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 iiiiplpl^^ff^ On a Tknies Steamer. A abort tiaM ago I w«at for a trip dowB fhe Tlumaa od ma of tho oompaay'a •team- en, aad dnriog tie jonmey fomd oonaidar- •U« anraaemeat in watddng tha eharactata an board. Two peraona in particnUr at- tsaetod my aotioe. One waa a middle aged gentleniao, stent, ratber anrljr aod tacitnm, who paid no attention to any living baing on board, except a buge Neafonndluid dog tint aat panting and lolliog ottt ilia tongne, or roaming among tbe paaaengera, poabins tiiem oat of the way, frigbteung tbe chif dies, and convincing nervona ladiea tbat be waa going mad by tie vigor witb wliioh be atmck oat hia lega wbile rolling on bia back npcA tbe deck. Hia maator eyed tlieae l^anka witn a aly amile, and aeemed to en- joy the terror ocsaaioned by tbe antica of hia bnrly friend. The other peraona whom I eapecially no- ticed, WM a pretty and well drecsed lady, and she had with her a little girl abont 7 years old, who called her mamma." The lady was evidently poueued of nerve. In- decKi she se«med to be poaaeaaed by them, and their nme waa legion. Endless were the p«tty annoy oncea to which they subject- ed her infinite the dilemmas in which ihey involved h r. Bat her keenest safferings in tiiia small way were canted by the on- wieldy gambols of Tiger, the Xewfoandland dog, and har inceaaant and paerile exclam- ations of terror, indignation and spite Sjrainst the good-natared brute kept up the y, maliciuaa smile upon the lips of his ap- parently annoticing master. The little girl on the contrvy, hiul, to tbe increased alurm of tbe weak mother, made friends witb the monster, and for a long time amused herself with throwing bite ot biscuit for him to catch, which feat, notwithstanding the in- oorrectsesa cf her aim, he managed to ac- complish, by making a boisteroui plunge to one vide or the other and when at last she timidly ofiTered him a piece out of her band, and he acknowledged the compliment by lick- ing her fac the little darliog fairly screamed with delight. Her mother screamed, too, but it waa one of the hysterical screaoos in wliich she was fond of .indulging, and wu followed by an outburst of anger at Tiger's fainiliarities. ••Good gracious " she exclaimed. "If that horrid creature should be mad he'll have killed my child 1 And how dirty he is, too Look at your dress, Mable see what » stete it is in i How dare yon play witb tbat animal?' This transition rom hydrophobia to a adled dress was to) much for Tiger's mast- er, and he burst into a long, loud laugh. "I wish, sir," said tbe lady snappishly, ^bat you would call away that dog, instead of setting him on to annoy every body who is not accustomed to have such dirty an- imals about them." The gentleman said nothing, but bowed and walked forward and I soon after saw him smokiog a cigar, wbile Tiger played tbe agreeable in hli own rough fashion to people who knew how to reaa the expres- sion of his honest and intelligent .physiog- nomy. Little Mabel, deprived of the a^sraction which had fixed her attentien to the interior of the. beat, bagan to seek amusement in watohing the foamipg water as it rushed from the piddle wheels and danced in long lines lazily behind them. She knelt on an overcoat which a fellow paasenger had kind- ly l'!nt as a, cushion for her little knees and leaned quiet'y over the side, wbtohing the roaring water so her mother waft for a time relieved from the thousand-and-one vexa- tions which had hitherto leset her. We were now within a few miles of Graves- end. The tide was just at tbe full and the broad exponas of the river liy around us in all its majesty and to those who have nev- er beheld ihe Hadson or the Mississippi, old "Father Thames" is majestic, aye, and if We place io tbe balance the historic, polit- ical and commercial importance of the tran- sactions of which his bread breast is and has been the highway, our "time-honored" river will not lose its diginfy even when compared with those giant floods of the West. Sach thoughts as these, however, did not trouble Mable's little bead, which began, I could Sf.e, to grow giddy with the continual whirl beneath her. A large seaweed that was dasbc'i up by the paddle caught her at- tentien. It sank, then rose, wliirled round in a short eddy and then darted out in tbe long t ddy and was left Iwhind the steamer. She leaned forward to watoh ite progress further, iurther, till her little neok was stretched presently she lost her balance and toppled over into the roaring flood. In a momant all was confusion on board. Men weie shout ng for ropes and iKMte to stop the steam criea of "A obild overboard I^ "Who can swim?" and a thousand other cries and questionings. But above all arose the poor mother's heart-rending shrieks, too painfully in earnest now and she alone, forgetting in the fond, instinctive devotion of maternal love that even could she reach her child she conld only sink witb her, en- deavored to le%p into tbe water to save her. Suddenly Tiger, followed closely by bis master, came tearing along tbe deck, knock- ing the people to right and left they sprang into the boat tbat bung at tbe item, every- body giving way lefore tbe determined en- ergy of bot^ man and dog. Ilger looked anxiously in his master's face and uttered a ^ort low bark. "Wait," aaid tbe latter in reply, "where waasbeseenlaatT' "There, sir," replied a saUor promptiy, "there, beaida tiiat pleoe of plank."' «Hew maay times liaa ahe riaen " "Twice." I'be gentiemaa drew a long breath and â- aid to fail ioff, in a low vtdoe. "Look out I" And Tiger did look ont, with wOd, flashing eyoa and llmba that trembled with anxiety. What a momaat that waa I JBywry one else ^nta passive every otiier attempt waa laid aaideVud all rtood in mirte expectation, thoaewbo were aearsoongh watdiingfor Om ririrg of tiie ohfld, aad tixoM who oonld notaeettewatsr keeping tiieir «yea Brtd upon Tiger. In an iMtaat a ray ira. rataed, aTa geldeD-triiwd 1m^«m aeento emerge fcomlSe water. The w*le doghad ««i bar adhisaara, he had Mmta """^J^^** that life aad daatii dMmOai mtM ^ktU. hr iMdly oodsmhIbc than tta* ha oeold «H« has hnr I" ha czdalmad, aa Xlpr torn to Oa lazfaoe aftar a toag diva, hoUlDg Hk- tlaMablsbyaebaflkofhfr hair lasaaha manner that liar face waa oak of water. "Behaaheraadaheisaavad." Down with ttw itepe, and on thMi atooda boople of aot- iva Hdlon, enoonragfog tha braTe deg by â- boats and geatares, and ready to raoMve hia predons bnrthen wbon he ahonld apt proacb them. Slowly be came on, wiatfnlly eyeing the atops, and now aad then glanciBg op at bia master, who waa leaning over the aide and encouraging him with Ilia well known voice. "How you are " orfod one of tiie Mulors, seizing tbe little girl. She waa banded from one sailor to another, and at laat depoaited in tbe arms of an active looldng gaatieman, whom everybody seemed inatinotively to re- cognize aa a surgeon, and by lilm carried Iwiow. "Now, come up, there's a brave fellow I" said a s^or, retreating to vaa e way for Tiger to climb upon the stops. But the poor cretoie whined piteoualy, and after one or two fruitlets straggles to raise him- self out of the water, remained quite quiet. "Help him I help him he is exhauated " cried his master, fighting his way through the crowd to the rescue of bis brave favorite. By the time, however, that be had reached the top of tbe ladder the sailors had perceiv- ed the condition of the dog, and with some diffi;:ulty dragged him from the water. With their asiiiitanoe he crawled feebly up, then languidly licked hia master's hand and stretched himself on the deck. It would be difficult to say which received the most at- tention â€" the UtUe girl under the hands of the Burgeon, aod all the womeuj who had squeez- ed themselves into the cabin under the the firm conviction that they were exceed- ingly useful, or the noble dog from the kind but rough attention of the steamer's men, under the supervision of his master. Both the invalids were soon convalescient and Tiger was sitting up receiving with quiet dignity the carcssea of bis friends, when M»ble'8 mother came running up- steiis and throwing herself on 'her Icnees before him and cla-ping him affectionately in her arm?, Uid her cheek upon Ids rough head and wept. "He's a dirty animal," said the gentie- man, who could not forget her former slight- ing remark. "He'll make your dress in such a state I besides, he may be mad " She cist her eyes with an expression of meek reproach (they were very fine eyes, and I tlihik he fe t it, for his features soft- ened immediately). "Oh pray, pray, give him to me I" she tegan. "Give Tiger to you ' he repeated, in der- ision. "Wliy, what would you do with him I'll tell you, you'd pet and pampsr the poor beast till he was eaten up with disease, and as nervous aa a fine lady, tto, no you'd better give little Mabel to me," Tiger and' I conld take much better care of her than you can." "Perhaps so, sir," she replied, with tbe gentle manner that had come over her since the accident, ' bat still I could not spare her. She is my only child, and I am a widow." "I must go," muttered the gentleman to himself. "Whew! a widow Has not tbe immortal Weller assured us that one widow is eqial to twenty five ordinary women It's not safe, morally Eafe, to be in the same boat with her." He walked away. But who may wrestle against fate When the boat returned to London Biii^ge, I saw him carrying Mabel ashore, with the pretty widow leaning on his arm. Isabella! Once Qaeen of Spain, Husband and her The late King's father, Don Franolsoo, has been exiled since the revolution, and he lives very qnietiy at Epinay, in the epjoy- ment of a respectable allowance from the civil list. He never sees his royal consort, and his royal consort never sees him. When- ever they change the Spanish Minister at Paris â€" and tbey change him pretty often â€" the new incumbent pys a ceremonial visit to Epinay. Don Francisco immediately after pays another visit to the Embassy, in- vites the Minister to dinner, and then never sees him aigain. The ex- Queen Isabella is a far more inter- esting figure, and her character is to some extent lehabilitated in Vasili's vivacious pages. She is prodigally gencrona. She gives money right and left, often without the slightest sense of ite value. Onoe, in her day of power, she ordered a Minister to send 20,000 francs to a man of letters in distress. The minister thought she needed a lesson, and ha had the twenty thousand piled in tbe smallest coin of tbe kingdom, and then waited for her Majesty to pass. " What is all this money " said the Queen, as she canght sight of the glittering heap. " It is tbe 20,000 francs for the man of let- ters, your Majesty." Tbe Queen smiled, to show that she understood the leston but â- he sent the money all the same. In spite of her three millions of reals from the civil list, she is always in debt, and tliis used to give Intense disaatisfaotion to her son. " He preaches, acolda, counsels, blames, and pardons â€" always winds np in the same way" On asceo ding the throne Alfonso would not hear of her coming to Madrid and when at last she overcame bis scruples be Iiimaelf drew np the li«t of her suite She baa never obeyed any one else and her independence of cliaracter, accord- ing to the ohronidler, lias endeared her to the Spanish people, and made tiiem quite forget the disagreeable inoidenta that at- tended their momentary quarrel witb her. She is KToteaqnely ignorant of politics, and when some one onoe spoke to her on tiie march of modem.ideaa and tbe neoeasity of comprehending one's epooli, she replied " Of course, I know the times change and yon see I never drive out with my now." A Good Com Sheller for 2Sc. A marvel of obeapnesa, of efficacy, and of j^mptitode. Is oontafaied In a bottle of that famous remedyi Putnam's Painless of thetooaWe, there aote quickly but so P«mtei.ly tb»t nekhingi. kn^ of ite ii! "ttaa^mun am eon, ia shelled. BewarT^ mbetitiitsa offiuad for Putnam' Com Extnetar-i-safe, Sold at dmggiata. aore Pafaileu Paialen. fOifaoawaepalaaai A bnakat-ehop ahonld nuwgad by OYSBTHBOGEAI. Tha Loadoa Timtt of Oek. 82 had sarw yaidi el politteal ipeaefaH. Tha MiliUuy /onniaZof St Patonbug pnUiAaa a Ifiaiaterial danaa ordaiing that eaoh of tta battallaaa of duMaan ihaU liaya a midwife on the ataC The French doctor who Mnt pc^Kmed game to a rival, **by way of a prastioal joke," baa been Mnteooedto tight yean' impriaon- ment with hard labor. Foor artiaana have been appmnted Joa- tiooa of the Peaoe in England thia year throngh tha initrrnnentaH^ of Mr. Trevel- yan aa Cluuioellor of tha Daohy of Luicaater. Jainea BumU Lowell has given to Har- vard Library alioat 600 roliunes of rare hiatorloal booka and works of beOes Itttres, chiefly Spanisll, which he picked up in £ng- bnd. The Colonelcy of the Royal Hone Ooards, vacant by the death of Lord Stratimalm, baa been held ly thirteen dukes, tliree mar- quises, four earls, two viscounta, two barons, one knight, and one commoner. The necessity of maintaining, as at prea- ent, eighteen palaces when Qieen Victoria reaidea bat in one, and tiiat for oaly three months in thr year, is likely to ocoapy tbe next Parliament. The much-abused clerk is not the only penen liable to accidents, with poisons. A recent case is cited in Jennerette, La., in which a father of two sick children gave the medicines prescribed for each of them to the other, tbas killing both children. The cotton crop of Central Asia has besn unusually good this year. Many owners of cotton milk in Russia seem to prefer Cen- tral Asia to American cotton, and have ^- tablisbed direct relations witb the planters of Bokhara, Tashkend, and Khiva. The histor:c pirk of Hamilton Palace, Scotland, will soon be broken np for a coal field, the gardens are leased to a nurseryman, aod the pale c3 will probably soon be dis- mantled. The Duchess of Hamilton late- ly paid the plaoe what was probably a fare- well visit of two days. The removal of the impedimente to the navigation of the Danube at the "Iron Gate?' is to be carried out at last, in con- formity with the stipulations of the treaty of Berlin, The Hungarian Government baa decided to have the work executed. The cost is eat:mated at $6,000,000. Saicide is increasing in Berlin to a fright- f al extent. In one day lately there were ten cases of seli-morder. There have been several instances quiterecently of stock job- bers and other speculators moving in the upper ranks of society who blew their brains out in a fit of despair at financial misfortane. The lady secretary of the Anti- Vivisec- tion League of England argues, in a letter to M. Paateur, that oautenzatisn removes all danger' of hydrophobia. Her son once and she herself five or six times have thus escaped the malady, and both offer to be bitten by any mad animal in M. Pasteur's laboratory on condition of being allowed to treat the wounds themselves. Tbe expression "cool as a cucumber" now resta upon a solid scientific baai^. In a recent â- tudy upon the heat of fever, an English investigator, whileseekingfor certain analogies in plante, took the temperature of the popular esculent at various stages of ite growtli, and found it to be about one degree below that of the surrounding atmosphere. But the rule holds good for the young cu- cumber i only. Venerable specimens were two degrees warmer. The hmA UbimmlkwmS, **Awlria-Hi fai Ward aad Floton," wfakd edited nadw Iha nsâ€" aaV aieottai t the Grown Mnoa This firrtlana ap p sarad ontlie Isfeef Deoambar, aattwill bafeilawed byothsn faam fortnight #iartaii^ ontQ the whda workli completedâ€" that is to say, in eight yean at the earlieatt hot pos- sibly not befon tan yean has etafMd. In a reoant lectoro on lepro^-^-a dissase whloh has been widely d i s o n sse d of late- Prof. HatcUaon of the London Hospital â- teted tiiat it ii not contagions, nor is It an hereditary disease, thongh it teay, of oonne be transmitted. He iMdieved leprosy to be oansed by eating fish which has been some- what deoomposed, or has been salted. Heilthy fish in any quantity will not oanse it, but a small quantity so poisoned will. ' When leprosy prevailed in England the in- land consumption of fish was very large. He dtes two cases of cue of the disease, one of which was treated by himself. One of the most remarkable of docks has just been constraoted in London for a bank- ing establishment. It is on the twenty-four hour principle, and is notable aa possessing probably the simplest method which was bopii yet restarted to for indicating time a::- cordingto tbe new enumeration. The clock in question has only one handi tbe long minute hand, and the figures around are placed as heretofore. Instead, however, of indicating the hours, they indicate the minutes only, which are marked from 5 to 60. The boon are shown on a sunk dial revolving onder the upper dial, a space being left in the up- per dial faato which tHe next hoar figure comes forward instantaneously upon the minute hand, completing ite cbvuit of six- ty minutesâ€" tbat i^ in a word, the solitary hand marks the nunutes, and the Hunk space â- bows the hour. M. Hidemacher, a well known Paris painter, iias been the victim of his own mis- placed confidence. On the occasion of Ills son's marriage be gave a luncheon to a large number of gueata at bis residence on the Boulevard Magent». About 150 per- sons presented themselves, and, although many of them were unknown to the artist or bis wife and tbe newly married couple, they were nevertheless admitted, tbe mu- tual impression being that tbey were the in- vited guesta of the bride's family. In the course of tbe evening the hostess missed her purse. A search was made to aaoertain whether some strangen had not found their way into the gathering, bnt the thieves had decamped About one half of tbe company bad left, and those who re- mained were all Intimate friends of the two families. When they were Informed of what had occurred, sevenl of those yet remaining discovered that their pooketo bad also been picked, and two poitfolios with securities and bonds of value had also dis- appeared. m mtm m ' â€" aaals oookad." ^^ *y m Wenoa mnllow flattanr .- i. ** A BOW word has been mi.^ probsMyoome to ^-t^k log a message by telephone.^**^^ Asoft answer tuns awav ••» a girt wh«i ,he Is seriow^C ««H qoestaoB and means badne,Jf f^ When Clara heard that owl „f u bad married tiie tiires ,^^'»' fctafc Califonia she exclaimed V^wv**« ij -n yoa.it b the c;hj^r yoar days your true love wUlfiL ^^f banold«Uge She wUiy yXJ;"*? be married to her. ° "'PP* There is no great difference h.t^ •jarage young lady p,,je«ed 5r?J' edaoatlop and the tqneakili l! "«!N havetobepreMedtosii^, 'â-  ^S A Hamilton boy ciamed a .a. ,»_ committbg ten hundred v. L?t""'n and then he traded hU BibU for » IIS? and he aooidentaUy .hot hU ^Zt I i " A genuine patriot." said an ,\Jl^ ator recently, "must ataU Kfcl to die for his country, even thonai. u ?^J coat him his life." (fhunlKjjNj " Isn't my photograph rxcaStT^l somewhat spunky wif a t« T V "**« ••Well, my^dear^ S,ed h5" 'rS^ ^ere^alittietoomu^hrepSuifSl ai?«^wr^2^j^:;:^,H., deuoe you were I" exclaimed For" ..^ dMh happen? How much difthey^ A poet says a kiss ii "the mi-«. accidentaUy run against each other by* son of lack of light. â„¢ "yra. A teacher asked a boy who was th.« l est man •• Moses, sir," wm tt, ' "' " Very well, my biyj'and'no^'win!; the meekest woman ' " Please. Jr a never was any meekest woman? In lookug over your past life. .lutl. yoowgwtthemostat this time'" TC I didnt die twenty-years ago, whmlm als were cheaper.*' "'"as- Mr. Blackfriar (just from London). pALUHO STABS- «drop Miss Kiteâ€" "I â-  WINTBE WaiNKLES. A go-betweenâ€" Ham In a sandwich. 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They era by excellent authoi* will be welcome In any ftmnily. Remember, we prepay all poeUia •" papers and on ttie Doeks. gj^ trateil prtaeUit te THK â- AA**"" ^^â- .. ^^ WoBdeHU Htghtlm r_^a viaav deeeriptiona of Ik^^t^^a bUing atara or mel ••• "Umsss, eaye • oorreepondent, *»**^- afloonnt of an old man wh( rti"*y!yT.» mateorio rain In Alabam *»"^-fc|ohwa« copied from the ai«5^»*AT^theiire«». I do not â- Itwr'^itoded toooonrred, and witai l***7M»l»b«. without fear. Th ll^^V ^ll faMh on my mind, then -deer râ€" deaoription that aj '^H^mndl IwiU try to deacri '^*!S nHn Beaufort distrioS S !f«^^i50fflilaaBp the Savannah r C*'^^^ nilee from Matthew'a I ^thanaidenae of my aunt, at aome 1 S/Mdsy (^ dktel do not rememl ySTe^aame to my bed and took n ami to *• ""•* piaBBa, where he a 1 rtmy '•^*» witnoM tke rain of ap tonidfirfc I h»dno fear, for he !m^ and I had no •ppreciation of â- rtt migt 1"^^* '°' uioae who drea "it waaanin of fire, not atat a. The at .mukM, only ooonrred at the end of •4of fbe. ImagiBO a rain of molten J r the f arth, eaoh drop burating i Nothing elae will compare Aold not now deioribe it, if ezperit I foondrlea and amltha' ahopa had dad the compariaon. The fire fell mm like the heavieat fire run I c illimwnfl. and awayed to and fro joat as atar ii by the motion oi the clonda or wi he cnly atara I aaw were jaat aa one i MD molten iron ia ruahing into or fi ladle, or when iron with a weldiog fa [withdrawn firom,the forge, or such aa ise Chen the Uqnid metal drops npon the ea i r noh aa ia aeen in the wake of an ezpl rodnt. The atrimgeat to me was, J iparka or atara appeared except at i 1 of the lire of fire rain, which stop] at five feet ^m the earth, as far ai jodge. Toe piazza had three sti a the gronnd. I conld not have b on than tiiree feet high and the line I rain biir t into sparks on the level w; r ^yaa. None tliat I aaw struck the ear t aftar sparkling on this line disappear* libenooeeded by othera in qaiok auoo I recolleot distinctly observing t I around the yard, and the road I cUt from the gate, and wondering w I of the fire or sparka reached the earl I was not as light as day, bat a lurid li;; tartbani have ever seen since. I were perfeatly disoemible, though n k well as by dayl^ht. I do not recollc seefaig anythmg above the Ihie ot n Li jnâ€" such as the tope of trees and hoasc be fire rain was too thick to see throng r staying aa long as waa deemed pr nt in my night-dothes, my uncle retnr me to bed. How long it was before da bt I de not know. I do know I sle (tn oalled to breakfrwt. I met an o Dtlaman some yeus ago who was io can the Texas prairies, whe witneaaed tl ' nrio shower of falling stars and who Bnt talUed more nearly with mine tht I have ever read or heard. He di t have my experience with molten met tnen he heaid my comparisons wi I ipwka as from a smith V forge, heart! ^edme. The Herdei's WUy Enemy. I coyote is the Oregon herder's wi ny. He is constantly on the warpat I takea no pains to oonoeal the fact. • «Mp wander away from the camp ?i.J2r °^"' ia apt to find it out befo nerder does, and at once proceeds J?!I"^?/"" °' "»" flook- H veJ iSLi " '*• "»«' devour near] ^wnote of it â-  then summon hia confed J ' Md lead them to the slaughter f J ihe sheep soon scatter in frighten* i£ '" ?J« tte range. The coyod ttenquit. as though aware that a mol 7?J^*«'*Jlbe kept, and will tuJ J attention to some neighboring he] Qsmll.'*^'"" '^•"" "Sd shall be 1 5 i^^-d o^ eitiier by bei/ -^JT*^ The Utter mode is mo| »^ but is attended with seriol â-  BfaL^ Aapherd dogs, which in spil IHIBIU^ vi I, AN ANXKI ' iajd Uka Veatin' in! odliB'Umoft Gil ooaln'roon' eaf â- a Jim