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Diller sete a ie Se ree = SS — RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —The first modern medical school was at Salerno in the eighth century. —France had, in 1887, 85,545 schools, 136,800 teachers and 6,208,000 scholars. ~—Greek education comprised rexd- ing, writing, arithmetic, music, litera- ture, art and gymnastics. —Faith is the sacrifice of the under- Standing to God; repentance the sacri- fice of the will.—Jeremy Taylor. —The states of the union expended for education in 1890 €148,724,647, of which $95,791,090 were in salaries. Practical technical instruction was first given in the Chester (England) Diocesan Training college about 1839. —During the sixth, seventh and eighth centuries the Irish monastic Schools were the most renowned in Eu- rope. rom the tenth to the fifteenth cen- tury female education in Europe con- sisted of reading, singing and embrold- ery work. —The greatest Mohammedan uni- versity is at Fez. It is attended by 700 students, and the course of study is limited to the Koran. —Connected with the synod of China fre 33 foreign and 27 native ministers, with 27 licentiates. In the 65 churches there are 6,000 members. —Mediwval education comprised the trivium: grammar, dialectics and rhet- oric; and the quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. —There are 32,712 women and girls in India under Christian instruction, and outside these stand the appalling number of 111,332,927 not under instruc- tion and unable to read or write. —Christian peace is unclouded azure in a lake of glass. It is the soul which Christ has pacified, spread out in seren- ity and simple faith, and the Lord God, merciful and gracious, smiling over it. —Hamilton. —Dr. R. H. Nassau, during an expe- rience of thirty years, has not found in Africa one whose religion is only super- Stition. Every one has an idea of God as a Maker and Father; but they say only the spirits do us harm, so we wor- ship and pray to them. —Nine casks of missionary arrow- root have been sent to Edinburgh this year from Aneityum, New Hebrides, and three from Fortuna. The latter is a contribution from the native Chris- tians to help prepare native teachers and to build the first church in For- tuna. —The English historian, Sharon Tur- ner, says that at the end of the first century there were 500,000 Christians. Ry the end of the second century there were 2,000,000. This number was in- creased in the next hundred years to 5,000,000. Then the figures advanced as follows; 500 A. D., 10,000,000; 600 A. D., 15,000,000; 700 A. D., 20,000,000; 800 A. D., 24,000,000; 900 A. D., 30,000,000; 1000 A. D., 40,000,000; 1100 A. D., 50,000,- 000; 1200 A. D., 70,000,000, 1300 A. D., 80,000,000: 1400, A. D., 75,000,000; 1500 A. D., 80,000,000; 1600 A. D., 100,000,000; 1700 A. D., 115,000,000; 1800 A. D., 155,- 000,000; 18938, 250,000,000. The army of the Lord is marching on. WIT AND WISDOM. —Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge.—Barthol. There's always room at the top for larger potatoes. —Blizzard. —There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. —Lavator. —‘Soy, Phalim, what's a ventrilo- quist?” “He's a lad phat stands on one side av th’ room an’ talks to himself from th’ other.” | —Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.—Carlyle. —A really great manis known by three signs—generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success,—Bismarck. —Reflect upon your present bless- ings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.—Dickens. —There is one safe way of avoiding fatal mistakes in distinguishing be- tween mushrooms and toadstools. Eat parsnips.—Kansas City Journal. —Little Charlie—Papa, do angels see what's going on in the world? Papa— I suppose so; they’re often pictured as Wweeping.—Cleveland Plaindealer. —Sir Edwin—Shall we take the high road home, dear—I mean Lady Ange- lina? Lady Angelina—No. I should prefer the bridal path, I think.— Judy. Hardalee—We had a fine sunrise this morning, Van. Did you see it? Van ‘Tank—Sunrise? Why, old man, I am always in bed before sunrise.—N. Y. Ledger. —Principal—You had a defect in the cash account yesterday. Has the error been discovered? Clerk—The error, yes, but not the cash.—Boston Home Journal. —True knowledge will make us hum- ble, modest, and kind to others. It will not puff us up, and it will not lead us to overlook the real happiness of others.—Barnes. —Clara—You must have refused Harry Sparker last night. Maude— How did you know? Clara—He told me this morning he had just had a nar row escape.—N. Y. Herald. —It is a common thing for women to gay that men are all alike. But when two men happen to fall in love with the same woman a difference very soon exists between them.—Boston ., Transcript. farsighted man, and his ventures were almost invariably successful. Figg—But what good ishe tosociety? He willgive miles away, but he can never see the suffering right at home. Fogg—I said phe was a farsighted man.—Boston } ‘Transcript. Literature certainly runs in the Greensmith family. The two daughters rite poetry that nobody will prixt, sons writes plavs that nobody will _ act, and the mother writes novels that jobody will read.” ‘And what does e father write” “Oh, he writes that nobody will cash."—Press ‘ SPOILED A LYNCHING BEE. Hank Taylor Insisted on Being Hanged in an Unobtainable Boiled Shirt. When Hank Taylor was put on trial at Strawberry Hill for killing Steve Brown, he pleaded guilty, and in a lit- tle speech to the crowd said: “In course you'll hang me. I expect it, and shall be disappointed if you don’t. But I want it understood right now that I hev rights.” “What be them rights, prisoner?” queried Bill To*ton. who wa ting as judge. “Waal, I want to be hung witha new rope. I was brought up respec- ably, and I want to die that way. Then I want to wear a biled shirt. I was brung up to wear biled shirts, and I don’t want to disgrace the fam’ want to be shaved, to have my hair combed and parted in the middle, and [insist on Zeke Cooper lendin’ me his new butes. Them’s my rights, and I shall insist on ’em.” “Prisoner, hain’t you jest a little too partik’lar?” inquired the judge. ‘Hain’t it puttin’ this’ere camp to a good deal of extra trouble for no real benefit? Whar are we goin’ to get a biled shirt, for instance?” “I dunno, but we hev got to hev one. Do you s’pose I'm goin’ to bring up in the other world with this old red shirt on? They wouldn't allow me to stake aclaim or set up a shanty.” “How are you goin’ to be shaved when we hain’t got no razor in camp. We kin furnish you some grease and a comb, but thar can’t be no shavin’.” “Got to be,” replied Hank. *‘I hain't goin’ over the divide lookin’ like a wolf with his winter furon. And as fur grease, I want reg’lar bar'sile. I bound to look jest as purty as I kin.” “Zeke, will you lend him yer butes?” asked the judge. “Naw! I could never feel easy in‘em ag’in?” “Then I don't hang!” retorted the ; prisoner. “Mind you, boys, 1 hain’t denyin’ that I killed Steve. whom everybody knows was a provokin’, can- tankerous cuss and orter to be killed long ago, and I hain’t kickin’ as to ~—Fogg—Munniworth was always a | islip away.—Texas Siftings. what will follow, I'm jest stickin’ out fur my rights. S'posin’ any one o’ you was goin’ to arrive in the other world asa tenderfoot, wouldn’t you want to look fairly decent? “That’s so, that’s so,” mused the judge. ‘‘In course it'll be known that you cum from Strawberry Hill, and in course we'll hev a pride in fittin’ you out in decent shape. The prisoner will be removed while we hev a talk.” We hada talk. We couldn't get a white shirt, anew rope and a razor anywhere within one hundred miles. And, as Hank had observed, Steve Brown was always saying mean things ahd provoking quarrels and wasn't of much account. After discussing the pros and cons it was decided to over- look the offense and let up on Hank, but after telling him our decision the judge said: “But don’t do it again, Hank. Itare the opinyun of some of the boys that you were too darned particklar about the biled shirt, and of others that you were right about wantin’ to make a decent appearance on the other shore, and so we decided to call it squar. Next time, however; we'll hang you with a mule rope and in yer old duds and let ye run all the chances.” “Waal, boys, fix it to suit yerselves and it'll suit me,” carelessly replied the prisoner, and court was adjourned and we returned to work.—Annaconda Standard. ae HONOR EASILY GAINED. A Student Who Got His Diploma by An- swering a Single Question. In times past there was in a certain law school an aged and eccentric pro- fessor. ‘‘General information” was the old gentleman's hébby; he held it for incontrovertible that if a young lawyer possessed a large fund of miscellaneous knowledge, combined with an equal amount of common sense, he would be successful in life. So every year the professor put on his examination pa- pers a question very far removed from the subject of criminal law. One year it was, “How many kinds of trees are there in the college yard?” The next, “What is the makeup of the English cabinet?” Finally, the professor thought he had invented the best question of his life. It was, ‘Name twelve animals that inhabit the polar regions.” The pro- fessor chuckled as he wrote this down. He was sure he could “pluck” half the students on that question. And it was beyond a doubt that op- probrious young loafer, Thompson, would fail. But when the professor read the ex- amination papers, Thompson, who had not answered another question, was the only man who had solved the polar problem. This was Thompson's an- swer: Six seals and six polar bears.” Thompson got his degree with distine- tion.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Won in the First Round. “Do you think. George,” said the blushing girl, “you could support me in the style which I have beenacenstomed all my life—* “Why, Great Scott, Laura.” inter- posed the astonished lover, “I am worth ten dollars to your father’s one dollar.” “In the style,” resumed Miss Laura, slowly and with dignity, ~to whieh I | have been accustomed all my life to | look forward to the style in which I ‘ should wish to be supported by a lov- | ing and indulgent husband.” He replied humbiy that he thought he could, and in all her subsequent married life the astute Laura never lest the advantage she gained in this i ice) the’ heathen. Ab at , Preliminary set-to.--Chicago Tribune. ~ mone; ousan Tempas Fugit. Judge Duffy—This is the third time this month you have been up here be- fore me. Tramp—Well, I declare, how time do & Good Pian. Visitor {at Chicago restaurant)—This bill-of-fare is in French. Waiter—Yes, sah; but the prices is in English, sah. Mos’ folks goes by dem. —N. Y. Weekly. 1S YOUR FACE ON? | SIG GAME IN THE NORTH. To Put It On Should Be a Before-Breakiast The Wood Buffalo Nearly Exterminated— Duty. 1 once heard a woman say that she would as soon think of leaving her room in the morning before putting on her dress as before putting on her face, remarks a correspondent of an eX- change. When one stops to reflect on the dejected, acrid. or glum counte- nances that confront one at breakfast tables, does it not seem a thousand pit- ies that more women are not alive to the positive indecency of appearing at the breakfast board in what may be | Hardly any | one but considers her morning toilet | called facial dishabille? complete whea she has done with tub and dumbbel “fixed” her hair, and put on her dress; yet she should never venture beyond the threshold of her bedroom until she has coaxed a smooth and smiling reflection into her looking glass. To this, regardless of the mood that may possess. we must first, to use a Delsaltean term, “‘devitalize” the face; that is, cast out the unlovely expres- sion in possession by encouraging a sensation of droop throughout the features, so that cheeks, lips, chin and lids may sag heavily while the mind is, as far as possible, a blank. After “sozzling” in this state of relaxation fora few minutes, let us summon upa pleasant mental picture, and then al- low a little smile, rippling over the face from opening eyes and parting lips, to gradually bring the features into place and expression. If one is afflicted with obs: te facial dejection or asperity this operation should be re- peated several times. I have known it to work in most unpromising cases. It isa lamentable fact thatattractive coloring and a satiny texture of skin mean infinitely more to the ordinary run of women than do the stories their faces are weaving from ‘moods and tenses” and thought habits. And how short-sighted this preference is! These poor women completely forget that as the years go by the facial architecture alone will remain intact—that the tints must somewhat fade. ‘The face is a fair temple, of which we are the builders. I think Emerson said this in a prettier and better phrase.—Chicago Journal. A SWORD OR A STRAW. The Sense of Humor as a Life Preserva- tive and Wrinkie Eradicator. To have a sense of humor is to have an armor that protects one from many of the shafts of experience that would, without the antidote of humor, be pois- oned enough to produce irritation at least. ‘The man or woman who has this sense can always see the redeeming fun in any situation not shadowed by sor- row. Humor has been known, however. to thrust its unseemly presence in at a funeral, so that without self-control it would have produced effects that would at least stamp one as being heartless. Even a kitchen tragedy may become a farce if the mistress has a sense of humor, as when, the closets not being ina condition in which a careful mis- tress would have them, the maid replies to her rebuke: ‘‘Well, if you hadn't been snooping, you wouldn't found out, and then you wouldn't have been bothered about finding a new girl!’ Whether the sensation of the Lady Bountiful who, accosted on the street by a woman begging with her baby in her arms for pennies to buy bread, disccvers an odor of beer, and tells the beggar, who responds: *‘Sure, no, my lady, it’s the starvation of stomach you do be smell- be anger or amusement, de- pends upon whether “my lady” has a sense of humor or not. A hostess is told by a departing guest that she re- minds her of a woman whom the host- ess considers quite handsome, and upon the hostess showing plainly that she appreciates the implied compliment, the guest adds, ‘Oh, I said only a lit- tle;” this hostess depends altogether for her sensations on the presence or absence of a sense of humor. The would-be reformer in the Working Girls’ club who, in trying to influence a girl to a more healthful way of dress- ing, is looked at kindly and responded to with, “You wouldn't look so bad if you wore your clothes tighter,” is an- noyed or amused according as she has or has not a sense of humor. If you have a sense of humor, you have fun, a great deal of fun, at unex- pected situations. If you do not have it, you experience instead anger, indig- nation, or annoyance; or at least you admit that you are disturbed. A sense of humor is a life preservative, a nerve protector, a wrinkle eradicator.—Chris- tian-at-Work. A Brief Lesson In Grammar. Some persons, thinking. doubtless, that it is “extra-correct,” will put the tongue through a little gymnastic ex- ercise and say ‘‘somebody's else book. The effort is rarely successful on the first trial, for the tongue does not take kindly to feats of that kind, and gen- erally gets badly twisted when it at- tempts them. The protest that it makes is enough to condemn the awkward, not to say absurd expression, with- out regard to what the grammarians say on the subject. Don’t let anybody persuade to misuse “else” in that way. It is, as you known, an adjective or pronoun, which follows its noun, and when used in the pessessive case, the apostrophe and the s are put after the “else” and not after the noun. The cor- rect form is “somebody else’s book.” In the same way, if we desire to speak of ahat belonging to ‘John the Boat- man,” we would say: “John the Boatman’s hat.” Asa matter of gram- matical construction the cases are iden- tical. —Detroit Free Press. ‘Sandy's Question. Donald (an Americanized Scotchman to his cousin Sandy, newly arrived}— Sandy, me boy, and what will ye have | for your breakfast the morning? Sandy—Oatmeal. “And what for dinner?” “Gatmeal.” “But what for supper?” “Oatmeal.” “And what else will you have besides oatmeal?” “‘Losh! mon alive, is there onything else?’"—Poston Courier. | i { | Many Musk Oxen in Canada. Mr. Ogilvie, the Canadian explorer, has recently been traveling in the haunts of the wood buffalo of Canada. This buffalo is now found in small herds, the remnants of the enormous numbers that once roamed over the country north and west of the Atha- basca river in the Peace and Liard river basins. Half a century ago it was no uncommon thing for a few Indians on river to go out and in a few © sufficient buffalo to sup- people with meat for the win- In many years. however, no un- due slaughter of the animals has oe curred. Mr. Ogilvie says that the cause of their rapid decrease in number is that one winter about twenty-five yeurs ago a heavy fall of 4. which completely saturated the snow. ‘Then came acold spell, and the snow was converted into an immense cake of ice, and the buffaloes were nearly exter- minated. The ity of the animals and the difticulty of getting near them does not deter white men from going into the region to hunt them. Mr. Ogil- vie says he sees noreason for hunting the wood buffalo except the sport it af- fords, as the paucity of their numbers and the difficulty of getting the skins out of the country preclude all idea of profit. He describes the animal as larger |than the plain buffalo and darker in color. The difference in size may be accounted for by the difference in the quality of food peculiar to each, and the difference in color by the shelter from the bleaching action of the sun on the hair afforded by the woods. ‘The musk ox is also hunted in the country north of that in which the wood buffalo ranges. With the means of travel now available, it is little more than a pleasure trip to reach the home in British America of this arctic animal. It roams over what is commonly known as the Barren Lands, the treeless plain lying east of the fringe of woods along the Mackenzie river, north of the Great Slave lake. Mr. Ogilvie was told that musk oxen had recently been found southeast of Lake Athabasca. They are frequently found within forty or fifty miles of the Mackenzie river, north to the Arctic ocean. A white man recently entered their grazing grounds simply to see the region they inhabit and secure a few heads as tro- phies. He was accompanied by, a large number of Indians, who in- sisted on going with him to take care of him should he be attacked by Eskimos. Instead of helping him they proved to be nuisance and had to be provided with food. The party slaughtered sixty musk oxen and eighty or ninety cariboo. Only a few musk ox heads were brought back. ‘The noise which this trip made has in- duced others to think of striking for this region in quest of the animals for the sake of their skins, and Ogilvie says it is only a question of time when these musk oxen will be hunted exten- sively. He thinks the government | should impose a close season to prevent have | their extermination. The northwest | council, which governs the northwest territory of Canada, has already an ordinance in force prohibiting the kill- ing of wood buffalo. A British scientific society has re- cently offered a considerable sum of money for one musk ox or a herd of several oxen, to be delivered alive at the Zoological gardens in London. If anybody wants thés money the proba- bilities are that the musk ox will come from a partof British North America in which the animals are now found, as it will probably be far easier to secure the animals and take them to the sea from this region than from any part of the arctic countries where they are found.—N. Y. Sun. : Koman Consuls. The most honorable office in the Roman republic was that of consul. There were always two elected every year—one each from the patricians and plebeians. The consul must be at least forty-three years old and must have held the offices of quaestor, aedile and practor. The consuls were the heads of the republic, discharging. all public functions, such as receiving am- bassadors or assembling the senate. Their insignia were those of a king, except a crown. They were always at- tended each by twelve lictors, or ser- vants, bearing the boxes or bundles of rods with an ax in thecenter. The lictors, however, preceded only one at a time, the lictors of the other following him. The year was named after the consuls,and any laws passed at their rec- ommendation also went by their names. They commanded the armies of the republic, and when both were with the same army they commanded on alter- nate days. Under the emperors the office became an empty honor, though surrounded with much greater state. | Julius Cesar, to gratify a considerable number of his political adherents, in- stituted the custom of appointing con- suls for a part of the year only in order | that the honor might be the more fre- quently conferred. Under Commodus there were often as many as twenty- five consuls in a year.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. An Active Industry. The demand for skulls and skeletons jis said to be always in excess of sup- ply, particularly at this time of year. it may interest our readers to know what are the current prices in the American market. Half skeleton, dis- | articulated, in box, consisting of the skull, the spinal column, twelve ribs, pelvis, one arm and one leg—the bones of the spine, hand and foot are held to- | gether by catgut—twenty-one dollars. —Medical Record. One Comfort. “Have you heard about it?” said the Philadelphia man. “I can’t say; not knowing what it is,” i replied the major. *‘An alieged shortage ir the mint.” “You don't say so! It isn’t possible! But we canat least be thankful that the julep season is about over.”—Wash- ington Star. £ i. STNG ENG IE IEEE TSI SSE oS CSE SEES SETS SES eR ED SNS ESSERE aii tae Ge alte aac LOSSLESS GON RE a ee ee ee ee ee ee eee ee KEEPING DOWN HIS CONCEIT. ——— 4 Philosopher Who Finds It Necessary to Go Away From Home. There iz a man in Detroit whose financial position is such that he can | live in comfort without doing other | work than clipping his coupons. He is a reflective man, unknown outside the city of his residence, and every once in a while, without any apparent object, he leaves home and stays away for a month ortwo. The other day he re- turned from one of these trips, and to ing on these periodical journeys. Said he: “have to take these trips. I get so puffed up with my own conceit that it is necessary I go away once in a while to get the bubble punctured. Other- wise I would die from When you are at home everybody knows you, and, having money, every- body bows to you You feel you are attracting attention and are being talked about. It is one form of notoriety, or fame, some would call it, and toa vain man—show me the man who isn’t vain—it is like cool water to a perspiring body. At home you exert an influence; people who realize the power of money look up to you. “It is a growing city, and money is needed to help it along. As growth in. creases the value of everybody else's property, of course everybody has an axe to grind and is ready to bend the knee to the man who can set the grind- stone in motion. He may be close as the bark on a tree, but he has the money, and we call him liberal, publie- spirited, etc. We must pamper his van- ity, you know. “Now Iam willing to acknowledge I absorb all of this flattery, and not be- ing a good discriminator I put it all in the same class and allow it to raise me up inch by inch—in my own estimation —untill am, or think I am, on the top wave of popularity—a little god, so to speak. This is a dangerous pinnacle; @ fellow is likely to forget himself and make a break that will cost him dear in i | } } | would make a European city |has dashed through all the phases | which mark the progress from youth to | fashionable. suffocation. | spite of his money. But just get out- side of the city limits and the only per- sons who find out you have money are the hotel servants and railroad porters, and they acknowledge it only in their attempts to extort fees from you. No- body else pays the slightest attention to you—you are to them a mere atom in the panorama now passing before their eyes—a fleeting shadow that vanishes from the eye and memory in a moment. You travel on and on in this isolated condition until you tinal- ly fetch up in some big city, where you lose what little is left of your per- sonality in the portals of a big hotel. With each day of your stay you drop one'inch in your own estimation, and if you stay there long enough you will become you natural self again.—De- troit Free Press. Brightening a Room. If the dining room is‘small and dark and has no communication with direct air and sunlight, pull down the gloomy paper and substitute cream white, pearl, atmospheric blue, custard or some such cheerful and magnifying tint. Wall papers sell as low as five cents a roll, and, although the quality may not be desirable, it is preferable to the finest grade in dark or heavy tints. Don’t carpet the floor. Have it stained or painted a light brown, and put a rug under the table, not large enough to interfere with the chairs, but sufficient to rest the feet. Put thin white mus- lin shades on the window, and if means allow drape over them the thinnest cur- tains. In some of the finest houses in New York, for summer service, the windows are hung with blue holland to keep out the sun, white linen to temper the light and white tarlatan drapery for a pretty summery effect. This gauzy cotton stuff is put on quite full, rolled on the edge to keep it from raveling, and caught back with huge rosettes of the same.—St. Louis Repub- lic. Colors That Combine. As the season progresses the brown and black combination will undoubted- ly obtain vogue, and many of the black gowns will be elaborately trimmed either with brown fur or brown velvet. A black camel's hair which has a per- fectly plain skirt shows full velvet sleeves of golden brown, golden brown belt and a golden-brown collar, while the bonnet is in harmony. Of the pretty long-haired brown furs many will be noted either as skirt or bodice trimmings on black gowns, while the black furs bid fair to be seen on the brown ones, but according to the edict of Dame Fashion it is the black gown trimmed with brown, not the brown trimmed with black, that bas her ap- proval Although one speaks espe- cially of the brown and blacx and the blue and black, still white and black, searlet and black and green and black are allin vogue, and all lend them- selves to beautify the new autumn gowns. —Ladies’ Home Journal Quite Different. “Did he marry a girl he didn’t know much about?” “Oh, no; agirl who didn't know much about him ”—Truth. End of a Seaside Romance. “So Fleecy is not going to marry the heiress, eh?” “No. I believe they are disengaged.” —Judge. Stand Of. City Youth— Does your cow bite? Milkmaid—Anything fresh and green | she does.— Brooklyn Life. | —When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suf-| fered and represent to myself| the struggles and temptations it! has passed—the brief pulsations of | joy—the feverish inquietude of hope! and fear—the tears of regret—the fee- | bleness of purpose—the pressure of! want—the desertion of friends—the ; scorn of the world, that has little char- | ity—the desolation of the soul's sanctu- | ary, and threatening voices from with- in—health gone—happiness gone—even hope, that stays longest with us, gone —1 have little heart for aughtelse than thankfulness that it is not so with me, and would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow man with Him from whose Soy it came.—Longtfellow: “Hyper- ‘Harper's Bazar. | A RAPIDLY AGING TOWN, The Decay of the Canal Street Region in New York. It is a fact illustrative of the high pressure way in which the city of New York is run that the Canal street re- gion already isold. Ina fashion that dizzy, it age: and already, in no more than a |man’s lifetime, has passed on into de- a reporter confided his reasons for go- | © ighty years ago it was suburban jand obscure. ‘Twenty years later, Hud- | Son square having been laid out and St. John’s church built, it began to be In another twenty years —the square being then surrounded by the wide-fronted houses of which many stately wrecks remain—it was one of the most gravely respectable parts of the town; and for more than a decade it remained at this aristocratical high- water mark. Then began its slow de- cline—which ended in a sudden and ir- revocable plunge, in the year 1869, when the Hudson river Railroad Ca crushed the region utterly, so far as its fitness to be an abiding-place of polite society was concerned, by clapping down four acres of freight station over the whole of the luckless park. Only one man of position stayed by the wreck, and even may be said to have gone down with it This was John Eriesson, the builder of the Monitor, who continued in his house for many years on St. John’s park, holding up in that frowsy and bustling region its traditional respectability, until he died there only alittle while ago. To-day, the dwellers upon St. John’s park are mainly foreigners; a few Ger- mans, but more Italians—as even a blind man, possessing a traveled and intelligent nose, would know by the presence of several distinctively Neapol- itan smells. The stately houses, swarm- ing with this unwashed humanity, are sunk in such squalor that upon them rests ever an airof melancholy devoid of hope. They are tragedies in mellow- toned and carved wood-work that once was very beautiful. By an odd twist of destiny it is main- ly to the aristocratic houses on the. square that an evil fate has come. The. Jess pretentious structures therebouts have sunk only to the level of lodging or boarding houses; and many of them, as is manifested by their superior air of self-respecting neatness, still are pri- vate dwellings.—Thomas A. Janvier, in Harper's Magazine. DOGS IN BELGIUM. An Unused Force Which Put to Work Would Be of Great Advantage. The dog is an animal which, unlike some others, has never been compelled to work. Itis true that it has been used to help the shepherd and the herdsman, and to guard the household, but that is light labor. The hauling of sledges over the ice in Arctic regions is work for which dogs have shown much fitness. In England, meat is roasted before open fires, after being hung on a bar called a “spit.” And at one time dogs were put ina hollow revolving wheel, like that seen in squirrel cages, which was attached to and turned the spit. Thus they were called “turn-spits:” but they never took kindly to the work, and no doubt thought it an injustice that they were not given a share of the roast. The dog has really been made to work in Belgium. ‘The city of Liege is a great manufacturing city, and em- ploys as many horses as any other place of its size in Europe; and yet, for every horse, at least two dogs are to be seen in harness on the streets. Early in the morning women, with brightly painted carts drawn by sleek and well-fed dogs, hurry to the market to sell their wares. The gardener, the butcher, the baker, the grocer, the ex- pressman, all engage the services of the dog. Its step is so much quicker than that of the horse that it can in an hour go twice the distance covered by the lat- ter, and draw a heavier load in propor- tion to size. The dogs are driven in their wagons single, double and some- times three and four abreast. The expense of feeding them wherea number are kept, or when placed like horses at livery, is from five to six cents a day, horse-flesh and black bread being their food. There are markets: where they are bought and sold, and a well built and well broken dog will sell for twenty or twenty-five dollars) When we think of the millions of dogs there are in the United States, the majority of them idling their time away, it can be seen that there isa vast force running to waste which might be used to advan- tage in many ways —Golden Days. A Courtesy of the Road. “I saw the other day,” said a citizen, “a driver who had a heavy load on a one-horse truck get stuck on a grade in a down-town street. " His load was something in bags. which were piled high and which projected beyond the tail of histruck. He had a good horse; but the load was too much; he just couldn't pull it. Coming up behind was a man driving a big truck, empty, with a pair of big horses. This driver set his pole against the projecting load of the one-horse truck and spoke to his horses, they just lifted the one-horse truck into on. The single horse spread himse!f and kept his load going. The man with the double truck turned off at the pw xt corner without a word; he had simply performed am ordinary courtesy of the road.”—N. Y. Sun Practice Makes Perfect. Richard—I handed that fellow his pocket-book he had just and he didn’t so much as thank me There's not much encouragement to be honest. Harry—Oh, don't be discouraged at the very outset It will come so easy after a while that you will be willing to be honest for nothing.—Boston Transcript. —Well, Rastus, how are you? What are youdoing now?” “I's well, sab. I's de organist at St. John’s, sah” “You, Rastus?”” ~“Yassir. I pumpsde wind dat makes her screech, sah.”—