Saw The Elephant

The adventure of a young man of Lllle who came to Paris to see th czar must have tompletely ruined his appetite for such sights, says a correspondent of the Boston Transcript. After saving up his money for thii great occasion for spending it he started off with about 300 francs in his pocket. Deeply interested in all the preparations that were being made for he czar's reception, he was walking on the Boulevard des Italiens, when, t his great dismay, a big, red-headed, red-bearded man walked up to him nnd said: "I arrest you in the nam of ■ 3 law!" The, young man f rom Lille sped: "Why?" "You will learn why at the prefecture of pólice," replied the red-headed man, and, calling a cab, he bundled his submissive prisoner into lt. The cabman was told to drives to the prefecture. When the horse was started the young man was ordered to empty his pockets. He turned out his money, his watch and his papers, all of which were carefully pocketed by his unpleasaut companion. The latter now stopped the cab in front of a postoffice and said to the driver: "I am,a pólice commissary and J have just arrested a nihilist of whom we have had information froni Russia. I must send off a telegram to announce this important capture. You stand in front of the door and if the prisoner tries to get away knock him on the head with the butt end of your whip. The wretch intended to assassinate the czar!" "Ah, the canaille!" exclaimed the cabman, as he took up his post as sentinel, and he continued to apply all the abuse he could think of to the palefaced prisoner, who was too frightened to say a worl Half an hour passed in this way and then the cabman began to think It very strange that tbe redhaired commissary did not reappear. His suspicion growing, he called the pólice and it was soon discoVered that the young man from Lille had been robbed by one of the many enterprisiag scoundrels who are now drawn to Paris by the fetes in honor of the czar. The unfortunate youth from Lille, havlng lost all his money, could not remain in Paris even long enough to see the czar. He was sent home by the pólice. His misadventure will be a joke against him for the rest of his life. At the bottom of the (leep seas the water is only a few degrees above the freezing point. The year of Mars is almost twice as long as that of our planet, having 687 days af our time. A piece oí iron has been found in an air passage of the great pyramid and it is supposed to have been there sinco 3700 B. C. A great photographic camera for taking life-size pictures has been made in Dublin. The camera takes a píate seven feet high and five wjde. A French explorer recently found s. loaf of bread supposed to have been baked 360 C. C. It certa inly did not resemble the kind mother used to make. The temperature of the earth advances one degree for every fifty-nine feet of descent. At thirty miles below it is supposed the metáis and rocks are at a white heat. It is to the manner in which different colors are absorbed or reflected by a body that its color is due. If white light falls upon a red rose the rose still reflecte red because red rays are the only ones absorbed by the flower. Tallor gowns of black cloth, with bright colored cloth boleroa braided so closely with black that the color just fehowa türougb, arfe popular tiis tfeasön. j 'and refr J s thte ■faVoWte %iacfe. I