Emin Pasha's Parrot

Dr. E. E. Snow of Batavia is mourn Ing the loss of the most remarkable pet that has been brought to this par of the country for a long time. It wa a parrot and had a past, ae well as a wonderful personality. When the doe tor was in Egypt in the days of Emin Pasha he made the acquaintance o; that potentate, and on leaving for home eald he would like to take wltfc him qne of the small gray parrot that are peculiar to the Nile country, especially on account of theii lntelllgence. So the viceroy sent out an attendant, vho soon returned with ont. He vaa ealled Pasha, in honor of Emin, and was all that lias een r puted of its species. Pasha oould talk, especially ewear, In the test Arabic, and though he Loon learrfed English enough to hold a conversation equal to some people, he never lejrned to swear in English. When any one was to be gono over in the bird's best style of vituperatlon it was the1 ïanguage of the Nile that wa# adopted for the purpose. Pasha Iiked America, and lived here flfteen yearj. Tbe flird was a good fríend when acquaintance was once formed, but a casual visitor was his special aversión, and be made use of the strongest note of disapproval when subjected to any introsioji. Hfe vocabulary was large, he knew how to use it as som peop"}e,even, eould not. But he was so unfortunate as to tak into'elose friendship a man of tbe family who had consumption, and caught the diseáse írom him. A violent bemorrbage ended Pasha's life. - Buffal correspondencO of New York Presa. Some of the best families in England have substituted boys for housemaids, whom üiey have fouoj incompetent and ïneolent. The substitutes are chiefly from India. Smelts are so plentiful in Bellingham bay, Washington, that they come to tbre margin of the water in schools, and are drawn ashore with garden .rakes and scoop nets. Asflés. entered the ear of Adolpiiua Doncourt, of Flushing, N. Y., and for an hoür Adolphus danced without music. Then a physician was succossful In remdving the little intruder. A ton af the water of the Dead Sea, when evaporated, yields 187 pounds of salt; a ton of the water of the Atlantic ocean, 81 pounds; a ton of the water of the Pacific, 81 pounds." The loagest distance to whieh a proJectile has been thrown was at Shoburyness, Sngland, on April 15, 1888, ■when a Longridge wire bound gun threw a shot 21,358 yards, or 12 miles 233 yarda. A oolored couple in Americus, Ga., met Justice Graham on the street and requested him to marry them. He promptly gratified them, standing on the highway, and then resumed bis walk. Perfecfly healthy men are scarce. In one moiith, at an army recruiting station In Chicago, 455 men applied for enlistmeat, and otily 27 of them were accepted, all of the others being un sound.