Unattractive Chirography

OHancmg over the big square envelopes now traveling through the mails, with the addresses spráwled in fashionable English writing up and down instead of across the surface, one stops to wonder who invented such an ugly and inconvenient niethod of direction to puzzle postoien, and make their recipients' heads swim trying to decipher tliem. In bold, black chirography, the "To" sits in the lower left hand corner, with name running to right, and street, town and state artistically and irregularly distributed over the remainder of the envelope. It is a change, but that is about all one can say in its favor. - Illustrated American. John Bancroft, a man who was a tramp eight years ago, and who died recently at Portland, Ore., bequeathed all his property, estimated at $15,000, to a woman in Sacramento, Cal., who once gave him a night's lodging and breakfast and $1 besides, together with some good advice. Williani Archer's criticism on Mrs. Langtry's Cleopatra is everywhere pronounced to be the most severe on record. Here it is: "Purple patones of Shakespeare swimming in a prismatic scintillant maelstrom of spectacle." What we know as peers of Kngland are not the only hereditary fnnctionaries in Great Britain. The court of qneen's bench has just been led to decide that there are a certain numberof hereditary pawnbrokers. Some of the best dinners in Washington last year were given by Bepresentative Flower, of New York. He dined nearly every member of congress, and the result has been a great boom to hia populan ty. Near Indianapolis, Ind., in Sngar Creek township, a panther has been committing serions depredations. At last reporta he had been driven to the woods and was surrounded by "800" farmers.