An Anxious Parent

A short, wil1)' iiiiiii, with a very red nos and flecks of grey in his whlakerg, walkrd tliroiiRli 1 lio corridor of the I 'iliaco Hotel yesterday afternoon and halted at the counter to glance at the register. Aftor running over the list of irrivals he lootoed up at Fred Stanton, whose classic features beamed wit h goaa nature, and aaked: ''Are you the clerk?" "Do I loc like a chambermald or n laundrese?" retorted genial Fred. "Iïnt iire you the clcrk?" "No; T'm the colored portcr." "Now, look here; I dicln't come here to have fan poked at me. I'm lookíiik for ayoung man named filarlos ('l.iyton, tliat carne here from Loe Gai 08 3 i'storilay." "Do you kiiow Mr. Clayton?" "Reckon I O-ught to, for he'g my son." Stanton's face aesumed a most serlous expresston as he replied: "Well, I a.m sorry to be the eonveyor of ill MidingB, lut your son waa struck by a cable car last nlght and scriously injuriM], Ee ia ncnv lying at the City and ('rüiniy Hospital in a most precarinus COttdition." "You don't t''.l me? Heippened last niffht, Hi?" "Ves." "I-eavo anything in hta room?" "No." "Not even a sinall pacifeage?" "No." "Didn't leave anything in the office?" "He did not." The red noeed man's head was bowed down for a niomnii as if Mitli (frief, and whon he looke.d up lic said slowly n.nd tliou.Lilitfully: "Run oyer by a cable car, eh? Tyoft no packagc? Just liko him every time. When he left home I gave him 2 to buy a bottle of medicine, and ril Just lxt lic had Uii: bottle in liis pocket and that it .is I)i-o!;:mi when the car struck him. [ ahvays told him that he was too enreless," and he passed slowly out in tihe direction of Market Street. Ak We to-day present to our readers an excellent portrait of one of America' greatest naturalista, Professor Sanderson Sniith, of the American Museum of Natural History. The Protessor was born at Regest's Park, Londön, May 14th, 1832, in Bute Cottage, Park Village, Kast a house so natned ly its former occupant, Edmund Kc-in, after hls residence on the the Ilo of Bute. Having finished hls studies ai school he waa lnstructed in chemistry and mlneralogy by the ate John T iwnsend Harris, the nephw of the flral minister to Japan, Dr. )oivüviis r.ni Willlam I'. Blake. In 852 he returned to his nativo city ■mplei ■ hls edücation at the Govrnnicnt scihool of Mines. After his turn ! years i a he practlced ís prof !ssi ui aa mlning englneer main in Pennsylvanla and the New Enginil statea and oontributed a report n bhe coal beds of part of Tloga co., '■.. 1 Bhe geeond geologlcal survey f that state. In 1857 he entered pon t'lie wort to wiiicli he has eyer nee given bis particular attention, he Inveatigation of the mollusea of ie Atlantic coast. He pwblished a amber of catalogues of the shells f Loog Island and Staten Ialand. In 857 he was connocted witb hc Flah ommiSBion and lias sime had rilarle f nearly all the dredgings north of ipe Ii.-ntrr.-i-. Slnce 8 or '. years ie professor has had charge of the dleetion of shells in the American useum of Natural Hlsbory and has 'ranged and catalogued the splenid collectlon of Dr. Jay, presented i the museum by the late Miss Catharlne Wolf.