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Show ; r?n TWO at;' no; . VrA nn'. s. rf, POBTRUTS. softly from the dogs lips. The unused muscles of the throat had under the influence of on Glalieustein, got quiiklv over the first shock and fallen at once into working order. I understand all you sas to me. Can you speak except under the influence? 1 mean, could you speak if 1 withdraw my eyes from you so? Thu young man turned away; and to love n In lr Sniritv tuiixl to ork for brt'aj, Iteadv wnl to lifi the needj. Well uvtl trams within his head; (theerv vuus. n laugh. a whistle iheasant eee that tee ami smile Ear that hear imt tags of Ul'-lFe.irle.-f- c tongue iletoul of guile: I.ova' t e, an: , Ditr T! is how I make a man Make him better it you can. it-- ' tiar,-- ; I any ltd a,!;' fn. Anti destroyed for a moment the rapport between the dog and himself.' The animal was powerless to reply. the former conditions, the operator then continued: Po you retain the remembrance of your lonner life, or are you oblivious to the past? You use very long words. Is your condition altered? Po you rememlier anything that hap- Gentle eyes, lor love c n ! laughter, ilamlscim hatuls, beeausetliey work. Form an arti-- t might look alter. Sutinv mouth where smiles In k; gun-ke- s ,li luHk. not art enaim!!, Jinui kej'f lre by ivanon's ixw.iy, WaJit bv fashion ne er tramnu-ledoul 'or study, work and play: i , Tins is the Indy of my div.iujs. iu6? Tcllmeho her portrait J. Wm Lloyd. ,ln kof ; My Little Dog Pickle, ne 'T Toward the oer day, in the of a dull Novem- - a young S uan Wits standing, with his hack to 0,he fire, in a small hut well furnished year ISO- -, c street. Scattered were several m A pen and evil looking volumes, bear-drug, as their titles indicated, upon ritchcraft, spiritualism, mesmerism, various supernatural phenome-jia- . Their appearance showed that tiitihey were fi'eipiently and deeply stutl-aceSeated on the hearth rug, close the young mans feet, was a small J;)lack-an-tamongrel, very sharp 3B(j.lbout the muzzle, very bright about ve tcibe eyes, and very tremulous about ard. die tail. Every now and then she ett:'ooked up into her masters face, with j.T;hat look of wistful wonder so com-h- e jnon to the canine features, giving at le. the same time a little whimper, in or- Jer to uttract his attention. What is it, Iickle? he exclaimed at last, rousing from his reverie, and 'looking down at the dog; what is it 'lay girl? mir4 'C Apartment 'hout in upon the table 1 d. 1!PF; n 118 f Bow, wow, wow! Thats a very general answer, my done. pened ? T am still your little dog Pickle; Tickle? and please will No; hut Tommy Bowles father nnd give me that big bone you sent away on your plateat a neighbor whod dropped in said dinner time? theyd heard you threaten to do it Yes; and every night, if you are over nnd over again. Then one of good, you shall havea big bone after them said, Ah, if that dog of his you have been mesmerized. I want could speak.it would tell us all about you to go about into tbe people's it, I warrant: and then Go on, go on! gardens and houses ar.d hear all you Hush! Perhaps somebody's listenean, and then in the evening you must tell me nil about it. ing. Yes; but let me go now; I want to Whisper. scratch myself, ami I can't move my Well, then the detective jumped leg. up and said, Bv Jove! it wouldnt be Rapidly making the liberating the first dog wliod hanged a man! passes, the young man withdrew his and then said presently, If that dog eyes from the dog, and instantly saw it done and ten to one she did I'll have it out of her, serif 1 don't,, springing from the table, it rolled over on the hearth-rug- , ami, heaving What did he mean, Tickle? a deep sigh, went off into a doze. It YY"ny, lies found out that you was evident that the experiment had YonGlabenize me, nnd make me talk; prostrated the dog, and left it weak and he'll do the same if he catches and languid. For the moment even me. YYlien I heard this, master, I the bone was forgotten. sneaked out of the room and run for Not at first did the full meaning of my life; and I went, oh! such a long the feat he had performed dawn up- way round, and wnited till it was on Pickles master. It was only by quite dark, for fear he should see me degrees, as he sat thinking before come in; and that's what made me the dying embers, that the revelation so late. I may finish that bone now, came to him of what he might ac- maynt I? complish with a talking dog. He Freeing the dog from control, the never for a moment entertained the young man flung himself heavily into idea of making the discovery public. a chuir. His position was desperate. Rather should it be to him a source The little harmless dog, gnawing of secret enjoyment, heightened by the away at its bone .as if nothhad knowledge that the whole proceeding ing had happened, was in direct violation of the laws of his life his upon tongue. nature, and as uncanny as the YYhy, in the hands of a man like wild revels peculiar to a witchs holi- the detective a man who evidently knew the secret he fancied he himself day. For many a night after that Tickle alone possessed the dogs evidence and her master talked together for a would hang him twenty times over. quarter of an hour iu the evening. He felt his collar tighten around his The doors were always carefully neck as lie thought of it. YYho would locked before the preliminaries com- believe it was only an accident? His menced, and the Yon Glabenistie in- threat to cut off Tommy Bowles fluence was limited to a short period, head had been heard all over the as the dog evidently suffered physi- neighborhood. He had flung the cally if the interview was prolonged. fatal plate; the dog had see him do An intelligent and observant ani- it; the dog could be made to speak, mal, Pickle brought to her master and the detectives knew how to many queer items of news about his make it. neighbors, and he encourged her Suddenly the thought struck him. d Pickle is the only witness who could prying habits, Laving already the idea of earning fame as an prove the actual deed. How if I were amateur detective and employing to to put her out of the way? the dog ns an unsuspected agent. The worst! Great Powers! YYhy At that moment some peculiar Idea evidently flashed across his brain, for, looking earnestly at the og he exclaimed: indf By Jove! Ive a good mind to try teethe experiment. Let me just read it 'da over again. ry He walked quickly from the fire-pto the table, and opened one of lace suit the volumes at a marked place. For ra quarter of an hour lie sat, andnev-er raised his eyes from the book; then, leaving it open, lie pushed it a eve little way aside, and called his dog YYlien Iiekle had anything of imon; It was oil his knee in a second. to cummunier.te, her inportance JV he said gently, would telligence was rewarded with a choice Pickle, hone, but when she had been spendyou like to talk? ing the day with other dogs, and Bow, wow, wow! No, not to bow. wow, wow, but listening to them instead of to their owners, her conversation was not inn talk like I do? The dog put his head on one side teresting to her master, and she forand looked at him earnestly, with feited the dainty honorarium. ,,v that painful endeavor to understand One evening she had been out all every one who talks to a dog day, and returned long after her usual time, looking very muddy about i must often have noticed. Let me see what it says once the feet aud very tumbled and dirty h muttered her master, and he about the coat. Her tail, usually i more, defiantly poised in the air, was turned to the hook again. 11m! - curled tightly between her legs and w ill of condition strong pro'power duced hv mesmerism experiment of she crawled rather than walked into the library, where her master was waiting for her. n i The door was closed and the cure ' tains drawn, and then Pickle, looked come what it, may. I1', With these words he lifted the picture of downcast doggedness, do,, the from liis knee and placed it upon the was lifted upon the table and Yon table in front of him, so that its face (ilabenized. lot: You bad dog. exclaimed her maswas level with his; then he raised his what makes you so ter, sharply, finger and exclaimed sharply: late? Y'ou've been playing with Pii kle, look at me! The dog's eves were fixed on his in a those low dogs by the canal. Look moment. The lust ravs of the No at your coat! No; I haven't been playing by the vember sun had long ago departed, and I don't know any low canal, room the filled was with that jand Ivisihle darkness which gives a weird dogs. Where have you been, then? Mspect to the commonest of objects, Only next door. r'ri this obscurity, relieved only by a 8r nil flare from tbe dying embers in Then, you wicked dog, why didn't jer come into the house before? t tne grate, the pupils of the animal's you because well, because I didn't dimed sci to man the to "'yes young late under his glame, and became want the police detectives to see me. What lmd you done, then? bails of liquid fire. Never fora moDont be cross and Ill tell you all il, meat allowing bis steadfast gaze to vary, lie lifted lii.s hands quickly from about it. Y'ou know little Tommy k:s side and made the usual passes, Bowles, who lived next door? The boy that comes after my apadding to them certain others evi-itree? ple v the recent! der.tly prescribed Yes: and you said you'd cut his studied article. At the first few strokes the dog head off if you caught him again. trembled violently, and the bristles Well, somebody has cut his head off, ruse on its neck like a ruff. Then, it for his father found him lying just iff. suddenly became rigid: the jaws against the garden wall without it,I popped asunder, and the ears were nnd I sawIMhim pickedandup, and so I ii pricked in the most listen; presently thought painful tension. you'd e:, exclaimed the youDg man heard them say they believe w ould be ff bringing his face suddenly so close to done it, but the difficulty the dogs that their noses touched: to prove it. But I never cut Tommy Bowles Iickle, speak to me! Say Master. j The opened jaws closed with a sud- - head off! Yes, you did. J den snap; the lips twitched spasmod- What do you mean dog? Are you ally; the working of the throat showed that the tongue was violent- mad? Y'ou know you flung a broken ly agitated, over the wall this morning, if plate "Pickle, you love me speak. The words were this time accom-pnie- d didn't you? Well? by a powerful attack upon e animals's brain and tongue. The Well, just as you threw it, Tommy - me symptoms followed the second Bowles was climbing up the wall to ica: and then, from between the get at your apple tree, and it caught lclied teeth, there came, harsh his neck and cut his head right off. 1 The young man sprang to his feet grating, as though tearing its J up the dogs throat, the word in an instant. A cold perspiration aster. burst from every pore. Ho hud tak'ronouneed in an unearthly tone, en human life, and his victim lay word, half expected as it was, had headless next door. He turned hurinformaaomentary effect upon the oper- riedly to Iickle for further nerves, but before.the current tion but the dog had left the table, a's his influence over the dog had been nnd was stretched quietly on the gnawing a bone. The troyed he recovered himself and hearth-rug- , consternation of her masters will itinued the experiment. disturbed, the conditions Ao you know-- what I say to you? hadbeenwhich the phenomena were time the answer fell easily and under 1 V lij di A possible had been destroyed. How must this awful danger lie faced? For fully an hour heendeavored to bring himself into a fit state to control the animal's will. At last bv a mighty effort be succeeded. Pickle, go on; tell me all you heard. The influence was evidently weak, for Iiekle, instead of answering, east a wistful glam-- at the half gnawed bone on tbe hearth rug. You shant have that bone again at all, if you dont answer, cried the master, angrily. For a moment the dog corked lier bead on vie side, and appeared to lx thinking: then she resumed her narrative, but in a hesitating, timorous manner, nut usual with her when talking, Did an v one see the ah accident, ron-eeive- Ij at any moment the myrmidons of the law might be hammering at his door; he might be in jail, and Pickle in the power of that confounded, meddling detective. Not a second was to he lost. - T 1 j e i, I0 itt - n Pi.-kl-e! Ci. 'li-- Late that night a young man stole cautiously down the steps of the house in street, nnd hailed a passing hack. From beneath the folds of his ulster peered the sharp muzzle of a little dog. Three weeks later man and dog stood upon the deck of the good ship Grampus, bound for Ujiji, with ice, lucifer matches and gray shirtings. What is that island yonder? asked the man of the first mate, who leaning over the bulwark near him. The man shaded his eyes and looked. That? Oh, thats a desert island. YYe're out of our course, through the fogs, a good bit, or we shouldnt be near it. Dont ships go nearer than this to it? No fear. There's generally nasty YYe rocks off such places. always keep as far away from 'em as ever we - ean. That night, shortly after dark, the captain walking nrond kinship, must have noticed an unusual appearance on the port side, for one of the boats was missing. And so were the man nnd the dog. And the man nnd the dog were sitting side by side now, as this confession was written, and the boat is high and dry on the desert island, where it has been their hutand home for ten long years. So ends our confession. Bow, wow, wow! Ah, my doggie, if youd never been able to speak any language hut that we shouldnt he here now. Still, it was best we came. YVhenever we had gone nmongsttliehauntsotmen, we should have been recognized. A man and dog full description two thousand dollars reward! No, my poor old Pickle, we should have been caught; and you wouldn't have liked to hang your master, would you? By Jove Pickle, Ive a good mind to on Glabenize you aain, just to talk over old times, f have never done it since that fatal evening. Shall we have a talk again, just for once? Shall we, old girl? Why, if ever a dog said yes with eyes and tail, you do now. So I will, then.- So! look at me well while I make the passes. Come, that's it! YYhy. you go off easier now, my dog, than you did ten years ago. Steady! Now for a trv. Pickle, why, how fearfully you tremble! Y - Master! YYhy, what a tone; Are you fright- ened, my dog? Master, 1 want to talk about Tommy Bowles. Hang it, my dog! some pleasant-ersuhje- ct than that now please. But, master. I've been wanting to tell you about Tommy Bov leal for ten years. Oh, master! you didnt cut his head oiT. What!" Nobody cut it off it wasn't cut at all. Oh! do forgive me! and ; there wasn't any and, please, I made it all up. But surely confound it, liekle! I don t understand! Ain't 1 a mur- off uet.-utive- derer, then? No. But, in the name of all thats cahnine. why should vou make all this up?" Because I had been playing with low dogs up by the canal all day, and I thought you wouldnt me the bone if 1 didnt tell yougie something, and be cross with me, and so I made it up about Tommy Bowles. Oh, Pickle! Pickle! and for ten long years have you and I been on this desert island lieenuse you told a lie! YYhy the deuce didn't you undeceive me before? How could 1? You never Y'on GlabenizeJ me. Pickle, old dog. weve been friends too long to quarrel over this. Give me your paw. 1 forgi e you. Master, do men ever, when people want news, nnd they havent got any to give them, make things up like I did that night? Certainly not; only a foolish dog would do such a thing ns that. Halloa! there's a boat coming, Pickle. YYere discovered! Bow, wow, wow! It conies nearer! Never mind, we dont dread it now. YY'ny, Pickle, look! That luce iu the bows! YY'liv, Im blest if it isn't Tommv Bowles! ft the Times,' Auff, 1.1, 1ST- -. Jemim.i, ( apt. Boult, with iron rut lory, from Fuji, arrived this She brings with her a pentleman and hm dog:, who were dibcovered by ( out. Bowies son Thomas, on a desert inland, where they had beeu cast away ten years ago. There is no reason now why this From The ship rails ami morning:. confession, written on that island, should be kept from the public. Pickle is agreeable to its publication; and if she is not ashamed of her share in the story I am sure I need not be. George R. Sims in the London Re- After Fifteen Years. In the autumn of 1874 Thomas Kelt, of YY'orksop. England, whohad been a soldier, went to Stockton-on-Tee- s in his regimentals to have his photograph taken. He noticed a carriage stop in one of the prim ipal thoroughfares. Tl.e com liman got down from the box, but lmd scarcely, readied the ground when the horse dashed off at a teriflic pace draggiug the carriage behind it, in which was seated a girl G years of age. It was evident that unless the horse was stopped the child would be killed. Kdk walked into tbe middle of the road, waited until the advancing horse reached him, and then sprang at its head. He was carried about luO yards hanging on to the horse's neck, but succeeded eventually in stopping it. The child, who was very much frightened, thanked the man again and again, took his address, and told him that she could not reward him for his bravery then, but would do so when she came of age, ami told him he would hear from her in the future. True to her promise, on attaining the age of 21 a few weeks ago, she made inquiries ns to the whereabouts ol'Kelk, but her efforts for a time were unavailing, until a commercial traveler happened to know a carter named Kelk at YY'orksop, and promised to make inquiries. His investigations proved the YY'orksop man was the one wanted. Kelk received a letter asking him to go to a station near Manchester, lie did so and was met by a carriage and pair, and taken to the borne of the child now a woman whose life lie had saved. Arrived there he was hospitably entertained, and before leaving was presented w ith a handsome gold watch, a gold guard and seal, and $300 likewise in gold. The watch bore the following inscription: Presented to T. Kelk for liis bravein 1874. ry at Stockton-on-Tee- s feree. A Good Time in a Coni Cellar. Make a Seconds Senator Minute, llearst of California does Sixty not appear to find much enjoyment From the Fortnightly Review. YYliyis one hour divided into sixty in his wealth. His wife in the familys minutes, each minute into sixty sec- YY'ashington mansion gave a receponds, etc. Simply and solely be- tion which made even the extravacause in Babylonia there existed, by gant people of the Capital open their the side of the decimal system of no- eyes. It is said that the flowers alone cost $23,000. Moving uncoml, tation, another system, the which counted by sixties. fortable nnd alone through the glitYYhy that number should have been tering throng the master of the n chosen is clear enough, and it speaks house met a newspaper Said the wealthy well for the practical sense of ancient correspondent. Get a few good Babylonian merchants. There is no Senator eagerly; number which lias so many divisors feilows together and well go to some room and enjoy a Lottleof wine as sixty. The Babylonians divided quiet and some ligars togcllier." There the suns daily journey into were whispers in the ears of two oth720standia. Each er correspondents, nnd then, led by parasang or hour was subdi vided into the Senator, the quartet inarched sixty minutes. A parasang is a Ger- through the big house from parlor man mile, and Babylonian astrono- to attic. In every room there was a mers compared the progress made chattering throng or a by the sun during one hour at the bevy or piles of bats and overtime of the equinox to the progress coats. YY'ith a sigh the Senator made by a good walker during the turned backward. He descended to same time, both accomplishing one tin cellar. Besides the coal-holparasang. The whole course of the colored servant arranged a table and sun during tbe twenfv-fou- r equinoc- chairs and brought winennd tobacco. tial hours was fixed at twenty-fou- r Now." said the millionaire, with a parasangs, or 720 stadia, or .'100 sigh of relief, we ean have a good degrees. This system was handed to time here without being interrupted the Greeks, nnd Hipparchus, the by those idiots lenn't see great Greek philosopher, who lived the fun in in.v wife's rackets. " New about 130 B. introduced the York YY'orld. VThy sexn-gisima- well-know- twenty-fourparasangs- wrap-divestin- g e s, Babylonian hour into Europe. Ptolemy, who wroteaboutl.30 A. D., mid whose name still lives in that of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy gavest ill wider currency to the Babylonian way ofreeknning time. 1 was carried along on the quiet stream of traditional knowledge through tic middlenges, and, strange to say, it sailed down safely over the Niagara of the French revolution. For the French, when revolutiotiizimr weights measures, coins and dates, and subjecting all to the decimal system of reckoning, were induced by some un- our explained motive to clock's and watches, and showed our dials to remain sexairisiin il, t fi.it is. Babylonian, each hour consisting of GO minutes. Here you see ac.i m the wonderful coherence of the world, andliow what we call knowle Ige i.s thp result of an unbroken tradition of a teaching descending from lather to son. Not more than about :i hundred arms would reach from us to the builders of the palaces of, Babylon, and enable us to shake hands with the founders of tlieoldest pyramids and to thank them for what they had done for us. In the Soup. Nearly everyone knows that it is safer to humor and pretend to agree with a lunatic than to oppose him. This rule would also frequently he productive of pence if applied iu disputes between rational persons; but lien i, s an incident to illustrate the first prnposil ion: A medical inspector, on liis round through a French lunatic asylum, received niinieroiisconiplaiats from the inmates anent the bad quality off lie broth. In order to verily the truth ot their statements, the inspector went down with them into the kindien. where In saw an enormous boiler tilled with hot water. Suddenly one of the patients, a powerful, strapping I fellow, stepped forward and said: say, doctor, ou are fine and tat,; I am certain you would make excellent The other lunabroth; we will try. tics testified tiieirapproval, and they were about to hoist him into the boiler, when lie called out: Stop, gentleuien. That is a capital sugof yours, but my clothes gestion might spoil the flavor: allow mo to Remarkable ReMoration. Thu argo first and take them off. A remarkable story comes from gument seemed a good one, nnd the madman allowed the doctor to leave Cardiff, YYals. A collier named David the kitchen. of Treherbert was a sufferer by a greut explosion that occurred in Big Prices for Postage Stamps, HS(). For four years after lie was The highest price that was ever confined to his bed. lie then gradpaid for old nnd rare stamps was ually got ubout, but remained deaf paid recently to a resident ot Denver nnd dumb from the shock. A doctor by f li Scott Stamp and Coin of New York. The stamps were advised him to try a shock somewhat similar to that which caused the first issue of the fevoeent, five his infirmity. A little while ago lie cent and hirto u cent numerals of placed himself near where six shots the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands. were to be tired in the Bute Iit, and, Tnev were known as the missionary and were issued a Imut lS.Ri. strange to say at the sixth shot liis stamp are only two other specimens hearing returned to him. Still lmwas There lie extant and these were to known but on a subsequent Sunday dumb, the Rev. E. Rowland, missionary to found on some old letters and saved the deaf mute, said something to is curiosities by the finder till tHe Davies which put him in a passion, New Y'ork dealers, hearing ot the find, and be involuntarily or instinctivelv offered first 830 for the three, but made an attempt to express his an- gradually raised the price, finally ofpower fering tjfiOO for the three, taking ger. ,To his amazement-th- e he now them at that price. The stamps were came and back, ofsjlk'bh talks freely. He, however, says that at. once sold by them to a wealthy 30. Denver speaking makes liis throat sore, and collector tor his tongue is made sore by bis teeth. ic-pi- com-pin- y He Lied, bnt Not Boston Gatte. I'nder Oath. An Evangelical clergyman, in a town not far distant from Boston, was recently summoned as a witness before a legislative committee on a question of the town division. lie was a resident who objected to having the tow n divided, and he was also a resident on that portion of territory which sought to he set off. In the zeal of his testimony, and under the screws of an accomplished counsel, he stated that the steam fire engine comof a captain pany in the town was on one occasion, while in the discharge of his duties, unmistakably intoxicated. The man, alluded to, reading the testimony, at once went to the house of the divine and asked him, in the presence of liis wife, why lie, a minister, should tell such a flagant untruth. The clergyman hesitated before the indignant remonstrance of the captain, who is well known ns a strict teetotaller, and then said: I was pressed to it by the persistent questions of the lawyer. 1 know I told a falsehood, but you see I was not under oath. Ilia wife joined in and exclaimed, 0h.no; husband was not under oath. This is a remarkable ease of casuistry. That minister must have an armor of brass when he appears before his little missionary congregation Sundays, to expound the beauties of truth and honesty. His predecessor, who, by the way, was one ot the genuine saints, ought to rise in rebuke. There is only one excuse for this uct, and it is found in a remark made years ago by the venerable Lyman Beecher, 1). D. He said there were in all communities constitutional Bars, and though they might receive the regenerating influences of the Holy Ghost, the seed would remain, nnd there would he no Ananias, and aSapphira to the end of the chapter. cross-examinin- g A Double Dinner !n Russia. The Russian eats on an everage once every two hours. The climate and custom require such fnv quent meals, the digestion of which is said by frequent draughts ofvodki and tea. Yodki is the Russian whisky, made from potatoes nnd rye. It is fiery and colorless, and is generally flavored with some extract like vanilla or orange. It is drank from small cups that holds perhaps half a gill, Y'odki and tea are the inseparable accompaniments of friendly as well as of business intercourse in the country of the czar. Drunken men are rare. Russia and Sweden are the only countries in which the double dinner is the rule. YYlien you go to the house of a Russian, be he a friend or a stra mrer, you are at once invited where salted meat, to n pickled eel, salted cucumbers, and many other spicy and appetizing viands, are urged upon yon with an impressiveness that knows no refusal. This repast is wasliid down with frequent! ups ofvodki. That over, mid when flu visitor feels as if lieliad eaten enough for twenty four And now to hours, the host says: dinner. At the dinin-table the meal issorved in courses, with wines grown in the Crimea and in Bessarabia, when excellent clarets and Burgundies are made and sold for from a shilling to half a crown the bottle. Bos ion Budget. side-tabl- r Great Stones iu the lj rainiils. Persons who inspect the Obeli Ac in Central Park for tbe first time, frequently express astonishment that to large n liloek of stone could lmve been successfully quarried, curved and handled by theaneieiits. especially ns such work is done with difficulty, even with the improved machinery of t the age. In talking the other day wit h one of tin lea ding granite men of the country, who lias made a personal inspection id the Pyramids of Egypt, le said: Tlere are bio !' of stom in t he ITamids w liieh weigh three or four times ns much as tin Oldeisk. I saw a stone whose estimated wyiglit was lx.so tons. The builders ot the Pyramids counted human labor lightly. They lmd great masses of subjects on whom to draw, nnd most of their work was done by sheer manual labor arid force. There are stones in the Pyramids thirty feet in length which fit so closely together that you may run a over the surface without discovering the break between them. They are not laid with mortar, either. There i.s no machinery so perfect that it will make two surfaces thirty feet in length which will meet together in unison as these stones in the Pyramids met. They were undoubtedly rubbed hack anil forth upon each other until the surfaces were asN. Y. Trisimilated to each other. pre.-en- pen-kn- if bune. Our Yorahnalrj. 1 Globe IVmoiTut. It worth remembering that Shakespeare produced all hi' wonder- -' ful plays with a stock of about words; that Milton found S,()00 sufficient for liis lofty and impressive purposes; and that the whole of the Old Testament comprises less than 3, 3(H1. As a general rule, people of the educated class do not use more than .(,000 or 4,000 words in conversation, while the uneducated often get along, even in the halls of Congress, with u few hundreds. i4 |