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Show "Their uieat very niucU resembles that of the elephant. You verv likely have oouie across gome steaks la j our hotel that were as tough." "Never, in Cincinnati." Cincinnati Timeu&tar. SVANLtY ON ELEPHANTS. It'a ElrplianU mn gianlay If Too Try to Stop Wild On with a Small Goo. Mr. Stanley, did you ever kill an elephant?'' Oh, yes, I have killed a good many of them." replied the great explorer, evidently somewhat amused at the question, for it was plumped at him as soon as he had reseated himself after giving the reporter a very cordial greeting at the Burnet House. He evidently had expected to be inter-viewed about B.uttelot and the rear guard, or the mystery of Einin Pasha, aud was pleasantly disappointed, as proved to bo the case subsequently. "How have you killed t lit-u-i and how would you go about it were you going to kill one now?" Well, I would shoot him, and as to how I would go about it would depend upon the kind of elephant In; was." "Could you kill him witli one bul-let?" "I have done it." 'It took twenty-thro- e bullets to kill our Zoo elephant. 'Chief." recently." 1 read something of that. What kind of au elephant was your 'Chief?' If ho had the concave forehead, that is. scooped out. he was ail Indian ele-phant. 11 he had a convex forehead he was an African. Ho was au Indian elephant. Then I wieild have shot him in the forehead, for there is only a short distance to the brain, while with an Africau elephant au enormous amount of niuselo and tissue is piled upon tho forehead, and you might shoot into it nU day and never kill him., lint a well directed shot in tno center of the forehead of Chief, if you lire sure ho was an Indian elephant, should have settled him. And if not, the heart can always be reached. Yes, behind tho ear, too; they are readily killed that way. Why, there is no particular dilllculty about killing an elephant if one knows how to go about it." "Do you imagine that Chief suffered much pain with all of these builets iu him?" "Undoubtedly he did. And you mention the fact of hi reacbing out his trunk iu an affectionate or appeal-ing way to Hatnee, his mate, who stood near that shows, more than any other way, that ho was suffering, and it shows, too, an affection and sympa-thy between the two that one would scarcely imagine they possess. That reaching out his trunk, and her res-ponse, as though a farewell, is cer-tainly a very touching thing. "You ask" me if I haven't hunted the elephant in Africa. Well, you know I did not go there for that purpose, of course. I hud too much else to do and no time to waste; but. as I say, I have killed elephauts aud didn't think very much of it, either. Oue can't help but run on the in, whether he will or no. Why, the natives there will kill them with a spear, or even with a sword. Yes, sir, they will run at them and slash them across the legs nnd ham-trin- g them, and then pierce them be-hind the ear with their swords. A man will get off in front of au elephant and brandish a shining sword, it Hash-es in the elephant's eyes and makes him mad instantly nnd he will charge. "As he charges, other natives will rush out of the copse, iu flank move-ments, aud dash at him, and even the man ahead with the sword will spring aside far enough to get out of the reach of his truuk, and as the big fel-low goes charging by he will give him a sweeping slash across the front of the legs and the elephant is veudered helpless aud falls. The natives get wonderfully skillful, something after the matador, who lets the bull rush at him full tilt, aud then lightly springs aside and thrusts his sharp sword iuto hiui. When an elephant charges, he is so bulky, you know, that hi mo-mentum carries him directly ahead, and a nimble and practiced man can spring out of his way. But au ele-phant will overtake a horse, aud I have seen them jerk the rider from a horse's back, all going full tilt. "Oh, yes. an elephant is very swift. I have yet to see the horse that can get away from hiin on a dead, straight run. And they can swim, too. Why, an elephant will cross a river with only his trunk out of the water three or Jour inches. All ho has to have is air, you know, and he gets it through his trunk. And he will not swim until he has to. But I have seen the trunk, several of them, just sticking out of the water of a river they were fording. "Then, again, we have floated down tho Congo in our boats, quietly and without moving a muscle, and we could get withiu twenty feet of thoni without attracting their attention or alarm, and then I have shot them, killed them with one shot that is, one bullet. Sometimes in going through a jungle I have come upon them. I remember coming upon one suddenly one day aud I only had a small Winchester rifle with me, nnd you can depend upon it I backed out as quickly as I could. Yes, a wild ele-phant will likely chargo yon whether you disturb him or not. Hois bclliger-- i ent" ' "You have eaten elephant meat?" "Yes; and rhinoceros and that of the hippopotamus." "'A little of that will go a good ways," said a gentleman at dinner at the Palace Hotel as his teeth carromed on a piece of the lion of Chief, and he ' remarked that he wished you were here to eat it." j Mr. Stanley smiled aud continued talking, for he was talkiug in a strain that was evidently restful to him. ! "O. now, elephant meat is not so ' bad. my boy. It is a little coarse aud i grainy, but we saw the lime that we j thought it the sweetest morsel we ever j tasted," ' "But the foot, the foot is really line meat, choice, a delicacy. The foot is . cut off, and you know it is nbout so j round (drawing a circle on the table-cloth), say sixteen inches. A hole is dug in the ground, a fire set going un-- 1 til it is a deep bed of coals. Theu the foot is put right down iu that bole on ; tbe coals, and the wholo is covered j over with earth, nud you let it stay thero for thirty-si- x hours, and when I it comes out you have a choice delicacy i indeed. The meat is white aud tender and palatable. " I "'I he rhinoceros and hippopotamus muisf. be totth?" niE COUNTY KKGISTER. Iteglittef I'llblUlillii Company. EPHRAIM, : : : UTAH. be any better off, as regards muni, than they were before, anU would los their compliment besides. I think we are not in a good position to throw bricks at the English pirate. We haren'& any to spare. We need them to throw at tho American con-gress, and at tho American author whr neglects bis great privileges, mid then tries to mint up some way to throw tho blame upon the only nation in th world that is magnanimous enough tc say to him: "W Ii tie you are the guest of our laws ami our flag, you shall not be robbed." All the books which I have pub-lished in tho last 13 years are protected by English copyright. In that tims 1 have suffered pretty heavily in terupci nud pocket from imperfect eopyrigh' laws; but they were American. n Enirlish. I have no quarrel over therv Murk Twain in Actu Princeton i viett,. American and British Pirates. Come now, what your cause needs if that somo apparent sufferer shall say a fair word for tbe other side. Tba complaint which cannot hunt up a dis scnting voice anywhere is out of luck. A thing which is all good or all bad if properly an object of suspicion in this world; we gel a sort of impression that it is off its beat; that it belongs in the next world, above or below climate not suited to it here. English pirates have hurt me some-what; how much I do not know. But, on the other hand, English law has helped me vastly. Can any foreign author of books say that about Ameri-can lawP You know he can't. Look at the matter calmly, reasona-bly. As I infer from what you say about your article, your complaint i? that American authors are pirated iu England. Well, whose fault is that! .It is nobody's but the author's. Eng-land furnishes him a perfect remedy if he does not choose to take advant-age of it, let him have self-respe- c' enough to retire to the privacy of hi cradle, not sit out on the public curb stone and cry. To-da- y the Amcricar author cau go to Canada, spend tlire days there and come home with ar English aud Canadian copyright. which is as strong as if it had been built out of railroad iron. If he doe not make this trip and do this thing, it is a confession that he does not think his foreign market valuabb enough to justify the expense of secur iug it by the above process. Now, it may turn out that the book is present-ly pirated in Londou. What then! Why, simply this the pirate has paid that man a compliment; he has though! more of the book than the man though) of it himself. And doubtless the mar is not pecuniarily injured, since th pirate would probably not hare off-ered anything for the book if it had been copyrighted, but would merely have left it in oblivion and unpub-lished. 1 believe, and it stands to reason, that all the American books that are pirated in these latter days of England aro of the complimentary sort, and that the piracies work no computable injury to the author's pocket; nnd ' also believe that if this class of book should be copyrighted henceforth, their publication over there would coase, and then all tho loss would fal' upon the author, siuce they would in You cannot always discover a genius by just looking at him. Goldwin Smith says that Maenulay, whom ha frequently met at Oxford didn't look ut all like a man of genius, except for his eye, and that he used to think "a cob-ble's apron would have become hiui very well." The weeds are becoming of moro service all tho time. A southern fann-er has produced from cotton stalks a fabric suitable for bagging, which may rival jute. The problem which tho inventor successfully solved was how to separate cheaply tho material from the woody fibre. HOW AN ELK CHANGES HIS HORNS. Tea Werka Rrquirixt to Grow Naw I'alr or Antlara. Those who take an interest in tbe study of natural history may bo pleased to know that in a few weeks the stag elk in the deer glen in the park will undergo a decided change. He will soon bo shorn of the royal antlers that have made him for the last year tho pride of the glen. With the loss of the antlers the ftsg will change his disposition entirely and become as docile and tractable s a lamb. He will show an inclination to court public petting rather than avoid it. He will remain in this condition of temper until the beginning of March, when he will show a disposition to lurk in sequestered spots of the glen and timidly avoid tho presence of all, even of his kind. During this period, on the spot w here the late antlers were, a pair of protuberances will make thoir appear-ance, covered with a soft, dark, vel- - velv skin. These will attain a consid-erable growth in a few days. The ca rot ill arteries of these protuberances will enlarge with them in order to sii-p- ly a sullicieiicy of nourishment. When the uew antlers have attained their full growth, which will bo in ten weeks after the old ones have been shed, the bony rings at the base through which the antlers pass will begin to thicken, and gradually tilling up will compress the blood vessels and ultimately obliterate them. Tho vel-vety 3k i it that surrounds the bone, be-ing thus deprived of nourishment, will lose its vitality and will be rubbed off in shreds by the stag on the edges of rocks or other hard substances. As soon as the full size of the antlers is attained tho docile disposition of the elk will disappear and ho will become ouce more for the year the lieroe aud unfriendly king of the glen. Tho age of the elk. according to writers on natural history, is com-puted by tho number of points on the antlers. At the present time there are six. Tho next set will bear seven, showing that seven summers have passed since the date of his birth. San Frarwisco Chronicle. THE HORRIBLE COST OF WAR. Millions or Urn HuorlfWrt In the War a of tba Laat Thirl? Taars. According to the estimates of French and German statisticians there havo perished in the wars of the last thirty rears 2.600.000 men, while there has been expended to carry them on no less than the inconceivable sum of 113.000,000.000. Of this amount France has paid nearly $3,500,000,000 as the cost of the war with Prussia, while her loss in men is placed at 155,000. Of . these 80. OCX) were killed on the Held of battle, 30.000 died of sickness, acci-dents or suicide, and 20,000 iu German prisons, while there died from other causes enough to bring the number up to the given aggregate. The sick aud wounded amounted to 477,421. the lives of many thoiisauds of whom were doubtless shortened by their illuess or injuries. According to Dr. Roth, a German authority, the Germans lost during the war 60,000 men killed or rendered in-valid and 1600,000.000 in money, this being the excess of expenditure or of material losses over the $1 ,2."0.000.0OO paid by France by way of indemnity. Dr. Engel, another distinguished Ger-man statistician, gives the following ns the approximate cost of the principal wars of the last thirty years: Crimean, war. $2,000,000.0011; "Italian war of 185!). $300,000,000; Prusso-Dauis- ii war of 1KGI. $35,000,000; War of the $5. 100. 000. 000. (South) $2. 300. 000. 000; Prusso-Ausiria- n war of 1806, $330,000,000; Russo-Turkis- h war, 1125.000,000; South African wars, 770.000; African war, $13 250,000;. Servo-Bulgari- war, fl76.00ii.000. All these wars were murderous in tho extreme. The Crimean war. in which few battles were fought, cost 750.000 lives, only 50,000 less than, were killed or died of their wounds, North and South, during tho War of tho Rebellion. The figures, it must be remembered, are German, and might not agree precisely with American estimates. The Mexicau and Chinese expeditions cost $200,000,000 ami 65,-00- 0 lives. There were 250,000 killed and mortally wounded during the Kusso-Turkis- h war, and 45.000 each iu the Italian war of 1859 and the war be-tween Prussia aud Austria. ' In tho other wars the loss of life was rel-atively less, which did not make either the men or money easier to part with, in the more limited areas where they occurred. And this is but a part of the Recount-ing, since it does not include tho mill-ions expended during the last 20 year in maintaining the vast armamouts of the European powers, the losses caused by the stoppage of commerce and manufactures, and the continual of industries by the ab-straction from useful employment of so many millions of persons hold for a. period of military service extending from three to live years. Sun Fran--cisc- o Chronicle. Some people are careless with books. Mrs. Woodworth, the western revival-ist, says that sho has worn out several Bibles during the time that she has been converting sinners and healing tho sick. Sho is a woman of wonderful physical strength and uses her lHble us if tho world wa. made of them. Here is a great ruler. At one of the court bulls in the palace at Koine the king summoned a number of edi-tors to his side. After referring with expressions of admiration to the impor-tant work done by tho press, and to the dillicult and powerful work of tho edi-tors, ho added: "Gentlemen, I havo often said that I should wish to bo a journalist were I not a king." INDIA'S SACRD MONKEYS. Thar Arm a Fait, but Thajr Moat Mat Ba Klllad Jlonkry Harolana. An English gentleman who has lived many years in India tells some queer stories about the sacred monkeys that are a great nuisance iu some parts of that country. No one is allowed to molest them. They run about the streets, help themselves to whatever they please at tho shops, rob orchards and gardens, and play havoc gener-ally. To thrash them is regatded as a misdemeanor, and to shoot a monkey iftijht cauo a second mutiny. Tho gentleman had a garden where grew delicious fruits. The sacred inonkevs easily scaled the walls and helped" themselves. They were not ' content with simply eating, but amused ' themselves with throwing food at each other. To shoot these ' pest was out of the question, and to hit them with stones was impossible, us thev easily dodged any missile that might be thrown at them. An id! struck the Englishman one day. and he at once proceeded to enrrv it into effect, with great success. He got a largo basket of the largest potatoes t.iat were to be found and had them hoiied. When they were scalding hot lie had ba-k- and potatoes placed uu-tl- er one of the trees. The monkeys were watching these movements from lh trees. Presently every monkey v.r.fi a hot potato, and then followed tho mo-- t unearthly screeches and chattering. A mniikcv will never let go anv article of food that he once eels bold of. even if he lias to die, and these monkeys, true to their nature, would not drop the hot potatoes. They held t.licm in one hand and then in tho t er, and then they would take a liilc and scald their mouths, and roll in I. - diiit. writhing with paiu, hut inn cr letting the potatoes once out of their grasp. They ale up the potatoes and then disappeared over the Walls and never ret ui ned. The Englishman once witnessed a very pathetic, as well as heroic, seeno iu one of the city squares, in which the sacred monkeys were the actors, lie saw a number of inonkevs seated and standing iu a large circle, nud a female monkey huggiig and wailing over the dead bmly of her baby that had just been killed by a cobra's bite. The oilier females were trying to con-sole her by caresses, while the males nppcarud to be in earnest consultation uiiiong themselves. In the center of tho circle whs the large cobra that had inflicted the fatal bite, coiled and with head erect, watching tho enemies by whom he was surrounded. Suddenly a young aud athletic male monkey sprang into the arena. He carefully approached the cobra, which prepared itself to strike. Tho monkey liitdtt a few passes, and just as the snake was about to dart its head he prang to one side, and then over the cobra. This was repeated so often and with such astounding rapidity that the cobra became bewildered", when the monkey seized the snake by tli neck and proceeded to crush its head to a jolly by rubbing it on tho ground with all his might. The snake tried to free itself by coiling around His monkey's neck, "but in vain; its struggles became weaker anil weaker until life was extinct. When the Biiake's head had beeu reduced to a shapeless mass the young simian hero dropped tho cobra ami executed a series of hops and somersaults. Up to that moment the other mon-keys had maintained the most anxious silence, watching every movement of the combatants with eager interest. The snake's death, however, was the signal for the most joyous chattering aud gambols. They took hold of the conqueror of tho snake, patted him on the head, scratched his back, danced round him, aud gave every manifesta-tion of their great appreciation of Ins valorous achievement. The poor mother carried about her dead babe for two days longer. N. Y. Times. ARMY HORSES. it nig Ttlark Stallion That !'! to Do Ilia Mmre or the Flgliliiif;. Speaking of horses, there are horses nnd "bosses." but the greatest horse I ever knew was the black stallion rid-tle- u by Sergt. Miichlcr, of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, iu Sheridan's valley campaign. I never could liud out how this horse got into the army. He was a magnilicent specimeu of horseflesh, aud pretty nearly thorough-bred. One day, along ia the late Fall of 186 1, tho enemy was met near Front Royal, Va.,and then there were charg-ing and counter-chargin- The black stallion, with a courage that was mag-nilicent, would carry his rider far into the enemy's lines, ami while his rider was slashing away with his sabre right sod left the stallion would lash out his heels at every opportunity at the steed ridden by his opponent, and renr and striko and bile us savagely at him us il he were possessed of the very devil. Muchler was teaching him tricks alt the time, and finally, after considerable practice, he got him so lie would pursue another cavalryman, aud. catch-ing him by his blouse at tho back of the neck, pull him from his horse. Along iu the winter of 1864 Sheridan sent Custer after Rosser, near Siras-bur-aud there was in a short time the prettiest horse race up the valley that you ever saw. Custer's men soon caught up with Rosser, and then they had it hammer and tongs. The black stallion, as usually, outran everything in tho chase, and singling out a victim, went for biro, with savage fury. Then, swinging the reb clear out of his saddle carried him in his teeth several feet and held him until his rider got hold of his prisoner by the scruff of the neck and sent him to the rear. On another occasion he got so interested and ex-cited in a tight up the valley that he carried his rider into the enemy's lines, where both were captured. A few days later, in a tight near Mount Jack-son, much to our amazement the black stallion was seen ruuning away with a rebel Captain on bis back, and before his rider could control him he was safely within our lines with his rider, and thus made an even exchange for his dereliction a few days previous. interview with Congressman Allen. Oun immigration statistics are not less interesting for their exhibition ol tho marvelous growth of tho country in population, wealth and power, than for showing how shifting and uncertain our Americanism is, and far off is the time when it will have hardened into its ultimate national character. Over fifteen million immigrants ,have come to our shores since the foundation of the government in 1789, so that the immigration has been more than three times as great as the population wo at the beginning; for every soul In the country 100 years ago, three foreigners have come to It. The thrones of the Old Worl5 are not in a very promising condition. They have boon reported as in the fol-lowing condition: The king of Spain Is ntill a baby; the queen of Holland is no more tunu a school girl; tho emperor of Austria has, owing to the death ol "..rrtncq Rudolptupo or to nUMaihranc;. Emperor William of Germany would 11 he passed away leave nobody as hit successor to bo Kriegs Ilerr, or win lord, except a boy of 8. Tho ezarowiu of Russia is 22, but ho is unmarried, and the Prince of Naples, heir to the Italian throne, is also childless. A Prince's Adventures in Thibet. The Journal des Debuts has received a long aud interesting letter from M. Bonvalot, who, accompanied by Prince Henry of Orleans, has for. the last year or more been traveling through Russia and Siberia into Thibet and China. M. Bonvalot is now on the road to Hanoi. This letter is dated June 28, and wai written at on the fron-tier of the Thibet Marches, which is occupied by a Chinese garrison, while it is also the headquarters of the Roman catholic missions iu Thibet. M. Bonvalot says: "We have been able to traverse nbout 1,000 miles of desert at au altitude varving from 13,-00- 0 feet to 19,000 feet." We reached the south of Lake Tcngri-No- r. which is ooly a day's journey on horseback from Lhassa, and if we did uot visit that place it was solely because we did not care to do so. Altogether we have traveled about 1,500 miles iu nn un-known region, nearly half of the way without a guide. It is true that we have had a terrible winter, the quicksilver freezing. The only combustible we had was the droppings of the wild vaks.aud no water. "For a period of two months we made our lea with ice, which was generally dirty aud mixed with sand and earth. We had to take a provision of ice and vaks' droppings, enough to-la-several days. Our beasts of burden, camels aud horses alike, were deci-mated, or to speak more accurately, every one of them died of fatigue, thirst and hunger. The only inhabitants of these deserts were herds of autelopes, vast troops of yaks, a few emws and native birds. Some days we saw noth-ing, not even the crows, which follow the caravans as a shark Does a ship, the solitude being almost overwhelm-ing, so that after a few days of it our men were on the lookout for somo human form, just as shipwrecked men look for a sail upon the ocean. Need-less to tell you that my companions. Prince Henry of Orleans, Father Dede-be- n of the Belgian missions, and my worthy Rachmed are very pleased to have succeeded. We beiiovo that we have done credit, to Frauce, and that is sunicient compensation for all our hardships." The tailors of New York propose tc sell tho bills which they hold against delinquent customers at public auction. There are two bjeetions to this plan. Tho first that it will encourage u cer-tain eliias of debtors to wait for the sale and have tho accounts against there bought by their friends, and the second, that the person buys in good faith must tuko the claim which he purchases, subject to any defense which the debtor may have. On the wholo, it would seem more desirable to muko tho sale of a garment a cash transaction, ex. eept in the case of persons of undoubted responsibility. The Climate of Japan. Really it rains far too frequently in this otherwise charming Japan, and one can indeed scarcely expect any permanent dry weather except in autumn. Every wind seems to bring rain-clou- up from the encircling Pacific to break upon the evergreen peaks of Nippon; while in winter, so great is the influence of the neighbor-ing Arctic circle, with its cold currents of air and water, that Christmas in ICiu-Shi- u which lies in the same latitude with the mouths of the Nile sees the thermometer sometimes below zero. Except for certain delicious periods of the year one cannot honest-ly praise the climate of Japan; but it has certainly divine caprices; aud when the suushine does unexpectedly come, during the chilly and moist months, the light is very splendid and of a peculiar silvery tone, aud the summer days are golden. For this the tea-pla-and young bamboo-shoot- s, and the other subtropical vegetation wait patiently underneath the snows; in-deed, all the sun-lovi- plants of the land have lurked, like the inhabitants, to "wait till the clouds roll by." Some of the most beautiful know how to defy the worst weather with a curious hardihood. You will see the camellias blossoming with the ice thick about their roots, and the early plum-bloo-covered with a fall of snow which is not more white nnd delicate than the petals with which it thus mingles. Scribuer. Stories of Stonewall Jackson. The death of General Cadmus Wil-cox recalls some original and charac-teristic anecdotes concerning Stone-wall Jackson which he was in the habit of relating. When Jackson first - entered West Point be was regarded as a remarkably stupid and green youth. General Whiting, who after-ward served in the Confederate army, was then a cadet iu the class above Jacksou's, and was appointed to ask him some questions in mathematics, in accordance with the custom which then prevailed at the Military Acad-emy. Whiting thought him at first remarkably dull, but noticed that he studied and worked with dogged per-sistency. The class of which Wilcox and Whitiug were members was grad-uated just prior to the Mexican war. Several of the young officers were in Washington ou their way to Mexico, and on the night of their arrival they were invited to go wifh Jefferson Davis, then a member of thu House, to-- reception given at the White House. Later both Davis and T. J. Jackson turned their faces toward the . At the close of the war Jack-son ranked every member of his class and was a brevet major, and was sta-tioned on Governor's Island, near New York. Whiting. Wilcox and a number of young oflicers were visiting New York, aud when several brother oflicers from Governor's Island called on them Whiting asked: "What has become of Tom Jack-io- n; how is he getting on?" "Badly, badly," replied the officer; "since he has stopped lighting he has taken to fiddling. He came over to. this city a few weeks ago and bought a fiddle, several bows and a pile of rosin. You will remember at West Point there was no music in his soul, no relaxation, nothing but hard application to his text books. So his new fad makes it awful for us. Every minute he cau spare he devotes to practicing on the fiddle nnd the sounds which fill the barracks iu hi vicinity are beyond description; almost beyond endurance." Be patient," said Whiting, with a smile; "if 'Tom' Jackson is determined to master his violiu you will listen te a second Pagauini before he gives up." But Whiting's prediction was not verified. Jackson never became a musician. Nothing seems to burn into tin memory and heart of a child us an un-deserved punishment, however trilling the matter may seom to the adult In some children of the sunny, hopeful type the wave of indignation and helpless, unspoken protest agains1 correction passes away, and leaves up pnrently no trace. To other children with more sensitive natures or more re-bellious dispositions, unjust words o! reproof kindle fires of rage, which smouldor with sullen persistence undei the ashes of seeming forgetfulness, ready to burst out violently and unex-pectedly. If this seems an overdraw! picture one has only to think backward to one's own childish days, and to re-call tho time when careless treatment by an elder first taught us to be bitter, unforgiving, resentful. He'll Have a Halo Himself Some Day. They stood before the "Fra Angelico" in the National Gallery, which is so crowded with rank after rank of angels and saints, all properly behaloed, each in his own degree. "For my part," one said, "I should think a halo would be dreadfully iu tbe way, especially in a crowd." "It must hare something the same effect on those in the back' rows." her companion auswered. "as do the big hats in the theater." He had only carried her own idea a little further, and yet she was just a trifle shocked by his words. It may have been that her exquisite feminine sense of devotitness took alarm at the mention of the theater before a picture in which the heavenly choirs were thronglug with so nu'.c'h sanctity. A faint film of gravity came over her face. "They may be transparent," she said hesitatingly. She was a little troubled, but she could not by dropping the jesting tone of the talk fun the risk of supposing that sho disapproved of anything that he said. She was rewarded for her ef-fort to appear as if she were pleased, for what he said iu return was: "Of course thoy are transparent, my dear, or yon would have seen vour own iu the mirror loug ago." And theu she flushed aud smiled, and the whole beatiliu rows of aureoled angels did not represent joy more ex-alted th.iu was burs. Boston Courier. The Claim or The Tailors. "No two men. even of exact height nnd weight," said a prominent New York tailor the other day to a Pittsburg Dispatch reporter, "can 'wear tho same clothes and be tit. If the measurement were exactly the same, which it never is. they couldn't do it. Why? Now, I don't know; but I have found it to be a fact. The measurement for a pair of trousers, for instance, might be exact-ly the same, yet one mau will have to be allowed from one to three inches more length in the legs than the other. The man who is naturally stout or fat, and the man who has grown fat late in life, may look and even measure exact-ly alike, but the same cut of cloth will never lit both. Herein lies tho great art ot tailoriug. The variations iu the construction of the human body are j marvelous. Now, the man who has just left he is a minister of the gospel. He must have his clothes to fit him and fit bis business. His armpits, shoulder i blades nud arms do not correspond with those of any other man, nor does tho right side correspond with the left. He probably gestures a good deal with the right hand. He doesn't know that that arm is fully an inch longer than the ; other. This structural difference in men is more general than you would j imagine." "Wrath Silver." A quaint custom, dating back to Anglo-Saxo- n timog, known as payment of "wrath silver," was recently ob-served at Knightlow Hill, a tumulus between Rugby and Coventry, Eng-land. It consists of tributo payable by certain parishes in Warwickshire to the duke of Buccleuch. The silver has to be deposited ut daybreak in a hollow stone by representatives of the parishes, the penalty for default being forfeiture of a white bull with red nose aud ears. Tho representatives afterward diued together at the duke's expense. Fr.vf things are more vulgar anc disagreeable to others than the hnbh of endeavoring to monopolize the con. versation in a mixed compnny. As n well-bre- d man will ever make himsel! the subject of the conversation, s( neither will he seek to engross th whole. As every man would rathei please others by what he nays or. it other words, as every man is bo pleated with tho t.vmsoiousnoss o; pleasing. m should all have an eqtm. opportunity of aiming at it. A poliu man will therefore not take more of i general conversation than falls to hii share; nor in this will he show hh violent impetuosity of temper, or ex-ert any loudness o! voice evon in in-quiry. For the information of tin company and the conviction of his an-tagonist are to be his apparent motive.' -- not the indulgence of his ot a pride The Dress of Brldemaids In Chill. Chilian young ladies have been lit-erally piuuged into mourning by the archbishop of Santiago, who has issued a decree that no bridemaid in his dio-cese shall appear in any color but black, which somber attire, however, they will be permitted to relieve with, white veils aud gloves. "Ia Grippe" In Pennsylvania. Dr. Benjamin Lee, secretary of the Pennsylvania state board of health, estimates that in that state alone there were 1,120,000 cases of grip during the epidemic, of which 7,879 proved fatal. A Boston paper tells us that the latest thing is to drop the in in the ab-breviation a. m. aud p. ui. As for Rev. Phillips Brooks will ureach next Sunday at 11 a. and 4:30 u. |
