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ALONn. The Ore flits on the \valh . Aurl glitters on the pane ; Lo ! Memory's wand recalls * Ihohuppy pustuguln. * ' leitalouc. A tender wclrdsome light O'ercnste the fading green , Amid the leaves' aad llfgnt And-Autumn's golden sheen. I roam alone. Alan ! the. vild winds sweep O'er Winter's bosom white , Like moaus of. restless sleep , Or hollow sounds of night I filch clone. ir. The hyacinth doth peep And spring-time HI es bloom , O't-r dearest ones asleep Within the dreamless tomb ; I weep alone. The distant church-bell Bounds O'er fragrant mendowa broad And silent sleepers'mounds ; All pass to worship God. I go alone. Soft doth the music fteal Out o'er the flow'ilugsod , No grJef tbess slcepein feel I'orerer more. OGod , I am nlonel T.Ji.P. Stewart i TJie Current. A STITCH IN TIME. . It started with the black and white exhibition last year. I was going through with my Uncle Mark , and we stopped in front of a picture labelled "Tho Ohemist , " and I asked Uncle what ho thought of it. I had been working down at the School of Mines myself for the past month , but had said nothing about it fo Uncle Mark. "I hate the sight of all of tl T V cried the old gentleman irascibly. "Since my aunt eloped with a young whippersnapper of an apothecary's ] clerkv thirty years ago , and brought jdisgrace to our family , I feel my fing- jers itch to destroy all their drugs and 'villainous compounds. I" heard you 'talking ' last summer about taking up ( something of the kind , Mark , and if { you had , you'd have been ten thousand - and dollars poorer than you will be lnow. I'd not have left you a cent , sir ' not a penny , sir. The Hepworths 'have ' always been gentlemen , and I should be blanked sorry , sir , to see 'one of them become a syrup-mixer. " "But , Uncle , there is a great deal of difference between a chemist and a 'drngsto're clerk. Every great scien tific man must understand chemistry , and even if " "Don't you tell me , sir. I know 'em all , sir. These chemists are all alike , sir ! " "Well , " I replied , meekly giving in , "why didn't you say something to me 'about it at the time. " Then , fearful 'lest he might find me. out , I added : "I might have gone o'n and become a chemist for alfyou said about it then. " "I don't want to influence you , Mark. You can go and do what you please for anything that I shall say. I have no authority over you , and don't want any. Only , I didn't intend to leave my money to any apothecary , sir. " j This was pleasant , to say the least ! I firmly resolved to leave the School of Mines instanter. I had taken it up on 'the sly , intending to surprise my 'friends by the discovery of a new met al or some such exploit. I always Tvashed my hands in weak acid before leaving the lab. , and changed my 'clothes ' and had hitherto gone on un- detected. So I felt I was safe if I stopped. "By the way , Uncle , " I said , "I 'think I shall go into business. Can you recommend me to any of your bus iness acquaintances ? I should like to commence as soon as possible. " Uncle Mark looked very much pleas ed. ed."That's "That's right , my boy ; that's right. I'll see what I can do for you. Mean while , I see pretty Miss McGregor over there , and I would be cruel to keep you away from her any longer , so , au revoir , Mark. Come and dine with me this evening , " and the kind old gentleman slipped off in a moment. 1 instantly shot into the next room to Miss McGregor's side. She also was standing there looking at "The Chemist" ' "Well , Miss Flora , " I said , "what do you thinkrof it ? " She turned quickly and stretched out her hand. 'Good , morning , Mr. Hepworth , " she cried , smilingl "You were not at all startled ? " I said , holding her hand such a sweet little hand , that it was pain to let it go "And yet you did not hear me ccme up ? " "No , " she said , letting her handstill lie in mine ; "but it seemed so natural to have you standing there , " and then she suddenly blushed and drew her hand out of mv vigorous grasp. "That is , " she added , "I mean that that I " She was growing rosily red , so Icame to her rescue. "You mean , Miss Flora , " Isaid , with " a faint attempt at jocoseness , "that 1 have inflicted myself on you so much lately that you have come to look on me as an inevitable , although tiresome incubus. Well , I admit that I have haunted your steps very much lately , and if it annoys you , you must send me packing. I don't wonder that you become awfully bored. " "I did not "mean that , Mr. Hep- worth , " she said hastily. "Miss Flora , my name is not Mr. Hepworth , " I interrupted. She looked at me a little aston ished. "Your name is not Mr. Hepworth ? " "No. That is , not to you. My name is Mark , Miss Flora if yon please. " "But I don't please"she said , with a pleasant litttle laugh. "That is not yet. Why , I have only known you for a half-year ! But , to change "the subject , are you going to Mrs. De Morris Brown's next Thursday night ? " "I haven't been asked that I know of , " said I , sadly. "I don't know Mrs. Brown. " "But vour uncle could get you an invitation if you wish one. I am "Miss Flora , ! shall be there if I have to ask Mrs. Brown myself for a card. But I see your mother looking anx iously for you. Shall I take you to her ? Till Tuesday night , then , au revoir. ' "Good bye , " she said , and then , as she saw her mother's back turned "Mark. " "I shall thank yon for that Tuesda ; night , " I said laughing. After the McGregors had driven elI I started to go down to Uncle Mark's hut concluded to take a farewell visi to the laboratory. I had become quiti attached to the place , and felt quite : pang at the idea of givin/j / up nr "magoo-mixing. " I decided to mak one more analysis , and then give il uj forever. That evening at dinner Uncle Marl said : "I spoke to Mr. Share about you Mark. You know the firm , best brok crage business in the city ; Share Ticker & Co. I told him you woulc ' see him at Mrs. De Morris 'Brown's 01 Tuesday night , and could speak fo yourself. " "Unluckily , Uncle , I haven't beei invited to Mrs. Do Morris Brown's. " - 'Toil haven't ? Well , I'll sot yet " a card. Mrs. Brown will let me h"av < one. " On Tuesday I finished my analysis but I had to work .till pretty late. . hurried to my room and eofnmencec to dress. I looked at my reflection ii the glass and started. I had forgottei to wash my hands in acid before l av ing the laboratory and they were col orcd like a rainbow. I was rathei frightened , but I hadn't time to gc back to the laboratory , and as to stay ing away from Mrs. De Morris Brown's when Flora and Old Share were to be there impossible. I looked at mj hands. The stains were pretty bad ( my forefinger looked like a well-used , unscraped palette ) , but they did nol extend above my wrist. My gloves would hide them. I looked at the clock. I was late already , so I hurried on the rest o things and started to pull on my gloves. As I jerked them on 1 heard a suspicious crack. I ex amined the tear , but flattered myself it wouldn't show , and hurried into the cab , and was soon in the gentleman's cloak-room at Mrs. Brown's. I found Uncle Mark waiting for me. "Ah , Mark , " ho growled , " 1 thought you were never coming. Fifteen min utes late ! You'll never get on with Mr. Share unless you're punctual. Punctuality and neatness are his two great hobbies , and if you run against either you can make up your mind to stay on his black-bood forever. Come down and I'll present you tp Mrs. Brown. " After the presentation , Uncle Mark looked around the room. "I don't see Share , " he said , "but there is Miss McGregor , and " vou can talk to her until I find him. " I went over to Flora. She was talk ing to Lieutenant Evans , a confounded idiot who was always , hanging about her , and hadn't sense enough to see that she disliked him. "Well , Miss Flora , I obtained the card , as you see. Good evening , Lieu tenant ; have you seen General Sher man ? " "No. Is he here to-night ? " said Evans , starting up. "I think'l saw him in the ball-room , " said I , and when Evans went in that direction I said : "Now , Miss Flora , let us gain the conservatory before he comes back , " and I hurried her toward the door through which the dark green palms beckoned so enticingly. I went too fast , however , for-I struck my foot against a vine or something and I went down on the walk. I puc out aiy hand to break my fall , and did , somewhat , but that confounded rip in my glove extended now down the side of'my right hand to my thumb. Flora stood there laughing vigor ously. " 1 can't help it , " she apologized. "Just when you were gloating over four wickpd deception of Lieutenant Evans , to have retribution overtake you so well. It is so ridiculous that I have to laugh. " I arose , a little sulky , and rather flurried by the accident to my glove , and tried to join in the laugh , but I didn't succeed very well. That was Flora's great fault. She laughed al together too easily. However. I changed the subject , and we walked along , talking about the black and white exhibition and the various pict ures , meritorious and otherwise. I kept my right hand , with the injured sjlove , in my pocket. "Miss McGregor Flora , " I said suddenly , "I promised to thank you for calling me 'Mark. ' When you called me 'Mark' it was all I could dote to keep from throwing myself at your feet and telling you how much I loved you. 'Dear Helen , ' " and I took her soft little hand in my two big ones , "you know I love yo'u heartily , with ill my soul , since I first saw you. Whenever I have looked into your weet , glowing eyes , I have trie'd to find some sign that you loved me. that aiy love could call forth a little in re- iurn. My darling little love , let me see them now and perhaps " She had cast her eyes down demurely tvhen I began , and her face was svreathed in blushes , but now she in- : errupted me with a hearty peaJ of laughter , and hereyes were riveted on icr hand so secure in mine. I fol lowed her glance. Oh , horrors ! That jonfounded glove ! The empty kid forefinger dangled down , and my dis- jolored rainbow-hued finger protruded prominently with the spotless glove as 'ts background. I stood there glaring kvith rage , when the voice of Lieuten- mt Evans broke in on us. "I've found you at last , Miss Flora. This is our waltz. What is the joke ? Hawn't you let me enjoy it , too ? Mr. [ lepworth is an awful wag , I know. " How I got away I doirt know , but is I was trying to elbow my way to ; he cloak-room , an elderly gentleman planted himself in front of me and said : "This is Mr. Hepworth , isn't it ? four uncle recommended you to me ind asked me to speak to you about a 3lace in your office. I am Mr. Ber- lard Share , " and he held out his hand ; o me gravely. Reluctantly I drew that hideous land from behind me and shook hands svith him. This was the man who in sisted on neatness ! He started at the sight of the spotted finger , of course , ind I tried to explain the matter.non- 3halantly by saying : "Don't you think I have the small pox , or have been putting my finger in a paint pot. The fact is , I loft th ( laboratory late this afternoon , too lat < to remove some chemicals which ] spilled 'on my band , and a split in mj glovohas disclosed what I flatterec my self I could keep hidden. " "Yes , you young scoundrel , yet have been hiding it along while,1 said a voice behind me. Uncle Mark of course he had come up to introduce me , and had overheard me. "Share I withdraw my recommedation of thi ; young man as I am now convinced that he is a liar , and a sneak ; " thet turning to mo he said : "And I wisl you to understand , sir , that I am nc relative of your's after this. I hav < no nephew. You hear me , Share , ] don't know this young man. " "I had already decided that he would not do for mo , " replied Mr , Share. I got away from that miserable plac as soon as I could , and have decidec not te leave the laboratory. In Mact chemistry is the only thing left for mi now since I lost , a legacy , a place ir business , and the girl I loved , and al by a ripped glove I Washington Hatch et. Leaf-Cnttiiigr Ants. In my rambles I discover a nest ol the large leaf-cutting ant ( the ( Eco- dama ) found over the entire South American continent and a leading member of that social tribe of insects of which it has been said that they rank intellectually next to ourselves. Certainly this ant in its actions , simu lates man's intellect very closely , and not in the unpleasant manner of spe cies having , warrior castes and slaves. The leaf-cutter is exclusively agricul tural in its habits , and constructs subterranean galleries in which it stores fresh leaves in amazing quanti ties. The leaves are not eaten , but are cut up into small pieces and ar ranged in beds ; these beds quickly become frosted over with a growth of minute fungus ; this the ant industri ously gathers and stores for use , and when the artificial bed is exhausted the withered leaves are carried out to make room for a layer of fresh ones. Thus the ( CEcodama literally grows its own food , and in this respect appears to have reached a stage beyond the most highly developed ant communi ties hitherto described. Another in teresting fact is that , although the leaf-cutters have a peaceful disposition , never showing resentment except when gratuitously interfered with , they are just as courageous as any purely predatory species , only their angry emotions"and warlike qualities always appear to be dominated by reason and the public good. Occasion- ly a community of leaf-cutters goes to war with a neighboring colony of ants of some other species ; in this , as in everything else , they seem to act with a definite purpose and great delibera- ion. Wars are infrequent , but in all those I have witnessed and I have known this species from childhood the fate of the nation is decided in one great pitched battle. A spacious bare level spot of ground is chosen , where the contending armies meet , the fight raging for several hours at a stretch , to be renewed on several consecutive days. The combatants , equally sprinkled over a wide area , are seen engaged in single combat or in small ' groups , while other ? , non-fighters , run briskly about , removing the dead and disabled warriors from the field of battle. Gentleman's Magazine. Shall We Meet Again ? The following from the pen of the lamented George D. Prentice is well worth reproduction. It was regarded as meritorious when it first appeared , and age seems to have but added to its beauty : "The fiat death is inexorable. No appeal for relief from * the great law which dooms us to dust. We flour ish and fade as the leaves of the forest , and the flowers that bloom , wither , and fade in a day have no frailer hold upon life' than the mightiest monarch that ever shook the earth with his foot steps. Generations of men will appear and disappear as the grass , and the multidude that , throng the world to day will disappear as footsteps on the shore. Men seldom think of the great event of death until the shadow falls across their own pathway , hiding from their eyes the faces of loved ones whose living smile was the sunlight of their existence. Death is the antago nist of life , and the thought of the tomb is the skeleton of all feasts. We do not want to go through the dark valley , although its dark passage may lead "to ; paradise ; we do not want to go down into damp graves , even with princes for bed-fellows. In the beau tiful drama of Ion , the hope of immor tality , so eloquently uttered by the death-devoted Greek , finds deep re sponse in every thoughtful . When about to yield his life a sacrifice to fate , his Clemanthe asks if they should meet again ; to which he responds : I have asked that dreadful question of the hills that look eternal of the clear streams that flow forever of stars among those fields of azure my raised spirits have walked in glory. All are dumb. But as I gaze upon thy living face , I feel that there is something in love that mantles through its beauty that can not wholly perish. Wo shall meet again , Clemanthe. Arizona's Name. The name of Arizona was not be stowed through any poetic arrange ments of Indian or Spanish names , but is derived from "Aridus" and "zona. " Aridus , dry from "areo , " to be dry. From this root also comes the word "arid , " which signifies dry , exhausted of moisture , parched with heat ; as , for instance , an arid waste. This is with out doubt one of the roots , the prefix ( Ari ) of the word Arizona. There is no difficulty in the way as to the suffix. That is plain enough to any "one who has studied word analysis. "Zona" or "zone" simply means a girdle or belt Hence we have the different zones or belts on the earth's surface two frigid , two temperate and one torrid to mark the average beat from the sun's rays upon certain portions of the earth. Hence the suffix "zone" or "zona , " and we have the entire word Arizona , whose meaning ia simply "a dry or parched belt of country. " This name , however , is a misnomer so far as the greater portion of Arizona Ter ritory is concerned. Arizona Sentinel. PJIESIDMTIAI. POVERTY. Jewof Our Executives Who Have left For tunes Behind Them. John Adams , at the a e of 66 , aftei twenty-six years of continuous public service , writes a correspondent tc T/ie Cleveland Leader , retired to his little estate near Quincy , Mass. , witli barely enough property to give him the needs of life on a farm and the only thing he got from the United States-during his later years was the privilege of receiving and sending his letters without postage. Thomas Jefferson had to borrow something less than $10,000 of a Richmond mend bank to pay his debts before ho left the white house , and the history of the last seventeen years of his life is one of almost continuous financial embarrassment. During the forty-four years which he devoted to the service of his country his property dwindled and his estates became involved. In asking for the above loan he says ; "My nights will be almost sleepless , as nothing would bo more distressing to me than to have debts here ( in Washington ) Unpaid , if , indeed , 1 should be allowed to depart with them unpaid of which I am bv no means cer tain. " He obtained the loan , but he wont from Washington still owing $20,000 , and a few years later he was forced to sell his library , which he had been sixty years in gathering to relieve his necessities. Congress , parsimonious then as now , valued it at half its cost , and gave him $23,000 for what was worth $50,000. In 1819 and. 1820 there were hard times in this country , and Jefferson , now a man of 77 , lost $20- 000 by indorsing for a friend , and he tried to relieve nimself by selling some of his lands. But times were bad and there- were no purchasers. Land would not bring more than one-third of its value , and at the request of the old ex-president the Virginia legisla ture passed an act permitting him to dispose of Montecello by a lottery. This fact was noised about over the country , and so many subscriptions came to his relief that the idea was. given up. New York raised $8,500 , Philadelphia sent $5,000 , Baltimore $3,000 , and Jefferson , it is said , re ceived these moneys proudly , saying : "No cent of this was wrung from'the taxpayer. It is the pure , unsolicited offering of love. " He died at 83 , be lieving that his estate would support his children. He was mistaken. Con tinued hard times caused increased depression , and the mansion and the estate merely paid the debts which hung over them. Martha Jefterson , his daugater , lost her homo and pre pared to teacli school , but the legisla tures of South Carolina and Louisana each voted her $10,000 , and this en abled her to die in comfort. Jeffer son's only surviving granddaughter , Mrs. Mickleham , lives in poverty in Georgetown , and congress has refused to aid her. I have before me a newspaper of 1826. published just one month after Jefferson's death. It contains an ad vertisement of the sale of Monticello by lottery in 1820 , aad represents it as valued at $71,000. Shadwell Mills , another estate of Jefterson , is valued at $30,000 , and the Albemarle estate at $11,500 , making a total of three prizes worth $112,500. The tickets are $10 each , and there are 11,4 7 blanks. President Madison left some proper ty at the time of his death , but his widow , the peerless Dolly , was for a time dependent upon the bread and meat furnished her by an old negro servant , and her last days were made easy only by congress buying from her for $30,000 the manusc.ipt notes of the debates of the constitutional con vention , which Madison had taken. President Monroe , though he declin ed , it is said , $358,000 from the gov ernment for his public services , died very poor in New York , and it was twenty-seven years before his body was removed to Richmond , Va. Adams must- have John Quincy re ceived over $500,000 in government salaries , and he is one of the few presi dents who again took up public life after he had left the white house. He remained in retirement only about a year , and then entered the lower house of congress. After about sixteen years of service there , he died in the capital in 1848 , exclaiming : "This is the end of earth : I am content. " John Quincy Adams accumulated property , and the home in which he lived in Washington is now worth at least $30,000 , and was until a few years aero in the hands of his decendants. His family is wealthy , and Charles Francis Adams is a railroad nabob. Andrew Jackson gained nothing in wealth from his white house salary. It cost him , he says , every cent of it to pay his expenses , and the most of the proceeds of his cotton crop in ad dition. He returned from Washing ton at the close of his second term with just $90 in his pocket , to find his farm going to ruin and himself so deeply in debt that he had to sell oart of his land to get out. The panic of 1837 did not affect him , but in 1842 he became involved through the debts of his adopted son , and he had to borrow $10,000 from Frank Blair. Congress relieved him somewhat dur ing his later years by refunding the fine of $1,000 which he had paid in New Or leans in 1815 , and this with the interest amounted in 1843,1 think , to $2,700. Still , at the time of Jackson's death he owed more than $16 , 000 , and now his heirs hold only a life estate in the Hermitage by an act of the Tennessee legislature. Martin Van Buren retired from the white house wealthy and ambitious. He ran for a second term and was de feated. He was a candidate for nomi nation when Polk was nominated at Baltimore four years later , and in 1848 he accepted a nomination as the "Free Soil" candidate for the presi dency and received 300,000 votes ? Van Buren was a close , cautious , moneymaking - making fellow. He got good law fees , and began to learn economy while saving enough as a young man to get married. At his estate at Linden- wald , where he lived during his last years , he was surrounded with books and comforts , and he left a manu script onpolitical parties in the United States which his son published in 1867 , five years after his father's death. President Harrison owned a farm in Ohio when ho was inaugurated prcsi dent. It is safe to say no was poor , for ho had been lately doing the drud gery of the clerk of the courts at Cin cinnati. President Tyler supplied much of the money which ran the white house out of his own pocket , and congress would not pay the salary of his private secretary. lie , like "Van Buren , was not satisfied to leave politics at the close of his term , and ho died in 1862 , while serving as a member of the confederate congress. Moderately wealthy while here at Washington , he left little to his chil dren , and one of his sons is now a clerk in the treasury department at Washington. Zach Taylor was by no means wealthy when he died in the white house. James K. Polk left a big house and enough to keep his widow , and Millard Fillmore , who started in life as a wool carder , died ten years ago , with enough of an estate in Buffalo to create a lawsuit over the sanity of hia second wife. Ho took , like Grant , a foreign tour at the end of his term , and was a presidential candidate in 1856 as a leader of the know-nothings. James Buchanan did not Jcave such an estate ns enabled Harriet Lane to keep Wheatlands.'and within the past year it has been advertised for sale. Buchanan spent all his salary as presi dent while in Washington , and what he had. left after paying his white house expenses he gave in charity. He did not attempt to enter politics again , and he died an unappreciated and disappointed man. Abraham Lincoln died poor , and it is due to congress that his family was provided for. Andrew Johnson went back to his house at Greenville , Tenn. , where he had started in life as a tailor , but he continued to take part in poli tics until his death in 1875. Just be fore his death ho had been elected again as United States senator , and he took his seat on the 5th of March , 1875 , at the special session convened by Gen. Grant. He died by a stroke of paralysis , and left no fortune be hind. Of the other presidents Grant's necessities are agitating the country to-day , and Garfield's family is wealthy only through the voluntary subscrip tions of the people. Truly , as Sidney Smith used to say , "There is nothing so expensive as glory. " A Famous Naturalist. The fame of Seth Green as a master of the rod and gun , and as an enthusi astic , practical pisciculturist , is world wide. He is a keen observ&r of na ture in all her moods , but is especially noted for his intimate acquaintance with fishes and birds , and their habits , and the profound knowledge ho pos sesses of the vegetable and animal life upon which they feed. Mr. Green is gifted with remarkable conversational powers , is clear and luminous in statement , and no one can listen to him without rare entertainment and instruction. He is untiring in his re searches after knowledge , and has a marvelous aptitude for combining and controling the minor and insignificant forces of nature , so that they will work together for the advantage of man. His labors extend far beyond the mere cultivation of fish. Among his melon vines Mr. Green has laid boards. Lift ing up these boards multitudes of toads were found concealed there by clay. At night they come out and feed upon the insects that infest the melon vines. It was a simple device , and one that succeeded admirably. The toads were harnessed to his scheme of gardening , and worked faithfully and well. There is a hint in this to other growers of melons. Mr. Green is a born experi menter , and is not slow to get at the bottom facts in the matters that at tract his attention. He is not disposed tp adopt the speculations or conclu sions of others , except so far as they are based upon proven conditions. He has reduced to practical use and given to the world the results of long years of study and observation , and the world is better thereby. He is in the full vigor of industrious life , and will yet accomplish much more in the field of his special pursuits. American Agriculturist. Italy Abroad. A work lately produced at Rome gives many interesting particulars concerning the number of Italians living in foreign countries at the end of 1881. At the head of the list stands France , which , with Algeria and the colonies , contains 274,825 , of whom 21,577 are in Paris , 33,693 in Algeria , and 57,861 in Marseilles. The Argen tine Republic , or La Plata , has 254- 388 , 103,595 of whom live in Buenos Ayres. Strange to say , the United States of America has in its immense population only 170,000 of whom 20- 286 are found in New York. The number in Brazil is 82,196 , of whom 17,570 fall to San Paolo. r In Austria and Hungary there are 43,875. of whom Trieste has 16,202. In Switzer land there are 41,645 , of whom 1D,603 are in the can ton oETicino ; in Uruguay 40,000 , in Turkey 18,612 , in Egypt 16- 302 , most of whom live in Alexandria. Only 14,567 find a home in the British Isles and all the colonies , -and of these only 7,189 in Great Britain and Ire land. Tunis ha 11,196 , Peru about 10,000 , Spain 8.825 , the German Em pire 7,096 , of whom 1,552 fall to Prussia ( not including Hesse-Nassau , which was 496) . Then come Mexico with 6,103 Italians , Monaco with 3- 437 , and last the Russian Empire with only 2,938. New York Po&t Illiteracy in Siberia. The discovery has lately been made that there is a'town in Siberia , called llim , where not a single person can read or write. It is in the province of Irkutsk , and somehow or other has managed to get itself utterly over looked and forgotten by the Russian government. The 500 inhabitants possess four churches but no schools , and , ailowing the rest of the Czar's subjects to go on as they please , the people of llim have continued in the old republican forms of government , which everybody supposed had been formally abolished by imperial edict throughout all the Russias ever so many years ago. New York Commer cial Advertiser. FRANCE AND GERMANY COMPARED. Figures That Indicate the Tendencies of th9 Two Nations. M. Paul Loroy-Beauliouhas recently made an interesting comparison be tween the industrial population of Franco and Germany , taking as a text the "Resultats Statistinues du Donom- bremont'do 1881" for the former country - . try , and the "Statisches Jahrbuch , fur das Deutsche Reich" for the latter. On the 5th of June , 1882 , the date o4 the "Jahrbuch" the population of the German empire was 45,222,113 , while that of the French republic , Dec. 18 , 1881 , was 37,622,0-18 Germany , there fore , being about 7,500,000 to the good and that at a faster increasing ratio than Franco , seeing that the excess of births over deaths in 1882 was 625,000 in the one country , and only 100,000 erse so in the other. While bearing in mind that Germany is given to emigra tion and France to immigration , the former population may be said to in crease at the rate of 850,000 per an num , and of the latter at the rate of 150,000. Each decade sees some 2,000- 000 people more in the German pro portion than in the French , so that by _ the time 'wo reach the year 1900 the excess will be close upon 11,500,000. A comparison of the occupations of the two countries shows some striking difference" ? , owing to the habits and temperament of the different nations , although it is difficult to arrive at a strict classification , because in France , more than in most countries , persons are often found figuring in two or three capacities. It often happens , for instance , that a land-owner in the country ( and returned as such ) is a lawyer or doctor in the city , while in the lower strain of society a weaver is as often as not an agricultural laborer when textiles are slack , and many a house domestic helps his employer in the fields or in his office , being by turns a servant , a farm bailiff , or a clerk. These , however , are difficul ties incidental to all census returns , more or less. The number of these who live by farming or forestry in Germany , including women and chil dren , is 19,225,455 , the same gicat class in France representing 18,249- 209 ; no very great difference when we consider the relative similarity of sur face , which in Germany is 540,000 square kilometers , and in France 528- OUO , though the difference b'ecomes considerable when we take into ac count 7,500,000 extra population. On the other hand , the difference is lessened by the fact that children are much more abundant in Germany than in France. It is. however , when wo consider the manual industries that the greatest divergence appears. Min ing , building , and handicraft trades generally employ 16,058,080 persons in Germany , while" in Franco all indus tries , grandes et petitcs , put together , give occupation to only 9,324,107 , and this undoubtedly gives the keynote to the greater activity and development of the life of the people in the German empire. Commerce and the carrying- trade , including shipping , railways , and hotel-keeping , employ 4,531,080 individuals in Germany , and in this respect it is outstripped by France , notwithstanding that the rail way mile age is less , and that the Germans are notoriously the greater travelers of the two. The army , navy , gendarmerie , ana police comprise in France 4.52,174 , the addition of the wives and families bringing the number up to 552,851. In Germanv the army alone numbers " 451,885"or , with the families , 542,282. The number of functionaries and offi cials , together with the p'ofessions , are , in the latter country , 579,552 , and in this respect again France heads the list with 689,000. Germany contains 1,022,223 persons without a profession , and this army is reinforced by women and children , bringing it up to 1,908- 309 , in addition to which a class con sisting of those preparing for work , such as students and apprentices num ber 337,000 , while there are also 938- 244 which include housekeepers , day servants , and the like. France has 4 only 737,088 actually without a pro fession , but has 2l"21,173 living on their means , which is tantamount to the same tiling ; and there is a small batch of 91wl6of professions inconnucs , which , if all the secrets were known , would form a remarkable series of revelations. The number of those who live on the > r means ( von etqenem Ver- moqeii ) in Germany is placed at 1,593- 125 , which is very considerably less than the French contingent , and tells in favor of the Germans , as possessing less idle ones in a household. Domes tic service m franco employs 2,557,266 , of whom from 108,404 men and 281,380 women are returned as attendants in hotels and restaurants. The domestic clitss in Germany is only 2,324,924. The occupations depending upon eat ing , drinking , and lodging comprise 1,161,590 individuals in France , as ngainstt 756,647 in Germany , a fact " which will be potent to those" who are acquainted with the two countries and know the different degrees of estima tion in which the art and graces of liv- iuor are held. The Mexican Police System. The City of Mexico has an excellent police system. At night there is a policeman at every corner. He never patrols the streets , but has a lantern which he sets in the center of the in tersecting streets , and then retires to i convenient doorway and sits silent untill relieved. As a consequence there is a row of lanterns in the mid- lie of every street. Each policeman sarries a club and a revolver , and wears a blanket around his shoulders , f he roundsmen who patrol the streets ire mounted , and carry carbines and sabers , looking like cavalrymen. Policemen are invariably polite , and " ivill stop a street car and" assist a lady : o enter it as gallantly as the proudest 3astiiian. Two "Republics. In due coarse of time the Brltlsth public nay come to use a further variety of American xriiUcal phrases. A British statesman may M3int Tvith pride to his Kecord , and lie may de- tounce with vehemence those who bolt the cgular nomination , and who do not rote the tralgot ticket. A little knot of partv man ners will prepare the slate , and a little group if B'lUoh mucmimps will break the elate. London. Saturday liecica.