Daily South Kentuckian, 1884-10-03

Seized with terrible dread, he fired the other pistol at the - motionless white form -again the frightful laughter echoed through the room aud the bui builot - lot builot full heavily back on his own breast. With a loud shriek he sank down on the bed. The form glided noiselessly out of the door. Early the next morning, while Anna was watering her flowers, Victor came up to nor. 'Where is your brother:" she asked "He isn't up yet, poor fellow. He has had a terrible fright." "v aal was it.' "If you'll pronrse to keep silence I'll toll the whole story. To revengo my myself - self myself on him I clayed. ghost, first taking care to draw the bullets from his pis pistols - tols pistols that he might not use the weapons recklessly. rapped in sheets I visit visited - ed visited him and threw the balls back at his head when he tired." - Nothing could be better!" exclaimed Anna "but promise me not to speak of it Your mother might be vexod and ho himself must not be unde ceived." "Trust mo; I'll bj as mute as the grave. ' The physician, did not oiiib; breakfast waited in vain. At last some of the gentlemen went to wake him. Ho lay with his head strulchud over the edge of the bed; his mouth was wido open, his eyes were starting from their sockets anil bis hair was as white as chain. Life had van ished.' His discharged pistols were found by his side. One week after Vic tor was taken to the insane asylum. AT. I'. Graphic. Owls. Owls were never an epicurean feast. but Southey once had an owl roasted for dinner, for himself and Mr. and Mrs. Wordsworth; I give the sequel in bis own words: Wo agreed tliore could be no pre text for making owls game and killing them as dolicacios; but if ever you eat one, Dy ait means try 11 DOllea, wan onion sauce." Au omelet made of owl's eggs is said to bo a cure for drunkenness. At ono time the workmen on the ashington Monument were a good deal annoyed to find that a plumb line that r. ached from the top to the bottom of the shaft was frequently meddled with. At la-t it was found that an owl had taken up its abode in a part oi the shaft that afforded a shelter, and in passing in and out it had disturbed the line. An owl was once beguiled into a Georgia conference meeting, intent on securing a rat that had run into the room to escape from so persistent an enemy. La ed by tho light he sailed around a few times and flighted upon the bald head of an old man directly in front of the speaker. It is hardly necessary to say what was the next move . but tho pres presence - ence presence of the owl may have callei) to the preacher's mind the presence of Isaiah, who, when he foretold the dcsolat on ol Uabylon, declared that the house should be full of do e til creatures, and tnat owls should dwell there. An owl one; seriously disturbed the mourners at a funeral at Becchwood, Ontario With tender care they had placed the remains in a tomb, and were turning away sorrowiug, when they heard a moan that seomod to come from the collin. Hurriedly they broke tne casket open, only to hod all quiet within, and then it wa disco ered that the noise they had heard came from owls at tho far end of tlio vault. Dodsiey thought, it worth his while to writo an ode on the death of an owl, and hiooinlield made the bird the sub ject of his muse. Many persons bo bo-lieve - lieve bo-lieve that an owl will keep his eyes so intently nxed on a person walking around him as to wr ng his own neck o f, and it was not until some, lack lackeyed - eyed lackeyed observer discovered t.,at whon the owl had turned his head half round, he whisked it baok through the whole 0 rclo with the rapidity of lightning, and f iced again the person who wat eperimenting on him. tromd.net Journa'. Wealth of the Ocean. Sailing in the John Williams north northeast - east northeast of Lord Howe's Island, at dawn ol December lUth u:t.. tho ocean swarmed with small tish resembling sprats. Sea birds hovered above, . gorging to their hearts' content. hortly afterward shoals of bonito (Thynnus pel amy s) came along in hot pursuit W ith half a ilojon pearl oyster hooks, and no bait whatever, in less than an hour we caught one hundred and s xteen bonito, the greater part of which was salted down. Throughout the day we were slowly sailing through a count countless - less countless multitude of bonito. After Cap Captain - tain Captain Turpie had desired the tishors to cease their occupation (as our salt was done), one or two lurtivcly and cruelly anused theuisolves by catching these tine tish and throwing them back alive into the ocean. We might easily have caught a couple of thousand before sun sunset - set sunset throughout the following nignt the sea was illuminated; for as (he bonito rushed through the water near the surface they became phosphor: cent a sight never to be forgotten by those who witnessed it, '1 oward day. break, however, a strong breeze sprang up, and we saw no more of those mov moving - ing moving masses of tiro. The bonito belongs to the mackeral family. It is usually th rty inches in length and twenty iuch s round, and or a steel-blue color, with four stripes along each sido. The flesh is of a a irk color, and proved an acceptable thange of diet to ail on board, -ir W. H'w t tii.L

THE BLUE CHAMBER. A small party of ladies and gontlo gontlo-muii - muii gontlo-muii engaged in conversation wero s t t-ting - ting t-ting after d nnorln tho spacious grounds of an ancient manor. 'I he doors of the mansion stood wido open. The evening breeze whispered and rustled through the branches of the huge lindens, the shadows grow longer and longer, ink-black beneath the leafy roof of boughs, lighter on the patches of turf. It was a mild summer evening, still, yet full of strange, mysterious sounds; the soft brfzo I oatod into the doors, bearing wmi it the heavy fragrant e of tlio (lowers. In tho gathering diuk tlio members of the gro ip could scarcely oe each other. Conversation languished, passing from Biilijnct lo suliject: no one seemed inclined to enter upon a lengthy discus discussion. - sion. discussion. Suddenly one of the party began to relate an miecdotoof a ghost he Imd seen on an evening like tins. The plan was Slice ssful. .Several tales followed; but the young daughter of tlio house, Anna, continued to ask for more. It was so amusing to hear those marvel marvelous - ous marvelous stories imagine the white and black spec ers, moving noiselessly in dense shadow or da.zl'ng moonlight, feel a strange horror chill Tier blond and then lean again-d her mother, finding safety In her embrace. Mio uould not endure Candidate Hoist's way of taking these stories; lis scornful comments toro ugly rents in the dreamy ved lu which she wrapped herself. lie was a medical student and had witnessed many similar things in the hospital. It wasowliig losickncss acting Upon different Individuals. Kit her the patient, when his imagination wai ex excited, - cited, excited, mistook a towel, on which the m ion wan shining, lor a phantom, and the shrieking of the wind In old houses for ghostly crios and the clunk of chains, or the whole affair was pure hallucina hallucination. - tion. hallucination. A person in a healthy, normal condition never saw ghos s. The whole party opposed his v'ew. Tliere was surely some truth at the bot bottom - tom bottom of all these tales. The o was a thousand things which could not be ex explained - plained explained by natural causes. Anna was warmly se onde.l by Hoist's younger bro'thcr Hector, who had arrived at the hou-e with him this morning; though I e was iullucnced more by coiirtesy to the pretty younj girl than because he fell any tear of ghosts. He could not bear to have his brother appear to place himself in such contemptuous opposition to a pair of such beautiful bright eyes so he fought a stout battle against his own convio convio-tions. - tions. convio-tions. "Tho history of such things," said the Candidate, "is contrary to sound sense and reason. They are mis Tiblu relics of the darkness of the Middle Ages, which can only check progress. It would bo an utterly idiotic proceeding for dead folk to walk abroad and terrify tho living. Tradition carries such tales from generation to generation, and if not tiihjccted to severe scientific criti criticism' - cism' criticism' they retain their vitality and ure believed. It is the same kiud of super superstition - stition superstition as that which makes simple tolk afraid to sit thirteen tA table. In nino ca es out of ten, nothing happens, and there isn't even ono person who thinks of the matter. In the tenth, perhaps, fine of tho company dies, which is cor cor-tfinly - tfinly cor-tfinly in accordance with tho course of nature. Instantly it Is said: 'You remember; you remember, we sat thir thirteen - teen thirteen at table that day.' So the super superstition - stition superstition obta'ns nourishment for a long time. No, thank (Soil, tho fresh broo.e of knowledge will sweep away all suoh things like dank, unwholesome fo s." "es, would pooplo must bo pardon pardoned," - ed," pardoned," the mistress of the house gently interposed; "wo don't como so much In contact with the fresh broe.e of sci science - ence science as perhaps we ought. V e 1 vo, they say, wholly in tradition, and this thrives nowhere so well as in an old manor like vuis. It is very did cult to release ourselves from tho ideas in which we were reared, and which our ancestors believed. I am far from what is called superstitious; I have never been in , contact with these strange spirits yet not for all the world would I sleep in the blue chamber." "I he blue chamber!" cried the whole party in tones ot ostonishmont 'Ifi'S, we havo here, as in so manv old manor houses, a room that is said to be haunted. Many hundred years ago a man was murdered there, and since then ghosts have taken' possession of it. The servants talk of strange sounds and sights; none of them like to pass it after dark." 1 was sitting thinking that I should be delighted to occupy a roal haunt id chamber." sa d Hoist quletiy "it is a sin to have it remain u mined forever. Perhaps I can help dispsl this foo ish superstition, for I am oonv;noed I shall slop undisturbed." ' At first the mistress of the house 'would not listen to such a plan, but when the whole party urged and Anna . elasred her arms beseeohingly around - her neck she at last yielded.

Fitting Stock for Winter. When stock has been fitted for rough roughing - ing roughing it, which, of course, means feeding up to meet cold weather, the owner is in a position to choose between carry carrying - ing carrying over to spring or longer, or send sending - ing sending forward to market at any tims; that is, if he has fed up to such a state of fatness as will, more surely than any other, enable tho animal to resist a low degree of temperature without dis discomfort. - comfort. discomfort. If a thick wall of sawdust around a body of ice preserves it from melting in hot weather longer than a thin wall, then, on the same principle, a thick wall of adipose under the hide of a farm beast protects the animal from readily suffering by exposure to cold, . The sawdust in the one case is the non-conductor which prevents an interchange of temperature between the ice within the wall aud the hot air with without, - out, without, while, reversing the order, the layer of fat under the hide of the an animal - imal animal prevents the transfer of cold to the inner tissues, be'ng a non-conductor, equally efficient with the wall of saw sawdust - dust sawdust in the other case. The wall of fat once placed beneath tho hide' is. if fair protection be given, somewhat easily held there; while it is hardly possible to put on this layer during winter's cold without extra protection from the low temperature. Hence the wisdom of seeing to it early in the season, while flesh is easily acquired, that the ga:n is put on which is jure to be required when the mor mor-cury - cury mor-cury falls low down in the tube. Roughing it is nothing else than insti instituting - tuting instituting a warfare between the tissues of which the animal is made up and the elements without. A mon.jut's reflec reflection - tion reflection will convince nny one of the utter wastefulness of dealing out food three times a day in such free quantities as are required if feed is depended on to keep up the animal warmth, reasonably comfortable shelter being denied when the weather is decidedly cold. Dr. Playfair likened the body 'of a beast to a furnace in which fuel is consumed to produce heat, as the principle is quite like the feeding of farm animals, in so far as the food is given to maintain the animal heat. The continued tendency towards equalization in temperature of bodies and substances in contact, acts upon live animals exposed to contact with the outer air, and hence, when the temperature goes down there is a struggle within the body in its effort to pre; ve its normal temperature. This eflbu may be aptly likened to that made to warm a room with a heater, but lit little - tle little fuel being required when the out outside - side outside temperature is well up, for the nor normal - mal normal temperature or the animal body is easily maintained under liko nircum nircum-stanccs - stanccs nircum-stanccs without a special provision of food lor this purpose. Fitting stock for roughing it is very unprofitable as a preliminary proocss, because the term implies . exercise. Without the out-door exerciso in in inclement - clement inclement as well as in all other kinds of weather, the term roughing It would hardly apply. Exercise, in proportion to its extent, calls for increased action of the lungs and heart, and this lung action wastes the living tissues rapidly. It follows that quietness and seclusion are the means lo be used for saving the tissues. Therefore to feed up for ex exposure - posure exposure during winter involves a great waste during the preliminary as it does during the final experiences. But in this day we hope no one will persist in the heterodox notion that it is, in any sense, wise to build up during summer valuable material that is to be ruthless ruthlessly - ly ruthlessly squandered during the cold months. With flesh producers, the making of edible flesh is a slow and expensive procoss, and flesh onoe put on should In no case be parted with. If domestio animals could be fattened as rapidly as the carnivora are when they are, full fed then the task would indeed be easy. But the carnivora eat flesh and tissue having the constituents of their own bodie ready prepared, while domestio animals are built up by a slow process from materials which, while made up of constituents measurably like the body, are still, in the main, quite unlike it. But it is doubtless a wi3e provision that the flesh counted good for use as human food is put on bv a slow pro process, - cess, process, otherwise it would be flabby and oily; would shrink in the pot and van vanish - ish vanish before a cold blasts National Line block Journal, Antimony and asbestos have beon discovered in the San Eurido Mount Mountains, - ains, Mountains, Utah.

Wah Lee Tow's Bride. A bustling, surging crowd of several hundred men, composed of lawyers, merchants, and even ministers, crowd crowded - ed crowded into Justice Uleeson's court to wit witness - ness witness the solemn marriage rites of Wah Lee Yow and Miss Mary Shafnr. The Chinaman had procured a license Au August - gust August 20, but stopped at that stage of his matrimonial venture before taking tho final plunge. He had consulted his at attorney, - torney, attorney, l'etor Zuckcr, of the Board of Education, and the marital candidate left the attorney's oflice under his. es escort - cort escort and wended their way up Superior street to Sipiire Glccson's oflico. JKcho llehley, the alleged war eagle, Charles Seilser and several others, saw (be wedding party's departure, and, nois noising - ing noising the news abroad, a lengthy and co'istantly-incrcasing train joined the firoccssion. The squire stood" the blush blush-ng - ng blush-ng couple up be'ore him, and, after a momentary pause was about to make them one. Alas, the groom had for forgotten - gotten forgotten his license, and was obliged to withdraw and hie to his laundry and procure it. The self-invited guests f lacked in closer and,closer during the ntcrim, and the squire shiolded the now thoroughly embarrassed bride by es escorting - corting escorting ber to the adjoining oflice of Attorney Barrett. The crowd, how however, - ever, however, was not disposed to be defrauded of the ceremony, and by the time the Chinaman had returned with his doc document - ument document the law otlice was densoly filled with spectators. Again the courtly justice loil the bride ana bridegroom away from the madding crowd. Thoy inado their way to a corner of his otlice, and thero and then the twain were made ono. Wah Lee is a tall, miHfllA.An'nit f'ploatinl with nn inlnli!- gent lool, suporior to most of his brethren. He had apparently not ex expected - pected expected the array of lookers'-on that crowded about him, and while at a casual glance he appeared cool and collected he was greatly excited. Noth Nothing - ing Nothing in the room escaped the glance of his small, sparkling eyes. Half a dozen Mongolians were interspersed among tho audience, and one of them was, to all appearance, a Chinese priest. He wore a long black robe, a white cravat, and a clerical look upon bis face. It was said t''e marriage ceremony was also performed by him in their native fashion. The bride was attended by another young woman. Mary Shafor was a young German wo woman, - man, woman, apparently about twenty years of age. She had pleasing, but by no means handsome features, and was dressed ia white. A wreath of orange blossoms crowned her head and her feet were incased in a pair of light-colored satin Chinese slippers. She blushed prettily as she promised to be Lee Yow's true and faithful wife, and the bride bridegroom - groom bridegroom utteied his promises in plainly enunciated English. l'etor .ucker act,oi as best man, and be and Colonel A. T. Brinsmade signed the marriage certiiicato as witnesses. As he finished the nuptial knot the Justice announced that they were now ready for congratu congratulations. - lations. congratulations. Tho bride took this opportuni opportunity - ty opportunity to greet her futuro lord with a kiss behind her fan, and Hon. John P. (reen crowded to the front and wel welcomed - comed welcomed the Celestial in behalf of the American people. Other hearty con congratulations - gratulations congratulations followed, and as Mr. and Mrs. Wah Lee left the room throe cheers were proposed ond given for them with a tier. The Chinaman kinked his arm In the most acceptable fashion, and with the bride leaning lightly upon it they descended the stairs and passed over to tne Chinaman's lauudry u niter the Sioss block. A little later they emerged and proceeded to do the town afoot. When last seen they were meandering up Ontario street arm In arm. In their wake were twenty twenty-five - five twenty-five or thirty boys yelling "rats." Cleveland Lt.ader. Mrs. Garjield, the mother of the late President, can bo seen almost any day walking about the grounds or sit sitting - ting sitting in her arm-chair on the shaded veranda at Mentor. On Sundays she is generally at church with other mem bers of the family, and is able to take a seat in, or alight from, the family carriage with little assistance. She has passed her eighty-third birthday, and seems to be in the enjoyment of het usual good health. Cleveland Leader. Animals-are not allowed In sleep sleeping - ing sleeping cars; but why do the companies draw the line at this point?. If they in included - cluded included inse ts, it would please, patrons better. --4top'?'f Courier,

Mr. W. W. Corcoran, the Wash- intrtou nhilanthronist. is now Howard of eighty-four years of age, and is yet strong ana vigorous. He has - grown somewhat peculiar, however, about his eating, never touching anything not prepared by his own cook, or coining from his own house. If he expects to be absent from home at lunch time he carries a hearty luncheon with him, which he takes out and eats at the proper time with great relish. H'ost H'ost-tnqlon - tnqlon H'ost-tnqlon Vo l. Joe Jefferson, the actor, who ought to know the etl'ect of the constant repe repetition - tition repetition of one part upon the actor, says that after playing one part for a great length of time an actor is apt to forgot his lines and take up wrong ones. An English actor who forgot his lines in this way was blamed by the manager. "It's very strange that you are not per perfect - fect perfect in that part by this time. You have been playing" it two hundred nights." "Uoyou expect me to re remember - member remember it forever?" said the actor. N. y. Urapliie. Cyrus W. Field is the youngost son of a clergyman of Stockbridge, Mass. His brothers, Dudley, Henry unit Ste- pnen, were sent to college, but (Jyrus, at an early age, received twonty-tive dollars and the patenf.il blessing. He became a clerk in A. T. Stewart's store at a salary of two dollars a week, and on entering into business for himself as a dealerJn paper, his fellow-clerks pre presented - sented presented him with a diamond pin. It took him twelve years to make a fort fortune. - une. fortune. Mince then he has been a capi capitalist - talist capitalist and has made several fortunes say $iO,000,(XJO. iV. Y. Times. IICMOROUS. , In tho Empire of Morocco there is only one subscriber to a newspaper. He is the Emperor. As soon as there are two or three more it is likely some Yankee will happen along and start a paper. Hoslon Transcript. "I laughed," lie said to his wife, "I laughed until my mouth fairly stretched from ear to ear. ' "You don't have to laugh very elaborately to accomplish that distance," replied the lady, with a yawn. "Ha! He! Very good, my dear, very good; capital. Large mouth, ehP" "No, large ears!" she said, with anoth another - er another yawn. N. Y. DiaK - A much-vexed question is now set settled. - tled. settled. For a long-time it has been won wondered - dered wondered why womeu turn around to look at each other on the street A wife re retorted - torted retorted when reproved by her husband: "Didn't the woman look nt me?" "Yos," replied the husband. "All right then; one good turn deserves an another." - other." another." Pittsburgh Dispatch. A short time ago Jones and Rob Robinson - inson Robinson were dining out together, Jones being one of tho most absent-minded Individuals in existence. Quoth Rob Robinson - inson Robinson 10 Jones: "I say old fellow, what do you think? A man asked me tho other day whether your name was Smith!" "Really," answered the absent-minded one: "and was it?" Whitehall Review, "I wants you to bay me pock dot $2 I loaned you last spring. Money is worth twice as much now as it vash ! den," said Mose Schaumburg to Gil Gil-hooly. - hooly. Gil-hooly. "Is that so?" iiuiuirea Gilhoo Gilhoo-ly, - ly, Gilhoo-ly, pensively. "Is it really worth twice as much now as it was when I got that $2?" "Shertainly it was." "Well, then, here is $1. That makes us even, I believe. Texas Siftings. Old Mosquito 1 here, now, you must have been disobeying me. Wnat mado you so sickP Young Musq'uito Dunno, ma: I don't do nothin'. Old Mosquito Yes. you did., Have you beeu eating anything I told you to avoid this wea' her? " Young Mosquito No'm. Old Mosquito Yes, yon have, or yon wouldn't be sick, Now, mind I will give you a regular thrashing if you ever again touch veal or dudes in the sum summer - mer summer tiu.6 ?lHlatlelphiq Call,

tlemen, 1 wish you all as comfortable a rest as 1 cxi ect to have niyse.f." "(iood night, wicked freethinker," said Anna, half admiringly. "1 hope you will have dill'orcnt opinions in the morning. ' As they went out Victor whispered to Anna: "1 11 answer for it that ho shall be thoroughly frightened." The door was locked and ( andidate Hoist rema ned nlon i in tho blue cham chamber. - ber. chamber. The sound of footsteps and voices died away: be listened at tho door but all was still. (joint; to tho window ho stood there a few minutes looking at the grove The soft night brcoe stirred the leaves and branches. Ouly the nearest trees could lie (Unity distinguished, lieyond all was dense, impenetrable darkness, for there was neither moon nor stars in theskv. it's re:illy very rare to bo freo from Madam 1 .1111:1." said ho, "she is so fond of intruding ami playing the spy on sensible folk, spi:e of drawn curtains. For the rest, this is an uncommonly comfortable room. Probably not one of the whole party will have so good a bed to lie in as mv lu ky self. "So a man wa 1 murdered hero, and for tho saku of this legend the room has now stood empty hundreds of years. If one could stv a few blood stains or similar horrors - but there's no trace of anything of the sort. What matchless power superstition has, even in our en lightened days! 1 shall consider it a good deed to drive it from this com fortable stronghold.. Lighting a cigar, he paced to and fro smoking, then walked around the bed and closed his eyes with a half shudder, "How timidly tho young girl, Anna, is pressing her pretty fa.'e nguinst the pillow at the thou. lit that any human being dares to sleep In the blue chain ber. She won t even venture to put out 111:1 uigiib lump lor iciu 01 seeuig the frigniiui win e 6 nape that must speedily come up hero and destroy me. While thus soliloqul in? ho un dressed, opened the canopied bud. and resolutely e .tiiigulshcd the lamp. Thoro was no sound In the room; only it seemed as though he could hear a rustling noise like crieketsnnd a nivs terions ticking, as ihoit'h the famous deathwutch was under the carpet. He lay listening a moment, heard the night wind sigh through the trees and the great clock of the manor strike eleven, then ho .ell asleep. At the end o. an hour he suddenly started up in bed, having heard a sound like the upeuing ot a door. A strange shuddering sensation ran through his limbs as be stared liedly into the room and beheld a white form moving stowiy towaras me oeu. Terror overpowered him, but the next instant he rega ned his coolness. and shoi.ted in a iirm voice, "Who's thcreP" Mo answer, but the shape renamed stand nr in the middle 01 the noor. "Who's t ere ' Answer, or as sure as I live 111 lire," Iij oalled a.ain, cocktn; his pistol. He was once more the f.ulot, cold blooded physician; he had surely hard the oreaking of a door: it must be a man, .a rascal, a murderer perhaps, but no spectre. ' "Yet, spite of ths pistol's warning snap, the tlgure did not tujve ' "VVho goes there?" be called again. fctill no sound disturbed t e silence of the room. . The physician' r-Lretched out his arm ana nrea. A flash of light illumined the dusky I chamber aud the r port shook the old J tapestry. Scarcely fid sound died.

Anna thought the scheme Wonder Wonderfully - fully Wonderfully interesting. "It is really terrible that you dare vonturo. Candidate Hoist," she said, "but I hope you will look really fright fright-enod - enod fright-enod when you come to breakfast in the morning." After supper the whole party went to the "blue chamber," which meantime had been put in order to receive the guest Every corner was examined with the utmost care. The atmosphere was somewhat op oppressive, - pressive, oppressive, thou;h the windows were now opon. The room was seldom ventil ventilated, - ated, ventilated, and the half moldy air took tho liberty of settling in tho furnituro and curtains. It had evidently always borne tho n;.mu of tho "blue chain chain-tor," - tor," chain-tor," although the thick carpet was now faded 'Iho furnituro was very scanty, but what articles remained were old- ashioned. While time had transformed everything else in the an an-c'oit - c'oit an-c'oit manor, making the Hi f carved chairs give way to comfortable arm armchairs, - chairs, armchairs, and the old chimney pic es to tile stoves, this room seemed to have prescr ed Its former appearance. It was delivered over to the spirits of the past; no one hud attempted to drag it into the posont. An article that did not contribute least in enabling it to retain its ancient charaeior was the htijie, exquisitely carved four-post bed bedstead, - stead, bedstead, which occupied a large portion of the room. The apartment was the last in one wing of tho manor, looking out upon tlio grove, but so near the ground that a person, by tho display of some little agility, ruijjil climb up. "It is not impossible," sa d 'Hoist, after a thorough examination of the chamber, "that the nocturnal noises mentioned may havo beeu made by vagabonds who settled themselves he e for a comfortable night's rest, Victor, do mo the favor to et my pistols; thoy are In my traveling satchel; but don t meddle with the triggers, they are loade I." ictor went away with a light, and soon after brought the pistols to his brother. The latter primal them freshly, put on new taps and laid thorn on tho tab e. "Now, good night, ladios and gen

PERSONAL AND LITERARY. Theodore Tilton is sojourning hi Paris, where he is engaged in writing a book. AT. y. Sun. An old publisher says that not one book in five hundred reaches a second edition. A'. Y. Herald. Clara Louiso Kellogg Eays this has been the greatest season for the Ameri American - can American girl abroad that has ever been known. Alvan Clark, the telescope-maker of Massachusetts, though eighty years old, is still at work. He ana his sons aro the leading telescope manufacturers of the world. Boston Journal.