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No Customs delay or Sm-I uitme. No transfers. For further InSml igent, or write "uunai [LONIZATION AGENT no King Street West, Toteiti, I ,Y JfoT THE AVKEAGB GiBL. 1 « (.aid Helen in the breakfast i^^oAing. "I want to go home." '"^iTS nine o'clock. Breakfast •^ nd L*dy Belfield had gone off to »«;â- â€¢*:« and morniflg interview with ' J !»rdener. It was a hunting day, " e was lolling in an easy chair .^.nrePi-ce, waiting for his horse to be hfW the door. ' nd Adrian were standing in front •*jow watching the drizzling rain, Davonshire morning, wet an d warm, l*«J„^ grey sky, and a mist 'from the *rSjrarest.butwhyr â-  tl have been here much too long I have no doabi the Traduceys JfTataffs are talking about my 'iving nd expatiating upon my tpauperism. Jlv bread tD eat at home, poor crea- tU so on. But that is a detail. My is more important. Leo and the or went to Paris ostensibly for a few 1 have stayed three weeks," if you knew how it sets my window for hoar. the twentieth time in liIf an ?!Se*to hear you say the governor." rliD future it shall be My Fathee," ;Llemn air. "But if I really were Lrling, nothing I could say would ever m: teeth on edge. However, as £ was those people have stayed too long m Xhey most be spending a great deal I ,Bey-somebody told me the Bristol was fit is not cheap." l»Ighll order them home immediately, Jtheonly way to make them obey is to Loe myself. As long as he-my father 'jot 1 am provided for here, he will _«ie his reckless career abroad. " Tffe can't spare you yet awhile, Helen," i Adrian, tenderly. ' ' You have become .daughter of the house. My mother Mi do without you. We shall only let 1 go home in time to get your frocks jdy for your metamorphosis. I believe • Ijir which insists upon new frocks as a jinary of marriage is like the laws of lelledes and Persians, and altereth not 1 the march of enlightenment." pg when a man marries a girl out I the gutter, he does it to escape being lered about her trousseau," said Valen- ,â-  " and that when a fellow runs away i'jnother man's wife, it is for the sake liippinp the horrors of the marriage cere- Uyand the ordeal by wedding presents." pNo, Helen, we can't spare you yet," pur- Adrian, ignoring his brother's re- a. [o, Helen, we can't spare you yet," bged Valentine, from his easy chair. lere'a my horse. I'd better be off pretty np. It's a long way to Tadpole Pond." I He jumped up, took his hat and whip, _[ hurried out. Adrian and Helen ntched him mount and ride away, tall and aight as an arrow, wearing his weather- Bined^ scarlet coat and black velvet cap 1 an easy grace, as much at home on the jetty impatient hunter as he had been iibia easy chair. I The horse went straight on end, while plec and Adrian were watching, and his 188 for the first few hundred yards 1 to be more upon two legs than on "Oh, how I envy him, how I should like tie going with him," cried Helen, spon- meonsly, forgetting that only a few min- 1 before she had been trying to get her- ont of that house, " deeming that she niild not exist beneath the same roof with Nentine Belfield. "Would he take me It Friday, do you think Would you M!" 'Would I mind? Well, no, not if you Uy care for hunting so very much." "Care for it. I adore it. Why, you know lis my passion. I wish with all my heart h were not. Just for once in a way, that I py Bee a little more of your picturesque |Mntry, she pleaded." "I could drive you all over Devonshire, "Oh, but there is no fun in driving and lere are lots of places where you could not •rive-break-neck hills, and boggy bits of •"Mrfand, woods and winding streams. The «iv proper way to see a country is out "â-  ?, when one's blood is up and one's aji:i u nn fire with eagerness to go. You'll Wl. 'nut a little more before the season " "' i i3t once or twice, or ao â€" won't Jâ„¢;;- .n! Think how very good I have â- â€¢""tne last three weeks." "^s was said with the air of a martyr. ' My poor, self sacrificing He'en," said I wioTer, half sad and half ironical, '" sntntoMi with » Taraodah, wline • f eQov oooia amoka hk dgw^te alter dinaw in dM "Yes, You must go „ on which hangs my own Jiwe most break-neck country in England. m go out with you and potter about '"' yon follow Valentine, who always Jiesthe very wildest line and will lead you « some of the worst ground in Devon- J»« must hunt, I suppose. pad hazard that life, "Then may I I I'fe to-morrow " They won't mind it," exclaimed Helen, with a regretful air. " What does rain matter if they have a ran. There ia nothing more enjoyable than dashing through wind and bad weather after a good fox. It is only when one is standing about in a hope- less condition that one minds the rain. I only wish I were with them under that downpour." •' My dear fielan, I hope you will never forget that Adrian has been strongly warn- ed against hunting." " I am not likely to forget it," answered Helen, with a touch of pettishnesa. *• And you won't tempt him to disobey his doctor, will you, dear " " Of course not. But I suppose there will be no harm in my going out with Mr. Belfield next Friday. I should not give him any trouble. I can always take care of myself." " Any harmâ€" no, I suppose not," replied Lady Belfield, with an air which implied that she thought the proposition somewhat incorrect. Valentine came home earlier than usual. The day had been unsatisfactory. He had had two of his best horses out, and there had not been work enough for one. He went off to change his clothes in no very agreeable humor. It was dusk when he left his dressing-room, but the lamp was lighted in the corridor and there was light enough f«r him to see the face of a girl whom he met half way between his room and the open gallery above the hall. She was dressed in the Abbey livery of dark red merino and long white apron. She wore the muslin mob cap of the Abbey housemaids but she looked no more like them than if she had been a duchess who had just put on that costume in a frolic. Her dark eyes flashed upon Valentine Belfield like a danger signal. He palled rp suddenly, and stood f ac d to face with her. ' " What in the devil's name brings you here " he exclaimed. " I hope you are not sorry to see me, Mr. Belfield." " Never mind what I am. Tell me what devilrty.has brought you here, in that get up. You are not a servant here, I hope." " But I am. I have been living here more than a month. There was no devilrty in it I assure you. It was my first and only friend, the Vicar, who got me the place â€" and it was Lady Belfield's kindness which made room for me. I have been trying to improve myself," she added, looking up at him shyly. " I get a glimpse of your mother and of other ladies now and then, smd I am trying to find out what ladies are like and how they behave, that I may learn to be a lady." " You are a fool," muttered Valentine, scornfully. "Your wildnesa was your charm. What have you to do with ladies of my mother's status Yon were a beauti- ful, ignorant creature, knowing nothing of the world and its dull, deadly-lively ways. You were a woman for a man to^love â€" a splendid, untamed, perhaps untameable, being, for whom a man might go to the devil. Do you suppose that electro-plated gentility will improve you Do you think your gipsy blood will show to advantage in a Pans bonnet and gown " " I think that if I am ever to be a gentle- man's wife I must first learn to be a lady," she answered gravely. " Come, Madge, don't be a fool," said Valentine with a touch of tenderness, put ting his arm around her, and trying to draw her towards him. She drew herself away from him, pushed him from Her with an arm which was a good deal stronger than the average young lady's arm. He laughed at her vehemence. ' " Bv Jove," he cried, " was that a speci- inan of Jromr new manners Is that Hercu- lean style your idea of gentility Why, my girl, ladies are like lilies, they snap at a gust of wind. Listen here, Madge, there s no use in our talking nonsense. You know I am ridiculously fand of you, and that I would do anything in reason to make ^ou happy; but there is no use in our talking about marriage. You must have seen a little moreot what life is like rince yon have been under this roof, and }0u must be- gin to understand that " He hesitated, looking down at his em- broidered slippers -the mother's giftâ€"at a loss how to end a sentence that would not end in brutal admission. «. •« I must understand that gentlemen don t marry girls of my class," said Madge, finish- ing his sentence for him, with those brilliant eyes of hers fixed with steady gaze upon his downcast countenance. He could feel their lieht. was conscious of that earnest scrntmy, though his eyeUds were lowered. Was that what you were going to say understand. a fellow ooold kem his beat. Too woold beiByMr^afie, Ma^ ifr that oottage, yrftii a noBple of â- erranf to wait npoa yoa. Whj ahoold wa nat be k»ppy, aweet? Thie wmld waa made far Iov« and lovera. "Thia world waa made ior honeat mem and women. Yon aw a^aoewndrel. Yea, yon are risht, I waa a fi|^ to oome tothia hooae. Bdt me temptation waa too great â€" ^to aee yoa â€" to be near yoa." "Yea might be more than that, awt»t one. Yon ought be wi.,h me alwaya, if yoa would. Will yoa go with me to-mor row to aee that oottage, Madge. Yoa could slip oat at the back of tiie house quietiy, and I could pick you up near the atablea, and drive you in an hour. The place would not look ao pretty aa in aummer, but it ia iJ- waya pictoreaque- and-Madge," pleadingly, " we might be ao happy there." " No,' ahe answered resolutely, not with the air of a woman who means yea "I could never be happy that way." "Your mother was of another way of thinking, Madge." "How dare you throw my mother's shame in my face. What do you know of my mother!" " I have had the honor of meeting her in London sociefy," he answered with a mali- cious spskrkle in his eyes. " Aud I do not even know if she ia alive." " Oh, she is a lady who has made herself a reputation in London, I assure you. When was it I met her About five years ago, 1 think, my second year at Oxford. I was up in town on the quiet, went to a theatre, and supper party afterwards â€" a sporting nobleman's pai*ty. Your mother was there. Mature, gone to seed a littie, perhaps, but remarkal ly handsome still, and dressed as only a woman of genius knows how to dress at forty, dressed to make forty more attrac- tive than twenty. Your mother would never wear a housemaid's cap, or trundle a broom, I can assure yoa. She knows her own value too well. She haa better sense." " What is her name in Landon I have never heard of her by any name but my own, Madge." "Oh, she has a name of greater dignity than that. I was introduced to her as Mrs. Mandeville. There was a Major Mande- ville, about whom people told some curious, stories, but I did not see much of him." " Do you know where my mother is living now " " No, child. But I daresay I could find out. Do you want to know " " Yes, I' want to know all I can about my mother. Even if she is a wicked woman, leading a bad life, she is more to me than any other woman on thia earth. The day may come when ahe will want my help." "I fancy ahe ia too clover for that, Madge bat I have no doubt ahe woul'd be glad to aee you, if it were only to be re- minded how handaome ahe waa twenty yeara ago." A bell rang in a lobby below, the aerranta tea-bell. " I must go," said Madge, hurriedly, and and so they parted, Madge to the back stairs aud the servant'js hall, Valentine to his mother's drawing-room, where tea had been waiting for him for a quarter of an hour. Lady Belfield excusing herself for keeping ^Blen and Adrian waiting, on the ground that afternoon tea was more to the return- ing aporteman than to anyone elae. "And it IB ao mach nicer for as all to have oar tea send for my little Irish Your horses have charm- fs manners, but they are not quick enough I °f Hounds. Norah Creina is nothing much "'«*at, but she can go like the wmd." J^^j, Helen had her way. The Irish jjr ^M sent for that afternoon, and the â- ""glady said no more about her desire to '*«ktoMorcomb. oie tried to forget Valentine's offence and "^own mdignation. "After aU he is to be "*«' she told herself. IjbZ P'*s««ice m the house was a disturbing «uce even the expectation of his return »oik • u spirits a little as she sat at » With Lidy Belfield that afternoon. She ». ^^ pattered aeainat the windows 'lteCo°* very fond of needlework, but »W; constrained to put on an Mr of kerfct,**" *•»« long 've* aftemoona, lest «l^j^other-in-lawahould aie offence (J'V^tnoon her thonghta were in the ji*™«?â„¢eck lanea or on the brown bar- "Jto* ,•*' "'tl'ef t»»n witii herbadtet ji^r^y-oolored aaka, or the bundi af pop- ttiTr "^^ ^^ atitohing atlmediaiiioaUy, Something like that. " Well, that's what I don t What I do understand is that if a man lovea a^l well enough he wiU have her for hia w§e. however low she may be. H^e reaUy truly loves her, he doesn't want to bixng Z^e ujon her. It is oidy halM»eM*edJove ?Sat would do that. If a fa^^^^fj^ earnest, and with his whole heart, he will Z^ihe girl he loves. Yea. if he were a "u^and She a girl of W«'^«i^»i«'«'g' Ther4 is nothing againat my character. Ifo. Belfield. and yJ^u know it So you had bert understand at once that I ahaU never oe ^ySiS more to yon than,Tonr motiier'a ee^ant-anleaslamyour infe.^ ..t I am Dukea know '"" That's bar J upon me, seeing that younger son and not a free Jgent I rdoltf they like, but 1 can't. Yfta 1 r^^pLri^tely fond of yoa, Madge. Come. S, don't be nnreaaonaWe. ci{^*^ little whether the shadina oame *»aiiir "» "topping every now and H»a 'l^eai Nftjl'« a the library writing Uttimt, VaSJi*?**^ weather U»%» TkuA- *«Irtdy Belfield, lMkii« vp •* *!» SiTe tried to draw her nearer to him, toffi3to«.U«iolo«.tohiaown. and«i. ffi of hia own dark eyea, which ware hard- fa«w!..d«e,^V^,^«„^^ oM(hfe "yoa yoa *^tJS bio thia fitotodtion. Aaer- I^^'/^Si «to QOMB of Vialy handling '"^^ YS^fflBI»T.liatS«dto»a. i^-taj^i^Cirjg l--k rfti-Ch-1. together," she aaid. " Don't apologize, mother," aud Adrian, smiling at her, " as if we didn't know that your tea would be worse than tastolesa if you began without Valentine." " You have not been ao expeditioua aa usual. Val," said the mother, as her young- er son sauntered into the room in velvet jacket and slippers, and with a Byronic throat. " I was wetter than usual, mother, and taking off my boote was like drawing double teeth," he answered, as he seated himself by lAdy Belfield's elbow, and attacked a pile of toast. He looked across at Helen, who waa ait- ting on the other side of the fireplace with her workbasket in her lap, the image of propriety. He looked at her critically, as he sipped hia tea and munched his toast, comparing her delicate beauty 'nith that darkly brilliant face he had just now been gazing upon. No two faces could have been more diatinct in their beauty, more widely diverse in their ch«uracteristics. In Helen's countenance, tfie lightness of a frivolous and shallow nature was as obvious as her beauty; in that other face there were suggestions of the sublime inpaaaion or in thou^t, the face of a woman atrong for good or eviL There «va8 a relief in watehing the play of Helen'a countenance after the paaaionate earnestness and fixed purpoae of that other face, ao full of evil augary to him, the would-be seducer. Here, he could gaze un- appalled. " How pretty she is, just as batterfliea and fit) were that last a day are pretty," he said to himself "and how soon a sensible man would get tired of her. Perhaps she may do for my brother all the aame," he went on, musing lazily as he ate and drank, " he is a diUetante, loves prettiness in every- thing, from architecture to bookbinding. Yes, she may succeed in making him happy, shallow as she is. He will play the organ to her, expatiate upon Bach and Beethoven, read Shelley and Keats to her, and she will pretend to be interested, and they will get on pretty well together in their namby-pam- by way." He could read Helen'a thougbta eaaily enough aa he watched her face in the lamp- light. Her eyea were cast down for the moat part on her teacup or her work-basket, bat now and then ahe glanced ahyly, inquisitive- ly, in hia direction. " She feels embaraaaed atill on account of yeaterday'a eacapade," he aud to himaelt, " yet ahe is monstrona corions about me, would like to know what manner ot man I im would like to befrienda." He condeaoended to describe hia day pleaaantiy, when he had taken the edg« off Ilia appetite, and then aaked Helen why ahe waa not oat. « The Toffttafi and the Tradaosya were foil of inqairieaabeatyoa, thinking it anch a pity yoa don't hnnt now. Son aaemed to enjoy it ao maoh, the^nid." "They were not over otril to me whan I waa onV* aaid Helen " I dunddnt ifda to hoanda ba th* plaaanra of their aodety-r bati bat," falterfag a little, and wfth a, de- weoating glaoeo At Adrian, ** I riwoUt Ttty miMknk«tb«MaM«r two wm days ba- enoagh to dve yoa two a day if yoa like. I 1m^ Adrian ia not ao aalfiah aa to want to yoa at home." a it rank aa aalfithaaaa, Val, for »H^' t»^1mat Ua wifo'a aooiaty. If Helen were to hont thiee daya a^week after we aio mamed, it woold be a kind of aemi-divoroe tor which I am not prepand." ** AU the more reason that ahe ahoald Biake the moat of her time while the ia ain- gle," retwted Valentine. " If I were you, Helwi, I would not be denied a aingle day. I would make the moat of my freedom in anticipation of a life of captivity." " I ahall not think it captivity," mur- mured Helen, with her aweeteat smile and Adrian waa contents There waa a telegram from Colonel Dover- ill next morning to announce hia arrival in London. He would be at Morcomb next day with Major and Mrs. Baddeley, and hoped to find Helen at home. " Then I shall not have to trouble you, Mr Belfield," said Helen, " Frank is devoted to hunting, and he will take care of Leo and me â€" if, if you don't mind my having one or two more days, Adrian." " You will be out of my jurisdiction, Hel- en â€" if you really must go home." " Oh, indeed I must. Father b very per- emptory. I ought to go, dear Lady Belfield, though I am heart broken at ending this happy visit." "Ic will not be long, dear, before this house is your home," answered Constance Belfield gently. " Do you know that this is a very uncivil way of throwing me over, Helen," said Val- entine laughiqgly. "You engage a man to show you the country â€" a man who knows every inch of the ground and then vou inform him that a certain Major Baddeley, who perhaps never put his nose in North Devon before, will be ever so much better a guide." " Only because he is an old friend, almost a relation." " And am I an enemy and am I not to be a relation " "I think you know what I mean. Mr. Belfield." She was goicg to answer her telegram. Quicker in his movements always than his brother, Valentine sprang to the door. " Why am I Mr. Belfield t" he asked in a lowered voice, as he opened it for her, "Why not Valentine as well as Frank T" " Oh, I could notâ€" not yet," she said. "Strangers yet? Strangers, after the day before yesterday T" in still lower tones, detaining her on the threshold. She fi.a3hed crimson, looked at him angri- ly, and passed him as if he were dirt. " The butterfly u not without spirit," he thought, as be went back to the table to finish his breakfast. He did not see Helen again till they met at the cover side, where he was presented by her to Mrs. Baddeley, who was in high glee at returning to country life after her Parisian dissipations. " What did we see Everything 1" ahe anawered, when Valentine queationed her about "Le petit Muff," the last burlesque opera which was convulsing the boulevard and commanding forty francs for a stall. " We sent for an agent on the morning after our arrival, gave him a list of the pieces we wanted to see, and gave him carte blanche aa to the price of seata. The tickets were dear, but we saw all the pieces which native Parisians had been waiting for months to aee. It ia the only way." 'Yes, it is the only way," aaid Major Baddeley, a fat fair man, who looked too heavy for hia horae, and whose province in life waa to be hia wife'a echo. Valentine contrived to ahow his future sister-in-law the way, in spite of Major Baddeley's prior claim aa an established brother-in law. He led her up and down break-neck hills, and forded the stream in all manner of risky places. Those two never lost sight of the hounds, nor of each other, and were the first in at the death after the profeasionals. When the Bad- deleys came up, Helen and Valentine had dismounted, and were standing side by side on the brink of the stream that had just been leddened by Ileynard'a blood. (to BE CONTIN0BD.) THE SMALLEST PEOPLE OF THE WOBLD. At the laat mâ€" *ii»g of the Antlir6poIo|^ oal Inatitate, ProL Flowor, C B., Direotnr of the Natural Hlatoiy Muaaom, savoa dea- oription of the two akeletona of Aka% late- ly obtained in the Monbntta country, Cen- tral Africa, by Emin Paaha. Sfaioe this diminutive tribe waa discovered by Si^wein- fnrth in- 1870, they have received uonaider- able attention from varioua travellers and anthropologista, and gencu«l deaeriptiona and movementa of several living individaals have been published, but no account of their osteologicai characters has been given, and no specimens have been submitted to oaref nl anatomical examination. The two skeletons are those of two fully grown up people, a male and a female. • The evidence ^ey afford entirely corroborates the view previously derived from external measurementa that the Akkaa are among the emalleat, if not actually the smalleat people upon the earth. Theae skeletons are both of them smaller than any other normal skeleton known, smaller certainly than the smalleat Bnshman'a skeleton in any museum in this country, and smaller than any out of the twenty-nine skeletons of the diminutive inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, of which the dimensions have been recorded by Prof. Flower in a previous communication to the Anthropological Institute. The height of neither of them exceeds 1 2i9 metres, or 4 ieet, while a living female Akka. of whom Emin Pasha has sent care- ful measurements, is only 1.164 metres, or barely 3 feet .10 inches. The results pre- viously obtained from the meaeuremente of about half a dozen living Akkas are not quite ao low as these, varying from 1 216 to 1.420 metres, and give an average for both sexes of 1.356. or 4 feet 5^ inchns. Bat the numbers measured are not sufficient for es- tablishing the true average of the race, es- pecially as it is not certain that they were all pure. bred examples. According to Topinard's list, there are only two known races which have a mean height below 1,500 metres, viz.. the Negritor of the Andaman lalanda (1,478), and the Bashi 3n of South Africa (1.4t4). Of the real height of the former we have abundapt and exsict evidence, both from living indi- viduals and from skeletons, which clearly proves that they considerably exceed the Akkas in stature. That this is also the case with the Bashmen there is little doubt. The point of comparative size being settled it remains to consider to what races the Akkas are most nearly allied. Tliat they belong in all their essential characteristics to the black or Negroid branch of the human species there can be no doubt- in fact they exhibit all the essential characteristics of that branch even to exag- geration. The form of the head is somewhat more rounded than usual but it has been shown that in Equatorial Africa, extending from the west coast far into the interior, ear scattered lines of negroes distinguishcl from the majority of the inhabitants of the conti- nent by this special cranial character as well as by their smaller stature, to which the name "Negrillo" has been applied by Hamy. It is to this race of the great Negroid branch that the Akkas belong, and they are not by any means closely allied, either to the Bash- men or the Negritor of the Indian Ocean, except in so far as they are members of the same great branch, distinguished among the ceneral character by their closely curled or frizzy hair. It is possible that the Negrillo people gave origin to the stories of pygmies so common in the writings of the Greek poete and historians, and whose habitations were often placed near the sources of the Nile. The name Akka. by which Schwein- furch says the tribe now call themselves, has singularly enough been read by Marietta Pasha by the side of the portrait of a dwarf in a monument of the ancient Egyptian empire. ;; AB07AL BABBABIAN. foM tho MlA^ «f tlw MMOlk^ **0a« or two BiM«.ys,"ariad ValantlBa, gatovaqr The Bad Little Boy aTe the Snap Away. Mrs. Shamm gave a small but elegant tea the other evening, and. as a reward for be- ing good for two hours, she allowed her son Berde. aged ten. to sit at the table with the guests. As an example of cold-blooded vil- lainy we give a few of the remarks made by Master Bertie during the progress of the meal " Ma." he asked first. " whose spoons are these " " Hush, dear," said Mrs. Shamm, He hashed for a second, then " Ma, whose big glass dish is that V " Little boys should be seen and not heard," said Mrs. Shamm with a sickly smile that did not conceal from the guests the fact that there waa a fearful reckoning in store forBartie on their departure. "Say, ma," he put in, interrupting old Mrs. Moneyweight, who was the special guest of the occasion, " that ain't our silver cake basket, is it " "Bertie, didn't you hear Mrs. Money- weight speaking " chides his distressed parent. " Well, I'll be quiet if you'll tell me whose pretty glasses these are. They're Mrs. Bax- ter's, ain't they " "Bertie!" " Oh, ma. I forgot to tell you that Mrs. Hooker wanes you to be sure and send back her teaspoons to-nighr, and â€" oh. ma, did you know that SaUy broke one of Mrs. Walker's nice teacups, and â€" oh, what a pretty plate this is 1 Who does it belong tot" '"i The doora had hardly closed on the last guest when the neighbors were apprised y a sound whose import could not be mistaken that Bertie's time of reckoning had come. A nMro, who is the happy father of thirty- two owdren, was on trul the other day, and among other questions was aaked if he was a man of family. The look that he gave the judge woold have broken tiw heart of a wooden oigar sign. Isn't it good for man to be alone T Jost tiy to shave and have your eUaat malo off- spring pUying round your aaklas with a pieoe of striqg and the aeoond ope asking yoiito draw an elaohant on tka drea ning taUe widi a nail, and tiien aeo I A pioas oitiasn at Hapriltoa wbo oontri- batecUk stained ^asa wifedwr to • dinr^ ii said to havelaBsB from gtMb IrhsB he read in a ked paper tint 'e« II mIiim^ hM iiinnsii a atrtaail BemlnlRcent of tbe Shah's Tktt to the Cler* nuin Capital. While in Berlin the Shah attended a gala performance of the ballet, "Sardanapalus.,' and sat in the court box between the Em- press and Prinoe Karl, and here' he did one or two barbaric deeds that amote with hor- ror and conatemation all thoae distinguiahed persons who witnessed them. Wishing to call the Empress' attention to something that waa takin? place on the stage he reached over and laid his hand on her arm. "Where can he have .been brought up?" asked one great lady. "An Empreaa' arm is ia not a aabre hilt to be clutehed at." A few momenta later he called for a glaas of water. It was brought him by one of his attendants. He drank the conteute at a gulp and calmly handed the empty goblet to the Princess Elarl. whose patrician coun- tenance as she mechamically took it from him was a study for a physiognomist, and not less interesting was the faeial expres* sion of the ladies in waiting and chamber- lains who had never before witoessed such a blood-chilline breach of etiquette. Bat worse remained behind. Presently the shah cleared his throat, once, twice, thrice, with ever-increasing vigor, and then de- liberatelyâ€"spat in the stalls. A shudder rail through the house and several fair ladies of fashion hurriedly took their de- parture. Some Biblical Data. Verses in the Old Testament, 23,241. Verses in the New Testament, 7,959. The books of the Old Testament, 39. The books of the New Testament, 27. Words in the Old Testament. 592.430. Letters in the New Testament, 838,820. Words in the New Testament, 181,253. Chapters in the Old Testament, 929. Letters in the Old Testament, 2.728,100. Chapters in the New Testament. 260. The irxcd "Jehovah" ooours 6,865 times* The middle book of the Old Testament ia Proverbs. ^, „ The middle chapter of tiie Old Teatament is Job XXIX. Tlis middle verse of the New Testament isAotsxziL, 17. Tiie shortest verse in the New Testament ia John, xL. 35. The longest vane in the Old Testament ia Esthor, vSl, 9. The middle book iaf the New Testament is Sewiid Tliiimilwniiiii The middle ebarakr and shoitaet iathe Bflde^FmlmesTfl. '^£'z wim v'i i;i? • â- Mi' -i 4;"'..i 1 â- â- â- - \-#.:v' 1i;u â- L-;« tfSv.u â- â- â- â-  i|fe^!p '-N.^ â- â-  â-  tv. .:f;;.f'^.ft: f '0- r:-^: ««»^ -^^,