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Giving in Marriage.
Come, lot us sit together for a space. I
h. In thi^ still ron*. remote from friendly |
mirth,
7 Afar from light ani a.s...t, face to face.
Each unto each the tfcirest thinjron earth.
Love, they have left its, our two bonny brides.
Our tali, grave girl, our winsome, laughing
pet:
Ah me! How wide the chasm that divides
lv Our life from theirs: how lar their feet are
set
|P' From the calm path they trod witn us so long.
r* How we shall miss tbem, we who loved them
||^ On winter night?, when winds are blowing
P On summer mornings when the roses blow.
But?happy but?we still clasp band in hand,
Eye still meets eye and true hearts under??3ffl?|Pr
Love, they have left us empty of the mirth
gf That cheered our homestead while they sojourned
here;
I * Yea, they have left us lonely on the earth,
W Lone, but together, solitude most dear;
Ah. God, pro with them to the stranger nests.
That love has built for them and theirs to
come.
God keep all warm and living in their breasts
Love's holy flame, the altar-fire of home.
Sear, they have left us; we no longer bold
The first, best place, however leal each
heart.
Yet have we treasures left, refined gold,
_Love's sterling ore, without its baser part.
Tne 'wide old nouse nas lost us nesxnnj: o;ras%
But we are left, Ah, love, what need of
words?
?All the Year Round.
. A CURIOUS STORY.
The writer was sitting a few days
ago in the office of the Eotel Martin,
Lancaster, Ohio, conversing with an
old resident of that city on various
topics relating to the past history of
the place, when he inquired:
' Did you ever hear the story of Jacob
k " Humbarger, the haunted coffin-makk
er?"
"Never. Is it out of the ordinary?"
"Yes. It is a curious story, and I
hesitate about telling it Hot fear people
will think I am trying to humbug*them
with a ghost story."
"I'll accept it as the gospel."
^ "As I have already remarked, it is a
Mr strange story ana naa cue eaect 01
r-C- making me believe in supernatural
m manifestations?you will, no doubt,
call it superstition. I was a well-grown
boy when the thing occurred which I
am about to 'relate, and they made
such a vivid impression on my mind
P that they are as fresh in my recollcction
as they were over a half century
kago.
? "Jacob Humbarger was of Pennsylk
vania Dutch slock and came here from
I Lancaster, Pennsylvania, three-quar
ters of a century ago. When I first
knew him this city was a village with
jm less than a thousand population. He
W was a cabinet-maker, acd made the
* rough and substantial furniture in
vogue among the pioneers whose sons
have since been congressmen, governors,
senators, cabinet ministers and
generals.
"He was frugal and industrious, and
left some property behind him. In adk
^ dition to making furniture he made,
when occasion demanded it, coffins for
the people of all this region. There
were no hearses and splendid undertaking
establishments in those da*s.
Tt,
rtlonoH in *nl<nn Iiatyip- I
j made coffins and carried to* the little
graveyards in farm wagons, or by hand
1 . when the distance was not too great, ex^
cept in rare instances, when tnere was
a little more show and ostentation, and
an old-fashioned carriage was used in
place of the modern hearse.
^?- "People would come from a distance
to Humbarger's shop with the dimen
sions of a coffin, and wait until it was
finished, and then lake it home in a
& wagon or on horseback, as the case
. w might be.
"One night, or rather one morning,
an hour or two before davlisrht, Hum
' barger, arose, and leaving his wife in
bed, proceeded to .his shop, and lightlr
ing a tallow candle*set to work. "When
Mrs. Hum barger awoke at the usual
hour she-was surprised to hear Jacob
hammering away in his shop, and sup"
- posing that he had some job that must
be finished early in the day, set about
preparing breakfast and when the meal
was ready she called her husband.
" 'Vail, Ciiacob, vy for you go to
? "*"l" + K./-V rlrttrO^
VUIlv 5>U ;uc Uvij. \*\u. xiau
' Humbarger. ?
^ " 4Vy, Katharine, u i you not hear
dot man who comes uf.dcr coffin by
three o'clock?'
" 4Xein, nein, Chacob, you make
foolish of me.'
44 'I not make foolish, Katharine; dot
man come of three o'clock on der door
^ an' say 1 must has dot coffin of ten
? o'clock, and he gif me the measure on
dot vork bench, und I go *>f vork und
haf now half mate.'
4\LTatharine was incredulous and
Jacob was firm in his asseverations.
Certain it was that he had the coffin
^ well under way and by ten o'clock it
I. finished, and Jacob was waning
for his customer wliile he smoked a
"Between ten and eleven o'clock a
gentleman appeared at the shop, door, ,
and Humbarg'er greeted him with:
44 'You vas aleetle lade, my frent1
44 'Xot very late, considering that I '
have ridden from near Somerset since
half-past seven.'
* 44 4Vy for did you go back home jifter
you vake me up'?'
" 'I didn't. I have just got to town.'
" 'But you come of mine door last
^ xiide und called me oud of mine bed to
make dis coffin.'
" 'Oh, no, my friend, but it looks as
^ though it would suit my purpose. Let
me measure it'
"The stranger measured it, and it
was just the size of a coffin he had
been sent to procure, and he asked
^ Humbarger if he could have it to take
back immediately.
" 'Dot was your coffin anyway, since
?. you order him und leaf der measure,'
promptly responded Mr. Humbarger.
* " 'The price of the coffin was agreed
upon, it was paid for, and the farmer
toofc ic away m ms wagon. uacoD related
the circumstancc to his wife, who
said mischievously:
A " 'I told you, Chacob dot no one
J- voke you up of der nide. You have
been haunted.'
* "Humbarger, however insisted that
f he had been called out of his house
during the night and that he had readil
ly rccosrnized the man who subsequent~
J ^ 1 ?1 a.! J. 1
^ ly got tnc coin 11 ana pretenueu. uiai ne |
haa not ordered it.
l 4,0f course, the story ~oon circulated |
throughout the village, and the gossips
added to it. A month later Humbar..
g<jr had another nocturnal visit, and a
child's coffin was ordered, to be finished
in the afternoon. Later in the day a
. farmer, living a few miles west of the
1* town called on Humbarger to secure
his services, one of his children having
Ik died.
ill " 'Oh, yes; I know dot. . You come
I of der nide und told me, and mark de
size on dis vork-bench.'
"The fanner protested otherwise,
but as the coffin was of the exact measurement
desired, he took it home.
Then Mr. Humbarger began to have
an indefinable fear that he was haunted"The
thing was of regular reccurrence,
and almost every one who came
to Humbarger for a coffin found it all
reauy, msue lu uiu?. j.uc *
began to fear the coflin maker and the
conin maker avoided the villagers as
much r*s possible. The women and
children, and not a few of the men, believed
he was in league with Satan, and
he suffered a great ileal in his trade.
' To those of his neighbors, with
whom he conversed on this subject?
and among them was my father?he
said that the orders were delivered in
r> nirrht htr norcnnc wVinvn lio immA
ciiately recognized when they called for
coffins, and then where they were ordered
he found the exact dimensions in
chalk marks on his work bench the
next morning. His wife no longer
chaffed him on the subject of his ghostly
orders.
"Oae morning he said to his wife
that a coffin had been ordered during
the night, but that the 111.IQ had concealed
his face, and he feared that he
would not recognize him. He proceeded,
however, Lo make the coflin
in accordance with the mcajur^mpnt
on his work-bench and at last finished
it to his satisfaction.
"I was on pleasant terms with Uncle
Jake, as we called him, and happened
in the shop just as he was linisir.:ig it.
"Dot man vas somepody who will be
buried mit dis collin,' he remarked. 'I
not see wiio he vas dat order him, but 1
know it vas for some bij; man or somcpody,
so I make him of der finest wild
cherry and line him of silk und satin.
Vy, my pov, I would not be ashamed j
to be buried of that collin miueself.'
"A sudden pallor overspread Hum- j
barger's face, lie stretcnea out nis
hands and fell dead across the colfiu he
had just finished.
"He was buried in it, and the story
of Jacob Humbarger was more than a
nine-day's wonder here in Lancaster
fifty-four years ago."
The writer was fain to acknowledge
that the story of Jacob Humbarger
largely discounted the general run of
ghost stories.?Philadelphia News.
^
The Latest in Canes.
"The styles in walking-canes are
constantly changing,'1 said a prominent
dealer in imported canes on
Broadway to a reporter for the Mail
and Express. "The most popular and
stylish cane is now made of hazelwood,
with a buckhoru handle shaped
like a shepherd's crook. The more expensive
have silver bands just below
Vior.<-?T,n Tf tor* nwrir-r <?r?sires he
can have his monogram cut on the j
band, and if he is very lah-dc-dah lie j
will do it. They arc the latest Londoi) j
rage in canes and the dudes here are j
not slow in adopting them. The plain I
cane without the silver band sells at $2 i
and the highest at $7. But the hazel- {
wood and the cute way the buckiiorn
handle is put on to make them odd,
from the lirst insured their popularity."
"What style of cane ranks next in
popularity?"
"Those with small silver caps.. For
a long time the silver crooked handle
cane was in tlie ascendency. .But uie
street venders with cheap ^citations in
nickel handles caused their popularity to
wane. There is nothing chat breaks into
the trade in stylish caries as disastrously
as cheap imitations. Generally, a mau
who carries a cane has a certain
amount of vanity and pride, and to see
snide people trying to swell it on a
cheap imitation cane disgusts him with
even the genuine."
"Are any new kinds of canes being
introduced?"
"Yes. The crystallite, so-called because
the handle is a crystallization of
certain wood found only in South
America. Tbey are mounted in tigerite.
The handles are frequently designs of
the heads of animals. They are very
scarce, and cannot be purchased for
less than $12 or $15. They are somewhat
too expensive ever to be univerflnKr
tV>o trarr T?inh onn
Sitlijr pupuitll. im; ?vij J-ivu
afford them."
"What of the gold and ivcry-headed
canes?"
"They will never go out of style.
The gold-headed canes are worn on
holiday occasions. The ivory-headed
are still monopolized by old men, and
probably will be for many years to
come."?N. Y. Mail.
A Fly-Haunted Town.
The wall of King-Choo-Foo is crenelated
forty feet high on the outside
in certain places, but on the inside
sloping and covered with a jungle
growth of bamboo, banyan, and other
shrubs to the very top. At intervals
of every few hundred yards along it is
a small smooth-bore cannon of remarkablv
peaceful aspect No doves were
*? 1 - U- 4.1
discovered DULiamg uieir nests tucieiu,
bat in my mile walk along the parapet
numerous litters of pacific pigs were
seen dozing in the very openings of the
crennelles. Not a soldier was observed
in making the circuit of this ancient
and formidable fortification, the dragon-guarded
yamin of the Taotai had a
My-haunted, somnolent air, in the
streets business proceeded lazily, and
over all the grove-like openings of the
capital city the very spirit of summer
peace and quiet seemed to hold its beneficent
reign. Our cortege, with
which we made the circuit, was composed
of scarcely more than a dozen
aimless hoodlums and inquisitive urchins.
and we left the place impressed
with the idea that if the inhabitants
Urvti/vU* nf onVror frr\m t.l>P TVp.noll it
VA ?? ?
was still as an intangible effort of the
imagination?as something so far off
as scarcely to be considered, or if considered.
amply provided against.?Cor.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Kanjjarooing.
Kan^arooin^: is the most interesting
sport in Australia, and is one of the
most exciting in the world. Large
meets are organized, parties of from
twenty to thirty joining in these hunts.
They ride to the kangaroo grounds, and
as soon as an animal is sighted the two
dogs are released and the horses are
<nven their heads. If the Australian
O
horse is well up in his business, and if
you let him take you instead of your
trying to take him, he will carry you
: safely, avoiding trees and underbrush.
' A good, strong kangaroo will give you
I a long chase, and very often the dogs
I cannot follow him. In this case, when
j the horseman gets up to the kangaroo
lie taxes on iiis stirrup anu su;ip uuu
knocks the animal over the head, which
effectually stuns him. lie is then killed
and skinn'ed. The inud quarters ;
are given to the uogs. It is good
enough for eating, but too strong to be
palatable to those of delicate taste.
The tail, on the contrary, is considered
delicious when made into soup. The
itrr>rn<rr? c\7j> nf a kfinornrnn is nhrmfc
three and a half feet high, but the old
man kangaroo is often six feet, and is
very fierce when coruere..; lie has even
been known to rip men open with a
single blow from one of his hind legs.
Xtvir Ohiokasriwhatchee.Ga.. savs the
Savannah News, a line of earthworks
can still be seen which were thrown up
by Gen. Jackson (Old Hickory) as a
protection against the Indians on his
march to Florida through that section
in 1813.
MELANCHOLY ANIMALS.
A. Physician "Who Treats Domestic Ani?
cauls for Melancholia.
There is a peculiar hospital on Callowhill
street, a visit to which amply
rewards curiosity or a desire to obtain
knowledge of an uncommon kind. In
is no more or less than' a cat and dog
? * 1? ?i.
Hospital, out, strangeiy euougu, iw: inmates
do not lead "a cat and dog life."
Mutual sufferings and infirmities seem
to have a sedative eH'ect,and these proverbial
enemies lie down together even
as the lion and the lamb, and take their
medicine with a good grace. The place
is conducted by Dr. Robert J. Janvier,
who devotes his whole time and attention
to the treatment of canine and feline
diseases. The doctor is an old
practitioner, and is acquainted with all
? i - <- ? 1 ,i?
Clie lilS 10 WIUUIl cut uuu n?u ia
heir to.
A regular physician, he retired from
practice about twenty years ago in
Paris, and devoted himself to the study
of animal maladies. Ko came to Philadelphia
about six years ago and established
his '"dog hospital,''which he has
made a success.
A reporter visited the place yesterday,
aud was shown around by the doctor
and treated to some novel sights.
Tlio iv?nr nf the hntlSfi is Well ventilated
unci lighted and partitioned ofT by fenec- j
like gates, making about thirteen smail '
apartments, whiclt can be thrown into |
one by the removal of the gates. In j
each of tiie.se rooms, or wards, as the j
superintendent chooses to call them,
are from 0:10 to live cats or dogs.
Misery makes strange bedfellows,and
it is by no means unusual to place a crrt
and dog or two cats and one dog together.
Indeed, the doctor says this
arrangement is frequently the best, and
more conducive 10 i.ue ueiiuu 01 me jj;itient.
"For example," he said to the News
inspector, "here are a dog and cat.
They have been living- together for
eight months, and are as fond of each'
otner as two such ascetic creatures can
be. The dog, you see,is a line 'coach,'
and the cat an excellent Maltese."
"What is the in.tier with them?"
was asked.
"Oh, nothing in particular. They
are both hypochondriacs?melancholia,
you might call it. The dispositions of
both are identical, ana neitner wiu
have anything to du with any of the
other patients.
"They pass the day and night in silent
contemplation of each other, varying
the monotony once in awhile by indulging
in a inetnodical and dignified
crress. Both have been under my treatment
for over a year, aud it took several
months to diagnose aud find a treatment
for their peculiar malady, as the
symptoms in each case are identical.
" "The dog exhibited the most intense
sadness, aSd would not notice any of
the other patients, and would seldom
accept food, though I offered the most
tempting uitm Lies. iuu uac
same way, only she seemed to have a
thorough disgust for the society of other
cats, r.nd the only time she would
ever give a show of spirit was when
some other cat would come near her.
Then she would curve her back, in disdain,
and, with a contemptuous hiss,
walk away. It became evident that
she was proud and felt herself above
her companions. . I concluded at last
to try the dog. who was also a supercilious
animal, and it was not long be- I
tlm nrmnmimnnt l > vnvpr? S:> t.isfnY*- I
tory. Disappointment in love, 1 imagine,
is the cause of their sorrows. These
haughty aristocrats get along well together,
and I have hopes of bringing
them out of their 'slough of despond.'
"Where"did you get them?" was the
curious inquiry.
. "The dog belongs to a wealthy and
old New York family, and the cat'is, or
rather was. an inmate of the household
of an aristocratic Baltimore maiden
lady."
"Do you believe in class distinctions
n vn rr nnimilcP1'
"Most assuredly. I hate evidences
of it all the time. Even under ordinary
circumstances, you know, neither dogs
nor dats fraternize. They are not gregarious
animals, and solitude is 3ferred,
as a rule, except where nun i- concerned.
Orer there, you see, is a cur
dog. His life there is miserable in the
extreme, but it can not be helped. All
my other patients are biue-Diooaea,ana |
ignore the vulgar antecedents of the
cur. He does not seem to appreciate
it much, as his sensibilities are not line
enough, and his want of cultivation
prevents any annoying reflections which
might be engendered by an injured
amour propre." The only time he ever
displays any consciousness of the insults
hourly placed upon him is when
that magnificent tortoise-shell cat you
see over there visits her spite upon
"She is a high-toned cat, but mean
as she can be and is always creating
trouble by her meddlesome and swellheaded
manners."
Just then the cat referred to came
near, with a mincing gait She was
indeed a beautiful animal, all save the
tail, which dragged on the floor, and
was of unnatural size, and eave her the
appearance of two cats joined together.
At the first glance one would take her
for a feline Siamese twin.
"She is suffering from elephantiasis."
explained the doctor. "She not only
has the big head, but the big tail, too.
Yes, I amlxfraid she will die by becoming
all tail. It is strange that the dog
she despises so much should have an
affliction the opposite from hers. He
is slowly wasting away and is incurable.
I would have him killed but for
thft fact his case is a peculiar one, and
I desire to study it. He is afflicted with
acute muscular atrophy, a disease not
extraordinary in human beings. . There
is a gradual ossilication of the muscles
and a consequent loss of llesh. His
food is not assimilated to the system,
and he is rapidly becoming a dog skeleton.
After a while he will be a good
addition to the 'freaks' in the museums."
~ o T*r?r*TT infnrncf
| JLiiU UUUlUi cmctuvj. i.b ? vi. j a-lliv*. v
ing narrative, explaining the diseases
of the various animals under his care.
There were about twenty in all, two- '
I thirds of them dogs, embracing Kew!
fouadlands, terriers, S?.ye, black-and
| tan, and. JDUil, ana two rorueraman or
; coach (logs. Four dogs and two cats
had consumption,but trie majority were
j suffering from disease brought on by
I accidcnts. One of the cats had no hair
j whatever, and was as bald as the most
j confirmed front-seat portion of the ballet.
He was a funny sight, and was
used by the convalcscing patients,whqji
in a good humor, as a roller-skating
rink.?r/iilailcipina aclcs.
Little children ask queer questions
j sometimes. A bright little boy about
I years old to whom his mother had
; on several occasions repeated the Lord's
j Prayer surprised her by asking one day:
"Mamma, what is God's other name?
i Is it God Hallowed?" This same little
fellow wants to know "if Iko birds take
off their feathers when they go to bed."
.VvP Orleans I'lcdutmc.
Persian "Women at Home.
The frou-frou of silk is heard.
Three ladies enter the room. Their
feet and legs are bare to the knee, for
they have cast off their shoes at the
door, but all the rest of them is
shrouded in a large sheet of dark-blue
silk, the outer veil of the Persian, lad}*,
(iracefullv thev sink down into heaps
in a semicircle opposite us. "Salaam,
suhili! You are welcome. Tea, tea
for the sahib!" I responded in the customary
way and inquired after the
health of my veiled hostesses. One
only replies in a confident tone?she is
evidently of middle age and self-pcssessfid.
The other two blue heaps
shake with inward mirth, but are-sinTf
rtov*n/\f it: ic tnn TvAf.t"
i'JIJ l> AU, \,CkU.I~l\SV WV) AW vvv MW
;he lady continues, as she cast off her
d:irk-blue envelope?an example immediately
followed by her companions.
Heart's Delight hastily folds up the
three veils, and a plump, middle-aged
lady, very comely, and her. two innocont-looking
daughters, handsome
young women, fair as any English
girl, with round, chubby faces and
magnificent eyes, are disclosed to view
in all the splendor of the Persian
lady's indoor dress. The costume of
all is the sarue, varying oniy in co'.ors,
and these are of the gayest. Short
mid voluminous skirts of silk, much
bonffe, reaching to the knee; shirts
(the Persian word, like the French
chemise, is applied to the garment of
both sexes) of transparent silk gauze;
liny zouave jackets of gayly-cmbroidered
velvet, just covering the shoulders
and the top of the. back (of these the
sleeves are unbuttoned from the elbow,
Imnfrinc down and showing the ffav
linings of pale-colored but brilliant
silk); the top of the head and the ears
are hidden by gorgeous silk kerchiefs,
embroidered ia gold, and there is no
more clothing to describe, unless the
numerous bracelets of the bangle
form, of gold and of glass, which
jangle as the ladies move their arms,
muy be called clothes.
The ladies chat; the younger ones
only to each other in an undertone, for
maiden modesty prevents their addressing
the doctor: but thev giggle and
C ' v OOO
a ornor?. rfoai. Arid nvft nnlv re
proved for it by the elder lady. Tea in
delicate old china cups is served; we
all.smoke hubble-bubbles, and four of
them are brought by Heart's Delight
and three other black female slaves.
Presently I hear- a tittering behind me,
turn, and instantly there is dead silence
as a bright curtain of shot-silk
quickly falls, but not before I have observed
an amused bevy of gaylydressed
women and children. "Excuse
them, Dr. Sahib; they are so dull,
Conversation turns upon the curious
custom of Europeans. I am asked if
1 am married. I have to admit that I
am not, and am duly pitied. But
theu. "After all, you are right
Where there is a woman there is discord,"
says my hostess. More tea,
more pipes. Sweet-cakes, confectionery,
and conserves are handed; iced
sherbet, in Bohemian glass tumblers,
gilt and of gaudy colors, is served. I
insinuate something to the effect that
this is a professional visit; my hostess
smiles- 1 repeat the remark, and then
the ladv, rising to bid farewell, r<^
plies: "We were dull; we were bored;
you have desennuye us. Wallah!"?
with a little iaugh?"i nave iorgotten j
why we sent for you. Your footsteps, I
however, have been fortunate, for our
hearts are 110 longer sad."
So here was an end of my visit. We
shook hands heartily, and the lady
gave me a huge bouquet of narcissus
as I left.?St. James Gazette.
seaator urucc ana oenarorDu^j.
Blanche K. Bruce, -whose signature
as Register of the Treasury now' graces
every National bank bill, was very popular
while he was in the Senate, although
he is of African descent.- Unobtrusive,
attentive to business, and
modest, he conquered the prejudices
against his race and was treated with
marked courtesy by his associates. One
day after he had been a Senator for
two years or more, Senator Bogy, the
aristocratic descendant of one of the
old French families of St. Louis, took a
seat by his side, saying: "Mr. Bruce,
I have a bill here I want you to vote
for. It is one in which I have a great
nersonal interest. It has nothing po
litical in it Look at it and tell me
what you think.'' Bruce laughed as
he said: "Senator Bogy, I hope we
shall arrange this more satisfactorily
thiin our last business transaction."
"Our last transaction? What do you
mean?" "Don't you remember meeting
me before my coming to the Senate?"
"Most dccidedly, no." "I think
I can refresh your memory, Senator.
some twenty .years a<;o \uu >veiu uuo
day running down Olive street in a
hurry to catch a steamer. You were
carrying a very heavy valise. The day
was 'very hot. Don't you remember
the colored boy who came up and offered
to'carry the valise down to the
levee for a quarter? You ran along
with the boy. Soon the wharfboafc
dock was reached. The boat was just
swinging out You ran and jumped on
board. You called for the valise. The
nnf- t.h#? vulisft behind his
back and called for liis quarter. You
hunted, fished out a quarter and tossed
it ashore, but the gap was too wide to
toss the valise. The captain had to
stop the boat and back up before you
could get your valise. Do you remember
that?" "Well, I should say I do."
"I was that colored boy."?Ben: Perley
Poore in Boston Budget.
The dynamo machines in the Edison
- . -VT ir?1_
central station, mew lor*, were staneu
in September, 18S2, and have been
running continuously, night and day,
ever since- They supply electricity
that is used in motors as well as in
lamps. The price charged is about,
the same, it is said, as that for gas at
$2 per 1,000 cubit feet, and last year
the company, on this basis, earned 3
per cent on the capital invested. The
earnings of each lamp are a little over
1 cent per hour, but they average less
..than two and a half hours per day.
TK/> f. nf m-nduelion is about 3- of a
ccnt per lamp per hour.
?
The question whether money found
in a shop belongs to the keeper of the
place or the linder is often disputed.
A writer in -the Pharmaceutical liccord
tVnf o niKtnmfir in n rlrncr stnro .
iviutuo bUMV * v"wvv**" ----once
picked up a dollar note from the
lloor between two parallel counters.
He inquired if any one in the store had
lost it, and finding they had not, he
appropriated it. fiis claim to it being
disputed, the case was submitted to a
lawyer, who said: "The open passage
between the two counters was dedicated
to the public, not in fee simple,
but as a highway whicii tiiey were invited
to occupy for purposes of traffic."
So the finder kept the dollar. It
is estimated that the base-ball
clubs of this country will cost the people
$16,000,000 this year.
I ~ -SLAVERY IN PERSIA.
The best kind of slaves arc the Ha~
basshis, or so-called Abyssinians.
These are of a high type. The lips are
tMn.^the color light brown; there is
often a distinct red in the cheeks; the
hair is long, often nearly straight; both
males and females have considerable
pretensions to good looks. As much as
?80 to ?100 may be given for a healthy
Tftnnry TToKicctii frirl As rnlr*
J r--0 * *
girls aro bought, not as servants, but as
wives. Young-Habasshis of both sexes
are purchased by the grandees of Persia
as playmates and confidential servants
for their sons and daughters.
The girls become the confidantes of
their young mistresses, and ultimately
occupy the position of housekeepers or
wardrobe women. The young Habasshi
bays are the playfellows and fellowstudents
of their youthful masters, oft/yr%
.fnlfillr* fVin Ar\f 44tvV? irmincr
VXLXUIJUUiU^ bUV/ VlklblV/J v* ti
bojs." I Lave seen the little slave ana
playfellow of the jellal-u-dowlsh, the
son of the King's eldest sou, a child of
3, jnrestiing with his infant master, to
the great amusement, of his father.
Th/ two children seemed?quite, like
brothers, and I was told that the only
way of keeping the young Prince in order
was to threaten the slave with a
whipping. That little black boy, some
day or other, will be a great personage,
as,.in all human probability, his master
will be Shah of Persia. From thjs
/ ?!nff ? < ?!? ?ova + o 1 -n 4-]^/^ /inrtnrkTic?
V/iiico Ui siavua ax<; Laauu tau vuuvivuo
(few nowadays) maintained by the nobility.
The few eunuch children imported
are eagerly purchased at double
or treble the price of ordinary slaves.
As a rule the Habasshis are delicate,
and'^el the severe winter Of Central
ana Northern Persia. The greatest
care is-taken of them. They do no real
wftrk, and it is not expected of them.
They.are well clad, and often the mastec
or mistress glories in lavishing
money on the dress of a favorite slave.
Prtvf i n Vvtr o foil irt
jUULLICH U-IC3 O. -i- LI JiULl, KfJ c4< liUl A jj.
rink or through money losses, bocomes
unable to keep his slaves. Dees he
sell them? No; that would be toe degrading.
He simply frees them, and,
as a rule, the slave is made a freed
n^an very much against the grain. The
Persiau slave, then, is treated more
liJfee a child than a slave. His master
does not hesitate to mate him with his
own daughter; and frequently a prepossessing
slave may become the legiti?i*
:~i. - l- u.,1^ ?
JLLkpfcC JUiSU^SS VI it liUUJCUUiU VI even a
favorite wi&, ruling hsr less fortunate
white rivals. The servants have to
take their chances; the warmest corner,
the/best food, the most solid and stylish
clothing are kept for the slave.
Eunuchs are owned only in the
hotjses of the great and rich. Save in
the*harems of the Shah and his sons,
ohfi*eunuch rules only over the flock of
ladies, servants, slaves and children,
whi> are all under his absolute authority^
I have only known two white
ep&acjis in a long experience of Persia,
apogthese men had probably been political
offenders or the sons of political
t'aals. Political pretenders are alquently
blinded, for in the East a
King cannot reign. The eunuchs
ally have their quarters in the
harems themselves, and as a rule Lhey
sfeldom quit their precincts. "When
the^.o they r.re treated with great
respect, on account of the powerful influence
they wield.
The ladies themselves always treat
their guardian with the greatest respect,
address him as "Master," and
invite him to be seated. Like the high
officers of state, he carries a long wand
of office, and this wand is often encrusted
with gems. He often attends
the daily council of his master if he be
a provincial Governor, and there his
advice is listened to with respect; and
he takes precedence of all except the
minister, Vice Governor or "Wuzeer.
Of course he plunges his hand into the
puiiuua-i \JIV, UJUUii lU . ma o??n AUIIIU'
tage. He never refuses a bribe. He
may do nothing for it, but his hand is
ever open. The second eunuch of the
heir apparent of Persia is a good horseman,
a favorite boon companion and a
clever shot, generally popular as the
prince of good fellows. But the eunuch
ages soon. He is an old man at 40:
and once seen he is never to be mistaken?his
sunken shoulders, his beardless
face and his hollow cough mark
him out distinctly.
In Persia slaves are well fed, well
clothed and well treated; the people
look on them as equals, not infei'iors;
color is no degradation; they arc not
put to hard labor, the law is the same
practically for them as for others.
Mothers are not separated from their
children; or husbands from wives.
They soon become absorbed by marriage
among the Persians, and I can
fancy no happier lot for the enslaved
black than to be sold in Persia.
?London St. James' Gazette.
The Greek Idea of Death.
A writer in MacMillaii's Magazine,
savs a Greek peasant looks upon death
quite differently from what a person of
the western world ic taught to believe.
To him it is the nd of all joy and gladness;
the songs over his body (myriologues)
speak of the black earth, the end
of light and brilliancy. A popular
Kleptic song on the death of Zedros,
when read by tlie sine o: soimocies'
description of the death of Ajax, shows
how curiously alike are the ideas of
death as painted in the two poems.
Charon is still believed l.? be a whitehaired
old man with lor.? and fearful
nails, and in myriologucs or lamentations,
which' are still of <;vcry-d:iy occurrence
in the islands, you actually
hear of Charon's caiqoc. lie is now
spoken of as Charos. In ><;me parts ot
Greece they still, it is put money
in the mouth of a decease, i person to
pay the passage. At the i:u:e;al of a
child in a mountain village of Xaxos a
wax cross was put in the .-i.iUi's mouth
by the priest, and on ii:<;;i ;y the writer
was told that it was t. ? Jit money,
so completely has the ni church'
incorporated iuto itse.!' ;i:o ancient'
ideas.
There has beeu much stuff and. nonsense
written about "Mexican beauties."
The truth is a senorita of our
si>ter republic is rarely pretty. She-is
apt to be obese when not yet 20 \ears
of age, and, as for her taste in dressing,
she hasn't any. Most of them
use a pasty sort of powder on their
V,nvA liftl/i /Iicr>rot inn in tlift
illk/UO) llUil UU t O Xlbtiv UMVlVkiVM ?>? ?~>w
use of colors. As a rule, a Mexican
girl is ugly when smartly dressed, and
only looks really well when very young
and careless of fashion.
^
The Grand Army Post of South Aldington,
Mass., intends giving a novel
entertainment?a pie party, really.
Each lady is to contribute a pie, the
pastry ot which snan oear uei utmje. i
The pies are to be wrapped in paper
and sold to the highest bidders, who
are then expected to do escort duty for
the remainder of the evening for the
lady whose name is on the pie. It is
presumed that nnles ?nly are to bid.
Precious Stones.
It is not perhaps generally known
that a large ruby is of more value than
a large diamond. Mr. Streeter, who
wrote a book about jewels, states that
"the ruby'ranks for price and beauty
above all other stones. When a perfect
ruby of five carats is brought into
the market a sum will be offered for it
ten times the price given for a diamond
of the same weight; out should it reach
tne weignt 01 ten carats it is almost invaluable."
With respect to the romance of precious
stones, the author just quoted
tells a curious story about sapphires. A
native of India loaded 100 ^oats with
these gems, and reachcd Simla after a
ten day's journey. Arriving at Simla,
he tried to dispose of them, but the
value not being recognized, he could
nnf Avon nhfcain a ninftfi a tolla for
them, which he would gladly have
taken, being in a state of semi-starvation.
He then proceeded to Delhi,
where the jewelers, knowing them to
be sapphires, gave him their full value.
A man starving while a hundred goats
laden with precious stones were in "his.
possession reads like an extract from the
"Arabian nights." The addition of a
heroine and a villain suggests the
framework of an effective romance.
An alphabet of precious stones has
been formed?indeed there are two al
pnaDets, one lor transparent ana one
for opaque jewels; but of the latter,
few except, in the first place, turquoise
and, in the second place, jasper, wood
opal and onyx, look tempting, basalt,
granite and other stones hardly coming
under the head of precious. The transparent
alphabet contains some few
doubtful gems, but it is for the most
nnrfc made nn of those that are doubt
X ? ? r ?
less beautiful. The alphabet of course
forms the basis of a language of jewels',
which can be spoken in the shape of
rings and other trinkets. It comprises
amethyst, beryl, chrysoburgh, diamond,
emerald felspar, garnet, hyacinth, iclocrase
(briefly described in dictionaries
as a "hard mineral" and questionably
transparent), kyanite (more commonly
cyanite, a blue mineral), lynx-sapphire,
milk opal, natrolite, opal;
pyrope, quartz, ruby, sapphire, topaz,
uranite, vesuvianite (a species of gar
net; water sappmre xantmte ^an own
brother to idocrase), andzircon'(a Cingalese
stone).
The superstitious have in all ages believed
that precious stones had peculiar
properties, and for the most part
bencticially affected their weaTers. At
the present time a vague idea that
opali are unlucky, and that a gift of
opals brings misfortune to the recipi
enc, lingers among inose wno are reaay
to believe anything. The odd part of
the superstition lies in the fact that
opals were formerly supposed to bring
good luck to the wearers. As they are
now considered the unluckiest stones,
so they were considered to be the luckiest.
A turquoise bestowed as a gift used
to be, and in' some countries is still,
believed to carry blessings in its train.
Do these things neutralize one another?
Supposing a lady receives from the
same donor a handsome turquoise and
an eauallv handsome opal, would the
good luck carried by the one overcome
the bad luck carried by the other? It
is possible that ladies willing to try the
experiment might be found.?London
Standard. .
The Higliest Tre.\s Known.
Some of the eucalyptus trees grow to
n Vioio-hf- nf "iDD fnnt nnr? tvnilld (?ast 3. I
shadow on the summit of the pyramids
or the dome of St Peter's. They were
first discovered and classilied by M. Laballardieu,
a French botanist, just before
the beginning of the present .century,
and have since grown into a repown
as wide as that of the giant cedars
of California, some of which stood
where they now stand before the He-'
brew Bible was recorded or th? earliest
choric hymns cf the Hindoos rose along
the borders of the five rivers. One of
these mighty trees, now hurled down
and stretchcd along the rock, presented,
when it stood erect, a height of
more than 4i>0 feet, and, by counting
the annular rings upon a section of one
of its coevals, it was ascertained" that it
"was more than four thousand years
U1U, S LULLUiii^ LiltlU WU HO
unmindful of the deluges of .Deucalion
and Noah, and unshaken amid all the
commotions of the ?:lobe.
Even this maiestic altitude is sur
passed by some o: the eucalyptus,which
thus far are the highest trees ever discovered;
but there is as yet no sufficient
testimony as to their longevity. It is,
however, manifestly great, and some of
those which are to be planted here and
there by our compatriots may outlast
the nation, as the chestnut tree of Etna
outlasted lloire, and the giant palms
beside the Bosphorus have outlasted
the lines of Constantino and Palseologus.?Brooklyn
Eagle.
Marie Twain's Jbingiisfi.
There' is a brass plate in Mark
Twain's house on which is engraved
the sentence, "The ornament of a house
is the friends whofrcquent it." It surprised
me to find such a sentence, even
though on brass, in such a quarter. Its
grammatical construction may not be
deemed absolutely incorrect by some;
, - T a-l? " 4. ! f 1- % .
it eviuenuy was uoi uy x?vuiuj
but it is decidedly clumsy and harsh to
the ear, even if it docs not violate,
which I doubt, some express rule of
grammar. As the art of constructing
sentences properly is one of no mean
importance to writers and speakers, I
would ask, does not the harshness
arise from endeavoring to make one
verb do duty for both the singular and
plural noun? '11te ornament is the
menus; nmjrce/tuo to lu? uilhallicuu
Or, does net the clumsiness arise from
making the singular noun occupy a
plural position, thus expressing a relationship
beyond its capacity to bear?
This would not be the case had the sentence
been, "The ornaments are the
friends," which could be transferred to
"The friends are the ornaments." But
Mark Twain doubtless wished to make
the word "friends" emphatically set
forth "the ornament" of his house.
Could he do so with but one verb conf
rt r!n m 11 o y* o V\1 TT vo 1 n All n 9
JLLUUtliii^ IUV Ciu^uirti uiiu uvuu*
?Letter in Toronto Week.
Six weeks ago a widow, armed with,
the addresses of several agents and
owners saliied forth house-hunting.
Her plan was tirst to inspect a house
which seemeu liiceiv to suit ana tnen
look up the agent. The latter would
generally be iound "sitting at the receipt
of custom." "I called about that
house, No. "Are you a widow?"
"Yes." "Don't want widows. Good
morning." And the agent would turn
to his books. In several places the
lady received an exactly similar answer.
She determined to inquire the
reason for this antipathy to widows.
T^z-vn't tvnni-.widows." the Jicrent r.urt
ly observed. "Why?" "Why? Because
they never pay any rent"?
Montreal (Canada) Witness.
f
HORSE FLESH FOR FOOD.
The Horse Slaughter-Houses of Paris?
Eight Thousand Horses a Year
Slaughtered for Human Food.
About a mile outside the fortifications
in the little old suburban village
of Pan tin is located the abattoir, where
the horses that are eaten in Paris are
slaughtered, and, judging from the
iourseore 01 norses on nana, one wouiu
think that everything in and about the
city in the horse line that did not die
suddenly while in harness was sent
there to be killed for food. Eating
horse beef is about the only thing that
the better class of French do not care
to talk about, and about the only thing
among their many customs and peculio7
inet? f ntViOt thou otn hA
"rr? ? ?
a little ashamed of; as they never speak
of the "Abattoir des chevaux de 1'alimentation,"
the sign that is printed in
large letters on the side of the red-tileroofed
slaughter house of Pantin.
From the answers received to many
inquiries as to where this establishment
was located it appears that but few
Parisians know anything about it, and,
like all other disagreeable things* they
probably think the less said about it
the better. Ooe thine' is certain, that
if many French people who occasionally
eat the lillet of horses and dcclare
it to be delicious were to visit the abattoir
they -would never eat any more.
With now and then an exception, the
horses killed are all about alike, all
"crips," blind, maimed, battered,
bruised, and scarred with a lifetime of
hard service, hoofs worn out, joints
weakened, swollen and out of shape
pulling heavy loads over slippery streets
on smooth shoes?faithful brutes, worked
until they could no longer earn their
daily rations, and then sent here?if
sick at me ume?i rcmuiu in me care
of men who are bigger brutes than the
creatures con Odea to their care?a
horse hospital, asylum for the blind and
aged, and fattening establishment at
the same time, and then to furnish
food for the Lord only knows who, and
the less one thinks about it the better.
The foreman told me. they pay 30
francs apiece for such as the poorest in
the stable or that stood in * the courtyard
on they outside?a poflr brute of
tiiat Kino. x iouoweu irom me ena 01
the tramway as the led him between
two. others to keep him from falling,,
as he reeled and staggered at every
step. I asked the foreman what they
were going to do with him. Oh! ke
will be made up into "Lorraine sausage."
The price paid for what I
judged to be an average one was 60
francs, and for the best 100 francs. An
acquaintance said he bought a saddle
horse for which ne paid ?300, but he
became unmanageable, would buck,
kick, Due, ana stride v, in cuvuse, so
he sold him to the Pantin abattoir for
30 francs.
They slaughtered on an average
about twenty-two per day, or 8,000 a
year.
The first we saw killed was the only
decent one of the lot?a large Percheron
stallion, not so old but there were
still some dapples on his broad hips;
he was, to all appearance, healthy and
all right, except that one foot and pastern
had rendered him useless?only a
plug now?but bis eyes were as clear
Viricrht as at; 2 vftnrs old. iind lift
j "?
still carried his head as high as the
proudest of thoroughbreds as1 he
unhesitatingly followed his butchers on
to the lloor where he must die. One
placed a leather blind before his eyes,
another drew his long, thick, curly
foretop back from his broad forehead
?a forehead that showed much intelligence
and strength?while a third
stood before him with a short-handled
ten-pound hammer, who, with a swift
overhand stroke, struck so deadly
sure mac me uign royai xieaa oiraes.
the floor before his body- Life was
long in him and he died hard,, but two
or three more blows ended his struggles.
It seemed almost like murder.
We confess a feeling of pity for these
poor creatures?man's best friend?but
here, in a country thickly populated,
where the struggle to live makes all
beings strive there is no time nor place
for feelings of sentiment
The next was one not crippled but
blind, so old that he was as white as
snow; his ears bent forward as he hesi
iated in the, to him, eternal darkness,
and did not move fast enough, but
willing hands with clubs from behind
forced him forward, stumbling into and
across the drain against the slaughterhouse
door, where'he stood trembling
with fear and shivering with pain. One
blow from the sledga put him beyond
the reach of his tormentors.
A hole is cut in the skin on the in
side of the thigh, the length of the steel
that the butcher carried was run forward
between the skin and body, the
nozzle of a bellows inserted, and after
about five minutes of pumping the skin
was as tight as a ilrum?the skinning
is necessarily slow?like skinning a hog
or a beaver, as the hide sticks close.
The whole legs and hoofs are left on
the hind quarters, the fore-legs are cut
o 4- f U a 1'W A/i k?f CA .OP T> Af f A oil ATTT
at tuts AUCU) u <A L ov ao uwi iv U
of any deception?one-half the head is
left on each fore-quarter.
When one of the botchers had divided
the flesh on the back of the broad
neck of the grey first mentioned, there
showed an abundance of fat: the fellow
put his knife in his scabbard, jerked off
his cap, and, holding it between his
knees, parted the neck, inserted his
head, and, with a twist and a rub up
and down, his hair was oiled to perfection,
and then rubbing the oil well
through his hair he spai on his steel
and knife before sharpening it, and
proceeded with his work.
The wholesale price at the abattoir
varies with the condition of the meat
from 4 cents per pound up, and it is
distributed about the city in wagons
with the French for horse beef. "Viande
de chevaline," printed on the sides,and
is sold by the retail dealers for from 20
cents per pound for the fillet down to 6
cents for the poorest parts, soup bones
and the like.?Drovers' Journal.
"Letter carriers here," says a Salt
Lake City dispatch to the Alia California,
"are having a unique experience.
ua account, oi tue iait: puijgiiijjy arrests
here all the Mormons have been
severely warned against talking to
strangers, giving their names or residence.
The carriers in their rounds
knock at doors, and a scurrying ensues
inside. A child answers the door. It
is asked who lives there, and it often
* ? *"*11 T * virtf f U A
rCiUiUb i.U LC1J. jll uuw uut auun
neighbors or where its father or mother
is to be found. The uniform is a sign
of enemv, and no information is to oe
had."
An Allegheny City choir, whose
leader was about leaving: for the West,
presented the gentleman with a breechloading
shotgun during the week.
Allegheny is determined that good
music shall be heard in the West if the
choir leader has to carry a cartridge
belt to the organ loft and beat time
with a gun-wiper.? East End Bulletin.
GLl.AXINGS.
The houses and stores in Santiago ae
Cuba arc so built that the walls can be
almost entirely thrown onen, while the
jumnurs uave courts inai are
and unobstructed to the sky.
Joaquin Miller has swapped off a
manuscript copy of one of his poems
for the duplicate of a silver design he
saw at the New Orleans Exposition.
The silverworker wanted pay in Miller's
poetry.
Those persons who are "peach"
crazy around Quakertown, N. J., are
renting land at from $8 to $10 an
acre per annum. The terms run from
nf
VUU tv I TT T C- J. tiiiO v?
an orchard in that vicinityOver
one hundred different answers
have been received to the "latest mathematical
question,resurrected by New
York and Philadelphia journals: "Two
?irls meet three girls, and all kissedHow
many kisses were exchanged?"
The somewhat remarkable statement ^
is made that the city of New York,
covering only 27,000 acres, supplies to
01 m/iK /.nwf rkrtnnlotlAW r\f
2 1;CA- tvliu \J? jJUL/UiatlWU VA vUw
country 10 per cent of all the water
used for domestic purposes throughout
the land.
San Francisco has a "lumber boneyard"?a
place where the extensive
syndicate which controls the greater
part of the lumber cut on the racific
Coast sends any cargo that may arrive
which appears to be in excess of home
demand, and at the first favorable' opportunity
ships it to any part of the
world.
A New York lady of leisure and
money sailed for Paris recently to con- _
suit a celebrated dog doctor aoout her
noodle's health. The cur has a bad
cough, and is described as being "as
ugly as a dingy door mat." He is sixteen
years old, and Ms mistress is anxious
that he shall live until he is
twenty-five.
The Western weed, loco, acts upon
horses and cattle almost the same as"
alcohol does upon man. Upon eating
it they lose all appetite for normal
food, become apparently intoxicated at
times and finally die from a disease .
strangely like delirium tremens. From ^
the vice comes the California expression:
"As bad as a locoed horse."
Albert Hector, says the Liberty Register,
is quite queerly constituted in one
respect He sheds all of his finger
nails and two of .his toe nails yearly.
The old nails are gradually crowded
off the fingers by the new and tender
nails growing behind and under them.
Bert is unable to explain .why his nails
leave him in this way, but they do.
Tmn Frenchmen, the brothers Forra.
have invented.anewkindof harp, made
entirely of wood. Instead of strings
the inventors use strips of American
fir. The sound is produced, as in the
ordinary harp, by the contact of the
fingers, but the player wears leather
gloves covered with rosin. The tone
of the instrument is said to be of remarkable
purity.
There is no financial nonsense about
Prpchvterian nastor .it PaIttiytjl
Mo. On the first day of each month
he draws his check upon the bank for '?
i his monthly salary in advance, and the
bank regularly honors the check and *
charges it np to the deacons, who are
person alh responsible for the salary.
Thus no delay or default in paying the
subscriptions can affect him.
As an instance of the great age to
which elephants sometimes live, it is
said that yrhen Alexander the Great
had conquered Porus, King of India,
he dedicated to the sun a great elephant
W ^u^ug w mumj iVi 1.1 itKing,
and let him go with this inscription:
"Alexander, the son of Jupiter,
dedicated Ajaxtothe sun." The elephant
was found 350 years afterward,
still bearing the above inscription.
Pennsylvania has a state tax on
watches," the results of which, as re
ported by the Secretary of Internal
Affairs, are amusing. The population
of the state is about 4,500,000. The
number of voters last November was
900,000. But in all this population end
this army of voters there were only
45,596 watches, gold, silver and "common."
So it would appear that there
were last year 4,454,404 Pennsylvanians,
not one of which had a watchColonel
N .pJeon Crosby, of Georgia,
relates tLafc upon one occasion his
company was forced to march for several
days over the unbroken snow, and
his eyes became so weak and inflamed
that he blackened his whole face with
soot to counteract the brilliant reflection
from the snow. He says, ' of
/.il
course, ic was a lauure, uut iic pcisisted
that it was a great relief, and in
less than a day the whole company
presented an unbroken line of blackened
faces and eyelids.
William P. Hopkins, of Lawrence,
Mass., has in his possession a love letter
written 221 years ago by James
Chalmers, one of the judges in the
time of Charles L, to Lady Ursula
Fairfax, whom he afterward married.
The letter, of whose authenticity no
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still in perfect condition. It is dated
"Lon., 18 Nov., 1663," and it is addressed:
"To his entirely loved and
highly honored Mistresse Ursula Fairfax."
The most peculiar part of a wedding
festival among Jhe middle classes in
Persiais-the- closing. At the moment
the bride leaves her fathers house a
shout of "Kel lei lei" announces the
fact All the quests carry lanterns on
high poles to lead and light the way.
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of the bridegroom several sheep are
sacrificed in honor of the bride. They
are slain at her feet as she steps over
her husband's threshold for the first ^
time. Then invoking blessings on the^_pair,
all wend their way home, ancp&e
festival is over.
Adirondack Murray np^Tjkeeps *a
restaurant in Montreslfand he finds
time to study Dominion politics. He
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are a large class who believe that
Canada is destined to be something
more than a colony of the British Empire.
They hope for an independent
nation. They hold that her population
will soon outgrow that number which
can be accommodated within colonial
limits, and that the day will speedily
come when a natural and peaceful
separation will take place between her
and England.
A do? belonging to a W;anaqua, N.
J., lad had for a long time been in the
habit of picking up his breakfast and
running away with it instead of eating
it. The boy followed him on Friday,
and the dog led him a roundabout
trip, evidently to tire out his pursuer.
Finally the dog lay down and waited
for the boy to go away. The boy
started abruptly as if to go home. The
dog then ran very fast and disappeared.
in a corert, where investigation revealed
a decrepit and emaciated old
dog, who was engaged devouring the
breakfast.
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