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The Old Year.
O h, good old year 1 This nights yonr last.
And most you go ? With you I vo passed
Some days that bear revision.
For these I'd tbank you, ere you make
Yonr journey to the Stygian lake,
Or to the fields Elyeian.
fcocg have you been our household guest,
To keep you we have tried our best
You must not stay, you toll us;
Net e'en to introdnce your heir,
Who comes eo fresh and debonair
He needs must make you jealous.
At twelve o'clock to-night Queen Mab
Will take you in her spectral cab
To catch the downward fast train.
Some of us will sit up with you
And drink a parting cup with you
Wbile I indite this last strain.
Oh, good, old, wise, frost headed year,
You've brought us health and strength and
cheer,
Tlmnorh nnmnlimM /**ta mH unrrnw
Each morn yon gave us newer hope
That reached beyond the clondy scope
Of each unseen to-morrow.
Ton go to join the million years ;
The groat veiled sky that never clears
Before our mortal seeing :
The shrouded death?the evolving life?
The growth, the mystery, the strife
Of elemental being.
Ah, no more rhymee for yon and mo,
Old year, shall we together see ;
For we to-night must sever.
Good-bye-old number Seventy-five!
Tib nearly time you took your drive
Into the dark forever.
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The train that slope for yon will let
A stranger out we never met,
To take your place and Btation.
With greetings glad and shouts of joy
They 'll welcome him, while you, old boy,
Pepatt with no ovatioD.
Five miuntes jet? Bat talk must end.
On with yonr cloak and cap, old friend .'
Too lon.j I have been pratiDg.
Yonr blessiDg now ! Well think of you?
Ah ! there's the clock ! Adieu, adieu?
I see your cab is waiting.
?The Independent.
A COUPLE OF PICTURES.
Worth the t'arefnl Reading and Consideration
of All.
the max who advertises.
"Good morning, gentlemen," said he,
ws he camo briskly into his office, and
smilingly sainted his three counting
house clerk?.
At nine a. m. to the tick Mr. Benson
is at his post, and daily ho goes through
pretty much the same class cf work.
Ho is never oxcited. Bustle is unknown
to him. Everything about him is systematic,
and all goes like clock work.
No one would ever doubt the old aphorism,
"Method is the soul of business,"
who once beheld his regularity and
order and the complete success of their
working.
A oonsequence of his routine way of
doing thiDgs is that he is never in doubt
as to whether he has discharged certain
duties, and is therefore very fxee from
anxiety, which more than anything else
lessens the energies and impairs the
health of men actively engaged in commercial
pursuit*.
Another "result is that those who assist
him know precisely what labor they
have, to perform, and how and when it
is tt) be done. Employment is stripped
of' its repugnant features. To work is
to them a pleasure, for so long as they
do the duties prescribed for them they
know there is no fear of things going
awry, aud that nothing unpleasant will
by an} chance be said.
* v Even Mrs. McCarthy, the clean look*
* ing charwoman, glides calmly along in
the methodic groove. She is a convert
' to the faith " a place for everything and
everything in its plaoe," and therefore
all is natty, orderly and clean.
What surprises old Mr. Benson's acquittances
who are not very intimate
with him is how he managed to acquire
such wealth and such influence in the
business world.
It is clear enough from even a cursory
view that his is a branch which depends
very considerably upon publicity. It is
not by local patronage such a trade as
his could be sustained. Only by widespread
dealings could it be made even
moderately remnuer tive. Therefore
no doubt can exist that, to have attained
to the success he has, Mr. Benson must
have had connections extending over a
wide scope. Nevertheless, it is well
known he does not employ a single commercial
traveler, and those who have
heard him sketch his struggles and experiences?and
both have been more
than moderate?say that he avers he has
never used oue.
The secret of his success, he believes,
lies in an unfaltering ventilation of what
he tralhcs iu by means of advertising.
In advertising he has been systematic
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ana persistent, ana nas never Droaen
faith with those who have been led by
his announcements to bestow patronage.
Well directed, sustained endeavor has
done for him what equally hard working
but less perspicacious men often fail
after a lifetime's struggle to accomplish.
He sits in his office receiving and attending
to correspondence which has
directly and indirectly come to him
through advertising.
0:hers strive to accomplish results
equaling his by personal endeavor?rejecting
the aid of the newspaper?and
the rewards of their labor are mediocre
only.
THE MAN WHO DON'T ADVERTISE.
" Urnph! Can't yon do what yon are
told, young man ? Didn't I say last
night, the very last thiDg before I left,
that I wanted that invoioe made ont first
thing to-day ? Now here's a letter
countermanding tne order, which ought
to have been filled three days ago.
There's another good customer lost altogether,
I shouldn't wonder."
These were the words addressed in an
ireful tone to a meager, shabby looking
young man, who was cashier, accountant,
and factotum-in-general to John Goesloe,
Esq., as some of his correspondents
dnbbed him.
Job Grusom, who had been meekly re
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garding the floor during the progress of
the trade, looked " the boss " timorously
in the face, when it had come to an end,
Hjuu ei^ituiitru ;
"You see, sir, I've been as busy as I
can all this morning making out these
bills, which yesterday yon told me it
was most important should be mailed before
noon. How was I to know yon
wanted the invoice to get the preference
?"
Finding himself in a bit of a dilemma,
and entirely averse to admitting any
fault, he replied peremptorily :
" I don't Avant ycu to debate with me.
It is your duty to look after these things,
and I want yon to do it."
He turned on his heel, affecting indignation.
Grusom mumbled a final
protest, and spiritlessly resumed his
quill driving. The appearance of the
room in which this pleasant conversation
passed betokened want of care. The
windows were dirty, the floor unclean,
tho chairs out of order, and the spare
desk looked as though it had not been
troubled with a duster for a week. Several
fl.es lay in a promiscuous heap in
one coiner ; account bodks were piled
upon each other without regard to order
in another; specimens of merchandise,
which had no claim whatever to be in
such a place, were thrown around confusedly.
The impression conveyed at first sight
was that this Afas just the place for
thihgs to be topsy-turvey and unbusinesslike;
and the opinion would force itself
that he who tolerated such a state of
affairs was devoid of the first principles
of a business character.
Nor would a closer acquaintance with
Mr. Goosloe have altered these ideas.
He was not one who had received a good
training foi trade. Some ten years before
he had gone into business where
there was a good field, and with his little
capital had a fair chance to work out
an ample competency. But he has never
done much. * His patrons have never so
far increased in number as to necessitate
the employment of more clerks than Job
Grusom, who came to him as a boy, and
who is indebted to him for a very careless
training.
Goesloe rushes along from day to day,
always doing very little, always creating
great confusion when doing that little.
He never has accomplished much more
than a living, and is never likely to.
Advertised in the papers ? Not a bit,
for he has " never believed in that sort
of thiDg."
Possibly if he had he would have
been happier and richer to-day. The
amount of business which would have
accrued to him through them might
have taught him to be systematic; and
have prevented him from becoming the
irritable and comparatively unsuccess
ful man wo find him.?Advertisers'
Gazette. S
How Fi>hermen Cook Fisli.
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A correspondent who visited the fisheries
of the North says: It was nightfall.
The men had just returned from
setting their nets and were busilj preparing
supper. In souoe of the cabins
were ancient and rude fireplaces of
stone , and iron them the fires gleamed
wp.na and cheerful. Great pots of coffee
I were steaming, and generous slices of
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dain ty white fish were sputtering in the
frvingpans. Two or three fires were
burning on the beach, for some of the
men have a notion that an open fire is
better to cook by than is the stove, and
then, too, it affords an opportunity to
.prepare the fish in the most popular
manner among them, that is baking it on
a board. The fish are prepared and seaoned,
pinned to a board by wooden
pegs, and then board and all are propped
up close to the fire. The fi3h is very
quickly baked brown, and by this method
it retains all its flavor. Auother popular,
but lazy, method is to cover the fish
with clay two inches thick, and throw it
into the hottest of the fire. The clay
hardens almost instantly, and the fish in
its tough oven bakes through and
through, retaining also its juices. The
clay is then poked out of the fire, cooled
with a dash of water, and a sharp stroke
with a stick separates it from the fish.
The fish's skin peels off with the clay,
and the dish is ready. Plain bread and
potatoes constitute the rest of the meal.
There are no women in the colony; the
men are their own housekeepers. After
supper the pipes are produced, and the
fishermen, gathering in the largest
cabins, devote the evening to hilarity
and mirth, spinning yarus, playing cards,
dancing jnbas, and smokiDg. Every
few minutes fishermen stride to the door
to get points (.11 the woather probabilities
for the following day, and every
variation in the wind, stir in the clouds,
or twinkle of the stars is gravely announced
to the merry makers within.
Everybody assured tha visitor tbat
" '-iwas goin' to blow from the nor'west
right steady termorror," and that he
might as well make np his mind to stay
ashore all day, there would be no getting
out.
A Solemn Retreat.
The Passionist Fathers, who occupy
I St. Michael's monastery In HobokeD, j
I N. J., opened a religious retreat for the j
j benefit of Roman Catholic men, who are 1
j desirous of wholly secluding themselves
| from worldly affairs for the term of
| eight days. All applicants for ad misj
sion into the monastery for the term
1 ami rmrnoso above referred to wero
freely admitted; bet the priests expect
at least five dollars from each peniteDt
to defray expenses. Many give ten and
fifteen dollars, and in some instances
much larger amounts arc contributed by
wealthy penitents at the close of the re- j
treat.
i Each penitent has a separate apart- !
ment, containing a *bed, a washing
| stand, a bureau, a table, and pious books
| and pictures, The board given to the
penitential guests is much more
j sumptuous and select than that which
I the priests allow themselves. Exercise
' is afforded the temporary recluses on
the spacious corridors, or, weather permitting,
in the fine garden at the rear of
the monastery.
Many prominent and wealthy gentlemen
of New York, Brooklyn and Jersey
City have subjected themselves to tho j
religious ordeal briefly described in this !
report. The ceremonies and nature of j
the religious retreat are as solemn and ,
interesting as they are peculiar. ? I
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BEAUFORT, S. C.,
Inebriate Asylums.
The New York Evening Mail announces
that the inebriate asylum at Binghamton
has proved a failure, both financially
and as a reformatory institution,
and has been closed. This is unwelcome
news, as it was hoped that it would
prove successful in the great aDdhumane
work for which it was established. The
Mailt in connection with tho announcement,
says that there ought to be an inebriate
asylum for women, as well as men;
that " not only base women stagger,
arunaen ana lotu-montned, tnrougn our
streets, and lie sottish and wretched in
bare homes made squalid by their vice,
but homes that to the casual eye are
comfortable and happy are made abodes
of misery by the tippling habits of
women who should be their cheer and
moral center."
This is not a pleasant picture of fashionable
life, says the editor of the Evening
Wisconsin, but there is reason to
believe that it is too true, not only in
New lork, but of other large cities. He
who shall inaugurate a method of treatment
that shall prove successful in curing
drunkards of their terrible malady
will confer a boon upon society seoond
only to the removal of the possibility of
drunkenness. The number who suffer
directly or indirectly from this scourge
is appalling to contemplate. The number
given to habitual or periodical
drunkenness is far larger than the number
of the insane, the blind, and the
deaf and dumb, while the injury to society
is far greater than would result
from all these latter unfortunates put
together, were there no care for them extended
by the State. The drunken prey
upon the peace and bounty of their
families and society in one way'or another
; they fill the criminal docks in
our courts ; they swell the list of paupers
and block the wheels of business,
hnt the State hnildn no nsvlnm for them.
arid takes no steps to save them to their
friends and society. May not the solution
of the question as to the disposal of
the drunken be found in building asylums
for them and in their enforced confinement
therein until they exhibit evidence
of reformation ? There might be
enough of restraint about its management
to make consignment thereto a
matter of dread, and this would exert a
reformatory influence upon those on the
road to drunkenness; while those oonfined
might be so treated as most effectually
to promote the work of recovery.
One reason for the failure of Bingham ton
asylum, we think, was the almost
total lack of restraint .upon the inmates.
They were allowed to come and go pretty
much as they pleased, if we have been
correctly informed. It could scarcely
be expected that under such circum
stanoes reformation would result. What
the drunkard needs is to be put beyond
the reach of temptation until he has recovered
mental and physical strength to
such a degree that he can resist temptation.
We throw out these suggestions in the
belief that the day is coming when the
work of preventing drunkenness and
reclaiming drunkards must be systematically
undertaken, if the race is to
be perpetuated in mental and physical
vigor, and the industrious and moral relieved
from the burden of taxation which
is now constantly increasing.
Another Case of Vinegar Bitters.
In the evidence of the divorce suit of
Dr. Walker, of vinegar bitters notoriety,
from his wife, Eliza Jane, it was shown
that the doctor commenced making the
bitters in California, some years ago,
making and selling them in a basket.
His present wife?the doctor's third?
from whom ho is trying to separate
legally, then a widow, visited him, and
when a sufficient quantity of the medi
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cine naa oeen maae, sne took some doctles;
and with a basket on her arm peddled
the preparation throngh the streets
of Slock ton. She sold large quantities,
and from these snl<\s Walker realized
his first thousand dollars. He then
went to San Francisco, leaving Mrs.
Brenton in Stockton, and she managed
the business there. Walker at length
sent for Mrs. Brenton, and, on the 31st
of August, 1868, they were married.
They lived happily until about 1870.
At this time Walker had amassed over
81,000,000, and hisbittors were yielding
a net profit of from 8100 to 8600 per
day. Dr. Walker was formerly a charcoal
peddler in New York city. His
wife, in a counter suit demands that
Walker "be ordered to provide her
with a suitable house and furniture in
New York city, of the kind to which
slio has been accustomed, to enable her
to properly live pending the suit, and to
pay her the sum of three hundred dollars
per week for her support and maintenance
during that time," a suitable
counsel fee, and for final decree she demands
that "he pay her the sum of
$20,000 per annum during her life as
permanent alimony, and that the same
be guarded by a decree or judgment of
lein, of at least the sum of $200,000, to
prevent his disposal thereof by gift or
otherwise."
A Yonngr Rascal.
An enterprising youth near Cleveland,
Ohio, sent out circulars far and wide setting
forth "Allan's New Low Priced
Seven Shooter," which was a "triumph
of mechanical genius." It was "warranted
to be as good after three years'
use as when first purchased." On ac
count of " improved facilities'for making
them rapidly and cheaply," the price was
reduced to one dollar and a half, or thirteen
dollars a dozen. Orders came in
freely, and when the purchaser received
anytldng, it was a small bronze pea
shooter, into which, if seven small shot
were dropped, they could be discharged
in succession, by pull ng the trigger.
As the youth had been using the mails
for a swindling operation, the case was
put in the hands of a United States
marshal, who arrested him at a small
farm house with a rickety woodshed
for tho " arsenal," and took him to the
lockup in Cleveland, where, at last accounts,
he remained. He claimed that
ho sent all that he advertised, and if
people expected a revolver at that price
it wasn't hi3 fault. One can hardly conceive
of any one foolish enough to expect
any kind of a serviceable seven
shooter, revolving or not, at such a
ridiculous price. Yet it is said that the
orders poured in for them by "legions.'
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THURSDAY, FEB:
i iiauv noon nvna
A IlUJl?aUALi; ll?iAUi
Over One Hundred Lives Saved by Oae 3Ian
The Brave Deeds of an American John
Lambert?What John Horn of Detroit
has Done.
Among tlio applications made to the
last Congress for a medal for services in
the saving of life was that of John Horn,
of Detroit, who may be justly styled a
home-bred John Lambert. Mr. Horn
is a young man living at Detroit, assisting
his father there in a small tavern
near the public wharves. Doubtless
this proximity to the water has given
him the opportunities which he has had
in several years for saving what he calculated
in the aggregate at about one
hundred human lives from death by
drowning.
The Hon. Moses W. Field of the
House of Representatives, who knew
Horn in Detroit, brought his claim to
the attention of Congress. In collecting
information in regard to Horn's
singular and thrilling adventures, the
following letter was obtained from the
hero himself. It is a very medest and
not detailed report of what he has ac-?.
complished, told in simple and homely
language, and will bo read with peculiar
interest.
the hero's own story.
Dear Sir: I have never desired a
public statement of the service which,
under God, I have been able to render
in saving human life, but as you have
asked me to send you a list of the men,
women, and children whom I have res/ivatrminrt
T Trri 11 /1a ca ar\ far
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as I can from memory. I have never
kept a record of the names, and the
number is so great that you will excuse
me if I leave some unmentioned.
I think I have altogether saved more
than one hundred human beings, but I
take no credit about this matter, and I
have never regretted doiDg what I have
done in any case, although I have had
at times to keep my bed for many weeks
on account of the exposure in the cold
weather. It is well for me that I had a
good mother to take oare of me at such
times of sickness. On the twenty-first
of May, 18?, I saved Mr. Manning, of
Windsor. On the seventh of July, 1865,
I saved Mr. George Taylor, of New York
State ; he was very near dead when I got
him on the wharf. October 10, 1865,1
saved a child of Mr. F. Gorman, of
Adrian ; she was about five years old,
and was near drowned when I got her
out. December 12, 1865, I saved a son
of Mr. Yates, who kept a clothing store
on Jefferson avenue. The night was
very cold, a high wind was blowing at
the time, and he wa3 very near dead
when we reached the shore.
April 11, 1866, was the worst night I
ever had. It will be ever memorable as
the night of the great conflagration at
the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad
depot, when sixteen poor fellows were
drowned. I rescued nine, and then became
so exhausted that I could not swim,
and had to abandon them to their fate."
I got a bad cold and lay in bed two
weeks, but that was nothing in com par :son
to the good accomplished. July 25*
1866, I saved Mr. Joseph Noble, of
Windsor, and I believe you were there at
the time. He was once engineer on the
Great Western railroad. You know he
came near drowning me by his struggles
in the water, at which time I received
severe internal injuries. April 7, 1867,
I saved the son of Mr. C. Myers, who
lived in Mullet street. He was a boy
about twelve years old. June 14, 1867, >
I saved the daughter of Mr. Andrew
Norse, of Cleveland. She was going on
board the ferryboat with her mother
and some other ladies, when she fell off
the plank. When I got to the wharf
she \ws going out of sight for the last
time, and 1 plunged iu and brought her
to the surface.
Sept. 15, 1867, I saved a colored man,
who was a deckhand on the propeller
Meteor. He kicked me abont in the
water terribly, for drowning men are always
crazy. Nov. 2, 1867, I saved Mr.
David Miller, the mau who drove a
wagon for Hull Bros., storekeepers on
Monroe avenue. May 10, 1868, I saved
Mr. Robert Sinton, known as "Free
Press Bob." You know he used to be a
reporter for the Free jPress. And in his
haste to get news ho fell in, and I got
him out.
A few nights after that I saved Mr.
Steele, who used to keep a store on
Michigan avenue. He was on the ferryboat
with his wife; he had a very spirited
horse, and was holdiDg him by the
head when the boat struck the wharf.
The horse jumped and threw him into
the river, when tho current swept him
under the wharf. I jumped in and got
him^ut all right, v^ct. 4, 1868,1 saved
a daughter of Mr. McDonald, of Windsor.
May 12, 1869, I saved Mr. flattery,
one of the Flattery Brothers who
keep a furniture store on Woodward
avenue. He was a heavy man; when I
got hold of him he was near gone, aud I
came near losing my own life in getting
him out. June 21, 1870, I saved a man ;
^..lllpd Mr. fl-ftorrre Brodier. I was eat- I
ing dinner at the time, when some per- j
on came running in after me, saying:
"There is a man in the river." I ran
out and jumped into the river, and as
soon as I got near him he clutched me j
like a vise and took me under the water ;
twice. When I came to the top the la3t \
time, my father handed mc a long pole, j
which I caught, and that saved me. He j
was a powerful man, and kicked and
struggled so hard that he made my legs
black and blno for many months.
My mother goes to the edge of the
wharf with me very often, when I jump
in; but when she sees persons struggling
in the water aud drowning, she never ;
holds me back.
August 24, 1871, I saved the daughter [
of Mr. A. Wilson, of Milwaukee. March I
4, 1872, 1 saved a colored man by the j
name of George Wilkes; he fell oif the j
wharf while under the influence of:
liquor, but I tliiuk he has been a sober
man ever since. July 4, 1873, I saved>
the daughter of Mr. F. Barlow, a
butcher, who keep3 a stall in the market.
She was going on board the ferryboat |
Detroit with her mother and some other I
lAdies; the crowd was very great, being '
the fourth of July, and although her i
mother held her by the hand, the crowd :
surged, and she was crowded off the
plank and fell into the river. There ;
were about five hundred people on the j
wharf at the time, and they were all j
staring at the poor girl struggling in i
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the water, not one of them daring to go
to her rescue. I was in the house when
some one came to give the alarm, and
when I got out there I could just see her
dress as she was going out of sight four
or five feet below the surface. I jumped
in and caught her, and when I got out
on the top of the wharf with her the people
gave me three cheers. March 6,
1873,1 saved a young lady called Miss
Louise McKenzie. This was the closest
call I ever had for my life. I was in the
water about Seventeen minutes, and the
river being full of floating ice at the
time I was nearer dead than alive when
I got out. Four men carried me into
the house, and they rubbed me with hot
whisky for over four hours before circulation
was restored to its normal condition.
This severe exposure made me
sick, and it was over three months before
the right feeling was in my hands.
You will remember this incident, for
you came to me when I was unwell. I
regret very much at this time I lost the
beautiful medal presented me by the
citizens, and I think you were one of the
gentlemen connected with its presentation.
I have been informed that I
would receive a medal from the British
Parliament, but it has not come. I
don't ask any.
I saved "a noor unfortunate individ
ual " last month, when I took a severe
cold, and as I was lying in bed reading
tho proceedings of Congress, I saw
something about an appropriation for
medals to persons for saving life on the
seashore, and I thought then that some
gentleman wonld be very likely to remember
also those who saved life on the
northern lakes and rivers. There are
many other cases which I don't mention,
as I have not got their names. You
must know yourself of a great many, as
your place of business and warehouse
are near by, and I recollect seeing you
several times when rescuing people from
a watery grave. Wishing you and your
family good health, I remain, very truly
yours, '
(Signed) John Hobn, Jb.
An Important Matter.
The Mosel disaster caused a general
hunt for explosive stores all over Germany,
and it was shown that in almost
every city there was enough of this
dangerous material on hand to destroy
the plaoe and all the people in it. The
same is no doubt true of other countries.
Three ships with dynamite cargoes
lying off Harburg, in the frozen
river Elbe, had to turn out their fiery
cargoes without a moment's loss of
time. No less than 1,200 chosts?
enough to heave up the earth?were
carried to a hollow in the hills some
seven miles from tho city. There they
will remain buried until returning
spring allows the ships to continue their
voyage. The inhabitants of the fortress
of Mindcn, too, have sent in a petition,
reques iug that twenty thousand pounds
of the dangerous stuff deposited in the
earthworks in the immediate vicinity of
their city lie removed forthwith. Their
petition will, no doubt, be attended to,
and fresh regulations issued to control
the manufacture, storing and sale of
explosives. It is, however, obvious
that, unless the more civilized and industrial
countries unite in the precautionary
measures, the citizens of all will
be exposed to the peril of suffering for
the omission of one. Where a few
pounds suffice to work such a terrible
havoc, this is a consideration which
should not be lost sight of. Surely,
after the harm done by the American
glycerine m vreruiuuy, xi> uugui uu? w
be too sanguine to hope that a nitro-glycerine
convention will be shortly concluded
between the two states.
Horses in a Coal Mine.
A visitor to an English coal minesays:
A hundred yaids further along
this lofty, double tramway, we reach
the stablos, which contain over a hundred
horses and ponies. Oil lamps dimly
illumine well appointed and scrupulously
clean rows of stalls, in which
sleek, well conditioned animals stand
munching their grain. We pass along
behind them, but not a horse has the
curiosity to look around, although the
" keeper " carries a bright light. Opening
a door, we enter another stable,
where every horse is lying down in his
stall.
" We will not disturb them," says the
kind hearted viewer; "you see they
work their 1 shifts' and bait and sleep
just the same as the men; and so it becomes
natural to them, for there is
neither day nor night down here. When
a horse once comes down the pit, he is
never sent to bank again alive; for the
poor things soon become blind for want
of sunlight"?
"Poor brutes I that explains their uninquiring
docility."
"Yes; they become stone-blind," he
continues; "eyery^norae auu everyuuuy
111 the mine is stone-blind."
Tnero are scores of rats scurrying
about?some in the mangers, sharing
with impunity the food of the sightless
horses?some rustling among the hay
and straw, and none appearing much j
alarmed at our approach. j
A Witness who Knew.
Witnesses in trials are not so green <
sometimes as they let on they are. At
a recent trial in Nevada, Biehoff, of the i
Humboldt brewery, was called as a j
witness. Mr. Biahoff is one of the solid '
men of Elko, where he has been in i
business since the town was started in ]
the winter of 1858. Upon being sworn, i
Counselor Rand, one of the attorneys in
the case, who, by the way, is also an old i
resident of Elko, said : " Mr. Bishoff, i
where do you reside ?" " Where I reside
? What for you ask me such foolish
things ? You drink at my plaoe more as
a hundred times." "That has nothing
to do with the case on trial, Mr. Bishoff;
state to the jury whore you re
side." "De shurry! de shurry! Oh, <
py jimmy! ofery gentleman on dis
shurry has a string of marks on mine
cellar door just like a rail fence." His
honor here interceded in the counselor's
behalf, and in a calm, dignified manner
requested the witness to state where he
resided. "Oh, excuse me, shudge; you
drinks at my plaoe so many times and
pays me notings, 1 dinks you know old
Bishoff vat keeps the brewery."
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Baby Lions in Central Parle.
The twin lions in the Central Park,
New York, were bat three weeks old,
says a visitor, when I looked in upon
them. They are called Romulus and
Remus, and lie in a cradle of straw,
suckled by an animal of the wolf genus,
a watchdog of the menagerie, a large,
handsome half-breed mastiff. Her eight
children were taken from her three weeks
ago, and the whelps of Jenny, the
lioness, after two or three days of starvation
at their mother's breast, were given
to the dog. Their lionlike and nncanine
odor startled her, and she gave the baby
lions some severe cuffs, whereby the
smaller one still weeps with a sore eye.
After two or three days the mother dog
forgot that they were not pilppies, and
has ever since carefully nursed and
tenderly bathed them every day with her
tongue.
The cubs are yet too young to gambol,
but they fight lustily for the best opportunities
of taking their infantile food.
Romulus, who is the larger, is always
master, selfishly sending away his little
brother, whose forehead is nearly 'denuded
by those frequent fights for the
best place. They are unappreciative of
caresses and move uneasily about in
their pen, giving faint sounds that were
only slightly indicative of the lion's
roar, but their little giant paws show
long nails, and on the floor they walk
rapidly, with soft, dragging, stealthy
step.
TTV.*".! Hiat? om fVi*oo m/vrif.Via nld thnv
will be allowed only infant's foot. By
that time the first teeth will be through.
They are already visible through the
gums. Whelps are kept as long as possible
on milk, and long after tney quit
eating flesh the mother dog will be kept
with them, to afford the delicate cubs
her warmth. But were she not removed
at meal times they would without hesitation
eat her without compunction, The
whelps have soft, short fur of a tawny,
yellow color, with a dark streak down
the spine, and a fat, tapering tail. Bred
in this latitude, young lions are tender
throughout infancy, but in teething they
pass two dangerous periods. At about
a year old, they shed their milk teeth,
and at the cutting of the second set thev
meet a critical period, which but a small
proportion of lions, captive or wild, survive.
At four years of age, they are full
grown. They do not develop their reasoning
powers, said Mr. Conkling, before
they cut the second teeth. Romulus
has all his incisor and is cutting his
eye teeth. Remus has the lower incisors,
and has two upper little front
teeth.
Their brother, two years old, retains
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job of supplying cane-seat chairs for the
summer session, and became directly interested
in a binding contract.
Chinese Houses.
The steamship Alaska has bronght to
San Francisco fifteen car-loads of material
for Japanese houses to be erected
on the Centennial grounds. Ten Japanese
carpenters accompany the wood,
which is, in the main, bamboo. It is already
prepared in a great measure; all
the hewing, the dressing, etc., has been
done, and no labor remains for the carpenters
excepting the task of finishing
the material and putting the frames together.
Several styles of houses will
be on exhibition. They are entirely devoid
of nails.
lilt) iinme ui imujy ju? in a vxi^o %jj iinn
self, and is a handsome creature. Their
parents, Jenny and Lincoln, are also in
the menagerie, each alone, and contented
to be alone. Aside from a slight conjujugal
affection, they have no love for any
living being?beast or man?but their
keeper. At his approach they rouse
into emotional activity, roar affectionately,
with the softest voice of which a
lion is capable, and run their shaggy
heads and shoulders against the bars of
the cage in unmistakable delight when
their friend and master flatters them
with the playful caresses of a stick.
"Jenny is not a loving mother," said
the keeper. " She showed no regret for
the young, taken from Iyer at three days
old, and seems to be without the maternal
sentiment which some lions have in
small degree.
Lincoln is said to be the handsomegt
lion in Ameiica. He aud Jonny are
seven years old, were captured in Africa,
and purchased by a sea captain, who
brought them to this country, selling
them to New York city for $1,550.
A Practical Use of Dogs.
It is a fact perhaps not generally
known that there is a Arm doing business
in San Francisco who purchase the
thousands of dogs slaughtered by the
pound master of that city, or that may
havo been otherwise killed, for which
/.anfo Donh TV?? I'arr^aa.
tilCJ poj 1UJ. MJ wavo vwvut
868 are conveyed to their manufactory at
South San Francisco, where the skins
are removed and sold to the tanneries,
the hair taken off and resold to plasterers,
the hide tanned, mado into gloves
and sold in the market. The denuded
carcass is then thrown into a huge caldron
and boiled until the bones are
easily separated from the flesh, when
they are removed and sold to the sugar
re fineries, where they are ground to a
fine powder and used to clarify sugar.
Tho oil that rises to tne surface of the
boiling mass is skimmed off and manufactured
into cod liver oil, and the remainder
is used for the purpose of fattening
hogs.
Boss Tweed in Washington.
A Washington correspondent says:
" Bill Tweed " first made his appearance
here at Washington in April, 1851, as
foreman of the American engine company
No. 6, which was composed of
dashing New York b'hoys. WheD he
introduced them to President Fillmore
he simply said : " These are ' Big Sixboys',
Mr. President." When they left
tho White House he said that this speech
was long enough, as they were as much
pander looking than any other company
in this world as Niagara falls was grander
than Croton dam. In December,
1853, he came here and was sworn in as
the representative from the Fifth Congressional
district of New York in the
Thirty-third Congress. During the two
sessions of that Congress he was a regular
attendant, and he made two short
soeeches. He also got for a relative the
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Items of Interest.
More than one-quarter of the breweries
in Wisconsin have suspended for lack
of patronage.
Rabbits are so thick on the lower portion
of Beaver river, Utah, that no crops
can be raised.
Are your words of more weight when
you proj.ound anything than when you
announce it ?
India has not a single port on the vast
sea coast line between Bombay and Calcutta
where a vessel could discharge her
cargo at pier.
Hie total bank note circulation of
Germany at the end of October was 54,303,000
thalers, including four millions
of small notes,
CoL Emby, who shot D. R. Anthony
at Leavenworth, Kan., several months
ago, has just been acquitted of the charge
of murderous assault.
On the body of a suicide of Brownsville
was a letter which read as follows :
" Dear mother?Here's a good-bye.
Liquor has done the work."
Trying to do business without advertising
is like winking at a pretty girl in
the dark ; you may know what you are
doing, but nobody else does.
The number of convicts in the Arkansas
penitentiary aid the number of hangings
last year are double that of any
year in the history of the State.
A negro boy was driven barefooted on
a cold day from the house of a farmer
for whom he worked in North George,
"V Y TVia Vv?v'r faot were so frozen
that they had to be amputated.
The San Franciaso Bulletin bemoans
the use of narrow carriage tiree, which
are ratting their streets badly, and
points longingly to Paris, where tiree
are taxed, the narrowest paying the
largest license and the largest almost
nothing.
A Stratford school teacher got the
boys down on him by taking their apples
away from them when they had them
around daring sch<x>l time, and eating
them himself, bat he looks at diem very
carefully since he ate one charged with
red pepper.
When two young Chinamen, now being
educated in a Lowell factory, made application
the other day for permission to
cutoff their pigtails, for fear of their
catching in the machinery, the request
had to be first forwarded to the authorities
in China.
Paisley, near Glasgow, is probably
the greatest thread manufacturing center
in the world, its exports of sewing
cottons for last year amounting to near
8,000,000. The United States is the best
customer, taking last year 2,314,000
pounds, valued at $2,450,000.
Forest and Stream describes a curious
raoe of sheep living on an island in Englishman's
bay, on the ocast of Maine.
They are nearly as wild as deer. Their
principal winter food is seaweed, chiefly
dulce ; they also eat the branches of
trees which grow on the island.
A Western correspondent h s inter
viewed young Joe Smith, son of the Mormon
prophet Yonng Joe is described
as broad-shouldered, good-looking and
forty-three. He is opposed to polygamy,
bnt says the Mormons of Utah
will not give it np without a fight.
One of the yonng men employed in a
Danbury hat factory discovered a brass
collar bntton in a piece of mince pie he
was masticating the other day. Ho is
looking for a new boarding place. He
says what he wants are the comforts of a
home, and not the excitement and confusion
of a dollar store.
Two gamblers have been converted in
Portland, Oregon. One of them, upon
his first attendance at a ^lass meeting,
handed to the leader a worn dice box and
the dice. " Those have been my means
of livelihood for years," he aid, " and I
have become so expert with them that I
can beat a game in which loaded dice are
used against me. I haven't any other
trade, and it is like trading competence
for poverty to give up my tools."
So Year and Yet So Far.
Not many months ago, in India', a
gentleman and wife having taken passage
for England went on board with
their baggage. Presently the husband
discovered that there was time for him
to go ashore and see a man. He went,
and when it occurred to him that it was
time to go on board again, he hailed a
boatman and ere long found himself on
board a large passenger ship. It was
night. A sleepy steward inquired the
number of his cabin, which he chanced
to remember, as also that his was the
upper berth; so he contrived to clamber
into it without disturbing his wife, as
he supposed, who slept beneath. But
when dawn broke, and the ship was well
on her way, a feminine voice was heard
shrieking, in a tone of terror: "Steward,
steward! there's a man in my
cabin I" The wretched man was aroused,
and the situation explained to him. He
had mistaken the ship. They were un
der way for Australia, and his unhappy
wife was steaming away to England under
a firm conviction that he had been
robbed and murdered by ruffians who
frequent the quays. When he at length
arrived in Australia, he could net even
there relieve her mind, as the cable connecting
that country with Europe was
not completed, so that about four months
passed before she heard anything of
nim;
The Gold Yield.
The mines in the States and Territories
west of the Missouri river, including
British Columbia and the west coast of
Mexico, show a yieldof 680,889,037 during
the present year, being an excess of
nearly $6,500,000 over that of last year.
Nevada, Colorado, Mexico, Oregon,
British Columbia, Montana, and Arizona
increased. California, Idaho, Utah and
Washington decreased. The decrease
in California was due to want of water.
The increase in Colorado and Nevada
was very notable. The latter yields
more than one-half of the whole. The
present prospect of the yield next year
indicates that it will reach $96,000,000,
of which Nevada will contribute $50,000,000.
Wells, Fargo &Co. carried over
$23,500,000 of gold dust and bullion and
over $41,000,000 of silver bullion. The*
other $16,000,000 was in ores and base
bullion.