa aim. It was thit convic- tion which now earned heron her way. She could not hav* put her intention into word*, but really the grasped at the idea of atone- ment which presented itself, fancying that if sh* went te toad the tick woman no one ooultl complain and that her nursing might sav* the Bickering Ufa, Then in a day or two she would really go oa te bar sister s. At th* door of th* Ant cottage shs nacbed stood th* girl who had corn* to her Ska nugSt hav* been expecting tk* at stir *r watching him depart. Although the cot, tags was slots to ths nad, already It ssstniTl ta bar* pat oo an aspect of tragic f orient neaa. XV baa Mrs. XVood rpoke the girl turned her iaca witboat thawing any surprise. It was the older woman whs trembled. "How to ah*?' "Wmkar," said in* girl laconically. Tk* other turned pale. "Ha* the doctor beam?* " Ym. " "I'm com* to nun* her. I hope you won't mind, because I know a good deal about sickness, aad you must hav* too much oa your bands. Perhaps I can do her cam* good ; at any rate, I'll try," she added humbly. " Ton know who I am." Ym/ mid the girl, half closing bar yet, and glancing at her visitor with what might hare bsea indifference or contempt. ' You can com* op if you'm minded te. Ska tod th* way, climbing a rickety stair- ana* which tod dinctiy mto a tow roo-n with on* small window, set deeply under overhanging ragged thatch. The room felt dreadfully stuffy. On a truckle bad, beneath a gray counterpane, lay th* tick woman ; by her side, gaunt aad livid, the boa band tat leaning forward, his arms roams*: oa his kasn. At the curate's wif* earns nervously in b* merely glanced at bar without speaking ; tk* tragedy of hi* tost, or hu own ills us. absorbed his faculties. She looked round upon the untidy, repul- sive details and the disgust they caused aickened her so that ah* caught at a chair, a* if th* hold upon it would prevent her ling away. Then th* stronger im- yed bar again sad carried her to although she saw it was use lest to spssh te her. " 1* then anything w* could gir* her?" the asked the husband. H* pointed to a bottle. Then'* torn* stuff the doctor toft, but her can't swallow. ' His hoars* and raastai ; te bar it sounded lik* th* voic* of impair. Her heart soak lower at ah* began te n Jit* her halpltitsitt. the urn* that followed, th* lying woman'* eyes, with aa awful look in than, wen nx*d oa her de- spairingly. Go when the would in th* roam they overtook bar and asked why she had aishsasria bar God and her husband. For a time shs faugh: them with th* iroa itrengthof her w> 1 but they wen in nag er: on* by on* they broke down her defens- es aad toft her shuddering. Tot it wa* night before th* gar* way altogether. Th* girl had gene aawnsttin. the man was ataaatng. when ah* fell apea bar natai by th* bedaid* aad cried out pitaaaaly: "Oh. don't, don't curs* no any mere! H* shall com* te- morn wr Wa* it fancy that the *ym which held bar brwbtmtd? for 'a moment shs thought so, and yet to her own ears to-morrow sounded Ilk* a mockery. Wild dreams of dying te fetch him w*n in h*r brain when a rote* tpeakiag to th* gtrl below, a stop oa the creaking stair, mad* bar heart ttand still, for ttep aad rain wan her hus- band's. Sh* sprang te her feet aad shrank back, her thia bands nervously tistaia, ach other, aad as the was in the shadow h* did not at firm distinguish bar. But as hu eye* realized who it was be Hinnta 1 in Ska came out InsnMing aad grasped bis arm " Ob. John !" the sobbed. "What brought you? I thought yaa wore at Dnonicgtoo "* " You'll never f-x-giv* m*/ sh* mid. dis- regarding. "They sent for you to corns here this morning aad I was afraid te tell yoa." " Afraid?" " Becaus* of the infection and the chil- drea. I said you won away, aad then th*n I grew to miserable, thinking what they might say of yoa if they found eat that it was a lie, -.hat I couldn't rett. I tancto i I might com* aad do something te make up by nursing her, but I haven't John, don't b* too angry ! I'll never b* so distrustful again." H* mad* no answer M her appeal, but put her gently on on* side and itepp* I forward to th* sick woman, who lay mon quiet. When b* knelt and prayed there a nsw tenderness in hi* All through d to* dyi suppose shs knew mon abeat th* th* two yosatntr boys than they fa she hat btoa calling out for ana th* death of calling out for km all day. Bat there was ao poaubiUty of gttBar, at him." Sh* drew a long breath of r*h.f. "Aad thi* wa* what you meant whea ye? aid you had some disuse* to walk ?' " Aad what yoa meant when you curbed for Itaaaioztoa T" mnington ! es don't ; of it. Sb* was silent then, cried oat sadden ly, "TtM*ailena!lasi*unyauditlaoterea change your clothes when JOB go* homo ! Oh. John, hoar could yoa, how eould yoa '. And I not thtwa te tee aftor thorn !" LK OEI. i n ixni H -IK i i ainn* la Back* aa4 Carried ea Camels to Che aeaoosr*) for I \ p. n. In s series of article* describing the toliiit. cultiva W LtualEra, there intaresimg deacripttve bit : In digging liooriee root in Syria the asmal way is to start a trench the length of the place to be dug over, about two feet in rate per pound. Aa allowance u ways made tor the dirt that ding* te the root*. Tbe root is then spread out for a few day* te slightly dry .and pdi in stack* about thro* foet wide aad four or five foot high, rounded off at th. top in ardor te shed rain, and th* piles an narrow anougb te prevent betting. At the *ad af tba rainy asaaaa the root it spread oat to dry for about two months, being turned ever front time to tiae. daring which pro- cess all tha ndhariar earth dne* sad raui off, leaving it clean aad ready fer transport to th* point of shipment. It it then put into canvas sarkt, each containing from 20U to -J50 pounds, two sacks being a load for a camel or a mule. Fur th* transportation of th* root from coalract it usually made with I Bedouin sheik for a certain amount of can- tan (of about 500 pounds each) at a certain price, he to furnish camels and men and the owner te furnish and fii! th* sacks. About fifty camsls ga in an* caravan or drove, far which fire ma* an mmeiant. nnmstimm. if lOOcamals an used, the cararaa goes in saatiian ; one man riding a donkey toads the list cam*: and the not follow tha load- er, while th* elfr HBALTR ObaaitT. 4 read*ra*:ts''a(e there no anti-fat modl- We answer. yet ; than an miu*jsr which will ear* obesity. Ws have yoaag IswUe* who haw very pal*. thui, aad thought, by draiking -mttpr.tttiaa; picks** cc. W* an ton you have all known SB oh young ladios. OM young lady laid SM SB* sad beea taking hexf a glass W daily. Sh* WM thim, haggard. sad M whit* a* a corpse; she was is bet i oaraae, me had Marty killed be* horsalf thin -* y- 1 " ^hi has! taooa, awl by ilssttiyiat; avails teetsatf pato, btoad- destroyed b*r < . her digeetijo tas'i toss, aai thia. Is toe same way, the penoa who is ore* -fat may dostroy hi* ta: by da- stroying bis liver.by taking maWicia* which will destroy his ligssliiia, which will r*m- der hi* Urer inactive, and which will tear In th.s way bat ho it. saier.ng from Hisb>s. II The An of thai would whiaky enough, he could cun bit < bat it would rain us* Uv*r. IB live BtaotMr a person stay b cured af obesity, hat it M at too grsal a COM. Anti-fat thorn of I an walk, teanmc any ay ing or lagging tea far be- usually atart early in the hind. They momiBg and go lea or fifteen eiilat. eheq a halt u made, the leads are taken off aad the camel* are allowed to browm OB the thorn or other bask** for tore* or four noon, then loaded again aad about the m*a* dim*** travelled, when they are again un- loaded and the night t* snout in the open air and an early (tart mad* the next morning. AnH to on until the nahnard i* Some yean ago a lady gave a physician torn* aati fat ptik as a specimen of what shs had been taking for obesity. It waa guaranteed that two or thre* of ibaat pills takta two or tan* time* a day for six month* would cur* tk* want casts of obesity. Elimination proved thai they wen computed amply of chalk carbonate ef Lm* nothing mon. Of coarse they a* harm, bat they ware aomg ao good, except a*) a mind-cur*. But w* imngins a nuad-eur* doctor would sot like to under- take a oat* of obesity. W* never beard ef sack a cans being eurod by Christiaa I Tha natural remedy tor obesity cise%Bdnstricteddjet.andth.re. thi* listtit hat is art alii in America to r oanaia extent, is that exercise if ao much neglected. As people at the present tin* rid* more than formerly, as manual labor tost ateaesary, at labor sav: ag hav* bean brought into as*, as- 1 OuWututM Mtxal uwBli MM pOpttlaxaTt, uanM the reoult is, that obestt) 1 One of the form* of i*rci*e aboa Id perhaps speak at man at toagth. is bail I* rld-ng. XV* could not rocoausend this exercise to a ponoa mho weigas a quarter of a ton. bat an ebaet person who weighs 173 to 300 poond* will nad it an uealtottt *x*ra*e. and en* of the best moans of comhating obesity. We will only add that cold uathiag is an excellent aid to diet and exercise in reduc- ing OMB ; bat hot baths ar* rot to be other inn. Oath* Kaph rates aai the root i* obtained near th* banks of the rivers aad, after being properly dried, is loaded in bulk oa native boats called buga- lowt, carry m, from fifty to 100 wet, which float down tbe river or sail if the wind it favorable, or at time* ar* towed by moa as far down as Bassorah, where the root is unloaded anU pressed ta bales ready for shipment. BIMe* la all Laacuaces. ig particamn of that portion oftbtBritial " obmrvation and" twwaty ' experience Kiarcu. a*d gnat nmedies, a* much at -.he first witboat sxhaasuoa, dry voice. Tb* girl mm* up. th* man roll- ff th* bid and stood with hu *ye* fixed *ye* Tk* other wife > th* thoulder. will ed o on hu ite't sshsa fees. had her fan* burnd in bar ly her hatband touched bar oa t .o dow.,- be mid ; "la ently. ' Never before bad the been afraii of him. _s at his voic* sounded like th* vote* ol a jadge, and sh* mid to herself that h* could not forgive her for having kept hint away ntil it was too late, and the did not dan disobey. Sh* stood miserably at th* open door looking out into the lane and at the light iwaymg of the tram against a wind- swept sky, an i it seemed hours before b* joined bar there. " Ska is gone." be mid quietly. ** God forgive me !" the returned, with a th adder. lK't yoa think you had better go and see if then is anything you can do for them *" ' Oh, I can't '." sh* cried involuntarily. bat th* next moment th* had left his lid* and wa* climbing th* stairs. Whea ska cane down again the two went silently out into the lane. It was th* who spoke first. " Yoa need not b* afraid," she mid : I shall n*v*r forgive mystlf." Then, at he did not answer, sh* pat a question: "John, haw did you bear r' " They told m* in th* village this morn- ing, that theis was serious illness at Ailing- ton." " Yet : bat. of course, U I bad let yon know that a messenger had com* to fetch you. you would not have waited." " I came pretty scon." " This evening, I know, but too late for that poor tool to my what was wasted. Oh, it was dreadful of m* ! Nothing that yoa can my is too bad. " ' It was not like you, bat, happily, it did not mtf.tr to her, for I walked hen directly after dinner. I did not tell you when I was going, becius* you an to eas- ily frightened about infection." Sb* stopped sod held him from her with both hand*. "Yoa hav* been her* before to- day r' "Why, did TOO not know? Did they no 1 trll yon?" ne asked in surprise. " Not a word ' But, John, I thought it was yoa I don't understand then was itmtont ths wa* hungering to see?" " Ah, yes. poor woman ! They had but on* other lad, and b* boa gone to tsa. I afthtcatalotrueof th* Bruiah Mast-urn Lib- rary BOW in progress of publication, which is devoted to tbe sculptures, is furnished in the article oa th* Bible ta th* Library of tSe Brush Moseom. mTbe Quarterly. At present, only Part I. hs appeared, compris- ing mplete Bible* in all language*. Tb* next umalmaot is expected te contain th* didlsnnt editions of the Hebrew ol I TmU- 1 mant, together with issue* of stparate parts I or of th* whole, with sad without com- ; mentaries. Aft.T this then will probably i b* a third part, given up to th* New Teeui I mant and ite vinous books, which it is ananuttl will bo ths largest and mott im- portant of th* tone, at ite compilation will undoubtedly be th* mott laborious. It it curious to nnd by the first entry in th* published part that the museum posamms only one issue of th* Bib!* as a whols in ite two original languages, Hebrew and Greek. Thi* is th* edition published by Micha*iis at Leipzig in 1741. It is noted by Th* Quarterly reviewer that of th* principal nation* of Europe the number of columns occupied by I.erman and Dutch Bibles it between *0 and 40, that by French about 1-. by Italian 4, and by Spanish and Portuguese a column and a half. This, however, aa might b* expected, oaly approximately represents th* numbers of editions of the .Complete Bible at published in th* vernacular in the** count; d*t ar* th pom.bl* of and as little at possible of ths latter with Camilla Early In too letters W Synosire*. Buhop of Cy tmt. off th* Greek matt of Africa, about to found on* of tha earliest stay*. H* tells u* how, when b* was shipwrecked on a remote part of th* coast, and he and th* rest o'. th* pa>*rngen wen starr ing on cork la* aad limpets, taut was imnfig tnam a clan girl from th* East, who bad a piaoksi wasp-wan*, sack at yaa may *ee on th* old Hindoo Sculpt on any street is smarm* i ad Ureek ladie* of the aoighhorbsad I oat. they mat her from boast to bthold with ulinlikmist and laughter. ! this new aad prodigtou* waist, ia which it 1 seemed impoanbto to them for a human being to live or breath* : sad they petted the poor gtrl, and fad bar. as they aught a dwarf or giant***, till ska got quite tat aad tamfstiabls, whito XX" hen tk* rot* of a jury in Germany ttaitdt 6 to 6 th* prisoner i* acquitted. Fiv* thoaaand words are daily sent over the cable connecting Australia and Europe. Sandwiches made by machinery an th* result of a labor siting device just invent- ed. Tbe oldest clergyman in England is Rev. Sir John Warren Hays, who was bora u 1799. Slag from blast fsrnaces U pulverised and usad for fertilizing farming lands ia Uermany. Ths tongue of a toad is attached to the front of it* jaw and hangs backward instead of forward. A* Spanish musician has devised a tys'.em of musical anmtisa by which the iharp-aad- flat system ia don* away with. Workmen boring aa artesian well in Louisiana struck a maple log in a sound state of pieeervatiou 54) test elow th* Rubber trass come into bearing m about seven year* after planting, an I with proper can tk* troa is good for fifty yean of pro- duction. Mrs. Kenneth MoLeod, of Cromwell. Mich., ha* oolebraud bar centennial. Sh* was twenty years a aid.forty yean a wife and forty year* a widow. Taking too earth at th* center of th* uni verts and th* polar star at th* limit of our vision, tba rttible univ*r** embraces an aerUl tpaoe with a diameter of 4-M.OOO,- OUO,iXX> milos. enough to eat. So strange and ridiculous i seemed our present fashion te th* deacea- j dants of those whoa* glorious statue* w* pnteni to admire but refuse te imitate. TW.K (*; r*Bt.*Ls> CeuUaae* I* Tretf* Men le Brave waav Terror* la 4asiraila. A Victoria, B. C., special taws : Au- ttralian advice* to hand by tb* Utmt direct Unt.tr *how that th* gold hunger con- tinues to tempt man to face the terror* of ihint and beat in th* attempt to 1*008 the tracklam aad wMarlom waste guarding th* I treasure* W th* Caolgardis region. Thi* u i the centra of what hi known at tb* Yilgara district, which itsalf but oa* of fir* gold fields that, although not worked, hare si- : ready made a name for themsslvm. Though i several thousand persons hav* gathered | about Coolgard:* so imuMam u th* aari- i fcrous ana that only th* mott car* ory March ha* not y*t beet nude. At point* all over tha territory of 13.000 squaro mitot gold hat been found, both alluvial aad in refa, and it ia only the fatal absence of water which has prevent- ed the mtabluhment of the great* >t mining camp of tha world. Reports of find* by torn* explorers read lik* fairy tale*. Almont tbe only means of separat- ing th* gold ia th drift* has been by blowing. yt Eayley. the discoverer of Coolgardie. tells how ia about a month hi* party collected nearly 900 ounces, aad that a: last coming oo th* reef tfaoy collected M ounce* of gold in oa* evening. In anoth- er two day* they took 6UO oanee* from th* cup of a reef, awl ia still another 40 thev gathered '--N oqncvs, tb* only they gath*nd VN ouacet, th* only for extracting the gold b*in "to knock tba stuhb out and dolly it with a pestle aad mortar." The want of water, however. tar- roun.ls the fold field* like a wall of fire, aaO effort! an b*ing made by th* 1,'overn at of the colony to find subterranean rrservo;rs which Will nttks poas.bie th* development of the continuous belt of gold territory connecting it* southem with its northern *w,-ndar:a, and tmbraoing in th* Bhitoa, Asnburtoa fivtnelasof Yiljarn. Murchison, I'llbarra and KimbcrUv a U'*J i square rnila* ana af