The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, June 18, 1884, Image 1
~ WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUKE 18,1884. . ;|j|jS
A Western Maid's Dream.
If I could ketch onto tbe winjrs of a bird,
* I would li^ht ia the loftiest tree,
And twitter a twit that could plainly be
heard
From JJmtown clcar out to tbe sea.
I would warbk* a note of such terrible force ;
That the elements wildly would crack,
? And the Indian chieftain would fall from his !
horse
And split his shirt clear up the back!
. . ...
L If I wore outfitted with elephant's lect,
g|fe My terrible troad would resound
M * a.'i animal life would In terror retreat
Ten thousand Jc ajrues under the jrround.
And if I had the voice of a lion I'd roar
JkSTtI Tiii the wide universe icst its wits.
And the birds would fold up their licet wings
gaSST and keel o'er,
" And die in hysterical fits.
If I were a dweller teneath the deep sea,
JJF V.'itb the figure and power of a whale.
Every creature around ine in terror would i
tieo : |
At tbo fantastic flirt of my tail.
T vaiiU ivinnin n.croilt v??n| or tWO CVflrV I
day,
And down in the ocean so blue,
O'er the feast I'd say tn-ce in the usual way, f
And make a square meal of the crew.
rBut since 1 am only a modest young maid?
A wild, tender flower of the West?
These longing desires I am really afraid
3iust be downed, as it were, and suppressed.
I Since I cannot raiso Hades by sucn a rank
play,
My lias; of desire I must furl.
And dream the delectable hours away
As a sweet, timid, jrcnt'e young girL
? T Pnnripr .ToiirnftL 1
[ONLY A PIMPLE.
Lord Bertie Ellesmere walked into
his wife's sitting-room one afternoon,
with an unusually serious expression
on his face. For Lord Bertie was a
*" young man of a cheerful disnosition,
not given to serious thoughts, fie found
Lsdy Bertie in her room, engrossed in
: the absorbing occupation of looking in
1 the glass. She did not turn when ho
j entered, but continued to study the
j& dimples in her chia. She had been a J
R recognized beauty when she married* j
t h/vrn-frkTA 1
I 11*I ^4. $1111 JLLCIli vLltfri/ ^/WiViVU j vu.w*.w?.w?.w
she must be forgiven for continuing to
look in the glass without apology,
whether her h'usbnnd or any one else
entered the room. Actresses do not
apologize for settling their ruffles and
studying the effect of their "make-up"
in the green-room mirror all the while
they carry on a conversation; why,
then, should not :i society beauty watch
her own face while she talks? It is
rDUt H mailer (JL UU5iiiC5? in uuiu (jjiaca. |
Lord and Lady Bertie had been married
two years, and they were still excellent
friends. No jealousy or misunderstanding
had, so far, marred
k their content with each other.r
wL Lord Bertie sat down and looked, at^
tentivoly for a moment at his wife's
back, but its prettiness did not occupy
his mind at this moment,
v "May," he said suddenly, and in a
grave voice, *-:s mere nnyiaing you
ll|Sfe "Anything I want!" exclaimed Lady
IP* Bertie. "Well, I should think so! I
want a new idea for a ball dress; I
.. wan: an Esquimaux dog; I want my
_ diamonds reset; I want to go to St.
Petersburg this winter; I want?I can't
B^yV think of tliem ail now, but I want a
Kmkc ? hundred things."
"Do you want money?" ~"
"Money! Xot particularly at the
moinpnt; Lint if vou arc overburdened
P * " ^ wii h fotnk notes I feel^ spre*! cSi nsa
4'Don't talk 'nonsense, May; Fm in.
\ ^earnest. And I do wish yoc?cL turn.
"I'm busy," replied Lady Bertie.
And so, indeed she was. She was applying
with the greatest care and skill
a minute patch of sticking plaster to a
tiny defect which sho Lad discovered
on her chin. "Fancy you being in earnshe
went on. "What can it bo
r about?"
' * - t
\iuay, nave you oeen gaauuiugr
asked Lord Bertie abruptly.
" "Gambling!" cried Lady Bertie.
'Certainly not Why, I should have
hollows under my eyes in a fortnight!
What can have put sr.eh an idea in
your head?"
"I'll teil you," said Lord Bertie.
t"Just now, for the second time, I have
seen a dreadful looking Jew, with any
quantity of watch chain over an immense
waistcoat, going out of this
house. Now, what on earth can you
want with a Jew, if it isn't to borrow
money?"
"Dear me!" said Lady Bertie, with
scorD, -wnai a povuruy-si'riu.tkvu nuagination
yours must be! One might
\ want a great many things of a Jew, I
should tbink. Jews are very clever
people."
"Don't you mean to tell me what
that man comes to see you for?" asked
Lord Bertie in a gloomy tone.
L"Iso!" said Lady Berlic airily, but
with much decision; "no, I don't
"Now," she added, turning around at
last, "am 1 looking well to-day?"
g& "You are getting handsomer, I believe,"
said Lord Bertie, but in the
Wjp same gloomy tone.
|pr "I very glad you think so!" exY
claimed Lady Bertie, with fervor.
"That's ail right then." And she left
the mirror and came to a low chair
near her husband. She was exceedingly
graceful and could sit down in an
P"*1" artistic manner worthy of the great
A* Sarah. She formed a "lovely picture,
in her white- wrapper that was little
more than a cloud of Valenciennes, as
It she posed herself in her favorite lounge
and crossed her pretty pink slippered
III feet. Lord Bertie had thrown himself
into an easy, but hardly graceful attitude?his
legs outstretched and his
heels on the ground, his hands in his
1111. trousers pocket. Sitting thus, he eyed
his beautiful wife all over, with a de|jir
jected and perplexed air.
"It's not all right," he said, after a
mnmont ?'T Vtoto m-rctAridc W
rkept clear of them so far, May. If you
won't clear this one up, I'll cut it short
by telling the servants that Jew is not
to enter this house."
"Oh, do!" said Lady Bertie; "that
will make such a nice little scandal for
the servants' hall! And by to-morrow
it will be half over town."
"Well, I don't want to make a fool
of myself, and I'm sure I've 110 desire
gjt that "you should be talked about; but I
can't stand this state of things."
BaflB|BHrah "In fact, vou arc dving of curiosi&
ty?"
"Not at all. But if you are in di2igfl
culties, I'm ready to get you out of
|HHH them. There's my baud on it, May;
lg and all I ask is, don't go to anybody
11, else."
"What a dear boy you are," said
K Lady Bertie. "But there's nothing to
be so serious about, I assuro you. I'm
Hi not going to tell you why my friend
comes here, or what my business is
Bsvith him; because that would be countenancing
absurd tyranny on your part
lllilia?Mhich. I don't mean to do."
tm? it- _ i. xr T
ngHS9m^>(Jii i. i;ni>wcr me i.i? tutu, m.sv, x
afe stand it. The light comedy manHkn't
always appropriate. I'm in
W, and you've done nothing but
Ke since I came in."
BMBfli well, I'll drop into melo
wild norses won t crag my
|p me: you may take my life,
Lot speak! Now I must dross
Hp good-by.'"
Wvcnt away to her dressin^the
bell for her maio.
??aea?tammm?ggaagg iiTtraa?mp?
bo tne conversation ended of necessity.
For three weeks Lord Bertie lived in
a state of gloom and uneasiness, playing
the am.iteur detective, and playing
it with no results. He saw no more of
the Jew; and as the conviction forced
itself upon him that the man had been
told not to come, he grow more gloomy
and more uneasy. For three whole
weeks he said no word to Lady Bertie
except in public; and ever, then he
sometimes fixed his eyes upon hor in a
truly melodramatic manner. For a
young man of a cheerful disposition
this seemed strange; but he was haunted
by a conviction that Lady Bertie was
much cleverer than himself, and he
was resolved not to be deceived by her
apparently light-hearted indifference
to his displeasure.
The breach gradually widened until
it became evident to their intimate
friends thai Lord and Lady Bertie were
no longer on good terms. As to their
domestic life, it was - shipwroeked, and
thatVvery easily. Lady Bertie went
through her accustomed round of social
duties, and was just as gay and
just as bright as over; but she never
saw her husband except when he offered
her his arm as a matter of business.
For a little while this amused her rather;
it was like playing in a French comedy
to have a sulky, jealous husband,
ana to de consoiea dv a auuureu vuaiming
creatures, all admirable specimens
of the various approved types of ladykillers.
For consolation of this kind
was offered on the instant. Lady Bertie
recognized, with a half-angry and halftriumphant
amusement, that the admiration
offered her to-day was of a
different order from that which had j
been hers three weeks ago. Perhaps
this sense of power, the consciousness
that there was abundant mockery of
lovo ready to hand, helped her to understand
the value of the real love
which the world already believed her
to have lost
One morning she sent a message to
her husband, asking him to come to
^er room. He camu, ?nd stood silently
at attention. As before, she was
looking at herself in the glass.
"Good morning, Bertie," she said,
gayly, and turned from the mirror to
look at him. "Don't you think that
this nonsense has gone far enough? I
expcct in the next twenty-four hours to
IsnTtr. In'oof Vinlf o (!nwn nTnwot.e nf
V/ bill ICOOU vfc UV6VU ^IWJVV? ? .
elopement submitted for my considers- j
tion. Now the Duke-^vgoulda't like a
scandal of that sort, would.lic?"
"Perhaps not," answered Lord Bertie
dryly. C? v "> - Z ?
''VVeIl,. I don't propose to run away
just now?that is, if-you'll be reasonable.
The present "agreeable state of
things has dated, I believe, from tho
day when I wouldn't tell you who my
friend the Jew was. Now I am going
to propose terms. If I take you into
my confidence will you keep what I tell
Kxrinrf CATll'P"
JV/U UVUi c-r V^J >uri^4^ wvv**?
That depends," said Lord Bertie,
cautiously.
"Then I will not take you into my
} confidence. Consider that nothing has
been said. We will go on as we were,
and things shall take their course."
- **But?I m awfuDy tired of it. Max.,
come; say waat you have, and
ril swear iayseli to secrecy y
_* 'Absolute?^ ~ I
"Absolute." " y
"The subject must never bo mentioned
when my maid is in the room; I
know she talks."
"I won't forget"
"No member of the family is to ever
hear of it; Til kill you if you toll your
sister."
- "I have sworn."
"Yes, I know, but you must swear
also not to tease me or drop hints."
"I swear."
"Well, the Jew is coming this morning,
and you shall assist at the interview,
if you like. Do you see this spot,
pimple?call it by any bad name you
like?"
see it."
"Well. hn is coincr to take it off."
"Good heavens! May, you don't
mean to say you'd let that man touch
you?"
"I'd be touched by?by anything,
rather than have a pimple on my face.
But he only does it with a camel's hair
brush and some stuff that stings."
"But this; is ridiculous nonsense, my
dear May." ~
"Not at all. He is supposed to understand
all about the skin, and he has
invented all 3orts of lotions for clearing
the complexion. Half the women
you know employ him, I assure you,
Bertie; but I don't want anybody to
know I've come to it yet,"
"But what's the good of this absurd
secrecy? He'll go and tell all these
UVI11CU.
"Not he; he's too wise to risk- his
fees".
''lucre's something in that; I've no
douiir. But I c:m hardly believe any
e liilnjr himself a man can have
Kil.'isy. tr.-lij-l'." r .
W- is'.M he here in two minntes;
vi>:: <-.-u -ti.J s??c for yourself-that
! is r truth. "" Are yon go'
,... ; r :ho iife you'vo led
: i'il toll you what,
/ r a our complesionelearer
for the future. We1fl go yachting
to the Mediterranean this year;
that'll take away the spots, and you
can throw this brute over."
"Agreed!" cried Lady Bertie, just as
a knock came at the door.
Lord Bertie did not wish to assist at
the ceremony, and he hurried out of
one door as the Jew came in at the
other. But he came back later in the
morning, and went out with Lady
Bertie in her carriage in the afternoon.
They seemed absurdly contented with
each other's society; and the many aa- ;
mirers of the beautiful Lady Bertie saw j
very soon that what they had- taken for
a very serious affair was nothing moro
than a lover's quarrelLord
Bertie kept his word; he never
"told" and he took Lady Bertie to the
Mediterranean, where they spent a sort
of second honeymoon. And at present
Lady Bertie is independent of her Jewish
friend's assistance.?Ijondon World.
m i m
The Same to YonFritz,
as he is familiarly called, is a j
genial old German who keeps a beersaloon.
He labors under the disadvantage
of being extremely dca? hence he }
has a deputy who attends to the spiritual
wants of the customers. Ope day
a fun-lovinsr youth, named Read, en
tered the saloon with a few friends,
their object being to test some of the
beer, probably in the interest of sci
ence. * Fritz was as smiling as a basket
of poker chips. Read rfused bis mug?
the ono with tho beor in it?and banorl'nn
trt T?Vl 19! ?
"Here's to your health, you miserable
old reprobate ; you are a disgrace
.to the nineteenth century."
"The same to you Mr. Read," replied
the old image, bobbing his head
and smiling, under the impression that
some extraordinary compliment had
been paid him.
A GREAT LANDLORD.
Pen and Ink Sketch of the Third
Richest Man in the United States.
The third richest man in the union,
according to the Now York Morning
Journal, is John Jacob Astor, the chief
owner and heir of the Astor estate.
Unlike many millionaires, says the
Journal writer, Astor lias botn name ;
and riches?a name linked with fabulous
wealth for three succeeding generations.
The estimated value of the
estate is from $90,000,000 to $100,000,000,
a veritable mountain of gold. John
Jacob and William B. are its solo own- !
crs. the former's interest said to be
two-thirds. - 4
' For nearly a century the title of being
"the landlords of New York" has
attached itself to them. John Jacob's
interest in bouses, lots and farms may
be computed in the thousands.
Among the valuable buildings principally
owned by Mr. Astor as chief
heir to the estate i3 the old landmark,
the Astor house, which was sold to his
father bv his orandfather. tho founder
of the immense estate, for $1. Its
present valuo ;s said to be $2,000,000,
beiag assessed at $1,750,000. The
Guaranty and Indemnity building, j
chiefly owned by Mr. Astor, was purchased
a short timo ago for $1,000,000,
while the Astor estate pays taxes on
$50,000,000 of real estate situated below
Chambers street, most of which
consists of business houses on Broadway
and Wall street There i3 scarcely
a ward, street, or avenue in the city
~ '
in which Mr. Astor does not own real
estate, on which the total amount of
taxes is over $400,000 annually.
Another point of difference between
Mr. Astor and other millionaries is in
his investments. In Wall street his
name never appears as a speculator
and seldom as an investor or seller of
stocks, bonds, or other similar securities.
Having an income of 10 per cent
on the gross amount invested in real
estate, he quietly buys more houses or
lands when opportunity for good investment
offers. In an inventory made
pf his various properties an item of
$G, 000,000 in cash appeared as "money
in trust companies and banks waiting
in fisfjitA.11
Mr. As tor is a man of striking personal
appearance, being over six feet
in height, stout, somewhat inclined to
corpulenco, and straight as an arro w.
When on the street his quick, elastic
step and smiling face, fringed with
small gray side-whiskers, invariably
attract attention. His dress is simple
and surprisingly neat. At business or
?r> tho strpot. }ia wears a broadcloth cut
away or frock coat, with trousers to
match, comfortable-looking shoes, always
lightly polished, while in his
hand usually swings as he walks a
large, purple silk umbrella. In summer
his costume is changed to a black
serge coat and trousers of some lighter
color, while an easy straw hat rests
lightly on his ivory-white hair.
Mr. Astor, though seldom speaking
of himself, recently told a friend that
although he had completed threescore
years, he felt as well and hearty as he
did at 40. Benevolence is his fitpfeiaa;
-characteristic, one p'A'uiflSUiy inherited ^
ttoax the founder the Astor "ibrary.
Many of -his charities are pu Wished,
though the actual amount of good done
with his every-day check-book is little
known. In nearly all the charitable
institutions of this city the names of
himself and his wife and often
jointly, appears as large givers. During
the winter months Mr. Astor is
either at his office at No. 21 West,
Twenty-sixth street, or at his home at
No. 338 Fifth avenue. The latter is
familiar to nearly every resident of
Fifth avenue, and is conspicuous for
nothing but its plainness and the spacious
grounds which surround it. It is
built of line molded brick, with trim
micgs of brown stone, and has a
double stairway leading to the front
entrance. The interior compares favorably
with any palace.
During the late illness of his wife,
Mr. Astor's time was chiefly devoted
to cheering her weary hours at the bedside
with the same untiring affection
he has shown throughout the many
years of his married life. His principal
rCUrU&LlULO iU V YXSllO tv UUO tiv^auu |
seat at Rheinecliffe-on-the-Hudson and |
yachting. The country seat is an an- !
cient-looking establishment, kept in the
finest order, ?nd is a reminiscence of
olden time. Well shaded with trees of
every kind, its immense lawns and gardens
*\re traversed by long drives and
walks.
Here, in the long days of the summer
months, Mr. Astor sits on the cool
piazza or under some shady tree and
reads. He is having built one of the
finest pleasure yachts yet launched in'
the waters of this country, the cost of
which is placed at a trifle over $200,-'
000. It will be completed early in the
coming summer.
A Georgia Snake.
So many snake stories have been
published by the Southern press that
every -wortnerner who crossus tue vyuiu i
River begins to look for serpents. A
Michigan man, who was taking a brief
trip fast fall down into :snnland,
reached Rome, Ga., without having
seen a snake, and he iki.fc- so glad over,
it that ho couldn't keep his feelings to
himself. At the hotel were several
quests who determined on a joke at
nis expense. A darkey in town, who
1 ^enolrao
LLiiU. bCYUTJH SilLLl jkJIUd Ui omut-u ouaavj, i
was interviewed to the extent of half a j
dollar, and a plan was perfected to J
give the Micbigander a terrible scare.
Snakes had been talked of for a day or
two, to get the man's feelings properly
worked up, and one evening he was
invited to take a seat on the veranda
for a smoke. His chair was so placed
that a boy could creep up and deposit
the specimen under it, and when this
had been done some one began to talk
about the way snakes sometimes
crept into houses.
"One evening last summer as a lot of
us sat out here," observed one of the
crowd, "a rattler about seven feet long
crept up there, dropped down on tho
floor, and such a time you never saw!"
Every man bent over to look under
his cliair, as if suspecting the presenco j
of a snake. The Wolverine caught !
sight of the serpent under his, and ho j
slowly rose up, pulled the chair away, j
kicked the reptile clear over the railing
of the veranda into the street and sat
down with the remark:
"Weii, i spose i q ges usea vo it
after living here awhile, but just now
the sight of a snake makes me rather
nervous. Who tells the next story?"?
M. Quad,
Furstenfield, in Germany, boasts of
the oldest tree in the country. It is a
huge linden, believed to bo 1,000 years
old, and growing at the back of the
village church, in the midst of the
tombs of two centuries. Its trunk is
fully fifteen feet in diameter, and its
twisted branches stretch out far and
wide, seemingly covering tne enure in-1
QlQgure. Jt is still growing, |
A- ~ '
Snobbery in Gotham.
The New York correspondent of tho
Atlanta Constitution tells something
about a dude" clothing store :
We worship that which is expensive.
I was reminded of this forcibly by a
firm which has won its way to the top
rank in its own particular line by unblushingly
and shamlessly overcharging
for everything they sell. They describe
themselves as "haberdashers," and
keep what is known in the vulgar parI
lance of the day as a "gents' furnishing
goods" store. They have a
superb establishment. It is the size of
two stores; is fitted in polished mahogany
from lloor to coiling, and filled
with a small army of snobbish clerks.
A page in livery opens the door for
those who enter, and they never allow
a customor to take any article home
himself. If it is only a neck-scarf they
will send it to him, though- he lives five
miles away. They have two delivery
vans for that purpose, driven by uni
j formed coachmen with flunkies by their
I sides to deliver the goods. Altogether,
| the style of the establishment is stun!
ning. The prices are so high that men
| of modest means do not buy there.
This is entirely to their satisfaction, as
they do not want that 'kind of custom.
Nothing in their shop can be bought at
the regular prices. Collars, for instance,
which sell usually at 25 cents,
are 50 cents there ; and they charge 80
cents a pair for cuffs that are elsewhere
00 to 4U. It IS JUlpUSMUIW IV UUJf
sort of a scarf or necktie for less than
$2, and the prices for smoking-jackets,
bathrobes, and articles of that sort
are positively enormous. They demand
?28 for a bath-robe of Turkish
toweling which could be bought anywhere
else in town for $12. A few
days ago a friend of mine dropped in
casually to order some shirts. The
door was swung open by an obsequious
attendant, who bowed and pointed to
a clerk who was leaning gracefully on
the end of the counter. The clerk
stepped forward, bent and smiled.
"I want some shirts," said my friend.
"Will you be kind enough to step
this way, sir ?" and the clerk rubbed
his hands together and walked softly
^nwn tli/i ctrirr*
The customer followed until they arrived
at the office in the rear. There
the clerk was met by a member of the
firm, who was introduced to the cusI
tomer. The customer, rather aston|
ished at so much ceremony, was asked
j with great politeness to step up-stairs,
| which he did. On the way the proI
prietor asked him if he would exchange
j cards. This being accomplished, the
j next floor was reached, and proved to
j be a richl}--upholstered and heavily
carpeted parlor- The proprietor
touched an electric bell and conversed
easily with his customer until the shirtmaker
appeared. He said nothing
about the shirt, and seemed to treat
the call as purely social. After he had
been measured, tho customer said:
"You may make me a sample shirt
first" ' ' . \ .
"We never make , less
dozen shirts, sir, and
a dozen," laconi^^Sut"l
do>i!t caro to pay- a?|l" a"
half a dozen shirts, and then find that
they do not fit me ; and I think it is an
extortionate price, anywav."
1?-? "
"V/Ur UUSLUlUUi.9 3?i.U, Uiiw pivptiUtor,
grandly, never suspect us of illfitting
them, and never ask the price."
"I don't care whether they do or
not," said my friend, "I want one shirt
for trial and I will pay you $5 for it,
and that is the end of the whole matI
ter. If yoxi wan't to do it you may: if
! not, don't trouble yourself, There are
plenty of shirt-makers in t'own who
charge at least reasonable figures."
The proprietor looked at him coldly,
twirled his eve-o-lasses in his finders.
and said : "Our customers, sir, arc not
grumblers."
Thereupon my friend freed his mind,
stalked down stairs, and out into the
street, while the ilunkey opened the
door and bowed to him respectfully.
And yet, this sort of snobbishness
takes in New York, for the firm is the
most successful one of its line.
^
The First Ice-Palace.
The first ice-palace \vas built by the
Empress Anna Ivanovna, on the Neva,
in 1739.
Tn the construction of this work the
simplest means were used. First, the
purest and most transparent ice was
selected. This was cut into large
blocks, squared with rule and compass,
and carved with all the regular architectural
embellishments. No cement
was used. Each block when ready
was raised to its destined place by
cranes ana pulleys, and jnst before it
was let down upon the block which
was to support it, water was poured
between the two; the upper block was
immediately lowered, and as the water
froze almost instantly, in that intensely
cold climate, the two blocks became
literally one. In fact, the whole building
appeared to be, and really was, a
single mass of ice. The effect it produced
must have been infinitely moro
beautiful than if it had been of the
most costly marble?its transparency j
and bluish tint giving it rather the appearance
of a precious stone.
In dimensions, the structure was
fifty-six feet long, eighteen feet wide,
twenty-one feet high, and with walls
three feet in thickness. At each corner
of the palace was a pyramid of the
same height as the roof, of course
built of ice, and ax-ound the whole was
a low palisade of the same material. |
The actual length of the front view, j
including the pyramids, was ono hun- !
dred and fourteen feet.
The palace was built in the usual
style of Russian architecture. The
facade was plain, being merely divided
into compartments by pilasters. There
was a window in each division, which
was painted in imitation of green
marble. The window-panes were
formed of slabs of ice, as transparent
and smooth as sheets of plate glass.
At night, when the palacc was lighted,
the windows were curtained by canvas
screens, on which grotesque figures
were painted. Owing to the transparency
of the whole material, the general
effect of the illumination must
have been fine, the whole palace seem- i
ingly being filled with a delicate pearly j
light. The central division projected, |
and appeared to be a door, but was, in i
fact, a large window, and was illuminated
like the others. Surmounting
the facade of the building was an ornamental
balustrade, and at cach end
of the sloping roof was a huge chimney.
The entrance was at the rear.
At cach side of the door stood iccimitations
of orange trees, in leaf and
a ?:*i. ;? ?
JUUWisr, wiiu iv;u-unua jjuitucu VJU. tuv
branches.?Sc. Nicholas for April.
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very attractive angel?" said a dude
with very large ears to a }*oung lady.
"Well, no," "she replied, pointing to
his immense ears; "I think your wings
are too high up.1'
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A Virginia Romance.
j v7Jiilo visiting an old friend in a Vir|
ginia-yillage a month ago I attended
. worship one Sunday at the parish
i church, and was very much attracted
; by an aged and handsome couple who
; sat in the pew opposite me. The pas
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j on ."The Prodigal Sou's Keturn,"
! whist, I noticcd, affccted the old lady
i to ..ears, aud had a marked effect on
| the gentleman. I mentioned the circumstance
that.evening to my friend,
when she related to me the following
sacf. true slory: _?.
The" old" couple were Mr. and Mrs.
0>ihel D They, were both of the
, mo.*t arisfocraiic, - wealthy families of
| Vi^lnia. Colonel D? was an hon
.oralt-3, upright gentleman, but very
propel and passionate. He had one
soil', "Gas," his only heir?a warm!
hearted, generous, pleasing young man,
j just turning his twenty-first year. He
i was well known throughout the country,
and was beloved by all who knew
him^ He inherited his father's pride
but not his violent nature.
About a mile from Colonel D 's
residence lived a gentleman between
(whose family and the Colonel's a feud
j of long standing" existed. Colonel
j D had frequently warned his son
I not under anv circumstances, to visit
nv member of the*gentleman's family.
A daughter of the hated house, on her
eighteenth birthday, gave a large party,
'o which all the young people were incited,
including the venerable Colonel's
son Gus. On hearing of the party and
his son's invitation to it, he sent for
him and most positively forbade him to
attend. The son promised he would
! not.
! The invitations were for four o'clock,
as a supper 011 the lawn was a part of
the programme. About three o'clock
on that day Gus called for his team, a
splendid pair of handsome grays, and
ordered the coachmr.n to drive him.
Some time after his departure, Colonel
j D , who hud been away since morning,
returned, and on asking for his
son was informed that he had driven
out a couple of hours ago. The Colonel
llew iulo a passion, called for his hunting
whip, mounted his horse .r>nd rode
| swiftly 'toward the mansion of his
neighbor. As he dashed rapidly
past he saw his son's team under the
trees, and cared for by his own eoach|
man. He kept on to a small shady
i lane leading in an opposite direction
: from the house, when he suddenly came
| upon his son walking with a young
! lady, and, without a word, he rode up,
j seized him, and cut him several times
I over the facvj and back with his riding
I ivViin- "YmV iincrrnltifnl scoundrel.
said he, "never cross my path again."
The Colonel's face was white with passion
as he rode away.
This happened over fifteen years ago
an& although thousands of dollars have
been spent, and every effort made to
find some trace of the missing man,
they have been ineffectual, and not one
person who knew him before has ever
3*cen his face since that day. The sad
ivas that the Colonel's son, it was
found afterwards, had not gone to the
[pitx,-butloanea-fcis~teani-t?-a> -young-H
jljll"; . . 11.J l1 1 bis father and
j himself were warmly attached, and
who^rove Giis as far as the lane where
hi^ father had met and chastised him in
the pi'esencc of her whom he loved, and
w'.oru he had accidentally met.?Philadelphia
Press.
Saved by an Albatross.
A singular story has been related to
! us by the master of the bark Gladstone,
I which arrived here from London.
While the vessel was in latitude 42 degrees
south," and longitude 90 degrees
east, a seaman fell overboard from the
starboard gangway. Tiic bark was
scudding along with a rough sea and a
moderate wind, but, on the alarm of
"man overboard" being given, she was
rounded to, and the starboard lifeboat
was lowered, manned by the chief officer
and four men. A search for the
unfortunate man was made, but owing
to the roughness of the sea, he coula
not be discovered: but the boat steered
to the spot where he was last seen.
Here tlicv found him floating, but al
I most exhausted, clir.gingfor dearlifeto
! the legs and wings of a huge albatross.
| The bird had swooped down on the
man while the latter was straggling
with the .waves and attempted to peck
him with its powerful beak. Twice the
bird attracted its prey unsuccessfully,
being beaten off by the desperate sailor,
battling with two enemies?the water
and the albatross?both greedy and insatiable.
For the third time the huge
white, form of the bird hovered over
the seaman,, preparatory to a final
swoop. The bird, eager for its meal,
fanned its victim with its wids-spread
wings.
Suddenly a thought occurred to him
I that the huge form so close to his face
might become his involuntary rescuer.
Quick as thought he reached up and
seized the bird, which he proceeded to
strangle with all liis might The huge
creature struggled with its wings and
paddles to free itself. In the contest
the_ sailor was beaten black and blue
aru cruelly laceratcd, but ho held his
own, and slowly the bird quivered and
died. The carcass floated lightly on
the waves, its feathers forming a comfortable
support for the exhausted man
who had so narrowly escaped a lingering
death. But another danger awaited
him. He was not much of a swimmer,
and the excitement of the extraordinary
conilict began to tell on him. Ho
was faint and grew giddy. But with
one arm over the albatross' body, under
the wing, and ono hand clutching
the bird's feet, the sailor awaited his
chance for a rescue. Present1? he
heard his comrades shout fro.n tho
boat, and in a few minutes more ne was
safe on board the barque, though a
good deal shaken and exhausted.?Sydney
(Australia) Telegraph.
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Alice Stone Biackwell, who writes
in the Boston Herald that the services
commonly rendered by wives are considered
worth much more than board
and lodging, when they have to be
performed by a hired servant, further
remarks: "In 1880 there were in the
United States, according to the census,
9,9-15,916 families, and only 1,075,655
domestic servants. Thus only about
one family in nine keep a servant, even
if no family kept more than one. The
great majority of wives do their own ;
worK.
' The Connecticut Senate has passed
an act prescribing the studies in the
public schools, which specifics that these
shall be "reading, writing, arithmetic,
English gramma#' geography and such
other studies, including training in the
manual arts, als mav be prescribed by
the school visuors." Senator Plunkett,
a member of^the Ncvr Haven board of
education, s^id the system of manual
arts had b*en introduced there, children
that tftood perfect being allowed
a little U&q to work -with carpenter's
tools, ahd it was found very successful.
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Is the Englishman Superior to the j
American?
An English baronet who traveled re-1
Gently in the United States has written}
fcn article for the Nineteenth Century'
Review, in which he compares English
men and women with American men;
and women to the disadvantage of the!
latter. Our women, according to him,
are not as handsome or as well devel-;
oped as those of England, while our1
men are inferior in physique. This he
says is due to the greater attention
given in England to outdoor sports.:
The Englishman plays cricket and j
lawn tennis, practices in boats and in: j
yachts far more than the American, j
The latter is absorbed in business. He j
goes to see a baseball match.by pro- 1
fessionals, but rarefy p!ayd himself. |
Then, the average Ens-fish- ^mail and :
woman do far more walking than do
our people in the United States. All
educated Englishmen hold to the view
that tho practice of athletics is very desirable.
At a recent rural dinner, Sir Charles
Dilke, the well known cabinet minister
gave it as his view that "England owed
to the practice of physical exercise not
onlv a great deal of its muscle and
power, but also a great deal of its success,
and, under Providence, much of
its <*lory in the world." Had Mr.
Gladstone been called upon he would
doubtless have given the same testimony.
For, although , in his seventies,
he spends hours every week in felling
trees and in taking long and rapid
walks. A New York writer who was
at the Carnival in Montreal thus describes
tho type of girl he saw: "The
English girl is tall and strongly built, j
bhe walks with her figure rigidly erect ;
and her head held up, from consciousness
of strength rather than from
pride. Her cheeks are like the sides of
a peach that has just begun to ripen.
The rose blush blends with the pink,
that is in turn lost in the general
creamy tint of the whole face. Waves
of flaxen or light brown hair curtain
the forehead, or perhaps her hair is
rm-frpr? intn a r>1rvnd that nmiflfits ho
X'?-?- ? ? rm t* 7
yond her sealskin cap. She has big,
deep-blue eyes, eloquent of good health
and good nature, and blazing at a
touch of excitcment. Being an athlete !
she is a model of good health, and the J
equal of her brothex*s at the dinner I
ta'ble. Her nose and mouth are not too !
fashionably small. They match her
fine stature, and the healthy, graceful
carriage that tells of stout limbs and
developed muscles.
What a lesson the Montreal girl
teaches to the New York mothers who
bring their daughters up in-doors like
hot-house plants, for fear they will not
bo lady-like and womanly! These robnst
mrls. in modestv. in ffrace. in
softness of speech and femininity generally,
are the peers of the daughters
of Murray Hill, -and yet there is hardly
one that cannot stand by her brother's
side in whatever sport ho is enjoying.
These girls can climb a mountain like
deer, tney can skate like the women of
Holland, they are at home on snowshoes,
the mad sport of the toboggan
hills is evcry-day fun to them."
There has. Imwovor, hAnn <i rofnrm-.
juntas cou^jft. during the last quarter
of a centur^BGymnasiums are more
common, espt^Uy in colleges. Outdoor
sports are 7-r more popular than
they were, and the educated young
man has plenty of chance to improve
his physique by good muscular exercises.
Our girls, however, are not so
well off as tlieir English sisters. Long
country walks are not popular with
our young women, but making allowance
for these shortcomings, few
Americans will admit that our girls
,irr> nnf. in everv resneet eaual to their
IT
English sisters.
Bismarck's Dislike of America.
Bismarck is not enthusiastic in bis
love of Americans. He believes in
blue blood, and thinks there is but little
of it in America. He is convinced
that we are an uneducated people, or
we should send educated men to represent
us in foreign courts. He snubs
Minister Sargent every chance he gets,
for the reason that he can speak neith- .
er German nor French, and is a mere
figure-head in the German capital.
'The book "Germany Seen Without
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ope^acies, ay jtienry xiuggies, recently
published, in Boston, has kicked
up a good deal of bobbery ever here,
from all accounts. It has had a large
circulation in Germany, many copies
having been sent by German-Americans
to their friends in fatherland.
The author says he has lived two years
in Germany, and several chapters of
the bock give the Germans rather unmerciful
criticism in their habits of living,
customs, treatment of their worn
en, duelling, beer-ariniong, etc.
These chapters have been translated
and extensively copied by the German
press, and of late one could not go into
a Berlin club or cafe without hearing
the bock energetically cussed and discussed.
A few weeks since, report
says, a Berlin publishing-house had
made arrangements for issuing an entire
translation of this book, but Bismarck
on hearing of it sent a note to
the publishers, with his own signature,
which quietly put an end to tne matter.
A German told me seriously, yesterday,
in the Cafe Bauer, that Bismarck
would never smile on Americans as
long as they published such harsh
things about the Germans, even if they
wero true.?Berlin Letter.
Reports to the Lime-Kiln Club.
The librarian reported the receipt of
i * "?-l - 1 J ! A I. ^
severax vaiuaoie uooj^s uuriuij tu? paai, j
week, one of them being a volume containing
the history, trial, and execution
of thirty different murderers. Ho
announced that the roof leaked in seven
different places, and that much of
the literature bad to be placed in the
oven and dried previous to being lent
out to members. He asked for an ap
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propnation 01 $j.zo xo siop ine leass.
"Dat's zactly de way wid some
folks," replied the president "Dey
buy a $400 kerridge to bo pulled by a
$50 boss When wo expend $125 to
preserve $60 worth of books we shall
have inaugurated a financial policy dat
will soon obleege us to rent post-office
boxes to receive our dunnin' letters."
T'no trAftsnrnr s.iid ho had discovered
an attempt to tamper with the club
safe. Some one had evidently tried to
unlock tho door with a boot-jack, as
the key-hole had been found filled with
scrap-iron. He would announce for
the benefit of crooks that the safe never
contained above 30 cents in cash, and
that any attempt to blow it open
would surely result in bringing down
the entire roof of the hall.
The janitor reported that the northwest
corner of the hall had lately sunk
eight inches, but he had no recommends
to make. If the rest of the
building didn't sink to the same level
members would soon get accustomed
to walking on a slant end and no expense
would be entailed.
As most of the lamps had gone out
for want of fodder, the meeting then
adjourned.?Detroit Free Press.
Teaching Animals to Converse.
H. Stusrt Wortlev writes as follows
to Nature: A dog of mine knows instantly
whetkei ho may go out with my
housekeeper or not, according to
wrV)OtV>OT sHo nrn'vrc lipr lint, nr Tier HAYI
net In the first instance lie knows
she is going where he may gc, and he
is on his feet barking with joy as soon
as she appears. If she has the bonnet
on, he knows it to be church, or a visit
to friends in the country, where he cannot
go, and, like the "eldest oyster" (I
quote from memory), ho "winks his
eye, and shakes his hoary head.'1 If
drawings of hat and bonnet were made,
he would know them at once.
; Some years since I had a remarkably
clever Syke 'terrier, whose wisdom
.yas at the tiro J 'hown in a letter to the
Times. ' This dog I taught .as follows:When
I went out it was quite sufficient'
to say "Yes" or "No" in an ordinary
tone; but wanting to take him beyond
that, I taught him very quickly to
know the two words when printed on
cards, YES or NO, and after a few
weeks' teaching"'lie ' never mistook
them. I have no time now for much
teaching; if I had, I am sure it could
be done with the dog I now have.
The intelligence of cats is greatly
underrated. My wife's favorite cat
follows her everywhere, and comes
when called wherever she may be.
Cats, too, are very grateful for kindness.
When I went into the Malakhofii
I found a cat on whose paw a bayonet
had fallen and pinned it to the ground.
I released it and took it home, and it
always followed me all over camp till
the end of the war. And thi3 cat did
as follows: I took her to a doctor of
me ueaieit lugiuient lur tvv u muruiiigs
to have her foot dressed. The third
morning I was away on duty before
daylight, and the cat went herself to
the doctor's tent, scratching the canvas
to be let in, and then held up her
paw to be doctored- The intelligence
that can be developed in almost any
auimal depends on our treatment of it.
Lime Kiln Club Domestic Economy
The following resolution, forwarded
uy UiUtllVi ?JLJ.\J2?U\J.LLJ Vi OJ-4.vuuv
Ala., was "then introduced:
Resolved, Dat It am de dooty of de Lime
Kiln Clcb to-encourage de orsanizashun of a
cull'ed socicty for dc discusfaon an' dispensashun
of domestic cconomy.
The resolution being open to debate,
Bullru3h Jinks took the floor, and
hoped it would prevail. Shiftlessness
In domestic matters was the bane of
the colored race. He had known a
famiiv to heave a bushel o* frozen po- j
tatoes into the alley, when the same
would have made a score of rich puddings,
or could have been saved to
lend to neighbors in the place of sound
ones.
Uncle.Luther Perkins hoped to see
such a society formed without delay.
Domestic economy was the last thin?
thought of in the average colored
household. He knew plenty of families
which lited on fried oysters one day
and bean soup the next
Sevarffbther members spoke in the
game vein, and the resolution was put
rdLCC V7??* W |
feer then appointed Nelsoii Slabs, "Czar
Anderson and Transparent Smith as a
committee to organize such a society,
and suggested the following points to
he considered, investigated and promulgated:
1. Is it better to go without table
butter than to be without two big yaller
dogs?
2. Isn t it possible to invent a mince
pie Tvith cabbage and carrots for a
foundation?
3. Can't potato skins and apple parings
be worked over into a pudding for
the children?
4. Do we eat more than is reallynecessary?
Isn't the variety greater
than the health demands? Don't the
maLi who fills up on pudding and milk
feel just as good half an hour after
eaung as me man. who oas ieastea at a i
first-class hotel??Detroit Free Press.
A Cool Client..
An acquaintance of mine?a young
lawyer, tired of being briefless and
feeless here in San Francisco?determined
a year ago to establish himself in
some interior county seat. A few
months after he wrote me that he had
won it It was a hard case, he wrote,
one that required much study and ingenuity,
but he had won it, and assured
me that he considered his fee?fifty
dollars, I believe?as well earned. His
client was an old countryman, simple
and unsophisticated, and he had enHpavArpd
tn r>nst liim on the wavs and
doings of courts, so that he should attend
the trial without embarrassment
or trepidation. By his coolness in
court the client did honor to his lawyer.
My friend came down here to spend
the holidays, and we met. I asked
him, laughingly, whether he had
had another case since his first. He
looked at me curiously, and told me
that something incredible had happened
in regard to that affair. That same
morning he met his former client, and
over an appetizer they had discussed
the matter.
"That only cost me a hundred dollars,"
said the client
"A hundred?" asked the lawyer.
"Yes?I took the judge out for a
arms, anu. gave n:iu ullj viviiais*
That's why I was so cool in court"
The feelings of my young lawyer
friend can be oetter imagined than described.
Still he looked upon it as a
good joke. 1 rather spoiled his amusement
by asking him whether he had returned
to his client his "well-earned
fee."?San Francisco News-Letter.
The Grocer "Who Caved.
There was, up to a year or two ago,
a man in the grocery business in one of
the villages of Western Michigan who
wa3 famous for his hatred of drummers.
Travelers for Chicago, Detroit
and other houses were ordered out of
his store in the roughest manner, and
several wero assisted to leave in a style
more hurried, than graceful. The boys,
however, rather enjoyed it, and a sort
of ring was formed among them with
a solemn agreement to keep calling on
the grocer uncil he gave some one an
order.
On day, eight or ten months ago, an
agent for a Detroit house entered the
grocery prepared for the worst, but
what was' his amazement to tc received
with a smile of welcome, fhis was
followed by kind words, and later on
by an order for about $800 worth, of
goods, xne agent was so eiatea tnat
he telegraphed the news home and to
several of his acquaintances, and it
was a week before he recovered his
equilibrium of spirits.
"And did he continue to buy of your
house ?" asked one who had listened to j
the drummer's story.
"Well, no."
"Why not ?"
"Because, within ten days after ho
got our goods he failed and couldn't
pay five cents on the dollar."?Detroit
Free Fress.
GLEANINGS.
Hereafter the postal notes will be
; printed on blue paper. -% "3
The libraries at Yale College contain
161,000 volumes. The college li- - .
j brary proper has 115,000 volumes. fl
The Supreme Court' of British Col!
umbia holds that a Chinaman's mar- f||
! riage under the Methodist form is void.
Children employed in the lace-mak- ^
j ing schools in Belgium work twelve
j hours, and sometimes earn six cents
j per day. j
The bullet that killed General WarI
ren at the battle of Bunker Hill, is in -?T?J
1 the possession of William H. Montague,
I of Boston. j
! Archibald Forbes, the war corres1
pondent, has made his numerous forLeign*
-orders into a necklace for his A
jcaughcer. ' md
A quartette of baggagemen who run
r through Manchester, N. EL, bear, tho
names of Loveland, Lovering, Love joy
j and Lovely/ ^
Abram Fisher, of Knox county, IndiI
ana, has been married five, times. He a
I is now ninety-six years of age, and his - 1
[ present wife is sixteen
Joaquin Miller's mother has bej^on V^J
suit against him In Lane county, Oregon,
for the partition of certain real
estate held jointly by themFrance
offers $10,000 re-ward, open
to all competitors, to any one who sue- .
cessfully and economically applies
electricity to the heating and lignting
of dwellings.
An apple tree in Mercer county,
i 'K'pntnfttv Tins hnrnfi frnit for shctv J
seasons without failing. ' Five feet \
from the ground its trunk is ten feet
and nine inches in circumference.
Deacon May-berry, of "Windham, Me.
recently sold a quantity of hay that
I had been cut twenty-two years. Hp
| has been holding -it all that time for
?22 a ton, and finally got his price.
One of Davy Crockett's old hunting
knives, with a four-inch wooden handle M
21UU SJ-V-UUL^JU UiaTU.U, VI iUU A OUTOJ.
band around'tile handle, has been presented
to the Tennesse Historical Society.
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Mrs. A. R. Allen heads the list of
millionaires in ZL Louis, paying tax on J
$1,197,300. Henry Shaw is put down t J
as worth $1,176,130; the heirs of Jesse l
G. Lindell $1,115,460 and Miss Bernice
Morrison $964,990.
A young lady in Hartford objected - '
to the mutilation of a tree in her front ;_yard
by a party of telephone linemen.
They didn t heed heT protest until she i r-3
covered them with a revolver, and
then they decided to stop.
"I was a soldier for two years," said
Sig. Salvini to a newspaper reporter in
London recently, "and fougnt under
Garibaldi at the siege of Rome, in 1849.
My campaigns on the stage have happily
been more fortunate. ; -V
Classing women who never marry by y
their complexion, it is said there are . fi
more blondes than brunettes among
them. This is supposed to be due to
the preference of marrying men fo^;
"bru'iictTes. But' perhaps me" wonien
who do not marry fade out
The Psychological Journal gives the
increase of the number of -insane per- *,
ervn a tlio TTnif-o/^ Stotiis of frnm
to 1860, 8,332; 1860 to 1870, 13,390; :/
187Q to 188C, 54,566. The whole number
of our usine is given at 91,987;
idiots, 76,8t>J. More than one-half are Wk
not under hospital treatment.
The influence of Japan is beginning
to be felt very considerably in archi- . .'.7^1
tecture. Some things in Japanese
architecture we shall, of course, says a
prominent architect, probably never
introduce?the heavy roof, for instance.
But for verandas of country houses,
for screens, and for interior decoration
Japanese art and architecture is rapid
ly coming into use.
At the recent annual meeting in
Scotland of the Northern Accident Insurance
Company, the chairman stated
that they had abandoned all risks in
connection with foot-ball and bicycling.
The risk was so great that the ord> - - >.
nary premium would not cover it.
The present policies of the kind were
nearly run out, and they had determined
not to renew them.
Alice Stone Blackwell, now in Boston,
is good enough to admit that men . V v
moan woll dnnnfrh Hit wnmps anr?
make such laws as they consider for >their
good, bat she wants to know who
gave men the sole right to decide what
is good for women? : She reasonably
concludes that if women had absolute
legal power over men, however well pm
they might treat them, the men would
rebel. ^ /
General N. P. Banks' daughter, . V J
Maria, is an accomplished elocutionist,
inheriting the gift from her father, who V
vr>nr? acrn was a mpmhfir of a theatri
cal company in Boston. Before attempting
to be an actor he was a dancing
master, but his most famous exploit
in the terpsichorean art was
when Stonewall Jackson led Mm such
a fearful dance down the Shenandoah
Valley.
Last year 220,922,650 lottery tickets
were sold by the lottery offices in Italy,
on which 71,826,6S3 francs were staked,
being 2 francs 44 centimes on'an aver- %
age for each of the 29,000,000 inhabitants.
The -winnings on these ventures
amounted to 44,411,528 francs,
leaving a net profit of 27,415,154 franca
to the state. Only forty-foor winnings
were above 10,000 francs each, the
highest two being one of 78,000 francs
made in Turin, and the other of 50,000
francs m JNapies.
Edward King tells one of the most
delightful anecdotes of Carlyle yet put
forth. That portentous pseudo-philosopher,
Mallock, called on the old
Scotchman and let himself loose, talking
Carlyle almost to death. Carlylo
listened "impcrturably, invited him to
tea, and had him to smoke in the library
afterward. When at last the - . J
youthful sage thought proper to take
his leave, Carlyle accompanied him to
the door and "said: ""Well, good by,
I've received ye kindly, because"!
anew yuur uiutucjrj uuo a iievet waw
to set eyes on ye again!"
The-City of Mexico correspondent of
the San Francisco Alia says: "The
wife of President Gonzales, and mother
of lis ten children, affirms that he has
neglected her, in these days of his
prosperity. In her pique and jealousy
at her fancied and actual wrongs, she
injudiciously abandoned her husband
and children, rented a shop upon the
most fashionable promenade of tho
capital, not three blocks from the pal- .
ace, and there scandalized the entire ^
country by opening a milliners shop.
*" i --J -A?ru:
me sign was auu sujuuug, m*
forming the public that "The wife of .
Manuel Gonzales, President of Mexico,
was ready to serve her patron* with
latest Parisian, importations, etc.'
She continued in business for several
months, and criticism ran high, but at m
last a cessation of hotilities occurred,
and she crossed the border into the
United States."
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