"ssowrs* LEAP. what interested the man so much. I bub there was. Every soul, worked were in consu tafcion as to how to get The Passing of the Hotel Clerk. ABD-UL-HAMID. BZ- saw it all in a jiffy. There was a couple up as it was to intense' excitement, rid oi the undue amount of serpents Charles Dudley Wnrner in the November in a boxa young man and a lady seemed to have a voice in that shriek that had so suddenly possessed them. A Romance as Related by an Old Show- Harper's. and clearly fond of each other as they that, arose. Before I knew what to do, rbe Miserable Existence of the Saltan of In the midst of thi3 effective discussion manA Trapeze Performer's Peril. The hotel clerk has disappeared, ot dared to show. It was this couple there was a wild outcry about my ears Turkey. a 10-year old boy succeeded in New York Telegram: Thesign above is disappearing. The faithful chron 'Snowy' had been watching, and when and a lot of people brushed past me. forcing a side window open, and falling His Majesty the Sultan of the Ottoman -P-J the door was inscribed "Dramatic I got behind the scenes again, there he No one knew,what was the matter, and icl*r must note this significant change oat, soon made his appearance Empire is a most high and puissant was still, and, Jeeupiter, blamed if he in the panic some imp cried 'Fire!' I Agency," and the stairway, seen dimly in American life, for it means the passing with a formidable club with which he monarch. His will is law and wasn't crying like a child. tried to speak, but I was hustled dispatched'the snakes in rotation. away of a whole order of things from without, was worn with the bis nod is death. He has many pal "Of course, I said nothing, but I against a wall, knocked down, trampled There were found to be five, of the And he notes it with' a certain sad tiead of feet and revealed just then a ftcesj he rnles despotically o\ er a vast watched him, and I noticed when his on by a dozen feet, and by the deadly rock variety. After the coast ness, Jor, though this clerk was feared empire he makes quantities of Pashas figure coming don n. A moment more turn came he seemed backward, and I time I got up the house was almost was apparently clear again, the demoralized by the'general public, he was the admiration cross their fawning hands whenever he thought he had half a mind to shirk. clear. and the sunlight that was setting the pupils settled down as best of the humorist. There was* looks at them he has the power to doanything But he went on and performed his 'Turn on the gas/ I yelled, hoping they could to their dinners, when dust of Union square aghtter with never anything in the world before answering to anyone of his faithful part as usual. He was nearly through that some of the hands would hear across the threshold came in gathering shining particles shown upon a face subjectsexcept recall him to life after to this resplendent autocrail when I heard a hubbub in the house me, and I was making for the meter folds what looked like the king of that would anywhere arrest attention he has killed him. But social power of sleeping accommodations, this darling and went out in the corridor. The closet when I stumbled against some all rattlesnakes, and making for himselfe th ile he has none. His life is passed in It was not any scar or defect of door of one of the boxes was open and of the flashingpin, perfumed locks,, one. I heard a voice, and a man almost center of the apartment, an endless round! of official drudgery, a boy was hurrying into it with a dragging a woman brushed past in a bunch as large as a half bushel, impudent eyes, and lofty condescension. feature, but a certain terrified look glass of water. Kneeling on the floor nay, positive servitude. Each minutest me. We were near the door, and a while his note of anger fiHed the room He was the one being in existence that gave the man the aspect of one was the young man I had noticed and detail of business,, from the highest glimmer of light from the lamp outside with its diabolical music, and the before whom the free-born American who had just seen a specter. The reporter at his feet the young woman was lying, visions of diplomacy down to Ihe fell on them. Never will I forget the hearers with a sickening dread. The quailed. We have so little real aris standing out upon the sidewalk seemingly stone dead. We had a opening of a new eoflee house on the face of the young woman I saw revealed desks were again resorted to, but this, tocracy in this country that this dominating hard time bringing her to and I didn't therethe face of the woman who noticed it, and turning to look after time the terror was too great for cries shores of the Bosphorus, passes person stood out in relief: he know what happened outside. But I had been in the box. I never saw the and shrieks. A trembling horror through his august hands and each the owner of that strange countenance had? power to abase the proud, and to learned afterward that 'Snowy' funked like with fright and agony. Involuntarily seemed to possess all, while the glittering, incident of every transaction forms a saw that his hair was white as snow. make the humble crawl mto a hole. bad all of a sudden and cut his part I lent a hand to help her outside. bead-like of the huge reptile focus- of intrigues which, in their dead short. But his hour has struck and he is But she turned from meturned seemed to fascinate with its scintilating "Odd-looking.isn't he?"muttered the conglomerate mass, it would take to the man beside her and cried passing away, not absolutely, for the glances. Just then the welcome twenty Sultans with a? hundred times "This set me a-thinking. But the reporter to his companion, a member with a voice that rose above the hubbub: roll of wagon wheels wasf heard traveler can still find him here and next night I had food enough for reflection Abd-ul-Hamid's power to disarm of "the profession" engaged just then, the margin which on1 'Save him! Save him? Oh, on the road, there generally only in those gorgeous It was a clear, moonlight and defeat. What time, therefore, like many of his fellows, in Micawberlike God! It is my brother!" the schoolhouse stood. It broke the night and I took a stroll. Now I'm palaces where civilization is new a ad can he have to spare for society? pursuits. spell of horror, and shriek after "Then a strange thing happened. not a sentimental night mortal, but I The Commander of the Faithful may has the appearance ot a lacquer, and is shriek on all scales of the gamut resounded The man beside him stood stock still. do admire nature, and once I was out The lounging Thespian looked up, be seen any week as he goes to his not of the substance of the life. from the building. In a moment But only for a moment. The next he of the town I got up among some trees Friday's prayer. Then, before the looked after the receding figure and more the burly form of a stalwart had left her and dashed into the auditorium. on a little mound and there I stretched gaze* of an adoring populace, through In fact, the kind of civilization that said ranchman filled, the doorway. I went after him. But it was myself with the bright sky over me. lines of splendid troops, crowds of produced the hotel clerk is gone, or is He took in the situation at a glance. era of 'Snowball yes, he is odd." all dark there and still. Only up above, There was not a sound but the croaking an1 brilliant aides-de-camp* and pashas, going also. He belonged to A quick spring to the roadside and near the ceiliyg, I heard a strange, of the frogs and the chirp of the "Why do you call him snowball?" smartness and pretension which the fair veiled ladies, braymghrass bands, back, and the glistening terror lay scrambling noise and a clatter of katydids. I don't know how long I "Oh, on account of his hair, to be foreigntravele did not recognize as a and screaming dogs therepasses a thinfaced, writhing beneath a heavy boulder. It glass where the big chandelier hung. I lay there, but all of a sudden I sat up growing development of character,but long-nosed grizzled-bearded pale sure. Didn-t you notice it?" proved to be five and one half feet in was out in a jiffy and groping about and looked down at the road. There mistook for vulgarity. He belonged man in a half*closed carriage.nervously length and carried fourteen rattles. "Certainly. I couldn't well escape for the gas meter closet. I found it were voices there and they belonged to to what might be called the steamboat fluttering his hands before his face There was no moreschoolthat day and open, and as I felt about me I was a man and a woman who were standing it period, when the steamboat was as by way of salute, and receiving the the house and grounds fo*r half a mile suddenly pushed aside and a voice by the gate and hugging each other gorgeous and as a barber's saloon,and "Well, that's the reason he is called low salaams of all in return. He hurries around have been religiously searched cried out: for dear life. I was amused at first its clerk had the fine manners and the Snowball or Snowy. It is only a nick.name into the mosque, scarce giving every morning by that schoolmistress and thought it was an ordinary rustic "'A rope here. Give me a rope. striking attire of the gambler. He belonged himself time to throw a half-frightened before she opens the door_ love making. But from their gestures There is one there.' to the era of the table in (the "Is he an actor?" glance round, and so is lost to view I saw that something above the common "I had seen a coil on the floor and hotel dining room a quarter of a mile "No he is a circus man. I don't before he can well be seen- When one was going on. The woman seemed I know whoever had asked for it long, where the waiters were all drilled know what he is now. But he used to The Perfect Figure. considers why that face is so worn and to be pleading and the man fighting had found it, when, a moment after, to move like elock-work at a signal be in the trapeze and tight rope line. pale, whythose hands are so nervous, her off. At last what did they do but I heard a footstep hurrying away and Philadelphia Record. from the first officer, who stood at Pretty clever at his business, too, I how the heart behind that blue military take to crying, the both of them. heard something dragging behind Baron Von Humboldtr he head of the* table. We can see who had can tell you." coat, must be beating like a roll them. But I didn't stop. I turned studied men and women in every quar "I kept on watching them, and after them now facing*the table in a shining The speaker was dismissing the oblect of drums, one feels grateful that one is on the gas. ran inside and had the jets ter o the habitable globe, used to say a while they kissed each other tenderly, line.half wheeling at the signal stretching of the reporter's inquiry with this, but a private individual, and not his flaring up as I entered the auditorium that the notion that thefemale figure and the man went avvay. It out simultaneously over the head but there was something in the awed again. Imperial Majesty, the Sultan Abd-ulHamid was then that I first became aware of was of better proportions and more of the submissive guests a hundred expression of that face, something in II., living as he does, "What a sight was there! Up near a curious feeling that had been coming arms, seizing the*tops of the vegetable graceful outline than that of a man the white locks clustering around it, in perpetual fear of assassination. the ceiling, holding by a hand to a over mea feeling that I was not dishes, and then, tramp, tramp, with was a delusion. Women do not believe that remained in the mind of the The head of the state neither shattered gas fixture and likely to alone. We have all such a feeling the step of tha soldier going down it,averred the great scientist.and questioner like some haunting presence. drop at any moment, with, open caring nor darin* toassum his position sometimes, you know, and then, as at the echoing floor,disappearing through men only say so out of natural gallantry. What an odd face it was for an mouth and staring eyes, 'Snowy' was i in society, no other Turk essays all such times, I found I was right. swinging doors, and anon returning Humboldt was right on a athlete and an acrobat? Thoughts of hanging. And ]ust above, climbing There was a man standing among with the same military precision to deposit the role of social leadership Not great many points concerning which the Grimaldis of the stage,who carried along a beama sort of rafterthat some bushes just above me and looking a platetbat weighed two pounds, only might such an attempt cause him his views were scouted by the wise under their grinning masks and piebald ran up to an apex in the primitive at the other going down the road. i\ ith a bang, before each aw ed occupant to be unfavorably regarded by his men of his day, and perhaps he was raiment tragical stories, came beioie little hall, was a man with a nope I was in the shadow and he did not of a seat. As a military evolution sovereign, but the Turk has neither by equally correct thus attributing superior him, and ten minutes later, when dangling from him. How he got up notice me. But the moonlight was full it was nearly perfect, "and the temperament nor custom any inclination physical beauty to men. But a burly soul with the girth of a Falstaflr there I cannot tell. I have seen feats upon his face, and I knew at once the American people were rather proud of and the lungs of a Stentoi came since his time nobody has ventured to mix in European society, in my day, but holding to that rafter young man I had seen in the box. And it. It was aunagnificencH which somewhat along, who could tell the personal history to urge or defend his theory, and it [t is too gay, too animated for him. and getting along it beats anything such a face as he did have to be sure! crushed them, but they felt they oi nearly every human being who has naturally fallen into disrepute. He is a quiet, sober, reflective creature, I ever witnesssecL Well he reached Talk of disfiguring a face with a blow, were somehow a part of it, and it is trod the sawdust on this side of the Besides, the modern world really has who, after his day's work likes toreturn the top, got hold of the gas fixture, or by an accident, or with vitriol! doubtful if any foreign potentate- wa Atlantic, he asked him Snowball's no use for "pretty men" as such. They to his house, put on has old slippers slippped down and quicker They're all bad enough. But, if you ever served exactly in that ay. It story. may be counter-jumpers and animated and his old coat, and, after his than I could tell you he had the want to see a terror, look at a was very cheap at five dollars a" day, tailors' blocks, and infast at will evening meal, devote himself to contemplative "What have you heard about him?" rope about the trapeze performer, and face disfigured by jealousy, and and if there had been any dinner to the public promenades and places of smoking among his women was what the big man said, and then there were the two hanging up there there you'll have it. That was match the evolutions, we might- still general resort, but the present masculine added solemnly, "few know the truth iolk and children. Or, ifc he is in a by a brass rod that might give way at what ailed the face that I was looking be in that showy period of our national fashion favors the strong,squarebuilt, iibout him." more social mood, he will perhaps invite any moment. I could hardly breathe at. It was black with passion. The developement. The hotel clerk had quick-witted and agile fellow "I know nothing," said the reporter. some of his intimates to smoke, as I saw the rope swinging down and eyes were staring, the lips were pressed so subdued the spirit of the traveler who never thinks for an instant "It was his face that made an impression and chuckle over childish stories with the man trying to fasten it about together, the teeth were clenched. that he hadnat jwhaps much appetite, whether he conforms to the model of on me." them in the outer chamber. Again, something in the roof. He seemed to Hate,savage and unrelentingmurderous and ra*br preferred magnificence the Apollo Belvidere or not. "It well might," said the other. "It he cannot return hospitality the hold on by a single hand and climb if need bewas in that look. I to comfort. But in time, with is not the face God garve the man. He tiarem system puts that out of the with his feet about the brass sod as almost shuddered as I witnessed it, other standards of taste, thie pageantry With the softer sex the question of was once a jolly enough soul. But question. Finally, he likes to go to though it were a stout pillar. In another and felt a deal more comfortable when vanished, and the traveler began form is quite another affair. The possibilities one night's fright fixed him. He has minute 'Bnowy* sank down and bed and to rise earlyhabits incompatible I heard footsteps crunching among the t* Assert his manhood. of dress have been developed worn the look of terror that is left fell but only a few yards. After that with social duties*The Fortnightly dry leaves and gradually receding. to such an extent that within reasonable upon him for many a year. He will Of course there are still tracee-left of I saw the other end of the rope slip up, Review. limitations a woman may take "Then I started home. On the borders wear it to his grave. If you care the old civilization, and when the slowly, too, and down came the body on pretty much whatever outward of the town who should I meet about it I will tell you what I know. traveler finds, them they awake a train gentle to the floor. In a minute's time shape seems best and most becoming slouching along but 'Snowy.' I But the narrative is not a cheerful one, of reflections upon the singular the other man was coming down the for her. While the creations of the stopped to speak to him and as he 1 pi omise you. 'Snowy'we call him development of democratic life in A Sudden Rise In Fortune. rope hand over hand, and soon he was modiste have stimulated a taste for turned up his face with a start the i hatit is not his name, but the boys America. standing beside me, puffing with exertion So many stories are told about the the beautiful, they have ministered moonlight fell upon it, and there were .calk him so. 'Snowy' was a trapeze and as pale as death. It was only rise of men in Wall. street that they also to the admiration and harmless his eyes as red as yqu please, and the professor. You seehe is a well built, then I looked at 'Snowy.' At first Singular-Marriage Ceremony. seldom attract as much (attention now instinctive vanity appertaining to big tears shining in them. I didn't graceful fellow, even now. But when 1 thought him some one else. I didn't as they did years ago, when speculation every feminine nature They have also pretend to notice it, but all of a sudden, he was young he was as graceful a A .singulap- marriage ceremony occured know the man. His black haic was was carried on with caution. created ideals of classical ideas of as I looked at him, I got a sudden figure as any one I ever saw in the at Clujrchill during thbioraise of fairly white, and there was that look perfections and these deirtures from shock. The figure, the walkI One of the most amusing specimens of business. He was clever, too, and of terror on his face that has never left the Arctic staamer Alert (whichhasjust couldn't be mistaken in thembelonged the antique standard' have been to Wall street men is to be seen every was among the first who took flying it since. That is his story." arrived at Halifax) along thk- shores to the man who had parted many theorists and a tew otherwise Bay. The missionary, leaps through space from one trapeze lay on his way to the "street" in a of Hudsoja with the girl. sensible woman a source of profound "And who wa& his rescuer," asked to the other. When I knew him first orougham of his own, with a magnifcent Rev. Joseph Lofteshouse, aa. the only the reporter. disquiet. There has beenr he was with acircus. He was a great it is affirmed, team of bays and an English "You may well believe I was interested. minister there. A Miss Folding of attraction, too, for when he came out "The young naval fellow. The a departure from the "classic joaehman on the bK. Within the I was manager of the company, Sheffield, J&hgland, arrived bttfc on the an his trunks and spangels and kissed lover of Jus sister. She had recognized figure" that is as disfiguring as it is reprehensible brougham sits the spesialator leaning and I didn't want to have any scandals Hudson, bay barque CannjOwen, to become his hand about the circle, there wasn't in the trapeze preformer her vagrant and in many quarters are jnhie cane and lookmg-thoughtfully at about my ears. So I thought it Loifceshouse's wile. Bnt when a girl present that didn't admire him brother whom her father drove away heard pleadings mors or le&s cogent lis well-gloved hands* He has a pale my duty to inquire into the odd things she arm ad there was nobodjr to marry and look it too. from home, and the young fellow' had for a return to the lines of beauty indiaimost effeminate face, and his I had seen. But I didn't learn much. seen her faint at sight of him and witnessed them, there being no naiaister or wrought by Phidius and Cleomenes The girl who fainted in the box was nanner is reserved I and austere. He There are a good many pitfalls for the meeting I had seen myself long before physical distortion became magistrate within nia.ny hundred the daughter of a rich but cranky old s-very much more exclusive and elegant a young fellow in such a business to that moonlight night. As 1 said, he a fashionable art miles, and Lofteshous? of course, fellow, who had driven his only son stumble into. But he steered clear of in the manner ofi hi? personal enjoyment, was a very spitfire, and became downright American maid* and /natrons have unable.tOi marry himbeltv Glxpt. Gordon away some time before out of a whim, them. He never drank and I never 24 years old* and in depojtnenfr mad with jealousy. She had thus been led to study the requirements o the Alert was tailed upon to* and the young man was the son of a heard of his being mixed up in any gallantries. more dignified than Mr. Gocld, never told him who the strange performer and measuremeats of the perfect act the emergency, and, although i neighbora young fellow in the naval What was odd about him Mr. Connor, or Henry Clewsmost was until the lights had gone female figure with results, if current academyand a gallant lad, too, although having-no leeal authvuisjatuon to te was the way he used to keep to himelf 3f whom go up andidbwn in the eluva- out and left 'Snowy' in midair taking draperies correctly indicate, altogether he had a temper like satan. the gordian knot, thought that beingcapiain People believed he was in some that awful leap." .ed', or in yellow, oafofe-. This yccmg distasteful! t the classicists a Government steamer he tort of trouble, or had come from a "Well, the week went by and 1 saw nan? had chauge-of a certain department who point with, pride to the master "And how came the lights to go out?^' ood family and was sorry for taking wonlclibe- justified performing the nothing more of 'Snowy,' except when of velvets, ai firm on VVarth works of many sculptors as embodying asked the reporter. I a circus life. But he never enlightened ceremonies, and that an aatry to that I met him on the stage. Our last sbrKjt, and made,all hewayfromt$15 I the beautiful in feminine contour. "Can you ask? I do not know myself them of his own accord. effect in the bhip's iog would sufficiently night in the town came, and it seemed to) $25 a week. He Jived in a bardng: A living counter part f the Venus de who put them out, or for what. 'Soon after I came to know 'Snowy' lsgaJnse the n-earragta Thereu that we were going to close with a house on TAvanrfiy-second y&ieet, Medici would be less than 5 feet in But I have always thought that a I hid the management ot a traveling packed house. I remember now every the ^oniUvactiiig irties .wad other" inhabitants* sis terms of special finaidshipwiih the height, while wearing No. 25 corset man who proved a hero that night vanet ^how making a circuit down seat was full and I had just got done of the jost 3sembled on narrowly escaped being a murderer. and a No. 7 shoe. This, to the woman aadlady. HWather had performed t:ie sacred rite East. We had all sorts of attractions, counting the receipts, and was going httard the Alert, and I have never asked 'Snowy' what became of to-day, would mean hopeless clumsiness. marriage eerenaoary for th- land- i*om song and dance men to ground back behind the scenes to see if everything a performed by ap, Gordon jading of his sister and the youngman. The Popular Science Month ivv ady in earliouyeacjsv and she isept her and lofty tumblers. There were stumpspeaker-5 was all right, when who should I I do not even know if they were married. in a recent issue, descends to partial the ceremonial of ^he Churcfc of iyeon the atergyasiam's son,and fed and banjo players and ballad stumble upon in the corridor but the I do know that 'Snowy' was lars, and affirms that to meet the re England araid r* gal, of wind. The Tim dutifully for $S a week. He had singers till you couldn't rest. But I young fellow from the naval academy. never reconciled at home, and I knowthat quirements of a classic figure the pi oper marriage contract and certificates sften "playsdi' fr^fe "bucket s4rfp and. 'noticed that with the Yanks down He didn't look much better than the result of that night's- work dimensions should be: Height. wara entered iruthe la&and duly signed fte made*very uifly little winnings,. theie the athletic feats 'took' best, so when I had seen him that night out gave him the name he bears." feet 4 3r4 inches bsb,32 inches waist^ Phe landlady hacfi raised $&000 duif made it a point to enlarge that part among the bushes. He was pale as 24 inches armpit to waist, 9 inches. jig her muxg jArs of keeping boarders ot the entertainment. That was how death, there was a wicked glitter in his This is feather- improved upon by, giving Brunkcnras&ife! Switzerland. and vitas aJbout to da-vote it GO 'Snowy' came to get into my company Rattlesnakes Paralyze a School. eyes as he walked up and down, now the proportions of a "queenly paying oftei, naortgage on her house I made him an offer He accepted and then peeping in through the door The people of Switzerland have became Lander, Wyoming,letter to the Denver figure thus- Height 5 feet 5 inches ivhenthe slbnen little clergyman's son it and was engaged for the season. at the audience and the performers. alarmed!at tlto great irtrease of Tribune: One day not long ago bust, 31 inches waist 26 1-3. incites succeeded'm pereuading her to invest You can imagine that in going I remember noticing, too, that he ctofunkenness, anaewg them, and areaaovingto over the hips,, thirty-five inches. the well-modulated voice ofthe school the rounds of these dual country some of it* im Wall street, She was- a lounged a good deal about a little seeur^a more stringent legal These figures are interesting only mistress of the Lyon school house said towns the players are thrown a good jautiou^. woman and agreed to let closet where the gas meter was, and regulation of (Jhe traffic in intoxicating as they illustrate the vagaries "noon" in its usual calm tones, and deal together and learn mostly'everything aim havfc $900 every Monday morning the door of which was ajar. It did drinks, with a tftror^g feeling in. and contortions of the purely soieatific the usual wild rush for edibles followed about one another. Sometimes for iive- successive weeks. Tljis is. not strike meat the time, but 1 often in favor o^a,hig^ license system. The mind when, floundering through theuncongemel the magic word. As an 8-year-old they do sometimes they don't. Anyway, thought of-it afterward. not a gsjeaA amount o&money, but ho excessive use offalchohc b^erages has realm of taste. It will be boy thrust his hand into his dinnerbasket no one ever learned much about Happened to catch th# market as it "Well, the preformance went on and difficult to pemmde ladies franaiqiair^ing caused a great increase icjthe number uSnowy.' He generally sneaked away and drew out a bottle of milk ose, a*id he is with it yet. His, prrfts soon 'Snowy's turn came. He went turn that the scientific constmictor of insane- patients in tme asylsmsmaintained as soon as the performance was over, the vicious warning of the deadly out in his tights and finery, mounted tift.fiarst two weeis were enormous of these classic proportions- has- not ax the public ch&age,. and we saw little of him until he was rattlesnake was heard from the depths up to the trapeze and was as clever as and "the landlady threw all of her been endeavoring to perpetrate a the ratio to the whjjJe born* by wan left again. It was, therefore a bit usual in his teats. I had slipped to of the dinner-basket. Down went the moiMiy unto the pool. Now he is. livJig solemn joke upon the select circle of those due to alcoholism being 37.6 of surprise to me to find him loafing the front of the house again and was basket with a crash, and in the fragments in bachelor's, chambers, in the literary females whom he- addresses. per cent. Of the deattem the caantry about the house when we struck one looking at him when my eyes suddenly of a shattered pie-plate his The "iqueenliness" of & taB. woman Somberiand, dine* regularly at Deloaonijco's onei*t every sixteen, is said to- he little town where we were booked for fell on a figure in a box. It was with a hollow chest and. exceedingly and lives in a state of magaficence snakeship coiled himself, while its chargeabletooverstijttilation. Thirty a week's run. 'Snowy' was all the the same I had seen there beforethe thick waist is an attribute h&ely to be suitahto to a millionaire. busy tail made the air vibrate wth years ago the populace consumed time behind the scenes whether his young woman who had fainted there discovered only by an observer IThe older Wall street men, are immensely scarcely anvthing aatheway I beverages its angry song, and that song was ^urn was over or not. In fact, lie with the naval chap. I looked around whose head is perpetually among the amused: at the spectacle, for but light wiziee now the-middle quickly re-echoed. From every corner seemed to me to be trying to keep under for him but he was nowhere to be stars. lhaysaythat a single stump of the and lower classes, are great users of of the school room came the fearful cover and go out as little as he found. Many correspondents, have, oi late whisky, brandy and gin. The-reports {market will wipe him out of existence warning, and it was seen that could. "Just then 'Snowy' got up to the been requesting The Record to state f the reform schools show that from *a completely- as though he had never at least half a dozen snakes "One evening I was standing up perch on the gallery, from whicn he what the proportions of the perfect 145 to 50 per ceat. of all the,boys and ivejd.Brooklyn Eagle* in the flies looking things over, when had come to school. A wild took the flying swing to a little trapeze figure really are^ Wd do not know girls were the ehildren oi dissipated 1 who should I see slipping over to one ot scene of terror and confusion, ensued. above the stage. It was a perilous and if we did, ths knowledge shoul&iremain parents. It *1 require th# adoption wrasn't a breath to be the wings but 'Snowy,' and he all in a The usually suave and self-contained feat, and there concealed* test some of ortr readers, or a constitutional amendment to i remble with excitement. 'What's up, M. K. Like, of the United States heard in the house as he prepared for school mistress made a hasty leap whose dimensions may be beyond bring the high license system into usev 1 wonder?' said I,watching him all the Hotel, Saratoga, says that the bwsiaess it. Every eye was watching him. I and loud shriek, the double effort the costumer*fc art, should suffer an time. Well, he slid up alongside a,t that resosfc last summer gave saw him in all his glittering spangles landing her on top of the^ highest desk inward pana*)f l'egret and disappointment. the drop and peeped outside, ao judication of hard times, It was poising himself, grasping the bar between in the room. Her exjganple in both Le^ it be sufficient that for a The property of .France, stored &*: .and there he stood like a statue, his fists and then launching out. aot^tceable that a la.ige number of true man. 1he perfect figure is. that of leap and shriek was speedily followed, the Garde-Meuble ia. Paris, is saidi to *&o absorbed, I don't think he would Southern people visited Saratoga this He sprang. There was' a whixz in the woman who loves him best, and in and the new pupils were left in possession have a'value ot round 30,OOQi.00 iiave noticed it if I had dropped down the air, and then like a flash the house /ear. Before the war that* used to he whose femile he finds perpatoial delight. of the floor. A very babel of cries francs. It consists chiefly off ur^t ure, on him." I don't know if you'd think was in darkness. Every li^ht had favorite resort with the and now There is no better criterion after all,' and screams announced that glass, and china and contains among it mean of me or not, but I got down gone out and you couldn't see the end :hey are begming to return in large whatever the classicists and pragro screams announced that the and took stock of the audience to see other pieces of historical interest the lumbers. ti model makers may gay, of your nose. Heavens! ivhat a hub-1 school-mistress^ and the older girls hed and writing desk of Loute XYI." &J*-* !**&* -J6- &?~i IsiisasssssssssBigs*| www^s^^^ i*M|M*HsMitittT '"T" r-mW