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 UHD0FTHEFAL88PBOP]in. .^. «»det will be i«it««^4 *» ^otj^^ i-^neal Cotaton wrtta* oat of Bii '»»*. ^ThsSoadaia guned while be meal. TheJiJl te fortunate oan humble affimi,- acrifice, AayW 8." "Itha^IJ jeafcy ordained," nd of language ea in addreaiiiM, }ald notpreiDine royal pretence- would ait id ordered to do m respect than the he Soadan. "oSea on the army, in cf of rSW«»nded two expedite ,^on in the Soudan, ttaTelling on "^^^ oAMipid caimTan rantea, and ' Cr^ In the town, and Ik. frihee whioh are freanently ^^ oapM I have endearored to de- A Sile ««*• ^}^^ Ae Britfdi «lected for their line of advanoe, wuntry in which their opomtian. ' t tTcamed on, and the warlike race luve to encounter. The Soudan, •â-  Jone may "« by refening to the map, KnSnmense region cxtenoing on boti Z of the equator and aoroM the entire Idnent of Africa. It. name w denved R»e Arabic asuxxd, plur^ svda, black, liBeledes-Saudan, a. the Arabs caU it, ana literally the Land of the black.. the eaat of the Nde it extend, to the A «e» and on the west it embrtcea brdofan and Darfour Its capital i. iartonm, at the junction of the White f h the Blue Nile. South of Khartoum I Sennaar, bounded on the west by the rhite ^ile and on the east by Abyuinia. then General Gordon was Govemor- Ineral^f the Soudan in 1873-78, a chain I Egyptian garrisons, of which Grondo- iro was the principal, reached a. far a. [e great lakes. Egypt proper extend. lly from the Mediterranean to the first iThe Nile, issuing from the lakes near |e equator, is the only source of life for le ei tire region. No wonder the ancient yptians wi-rshipped the Nile a. a god, without it their country would have |en a desolate, sandy waste, like the laerts to the east and west of it. After Lurse of 3,300 mile, (the last 1 700 Ithout a single affluent or tnbutary) the J separates into two main oranches at ie head of the Delta, finally discharging |e greatly diminished volume of water the Mediteoranean through the Ros- ka and Dottietta. ^et us iinaeine ourselves ascending the [earn when it is at it. full, in early Sep- ttber. Twelve miles above the apex of â- e Delta we arrive in sight of the city of liro. Oa the eastern bank, on a pUin [tending t \ree miles back to the Mokat- „ hills, stands the vast Arab city of arly half a million of people, -with the nojand minarets of its four hundred bsquea, its palaces, and its gardens of Iving palm-trees. On one of the first Drs of the Mokattan, three hundred ^t above the plain, r^ses the great cita- founded by Saladin. On. the west ak tower those wonders of the world, I grtat pyramids of Gizeh, and beyond km the Libyan desert stretches withont iitj until it merges into the Great bara. As we advance, the ever-shifting leidescope of the Nile unfolds itself be- I OUT eyoB. We pass the site cf ancient Imphis and the eleven pyramids of Saik- ra. In the narrow valley, rarely three [es in width, and generally much less. contained all the cultivable land of ^pt. Excepting a few oases, all the is the desert. At many points the Bily barren. hills of the Arabian ard lyan c'laina come down to the river's I?, and nothing is seen but the rugged J and yellow cliff*, with- the heated air |biy quivering under the fierce African Tnen, agiiin, as the hills recede for |ue or less, aometimes on one shore sometimes on both, are rich har- rs. whitening cotton, sreen Bugar-cane, En palms, and native villages wit^ iti^uiin-. p-geon-houses and solitary iaruts while here and there under the !)ge aod fig trees may be seen the Ite dome ever the tomb of some Mns- pian s:iint. As sanriB« and sunset long i a" veiled women in loose blue robes down to the river's brim then, their water- j ugs carefully poised on |r heads, walk away with stately stride pass Denderah, Kamak, Laxor, Ibe" with their temples, sphinxes, libks, and majestic ruins, before we ^h :lie first cataract. Oar boat, tawed BDcie live hundred naked Nubians, ing hke so many black demons, is feged up above ihe rapids between ii rocks of glistening basalt, and re- kesis course up the river. Pauing lialand of Elephantine and the great pematc temple of Isis at Phi}«e, the It picturetque ruin in Egypt, two ired miles more of uninterrupted gation brings us t« the wondertul l-excavated templa of Abou-Simbel to the second cataract at Wady la. |ere we must leave our boat, which arried us nine hundred mile, from sea. Five great cataract, and many 38 several milf a in length make navi- pn impracticable, if not quite impo.- to Berber, a further distance of p hcndred and fifty miles by water. I at and beyond Wady Haifa that the T expedition will encounter it. great- fifficulUes yet there 1. nothing with- f 1â„¢" of posMbility that British skill, and pluck may not accomplish. jtoo much time ha. been lo.b, for the w as regular as the coutm of the pi" It begins to riw at Khartoum It June 2l8t, is at its fullest by Sep- °er Ist, and decrease, steadily and re- F^y from October 1st until the next ler solstice. Instead of wasting m vacihiting about Impowible rt routes, the British authorities ^Q -idve understood fr am the first that L^pedition must follow the NUe, ooafc moi* Ihraa ^Mtlhe At Wadj Hdb otdiuMji we aapaiBd tlM; Jiile, Uw^ the tmArta feUahofLoi ttlT=T one can save it from perilling iaa ariny should have left August, and have reached Khar 'E December. Now it is impeded waterâ€" the hot season begin, in eveiT day's jofttnej. Th«K«taiM.aboT« the fint ciatOTot sm '"*inri.tt b m jv r bub with sbndi^t hair and fttOam. ITact, the I .«gdawae,monorHMattzed:aiid alter them, the end! â€" rmdtHj of Oe^al Afrieui tjpes bodns to prevsu, Ihm omn* plezion nowing daikar, dw pnffie mon prognaibnu, end the hair mon Unkj, mt altcgethe^mfikeSOie meStj headed aegto of the Guinea ooMt, the parent-fltoek of Amexiea's oolored popokition. Bolns of great temples bear witnew in these r region, to the extent of the dominion of ancient Ejiypt. At Hacnek, near the thiid cataract, numerous i.land. of banddc rock riM to the height of two or three hundred feet above the bed of the river. Moet of these are crowned with the ruin, of large and imposing castles with loity tower, and battlementd, erected nine or ten hundred years ago by the dweller, of the Nile Val- ley as a refuge against the razzieu of the robber tribe.. These ruin., especially at S arras, are strikingly like those of the feudal castle, on the Rhine. Above the third cataract we pan the large and fer- tile ialand cf Argo on our way to New Dongola, the place so frequently mea- tioned in the duly dispatches. It is the center of a turbulent uid adventurous popalation, in great part dewended f r m the old Memloyks who escaped Moham- med All's msMaore in 1811 and fled here for refuge. Among these people, slave hunters always find a number of willing recruits. Passing Old Dongola, an almost aban- doned town on the eastern bend, we reach Debbeh just at the elbow where the Nile reaumea its norUiem course after its sharp bend to the south- west at Abon- Bbimed, nearly two hundred miles above. At Debbeh the great caravan route to El Obeid and Darfour leaves the Nile and strikes ofif to the south-west through deso- late de..errs. Half way between Debbeh and AbouHimed i. the fourth cataract^ near Merawl, which acquired a tragic celeb) ity as the scwe of the massacre of Colonel Stewart in October last. Abou- Hamed i a miserable Nile town, memor- able for thH destrncuon jf a body of eight hundred Tcikieh Baahl-B^zouks (irregu- lar cavalry), who were bqi prised by the BiAhareeus, in 1820. AU who escaped from Bedouin swords and spears were driven into the river and drowned in the cataracts baiuw. li derives its only im- portance from b^ing the southern tenni- nas of the great K jrotko caravan route. On the way between Abou- Hamed and Beibar is the fifth cataract, one of the most picturesque as well as diffi mlt on the Nile. From several days' observa- tion at two different times, I believe this cataract to ba impassible for ascending boats cu account of thejrocks and the ex- treme velocity of t he water. The crccodi e and hippo potamusabound there, and aqua- tic birds are found in great numbers. One hundred and thirty-three miles above Abou-Hamed is Berber, a town of ten thousand people, recently shelled and temporarily recaptured by General Gor- don. It owes its importance to its posi- tion, being t^e great ent'-epot of almost all the Soudan export trade, which here leaves the no longer nav'gub'e upper river and finds ivs way by the great carii.van route ro Suakim on the B d Sea. Hare the ascending traveller may tt»ke to the river once more, embarking on one of the imall 6ide-weel steamers brought in eections on camel's-baivk many yuars ago and put together at thu point. Not over seventy feet in h-ngth, drawing very little water, ye*^ frequently getting sground on sand-banks, ih-y seem to have baea Gordon's "hitf reliance. Thirty miles abive Beiber we pass th'« month of the Atbara, the last affiaent of the Nile, coming down from Abyssinia and fl jwlng only daring the rainy aeason. In the peuiosula farmed by the Nile and the Atbara, called by Strabo the islacd of Meroe, and just above the sixth cataract, are wonderful vestiges of Ethiopian civili- zation. Besides sphinxes and mined tem- ples, I counted no less than forty-two pyramids, whic.i, though far smaller than those of G;z)h, would fa« considered gigan- tic in any other land. A few miles above theaa ruin, is Shendy, an important market-town, the terminus of the caravan route from Ka.- m^a and Abyssinia, and alw) of the in- tended Soudan railway, surveyed and mapped out for the ex-Khedive Ismail Pasha by the English engineer Fowler, of which only thirty miles (out of five hundred and fifty-five) above 97ada Halfe are coxutructed. Steaming one hundred mile, above Shendy, we reach the point where the Blue File, flowing from the mountain, of Abyui lia, merge, its limpid .tream with the turbid waters of the White Nile. Just abave the angle formed by the two rivers lies the city of Khartoum, the oapi- tal of the Sonduu It was founded 1^ Mohammed All, a man of grf«t ganins and iron will, who otigfaiated aU those re- forms, both civil and miltary, that fdaeed Egypt far ahead oi all other Mnasolmaa oonntrles. When he had eompleted the conquest of Kordofan and the submission of the Bedouin tribes in 1820, he at onoe reco({niz9d the importance of the oom- merc ai and strategic position of Khar- toum. A palace for the governor, bar- rack, for a garrison, an arsenal and a shipyard were constructed in .utatantMl rtyle, and the new city loon became the center of a va.: trade In ivory, c.trioh feathers, gum arable, grain, c»ttle, and last, though far from least, slave.. In fact, it always was the point where slave, and nwliiief tt« Uttle effM* was SMdwed^bafoad fHslBf Ik to iMk ammdmmiAhy mabam aiMDsd thed^ iaafeaad of fthxoogh itTllM Aw- triaaeciMiil,]Cr. BoaB0fet,a vwvintdli- gSDt gsntlaiBBaa, tdid me at the ttaae tiuit die alave-Usiaia wen dosed, it was true bat If any one wanted one hundred boTs or gills, ibmf ooald be pneored qnietlj, wkhin two ^oon. afc the rate oi thirty-ftve to fif 7 ddlan a head. En^actcnm is a dij nnmhering butween fifty and sixty thousand people. Seratal EuFopean oonsuls reside hne. The American coasnl was Asar Abd-d-Mdsk, a Christian Oopt fi«^ Eaneh, and one of its prindpal merchanta. The European colony la soudl and emtinaaUj «J»M»gtn g for Khartoum is a perfeet nave-yard for Europeans, and in the rahiy season for natives alan, the mortally averaging thisn from thirty to forty per day, which impUe. three to four thouaand for thoMaMn. Khartoum i. the commercial center of tne S udan trade, amounting altogether to uxty-five million dollauts a year, and carried on by one thouMmd EaropeMU and three thouaand Egyptian oommetoial houses. Draft, and bills of exchange upon Khartoum area, good as good as gold in Cairo and Alexandria, and vice veraa. From official sources I learned that the city contained three thousand and sixty houses, many of them two-storied, each having from ten to one hundred and fifty occupants. Stone and lime are found in abundance, and the buildings are, after a fashion, Bubstantial, the houses belonging to rich merchants being very spacious and comfortable. There are large baztrs, in which is found a much greater variety of European and Asiatic goods than would be expected in such distant region.. In the .padons market-plsoe a brisk tiade i. carried on in cattle, hoiae., oamel., a«Ms, and sheep, as well as grain, fruit, and other agnooltural produce. Many years ago an Austrian Roman Oathollo miuion iwas tatablished and liberally supported by the Emperor of Austria and by oontribu- tions from the entire Catholic world. It occupies a large paralldogram surrounded by a solid wail. Within this indosure, in beautiful garden, of pdm, fig, poma- granate, orange, and banana, .tand. a massive cathedral, a hospital, and other tuHstantial buildings. Before the people of Egypt and the Soudan had been ins- tated by foreign interference, such was their perfect toleration aud good Lemper that the priest, and nun., in their distinc- tive costumes, were always Mtfe from molestation, not only at Khartoum, but even at El Obeid and the neighborhood, where the majority are Mussulm n. and the rest heatnens. It wa. .tsted Kme month, ago that Gerdon bad abandomed the Gi vemor' ptJace and transformed the Catholic mission into a fortreu, its surrounding wall and mauive buildini;. rendering^it capable of .trong resistance. From Khartoum the Nile ia navigable, nearly to the great lakes. Sennaar on Uie east and Kordofan on the west of the White Nile are the most southern pro- vinces of the Egyptian Soudui, and ex- tend bo about the twelfth degree of lati- tucJe, whidi is al*o the limit of Moslem predominance. Beyond are the heathen tribes known as Sfalllocks, Denkas, Doo- wsirs, etc. A little south of the tenth degree the Sobat falls into the Nile on the east and the Bahr-el-Gaz«l on the west. A few miles above, the Nil4 Val- ley expands into an immense net- work of almosc inextricable marshes, over one hundred miles in breadth. There is no river that presents more sudden and enor- mous variations than the Nile. Oa one of the little stPAmers which have been doing Gjifdon such good service, I passed through a narrow gorge of basaltic cliffa, «t Jebel Rowyan, about fifty miles below Khartoum. There the whole volame of the Nile fljws through a Ckuon just forty yard, in width, but the .tream i. one- hundred and fifty feat deep at low water. A mile below, the river 1. three miles wide, full of idand., and become. .0 dutllow' that my .teamer grounded five or aix timea a day. From Khartoum to the 'akes, crooodilei and hippopotami become more and more plentifuL On a oool day, in Deaember or January, crocodile, of all size, are Men .nnning themadves on every smd-' bank, a. thick a. log. after a frediet. Herd, of wild bnffdoe. and gigantic ante- lopes, dephants, and girsffda oome to slake thehr thirst at the water's edge, and the night is made livdy. If not hideous, by the lion's roar on the land, and the oontinnd bdlowing of the hippopotamus in eveiy pool. Agilealtare is durried on industrioudy enough all over the narrow valley of the Nile, which, from Senaaar to the Medl- tertaneui, indnding the few osaes, eon- twining only t«i thousand square mUes of arable land, InhaUted by seven or eight milllMis of people edtivafeing the soil imd living in towns and pennanent sefede- m mta. Even where the diflb oome down by the river. If a strip oi enltivable ground only a yard or %w^ in breadth is left ex- posed at low Nlls^ it is made to bear its tribute of a fei^ws of beans, onions, or donra. Whwrew water can be elevated, the land exhibits wonderful fertdli^ and the amount of labor expended upon merdy lifthug water to the higheat at- tainable level, by means of the most pri- mitive "-**""^t Is ahsolntoly wsdigioas as well ss eonttnnal, for a few noaza' in- tonajSidn would rewdt in thehmning up of the crop. At the line whan the 8aA k the ^all«r of the irae,tba* â- urafesriona tlf«r whiohk tif» ssTwae of all okneza, steadily deenaaea In Tdnme hj izti|atlaB and eaonaooa evanoiation for the iMk IfOO sika of ila warn, a^d idMia IvMlpiarlniiPa yontkof tta lakaa have narer yet bean (sn n oumwuBD.) THE LmBiKIUf CLVB. Brother Gardner announced at the opening of the meeting that he took pleasnfe in announdng the presenr* of die Hon. Jemsdem Siotwell, of Vlr- siiua. The honorable genUeman was known in the Shenandoah Ydley as the " Giant of the Opcquaw," and he ^• quently had invitations to deUver his celebrated lectures in fifteen different plaoes at once. His repertoire oomprised twenty-eVght different leotores on as many diffdcnt subjects, and the one se- lected for delivery in the presenoe of the Lime- Kiln Club was entitled: "The Right Side of Human Nature." During the delivery of the lecture, members were requested to pay strict attention to the discourse, and Elder Toots was given a stool with only two hind legs, to prevent him from falling adeep and rolling against the stove. ' IHS LECTCRBB. As the honorable gentleman was ush- ered into the hall Hheso was a general buzz of admiration. It was evident at the first glanoe that he wa. a man no horM-fly would h«;ht oil by mistake for a Ma-.ide hoteL HI. weight Memed to be about 176 pounds, his height a little un- der six feet, and on the white vest whioh shidded his manly bosom was. a consta- ble's silver star. Htr coat fitted him to preddon, and the tails were modestly decorated with rows of ln«as buttons. Giveadam Jones sized him up ss a hard man in a rough and tumble, and Way- down Bebee whia{ered to himaelf that the Hon. Jerusalem ShotwdU was cap- able of composing a poem to stir the heart of every man, woman and child in the land. '^^ Feller mortals," said the lecturer, as he gulped down a glass of water and cautiously looked at the three shirt-but- ton. in the bottom of the glan, "de. human natnr' of ours am a strange mud- dle. We kin feel de sentiment of hate, love, indiffdrencej sentiment, admirMhuo, fear, reverence an' disgust in one short day. We attain de highest eminence, an' we sink to the lowest dums. We feel hilarious one hour an' shed tears of sorrow the next. Stranger dan dl de winds dat blow â€" more valuable dan any weather furnished by natur' â€" bold an' fearless â€" weak an' vascilatin' â€" human natur' can be praised an' condemned in de same breaf. IT IS A STITDT. " If We studied de natur' of a man as cludy as we do dat of a boss we would not tread on his co'ns so often. Bfan am as pliable as 'lasses if you take him right. If you take him wrong he am as brittle as glass an' as hard as stun. Dat am a mat- ter we seldom stop to consider. We take him a. pleases u. â€" not to pleaae him. Oar ideah i. dat he mu.' put up wid our style â€" not to bring us to his. I has seen dozens of men who war' bo'n all right spilt by contact wid do world. Noboidy t ok 'em jist right, an' dey wouldn't study to take udder men right. THE BIGHT SIDB. ** Some men kin be bossed â€" some has to be coaxed. Some am natorally mulish â€" some plastic. Some kin be reached frew deir weakness â€" ^«me frew deir strength. A modest man an' a proud, vain man mus' ba handled on teetotally different principle.. We make enemle. and meet wid needlen rebu£Ei an' refusal, bease we fdl to consider dera troof.. If our hoaa ha. a habit of bitin' we lay awake night, to devise some remedy fur it. If our naybur am a natord kicker we ridioole hi. grievance, an' burlesque hi. tribdashuos. If our boss am too high- strung we take de whip we are keerful to keep de ladi away from him. If our nay- bur am too high-.pirited toborrer our whedbarrer air lend u. hi. washboa'd we declar' him beneath our notis an' wash our hands of de hull famly. STUOT â-² MAK. "It am de eadest thing in the world to make a friend. Fust, locate your man. Second, size him up. If he am a vain, proud man praise his persond appsazane?, his home â€" his wife, chtll'en an' qteeohes. No man am so poo' an' lowly dat his wor^s of praise won't sonn' sweet to an egotist. If he am a cross, suriy, ont-o' sorts chap, feeUn' sartin in his own mind dat de world wasn't built onfeorreet p r in d plea, doui try to atgy wid him to oonvinse him dat dUi airth am all O. K. from oellar to carrot. On de contrary dde in wid him. Growl at de world, abuse mankind an tdl him how sorry you am dat he wasn't on han' to manage things abont 800 y'ars B. C. It will be like ddn' up a stne toe in a g s e a sod rag. "When yon meet a man who am sort o' sneddn' frew life on de quiet â€" nebber heard of outdde of his ownnaybnrhood â€" modest,unassumin, an' only wantin' to be let alone, feed him gum-dropa. Tell him yon have heard his name menshnned as candidate for Aldmnan. Ask him what y'ar U was when he mn for de IiMdala- ehar. Inquar' when his next bode of pomiiaBtobapnhlUwd. AxUtnifbn aMdnSMithwlwinveiiladdaeoaMl. Ha vill sdnfa and wbMa, bat ha wiU fa hMMMs' tUnk it obar an' ha ywB fkkBft bahnaond. Dsr' Wda»in?)__ froBi bRMMHSBkB, bat iHto nrart be eoaa libnenled en deir esqiddto taataa an' hirii ofblallack. niBKINL Aa da Hbb* aDfottad to aa hM *bo«t as* piiad, lal BM aay to yea in dodn' di. dfa- eoarse^ da* da aaan who nukee eneaska am no r ea d e r oi hnflsan nator*. It aaa jtafcaBaasy toBsaka ten good fkienda aa oneeneny. Aboaa no man's pollytiaa. Slnr no Bsan'a rdi^on. Held no aign- BBontawid anianwhohaabaanaiBradby miaioitaiea. Aa far woBsanâ€" treat all dike hf ptdain' aU. Betanin' you my eapadooa thanks, far de emUematiod in- difierenoe yon have exhibited throughoat the delivery of this odebrated leeture, I draw mysdf to a dcaa." An ArabUui Sect. A ooart was filled with the forms of Arab men and women squattiiig on sa- cred mats, and facing a platform where eight Arabs engaged in a fantastic and fascinating dance. As the moscians be- gan to play dowly they mcved the upper parte of their bodies forward and back- ward and from dde to side. Gradually the music became faster, and faster and faster they went, throwing their limbs and bodies about in almost incoDceivable positions, until I c lald scarcely beheve that the rapidly whirling mass before me were human beings. Several hundred yoars ago there lived in a pashdik of Arabia a learned mara- bout (priest) who ga'hered about him many disciples, but ai his teachings were not consistent with the K ran he drew upon himself the enmity of the reigning ptshi, who banished him and hts dis- ciples to the De83rt of Sahara, whither they were taken and le t without food or i ater. Then the marabout aroae, de- slaring he had received a revelation from Heaven tolling him that nothing they would Out would injure them. Accord- ingly they feasted upon scorpions, snakes, and priokty-peur leayes. When this mir- acle came to the ears of the pasha, he enticed them by offers of pardon to his palace. Ha throw them into a dungeon tilled with scorpions, bite of crockery, glass, and other similar tonics, and told them they would not be releasad until they ate everything. Is was no difficult task, as they had been growing fat on the same sort of food. The pa^ha, hav- ing seen them eat, granted them all a fail pardon, and m«de AU Ban his vizier. The desc^idanta of All ard Us disciples formed a sect called Alssaouas, who every year, on the anniversary of the trld in the dungeon, odltbrate the event in the manner I have described. lam told that la some places the .est .till eat .oorpion., and chew glass. â€" [Arabia Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer. Generals ILUIed In Battle. The death cf Gren. E»rle cdls to mind how few inatonoes thero are of British generals beias; killed on the field of battle. Since Pioton fell in the hour of victory at Watorlos, the eases have been very few and far between, no instance occuring until Sobraon, when that fine sddier, M*j G^n. Sir Robert Dick, was dain at the head of his division. Some of the old Mhool of offiaen will no doubt reca I Gen. Dick, a hero of csuntlea. escapes in hi. day, who had bsen wounded at Malda, Mverdy before Roeoette in the Egyptian campaign of 1801, agin in the peninsula, and a four h time at Qoatre Bras, when he had command of the Black Watch. The only remaining instance, are th')M of i Lieut. Gen. Sir George Cathcart, "blest," to quote Kinglake, **with a soldier' death in action," at the head cf the Fourth division on the field of Inkerman; Msj.G^sn. Sir George CoUey, diet through the head on that awful day at Majnba lull ^-a. yet unavenged and M*j Gan. William Earle, killed in action at Ddka. That fine old hone-artilleryman, Fox- Strangways, also killed at Inkerman, held onlp brigadier general' rank. The three g^nerd offiser. killed in the Indian mu- tiny campaign â€" ^viz.. Sir Henry Law- rence, Ndill, anl Pennr â€" bdonged to the Indian army, a. did Sir Hugh Wheel- er, ddn in hi. old age in the muuere of Oawnpore. Havdock, Aiuon, and Barn- ard â€" all three lamented victim, to the dark day. of 1857 â€" were not killed in ac' tion, but died of illness contractad dur- ing the campdgxi. Impnre Air In Schools. An inddeat told by an inspector of schools shows the importance of a careful oversight of the ventilating apparatus. Upon vidMng a school hoow the inspec- tor notice 1 the impure air of the room, and qnssrioned the janitor on the cause, but was unable to discover the exact raa- sen. The janitor took him to the base- ment, where he saw four furnaces in op- sratton and where he alao noticed theodor of ehiekena. The pecaUadty o' the cir- enmstanees oaoaed him to investigate fur- ther, and he found that the air-box had been oonverted into a ehicken coop, care- fully boarded a^. The hens were having a snug Uttie time, but the inspector thought he had fonnd foul air^ Indeed.^â€" [Bast(m JooraaL Creases In drawing paper ot in engrav* ings may be removed by laying the ptpep face downward upon a sheet of smooth, nnsiasd whlto paper, covering it with mi- othar sheet of the same, sll^tly damp- ened, and then ironing it with a wara^ ftitiron. riwiMMaai mmimim^itmimimmmmmmimmimkiMilm^^^