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ii. iiiit Oeegeeui Bluwljege of Baefend'i Noi ttrulKii In llmikuil ami Cioml I' or. strength, be wu, told that the jury, a thou! leasing their tea te, had brought in a verdict of "not guilty," as the proeeoution HUhmittcd the ease aftei hi speech withoiil making further argument, In-n linked Itow lie eanie to be in piam ins CO I N' BIRD PRBSKNTKD I'UV I I I BIBI AliO. ll I. lamented H.

Prentiss, of 1 Kugland. Tt never reached its domination, for the vehsul foiin.li and the famous viiho roiioHeH in home dmk, uu. fiithouieil ciivo of I hit Mud ili i i miuftli. At first it was supposed thai the lion's lull wus simply drawn with uu rvuggi ration of its Niuuoiihiiess, but soian one who mistrusted this view can-full;) examined what was thought lo la. the knot of lint lion's tail and found thai scale dirt covered the eyo of the snake.

Very dainty washing revealed the mouth also, and it became apparent that the drnou purt of the chimera was not formid recent number of the mopoliton aS cry ill I rue! i ail cle by lharles s. Pelham Clinton on 'The Stables of the Queeil Of England," spired with tlm idea of making such 1 1 1 i i i has riglitfulh Ill-oil con-ddered the moat brilliant orator of tin age, Hi- la to American oratory 1 1 a 1,1.1 1 1 1 1 1 ul lint Aiilnml linivtm on Btons iy PHamioiAni Who Prsssdsd in' IjVSIllurdH l(iHOMililutit'H llotwomi 1 PllltlOUl i'Miiii I.iiIit" mill llin Ohlmem of Cypitii Md Aila Hlnofi an alisl rue! i which speech tor the pro 1 a ttion, and then knock ig ii all to pieoesi he remarked I a never inspired wit Ii such uu idea. I didn't know what I was aboul until niv colleagues told uiew bal I had done, i'lien my bruin seemed to taki lire; I au that I iniiHt redeem both II I'. or Illinois lis (I (I (Ml Ul I I II il Inn ii low earn I Jul Nlllc Il'lil MlOIUO can soaroelv fail to be read with interest "Thestubles, hioh me known as Royal i adjoin Buckingham Palace, lal III existence I llllt iu reputation and nw honor, and ba till' ill Itll UK I'll" 111 ciiiiiN i i i 1 1 Ins tmrni land in I ho most ml, however, are not 0 in old uiit iiiuity 'I Ii' id urn ninny ob- under the same management. 1 he jo tH made lij In 1 1 Peruvians unit U0I ioiuis prior to tho arrival of tho Span to do something quiokly.

The onlj thing I could do, without acknowledging that I bud played the drunken fool. was t.i i-lciid I but I did I bat on pur jk)ko, and then Irv to undo niv blunder. That's all then- is to it." lint wo have only had one Knits, and one 'batterton, and one Prentiss. As it gentleman once remarked to 11 young man who excused his drinking hftbii 1 by saying the brightest men we had drank, and naming Prentiss especially "Yes. in young friend; we see what Prentiss is.

in spite of drink. But, great (lod, just, reflect what, be would have lierii had lie not drank intoxicating liquors at all." I'KIMTI i 1 1 1 I V. hut 'liiittt-rtoii as to I jiglish Liter iitiin-. for In i ''in Ii" vwis ii pl' muiicnou 11 it'll proinb i .1 out blaze the brightest sun in his sphere. A characteristic anecdote is related of One of bis brilliant efforts.

Uc was to ilefimd a man accused of uurdefi and the evidence appeared bo plain. No ouo expected he would be acquitted, and alumd every one wus sure be would bang. Prentisi had toll! soino intimate friends that lie could onh hope for a long sentence, instead of hanging, even if lie could obtain tin-, tnuon. lint on the day be was to make bis speech be was, uh too frequently occurred, nelpleea from drink. Hut be was on band, in spite of tie- pro tee til of his colleagues in the great OASO, When bis name was called, be got up ina dazed sorl of way, and insisted on speaking.

He made a most powerful speech, but, to tho amazement of bis colleagues, and to the horror of the prisoner, bo made a terrible speech on the side of the prosecution. It was said that there had never been beard such a convincing argument made to a jury in New Orleans, where the trial and did not offer imv i in rial danger to head funcliotiary is the Master of the Horse, ul presold the Duki of Portland. The ellice goes with the govern men), and is alwii given to man of rank and wealth as ell as of great political influence, "The main entrance to the stable in through handsome gateway that opens upon I5itekingliiim Palace road. In the quadrangle formed by the i gates and the archway leading to the main courtyard are the offices of William Norton, Superintendent of the Royal Mews, with those of the Duke of Portland and his lieutenant, Sir (ieorge Maude. The main part of the work of arrangement and management falls upon Sir (ieorge Maude and Mr.

Norton. The former selects all the pints hlcli Ii traoei of Phoenician Inspiration, but Ihoro is from Greenland to the Hermit of Capo Horn which tho wildest conjecture can attribute to tho Phoenicians save tho piasa bird. 'J'li is remarkable object, says the Chicago Tiiiun, wins sculptured on a bl of tho Mississippi, near Alton, and was destroyed cither wholly or in part by a Hiiperst itious Yankee cotiimuu-der of a tin-clad, who made il the tar get for bis parrots and oolumbiads, believing it to be what tradition doelaiod a memorial of a devilish dying croaturo that carried ofl' bisons and human beings with oaso and devoured them in its bone-bestrewn lair. It is to bo hoped that enough remains of this sculptured form to repay tho investigation of some trained archaeologist, for thore can be but little doubt that it was one of thoso polyform symbols which the Phoenicians left among the pooples whom thoy visited. It be tho hero liol lo i ophon upon his prancing Pegasus.

The discoveries of (ion. Pi t'esnola in Cyprus gave to the world anothor presentation of the chimera in which the terpentine character of the lion's tail is absolutely unmistakable, as will be seen by the drawing. Tho coil is something which could not be found in a genuine caudal appendage of a lion, and the suakiness of tho end is obvious. This finding of a genuine chimera was a sad blow to a Bohool of thinkers who have boon endeavoring to explain everything DT references to natural objects, and who claimed that the polyform monster was only an exaggeration of a special kind of lion that once exis'ed in Asia Minor. Human beings have a goitre, a A Dctli llli) L'oinpliiiioill.

Perhaps one of the wittiest things from the greatest wit of the world was that of Sidney Smith to the Duchess of Marlborough. She was a great lover of flowers, am! had just procured a rare pea-vine from India. It did not longs to the same order as tho chimera of horses, arranges the processions, and has the general ordering of affairs, while Mr. Norton looks after the minor details. Some idea of the work of managing such a large affair us the Queen stable's can be inferred from the fact that there are L10 horses in tho stables and eighty men employed us coachmen, grooms, and outriders.

Tho head coachman, i. Paine, bus been for fifteen years in his present position and for fifty years in tho (Queen's employ. He a 1 ways drives the state carriage in which her Majesty sits, and handles the ribbons over the famous "We enter the Royal Mews through the main gateway, which is surmounted lv a large clock that chimes tho swelling in the nick, and if a lion had goitre then tho swelling might have been taken by the unsophisticated shepherds of Lycia for supplementary goat'e head. Hut the serpent, instead of a tail, did not admit of any naturalistic explanation, and tho chimera is now admitted to have l.eon a national synjiol. Jn tho treasury at Curium, Hi Cesnola found ear-rings, rings, and bracelets of gold fashioned like the chimera, only that the form of the lion disappeared entirely and tho body was purely serpentine, to suit the requ rements of the objects.

These jewels wore of Fhonician manufacture, in the opinion of all experts. r. fl. WBrBM fil i .1: I '-V'J 1 THE MAN-EATElt ON TUB BOCKS. Lydia and Cyprus, tho sphinx of Etruria, Greece, and Egypt, the winged man-headed bull of Assyria, the human-headed harp of old Ireland, the griffins of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa, tho centaurs of the Greeks and the ancient Picts, and the wyverns of the heraldry T1IK QUEENS COACH.

of northern Europe. "It was," the arch xisany or jnow xorK declared that in them all tho processes known to modern gold-working wore employed, and with exquisite dexterity. It is to bo remarked that tho legonds of tho Indian tribes dwelling on tho Mississippi about tho piasa bird were exactly the same as tho legends of tho (i reek's concerning tho chimera. Until Bellerophon put a stop to its evil career, the latter monster behaved precisely as tho piasa is reported to have done, sometimes carrying off a fat cow, sometimes a tough agriculturist, sometimes condescending to trifle with its appetite by bolting a baby. The Greeks, too.

ascribed to the sphinx a most reprehensible fondness for human flesh, which she gratified in a polite aud cultured fashion. She invited people to call upon her, and asked thorn conundrums, and if they could not answer correctly she ate them up. (Edipus, the Turanian, paid a visit to her cave, and answered her questions correctly, whereupon she fell into his power, and he slew her vviih his darts, all of which was made the subject of a noble picture bj the French painter, Ingres. Notwithstanding the weight of Greek tradition, there ii'Olocist exclaims witn hitter grier, our only polyform monster, our only one; hours. The whole Mews was designed bv John Nash, of Dover, Kent, and was in a perfect state of preservation, and a blundering brute of a naval officer made it a target for gunnery practice Oh, inexplicable folly! Oh, irremediable loss! Fortunately it has been thoroughly described by a gentleman who seems to have been perfectly competent, for the task, and who understood its real oharsc ter.

J. 11. Miles, of Miles Station, 111. made a drawing of it, which is presented here, and accompanied this with a written New York We are going to have tho World's Pair in 1892. Chicago Not much, uncle.

Chicago will have it, and no mistake. description, obviously of the most au thentic kind. Ho wrote: "I first saw it in can bo no doubt that with the Egyptians the sphinx was tho symbol of royalty, occurred, against any man. As he closed with one of his matchless bursts 183IJ, and since that date have seen it many hundreds of times before it was destroyed during the late civil war. I must say that it is a mistake for any one to say that it was painted on the rocks.

It was not painted on the rocks, nor was there a of eloquence, he started to take his was completed in 1825. The courtyard is about 400 feet square. The right side is taken up by the royal carriages. Opposite these are the stables for the chargers, the harness-room, and several stables of carriage horses. Opposite the entrance are 'creams' and the celebrated thirty-two-stalled stable.

"I suppose in no stable in the world can such a collection of horses be seen. All are over lfi hands high, and most over 16b The general color is bay or brown, and white legs and feet are conspicuously absent. The animals are all given names that commence with as many letters of the dealer's name as practical, as a record of their purchase. Thus Blackbird and Blackcap were both purchased from a dealer named Blacknian, and Jonquil came from Jones. All the names are placed on iron plates above the racks.

The floors of the stables are all sanded in patterns, and the straw litter is fin-1 ished off with a neat straw Against the posts are neatly arranged sheafs of straw. There is a foreman in charge of each stable, and to every eight horses a coachman, who has under him a competent number of men' and an assistant coachman. "The horses are all clothed alike in seat, as the other lawyers for the defense exclaimed "Great God! What have you done 5 You have hung your own client drop of paint used in its construction. The bird, if bird it was, was cut or chis eled or picked into the solid rock of the It flashed, on Jrrentiss all at once bluff, but how or by whom I know not that he had, in his drunken stupor, Its body was that of a lion, its head and made a speech for the State instead of seem to thrive, and when Sidney Smith came to the house one day she, knowing his fondness for flowers, showed him through her conservatory. Going toward the pea-vine, she exclaimed "0, Mr.

Smith, I'm so afraid my beautiful pea will never come to per fectiou. "Then permit me, my dear madam, to lead perfection to the pea," taking her arm and conducting her to the vine, Chicago Ledger. Five Millions of Soldiers. Some years ago an idea suggested itself to an obscure workman of Belleville, an idea that since then has engendered an army, amply qualified, were it a question of numbers alone, to realize the dream of eternal peace, bv horns that of a door, and its wings that of a bird. Is there anything about this that tor his client.

He was thoroughly sober now. Peaching for a pitcher of THE IiYCIAN CHIMERA. looks like a horrible man-eater. I do not water standing near, he said, as it he had only paused for new strength "Mr. Sheriff, give me a glass, please." He then took a drink of water, set the pitcher down, looked around on the jury, the Judge, the lawyers and the audience, amidst a profound silence.

and with the Etrurians it was a faithful guardian of the tomb. Nor is there any adequate reason for doubting that all poly forms were symbolical, and that no representation was intended of any monster whatsoever. Nor is there a single polyform that is not found upon objects known to be Phoenician, although they are also found in the most diverse places. Western Journalism. We have been in town only ten days, and already our warm friends, Spiog Magin, the veteran mixer of the-whole-in-the-dark saloon, intimates that it is time for us to whack up and give our score on bis books a blight.

We would keeping in check the assembled armies of Europe. He sets on foot 5,000,0011 soldiers a year. These soldiers are of believe that such an animal ever oxisted. I deny that its existence is compatible with natural laws, and I assert that tho piasa bird was made by some race well acquainted with sculpture to commemorate tho noble deeds of some great personage of ancient times." Humanity is indebted to Father Mar-quottc for its first knowledge of the man-eater of the Mississippi, and he wrote a description of it iu 1701), from which an engraving was made in Paris. Mr.

Miles made his drawing on the spot, but the French picture which is here presented was ushered into the world under conditions that made it dubious. The good father described it from memory, having learned all the Indian traditions about it, and being influenced very much by those traditions. Tho engraver made it as frightful as he could in order to be interesting. Thus between the two was evolved an object which, as any one can detect, never could have been sculptured, which perhaps accounts for the persist- humble origin, but so was Napoleon. They spring from old sardine boxes.

Kelegated to the dust hole, the sardine box is preserved from destruction by the dustman, who sells it to a rag merchant in Belleville or in Buttes Chau-mont, who in his turn disposes of it to a specialist, by whom it is then pre Every one, who had been under the spell of his argument and amazed at his change, was breathless with expectation at this strange conduct. They all knew that something unusual was about to take place. What, they could not guess. But that they were to be treated to something great, even for Prentiss, all felt, and not one in the vast throng so much as breathed for a few seconds. The liery orator did not keep them waiting but a moment.

He settled himself on his feet, slowly wiped his mouth, raised his hand, pointed it at the array of talent and learning on the side of the prosecution, and began like to inquire if this is the usual rac- tiee in this community? We have ilone the-whole-in-the-dark honor to imbibe pared for the manufactories. the warriors are made from the bottom of at its bar the greater portion of tho elixir that we have absorbed since our the box, the lid and sides are used for guns, railway carriages, bicycles, etc. arrival. It requires inspiration to tit one to illuminate and onhahten a com All tins may seem unimportant at first sight, but the utilization of these old sardine oxes has resulted in the foundation of an enormous manufac munity; if Splog Magin hesitates to supply the inspiring elixir, we shall either transfer our patronage and satu rate our svstem elsewhere, or wo ZULU, ONE OF THE BLACK WHEELEB8, neat red, white, and blue rugs of a small check pattern, bound with red. The initials V.

11. are on the quarters, shall decline to illuminate and enlighten the community. We certainly will not submit to being bulldozed by Mr. Splog Magin's duns or even an- noyed by bis hints. We are destitute I II1 "May it please the court and gentlemen of the jury, I have given what I beljve to be the strongest arguments that the prosecution could possibly bring against my client; arguments which.

I admit, seem to involve him in a network of convicting evidence more inextricable than the meshes of the silken web woven about his victim by the canning and alluring spider. But, gentlemen of the jury, i will now address mv lf to the arguments in favor of the accused, and I think I shall be able to sweep away the entangling eb, even as the hand of man sweeps away tlie spider's silverv threads of silken of wealth: but we are heeled with ilt-edged dignity, and we ill maiu ain our dignitv untarnished. Kent Ad tory, at which no less than '2011 workmen are employed. The poor workman, out of whose head the armed tin soldier sprung via the sardine box is now- a rich man. and.

what is more, an eager and keen-sighted patriot, who in his sphere deserves the gratitude of his country, -Black" ooodft Magazine. A Neglected Condiment An Englishman partakes freely of mustard: he will never eat beef, bacon, ham. or steak without it. and many of them season mutton with it. An English tramp to whom you gave an unseasoned beef samlwhich would stop and a-k von for mustard before he corn- vertiser.

Why Are Hotel Cooks So Often Fat! and the quarter cloths have the same initials, with no display. The price of the horses varies from 150 to 250 apiece. They must be young and pass a rigorous veterinary examination. After being purchased they are thoroughly trained. The chargers have a special drill in the riding school over timber, walls, and hurdles, and are also taught to stand "The coachmen have four liveries apiece the state livery, which is a mass of gold; the epaulet livery, which is but a little less costly; the ordinary scarlet livery, and the plain black livery with white aistcoats, that is used on all ordinary occasions.

All tho men live in the rooms alove the stables, and almost a military discipline is It is the unmarried lady who can give her sisters oints on the art of how to manage a husband. ''Did you ever wonder why most eooks are fleshy asked the chef of a well-known hotel. "Well, I have a theory that is held by many people to be correct. Their unusual amount of flesh is undoubtedly due to the absorption through the nostrils, mouth, and pores of the skin of the aroma, or as maikjuet rr BBKXRBBBSS IT. ence of the belief that it was a painted image.

Marquette's idea of it was that it had the head of a bear, the horns of an elk. the body of a fish or a dragon, or something with scales, and a bear's legs, with claws. The tail was fifty feet long, coiled several times round the body, and terminated in a spearhead. The parallelism to the chim-r i i-marked, and perhaps Mr. Miles ma, have been mistaken in supposing that the tail was the bona fide tail of a lion.

The error is one into which almost eTerv one fell who saw the painting of the chimera on the famous Hamilton vase, which was found near Naples during the Napoleonic war. It is here given according to an accurate copy made for the Museo Borbon-ico before William Hamilton, the LcgliEh Ambassador at Naples, sent it to With Americans never take mus-rarely with any-is verv fat ham. menced to devour it. it is different. They tard with beef, and thing else, unb it fetters and sets free the captive He then proceeded to make not only the most eloquent, most remarkable speech he had ever made, but the most remarkable, perhaps, in the English language.

The jury, judge, audience, and even counsel for the prosecution were dunifounded. overwhelmed with amazement. Applause and tears came at the bidding of the great orator. When he ceased speaking he fell back exhausted; and. when he recovered his mericans deluge their meat with hot Whatever you call it, of food hich is lieing cooked.

The man or woman who. day after day. lives in an atmosphere permeated ith savory odors of cooking food soon begins to get He it. Think this over and yonll agree vith rYeM. Indian and other sauces, but they let mustard alone.

There are few restaurants that use a pound of mustard a week..