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DIGGER INDIANS. CEREMONIES AT THE FUNERAL OF A MEDICINE MAN. Imm at the Hut of Mourning?A Waste faJ Religious Duty?The Indian Burial Ground ? Shaking Hands with the Corpse. The ** T re-acker's " Sermon. When nil were gathered at the hut of mourning the services seemed to consist of a concert of wails, carried on principally by the women. The corpse, wrapped in a gray blanket, on a ruae bier, was placed at a distance from the hut, and some of the "big men" o? the tribe made a bundle of the personal effects of the de ceased, and proceeded to burn his hut, his wagon and all his household furnishings. There seemed to be a great deal of altercation accompanying the performance of this wasteful religious duty. When the xcitement was over the "women went on wailing, w hile the young bucks went off to have a good time, shooting at marks and performing various feats of strength. _ It is the custom of the Indians to bury their deac at sunset, and the funeral procession started from the Big Spring only in time to reach the burying ground, at that time. There was no discernible ? 9? J-- L. :x ? Ji order to me cortege us ?o p&sbwu. uuug wc - wad for six miles, group aJfter group going by us in much the same fashion as in the morning. There was no separate conveyance for the corpse; it was put in the bottom of a wagon, even tipped up a little on one side to make room for the mahala, who squatted beside it, wailing and swaying her body back and forth. The Indian burial ground is a mound on the lower end of the valley called Big Meadows, on the north fork or the Feather river. It covers scarcely an acre of ground, and juts out abruptly into the valley, with a background of wooded mountain, and before it green stretches of the meadow land, with its winding river. Here their dead have been buried ever since the first habitation of the country, and although the land is private property it will probably always be left to the undisturbed possession of the Indians. ECZXZ AT THE GRATE. Here a very deep and long grave had been dug, much'larger than would be made for a white man, for it was to con tain not only the corpse, but all of the personal effects which had not been oorned. He was a medicine man, and wa3 considered worthy of a coffin, and when the funeral procession arrived at the grave a well made pine coffin, manufactured by a local carpenter, arrived from an opposite direction. The body was placed in it without removing the gray blanket covering the face. But tho right hand was extricated from its covering and all the men passed by it in line and shook hands with the medicine man. Some gave the cold hand a hearty grip, but the touch of others was noticeably gingerly. Then the hand was covered again, and a young fellow dressed in a ery stylish custom made suit of black took his place at the foot of the coffin, - solemnly wound a small nickel plated alarm clock, set the alarm and placed it within the coffin as the dead man's feet. The iid was closed, and the women gathered around, rapping the coffin with their knuckles, passing their hands up and down over it, howling and moaning all the time. The grave was lined with new rush baskets, split up the sides and spread out flat, and upon this carpet the coffin, with much difficulty and many experiments, was safely deposited. Then the wails grew louder, and always the voices of the women were heard above the rest. It is impossible to describe that wailing. It was . not concerted; every one seemed to be acting independently of the others; there was uo attempt at tune, bnt every now and then the musical voice of a young girl, eler. and high, pitched, would lead in a eortof cadence, and the heavier voices joined in an incoherent dull cry. The women swayed their bodies from side to side, waving in the air little tufU of cedar which they tossed into t? 9 grave. Bat in -U this. there was very little sign of real emotion. The yonn^ girls would smile and simper and drik cneir heads if they met the gaze of any of the white bystanders. <)nly one of the women shed any tears, and she was tho sister of tho - saeuicine man, quite an old woman, who itccd at the head of the grave really crvJag behind a big white handkerchief. A COMICAL OBJECT. There stood beside her an old buck, a most comical looking object, whose long locks were surmounted by a jaunty white gtraw hat, and whose bonv figure war Sadiant in a rec. flannel miner's shirt and A pair of ragged gray trousers. He was **a kind of a preacher," one of tne medians aid, and Ms loud vociferation and violent gestures were the only eulogies which vere to console the mourner.3 and do honor to the virtues of the deceased. For lie was the only medicine man in this part ef California, and his death left the tribe unprotected against the ravages of rheuytfom and consumption. We could not imderstand the Indian language, but a ftnrdy farmer's son by our side who has nicked up some of their vocabulary translated for us whj.t the preacher was sayfafiF "Injin doctor gone now; all Injins die- Sick here, here, here (pointing to iead. lungs anci heart). Die, die, never get well. Baby sick, no medicine, no get my better, pretty soon die." Then the pahalas, with their papooses on their backs, wailed louder, and the babies joined in the cry, and tried in rain to fight away the flies with their little fists. The preacher talked on at intervals, describing the destitution of the tribe, and the skill and goodness of the departed doctor. Two Kind mahalas stood on the edge of the pave, and every now and then had to be Sold tack from slipping into the hole. Finally the preacher laid the dead man's fc?w and arrows on the coffin. Then a wJl nf Mftnfcflts iraa thrown in at the foot of til? coffin, and two large fur robes. Bom? mistake vrzs evidently made in the selection of artic.es, for a loud voice of vituperation broke ont from the mon ctonous wailing, and a bed quiit, lined with turkey red calico, was hurled by ibfti fierce oh? mahala with the short skirts, over the heads of the crowd back to the pile from which it had been taken. Tie ola boots, a leather hunting bag and ft pair of spring scales were laid in, and then all was ready for the earth to be hoveled in. Tho crowd did not disperse wrrfcil nearlv nieiatfall, and as long as v.*e could see in the twilight there were still lereral black figures standing lite sea tinals at the grave.?Cor. Francisco Chronicle. "Tsefal Hovisehold Articles.*' Persons who respond to an advertisement that promises "twenty-five useful household articles for twenty-five cents" are receiving by return mall a literally pointed response?twenty-fivo needles.-* Chicago Herald. The fountain of perpetual youth was one of the dreams of antiquity. It has been well-nigh real-zed In Ayer's Sarsaparilla, which purifies the blood, gives vitality to all the bodily functions, and thus restore to age much of the vigor and freshness of I youth. If the humsr race was evolved from the apes, it at least has the <--2tisfaction of knowing that its ancestors were intelligent?they were educated in the higher branches. "A tinker's dam" is a wall of dough raised around a place which a plumber e'elirea to flood with solder. A thrifty animal is the snake; it can always make both ends meet. To keep varnished wood looking fresh and bright, rub it thoroughly with oil from *ime to lime Clean oilclolh with a wet towel pinned oter a stS broom, ana ruo witn long, sweeping strokes. This is the season when a young ma3 wishes he only had one ''bcot" girl. Nobody has been able yet 10 convince the cfal dealer of ihe error of his weigns. Birds are not so fashionabla on ladies' hats now as they h&ve been, but husbands associate winter v its with large bills. Help somebody worse off than yourself, and you will find that you are better off than you fancied. No a man is not apt to get much religion but he needi to keep a lookout for counterfeits. sA Dude and His Trousers. "Bagging ::i the I:uees is a matter, I confess, which i:ar. caused me more uneasiness than I can tell you. It has done more to turn my hair gray than anything else. But 1 do not have so much u-v.ble now as I used to have. You know they are wearing trousers larger now than a couple of years ago. In fact today a wc-U made pair has liardly a legitimate excuse for bagging unless they are worn constantly I myself never wear a pair two days in succession A little while ago, when we wore trousers almost skin tigut, I thought I should have to go into ua asylum. A pair worn half a day showed a decided inclination to expansion at that most critical point. I found myself attempting to ward off the evil. I tried every method I could hear of and every one I could invent, but they did little food. Finally I invented one of my own. used to liang tho trousers up by the bottoms, being particular to have them hang straight, and then I dampened the incipient bags. After that I attached a weight of some sort to the waist band, so as to bring th6 strain over the knees. Th& cloth in drying came back into shape and remained so. "Your tailor or your furnisher has no doubt tried to sell you the device known as 'pants stretcher.' Don't waste your money. I have tried every kind known, and they dou't give satisfaction. They don't stretch the cloth evenly enough, not is the cure permanent. That little scheme of my own is the best 1 ever found. Oh, yes; you may try it. I haven't patented it. But if you really want to know the best and most satisfactory way of removing bags from the face of your trousers let me whisper it to you. Go to your tailor. For 15 eents or a quarter he will press them, and nothing works so well. But when you are on the top of Mount Washington the tailor is not there. Always hang your pantaloons up carefully. I have known fellows who would go home, take off their coat and waistcoat, throw cuem into a cuair, reiuuvo umou huuous, dump them in a heap on top of the coat and vest, and then pile the shirt and underclothing on top of the trousers. This is all -wrong. A man's underclothing is always a little damp, even in winter. The coat and waistcoast at the bottom, the trousers between them and the underclothing, the pantaloons are certainly in a regular sweat box. There they are, all crumpled, creased and in a heap, and, of course, when the wearer comes to put them on in the morning he wonders what the deuce makes his trousers look so out of shape."?Boston Cor. New York World. Profit in Publlo Enterprises. E. R. Brady, who haa been connected with various public enterprises in electricity, pungently remarked: "The average American citizen will let you rob libo d&ilv and hourlv of a small amount of J ? money, and permit you to rob all his fellow citizens in a great community at the same time, so that in the aggrogato -you have an enormous plunder, when, if you were to take even a tithe of the amount out of his pocket annually or out of the public treasury he would want you hanged to the first lamp post. The street car lines take a penny more from every passenger than they are justly entitled to. Ferry boats are in the same class. The price per thousand for gas might be i^luced. "Every telephone subscriber could pay less for his telephone and leave still a large profit to the companies. Telegraph messages could be reduced, but in this hustling and active country no one wants to stop and consider those things. You pay your nickel of fare on the street car without ever so much as a thought that three cents fare would pay a good divi dend on the original investment ot most of the roads. You pay $1.2-5 a thousand f-,r gas, although you know in your inmost soul that $1 is a big price. It is in franchises of this character that money is rapidly made, and since the people are all willing to pay these small larcenies, T J don'c knew buz; that my original language, terming it robbery, is a little too strong. Perhaps tho fact is that the American citizen is willing to pay pretty well for good accommodations 01 any kind."?New York Tribune. Fallibility of Hitman Judgment. Yet, after all, isn't it rather a curious weakness in human beings to care for one another's opinions? Why should Jones mind what you or I think of him or say of rnra, when you and 1 are almost certain to be wroug? Nay, why should he mind what the majority think of him, when the majority are usually wrong? what the ] cultured minority tidnk of him, when trie criltured minority are seddom right? what an entire generation think of him, when the nest generation may reverse the verdict? An accurate history of criticism, for example, would be a delightful burlesque upon the fallibility of human judgment; only the historian should owe no fealty tc what was current; he should atand so far apart from present human thought that all its most cherished conclusions should appear to him only shifting waves in an ocean of folly?should recognize that out moralities may be vices, our"vices virtues, our orthodoxies follies, our rascals heroes, our masterpieces daubs, our SLakespeares and Goethes and Virgils and Dantes the puerile intelligences that their contemEoraries mostly believed them to be.?ippincott's Magazine. An Artful Little JDodjjer. A lady came out on the steps of a house on D afield street and called aloud in sweet, persuasive tones: "Georgie, dear?" There v.-as no answer, and she looked anxiously up and down the street and again cailed, but in a firmer voice: "George!" Not a word. Taking in the entire horizon with one sweeping, comprehendva glance, she made a trumpet of her han and called shrill and sharp: "Georgie!" Then a little pair of scurrying feet came around the corner of the house, accompanied by a round, innocent face, much stained with -watermelon juice, and a sweet voice inquired: "Did you call me, mamma?"?Detroit Free Press. Life in Paris Studios. In no place more than a^tudio is it true tbat the early bird gets tbe worm; but in a studio that bird must be prepared to defend her spoils. Thus it is a great thing to be among tbe first to pose tbe model at 8 on Monday morning; but unless you arc prepared to fight for tbe continuance of your pose, you will find that each comer will want to alter it to suit her particular taste. Unfortunatelv, malcontents have I the right to put the pose to the vote, and i it not unfrequentlv happens that after you have patiently blocked in the figure during the first hour, at 9 o'clock, when the crowd arrives, a fr?sh and totally different position is voted for and carried by an exasperating majority, and all youi labor is lost.?Demorest's Monthly Two Doz?a Compressed Facts. There are 2,750 languages. A square mile contains 640 acres. A t<_rrel of rice contains 600 pounds. The average human life is 31 years. The first steel pen was made in 1830. A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds. A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds. A span 13 tea ana seven-eighta inches. A hand (horse measure) is four inches. Watches were first constructed in 1476. A storm moves thirty-sis miles per hour, j The first lucifer match was made in 1839. I The value of a ton of silver is ?37,704.84. I A hurricane m oves eighty miles per hour. I The first iron steamship was built in 1880. ' Modern needles first came into use in 1545. Coaches were first built in England in 1569. The first horse railroad was built in 1S2&ov One million dollars cf gold coin weighs 3,635 pounds avoirdupois. One million do liars of silver coin weighs 58,920. pounds avoirdupois. The first complete sewing machine was patented by Eiias Howe in 1846. Glass wi ndows were first introduced into England in the eighth century. Albert Durer gave the world a prophecy of future wood engraving in 1527. Measure 209 feet on each side and you will have a square acre within an inch. A Georgia mockiae: bird whistles the Bo danger March. It should be exported. ^^^ TRAINING BALLET DANCERS. A Premiere Danseuse Recalls Her Own Bitter Experience. Mile. Dcrst, the premiere, sat in the parlor of the Laclede the other day recalling the trials she had to undergo as an unfledged ballet dancer and prospective premiere. * 'People little know," she said, ' how much labor and misery go to make up the pirouette of a dancing girl. A child should not begin to study dancing i after she is 10; 7 is the best age. Thf? limbs then are at the right degree of sup- ! pleness to take a pupii over the first dix- I ficulties and help her on to the lower quadrille,' which she may not hope to win before she is 1G. The form then has gained the roundness and the flesh and muscles the firmness requisite to thf> artistic poses which create such furore. In my case the daily torture commenced at S o'clock. Every morning my I feet were imprisoned in a groove box, heei against heel and knees turned outwards. By this process my feet accustomed them solves naturally at last to tail into a parallel line. This is what is called so toumer. After half au hour of the groove I was subjected to another variety of torment. This time I had to raise my foot and place it on a bar level with my head, which bar I was obliged to hold in a horizontal lino with the hand opposite j the foot. I was exercising. This they term so i-asser. After these preliminary labors wc were obliged to go through a variety of steps and movements. "The teaching is necessarily long and painful, the primary object being to brinj L?y sheer exercise extreme agility ana strength to the ioints of the limbs and feet. Even in the education of the two great toes, i>o as to make us capable of standing and pirouetting on them, a vast amount of care and time is expended. And not only must the power be acquired, but it must bo kept up, for which purpose constant exercise is required. Otherwise the joints become stiff and relapse to an ordinary degree of strength. A week of repose must be redeemed by two months of redoubled, incessant toil. On this condition only can the dancer preserve her suppleness and lightness. To acquire, later, skill and grace in the movements of the dance is a subordinate object. Ono of the most difficult parts of a dancing girl's education is, for instanccrto make her smile with the rest of her companions and look gracefully at the public. "There is no rest for a great dancer at any time of her career. I have seen tho time when, after a four hour's lesson, I have fallen exhausted on the carpet of my room, where I was undressed, sponged and resuscitated, totallv unconscious of my situation. The agility and marvelous bounds of the evening were obtained only at a price like this. But there are, nevertheless, some dancers who, having oy nature greater aimcuiues to surmount, martyrize themselves with a -willingness scarcely credible. Nathalie Fitzjames was an example of this. She invented a new method, de so tourner et de se casser, at one and the same time. The art of dancing has two branches?en balloune and en tacquetto. The bailonne is the school of Taglioni; it is the lightness combined with grace, the dance which seems to delight in and float in the air. The tacquette is vivacity and rapidity; it is the lit tle sparkling steps and measures on the point of the feet; in a word, it is what Fanny Ellsler made it."?St. Louis Republic. Tenants of a Scotch. Laird. I "Tue Highlands and Hebrides are the homo of romance. There is a legend for almost every step you take. But the crviest of these are not so cruel as, . jid none have the pathos cf, the tales of their own and their father's wrongs and wretchedness which the people tell today. The ola stories oi the battle field, and of clan meeting clan in deadly duel, have given way to stories of the clearing of the land that the laird or the stranger might havo ! his shooting and fishing as wpU as his crops. At first the people could not understand it. The evicted wert to the lfird, as they would have gone of old, and asked for a new home. And what yt.s his answer? "I am I r>nf t'hp fs 1 nor n? vftnr familv" And then. when frightened women rar r.nd hid themselves at his coming, li* broke the kettles they left by the well, or tore into shreds the clothes bleaching on the heather, And, as the people themselves have it, "In these ana similar ways ho succeeded too well in clearing thj island of its once nn_;ero"s inhabitants, scattering them over the face cf the globe." There must have been cruelty indeed before the Western Islander, who once loved his chief better than his owe life, could tell such tales as these, even ia his hunger and despair.?Elizabeth Robins Pennell in Harper's Magazine. The Kiadlier Country Way. Now it is inevitable that the kindliest people living in cities should fall into * greater reserve of manner toward strangers than that developed in the country, whero people know all about their neighbors. In a city you cannot nod to everybody you meet on the street; there is not time for it. You cannot even call on these V.iiU uvo 111 III" UiWiv. Willi JUU. You may be living in the next house to a professional gambler and have no mean? of ascertaining the fact. All these thing? produce in people from cities a habit oJ more guarded intercourse, which is certainly less pleasant titan the kindlier country way, but is not easy to lay asida Again, the mere possession of a new acquaintance, as such, is a privilege to one who habitually lives an isolated life, but is not a thing so eagerly desired by those who live in a crovrd all the time, and have rathc-r to acquire the habit of defending themselves against numbers. Indeed a great deal of what is called hospitality in thinly settled regions and new communities has no especial unselfishness about it> where neighbors and guests arc few it is really the visitor who confers the favor. To give the pleasure of his company becomes in that case a phrase of some meaning.?Harper's Bazar. Social Life in Early Days. Mr. Hunnawe'l gives some interesting glimpses of social life in Charlestown. Mass., in tiie history of that town. He says: "Drinking habits, in varying cis gree, continued some time into the present century, so that it was hardly civil tc receive a call even from a minister without an oiler of a glass of something?tc the minister it would he wine. As late as ISIS, a church council cf eighty.four persons had at their dinner 9 decanters of brandy, 40 bottles of wine, and 144 cigars, besides pipes." Concerning dress, he says: '-The fashion followed those of town life in Europe. A few of the earlie> prominent men must have had an imposing look. * * * Thomas Russell, nearly six feet high, appeared on 'Changp in hair powdered and tied, a cocked hat and 'sable lined silk great coat from Rus sia.' while he carried 4a gold headed IndL cane.'"?Magazine of American History. German Interest in Africa. It is a qu^er stoiy which comes from the east coast o.f Africa, bv way of London, to the effect that three Arab caravans, with slaves and money, which had fought their way through the coast tribes, were equipped with arms and ammunition by the Germans aad sent back to fight the tribes a<rain. There was every reason why the coast tribe of negroes should hate these Arab slavers and fight them at every opportunity. The Arabs s^ize their wivvg < ?*??-! r.V> n onW Aorrv fKom int A qIi" ""V.- I ICUiU V/UiiUiCU &UU VM - - ?w WAV. w j ry, killing those they cannot cai-'i'-e, and j tiie negro tribes wr-uld be lacking :n even ! | sc much ot independent spirit as is manifested by brutes if they did not resist their ?aemies to the biiterend. Tbe course of t-tic Germans credited with thus iiidisg i kidnappers and s'ave drivers s-hould arouse :hc indignation of the entire civilized world, and it certainly soes far to confirm "he suspicion that the present blockade j sbou: ZhDzibar has been declared for some hei reason than the humai-e purpose as signed by the German Government.?Marchester (J. H.) I uion. " lut Caesar, sut cuilus." has been the rule of Bismarck's life, and he is even carrying it into the anti slavery crusade. S'fiil, if jealousy of England and of the German Liberal party should result in making him more than ordinarily active over the Ir'sh questior, civilization might I gain something by it.?Philadelphia Rec1 ord. TWO KINDS OF BOYS. The Plain, Awkward Youth and His More Graceful Contemporary. o Tiro r*/i V*nv fl.lwfl.Vfl JLJLLO UiaiU, c*.i- wr\.'j stands in gTeat awe of the handsome and graceful boy. The dapper, graceful, trim, lithe youngster, who glides | about among the admiring girls like Apollo among the nine graces, who knows how to lift his hat with all the | grace of a London dandy, and who j twirls his cane like a Beau Brummel? j such a one looks with a sort of refined horror upon the awkward boy, with much the same feeling a bright American lad might look upon a young Hottentot. And the plain, studious awkward boy looks upon his more graceful contemI porary with a feeling very much akin to envy. The awkward boy is at home in the barn, but an embarrassed foreigner in the parlor; he is graceful enough in the shod, but put him in the drawing-room and he will fall over the chandelier. He is as frightened as a deer at bay at a party. If some good old lady speaks to him, he can not find a half-dozen words out of the 115,000 in the dictionary with which to answer her; and if a pretty girl speaks to him, 1 " - ? i> -> < -i? J tnose naii-aozen xaa:e iugnt, ?uu. no stands as dumb as a sphinx, but immediately falls in lOve with her, and nourishes a hopeless passion for the next ten days. The graceful boy has no such trouble. I The old ladies whisper: "How polite and gentlemanly;" the young ladies are j charmed; every body likes him socially; he is intensely popular. But there is no reason that the awkward boys need be discouraged. Smart boys are most always awkward. Shallow boys, as a general rule, are grao^ful. In a few years, when the awkward ! boy is walking, or possibly riding, l down to his place of business, he will ! be very liable to pass his graceful rival of an earlier date carrying his dinner-pail to his work. When he is mayor, the graceful boy will come ?not half as gracefully as in the old time?and ask him for a chance to work on the streets. When the awkward boy goes to Congress?and awkward boys have a way of getting there ?his graceful chum may possibly aspire to become his private secretary, but it is probable that he will not eveti | have risen to such an estate as that, j The awkward boys have a very grace^ iul Knack oi rising in tne ranKs. rerhaps it is the youthful habit of stumbling about that enables them so often to stumble into our thirty-eight Gubernatorial chairs, or into the White House. ; But this is not written to glorify j awkwardness. Awkwardness is per- j haps natural to the callowness of thoughtful youth, but a boy should get over it as he gets over the mec.:Ies. Youthful awkwardness projected into middle life sets as wretchedly as baby dresses on a full-grown man.?Yankee Blade. PARIS COUTURIERES. DressOIakers of the Future WLU Be a Most Wonderful Product. "Paficion rlwcs.maIrprQ r>r omit.nri- ! ! ~ ? ? ? . I eres, have always had a reputation for: j I taste and skill. They were, however,:' generally trained in a rather irregular : fashion, much being left to their intui- | tive, or their imitative, faculties. ; Nowadays, however, the apprentice ! couturieres are educated professionally ! in a most methodical manner, and it is i | predicted confidentially on this account j ! that the dress-makers of the future will ! | 1 i be the most wonderful products that | the world of fashion has ever seen. In ! all the professional schools of the city of Paris girls are taught not only sewing, but Euclid and drawing. Then the embryo dress-makers receive elaborate lessons in design. Their teach- j er, the maitress couturiere, is a skill- | ful geometrician and designer as well as a perfect needlewoman and tailoress. She makes her pupils sketch on paper, or on cloth, with graphic and symmetrical precision the costumes which V)nl+nmo4*oltt *n uuru iuwi w uv? am solid stuff, and teaches them to transform various articles of feminine attire ; by rapid strokes of pencil or chalk from a rotondeto a mantelet, and from a corsage or a basque into a pelerine; ! but the cultivators of the young dressmaking idea do not stop at drawing or geometry. They also aim at making apprentice couturieres water-colorists, in order to help them combine color with form in the matter of building up dresses. M. Gustave Congny, who has devoted his time to writing a book on this highly interesting subject, on the artistic dress-makers of the future, goes into ! raptures about the remarkable metai morphosis which fashion is likely to undergo at the hands of the aesthetic couturieres who are to corc^e. What lovely sartorial symphonies, he seems to say; what dainty and delicious harmonies in flounces; what Arcadian - poems in petticoats will be evolved from the brains of the highly-trained seamstresses who are on their way to rejoice mankind. A couturiere will, in future, be a veritable artist, ranking with the doctoresses in medicine and physics, and "distancing" all the members of the minor callings and pursuits which are nowadays taken up by females?Minneapolis Tribune. ?It is stated that vessels built of African teak wood have lasted 100 years, to be then broken up because of | faulty models. Its weight is from ! Xorty-two to fifty-two pounds per cubic | foot; it works easily, but wears the ; tools rapidly on account of the quani tity of silex in it. It also contains an I oil which prevents the iron in contact ; with it from rusting. "Georee, dear, what kind of fruit. i-; ! borne by an electric-light plant?" ".Electric currents, of course." Of course jou associate a plumber will; I a pipe, but when he smokes it during working nours your job does not progress very rapidly. As the boy is the father of the man, it follows that the girl is the mother of the ! woman; and together they are not slow in ! honoring their father and their mother. | Goncourt, the French novelist, suggests as a definition for pride, That form of vani! ty whkij prevents one from doing mean thir/rs. The plumber never complains hiscus tom-jrs. "We have piped unto you and ye ha.env/t d 'nc.d." They are "bleeged" <r. dance. Horses **nd the public suffer alike i:> tJ.5co miry from a superfluity r>f jockty clubs someof which w>uld not exist over nighr if there were laws against turf gambling We are all dissatisfied. The only diffi-r ence u that sorue of us sit down in the squalor of our dissatisfaction, while others make a ladder of it. All those heating and itching humors of the sca'p, so troublesome to many persons, are effectually cured by the use of Ayer's Hair Vigor. If not attended to in time, these diseases are very liable to result in loss of the hair. OUR LIVING BEAD. SERMON OF THE GliKAT liHOOKLYN ! PKEACH1SK OS SL'XDAV. Tex:: "And U'hoii He tixtr the Wnnozis ! which Joseph had 5?"Dt to C?trry I-im the Spirit of Jacob their i'aihcr I4tvived. And J.s:-a?l Said, It is Enough Joseph luy siou i* >et Al;v<?." The Rev. T. De Witt Tallage, D. D., preached Suuday on ;'Our Departed Stiil Living." Hid text was Genesis 45, 27 and 2S: "And when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. And Israel said, it is enough; Joseph my son is alive." Dr. Taka age said: The Egyptian capital was the focue of the world'* wealth. In ships and barges, there had been brought to it from India frankincense, and cinnamon, and ivory and diamonds; from the north, marble and iron; from Syria, purple and silk; from Greece, some of the finest horses of the wor-d and some of the most brilliant chariots; and from all the earth that which could best please the eye, and charm the ear, gratify the taste. There were temples aflame with red sand-stone, entered by gate-ways that were guarded by pillars bewildering with hieroglyphics, and wound with brazen serpents, and adorned with winged creatures their eyes, and beaks, and pinions glittering with precious stones. jLnere were jmaruie uuiuuiiis wuumiug into white flower-bads; there were stone piilars at thy top bursting into the shape of the iotus when in full bloom. Along the avenues, hned with sphinx, and fane, and obelisk, there were princes who came in gorgeously upholstered palanquin, carried by servants in scarlet, or elsewhere drawn by vehicles, the snowwhite horses, golden-bitted, and six abreast, dashing at full run. There were fountains from stone-wreathed vases climbing the ladders oi the light. You would hear a bolt shove, and a door of brass would open like a flash of the sun. The surrounding gardens were saturated with with odors tnat mounted the terrace, and dripped from the arbors and burned their incense in the Egyptian noon. On floors of mosaic the glories of Pharoah were spelled out in letters oi porphyry, and beryl, and flame. There were ornaments twisted from the wood of the tamarisk, embossed with silver breaking into foam. There .. .ire footstools made out of a single precious stone. There were beds fashioned out of a crouched Hon in bronze. There were chairs spotted Willi the sleet hide of leopards. There were sofas footed with ;he claws of wild beasts; and armed with the beaks of birds. As you stand on the level beach of the sea on a summer-day, and look either way, and there are miles of breakera, white with the ooean foam, dashing ; shoreward; so it seems as if the sea ol i iho vonu'b pomp and wealth in the Egyptian eapitai for miies and miles fiaiig itself up into white breakers oi' iiuirble temple, mausoleum, and obiisk. This was the place where Joseph, the I shepherd boy, was called to stand next lo Jfharoah in honor. What a contrast between this icene ana his humble starting, and the pit into which his brothers thew him! Yet he was not forgetful of his early home; he was not ashamed of where he came from. Tne Biahop of Mentz, de| sceuded from a wheelwright, covered ' his house with spokes, and hammers, and whetla; and tlie King oi iSiciiy, iu I nonor of ins lather, who was a potter, i refused to drink out ox anything but un earthen vessel, bo Josepn was not i ashamed oi his early surroundings, or of has old-time latner, or oi his brothers. When they came up from the d-.ninfe-Kto-irtkfen ianri to corn tmm liii: king's ourn criu. Joseph, insieau of blading Ihem for tiic way they had m&iire&itu ana uouscd him, tent ihem back v?itn wagons, which Jt'naroan furnished, iacen with corn: and old Jacob, tue iatheiv m very same wagons, was I brougni back, that Joseph, the son, | mignt ??e him, and give lam a comlortj a bio liozae uli the rest oi ins days, j Weil, I hear ike wagon=, ihe king's I wagons, rumbling down in lront of tne j palace.. On the outside of the pula.ee, I to see the wagons go off, stands Pnaioan I in rojai robes; and beside him prime| mixobtcr Joseph, with a chain of gold I around ms ntck, and on his nand a ring ; given by Jfnaroah to hini, so that any : tun j he wanted to stamp the rojal seai | upon a document he oouid do so. Wagon ' alter wagon rolls on down from the f palace, laden with corn, and meat, and changes of raiment, and every thing j that could help a famine struck people. One day I see aged Jucob seared in front I of his house. He is possibly thinking of his absent bojs (sons, however old thty get, are never to a father any more than boys); and whilene is seated tne re, ht: oees dust arising, and he hears wagons I rumbling, and iio wonders wnat is coxniiug now, for the whole land had been smitten with the famine, and was in silence. But after a while the wagons have come near enougij, and he sees his | ions on the wagons, and before they | c.me quite up, tiiey shout: ''Jo&epn is I jet alive!" Ihe oid man faints dead | ?wa\. i do not wonder at it. The boys j tell tlie story iaow that tne boy, the longabsent Joseph, has got to be the iirot naan in tne iigypthm palace. While rliey unload the wagons, the wan and wasted creatures in the neighborhood come up and asc: for a handiui of com, and thi'V are satisfied. 2dy friend , we are in a wo. Id by sin famiue-etruck; but the King is in constant communication with us, his wagons coming and going perpetually; and in tlie reer 01 my discourse jl wiu tuow you what the wagons bring and what they take back. In the first place, like those that came from the Eg^piitn palsee, the King's wagons now bring us corn and meat: ana many changes of raiment. We are apt to think of 'he fields and tlie or.-hards as feeding u-s bat who makes "the iiax gro>? for thj iinen, and ihe wheat for the bread, and the wool on tlie sheep's back? Oh, I w i.--Li we could see through every grain fit-Id, by every sin. ep-fold, under Trees of ev< rv orchuril, the King's wagons. They drive up thien Urnes a day?morning, noon,id night. Tney bring fuT8 from the arctic, they bring fruits from the topic, and bread from the temperate zone. Thv King looks cur, and he *'i::.v:e arc twelve hundred millions of people to he ft d and clothed. So many pounds of m? at, so many barrel; of flour, so ruany yards of I cloth and iineu and flannel, so many hats, so many socks, so many shoes," enough for all, save that we whoaru greedy to get more shoes than belong to u*, and others go barfeoottd. None but a king's corn-crib could appease the world's famine. None but a king couUl tell how many wagons to send, and how heavily to load them, and when they are to start. They are coming over the frozen ground to-day. Do you not hear their rumbling? They will -top at noon at your table. Oh, if for a little while they should cease, hunger would come into the nation?, as to Uric.i when Kamilcar beside it, and as iu Jerusalem when Ver-pasi.tn sun\;uii-ioi 1 ; n?;d the nations woul-i be hoilo<v-tyed, and fall upon each other in universal cannibalism; ard skeleton would drop upon skeleton; and there would be no one to bury the dead; r.ndthe earth would be a field of bleached . 1 ..fnwo rt r* lU A V.VAV* r-BwCICL-ViJO. ?UU. OU.U uuuo Ui Ml CJ Y\UUiU fail dead, flock after fluck, without any carcasses tc devour; and the eartli in silence would wheel around, one great black hearse! All life stopped because the King's wagons are stopped. Oh, thank God for bread?for bread! I go to hunt up Jesus. I go to the village of Bethany, and say: "Where: does Mary live?,' They say: "Yonder ! Mary lives." I go in. I see -where she sat in the sitting-room. I go out where Martha worked in th-j kitchen but I find no Jesus. I go into Pilate'd court-room, and I find the judges and the police, nr./I /m'f hAv t*>/~\ Taens T a-iU. Via'- UIL3UUL1 o UVA, JL/UU JLIU vcouo. ? go into the Arimathean cemetery; but the door is gone, and the shroud is gone, and Jesus is gone. By faith I look up to the King's palace, and behold I have found him! Joseph-Jesus is still alive. Glorious religion, a religion made not out of death's heads, and cross bones, and undertaker's screw-driver, but one bounding ^-ith life, and sympathy, and gladness. Joseph is yet alive! "I know that my Redeemer livesWhat comfort this sweet sentence gives! He lives, He lives, who once was dead, He lives, my ever-living Head! "lie lives to grant my daily breath. He lives, and I shall conquer death, He lives my mansion to prepare, lie lives lo bring me safeiy there. "He live9, all glory to His name; Wi* mv .Lcnu ?til! tV?a aom?i Oh, the j-'weet Joy this sentence gives1 know that my .Redeemer lives!" The King's wagons will after awhilo unload, and they will turn around, and they will go back to the palace, and I really t Jink thaf, you and 1 will go with them. The King wiil not leave us in the famine-struck world. The King has ordered that we be lifted into the wagons, and that we go over into GosLtn where there shall be pasturage for our largest flock of joy, and then wo will drive up to the paiice, where are glories awaiting u-s which will melt ail the snotf of Egyptian marble into forgetfnlness. I think tuit the King's wagons will take us up iaasodoa? lost iriends^fci Job's chiei anticipation was not of seeing the Niie, nor of seeing the long colonnades of architectural beauty, nor of seeing the throne-room. There was a focus to all his journeyings, to all his anticipations; and that was Joseph. Well, my friends, 1 do not think Heaven would be worth a great deal if our brother Jesus waj not there. If there were two Heavens, the one with all the pomp and paraphernalia of an eternal monarchy, but no Christ, and the other were a plain Heaven, humbly thatched, with a few daisies in the yard, and Christ were there, I would ay: "Let the King's wagons take mo up to the old farm house." The Kinc's waaron took Jacob ud to see hie lost boy, and so I really think that the King's wagons will take as up to see our lost kindred. How long is it since Joseph went out of your household? How many years is it now last Christmas, or tuo fourteenth of next month? It was a dark night when he died, and a stormy day it was at the burial; and the clouds wept with you, and the winds sighed for the dead. The bell at Greenwood's gate rang only a few moments, but your heart has been tolling, tolling, ever since. You have been under a delusion, like Jacob of old. You have thought that Jacob was dead. You put his name first in the birth-record of the family Bible, and then you put it in the death-record of the family Bible, and you have been deceived. Joseph isje; alive. He is more alive than you are. Oi ail the sixteen thousand millions o< children that statisticians Siy have gone into the future world, there is not ont oi them dead, and the King's wagons will take vou ud to see them. You often think how glad yon will be to set them. Have you never thought, rnj brother, my sister, how glad they wii be to see you! Jacob was no more g'iac to seo Joseph than Joseph was to see Jacob. Every time the doo] in Heaven opens, they look to see if ii la you coming in. Joseph, once standing in the palace, burst out crying when lit thougut of Jacob?afar off. And th< Heaven of your little ones will not b< fairly begun until you get there. All tli< kindness shown them bj immortals wil not make them forget you. There the> are, the radiant throngs that went ou 5rorn your homes! Dues not the subject oi to-day tak< :lie gioom out of the thoughts tha would otherwise be struck through witi midnighr? We used to think that whei we died we would have to go afoot sagging down in the mire, and th< hounds of terror might get after us, ant if we go; through into Heaven at all, w< would come in torn, and wounded, anr bleeamg. I remember when my teetl chattered and my knees knocked togethe when I heard anybody talk about death but i Have come to tnixiK mat zac grav. will be the softest bed I ever slept in aiid the bottom of my feet will not b wet with the passage of the Jordan "Them that sleep in Jesus will God brinj with Him." I was, reading of Robert Southey, wh( said je wished he could die far awa; from his friends? like a dog, crawlin; into a corner and dying unobserved Those were his words. Be it ours to ci< on a coach surrounded by loved ones, s< that they, with ue, may hear the glad s?vebt, jubilant announcement: "Th King's wagons are coming." Bark! hear tbem now. Are they coming fo you or for me? CONFEDERATE MONEY. Some Stories of the Rapid Depreciation o the Currency. According to the "Washington correspond ent of the Louisville Courier-Journal, a grou] of the Southern members of the Hous< _>? tV. WCIO VOJLn-LU^ A CAy^XXUljr VIA LUC OUUJC^t U1 Lilv depreciation of Confederate currency during the last years of the war ant the almost fabulous suras which it became necessary to pay even for trivial articles Mr. Grimes, who represents the Fourtl Georgia district, told a couple of stories verj pertinent to the subject and which greatly amused his auditors: "In the latter part ol 1863," said Mr. Grimes, "a young rnanwhc lived In La Grange, Ga., became possessed of ?500 in Confederate money. He was of s thrifty turn and wanted to add to it Witl that purposo in view, he invested his monej In a barrel of whisky. This he sold by the drink and at the end of a week had disposed of the whole barrel, and had $1,200 in hand, a net profit of $700. The young m^n was highly elated. He saw his way clear to a fortune in a short time. " Of course he decided to buy more whisky at wholesale ar d sell it by the small measure, but he had taken into account the wear and tear which the credit of the Confederacy had suffered during the week which it had taken him to sell out his barrel. When he went to invest in another supply he found tha", he could not make a purchase similar to his first one for less than $1,500. The financial fluctuations involved in the transaction knocked him so completely out that he retired permanently from commercial life and hired himself out as an agriculturist." When his hearers had finished laughing at this story, Mr. Grimes gave them the other one. 4,It was in the same town?La Grange ?and in tbe latter part of 1864, ' he said. "One old gentleman there who had persistently predicted the failure of the Confederacy, was one day deriding the currency that was then so plentiful and of such little value. He said that it was so worthless that nobody would even steal it or pick it up if found on the street. He pulled out a $1,000 bill, Confederate money, of eourse, and declared that he could tack it with a pin to the fence around the Courthouse, leave it there five hours and that nobody would think enough of it to put it in his pocket. His offer was accepted The note was pinned to the fence, and at the end of five hours he and the man to whom he had been talking went out to see what there was to be seen." Mr. Grimes here paused. -weiir" inquired Jar. Alien, 01 aussisiiippL "The S1,000 note was there," replied Mr. Grimes, "and pinned beside it was another Confederate bill, the denomination of which was 52,000." This ended the seanceThe statement that whiskey is being manufactured in Ireland from old rags suggests the theory of the transmigation of spirits. A good deal of whiskey goes into the production of old rags. INVENTION'S LATEST FRUIT. A Marvelous Instrument for Writing at | Great Distances. From bis workshop in Highland Park, j j Chicago, Professor Elisha Gray is at last ! I able to lay on the desk of h?3coirospondent J i in Milwaukee a fac simile of whatever he ' puts 03 paper a.t this ends of the wire. The j finishing touches to the. tel-autograph will I be made within the next two weeks. A ' head company has been formed in New | York, and subordinate eorapanies are orga! niziug over the country to put the invention ! in use. "The instrument now reproduces each stroke of the pe n or pencil with almost exact fidelity," said Professor Gray to a Chicago Tribune reporter yesterday, "The reproduction is just up to the point of not being original. The difference is enough to prevent long-distance forgery. At the coma tlmo / >.,!w ut 1I10 othf-r #?ri^ is sn nearly like what 3rou write, that for all ordinary purposes it is your handwriting." Several specimens of copy, when com pared with the original, showed a slight waviness of line as the only distinction. One could come much nearer telling the reproduction of a friend's voice by the per fected phonograph ; m the voice itseif than he could a tel-autographic copy of the same friend's handwiiiing from his true fist. "I expect the invention," continued Prof. Gray, "at once to supersede the telephone where accuracy is required and over long distances. It will also be taken up immediately as an adjunct to the telegraph in the transmission of messages involving monetary transactions. It can make no mistakes. Ir. tells at the other end just what you write, word for word nnd line for line. No operators or third parties intervene as in ! U-r;?a-lers be'.weeu the two pieces of paper. They stand as f?tc simile records, in the hands of transmitter and receiver, of what has passed between the parties." The machine is an artist as well as penman. It will rc-produce any line drawing. A girl's head, the picture of a representa tive mugwump, a buoch of dairies, and a suuil -wer were only limited in faithfulness by the execution ot" the draughtsman. An illustrated tolesram will not be one of the i .v,. leasi uoveiues ui iuc immc. When Professor Gray's company gets its lines established, the business man will be able to impress on bis dispatcbes tbe authenticity of bis autographs. A resident of Jacksonville during the fever, can. at a moment's notice, shew bis anxious wife in the North that bis hand is still steady. The lover can put into the swiftest message all the dots and crosses and flourishes his sw<;<;theart has learned to love. Iu short, the lel-autograph is designed to do the work of the postotiice over tbe wires. Pop* L?o's Abstenion* Life. Like Mapolean, Leo XIII. does a great deal ot work and takes very little sleep, i He rises at five m summer and six in win' tei* His toilet occupies a half hour, after which he passes an hour in prayer and mediatom as f?. preparation for Mass, which . he says eve.y day in one of the private ; chapels ot me yaucan. xie omciaies ai ' the altar with exemplary devotion and : there is an exceeding grace in all his move^ incuts, whether in the sanctuary, in his garden, in his library or when holding a public audience. At eight o'clock the Pope tr'.kes bis cafe au lait and a roll. Leo XIII. : is one of the mosc abstemious of men, and : the entire expenses of his table do not i average more than $1 a day the whole year . round. It musi be remembered that the Pope always takes Lis meals alone.?Pittsburg Post. i * m | Fire in Beaufort. i Beaufort, Dec. 12.?A fire broke cut r this evening about 6 30 o'clock in tfw residence of Mr. L. JI. lioundtree. The - Washington lire cugir.e was promptly put. ; to work and within thirty minutes the fire , was under control. This is ihe lirst lire we have herd since the new Artesian wells have i been bored. The fire was not more than , one and a half blocks from the well. The 1 engine is still fire but it* is r SKie to say that no other houses will take 1 fire. Foitunately it is very calm else some of tbe adjoining building might have - ' - n>. . i _ js u.. if rr - caugni. j lie Jouse IS owueu uy iuis. a. ' P. Buckley and is insured, but at, this hour ) the amount of insurance was not ascer) taiced. Mr. Koundtree's loss will be con, sideruble, but the amount cani.ot be accu> ratcly ascertained just now. Mrs. liound< tree lost all her clothes except what she j had on, as it happened she was out visitj ing.?Special to News and Courier. i A Firm and Bold Executive. : Governor Seay of Alabama is only 35 t years of age. He is regarded a3 one of the ; brightest and most promising young men t of the New South. During his first candi dacy for Governor he was opposed on the i ground of comparative youth and inexperience but his renoniination and re-election j without substantial opposition prove the i wisdom of the people of Alabama in elect[ ing him their Chief Magistrate. His prompt approbation of the course of Sheriff Smith in the Birminghom affair marks him as a mr;n bold enough to do right in the face of clamor. He is now at Birming: ham, and his presence seems to have quelled ' all excitement and to have insured the or* derly operation of the machinery of the 1 law.?New York Star, Dec. 12. Shot While on a H ant. Anderson, Dec., 11.?Near Starr, on t the Savannah Valley Railroad, To be Sherrard, colored, was out hunting lastThurs/lot/ oftornnnn Tenth WiUAra! A rah. 5 bit was started and ran into a hollow tree. 3 Tobe t?ot to tbe tree first and set bis gun 5 down by tbe tree to get the rabbit out. One r of the dogs ran against the cun and knock I edit down. Tbe fa'.l discharged the load J into Tobes abdomen. He lived loug . to tell his friends how it happened. Coroi ner Nance held an inquest over his body r on Friday. r [ When a man finds thit he is getting to [ be too lor .icious, bis be>.r. remedy is to get k married. He will i.oticean improvement L right away. r --I,, , ma ' UNAPPREC1ATIVE. \ i How little we are apt to appreciate that whJ:h we possess. The hardy wood-sawyer envies the wealth of his employer. The rich man envies the health and strength of his poor neighbor. '"Our mind and our time we employ In longir.g for what we have not, L nminaful ot what we enjoy. How much better if all exerted themselves to obtain their heart's longing. If poor in purse seek to gain wealth by industrious and frugal habits. If poor in health seek to use those remedies which are the best and truest medicines. 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