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| ern romance to end, and were the author OF the
| book any one but Mr.. Miller we should feel con-
strained to enter protest against so gross .
neglect OF literary proprctles-
| QuYps.
( The grand misunderstanding Mt. Blanc.
Why it rains in very hot weather-The hcat
opens the pours Of the clouds.
4 Western paper speaks Of = . tramp with 4
sort OF half-jaunty air about him. Most of
them do have sort of deIni-iohnty air about
| them, that's 4 fact.
Russian to Turk, who receives bayonet
| TO objecta'' Turk-"it is tie first tt time 1 in
eight day:s that anything has gone into my
| stomach.''
The leaves are turning slowly yellow; their
! summers hue is hence: thu sipcnng fruit is OF,
5he mellow; the small boy on the fence. He
! looks around, hc views the ground. AMI thinks
the moment suits; tle fills his pockets ull and
roand' then jumps the fentc aud scoots.
| "When | die let me bc buried within tho
sonnd OF the hammer the claug OF the work
si1op the hum OF the mI,n says the cu,,.litla.e o
IN ms speech And then lie goeS home ,{i sea,s
| himself iii the roekingchair while h,s wife ca,~
ries the coal out Of the cellar to get suppr-
with.-Iackcye.
After one OF The operations OF celebrated
| surgeon the resident student stood looking at
! tile two pieces Of mortality lying on the sur
icons g., table: 2l What are you doing, sirt''
snafply Asked inc suF:eon IL am waiting for
you to point out which picce is to be put to he'd
| and which Is to be burieu.''
4 correspondent Of the Bulletiu cudearinn,y
asks its editor, '' How tan the BOYS be kept or
| the streets at night!" Simple enough. Let
every parent pave tiis back yard with tcsselated
marble, light it with gas, put billiard table in
it, with d bar anu cigar stand In one corner, and
the thing is dUns.-EurefI Stuttup{
Aspiring artist to picture-dealer, exhibiting
what he considers one Of his little masterpieces:
"What do you offer me for that, nv dear
fricnl:" Dealer Gesolutclyt*.1 will give you
three fEanes' "Thrce francs! ! gave you
double that Tor the canvas u - Ah. but pardon
Then it had nothing Oh it."-Frsuch Paper
ssWhat's that?" whispered 4 1one-haired man
Yesterday, up at the Temperance meeting, as ho
stopped younGster coming up the back stairs
with pitcher full OF something in his hand
Water, sir" said the boy. .sOh"' exvlai1nca
the l.. II. man; and he looked thirsty and dis
appointed, and went on.-I,hu1dtlpjtia Ha4lIetla<
''1s this the way to Aberdecn?" asked l.
gentleman Of man who was breaking stones.
Moo, Whaur'd ye come fra!' was the thor
oughly Scotch answer. ''What business is that
Of you:5:" returned tho gentleman, angriiy
''ou jist rs muck.e rs It is whaur yc are gaun,''
quietly rrpled thu lapilary, resuming Ills OF
cupation.
WILD MEN AND DOMEsT1CATED
SNAKES.
In the Island OF RHO the Resident assured me
there were Wild men who ltyed In trees, and llau
no language but cries; andi Su1atra, the Res
ldens OF Palembang said there were men who
lived in the forests, with whom not only the
Europeans, but eycn the Malays, could have no
intercourse. 1le himself had never seen one
let. strange to say, they have i petty traffic
with the outer world, yet not through the me-
liu1n OF speech. They live in the woods, and
live by the chase. They hunt tigers, not with
Of tube with such force, and which are so Kee1k
OF point, and touched with such deadly poison, !
that wound is almost Immediately fatal. These
tiger skins OF elephant tusks they bring for;
thing. for money is about the most usclesgs
thing they could have. They cannot eat 1t, op~
drink it, or wear it. But as they have wants9
they exchange: yet they themselves pre nevcE;t
Of tue forest, and leave it there, and the. Ma!
lays come and place what they have1
oircr IS satisfactory when they re-
turn again they lind what they brought goue-i
and take what is left and depart. Ii not, they,
add few trilcs more tempt the eyes Of these
wild men OF the woods, and so ut last the ex-.
change is effected, yet all the while the sellerB
keep themselves invisible. =.
But II these telephantsl are unconfortablea
ncighbors, there arc others that are more So
the reptiles, which abound here as in India. BtA
familiarity breeds contempt. Indifference
The people are not afraid Of them, anu hardly:
notice them, bu. speak Of them in an easy sorti
Of way, il they were the most harmless things
III naturc-poor, Innocent creatures, whicinl
almost be pets III the family, and allowed to
run about the house at their will. Sobcrly,
there are certain domestic snakes which are in
,lulged with these liberties. Said slr. r.: t'E
was once visiting in sutIlatra, and spending
night ut the house Of 4 friend I heard
nusc overheard, and asked, ''What is that!1
* Oh, nothing" they said; '*it's only the ser
pent." 'sWhatt DO you keep 4 family snake!7
- Ies,n they said; lit was 4 large black
snake which freuucntel the house, and, as
it did no mischief and hunted
the rats, they let it roam about witer-
ever it liked.' Thinking this rather big
story, with which our friend might practice on
he credulity ot u stranger, | turned to the
Resident of Paletnb:ng, who confirmed it. He
said this domesticaton of strpents WIS not mr.
:onulon- There was IL kind Of boa that was
rery useful aS an cxtcInnatOr Of rats, and f.,r
his purpose the good Dutch hotsekcepers al
owed it to crawl about to lie e0ilel up In the
pantry. Sometimes this Interesting member Ut
he falli1y WAS stretched out ON the ycranla IL
yask III the snn-a pleasant Object to any
trassger who might be invited to accept hos-
,itality.
- GRAND DUKE.
D+trois FREE Prr>s.
ABrng out that sprig Of nobility" COM
handed his lIaouor, as ic finished signing the