Show IN N THE ODD CORNER BOME SOME STRANGE QUEST AND or LIFE alrh ilot most wonderful Mond erful ful tolvie oa collue lul id hll entre fawn ludia Chat lug a itell A singular tl TI clial rl iAl I 1 an It boril ocard co ril charleston al 1 M I ni as ort u iner er which latt r LA lei les the first f til or of tie it a 4 enow snow I 1 in broad sunlight of heroic deed deeds ahe cit lids the foe for ae As yet behind their ramparts tern stern and I 1 roud her boltie thun drs steel dark sumter like a tattled anted cloud loom 0 ir tr the polean deep no calpe frown fro na from lofty lorty cliff or the lo 10 guard the loly 1 oly strand ell anil lut B ut moultrie Mou lirie hoi holn 1 in ili leush her doe dogs of war ar aboe above the levil land sand anil anti down the dunce dunes a thousand gurt guns lis 11 couched laseen lealda if side the th floid flod I 1 ike 14 in gome some orient jungi jungle crouther crout hed wait und and watch for blood meanwhile through dtreit still echoing with trade valk lk grave aril nl thoughtful men IN hose hands na ina one day widd wield the pa ariot a blade made A a lightly as an the pen and maidens with uch such eee ees as would krow grow dim over a bleeding hound seem each rach one to hav have caught the th strength of him whose hose word the she ally sally bound thus lift girt without and garrisoned at horne home pay patient following day old charleston Char lerton look looks from roof and nd paire and dome her tranquil tian quil buy bay ships through a hundred tot toes from sai on 1 linda ani spicy indian port ports bring saxon teel steel and iron to her handi hands and to her court courts hut still along yon dim atlantic ain th the only hostile creeps like a harmless 11 larm less mist loe above the th brine prom from ome some frail trail floating auk oak shall the pring dawn and she he still till clad in miles and with an brow belt in the th strong arras of her palm clowned toles ae As fair and diee as a now we know not in the tempi temple of 0 t tt rates god ha has inscribed her doom and all untroubled in her falth me arti wait malts th the triumph or th the tomb the th leaf losert the I 1 eat insect is a ot of the ennit indies and the isla ittis of the eastern archipelago dr dung units in dt scribing it ays bays suppose the tb top of a sprout of tats this year a growth to be broken from a bay the leaves leases stripped off two of them taken and laid back along the sprout to within about a quarter of an inch from the top you have then the body and head of the insect at the end of th bare sprout two forked incipient leaca stand out these will do for the horns the leaves lying thus along the sprout give a as they taper towards their points the aspect of the body the ered projecting part with it fill half formed buds represents tle head jid aad the eyes the wings bear th most striking re reen blance to an oak le lafit if cut up the center the regularity of the larger veins and the distinctness of the smaller ones are very marked then you all have the four leg like fragments of leaflets joined to the upper parts of the tody body while two arms serving the B me purpose aa ail the tile tetta cular of the butterfly branch off frota the shoulder chesil are also like fragments of a leaf but when they ae ale brought together they form an entire e kat icat with its base at the held head and I 1 its to point pro ejecting when the insect rests among the leaves it resemblance to them Is so perfect that only a most aci acute ute observer Is likely to detec it even when it files it loks far more like a stray torn from a branch than a true insect the leaf insect moves about very lowly slowly and if it it were not for its extraordinary resemblance to the foliage among which aich it pastes its life would be powerless poe riess to escape the attacks of its numerous deboles ne an A british newspaper of the th ear 1777 contains the following singular Ing record old william douglas and bis his wife lately died he and bis his wife were ere born on the same day within the same hour christened at the th same time and in the same church they were constant contant companions and at the age of nineteen were ere married at the church at which they were ere christened they never knew a day it illgas until the day before their deaths and on the day on which they died were exactly one hundred bundred years old they died in one bed were ere burled buried in one grave close to the font where they were christened they never bad had any children Ro avnir from froin judia not ine the least interesting of the sou venire which atch lord urd elgin brought home on the completion of his viceroyalty vice royalty in india are two remarkable specimen specimens of at native call graphy presented to him by the nizam of Hyder abad the first which Is in the shape of a tree with birds perched on it overshadowing portraits of lord and lady elgin cor cost ere it spare space of about eight inches by tour four and into this compass lg in crow crowded dd the whole of chapter till vill of s Go rose hose garden which ally makes forty five pages of printed mutter tr every word Is written in a bold flowing hand and although dim nit to read with the naked eye la Is nally easily deciphered with the aid of a magnifying glass the second part of the naalma offering consist consists of two grains of rice bearing inscriptions in simil sir ollir ir microscopic characters the first concerning their I visit to Hyder abad and the second concerning the artist who did the work this la Is one bed syed shakir all who ha a few years ago sent a somewhat similar offering to the queen aa as a birthday present 11 at 1 wonderful ua ten PIC pi the most wonderful ond erful temple in the world A orld Is to built on a rocking stone alone on the summit of a mount tin in corthern thern india it Is impossible to imagine a more inore wonderful and erful situation than that ot of this temple the rocking stone la is sit bated on oil a mountain over twenty thou sand saud feet high it weighs many thousand thousands of tons but Is bila bilan nied Led on so tine fine a point that i i comparative light pressure Is I 1 sufficient fent to make it sway away N hether or not the great rock waa was ritel to its present position po altion by human hands bands Is a mystery to scientific minds it it were ere the labor wae was one to which no modern engineering teat tent an be compared ahe blindu priests teach their follower followers that the rock waa was placed in position by the help of the gods in this tr it add considerably to the fleeing of awe which aleh they desire to create the at this shrine ebrine must first make the ascent of the mountain a matter of at great difficulty then they spend seven days ot of preparation in a temple built on the solid before they are permitted to make the final passage to the mysterious boking king stone to reach this stone it la is necessary to cross a bridge over a great chasm nature and man had combined to make this hindu hindo shrine awe ae inspiring to the devout after atler crossing the bridge the pilgrim tiL nan nta a ladder to v aich he clings la in geror for bis his life here and in the hire lit reatter after the temple on the rock Is 1 necessarily a place three priests officiate clate in it the mysteries which take place there no min la Is permitted to reveal europeans have seen it from a distance A Fin cular theatrical A very nery acm theatrical performance for mance took place recently la fit st andrew andrews s hall ball at berlin rhe play was schiller maria stuart all the actors were deaf deal in mutes nits and the entire audience consisted of person persons similarly afflicted to a visitor in posses possession slon ot of all his natural faculties the production of the drama had something eo indescribably weird P banry ancy a ule little theater a well appointed actors moving about in a manner exasperating pe to those not conler conversant gant with the sign language used by deaf mutes and not a sound souna to be heard except the walking ot at the people on the scene the drama was given without a cut and for four long houn hours the audience eat sat spellbound lot a person leaving until the curtain had been lowered tor for the last time these performances for mances occur at regular intervals and are arranged by the teachers ot of the berlin deaf mute institute Ch cheating a bull A connecticut sportsman relates la a I 1 forest and stream an adventure which must have been exciting enough to save his day f from prin monotony I 1 was wa haul hauling ing my boat across aleys meadow to the arcet a hard pull with de coys gun and sod ammunition I 1 was wa about halfway half way across and had eat sat down to rest when I 1 noticed that one of a large herd ot of cattle was coming my way I 1 looked again it was a big hull bull and evidently meant business I 1 knew he would overtake mo ma it if I 1 ran BO so I 1 turned over my boat and anti crawled under it the bull seemed surprised oJ that I 1 had disappeared and after sniffing sni flIng around a while went off I 1 waited salted until he was nearly up with the cattle and then started again but the old fellow was no tool fool he had hi his ee eye on me a and nd I 1 had hardly started before be he came back on the run to do my best I 1 4 t make the creek so 80 u under the boat I 1 went abtin thia this time the bull waa was mad lie bellowed and pawel pase I 1 and tore up the sod around the boat with his horns but I 1 held the boat down finally when villen I 1 was geltin gel gett tiD liv tired he got tired himself and went so tar far away a ay that this time I 1 made the creek and launched my boat A remarkable Wild leat the zoological garden in parl has recently acquired a specimen ot of the rare rate wildcat of slam instead ot of being larger than thin its domestic re relatives latles as our wildcats are this animal Is ot of about the size of at a common bouse house cat it Is surprisingly fierce and untamable and anti very beautiful its lustrous fur being marked and banded with symmetrical figures in black and white aa as fine according to a paris parts journal aa as though drawn with a pencil 1 life ier tanar there an old woman who ha hab a milk tand stand in st james park I 1 bondor has occupied it tor for 53 beirs her iter family ha has had the privilege of selling mik milk at the tile tand for over oser bearr earr milk to the value of 38 a month Is sold at s the stand the average man never fully reali reallie zeb at midnight how very sleepy he Is going to be at 7 0 clock the nut next morning |