Show br gre great at german clerman philosophical write and popular novelist deeply resented the recent raids on ins bis fediow fellow people the hebrews he lie who had lad held aloft to his nation theadmer thead mir ablo example of the tile illustrious jewish philosopher lo baruch was disgusted to death by the jew baiting instituted by narrow minded fanatics I in berlin when lie set et out for Nf italy where he lie sought health and found death a few weeks weel ago sago lie resolved never to ro turn to his native country so mortified was he lie witcher with her lier internal con and above all with tile J treatment reat ment accorded d to the jews it is also said that he declared that he lie desi desired it to be made known after his death that ho he died of sorrow sorrow and aud ay iy shama for the present of tho the fatherland in tho tile future of which he lie and lost all faith ARABI bry the new minister of war of R egypt A is said to hold the fates of tho the realm of the pharaohs Phara V in his hands hailds the tile new binl ministry stry is formed by him and by him only a the E egyptian cabinet is ruled tiled by r arabi aai bey more abs absolute blute authority than even prince bismarck exercises ho ile does not nl argue ue but orders and bis his word is law he ile P paid aid a visit to his president tho the other oilier day but was by officers his ministry is crowded d with natives who beg of him every kind of favor A double line of guards is necessary emary to keep off the tile petitioners petition ers the people treat him with superstitious respect sema some hold bold him to be a direct descendant ant of tho the prophet others treat him as one iu inspired a few think lie may be el EI mahdi the A sacred imam so long expected Who will restore islam to its pristine glory A TIC STORY nony 13 is being recalled by the simple incident of a youth in washington sending a valentine to a girl in eaton md the name of the sender odthe of the missive is return J meigs and the s same anic christian namo name has bin been in ill the AL leibs family for several generations many years year ago ago in ante revolution ary da days y s jonathan meigs courted a yo young ung lady who rejected his addresses meigs b S continued to love the girl and though too proud and sensitive to try a second time to win her determined ter mined never to marry any one else and to live and die a bachelor unless she of her own accord aelen relented after a few years tho the lady did re relent lelit and sent a letter to lier her former suitor bleigh got t the lie letter and fo found in it only the two words return jonathan it was enough b jonathan did lid return and made mado her ling t ills wife their first child was baptized return jonathan to commemorate me the brief letter that saved the meigs family from evi extinction and from that day to thi this there lias has been a return J meigs in every generation en cration cr CENTRAL FRANCE is suffering from the depredations of wolves and the ainne from an influx of li wolves orves it is reported that in two years its villages have been ravaged by wolves and from fifteen to twenty pei bons eons have been bitten and have died the latest casa was that of a wolf which after attacking several persons encountered a man carrying a gun guir and was shot the state premiums of from six francs to eighteen francs for the destruction st of wolves arc are co complained of as inadequate yet a bill now p pending ending proposes to abolish them altogether under the idea that they prevent the extirpation of the animals As to the moles their depredations in the aisne aasne havo have amounted to fianco the district of st quentin alone having suffered to the extent of fran francs es somo sonic advocate as is the rem remedy edya a rel of the restrictions on tl the e sale of arsenic r but partridges small birds and fowls have already fallen victims to poisoned wheat intended for k moles one proposal is to scatter straw at certain spots in older order to attract the moles to burrow under it which it is found they do and then en t to place poisoned baits there |