The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, October 08, 1884, Image 1
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WINNSBQRO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1884. ' ^
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Made to be Painted, Xot to be Kissed.
"Made to be painted"?a Millias might give
A fortune t.-> steady that exquisite face?
The face is a fortune*?a Lawrence might live
' Anew in each line of that figure's still
grace.
The pose is perfection, a mcdcl esch limb.
From the delicate foot to the classical
bead;
But the almond-blue eyes, with their smiling:,
look dim.
And lips to be Icved want a trifle more red.
Bb ; Statuesque? No, a Pcyche, Jet's say, in re.
pose?
A Psyche ivhose Cupid beseeches in vain?
"Wo sigh as th<? nigrhfla^a.'e sighs to the rose
[ Tort declines (it's averred) to give sighs
back again, * ? *
If the wind shook the rose? Then a shower
would fall
Of sweet-scented petals to gnti?er who list;
If a sigh shook my Psjcbe? She'd y wnthat
is ail, ' j
She's made to bo painted, and not to be
. kissed.
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NANCY'S DEVICE.
A daintily shaped "little head, overrunning
with curls, ' enshrouding r.
fair, winsome face of perfect oval, that
seemed made for smiles and laughter
only, and generally fulfilled the expectations
it aroused; but on the present
occasion it must be confessed that the |
prevailing- expression of Hetty Blake's :
features was very crcss indeed, as she j
sat in the wide window sill, swinging i
her pretty little feet and pouting a pair ;
of exquisitely-carved scarlet lips, as I
she plaited and unplaited the strings of
her broad-rimmed gipsy hat.
"I don't care." said Miss Hetty. "I |
don't lOve Mr. Meredith! And I "don't
want to marry him. So there now." j
And she nibbled at the hat strings j
and frowned under her level brown j
brows, like a pretty rebel as she was. j
"Hetty, hold your tongue," said La- ;
vinia, her elder "sister. - j
"You don't know what you're talk- ;
ing about," severely uttered Mrs. i
Blake, who was mixing up a batch of j
bread at the kitchen tabic. "Mr. Mer- J
edith has a house and farm worth ten |
thousands pounds. And it's a great i
compliment for.him to speak to your
? father about marrying you."
"Then I wish he'd keep his compli-*
& merits to himself," said the incorrigible
Hetty. "Look here, Lavinia, why
% won't you marry him?"
Lavinia, overcome with indignation,
\ <kait her roguish little sister a~box on
the ear; which Hetty narrowly escaped
by a sudden depression of hgrj~T~.i
"No, but it would suit?so exactly,"
said Hetty. "Lgwflfols just that sort
^ "''Hetty, don't be a fool!" said Mrs.
Blake. "You should thank Providence
that Mr. Meredith is pleased ^ marry
you, and put all nonsensical ideas
about Harry Waite out of your head at
once!"
But Hetty frowned and pouted more
and more, and tried resolutely to keep
the big, bright tears from falling on [
her hands.
"What shall I do?" said Hetty to
he.rsell "Foul never never can marry
that bald-headed oid man who talks
through his nose and carries -a yellow
silk pocket-handkerchief!. And I;m
sure Harry would shoot himself when
he heard of it!"
j? But^all Hetty Blake's tears and lamentations
availed nothing. Her father
BSIb^ "* ay.5' g-yrSgnc5vman of- the .world.- Her
mother understood the full meaning Taf
money, and so the match was to be
hurried on, regardless of the feelings
: 1 of the bride-elect.
But Providence interfered?that kind.
ly Providence which has the interests of
.true lovers ever under its care, .
Mr. and Mrs. Blake had gone to attend
a chapel meeting twenty miles
:away, with Lavinia in their train!
Hetty, being "nnregenerate," was j
left at "home to meditate over a volume '
of sermons.
"JNow be sure. Jtiectj, vou iooic wen
afrer the house," said" Mrs. Blake; I
"and see that Nancy feeds the voun<r |
cou'y3 regvlarly, and cares for the go?
^the chickens. And lock?up
the houst\3,t 0 clock every night,
and be sure <ioa't let in any tramps j
nor peddlers^'
?ril be very cai"*^^' Sil^ Hetty. !
*'We shall be back' <** Friday,'] said |
Mrs. Blake, "without 3,2 ^ ^ 70u {
have any leisure time you turn the j
sheets in the wash-basket, a-u^^&n1 the j
thin places in the back-parlor e&rpet* !
and do any other useful odd jobs about j
the house." . ~ - i
So Mrs. Blake climbed into the cart,
where her husband and Lavinia were
already seated, and drove away, calling
out directions to Hetty as long as
*Ha hnnse was in sierht.
The heads of the'family hadnot been j.
gone for more than two hours, when !
Hetty came fiying out to the kitchen, j
where Nancy was making softsoap.
"Oh, Nancy, what shall I dor"
cried she. "Here's Mr. Meredith, get- j
ting out of *? one-horse chaise at the j
door." . j
"Why, go up and see him of course," !
said Nancy, who was one of the old
family servants, who are becoming, as j
a race, extinct in England.
"Can't I tell him that father and
mother arc gone away?" pleaded Hetty.
"Nonsense!"- said Nancy, stirring"
desperately away at her monster kettle.
"You don't suppose it's your
father and mother that he comes to see,
do you? Oh, dear; and there isn't a
scrap of fresh meat in the house. I j
thought boiled eg?s and cold. nam
vould. do for oar noon bite."
<*Sa it will," saidHetty. "If we vr. "ke
tiling ^ agreeable for him, Nancy,
ae'ifW^kng.'' _
Nacev Ion *9Bnd in amazement
"And do?t y>* *??'* him t0 stay?"
said she.
cried Miss a
startled look, as some un^?a smbfella- :
handle rapped smartly on door be.- \
yond. "1 can't endure him, l$&S?y- I
I?I hate him!" . I
And then she burst icto a storm c*
tears.
Nancy comprehended in an instant .
"Poor dear!" said she. "So that's !
A the way the wind blows, is it? It is a i
shaine! Never mind, Miss Hetty; we'll j
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/ settio mm.
/ "Settle him?" vaguely repeated the j
girl. *
/ "Hush!" said brisk Nancy. "Go and
J let him ic. I know the man. Mycou- >
sin, Mary Ann Potts, lived as house- j
keeper to him for a year. He's one of j
those people that want everything to go :
smooth. Never would let " Mary Ann :
white wash a ceiling or scrub off a floor
with sand and soapsuds. And of all
tilings in the world ho abominates
house-cleaning. We'll clean house
while he's here, Ketty, eh?"
^ The girl's brilliant eyes sparkled
throagh her quickly-dried tears; a
love iy carmine color mounted into her
p'h?pki?_
"Nancy," she cried, "yon are a second
Talleyrand!"
, . "Go along with you!" said Nancy,
with a chuckle, not at all knowing who
Talleyrand was, but quite sensible that
a compliment, of some kind was intended
by the comparison.
Mr. Meredith was standing on the
door-step all greasy smiles, when Hetty
came'to the door, with her brown
! frizzes tied up in a pocket-handkerchief
J and a huge bib-apron eclipsing her
| pretty figure.
"My dear Miss Hetty, how are you?"
! said Mr. Meredith. "Your father was
; so good as to invite me to come here
' whenever it was convenient; so, as my
housekeeper is gone for a week, 1 have
: concluded?1'
j "Oh, yes, very glad to see you, Tm
j sure!"said Hetty, hurriedly. "Walk
i in. Father, and mother, and Lavinia
i have gone to nereiora to tne opening
j of the new chapel that has been built
I there for Uncle Jared by his congrega;
tion, and they won't be back until the
day after to-morrrow. But Nancy is
here. Nancy and I are cleaning house."
Mr. Meredith's face elongated itself.
"Cleaning house!" he repeated, dolorously.
"But that's all nonsense. No
properly kept house ever needs cleaning."
He caine on slowly. A step-ladder
stood at the end of the hall?hurriedly
stirred-np p:ii:s of whitewash foamed
on either side, \vh::c Nancy, in a faded
I calico dress, advanced.
j "Walk in, Mr. Meredith," said she?
' "walk right, in. We'll try and make
you as comfortable as we can. I told
Miss Hetty, says I, 'Just, as certain as
you pull up the things and go to housecleaning,
company'11 come. They always
do,' says* L " But Miss Hetty, she
does set so much store by house-cleaning.
She says she's going to clean
house once a month when she has a j
house of her own."
Mr. Meredith simply gasped, and
said nothing.
"Oh, yes," said Hetty, artlessly,
clasping her hands. "Cleanliness is
next to godliness, you know. And I
do so delight in soapsuas and whitewashing,
and floor-scrubbing, and all
that sort of thing. That's right, Mr.
Meredith, sit yourself down. We shan't
tear this room to pieces until after
dinner."
"I'm very glad of that," dejectedly
uttered the middle-aged swain'. "I
think myself that house-cleaning?"
4,And I'll ?ret the dinner at once,"
, interrupted Nancy. "Hetty is a queer.
girL She don't like to cook; she says
when she's married she's going to roast
or boil once a week, and iiye off cold
victuals the rest of the time." ^ - -i
"But it seams Ja^s^i^rrtHs^amis- j
takenjjis?r>',"^rgued Mr. Meredith,
i^i^fyniotlier was a famous cook. She
always baked pies fresh every day, and
made hot rolls for breakfast; and I've
a recipe of hers for chicken and ham
pie that I wouldn't exchange for its
weight in gold."
"I despise cooking!" said Hetty, indifferently.
"And I don't mean to slave
over the kitcken-grate, to suit the prejudice
of any man jiving."
Mr. Meredith stared at her once
more, and in default of any pitying reply,
opened and closed his fat mouth
in'a fishy way; even Hetty's eighteenyear
old beauty could hardly reconcile
him to such heretical opinions as these.
Dinner was served.
Boiled eggs, cold bacon cut in thin,
pink shavings, bread and butter, and
tea, weak almost to in.mation, formed
the bill of fare.
Mr. Meredith ate with a knife of one
pattern and a fork of another, and
^ 4-rvo tt?*f! % T-\r?r\rzm cmcrftr ATI
bWUJCvCJUUU. IXiO ?* ii-u w- ?.?* ~~
account of the whjte variety, having^
been mislaid.
4'Nothing matters much when you
are cleaning house," said Hetty, radiantly.
Bat Mr. Meredith, who fully appreciated
all the creature comforts of* this
world, entertained a very different
opinion. After this rather unsatisfactory
meal, Hetty set her elderly lover
to "beating a hearth-ru^ which was
stretched over a clothes-One.
'Tm sure you'd rather be doing
something than sitting still," said Hetty,
as she put a long hazel sapling into
the hands of Mr. Meredith, and adjured
him "to beat the thin places carefully.
And after you've finished this," she
added, with a gracious smile, ''you
shall get upon the ladder and help
iNancy witc me cuwug:
Mr. Meredith worked like a day laborer
until the friendly darkness came
to his aid. Even then he was set to
getting nails out of a carpet with a
screwdriver, on his knees, bv the light
of a spluttering oil-lamp.
"We are getting along so splendidly
with the house-cleaning!" chirped Hetty,
with an exultant laugh.
Mr, Meredith supped off bread-andcheese
and beer, and slept on a bedstead
which occupied a desolajte waste
of newly-scrubbed fioor.
He woke up, the next morning, with
darting rheumatic pains in all his
bones, and came down stair3 with a
lowering brow.-'
Hetty"was there, in the highest spirits,
with he? head already tied up in an
apron. - \
"You are just the person we want,
Mr. iu.ereu.iixi, j..
wants all the bureaus and heavy furniture
moved outside, so than we can begin
to clean the parlor at once."
"Thee," said Mr. Meredith, irately, I
"she will have to get someone else to I
do it for her. I hate bonse-cleaning?
and I'll have nothing more to do with
it!" .
"1 won't marry any man who won't
allow me to clean house as ofien as -I
want," said Hetty, with spirit
*1 shail not ask you to make the sacrifice
for mo, Miss Hetty," said Mr.
Meredith. "I see too plainly that our
tastes are not congenial. And having
both our interests at heart, I mujt beg
to be released from the engagement I
was foolish enough to contract"
"With all my heart," assented Hetty,
and making a low courtesy, she
drew the engagement ring off her finger
and handed to him.
There was an^ end, matrimonially
- " ? TT ^4.
spea&ng, 01 Mr. Aiercaiui. ae >VCUb |
away thinking his stars for the escape j
Mo Had nad.
"She would have scrubbed and
cleaned tie whole establishment into
thd workhouse in q, year," said he.
"I'm well out of the business. One caa
discharge a housekeeper if she don't
suit, but not a wife."
So Mr. Meredith adhered to the stand- ,
ard of old lachelordom, and pretty i
Hetty married Mr. Wake after all.
Bat strange to say, Mr. Waite never !
complained of his wife's addiction to j
honsVcleaning rites. And. he never
could understand why it was that Mr. i
Meredith always cast su--h pitying j
glances upon him when they met
For Hettv and her faithful confeder- j
ate, Nancvj had kept their secret weLL j
A lady in New York City has just:
finished a silk quilt composed of 14,000 j
pieces, each about the size of a 10-cent j
piece. The pieces are hexagonal, and j
there are on an average ten stitches on I
each of the six sides, which makes the j
total number of stitches 420,000. It j
has taken Mrs. Collins seven years to j
make this quilt, -working on it during j
her spare hours. It has been valued j
bv a dry-goods house on Broadway at :
?500 or'$600. j
There are 11,000,000 people within a j
radius of S00 miles of Louisville, K* 1
jnii?BBliT
Unclc Abe Rccovcrs His Pullet.
"Wall," began the old man, "I had
i my 'spicions 'bout dis here chicken,
| but I r.in't say much. I jis' lie low and j
I watch de case. 'links I, Brudder Dick j
; bin a powerful han' on do stealing j
! question, and 1 don't see as how his j
j 'iigion dun 'prove him any, so I jis' i
: keep my eye on his motions. Jis' now, \
j as I was a passin' his house I hear a i
i mighty singins: and patting ob de feet,
i like Brudder Dick feel monstrous hap- j
; py. Den I peeps fro' dc crack, and \
| dar, bress God, I seed de old sinner jis' j
: a taring de fodders outen dat pullet, i
Den I walked back a few step3 and sot i
| up a signal, too; and when I gets to j
! his house I hollers out: 'Brudder Dick, j
; is you dar?'
' "Den he answers up, skeert like:
| 'Jsc here, Brudder Abe. What's yer
j pledger?'
Tse cumin' in to sit awhile,' says I,
j and I shuffles about, liko there is a
i powerful site o' mud on my feet, kase I
; was boun' fur to hab a leetle fun, and
i I wanted to gib de olo man time to
[ hide de pullet.
| "T^hen I goes in Brudder Dick was
j jis' a shovin' a basket ob fodders under
| de bed. 'Hab a cheer, brudder,' says
| he, powerful pcrlite; Tse sure glad fer i.
ter see yer. Brins: dat cheer nisrher to
do fiah.' " :
"Den we talks and talks, and while I
was lookin' roun' I sees a piece ob :
! dat pullet a stickin' outen his pocket
'"Brudder Dick,'says I, 'dus you
carry a rabbit foot for .rood luck?' And |
gin a grab fur de chicken, but no,
Bress de Lord, the olc man was too
peart for mc, nnd lie clap he hau' on
his pocket and he holler out: 'Don't
touch my rabbit fooc, kase you'll spile
all my luck.'
" 'Dat's the truff,' says I; den I sot
to finking how I was gwino to get dat
pullet outen dat pocket.
"Arter awhile says I: 'Brudder
Dick I'se dun los' dat fine Plymouth
Rock pullet what I sot so much store
by.'
"'You ain't tell me so,' he 'plies,
innercent like as a dove; 'how dot dun
happen, brudder?'
" 'I can't in no wise tell,' says I,
but I bress de niggah what eats dat
c&^cket?sfcA5c I is dun put de ebil spell
*1 ??j 'a. '- f nlnw +a KtinTr
On it, anu it js ti?ivjuicu- u.u- imw
bone, I is shure dat pullet afore
now stan' on its headed walk on its
tail.'
" 'You ain't say so,' lie 'scrims, and
his eyes look like dey wus g~rcine .to
pop outen his head, and I see- him
hitch back his coat like he was skeert
fur de pocket to touch hiru. Tinks\I,
ole man, ycu'se all right now, and \I
tells him good nite and leabs. \
4'Den I hides behind a tree fur to see k
what he gwine fur to do nex', and }
bimeby he comes to the door and peep
out; he ain't seen nobody and he gin a 1
run and Hugo; the chicken inter my ,
yard. Den I hear he say to hisself, 4lf 1
dat dere chicken is conjured I is dun i
fixed up ole man Abe's dog, kase Cash j
is boun'fur to ^at it afore morninV 1
Den he slips in de house and I gets to' <
dat pullet in a hurry and here it is,
now ready for de cooking, ole 'oman. {
Ha! ha! ha!" laughed the negro. "I is ]
cunnin' as a coon; it is hard to kotch t
up wid dis niggah."?Fhiladelphia ]
Times. (
HfeTCHfew vVneti the Bride iras ^oni' *
A rather curious incident occurred 1
lately at the Recorder's oflice. An old,
white-haired darky, leaning on his
cane, poked his head in the door of
the marriage license department and,
taking, off bis hat, said:
"Scuse me, boss, but I'se looking .
for do place whar dey git a license to ,
marry." " '
'Come in, then," replied the clerk;
4'you've struck it the first time." ,
"Come on hyar, chillcn," the old
man said, beckoning to some one on
the outside. ''These'ere two wants to j
get married, boss, and I came 'long
wid'em kase this gal ain't got no father
nor mother 'ceptin' me."
4'How old is she?" asked the clerk.
"She's berry nigh nineteen."
"Where's her father?" j
"Dead, boss."
"And her mother?"
"Dead, too."
"How do you know .she is nineteen? *
She looks younger."
T L~n nrr P T tnr\Tcr tocfi T
brans her up." j
"Where was she born?"
"Now, lemme see; her father died
befo' de war, and she was born just
after Marst' Lincoln was shot."
"Why, that was four years after her
father's death!"
"I know it, dat's right, boss, she was
born four years after her father died."
"Oh, that can't be!"
"But I tell you boss, I knows it.
Her mother war living' wid my folks
at de time, and it war just four years
after her old man died."
The clerk was stumped, so he called
up Recorder Farrelly to know what he
should do. The old darky failed to be
shaken in his statement, and as it was
certain that she had a father at some
time the license was granted and the '
three sailed out to find a preacher.? ;
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.Protecting
Dogs a;nd Cats,
The great yivisectionist, Dr. Claud? ,
Beraard'was married to a youn^ wo-1 \
man who was extremely fond of dogs |J
and cats. As may easily be imagined, I
the doctor and his wife "did not agree.
Driven to the wall, the poor doctor was
obliged to choose between the wife and !
science. He chose the latter, and a
separation from his wife followed.
Thenceforward Mme. Bernard gathered
together all the homeless and friend-'
less dogs and.cats that she could find. '
A singular idea moved the wife of the
illustrious ap.ostlc of vivisection in this 1
peculiarity. She wished to protect as
many dogs and cats as her husband
killed, so that when she would meet ,
him. in the other world she could dis- .
play the superiority of her work. Af- 1
ter the death of her husband Mme.
Bernard continued her labor of love.
She retired to li|ois-Colombes, and shel- I
ter.ed in her house all the vagrant dogs
and cats of the neighborhood- The
neighbors were highly amused at first, (
but finally they began to think the
thing was a nuisance. They complain- (
ed to the Mayer, who ordered the lady .
to close her "establishment. This she' j
Then she was brought .
igiUO&U fcV V4.W
ijito a police court and fined five francs
for a violation of a town ordinance.
She appealed tp a higher court, but the .
judgment of the court jjolow was confirmed,
and all her dogs and ca?s were
turned out upon tho cold and cruel'
world
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A new out door game for ladies and
gentlemen called enchantment, is Be- !
coming fashionable in England. It is
played with small, light hoops, thrown
with wands, something after the manner
of grace hoops, though the wand !
is of a novel construction, inyolring a
peculiar method of casting the hoojj.
A. moderately large piece of ground is .
suitable.
A Mysterious Sense.
Some thirty-two years ago, in Northern
Indiana, with a company of perhaps
a half-dozen men and boys, I was
on a hot August forenoon binding a
small piece of grain that had lain several
days in swath to dry after being
cradled. At tnac season me maasasauga
(the-small-brown- and. while
rattlesnake of the region) is said to be
blind, and does not rattle when approached.
The snakes are quite- apt to
crawl under, swaths of hay and grain,
and to lio there a long time if not disturbed.
For some reason?perhaps it
looked dike rain?all hands were-set to
bind and shack this .little patchy and as
something- was the matter with. 030 of
my hands so that I could not "bind, I
raked, up the bundles ior two.others to
bind. Having
heard -of the propensity of
the mass asauga to : hide under swaths
at this season and to keep quiet, I was
-careful in-rolling up the swath into a
bundle, always to rake the bundle ofi)
the swath -before leaving it, lest* a$
binder should gather up a snake in his-j
arms. As
we were finishing the last of the
patch the two whp were binding after
me-began to race* and. it was .-almost
impossible to, ;gefc._,a bundle- raked up
and off the _swath: before; the binder
would; be -ready for it.- Still I managed
until the-last, and was. very strongly
impressed that I must not let the binder?who
was jumping- to get it and
bind it before the other finished his?
catch it up before I raked, it.quite off
the ground. He had his band all
made and was just stooping, when JL
said: "Hold on, Jimmy! There's a
snake under this!" "Nonsense!" said
he, and gave me a shove so that he
could pick np the bundle. But so
sure was I that thero was a snake
there-ralthough we had not met one in
the field?that I struggled with him,
each shoving the other, until I got a
chance to reach out my rake and pull
the bundle off the swath. There lay
coiled a massasauga about three feet
long, with his head up and ready for
business, "and saying not- a word!"
A few steps awav in a corn field was
a hoe, the snake's head was quickly severed
from the body, and my cousin,'
the owner of the field, picked the shake
up by the tail to pull off the rattles,
which, by their number, showed that
the reptile was seven years old, The
moment he 'cegan to pull the bleeding
neck flew up as quick- as a flash and
struck him on the under side of the.
wrist. Had the head been there the
poison fangs would probably have
been buried in one of the veins of the
wrist. My cousin dropped the body,
^ndwasso faint with fright thathfc:
li.ad to lean against, ft- ?,
^?oni6 interesting questions suggest \
themselves: First, why had I such a i
certainty that there was a snake under a
that last end of the last swath,.al- fi
though we had found no other in the Jj
aeld? Was there anything like the b
telepathy of which our English friends
ire beginning to talk?
Second, what was the mysterious
sense of direction that made that
headless neck strike so swift and 4
straight, just as it would had the head j
jeen on it? Is there a less necessary
jonnection between the brain, and the j
est of the nervous system in cold-?
flooded animals than in other verteDrates??N.
Y. Post.
The Trinmpti of Innocence:
Two children, a boy of 9 and a girl
)f 4 years, came into a Cleveland street
jar Saturday. The girl climbed upon
the seat and looked out the window.
Suddenly turning her face, she, fixed
ler gaze upon the face of the boy with
i look of eager longing. Throwing
aer arms aronnd hi3 neck, she laid her
?ViP<slr Intrino-l-o- ftcfiinsfc his. and in
pleading accents whispered, "Bob, say,
iave yon got some gum in your
month?" Bob returned the caress,
gently put her aside, and made no .
mswer. In no wise disconcerted, the
ittle maiden renewed the attack, appealing
to his love, his generosity, his
manliness, his chivalry,.to her need,
ier helplessness, and independence,'
mforcing each argument with melt'ng
glances and caressing flatteries, Bob,
;rue to his man's nature, smiled sweety
and indifferently and calmly pursued
ais thoughts and his task. At last a
ook of awful determiuation settled
lown on the little face which a mo
nent oeiore was wreauieu in emiies.
Bracing one knee against the back of
;he seat and the other against the defenseless
Bob, she took his face between
her two hands, pushed his head
sack against the window, struck an atiitude
worthy of a first-class dentist,
md made a thorough and vigorous elimination
of that mouth. Suddenly a
.ook of joy flashed across the gloom of
hat small countenance, as with an air
)f triumph her hand dashed into the
nouth and returned with the coveted
measure. With an expression of pertect
contentment and satisfaction it
;vas transferred to her own mouth, and
-i j 1 ;j_ T>~U 4-ltA
sUG SUb UUWUl Ut??>4UU JL*UU VilUC i-UVi.u bug .
gentle and dependent sister, all smiles
md tendernesses.
Jxow He Was Hurt,
"Poor fellow I poor fellow J" muriitired
a sympathizing old lady at the
3road Street Station, as the forfn of a
nan all wrapped in bandages was
sorn in a litter from an incoming train
;o an ambulance. "Poor fellow! Ho
seems to be very much hurt. Do you'
snow how it happened?"
"No, mum," answered a polite sta;ion
hand.
"Maybe it was a collision," suggested
the old lady.
"There has been no collision on the
poad that I know of was the reply.
"Could he have been run over?"
"Ho is not hurt enough for that"
."True. His limbs seem all right
The hurts seem to- have come from
bruises or blows," added the old lady.
"Yes, mum. Looks like it"
c,But can't you guess how it happened?1*
"I don't know, mum, unless he tried
to take up a presidential vote."?Pfiila
ielpfua Call.
?he Argo.-dut, of San Francisco, hits
off one phrase of modern journalism
in this way; "If a barn should blow
down," it says, there will be a diagram
of the premises; view of ihe barn be*
v * -* ?; -z 4.U
rore Demg diowh uowa; view vi wie
barn while being blown down; view of
the mips; interview with the hired ,
man, who said he always knowed it'
was going to blow down; interview
arith the owner, with his and other
theories on barns blowingdown; interview
with Professor Mugwump, tha
distinguished Chicago savant, with his
views as to the reason why barns blow
down rather than up; comparative table
of barn mortality in this and other
states for the last forty years, showing
percentage of barns blowing down
compared with the illiterate votes history
of loss from the earliest times to
the present; statement of loss??$oG0."
Hot Weather Precautions.
Noj* that the hot weather has set in,
and ifcis time for the reappearance of
that jarge class of amiable people who
can fever meet without telling you
franhfy "what one ought to do," it may
not of out place to quote the "regulations?iwhich
were published by the
Moniteur dc V. Armec as official advice
to French troops going to Canton in
1859.^ - The Times gives the following
t-roriclnfirtre of tVuvm nr)li<Vh I llflVR eOHje
upon.accidentally; the rnles arc certainly'amusing,
and secrn just as applicable
to Amcrica as Asia.
W&ave warm clothing in winter.
IP-Sever remain in damp or wet
clothes, unless you are at work.
3. Jn summer wear light clothing of
soft wool. Bo careful to wash this
clothing when it is soaked with perspiratory
4. ffiesr flannel both as a waistcoat
| ^^^^d the abdomen. Never leave
^^^^Bt'ct sleep on tho baro ground.
'28 ^^vk'under your feet when you
Tkst
6.tin summer put a little straw upon
youiplank.
?3Never drink water, always tea. .
8iClarify your water when muddy
witMrock alum...
S5 Drink in moderation the spirits of
the country, taking care to warm them
first,;-.;
10.; Eat moderaiely.
Never eat ducks.
12T Eat but sparingly of sweets and
fru$s. The sugar-cane is almost the
. onl? wholesome sweet thing. All"
othgra are either too heating or set cold
bn p.? stomach.
y-As soon as you arrive in the
coiptry, acquire the habit" of eating
ri^-as the natives cook it
When you smoke, spit as little
asgssible.
' At night take care to cover your i
begat well, and mpre particularly yonr
jjfc In hot weather avoid cold places;
dr&ughts are always dangerous.
jfik in spring and autumn take care
n^ver 10 gen wewooiea m xne morning.
ife Never take a nap in the day
jplfotr bad advice on the whole, and
irarth following at the present time,
jfhsn wo are on the eve of the Coney <
Iffisnd season, the fall campaign, and
&3er risky experiments.?Cor. N. Y. i
- Wild Dogs.
Vs&bont eight miles from Poughkeep?ie
is the most'"remarkable -breed' of
tefld dogs, or rather half dog and half
JrQd beast ^According to the stories^hiaSSTfafmers
ilH^tvicinity, a female 1
^Newfoundland dog, aYgg^ears ago, j'
gave Dirifl to a nuer m xne wooas. j.n<r l.
jdogs grew up wild' and it seems took *
&>running with foxes and animals of 1
[like kind, which resulted in another
jbreed of animals, part dog and part
jfox, which are the terror of that part
M the country. There-are about fifty
[In all, as near, as they can judge, and
they run from the size of a Newfoundland
dog down to a small fox dog.
- They run in companies, and it 'is
extremely dangerous for a man to come
across them, 'for they are ferocious.
TSSsMcs they have the cunning *of- the
fox added to the higher intelligence of
the domestic dog, which is such an
assistance to them that it seems aimost
impossible to kill one of them, unless
a man goes alone, and then, although
he may shoot one, the rest of the pack
will make short work of him. Hunters
would much rather ran across a
pack of wolves than these dogs, for in
this wooded district they come upon
them unawares, kill their hunting
dogs, and if the hunters do not beat
an immediate retreat will attack them.
In several cases hunters have been in
tills piigut, ana iorcea to ciimo trees *
in. order to save their lives. Many :
stories are told of the remarkable cun- <
hing of these animals. Instead of cun- ?
ning, perhaps, a better word would be *
"intelligence." When a party of hun- ters
undertake to hunt these wild dogs, j
they are never able to find them, for <
seemingly they know very well their
own strength, and through they may be *
a match for one or two men, they can- c
not cope with adozen.?Kingston (N.
T.) Freeman.
An Arkansas Divorce Case. *
<
Several days ago a young negro and i
l'if rrritA onnoirod KofAVl^ Simian "Pflt.fAr. f
AAXO ITU^ ayuVMi*vu wv*v*v ?. M??v? . A
son, a black knight of the rural Arkan- I
saw bench, and demanded a divorce. ?
"Whut's de trouble 1 twist yer?" ask- i
ed old Simon. i
"I kain't lib wid her an1 she kain't 1
lib wid me," replied the husband. . j
"Why kain't yer?" i
"'Cause she ain't eddycated up ter ?
my standpint."
"Ise better eddycated den he is,
Jedge, case I ken read an' he kain't,"
said the woman.
"Oh, she mont Lab more book larnin' *
den 1 has, boss, but her knowledge
ain't dekino whut suits de undersigned. '
She ken spell cat an' dog, but she kain't (
spell biled cabbage ter suit me. Ebery ?
time I comes ter de house, I finds dis '
'woman han'lin her book, but I doesn't i ?
ii ' i) [ J
Smeu UUW2U m uc yuu
"Ef yer wuster fctch suthin' in dc j
house, yer -would' smell hit bilin in de !
pot," rejoined the wife.
"Oh ' dat ain't my lookout. De j
'oman's duty, ef I un'erstans de case, j
is ter furnish suthin' ter eat Dat's
whut I married yer fer. Kain't 'speck
me ter keep up dc pepertation o de
family an: iiussle for bread. I 'longs
ter de s'ciety."
"Madam,'' said the Justice, "de case
is ergin yer. De Bible says dat er
'woman musT mind whut her husban'
says. Ee he tole yer tor put suthin' in
do pot, an' yer didn' do hit, why den,
yer's laid yerselfliabL Mr. Clerk, write
out er 'vorce fur dis gennerman, but
dean' gin one ter de lad\\"?Texas
Siflinqs.
Railway Salaries and Wages.
The amount expended by the railway j
companies in managing, working, and i
upholding their lines for the past year |
was about ?37,000,000, of which ex- [
actly one-half, or ?18,500,000, was paid :
for salaries and wages aloae. The !
nfAinorrr cliirnli/VMpTX received in the I
_ year
?14,000,000 by way of dividends ; 1
on their holdings, or between ?4,000,- '
000 and ?6,000,000 less than they paid
their employes. The fact that the lat- I
ter have thus larger pecuniary interest ;
in the railways, and absorb considerably 11
more than one-fourfh of the gross earn- 1
ings before payment of any interest or j 1
dividend whatever, makes the wages 1
question the most important to be dealt ,
with in the administration of the rail- ]
ways. From a social point of view the , *
subject is, of course,-.one of great!'
magnitude, for it would appear that j*
the annual aggregate exceeds the sum {
voted for pay and allowances to the !(
army and navy together, -both for effec- j1
tive and non-effective services.?Lon- \(
don Railway Newi. |1
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When Abe En ford. Scalped a Man.
In the spring of 1854 or 1855 I ran
up to Lexington to attend the races at
the center of Eden's garden, and, of
course, General A'ue and Colonel Tom
Buford were there with their invincible
thoroughbreds. Colonel Tom, from a
sudden quarrel that grew oat of the !
excitement of the race ccurse one afternoon,
played a duet-on pistols with
an adversary whoso name I cannot now
recall.
General Abe, his brother, and I were
standing abotit forty or fifty feet off
when the fusillade began, and remained
apparently unconcerned, for, though
his brother was hotly engaged, the old
hero was williDg, according to the
rules of Kentucky chivalry, to see a
fair fight and let the best man win.
Colonel Tom struck his adversary once
or twice in several shots, not seriously
wounding him. When ail the chambers
of his enemy's pistol were emptied a
friend who stood near, and not having
the fear of brother Abe before his eyes,
ran tip and thrust a fresh weapon into
the hands oi /ikj^JBuford's. .assailant
General Abe,' beftevfhg 'too:
"fair play" to thus permit two men to
combine against one, and that one
TATTI " it lArlrni^ Ant n
knife of glittering blade and made a
rush for the too busy interloper. More
quickly than it takes to tell it, General
Abe, with one hand had seized the poor
fellow by the hair, Jind, like a flash of
lightning and with the dexterity of an
Indian, "made a circular incision on the
crown of his head, and. giving tho hair
a sudden twist, lifted off as neat a scalp
as one would go a day's ride to see.
"How d?n you," said General Abe,
as he coolly tossed his Indian trophy
to one side and released his victim?
4'nowgo, a?n you! I guess a hair restorative
won't bring out the wool on
your.head again soon." The frightened
fellow, never having experienced
that kind of warfare, gathered his
head in both hands and ran off yelling
as if Captain Jack and all the Modocs
were close upon his heels.
I was horrified?it being the first
scalp I had ever seen taken?and riding
home that evening I asked General
Buford how he-could do such a barbarous
thing.
"He ought to have attended to his
own business," he replied; was
willing, though my brother was engaged,
to keep hands off and let 'em fight
it out, and when he ran up and handed
his friend a pistol to kill Tom with I
would have been justified in killing
him."?Nashville World.
To Beautify the Pair Sex;
"One of Dan Bryant's jokes, and one
that always brought cfowr the house,
was his prize conundrum 'vYhat is a
woman?'" But wero he living now I do
propound it. NoDody
could guess it ^J47-Cul<lhave to
rive it up, ""and with an inward cFIn<JBS5-r
;he photographer, for he it was who
vouchsafed the above to a reporter for
'Che New York Mail and Express, turned
>nce more to his nitrate of silver bath
md collodion.
"I should imagine from your actions
md statements, however, that you'
5ould answer the question?"
"Once I coultl?but now?well times
ire not what they once were. Why, a /
ady came in here to-day to siFTor her
jhotograph, and, do you believe me,
ibe had false lips."
What?" .
"'Pon my honor. And that was not
Ql. She had false eyelashes, and an
irtinciai nees. ana luroat.
"Oh, you must be-mistaken."
"So I thought until I was convinced.
Che beautiful tinted shells, skins, or
:overs, whatever you may call them,
or arms, face throat, and neck are
nade .of very thin rubber. The neck
md bust is fitted closely over the
latural neck, and the edges made up
ifter the manner of the actors painting
>ut their wigs. When the false front, ,
! should call it, fits under the chin a
)lack velvet ribbon is worn over it.
Die proper degree of roundness Is given
o the improvement after adjustment
)y inflating it with air."
"Well, that may all be so, but the ,
ips and eyebrows you speak about I .
:an not believe."
"No; then I will prove it to you." !
lere he took from a case a small deli:ate-looking
little bit of rubber that 1
lad more tne appearance 01 me anger .
)f a surgeon's post mortem glove than :
mytbing else.. "Here, you see, is a J
ull red under-lip. It was given tome ,
the lady who bad the sitting to-day.
She is the agent for these improvenents.
If you notice, the fullness is
n the center. Toward the corners the
ip is merely a filmy skin of gutta
>ercha. This is capable of being held
n its position by the tightness of- its :
idges."
? . ;
Bouncer Struck By Lightning.
*'I saw a paragraph in the 3un,"
;aid Farmer Silas Wagner, of Baycnne,
'about a dog that was killed by a
hunderbolt, and the suggestion of the
Jog's owner that dogs attract lightling.
I don't know how that maybe,
jut I learned once that a dog with a
;teel collar around his neck is a nasty
tnimal to have at your heels during a
nnnrl^r-<;tnrm About two vears a<?0
Souncer taught me this. He had ona
jrand new steel collar, and was with
ne and two men in the field when a
;hun dor-storm broke over us. Bouncer
vas greatly frightened, and headed, us
is we ran toward the house. Suddenj
I noticed a ring of blue flame around"
lis neck. He noticed it about the same
;ime himself, and, turning around, he
:an yelling toward, us, as if for protecion.
But we turned and ran too. Peraaps
we didn't yell so loud, hut I beleve
we ran nearly as fast as he did.
[ know we had covered three miles of
rough ground before he overtook one
Df tne men who had stuck in a hedge.
5e appealed so pitifully for assistance
that we returned to help him, and
cound the dog lying exhausted beside
him. The bine fire was out and the
collar was gone, but its imprint was on
its scorched neck, and looks exactly
like a steel collar to this day. The
iair has never grown over it, and while
Lhe dog seems proud of his ornament,
jio always slinks into the cellar three
lays before a thund&r-stcrm, and can't
be tempted cut until the sky is clear
igain."?New York Sim.
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"Wanted Information.
- "Man does not conceive the magnitude
of a billion," remarked the lecturer;
"why, a billion sheets of paper
placed one on top of another would
inake a pile nearly 50,000 miles high."
At tuis juncture a very solemn 100&ng
party with a largo Adam's apple,
rose'up from the back seat and said;
"Yes, but how are you going to pile
;hem up?"
And because the lectarer wouldn't
jxplain the solemn party sailed majes;icaliy
out the of hall, thumping his
jane angrily all the way,?Rockland
Courier.
Towing a Hand-Car.
Our train stopped at a way station;
by the side of the track stood a hand- I
car, with the name "The Bird" painted
on it. The section boss and his men
were there waiting for the passenger
to get out of their way. "How did you
conic to name your car that?" was
asked of the boss, who puffed at his
black clay pipe and replied: "That
was the result of an incident, your
honor. 'Twas a good many years ago,
whin I was a jpreen'un on the section.
One evening I was in a hurry to get
from the 342d mile-post, where we had
worked that aay, into town, Xe see, 1
had a girrul thim days?the same
what's now down there in the cabin
attindm' to the idds. It happened the
track inspector was helpin' of me align
a bad curve, and so whin No. 8 come
along he signals her and gets aboard*
it being a Saturday .night and him
anxious to git home over Sunday, yo
know. An idea struck me all of a
sudden, and so I said 'Get out the rope,
byes, and hitch her on behind.' The
boys did it; too, and. soon we were
whizz^g. ^toward town. <The 'iafcies
waa^t be. cold this night,' said one of
the byes gleefully, <xhis beats worMn1
of our passage all to the devil,'said
another. At first we enjoyed it, but
purty soon we: got to going iaster and
faster, when.it. wa'nt so mnny. The
handles of the machine went up and
down like mad; we had to let go our
hold, an' if one of 'em had struck a
man of us it 'ud killed him dead. We
had to hang about the edges of the car
an' it bobbin' up. an' down an' jumpin'
around, like a rubber ball I had just
VYHijjpOU. UUO illj ft>ilAJLP bV WUtl UU.Q iU^iO
with, whin, begob, a wonderful thing
took place. The hand-car just raised
up herself off the rails and sailed right
out behind like a flag. Up in tire -air
like a streamer, three fut if an inch
from the track?an'- it's the God's truth
I'm teilin'ye?we flew along like a
birrud. The handles stopped workin',
'cause tho wheels didn't touch nothin'
but air, an' the danger of bein' brained'
was over. Wo was a-runnin' a mile a
minute thin, an' for six miles we sailed
in air lik a balloon. When she slacked
up we was so lucky as to have the
wheels of our hand-car come square
down on tho rails. Thin I cut the
rope, glad, you kin bet, to roach the
end of my first and last journey in the
air. That's how my car come to be
named 'The Bird. '?Chicago Herald
"Train-TcAk
Life at Cannes.
All the world drives about in the
afternoon?the carriage cither following
the winding coast" roads to cast or
west or climbing- tho surrounding hills
by a succession "of sleeps and zigzags,
each of them opening up fresh glimpses
of the scenery?pulling up in. some
rugged gorge or some quiet sylvan" valley.
Thence you may scramble., up
t?e
winding through the thickets^T^Sagrant
scrub that grows breast high, or
through the thick lir wovds thai, clothe
the sides of the rocky dells, with the
streamlets murmuring somewhere out
of sight in the bottom, and here and
there coming out into light and evidence,
where they fail in tiny sheets of
silver over the faces of the lichen-cov-v
ered cliffs;^Then, emerging from the
thickets of fir, where the dwarfed trees
have begun to struggle and die down,
you come on some Drown hill-shoulder,
which shows you a broad panorama of
the rolling ranges of hill and dale that
sink into shadowy plains in the middle, ;
distance beforo they rise into the blue- ,
black mountains skirting the northern
horizon. But of all the objects that fill
the foregrounds of the views, Cannes ;
itself is the most striking and original. :
You see fine scenery elsewhere?you
may see loose agglomerations of hand- some
bouses in their gardens?but !
nowhere on this side of the Atlantic, j
nor, indeed, as we "believe, on the 1
nf-.hpr Hn vnn saa Rnr-.li a nnlTection of I ,
enormous hotels monopolizing the most !
commanding situations. They certain- j
ly do not run to the proportions of the
monster establishments in Newport or
Saratoga, yet the biggest are big
enough in all conscience, and there are
many more of them. There are over
sixty of them now?there were only
two" small posting-houses when Lord
Brougham discovered Cannes ? of
which a third or so arc said to be
first rate; all have sprung up in the
Last five-and-twenty years, and all are
said to be fairly prosperous.?Blac'cwoocFs
Magazine.
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Fishing With Dynamite.
In England the use?or rather the
abuse?oi dynamite at sea preceded its
abuse on land; ana several years Defore
the worshipers at the shrine of
0'Donovan Rossa had forced the English
parliament to prohibit the clandestine
manufacture and possession of explosive,
an act had been passed forbidding
the use of dynamito as a
mode of fishing." In Spain, on tha
contrary, the idoa of blowing up fish
appears to have dawned upon the people
as a development of the practice of
exploding bombs in the public streets.
At any rate, the "employment of
dynamite in fishing operations," to
adopt the euphemism of the Spanish
government, has become so general off
the coast of th? Iberian peninsula that
a law is about to be passed to put an
end to it. Whether the food supply of
the sea is "inexhaustible" or not, the
use of dynamite is most certainly not a
legitimate mode of fishing. The explosion
absolutely destroys more fish
than it enables the fishermen to secure,
while those that arc captured are
rendered unfit for food. In the evidence
given before the commissioners,
annointcd to inauire into this practice in
England, six or seven jears ago, it was
stated that the fish in the immediate
neighborhood are so shattered and
bruised by the violence of the shock
that they are rendered flavorless and
rapidly putrify; while those further
away have their air-bladders broken,
and struggle away to die a lingering
death. In the case of gregarious fi'sn
lite the mackerel and herring, the effect
of an explosion is to break up the
shoal and effectually drive the fish off
the coast. A few days of unrestricted
'dynamiting1' may spoil the fishing
for weeks afterward.?SI. James's Gazette.
"O - >
The present average of speaking in
the United States Senate is about 150
words per minute, though there are
several speakers who utter more than
200. Among the fastest speakers at
present are Senators Beck, Hawley,
Plumb, and Morgan. Beck leads the .
list. Senator George, of Mississippi,
is perhaps the slowest. Daniel
Webster was a very slow talker, and he
would not average over 100 words a
minute. Henrv Clay spoke much
faster, rolling out about ?50 words a !
minute. Calhoun was also ?iow until
he became roused up with enthusiasm
of his subjcct, when his words would
flow more rapidly.? N. 0. Times Democrat
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GLEANINGS.
Tom Green county, . Texas, has a
new town called Damsight. . -y.-T
A new kind of beer is made from - : ~ .
rice in a Bavarian brewery. .? . >:
Talmagc has been made a D. D. by
the University of Tennessee. ^
The old Garfield Memorial Cirarch
at Washington has been sold for $132.
Nearly 5,000 women are employed in
the various government offices in England.
' " V v!
Queen Victoria was instrumental in
causing women to be employed in telegraph
offices.
A convict from Clark county, in the
Ohio Penitentiary, cut off two fingers
to keep from work.
George Augustus Sala says that he M
has written during his journalistic
career of 35 years more than 7,000 .Sj
newspaper essays.
James Watts' workshop at Heathfield
Hail is preserved just as he. last
went out of it?even to the leather
apron thrown across the vise.
Out of Jap sn1 s total population of
80,000,000 there are only 10,050 paupers,
and of t hese more: than 1.000 are
ac losio, in iae woni-iiosise.
. The forests of Europe are estimated .
to cover 500,000,000 acres, or nearly 20
per cent of ths surface of the continent
Turkeys are in demand among the .
vine-growers of Fresno, CaL, who
want them to range the vineyards and
catch the slugs that are now attacking ^saesa.
the vines.
There is a concerted movemen^H
among actors in "combinations" to sew
cure the abolition of the Wednesday
matin fin whrah-thev sfcertt-io bold in
special detestation.*
Pretty little baskets for sending
flowers by post are the latest novelty
in England. They fasten with a pad- _ ^
lock, the person sending-and the person
receiving each having a key.
Croquet threatens to come again
into fashion in England, lawn tennis
being objected to as making ladies
dreadfully flushed, and as too rapid in
its movements for adequate flirtation.
In the eighteenth century the growth
of population in Denmark was so "small
as to be scarcely notioeable. During
increased fromoiw minion "to nearly
A man iu Arizona is_ suing a loeal
naner hecanse it announced that he
was the father of a thieving boy a week
old. The editor meant' to say 'thriving,"
but fate and the type-setter
ordered otherwise.
There is a fortune in so small a thing
as a device for fastening a neck* '
tie. One Oi thft patents 117
hasJtttbeej}-~$8kti<y a company for
$^4)Q9^06in cash, and royalties that
may amount to as much more. c
Baron Tennyson very properly refuses
to be bored. He announces officially
throngh the London Times that
he will not answer the multitudinous
letters sent to him. will not look-at?
manuscripts nor even return them. V ~
Johannes Scherr, the German critic^
insists that "in the; wide world there > \tn
are perhaps hardly three women who
know, honor and love Shakespeare.
Why? -Uecause he calls things by
their name; becatise he is natural,
like nature."
Coal is cheaper in Boston, 354 miles
from the coal field?!, than it is at Philadelphia,
only 90 miles fromthe fields.
Bostonians pay $5.25 per ton of 2,000
pounds and Philadelphians $6.50 per <$&
Long ton of 2,240 pounds, or $5.90 for
2,000 pounds.
The story of a North Carolina ruby
Is thus set forth by the AshevSXe Ob*
ten: "Mr. Daniel Selford found a
ruby in C: ay county which he sold for
$15. It next sold for $8,000, then for
$6,000, and a lapidary bought it, and
after working upon it, sold it for $18,
A peculiar reptile is tie homed
rattlesnake now on exhibition in Los
Angeles, It is about fifteen inches in
length, and has two horns which pro- ^
leot from its head just above the eyes.
Be has only five rattles and a button,
and was captured at Iridio Station, on ,
tbe Colorado Desert
Between the ages of fifteen and
forty-five a woman can grow about
seven crops of hair. It averages about
four ounces to the crop, and when oi
the. prevailinz popular color brings a
handsome price.. The total annual
crop is estimated at 100 tons,:gathered
from 800, COO-heads.
The most successful . counterfeit of
.ho <?irr?n ia ??>i^ tr\ lv? cljlSU
mixed with some base metal Sy a
process unknown to ordinary workers^
in. metal and glass. The counterfeit
looks exactly like the genuine lG-eent Mj
piece, but on being struck with .a ham- ""*8111
mer it is croshed to picccs.
The Mormon Mil should be extended
so as to include Kentucky, or at the
very least to include Dr. Hizschberg, of
Louisville, in that state. He has married,
successively, a - German, &
French girl, an Irish maiden, a mulatress,
and six young American . ^ damsels.
He is now, vesy, properly,
in the cold cmbrace of p. jail.
m yaeensiana, immuwry irom punishment
induces the white men to
think nothing of taking the lives of
natives, and the latter are killed for
stealing a few pieces oftobaceo, as was
the case with a swapper afr Dnfaure
Ireland. For a trining theft he shot
three men whom he suspected.
The amount of the deposits .in the
English postal savings banks last year
was $200,000,000, and that of the
French banks was a little lower. The
rats of interest in England is. 2J per Wmm
cent, ana deposits of a shilling and
upward draw interest By this system
the poorest depositor has a stake in
the integrity and prosperity of the ."f
Government
In a certain cemetery in a town in
Connecticut can be found a lot con
tainin^ five graves?one in. the ce?ite2V_. '/ :Vr?
the others near by at the four-points
of the compass. The inscriptions on
the latter read, rcspcctively? .after the.
name of the deceased: "MyX Wife,"
"My n. Wife," "My IIL Wife," "My ~
nil. Wife," while the "center stone W0
bears the brief bat eloquent expression. ~
"Our Eusban^ "
Every one has heard of condensed
milk, but condensed, or rather solidified,
drinks of a more potent nature
are a novelty. An ingenious French
chemist has discovered a method by
which any wine, spirit or malt liquor
can De soiiumca mw a. um wuw
olate, and so conveniently carried in m
tho pocket of the tbirstvA
doctor, writing to a New. York pa- ,/^H
per, deprecates the..publishing .by the
press of oases of hydrophobia, he
said, in nine eases out of ten the fear
of the disease brought it on. _ JH