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BALPH'S MISTAKE. "What a pity ! " said Mrs. Dusen "bury's musical voice , and a faint shrug of the widow's graceful shoulders con veyed the impression of an underlying sneer. "What's that ? " Ralph Entresol ask ed , following his companion's glance to ft little alcove on the opposite side of the brilliant parlor , in which stood some very handsome flowering plants i n full blossom. A piquant girlish face was bending over the central vase , a , face sparkling with a tire and color that rivaled its surroundings. Ralph Entresol was not insensible to the al lurement of the picture. The * widow saw and shrugged her shoulders again. "Such a pity that Nora Payne should have broken with Burt Vansanf. Ev erybody thought that was going to be a genuine love match , but I don't suppos.0 there are such things nowa days. " " .No ? " questioned the wealthy law yer , , in his non-committal fashion , and still watching Nora with interest ed eyes. "Vansant & Milligan failed last week , you know. Miss Nora , doubt less , thinks she can find a better mar ket for her charms than a bankrupt merchant. " "Perhaps they were never engaged , " Entresol remarked dreamily. "Possibly. I don't see that it makes much difference , however. They were always together ; the most devoted pair in the world , till recently. It was not Vansant's fault if they were not engaged , and the rupture now is certainly her doing. See , Mr. Entre sol. " Mr. Entresol -did see ; he had never once removed his admiring eyes from Nora Payne's sparkling face. Burt Van sant stood now at the entrance to the alcove , and Nora was speaking with him , apparently in reply to some re monstrance or urging on the young man's part , for she shook her graceful little head emphatically and frowned slightly. Burt turned away presently and sauntered down the room , his handsome face wearing an expression of angry pain , while Nora looked after him a moment , still frowning. Her glance , on its way home again , encountered the lawyer's. She colored vividly an instant , then laughed and nodded. "She baits her hook very prettily. Go at once and be caught , " laughed Mrs. Dusenbury , but she bit her car mine lips with vexation , as the lawyer , nothing loath , smilingly excused him self and crossed over to pretty Nora. "She's an outrageous flirt , and that is what she is , " muttered Mrs. Dusen bury from time to time , as the evening wore on without returning to the cir cle of her charms Ralph Entresol. "He's an idiot though , if he marries her after what I told him. " And still the lawyer lingered and watched , in a sort of intoxication , the changeful ripple of Nora Payne's bright , expressive face , and bent his grave thoughtful eyes to the study of .those other da'rkly sparkling orbs -which Nora flashed in shy mischievousness - ousness at him. "Come and see us , Mr. Entreaol , " Nora's papa said , as he claimed his lit tle girl from the lawyer's obsequious arm later in the evening , when the party was breaking up. "Yes , do , and I'll show you my cac tuses. They are altogether finer than those w.e were looking at this evening , " Nora echoed , letting a little velvet palm-linger an instant longer than was necessary in Ralph Entresol's hand at parting. "I suppose I am bewitched , " the law yer mused that night , as he lounged in an easy chair and slippers , and dream ily watched the ruby blaze in his piled ' up grate , instead of retiring sleepily to his couch. "At my time of life , too. But I'd like to know if it isn't enough to bewitch any man , the idea of bask ing one's life time in the sparkle and glow of such a pair of eyes as that. -Beigho. " And in due time he went to see Miss Nora's cactuses. There is no calculating the move ments of single gentlemen of a certain , or rather uncertain , age. A man may traverse the blooming ranks of young womanhood unmoved half his lifetime , and as he turns the corner , go down with a splash over head and ears in the sea of matrimony. . Ralph Entresol had known Nora Payne half her pretty lifetime , at least , without a tender thought in her connection till that evening , when , with Mrs. Dusenbury's sneers at the girl in his care , he looked across at her , standing among the geraniums and cactus buds , herself fresher and more blooming than any of them. Cu pid transfixed the lawyer's heart in that moment , and , rash as your cau tious people are upon occasions , he asked Nora that evening to marry him as they were looking at her flowers. And Nora stammered and blushed , and pretended to be very much aston ished , as doubtless she was , and then said : "Yes. " "It was a surprise , p.ipa , " Nora said , inresponse to her father's curi ously triumphant congratulations. "I hoped for something of the sort when I asked him here. But it has come sooner than I looked for , " said Mr. Payne with a long , sighing breath , that made Nora look at him wonder- in "ly. "At least you are provided for no'w" he added. "Why , papa ? " "It don't matter now , " Mr. Payne said , drearily ; "ifc was you I cared for , my poor , " motherless darling. I was lieavily involved in the failure of Van sant & Milligan. I shall not be able to keep my head above water much longer. " "More trouble of Burt Vansant's makinoI am glad that I refused him CousinMaud's address , " Nora said , as she stole a caressing arm about her father's neck. ' - "Payne on the eve of failure ? " Ralph Entresol had just- happenec upon the vague rumor , and somehow Mrs. Dusenbury's sneering words came back to him in the same breath. "And that is why she said yes , so read- ilv " he thought , with a sharp twinge in the region of the heart , 'and T was fool enough to think that girl , might love me as I do her. " * However , he called upon Payne at his counting room that evening and offered to lend him enough to stave off ruin , if any reasonable sum would do. Payne almost shed tears as he accepted the offer. "Don't tell Nora , " Entresol stipu lated. "Ralph Entresol deserves you , .dear , " Mr. Payne said , as he gravely kissed his daughter that evening. "I hope you love him , Nora ? " "Mr. Entresol did not ask me to love him ; he asked me to marry him , " No ra said chillily. "I suppose he thought his money would supply all deficien cies of any kind soever. "Entresol deserves to bo married for himself , " Mr. Payne repeated , but Nora made no reply. The engagement was a short one , by Entresol's own desire ; but , considera bly to Nora's astonishment , he upon two distinct occasions offered her the privilege of receding from her-promise if she hesitated any about fulfilling it. Each time she looked straight at him with clear , honest eyes , and asked : "Do you wish the engagement bro ken , Mr. Entresol ? " "Certainlv not ; but I don't want an unwilling wife. " "I shall not be a unwilling wife. " And so the matter had ended. The engagement days were oddly formal. Ralph Entresol , though un doubtedly very much in love , and reasonably prosperous in his wooing , did no seem happy , but quite the con trary. Mr. Payne looked on and thought : "It is his way , " and Nora shut her red lips very tightly and said to herself : "He don't deserve that any woman should love him. " And so the wedding day came , and a lovelier bride never wore tulle and orange blossoms , or made the heart of bridegroom thrill with solemn hap piness. t "She looks happy , " thought Ralph Entresol , as the little hand fluttered into his , and the sweet , arch face lifted itself brightly toward him , an instant before entering the waiting carriage. "Is it impossible for a woman to find happiness in marrying so selfishly ? I must teach her to love me. I must try to teach her to love me , she is such a child yet , " and he suppressed a sigh.The The wealthy lawyer had prepared a home befitting the lovely young wife he was bringing to it. "If she marries me for my money she shall have her price , " he had said to himself gloomily , as he superintended the costly decorations and carefully at tended to the perfecting of every inte rior arrangement. Nora's rapture , as he conducted her over it upon their return from the wed ding tour , would have been sweet to the ears of most bridegrooms ; but Ralph Entresol listened with a gloomy countenance , an unsmiling , stern face. Nora was Mot unmindful , and pres ently , when they had seen all , she stop ped beside her husband , grave as he. "It is all very beautiful , " she said , "and I dare say I am a very unreason able woman to find any lack amid such perfectness , but I do. " Ralph Entresol stood with averted face , but he turned swiftly as she spoke , struck more by the tone than the words. "Yes , Ralph , to my mind it all lacks one thing. If I cannot have that , it is all , beautiful as you have made it , val ueless in my eyes. " "And what is that , Nora , " he'asked , in a low voice. "Ifc is the love and confidence of my husband. " "Nora ! " with a start and a quiver , "you have always had .that. " "Your love , possibly , but only in such stinted fashion as your entire failure of confidence prescribed. There is some- something between us , Ralph. What is it ? " "Oh , Nora. " "Tell me , my husband , " and Nora drooped toward him as a blossom to ward the sun , and lifted eyes deAry and dark with emotion to his. "Do you love me , Nora ? " The sweet , tremulous lips quivered into tender smiling. "If you had ever asked me before I should have told you as I tell you now. 'Yes , Ralph , ' " and Nora hid her face in her husband's arms , and the tears which would come now he kissed away , while he pleaded , not in vaie , for for giveness for the long doubt. Man or Woman ? Whitehall Hevie.r. One of the most remarkable histor ical mysteries on record , rivalling that of the'identity of the man with the iron mask , is that of the sex of the Cheva lier d'Eon , who was French envoy to England in 1761. He acted as private agent to Louis XV , and lived in Lon don for fourteen years. He was a hand some man of a rather effeminate ap pearance , and was noticed to be very shy of the ladies , and to avoid general society. While he was there the story got about that he was a woman , and the scandal thus aroused caused King Louis to recall his ambassador and or der him to assume his proper dress , that of a woman. ' This she did , and was always afterward known a Mine. d'Eon. A life of this remarkable per sonage stated that she assumed the dress of : t youth in order to secure higher educational opportunities , and thus entered the college Mazarin at Paris , and afterwards became doctor of laws , was the author of several learned volumes , and was introduced by Prince de Conti to the king. It was said that the king knew the secret of her sex , but for her remarkable talents selected her to undertake a secret mis sion to Russia , which was so well per formed that she was afterwards sent to London. During the French revolu tion Mme. d'Eon again went to Eng land , where she died in 1810. After her death it was asserted that the char acter of a woman was a disguise , and that Mme. d'Eon was a man after all. But the facts in the case are not re garded as proven either way. This curious personage , it might be re marked , never contracted a marriage in the character of either sex. ODD PACTS AND FANCIES. Comely girls of marriageable ago are sold in Yokohama for $16 each. Berlin ladies carry waterproof cloaks with them when they go in bathing. An insane woman in Castle Garden Sunday mounted a box and tried to auction off her baby. The London courts have decided that a man is not at liberty to keep in his back yard a dog that barks and howls. The latest novelty in the show busi ness is an exhibition of noses , which has recently been held in Austria. Eighty persons competed for the prize. Boston Old North church , in which Robert Newman displayed the two lights to Paul Revere , showing that the British came by sea , is going to be restored. A San Francisco lawyer has written and copyrighted a sensational comic drama founded on the incidents of the Sharon divorce trial. Its liL'e ' is ; "Wife or Mistress , or , Althea's Dream. " England is shipping to Egypt the rolling stock of an eigh teen-inch guage railway. The line will be laid from the Red Sea to Berber , and the road will be used for the shipment of sol diers and military stores. A famous veterinary surgeon was summoned by telegram to Scotland a few days ago by a well known lady , to meet the local adviser in consultation on the case of her favorite pug. He had to travel nearly 500 miles to reach his destination. A new dish with which epicures tempt fate and give an impetous to stomach anod\nes is composed of sliced oranges , sliced pineapples , sliced bananas , sliced hard-boiled eggs , sliced cucumbers , vinegar and sugar. It. is called a fruit salad. There has been some discussion as to whether a lady should recognize a gen tleman while he is having "his shoes blacked on the street corner. Genlle- men have taken off their hats under such circumstances and have received the cut direct. The a' orage power of Niagara Falls is estimated at seven million horse power , and the cost of a plant neces sary to utilize this power , transform it into electricity , and transmit ifc any where within a radius of 500 miles , at $5,000,000,000. If you want to have a letter to the pope surely reach its destination , in- closp it in three envelopes , all three sealed and each one bearing this super scription : To His Holiness Pope Leo III. , Prefect of the Congregation of the Holy Office at the Vatican , ( Personal ) The prelate in charge opens the first envelope , then the second , but at the third he is obliged under penalty of excommunication , not to open it and iand it to the holy father. The amount of absinthe drinking which takes place at Marseilles , where ihe cholera still lingers , is abnormal. The great street is the Rue Canha- aiere , which is the boulevard Mont- martre of Paris , raised in intensity. The shady side is an almost unbioken series of cafes , and from early morn All late at night usually the tables in front are occupied by Marseillaise , with a little decanter full of syrup of gum and two or three bottles containing absinthe , from which they help them selves. Since the advent of the chol era these tables have been wholly de serted. m * Value of Manners. We have heard it saii that you can do everything , however unpleasant it may be to those around you , if you only do it in the right way ; and the instance Sfiven to prove this assertion is taken from humble life. A cat walks daintily into a room on a cold winter's day , and with a benign glance at the company and a melodious purring sound she walks leisurely around , selects for her self the warmest place in the room , per haps the only warm place , right in front of the grate , curls herself up and goes serenely to sleep , secure that no one will be so unreasonable as to question lier right to sleep wherever inclination prompts her. No one calls her selfish , no one is annoyed , because she has done it so prettily , so gracefully. In deed , every one experiences an excess of warmth and comfort in themselves from beholding pussy's blissful repose. Now , imagine the same thing done in a different way and by a less self-posses sed individual if it were done hurried ly , or noisily , or diffidently even , or in any way obtrusively , what a storm of indignation it would excite in the bo som of all beholders ! How thoufht- less , how inconsiderate , how selfish ! Np , it must be- done as the cat does it , without a sound or gesture to provoke criticism , or it must not be done at all. A Bussian Wedding Feast. The banquet is ordered at some fash ionable confectioner's. Nothinois wanting silver , crystal , flowers ° and lusters laden with candles of the purest wax. The young married pair occupy seats about the middle of the table , the parents supporting them on both sides , the rest of the company take seats ac cording to the degree of relationship or rank. If they want a grand dinner they order a "general's" dinner , which costs $30 more than an ordinary one. At this dinner , so ordered , the master of ceremonies invites a real old pen sioned off general , who is received with all the reverence due to his rank , and seated in the place of honor. He is the first to drink to the health of the young couple , and is always helped before any one else. He never speaks unless it is absolutely necessary. He is there only for show , and he does his best in re turn for the $20 paid him. He never refuses a single dish of all the thirty or more served on such occasions. As the last roast disappears from the table the champagne corks fly , the glasses are filled to the brim , the music strikes up , and huzzas resound from all parts. But here comes the bride's father with glass in hand , going up to her bowing and making a most wpful face , saying that his wine was so bitter that he could not drink it until she had sweetened it. Af- tor a great deal of pressing she rises and gives her husband a kiss ; her fath er still pretends that his wine is bitter , and it remains so until she has given lier husband three kisses ; each kiss not only sweetens his wine , but is accom panied with roars of laughter and bursts of applause. After the dinner comes the ball and "the general's walk. " They lead him through all the rooms once every half hour ; everybody salutes him as he passas along , and he graciously replies by an inclination of the head. At last , at 3 o'clock in the morning , all the young girls and those who dressed the bride take her away to undress her and put her to rest ; the men * do the same by the husband. The next morning the house of the newly- married couple is again filled with the crowds of the evening before. The young wife is seated in a drawing-room on a sofa with a splendid tea service before her. One after the other approaches preaches her and salutes her. She then offers tea , coffee or chocolate , accord ing to the taste of the visitor. She is throned for the iirst time in all splen dor as the mistress of the house. The most intimate friends remain to spend the day with the young pair. Making a Mash. Yonkera Gazette. "Henrico ! " "Andromeda ! " "The gods forf end , but this , though form and speech attest it , is surely not the classic face whereunto me lips do sometimes move with am'rous purpose ! " "Nay , but it is , sweet houri , and though there may be here and there a lineament disarranged , or features missing from its wonted place , yet do I swear thee 'tis the oldj the oft-kissed countenance. " "Now , be me sire's crest , thou'rt dazing me. Why this , thy dial's front , belikes the pattern of some crazy quilt , or Semblance the focns of some blasted sweetmeat mine where jellies multiple had met in mixed carouse. " "I like thy smiles , fair maid , exceed ing well. They dove-tail nicely with results that do attest me mild indul gence in that fistic realm whose patron was the Duke of Huckleberry. 'Twas but a friendly joust ; a match whereat at- " "Aye , surely 'twere a match ! The lurid lightning of thy frontispiece doth that proclaim. " " 'Tush thee , thou prattler ! 'Twere a match , I say , whereat both friend ly rivalry and manly culture did meet "That somethings met , thy counten ance gives ample proof , and that they met as meet two toppling towers , e'en so it testifies. " "Why. girl , soft as thy downy pillow were the gloves we wore " "And softer yet this wreck of facial pulp wherewith thou greetest me. Had'st thou been bathing in an abba- toir thou couldst not glimmer with such bright veneer. " "And yet me every feature answers to the roll. But , had'st thou seen me rival , gentle one , ah ! there were ruin worth thy studious gaze. One ear hung pendant by a filmy thread , his dental parts macadamized his throat , on either cheek his nasal wings flapped i' the gory air , and through the other facial rim peered bones that did of dexterous fracture hint. Ah ! 'twere a dainty pic ture , dame , and breathed sweet tribute to the 'manly art. ' " i Borne in the Last Century. National Review. It was a labyrinth of winding streets , unlighted , unnamed and unnumbered. Every trade kept to its special locality , and , in lack of shop fronts , advertised its wares by painted signs and em blems. Cattle were herded in the col iseum and forum , and the arch of Constantine - stantine was half buried in the earth. Justice was administered with circum stances of barbaric ferocity. It was a common sight to see unlucky coach men publicly tortured in the Corso for no worse guilt than that of driving through the streets during the hours reserved for carnival frolics ; and the erection of the gallows on tbe Piazza del Popolo , the first Saturday in carni- nal , was , in fact , the signal of the open ing of the season for public sports. ' . And , the condemned criminals dis patched , the hangman's assistants would presently join the gay crowd in the Corso disguised as clowns and pan taloons. Down to the first year of the present century malefactors were quar tered and burned on the Campo del Fiori , and for many years later the pil lory and the wooden horse remained familiar objects in other parts of Rome , although both were temporarily abolished ished during the Napoleonic rule. What a Good Bank Is. B. B. ComcgTS In Barkers' Convention. A bank may be said to be in good condition when it has an adequate cap ital ( not too large ) ; a contingent fund at least half as large ( and no suspended debt or overdue paper ) ; when its de posits are free of interest and three or four times the amount of its capital ; when its dealers supply it with busi ness paper to the extent of its needs ; when liberal salaries are paid to its officers and clerks ; when there is a trained man in reserve for every posi tion that may become vacant ; when there is a pension fund adequate to the comfortable support of its worn-out clerks ; when it has a board of direc tors who are not content to be mere figure-heads , but who understand their business and remember their qualifica tion oaths directors who count the cash frequently and without notice to anybody ; who insist that everybody employed in the bank shall take a va cation of at least two weeks every year , at which time another shall do his work ; and who believe in this dogma , that "nothing is seed enough that can be made better. " Grasshoppers in Mexico. Late advices irom Vera Cruz say that my riads of lucusts have appeared in that state , and notwithstanding that immense quantities of them have been killed , great destruction to crops has resulted in Yucatan and South Mexico ice ; a hundred square miles of country are covered with the pests , and corn , grass and other crops are utterly destroyed. It is said that thousands of families , dependent upon small crops , will have to be supported by the government during the next six months. THE NEW TOWN SLEEPEB. Strange Life and Death of a Connecticut Farmer's lioy. A Newtown ( Ct. ) dispatch : One of the strangest of the many strange char acters which this "land of steady hab its" has given to the world was a resi dent of this delightful little town , in Fail-field county. His name was Sher man W. Platt , and ho was known throughout the state as "the Newtown Sleeper. " He was a somnambulist of somnambulists , and the peculiar form which his malady took made him an object of general curiosity , as well as one of special interest to the medical experts of the county. Young Platt lived with his father , a well-to-do far mer , in the little hamlet of Dodgin- town , in the southwestern part of this town. He was never a particularly brilliant child , but he was by no means a dullard , averaging in intelligence about with the ordinary farmer's Doy. The strange somnolent states which brought to him so unenviable notoriety were first noticeable soon after he pass ed into his "teens , " and they contin ued nearly up to the time of his sudden and as yet unexplained death. When the disease for it is generally consid ered among physicians that he was the victim of some strange and hitherto unknown intermittent malady attack ed Platt , he would go to bed and be at once wrapped in the soundest of slum bers. Efforts to thoroughly arouse him by shaking , dousing with baths of cold water , the application of electricity , and treatment of a similar nature , were always unavailing. He would remain in his trancelike condition sometimes for only a few days , but oftener the sleep would lengthen out into weeks , and sometimes even inlo months , his "best record" in any one of these ti-ices , according to a generally ac cepted report here , being within a few days of five months. During this long period he seemed to have lost all power of intellectual effort , and when he re covered from such an attack the period of his sleep was all a blank to him. Instinctively , it seemed to those who watched him , he would rise from his couch at irregular intervals and partake of the food or drink that was constantly kept in his rcom to supply his wants. When hunger and thirst were abated he would at once return to his bed and continue his slumbers. When he arose at such times he would speak to no one , would answer no questions , pay no attention to any interference , and was seemingly oblivious of the fact that anyone was near him. A singular fact in connec tion with the case was that he did not seem to lose either health or strength during these prolonged slumbers , which it was naturally expected would wear out his vitality. Physicians who were called in from Bridgeport first , then from New Haven , and finally from New York , could give no expla nation of the strange disease , nor could they suggest any remedy that was sufficient to effect a pure , though many tried their skill. About a year ago , Platt having be gun to frighten his parents by taking short walks out of doors while in his somnambulistic state , his father ap plied to the prooate court of this dis trict , and Platt was sent to the asylum for the insane at Middletown. Appli cation and commitment were on the theory that his peculiar malady was some form of insanity. He remained in that institution , where there were a few but short recurrences of his somno lency , until the 20th of last month , when he was discharged and returned to his homo here. He seemed much depressed in spirits , and his mind seemed to wander at times. On the Monday following his return he wan dered away fr m his father's house , and no trace of him could be had un til the succeeding Satiuuay. On that day his body was found by one of a party of searchers in Sandford's pond. It was. perfectly nude , and this added to the misery of his death. The theory was adv.nced that he had been drowned while bathing , and this was very generally accepted at first as the solution to the way in which he met his death , as there were no marks of violence on his person. Search was made all along the banks of the pond for his clothing , but it could not be found , as it was argued it certainly would have been had ne been bathing in the pond. It is possible that the clothes had been found and appropria ted by tramps , who sometimes fre quent the shores of the pond. It is thought now that he committed sui cide , becoming despondent because of the incurable malady with which he was afllicted. This theory is borne out by the fact that some of the people living near the pond remember having seen a man acting somewhat strangely near there the day after his disap pearance. A Novel Duel. Boston Times. That was a memorable encounter between the poet , Tom Moore , and the critic , essayist and jurist , Francis Jeff rey. Both of them were of keen and polished wit ; both warm-hearted , gen erous , impulsive and more t > r less ca pricious. In 1806 Jeflrey attacked Moore's "Odes and " Epistles" in the Edinburgh Review , denouncing them on account of their immorality. This was too much for the ssnsitive poet. He felt thai blood alone could wash away the stain of that abominable crit icism. Accordingly he challenged the traducer to mortal combat. Jeffrey , though small of stature , was great in'cotirage , and he straightway accepted the challenge and named pis tols as the weapons. Seconds were se lected and preliminaries arranged , when Moore bethought him that it would be necessary that he should provide himself with pistols , and fur ther , as the challenging party , it would be proper for him to furnish weapons for botii. Now , deadly weapons of any kind Moore had never been partial to , and pistols he never owned at any rate , proper dueling pistols but he knew that his dear friend. Sir Robert Wil liam Spencer ; owned beautiful pistols , and to him he applied , being obliged , of course , to tell what he wanted them ipr. Sir William cheerfully lent his pistols , and then as soon as the mes senger was gone from his sight he hur- ried away to the Bow street office and encao-ed two oflfcers of his acquaintance - ance ° o hold themselves in readiness to 7 prevent the two little peppery men from risking mortal damage to one another. , . The duel was to be fought at t > &al farm early in the morning. Dr. Joseph Hume was Moore's second , while .bran ds Homer , of the Edinburgh Review , was second for Jefirev , but others were on the ground , though not in sight , for both men had many friends who were , . deeplv anxious. And there , on that f ground chosen for deadly strife , Thom as Moore and Francis Jeflrey met , face to face , for the first time. They did offer to shake hands , but Jeffrey ( ho and his antagonist were now alone to gether , the others of the party being engaged in the solemn duty of loading the pistols ) said : "What a beautiful morning it is ! " To this Moore answered : "Yes , and then added , with a smile , "a morn ing made for better purposes. " Jeffreys response to this was a sigh. They passed each other and turned , and when they met again Moore re lated to his antagonist a comical story about an Irish barrister , Billy Egan , who had gone out on a bright morning , as they were out then , for the purpose of fighting a duel. Jeffreys was still smiling at this story when the seconds came out from an adjoining thicket and announced "all ready. " The men were placed twelve paces * apart and the pistols given into their hands. "Now , " said Hume , "remember the word. Raise your pistols at the word 'ready. ' Then one two and at three you will fire. " "Ready ! " Nobody can say where \ Moore's heart was , b'ut his pistol was raised , and so was JefiVey's. They waited for the fatal signal. That signal , however , was not given. Instead thereof two Bow street officers emerged from the thicket , one of whom advanced o Jeffrey and s'ruck his pistol tel down with his staff , while his com panion went up and collared Moore. | < The belligerents were marched off to I their respective carriages and conveyed , | to Bow street , where , as no blood had ' been spilled , they were let of lightly. \ , . And from that office Tom Moore and , ' Francis Jeflrey went forth friends , and * their friendship grew and strengthened j < < while they lived. * t WaJk'ig Abound a Point. " | . Wall S.rc3t News. ' \1 \ [ About .the first of July a Chicago fruit buyer went over to St. Joseph , on | ( the Michigan shore , to view the peach f ' crop prospects , and he found one orchard - * ard owner who was feeling so very blue that he said to him : "Now , then , I'll give you a check for a thousand dollars for your fruit as it stands. " "No , I couldn't do it , " replied the grower , af ter some hesitation , "it would seem to be doubting he Lord. " Two weeks after that , when the pros pects were still poorer , he appeared in Chicago , and said he guessed he would take the thousand dollars. "But it will be doubting the Lord , " observed the buyer. "Yes , it probably will ; but I've x concluded to doubt Him on peaches , and make up for it by hanging on to taters and cabbage. " * A Story of a Wildcat Down in Georgia. Jas par Times. i Buck Bohanan and John Jordan were ' out dipping turpentine the other day and saw a wildcat and gave ifc chase. When they found they were out of caps and had treed the "critter , " Buck told John if he would watch he would run home and get caps. So he ran a mile and , finding neither caps nor matches , he got an old flint , ran'back and telling John to hold a dead aim on the cat , he struck his tinder over the tube of the gun , when bang ! went the fuse and off. jumped the eat , whipped a dog and ran about fifty yards before it fell dead. Only one shot struck it and that went through the heart. The British Grain Trade. The Mark Lane Express , In Its -weekly re view of the corn trade , says : Intense dry tropical heat has prevailed since August 1. Harvest work proceeded rapid ly. Gra. a ma tured in exceptionally good form. All the earliest wheat is now in perfect milling con dition. Barley and oats vary. In some dL- tricts they are excellent and in others poor. Beans appear to be an absolute failure. The potato crop is unlikely to prove large , but will be freer from disease than for many years. Throughout the past week new whe it baa made its appearance in various marten in a condition described as somewhat phe nomenal. _ FOE THE CAMPAIGN. We are giving away to each subscriber oi the SATURDAY SAYDJGS an elegant litho graphic picture , size 24x38 inches , at either of the candidates for President , to eaca party sending us 25 csnta for the paper unta after the November election. The SATDJ G3 tells tee facts that Intelligent voters want to Know. It 13 the great newspaper success abont which so much has been said. Ad dress all orders to - THE SATEJGS COMPANY , 513 Elm street , St. Louis , Mo. - Perlcfi Ift C. : p. Lincoln ( HI ) dispatch : The last chapter in the Zora Burns case is at hand. Yesterday Orrin A. Carpenter packed his traps and ship ped them to Chicago. His destination is Blunt , D. T. , but to conceal It he has billed his goods to Ch'cao , where he M ' 11 mpke tbe transfer AiKK.empt was made to interview "uJm as a last tend-off .but Itwas without avail. Axriend asked h-m if he did not th'nk "Dakota - r-as a rflr-T.11 * 0 * ? .CurPenter immediately - . eJ repl : I.iavebeenina ; of a hot one for the TWO FOB 50 CENTS. The St. Louis SATURDAY SAYINGS and the St. Louis PRINTERS' JOURNAL will be mailed to any address four months for the sum pf60 cents , and each subscriber pres ented with a 25 cent boot called the LacUea' Guide to Fancy Work. 100,000 copies of this " 1 book have been sold in three months. The SAYINGS is a great paper. The PRINTERS' JOURNAL IB the handsomest paper in the West. Do not mits this opportunity r THE SAYINGS COMPANY , 613 Elm Street , _ St. Louis , Mo , Suicide at Bastings. [ Captain J.E. Wicks , a prominent citizen and , " | J business man of Hastings , committed suicide ? 1 by shootinghfrnself in the head. The ball entered thelefttemple.goingentirelythrough Jhe bead and frightfully mangling It and killing him instantK He has sufferU I much A- * from consumption lately , the effect which was wearing out his ' constitution He leaves a wTe and vwo children. He was blhh ? r " spocjcd. and well thought of fn the com-
