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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. " ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1878, > ' NO. 11. VOLUME XXYL :||
A Summer Day
Deep down beside the tangled sedge
The meadow lark pings all the day,
And bursts at times from out the hedge
The mimic chatter of the jay;
And hero and there a wandering note,
A cricket's chirp, comes sweet and clear
Where dreamy mists of summer float
At noon upon the grassy mere.
Alar away below the hill
I see the noisy mill-wheel go,
The smooth broad lake above the mill,
The flash of foam that roars below;
And on the even Blopes that rise
So gently toward the mountain's brow,
The cattle watch with sleepy eyes
The lazy plonghboy ft the plongh.
My soul is sleeping, and its dreams?
Ah ! sad and sweet that dreaming thrills!
For there are other vale3 ar.d streams,
Ana otner iiocks on otner nuis?
The hills whereon I climbed to pull
The golden rods and weeds of May,
When all the world was beautiful,
And all my life a summer day.
? C. E. Brooks in Harper's Magazine.
PENNY WISE AND POUND!
FOOLISH.
I
"We will express, our trunkb, I sup- j
pose," said Amy, rising from her knees I
with a sigh, where she had been strapping
said baggage, till her little fingers i
were bruised with the strain?4 4 we will
express our trunks," she repeated, 44 and J.
have nothing upon our mindB."
44 Express our trunks. Amy ! what !
nonsense! I shouldn't tbfhk of it for
an instant!" cried Aunt Mitty. "it!
would be a -wicked extravagance, for j
which we should deserve a visitation of i
Providence. I've traveled miles and I
miles in my day, and I've always taken j
care of my own things, and expect to do !
it as long as the breath's in my body."
The trunks were sent down to the station
early next morning on a wheelbar- j
row, and as the distance was short, Amy j
and her aunt followed on foot, arriving j
in season to see the wheelbarrow give j
out, like the " ona-hoss shay," and spill j
its contents upon the highway. Aunt j
Hitty was obliged to pay a quarter on !
the spot for a second pair of masculine i
arms to convey the trunks into tho sta- i
tion, she and Amy being supplied with a j
bag, an envelope box containing sand- j
wiches, a water-proof in a strap, and a j
novel each. |
" We might as well have taken a carriage,"
suggested Amy, "and have
. started in some style, if only ' for the
oonfusion of the neighbors,' and even j
I'O" Ti-rml/I litiT-A Vipprt ft VWlftTlfifi 1
in oar favor." Aunt Hitty did not ap- j
pear to be affected by thi3 economical |
view of the situation, her mind being i
engaged at that moment npon the co- j
nundrum whether she should be obliged j
to buy a new wheelbarrow for Neighbor I
Cramp, or if the old one could be re- !
vamped to liis satisfaction; but before j
she could arrive aft a. solution the con- j
doctor cried, "All aboard," and they j
were plunging through the tunnel, fly- I
ing across the bridge, hurrying past j
everybody's back-door, past the old!
burying-ground, out into the clear conn- j
try, with the distant mountain peaks j
outlined against the sky, with fringes of ;
reddening sumac, and burning bushes !
of maple and beech, and the ragged ;
pennons of creepers and blackberry i
vines closing in about them,
" Jerusalem Centre !" shouted the !
conductor. "Passengers change cars j
for Boghampton."
"While Aunt Hitty was manoeuvring |
to avoid the smoking-car in her entrance :
into the Boghampton train, Amy re- j
checked her trunks, and smashed her i
eyeglasses 111 tne atterapi. &i me nexi i
point of connection Aunt Hitty trans- 1
acted the business with dignity and
composure, but found, after the train
had started, that she had left " The
Last Days of Pompeii" behind hei.
" And'it belonged to your book club,
too," sighed Amy.
At the third station where they were
obliged to change Amy secured the
checks without any mishap, and being
now fairly launched on the road to Boston,
they disposed themselves to dine
from the envelope box, and Aunt Hitty |
produced the silvei cup from which she j
had eaten her bread and milk when she '
was in pinafores, and her grandmothers
before her.
"I'm glad I brought It," sho said; "it |
doesn't cost any more to drink from silver
than from glass, when it's an heirloom.
How auy one can use that promiscuous
tumbler passes me."
"There's Dorset Travis, Aunt Hitty,
sure as you live. Oh, I do wish he would
took this way !" whispered Amy.
"I would rather you shouldn't let on
you saw him. People are so. apt to get
intimate on ? juurutiv, iciuiucu uci
aunt. "Read your novel, child. A Vane
wasting a thought upon a Travis ! Sueli
a thing was never known in Borrowdale;
it would ioake all your ancestors groan
in their graves. In your great-grandfather's
day there was the Travis Arms ;
and the Vane Hall. We were of the
best blood in the county; nobody knows I
if they had any ancestry; their family j
tree is an acorn yet, for all I know.
When your forebears were living in \
clover and faring sumptuously every
day, old Martin Travis was toe poor to
buy himself a second suit."
"And now the tables are turned. We
have the poverty, and they have the
money."
".Bat -we are vanes, wnue tney win
be only Travises to the end of the
chapter."
"As the case star ds, aunty, I would
rather be a Travis, thank you."
"Don't let me hear yon utter such
blasphemy again, Amy Vane I"
"I'm sure the girls in Borrowdale are
always talking about him as if he were
the great Mogul. I'm sure he is very
nice- -I met him once at Miss Cabot's,
you know; we spent a fortnight there at
the same time. I may be obliged to
speak to him, you see. If you'd only
turn your head, Aunt Hitty, and look at
him, you'd say he was a prince in disguise.
Did you ever see him ?"
"Never. The idea of old Martin
Travis's grandson aspiring to an equal
** ' * - tt vm?
lty wim me vaues s >? ii_y, iiu imo umun.ed
your great-grandfather's boots, for
aught I know!"
" I can't help it if ho has blacked my
great-grandfather's eye. I wish his
j grandson would come and talk to us.
And how he can talk ! I don't believe a
Vane could hold a candle to him!
There he goes into a smoking car! So
my prospective pleasure ends in smoke."
Amy Yane, remember who you are!"
And then they relapsed into silence, and
Aunt Hitty took a nap, while Amy
watched the gay autumn world waltz
past her?the fields where cattle grazed;
the broken walls feBtooued with the wild
grape, with gaudy vines; the swollen
streams chatting over their pebbles; the
rich vista3 of woodland, like glimpses
into some cathedral crusted with gold
and inlaid with jewels; the saucy little
chipmunks darting among the nut-trees;
the whir of wild wings among the nnderbrrteh;
the bursting pods of the mildweed;
the drifts of purple asters and
golden-rod. How delightful it "might
I be to travel in October with somebody
like Doroas Travis to talk with, and
one's baggage in the express !
" Have we collided ?" cried Annt Hitty,
waking with a sudden jerk, "or what
is it?"
"Boston," said Amy.
"Ob, of course. Now you take my
umbrella and my bag and water-proof,
aud secure seats in the New York train,
while I secure the baggage."
* How dark and smoky and crowded the
depot seemed just then ! Engines Were
puffing and filling, bell* were ringing,
hackmen shouting, every one rushing
hither and yon, elbowing, pushing.
Was all creation cn route for somewhere ?
was anybody loft at home to look after
the silver and the " help ?" Aunt Hitty
wondered as she insinuated hereeif into
the near neighborhood of the baggage
car and adjusted her glasses. "Mercy,"
said she, "what a bedlam !"
"Isn't it though?" replied a woman
at her elbow. "I can't liear my own
ears?can you? Seems as though my
baggage wouldn't ever turn up. It's
dreadful standing here at the mercy of
this crowd, they push you about so.
Pardon; did I tread on your skirt?"
" Oh, never mind," said Aunt Hitty;
" 'twasn't your fault. Isn't that my
trunk ? No?oh dear I"
"It's awfully confusing," she confessed,
having finally joined Amy in the
New York train. " It's a pity that some
of the people can't stay at home. I
should think it was a Bedouin community."
"Tickets!" demanded the conductor,
on his rounds.
Aunt Hetty plunged her hand into her
dress pocket, into the pocket of her
over-skirt, into the pocket of her sacque,
into bet bag, and wrestled with p.ll its
contents. "Goodnes* save us!" she
gasped, " my pocket?has been?picked
!" Fortunately Miss Hitty had taken
the precaution of secreting the bulk of
her funds about her person, and the
pocketbook had contained only ten doliers
in money, a recipe for mock mince
pies, and a scrap of poetry, the tickets
being in Amy'* charge, as it happened.
14 Well, there was such a crowd in the
depot, that I wonder I came away with
my senses," she explained. "Do get
me a drink of water, Amy. I'm dry as
a fish, from excitement " (though why a
fish, which is always wet, should be called
dry, is a paradox Mies Hitty didn't
reflect upon). " The cup is in my bag.
No ? Amy Vane, how helpless yoti are I
If it was a bear, it would bite you. Give
me the bag I" But alas! Miss Hitty's
bag was unlike little Benjamin's sack:
the silver cup was not to be found in it!
" You don't suppose I left it in the cars
in Boston ?" she questioned?" that cup,
which has been in the family for generations
?"
"We can telegraph to Boston from
the next station," suggested Amy, who
Tin<1 o fnmilv foplinc fnr the cut), aftei
all, "and perhaps recover it. Don't you
want to speak to the conductor about a
sleeping-car?"
1' A sleeping-car I What do you think
I'm*made of?"
"You will have an attack of your
asthma, Aunt Hitty; you aren't used to
Bittiug up all night."
"I'll make the experiment, anyway;
two dollars aren't to be sneezed at in my
circumstances. A penny saved is a
penny earned."
"You won't get a wink of sleep. For
my part, I would rather pay twenty dollars
than lose a neat's rest."
" I dare say yo7 would. You've no
more idea of economy than the babes in
the woods. Any one who's sleepy can
sleep on stilts."
" Very well; pleasant dreams to you."
It seemed to Amy as if the night were
endless. Not a tree, nor a water-course,
nor* a russet hill-side to be discerned
through the darkness; not oo much as a
star for company, nothing but the
smoky lamps winking at her. Amy
wished with all her heart that Mr. Travis
had been at hand to help her kill
time; as for Aunt Hitty, she improvised
a pillow of her water-proof, and got a
crick in her nock instead of a nap; and
when everybody had about abandoned the
hope of overtaking the morning, go at
what lightning speed they would, the
lights began to look like sickly ghosts at
cock-crow,the eastern sky blushing like a
rose, uu/oldiug petal after petal of light
and color, birds began to flutter along
the wayside, shaking the dew from wing
and bush in their flight, and presently
the train rolled into the Grand Central
Depot, and stopped panting and wheezing.
"Give me your purse, Amy," commanded
Miss Hitty, "while you look up
the baggage; it isn't worth while to risk
anything. I'll go and buy the tickets,
and keep a seat for you in the Hudson
Kiver tram." Miss Jiittys voice was
husky, anil her eyes -were full of metaphorical
sticks.
Amy had never been in New York before?indeed,
her traveling bad chiefly
been confined to a trip to Boston once a
year?and the crowd and the confusion,
the rush and huiry every one seemed to
be in, the shackling and shunting ol
cars, added to the stupid half-awake
sensation resulting from a broken night,
gave her a nervous lack of confidence iD
herself. It appeared an eternity before
her trunks came to light, and an teon or
two before they were finally checked;
then she picked her way through the
throng as speedily as possible, only to
see the Hudson River train moving out
of the depot. She stood like one paralyzed,
and watched it go, letting the
crowd surge around her. Some one out
of the human vortex paused and looked
at her, turned back, and held out a reassuring
hand.
" Mien Vane T hplipro 9" unid "Dnvsflt
Travis. '' Are you waiting for any one ?
Can I be of service to you?"
"Oh, Mr. Travis, I have lost my
train 1" cried Amy.
"Is that all? May I ask which way
you are going ?"
"We were going to Niagara?Aunt
i Hitty and I. She is in the train, with
: the tickets?and my purse !"
"Well met, then," said he. "I tm
| going to Niagara myself in the afternoon
train, and shall be happy to be your
! escort, if you will allow mo. In the
1 meantime, here is a coach waiting for
1 us. We will take breakfast at Delmon:
ico's, and have time to look into a pic
ture-gauery ana arive in tne parn oeiore
' dinner, if yon don't object."
| " Oh, thank you, Mr. Travis ! What
a godsend you are !" cried Amy, effuj
sively. " What would have become oi
j me if you hadn't happened by?"
" I'm glad my lines have fallen in sucl
j pleasant places," he said. " I hope yoc
j haven't forgotten the fortnight we spenl
at Miss Cabot's together a year ago ?"
What a breakfast they had at Delmon
ico's, to be sure ! how debonair ant
companionable Dorset Travis was !?olc
Martin Travis's grandson, too! Befon
' T-.-J It /? mm a rtO 11 nn
ilUU UUIIC Up " LUC
! Amy felt as if she had known him fron
! the beginning?easy in confessing he:
I ignorance, sure of his sympathetic in
j dnlgence?and by the time they ha<
j taken a turn in the park she had decide(
I it was not such a bad thing to lose one'i
I train, after all; that this was a mucl
! nioooanfor mnlfl fn Niacrara than t,h<
j regular one; if there was no royal roat
: to learning, there was ono to Niagara.
! "I wonder what Aunt Hitty think
has become of me?" said Amy, whei
they were already upon their way. ' 'Sh<
must be distracted."
" Oh no; I telegraphed her at th(
next station before we left the depot thi
morning.
"Oh, how splendid I " ? Marti:
Travis's grandson, too L " What did yoi
say, Mr. Travis?"
" Why, to tell the truth, I committe<
a sort of forgory by telegraph. I toh
her that an old friend bad token ohergi
of yon, and you wo aid leave for Niagari
in the 3:20 train, p. m., and signed your 1
name." f
"An old friend I" repeated Amy, re- <
flectingly.
11 Do you object to the term ?"
"Object! I dote on it," laughed
Amy.
4| 4 Yon ro my friend:
! What a "thing friendship is, world without
end!'"
he quoted, * Was ever a journey down
the Rhine or up the Nile more enchanting
than this trip along the Hudson ?
Were not the Palisades as grand and
fantastic in their way as Philso and its
temples ? Did not the Highlands wrap
themselves in an atmosphere as ame- E
thystine as that of the Bernese Oberland
? Could a night in June upon the
Danube river surpass this afternoon in
a palace-car ?
To Amy's dismay, on arriving: at Niagara,
she found Aunt Hitty at the hotel, 6
aitting np in bed, bolstered by pillows, i
gasping and wheezing with an attack of 1
asthma. I
" A whole ticket es good an thrown t
away," she groaned. " I shall be ruined c
if we don't begin to economize some- '
j where.u t
j " I'm afraid this trip is a bad begin- *
I ning," said Amy. r
j " And Who was tfce friend you met in t
I New York, eh ? ' c
"Only Dorset Travis." ^
" Dorset Travis 1 old Martin's grand- a
I son 1 Who next ? I do hope. Amy, c
1 V.aT/1 iTATiradlf o lif.f.lA T
i "til ilU JVU UCiU JVUAUVl* M AAWWAW MAVW.MV
that you didn't condescend too much.'' t
"Oh, I had sucl a Bplendid time, t
I aunty!" t
"A splendid titm, with a gratis for c
| company! You aredegenerating, Amy. ?
I What Would your gwat-grandfather have '
I thought of you ?" v
"I'm sure I.don'1 know; but we dined t
i at Delmonico'a, wedrove in the park,
! we looked at picture," y
j " With thegrandion of Martin Travis i
' ?nr?l T Ivinc here trvincr to catch mv I a
j breath!""' ? " v
"You must ha1? a doctor, Aunt P
Hitty." il
" Indeed no; clocbrs cost a fortune in ?
Buch a place as tfcis they're not like Dr.
Grub, at home, wth his seventy-five P
cents a visit. You nust remember that 8
this is an expensive trp, and we must s
pave where we can.' But by the fol- 11
lowing day Aunt Hity found that her ?
usual remedies faled of alleviation, "
I Si
tiiat, in iact, sue was omj gruwiug
j worse. "If then wore ' only some ^
i young doctor just Battled, glfld of a pa- -i1
! tient at any price," ?he gasped. " Bing A1
! the bell, Amy." a
"Do you know ray young doctor," a
I she anked of the clamber-mp.id---" any n
I one who is rewona'ilo in his charges, *
j who hasn't gotten iito much practice?"
" That I do," replad the girl; "there's J*
I nn? in fho limisfi tHs blessed minute.
Shall I be sending hm up to you ?" P
"You're sure 1b doesn't charge
high?" ?
" Charge, is it ? I's himself who car- t(
ried a whole familj through with the ^
measles without changing a cent. Oh, a,
he's the man for yotr money, marm." ^
"Well, you may sk him to step up; p
one visit won't kill ne, at any rate.' 3
" Not unless ho'i the kill or cure q,
j kind," said Amy. 1
He had gone out to a patient, how- a]
j ever, when the maid went to seet him; r(
! Qnrl it. an ViftrmnnAr? fifth Amv WAS 3Ut ?t J.1
the druggist's when he made Iib first ft
visit, and had met Dorset Travis on her S1
way home. y
" The doctor's been here," said Aunt ^
Hitty; "and such a pleasant - fpoken tr
gentleman as he is! Handsome, too; ^
j he reminds me of some one?I cai't tell
| whom. He says he to>k up the profession
for love, not foe money, which
I argues well. Shows ke didn't ipring
I from common stock. You can ?e, inS
deed, at a glance, that he's a bori aris- H
; tocrat." B
"Isn't your eyesight impDving, tl
! aunty ?" laughed Amy. oj
" i was never so nesr-sighted that I I it
i ^rmlrln'f. ffill a ronn of eentle blo?d and ! h
, long descent from i\ plobeian. Ie lias w
I only had his degree within the .\st six la
months, though lie has practicedin the tl
' hospitals, you know." bi
But in spite of her doctor's "irtues, it
i Miss Hitty grew worse rather tlin bet- tc
ter. Amy might a swell have jcen a
nurse in a hospital ward, only ?e was ni
never off duty. All day she was ihut in h
with the invalid, all night shes-as up vv
and down, arranging pillows, mesuring b
i doses: she had forgotten the neglibor- k
I hood of the Falls, so to 8i,eak,or the B
j object of the journey; the doctor came ol
; twice a day, since the attack ws stub- n
! born; she herself was growing pie and u
hollow-eyed, and one day Bhe dropped B
at the bedside in the act of adrcnister- p
ing a dose. ri
" ThiB will never do," said theloctor. p
! "You must have a nurse, Miss Vane." c<
i "A nurse!" cried Aunt Hitty. n
"What next? I ne^er had ach an tl
I article in my life. I (3on't own ioloon- ti
i da, and I haven't a cliim in El >orado. o
11 A nurse, indeed ! I tell yoi what, d
; i Amy," she added as toon as tliep were e
i ; alone again, "I must pick up jnough o
| to jog home by the w?ek's end; Jve just tl
i money enough left tc pay my blls and J
I Vititt nitr ti/Vkflffl. " r,
> " And we haven't sten the Fata yet!" p
i " I wish the Falls had been n the 0
. Red sea! It they ladn't exited, it a
would have been momy in my ptrse and n
health in my bones." tl
41 Miss Amy muBt s<e the lions first," f]
said the doctor, next day, whei Aunt b
Hittyhad announced her intenton of ij
leaving Niagara. "Iy carriagi is at n
the door; I shall esteen it a privlege if a
I may introduce her tc them." e
"I'm sure you're as good ai gold, e
doctor." u
But when Amy retimed, then was a a
rosy glow in her face, and an ecstasy in t]
her glance. t<
"I hope," she said,between i smile a
and a tear?"I hope,Aunt Hity, that p
you won't be displeised, thoigh his _
ancestors didn't come over in th> Mayflower?but?somethiig
happecd at
the Falls, Aunt Hitty"
i "Goodness! you lidn't los anything
?"
"Yes. I did. Ilostmv heart Aunt t!
Hitty. I hope yon've?rown to Ike him s
t well enough not to miid his wait of a a
family tree, because ['ve promised to p
t marry him, Aunt Hitt;." e
i "Whom? the docbr ? .Wei, if I li
b ever ! If it hadn't be<n for my isthma, d
now? Well, yon mty thank ne for a d
good husband. How cb you knov about \
I his ancestors, pray ? Jy-the-wa-, child, i:
I I don't think I ever asked hit name, j
3 I'm sure I don't know it any m<re than i
j if he were the pre-Adanite man,if there f
1 ever was such a beint. WheD you're t
' * " fil. xl
r cnomng ana panting vain me iitumu, u, g
- rose -would smell as sweet wth any
I other name. I hope it's a peasant1
sounding one, at any Bte."
b " Yes, it is very pietsant ?it ifDorset
1 Travis. Oh, aunty, I couldn't help it;
3 but yon know you said he wai a born
1 aristocrat 1 I didn't mtan to decive you
but you never asked, and?and-it was
s so nice to have him coning, if yu must
l be ill, and you would have sat him
e away if yon had known, and tlen perIioymi
tt/vm trnnlfl Via-ea ftnflf didn't f
3 know be was a doctor myself til I met
s him in the street the cay he flit came
to yon, and 1^ told me he hacbtudied
i at first for occupation, never mening to
l practice?as ho had plenty of money
withont, aunty, you know?bu he had
1 grown to love it, and meant to drote his
J life to it?and me."
b . "Penny wise and pound k>liah,"
i confes6edj^^2jfi&HMMM?|^j"*
iier accounts, ih the Beclusioti of home
somewhat later, and estimated the cos
)f her economies:
Paid man for carrying trunks S 2
Paid Mr. Cramp for wheelbarrow 4 0
Amy's eyeglasses?broken.. 2 0
One novel?lost 10
Pocket-book and contents? stolen....i 12 0'
Silver-cup?heir-loom?lost...; 20 0
Doctor's bill 30 0i
An extra week's board at hotel 42 0'
Telegram . 8'
Ticket from N. Y. to Niagara?extra.. 0 01
$116 5,
One niecc?loss inestimable.
" Some economies are costly enough,'
laid oho. " Live and leafn."?HdrpCr\
Weekly.
fnlnirlctin Pnrmt nf
MUIV^ROUV A V* Mi'/ v* vww.
Eulogistic phrases, first thus used tc
mpreme men, of course descend to mer
n less authority, and so downward,
illustrations are [supplied by those cur ent
in France during the sixteenth cenury:
To a cardinal, "the very illuetri)us
and very reverend;" to a bishop,
' the very reverend ftnd Very illustrious;'
o a dulie, "the very illustrious anc
rery reverend lord, my much-honored
aaster;" to a marquis? "my very illusrious
and much-honored lord;" to t
locfcor, "the virtuous and excellent.'
Lud from our own past days may be
,aded such complimentary forms of adIress
to those of lower rank, as, "the
icht worshiofu].'1 to knights and some
imes to esquires; "the right noble,'1
he "honorable-minded/' used to gettlemen;
and, eVen to alderiheh alld met
ddressed as Mr., such laudatory preLies
as " the worthy and worshipful,"
' the worshipful, virtuous and most
rorthy." Along with flattering epithets
here spread flatteries more involved in
orm, especially observable in the East,
fhere both are extreme. On a Chinese
nvitation care the compliment, gravely
ddressed to an ordinary person, is, "To
rhat an elevation of splendor will your
resenne assist Us to rise P' Tavernier,
torn whom I have quoted the above exmple
of scarcely-credible flattery <ro.n
be Court of Delhi, adds; ".This vide
asseth even tintt) the people;" and, in
tancing the way in wmcii lie was nimelf
classed with ancient men of the
lost transcendent powers, adds that
ven his military attendant, compared
3 the greatest of conquerors, was *decribed
ns making the world tremble
'hen he mounted his horse; a descripion
harmonizing with the instance Mr.
loberts gives of Oriental compliment to
n ordinary person?"My lordj there
re only two who can da anything for
le: God is the first and you are the
scond."
On reading that in Tavernier's time a
sual expression in the East was?" Let
ae king's will be done," recalling the
arallel expression?" Let God's will be
one," we are reminded that various of
le glorifying speeches addressed to
ings are identical with those addressed
) deities. Where the militant type is
ighly developed, and where divinity is
3cribed to the monarch, not only after
eath but before, as of old in Egypt and
eru, and as now in Japan, China and
iam, it naturally results that the words
f eulogy addressed to the visible ruler
ad the ruler who has become invinoible
re substantially the same, Having
ached the eltreme of hyperbole to
le king -when living, they cannot go
irther when dead and deified. And the
lbstantial identity thus initiated oonnues
through subsequent stages with
Bities whose origins are no longer
aceable.?Herbert Silencer, in Popxiir
Science Monthly.
Where Everybody Tattoos.
At the mention of tattooing, the EngBh
reader will be disposed to lower the
urman in his estimation to the level of
ie Red Indian or South Sea Islander,
r other wild offshoot of humanity. Yet,
is no mark of any such want of culire.
From the educated native judge
ho tits on the bench to administer the
iw of England, who speaks and writes
le English language, drives in his
arouche, and attends tho social gatherLgs
of English ladies and gentlemen,
> the humblest laborer in the field,
rery man of the population is tattooed,
ot at pleasure and within the limits he
imself may draw, but by a rigid custom
hich devotes to the tattooer's art the
ody of every man from tho waist to be>w
the knees. Within this area every
;urman is branded with a close tapestry
[ lions," griffins, and other fabulous
lonsters, in deep blue pigment, forced
nder the skin by a painful process,
ied tattooing is confined to the upper
art of the body. This necessary decoition
is begun at an early age, and the
rescribed surface is only gradually
avered, but the severity of the treatlent
in the case of very young boys is
le cause of no little illness, and somemes
even of death. I have myself met
nly one Burman who was not thus
ecorated, and he was a kind of privilged
mountebank to whom the license
f a clown was allowed, and who was
lie good-natured butt of his companions.
- .1 1
.LIU UlbbUUUl lb piUUU LU UiUUUUB lilb
lost artistic designs (which he will dis>lay
on a scroll like a tailor's patterns)
n the arms of Eoglish officers, and
mong those who have served in Burlah
the samples of this art are among
tie commonest relics shown to admiring
riends at home. Whatever may have
>een the origin of this strange custom,
i is considered an essential mark of
lanliness, and the Burmese youth who
hrank from the ordeal would be regardd
and treated as a "milksop;" and, howver
unnatural the custom may be, it
ndoubtedly has the effect of attaching
wholesome dignity to "hardship, and
tie fearless endurance of physical pain,
3 which may be partly due the remarkble
freedom from effeminacy which is a
opular characteristic of the Burmese.
-Frascr's Magazine.
The Empress Engenie.
To-day, in her abode at Chiselhurst,
he widow of Napoleon III. attracts
carcely less of the world's interest and
ttention than she did as throned erairess
and queen of fashion. Unfortulately,
the supreme tact that once was
ier distinguished quality seems to have
leserted her in the days of her deca[ence.
She, the most graceful ol
romen, has not learned the art of grow g
old gracefully. She had played the
>art of a beauty and the leader of fashon
for years. Now that she is pasl
Ifty, that character is no longer possi
>le to her. But she might have asmmcd
another- - less showy, perhaps,
mt 'surely far more touching. WitL
ier whitening hairs she might have
vorthily worn the triple dignity ol
ier widowhood, her maternity, and hei
nisfortune. She has chosen instead,
vith a weakness unworthy of the pari
hat she has played cn the wide stags ol
:ontemporary history, to clutch vainh
tfter the fleeting shadow of her vanish'
id charms. A heael loaded with false
fellow hair, a face covered with paini
tnd powder, a mincing gait, and the
tirs aud graces of an antiquated coquett<
?8uoh to-day is she who was once th<
world's wonder for her loveliness anc
jrace, a bewigged Mrs. Skewton sue
seeding - to the dazzling vision tha
iwerved the calculating policy of Napo
eon IIL and won his callous heart, anc
bat still smiles upon us from the can
ras of Winfcerhalter. ?Lucy H. Hooper
H Lippincott.
- ~
i, HOw Digger-Wasps flake their Homes,
t July liad come tlgaify ahd brought
with it such warm, sultry days thttt it
5 almost seemed as if no living creature
0 could stir abroad. Nevertheless, thero
p was a wonderful, deal going on in our
p gardfen. Thtoligh the ait1 and oVer thd
0 flower-beds hastened hundreds of little
0 people. Some lived in the trees and
? bushes, others in the ground, and all
j wete hard at woi-k*
One morning, especially, tnere seemed
5 to be something unusual going on; the
buzzing and humming was fairly deafen'
ing.
* Whirr-r-t! whirr-r-r I What was that
great creature that darted past my face ?
And here came another, and another;
whyj the garden was full of them !
Big brown-and-yeilow wasps these
j strangers were, and all in a most desperj
ate hurry. Scores of them were already
hard at work digging away in the firmly
[ packed sand of the path.
As these new-comers seemed to care
very little who watched them at their
work, I sttt down on an upturned flower
< pot in the shade of a friendly lilac, de1
termined to make their acquaintance.
Hardlv had I settled myself before
onfe of "the wasps approached. She
seemed to be searching for something,
for she flew rapidly back and forth, now
alighting for a moment?now darting
away again. At last she dropped upon
the ground close to me and began to
bite the earth with het strong jawB.
When quite a little heap lay before her
she pushed it to one side with her hind
feet ahd theh returiied to her digging;
? i _. V- 1-3
in live minutes sue aau un opening uig
I enough to get into; every time she ap.
peared she backed up out of it pushing
[ a huge load of sand as big as herself behind
her. Soon all around the hole was
a huge bank of earth, and she fottnd it
! necessary to make a path across it, and
. push her loads over that. Two hours'
, hard work, and the house was finished.
, It was very simply planned, and had
only on6 toom down at the end of a
long, narrow paBsage. But simple as it
was. this little creature had done more
work in the tfto hours than a man could
do in a day. That is, of course, taking
her size into consideration. And she
did not even now stop to rest. Not
she ! With one last look into the house,
to make sure sho was leaviDg all as it
should be, she flew away. In a moment
her sti'ong wings had taken her quite
out of sight, but it was not long before
she re-appeared. Back and forth she
hastened, at one moment flying through
the grape-arbor, at the next wheeling
above the cabbage-bed. All this time
the object of her search, a fat young
locust, was quietly sitting on a" gatepost,
quite forgetting, as locusts sometimes
will, that he had an enemy in the
world.
A moment later and the wasp's sharp
eyes had found him out; and then,
quick as lightning, she darted down
upon him, and pierced him with her
stine. When the locust lay perfectly
still, the wasp seized him and flew off.
Arrived at her hole, she tumbled him
head foremost in at the door, expecting
him, of course, to fall quite to the bottom.
But her calculations had been
slightly nt fault; the locust was too fat
to go in, and there he stuck with his
head and Shoulders in the hole and his
body in the air. Here was a dilemma.
Bat my wasp friend was evidently not
Ohe to be OVc-rcome by difficulties of
this sort. Sho flew off again, and this
time returned with two other wasps; i
they crowded round the hole, and began
digging away the earth which pressed
close about the locust. In a short time
they seemed satisfied, for they stood up
and pushed at the object of their toils.
Slowly he slid down out of sight, and
she who had brought him hurried after.
She laid an egg close to him in her
house; then, hurrying up, began to
carry back the earth she had before
taken out, and in a short time the door
was securely closed. Then she scraped
away, and patted down all the looseearth,
till she had made it quite impossible
for any evil-minded creature to find
any traces of her home.
Tim wftsn kufiw verv well that her
egg would soon hatch out; that the
little white grub, her chick, would at
once begin to feed upon the locust,
which would supply food till the young
one was full-grown.?St. Nicholas.
His Recollection or It.
i
"Now, Leander, my dear, I waDt you
to be sure and not forget to bring these
few things when you come down tonight,"
says the young wife, just before
thelissand "good-by" at the sumiper
hotel, in the morning, as the gentlemen
were starting for the city.
"Certainly not, my love."
And this is the way the list ran:
1. Two yards of blue barege.
2. Three yards of Hamburg edgings.
3. My new braid from the hair store.
4. Half a dollar's worth of nainsook.
5. Box pearl powder from my upper
uxawoit
6. "Modern Minister" from Loring's
Library.
Arriving in town, he forgot all about
j the list till late in the afternoon,and then
he conldn't find it in any of his pockets;
but hadn't he read it over, and didn't he
recollect it all? Of course he did, and
this is what he brought home to his expectant
wife:
, 1. Two heads of blue cabbage.
2. Three yards of handsome netting
i (mosquito).
3. Some blue braid.
4. Half a dollar's worth of canned
{soup.
I S Unr nf RArllifz nnwdfir.
6. Loring said ho hadn't got any such
book as "The Mug and Canister" in the
library. Exclamation on receiving the
above: "O, Leander, Leander, you
must have been dining at that horrid
club again or you could not have made
such a mistake!"?Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
A New Use for Seals.
There exists an animal -which might
i be trained to render us great service,
[ that is the seal, which is slaughtered so
mercilessly for the sake of its oil and
skin. Intelligent and affectionate, it
i possesses au tne qualities suuame tor a
) domestic state. The director of the
museum at Dijon had so skillfully
[ tamed one some years ago, that though
by nature amphibious, its primitive
) i habits were changed, and it rarely went
into the water, placing itself during the
b winter close to its master in the warm
corner of the fireside, stretched on tho
. wood-ashes. If pains were taken to
, teach the seal, it might become to the
t fisherman what the dog is to the hunter,
j Nor need we despair of such a result,
f for the Ohineso train the remora or !
r sucking-fish to catch turtles, nnd the
, j heron and cormorant to capture fishep.
t The coasts of England would be fit
f places for the education of the seal. The
r value of such holp may he imagined
when we think of the great solitude of
i the sea?so many times larger than the
t space covered by land?where man has
s no allv. and can onlv count upon those
3 who dread bim. What an interest for
3 him in the very element itself to have a
1 friend and companion who wonld follow
him in his fishing expeditions ! There
t are not wanting conclusive results
- which have been obtained in individual
1 cases ; and if the same care wye extend
ed to the race, we may say that the seal
r is an ally ready prepared by nature.?
Ohamber'8 Journal.
FARM, GARDEN AND oOUSEtidLD*
?ouaehold Hint*.
of viiiegflr should alwayt
be put into water in which hah i& boiled i
Stain on the Hands.?When there if
danger of staining the hands from pre>
pariiig fruit and vegetables, rub them
with fresh lard.
Sprigs of wintergreen or ground ivj
will drive away red ants; branches oJ
WtJtmwood will serve the same purpose
for black afcifl.
When washing oil-cloths, put a littif
milk in the last water they are washed
with. This will keep them bright and
clean longer than clear water.
To keep lerdoflfl frosh, plaoe them in
a jar with water enough to cofer th&tn.
They will keep fresh in this way several
days without changing the water.
Mttsbin Gowns.?Soft tinted muslins
teqtiite Carefill hashing. They will not
fnrlA if Hnnlrfifl and rinRed in a solution
of one tablespoonful of alum"and one oi
salt in one gallon of water.
Meat can be prevented from scorching,
daring the roasting process, by simply
placing a basin or cup of water in the
oVen. The steam generated not only
prevents scorching, but makes the meat
cook nicer.
To Clean Smoky Mabble.?Brush a
paste of chloride of lime and water over
the entire surface. Grease spots can be
removed from marble by applying a
paste of crude potash and whiting in
this mannef.
A lump of bread about the size of a
billiard-ball, tied up in a linen bag and
placed in the pot ih which greens are
boiling, will absorb the gasses which
oftentimes send such an insupportable
odor to the regions above.
To remove smoke and dust from wallpaper,
tie a large piece of clean white
cloth over a broom, and bttlsli the wall
down well. Then take a stale loaf ol
bread, cut it open, and rub the soft side
all over the paper. Be sure and rub
downward. It will also remove spots oi
lime ot whitewash,
DbodoriMbrs.?A pail of clear water
in a newly-painted room Will remove
the sickening odor of paint. Coffee
nnnndfl/l in o mnftoj onrl rnn.nf.nd rvn nn
iron plate, sugar burned on hot coals,
and vinegar boiled with myrrh and
sprinkled on the floor and furniture ou
the sick room are excellent deodorizers.
Washing Gloves.?The cheap Austrian
gloves which look as well as kid
can be washed a dozen times If need be.
Put them on and scrub them thoroughly
with borax and water. Kub them
dry with a smooth cloth, not taking
them off while a drop of moisture remains
in them.
Farm and Garden Notes.
There is no stock on the farm that
costs so little that pays so well as sheep.
Stock of all kinds prefer young grass
to that which is in the flower, and that
which is in flower to that which is older
or has gone to seed.
A New England farmer who uses haycfips
of homespun, soaked in strong
alum water, says they afford perfect protection
for weeks for grain-shocks standing
in the field.
It is stated in The London Gardener's
I Chronicle that the frequency and per|
sistency of the attacks of slugs have
t nearly driven the gardeners crazy, and
that ducks are found to be the best helps
against them.
An enemy of the potato bug has
arisen In this country, aa certain nuturalj
ists long since avei-red would be the
case. Farmers at Crown Point, N. T.,
[ are happy in discovering these beetles
i dead with myriads of tiny lice clinging
[to them to show tlie cause.
[ "Rural, jr.," thinks it about time
i everybody knew that "bees are as-deaf
; as a post," and that the beating of all
j the tin pans in two counties would not
restrain a departing swarm. His way is
to throw among the flying mass water,
or the sun's rays by means of a mirror.
The latter plan he has never known to
fail.
When a single cow-teat milks slowlv
there is usuully an obstruction, whicn
may not be the result of disease. A
good way to remedy the trouble is to
continue milking with patience and care
to draw all the milk. In addition to
careful milking, it is avell to rub the
iUAKAn/oUlv* Ttrik V* aol f
auecucu pui ia muiuuguij it iku ocu
water.
The best time to kill a weed is before
it is born. Stir the soil in advance and
the germ is nipped prematurely. Many
a garden would become almost as hard
and dry as the public road but for the
despined weed, which but for its quiet
and pervasive presence suggests the hoe
j or rake. Stirring the soil immediately
i after grain is worse than useless; when
j partially diy it does incalculable good.
Kecipes.
Ginger Snaps.?One pint of thick
molasses, one coffee cup of brown sugar,
oiio cup of butter, tablespoon ful of ginger
ana one teuspoonful of soda dissolved
in a tablespoonful of boiling water.
Mix very thick with flour and roll them
very thin.
To Bon, Potatoes.?Let the potatoes
i be of a size; do not put them into the
pot until the -water boils; when done,
pour off the water and remove the cover
until all the steam is gone; then scatter
in a teaspoonful of salt and cover the
pot with a towel. By adopting this
plan watery potatoes will be mealy.
Sponge Cake Pudding.?One tea cnp
! of fine white sugar, three eggs, one tea
j cnp of flour, half a nutmeg, a teaapoon
of baking powder, one saltspoon of biI
carbonate of soda, dissolved into two
tablespoons of milk. Beat together the
J butter and sugar, add the milk, nutmeg
j and half a teaspoonful of extract of
! lemon; then the yolks of the eggs well
beaten. Stir in the flour slowly, and
last mix in the -whiteB of the eggs. Beat
well together, and bake twenty minutes.
German Pea Soup.?Prepare a thickening
by gradually mixing in a stew pan
three ounces of sifted flour, with oue
quart of chicken broth. In another
stewpan boil up two quarts #of chicken
broth, into which stir the thickening;
add a little salt and sugar and one quart
of fresh shelled peas, previously well
washed: continue stirring with a spoon
till the soup boils, then simmer till the
nnnn nrorlrmA* nlrim nnnr tlifl flnnn in a
j it ? -tureen,
and stir in an ounce and a half
of butter.
Buried Cities in Asia.
From recent researches made on the
borders of the great desert of G >bi, in
Central Asia, it appears that great cities
of* importance once occupied the place
now covered by barren wastes of sand.
The desert sands swept onward and onward
till, as in Egypt, everything disappeared
beneath their ever increasing
accumulation. The inhabitants of the
cities fletl before the resistless invader,
and now, after many centuries have
elapsed, our explorers are discovering
the ruins of past glories?gold and silver
ornaments, coins, glass, china, pottery,
copper, vases, and other treasures
which Bhow that not ouiy people inhab
ited those cities, but that they were not
unacquainted-with the arts. In some
cases it would seem that the inhabitants
failed to escape in time, for their skeletons
have been found in unearthed
houses -with their apparel and furniture
intact and uninjured. The "dunes"
formed by the drifting sand are in places
more than one hundred f^t in height;
and the sands are still jJoving onward
to make fresh conquest^
i Clores.
The ciov? ttM fcelotlgs to the wide,
spread family of the myrtles, the email,
evergreen leaves resembling those of the
lfln*el, the flowers growing in bunches
' at the extremity at toe branches. When
' they first appear, which iS at tfce begin1
ning of the rainy season, they are in the
f?rm of elongated, greenish buds, from
' the exireiiiit} of whiih the corolla is
? - - ' t -l j. L ???v.
t expanded, wiiicq ib oi k uauww j^cawu>
bloBBom color. The corolla having fallen
off, the calyx turns yellow, and then red,
j When it ia beaten from the tree and
| dried. If the fruit be allowed to remain
[ longer on the tree, the flower-buds or
cloves gradually swell, the embryo seed
enlarges, and the pungent properties of
the clove are in great part dissipated,
heiicc the cloves of commerce are the
unexpanded flower-bads, The whole
tree is highly aromatic, and the footstalks
of the leaves have nearly the
same pungent quality as the flowerbtidd.
Clove trees have ft noble height and a
pyramidal head, while the bfeauty of
their form, the luxuriance of their evergreen
foliage, and, above all, the spicy
fragrance with which they perfume the
air, adds a wonderful beauty to their
growth in the clear, light atmosphere of
the Eastern Archipologo. This elegant
tree grows spontaneously ih the Moluccas,
and was from thence carried to
Mauritius and Bourbon, French Guiana
and the West Indies. Cloves, aa well
as nutmegs and other costly productions
of the remotest* isles of the Indian
Ocean, were known in Europe for centuries
before the countries where they
grow had been heard of. Arabian navigators
brought them to Egypt, wnere
they were purchased by the Venetians,
and sold at an enormous profit to the
nations of the West. But the discovery
bv thfl Portucnese of the new maritime
[ road to the East Indies, round the Cape
! of Good Hope, in 1498, and the subjeci
tion of the Moluccas in 1511, gave them
i a monopoly of the whole spice trade,
! which, however, they were soon obliged
to yield to their stronger rivals, the
Dutch, who in the seventeenth century,
i by dint of enterprise and courage made
, themselves masters of the Indian Ocean.
The flower-buds or cloves are arranged
on the terminal flower-stalks; they are
either gathered by hand or obtained bv
beating with bundles of reed's, in which
case cloths aro spread beneath the trees
to catch them. After being gathered,
4Viq nlnvoa nro nronnrpd fnr flllinment bv
smoking them in hurdles covered with
matting, near a slow wood fire, togive
them a brown color, after which they
; are further dried in the sun. They may
then be cut off from the flower branches,
and will be found to be purple colored
I within, and fit to be packed in bales for
. the market. In some places they are
' scalded in hot water previous to being
smoked, but it is not a very general
practice. By repeated distillation, genuine
cloves will produce from seventeen
to twenty-two per cofilfeof oil. Clove
stalks, although v^ry. inferior, contain
some of the active properties of elov.es,
and are sometime# ground lip and mixed
with the powder of genuine cloves. The
color of good cloves shotJW! be a dark
brown, almost approaching th'e bladt^
and when handled should leave an (fitfr
moisture upon the fingers. Good ctofeB
aire sometimes adulterated by .mixing;
them with those from which oil |u?beeit
drawn, bat these latter are weaJUt thin
the rest and of a paler color. Cloves-"
readily imbibe moisture, whereby their
weight becomes greatly increased, a fact
of which dishonest dealers have not
failed to avail themselves.
Cloves are produced in the islands of
Zanzibar and Pemba, where the tree
was first introduced about 1830. The
total average quantity produced is about
7,000,000 pounds, valued at $425,000.
In 1863 the crop was an entire failure.
In the following year it was above the
? />* flwa wnnwo oinnA
livernyc. OULLIO 1UU1 U1 utc J UUIU U1UVAJ
u hurricane devastated Zanzibar, destroying
a arge proportion of the clove
trees on the island. In 1874 there were
290,000 clove trees in Java, of which
161,260 were in bearing. Great Britain
annually imports an average of about
1,000,000 pounds of cloves. France,
Germany and the United States are also
large importers and consumers of this
spice. Owing to the increased production
prices have fallen materially during the
past twenty-five years. In 1329 cloves
were sold in England at 860 per pound.
1719 at S3 per pound. The average price
in Holland, previous to the war of the
French revolution, was about ?2 per
pouv.d, being about 2500 per cent, advance
on the real cost of the commodity
in the place of its growtn. iu.ociern commerce
and improved facilities of culture
and transportation enable the importer j
of cloves into this country to sell them j
now at from thirty to forty cents per i
pound.
an j
Indian Origin of Mosquitoes.
The Bed River Indians have a curious
legend respecting the origin of mosquitoes.
They say that once upon a time
there was a famine, and the Indians |
could get no game. Hundreds had died |
| from hunger, and desolation filled their |
! country. All kinds of offerings were J
made to the Gieat Spirit without avail,
until one day two hunters came upon a
white wolverine, a very rare animal.
Upon shooting the white wolverine, an
I old woman sprang out of the skin, and
I saying that she was a " Manito," prom!
ised to go and live with the Indians,
j promising them plenty of game as long as
I they treated her well and gave her the
first choice of all the game that was
brought in. The two Indians assented
to this, and took the old woman home
with them, which event was immediately i
succeeded by an abundance of game.
When the sharpness of the famine had
passed in the prosperity which the old
j woman had brought the tribes, the In|
dians became dainty in their appetites,
and complained of the manner in which
! the old woman took to herself the choice
I Kita. iin.-i fhin feeliner became so intense
thgt notwithstanding her warning that if
they violated their promise a terrible
calamity would come upon the Indians,
they one day killed her as she was seizing
her share of a reindeer which the
hunter had brought in.
Great consternation immediately struck
the witnesses of the deed, and the Indians,
to escape the predioted calamity,
bodily struck their tents aud moved to a
great distance. Time past on without
any catastrophe occurring, and game
becoming even more plentiful, the Inbegan
to laugh at their being deceived
i by the old woman. Finally, a hunting
party on a long chase of a reindeer,
which had led them back to the place
where the old woman had been killed,
came upon her skeleton, and one of them
in /inrininn. kicked the skull with his
i foot. Ill on instant a small, spiral, j
vapor-like body arose from the eyes and
ears of the body, which proved to be in- j
j sects, that attacked the hunters with
great fury, and drove them to the rivei
for protection. The skull continued to
pour out its little stream, and the air
became full of avengers of the old
woman's death. The hunters, on return*
ing to camp, found the Indians suffering
terribly from the plague, and ever
I since that time the Indians have been
1 "* 1 A1*" fitnir
pumsnea oy uio ujuoijiuiutD
wickedness to their preserver, the Manito.^
In selecting colore for the various
apartments of your house, avoid a brown
study. As for the library, it should always
be red.
TIMELY TOPICS.
The cotton crop will net the United
States this year $200,000,000.
It is thought the wheat crop of the
coming year in the United States will
reach the round sum of 400,000,000
bushels.
Mr. Thomas Mort, who spent 8500,000
trying to solve the problem of sending
frozen meat to England, has died in
Australia.
The perfect implant of a tree may oe
aeen upon the breast of Thomae Bnggs,
of Wellsburg, W. Va., who "was struck
by lightning on July fourth.
There are over 26,000 flouring mills in
the United States, giving employment
to 60,000 men. These mills turn oat
annually 50,000,000 barrels of flour.
Mr. Ross savs he spent $80,000 in
looking for the lost Charlie, He recent
ly declined to receive subscriptions for
his relief that had been sent to a New
fork paper.
The country from Canyon City to
Pilot Rock, Oregon, over whioh the InM
- -3
dians recently swept, m a uettuuuo wootc.
Not a building is standing; hundreds of
starring colts were whinnying beside their
dead dams; all the cattle were killed for
the sake of their tongues, and the Indians
have chopped off jnrt below the knees
the forelegs of every sheep they could
catch.
A convict at Auburn, N. T., escaped
hard work during his confinement of
two and a half years by feigning paralSsis.
He was so successful in the fraud
lflt he was lifted about by attendants,
and on his release had to be carried to
the depot in a chair and placed in the
cars. An hour afterward he visited the
Erison officials and astounded them by j
is speedy and full recovery.
Lockjaw is one of the most terrible
diseases to which mortals are exposed.
A California exchange asserts that no
one need be in danger of such' an attack
from wounds caused by rusty iron. The
worst cases of inflamed wounds may be
cured bv smoking the injured part with
burning wool or woolen cloth. Anything
that produces safety from such a
fatal disease is worth recording.
At the Missouri State prison, at Jefferson
Oity, during the last six months of
their term, prisoners that have been wellbehaved
are allowed to go out and work
in the city as teamsters, laborers, etc.
They are perfectly free, and are not under
any supervision by guards. Of
course at night they have to return to
the penitentiary. While in the oity they
are not allowed to enter any stores or
saloons; if this regulation is infringed,
they are immediately confined to the
prison. Attempts at escape while thus
working from all snrveillance have been
very rare, for, should they be recaptured l
.they have to serve a double term, under
miae stringent rules.
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'i-. QSinora'aad his American band are j
having an unquestionable success, according
to a cable dispatch from Paris
to the New York Herald. A long arti- j
ole appeared -in the an ti-American
Gaulois criticising Gilmore's first oon? .
oert at the Trocadero, and therein eulb- J
gizing highly the conscientiousness and
precision of the instramentaliStsJuad the J
excellence of tue soloists. The~~b*nd
played in an intermede at the Theatre" *
Bouflf) on the same evening. Figaro (
says that the performance was remarkable
for entrain and precision, and that i
it created great enthusiasm among the i
audience. The Paris Journal confirms 1
this appreciation and says their success \
was immense. t
f
Bat a few years since Isaacs Fried a
lander waa called the Grain King of
California. He controlled a grain fleet
of 300 or 400 sailing vessels, while his
operations involved the use of $40,000,000
capital. His name was potent in
the grain districts of the Pacitio slope,
in the corn exchange of San Francisco,
while even Mark Lane was anxicns to
conciliate so powerful an element in
the price of breadstuffs. Two years
ago he failed in his gigantic undertak- \
ings, and his name was no longer in t
people's mouths. Recently he died, and c
a two-line telegram was considered suffi- I
cient to announce the demise of the 1
great Grain King, showing the way hard e
times boil down obituaries. 11
American girls will learn with interest | c
j that the value of a French girl's nose i
has just been judicially valued at ?1,000. r
Some time ago a Paris omnibus horse
became frisky, there was a collision, a B
window was smashed, and a passenger? T
a young demoiselle?received some o \
the broken glass in her face. It was at c
first thought the hurts were trifling, and r
her parents declined the proffered ser- j
vice of the omnibus company's doctor. ,
But the scratches did not heal as tbey c
were expected to, and the girl's father j
brought suit against the company, alleg- | v
ing that her nose had been permanently ?
marred, and that this seriously diminish- #
ed her prospect of establishment in life
?in other words, of getting a husband.
He obtained $200 on the first trial and
$1,000 on the second.
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Tlie lnuiun ropumuuu.
The losses of the Indians in the various
contests with the whites have always
been over-stated. Tribes that have
been thought to be destroyed have reappeared
in a fragmentary way, and often
in increased numbers in the aggregate .
in other tribes. As a rule, weai tribes
have decreased, while strong ones have
increased. The Comanches have been
slowly and steadily multiplying.
So have the Ojibways, Sioux and Crows;
while, on the other hand, the Omahas,
Poncas and Missouris have become ii
feebler. The Sioux have absorbed the e
Yanktons and Yanktonnyis. The Dela- d
wares have been absorbed by various cl
v.
tribes. u
The Pawnees are greatly depleted, tl
The Six Nations have remained nearly a]
the samo for several centuries. Colonel ai
Otis placcs the total number of Indians li
killed by the whites since 1789 at 8,000.
Of these perhaps 400 warriors perished h
in the defeat by Wayne, and no more
than that in the Seminole war, which p
lasted seven years, and involved the t<
expenditure of ?30,000,000 of natiorial
treasure. How much United States h
officials have ever known about the d
matter i* shown by the following t<
government estimates: In 1822 the h
* 1 ?, -.1. ~~?-3 4lt.n4? flioro I el
national huiusuum uuuwch iuuu ??v.v
were 457,000 ; in 1830, 313,000 ; in 1840, ci
400,000; and in 1855, 350,000. By cl
this singular table it will be seen that el
between 1822 and 1830 the decrease was a;
144,000, and that tho increase between b
1830 and 1840 was 87,000. When the 6i
government, in 1822, began to move the s<
Indians westward the number of those ci
finsf. nf the Mississippi was placed at
120,000?as many, probably, as had \ z<
roamed the same region at any time
after the first settlement of the country a
by the English. Since that time no si
diminution can readily be shown. The v
Oberokees have doubled their popula- ^
tion within the centnry. The Creeks,
Cherofeees, and Ghickasawe have shown h
a decided tendenoy to flourish. The t
Ottawns and 0hipp6was number more b
thau 20,000.?San Francisco Chroni \
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Items of Interest.
As a twig is bent the boy ia inclined
Best thing to keep in hot weather?
keep shady.
A visible means of support -?the hangman's
noose.
" I've just dropped in," as the fly said
to the coffee.
The phonograph is an invention that
speaks for itself.
Recipe for whipping Indians: First
catch yonr Indians.
Misery does not always love company,
if the oompany happens to be mosquitoes.
A Tenneesee^paper has a poem en- .
titled "Smile Whenever You Can." '
Tennessee editors always do.
Little bits of lemon,
Little cirancks of ice,
Little water 'n' sugar JL
? Makes a man feel niee.
" That wonld be a house," said a little
girl pointing to the unfinished walls of
a new building, "if they would only put
a lid on it."
The boy who goes a-flshing on Sonday,
when he has been sent to Sunday
school, generally goes a-whaJing when
he gets home.
When naked what fleb is apt to coma to yon
As in winter yon send for some Jruit of the
86ft,
And tbej hash it ap with potato, do yon
Always express yonrself 0. 0. D.
The Bible has been printed in thirty
different languages for the benefit of
the aborigines of this country and of
Greenland, British America and Mexico.
The thermometer has been invented,
it is tree, but it can hardly claim more
accuracy as a test of the heat of the ,
weather than that time-tried institution, . '
a limp collar.
It has been discovered that the noise
made by bees is a lament.?Detroit Free
Press. Especially when they use a
short-haired boy for a phonograph.?
Cincinnati Commercial.
Plants live directly on the lifeless %
products of eartlf; and we live directly
on the products of plants, or on animals
which live on them. The vegetable
comes, as it were, between us and the
earth.
There are many things which disoon- -:
cert the average young lady, and one of
them is, while reading an intensely interesting
novel, to discover that in the s.
most exciting part there is a chapter
torn out.
"And never more you'll nil the feu
msn i U .1. t*1
tmuuub your uuuuid uiius ;
"Aye, never more," made Jack reply
Ail coziod at her side. . ' ;
" For without yon, across the ware*
J could not go at all,
Since yoa must surely know, my lore,
That you are now my yawl!"
According to Dr. Fitch, there are not
less than sixty different insects tha?
prey upon the apple, twelve upon the
pear, sixteen on the peaoh, seventeen on
the plum, thirty-five on the cherry '
afld thirty on the grape.
The first steam engine was Bet in
tion in Germany on August 25, 178aHMBteg
Harkort established the first enginetlB^
ing works in that country at FfeihJB
better in 1819. He Ll need EnglifHSH
workmen to go to Wetter, and th^gj -
taught the German apprentices.
Total-population of the earth, 1,396?|
sromente, 7ii,383,fi89; totot areaof t]$S;
Christian governments, 32,428,819; a$fei||
)f non-Christian lands, lb,b42,ooo^*fy 1
When a cloud of dust, on a hot sumj|jH ^'
ner's day, rises and flies along the dustjjg
oad, making the traveler close his eyeH
ids, and dusting the leaves of waysidM Jr
regetation, it is but a miniature of th^9*
errible African simoon which bio wets*
rom. the desert sand*, scattering deatfcp???
nd devastation in its track.
CATCH.
Sweet is my girl when she is looking down,
And lovely,?looking up ;
Now when I seo a willful, pet grimace
Along her mobile eyebrows ran a race,
Bat on her lips a smile belie the frown,
I think, while full of her rare grace I sap,
Sweet is my girl when she is looking down,
And lovely,?looking np! .
Henry Eckford in ficribner.
A mouse is able to shift for iteelf
?hen about a fortnight old; and by the
ime it is six weeks old frequently be ,
omes a parent. Mice have generally
>etween six and ten young ones at a
itter, sometimes as many as twelve and
ven more, hence their fecundityis such
hat, not allowing for any mortality, a
celebrated naturalist declares that the
Spring of a single family of mice
night number several millions in twelvo
nonths' time.
Both the body and mind are so conitituted
that they require constant but
varied action. Utter idleness, of either
)ody or mind, unless iney oe on u inure
>r less* diseased state, is not only unlecessary,
but harmful in the extreme.
t is a habit which, once indulged in," Cirill
grow upon the individual. Change # "
>f occupation for the muscles, change of
he current of thought for the brain, is
?hat will promote the fullest and most
lealthful development of both?Herkcr.
A pair of very chubby legs,
Incased in scarlet hoeto ;
A pair of little stubby booty,
With rather doubtful toes ;
A little kilt, a little coat,
Cut as a mother can?
And Io! before us strides in state
The future's 'coming man."
A pair of laughing, deep bluo eyes, *?.
a TTToolfVi nt ringlets brown.
With &ir coquettish as a queen,
The belle of all the town;
A dimpled chin and blushing cheek,
Lips red and teeth of pearl,
And lo! before us, shy and meek,
We've the future's "coming girl."
Beat the Thermometer*
Wednesday when the toiling, perspirig
masses -discovered that the thermomters
down town marked plump 100
egrees in the shade, they wiped off their
bins and congratulated each other on
aving lived to see such a period. About
le time that eveybody was happiest,
long came a small boy whose face was
3 red as a beet and whose eyes shono
ke gloss.
" Where's a doctor!" he called out as
e entered a crowd.
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" Here, boy?wiiars me mauer r relied
one of the men as he reached out
j detain the lad.
" Hull fam'ly freezin' to death at the
ouse !" he explained. " Dad is in the
own stair bedroom, shakin' and chat;rin'
and callin' on me to bring him red
ot tea and put bricks to his feet. Mam
iie's up-staira, with four quilts and a
irpet over her, but I heard her shiver
lear down to the corner. My sister
ae's got her feet in the cook-6tove oven,
ad is writing an ode to wiuter, and
rather Bill he's lyin' in the sun on the
dewalk an' axin' everybody to lend him
)mo Kyaun pepper to help start a emulation."
" Is?that?so?" slowly queried aciti-,
?n.
" Course it is! Hain't I down town fter
a doctor an' eome 6oft coal ? I wish
&me of you fellers would tell me if the
reather reports predict a change to
-armer -weather."
The thermometer still marked a plump
tundred, but as the crowd again turned
o the figures there seemed to be a goneiess
somewhere?a sort of aching void
?hich figures couldn't till.?Detroit
Free Press.
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