The Poet Of The Sierras In London

The personal appearanoe nuil dress of Joaquin Miller, who is now iu London, are in every way as remarkable as nis writings. He has a 3ae square forehead, long, deep set gray eyes, and au expression of mingled defiance aud melancholy altogether very difflcult to describe. He wears his hair very ronch longer than is cubtomary in this country, and his chestnut beard grows in picturesque luxnriance whither it listtth. His manners are pre-eminently the manners of a child of nature; but his couvcrsatiou, though ofteu wild and incoherent, never degener.ites into commonjlace, au 1 is invariably of things, instead of persons. I urn told that he lias been constan tly solieited, while at Rome, to sit as a model for pictnres of the Savior, and that his head has found its way, in this manuer, into a groat many sucred modern paintings. - London World. Prof. W. K. Pabker, iu a foot-note to an interesting paper of his on the structure and development of tho snake, makes this dry remark : "lam frequently asked whether I believe in design, and am always at a loss how to answer the question, it seems to me so perfectly gratuitous. lf the questioner would but give me tirue, I woukl promise to write Iii .n a book upou the ntnes to be sceu in a frog, or even in a flea, that should be as large as a family Bible." A bout 5 per cent. of the Americfn populaüon is color-blind.