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A REMARKABLE WILL. The ; Bomance of en English Watering Place— Two Part*. . Part IL That was the bequest— as clear to the sight as it was dark to the mind. Had I been mistaken, and had Miss Molloy been insane after all If that were so, every penny of. the £25,000 would have to be di- vided between the Count and the Major, as the husbands of her next ot 'kin. No, surely that insanity was impossible, \u25a0jg I twisted the document up and down, and round and round. Those letters still obstinately remained as they were ; the alphabet, at any rate, had gone mad un- less it was I whohad gone insane. I needed some evidence of my own sense", and car- ried the will straight to my co-ejecutioner, Dr. Kirwan. 'i She was an odd old lady," said heat last. "But I'll bear witness inany Court you like that she was as sane &a anybody that ever made a will." " But what's to be done ?" " Ah. what, indeed ?" What's the effect of this will as it stands ?" " I'm just hanged if I know. The will's otherwise without a flaw. And in all my practice, and allmy reading, too, I never heard of the alphabet's being made a residuary legatee. I don't like to say, without consideration, that there's no principle .a Court of equity would go upon ; but I don't know of one. I don't see even how it would come within the doctrine of ('/ /'/'( J." •'Whatfa that?" \u25a0 "Why, that when the- conditions of a gift can't be literallycarried out, the Court of Chancery will decree some method con- formable to the general object, and follow- ing the intentions of the donor as nearly as possible." "Then," said Dr. Kirwan. " I should say the Court would apply the estate to the foundation of a. college for the study of conundrums. But holloa, Lake, here's something else dropped out of the envelope ; perhaps it's the answer. It's a letter ad- dressed to you." That,- also, was sealed. When I opened it I found only these words : : . ; "If you are puzzled, lift up the carpet ia the drawing-room, in the corner be- tween the fireplace and window, under the chiffjnier.— B. M." We went together straight to th? house of the late Miss Molloy,and, according to our instructions, turned up the carpet in the corner of the drawing-room. Sure enough, we found another sealed note ad- dressed to me. '*.."\u25a0 " Look," we read, "at page 173 in the •second volume of Gibbons "Decline and Pall.' It is on a shelf in the breakfast- room.— M." I was too vexed at this folly and mysti- fication to smile. "]sy .'upiter' ' exclaimed the doctor, •'this accounts for tha*, midnight ranibie over her house ja3t before she died. Shs was writing these notes am! hiding them. V'oorold lidy — it's not an uncommon thing, though, for people on their deathbeds to fancy themselves surrounded by spies and enemies, It isu't lunacy, though, eh ? " '\u25a0 Hut it's the cause of lunacy in others," grumbled 1. " Well, now i^r (M.bon." And there, exactly on page 173 of vol- yeta thirdsealed note for me. And this ran : " Key behind wainscot three inches toward cupboard from dressing-room win- dow.—B. M." "At last!" said I. " I was afraid we were going to be sent up all the chimneys before we'd done." '• By Jupiter, Lake, just think what would have happened if tliereM been one iiiik missing ; if one of these pillar-to-pose notes had. been lo3t or gone out of the way ! " " It's too terrible a chance to talk of. It would have cost one of those you g peo- ple near 200 a year. Come, here's the dressing-room ; let's be quick and have done with the whole thing." " All right. ; here's a loose board just where we were told to go. Come, out with you ! Hold a match down, this is rather a dark hole. There and here's — holloa !" Dr. Kirwan tiled out a fragment of an | i envelop to which the red scaling wax still j ; clung, and on which I read a part ot my j own name. There were also some odds ] i and ends of blank paper scattered round. ] We pulled out a'i that wa- there. Alas, ( 1 the fate of the key was too plainly to be j learned from the torn and half-eaten scraps j ] ofenvelope and note-paper we found. . : i A scut-.ering and Bcramb] behind the s wainscot mocked ns with the certainty that i tV.e mice had swallowed the key. ( What was to be done now '! The mice i 1 alona knew to torn Miss Bridgita Mol- ;i lov's money belonged. The letters of the ' ] alj>ha'>et took to waltzing with the multi- ( pbcation table in my dreams. I did not ] know what to 0. Igot a box of ivory j If ttcrs and tried all Forts of anagrams, but ] ] could mike nothing out of five-and-twenty 1 letters, with only four vowels among them, an i wit ibo many zs and xs. 1proved the ; will in fear and trembling, fully expecting that the questiou of the soundness of the j < mind of the testatrix would be iinmedi- ! i ately raised by one or both of her brothers- ; i in-law, who had of course been made aware ] of thy contents, and were in possession of , those letters without meaning. But, strange to say, no steps were taken what- ever. It was not for a week at least after the willbad been proved that I received a visit from Steldl, the elder, accompanied by a dapper and smartly-dressed young man, whom he introduced to me as Mr. j Witherp, from the office of Withers & King. I supposed he was the legal adviser of the Steldl claim. " You shall wonder, Mr. Lake,"said the Count, "why I not think Miss Molloy what you call mad woman. Not at all. I think of that once ; but than that give half , the ' money to that vermin, Fitzgerald | •O'Birn. wh"> shall lose itin every vile way. I say it shall be a good wilL I take ad- vice, and 1 demand you pay alt what shall i be left to my son, Ferentz Steldl — " "Wait a bit," fcaid I. "He has already received biilegacy of £1,000." " Bah ! what shall be £1,000? Be is what you call residuary legatee of Miss | Molloy." " I wish he were, with all my heart ! . But we must co to Chancery. There's nothing else to be done." "N>>. He shall not go in Chancery. He shall have hia rii;ht ...d hi 3 due. lam his father. Monsieur." " V. -n read those confounded letters int. Steldl, I'll pay him every penny with all my heart, and take the cimsi iucn.-.e3 ; but not a Dihiute be- fore." " Very Rood, Mr. Lake. Then I shall read them into Ferentz • ill, and without magic . and t'ncn yon shall pay. Now, Mr. Withers, if you please." "Mr. Withers is your solicitor, I pre- anm<- f " I have not the honor," mid Mr. With- ers, glibly, "to be in the profession — in your profession, sir, that is to gay. We .are firm of professional experts, sir. We practice the science of autography, an 1 we -collect and deal in the autograph letters of \u25a0 celebrated historical persons. Naturally our business has occasionally included the branch of cryptography— of the con- jtrncticn aDd solution of ciphers, which, though requiring a certain special aptitude as well as experience, is not so difficult as laymen might suppose, and is as certain in its results as arithmetic itself — beautifully \u25a0 certain, sir. Our friend, Mr. .Stel.il has . applied to me for the missing key of this little puzzle, and it took mo barely half an hoar's study to find it." "You mean you can read this jumble into sense?" asked I. "You must be a clever fellow, Mr. Withers. How Ira Ito know it isn't guess-work ! The correctness of your lingwill have to be proved, you see." "Up to the hilt, sir. The beauty of a cipher, or crytograph, is that, if you once hit on the right key, it can only mean just that one thing -no doubt, bo ambiguity. And as the discovery of the key is a logi- cal process, at.d as no cipher can possibly have more than one key, why sir, solvilur ambulando— the j result is proved \by the process, sir ; or rather, result -and process prove one another." \u25a0 "Then I must have your process, if you please." .. . \u25a0\u25a0-\u25a0-' :•" f- \u25a0 ' \u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0 '\u25a0 : > - "To be sure. No patent. Anybody can do it. This cipher, sir, is e^ en absurdly simple. Did you ever read the ' Gold Bug' of Edgar Allen Poe ? ! No ! That's a pity, because I shall have to explain from the beginning. I have rather a contempt for that story—the cipher, he makes his hero discover would have been found out by a child inhalf the time, And this cipher before us is of precisely the same kind — the very simplest form of a cipher known." "Well?" "Aperson likeMies Mollov, presumably ignorant of the mo.it beautiful science of cryptography, would be -almost . certain to adopt the plan of mak ng one letter do duty for another. Of course she has left no spaces between her ' words. Now, you know that the commonest English letter is c ; so that, ten to one, the commonest let- ter in the cipher will represent c. That letter is d. It cornea no (fewer than live times in the twenty-rive. So, ten to one, d stands fore. You perceive?" " At any rate I follow, so far." " Very good, sir. Now look at the ci- pher well, and keep it before your eyes. We'll assume for the moment that d may mean c ; and ifd means c, it's likely enough a would be b, b would be c, and so on, and so oa, taking the letter following. Let's try that dodge with m, because there's more than one in, and because n (which it ought to stand for) 13 a common sort of letter. Very well. Putting c for d and n for m and dots for the other letters, we get: ..,e..ne..e...en....e... Now, Mr. Lake, the question, as I understand it, is : Did Miss Molloy leave her money to Lais Bridgita O'Birn or to Ferentz Steldl ? As- suming that one of these c's must fall into where the name of the legatee must come, it will strike you at once that there isn't one single c in the lady's name. It will also strike you that the young gentleman ia a nephew, and that we've got already lie — coming together. Let's chance it. Lst's write " nephew " right out, and see if we get sense that way. It'll come like this, putting p for y, h for b, w for o : ...ee.. nephew.. . en... Now, what strikes you next, sir?" "Nothing whatever, Mr. Withers. Nothing at all." "No! I'msurprised. Doesn't it strike t-ou that en comes in Fereutz ; thaii the cipher and the name of Steldl both end in i letter between a pair of letters — : ldl ? i most remarkable hint indeed ; for it in- terferes with no former assumption — z irould mean 1 ; x would mean d. Now ook how it reads: ...e.'r nephew f.rentz iteldl. Only one thing bothers me. kV.'iere the dot comes now in f.rentz there night to be ad to represent an c. Ivreal- ty there's aj. Bat that's a trifle ; d)ubt- ess a clerical error. The whole thing's as >lain as a pikestaff. Substituting letter or letter, and never mixing them, here ,'ou are : my dear nephew, Ferentz Steldl ; md there you are !" I was certainly surprised at the fellow's ngenujty. Except tor that missing c, the jrocess was without flaw; and when we tee i logical and faultle3S. process arriving at a irobable concision, what are we to say? ,\ml, by Jove! Miss Molloy has made a particular point of spelling Ferentz, , firentz — with an i. L;ok back at the draft of the will, and see. That was lownright proof, if any was needed ; the j in the cipher, hitherto unaccounted for, would be i. The very simple little process had all the air of a miracle to me. 1know nothing then of the far greater marvels wrought by antiquarians in rougher and larger fields, or I should, p.rbaps, have been less surprised. ' "It is real, Monsieur," said Steldl pere, with a bow. I was a littlesorry for Miss Lucis ; but I i didn't gradge her cousin Li* good luck, and I I was intensely relieved. 1 was thinking of the effect of all this as evidence, Steldl was looking at mo in d'guilied triumph, Mr. Withers was regarding his success with artistic pride, when my cli rk brought in a card — Major Fits: era] I OB 1thought best to have everything out and over then and there ; so, without con- sidering the presence of his brother-in-law and tneiny, I had him ushered in. "Good-dee to ye, Mr. Lake," said he, without deigning to notice, or even to see, Mr. Steldl, \u25a0 ho iorhis part threw a double lose of benignity into his smile. "I suppose ye've beenwondherin why I didn't go in for pr . v i i ' poor Miss Biddy noa compos — wake in the top, ye know. As if I'd con- sent to go halves with a diithy, mane, intriguing baste of a fellow tliAt she'd jut off with a shilling- with her own ' band ! All or none that's tho war- i ary of the O'Birns ! Si I've jnst drop- | ped in on my wee, to ask ye for that £23,- ! )00 that's due to Lucia, my daughter ; and I'll take it hot with — I mane short, if ye | plaze. Or, if ye haven't it all in your i pocket, a thrills on account '11 do for ! to-ileo." "I'm sorry for Miss O'Birn," said I. " But she's had her 1,000— " •• her £1,000! I wouldn't give ; six pete.3 for a beggarly £1,000. 'Tia an I insult to spate to a gentleman of such a sum." I "Her £1,000, and—l'm afraid—this 1 gentleman, Mr. Withers, will explain — , there is no longer any doubt of Miss Mol- \ ly's intentions. Lieutenant Steldl is resid- uary legatee." "An' who's Mr. Withers? Is it a con- spiracy yell be, with your heads as thick i together as pays in one shell ? Why, 'tis I plainer than blazes that gpx stand* for L'icis O'Birn. What do ye see to that, sir, eh .'' " I'm afraid it doesn't," said I. " You're a pretty fellow for a lawyer ! But I suppose yell have to believe what's | proved. Higgins, ye' re wanted !" shouted I he. He, too, it seemed, had brought a friend withhim — a little pinched, shabby, elderly man, with red squinting eyes. " I'll introjuce ye to me friend jliggins — a gentleman an a scholar, that'll rade ye ill Hebrew into Chinese for a glass of punch, an' back into Hebrew for two. Faith, I'd like ye to rind a question that ; Higgins wouldn't answer you off-hand. Says Ito him : 'Higgins. what does gpx spell?' Au' cays he :y .lust Lucia O'Birn !'" A smile of amused contempt came into the face of smart Mr. Withers. " An expert V" asked he. " An*pray who may you be, sir '.' asked Major O'Birn. " D'ye mane to tell me ye haven't heard of Higgins -that ought to be a Doctor of Divinity and a Member of I'arlimint, and could see ye undher the teeble whenever ye place?" Having thus annihilated Mr. Withers, " Higgins, do 3-our duty," said he. " There's nothing in it — nothing in it at all," said Mr. nigging, in a queer squeak, anil in a shuttling sort of tone. " What's the difficulty in reading that cipher I am at a loss to conceive. Do you moan to tell me that there's anybody on earth, except Major O'Birn, who has found the slightest difficulty in reading what couldn't puzzle for more than half a second anybody but a born fool? " " You are pleased to be complimentary, Mr. Higgins," said I. " Mr. -Withers, as an expert, assures us that a cipher can only be read one way. . " It didn't want an expert to tell you that," said Mr. Higgins testily. "Of course you can only read a. cipher in one way. How can one set of symbols stand for two different sets of words." 'Then you will agree with Mr. Withers?" "No doubt. If, Mr. Withers has read the cipher he will agree with me. A cipher is made a particular key,. and it can t bo fitted with two. When old women make ciphers, they mostly change the letters by counting forward or backward. So first I counted one forward, and made g mean h ; that came to nothing. Then two forward, and made g mean i ;nothing. a?ain. J — no. X— no. Then I tried the fifth letter forward — 1. According to that rule, g : would be 1 ; p would Ix; a ; x (making a follow z) would be c. Next comes d, which would bo i ; then n, which would be s—the true letter always the fifth from the cipher forward. -.. Followit oat,' gentlemen, and see for yourselves." v V- ;v:*,;- ,s .. •'/\u25a0 I did as he bade , me. . And . the cipher read,' letter !by letter, ' as follows, with the peculiar spelling of the name of the testa- trix and all : \u0084-r. -r / GPXDN ,WITDYBDOV JWBMI HT " ID7.XZ HiIS J.i BRIDGITA ', OBIRN MY MECE There was no more doubt that the cipher was this than it was My dear nephew, Fi- rentz Steldl.''- 1 ' It meant both equally, and both at the same time ! : '.'\u25a0: I put '. it : to every cryptologist in the world, is it within the bounds of credibility that a cipher of twenty-five letters should be readable in two exactly opposite and in- consistent ways, and that its two irrecon- \u25a0 cilable solutions \u25a0 should be gained by fol- ' lowing two simple principles, both equally obvious and equally sound ? Incredible — nay, impossible! will be the unanimous ' answer.' And ; yet the impossible, by a marvelous chain of coincidences, was ef- ! fected in that willof Miss Molloy. " She ' could not intentionally have brought about : such a result, even if she had tried. The j i for the c in Ferenlz, or rather Firentz, j left no room for doubt that Withers solu- i tion was true. Onthe other hand, the pecu- ! liar spoiling of Bridgita was an unanswer- able argument in favor of Mr. Higgins. Withers had started' on the 'principle which has amused so many readers of E I- gar I'oe, and is in itself a perfectly true and sound one. Higgins had started on j the principle favored by simpletons who j correspond in cipher in the agony columns, j and imagine that their silly secrets are not { open to anybody who take3 five minutes' j trouble to read them. v- /\u25a0 What was to be done now ? Clearly the situation was not realized by cither of the fathers of the rival legatees. But a gloom came over the face of Mr. Withers. He took up the paper on which | Mr. Digging had written his solution and j . examined itintently. " No sane woman would have used such i a simple cipher as that," said he. "Is is: jiut the solution that would satisfy an amateur." . "True," said Mr. Higgtns, with a slight : sneer. " Jurymen are in the position of j ) amateurs, I believe, and judges, too." j; "A cipher can't have two solutions," i said Mr. Withers, throwing the paper down. " True, again, "said Mr. Higgins. "Hap- pily forMiss O'Birn." | " Have you studied cryptology as a sci- , ence, Mr. Higgins," asked Mr. Withers, • with a wild effort at elaborate courtesy. , "lam not such an ass," said Mr. Hig- ; gins, 'with no pretense of courtesy at all. , " I'd as soon sec up a science of handwrit- ! ing as a science of whims." , j , "You are insulting, sir! There is aj . science of handwriting — aye, and of char- ; acter in handwriting; and I shouldn't like ! \u25a0 to write like you, judging from what it's ; j like to be." " ] "I always make it a point of insulting \u25a0 ; quacks and humbugs," said Mr. Higgins. , ] "It's the first duty of man. I've read . that cipher in the way that would satisfy j \u25a0 anybody but an expert ; but there's an ! ' end." i "Whom do you call a quack, sir? Let j , me tell yon that when a man deliberately j j insults my science, I — 1 — feel it my duty ; \u25a0 to knock him down." i , "Gentlemen gentlemen !"I cried out, j " you have been very clever — a great deal j too clever. I would gladly have accepted f either of your readings, heaven knows. ; Bat I can't accept both ; and both your ; reasons are bo admirable that I can't ac- , ' cept either. And what's worse, it's your j ' arguments, not your assertions, that will ; : have to go into Chancery, and into Chan- ! eery we must alt go. Yes, there's 110 help j for it now; -and, once in, heaven alone ; knows when we shall get out again." I " I object to the law on principle ; I : shall have nothing to - with . law," said I Steldl, and I have no doubt but he had ex- j cellent reasons for the only principle I ever i heard of his having. "I bring my expert :'\u25a0 you are satisfied. I demand £15,000 for , my ton." j "I despise the law," shouted the Major. ! "An Irish gentleman doesn't mix up with i pettifogging rascals. 1wouldn't touch the ' dirthy thing with the end of an old boot. Tisa3clearas day — Lucis Briugita O'Birn." "It must be compromise, or — Chan- cery," said I. " Have it as you will." " Compromine — with him ?" said.Steldl, pointing to the Major with his thumb. \u25a0\u25a0 Not one penny shall he rob my son." "Compromise— with a Steldl ?" said the : Major iii his turn. . " Maybe with oldNick ; 1 would ; tor old Nick's a gentleman," ad- \u25a0 ded be. And there was the deadest lock I ever 1 heard of since I was born ' No Lord j Chancellor ever drew up a will that moat clearly meant two opposite and irreconcila- ] ble things. Si, I verily believe, should we have been standing at this triangular dead- t lock at the present hour, bad not the delay j itself brought about a moat natural solution ; in the most natural way in the world. "When indoubt, do nothing," 1 constantly find to be the wisest maxim that ever was made. ! My relief, at the time, hardly equaled , my surprise. Bnt considering that Mrs. ! Steldl ami Mrs. O'Birn bad never quarelcd ; — considering that they had met again — j considering what eortot young people their , fon and their daughter were — I must own ! that I waa an ass to feel surprised on learn- j ing of the marriage of Lieut. Steldl to j Lucis Bridgita O'K.rn. The history of | the Montagum and the Capulets does not | stand alone in the effect of the feuds of the ! old upon the hearts of the young. But this is no part of my story. Enough that her claims became his, while his remained his own — and therefore her own, too. And if two. elderly rascals were kept in j somewhat dUreptuable clover for the rest j of their days, and if two executors were i content to run a little safe risk in making • things comfortable all round for every- body, themselves included, and if two cryptologists remained irreconcilable foes and if two young people became happy in their own peculiar way, and the Court was deprived of a big cause, and the pro- fession of the bulk of the property of Miss Molloy— well, the fault is mainly my own. I I profess only to tell the story, not to solve the mystery of Miss Molloy's most j remarkable win [London Society. STILL SINGLE. I -\u25a0\u25a0. -I by ths " Wake Transmitter," Kir the telephone bell had rnr.jr, An I over the wires v somyl came, ' f As thi.i:-ha maiden euujf ; A mu-i'-ai tone quite familiar. Her voice I had often heard, For in .vi ring d*-lytelephone C Ll I We had interchanged man} a word. Hare you never received a letter And ittuseil ere bnakfoK the «\u25a0»'> A*you thought concerning the tidings That the contents-might reveal ': l>i-i not a longing possess you To know -.v i it mreally within. And yet to avail of that knowledge You seemed in no haste Ut bfgin ' In sonic such mincer I tarried At our end of the telephone wire. Then at last, mustcrinjr courage sufficient, I >(\u25a0„'»!! at once t.>inquire : " Wei', hello ! well, what is wanted '." If seemed at least all I could da, When quick in return came the message : " Hello !well, hello who are you V. "Why, I'm 'forty-eight,' " I r sponded, "' You called only a moment or two." " Forty-eight !" she rti>eated in answer, '• Wall, surely, I don't wish f»r you V 1 m.i« |hh| my telephone tuniber, A- found on the company's page, But I fear, from her hasty a surer, . • She Ihouzht 1 was givingmy age. Ala.«, that the blow came so sudden, 1 received it btwlldcnd alone — As the con<<oiousnc!iß dawned there upon me. Rejected by telephone ! w ~~ ; — j : —— BriiTAfD'a I.nfalliblk Injection. — The famous French remedy for gonorrhuoi, srl^t, etc. M. S. 11 mMr, SMramcnto, lureii'. for I'aciiic coast. Sent C. <). 1). to any addre&i. \u2666 \u2666\u25a0 Dr. Tkoar'B Liqroß Astooti, carefully prepare, of the best tfuill Eark by U. 8. Hammer, driusrirt, Sacramento. <T»i» ~i«Sr«i«i mi. for .inir.kcnncM. Hammkr's i'w.aji StoiuDA EiTruRS cures all complaints ar;-ii\," from an obstructed state of the vstem. ' _ . - Hayv«rV Cascara Saorada Bitters touches the right sput in dyspepsia, constipation :>.:d liver cttm- plaint. ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS. \u25a0> . :.\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0!-' k. .-»- . :\u25a0.'.:,-...\u25a0. .-, .: -.•\u25a0.'. - ..•\u25a0.. - \u25a0;.' SOME WOKDEBFUL STORIES ABOUT DOGS .x;v;v , amd FISHES. * ; , Remarkable Instances of CaMne Sagacity— I.telligence of the Finny Tribe- Can Animals 'Reason ? ! i. A citizen of London I has been for some time the proprietor of a noble Newfound- land dog of : more than usual intelligence. The other day this splendid creature, whose name is ! Punk, came into the house and laid at his master's feet a side of beef. He was closely, followed by three irate butch- -1 ers, who demanded , immediate restitution of their property, or; payment therefor. The dog in the meantime caressed his mas- ter with every demonstration of joy. What makes this whole affair the more re- markable is that the London citizen had just been appointed one of the B^efeater3 in the Tower, and this was the first day that he entered upon his duties. Who aker this will deny that animals can reason? [i. A little boy living in the farming districts near Kenosha, Wisconsin, had been for- bidden by his parents to buildbonfires on the barn floor. Disregarding these instruc- tions he lately gathered a number of the dry and inflammable twig! of sweet-briar, which grows so plentifullyin that region, and proceeded to indulge in his favorite amusement. His only companion, a little spaniel, besought him to desist by barking violently and running to the well near by ; but finding these ctlurta in vain he scam- pered into the kitchen, and, tugging .it the apron strings of the farmer's wife, led her to the bare in time for. her to extinguish the Hames, " thus preventing," as a local reporter beautifully writes, " a fearful Holocaust, in which that Devouring Ele- ment, the Fire Fiend, would have revtled with tongues of forky joy." The littleboy before nightfall received such admonitions that he has not yet forgiven the faithful spaniel. \u25a0 • in. Peletialt Perkins, of Crandall's Corners, Washington county, N. V., has a beauti- ful babe, aged '1 week?. The little ii.no- cent. says the Washington county Pott of the sth, was playfully gamboling about the curb of the well under charge of her brother Nehemiah (aged '1\ years) when she tumbled over the curb into the well. ' Little Nehemiah was for a few moments in despair, for Mrs. Perkins was at the time away attending a meeting of the Baugall Dorcas Society, but soon recovering his presence of mind, the littlehero seized a long pole of dog -wood that happened to be lying near by ar.il successfully fished his tit* tcrout of the traditional abodeof Truth. The littlemaiden had battered her head against the stone coping, had knocked out seven teeth, had jammed her nose nearly to the back of her head, had broken her leg and sgraiaed her wrist, and was nearly suffo- cated by the water, but was otherwise un- I injured. The sagacity of the dog-wood is 1 well known to naturalists, but it has sel- j dom before been to plainly manifested. IV. The monks of St. Bernard, a3 everybody knows, are the owners of a rare and valua- ble breed of dogs. When the Alps are J overwhelmed with snow these faithful } creatures go out amid the blinding storms and dig up frozen, half-buried travelers. A Swiss German journal, the Ztig Gabber- bloat, states that last month one of th?se noble animals, unable to find a wandering traveler in the snowy passes, dashed down into a village at the foot of the mountain, ] and, grasping the village butcher in his month, conveyed him, despite his struggles, to the distant Hospise. As the man was pretty well frozen by the time he got there, the monks had the u~ual difficulty in resuscitating him, only succeeding after j auminiatering internally two quarts of 1 strong brandy. The intelligence of the f'ojr, though iv this case somewhat mi.-di- j rccteil, is a ttrong proof of canine sagacity. j v - We find in the Whitehall (X. V.i Times this touching narrative of the gratitude and ; intelligence of the trout, which shows ihat fish (like these), as well as animals, are often very remarkable creatures. A man, says the Times, has an artificial trout pond with at least three thousand fish, each weighing from half a pound to two pounds, more or less. He also has a littlegirl, five years old, who baa succeeded in training the fish so that she can 1:0 the edge of the pond, and with a handful of crumbs feed them from her chubby hand. They have j learned to jump out of the water and snatch worms from her finger, and they are ex. tremely fond of their little mistress. One day she lost her balance and pitched head- j long into the water where it was deep. She'sajs that when she went "away down" she called lustily for help. ll' cries quickly attracted her parents, and they were horrified at seeing the little girl floating upon the surface of the pond. The ( father rushed to the water's edge arid 1 reached- out for his pet, and as he raised her from the water a perfectly solid mass of trout was found beneath her. These faithful subjects of the little queen, as ill-; fell, quickly gathered beneath her, and thus fehowed their love for their mistress by btaring up her body until aid arrived, and preventing her from meeting a watery grave. VI. In the fish ponds of the Grand I; .'. \u25a0 of Bogen-liauscii-Sohnellzug there is a carp at least one hundred and eighty-four yeara old, which feeds out of the hand and in particularly fond of pretzels soaked in lager beer. It i- recorded in the legends of the Grand Ducal family that this carp was specially attached to a young duchess who flourished in the latter part of the eighteenth century. She was accustomed to meet a lover regularly on Thursday nfghts at sunset at the edge of the i— • 1 pond, and the carp voluntarily acted as sentinel, flopping himself about the top of ithe water and thus giving timely warning of the approach of the reigning Grind Duke, the father of the duchess. This I anecdote needs verification, however, and we give it .with due reserve, But the carp himself may be seen any flue d.v.' in the pond of the ducal gardens of Bogen- I Hausen-Schnellzug. \n. The experienced angler is well aware that trout like to be tickled. A careful angler can approach a patriarchal trout and touch him with his fingeis and tickle his sides with ease, provided the trout does not first dart away. A curious story in this connection comes to us from the trout- ing regions of Maine. . Ezra Hum of Ken- neuunk was angling recently in one of the mountain streams which flow down the slopes of the Ivawbebog mountains towards Lake MaccoboL'ginkonk. He saw in a pool a tine trout sunning himself in the genial shade. Carefully approaching the tinny monarch of the brook, Mr. Plum deftly in- serted his hand beneath the trout and gently tickled him for a moment. At this juncture the low bank over which he was bunding gave way and precipitated Sir. Plum headforemost into the stream. lie states that on recovering his equilibrium' the trout was visibly laughing as if with uncontrollable delight, but whether at the misfortune of the angler or from the results of the tickling he cannot definitely deter- mine. , Ib either event the risibility of the fish betrays a sense of humor in which the finny \ tribe have hitherto been deemed deficient. It may be added that Mr. Plum failed to subsequently catch the trout. But he caught a severe cold, VIII. The leaping salmon is celebrated for his skill in jumping up stream over obstruc- tions in a river course. In one of his recent contributions to HrUjravhi Lord Claude Fit/noodle writes that on his recent trip to the Michimacilac in Canada, a fine salmon found his voyage of discovery interrupted by a cascade too high for him to leap over. A ship \u25a0 canal exists at this point \ for the purpose of affording » passage to {vessel?. The salmon saw a ship coming, followed it into the canal, and thus availed himself of an easy passage to the upper stream. "By what mental process," asks * Lord v Claude, "did this Canadian salmon deduce the ob- ject and purpose of the canal? We pause for a reply." \ .x " \u25a0 | It may be remarked by ' the skeptical reader that the*>e fish- Mid dog itorics pos- sess attribute? eilcttlated to awaken the incredulity of the reader. To this we can only say that thoogh the preceding narra- tives may excite Mtoabhoieat they are in no way more : remarkable 'and demand co j greater faith tfcaa those which are all the : time going the rounds of the press in rela- tiou to acim»l3 uud their sagacity. \u25a0 SAN FRANCISCO OAKDS. SAN FRANCISCO Business Directory . 'ARTISTS. llna-wmorth— o|<ticianand Photoenip'ier, Bo IS Montgomery street. Established in 1851. ARTISTS' MATERIALS, ETa Sanltorur. Tnll A fa — Importers and Manufact- urers of Mirrors, Molding and rYames, Chromo*. iriltHlllMi. Brackets, - Ka-e'». Klatuary and I Ariuts' Materials, No. 857 Market street BUSINESS COLLEGES. I'arillr Pan laical (Vllrsr anil T«-I«-Kmplilc Institute— (Life Scholarship, tor full Business Cou>se, <oi. <:. W. K. Chamberlain, Jr., and T A. Robinson, pticton, No. S2O Tost atrcrt, oppo- site Union Square, Kau Kr»i edaoo, Cal. Send for Circulars. CLOTHIERS, ETC. <>»«<\u25a0 I omuls— " Plaza Stores" (successor to C. P. Van Sehaack 4: Co). Importer, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in lien's Fumibhlnir ii.md". Cloth- bijf. Hits, Trunks, Yankee Motion*, etc.. Nos. 706 to72oKe»rny street. J. v,. riitiunur <\u25a0-::• m rtoC»nnaDT&C Dealer in shirts and Men's Kutnishinir Goods, Bhirta made to order asnerialtv. No, 26 Kcaniy street, betwi ... Market ami Tost. DRY GOODS. The Amide— J. J. O'Brien 1 ("<>., Importers of Dry Ooodx, Nob. 0.'4, 9.0 and •<•_'* Market si reet, next the Balowin. Krnne ltrt<!>.—Kry <;.\u25a0.>!> luif»rt«rs. Nos. 107 to 115 Searn^ -\u25a0 The largest house, lar/est stock and lowest prices inSan Fta deoo, Allcountry orders execnt d vita promptness \u25a0 nd r ;iciul atteutltm. The ITUH Hon»r-Tli. oldest Dry Good* Honat in San Francisco. We impt.it direct from the principal marts in Korope, consequently can sell lower than any other house in llictrade. Country orders attended to. J. \v. Paiidson .v Co., .No». 101 an.i 103 Keaniy street, San Fr&ucucc. DRUG?, CHEMICALS. ! A. F. INtWßlait A Mm Wholesale Dealen in Drugjriala' and PlCDrietan Specialties, bo. It bee mi \u25a0 . . f . Grand i:. :. : :•. i .: n^'. Justin tnlex.—Pioneer r>nuTrist, removed to 722 Monlgonicry street. Turkish and Itusriaii V-M.-i. lutiSli-J.t Wlih:iel- '\u25a0 I 'ri;.;_i<:>. Im- porten of pure French, Enßliab ar.d (icnuau virujrs. Northeast corner Front and Pine itreats. | EBUCATiONAL PUBLICATIONS. ; .'Hurt I yscr.V To.— Publishers " ractSc School and Borne Journal ;" monthly :?2 per fear, in advanw. devoted 1 1 Kducjlional in erevte* "i the Pacific coast. Official Ora in State Dc)>articen of Public Instruction. No. 933 Market Direct. HAIR "DRESSING. £<ili!slrl>i AJiollll-- linnortvrs of Human Hair— Aboloale and Ret Wi.a loinvd. No. 719 Market st oet, opposite i \u25a0 ..fit. KATP. \u25a0errataaa), he I!>t ler— No. 331 Koarny street, near Pine. The ii ett >..:.;* at toe lowest prices. Factory : No. 17 Belden street. M. Meuk*ilor!T«-r — MauuiacMrer and Importer of Hats and Hal Materials Wholesale and Retail. Northeast corner Montgomery and Bub streets, and (OS Kearny. HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL, ETC. >Vlll A I'i'tli — Importing and Manufacturing Cutlers and Beilhan;-vr?, No. 749 Market street. .llarrus <". IlnvlryA Co.— lmport- n> of Hard- wan nd Agricultural Impleai \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0.'\u25a0- 301, 303, 305, 307 anarS I Marke' \u25a0 rest, Ban Francisco. \ rnrnlan. Corj A to. Im ortcrs of Hardwire, Iron Steel. Agent* for the Pittsbunt Steel Works, N nhwestem Bone Nail Co.. and South- ir-ston Cutlery <;o. Nos. 120 nnd 122 Front street, and Nos. 117 and 119 California street. howl's. liHernnlfornl rmnierniice r?r;:.r Nos. SSI and 628 Kearny strict. Pas« ngen aid Im^k'a^e transferred free. 11. C. Pal ridge, Proprietor. IRON WORKS. BOILER AND MA- CHINERY MAKERS. ! g»Tnmcn»o Boiler IVorU»- Nos. 214 and 218 Bella street. J. F. Hall, I'iactkal lkilcrniakcr. Manufacture Marine, Stati. nary and Portable Doiltrs, and a'l kind* <;f Stvet iron Works. M3TALS, STOVES, RANGES, ETC. i W. W. Boataxiie A Co.— lnjaorten ol Su>ve», Rar^oa an-1 Sheet Iron, MarLl>.izcd Mantels, Grates and Tiles. M«nuiucturcr» of Plain, papsnned nnd Stamped Tinware. N\'S. 110, 114, 114, 11C and US Butt-r>- street. MITLLUnERY. The RaadtM > popu'ar Milinen- Establtah- miiit. li. S. llirtcli'i Co., No. 7-li Market slrtet i Strict attention to orcen from the interior. Mi-..». • hi: .'.III ifi No. 919 Market BlTcct. Iml porter of Fiuo Mi'linory. PROVISION PACKERS. Merry, Fmil a Co. — Packers, lici«>rttrs anJ Dealen in Heat Products of all defdipUons. Cftlce, Nos. lis and I£7 Oalifornh street. TEA IMPORTERS. RUtlMcil A Urn- aY ii- ii • £10 California street. P. O. Ujx !,l(H. £y RESTAURANTS' Jlalsort Dorre—No. 217 Keirnv street. Lailies* ai.d n'SUitrai t. Piivste rooms up sttirn All the delicacies tf the market. \u25a0wain's Fanillj !:.t».-ij nml DlnlDS Saliion — No. «:0 .Market street. tVeddtag c.ikes, ice cream, oysters, Jc!!ie3,fc;c.,coiistarUy to hand. >ami!ics suj pllod, <>rl<:lnnl llnllan Renlnnraiil— Xo. IU Clay ft., ' tt. Leklcsdorfl »nd Mii-orae N. Cbmboni, lr»te IfuMtg^f "f C:ini»'i IS*?t!nir >nt. l:is tnken the managemtriit. Ituill be mn in bill Italian style. FlrtKClimaii'iiTtciiiaModrl Iti-.hrry— 203 Keaniy s'.rcet, II( cmcr Bros., rrnj-rictors. Coffee, Chiwilate, laOßeh, !« trtiln an^ Oysters. All kinds of Oakei constantly on hand. Parties and families supplied. RUBBER AND OIL GOODS. Tlir tfailta I'.rrliuami llitMirr 51:mnr«rl- urinjr Company— ilaiiufacurtm "I llubbrr Qo»ls of every description. i itenti of the celebrated "HVteasCr m Brand" Cirbo!';«d Hose. Corner First and Market streets. J. W. Taylor, Manager. Baaaijtll Itiilitcr Cm. Slanufactnrers o/ all kind.i of Kubbcr licltin;,', rackinjr, II is.'. £prin?s. Boots, r.<\u25a0h: mr, etc. No. 577 and 579 Mai ket -!re. t. limit A krllusc - Pioneer Manufacturers of Cape Ami Oil d Clothins. Ilata, Covers, ate. Importfra and Dealcs in Kul.lKr Boots and Woolen Goods. No. SI California street. STATIONERS, PRINTERS, ETC. Hetbotllal Rook Ilriii'-liorj nml .\allonal Temperance Publication ty. - Her. J. B. Hill, Ageat, /eiiiry for Btylovraanki Fountain Peus and BtylographV Cop} ii" k Book* No. 1041 Market street, between Sixth and f eventb. 11. S. < - rorker A <"«.—lmportinir and Manufact- uringStationer*, Printers and Lithocraphnrs, Noa. 215, 417 sad 219 Uu»h street, above Sausonie A.J. eary — Stationerand Put H-lur, and Account Book MintuVturer, 402 and 404 Baaaaaseatnat. <*o«per*« Bonk store— N. . 740 Market street. All kinds of stationer! cheap. ISonrstrll, Allen «V Co.— Wholefale Paper Deal- ers. Nos. 413 and 41 j Saneeosi street. TOBACCO AND CIGARS. Hen: i,:mit:>l-.. ]'I:)/.:i More* (Successor to C. P. Van Si-!i:i:i«-k & Co ) Importer, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Imported and Domestic OJbnra, Dcput lor cc'ebrateil trards of "Key West" Clears; "'Olii Judijc," "Ftafrani Vanity Fair," " Caporal" Cunuxttas anil Tobaaeos; Pipes a: d Smoker*' Articles . •t.'l>: Yankee Notions, . : \u25a0. Nos. ?M '\u25a0 720 Beamy street, opposite the Plaza WHOLESALE GROCERS. tVrllman, IVrli A Co.— lmporters and Whole- sale Groeen and De"»len in Tobacco and Cigars, N. . 120 to 132 Market, and No. S3 California Kool at Sanderson— lmporters and Wholesale Grocers, No. 122 Market street, and 19 California. Thlmt, Iljirker A Vn. —Importers and Wholesale OrociH, Nos. 108 and 110 Califoixia street. SACRAMENTO RECORD-UNION. \u25a0aW rrniiri.ro «>!!i«-c. tin. '.'OS .llonlsomery street.— a. 11. Micdcnald Agent. CAPITAL GAS COMPANY. . 4 S WARM WEATHER IS APPROACHING, XiLhomekaenen are rerpetlfully invited not to ] .-.\u25a0 light »i the treat merit of COOKING STOVES. They will be found e<iual to the cooking of any fam lr, and as economical as by the ordinary methods, while the advantages are : No heat in the- house, no -shes, no toot, no tiirt, no packing of wood or coal, and no waste. As §0011 as the g«s is lighted cooking commences ; when the »ok is finished, no further consumption of fuel. Varieties of these stoves may be seen and had at the Gas Company's workshop on E-phth street, he. ween J and K. l"he Coni|iany will put these sums up wherever the user desires without charge except a i mall monthly rental, so that no risk is taken by any one desiring to u«e them. J; K. WaTsON, al-2ptf President Capital Oas Company. A POSITIVE CURE WITHOUT MBDICINES.V ALLAVSSOLI CLXMEDICATED 801 «.Ir "Patented October IC, IS7S. ; One box. No. 1will cure any case infour days or less. No. 2 will cure the most obstinate case, no matter of how long standing No nauseous doses of cubebs, copaiba, or oil or san.la'iwood, that are certain to produce dyspepsia by destroying the eoatfa s,-9 of the stomach. Price, *1 60. Sold by all Drugs" I *, or mailed on receipt of price. For further particulars. «ml for circular. J. C. ALLAN UO., No. 83 John strejt New York. P. O. Box 1,533. dl4-4pomlulh3 '" MKCELLANEOUS. w ; I Gentle Women Who want glossy, luxuriant and wary tresses of abundant, beautiful 11 air must ns o LION'S KATHAIRON. This elegant, cheap article always makes the Hair prow freely and fast, keeps it from falling out, arrests and cures gray- ness, removes dandruff and • itching, makes tho Hair strong, giving it a curling tendency and keeping it in any desired position. Beau- tiful, healthy Hair is the sure result of using Kathairon. \u25a0'-.-.- "".IV S > -i- "\u25a0-\u25a0'\u25a0 " ' Ja°7-lplhSTn COOK'S TOURS T^STABL'SHED ISM. TICKETS AND PARKS Hi for thousands of Toon for Cnilei)»r.<lent Travelers In nil part* or ilie M'cirlil. Special ;irr.'.ri^i'!ii;v,ts for Kxcnral I'.irtle* to aforope, Eg pt ar.j Palestine. Stud for circular. Address THO*. rook A BOX. 261 Broadway, New York. C. A. B.VRATTON'I, Manager. P. 0. Cox 4197. «2S-Tl:?.'.s i-J S HE¥EB' ELECTRO-BALSAMIC INHALE NT : CURES PNEUMONIA, ASTHMA, CATARRH, rJt£uJuUaiA| AoiilJjlla, uaiAiwiiJi, C i:o n < II i t I s, INCIPJEKT CONSUMPTION, w3'*:>i"|i«sji, I*l2>ht!ierln, HtmIn annum Cruup, Swollen TonstlSf <Juli.sy, All Throat and Lung Troubles, . KIDNEY DISEASE, AND, IN CONNECTION; WITH .THE BATH, MMMMI FIVER, CHILLS AND FEVER. &3" Also, by Cleansing the Bl -<i. enres Car- liunrle, if directions, as given in pamphlet, are Briutly followed. Ifpersistently nartd in ptacc «f Citpir. the aroma cleanses the potion from the Long;, and cure! the ii inkei for Tobacct). H EWES' ECLECTIC EYE SALVE GIVES INSTANT RELIEF! . t ' Send fur \u25a0.:•\u25a0 ' \u25a0.-.\u25a0! J. KEW£S, ?! street, bet. I'iriecntli . and Mxiocntii, Suernmentn. Cal. aU-lawtfS CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED! Win. JLeiLC&iLJi u-^ ° r the "MQle?iTiri LUNG3.JJll'l»?llJLil Cares C'on.Miiupllon, ('«1:)r, Pnrmiioufa, ißOaeaza. Bronchial DlScalUes, t;r»n- ekltUi Hoaritenc.su, A>llima, <ronp. M"booi>lns Toiicl:, and nil '-* - :i PS of Ih* nrenllilns Oi-KJius. *« mm - iiu'l \u25a0 rails j Ike Mi i:i!i no of (he Lnacs Inflamed ar-d , p:>i.<touc<l by Hie f.u \u25a0\u25a0•-\u25a0\u25a0. nud prevents ; (he nlsht-iweaU sad llxhlacM acraa* Hie client «;m*-Ii aceaasaaaj It. ( »\si ! Tl»>\ Is not an ImnMi Dialady. li In only necessary lo ',i..\>- i;..- rlshl remedy, nnd lilll/s RAL<4H Is that remeiFy. 1!»\T WESPAIU of BELIEF, for IIil« liciilsn Kpee.'flc vlll curt jnu, even ] (bonsll prolV.ialuiiHl aid Tail*. 42T • -!; for \VM. HALL'S BALSAM, and take no other. H. « . Kirk A i'«,, n^r:it.i. Henry's CARBOLIC SALVE, The Most Powerful Healing Ointment and Disinfectant ever Discovered. HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE lIEALS BUKNS. HENRY'S CAEBOUO SALVE CURE3 M)RES. HENRY'S CAKDULIC SALVE ALLAYS PAIN. HENRY'S CAUBOLICSALVECURES ERUPTIONS HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE lIEALS PIMPLES. HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE HEALS BRUISES. A~k Tor Henry's and "" ' no oilier. £%• Buaai of Cuuntesfeiti. "El Henry's Carbolic Salve Cure; Poison Oak 11. 4' KlliU«l (I* . ,*senl». nlO-'iiw\u25a0WS&» i vuowSstiu» \u25a0awaMwaaaaaaaaaa^aa^^^^^^wM^i^^ I^^^*. THE GREAT SAUCE OF THE WORLD. Kifrmt'irp Is en every bottle of OESBISE WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. Impartn the meet delicious taste end zest to - EXTRACT SSI \u25a0: »LETTEB firm WjM -. MID ICAL GEN- B3 TLE.MAN «tMad- »| "„„„„ ra*tohi« r.Tnthfrat . ERi SOUPS, WORCESTER, Efl M.-V-i^i ' >^^b. <-i!Avn:-<, \u25a0•Tell LEA i PER- «jjj| pIk . H JtINS that tnetr PJaoaasi "\u2666». ..--in-,, is hi.ii IpCCJfeif j^jyj. $. COLD e* twined in In !ii, |S__ --r^t »nd in, in my opit? Ihirr-ffi^ MEATS» 10 3.th C mortpalat- m*Eggi ,. ,",„,'..,. able, m wen as tss s^^^S *-<-. most wbole«onic thai Ismada," '*^~__^' Sold and liwd throughout the world. JOHN DUNCAN'S SONS, AGENTS rVR TOE UNITED STATES HEW YOUK. Jul9JI 1 L wl \u25a0 : -^t MATHEY - Used for over 25 years Tith (Treat success by the physicians of Paris, New York and London, and snperior -to all others for the prompt cure of an cases, recent or of lon» standing. Put up only in Glass Bottles containing 64 Capsules, each. Price 7s cento, making them tho cheapest Capsules in tho ~CAPSULES? ; \u25a0:.'\u25a0- a9-IvSW ?- \u25a0 . \u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0:\u25a0-\u25a0...£ MANHOOD RESTORED. A VICTIM OF , EARLY :. IMPRUDENCE, causing nervous debility, premature decay, etc, having tried in vaio every known remedy, has discovered a simple means of self-care, which he will send free to his fellow-sufierers. < Address J. II BEEVES, No. 43 Chatham street. New York."*- -. ! n2-IYTuThS ft s^z >~^ rieiarcdfromM.'n YJ tr"pi<\il fctuu \[f aadslaata. Is thorough in \u25a0its Medicinal Action, and yet bo agreeable to the taste that patrons of- ten disregard our injunction to divide the lozenge into parts (say two doses) to meet their respective cases. At the outset it is especially essen- tial to observe the directions -closely tillone' becomes ac- customed to its use — when mild action and the most satisfactory results are sure to follow. lilies ami children.* ftnd til \u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0 rho -'i!!*.- taking p!l!s and .-.;.. -1\u25a0<.:- ineiii .\u25a0•-•\u25a0! st-iMire cathartic action, are especially pleased \. Miit* cealtle q'ul/ties. \u25a0 * Try it once, and you will esteem it highly as s. sate, pleasant, and effective remedy. Packed in bronzed tia boxes only. Price, 25 cents. Large boxes, 60 cents. SOLD BYALT. DRUGGISTS. miiwniinn rr-r 111 1 r~i I\u25a0 —I MIMIM * s«. <?. ki::«. a. c».; WHOLESALE AGE^•TS SACRAMENTO \u0084 ": : \u25a0 ' »mi tf . . . .\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0••-\u25a0•. TUTT'S PILLS? AS AN ANTI-B!L!C^ED!OiE are Incomparable. They stimulate tho TORPID LlV.ER.invigorate the EE.^ SYSTEM, give tone to the DIOES- TIVEOROAJSTS, create perfect digestion and regular movement of tne bowels. AS AH ANTI^ALARIAL Thoy have no equal ; acting as a prevent- ive and euro for Billons, Remittent, Inter- mittent, Typhoid Fovera, and Fever and Ague. Upon the healthy action of the btomach and liver depends, almost wholly, the health of the human race. DYSPEPSIA. It ta fortho euro of tlii < disease and its at- tendants, SICK-HEADACHE, NEBV- OUSNES3. DESPONDENCY, COIT- bTrPATIOW, PILES, &c, that theso Pillshave gained such n widereputation. No remedy was ever discovered that acts bo speedily and gently on the digestive or- gans, giving them tone and vigor to as- ilmilate lood. Thia accompliahed, the NERVEa are BHACED~the BRAIIf KOURISHiiD, and the BODY HO- BCIST. Try thia Remedy fairly and you v.ill Ruin a Vigorous Body, Pure Blood, Strong erves, and a Cheerful mind. Price 250. 33 .Hurray St., N. Y. TUTTS HAIR DYE. Gray Hair or Whisker* changed to a Glossy liLACK by a binirle anplication of this lire It im- parts a Katural Color, and acts In^tnntJineott*!?. ho!.! by Druirm»tßor sedt by fxjjr^sa on receipt of c" I. Office, 35 Murray St., New York. ill I iill ill giw mi i 111I t Vr>^--.*-.iJi.w^3 ; gV-:a/ FERRY DAVIS 1 19 A PtrBBLT VKorT/r-.r EBH«O1 For n;:E?.rv;tf. andJSCTEiarAIi U»* irA!:« KSLL^ acccr;Ua^ toJJ«jW/J" iiV.tj:.. . \u25a0 -\u25a0 .. ' p '.•'\u25a0\u25a0 "\u25a0 \u25a0' ».» ?,'».- rr-lst irrjrptrl^F.ccdhands. , \u25a0 PAIN lialr.h Ttro:.t.rnu«rh!>.( WH» Dinrrhnn, DyitcnteTy, t:«i<.:u»>H. tTiolcrn. unit nil i'.'Xrtl Complaint*. Pr.!al Vii i CD PS TUB BBSTnmeia Sirlt Ili-.tchtehe, I ; niu In JUS IJaiJior S>W& lt!ic=DintUrn,iairt NfKrnlsia- n va-t IS HM S7M I 5"»5 inv*tnt*iHimaKu\Tl& IslvSl I'AlfS KSiL&SI Lrrt3irjsT»iAnn. }< Iriajr/i «>r--jj f . I p*m ' rjii relief lr.all '•\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0<• >\u25a0 Ilrniscs, Cut* Hprain?, Severe Burns, ex t-V.iR KJilfcn friend cf the BU-rmnljv l'armcr, Planter, Snilor, and In f »ct all ea^en Traiitiair nmeuiclne always f t fagJ9;™2?l»t. v,c • ,t> ; iiai'.y or cxlcnuillywill* ccrtßint; r i f f;imilrran afford to b" Wl IB TshrobJfl manly In the houie. It«prico briiip< .-. vi\.hia tf! \u25a0 n«ch of aU.and it will atinuaily »»7< infmy !:\u25a0:\u25a0« its cost in doctors' bijls. , . \u0084,. - s. • \u25a0 \u25a0 • . «t S.'.f. OVo. ana *1 « rotiw. 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Page 1: Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento, Calif.) 1881-04 ... · A REMARKABLE WILL. The;Bomance of en English Watering Place— Two Part*.. Part IL That was the bequest— as clear

A REMARKABLE WILL.

The ;Bomance of en English WateringPlace— Two Part*. .

Part ILThat was the bequest— as clear to the

sight as it was dark to the mind. Had Ibeen mistaken, and had Miss Molloy beeninsane after all Ifthat were so, everypenny of. the £25,000 would have to be di-vided between the Count and the Major, asthe husbands of her next ot 'kin. No,surely that insanity was impossible,

\u25a0jg Itwisted the document up and down,and round and round. Those letters stillobstinately remained as they were ; thealphabet, at any rate, had gone mad un-less it was Iwhohad gone insane. Ineededsome evidence of my own sense", and car-

ried the willstraight to my co-ejecutioner,Dr. Kirwan.

'iShe was an odd old lady," said heatlast. "ButI'llbear witness inany Courtyou like that she was as sane &a anybodythat ever made a will.""

But what's to be done ?""Ah. what, indeed ?" What's the effect

of this willas itstands ?""I'm just hanged ifIknow. The will's

otherwise without a flaw. And in all mypractice, and allmy reading, too, Ineverheard of the alphabet's being made aresiduary legatee. Idon't like to say,without consideration, that there's noprinciple .a Court of equity wouldgo upon ;butIdon't know of one. Idon't see evenhow it would come within the doctrine of('/ /'/'( J."

•'Whatfa that?"\u25a0

"Why, that when the- conditions of agiftcan't be literallycarried out, the Courtof Chancery willdecree some method con-formable to the general object, and follow-ing the intentions of the donor as nearly aspossible."

"Then," said Dr. Kirwan."Ishould

say the Court would apply the estate tothe foundation of a. college for the studyof conundrums. But holloa, Lake, here'ssomething else dropped out of the envelope ;perhaps it's the answer. It's a letter ad-dressed to you."

That,- also, was sealed. When IopeneditIfound only these words : :. ;

"If you are puzzled, liftup the carpetia the drawing-room, in the corner be-tween the fireplace and window, under thechiffjnier.—B.M."

We went together straight to th? houseof the late Miss Molloy,and, according toour instructions, turned up the carpet inthe corner of the drawing-room. Sureenough, we found another sealed note ad-dressed to me. '*.."\u25a0"

Look," we read, "at page 173 in the•second volume of Gibbons "Decline andPall.' Itis on a shelf in the breakfast-room.— M."Iwas too vexed at this folly and mysti-

fication to smile."]sy .'upiter'

'exclaimed the doctor,

•'this accounts for tha*, midnight ranibieover her house ja3t before she died. Shswas writing these notes am! hiding them.V'oorold lidy

—it's not an uncommon thing,

though, for people on their deathbeds tofancy themselves surrounded by spies andenemies, Itisu't lunacy, though, eh ?

"'\u25a0 Hut it's the cause of lunacy in others,"

grumbled 1."

Well, now i^r(M.bon."

And there, exactly on page 173 of vol-yeta thirdsealed note for

me. And this ran :"Key behind wainscot three inchestoward cupboard from dressing-room win-dow.—B. M."

"At last!" said I. "Iwas afraid wewere going to be sent up all the chimneysbefore we'd done."

'•By Jupiter, Lake, just think whatwould have happened if tliereM been one

iiiikmissing ;ifone of these pillar-to-posenotes had. been lo3t or gone out of theway !

""

It's too terrible a chance to talk of.Itwould have cost one of those you g peo-ple near 200 a year. Come, here's thedressing-room ; let's be quick and havedone with the whole thing.""

Allright. ; here's a loose board justwhere we were told to go. Come, out withyou! Hold a match down, this is rather adark hole. There and here's

—holloa !"

Dr. Kirwan tiled out a fragment of an | i

envelop to which the red scaling wax still j;clung, and on which Iread a part ot my jown name. There were also some odds ] iand ends of blank paper scattered round. ]

We pulled out a'i that wa- there. Alas,( 1

the fate of the key was too plainly to be j

learned from the torn and half-eaten scraps j ]

ofenvelope and note-paper we found. . : i

Ascut-.ering and Bcramb] behind the swainscot mocked ns withthe certainty that itV.e mice had swallowed the key. (

What was to be done now '! The mice i1alona knew to torn Miss Bridgita Mol- ;i

lov's money belonged. The letters of the'

]alj>ha'>et took to waltzing with the multi- (

pbcation table in my dreams. Idid not ]

know what to 0. Igot a box of ivory j

Ifttcrs and tried allForts of anagrams, but ] ]could mike nothing out of five-and-twenty 1letters, with only four vowels among them,an iwit ibo many zs and xs. 1proved the ;will in fear and trembling, fully expectingthat the questiou of the soundness of the j<mind of the testatrix would be iinmedi- !iately raised by one or both of her brothers- ;i

in-law, who had of course been made aware ]of thy contents, and were in possession of ,those letters without meaning. But,strange to say, no steps were taken what-ever. It was not for a week at least afterthe willbad been proved thatIreceived a

visit from Steldl, the elder, accompaniedby a dapper and smartly-dressed youngman, whom he introduced to me as Mr. jWitherp, from the office of Withers &King. Isupposed he was the legaladviserof the Steldl claim."

You shall wonder, Mr.Lake,"said theCount, "why Inot think Miss Molloywhat you call mad woman. Not at all. Ithink of that once ;but than that give half ,the

'money to that vermin, Fitzgerald |

•O'Birn. wh"> shall lose itin every vile way.Isay it shall be a good wilL Itake ad-vice, and 1 demand you pay alt what shall ibe left to my son, Ferentz Steldl

—""Wait a bit,"fcaid I. "He has already

received biilegacy of £1,000.""Bah !what shall be £1,000? Be is

what you call residuary legatee of Miss |Molloy.""Iwish he were, with all my heart !.

But we must co to Chancery. There'snothing else to be done."

"N>>. He shall not go inChancery. Heshall have hia rii;ht ...d hi3due. lam hisfather. Monsieur.""

V. -n read those confoundedletters int. Steldl, I'llpay himevery penny with all my heart, and takethe cimsi iucn.-.e3 ;but not a Dihiute be-fore.""

Very Rood, Mr. Lake. Then Ishallread them into Ferentz • ill,and withoutmagic . and t'ncn yon shall pay. Now,Mr. Withers, ifyou please."

"Mr. Withers is your solicitor, Ipre-anm<- f"Ihave not the honor," mid Mr. With-

ers, glibly, "to be in the profession —inyour profession, sir, that is to gay. We

.are firmof professional experts, sir. Wepractice the science of autography, an 1 we-collect and deal in the autograph letters of

\u25a0celebrated historical persons. Naturallyour business has occasionally includedthe branch of cryptography— of the con-jtrncticn aDd solution of ciphers, which,though requiring a certain special aptitudeas wellas experience, is not so difficultaslaymen might suppose, and is as certain inits results as arithmetic itself

—beautifully

\u25a0 certain, sir. Our friend, Mr. .Stel.il has.applied to me for the missing key of thislittlepuzzle, and it took mo barely half an

hoar's study to findit.""You mean you can read this jumble

into sense?" asked I. "You must be a

clever fellow, Mr. Withers. How Ira Itoknow itisn't guess-work !The correctnessof your lingwillhave to be proved, you

see.""Upto the hilt, sir. The beauty of a

cipher, or crytograph, is that, if you oncehiton the right key, it can only mean just

that one thing -no doubt, bo ambiguity.And as the discovery of the key is a logi-cal process, at.d as no cipher can possibly

have more than one key, why sir, solvilurambulando— the jresult is proved \by theprocess, sir ;or rather, result-and processprove one another."

\u25a0 "Then Imust have your process, if youplease." ... \u25a0\u25a0-\u25a0-' :•" f- \u25a0

'\u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0 '\u25a0: >

-"To be sure. No patent. Anybody

can do it. This cipher, sir, is e^ en absurdlysimple. Did you ever read the

'Gold

Bug' of Edgar AllenPoe ? !No ! That's apity, because Ishall have to explain fromthe beginning. Ihave rather a contemptfor that story—the cipher, he makes hishero discover wouldhave been found out bya child inhalf the time, And this cipherbefore us is of precisely the same kind

—the verysimplest form ofa cipher known."

"Well?""Aperson likeMies Mollov,presumably

ignorant of the mo.it beautiful science ofcryptography, would be -almost . certain toadopt the plan of mak ng one letter doduty for another. Of course she has leftnospaces between her

'words. Now, you

know that the commonest English letter isc;so that, ten to one, the commonest let-ter in the cipher will represent c. Thatletter is d. It cornea no (fewer than livetimes in the twenty-rive. So, ten to one, dstands fore. You perceive?""

Atany rateIfollow, so far.""Very good, sir. Now look at the ci-

pher well, and keep it before your eyes.We'll assume for the moment that d maymean c;and ifd means c, it's likelyenougha would be b, b would be c, and so on, andso oa, taking the letter following. Let'stry that dodge with m, because there'smore than one in, and because n (which itought to stand for) 13 a common sort ofletter. Very well. Putting c for d andn for m and dots for the other letters, weget: ..,e..ne..e...en....e... Now, Mr.Lake,the question, as Iunderstand it, is :DidMiss Molloy leave her money to LaisBridgita O'Birn or to Ferentz Steldl ? As-suming that one of these c's must fall intowhere the name of the legatee must come,it willstrike you at once that there isn'tone single c in the lady's name. Itwillalso strike you that the young gentlemania a nephew, and that we've got already lie—

coming together. Let's chance it. Lst'swrite

"nephew

"right out, and see if we

get sense that way. It'llcome like this,putting p for y, h for b, w for o :...ee..nephew...en... Now, what strikes younext, sir?"

"Nothing whatever, Mr. Withers.Nothingat all."

"No! I'msurprised. Doesn't itstriket-ou that en comes in Fereutz ; thaii thecipher and the name of Steldl both end iniletter between a pairof letters —

:ldl?imost remarkable hint indeed ; for it in-terferes with no former assumption —

zirould mean 1; x would mean d. Nowook how it reads: ...e.'r nephew f.rentziteldl. Only one thing bothers me.kV.'iere the dot comes now in f.rentz therenight to be ad to represent an c. Ivreal-ty there's aj. Bat that's a trifle;d)ubt-ess a clerical error. The whole thing's as>lain as a pikestaff. Substituting letteror letter, and never mixing them, here,'ou are :my dear nephew, Ferentz Steldl;md there you are !"Iwas certainly surprised at the fellow's

ngenujty. Except tor that missing c, thejrocess was without flaw;and when we tee

ilogical and faultle3S.process arrivingat airobable concision, what are we to say?,\ml, by Jove! Miss Molloy has made aparticular point of spelling Ferentz, ,firentz

—with an i. L;ok back at thedraft of the will, and see. That waslownright proof, if any was needed ;thej in the cipher, hitherto unaccounted for,wouldbe i. The very simple littleprocesshad all the air of a miracle tome. 1knownothing then of the far greater marvelswrought by antiquarians in rougher andlarger fields, or Ishould, p.rbaps, havebeen less surprised.

'

"Itis real, Monsieur," said Steldl pere,witha bow.Iwas a littlesorry for Miss Lucis ;butIi

didn't gradge her cousin Li*good luck, and IIwas intensely relieved. 1was thinkingof the effect of all this as evidence, Steldlwas lookingat mo in d'guilied triumph,Mr. Withers was regarding his success withartistic pride, when my clirk brought in acard

—Major Fits: era] IOB1thought best to have everything out

and over then and there ;so, without con-sidering the presence of his brother-in-lawand tneiny, Ihad him ushered in.

"Good-dee to ye, Mr. Lake," said he,without deigning to notice, or even to see,Mr. Steldl, \u25a0 ho iorhis part threw adoublelose of benignity intohis smile. "Isupposeye've beenwondherin whyIdidn'tgo in forpr.vi i

'poor Miss Biddy noa compos

—wake in the top, ye know. As if I'd con-sent to go halves with a diithy,mane,intriguing baste of a fellow tliAt she'djut off with a shilling- with her own

'band ! All or none that's tho war- i

ary of the O'Birns ! Si I've jnst drop- |ped in on my wee, to ask ye for that £23,- !

)00 that's due to Lucia, my daughter ;andI'lltake it hot with—Imane short, if ye |plaze. Or, if ye haven't it all in your ipocket, a thrills on account '11 do for !to-ileo."

"I'm sorry for Miss O'Birn," said I."But she's had her 1,000—

"••

her £1,000! Iwouldn't give ;

six pete.3 for a beggarly £1,000. 'Tia an Iinsult to spate to a gentleman of such a

sum." I"Her £1,000, and—l'm afraid—this 1

gentleman, Mr. Withers, will explain—,

there is no longer any doubt of Miss Mol- \ly's intentions. Lieutenant Steldl is resid-uary legatee."

"An' who's Mr. Withers? Is it a con-spiracy yellbe, with your heads as thick i

together as pays in one shell ? Why, 'tis Iplainer than blazes that gpx stand* forL'icis O'Birn. What do yesee to that, sir,eh .''"

I'm afraid it doesn't," said I."You're a pretty fellow for a lawyer !

But Isuppose yell have to believe what's |proved. Higgins, ye're wanted !" shouted Ihe.

He, too, itseemed, had brought a friendwithhim—

a littlepinched, shabby, elderlyman, with red squinting eyes."

I'llintrojuce ye to me friend jliggins—

a gentleman an a scholar, that'll rade yeill Hebrew into Chinese for a glass ofpunch, an' back into Hebrew for two.Faith, I'dlike ye to rind a question that ;

Higgins wouldn't answer you off-hand.Says Itohim: 'Higgins. what does gpxspell?' Au' cays he :y.lust Lucia O'Birn !'"

A smile of amused contempt came intothe face of smart Mr. Withers."

Anexpert V" asked he."An*pray who may you be, sir '.' asked

Major O'Birn."

D'ye mane to tell me yehaven't heard of Higgins -that ought tobe a Doctor of Divinityand a Member ofI'arlimint, and could see ye undher theteeble whenever ye place?" Having thusannihilated Mr. Withers, "

Higgins, do3-our duty," said he."

There's nothing in it—

nothing init atall," said Mr.nigging, in a queer squeak,anil in a shuttling sort of tone.

"What's

the difficulty in reading that cipher Iamat a loss to conceive. Do you moan to tellme that there's anybody on earth, exceptMajor O'Birn, who has found the slightestdifficultyin reading what couldn't puzzlefor more than half a second anybody but aborn fool?

""

You are pleased to be complimentary,Mr.Higgins," said I.

"Mr.-Withers, as

an expert, assures us that a cipher canonly be read one way. ."

Itdidn't want an expert to tell youthat," said Mr. Higgins testily. "Ofcourse you can only read a. cipher in oneway. How can one set of symbols standfor two different sets of words."

'Then you willagree withMr. Withers?""Nodoubt. If,Mr. Withers has read

the cipher he willagree with me. A cipheris made a particular key,.and itcan t bofitted with two. When old women makeciphers, they mostly change the letters bycounting forward or backward. So firstIcounted one forward, and made g mean h ;that came to nothing. Then two forward,and made g mean i;nothing. a?ain. J

—no. X—no. Then Itried the fifth letterforward

—1. According to that rule, g:

would be 1;p wouldIx; a ; x (making afollow z) would be c. Next comes d,which wouldbo i;then n, which would bes—the true letter always the fifth from the

cipher forward. -.. Followitoat,' gentlemen,and see for yourselves." v V- ;v:*,;- ,s ..•'/\u25a0Ididas he bade ,me. . And.the cipherread,' letter !by letter,'as follows, with thepeculiar spelling of the name of the testa-trix and all : \u0084-r.-r /GPXDN ,WITDYBDOV JWBMI HT

"ID7.XZ

HiISJ.i BRIDGITA ', OBIRN MY MECE

There was no more doubt that the cipherwas this than it was My dear nephew, Fi-rentz Steldl.''-1'It meant both equally, andboth at the same time ! : '.'\u25a0:Iput '. it:to every cryptologist in the

world, is it within the bounds ofcredibilitythat a cipher of twenty-five letters shouldbe readable in two exactly opposite and in-consistent ways, and that its two irrecon- \u25a0

cilable solutions \u25a0 should be gained by fol-'

lowing two simple principles, both equallyobvious and equally sound ? Incredible

—nay, impossible! will be the unanimous

'

answer.' And ;yet the impossible, by amarvelous chain of coincidences, was ef- !fected in that willof Miss Molloy.

"She

'could not intentionally have brought about :such a result, even ifshe had tried. The jifor the c in Ferenlz, or rather Firentz, jleft no room for doubt that Withers solu- ition was true. Onthe other hand, the pecu- !liar spoiling of Bridgita was an unanswer-able argument in favor of Mr.Higgins.Withers had started' on the 'principlewhich has amused so many readers of EI-gar I'oe, and is in itself a perfectly trueand sound one. Higgins had started on jthe principle favored by simpletons who jcorrespond in cipher in the agony columns, jand imagine that their silly secrets are not {open to anybody who take3fiveminutes' jtrouble to read them. v- /\u25a0

What was to be done now ?Clearly the situation was not realized by

cither of the fathers of the rival legatees.But a gloom came over the face of Mr.Withers. He took up the paper on which |

Mr. Digging had written his solution and j.examined itintently."

No sane woman would have used such ia simple cipher as that," said he. "Is is:jiut the solution that would satisfy anamateur." .

"True," said Mr.Higgtns, with a slight :

sneer."

Jurymen are in the position of j)amateurs, Ibelieve, and judges, too." j;

"A cipher can't have two solutions," i

said Mr. Withers, throwing the paperdown."True, again, "said Mr.Higgins. "Hap-pily forMiss O'Birn." |"

Have you studied cryptology as a sci- ,ence, Mr. Higgins," asked Mr. Withers, •

witha wildeffort at elaborate courtesy. ,"lam not such an ass," said Mr. Hig- ;

gins, 'with no pretense of courtesy at all. ,"I'das soon sec up a science of handwrit- !

ing as a science of whims." ,j,"You are insulting, sir! There is aj.

science of handwriting—

aye, and of char- ;acter in handwriting; and Ishouldn't like !\u25a0

to write like you, judging from what it's ;jlike to be."

"]

"Ialways make ita point of insulting \u25a0 ;

quacks and humbugs," said Mr. Higgins. ,]

"It's the first duty of man. I've read .that cipher in the way that would satisfy j\u25a0

anybody but an expert ; but there's an !'end." i

"Whom do you call a quack, sir? Let j,me tell yon that when a man deliberately j jinsults my science, I—1—

feel it my duty ;\u25a0

to knock him down." i,"Gentlemen gentlemen !"Icried out, j"you have been very clever

—a great deal j

too clever. Iwould gladly have accepted feither of your readings, heaven knows. ;Bat Ican't accept both ;and both your ;reasons are bo admirable that Ican't ac- ,'cept either. And what's worse, it's your j

'arguments, not your assertions, that will;:have to go into Chancery, and into Chan- !eery we must alt go. Yes, there's 110 help jfor it now; -and, once in, heaven alone ;knows when we shall get out again." I"Iobject to the law on principle ;I:

shall have nothing to-with. law," said I

Steldl, and Ihave no doubt but he had ex- jcellent reasons for the only principleIever iheard of his having. "Ibring my expert :'\u25a0you are satisfied. Idemand £15,000 for ,my ton." j"Idespise the law," shouted the Major. !

"AnIrish gentleman doesn't mix up with ipettifogging rascals. 1wouldn't touch the

'

dirthy thing with the end of an oldboot.Tisa3clearas day —

Lucis Briugita O'Birn.""It must be compromise, or

—Chan-

cery," said I."

Have itas you will.""Compromine —with him ?" said.Steldl,

pointing to the Major with his thumb.\u25a0\u25a0 Not one penny shall he rob my son."

"Compromise— with a Steldl?" said the :Major iiihis turn. ."Maybe witholdNick ;1would;tor old Nick's a gentleman," ad- \u25a0

ded be.And there was the deadest lock Iever 1

heard of since Iwas born'

No Lord jChancellor ever drew up a will that moatclearly meant two opposite and irreconcila- ]

ble things. Si,Iverily believe, should wehave been standing at this triangular dead- t

lock at the present hour, bad not the delay jitself brought about a moat natural solution ;in the most natural way in the world."When indoubt, do nothing," 1constantlyfind to be the wisest maxim that ever wasmade. !

My relief, at the time, hardly equaled ,my surprise. Bnt considering that Mrs. !Steldl ami Mrs. O'Birn bad never quarelcd ;—considering that they had met again — jconsidering what eortot young people their ,fon and their daughter were

—Imust own!

that Iwaa an ass to feel surprised on learn- jing of the marriage of Lieut. Steldl to jLucis Bridgita O'K.rn. The history of |the Montagum and the Capulets does not |stand alone in the effect of the feuds of the !old upon the hearts of the young. Butthis is no part of my story. Enough thather claims became his, while his remainedhis own

—and therefore her own, too.

And if two. elderly rascals were kept in jsomewhat dUreptuable clover for the rest jof their days, and if two executors were icontent to run a little safe risk in making •

things comfortable all round for every-body, themselves included, and if twocryptologists remained irreconcilable foesand if two young people became happy intheir own peculiar way, and the Courtwas deprived of a big cause, and the pro-fession of the bulk of the property ofMissMolloy—well, the fault is mainly my own. I

Iprofess only to tell the story, not to

solve the mystery of Miss Molloy's most jremarkable win [London Society.

STILL SINGLE.

I-\u25a0\u25a0. -I by ths"

Wake Transmitter,"

Kir the telephone bell had rnr.jr,

An Iover the wires v somyl came,'

fAs thi.i:-ha maiden euujf ;A mu-i'-ai tone quite familiar.

Her voiceIhad often heard,For in .viring d*-lytelephone C LlI

We had interchanged man} a word.Hare younever received a letter

And ittuseil ere bnakfoK the «\u25a0»'>A*you thought concerning the tidings

That the contents-might reveal ':l>i-inot a longing possess you

To know -.v i itmreally within.And yet toavail of that knowledge

You seemed inno haste Ut bfgin '

Insonic such mincer ItarriedAt our end of the telephone wire.

Then at last, mustcrinjr courage sufficient,I>(\u25a0„'»!! at once t.>inquire :"Wei', hello !well, what is wanted '."If seemed at least all Icould da,

When quick in return came the message :"Hello!well, hello who are you V.

"Why, I'm 'forty-eight,'"Ir sponded,"'You called only amoment or two.""Forty-eight !" she rti>eated inanswer,

'• Wall, surely, Idon't wish f»ryou V

1 m.i« |hh| my telephone tuniber,A- found on the company's page,

But Ifear, from her hasty a surer, .•She Ihouzht 1 was givingmy age.

Ala.«, that the blow came so sudden,1received it btwlldcnd alone

—As the con<<oiousnc!iß dawned there upon me.

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BriiTAfD'a I.nfalliblk Injection.—

The famousFrench remedy for gonorrhuoi, srl^t, etc. M. S.11mMr,SMramcnto, lureii'. for I'aciiic coast. SentC. <). 1). toany addre&i.

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Hammkr's i'w.aji StoiuDA EiTruRS cures allcomplaints ar;-ii\," from an obstructed state of thevstem.

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Hayv«rV Cascara Saorada Bitters touches theright sput in dyspepsia, constipation :>.:d liver cttm-plaint.

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SOME WOKDEBFUL STORIES ABOUT DOGS.x;v;v , amd FISHES.

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, Remarkable Instances ofCaMne Sagacity—I.telligence of the Finny Tribe-

Can Animals 'Reason ? !

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A citizen of London Ihas been for sometime the proprietor of a noble Newfound-land dog of :more than usual intelligence.The other day this splendid creature, whosename is!Punk, came into the house andlaid at his master's feet a side of beef. Hewas closely, followed by three irate butch-

-1 ers, who demanded ,immediate restitutionof their property, or;payment therefor.The dog in the meantime caressed his mas-ter with every demonstration of joy.What makes this whole affair the more re-markable is that the London citizen hadjust been appointed one of the B^efeater3in the Tower, and this was the first daythat he entered upon his duties. Whoaker this willdeny that animals can reason?

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A littleboy livinginthe farming districtsnear Kenosha, Wisconsin, had been for-bidden by his parents to buildbonfires onthe barn floor. Disregarding these instruc-tions he latelygathered a number of thedry and inflammable twig! of sweet-briar,which grows so plentifullyin that region,and proceeded to indulge in his favoriteamusement. His only companion, a littlespaniel, besought him to desist by barkingviolently and running to the wellnear by ;but finding these ctlurta in vain he scam-pered into the kitchen, and, tugging .it theapron strings of the farmer's wife, led herto the bare in time for. her to extinguishthe Hames,

"thus preventing," as a local

reporter beautifully writes,"

a fearfulHolocaust, in which that Devouring Ele-ment, the Fire Fiend, would have revtledwith tongues of forky joy." The littleboybefore nightfall received such admonitionsthat he has not yet forgiven the faithfulspaniel.

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Peletialt Perkins, of Crandall's Corners,Washington county, N. V., has a beauti-ful babe, aged '1 week?. The littleii.no-cent. says the Washington county Pott ofthe sth, was playfullygamboling about thecurb of the well under charge of herbrother Nehemiah (aged '1\ years) whenshe tumbled over the curb into the well.

'LittleNehemiah was for a few moments indespair, for Mrs. Perkins was at the timeaway attending a meeting of the BaugallDorcas Society, but soon recovering hispresence of mind, the littlehero seized along pole of dog -wood that happened to belyingnear by ar.ilsuccessfully fished his tit*tcrout ofthe traditionalabodeof Truth. Thelittlemaiden had battered her head againstthe stone coping, had knocked out seventeeth, had jammed her nose nearly to theback of her head, had broken her leg andsgraiaed her wrist, and was nearly suffo-cated by the water, but was otherwise un- Iinjured. The sagacity of the dog-wood is 1wellknown to naturalists, but ithas sel- jdom before been to plainlymanifested.

IV.The monks of St. Bernard, a3 everybody

knows, are the owners of a rare and valua-ble breed of dogs. When the Alps are Joverwhelmed with snow these faithful }creatures go out amid the blinding stormsand dig up frozen, half-buried travelers.A Swiss German journal, the Ztig Gabber-bloat, states that last month one of th?senoble animals, unable to find a wanderingtraveler in the snowy passes, dashed downinto a village at the foot of the mountain, ]and, grasping the village butcher in hismonth, conveyed him, despite his struggles,to the distant Hospise. As the man waspretty well frozen by the time he gotthere, the monks had the u~ual difficultyin resuscitating him, only succeeding after jauminiatering internally two quarts of 1strong brandy. The intelligence of thef'ojr, though ivthis case somewhat mi.-di- jrccteil, is a ttrong proof of canine sagacity. j

v-We find inthe Whitehall (X. V.i Times

this touching narrative of the gratitude and ;intelligence of the trout, which shows ihatfish (like these), as well as animals, areoften very remarkable creatures. A man,says the Times, has an artificial trout pondwith at least three thousand fish, eachweighing from half apound to two pounds,more or less. He also has a littlegirl, fiveyears old, who baa succeeded in trainingthe fish so that she can 1:0 the edge of thepond, and with a handful of crumbs feedthem from her chubby hand. They have jlearned to jump out of the water and snatchworms from her finger, and they are ex.tremely fond of their little mistress. Oneday she lost her balance and pitched head- jlong into the water where it was deep.She'sajs that when she went "awaydown" she called lustily for help. ll'cries quickly attracted her parents, andthey were horrified at seeing the littlegirlfloatingupon the surface of the pond. The (

father rushed to the water's edge arid 1

reached- out for his pet, and as he raisedher from the water a perfectly solid massof trout was found beneath her. Thesefaithfulsubjects of the littlequeen, as ill-;

fell, quickly gathered beneath her, andthus fehowed their love for their mistressby btaring up her body until aid arrived,and preventing her from meeting a waterygrave.

VI.

In the fish ponds of the Grand I;.'. \u25a0 ofBogen-liauscii-Sohnellzug there is a carpat least one hundred and eighty-four yearaold, which feeds out of the hand and inparticularly fond of pretzels soaked inlager beer. Iti- recorded in the legendsof the Grand Ducal family that this carpwas specially attached to a young duchesswho flourished in the latter part of theeighteenth century. She was accustomedto meet a lover regularly on Thursdaynfghts at sunset at the edge of the i—•

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pond, and the carp voluntarily acted assentinel, floppinghimself about the top ofithe water and thus giving timely warningof the approach of the reigning GrindDuke, the father of the duchess. This

Ianecdote needs verification, however, andwe give it.with due reserve, But the carphimself may be seen any flue d.v.' in thepond of the ducal gardens of Bogen-IHausen-Schnellzug.

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The experienced angler is well awarethat trout like to be tickled. A carefulangler can approach a patriarchal troutand touch him with his fingeis and ticklehis sides with ease, provided the trout doesnot first dart away. A curious story inthis connection comes to us from the trout-ingregions of Maine. . Ezra Hum of Ken-neuunk was angling recently inone of themountain streams which flow down theslopes of the Ivawbebog mountains towardsLake MaccoboL'ginkonk. He saw in a poola tine trout sunning himself in the genialshade. Carefully approaching the tinnymonarch of the brook, Mr. Plum deftly in-serted his hand beneath the trout andgently tickled him for a moment. At thisjuncture the low bank over which he wasbunding gave way and precipitated Sir.Plum headforemost into the stream. liestates that on recovering his equilibrium'the trout was visibly laughing as if withuncontrollable delight, but whether at themisfortune of the angler or from the resultsof the tickling he cannot definitely deter-mine., Ib either event the risibility of thefish betrays a sense of humor inwhich thefinny \tribe have hitherto been deemeddeficient. Itmay be added that Mr.Plumfailed to subsequently catch the trout. Buthe caught a severe cold,

VIII.

The leaping salmon is celebrated for hisskillinjumping up stream over obstruc-tions ina river course. Inone of his recentcontributions to HrUjravhi Lord ClaudeFit/noodle writes that on his recent trip tothe Michimacilac in Canada, a fine salmonfound his voyage of discovery interruptedby a cascade too high for him to leap over.A ship \u25a0 canal exists at this point \ for the

purpose of affording» passage to {vessel?.The salmon saw a ship coming, followed itinto the canal, and thus availed himself ofan easy passage to the upper stream. "Bywhat mental process," asks *Lordv Claude,"did this Canadian salmon deduce the ob-ject and purpose of the canal? We pausefor a reply."

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the skepticalreader that the*>e fish-Mid dog itorics pos-sess attribute? eilcttlated to awaken theincredulity of the reader. To this we canonlysay that thoogh the preceding narra-tives may excite Mtoabhoieat they are inno way more :remarkable 'and demand co

jgreater faith tfcaa those which are all the:time going the rounds of the press in rela-tiou to acim»l3 uud their sagacity.

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SAN FRANCISCO

Business Directory. 'ARTISTS.

llna-wmorth— o|<ticianand Photoenip'ier, Bo ISMontgomery street. Established in1851.

ARTISTS' MATERIALS,ETaSanltorur. Tnll A fa

—Importers and Manufact-

urers ofMirrors,Moldingand rYames, Chromo*.iriltHlllMi. Brackets,

-Ka-e'». Klatuary and

I Ariuts' Materials, No. 857 Market street

BUSINESS COLLEGES.I'arillr Pan laical (Vllrsr anil T«-I«-Kmplilc

Institute— (Life Scholarship, tor full BusinessCou>se, <oi. <:. W. K. Chamberlain, Jr., and T A.Robinson, pticton, No. S2O Tost atrcrt, oppo-site Union Square, Kau Kr»i edaoo, Cal. Send forCirculars.

CLOTHIERS, ETC.<>»«<\u25a0 Iomuls—

"Plaza Stores" (successor to C.

P. Van Sehaack 4: Co). Importer, Wholesale andRetail Dealer in lien's Fumibhlnir ii.md". Cloth-bijf.Hits, Trunks, Yankee Motion*,etc.. Nos. 706to72oKe»rny street.

J. v,.riitiunur <\u25a0-::• m rtoC»nnaDT&CDealer in shirts and Men's Kutnishinir Goods,Bhirta made to order asnerialtv. No, 26 Kcaniystreet, betwi... Market ami Tost.

DRY GOODS.The Amide— J. J. O'Brien 1 ("<>., Importers of

Dry Ooodx, Nob. 0.'4, 9.0 and •<•_'* Market sireet,next the Balowin.

Krnne ltrt<!>.—Kry<;.\u25a0.>!> luif»rt«rs. Nos. 107 to115 Searn^ -\u25a0 The largest house, lar/est stock andlowest prices inSan Fta deoo, Allcountry ordersexecnt d vita promptness \u25a0 nd r;iciulatteutltm.

The ITUHHon»r-Tli. oldest Dry Good* Honatin San Francisco. We impt.it direct from theprincipal marts inKorope, consequently can selllower than any other house in llictrade. Countryorders attended to. J. \v. Paiidson .v Co., .No».101 an.i 103 Keaniy street, San Fr&ucucc.

DRUG?, CHEMICALS.!A. F. INtWßlait A Mm Wholesale Dealen

in Drugjriala' and PlCDrietan Specialties, bo. Itbee mi \u25a0. . f. Grand i:. :.::•. i.: n^'.

Justin tnlex.—Pioneer r>nuTrist, removed to 722Monlgonicry street. Turkish and Itusriaii V-M.-i.

lutiSli-J.t Wlih:iel- '\u25a0 I'ri;.;_i<:>. Im-porten of pure French, Enßliab ar.d (icnuau virujrs.Northeast corner Front and Pine itreats.

| EBUCATiONAL PUBLICATIONS.;.'Hurt Iyscr.V To.—Publishers

"ractSc School

and Borne Journal ;" monthly:?2 per fear, inadvanw. devoted 1 1Kducjlional in erevte* "i thePacific coast. Official Ora in State Dc)>articen ofPublic Instruction. No. 933 Market Direct.

HAIR"DRESSING.£<ili!slrl>iAJiollll--linnortvrs of Human Hair—

Aboloale and Ret Wi.a loinvd. No. 719Market st oet, opposite i\u25a0 ..fit.

KATP.\u25a0errataaa), he I!>tler—No.331 Koarny street,

near Pine. The ii ett >..:.;* at toe lowest prices.Factory :No. 17 Belden street.

M. Meuk*ilor!T«-r—

MauuiacMrer and Importer ofHats and Hal Materials Wholesale and Retail.Northeast corner Montgomery and Bub streets,and (OS Kearny.

HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL, ETC.>Vlll A I'i'tli

—Importing and Manufacturing

Cutlers and Beilhan;-vr?, No. 749 Market street..llarrus <".IlnvlryA Co.— lmport- n> of Hard-

wan nd Agricultural Impleai \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0.'\u25a0- 301, 303,305, 307 anarS IMarke' \u25a0 rest, Ban Francisco.

\ rnrnlan. Corj A to. Im ortcrs of Hardwire,Iron Steel. Agent* for the Pittsbunt SteelWorks, N nhwestem Bone Nail Co.. and South-ir-ston Cutlery <;o. Nos. 120 nnd 122 Front street,and Nos. 117 and 119 California street.

howl's.liHernnlfornl rmnierniice r?r;:.r Nos. SSI

and 628 Kearny strict. Pas« ngen aid Im^k'a^etransferred free. 11. C. Pal ridge, Proprietor.

IRON WORKS. BOILER AND MA-CHINERY MAKERS.

!g»Tnmcn»o Boiler IVorU»- Nos. 214 and 218Bella street. J. F. Hall, I'iactkal lkilcrniakcr.Manufacture Marine, Stati. nary and PortableDoiltrs, and a'l kind* <;f Stvet iron Works.

M3TALS,STOVES, RANGES, ETC.iW. W. Boataxiie A Co.—lnjaorten ol Su>ve»,

Rar^oa an-1 Sheet Iron, MarLl>.izcd Mantels,Grates and Tiles. M«nuiucturcr» of Plain,

papsnned nnd Stamped Tinware. N\'S. 110, 114,114, 11C and US Butt-r>- street.

MITLLUnERY.The RaadtM > popu'ar Milinen- Establtah-

miiit. li.S. llirtcli'i Co., No.7-li Market slrtetiStrict attention toorcen from the interior.Mi-..». •

hi:.'.IIIifi No. 919 Market BlTcct. Imlporter of Fiuo Mi'linory.

PROVISION PACKERS.Merry, Fmil a Co.

—Packers, lici«>rttrs anJ

Dealen in Heat Products of all defdipUons.Cftlce, Nos. lis and I£7Oalifornh street.

TEA IMPORTERS.RUtlMcilA Urn- aY ii-ii • £10 California

street. P. O.Ujx !,l(H.

£y RESTAURANTS'Jlalsort Dorre—No. 217 Keirnv street. Lailies*

ai.d n'SUitrai t. Piivste rooms upsttirn Allthe delicacies tf the market.

\u25a0wain's Fanillj !:.t».-ij nml DlnlDSSaliion

—No. «:0 .Market street. tVeddtag c.ikes,

ice cream, oysters, Jc!!ie3,fc;c.,coiistarUy to hand.>ami!ics suj pllod,

<>rl<:lnnl llnllan Renlnnraiil— Xo. IUClayft.,

'tt. Leklcsdorfl »nd Mii-orae N. Cbmboni,

lr»te IfuMtg^f"f C:ini»'i IS*?t!nir >nt. l:is tnken themanagemtriit. Ituillbe mn inbill Italian style.

FlrtKClimaii'iiTtciiiaModrlIti-.hrry— 203Keaniy s'.rcet, II( cmcr Bros., rrnj-rictors. Coffee,Chiwilate, laOßeh, !« trtiln an^ Oysters. Allkinds of Oakei constantly on hand. Parties andfamilies supplied.

RUBBER AND OIL GOODS.Tlir tfailta I'.rrliuami llitMirr51:mnr«rl-

urinjr Company— ilaiiufacurtm "Illubbrr Qo»lsof every description. iitenti of the celebrated"HVteasCr m Brand" Cirbo!';«d Hose. CornerFirst and Market streets. J. W. Taylor, Manager.

Baaaijtll Itiilitcr Cm. Slanufactnrers o/ allkind.i of Kubbcr licltin;,', rackinjr, IIis.'. £prin?s.Boots, r.<\u25a0h:mr,etc. No.577 and 579 Maiket -!re. t.

limitA krllusc-Pioneer Manufacturers of Cape

Ami Oil d Clothins. Ilata, Covers, ate. Importfraand Dealcs in Kul.lKr Boots and Woolen Goods.No. SI California street.

STATIONERS, PRINTERS, ETC.Hetbotllal Rook Ilriii'-liorjnml .\allonal

Temperance Publication ty.-

Her. J. B.Hill,Ageat, /eiiiry for Btylovraanki Fountain Peusand BtylographV Cop}ii"kBook* No. 1041 Marketstreet, between Sixth and feventb.

11. S. <-rorker A <"«.—lmportinir and Manufact-

uringStationer*, Printers and Lithocraphnrs, Noa.215, 417 sad 219 Uu»h street, above Sausonie

A.J. eary—

Stationerand Put H-lur, and AccountBook MintuVturer, 402 and 404 Baaaaaseatnat.

<*o«per*« Bonk store— N. . 740 Market street.Allkinds of stationer! cheap.

ISonrstrll, Allen «V Co.— Wholefale Paper Deal-ers. Nos. 413 and 41jSaneeosi street.

TOBACCO AND CIGARS.Hen: i,:mit:>l-.. ]'I:)/.:iMore* (Successor to C. P.

Van Si-!i:i:i«-k & Co ) Importer, Wholesale andRetail Dealer in Imported and Domestic OJbnra,Dcput lor cc'ebrateil trards of "Key West"Clears; "'Olii Judijc," "Ftafrani Vanity Fair,""

Caporal" Cunuxttas anil Tobaaeos; Pipes a: dSmoker*' Articles . •t.'l>: Yankee Notions,. :\u25a0. Nos. ?M '\u25a0 720 Beamy street, opposite thePlaza

WHOLESALE GROCERS.tVrllman, IVrliA Co.— lmporters and Whole-

sale Groeen and De"»len in Tobacco and Cigars,N. . 120 to 132 Market, and No. S3 California

Kool at Sanderson— lmporters and WholesaleGrocers, No. 122 Market street, and 19 California.

Thlmt, IljirkerA Vn.—Importers and WholesaleOrociH, Nos. 108 and 110 Califoixia street.

SACRAMENTO RECORD-UNION.\u25a0aW rrniiri.ro «>!!i«-c. tin. '.'OS .llonlsomery

street.— a. 11. Micdcnald Agent.

CAPITAL GAS COMPANY.. 4 S WARM WEATHER IS APPROACHING,XiLhomekaenen are rerpetlfully invited not to] .-.\u25a0 light »i the treat merit of COOKINGSTOVES. They willbe found e<iual to the cookingof any fam lr,and as economical as by the ordinarymethods, while the advantages are :No heat in the-house, no -shes, no toot, no tiirt,nopacking of woodor coal, and no waste. As §0011 as the g«s is lightedcooking commences ; when the »ok is finished, nofurther consumption of fuel. Varieties of thesestoves may be seen and had at the Gas Company'sworkshop on E-phth street, he. ween J and K. l"heConi|iany will put these sums up wherever theuser desires without charge except aimall monthlyrental, so that norisk is taken by any one desiringto u«e them. J;K.WaTsON,

al-2ptf President Capital Oas Company.

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