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SEVERE ANCIENT LAWS, HOW CRIMINALS WERE DEALT WITH TWO CENTURIES AGO. Hunzt tig TorlurlBC ,.illl.. n J La> Imurl... linn-Hi r<>r *>*>u. r. Thai r.. 4ay r, HVt with Memlnal i inr. and step seat In giud. The punishment meted out to offender* against the variou* laws of th* present day are mild in the extreme when compared t th* manner in which criminals were deal- with in England a couple of centuries er o ago. Violator* of th* law then had oon liderable to fear ; now, unless for murder they have only confinement in prison starin them in the fac. Really un'il compara lively modern timee the pumihment con suteti of branding, mutilation, diimember ment, whipping and degrading public exposure. Branding was often carried on with circumstance! of atrociou* barbarity. Vagabonds were marked with the letter V, id.ers and masteries* men with ihe letter S, betokening a condemnation to slavery, any church orawler loet his ears, for a second offence might be branded with th* letter F, a* a fraymak*r and fighter. Sometime* the penalty wa* to bore a hoi* of th* compawofau mob through th* grutl* of th* right ear. TMI PILLORY OB STMWH-NECK. The pilloy or stretch-neck wa* first applied to fraudulent traders, sic., afterward* to rash writers who dared bo express an opin- ion, such as Pryune, Lsighton, Barton, Warton, Bostwick, John Lilburne and Daniel Defoe. In 1705 Mary Cool*, who had been con- vicued of parricide in York wa* deprived of her tongue and hand* and condemned to the slake. The lait (took* in London war* tho*e of St. Clement'* Dane* in Portugal itreet, which wen removed in 1820 to make way for local improvement*. Th* ducking or cuckmg stool, "ascourg for (cold*," wa* once a* common in every English parish a* th* church. It was also known under th* name of tumbrell, th* gumatole, th* triback, th* tre bucket and the reive. Thi* instrument wa* used by th* Saxons, by whom it wa* called " cathe- dra in qua rixoMB mulier**, **'tout** aqua demerge baolar. " It was not until H17 that tho whipping of females wa* abolished. Until the thirtieth year of George III. th* burning of women for petit treason wa* uflicud upon women convicted vf murder- D their husbands. In th* reign of Mary tin* death wa* commonly practised upon Ki-rinps and others who ha 1 religiou* opinion* contrary to law History ha* it tnat on June Id, 16OO, Robert Weir wa* broken on a cartwheel with th* coulter of a plow in the hand of a hangman, for murdering the "i.uid man of Warnston." Mary Jon** wa* executed under the hoplifung act, about the time when press warrants were issued on the alarm about th* Falkland Islands. Her .usoand wa* pressed, their goods seized for tome debt* [ hi*, and she, with two small children, turned into the street* to bag. The woman waa under 19 years of age, and remaikably handsome. She went into a linen draper's shop.t'Kik some coarse 'men otf the counter and flipped it under her cloak. She was H-tecisd in the act, aud returned th* goods; nevertheless, she wa* arrested, convicted xnd sentenced to b* hanged. HXK PLEA OF NO AVAIL The defense of Mrs. Jones wa* that ah* wanted for nothing till a press gang oame and stole her husband from her ; but line* then sn* bad no bod to sleep on, nothing to give her children to eu, and they were almoet naked. Perhap*, she said, sue might have done something wrong, for th hardly knew what (he did. It happened, however, that there had been a good deal of ihoplifung about Ludgate at th* time, and it wa* concluded that an example wa* necessary, and Mary Jons* wa* hanged for the comlort aud gratification of come shop- keepen on Ludgai street. When condemned to death Mrs. Jonef behaved in such a frantic slat* a* proved her mind had gone. On setting out for Tyburn her youngest child wa* torn from ht r arm* by the legal official*. According to the ancient .Saxon law*, arson was punished by death, and in the roign of Kdward L thu sentence wa* exe- cuted by a kind of lex lalioui*. for the incendiaries were burned to death, a* they were by the Gothic constitution*. In I7HI it w*>* no longer doath to take a falcon's egg out of th* nect, uor wai it a hanging matter to be thrice guilty of ex porting live sheep. A man sained Mynard wan the last per- son hanged for forgery, IB Is-j.l. In 1S33 sentence ot death was passed on a child of 9 years who had thrust a stick through a mended pan* of glas* in a shop window, and putting his ha-nl through th* hole had ilolen 15 pieces of paint valued at twopence. Thi* was construed by th* lawyers** huunobreaking, and the principal witness agsmat the offender was another child of 9 yean, who wa* aug-y because he did not fet hie share of the paint. PRI8OM*Utt OIIA1MD Til BBD. Prisoner* for aidze at one county gaol in 1823 were double ironed on first reception, and, thus fettered, were all night chained down in th* bod, the chain being fixed to the rliior ot the cell and tautened to the leg- fetters of the prisoner*. Th* chain was of uflicient length to enable them to raise themselves in bed. The coll wa* then locked, and the prcsonen continued thu* chained down from 7 in the evening until 6 the next morning. The doubled irons for tne mimed priionen varied in weight from 10 to 14 pounds. Old book* tell at of a man named Fian, who wa* supposed to b* a mal* wizard. H* wa* put to the moil severe aud cruel tor- ure and pain in the world, called the " boot*." A* h* could not onnfe** after three strokes, the King's Judgee command- ed him t* have a strange torture, which wa* dene in the following manner: The nail* upon all hi* fingers wore riven and pulled oif with an initrument called in Scottish " turka*," which in England is called a pur of pinoen, and under every nail there were thrust in two needles over even up to the head*. Even after tnls tor- ture th* victim did not ooofe** . An iustano* of undue severity wa* the sentence on a poor young womsn, who was ordered to b* transported tor having in a sort el jest, stolen one of her companion 'sl>ounet*- ' After spending considerable time in eaptlv. ity, *h* made her escape with some daring exile* to th* port of Timor, in China, in an open boat, after a paassge of 7,000 mile* through a most sturuiy sea, and enduring the most unparalleled suffering. . A cobbler of Highirata, London, wa* seen in mourning on the King's birthday, and as onnaequene* h* wa* whipped up Highgato Hill and down again. In addition, he wa* sentenced to Newgate Prison for one fear. In those days people went to the prisoner* in Newgale just as they would la the lion* in the Tower or the lunatics in Bedlam. In December, 1777, two men named Holme* and Williams were whipped twice on their bar* backs from the end ot Colgate street, Hoi born, to Dyo*. street, St. Oil**, a distance of half a mile, for stealing a corpse. Henry Justice,of the Middle Temple, wa* sentenced to death for dealing book* from th* library of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1 757, and Peter Burchet, of the Middle Temple, wa* hanged for barbarously mur- dering his jailer November 12, 1573, hi* right hand being stricken oil and nailed to the gibbet. For killing a mpposed ghost by accident FICIICK Smiih was condemned to death and hi* bo ly given to the surgeons to be di- ected. Four learned judges acquiesced in this sentence, although th* jury attempted to bring in a verdict of manslaughter. About 300 years ago hanging in chain* alive was frequent in different part* of England and m a few instances within the last '200 year*. A FRIGHTFUL >KNTINCI ROM) THE WHOLE WORLD WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE FOJB CORNERS OP THE GLOBE. waa that carried jut on Tuesday, October 16, 1660, between U and 10 o'clock in the morning, when John Cook, the solicitor for the People of Knit land, and Hugh Peters, the fanatical preacher, were carried on two hurdles and executed, Handed until half dear!, cut down by the common executioner, and their intestines bnrned. The head of Cook wa* a*t on a pole on the northeatt end of W*stmintr Hall, looking toward . f . London, and the head of Peters on London ' oot hi* ordera faithfully. Bridge. Their quarUr. were .XDOMK! m Ilk. j^ D Sauuder*. olor*d. manner upon the top of some of th* city ll <! Mew Vfori.i i . . rbroiilrlril Hrtrll< Inlrrralln*] > *>rnl.il, ill rrrui Italr. Saxony KM the deepen mine*. A Stauish, Ma., man has nearly 8ni*hud rob mad* wholly of uata skins. A Berlin dry good* house ha* a regular phynutai tor it* employes. The noapduty ill Holland bhogi $780,000 a year to ibe government. The better clax of the Philippine Island- en smoke oigan a foot long. In marriage announcement* in Spain the agee of both partial are given. A Ruuian can plead infancy for long time at he doe* not come of age tilt he ii 26 yean old. Lamp poits are lot for ndvertisiug pur- pint" by the -horeditoh Vetry m London. The money received goei to a mipport tech- nical school. It i* claimed that, the pheasant of the Kngltlh preserve* can trace IU pedigree directly to the brilliant bird of the came pecie* in Japau. . J. C. Tanker, of London, who recently inherited i.'l,5lN),000, hai sued Strovter A Co., gem merchant! of that oily, forfttf, 90U overcharge on jewels wnich he bought while intoxicated. Delegate* from a church society recently eat to Northumberland remind to deliver addreeee* illustrated with lantern ihdei on the ground that "Paul and Karnaba* never carried magic lantern* about with them." The pioprieton of ten gambling hounos in Memphu, Tenn., were arreated and their place* closed on complaint oi K. A. Hani*, who says that he ha* loit more than 9100,- iMHI in gambling in the city during the lait two yan. The judfce advocate general of the army at Washington 11 the uffiuial custodian of th" puiol uaed by Booth in the assaaimt- tion of Lincoln, and th* bullet that went from thai piatol into th* body of the president. Lansing, Mich., ha* a matrimonial cluh, whose members at intervals choose one of their number, whose duty it is to get mar- ried within a year. The club claims that in every lustauce the chosen one carried practised at Damascus age* ago, and i* still known only to the Syrian smiths sad their pupils, or *|M tha manufacture of Chinese red or vermilion. While alteration! were being made ia the Oliureh of the Assiiinpuou at Spaooafermo, Syracuse, the remains of the Si.-ilian paint. er, Olivio SIM/.I, who died about a hundred year* ago, were discovered The body was intact and d re wed in the costume of 17'Hl. A roiary was wound round 'he hands, which were crowed on the breast. Mr. and Mrs, Gladstone were sitting ID a church at Cannes the other day. They were near the pulpit, but when the aertnun i "nan Mr. Gladstone turned to his wii and aid, irritably. "I can't hear!" "Never mind, my dear," she replied, in a whisper loud enough to reach the pulpit, "never mind; go to sleep. It will do you much more good." Robert Lou;" Sl*v*aaon was a (lave to CHROMIC IRON IN QUEBEC. Dlsreverv r Remarkable lr|Mil> ! < HUbl. Prlsril >. There i* considerable excitement among Canadian miners over disooverie* of pheno- menal dertoait* of chromic or chroai iron in Colerame on the im* of the Quebec Ceutral Railway, It is not considered very surprixug that these deposit* should be quite close to the rather famed abe*los mine* of Thetford and Colerame, tor both chrome iron and asbestos must be looked for in the same iierpenllue formatloa of rock. 8 tine of the proprietor* of the D*W mine* h ve betn quietly (hipping the pro- duce foi to.au time to th* United Hsato*, bui the .si dim-over 11* of rich deposit* the ..garette habit and undoubtedly died , wir ive a wou d er ful impetus to the IB- /KnrM it. &MAA*<>. s7vM* 1 I fl In I Kl\ 1>I :> S-. gates. Daniel Dawson wa* hanged at Cambridge in July, 1810, for poisoning thoroughbred horses. Charlee S. Caldwsll wa* transported for 10 years for s tea. ing two live lame duck* ai the Old Bailey, July '->:<, 17'Jti ; John LawUy for stealing a pint pewtei pot from the Cart and Horse, Tooley street, Mill, to thro* mouth* hard labor and to be publicly whipped once during that time from the end of Horaemonger lane to the end of Lant lane in the borough. The last witches put to death in Kngland were three poor old women of Bideford Mary Trem-lee, Temperance Loyd and Susannah Kdward*. They were executed at Kxitcr, in ltW2. Ann William* wa* sentenced to be burn- ed alive at the (take, and the sentence wa* carried out at Gloucester, April 13, I7.i.'t, | in the presence of a large number of spout* i tor*. l.ydi* Adlsr, convicted al the Old Bailey in June 1744, for kicking her hus- band until he died, wa* lound guilty of manslaughter, in consequence of which she was burned in the baud. On March 14, 1*17, a woman named Grant, wac flogged through th* street* of Invernes* for bad behatior on the streets. A woman by th* Lame o! Hreeue, after bung hanged, wa* resuscitated by Sir William Petty. The time of suspension was ah >ut half an hour. This, however, wa* a legal mutakc, a* the woman wa* afterward found to b* innocent of the crime lor which she suffered. of learning and culture, is the editor of th* Afro- A merman, of Charlotte, N. C. , the president of Biddle University, of the came place, aud a member of the I'r-sby. tenan Freed man's Board. V bin's Garden, famou* as a place of amusement in New York for more than 60 years, closed ite doors forever Saturda\ night, and the work of tearing down tha house, to make way for a Ing office building, ha* already been beguu. The highest salaried employ* in th* United States u supposed to be the presi- dent of the Equitable Life Assurance So- ciety, Henry B Hyde. He receive* annual- ly f KIO.OOU. John A. McCail get* $7.~>,On to b* president of th* New York Life. The umou glaseworker* of tn* country are reviving the plan to amalgamate their organizations in order to present a solid froul againat tne possible demand* of the from it* effect*. From UN) to 150 cigar ette* a day wa* hi* requirement. When he started on a (low sailing vessel from England for Samoa he carried 'M ) boxes of cigarettes with him, and then, fearing that h* might run short, be had a large reserve of tobacco and* pap. Queen Victoria in pereon conferred th* medal for conspicuous gallantry reoently on a siniker and a gunner's mate of the Aleoto, engaged in the uttack on Chief Nana on the Benin river in A r *. Joseph Perkins, the stoker, after having hi* fom shot away, ran the angina* of th* ship's launch, which had been drawn into an ambuscade by the enemy, till it got back to '.he ship in safety. Some curiou* manner* appear to prevail m the market at Berne. A cattle dealer wa* charged with slander Iwfore the su- preme tribunal tail week. He had publicly called another cattle dealer "a swindler, a dirty dog and a convict." The court held thai the* were merely currant ex- pressions in use among those frequenting the market, and gave judgment for the defendant. Few people know that among other title* to fame nonnested by the pugnacious Mar- quix of Queeniberry u that of being a poet, and one too of no mean order. He pub* liahed a volume of really very good poetry in 1880, and perhaps tha best one of all is that entitled "I h* Spirit of t:ie Matter- horn," the commencement and tha con- clusion of which contain line* of singular merit, delicacy and spirit. Lord Queens- berry wa* formerly on the turf, and hi* racing colon were green, with salmon sleeves. THE SHOE STRIKE IN ENGLAND. tii.M-iuiikitiK Machinery Will Hoen Take ike riaee er Thu*.in.l> er . By tha look-out in the shoe trade in Englani' J'Mi.H'K' men, it u estimated, have been thrown out of employment. The lock- out is al) the more astonishing, or, it might be aaid.diaappoinliug, because thu was on* of the trades in which the system if volun- tary Arbitration lioard* bad been mud. Th* trade wa* provided with a local Arbitration Board m all manufacturing centre*, and a main board which acted as a court for appealing from the decision* of the smaller bodies. The system worked admirably for four years. Disputes were settled and trouble of various kinds averted combination ol glass manufacturers now j by the intervention ol the boards. It i* Tokio, Japan- According to the Tokio official sanitary report recently issued, its population last year wa* over l,W>s,Oii. In the last four year* Tokio ha* gained over half a million m number*. Tokio i* now the fourth largect city in th* world, larger than Vienna, if not than Berlin, larger than Canton, and surpassed only by London, Paris, and New York. It IB a city cf high civili/ation, of exceeding enterprise and industry. It is an extraordinarily healthy city, the death rate for the last year being a fraction las* than 20 in the 1,00V. The latest report of its " health director " contain* a very satisfactory account of it* sanitary condition, The growth aud im- provement of Tokio within recent year* may be largely attributed to the liberali/.a- tiou of the political institution* of th* country, and to th* vet increase of the Iwmg rapidly organized in all branch** of th* trad*. Senator Gordon, in hi* eloquent lecture, "The La*t Day* of th* Confederacy," is lavish m compliments and pro/use in praise of nearly all the leaders on both aides of the great war, excepting .JelF Davia. The nam* of th* president of the confederacy i* not mentioned. There ha* been an morear* of 1,7-M pan- pen and their dependents in Scotland be- tween I4tn January, 1*9*, and 14th Janu- ary, lv,l,">. The total nuinlwr of paupers and their dependent* in Scotland at 14th January last was !lli,!lls. M. Hertz, whose name i* well known in connection with the Panama acandala, began life a* the holder of German patent* for the incandescent lamp, and although a Uerman by birth ha* served al a surgeon in the French army. The Balloon Society ha* presented the Hon. (ieorge Nalhaine 1 Curzon, eldest son of Lord Soarcdale, and member of Parlia- ment for the Soiithport division of Lan- cashire, with a gold medai, in recognition of hi* notable achievement* in Asia. When ', asitnir-Pener reeitine ', France might have had the novelty of a revolution by telephone. The Duke of Orleani, who wa* in readme** al Dover, lured th* ex elusive use of the lelep one 1>elwe*n England and Pan* for twenty four hour*. The long illnew* of Lieut.-Col. Francis Buriugs, of Her Majesty's Yeoman of the i iuard, has terminated fatally st St. James Place. Col. Karing wit* h* third HO of Henry Bingham, M. P., and of Lady Augusta Hiring, daughter cf tha seventh Karl of I'ardlg.ui. Jules Verne I* 73 yeais old. His first un fortunate, however, that reotul events demonstrate :!::.'. they have their limita- tions when dithculuea of unusual magni- tude arise. The real orium of the present t.oulile dates from the meeting of the Manufactur- er*' Federation in December last. At that meeting the maslem adopted certain princi- ples for their governance, which, being dus<ry. In one instance, instead of sinking shafts for the mineral, it u only necessary to blast it from the side of a mountain, and four or five blast* nultice to fuinish a hundred tous of iron. All thus far shipped from Canada ha* been taken by the Carnegie Si-eel Work* of Pennsylvania. The ore average* for th* moetpart over oO per oenu of mental, costs little or nothing to mine, i* found oiose to a line of railway which carries it to it* des- tination for $5 per ton, and when delivered it u worth $iW u> $35 per ton, according to it* away. The enormous importance of the discovery and the large demand exuU ing for it are shown by the fact that of thu beet quality the manufacturers of Baltimore and Pennsylvania consume an- nually from 4,000 to 0.OOU tons, besides a vast amount of inferior quality. The total production of the art in th* United Sia-e* for 1893 wa* 1,620 tons and t he importation 0,354 ton*, but by far th* larger part of the imported ore came fro** A*ia Minor. Under the McK uley tariff there wa* a duty of 15 per cant, ad valor- em, representing some $3 per ton, which was removed by the Wilson tariff. About a hundred men are now employed at Colerame and Black Lake, working aud prospecting for the ore, and thu number is certain to be very largely mo' eased. Chrome enters into the oompoution of the ferro-cbromes used in making chrouie steel which i* of extreme hardness, and i* u*ed in armor plate* for *hip* aud forts, for shells, for tools to cut iron die* and shoes m ore crushers, tor safes, etc. Hsrro-chromes are made of various proportions containing from 4 to 90 par cent, of chrome. Chrome steel may contain from 1 to 10 per cent, of ''iimine. This latter communicates t* the metals with which it u allied great hardness and durability and increases their elasticity, which properties may vary according to the proportion of chroma. Chrome steel ia manufactured in the Unit- Jed Slat** by the Brookyln Chrome-Steel Company, the Carnegie Steel Works and the Bethlehem Steel Company, but the most important centre ot the industry > Glasgow. .Scotland. Chrome lion u also largely uaed >c Ihe manufacture of bichromate* of pola*ium anil sodium, which aroused in dyeing and printing calico, and these products consti- tute the base of the chrome, yellow, orange, and green colors. The consumers of the ore for the manufacture of the bichromate* of potassium in the United Slates are the Baltimore Chron.e Works and the Kalian Chemical Company ol Philadelphia. It is worthy of note that almost simulta- neously with the recent discoveries in Col- erame of chrome iron quite a little boom has occurred in the asbestos indiiitry along side of it, in consequence of an improvement in the Buropeuu market. Several mines an now again opened which had been closed fir a time. Mica, too, u in much arealei demand, and the proprietors of a mine in the vicinity of Tadousau.al the mouth of the Saguenay, ham received order* from the United States for its entire output during the coming summer, anil are preparing t set a hundred men at work upon it. for their governance, which, contained in seven clauses, have been dubbed by their employees THK SKVKN I'OMMANIiMKNTt. The ellecl of ihese " commandment*" was that certain subjects should be deemed outside the spdera ot arbitration. Among ' them wa. that there was to be no advance i "" ltn nli bundles, and when a genii* Well Punished. The Pituburg Despatch tells how a "railroad hog" was puniahed the other day, He had piled the space next to him in a or or redu -tnm of the preeent minimun rate of wage* for piecework statement* within two year* of December, IHU4. Kvery em- ployer wa* to be entitled to introduce maohiiiary at any time without notice, to I have hi* work made in any town or place | he chose, provided he paid the recognized i rate of wage*, and to have the sole right I of determining what men he should man asked him if anyone wa* to occupy it, he replied thai the bundle* belonged to a man who wa* temporarily in the smoking car. "All right," said th* gentleman, "1 will sit in the seat till he comes," aud he proceeded to remove the bundles. Pretty oon the owntr of the bundle* arrived at in* destination, and he started to gather up tin eltect* But the gentleman at once put ' employ Ther was to be no inleri'ereni-e ! veto on this, with th* remark, "You oan'l city'* industries and commerce. A* the | ,..( WM p,,bliaheil when he wa* 36, and residence of th* Kmperor, the piaoe of assemblage of Parliament and the head- quarters of the Imperial Qovoroment ottioe* it i* a place of great political activity. A* the neat of an illustrious university and numerous other educational institutions it is a ceutre of learning. It haa a serviceable harbor, which has h rn improved. It he has been producing them at the rate of nearly two a year ever since. Verne is very fond of English literature, and he think* Charles Dickeu* I he greateit of all British novelists. William M. To/.er, secretary of a Ply- mouth, Kng. , lodg* of Oddfallows, was re- with the output either from nm nine or baud labor by the union. Previous to t lie adoption of thftte principle* the employee, of six firms in Leicester had had on tiie an application for an menace in wages. This application they expected to come More tiie Arbitration Court, but the resolution of th* masters that *uch applications could sot be considered sent the men in theae six hops out on s'rike, and the tnat ter rep- resented in tha federation retaliated by locking out their man to the number of 900,000. Thoae who are familiar with the situa linn know, however, that the ostensible cause of the strike ii not The Till RRAI. inventor" have been at work on ft city of theatres, temples, railroadr, electric lighta, n*w*pap*r*, and all the other modern thing*. There 11 not any reason to doubt the continued growth of the progressive Japane** city of Tokio. Forgot His Name. Magistrate Why didn't you answer to your name ? Vagrant Bag pan! ing, jedge, but I for- got wot name I gave la* night. MagKtnte Didn'l you give your own name ? Vagrant No, jedg*, I'm travelin' incog. Another New Industry. Visitor (at blind asylum) I thought thu institution WM for both sexes, but I MM only men here. Have you no female inmata* t Matron Ob, pleuly of them ; bnt they've II been reutri out for chaperons. ',' ' l '* | oeutly ant to prieon for rtiree months for * K " tmrt I Ka \tniirn *titi.lii Kw hi iv.it wior.mn stealing th* lodge funds. By his conviction he forfeited a good position as storekeeper in Davenport dockyard and his chance* of a pension . In fitting the wires for electric lights in the hall ot the Middle Temple in London, recently, th* workman came on a box in a recess of the wall near th* root, whioh contained a skeleton in a perfect, slate of preservation, but from i. appearance at l*a*l 200 years old. Mile. Tartonnoviki, of Odessa, a Jew***, learned at Kiel the business of a watch- makei, and having been awarded the diploma of master watchmaker by the Trades Council in Odewa.ha* come forward a* the tint RuHian woman to adopt a trade hitherto monopolized by man. The oldest **or*t trade prooeae now in xmtouce to, in all probability, either that method of inlaying .the hardest steel with gold and ilv*r, which *eem* to have be.-u *ho*makmg machinery, and we sre on the eve of an experience which i* not at all uncommon in these day* of machinery the old ii to be replaced by the new, anil in the process that cruel but moil unavoidable of take these bundles ; you yourself said they belonged to a man in the imAer. " Th* fellow got mad and abusive, but the gentleman was inexorable. Finally th* conducior was calif' 1 , in, who delivered his dictum a* follows : " If the bundle* an not claimed l>v tnyon* on the train, then, by coming around to tne depot to-morrow, and identifying them alufsotorily, we will give them to yoii." The man's face was a* red * fire with rage, and he shook ilk* gelatine, but .he could do .loihiiiK. So, amid the laughler of the passengers, he ruxhe'i out of the oar to juirpofl just as the tt am w pulling out from the elamn. And he meekly c%me around to the depot r hm bundles the next .lay, but sworv re- veng* upon the man wno played such a practical joke upon him. Tons oi Papers. A statistician Una learuo i hat the in ual aggregate cin.ii.aiion of the papers of the world i* calculated to be I'.'.OCO.OOD.IKIO occurrences, the displacement of skilled labor, is about to take place. The men whoee livelihood is threatened naturally {copies. To grasp any idea of this mug l- euougb dread the arrival of the inevitable, and seek to avert or postpone it by means ol their union regulation*. They are en- deavoring to rix the price for machine' work at the rate that would be a fair remuneration for handwork, which would, ot coure*, render it of no advantage to their employ- er* to put m th* new machinery. However keenly w* may fee the *ad oa*e of the meu whole arm* of fleili an-. ><> are about to to Iw supplanted by arm* steel, it is im- poMible to avoid the conclusion that a strike founded on such an impos* ! basis ii foredoomed to failure, aad it i* to lie hoped that better counsel will prevail, for, cruel a* may b* the late of the men whn will b* aialodged, their pceiuon will not he im- proved by a preliminary period of short 'ominous, ending in the inevitable day of failure. tude, wa may state that it would cover no fewer than Hl,t.">0 squarr miles of surface ; that it i* printed on 7s I,--' 11 ton* of paper ; and, further, that il th number, I'-'.MKI,. ntHi.iHK), reprvKi'iitt-d, inatead of . >.( m, ., . .ii.i, it would Ink* over .'('-.'< yenrs for the in u>*lape. In lieu of thisariangement, we might press and pile them vertically upward to gradually reach our highest mountains ; topping all these, and even the bigheat Alp* ; Ibn pile would reach the magnificent altitude of 41*0, or, in round numbers, MM) in, leu. Calculating that the average man spend* five minute* readii.ti his paper in th* day (this it a very Inw estimate), we find that the people o. the world altogether annually occupy time equivalent to 100,000 years reading th*