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A GUNNING CONVICT. Forging HI* Way Into Prison and Porglng Hlo Way Out. K.» York Tribune. It was a score or more years ago that an application was received at the Executive Chambers at Albany for the pardon of a convict, one ol whose many alias*** was “Jack Flam,’’ from Auburn prison. Jack had spent a large portion ol hi* life In enforced confinement and had well earned the reputation of being one of the most desperate of unhung villain*. His ill-fame was known to the Govern or, ami accordingly he opened the application for clemency extremely disinclined to interfere. Ho very prop erly felt that it would be a crime against the public, a blow at peace and good order to turn loose such a relentless foe of society. However, be also felt that it was hi* duty to see on what grounds the application was based. Tic- r---'11' wa ' ii ' on I’m -di del-i; i -;-1 <1,: . - I tin-' H. do- Ill]- If. should be prepared for hi i oiiictal signature re'.eudi] j .Incl; I'latii! The pardon e'er!, h.vi a! bn rd of .Inch’s bad et; in. ]; ■.•, -trt beiu.! oil - ; ■-lie lit. terms with Id-', i I'cf, he I • it't;1 to hi u atld retuarl; ■v. it h a fa< i- the plc'.ur ol ftii:.;/.enr;iit: “J i i1 po '-ible, Governor, that you nr .0in;; to pardon 10 notorious a cii irai.-ter ns 1 in!” “Y- t,” answered tin? Governor A fngtodo — illl'-m you interpose your veto. After you've mu It* out the pardon, glancg your eye over the ap plication and ■ ' * ii I Haven't done as you will do in similar circumstances when you’re Governor." Tin- pardon clerk promptly did ns he was commanded. Having made out tlie pardon, tie eagerly retut the application; and when lie got through he went in to the Governor, and said in unabashed way, as he laid down the pardon for signature: “You couldn't huve done anything else; that’s the most irresistible application for par don that lias ever met my an/.e." The Governor smiled again, affixed his signal lire, and the pardon was mailed to Auburn. And yet nobody had asked for the pardon of -Jack Flam except Jack liimsi If! Hut as t he pardon clerk said, it, was an irresistible apple -ation. It bore tlie signature of tlie Warden, the doc tor and the chaplain of tlie prison. , They muted in testifying that Flam’s ; conduct during liis incarceration had was u very sick man, worn to a skelo p ton and sinking fust; that, lie was it the victim of an incurable disease. rlt was a physical impossibility that he ever would he well again; tlie chances were that he would die with in a month, and it was tlie agonizing desire of his venerable and heart brok n mother that he might have hi* last lours soothed by her abiding effect ion, mtside the prison walls. The Wor len dwelt upon Flam’s fidelity and fticiency in the discharge ol his prison lutics. Tlie doctor demonstrated hat he could not possibly recover his lealth. The Chaplain expressed his convic ion that Flam was thoroughly asiiain H nf liiu nuttf nml wrml/1 ii* in tlm 3!ith. Nor were these the only ai> irants for Flam’s pardon. The Dw let Attorney who had convicted in was another. He wrote that he is heartily in favor ol his release, at justice did not. require that a <ly B man should be pursued with the ois of the law. The foreman ot the •y that found Flam cuilly also ii AttArmv ■MKrbu- oi p be found ^n*aal bel< By he ; hi* w I'MI rir lU . lid i i*f*«< U ' be Ih.ti ro|ii lie remarked Kirill I t. a thief Maji* Glancing at the writing the Dietrict ' Attorney replied: “No, that is not my autograph, but I'm bound to nay it’* an excellent imitation of it." Tableau! A madder man than that Governor | never exi*ted. Five minute* later the pardon clerk hurried to the telegraph office with a diepatch. (taking the an thoritie* of Auburn Prioon it they or any of them hail ever *igiiod an anpli cation for the pardon of Jack Flam. The pardon rierk informed the opera tor that the Governor would take it a* a personal favor if lie would “riiHh" it and reouext the Auburn ojierator to“ru»h”theanawei. The two de*patches were “ruahed,"com«*|Uent ly in courite of half an hour the Govern or wa* informed t»y telegrapii that nobody connected wit It the Auburn Pri*on had ever a*ked, or over con templated awking, for the pardou of Jack Flam. That, w/t* a clincher. The adroit i onvict tiad broken out of Auburn, not with a crowbar, but with a pen. lie had relva**d himxelf from prison on forged paper*. Tho I Governor loo1 'd at 1 lie pardon clerk, the pardon < a i k looked at tho Gov ernor. 'lien a delectivo W«* «uni j moued. What had ii 'I'ornc of Me brilliant ami aii'uvioii Mr, Flam/ ffy d.nt of I patient III'!': ry *<je- detective (,imov ! cp'd, not 1 I nn, hut the re■ :<i• m a of a. i chai im r to whom Jack wni acru* I touted to doVofc hull -cif when lie U'/M ! te-.nporari'.y out of pri -on. Tip* churn) | "t’* bower v/a* In a. hack *t r< ' in j tin* Iowa • ■: of ny. The def<ct. , ivu man a l to "I ur*» a loom ill a ! hone out < o4i to I leant y’x bower, biding , Id,i time and kept In* eye* wide open. Ifi'Wi'.t' .i'diiti'l uiiii.d In vain three or lour day*. Ami l licit on* ; j early th • front, door of : opened, f hero v a* a tender . _ « | mg on the i hi 'hold, and t lien a man : stepped out upon tie* pavement and A < m OH a* thi d '• dive - •! hi* eyes on the man he saw tue ivrupi.d prlx : oner whom I," and the <*ovcrnor and I tlm pardon clerk wanted so badly, i A minute bite, t h -detect Ivu and hi* assistant, both dress'd in citizens’ r ot he - so as not to att rad at ten t ion, I were on Ei/tm'* track. Tho escaped ; bird, unaware of tho not that was I closing about, hi* feet, took hi* way ' to tho park that stretched in front of the Capitol, Peaching that park, he sat down on one of the wooden benches within a stone’s throw of the Executive Chamber, whence tits pardon had been issued, Tho d< t.ective slow* ' ly approached from behind, and ah | most h'lore he knew it. Elam found a pair of handcuff* on hi* wrists. "What does this mean?” lie asked rtf the detective with an air in which amazement and indignation were mingled in equal proportions. “Why am 1 subjected to tins indignity?” "It’s no use, Elam,” quietly answer ed the detective. ”1 know you and what you’ve been up to. My name’s ■-. Now I take it you’ll come along quietly, like a sensible man.” "I’ll go with you quietly on onecon ditinn,” raid Elam, “1 claim that you have no right to arrest me, and it you will promise me that if called upon by me you will testify mat I made such a claim and resisted arrest, that's all I ask, and i’ll give you no trouble. Un derstand me as resisting; I'm not such a fool as really to resist, for I have no desire to he roughly handled. Put regard me as resisting you.” The detective promptly acceded to Jack's request, and the two peacefully proceeded down the hill. A few hours later they were on a New York Cen tra! train hound lor Auburn Prison. As they journeyed along, to relieve the monotony of the trip, the detective suggested that his companion would explain how he had so successfully him tfi i i!i f. mi Hft I If nr. a ini) im Ilia escape. "Yet*. I think it was pretty neat,” Haiti Flam, "and I don’t mind telling yon, in confidence, how I worked the racket, for 1 know you're square. During my trial my attention was called one day to the signature of the District Attorney who tried me. It was attached to some unimportant user. I made out to secure this pa •l without being observed, cut oil'the n4|urt* and destroyed the rest of tuiieiit. I put the signature ly away in my vest pocket and rrcd it to my mouth on enter J'lblirn, ho that it would taken from me when my were exchanged for the pris rm. You see, taking tune by Kbe forelock, 1 bat) formed my plan of wsca|te brio it niy trial was finished. ‘I was Heiit up for forgery,and thought it would l>e a good joke all around if I would get out on what put me in." | "Sort of homeopathic—tike cures dike." suggested the detective. ■ "Yes, tliat wa* it, although 1 never Mpiersed It that »uy, Well,to go Oil. not long after 1 entered the prison, I v»*s placed in the otlice — as I ex pet ted to In* soonei or later—and given some rotii me writing to do. Then I watch ed , utv chances and went to wot It- I Mpludy thought our in my celt at nigh i th* application for my pardon, » hit li subsequent ly reached the gov el HP* I go pled I. With llllilllte troult I*. a **•> Itellt-e on* day, two sentences { MX*" row, • nd so on until I had it •loite The distn* t attorney's letter '«» |l>« governor was in my own dn utapd hand writing, hut t c osely cop mHm 4ats u| am to n*y s signature, nd Wi'Ot* oxer the top I'i lls letter Mk ta’ed.' Th ter I panned o1 a* com i ftfpin he xliap -iin I wrote in what tfarilsd a ex hourly hand, a lit yr«|lp*ti said o» a w k hand, and | «t too easily lead in places, I was >g to has hut letters delated' like j «Haiti*' Allot •••> ». h it •• o.-x III j I to me on rede* t.on that the stoop I •* s salary ptw'iatny was not large I >«h |x» admit oJ hi* keeping a sec* I y, Jn the Warden* teller, win i* -I* in a p*.i n round hand, I pn11 *» IW i errors n, s|willDg, for lire j tea has Ml a cullMatsd person I iai*d‘ the dxM'ors letter on at trw, Ilf .ours.-, I had no dutnulty sSPst I He ti. nature ot ttx* War I *<r to* had ftexpiant xk* as on to l his name *•» the odt x I Imtuxesl I kMPtt to give me his a>ito*r apt* I x - a4#j in aiy nyaia hook t*e ax ceded to my request willingly, being as kind-hearted a man as I ever met. I had to sham sickness for two or three days in order to get the doctor’s au tograph. I was a matter of two months completing my task. I breathed a long sigh of satisfaction as I placed the application papers u> an envelope—it took me a week to get hold of that long white envelope— and wrote the name of ‘His Kxceilency Governor-, Albany, N. Y.,'on the back," "Where did you get your postage stamps?" inquired the detective. “I didn’t get them—that’s what bothered me. But I concluded that the chances were that a letter plainly directed to the head of the HtateGov ernment, a letter which looked as it it , might lie mi important document, would reach Inin, stamps or no stamp*, j Ho one day I tossed my unstamped fetter into a pile ready for the post* j man and awaited developments. Ten days later the warden came to my cell one evenin'/, with eyes bulging out I of his bead with astonishment, and j informed me tha* he had good news ] for me. 'Have I b in pardoned?’ ; 'Yi *' sai<l t lie warden, ‘you have been pardonid. Mow in the world, Jack, j iv/' it ever brought about?’ "1 b :. my lip to k< t‘)> Irom laughing, and nn W'ri d / but 1 was aware that 'several protnimnl and influential i p'-r.ons had u biivred letters to tint Governor a - him’ lor pardon. 1 1 ielt d. li< ate aboil! mentioning to tic V. " 'leu . h/il In w a a one of the per ;' Ol e morning 1 shook t Im dust i of i In* prison <>!i my fvut. The rent ' yon i. now. J> I’d limtlu a break for i t Ik* W--t I’d bm n a'! right. But a la dy fri.-nd at! rac »d me t o Albany," : Ti- H was the subtf alien of Inam’.i . li** a. i _ i . i :.. ... i ' ' /1 y • n ii' a ***!■»«/»»«, H7' through t'dling it., f lie(iiirc'l what wh llio upshot of ilif! escape, llow many morn yearn did Flam jp;t for i his ijtim v crime? i “All the rest, f can toll you in a few 1 words,” said the. dedi i live. "Just l before wo reached Auburn, Flam turn ed and remarked t *> me, in earnest ! tones, that lie would like to have mo i do him a .-ingle favor.” “f should like to have you after leaving me at tint prison, proceed to tin* law office of-in Auburn, and inform him under wlmt circumstance* i you returned me to prison.” “I saw no reason why I should not grant the prisoner tills favor, and I did grant it. The result was that he wax discharged from prison, on a writ of habeas corpus or something of that sort. You see that the pardon was genuine, although the applica tion (or it wax not.” ~ iMi • m ■ —— He Had an Offset. From tlsi Ionia (Mali.) Mail. A hired man who has been employ ed on a farm in this county for sever al months entered suit, against his employer the other day for balance of wages, amounting, as lie claims, to $A2. Tile suit was on trial before Justice recently, and it look ed at first as if the plaintiff had a clear case. He gave dates and figures in a straightforward way and seemed a vtry honest young man. When the farmer took tli o stand he said: “J claim an offset for that gt(2. No man need sue me for what I honestly owe.” “What is your offset?” asked the lawyer. “He’s an unbeliever.” “In what?” “Why, in the Bible.” “What has that to do with your owing him $.’12?” “It has a heap to do with it. I had six hands in my employ, and we were rushing things when I hired this man. He hadn’t been with us two days when they stopped tlie reaper in the middle of the forenoon to dispute about Daniel in the lion's den, and in three days we had a regular knock down over (lie whale swallowing Jonah. The man who run the mower got to arguing about. Samson, and drove over a stump, ami damaged the machine to the tune of $1H, and the very next day my hoy broke his leg while climbing the fence to hear and see the row which was started over the children of Israel going through the Red Sea. It wasn't a week before lily wife said she didn't believe Elijah was fed by the ravens, and hanged if 1 didn't find myself growing weak on Noah and his Hood. That's my off set, sir, and ii he was worth anything I'd sue him for $1,000 besides.” A Story of Bonania Kings. They were talking of old bonanza days ill Virginia City. He bad been a newspaper man there in the excit ing day* when Fair and Mackey knew more ot the bowels of the earth than they did ot the surface. They always knew a great deal about the people in II e earth, though, ami managing deal* mi a matte: that lew could do a* well a» Mr. Fair especially* This newspa|mr man related a little inci dent that I don't mink ever apjwu-. id in print. “John Mackey,” he said, "wan nev* rr much of a manipulator. He was ii miner, and always want? 1 to go straight at things. Hite tone Fair went nit ami left Mackey to run • lungs. Thcv were dnltmi m the I imm Consolidated, ami m making three different dulls which fin m« • a II mug e. I hey lame on stringers of ore on alt side* John M»* kcv, like a miner, immediately value to the con elusion that th-re might he a large liody of or* ui the renter or then** about* of that triangle lie inuuell aleiv slatte«t straight in toward the Middle. Tlteie was • Oue excitement, of rourse, In the slock, hut as they went on with no mdnaimns of a body o! or s mtevent levati to die out, and tln>tr nut through without hiidmg any* tlxexg. Fair not t ack and the Hrei thing he did was to start a drift at au a* it# angle, m the direction the si < nicer• pointed lie ram* on a small body of mm roc V II* irM a bill b# «i*Akw it 40 M J»»•*»», Jitltii/ b# »aU| to kilt* bvjr, ! kiiih li«t| lbv »t titbit' mil ot ■ (it* MUli* \Vit| *J.*t*|‘l JftMt Ik*"**|ft lb# i ill lb A* ifuMml A till I M 4 liVVH lb# bujfl a «I#aI* <4 ^^aA } ffimittM l bcuttU'bix ALOFT IN CLEARER AIR. Enjoying the Sky Parke of Cotham —What the Roots ot the Tall Tone* memo Are to the Dwellers Within. Frovkli’oro .lournnl. The baby seemed to op making for the edit* of the roof as fast as very rapid locomotion on its hands and knees could carry it there. "So, no! Come here, pet,” said the mother calmly, and the infant halted and then turned and sat down. What a place for a baby that wes — on the roof of a six-story tenement bouse in Baxter street, the tallest bouse in the neighborhood, with a view somewhat recalling a scene on the Itbod ■ Island coast, with here and there a black rooj to represent the inky holders, ln-ix» and t here a puff of steam to suggest the < loads of spray made by 'lie conflict of (he waves and rocks, and all around the white and pale blue expanse of the upper air. "Ann' you afraid to let your baby play aro nd here'/" I iniptlrml of tint mother, up and theinfunt and I be ing i ha < *ly onps up there, and I not only feeing the polite necessityof May ing" out*'him', but Icing nelly curious t o know bow a mot her maid let a I baby on of In r arm in such a pin *. "Why should I be afraid?" (die in I'piiri d} “I wits as good as born and bro isjlit ip lu re on iliis ' oof, and no j ban i cn na to m • ol it.” "Hoot aren't o ; oor wit.it, they | : are t o 11 i ich,” sh" continn > -pin > j ■ tiie iooi- of iiupiiry in my face, in all j 1 primal), ly. ‘‘I was born in this | j hon «, nd wlnilwua little wee j ] tiling n) mot her, (h i i ' her ml, usi't to hrm; me Intro for tho j fre i) air in line weather and the cool brcftzo in tho summer. I Wlicti I was a little girl 'twas boro ! that I irio after school !•) nlav at, store and house and witlt my doll and lit do playmates. When I got big eno> ;b to be allowed to sit up a ! little la -fit ti; lit lu re I still ci me, to the lads ar.d yotmggn ls at their j merriiii nt, dancing and courting and flirting end singing and entertaining one another. And do you know it was a leather in the cap of a boy or girl lo he here, and is yet for the mat ter of that, for you’ll never find the wayward or the wild up here once they have yielded to the life of the streets. And when I got to be cash girl and later yet, when I went really to work to help my widowed moth er, taking a place in a factory, it was still her- that I came for most of my play and good company. Ah, that may semi strange or very dull to you, but that is the best, of my recollec tions, for everything good that eve: came to me. outside of money and tlie comfort * of the church, came t o me here on this selfsame roof. ‘•’Twas here that I learned to dance, to the music of the accordion that him who is now my husband could piny better than any boy in t he ward. Night after night, in all the line weatlier, John would come up here and play for the girls of the house and our friends of the neighborhood, and when there were boys enough we would dance with them, and when there were not each girl would take another and be partners. It is just the same now. Any night eight months in the year, you’ll find some of them here, dancing and sparking, and the old lolks sitting about, keeping half an eye on the yotirtgones, whom they pretend not to see at ah, though for that matter when you have children they are seldom off your mind, in sight or out. You’d think, maybe, they'd be afraid, datip ir,g on the edge of the sky like tiiis. Not a bit, 1 never gave a thought to (lie danger, and I don't suppose they do. Well, here John courted me, and when wo were engaged by his asking me right there where you’re sitting, we thought to have a nice party down did, blit really the best party of the two whs when we were making the ar rangements, and all our friends met hern and we had tlie best time of all, with dancing and beer, and Mika Cronan and his liddle, and Home oi tile beat singers from the eburch hap pened in. “I wonder if you understand what a tenement toof really is. For in stance, it's all the yard we have, and it’s divided up so that it, rightly be longs to one floor—that's two lami liea—each day in the week, excepting Sunday, lor them to hang up their wash. Well, some practically never use it, for tlie good reason that all i they wash they can hang in the open windows of the kitchen. Some use it only about once a month and some hang tlie whole air full of linen each week, llut it belongs to a different Hock every different day. and no one would think of using it for dot he* on any day lint their own without ask ing pcnnission. Karh family put* tip and take* away their own clothes lints* i ach day, and, mind you, even linn tlie soot of the city * smoke gather* on them that last that they must be wiped before clothe* are lamg on them. Then, again, do you SCO those botes of eat til around the edge yonder? They also belong to the different tenants, and in the •uniiuer one vie* with tint other to see who'll keep their* the yrteie-l. ! home never have any iiM'k In growing | | thing*, and the b**l ol the not**don't J amount to ninth, owing tu lh« beat , ot the *1111 above and the tin bWow drying up the little earth there i* in | | them, hut It t» pretty nun n all that | many a tenement ciiHtl *eeo of tl,« mini ry the first tew year*. I an* j iwelie year* aid before I ever *nw more I ban i lie lily llait I'ark and t^e 1 Hal l» t y l‘*rk, and I lien (then I went up lulu Westchester Fountf tu my : untie, who ha* a farm, I had enough tu tfu lu left aft those w«*u w gated tu know what the country was realty like ••Then here's where in am y of the men III the tenement sleep * I lliiuu. h the nut weather. N <*, it is Ib* tugjwst ami Ik* he*t keiuKHw we hav* wh*tt tftw sweltering kul . om*«, and the Sttim ii kuniii I* )l»d lu make u*« of tt for the name purpose it tt was too vidv.v-! light fur Id in to do to tin suth ntghta the window* are thrown op*n bath ami troot, and the wot mm vnd ihlldtvn that ate too ynnnj to to* trusted make the best of what draught there is, while the oien, with a pillow and a blanket, or sometimes with nothing at all but their regular clothes and an old coat roiled up un der their heads, turn m on the roof until it’s that thick witii men that an old soldier once told me it reminded him of the dead in the trenches on a battlefield where he was in the war. Hut before there’s any goes to bed at all, every one in the house sits up there to cool off, and 1 really think in all the year those are the happiest hours we poor people ever spend. "They even had a death on the rool a few doors below last summer. It was a poor old German gentleman,am. he was very low and sinking when they brought him up,thinking it would revive him, which it did, poor man, but it was in the other world he felt it. Nothing bod like that ever carr.fc to this roof, and I nrn glad of it, for some would always be thinking of it, and the place would not, be the tamo after. Hut we’ve hud a littlo ol everything else, I'm thinking, and to me It’s the Istst place f lier'’ is end the one where I have lived the b ■ t, hours of my 1 if-■, child, girl and woman.” Kis Duty, Military discipline implies a sacri fice of nil the natural emotions, A man who follows the profession ol mans must not only be prepared to leave horns and friends at. the call ol duly, but lie must renounce) at, llm outl et, all t hougi,ta 'A his own com lort or wellbeing, lie is no Ion. r a five individual; ha is the i ■ rvant of the Htate. lairing the siege o; Gibraltar, its governor, General Filiot,was on t day making a tour of in-p-etion, when he came upon e German -oldier, who, though st anding at hi** post, neither presented anna, nor even field lii“ musket. "Do you know me, sentinel?” in quired the general. "Why do you ne gl< ■'(. your- duty?” “I Know you well, general, ami my duly also,'1 was the reply; "but with in tim last fi w minutes t woof tl e fin gers of my right hand have been shot off, and I am unable to hold my musket." "Why don't you go and have them bound up?” “Because in Germany n man is for bidden to quit ids post until tie is re lieved by another.” The general instantly dismounted, "Now, my friend,” said he, "give mi your musket, and I will relieve you, (jo have your wounds dressed.” The soldier obeyed, hut went first to the nearest guard-house, where hi reported that the general wasstanding on duty in his place. Ills injury un fitted him for active service, but the story of his courage soon reached Knglaud, and hu was made an officer. Detecting Counterfeits by Feeling, From the Kansns City Star. A bank cashier says that the best way to tell a counterfeit bill is by sound and feeling. “Take a bill firm ly between the thumb and index tingei of your left hand and pull it quickly through your fingers like this. Now listen to the sound it makes. It u not just like nibbing silk, and neitbei does it resemble a paper sound closely, It’s a noise that is too peculiar to admit of a description.” "Do they make counterfeit papei so like the original that you tan t tel: the difference?” “You can't tell by looking at it It is only' by the sound anil touch as ■ > . . i i ii dun 1191/Cu tv i/iiu huuiiu uiauc uj this counterfeit $2(* bill. You see that's a slick moist, something likt pulling glazed or oiled paper throng) the lingers. A child could tell tin. difference between that bill and a genuine one. But look at it and you will tiiuik your eye is on somethin; that would pass muster for $20 worth of grocet ies." "Who taught you this business?” "Oh, my first lesson was given I y an old man who has been all ovu this country and Kurope teaching the business. He lias in Ins possession over athousand specimens of counter felts. Ilu obtained them from tin authorities of the different (ioveriP melds. He has no peer in the bust ness, and every expert m the country owes tiis knowledge to this old man. 1 Troops in Ireland. From the ]‘liilaitel|ihia larger, Ireland always absorbs a very large portion ol the military forces al home, and just now there are soon 200 mors troops there than twvlvt months ago. Brines ICdward of Haie Weimar ha» command ot about 27,' •too officers and nun, witn •l.uof horse* and »0 guns, the whole tan | ilu hied Into t liree command* Inti.* Ileliant d»tri< t, tiinlrr Ma)or livnsra \Vl>*m*t> ( Urke, Itieie nr.- 1,800 otic cere and men, and 4"»o hurnee, ton *iouting a ment ol « ivairy, 8bc artillery-men, tour battahiui* anti litre*de|Miieof infantry, and a pro p0ilt,iit ot deinsrimetitat troops, In the fbinlm (listrat theis a** about 14.t<4l men, v.tMMi horse*and J* Mil funs, fur *n U14 I •• i *v regimen'« of . a I ■ airy, ill batters.* of artillery, ti res engineer itiiupamt*, fourteen fiattaf, tun* in' ibis depot * Ot O' entry, eight i onipanc* ot til* remap**«ttat ami transport nii|t*, nod two dive kiUill ol 114*» mi •»* **f In ih# 41»* * iHMrHtt ilu ’ Mo *n lfc«*i*. 14I HIM WlltHMAIktJ'S 'h*fl AMI CM* HP k **H .♦'4 ui V, All AM)‘ UtlftillHM *tt«| |1M III |fl Atitfy IIMtt m PltW iW|44i |tiifHI )i| AUkjllllii U{« AttH> fetlti r H,A4HI t*itu*H« fti)4 !**#*» Ait It HotatMft aIhI *4 I Hvl+l 1,41*14 fy MfiMMHkt Ulitki Mi lriM4|M III »• U*« Ai*l»f**4» tl to t A ills Ik 1% I !*• PnUi4 ol Ni tul pm*% A ROYAL ROMANCE. Prlnco Oscar of Sweden Forfeits Mia Right to the Crown by a Lova Match. At Htockholm, in court circles, the question of peace or war excites con siderably less interest just now than the royal romance that has culminat ed in the engagement of Prince Oscar Charles, second son of the King of Sweden, to a young lady of his nation ality, but not of royal blood. The Crown Princess of Sweden who is a daughter of the Grand Pukeof Darien, and granddaughter of Kinporer Will iam of Germany, had amongst her maid* of honor a young Swedish lady, Mis* Munck, known lor her beauty, grace and charming manner*. Uni although of nobl > birth, Miss Munck was poor and an orphan. Her father, Colonel Munck, had left her a Iona line of ancestor* nil gallant sol diers, hot, little money. Kvcntnally, Miss Munck, yielding to the pressing advice of her friends, a' repted nn otter of marriage from a Wealthy young of* fleer belonging to a rrr k cavalry reg iment, ami everything was prefix,red lor the wedding. The day was lixed, I the trousseau wns bought and thepi'c* I cuts had arrived, when suddenly Mbs j Munck broke off the engagement for i reason* which convinced her that slut I did not possess the exclusive Affec tion* of her suitor, :«he v -istcd nil I attempt* at, reconciliation and re 1 tir *d from the court U,v ■ one time. When she relumed her former high {spirits had gone and h«r face worn len expre .ion of rn'lacchoiy, which, I ho water, enhanced her beauty consul ' crably, .Meanwhile Prince Osrnr had been for a two years trip around the world • in the royal Swedish fri.Me Vaitadis, | Shortly after his return hi* friend*dis* i covered that he was In love and tin* I fact likewise became evident to i Miss Munck herself. Siie could 1 not fail to be *cndb!" of the admira tion of the valiant and handsome young sailor prince; but what was to be done? According to the Swedish constitution, any print ■ marrying • outside the circle of royalty _ forfeits his right* to the throne and his privi leges as a member of the royal family. Miss Munck, listening to what she be lieved was the voice of duty, again left the Swedish court. She announc ed formally to her lelatlves never to marry and assumed the garb ol a nurse and the charge of a ward in one of the large charity hospitals of Stock holm. Prime Oscar at last succeeded in meeting her and finally after a long struggle he wrung from her the confession that she loved him. Still the brave girl refused to marry him and it was not until the Prince could tell her that the Queen-Mother had been moved to give her consent that finally she yielded. But the King’s sanction had yet to be obtained. In vain did Prince Oscar at lirst plead that as his broth er the Crown Prince had already two sons his own chance of ever ascending the throne were practically nil. and that he therefore, ought to be allowed to abandon the privileges of royalty and to become a private citizen, but as time wore on and the King saw his son cou'd not be influenced in the matter, his Majesty was induced to yield, principally owing to the entreat ies of the Queen, who was on the eve ot undergoing a surgical operation from which she was not expected to recover. The King could not resist this appeal from his beloved wife, whom he feared he was going to lose, and thus for the first time for H00 years a prince of Sweden will marry t he dnugnter of a private gentleman. The Prince in future will be called Bernadotti. He retains, however, his rank and command in the Swedish army, which he has earned through varioua courses of promotion. The Origin of Beer. Ale was the sole title of malt liquor until the reign of Henry VIII., up to which time the employment of hope as an ingredient in the beverage was un known in England. In the year 1524, or thereabouts, the use of hops was introduced from Germany, and to dis tinguish the new kind of malt linuor from the old, the German name beer was adopted, and with an infinitesi mal change of spelling, became part ot our language. Germany, in truth, is the native land of beer, and nowhere in the world is it treated with such special honor. In Germany the drink ing of beer is not, as with us. a mere meant of carnal refreshment, but uar tu ularly, among the students ol the universities, is elevated to the dignity of a cult, familiarity with whose ritu al i* deemed an essential branch ot a liberal education. We remember to have seen, appended to a reci|si ol M. Fram-ateUi's lor some sp«cially seduc tive beverage, the recommendation, ' rttir and drink devoutly.” Thit is precisely the en-ntal attitude ot the German student In relation to beer. He drinks devoutly indeed, it might be almost said, paiodyutg the famil iar Oriental purase, that in Geribany, “there Is uu God but beer, and the student is the prophet,”—Combiil Magas me, •snaBB* ' * ' The March of Science* I'm k. ** Are yon interests*! ia the newest ! discoveries In science and in tbs 1»> veuGve arts*” asked Mr. h'nowoil ol i Mis* tie 1‘ork, a 1 Imago girt, “(1, yes, Indeed'” she replied eathUth asiuauy. “I sio so mterestsd m i anything ol that sort Why. do you know that whm my papa Hist sent into the pork uii»in*-*s be had to kid j all his |uo» by hand, on* at a time, and It was dreadful tiresome, sticking f three hundtsd or tour hundred a day. i lint now iw has mu. bines that slat pfgy and bean tilt the work so I bat i they kill aad e* aid and scrape and cot j up thousands tn a day at hie posh lacking parlors, as you would say ia i boston and lbs work is done beaut i fully. You must go with ms and dm some II day, He lust lovely!'*