The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, July 30, 1884, Image 1
' ? : ITOTNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY30, 1884. ' - ' s|3j
^ Lafo and Death. j
0 solemn portal, veiled in mist and cloud,
r Where all who've lived throng in. an endless j
line.
Forbid to tel! by backward look or sign
What destiny awaits the advancing crowd;
Bourne crossed but once, with no return al.
lowed;.- < .
L. Dumb, spectra] gate, terrestrial yet divine, . j
Beyond"whose arch ail powers and fatee com
SP Dine,
Pledged to divulge no secrets of too shroud;
Close, close behind -we step, and strive to
Some-whisper In -tbe dark, some glimmering
R Through circling whirls o{ thought intent to
nMR| snatch
88bKBE& A drifting'hope?a faith that grows to sight: !
Hbbt And yet assured, whatever may befall,
BF* That must be somehow best that comes to all
^ s?C:P.CranchintheJaneCenmry.
3Pro. and Con
When ships come over the sea, my love,
? Come over the shining sea.
Like maidens walking a minuet, ;
Whito-wflmefcted daintily?
Oh, what aothey bring' under each white ;
k wing, What
songs do the sailors sing; t-*-- '
Bh While the breezes frolic along the deep,
them sweep, j
When ships come over the sea, my dear.
Come over the stormy eea^ -.^-.
The cordage creaks in the whistling winds, -'-H
w . And the sails flap dismally;
gk And tiie sailors-swear till the raw, damp air
To visihJv tinned with a saloharons glare, ;
And the seasick passengers faintJy groan, |
And the sea gul's scream and the wild wind?
moan.
As oyer the so a, tfcarstona-swep fc sea,
The ships como laboring wearily.
?David L. ProudSt in the Manhattan.
THE XAST STRAW.
^ "It is the last straw that breaks the
camel's back," said Lucy, bursting into
clears. '
The pleasant June sunbeams came -]
peeping into the cool, stone-paved
dairy, where pans of milk and cream
were ^ranged in, orderly 'array; great
jgQ^e^pots jstpqd under the shelves, and
a blue-painted' churn was already
S* placed on the table for service.
Mr. Bollenden was justly proud of
his dairy. Not a chance guest came to
t tho house but was invited down to see
it; not a housekeeper in the neighborhood
but secretly envied its many conveniences
and exquisite neatness.'
^ "And it isn't tne dairy aione," triumphantly
remarked Mattliew Bellen- I
den. 1 'And yon may go through the
house from garret to cellar, and you'll
never find a speck of dust or a stain of
rust .-'There never was such a-" house-.
Jw keeper as my wife!"
:''^p Mrs. Bellenden was young, too,
-^ffl^aj^ireerand-tweaty. She had
f SeedvJtelssfeareil ani quite jgnoi
isnt of ail'iiie/machinery 'of domestic
nntai she jnarried Matthew BellenTcry..stracge?1'
Lacy had written
to her father. "The farm is beauVnn
noroT cotjr cnr?K mftflstmna
- old elm-trees, aor such sape-b roses,
and the meadows are full of r ' clover,
and the strawberries shine li' ^wels
on the sunny hillsides. Bu. ^bodysketches
or reads. I don't think there
is a copy of Tennyson in the whole
neighborhood, and no one ever heard
of Dore or Millais. All they think of is
^ how many dozens of eggs the hens lay,
W and how many cheeses they can make
i "in a year. And the woman who has a
new pattern for patchwork quilts, is I
the leader of society."
Bat.presently young ''Mrs. Bellenden I
Serseif caught the fever, and became a !
model housewife. Example is all-pow- |
ezful^ and Lticy began to believe that !
"the whole end and aim of life was do- |
mestic thrift, money-saying, and the ;
treadmill of work." ./ J
"My dear,"" said Matthew, "if you
thought you could get alon? without a
servant this year, I might be able 'to'
afford that new reaper before the oatcrop
edmie sin. ** : 1 j
"I'll try," said Lucy. j
And after that she ro3e before day- j
break, and worked later in 'the night j
y"- than ever.
"What is the matter with your hands,
Lucy?" her husband asked, one' day.
They arc yot so white and beautiful as
BHl they, usuu ta be."
yT** Lucycolored.as she glanced down at
the members in question. >; U ;
* v "I suppose it is making' fires," she
said* ~ j,
jta And then she took to wearing kid
gk>rea>at her sweeping and dustings
. and digging out of ashes. ,
"Myeosfcis getting shabby," Matrthew
one day remarked.
'' "/'Why don't yon-buy another .one?'1
asked his wife.
Matthew laughed a short laugh.
"What do you think Mrs. Biggins
has dime?" said he.'' "She ripped up
- ; her husband's old suit and cut a pattern
by it, and made a new one and
F saved nun two pounds."
<*I could do that," said Lucy, with
sparkling eyes. "I will try it" 7
"You can do anything, my dear!"
said Mr. Bellenden, admiringly.
And Lucy felt that she had her rich
. reward. < s*
WM ; VOiUpttUJT uu V/Vxu.o oo owu aa
nice weather set in. *
I , - All the Affectionate relations of Mr.
Bellenden soon discovered that the
mjf farm-house was cool and shady,, ?that
f. v Lucy's cooking was excellent, and that
|8p the bedrooms were neatness itself,
Some of them were even good enough
to invite their relations as well; and so
L the house was hill from April to Deft.
cember with visitors who brought their
i carpet-bags and valises with that faiti
in human hospitality which, is one of
r lifeVbost ?ifts.
> Wts TRATTAndpT^s wr#>rtt. ahroftr? I
among the Dorcases of the netehbor^
hood in the matter ol butter and cheese;
she took prizes' in the domestic departl
meats of all the agricultural fairs, and
>, the adjoining, housewives took no
trouble to male things that they could
borrow of Mrs. Bellenden, 4'just as
lip well as not'1
sal And one day, when poor Lucy, under
life the blighting influence of a horrible
?iAe/^a r?^ A two a nn/)/\ATf/\
11L strain three' or four gallons of milk into
B the shining pans, 'the news arrived that
her husband's Uncle Paai was coming
to the farm.
"Another guest!" said Lncj, despair
And then she uttered the proverb |
S|P^ that heads our sketch- i
MK, "Oh, it's only Uncle Paul!" said Mr. i
Bellenden. "Don't fret, Lucy! He's !
f the most peaceable old gentleman in ;
the world. He'll make no more trouble !
than a cricket;' John's wife thoughtj
she couldn't haveliim because she has i
k no servant Just now "
^ "Neither have I!" said Lucy, rebell- ;
gigjfe iously.
IlL **&nd Sarah don't like company."
Ilk "Ism supposed to be fond of it!" i
llplilih observed Lucy,, bitterly.
A *?And Seuten's girls don't want old
ff folks staying there. It's too much
trouble, they say," added Matthew.
1|P|P Lucy bit her Hp to keep back the ;
words she might have uttered, and j
said, instead: -
"Where is he to sleep? The Ueifords ;
F have the front bod-room, and your
Cousin Susan occupies the back, and i
|j^~ the fourMiss Pattersons's sleep in the I
two garrets."
She might have added that she and
Ler husband, and the baby had slept in
; a hot little den opening from the
kitchen for fonr weeks, vainly expecting
| Mr. and Mrs. Belford to depart; and
: that she had never vet had a chance to
I invite her father to the farm in pleasant
weather.
But she was magnanimous, and held
her peace.
j ?"Oh, you can find some place, for
him!" said her husband, lightly.
"There's that little room at the end of
tho hall where the spinning-wheel is."
"But it isn't furnisheaP'' pleaded
Lnev.
f ."You can easily sew a carpet together
out .of those old pieces from the Bel"
ford's room; and it s no trouble to put
up a muslin curtain to the window, and
lift in a stump bedstead; and you can
just tack together a mattrass and
whitewash the ceiling, and?What's
tthat, Luey? The cows in tho turnip
"field!" Dear me! everything goes wrong
if I step into the house for a moment.
-?nc? really, Lucy, these things are your
business, not mine!" he' added, irritably*
_ _ .
r Lucy could not help laughing, all by
herself, as her husband ran up tno
stops.
But it was a very sad little laugh,
and soon changed into a sigh.
"I wonder,'? said she, in a whisper,
"if my poor tired-out ; ghost would
haunt the'se stone pavements and scrubbed
shelves if I were to die? I never
hear ! of a ghost in a dairy before, but I
should thing that it migit very easily
be."
But the little bed-room was fitted up,
for^ll that, as. fresh as a rose, and
Uncle Paul arrived, a dried-up, yellowcomplexioned
old man, with an oldi
fashioned cravat tied in manv folds
[ around" Ills neck, and a broad-iirimmed,
3bV-araa&d&a&^ iine. gold-headed
cane. ~
He had the polite way of half a century
ago, and Lucy tfioug'it she should
like him very much, if only she had
time to get acquainted with him.
But she was churning ten pounds of
butter a day, and there was the baby,
and the company, and the young chickens,
and the baking to do.
She was almost too busy to sleep. But
Uncle Paul was watching her quietly all
the time.
He came out, one day, to the barn,
where his nephew was putting a new
handle on a sickle-blade.
' 'Pretty busy times?eh, Un cle Paul ?''
sag? ther JtomSr^scarc&ly taking the
leisure to look ui
'"'Aye, "absently answered the old
man. "Did L'teli you, nephew Matthew,
about, the reason 1 left your
:?oosm Joseph's^
"Not that I remember," said Matthew,
breathing on the blade, and polishing
it with his silk handkerchiet
"Dorothy died?his wife!"
Oh, yes," said Matthew. "Low
fever, wasn't it?"
"No!" bluntly answered Uncle Paul.
"It was hard work. That woman,
nephew Matthew, did the housework
for eight persons. Joe didn't even let
her nave a woman to help with the
washing and the ironing!"
"Must have been a regular-going
brute," said Matthew, tightening the
handle a little.
"All the sewing, too," added Uncle
Paul?"the dqending and making. She
never went anywhere except to church.
Joe didn't believe in women gadding
about."
"The old savage!" said Matthew.
"She was fond ot . reading, out sne
never got any time for it," said Uncle
Paul. "She rose before sundawn, and
.never lay down until eleven o'clock.
It was hard work that killed that woman,
and Joseph coolly declared that
it was sheer laziness when she couldn't
drag herself about any longer. And
when she died he rolled up his eyes
and called it the visitation of Providence."
"Why didnt' the neighbors lynch
him?" cried Matthew, fairly aroused
to indignation at last.
Uncle Pan! took off his glasses, wiped
them vigorously, and looked his nephew
hard in the face.
"Why don't the neighbors lynch
you?" said he.
Matthew dropped the sickle, and
stared.
4 'Nephew Matthew," said Uncle Paul,
impressively, "thou art the man! Are
you not doing the very same thing?" .
maT* 11 J
I "AT gtu>yvu -UtttiH-UCVY.
"Your wife is doing the work of a
household of sixteen people," said
Uncle Paul. "She is drudging as you
could get no stranger to drndge. She
is rising early, ana lying down late;
she is offering up her life on the shrine
of your farm and it3 requirements. I
hare seen her grow thin and pale even
A OTTO T f"iOTTA I
UlUiiig UUQ iW TV U*JO A MVVi* MW?V? |
I have seen her carry up Mrs. Belford's
breakfast daily to her room, because i
Mrs. Belford preferred to lie in bed;
and cooking dainty dishes for Helen
Patterson, because Helen wouldn't eat
what the rest like. No galley-slave
ever worked as she doe*. And you,
with you? farm hands?whose board
only adds to her cares, and your array
of labor-saving machinery, stand coolly
by and see her commit 'slow suicide.
Yes, nephew. Matthew, I think it is a
case for lynching!"
Matthew had grown pale.
41?1 never thought of this," said
he. Why didn't some one tell me?" !
"Whare were yonr eyes?" said Uncle |
PaxvL Matthew Bellendon rolled down ]
his shirt sleeves, put on his coat and
went into the house.
He told the Belfords and Pattersons j
that it was inconvenient to keep them j
any longer." He gave Cousin Susan to j
understand that her room was neededHe
made arrangements to hoard out
the farm hands, and engaged a stout
dairy maid, and a house-servant to
wait on Lucy. And he telegraphed to
her father to come to Silvan Bridge at
once.
"She deserves a treat," he said. "He
shall spend the summer ttith us."
And then he went to tell Lucy.
f"-- v-J it..
Duo n&a xamuju juuuiig mo ua^ci- j
cups, picking strawberries for tea.
Poor little Lucy! The machinery had
utterly refused to revolve any longer.
His heart grew cold within him.
'She .will die," he thought, "and I
shall have murdered her."
3ut she did not die. She recovered
her strength by degrees.
"It is better than any medicine." she
said, "to know that Matthew is thinking
of me and for me.1' 3
And Uncle Paul?"the last straw,"
as she had called him?had proved her
salvation.
"I didn't want her to go as Joe's
wife did," said Uncle Paul.
A flower has been discovered in South
AmnwAO Anlt? ttiO>K1 a fno
O . mWAV? HM4VU U WiUJ I lOiWiu TT UVU VUv
wind is blowing. The shrub belongs
to the cactus family, and is about three
feet hteh, with a crook at the top, giving
it tne appearance of a black hickory
cane. When the wind blows a
number of beautiful flowers protrude
frora little lumps on the stalk.
A Greeley Reminiscence.
Ben Van Houien, Greeley's old bellboy,
is driving a milk wagon in New
I Jersey. He was 6 feet high when in
I the Tribune service, and he had eyes
I like jyoo^les and a hand like the hand
of Providence.
"Bub," said Horace to him, as lie entered
his sanctum one night, * ?- Want
to write for an hour or two, and I don't
want to be bothered. Keep ail the
bums out of my room."
"Yes, Mr. Greeley," Ben replied in a
hoarse voice, for he had a voice like
. a bull of Basham.
I Within half an hour Ben Bruce, Dennis
McLaughlin, and several other po!
litical gadflies tried to buzz their way
j to the old man's room, bat were sum
I manly squeicnea Dy iseii. rinjuiy,
| Senator Henry Wilson, of Massachul
seets, entered. He had been on a campaign
tour in Indiana, and he wore the
; dirtiest duster and slouehhat. that had
i been seen in New York since the dei
parture of the Pendleton escort in 1868.
I The Senator dropped his carpet-bag
! and advanced toward the open door of
j Greeley's sanctum, whence ne was con!
fronted by Ben.
I "Where aro vou eroinz?" blurted the
i watchdog.
"I'm going to see Mr. Greeley?" the
Senator replied.
I "Not much you hain't," roared Ben,
| elevating his voice so as to make him!
self solid with Horace. "Git right o*
] here, or Til help you out"
General Wilson was dumbfounded.
! His face, usually red, w^j made redder
| by Ben's manner. "1;:*
I " "Won't you be so kind as to take my
i name in to Mr. Greeley?" he asked.': '
Ben looked hard at him and asked
! his name, "Wilson," was the reply.'
"Well." said Ben. "I'll sro in and see
] if he wants to see you*M ?
He returned in forty seconds, more
aggressive than ever. -rv.-.y.ir.r. .
It's just as I told you," he roared.
| "He won't see you; now, d?n you, git
j out o'here."
Wilson turned to Amos Cummings,
j night editor, who lay back -itfTUS
: chair, bursting with suppressed emo
! tion. * ~ ' >
"What's the matter. General?" he
I asked.
Senator Wilson,, explained^ while Bea
; looked on in astonishment.
f "There must be some mistake," the
i night editor remarked, "and I'll take
J you in and introduce you to Mr. Gree!
ley."
i They entered the great editor's sanc:
turn together. Horace sat at his high
j desk, with eyes close to the manuscript,
i scratching away like a hen on a fresh
; sand-heap.
"Mr. Greeley," said J^nos,. ?'^sre's
! S#>nnfrir "Wilahn.-. Yon refnaed to : sea
| him justriow1.^ 'M&
There was a moment of silence.
Horace scratched away without looking
up.* v
"W ell." hei, piped in^; shrill alto,
TOtljoutreproving. h*.J?C.. **he .boy
sald^mCt'a d-^.ojd bwa^aamed._3y'il scm^^^.tope
Illusions 3?J&ejPB?&zxj3i, .
' r.,~ ' - - j i - *?-!XhoJIorfh.
American Bevi&o. publishes
a paper treating of the illusioas of
memory. The subject "is l?idled la a
masterly manner, telling1 of the strange;
impressions we sometimes feel in loo&:
ing out over a landscape never before
; seen by us, yet, suddenly there comes
! a flash of indistinct" recollection"as if,
! years ago, back to which time memory
i refuses to travel in a direct line, we.
j looked upon the scene. Some inve3tij
gators have thought that a man during
| a certain mental condition, can look at
' - i^- -i --?i 1.
a strange ooject sua uiai> uiuy uuo uDiu*
[sphere of Ms mind receives the impression.
Suddenly the other hemisphere
receives it, and still retaining
the impression taien by. the first .hemisphere,
he remembers to have seen the
object before. No man has satisfactorily
explained this illusion, but there are
! illusions of memory which oan be ex}
plained. For instance a man goes
i Rome after a. day of toil, and says to.
his wife:
I "Saw our old friend Jackson to-day.
Looking fine. Said ho was never * in
better health in his life. Asked about
you. If business don't go better, I
don't know what we are.going to do.
By the way, Isaw our old friend Jackson
to-day. Looking fine. Said he
would like very much to sec you. I
am tired. Such a rush of business that
I haven't had time to sit d9ws. Whom
do you suppose I saw to-day?"
"Jackson," replies his wife rather
severely.
"What! did he come up here?
Said he would like to see you. I want
to get down town early to-morrow. I
forgot to tell you that I saw our old
Prienri .Tar'tann," "
This illusion of memory has not
baffled scientific research. The gentleman
is drunk. There is also an illusion
of eye-sight, where objects take
double impressions. Any one thus
| afflicted is also drunk.? Arkansaw
Traveler.
Facetiousness of Furniture.
**I must have ;some rest this summer,
V said the clock; IfTxnl all run
down."-J?L ~
"I think I need a country seat/"
said the easy chair, leaning, on Ms elbow.
"I'm fypftlnfy r>ln.vp.r? r>nt" said tha
piano; "a little fresh air would be a
good thing for me."
i "That's what I want," said the
sofa; "s. little fresh air at the springs." |
"I should like to go with the sofa and
loungeln the woods," said the foot-;
stooL
"If ray legs were stronger," said the
table, "I should go to the country ior |
some leaves."
4"Country board Is always so plain,"
growled the sideboard; "nobody that
is knobby or polished there."
"Let me "reflect," said the mirror;
"they have very plain-looking lassies
there, too, do they not?"
"You make me plush," said the di?
vau?and here the housemaid closed
the folding-doors and shut them all up.
A Few Answers.
What is a sage?"
"A sage, my son, is a wise man who
knows exactly when to buy or sell
stocks. We btirv abont a dozen np.r
month in this country, but the supply
still equals the demand."
"What is a successful financier?"
"Why, a man who scoops $3,000,000
out of the bank he runs, and drops the
sugar in Wall street"
"What is a philosopher?"
"He is a chap who loses his wife's
money in buying silver stock, but increases
his own by taking a deal in
pork."
What is a financial prophet?"
"He is a gentleman who states to an
interviewer on Wednesday ni?ht that J
the times are prosperous and l)uginess
solid, and on Thursday night fails lor I
seven or eight .million dollars."?Wall
Strut News. |
{INSIDE FACTS ABOUT HAIR.
| A Dermatologist Tells What He
? Knows About Human Roofs.
"Do ladies ever grow bald?" a Bos
ton Globe reporter, askod a well-known
dermatologist.
"Do they ever grow bald?" Well, I
guess so." They do not, however,
usually grow bald so early in life as
men. There are very few ladies that
do not wear some false hair, and it is :
very easy for them to coyer up any incipient
baldness with it or with their i
own hair. One thing they are veiy
netrlitrent about: Thev do not, as a !
rule, pay sufficient attention to the
cutting off of split ends. If this is
done, say three or four times a year,
the growth of the hair . will be greatly
increased, and it will be far less liable'
to break off or pull out when tangled.
.1 have a number of?what shall I say?
patients, who have followed this prac-'
' tice for a number of years and have
been greatly benefited bvit"
"Do you believe in singeing hair?"
No, I do not By" so doing a little |
bulb-shaped cinder is formed at the
end of the hair, which interferes with
the combing out It is not wall to use
cold water on long. hair, because the,
I water evanoratinff takes with it the
natural moisture of the hair, and is
liable, in warm weather especially, to'
sour the hair. It can, however, bo
used with impunity, perhaps benefit,,,
on short hair, * Salt water is good for'
the scalp; it hardens it, though it is not-.
well to put it on long hair, Decause it
evaporates, leaving the salt in the hair,
and making it unpleasantly sticky." <
"Are strawberry blondes made by
washing hair in champagne?"
"That is all fiction. I do not believe
it will affect the color of the hair a
! particle. Blonde Hair tnat is not madeby
nature is mado by bleaching liquids'
containing pr. oxide of hydrogen..
Hair dyes are generally injurious, theinstantaneous
ones containing nitrate;
of silver, less so than the slower-working
so called restoratives, which contain
black sulphur and sugar of lead.
I .donot.believe in the use of clear oil,
clear bay rum, nor pomades, but a
dressing containing a little.alcohol and.
/oil may. perhaps. be used with benefit, .
as some. scalps require a little oil'to
keeD them in a sufficientlv moist con
dition: and a slight stimulant mayprove
of benefit, romades, as a rule,
are injurious to the hair and scalp, and
are now comparatively but little used.
There is nothing better, I think, to prevent
hair from felling off than a preparation
containing quinine. "The custom,
of ladies to save their combings is
now general, and Is to be commended.
Many a lady can save enough hair in
this way to make all the switches,
puffs, etc., that she wants, and she can
keep in style and say truthfully: 'I
. .'have not & hair on my head that did
not grow there.'"
"How do you account for so many
men being bald? Is it intense thought?"
"Well, nerbaps that is the cause, in
some cares. IdTany men become bald
by wearing their hats too much. The
derby and silk hats, such as are now
worn, fitting, as they do, closely to the.
head, interfere with the circulation of
the scalp, and cause the hair to fallout.
With some, of course, the tend- 1
ency to baldness is hereditary, and in
others it is the result of sickness or
high living."
"Is there anything that will make
} hair grow on a baici neaar"
"Nothing. Wo can only assist nature,
that's all. The bald heads that
have "been covered by the use of restorers
have been covered?on' paper,
nowhere else. I am positive, however,
that if hair is taken in time it can frequently
be saved by developing all the
vitality of the scalp by brushing, rubbing
with the tips of the fingers, fre'
quent cutting-of the hair, shaving, etc.
The trouble is, most men are so engrossed
with business that they brush
tnoii* Vrnfr Vint nnoo s. Hfiv in tliA morn.
Log,,and that is about all the attention
' it receives. It is not possible to resurrect
a single dead hair, any more than
it is, a corpse, but; if a.hair has any life
' in it, that life can, with proper care, be
preserved for a long time* as the life of
a human being by careful nursing, or
the life of a plant by judicious pruning.
As a solace of bald-headed men I will
say this?what I heard an old barber
say the other day?'I have never yet
seen a bald-headed fooL'"
i mi?f 9 C* J11 4
A Gambler on. His Profession.
A recent writer, who is himself a
gambler, is not inclines to believe tnestatement
that professional gamblers
have.a high standard of honor among
themselves. He says they arc a very
suspicions body of men, whose bond
takes the form of collateral security.
The two chief component parts, he
says, that go to make up the professional
gambler are cupidity and laziness.
These two characteristics predominating
result in the complete demoralization
of the man. He sums up
the whole matter this way: "A business
that is illegitimate in itself and
draws'to its support criminals from
-11- J i. *
BT^ry WJUJi. m uxiut) iii.ua u UI11UJ ajmjo ua
demoralizing. I do pot attempt to say
that every gambling room in Boston is
the constant and only resort of criminals,
but I do wish to be understood as
83ying that, there is not a game in this
or any other city that would exclude a
man on social or moral grounds. Cash,
no matter how obtained, is the 'open
sesame' in every instance.- The conclusions
arrived at in this article have
their foundation in solid fact, and the
deductions and suggestions are the
outcome of mature thought, by one
who has made the subjeet a study,
4 ?,4 ^ Jniil
1XUII1 tilt? VOUWgU ^iUUUU VI l/iiv UOll"
er's chair."
The Party Call.
"Don't you think 'germans' are an
awful boro?" asked young Pilkins, after
a silence of ten minutes' duration.
| "Sometimes," sighod Miss CotUIion,
with an oh-do-take-him-away look in
her deep blue eyes. *2ave you been to
many?'*
"I've, ah, led about sixteen this winter,'1
answered Pilkins, in an off-hand
way. r "
"How appropriate." said Miss Cotillion,
drowsily. "Just one for every
year of your a^e;" and then there ensued
another long, delicious pause,
while the young man regarded his patent-leather
shoes and the clock deliberately
counted eleven.? Life.
In a recent trial on the Thames :
an electric Iannch fortv feet loner, www
a storage battery, a speed of seven 1
knots an hour was attained. The speed (
of a steam launch, with engine, boiler, j
water and coal Sufficient for a six
hours' run, would have been from one j
and a half to two miles an hour great- er.
Comparing the electrical system ]
with steam, the advantages of electric- J
ity are entire absence oi noise, great '
cleanliness, and verv small room need- 1
etTfor machinery; and vrhtn once I!
ckai^e2 it is ready" in a moment 11
9
j Ir :?
Breakfast Table Lecture.
i An old gentleman, the other morning
at the breakfast table, looked up a$ his';
daughter,- & tail girl with an effort at
dreaminess, and remarked:
"Louise, .I was at the theatre, last
I night,, rand just as the curtain was
aboutio%o'down at the end of the
first act, I saw yen and a kinkey-headed
yocEbtg fellow enter, prance along
the aisle, and finally, after, inuch onnoyaijce
to those who happened to be
in thegaeighborhood of your s'eats, you
and yenr delicatp companion succeeded'
in ceasing to attract the attention of
the wfiole house."
. "Wiy*.how you do talk, pa."
. "I m3?state facts. Why were you
so late?-Was it because the young man
did not get here in time?"
"OVM; he came hero in plenty of
time^ ~ v" . .
"Well, was it because you had seen
f.tia rvfivliolnrn ?nrl -frmnH it nhip^Hrm.
able?!* ; '
' "Nb; sir. " "
"Why, then, wero you so late?"
"O&Via,. .you don't understand
Comu^ir'peppIe:go?~ earijg ?tf"Jknow.
but ^bcBare apposed to knowgomefc^^ro-xio^-in^sQC^-grhnrry,''
| "Sppiws^dlo^ow' sometEing,'' repjieifthe
fatner^ y^^ry good, but like.
I ^e oot of ten suppositions, is incorrect/."
Tou.iaay!thurkj&at to studiously
enter a-theatre at^a late hour?and a
few weak-minded . people'' may a<*reo
WTi-\**_JLia o -m-fi r"tr yvf rr/\r%d V>"r -n rr
niuu-jvu?rw a* WA. r^yy>?- ui.wu.iu^t
but ni^rnthsit fe;"Tiidcni&ss, if not ao
tually "Vvtflgar;" ;cIiako" noticed that
yoa-had a wad of gum in your month,
a quid.
^Ano&er-mftrl^^gTOii^r'eedmg, I -snpnqs&:^^B^Bfe5^i'haYe
a great
deal3i? learn* andmuatiorget many of
yoxafpresefit ways, "before you can properly.^peaf
in'socifi^ ' Yoa &eem to
fthinfc-tnat :&lavish mixture oV bright
wlo^1?nd"a g^udy flower constitute
tl'dall it rig, for I cjMi tMak of
*116 "better tem. Xan think- that these
in
wfcckyoubesi agpegr^but. yon make a
xmsTake) Xoa. are a;handsome girl,
irb&fljyva 'are;. ?atjiral,-* bat. when you
arcra^jro^T^mind iSer'of L>a",cheap(
chromo.: "Whan youare' at "home'
yoi^^ress .neatly, and,1!, think, are
fiercaft^ctive.." Don't you timk that
thms raptor pretty?" holding up a
^r^:. y^'.Ttaa <*?" ?' ?v.>wc>- it*?-?.
-TJWtw, we" rr see-uow mis miuiuvca
it, spinel he tied a strip' of[. red flannel
around the'stem.. ~ t'Think it helps the
lily's appearance?"
;*'0h, pa!"
~y*Q{course not, but it reminds me of
anfcoYer-dressed woman."
*4But, speaking about the theatre,
I Sheard. ma say that she and you
often went; to the theatre and arrived
late." r \~
*?That can be explained."
SSow?"-' *
,^/Tour mother and I were fools,
child, and now recognizing it, I wish
to warn you."-^-Arkansaw Traveler.
?? ?
7. Ringing: the Baby.
r;jThcre is one young couple in this
C$7, Kais-tba Bfttroit Free Press, who
we i?ady to open an exchange wfiore
theyAay get rid of some superfluous
jewelry they have on hands, or, rather,
haven't on hand, because the hand is
quite too small for the jewelry. There
is a new baby in the family, and before
it was a week old they received a small
box from California, and upon opening
it found a tiny gold ring with "Welcome
little stranger," jengraved on the
inside. , ' 3 *
V < ? 1 t? V.?V.w
S> JLLLUU11 l/UU X\Ji. ivchuj
and not quite large enough to fit me,"
said the youn? mother, plaintively: but
on the principle that it would keep she
put it away, and dictated a letter of'
thanks to the sender. 7 ^ .
The next day the baby's aunt sent it
a lovely little ring set in pearls,
with~"Our pet" marked on tiio inner
circle.
Then it's grandmother sent it a ring
made out of a piece of gold found in
dear grandpa's pocket after his death,
and it had two sets of initials and a Biblo
text inscribed on it
But the next ring was from a school
friend, and was a wide band of gold
with a quarter dollar bangle hung" bv a
tiny chain, and the sentiment "Or such
is the kingdom of Heaven," was condensed
into it, quite discernable with a
microscope, however.
Then the baby's uncle got home from
New York, and when he had kissed the
new arrival he took something out of
his vest pocket:
"I couldn't see a thing to get the kid :
except this," he said, as he opened
a 'tiny bos? "I knew nobody :
would think of giving such a little ;
shaver a ring, so I got one. Hello, sis,
what's the matter!
The young mother had fainted. But
-I. i _ ij 1_ 1
tney resrorea nor in one 10 see u?r
dear old Aunt Letitia, who had stopped ;
over on her way to the Pacific Coast to '
see that blessed baby.
"Not a ring on her dear, sweet little
hands," said the old lady, severely;
"Aunty Lishy didn't forget her tootseywootsey."
And she slipped a cameo
circlet on the smali red finger. It had
? n-AAl- *TTA?/? An/wntTO/1 An if I
Uf VZIUOiX nuiu VTA* AW Y? i^AVy**
means "Hope."
"There's the postman's ring," said
the nurse one day as she looked out of
the window.
"He's bringing another off-ring to the
baby; I know it, ' said the pale, young
mother.
But they carry them to another room
now, where they are numbered, sorted
vomiloT
vutt auu uuu an 0^j iu v*uva|
shining mementoes of the awful want
of originality, which is usually possessed
by the friends of a first baby.
The Boy With the Long Coat.
The half-clad boy that wears a frock
coat, cast off by some larger member !
of the family or perhaps by a stranger,
is a serio-oomic spectacle. The tails of
the garment almost sweep the ground,
the ragged"pockets dangle against his
ans-ies, ,anu we pauu.au siiuuiueis ma
the little fellow appear to bo almost :
twice his actual size. The long sleeves
are rolled back, and on the bulge,
the little fellow wipes his nose, leav- :
ing a glaze on the seeve's ragged lin- 1
tog- '
"Why don't your mother cut down
Idiab wait ou 11 w juu: sumc uuo wao.
"'Cause I ain't got any mother," ho
replies. "My mother's dead." ,]
His playmates scout and call him ;
old man. Merchants tell him to move
on away from their doors. Simpering !
girls giggle at him as they pass. His
ufe is lowly and he is acquainted with '
sorrow, finally some one leiias nim a ;
helping hand, and in after years when 1
people point to an institution of learning
and ask the name of the founder, .
some old man, after giving the illus- .
trious name, says: 4'X knew him when, .
is a boy, he used to wear a" long rag- i
*ed coat."?Arkansaw Traveler. (
i
Keeping Hotel in Mississippi.
Three of us walked into the office o
rt hotel in a little town in Mississipp
one night, and when the landlord hoc
been aroused from his n3p behind th<
stove, a big dog kicked" off the onlj
bench in the room, and the smoking
I lamp turned up so that we could set
j each other, he sized us up and said:
4 'Gentlemen, T m a poor landlord bu
a truthful man. In the first placc, FI
have to put the three of you into on<
bed- In the next place, it's a bed sc
dog-goned mean tnat you'd a heap bet
ter lie on the floor."
"Can't we sit up in the room?" askec
one. ; 1 . :r-: ;
"Don t beiieve- you. km. There s j
dozen panes of glass gone, the roo:
leaks, and there's no show to build i
fire."
"What sort of a tavern do'you keep,
anyhow?"
"Poor?miserably poor. I'm nc
landlord, my wife runs all to poetry,
and the building is mortgaged fo>
"mor'n it's worth."
"How About breakfast?"
: ."Well, voncan counfeon. bacon, 'Raters,
and "hoe-^kej with mighty pool
coffee.' The table-cloth is fafi o holes,
we never use napkins, and maybe there
won t be forks enough to go round.
"See here," growled the drummer,
"you'd better get out of this and give
room to somebody who can keep a
hotel."
"I know it?I know it; but where and
how shall I go? I couldn't raise sis
bits to save my neck, and what-town
wants me? I haven't got no trade,
am too weak to labor in the fields, and
this keepin' tavern seems to be the only
opening for me."
"Got any whisky?"
"Nary."
"Any good -water?"
"Well, it's creek water, and ptirty
sandy just now."
4 'Any more wood to keep up the fire?"
"Not a stick, but I'll cut some in the
morning."
The four of us stood looking at each
other for a long minute, and it was the
landlord who spoke first He said:
* .r*I * "V "4,* ' . 1.
brents, it s no use 10 kick, lm sorry,"and
thafs all I can do. Til light
another lamp, bring out a pack of
keerds, and we'll play seven-np while
the hired man comes in and fiddles for
us. It's only six hours to daylight and
eight to breakfast, and a shilling plu^
of tobacker pays the bill for the hull
three of you."
But when we loft the next forenoon
he wouldn't even take that. He said
our society was recompense enough.?
Detroit Free Press.
Miser and Speculator.
Your miser starves himself and does
no harm to others. Your banker who
gambles into great schemes dresses and
lives like a gentleman?like a great
many gentlemen put together, ana all
of them very rich?and when he falls
he drags down with him thousands of
well-to-do individuals, and along with
them the business and other legitimate
interests which give employment to
thousands of laboring men and women.
Everybody holds the miser in contempt.
but evervbodv admires the
prince of the great scheme. The latter
has stables crowded with horses which
ho never sees. Hi* different country
and city establishments arc maintained
at a cost of thousands of dollars a
week. His family'select their attire
from a home storehouse as large as an
average dry goods establishment His
pleasures are paid for in diamonds,
and his path is strewn with gold.
When the miser dies nobody is injured,
and his grave is soon forgotten; but
when the prince falls, there is wailing
over a wide space of territory, for his
ot-h-otto nnnca flnrl fall Viavo t.filrAn t.via
bread out of many children's mouths.
It is held, and perhaps properly
enough, that the law must not say to
any maD, "You have enough; you must
be contented with that; you must not
only live, but let live; you must curb
your rapacity and permit others to
have .their fair share of comforts and
luxuries*" What, however, shall be
done to check the passion for great and
unearned wealth which has taken possession
of so many men, who are otherwise
worthy of respect? This passion
has uprooted many of the old systems
T+ Ii O C? oo^nfr
VI u uouitoo. JLU uu>g uvgxivjeu &*.
and put public and private confidence
on the raclv Ii threatens a bfeaking
up which 17111 do an uncalculable damage.
Most certainly there can be not
many more cases of wholesale scoundrelism
on the part of men in positions
of trust without creating a panic whose
melancholy effects may ran through
several years. The gentleman miser
must be checked. The avarice which
moic+t iinrtn milliona fr\v nrirato riCA
must be "stopped. Lorenzo Dow told of
an avaricious farmer who, given the
whole world, wept beeausa he had not
a patch outside to plant potatoes in.
Sad the farmer been located in Wall
3treet^ or at the head of a bank,
nobody to-day would find anything extravagant
in the character. ?New York
Graphic.
"God Bless the Baby."
. .
A Dig man ana a smauer one wen*
intd Mr. Harrington's store late last
night and asked to look at 3ome clothing.
Mr. Harrington himself waited
upon the visitors and was showing them
various lines of goods when the door
leading to his residence in the rear of
the store opened and in came on the
run a baby daughter of the Harrington
family. The little one came In hurrying
to escape her mother, and fell over
a box. Mr. Harrington left the customer
and went to the rescue of the baby.
After the little one was quieted and
m tVin flnnr Vin rocnmflH Tiis nrJS
mess, but in a minute she fell over
another box and apparently hurt herself.
He left the customer and again
looked after the child.
At this the man turned to his companion
and said: "Letfs go out of
here. I ain't looking for & nursery."
The proprietor heard the remark and
was not slow to respond. He said that
he had lived fifty-two years and done
twenty years of business, and had had
OA AAA AiictAmAro linf. ViqH
tU,VW ^U^i/ViUViU, WWW AAV uuv*. M.VI va ??
but two Harrington babies, and this
was the only one left He could get
along without the customer and the
sale of a suit of clothes to him, but ho
couldn't get along without the Harrington
baby, ana he didn't care how
soon the customer "skipped."
The man, who was looking at the
proprietor with a mild astonishment at
first, when the story was finished had
bis handkerchief out, was wiping his
ayes and reaching his hand out to Mr.
Harrington exclaimed, "Partner, God
1 1?"1 TT? MA..1 A A frtA
uxesb uits usuy. xitj uuuiuu i> uu iw
ipuch, and it is needless to say they
parted as friends.?Cheyenne (Wy. T.J
Sun.
The charter which Napoleon ILL
rode at the battle of Sedan has become
9> pensioner, and as such has been
^ Mflo4n?a VMmmififi*
UUb IU L/ADIUiQ M/i ?UV
DfMsmr ? V _ .. J
The Cost of High Speed.
* Sove experiments have been made
i lately upon the Bound Brook Route to
i ascertain the difference in the consump*
tion of coal between an express train
f running on schedule time and the same
j 1 train run at a very low speed, but oth
5 erwise under the "same conditions, the
same five cars and precisely similar
engines being used The trains ran in
1 each case from Philadelphia to Bound
5 Brook and back, a distance of 119
> miles. The slow trip was made in 9
hours 23 minutes, 4,420 pounds of coal
i being consumed. The train stopped at
I" tne same places as the regular express
train, tne only unusual leature of tbe
t trip being t?e funeral pace, averaging
? a little oyer 12J miles an hour. When
i running on schedule lime the consumption
was 6,725 pounds, agreeing close,
ly with the usual consumption on this
route with the regular five-car express
> trains. The saving effected in coal by
.. running the train at a very slow pace
?" was 2.805 nounds. The nercentao-e of
saying may be expressed in two ways:
as compared'with the eonsimiption at
the nomal express speed, the slow
' speed shows a saving of 34-2 per cent,
> while the consumption at the high
> speed shows an increase over that at
1. the low speed of 52.1 per cent
These figures show that high speed
is not so expensive as is generally im- i
. acincd. The sDeed of 12.5 miles an i
hour for a through passenger train
. making few stops is, of coursc, imprac:
ticable, for various reasons. Probably
. the difference in coal consumption between
the lowest speed practically
. possible under ordinary conditions and
a high express speed is even smaller
than the figures given, which represent
a lower speed than is ever attained on
an ordinary railroad.
High speed to a certain extent diminishes
both the number of men and
amount of rolling stock, necessary to
carry a give a traffic; and this saving
must to set _against the Increase in
coal consumption and wear and tear.
In the case under notice, at a slow
11 q J 1?
Dpcvu, iiiv iuu \jl XIJ nines wuuiu iliaixo
a fair day's work for both trainmen
and train; whereas, at the normal
speed, allowing for the necessary delay
at stations, switching, turning and
' loading engine, etc., quite double the
mileage might be made in a day. As
enginemen are ordinarily paid by the
trip, this would not reduce their wages
unless some ch^n^e were made in the
practice, but probably some change
would be made if runs which now require
six or seven hours were reduced
to four or five. Double the amount of
foiling stock being required, the round
houses, etc., must be larger and the
C in ere fn urln/?h StATA t.hp MFQ TriTlfffi
, oe longer. The interest on t':e additional
rolling stock and plant would
thus amount to quite a large figure. In
some cases the slower train might
actually be the more expensive to run,
leaving on one side all questions as to
the convenience of rapid traveling and
its effect in increasing the volume of
travel On the whole, the result of
these experiments seems to be strongly
in favor of high speeds for both passenger
and freight trains.?Railroad Go-.
zeite. . /_
An Impressive Effect for a Bridal
Scene.
"I went into Quaritch's book store
one day, and among other curious
books i picked up an old, black-letter
volume. It was a work on "Ceremonies,"
with four large illustrations. I
went into the shop to spend four or five
pounds; I spent eighty-four or five, and
earned off the ulack-letter book on
Ceremonies"?all Italian. I was at
the time preparing "Much Ado" for
the Lyceum. In the picture of a wedding
ceremony I saw what struck me
as a wonderful effect, and of the period,
toe?the Shakspeare period. The effect
was a mass of vergers, or javelin
men?officers of the church, I should
say. They were dressed in long robes,
and each carried a halberd. I pressed
these men at once into the service of !
Shakspeare and his cathedral scene at
Messina, and got that impressive effect
/ i 1 _ _ __ ^ 1 A 1- - 1 1 JJ
oi xneir entrance anu me DacKgrouna
of sombre color they formed for the
dresses of the bridal party. And it is
right, too?that's the best of it. Not
long ago I was at Seville, and saw a
church ceremony there, where the different
parties camc on in something
like the fashion of our people on the
stage; but we never did anything so
fine in that way as the entrances of the
visitors at the "Capulets" in "Romeo
2 ' At.c
?uu uuuet ?luc -aiiicreub uviupauies
of maskers, with their separate retainers
md torch bearers."?From Irving'1 s
"Impressions of America.
An Alleged Cure for Head r ches. .
James Carley, of this town, a jour
hatter, recently suffered for a week
with severe headache. Every possible
remedy was resorted to witnous reiiei.
Finally one of his shopmates informed
him that D. B. Wilkes, living in the
upper end of Kingstreet District could
cure it without faiL According Carley
set out to find the man who possessed
the panacea that could relieve him
from his untold suffering. Mr. Wilkes,
whose occupation is a farmer, received
him cordiallv and at once assured
him that he could cure his headache. <
He requested Carley to accompany him
to the old cider-mill, which they entered,
and Mr. Wilkes pulled out from
beneath the press a box covered with a
coal sieve. From the box he took a
live black snake and wound it around
Carley's neck. Strange as it may
seem, almost instantaneously the 'pain
left his head and has not returned since.
Mr. Carley and his friends vouch for. ,
his cure. Mr. Wilkes also cures
sprains and swellings in the same way. j
ZH3 wxpiaius me uiatujr uu me prmui
pie of animal electricity, which he sup- (
poses that the snake possesses. If a ,
tore is effected in this way the writer \
thinks that the pain is frightened out
of the patient by the horrid application.
Banbury (Conn.) News.
A lady writer in the Sural New York- !
ex savs: "A mother -who allows her J
boys to grow up ignorant of wholesome \
cookery and the tine art of sewing fails :
in her duty. Henry Ward Beechcr's I,
( mother taught him at an early age to
sew; and,for lads full of activity, who
cannot be kept quiet, sewing is an ex-' ]
cellcnt pastime for discipline. If boys <
sewed more and romped less, the girls sewed
less and romped more, the gain <
would be mutuaL Then, too, If every <
member of the family knows how to <
prepare a meai cue rcnei to tne moiner <
or wife is almost immeasurable." 1
The roc was the boss bird of his day. ]
4'Sinbad, the sailor," knew something :
of it?In Ms mind. Marco Polo heard 1
of him in Madagascar, and declared <
: that it was like the eagle, measuring i
i sixteen paces from wing to wing. But 1
i the Persian authorities give the wildest s
account They represent him as car- 1
rying an elephant in his beak and one
In each of his clawi ' <
GXiEAXDfGS#
The King of Siam has 263 children.
Rowell has made $80,000 out of Walking
matches. -
A Georgia paper extols "the natural
: advantages" of the Fort Gaines Cezne!
tery..
When a man boards a wrong train
! of thought he is liable to run off the
tracK.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart is eighty-four
| years old and the "richest widow in the
j world:
At the Carlisle Indian school there
I are at present 455 pupils?825 boys and
j ISO girls.
1 Paper is now used in Germany in*
: stead of wood in the manufacture of
j lead pencils.
These are the mornings when the
roses kiss the girls on the cheeks and . -A
i forget to go away.
Two new Cunarders are now being
I uuiii. wnn me ODjeci 01 tteaung au pre- .
vious records in crossing' the Atlantic.
Robert Griffin, of London, says the
world will not be large enough to told
the population, in: a thousand years
from now.
Wail street is an attractive place
where a man can lose .$9,000,000 in
four years without half trying.?Norris- 7
town Herald.
There are 124,000 miles of railroad
in the United States, or seven times ' as
many miles as there are in" the "^United
Kingdom of Great Britain.
The stained-glaSs craze in fashionable
households is < wanin/y. and the
opinion of intelligent people is that
wholesale imitation killed it. r
. Darby Green is a Connecticut Yankee
who was seven years old when the Declaration
of Independence wasr signed.
He is still vigorous and isappy.:
The Kentucky House of Representatives
has passed a Mil prohibiting bicyclists
from using* the public roads of
most 01 Xae cpoaiwea buai/U. n.
New York's Legislature has exempted
from taxation the- property oI disabled
ministers and priests over 70
years old, to the amount of $1,500. :
Charles Beade knew that death was
coming and refused absolately to meet
it at Cannes. "No," he said, "I feel '
myself breaking up and I wish to go
homo to die."
Ecclesiastical clocks for -bedrooms
are the newest They are made of
olive wood in the form of a cathedral, v > r ;
and in the steeple in the clock, sweet
chimes designating the hours.
Lady Ripon and Lady Hobart, Mf?a'
Eye and Miss McPherson, have aided
upword of ten thousand men, woman
and children to emigrate from jEngjfim
ro tnc coiomes or mis country.
Chinese
laundries are springing np
with wonderful rapidity in all the
Southern cities, and the competition
which they have excited has, in many
instances, resulted in street brawls.
Matthew Rankin, of Lewiston, Me.,
has been confined to one chair for * - - x.
thirty-three years. He has a combina- \ ^
tion of mirrors by which he locks out
of the window without moving his
The Astors own certainly a sixteenth
of the real estate of New iork. Aid ? gs
they are the very best of landlords.
Their prices are moderate* and they
never refuse any reasonable demand -/~a
for repairs.
Allen Gilford and wife, of Eastern, /..*>
Washington county, will celebrate at
Christmas the seventieth anniversary
of their wedding, if life is spared to
them till then. He is ninety-three
years old and she is eighty-nixie.
In LeiorTi Richmond's advice to his '
daughters, he wrote: "Girls, be cheerful,
Dut not higglers; be serious, but
not dull; be communicative, but not
forward; be kind, but not servile. Be- ;
ware of silly, thoughtless speeches." A
gentleman who has given a good
deal cf study to the subject says that .
while Philadelphia has a greater number
of benevolent institutions than any
city m tne country, tne percentage ot
pauper3 to the population is alsp larger, *
A New Haven man has invented a
new kind of a parachute, which is fastened
around the center of the balloon
itself, and it is expected to bring \be MM
whole sffair, including the aeronaut
down safely if any accident happens to
the balloon.
Statistics show that among 1,000 dootnrs
the number of deaths anrmallv
ranges between fifteen and twenty-five.
At tnis rate the number of deaths annually
among the 90,000 medical men
of this country would be, on an average,
1,800.
Mr. Case, a watchmaker of Franklin, _
Pa., has completed a locomotive and
tender six inches long all told, that has
every part complete that is found in a
working engine. It is made of gold,
silver and steel, ana is aestinea. ior me
New Orleans exhibition.
Last summer a Philadelphia gentleman
dug out a sand crab on the Jersey
shore, which he took home and put in
his cellar. Up to date he says it has
caught 112 rats. The rodents smell its
breath, and when they go to investigate
they are nipped and held until the dog
arrives.
Most of the ice used at Calcutta is
aow manuiacturecL up to xour or nre
fears ago it was shipped from Boston.
Although the manufactured' Ice only
Lasts half as long as the natnzal ice, it
can be made so much cheaper that it
has driven the Boston ice out of the
market. '
Henry Labouchere, who is not only
editor of an influential London journal
but a member of Parliament as well,
has been gojng into uncomfortable
mathematics by showing th&t the cost
of the royal family, about $1,000,000
annually, would give a meal to 00,000
children on 400 days in the ye?. ;
At Monte C;irlo it is tfee custom to
fill the pockets of suicides with bank
notes so that it mar be-seen that they
iid not kill themselves on account of
[osses. They tried this trick on a presumably
dead Irishman a short tune
ago; but ho was not dead at all, and
skipped off with the money in.the most
lively style.
It is said that the inventor of the
process of blenching elephants, results
which arc seen in the menageries of
Barnum and Forepaugh, claims that it
san be applied without injury to colored
people, and that it furnishes a
complete answer to Job's famous inquiry
as to the possibility of whitening
in Ethiopian.
Mrs. Lambert, of San Jose, CaL, is a
physician and a firm believer in wo- :: M
T?;<rVit? Tn a criminal trial she
tvas called as a witness for the prosecution,
but she refused to go on the
stand, saying that as she wag denied
;hc right of citizenship she would as ume
none of its duties. The court
!ailed to accept the reason given aa
ralid, and sent the witness to jail for "v. "5